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The Division 2 Plans to Hold an Open Beta
5 monthes ago - By Game Rant
During a recent live stream on Tom Clancy's The Division 2's official Twitch channel, one of the game's developers confirms that the shooter will hold an open beta.
The Division 2's New Scenery is Enough to Draw Me Back In GameSpew
5 monthes ago - By N4G
Rich at GameSpew: After taking part in its private beta, The Division 2 doesn't seem that much different from its predecessor, but its new setting has instantly drawn me in.
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The Division 2 open beta dates, release date, system requirements
5 monthes ago - By Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Division 2's private beta may be over, but one of the developers at Ubisoft let slip during a Twitch stream that an Open Beta is coming. Though the Private Beta had its issues, they were minimal compared to other recent betas and gave us a good chance to take a look at the game. Ubisoft have also set out to explain what features to expect on PC. This guide has details on the open beta, as well as the game's release date/platform, details about the PC version, and information on each of the five editions.
The Division 2 developer possibly leaks open beta
5 monthes ago - By Windows Central
There may be another one coming.
One of Ubisoft's most-anticipated new titles is The Division 2 , the sequel to the popular first game that launched back in 2016. The Division 2 is a third-person military shooter which tasks you with stopping malicious forces from seizing control of the government in the District of Columbia. It's unclear how the rest of the country is affected at this point, but we should find out soon enough.
The Division 2 Beta: Even Divisionier
Paul writes: "As I'm sure you are aware, the juggernaut that is The Division is still going strong, with healthy player counts and continued support even to this day. However, as I'm also sure you are aware, the march of time waits for no man or game, and The Division 2 is gearing up to launch. In readiness, Ubisoft have decided to run down the Private Beta route giving gamers the chance to check out the general state of affairs. With that in mind, I present to you my impressions of the state of the game, and thoughts about the beta in general."
The Division 2, Toy Fair, And More Skewedcast
This week Jeremy and Mark from The Hard times join Skewed and Reviewed for more Pop Culture fun. They talks The Division 2, Private Beta Upcoming games releases, and the layoffs for Activision/Blizzard and more.
14:57 Division 2 21:30 Far Cry New Dawn / Anthem / Metro Exodus 31:37 NY Toy Fair 55:26 Activision/Blizzard Layoffs
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In a livestream earlier today, Ubisoft developers confirmed that there will be a The Division 2 open beta!
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Kenya's government rejected accusations by Somalia that its forces breached their peacekeeping mandate and said the troops will remain there until the Horn of Africa country stabilizes.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud earlier this month asked a group of Kenyan forces to leave the country's south, accusing them of violating their mandate by supporting one of two factions seeking control of the Jubaland region. Somalia wants a "neutral force" to replace the Kenyan peacekeepers, Somali Information Minister Abdishakur Ali Mire said on July 1.
Kenyan troops entered Somalia in October 2011 to fight al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabaab after a series of kidnappings of foreigners and the murder of a British tourist in Kenya, which the government blamed on the militant group. Tourism is Kenya's second-biggest foreign-exchange earner.
"Kenya's security along the border with Somalia is intractably linked to peace and stability in that country," Zaddock Syong'oh, a policy adviser in Kenya's Foreign Ministry, said in an interview on July 12 in the capital, Nairobi. "Kenya's military will not therefore leave Somalia until it is stable and secure."
Kenya's focus in Somalia is to secure Jubaland, which is also used as a base to plan attacks on Kenya, he said. "It is a matter of Kenya's national security," Syong'oh said.
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The semi-autonomous region is the main source of the more than 600,000 Somali refugees currently in Kenya, Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said on July 10. The UNHCR and other aid agencies are unable to deliver assistance in parts of Jubaland and situation there remains "tense," Guterres said in an e-mailed statement.
Since they began the incursion, Kenyan forces have helped African Union peacekeepers liberate parts of southern and central Somalia previously controlled by al-Shabaab. Operations to free more territory have been suspended while the government resolves its dispute with Kenya, Syong'oh said.
Somalia accused Kenya of violating its mandate after clashes between two factions seeking control of Kismayo, the capital of Jubaland. Regional leaders in May elected Ahmed Mohamed Islam, a warlord also known as Madobe, as the region's interim president. Barre Adam Shire Hirrale, a former defense minister, has since declared himself head of the region, according to the African Union.
"Kenya is not supporting any one," Syong'oh said.
An e-mail and calls to Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid's office seeking comment weren't answered.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on April 9 his country has "invested immense diplomatic energy and resources in the quest for a stable Somalia," and will support the African Union peace process in Somalia because "a stable and prosperous Somalia is in the interest of all nations."
The UN is creating a tripartite commission with the governments of Kenya and Somalia to prepare for the voluntary return home of Somali refugees. The repatriation should be slow to avoid destabilizing the peace process, Guterres said.
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In discussion, it almost always becomes clear that this is the wrong question. Most of the people we work with don't set out to do a poor job or to let others down. So, what's really happening when teams aren't working well? When individuals aren't seeing their commitment through?
One possibility is that what seems like a lack of accountability is actually a lack of clarity. Clarity is established largely through language—and most of us are quite imprecise in our language.
Fernando Flores, a thought-leader who works on leadership and communication, suggests that, at the end of the day, there are a few "speech acts" that we use—and we need to use them well if we are going to build thriving organizations. Language creates reality. Two of the five speech acts that Flores describes are requests and promises (or commitments). Understanding these better can create greater clarity, better communication and coordination, and, ultimately, significantly improved accountability.
Let's start with the most basic question: What's a promise? I ask this question at the start of my workshops and the answer that emerges is that any time we assure someone (including ourselves) that we will do something, we are making a promise. A promise is a powerful, even sacred commitment.
It's worth pausing for a moment and contemplating this definition, considering the power of our promises—and the expectations we create when we say "yes." I suggest this because almost all of us, at least sometimes, say yes without full commitment. Perhaps there are caveats that we fail to share—dependencies that we do not control. For example, we might promise we will deliver something to a client by a particular date. If we don't ensure, before making that promise, that all the people who are required to support that commitment can support that date—it's a "shallow" promise. We also make shallow promises when we commit without knowing exactly what we committed to.
In addition to shallow promises there is a second type of promise—a "criminal" promise. These are the promises we make and have no intent of delivering on. We typically make these because we are afraid to say no or to ask the questions that would enable us to make a stronger promise. Sometimes our "criminal" promises are made because saying yes is easier than saying no. We often make criminal promises to those closest to us—promising to be home for dinner, or to free ourselves from work for the weekend.
The third and final category of promises is strong promises. When we are clear that we are making a commitment and what that commitment requires, and we know that we can deliver—then we can make a strong promise. It's important to add that even strong promises may need to be negotiated—circumstances can change.
One of the most powerful ways for leaders to ensure that the promises our people make are strong, is to model the behavior of strong promises. Are we making commitments we can keep? Are we keeping them? Are we letting people know when we can't? For many leaders, the answer we discover when we ask ourselves these questions, is not always. We don't respond to an e-mail in the time frame we promised. We leave our people waiting for longer than we said we would. This is the "search inside yourself" moment. What commitments are you making and not keeping? To whom are you making shallow or even criminal promises? Think beyond work. Think about the promises you make to your family, to yourself.
Do we make it safe for the person we're making a request of to clarify the request and to say no or negotiate? If not, it's not a request. It's a demand.
Do we confirm that the request is understood and the person we are making it of has said yes? Or do we just assume this has happened?
As you think more about the quality of your commitments and requests, you'll see many opportunities for improvement to accountability. I'm confident of this because that's what happened to me—and has happened to everyone I've shared this with. We just aren't that careful. And the results we get often are a result of not being careful.
If we model strong promises and make clear requests, we will begin the work of creating a culture of accountability. If we are transparent about what we're doing and teach our teams how to make a clear request and what a strong commitment is, we'll keep that work going. Along the way, we will be demonstrating respect to those we work with and embodying the value of integrity.
If, as you've read this, you thought that it doesn't sound that hard—you're right. It's about consistently being aware and, moment-to-moment, doing the right thing. The results can be amazing.


