Please those on the list of California Wild fires in your thoughts and prayers. For the Aftermath and justice system underway b/c of this tragedy.
Say a prayers for all branches of the United States of America Govt & her people.
Please prayer for immigrants that seeking refuge at US borders, I.e., caravans.
Please keep those citizens of Haiti and her government in your thoughts and prayers.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Forehead:"May I have the mind of Mshikha", Mouth:"May I speak pure words of Torah", Heart:"and may my heart be sealed", Right shoulder: "in the blood of the Lamb"& Left shoulder :" Amen. " God is One.
Or Forehead:"Mshikha in my mind.", Mouth:"Torah in my mouth.", Heart:"The blood of the Lamb in my heart.", Right shoulder:"In Yeshua's Name." & Left Shoulder:"Amen."In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. God is One.
Do not think that I came to dismiss the Torah or the Prophets. I have not come to dismiss, but to carry out. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one smallest letter or one stroke shall pass away from the Torah, until everything happens. Therefore, anyone who dismisses one of these small mitzvoth (Commandments), and thus teach the sons of men to do so, will be called little in the Kingdom of Heaven; but those who do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
When the Ark set out, Mosha would say: Arise, O AdonYah, and Your adversaries will be scattered, and Your enemies will flee before You. For from Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the Word of AdonYah from Jerusalem. Blessed is He who in His holiness gave Torah to His people Israel.
you measure, shall it be measured to you.
that is in your own eye?
is in your own eye.
to pluck the straw out of your brother's eye.
under their feet, and turn and cut you.
the Law and the Prophets.
any are they that walk in it.
17 So every good tree bears good fruits; but a bad tree bears bad fruits.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruits; nor can a bad tree bear good fruits.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruits is cut down and consigned to the fire.
20 Therefore, by their fruits you shall know them.
my Father who is in heaven.
name? and in your name cast out demons?
man, one that built his house upon a rock.
upon that house; and it did not fall, for its foundations were laid upon a rock.
foolish man that built his house upon sand.
upon that house, and it fell; and its ruin was immense.
as one having authority; and not as their Scribes and Pharisees.
1 My brethren, you shall not hold the faith of the glory of Maran Yeshua Mshikha with a bias concerning various people. 2 For if a man comes into your assembly with rings of gold or expensive attire, and there also comes in a poor man with inexpensive attire; 3 and you show respect to the one who is clothed in expensive garments, and say to him, Have yourself a seat here, conspicuously; while to the poor man, you say, You stand over here, or sit here in front of my footstool; 4 are you not divided among yourselves, and become expositors of evil thoughts?
5 Hear, my beloved brethren: Has Alaha not chosen the poor of the world, but the rich in faith, to be heirs in the kingdom which Alaha has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have despised the poor man. Do rich men not exalt themselves over you, and drag you before the courts? 7 Do they not revile that worthy name, which is invoked upon you?
8 And if in this you fulfill the Torah of Alaha, as it is written, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you will do well: 9 but if you have bias concerning different people, you commit sin; and you are convicted by Torah, as transgressors of Torah.
10 For he that shall observe the whole Torah, and yet fail in one Mitzvah, is obnoxious to the whole Torah. 11 For he who said, You shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not murder. If then you commit no adultery, but you murder, you have become a transgressor of Torah.
12 So speak and act as persons that are to be judged by the Torah of liberty. 13 For judgment without mercy shall be on him, who has practised no mercy: by mercy, you will be raised above judgment.
14 What is the use, my brethren, if a man says, I have faith; and he has no works? can his faith make him live? 15 Or if a brother or sister is without clothing, and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, Go in peace, warm yourselves, and be full; and you do not give them the necessary thing for the body, what is the use?
17 So, likewise, faith alone, without works, is dead. 18 For a man may say, You have faith, and I have works; show to me your faith that is without works; and I will show to you, my faith by my works.
19 You believe that there is one Alaha; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble. 20 Would you know, weak man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was Abraham our father not justified by works in offering his son Yitzkhak upon the altar? 22 Do you see that his faith aided his works, and that by the works his faith was rendered complete? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled, which says: Abraham believed in Alaha, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of Alaha. 24 You see, that by works a man is justified, and not by faith alone.
25 So also Rahab, the harlot, was she not justified by works when she entertained the spies and sent them forth by different way?
26 As the body without the spirit, is dead; so faith without works, is dead also.
Having first taught all of these things, baptise in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water.
I meditate on the suffering my Adoni Yeshua paid for my ransom!!
May every thought of mine this day be an act of love for You.
May every touch of mine this day be an act of love for You.
May every burden I carry this day be an act of love for You.
May every step I take this day be an act of love for You.
May every beat of my heart this day be an act of love for You.
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One of the Revisers was Fr. Jonathan bar Stephen.
Ode Ten 1 My heart was pruned and its flower appeared, then grace sprang up in it, and my heart produced fruits for the Lord.
2 For the Most High circumcised me by His Holy Spirit, then He uncovered my inward being towards Him, and filled me with His love.
3 And His circumcising became my salvation, and I ran in the Way, in His peace, in the way of truth.
4 From the beginning until the end I received His knowledge.
5 And I was established upon the rock of truth, where He had set me.
6 And speaking waters touched my lips from the fountain of the Lord generously.
7 And so I drank and became intoxicated, from the living water that does not die.
8 And my intoxication did not cause ignorance, but I abandoned vanity, and turned toward the Most High, my God, and was enriched by His favours.
9 And I rejected the folly cast upon the earth, and stripped it off and cast it from me.
10 And the Lord renewed me with His garment, and possessed me by His light.
11 And from above He gave me immortal rest, and I became like the land that blossoms and rejoices in its fruits.
12 And the Lord is like the sun upon the face of the land.
14 And my breath was refreshed by the pleasant fragrance of the Lord.
15 And He took me to His Paradise, wherein is the wealth of the Lord's pleasure.
16 I beheld blooming and fruitbearing trees, and self-grown was their crown.
17 Their branches were sprouting and their fruits were shining.
18 From an immortal land were their roots.
19 And a river of gladness was irrigating them, and round about them in the land of eternal life.
23 Then I worshipped the Lord because of His magnificence.
25 And who grow in the growth of Your trees, and have passed from darkness into light.
26 Behold, all Your labourers are fair, they who work good works, and turn from wickedness to your pleasantness.
27 For the pungent odour of the trees is changed in Your land, and everything becomes a remnant of Yourself. Blessed are the workers of Your waters, and eternal memorials of Your faithful servants.
28 Indeed, there is much room in Your Paradise. And there is nothing in it which is barren, but everything is filled with fruit.
29 Glory be to You, O God, the delight of Paradise for ever. Halleluyah. Ode Eleven 1 He has filled me with words of truth, that I may proclaim Him.
2 And like the flowing of waters, truth flows from my mouth, and my lips declare His fruits.
3 And He has caused His knowledge to abound in me, because the mouth of the Lord is the true Word, and the entrance of His light.
4 And the Most High has given Him to His generations, which are the interpreters of His beauty, and the narrators of His glory, and the confessors of His purpose, and the preachers of His mind, and the teachers of His works.
5 For the subtlety of the Word is inexpressible, and like His utterance so also is His swiftness and His acuteness, for limitless is His progression.
6 He never falls but remains standing, and one cannot comprehend His descent or His way.
7 For as His work is, so is His expectation, for He is the light and dawning of thought.
8 And by Him the generations spoke to one another, and those that were silent acquired speech.
9And from Him came love and equality, and they spoke one to another that which was theirs.
10 And they were stimulated by the Word, and knew Him who made them, because they were in harmony.
11 For the mouth of the Most High spoke to them, and His exposition prospered through Him.
12 For the dwelling place of the Word is man, and His truth is love.
Happy are they who are upright in the way, who walk in the Torah of AdonYah. Happy are they who keep His testimonies, that seek Him with the whole heart. They do no unrighteousness; they walk in His way. You have ordained Your precepts, that we should observe them diligently. Oh that my ways were directed to observe Your statutes! Then I would not be ashamed, when I have given diligence unto all Your mitzvoth. I will give thanks unto You with uprightness of heart, when I learn Your righteous ordinances. I will observe Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
Lord Yeshua, you who were brought forth by the very hand of God the Father, made known to the Blessed Mother Maryam, by the message of the angel Gabriel — I praise you, I thank you and I honour you with all my heart. It was you who said, 'I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, shall not hunger; and he that believeth on me, shall never thirst.' Grant unto the presence of the Spirit of holiness as you promised to your disciples, so that I may understand the Word of God and the Will of the Father for me. Amen.
May Mar Yah Bless You and Keep You.
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9 years and above.
