Learning About Insurance and What it Does You should know that having the right insurance plan will help you get a much better and more organized financial planning. It is common for people to have insurance but it is also common for the majority of the people having insurance actually have no idea what it is. For a lot of people, they see insurance as some kind of investment, it is referred to some as a good place to start tax saving. It is common for people to answer when asked about their investment, they would automatically mention one of the insurance products as one of their main investments. You should know that there are places that have at least five percent of insured individuals but that is not the end, under the five percent, there is a low percentage for those people who are adequately insured. There are some people who are insured see insurance as that and nothing more. This is one example of a financial product that has been rampantly sold by misleading the buyers at the hands of agents. They have been selling financial products enthusiastically that they link insurance to investment and they get a lot of commission. What is so-called product called, insurance?
You need to understand that insurance is something that helps people, companies or business entity when they have significant financial risks. People who have predefined or companies that think that they will have an unfortunate event soon will be needing insurance as soon as possible. The cost of being insured will be paid depending on the rules of the insurance company, some will want a monthly compensation or may it be an annual thing. You have to know that the form of insurance will be when a predefined event does not happen until the date that it was specified, the money pain for compensation will not be returned. You have to know that an insurance is effectively spreading risk on large group of people who are already insured. When you have financial problems, insurance will make it a bit lighter for you, this is a heavy burden but with the right insurance, you will manage.
It will not be an easy phase but when you follow the guide above, you will be able to see just easy it was to get the best insurance plan for you and your family, it is always better to think about the future and with this guide, you will be guided properly towards a better future. You have to make sure that you have enough information that will not leave you in shock when something bad or the risk of it happening actually occurs.


Being an Assistant isn't for everyone. I mean let's face it, the job has its challenges, and I think you have to love the role to succeed in it genuinely. If you think of the position as a stepping stone to something else or a job that you've just so happened to fall into, then you'll never give it your all, and you know what that is fine. Not every lawyer loves their job, and I doubt very much that every Accountant springs out of bed in the morning itching to crunch some numbers! So, it is inevitable that some Assistants will eventually want to switch careers. Or if you are like me, who loved being an EA, something crops up that is to good to turn down. So from experience, here are my tips on how to change your Assistant career.
Look at what you do and what your role covers.
What skills do you use that you can transfer to a different profession? As Assistants, we are lucky because we do lots of various tasks so our skills are generally pretty broad, which means we can move quite quickly into something different. The tricky bit is demonstrating that those skills are ideal for a new role so think about your strengths and core values along with your skills and competencies. How can you show that you are made for this new career?
Once you've evaluated your skillset do some research to see where those skills are most needed and will add value. For example, you might have loads of project management experience and decide that actual project management is a better fit than the Assistant role. Alternatively, you might organise lots of events and want to do that full time. Once you have spent some time building up your experience, preferably in your own company, then it is time to spread your wings and get a new job. Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself on your CV; you can tweak your history to highlight all the experience that supports your new career path. It isn't fraud to emphasise all the positive skills that match the new career you want, and if you don't use a little artistic licence, then it could hold you back.
It is much easier convincing someone of your remarkable skills when they have seen you in action or know something about you. Always reach out to your network when you are looking for a new role when you are looking for a new career your network will be even more invaluable.
I worked with an Assistant who had a real passion for marketing, and everytime anything related to marketing cropped up she put her hand up and got on board. While building her experience in marketing, she was also studying a marketing degree through the Open University so that once she felt ready to move into this field, she had both experience and qualifications. If you do want to make a career change do ensure you have the qualifications and the expertise to make the transition easier.
Consider a different role within your organisation.
Again, this is easier said than done for Assistants but we do have lots of articles on how you can get yourself in the best position for promotions and alternative career paths. If you do transition into a new role within your current company, be prepared for some people struggling to take you seriously or genuinely being rude. People don't like change, and if you have been a PA and moved into another profession, some people find it hard to not think of you as just doing that role.
When it comes time to apply for you a new job make sure that you highlight the skills that match the profession that you want to get into. Remember to be realistic because transitioning your career can take time. Life is long and just because you have been in one job, as the world's best PA, for some years doesn't mean you cannot make a change if you want to. The skills, patience and courage that come with being an assistant will stand you in good stead in any new role and make you a fantastic, very employable person. Don't put any limits on what you can achieve if you want to and there is nothing like the first time you're introduced as your new job title, and you are there representing you and nobody else.


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Mercedes-Benz Classic will shine at Techno Classica 2017 in Essen
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Mercedes-Benz Classic will shine again at Techno Classica 2017. Exceptionally sporty vehicles will be the stars of the show on the Mercedes-Benz Classic stand. A total of eleven vehicles spanning over 110 years of the brand's history illustrate that sportiness has been in the Mercedes genes from the start.
Taking centre stage on the stand, which covers just under 3600 square metres of space, are ten vehicles from the company's own collection along with the latest Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Edition 50. Services and spare parts for classic vehicles are another thematic focal point. Here the brand with the star will be showcasing the full range of its service expertise. There will also be six ALL TIME STARS to see from the vehicle trading arm of Mercedes-Benz Classic. These include a 300 SL Roadster from 1957, which was factory-restored at Mercedes-Benz Classic. The Mercedes-Benz brand clubs will also be strongly represented at the show. The specialist Techno Classica trade fair takes place in Essen, Germany, from 5 to 9 April 2017.
The oldest vehicle being exhibited is the 40 hp Mercedes-Simplex, which dates from 1903. This model represents the first modern car and in its day dominated the prestigious racing scene on the French Riviera around Nice. Other exhibits include pioneering symbols of the compressor age – for example, the Mercedes-Benz model S (W 06) or the 540 K Streamliner (W 29) – and exceptionally sporty Mercedes-Benz models from the post-war period. Alongside exclusive production vehicles, the 300 SLR (W 196 S) known as the Uhlenhaut Coupé will also be on show. The coupé is the enclosed variant of the tremendously successful 300 SLR sports racer from the 1955 season and marks the pinnacle of Mercedes-Benz's domination of motorsport from the 1930s into the 1950s. Only two of them were ever built. Both are part of the company's own vehicle collection and are now regarded as probably the most valuable motor vehicles in the world.
The youngest representatives in this portrait gallery of the brand's sporting history are three vehicles bearing the acronym AMG in their names. Mercedes-AMG, the performance brand of Mercedes-Benz, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017. To celebrate this momentous occasion there will be four special vehicles on the Classic stand. The most recent example is the brand-new Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Edition 50 (C 190).
The same enthusiasm for historic motoring culture also infuses the ALL TIME STARS programme. This is the vehicle trading arm of Mercedes-Benz Classic and was established in 2015. The offering ranges from pre-war vintage models to young classics. Cars from the 1960s and 1980s have proven to be particularly popular to date. ALL TIME STARS ensures maximum transparency by thoroughly examining every vehicle offered according to 160 criteria, plus a Classic Data expert report. The ALL TIME STARS vehicles are technically rated condition 2 at least, and are categorised into various editions:
"Concours Edition": Vehicles in rare, original condition with low mileage, or vehicles carefully restored by Mercedes-Benz Classic.
"Collectors Edition": Older and more recent classics in good technical and visual condition. Their patina gives these cars a special character.
"Drivers Edition": This is where fans who wish to drive their older or younger classic on a daily basis will find their dream car. The good technical condition still offers potential for restoration work.
ALL TIME STARS will be presenting the following vehicles at Techno Classica 2017:
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster (W 198, 1957)
Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet (W 111, 1971)
Mercedes-Benz 230.6 (W 114, 1975)
Mercedes-Benz 230 E (W 123, 1982)
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (R 107, 1987)
The 29th Techno Classica takes place from 5 to 9 April 2017 at the Messe Essen exhibition centre in Germany. As the "World Show for Vintage, Classic and Prestige Automobiles, Motorsport, Motorcycles, Spare Parts, Restoration and World Club Meeting" it is the biggest event of its kind. Last year the event attracted more than 200,000 visitors from over 40 countries. For 2017, more than 220 clubs and interest groups are expected to attend along with over 1250 exhibitors. There are set to be more than 2500 vehicles available for purchase. In total, there will be more than 25 automobile makes at the show. Techno Classica starts on Wednesday, 5 April 2017 with a preview from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. The show is open all day from Thursday, 6 April until Sunday, 9 April 2017, from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. (Friday: until 7 p.m.).
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It's all about the blue.
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Good morning…I hope everyone is having a great Tuesday and thanks for stopping by today's Trend Spin Linkup with Walking In Memphis In High Heels, myself and our Guest Host for the week, Katherine from Sunshine State of Style!
Whether you are wearing your designer, clutch, tote or everyday handbag, we want to see what you finish off your outfits with!
Today I am wearing my new favorite bag! although this is a little bigger than my normal handbag, it is the perfect travel companion and is priced at such a good cost!
Next Tuesday's trend is NAUTICAL (4/01)!
Well I can't wait for sumer, and what better way to kick off the warm weather then pulling out my anchors and stripes.
ps. I was in the Delta Gamma sorority, which was an anchor theme, so I have plenty and plenty of nautical items.
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I had a fabulous birthday weekend and was overly spoiled by the ones I love! I am so lucky to have those people in my life.


