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Assist faculty in preparing and assembling grants proposals/contracts in compliance with sponsor, University, and federal guidelines and deadlines. Interact with other departments and agencies to facilitate the development, submission, and administration of grant proposals. Independently manage budget responsibilities for grants. Monitor terms and agreements of grant awards for compliance.
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The Department of Biostatistics at VUMC was founded in 2003, tasked with the mission of bringing biostatistical expertise to the Vanderbilt community. With the unflagging support of the School of Medicine, and the diligence and creativity of our faculty and staff, we daily fulfill our mission: engaging in cutting-edge statistical methodology research, providing collaborative support and educational resources for biomedical and basic science researchers across the university, and training a new generation of biostatisticians. For more information, please visit https://www.vumc.org/biostatistics/ .
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Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
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Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:
* US News & World Report: #1 Adult Hospital in Tennessee and metropolitan Nashville, named to the Best Hospitals Honor Roll of the top 20 adult hospitals, 10 nationally ranked adult specialty programs, with 3 specialties rated in the top 10 nationally, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt named as one of the Best Children's Hospital in the nation, with 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties nationally ranked.
* Healthcare's Most Wired: Among the nation's 100 "most-wired" hospitals and health systems for its efforts in innovative medical technology.
* Becker's Hospital Review: named as one of the "100 Great Hospitals in America", in the roster of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs and to its list of the 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs.
* The Leapfrog Group: One of only 10 children's hospitals in the to be named at Leapfrog Top Hospital.
* American Association for the Advancement of Science: The School of Medicine has 112 elected fellows
* Magnet Recognition Program: Received our third consecutive Magnet designations.
* National Academy of Medicine: 22 members, elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievement
* Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index: 6 th year in a row that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.
Key Responsibilities, include but are not limited to the following:
* Assist faculty in preparing and assembling grants proposals/contracts in compliance with sponsor, University, and federal guidelines and deadlines.
* Assist PI in determining requirements, deadlines and time management for responses to PAs/RFAs or general application submissions in a proactive manner. Coordinate multiple applications under absolute deadlines.
* Work in a collaborative manner with the Principal Investigator and the Office of Research, throughout the application process to achieve a professional document for submission.
* Responsible for obtaining appropriate signatures for Conflict of Interest Forms and Transmittal Forms from PI, Key Personnel and other departments concerned and forward to AO/financial manager for review and department signature.
* Assemble original application prior to submission.
* Interact with other departments and agencies to facilitate the development, submission, and administration of grant proposals.
* Responsible for tracking and receiving back confirmation of submitted application from Grants & Contracts.
* Provide outside departments with biosketches, other support and ancillary data as requested.
* Responsible for getting eSNAP report (with signed transmittal, COI's and budget form) to Grants & Contracts for review and final submission.
* Independently manage budget responsibilities for grants.
* Works in conjunction with AO/financial manager on new, competing or revised grant applications in preparing initial and extended budgets, including Indirect cost calculation.
* Reviews budget details with PI, including: personnel, effort allocated and overall expenses, ensuring consistency with DOF criteria.
* Prepares and submit 1275 budgets to AO/financial manager and the Department of Finance.
* Prepares progress reports to the PI detailing personnel, effort allocation and overall expenses.
* Serves as a resource for the department or division.
* Forwards potential funding opportunities to PIs/staff whether specific to a PIs research or general for all PIs.
* Keeps abreast of new/updated agency policies, procedures, deadlines and timeframes of new initiatives by working closely with AO/financial manager.
* Attends all training offered by the Office of Research as well as reading online/published materials (i.e.: NCURA newsletter, NIH online updates).
* Keeps AO/financial manager and PIs informed of any material changes.
* Provide PI information on obtaining forms for submitting: New Animal or IRB protocol requests (NOI), Annual Surveillance Forms, Salary only approvals, etc.
* Monitor terms and agreements of grant awards for compliance.
* Assist PI with eSNAP submission procedures ensuring accuracy of all reporting information.
* Responsible for getting eSNAP report (with signed transmittal, COIs and budget form) to Grants & Contracts for review and final submission.
* Monthly review of all active protocols ensure all are current with institutional offices.
Internal Number: 2100253
About Vanderbilt Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is home to Vanderbilt University Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital. These hospitals experienced more than 61,000 inpatient admissions during fiscal year 2015. Vanderbilt's adult and pediatric clinics treated nearly 2 million patients during this same period. Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt are recognized again this year by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals as among the nation's best with 18 nationally ranked specialties. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is world renowned because of the innovation, work ethic and collegiality of its employees. From our health care advances to our compassionate care, Vanderbilt owes its accomplishments and reputation to staff and faculty who bring skill and drive and innovation to the medical center day after day. World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.As t...he largest employer in middle Tennessee, we welcome those who are interested in ongoing development in a caring, culturally sensitive and professional atmosphere. Most of us spend so much of our lives at work, we want to be part of maintaining a workplace in which people support one another and encourage reaching for excellence. Many high-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt because of the professional growth they experience and because of their appreciation of Vanderbilt's benefits, public events and discussions, athletic opportunities, beautiful setting and, above all, sense of community and purpose.Vanderbilt and its employees share a set of mutual expectations that have been created with productivity, legality, fairness and safety always in mind. We believe that our investment in training and compensating employees multiplies in value when we enable individuals to deliver their best performance for the benefit of us all.
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This is a new Combination, between a Down Hill Mountain Bike Tour and a Jungle Trekking to Machupicchu.
Adventurers will be picked up early morning and driven through the stunning Sacred Valley, cradle of the Inca civilization, we will up by car until 4,316 m.a.l.s this place is called Abra Malaga. after that we will down by car until San Luis, here bikers will change in to the kit provided by us (gloves and helmets) following a 5 minute briefing by our experienced tour guide. Then the fun will begin, you will not want to catch your breath until the first pit stop in Alfamayo, Here you can enjoy our lunch , while taking in the endless panoramas. After a quick change and a dab of insect repellant, it is onwards and downwards towards Huamanmarca, site of a recently discovered archaeological Inca finding. Your tour guide will provide the historical background and the rest you can fill in for yourselves! Carry on descending to 1500 meters, while the jungle´s edge rears up and the small but charming town of Santa Maria looms on the horizon. Browse the Internet, buy provisions or just rest your legs and enjoy a cold beer before dinner- traditional Peruvian food, served hot. This night you can have a hot shower at a family run hostel and sleep in either single, double or three bed rooms.
Rise at 5.30am, shake off your weary limbs and enjoy the finest indigenous coffee prepared by your landlady for breakfast which is at 6am. Under dawn skies you will begin your walk, which gets progressively steeper, until arriving at the welcoming family restaurant in Santa Rosa, where you can relax in hammocks, admiring the coca plantations and take on refreshments while being entertained by the family monkey. After a short while you will reach the real Inca Trail, which winds around precipitous slopes and sheer drops for approximately half a mile. Be warned this is not for people who suffer from vertigo! The descent continues for just over two hours until you reach Qellomayo, a little town , where you will have lunch. Make sure you have saved enough energy for the final stretch, a riverside walk beside the Rio Vilcanota until reaching the delicious hot springs Colcamayo. Rejuvinate in the heavenly hot waters and forget your weary wake in these natural settings. Fully replenished, you will find the final stretch to Santa Teresa a sinch. Here you should sleep well in the family homestead after dinner.
Wake at 7am, have breakfast before taking private transport to the hydro-electric train station, the base town for Machu Picchu. in this town we will have lunch after that we will walk until to arrive to aguas calientes and ww will have dinner at a local restaurant before retiring to your hostel with hot water and private bathrooms.
An early rise today, as you will take the first bus to Machu Picchu at 5.30am, reaching Machu Picchu at 6am, which with luck will coincide with a beautiful sunrise! Your guide will leave no stones unturned but feel free to challenge their knowledge of Inca history. Afterwards you have free time to dally with the llamas and show off your photographic skills. Those who still have the will can tackle Huaynapicchu, which actually looks down on Machu Picchu. A frequent bus service takes visitors back to Aguas Calientes, where you will catch the train to Ollantaytambo and then the bus to Cusco.
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Meals, including lunch on the first day through until breakfast on the last day.
Hot springs in Santa Teresa.


