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Reactions in gels help make a chemical process visual by slowing down the reaction rate, which allows students to observe a reaction process in detail. In Experimenting with a Visible Copper–Aluminum Displacement Reaction in Agar Gel and Observing Copper Crystal Growth Patterns To Engage Student Interest and Inquiry, Xinhua Xu, Meifen Wu, Xiaogang Wang, Yangyiwei Yang, Xiang Shi, and Guoping Wang describe an experiment in which the reaction process of copper–aluminum displacement in agar gel was observed at the microscopic level with a stereomicroscope. As shown on the cover, pine-like branches of copper crystals growing from aluminum surface into gel at a constant rate were observed. Students were asked to make hypotheses about the pattern formation and to design new research approaches to prove their hypotheses. Using this method, students carry out an experiment based on a specific chemical equation while also encountering the concepts of crystal growth and microcells through dramatic images of real-time change and visible crystal growth.
Safety should always be a concern in the chemistry classroom and laboratory. In the commentary Undergraduates Need a Safety Education!, Robert H. Hill Jr. discusses how safety education is absent in the chemistry curriculum and how to change this shortcoming.
The Use of Field Trips in a Nonscience Majors Course ~ C. H. Breedlove Jr.
With 93 volumes of the Journal of Chemical Education to explore, you will always find something interesting and worth inquiry—including the articles mentioned above, and many more, in the Journal of Chemical Education. Articles that are edited and published online ahead of print (ASAP—As Soon As Publishable) are also available.
Do you have something engaging to share? Write it up for the Journal! For some advice on becoming an author, read Erica Jacobsen's Commentary. In addition, numerous author resources are available on JCE's ACS Web site, including: Author Guidelines, Document Templates, and Reference Guidelines. The Journal has issued a call for papers on Polymer Concepts across the Curriculum, so consider submitting a contribution to our next special issue (deadline: October 24, 2016).


A Powder for the Rot of Cattle.
Procure five cents' worth of bay leaves, enzian, a little sulphur, and one cent's worth of chalk; also, ashes of pear tree wood, walnut wood, and juniper tree wood. Mix with stove soot, of one as much of the other. Let the cattle take thereof, mornings and evenings, and always, after taking the powder, let it fast for several hours.


Welcome to Duane Bailey's Hitori puzzle page. Basically, the goal of the puzzle is to knock out (color black) some squares, and keep (color white) the others, so that every row and column is composed of unique values. Black squares can't touch, and the white squares are all connected by the edges of their squares. Precise rules & strategy are found here.
Below is a Java applet that generates new Hitori puzzles, every time you visit. You can, if you want, have this applet generate puzzles of other sizes (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, or 20).
Press mouse on values to cycle through coloring.
Type = for new puzzle, > for larger, < for smaller, - to clear board, and ? for a hint.
Go here if you want to see the puzzle on a page by itself.
All cells are committed to white or black.
Values in white cells are unique within each row or column.
Black cells should never share an edge.
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Like solving sudoku puzzles, hitori puzzles should not involve guessing or backtracking.


Phu Quoc has long been well known as the Pearl Island of Vietnam and become an increasingly attractive destination for tourists coming through a tour to Phu Quoc Island. Visit this amazing island, you will not only have chance to admire stunning natural beauty of white sandy beaches, enjoy fresh delicious seafood but also can visit the historical site, Cay Dua Prison – an ideal destination that must be included in your holiday in Vietnam, especially for those who love history.
Cay Dua Prison, also referred to Phu Quoc Prison is located in An Thoi town, Phu Quoc District. The historic monument of Phu Quoc Prison is the place where the history is being reappeared. Many travellers are willing to spend their holiday in Vietnam to visit this prison as they can see vivid evidences mark the extremely crimes of the colonialism. In the past, this prison used to imprison Vietnamese people who were brave to fight for free and today it is where young people learn more about the proud revolutionary tradition of Vietnam. Every year, Cay Dua prison attracts thousands of travellers come to visit and travel back in history during their holidays.
Go inside Phu Quoc prison, the galleries will immediately attract all your attentions with pictures of the prison and pictures of heroic martyrs. If you want to get a better understanding, you should also watch documentary films about prisoners in Phu Quoc Island, you will be impressed by heroes in real life who had bravely fought and proudly sacrificed for their country.
By seeing artifacts and picture of the war, we will discover dark secrets of colonial regimes in the past. Cay Dua Prison is the place where Vietnamese patriotic soldiers had to suffer from beatings, brutal tortures that you cannot imagine like crucifixion, pouring boiling water on the bodies, burned alive, buried alive, etc.
By seeing artifacts and picture of the war, we will discover dark secrets of colonial regimes in the past.
The relic welcomes more than ten thousands visiting travellers every year. Some of them are former inmates return to the prison to remember old memories while others from all around the world not only want to have fun holiday in Vietnam but also want to learn about the so well-known historical period of the country.
Visit the historic prison in Phu Quoc Island to witness the barbaric and brutal torture methods of the colonialism in the past and also to know about the courage and also the sacrifices of Vietnamese soldiers who fought for the country's independence. Cay Dua Prison is a good suggestion destination for your Phu Quoc island travel.


The ponytail palm is not a true palm, and its closest relative might surprise you. It is native to Mexico, but is used as an ornamental plant throughout much of the southern United States (it is cold-hardy to 6 degrees Celsius and is incredibly drought tolerant), South America, tropical southeast Asia, and Australia. This "tree", like true palms (one of which you can read all about HERE), is not actually a tree at all. It has no tissue called the vascular cambium, which is responsible for producing secondary xylem which is what we refer to colloquially as wood. If you don't produce true wood because you don't have secondary xylem, you can't be a tree! There are many monocots that masquerade themselves around town as being woody; bamboo, lucky bamboo (a completely different group of plants), palms, tree ferns and bananas all lack the ability to produce true wood (you can read all about bananas HERE). This doesn't mean that we can't use them as building material! All of these species produce a tissue type called sclerenchyma in great volumes which contributes to their stem stability (except banana; they produce collenchyma which is a tissue very similar to sclerenchyma. They also don't have a true above-ground stem!).
The ponytail palm, as mentioned, isn't a palm at all. It's actually a close relative of the asparagus family, and if I had of caught this plant while it was flowering it would have been much more obvious. The flowers produced by this species are almost identical to the flowers you would see if you let the asparagus in your garden go to seed. It's amazing the kinds of morphological variation you can get within a family!
The swollen base of the stem of this plant is designed for prolonged periods of drought. It almost acts as a water canteen, which can allow the plant to go for months without a significant source of water. If the plant went long enough, the base of the stem would start to shrink as the tissue and the water it contains starts to be reabsorbed by the plant. During the next major rainfall, the plant would reabsorb its water again and regrow the swollen stem base.


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Home Arseblog, the arsenal blog Arsenal 3-1 Brentford: Job done
Arsenal 3-1 Brentford: Job done
September 27, 2018 - 98 arses
Match report – Player ratings – Video
'Why are we so poor in the first halves of games?', has been the major question so far this season. Yesterday we bucked that trend with an excellent first 45 minutes which saw us score twice and look as comfortable as we have at any point under Unai Emery's reign.
The first goal came from a corner, it was played short, Matteo Guendouzi whipped in a lovely cross to find a completely unmarked Danny Welbeck who headed home from close range. Quite why nobody was picking him up is unclear, but the striker made no mistake for his third goal of the season.
We were on top throughout the first period without really creating too much in the way of clear-cut chances, and yet another Mustafi slip presented them with a reasonable sight of goal before we doubled the lead. This was unquestionably our best team goal of the season. It began with a free kick near halfway, we played it backwards, keeping possession with Guendouzi and Holding, then used the keeper who started the build up with a ball to to Lichtsteiner on the right who nodded it infield to Mkhitaryan. He took it forward, fed Iwobi who had driven through the lines to find Monreal overlapping who pulled it back for Welbeck to finish with his left foot.
The commentator said, "It was just left for Danny Welbeck to do what Danny Welbeck does", which was quite funny considering that Danny does a lot of stuff, but with four goals he's our joint leading scorer this season and showing that when he stays fit he's a very useful player to have in the squad.
