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Lee Haskins-Ryan Burnett: Another Saturday of AWE
By Cliff Rold
Published Sat Jun 10, 2017, 11:37 AM EDT
Boxing fans looking for their fix this weekend in the US might see slim pickings one week out from the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev rematch. It depends what they have in their cable package.
For fans with access to the AWE network (Saturday, 3 PM EST/12 PM PST), there is a full afternoon of fights on tap. AWE has made a home for British boxing cards on US airwaves the last couple years. At first, it seemed to be just cards with particular cache in the States. This year, we seem to be getting a wider range.
Along with bigger fights like Tony Bellew-David Haye and Julius Indongo-Ricky Burns, we've also had Khalid Yafai's first title defense at 115 and now this bantamweight scrap.
The good thing about the AWE shows isn't the main event action. These are lengthy shows with deep undercard viewing. Sometimes lasting over four hours, it's boxing for the true boxing junkie.
The headliner this weekend should be fun. The UK's Lee Haskins (34-3, 14 KO) is making his third defense of the IBF 118 lb. belt and his first appearance of 2017. Haskins has won eight in a row since a stoppage defeat to Stephane Jamoye in 2012. His last fight, against regional rival and former IBF titlist Stuart Hall was a solid win. At 33, Haskins may never be make a large global impression but that's okay.
He's found his groove and niche and is making a living with a belt around his waist. In the lower ceiling economic reality of the lower weight classes, it's more than most get to do.
Haskins is on the road this time against a hungry 25-year old Ryan Burnett (16-0, 9 KO). Burnett, of Northern Ireland, is where Carl Frampton proved his ability in the ring and as a draw before moving onto bigger stages. Burnett can hope to carve a similar path starting this weekend.
He has a good shot. Burnett is a clever boxer, adept as a counter puncher off the back foot and comfortable switching stances with a good body attack. Haskins, a southpaw, often leaves his chin high but he's a good reactive fighter, waiting for opponents to show him openings and landing suddenly.
It might not be a fight of the year, but it should be a hard battle with crowd atmosphere.
That's more than enough value for a Saturday afternoon. The value beyond is what makes this fun. What the AWE cards are doing is offering at least some chance of expanding what fans might think they might see. Haskins, Burnett, and a few weeks back Yafai, are all the sort of fighters who could fit in nicely with the crowd of fighters garnering attention on HBO led by Roman Gonzalez.
This is a chance to see them without YouTube.
In another era, we might not have seen a Gonzalez or a few years ago Anselmo Moreno without the platform availability we have today. In the 1990s, we never saw Michael Carbajal or Humberto Gonzalez against Myung Woo-Yuh. It feels like this era has more potential to deliver fights like that because there is more access to see prominent overseas talents on a semi-regular basis than there used to be.
That's a healthy thing for the sport but requires eyeballs to make the investment for a network like AWE worthwhile. So tune in if the time allows if for no other reason than it wasn't an option not too long ago.
More boxing, from more places, can't be a bad thing.
Cliff Rold is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene and a member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and the Boxing Writers Association of America. He can be reached at roldboxing@hotmail.com
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Jaipur was a new town founded down in the plain. Its predecessor was the hillfort town of Amber Fort. 8 miles to the north. Amber remained a major palace of the Rajput kings, and is perhaps the most spectacular of the sites in Jaipur.
A fort was originally established in the 11th century, but the main fort was established in 1592 by Man Singh, which still forms the innermost, rather austere, part of the Palace. But it is the buildings added by Jai Singh during his long reign from 1621 to 1667 that form the most spectacular parts of the Palace.
Tourists are brought to the lower part of the town from whence there are two possible ways to the main palace: either by jeep or by elephant. Over 80 elephants are kept at the Fort and this is one of the best places for those who wish to take an elephant ride in India. We preferred to take the jeep.
How we travelled – by jeep!
The outer courtyard was the last to be built, on the lower ground approaching the palace.
At the top is the Lion Gate or Singh Pole.
This is the most spectacular part of the Palace, the highly ornamented entrance from the outer to the middle courtyard.
Above the gateway are the special rooms from which the ladies of the Palace could observe what was going on in the Hall of Public Audience while remaining in purdah.
The most spectacular part of the Palace is the Sheesh Mahal , where the rooms are highly decorated with inlaid tiles and mirrors reflecting the light everywhere. This is the highlight of the palace built by Jai Singh between 1621 and 1667.
A view into the interior rooms of the Sheesh Mahal.
The central courtyard is occupied by the Aram Bagh, the pleasure garden.
From here a series of hidden passages lead through into the oldest part of the place built 50 years earlier by Man Singh.
This is the inner courtyard of the palace, the part originally built by Man Singh in around 1592.
At the centre is this Baradari pavilion which was once the meeting area of the maharanis, shrouded from men's eyes by flowing curtains.
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Prato-Sornico is a former municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

The municipality contained the villages Prato and Sornico. These entities were former municipalities of their own, having been merged to form Prato-Sornico in 1864.

In 2004 Prato-Sornico municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Broglio, Brontallo, Fusio, Menzonio and Peccia to form a new and larger municipality Lavizzara.

History
Prato and Sornico were first mentioned in 1374.

Prato and Sornico, along with Broglio, Fusio and Peccia, formed the valley community of Lavizzara.  In 1374, the community dissolved and the villages of Prato and Sornico became independent.   The common, shared land of the four communities of Fusio, Peccia, Prato and Sornico (known as the comunella dei quattro comuni) remained shared until 1929.  In the 15th century, the hamlet was the seat of the General Council of the valley, then the seat of the Swiss Confederation governor between 1513 and 1798.  After 1803 it was the capital of the sub-district of Lavizzara.  Even today stately houses in the village testify of its political and religious importance of the village.  One of the houses in the village, which was built in the 15th century, extended in the 16th century and renovated in 1975–77, served as the seat of the bailiff and a prison.  Another house, in Prato, is Casa Berna which is from the 18th century.  It contains the rich library of Giulio Giovanni Gerolamo Berna, the archpriest of Locarno.

The church of San Martino in Sornico is first mentioned in the 14th century, but probably dates back to the 11th century.  It was the mother church in the 16th century of the Val Lavizzara and in 1747 was made a provost's church.  The parish church of SS Fabiano e Sebastiano in Prato was built in 1487, rebuilt in 1730 and re-consecrated in 1761 by the Bishop of Como.

In the 19th and 20th century, the emigration overseas and into the cities led to a sharp population decline.  In this alpine village at the beginning of the 21st century, one-third of the workforce still works in agriculture.  In the last decades of the 20th century, many vacation homes and tourist infrastructure were built in the village.

Geography
Prato-Sornico has an area, , of .  Of this area,  or 0.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while  or 29.9% is forested.   Of the rest of the land,  or 0.3% is settled (buildings or roads),  or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and  or 54.0% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.1%.  Out of the forested land, 18.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 0.4% is used for growing crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.  Of the unproductive areas, 23.2% is unproductive vegetation and 30.9% is too rocky for vegetation.

The village is located in the Vallemaggia district.  It is located about  from Locarno.  It was created in 1864 when the hamlets of Prato and Sornico merged.  The village boundaries include the peak of Pizzo Campo Tencia which is  high.

Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent in chief a cloth gules hanging from a sword azure fesswise point to dexter and in base a pot sable. The pot is a traditional symbol of the Lavizzara valley.

Demographics
Prato-Sornico has a population () of 104.

Most of the population () speaks Italian language (96 or 92.3%), with German being second most common (4 or 3.8%) and Spanish being third (2 or 1.9%).  There is 1 person who speaksFrench and  people who speak Romansh.