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Kim Chungha Gives Jeon Somi A Helping Hand With Her Acting In "Idol Drama Operation Team"
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Kim Chungha and Jeon Somi showed their close friendship in the latest episode of "Idol Drama Operation Team."
On June 23, KBS' "Idol Drama Operation Team" revealed individual footage of the cast practicing their roles. One of the cast members, Jeon So Mi, is shown arguing with someone through a video call.
It turned out that as a solution to practicing by herself, Jeon Somi video called a friend to practice her lines. The helpful friend at the other end of the line was Kim Chungha.
To help practice Jeon Somi's lines, Kim Chungha yells, "Jeon So Mi, what's wrong with you?" And Jeon Somi answers, "What did I do?"
Jeon Somi then requests Kim Chungha to look at her with an expression of disbelief, and Kim Chungha responds with a comical face instead.
Meanwhile, Kim Chungha recently debuted as a solo artist with her song "Why Don't You Know." The two former members of project girl group I.O.I showed that they are maintaining a close friendship even after the group's disbandment.
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Total Card Inc. is starting operations at its new Lake Lorraine headquarters.
The 40,000-square-foot, two-story building will provide the company space to grow, its leaders said.
Total Card provides customized call center support and financial products and services and also issues its own credit cards. It has issued millions of Visa and MasterCard accounts and serviced accounts for a growing number of Fortune 500 companies.
The company has grown to 300 employees in three locations. The Sioux Falls office was located at 5109 S. Broadband Lane.
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We now find ourselves quite solidly in 1889, and, as we already know, that as of 7 May a new trial had been granted to Valerie Wiedemann in her breach of promise and libel case against Robert Horace Walpole.
It didn't take long for the news to spread. Here's a brief from the Brisbane Courier dated Thursday 9 May 1889:
BREACH OF PROMISE. London, May 7.
Miss Wiedemann, who recently sued the Hon. Robert Horace Walpole, heir to the Earl of Orford, for breach of promise and seduction, has applied for a new trial, which was granted.
[It will be remembered that the Judge in the former trial ordered that a verdict for defendant be recorded, as the plaintiff refused to answer certain questions put to her in the witness box.]
The Walpoles have had a child, a daughter, and named her Dorothy Rachel Melissa Walpole. She was born in Kensington, London where her parents lived at 4 Queen's Gate Terrace, and she was baptized [the record is pictured, below left] on 15 April 1889 by an assistant curate, G. Bertram P. Coopland.
Just before that blessed event, however, readers on the West Coast of the U.S. had received upsetting news regarding the case and their own Louise Melissa Walpole [née Corbin]!
Here's a brief from the front page of the Pullman [Washington] Herald dated 13 April 1889:
From the time her child was born Mrs. Robert Horace Walpole, formerly Miss Louise Corbin of New York, has been very ill and her friends fear she cannot recover. Since the scandal between her husband and Miss Wieldman was exposed in court a few months ago she has been very nervous and in depressed spirits. Mr. Walpole is heir to the Earldom of Oxford.
Let's choose to ignore the facts that Wiedemann's name and Orford are both misspelled—likely the result of the effort of an over-zealous proofreader—and the fact that while her father, industrialist D.C. Corbin, had been born and raised in New York, Louise—born in Montana—had never been in the Big Apple as anything but a rich visitor. She'd been raised almost exclusively in and around the spas of Europe by her continually ailing mother, and never lived with her father.
What's striking is the fact that the article so calmly suggests that the young daughter of a local power broker may be close to death, at least according to unnamed friends. Now, I can easily see how the claim could be exaggerated, especially given that Louise had been raised by a woman who apparently never recovered from anything.
One can only imagine what was in the papers back in England. Was it a smokescreen planned to win back some of the sympathy that Wiedemann must have been currying through the writings of the Pall Mall Gazette, a newspaper that, while certainly not highly regarded [W.T. Stead of the Gazette was referred to by Matthew Arnold as a "feather-headed puppet of the New Journalism"], had apparently doubled its readership since it championed the cause of Miss Mildred Long in the Langworthy Case, and was presumably doing the same for Miss Wiedemann?
Still, the former Miss Corbin seemingly moved from a quite life on the continent alongside her perennially ailing mother into the midst of the latest scandal to hit the papers in a decade replete with them. She'd gone from eligible society girl to the public target of her new husband's crazed ex-lover. She'd heard from the seemingly unstable German ex-governess, "You know that I must curse you from the bottom of my heart, and that I do so, and shall do so in all eternity for the endless suffering you have brought over me, and also, you run away whenever I come. I shall meet you once, and you shall hear my curse." That couldn't possibly have sat very well with young Louise, likely still dreaming of marital bliss at that point. Or trying to.
The Walpoles apparently believed that Wiedemann had also written threats in chalk on their doorsteps and had followed the new Mrs. Walpole on the streets. Provocatively, a magazine portrait of the lovely new Countess of Orford had been defaced soon thereafter and left for her to find, having been scrawled insults such as, "Horrible, honourless girl," which I'll assume was a far more powerful condemnation of a woman than it might be today.
I've found the photograph at the top, right, of this entry [click it to enlarge] in an on-line portfolio of photographs grouped under the name "Walpole" by Life magazine. I believe this untitled, undated image is of Louise Melissa Corbin, and it is the portrait that had been torn from a supplement to Life magazine and defaced by Valerie Wiedemann. It was sight of this portrait, and its accompanying news, in early January 1888 that alerted her to Robert Walpole's engagement and upcoming nuptials.
Wiedemann's reaction may even have been the reason the couple was married at the English Embassy Church in Paris, and not in London or Norfolk, seat of the Orfords. But perhaps that had been the plan all along.
Let's just say that, despite my natural skepticism that this story may have been planted in the papers, it isn't very difficult to believe that Louise Walpole, suddenly the wife of an older man with what was quickly proving to be a checkered past, might have taken it all poorly and become ill.
1889 would be full of depositions, subpoenas, and preparation for proceedings that would not resume until over a year after Lady Dorothy's baptism. There would still be more strife between the legal teams before the second round of this match began, and, surprisingly, Valerie Wiedemann will have taken control of her own case inside the courtroom, representing herself, once the trial starts.
We'll see how that worked out for her next time…
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Students help feed families
Kelly Ring reports.
TAMPA, Fla. - Jesuit High School students and their families are meeting to deliver Thanksgiving meals for families in need.
"During this time of COVID there are a lot of people in need," said Jesuit High School parent Laura Jejune.
Her son Sam Jejune shared, "I think it's a really nice thing to do. I don't know. I just feel good about it."
They are taking part in Jesuit High School's annual Thanksgiving basket drive.
Andy Wood, director of community services for Jesuit explained, "It is one of the pillars of what we are supposed to be about here- men for others."
This is the 10th year for the event.
"We have well over 200 student volunteers plus their parents," said Wood. "So we are probably looking at between 400 and 450 volunteers here today."
Students raised more than $16,000 for turkeys and all the trimmings.
"Such a great hallmark of the Jesuit experience, that you go out and help others," said Nico Machado, a student at the school.
"By doing that now especially in the greatest need for people. It's just really rewarding to help other people out."
They will be delivering about 260 baskets to local Boys & Girls Clubs and migrant education programs.
"It's just really rewarding to see the smiles on people's faces when they receive these packages," shared Frankie Machado.
The school says part of the student's education, is to understand the importance of serving others.
"It's about teaching these guys that serving others is about the most important thing that they can do," said Wood.
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It is tempting to credit the coercive power of authoritarian governments for their success in dealing with COVID-19, but trust is a more persuasive explanation. Testing, tracing, lockdowns and vaccinations require such trust to succeed. | REUTERS
by Brad Glosserman
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Research — and there is a lot — had confirmed the superiority of democratic systems in responding to catastrophes and crises. Yet as the COVID-19 outbreak spread, many, if not most, of those democracies fumbled the moment and autocratic regimes seemed better able to contain and roll back the pandemic. That revisionist assessment leads to dangerous conclusions; fortunately, it aligns only superficially with events of the last year. A more critical look reveals very different lessons, some of which may be just as troubling, however.
Economist Amartya Sen first argued that the impacts of natural-disaster catastrophes are the product of specific political conditions, namely, an absence of democracy. Freedom of speech and independent media allow information to circulate better in a democracy; voters use that information to hold their government accountable for its actions, ensuring a better response.
Initial reports about the COVID-19 outbreak confirmed half the thesis: The coverup of events in Wuhan — including the silencing of doctors who feared that a new disease was emerging — allowed the coronavirus to spread and the insulation of government from public pressure allowed local officials to ignore or downplay the unfolding disaster. Those initial missteps were critical. One study estimated that if Beijing has acted three weeks sooner, a quick response by China could have cut the incidence of the disease by 95 percent and prevented the pandemic. Still, China was ultimately successful in containing the disease, undercutting the argument that authoritarian systems would fail such tests.
Far more damaging to the Sen thesis has been the inability of Western democracies to tackle the pandemic. That record is too well known (and too depressing; it's a new year) to revisit but the list of failures is long and indiscriminate. Experts and scholars now concede that "regime type" — authoritarian or democratic — is not the key variable.
Some of the governments that responded best to the pandemic are in East Asia. Rachel Kleinfeld of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace credits Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan as competing for the "gold standard" of the best response in the early stages of the outbreak. (They are, respectively, a liberal, nondemocratic regime, an illiberal dominant-party state and a liberal democracy; so much for the explanatory power of "regime type.")
Kleinfeld identified three factors that helped them succeed. The first was learning from the first SARS outbreak in 2003, namely, moving quickly to develop tests and trace reports of infection, and then isolating individuals with the virus. The second was political legitimacy, which meant that government decisions were respected and followed by the public. The third was state capacity, or the ability to intervene competently in a range of areas, from communication to the provision of health care to the manufacturing of needed supplies such as personal protective equipment and vaccines. Advanced Western democracies were supposed to excel at this last factor. In fact, their performance was appalling: Messaging was incoherent and often wrong, health care systems were strained and critical equipment was invariably in short supply.
In an early paper that has become the starting point for almost every analysis of this question, Sofia Fenner, an assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College, concluded that state capacity is the key. It's somewhat obvious: "High state capacity gives rulers more tools to confront all crises, including epidemiological ones." But, she cautioned, leadership matters. As the U.S. has learned, tools are useless if the executive refuses to take the problem seriously. Fenner also noted that federalism and the decentralization of power can undercut executive authority, which is often cited in the U.S. case, but it also applies to Japan where considerable power is in the hands of prefectural governors. Fenner also pointed to experience with SARS and avian flu outbreaks that improved government responses.
Critical to success in dealing with crises is trust. When citizens trust their government, information is accepted and acted upon. Masks are worn and vaccines taken when trust is high. Directives, even difficult ones, are respected. Restricting business hours and getting people to stay is home is only possible with trust. In the absence of trust, the only option is coercion, which risks undermining government legitimacy.
Sadly, trust is a precious commodity these days. Edelman, the public relations consultancy, produces an annual Trust Barometer on the state of trust around the world. The 2020 edition — published before the outbreak — explains government responses to COVID-19. For example, China enjoys the highest levels of trust of any country (as measured by overall trust in government, business, media and nongovernmental organizations) among the general population with a score of 82, the informed public at 90 and mass population at 77. The U.S. is well below, with scores of 47, 53 and 45, respectively; Japan's numbers are 42, 53 and 42. The mean is 54, 65 and 51. In a COVID-19 update, an Edelman survey of 10 countries found that only 48% trusted their governments as sources of information about the virus.
It is tempting to credit the coercive power of authoritarian governments for their success in dealing with COVID-19, but trust is a more persuasive explanation. Testing, tracing, lockdowns and vaccinations require trust to succeed: Coercion has limits and cannot explain the success of Singapore or South Korea, ranked sixth and tenth, respectively, in the Edelman charts. More revealing are low levels of trust in the U.S. and several European countries, which helps explain their appalling performances.
This is not an abstract discussion. Apart from obvious self-interest — life-or-death decisions tend to focus attention — there is a belief that the future of global politics could tilt on the COVID-19 response. Beijing's seeming success and Washington's dismal performance anticipate an evolving balance of power, or as Lawrence Summers, former U.S. secretary of the Treasury, warned, this "may well be a hinge in history."
Political economist Dan Drezner isn't so sure. After looking hard at U.S. military and economic capabilities, he concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic is "unlikely to have a transformative effect on the distribution of power." Claims that the pandemic is shifting global interests, a result of economic decoupling, are also exaggerated. Ultimately, "the pandemic's lasting effects may be minimal."
I like Drezner's conclusions, but I worry about China's efforts to shape perceptions of the merits of political models. Beijing touts the superiority of autocratic governance and its appeal is growing not only for wannabe dictators but even publics that envy China's economic record. Claims that China is the first major economy to resume growth after the outbreak burnishes that image.
The readiness to valorize authoritarian responses isn't restricted to developing countries. The belief that it takes a strongman or strong hand to conquer this virus can take root in democracies too. Last summer, 500 political and civil leaders, Nobel laureates and pro-democracy institutions around the world published "A call to defend democracy," which warned that "even some democratically elected governments are fighting the pandemic by amassing emergency powers that restrict human rights and enhance state surveillance without regard to legal constraints, parliamentary oversight or time frames for the restoration of constitutional order."
Authoritarians want us to believe that there is a trade-off between an effective COVID-19 response and human rights. (They make the same claim about economic performance.) But the evidence suggests that while the regime type explanation is too neat, the dichotomy between success and freedom is fake as well. Taiwan has done an exceptional job battling the infection and Freedom House cites that record as proof that "You don't need dictatorships to fight COVID-19." We mustn't be seduced by the authoritarian temptation. Defeating COVID-19 will take a collective effort, one that demands leadership and individual responsibility.
Brad Glosserman is deputy director of and visiting professor at the Center for Rule-Making Strategies at Tama University as well as senior advisor (nonresident) at Pacific Forum. He is the author of "Peak Japan: The End of Great Ambitions" (Georgetown University Press, 2019).
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Carlo Pellegrini, 1839–1889, Italian, Politicians - Vanity Fair - 'The Marquis D'Azeglio'. June 20, 1874, 1874
Carlo Pellegrini, 1839–1889, Italian, Politicians - Vanity Fair - 'The Marquis D'Azeglio'. June 20, 1874, 1874, Chromolithograph, Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick, B1979.14.666
Carlo Pellegrini, 1839–1889, Italian
Politicians - Vanity Fair - 'The Marquis D'Azeglio'. June 20, 1874
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Khanomabad () may refer to:
Khanomabad, Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province
Khanomabad, Javanrud, Kermanshah Province
Khanomabad, Ravansar, Kermanshah Province
Khanomabad, Kurdistan
Khanomabad, Qazvin

