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Lo Swieqi United Football Club è una società calcistica maltese avente sede nella cittadina di Swieqi.

Fondata nel 2009, la squadra non ha mai disputato un campionato nella massima serie. Nella stagione 2019-20 milita per la seconda stagione consecutiva nella seconda serie del campionato maltese.

Nonostante la fondazione recente, il club possiede anche una sezione di calcio a 5 e si distingue per una apprezzata accademia giovanile.

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Following a 1-1 draw with Italy away from home in the first round of the UEFA Nations league, they will be looking to do much better as they welcome Italy.
They were knocked out of World Cup in the group stage and this is a chance for them to feature in the Euro and do much better.
The hosts have won one game in their last five home games drawing two and losing two.
Italy will be looking to bounce back from a 1-0 loss to Portugal as they travel to Poland.
The visiting team is at the bottom of the table with one point.
They have performed dismal away from home having lost four games and drawn one in their last five away games.
Italy have won four games, drawn six and lost two in all their meetings with Poland.
Portugal were too good for Poland despite a late fight back from the home team.
They have a chance to redeem themselves against a side still lacking stability but their defense line is another big concern.
Italy failed to impress in a friendly match and Mancini seems not to have settled for the best eleven yet.
With the home advantage Poland should be slightly favorite to win this tie but will have to be at their best.


