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Education, Queensland Stories
Behind the Scenes: The bushel as an imperial measure
28 June, 2011 qmnadmin
But I thought Bushel was a brand of tea?
If you have ever watched TV programs like Stateline, you will hear the term Bushel during the market report. So what is a bushel?
A bushel is an imperial measure of volume used in the sale of dry goods, first introduced by King Edgar in the city of Winchester in the 10th century.
The use of a bushel as a standard measure to trade salt and grains in England, was officially put into law in 1670. This is also the point in time when the Bushel was resized (3%larger) at 8 new gallons (36.38 litres) to standardise all imperial measurements. This practice of using a bushel continued over hundreds of years, until the introduction of the metric system.
To prevent disputes about the size of a bushel, and to assist in regulating industry, governments would hold a standard bushel, from which all others could be measured. The official Queensland Government bushel is made of brass and was produced in London in 1875 by L. Oretling, the largest and most famous makers of precision weights and measures in Great Britain.
This unique piece of Queensland history was donated to the museum by the Queensland Government in 1982, and is currently in storage at Queensland Museum South Bank
This is a fascinating insight into how Mathematics, science and technology has changed over the last 100 years. For more ideas and resources to teach science and technology in the classroom visit QM Loans. Loans kits include Telecommunications, Early Queensland Living and Australian Inventions.
For more information on the history of the bushel and other imperial measures have a look at this link.
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Education, Insects & Spiders
Prehistoric Beasties!
27 June, 2011 qmnadmin	1 Comment
Federica Turco is a post-doctoral research fellow working at Queensland Museum. She and research associate, Geoff Monteith, are investigating some amazing beetles living in dark caves near Rockhampton. These beetles have been around since the Pleistocene epoch (approx 2.6 million – 12,000 years before the present) and possibly even the Late Pliocene (3.6 million years ago).
They belong to the genus Mystropomus (Order: Coleoptera; Family: Carabidae) and the whole family is composed of ground-dwelling predatory beetles.
Adult Mystropomus
These ancient creatures crawl over cave floors, lying in wait for their invertebrate prey. Even the larvae are predatory using a weird structure at the end of their abdomen to snare their prey. First they dig out a burrow in the soil in a sheltered place.
Larva in burrow
Then they close over the hole with their enlarged abdomen covered with sensitive setae (bristles). As soon as any prey walks over this, the setae trigger a quick response from the larva, which backflips to grab the prey with its huge mandibles (jaws). So these creatures have amazing structural and behavioural adaptations to help them catch their food.
Larva ready to attack
Beetles such as these once inhabited the rainforest regions of Queensland but with the Great Drying some moved to higher rainforest regions and some found shelter in cave environments. Fede and Geoff are collaborating with Wendy Moore (University of Arizona) and Andrea Di Giulio (University "Roma Tre"), who are specialists on this sub-family of Carabidae (Paussinae). There appears to be two species, one that is found from Sydney up the coast to Mackay, and another species that inhabits the wet tropics from Bowen to Cooktown. The cave populations may belong to a third new species but work is still in progress.
You can learn more about animal adaptations by watching some animal adaptation videos that come with a student worksheet linked to the Australian Science Curriculum. To learn more about some of the effects of the Great Drying and how this affected the evolution and distribution of some Australian species, you can view the online learning resource Dinosaurs, Climate Change and Biodiversity.
Visit Queensland Museum's website on Beetles to find out more about these amazing creatures.
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Goblin Spiders
Dr Barbara Baehr is a PBI (Planetary Biodiversity Inventory) Research Fellow working at Queensland Museum. For the last 5 years she has been working for the PBI Goblin Spider project and this will continue for the next two years.
Dr Barbara Baehr
Goblin spiders are very small, funny-looking spiders that look a bit like goblins, hence the name. There are lots of species and some have hooks, long leg spines, or scutae (shields or armour over the body). These spiders can be found in the canopy, under bark, or in leaf litter.
Ishnothyreus sp. nov. male dorsal view
Prethopalpus sp.
New species are being discovered and there is a blind species (a member of the new genus Prethopalpus) that was discovered in Western Australia in boreholes about 60m deep.
Like most spiders, Goblin Spiders immobilise their prey with venom. They secrete digestive enzymes into their prey to start the digestion process. Then they suck up the liquefied food. Common prey of Goblin Spiders includes small insects such as springtails.
Some Goblin Spiders have leaf-like setae (bristles) on a concavity on the underside of their abdomens. After identifying and naming new species, research is then carried out to determine the functions of some of these strange structures.
Cavisternum sp. male showing sternum
To help with this huge task of naming new species (taxonomy) people from Queenslandhave donated money to the project and in so doing they have had species of spiders named after them. For Example, Roger Kitching founded the IBISCA project and there is a new species of Goblin spider named Opopaea rogerkitchingi.
SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) images below show the elongated fang of the male Goblin Spiders from the genus Cavisternum.
Scanning Electrom Microscope image of fangs of male
A member from the Oonopidae family is shown below. These small spiders (0.5-4.0mm) possess only 6 eyes and generally have an armour of abdominal scutae (plates). Barbara is currently revising the Australasian Opopaea genus which will include about 70 species.
Opopaea male, front view
To learn more about the amazing world of spiders visit the Spider section of our QM website, or view a video on Funnel-web Spiders. To learn more about Barbara's research visit Dr Barbara Baehr's Biography page.
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A LA LA! – Atlas of Living Australia Live At Last
Atlas of Living Australia Live At Last!
The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) was launched in Brisbane on the 20th May. At a special ceremony held at Queensland Museum (QM), Dr John Hooper (Head of Biodiversity and Geosciences at Queensland Museum) spoke about the collaboration of museums, herbaria, universities and other government collections in producing the ALA.
John Hooper at ALA launch.
The ALA is an online encyclopaedia of all living things in Australia. At present the website holds 23 million distribution records for Australia's fauna and flora, with over 300 layers for mapping and analysis. It also contains images (under a Creative Commons Attribution licence), maps, identification tools, reference species lists, literature, and databases on biological collections. Here are some images showing diverse molluscs from QM's collection as well as some colourful sponges.
Although the ALA was only recently 'switched on', it is still a work in progress.
The ALA allows us to build and maintain biological collections, assists with research, and aids communication.
You can access the ALA at this link.
To learn more about the biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef and some factors that are having an impact on this biodiversity, visit the online learning resource Biodiscovery and the Great Barrier Reef. There are lots of teacher notes and student worksheets linked to the new Australian Science Curriculum in this resource.
To learn more about the areas of John's research, visit his biography page, Dr. John Hooper.
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Education, Marine Environments
The Pursuit of Parasites
Dr. Rob Adlard is a parasitologist working at Queensland Museum.
In search of flesh-eating parasites
Recently Rob has been on a quest of biodiscovery to uncover some of the 'hidden diversity' on coral reefs with an emphasis on fish parasites. Rob and his team have uncovered many species of myxosporean parasites, some of which are Kudoa spp., and these infect our reef fish. Here is an image of Rob, Dr Terry Miller, and PhD student Holly Heiniger in the waters off Lizard Island. They are collecting small cardinal fish using localised sprays of an anaesthetic while underwater.
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Inquiry Centre Challenge
3 June, 2011 qmnadmin
Sometimes you may be asked to Find a Fossil by hunting through selections of pointed shells, mussels, round shells and other fossils in a collection.
Challenges are changing all the time so pop in to our Inquiry Centre on Level 3 and take up the challenge!
Some activity sheets that are based on the Australian Science Curriculum and involve a visit to the Inquiry Centre at Queensland Museum South Bank are: Bird Beaks and Feet; and Observation and Classification Skills. These can be found in the Learning Resources section of our website.
The answers to the above puzzle are:
1. Pig (Skull); 2. Dugong (bottom jaw bone); 3. Cow (Bottom Jaw); 4. Turtle; 5. Horse (bottom Jaw); 6. Turtle; 7. Dugong (Skull).
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Backyard Explorer comes to Chillagoe
North Queensland event
Queensland Museum scientists conducted innovative workshops in Chillagoe over 3 days in May 2011 dedicated to assessing local biodiversity and the effect of human impact using data from insect trapping. The workshop was funded with assistance from the Science Connections Program within the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
The Queensland Museum Backyard Explorer workshops started with a free meeting with local Traditional Owners held at Chillagoe Eco Lodge Saturday, 28th May. The purpose of the meeting was to engage with the traditional owners prior to the main event on Sunday. Gifts from the Traditional Owners of Stradbroke Island were presented to the Indigenous Elders.
Participants from teachers to property owners, interested community members, environmentalists were invited to attend a program that encouraged the region to become more involved in science. Backyard Explorer showed community groups how to complete a survey of their property, work site, even backyard, incorporating scientific examination of habitat, vegetation and wildlife using the techniques we use in our research including identifying any insect finds and interpreting the bio-health of their area.
Following the full day workshop on Sunday the QM team, presented shorter workshops to Chillagoe State School students and teachers. This was particularly timely as the school is currently forming a School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP) as part of the Earth Smart Science initiative. The school is planning an Indigenous Bush Foods garden that will partner with the local indigenous community as well as the Queensland Museum.
The SCOPE funded community and school events conducted in the North achieved the objective of promoting and developing school and community links among all partners involved: Earth Smart Science (Facilitator), Science Spark (Primary Science Facilitator), Schools, Community members (e.g. Traditional Owners), local land care groups (e.g. Northern Gulf Resource Management Group) and the Queensland Museum.
Additional photographs and resources from Backyard Explorer community sessions held earlier this year can be accessed from the Queensland Museum Facebook page.
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Most people can point out the asterism known as the Big Dipper. No, the dipper is not a true constellation, rather it is an asterism, a familiar group of stars located within a constellation. The Big Dip is actually part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is a group of stars that at our latitude, and anywhere north of here, is visible all night, every night of the year. That makes it handy for things like telling time, and with some practice, you can gauge time to within 30 minutes by observing the Dipper.
The dipper and the stars around it are called circumpolar stars, meaning that they circle the pole. At our latitude, and anywhere north of here, these stars are visible all night long in the northern sky. Other constellations that you may know, Orion, Leo, or Scorpius are seasonal and are only visible during part of the year.
Telling time by the Big Dipper's position is based on the idea that all stars rotate around the north pole. The north star, Polaris (of Little Dipper fame) is very close to the north pole. Its height above the horizon is also equal to our latitude (for here, about 40 degrees.) Polaris then, will be the center of our celestial clock. The Big Dipper circles once around the pole every 24 hours.
To find Polaris, use the pointer stars in the end of the Big Dipper's bowl (see diagram) a line drawn through them to Polaris. This line will become the hour hand of our celestial clock..
Now, there are a few differences between the clocks we are familiar with and the celestial clock. There are 24 hours on the celestial clock instead of 12, and it also runs backwards! One other difference is that the celestial clock runs fast, by 24 hours a year, but it just takes a few adjustments to compensate for that.
The reason the celestial clock runs fast is because the Earth makes one trip around the Sun in 365 days, but a circle only has 360 degrees. This makes the Earth move ahead about 1 degree in its orbit every day, which in turn, makes the hour hand of our clock move fast counterclockwise about 1 degree every day. That may sound confusing, but all it really means is that our celestial clock runs about a half hour fast per week, two hours per month.
There is one date where our celestial clock agrees with real time exactly. On March 8th, at midnight, the Big Dipper is directly overhead. The hour hand points from Polaris to the Dipper overhead at midnight, real time.. So March 8th serves as calibration time for the rest of the year. .
So, our celestial clock looks like this. Midnight (the 24 hour mark) is when the Big Dipper is straight overhead. The hour hands points from Polaris, to the Dipper, pointing overhead to the south. 12:00 noon would point straight down to the northern horizon. 6PM (18 on our clock) would be when the Dipper was to the right (east) of Polaris and 6AM would have the Dipper to the left (west) of Polaris.
Now, to tell the time by the Dipper, face north and imagine our clock face transplanted to the sky. Find the Dipper and draw the imaginary hour hand, from Polaris to the Dipper's pointer stars. Figure out what time this reads on our celestial clock, now all we need to do is compensate for our clock's faster running time. Subtract 2 hours for each month from March 8th. Subtract 30 minutes for each week, and , if you want to be more accurate, subtract 4 minutes per remaining day. Oh, and don't forget to ADD one hour for Daylight Savings Time. Your answer will be local real time, accurate to within 30 minutes!
It may sound complicated, but once you try It a few times, it gets quite easy. Easy, that is, until the clouds set in?..!
Kathy A. Miles and Charles F. Peters II are writers for the website starryskies.com.