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'Night, Night
The short, tragic career of M. Night Shyamalan
by Jason Blair
THE HAPPENING: Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Cinematography, Tak Fujimoto. Music, James Newton Howard. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo. Twentieth Century Fox, 2008. R. 91 minutes.
Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) wonders why.
Artistically, M. Night Shyamalan is dead.
Adrift since the waning moments of Signs (2002), M. Night Shyamalan hit bottom with The Lady in the Water (2006), a dreary, confused bedtime story about a mermaid, twitchy and pearlescent, who emerges from a swimming pool. At the time, Water was the greatest catastrophe of a once-incandescent career. The Happening, while not as muddled as its predecessor, arguably is the greater failure, since it convincingly ends any meaningful discussion as to whether, apart from the trick-laden The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan is worthy of serious attention.
For a few precious minutes, The Happening exerts itself hauntingly. In New York, high atop a construction site, men hurl themselves to the ground. In Philadelphia, a chain of suicides begins, the same gun used again and again. Nearby, a disaster more intimate unfolds: the dissipation of the relationship between Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) and Alma (Zooey Deschanel). This dependable crisis-within-a-crisis structure — a situation at least as old, but surely older, than Henry James' The Painted Veil — steadies The Happening, if only briefly. Along with their friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez), Elliot and Alma board a train for the countryside. The film rattles forward, paranoid and defiant, capitalizing on everything we don't yet know. Then the train stops for good in Filbert, Pennsylvania. And so does The Happening.
As the train passengers set out chaotically for the safe zone of western Pennsylvania, the film contracts with stunning haste. You can almost hear the grind of the film's gears in downshift, resulting in fewer characters, fewer developments and — unless I misread the audience — fewer interested moviegoers. As in Signs, The Happening relies on media reports for exposition, reports that, as in real life, mislead as much as clarify. This time, Shyamalan adds cell phones to tv and radio stations, resulting in several poorly staged scenes of people standing around, useless and dumb. But the real offense of The Happening is Shayamalan's premise for the attacks, a concept almost as ridiculous as the heavy-handed way in which Elliot grasps it. At one point, Elliot barks that to survive, they need to "stay ahead of the wind." Is that all? While you're at it, try getting blood from a turnip, honey from a rock or a silk purse from a sow's ear. You get the idea. Billed as a paranoid thriller, The Happening is the worst kind of fantasy, one with neither foot in anything close to reality.
All of which is a shame, when you consider the talented actors who keep rallying to Shyamalan's cheerful little flicks. Wahlberg plays the sad clown admirably, a morally upright, naïvely positive leader who's almost an exact reprise of his Eddie Adams from Boogie Nights. Zooey Deschanel brings her offbeat charm to The Happening, but her confession to Elliot — her infidelity is telegraphed from the start — sounds like she's complaining of an itchy throat. Elliot's reaction is to remain steady, even during a scene of gratuitous violence against children, which should have parents picketing this film in the streets. In fact, the only person who gets under Elliot's skin is an irascible, insular country woman, the Nurse Ratched of rural Pennsylvania. Eventually, Elliot slumps a little. "We need to get out of this nightmare," he says. You said it, not me.
The Happening is now playing at Cinemark and VRC Stadium 15.