Of the population in the village 63 or about 60.6% were born in Prato-Sornico and lived there in 2000.  There were 24 or 23.1% who were born in the same canton, while 8 or 7.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 9 or 8.7% were born outside of Switzerland.  , there were 43 people who were single and never married in the village.  There were 52 married individuals, 7 widows or widowers and 2 individuals who are divorced.

There were 8 households that consist of only one person and 2 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 41 households that answered this question, 19.5% were households made up of just one person and 2 were adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households,  there are 10 married couples without children, 15 married couples with children  There were 1 single parents with a child or children.  There were 4 households that were made up unrelated people and 1 household that was made some sort of institution or another collective housing.

 there were 73 single-family homes (or 93.6% of the total) out of a total of 78 inhabited buildings.  There were 2 multi-family buildings (2.6%), along with  multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (0.0%) and 3 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.8%).  Of the single-family homes 9 were built before 1919, while 0 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single-family homes (38) were built between 1919 and 1945.

 there were 80 apartments in the village.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 21.  There were 3 single room apartments and 24 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 39 apartments (48.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 41 apartments (51.3%) were seasonally occupied.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Economy
There were 50 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 28.0% of the workforce.  , there were 15 workers who commuted into the village and 24 workers who commuted away.  The village is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.6 workers leaving the village for every one entering.

Religion
From the , 95 or 91.3% were Roman Catholic, while 3 or 2.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.  Of the rest of the population, and there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church.  There were 4 (or about 3.85% of the population) who belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 1 individuals (or about 0.96% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Prato-Sornico about 36 or (34.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 4 or (3.8%) have completed additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule).  Of the 4 who completed tertiary schooling, all were Swiss men.  , there were 1 students in Prato-Sornico who came from another village, while 6 residents attended schools outside the village.

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Have recent cases imposed a duty to negotiate in good faith?
Two recent decisions from courts in Ontario and Saskatchewan merit a closer look at when a party may have a pre-contractual duty to negotiate in good faith. Although there is no general duty to negotiate in good faith when negotiating commercial agreements, these recent cases explore exceptions to the rule.
Recap on duty to negotiate in faith
While the Supreme Court has recognized good faith with respect to contractual performance in Bhasin v Hrynew,[1] Canadian courts do not recognize a general pre-contractual obligation to negotiate an agreement in good faith. The Supreme Court has left the question of whether such a duty exists unanswered until "another time".[2]
In Alberta, the existence of a duty to negotiate in good faith is seen as incompatible with the adversarial nature of negotiations between parties who deal at arm's length. The Aberta Court of Appeal has stated that such a duty is at best "controversial and of limited scope".
In Ontario, there is no general duty to negotiate in good faith. The Court of Appeal has held that "[g]enerally, parties negotiating a contract expect that each will act entirely in the party's own interests."[3] Nevertheless, such a duty may be found if there is a "special relationship" between the parties, particularly if:[4]
the manner in which the parties were brought together reasonably imply an expectation of such a duty in the relying party;
"trust and confidence" knowingly has been reposed by one party in the other;
a party has special knowledge of important facts;
a party has no ability to readily inform itself;
an explicit assumption by one party of advisory responsibilities for the other party; or
a party's ability to access or comprehend important information is compromised by the counterparty.
Must you bring onerous terms to the other party's attention?
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently considered when a party to a commercial contract needs to bring "extremely onerous or unfair" contractual terms to the attention of the other party prior to execution.[5]
MedviewMD Inc. ("Medview") agreed to supply Durham Drug Store ("Durham") with equipment to provide remote medical services to customers. Durham had to lease the equipment from Macquarie Equipment Finance Limited ("Macquarie"). MedView sent Durham a Master Services Agreement ("MSA") for its review and advised that a representative from Leasecorp (an intermediary) would attend to collect Durham's signature. Notably, the MSA contained a provision allowing for its early termination. Instead of the MSA, the Leasecorp representative had Durham sign a lease agreement with Macquarie that eliminated Durham's ability to terminate the lease early.
Durham sought early termination of its agreement with Medview after learning that it did not have the necessary regulatory approvals. Macquarie sued, relying upon the lease's elimination of Durham's ability to terminate or cancel the lease during its term "for any reason, including equipment failure, damage or loss". Durham argued that the lease (and the no-cancellation provision within) was unenforceable because it was led to believe it had entered into an MSA with Medview, not a lease with Macquarie.
The Court of Appeal concluded that the no-cancellation provision was unenforceable because it had not been adequately brought to Durham's attention.[6] Even though the lease was a commercial contract between two relatively sophisticated commercial parties, the Court of Appeal applied principles from 'contracts of adhesion' (standard form contract) cases to hold that the no-cancellation provision was "harsh and oppressive" in light of the circumstances preceding the execution of the lease, including that:[7]
the only agreement that Durham was sent and thought Leasecorp would bring for its signature was the MSA;
the lease was signed in a "hurried manner";
there was no opportunity to negotiate the terms of the lease;
there was no opportunity to seek legal advice; and
the entire lease was "in two tightly-packed pages in extremely small font" which could "only be read with difficulty".
The Court of Appeal ruled that even though Macquarie had not sought to mislead Durham, in these "unusual circumstances", Durham should have been directed to the no-cancellation provision and explained that it would remain obligated to pay for the equipment under the lease even if Medview defaulted on its obligations.[8]
Can you use "strategically uncertain language" in an agreement?
The Saskatchewan Court of the Queen's Bench considered whether a party is obliged to avoid using strategically uncertain language in an agreement.
The University of Regina entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with HTC Purenergy Inc. ("HTC"). HTC entered into a sublicense agreement with Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd. ("Doosan"). Prior to the execution of the sublicense, HTC and Doosan asked the University to provide a confirmation letter regarding the rights and obligations in the license and sublicense agreements. The University provided the confirmation letter. Litigation ensued when the parties' relationship broke down.
The University alleged that Doosan had engaged in bad faith negotiations by using "strategically uncertain language" in the confirmation letter.[9] The Court disagreed that such a duty exists.[10] The Court also concluded that there was no "special relationship" between the parties to justify imposing a pre-contractual duty to negotiate in good faith, noting:[11]
the parties had not had any past dealings;
Doosan had not assumed an advisory role for the University;
Doosan did not have any special access to information that the University was excluded from;
the University had not placed its trust and confidence in Doosan; and
there was nothing to suggest that Doosan had any influence over the University or that the University was rendered vulnerable because of Doosan.[12]
Although there is no general obligation to negotiate in good faith, the scope of exceptions to that rule are still being tested.
A duty to negotiate in good faith may be imposed even when sophisticated parties are negotiating a commercial agreement.
The following factors may influence a Court's determination on whether a duty to negotiate in good faith exists:
there is no opportunity to negotiate or review the terms of the contract;
where the final terms of the contract differ materially from previous versions, or are particularly onerous;
the contract is signed without the benefit of legal advice because the counterparty is not given the opportunity to seek such advice;
there is an explicit assumption of advisory responsibilities by one party, upon which the other party reasonably relies; or
there is otherwise a "special relationship" of "trust and confidence" between the parties which involves the dependence of the first party on the second, and the ability of the second party to influence the first.
[1] Bhasin v Hrynew, 2014 SCC 71.
[2] Martel Building Ltd. v Canada, 2000 SCC 60 at para. 73.
[3] 978011 Ontario Ltd. v. Cornell Engineering Co., 2001 CanLII 8522 (ONCA), at para. 32.
[4] 978011 Ontario Ltd. v. Cornell Engineering Co., 2001 CanLII 8522 (ONCA), at paras. 34-5.
[5] Macquarie Equipment Finance Ltd. v. 2326695 Ontario Ltd. et al., 2020 ONCA 139.
[6] Macquarie Equipment Finance Ltd. v. 2326695 Ontario Ltd., 2020 ONCA 139, at para. 37.
[9] University of Regina v. HTC Purenergy Inc., 2019 SKQB 126, at para. 161.
[10] University of Regina v. HTC Purenergy Inc., 2019 SKQB 126, at para. 162.
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These 4th Of July Desserts will help you find a red, white, and blue patriotic dessert recipe for your holiday celebration!
Independence Day has always been one of my favorite holidays both as a kid and an adult. There's something so amazing about it and I love coming together as a country, despite our differences to celebrate. I remember always having a picnic or a camping get-together when I was young and something that was always a part of the food spread was some delicious red, white and blue desserts. I looked forward to those almost as much as the fireworks later in the evening. Every year, my mom and my other family members would try to come up with something different. If you want to impress your family and friends this year, check out this spectacular list of amazing 4th of July desserts.
Choose one or more of these 4th of July dessert recipes to add a festive touch to your treat table this year. You can also use these Fourth of July desserts for inspiration. Many of these red, white, and blue desserts are patriotic twists on classic recipes.
1. For an easy no-bake 4th of July dessert recipe, try your hand at these Patriotic White Chocolate Covered Oreos.
2. These Patriotic Star Sugar Cookies are as lovely as they are delicious!
3. Since berries are in season now, it's the perfect time to make this cute Flag Cake with Cheesecake Topping from Spend with Pennies.
4. Rice Krispie treats are always a hit so I love these cute little Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Balls from Two Sisters Crafting.
5. These Fireworks Blondies from Crazy for Crust are sure to make a crowd happy and they are easy to make, too.
6. It's always a hot day on the 4th of July so these Red, White, and Blue Patriotic Pops from Oh My Creative are sure to cool everyone off.
7. I love the look and portability of these 4th of July Brownie Bites from Real Food By Dad.
8. These Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes from Our Family of Seven will definitely make everyone smile.
9. If you have always wanted to try making macarons these Red, White, and Blue Cherry Cheesecake Macarons from Baking a Moment are a perfect chance to do so.
10. If you don't have much time to throw something together, this Red, White and Blue Cheesecake Salad from The Slow Roasted Italian is a quick dessert to make.
11. Fourth of July Cake Rolls used to be a staple at celebrations so I love this vintage throwback recipe for a 4th of July Cake Roll from Taste and Tell.
12. This Patriotic Muddy Buddy Snack Mix from Baby Savers is a great grab and go treat for the celebration.
13. For a unique twist on patriotic desserts, make Ice-Cream Cone Eagle Cupcakes.
14. Another great treat to make that requires very little time are these Firecracker Marshmallows from Kid Friendly Things to Do.
15. I love the star strawberry touches on these Easy Red, White and Blue Trifles from Fox and Briar.
16. Need an easy 4th of July dessert recipe that doesn't require baking? Turn Twinkies into a patriotic treat with these American Flag Treats on a Stick by Craft, Create Cook.
17. These Star Cookies are covered in stars making them doubly patriotic!
18. These Cherry-Stuffed Oreo Truffles are top with patriotic sprinkles. They are an easy 4th of July dessert recipe. This make-ahead treat is easy to bring along to picnics and barbecues!
19. Raspberry and Blueberry Popsicles are not only a healthy treat, but the red and blue berries also make them a festive way to cool off on a hot day!
20. The berries on this Vanilla Bundt Cake with Berry Glaze lend a patriotic touch without turning to food color for those who need to avoid food dyes.


