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Claimant Receives £30k for Slipping in a Toilet
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Claimant Receives £30k for Slipping in a ToiletChloe Fellowes2021-12-01T16:07:43+00:00
The claimant's details have been changed but this is indeed a true case
We recently acted for Mrs X as a consequence of an accident. She had been on a day out with friends. Part of the agreed itinerary was that they would eat a meal at a restaurant near to the attractions they were visiting.
Before she sat down to eat, she decided she wanted to use the toilet. Unfortunately the toilets had been cleaned but there was no warnings put out. She slipped and fell, landing heavily, including striking her head on the floor. She lost consciousness.
She regained consciousness but was found by her friend at the same time. She was then taken to the local Accident & Emergency Department where they assessed her head injury and her orthopaedic injury. We initiated a claim against the defendant and their solicitors asked what tends to be standardised questions in such cases. In particular they asked about her footwear, they asked how quickly she was moving, why she did not see the slipping hazard and whether she had been drinking alcohol before the accident.
We explained to them she was wearing sensible footwear as she was walking. She was not rushing in any way. She had not drunk any alcohol prior to the accident, a fact which was confirmed by the accident and emergency department notes and ambulance service notes, she is not required to spend her time looking at her feet as she walked into this environment and we argued that any reasonable occupier would have had a system in place whereby the slipping hazard was highlighted.
As a response to the replies that we sent, they conceded liability. We then obtained medical records to instruct consultants. There were delays caused by COVID-19 but Mrs X saw an individual who dealt with her orthopaedic injuries and another individual who dealt with her neurological injuries.
Her orthopaedic injuries were the injuries she was initially most concerned about because of the pain she experienced but after some physiotherapy, which she paid for privately, she vastly improved. However what had happened to her was she had suffered cognitive issues. She saw a neurologist.
The neurologist advised after seeing the records and scans as well as speaking to her that she had suffered a post-concussion injury and traumatic brain injury. She had previously been an individual who passed retirement age had volunteered to work one or two days a week and she had in the past worked in a job where your cognitive functioning had to be at a high level because of the technical and demanding work that she did.
Her friends confirmed the changes in her following the accident and although the defendants tried to argue this was down to the natural ageing process, this was not accepted by Mrs X nor indeed her expert. Mrs X learnt to work around the cognitive deficits caused by the traumatic brain injury and post-concussion disorder. She accepted that there would always be a reduction in her cognition but she was able to cope with life on a functioning day to day basis at a level where she did not require any support. There were then a series of offers and counter offers, with Mrs X ultimately deciding that she would accept £30,000.
She decided she would use part of the compensation she received for the injuries and financial losses as a consequence of this accident to take a cruise in the Mediterranean with her friend. She explained that because of her age, she had been cocooned in her home for many months during COVID-19 and felt that she wanted to see some of the world again before she was incapable of doing this.
Ward & Rider Solicitors are willing to advise on all types of personal injury and clinical negligence claims arising from slipping and tripping accidents, such as this one, accidents at work or road traffic accidents, as well as cases arising from medical negligence. Please contact us for a consultation.
£50k Awarded for Accident at Work
£160k for Claimant who Suffered an Injury at Work
£23.5k Awarded for Accident at Work
£175k Awarded following Road Traffic Accident
£100k for Claimant who was Injured at Work


It's been a long week… heck, it's been a long year! I love my little guys but they are 90 to nothin' and this mama hasn't had time to do anything! Well, I am coming out of recipe posting freeze to bring you this delicious recipe! It's amazing that this cake is gluten-free, grain-free and can be made nut and dairy-free and still taste amazing! I should have called it my Magic Cake!
I made this cake for my son's birthday party and everyone LOVED it, and I have since made it 3 more times to make sure I got it right! I love this cake because it's CHOCOLATE, moist and not only is it grain-free but it is also flour-less! I also topped it with my 2-Minute Chocolate Frosting! Yeah, this cake is pretty amazing!
I used unsalted almond butter but you can use peanut or sunflower seed butter. This recipe calls for 2 cups but if you only need a small cake, free to half the recipe, bake it in a 9 inch cake pan and adjust the cooking time as needed. The key is to not over cook the cake. I personally prefer the cake to be underdone than over done!
If you want to lower the carbs even more, omit the chocolate chips in the cake and use THIS ganache recipe for the frosting! If you are looking for a dairy-free ganache, use this RECIPE.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a medium bowl (or blender), add the almond butter and butter and blend until smooth. Then add baking soda and vinegar. As soon as the vinegar and soda react, add the remaining ingredients. Blend until batter is smooth. Taste for sweetness and adjust if needed.
Butter the bottom of a 9X13 inch baking pan. Pour batter into prepared pan and spread batter out evenly. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the center is just done but don't let it cook so long it starts to crack on the top. The key to this cake is to not over cooking it. Allow cake to cool 10-15 minutes before topping with frosting.
Add heavy cream to a small pot over medium heat. As soon as the cream begins to get hot to the touch or you see little bubbles start to form on the sides of the pot, turn off heat and whisk in chocolate pieces until the chocolate is melted.
*You can use a darker chocolate you may need to add additional sweetness to the ganache. I used 60% so that I didn't have to add anything else to the recipe.
You can pour warm frosting over the warm cake and serve immediately or let it sit to get to room temperature. Be sure to serve with Vanilla Bean Gelato!
1. Can I sub more banana if I don't have applesauce?
2. Can I use white vinegar instead of the apple cider vinegar?
Yes and yes! 🙂 Just be sure to taste the batter to get the sweetness right and don't over bake. I hope your son (and guest) enjoy the cake!
1/2 tablespoon is correct. This is a big cake.
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Iguodala on Green-Curry combo: 'They're Brady and Gronk. The black version'
Tamryn Spruill
The key to the Golden State Warriors' success in the Western Conference Finals has been the team's two-pronged approach toward strangling the life out of any part of their opponent's game which seeks to thrive.
In the 2019 Western Conference Finals, that two-pronged approach features Warriors guard Stephen Curry exhausting the Portland Trail Blazers' defense and, on the very next possession, forward Draymond Green squeezing the air out of the team's offense.
In serpentine parlance, Curry would be the head spitting venom while Green would be the battering tail.
Veteran forward Andre Iguodala, the 2015 NBA Finals MVP, put it in terms football fans would appreciate. Speaking with Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic, Iguodala said of his dynamo teammates:
They're Brady and Gronk. The black version.
New England Patriots fan or no, it's the perfect comparison of another team in possession of one player with unmatched offensive capabilities and another with unmatched defensive prowess. If both are in top form in a single game, the team destroys its opponent and the same holds true for Curry and Green for the Warriors.
Also one-half of the Splash Brothers (with Klay Thompson), the offensive-defensive union Curry has found with Green is not lost on him:
We understand what each other does really well and what we don't do well. He's always got your back. He makes the whole team better. He does a lot of stuff that frees up space for me, and vice versa. He's the full platter. You get a little bit of everything with him. And he knows he can be himself and we're not going to get in the way of that. And we can reel him in when he needs to be.
Green gets it too, saying:
Our skill sets complement each other well and we use each other. We have a chemistry amongst us that's unlike many we've seen, ever in history. We don't come from similar backgrounds. We're different in many ways. Where we are the same, though, is we both want to win, we both do whatever to win, we're both extremely competitive and we're unselfish. When you add all those things together, those are ingredients for success.
Iguodala, listed as questionable with a calf injury, could miss tonight's Game 4. If that turns out to be the case, Curry and Green will need to spice up their combo — more poison to the offensive venom, added strength to the defensive battery — to lock up the series with a 4-0 sweep so everyone can get as much rest as possible before the NBA Finals.
With Iguodala or without him, will the Green-Curry combo carry the Warriors into the Finals?
Game 4 tips off at 9:00 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Draymond Green finally grows up
NBA Scores: Green-Curry combo takes Warriors to commanding 3-0 lead vs. Blazers
Can the Trail Blazers overcome the Warriors' Green-Curry combo?
NBA Scores: An Iguodala block secures Warriors' 114-111 win in Game 2
Iguodala is on track to equal or best 2015 postseason performance

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The National Ground Water Association's (NGWA) Foundation for Groundwater and the Groundwater Foundation today announced the organizations will enter into a merger, establishing the foremost Foundation dedicated to protecting groundwater and enhancing professional practices in the industry. Under the agreement, the combined entity will carry the Groundwater Foundation name and will leverage administrative and operational support from NGWA.
Established in 1994, the NGWA Foundation is an IRS-approved public charity that is focused on conducing educational initiatives, research, and other charitable activities to broaden public understanding of groundwater. The NGWA Foundation is operated by the National Ground Water Association.
For more information on the merger, please visit http://www.ngwa.org.