Coach Samson
Founder & Head Coach
Coach Cheryl
Senior Épée Coach
Coach Weixuan
Épée Coach
Coach Cymbeline
Coach Jaren
Coach Matthew
Coach Samson is the founder and Head Coach of SG Academy of Fencing. He decided to start his own club in
2016 as he wanted to create an all-rounded training environment for his students. Many in the fraternity can attest to
Coach Samson's passion and dedication for Fencing, and his perseverance in his pursuit of excellence. He is a role
model and a mentor to the students. Tapping on his vast personal experience as Singapore's Top Men's Épéeist over the years
from competing and training at the international level, Coach Samson understands that mundane physical and technical grinding no longer works, his training plan for his students also covers psychological, tactical analyzation and drills, dynamic physical circuits and more.
Coach Samson is the first Singaporean Men's Épéeist to win all the bouts in pools in the World Fencing Championships (in 2015), earning the right to a direct qualification into the 2nd day of qualification. He is also the first Singaporean Men's Épéeist to clinch the Thailand Open Title (in 2019) and Hong Kong Open Title (in 2016). Coach Samson also had a crucial part to play in the Men's Épée Qualification for the Asian Games in 2014, it was his breakthrough Asian Fencing Championships Top 8 Individual Finish in the same year that helped greenlight their appeal to partake in the Asian Games. He was also part of the team that won a historic Gold in the Commonwealth Fencing Championships in 2014.
Coach Samson believes in constantly upgrading himself as a Coach, keeping updated with the current fencing trends and development by personally traveling overseas to watch, observe and discuss with fencers from other countries, following which incorporating them into his training sessions to benefit his students. Coach Samson is also currently the first and only Singaporean to be in the Fencing Confederation of Asia Athletes' Commission.
SAMSON LEE
SEA Games 2019 - (Team - Silver)
Thailand Open Fencing Championships 2019 (Individual - Gold)
Singapore Senior Challenge 2019 (Individual - Bronze)
Asian Fencing Championships 2018 (Individual - 12th)
Singapore Senior Fencing Championships 2017 (Individual - Silver)
Men's Épée Representative at the Asia Oceania Olympic Qualifiers 2016
Hong Kong Blue Cross Fencing Championships 2016 (Individual - Gold)
Singapore Senior Fencing Championships I 2016 (Individual - Gold)
Singapore Senior Fencing Championships II 2016 (Individual - Gold)
World Fencing Championships 2015 (Individual - 42nd)
SEA Games 2015 (Individual - Bronze)
SEA Games 2015 (Team - Silver)
Asian Fencing Championships 2014 (Individual - 8th)
Commonwealth Fencing Championships 2014 (Team - Gold)
Past and Present Students who made the Singapore National Team (Ex and Existing)
⁍ Alasdair Low (Cadet National Team)
⁍ Austin Lu (Junior & Cadet National Team)
⁍ Brandon Goh (Senior, Junior & Cadet National Team)
⁍ Cymbeline Tan (Junior & Cadet National Team)
⁍ Daryl Ng (Junior & Cadet National Team)
⁍ Esther Lai (Senior, Junior & Cadet National Team - The first Singaporean Women's Épée to win the Asian Junior Champion Title)
⁍ Grace Mun (Junior & Cadet National Team)
⁍ Jacob Lim (Cadet National Team)
⁍ Jaren Ng (Junior National Team)
⁍ Neville Lim Woon Juin (Senior, Junior & Cadet National Team - The first Singaporean Men's Épée to win the Asian Cadet Champion Title)
⁍ Ryan Tan (Junior & Cadet National Team)
⁍ Samuel Lee (Senior, Junior & Cadet National Team - Represented Singapore at the 2013 Asian Youth Games)
Coach Cheryl was the Number 1 Women's Épéeist in Singapore for many seasons with countless Cadet, Junior & Senior Medals under
her belt before she decided to focus on coaching. She picked up fencing when she was in Secondary 1 as a CCA and in the span of 1 year, she
achieved a Top 8 finish in the Fencing Singapore International Competition (Senior) and qualified for the National Cadet Team. She was the
youngest representative from Singapore in the 2008 Asian Fencing Championships (Senior) at the age of 15. Throughout the years Coach Cheryl has maintained her position in the National Cadet, Junior and Senior team as one of the main fencers.
Coach Cheryl was the first Singaporean Women's Épéeist to have qualified into the round of 16 in the Asian Fencing Championships in 2015, and again in the 2017 Asian Fencing Championships. She currently still holds the best performance for Singapore Women's Épée in the Asian Games, with her Individual 6th finish in the 2014 Edition. She was part of the team that achieved 5th in the 2018 Asian Games and the historic Gold Medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Fencing Championships.
Coach Cheryl has competed in many Major Games like Asian Games, SEA Games, and the Olympic Zone Qualifiers, but despite her successes, she remains rooted and down to earth. She emphasizes on technical foundation, discipline, and positive training attitude in her training sessions. Strongly believing in imparting more than just fencing to her students, she grooms her students with positive values that will benefit them in life outside of sports. Coach Cheryl is detailed and strict in her coaching, coupled with her vivacious personality her students always look forward to her classes. She taps on her experiences to guide her students when they are facing obstacles in their fencing journey, whether it is regarding time management, competition mindset, tactical issues and more. She uses her opportunities to compete at the international level such as the Asian & World Championships, Grand Prix and World Cups to keep herself updated with the current developments in fencing, which she will bring back to incorporate into her training sessions.
LIM CHERYL
Thailand Open Fencing Championships 2019 (Team - Gold)
Asian Games 2018 (Team - 5th)
Asian Fencing Championships (Team - 6th)
Singapore Senior Nationals 2018 (Individual - Bronze)
Hong Kong LCSD Fencing Championships 2017 (Individual - Bronze)
Singapore Senior Fencing Championships 2017 (Individual - Bronze)
Asian Oceania Olympic Qualifiers 2016 (Individual - 6th)
SEA Games 2015 (Team - Bronze)
Asian Games 2014 (Individual - 6th)
Hong Kong President Cup 2014 (Individual - Bronze)
South East Asian Fencing Federation Championships 2014 (Individual - Silver)
Fencing Singapore International 2014 (Individual - Gold)
National Individual Championships 2014 (Individual - Gold)
Coach Weixuan picked up fencing in his secondary school as a CCA and progressed from there. He made the National Cadet Team when
he was 16 years old and went on to represent Singapore in Asian Junior Championships and World Junior Championships. Ever since making
the National Cadet Team in 2014, Coach Weixuan has consistently been part of the Junior National Team, and now the Senior National Team.
He has multiple junior and senior medals under his belt, and most recently, the 2019 SEA Games Silver Medal. Coach Weixuan is genuine, down-to-earth, and hardworking; zealously sharing his experience and knowledge with his students. He has 3 years of past experience coaching students in schools.
TAN WEIXUAN
Singapore Senior Nationals 2018 (Individual - Gold)
Singapore Junior Fencing Championships 2018 (Individual - Gold)
Fencing Singapore International Senior Championships 2018 (Individual - Silver)
Singapore Senior Challenge 2018 (Individual - Silver)
South East Asian Cadet Fencing Championships 2014 (Individual - Gold)
Coach Cymbeline had first picked up fencing in her secondary school days. In under 2 years, she made the National
Cadet Team with the Novices Champion title under her belt. Ever since her secondary school days she has displayed
leadership, commitment and maturity beyond her age. In her Junior College fencing team, she has proven herself to be a
natural team leader and excellent sportswoman. She was in charge of planning and executing the physical training sessions that helped to prepare her team for competitions. Her dedication to Fencing, tenacity, pro-activeness and the perseverance to constantly challenge limits makes her a great coach. Coach Cymbeline shares with the students her training beliefs, guiding them to be more commited and discplined in trainings.
CYMBELINE TAN
NUS Fencing Challenge 2018 (Individual - Bronze)
Singapore Junior Challenge 2018 (Individual - Bronze)
National School Games 2017 (A Division Girl's Épée Individual - Bronze)
National School Games 2016 (Overall 3rd)
Singapore Cadet Trials 2015 (Individual - Gold)
Novices Fencing Championships 2014 (Individual - Gold)
Coach Jaren's down to earth personality makes him popular with the students. As a fencer, he constantly strives to
better himself and does not settle for anything less, he has one of the best training attitudes and it translates
into his coaching. His training sessions are disciplined, organized and fun. Coach Jaren's passion for fencing is infectious
and this naturally motivates those training under him to challenge their limits. Coach Jaren is currently in the Singapore
National Junior Fencing Team.
JAREN NG
Pesta Sukan Open Team Challenge 2019 (Mixed Team - Bronze)
Asian Varsity Fencing Championships 2019 (Men's Épée Individual - Bronze)
National School Games 2018 (A Division Boy's Épée Individual - Gold)
Hwa Chong Invitational Fencing Championships 2018 (Boy's Épée Individual - Gold)
Singapore Junior Championships 1 2017 (Men's Épée Team - Silver)
Raffles Invitational 2015 (Individual - Silver)
Coach Matthew is friendly, lively and spirited. He has great interpersonal skills which enable him to build a great
rapport with the students. Coach Matthew is earnest in sharing his knowledge of fencing, coupled with his attention to
details, training sessions under him will always be fruitful. As a fencer, Coach Matthew is intelligent and quick-witted, he is
able to see the bigger picture in situations and effectively analyze the positive and weak areas in his performance to improve
fast. Students gain much learning from him. He specialized in Early Childhood Education for his Diploma, an added advantage when he is coaching the younger students.