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The Crippling Truth about Second Impact Syndrome
Second impact syndrome is classified to be a greater, severe head injury that occurs when a concussion that was experienced before was not fully healed. Cerebral swelling is quickly induced which causes an immense amount of intracranial pressure. It can also shift parts of the brain and even worse - it can cause the brain to bleed which ultimately can lead to death.
Each year over 1.7 million people suffer from traumatic brain injuries and over 52,000 people lose their lives reports the CDC.
What's even more shocking is that second impact syndrome is experienced primarily among high school and college athletes. Young athletes involved in contact sports such as boxing, football or hockey have fallen victim to the condition. Second impact syndrome has been a leading concern across America, so concerning that in 2009 Governor Christine Gregoire established a law that prohibits young athletes from participating in a game or practice if they have suffered a prior concussion.
Second Impact Syndrome & The Lystedt Law
The boy who inspired law makers to take action was Washington-state native Zackery Lystedt. During an intense football game 13-year-old Zack suffered a severe blow to the head. Like most football players though, sitting out of a game was not an option. Instead Zack returned to the game and after, experienced a second head injury leading him to fall victim to the condition known as second impact syndrome.
It would be 13 months after experiencing second impact syndrome that Zack would be able to speak.
Research has concluded that over a 13 year period, a staggering 94 cases of traumatic brain injuries that led to irreparable head trauma had been experienced and that's not all. Of those cases, over 71% of high school and college athletes were the main sufferers of these traumatic brain injuries.
Unfortunately Zack's case is not the last of the second impact syndrome stories.
All-star football player Preston Plevretes suffered from a second concussion when playing college football which led him to have half of his skull removed. Max Condradt, now 26 years old, has a difficult time remembering how to perform daily tasks due to the second impact syndrome he experienced in high school.
Even though all three experienced second impact syndrome, over months and years of hard work they are now able to speak and walk.
Second Impact Syndrome vs CTE
Both traumatic brain injuries differ in one way: time. Second impact syndrome is a head injury that can damage the brain instantly. However with CTE, the disease wears on the brain over time.
CTE also known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy diminishes the brain throughout a lengthy period of time. Brain cells are killed off due to a protein called Tau -- forming and attacking the cells in clusters. The disease has been found in patients as young as 17. There are ways to detect CTE early on in its development.
10 signs and symptoms of CTE can include:
Sudden violent behavior
Difficulty remembering
Diminished sense of smell
Complications with swallowing while eating
Erratic behavior
Temperamental
Trouble focusing
As of right now there is no treatment or cure for CTE. For second impact syndrome, recovery is found in treatment.
Treatment and Recovery for Second Impact Syndrome
Second Impact Syndrome can be deadly. Most who fall victim to this condition lose their lives in a matter of minutes. If they survive there can be serious deficit in cognitive abilities. Second impact syndrome has a 50% mortality rate and being mentally disabled is a 100% probability.
".... it has a devastating effect on those involved. Those who do survive second impact syndrome are neurologically devastated. They often spend many weeks to months in a coma. Many times they have a hole cut in their neck through which a permanent breathing tube is inserted. They are hooked up to a machine to help them breathe. They receive all of their nutrition intravenously as they are not awake enough or alert enough to eat or drink", states Dr. William P. Meehan III the Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic
Initially, once the patient has been admitted to the hospital the main priority of medical professionals would be to control the airway. A CT Scan must be conducted to confirm that the brain is experiencing pressure. Once this is confirmed the objective would be to "normalize" the high amount of pressure that is preventing blood or fluid to flow through the brain.
Possible treatments include surgery, diuresis, blood vessel control or fluid restriction.
Second Impact Syndrome Prevention
Prevention comes in awareness. It is highly encouraged that schools and universities inform students who participate in sports of the risks that come with contact sports. Educational institutions can prevent SIS by setting a clear standard of after care regarding sport related concussions.
It should also be reiterated that an athlete returning to play has an increased risk for a traumatic brain injury.
The reason being is if the first concussion is not healed and experiences of trauma a second time can be fatal. If you are an athlete and you return to play minutes after the injury you can experience some serious repercussions. Symptoms include loss of consciousness, collapsing seconds after experiencing the head trauma and immediate hemorrhaging of the brain.
If the victim of second impact syndrome survives it can be days or weeks before they regain consciousness.
Who Is Liable for a Second Impact Injury or CTE?
Is the school liable for the injuries of an athlete? The general answer is no, but there are certain factors to consider if you are willing to take a school or university to court.
Intent and Negligence: If a child was hurt intentionally by a coach or trainer in sports medicine, if there is proof that the school failed to protect a student that was being abused, then the school is liable for injuries. This is referred to as an intentional tort.
Determine the Negligence of the School: Below are examples of different types of negligence of a public or private school.
A child is hurt on a playground due to lack of supervision.
Several students are injured in a bus crash because of the improper training of a bus driver.
A group of children have suffered from food poising because of unsanitary food preparation.
Inadequate sports equipment contributed to severe injuries of an athlete.
Public vs Private: The type of institution you are going up against does matter. If you are suing a public school the institution is considered a government entity which means there are tight procedures set in place. You must follow these procedures properly when beginning the case.
Medical Mal Practice Among Athletes
Athletes in college football and the NFL are pressured to play even when they have suffered a concussion or other severe injuries. Can coaches, trainers or team physicians be liable for devastating brain injuries such as second impact syndrome?
One case that has been famously known to the set the standard of care for athletes was Searles v Trustees of St. Joseph College.
Paul Searles received an athletic scholarship to play basketball at the University of St. Joseph College in 1988. Searles who was a freshman, claimed to have severe pain in his knees and was soon diagnosed with patellar tendinitis. When Searles presented this information to his basketball coach and athletic trainer both insisted he continue to play.
Searles stopped participating as an athlete due to the surgeries he had to endure soon after the diagnosis. His knees have been permanently damaged due to him returning to play before he had healed.
The court had made it clear that schools should provide reasonable care for their athletes. It has not been clarified what "reasonable care" is nor has there been a standard for athletic and school physicians to uphold other than a duty ot provide reasonable care.
Other Unexpected Causes of Second Impact Syndrome
The brain is described to have the same consistency of gelatin making it one of the most fragile organs of the body. The head does not provide protection from extreme blows to the brain.
4 causes of traumatic brain injuries:
Car accidents: Fifty percent of traumatic brain injuries are caused because of an auto accident. Not only that, but an estimated 1.3 million people die annually because of automobile accidents. Distracted driving is the number one cause for car crashes. Texting or talking on the phone is not only illegal but it can also cost you your life.
Slip and falls: It may seem small, but over 8 million people are admitted to the hospital each year because of falling. Slip and falls make up most of the workers compensation claims as well. The culprit? Well, it turns out to be slippery floors.
Domestic abuse: Physical violence is the most down-played cause of traumatic brain injuries. What's even worse is that most abused individuals do not seek out medical attention. Repeated blows to the head can leave victims confused and depressed and abuse victims are more likely to suffer from substance abuse later on.
Blasts: Being involved in an explosion-related event can not only cause a traumatic brain injury but it can also cause many other injuries as well. The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center reported that 50% percent of injuries that were accounted for were due to explosive devices.
Proving Fault of a Traumatic Brain Injury
Trauma inflicted upon the brain can cause serious damage and can effect the daily life of a victim. Being able to prove who is liable for a traumatic brain injury can be a difficult process. Liability also varies from case-to-case due to the cause of the head injury. There are important actions you can follow that will aid your personal injury case.
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Focus solely on the facts: Lawyers and insurance companies will be speaking to you immediately after the incident. It is important just to stick to the facts. Do not exaggerate and do not lie, this will only effect your case negatively in the long run.
Take note of any evidence: Obtaining any physical proof of what took place during the time of your personal injury accident is crucial. For example if you were involved in a car accident, taking photos of the damage and gathering eye-witness accounts can aid your case tremendously.
Reach out to a personal injury attorney: If you or someone you know has suffered from a traumatic brain injury contact a personal injury attorney now. The personal injury lawyers of Bisnar Chase have obtained over $500 Million dollars in winnings for clients over the past 39 years. Our expert attorneys have had a 96% success rate and have won even the most complex of personal injury cases in the Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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Concussions: This is when an individual suffers a blow to the head and experiences an instant loss of awareness or alertness. Some victims of concussions may lose consciousness for seconds, minutes or even hours. Recent studies show that those who suffer more than one concussion, especially as a result of sports injuries, may face long-term consequences such as victims of more severe traumatic brain injuries.
Skull fractures: A skull fracture is a break or crack in the skull bone. Individuals may suffer a linear skull fracture (a break that does not result in bone movement), depressed skull fracture (part of the skull is sunken in from the trauma), a diastatic skull fracture (breaks along the suture lines in the skull) or basilar skull fracture (break in the bone from the base of the skull).
