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In or Out, now that is the question? With the referendum looming on whether Britain should remain in the European Union or not – Britain is going to have to decide one way or the other on June 23rd. The politicians and some celebrities have all nailed their colours to the mast. Jeremy Corbyn, Tim Farron, George Osborne, Nicky Morgan, Nicola Sturgeon, Sir Richard Branston, Emma Thomson and of course David Cameron are firmly in the remain camp, whilst Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, Sir Michael Caine, Joan Collins and of course Nigel Farage can't get out of there quick enough. Whilst the media are concentrating on personality, celebrity and rhetoric – the truth of the matter is – the majority of ordinary folk just don't feel they are being adequately informed with the critical arguments either way so they make an informed and intelligent decision. However, fear not, our very own Senior Pastor and now makeshift intrepid political correspondent has spent some time researching what both sides of the arguments are contending. So over the next three issues of the City Biz he will be presenting some of the key points on both sides – of course in a totally British unbiased way!
You never know it just might help you to decide how to vote if you are one of the un-sures!
FACT NO 2. The standard monthly salary for each MEP is 7,957 Euros (£6,537) That equates to £78,444 a year plus expenses. This salary is roughly on a par with a British MP's salary, but of course when the pound is weak, MEPs earn more than MPs.
FACT NO 3. Sometimes you hear the word 'Brexit' being bannered around – but what is meant by it. The word 'Brexit' is an abbreviation of "British exit". It refers to the possibility of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
FACT NO 4. The European Parliament has three places of work – Brussels (Belgium), the city of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Strasbourg (France). Luxembourg is home to the administrative offices (the 'General Secretariat'). Meetings of the whole Parliament ('plenary sessions') take place in Strasbourg and in Brussels.
FACT NO 5. The EU has 23 official languages and all European Parliament debating sessions are interpreted into all of them. The European Parliament, along with the European Commission, is the world's largest employer of interpreters and translators. About one third of the European Parliament staff – 1,500 people – work on translating documents and interpreting speakers in debates and meetings. Number crunchers will realise that this means a total of 506 possible language interpretation combinations.
KEY QUESTION: Are there any viable options for Britain leaving the EU?
Yes there are! Britain could negotiate an "amicable divorce" from the European Union, but at the same time retain strong trading links with EU nations.
The argument is countries such as Norway and Switzerland have thrived outside the EU. Both countries have access to the single trade market but are not bound by EU laws on agriculture, fisheries, justice and home affairs.
Some favour the Swiss model, based on bi-lateral (two way) treaties with the EU rather than membership of the European Economic Area (EEA), basically it amounts to a sort of "EU-lite".
Others say the EEA/Norway model would be easier as the UK is already a member of the free trade area.
Some argue for a clean break from the EU, with the UK free to make trade deals with nations across the world.
No not at all! An "amicable divorce" is a pipe dream.
France, Germany and the other leading EU nations would never allow Britain a "pick and mix" approach to the block's rules.
They argue Norway and Switzerland have to abide by many EU rules anyway yet without any influence at all over how they are formed.
If we weren't in there helping to write the rules they would be written without us – and we simply wouldn't like the outcome.
The 'remain' camp also contend that if Britain went for a clean break from the EU, its exports would be subject to EU export tariffs and yet we would still have to meet EU production standards.
KEY QUESTION: What would the impact on British jobs be?
With small and medium-sized firms freed from EU regulation, there could be a jobs boom. The Eurosceptic Think Tank claims pulling out of the EU but staying in the EEA could create as many as 1,000,000 British jobs.
Those who want to leave the EU argue that more than 90% of the UK economy is not involved in trade with the EU in any way, yet still bears the burden of all the EU employment rules and regulations and red tape.
They believe millions of jobs could be lost as global manufacturers move to using lower-cost EU countries to supply their needs. For example, they say it's very possible that Britain's large foreign-owned car industry would shift into the EU and away from the UK. They believe other key industries linked to EU membership such as aerospace would also suffer greatly as a result of us leaving the EU. Pro-EU commentators claim Airbus production could move to France and Germany.
KEY QUESTION: Would Britons need visas to visit EU countries?
Probably not. UK citizens do not need a visa for many non-EU states and the EU has visa-free travel with many countries.
This is a relatively minor issue. They say the real issue revolves around the right of UK citizens to work and live in EU member states, which will be restricted.
KEY QUESTION: Will Britain save money?
For Your Information: The UK paid £8.9billion from UK taxes into the EU budget in 2010/11, according to the UK Treasury. This is out of a total of £706billion in public spending. That's slightly higher than the Government spends on railways and similar to the total cost of unemployment benefits. However European Commission puts the UK's contribution at £5.85billion.
Yes indeed! They argue, to begin with it would save the UK billions of pounds in EU membership fees that we are currently paying. They argue this amounts to over £50 million every single day. It is contended that coming out of the EU would also end the so called "hidden tariff" paid by British taxpayers when goods are exported to the EU, caused by red tape, waste, fraud and various other factors. The 'leave camp' actually claims that the total cost to the UK of our EU membership, when all these factors are taken into consideration, is more like 60 billion quid a year.
No not at all. They argue the UK's contribution to the EU budget is a drop in the ocean compared with the benefits to business in being a member of the Single European Market. Furthermore they contend it could be costly for UK exporters if they face EU legal arguments against UK standards – and they believe as a result there would be a lot more costly court cases entered into.
The 'in camp' also say the UK could lose significant tax revenue if companies dealing with the Eurozone, especially the banks, move from the City to the EU as a result of us coming out of the European Union.
KEY QUESTION: How much legislation comes from the EU that affects Britain?
The Eurosceptics say as much as 75% of all legislation affecting the UK is made by EU legislators.
Europhiles argue that according to House of Commons statistics, only 9% of our laws come from Brussels.
So there we have it for this month, what the "fors" and "againsts" are saying on some of the key issues concerning the EU. Hopefully it will get you thinking. More next month – Yippie! Go on admit it, you know you can't wait!


