Young people are so fickle. One minute a diamanté bracelet is the latest must have accessory, the next it's useless tat.
To you and me this is just something adolescents go through, but the clothing industry has its own name for the phenomenon: fast fashion.
For Nitesh Sakhrani, recently appointed chief executive and former sales director of Elite Creations, fast fashion is no joke. It's the reason his business exploded from a £200,000 turnover in 1998 to an expected £17.5m in the 12 months to March 31 this year.
Founded by Nitesh's father Mohan in 1973, Elite Creations began its life as a supplier of inexpensive costume jewellery and hair extensions to wholesale businesses throughout the UK. When Nitesh joined in 1998, his father was about to wind down the business, but instead Nitesh identifi ed a huge new growth market in fast fashion. He redirected the company's focus, targeting major retail groups.
Remember invisible necklaces? Probably not, as they were one of a series of flashes in the fashion pan. For those of you who blinked and missed them, they were hair-thin wire necklaces with a diamanté drop dangling at the end, which gave the impression that the gem was hovering around the wearer's neck.
Elite has moved through mini clips, triangle bandanas, necklaces, earrings, bags and belts. The last of these, in particular, has been a substantial source of revenue for the company and until 2004 was responsible for 90% of sales, selling eight million units in 2005/2006 alone.
As Elite developed its product lines, Sakhrani looked for new customers beyond its wholesale base, building up an impressive line of retail customers around the world, ranging from value to mid-market retail chains, as well as a sprinkling of concessions in UK high street stores.
Today, Elite supplies 80 store groups worldwide and while the UK remains its biggest market, sales in Europe are growing (by 400% in Spain last year) and new accounts are being opened all the time.
The aggressive growth strategy landed Elite some lucrative contracts such as Inditex – one of the world's largest fashion distributors and owner of the Zara chain – and pushed sales towards the £5m mark in 2003.
But the rising tide of new customers put pressure on Elite's simple operational structure, and Sakhrani saw the need for a step-change. Adapting to a corporate culture has been a key driver for the company ever since.
Restructuring the business allowed turnover to reach £6m in the 12 months to March 2004 and double to £12m in 2005. With staff headcount also doubling to 30 last year (55 worldwide), Sakhrani is confident that sales will pass £17.5m in 2006 and £22.5m next year.
And while several members of the Sakhrani family are still employed in senior positions – Mohan Sakhrani remains the major shareholder – they are supported by a growing network of fresh-faced staff, including designers, merchandising gurus, sales people and marketers. This concentration of what Sakhrani calls primary roles enables the company to promise a dedicated account manager and merchandising manager for each client.
As you'd expect, the ongoing structural upgrade is being carried out in tandem with Elite's everyday functions as a trading business. Sakhrani admits this was a source of anguish early on and the business came in for criticism because of inevitable glitches.
He remembers the period around 2002/2003 as a stressful time for the management, with orders coming in faster than they could be dealt with, enquiries going unanswered and no time for a break.
Customers threatened to terminate contracts either because they weren't getting the product on time or because they received lower than expected volumes. He says setbacks finding the right storage facilities and manufacturers were to blame.
Fast fashion is notoriously unforgiving, and the top clothing stores such as H&M and Topshop expect new catwalk designs to be available within a matter of weeks. Late or inaccurate deliveries are catastrophic for retailers and suppliers alike, because shelf life is so short.
Now Elite works with a reputable manufacturer in China, which has the capability to fulfi l almost any order. They are efficient, cost effective, quick to learn and have more capacity than their rivals in India and Eastern Europe, according to Sakhrani, who adds that it runs at only 50% to 70% of full capacity in peak months.
As you'd expect, Sakhrani is a dedicated follower of fashion, but also keeps up-to-date with macroeconomics. He sees a mild slowdown in the belt boom of last year and has adjusted Elite's product offering to match. Bags are where it's at in 2006, apparently.
Cheap 'throw away' fashion is more resistant to economic downturns and accessories have been growing consistently over the last 10 years. The demand for fast fashion is spreading beyond its teen roots and is being picked up by older consumers with more purchasing power.
Sakhrani believes that people are now more likely to spend £7 or £8 on a belt or bag to jazz up their look than £25 on a new top. "We don't see a bust to this trend," he asserts.
This year will see more aggressive expansion through new product lines. Plans are afoot to move into bigger accessories lines such as sunglasses and trendy watches. It's a risky business, as Sakhrani discovered two years ago when he failed to impress retailers with a line of lifestyle gifts, so this time he will start small and build with demand.
Growing geographically is also a chief project for 2006. Elite established a branch in Hong Kong last year and plans to do the same in Los Angeles in January 2007, as well as building on the company's success in Europe.
Fast fashion accounts for 18% of clothes purchases in Spain, 10% in the UK, yet just 1% in the US. Sakhrani sees the Americas as an undiscovered goldmine for Elite. "We'll know a lot more by the end of this year," he predicts.


Working with your BFF is beneficial in a lot of ways, but one thing we definitely get to do is keep each other on our fashion-game. Our work style is about looking good for the office, feeling comfortable, and most importantly being functional for walking. Luckily, we have Moshi products that get us out of our apartments, through Chinatown, past the Transamerica Pyramid, all the way to work. From headphones, to phone cases, and of course our favorite backpacks, Moshi makes products that fit into our everyday with a well-designed ease.
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I admit it. I'm an addict. Addicted to complaining.
It took me a long time to realize it, but, yes, I admit it and feel so much freer!
So, what do I complain about?
From the weather, to the diapers, to my inability to be perfect, to my childhood, to my education, you name it!
My newest hot topic for complaining, blaming and accusing is the Israeli school system. Did you know that the school day ends at 1pm in girls' schools?
And my children's school does not offer extracurricular activities. The kids come home and hang out till they go to sleep at 8 or 9 pm!
Like, perhaps I should open a 'chug' (an activity group) that my children could participate in. Perhaps I should even try being the instructor!
1- What are my children's talents?
2- Which talents/subjects would I like them to develop this year?
children to develop. Professionals can be hired.
It's important to recall that most of my neighbors live on extremely tight budgets and do not have the means to invest more than $10-$30 on their children's activities each month!
4- Baking soda Volcanos. This was also one of my favorites in Nature class as a young girl. The children will definitely be surprised to see the 'lava' coming out of the 'volcano'!
New English words learned: Volcano, nature, lava, red, earth.
That's just a brief list of ideas for a little weekly afternoon chug. Regarding the piano & swimming lessons- I could teach them, but it might be best to just find a private teacher!
What I've learned though through this shift from "I'm annoyed" to "I will be the change I want to see in the world" is that I feel more positive and energized in the process. You may just want to try it too!


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of cpu time doing, what?  Updating a version database?
unreliable on FreeBSD and I have disabled them.
rely on, I now have to search for this (hopefully) trivial fix.
but, what happens on a compromise?
So these decisions are getting made outside of freebsd-ports.
except on something like pinentry.
> Ah, ok, thanks.  I see now that it wants to reinstall 645 ports.
> I generate the packages via poudriere, if it matters.
>> right answer when upgrading.


I've been really busy lately with a few projects I'm currently developing, and haven't had time to blog (I know that sounds criminal…). Have to say though that it's probably the busiest time of my life professionally! A lot of projects…sweat and tears.
Just wanted to thank all of you that liked, read or viewed by blog over the last few months. It really means a lot to me! When I started I didn't expect to have people follow me or view my blog. I've also been nominated for the 'Inspirational Blogger' award by a fellow blogger (and friend)! I will update everyone on that very very soon! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!
This is just to tell you guys that I'm thinking of starting a little web series soon – recording myself talking about my life, projects and what I've recently learnt writing wise. I'm always learning and I'm not perfect. I also want to thank you personally for all the support.
A good idea? Would you watch? I have heard recently that many writers are afraid of putting themselves on camera? Do you think that's true?
Thought I'd post a video today and this is my first on the Kane Domain Blog (and hopefully not the last!).
Given the recent news of Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm, and the incredible success of Seth MacFarlane over the last few years (with Family Guy, Ted and his Oscar hosting gig next year) –I thought I would post an interview video between my two biggest idols.
Well you read it in the title….SETH MACFARLANE and GEORGE LUCAS!
Seth MacFarlane is of course the visionary writer, voice artist and executive producer/creator behind 'Family Guy'. He is probably one of the most successful writers and producers in television today, creating vast billion dollar franchise with Family Guy and becoming THE highest paid person in television. He was paid $100 million by Fox back in 2008 to renew Family Guy until 2012. For a guy that started drawing and animating dogs in his room – that's just incredible.
George Lucas needs no real introduction..but I'll give a short one anyway! Creator of Star Wars, Lucasfilms and a host of other companies, such as Skywalker Sound, and his visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) — George Lucas is the epitome of what it means to be a Creative Producer. A man that got his big idea out there, his way.
I respect them both immensely for several reasons. They are both writers, directors and masters of their own creative empires. And for both of them, their franchises literally came from nothing.
They were not born into wealth. They didn't get any help from their families or have angel investors of any kind. They created Family Guy and Star Wars from a simple idea…but with whole lot of guts, determination and hard work on the side. That's it.
I hope to develop and employ those same qualities when creating my own projects in the future, which also range from animation, to science fiction shows.
This is a conversation between them about their work that I found really insightful. And it's funny too! Enjoy!