MATTHEW CHEUNG
Asian Varsity Fencing Championships 2019 (Men's Épée Team - Silver)
Asian Varsity Fencing Championships 2018 (Men's Épée Individual - Silver)
Novices Fencing Championships 2017 (Men's Épée Team - Gold)
Novices Fencing Championships 2017 (Men's Épée Individual - Bronze)
Ngee Ann Polytechnic Invitational 2016 (Men's Épée Individual - Gold)
contact@sgafencing.com
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Singer's collaborative LP with Flaming Lips titled 'Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz'
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Miley Cyrus surprise-released her new album 'Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz' following her VMA performance
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Miley Cyrus capped off the show with a glittery, wild performance of a new song titled "Dooo It" before announcing her new album, titled Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, was available to stream for free at her website. After a slow, solo entrance, past contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race joined the singer to vogue alongside her.
Towards the end of the performance, Cyrus' good friend and Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne joined her onstage to place a long, phallic, confetti cannon between her legs. As soon as she wrapped up, she announced the free LP and flashed the site's URL on-screen before more confetti and glitter shrouded the stage.
The 23-track LP – recorded with Coyne and the Flaming Lips – also features guests Big Sean, Ariel Pink and Phantogram's Sarah Barthel. Five of the tracks feature production from Cyrus' Bangerz cohort Mike Will Made It. A pair of tracks, "Twinkle Song" and "Pablow the Blowfish," were written and produced by Cyrus by herself, while "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz" notes that Miley's father Billy Ray Cyrus recorded the track.
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In May, Coyne revealed that Cyrus and the Flaming Lips had teamed for a collaborative LP that they had recorded over the past year. "She does the pop thing so great, so it still feels pop, but a slightly wiser, sadder, more true version," Coyne said, adding that he and fellow Flaming Lip Stephen Drozd were mixing the then-untitled album. "Some of it reminds me of Pink Floyd and Portishead." Later that month, Cyrus and Flaming Lips debuted their track "Tiger Dreams" at an Adult Swim upfront; "Tiger Dreams" would reappear on Dead Petz with guest Ariel Pink.
Cyrus also played a significant role on the Flaming Lips' 2014 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band covers album With a Little Help From My Fwends. On that tribute disc, Cyrus contributed vocals to the Beatles classics "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life."
"I've been listening to [the Flaming Lips] for the past three months, to the exclusion of all other music – literally, I've erased everything else on my phone," Cyrus told Rolling Stone in May 2014. "My entire world is wrapped up in this collaboration and magical friendship."
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Track List
1. "Dooo It"
2. "Karen Don't Be Sad"
3. "The Floyd Song (Sunrise)"
4. "Something About Space Dude"
5. "Space Boots"
6. "Fuckin Fucked Up"
7. "BB Talk"
8. "Fweaky"
9. "Bang Me Box"
10. "Milky Milky Milk"
11. "Cyrus Skies"
12. "Slab of Butter (Scorpion)" (Featuring Sarah Barthel of Phantogram)
13. "I'm So Drunk"
14. "I Forgive Yiew"
15. " I Get So Scared" 16. "Lighter"
17. "Tangerine" (featuring Big Sean)
18. "Tiger Dreams" (featuring Ariel Pink)
19. Evil Is But a Shadow"
20. "1 Sun"
21. "Pablow the Blowfish"
22. "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz"
23. "Twinkle Song"
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The Market is not and does not aim to be an "Authentic Farmers Market", but is a market where consumers are able to buy a wide range of FRESH produce and be sure of where the produce comes from and how it is grown.
The Market is a place where growers/ artisans and final consumers meet and deal directly with one another; i.e. consumers purchase fresh produce sourced directly from the grower or farmer.
The Market is predominantly for growers who grow produce in the local Northland area.
Relations between growers and final consumers are open, honest and display integrity of purpose of the Market.
The Market also provides an opportunity for the talented artists and crafters of Northland to display and discuss their artisan products.
SATURDAYS: Only Northland grown Produce, Northland made products, Northland Artisans, arts and crafts.
SUNDAYS: Includes the above but has a more eclectic mix, including upcycled fashion, retro, vintage, car boot.


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COMMENTARY: How to limit hoarding and keep America's hands clean
Noah Smith / Bloomberg Opinion
"What happened to the soap?" That's what many Americans may be thinking as they wander forlornly through the aisles of local grocery stores (always careful, of course, to maintain a 6-foot distance from other customers). Fresh food may be abundant, but the necessities of a disease quarantine — hand soap, sanitizer, toilet paper and so on — are increasingly hard to find. For some items, such as peanut butter, this isn't much of a problem. But for soap, hoarding could set back the country's ability to suppress the coronavirus by making it harder for people to clean their hands — which medical professionals say is important to prevent the disease from spreading.
As it happens, economists have been thinking about the problem of hoarding for a while. In 1991, the late Harvard University economist Martin Weitzman wrote a paper called "Price Distortion and Shortage Deformation, or What Happened to the Soap?", in which he tried to model why stores in the Soviet Union seemed chronically low on this crucial consumer good. (The USSR didn't need a pandemic to run out of the basics!)
To analyze shortages, Weitzman tossed out the classic assumption that supply and demand simply match each other as if by magic. Instead, he modeled a more realistic process in which consumers buy a certain amount of something and then use it up over time, then go buy more. He found that shortages caused by government price distortions can be self-reinforcing — the more people have to wait in line or hunt around to find soap, the more soap they'll stock up on when they finally do get a chance to buy. Hoarding only makes the shortage more acute.
Weitzman's example is simple, but the existence of complex modern supply chains can magnify the problem. Simple models show that a small distortion in demand can cause suppliers to hoard their inventory.
Weitzman's solution — as one might expect from an economist contemplating Soviet failures — was to simply let prices rise until the inefficient hoarding behavior disappeared. But the soap shortages now facing Americans are not caused by government attempts to hold down the price of the good; they're caused by a combination of psychology and rational precaution. On the rational side, going to the store less frequently means a lower chance of getting infected. And in the event that the viral outbreak gets so severe that governments are forced to close many stores, the market system may break down, forcing people to wait in long and potentially hazardous lines at government distribution centers for soap and toilet paper.
Meanwhile, the epidemic has created a sense of panic that makes people stock up on necessities in order to feel a little safer and more in control. Experimental studies suggest that rational worry and emotional panic amplify each other in hoarding situations. And even a small number of irrational hoarders can force more level-headed buyers to clean out the shelves preemptively.
In fact, my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Scott Kominers has argued that in a situation like the present one, price controls will actually make society better off by preventing price-gouging behavior. If there's going to be hoarding, one might as well put the rich and poor on a level playing field.
But this also doesn't seem like a satisfactory solution. Forcing down the price of soap might allow poor people in on the hoarding game, but it's unlikely to stop hoarding itself. The soap shelves will still be bare, which will pose a public health risk by making it harder for consumers who missed out on the rush to wash their hands. To ensure that everyone has soap, the shortage itself must be relieved.
Weitzman's model suggests two ways to accomplish that. First, because hoarding is caused by the difficulty of hunting around for supplies, providing information can help stop the behavior. Cities can set up websites or apps where every store has to report how much soap it has on the shelves, and provide this information freely to all consumers. This will quiet people's fear of being forced to search far and wide for the places that still have soap, making them less likely to buy huge amounts all at once.
Second, stores need to ration how many bars or bottles of soap customers are allowed to buy. That will make it harder for both irrational hoarders and rich people to buy up all available supplies. (Citywide rationing systems would be even more effective, but this would take time to implement.) Secure in the knowledge that other people won't be able to hoard, rational consumers will feel less pressure to stock up.
Even these measures won't make shortages disappear; the U.S. simply wants a lot more soap than it wanted a few weeks ago. But they can help short-circuit the inefficient hoarding behavior that's keeping shelves bare and hands dirty.
Noah Smith is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion.


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Atria Opens Senior Living Center in Foster City
Atria at Foster Square at 707 Thayer Lane in Foster City.
FOSTER CITY, CA — Foster City seniors now have a new retirement living option that combines the comfort of home with upscale amenities and connectivity to their local community.
Atria at Foster Square, which offers independent living, assisted living and memory care options, is now open at 707 Thayer Lane, just off Foster City Blvd., just a couple blocks from the Peninsula Jewish Community Center. At nearly 190,000 square feet in size, the six-story structure has 155 apartments that occupy the majority of the space, along with common areas and retail and dining options. Atria at Foster Square is part of a larger multi-building development that includes additional housing and retail space, all aimed at area seniors.