"S Marks The Spot," Hardstyle Mafia originally "X Marks The Spot"
After all, "spot" has "S" as an initial!
"X Marks The Spit," Hardstyle Mafia originally "X Marks The Spot"
"X Marks The Shot," Hardstyle Mafia originally "X Marks The Spot"
"X Marks The Spat," Hardstyle Mafia originally "X Marks The Spot"
"X-Ray Dyes," Kiss originally "X-Ray Eyes"
Dyes are sometimes in x-raying.
"Ecstasy," Baby V.O.X. originally "Xcstasy"


This article describes how to identify the various fees associated with certain card offers.
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While there are a good number of market research agencies that send genuine paid online surveys and pay on time as promised, the field is replete with several fake agencies which collect a fee upfront on false promises from those who are willing to take online surveys. Find out how you can guard yourself from such fraudulent elements and become a member of genuine market research companies.


The Doon University had carried out the entrance check for the admission of UG and PG guides of the educational year 2019. The college has carried out the admission on 14th July 2019. The aspirants attended for the test are looking forward to the Doon University UG Entrance Result 2019 which goes to launch at the professional net portal. The contenders get the PG Admission Result of Doon University in the month of July. The statement date of Doon University Entrance Result will intimate on our internet site. The aspirants to recognize the UG and PG publications information give a look to the below article. Here we have supplied the steps to down load the end result from the authentic web site. The aspirants with the aid of following the under article gets the more information about the Doon University Admission Test Result.
The Doon University is the one of the popular university in Dehradun. The university is presenting the UG and PG Courses Every Year. The Doon University will conduct the Entrance Test each yr for the admission of UG and PG Courses. Every Year the UG and PG Entrance Test is performed in the month of July. The admission software may additionally start in the mo0nth of June 2019. The aspirants to recognize the admission tactics visit the legitimate website of the college. In admission, the University will conduct the written test and interview for the aspirants. The final result of the admission is asserted based at the written take a look at and admission. For aspirants under, we've cited the clean details of the admission procedure.
The contenders can follow the below link to down load the result directly from the reputable internet portal. The students feeling difficult to locate the result from the respectable web page can use the underneath steps to down load the result from the official internet portal.
The college students ought to go to the reputable site.
The Official net Portail Of the University is www.Doonuniversity.Org.
Click at the end result Tab on the home web page.
Select the UG or PG Entrance Test Result Link.
The PDF file of the result will appear on the screen.
The contenders can download the file and take a look at their result from the list.
The contenders gets the advantage list in the month of July. The university will launch the UG Entrance Test Merit List of Doon University one week after the assertion of the end result. The aspirants decided on in the Doon University PG Admission Rank List will attend the counselling that is performed by means of the University. The contenders should go to the respectable internet site after announcement of the advantage listing and check the rank within the rank listing. The applicants need to see the counselling dates primarily based on the merit list rank. The counselling information to be had in the underneath article. The University will distribute the seats for the admission primarily based at the class. The aspirants can go through the below strains to understand the seat reservation for Ug and PG admission.
First, The students decided on within the advantage sit should register their name for the counselling. The students need to attend the counselling based at the rank within the benefit listing. In counselling, the university will offer the listing of college and inform the scholars to choose the college wherein the scholars to get admission. Based on the pupil's selection the college will offer the admission to the scholars within the respective college.
The aspirants needed to convey the report compulsory for the counselling. If any document isn't always carried for counselling the students may be rejected for the admission. The aspirants to recognise the greater information about the counselling read the official be aware of the university released at the official website. The counselling is conducted within the districts of Dehradun, Roorkee, Haldwani, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kolkata, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Pune, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and Patna. Below we have stated the list of record want for the counselling. The aspirants to recognise the modern-day news of Doon University be in touch with our website.
Application Form of the admission Test.
Score Card of Of the Entrance Test.


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ASSAULT & BATTERY ON POLICE, 2019-10050119, 1200 block of S. Eads Street. At approximately 10:16 a.m. on October 5, police were dispatched to the report of a trespasser inside a residential building. Upon arrival, it was determined that the suspect became irate after engaging in a verbal dispute with staff. The suspect then left the leasing office, but remained in the building, where he was located by police. Arriving officers made contact with the suspect, who continued to act disorderly, disobeyed lawful commands and attempted to strike two officers with closed fists. A brief struggled ensued and the officers deployed their tasers prior to taking the suspect into custody. Amro Ali, 33, of Arlington, Va., was arrested and charged with Assault and Battery on Police (x2). He was held on no bond.
BURGLARY, 2019-10030116, 5100 block of Lee Highway. At approximately 11:25 a.m. on October 3, police were dispatched to the late report of an attempted burglary. Upon arrival, it was determined that between 12:45 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. on October 3, an unknown suspect attempted unsuccessfully to gain entry to a business, causing damage. There is no suspect description. The investigation is ongoing.
BURGLARY, 2019-10040274, 2500 block of Lee Highway. At approximately 10:39 p.m. on October 4, police were dispatched to the report of a burglary alarm. Upon arrival, it was determined that an unknown suspect gained entry to a business and stole a vehicle utilizing keys located onsite. The suspect is descried as a black male, approximately 5'9", in his late 30's, with a bald head, wearing a black hoodie. The investigation is ongoing.
BURGLARY, 2019-10050275, 2500 block of Lee Highway. At approximately 11:48 p.m. on October 5, police were dispatched to the report of a vehicle tampering. Upon arrival, it was determined that a witness heard the sound of glass breaking and observed three unknown suspects in the parking lot of a business. The suspects forced entry to the business, causing damage, and stole items of value. The suspects fled prior to police arrival. The suspects are described as black males. The investigation is ongoing.
BURGLARY, 2019-1060196, 1300 block of N. Jackson Street. At approximately 8:46 p.m. on October 6, police were dispatched to the late report of destruction of property. Upon arrival, it was determined that between 12:00 a.m. on October 3 and 8:46 p.m. on October 6, an unknown suspect forced entry to a residence, causing damage. Nothing was reported missing from the residence. There is no suspect(s) description. The investigation is ongoing.
BURGLARY (late), 2019-10050164, 5100 block of Lee Highway. At approximately 1:55 p.m. on October 5, police were dispatched to the late report of breaking and entering. Upon arrival, it was determined that between 2:30 a.m. and 9:06 a.m., an unknown suspect(s) forced entry to a business and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. There is no suspect(s) description. The investigation is ongoing.
UNLAWFUL ENTRY (late), 2019-10050158, 3600 block of N. Harrison Street. At approximately 2:29 p.m. on October 5, police were dispatched to the late report of breaking and entering. Upon arrival, it was determined that between October 4 at 5:30 p.m. and October 5 at 8:00 a.m., an unknown suspect(s) gained entry to a vacant residence, tampered with items and caused damage. Nothing was reported missing from the residence. There is no suspect(s) description. The investigation is ongoing.
LARCENY FROM AUTO, 2019-10040055, 800 block of McKinley Road
LARCENY, 2019-10040091, 200 block of N. Glebe Road
OBSCENITY, 2019-10040100, 290 block of Arlington Boulevard
SHOPLIFTING, 2019-10040115, 1500 block of Wilson Boulevard
ASSAULT & BATTERY, 2019-10040180, Unit block of N. Glebe Road
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY (VEHICLE), 2019-10040206, 4200 block of 12th Road S.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT, 2019-10040212, 2100 block of Wilson Boulevard
ASSAULT & BATTERY, 2019-10040283, 4600 block of 35th Street N.
TRESPASS, 2019-10050029, 1900 block of Fort Myer Drive
ASSAULT & BATTERY, 2019-10050032, 3100 block of Wilson Boulevard
LARCENY FROM AUTO, 2019-10050090, 100 block of N. Trenton Street
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY (VEHICLE), 2019-10050112, 6100 block of 11th Street N.
LARCENY, 2019-10050195, 2100 block of N. Monroe Street
TRESPASS, 2019-10050214, 3100 block of Wilson Boulevard
ASSAULT & BATTERY, 2019-10050278, 2100 block of S. Kenmore Street
OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE, 2019-10060033, 3700 block of Columbia Pike
FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE, 2019-10060200, 900 block of S. Dinwiddie Street
ELUDING, 2019-10060214, I-395 at Washington Boulevard
10/4/19, 2011 Jaguar Sedan, Black
2500 block of Lee Highway