The second half began with us crafting a number of chances, we had a lot of joy down their left hand side but ultimately we were a bit wasteful and didn't make the most of the positions we got into. That came back to haunt us when Guendouzi made a silly foul just outside the D, and from the resulting set-piece Alan Judge curled home an excellent free kick, although you might ask some questions of Leno's positioning and reaction time.
That sparked the visitors into life and they had a real go in fairness to them. Leno made some saves, although there was nothing particularly troublesome, they had some corners, and Emery's decision to bring on Alexandre Lacazette for Emile Smith Rowe told you he felt we needed another goal. The addition of Lucas Torreira for Mkhitaryan told you he felt we might be in danger of conceding again before we scored.
Monreal almost got one but for a fantastic save, they had a penalty shout rightly waved away – unlike the one in the first half which was an obvious foul on Iwobi but Mike Dean is gonna Mike Dean – and in injury time Lacazette sealed the deal having missed a chance a couple of minutes earlier to do just that. He took advantage of some indecision at the back to drive into the box and fire a shot into the bottom corner to make it 3-1.
Afterwards, the boss said:
It was a very good test. It was a very good opportunity for the team to continue improving, to continue creating with our style. Also today, a team in the Championship but with a very good performance and demanding a lot of us in the 90 minutes. I think we can do more things in the 90 minutes like we want but when they scored it was difficult for 15 minutes after this goal. I think it's good for us, it continues to test us in difficult moments and we can find our best response.
I'm not sure it's a game from which we learned a great deal. Smith Rowe looks a real talent, some of his first half play was fantastic and on another night he might well have had a goal. Guendouzi looks excellent on the ball, but there was evidence that he still has plenty to learn off it in terms of his decision making and positioning.
The keeper did fine but it wasn't the kind of performance to dislodge Petr Cech, and in the end it was a bit of a shame that we made such hard work of the second half that we couldn't afford to bring on Eddie Nketiah for his first appearance of the season. The introduction of Aaron Ramsey with 6 minutes of normal time to go was evidence that Emery was keen to see out the game with experience rather than risk a youngster, and given the scoreline you can understand that, but it would have been nice to see Eddie. Hopefully he gets a go in the next round.
Still, it's six wins from six now, there's a nice bit of momentum building, and signs that some of the beauty is being added to the beast. The second goal really does stand up to repeated viewing; Welbeck's scoring; Iwobi looks like he's enjoying himself under Emery's tutelage; and every win will add to the confidence within the squad, so all in all a decent night's work despite the fact we made it a little more difficult for ourselves than it should have been. And for those who think that's simply a hangover from the Wenger era, Arsenal are gonna Arsenal.
I also liked Emery's response to the story doing the rounds this week that he had prevented Germany boss Joachim Low from seeing Mesut Ozil when he visited the training ground. The reality was Ozil wasn't there for some reason, and Low had a meeting with the BFG as well as a word with Leno and Mustafi, but there was no point at which the Arsenal boss stood in his way. Asked about it last night, Emery said:
I didn't read the news but I heard they are saying, I don't know where, I didn't let Mesut meet him. It's not true. It's easy to say that here. I have no problem. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true that I didn't let Mesut meet with Loew. It isn't true. It is not true. Ok. It's very easy. It's very easy for me to say that to you.
I think it might not be true folks. Low has bought a ticket to the world, and he'll have to come back again if he wants that chinwag with Mesut. Right, I'm finding it hard to write the next line, so I'll leave it there for this morning. More reaction and post-match coverage over on Arseblog News, I'll be back tomorrow with an Arsecast and all the rest.
Until then, have a good one.
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"You've got to give Junior credit for making the right decision because I'm sure he feels the pressure," Gossage said. "I don't think anyone is putting it on him, but I'm sure he feels pressure to the team and the sport. But the only thing that matters is his health. Hopefully, he'll recover and be back at Daytona in February.
"My prayer is he has a full and complete life. Hopefully that includes racing, but you just don't want him having issues down the road. I'm sure the matters that you hear about from the NFL, I'm sure that weighs heavily on him."
Earnhardt, who turns 42 in October, has sat out the past six Cup races because of a concussion his doctors believe happened during a June 12 wreck at Michigan International Speedway.
Given his age and the long-term effects associated with concussions, it's fair to wonder how much longer Earnhardt will race. Earnhardt, though, made it clear last month that he has no intentions of retiring and wants to extend his career.
Still, the thought of NASCAR without Earnhardt has crossed Gossage's mind.
"Every sport goes through periods of times like this, and I can remember newspaper stories of great woe of how NASCAR was really finished with the retirements of Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough and Bobby Allison," Gossage said. "And we went on to bigger heights from that. Just as the NFL is dealing with not having Peyton Manning and others, every sport goes through that.
"But, you know, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is money. Period. I mean that literally in the sense that he draws money because he draws attention. He draws money for the sport. The sport will carry on [when Earnhardt is done], but I believe Junior when he says he's not done racing."
26 career Cup wins for Dale Earnhardt Jr., including his first at TMS in 2000
Earnhardt has made five consecutive Chase appearances going into this season, and, as Gossage said, has Hall of Fame credentials. He's won 26 Cup races, including two Daytona 500s, and has 252 top 10s in 595 career starts. The only thing that's missing is a championship.
Earnhardt has a strong history at Texas, too. His first Cup win happened at the track in April 2000, also the site of his first NASCAR Xfinity Series win in 1998.
We needed those signature moments
Eddie Gossage on Earnhardt's first NASCAR wins being at Texas
Jeff Gordon and Alex Bowman will continue to share seat time in the No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. Gordon will drive four races, including Sunday at Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, as well as Richmond, Dover and Martinsville. Bowman will finish the year with eight more starts.
Bowman is expected to fill in for Earnhardt during the Texas race. Bowman has an average finish of 37th in four Cup races at Texas so far in his young career.
Gossage jokingly guessed why Gordon, a future Hall of Famer, opted not to run at Texas.
"I would think this is all because Jeff doesn't want to give back the Shetland ponies," Gossage said, referring to TMS' retirement gift to Gordon last year.
This story contains material from The Associated Press.
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Darlington schedule
Hurricane Hermine shoved her way into the picture and forced NASCAR to call off qualifying for the Sprint Cup and Xfinity series on Friday, deciding it was more important to use the track time for practice on the South Carolina track. The Xfinity race is set to run at 2:30 p.m. Saturday (KXAS/5) with the Southern 500 set for 5 p.m. Sunday night (KXAS/5).
Tyler Ankrum skids down pit road during truck series at TMS
Indy cars take over downtown Fort Worth for pit stop challenge
Painful pit stop costs Takuma Sato the lead, possible victory at TMS IndyCar race
By Anthony Andro Special to the Star-Telegram
Pole sitter Takuma Sato led the first 60 laps Saturday during the DXC Technology 600 IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, but a disastrous pit stop cost him the lead and possible victory.
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Just a quick FYI–I replaced the cotton pads with paper towel cut up to fit the container!!
I made my own DIY Make-up Remover Pads and I absolutely love them!
Not only do they remove all of my makeup (including waterproof mascara) easily and quickly, my skin feels incredibly soft and hydrated!! They work great!
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Wash and dry your container. I show a tall and short container above, but I like the short wide-mouth better. It's easier to get the paper towel pads in and out!
The first step is to measure your fractionated coconut oil and add it to the container.
Measure and add your Castile Soap to the container with the fractionated coconut oil. Castile soap comes in quite a few scents and you can choose the one you like best.
Now for the Lavender! I use Young Living Essential Oils for all my projects. You can check them out here! I added around 8 drops of lavender oil to the mixture and stirred well.
Next step is to add distilled water to the rim of the jar and stir well.
Now you're going to take a few paper towel pads at a time and immerse them into the mixture–keep adding until full. As I stated before, I was originally going to use the cotton pads shown above. They were a clumpy mess so I tried cutting up some "sturdy" paper toweling (like Bounty or Brawny ). The toweling would work much better–held it's shape beautifully!
Press them into the mixture and when full put the lid on and shake gently. They're ready to use!