For your sanity, health and well-being, it is ESSENTIAL that you learn how to stop worrying.
I'm passionate about helping you with this, because I spent most of my life as a master worrier. I remember people lovingly referring to me as a "Worry Wort".
The more time went on, the more life experiences I had, the more I seemed to worry! And it stole the joy from my life.
To me it felt like life was so uncertain and unsafe, there were SO MANY variables and things that could go wrong. I spent a lot of my energy gripping on tight and trying to control things.
I'm sure you know, if you're experiencing worry, how exhausting this is.
Plus, it's super negative for your health. When I began mastering my mind and emotional system, and learned how to stop worrying, my health improved remarkably!
I finally felt free and at peace. Everything changed.
So I've put together this powerful guide for how to stop worrying in 7 steps, supporting you to let go, let be and let live!
Worry is a perception that something bad might happen at some future point – whether in the next 5 minutes, or next week, or next year.
Similar to fear and anxiety, worry is a PERCEPTION issue.
Understanding this helps you to realize that worry is not being caused by your circumstances and life around you.
Circumstances are just circumstances, and life is just being life (sometimes crazy, sometimes unpredictable).
The CAUSE of your worry, is your mind.
Luckily your mind is within your control to manage, direct and retrain.
You were born with 2 important gifts to help you master your mind and therefore to change your perception at any moment to work in your favor.
The Universe doesn't want you to worry about yourself or anyone else.
Sometimes we get caught up in thinking that by worrying about something or someone, it shows that we care.
If we weren't worried, it would be like we don't care. So, we conscientiously show concern, and focus on the issue, and worry about it… as that is what someone who cares should do. Right?
Worry doesn't mean you care. It means you fear!
It is entirely possible to care deeply about something or someone, and want the best, and desire solutions, WITHOUT WORRYING.
It's a wake up call to realize that by worrying, rather than being responsible and caring, it's actually just a plain and simple case of projecting negative energy.
When you worry, what you're really saying is that you don't believe in your own capability, or another person's capability, to get through whatever is being faced.
It's a denial of the fact you (and every other person you know) are unstoppable, unbreakable and powerful.
FACT – Life can try to beat you down, but you will not be broken.
Worry weakens your view of yourself and of others, and that projection doesn't support powerful outcomes.
Instead, replace worry with the remembrance that you have everything within you that you need to face whatever life throws at you.
And this is also true for every person you care about. Instead of worrying for them, remember how powerful they are.
The presence of worry means the absence of faith.
You can't worry and have faith in the same moment.
In the act of worrying, in that mindset and energy, faith is missing.
And, when you have a moment of faith, worry is missing!
So if you want to not worry, cultivate faith.
The more faith you have, the more you feel faith in each moment, the less room there is for worry.
It's about having faith and trust in your own ability. Knowing that you are able to get through all challenges and to rise, and that a higher power/life/the Universe supports you when you let go of worry.
Remind yourself that you can only do what you can do.
You can only control yourself and your own inner landscape of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and your own choices, behavior and action.
Beyond that, it is insanity to try to control the uncontrollable. Instead, surrender all the things you can't control.
You know your preferred outcome. Now give it up… give it over… give it to the Universe and ask to be guided to the best possible outcome.
The more good feeling you can create for yourself, the less you will worry.
You can train yourself into good feeling states.
You are an "energy being" living in an entirely energy based world.
Remember how the Universe operates – it responds to your energy.
If you consistently bring worried, fearful, negative energy to your days, life/the Universe simply mirrors your energy and responds. Like attracts like.
The more negative your energy vibration, ie. the worse you FEEL, the more negative your energetic influence is upon the world around you.
Thus the more issues, drama, problems and negative people you will seem to attract.
Problems magnify and negativity spirals.
If you instead bring faith-based, calm, trusting energy to your days, on a consistent basis, then life/the Universe simply mirrors that.
The higher vibration your energy, ie. the better you FEEL, the more positive your influence on the Universe and your circumstances.
Therefore, the more positive things you magnetize into your experience.
Things will flow more easily into solutions and outcomes that are of the highest good for all involved.
So, HOW can you get yourself into a good feeling and positive energy state each day?
On a daily basis visualize the positive outcome you would like to have happen.
You're very clear on the negative projection of what might go wrong, and when you worry, you are rehearsing for disaster – using your imagination to daydream about those bad things happening. That has the power to generate those outcomes you are thinking about.
Proactively break that cycle by doing a 5 minute visualization every morning focusing on something better happening. Imagine what you would like to happen – see it, hear it, and play it like a movie inside your mind. Make it as real as you can in your mind, projecting that possibility and FEELING how peaceful, relieved and happy you are in that scenario.
This will not only replace the worry with faith and positive powerful possibilities, making you feel better, but it will literally broadcast to the Universe what you want.
If you worry, you broadcast to life that you want more of that (not at all because you say you want it, but because we get what we are! We get whatever we focus on and whatever our consistent FEELING vibration is).
If you do positive visualization, you broadcast that positive intent to the Universe, and the good feeling and focus of your attention makes that outcome more readily available to you.
Life then knows what you want and starts to mirror it back to you – offering you pathways, people, solutions, breakthroughs and unseen helping hands to carry you forward into whatever outcome is best and available to you.
Using the above steps, and practising them on a daily basis, you can release worry and step into faith and freedom.
I did that and I'm no different to you. You can do this!!
I'd love to hear from you, so definitely head down to the comment section below and leave me a note or ask any questions you might have. I'll reply back as soon as possible.
This entry was posted in Confidence, Fear & Anxiety, Presence & Mindfulness, Psychology & Mindset, Stress & Overwhelm and tagged Anxiety, Bernadette Logue, Daily Inspiration, Faith, Fear, Mind, Surrender, Video, Worry.
Bernadette, thanks for this article. I tend to worry a lot. What you've written here will surely help me.
Thanks a million for all this support and wonderful tips. I would like to hear a piece of advice on how to strike a balance between visualisation of the positive outcome (which is supposed to be specific) and surrendering to the Universe ( which often means avoiding anything specific). The most painful is the realisation that the Universe does give you what you need and not what you want. This makes any visualisation a sort of a pitfall. Thank you for everything!
Here is what I do… I go all out on what I want, I play big, and put it all out there and fully play my part. I accept totally that beyond that things are outside my control, and I trust in whatever timing and events unfold, knowing full well that something bigger is at play in my life and that whatever happens will be for my highest good. That is "creating" and "surrender" married together.
Thank you! You've made it perfectly clear. This is precisely what I need now.
hi B thank you so much for your Daily Positive.
I just wanted to take a moment to say that you are such an awesome person. I read this article about worrying. You wrote with so much conviction and truth, it's wonderful what you do. I pray that you will always be blessed with good health and love so that you will never stop reaching out and touching the hearts and minds of those around you. I can just imagine how awesome it would be to meet someone like you. Thank you so much for doing what you do!
I live all the way in Singapore and though we are so far apart please know that you have touched my heart with all these beautiful things you share.


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While I think I was quite thorough in my original post Using an iPad in a Grade One Classroom I completely forget to talk about the four apps I have on my student's iPad shelf - you know the little "shelf" at the bottom of the iPad.
The first "app" I have there is a direct link to our class blog. You see most of our on-line activities are via our classroom blog so instead of having my students find a book mark or type in our long class blog address, I created an app looking link that takes them directly to our class blog. I have to thank Kathy Cassidy for teaching me about that one.
Curious how I did it? First open the web page you want to save on your iPad desk top. Open this web page in Safari. Then, while still in Safari touch the "share" button (you know the rectangle with the arrow pointing out from it). Next select "Add to Home Screen". It will prompt you for a name - I type "Class Blog" and then it saves it to your iPad desktop. It is a life saver and SO easy to do. I actually think when I want my students to start doing research I will add direct links to the websites that are best for them. If you are using shared iPads each teacher could easily have their own folder with their own personal direct links to websites that are best for their students.The "Add to Home Screen" is a wonderful feature.
The other apps I have on the shelf are Safari, Camera, and Photos. I'd assume they are pretty self explanatory but necessary to have easy access too since they are used so often.