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We head upstairs to his office, which he notes, his son has left untouched. "I think I'm going to be pretty well spared," he deadpans.
Timpson is that rare business: a beneficiary of the recession. Shoe and watch repairs might be regarded as in long-term decline amid an increasingly throwaway culture, but as times have got harder, they appear to have come back into more widespread use.The head office of Timpson, the shoe repair and key-cutting firm, is on a drab industrial estate in a Manchester suburb. But inside defies expectations.
In the reception, a pool of water is projected on the floor, with fish that dart away to a babbling soundtrack when you step on it. On the wall, the locations of the hundreds of Timpson shops up and down the country are listed in neat lines. The sofa looks as though it has come direct from the Conran Shop. The loo even has a fancy Dyson hand dryer.
John Timpson arrives, looks around and raises a conspiratorial eyebrow. "James's indulgences," he says, referring to his 37-year-old son, the managing director of the business and the fifth generation in the family firm. "He wants to make it the wackiest office in the north of England."
"Shoe repair did fantastically well, particularly in November when the recession started to hit people, this sort of make-do-and-mend idea, and it has kept up," Timpson says. The company says shoe repairs last week were 4% higher than the same time last year, and watch repairs were 21% better. The most recent figures available showed his holding company made a profit of £10.6m in the year ending September 2007, on sales of £92m.
"What is happening is we are starting to see people we hadn't seen before. The population is divided into all sorts of different groups, and perhaps one division is those who use shoe repairers and those that don't. You see a whole generation of girls in the Spice Girls era that wore Minnie Mouse sort of shoes never came to us at all. So this is actually good long-term for us because we are converting people to a service. "
The business, which has little in the way of borrowings, has also found itself in a position to bulk up by buying some of its less well-heeled rivals. The company has bought two businesses out of administration - a chain of dry-cleaning concessions inside Sainsbury's and a digital photo chain, operating under the Max Spielmann and Klick brands - taking the estate to 830 shops.
Timpson, 65, is an immensely likeable character who stumbles over his words and hums to himself, "bombombom", as he searches for the right papers or thoughts, and generally gives the impression that he is making it all up as he goes along. He likes to steer clear of meetings, doesn't really use email and keeps his appointments in a monogrammed, well-thumbed red leather organiser. His "spreadsheet" of shops due a visit is a scrawled list on a sheet of paper. He doesn't have a marketing department and says he has never spent a penny on advertising. "I reckon I do strategy and communications," he says.
Timpson, valued at £53m in the Sunday Times, has gained a reputation as a paternalistic employer. He runs a "Dream Come True" programme for staff, which has paid for eye operations and reunited families; he has holiday homes for workers, and the company, with links to 21 prisons, has recently set up a training school for young offenders in Liverpool. Staff get their birthdays off, bonuses for exceeding targets and he is determined to keep the final-salary pension scheme. It is, he says, "blindingly obvious" that if you treat people well, they will do a good job.
He toyed with flotation in the late 1980s when other specialist retailers such as Sock Shop and Tie Rack were joining the market, but decided against it. "If I was asked what was the best decision I have ever made, that almost certainly would be up there. I don't think we'd have survived. In the early 90s we suffered, the whole of our trade suffered, from £1.6m profit, we went back to half a million. Well, they would have had me." He says the business was saved by starting to cut keys. Timpson also now offers engraving and intends to develop a chain of locksmiths.
The toughest time came when he bought back the business and realised that the shoe shops were not working. "The next four years were the worst time of my life, because it didn't work. So I had done this magic thing, bought back the business that my great-grandfather had founded, and it didn't perform. So then in the end I had to make the decision, well it was almost made for me, of selling the shoe shops. That was ghastly. I was selling the people. Luckily, I said 'well, I've got to have something to do' and worked out how to keep the shoe repair business.
"But I had no long-term plans, I don't believe in long-term plans; one of my jobs for this afternoon for the board meeting will be to do my five-year sort of view, but I don't have it all written down too much - it is all little pictures and scribbles."
Timpson spends about three days a week visiting individual shops - his specialist subject, if he were to appear on Mastermind, he says, would be Britain's car parks. He retells his favourite "eureka" moment from talking to staff. "I met a guy called Glen Edwards, who was operating our shop in West Brom. Glen said, 'I hope you don't mind but I'm doing a few watch repairs, because I used to do watch repairs', and I said, 'how much are you taking?' He said '£120 this week'. Glen now runs the watch repair division. Our watch repair turnover last week was about £270,000, so that was pretty good."
Timpson's great-grandfather founded the company in 1865. It began as a shoe retailer, with the repair business added in 1903. It is often said that family firms go wrong in the third generation and so it was with Timpson, when John's father was ousted by his uncle and the firm taken over. Timpson says he was "shattered" by the event but stayed with the new owners in a different division.
Two years later he was invited back to run the old family business, like the returning prodigal son. The new owner, UDS, was then acquired by Hanson and Timpson took the opportunity to lead a management buyout of the family firm in 1983, more of an emotional than a commercial decision. Over the subsequent few years, he bought out the other shareholders and today owns 100% of the company again.
"By the time you get to the third generation, there are lots of cousins and so on who are only interested in the dividend and spend their time complaining about the people who could be doing better. So I was just lucky that there was a whole sequence of events that meant that although I am the fourth generation, it is like I am the first generation. I have the advantage of having the experience handed down without the disadvantage of anyone else owning any shares."