I've been using these for a few weeks now and I'm really happy with them My daughter has very sensitive skin and has been using them with no problems at all. You can add different or more oils if you want too!
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Op Amps-Operational Amplifiers
Introduction to Operational Amplifiers
In this post, the basics of an operational amplifier (generally abbreviated as op-amp) will be analysed along with its block diagram, basic structure, symbol, types and a detailed explanation of the typical op-amp.
What is an operational amplifier (op-amp)?
An op-amp is a multi-stage , direct coupled, high gain negative feedback amplifier that has one or more differential amplifiers and its concluded with a level translator and an output stage.A voltage-shunt feedback is provided in an op-amp to obtain a stabilized voltage gain. Op-amps are available as Integrated Circuits (IC's).
The main use of an op-amp is to amplify ac and dc input signals and was initially used for basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, differentiation and integration. Nowadays , the application of op-amp's varies from ac and dc signal amplification to use in active filters, oscillators, comparators, voltage regulators, instrumentation and control systems, pulse generators, square wave generators and many more electronic circuits. For the design of all these circuits the op-amp's are manufactured with integrated transistors, diodes, capacitors and resistors, thus making it an extremely compact, multi tasking, low cost, highly reliable and temperature stable integrated circuit. It is also designed in such a way that the external characteristics can be changed with the addition of external components like capacitors and resistors. Thus it can act as a complete amplifier with various characteristics.
Block Diagram Of Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)
The block diagram of a multi-stage operational amplifier is given below.
The op-amp begins with a differential amplifier stage, which operates in the differential mode. Thus the inputs noted with '+' & '- ' . The positive sign is for the non-inverting input and negative is for the inverting input. The non-inverting input is the ac signal (or dc) applied to the differential amplifier which produces the same polarity of the signal at the output of op-amp. The inverting signal input is the ac signal (or dc) applied to the differential amplifier. This produces a 180 degrees out of phase signal at the output.
The inverting and non-inverting inputs are provided to the input stage which is a dual input, balanced output differential amplifier. The voltage gain required for the amplifier is provided in this stage along with the input resistance for the op-amp. The output of the initial stage is given to the intermediate stage, which is driven by the output of the input stage.In this stage direct coupling is used, which makes the dc voltage at the output of the intermediate stage above ground potential. Therefore, the dc level at its output must be shifted down to 0Volts with respect to the ground. For this, the level shifting stage is used where usually an emitter follower with the constant current source is applied. The level shifted signal is then given to the output stage where a push-pull amplifier increases the output voltage swing of the signal and also increases the current supplying capability of the op-amp.
Symbol Of Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)
The schematic symbol of an op-amp is shown below.
The above shown symbol is the most widely used op-amp symbol for all electronic circuits.
V1 (Volts) – Non-inverting input voltage.
V2 (Volts) – Inverting input voltage.
V0 (Volts) – Output voltage
Characteristics Of Operational Amplifiers (Op-amp)
1. High input impedance- More than 100kilo ohms.
2. Low output – Less than 100 ohms.
3. Amplifier signals with frequency range from 0Hz to 1MHz.
4. Low offset voltage and low offset current.
5. Very high voltage gain – About 2,00,000.
Basic operational amplifier circuits
As explained earlier differential circuits are one of the most basic circuitry used in op-amp's. We have already explained differential amplifier and its working in an earlier post. You can check the links here – Differential Amplifier.
Shown below is a differential amplifier circuit that is modified to use an op-amp. This constitutes the basic op-amp circuit and explains about the input characteristics of a typical op-amp IC.
Basic Operational Amplifier (Op-Amp) Circuit
The basic configuration of the circuit is drawn above. Two transistors Q1 and Q2 are provided, in which the input is provided to the base of both the transistors. Both the transistor emitters are connected to a common emitter RE so that the two input signals are affected by either or both input signals. Two supply voltages VCC and VEE are connected to both the collectors and emitters QI and Q2. In the circuit diagram, there is no indication of common ground point. It must be understood that the opposite points of both positive and negative voltage supplies are connected to the ground.
When input at point 1(V1) increases , the emitter current of transistor Q1 increases, and thus causes an increase of voltage at top of the emitter resistance RE. Thus it decreases the base-emitter voltage VBE of transistor Q2. Thus, when VBE of Q2 decreases, there is less current flow in the transistor Q2.This brings a voltage drop in the collector resistance RC and an increase in the output voltage VOUT as it is the difference between the collector supply voltage VCC and voltage drop in collector resistance RC (ICRC).This brings us to the conclusion that there is will be an increase in output voltage when there is an increase in input voltage V1. This why V1 is considered as the non-inverting input. Vout is in phase with V1.
In another instant, when the voltage V2 increases, the collector current of Q2 increases, and makes way for a voltage drop in collector resistance and thus a decreased output voltage VOUT. This is why V2 is considered as the inverting input. VOUT is 180 degrees out of phase with V2.
A basic introduction of uA741 op-amp has already been given. Check out the link below.
Introduction to uA 741 Op-Amp
The article mainly describes what an op-amp is., the op-amp symbol, the concept of the inverting and non-inverting input, and many more. It also describes about the popularity of th 741 IC, among th different types of op-amps available in the market. The op-amp features, and the need for dual power supply for the IC is also explained . You can understand more about the packaging style, and the op-amp pin assignment along with the different ratings of an ideal op-amp 741 IC. Some of the basic applications of an op-amp are listed below. Check out the detailed description by clicking on the main links.
Op-amp Comparator
The circuit diagram and the working of an op-amp as a comparator are shown in the article. There are mainly two types of comparators. One is the inverting comparator circuit, and the other is the non-inverting comparator. Both of them are explained with neat waveforms, and the different applications of the circuit are also given.
Schmitt Trigger Using Op-amp
The application of op-amp as a fast operating voltage level detector is shown in this main article with the help of a circuit diagram and its corresponding waveform. The exact working of the circuit is also explained with the equations of the different reference voltages when the output is positively saturated and negatively saturated. The different characteristics of the schmitt trigger is also explained along with its UTP and LTP.
Astable Multivibrator Using Op-amp
The working of op-amp as a square wave generator is explained with the help of a circuit diagram and waveform. The output voltage equation, and the capacitor charging equation is also given. The reason for calling the circuit a "free-running multivibrator" is also explained.
Monostable Multivibrator
The basics of pulse generator is explained in this post. The circuit diagram and waveform is illustrated in the article along with the steady state conditions and capacitor voltage equations.
Zero Crossing Detector
This is an applied form of an op-amp comparator circuit. Here the reference voltage is made zero. The zero crossing detector using inverting op-amp comparator is explained with a circuit diagram and waveform.
Voltage Splitter Using Op-amp
A voltage divider circuit is connected to the non-inverting input of an op-amp. The circuit is explained in detail in the original post.
Op-amp CircuitsTutorials
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Frank Page serving on Obama faith-based advisory council
by Staff, posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 (10 years ago)
WASHINGTON (BP)--President Obama named Joshua DuBois Feb. 5 to head the newly named White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and established an advisory council that includes former Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page.
Obama signed an executive order bringing changes to what was known as the Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives created under President George W. Bush. Under the Bush administration, the office sought largely to help remove barriers to faith-based organizations competing for federal funding as they provided social services.
The White House said the newly designed office would be a resource for secular and faith-based organizations as they serve their communities. The office also will have a role in helping the administration address such social needs as reducing "the need for abortion" and in assisting the National Security Council in fostering interfaith relationships globally.
DuBois, 26, served as director of religious outreach for Obama during the presidential campaign.
Page, SBC president from 2006 to 2008, will serve as one of 25 members of the advisory council for the initiative. The council of religious and secular leaders will include 25 members serving one-year terms. Page is pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C.
"The Office's top priority will be making community groups an integral part of our economic recovery and poverty a burden fewer have to bear when recovery is complete," a White House release said. "It will be one voice among several in the administration that will look at how we support women and children, address teenage pregnancy, and reduce the need for abortion.
"The Office will strive to support fathers who stand by their families, which involves working to get young men off the streets and into well-paying jobs, and encouraging responsible fatherhood. Finally, beyond American shores this Office will work with the National Security Council to foster interfaith dialogue with leaders and scholars around the world."