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Series I. Legislative Files, 1982-2005.
Series II. Subject Files, 1981-2006.
Awards, Certificates, Honors .
Biographical Information .
Builders/Construction Industry, 1985.
Checkbook Register, 1982-1986.
Clippings, 1981-1990.
Correspondence, 1983.
Disney .
Gun Control, 1993.
Kennon, Sue (*NOTE - PORTIONS RESTRICTED) .
Literary Fund, 1987.
Miscellaneous .
Newsletters .
Office Files, 1982-1983.
Perinatal Drug .
Photograph - Virginia House of Delegates, 1991.
Photographs .
Press Releases, 1982-2003.
Prisons .
Programs .
Provider Tax .
Recycling .
Redistricting .
Scrapbooks, 1981-1983, 1986.
Taxes and Assessments (*NOTE - PORTIONS RESTRICTED) .
Teen Pregnancy .
Telephone .
Train Station .
Transportation - Commuter Rail .
Transportation, Future of in Virginia, 1996-1997.
University of Virginia .
"A View From the House" (Van Landingham Intro)- VHS Videotape, 2 copies .
Virginia Correctional Center for Women .
Voting .
Wilder, L. Douglas - Nomination for Lt. Governor, 1985.
Woodrow Wilson Bridge .
Series III. "White" Files, 1982-1987, 1992.
1982 (A-K) .
1982 (L-Z) .
November 1982 - November 1983 .
August-December 1985 .
1985-1986 .
Series IV. Campaign Files, 1979-1995.
Baliles, Gerald L. - Congratulatory Letter, 1982.
Campaign, 1995.
Campaign Literature .
Campaign Logo .
Campaign Meetings, 1987.
Campaign Planning and Budgeting, 1983.
Campaign Poster .
Campaign T-Shirt and Apron .
City Council Race, 1979.
Clippings .
Contributions and Financial Reports, 1987.
Contributions and Financial Reports, 1993-1994.
Democratic Party of Virginia, 1987.
Events/Fundraisers .
Mailings .
Mu Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma - Directory, 1992-1994.
Polling, 1987.
Precinct Maps .
Questionnaire, 1987.
"The Power of the Incumbency" .
Volunteers .
A Guide to the Marian Van Landigham Papers, 1979-2006 Van Landingham, Marian, Papers, 1979-2006 42474
A Guide to the Marian Van Landigham Papers, 1979-2006
Processed by: Jim Greve
Marian Van Landingham Papers, 1979-2006
13.225 cubic feet (29 boxes)
Portions of the Subject Files are restricted from public access for 75 years per Code of Virginia 42.1-78. Restricted information in this collection has been sealed but not removed from the collection. The specific material that has been closed is noted in the Contents List of this guide.
Marian Van Landingham Papers, 1979-2010. Accession 42474. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Gift of Marian Van Landingham, Alexandria.
Marian Van Landingham was born in Albany, Georgia on 10 September 1937. She graduated from Druid Hills High School in Atlanta in 1955, and then studied political science at Emory University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960. Van Landingham worked in public relations, and in 1967 she moved to Arlington County, Virginia to take a position as an information specialist at the National Air Pollution Agency, a forerunner to the Environmental Protection Agency. She then served as a press aide to Rep. Phil Landrum (D-GA). In 1972, Van Landingham moved to Alexandria. She was also president of the Art League, and became involved in efforts to restore the vacant torpedo plant and turn it into studio space for Alexandria area artists. Van Landingham ran for City Council in 1979, but was defeated by only 800 votes. In 1981, she waged a succesful campaign for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, and began a career in the General Assembly that would continue for 23 years. She was the first woman to chair the Privileges and Elections Committee, and by the time she retired, she was the most senior woman serving in the House. In 2005, Van Landingham decided not to run for re-election due to health concerns. She continues to maintain her studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, and is involved in various philanthropic and humanitarian activities in Alexandria.
Papers, 1979-2006, of Marian Van Landingham (b. 1937) of Alexandria, Virginia, who represented the 45th District in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1982 to 2005. Includes legislative files, subject files, "white" files, and campaign files.
This collection is arranged into the following series:
I. Legislative Files. II. Subject Files. III. "White" Files. IV. Campaign Files.
Boxes: 1-15
Extent: 15 boxes.
The legislative files include drafts and final copies of bills, resolutions, and budget amendments introduced by Van Landingham, correspondence with constituents, fellow legislators, advocacy groups, and government officials, background materials, clippings, notes, memoranda, summaries, legal opinions, roll call votes, and impact statements. There are also patron and co-patron reports generated by the House Clerk which give summmaries, dates, and actions taken by the General Assemby on legislation introduced or co-sponsored by Van Landingham. Areas of interest reflected in the legislation she introduced include consumer services protection, election laws, funding for the arts, gun control, historic preservation, parental leave, parole eligibility, spousal abuse and rape crisis centers, telecommunications, tenant rights, and youth programs. There is only a small amount of material for 1993, and none for 1994, 1996, and 1998.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Patron: House Bills.
Co-Patron Report.
Co-Patron: House Bills.
Co-Patron: House Resolutions.
Co-Patron: House Joint Resolutions.
Co-Patron: Senate Bills.
Co-Patron: Senate Joint Resolutions.
Civil Court Jurisdiction.
Condominiums.
Gun Control.
Landlord/Tenant.
Preliminary Hearings.
Private Relief Bills.
Patron Report.
Folder 3-4
Co-Patron Bills.
H.B. 426 - Court Orders Pending Divorce or Annulment Suits.
H.B. 508 - Forms of Ballots.
H.B. 509 - Duties of General Registrar.
H.B. 510 - Landlord Disclosure.
H.B. 511 - Relocation Expenses for Displaced Tenants.
H.B. 512 - Security Deposits.
H.B. 615 - Uranium Mining Permits.
H.J.R. 51 - Homestead Exemption.
H.J.R. 62 - Constitutional Amendment on Tax Assessments.
H.J.R. 63 - Study of Changes in Telecommunications Insdustry.
Committees.
Wiretapping.
H.B. 365 - Lemon Law.
H.B. 366 - Situs for Assessment of Taxes.
H.B. 367 - Telephone Detective.
H.B. 368 - Adult Abuse.
H.B. 369 - Spousal Abuse.
H.B. 396 - Court Fees.
H.B. 483 - Telephone Competition.
H.B. 484 - Public Service Corporation Designation.
H.B. 517 - Rental Application Fees.
H.B. 518 - Failure to Return Security Deposits.
H.B. 519 - Interest on Security Deposits.
H.B. 520 - Bad Rent Check Law.
H.B. 521 - Emergency Frequencies.
H.B. 522 - Interexchange Telephone Companies.
H.B. 814 - Governor's Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Problems.
H.B. 875 - Indigent and Elderly Medical Assistance.
H.B. 876 - Crime Victims Assistance.
H.J.R. 53 - Telecommunications Industry Study.
H.J.R. 154 - Family Life Study.
Alexandria.
Hold.
H.B. 1160 - Condo Purchase/Contract Right to Review.
H.B. 1161 - Finance Officer for Alexandria Historical Restoration.
H.B. 1314 - Telephone Resalers.
H.B. 1315 - Crime Victims Assistance.
H.B. 1316 - Radio Frequency Protection.
H.B. 1220 - Security Deposits 5% (Remove "Q" Rate).
H.B. 1375 - FOIA Exemption for Rape Crisis and Battered Spouses Centers.
H.J.R. 53 - Effects of Diverse Changes in Telecommunications Industry.
H.J.R. 100 - Telephone Monthly Flat Rate.
H.J.R. 240 - Telecommunications Committee.
H.J.R. 254 - Arts Committee.
H.J.R. 280 - Small Telephone Companies Regulatory Procedures.
H.J.R. 342 - Arts Appreciation Month.
H.J.R. 347 - Death of Ilka D. Dickman, M.D.
Dropped.
Removal of Cases of Unlawful Entry and Detainer.
Retaliatory Eviction.
Suspension of Drivers License.
Telephone Cooperatives.
Co-Sponsor: House Bills.
Co-Sponsor: House Joint Resolutions.
Co-Sponsor: House Resolutions.
Co-Sponsor: Senate Bills.
Co-Sponsor: Senate Joint Resolutions.
H.B. 18 - Alexandria City Charter.
H.B. 235 - Sexual Harassment.
H.B. 247 - Arts Commission.
H.B. 248 - Tax Exemption Youth Residential Services.
H.B. 272 - Alcoholic Content.
H.B. 275 - Small Investor Owned Telephone Utility Act.
H.B. 488 - Court Fines.
H.B. 655 - Victims of Crime: Notification.
H.B. 703 - Borrower's Right to Pay Taxes and Insurance.
H.B. 704 - Fayette Court (Micah).
H.B. 726 - Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
H.B. 767 - Telephone Resale of Service.
Budget Amendment - Alexandria Jail.
Budget Amendment - Gifted and Talented Programs.
Budget Amendment - NVCC Business/Industry Project.
Budget Amendment - Old Apothecary.
Budget Amendment - Project Discovery.
Budget Amendment - TV Classroom.
Budget Amendment - Virginia Association of Museums.
Budget Amendment - Volunteer Bureau.
Budget Amendment - Voter Registrars Salaries.
Budget Amendments - House and Senate.
Legislation Not Introduced - American Diabetes Association Tax Exemption.
Legislation Not Introduced - Children's Trust Fund.
Legislation Not Introduced - Condo Association Notification.
Legislation Not Introduced - Harris Masonic Memorial Association Tax Exemption.
Legislation Not Introduced - Health Insurance for Elderly.
Legislation Not Introduced - Marriage License.
Legislation Not Introduced - Victim's Compensation.
H.B. 491 - Reports of Alcohol and Drug Abuse on School Property.
H.J.R. 275 - Women's History Month.
Budget Amendments.
Budget Amendments - Alexandria.
Budget Amendments - Miscellaneous.
Appropriations Committee.
"How to Read and Understand the State Budget."
H.B. 34 - Telecommunications Assistance for the Deaf.
H.B. 35 - Virginia Work-Study Program.
H.B. 429 - Visual Smoke Detectors for the Hearing Impaired.
H.B. 431 - Workmen's Compensation Insurance Requirements.
H.B. 432 - Adoption Assistance for Children With Special Needs.
H.B. 433 - Adoption and Medical Assistance.
H.B. 629, 864 - Unpaid Court Fines.
H.B. 865 - Adoption Assistance (Medicaid).
Budget Amendments (Prospective).
Alexandria Legislative Package.
Bills.
Extra Copies.
Folder 9-13
H.B. 439 - Parental Leave.
H.J.R. 336 - School Dropout and Self-Esteem.
S.B. 727 - Gun Bill.
S.J.R. 191 - Certain Practices Among Psychiatric Professionals.
Pole Attachments.
Special Session - Taxation of Income from Public Retirement System.
H.B. 51 - Retail Sales and Use Tax Exemptions.
H.B. 230 - Charitable Solicitations.
H.B. 427 - Expansion of Drug-Free School Zones.
H.B. 428 - Community College.
H.B. 510 - Interpreter Services for Hearing Impaired.
H.B. 511 - Duties of Voter Registrars.
H.B. 564 - Deaf Jurors.
H.B. 565 - Victims of Crime Out-of-Pocket Reimbursement.
H.B. 696 - Tax on Video Rentals.
H.B. 1072 - Endangered Species.
H.J.R. 37 - Electromagnetic Leakage.
H.J.R. 38 - Social Services Formulas.
H.J.R. 74 - Braille/Blind.
S.B. 47 - City of Alexandria Legislative Package.
Bills of Interest to Constituents.
H.J.R. 97 - Foreign-Born Needs Study.
H.B. 940 - Parole Eligibility.
Constituent Correspondence.
H.B. 1921 - HIV Testing.
H.B. 1922 - HIV Gamete Donors.
H.B. 2176 - Homeless Trust Fund.
H.B. 2177 - Higher Education Incentive Program.
H.B. 2178 - Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
H.B. 2179 - Electoral Board/Registrars.
H.B. 2180 - Voter Registration/Power of Attorney.
H.B. 2181 - Voter Lists.
H.B. 2182 - Certificates of Public Need/Nursing Homes.
H.B. 2542 - Omnibus Educational Act.
H.J.R. 516 - Information Technology.
H.J.R. 517 - Criminal Justice Boards.
H.J.R. 518 - Correctional Standards.
H.J.R. 565 - Statewide Plan for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
H.J.R. 566 - Viatical Agreement.
H.J.R. 567 - Continue HIV Study.
H.J.R. 630 - Continuation of Young Adults Services Study.
H.J.R. 631 - Training Service Providers.
H.J.R. 632 - Medicaid Waiver.
City of Alexandria.
H.B. 2078 - Campaign Finance Disclosure Reports.
H.B. 2271 - Conflict/Public Employees.
H.B. 2272 - VHDA/Local Disapproval of Housing Developments.
H.B. 2420 - Voter Registrars.
H.B. 2481 - Educational Opportunities.
H.B. 2484 - Virginia Arts Foundation.
H.J.R. 543 - Virginia Commission for the Arts.
H.B. 1611 - Relief of Joseph J. Smith III.
H.B. 1852 - Electoral Board.
H.B. 1853 - Voter Records.
H.B. 1854 - Voter Registration.
H.B. 2010 - Electronic Filings.
H.B. 2263 - Teacher Licensure.
H.B. [?] - Transportation Trust Fund.
H.B. [?] - HIV Patient Assistance.
H.J.R. 588 - English as a Second Language Study.
H.J.R. 657 - Standards of Quality.
H.B. 222 - Sales Tax Exemption NTI Institute for Applied Behavioral Science.
H.B. 223 - Tax Exemptions for Non-Profit Mental Health Organizations.
H.B. 224 - Tax ExemptionsL America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth, Inc.
H.B. 225 - Tax Exemptions: Water Environment Federation.
H.B. 976 - Health, Safety, and Nuisance Laws.
H.B. 977 - Absentee Voting.
H.B. 982 - HIV Premium Assistance Program.
H.B. 1320 - Maternal and Child Health Fund.
H.B. 1321 - Specialized Transportation Council
H.J.R. 183 - Standards of Accreditation.
H.J.R. 184 - ESL/LEP Students Continuing Education.
H.J.R. 264 - Blood-Borne Pathogens Study.
H.B. 1957 - Sales and Use Tax Exemptions for Educational Purposes.
H.B. 2164 - Scuba Diver License Plate.
H.B. 2207 - Determination of Vote on Voting Equipment.
H.B. 2208 - Medical Assistance Services: Applications for Children.
H.B. 2209 - Children's Health Insurance.
H.B. 2210 - Choldren's Health Insurance: Waiting Period Exception.
H.B. 2211 - Voter Registration: Cancellation of Registration.
H.B. 2212 - Absentee Voting in Business Emergencies.
H.B. 2233 - Record of Undervoted and Overvoted Ballots.
H.B. 2618 - Final Day to Register to Vote Before an Election.
H.J.R. 629 - Early Childhood Educational and Developmental Initiatives.
H.J.R. 712 - Commending Wright to Read.
H.B. 1066 - Property Loaned to Museums.
H.B. 1067 - Conflict of Interests.
H.B. 1068 - Criminal History Record/Youth Mentoring Programs.
H.B. 1211 - Building Code Rehad.
H.B. 1369 - Divorce/Annulment Racial Designation.
H.J.R. 168 - Early Childhood Study.
H.J.R. 193 - Hager Resolution.
H.J.R. 218 - Advancing Research and New Technologies.
H.J.R. 219 - Medicaid Buy-In Study.
H.J.R. 236 - Housing Opportunities for Disabled.
H.J.R. 281 - Death of Bill Perkins.
H.J.R. 289 - Death of Bryan Jack.
H.J.R. 290 - Death of Norma Steuerle.
H.J.R. 328 - Women's Wellness Month.
H.B. 2105 - Medicaid Buy-In.
H.B. 2106 - Health/Vital Statistics.
H.B. 2107 - Recordation Tax.
H.B. 2568 - Presidential Primaries.
H.B. 2636 - ESL/SOQ.
H.B. 2683 - Building Rehabilitation.
H.J.R [?] - Death of Lois Van Valkenburgh.
H.B. 112 - Board of Corrections.
H.B. 817 - Disability Commission.
H.B. 874 - Affordable Housing (Alexandria).
H.B. 1256 - School Closings.
H.B. 2078 - Virginia Antiquities Act Penalties.
H.B. 2079 - Virginia Historic Preservation.
H.B. 2118 - Accessible Housing.
H.B. 2545 - Assisted Living Facilities.
H.B. 2546 - Air Emissions Reductions in Severe Nonattainment Areas.
H.B. 2547 - Fiduciaries.
H.B. 2761 - Student Assessments Funding.
Boxes: 16-24
Extent: 9 boxes.
The subject files include awards and certificates, biographical information, newsletters, office files, photographs, press releases, programs, scrapbooks, and other materials. There are a large number of clippings, mostly from Alexandria newspapers, documenting Van Landingham's legislative activities, appearances at local events, campaign and election coverage, local and state politics, and columns written by her regarding specific issues facing the General Assembly. There are also newspaper stories relating to her involvement with the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria. In addition, the subject files contain a substantial amount of material relating to the Walt Disney Company's proposed theme park development in Prince William County, the improvement and replacement of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, and redistricting of House of Delegates and Senate seats and congressional districts in Virginia in 1991. Van Landingham's interests in parole eligibility, sentencing guidelines, and prison conditions are also reflected in the subject files. There is a information on Suzanne (Sue) S. Kennon, an inmate at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women in Goochland, Virginia, and her parole requests and appeals, and the related subjects of the application of the 1982 Virginia "three-time-loser law," and the children of incarcerated women. There are also materials related to the conditions at VCCW, as well as materials from other inmates there, and at other facilities, regarding their specific cases. Arranged alphabetically.
Box 28-29
The "white" files cover the years 1982 to 1987 and 1992, and are copies of outgoing letters from Van Landingham's office. They are arrranged by year, and thereunder alphabetical by last name of the recipient.
Box: 27
Extent: 1 box.
The campaign files cover Van Landingham's race for Alexandria City Council in 1979, and her subsequent campaigns for the Virginia House of Delegates. They include campaign literature, meeting information, planning and budgeting files, clippings, contributions and financial reports, events and fundraisers, mailings, polling data, precinct maps, volunteer lists and other materials.
Box Personal Papers Oversize Box 104