Atria at Foster Square is operated by Atria Senior Living, a leading provider of senior housing throughout California, with 37 communities that serve more than 4,000 residents statewide. The company now operates 19 locations in Northern California alone.
"We're very proud to add Atria at Foster Square to our portfolio as one of our flagship communities," said Mike Mejia, Senior Vice President – West Operations for Atria Senior Living. "Residents of Atria at Foster Square will enjoy the best senior living has to offer – cutting-edge design, top-of-the-line amenities and innovative programming – all delivered with the quality for which Atria is known as one of California's premier senior living providers."
The modern, state-of-the art structure was designed by international planning and architecture firm Perkins Eastman and built by San Francisco-based Webcor Builders.
Like several other Atria buildings, Atria at Foster Square is seeking LEED Silver certification and incorporates 'green' design elements, such as energy-efficient appliances, water-efficient plumbing fixtures, environmentally-friendly building materials and more.
Other features include a fitness center, yoga studio and movie theatre. There are also multiple on-site dining venues, including an upscale restaurant and a cocktail lounge offering a small-bites menu. Sharif Wagdy recently joined Atria at Foster Square as Director of Culinary Services, with decades of restaurant and hospitality management experience that includes nearly 10 years in leadership roles with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
"I was drawn to Atria because of its commitment to excellence and high-quality approach, not only in terms of the food experience, but all aspects," Wagdy said. "I've had the fortune to lead culinary teams across the globe, and I'm thrilled to bring those experiences to Atria at Foster Square."
Residents will also have access to Atria's signature program offerings. Engage Life® programming is designed to help residents stay active and socially engaged, and to facilitate continuous learning. For instance, a program that will allow groups of residents to travel to exotic locales will soon be launched using the new Google Expeditions virtual reality technology.
Meanwhile, residents in the community's Life Guidance memory care neighborhood will benefit from an individualized approach based on each resident's history and anchored by strong staff-resident relationships. The community also will offer SingFit and Atria's own Legato®, both music programs designed to reduce stress and provide cognitive and physical stimulation. These programs were implemented with the knowledge that the part of the brain housing musical nostalgia is the last to be affected by dementia.
"Over the years, Atria has earned its reputation for creating one-of-a-kind environments and experiences for its residents, and Atria at Foster Square will only help take that reputation to new heights," said Executive Director Allison Miller. "I'm proud of the outstanding team we've assembled and can't wait for our residents, families and visitors to see what all we have to offer."


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Ses rédacteurs en chef sont le grand maître international Jan Timman et Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam.

Ses commentateurs sont des joueurs professionnels de haut niveau, tels que Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Péter Lékó, Judit Polgár, Magnus Carlsen, ou Sergueï Kariakine...

New in Chess publie aussi des Yearbooks quatre fois par an, qui reprennent les parties jouées à haut niveau et des articles relatifs à l'évolution de la théorie des ouvertures. New in Chess utilise un système de classification des ouvertures propres et distinct de celui de l'Encyclopédie des ouvertures d'échecs.

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Gazette letters: Liveable neighbourhood, disabled access and protect GP
Published: 9:00 AM March 24, 2018
Vision for King Henrys' Walk. Picture: LEVITT BERNSTEIN - Credit: Archant
Children unable to travel on their own; dangerously poor air quality; high road casualties; and older residents effectively barred from cycling, writes David Harrison, co-ordinator, Islington Living Streets.
Islington is paying a heavy price for hostile streets dominated by motor traffic. The facts speak for themselves: the borough is the fourth worst for serious traffic casualties in London; 36 per cent of Year 6 children are obese or overweight. Deprived communities suffer most in a borough where two-thirds of households do not own a car and walking accounts for 42pc of all trips originating in the borough.
Imagine instead an Islington where it is enjoyable and safe to walk and cycle for your local trips, where neighbours can chat in the street, where children can safely roam or cycle to school – a place where families, friends and communities are put first on our streets.
This is not an impossible dream. Mayor Sadiq Khan's transport strategy plans a massive reduction in road traffic. Islington and TfL are tackling the borough's notorious gyratories, with plans for Highbury Corner just announced. But even more importantly, the council has committed to reducing traffic by extending our existing "traffic-cell" system, which permits local vehicle access in neighbourhoods but prevents through traffic. Neighbouring progressive councils, notably Waltham Forest, have successfully implemented this system. You can walk two miles from Blackhorse Road to Whipps Cross almost entirely through low-traffic neighbourhoods! In Orford Road, once a notorious rat-run, people relax, enjoying refreshments outside busy shops.
TfL has a "liveable neighbourhood" fund for projects like these. Islington Living Streets and Cycle Islington are urging political parties to make an ambitious bid that will have a big impact – essential for getting TfL funds. One option is the proposed Angel town centre; another is my own Mildmay ward, a warren of rat-runs. But many areas could benefit from a transformative "traffic-cell" system. Press your council candidates to be ambitious to achieve a healthier, happier, more equal Islington.
I write with regard to City North N4 and the closure of the Wells Terrace exit from Finsbury Park Underground Station, writes Ann Devine, Hertslet Road, Holloway.
My mobility is severely impaired. I am unable to travel on the Underground but I relied on the tunnel between Seven Sisters Road and Wells Terrace to reach Park Theatre. Park Theatre put on consistently excellent performances and go out of their way to help disabled people enjoy great shows.
Last year I visited Park Theatre. The Wells Terrace exit was closed. I tried to reach Seven Sisters Road via Stroud Green Road instead but this way round was too difficult for me and I nearly collapsed in the street. A kind passer-by helped me reach the bus stop. The bus driver was very helpful.
The Wells Terrace exit is still closed. I now follow the street signs to Park Theatre via Fonthill Road instead but the mud and heavy lorries from the City North N4 building site make this way round difficult for a disabled person like me.
The Wells Terrace exit has been closed for far too long and needs to be re-opened very soon. I hope City North N4 will be willing to engage in a positive way by involving disabled people in decisions regarding access between Seven Sisters Road and Wells Terrace.
We write as Labour councillor and council candidates, two of whom are also patients of the Miller practice, a very popular GP practice serving Highbury for many years, write Cllr Osh Gantly, Sue Lukes and Chris Russell.
Like other patients, we value the excellent care they provide, so we were very worried when we learned NHS England and the local CCG do not value it nearly so much.
Recently the practice closed its lists to new patients to safeguard the service to existing patients. When it reopened it got 300 people registering within two weeks. So it has applied to restrict the area from which new patients can register, taking care to exclude only areas that are already served by other practices that can take on new patients, and also to keep all existing patients and their family members on their lists. They have made it clear to NHS England and the CCG that this is to maintain the quality and safety of the care they provide to all patients. They have been told this application is not supported and instead they are expected to reduce access to appointments and walk-in clinics and make the surgery "less attractive" to new patients.
We are appalled by this. The practice has built up a terrific reputation and represents so much of what is good about our NHS. Now, like many other parts of this unique British institution, it is being starved of resources and told to care less about their patients. We are glad they have asked patients and the community for their support and are resisting this. We ask your readers to contact the CCG at islington.ccg@nhs.net now to tell them to stop this cutting and rationing and serve our communities as they should.


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Dr. Sharon Brickman: A career of service
For decades, Sharon Brickman would issue the same challenge to each new set of potential teachers who came under her care:
"If you don't believe that you can effect change in your students' lives, change your major."
After a lifetime of teaching and developing future educators, Brickman is changing her major to "retired" but her impact on the many students whose lives that she touched is undeniable.
A self-described, "Army brat who became an Army wife," Brickman spent her career reaching out to students where her husband, Jim was stationed. Earning her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Cameron University in 1983, Brickman went on to teach in Lawton, Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia.
In time, Brickman developed the bug to help train future generations of teachers with her hard-won experience, earning her master's degree in reading education at Tennessee's Austin Peay State University in 1988.
She spent the following decade teaching in public schools and a variety of post-secondary institutions including George Mason University, Green Acres Elementary School and Northern Virginia Community College.
Brickman was awarded her doctorate in instructional psychology and technology from the University of Oklahoma in 2002. She took a position at Oklahoma City University in 1999 and taught there for 6 years.
Brickman was brought on at USAO in 2006 as part of the Mission Enhancement Plan designed to lower the ratio of professors to students at the university.
Preparing students for the eventual task of teaching was very different from the teaching itself, Brickman said.
"It's not just a matter of making sure they know enough about a subject to teach it," Brickman said. "You must teach them how to plan, think and organize like a teacher."
According to Dr. Vicki Ferguson, professor and chair of the education and speech language pathology department, Brickman served as a valued member of the teacher education faculty. Although she specifically represented the elementary education program, she was also responsible for critical classes such as Orientation to Teaching, Human Development and Child Development as well as the content for Field Experiences.
"In her short five years at USAO," Ferguson said, "Dr. Brickman positively influenced every one of our teacher candidates. As a colleague she was a joy, as a teacher she was forthright and inspiring. USAO will miss her."