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I return home from a weeks filming to find the garden at its most beautiful. Yes, I have lost some of my precious box balls, not through the blight that is ravaging the country's buxus stock, but through lack of water. My fault for assuming there would be rainfall while I was away. The rest of the garden, however, is everything I have ever wanted it to be. A tangle of nasturtiums, a tumble of cosmos, dahlia, cornflowers and marigolds, their stems entwined, their colours glowing. The light is gentle and calm, the air is fresh, yet there is a deep scent of ripeness, of plums ungathered.
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FM Qureshi pays tribute to outgoing foreign secretary Tehmina Janjua
by APP , (Last Updated April 12, 2019)
–Says she's a role model for women diplomats
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday termed the Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua as the role model for women diplomats and appreciated the services she rendered for the country.
Addressing at a diplomatic reception held in honour of foreign secretary, who will be retiring on April 16, the foreign minister said, "I have always found her graceful, committed and sincere to the cause of Pakistan and Foreign Service."
"I met her in 2008 when I was first appointed as the foreign minister and she was serving as Director General Strategic Planning at the ministry. Today, I can say that it was a pleasure working with her," he added.
The minister said that Tehmina had always been a principled woman in her entire service. "If I had to describe her in simply then I would say that she is a 'woman of character'," he said.
Qureshi said that the past eight months had been very challenging and during that period Tehmina used to work on off days and even on late hours which showed her commitment to the work.
"In a society which is male dominant, the way she carried herself as the foreign secretary was not an easy job and she is an inspiration for everyone," he said, adding that Tehmina's work would be missed after her retirement.
Qureshi said that he felt proud of Tehmina and also gave his best wishes to her for the life ahead.
"I am thankful to you and the way you served for the country will always be remembered," he said.
Tehmina joined Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1984 after studying French literature at the Quaid-e-Azam University. She later received a Masters in International Affairs from SIPA, Columbia University in 1989. She served in Pakistan's missions to New York City and United Nations (UN) before serving as the Director of Foreign Secretary's Office between 2004 and 2005.
She also served as the Director General of Strategic Planning in the Foreign Secretary's Office and in 2011 became the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. She served as the ambassador of Pakistan to Italy between December 2011 and October 2015. On October 6, 2015, Tehmina became Pakistan's envoy to the UN Office in Geneva, and in December 2016, Tehmina became the first woman, and the first developing country representative, to preside over the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. In February 2017, she was appointed as Pakistan's Foreign Secretary, the first woman to hold the highest career position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Date published: 02 Jul 2019 by PR Team
Following a parliamentary debate on children's palliative care on Monday 1 July, Rainbow Trust welcomes a new government pledge to increase the annual Children's Hospice Grant to £25 million by 2024 from its current level of £12 million.
But this increased grant will not be open to community children's palliative care services, such as that provided by Rainbow Trust. Instead, Care Minister Caroline Dinenage announced that NHS England will undertake "a needs assessment" to understand "whether additional investment is required where palliative care is provided by means other than hospices."
Rainbow Trust's CEO, Zillah Bingley, responded urging the Care Minister and NHS England to act on this as soon as possible:
"Last night's funding announcement will have been met with a huge sigh of relief from hard pressed hospices, coming as it did on the day that yet another children's hospice announced cuts to its services because of funding pressures.
"However services such as Rainbow Trust will not benefit from the increased grant and we currently receive no funding from any Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) or from central government.
"It's now vital that both Government and NHS England quickly address the gap in funding for emotional and practical support and short breaks for families with a seriously ill child, in the home and in the community. We look forward to sharing our experiences with NHS England in the review of needs that has been announced.''
Rainbow Trust was grateful to hear the Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Children Who Need Palliative Care, and Newcastle Upon Tyne North MP, Catherine McKinnell, refer to Rainbow Trust as "a hugely important service", showing the importance of children's palliative care support provided outside a hospice setting.
Catherine McKinnell went on to note that, "CCGs and local authorities are too often not commissioning it [Rainbow Trust], and one can only assume that that is due to funding restraints". She proposed that "local authorities and CCGs should be incentivised and supported to fund and make such services available".
During the debate there were several references to the needs of siblings, and Dr Caroline Johnson MP, Co Chair of the APPG, and responsible for securing the debate, set out the case for "an army of help for families" which would guarantee all families short breaks and the opportunity to access support in the home so that families can live a more normal life.
The discussion followed hot on the heels of Children's Hospice Week and research from Together for Short Lives which highlighted the financial pressures facing the children's palliative care sector. The full debate can be read here.
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My writing includes both journalism (reviews, op-ed pieces, news, tutorials) and personal pieces about living with mental illness, relationships and body image. I've been published on Femsplain.com and Women Write About Comics.
I also write fiction in different forms including educational comics for a young readers publisher; indie comics that have appeared in anthologies such as Rise: Comics Against Bullying and Shakespeare Shaken; I also guest wrote for the Subculture webcomic.
In 2015, the Protect volume 2 anthology came out and I have a short story in there next to great authors like Josh Stallings, Neliza Drew, Thomas Pluck, Harlan Ellison, and Joyce Carol Oates. This book was nominated for an Anthony Award.
January, 2016, my first mystery novel, Cardiac Arrest: A Farrah Wethers Mystery was published and is available at major outlets and on Kindle. The sequel, Full Body Manslaughter, was published October, 2016. The third book in the series, Miscarriage of Justice, was released in May in 2017. My first horror novel, Misty Murder, debuted September 22, 2017. New for 2018 is an occult, new adult novel titled Bear Roots which is rolling out in waves to Patreon backers based on lifetime donations.
I've also been slowly working a Vodka O'Clock book with short stories and drink recipes if I can figure out how to get photos laid out properly in Scrivener. Hopefully Amazon's new platform since they bought CreateSpace will make image layout easier. I haven't had time to research it yet.
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Alberta government throwing money away on oil projects
Posted by Ken Green | Aug 23, 2021
One of the eternal questions of public policy is: should governments get into bed with private businesses?
Whether it's called a public-private partnership, buying a controlling interest for taxpayers, investing in the technologies of tomorrow or just avoiding a business failure on our watch, the debate over whether the overall idea of government investing in the private sector is a good idea never seems to end.
The question is eternal not because we have no answer but because supporters of expansive government simply won't accept the answer that reality has to offer. The history of government interventions in picking winners and losers in a market-based economy is absolutely abysmal.
In this context, the refusal to admit reality is a non-partisan thing since politicians of all stripes can't resist the urge to meddle in markets. Whether it's bailing out the fossil fuel sector (as in Alberta) or investing in the technologies of tomorrow (wind, solar, hydrogen) that are supposed to kill the fossil fuel sector in Canada, government investment in private sector activities always finds a welcome audience in government.
But coming only weeks after the death of Alberta's big investment in order to try to save the Keystone XL pipeline, we now have a Conservative Alberta government deciding to go in with taxpayer money to bail out a bad oil sands investment deal.
How bad was it?
Even before the new salvage investment plan, the government chalked up a debt of $26 billion on the deal.
To make an interminably long story short, back in 2007, after the review of fossil fuel royalty structures in Alberta by the government of then-premier Ed Stelmach, it was decided that it might be a good idea to buy a stake in a proposed bitumen refinery to create a new guaranteed market for Alberta's oil sands sector. The basic idea was to take bitumen, refine it into low-sulphur diesel fuel, pipeline diluent and other lower-weight hydrocarbons (such as propane and butane) and sell them to domestic industries. As a side-benefit, the theory was that the refinery would capture carbon dioxide emissions and reduce the climate change footprint of the bitumen combusted in the process.
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Sounds great, like a win-win-win sort of thing. As Yogi Berra once said, "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." And putting the theory for the Sturgeon refinery into practice serves as a good example of the problems that happen when the government climbs into bed.
As Andrew Leach pointed out in a scathing report last year, the poor investment choices started very early in the process, when the government of the time decided that rather than take their profits from their investment (paid via reduced royalties on bitumen) back out in cash, they would instead take their profits out downstream, in products produced by the refinery years later.