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15 Amaze-wing Facts About The Black-Shouldered Kite For Kids
The black-shouldered kite (Elanus axillaris), also known as Australian black-shouldered kites, belongs to the Accipitridae family that consists of several birds of prey.
These birds are known for their distinctive black shoulders and are often seen hovering with their wings held upright in the early morning and late afternoon, particularly in open grassland searching for prey like a mouse or a rabbit. They are often mistaken for other similar species like the black-winged kite and the letter-winged kite and it can be tough to distinguish between these birds. Their only distinctive features are the distinctive black comma shape which is seen above and behind the eye and the black shoulder patches they have.
Black-shouldered kites are small raptors that are native to Australia and they are one of many kite species that can be found in the world. They are common throughout the Australian mainland. Their habitat range is large due to them being found all across Australia; they can be found from coastal areas to sand dunes!
Black-shouldered kites are monogamous in nature and will create pairs during the breeding season. These graceful birds are important to the Australian ecosystem as they help to keep the rodent population down as rodents are a large part of their diets!
For more relatable content, check out these swallow-tailed kite facts and palm warbler facts for kids.
Black -Shouldered Kite
Rat, bird, mouse, rabbit, grasshopper
2-5 eggs
8.8-10.6 oz (250-300 g)
Wingspan: 31.5-39.4 in (80-100 cm)
13.8-15 in (35-38 cm)
Pale gray and white with a black shoulder
Pesticides and habitat loss
Open grasslands, agricultural areas, coastal areas
Elanus axillaris
Accipitridae
Elanus
Black-Shouldered Kite Interesting Facts
What type of animal is a black-shouldered kite?
Black-shouldered kites are birds of prey that belong to the kite family of birds.
What class of animal does a black-shouldered kite belong to?
This black-wing bird belongs to the Aves class of animals. The Aves class consists solely of birds and this bird belongs to the family of Ardeidae.
How many black-shouldered kites are there in the world?
The population count of the black-shouldered kite species is estimated to be around 100,000 individuals. Much of the population of these birds is divided into small patches as they are migratory in nature. They can also be found in Chile, Argentina, Texas, China, and Taiwan, alongside their native Australia.
There are less than 10,000 breeding pairs that can be found in China with another 100 breeding pairs occurring in Taiwan. Since these birds do not have too many natural predators, their population keeps increasing with more young birds adding to the current population.
Where does a black-shouldered kite live?
Black-shouldered kites are endemic to Australia. These birds of prey are commonly found in the southwestern wheat belt of Australia, mostly in agricultural areas. They are residents of coastal areas that have a higher rainfall and they can be found in small patches in drier parts of their native Australia. They can sometimes also be found in northern Tasmania and the Bass Strait.
What is a black-shouldered kite's habitat?
Since the black-shoulder kite occurs throughout Australia, their habitat is vast and they can be found in tropical and temperate regions. These birds are often found hovering with their wings held upright over open grasslands, agricultural lands, wetter savannas, and open woodlands with tall grass. They can also be found near coasts, farms, roadsides, and wastelands. Black-shouldered kites are often seen in flight over coastal dunes that have dense covers as they hunt for mice and small rodents before dropping down and grabbing prey.
Who do black-shouldered kites live with?
The black-shoulder kite is a species of birds that hunts alone or in pairs. In a habitat where food resources are plentiful, these birds are often seen in small groups of families with young birds and adults. These families are often big and may consist of at least 60 individuals that hunt during the day and roost communally at night. This large number of birds also feeds together during mouse plagues. However, in cases when there is a scarcity of food, these birds show territorial behavior and practice 'tail flicking', a show of territorial display. They can also be seen together in large numbers during the breeding season.
How long does a black-shouldered kite live?
The black-shouldered kite has an estimated lifespan of around six years in its native habitat of Australia. Not much is known about their lifespan in captivity.
The black-shoulder kite species forms monogamous pairs during the breeding season. Not much is known about their age of sexual maturity. During the mating ritual, females are fed by males in mid-air as they take food from the feet of the male. In some cases, they interlock their talons and will tumble downwards, releasing each other just before hitting the ground. Constant calls are made during these courtship displays.
After mating, both the male and the female will partake in making nests that are made up of sticks. These nests are untidy and shallow in nature. After the nest has been made, the female will lay two to five oval-shaped eggs which have an incubation period of 30 days.
Currently, the IUCN Red List has these species on the Least Concern list as they are found in abundance in their native Australia due to a lack of natural predators and an abundance of food sources.
Black-Shouldered Kite Fun Facts
What do black-shouldered kites look like?
Black-shouldered kites are mostly pale gray above as their upper parts, crown, and neck are pale gray and they have a white head. The black-comma-shaped marking over and behind the eye with a black orbital ring and a black underwing is used to differentiate them from other similar species, such as the black-winged kite. The legs and feet of these birds are yellow or golden-yellow and they have sharp talons with three of them facing the front and one facing back. This helps them in grabbing prey on the move.
The black-shouldered kite is one of the cutest birds. Their amazing tail and black shoulders with black wing tips and their bright reddish-orange eyes make these birds an absolute treat to the eyes of avid birdwatchers!
Black-shouldered kites are silent birds usually, but they become loud during the mating season and their calls are persistent in nature. They make a whistled sound in the form of loud 'chee chee' noises, and when perched, they make a hoarse wheezing sound. Females and juveniles use a harsh call and mothers use a soft croak like a frog to communicate with their young.
How big is a black-shouldered kite?
A black-shouldered kite is a small raptor that grows up to 13.8-15 in (35-38 cm) tall and has a wingspan of 31.5-39.4 in (80-100 cm). Females are larger than males and they are bigger than a common kingfisher.
How fast can a black-shouldered kite fly?
Not much is known about the speed at which these kites fly. However, a black-shouldered kite in flight is a treat to watch! These birds (in flight and while hovering) keep their wings upright in a V-shape before dropping down and breaking their flight to grab prey.
How much does a black-shouldered kite weigh?
An adult black-shouldered kite will weigh 8.8-10.6 oz (250-300 g) when fully grown.
No specific name has been assigned to either the male or the female kite.
What would you call a baby black-shouldered kite?
A baby black-shouldered kite, much like other bird babies, is called a chick. Chicks are taken care of by the female for a period of at least 36 days. After the 36 days as a fledgling is over, the parents will feed the chick for another 22 days before they are ready for flight in about five weeks' time. Juveniles, like adults, are gray too and have a white head with a rusty brown nape with a darker streak.
Black-shouldered kites are carnivorous in nature like gray hawks with mice and other small rodents making up a large part of their diet. They also prey on birds, lizards, rabbits, rats, and grasshoppers.
Are they poisonous?
No, they are not poisonous.
No, these kites are predatory animals and they have not been domesticated in Australia or in any other parts of the world that they migrate to. Since these are wild birds, it is often illegal to keep them in captivity.
In Australia, black-shouldered kites are often confused with the letter-winged kite as both these birds hunt during the day and are almost similar in looks. However, they can be distinguished from each other as the latter has black markings under its wings which the wings of black-shouldered kites lack.
In southwestern parts of Australia, these birds are commonly seen as they hover over areas with high sheep and rabbit numbers and feed off mice and other small rodents found in grain farms.
The population of these birds depends on the frequency of mouse plagues in the region. They can gather in large numbers in areas prone to mouse plagues and they will reside there until they are done feeding.
Black-shouldered kites are nomadic in nature and they are always hovering, in-flight, and on the move for prey.
Juvenile black-shouldered kites retain their juvenile plumage for a season after which it will rapidly molt. A juvenile black-shouldered kite feather is a truly beautiful site!
Are black-shouldered kites endangered?
No, these kites are listed as a Least Concern species on the IUCN Red List, meaning that their population is stable and they are by no means endangered.
Do black-shouldered kites migrate?
Yes, this bird shows migratory behavior on a small scale as it migrates to other regions. Some of the places that they are found in a small population are China, Taiwan, Argentina, Texas, and Chile.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly animal facts for everyone to discover! Learn more about some other birds from our griffon vulture interesting facts and Amazon parrot surprising facts pages.
You can even occupy yourself at home by coloring in one of our free printable black kite coloring pages.