Walking in the Paliokalias vineyard in Naoussa and discussing with Kostis Dalamaras the challenges of 2018 harvest for Xinomavro grapes.
''...I think it is going to be one of the longest harvests. We have already harvested some parts but it seems we have to wait a lot to reach phenolic ripeness...'' says Kostis Dalamaras. Watch the rest of the discussion in the following video and explore my new YouTube Channel.
Stay also tuned for my report on the Naoussa region including insights with Haroula Spinthiropoulou, Nikos and Georgia Foundis, Petros Karydas, Apostolos Thimiopoulos along tasting notes of current and old vintages.


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The art of campanology is alive and well in Ambleside at St Mary's Parish Church.
Ambleside's bells are widely regarded as one of the finest rings in the country. The original six bells were replaced in 1901 by the present ring of eight. These were cast and installed by the well known bell foundry firm of John Taylor & Co of Loughborough which is still working today. The eight bells form a harmonic octave tuned in the key of D flat with the heaviest (tenor bell) weighing 32½ cwt. This is the fourth heaviest ring of eight in the United Kingdom and is the heaviest outside the West Country.
A few years ago the bells were re-hung on modern bearings and the clappers together with other fittings overhauled so that they are easier to ring. This in turn has made it possible to teach new ringers who are always needed and welcome to join our friendly band. The ringers are of mixed experience and we usually ring six for Sunday Service ringing at 10.20am, or more when we have any ringers on holiday who come and join us. Practice night is on Monday at 7.30pm until 9.00pm when we nearly always ring all 8 bells. We have regular visitors from local towers and others from further afield so we manage to ring more complex change ringing as well as easier things for the less experienced.
Because our bells are so widely regarded, we receive many requests from visiting bands to ring. It is accepted that prolonged peals can be regarded as a nuisance by some local people, so we limit permissions for longer peals (up to 3½ hours) to four per year, during winter months. Whenever possible the dates of long peals will be published in advance, for the benefit of those who may wish to come and hear them and for those who may wish to avoid them. Dates will appear in Ambleside Parish Magazine and on this website
Anyone interested in learning, or visitors wanting more information, should contact Peter Gardner, tel 01539 823302.

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Landmark Preservation, News
St. Ann's Warehouse Again Seeking Approval to Build in Tobacco Warehouse
You may recall the lengthy legal battle over the St. Ann's Warehouse theater's attempt to build a new performance space inside the 19th century Tobacco Warehouse in the Fulton Ferry Historic District, which led to a court decision holding that the transfer of the Tobacco Warehouse space from Brooklyn Bridge Park had not been done according to law. This legal obstacle has now been overcome by a transfer of new land into the Park in exchange for the Tobacco Warehouse, and St. Ann's has presented new plans (see image) for a performance space, community room, and lobby to be built inside the roofless shell of the Warehouse. You can read more about the planned new facility and see more images in Theatermania.
The design proposal by St. Ann's was considered by the Executive Committee of Community Board 2 at its meeting this last week and will go to the full board on May 8.
Note: This post has been modified since original publication.
Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/57706
Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Food, History
Nice Weather This Weekend; Anything to Do?
The weather forecast is encouraging, but with so many institutions, like Bargemisic, which is in good physical shape but still lacks Con Ed power, coping with the aftermath of the Sandy/nor'easter one-two punch, what is there to do if you're in town? There's the penultimate Smorgasburg of the season this Sunday, November 11 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Tobacco Warehouse, Water Street at New Dock Street in the Fulton Ferry Historic District (I once described it as being in DUMBO and caught holy heck from the Fulton Ferry Landing Association). The final Smorgasburg of the season will be the following Sunday, November 18.
Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will be showing The Sessions and A Late Quartet. Showtimes are here.
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will have another of its tours of the Society's historic building on Saturday, November 10, starting at 3:00 p.m. Details are here. Looking ahead to Thursday, November 15, starting at 7:00 p.m., BHS will present a lecture by independent scholar and author Andrew Coe, "Spilt Milk: the Bloody Food Rackets of 20th Century New York," about how gangsters controlled much of food distribution in New York City in the first half of the past century. Details are here.
Know of anything else interesting happening in Brooklyn Heights or nearby this weekend or in the near future? Add a comment to this post.
Smorgasburg Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park Starting Sunday
Smorgasburg, the popular food fest that has attracted crowds to the Williamsburg waterfront on Saturdays will start having Sunday sessions at the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park, at Water and Dock streets in the Fulton Ferry Historic District, starting this Sunday, September 9.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy provides this info:
Beginning Sunday, September 9, Smorgasburg will make its way to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Over 75 vendors will be on hand preparing everything from Korean barbeque and 10 layer Mexican sandwiches, to beer cookies AND cardamom marshmallows. Smorgasburg will spend its Sundays at the Tobacco Warehouse beginning September 9 from 11am-6pm and will be here through November 18. Be sure to come hungry! Admission is free.


Major advances in the reduction of nosocomial infections and resultant patient mortality have historically been met by initial skepticism in the medical community. The authors of this short essay ask what might be done to improve adherence to appropriate hand hygiene practices.
Assign each of your team members to quietly observe the activities of staff going in and out of patients' rooms for 10 minutes. Did everyone cleanse going in and out of the room?
Invite a member of your hospital's infection control team to discuss how they monitor hand hygiene practices and what they do to try to improve them.
What are the reasons health care professionals continually fail to cleanse 100% of the time? Why is the excuse, "I did not touch anything in the room" not acceptable? Even if true, might it not help to promote thinking that it is acceptable to enter or leave a patient's room without cleansing? How would someone else, particularly someone who looks up to you, know you "did not touch anything"?
The authors suggest practicing "mindfulness" as a team and engaging patients in hand hygiene as a means to improve practices. Try it with your team.
Should we be punished—substantially—if we are caught failing to cleanse our hands? If not, why not? Can we reasonably argue that we didn't know it was hazardous to our patients? Would we permit the routine insertion of central lines without appropriate attention to cleanliness, such as gowning?
Ask each member of your team to think about a patient he or she has cared for who has contracted a nosocomial infection. Might he or she individually be responsible for the harm caused to this patient?
Obesity complicates medical, nursing, and informal care in severe illness, but its effect on hospice use (a cornerstone of end-of-life care) and Medicare expenditures is unknown. In this retrospective cohort study of deceased Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in the Health and Retirement Study, the authors studied the associations between body mass index and hospice use and Medicare expenditures in the last 6 months of life.
Ask your learners what challenges are encountered in the care of patients with obesity specifically. Encourage your learners to think beyond direct health risks, such as diabetes and hypertension. What about challenges in providing care?
Do we use obesity as an "excuse" (even subconsciously) not to thoroughly examine some patients? Is it possible that at times we treat patients with obesity with less concern or less compassion?
What do your learners think might be the potential explanations for the relative underuse of hospice services among patients with obesity? The authors provide a few potential explanations in the paper's discussion. They note that "there is an established record of negative provider attitudes and implicit bias against obese persons, and these attitudes may continue to influence care for obese persons at the end of life." Do your learners agree?
What do your learners suggest be done about the problem identified in this study? How can they act in their own practices?
This jointly developed guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians provides recommendations about the benefits and harms of higher versus lower blood pressure targets for the treatment of hypertension in adults aged 60 years or older.
Ask your learners whether they think they do a good job screening for and managing hypertension in their outpatients. How do they know? Is there a system in place within your practice to alert clinicians of the need to evaluate blood pressure? Does it work? Do your learners pay attention to it?
What are your learners' targets for blood pressure? Do they vary according to patient variables? Which ones?
How do your learners choose pharmacologic therapy for their patients with hypertension? Use the table in In the Clinic: Hypertension to help review.
Do your learners base their diagnoses and monitoring of hypertension management on measures made in the office? Should they pursue ambulatory monitoring? How would they do so?
Julia Schoen describes how her first patient, on her first clinical rotation, helped her to learn how to be a great doctor in ways she had not expected.
Ask your learners if they recall patients who enjoyed being their "guinea pigs" so they could learn to be doctors. Did your learners ever thank their patients for this gift?
Do your learners think serving as "guinea pigs" and assisting medical students and residents to learn helps the patient in some way as well? How?
A 54-year-old man is evaluated for elevated blood pressure noted recently at a local health fair. He has no other medical history and takes no medications.
On this visit and on two subsequent nurse visits, the patient's blood pressure measurements are less than 140/90 mm Hg. BMI is 34. Cardiac examination reveals an S4 gallop. The remainder of the examination is normal.
Laboratory studies show a normal chemistry panel, and a urine dipstick demonstrates no blood or protein.
Electrocardiogram demonstrates evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy.
Diagnose masked hypertension using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is appropriate for this patient who likely has masked hypertension. He has evidence of end-organ manifestations (left ventricular hypertrophy) that is potentially related to hypertension, yet has not presented with blood pressure measurements consistent with hypertension (≥140/90 mm Hg). This raises the possibility of masked hypertension, which is defined as normal office blood pressure measurements but elevated blood pressure (>135/85 mm Hg) in the ambulatory setting. Prior to initiating medical therapy, a more detailed assessment of this patient's blood pressure should be pursued, with ABPM as an appropriate next step. Although ABPM does not carry a formal indication for the diagnosis of masked hypertension, it may be useful in establishing this blood pressure pattern. ABPM-ascertained hypertension is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular death compared with office or home blood pressure–determined hypertension.
The left ventricular hypertrophy identified by electrocardiogram in this case may be secondary to hypertension but also may be due to other (such as genetic) causes and requires formal echocardiography to further evaluate and guide therapy. Initiating a blood pressure–lowering agent is not appropriate until both blood pressure and the electrocardiogram findings are clarified further with ABPM and echocardiography.
A plasma renin-plasma aldosterone ratio is used to evaluate for hyperaldosteronism as a secondary cause of hypertension and is typically indicated in patients with difficult-to-treat blood pressure elevations and hypokalemia. This patient has not been diagnosed with hypertension and has no electrolyte abnormalities.
Because this patient has evidence of end-organ damage possibly due to hypertension, follow-up assessment of his blood pressures in 6 months might further delay diagnosis and is not appropriate.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring may be helpful in diagnosing masked hypertension in patients with end-organ manifestations but normal office blood pressure measurements.
Pierdomenico SD, Cuccurullo F. Prognostic value of white-coat and masked hypertension diagnosed by ambulatory monitoring in initially untreated subjects: an updated meta analysis. Am J Hypertens. 2011 Jan;24(1):52-8.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2017;166(6):ED6.
Cardiology, Coronary Risk Factors, Hospital Medicine, Hypertension, Nephrology.