Upon retirement, Brickman plans to join her husband, a retired general, in missionary efforts focused on Latin and South America.


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Baseball has never seen anything like the Nationals' baffling single-inning collapse to the Cubs
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The Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals, 9-8, in a come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the NLDS on Thursday to advance in the playoffs.
In the process, the Nationals suffered a unique and particularly cruel collapse unlike anything baseball has ever seen.
After taking a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, everything came undone for the Nationals in a fifth inning, that according to Yahoo's Jeff Passan, via Baseball-Reference, has never happened in MLB history.
The inning began with Nationals ace Max Scherzer filling in for relief duty. After he recorded two outs things went awry. Wilson Contreras hit an infield single, followed by a single from Ben Zobrist to move Contreras to second.
With two men on, Addison Russell sent a sizzler up the third baseline and into left field, bringing home Contreras and Zobrist to move the score to 5-4.
But that was just the beginning.
The Nationals then intentionally walked Jason Heyward, bringing up Javier Baez. On what would have been strike three, Baez'z bat hit Nationals catcher Matt Wieters in the helmet, and the ball went by Wieters. As Wieters retrieved the ball, he over threw first base and the backup from second baseman Daniel Murphy, sending the ball into right field as Russell scored and Heyward moved to third.
Here's the play, via MLB:
The inning got even wackier from there. On the next batter, Wieters was called for catcher's interference after his glove hit Tommy LaStella's bat, loading the bases. On the next at-bat, Scherzer hit Jon Jay, sending him to first and bringing in a run to make it 7-4.
The Nationals finally got out of the inning on the next at-bat, but the damage was done. Though they went onto score four more runs, they couldn't stop the bleeding as the Cubs scored two more over the course of the game. Trailing 9-8 in the bottom of the ninth, the Nationals went down 1-2-3 to end the game and their season.
Again, in 2.7 million half-innings in Baseball-Reference's database, the sequence of an intentional walk, a passed-ball strikeout, catcher's interference, and a hit-by-pitch in consecutive at bats has never played out before.
According to The Washington Post's Adam Kilgore, the Nationals believed Baez's bat hitting Wieters should have resulted in a dead ball, thus ending the inning. However, the home plate umpire said that such a play only applied to stolen bases. If the ball that went past Wieters had been ruled a dead ball, the inning would have ended and the Nationals would have gotten out of the inning trailing 5-4.
After the game Scherzer described the collapse, saying: "This game's cruel sometimes the way things can happen … This one burns. I don't know how else to describe it. You're just gonna be sitting there kicking yourself the whole offseason."
The Cubs, for the third year in a row, move onto the NLCS to the play the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Nationals, meanwhile, for the 13th year in a row, won't advance in the playoffs.
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QS Business Master's Rankings: Methodology
Updated September 29, 2022 Updated September 29, 2022
Explore this year's results
The QS Business Master's Rankings highlight the best graduate masters programmes across the world. Data was collected using three surveys; the QS Global Employer Survey, the QS Global Academic Survey and a survey completed by the business schools themselves.
The survey completed by schools covered quantitative indicators such as the salary of graduates, class profile and other institutional data.
To be included in the QS Business Master's Rankings, the programme must be taught mainly on-campus (i.e. not distance-learning), be taught full-time (or be full-time equivalent) and have an average class size of at least 15 students. All schools must be accredited by either AACSB, AMBA, EFMD (EQUIS). We also require schools to provide us with relevant data in the majority of indicators to be included (see FAQs).
A total of 13 criteria form the basis of five key indicators that programs were ranked on: 'employability', 'alumni outcomes', 'return on investment', 'thought leadership' and 'class & faculty diversity'.
QS Business Master's Rankings Breakdown
Employability – 35% (30% - Finance/Business Analytics)
Alumni Outcomes – 15% (20% Finance/Business Analytics)
Value for Money – 20%
Thought Leadership – 20%
Class & Faculty Diversity – 10%
Employability (30-35%)
QS Global Employer Survey
The backbone of the rankings is the QS Global Employer Survey, which asks employers to select the schools that they prefer to hire from. The survey has now been running over 20 years. We collected hundreds of thousands of university and business school nominations from global employers responding to the QS Global Employer Survey. Schools have the option to contribute to the survey by nominating up to 400 employers that recruit their graduates. More recent responses have been given the greatest weight in this ranking.
Employers across all sectors and industries take part in the survey, and include Facebook, Google, Uber, Wells Fargo, Bank of America etc. The survey helps us have an accurate impression of the reputation of a school compared to its peers among relevant employers who are hiring business school graduates.
The total score for this indicator also considers the employment rate for students, six months post-graduation, based on MBACSEA standards.
Alumni Outcomes (15-20%)
The Alumni Outcomes Index looks at the schools associated with over 50,000 CEOs, executives and board members at the biggest companies in the world including Apple, Amazon, UBS, IBM, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil, AT&T, PepsiCo.
Schools do not directly provide QS information on their alumni. QS collects it from publicly available sources and validates.
Schools can suggest to the QS Intelligence Unit possible lists of successful companies/alumni in order to enhance the quality of the survey.
Return on Investment (20%)
We used a number of data points to determine return on investment, which can often be one of the hardest metrics to accurately predict with many permutations and possibilities.
10 Year ROI (15%)
We looked at a 10-year return on investment, mapping average post-graduation, taking into account forgone salary as well as tuition and cost of living (using Mercer Quality of City Living Ranking). We also take into account the percentage of graduates accepting employment within six months of finishing their studies.
10 years gives a representative and meaningful return on investment insight compared with some rankings that use a five-year approach. No loans or scholarships were included in this methodology. We recognise no ROI calculation is perfect but believe we have come up with the best approximate ROI calculation with the data available.
Payback Month (5%)
We look at the time it takes to pay back the cost. The shorter the payback month the better score the school receives.
Thought Leadership (15%)
QS Academic Reputation (10%)
This metric gives us an accurate impression of the reputation of a programme and is based on university and business school nominations of academics from around the world. Academics name the institutions which they believe are the strongest in their subject area. The survey has grown to become the world's largest surveys of academic opinion, and, in terms of size and scope, is an unparalleled means of measuring sentiment in the academic community.
Research Impact (2.5%)
We use Elsevier's Scopus database to assess the research intensity of schools.
Percentage of faculty with PhD (2.5%)
We look at the percentage of the faculty within the business school with a doctoral degree.
Class & Faculty Diversity (10%)
To give a clear representation of diversity within a programme we looked at the percentage of female students and faculty members.
We also looked at the percentage of international faculty overall at the business school, and the international mix of students on the program.
Q) How is the data validated?
A) All data received from schools was subject to verification checks, including, where possible, comparison with historical data, peer schools and other published sources. QS reserves the right to alter information if a more accurate source is found. Employer/academic questionnaires were also audited for multiple or false entries.
Q) What if a school didn't provide all the data required?
A) When data was not supplied (by a minority of schools), QS surveys such as the QS Global Employer Survey, the QS Global Academic Survey were used in conjunction with QS research into publicly-available data to make an accurate estimate. Examples of sources include schools' employment reports and class profiles.
Q) If a school didn't provide data how can you be sure the information used was accurate?
A) Information used in these cases was compared with a number of sources and verified as best as possible to produce an accurate estimate. Examples of sources include schools' employment reports and class profiles.
Q) How are weightings fairly applied to get an overall score?
A) We use z-scores to ensure the data is reliably combined to produce an accurate and fair overall ranking.
Q) Why are there schools missing who you might expect to be present?
A) Schools are excluded if they did not fit the criteria necessary to be present in the ranking, if the program was too new, or not enough data was provided. In addition, we only accept business schools that have earned AACSB, EFMD or AMBA accredited or have received 3+ Stars in the prestigious QS Stars audit.
Q) Why are some ranks missing?
A) Post-publication, QS was made aware of a few schools which were not eligible for the ranking. We will then normally remove the programs from the ranking, but the rest of the schools stay in their initial positions.
Q) We're a business school and want to be involved in the next rankings. What do we need to do?
A) Contact [email protected] to find out, and to ask any other questions you might have regarding the rankings.
Q) Which of the programmes can I also take online?
We suggest you visit the institution profiles to get more information on how to contact the schools for this information.
Q) Where can I see the costs of the programmes?
Q) Why don't you display all ranking data used?
We will try to do this in the future. At the moment we prioritise displaying the rankings themselves.
Q) Do you do undergraduate rankings?
The full suite of QS Rankings can be found in full on our websites.
This article was originally published in September 2018 . It was last updated in September 2022
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After nearly a decade of waiting, a British aviation enthusiast is close to realizing his dream of unearthing dozens of WWII Spitfire fighter planes.
By Mark Inkey 11 December 2012
Burma's first large-scale export since the suspension of sanctions may well be 36 World War II Spitfire fighter planes buried at Rangoon's Mingaladon Airport in 1945, according to the man who found them, David Cundall.