Our Church has a number of groups that cater for spirtual growth, mission, fellowship and recreation.
SPIRITUAL GROWTH GROUPS: see the "Spiritual Growth" page for information about bible discussion and study, christian education and prayer groups.
WALKING GROUP: Want to know about a great way to start you Fridays? The walking group meets at 7am every Friday at the Broadmeadow Uniting Church, 199 Broadmeadow Rd, for a walk of approximately 40 minutes, at your own pace. You are then welcome to stay for a light breakfast and a chat.
MORNING FELLOWSHIP is a group of women (though men are welcome) who meet every 4th Tuesday at 10am in the Fellowship Lounge next to the Church. Meetings include devotions, a speaker, and lunch. By running Soup lunches, Pancake days and Cake stalls this group supports UnitingCare, Mission Support in the Uniting Church, Frontier Services, and the Margaret Jurd Learing Centre. For more information contact June Way on 49613873.
BROTHERHOOD is a men's fellowship group that meets every first Friday of each month at 6pm in the Fellowship Lounge to share a meal and comradeship. Come and enjoy discussion and friendship. Contact Bruce Taylor on 49521880.
THE CRAFT GROUP meets in the Fellowship Lounge every Tuesday except the 4th Tuesady of the month, from 10am until approximately 1-30pm. Bring along your lunch, cross stitch, knitting etc and enjoy the company of friends with similar interests. Contact Helen Cowan on 49572020, or the Church Office.
BOOK READING/DISCUSSION GROUP meets on the 4th Thursday of each month excluding December, at 7-30 pm in the vestry of the Hamilton Uniting Church (enter from Denison St.). For information ring 49614040.
SPIRITUAL GROWTH GROUP meets fortnightly in the hamilton uniting Church Vestry from 7pm to 8pm for meditation, sharing of our spiritual journeys, and discussion on various spiritual resources.