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Someone on I think Reddit felt it was strange that we'd start out previewing Red Book content with the druid, and yeah I can get that, so this time we're showing off the talent list for a core class: the cleric (with most of the revised class being added to Black Book soon)!
Nearly 100 talents, and that's before you count the ones that don't require specific Domains such as Apotheosis, Celestial Ally, Favored Soul, and Hallow, as well as class features that let you gain temporary access to other Domains and talents (requires prayer and costs extra Favor), and let you spend in excess of your Favor on the condition that you pay them back later (or have your maximum Favor reduced for a period of time).
But we can always add more, so let us know what abilities you'd like to see a general cleric do, as well as Domain-specific stuff you felt was missing before.
Unlike the druid, the cleric hasn't changed much since it's original incarnation: the core concept is a varied priest that provides ranged support, and based on your Domain customization can offer improved offense or defense, or assist in other, non-combat functions (such as crafting and scouting).
An exception is the War Domain, which will now let you add your Magic Bonus to attack and damage rolls (not as good as the fighter's progression, but it's definitely handy), and instead of re-rolls you'll be able to spend Favor in order to add your Lance of Faith damage to weapon attacks for a short duration (probably 1 round or minute per cleric level).
They won't get multiple attacks (and we might phase out the Battle Cleric variant), but instead you'll be able to make one souped-up attack each round, and another talent will give you an increased crit range and let you spend Favor to roll twice and use the higher result (thereby improving the chance of both hitting and critting).