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Mehmet Ali Talat, né le  à Kyrenia, est un homme d'État nord-chypriote, président de la République turque de Chypre du Nord de 2005 à 2010.

Dirigeant du Parti républicain turc (Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, centre-gauche), Mehmet Ali Tlat est un partisan de la réunification de l'île de Chypre sous la forme d'une fédération.

Nommé premier ministre par le dirigeant Rauf Raif Denktaş le  jusqu'au , son parti et lui sortent renforcés du référendum du  au cours duquel les électeurs chypriotes turcs et les colons turcs ont accepté un plan de réunification soumis par le secrétaire général des Nations unies Kofi Annan.

Alors que son parti a déjà remporté les élections législatives en , il est élu au suffrage universel représentant de la RTCN le , et prête serment le 24 avril suivant.

Après cinq années de mandat, il est battu lors du scrutin du  où il n'obtient que 42,9 % des voix. Premier ministre depuis , Derviş Eroğlu remporte l'élection avec 50,4 des voix et prête serment le .

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Michael Cody, a senior, takes the wheel of the "Distractology" simulator Wednesday at Gloucester High School. The simulator, which visiting GHS this week through today, is sponsored by the Arbella Insurance Foundation and Eastern Insurance Group LLC. It teaches students about the myriad ways a driver can become distracted, and the potentially disastrous consequences. Over 200 students (juniors and seniors with driver's licenses or permits) have gone through the simulator according to Nick Prpich of Arbella, who oversees the project. "It's a good tool," Prpich said of the simulator. "The students have the privilege of learning things that would take them years to learn out on the road. This is a safe way to learn it."


Boston, Mass. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) New England regional office and the U.S. Department of Energy are honoring nine Massachusetts organizations as ENERGY STAR partners for their outstanding contributions to public health and the environment. These enterprises have earned ENERGY STAR Awards for demonstrating national leadership in cost-saving energy efficient solutions. They are among the 183 ENERGY STAR Award Winners nationwide that will be honored in Washington, D.C., on April 11.
Beacon Capital Partners, of Boston, is a tenant-focused private real estate investment firm, totaling over $13 billion in equity. Beacon Capital has maintained a longstanding commitment to energy conservation and sustainability across its portfolio, leveraging ENERGY STAR tools and resources to communicate with stakeholders and maintaining a high average ENERGY STAR score of 73 across its portfolio.
Boston Properties, of Boston, is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners, managers, and developers of office properties in the United States. Boston Properties has demonstrated ongoing dedication to corporate sustainability and has integrated ENERGY STAR into all aspects of its robust energy management program.
National Grid, of Waltham, is an electricity and natural gas delivery company that connects nearly 7 million customers to vital energy sources through its networks in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. National Grid Rhode Island demonstrated excellence in delivering energy efficiency programs, specifically Home Performance with ENERGY STAR, completing 2,500 projects for over 5,910 megawatt hours and 20,890 million British thermal units in savings.
Office Properties Income Trust – GOV Portfolio, of Newton, is a real estate investment trust which primarily owns office properties that are majority leased to the U.S. Government and other government tenants. GOV is receiving Partner of the Year recognition and has demonstrated an ongoing dedication to its energy management program, leveraging ENERGY STAR tools and resources in unique ways to communicate throughout its organization.
Raytheon Company, of Waltham, is a technology and innovation company specializing in defense, civil government, and cybersecurity solutions. In 2018, Raytheon expanded its energy team membership and reach to develop a strategy along with projects that will generate ongoing energy savings into the future.
Staples, of Framingham, is an office supply retailer that has continued to maintain its notable corporate commitment to energy efficiency by consistently reducing energy use and being a leader in the industry.
Sustainable Comfort Inc., of Worcester, is a multifamily-focused green building consulting firm that in 2018 continued to expand in the affordable housing space, certifying more than 660 homes as ENERGY STAR, representing a 60 percent increase compared to 2017.
The Lighting and Product Sponsors of Mass Save, in Waltham. Mass Save, sponsored by Cape Light Compact, Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil, helps consumers discover savings through the adoption of ENERGY STAR certified products. The Sponsors of Mass Save successfully executed an omni-channel retail and recycling initiative that resulted in 295,000,000 kilowatt hours in annual energy savings.
The RMR Group LLC, of Newton, is an asset management company whose business primarily consists of providing management services to real estate investment trusts and real estate related operating companies. In 2018, the group has continued to incorporate ENERGY STAR tools and best practices into its services for the commercial real estate industry.