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Smoking Seniors: Inside the Retirement Community with a 'Cannabis Club'
Photos Gracie Malley for Cannabis Now
How one retirement community is coming out of the cannabis closet.
Dragonfly de la Luz
They are former biologists, engineers, therapists. They grew up under the influence of Richard Nixon and "Reefer Madness." Some of them experimented with pot in their 20s. Others came upon cannabis much later, in their 50s. Today they have two things in common: They all live in a gated senior community called Rossmoor. And they all consume cannabis.
Rossmoor, just a few miles outside of Oakland – the capital of California's legal marijuana market – is situated on 1,800 sprawling acres with meticulously landscaped grounds, pristine gardens, wandering creeks and flowing fountains. Named by U.S. News and World Report as "one of America's best healthy places to retire," it has all the trappings of a luxury retirement villa: two golf courses, three swimming pools and over 200 clubs, from ceramics, sewing and lapidary, to bridge, tap dance and cocktail affairs. And five years ago, the Rossmoor 420 Club was added to that list.
What started as a social get-together of about 20 pot-friendly residents has evolved to become the Rossmoor Medical Marijuana Education and Support Club, with upwards of 100 people in regular attendance. Once a month, the group convenes, often at standing-room capacity. A guest speaker is invited, sometimes bringing product samples, and together the community learns and shares information on the myths, history and medical applications of the plant.
"We are not experts," says Renee Lee, 64, the club's president. "But I think the people that have been in the group for the last three or four years are more informed than most doctors. We really know what's going on. You can't get too much past us."
Lee knows first-hand the curative powers of cannabis. A few years ago she went to the doctor for foot pain and discovered she had a brain tumor. After brain surgery, she suffered from extreme pain and balance issues. Doctors prescribed her a potent cocktail of muscle relaxers, sleeping pills, antidepressants and high doses of painkillers. When she would try to leave her bed, she would collapse. She could no longer drive because the medications were so overwhelming.
"I was on Vicodin, and had to go from the lower dose all the way up to Norco, and the next step was either Oxycontin or methadone. And I was like, 'I'm not doing that,' because all of them are so addictive… Meds often require three weeks to start working, and by then, you're already hooked. The thing about marijuana is it's instantaneous."
Thanks to a steady regimen of cannabis oils and tinctures, Lee was soon able to ween herself off prescription medications, and has been on something of a crusade to educate herself and others since.
"I took a class on psychopharmacology, taught by a former Lilly Pharmaceuticals employee," says Lee. "What I learned there was that every medication you take is poison and that we still really don't know what it does to the human brain."
By placing the emphasis on education and support, Lee hopes seniors can arm themselves with the knowledge to make healthy decisions for themselves. But the club doesn't stop there, it also helps seniors get access to cannabis medicine.
"We steer people away from edibles," Lee said.
Seniors are encouraged instead to use sublingual tinctures and oils, in part because it's easier to manage dosage. To limit any psychoactive effects and because it helps them sleep, the seniors start out with a nighttime dose before bed.
"About 60 percent of [members] say they want the medication, but they don't want to get high," she said. "But there's another 40 percent who say, 'What's wrong with getting high?'"
While at first the combination of retired seniors and cannabis may seem an odd pairing, it's becoming something of a trend.
"There is anecdotal evidence that people with health conditions which medical marijuana could help treat are relocating to states with legalized marijuana," Michael Stoll, a professor of public policy at University of California, Los Angeles told Money Magazine. According to data from United Van Lines, one-third of the people who relocated to the Mountain West region (which includes Colorado) in 2014 moved specifically for retirement. And in Colorado, "Many dispensaries have seen the largest portion of sales going to baby boomers and people of retirement age," Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, told Money Magazine.
But in retirement communities, cannabis remains highly controversial. Lee, who works closely with seniors in a nearby assisted living facility, says that in most – if not nearly all – assisted living communities "people still think, 'If people smoke medical marijuana, they might fall down, they might get injured, they might get woozy. But yet, they have happy hour every day. There are people on meds, there are people on breathing tubes – and they're drinking alcohol."
While Rossmoor is unique, the county it resides in might well be considered antique, espousing attitudes not ideologically far off from the Reefer Madness rhetoric senior citizens grew up being taught. Contra Costa County bans dispensaries and personal cultivation, and was mulling a ban on deliveries, as well. But Rossmoor's cannabis enclave isn't letting county rules get in its way. Most of these seniors have spent their entire lives following the rules. Now that they're retired, they're doing as they please.
Jack Zins, a resident of Rossmoor who has been consuming cannabis consistently for more than 50 years, keeps a low-profile and grows in his backyard. When asked if he would mind his name printed in a national magazine, Zins replied, "Oh, I'm not hiding anymore. I'm too old to hide."
Tess, a senior from the neighboring town of Lafayette, says she grows her own even despite a visit from the local police. "They came in, they saw my [medical cannabis] permit, and then they left. But f* 'em. I'm gonna grow if I want to!"
At the monthly meeting leading up to April 20, guest speakers arrived with a variety of topicals and creams formulated with a minute quantity of cannabis, and spoke to the crowd about microdosing. The meeting opened with an announcement that one of the club's long-time members, Doug Stiles, would soon be leaving Rossmoor.
Stiles is perhaps one of the most recognized members – mostly because a photo of himself medicating with cannabis tincture landed in a San Francisco newspaper. His youthful energy belies the fact that he's approaching 80 years old. He uses infused olive oil at a 1:1 ratio of THC to CBD to reduce stress and help him sleep.
"Living here has made me extremely happy," Stiles said before the crowd. But since his wife needs extended care, they're relocating closer to their family, and will reside in Rossmoor's more famous sister community: Orange County's Laguna Woods. "They have their own dispensary," he said, as the crowd responded with oohs and ahhs.
While most members spoke favorably about the impact cannabis has had on treating their conditions, one senior who spoke on condition of anonymity confessed he has a "problem with cannabis" – but not the kind you'd expect.
"I'm very sensitive. I want to be a regular user but I react very strongly. Just smelling the bottle is too much. But then I graduated to putting a little, tiny drop on my finger – and I overdosed immediately. I had a mock heart attack and was about to call 911. But my intuition tells me that I need it to help me sleep. So, I'm working with [nurse Eloise Theisen] to find a way that I can tolerate it. But even with that little, tiny dose in about an hour I could sleep."
Throughout the meeting countless stories could be overheard about how cannabis has helped cure the aches and pains of aging. The plant has so successfully treated Lee's ailments that in 2012 she was able to quit cannabis, and now consumes it only occasionally.
"I like to smoke when I'm watching football or when I'm doing art, like ceramics," she said. But she's considering taking it up again – "to prevent Alzheimer's."
Originally published in Issue 21 of Cannabis Now. LEARN MORE
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Here are the best senior retirement homes in St. Johns County, Florida. This list of St. Johns County, Florida retirement facilities includes homes for retirees as well as retirement communities.
The Legacy At St Johns is a retirement facility in Saint Johns, Florida. Nestled at 100 Hillcrest Heights Ave, 32259 zip code inside St. Johns county, The Legacy At St Johns provides retirement living to all seniors who live in Saint Johns and offers a personal and friendly environment, as well as dietary menu for diabetics, three tasty daily meals, on-site physician services and help managing medications. It can accommodate a maximum of 57 senior citizens at a time.
Golden House Senior Living #1 is an assisted retirement home in St. Johns county, Florida. It is situated at 3991 Cr 210 West in Saint Johns, Florida and offers senior care and living to older adults who reside in the St. Johns county area. Golden House Senior Living #1 can provide care and housing to no more than 11 seniors at a time. Some of the amenities offered by Golden House Senior Living #1 include memory care for dementia and Alzheimer's, help with various daily living activities, many social activities, dietician-prepared menus and a fitness room. Retirees who are looking for retirement communities in St. Johns county, Florida near the 32259 zip code area should feel wonderful about selecting Golden House Senior Living #1 as their retirement residence.
Pavilion At Bayview is a pet-friendly retirement residence in St. Johns county, Florida that provides many amenities to its residents. It is situated at 161 B Marine Street in Saint Augustine, Florida, 32084 zip code area. Some of the services offered by Pavilion At Bayview include a large dining area, musical activities and karaoke nights, wide entries and doorways and assistance with laundry. Pavilion At Bayview can offer retirement living to up to 69 senior citizens.
Bvm Coral Landing is a home for retirees in Saint Augustine, Florida that accepts Medicaid and Medicare to pay some of the cost for retirement living. Bvm Coral Landing is situated at 2820 Old Moultrie Road in St. Johns county and offers features like trails and paths, spacious apartments, catering for special occasions and caregivers on-call all day and night. It can provide seniors living in St. Johns county up to 60 retirement residences.
When searching for luxurious assisted senior living communities in Saint Augustine, Florida, you will come across Glenmoor, located at 230 Towerview Drive, 32092 zip code area. Glenmoor enables senior citizens living in St. Johns county in Florida to experience senior living at its best. With community features like 24/7 security, dancing and music nights, regular doctor visits and included maintenance of apartment units, senior citizens should feel great about selecting Glenmoor as their retirement community.
Finding the best home for retirees in Saint Augustine, Florida is not easy, however it's possible when you consider Stephens Memorial Home. It is located at 5805 Datil Pepper Road and provides services that include on-site barbershop, pet services and daily fitness. Stephens Memorial Home provides a total of 15 retirement residences to St. Johns county 55 and over adults.
Palms At Ponte Vedra Assisted Living & Memory Care is a retirement community located in Ponte Vedra, Florida at 405 Solana Rd. It offers 55 and over adults in Ponte Vedra and nearby areas who are looking for retirement communities in St. Johns county amenities that include transportation to doctor appointments, concierge services, a nursing center and housekeeping.
Those retirees who require assistance with daily activities and desire a home for retirees in Saint Augustine, Florida should consider Brookdale St Augustine. It can provide retirement living to a total of 115 retirees. Brookdale St Augustine aids with daily tasks that include shower, dressing, getting in and out of bed and other nursing care as needed. It includes amenities like modern rooms, 24-hour cafe, and religious services.
Buckingham Smith Assisted Living Facility is a retirement community in St. Johns county that provides board and care services for 55 and over adults who reside in Saint Augustine, Florida and surrounding areas. It's located in the 32084 zip code area at 169 Martin Luther King Avenue and includes amenities such as rehabilitation services, billiards and other games, scheduled picnics, regular housekeeping service and newly renovated retirement residences. It includes a total of 36 retirement living units.
Westminster Woods On Julington Creek is an assisted retirement home located in Jacksonville, Florida in St. Johns county. It is best suited for senior citizens who need personal care all in one location. Westminster Woods On Julington Creek is situated at 25 State Road 13 in the 32259 zip code and provides amenities like chef-prepared meals, on-site occupational therapy, stimulating and engaging activities and religious services. It has a capacity of 80 retirement residences.
Grafton House is a home for retirees in Saint Augustine, Florida. Nestled at 168 Marine Street, 32084 zip code inside St. Johns county, Grafton House provides retirement living to all 55+ adults who live in Saint Augustine and offers a homey environment, as well as accommodating dietary menu, three tasty daily meals, physician services and medication management. It can accommodate a maximum of 20 older adults at a time.
Shp Iv Harbour Island is a retirement home in St. Johns county, Florida. It is located at 1101 Plantation Island Drive in Saint Augustine, Florida and offers senior care and living to retired adults who reside in the St. Johns county area. Shp Iv Harbour Island can provide accommodation to a maximum of 46 seniors at once. Some of the amenities offered by Shp Iv Harbour Island include dementia and Alzheimer's care, help with various daily living activities, numerous social activities, dietician-created menus and a fitness center. Retired adults who are looking for retirement communities in St. Johns county, Florida near the 32080 zip code area will feel great about selecting Shp Iv Harbour Island as their retirement residence.
Silver Creek St Augustine is a pet-friendly retirement residence in St. Johns county, Florida that provides numerous amenities to its residents. It is located at 165 Silver Ln in Saint Augustine, Florida, 32084 zip code area. Some of the amenities offered by Silver Creek St Augustine include a restaurant, movie nights, wide entries and doorways and complimentary laundry service. Silver Creek St Augustine can provide retirement living to a maximum of 138 elderly adults.
Silver Treasures At St Augustine is a retirement home in Saint Augustine, Florida that accepts Medicare and Medicaid to pay some of the cost for retirement living. Silver Treasures At St Augustine is situated at 3552 N Ponce De Leon Blvd in St. Johns county and offers features like walking paths and trails, large apartment suites, private dining for special events and birthdays and caregiving staff on-call 24/7. It can provide retirees living in St. Johns county a maximum of 39 retirement residences.
When searching for upscale senior assisted living communities in Saint Augustine, Florida, you will come across Loving Care Living Facility, located at 76 Bruen Street, 32095 zip code area. Loving Care Living Facility enables senior citizens living in St. Johns county in Florida to experience senior living at its best. With community amenities like 24-hour security system, on-site dancing lessons and activities, scheduled wellness check-ups and apartment and community maintenance, senior citizens should feel great about selecting Loving Care Living Facility as their retirement community.
Finding the best retirement residence in Saint Augustine, Florida is not easy, but it's possible when you consider Riverside Cottages @ The Shores. It is situated at 471 Shores Blvd and offers services that include on-site salon and spa, pet services and daily fitness. Riverside Cottages @ The Shores provides a total of 36 retirement apartments to St. Johns county seniors.
Stratford is a retirement facility located in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida at 1004 Vicar's Woods Rd. It offers older adults in Ponte Vedra Beach and nearby areas who are looking for retirement homes in St. Johns county amenities that include scheduled transportation to appointments, 24/7 front desk assistance, healthcare services and housekeeping service.
Those older adults who require help with daily activities and desire a retirement community in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida should consider Arbor Terrace Ponte Vedra. It can house a total of 64 retirees. Arbor Terrace Ponte Vedra aids with daily tasks that include taking a bath, getting dressed, moving from one place to another and other nursing care as needed. It offers amenities such as modern retirement units, 24-hour cafe, and religious services.
Best retirement homes in St. Johns County, FL. Complete list of all senior retirement homes in St. Johns County for 2019.


