I moved to Boston to learn more about rugby. Turns out, I learned even more about life.
Only a few short weeks ago, I got a message in my inbox that seemed crazy. Terry (Pledger), my coach for two amazing, US-based, roaming teams (Rogue Samurai and Old Breed) had seen that Beantown, a team in Boston, MA, was on the lookout for forwards for the upcoming Women's Premier League season. He thought I might be interested. I immediately said no, for a bunch of reasons; I'd just moved from North Carolina to Essex, England, being the most obvious one, plus I'd never played at such a level before. In fact, I'd never played anything close to it. I'd spent the previous year playing for the Bragg Women's team in Fayetteville, NC, during a building year where the club played exclusively friendlies outside of the matrix…so technically, I'd yet to play in ANY US division, much less something above Division 1. I had played a bit back when I was younger, in Canada, where I'm from, but that was a good nine years and change before picking it back up last year with the Bragg ladies… and it seemed silly to think that now, while pushing 31, I was going to make some crazy comeback, much less at such a level. Plus, I had tried out for a few select sides at the beginning of 2018, and didn't get selected (though I did get some very good feedback that changed how I approached the game, thank you!), so I kind of figured that was that for me and competitive rugby.
The biggest reason I initially said no, though, was that my first thought was "I could never do that, I'm not good enough". I didn't even mention it to anyone for a few days, as there didn't seem to be a point, but when I did end up telling my husband, Gaz, about it, he was incredulous. "Why WOULDN'T you go?", he asked me, and I didn't really have a good answer to that. I knew logically that there was really no loss in going; worse case scenario, I get sent home- at least I can say that I tried, and I wouldn't be wondering 'what if' sometime down the line; or, they let me stay, but don't select me to play in any WPL matches, which still would be a win – I would be practicing alongside a caliber of player I'd never experienced before, potentially playing in some B-Side matches, and have the opportunity to be coached by a truly prolific coach. I looked more into the team online, and read about Beantown's new coach, Mere Baker, a former Black Fern who played in the very first season of the WPL herself, and boasted an impressive coaching record with teams all over the globe. I decided that, crazy as it might seem to go, it would be far crazier for me to not take such an amazing opportunity and miss out on learning from such an experienced icon in the sport. The smart decision would be to shelf my ego, take a chance, and throw 100% into a whirlwind season in Boston…so that's what I did.
Fast forward to now. On the other side of that decision, I can safely say that it was one of the best ones I've ever made; these last weeks with Baker and the Beantown girls have completely blown my mind. I'm so lucky that I was able to make such a decision; luckily I have an incredibly supportive spouse (who was cool with me chasing my dreams on the other side of the world for six weeks!). He truly made it possible, and having amazing friends and family who psyched me up and followed along every step of the way made it seem less insane. It was hard – at times, really hard. There were moments where I felt exhausted, felt like I'd never be able to keep up or catch on, felt certain that I'd never get it. I IMMEDIATELY wished I were fitter, and much more experienced…and my knees wouldn't have minded being about seven years younger. I realized that whatever talent I had, I'd not developed properly – I'd snuck by on being large and strong, never thinking about things like footwork, or moving defenders, or looking for real space. I struggled to wrap my head around a system that wasn't just forwards on one side, backs on the other. I watched in wonder as my new teammates moved in patterns I'd never seen before, caught uncatchable passes, threw missiles across half the pitch, ran un-defendable lines, and generally seemed to know what the hell was going on. I'd never been pushed so hard at practices or in games; I found out what real exhaustion felt like, and what it was like to push past it and keep going. I began to believe I was capable of more than I had given myself credit for. Baker held me accountable for my mistakes, for my thought process, for how prepared I was (or wasn't), for my lacking skillset, for the absence of my game knowledge; she wasn't afraid to show me what needed improvement, and demand that I improve. She told me exactly where my shortcomings were, and my new teammates showed me what fixing those shortcomings could look like. Every player seemed to have a different story, different ages and experiences and skill-sets, and we were from all over the place- and yet I felt immediately welcomed, supported, and accepted. If my teammates were disappointed with their newest addition, they didn't let on – instead, they went above and beyond to help me understand drills, show me how to improve my technique, and always made sure to tell me if I'd done something correctly. They helped me get to practice, helped me workout in the gym, helped me study opponent games and showed me what to look for. Nobody laughed when I asked insanely basic questions; they seemed to genuinely want to help me understand. In all of my rugby experience, I had never felt so fully invested in. I didn't want to let this crew down. I began studying tape in my spare time, asking as many questions as I could, biking to the gym in the mornings and running on nights off; I was going to give back to this team if it was the last thing I did.