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We were staying in Glasgow for the Open at Royal Troon and after a long day on course admiring the best players in the world we fancied taking to the fairways ourselves.
Cawder Golf Club is located in Bishopbriggs, a Glasgow suburb four miles from the centre of the city. The the long and winding drive to the clubhouse takes you through the middle of both courses for a sneak preview of what is to come.
Cawder boasts an impressive 36-hole facility. The Keir and the Cawder offer different propositions but we elected for the latter after a chat with the friendly pro Gordon Stewart. He even forgave us for arriving embarrassingly late. Prepare for a narrow opening as there is no forgiveness for errant drives in the early part of your round with trees, rough and even a water hazard or two.
As the round continues the course opens up a little but be warned the trees are never too far away.
Cawder is known for the 'Amen Corner of Scotland' and it certainly did not disappoint. The start of this dramatic stretch is the 15th, a tricky little par-3. The green, although only 154 yards away, looks a small target given the surronding trees, bushes and looming bunker on the front right.
I had a horrendous day with the putter so I'll be sure to visit the putting green first next time. It was no reflection on the greens though, which were very good. Off the tee and from the fairway I felt I acquitted myself nicely given the trouble you can find if you are off line.


As soon as the new album hits the stores, Groundation will kick off an exceptional European tour to promote the new record and to celebrate 10 years of live music!
Since 10 years, Californian combo crossed the world sharing the stage with such diverse artists as Jimmy Cliff, Sly and the Family Stone, The Roots, Kanye West, and Sonic Youth. "A Miracle", Groundation's eight album will be released on October 21st on Soulbeats Records French label and evokes the lasting and eternal influence of Bob Marley, featuring Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, founding members of Marley's legendary backing.


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Urbana parish's Festival of Lessons and Carols showcases both unity, diversity
By: Tom Dermody - December 11, 2018 - Featured Article
As the St. Patrick Bell Choir plays at left and Dr. Franklin Gallo accompanies on organ, a combined choir of nearly 100 voices sings at the close of A Festival of Lessons and Carols at St. Patrick Church in Urbana on the evening of Dec. 9, the Second Sunday of Advent. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
URBANA — Just as Jesus' birth brought joy to local shepherds and kings from far-off lands, the anticipation of celebrating the miracle 2,000 years later united diverse groups in an evening of song and prayer Dec. 9 at St. Patrick Church here.
Eight choirs, representing several ethnic communities, took part in the third annual A Festival of Lessons and Carols at the close of the Second Sunday of Advent.
Hannah Niccum, a cantor at St. Patrick Parish in Urbana and a student at The High School of Saint Thomas More, was one of two featured vocalists as the St. Patrick Church Choir performed an arrangement blending the traditional carol "Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming" with the the contemporary song "The Rose." (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
The choirs took turns singing after the proclamation of nine Scripture readings that spoke of God's love and promises through the ages and the mystery of our redemption. But the presence of the Hispanic, Filipino, Mayan, and Congolese choirs — as well as adult and bell choirs from St. Patrick Parish, singers from a local Greek Orthodox church and Parkland College, representatives of the deaf community, and the musicians of the St. Patrick Youth Orchestra — also taught valuable lessons in an age too often marked by division.
"Our Lessons and Carols here show us we have more similarities than differences, and brings a sense of community, togetherness and joyfulness that is sorely lacking in our day-to-day world," said Dr. Franklin Gallo, director of music and liturgy at St. Patrick Parish and festival coordinator.
ALREADY A BELOVED TRADITION
It was Gallo's vision that brought the festival to St. Patrick in 2016. He and his wife, Donna — a music education professor at the University of Illinois — had just moved to Urbana-Champaign for new chapters in their music careers.
"I was surprised and delighted by the diversity in the community," said Franklin Gallo, who also teaches part time at Parkland College and directs its Chamber Singers. Long interested in Lessons and Carols — a service of Scripture and song that dates to the late 19th century — Gallo soon thought, "Why not include all these different groups?"
The evening has quickly become a beloved tradition at St. Patrick Church, filling the pews this year at the close of a busy weekend that also included the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Saturday as well as regular weekend Masses.
VARIETY OF LANGUAGES
Following a six-song prelude by the St. Patrick Youth Orchestra, the assembly was welcomed to the festival by Stephanie Rayl, a cantor at St. Patrick and graduate student in music at the University of Illinois. She led prayers for peace, unity within the church, and for the needs of the poor, helpless, cold, hungry, oppressed, sick, lonely, those who are mourning, and "all those who do not know the Lord Jesus."
The more than 100 vocalists then processed into the church as the assembly sang "Once in Royal David's City." Following each Scripture reading, the individual choirs left their pews and stood on risers in the church sanctuary to perform a related hymn or carol.
Colin Lualdi and Marietta Coufal sign "Silent Night" during the Festival of Lessons and Carols at St. Patrick Church in Urbana. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
The universal nature of salvation was reflected in readings proclaimed and hymns sung in a variety of languages — including Tagalog for the Filipino Community Choir, Lingala for the Congolese Catholic Community, Q'anjob'al for the Mayan Catholic Community, Greek for the choir from Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church, and Spanish for Hispanic Choir.
The Congolese singers are affiliated with St. Patrick Parish, the Mayan and Hispanic groups are from St. Mary Parish in Champaign, and the Filipino singers are from the area community.
A program for the evening provided English translations of the readings and song lyrics.
The assembly was reverently quiet as Colin Lualdi proclaimed the story of Jesus' birth from the Gospel of Luke in sign language, then joined in voice as Lualdi and Marietta Coufal — both from St. Patrick Parish — signed "Silent Night."
The evening concluded with all choirs coming forward and joining in "Angels We Have Heard on High."
In the language of Lingala, members of the Congolese Catholic Community Choir sing a hymn of joy in anticipation of the Savior's birth. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
"Lord, you call us to be your witnesses to the ends of the earth," said Rayl in a closing prayer. "Fill our words with power that we may proclaim your good news and draw all people to you."
Gallo said that while "the logistics are crazy" for the festival, "we've gotten better at it." He hopes it continues to expand — past years have included Korean and Vietnamese representation and Gallo would like to involve choirs such as the Black Chorus from the University of Illinois — "so that we feel even more together and unified."
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Dec. 16, St. Patrick Church will be the site of sung vespers beginning at 6:30 p.m. and hosted by the parishes of the Champaign Vicariate. Father Luke Spannagel, pastor of St. Patrick, will be the celebrant, Gallo will be the cantor, and the homilist is Msgr. Stanley Deptula, pastor of St. Matthew, Champaign, and St. Boniface, Seymour. All are welcome.
EDITOR'S NOTE: More photos from A Festival of Lessons and Carols will be posted on The Catholic Post's Facebook page. A video of the combined choir singing the first verse of "Angels We Have Heard on High" may be viewed below.
Advent, Franklin Gallo, Lessons and Carols, St. Patrick, Urbana