The world is a big TV consumer. Everyone raves about their favorite series and reality shows. But between the gaps of your favorite show lies one powerful media tool—advertising. TV advertisements may be something that interrupts the building momentum of the show you're watching, but these spots can also be something entertaining. Some advertisements even become iconic and unforgettable. Maybe you're wondering what goes into the production of such. The following is a brief peek into the process to help you realize that advertising is more than just copies and stock video clips.
The creative brief is the blueprint of every TV commercial or other forms of advertising. It is what guides the people involved in all stages of production. Included in the brief are the ad's big idea, breakdown of the target audience, and other specifications that need thorough review and approval before being given the green light. Pre-production commences the moment creative-slash-production teams get the go signal from a particular brand's management.
This phase refers to activities done before principal production starts. This often includes location scouting, props and wardrobe identification, sourcing royalty free video clips for contingency, construction of the set, script reviews, and finalization of schedules.
This is part of the process involving principal photography for the ad itself. This is what everyone thinks of when talking about filming. In big projects, the start of this phase signifies the "point of no return." This means that it's no longer practical to cancel the project, as it's almost always less expensive to finish the project rather than dealing with financial difficulties of cancellation.
This is the final part of the production process where editors put together and make final touches to the footage or insert stock video footage if something's lacking. The editors also correct the color and exposure of the whole commercial and add some special effects, if necessary.
TV commercials are a powerful way to convey marketing messages about a certain brand. Producing a TV commercial is not as simple as most people think it is. There is so much that goes into the process, despite the fact that most spots run less than a minute.


We love kids at Mexia. Our goal is to partner with parents in making disciples. The process of becoming a disciple for Christ begins as a child and we want to provide many opportunities for your children to grow in their faith. We will work hard to build a strong foundation and ROOTS that will grow deep into their hearts.
We have a great Awana's Ministry that meets on Wednesday nights at 6:00pm for birth to 6th grade.
For more information about Awana follow this link.
To Register your child for Awana click HERE.
Meets during 11:00am Worship Service in the Fellowship Hall. We have worship videos/Live worship, Drama, Offering, Message, and Invitation. Your kids will love it!