The first few minutes of sub play I got on the WPL pitch was against Atlanta. My team was tired; it was a hard, hot game, and I wanted to make a difference. The very first thing I did was trip over my own laces and fall down in open field. The second was to take a penalty, in our own 20, because I didn't understand a rule well enough. I'd gotten a shot, and I'd let my team down. I replayed those 25 minutes over and over in my head on the flight home; I'd come all this way, and as much as I worried that maybe this meant I'd been right in the beginning to think I couldn't carry this off, I didn't want to let myself off the hook that easily. Not after everything my coach and my teammates had put into me. Maybe I wasn't good enough, but that didn't matter anymore – I'd just have to find a way to be better. I kept at it, and kept my chin up, and things started to come together. I watched as much tape as I possibly could, and it started to make some sort of sense. I subbed in a few more matches, and I didn't fall down all by myself again, (though I still took some stupid penalties!). I felt less lost at practice and in games, and a few weeks later, when I stepped up to start against DC, I felt things starting to click. I wasn't always in the right place, but I could feel when I was in the wrong one now. I was helping more than I was hurting, and it felt great. A few weeks and a few matches later, we were back in Atlanta for Nationals, and I found myself lucky enough to be wearing jersey number 1 – lucky enough to lead my team onto the pitch through the smoke and the USA Rugby tunnel onto the pitch. Standing next to them, hearing their anthem, I struggled to hold back a tear or two. I was so, so glad to be stood on that pitch, wearing those stripes, and so honored to be next to every one of them.
I can't really put into words what this experience has given me. I've learned so much about rugby, of course, but I feel like a lot of what I'm taking away from this can be applied to all areas of my life. I'm tougher than I thought, more resilient than I gave myself credit for – and the next time something crazy floats my way, I'm definitely, absolutely, going get out of my own way and give it 100%. Here's what else these weeks have taught me; I hope that they help inspire someone else to get out of their own way, to say yes to something that at first seems too crazy. After all, life just gives us the door – we've got to choose to walk through it.
If someone with knowledge and expertise believes in you, let them. If they see something in you, if they tell you that you can do it: listen to them, really listen. Don't talk them, or yourself, out of it. Don't come up with a list of reasons why they're wrong, or an explanation of why it's not significant, and call that humility. It's not. So often, especially as women, we respond to compliments, or other's confidence in us, with reasons why whatever was said isn't true. We tell whoever complimented us that they are better or more; we say things are no big deal when they are, in fact, big deals. We tell ourselves it would never work, we'd never pull it off, we're too this or too that or too everything, but THANKS ANYWAYS, right? We think we are being humble, or maybe we just don't see what they see in us. Stop doing this. I'm not saying you should have blind faith in just anyone's opinion, but if someone is knowledgeable about something, and sees potential in you, do not minimize it.
If you are given an amazing opportunity, take it. Yeah, sure, you never know when you'll get the opportunity again – and that is a real, actual thing to consider – but more than that, you never know where it will lead. Saying yes to one scary, but exciting thing can lead to even bigger, even scarier, but even more amazing things, things you'd never have dreamt of in a million years. If you're given the option, always put yourself in the path of greatness, even if it's scary, even if it's crazy, even if it seems impossible, even if you don't think you deserve it. You never know what will happen if you let yourself be in the right place at the right time.