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Di Francesco: Sometimes The Coach is Relative
December 8, 2018 Stefano Bernardini Italian News, Serie A 0
Eusebio Di Francesco - AS Roma
Cagliari-Roma ends 2-2 after Maran's side historical comeback. Di Francesco expressed his frustration in the post-match interviews.
Eusebio Di Francesco seems to be helpless and confused in front of the bizarre performances of his group. A man who does not seem to have the strength to react and make himself understood by his players. What has happened today is unprecedented in the world of football. Cagliari made a legendary comeback scoring the equalizer in a double numerical inferiority and without their best players.
The Italian outlet Sky Sport interviewed Di Francesco right after the match and the Italian coach stated: "In a match, you play against opponents and you can suffer. Today, we had suffered little or nothing and we could have scored the 3-0. In the last minutes, the physical condition and the anger of the opponents can grow too. I changed a few players because we were not lucid anymore and unable to keep the possession of the ball," said Di Francesco.
"Things must be analyzed at 360 degrees. The team has always shown mental problems. In the second half, we were mentally fragile even in reading certain situations."
"There was a great experience on the field. Sometimes, the coach is relative. But I have to take my responsibilities. I'm angry, we had the game in our hands," said the Roma coach to Sky Sport.
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Roma's Dramatic Night At the Sardegna Arena, 2-2 (Stats)

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See also Tallage on Wikipedia, the 11th edition, and the disclaimer.
TALLAGE, or Talliage (from the French tailler, i.e., a part cut out of the whole), appears to have signified at first a tax in general, but became afterwards confined in England to a special form of tax, the assessment upon cities, boroughs, and royal demesnes—in effect, a land tax. Like Scutage (q.v.) tallage was superseded by the subsidy system in the 14th century. The last occasion on which it was levied appears to be the year 1332. The famous statute of 25 Edw. I. (in some editions of the statutes 34 Edw. I.) De Tallagio non Concedendo, though it is printed among the statutes of the realm, and was cited as a statute in the preamble to the Petition of Right in 1627, and by the judges in John Hampden's case in 1637, is probably an imperfect and unauthoritative abstract of the Confirmatio Cartarum. The first section enacts that no tallage or aid shall be imposed or levied by the king and his heirs without the will and assent of the archbishops, bishops, and other prelates, the earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other freemen in the kingdom. Tallagium facere was the technical term for rendering accounts in the exchequer, the accounts being originally kept by means of tallies or notched sticks. The tellers (a corruption of talliers) of the exchequer were at one time important financial officers. The system of keeping the national accounts by tallies was abolished by 23 Geo. III. c. 82, the office of teller by 57 Geo. III. c. 84.
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Hip-Hop Doesn't Trust The Covid Vaccine. This Doctor Wants To Change That
Dr. Blackstock hopes to quell some of that distrust and skepticism thaat hip-hop figures like Pete Rock, Maseo, and Busta Rhymes have toward the vaccine. Photo Credit: Johnny Nunez/WireImage; Pierre Suu/GC Images; Burak Cingi/Redferns; Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for Live Nation
Amid hip-hop figures expressing skepticism toward the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Uché Blackstock wants to give them and others the opportunity to express their concerns while also assuring them that the vaccine is meant to help them.
Back in August, Dr. Uché Blackstock took to Twitter to ask fellow Black healthcare and public health professionals if they were down to be involved in a roundtable with hip-hop artists Busta Rhymes, Maseo, and Pete Rock to discuss their concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine.
The inquiry is the result of these figures either expressing skepticism — as well as sharing misinformation — toward the vaccine (Maseo and Pete) or criticizing mandates meant to curtail the spread of COVID-19 (Busta). Since last December, Pete has been vocal of his skepticism toward the vaccine, while Maseo has recently shared posts that not only echo an anti-vaccine stance (which he refers to an anti-trust stance) but come with an air of conspiracy, too, as was the case with a post he shared of Bill Gates, presumably in relation to the debunked theories about him and his organization's role in the spreading and treatment of the coronavirus. Unlike Maseo or Pete, Busta hasn't shared any anti-vax posts that could be seen as him being anti-vax, but he recently came under fire for an anti-mask rant he gave at a concert.
But these instances speak to the ongoing distrust and skepticism toward covid vaccines — and mandates — in hip-hop, which are ingrained in the warranted mistrust Black people in America have against this country's healthcare system, with the controversial Tuskegee Experiment constantly referenced during this time.
Dr. Blackstock hopes to quell some of that distrust and skepticism these hip-hop figures — as well as the Black community at large — have toward the vaccine. She's the founder of Advancing Health Equity, which partners with healthcare institutions and organizations to address racial health inequities, as well as provide them with strategies and tools to provide racially equitable care.
She's also a hip-hop fan: she grew up with the music of De La Soul, Busta, and Rock, from their music playing out of cars passing by in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood she was raised in to college parties she attended. These artists were foundational to her upbringing and still mean a lot to her, which is why she wants to help them better understand how the vaccine works.
"Black men have the shortest life expectancy of any racial and ethnic demographic group in this country, right? And we've even seen other hip-hop artists die young, like DMX," she said. "And so, it's just all part of it — the systemic racism does this… I recognize the impact of systemic racism on Black folks' decision to get vaccinated. We are asking our people to essentially take a vaccine that's been produced by social institutions that have harmed our communities, that have proven very untrustworthy, so there's that paradox."
"So it's like acknowledging, 'Yes, systemic racism historically and currently has just harmed our communities profoundly,'" she continued. "But at the same time, these vaccines actually work. And while they're not the panacea in terms of solving all of the ills of our communities, they are one really, I would say miracle of science that we need to really get behind, because if we don't, we're going to see those inequities widen further."
For Blackstock, it's not the suspicion that hip-hop has toward the vaccine that concerns her, but the misinformation they sometimes refer to, to justify their reasoning.
"I can understand having doubts and concerns about the vaccine, but I felt like they were all using their platform to almost spread what I saw as information that wasn't necessarily accurate," she said, adding that she's reached out to Maseo, Busta, and Rock via DM, but none of the artists have responded. "…I really want to engage with them and not do it in a way where I'm talking down to them, but like, 'Tell me a little bit about why you have these perspectives and where you're getting your information from, and maybe we can have a conversation about what vaccines really do.'"
Blackstock has also noticed how some hip-hop figures have encouraged their fans to be proactive against COVID-19, but then don't encourage them to get the vaccine. Granted, there have been some artists who've used their platform to encourage their fans to get the vaccine, and have even shared how they went from skeptic to supporter, too.
Amid transforming his classic twerk anthem "Back That Thang Up" into "Vax That Thang Up," Juvenile shared in an interview with Politico that, despite taking covid seriously, his fear of needles and concerns about how fast the vaccine was created, stopped him from immediately getting the vaccine. However, that changed when his daughter was accepted into school for her doctorate and a vaccine was highly recommended. That, along with being informed about the vaccine by his wife (who's a registered nurse) and seeing loved ones die from the virus, led to him getting the vaccine.
"I saw the effect that [COVID-19] can have on a person that's in good health. It's one of the scariest things I've seen, knowing that they were in great health before they got struck with Covid. They didn't have that opportunity to get the vaccine," Juvenile said.
Still, with the vaccine now a political issue, there may be some hesitancy from hip-hop artists to encourage getting the vaccine, even if they've gotten it themselves.
"…are there other hip-hop artists that have been vaccinated, but are not speaking up? Because I haven't heard from them," Blackstock said. "I don't know if other hip-hop artists that are like, 'Yeah, man, I got vaccinated and you should get vaccinate too, and this is why.'…I think they're speaking out against it, but no one's speaking out for it."
But Blackstock isn't giving up. Last month, she took to MSNBC (where she's a medical contributor) to talk about how Nicki Minaj's tweet storm suggesting the vaccine could cause swollen testicles only adds to the distrust some have toward the vaccine, as well as said she's happy to sit down with the rapper to talk about vaccine disinformation.
Elijah C. Watson
Elijah Watson serves as Okayplayer's News & Culture Editor. When he's not writing he's listening to Sade and crying or watching My Hero Academia with his partner.
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Today is 96 days before Battle for Azeroth launches.
In-game shiz will disappear well before these 96 days are up. If it matters enough, GO DO IT TODAY.
I'll be sorting out the last of my UI's this week and then, it's time to go and farm ALL THE THINGS.