On 14th June 2017, the MAIDS and CSDS programs were very glad to welcome Prof. Xiangming Chen and his Faculty Colleagues and 25 students from the Center for Urban and Global Studies of Trinity College, Hartford, US. The faculty staff and students were mid-journey through their field trip visiting "River Cities" in China, Thailand and Cambodia.
During the Visit, Dr. Carl Middleton of CSDS and MAIDS offered a lecture titled "Think global, act 'teleconnected' local: Exploring the connections between regional trade, water security, and community vulnerability in Bangkok and Tokyo." The lecture sought to stimulate discussion amongst the group on how processes of industrialization and urbanization in East Asia have impacted peri-urban wetland spaces and community livelihoods in Bangkok and Tokyo.


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Dorothy Jones Heydt (1942-2022) was a United States author of science fiction and fantasy. She lived on the U.S. West Coast and was an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She was the originator of the "Eight Deadly Words" ("I don't care what happens to these people"), and other fan quotes. She was the originator and first editor of the Star Trek Concordance, an extensive resource guide first published in March 1969.

A linguist, she invented one of the first widely used Vulcan conlangs in 1967 for a Star Trek fan fiction series. Its words were picked up and used by other fan fiction authors such as Claire Gabriel. One term, ni var, meaning "two form", an art form in which two contrasting aspects of a subject are compared, is still used on Star Trek: Enterprise, as the name of a Vulcan ship and on Star Trek: Discovery as the new name of the planet Vulcan itself.

She wrote numerous short stories and two novels; she sometimes wrote as "Katherine Blake." Many of her stories appeared in collections edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, including the Sword and Sorceress series, and stories in the Darkover series shared world. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine published many of her stories.

While not one of the founding members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she did participate in the early years and helped establish important elements of the ceremonies, such as the oath of fealty used in peerage ceremonies.

Dorothy Heydt died on June 28, 2022.

Selected works
Novels
 The Interior Life, as Katherine Blake. Baen Books (1990),
 A Point of Honor.   Daw Books (1998)

References

External links
 Detailed list of published works.

Review of The Interior Life by Jo Walton

20th-century American novelists
American science fiction writers
American women novelists
Usenet people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women


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#ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_BLA_H_
#define _NET_BATMAN_ADV_BLA_H_

#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA
int batadv_bla_rx(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb, short vid,
		  bool is_bcast);
int batadv_bla_tx(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb, short vid);
int batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw(struct sk_buff *skb,
			      struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node, int hdr_size);
int batadv_bla_claim_table_seq_print_text(struct seq_file *seq, void *offset);
int batadv_bla_backbone_table_seq_print_text(struct seq_file *seq,
					     void *offset);
int batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw_orig(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, uint8_t *orig);
int batadv_bla_check_bcast_duplist(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
				   struct sk_buff *skb);
void batadv_bla_update_orig_address(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
				    struct batadv_hard_iface *primary_if,
				    struct batadv_hard_iface *oldif);
int batadv_bla_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
void batadv_bla_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);

#define BATADV_BLA_CRC_INIT	0
#else /* ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA */

static inline int batadv_bla_rx(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
				struct sk_buff *skb, short vid, bool is_bcast)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int batadv_bla_tx(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
				struct sk_buff *skb, short vid)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw(struct sk_buff *skb,
					    struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node,
					    int hdr_size)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int batadv_bla_claim_table_seq_print_text(struct seq_file *seq,
							void *offset)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int batadv_bla_backbone_table_seq_print_text(struct seq_file *seq,
							   void *offset)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw_orig(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
						 uint8_t *orig)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline int
batadv_bla_check_bcast_duplist(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
			       struct sk_buff *skb)
{
	return 0;
}

static inline void
batadv_bla_update_orig_address(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
			       struct batadv_hard_iface *primary_if,
			       struct batadv_hard_iface *oldif)
{
}

static inline int batadv_bla_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
{
	return 1;
}

static inline void batadv_bla_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
{
}

#endif /* ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA */

#endif /* ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_BLA_H_ */

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The Ivory Throne
After centuries of exploiting the riches of the prairie lands, discord in their homeland has caused the Northern lords to all but abandon their colony in favor of returning north to take part in the battle that will decide the fate of their kingdom. Only a handful of knights remain to protect their holdings from the conquered desert people. But with the absence of their overlords, the locals begin to hear whispers of the return of the lost heir to the Ivory Throne, the amir who was promised to cast out the usurpers and return their land to its former glory.
Hosted and narrated by: Briahna Griffith (vigorousspring)
Hosted by Briahna Griffith (vigorousspring)


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The Solution to the Crisis — Education for Globalism
A glance at a typical school curriculum will reveal what we all know: schools try to provide children with tools for academic studies in college and universities, but they do not prepare them for life.
By and large, schools all over the world provide education that is based on needs that were established in the context of the industrial revolution. Regrettably, very little has changed since then, despite the fact that schools are meant to prepare children for life in the 21st century. Moreover, not only are schools finding it difficult to prepare children for life in the contemporary world, they make it even more difficult by subjecting them to a race for achievements while instilling in them patterns of competitiveness instead of the practices of consideration and collaboration.
To nurture a generation that will lead the world out of the crises it is in, we must create an environment where each of them feels and understands that he or she is gaining by contributing his or her unique capabilities to the success of the whole of society. And while it may come as a bit of a surprise, the tool for developing a complementary educational system already exists: the Internet.
Today, the World Wide Web is a universal reality and has become our youth's natural environment. The Internet has already proven that it can serve as a platform for promoting social and cultural notions, cultivate discussions, and motivate people into action. It draws the majority of its power from the neutrality, collectiveness, and interactivity that it allows, but mostly from the power that it gives to web surfers.
As we have established an education system that intended to prepare our children for life in the world, we must now add complementary education—an online interactive environment that extols such values as bonding, collaboration, and consideration of others, in order to overcome the alienation and separation that heavily burden our world today.
From childhood, a person must know that the ego, that is, the desire to enjoy at the expense of others, is the primary cause of all the suffering that exists in the adult world. We must demonstrate to children, through diverse aids and activities, how relations of mutual consideration, tolerance, and mutual understanding will drastically improve their lives and ours, just as the balanced and harmonious relations in nature have facilitated the existence of life and the survival of our species until now.
Moreover, as the founders of behavioral and social psychologies have demonstrated, and as contemporary studies in social science indicate, the decisive element in shaping the personality and behavior of a human being is one's social surroundings. And because the younger generation spends the lion's share of their time on the Internet, it is necessary to create for them a positive platform that will offer an alternative to the individualistic, narcissistic values currently promoted on the Internet.
From our experience working with groups of children the world over, we see convincing
evidence that the online medium can and does provide a full and satisfying social environment, bridging cultural, ethnic, religious, sexual, and racial differences, and enabling all members of society to achieve complete integration and mutual support.
We are certain that by familiarizing children with the complexities of life in the global world through games, video clips, discussions, and straightforward interactions, we can result in a global, historic change and, if we succeed in rearing one generation in this way, we will have thus begun a correction benefiting each future generation.
Practical Steps (as presented to Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, in a meeting held on February second 2011):
As a first step, we are offering to hold a special conference of UNESCO titled, "Virtual Education for Globalism", to which the most prominent figures in education from around the world will be invited to discuss practical measures to adapt our education to better facilitate life in an integral and global reality. The conference would be broadcast live from the UNESCO site, as well as on the site of Ashlag Research Institute (ARI), where it will be simultaneously disseminated in seven languages. Following this conference, UNESCO would publish a book incorporating select lectures from the conference that will be sent to all relevant governmental and private education organizations worldwide, as well as to potential donors. We have proven experience and the infrastructure to carry out all of these ideas.
While working on the conference, we are offering to begin a joint project for establishing a web portal on complementary education under the auspices of UNESCO, the primary purpose of which would be to educate for globalism.
As part of this virtual project, UNESCO would establish an international education center, devoid of political and/or economic interests, to bring together the best minds in natural and social sciences from all over the world. These experts would develop information avenues to explain about the new world we are in today. They would collaborate with computer engineers to find innovative ways to convey this vital information to children (the appendix to this document contains an initial outline for such a project).
While building the site, we would prepare textbooks for teaching a new field of studies that UNESCO would offer to departments of education worldwide —Global Humanity Studies. These textbooks would provide schools and teachers with methods and teaching tools to enable them to utilize the site to its fullest potential.
The way we see it, UNESCO can lead the establishment of the information system the world now needs. By doing so, UNESCO will not only prove its commitment to the well-being of humanity in general and children in particular, but it will also lead humanity toward the goal of a better, more enlightened world for all.
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Marc Daniels (27 de janeiro de 1912, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — 23 de abril de 1989) foi um diretor de televisão estadunidense.