Intracranial hematoma: This is when the victim suffers a blood clot in or around the brain. Depending on the type of hematoma injury, the victim may experience minor to life-threatening symptoms.
Diffuse axonal injury: This is when the brain is injured due to a shaking movement. Diffuse axonal injuries can occur as the result of a car crash, a fall-related accident or due to other causes such as shaken baby syndrome.
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There really are no extensive studies on the possible effects of fly sprays on pregnant mares, pro or con.?? Pyrethrins and pyrethroids have the greatest potential for neurological side effects, although some could have reproductive ones as well, in high concentrations.??Details on this situation aren't available, although certainly many people use them on pregnant mares with no problems.
The natural/herbal fly repellents are an option, but you have to be careful with nursing mares since citronella and possibly other concentrated oils can be eye irritants for the foal (and don't put repellent on the udder). We believe the best choice is a combined approach to fly control with good stable management, fly traps, fly predators, masks and sheets, all of which combine to decrease your reliance on chemical repellents.
My friend's horse was recently humanely destroyed due to colic.??The horse had a lipoma, which, as I understand, is a benign fatty tumor relatively common in horses.?? Unfortunately, they grow on stalks, which basically puts a weight on the end of a string in the horse's abdominal cavity, and this can create a strangulation in the intestines.
This horse was 23 and had Cushing's.?? His lipoma was the size of a golf ball, but it strangulated a large section of his small intestine, near the illium.?? They removed 30 feet of intestine. They also noticed a melanoma on his secum, which they removed, and somewhere along the line, a section of intestine got crossed or twisted somehow and they fixed that, resulting in three seams.??About three days later, he was allowed his first nibbles of grass and a little grain.??Three hours later, he colicked again — at least as bad as the first time and was humanely destroyed.
How common is this ailment' Is there any preventative treatment that can reduce the risk of this sort of growth'?? Does obesity play a role in the development of these tumors' The vet made it sound like they are somewhat common and cause a lot of colic surgeries.?? I would like to know if there's anything I can to do avoid going through this experience again.
Unfortunately, we really don't know much about the risk factors for lipomas.?? A few rare cases are reported in foals, but most horses with colic caused by a lipoma are 15 or older.??This is likely due to the fact that large lipomas are more likely to cause problems than small ones, and they grow slowly over time.??Geldings and ponies are also are higher risk for colic caused by lipomas, according to two large surveys.?? There is no information available as to whether or not obesity plays a role. As for how common they are, lipomas rank behind enteroliths and impactions as the most common cause of colic in older horses.?? No preventative measures are known.
I noticed some swelling above the fetlock, and at the back, of my mare's right rear leg.?? Initially I thought it was stocking up, because she'd not been ridden for three days due to a nasty insect bite on her back.??It grew to the size of flat football, and we think the culprit was a black widow spider.?? The swollen area had no heat, and she wasn't lame.?? I palpated it, and she didn't react.
Your horse had a cellulitis, which is an inflammation/infection of the deep layers of the skin).?? It may well have been from a small scrape, or could even have been the same thing she had on her back.??These things will eventually go away on their own with no treatment at all as the horse's body gets things under control.?? To speed resolution, if it worsens instead of improves, things like cleaning up any scrapes with a mild soap, cold-water hosing if it's hot or warm water if it's not, antibiotics and possible a one-time low dose of diuretic to mobilize the swelling are common treatments.?? It's difficult to tell for sure, of course, but these leg swellings are usually not terribly painful.?? The leg probably felt more tight and uncomfortable than truly painful.
My "antique" pony and an old mini mule are on Buteless because of your January 2000 article. It's a wonderful success.??They are both much relieved from their arthritis.
My six-year-old Quarter Horse has navicular, and I've given him Corta-Flx. We've seen improvement, but we're trying all sorts of things, so I don't know what's working.??
He's popped two quarter cracks on his other foot, then had to have a resection of his hoof from an abscess on his navicular foot. Right now he has two Equiloxed front feet.??I'm considering nerving him.
Yes, you can use both Buteless and Corta-Flx at the same time.Another pain-control herbal you might want to consider is Navilam O from Emerald Valley Botanicals (888/638-8262).??This contains devil's claw plus hawthorne-berry extract to encourage good circulation and seems particularly helpful for horses with laminitis or navicular.?? If you would like to try a powder formula instead of a liquid, try Uckele's Devil's Claw Plus, which combines devil's claw with other herbs and also has good antioxidant support.?? With any of these products, you might want to start with double or even triple dosing for a week or two if he is very sore.
As for whether or not Corta-Flx is a good thing to try, the navicular bone does form part of the coffin joint, and in advanced navicular disease there is degeneration of the articular cartilage on the joint side of the navicular bone so it's reasonable to consider using a joint nutraceutical.
The quarter cracks on the good foot are a concern.??This indicates both??heavy loading of the foot at the quarters, rather than more posteriorly, and also that you may have general problems with hoof strength/quality.??Be sure the mineral levels in his diet are adequate and correctly balanced. Consider adding 15 to 20 mg/day of biotin to encourage hoof growth, plus methionine if your protein levels are borderline. We'd try the supplements and nutrition changes first before nerving a horse this young.
If you do consider neurectomy, make sure you ask your vet to block the horse with a local anesthetic first so that you can get a good idea of how effective the procedure will be. You might also want to consider freezing the nerves (cryotherapy, see July 2001) rather than actual surgery that permanently removes a portion of nerve.??Freezing kills only the nerve fibers that carry chronic pain signals, leaving skin sensation, pressure and position sense and pain fibers carrying sharp pain intact.
• Excess iron in the tissues is a poison.
• Iron is a potent oxidant and generates damaging free radicals.
• Degenerative diseases, like arthritis have been associated with iron.
• In the tissue and intestinal tract, iron helps feed bacterial infections.
• Too much iron rapidly depletes the horse's body of key antioxidant vitamins and minerals, leaving the horse vulnerable to allergy, infection, muscle, tendon and joint soreness or damage with exercise.
The horse really only needs a dietary iron level of about 50 ppm, but many are fed feeds or supplements with levels up to 5,000 ppm. Once absorbed into the body, iron is there for life. Only phlebotomy ("bleeding" the horse) can lower his burden. Blood-iron levels don't accurately diagnose iron overload, as the body tucks the iron away inside its tissues.
If you're deliberately feeding iron supplements, stop. If your horse has problems with chronic muscle soreness, tendon/ligament damage or arthritis, determine the horse's total dietary intake. Call the feed/supplement manufacturers. Many labels list no information or only list the amount that was deliberately added. Ask for the total iron level in the product. Try to get your horse's total intake at 300 to 500 ppm. Note: Iron up to 1000 ppm has been fed to ponies with no obvious short-term toxicity.
If your horse has iron overload, supplement with zinc, copper, selenium (watch toxicity there, too), manganese and vitamin E. Proceed cautiously with vitamin C, as it will enhance the absorption of iron and can precipitate the dumping of stored iron into the horse's blood.
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It seems as if Halloween is becoming a more and more visible holiday throughout the U.S. I'm sure students at UIS are thinking about their costumes; but Halloween at UIS has also become an important opportunity for students to contribute to the Springfield community.
We have many students every year who participate in "Trick or Treat for Canned Goods, " a project to benefit the Central Illinois Foodbank. Unfortunately, hunger is a reality for many families in Central Illinois and earlier this week, UIS students visited neighborhoods throughout the area distributing door hangers explaining the project to community residents and requesting their participation. On October 31st, from 4:30-8 p.m., our students will return to these neighborhoods to collect non-perishable food items that will be donated to the Central Illinois Foodbank.
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Anti-Nowhere League is a British punk rock band from Royal Tunbridge Wells, England.
In Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the Anti-Nowhere League is formed around singer Nick Culmer, aka Animal. Like other punk bands of the same era, Anti-Nowhere League is centered on the outstanding personality of its leader, Animal (reminiscent of Wolverine): a wild punk, shaggy, biker-looking, and whose voice resembles something between the roar of a bear and the roar of a tiger.
Anti-Nowhere League first plays in the first part of Discharge, Exploited and Damned. Spotted by John Curd, the boss of the WXYZ Records label, the group released its first single in November 1981. The A side is a cover of Ralph McTell's classic folk, Streets of London, and the B side, So What. The disc enters the English charts, but is censored by the police and removed from the sale for the obscenity of the lyrics of So What>.
In 1982, Anti-Nowhere League toured with bands such as Chelsea, Chron Gen and The Defects. At the end of the tour, released the first album, We are ... The League !, which remains three months in the English charts. The group ends the year with a tour in the United States alongside the UK Subs.
In 1984, PJ left the group that eventually became inactive. 1985 saw the arrival of Michael Bettell on drums, followed in 1986 by JB (Jonathan Birch). At this time, they signed with GWR Records, and recorded the album The Perfect Crime. In 1987, Anti-Nowhere League broke up. But another concert is at Victoria Hall in Tunbridge Wells in 1989.
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A Copa de Youdan foi a primeira competição de futebol do mundo, jogada em Sheffield, Inglaterra. Um proprietário de teatro, Thomas Youdan patrocinou a competição e o troféu. O troféu em si foi feito de prata. Embora Thomas Youdan tenha concedido um prêmio de £2 para o vencedor do concurso para desenhar o troféu, a taça não foi concluída a tempo de ser apresentada no dia para os vencedores.