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Bribery Newsflash: Innospec director pleads guilty to corruption charges
Tony Lewis
Today, Dr David Turner, the former Innospec Limited Global Sales and Marketing Director, appeared before Southwark Crown Court and pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to corrupt.
The first two counts charged a conspiracy to give corrupt payments to public officials and other agents of the Government of Indonesia and the Government of Iraq as inducements to secure, or as rewards for having secured, contracts for Innospec from those governments for the supply of its products including Tetraethyl Lead (a toxic anti-knock fuel additive).
Dr Turner additionally pleaded guilty in respect of one charge of conspiracy to corrupt Iraqi public officials and other agents of the Government of Iraq by making payments as inducements to ensure that tests on MMT, a competitor product, concluded with an unfavourable assessment.
The sentencing of Dr Turner was adjourned.
The case of two other Innospec executives, Dennis Kerrison and Paul Jennings, was adjourned until the 4 April 2012 for plea.
The charges against the individual Innospec executives come after a plea agreement between Innospec and the US and UK authorities. The corporate settlement involved a guilty plea by Innospec of conspiracy to corrupt and payments of $40 million in fines to the US and UK authorities. The agreed UK fine was $12.7 million, payable in part by way of civil settlement.
Recent enforcement action shows the UK Serious Fraud Office pursuing multiple claims arising from the same corrupt activity - against the company, against directors individually, and more recently, against shareholders.
For further information please contact Tony Lewis, Partner or Charlotte Ovans, Associate


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1984 is not just a book
Top 1 Percent Control 42 Percent of Financial Wealth in the U.S. - How Average Americans are Lured into Debt Servitude by Promises of Mega Wealth.
Obama has let the banks pay off their TARP money. Lenders have certain obligations once they accepted Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money. Lenders signed a Participation Agreement with Treasury (through Fannie Mae and FHA-HUD) as a condition of taking government money. The Participation Agreement commits lenders to follow guidelines issued by Treasury in regard to foreclosure on defaulted mortgages. Banks agreed to modify loans to make the payments reasonable. Lenders agreed to stop litigation once the loan is in the modification process.
So now, in allowing the banks to get out of the TARP agreements, the government will have no power to force the banks to modify the predatory ballooning interest only inflated loans they issued and converted into securities and sold to speculators. And the vultures of wall street will foreclose on more homes, free of any govt restraints. For sure they will be free to add to the principal, late fees, attorney fees, exaggerated costs and penalties of all kinds which they were not allowed to do under the treasury guidelines. Banks/lenders/servicers continually did try to add all these fees to the original loan so that the home owner's mortgage loan grew by thousands before it was modified but they feared the courts would disallow these added costs. Now that the lenders are not subjected to the TARP agreement guidelines, they are free to feed off distressed homeowners without restraint.
Could this administration be any more perverse? Sexism, envy and hatred of powerful women among the elites kept democrats from supporting their most qualified candidate who the working class elected. But the rules committee manipulated the rules so that their big money horse won the race (card). Women raced to support a male over a female and prove themselves "progressive" winning the tolerance of the males in their life. Traitors to their gender, "progressive" the label they crave, not "feminist". These women, desperate to have it all, try to define feminist as something that is not primarily concerned with the rights and equality of women, e.g., intersect, cis, bla bla bla. They employ the doublespeak they see all around them and which Mary Daley exposed in GynEcology. Because women get "ahead" by trashing other women and validating men.
Now that Hillary is humiliated, irrelevant, a lapdog for Obama, they tolerated her. She's learned her place and wore the veil for Obama after his Cairo speech. Why should she fight for women globally when women locally trashed her as she tried to obtain her own place from which Hillary could have used power to help our gender. Yes, Hillary is no longer a threat or a source of aid for the working class.
Howard Dean did not support Hillary Clinton and now he admits the Obama health care program is worse than the status quo. The White House, using the same tactics on Dean as they used against Hillary, characterized Dean's reasoned and knowledgeable analysis as "a temper tantrum". Obama wants to give us forced insurance obligations and call it health care reform. Another of his many gifts to big money. These are the same insurance companies who push people from hospitals a day after surgery, send women home with babies a day after giving birth and tell women rape is a pre-existing condition. Strange how every program Obama promised during the campaign ends up a windfall profit to his campaign contributors.
How much can the people of this country bear? Our corporate politicians support massive immigration legal and illegal, which destroyed our hard won wages, civil rights and benefits, forcing us to become wage slaves. The politicians support wage slavery not just with legislation, but by quiet state grants of over a million tax dollars annually to immigrant organizations such as United Migrant Opportunity Service, (UMOS) in Wisconsin to provide "training" housing and day care for "farm workers".
Now the politicians are taking our homes in foreclosures and every surplus dollar in property taxes, income taxes and new financial obligations such as forced insurance and increased gas and energy costs. Millions for Al Gore's cap and trade business but no relief for working people.
Big money bought our airwaves and their propaganda comes at us continually shouting over the voices of those who can see what is in front of them. The American people do not want govt managed health care, they say over and over. They send their dupes out to demonstrate, financed in buses paid for by big money. Look at the polls they say. Their polls. Their cable news channels. Their bought and paid for politicians. Yes look and try to see.
They laugh and slap names on their bills like health care reform instead of forced insurance. They laugh and say, Let them eat cake. Meanwhile Iran and North Korea make their nuclear plans. Our politicians say, Nuclear energy is clean energy.
Look in the mirror Howard Dean, Pelosi, Reid and Mike Moore and all the so called feminists who elevated race and charisma over competence and experience.
FROM UPPITY WOMAN HERE:
posted by Greenconsciousness at 7:43 AM - Link
Timing sister. It's everything.
This too shall be resolved. The people under the bus are starting to stand up. While I have absolutely no sympathy for Dean, as he helped to create this fraudulent monster, his words are significant. And his followers were many.
Many will suffer because we are stuck with these four years of deliberate carnage and total ineptitude, it's true. But the only thing that works in this kind of world is Timing. Obama wants to reduce the population, you know. He has a good start, doesn't he?
Sometimes I get blindly angry and it shows in my posts. But always I use it as a purge only. We must keep up our strength, as he is starting "immigration reform". He is deliberately shotgunning America. He will have his lackeys create the same useless legislation as he did with Credit Card Reform and Health Care. It's deliberate. The bills start out one way and he stands by as his subjects "fix" it for his sponsors. It's no longer just obvious to people like you and me, it's also becoming obvious to his sycophants. He is stealing the soul of America just as he stole delegates from Hillary. He is a thief in the night.
But please do not underestimate the ability of Americans to push back. This man just hasn't affected enough of them yet, but he's getting there.
12:34 PM, December 16, 2009
Just to ease you a bit on your comment at my place. Here's Condi in hijab. I think it's kind of like when Catholics would make women cover their heads before entering church because women are crap in that church too.
The problem in the ME is they expect them to wear them all the time. But stateswomen do seem to wear them when in the presence of the mosque. Me? I just wouldn't go near their damned mosque and that would be the end of it. But that's why I will never be SOS. lol.
http://www.mahablog.com/wp-content/uploads/condihijab.jpg
Greenconsciousness said...
OK she has a scarf on INSIDE a mosque but Clinton wore a heavy duty one all over the place the day after BO gave his "veils are a choice" speech
Great post - behind on my reading but I shouldn't raise my blood pressure too high in this "joyous holiday season", heh heh.
8:18 AM, December 26, 2009
Thanks for the links, I will certainly check 'em out!
but I finally had time to watch the video [UGH] - could not get link to CNN report to work?!? Then again, it would likely worsen my indigestion...
What CNN link honey?