Cundall, a British farmer and aviation enthusiast, tracked down the planes' location by talking to Burmese and ex-Allied forces witnesses and carrying out geophysical surveys of sites where the planes were believed to have been hidden.
He pinpointed their location in 2004 but had to keep it a secret for eight years until the lifting of sanctions earlier this year.
If the planes had been excavated while the sanctions were still in place, they could not have been taken out of the country.
"The aircraft, under the sanctions, were regarded as arms. If we had dug them up we'd just have to have kept them in Burma and they'd probably have ended up as pots and pans," said Cundall.
Within days of sanctions being suspended, Cundall signed an agreement with the Burmese government to excavate the Spitfires.
"The Burmese government have been wonderful, they have been very helpful, they have given me every facility I could wish for and I'm very happy dealing with them," he said.
The Spitfires had been shipped to Burma towards the end of World War II and were buried after the war because the British did not want to take them home and did not want them to be used by anyone else.
They were never even assembled and were buried in the packing crates in which they had arrived from Britain.
Over 20,000 Spitfires were built and at that time they were very common but now, according to Cundall, there are only about 37 flying examples left in the world.
Cundall is confident that he has located the Spitfires at Mingaladon because they dug boreholes at the site last February. "We placed a camera down there to have a look. We went into a crate, you can see an object which resembles a Spitfire," he said.
He thinks the buried planes will be in good condition. "They are all brand new, all the boxes are tarred. They are on massive teak timbers to assist the drainage, there is a wooden roof over them to protect them," he said.
Cundall had to get special permission from the government to dig within the perimeter and close to the main runway of Rangoon International Airport, at the site of the old Mingaladon Airport.
The planes are buried eight and a half meters down in an area 100 meters wide and 270 meters long. One plane is only 30 meters away from the end of the runway.
Cundall intends to start excavating the planes on Jan. 12 after archaeologists have studied the site for a week.
He thinks the excavation will take four to six weeks. The initial digging will be by mechanical diggers, but once they reach the wooden roof they will use local laborers to dig by hand.
Cundall also has government permission to excavate Spitfires at two other sites, at Meiktila in central Burma and at Myitkyina in Kachin State.
He believes that that there are six crated Mark 8 Spitfires at Meiktila. These are the rarest Spitfires in the world, with only one flying example remaining.
Despite ongoing conflicts in Kachin State, the government is happy to let Cundall excavate at Myitkyina, where he believes there are 18 buried Spitfires. "It is subject to a final decision as to whether or not it is safe but I am very satisfied that the fighting is nowhere near there and we are in an air force camp so it is pretty safe," said Cundall.
For the past 14 years Cundall has been assisted in his searching by Dr Soe Thein, a professor of geology from Rangoon University.
Soe Thein has already surveyed the sites at Myitkyina and Meiktila with a metal detector and he thinks that he has found the Spitfires' location.
In January two geophycisists—Dr Roger Clark from Leeds University and Dr Adam Booth from Imperial College, London—will be going to Burma with a more sensitive ground scanning radar machine to carry out further surveys.
They will be surveying the site at Mingaladon prior to excavation and also surveying the sites in Myitkyina and Meiktila to try and get a better idea of what is buried there and the exact location of the buried objects.
Booth previously carried out geophysical surveys to try and pinpoint the Spitfires with Cundall in 1998 and 2004.
"When the locals on the ground saw what was going on they actually did some geophysics themselves and we got involved by giving them some feedback and that was great," said Clark.
He explained that one of the reasons Leeds University got involved in the project was because they want to establish connections with Burmese higher education institutes.
"We have suggested that if the project is successful and makes a surplus then a nice thing to do would be for the project to fund a scholarship for a Burmese student or students to come over here and go through Leeds," said Clark.
For the first 16 years of his search Cundall funded himself with over £100,000 (US $160,000) of his own money. He said he could not have afforded to fund the excavation of the planes.
Fortunately, just recently, Wargaming.net, an online war gaming and production company, have stepped in to sponsor Cundall by paying for the excavation and covering any future costs.
They are also making a documentary film of the project.
Frazer Nash of wargaming.net said: "It's not just about Spitfires, this is also about researching about the people who were here in the war.
"It's a forgotten part of the war. Everyone talks about Europe, but you don't see many programs about Burma and the Asia Pacific."
If any Spitfires are recovered half will go to the Burmese government, Cundall will get 30 percent of the planes and his Burmese agent will get the remaining 20 percent.
Each Spitfire is worth one to one and a half million pounds ($1.6 to 2.4 million).
Cundall is going to return his share of the Spitfires to the UK where there are companies interested in helping restore them to flying condition.
They will then be displayed around the country but will all come together to fly as a squadron of 12 planes three or four times a year at airshows.
Cundall has never flown a Spitfire before. If his expedition is a success he hopes to one day have the opportunity to fly one.
Mark Inkey The Irrawaddy


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TUC protest: Disabled people play part in march and rally
By guest on 4th March 2011 Category: News Archive
Disabled people came from all over the UK to play their part in a mass protest organised by the TUC against the government's spending cuts.
Many were there to protest against cuts to disability benefits and other aspects of the government's welfare reforms, while others were angry about the impact on inclusive education, and cuts to local services and support.
Leading figures in the disability movement joined representatives of the new disabled people's anti-cuts movement, individual disabled people, trade union members and carers.
The many disabled people's organisations represented included Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Black Triangle, People First (Self Advocacy), Disability History Month and the London Autistic Rights Movement.
Estimates for the number of protesters who took part in the march from London's Embankment to Hyde Park ranged from 250,000 to 500,000. Although it is impossible to guess how many of them were disabled, scores of people joined a "safe" area for disabled people near the front of the march.
Tara Flood, director of the Alliance for Inclusive Education, said she was on the march to "tell the government that we are not going to accept the cuts that they are imposing on us or the return to the bad old days of segregation".
She added: "People are not going to just sit back and let our services be destroyed and let disabled people's lives be damaged beyond repair."
Youcef Bey-Zekkoub, who was representing the accessible transport charity Transport for All, said he was on the march to show that accessible transport "is really important for disabled people like myself. My message to the government is they have to think again about these cuts. Especially about access for disabled people."
The writer and performer Penny Pepper said she had taken part "because we have to be counted against the savage attacks against disabled people's lives".
She said: "We are seen as easy to target. We have to show that we are not easy and that we have a voice."
Peter Purton, the TUC's disability policy officer, said disabled people were the "worst affected" by the cuts, including disability benefit reforms, the loss of public sector jobs, and cuts to legal aid. He said he was "delighted" that so many disability groups had taken part in the protest.
The Labour MP Dame Anne Begg said she had taken part in the protest to show "solidarity" and that "there is an alternative and we know that the priorities of this government are wrong".
She said: "It seems to me that those who have least seem to be losing the most and that is simply not fair. Disabled people in particular feel very strongly because they seem to be in the forefront of many of the cuts."
There were criticisms of the TUC's access arrangements, with some complaining that they had had to fight through crowds to reach the allocated "safe space" for disabled people near the front of the march.
The TUC had also said that the disabled people at the front would be able to set their own pace, but they were soon swamped and separated from each other by thousands of marchers who overtook them soon after the march began.
Kirsten Hearn, chair of Inclusion London and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, blogged after the event that the experience of having to fight her way to the front had been "very frightening" and that she had been "put in danger".
Linda Burnip, one of DPAC's founders, said the access arrangements had been "total chaos" and had certainly put disabled people at risk.
A TUC spokeswoman said it had made "extensive efforts" to make the event as accessible as possible, but was now carrying out an assessment of the access arrangements.
She said: "We would not pretend that everything was perfect or could not be improved, but we are pretty sure that this was the most accessible demonstration of its size ever organised in London."
She added: "Some reported issues were simply due to the greater than expected numbers."
There was some disappointment that the Labour leader Ed Miliband failed to mention disabled people in his speech in Hyde Park, even though he mentioned maternity services, Sure Start centres, small business owners, teachers, students, "families struggling to get by", libraries, Citizens Advice Bureaux, community centres and the NHS.
His spokeswoman said later that other groups had also not been mentioned, and that Miliband had raised the government's plans to remove the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in residential care at that week's prime minister's questions.
She said: "It is an issue he cares about and it is an issue the Labour Party cares about. He is actually aware of the deep concerns and anxieties that disabled people have about the effect of the cuts."
Meanwhile, DPAC's online protest for those unable to attend the march or rally saw an estimated 200 people email messages of support, which were "pinned" to an online map of the UK. The map, embedded on the DPAC website and other sites, received more than a quarter of a million views.
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Moonstone Bank, the Washington state bank with ties to FTX, to cease crypto operations – GeekWire
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Moonstone Bank, the FTX-linked digital lender, announced this week that it will end plans to offer banking services for sectors such as cryptocurrency and cannabis.
The move is a sudden pivot from the company's original ambitions to transform the century-old Farmington State Bank, a small lender near the Washington-Idaho border, into a technology-focused finance company.