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O formato da competição foi elaborado por uma comissão e jogado sob as Regras de Sheffield. As duas primeiras rodadas foram em uma base de eliminatórias, no entanto, a final foi disputada entre três equipes jogando entre si em turno.

A competição utilizou o conceito de rouges. Rouge era marcado quando a bola não entrava no gol, que tinha 4 jardas de largura (3,66 m), mas passava a linha de fundo a até quatro jardas de distância das traves. Os rouges eram considerados apenas quando o jogo terminasse empatado, como critério de desempate.

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You Can Watch Home Alone With Live Music Vancouver This Week & It's So Nostalgic
A new way to watch the classic.
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It's crazy to think that Christmas is just days away. If you haven't treated yourself to a dose of holiday magic yet this month, then Vancouver's Home Alone in concert could be just the thing. Watching a movie that so many millenials remember from when they were a kid is the perfect way to get into the mood for the Christmas season.
For anyone born in the '90s, this movie would have been playing on repeat on cable television during the holidays.
Seeing it now, it's so nostalgic and gives you double the warm fuzzy feelings you'd expect this time of year.
Home Alone is so popular even after thirty years that it's getting a reboot in the near future. That's even though the movie's plot might not work in the age of smartphones.
They're even going to film the reboot in Montreal. Canadian fans of the slapstick classic will have even more reason to watch.
Even just seeing the original VHS cover of Macaulay Culkin as a kid making that surprised face makes you think of Christmas.
Vancouver fans can catch the holiday classic on the big screen and with a live performance from the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
They'll be who will be giving the original score by John Williams a whole new depth for two nights on Wednesday, December 18 and on Friday, December 20.
Watching a movie with a live-score gives it an entirely new feel and it's a fun way to get off of your couch and still indulge in your favourite hobby: watching movies.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is always up to something fun. They even did a Polar Express show with live music last month.
If you ever wondered what you would do if you were 8-year-old Kevin McCallister, then you need to get your hands on tickets to this show before you miss it.
Home Alone at the VSO
Price: From $49
When: Wednesday, December 18 at 7 p.m. & Friday, December 20 at 7 p.m.
Address: Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe St., Vancouver, BC
Why You Need To Go: Watch the holiday classic from the '90s on the big screen with live music at this fun twist on a concert.
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Subwoofer Bass
from Above at the Cave Bar & Grill
Home › News & Notes › Subwoofer Bass from Above at the Cave Bar & Grill
We've seen some pretty creative installations of SVS subwoofers – in the wall, behind a screen, inside a chair, but this sports bar installation by Primetime Audio Video in Rockford, IL may top them all. After a fire destroyed The Cave Bar & Grill, a local watering hole institution in Byron, IL; the owners were determined to come back bigger, better and stronger than ever. With an upswell of community support, the owner bought the building next store and brought in the team from Primetime Audio Video to install an AV system that would differentiate them from the competition. That's when things got fun.
After assorting an array of architectural speakers throughout the building, Dirk Dutton, one of the owners of Primetime had an interesting idea.
"During the weekends, The Cave gets packed so I wanted to give them something special that would make people turn their heads and really feel the music in a more impactful way," Dutton said.
His solution, a pair of PC-2000 subwoofers mounted overhead and raining deep, effortless bass from the rafters. It just so happened that the narrow cylinder form factor and sturdy cabinet construction of the PC-2000 made it a perfect candidate. After some quick measurements, the Primetime team corner loaded and securely hung the two subwoofers from the ceiling via eyebolts and chains.
"There was nowhere to really put a subwoofer on the floor. Plus, there's no other subwoofer that could deliver close to the output and sound quality of the PC-2000s and still be safely mounted on the wall or ceiling. Plus, it needed to be able to handle reference playback levels for 6-8 hours at a time," Dutton continued.
The owner was only made aware of the plan after seeing a Primetime AV team installer rolling in with a massive fabric covered cylinder on his shoulder and a big grin on his face.
"He had no idea what it was, but when we got the subwoofer mounted and fired up the system for the first time and he felt how much deeper and fuller the soundstage was, he was hooked. We were only going to hang one PC-2000 originally, but after hearing it, he demanded a second," said Dutton.
SVS is proud to be partners with the imaginative team from Primetime Audio Video for daring to go where no AV installers have gone before; with a 50 lb. subwoofer mounted to the ceiling.
If you're in Illinois and have the opportunity to visit Primetime Audio Video or The Cave Bar & Grille in Byron, we hear the bass is excellent.
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An integral part of the mind is comprised of the relational process of energy and information flowing between and among people. This happens through the spoken or written word. In person, this also happens through eye contact, facial expression, body language, posture and gesture. In his book,... It is now becoming something of a cliche in various circles of modern life�from religion to psychology to holistic medicine�to use the nifty phrase �body-mind-soul� or �body-mind-spirit� when referring to our totality as a human being.
And your soul, which is what the Bible calls the mental-emotional part of you, didn�t automatically change either. It�s subject to change, but you have to renew your mind to experience change in your mind and emotions.
Difference Between Heart and Mind June 20, 2012 Posted by Admin In human beings, the thought process originates in the mind or the brain that is inside the head of an individual.
CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH. In this regular feature, Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call.Here�s this week�s question:What scripture do you use to support the idea that the soul is a separate entity from the body?
The higher mind remains on a higher dimension and acts as a mediator between the physical mind and the transcendental consciousness of the soul. Only thanks to that connection, the mind can have an objective awareness of itself and of every event.