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Body Of Baby Found Downtown
Yardhype Staff WriterMay 9, 2022
Downtown was the scene of much sadness on Monday as the body of a newborn baby was discovered in the area.
According to the news report, the body of the child was seen in a garbage bin by a passerby on temple lane who alerted the Police to the sighting.
As it relates to in-depth information relating to the matter, none is currently available to the public, however, based on Loop news's original publication on the situation, more details will be later released.
Based on a video that the news medium showed in the article, the Police could be seen searching the area the baby was found while a woman could be heard speaking in the background about how wicked the girl who did such a thing is, further noting that there were signs of the placenta remains on the scene which meant she might have pushed out the baby herself.
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Welcome to Unity Church Orpington.
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We do hope that you enjoy our website and that it encourages you come to visit us soon. We meet on Sunday mornings at 11:00am.
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Our next CAP Job Club for Orpington starts on Tuesday 14th May at 1:00 pm, including a light lunch. These clubs are free of charge and are designed to help people, who have been out of work for a while, find employment. Click the logo above to find out more about Job Clubs. If you or anybody you know is interested in joining, please contact Terry Down on 07949 784514.
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I will discuss a bit of facts about the rise of the spread offense including its various pass and run elements (heavily abridged, each individual chain has its own history), and argue that it has morphed from an equalizing offense, one used by less talented programs to level the playing field, to one that merely amplifies the latent talent, so talented teams can expose mismatched defenders but there are now fewer opportunities for less talented teams and the spread may not be well situated for these "up-and-coming" programs now that it is so popular. At the lower levels it will remain and can continue to thrive where it is well coached as a tool to highlight talented athletes, particularly as more and more good athletes grow up throwing the football and becoming effective passers. The Pros are likely to never catch on to "the zone read" and such plays, just as the traditional option is not widespread in the pros either. Last, the days of the spread as "the next big thing" are over. It is the classic case that when the public at large realizes what's going on and every TV commentator is discussing how innovative you are, you are no longer innovative and someone new is soon to be annointed the next "genius."
As an astute commentator pointed out, all four of the BCS bowl winners ran some version (actually a very similar version) of the spread offense. I am not sure if Texas once lined up with two backs in the backfield (not counting Vince Young!). All but Penn St rushed for significantly more than 200 yards in those spread sets, and few would argue that Penn St is not a physical team and they might have been the least spread of all the winners. Of the other teams in the BCS, Pro-Style offensive teams like USC and Notre Dame ran lots of "spread stuff," and in ND's case I think it actually hurt them since their offensive line had difficulty pass protecting.
The zone read was on full display throughout the bowl season. In the West Virginia-Georgia game the TV ran some great shots of the play and explained well who is being read and the idea behind the play. They obviously had lots of examples of great blocking and running to make a believer of nearly anyone. Of course that game featured innovator and Johnny Appleseed of the spread-run game Rich Rodriguez (Tulane, Clemson, and WVU, who spread his knowledge first hand to teams like Northwestern and others who themselves have propogated the offense), but the BCS title game was the crescendo, with a quarterback dependent offense run by maybe its best triggerman ever. Vince Young's performance is well chronicled, with 30 completions in 40 pass attempts (with virtually zero yards after the catch for Texas's receivers) and 200 yards rushing. Last year Alex Smith became the number one pick as a run-pass threat under now-Florida Coach Urban Meyer, who himself won his first bowl-game at Florida. Meyer is considered one of the "gurus" of the spread-O, yet he was a relative neophyte to the offense before going to Bowling Green in 2001, when he studyied and adapted some of the Northwestern and Rodriguez run schemes along with the Louisville Cardinals passing game when John L. Smith (now Michigan St HC), Bobby Petrino (Louisville HC) and Scott Linehan (Miami Dolphins OC) were coaching there.
The offense's rise has been meteoric. I was inundated with questions and articles on Urban Meyer's O and the spread option game were always some of the most trafficked ones on the blog. Next season the schemes will be even more prevalent, especially at the HS level. But where next?
Eventually all offenses are tested in the NFL. The final verdict on any scheme or philosophy is eventually tested, chewed up, synthesized, and sent back under the 24 hour/365 day scrutiny that is professional football. Time, money, technology, and the best football minds always level a verdict. Other offenses can survive at lower levels (and often can be more successful than what the Pros themselves do with their more sophisticated passing games and less success of deception based offenses like the Wing-T), but the book will be written at the pro level, or at least adapted by it. The Run and shoot had its weaknesses exposed (primarily the zone blitz) but it also had its best aspects co-opted by nearly every offense. Its mark is real, if subtle.
Further, the "spread" is not so different than what the Pros currently do. Watch Texas Tech and they will run the "mesh" six ways from Sunday. Watch the Colts, and they will run it a bunch too. The big question then becomes, what about all this spread-to-run business?
The question has two answers. One, many teams already do this, as evidenced by how many teams are one-back oriented. Watch the top running teams in the NFL: the Chiefs, Broncos, and the like, and they will spread to run a good percentage of the time. Even the Redskins, a power team, like to use lots of motion and multi-receiver sets to get the D thinking pass before using H-backs to kick out, pull, or lead into the hole.
The second question is, what about the quarterbacks? The Falcons have been one of the best rushing teams in the NFL for the past few seasons, due in no small part to Michael Vick. They run lots of bootleg with him off of the outside zone and inside zone runs, for the same reason that Texas or West Virginia run the zone read: to get double-teams on the playside and either make the backside defensive end stay home or pay with a big QB run. Yet, the Falcons haven't gone to the zone-read. Vick has been injured at times. We see big rushing days by a Donovan McNabb or even good runs by a Jake Plummer, but where are the 100 yard rushing days we have seen from Vince Young, Troy Smith, or even guys like Alex Smith or Northwestern's old QB Zak Kustok?
First, the common argument against this is the team speed of the NFL defenses. The spread works best when you have great one-on-one matchups. Texas and Ohio St. are so dangerous because they force you to "pick your poison" and leave one-on-one either the receivers, RBs, or the QB. USC played at least one and mostly two safeties deep nearly the whole game. When Pete Carroll did blitz he often brought zone blitzes--surprisingly afraid of getting beat deep by the outside receivers of Texas. Consequently Young picked them apart but also ran the ball so well. The argument is at the pros the speed of the defense can nullify some of this. The Pro safeties can defend the deep ball and stick your QB for no gain.
I think the better argument though is simply the nature of the league. The problem isn't only that those safeties can range the whole field, it is that when they hit your QB they send him to the hospital. The NFL already can't keep their signal callers healthy for a whole season: McNabb and Vick have both constantly battled injuries, but so have far less mobile QBs like Chad Pennington, Rex Grossman, Culpepper, etc. Can you imagine the Colts, with Peyton Manning--all $50 million+ of him--running a QB run of any kind with that much at risk? No first down is worth losing your franchise.
The harsh fact is that financially, Vince Young costs the school just as much as his backup: one scholarship. Even more, Peyton Manning, Brady, McNabb, these guys are your team for 10+ years. At most you get four years from a college QB. More likely you get two seasons. The "spread" may actually make Vince Young's decision to go to the Pros for him. Were he to return, could he request that the coaches not run him as much, to reduce his likelihood of injury? Keep another guy in to protect him more so he doesn't take as many shots? The spread has always given up shots to its QBs; the good ones just get the ball out first.
At the Pro level these risks are unacceptable, with fan-bases, cap room, and playoff hopes all riding on their signal caller.
Certainly next year it will be everywhere. The big issue though is what do the small teams do now? It used to be that you could "get good" by being a spread team. In just the last four years Urban Meyer resuscitated two programs and cashed in at Florida, in no small part by being a "spread guy." When Ohio St and Texas are running the same offense as you and scoring 50 points, how can you sell yourself as being "different" and "wide open"?
Being spread is simply no longer enough. Some of the most inept offensive performances I've seen this year were by "spread teams." I watched Oregon get dismantled with their spread O in the bowl game, as they went 5-wides a majority of the time. This is an unwise move when the defense has five covermen who can cover your receivers man to man and when their front 4 or 5 can break a guy free vs. your OL nearly everytime. They had far more success and were less predictable when they added TEs and RBs and used more misdirection and/or power. Their OC is Gary Crowton, another spread guru from the Louisiana Tech days who had a mediocre Pro stint and an up-and-down campaign at BYU.
Purdue this year, a staple of spread offenses and hero who went from perpetual loser to Rose Bowls and Big 10 contention, continued their downward offensive spiral, as their defense, which had continued to prop them up over the past few years collapsed as well. Purdue over the past few seasons has run into the same problem Oregon had. In the beginning, when they started spreading four and five wides even Michigan or Ohio St did not have five good covermen. Now even Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and the like all have 6 or 7 good ones. Result? Lots of 3 and 4 yard passes and even more plays with five receivers out and zero open.
The offense has arguably become the opposite of an equalizer, it has become an amplifier: if you are talented you can really rack up the points because no one can cover Vince Young, Ted Ginn or the like one-on-one, but if you're not, you just get sacked and no one gets open. Purdue even tried to add the spread option stuff this year but an offensive line that could not get movement and a lack of playmakers stunted the offense's production.
It's harder to predict where this will go, as I can guarentee 20 years from now there are going to be some "true spread teams" and "spread run teams" lingering just as there are successful double-wing, wing-t, run and shoot, and splitback veer teams. Well coached and coordinated offenses will continue to be successful. I also think that putting your best player at the "Vince Young QB" spot is a great way to win football games. The days of having an I-back and just feeding your best guy carries and having a statue at QB who throws 5 passes a game is (mercifully!) about over.
Why is that? This is a whole other discussion, but the big reason I think is the proliferation of information on good quarterbacking. Instead of one or two kids who can throw a decent spiral and a couple guys around a city who know a few decent QB drills, now there are books, manuals, videos etc for parents, kids, coaches alike. Lots of kids, from inner-city to suburban can learn the fundamentals of quarterbacking. There is no reason that "athletes" can't throw the ball, at least well enough for HS. There might be issues that arise later in College or the Pros with complex coverages, but if I had a 4.5 guy who could throw a bit running my offense, I guarentee you I can win some games.
Further, the "spread" and the "zone read" do force the defense to account for all 11 men. The safeties must step up for the QB, as he is another threat, thus putting either your RB running against reduced fronts, or receivers one-on-one. This is logical and good football. Again though, as teams get better at defending it, can the team with 19 kids on varsity run this as an equalizer? Uncertain. It is unlikely to help as much as maybe it has in the past.
This was meant as a brief overview. The "spread" can be many different things, but it is not so new. This is probably why it is both so effective and why its rise (and predicted decline) has been so fast.
The big issues are that no longer can I be "different" from the other teams in my conference or in the state by being a spread guy. Second, teams see it more and can defend better. It still is a great way to highlight great players, and, being so QB intensive, a great player can be extremely effective, particularly at the lower levels. At the Pros, too much money and the risk of injuries appear too great to put total emphasis on the QB, as there already exists so much. Great players may come along though and prove me wrong, but Walter Peyton with a cannon running QB for a team, even if he wins a title, may or may not disprove my theory.