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Belted kingfisher and its kin successful at fishing, much more
Photo by Public Domain Photos/Pixabay.com • A female belted kingfisher returns to a perch after a successful catch.
A belted kingfisher has visited the fish pond quite frequently throughout this summer. The bird's arrival is usually heralded by its hoarse, rattling call. The bird is rather shy, so any observation usually has to be done with some degree of stealth.
I know fishing is a favorite pastime for many people. In these times of social distancing, there's probably nothing better for some people to do than to spend a lazy summer afternoon baiting a hook and trying their luck at their favorite fishing spot. While doing so, they have probably encountered the angling counterpart among our feathered friends. The belted kingfisher's nature as an angler rules out this bird visiting feeders in the backyard, but that doesn't mean one is unlikely to see this bird. With a little strategic effort, a glimpse of a belted kingfisher is fairly easy to obtain, especially during the summer months. Any stream, pond, river or other body of water increases the chances of observing this fascinating bird.
The belted kingfisher prefers to perch on an exposed branch or a wire that overlooks a body of water that offers ample fishing opportunities. The belted kingfisher, however, is capable of hovering in place in order to spot and then capture its prey in an impressive plunge and lunge into the water.
Most of my observations of hunting kingfishers have involved the birds in their ambush approach to fishing — perching and diving on the unsuspecting fish. I have on a few occasions also observed kingfishers as they hover over the water in a quest for a meal.
The belted kingfisher, like most of its kin, looks to have a head and bill that are slightly too large for the rest of the body. It's the long, heavy bill that the belted kingfisher uses to snatch fish from their watery homes.
The term "belted" refers to bands of feathers across the bird's belly. Female belted kingfishers sport bands of rusty-red and blue feathers, while males are limited to a blue belt across the upper breast. Female belted kingfishers are an exception to the rule that most male birds are more vividly colored than their female companions.
A walnut tree with some dead branches overlooking my family's fish pond is a favorite perching site for visiting belted kingfishers. A few become become regular visitors almost every spring and summer. In past years, I've been delighted by pairs of kingfishers that have brought as many as six of their offspring to hunt around the edges of the pond and creek near my home.
When a belted kingfisher does manage to capture a fish — not always a certainty, despite their great skill — the bird will usually fly to a perch where they will beat the fish unconscious before swallowing it. I remember one particular kingfisher that liked to catch fish in the creek and then fly to the corner of the metal garage roof where the bird proceeded to beat senseless the unlucky fish.
Photo by Pixabay.com • The pied kingfisher is a common member of the kingfisher family that ranges throughout Europe.
While the belted kingfisher is the only one of its kind in the eastern United States, the kingfishers are a large family of birds found around the globe. Worldwide, there are about 90 species of kingfishers that range in size from the 16-inch-long laughing kookaburra of Australia to the tiny African dwarf kingfisher, which at four inches in length is smaller than most sparrows. This family of birds is divided into three groupings: the river kingfishers, the tree kingfishers and the water kingfishers.
Despite the name "kingfisher," not all kingfishers exist on a diet of fish. Some members of the kingfisher family instead prey on other quarry, such as snakes, lizards and insects.
Some of the varied names for members of this far-flung family of birds include moustached kingfisher, malachite kingfisher, shining-blue kingfisher, azure kingfisher, hook-billed kingfisher, little kingfisher, banded kingfisher, red-breasted paradise kingfisher, lilac kingfisher, glittering kingfisher, great-billed kingfisher, chocolate-backed kingfisher, ultramarine kingfisher, chattering kingfisher and yellow-billed kingfisher.
Photo by WelshPixie/Pixabay.com • The malachite kingfisher is a river kingfisher widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara.
The family also consists of a group of related birds from Australia and New Guinea known as kookaburras, which includes blue-winged kookaburra, spangled kookaburra, rufous-bellied kookaburra, and the well-known laughing kookaburra. Hollywood often dubs the raucous calls of kookaburras into the background soundscapes of movies and shows with tropical themes.
Photo by Magee/Pixabay.com • The raucous calls of the kookaburra, an Australian kingfisher, are often incorporated into the background of jungle scenes in Hollywood movies.
There's nothing quite so disappointing as coming home empty-handed after a day of fishing. Belted kingfishers rarely suffer that disappointment. Although not successful in every attempt, the belted kingfisher is certainly exceptional in its pursuit of fish. According to John Eastman in his book, "Birds of Lake, Pond and Marsh," the belted kingfisher typically captures about 10 fish per day. That's a feat that many human anglers might envy.
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The Street: Should You Add Bitcoin to Your IRA?
Diversifying your assets is always a good idea. But investors looking to add cryptocurrency exposure to their individual retirement accounts (IRAs) will need to do their research and know the basics.
Cryptocurrency is a developing market and one that is gaining traction on a global scale, so it is no surprise investors are asking how to include Bitcoin in their IRAs.
Charles Thorngren, CEO of Noble Gold Investments, explains the desire to protect investments in a turbulent market brings people to the alternative assets market such as gold and cryptocurrencies.
"Investments like gold and cryptocurrencies are where forward-looking investors are finding shelter," he said. "The Fed's miss on the inflation number, coupled with the Chair's statement that it does not know why it is behaving as such makes having a diversified portfolio more important than ever." said Thorngren.
Thorngren explains investors looking to "utilize cryptocurrencies" as a retirement vehicle can partner with a trusted company to help diversify those funds into a self-directed IRA.
Recently, First Digital IRA First Digital IRA (FDIRA) launched its new service to help Americans place digital currency, like Bitcoin, inside an IRA account. Firms like Pensco, The Entrust Group and the Millennium Trust Company also allow investors to stick Bitcoin in a self-directed IRA.
But before you take the leap into including Bitcoin in your IRA it is important to be aware of a number of factors.
George Harris, the digital currency specialist for FDIRA, explains that since a Bitcoin-powered IRA is a self-directed IRA, there are a number of rules and fees in place, such as a maximum yearly contribution of $5,500 and the need to hire a custodian, that are not being discussed in any detail.
Harris noted that there are a small number of reputable firms in the market that can help with this, with FDIRA being one of them. Some allow investors to roll over an existing IRA or 401(k) into a Bitcoin IRA. But if you opened your 401(k) with your current employer, you might not be able to move it to a Bitcoin IRA.
First published in The Street, September 2017.


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Breaking Travel News interview: Andreas Metaxas, chief executive, Metaxa Hospitality Group
Following a glittering run of awards for Metaxa Hospitality Group, Breaking Travel News here chats with chief executive, Andreas Metaxas, to find out more
Breaking Travel News: Congratulations on your recognition by the World Travel Awards - how does it feel to have won?
Andreas Metaxas: Being rewarded from an esteemed tourism institution such as the World Travel Awards, which serve to recognise excellence and promote innovation within the global travel industry, stands as a great honour for me and the whole team of Metaxa Hospitality Group.
This recognition makes us feel both proud and grateful, as it demonstrates the commitment of the entire team to offering unique luxury experiences, high-end service, and authentic Greek hospitality.
All this in the top destinations in the country, Crete and Santorini.
Despite the particularly difficult year, Metaxa Hospitality Group remains firm to its fundamental principles; creating value for our guests, our people, the environment we operate in, and the society at large.
Receiving acclaim for our efforts get us inspired and give us the courage to move ahead.
We wish to heartfeltly thank our guests.
The trust and preference they have shown for us during all these years, keep on motivating us to constantly enhance the quality of the services we offer.
I would also like to thank our people, a team of approximately 500 passionate people, who treat our guests with love to make them feel like their home away from home.
BTN: Creta Maris Beach Resort has taken the trophies for both Greece's Leading All-Inclusive Resort and Greece's Leading Beach Resort - what is it that makes that property so special?
AM: With 45 years of history, Creta Maris Beach Resort is a family-friendly, five-star, all-inclusive beach resort located in the popular bay of Hersonissos in Crete, Greece, nestled directly on a long sweeping bay awarded with Blue Flag.
Recently renovated, Creta Maris is a multi-awarded resort that blends perfectly the authentic Cretan way of loving and hospitality, the green-oriented environment, and the high-quality all-inclusive services for careless vacations.
And all these, in a place of beautiful architecture with traditional village-style design with quaint twisting paths and piazzas.
Operating in the context of sustainability, Creta Maris Beach Resort is committed to responsible environmental and social operation, supporting the local community.
BTN: At the same time, Santo Maris Oia Luxury Suites & Spa picked up trophies for Greece's Leading Island Villas and Europe's Leading Boutique Resort for the second year in a row. How useful are the World Travel Awards when it comes to promoting the company to the global hospitality market?
AM: It is the ultimate honour for us to see our luxury property, Santo Maris Oia Luxury Suites & Spa, being distinguished among the most prominent brands in a European level award for the second year in a row.
This double accolade establishes Santo Maris Oia Luxury Suites & Spa as the destination for those seeking pure luxury and a personalized hospitality experience on the renowned island of Santorini.
These prestigious distinctions, as well as the reviews of our past guests, are our credentials to speak to our future guests about our philosophy and our commitment, to continue to evolve and deliver unique services so that we can become an inspiration and reference point in the world map of hospitality.
BTN: Following a successful period for Metaxa, Santo Maris Oia Luxury Spa was honoured with the title of Greece's Best Resort Spa by the World Spa Awards. Can you tell us a little about this award-winning property?
AM: Situated in the village of Oia, Santo Maris Oia Luxury Suites & Spa is ideal for those who seek tranquil vacations, offering luxury facilities overlooking the enchanting sunset of Santorini, warm hospitality, and personalized experiences.
Santo Maris Oia Luxury Suites & Spa is renowned for its wellness philosophy, its locally inspired spa offering, and top-notch service combined with an authentic, tailor-made experience for each guest.
Especially, owning some of the most state-of-the-art facilities, it is not a coincidence that Santo Maris has been taking the award for Greece's Best Resort Spa yearly since 2017.
Santo Maris features one of the largest Spa Centres on the island of Santorini with a comprehensive spa program, inspired by Greek elements and products, while is being praised for its well-rounded approach towards wellness, balancing the needs of the body, mind, and soul.
BTN: Finally, it has been a tough year for all of us in hospitality – how much hope is there we can turn the corner as move into 2021?
AM: It is a fact that in the span of a few months, the world has shifted.
The current pandemic has altered our way of life.
Our social interactions, our professional dynamics, and our digital relationships are all transformed.
The tourism industry has certainly not been immune to that abrupt transition.
At Metaxa Hospitality Group, we are doing everything necessary to meet this challenge, as health and safety has always been among our top priorities.
This is why, for decades now, we have adopted and maintained our own health and safety program that includes adherence to stringent standards and constant training of employees on safety and proper dealing with emergency situations that may affect the health & safety of our guests and people.
We are adaptable, we stay strong and positive and we remain hospitable, and optimistic for the future.
Based on sustainability principles and solid financial foundations, the Metaxa Hospitality Group is a leading hotelier in Greece.
Offering authentic personalised holiday experiences, with an excellent quality of service, to guests, they seek to provide a stimulating and rewarding environment for employees.
Find out more on the official website.
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Exquisite beading adorns this glamorous evening gown, rendering it a stunning option for your next formal event. This evening gown features swirling beading throughout, a plunging neckline with sheer illusion paneling, a tie back and a back-zipper closure. All of these chic elements combine to form a one-of-a-kind special event dress designed to wow your audience. From prom 2019 to black-tie occasions, this beaded dress is the perfect choice when paired with metallic high heels and a beaded handbag.