The 19th annual Kennedy Krieger Society reception was held on May 21, 2015, at the home of Blake and Angie Cordish. Notable guests included members of the Kennedy Krieger Society—a distinguished group of donors who make an annual gift of $1,000 or more. The reception was kicked off by Board Chairman Howard Miller, who welcomed and thanked Society members for their generosity and invaluable support to the Institute.
The Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. Community Award was presented to Dulany Dent. For the past three years, Dulany has served as president of the Women's Initiative Network (WIN) for Kennedy Krieger Institute. WIN is a volunteer organization of more than 70 members dedicated to raising awareness of the Institute by promoting and facilitating volunteerism that assists families who utilize Kennedy Krieger programs and services.
Mr. Miller presented the Institute's Volunteer of the Year Award to Mark Harrison, Dan Connole, and David and Joanne Sawczuk for raising more than $80,000 in the first annual Northern Virginia Security Forum golf charity tournament. The Sawczuk's son, Ben, was treated for a brain injury at the Institute. After co-chairs Dan Connole and Mark Harrison heard about the Sawczuk's experience, and Ben's remarkable recovery with the help of Kennedy Krieger Institute, Dan and Mark named the Brain Injury Clinical Research Center at Kennedy Krieger as beneficiary of the event.


AUGUSTA: Xander Schauffele said the sight of his name briefly topping the Masters leaderboard on Sunday paled in comparison to witnessing Tiger Woods's triumph.
"It was an awesome experience," the 25-year-old American said. "It's hard to really feel bad about how I played, just because I just witnessed history.
"It was really cool coming down the stretch, all the historic holes, Amen Corner, 15, 16, Tiger making the roars.
That's where he finished after a final-round 68 — tied with former US Open winner Dustin Johnson and three-time major winner Brooks Koepka for second place, one shot behind Woods.
It wasn't bad for a player who started the day five shots behind 54-hole leader Francesco Molinari.
"I did have my 30 seconds in the sun with the lead and it was a really cool feeling," said Schauffele, the 2017 US PGA Tour's rookie of the year.


Every year the top journalists in the country receive recognition at the British Press Awards. To show its support, News International (now News UK) wanted to create a page in the Press Awards magazine. We came up with the idea of using shorthand to spell out the words "Brilliant journalists" followed by "make excellent newspapers". Short and sweet.


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Rams add four to coaching staff
The St. Louis Rams added four assistants to new coach Scott Linehan's staff.
ST. LOUIS (Feb. 13, 2006) -- The St. Louis Rams added four assistants to new coach Scott Linehan's staff.
Joe Baker will serve as the defensive quality control coach, Jim Chaney the assistant offensive line coach, Jeff Horton the special assistant for offense, and Brad Roll the assistant strength and conditioning coach.
Baker, entering his 12th NFL season, was previously the secondary and safeties coach for the Green Bay Packers. Roll, entering his 14th season in the league, spent the past two seasons as the Buffalo Bills' strength and conditioning coordinator.
Chaney and Horton will be making their NFL coaching debuts. Chaney spent the past nine seasons as the offensive coordinator at Purdue, and Horton was named the tight ends coach and special teams coordinator at Iowa State last month.


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#include "SessionTestHarness.h"

#include <folly/SocketAddress.h>

#include "mcrouter/lib/network/McServerSession.h"

using folly::WriteFlags;

namespace facebook { namespace memcache {

class MockAsyncSocket : public folly::AsyncTransportWrapper {
 public:
  explicit MockAsyncSocket(SessionTestHarness& harness)
      : harness_(harness) {
  }

  // Methods inherited from TAsyncTransport
  void setReadCB(folly::AsyncTransportWrapper::ReadCallback* callback) override {
    harness_.setReadCallback(callback);
  }

  ReadCallback* getReadCallback() const override {
    return harness_.getReadCallback();
  }

  void write(
      folly::AsyncTransportWrapper::WriteCallback* callback,
      const void* buf,
      size_t bytes,
      WriteFlags flags = WriteFlags::NONE) override {
    iovec op;
    op.iov_base = const_cast<void*>(buf);
    op.iov_len = bytes;
    writev(callback, &op, 1, flags);
  }

  void writev(
      folly::AsyncTransportWrapper::WriteCallback* callback,
      const iovec* vec,
      size_t count,
      WriteFlags = WriteFlags::NONE) override {
    std::string out;
    for (size_t i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
      out += std::string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(vec[i].iov_base),
                         vec[i].iov_len);
    }

    harness_.write(out);

    if (callback) {
      callback->writeSuccess();
    }
  }

  void writeChain(folly::AsyncTransportWrapper::WriteCallback*,
                  std::unique_ptr<folly::IOBuf>&&,
                  WriteFlags = WriteFlags::NONE) override {
    throw std::runtime_error("not implemented");
  }

  void close() override {}
  void closeNow() override {}
  void closeWithReset() override {}
  void shutdownWrite() override {}
  void shutdownWriteNow() override {}

  void setSendTimeout(uint32_t milliseconds) override { }
  uint32_t getSendTimeout() const override { return 0; }

  bool readable() const override { return true; }
  bool good() const override { return true; }
  bool error() const override { return false; }
  void attachEventBase(folly::EventBase* eventBase) override {}
  void detachEventBase() override {}
  folly::EventBase* getEventBase() const override {
    return &harness_.eventBase_;
  }

  bool isDetachable() const override { return false; }

  void getLocalAddress(folly::SocketAddress* address) const override {}
  void getPeerAddress(folly::SocketAddress* address) const override {}

  bool isEorTrackingEnabled() const override { return false; }

  void setEorTracking(bool track) override {}

  bool connecting() const override {
    return false;
  }

  size_t getAppBytesWritten() const override {
    return 0;
  }

  size_t getRawBytesWritten() const override {
    return 0;
  }

  size_t getAppBytesReceived() const override {
    return 0;
  }

  size_t getRawBytesReceived() const override {
    return 0;
  }

 private:
  SessionTestHarness& harness_;
  std::string corkedOutput_;
};

SessionTestHarness::NoopCallback SessionTestHarness::noopCb;