The American Society for Metabolic and bariatric Surgery defines obesity as a disease in which fat has accumulated to the extent that health is impaired. It is commonly measured by body mass index (BMI), which calculates the relationship of weight to height. Obesity becomes severe obesity when an adult is 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight, has a BMI of 40 or more or has a BMI of 35 or more in a combination with a health-related condition such as obstructive sleep apnea or a disease such as type 2 diabetes or heart disease. Living with excess weight has been shown to put your health at risk. The risk increases sharply as your obesity becomes more severe. Serious health problems may also result when dieting leads to "weight cycling" (the repeated loss and regain of body weight). Bariatric and metabolic surgery has helped thousands of people discover life at a healthier weight and resolve many of the health risks associated with seer obesity.
What is a Body's Set Point?
Body weight and fat levels are regulated by a complex system of signals in your body. These signals control your appetite, digestion, energy balance, and metabolism to keep your body weight and fat at a steady level, or "set point". Your body's set point is part of a basic biological instinct. When your body weight and fat levels fall below your set point, your body activates defense mechanisms to maintain body weight and fat in order to prevent starvation. Everyone's set point is different and can be changed but because your body works to defend that set point, dieting and exercising are rarely effective in help people with obesity achieve and maintain a healthy weight long-term. When you go on a diet, your body thinks it's being starved and its survival instincts kick in. As a result, your body stores energy-rich body fat, and you can't lose weight easily. By altering the complex relationship your body has with food and its metabolism, bariatric surgery helps rest your body's ability to effectively manage weight. By altering the anatomy of the stomach and or intestine, these surgeries affect hormonal signals, resulting in decreased appetite, increase feelings of fullness, increase metabolism, and healthier food preferences. These positive changes allow your body to lose weight without the internal fight to return to the higher set point.
During the sleeve gastrectomy procedure, a thin vertical sleeve of stomach is created using a stapling device. The sleeve is about the size of a banana and typically can hold 50 mL to 150 mL of food. The rest of the stomach is removed. By creating a smaller pouch, a sleeve gastrectomy limits the amount of food that can be eaten at one time, so you feel fuller sooner and stay full longer. As you eat less food, your body will stop storing excess calories and start using its fast supply for energy. Food passes through the digestive tract in the usual order, allowing vitamins and nutrients to be fully absorbed into the body with no postoperative adjustments required to restrict the amount of food passing through the stomach. Like other metabolic surgeries, it also helps to establish lower, heathier body fat set point by changing the signals between the stomach, brain, and liver.
In this procedure, the surgeon creates a small stomach pouch using a stapling device and attaches a section of the small intestine directly to the pouch. This allows food to bypass a portion of the small intestine. By creating a smaller stomach pouch, a gastric bypass limits the amount of food that can be eaten at one time, so you feel full sooner and stay full longer. By bypassing a portion of the small intestine, your body also absorbs fewer calories. As you eat less food and absorb fewer calories, your body will stop storing excess calories and start using its fat supply for energy. Average excess weight loss is generally higher than with gastric banding or sleeve gastrectomy.
Whichever procedure you choose to have, it is important that you begin your new lifestyle preoperatively. Weight loss surgery should be consider one of the tools available to help you lose weight. Making appropriate lifestyle adjustments is crucial to the success of your procedure. Work with your medical team to understand what changes you will need to make in your daily routine to help ensure the success of your surgery. You should understand and agree with your postoperative dietary requirements, exercise needs, and any other changes you will be making before you receive surgery. It is a good idea to implement these changes as well as any other behavior modifications preoperatively to help you transition more easily into your new postoperative lifestyle.
For more information on Bariatric Surgery call (956) 350-3901.


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The Lakshmi Narayan Temple was built by Raja Baldev Das in 1938 and is familiarly known as the Birla Mandir. The temple was inaugurated by Gandhiji and in accordance to his requests people of all castes and religion are allowed within the temple grounds. The famous Birla family takes acre of the maintenance of the temple site.
The Lakshmi Narayan Temple houses the idols of the goddess Lakshmi who symbolizes wealth and the deity of Lord Vishnu who represents power. The highest tower in the temple reaches to a height of 165ft. A distinct hallway known as the Geeta Bhawan paints Indian mythology in the artwork on the walls. Inside the temple grounds there are many other idols of different Indian gods and goddesses that inform tourists of the varied Indian culture and religious practices. The architecture of the temple, though depicts the ancient deities has a modern outlook. The temple is open on all days to for the tourists except Mondays. Anyone entering the temple grounds is advised to take off their shoes before starting their tour inside.
Lakshmi Narayan temple is conveniently located for the tourists to reach the place by local buses, taxis and auto rickshaws from different points within the city.


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2003 Up & Comers: David Wallace
37, president and CEO, Brown County General Hospital, Georgetown, Ohio
Ed Finkel
Focusing simultaneously on short-term financial goals and long-term strategic goals can stretch any chief executive officer. But David Wallace, president and CEO of Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio, has managed to straddle both since being appointed to his position in 1998 at age 33.
"When your back is against the wall with financial struggles of losing about 2% (annually), you don't typically take on something like patient satisfaction," says Wallace, now 37. "You typically buckle down and say, `We have to work on expenses.' Which we did, but we also realized there was a much bigger-picture transformation that needed to take place at the hospital."
Everyone's eyes opened to the need for that when Wallace asked top managers where they figured the 53-bed facility, located in a rural area 60 miles southeast of Cincinnati, would fall on the Press Ganey Associates patient-satisfaction scale.
"They all guessed 50th, 65th, 80th, 90th-and we were at the 3rd percentile," Wallace says. The hospital started sharing patients' comments with all departments. "Initially, they were eye-opening," he says. "The negative comments you really learn from."
Since then, Brown County General has improved satisfaction to the 91st percentile while increasing net revenue by 36% over five years. Wallace credits Rick Ament, former group vice president at Quorum Health Resources, the management firm with which the hospital contracts (and Wallace's ultimate employer), with helping him adjust to being a turnaround CEO.
"It was not something I would have described myself as at that time," he says.
Ament, who left Quorum in June to become chief operating officer of Covenant Healthcare System, quibbles with that description. "He's not a turnaround expert. He's leadership expert," Ament says. "Anybody can hire a hatchet man to come in and clean house; then they've got to leave. Dave's presence is stronger there than it's ever been."
Prior to Wallace's arrival, employees nearly decided to unionize. "A lot of times there are legitimate issues employees have about how managers are treating them or how co-workers aren't pulling their weight," he says. He quelled that dissatisfaction by hiring a full-time human resources manager to handle gripes and focused staff on patient care via a regular weekly meeting specifically on the subject.
Rob Robinson, vice president of patient-care services and chief nursing officer, says Wallace encourages managers to challenge his direction and to be autonomous in running their departments.
"One thing you used to hear is, `People are afraid to say anything,' " Robinson recalls. "He has created an environment where people feel free to question things."
Not everyone has been comfortable with "this new expectation that the old ways of doing business were not the way we were going to continue to do it," Robinson adds.
The hospital has seen significant leadership change since Wallace took over, with about three-quarters of the 30 middle- and senior-management positions turning over. "We didn't do any layoffs, we didn't do a lot of terminations," Wallace says. "Although a lot of those things are, do you call it a termination, or do people see the handwriting on the wall?"


Vinegar Hill Music Theater is opening this June in the former beloved Arundel Barn Playhouse. After many years offering entertaining summer stock theater, the Arundel Barn Playhouse completed its final season last. This historic property was sold to new owners Tim Harrington and Deb Lennon in December 2015. After spending the past several months having a large crew of workmen doing a host of renovations and additions, including new balcony seating boxes, a full service bar and upgraded acoustics and sound systems, the new Vinegar Hill Music Theater will bring top-flight musical entertainment to the Kennebunks throughout the summer.
Vinegar Hill Music Theater is southern Maine's newest live arts entertainment venue. Its very first season will kick-off on June 24 with a gala event benefitting "Music on Main", a Kennebunk non-profit community organization dedicated to bringing the Portland Symphony Orchestra to the Kennebunks each summer.
This historic barn and it's adjoining farm were originally known as The Smith Sisters' Farm. The barn was built in the late 1800's and the property is still referred to by that name by many locals. However, the new name, Vinegar Hill, refers to traditional lore about the part of Arundel in which the farm and barn are located. It seems the place name is derived from Gaelic for "hill of the wood with the berries".