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'Pathogen soup' at Texas waterpark let brain-eating amoeba thrive, lawsuit says
By Megan Menchaca mmenchaca@statesman.com
Apr 18, 2019 at 12:51 PM Apr 18, 2019 at 1:01 PM
Fabrizio Stabile died in September from a brain-eating amoeba 13 days after visiting a surf park near Waco, Texas. Now, his mother is filing a wrongful death suit against the Texas company she says is responsible for his death.
Rita Stabile is seeking more than $1 million in damages from Parsons Barefoot Ski Ranch (BSR) after she says her 29-year-old son died from the infection, according to the San Antonio Express-News. The infection occurs when contaminated water makes its way into the body.
According to the Express-News, the civil suit, which was filed on April 9 in McLennan County District Court, says BSR could have prevented her son's death "had they exercised ordinary care in the operation of their water park."
Test results from health officials concluded that there were conditions "favorable" for the amoeba at the BSR Cable Park and Stabile's exposure to it "likely occurred" there. The suit says the park's "blue-green dyed waves masked a pathogen soup" where the brain-eating amoeba could thrive, according to MySA.
Park owner Stuart Parsons said in an email to the Express-News that operators put chemicals in the water to make it safe and that the amoeba was not found in the surf park water. According to health officials, the amoeba — which rarely infects people — was not found in the water but was found in one of the four attractions at the waterpark.
"Our hearts go out to the family of Fab," Parsons wrote in an email to the Express-News. "Only God knows where he got the ameoba (sic)."
A new water filtration system was installed in the surf park after Stabile's death and the park is now open for surfers, according to the park's Facebook page.


Nice! I think the skull could use a few teeth, it looks a bit off with the empty mouth.
Thanks! I checked your code and realized that I just needed to create a simple mesh instead of whatever BillboardAssets in Unity are.
Nothing in particular, it just seems easier to program to me if everything is categorized separately (say if someone wanted to create a new type of item, or wanted to redo parts of the code). It was more of a "Why did you do it this way?" question.
I have a question regarding the item system. Why aren't items grouped in a class tree system, rather than all just being marked as an "item" class? Wouldn't it be simpler to have an abstract "item" class, with other classes that inherit from it such as "ItemWeapon" or "ItemPotion" and such?
Maybe you could do something like Skyrim and equip spells?


There are no hard coupled dependencies. However, there is a loose dependency on yum-mysql-community for RHEL/Centos platforms. As of the 8.0 version of this cookbook, configuration of the package repos is now the responsibility of the user.
Removing yum-mysql and other dependencies.
^ BREAKING CHANGE: RHELish users are now responsible for including a recipe from the "yum-mysql" or equivalent cookbook before utilizing the mysql_* resources.
Renaming "replication" test suite to "smoke"


Weekend nights might be tough for the many security guards where they have to deal with the public on a larger scale. Although they are experienced and trained as well, there are few things that need to consider to avoid any unusual situations. Night clubs are the place where people spend their time with the fellows and loved ones for celebration, and there would be only you who need to ensure security.
Security guards should be trained on handling public especially on specific events. Night clubs use to have enough rush, and there are possible chances of conflicts occurrence that need to be resolved by security guards first. He should be trained in keeping an eye on all the on-going activities around him.
It's essential for the security guard to get to know about all the tactics for dealing public. Well, it doesn't seem to be easy because loud music, dance, alcohol, and several other things are a great mixture of disaster and no one knows what will happen in the next moment. Newcastle night clubs are always in the news for such heavy disputes. This is the reason efficient static guards in New castle are hired only for the main gates where people are thoroughly checked at the entrance to avoid violation of rules.
These things need to know by every security guard for the night club duty. Keep yourself active all the time to avoid any uncertain situation. Static guards Newcastle are one of the best-renowned security agency giving so many opportunities to security guards.
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'Game Of Thrones' Series Finale Theories: Is Samwell Tarly More Important To The Show Than Fans Ever Thought?
Introduced in Season 1, Samwell Tarly has become a much-beloved character on HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones." What he lacks in brawn, he makes up for in brains — which may be the key to telling the stories of those around him.
During the Season 6 finale, Samwell (John Bradley) and his pseudo-wife Gilly (Hannah Murray) finally reached Oldtown. There, Jon Snow's (Kit Harington) best pal can put his love of books to good use, studying up on ways to defeat the white walkers. As viewers saw during episode 10, titled "Winds of Winter," the Citadel library is filled with books, which brought great joy to Samwell, who has grown used to being shamed for his love of knowledge and reading. What you may not have seen was what was hanging above the books — an orb-like astrolab chandelier that Uproxx writers suggest you should have seen before.
This complex theory stems from comments made by author George R.R. Martin, whose books are the basis for the show. The New Jersey native has often said that his novels pay homage to the "Lord of the Rings" books by J.R.R. Tolkien. Those stories are written from the point of view of the hero's best friend, Samwise. Fans have often compared Tolkien's Samwise to Martin's Samwell, noting that both are the more intelligent, loyal friends of their respective series' brooding hero.
Should this theory hold true, Samwell (or baby Sam) will have quite a grand story to tell. While he was busy brushing up on the necessary knowledge to assist the Watchers Beyond the Wall, Jon Snow was named the King of the North, Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) has been seated on the Iron Throne and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) made moves toward Westeros from Meereen with her dragons, a fleet of ships and the backing of both the Dothraki and the Unsullied.
If that's not complicated enough, Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) learned that Ned Stark (Sean Bean) may not be Jon Snow's father after all. During a look into the past he visits Rhaegar Targaryen's Tower of Joy, where he saw his Aunt Lyanna Stark (Cordelia Hill) asking Ned to promise to care for her son after her death. Many viewers presume this scene was meant to serve as confirmation that Jon Snow is the son of Lyanna and Rhaegar, which means he has little, if any, right to rule in the North and complicates Daenerys' dreams of ruling the Seven Kingdoms. That hasn't stopped Clarke from dreaming about her character's potential rule. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the London native seemed certain that nothing can stand in the way of the Mother of Dragons in Season 7 — not Cersei nor her might-be nephew.
It remains unclear when "Game of Thrones" will return for it's seventh xeason. As was previously reported, it seems highly likely that the series will be back in the spring as it has in a majority of past seasons.


Both Honey and Milk have been known since ages to among the most influential organic products when it comes to any issue. Honey is known across the globe for its antiseptic properties and healing qualities . Milk is the gentle and the mild exfoliator for sensitive skin types and will be ideal for the women who wish to get rid of blackheads in a gentle way.
Having said that, below we have included a number of easy recipes of making DIY peel-off face mask for acne at home, which will be gentle on your skin, and will not cause too much damage. They are also formed out of the ingredients that are very easily found in stores.
Pineapple may not be found too much in skin-care products but don't let it fool you. Pineapple contains many beneficial nutrients such as bromelain which reduces swelling and inflammation. This comes in handy when dealing with acne problems. The fruit is also filled with essential vitamins and antioxidants. Honey, as told before, is full of healing properties. It nourishes skin and reduces the scars and pigmentation caused by acne.
Glycerin is a wonderful ingredient when it comes to providing moisture. The even better quality of this product is that it locks the moisture in the skin, maintaining the texture to soft, smooth and supple. Milk, on the other hand, contains a plethora of healthy components that have antibacterial qualities. Milk also has exfoliating tendencies, so it helps fight off blemishes and marks on the face. The gelatin in the recipe helps make the mixture stick to the skin.