Don't self-sabotage. Sport, like most things in life, is very much a mental game. Feedback doesn't always come in the forms we'd like it to; we can't control how criticism comes our way, or when. Don't take it personally. Always ask yourself if what is being said to you is true; if so, regardless of how it was delivered, take it on board. Always remember that all feedback, if coming constructively from a knowledgeable source, is a gift. What you do with that gift is up to you, but if you refuse to open it because you don't like the wrapping, you'll never know what's inside. I think this tends to happen when something strikes a nerve within us, and we find it hard to see past the sting. As someone who has struggled the majority of their life with body issues and disordered eating, I've always found it incredibly difficult to not shut down when sport-based feedback about my fitness, or my body, was given, but that never made the feedback not true, or not necessary. I'd immediately want to panic, worried that I'd been called fat, feel ashamed, and stop listening. Shutting down instead of leaving my ego at home and paying attention was my problem, and my loss. I've learned over the years that if I'm told that I need to change my body in some way, become stronger, or faster, in order to achieve my goals, that's not an attack on me as a person. I have value, regardless of what shape or form my body is in; I have the choice to either change my body to meet my goals, or adjust my goals accordingly. Whatever your weak spot is, whatever you're insecure about: don't let it get in the way of listening to, and taking on board, feedback that you need to hear.
Be a team player, and I mean this in every sense of the term. Of course, as athletes in team sport, we know it's important to get along with the people that we play with. Forging bonds with the women that we step on to the pitch with creates cohesion, and increases the chances of our gameplay going off cleanly; if we know how our teammates play, how they move, how they think, and them us, we get used to each other's styles and habits, and can put ourselves in the right places at the right times to support each other. But being a team player goes beyond that, really. I think being a team player means being there for the people around you off the pitch, as well. If you see an opportunity to help someone, do it. Whether that means passing on hints or tips to improve their play, helping someone get to practice or games, offering a place to crash, or putting someone in contact with a team or coach or club that would help them achieve their goals. Whatever the specifics may be, always, always do it. The women's rugby community is growing, yes, but it's still quite small; the sport needs us to give more than we take. We are all in this together, and we all need each other. At every level, we need numbers to play with, and numbers to play against, and subs for those numbers, and coaches, and admin staff, and b-sides, and youth teams. There's no room for jealousy or selfishness here. Share, help, promote, support. As someone who has recently been on the receiving end of SO many people in this incredible, amazing community going the extra mile to make this experience happen for me, I can't tell you enough how empowering it feels, and how much it inspires me to pay it forward in any way I can.
Stefania Evans is the founder of Ruggette, a clothing line for female rugby players. She also helped Beantown RFC finish in 9th in the 2018 Women's Premier League standings. Follow Stefania on instagram @StefaniaSaintLondon or on Facebook @Ruggette. You can learn more about Beantown Rugby Football Club on Twitter and Instagram @BeantownRFC or find them on Facebook at Beantown Rugby.


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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Sounds Good
There are various stages of the administrative process designated and defined as "Federal Disability Retirement" — the initial application stage of the process, where one must attempt to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that one is eligible for Federal Disability Retirement benefits; if disapproved and denied, then the Reconsideration Stage of the process (where one may submit additional medical and other documentary evidence to persuade the Office of Personnel Management to reverse themselves); an appeal to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, where the Federal or Postal applicant's Disability Retirement application is taken out of the hands of OPM and transferred to an Administrative Judge, who will hear the case anew, without regard to what OPM has decided in the past; a further appeal to the Full Board of the MSPB in the event that the Administrative Judge issues an Initial Decision which affirms and upholds OPM's denial of the case; and a further appeal to the Federal Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Throughout this process, and especially in the administrative stages before the Office of Personnel Management, one should make a distinction between "sounding good" and "being right". Hopefully, the Federal or Postal employee who has filed for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, is both right and sounding good. But there is a distinction to be made. For example, OPM will often — in their denial letter — "sound good" but be completely wrong on the law. They will cite medical textbooks which skew the legal standard of review; creep into the discussion of a denial letter such terms as "no significant disability rating to speak of," or that you don't suffer from a disability which "incapacitates" you. It all "sounds good", but it is not true precisely because it is not the applicable standard of law to be applied.