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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania's lower house of parliament approved changes to the criminal codes on Wednesday that could shut down several ongoing high-level graft cases, but opposition politicians plan to challenge the bills at the Constitutional Court.
The bills are the latest in a series of legal and personnel changes made by the ruling Social Democrats since they came to power in 2017 that are seen as threats to judicial independence and have raised concerns in the European Union, the U.S. State Department and among thousands of Romanian magistrates.
One of the changes approved on Wednesday shortens the statute of limitations covering some offences, a move that would automatically shut down a number of ongoing cases. Other amendments include lower sentences for some offences and decriminalizing negligence in the workplace.
"Romania today becomes a state in which criminals are basically in a legal haven, encouraged … by changes that overall ease and simplify the impact of the law on criminals," opposition Save Romania Union leader Dan Barna told reporters.
Barna's party and the main opposition Liberals both said they would challenge the changes at the Constitutional Court.
Social Democrat lawmakers initially overhauled Romania's criminal codes last year. The European Commission said the proposed changes were a reversal of a decade of democratic and market reforms in the former communist country.
The Constitutional Court struck down many of the changes following challenges by opposition lawmakers. On Wednesday, the ruling coalition approved the codes after removing the articles already struck down by the Court.
Prosecutors have secured a spate of convictions in recent years against lawmakers, ministers and mayors, including Social Democrat leader Liviu Dragnea. Their investigations have exposed conflicts of interest, abuse of power, fraud and awarding of state contracts in exchange for bribes.
Dragnea, who has a suspended jail term in a vote-rigging case and an ongoing appeal against a second conviction for inciting others to commit abuse of office, could be among the politicians to benefit from the changes.
The Social Democrats have said their legal initiatives are aimed at aligning legislation with EU norms and address abuses allegedly committed by magistrates.
Transparency International ranks Romania, which currently holds the EU's rotating six-month presidency, among the bloc's most corrupt states.
It is one of the most important retirement documents you will ever receive – but fewer Americans are reviewing their Social Security benefit statement nowadays due to cost-cutting and a government push to online services that is falling short.
Until about a decade ago, all workers eligible for Social Security received a paper statement in the mail that provided useful projections of their benefits at various ages, along with reminders on the availability of disability benefits and Medicare enrollment information.
But the Social Security Administration (SSA) decided in 2010 to save money by eliminating most mailings of benefit statements. Instead, we would all be encouraged to obtain this information online.
It is now abundantly clear that this is not working out.
The number of workers accessing their statements online has been just a fraction of those who once were reached by paper statements. And the cost-benefit tradeoff is poor.
Forty-two million Americans have created online accounts with the SSA since they were first offered seven years ago, the agency says, compared with the 155 million paper statements that were mailed in 2010, before the cost-cutting began. Meanwhile, the number of online account-holders who accessed their statements fell dramatically in fiscal 2018, from 96 percent to 43 percent, according to a report issued in February by the SSA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
The report does not speculate on reasons for the fall-off, and the SSA declined to offer its own analysis. "We'll leave the hypothesizing to others," said Mark Hinkle, acting press officer.
If you have an online account with the SSA, you will receive an email message three months before your birthday reminding you to review your statement. But the process of logging on can be challenging, partly due to security protections aimed at preventing identity theft and fraud. The security is necessary, but the setup process requires users to go through multiple layers of authentication to prove identity.
Meanwhile, the level of comfort with online technology among older people lags the general population, according to a 2017 study by the Pew Research Center. For example, 51 percent of adults aged 65 or older have home broadband, compared with 73 percent of all adults. "We've seen the gaps close somewhat, but for the most part the differences haven't changed much over the past five or six years," said Monica Anderson, a senior researcher with Pew.
The SSA's shift to online accounts is part of a broader agency strategy to handle most of its business with the public online by 2025. Yet the statement adoption rates underscore the problem with that strategy. Social Security is a near-universal program, and that means the agency serves many people who are less tech-savvy.
Differences in tech adoption also vary quite a bit by income, education levels and race. Eighty-seven percent of seniors living in households earning more than $75,000 annually told Pew they have home broadband, compared with just 27 percent of seniors whose annual household income is below $30,000.
But the relatively low engagement with statements also might be due to human behavior. "I logged on and set it up the first year it was offered," said Kathleen Romig, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a leading research and policy expert on Social Security.
Currently, the only people receiving paper statements by mail are those who are over age 60, have not claimed benefits and do not have an online account. That was roughly 13 million people in fiscal 2017, according to the OIG report.
How much does the agency save by shifting to online accounts? About $46 million last year, according to the OIG report. That sounds like big money, but it is not significant in the context of the SSA's overall budget, which is $12.9 billion in fiscal 2019.
For fiscal 2020, the agency has requested a budget of $13.3 billion – a 3.3 percent increase. Notably, the separate budget request from the White House for the agency was to keep the budget nearly flat.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia's chief security minister said on Wednesday accusations that the government and security forces conspired with election agencies to conduct systematic fraud during last week's polls are "baseless" and threatened national security.
President Joko Widodo declared victory after unofficial results from private pollsters gave him about 55 percent of the popular vote. His challenger, former general Prabowo Subianto, has complained of widespread cheating and insists he won.
The "quick count" of vote samples by reputable pollsters has been accurate in previous elections, though the official result will not be announced until May 22.
In 2014, Prabowo had also claimed victory on election day, before contesting the results at the Constitutional Court, which confirmed Widodo's win.
This year Prabowo's campaign has said it found discrepancies in the voter list and alleged fraud in areas like East Java, claiming officials punched ballots in favor of Widodo.
Social media has also been awash with conspiracy theories.
"The accusations are tendentious and inconsequential, as well as slanderous, incorrect and baseless. They are directed at delegitimizing the government and election organizers," Chief Security Minister Wiranto said at a news conference.
The election commission and election supervisory agency were independent bodies with commissioners who were voted into their positions by parliament, he said.
"With this explanation, I hope that the people do not believe misleading news, or moreover are provoked to carry out activities that could disrupt peace and national security," Wiranto said.
The 2019 vote, which was the biggest single-day election in the world, had been conducted peacefully and in a transparent manner, with many parties monitoring the process including foreign observers, he said.
Wiranto paid tribute to the election officials and security personnel on duty during last Wednesday's ballot, adding that 139 election staff had died of exhaustion while organizing the votes.
The Herculean challenge of holding simultaneous presidential and parliamentary votes this year has triggered calls for the polls to be held at different times and to use more technology.
According to the election commission's website, Widodo on Wednesday afternoon had 55.74 percent of the vote and Prabowo 44.26 percent, based on votes tallied at 236,975 polling stations out of 813,350 across Indonesia.
Political analysts have said the size of Widodo's lead undermined the opposition's charge that the election was stolen, but they added that Islamist supporters of Prabowo could still hit the streets to dispute the results.
Prabowo's campaign has said it could rely on "people power" if its complaints were not addressed. Media reports have said thousands of extra police have been deployed in the capital Jakarta to ensure security.
National Police Spokesman Dedi Prasetyo declined to comment on the size of the deployment, but said their job was "to maintain security and order at every stage of the election".
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors in the defunct billion-dollar hedge fund firm Platinum Partners had ample notice they might not get their money back, a lawyer for Platinum founder Mark Nordlicht told jurors on Tuesday, urging them to acquit his client of criminal fraud charges.
In his opening statement in Brooklyn federal court, lawyer Jose Baez said Nordlicht never defrauded investors, who included himself and his own family.
"This case is a fraud," Baez said of the criminal prosecution, which began more than two years ago with the December 2016 arrest of Nordlicht and other Platinum executives.
The trial began early Tuesday afternoon with an opening statement from Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Hein.
He told jurors that Nordlicht and his co-defendants, Platinum's co-chief investment officer David Levy and its Chief Financial Officer Joseph SanFilippo, bilked investors out of "millions and millions of dollars" in two different schemes.
In one scheme, Hein said Platinum overvalued the often-illiquid assets of its flagship hedge fund, reported false annualized returns topping 17 percent and selectively paid out cash to some investors over others.
In the second scheme, Nordlicht and Levy defrauded bondholders in Black Elk, an oil exploration company Platinum owned, by diverting money from asset sales to Platinum ahead of Black Elk's 2015 bankruptcy, Hein said.
Baez countered by showing jurors numerous examples of documents given to investors warning that the investments were risky, that Platinum's investments were not necessarily liquid and that redemptions of cash were at Nordlicht's discretion.
"The warnings and the notices to these investors are everywhere," he said.
Baez said Nordlicht and the other defendants believed they could recover from a liquidity crunch in 2014 and 2015. He said they ultimately failed because of "leaks" to media about the federal investigation of Platinum, and that there could be something "sinister" behind those leaks.
That drew a sharp rebuke from U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan after the jury left for a break.
Cogan had previously ruled that defense lawyers could not suggest to the jury that the government engaged in misconduct.
"Do you want to be the guy whose representations I can't really trust?" the judge asked.
A lawyer for SanFilippo is expected to deliver his opening statement on Wednesday.
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria's interim president has sacked Abdelmoumene Ould Kaddour as the chief executive of state energy company Sonatrach, state TV said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty for investors who had started to return to the oil and gas producer.
The interim president, Abdelkader Bensalah, appointed Sonatrach's head of production and exploration, Rachid Hachichi, to replace Kaddour, state TV reported.
The move casts doubts on whether deals Sonatrach had been working on will go ahead, such as plans to set up a trading joint venture with foreign firms.
Kaddour had been close to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who had put him in charge of overhauling Sonatrach in March 2017 after years of management upheaval, fraud scandals and red tape had deterred foreign investors.
He is the latest departure of top officials and business leaders who had been close to Bouteflika, who stepped down three weeks ago after mass protests calling for a break with the ruling elite.
Hachichi, the new CEO, had been promoted by Kaddour. Hachichi, 55, has spent most of his career at Sonatrach in the exploration and production business. Analysts said Kaddour paid for his close ties to Bouteflika, not because of the strategy he implemented, which was about to start giving some results.
The North African oil giant is an important source of energy for European states trying to reduce dependence on Russia and it also funds a large part of Algeria's budget.
Kaddour managed to resolve a number of disputes with fellow oil majors, expanding ties with several companies.
Last year, he shifted the focus on petrochemical deals to reduce the North African country's fuel imports after buying Exxon Mobil's Augusta refinery in Sicily, Italy. Sonatrach also last year signed a $1.5 billion deal with France's Total SA to build a polypropylene plant in Algeria.
Algeria's oil output is estimated at around 1 million barrels per day, and it produces 135 billion cubic meters of gas per year, according to Sonatrach's figures.