And additional bad governmental decisions followed that one, such as a decision not simply to promise bitumen for delivery to the refinery but rather to guarantee a fixed rate of return to the not-yet operating refinery on its capital and operating costs to process the government's bitumen.
Of course, the costs of building and operating the refinery ballooned over time, taking the government's guaranteed return-on-investment promise with it, ultimately saddling Alberta with the $26-billion debt.
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There's more to the story, of course, but flash forward to today and the government of Alberta is going to throw nearly another billion dollars on top of the $26 billion debt by purchasing a 50 per cent equity stake in the refinery from North West Refining, ostensibly keeping the scheme going for another 10 years and giving the government a greater decision-making role in the project.
And we know how well their previous decision-making turned out.
Coming on top of the Alberta government's decision to invest $5 billion in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (ka-ching!) and the $26 billion incurred in the past for the North West Refinery project, what's another billion dollars, in the name of saving the taxpayer's investment?
There's an expression for that kind of thinking: that one should not throw good money after bad.
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Sts Louis and Zélie Martin: "An ordinary life lived in an extraordinary way"
On Friday July 12th, we celebrate Saints Louis and Zélie Martin.
Everybody in the Catholic Church knows of St Thérèse of the Child Jesus, the youngest Doctor of the Church who died at age 24 in a Carmel in Lisieux, France. But very few know about her parents, Louis and Zélie.
Louis and Zélie were canonized on October 18th, 2015, by Pope Francis on Mission Sunday, in honor of St Thérèse, their daughter, Patroness of Missionaries.
They are celebrated together on their wedding anniversary: July 12th.
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The book Esther tells the story of a Jewish girl chosen for the harem of a Persian king because of her beauty. One of the king's advisors harbors a deep hatred for the Jews and hatches a plot to exterminate the entire race.
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When we consider the parables about the Kingdom of God they each provide a different perspective in a simple, yet deeply profound way. Take, for instance, the parables about the hidden treasure and pearl of great price.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that "God himself is the author of marriage." (CCC #1603) This means that the very idea of marriage has its origin in heaven, within the mind and will of our Father. It is from this divine source that marriage is given its dignity as an institution, confirmed by Jesus as a sacrament. Therefore the principles and foundations of marriage extend beyond just the earthly bonds between man and woman.
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Ordinary Time. It's a deceptively boring label for the liturgical season we now find ourselves in. It's not "special" like Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter. There are no special, beloved Ordinary Time songs or decorations. No unique Ordinary Time traditions. It's just ordinary, plain. It's just like most of my life and yours. We "live and move and have our being" in the ordinary time of our lives, punctuated by special events like birthdays, marriages & anniversaries, job changes, and moving.
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I believe the beatitudes are a model or pattern for spiritual maturity with one building on another and ultimately looping back again in a continual path toward spiritual perfection. Rather than looking at them separately as if describing different types of people in the Kingdom of God, they lay down a blueprint for how to become a disciple. This seems to make sense within the greater context of the Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew 5-7.
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Will Bailing Out the Spendthrift Greeks Make American Businesses More Profitable?
February 12, 2010 Bill Bonner
Well, the Greek story was big this week. 'The Big Fat Greek Meltdown,' as Justice Litle calls it. It pushed stocks and bonds down early in the week. By the end of the week it was pushing them up.
What happened in the meantime? Well, the euro-feds made it appear that they were going to do the same dumb things our own feds did. They said they were going to fix the situation. Just like the US fixed Fannie Mae (FNM) and AIG!
There are 27 different nations in the European Union. And guess how many languages? Two-hundred and thirty. That surprised us too. Spain alone has 6 official languages.
But without doing any real research on the subject, we have discovered one word which is common to all these languages: bailout.
Yes, dear reader, it was 'bailout'…spoken in hundreds of different languages and dialects…that lit a fire under the financial markets late this week. The embers were still hot yesterday; the Dow rose 106 points. Gold had it best day in weeks – up 18 bucks.
But doth a single bailout a real boom make?
Let us rephrase that. Will bailing out the spendthrift Greeks really make American businesses more profitable?
You know the answer. It won't. In fact, it will make them less profitable. What it does is allow the Greeks to continue spending in the style to which they've become accustomed. And if the Greeks are going to do that you can bet that the Irish aren't going to want cut back. Or the Portuguese. To say nothing of the Italians. And what about the English?
Bailing out the Greeks is a big mistake. But it's a mistake everyone seems to want to make. There's probably a Latin dictum for this sort of thing. But since we don't know what it is, we'll have to coin the phrase ourselves: Imbecility begets imbecility; especially when the bankers come out ahead.
What did you think? Who do you think the Greeks owe money to? That's right, the big banks are behind this. They've got hundreds of billions at stake in Greece. If the Greeks can't pay, the banks take a hit. Since no one wants the bankers to take a loss – except for us – once again, the feds are coming to the rescue.
Oh…why does this make US businesses LESS profitable? Well, it's a marginal thing. But what we're witnessing is a shift of economic power away from the private sector towards the public sector. Private businesses no longer borrow like they used to. Now, the feds do the borrowing and the spending. That leaves less capital…and less spending power…in private hands. Ergo, businesses will find it harder to make money.
They'll also find it harder to make money because interest rates will rise. Instead of letting the bad credit risks default, the feds weaken all credit. They're giving debt a bad name, in other words. The risk of default for the particular country goes down; the risk of default of the entire system increases. After all, the debt doesn't disappear. It has to be paid by someone. Sooner or later. Guess who that will be?
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Juergen Hochheimer February 16, 2010 at 4:59 am
Hello America,
the Greek fiasco has to do with falsifying their reports to the EU controlling bodies. In this they were aided and abetted by noneother than Goldman Sachs.
Is this the modern way of warfare? Goldman Sachs a sort of private armee George Bush could call on to punish those layback Europeans that did'nt joint the Irak party?


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Ghosts of Flight 401 – The Eerie Mystery Of Flight 401
Plane air crash
December 29, 1972. At 7:43 pm an Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tri-Star lands at JFK airport in NYC.
The plane, designated as 310 is one of a dozen Tri-Stars that are the pride of Eastern Airlines. The plane is refueled and at 9:20 pm and is given permission to take off.
The Flight is headed to Miami with a veteran flight crew on board. Donald Repo is the flight engineer and second officer. John Stockstill is the first officer and Robert Loft is the captain. Loft is one of Eastern's top pilots with 32 years of experience and over 29,000 flight hours.
The flight is uneventful. Then as flight 401 approaches Miami International Airport the crew lowers the landing gear and a warning light goes on indicating that the front landing gear did not lower, or was not locked into position.
The crew scrambles to try to get the gear to lower but the indicator light remains on. It seems that as the crew worked to fix the gear, they were losing altitude. They believe they are at 2000 ft, but in reality they are much closer to the ground. As 401 banks to turn back towards MIA the wing hits the ground.
The last words that are heard from Flight 401 is, "Hey, What's going on here." The Miami air traffic controller in the tower hears the transmission and looks to his screen. The information block shows "CST," meaning Coast, an indication that the plane had disappeared from the radar.
Moments later the tower receives an ominous report from another pilot that he has seen a large explosion south of the airport. Eastern Airlines flight 401 has crashed into the Florida Everglades at 11:43 pm, 18.7 miles from the end of their intended runway. 101 people die as a result of the crash.
Following the conclusion of the crash investigation, the wreckage was released to Eastern Airlines. Despite the horrific impact, there were some parts of the flight 401 plane that were salvageable.
The parts were used as replacement parts on other Eastern Tri-Star planes. According to some, the planes got more than just parts from the Flight 401 plane, they also got the ghosts of the 401 flight crew.
There have been reports by Eastern flight attendants and pilots of strange encounters with the ghosts of Captain Loft and Flight Engineer Donald Repo.
Captain Loft reportedly appeared to two flight attendants and the Captain of an Eastern flight as the crew was preparing for take off. Loft vanished before their eyes and the crew was so upset by the incident that the flight was canceled.
Eastern Flight attendant, Fay Meriwether was preparing for her flight, when she saw a man in an Eastern uniform in the galley of the plane.