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Q: Why are all light bulbs in a series circuit equally bright? I understand that a circuit with just one bulb will be brighter than a circuit with two, because Ohm's law states that current is inversely proportional to distance, and therefore the greater resistance presented by two bulbs will cause a lower current to pass through the circuit.
The thing that I am unsure about is why all of the bulbs in a series circuit will have the current shared equally and therefore be equally bright, as my intuition would say the first bulb would receive more energy than the second, and that more than the third etc. At the risk of asking a silly question, how do the electrons 'know' how much energy to give the first bulb without having any obvious way of 'knowing' the number of bulbs / total resistance of the system?
My teacher said he thought it might have something to do with the idea that the electrons pass round the circuit repeatedly, so the charge averages in some sense, but if this is true would the first light seem brighter if the circuit was only activated for long enough for the electrons to complete a single circuit?

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Val, thanks for posting this. We haven't come very far at all, have we? So frustrating.
Frustrating is the mildest of terms.
WP is messing with me. Just wrote you a lengthy response (a well-thought out one at that) and it couldn't be posted. I'll try back when I calm my A double S down.
WP is messing with all of us. Try the response on JB's site, I will see it there. He and I will see your responses whether here or there.


There are plenty of dental insurance plans that will cover dentures, but you need to plan ahead. Many but not all dental insurance plans have waiting periods from 6-18 months.
As an example: Replacing teeth with dentures is classified as major dental services. The average benefit is 50% co-insurance for your dentures. Dentures are covered by some dental discounts dental plans. Remember discount dental plans are not insurance dental plan.
What happens when you get dentures?
Full or partial dentures replace your teeth when you have lost your natural teeth, from periodontal disease, tooth decay or injury. They will help your appearance and your health including support for facial muscles sag which makes a person look older.
Dentures normally take one month and 4-5 appointments which include the initial exam, wax bite impressions, and final denture adjustments.
How to take care of dentures?
Remove and brush your dentures with a tooth brush and denture cleanser designed for dentures. When the dentures are not used, soak the dentures in a denture cleaner solution or in water.
Should dentures be worn at bedtime?
Dentures should not be worn while sleeping to allow the gum tissue to rest and normal stimulation and cleaning by the tongue and saliva.
Strategically placed supports or implants can be used to support permanently cemented bridges, eliminating the need for some dentures.
I hope this information on dental insurance for dentures has helped.
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The Construction Enquirer reports that the famous Interbuild show - now rebranded as BEST - has been cancelled this year after organiser Emap said it "could not guarantee the scale or scope of event that customers demand and expect".
Many of you will know the show as an annual industry tradition, however the size of the exhibition has been shrinking in recent years as Emap struggled to sell space. The good news is that the two 'sister shows' - InstallerLive and The Infrastructure Show - will continue as planned at the NEC in October 2011.
For more on this article see Interbuild show cancelled as demand droops.


Photographer Benedetta Ristori has spent the last three years documenting life on the Balkan peninsula, first hitting the road in 2015 as part of her photo series East: a project designed to explore the ever-changing relationship between past and present.
By spending time with local people, Ristori hoped to capture vibrant expressions of self and culture to contrast with the crumbling remains of socialism.
Shot on a 35mm analog camera to preserve a sense of distant nostalgia, the series travels through Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova and Transnistria.
Now the Rome-born photographer has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring the series together in a dedicated photobook release. She hopes to raise €5000 for a limited 300 book run.
To contribute to the campaign — or get copy of the book — you can find more information on the campaign page here.


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About Darnley Taylor Park Integrated Masterplan and Management Plan – Community Advisory Committee:
The Darnley Taylor Park Masterplan Annual Business Plan Project involves engaging a Community Advisory Committee to work with the project consultant to develop an Integrated Masterplan and Management Plan for the Darnley Taylor Park site.
The project seeks to involve the community and work directly with the public throughout the process by establishing a community advisory committee that is representative of key users of the facility now and in the future and within the scope of works to ensure public issues and opportunities are consistently understood and considered.
The role of the Darnley Taylor Park Community Advisory Committee is to provide ideas, input and feedback into the development of an Integrated Masterplan and Management Plan for the Darnley Taylor Park site which aligns to the needs and wants of the community and work with Council's procured project consultant in doing so.
The Renmark Paringa Council is committed to communicating with, involving, considering the views of and building relationships with its community and stakeholders through engagement and consultation, using the IAP2 model to address the key elements of communication and consultation.


So, it's that time of year when experts, pundits and assorted brainiacs look back at the global economic, cultural, and political trends and try to decipher the grand meaning of what just happened in the last 12 months.
Actually, maybe "that time of year" was a couple of weeks ago now, but cut me some slack. I was busy.
By now, pages upon pages of punditry have been generated, out there waiting to be waded through, if one is so inclined. Or you could just skip it and read Bruce Sterling and John Lebkowsky's "State of the World 2014", the latest in a series which (if I'm not mistaken) dates back to 2000.
It's all a bit geeky, and materialistic in a tech-obsessed sort of way, but then we live in an increasingly geeky, materialistic and tech-obsessed world. So there's that. Also, what they have to say may not be fundamentally different from other such year-end round-ups. But they're just So. Damn. Pithy.
There's plenty more worth copying and pasting here. However, that last bit– "Pessimism in public affairs is just a kind of arrogance"–is a surprisingly positive note to stop on, and something I will try to keep in mind as events unfold in the following year.


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Day 2 of Goafest 2016 saw the presentation of the Creative Abbys. The jury announced the winners for nine categories, including Radio, Radio Craft, Broadcaster Abbys, Brand Abbys, Activation & Promotion, Public Relations, Print Craft, Branded Content & Entertainment and Direct.
Radio Single saw Contract secure 10 metals, which included two Silvers and eight Bronzes. The agency, however, drew a blank in Radio Craft.
JWT bagged the only Gold given away in Radio Single for its campaign titled 'Mama' done for Godrej Dual Video Door Phone in the Household and Business Appliances category. The agency also won a Silver and a Bronze in this category. JWT secured two Silvers and a Bronze in Radio Craft.
Dentsu Creative Impact scored seven Bronzes in Radio Single. In Radio Craft category, the agency won a Bronze.
Scarecrow walked away with a Silver and four Bronzes in Radio Single, while the agency's tally in Radio Craft included five Bronzes.
Rediffusion Y&R scored a Bronze in Radio Single. The agency did better in Radio Craft, where it took home a Silver and two Bronzes.


Check out the next Bay Area Book Festival, May 4 + 5, in Berkeley, California! The San Francisco Bay Area is a legendary literary mecca and the global capital of innovation. It's the perfect home for a world-class international book festival celebrating the past, present, and future of the book.
The San Francisco Chronicle is proud to sponsor this year's Festival.Check out some of The Chronicle's columnists and writers during the Bay Area Book Festival, see the line-up below.
Prophet of Freedom: Frederick Douglass | Speakers include: David Blight and East Bay Columnist, Otis R. Taylor Jr.
Full Bay Area Book Festival schedule available here.
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Sasaki Time: First Look at DC Universe: The Exhibit featuring Costumes from Suicide Squad and More!
First Look at DC Universe: The Exhibit featuring Costumes from Suicide Squad and More!
Opening on May 24th, 2016, DC Universe: The Exhibit will be part of the famous Warner Bros. Studio Tour. Come with me and get your first look at some of the amazing costumes and props you will see here! But first I had to stop and see if the Warner Brothers and my favorite Warner sister were here at the famous water tower. Sadly none of them were to be found.
Entering DC Universe: The Exhibit you are greeted by the Justice League and you will find their first comic books below the stunning artwork.
One of things I really enjoyed was that the mannequins look like their movie screen counterparts!
Hmmm why does Clark always leave his glasses behind when superman is here?
Lexcorp was kind enough to bring this amazing and surprisingly heavy piece of kryptonite.
The costume of young Master Wayne stands next to the Wayne Family Mausoleum.
The bat-demon that is seen in Bruce's nightmare with his mom's tomb.
The amazing details on Wonder Woman's costume.
Batman has all these wonderful toys!
The details on the Batman armor are impressive!
The Batman's post-apocalyptic nightmare outfit.
Get a closer look at the Suicide Squad such as Deadshots costume!
Deadshot's sniper rifle is wicked!
A closer look at Harley's mallet!
Harley's amazing jacket! We were told that the letters under Pudding Freaky have some sort of significance that we will discover in the Suicide Squad movie!
A closer look at Harley's baseball bat!
When you find out that you are in the same jail as Harley!
The license plate from Joker's car!
Joker's gun is way cool!