In March industry sources said talks between Exxon Mobil Corp and Algeria to develop a natural gas field in the North African country had stalled because of unrest that broke out on Feb. 22.
Mass protests have continued since Boutefliak's departure as protesters have called for the removal of the elite that has governed Algeria since independence from France in 1962, and the prosecution of people they see as corrupt.
In the United States, many legislators and public health officials are busy trying to make vaccines de facto compulsory—either by removing parental/personal choice given by existing vaccine exemptions or by imposing undue quarantines and fines on those who do not comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) vaccine edicts.
Alex exposes the globalist agenda to use government agencies to cover up their crimes against the population.
Japan also banned the MMR vaccine in the same time frame, due to thousands of serious injuries over a four-year period—producing an injury rate of one in 900 children that was "over 2,000 times higher than the expected rate." It initially offered separate measles and rubella vaccines following its abandonment of the MMR vaccine; Japan now recommends a combined measles-rubella (MR) vaccine for routine use but still shuns the MMR. The mumps vaccine is in the "voluntary" category.
Merck, the MMR vaccine's manufacturer, is in court over MMR-related fraud. Whistleblowers allege the pharmaceutical giant rigged its efficacy data for the vaccine's mumps component to ensure its continued market monopoly. The whistleblower evidence has given rise to two separate court cases. In addition, a CDC whistleblower has alleged the MMR vaccine increases autism risks in some children. Others have reported that the potential risk of permanent injury from the MMR vaccine dwarfs the risks of getting measles.
The viewpoints expressed here do not necessarily represent those of Infowars.
Alex Jones breaks down how vaccines are used to trigger deadly amounts of fluoride and glyphosate already present inside your body, from tap water and agricultural produce, and weaken the blood brain barrier's blockade of these killer chemicals.
(Reuters) – General Electric Co on Tuesday put the remnants of its WMC Mortgage unit into bankruptcy, 11 days after paying a $1.5 billion U.S. fine over defective subprime mortgages issued by WMC before the 2008 financial crisis.
The Chapter 11 filing affords "finality" for WMC, given its limited cash –$175,000– and support from GE, and the threat of further claims, WMC Chief Executive Mark Asdourian said in a filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware.
WMC was bought by General Electric's GE Capital unit in 2004, and originated more than $65 billion of mortgage loans from 2005 to 2007.
It halted originations in 2007 because of the collapse of the U.S. housing and financial markets. WMC sold most of its assets that December to DLJ Capital.
Tuesday's filing is part of GE's effort to address liabilities incurred through many years of expansion under prior management, while improving profitability and cash flow.
WMC said the bankruptcy would help it complete a $198 million settlement over its packaging in 2006 of 5,000 mortgage loans into securities sold to investors.
It said that would resolve the last of 14 lawsuits it faced over residential mortgage-backed securities, following $870 million of settlements of the other 13 lawsuits.
The $1.5 billion civil settlement on April 12 resolved U.S. Department of Justice claims that GE concealed the poor quality of WMC's loans and WMC's lax fraud controls. GE did not admit wrongdoing.
The case is In re WMC Mortgage LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, No. 19-bk-10879.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey's high election board has rejected part of an effort by President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party to have a re-run of elections in Istanbul, dismissing an appeal regarding voters who were dismissed by decrees from government jobs after an attempted coup in 2016, state news agency Anadolu said.
In a petition submitted to cancel and re-run the city elections that it lost three weeks ago, Erdogan's AK Party cited thousands of ballots cast by people it said were ineligible to vote due to previous government decrees.
Based on initial results and a series of recounts, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) won the mayoralty in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, with a margin of some 13,000 votes.
The new CHP mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, took office on Wednesday, despite a formal request submitted a day earlier by the AK Party (AKP) to annul and repeat the mayoral elections over what it said were irregularities.
The high election board, the YSK, has not yet ruled on the appeal to annul and rerun the elections due to voting irregularities including faulty entering of voting data, a wider issue that has been described by AK Party as organized fraud.
The YSK also ruled to investigate the status of 41,132 voters, including people who according to the AK Party were dead, ineligible or voted twice, and to look into some ballot box council attendants.
Bob Woodward, the reporter who broke open the Watergate scandal, has called for the FBI and CIA to be investigated regarding the agencies' handling of the debunked dossier that formed the basis of the Mueller investigation of the Trump campaign.
During an interview with Fox News's Chris Wallace, Woodward declared that the dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele "has got a lot of garbage in it".
"I think it was the CIA pushing this. Real intelligence experts looked at this and said no, this is not intelligence, this is garbage and they took it out," Woodward added.
Last week, President Trump slammed the FBI, stating that the intelligence agency conspired against his presidential campaign.
Wow! FBI made 11 payments to Fake Dossier's discredited author, Trump hater Christopher Steele. @OANN @JudicialWatch The Witch Hunt has been a total fraud on your President and the American people! It was brought to you by Dirty Cops, Crooked Hillary and the DNC.
He also took aim at "Crooked Hillary" noting that eleven payments were made to the former to British spy Steele by the FBI in 2016.
Judicial Watch is suing for communication and payment records between the FBI, Steele, and his private firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.
MILAN (Reuters) – A criminal investigation into accounting fraud inside British Telecom's Italian unit has uncovered more evidence of what prosecutors say was the involvement of senior executives in artificially inflating the division's financial performance.
Emails seized by the police and reviewed by Reuters show for the first time why Italian prosecutors allege that top BT employees were at the heart of the problem, contrary to the company's assertions that managers at head office knew nothing about the misconduct.
"A series of emails between the top financial executives of BT Plc and managers of the (Italian) unit point to the existence of 'insistent' requests by the leadership of the parent company aimed at achieving ambitious economic targets, even using aggressive, anomalous and knowingly wrong accounting practices," Italy's financial police said in a 353-page report.
The report has not been made public and its contents have not previously been reported.
The report contains emails from Brian More O'Ferrall, currently finance director at BT Wholesale, the company's business-to-business division, in which he asks colleagues in Italy to find ways of adjusting their accounts to boost profits.
At the time, O'Ferrall was chief financial officer (CFO) for BT Europe, the European part of Global Services, one of the company's biggest businesses.
O'Ferrall did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment. BT declined to make O'Ferrall or group Chief Executive Philip Jansen available for interview.
"We cannot comment on ongoing legal proceedings," spokesman Richard Farnsworth said.
In the past, BT has blamed former executives in Italy for the bookkeeping irregularities, saying they had kept their bosses in London in the dark about what was going on. The scandal required the company to take a 530 million pound charge in early 2017. For a timeline click on.
In a complaint filed in April 2017 with Milan prosecutors against the conduct of its former managers, BT said the company itself was a victim of any fraud found to have taken place.
Italian prosecutors named three top BT executives among an expanded list of 23 suspects allegedly involved in the debacle, Reuters exclusively reported in February. O'Ferrall was not on that list.
Prosecutors are not investigating O'Ferrall because he was not on BT Italy's board and did not sign off on the division's accounts in the four years, 2013-2016, under scrutiny, according to a source familiar with the probe.
O'Ferrall was appointed chairman of BT Italy in February 2017, taking up the post after an internal investigation was launched into the unit's bookkeeping. He stepped down from that role in November 2018.
Prosecutors in Milan allege that three former senior BT executives, Luis Alvarez, Richard Cameron and Corrado Sciolla, set unrealistically high business targets and were complicit in false accounting at BT Italy.
Alvarez and Cameron, were respectively the former chief executive and former chief financial officer of BT Global Services and Sciolla was the former head of continental Europe for BT. The three men, two of whom were based in London, left the company in 2017.
Reuters tried to contact Alvarez and Cameron via social media and email but they did not respond to those requests for comment. Sciolla declined to comment.
Allegations of fraudulent bookkeeping are part of a range of suspected wrongdoing at BT Italy. Italian prosecutors allege that a network of people at the unit exaggerated revenues, faked contract renewals and invoices and invented bogus supplier transactions in order to meet bonus targets and disguise the unit's true financial performance.
The company has publicly disclosed that it uncovered a complex set of improper sales, leasing transactions and factoring at the division. Factoring is a way in which firms sell future income to financiers for cash.
Several BT shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States alleging the group misled investors and failed to promptly disclose the financial irregularities. BT has moved to have the case dismissed.
In their report, Italy's financial police reference an email dated Aug. 5, 2016, from O'Ferrall in which he says that Cameron wanted operating profit to increase by 700,000 euros and suggests to Luca Sebastiani, then CFO at BT Italy, along with other colleagues across Europe, that they capitalize labor costs as a solution.
"All, I have an urgent request from Richard to find another €700K," O'Ferrall wrote to Sebastiani and his counterparts in Germany, Benelux, France, Spain, Hungary as well as Simon Whittle, then finance manager, reporting and consolidation, at Global Services Europe.
P4 refers to the month of July.
Reuters tried to reach Whittle via social media but he did not respond to requests for comment. The other finance officers O'Ferrall contacted did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Sebastiani is among the 23 suspects in the case.
In another email, dated April 8, 2016 and sent to Sebastiani's predecessor Alessandro Clerici and Rosa Ronda Andres, CFO for BT Global Services in Spain, O'Ferrall says he has received a request "to find another €1 million of capitalization for 15/16.
"Can either of you accommodate this? €500K each?" the e-mail says.
Clerici and Andres did not comply with the request, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Andres did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Clerici declined to comment. He is among the 23 suspects in the case.
Capitalizing costs is an accounting method that allows companies to amortize a cost related to an asset over time as opposed to book it as an expense in the income statement when the cost was incurred. The technique allows companies to smooth out expenses over time, and therefore boost profits.
"You can't capitalize labor costs to improve earnings ex post (after the event), just to boost your accounts," said Gian Gaetano Bellavia, an accounting expert who has in the past worked as a consultant for the Milan prosecutors. He is not involved in the BT Italy investigation.
Bellavia said it was common for top executives of a parent company to ask managers of subsidiaries to "always do more." But he said some of the BT emails, which Reuters showed him a copy of, constituted "significant evidence" of wrongful accounting.
Bellavia said another email, dated September 2016, in which Sebastiani says he has been told that Cameron would not accept an earnings estimate for the fiscal year 2016/17 below a certain amount, was less problematic because it could be interpreted as an aspiration and not a forecast communicated to investors.
The police report says the alleged accounting irregularities could have had an impact on the price of BT shares and this may justify adding market manipulation to the list of alleged crimes being investigated.
However, Milan prosecutors decided not to take this step on jurisdiction grounds, a source with direct knowledge of the probe said, since BT shares are listed in London and such allegations would have to be investigated by UK authorities.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) which investigates and prosecutes complex and often multinational fraud and corruption, declined to comment on whether it was investigating BT.
Britain's accounting regulator, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), said it was continuing to investigate PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) audits of BT from 2015 to 2017. BT dropped PwC as its auditor in 2017.
A spokesman for the accounting firm said it would continue to cooperate fully with the FRC in its enquiries.