Depois de ter trabalhado em produções teatrais e servido na II Guerra Mundial, Daniels foi contratado pela Rede CBS para dirigir seu primeiro programa dramático, o Ford Theater. Dirigiu vários programas televisivos ao vivo e os 38 primeiros episódios de I Love Lucy, ajudando a instituir muitas das técnicas usadas na direção de comédias de situação.

Daniels passou cerca de 40 anos dirigindo na televisão, incluindo séries como Gunsmoke, Fame, Alice e Hogan's Heroes.

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Founded in 1969, Richard Childress Racing is one of the largest and most storied organizations in NASCAR competition. RCR currently fields three teams in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, two teams in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and two entries in the new eNASCAR Heat Pro League.
Throughout our history, RCR has accumulated a total of 15 championships and more than 200 victories across NASCAR's top three series, including three Daytona 500 wins (1998, 2007, 2018) and three Brickyard 400 victories (1995, 2003, 2011) two of the sport's crown jewels of competition. RCR was the first organization in NASCAR history to win championships across all three national touring series.
On our 17-building, 52-acre campus in Welcome, North Carolina, RCR's 400+ team members build race cars from the ground up in a fully-integrated vertical manufacturing operation. With a culture focused on innovation, our engineering team utilizes cutting-edge technologies to continuously improve the performance of our race cars.
Our headquarters is also home to ECR Engines, a subsidiary of RCR that provides high-performance motors to our and other Chevrolet teams in NASCAR's top three national series. ECR uses advanced technologies for research & development and engine production that has earned it more than 250 victories across multiple national motorsports series and championships in the Xfinity, Gander Outdoors Truck and ARCA Racing Series. ECR's has also reached success in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Series powering the Cadillac DPi-V.R.
RCR's on-track success could not be possible without the help of our corporate partners. RCR maintains successful relationships with a host of blue-chip brands including Caterpillar, Dow, American Ethanol, AAA, Chevrolet and Bass Pro Shops. A comprehensive list of our corporate partners can be viewed here.


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Kenosha News
Kenosha News Homepage
Steve Jakubowski
Casey Family Options Funerals and Cremations - Stephen P. Casey, Owner
May 1, 1939 - Nov. 22, 2021
KENOSHA - Steve Jakubowski, 82, left for his tee time on Monday, November 22, 2021.
He was born in Athens, WI on May 1, 1939, the son of Steve and Mary (Obermeyer) Jakubowski. He moved to Kenosha when he was 11. Steve attended McKinley Jr. High and Bradford High School.
Steve worked for ARA Services for 30 years until his retirement due to a work accident. He also owned Stay-Up Antenna Service at one time. In his 20s, while working at ARA, he transferred to California to work in the commissary at Warner Bros. Studios. He loved to talk about meeting Natalie Wood, George Burns, Frank Sinatra and many others.
He was married to his first wife Nance and they had three sons. Nance passed away from cancer in her 40s.
On July 4, 1987, he was united in marriage to Paula Bastian.
Prior to his work injury, Steve had a passion for golf. Every Sunday for 25 years, he, Marty Stella, Angelo Germinaro and Dick Bern golfed at Spring Valley Country Club, some weeks playing 27, 36 and even 54 holes.
Steve was a really golfer who became a great golfer after a couple Manhattans at Casa Capri after golf.
He did thousands of crossword puzzles. He owned several street rods and enjoyed showing them at car shows. A highlight of his life was a three week trip to Europe with Paula and his father-in-law Hugh and wife Alice. They visited 10 countries. His childhood dream of riding in a gondola in Venice, Italy was realized.
Despite all of his health issues, he kept his sense of humor up until the last year of his life. His granddaughters called him what sounded like "Bompa". Their mom told me she thought they may be saying Bunker as in Archie Bunker. Very possible.
Steve is survived by his wife Paula; his son David Jakubowski, Kenosha; his granddaughters: Katelyn, Kamryn and Molly Jakubowski; his brother Bob (Vania), Chippewa Falls; his brother-in-law David (Sandy) Bastianelli; sister-in-law Sheryl (Graeme) Wearne, Australia; sister-in-law Jean Jakubowski; stepmother-in-law Alice Bastian; and her children: Terry (Walt) Ullmayer and Dan Petersen all of Venice, FL; as well as many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his sons Steve in 2003 and Tony in 2019; his granddaughter Kimberly; his brothers, Edward, LeRoy, Ray (Betty) and George (Lynn Novy); and his sister Irene (Ernie) Stubbe; his father-in-law Hugh Bastian; and mother-in-law Pearl (Merl) Milestone; and his best friend Jerry Natzke; and his fur buddy Wrigley.
Per Steve's request, no funeral services will be held. A Celebration of Life will be held on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at Casa Capri, 2129 Birch Rd, Kenosha.
In lieu of flowers, remembrance appreciated.
Thank you to Hospice Alliance for your respectful care of Steve in his final days.
Casey Family Options Funerals and Cremations
Stephen P. Casey, Funeral Director
www.CaseyFamilyOptions.com
Published by Kenosha News on Nov. 26, 2021.
Casa Capri
2129 Birch Rd, Kenosha, WI
How do you know Steve Jakubowski? (Optional)
R.I.P Steve. Your grand daughter, Kassandra, has always spoke fondly of those "slobbery kisses" on the cheek you used to give her when she was little. And the visits to McDonald´s when it was still across the street from you. You will be missed
Words can´t describe how sorry I am at this loss. You´re in my prayers.
Robin Jakubowski


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Fourth Self Employed Income Support Scheme grant now open
Senga Prior
Tax Senior Manager
Private Client Tax Insights
The fourth Self Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant for self-employed individuals affected by coronavirus restrictions is now open for applications, closing on 1 June 2021.
This grant covers the period from 1 February to 30 April 2021, and will now include 2019/20 tax returns. 2019/20 profits must be less than £50,000 and at least equal to or more than non-trading income. If this test fails, then HMRC will look at the average of 2016/17 to 2019/20.
The award will be based on 80% of 3 months' average trading profits, capped at £7,500 in total. As with previous SEISS grants, the claim must be made by the individual – advisers are unable to make a claim on their behalf. The claim can be made here.
To be eligible for the grant, applicants must meet all four of the following conditions:
have traded in 2019/20 and submitted tax return by 2 March 2021 and must have traded in 2020/21;
be currently trading but are impacted by reduced demand due to coronavirus OR have been trading but are temporarily unable to do so due to coronavirus:
intend to continue to trade;
reasonably believe there will be a significant reduction in their trading profits due to reduced business activity, capacity, demand or inability to trade due to coronavirus. Evidence should be kept.
Examples of evidence for being unable to trade include:
a record of dates closed due to Government restrictions
NHS Test and Trace communications - if instructed to self-isolate in-line with NHS guidelines and unable to work from home
a letter or email from the NHS asking you to shield
test results if you've been diagnosed with coronavirus
letters or emails from your child's school with information on closures or reduced hours
Further examples demonstrating situations which may or may not be eligible can be found on the Government's website here.
Pre-verification checks
HMRC is asking some individuals who wish to claim the fourth and fifth SEISS grants and started self-employment in 2019/20 to complete pre-verification checks. The purpose of these is to confirm their identity and provide evidence of trade. Taxpayers will have received a letter between 8 March and mid-April 2021, advising that they will receive a phone call from HMRC within 10 working days.
If you are required to complete the check, on the call HMRC will ask you to confirm your email address and agree to receive a link to a secure Dropbox. You will then have two days to upload one form of identity and three months' worth of bank statements to demonstrate your business activity, before the link expires.
HMRC has advised it will attempt to phone three times, so taxpayers who receive the letter should ensure that HMRC holds the correct telephone number for them. If the number needs to be updated, you should contact 0800 024 1222.
If HMRC is unsuccessful in reaching the taxpayer, a further letter will be sent out. If you receive the letter but do not complete the checks then you will not be able to claim a grant.
If you have any questions on the SEISS grant, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me or your usual Johnston Carmichael adviser. The Government's SEISS helpline can also be accessed on 0800 024 1222.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced important changes and additional support this afternoon for businesses affected by COVID-19. While we await the full detail from the Government, we've summarised the key changes announced and where we are now with the Job Retention Scheme and the Self Employment Income Support Scheme.