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The Big S: But How Will They Ever Learn to Get Along With Other People?
Articles, Homeschool
By Jennifer Eager
If you've ever been scrolling along on Facebook, you may have seen an article or a mention about homeschooling, or a specific mention of a homeschooler who did….whatever they did. Sometimes it's something fantastic, like win a science fair, write a novel, get into Harvard at the age of 15 or something else that inspires us and makes us think about homeschooling in a positive light. But then there are the horror stories–you know, the homeschooled kid who didn't have any friends who decided to commit mass murder, or the "homeschooling" parents who kept their kids tied up in the basement, starving them and beating them regularly. I always shake my head at these stories–because, statistically speaking, MOST kids attend school, public or private. Yet when those kids do something horrible, or when they are abused by the people who are supposed to love them most, does anyone ever point out that they go to school?? No, they don't. Yet somehow, you can bet homeschooling will always be to blame if there is the remotest possibility that it can be.
I propose that homeschooling has nothing to do with it. There are too many factors to get into and this is not a debate about homeschooling versus school. Parents homeschool for many different reasons, and some kids will be successful at homeschooling and some won't. (The same way some kids are successful in school and some aren't.) There are so many different ways to homeschool that there simply isn't a blanket statement to be made about predicting the outcome. Even within the same family, kids have such different personalities that one child might be a model homeschooler, while the next sleeps till noon and seems to spend every waking moment avoiding work. For that matter, there are so many kinds of schools, teachers and students that there is also no way to predict a child's success or failure in the school system.
However, one thing that most homeschoolers run into is well-meaning (or sometimes argumentative) people who want to know how you plan to turn your kids into functioning adults if they don't go to school. I used to always respond by saying that I didn't particularly want the sort of socialization that goes along with school. You know, the kind where older kids would never dream of being friends with younger kids and that the best you could hope for was for the older kids to benevolently ignore and not outright torture the younger ones. The kind where anyone who is the slightest bit different from the pack is teased, ignored, shamed or tormented. The kind where it's cool to be mean, where your true feelings might require staying hidden for fear of social reprisal, or where you might go along with your friends even though you don't want to or know it's wrong.
I would point to my kids as examples. Are they perfect? No, far from it. In fact, there have been times when I've wondered if going to school would have been better for them. But one thing my kids definitely have is a relationship with one another that people always notice and comment on. I grew up as one of four children, and I always considered my family happy and our sibling bonds to be strong. We still enjoy spending time together as adults–but we are not and have never been best friends. We all had our own friendships, our own interests and our own lives, and as adults we do not call each other with every little accomplishment or plan vacations together every year, or know the minutiae of one another's lives.
My kids, on the other hand, are one another's best friends and closest confidantes. In fact, my three daughters are each 4 years apart (my son is in the middle of the two younger girls) and yet, they spend hours together–reading, drawing, playing music and singing, cooking, playing video games, and talking. My son is often included, although because he is a serious musician he spends a huge portion of his day practicing and won't abandon his rigid schedule for hanging out. The four of them, along with a couple of outside friends, have a shared language and culture that makes people do a double take on how connected they are, and I have no doubt that this will remain with them always.
But that's just at your house, the naysayers would whine. I'm talking about socialization–like, who do they see every day besides their own family? People honestly seem to think that homeschoolers live in a box, that they're never allowed out of the house. I'm going to give just three examples of the ways my homeschoolers have been socialized. Keep in mind that these examples could apply to any homeschooler, or that every homeschooler might have a similar but slightly different example along the same lines.
My first (and favorite) example is community theater. When my kids were small, I would bring them to the local high school's plays. I had so much fun in my drama clubs growing up, and I minored in theater in college, so I always shared live performances with my kids. They loved watching them, and when they got to the point where I didn't need to be around the house every second because of nursing (which took a while because I had four kids almost ten years apart) I started volunteering at the box office of our local community theater. One night I brought Rachel with me to help–she was 12 at the time, so the only one who really could be useful–and we struck up a conversation with the lighting designer. He asked Rachel if she'd ever be interested in learning how theater lights worked, and she said yes….this was the beginning of a long, ongoing volunteer opportunity.
With Rachel learning about lighting and being on the schedule for shows, I was doing a lot of driving back and forth and sitting around. As luck would have it, The King and I was about to audition, and they wanted kids. Ben expressed interest–and he won the part of Louis, Anna's son. To make a long story short, since then our whole family has been onstage, in the lighting booth, on stage crew, stage managing, directing, producing, in the pit orchestra, on the play reading committee, and on the board of our two local community theaters. We have made friends with people of all ages, not just age peers of the kids. They can relate to people who are older, younger, adults, elderly and peers, and they have learned countless lessons abut life, theater, teamwork, disappointment, public speaking, volunteer work, and about an entire spectrum of jobs they never would have seen inside a classroom.
The second example would have to be music. When Ben was 11, he came to me one day and said he'd like to learn how to play the violin. Instantly I thought of horrible, screechy music, bugging him to practice, and a dusty abandoned violin inside of a year that I'd have to figure out what to do with. Money was also on my mind, because I knew music lessons are expensive. Ben had that figured out. He said he wanted to learn via YouTube, where there are all sorts of tutorials, so we went on Amazon and bought a starter violin.
This whole thing makes us laugh now, a bit less than four years later, because Ben now wants to be a concert violinist. It soon became clear that he hadn't just made an idle comment. I have never reminded him to practice, and even his first attempts at playing were not the stereotypical kid playing where you wildly look around for a way to escape. Within a month or so we'd arranged to have private lessons with a family friend at a rate we could afford…and within a year and a half, that friend was advising us that Ben needed a much better teacher. Music has opened up doors for Ben socially. He has played in chamber ensembles, orchestras, pit orchestras for musicals, at churches, in duets, and solo. He has gone to music camp, he has taught his sisters how to read music. He has learned piano as well, and taught his younger sister the basics of piano until she wanted to take lessons, too. He learned about jazz from a bass player in the pit when I was performing in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and together they improvised little jazz concerts before each performance. He is entering music competitions and learning German because his goal is to move to Germany to finish high school and attend university. To that end, he has social afternoons with a family we know that spent a year in Germany, and they play games and cook with no English allowed.
Music has also allowed my second daughter, Julia, to come out of her shell. She has always refused to audition for our shows, following her older sister Rachel to the lighting booth. But when Rachel taught herself ukelele, and then taught her sisters, Julia really took to it and started to sing along with it. She made friends with our next door neighbor's young adult daughter, who loves to sing, and the two of them would spend time, along with Emma, playing and singing and harmonizing. This friend, Cate, knew of a program called Youth Traditional Song Weekend, and she encouraged Julia to apply with her. They both got in and went together to Massachusetts this winter, where they sang with folk singers all weekend, and that has opened the door for other trips and friendships.
The third way homeschooling has allowed my kids to socialize outside of the norm is attendance at semester schools. (I'd never heard of them, either.) One day while I was scrolling through Facebook, a sidebar ad caught my eye. It was for Conserve School, a semester school in Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin, and its motto was: "One Semester Can Make a World of Difference." I am certain it targeted me as a homeschooler, and this is the reason why I never complain about targeted ads when so many people do! I clicked on the link, and the rest was history, as they say.
A semester school is unique. As a homeschool mom, I'd never want to send my child to school for one semester, because those kids would have a rhythm, they'd have friends and clubs and it would be tough to be the new kid–and with only a semester to fit in, it wouldn't work. A semester school is different because EVERY kid is new! You literally only attend the school for 4.5 months, along with about 50 other kids. Conserve specializes in environmental science, something my kids are passionate about, but a quick Google search revealed that there are hundreds of semester schools to choose from around the country, specializing in many things.
For us, Conserve was wonderful because it allowed my two older daughters (Ben won't go because he is too serious about his music to go there, and Emma needs to wait two more years to be old enough to apply) to travel to a different region of the country, live in a supervised yet independent way (like college, in a dorm), make friends that they are still very close to, learn all kinds of special skills they wouldn't have the opportunity for here on Long Island, such as cross country skiing, ice fishing, working a dog sled, solo camping in 16* weather, and a 55 mile backpacking adventure. Most of all, they were able to see that even though they never sat in a classroom, had homework or took exams, they could thrive in a school setting beautifully. In fact, Rachel didn't even reveal she was homeschooled when she was at Conserve because another homeschooler in her class there was "weird and gave us a bad name!" Yet, somehow, none of her classmates knew that she hadn't had the same experiences they had–even down to setting an alarm and getting up at 6am, something that she certainly never did at home. It gave them confidence, a taste of independence and a sense of just how much the world has to offer, and I am forever grateful that they went there.
These are just some of the ways my kids have been able to interact with the world that they wouldn't have been able to had they been sitting in public school their whole lives. They have become friends with people of all ages and from different backgrounds. They have grown as people because they have been allowed to do things differently. Now, of course, there have been some things they've missed out on. They didn't have the constant companionship of peers the way you do as a school kid. They missed out on some clubs and sports teams and fun things like Music in the Parks and being part of the crowd…and sometimes I wish they could have had those things too. But the way I look at it, there is good and bad that comes with each choice we make, and the difference is that parents of kids who go to school tend not to think about it because they are doing what's expected of them. Their kids are obviously socialized exactly the way they should be, so there's no reason to second guess. Parents who make the choice to homeschool have it harder because they chose to be different and, therefore, they chose to make their children different.
I think that we are conditioned to believe that different is worse…but in actuality, I don't believe it is. I think that sometimes, my kids have felt outside what people expect, but by and large, I think they enjoy the differences. They love the freedom we have always had to explore and play and draw and create. They have always loved sleeping in and not running out early on frosty mornings to wait for a school bus. They have always loved being able to study by the fire, or make hot cocoa in the afternoons, or read sitting in a tree, or scrapping work to go to the beach on the first truly gorgeous day in spring. They've always pointed out how much fun we have, and they love that they have never felt tied down by homework and reading lists and the length of a school day because for us, the school day has only ever been as long as we needed it to be to get work done. I think that the relationships they have made and the experiences they've had are going to serve them well in the long run, and that anyone asking the Big S Question after meeting them would wonder why they ever asked in the first place.
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Pérez-Reverte (The King's Gold, 2008, etc.) returns to familiar territory in 17th-century Spain, dispatching Captain Diego Alatriste for a fifth round of swordplay, gamesmanship and swashbuckling romance.
Introduced in Captain Alatriste (2005), our hero is battle-hardened but tender-hearted, skilled with swords both literal and (ahem) metaphorical. In fact, his tenderness for women, in this case for the beautiful actress María de Castro, tends naturally to lead to complications with their husbands. Alatriste is accompanied by a young servant, Íñigo Balboa Aguirre, whose innocence leads him to folly and to some questionable decisions that endanger his master. Íñigo's narration (though the author also uses an omniscient third-person voice) unfolds from the perspective of an old man who knows how the story is going to end; he gives us occasional flash-forwards to the fate of some of the characters, including the death of Alatriste, as well as to the decline of Spanish culture later in the century. The novel is set during the reign of Philip IV, and political intrigue both foreign and domestic stirs men to occasional acts of violence and attempts at assassination. It's also a golden age of Spanish literature, and writers such as Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina play roles on the periphery of the action. The lubricious villains try to implicate Alatriste in nefarious plots against the king, but our intrepid gallant of course manages to escape every shackle imposed on him. Although Íñigo's fascination with one of the ladies of the court almost gets both master and servant killed, this is a world in which the good guys ultimately, and predictably, triumph.