"The change in strategy reflects the impact of recent events on the crypto industry and the resulting change in the regulatory environment related to crypto business," Moonstone said in a press release.
After shutting down its cryptocurrency and cannabis services, Moonstone will change its name back to Farmington State Bank, returning to its roots as a "community bank," according to the release.
Farmington has its origins in the small town of Farmington, Washington. The lender, founded in 1887, previously provided loans with a focus on agriculture.
It was acquired in 2020 by FBH Corporation, owned by Jean Chalopin, also chairman of Bahamas-based Deltec Bank. Deltec's best-known client is cryptocurrency company Tether.
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The New York Times reported Nov. 23 that FBH, parent company of Farmington State Bank, received $11.5 million in venture capital funding in March from Alameda Research, the commercial firm whose financial difficulties were cited as a factor- key to the end of FTX. The rapid collapse of FTX in November caused a contagion in the cryptocurrency industry.
By acquiring Farmington, Moonstone received a banking license, a business license required of US financial institutions that handle deposits and offer other banking-like services. Moonstone previously described itself as a "chartered digital bank".
Banking experts previously told GeekWire that bank takeovers require a significant amount of due diligence from regulators. Given that Moonstone was partially owned offshore and involved in crypto, the deal should have raised more regulatory flags, they said.
Before starting to raise capital to transform itself into a technology-focused bank, Farmington had just three employees and was the 26th smallest bank in the US out of 4,800, reported The New York Times. His net worth was $5.7 million, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and he didn't offer online banking or credit cards.
The Times reported that in the third quarter of this year, the bank's deposits grew by nearly 600% to $84 million. Most of the increase came from four new accounts, according to the Times.
It was later revealed that Moonstone held nearly $50 million in FTX deposits, Forbes reported.
In December, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) pressed U.S. banking regulators to investigate ties between the banking industry and cryptocurrency companies, including Moonstone.
In January, Joseph Vincent quietly stepped down as Moonstone's chief legal officer. Vincent joined Moonstone in May and left in December, according to his LinkedIn profile and as reported by Protos. Previously, he was director of legal and regulatory affairs for the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions and is an adjunct professor of law at Seattle University.
Moonstone is led by CEO Gary Rever, who is a director of Vermont State Bank. Previously, it was led by Ron Oliveira, who stepped down as CEO in August.
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***The Turk Who Loved Apples
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By Matt Gross – Glowing reviews of this 2013 book by the former "Frugal Traveler" and "Getting Lost" columnist for the New York Times, made me want to read it. As a young man, Gross picked up and moved to Ho Chi Minh City and from there explored more of Southeast Asia, worked for a local Vietnamese newspaper, and eventually got himself various travel writing gigs. In 2006, the Times gave him a budget for a three-month, around-the-world trip, which was to establish his "frugal traveler" identity. This, he says, was the job "everybody called 'the best job in the world'—and an opportunity ripe for fucking up." Which he did, at first.
The book is a mix of his travel experiences, which I enjoyed tremendously, and ruminations on the larger meaning of travel, which weren't as interesting. The requirements for travel have changed for him over the years—from carrying a single bag to traveling with a wife and infant, from the ability to set his own schedule to being part of a family with all its competing needs. Truthfully, staying home has come to have its own satisfactions.
Across his whole travel-writing career, Gross visited "fifty or sixty countries," ate their food (whole chapter on the resultant digestive laments), learned to cook much of it, and wrote hundreds of articles for the Times and others. He sums up everything he learned about traveling frugally in two pages in the middle of the book, which can be boiled down further to: use the Web to find deals and recommendations on airfare, lodging, and food. Airfare: use local and in-country airlines. Lodging: stay with others where you can, Airbnb, works when you can't. Food: be adventurous. Social life: find local connections through Facebook friends-of-friends-of-friends.
The book's full title is The Turk who Loved Apples and Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World, which refers to his early days, as he was learning how to travel, yes, relatively frugally. Through an organization called World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms—a network of farmers who will provide volunteers free food and lodging in exchange for some farmwork—he stayed a few days on a rural apple farm in Turkey. Gross bonded with this farmer, an engineer who'd left his profession to do what he loved, and learned from that encounter that frugality "was not an end unto itself but one of the many traveler's tools, a means of getting closer to exotic lands and foreign peoples." And getting closer to people—from fellow expats in Ho Chi Minh City to refugees in Calais to members of his wife's and even his own family—is what Gross is all about.
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Diana Sterne on July 30, 2015 at 7:46 am said:
I have a friend who only stays in five-star hotels when she travels (except when she travels with me!) But I'm not envious at all. These travelers are traveling in a bubble. Ritz Carlton Istanbul is not very different than Ritz Carlton Vienna or Ritz Carlton Madrid. We stay in mid-range to budget hotels and get a much better feel for a place.
I think the lower you go on your travel budget, the closer you get to the people and locale. While traveling in Newfoundland, we found ourselves in a town with every room booked so had to stay at a hostel. We ended up grabbing a late dinner at a local place and chatting with the mayor. The manager steered us to Mifflin's Tea House for breakfast where we had a transcendent caramelized oatmeal experience. In short, one of my favorite days of the trip!
Victoria on July 30, 2015 at 9:47 am said:
You and Matt are on the same page!


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Brompton model
Amuro Lee notes on bikeforums.net that the October edition of Hobby Japan Magazine will include a 1:6 kit of the Brompton.
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Brompton DVD
British Local Histories have produced a DVD on the history of the Brompton. According to Brompton's website the film follows the company from its beginnings to the present day, and features interviews with the Brompton's inventor Andrew Ritchie and footage from the factory, the Brompton World Championships and more. The DVD is in English with subtitles in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Running time is 71 minutes. It can be ordered from British Local Histories for £15+ £1.20 p&p and will be available from Brompton dealers from Monday 2nd August. A 90-second trailer can be seen here.
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Origami ride - Didcot - 14th August
Our August Origami ride starts in Didcot on Saturday August 14th at 10:30 for 11 am - all welcome. More details are here - please note that we're starting from Boswell's Cafe and not the station.
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'Bendy bike' invented by Leicester design student wins award
Kevin Scott, a final year Product Design student at Leicester's De Montfort University, has won a runner-up prize in the 2010 New Designer of the Year Awards, which took place in London. The bike is based on a conventional frame in which sectional tubing is used allowing the bike to be bent around a lamp post or similar pole, after which a single lock can be placed through both wheels and frame. The judges awarded the prize to 'encourage the further development of this unique and striking idea'. More information can be found here.
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Strida - 25th Design Anniversary - Original Thesis and Business Plan published
We were contacted recently by Mark Sanders, designer of the Strida folding bike in connection with the publication of his original Imperial College/Royal College of Arts Masters Degree dissertation, which contains the original designs for what was to become the Strida. It is now 25 years since the first public showing of the dissertation. This will be of interest to both Strida fans and others with an interest in folding bike design as many other designs are discussed; it thus provides a snapshot of the folding bicycle world of 1985. He has also published a Business Plan written 6 months after the original release of the dissertation.
Strida is now 100% owned and controlled by Ming cycles (of Tiawan), who have distributors around the world. Mark reports that sales of the Strida are up year-on-year and doing particularly well in Asia. Mark tells us that he and his son both entered the recent Smithfield Nocturn folding bike race riding Stridas. Although he didn't make the final 5 others did, all riding belt-driven machines! You can see pictures of Stridas in the Nocturne here and here.
Views on the Neobike Access and Dahon Vitesse D3
Folder owner Gunnar Carlson from Sweden describes his early experiences with a budget folder and later upgrade to a Dahon Vitesse in a new report here.
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Melton Mowbray Origami Ride - Report
A select band of 8 riders including 2 new faces met for the Melton ride, on one of the hottest days of the year so far. Moultons dominated with two New Series, a TSR and an F-frame. Other machines included 2 Bromptons, a Pacific Reach and a Dahon Mu. We were joined at the lunchstop in Hose by a ninth rider with a Trice recumbent. The pain of a couple of hills was rewarded by views over the Vale of Belvoir. More details here.


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HomeFirm & Attorney Accomplishments
Firm & Attorney Accomplishments
In 1991 Donald Soloff, Alison Soloff and John Zervanos founded what is now known as Soloff & Zervanos, P.C., which has been located at the same location at 1525 Locust Street, 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA. 19102 since its inception. Since the opening of the firm's main office, the firm has expanded to five offices and includes offices in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and in Allentown, Reading and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The attorneys of Soloff & Zervanos, P.C., are licensed to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and have an active regional practice throughout both states and nationwide. The firm is made up of five attorneys: Donald Soloff, Alison Soloff, John Zervanos, Jeffrey Fritz and John Pumphrey. All of our partners have been selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers by Philadelphia Magazine in the areas of personal injury and medical malpractice, a distinction limited to only the top 5 percent of attorneys in the state.