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Next Wave #938: Miraa May
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The albums that forged their imagination...
The lengthy, bewildering, but never less than inspired Clinic catalogue just received a new prescription.
The Mersey psychedelic wonders released their new album 'Wheeltappers and Shunters' a few moments ago, a record whose title harks back to an often forgotten - perhaps with good reason - variety show from the 1970s.
A dose of forward-thinking lysergic exploration, it's a record that deals with the strange, slippery beast that is Britain, with all its foibles and moments of bigotry.
"It's a satirical take on British culture - high and low," explains Ade Blackburn. "It fascinates me that people look back on the 1970s as the glory days. It's emerged that there was a darker, more perverse side to that time. When you look back on it now it was quite clearly there in mainstream culture."
Clash caught up with Ade to uncover his Foundations - the records that first shaped and forged his imagination, offering sanctuary from Britain's darker moments.
Teardrop Explodes – 'Kilimanjaro'
Teardrop were the first band I could truly relate to after listening to John Peel's show in the late 70's/early 80's. They were weird enough but also a great pop group. The fact they were from Liverpool only added to the appeal.
It's strange to think now that the singles 'Reward' and 'Treason' were proper hits and on daytime radio. Their second album 'Wilder' is well worth investigating but the poppy, foot-tapper side to 'Kilimanjaro' just edges it out in front.
V/A - 'Florida Punk Bands From The Sixties Vol. 1'
This was one of the first 60's garage compilations I bought as a teenager. Suitably daft and with strange lyrics, these compilations really opened me up to another world.
They were primitive and sounded on the edge of falling apart, a severe contrast to 80's chart music. Everything from the cover artwork to the liner notes was an inspiration. My favourite on this LP is The Esquires 'Heat', a bizarre instrumental broken up with a girl laughing. It sounds fun and eerie all at the same time.
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'Autobahn' is my favourite Kraftwerk LP, the mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds is perfect. The lyrics took the piss out of mainstream German culture and still managed to sound like The Beach Boys!
There always seemed to be a sadness to the melodies as well, as if they were striving for a future they knew wasn't possible. The songs were a big influence on Clinic in the way they used very simple short melodic themes.
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The first Modern Lovers album is an absolute delight. A mixture of rock 'n' roll and melancholy, which on paper sounds pretty crap but works a treat.
Songwriter Jonathan Richman combined vulnerability in the lyrics with a raw Velvets/Stooges sound to the music. It was also music that sounded quite amateur and that was a big inspiration for us.
The Modern Lovers are always rightly cited as one of the best proto-punk bands. They made it sound within reach to make your own music.
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Along with The Teardrop Explodes, the Bunnymen were inescapable in early 80's Liverpool. Both bands had emerged out of the scene at Liverpool club Eric's.
The Bunnymen were more mysterious than Teardrop, creating otherworldly atmospheres over which Ian McCulloch's lyrics fitted perfectly. The outsider observations and bits of wisdom meshing with Will Sergeant's nighttime sounds.
It was that sense of mystique that really appealed to me, that you didn't have to act like a Butlin's red coat to make people listen or like you. They did things their own way and in their own time, which was a valuable lesson.
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tv Whatd You Miss Bloomberg August 19, 2016 4:00pm-5:01pm EDT
oliver.iver rent ♪ janet yellen's shares her view on where policy is headed. we have the charts you can't miss. does it just need to grow up? sliver: rapid demographic around the world, we will find out what it has to say. scarlet: u.s. stocks drifting lower. it was a modest move. a stat that tells you what happened. is in its 30th day without a one percent of move in
either direction on. that is a one-week, thank you. a very quiet week. those could be one day moves. this is very little happening in the market. green.daq turning stocks with the second weekly loss since june. some of the things we have been talking about continue. basis point move and semiconductors, led by a applied materials and micron.
utilities and telecom stocks, the only real group moving here, and they are moving downward. stock bubblevalue is starting to let some air and out. one of the big sectors that lost were yield sensitive areas. here is a one-month chart of the u.s. 10 year yield. u.s. 10 year yields closing out today at the highest level since august. thelet: i am focusing on pound share. -pound. yuan
there is a deadline to keep in mind. germany and france are preparing for elections. also, oil, a one-month chart of oil, early august, bear market, ticking higher today. august, back for in a bull market, so unimpressive recovery. scarlet: a bull market within the bear market. joe: that's right. let's take a deep dive into the bloomberg. i'm looking at one of the stories we're looking at, viacom. the ceo fell victim to sherry
redstone and her father. they are now laying the groundwork for viacom, the blue , and cbs, the white line, to reunite. the valuation gap is closing. the spread narrowed as much as 57% since march. it will be interesting to see how this happens and what shapes up next because there has been so much drama there. joe: so much drama. i am looking at emerging markets stocks. this is a 10 year look at the emerging market etf. the question is are we at a bottom.
is it a durable turnaround or not? some of these other lines are the 20 week and 50 week moving averages. to breaking above the 50 week moving average. it hasn't happened yet. there have been a few times when it tried to break out on the range, so tried to keep, on that, maybe that is they sign of a durable bounceback. bounds isd on the way -down. i'm looking at volume.
ix groups and new exchange started trading. you are seeing the trend where there is more and more volume happening off exchanges. the market structure for trading has changed so much, becoming more dynamic. the red line is off exchange, 39%. this is a rolling 30 day average. more tradesmore and happening off your main exchanges. it will be interesting to see otherat space evolves and trading platforms come to market. week, the huge
jackson hole event. hear from brilliant minds in the world of monetary policy. what are you looking at these days? everyone wants to hear when the next rate hike will be. does say, people will take clues from. the other big thing is the topic , designingerence resilient policy frameworks for the future. bigger existential issues about the future of central banking. situationa permanent where they will be using balance sheets and that sort of thing going forward. let's get the short-term chatter out of the way. shows thechart that probability of a september rate increase. that is the white line.
we are looking at 14%. for december, 30% right now. what is the likelihood that janet yellen does not give us any indication? >> i think that is fairly likely. it depends. , shee really wants to hike was an signals. otherwise, she want. given where markets are and the get, does not seem like they are in a big hurry. oliver: i think the story of the week was inflation. any chance they will be discussing where and how to target inflation? what he wrote about
inflation targeting and raising the inflation target gets to the heart of this topic at jackson hole, which is we need to think about things other than what we have been doing and what we are doing. the ideas he put forward, potentially raising the inflation target, move the nominal gdp targeting, we may not get much on that stuff, but that is the background for what they are going to be discussing. the i have a chart on bloomberg. what is going on here? matt: this is related to longform and short-term issues. r is rising more than one month. the white line is the component is aboutncrease that
fed expectations. that has not really moved much. thanks are having a harder time finding dollar funding because and otherory reform sources of dollar funding are drying up, like petrodollars. this global environment is not conducive for banks getting kind of the that is purpose of a rate hike, so maybe that precludes the need for one. not going to try and comment on this, but i want to tell you why we are looking at this, price expectations by gender. matt: these are inflation expectations, important to the fed. this is what keeps them up at night. for women, inflation expectations are at a record low. for men, they are just shy of a
, but you can see how tenuous the situation is. they have plunged over the last few months, and that is an interesting way to look at it. think i ever realized before that they were broken down by that way, age, gender, education, and pretty much across the board they are record lows.ar this is why the fed is being very careful right now. theyis not something where want to get into hiking rates and have that go further. that's one of the things people point to when they say the u.s. economy is not a strong at some of the data suggest. if you look at gdp since the end of 2000 seven, the u.s. grew faster than the rest of the developed markets, but the u.s. population grew faster, so it goes the economy should grow faster.
what matters is looking at per capita gdp. the u.s. is not that much further ahead. instance, which is not on this chart is growing faster than the u.s.. the u.s. is blue and that european countries are purple. matt: it highlights how the central banks are dealing with the same issue now being so close to zero and having to come up with new ways to potentially stimulate, and those inflation expectations are the most dovish chart out there that you can find. that is weighing on their minds right now. everyone close to zero, inflation expectations falling, that's not a situation where you want to get ahead of yourself and raise rates. joe: should be a fascinating week next week. matt boesler, thank you very much. scarlet: one year since chipotle
has been hit, shares have yet to recover, down 50%. bet on its other ventures to turn things around? this is bloomberg. ♪
obama heading to flood ravaged louisiana. donald trump and mike pence to ured the damage today. clinton spoke with the state's governor. 13 people have died from those floods. has stepped down,
coming after the campaign announced a major shakeup wednesday, the second leadership reshuffle in two months. become scrutinized because of his russian connection to the former president of ukraine. terrorth toll from the attack in nice is now 86. the latest victim had been at hospital and died from injuries sustained during that july massacre. is the second hospitalize person to die since the attack. dozens more were wounded when a tunisian drove a truck into a crowd, the islamic state taking responsibility. million dollar cash payment to iran was contingent on the release of a group of american prisoners. it is being slammed by gop lawmakers today. it was the first time the u.s. had definitively linked the two events.
paul ryan accuse the president of misleading the public. donald trump said mr. obama openly and blatantly lied about that exchange. a start lost his job as president and chancellor -- kenneth starr lost his job as as heent and chancellor resigns as baylor law professor. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. scarlet: "what'd you miss?" chipotle may need to grow up. the stock has seen highs and lows. since the bacteria outbreak, three straight quarters of double-digit sales the kleins, so is it time for chipotle to
rebrand its business? chipotle is not just about its namesake restaurant. franchises as well. part, 99.2% of revenue comes from chipotle. 13 shop houses and three pizzeria locales. they have had these concepts for a while. before the crisis, they did not ever say much about them. they have been out there, but .nly getting attention now plus, the news that they will open a burger concept, which has been met with confusion.
these guys have big problems in their core business, shouldn't they fix the core business? where are these other restaurants? they have done a couple in kansas, maryland, washington, , but geographic clusters they don't move the needle. away drawing attention from what they should be focused on, which is fixing their core business, which is troubled. joe: we show the stock chart earlier. it has not recovered at all from when it started collapsing after the bacteria stuff. is there any sign of a fundamental business turnaround? >> no, not yet.
the question is when this will happen. when it first hit, people said it could be 2017 before this starts to turn around. big hit to their brand, huge headline risks, the numbers have been bad, three straight quarters of declining sales. i don't remember any headlines recently. >> the last person who got sick was in december. there was a scare in march, but they followed protocols and no customers got sick. right now it is just a tarnished brand. oliver: shares are down 49% right now. we've talking about this restaurant recession, how much of this -- obviously they have these specific problems, but is there any chance that it is getting wrapped up, macro trend,
with restaurants. were talking about 23% declines in same-store sales. scarlet: do you think chipotle is right for an activist investor? >> we keep hearing about that. the big trend in restaurants is franchiseesng, make take the cost. sell them back and take the burger king model. insular and there has been criticism of no diversity on the board.
the founders are still heavily involved. thank you very much. scarlet: coming up, audience is participation, please. this is bloomberg. ♪
scarlet: i am scarlet fu. "what'd you miss?" my chart is on what ails the economy. we have a lot of that and a huge trade deficit. -- we have a lot of debt and a huge trade deficit. it seems like there are different ways to interpret it.
it is interesting to see the way of essentially these different sectors of the economy trade, government spending, private assets. scarlet: the back drop is the u.s. losses and trade and jobs. the pushback from other economists will say that cumulative trade and trade debt figures don't tell the whole story. it doesn't account for services -- you have thriving economies that persistently run trade deficits, even during boom times.
oliver: while the two are mirror images, it looks like the isstanding treasuries moving. joe: i have a chart that was sent to me. is em risk.ne you can see it bounced in january and has been rallying back nicely. the blue line is the markets one year expect tatian of a rate hike. fed is paying more and more attention to international conditions. it makes sense perhaps that the markets rate hike expectations