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Third Insert Song for Kamen Rider Build Announced
Insert song by AXL21 was announced for the next episode of Kamen Rider Build.
ats-, Takehito Shimizu, and Toru Watanabe helped AXL21 perform a new insert song for Kamen Rider Build, titled "Evolution". This new song will be appearing in episode 33, which will air on April 29th. AXL21 is a recently formed offshoot who contributed an insert song to Build already.
This will be the third insert song to appear in the show. The first was "Ready Go!!" by AXL21, the second was "Burning My Soul" by J-CROWN & TaKu from 1-FINGER.
Source: Avex Management
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Q: Pod Written in Obj C to Use in Swift Is there any possible way to use the pods which is coded in Obj C in Swift language.

A: You can directly use Objective c pod into your swift project
Example:
Step 1. Go to your project directory in your terminal and type pod init. This will create a pod file, edit the pod file by writing pod 'Toast', '~> 4.0.0'.
# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'ObjcPOD' do
  # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!
pod 'Toast', '~> 4.0.0'
  # Pods for ObjcPOD

end

Step 2. Run the command pod install in the terminal which will install pod into your project and thus generating .xcodeworkspace file. Open that file and then write:
import UIKit
import Toast

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.view.makeToast("Toast Here")
    }
}

Now you can run the app, done!

A: Just use use_frameworks! flag in the podfile before giving pod name that you want to install like this:
   // Podfile
use_frameworks!
pod 'CoolObjectiveCLib'

for more detailed answer you can check @Vlad Papko answer here :
How to use Objective-C Cocoapods in a Swift Project?

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The team created a series of story boards, showing various ways of combining the elements, and posted them in the sanctuary for comment. Laden with our data, the team turned to a friend of the congregation who owned a graphic design studio. He took all our ideas and put out a call for designs. A young design student in Estonia submitted his understanding of what he envisioned we wanted. It was perfect, in fact it went beyond perfect – by using two different shades of blue, we could see two capital R's in the flowing river. He cleverly announced our diversity by coloring the two interlocking circles as rainbows.
We hold the trademark copyright of the logo and while we are flattered several other congregations have copied and used it on local publications, websites and in other ways, those wishing to make use of the logo need to first contact us to purchase a one-time license.
We're proud of our logo, it speaks well of who we are as a small lay-led Unitarian Universalist congregation. We hope you enjoy seeing it.


Mr Taylor is delighted to have been asked to have been asked to attend the Women's Vitality Netball World Cup to be played at the M and S Bank Arena in Liverpool in June of this year.
The World Cup will see 16 teams from around the World, selected from rankings and regional qualifying tournaments, play a 10-day tournament culminating on Sunday July 21st.
Mr Taylor will be providing cover for any knee injuries during his tournament in his role as one of the leading knee specialists in the country.
Mr Taylor said of their appointments, "It is great to see such a prominent tournament in the city and with England having such a proud history in the sport it will be interesting to see how they fair.
To be involved is an honour and a pleasure and I look forward to the event eagerly.


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Q: MySQL a query from two tables I have 2 tables created with SQL. The first one has an unique id and a name of a provider. The second one has a product name, the amount of that product and the id of the provider.
I need a query that gives me the name of each provider and the total sum of the product amount that they have.
Ex:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS provider
(id int unique auto_increment primary key,
name char(50));

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS product
(id int unique auto_increment primary key,
name char(30),
provider_id int NOT NULL,
amount int NOT NULL);

Provider: (id, name)
1 Mike
2 Peter
3 John

Product: (id, name, provider_id, amount)
1 RedCar 1 100
2 BlueCar 1 50
3 RedCar 3 35
4 OrangeCar 2 500
5 GreenCar 3 250

Query:
Mike 150
Peter 500
John 285

A: You need a simple LEFT JOIN with GROUP BY aggregation. LEFT JOIN will ensure to account for a provider even if he/she does not have any product.
SUM() function is used to calculate the sum of amount for a specific provider. We can use COALESCE() function to handle NULL values. SUM() will return NULL for the cases when there is no product for a provider.
SELECT
  pvd.id,
  pvd.name,
  COALESCE(SUM(pdt.amount),0) AS total_amount
FROM Provider AS pvd
LEFT JOIN Product AS pdt
  ON pdt.provider_id = pvd.id
GROUP BY pvd.id, pvd.name

P.S. It is advisable to use Aliasing in case of multi-table queries, for code clarity (readability) and avoiding ambiguous behaviour.
P.P.S. If you don't want to list the provider with no products; you can change LEFT JOIN to INNER JOIN, and get rid of the COALESCE() function usage as well.

A: This is the SQL query that gives result as per you want.
SELECT pr.name,SUM(p.amount) as total_amount FROM `provider` pr LEFT JOIN `product` p ON p.provider_id = pr.id where 1 GROUP BY pr.id


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Tomorrow Webinar at TechnologyLIVE: Why "Print Resellers" are turning to hosted telephony..
Managed 24/7 wins CIPD contract
By Editorial Content on 15th January 2019
The CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) has appointed Managed 24/7to deliver a single IT hosting solution including hosting, communications, backup and support for its global network, spanning 400 employees. The three-year contract was awarded during a competitive pitch process.
The managed IT system that Managed 24/7 has designed for CIPD will be delivered from its service desk in Milton Keynes. The solution takes a dedicated Hybrid Cloud approach, with a combination of its Managed IT support, OneCare service, and its OneView omnipresent IT monitoring and analytics, focused on delivering ITIL accredited services.
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ECLAC Launches Social Panorama of Latin America 2011
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The Executive Secretary of the Organization, Alicia Bárcena, will present the flagship publication which shows the latest poverty and indigence figures and examines various social gaps which exist in the region.
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El informe de la CEPAL analiza los avances y retrocesos en materia de pobreza y distribución del ingreso que han experimentado los países de la región en un contexto de creciente incertidumbre económica.
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(23 November 2011) In the latest edition of its flagship publication Social Panorama of Latin America 2011, ECLAC analyses progress and setbacks relating to poverty and the distribution of income which the countries of the region have experienced in a situation of growing economic uncertainty.
The poverty and indigence figures for each country relate to 2010 and the regional projection for 2011 will be presented by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, at a press conference next Tuesday 29 November at 12 noon at the headquarters of the Organization in Santiago, Chile.
The nineteenth edition of this annual flagship publication of ECLAC will also analyse other issues such as:
-The gaps which exist in the world of work and in social protection systems.
-The evolution of social expenditure in the region.
-The situation of fertility in Latin America.
For the first time the study will include a chapter on the Caribbean, which will discuss young people in this subregion.
The media are invited to the press conference to launch the Social Panorama of Latin America 2011, which will be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Celso Furtado conference room).
Any queries should be addressed to the ECLAC Public Information and Web Services Section. E-mail: dpisantiago@cepal.org; Telephone: (56 2) 210 2040.
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Latin America and the Caribbean is One of the Regions Most Affected Demographically by the Health Crisis
The 2022 edition of ECLAC's Demographic Observatory confirms that the region had the biggest loss of years of life expectancy at birth in 2021 versus 2019, and a sharp reduction in population growth.
Latin America and the Caribbean Lost Nearly 3 Years of Life Expectancy at Birth between 2019 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
New estimates and projections by ECLAC and the United Nations Population Division confirm that the region's population is growing at an increasingly low rate, due mainly to a decline in fertility.
Authorities Reaffirm the Montevideo Consensus as the Basis for a Comprehensive Road Map for Action on Population and Development
At the conclusion of the fourth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, countries urged for strengthening multilateralism, solidarity and international cooperation.
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The PBR Action Comes To A Close In NYC For 2017 In Grand Style
The action here in New York City over the last two nights have given the dedicated and loyal fans of the Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Series all that they have asked for. Tonight will draw to a close the 2017 edition of the Monster Energy Buck Off At The Garden event inside of the iconic Madison Square Gardens Arena. If the first two rounds are any indication as to how today's final two rounds will be, the fans in attendance and watching at home are in for a treat later this afternoon.
Rounds one and two have featured some new stars on both sides of the arena as some up and coming bull riding superstars take center stage and some new bovine athletes are getting their chance to show off a little too! Although there have been a few re-rides awarded here and there over the first two rounds we were able to see what kind of animal athletes will be making their way on tour as the 2017 season travels across the country. It will be interesting to see who will step up and who will fall by the wayside.
Marco Eguchi Takes The Top Spot In Round Three
Photo Credit: Andy Watson / Bull Stock Media
Round three, once again, featured the top 35 bull riders in the world each vying for a spot in the elusive championship round where the top 15 from the combined first three rounds are invited to compete for the event championship title. These cowboys will pair up with bucking bulls that were featured in the first two rounds and invited back to round three by the PBR Director of Livestock, Cody Lambert. Many of these bulls had their first out earlier in the weekend so these guys had a little information to go off of here in round three this afternoon.
Round three brought the last chance for these bull riders to earn a spot in the championship round and by the looks of how much effort these guys were putting out each and every one of them wanted one of those spots badly. This afternoon's round continued the path that we have seen over the previous two with 12 of the top 35 bull riders making a qualified ride. That being said Marco Eguchi gained the top score with an 88 point ride aboard Rocking I Rodeo Company's Machinery Auctioneer's Little Joe for the round three win heading into the championship round riding a wave of momentum!
Complete List Of Qualified Round Three Rides Posted Below:
Marco Eguchi (88.00) J.B. Mauney (87.50)
Matt Triplett (86.75) Joao Ricardo Vieira (86.25)
J.W. Harris (85.50) Eduardo Aparecido (85.75)
Ryan Dirteater (85.75) Kaique Pachec0 (85.50)
Nathan Schaper (85.00) Fabiano Vieira (83.50)
Paulo Lima (83.25) Jess Lockwood (82.25)
Ryan Dirteater Wins The Championship Round Here In NYC
Once the three qualifying rounds were completed and the field was set for the championship round of the Monster Energy Buck Off At The Garden major event the focus turned back to the arena floor once again. The top fifteen bull riders from the combined three rounds prior went head to head on top of some of the toughest bulls in the business today. Each would be doing what they could to bring home the first event title of the young 2017 Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Series season.
These guys had their hands full as many of the world champion bucking bull contenders from the 2016 season were in the house to wreak havoc among their counterparts climbing aboard them here this fateful Sunday afternoon. Once all was said and done there would be a total of 3 of the fifteen competing that would be able to garner a qualified ride. That being said, only one of those men, Ryan Dirteater, was able come out on top with a 90.5 point ride aboard K-C / Josie McElroy Bucking Bulls / Spark-lin Acres' Handsome Jeff to claim the championship round victory.
Jess Lockwood Earns The First Event Win Of The 2017 Season
Once the conclusion of the first event of the season came about it was time to crown the first event champion of the 2017 PBR Built Ford Tough Series season. Along with that, the Monster Energy Buck Off At The Garden event was also the first PBR Major of the season where only four were announced for the entire 2017 season. These four events offer the champion inflated world title points as well as huge paydays that send them catapulting to the top of the world standings leaderboard. Usually speaking, from past history, whoever wins this event makes a huge run at a world championship title in November at the PBR World Finals.
This weekend that one man standing alone atop the shark cage would be non-other than the young gun Jess Lockwood. After a dominating 4-for-4 performance here in New York City he is riding on top of the world and with the confidence that he needs to continue his streak throughout the year as long as he can stay healthy. Winning the first event of the year, a major event at that, has given this elite bull rider a whole new outlook at what he can do in the 2017 Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Series season as he heads into Chicago in the number one spot in the world standings!
To say that the 2017 Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Series season has kicked off in grand style would be a complete understatement. As we all saw here this weekend in New York City, there are still many "veteran" bull riders on tour but the up and coming young guns are definitely making their names known while making sure the guys that have been on tour for years are looking over their shoulders in fear. Next weekend's event in Chicago should be another fantastic and exciting event for the PBR and the loyal fans of professional bull riding!
It is quite easy to follow all the breaking news and excitement with the Rodeo Round Up simply by copying this website into your favorites in your web browser for easy one-click access to event statistics. You can also like and follow us on Facebook here, or by liking and following us on Instagram at @rodeoroundup and on Twitter at @therodeoroundup. Jason has also made it easy for you to be a part of his interviews by opening up a listener comment line. If you have a question for a certain rodeo star simply call in and leave your name, where you are from, who the question is for and what your question is and he will do his best to get it answered for you during his interviews!