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Schistidium halinae är en bladmossart som beskrevs av Ryszard Ochyra 1998 [1999. Schistidium halinae ingår i släktet blommossor, och familjen Grimmiaceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: dynamic building of keys in node mongoose javascript I am an intermediate to node js.
I have a mongoose schema that consists of various fields as below
result_1
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result_5

The data will be received in numeric (1-5) as the result number and accordingly have to generate the key, eg,
we have result number in a variable
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var field = "result_" + result;

What I want to achieve is when I update using findOneAndUpdate I want to use the field variable as key.
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Let me know if what I am trying to do is something very orthodox.
Thanks in advance.

A: Due to the fact that mongoose doesn't allow you to do that, you can use this little loop hole:
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Online Pharmacies are just like what the name suggests, they are pharmacies that operate like a normal pharmacy with the exception being that online pharmacies ship a customer's pharmaceutical needs directly to his or her doorstep.
Some online pharmacies operate solely on the internet and act very similarly as to how a fully online store does except an online pharmacy sells drugs instead of other products. Some online pharmacies such as Guardian and Watsons in Malaysia do have physical brick and mortar stores but they also have an online presence to sell pharmaceutical products to customers who prefer to do their shopping online.
Online pharmacies have made it possible to sell their products to customers in different countries. An example of how this works is seeing a customer from Singapore order some aspirins from Malaysia and getting it delivered to him in a few days. Online pharmacies typically have the same stock as traditional pharmacies and online pharmacies also may offer certain products at a discounted rate not seen in traditional pharmacies. The online pharmaceutical market in Malaysia is also aiding in the e-commerce scene and helping it grow annually.
Some complaints about online pharmacies are the safety concerns especially because it deals with health that some customers may be a little weary that the drugs sold online from online pharmacies may be illegal or not tested by the Malaysian Health Ministry. Other complaints aimed at online pharmacies are that minors can order certain drugs that may be not well suited for their consumption as there is no real way to properly check if an adult or minor is buying it. Claims may not be claimable if a drug is from Canada for example while the recipient is located in Malaysia. The last concern is that of a potential for lack of confidentiality as other people can know what type of product a customer is purchasing from the packaging of the parcel.


Effective management out of working capital is actually essential for the profitability as well as maintaining financial stability of any business. For efficient management you should know the various aspects of working capital management as well as different components of working capital management. Working capital is the funds, which is used to run, perform and conduct business activities.
Mostly investors and analyst assess for components of working capital to evaluate company's cash flow as their keys elements. For example: how funds are received, how funds are paid, how well inventory is managed, etc. Such analysis assure whether business constantly keeps sufficient money to meet with their short-term operating expenses and short-term debt commitments.
Current assets are those assets which can be easy convertible to cash within one-year. So that current assets can be utilized to meet necessary day- to-day operations for a business. Managing current assets is the primary objective for effective working capital management. The current assets have always been cash or close to cash means. For example: Short-term advances, Cash and bank balances, Receivables, Prepaid expenses, Temporary investments, Inventory of finished goods, Inventory of raw materials, Inventory of work-in-progress, etc.
Current liabilities are claims from external parties which are expected to be payable within one year of accounting period. For example: Creditors for goods purchased, Short-term borrowings, Taxes and dividends payable, Outstanding expenses, Advances received against sales, Other liabilities maturing within a year.
Cash is the most liquid form of funds, hence it is one of the huge important components of working capital. It is necessary for every business to maintain optimum level of cash in hand regardless if other existing assets is substantial. Cash act as an effective instrument at various stages of product life cycle. Cash in hand plays an important role to balance any gaps arising between productions to distribution cycle.
Accounts receivable tend to be profits due which is owed to a business by their clients for the sale of goods. Efficient, timely collection of account receivable is most essential to maintain financial health of the company's operation. For example: marketable securities consist of commercial papers offered by companies, acceptance letter, treasury bill, etc. These instruments can be bought and sold at quicker and reasonable rate. They usually have less than one year as their maturity period. This attract company's to investment additional cash reserves and also can be used as highly liquid assets.
Accounts receivable have always been under assets side of a company's balance sheet, but they are not actually assets until these are typically collected. A commonly used method by analysts to evaluate the organization's accounts receivable cycle is that, day's sales outstanding, that reveals that the typical average days an organization sales cycle to collect profits from sale of goods.
Account payable, the money an organization need to pay out throughout the short term, is also an another key components of working capital management. Normally company's effectively maintain balance between maximum cash flow simply by delaying payments as long as it is fairly potential. In addition, they need to keep positive credit ranks / scores while dealing with creditors as well as suppliers. Commonly, a business's average time for account receivables are significantly shorter than the average time for account payable's.
Stock is one of the main components of working capital. An organization's main asset that it transforms in to sales profits and earnings. The speed at which business sells and restock is significant to determine its success. Stock are of various types, which includes stock as raw material, stock as work in progress or stock in finished goods. Investors give consideration to their stock turnover level become a sign of this strength to sales and as a measure towards how efficient the business looks in their buying as well as production process. Stock that is minimal, puts the company into danger zone of getting rid of off product sales. Again excessively high stock levels express inefficient utilization of working capital.
Here we have understood some of the important components of working capital management as well as significant aspects of working capital management one should consider. It is very important to maintain those ratios to play a win-win business game. These ratios are the heart of any company where investors, analyst or shareholders rely upon. Hope this was useful for you. Leave your feedback to help us serve better to our readers.


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Our smart contract between the User (Patient) and their Payer (Insurance Company), who acts as their Custodian, has the following features.
Version Information for Supported C-CDA format.
Use our service to anonymously and securely store an online distributed proof of existence for any document. Your documents are NOT stored in our database or in the bitcoin blockchain, so you don't have to worry about your data being accessed by others.
All we store is a cryptographic digest of the file, linked to the time in which you submitted the document. In this way, you can later certify that the data existed at that time. This is the first online service allowing you to publicly prove that you have certain information without revealing the data or yourself, with a decentralized certification based on the bitcoin network.
The key advantages are anonymity, privacy, and getting a decentralized proof which can't be erased or modified by anyone (third parties or governments). Your document's existence is permanently validated by the blockchain even if this site is compromised or down, so you don't depend or need to trust any central authority. All previous data timestamping solutions lack this freedom.
I worked on the product idea, worked with Alex on the design and redesign :-), and I documented the workflow and logical design and the "story" used to engage the audience.
This is the version we submitted for the #disthealth #hackathon on 10/2/2016.


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Grease, full movie - Full movie 1978. You can watch Grease online on video-on-demand services (Netflix, HBO Now), pay-TV or movie theatres with original audio in English. This movie has been premiered in Australian HD theatres in 1978 (Movies 1978). The DVD (HD) and Blu-Ray (Full HD) edition of full movie was sold some time after its official release in theatres of Sydney.
Movie directed by Randal Kleiser.
Commercially distributed this film, companies like Esselte Video, Argentina Video Home, CIC Video, Cinema International Corporation (CIC), TV3, Paramount Home Entertainment, CIC-Taft Home Video, United International Pictures (UIP), Paramount Home Video, Paramount Pictures, Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Cinema Internazional Corporation, Insurge Pictures, Cinéma International Corporation (CIC), Nelonen, Park Circus and Paramount Home Entertainment Finland.
This film was produced and / or financed by Paramount Pictures, Allan Carr Production and Robert Stigwood Organization (RSO).
As usual, this film was shot in HD video (High Definition) Widescreen and Blu-Ray with Dolby Digital audio. Made-for-television movies are distributed in 4:3 (small screen). Without commercial breaks, the full movie Grease has a duration of 110 minutes; the official trailer can be streamed on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free with English subtitles on movie television channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
Full HD Movies / Grease - To enjoy online movies you need a HDTV with Internet or UHDTV with BluRay Player. The full HD movies are not available for free streaming.