would be tied to the fortunes of emerging markets. his argument as that the market is too complacent about what the fed might do in light of this global rebound. scarlet: that blue line needs to come up a little bit. oliver: talking about emerging markets and volatility, i'm looking at volatility again. the vix has been low, but this is interesting. there is subdued volatility and the currency markets. small pickup in the japanese yen volatility, but markets remain complacent. we've seen volatility spikes lately, but for now, not there. rapidt: we will discuss a
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♪ brand new apps, shows to go, ♪ ♪ awesome internet that's super whoa... ♪ ♪ everything is awesome xfinity. the future of awesome. word let's get to first news. president obama will visit louisiana on tuesday. he has been receiving updates. people have died from the floods, 40,000 buildings damaged. trump and mike pence have been surveying the damage in louisiana. they visited with vick them so the floods. -- with the victims of the floods. hillary clinton says she spoke to john bel edwards by phone.
she says the relief effort cannot afford any distractions. she said the best way to help us to make sure that the people of louisiana have the resources they need. ,ore than 200 buildings including 100 single-family homes, were destroyed and wildfires 60 miles east of los angeles. ,irefighters are making headway the far now 26% contained. 82,000lames forced residents from their homes. theirnt women and partners should consider postponing travel to all of miami-dade county. identified arities second zone of local zika transmission, including south beach. state now has two areas considered active for potential zika exposure. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg.
. am ramy inocencio scarlet: thank you. let's get a recap of today's market action, not a lot of action to speak of, stocks falling for the first time in three days, no economic data that move the markets,, so everyone is looking ahead to the jackson hole meeting next week. very little ripples in the market, whether it is fixed income, forex, equities, all very quiet. oliver: it makes you wonder whether or not people are prepared for any kind of disruption. we chronicled a lot of things where people have gotten into the market, so we will see. joe: it's almost too quiet. oliver: maybe. joe: "what'd you miss?" the worlde changes in economy by observing how people travel. there is a shift it may have a
positive outcome for the travel industry. thank you very much. what are youch, seeing in the world and what should people who don't a attention to travel industry trends closely be watching? >> the summer is going badly for the sector because of fears, isis, terrorism, zika, immigration, elections in the u.s., and general uncertainty. there have been some issues in issues, airlines, i.t. southwest had an issue last week, delta as well, so a bunch of things are affecting the industry at this point. is thek that travel bellwether sector. it is the one that sneezes first when anything happens in the world economy, so an interesting sector to look at. scarlet: i wanted to get a
comment i brought from the ceo of kayak, to the extent that americans might be taking advantage of the stronger dollar. most americans don't think in terms of exchange rates. it takes time to build, but that interest will be there. scarlet: maybe by next summer. is that enough to overcome the fears that abound now? >> probably not. it depends on what kind of distractions happen. is taking out a huge amount of capacity in the cruise industry. , the answer depends on the type of disruption. ofver: i wonder if some these events have kept people at home instead of traveling.
i wonder if it is also where they are happening. you're talking about events in before traveling to miami, all these places you don't typically associate with fears about travel. at oure things are doorsteps in a lot of ways. some of the economies are benefiting. the capacity that has been taken , tunisia, egypt, they're going to spain and portugal. joe: what about looking at it from the perspective of the emerging consumer around the world? u.s. consumers are less inclined to go to europe or south america, but there has been a huge boom outbound from china. what else are we seeing in terms of countries where there is a big boom? changing, economy is
but brazil this year has been pretty bad for brazilian outbound. india is growing well. if you look at southeast asia, it is one of the most fascinating areas in the world of travel because the sheer amount of people that live in the effect ofd low-cost airlines in that region of the world. we think southeast asia is the best place to watch. i was commenting to someone before the recent bomb attacks in thailand that it seems like the safest place in the world to visit now. always seems on edge because it has been a target and the summer has been awful for europe. is that a misconception? >> i think southeast asia is safe. thailand from a tourism perspective, they have things under control for the most part. that hotelss become
and airports get hit as high profile targets. we have talked off-line about what a great country malaysia is and how more people should travel there. are you bullish on these countries? >> i think they have done a good job with their infrastructure. is can airlines direct routes from some of the north american and european -- a verye crash is airlines, a terrible string of them, was there an impact on travel data after those? hugelaysia had a contingent of chinese inbound, and that was affected big time. oliver: as people rethink traveling, i suspect there is a reaction by hotels and airlines
to induce people. is now a good time to travel when you gauge expenses? >> july and august, the number of bookings were 20% up as a result of a weaker pound, so it is a good time to travel, especially in europe, outside some of the flashpoints, if you will. france is still a safe place in general compared to other parts of the world. prices are cheap, hotels are cheap. the good part is there is a big battle between the online travel booking sites like kayak, expedia, and the hotels, which means that one is trying to fight the other and prices are lower. oliver: prices are lower as a result of the competition. back to i want to go that chart with chinese tourists spending and how off the charts it is. have noticed is that
whenever there is a golden week in china, certain cities and resorts are overrun by chinese tourist. thousandsundreds of of people descending on one little city that may not be equipped to deal with that kind of volume. >> the volume out of china is off the charts. even india. is there any change in where they are going? ,ave we seen any trends europe, north america? >> they used to be the cliché of andchinese tourist in buses going to specific parts of the world. i think that is changing, especially younger chinese. they are going be on the hubs, beyond new york city, for example, they will end up in philly. scarlet: you see lots of small groups traveling.
for think that is good news smaller joe: cities as well. thank you for joining us. scarlet: donald trump's campaign chairman resigned, capping a week of dramatic changes for the republican presidential nominee. this is bloomberg. ♪
scarlet: i am scarlet fu. it is time for the bloomberg business flash. bridgewater associates paring losses with a gain of almost 3%. declines forim
pure alpha two to 9%. the fund had lost close to 12%. morganawsuit accuses stanley of forcing hyphae investment funds. said theparticipant company treated it's a billion-dollar plan to promote its own mutual fund business. it is also accused of charging higher fund fees to its own workers than outside investors. ceo fishman of travelers at with als and has died today. that is your bloomberg business flash. oliver: "what'd you miss?" paul manafort has resigned as donald trump's campaign
chairman. pro-russian governments sigourney route payments. for a look at the next steps for team trump, let's head to washington. welcome. a big of a mess as it looks like? >> you don't want someone to be running a campaign that is essentially a foreign agent or has been a foreign agent for people sympathetic to russia. where he washing supposed to register as a foreign agent and didn't. this is something that has dominated the conversation in washington for several days. that is not the reboot that donald trump was looking for. comes onresignation the heels of the trump campaign having brought in some new blood at the very top that some
interpreted to be at the motion for paul manafort. how much of this resignation is the to the fact that writing was on the wall and he was no longer in charge? how was the bringing end of the new blood and acknowledgment of bad news to paul manafort, ukraine ties, what was the cause and event here? i'm certain it was the news coming out about ukraine that would be the cause for this resignation. easier that het became less important for the campaign at this point. he was already being deemphasized even though he was in a circle among the top four people in the campaign still. when you are having the conversation about the top eight being a foreign agent for people sympathetic to vladimir putin, it is not a hard decision to
accept his resignation. scarlet: speaking of an inner circle, it is notable that ivanka trump and her husband were on vacation around the time these changes took place. is there anything to read into that? >> i don't think i would read much into it because this is not a hard political decision. again, it is very embarrassing and you have already made a decision that you are going to go in a different direction and you're just keeping him around for some continuity. it is not a hard decision to make. in ar: i want to bring soundbite from a donald trump's speech, where he did something that he does not typically do, which was some kind of apology. >> sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing, i have done
that, and believe it or not, i regret it. what kind of apology is this? is this what my mother called crocodile tears? showss is something that he is doing what a lot of politicians do. you can't necessarily get everything back i making an apology, but it helps some, and you have to make apology nottimes even if you do fully regret it in politics, and this is an example where trump the presidential candidate is doing something they do in the big leagues in politics, which when you offend voters, you make an apology, even if it will not win them all back and even if you do not entirely regret what you said. the hillaryre is clinton campaign, their own controversies around ties to foreign entities. we found the clinton foundation
will no longer accept money from foreign governments. will the donald trump campaign be successful or able to make some hay with clinton's own connections to foreign entities now the paul manafort is out of the way? >> absolutely. to make some able hay, even with paul manafort, but it helps that he is out. there are foreign entities who have donated to the clinton initiative that have been involved in the clinton foundation. it is not unknown in politics for the pot to call the kettle black, and it wasn't as if donald trump was directly involved in paul manafort's activities. now they have jettisoned him. i imagine we will continue to even ifut this, in hillary clinton were to be elected, you would see criticism likely from some donors. going tore are donors
a foundation tied to someone, that leaves you vulnerable to criticism. joe: thank you very much. coming up, the status of starling, will it ever be a safe haven in a post-brexit world? this is bloomberg. ♪
scarlet: i am scarlet fu. "what'd you miss?" safe haveng deserved status? sterling deserved safe
haven status? i think scandinavian currencies are aaa, but no one wants them anymore. sterling provides liquidity. we are in a cash driven environment and sterling will provide it. we don't have the euro structural issues to worry about. to pick up on something you guys have been , sovereign wealth funds and private investors will be happy to finance the current account deficit. that is not a consensus view in london right now. >> you want to finance a current account deficit for what reason? access to the european union, you don't want to be in the u.k. funds areeign wealth
not here for access to the eu. secondly, the price issue. sterling has already adjusted. relative to emerging-market currencies, it has not fallen as aggressively against the dollar. thirdly, balance of payments, financing, by virtue of correction in the currency, and yields in the u.k. falling, i think the income balance can stabilize and turn around, so why worry? a situationface where boe stimulus become sterling positive? >> absolutely. if you cboe stimulus ,omplemented by a fiscal reset if growth begins to surprise to ,he upside next year and beyond then that could be conducive to the currency and other u.k.
assets as well. we often talk about how footsie is a beneficiary of weaker sterling. that correlation is not constant. u.k. under position, growth to the upside, then flows in this direction. seen more foreign capital coming in as sterling prizes, does that decrease the pressure on the government or boe? for the boe, they will be more careful. inflation will spike in the coming quarter. strongcurrency remains over the next few quarters, then inflation begins to understand the oe assumptions, then there may be a problem compared to others. you need to know
to gear up for next week. that is coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪
new home sales come out tuesday. economist are looking for a slight decline from the 592,002 577,000 analyzed.
there is a lot of noise in these numbers. importance of housing and believe there is still a big uptrend here, you might want to pay attention. important because this is what creates jobs, new homes. what peopleknow will read far too much into? every word that comes out of janet yellen next week. she will be an jackson hole on friday. onrybody will be listening whether she comments on rates or the global economy, adding anything to the fed minutes. china's industrial profits coming out on friday as well. time, june, increase of 5.1%. i have a chart looking at chinese industrial profits versus the chinese currency. you have the dollar rising and
andme versus the yuan industrial profits coming off their lows. that does it for "what'd you miss?"
margaret: i margaret talev it. joshua: and i'm josh green. with all respect to paul manafort, we hardly knew you. >> ♪ joshua: tgif. mark and john are off this summer friday, so margaret and i am here in washington d c, to do the show. august is a boring month for presidential campaigns. it does not always -- >> paul manafort, the trump campaign chairman come out. joshua: or maybe not. trump's
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Максанс Прево (,  9 квітня 1997, Бельфор) — французький футболіст, воротар клубу «Сошо».