With only two major releases hitting theaters this week, movie-goers didn't have a lot of options for new content but even with the release of the highly-anticipated follow-up comedy "Ted 2," it seems fans can't get enough Dino-fighting action.
For a third-week in a row, Universal's "Jurassic World" reigns supreme at the domestic box-office. The dino-flick earned an additional $54.2M over the weekend, passing the $500M mark domestically.
Trailing behind the epic adventure back to the doomed Dinosaur park this week was Disney's latest Pixar offering "Inside Out," the film earned an impressive $52M across the country over the weekend to take second-place overall. "Inside Out" has now earned just under $185M since it was released in theaters.
Releasing this week in third-place was another of Universal Pictures' summer films, "Ted 2," which failed to take the number-one spot but did manage to stay in the top-three. The film earned a little less than $33M across an estimated 3,442 screens.
In fourth-place overall was another new-debut, "Max" from Warner Bros. Pictures. The touching story of an Armed Service dog and his family earned $12.2M across 2,855 screens.
Finishing off the top-five this week is another comedy, this time from 20th Century Fox. "Spy" earned $7.8M this weekend, raising the film's running total to just over $88M to date.


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The Boneless Wings Phenomena
William Neuman of the New York Times recently wrote an article regarding the phenomena of "boneless wings" that have been popping up in many fast food establishments such as KFC, Pizza Hut and Wendy's. Although these establishments may be pushing this new "trend" to offer consumers with a new take on the classic chicken wing the reality is the cost of chicken wings has been skyrocketing. Below is what Neuman had to say:
Just in time for football season, the Lion's Head Tavern in New York City stopped selling 25-cent chicken wings on Monday nights. In Tucson, a sports bar called O'Malleys on Fourth scrapped its fall special of a dozen wings on Monday nights for $4.
And in restaurants from Sarasota to Seattle, an improbable poultry part is showing up on menus: a little chunk of chicken breast that is fried and sauced and sold, with marketer's brio, as a "boneless wing."
All this is happening because wholesale chicken prices have turned upside down. The once-lowly wing is selling at a premium over what has long been the gold standard of poultry parts, the skinless boneless chicken breast.
Like the tail that wags the dog, the wings are now flapping the chicken.
Mike Bell knows chicken prices. The logistics and purchasing manager for Buffalo Wild Wings, a national chain with about 600 restaurants, Mr. Bell will buy 57 million pounds of chicken wings this year. Describing recent conversations with poultry processors, he said: "Basically a whole bunch of them are throwing their hands in the air and saying, 'I don't know what's going on. We've never seen it this way.' "
In seven of the last 11 months, wholesale wing prices have been higher than breast prices, a reversal in a market where breasts usually reign supreme. In September, the average wholesale price for whole chicken wings in the Northeast was $1.48 a pound, according to the Agriculture Department. Yet skinless boneless breasts were $1.21 a pound.
A year earlier, wings sold for 94 cents and breasts for $1.15, and as recently as May 2008, skinless boneless breasts were selling for 57 cents more than wings.
The wholesale price shift has generally not been reflected in supermarkets, where grocers appear to be trying to preserve their margins on breast meat. Nationally on average, breasts are $2.80 a pound at retail, still 83 cents more than wings. However, some grocers are exploiting the wholesale price drop to run aggressive sales on breasts.
The recession is the cause of the price flip-flop.
Restaurants, normally big buyers of breast meat, slashed orders as millions of people cut back on eating out, and breast prices slumped. But demand for wings has remained strong, partly because people perceived them as a cheap luxury.
Adding to the demand: the brisk growth of restaurant chains focusing on wings, like Atomic Wings, Wingstop and Wing Zone. Several chains have been remarking this year about how much business is up in the recession. The major public company in this group, Buffalo Wild Wings, reported a 27 percent earnings jump in the first half of the year.
Eventually, as the economy improves, wing and breast prices may return to their traditional places. But for now, the triumph of wings over breasts has wing partisans celebrating.
"Everybody was into breasts because it's lower fat," said Andrew F. Smith, editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. "But to me the breast is tasteless. I like fat, and most people do. The wings have fat." Yet the high price of wings has also accelerated a development that bothers wing purists: that oxymoron dipped in hot sauce, the boneless wing.
Boneless wings, increasingly promoted by restaurants, are not wings at all, but slices of breast meat deep-fried like wings and served with the same sauces — a bit like a spicy Chicken McNugget.
Buffalo Wild Wings began selling boneless wings six years ago, and the item has grown to 19 percent of sales, compared with 20 percent for regular wings. As wing prices rose and breast prices fell this year, other chains emulated the move. Wingstop, a 450-restaurant chain, began offering boneless wings in all stores this summer. Even Wendy's, which does not sell regular wings, added boneless wings in June.
For wing-centric restaurants, boneless wings are a way to attract customers who may not like the messiness of wings, which have to be chewed off the bone. And with prices upside down, the boneless wings now act as a hedge, with the lower-cost breast meat offsetting higher wing costs.
But wing lovers sneer.
"A wing is a wing, and a wing has a bone," said Anita Freedlander, the owner of Rusty's Family Restaurant and Sports Grille in Tucson, which specializes in wings and does not sell the boneless variety.
Ms. Freedlander said she would most likely be forced to raise prices before the end of the year. Already her ingredient costs have risen to 45 percent of the menu price for wings, well above the 30 to 35 percent that many restaurants favor.
Restaurants pay extra to buy their wings pre-cut. Adam Lippin, the owner of Atomic Wings, a 10-restaurant chain based in New York, paid $1.70 a pound for wings this month. Last year, he said, his average wing cost was about $1.10 a pound.
"It's at a really scary kind of place," Mr. Lippin said of the price today.
At the Lion's Head Tavern, near Columbia in Manhattan, the owners recently ended a long tradition of cheap wings on Monday nights.
"The whole idea of the discounted wings is to sell beer," said the co-owner Gust Hookanson. "It became a little too much of a cost."
The story was the same at O'Malleys in Tucson, which last fall had a wing special to go along with "Monday Night Football." "We couldn't afford to do it anymore," said Rick Cano, the general manager.
Buffalo wings, as they are commonly called, are said to have started in Buffalo in the 1960s, when a bar owner took the unloved chicken parts, cooked them up and added sauce. They have become a classic American finger food — and a standby in bars during football season.
Most experts predict that wing prices will continue to rise at least until the Super Bowl in February, when a lot of wings are sold and prices peak.
Even afterward, demand looks set to remain strong. Pizza Hut announced this month that it would expand the availability of its wings menu, which it calls WingStreet; in 3,000 stores today, the menu will be added to 2,000 stores in the near future.
Adam J. Scott, a founder of Wing Zone, an Atlanta-based chain with 80 restaurants in 20 states, said the days of cheap wings might be gone forever. That is, unless something changes on the supply side.
"If they can figure out how to grow chickens with four wings," Mr. Scott said, "we'd be in really great shape."
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If you or someone you love is undergoing cancer treatment, acupuncture will help in many ways. Medical science has shown how it affects many systems in the body, setting in motion a whole host of healing effects.
One overarching effect from acupuncture is lessening some of the stress, anxiety and/or depression that often comes after a diagnosis and through the subsequent treatments.
Also, it blunts some of the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation such as nausea, fatigue, dry mouth, aches and pains, constipation, hot flashes and insomnia. It also reverses the peripheral neuropathy that is the side effects of certain treatments.
Typically, acupuncture is used pre- and post-surgery. Pre-surgically it helps to promote circulation and get the immune system into high gear. Post-surgically it speeds recovery, reduces pain, and reduces local swelling. This, in turn, can lessen the need for medications that often come with their own side effects.
Cancer treatment has evolved at an accelerated pace in the past decade, with new methods of identification and targeting tumors and cells. Once someone gets a diagnosis they usually go through a combination of treatments. Treating people through the arc of recovery is a great use of acupuncture, so take advantage of it if you can.


At Google we talk about "Computer Science (CS) + X" as a driver of innovation and creativity. The X is the problem you are trying to solve, your passion or another discipline. You'll find CS+X in every industry, creating breakthrough innovations like smart contact lenses to monitor blood glucose in real time alerts to your phone.
Google will share their views on careers of the future and the pathway to achieve them. With careers in tech spanning areas such as agriculture, finance, business, medicine, art and more, we'll discuss the 21st century skills for every student to prepare for tomorrow.
Sally-Ann Williams, Engineering Community and Outreach Manager at Google presenting at the ACS Seminars.