Home » Main Dishes » Roasted Mushrooms with Polenta: I could live off this meal forever!
Roasted Mushrooms with Polenta: I could live off this meal forever!
The dish I made for you today will rock your ever-loving socks off!
I'm not saying any of this to toot my own horn, by the way. I'm saying it because its true. The first time I ever tried this dish, I was at YaYa's restaurant and I ordered it off the appetizer menu… I now dream about it on a regular basis. I go to YaYa's for the sole purpose of ordering these mushrooms.
I HAD to figure out how to make these mushrooms!
Gather up a lovely slew of fresh ingredients!
And a couple boxes of your favorite varieties of mushrooms. For today's purposes, I chose Shitakes and Baby Bellas. I don't care what mushrooms you buy, just so long as they don't come from a can!
Aside from the fresh stuff you'll also need butter, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt n' peppa, whole milk, water, sharp cheddar cheese, and cornmeal. But we'll get to all that.
Grab a few tablespoons of softened butter (the salted kind, if you please.) This will require you to set the butter out earlier in the day. It needs to be totally soft when you're ready to start cooking.
What we are doing here, folks, is making a fabulous little delight known as "compound butter." It's to-die-for. It's simple, it's delicious, it makes a great gift for foodie-friend-types! All it is… is butter with stuff mixed in it. It could be butter with cinnamon and honey… or butter mixed with truffle shavings (I die!), or an herb butter like the one we're making, with sage, thyme, and chives.
Just mash up the butter with a fork and sprinkle in about a teaspoon of each of the herbs. You can use all of the chives.
Scoop it up out of the bowl with a little rubber spatula, and plop it onto a little sheet of plastic wrap.
Then wrap it tightly with the plastic wrap, shaping it as you go, until it forms a long cylinder.
Perfect! Now store it in the fridge until we need it. It will only get more and more delicious with time.
Then slice them into nice thick slices. I leave the stems on.
If you have any really tiny, cute little mushrooms like these, leave them whole. They look really nice in the finished dish.
Now grab that gorgeous leek and lop off the white end.
Slice the leek in half length-wise.
And place the long stalks into a big bowl of warmish water. This'll loosen up all the dirt and sand particles hidden beneath the layers. The leeks will float and the gunk will sink to the bottom. You'll notice I removed a few of the tough, outer leaves. Go ahead and do that too.
You should end up with a nice balance of the white and the green parts. I'd say you need about a cup or a cup and a half, depending on your preference. I like leeks, so this is more like TWO cups!
Next, pour in a scant 1/4 cup of Balsamic Vinegar.
And sprinkle in the rest of your herbs.
Whisk it again, and then pour about half of the marinade over the mushrooms and leeks. Save the other half for later.
Now use clean hands to toss it all together. Make sure every piece is nicely coated!
See? There's no shame in dirtying up two sheet pans. It's the right thing to do.
Now, fire up your oven to 400 and pop these sheet pans inside! Set the timer for about fifteen minutes, and then pull out a little frying pan. It's time to make that very special garnish I was telling you about: crispy fried sage leaves. They are perfection.
Just cover the bottom of the frying pan in a little oil. This is a mixture of olive and canola.
Heat it up til you see smoke, then turn the heat down to medium and toss in the reserved sage leaves! Leave them in there for, like, ten seconds max! You want them to retain a little of their green color.
Quickly scoop them out and allow them to drain on a paper towel. We'll use them in a few minutes.
Now then, gather up your ingredients for the polenta.
Then combine the water, milk, salt and pepper in a sauce pan over medium high heat.
After a few minutes, you can turn the heat down (or off) and stir in the butter. Mmmmmm. This is so worth a few bubble-scalds.
When the cheese is incorporated, stick a lid on the polenta and set it aside.
Grab your pans of mushrooms and leeks and scrape the ones on the second pan off onto the same pan as the others. Then just poooouur the rest of the balsamic herb marinade over them and toss them around in it.
Oh man, not much longer to wait now!
Generously spoon the polenta out onto a platter.
I mean, REALLY pile em' on!
Grab that compound butter we made earlier, and slice up a few generous lumps and lay them over the mushrooms.
Let them get all oozey and melty and mind-blowing.
And then, as a final touch of genius… sprinkle on those crispy sage leaves we made!
And of course, I don't need to tell you what to do next. It's rather obvious. Grab a fork and don't waste another second. Eat this immediately! Don't bother with silly things like plates… in my opinion this dish is best when placed right smack in the middle of the table and devoured savored one delicious bite at a time.
I highly recommend you make this. You could go order it at YaYa's but it's actually a local specialty only available in Arkansas, and you don't want to risk going to YaYa's and finding it isn't on the menu!
Mushroom-lovers are sure to agree, this one'll change your life!
This looks absolutely delicious!! I can't wait to try it!!
YUM YUM YUMMY! I am in love with mushrooms… must try this recipe!
Kimmy… I didn't know you were a fellow mushroom lover! You'll have to watch out with this recipe then because it could pose serious threats to your girlish figure. Mostly because its so good you'll want to eat enough for like ten!
I just made a variation of this recipe and I'm enjoying it right now– absolutely delicious! I made a few changes to make it a healthier everyday lunch/dinner recipe. I made the mushrooms as stated, but left off the butter and I just made the polenta with water and added a dash of parmesan and salt and pepper at the end. Oh, I also roasted some sliced eggplant to half of the mushrooms because I had one from the garden that needed to be used. Anyway, despite my changes, it turned out wonderfully. I'm sure it would be much more decadent with the butter. thanks for the recipe!!!
Sounds very clean and delicious! I especially like the addition of the eggplant… what a perfect partner to the mushrooms. I'll have to try this dish with your modifications, maybe that way I can eat it more often. Glad you stopped by!