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Kidney stones can cause a sharp, stabbing pain in your back that gets worse if you put pressure on the area.
The Problem with Kidney Stones
Don't let this condition catch you off-guard
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You think you're living a healthy lifestyle by exercising, eating lots of whole foods and keeping stress at bay until one day – owee! You pass a kidney stone.
Kidney stones are hard, crystal-like deposits that form inside the kidneys. They can occur when the urine contains high amounts of salts and minerals – such as calcium, oxalate and uric acid – that become concentrated in the funneling portion of the kidney.
If this sediment isn't washed out of the body with the urine, stones can continue to grow in size and "fall out" of the kidneys.
When this happens, the tube between the kidneys and the bladder, called the ureter, can become obstructed, which is when the real problems begin.
"If a kidney stone falls out of the kidney and tries to migrate down into the bladder through the ureter, it can obstruct the flow of urine. If urine cannot flow effectively down to the bladder, it begins to back up in the kidney and can become infected or contaminated, which can cause an extreme amount of pain," explains Dr. Carrie Fitzgerald, a urologist at Kauai Medical Clinic.
"Kidney stones are a common problem with a high rate of recurrence; we see a lot of kidney stones in Hawaii, and we treat a lot of kidney stones here on Kauai," Fitzgerald says. "Kidney stones can be quite painful, but the stones usually cause no permanent damage if they're recognized in a timely fashion."
If left untreated, kidney stones can cause blood in the urine and recurrent infections.
A stone or group of stones that obstructs the flow of urine down the ureter can cause significant pressure on the filtering units in the kidney, which may eventually result in the loss of renal function.
"Depending on your situation, you may need nothing more than to take pain medication and drink lots of water to pass a kidney stone. In other instances — for example, if stones become lodged in the urinary tract, are associated with a urinary infection, or cause complications — surgery may be needed," Fitzgerald says.
Prevention is, of course, the best remedy.
"After treating kidney stones, we always provide patients with dietary and lifestyle options to avoid future stone formation," Fitzgerald says.
Here are four kidney stone prevention tips:
Stay well hydrated. Getting enough water (at least three quarts a day) is the best way to prevent the formation of kidney stones. The more water you drink, the more you'll urinate, which prevents stone-causing sediment from settling in your kidneys and urinary tract.
"A common question we get about kidney stones is can they be 'dissolved?'" says Fitzgerald. "Unfortunately, there are very few stones that can actually be dissolved."
Pass on the salt shaker. Too much sodium in your diet causes you to lose more calcium in your urine, which puts you at risk for developing stones. Limit your sodium intake to 2,000 milligrams a day, and avoid hidden sources of sodium such as commercially processed foods, fast food and even some restaurant-prepared dishes.
Sip on some lemonade. This summer refresher can do more than cool you down on a hot day. Studies have shown that lemons and other fruits high in natural citrate, such as limes and grapefruit, offer some stone-preventing benefits, as the citrate may prevent calcium from binding with other constituents that lead to stones. Also, citrate may prevent crystals that are already present from binding with each other so they don't get bigger.
Adopt a DASH Diet. The National Kidney Foundation recommends patients follow the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet to slow the progression of kidney stones and kidney disease. You'll be eating lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products as well as fish, poultry, beans, seeds and nuts.
Not only is it low in salt, the DASH Diet also is low in added sugars and has been demonstrated to decrease the risk for other chronic health conditions such as heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Note that the DASH Diet is not appropriate for people on dialysis. If you have chronic kidney disease, work with you primary care physician and a dietitian to develop the best diet plan for you.
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Information technology must be managed and must be recognized as a vital asset to our local government. Consistent with its principle, information technology is an indispensable tool of modern government that each state agency must use and must seek opportunities that will increase the quality of the services we provide to reduce the overall costs of government.
Management of Information Technology is the proven planning, budgeting, organizing, directing, training, evaluating and other control activities associated with information technology applications and functions. The management of the department includes procedures, equipment, software, and data (which is maintained to collect, record, process, store, retrieve, display and transmit information). Management also involves personnel and contractors/vendors.
Records Management provides the procedural infrastructure that ensures information is preserved, and when appropriate, destroyed. Records Management evaluates the information that Information Technology systems produce. The evaluated information is through all media and has legal, regulatory, operational and historical factors. By recognizing that all information is not equal, the records management aspect of the department handles how the record is kept, for how long, and what location and formation the data should be kept in.
Information Technology and Records Management must blend together to coordinate and ensure that records, regardless of format, are available to the end user and managed properly. This process then ensures transparency, accountability, and ultimately provides for substantial cost savings.
By assessing department's information processes, the Director and the IT team are able to formulate new ways of doing business and completing processes. This enables the team to set up new systems which will in turn increase productivity and ensure efficiency. Both increases in productivity and efficiency will ultimately lead to cost savings based on better output. Often, by changing business processes, the department is able to take on more challenges and complete different, or more comprehensive, tasks.
Supporting the Technology and Records Management Department serves as protection to both the local government and its residents. The mission of the Department is to create an environment within town government that is responsive and responsible to the public.