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Steven Knight: 'With Peaky Blinders, I wanted to do to my own history what the Americans did to theirs.'
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Bogotá is an awfully long way from Birmingham, so it spoke volumes about Peaky Blinders' extraordinary cultural reach when Cillian Murphy's Midlands mobster, Tommy Shelby, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone's Colombian edition recently (knocking Billie Eilish down to second billing).
"It's been astonishing," says showrunner Steven Knight of watching his creation become a global TV phenomenon, with viewers in more than 180 countries. "It's huge in Brazil and Argentina, Turkey and China – where it's actually illegal to watch it! And in America, its audience is a really diverse cross-section of the population. They tell me it's huge in South Central New York and Harlem. Snoop Dogg is a fan."
Given the debt that Peaky Blinders' outlaw antiheroes owe to Knight's love of westerns, the Birmingham native takes great satisfaction in being able to sell the Americans back a version of his own mythology. "That was part of the reason to do it – to redress the balance," the 62-year-old tells Weekend over Zoom. "I wanted to do to my own history what the Americans did to theirs. My parents told me these stories about working class life in Birmingham in the 1920s. They were kids when they came across these larger-than-life characters, who were gangsters and bookmakers. They sort of mythologised them in their own minds, and as a kid I doubly mythologised them.
"When I came to write this, I decided I wasn't going to turn it into a kitchen sink, 'wasn't life terrible?' sort of thing, but instead do what the Americans did. When you think about it, 19th century agricultural labourers working with cows doesn't sound very interesting. But they're cowboys. So I wanted to take that history, our history, and do what the Americans did with the west."
Launched in 2013, Peaky Blinders is loosely inspired by a real-life Midlands gang of the same name. Over five series, viewers have followed the fortunes of the Shelbys – a Birmingham family of Irish Romany origin – and their mercurial, charismatic leader Tommy, who's still burdened by the trauma of the Great War.
When we last saw him, Tommy was a broken man – screaming and holding a gun to his own head, following a botched (and bloody) attempt to assassinate the British fascist leader Oswald Mosley. And now the Shelbys are back in typically swaggering, rock and roll style for a sixth and final series (a feature film will follow), facing what Knight calls "odd greater than anything they've ever been up against before".
Making this latest run has been far from easy. "Covid basically took 12 months out of the schedule," explains Knight. "We were about three weeks away from shooting and then we had to close down. There were many obstacles, not least the very tragic death of Helen, which makes everything else pale into insignificance, really."
Helen, of course, is Helen McCrory – aka Aunt Polly, steely matriarch of the Shelby clan – who died from cancer last April, aged 52. "She was so full of life, so open," says Knight. "We would have these premieres in Birmingham, to which I'd often invite friends and family who are the furthest thing from the world of glamorous showbiz you could imagine, and all of them said the same thing: that Helen was the one who would nip out with them for a cigarette. She was completely not showbizzy, not pretentious. An absolutely wonderful person."
The opening episode of the new series sees Polly – and Helen – receiving an emotional send-off. They were difficult scenes to film, admits Knight. "It was a very emotional time, and that emotion didn't go away. It was there throughout the shoot. But it was also a motivation for people – we wanted it to be a fitting tribute to Helen."
Was there a version of the new series with Polly in? "There were various incarnations of it," he says. "First of all she was in it all, completely. Then the number of days [Helen could manage] got smaller and smaller, and then it all got taken out of our hands…"
In happier news, Stephen Graham will be joining the cast, in an as yet undisclosed role. "He is brilliant, and he's doing his real accent – that's all I can say," smiles Knight.
By British TV standards, Peaky Blinders has always attracted an unusually starry cast, with major roles for the likes of Tom Hardy and Sam Neill, and current screen queen Anya-Taylor Joy returning for the new series as Polly's scheming daughter-in-law, Gina. Hunger Games star Sam Claflin is also back as Oswald Mosley – whose appearance feels particularly timely in the current climate.
"It's a complete accident," says Knight. "I set the first series in 1919 and decided to jump two years every time, and that's naturally taken us to the 1930s. And unfortunately the 30s and our 20s seem to be mirroring each other, in terms of the rise of populism. Hopefully they don't end the same way."
Growing up in Birmingham's Small Heath, the youngest of seven children, Knight caught a glimpse the fast-disappearing Peaky Blinders world when he accompanied his blacksmith dad, George, on his rounds shoeing horses in stables and scrapyards. "Without that I would never have written Peaky Blinders," he says.
It was a very emotional shoot. But it was also a motivation for people – we wanted it to be a fitting tribute to Helen
And then there were his parents' stories. "When he was about eight, my dad was given a message by his dad, and he ran barefoot – I mean, actually barefoot – over the cobbles, and knocked on this door," says Knight. "When it opened, there were, like, 10 men around a table, which was covered in coins, in a place where there was no money. They were all immaculately dressed, and drinking whiskey out of jam jars."
Sharp dressing was central to the Peaky Blinders' image, from the caps that gave them their name to their trademark haircut. (The close-cropped back and sides was a legacy of the First World War trenches, where they'd been cut short to avoid lice, while the caps provided cover to grow out the top as long as they pleased.) It's no surprise, then, that there is now an official Peaky Blinders clothing line, a look you'll find in plentiful supply among attendees at the regular Peaky Blinders Festival in Birmingham – part of a fan culture that has also spawned a video game, a beer and even a ballet.
This summer, Knight, who's married with three children, will be flying another flag for his hometown by exec-producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. "It's our turn," he says. "One of the characteristics of Brummies is that they don't like to get too big for their boots. But I think it's time for us to start banging the drum."
He is also parlaying the success of Peaky Blinders into an ambitious new studio complex in Digbeth, in the heart of the city. "It's really exciting. Hopefully it's going to be a game changer – not just for the region, but for TV and film-making in Britain."