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Kinnon Ray Tatum II (born July 19, 1975) is a former American football linebacker who played two seasons with the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame and attended Douglas Byrd High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was also a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Q: elixir ecto - the right way to get an avarage score from a column what is the right way to get an average number from a column?
i have this query:
q = from r in Review,
      where: r.module_id == ^module_id,
      where: r.delete == false,
      select: %{entries: r, stars: avg(r.stars)}

    r = Repo.all(q)

will always get this error:

(grouping_error) column "r0.id" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or
be used in an aggregate function

what do that means and how to resolve that?

A: One cannot select a result having different dimensions. What do you expect to get in entries when avg aggregates on different reviews?
Consider the following input:
| id | module_id | stars |
|----|-----------|-------|
|  1 |     1     |   3   |
|  2 |     1     |   5   |
|  3 |     2     |   1   |

OK, for module_id == 1, avg(stars) would be 4. But what should be r then?
That said, you should probably rethink the query itself.
q =
  from r in Review,
  where: r.delete == false,
  where: r.module_id == ^module_id,
  group: r.module_id,
  select: %{module: r.module_id, stars: avg(r.stars)}

or like, depending on your real need.


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> reference only those capabilities which the user has at hand.
> return portions of a document based on capability metrics.
> since these are the capabilities which Lynx running on my host supports.
I don't think that this would be a good way of accomplishing your goals.
".txt" types and could recieve a text description of the image in question.
the problem, and pointing out that an image should have appeared "here".
time to do so yet.


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History | Charles Dickens' journey through Ohio continues
Peggy Mershon
Today, English author Charles Dickens and his wife continue on their stagecoach journey through Ohio in 1842.
"We reached Columbus shortly before seven o'clock, and stayed there, to refresh, that day and night: having excellent apartments in a very large unfinished hotel called the Neill House, which were richly fitted with the polished wood of the black walnut, and opened on a handsome portico and stone veranda, like rooms in some Italian mansion. The town is clean and pretty, and of course is 'going to be' much larger. It is the seat of the State legislature of Ohio, and lays claim, in consequence, to some consideration and importance.
"There being no stage-coach next day, upon the road we wished to take, I hired 'an extra,' at a reasonable charge to carry us to Tiffin; a small town from whence there is a railroad to Sandusky. This extra was an ordinary four-horse stage-coach, such as I have described, changing horses and drivers, as the stage-coach would, but was exclusively our own for the journey. To ensure our having horses at the proper stations, and being incommoded by no strangers, the proprietors sent an agent on the box, who was to accompany us the whole way through; and thus attended, and bearing with us, besides, a hamper full of savoury cold meats, and fruit, and wine, we started off again in high spirits, at half-past six o'clock next morning, very much delighted to be by ourselves, and disposed to enjoy even the roughest journey.
"It was well for us, that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day was certainly enough to have shaken tempers that were not resolutely at Set Fair, down to some inches below Stormy. At one time we were all flung together in a heap at the bottom of the coach, and at another we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers; and now it was rearing up in the air, in a frantic state, with all four horses standing on the top of an insurmountable eminence, looking coolly back at it, as though they would say 'Unharness us. It can't be done.'
"The drivers on these roads, who certainly get over the ground in a manner which is quite miraculous, so twist and turn the team about in forcing a passage, corkscrew fashion, through the bogs and swamps, that it was quite a common circumstance on looking out of the window, to see the coachman with the ends of a pair of reins in his hands, apparently driving nothing, or playing at horses, and the leaders staring at one unexpectedly from the back of the coach, as if they had some idea of getting up behind. A great portion of the way was over what is called a corduroy road, which is made by throwing trunks of trees into a marsh, and leaving them to settle there. The very slightest of the jolts with which the ponderous carriage fell from log to log, was enough, it seemed, to have dislocated all the bones in the human body …
"As night came on, the track grew narrower and narrower, until at last it so lost itself among the trees, that the driver seemed to find his way by instinct. We had the comfort of knowing, at least, that there was no danger of his falling asleep, for every now and then a wheel would strike against an unseen stump with such a jerk, that he was fain to hold on pretty tight and pretty quick, to keep himself upon the box. Nor was there any reason to dread the least danger from furious driving, inasmuch as over that broken ground the horses had enough to do to walk; as to shying, there was no room for that; and a herd of wild elephants could not have run away in such a wood, with such a coach at their heels. So we stumbled along, quite satisfied.
"At length, between ten and eleven o'clock at night, a few feeble lights appeared in the distance, and Upper Sandusky, an Indian village, where we were to stay till morning, lay before us.
"They were gone to bed at the log Inn, which was the only house of entertainment in the place, but soon answered to our knocking, and got some tea for us in a sort of kitchen or common room, tapestried with old newspapers, pasted against the wall. The bed-chamber to which my wife and I were shown, was a large, low, ghostly room; with a quantity of withered branches on the hearth, and two doors without any fastening, opposite to each other, both opening on the black night and wild country, and so contrived, that one of them always blew the other open: a novelty in domestic architecture, which I do not remember to have seen before, and which I was somewhat disconcerted to have forced on my attention after getting into bed, as I had a considerable sum in gold for our travelling expenses, in my dressing-case. Some of the luggage, however, piled against the panels, soon settled this difficulty, and my sleep would not have been very much affected that night, I believe, though it had failed to do so….
"It is a settlement of the Wyandot Indians who inhabit this place. Among the company at breakfast was a mild old gentleman, who had been for many years employed by the United States Government in conducting negotiations with the Indians, and who had just concluded a treaty with these people by which they bound themselves, in consideration of a certain annual sum, to remove next year to some land provided for them, west of the Mississippi, and a little way beyond St. Louis. …
"Leaving this town directly after breakfast, we pushed forward again, over a rather worse road than yesterday, if possible, and arrived about noon at Tiffin, where we parted with the extra. At two o'clock we took the railroad; the travelling on which was very slow, its construction being indifferent, and the ground wet and marshy; and arrived at Sandusky in time to dine that evening. We put up at a comfortable little hotel on the brink of Lake Erie, lay there that night, and had no choice but to wait there next day, until a steamboat bound for Buffalo appeared …"
So travelling by stagecoach in Ohio was not quite as romantic for passengers as it was remembered by drivers and residents who watched. Dickens' book, "American Notes for General Circulation" (1842), is still in print if you want the complete story — but still not benefiting the author financially. The copyright has expired.
Peggy Mershon is a retired editor for the News Journal where she also wrote columns on genealogy and antiques. Contact her at marwelmer@aol.com.


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