GEOLUCE is a company founded in 1975 by Paul Luce, a French civil engineer, and taken over by Mouloud Chegrani and his son Yacine. Their goal is to develop its activities all around the world, not only in rural regions, but also in urban areas, and to make Stabilised Earth Concrete affordable for all.
GEOLUCE is also the name of the earth compression process invented by Mr. Luce.
Manually compressing the earth without stabilizing its structure in order to obtain solid bricks is an ancient technique. Yet the idea of using industrial presses with a dynamic compression and a faint addition of stabilizing material was born when Mr. Luce was working with Mr. Chegrani, the current head of GEOLUCE. 35 years ago, North African countries needed a cheap and available material to develop rural habitat in arid regions, GEOLUCE Stabilized Earth Concrete (SEC) was invented as a solution.


Journaling…the new age diary. Do you want to see how God has worked in your life? Are you looking for answered prayers? All the best leaders recommend some form of journaling or writing. I put this into practice four years ago and it has dramatically changed the way I view life. For only 15-20 mins of my time a day, this time is used to unwind and jot down important highlights of my life.
1. ) Better memory retention.
Aging and lack of sleep with being a mom, the brain simply does not retain information as well as it did in my earlier years. Details of certain events may have been forgotten had I not written them down.
Now I can rely on my handy journal to recollect my memory, especially with dreams. Before I had my son, I had a vivid dream of him being a "way-smaller-than-normal-size-baby" in my arms, while laying in a hospital bed (I had no idea what the dream meant at the time). My birth plan at the time was to have a natural home birth. My son ended up being born premature in the hospital. Little did I know, God was giving me assurance of my unborn son, and it gave me an overwhelming amount of peace after I remembered I wrote this dream down.
The miraculous wonders and power of God unfolded through my eyes as I began to see how he answers my prayers. Many times, it's in ways I never thought I'd imagine. Other times, He gives me EXACTLY the desires of my heart.
3.) Organized thoughts and emotions.
Recently I was told statistically that people who write or journal tend to be happier people. I wonder if having the ability to organize their emotions on a piece of paper had anything to do with it? When my feelings were not appropriate to be unleashed to others, I found journaling was best to evaluate my feelings.
4.) Set goals, visions, and expectations.
Do you have a vision in you heart? Write it down. It's no secret, those who write down their goals/visions are more likely to achieve them. I write down my short term goals, long term goals, family goals, personal goals, travel goals, and ministry goals in my journal. Each item has a check box I can mark off when my visions come true.
Some of my best blog ideas come from my journal. When I became bored with writing plain sentences and paragraphs, I began to make my journey in journaling artistic and it became a source of relaxation when God developed my interest in lettering and calligraphy. Personally, I find it more relaxing than coloring!
I'm praying for your writing journey, that it will bless you in more ways than one!
Thank you Patty! I need to start setting aside time to journal again. I appreciate the encouragement!
Your welcome! Thank you for your feedback! It helps me to know that it has encouraged you!


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Thug jailed for 'vile' attack on ex-girlfriend outside Coventry nightclub
Ellis Viola
Editorial Correspondent 7th Sep, 2017
A YOUNG man who carried out a 'nasty, vile attack' on his ex-girlfriend outside a Coventry night club, kicking her in the face and breaking her jaw, has been jailed.
Ellis Viola had pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to inflicting grievous bodily harm on his victim Jade Kavanagh, but denied doing so with intent.
That was accepted by the prosecution, and Viola (18) of Coombe Avenue, Binley, Coventry, who had no previous convictions, was sentenced to 20 months detention.
Prosecutor Graeme Simpson said that in the early hours of June 25 Viola saw Miss Kavanagh, his ex-partner, outside a club in Coventry city centre talking to a male friend.
He went over to them and grabbed hold of her, and tried to make her go with him, but she resisted.
And when she ended up on the floor, Viola kicked her a number of times as she curled up to protect her face.
When he stopped, she managed to get up and took out her phone, but he attacked her again by knocking her down and dragging her along the ground before letting go.
And he continued to shout abuse at her as she got into a taxi and was driven away.
As a result of the attack Miss Kavanagh suffered a broken jaw, for which she had to undergo surgery to have a metal plate fitted, and a broken nose.
Mr Simpson applied for a restraining order banning Viola from contacting Miss Kavanagh, which was granted by Recorder Jacqueline Carey.
Richard Davenport, defending, said: "This is a tragic case. Jade Kavanagh's parents would no doubt like this young man to be incarcerated. His mother would like to see some form of suspended sentence.
"It's a nasty, vile, sustained attack on a young girl in the early hours of the morning, and he caused her serious injury with a shod foot."
Urging the judge to pass a suspended sentence, he said Viola's family had agreed to lend him up to £1,000 over the next 12 months towards any order for compensation.
But jailing Viola, Recorder Carey told him: "Your ex-partner was outside a club talking to a male friends, and you took the notion something might be going on between them.
"Whether it was or not was none of your business, but you grabbed her and tried to get her to go with you.
"Then, while she lay curled on the ground like a baby, you kicked her four to six times. It was a sustained attack with a shod foot. There is no doubt that this case passes the custody threshold.
"I have thought long and hard about this. I do consider you now have remorse, you are a young man with a loving family, and you are making good progress at college.
"On the other hand, the attack was vicious and sustained, and I do take the view this case is too serious to allow me to suspend the sentence."
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Stand Up for Social Work: campaign downloads
Resources to help you get involved in the campaign
Using the Stand Up for Social Work campaign logo on your social media profile will show you care about the profession and help spread the campaign's messages.
To use the campaign logo on your Twitter or Facebook profile, just right click on the relevant image below, save it to your computer and then upload it to your edit profile page. Although the Facebook image looks big, it is the recommended upload size for Facebook profile pictures.
You will find template letters to send to your MP or local newspaper editor at the bottom of the page. Click on the link and download the files to your computer from where you can open them up in Word or a PDF editor and make the changes you want before sending out.
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3 Responses to Stand Up for Social Work: campaign downloads
Vic Compher March 30, 2015 at 5:14 pm #
Greetings from the USA,
I'm a licensed clinical social worker and film producer and I'm very impressed with your campaign. Kudos!!
My current documentary film is titled: PORTRAITS OF PROFESSIONAL CAREGIVERS: THEIR PASSION. THEIR PAIN. Please check out our website and trailer at http://www.caregiversfilm.com
We are beginning community "preview" screenings in a month.
Would there be someone in your campaign, perhaps Rachel Sherer with whom I could communicate by email or Skype about our film and about whether you might like to feature it in some way in the UK? Our themes, issues, and values appear to resonate significantly. If one of your campaign organizers could be in touch with me at vic.compher@gmail.com I'd appreciate it–and I could then send you a 17 minute sample which will give you a good sense of the film, its style and message.
Best of luck to you in your important campaign! Vic Compher, LCSW, Philadelphia, PA
PS I had no response to an earlier message submitted her. Hope this one reaches someone who can be touch. Looking forward to hearing from you 🙂 Vic
deb Midgaff April 28, 2015 at 11:04 am #
No opportunity for individuals backing this to use the logo via a mobile device. Social question do you really have to be a social worker to be supportive of their work? Are they willing to accept societies support and if so when? Do they only want support from families that they have had no involvement with? Or do they want the support of every love filled individual who believes that given the tools they need they can impact society positively and do a brilliant job? Kindest regards or am I missing the point (I sum times do enit 🙂 x
Judy Cooper May 6, 2015 at 4:58 pm #
Dear Debra
I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. I've just checked on an Android phone and you just need to do a long press down on the image and you get a menu, which gives you the option to save the image to your phone. Let me know if that helps. And of course we we would love support for social work from as many different people and organisations as possible. Did you have something specific in mind?