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Hacienda HealthCare nurse arrested in rape investigation
Some in Phoenix are casting the birth of a child to such a mother, conceived in the way this child must have been, as a first. But it was not. The same thing happened here in 1996.
The astonishing news broke one morning in January 1996: A young woman in Brighton, in a coma-like persistent vegetative state for a decade, had been raped and was five months pregnant. No suspect had been found. The nursing home where the young woman lived was in chaos.
Her family wanted the pregnancy to continue, and she was moved to Strong Memorial Hospital.
Kathy, who like the woman in Phoenix was 29 years old, gave birth two months later to a premature boy. That child is now nearing his 23rd birthday. His name and place of residence have never been made public. He was raised by his maternal grandmother.
Police: Finding incapacitated patient's rapist 'highest priority'
John Parrinello, the Rochester lawyer who represented Kathy's family, said the child had heart issues that required surgery when he was young. But he grew into a healthy youth.
Parrinello, who helped Kathy's family win a sizable settlement, said he remembers seeing a photograph of the young man in a tuxedo, perhaps while he was in high school.
"He was a good-looking boy," Parrinello said. The grandmother "was a very giving and lovely lady who took on the responsibility of raising the child."
The boy never knew his mother. She died a year after giving birth.
And the father? Horace, an aide at the nursing home with a sordid background, was identified through DNA testing, convicted of rape and sent to prison.
The case led to a change in state law to require background checks of nursing home employees. It's known as Kathy's Law.
Horace was released on parole in 2012, but confined nine months later on a violation when he was caught driving a car and having pornographic DVDs in his home — breaches of his parole terms.
State records show that Horace's prison term would end in 2021. However, records indicate that he is no longer in the custody of corrections officials, and has instead been placed in control of "another agency."
Typically, this means that an inmate has been diagnosed with psychological issues requiring treatment from the state's Office of Mental Health agency, or OMH. And, state records also show that Horace is now being held in Marcy, an upstate community where OMH operates a treatment facility designated for sexually violent predators.
Privacy laws prohibit state officials from revealing if an individual is in the mandated care of OMH.
Horace turned 75 on Thursday. If he is undergoing treatment as a sexual predator, he could be held by OMH until his life ends or until there is a determination from treatment providers that he can be safely released.
Kathy, his victim, grew up in the Rochester area and enrolled in Cornell University after high school.
Early one morning in December 1985, her car hit ice on a rural road near Ithaca and slid into a tree. Her boyfriend suffered broken bones but recovered. Kathy, then 19, suffered a traumatic head injury and fell into a vegetative state from which she never recovered.
The young woman, who was confined to bed and could not communicate, spent time in several hospitals and long-term care facilities before being transferred, in February 1995, to the Westfall Health Care Center. The newly opened nursing home off Westfall Road in Brighton specialized in caring for people such as Kathy.
But six months after arriving in the 145-bed facility, Kathy became pregnant.
Regulators and reporters descended on the facility, which had been cited for serious patient-care violations and was criticized for low staffing levels and poor hiring practices.
One of those hires was Horace, a man who, it later emerged later, had a long history of harassing and preying on women and girls, and had a fixation on sex organs and practices.
He had been charged as a young man with sexually abusing a teenage relative, and came under investigation in the fall of 1995 for running an unlicensed sex-therapy business in the creepy basement of a northeast Rochester home.
But his depravity seemed to reach its nadir when he was hired at Westfall Health Care Center in August 1995. Within days, female residents and staff began to complain about his conduct.
Horace was assigned to work in the unit when Kathy lived, and spent eight days caring for her and other residents there. Two witnesses later reported walking into Kathy's room and finding him alone with her; on one of those occasions, Horace looked startled when a co-worker found Kathy naked in bed with Horace standing next to her.
Within a week or two of his arrival at Westfall, it was later determined, Horace impregnated Kathy, most likely as she lay unresponsive in her bed.
Facility officials were not yet aware of that attack when they fired Horace in mid-September after another female resident complained he had penetrated her with his finger. He later was criminally charged for that sexual assault, and again for his impersonation of a sex therapist.
And when nursing-home employees discovered Kathy's pregnancy in late 1995, he immediately became a prominent suspect. He was arrested in July 1996 and charged with rape and sexual abuse. A DNA sample from the baby indicated he was the father.
After a lengthy trial the following February, he was convicted and sentenced to up to 25 years in state prison.
The nursing home was purchased by the UR medical center, which had supported the institution since its conception, and revamped with new management and more staff. It remains in operation today under the name the Highlands at Brighton.
Parrinello said that he and Kathy's mother met with hospital officials about the health issues and even the medical ethics should Kathy be allowed to give birth. Ultimately, he said, Kathy's mother made up her mind.
"The mother said, 'I know my daughter, and, if she could speak, she would want to have this baby.'"
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052: "… then we are all in a bad mood because we had to yell.": A Your Child Explained Episode 0
Today, listener Lindsay channels the thoughts we all have on those days in which our kids refuse to listen. Lindsay writes "it's not like after a few asks we don't make him do it; we do and then we're all in a bad mood because we had to yell. It's stuff like getting dressed or coming to eat dinner. What is an old-school way to get him to just do what he has to do? Or is this just what parenting is all about?"
In this Your Child Explained episode, where we always try to understand what's going on in the minds of our young kids, we jump into how to give our kids a sense of independence and control over their own lives – so they don't end up living in our basement when they're 35 – while preserving our sanity.
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051: Joel Boggess of The ReLaunch Show is All About Healing and Forgiveness 0
When today's guest was five years old, he fell off a railway bridge and landed on hard ground 30 feet down. He spent weeks in a coma, and years healing; at the time a doctor wrote into his chart "don't expect Joel to lead a normal life."
Well, that statement certainly turned out to be true! Joel Boggess of The ReLaunch Show is living a downright extraordinary life, getting a degree in counseling psychology and then combining that with his background in radio to cohost – along with his wife, dentist and business guru Dr. Pei Kang – the ReLaunch podcast. Joel's written an Amazon bestseller, Finding Your Voice, and he and Pei work together as entrepreneurs, podcasting and coaching.
Joel graciously agreed to come on We Turned Out Okay a few weeks previously, spent the morning of our interview at the emergency room for treatment of a busted elbow, and still came through with our chat. Talk about going above and beyond!
Our conversation ranged from Joel and Pei's two golden retrievers, retired therapy dogs, to some great advice to help us help our kids through tough situations.
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050: How to Make New Year's Resolutions that Work Both for You and Your Young Child 0
Today's episode is a real milestone: Episode 50! I can't believe we're already here, 50 episodes in. I really wanted to do something special today, to mark the big 5-0, and since it's so close to the first of the year I got to thinking about New Year's resolutions.
Then an instagram follower, writtenandbound, got in touch to ask me how she could best help her three-year-old daughter overcome a huge fear and go in the ball pit at gymnastics, and I knew that goal-setting and New Year's resolutions needed to be our topic today!
To read about my 2015 resolutions and how I did with them – and for the advice I gave to writtenandbound – click here to go to this episode's show notes.
049: Parents ARE Leaders: A (Revisited) Conversation with Dr. Bob Nolley of The Labrador Leadership Podcast 0
During the first two weeks of January, we are revisiting favorite, helpful conversations from the very beginning of We Turned Out Okay. These are episodes that listeners really responded to, right from the start, and as I'm planning the next several months of what the podcast will be, it seemed like a great time to go back, re-listen, and remember.
Today I'm so happy to bring you my conversation with college professor and leadership expert Dr. Bob Nolley, who helped me be a better parent by thinking of myself as a leader with his podcast Labrador Leadership.
Click here to read the notes to this episode at weturnedoutokay.com!
048: How Do We Learn What We Need To Know? A (Revisited) Conversation with Dad and Author Daniel Wolff 0
Today, to start your new year off right, I know you're going to love listening to award-winning author Daniel Wolff, who wrote one of my all-time favorite parenting books: How Lincoln Learned To Read. In fact, I loved this book so much that it is one of the 9 1/2 Key Resources for Old School Parents (which you can get by clicking here.) During our conversation, Daniel shares one of the most valuable pieces of advice for parents that I've ever heard.
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Q: Individuals into who (or which?) the spirit incorporates The pronoun forms of who and which seem to be used more 'randomly' nowadays than Oxford English would allow.
Which of the two is more correct. To my somewhat British ears, which is often used in such cases in colloquial everyday English. However, I would advocate the use of 'who' since refers to the individuals and all individuals are referred to, not only a selection.
THE SENTENCE IN QUESTION:
There are at least a handful of individuals into who(m) / which the spirit incorporates?
NOTE: This sentence refers to a given spirit manifesting/entering into a human's body.
UPDATE:
Regarding the definition of 'incorporate into' in the classical EN dictionaries, it would not be correct to say something incorporates into somthing. However, when talking about spirits and mediums, it seems to be accepted terminology. Because when checking through Google Books, there are various authors who have used this expression in this sense.