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Malcolm James McCormick (Pittsburgh, 19 de janeiro de 1992 — Los Angeles, 7 de setembro de 2018), conhecido por seu nome artístico Mac Miller, foi um rapper, cantor e compositor norte-americano.

Biografia e carreira
De ascendência judaica, estudou na Taylor Allderdice High School, de onde também saiu Wiz Khalifa. Antes da carreira solo, fez parte de um grupo de pop chamado The Ill Spoken, com outro cantor de Pittsburg chamado Beedie. Antes de assinar com a Rostrum, na sua adolescência, Mac Miller tinha como nome "Easy Mac". Quando completou 18 anos, assinou contrato com a Rostrum Records. Em 29 de março de 2011, Mac Miller lançou um EP chamado On And On And Beyond, um trabalho de seis faixas produzido pela Rostrum Records, e em seguida Best Day Ever, outro EP de sucesso. Em 8 de novembro de 2011, Mac Miller lançou o álbum Blue Slide Park. O álbum ocupou a primeira posição dos mais vendidos da Billboard, vendendo 144 mil na sua semana de estreia. Em 19 de janeiro de 2012, foi lançado um tema do grupo Cobra Starship em que Mac participa, "Middle Finger". Em 2013, participou no filme Scary Movie 5, contracenando com o rapper americano Snoop Dogg.

Vida pessoal e morte
Mac Miller namorou com a cantora Ariana Grande, entre setembro de 2016 e maio de 2018. Ela confirmou que estava em um relacionamento com Mac em uma entrevista ao "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". Após a declaração, Miller e Grande lançaram o Favorite Part" no Youtube. Ainda antes de se envolverem, Mac Miller participou no single "The Way", de Ariana, em 2013. Três anos depois - e já como namorados -, Ariana emprestou a voz ao tema "My Favorite Part", que está incluído no 4º álbum do cantor, The Divine Feminine. Em 2018, lançou seu último álbum em vida, intitulado Swimming.

Em 7 de setembro de 2018, o site TMZ reportou que Mac Miller havia morrido, vítima de uma overdose de drogas, na sua casa na região do Vale de São Fernando, noroeste da cidade de Los Angeles, Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos. O relatório do legista que analisou sua morte, comprovou que o cantor morreu de overdose por cocaína e fentanil, encontrados em seu sangue. O rapper sempre foi aberto em relação à sua luta contra o vício em drogas. Em 2019, apurou-se que afinal o dealer das vendas é que tinha vendido os medicamentos errados, que provocou o posterior falecimento do artista.

 Discografia
2011 - K.I.D.S. (Kickin' Incredibly Dope Shit)2011 - Best Day Ever2011 - On and On and Beyond (EP)
2011 - I Love Life, Thank You2011 - Blue Slide Park2012 - Macadelic
2012 - You (EP)
2013 - Pink Slime (EP)
2013 - Watching Movies With The Sound Off2014 - Faces''
2015 - GO:OD AM
2016 - The Divine Feminine
2018 - Swimming
2020 - Circles (álbum póstumo)