Клубна кар'єра
Народився 9 квітня 1997 року в місті Бельфор. Вихованець клубу «Сошо». З 2014 року став грати за резервну команду, і того ж сезону виграв Кубок Гамбарделла 2014/15.

У дорослому футболі дебютував 2015 року виступами за основну команду «Сошо», кольори якої захищає й донині.

Виступи за збірні
2013 року дебютував у складі юнацької збірної Франції, взяв участь у 1 іграх на юнацькому рівні, пропустивши 4 голи.

З 2016 року залучався до матчів молодіжної збірної Франції, у її складі поїхав на молодіжний чемпіонат Європи 2019 року в Італії.

Статистика виступів

Статистика клубних виступів

Статистика виступів за збірну

Примітки

Посилання

французькі футболісти
Футбольні воротарі
Гравці молодіжної збірної Франції з футболу
Футболісти «Сошо»
Уродженці Бельфора


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WASHINGTON - A new study has found that 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt used wheat starch in some of his paint to achieve a thicker stroke.
WASHINGTON - Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a 100 million-year-old fossil of the ancestor of a carnivorous, cricket-like insect that still live today in southern Asia, northern Indochina and Africa.
LONDON - Google Earth has revealed 1977 potential archaeological sites, including 1082 "pendants" - ancient tear-drop shaped tombs made of stone, in Saudi Arabia.
LONDON - Just like humans, parrots too choose to use one side of their body more than the other - with more of them left handed, or left footed, according to Australian researchers.
LONDON - A new study has found that thanks to something called a 'Goldilocks effect,' dinosaurs left lasting footprints only when conditions were just right.


Every Wednesday at 7pm, we host a trivia night. Anyone can participate, and the winning gets Fossil Cove swag.
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People have been telling state Sen. Dan McConchie (R-Dist. 26) that one of their biggest concerns in Illinois is high property taxes.
Their worries are now his worries, as he has made them a top priority.
The state has a median property tax rate of 2.67 percent, compared with the national average of 1.31 percent. Tabulating the costs, a home valued at $200,000 will cost an average Illinoisan resident about $5,340 annually in taxes. For businesses, the cost could be much higher.
McConchie said one of the reasons why taxes are so high is because a large portion goes toward funding schools.
To tackle the issue of high property taxes and school funding, McConchie has been assigned to a commission aimed at fixing the heavy dependency.
McConchie said finding a solution to school funding will not only help the schools, but help alleviate the heavy property tax burden placed on an already-diminishing population.
While the state has had task forces before, McConchie said he believes this is the first time the state had a governor who has demonstrated a commitment to wanting to see funding reform go through. McConchie also said there is an air of seriousness taken by the leaders of both parties for school-funding reform not found previously.
"I'm very excited to be a part of this commission and to (be able) to learn about the process, as well as learn about what we can do to really try to provide good education for every student, but also try to rein in the out-of-control property taxes," McConchie said.
The out-of-control costs have scared away residents and forced businesses to move out of Illinois to neighboring states. The taxes are not feasible for even the most successful of companies.
McConchie said that by reducing the state's dependency on property taxes, businesses would be able to develop and help foster economic growth, and taxes would no longer be a burden weighing down business growth.