A: Whether to use which or in which or out of which or of whom or in whom etc. depends on the main verb. It has nothing to do with BrE versus AmE.
So, the verb incorporate is followed by in or into.
One incorporates some thing into something else.
For example, "He incorporated additional colours into the mix."
I don't think one would say "the spirit is incorporated into individuals". A spirit does not incorporate.
If one is describing individuals and the idea of spirit, one might say:
individuals who have accepted the spirit [in a spiritual sense].
An individual into whom a spirit has entered. [psychic powers lingo]

A: [Edit]  The original text uses a very specific meaning of "incorporate", as in this excerpt:

Before Dr. Fritz started to incorporate into Kleber Aran he incorporated in a few select individuals. The first and also most popular was José Arigo (José Pedro de Freitas).

In this case the literal "spirit" (ghost) of Dr. Fritz has "entered into" the body of some person, and "incorporate" is perfectly acceptable term. Note that "embody" can also work, (although it tends to mean something else when used in this kind of context).
Note this is often called "channeling" as in some person channels some spirit .. but again that's slightly different from what is implied by "incorporate".  However, this is all jargon used by psychics, mediums, and other mystical practitioners.  Jargon does not necessarily have the same meaning among everyone in the field, and (without context) may sound strange to anyone unfamiliar with the field.
The use of who vs. which is a matter of style, and possibly dialect.  There is no right or wrong, so it's kind of a pointless argument.
Certainly some dialects might prefer one over the other, but language changes over time, and even the most formal of modern dialects would probably be considered intolerably rude by formal English speakers of a century ago.  Arguments over what is proper all depend on who you're speaking to.
However -- in this particular case we're talking about the embodiment of a spirit into a human being, and I personally think "who" is the best option:

There are only a handful of individuals into whom this spirit has chosen to incorporate.


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The 2012 Giro di Lombardia or 2012 Il Lombardia was the 106th edition of the Giro di Lombardia single-day cycling race, often known as the Race of the Falling Leaves''. It was held on 29 September 2012, over a distance of , starting in Bergamo and ending in Lecco. It was the penultimate event of the season in the 2012 UCI World Tour. The very steep climb Muro di Sormano returned to the route during the 2012 edition after an absence of fifty years and was situated before the Madonna del Ghisallo climb. Joaquim Rodríguez () won the race after a solo breakaway initiated on the final climb of the day. He became the first Spaniard to win this Classic.

Teams
As the race was held under the auspices of the UCI World Tour, all eighteen ProTour teams were invited automatically. Seven additional wildcard invitations were given – , , , , ,  and  – to form the event's 25-team peloton.

Race summary
The race got underway in Bergamo under rain and fog with temperatures oscillating around . The weather conditions discouraged a lot of participants, since of the 197 riders who started the race, only 54 crossed the line as 143 competitors withdrew. The newly crowned World champion Philippe Gilbert of  was among those who abandoned, as he crashed while trying to reel in the leading group on the descent after the Muro di Sormano. He later rated his  crash as a "9.5 out of 10" and posted a picture of his bloodied jersey on Twitter.

Romain Bardet () was the sole survivor of an early breakaway to crest atop the Muro di Sormano in front of the favorites, shaking off Alberto Losada () near the top. With Bardet still hanging on to a minute lead, Ryder Hesjedal () attacked with  to go, but the attempt failed. Bardet was caught and 's Kevin De Weert broke free only to take a spill in a downhill turn. A couple more short-lived breaks ensued, including one by Portuguese Rui Costa (). Joaquim Rodríguez attacked on the final difficulty of the day, the Villa Vergano climb. He arrived at the top of the difficulty alone and descended to Lecco as the rain was pouring down heavily. Nobody could reach him and he crossed the line in joy, throwing a water bottle in the air. Rodriguez stated after the victory: "I was fighting for a double goal today, to win this prestigious competition and to take the lead in the UCI World Tour Ranking, and I managed both. So I'm really happy."