Produtores de hip hop dos Estados Unidos
Naturais de Pittsburgh

Judeus dos Estados Unidos
Cantores dos Estados Unidos
Artistas da Warner Records

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Jackie Lee-Joe named Netflix Chief Marketing Officer
LOS GATOS, Calif.
, July 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix today announced that Jackie Lee-Joe has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer. Jackie has served as CMO of BBC Studios, part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, since 2015.
"Jackie is a truly original thinker with a wealth of global experience - making her the perfect fit as our next Chief Marketing Officer. I'm excited to work with her in promoting our brand and original programming in new and creative ways to our members all around the world," said Ted Sarandos , Netflix Chief Content Officer.
"Netflix is a much loved and respected brand with audiences globally thanks to its rich and varied original programming. I'm thrilled to be joining one of the most creative, dynamic and fearlessly innovative companies in the world," said Jackie Lee-Joe .
A graduate of the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, Jackie joined the BBC in November 2015 from Skype, where she was Global Director for Audience, Entertainment Marketing & Broadcast Media. She has over 20 years of marketing experience with leading media, technology and telecoms companies including Virgin Mobile, Carphone Warehouse and Orange. She will start at Netflix in September and will be based in Los Angeles
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Tennessee artists mark 100 years of women's suffrage in story and song
Amy McRary
The 100th anniversary of American women getting the vote is August 2020, and Tennessee artists already are planning to celebrate in story and song.
At least three plays will be performed in Knoxville in 2020 to commemorate Tennessee's pivotal role in the 19th Amendment's passage.
Tennessee was the 36th and last needed state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in August 1920. It was a dramatic climax on Aug. 18, 1920, when legislator Harry Burn of Niota changed his "no" vote in the Tennessee House of Representatives to "yes."
Two Knoxville theaters and a Middle Tennessee artist are creating plays about the historic event. Two are musicals; the third a docudrama.
'The Burn Vote'
The show with the longest planned run is River & Rail Theatre's "The Burn Vote." The musical premieres Aug. 18, 2020, at the theater's new 111 State St. location.
Founding Artistic Director Joshua Peterson said the play, about two hours with an intermission, will have 12 to 18 performances over two to three weeks. Exact dates and admission aren't set.
The play with a two-man, six-woman cast focuses on Burn and his mother, Febb Burn. It was Febb's letter to her son urging him to support suffrage that caused Harry to change his mind and his vote.
Tennessee playwright Chris Cragin-Day and Nashville musicians Don and Lori Chaffer were commissioned to create the musical set in the summer of 1920. They also wrote River & Rail's annual Christmas play, "The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph's Baby."
"The Burn Vote" is still being developed, Peterson said. That means some songs will get cut and others added. He expects the play to include about 20 songs with 60% of the production music and 40% dialogue.
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Febb and Harry
Febb Burn is the main protagonist, Peterson said. The story's based on primary materials and research; much of what people wrote or said during the suffrage battle is quoted.
"This musical really is the story of Febb. We have imagined — and it's not too far to imagine — that she is a mother who would want her son to go out in the world and be his own person. She wants him to make his own way; she doesn't want to be a voice in his ear telling him what to do," Peterson said.
The story does imagine that Febb Burn and prominent Knoxville suffragist Lizzie Crozier French knew each other. "We have imagined Lizzie said to Febb, 'This is too big not to tell your son your opinion,' " Peterson said.
Peterson said the idea for the play came from Liz Stowers of Knoxville, who also underwrote its writing. "She told me the story and I said, "I've never heard of this. ...That's a real story.? That's a good musical."
A second play, "Suffrage: War of the Roses" is created by Knoxville writers Linda Parsons and Jeanette Brown. It will be performed by the Flying Anvil Theatre's Hammer Ensemble in August 2020. The ensemble often performs works that address social issues.
Performance dates aren't set, but Parsons said one or two shows will be at the Flying Anvil, 1300 Rocky Hill Road, and at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Both will be ticketed shows; admission isn't set.
The eight-actor cast will also perform an outdoor show at downtown Market Square. Donations will be requested there. After the play, there will be a procession to the Market Square statues that mark Tennessee's role in the amendment fight and passage.
"Suffrage: War of the Roses" focuses on the few weeks before the August vote. "There was a lot of tension with things going back and forth, legislators changing their votes back and forth," Parsons said.
The play includes a chorus of three "gossips" who help carry the plot with conversations on era-appropriate telephones. About an hour long,the play is created without large sets or props, making it mobile and available to other groups.
The play's creation began with discussing how to mark the 19th Amendment anniversary. "Jeannette and I jumped in and really wanted to develop it and bring out the different struggles and factions and show it warts and all," Parsons said.
'A Vote of Her Own'
Middle Tennessee artist Candace Corrigan and her nonprofit American Entertainment Works company will present the third play, "A Vote of Her Own,' in 2020.
The theatrical musical debuts 7:30 p.m. May 30, 2020, at the Bijou Theatre, 803 S Gay St. Another show is planned for Aug. 6, 2020, in Murfreesboro. Admission and other details aren't set. Part of the proceeds will go to East Tennessee's Suffrage Coalition.
"A Voice of Her Own" is set in Nashville in the summer of 1920. Background projections will create scenes of the Tennessee legislature and Nashville's Union Station. The play includes songs whose words were spoken by Lizzie Crozier French of Knoxville, Elizabeth Avery Meriwether of Memphis and Anne Dallas Dudley of Nashville. Those three women are the suffragists memorialized on Knoxville's Market Square statue.
"I love to use the characters' own words in a song. It really helps bring the story to life." Corrigan said. "It will be how Southern women won the vote, I want it to be fun and easy to understand."
Corrigan's no stranger to the suffrage story. Twenty-five years ago, she was part of a musical theatrical production "The Perfect 36" that debuted at the Bijou. That show became a public television special.
More celebrations to come
There will be more ways the area will celebrate the 19th Amendment anniversary, including an East Tennessee History Center exhibit.
Other artists and organizations are likely to create events or programs with money awarded from the city of Knoxville's $25,000 Suffrage Seed Fund .
The fund is a competitive grant program focusing on educational and arts programming with awards from $100 to $5,000. Organizations must be headquartered in Knoxville or support a project that will significantly benefit Knoxville citizens. Proposals are due by October 1, 2019; applications are at knoxfriends.org/seed-fund.


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By Michael Engel
Logically, realistically, nobody expected the string of late inning comebacks to last. The stretch of four games won in the fashion the Royals did this week was improbable. Asking them to do it again is just asking too much.
It looked as though they wouldn't need any such comeback though as they ran out to a 5-0 lead, then went into the ninth with a 6-3 lead and Joakim Soria an out away from finishing off the White Sox.
A Juan Pierre single, a Gordon Beckham walk, an Alex Rios chopper…and it just kept coming. In the end, the White Sox scored four runs with two outs in the top of the ninth to take a lead. The Royals tied it in the bottom half anyway, because it seems like they just can't play if there isn't a little bit extra drama involved.
It was all in vain, though, as the top of the 12th led to three runs and a 10-7 Royals loss.
Funny thing is, they still almost pulled off another walkoff win.
So who's to blame?
Jeff Francoeur, for striking out in the bottom of the 11th and stranding Alex Gordon at third with only one out?
Joakim Soria for blowing the lead in the first place (which not even the most ardent Soria-hater would expect)?
Sean O'Sullivan for falling apart in the top of the 12th?
Ned Yost for using Aaron Crow two innings last night, making him unavailable today?
How about yes to any and all of those.
Fortunately (I guess), I was working all day during the game and didn't have to witness the meltdown, but I did have my newly purchased MLB At Bat app on my phone to listen in. I thought we had our fifth win in a row and, of all people, Joakim Soria was the one to give it up.
For the second time in the first week of the season, the Royals got a five run lead and stopped scoring. It's good that they can get some crooked numbers on the scoreboard, but one run innings count too, and they could have used one like that today.
So in a moment like this, let's just look at the positives.
Jeff Francis was still solid despite giving up a couple of runs late. Alex Gordon had two hits, both off left-handed pitchers and hit both balls hard, first taking Mark Buerhle to left field, then drilling a Chris Sale pitch to center. He's showing a changed approach and it's paying off for him. Billy Butler keeps getting hits and keeps getting walks. The Royals team speed looks for real.
And heck, they're still 4-2.
Soria blowing a save isn't the end of the world. He blew a couple last year, including one in the first series of the year against Detroit. His 10-pitch battle with Miguel Cabrera that night ended with the Tigers tying the score on a homer off the right field foul pole. It was just as fluky then as I think this blown save was today.
In other words, don't worry. Yet.
The Royals get an off day to stew and regroup. Following that, they take on the Tigers in Detroit for a three game series.
Ideally, the positives keep coming in and the Royals keep winning. With some young players on the team, learning to bounce back from a loss like this is an important part of their development. They can either remain competitive or fall into a nine game losing streak. The comeback wins suggest to me that this group has a lot of heart and a lot of fight, and no, you can't measure those attributes, but they still come into play when in the face of adversity.
I'm not so naive to think that all they have to do is think positive and encourage each other, but they've exceeded a lot of expectations and have shown that they can turn it on. They just need to do so more consistently when the opportunity presents itself.
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Hospitality is an important ecumenical virtue, pope says
by Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service
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Pope Francis greets people as he arrives for his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 22, 2020. (CNS photo/Reuters/Yara Nardi)
Vatican City — Showing hospitality makes a person a better human being and a better Christian and is an important part of promoting Christian unity, Pope Francis said.
"Working together to live with ecumenical hospitality, particularly toward those whose lives are most vulnerable, will make us — all Christians, Protestants, Orthodox, Catholics, all Christians — better human beings, better disciples and a more united Christian people," the pope said Jan. 22 during his weekly general audience.
Christians today, like the people of Malta who welcomed St. Paul and his companions who were shipwrecked on their island, must show hospitality to and care for those who flee violence and persecution, he said.
"Unfortunately, they sometimes encounter even the worst hostility," he said. "They are exploited by criminal traffickers today; they are treated as numbers and as a threat by some leaders today; sometimes inhospitality rejects them as a wave carrying poverty or the very dangers from which they were fleeing."
In his audience talk, the pope reflected on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which takes place Jan. 18-25. The theme for the 2020 celebration, "They showed us unusual kindness," is taken from St. Luke's account in the Acts of the Apostles of the hospitality shown by the people of Malta to St. Paul and his companions.
St. Paul and the other passengers of the ship were welcomed by the Maltese people, who gave them food and shelter "even though they had not yet received the Good News of Christ," the pope said.
The virtue of hospitality, he added, "means recognizing that other Christians are truly our brothers and sisters in Christ."
"We are brothers and sisters," the pope said. "Someone may tell you, 'But that one is a Protestant, that one is Orthodox.' Yes, but we are brothers and sisters in Christ."
The pope said ecumenical hospitality means showing God's love to others and "a willingness to listen to other Christians, paying attention to their personal stories of faith and the history of their community."
"I think about the past, in my land for example, when some Evangelical ministers came," the pope said, "a small group of Catholics burned their tents. This isn't Christian. We are brothers and sisters. We are all brothers and sisters and we must give hospitality to one another."
With so many migrants and refugees facing "risky voyages to escape violence, war and poverty," Francis called on Christians to set aside their differences and work together to show them "the love of God revealed by Jesus Christ" and that "each person is precious to God.
"The divisions that still exist between us prevent us from being fully the sign of God's love for the world, which is our vocation and mission," he said.
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America's power continues to be in a state of 'explosion,' if used wisely and resolutely against its enemies and not in a state of "implosion" as its critics, such as Steve Clemons of the Washington Note, claim.
The North Korean nuclear test is the "meme" that will destroy President Obama's new foreign policy based on diplomacy with America's irreconcilable enemies such as Iran. The doors of diplomacy that Obama is opening to the Mullahcratic regime and its sundry of proxies will close with a bang in the face of the rookie president in foreign affairs as Iran imitates the defiance of North Korea.