ON a walk through her local park, pushing her new baby son in his pram, Patricia Gachagan suddenly had an overwhelming sensation she was about to fall.
It was, says Patricia, the moment she realised the way she had been feeling, since giving birth to Elliot four weeks earlier, was not simply due to becoming a new mum.
"I knew there was something going on," she says, simply. "I'd felt unwell in hospital, but it was just put down to a long, exhausting labour and emergency Caesarian.
Shocked and scared, Patricia nevertheless decided on the day of her diagnosis that she would be the mother she always planned to be.
Patricia has written a book, Born Together, about the simultaneous demands of motherhood and her declining health. It is an emotional rollercoaster of a read, which has already received rave reviews.
Patricia grew up in Cranhill, but left Glasgow for London at the age of 20. After a spell in the civil service while she lived with her brother, she completed her postgraduate teaching qualification and worked in Barcelona.
When her dad fell ill with cancer, she came home to help her mother, Margaret, look after him.
Patricia and her husband Allan Johnston were over the moon to discover they were expecting their first child.
"Life was great – I was never away from the gym, I was healthy, we were happy," smiles Patricia.
Patricia admits her first emotion, after receiving the diagnosis of MS, was fear.
At the same time, Patricia resolved to take control.
"I bought a self help guide, which became my Bible, changed my diet and refused the disease-modifying drugs they offered me because of the side effects," she explains.
She adds: "The most recent is a therapy called Robo-Physio, which is still in development funded by Medical Research Scotland and the Scottish Government Enterprise Scheme, but it is promising. It's a spinal massage table that releases stiffness in the spine and it's had great results on my fatigue, balance and walking.
Elliot is now 11 - smart, funny and football-daft, and unfazed by his mother's battle with MS.
She pauses. "I was very clear about one thing when I realised this was going to change my life. I didn't want Elliot to be the boy with a mum in hospital, or lying in bed all day," she says, firmly.
"I wanted to be the mum cheering him on at the side of the football pitch, supporting him at school events, going along to parents' nights.
If life has changed for Patricia, she refuses to be downbeat about it.
"Of course it's hard sometimes and often, it's little things that get to me, like not being able to wear high heels any more when I really, really love shoes," she laughs, softly.
Council pest control facing inquiry for rat golf club "cruelty"


TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Saturday displayed a surface-to-surface missile as part of events marking the anniversary of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis amid uncertainty about its nuclear deal with world powers.
Thousands gathered at the former U.S. embassy in downtown Tehran where a missile, believed to be a 1,243-mile-range solid-fuel Sejjil, was on display. It was the first time Iran displayed a missile during the annual gathering.
Later in the day, the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which has ties to the elite Revolutionary Guard, said the missile was a Qadr-F that has the same range.
Hundreds of Iranian militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy following the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
They took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days after Washington refused to hand over the shah, who was in the U.S.
A crowd chanted "Down with the U.S." and "Death to Israel" during the anniversary celebration. State TV said similar celebrations were being held in other Iranian cities and towns.
They also burned flags of both the U.S. and Israel as well as an effigy of President Donald Trump.
President Trump refused to re-certify the 2015 landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in October, and the U.S. has imposed more sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile program.
The U.S. Congress must now make a decision regarding the 2015 nuclear deal, in which Iran agreed to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council, addressed the crowd, saying Iran will make any sanctions imposed by the U.S. "ineffective" even as the U.S. targets Iran's economic, nuclear and defensive power.
Shamkhani, alluding to Trump's threats against North Korea, said even U.S. allies know that Trump "has no power to realize his bluffs, against Iran, too." He called the U.S. the "eternal enemy" of Iran.
The former embassy in Tehran is now a cultural center while standing as a symbol of a U.S. defeat for many Iranians.
Many Iranians call it the "den of spies."
The U.S. cut its diplomatic relations with Iran following the embassy takeover and has had no diplomatic relations since.


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In that article, I suggested to Microsoft as they developed their own search technology that MSN search might consider resisting the urge to keep searchers on their site by plastering both PPC and "Sponsored Sites" above and below search results. Google displays two "Sponsored Links" above organic results and none below, along with Adwords ads along the right column.
Well now that MSN search has made its official debut, we can see that they put three "Sponsored Sites" links both above AND below their organic search results, along with those Overture (Soon to be Yahoo Branded) PPC ads along the right side of the page. Not bad visually, but it appears to be keeping visitors on the MSN search site because they simply are NOT clicking through to highly ranked sites according to closely watched traffic statistics of several sites I monitor for clients.
I've been pouring over web stats for a half dozen clients looking for traffic from MSN and it is missing in action. Even though these sites rank well for targeted terms for my clients - MSN is not delivering the traffic at all.
This has always been an issue for SEO's and their clients and we are puzzling this one over, looking for results from those top rankings at both Yahoo and MSN as they seem to retain the searchers no matter how well we rank the sites!
Yahoo has dropped dramatically, with referred traffic that used to amount to over 5% of the visitors to client sites, it has dropped as low as 1.5% of total referred traffic from search engines. After a recent increase in referred traffic from Yahoo search, we were hopeful it would stay high, but it wasn't to be. Rankings have not declined - Read That Again - Rankings have not declined, just the referred traffic!
Google has gone up in referrals from foreign countries, including foreign language sites. We used to see tiny amounts of traffic trickle in from non-English language countries, but Google country sites for Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Mexico and a dozen other language specific Googles have combined to send more non-English referred traffic than the total coming from (English) Yahoo Search!
The search world is getting very odd when great rankings at Yahoo and MSN don't equal referred traffic. This has always been the case to a degree, but is getting extreme and very disturbing. Google has always sent more traffic, with as much as 85% of referred search traffic coming from English Speaking Google variants in US, Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia, and UK sending more traffic than both the US Yahoo and MSN.
What is the value of top rankings in MSN and Yahoo if those top positions don't bring traffic?
Even though I write a similar article each year, discuss this topic on large discussion lists and mention it regularly in my Reality SEO blog, I have yet to get honest answers from search engine representatives at Yahoo or MSN. I did get a couple of Yahoo Search managers to admit that more visitors stay on the Yahoo site and continue to either PPC ads or to other Yahoo links because "There is more of value to the searcher at Yahoo." What is of more value to a searcher than relevant search results?
I gave those Yahoo's access to my traffic statistics and those of clients so they could see that nearly 70% of my traffic and that of clients was coming from Google - EVEN WHEN THOSE SAME SITES RANKED HIGHLY IN SEARCHES AT YAHOO! No comment and no explanations as to why, when they generate huge numbers of search queries, that far fewer visitors click through from Yahoo search results than do from Google search results.
One must assume that someone searching for something visits at least a few of the sites that appear in the list of search results, no? They sure do visit from Google in significant numbers - consistently. But both Yahoo and MSN Search are failing to send referred search traffic to sites ranked highly in their search results. Why?
I highly recommend that all webmasters with access to statistics for their own site look seriously at your traffic referred by Yahoo & MSN for search phrases you rank well on. Do YOU have traffic referred by Yahoo or MSN Search for your high ranking search phrases. Why not?


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Aglapsvik is a small, isolated coastal village in Senja Municipality in Troms county in Northern Norway. It is located along the Malangen fjord, about  north of the town of Finnsnes.  The name of the village comes from the nearby mountain Aglapen.  The area is mostly hilly and forested and there is one small road (County Road 263) passing through.  There are about 50 residents.