The New Daily Euro 6 RDE 2020 Ready is one step ahead in the industry, anticipating compliance with the EU 2020 climate and energy targets.
It has been tested and verified by an independent body in order to comply with the more stringent regulations starting from 2020, that will measure emissions in real-life driving conditions (RDE) in addition to the laboratory homologation cycle.
The New Daily Euro 6 RDE 2020 Ready is extremely fuel efficient, to the benefit of the customers' Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): with the standard Start&Stop system and the Michelin eco-tyres, it uses up to 7% less fuel compared to the current version based on real urban customer mission.
Select the variant that best satisfies your business requirements: panel or semi-windowed diesel van, chassis or crew cab and chassis cowl and fully exploit the strength of the only light commercial vehicle with truck-like steel chassis side members.


The competition has closed and Mother Goose has been summarily executed and laid to rest under a bonsai tree in the chottomatte Emperors garden may god have mercy on her soul. She was getting old you see.. Not quite the prize goose she was and in this industry there's no room for sentiment… Time waits for no goose. And on that note we shall bring proceedings to a close.
Ladies and Gentlemen we have a WINNER!
1) How do you feel to not only be part of Europe's biggest ever graffiti jam, but also the winner of the *OFFICIAL* SeeNoEvil Golden Egg Hunt?!
I am over the moon! People like me don't usually win things.
2) What was the highlight of the jam for you?
I think finishing my piece.
3) What is it about Bristol that makes such good graffiti artists?
It has to be something in the water…apart from the usual turds and rubber Jhonnys.
4) What's next for Bristol – would you like to see this happening again?
See No Evil must be repeated it would be bloody stupid not to…huge success and positive vibes all round!
5) Who's work did you enjoy seeing the most?
Smug's portrait of Epok is super dope…that man has mental skills!


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Lokal Hotel announces its third location – a boutique hotel scheduled to open its doors January 21st, 2019. The hotel team known for its 3rd Street, Old City location, have earned accolades for their well designed rooms and invisible service technology. The property is located on north Front Street, in the heart of the Philly's hippest neighborhood – Fishtown. Unlike the first location located in a historic building, this property is a brand new six unit building, with apartment style hotel suites. The hotel features four studio apartment hotel units and two 1,000 SF two bedroom, two bath units with a shared rear courtyard space.
Lokal Hotel announces its fourth location – a boutique hotel and micro resort scheduled to open in early 2019. The property is located steps from the beach at 5 Stockton Pl, right across from the Cape May Convention Center on Beach Ave. The existing building is being rehabbed into eight apartment style hotel suites with ROHE Creative at the design helm. The grounds contain over 10,000 SF of programmed space that will include a salt water pool, bocce court, grilling stations and ample courtyard space to support events and weddings for up to 120 people.
Lokal Hotel opens its second location – a boutique vacation cabin rental in South Jersey, which offers a serene getaway within an hour of Philadelphia. The property is a rehabbed and modernized A-Frame cabin on 2.5 acres of wooded land that fronts the Maurice River in Dorchester, NJ. The property is Lokal's first foray into the vacation home rental market. It brings all of the same high design, boutique hotel amenities and service that exists in their flagship hotel in Old City to a home 50 minutes away.
The Lokal Hotel, Philadelphia's newest boutique hotel, is excited to reveal additional pictures of the Jersey Ice Cream Co.-designed suites. Fe Heidi's Bridge, the nationally acclaimed photographers who shot the first two suites (Billy and Betsy), returned to shoot the four remaining suites: Will, Tina, Louisa and Ben.
Jersey Ice Cream Co. (JICC), the design duo from Brooklyn, designed the four remaining suites to reflect the aesthetic of the first two suites, Billy and Betsy. While continuing to design a "textured, calm, and organic space", JICC gave each room individual character with a mix of vintage and new furniture pieces.
Lokal, Philadelphia's newest boutique hotel is now taking reservations for April 3rd, 2017 and beyond. Featuring six apartment style suites, Lokal will offer visitors the chance to experience the local Philadelphia lifestyle in a beautifully designed space that feels like home. Lokal, located in Old City, is making waves with its innovative invisible service, which will anticipate the needs of traveler and offer a highly curated and authentic Philly experience. With a focus on both high-end design and top of the line service, Lokal seeks to provide an alternative option to the discerning traveler.
Lokal, a 6-unit boutique hotel with a focus on invisible service, is coming to Old City. Featuring six, apartment-style suites, Lokal will offer guests an authentic Philadelphia experience and an escape that feels like home. The hotel will have no front desk. Instead, the team behind the project will anticipate needs and create a high level of behind-the-scenes service. In doing away with many of the trappings of a traditional hotel, Lokal seeks to provide a unique connection with the city without sacrificing the comfort and care travelers expect.
Courtney is a co-founder and head of operations for Lokal Hotel. She will book your reservations, give you personal advice and make sure your room is stocked with everything you need.
Chad is the co-founder of Stay Lokal as well as Postgreen Homes. He creates the vision and then develops it with a local team. Chad also handles all of the marketing, PR and Social Media.
Barbie is on the front lines making sure that guests are happy and that things are running smoothly. When she's not living the suite life at Lokal, she's acting on the stages of Philadelphia.
We may not be on site, but we're here for you. Curation and technology replace the front desk. From electronic access to iPads loaded with "room service apps" to web based music and TV, we're going beyond the average hotel without needing to be in your space.
The midcentury meets industrial designed lofts make you feel like you're at home, but a much better, calmer and less cluttered version of home. Our designers went the extra step to make your stay feel like no other hotel you've stayed at before.
We've put a physical and electronic list of uber-curated recommendations for you to eat, drink, shop and experience culture and adventure like a local Philadelphian. These are recommendations from true locals and not sponsored.
We locate our hotels in the heart of residential neighborhoods where larger hotels can not and are not allowed to fit. That makes you feel more like a lokal than a tourist during your stay.
Why did you choose a cabin in the middle of NJ for your 2nd location?
The Lokal A-Frame in South Jersey was chosen as an escape from urban life where our guests can disconnect with technology and connect with nature and friends. It's also our first attempt to bring all of the design and details to a vacation home near Philly that we always miss and long for when renting the typical vacation home that's out there.
We just launched our 2nd location in Philadelphia, in the Fishtown neighborhood where we've lived for over a decade. We love this neighborhood and there are almost no hotel rooms available, so we're excited to bring this to our guests. The next up is Lokal Cape May which will be a mini beach resort built to our standards and include 8 apartment hotel units, a pool and lots more… Coming in Summer of 2019.