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Biografia
Nell'aprile 2013, durante la sua militanza al Lecce, fu arrestato dalla polizia per aver aggredito e derubato una prostituta: ad aggravare la posizione del calciatore furono poi le lesioni procurate ad un transessuale che aveva tentato di aiutare la donna.

Sospeso dalla società pugliese in seguito alla denuncia, non vestì più i colori giallorossi.

Carriera

Inizi e Italia
Cresciuto prima in Francia nel CFF Paris e nel Guingamp e successivamente in Italia nel Padova, debutta tra i professionisti il 9 aprile 2011 in Serie B sempre con il Padova nella sfida contro il Portogruaro vinta dai padovani 3-1. La stagione successiva si guadagna un posto da titolare nella formazione veneta, segnando anche il suo primo gol da professionista.

Tra il 2012 e il 2014 viene ceduto in prestito in Serie B all' e in Prima Divisione al Lecce e Unione Venezia.

Portogallo
Tornato al Padova nel gennaio 2014, nello stesso mese, rescinde dai veneti e si accasa allo Sporting Lisbona, sul cui contratto fa inserire una clausola rescissoria da 45 milioni di euro e che lo gira alla formazione B.

Il 9 marzo 2014, viene convocato con la prima squadra nella sfida di campionato contro il Vitória Setúbal, senza scendere in campo. Nella stagione 2014-2015, gioca una partita, segnando un gol, con la prima squadra, nella Coppa nazionale contro il Vitória Guimarães. Inoltre viene convocato sempre in coppa, anche per la partita contro il Boavista. Nella stagione 2015-2016, con la prima squadra, viene convocato una sola volta, contro l'Arouca, nella sfida valida per la Coppa nazionale, tuttavia senza scendere in campo.

Il 13 luglio 2016, passa alla Moreirense formazione militante nella Primeira Liga, firmando un contratto della durata di due anni.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 30 settembre 2016.

Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Sporting Lisbona: 2014-2015

Sporting Lisbona: 2015

Moreirense: 2016-2017

Note

Collegamenti esterni


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Sea buckthorn oil is starting to make its way into the skin care market more and more, and for a great reason - it works wonders. This ingredient is truly a super skin saver. It is anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, soothing, hydrating, brightening and toning all in one, while still being natural and organic.
The use of sea buckthorn oil dates so far back that it has been mentioned in ancient Tibetan information, Greek mythology and has even been cited as a healing ingredient during the times and trials of Genghis Khan. It has been a renowned ingredient in Ayurvedic healing for years, as well as traditional Chinese medicine. Even the Russians have used this super oil to treat radiation burns, due to its immense anti-inflammatory and healing effects.
Both internally and topically, sea buckthorn oil is considered a "super" ingredient or "superfood". It is high in antioxidants - boosting your immunity, vitamin C, which is great for anti-aging and brightening the skin, vitamin E - known for fading scars and stretch marks, vitamin B-12, which can calm hormonal acne and balance your adrenal system, and Omegas 3,6,9 and 7, lubricating the skin and building its elasticity.
Sea buckthorn can be used to treat rosacea, sensitivity, dermatitis, eczema, sun damage, stretch marks, acne scarring and even bed sores. It's intense healing properties kick your skin into regeneration mode, which also makes it's a star ingredient in many anti-aging and rejuvenating products.
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What is the "perfect family"? Perfect could be where both the parents are present, fully involved in their children's lives, happy, and secure with their jobs and family life. Marriage was the cornerstone of that perfect family of years ago. Increasing divorce rates have changed that definition; children born outside of marriage have also increased by almost 50%. The good news in all this is that the rate of single families has decreased considerably in the last decade. That means, families now are more or less stable, whether they are families of single parents, divorced parents or unmarried parents. Nowadays, both parents are most likely to be wage earners, unlike in 1945 where only the fathers worked. This has given families a higher standard of living and the parents can live quite comfortably independent of each other and still provide for their children.
The family in 1945 consisted of a father, mother, and children; that has now changed to a modern family with new and many broad definitions such as father and father, mother and mother and polygamist families where there are multiple fathers and mothers. The number of blended families and families that have a stepfather or a stepmother has increased tremendously as remarriage is very common in today's society. The adoption rates have also increased since 1945 – this is because the stigma of adoption has been lifted considerably and is now seen in a positive light.
Marriages between races and people from different countries are now being fused, which was very uncommon in traditional families of the year 1945. The woman-empowerment movements from the 1960's and 1970's urged women to marry later in life, have fewer or no children. Women began to feel more independent and having the ability to earn an income, they became less reliant on their husbands. Divorce became easier, with fewer legal restrictions, and, as a result, more common.


Heralding Pahela Falgoon (1st day of Spring) today. A parrot was seen crowding the blooming Palash Flower\'s trees around Curzon Hall of DU on Tuesday.
The flower growers and traders in Dhaka, Jashore and Chattagram are passing a busy time for a lucrative sale of flowers ahead of Pahela Falgun, Valentine's Day and Ekushe February.


On a weekend when we celebrate freedom, these quotes strike me as especially poignant. Usually we discuss our outward liberties: the ones you can see, like voting, and freedom from tyranny and oppression. But what about freedom on a more intimate level?
Based on my own experience and my students' responsiveness to the above quotes, what we most want freedom from is ourselves. As human beings, we can't help but be familiar with our tendencies, our particular brand of reactions, the same thoughts that circle our brains constantly. Change, when it comes, is often incremental, and proponents of positive change suggest sustained practices over long periods of time rather than a one shot boost of whatever our go-to resource is.
Sometimes it seems our yoga practice only reinforces our habits and strengthens our past reactions and experiences at the expense of a new, open, and liberated future. I see so much self-denigration and perfectionism, even violence, towards our bodies and minds in many classes, an ongoing obsession with fixing ourselves.
Freedom tastes like spaciousness, openness, boundlessness. It feels like fresh air, like we can breathe for the first time. It has no echoes of the past. If we can steadily cultivate freedom from our past, the world is brand new; it's fresh and there's nothing we can't do because we don't have any idea things can be different.
This is why coming back to the present moment is so often touted as the key. The present moment, the real present moment, has no room for the past. Each moment is quite literally a new beginning. We just don't believe it.
A few years ago, I read a novel in which a woman finds herself trapped in a gas station bathroom. She starts to freak out, recalling her time in prison, and begins to bang at the door, push against the knob and even tries to phone her husband to come get her out. In a brief moment of clarity, she re-approaches the door, turns the knob and it easily opens.
In yoga philosophy, this is enlightenment. Simply opening the door. Waking up to what is real, this moment, not our terrors from the past or engrained reactions to the future. We have to keep reminding ourselves, moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
right on barbara. i will be reading this ENTIRE post to my students tonight, bet on it!


From saving energy to reducing wasteful printing practices, reducing expenses is something all of us try to do. But sometimes choices that seem to save money can cost more in the long run. Knock-off toner falls squarely into this category. When it comes to toner, a deal that's too good to be true, probably is.
Here are just a few reasons why cheap toner isn't a good deal.
Cheap toner is often counterfeit. While the label may be for a major brand, the product inside is significantly inferior, and will produce poor quality documents.
Counterfeit toner can damage your devices. Using cheap toner may also void your product warranty, resulting in expensive repairs.
Guess what? You may be in possession of stolen goods. Counterfeiters steal large quantities of toner, then reuse the packaging to sell counterfeit products to unsuspecting consumers.
Knowing what to look for is your first line of defense in avoiding counterfeit toner scams.
Prices that seem too low. Know what you should pay and be suspicious of deals that seem unreasonably low.
Going out of business sales. Legitimate sources don't hound customers with stories of liquidation sales, overstocked inventory sales, and sad tales of going out of business. Again.
Cash only requirements. In 2016? Really? Stay away from cash-only deals!
Cold sales calls. If you've never heard of the guy cold-calling your office and sounding way too familiar, chances are good you're dealing with a toner pirate. Designate one person or department for supply ordering, and stick with your trusted vendor when purchasing ink or toner.
Leaking cartridges. Leaks are a sign of tampering.
Suspicious packaging. Your vendor won't try to sell you toner with damaged packaging. Also, be wary of opened packaging, missing labels, or anything else that looks different.