SessionTestHarness::SessionTestHarness(
    AsyncMcServerWorkerOptions opts,
    McServerSession::StateCallback& cb)
    : session_(McServerSession::create(
          folly::AsyncTransportWrapper::UniquePtr(
              new MockAsyncSocket(*this)),
          std::make_shared<McServerOnRequestWrapper<OnRequest>>(
              OnRequest(*this)),
          cb,
          std::move(opts),
          nullptr)) {}

void SessionTestHarness::inputPacket(folly::StringPiece p) {
  savedInputs_.push_back(p.str());
  flushSavedInputs();
}

void SessionTestHarness::flushSavedInputs() {
  while (!savedInputs_.empty() && read_) {
    folly::StringPiece p = savedInputs_.front();
    void* buf;
    size_t len;
    while (!p.empty() && read_) {
      read_->getReadBuffer(&buf, &len);
      auto nread = std::min(p.size(), len);
      std::memcpy(buf, p.begin(), nread);
      read_->readDataAvailable(nread);
      p.advance(nread);
    }

    if (!p.empty()) {
      assert(!read_);
      auto rest = p.str();
      savedInputs_.pop_front();
      savedInputs_.push_front(p.str());
    } else {
      savedInputs_.pop_front();
    }
  }
}

}}  // facebook::memcache


It is rare that I have the time to sit and unravel my thoughts fully. There is always something to do in London. Rush, rush. But I still want to explain more about the situation with my ex-flatmate.
One person who read my posts which refer to him said he sounded like a total…well, I won't repeat the expression he used. But that made me feel terrible. I have recorded what happened in isolated incidents in some of these posts.
But I don't really want you to think that of him. You see, I don't think that of him. I cannot talk about him with my family or close friends. They seem to despise him. I do not. I am just bewildered by him.
There is more to come…it just takes a lot of emotional effort to sit down and write about him. So I am having fun with other posts so I don't become weighed down with thoughts of him. But he is interwoven with the theme of this site – he crushed Caramel, he knocked all her ideas about the word love out of the ball park – she is trying to learn what real love is again.
For the past few years my family and friends (friends who have been loyal to me and were never fond of him anyway), have been telling me what they think of him…what they think I should think of him. It is other people that labelled him a bully and forced me to take a sober look at what he was doing. I can see what he has done was wrong. I can see I was bullied – taunted by hundreds, cruel jokes and rumours spread by thousands, perhaps more. Yes, I admit, he caused me trouble on a scale I have never had to deal with before.
However… nobody has been able to overturn my thoughts regarding him. I have just had to keep them quiet, as I know everyone who cares for me would despise my feelings for him. I can't talk about him to anyone who loves me. They just think badly of him, they won't allow me to promote cordiality with him.
I need to allow my mind time and space to work things out more. There are more posts to come which will paint a clearer picture of my ex-flatmate so nobody has any misconceptions of what it is that I think of him. You see, what he has said and done to hurt me has not dampened what grew in me after the conversation we had together in our kitchen (explained in Would You Like A Cup Of Tea?).
But, before I find the words and emotional energy to convey what went wrong, let me make it clear that HE…TO ME…IS SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER MEN I have ever known – except my Dadda, but that is different.
There we go, I am going to spread it out like butter on hot toast, right to every crust edge and into the corners and let it soak in: I LOVE HIM!
I love him more than any man I have come across in my existence. I love him more than I loved my childhood sweetheart. I love him more than I love Goldfinch. I have endured so much and sacrificed so much for him that I will never be able to forget him. HE IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!
Yes, he behaved poorly with me, he was rude and unkind, he spread gossip and cruel lies about me. I can now see he was bullying me. I still don't understand why he did that. Everyone who was close to us, came to the conclusion that he thought I had rejected him and was jealous of my friendships with other men I knew. But he has never admitted that, and I don't see why he would confess to that now.
I spent a lot of time with single men. I went out a lot with men. Played basket ball, went running, went out for drinks, and meals and even to concerts and shows. Truth be told, I did not have any romantic connection with any man after the day I met him, because he somehow had my heart almost from the moment he sat opposite at breakfast. The way he looked at me – it disturbed me deep down and I never saw that in any other man's eyes.
Since then, I have had a problem. My heart has pretty much been beating for him ever since. He is both the best thing and the very worst thing that ever happened to me. The one I'll never forget.
I was surrounded with single men who paid me lots of lovely attention, but I compared every man to him…and I still do. After meeting him, the next man who touched me was the stranger who sat next to me on the bench in the park that night. Strangely, that was something I have had more success at dealing with mentally and emotionally. It was awful, but it doesn't haunt me. The lid is firmly on the box and it stays high up on a top shelf where I don't choose to retrieve it.
Since then…well, you don't need to know about my love-life…but now I am in love with Goldfinch. I dearly love Goldfinch. But I know that one of the reasons why it is going so well with Goldfinch, is that my heart knows he is leaving. He is going home. Goldfinch is going to fly away home. Yes, I will miss him profoundly, but I will forget Goldfinch, eventually. I won't ever forget my ex-flatmate. Goldfinch is not trying to make me love him more than any other man. Which is a good thing, because he would fail.
My ex-flatmate – I love him more than any other man despite everything. I defy any other man to even dare to supplant him in my heart. I have never given up my own self and all I value to this extent for anyone else. I have never sacrificed so much of what I hold dear, I have never endured so much, carried so much pain around inside for anyone.
I am not saying he has not been an idiot. My biggest disappointment is that from the moment I was found in the park and sent to hospital – he has not found a kind word to send to me. Over three years! A card, a text, an e-mail, he does not have to speak to me face-to-face, but something, a little something to show he regrets his hostility towards me and the rumours he spread which have caused so much damage.
How complicated can it be?…he just needs to convey something that appears like sorrow for what happened between he and I. I would have been content with a little scrap note or a text message, saying "SORRY". I am not expecting an elaborate explanation and in no way do I hold him responsible for what happened to me in the park. I think all possibilities of a romance have long ago been blown to smithereens. It is completely beside the point that he is the only man I have ever thought I could be married to.
His silence is disturbing – it does tell me deep down there is something wrong with him. But some of my friends said that after I went missing he stopped eating and he looked lost. He has recovered. Some of our friends have told me, he knows that when he does next see me he needs to have something remarkable to say, but he is still baffled about what that something will be. I can just about grasp that if his feelings for me swung, from regarding me highly, to becoming intensely jealous…what would he say to me once he learnt I had been found battered and bloody…and then fled from London because I could not face any more cruelty from the people I saw each day?
I put that out of my mind. I love the man I was friends with, the man I lived with, the man I admire and respect and think the world of. I would give up anything and everything to honour him.
People don't understand why, I don't talk about my feelings for him because they would not understand. It makes the people who love me most angry. It matters not. Hearts are complicated. It is all rather complicated in the case of he and me. But…here is love, nothing matters to me. What happened to me does not matter, all that matters is peace with him. It is so easy to let go of everything that happened. Yet, while I have no evidence to indicate that he is not just as hostile in his thinking towards me as he was back then, well, everything is fresh in my mind and heart. Everyday, he taunts me in my mind. I long for peace with him so I can have peace of mind.
I don't think he is capable of loving me the way I love him. It is not even a case of unrequited love. My friends tell me he thought I had rejected him, that he was jealous, which is why he became hostile and spread rumours about me. I find it hard to believe he could be jealous. Partly, because I am not special, I am not worth all that trouble and nonsense. Also, he could have had his pick of women – why me?
He does not seem to have any idea of how much I love him, so it is not a matter of unrequited love. If he has no idea that he to me is the only man on the planet who I could love with loyalty until my last breath. He is my True North. He is my Home.
A few months after I was the victim of the crime I have referred to, I heard of something my ex-flatmate had done that made my heart swell with pride for him. For those few months my heart had been pretty numb to him. But now pride and love were throbbing through it. I wanted to tell him or show him. But I did not know how to. So I did something that was not particularly balanced. But my emotions were understandably unsettled after what happened to me. To go from numbness to surges of love and adoration was bound to produce a drastic effect. I took half of my savings out of my bank account and stuffed it into an envelope. I wrote a card and disguised my hand-writing, the message was not too emotional – it said something like "Well done – proud of you!" and I signed it G.L.H. Which are not my initials – they those letters do stand for something but I did not think he would remember. In fact, I was counting on it. If he knew the money was from me, I don't think he would have been able to accept it. It was a stupid thing to do really. He does not need my money, but I would give the other half of my savings gladly, and everything I owned to feel at peace with him.
I know his faults, goodness, I lived with him and he was hard work! I know he is a noisy, messy pup. I know he seems to believe in the magic bin fairy. But life has never been the same since I moved out of that flat. To clean up after a man who is rude to you and to still love him…aaaah – I would give anything to be able to wash his dishes again!
When I say love – I don't just mean sentiments, emotions, hormones. I have made huge sacrifices for him. I could have made a lot of trouble for him. Instead, I pleaded with his superiors not to reproach him. I claimed he was under great pressure and did not know how to handle a situation that had grown beyond his ability to control. I looked his directors in the eye and begged them, tearfully explaining if anything hurt him it would be agony for me.
All I want in the whole world is peace with him.
They saw I loved him. They said he is not worth it, they said I was sacrificing too much for a man who only cares about himself. He is worth everything to me, every tear, every heart-ache.
I know I will never love like that again…not Goldfinch, or any other man. Because when it comes to genuine self-sacrificing love…I have given up everything for my ex-flatmate.
I WILL FIND A WAY TO COMPLETE THESE POSTS AS MY HEART PERMITS ME…BUT I HOPE I AM STRAIGHTENING OUT A PERCEPTION OR MISCONCEPTION I MAY HAVE UNINTENTIONALLY LED YOU DOWN. I LOVE HIM, I CAN'T IMAGINE NOT LOVING HIM. I DON'T BELIEVE I WILL EVER BE ABLE TO LOVE LIKE THAT AGAIN.
At times, it is kind of nice to be able to say what is going on in your heart, without anyone overly anxious about you telling you "nope, he's a baddie".
But I am a grown woman, and I know a lot about myself by now. I am all mended after what happened, except for the situation with my ex-flatmate. People talk about CLOSURE. That is not exactly what I want, but I would like to be able to go about without suppressing my feelings for someone who I admire and have been inspired by.
Absolutely…bottling anything up only creates growing pain over time! Do it your way!