Speaking with expats on a regular basis has given me huge insight into the world of life overseas. Many of these expats are in different stages of their adventure. Some moving aboard for the first time, some returning home after years overseas and other are still on the move.
Swiss Wife, from An Expat Wife, is the later of those. She's a Brit by birth but has lived overseas since the young age of 34. She currently lives in Switzerland but her time abroad in the US and Singapore has given her the right to be called an "Expert Expat." This invaluable experience gives her an incredible understanding of people and what it means to really "live." Lets hear more from her now.
What initiated your move abroad?
We were living in London and my husband came home one day and asked 'what do you think about moving to Asia for a few years?' We visited Hong Kong for the first time and thought 'why not?'. After that the moves to Singapore, USA and Switzerland, where we are now, were much less daunting.
Its fun to discover new things in your new country. I've met some amazing people.
I think the best thing is being back in Europe and close to family and friends in the UK. Travelling around Europe is easy and there are so many places I want to visit. The outdoor life is also great here, lots of walking trails and beautiful scenery.
What's the hardest part about living in Switzerland?
The hardest part about living in Switzerland is the language. There are 4 national languages here and English isn't one of them. Learning German had been tough, and although it is the majority language, most people speak Schweizerdeutsch, a dialect, which is very different from High German which is the language used in schools, TV and newspapers.
What was the biggest culture shock of living in Switzerland?
Many Swiss people are not as friendly and open to newcomers as in other countries and its been very difficult to make friends and integrate.
I would move to Tokyo in a heartbeat. I love Japan. Its so different from anywhere else. I've been around 10 times now and the chances of us moving there are very slim, so I have to be happy just to go as a tourist.
What's one thing you miss most from your home country of the United Kingdom?
Savory. Give me good bread and cheese over anything sugary every time.
Dogs. I'd love to have a couple of bulldogs but we travel a lot so it would be too difficult. Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions and that is one of them for me.
What's something you wish you knew before arriving in Switzerland?
I wish I knew more German. It certainly would of helped with some of the initial paperwork processes like replacing driving licenses.
Living in the city would of made it easier to meet new people. Its VERY expensive to live in the centre of the cities in Switzerland, but that is where all the expat clubs, bars and social life is. We live in a village about 15km from Zurich and life here is very quiet and there are very few expats or English speakers.
I love most of the cities in Switzerland although compared to Manchester where I grew up and London where I lived for 15 years they are very small. I just go back to London every month or so for my city fix.
What's your favorite food in your new country?
Fondue. I love Fondue. I loved it before I moved here and now I love trying all the different varieties.
Don't waste energy focusing on what you are missing, or left behind, but embrace all the new experiences and opportunities available to you. When you say you miss your old job, think about all the days you spent sitting behind a desk wishing you could take a photography course, learn to make pasta or have enough time to do daily yoga sessions….. then make the most of the time you have and enjoy learning new things. I did a degree in Social Science while living in Asia. I would never of had the time while I was busy working and commuting.
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То́ні Саве́вскі (; народився 14 червня 1963; Бітола, СР Македонія, СФР Югославія) — югославський і македонський футболіст, півзахисник. Савевскі вважається одним із найкращих гравців в історії Грецької Суперліги. Захищав кольори національної збірної Югославії, пізніше збірної Македонії. Виступав за команди «Вардар» та АЕК.

Кар'єра
Футбольну кар'єру розпочав у клубі «Пелістер» із Бітоли, у 1980 перейшов до «Вардара», за який виступав до 1988 року. Того ж року підписав контракт з грецьким клубом Альфа Етнікі АЕК. У складі АЕКа Савевскі провів 13 сезонів і зіграв 410 матчів у грецькій лізі, 4 рази виграв чемпіонат (1989, 1992, 1993, 1994) і тричі став володарем Кубка Греції (1996, 1997, 2000). Савевскі зіграв 2 матчі у складі збірної Югославії і 9 матчів у складі збірної Македонії.

Після завершення кар'єри гравця, Савевскі розпочав тренерську діяльність. Він очолював АЕК, «Аполлон» (Лімасол) та «Омонія». З «Омонією» виграв Категорію А (2003) і  Суперкубок Кіпру (2003). Наразі тренує молодіжну команду АЕКа.

Статистика

Нагороди та досягнення
Як гравець
  «Вардар»
 Перша Ліга (1): 1986—87
  АЕК
 Альфа Етнікі (4): 1988—89, 1991—92, 1992—93, 1993—94
 Кубок Греції (3): 1995—96, 1996—97, 1999—00
 Суперкубок Греції (2): 1989, 1996
 Кубок ліги (1): 1989—90
 Кубок Середземноморських ігор 1991 (1): 1991
Як тренер
  «Омонія»
 Категорія А (1): 2002—03
 Суперкубок Кіпру (1): 2003

Посилання
Статті:
 Профіль на NationalFootballTeams.com
Відео:
  Гол Савевскі, Мілан—АЕК 2:1, Ліга чемпіонів 1994—1995  на YouTube

Уродженці Бітоли
Югославські футболісти
Гравці збірної Югославії з футболу
Македонські футболісти
Гравці збірної Північної Македонії з футболу
Футболісти «Вардара»
Футболісти АЕКа (Афіни)
Македонські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери у Греції
Македонські футбольні тренери
Тренери ФК «Омонія»
Тренери ФК «Аполлон» Лімасол