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Gearing up for over 145 miles in 2019 on the AT in my fight against heart disease one step at time!
HeartHike.org is raising funds for Ironheart Foundation in the fight against heart disease.
100% of the funds raised by Heart Hike go directly to our charitable beneficiary, the Ironheart Foundation.
Heart Hike is a 2,190 mile Appalachian Trail hike attempt by Ironheart Team member and sudden cardiac arrest survivor, John Kolker.
Phil , Jane and the Cartee horses.


You know the old saying, it's better to give than receive. To share the celebration, I am giving away a Kindle E Ink! The contest will run from today until my b-day, May 13th @ 4:00pm EST. To enter, just answer the following question: If you could spend your birthday anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
I will be drawing a winner Tuesday night.


It was a simple brief when it started. The broadloom is failing and we need some carpet tile to replace it. Simple – What colour would you like? Same as the existing! No more blue! No more green! Shouldn't it be the Waikato University colours? It appeared that everyone had an opinion.
So dialling it back to the need and purpose of the facility all were able to agree that a certain amount of energy was needed. Likewise the customers (students) are what the facility is there for. Not for the staff who run it. SOOOO the big leap was made. Let's do what everyone has asked for. And let's add some energy and Life to the floor. But is must be easy to maintain (Trevor).
Result – Interface carpet tile. Unparalled performance attributes, full 20 year education warranties and withcubic colours you get energy and dye batch mergeable product ensuring on-going maintenance is very very easy.
Well done all concerned. You were all right. We just needed to see the bigger RIGHT.


Are You Spending Time or Investing It?
Picture a young professional fresh out of school. His career is very lucrative… and he lives like it. A nice car, a nice house, a nice lifestyle: He lives within his means – but just barely.
Fast forward several years. Now he's fired, he can't find a job, his house has been foreclosed, the bills are piling up, and there seems to be no hope. Exasperated, he turns to God wondering when God will intervene. After all, didn't God say he'd provide for our needs?
But then he wonders to himself if God's way of providing for his needs now was to bless him with bountiful provision for the last few years. If he had been wise and built up a padding of savings instead of spending every penny, how different would his life be now?
This story may sound familiar to you, but let's change a few aspects. Instead of money that is being squandered, think about time.
Our idea of productivity has changed in the last few years, and I don't think it's a change for the better.
A few decades ago, the word productivity would've conjured up images of efficient factories. A decade ago, productivity was equated with goal-driven executives and salesmen.
What do you think about today when you read the word productivity?
Let me guess: Software. Apps. Systems.
And this thinking about productivity causes all sorts of problems.
So maybe you've fallen off the productivity wagon.
Maybe your conscience has just been pricked over all the time you've wasted channel flipping or aimlessly surfing the internet.
The answer, of course, is to repent. To admit that being a poor steward of our time is a sin. To claim the mercy offered us because of the cross of Christ. And then to change our behavior.
In fact, that change in behavior is crucial. A change in heart leads to changes in the way we act – and without this change in our actions, repentance never really happened.
But what does this change in behavior look like?
More times than I can count, my wife and I have disciplined our three-year-old for not listening to us. Of course, when parents speak of listening, they don't mean simply hearing and comprehending our words. There is an implied result of this hearing.
Listening to Daddy means hearing Daddy and doing what he says. The proper action is assumed to follow – so much so that listening and obeying are used interchangeably.
The Old Testament concept of hearing was similar. To hear the word of the Lord was not simply just to comprehend the words; there was implied action.
I think there's profound beauty in that idea.
Action is what really matters.
Dramatic Decisions Are Easy. Are You Good at the Small Ones?
In the movie, The Right Stuff, astronaut John Glenn is faced with a difficult decision. After Glenn has spent hours strapped up inside the space shuttle, the Vice President himself is heading over to Glenn's house for a photo opportunity with the astronaut's family. Glenn's wife, who has a speech impediment, is terrified of the meeting and the inevitable embarrassment of speaking poorly in front of dozens of reporters and national TV cameras.
Glenn decides to make the potentially career-ending move of telling the Vice President to turn around and go somewhere else.
I can remember hearing this story in our small group for married couples. We all commended Glenn for his commitment to his wife.
But as crazy as it sounds, I don't think that Glenn's decision was really that big of a deal.
I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July. I'm enjoying the mountains right now with my family and trying to rest and read a lot. For this week, I'm dusting off some old posts that I liked. I'll be back next week with new posts. But for now, I hope you'll enjoy this post and also this beautiful summer.
Today's repost is The Real Reason for Poor Stewardship.
Before diving in, please allow me to announce that Life of a Steward is now on facebook. The facebook page is brand, spanking new – so if you enjoy Life of a Steward, please stop by and like it.
I get asked about this a lot, and it seems to be a growing problem.
Social networking has changed the way we interact and communicate. The potential for marketing and promotion is alluring. But it can be a colossal black hole of time wasting.
How can we control the massive amounts of time that we spend on facebook and twitter?
Putting theory into practice is always a little hairy. We may have great intentions and try to follow the advice of the experts, but our implementation often falls short.
That's how I was with taking breaks: I knew it was something I needed to do to stay effective, but it was a major stumbling block for me.
That is, until I started using one simple trick which skyrocketed my productivity.


Two traders have been charged with failing to remit to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) revenue running over Sh3.2 billion within a span of two years.
Mr Soni and the company are accused of claiming VAT which they were not entitled to amounting to Sh454,867,754 from the Commissioner of Domestic Taxes (CDT).
Mr Varma has been accused of aiding Shreeji Enterprises Kenya Limited in preparing false books of accounts thereby affecting payment of Sh1,435,351,386 between January 20, 2016 and December 20, 2017 to CDT.
Mr Soni and Shreeji face another count of making an incorrect statement of VAT thereby affecting payment of revenue amounting to Sh454,867,754 to CDT.
Soni is also accused defaulting in tax obligations to remit VAT of Sh454,867,754 by the due date.
Mr Soni and Shreeji are further accused of failing to pay corporation tax amounting to Sh478,619,659 to CDT between April 1, 2016 and March 2017.
The total amounts involved are Sh3,268,065,307.