I spent Saturday at Saratoga Race Track aka "Toga Town." I grew up in Del Mar where our track sits right across the street from the Pacific Ocean and boasts the slogan "where the surf meets the turf." I have been going to the races since I was a baby so I'm no stranger to the track. But ever since my parents raved about Saratoga, I added it to my sports bucket list. While I consider myself pretty decent at the track, I found myself relying on my dad for a lot of racing advice/information. I was able to win a little (and by a little I mean $10) so I figured I would throw together a little racing 101 and share the basics with you all.
On any given day at the track there are several different kinds of races that can occur.
Claiming: A race where all of the horses are for sale.
Allowance: A step up from a claiming race, these horses are not for sale and generally the purse is much higher. The allowance name comes from the fact that the races will have set conditions and weights to carry.
Stakes: The top horses race in stakes races. They have the highest purses and carry the most prestige for winning. The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race and Saturday happened to be the Alabama Stakes race at Saratoga.
Win: Your horse must finish 1st.
Place: Your horse must finish 1st or 2nd.
Show: Your horse must finish 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
Exacta: Your horses must finish 1st and 2nd in the exact order you bet.
Trifecta: Your horses must finish in 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the exact order that you bet.
Superfecta: Your horses must finish 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the exact order you bet.
Daily Double: Your horses must win in two consecutive races.
Pick 3/4/6: Your horse must win in 3/4/6 consecutive races.
*There are many other variations but these are the basics. And here's exactly what to say when you place your bet if you want, let's say an exacta.
**make sure to always check your ticket for accuracy. My Dad placing our bets.
Track: Some horses are turf horses and some are dirt horses. And some horses prefer a wet track to a dry track. You must take the track conditions into consideration.
Distance: You should look at how the horse does at different distances.
Layoffs: A layoff means a horse hasn't raced in 45 days. If the horse's last race was coming off a layoff its likely he will improve in this race.
Odds: Check the morning odds. Most horses that win are less than 20-1. Horses with high morning line odds rarely win.
Speed: Check the speed of the horse in the past races, but you have to check the race type. For example a horse may post in the 70s for most of the races and then put up a 90. That 90 most likely came against better competition. Horses will often run to their competition, so check who he's against in this race as closely as the races where he put up high-speed finishes.
It's believed that a jockey contributes about 10% to the horse's performance on any given day. The jockey cannot make a horse run faster, but it can give the horse a bad ride. Paying close attention to win percentage, past performance on specific horses and jockey changes can help you when placing bets.
Saturday was a special day because I saw Hall of Fame jockey, John Velazquez, take home his 800th win in the very first race of the day!
Now you know I'm a fashion junky (in addition to my love for sports) so I want to be clear that each track and event can be different. For example, you can dress super casual (like I did) on Saturday at Saratoga, but if you're in a box or going to the paddock then you can and should dress up a bit. Opening day at any track is generally a day to dress up. I suggest a wedge or comfortable heel as you generally walk a bit at these races. You may head to the paddock to look at the horses before the race, and then walk to place your bet, then to your seat to watch the race. It's part of the dress code to wear a hat to the Kentucky Derby and to Opening Day, but a hat on any day is a perfect look and you'll be thankful for the shade! Saratoga had tons of places to shop if you weren't satisfied with what you picked! Loved this little shop.
I hope this was helpful, not get to the track and put your new skills to use!


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HomeCompanies & CSRGreen strategiesEuropean climate emergency: EU should commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by...
Companies & CSRGreen strategiesInformation
More financial support to fight climate change
Ahead of the UN COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid 2-13 December, the Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution declaring a climate and environmental emergency in Europe and globally.They also want the Commission to ensure that all relevant legislative and budgetary proposals are fully aligned with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5°C.EU should cut emissions by 55% by 2030 to become climate neutral by 2050. Calls to reduce global emissions from shipping and aviation
In a separate resolution, Parliament urges the EU to submit its strategy to reach climate neutrality as soon as possible, and by 2050 at the latest, to the UN Convention on Climate Change. MEPs also call on the new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to include a 55% reduction target of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in the European Green Deal.
Step up global emission reductions for aviation and shipping
MEPs say that current aviation and shipping ambitions fall short of the necessary emissions reductions. All countries should include emissions from international shipping and aviation in their national contributions plans (NDCs), they say, and urge the Commission to
propose that the maritime sector be included in the EU´s Emissions Trading System (ETS).
EU countries should at least double their contributions to the international Green Climate Fund, Parliament says. EU member states are the largest providers of public climate finance and the EU´s budget should fully comply with its international commitments. They also note that pledges by developed countries do not meet the collective goal of 100 billion USD per year as of 2020.
Finally, they urgently call on all EU countries to phase out all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.
"The European Parliament has just adopted an ambitious position in view of the upcoming COP 25 in Madrid. Given the climate and environmental emergency, it is essential to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 55% in 2030. It also sends a clear and timely message to the Commission a few weeks before the publication of the Communication on the Green Deal "", said Pascal Canfin (RE, FR), Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, during the debate on Monday.
The resolution on declaring a climate and environmental emergency was adopted with 429 votes for, 225 votes against and 19 abstentions. The European Parliament adopted the resolution on COP25 with 430 votes for, 190 votes against and 34 abstentions.
A number of countries, local administrations and scientists have declared that our planet is facing a climate emergency.
The European Commission has already proposed the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, but the European Council has still not endorsed it as Poland, Hungary and Czechia are opposed.
Parliament at the COP25
COP25 will take place in Madrid 2-13 December 2019. The President of the European Parliament David Maria Sassoli, (S&D, IT) will attend the official opening. A delegation from the European Parliament, led by Bas Eickhout (Greens, NL), will be there 9-14 December.
commit net-zero greenhouse gas emissions
European climate emergency
New scoreboard shows that participation of women in the EU digital economy still lags behind
New EU rules ensure better protection for 120 million holidaymakers this summer
Urban health and coronavirus crisis: in confinement, inequality is magnified
Economists, academics and unions believe that the European Union has trouble surviving COVID-19


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Venezuela deltog med 38 deltagare vid de olympiska sommarspelen 1952 i Helsingfors. Totalt vann de en bronsmedalj.