She called two of her crew mates to confront the unknown man. One of them was the flight engineer, who recognized the man immediately. It was his old friend, the now deceased Donald Repo, who vanished before them.
One Eastern Captain reported that as he was going thru his pre flight routine, he saw a familiar face, someone he had known for many years, it was Captain Robert Loft who gave his friend a message, telling him not to worry as there would never be another crash of a Lockheed Tri-Star because, "We won't let it happen."
Eastern appears to have had enough of the reports of the ghosts of the flight 401 crew and have reportedly warned crew members to not discuss any further ghostly encounters.
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The Agency Series: Book 2
SHE'S LEARNED ALL ABOUT KILLERS: They aren't the kind of women anyone misses. Truck-stop hookers, runaways.no one would even notice they'd disappeared if the killer didn't photograph their lifeless bodies, posed in the back of a semi-trailer. Exactly like the infamous Trucker murders. But this isn't just a copycat. It's a vendetta. NOW HE'LL TEACH HER: Carmen Jacobs interviewed the world's most terrifying serial killers for her bestselling book, The Heart of a Predator. The police might not believe her, but she knows there's a monster out there, paying homage to other murderers. The only person who can predict where he'll strike next is Griffin Archer-a reclusive software millionaire with ample reason not to help her. HOW TO DIE.: Carmen has charmed her way past Griffin's defenses before. He didn't intend to let it happen again. But with a psycho sending her trophies of his kills, he has no choice but to get involved. The clues point to a killer obsessed with Carmen-someone who knows her work, her past, her secrets. Someone who won't be satisfied until he has made all her deepest fears come true.
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Alyssa Rose Ivy is a New York Times bestselling new-adult and young-adult author who loves to weave stories with romance and humor. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children.
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Alexandra Ivy is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Guardians of Eternity series. She has also published traditional regencies and regency historicals under the name Deborah Raleigh.
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Miranda Mokhele is co-presenter on Walala Wasala, an SABC Education programme scheduled for broadcast on SABC1 from Thursday, 10 March at 18:30.
Miranda attended a small art school called Lady Grey Arts Academy in the Eastern Cape. She describes herself as "a tom boy at school who was in love with the arts, so pretty much a loner too." She has always displayed a creative flair and often changed her mind about what she wanted to do when she was little. She first wanted to paint, at art school she changed her mind and decided she wanted to be an actress, then a singer.
When Miranda finished school she studied for a degree in Live Performance at AFDA in Johannesburg. Her break in the television industry was a role in Mthunzini.com. She then landed a support to lead role in Tshisa II where people noticed her talent. Her big break came when she got booked in Rhythm City.
Don't miss Miranda in Walala Wasala on SABC1, Thursdays at 18:30, starting on 10 March. Walala Wasala is produced by Kagiso TV and Communications for SABC Education and the Independent Electoral Commission's civic and democracy education campaign.


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Orji Kalu seeks freedom after Supreme Court judgment
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe
File photo: Orji Kalu
The former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to order his release from the custody of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Kuje, Abuja, after the Supreme Court nullified his conviction.
The Supreme Court on May 8, 2020, nullified the trial of Kalu, and others, who were in December convicted and sentenced for a N7.1bn fraud.
Justice Mohammed Idris, who had been elevated to the Court of Appeal bench, had returned to the Federal High Court in Lagos to complete the case which started in 2007.
The judge had sentenced the ex-governor to 12 years' imprisonment for the fraud he allegedly perpetrated during his tenure as Abia State governor.
But in a unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, on May 8, 2020, the apex court nullified the entire trial on the grounds that the constitution does not permit a judge elevated to a higher court to return to a lower court to conclude a part-heard case.
Justice Ejembi Eko, who delivered the lead judgment also declared as unconstitutional the provision of section 396(7) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, on which the then President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa (retd.), relied on to authorise Justice Idris to return to the Court of Appeal to conclude the trial.
The panel unanimously directed the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to assign the case to another judge of the court for the trial to commence afresh.
However, Kalu had remained in the correctional facility despite the judgment of the Supreme Court.
In an application filed by his counsel, Sylvester Elema (SAN), on May 12, 2020, Kalu sought the order of the court setting aside his conviction by Justice Mohammed Idris on December 5, 2019.
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The application, which listed the former Director of Finance and Account at the Abia State Government House, Jones Udeogu, and Kalu's firm, Slok Nigeria Limited as respondents, also sought the order of the court setting aside Kalu's trial and conviction, and the sentence passed on each of the 39 counts he was charged.
The application has been assigned to Justice Mohammed Li.
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VAL CANIPAROLI
"The movement is uniquely energetic, humorous and frenetic. Caniparoli has a talent for moving large numbers of dancers
around the stage in ways that are eye-catching, inclusive and unique…"
- Dance Europe
"Acclaimed American ballet choreographer and dancer VAL CANIPAROLI has come a long way from 'never having a ballet class in his life' to boasting an award-winning repertoire of over 70 unique choreographies. His secret to success? Stay naïve." - "Forever Young" By Hillary Kang
- Prestige Magazine, Singapore
For Full Text: http://www.prestige-singapore.com.sg/2014/09/forever-young#.VAapAxZZYdu
"Caniparoli excels at making highly technical ballet steps fit organically into a contemporary context and "Swipe" demands développés extended to dizzying height, allegro footwork, inchworm floor crawls and full-out sprints from its cast of four men and three women.
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Fresh and compelling choreography...firmly within the neoclassical mold...pure reaction to the driving beat"
- The Huffington Post
"In a stroke of genius, Val Caniparoli has built a reverberating surprise into The Lottery, his new Ballet at Ballet West.
- Dance Magazine
"Swipe is packed with originality, utilizing every possible extremity.......The music, by London-based composer Gabriel Prokoviev, is a mélange of hip-hop and electro with a hint of a classical base....... This is zany stuff , not without quirky humor, and an excellent climax to the company's debut performance here."
" ...."Swipe," which consisted of sections of pure contemporary ballet, differing combinations of dancers were used to express the changing moods of the music. Maggie Small, Cody Beaton and Fagone gave solo performances and also danced as a trio. Trevor Davis, Ragland, Sabino and Skaggs brought cheers from the audience with a perfectly synchronized, brilliant response to rapid percussion."
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
"The men bound into their jumps, high and confident. Caniparoli gives them solo moments and a show- off male quartet, with speedy unison footwork and a vaudeville swagger.....The women, dressed in skinny jeans and vest tops, swoop in and out. It's a high-energy end to an attractive programme."
-The Independent
"The dance is set to an ingenious recorded score by Pierre Akendengue and Hughes de Courson...it was meant as a homage to Albert Schweitzer, who lived in the Gabonese town of Lambarene and who played Bach organ music. The music deftly and simultaneously blends Bach and West Africa. Mr. Caniparoli echoes that combination with ballet infused with West Africa dance. The result...was gracious and elegant, a decided up ending...."
-The New York Times
"The first thought that popped into my head after last night's performance of Lady of the Camellias was, 'Why have we had to wait so long to see a ballet by this gifted choreographer?"
The Boston Herald
"This is a very special ballet..... it is a work of striking theatrical power... Desire. Passion. Bliss. Sacrifice. Betrayal. Humiliation. Loss. Grief."
- The Globe and Mail
"The dancers are in complete control of Caniparoli's difficult but fascinating choreography."
- The Scotsman
"Val Caniparoli's Already Dusk.....the choreography itself is outstanding, calling on leitmotifs with great structural and emotional cognency."
- Dance Australia
"...Brilliant...Broadway Whiz-Bang appeal....."
- Winnipeg Free Press
Caniparoli has a large range of styles, but the work is particularly poignant and expressive. This is choreography at a very high level, not in terms of overall structure but myriad details......I am anxious to see it again."
- Seattle Post Intelligencer
"One of the virtues of Caniparoli's choreography is that it flatters the dancers...this ballet needs to be seen."
"Best choreographer to visit Cincinnati (in a long time)......Cincinnati Ballet is well-served to have his work."
- Cincinnati Enquirer
"...detailed choreography is endlessly inventive and full of surprises...."