Results

References

External links
 Official site

Giro Di Lombardia, 2012
Giro di Lombardia
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VP candidates present ideas on upping enrollment
April 18, 2016 · by msumadvocate · in News. ·
by Tyler Jensen
jensenty@mnstate.edu
Amidst other attempts to revive student enrollment, MSUM administration has begun its search for a new vice president for enrollment management and student affairs. The position's five candidates conducted public forums at the university last week to discuss their experience and plans for the future.
Search committee chair Dan Heckaman said the university is looking for someone with a focus on student affairs and a "specific plan for increasing enrollment."
"We've got five really strong candidates from all over the country," he said. "I think their level of expertise is a good fit, and we're really looking for a good value fit."
The candidates' presentations were centered on MSUM's core values of grit, humility and heart.
Douglas Wermedal, South Dakota State University's current interim vice president for student affairs, related his presentation to MSUM's history, cracking a joke or two about how during one SDSU renovation, planners asked for a few more fireplaces than they needed.
"Because of a typo, instead of 11 fireplaces on 11 floors, two zeroes had been added to the 11, so the call I got was, 'Uh, Doug, it looks like there's 1,100 fireplaces in this building. Is that one per student?' Because my natural instinct is to go for the joke, I said, 'Yeah, we were just wanting to see what would happen," he said, laughing.
Jokes aside, he said the fireplaces did serve a purpose, providing students a sense of home and community. Those sensations are something Wermedal emphasized in his presentation, discussing renovations made with socializing in mind and SDSU faculty's helping with student move-in days.
He said the key to getting enrollment back on track is seeking students who don't fit the description of the traditional high school graduate.
"What you have to do is find micro markets," he said, discussing how SDSU was able to redefine elements of tuition and fees to make military-affiliated families eligible for $2,800 more than what they were previously receiving in their award packages.
Laura Bayless is in a role comparable to Wermedal's at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. She works at the university as its assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and said she is drawn to the MSUM's core values. Her work in student affairs and enrollment management make her qualified for the role, she said, adding she has previously held roles as dean, vice president, assistant dean and assistant vice president for student affairs at four colleges she worked at prior to gaining her current position.
Her presentation emphasized the importance of collaboration.
"I would support the staff in enhancing their strategies to attract and retain students at MSUM, building on the best practices in the field and MSUM's unique culture," she said. "Recruiting a strong student body requires all people on campus to work together — students, faculty and staff."
Michael Sachs, the assistant vice president for student affairs at the East Stroudsburg campus of the University of Pennsylvania, discussed his focus on learning and student engagement. Sachs is also a licensed New York attorney and a public speaker. He gives talks across the country on issues ranging from health and safety to outcomes in student learning and student engagement.
"What I will bring to MSUM is a student-centered philosophy that places student learning first," he said. "I will strive to provide students with the resources they need to achieve their highest potential."
Sachs said MSUM needs to establish a stronger sense of identity and market that to potential students.
"Knowing what the university does best is key to enrollment growth," he said. "That, however, is only the first step. The next is to promote those unique attributes and market them to prospective students and their families who share MSUM's values and uniqueness."
Brenda Amenson-Hill, currently the dean of students and Title IX coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, made her case for becoming the next vice president, mentioning how her current university educates 6,800 students, a number comparable to MSUM's population. She's worked at a variety of colleges — private and public, large and small. She connected with the university's core value of grit, discussing her experience as a first-generation college student.
"I told my parents I was going to go to college, and they said, 'Great, how are you going to pay for it?'"
She worked two jobs while attending college and said that feat relates to a trait she personally values: dedication. Another is a willingness to work with others to accomplish goals, she said. Amenson-Hill said MSUM could work on establishing a better sense of inclusion in its campus climate. Like Sachs, she said identity is key.
"Your marketing, I don't know if it's really good or bad, I'm just saying it has to be clear as to who you are," she said. "If you say Minnesota State University Moorhead, people should say, 'Oh yeah, they're really good at …'"
She said campus culture plays a huge role in students' college selection. She said her son's college search was largely defined by considerations of individual universities' environments.
Edgar Berry, former vice president for student affairs at Texas College, related his presentation to experiences he had as a guidance counselor at high schools and as a judicial affairs officer at colleges.
He mentioned the case of a college student who broke into a building to change his grades. The student was caught, he said, and administrators began the process of suspending him. Berry said the student came to him, and he walked the student through what he was to do, starting with calling his parents and telling them what happened. He told the student what he should do during his suspension, he said — what classes he should take outside school and the volunteer work he should complete.
Berry said he worked as a moderator in the faculty meeting that aimed to have the student suspended for three years. Berry said he pointed out the school could only suspend the student for one year, and the faculty listened to him. Both sides won in that way, he said.
"It saved them from a lawsuit, and the student only was suspended for a year instead of three," he said, adding the former student still thanks him today.
Like Sachs and Amenson-Hill, Berry said the university should market what makes it special. He asked the assembled group what made MSUM unique and said that is what needs to be shared with prospective students. He also said MSUM should start promoting itself to students early on.
"Wouldn't it be great if a student on their first day said, 'I've wanted to come here since middle school!'?" Berry asked the crowd.
Heckaman said while the search committee will be choosing someone with a specific plan for enrollment, the university also plans to hire an associate vice president of enrollment management. In the meantime, the vice president position will remain filled by its interim, athletics director Doug Peters, a role he has held since September, when Yvette Underdue Murph resigned from the job for personal reasons.
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HomeRecyclingBusinessRussian Pros are Learning from U.S. Waste & Recycling Techniques
Russian Pros are Learning from U.S. Waste & Recycling Techniques
Chrissy Kadleck | Nov 25, 2015
Planet Aid's national headquarters in Elkridge, Md., was the first stop for a delegation of Russian experts on a three-week tour exploring waste and recycling techniques throughout the United States.
Sponsored by the U.S. State Department with the objective of receiving broad exposure to the best practices in waste management in the U.S., the seven-person group visited Planet Aid on Nov. 17 to see firsthand how the nonprofit organization collects, recycles, and redistributes used clothing and other textiles.
"We were highly honored by this," says John Nagiecki, Planet Aid's communications director. "It caught us completely by surprise but we were very happy to give them their introduction to what we feel is a very important part of recycling in the United States, and one that's been neglected and that we're trying to make more progress in."
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an estimated 85 percent of unwanted clothing is thrown in the trash, filling up landfills with reusable materials and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
Planet Aid's leadership team gave the delegation a tour of its 52,000-square-foot warehouse and sorting facility to illustrate the process that allows them to collect a hundred million pounds of textiles per year through its expansive network of 20,000 yellow bins located in 22 states. Acceptable textiles include clothing, shoes, bedding, linens, towels, hats and gloves, among other things, Nagiecki says.
"Our net proceeds are donated to help impoverished communities in developing countries," he says. "We work in the areas of agriculture, health promotion and disease prevention, and education."
Armed with an interpreter, there were no communication barriers during the visit, Nagiecki says. "Not surprisingly, many of them spoke English," he says.
Many questions centered around the iconic collection bin, which is always positioned in convenient and easily accessible locations in the community such as school, church and shopping parking lots.
"They wanted to know everything from how we designed the bin to how the chute worked and safety features built into it," he says. "They spent a lot of time around that bin. They wanted to know how much they cost and how often we maintain them both in terms of the paint on the bin and our other graphics on it and how we service them, how often?
Delegates included: Sergei Butorin, co-founder of Eco Security Systems in Izhevsk; Natalia Riass, deputy director of Energo Company in Yekaterinburg; Andrey Sazonov, director of Uralthermoplast Multiproduct Plastic Recycling Factory in Aramil; Dmitry Shlykov, deputy editor-in-chief for Portal '66.ru' in Yekaterinburg; Natalia Sliusar, deputy chair of environment protection for Perm Polytechnical Research University in Perm; Leriy Tsvetkov, CEO of Tyumen Environmental Association in Tyumen; and Dimitry Zakarlyukin, chairman of "Let's Do It" Environmental Protection Movement in Chelyabinsk. Sazonov is the only delegate who had visited the United States previously. He also attended WasteExpo 2015 in Las Vegas.
"They were a very eager and inquisitive group," he says. "We had a very fruitful discussion."
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Police burst into my home!
So recently I was watching a movie in my basement with my girlfriend when there was a knock at the door. My roommate upstairs went to answer the door and was greeted by several police officers promptly asking who is currently in the residence. He explained that there were four people including himself, his friend, my girlfriend and myself and then overheard an officer's radio mention his friends name (Turns out they were simply receiving information on who the owner of the vehicle at the end of the driveway was). At that point my roommate said hold on a moment, closed the door slightly and went back to his room to call his friend down thinking maybe he pocket dialed 911. Instantly five officers pushed the door open and invaded my home without permission.
In a fluster of confusion I started walking up the stairs and told my girlfriend to do the same and I asked what's going on to which I was replied with, "A female called from this address claiming a man was trying to hurt her". Astonished I quickly asked if the call was from a land line or cellphone to determine if I was being pranked or if someone wasn't doing their job properly. The first male cop answered that he wasn't sure. They persisted and said the whole house must be searched regardless and pushed past me to start checking downstairs and beyond.
As soon as two of the officers reached the bottom of the steps their radio's went off exclaiming that they had the wrong address! They realized their error, swiftly turned around and ran out of the building apologizing for the unnecessary excitement.
I was shocked in the first place why they were even here and even more so when they said a female called from this exact address claiming she was being attacked by a male. At first I thought it was ridiculous that they just walked in my place without permission and started going through my house but realistically if there was a girl locked up in a room I guess I hope they would be persistent versus not entering because the owner disagreed. What is the legality of this anyway?