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Indigenous worldviews, values and sacred places strengthen the earth's biological and cultural diversity
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in distribution: standing on sacred ground
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Ashley Tindall
Alejandro Argumendo and Katherine Mazjoub for reviewing prior to publication, and Nico Correia for update.
Many visitors think of Machu Picchu and its mystical Incan heights as the spiritual center for the people of Peru. However, to the Quechua people, the glorious 20,945-foot Mount Ausangate in the Andes is the main apu (deity). In December 2004, after many years of fighting for protective designation, the Andean people were on the verge of declaring the mountain and its attendant range, the Cordillera Vilcanota, as the world's first "spiritual park." However, the party in control of Peru's government changed unexpectedly, and the park was not officially designated. Located in southern Peru, near the city of Cuzco, the proposed Vilcanota Spiritual Park is significant for its archaeological sites and the massifs that sustain multiple ecosystems over a great portion of South America. The spiritual park will protect a hot spot of biodiversity, including a thousand varieties of native potato. One Quechua shaman, Andres Apaza, said, "The mountains and Mother Earth provide us with life, with crops, with cattle, pasture and shelter. They provide us with the blessing of life. We have to continue making offerings to the spirits of Mother Earth, and the spirits of our main crop, the potato, because if we don't keep the spirit happy then we are not going to have the rich harvests that we want to have, and that we need."
The Land and Its People
The Vilcanota range, which includes 469 glaciers, is the source for a vast watershed system that feeds both the valleys of the high Andes as well as the Amazonian rainforest below to the east. These waters have sustained an immense diversity of organisms as well as many great cultures from the Wari and Inca to today's Quechua highlanders and many Amazonian peoples. As the Earth warms, the glaciers are melting rapidly, causing changes in ecosystems and altering the way people have lived for millennia. As Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley to the north become more popular, international travelers are drawn to the Vilcanota region. The growth in tourism poses a very real threat to many species of trees, birds and megafauna such as pumas and vicuña.
Mount Ausangate has been sacred to many of Peru's cultures throughout history. Incan legend tells of two comets shooting forth from Ausangate to warn of the coming death of the father of Pachacuti, the founder of the Incan empire. Incans thereafter made offerings of precious metals to the mountain apu. Today, the indigenous Q'eros community of Quechua people revere the mountains of the Cordillera Vilcanota, believing that they are divinities to be protected. The apu's servant cat Ccoa holds court in the belly of Ausangate in a palace that only great shamans dare to visit. The glaciers on Ausangate are where the spirits of the dead wait for salvation.
Around 50,000 people make an annual pilgrimage to Ausangate each June during the festival of Q'olloy Rit'I, "The Star of the Snow." Although no one knows when the ceremony began, it likely has ancient origins in the people's early astronomical reverence. With the introduction of Catholicism, the people began to carry a cross during this ceremony, placing it in the snow to honor both Jesus and the apu. Qoyllur Rit'i pilgrims see that their revered Colquepunku glacier is rapidly receding – more than 600 feet in 20 years. As a result, the ritual of carving out glacial ice and bringing it down to the community as a blessing was banned by festival authorities in 2003.
Led by shamans, the Q'eros have practiced rituals for centuries that are equivalent to what we today call "adaptive resource management," involving the growing and consuming of certain plants, and restriction of grazing animals on alternating pastures. These practices have protected the ecosystem to this day. The Q'eros also rely on and have protected the glacial waters from human and animal contamination. However, despite these cultural traditions, the region is threatened by resource exploitation, changing global climate and the influx of hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.
Current Challenges and Preservation Efforts
The Vilcanota region is a growing area for tourism, mining, logging, and the grazing of livestock, all of which threaten to destroy much of the biodiversity as well as the native culture. Weather patterns also have been changing, leading to sporadic rainfall and melting glaciers.
Tourism to the famous Incan site of Machu Picchu in particular-averaging around a half million people a year-has brought problems, as well as approximately $100 million, to the Peruvian Andes. However, as one community president, Ciriaco Grispin, has emphatically noted, the dollars have rarely ended up in the pockets of local people. Many locals believe that current water shortages are the result of the apu being angry with unbelieving and disrespectful tourists.
Tourism is only one of several ways that the region is being exploited. The growth of cattle grazing in the fragile Andean highlands and mass mining practices have caused a shift in land management from small, local farmers and companies to non-indigenous or foreign-owned corporations that have failed to protect the environment and the rights of laborers and citizens. Local communities are facing pressures to change their livelihoods and their lifestyles to accommodate these external forces.
What is potentially most damaging to the spiritual and natural environment around Vilcanota is the devastation to the glaciers from global warming and the growth in the nearby urban population-especially in Cuzco and Lima-which has depleted water resources for farmers and rural families. The combination of the change in annual precipitation and the carbon dioxide released by industrialized areas means that Peru faces a diminishing water supply.
The region's water, especially the Vilcanota River running into the Sacred Valley, is also contaminated from largely unregulated mining and waste practices. Since the privatization of MinoPeru, the state-run mining company, and the sale of 90 percent of Peru's mines to foreign and multinational corporations, regulation and enforcement of hazardous chemicals and materials disposal has been virtually nonexistent. The local workers-often informally employed-are also subject to labor safety and human rights abuses. The government of Peru, which is desperate to diversify its economic development, is reluctant to control corporations and their "bulls" (private investors). One official sees this as a progressive situation for the country: "The bulls are on the rampage in Peru, where the economy is hot and the government continues to redefine its role."
The Association for Sustainable Development's Millennium Assessment team, locally led by Alejandro Argumendo, has been studying changes in the local environment and working with the small indigenous communities to evaluate how to prevent further changes. Their work led to the proposal for the Vilcanota Spiritual Park, which would directly benefit the communities and their culture as a recognized "Community Conservation Area" and through entrance fees and direct investment.
Based on the success of the Potato Park (an Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Area), the Vilcanota Spiritual Park would emphasize indigenous and traditional management of conservation and agrobiodiversity activities with a goal of poverty alleviation based on local concepts of well-being. The park will protect the area's fragile biodiversity through the designation of natural sacred sites. "Because of restricted access to some areas with voluntary protection measures exercised by the local population, natural sacred sites conserve local ecosystems and their unique biodiversity in an effective and efficient way, so they can serve as repositories of critical biological resources for the rehabilitation of depleted Andean landscapes," Argumedo-who is also Director of Asociación Kechua Aymara para Comunidades Sustentables (ANDES), a community-based Qechua-Aymara organization-said.
Traditional management of Vilcanota Spiritual Park is intended to be a model for future special conservation areas in the Peruvian Andes, and around the world. The government of Peru, Asociacion ANDES and the community-led Pro-Vilcanota Spiritual Park Committee will implement and maintain the park. They hope to link it with other Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Areas like Potato Park, Lares Barter Markets Park and Andean Camels Park.
For now, Vilcanota is a "paper park" where enforcement of its rules and boundaries is weak and infrastructure and staffing are non-existent. This makes local leaders uneasy. "We need people to recognize the park that we are establishing, but equally importantly, we need people to recognize and respect our culture. The work we're doing with native potatoes, medicinal plants, and everything else we harvest are all very important to our communities. I think it's important that our communities stay strong and work together to make sure this park becomes a reality," said Santos Mayhua, a local mayor. For now, Vilcanota Spiritual Park is an evolving project.
The International Center of Traditional Knowledge, Ecology and Policies (CICTEP), part of the Asociación ANDES, led the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. To undertake the assessment, CICTEP worked with the Ausangate Community Millennium Assessment Association, which includes the indigenous communities of Tinqui, Tayancany, Cotaña, Mahuayani, Pausipanpa and Anjasi. International organizations including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Conservation Union and the International Institute for Environment and Development lent technical support. "This community-led initiative is an inspiring example of how international policy instruments, like the [Convention on Biodiversity], can be used to affirm the rights of indigenous peoples' to self determination and territorial control. Vilcanota Park is a breakthrough for policy and practice," Michel Pimbert of the Institute for Environment and Development, said.
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Though it may seem as if law firm marketing has changed dramatically since much of the world turned digital, this is not exactly the case. Now more than ever, client relationships are at the centre of a quality law firm marketing strategy. Though the focus might be the same, the tools law firms should be using to attract new clients has changed.
Did you know 96% of potential clients look for legal help via online search before ever actually contacting a firm?
Taking advantage of simple digital marketing techniques positions your business to better capture these potential clients, or leads, and convert them to paying clients. It is these techniques that this post will focus on. Particularly, around building an online presence, creating trust in your brand and positioning your firm as THE industry expert in your field.
Before we get started on the more technical aspects of SEO and content marketing, let's first explore what digital marketing for law firms is and what it actually encompasses.
Digital marketing is an overarching term for all of the online marketing efforts a business or individual undertakes. This includes leveraging social media platforms and other online channels such as direct email marketing and Google search. Any online effort you undertake to connect with your current and prospective clients is considered digital marketing.
The reality is, now more than ever, people are spending more and more time online. If fact, we are now spending twice as much time online as we did 12 years ago. Our transition to 'all online all the time' has truly altered not only the way people communicate but also how, when and where they shop. While there is still merit to traditional marketing techniques in your local area, no audience is more willing and receptive than those who are already seeking out your services online.
While marketing has always been about connecting a business with their target audience, today, this really means that you need to position relevant and quality content where your audience hangs out online. We take a comprehensive approach to mapping out the client's keywords to discover the journey that the audience is on.
Someone in the awareness stage may not be ready to become your customer just yet but they want to know about local laws and what rights they may have. In this instance an article on your website covering local laws and how they impact residents may help this reader with their problem. The other end of the scale your consideration stage is where people are looking for an attorney and doing some research before they make a call to appoint an attorney, you could have paid advertising that drives these people to the right page on your website where they will find enough information to make the call to become a paying customer.
Keyword maps are very useful when creating content and creating advertising campaigns. Targeting people in the correct stage of the buyer journey is what online marketing should be about.
Law firm digital marketing strategies are continually changing to better assist lawyers and their firms to excite and engage their target audiences and this all begins with your website.
As with any business, to be profitable, a law firm needs to stand out online if they are to compete in their industry, especially because the majority of your new business will now be derived from local clients searching for legal help in their area.
If nearly all new clients who are looking for your services online, it stands to reason that your website must serve as the bedrock of your internet marketing strategy. Your website is where you provide all of the vital information about the services you offer, in addition to being the platform where you will be posting high-quality content that solves the problems and pain points of your target audience.
With over 3.5 billion daily searches on Google, ranking your websites in their search engine results pages (SERPs) is the most valuable way to attract clients to your law firm. This is especially pertinent considering that by the time potential clients reach your site, a whopping 74% of them have completed their research and are ready to take action.
The beauty of marketing in the legal sphere is that very few members of your audience are browsing law firms for fun. No one window shops lawyers in the hope that one day they can have their very own. Customers who have made it to your website have a problem and expect you to be able to solve it.
The downside is that pretty much every law firm out there already knows this. In fact, the legal space is one of the most competitive niches in the SEO industry, attracting digital marketing agencies dedicated only to this particular market vertical.
Your competitors are already investing heavily in their website and their SEO practices. The purpose of this post is to show you some of the small tweaks you can do yourself that can greatly improve your rankings and client engagement without the need for huge financial investments.
As we move through this next section, some basic SEO knowledge is assumed, such as knowing how to keyword research for your niche. If you're unfamiliar with keyword research, here's an in-depth guide to get you started.
If you have created your own website, it is more than likely that you are a using a WordPress backend to publish your pages and blog posts. One of the great features of WordPress is the ability to use free SEO plugins such as the SEO Framework to guide you through the process.
Make your keywords the focus and KISS (Keep it Simple..Seriously).
Your H1 is page title and needs to accurately describe what is on your page while also accommodating your keywords. This is in fact the most simple and most important thing to do correctly. Search engines crawl sites to see exactly what their content is about. How is this done? By scanning your title/header tags. The H1 is the most important element on your page to tell Google what your page is actually about and if it will be relevant to a searcher's queries.
This section could easily be explored in half a dozen blog posts and has been covered all over the internet. So for brevity, here is the ultimate guide to content SEO.
Your meta description is the section of content you see showcased before a link in the SERPs. It showcases what your content is about and is what inevitably gets your potential client to click.
When writing your meta description consider that you have approximately 160 characters to compel a searcher to open your content rather than that of the law firm ranked below or above you. Here the goal is to nab a reader by showing them you have the solution they are looking for while also naturally mentioning your keywords.
One of the most common website fails of 2018 is not investing in responsive design for your website.
51% of smartphone users discover new companies in their local area when conducting a search on their smartphone. If your next client is sitting in a coffee shop with a friend trying to decide whether or not to get legal advice, you want them to be able to find you when they start tapping through their phone.
This brings us to local SEO: making it easier for your leads to find you in their area.
While it is wonderful to see your content ranking in your country's SERPs, unless you offer client services over Skype, the most valuable leads for your firm are going to be in your neighbourhood. This is why it is important to take action to make sure your site is optimised for local search too.
Google My Business (GMB) is likely THE most important player in your local SEO strategy. Here, when a customer searches for "lawyers near George Street, Sydney" Google will not only display the list of law firms as results but will also show their addresses, trading hours, phone number and customer reviews, allowing a lead to decide on the law firm they will contact all in one screen.
A lead could easily choose your competitor next door without ever having visited your website. However, the good news is that the reverse is also true.
GMB is so important in fact, that local searches saw 50% of mobile visitors visit the store or business they found within one day.
While you're setting this up, also be sure to setup your Google+ Business page.
You will be sent a postcard in the mail with your verification code printed on it. Verify your business with this code as soon as you get it as you will not be seen in localised search until it's done.
Having good customer reviews show up in Google SERPs not only helps your firm's website to rank higher in local searches, but they also convert better than no reviews at all.
This detailed guide on improving your business reputation and getting online reviews will walk you through the process.
Though probably the most labour intensive and boring part of local SEO is getting online citations and directory listings. These are your business profiles listed on directory websites such as Yellow Pages, Yelp and Local Search.
Though seldom used by searchers, don't underestimate their value. These citations tell Google that your business is tied to a physical location and improve your chances of appearing in local searches for your services.
Though it may seem counterintuitive, the best form of internet marketing that exists actually draws your best potential client to you, rather than you having to go looking for them.
This digital marketing strategy is known as Content Marketing or Inbound Marketing and involves creating meaningful content through your blog that adds value to the lives of your clients without asking for anything in return.
By providing free answers to the pain points your clients have, not only do you free up your phone and inbox from the same questions time and time again, but you also build trust with your audience.
The other key benefit of this strategy is that it builds your brand authority and positions your firm as the thought leaders in your industry. This also positions you to offer expert opinion in your local newspaper and gain press for your firm through regular mentions in the stories the residents of your community read every day.
Show your clients that you know what they are going through and that you are the firm best positioned, not to solve their problems for them, but to make them the heroes of their own lives by simply providing the tools they need to better their own situations. If you can do this with your blog posts, you will already be miles ahead of your competition.
When it comes to digital marketing for law firms, the goal should still be to develop long-term client relationships. Achieve this with digital marketing techniques that focus on attracting the right leads from the outset with engaging content, that build their trust I your brand and positions your firm as the industry experts they've been looking for.
Then be sure to optimise this content so that it can be found easily by those leads who are ready to act.
Be available in local search so that your clients can find you and most of all, create engaging content that reaches out to your audience, converting them from.


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By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail
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