O'Connell Street looked very different in 1916 than it does today. Located in the heart of Dublin, Sackville Street – as it was known – was lined with elegant buildings, and one of the most impressive streets in Europe. All this changed during the Easter Rising when the rebels commandeered the General Post Office (GPO). They hoisted the Irish flag and launched their armed revolt. Retaliation was swift: a British gunboat on the Liffey shelled the area, reducing many buildings to rubble. We look at the streetscape during and after the fighting.


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23/04/18 | 15/11 (30/11/2015), BILATERAL | Lidia Soria. Brussels
The sentence against the opponent Leopoldo López joins, in the message, the majority of MEPs
Venezuela is the country that overshadows EU relations with Latin America. It divides eurodeputies from Latin American and its mention leaves a bitter taste when it is pronounced in Brussels. The situation of political prisoners in the country leaded by Nicolas Maduro alarms in Europe. The Commission and most groups in Parliament have spoken out before the final blow of the Venezuelan government: the sentence to 13 years, 9 months, 7 days and 12 hours of imprisonment against the opponent Leopoldo López.
The sentence could not be longer. It is the maximum he faced for the crimes of which he was accused of: conspiracy, public incitement, property damage and fire, always in relation to the violent events that took place during a demonstration against the government that he convened on February 12, 2014, and where three people died. Together with Lopez, four students were also arrested.
The sentence was considered unfair in Europe and the United States. From Brussels, the European Commission, through its External Action Service, reacted almost immediately. They requested the review of the sentence, which they considered "severe" following a "fair and transparent" process. "The trials of Mr. Leopoldo López, national coordinator of the Voluntad Popular Party, and the students Christian Holdack, Marcos Coello, Demian Martín and Angel González have not provided the accused adequate guarantees of transparency and a due legal process", indicated the spokesmen.
They also lamented that independent observers could not attend the final phase of the trial, "obstracted by local security forces," despite having a granted authorization by the judge. The news also caused commotion in most European parliamentary groups.
It also coincided with the day on which the EPP, together with MEPs Fernando Maura and Dita Charanzová (ALDE), proposed to the Venezuelan opposition to the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, represented by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (an electoral coalition created in 2008 to unify the opposition to the political party of President Hugo Chávez), and political prisoners. The European Parliament awards every year the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Created in 1988, it rewards personalities or groups that strive to defend human rights and fundamental freedoms. Last year, the award went to Denis Mukwege for his fight and protection of women from the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Venezuela has been very present this year in European politics. It all started with a debate in the European Parliament in March, at the request of the European People's Party, in reaction to the death of a young student of 14 years old who was shot in the head when participating in a demonstration against the Government and against the imprisonment of Antonio Ledezma, Mayor of Caracas.
After the debate on the situation in the country, a visit to Brussels of one of the daughters of Ledezma took place seeking political backing to the arrest of his father. "I come to denounce the violation of human rights in Venezuela, to inform, to witness what is happening there. Not only the arrest of my father, but the violation of human rights, insecurity… rights that should be respected in a democratic country are not respected, "denounced Vanessa Ledezma at that moment.
"Democracy is not only making choices. Laws must be respected. Only because elections take place, it can not be said that there is full democracy… In Venezuela there is a dictatorship. It is evidenced by the arrest of my father and other political prisoners or because of the authorization of firearms in public demonstrations, well, recently a 14 year old boy was killed. They are unacceptable things in a country that should not have happened. How long Venezuelans will live a situation like this? ", she wondered.
In this context, the European Parliament adopted in March, by a comfortable majority, a resolution on Venezuela in calling on the Government of Nicolas Maduro for the immediate release of political prisoners in the country. A message from the European parliamentary groups to the Venezuelan government that was not accompanied by a similar statement from the European Commission.
The Commission rejected interpose sanctions on Venezuela, despite the step forward taken in this direction by the US government. The strength shown by President Barack Obama after announcing sanctions against senior officials of the country was seen in Brussels as a "bilateral" matter.
"Venezuelan authorities must immediately release all peaceful demonstrators, opposition leaders and students who were arbitrarily detained for exercising their right to freedom of expression and fundamental rights", it says the adopted resolution. It also specifically called for the release of opponents Antonio Ledezma, Leopoldo López and Daniel Ceballos, and their right to "receive medical attention and have immediate, private and regular access to their families and lawyers".
They voted for the Popular, Socialist and Liberal block. Among conservatives, they all voted for but a MEP, who abstained. They joined the "yes" other three independent MEPs, two MEPs from the left wind GUE/NGL and six forming part of the not registered group. Among the Greens, 15 MEPs also voted in favor of it. Against, they voted almost entirely the group of the European left GUE/NGL, 17 eurodeputies within the group of independent, ten in the group of the unregistered and 19 MEPs belonging to the Greens.
The vote on this resolution was considered by the Ambassador of Venezuela to the European Union, Antonio García, as a resolution promoted by "political motivations". "We believe it represents an interference in the Venezuelan internal affairs and it is an evidence that the Right and the extreme Right in the European Parliament are the sponsors of this resolution and other previous resolutions against our country, with clear political intentions in an election year in Venezuela and Spain "the ambassador explained.
The Latin American parliamentarians had the same perception. During the celebration of the EU-CELAC Summit (Community of Latin American and Caribbean states) last June, they unanimously demanded the non-interference by Europe in the internal affairs of Venezuela. "From the Latin American side we have said that self-determination was respected in Venezuela and that there is no room for interference. It is being diagnosed there are no free elections and there has been no evidence of fraud… We will not accept what has not happened. That's one of the parts that do not match, and the other, it is that internal problems must be resolved internally, "said José Leonel Vásquez Búcaro, co-president of EuroLat (Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly).
The situation of political prisoners in the country left out of a text of conclusions that MEPs from both continents wanted to close in the summit. Most European parliamentary groups, where only the left GUE groups and the Greens are excluded, considered that there were "very dangerous drift in the Venezuelan democratic system", demanding the end of political prisoners and the holding of "free to all on equal terms" elections. The claim of many MEPs is that only an improvement of democracy can solve internal conflict problems.//
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