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Towards Hyper-Reality
Somerset House constructs a brand new world for artistic pioneer Björk, whose quest for audience integration ventures beyond cultural peripheries.
It would be easy to pinpoint Icelandic icon Björk's commercial heyday in music as the mid-1990s and discuss her now as a digitalised visual artist, but that would be wrong as at the heart of her art is music. With nine full-length albums behind her, and a debut at the age of 11, Björk's practice is still irrevocably defined by this particular medium. Even her award-winning lead role in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2002) came about because he asked her to write the score.
A desire to connect with the audience, whether through revealing lyrics or through a private recital of Stonemilker VR (a project using the latest in virtual reality that transports each viewer to Iceland for a performance of the first track from Vulnicura), is consistently pursued through culturally up-to-date approaches. This is an artist for whom innovation is the status quo rather than the exception. Björk Digital, at Somerset House, London, sheds light on her electro-video works that span a 24-year career, and the progressions made to enter new, inconceivable theatrical dimensions. Touring on from previous destinations Tokyo and Sydney, the exhibition makes the English capital its base for the European premiere of the show: a one-off performance at the Royal Albert Hall. Les Immatériaux (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985) anticipated spectacles such as this: the immersive event encouraged visitors to choose their own path, navigating technological and cultural artefacts through the compulsory headphones and audio guide. Incorporating France's Minitel system (a rudimentary precursor to the internet) and prototype equipment that was provided by electronics company Philips, the show served to undermine the rigid definitions of what constituted art, design and interactivity. Björk Digital takes its cue from these basic theoretical underpinnings, which critic Kate Linker summarised as a labyrinth of sensory explorations: "Space did not radiate from and return to the spectator who progressed through it, but was divided into zones, their boundaries extended by sound." The limitations of the current show are only those which the artist herself has set. Taking audience members on a separate journey, the event encourages each individual to question their own cerebral stimulation in a way not provoked by any other musician. Using the 2015 album Vulnicura as a springboard, it constructs a virtual blanket, wrapping its viewers in a panoramic and performative experience. The artist's recent retrospective at MoMA, New York (2015), centred on her general career, as one would expect, whereas Somerset House showcases purely the new visual pieces.
Despite some rather scathing reviews, it was only the lack of logical curation that was ripped apart. As Guardian critic Jason Farago puts it: "Maybe some time in the future we will get an exhibition that tells the story of how a softly-spoken woman from one of the world's smallest countries nurtured an entire generation of designers, filmmakers and musicians, and in the process made the boundary between fine art and pop culture meaningless." Meanwhile, this is a story which London provides one chapter for, showcasing experiments with video, innovative apps, custom-made instruments and, above all, VR, premiered in four separate works: Stonemilker (filmed in 360 degrees); Mouth Mantra (filmed internally in 360 with a specially made camera); Notget (made in VR with a combination of data scanning, game engines and motion capture) and Quicksand (an augmented live VR recording).
Vulnicura is a personal insight into the break-up of Björk's marriage to the American artist Matthew Barney. Seen as a "heartbreak saga," and taking its title from the Latin for "cure for wounds," the album is restlessly experimental. Björk's manager argues that this is the ethos of her practice: "pop art music at its bravest: when it embraces our day-to-day life and uses the same tools. It would be tempting to escape into a cave and use old tools only, but to her, that doesn't seem like an option." The record was not just groundbreaking for its autobiographical content but also for the collaboration with Andrew Huang, using total visual and audio immersion to create an all-encompassing and imaginative environment. An earlier request, Huang's collaboration on the visuals for Mutual Core (2011), led to its premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The video, shot in Los Angeles and Iceland, examines the earth's geology, earthquakes and the forces generated by opposing tectonic plates, translating these forces into a metaphor for those in human relationships: "Opposing forces of compression and release, central to continent building and to human feelings, are expressed sonically in the (Biophilia) app. The shifting of chords in the verses and the visual patterns of the animation were evoked by the working title for this track, organ plaid, a term which describes an interwoven musical fabric."
The use of new data technologies is consistently becoming the norm for artists such as duo Fernanda Viégas (a computational designer) and Martin Wattenberg (a mathematician and journalist), whose Wind Map (2012) uses interactive software and illustrates the course of winds moving across mainland America. Aesthetically, it appears as a shifting delicate tracing of locks of hair moving across the land mass. Scientifically speaking, the film is a real-time digital illustration of our atmosphere. Both this and Mutual Core show the dramatic shift towards ecology and physical awareness, and technology as a tool to be utilised as an expressive medium as well as a site of discourse about environmental concerns.
Björk's mastery of art and music sets her apart from her contemporaries. It is attention to technicalities as well as a willingness to try new experimental methods which create these groundbreaking visceral works. Her repertoire covers many different genres including classical, electronica and punk, and is rooted in the work of 20th century German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who broke down the perceivable limits of what was musically possible.
Although the Icelandic songstress's work is tinged by these early musical experiments, she transcends what Stockhausen only dreamt was possible: in effect, she is a modern-day replica, using digital means in order to create visionary aural and electrifying tracks that require the audience's active engagement. The artist's manager construes this journey as "being placed by her side as she performs and transforms (in Notget), or being teleported to a windswept beach in Iceland (in Stonemilker), or even inside her mouth … the total absorption of the self through sound and space is key."
The culmination of all these technological, sound-making and ecological concerns is represented in Biophilia, the app and album created by Björk in 2011, in which her management postulates she uses arpeggios to express bolts of lightning, and chord structures to examine tectonic plates whilst counterpoint represents pendulums and gravity. As part of a larger educational project with the Nordic countries, the software uses ten in-app experiences to explore the relationships between compositions and natural phenomena, or, as developer Scott Snibbe says: "to just enjoy her music."
The spectacle at Somerset House mirrors the immersive qualities of the hand-held experience, and comprises not just the singular VR processes but also the design and organisation of the exhibition. The installation of Black Lake (the 2015 collaboration with Andrew Huang), for example, features a bespoke, cutting-edge, stereo set-up which provides a full experience of a sound phenomenon. Two large parallel screens are installed to mimic the canyon setting of the video, creating a claustrophobic space that transports the viewer directly into the physicality of the work.
Whilst original in its execution, Björk Digital is but one of a growing number of events taking as its focus the use of new technologies in art and music. For example, the 2014 London Barbican exhibition Digital Revolution paid homage to the games, gadgets and technologies that have shaped the last century as well as the current experiments and designs shaping our future. Whether through the use of lasers to cut and shape intricate 3D forms, as with Eric Standley's work, or the use of a wall-climbing robot, the Vertwalker (the creation of Julian Adenauer and Michael Haas), which constantly overwrites its own work, we are seeing a new post-modern form that has yet to be defined or categorised.
The extensive video mastery within this fundamental Autumn show, includes collaborations with other leaders in the film and digital fields, taking into account Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Nick Knight and Stéphane Sednaoui. Central to these partnerships is the passion to build upon Björk's song-writing and branch out into not one, but many different and inter-related forms. Since the albums from Björk's 24- year career are inherently experimental, they ideally lend themselves to this kind of exploration of how the physical manifestation of a final form might develop.
It is easy to lump the work of the Reykjavik-born icon into a "collaborative" attribution, but to do so undermines the core of her entire oeuvre. As a woman, she has seen this practice of group-accreditation before, and continues to see and hear it in relation to her own work. For a female practitioner who grew up in a home where patriarchy was a non-issue, it can be a difficult matter to come to terms with. As she said in an interview with Julia Davis in 2016: "We were in this world where women ruled. And then as I got older I hit these walls, as a woman, or a girl, and I didn't understand why, because I was just spoilt rotten as a kid; the boundaries weren't there, you know? It is something I saw in foreign countries." Once again, her practice is one of diversity and multiple contemplations: she is not just destroying boundaries in the elds of art, music and technology, but equally and as importantly, the expectations of a male-dominated society.
It is a legacy and a phenomenon that continues to evolve within this one-o spectacle at London's neoclassical cultural centre, merging design, contemporary media, virtual reality and digital advancements within the arts in the hope of deconstructing the limits we set upon ourselves.
Eric Standley explained that with "every efficiency that I gain through technology, the void is immediately filled with the question, 'Can I make it more complex?'" It is a question that plagues not just Standley but, as we see throughout this massively ground-breaking London exhibition, Björk.
Niamh Coghlan
Björk Digital. Somerset House, London. Until 23 October.
www.somersethouse.org.uk
A new photographic exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London, explores the ethical implications of contemporary asymmetric warfare.
A new exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow explores the socio-political undercurrents of European art since 1945 through to the present day.
Rituals of Rented Island
A new show at the Whitney surveys performance art, casting an eye over the theatrical happenings at a scarcely charted moment in art history.


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How Do We Survive the Holidays?
This is a fantastic time of year. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Holiday parties, kids back from college, extended vacation time for many, etc. This time of the year there seems to be a party or get together every week from mid-November until after New Years. Many of these parties include great food, countless desserts, and fine adult beverages. This is a great time to catch up with family and friends and look forward to the New Year.
The problem is if you are serious about your training this is a very difficult time of the year. For most of us this is the off-season, but we still need to keep up with some base training. The Holidays are geared towards excess in almost every category of our lives with the exception of exercise. It is tough to keep up with any kind of a training program. After all, we have every excuse in the book. It is the off-season, Holidays only come once a year, weather is cold and frightful, etc. It is very easy to miss workouts and grab a piece of pie. I am as guilty (or more guilty) than most. If you are guilty of any of the below you probably are already on the wrong road this Holiday season.
1) How many of you had a piece of pie for breakfast any of the mornings following Thanksgiving?
2) How many of you had more than one "Thanksgiving dinner" utilizing leftovers?
3) Is a new part of your routine at work grabbing chocolates out of a dish on someone's desk?
4) Are you following the "if I don't weigh myself I didn't gain weight" philosophy?
5) Is it impossible to buy a gift certificate at a restaurant without eating there as well?
6) Have you missed more than one workout due to staying out too late?
7) Have you missed more than one workout due to being "over served" at a party?
8) Have you ordered a donut or muffin in addition to your coffee recently just because it's the Holidays?
9) Has a button on your pants mysteriously popped off recently?
10) Worse of all…Have you started to embrace your sedentary lifestyle?
If you are already on the wrong road it is not too late. Don't write off the last few weeks of this year as a lost cause. Every week lost will take 2-3 weeks to get back. You need to start the long road back to fitness now. Force yourself to get back into a routine of running at least 3-4 days a week. You don't have to run hard. The key is to get your body moving and start to stem the tide of your Holiday debauchery.
Speaking from experience after a few workouts the racing juices will start flowing again. You will probably be disgusted with your weight and your current fitness but that can all be corrected with time. The key is to start now and don't make everything worse by waiting until after the New Year. If you are reading this and you know you are on the wrong road then get motivated! Make a decision now to run tomorrow…don't wait! What could possibly be stopping you from running 30-45 minutes 3-4 times a week?
One word of caution…Start running but don't step on a scale. Since you have lost fitness you may not be able to handle the shock…wait a few weeks and hopefully the number will improve.


Earlier this month, the European Court of Justice ruled that the taste of a food product is not eligible for protection under EU copyright laws.
The ruling by European Union's highest legal authority, which is binding on all EU member states, came in a lawsuit brought by the Dutch manufacturer of a popular spreadable cheese dip in which the manufacturer accused a rival company of copyright infringement after it began producing a similar product.
The Court also noted a lack of any technical means for precisely and objectively identifying the taste of a food product which enables it to be distinguished from other tastes.