It's quite a journey – from blackmsith's son to studio mogul (and a Commander of the British Empire, no less)… "It's up to everyone to do what they can do," he shrugs. "We're going to be encouraging local people to tell their stories – you know, the immigrant story, the working-class story. Often the story of the cab driver is more interesting than the story of their passenger."
Knight's own backstory is far from conventional: the first of his family to go to university, on graduating he worked as an advertising copywriter then a producer at Capital Radio, before starting to write TV scripts for comedian Jasper Carrott. There can't be many people whove written for both Jasper Carrott and Brad Pitt (who starred in Knight's 2016 thriller Allied), suggests Weekend. "No, that's probably unique," he concedes. And, being from Birmingham, presumably it was Jasper he was the most in awe of? "Yeah, he's a Brummie hero," smiles Knight. "And a really nice bloke."
He continued his circuitous career route by inventing a board game, PSI, which was turned into a short-lived game show hosted by Chris Tarrant. And after that he co-created another game show hosted by Chris Tarrant: this one was called Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and proved to be somewhat more successful.
Sorry if this is a vulgar question, Steven, but did Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Make you a millionaire? "That is a vulgar question," he smiles. We'll take that as a yes.
Around the same time, he was also penning novels for Penguin and then, in 2002, his second film script, Dirty Pretty Things – a Stephen Frears-directed thriller set among London's asylum seekers and illegal immigrants – earned him an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.
In the two decades since, he's written (and occasionally directed) more than a dozen films, ranging from the psychological thriller Locke, with Tom Hardy, to last year's Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales. His TV credits, meanwhile, include historical drama Taboo (again with Hardy), a radical reworking of A Christmas Carol for the BBC, and Apple's big-budget sci-fi drama See, starring Jason Momoa.
How has he found working inside the notoriously bruising Hollywood studio system? "Well it's been very good to me," he says. "And everything is relative – it's not like digging ditches or laying bricks. There are good people in Hollywood, who want to do good work. I had a job in a brewery for a while, and the pub trade is much more cutthroat than Hollywood."
But not, hopefully, more cutthroat than the Peaky Blinders. How does Knight feel, now he's approaching the end of the Shelbys' story? "Out of adversity has come, I think, our best series so far," he says. "Tommy not only has enemies, he has demons – both real and imagined – to fight. I've always had in my head the journey of Tommy Shelby towards redemption. This time we'll find out if he actually can be redeemed or not…"
Peaky Blinders, BBC One, Sundays at 9pm
BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY BLINDERS…
"I've always wanted to end the story with a film," says Knight, of his advanced plans to take Peaky Blinders onto the big screen, "and we now have the head of steam – times 10 – to get this financed."
What did he make of Tory MP Nick Fletcher's recent comments that men are turning to crime because the likes of "the Krays and Tommy Shelby" have replaced positive role models like Doctor Who? "I think I would look a bit closer to home," he says. "That's my version of no comment."
Daft culture war arguments aside, does Knight have any misgivings about Peaky Blinders' potentially glorifying violence and criminality? "I think the glamourisation of criminality goes back as far as Robin Hood, probably beyond," he says. "So it has a fine lineage. In terms of violence, we always show the consequences – if someone gets a scar, they keep the scar. All of the people in Peaky Blinders are scarred by violence."
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Johnny Marr: "I'm from a generation of musicians who don't all want to be Gary Barlow…"
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LG Reveals Monitor With Wild 16:18 Aspect Ratio
With the average computer monitor having a respectable 16:9 format, LG's new, uniquely shaped 16:18 DualUp monitor is essentially two regular displays stacked on top of each other. The company announced the new monitor today, calling it "a completely new format in the monitor market," as reported by The Verge.
The company says that the DualUp offers "the same screen real estate as two 21.5-inch displays and has a vertical split view function that lets users see more in one glance." Most of the lifestyle images released for the new monitor show users making use of the split-view function, making the DualUp look very much like a vertical two-screen set-up.
The DualUp measures 27.6 inches on the diagonal, offering the same screen space as two conventional 21.5 inch displays. The display has a resolution of 2560x2880, topping out at 300 nits of brightness and covering 98% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. The monitor will include LG's Ergo stand, which is designed to clamp to most desks or tables.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/lg-rev...01-10abi2f


Singapore's Changi Airport has consistently won the title of Best Airport in the World (seven years in a row by Skytrax, in fact), and now it's about to get even better. Jewel Changi Airport (Jewel), which is set to open to the public on 17 April 2019, is a new lifestyle complex that is sure to become as much of a tourist destination as the city itself.
The 10-storey addition to the airport will offer both international travellers and locals alike a whole lot of new shops, food and drinks options, airport and accommodation facilities and even an array of exciting attractions. These include an expansive indoor garden and the impressive HSBC Rain Vortex – the world's tallest indoor waterfall.
An exciting mix of new-to-market and well-established brands – from both Singapore and around the world – will be open in Jewel, joining the airport's already strong line-up of 400 retail stores and 140 food and beverage outlets. Some big names that will make their debut in Singapore include Burger & Lobster and Shake Shack.
Airport facilities at Jewel Changi Airport will include early check-in counters and baggage storage facilities – open from 6am to midnight daily. This will make it all the easier for passengers travelling by air to eat, shop and explore the new complex at their leisure.
YOTELAIR, a new hotel, has also opened within Jewel, giving travellers another accommodation option at the airport.
On 10 June 2019, Jewel is set to become even bigger with the opening of Canopy Park; a 14,000 square metre space on the topmost level that will feature play attractions, themed gardens and even more dining options.


WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS? Lonnie Jordan of WAR held a microphone out to the crowd at the Diamond Head Crater Festival yesterday afternoon. The event also featured musicians such as Na Leo, Yvonne Elliman, Linda Ronstadt and the Steve Miller Band.
Gov. Lingle calls the extent of destruction "dramatic" in places.
The Diamond Head festival returns after a 28-year break.
Grandfather Ota's family collects a volume of remembrances about growing up in Waipahu.
The Hawaii teen has trouble hitting greens and fairways, but cuts Ochoa's lead to three.
Central Tokyo is an immense downtown area which, though crowded, does not feel overly congested and the people are so polite.
Once-nondescript self-storage facilities are increasingly offering services like WiFi access, conference rooms and free coffee.
About 200 homeless people have been evicted from Ala Moana Beach Park to make way for repairs and maintenance.
What issues are Hawaii Democrats and Republicans likely to emphasize as they campaign in 2006?


Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) will soon be an option for patients whose melanoma has spread to the lymph nodes and who have already had surgery. The drug works by boosting the immune system's ability to kill cancer cells and will be given to help target any cancer cells left behind after surgery.
"This is the first time an immunotherapy drug has been made available to reduce the risk of relapse after surgery to remove melanoma – so it's exciting news." - Rose Gray, policy manager at Cancer Research UK.
In a clinical trial involving over 1000 patients, 15 in 20 of those taking pembrolizumab were cancer free 12 months after treatment, compared to just over 12 in 20 of those taking a dummy drug. In data provided to NICE, the effects of pembrolizumab were maintained at 18 months.
But severe side effects, including type 1 diabetes and bowel inflammation, were more common in patients taking pembrolizumab. 15 in 100 patients taking the immunotherapy experienced severe side effects compared with 3 in 100 patients taking the dummy drug. One person died as a result of taking pembrolizumab, which caused muscle inflammation.
While an early glimpse of the clinical trial results looked promising, the long-term effects of the drug aren't known, and the trial is still running. The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) committee said in its NHS guidance there was also limited information on the overall survival benefits of the treatment.
Pembrolizumab will therefore be made available through the Cancer Drugs Fund while more data is collected on its effectiveness. The fund was redesigned in 2016 to speed up access to promising new treatments.
The therapy will be made available once it has been licensed for use in Europe, which should happen in early December 2018.
"The fact that this decision has come before the drug has even been licensed shows that NICE, NHS England and the drug company have worked together well to make sure patients will be able to access this treatment as quickly as possible," said Gray.


Increased access to compute power via minicomputers and PCs, combined with the development of the first commercially-available databases in the late 1970s-80s, brought the power of data to millions. It also brought associated data loss risks to millions, giving rise to best practices in backup. The 3-2-1 rule (a term coined in 2009 by digital photographer Peter Krough) should be familiar to all IT pros and sysadmins.
3 – Keep 3 copies of any important data (1 primary and 2 backups).
2 – Keep the data on 2 different media types to protect against different types of risks.
1 – Store 1 copy offsite (e.g., outside your business facility or other local, physical site).
Before the pervasiveness of the cloud and cloud-to-cloud backup, IT departments wanting to protect their data had to manage and store tapes and hard drives. Today, cloud backup services help make the 3-2-1 rule an easier win for the IT department by providing a separate, seamless and off-site backup location for your organization's vital data — all at a much lower cost.
It's important to note, however, that the 3-2-1 rule doesn't cover being able to restore from a backup; and that's an important consideration as we examine its relevance in the age of cloud computing.
At Spanning, we focus on making data disasters a non-event for Office 365, G Suite, and Salesforce data. Here's what our Director of Products, Daivat Dholakia, has to say about how Spanning Backup fits within the 3-2-1 Rule.
Q: How would you describe Spanning Backup within the paradigm of the 3-2-1 rule?
A: We definitely fit within each part of the rule. "Keep 3 copies of any important data" — with Spanning automatically backing up your Office 365 Mail, Calendars, OneDrive and SharePoint files (in Team Sites, Groups and Microsoft Teams) you've got one complete copy every day, and you can take a backup manually at any time.
"Keep the data on two different media types" — since we back up data to our instance on the Amazon cloud, even if you back up to your own storage or cloud, you now have two different locations, ensuring redundancy.
In regards to storing a copy offsite — you can't get much more offsite than a location in the cloud — separate from your primary data location provided by the SaaS vendor.
Q: It looks like Spanning provides a simple way to meet the 3-2-1 paradigm — is that correct?
A: Yes and no. While we do help organizations meet that paradigm, it's a legacy approach to data management. Because we automate so much of what had been manual, we could rethink the paradigm for Office 365, G Suite, and Salesforce data as "3-in-1" — you'd want different copies, different media, offsite storage, all in one automated service.
With Spanning, IT teams get daily backups, encrypted at rest and in transit — one copy of the whole set and incremental backups covering what has changed; backups to secure sites in the cloud; and secure, scalable storage at no extra cost. Spanning also allows you to choose the region where your backup data is stored so you can choose to have your data backed up close to you or in an entirely different continent based on your requirements.
Q: So, organizations using Office 365, G Suite or Salesforce no longer need to follow the 3-2-1 rule exactly?
A: Yes, with Spanning, it's 3-in-1 — no need for legacy processes. When organizations develop security and compliance best practices for cloud-based applications, many of the foundations of traditional, on-premises infrastructure policies can be useful, but they need to evolve to fit the new reality of having an outsourced infrastructure managed by the SaaS vendor.
The benefits of cloud-based applications are many, but it's not a silver bullet solution for everything, especially when it comes to protecting your organization's critical data in SaaS applications. Consider the new paradigm of the 3-in-1 to stay safe.


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Cam Reddish Greets Knicks With 'bing Bong' On Instagram Story
Cam Reddish is already getting accustomed to the New York fan base after the Hawks traded him to the Knicks on Thursday night.
After the move was made public, Reddish — the 10th overall pick by the Hawks in the 2019 NBA Draft — posted a fitting message to his Instagram Story, writing, "Bing Bong" with a crying-laughing emoji.
Cam Reddish's Instagram story, posted after he was traded to the Knicks
The viral term became a celebratory chant that Knicks fans have bonded over this season — following a thrilling double overtime win against the Celtics to open the season in October.
The Knicks used the phrase in a tweet at the time, and players, celebrities and late night hosts also hopped on the trend.
On Thursday, the Knicks announced the reunion of their star guard RJ Barrett with his former Duke teammate.
In the deal, New York sent Kevin Knox and a 2022 first-round pick (via the Hornets) to the Hawks for Reddish, Solomon Hill and a 2025 second-round pick, via Brooklyn.
Cam Reddish with the Hawks
Reddish, 22, averaged career highs in points (11.9) on 40 percent shooting in 34 games this season with Atlanta. His three-point percentage is also up from last year, at 38 percent.
It's unclear when Reddish will make his debut with the Knicks. He missed Wednesday's Atlanta loss against the Heat due to an ankle sprain.


Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has accused President Donald Trump of lying to his supporters, citing the wealthy makeup of his Cabinet and his recent executive order calling for a reevaluation of the Dodd-Frank regulations on Wall Street.
On Feb. 6, Sanders blasted Trump, accusing the president of campaigning against Wall Street and financial elites during the election but catering to their special interests after assuming office.
"This guy is a fraud," Sanders told CNN. "This guy ran for president of the United States saying, 'I, Donald Trump, I'm going to take on Wall Street -- these guys are getting away with murder.' Then suddenly, he appoints all these billionaires."
Trump has appointed several high-profile Wall Street alumni to head crucial economic departments in his Cabinet. His nominee for treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, is a former employee of Goldman Sachs. The president's nominee for commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, is a former banker with a net worth of multiple billions. Trump's appointee to head his National Economic Council, Gary Cohn, was an executive at Goldman Sachs.
On the campaign trail, Trump had repeatedly blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her ties to the financial industry, pitching himself as the candidate who would crack down on Wall Street.
"Hillary Clinton will never reform Wall Street," Trump tweeted out in July 2016. "She is owned by Wall Street!"
Aside from appointing several Wall Street bankers to his Cabinet, Trump has also taken steps towards dismantling the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulations that were put in place to keep the financial industry from creating the same conditions that led to the 2008 Great Recession.
On Feb. 3, Trump signed an executive order calling for his Treasury Department, which he has appointed Mnuchin to lead, to review the Dodd-Frank regulations and identify any components that would stymie economic growth or prevent U.S. markets from competing globally, according to Forbes.
Trump stated that he expected his administration "to be cutting a lot out of Dodd Frank."
Cohn, who leads the Trump administration's economic strategy team, stated that the executive order "is a table setter for a bunch of stuff that is coming."
Former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who had helped author the Dodd-Frank regulations, blasted the executive order as reckless.
"What I'm afraid of is that we are going to get back to the period when large financial institutions, to make some short-term money, get themselves into situations where they won't be able to pay off their debt and we will get back into a crisis," Frank during a radio interview on on Feb. 5, according to The Independent.
In Sanders' view, Trump has hoodwinked his supporters and will double down on the policies that helped broaden income inequality over the past decade.
"[Trump] is a good showman, I will give you that -- he is a good TV guy," Sanders said. "But I think he is going to sell out the middle class, the working class, of this country. It is hard not to laugh to see President Trump alongside these Wall Street guys."


Last week news outlets and immigration advocates reported the possible termination of The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program—a program which began under the Obama administration that provides eligible participants protection against deportation and the ability to work legally.
An end to the program would have devastating effects for both the 800,000 people in the program and their families. The California State University system serves approximately 8,000 students who are beneficiaries of the program, many of whom have been able to finance their education and support their families because of their ability to work legally. The elimination of the DACA program will undoubtedly impact students, their families, and their communities.
Currently, there is a bipartisan, bicameral legislative effort with the reintroduction of the DREAM Act that would place into law the protections provided by DACA. A link to the DREAM Act can be found here.


Yes, I'm Asian. No, I won't love you long time.
Exploring London and its food for 2 days.
"One of our pizzas was overcooked, the other one was too wet. Overpriced for what it is. Not all staff are as friendly and welcoming as well unfortunately. Taking this off my list of Best Pizza NL."
"Amazing authentic Italian food (as confirmed by an Italian friend I went here with). Very friendly and amazingly good pizzas if you want the real deal."
"When booking through The Fork you get a 30% discount on 2 courses à la carte. Main dishes are small and prices much higher probably because it's a fado place. Very crowded and small place."
"The lunch platter with soup, salad and sandwich was amazing AND vegan. Very good deal."
"Worst latte I've had ever. Price for a small one: €3,60! (double the price than other places)"


As I write this blog post the day after Christmas 2013, I can't help but think about a New Years Resolution for 2014. There is often debate over the value of new years resolutions, if they actually matter, if you should have them and if it is worth it to have a resolution just to be disappointed when you give up down the road. I for one find value in starting the new year right by setting and reaching or exceeding goals. I think the key is to have a realistic expectation. Saying you are going to lose 100 pounds in 8 weeks is unrealistic, saying you are going to lose 20 pounds in 8 weeks is an attainable goal.
I have done quite a bit of soul searching in 2013 and I believe I have set a realistic goal for myself. My New Years Resolution for 2014 is to lose 75 pounds. I know this is an attainable and realistic goal for me. In fact, I have already lost some weight on this same program so I know for a fact it works. I just need to lose the rest for once and for all. I also know it is not going to happen in 8 weeks. I am in this for the long haul. I have done my research and I have decided to lose weight on a high protein, high antioxidant Chocolate diet. It is based on a cacao based meal replacement shake that was featured on the cover of the American Journal of Bariatric Medicine. The included 12 week study showed the average weight loss per participant was 31.3 pounds and an average decrease in waist circumference of 5.8 inches. Since the average weight loss was 31.3 pounds in 12 weeks, It is reasonable for me to lose 75 pounds in a one year timeframe.
meal replacement shake along with chocolate nuggets and the Xe Energy drink. Not only is this an affordable option for me, it includes a website where I can keep track of my goals, access recipes including gluten free options and different exercise plans depending on my specific needs. This website is even included free when you order the Ripped & Rich Pack. Each pack comes with 2 of the meal replacement shake, 12 of the Xe energy drink and 1 small box of nuggets. Since I am participating in the weight loss portion, I will need to drink two meal replacement shakes a day. Each pack includes 28 servings of the shake so I will order two of the Ripped & Rich packs for my first month.
Each Ripped & Rich pack includes enough shake for Two High Antioxidant Protein Single Scoop Shakes daily, and 12 cans of Xe Healthy Energy and 25 nuggets FREE!!! Those looking to meet weight loss goals like me, will order two packs and have two double scoop shakes daily. The great thing is you will also have 2 small boxes of nuggets and 24 of the Xe Energy drink! All delivered in your smart order right to your door!
I love that by simply ordering the pack, you have access to a personal nutritionist to help you eat right, a personal trainer to help you with a customized fitness plan that meets your needs no matter what your level of fitness and goals… and then just to make it a "no-brainer" we offer you an entry into a fun 8-week transformation contest with over $30,000 in cash and prizes to anyone ready to play! I can totally do this!! Are you ready to join me? Come on, lets do this!!!
Best thing is that ordering the two pack option can sign you up as an associate giving you a website and everything you need to earn some serious part or full time cash as well. I mean honestly, as your friends, family and co-workers see our dramatic weight loss, you know they are going to be asking you how you lost that weight. Might as well get paid to share and at the very least get your product for free.
My name is Lynette Henk. Join me in the battle of the bulge. Decide on your New Years Resolution and move forward. We can do this! Contact me with questions at 941-216-5727, email [email protected] or visit GetRippedAndRichNow.com.
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package org.dreamhead.shop.db;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.dreamhead.shop.entity.AppUser;
import org.dreamhead.shop.entity.Category;
import org.dreamhead.shop.entity.Shipment;
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

@Transactional
@Service
public class BaseRequest {

	private SimpleDateFormat dateFormaterDATETIME = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

	@Autowired
	BaseManager baseKernel;

	public List<Category> getCategories() {
		return baseKernel.getListEntity(Category.class);
	}

	public List<Shipment> getShipments(int CategoryId) {
		Category category = baseKernel.getEntity(Category.class, CategoryId);
		return category.getShipments();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public List<Shipment> searchShipments(String searchquery) {
		Criteria criteria = baseKernel.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Shipment.class);
		criteria.add(Restrictions.like("name", "%" + searchquery + "%"));
		List<Shipment> dictionaries = null;
		try {
			dictionaries = (List<Shipment>) criteria.list();
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			dictionaries = new ArrayList<Shipment>();
		}

		Criteria criteria1 = baseKernel.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Shipment.class);
		criteria1.add(Restrictions.like("description", "%" + searchquery + "%"));
		try {
			dictionaries.addAll((List<Shipment>) criteria.list());
		} catch (Exception ex) {

		}

		return dictionaries;
	}

	public AppUser getAppUserFromEmail(String email) {
		try {
			Criteria criteria = baseKernel.getCriteria(AppUser.class);
			criteria.add(Restrictions.like("email",email));
			return (AppUser) criteria.uniqueResult();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return baseKernel.getEntity(AppUser.class, 3);
		}
	}

    public <T> T getEntity(Class<T> entityClass, int id) {
        return baseKernel.getEntity(entityClass, id);
    }

	public Object saveOrUpdate(Object object) {
		return baseKernel.saveOrUpdate(object);
	}

	public Object save(Object object) {
		return baseKernel.save(object);
	}

    public <T> List<T> getListEntity(Class<T> entityClass) {
        return baseKernel.getListEntity(entityClass);
    }

}

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Tokyo Police Club's Dave Monks: "The Rules" (video)
Dave Monks has released a video for the track "The Rules". It's from his debut solo EP All Signs Point To Yes, which is out now.
It's all relative: dave monks, tokyo police club, video


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