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Scandal under the United Nations flag
By Hossam Shaker
Students arriving at the school gates to find them closed in accordance with instructions from the United Nations – a scenario that was very close to happening at the beginning of the current school year, remedied at the last minute by individuals within the international committees.
The background to this incident is the fact that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been complaining that the international community does not uphold their financial obligations, resulting in a suffocating debt crisis that almost caused the closure of the network of schools managed by the agency in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan for over 60 years, as well as a number of other austerity measures. Preparations were made to postpone the school year and to keep students stuck in the alleyways of their miserable camps spread across the four countries. The parents were told at the last minute that the shocking decision had been reconsidered, but UNRWA has said they cannot guarantee another academic year for the children until further notice.
Can this be any more absurd? The scandal occurred with almost no noise or objection, even though disabling UNRWA would ignite an immediate humanitarian, social and economic crisis amongst the Palestinian refugee community, which is already at breaking point in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria.
UNRWA is one of the most important operators of the Palestinian work force and provides various vital educational, professional, health and relief services to five million refugees whose land, homes and resources were stolen from them by the Israeli occupation authorities. I must clearly state that what happened earlier this year was a heinous manipulation of an entire nation's morale, which, in any case, threatens to blow up the entire Palestinian community from within. Let us imagine that this were to happen in beautiful Switzerland, the country of UN Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl, and that his three sons could not attend school because international powers are simply unwilling to pay for this basic right. It would be nothing short of a scandal.
However, who really believes that the international community is unable to resolve a financial crisis similar to the one suffered by one of its agencies? How could the UN and the Bretton Woods institutions push generations of Palestinians into a quagmire of programmed ignorance and rampant diseases in such a blatant manner? Don't these risks mean that the fate of the Palestinians is to face more hopelessness and discouragement, and won't such circumstances simply push Palestinian refugees to undertake dangerous journeys in search of the necessities of life?
Because the international community does not care about moral urges, a Palestinian documentary team produced a short film explaining the story. In the film, a student leaves his home in the refugee camp and heads to school; he finds the door closed, painted with the UN colours and a sign that says the school was closed down due to a financial deficit. The story does not end here; the student's shock leads him to a four-wheel drive driven by masked individuals who take him on an unknown suicide mission. The film's message is clear: the inability of the international community to commit to its obligations to UNRWA will push generations of Palestinians into the lure of armed extremism. This film is very clever because it appeals to the international community with what it understands.
The dilemma is not in the ignorance and impoverishment of generations of Palestinians, rather in terrorism and extremism and the fact that these issues are the single priority for the international agenda in this part of the world, over and above simple human rights.
The article was first published in the Middle East Monitor website.
Lebanese security detain 40 Palestinian Syrians
Information Division of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces arrested 40 Palestinian Syrian refugees including women and children on Wednesday.
A report issued by Action Group for Palestinians of Syria revealed that the Lebanese security forces arrested 40 Palestinian Syrians while trying to leave the port city of Tripoli by sea through a boat illegally to Turkey and then to European countries.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Mahmoud Hanafi, head of the Palestinian human rights institution "Shahid," confirmed to the AGPS correspondent in Lebanon that the institution is following the situation of Palestinian refugee detainees closely.
He said: "The Lebanese authorities promised not to hand over anyone of them to the Syrian authorities, adding that the Lebanese General Security in such cases needs to take legal procedures to know the details of the case and access to the smuggler who arranged the trip.
He noted that the detainees will be released immediately upon completion of those procedures, which lasts between two to three days.
It is noteworthy that the Palestinians of Syria in Lebanon suffer miserable living and legal conditions in Lebanon, pushing them to find ways to escape after fleeing from the ravages of the Syrian war, as they are about 45,000 refugees.
World Bank: Palestinians are getting poorer
A UN report issued by the World Bank revealed on Tuesday that Palestinians have been getting poorer over the past three years.
The report stated that the decline in aid from donor countries, last year's war in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli freeze of tax revenues due to the Palestinian Authority during the first trimester of this year have caused severe damage to the Palestinian economy.
According to the report, the Palestinians have been getting poorer over the past three years as a result of the political, security, economic and social conditions imposed on them.
The World Bank report will be presented this week to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC). It recommends reforms to the current general economic trends to halt further deterioration in the economy.
The report pointed out that a quarter of the Palestinians are living under poverty conditions while the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip exceeded the barrier of 60 per cent. Real GDP per capita has been shrinking since 2013 due to the weak economy in the Palestinian territories, the report added.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said that the unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories as a whole is nearly 25 per cent. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, meanwhile, revealed that 72 per cent of Gaza's population suffers from food insecurity.
The report also recommends the Palestinian Authority to make further efforts to improve tax collection and continue to push towards reforms in the health and electricity sectors.
Report: Harrowing conditions of Palestinian families' at Syria-Turkey borders
Along with thousands of Syrian refugees in "Derek" Turkish Camp on the Syrian-Turkish borders, 22 Palestinian families are facing harsh conditions.The prison-like camp is surrounded with barbed wires. Getting out of it requires a security approval, or what Palestinian refugees now call 'a permit'.
Harsh conditions
Palestinian refugees explained the hard conditions they are facing, especially getting food whose costs are high compared to the prices outside the camp.
Sa'ad, a Palestinian refugee in the camp, said that the Kurdish camp management provides a monthly payment of 80 Turkish Liras per person, around 3 Liras a day. This, as he explained, can hardly meet the daily basic necessities.
According to Sa'ad, the contaminated water well has caused inflammatory bowel to many refugees, as this water is used for both drinking and washing. The camp management, however, does not provide the camp with drinking water, even though it has drinking water reservoirs.
The camp tents are hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Furthermore, poor hygiene has caused the spread of infectious skin diseases, especially because of the camp's toilets that are unfit for human use.
Movement restrictions
The refugees' bad living conditions include the restriction imposed on their movement in and out. The camp management gives them short permits –hours or a day– to leave the camp, and if a refugee is late, they will have to spend the night in the open air.
There are 104 Palestinian refugees, 10 of whom are women without a breadwinner, 15 families with five or less members, 7 families with six or more members, and 5 families without any means of communication.
There is no appropriate medical care for the refugees. A number of refugees need medicine, including a little boy who needs a surgery in the head and a woman with Thalassemia who hasn't got blood transfusion for seven months.
The camp's 60 children are the most affected. A child died due to severe fever. Dozens of children have been psychologically affected.
Educationally speaking, the refugees confirmed there are no schools in the camp. They expressed concern about their children's future if they remain in the prison-like Derek camp.
A journey of suffering
Before moving to "Derek" camp in March, the Palestinian families used to live in an accommodation center in Kilis. Al-Wafaa Campaign provided the center with humanitarian aid and pledged to manage the camp and pay the rent for the land on which the center was established.
Nonetheless, the center was soon closed due to the lack of financial support, a pretext denied by the al-Wafaa Campaign. Consequently, some refugees rented houses in Kilis, and the rest were moved to "Derek" camp.
Failure of the PA embassy
The refugees criticized the Palestinian embassy for standing idly by, especially not issuing them passports. It is quite hard for the refugees to get passports as it requires a seven-hour travel to Ankara, in addition to €50.
Refugees also blamed the UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, for "turning a deaf ear to the refugees' suffering in the camp."
The refugees demand the Palestinian officials in Turkey, represented by the Palestinian Embassy and GAPAR, to ensure them a dignified life with better living, medical, and educational conditions in accommodation centers in Turkey.
They also confirmed the need for free-of-charge passports from the Palestinian Embassy for all the refugees.
Furthermore, they asked the Palestinian committees and associations in Turkey to visit the camp to have a closer look at the conditions there and to provide humanitarian and psychological help.
PRC: No stability in the region without Palestinian right of return
Head of the Palestinian Return Center (PRC) Majed al-Zeer called for re-tabling and solving the Palestinian refugees' issue on the basis of the international resolutions and laws.
In his speech at the 30th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, al-Zeer stressed that the right of return is granted by the universal declaration for human rights that states that "everyone has the right to leave any country and to return to it."
The most appropriate remedy to the Palestinian refugee problem is the implementation of their right to return, he said.
Al-Zeer pointed to the UNRWA crisis, saying that it is a political issue par excellence. "Israel has to uphold its legal, moral and political obligations towards the Palestinian people," he continued.
The UN Human Rights Council held Monday morning a general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, and concluded its general debate on the Universal Periodic Review mechanism.
In July 2015, the PRC was granted the ECOSOC NGO consultative status. Human rights activists consider the outcome as a historic, strategic, and positive victory for the Palestinian people and their right of return.
UNRWA: We got funding for construction of 1150 houses
UNRWA's media consultant Adnan Abu Hasna said UNRWA has got the funding of the construction of 1150 of the houses completely damaged in 2014 summer's Israeli aggression on the blockaded enclave.
The house list will be released within the next weeks. Meanwhile, 165 houses are being reconstructed.
Abu Hasna said, in a statement on Tuesday, UNRWA renovated over 66,000 houses of the partially destroyed. While, 9000 homes are under construction and 56,000 others await being funded.
He pointed out that 430 of the greatly damaged houses have been accomplished whereas 2000 houses are being renovated and 6500 homes require funding.
Abu Hasna underlined that great efforts have been exerted in this regard, but the reconstruction process goes very slowly and suffers severe lack of funding. It got only 30% out of $724 million which was determined at the reconstruction conference in Cairo.
Palestinian Pianist from Yarmouk Joins Migrant Tide
File picture shows Aeham al-Ahmad, a former resident of Damascus' Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, playing the piano in the street.
Three years of siege, famine and bombing of his Damascus refugee camp didn't kill celebrated Palestinian musician Aeham al-Ahmad, but something died inside him the day militants burnt his beloved piano in front of his eyes.
It was then that Ahmad, whose music had brought consolation, even a bit of joy, to Yarmouk camp's beleaguered residents, decided to join thousands of others and seek refuge in Europe.
"They burned it in April, on my birthday. It was my most cherished possession," Ahmad said. "The piano wasn't just an instrument. It was like the death of a friend."
For 27-year-old Ahmad, whose songs of hope amid the rubble of Syria's largest Palestinian camp became a social media sensation last year, "it was a very painful moment."
Since Syria's civil war struck Yarmouk in 2013, the once-thriving neighborhood saw its population dwindle from as many as 160,000 Palestinians and Syrians to barely 18,000 people.
The camp was caught up in fighting among government forces and militants and suffered a devastating siege by the Syrian army. About 200 people died from malnutrition and a lack of medicines.