- Calgary Herald
"This is punishingly beautiful choreography, fast and precise and ever-evolving."
- Tulsa World
"Val Caniparoli's "Lambarena" was again a hit with the audience."
The Power of Surprise Onstage
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Review: Two brand-new dances and one new to us at the Milwaukee Ballet
http://thirdcoastdigest.com/2010/03/review-two-brand-new-dances-and-one-new-to-us-at-the- milwaukee-ballet/
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Molly Wagner & Humberto Rivera Blanco in Val Caniparoli's "The Lottery" based on Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery. Kansas City Ballet. Photo: Brett Pruitt & East Market Studios. Costume and scenic design by Sandra Woodall. Lighting design by David Finn
Artists of Smuin Ballet in Val Caniparoli's "Tutto Ecetto Il Lavandino (everything but the kitchen sink)"
Costume design by Sandra Woodall. Lighting design by Michael Oesch. Photo by Keith Sutter
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Pensions auto-enrolment: are you up-to-date?
Could a commissioner for small business solve the late payment problem?
I'm pleased to be able to report progress in the drive to tackle late payment.
The Enterprise Bill, passed earlier in the summer, gave the green light to the appointment of a Commissioner for Small Business. One of the Commissioner's key responsibilities will be to help small businesses tackle the late payment culture. The Commissioner will have the power to name and shame companies that regularly pay late.
Legislation is in place to cascade 30 day terms down the supply chain for all public sector work.
A new Duty to Report comes into force in April 2017. This means large businesses will have to report on payment practices. We're still waiting on the details, but anything that exposes bad practice can only be a good thing.
The Prompt Payment Code is proving its worth, and there have been a number of successful challenges against signatories that have resulted in getting invoices settled quickly and improving contract terms.
The Minister responsible for small businesses has written a joint letter with Philip King (Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management, which administers the Prompt Payment Code) to PPC signatories, confirming Code signatories should pay within 30 days. Though the requirement for compliance will stay at 60 days unless there are exceptional circumstances, the letter clearly states that 30 days should 'increasingly be the norm'.
Let's hope the progress continues, and that an increasing number of firms will start to see late payment as unacceptable business practice. In the meantime, we're here to help – if you're struggling with late payment, just get in touch. You can ring me direct on 01625 878198 or email us here.
(Kindly supplied by PIB member Nolan James Chartered Accountants).
With effect from 1 June 2015, small businesses employing fewer than 30 staff became bound by the requirements of the new pensions auto-enrolment regime, obliging them to automatically enrol all eligible employees into a qualifying pension scheme and to make a minimum contribution to that scheme.
If you would like to find out more details please click here.
Nolan James assist businesses with a range of accounting services, from Individual tax returns & advice to Statutory audits & accounts. The Chartered Accountants regularly update their website with hot business/tax topics - a must read for all businesses!
Test your knowledge of how SMEs are managing their cash - and find out some scary facts.
1. How many SME decision makers have used a personal credit card or taken out a personal loan to help finance the business?
2. How many SMEs rely on their overdrafts?
3. What levels of cash reserves are typical amongst SMEs?
4. How many SMEs are worried about cash flow over the next twelve months?
5. How many SMES chase late invoices – and how quickly?
The answers - complete with scariness rating.
1. Personal credit cards and loans.
A recent Santander survey of SME decision makers found that more than 10% had used a personal credit card or taken out a personal loan to help fund the business in the past twelve months.Chances are many of these people found themselves with no other option due to unexpected cash flow problems.
High interest rates hurt the bottom line; family finances are put on the line even if there's a limited company structure in place.
The Santander survey found that 25% of SMEs had relied on their overdrafts.
Arranged overdraft interest rates and fees will usually be a lot less than personal credit cards or loans. And there are many good reasons for a business to borrow (though an overdraft is unlikely to be the most cost-effective option). But a good percentage of these overdraft borrowings will again be simply to cover cashflow problems – which means money's going down the drain rather than being spent on the business.
A Simply Business survey found more than half of small businesses have a cash reserve of £10,000 or less and 30% have under £500. 20% have no cash reserve at all.
Hard to say without knowing the size of the businesses concerned. But with quoted estimated average fixed costs running at £20,000, it looks as if many firms would be out of business within a week or two of any unexpected emergency halting trading. Could better cash collection help give a longer survival time?
The Santander survey found 43% of businesses saying they were concerned or very concerned about cashflow.
It's no surprise, but it's always worrying so many businesses have serious concerns about cashflow. At least, however, these business owners know enough about their cashflow situation to be concerned (going back to reserves, the Simply Business survey also found that 16% of small businesses didn't know how much cash they had in reserve to draw on in an emergency). By taking action to tackle late payers earlier rather than later, those with concerns have a good chance to minimise the risks and protect their business.
Liberis, the small business funder, found that while 53% of small companies chase late invoices immediately or a week or so after the due date, more than 25% only chase if they have time and more than 20% never chase late payments.
The longer you leave it before you chase, the greater the risk you won't get paid at all. And, of course, the longer it is before cash hits the bank, the greater the chance you'll have to borrow just to keep the business going.
Running a business can be scary; and running out of money is one of the biggest fears. If you could use some help to get the cash in and stop the vampires, give me a call on 01625 878 198 or email Chris Gibbons at info@querymanagement.co.uk.
More details about Query Management including their credit control and bookkeeping services on their website.
Working regularly with confidential customer information, we're very conscious of the importance of data security. The Ashley Madison website hack was a one-off stunt that attracted huge media interest – but every day, ordinary businesses are being hacked and information stolen.
You might think that no-one would be interested in your data, but you couldn't be further from the truth. In fact - according to the BIS 2015 Information Security Breaches Survey - 74% of small businesses suffered a security breach in the year 2014-2015.
The biggest threat is from organised crime. It's not just your data that's a target, but also your customer details. Your bank card details are gold dust, and a simple Excel file with thousands of names and addresses might be worth £100,000. Bookkeeping systems containing customer contact details are tempting prizes.
There's plenty of advice out there about security, but the evidence shows that too many small businesses aren't taking the matter seriously enough.
If you get a call from anyone about anything related to your bank account, tell them nothing. Instead, put the phone down. Make sure the line is dead. Then, ring the bank, explain what the call was about, and ask to be put through to the relevant person.
Fraudsters are getting ever cleverer and more plausible. It's easy to be drawn in to giving away information they can use to access your money. One of our clients recently had a call from someone claiming to be from Visa and advising there had been some unusual activity on the account. Though the caller didn't ask for any confidential information, they said the call would be followed by one from the bank itself – and sure enough, a second call came through within minutes.
Suspicious, she refused to talk to the caller and phoned the bank instead. They confirmed there were no problems with the account and that the calls were fraudulent. No doubt the callers would have progressed to more probing questions as the conversation went on.
If you get an email from your bank telling you to take any action, don't click on any of the links in it. Hacker emails are getting more and more believable, but you can usually still spot them.
Only ever use the bank's own website for anything related to your account – and always go directly to it by typing the URL into your search bar rather than following a link from elsewhere.
If you get any email from an unknown source, be suspicious. Don't open anything if you don't know what it is. Attachments carry viruses and spyware, as do links.
Just one click could open up your computer network and allow criminals to access everything including email contacts, financial data, customer databases, and intellectual property material. Alternatively, your click could let in spyware that monitors your every key stroke, collecting up passwords as it goes.
Despite constant publicity about the need for secure passwords, it seems that even for business computer networks and bookkeeping systems, plenty of people still stick with what's easy to remember – and guess. Apparently password1, password2, logmein, United, and Stockport aren't uncommon.
Remember the advice of the experts: always use passwords that don't contain any proper words and have a combination of upper and lower case letters, plus numbers and symbols. And don't share your password with anyone else, even a trusted office colleague. They just might write it down somewhere.
These tips really are just the start. I'd also recommend you ask your IT support firm for advice on what needs to be in place to make sure your business is protected, and then keep the conversation going. The situation changes all the time, and not every IT firm will be proactive.
Also, very importantly, talk to your team. Make sure everyone in your business knows the risks and is as vigilant as you are.
Hackers are criminals who harm businesses and individuals and could do huge damage to you. Don't give them an easy ride.