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Google Earth location
Aglapsvik information

Senja
Populated places of Arctic Norway
Villages in Troms


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Sri Lanka Brief Fact Sheet: Militarisation and Securitization of Government and Governance in Sri Lanka.
Here is the list of military appointments made by president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa outside the military establishments.
1. Major General (Rtd) Kamal Gunaratne:
-Secretary of Defence (November 2020)i
-TRCSL- Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka – The Regulator of Telecommunication Industry of Sri Lanka (December 2020)ii
– Head, Presidential Task Force to build a Secure Country, Disciplined, Virtuous and Lawful Society (June 2020)
– Head, The Presidential Task Force for Archaeological Heritage Management in the Eastern Provinceiii (June 2020)
2. Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva
– Head, National Operation Center for Prevention of COVID- 19iv
3. General (Rtd) R. M. Daya Ratnayake
– Chairman Sri Lanka Port Authority (December 2019)v
4. Major General (Rtd) G.A. Chandrasiri
– Former Governor Northern Province, Chairman, Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) (December 2020)vi
5. Major General (Rtd) Sudantha Ranasinghe
– Director General of the Disaster Management Center (DMC) (January 2020)
6. Major General Vijitha Ravipriya
– Director General of Sri Lanka Customs (February 2020)vii
7. Maj. Gen. S.W.L Daulagala(Rtd)
– Chairman of Ceylon Fisheries Corporationviii
8. Major General (Rtd) D.M.S. Dissanayaka
– Chairman, Consumer Affairs Authorityix
9. Admiral Jayanath Colombage (Rtd)
– Additional Secretary to the President for foreign relations. (December 2019)x
10. Major General Nanda Mallawaarachchi (Rtd)
-Director-General of the Multi-Purpose Development Task Force (January 2020)xi
11. Major General Sanjeeva Munasinghe
– Secretary, Ministry of Health (May 2020)xii
12. Major General (Rtd) Sumedha Perera
– Secretary to the Mahaweli Ministry (May 2020)xiii
13. Rear Admiral Ananda Peiris
– Director General of Civil Defence Force (CDF) (December 2019)xiv
14. Major General K. Jagath Alwis – Chief of the Chief of National Intelligence (CNI), Section of the Police (December 2020)xv
15. Task Force to monitor the progress in the investigation into 2019 Easter Sunday attacks (February 2020).
TF includes the Director-State Intelligence Service, Director General-Military Intelligence, Deputy Inspector General-Criminal Investigation Department, Director-Counter Terrorism and Investigation Division and Director Legal-Sri Lanka Police.xvi
16. Brigadier Salley
– Chief, State Intelligence Service, section of the Police (Decmber 2020)xvii
17. Major General Prasad Samarasinghe (Rtd)
-Chief Manager, Lotus Tower project, Colombo.xviii
18. Former Air Force Commander Marshal of the Air Force Roshan Gunathilake
– Governor of the Western Province ( May 2020)xix
Head, PTK to ensure the health security at military campsxx
19. Vice Admiral Mohan Wijewickrama
-High Commissioner. Pakistan (June 2020)
Committe for Prisons Restructuring includes only military and police personalxxi
Major General (Rtd) Kamal Gunaratne,Secretary Defence,
Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva, Defence Staff Chief/Army Commander
C.D. Wickremarathne (Acting Inspector General of Police)
Members of the Presidential Task Force to build a Secure Country, Disciplined, Virtuous and Lawful Societyxxii
Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva (Commander of the Sri Lanka Army),
Vice Admiral Piyal de Silva (Commander of Sri Lanka Navy),
Air Marshal Sumangala Dias (Commander of Sri Lanka Air Force),
C.D. Wickremarathne (Acting Inspector General of Police),
Major General (Retired) Vijitha Ravipriya (Director General of Customs),
Major General (Retired) Jagath Alwis (Chief of the National Intelligence Service),
Major General Suresh Salley (Director of State Intelligence Service),
Major General A. S. Hewavitharana (Director of Army Intelligence Unit),
Captain S.J. Kumara (Director of Navy Intelligence Unit),
Air Commodore M.D.J. Wasage (Director of Air Force Intelligence Unit),
T. C. A. Dhanapala (Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Special Task Force of Police)
Waruna Jayasundara (Deputy Inspector-General of Police).
Military/Police members of the Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication xxiii
C.D. Wickramaratne, Acting Inspector General of Police
Maj. Gen. (Retired) Shantha Dissanaya, Consumer Affairs Authority Chairman
Rear Admiral (Retired) Ananda Peiris, Department of Civil Defence Director General
General Maj. Gen. (Retired) Vijitha Ravipriya, Sri Lanka Customs Director
Maj. Gen. (Retired) Sudantha Ranasinghe, Director General, Disaster Management Centre
Maj. Gen. (Retired) Sumedha Perera
Government Instituions & Departments under the Ministry of Defencexxiv
(Note: There is no minister of defence in Sri Lanka. President can not hold any ministerial posts under the constitution)
Lanka Logistics Limited ( https://lltl.lk )
Rakana Arakshana Lanka Limited (https://rall.lk/)
Department of Immigration and Emmigration
Department of Registration of Persons
National Media Centre ( National Media Center is for with the aim of disseminating trustworthy and accurate information to the public.xxv )
Secretariat for Non Governmental Organisations (http://www.ngosecretariat.gov.lk/)
Telecommunication Regulatory Aithority Sri Lanka (http://www.trc.gov.lk/)
Information and Communication Technology Agency of sri Lanka (https://www.icta.mu/home2.html )
Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Reediness Team (https://www.cert.gov.lk/)
National Disaster Management Centre (http://www.drr.dmc.gov.lk/)
National Disaster Relief Services Centre (http://www.ndrsc.gov.lk/ )
Department of Meteorology
National Building Research organisation (http://www.nbro.gov.lk/)
Api Wenuwen Api Fund [The Api Wenuwen Api Fund is a collaboration between the Ministry of Defence and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to build 50,000 houses for the serving Tri-Service personnel.]
National Police Academy
Miloda Institute (Academy of Finance studies) [The training Arm of the Ministry of Finance]
National Authority for the Implementation of Chemical Weapons Convention [ National Authority for the Implementation of Chemical Weapons Convention (NA CWC) is an Authority established under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce according to Act No. 58 of 2007 to implement the international treaty "Chemical Weapons Convention" and fulfil its obligations.]
Sri Lanka Institute of National Defence Studies [Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL) is the premiere National Security Think Tank of Sri Lanka established under the Ministry of Defence.]
Department of Multi-Purpose Development Task Force. [Major General (Retd.) Nanda Mallawarachchi heads the Director-General of the Department of Multi-Purpose Development Task Force which aims to provide employment to 100,000 low income people. The Task Force was established under the Ministry of Home Affairs.]
Note: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd)xxvi and wears his military medals on nationally important occasions.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at 72nd Independence day ceremony, Colombo, Sri Lanka. on February 4, 2020. (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto)
ihttp://www.defence.lk/Article/view_article/707
iihttp://www.defence.lk/Article/view_article/757
iiihttp://www.defence.lk/Article/view_article/1688
ivhttps://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/index.php/2020/03/17/army-commander-shavendra-silva-heads-national-operation-center-for-prevention-of-covid-19-outbreak/?lang=en
vhttps://www.slpa.lk/port-colombo/chairman-directors
vihttp://www.ft.lk/business/Chandrasiri-appointed-Civil-Aviation-Authority-Chairman/34-691866
viihttp://www.defence.lk/Article/view_article/811
viiihttps://www.cfc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=33&Itemid=101&lang=en
ixhttp://www.caa.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141&Itemid=591&lang=en
xhttps://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/index.php/2019/12/18/admiral-prof-jayanath-colombage-assumes-duties-as-the-additional-secretary-to-the-president-for-foreign-relations/?lang=en
xihttp://www.pmdnews.lk/%E0%AE%93%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B1-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D/
xiihttps://www.army.lk/news/major-general-sanjeewa-munasinghe-appointed-new-secretary-ministry-health
xiiihttps://www.army.lk/news/major-general-retd-sumedha-perera-new-secretary-ministry-agriculture-mahaweli-rural-development
xivhttps://www.army.lk/news/civil-defence-force-dg-pays-courtesy-call-commander
xvhttps://ceylontoday.lk/news-more/9689
xvihttp://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=219282
xviihttp://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Brig-Salley-appointed-SIS-chief/108-179246
xviiihttps://srilankabrief.org/2020/02/sri-lanka-two-more-retired-major-generals-appointed-to-run-civilian-institutions/
xixhttp://www.pmdnews.lk/former-air-force-commander-roshan-goonetileke-sworn-in-as-governor-of-western-province/
xxhttps://www.news.lk/news/political-current-affairs/item/30048-special-task-force-established-to-ensure-safety-of-military-camps
xxihttp://www.sundaytimes.lk/200607/columns/security-landscape-fast-changing-growing-concern-in-sections-over-militarisation-405397.html
xxiihttps://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/index.php/2020/06/03/two-separate-presidential-task-forces-to-ensure-a-secure-country-for-archaeological-heritage-management/?lang=en
xxiiihttp://www.ft.lk/top-story/MegaTask-Force-to-revive-COVID-19-hit-economy/26-699130
xxivhttp://www.defence.lk/ & https://srilankabrief.org/2020/05/though-sri-lanka-has-no-minster-of-defence-president-rajapaksa-takes-over-6-more-institutions-under-the-ministry/
xxvhttps://www.facebook.com/pg/NMC.Srilanka/about/?ref=page_internal
xxvi https://gota.lk/profile/