Ahmad became a symbol of hope, helping Yarmouk's people -- particularly its children -- forget for a moment the brutal war raging around them with every note he played.
"The days when I felt the most helpless were when I had money, but I could not get milk for my year-old baby Kinan, or when my older son Ahmad would ask me for a biscuit," he said. "It was the worst feeling."
But after Islamic State group militants attacked the camp in April, Ahmad's gentle, tentative ray of light was engulfed in flames.
He was in a pickup truck, trying to move his piano to nearby Yalda, where his wife and two boys were living, when he was stopped at a militant checkpoint.
"Don't you know that music is haram (forbidden by Islam)," a gunman asked, before torching his beloved instrument.
'Children cried from hunger'
Ahmad had stayed in Yarmouk until the day IS reduced his battered but precious upright piano to ashes: "That's when I decided to leave."
He would make for Germany, from where he would then try to get his family out of Syria. He began the dangerous journey out of Damascus "as rockets rained down," heading north through the provinces of Homs, Hama, and Idlib until he reached the Turkish border.
"At every step, I would meet another trafficker of human flesh," he recalled.
With the help of smugglers, he avoided Turkey's increasingly watchful security forces by crawling through barriers of barbed wire and spending nights sleeping fitfully in dark forests.
With other Syrian men, women, and children, Ahmad trekked through mountainous terrain to reach the Turkish coast.
"Once, we went 24 hours without eating a thing; the children were so hungry they would cry. It was horrible," Ahmad said.
On September 10, he began posting pictures on Facebook to document his journey. The first was of his emaciated face. When he was in Yarmouk, he weighed a mere 45 kilos (99 pounds).
'Tragedy has crossed the seas'
When he finally arrived in Izmir on the Mediterranean, Turkey's second port, Ahmad was shocked to see refugees "sleeping on sidewalks as they couldn't afford a hotel room."
A trafficker arranged for him to spend the night in an apartment "full of rats and insects." Then, he and some 70 others were crammed into a tiny van heading to the coastline, where they would take a dinghy to the Greek island of Lesbos.
They each paid smugglers $1,250, as thousands of others had done, knowing they might not survive. Suddenly gripped with fear, Ahmad took to his Facebook travel journal, "Diaries of a Traveler in the Sea."
"Dearest Mediterranean, I am Aeham and would like to safely ride your waves," he posted on Monday.
When the first rays of sunlight struck the sea at dawn on Thursday, Ahmad found himself on a Greek beach.
Tapping along on his knees, he sang a tragic tune about the "death haunting" his country: "Tragedy has crossed the seas/ Syria implores its displaced children to return."
Dreaming, like so many others, of reaching Germany, Ahmad made his way to Macedonia, then Serbia, and was on his way to Zagreb Saturday night "if they let me in."
"It has been non-stop," he told AFP. "I haven't slept for the past three days; I am exhausted. I hope I will reach my destination soon."
"I want to play in the streets of Berlin like I played in the streets of Yarmouk," he said. But his dream doesn't end there.
"I would love to play in the most famous orchestras, touring around the world and conveying the suffering of those that are besieged in (Yarmouk) and of all the civilians still in Syria."
More than three thousand Palestinian refugees died in Syria
A human rights report confirmed that 3,022 Palestinian refugees died in the ongoing Syrian conflict over the past five years.
The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria said in a statement that 1043 refugees have died because of the bombing, 663 refugees have died because of the clashes between the Syrian regime forces and the Syrian armed opposition groups, while 415 refugees have died under torture in the Syrian regime's dungeons.
The statement also pointed that some of the refugees "have died drowning or while trying to cross the Turkish borders or because of hunger resulting from the siege imposed on the Yarmouk refugee camp.
The group pointed to the death of the refugee Mohammad Mohawesh, a resident in "Saida Zainab" refugee camp in Damascus, while trying to cross the Turkish borders. He was found dead in "Bab al-Hawa" mosque on the Turkish borders.
The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria reminded again that all the neighboring countries of Syria refuse to receive the Palestinian refugees living in Syria which increases their suffering and leads them to search for illegal ways of immigration.
The group also pointed out that the Jordanian authority continue to prevent Palestinian refugees from entering its territory based on a resolution issued in that regard, while Turkey stopped issuing visas for Palestinian refugees. But Lebanon allows entering its territory only to the Palestinian refugees who have papers which prove that they have reunion interviews in the European embassies or for those who have booked for travelling by Beirut Airport.
IsraAid fighting to help refugees in Europe
Volunteers welcomed the new year by saving a group of drowning refugees of the Greek coast, but the action was just part of larger effort to help the masses of desperate travelers.
At an hour when most families in Israel were sitting down for their holiday dinners, three volunteers were welcoming the new year by saving a group of refugees after their boat sank near the Greek coast.
On Sunday night, 200 meters away from the coast of the island of Lesbos, an engine exploded on an rubber boat carrying 50 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The boat began to sink. Women, children and babies fell into the water, many of them did not know how to swim.
Luckily, there were three volunteers from the "IsraAID" humanitarian organization waiting on the beach – Naama Gorodischer, a project manager in the organization, Dr. Tali Shaltiel, and the group's social worker Orli Unger. The women were originally there to help refugees who reached the coast, but when they saw the ship sinking, they immediately found themselves in the middle of a rescue mission with another group of volunteers.
"We heard screaming. The refugees became hysterical," Naama said. "We immediately jumped into the water and swam towards them with flotation devices. We grabbed the children and swam back. Others grabbed whatever they could from the boat and swam to shore. There was a lot of panic, people were terrified," she concluded.
Thanks to the volunteers' quick reaction, all the refugees were saved. Gorodischer says they were lucky, but refers to what is taking place off the coast of Greece as a "Humanitarian disaster. Turkish smugglers take $1,500 per head, place them on rubber dinghies, and tell them to 'work it out,'" she said.
"The Turkish police stop the refugees on their way, often beating them, and sometimes even shooting at the boats. Some of the refugees make the trip 5 times," she says. "There are 30-40 boats a day and they are packed with pregnant women, children, and infants. Last week we met a women with a baby who was born by c-section just two weeks ago," she concluded.
Greece has become the main gateway to Europe for the refugees, primarily due to the relatively harsh treatment afforded to the refugees by the Turks. "The Greek coast guard is doing good work by helping the migrant ships, while getting tips from volunteers on the coast with binoculars," Gorodischer says.
"When the refugees arrive they start clapping, before they even understand what a long and difficult journey awaits them before they reach their destinations - Germany, Sweden, and Holland," Gorodischer said. "They come here from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and even Somalia. These are poor families who fled the horrors of war, and are trekking for hundreds of kilometers just to find shelter. They are tired, scared, and hungry," she concluded.
Naama added: "I have no doubt that watching the rubber boats come ashore, and the visible excitement among the refugees upon arriving in a safe haven, echoes the experience of the first aliyah to Israel, with ships embarking on a dangerous journey against all odds with the hope of a better future. "
The "IsraAID" teams help the refugees with food, water, blankets, and even maps with information about the path they are expected to take. In addition to Greece, there is another "IsraAID" team on the Hungary-Serbian border crossing, which was closed Tuesday due to the refugee flows. They are calling on more Israelis to join them. "We urgently need volunteers, mainly Arabic speakers, because there is a serious language barrier here," Gorodischer said. The organization has even handed out baby carriers that were donated by Israeli families seeking to help the refugees.
UNHRC to discuss Palestinian refugees' conditions
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has started on Monday in Geneva discussing the conditions of Palestinian refugees and human rights violations in occupied Palestine.
The Palestinian Return Center (PRC) affirmed its participation in the meetings which will last till October 2, 2015.
The PRC's participation will mainly focus on the financial challenges facing UNRWA and the effects of these challenges on UNRWA's ability to protect and assist the Palestinian refugees.
Last July, the UK-based Palestinian Return Center (PRC) has been granted observer status by the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO).
Palestinian asylum-seekers in Sweden maintain hunger strike
Dozens of Palestinian refugees in Sweden have been rallying outside of Malmo's department of refugee affairs for the 10th day running to demand permanent asylum.
Speaking on behalf of the refugee sit-inners and hunger strikers, Muheeb Abu Jazar told the PIC: "96 refugees, 95% among whom from the Gaza Strip, have taken part in the strike, initiated some 24 days ago."
He said women, children, disabled persons, and elderly refugees have been among those who initiated the sit-in to demand asylum.
According to Abu Jazar, 60% of the protesters left Gaza in the wake of last summer's Israeli offensive.
He added that the Swedish authorities have been refusing to grant Palestinian refugees asylum because they consider the blockaded Gaza Strip a safe place to live in.
The activists also said that three hunger strikers have been transferred to hospital after their health has sharply deteriorated.
The number of those who have been rushed to hospital over the past few days has gone up to 33, including one refugee held in the intensive care, the activist added.
A refugee sit-inner was attacked by the Swedish police and others were subjected to punitive measures by the Swedish authorities in an attempt to force them to suspend the hunger strikes and sit-ins.
The rally-goers maintaining vigil in Sweden's southern city of Malmo launched distress signals over the harsh conditions they have been made to endure, appealing to the concerned authorities and human rights organizations to seriously work on alleviating their agony.
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Home All News Finance/Business LIAT reorganises its Commercial Department
LIAT reorganises its Commercial Department
PRESS RELEASE – LIAT has announced changes to its commercial structure in order to bring a much sharper focus on revenue generation.
Mr. Lloyd Carswell, an internationally experienced Chief Commercial Officer is being appointed in this role on an interim basis for 3-4 months.
Reporting to him will be an interim Director of Commercial Operations (DCO) with responsibility for Revenue Management, Network Planning and Scheduling, Distribution, and Global Sales, and a Director of Commercial Delivery (DCD) with responsibility for Sales & Marketing, Customer Experience, and Cargo.
The DCO will be based in Antigua and the DCD in Barbados.
These changes will entail the move of six positions from Barbados to Antigua, although only five of these positions are currently occupied by LIAT staff in Barbados.
The roles of Sales and Marketing, Customer Experience, and Cargo, under the leadership of Leesa Parris-Rudder, will remain in Barbados. Total staff numbers in these roles are 275 who work throughout the region.
In order to strengthen the airline's airport delivery organisation, a new role of Customer Service Manager is being created. This role will be based in Barbados.
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Wait a minute August 12, 2014 At 12:35 AM
Why is Bdos allowing the few LIAT jobs in Bridgetown to disappear to Antigua. Barbados is by far the major shareholder in LIAT. Far from jobs being sent to Antigua the operations of LIAT should be moved to Barbados a genuine hub where millions of people transit annually. If the jobs are going to the already bloated inefficient LIAT HQ in Antigua then Bdos should ease its hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and let Antigua pay to operate LIAT. Barbados could then start its own airline despite the economic crisis because with its own airline it can bring more tourist traffic to the island and set competitive air fares. LIAT is a drain on the Bajan economy with no end in sight. In the meantime 600 people are employed at LIAT in Antigua but no one can figure out what they do besides goofing off.
andrew26 August 11, 2014 At 2:01 PM
liat is an embarassment.there are airlines of same stature,who are flourishing,less staff and not so top heavy.
looshan to the bone August 11, 2014 At 11:24 AM
More staff added to the already heavy compliment in ANU. LIAT currently has 275 staff? WOW. No wonder they will continue to be more unprofitable. IN these difficult economic times its about doing more with less and striving to be efficient but LIAT is doing the opposite. The airfare will continue to rise I suppose
watermark August 11, 2014 At 10:54 AM
Whilst you at it also focus on reducing airfares and improving punctuality.
Watermark, don't expect efficiency anytime from LIAT. A new person has been hired with responsibility for "Scheduling" trust me we will witness more delays. These jobs are more jobs for the friends family and girls and boys. Nothing new here.