Contact Query Management for more details on this article.
The Rural Payment Agency and Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership are inviting applications for investments that support the growth of micro and small businesses in rural areas of Cheshire and Warrington.
Grants are available for new and existing rural businesses seeking capital investment to help them grow and create new jobs.
For more information please visit the following websites OR download the PDF for much more information.
View or download the PDF version here (273KB).
View or download the PDF version here (268KB).
Value: Grants will be available for this call from £35,000 up to €200,000 (approximately £140,000) depending on state aid already received.
Deadlines: Outline application deadline: 27 November 2015.
*PDF - you may need Adobe Reader to view these. It's free to download on the Adobe website.
(Kindly supplied by PIB Member Chris Gibbons - Query Management).
The government is currently analysing feedback on proposals to establish a Small Business Commissioner. Sorting out disputes about late payment could be a key part of such a role.
Though the latest BACS research shows that the overall late payment debt appears to have peaked and started to decline, the figures are still alarming. BACS estimate that SMEs are owed over £26bn in late payments, as against £32 billion in July last year.
80% of all companies which experience late payments say they are being kept waiting a month or more beyond their agreed terms, and, worryingly, 24% admit late payments are forcing them to rely on bank overdrafts.
That means firms are not only having to manage without the cash they have earned, but are also having to cover interest costs. On top of that banks won't provide overdrafts to small firms for large amounts of outstanding payments beyond two months.
A further consequence is that 26% say late payments are forcing them to pay their own suppliers late.
Business minister Anna Soubry is saying she wants the commissioner to bring about a "long-lasting culture change", helping to settle disputes quickly and cheaply. Disputes could include complaints over unfair business practices and supply chain bullying as well as late payment.
Evidence the role could work comes from Victoria in Australia, where a similar commissioner is having a real impact. With more than half of complaints being resolved within a week, the success rate there has been encouraging. Though it's no panacea – 20% of cases are taking three months or more.
With the government reluctant to legislate to force firms to pay their bills on time, a Commissioner could just start to make dent in the power of large companies to hold small businesses to ransom.
I'll report back again once the government's response to the consultation is published.
P.S. Can't afford to wait? Give us a call on 01625 878198 or email us here, and we'll start taming your late paying customers right away.
The earlier you spot a potential problem with a customer's ability to pay, the better your chance of protecting your business. Learn to spot the warning signs early, and you can make better-informed decisions about awarding credit and so reduce your exposure to bad debt.
No single sign is evidence of anything – but each one is a little piece of intelligence that can help you put together a fuller picture of a customer's situation and allow you to take action sooner.
1. You can never get through to the right person, when once you could.
There's a good chance you're being deliberately avoided. When a contact starts to become elusive, it's time to wonder why they don't want to talk to you.
Changes to board membership are perfectly normal. But it's always worth bearing in mind what might have prompted a director to leave – and what effect their departure will have on the company's success or otherwise.
Again, businesses relocate for a wide variety of reasons. But if you notice a new address, take a look. Are the new premises smaller than the old ones? Downsizing might be a sign of increased efficiency or outsourcing, but it could also be a sign of a company struggling.
Can an increase in orders really be cause for concern? Yes, if it's because the customer has exhausted their credit elsewhere.
You might want to celebrate when a customer returns after a gap. But could it be that the supplier they moved to is no longer keen to supply them?
An apparently innocent name change could mask the closing down of one company and the opening of another. Worth investigating.
Bank account changes can be prompted when a company fails to get finance. That doesn't necessarily mean the firm concerned is in trouble. But it just could be a sign of a problem.
If you start to feel suspicious, then do some digging – and find a reason to visit. You might be surprised what a face-to-face on-site meeting can reveal!
If you could use some extra intelligence to help you assess trading risk accurately as well as help to get cash in sooner, just give us a call on 01625 878198 or 01625 878198.
Customer monitoring is a key part of the service we offer to our credit control clients.
(Kindly supplied by PIB Member Peter Evans - Peak Financial).
Do you pay for life assurance via your 'net income' from employment ? A number of life companies now offer the chance to insure yourself via your business. Because the premiums are payable through the business they will attract corporation tax at your marginal rate (usually 20% for small businesses) if you own a limited company, so there is a good chance your monthly premiums could reduce and make a saving.
Who benefits from a relevant life policy?
Self employed individuals who run their own limited company business.
The benefits won't form part of your lifetime pension allowance.
The premiums paid won't form part of your annual pension allowance.
The payments employers make aren't subject to income tax because they're not normally assessable as a benefit in kind.
These payments can be treated as an allowable expense in calculating your tax liability. They therefore attract at least 20% tax relief to the employer.
So for the individual the premiums can effectively be reduced by a whopping 49% for a higher rate tax payer and up to 40% for a basic rate taxpayer !
So it might be worth digging out your life assurance policy details and having them reviewed to see if you can save.
AUTO-ENROLMENT Don't leave it too late – getting left behind could prove to be a costly mistake as the recent article from 'Money Marketing' below suggests.
The government's new Auto Enrolment regime commenced in late 2012 with the largest employers. Each employer has a 'staging date' at which point they must start paying in to the scheme of their choice on behalf of their employees. For example, if you employed 40 or more members of staff on 1st April 2012 your staging date is 1st August 2015. If you had 30 or more members of staff on 1st April 2012 your staging date will be 1st October 2015 and the dates for smaller employers then spreads over the following year or so down to those employing just a couple of staff. Every employer is required to comply with the legislation !
Given that the industry is urging smaller employers to plan at least twelve months in advance of their staging date, it is important that employers will need to be taking decisive action in the next few months.
The message is do not leave it until the last minute, as you may be unable to find a suitable provider and costs of setting the scheme up increase dramatically because options are severely reduced. The Pensions Regulator will issue large fines to those who miss their staging dates.
Providers turn away auto-enrolment business as capacity crunch bites.
Scottish Life is turning away automatic enrolment business from firms that are less than six months from their staging date due to concerns they will be unable to deal with the administrative workload.
Experts have previously warned of an auto-enrolment "capacity crunch", with insurers struggling to meet the demands of employers as the reforms are rolled out to small and medium sized businesses.
"We will consider a shorter lead time than six months only if we have agreement that the Scottish Life 'run system' will be used, that standard member communications will be used, and on the contribution design for the whole work force.
Legal & General will not confirm whether it has a specific cut-off period, although it is understood the provider will not deal with employers that are within three months of their staging date.
An L&G spokesman says: "An employer should ideally be thinking about auto-enrolment at a minimum of six months ahead of their staging dates, preferably longer.
"We are helping all of our customers to meet their auto-enrolment obligations and have encouraged them to engage early in the process.
Other providers recognise the challenge posed by employers that do not begin preparations for auto-enrolment early but did not provide details of when they will consider turning business away.
An Aviva spokesman says: "Our first priority is to support our existing customers through auto-enrolment, and that is where we are applying our efforts.
"However, with any potential new business we will look at each customer's individual needs and assess whether we are able to assist them, and we may make other recommendations, for example, refer them to NEST if that is more appropriate.
Business Development Unit at Macclesfield College offers support and training.
The Business Development Unit at Macc College offers a whole range of training and business support for local business.
Check out the website at: http://www.macclesfield.ac.uk/business-training/default.aspx to see if there is anything of interest.
Some courses can be fully funded.
If you have any interest in marketing your business using new technologies or feel that you should have, there are a load of free seminars, meetings and workshops available through Connecting Cheshire.
Government support for small business and proof it has benefitted a PIB member!
Richard Holland, Poynton Town Council Operations and Events Manager, has provided the following selection of Government information sources, grant details and available finance for smaller businesses. There could be some valuable information for businesses in Poynton and if you haven't checked out the Great Business website before, some of the case studies are excellent.
The government has also announced a new package of support aimed at improving the business environment for people wanting to set up a business from home.
Changing the law, so landlords needn't fear agreeing to home business use undermining their residential tenancy agreement.
Clarifying that most home businesses shouldn't have to pay business rates.
Launch of a new Government Home Business Checklist.
New concise guidance that answers key questions when starting a business from home.