For more than 15 years, Donald Soloff and Alison Soloff have received AV peer review ratings by the nationally recognized legal directory Martindale Hubbell, an honor given to those lawyers who have been recognized for their legal ability, expertise and integrity. John Zervanos has been named as one of the top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania by the American Association for Justice in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, and Alison Soloff, Donald Soloff and John Zervanos were also all named as one of the 500 leading plaintiffs' lawyers in America by Law Dragon Magazine.
Our Lawyers also sit on multiple Trial Lawyer Boards. In 2002, Alison Soloff was first elected to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors and has served consecutively through 2013.
John Zervanos was first appointed to the Pennsylvania Association of Justice Board of Governors in 2003 and has been elected to successive terms since then.
In December 2010, our firm was also selected by Newsweek Magazine as one of the top plaintiffs' personal injury law firms in the country.
Jeffrey Fritz is a charter member and president of the National Crime Victim Bar Association, a national organization of attorneys and professionals devoted to obtain civil justice for victims of crime. He has authored numerous articles for civil justice for crime victims and national publications such as Trial Magazine and the Victim Advocate. He has served as a lecturer on civil justice for attorneys, victims and victim service providers throughout the country and has been featured at seminars by the American Association for Justice and National Crime Victim Bar Association. His cases have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS and various local news outlets. He was also named as a rising star with Philadelphia Magazine and Super Lawyers in 2005 and 2006. He was selected as best of the best (Reader's Choice) by South Jersey Magazine in crime victim representation.
John Pumphrey was formally a defense lawyer representing physicians and hospitals. He joined Soloff & Zervanos, P.C., several years ago and now specializes in representing victims of medical malpractice. In 2002, he was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell to Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Juris Crisis Task Force. The task force was in charge of creating comprehensive measures to address the issue of improving the availability of health care in Pennsylvania. He served on the task force for two years. He is also one of a select group of lawyers who completed Temple University's Trial Advocacy Program and now holds a master's degree in trial advocacy.


For a real old-school deli, there's nowhere in town like Tony's Italian Delicatessen, which has been thriving in Sunnyslope since the late '70s. The shelves of this family-owned store are crammed full of the finest imported ingredients – pastas, sauces, cheeses, and seasonings – making it the ideal one-stop shop for Italian home cooks. There's even a section dedicated to imported chocolates. And of course Tony's stocks delectable meats, including cured cold cuts like pancetta and prosciutto as well as homemade sausages. Even if you don't need groceries, stop by at lunchtime for an Italian sub or pastrami sandwich loaded with fresh veggies and served on soft bread. And it'll set you back less than a trip to chains like Subway or Quizno's. The full-service deli also serves hot pasta dishes to order, including ravioli and spaghetti, and offers desserts like freshly made cannolis. Some of the best in town, the standard size crunchy creamy cannoli is surprisingly less than $2.50.


Established in 2000, the award is named after Howard Kleinberg, long-time Editor of The Miami News, historian, and author of numerous articles and books on the social and cultural history of Miami and South Florida. Awarded as special recognition for contributions to the health and development of the arts in South Florida.
2018: Deborah Margol served the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the cultural community with extraordinary distinction for more than 32 years. She retired in February as Deputy Director of that department. According to Michael Spring, director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Margol was directly responsible for the department's growth and success over these last three decades, and distinguished herself through her passion for the arts and insightful, creative and strategic contributions to both the department and the arts community. "I am touched beyond belief for this extraordinary honor and hope to forever embody the spirit and contributions of Howard Kleinberg to the South Florida community," said Margol.
Christine Dolen, theater critic and Carbonell Awards judge, is the recipient of The Howard Kleinberg Award in recognition of her contribution to promoting the arts in South Florida. As theater critic for The Miami Herald since 1979, Dolen has tirelessly promoted theater in South Florida and, by informing the world of the excellent work being done on tri-county stages, has helped the region to thrive. In 2011, Dolen was named one of the top 12 theater critics in the country by American Theatre magazine and was awarded the prestigious George Abbott Award by them in 2001. Although she retired from The Miami Herald in 2015, Dolen continues to cover theater for several other publications.
Iris Acker, actress, director, author, talk show host and Carbonell Awards judge, is the recipient of 2014's Howard Kleinberg Award in recognition of her contribution to promoting the arts in South Florida. When Acker moved to South Florida following a long, successful theatrical career in New York, she wasn't about to rest on her laurels. She was elected the first Actors' Equity Liaison for the State of Florida and started a casting hotline. She worked to fill theaters with audiences by beginning a half-price ticket program that would eventually evolve into Cultural Connection. She was elected President of The American Federation of TV and Radio Artists. When WLRN asked her to host a program in the performing arts, Acker told them she was the wrong person for the job because she'd never hosted a show before, but they insisted, saying it would be on-the-job training. That was 27 years ago, and Acker's show, On Stage with Iris Acker, has morphed into Spotlight on the Arts—and it's still going strong. Acker also kept up her acting career, working in dozens of houses, including the Ruth Foreman Theatre, the Coconut Grove Playhouse and the Hollywood Playhouse. "Coincidentally, all have closed," she joked. Acker is one of the original members of the group that became the Carbonell Awards and also co-directed the show on several occasions alongside the late Jack Zink.
This year's honor will go to Mary A. Becht, who has served as Director of the Broward Cultural Division since 1984 and has been a pioneer of a long list of arts and cultural milestones. Becht has grown the Broward Cultural Division into a nationally-recognized local arts agency that is used as a model for many of the more than 5,000 local arts agencies throughout the United States. She leads the staff, the board, the committees and the Division's annual budget of $3.9 Million, serves a constituency of more than 550 not-for-profit cultural organizations and a community of 1.7 million residents. She has served as on-site evaluator for the Florida Cultural Institution Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also served as vice-chair of the United States Arts Urban Federation, president of the Florida Association of Local Arts Agencies, chair of the South Florida Cultural Consortium and president of the Broward Women's Alliance. This award is the fifth annual award of recognition to be received by Mary Becht including, the First Annual Arts and Culture Award from National Association of Counties in 1990; the Arts Administrator of the Year Award from Arts Management News Service of Columbia College in 2002; the Public Leadership in the Arts Award from National Association of Counties in 2004; and the Ray Hanley Innovation Award, from Americans For the Arts' United States Urban Arts Federation. Many programs from the Broward Cultural Division have served as models for her peers around the country.
Given in special recognition for contributions to the health and development of the arts in South Florida, the award goes to the non-profit alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry. In recent years, the League has embarked on a series of region-wide marketing and promotional initiatives including an annual spring theater festival, theater directory program stuffers, unified auditions, published talent directory and health insurance for its members.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, New World School of the Arts develops talented students in the areas of dance, music, theater and visual arts from the ninth grade in high school through a Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor in Music college degree at its campus in downtown Miami. This award is given in special recognition for contributions to the health and development of the arts in South Florida.
Artistic and executive director of the Miami Light Project, awarded for fostering development of new artistic voices and styles throughout the region's multicultural community. In addition to producing the annual Here And Now Festival, the company developed Teo Castellanos' one-man show "On 2nd Avenue," winner of a Scotsman Fringe First award at the recent 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In addition to his own activities as a producer both locally and nationally, Mr. Harris has been a donor, sponsor, and board member for numerous South Florida arts organizations. He is set apart by his dedication to supporting the region's smaller, and smallest theaters in their efforts to grow.
Levitt is the former chair of the Florida Arts Council, member of the Miami City Ballet's Board of Trustees, secretary of the Greater Miami Performing Arts Center Foundation, member of the Southern Arts Federation, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and numerous arts organization boards. Levitt's ideas and energy have shaped the local, state and regional cultural fabric.
For opposition to Miami-Dade County's ordinance banning performances by Cuban artists, and the "Cuba Affidavit" requiring arts groups to sign allegiance to the policy, that led to the law and the policy being struck down.


1 BOIL fresh corn in fruit cocktail syrup and water until tender. Cool. Using a small knife, remove corn kernels. Season with 1/2 tsp. iodized fine salt (or 1/2 Tbsp. iodized rock salt). 2 COMBINE with the remaining ingredients. Blend well. Chill until ready to serve.
1 COOK chicken, sayote and Baguio beans in reserved fruit cocktail syrup and water. Remove vegetables when tender. Continue cooking chicken until tender. 2 PARE and core sayote, then cut into tidbits. Cut Baguio beans into 1" long pieces. Flake chicken meat. 3 MIX chicken and vegetables with DEL MONTE Fiesta Fruit Cocktail. 4 COMBINE all ingredients for dressing. Mix well. Add to the fruit-vegetable mixture. Blend well. Chill until ready to serve.
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Watch back Liverpool FC's city parade as it happened on Sunday afternoon.
The Reds acknowledged a remarkable 2021-22 season with a special bus tour around the city.
Jürgen Klopp's men's team played every available game in the campaign as they lifted the Emirates FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
LFC Women were also represented in the parade after they won the FA Women's Championship title and secured promotion back to the top flight.
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