At the initial stages of the process, OPM can get away with such nonsense, because most people don't recognize the untrue and inapplicable standard of law being applied. In the later stages of the process, however, when an Administrative Judge hears a case, it becomes important not only to "sound good", but to also apply the right legal criteria.
Appearance versus reality — it is the argument of Western Civilization from the pre-Socratics onward. As Alfred North Whitehead once observed, all of philosophy was already written by Plato and footnoted by Aristotle. That statement both sounds good, and is indeed right on point.
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DRAGONAIR CONTRACTS WITH MENZIES WORLD CARGO FOR U.K. OPERATIONS
American Shipper StaffThursday, February 6, 2003Last Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Dragonair, a Hong Kong-based cargo and passenger air carrier, has contracted with Menzies World Cargo, a freight forwarder, for Menzies to handle Dragonair's cargo handling and coastwise trucking services in the U.K.
Under terms of the three-year pact, Menzies' U.K. facilities will act as cargo reception points, and Menzies's trucking service will carry freight to and from Dragonair's flights.
Bob Wetherill, regional manager, cargo, for Dragonair, said the agreement "provides further stability" for the air carrier "following the purchase of our own freight aircraft and the decision to bring cargo sales in-house in the U.K. and the Netherlands.'


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Exam I
Our Lady of Holy Cross College
Accounting 407
Alexandra K.
What was the significance of the controversy in 1977 over the appropriate accounting principles to be used by oil- and gas-producing companies?
The SEC overruled the FASB on its handling of this matter.
Which of the following statements is true?
-The Securities Act of 1933 regulates the initial offering of securities by a company.
-The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is commonly referred to as blue sky legislation.
-The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regulates intrastate stock offerings made by a company.
-The Securities Act of 1933 regulates the subsequent public trading of securities through brokers and markets.
The Securities Act of 1933 regulates the initial offering of securities by a company.
What is the purpose of Regulation S–K?Term
Establishes required disclosure of nonfinancial information with the SEC.
What is the difference between Regulation S–K and Regulation S–X?
Regulation S–K establishes regulations for nonfinancial information filed with the SEC whereas Regulation S–X prescribes the form and content of financial statements included in SEC filings.
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Regulates the public trading of previously issued securities through brokers and exchanges.
Which of the following is a requirement of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?Term
A monetary fee assessed on organizations issuing securities.
Which of the following is not correct with regard to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board?Term
The board members must be appointed by Congress.
Which of the following is not a way by which the Sarbanes-Oxley Act attempts to ensure auditor independence from an audit client?Term
Audit fees must be approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
What is a registration statement?Term
A statement that must be filed with the SEC before a company can begin an initial offering of securities to the public.
Which of the following is a registration statement used by large companies that already have a significant following in the stock market?
Form S–3.
Which of the following must be provided to every potential buyer of a new security?Term
A prospectus.
What does the term incorporation by reference mean?Term
Filing information with the SEC by indicating that the information is already available in another document.
What is a letter of comments?
A letter the SEC sends to a company indicating needed changes or clarifications in a registration statement.
What is a prospectus?
The first part of a registration statement that a company must furnish to all potential buyers of a new security.
Which of the following is not exempt from registration with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933? Term
An offering to 40 sophisticated investors.
Which of the following is usually not filed with the SEC on a regular periodic basis? Term
What is a shelf registration?Term
A registration process for large companies that allows them to offer securities over a period of time without seeking additional approval by the SEC.
What is EDGAR?
A system designed by the SEC to allow electronic filings.
Which of the following historical reasons for accounting diversity could explain why accounting standards would be more detailed in some countries than in others?
Different legal systems across countries.
Which of the following is not a potential problem caused by differences in financial reporting practices across countries?
Firms face double taxation on income earned by foreign operations.
Which of the following is not a reason for establishing international accounting standards?
Demand in the United States is heavy for an alternative to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
According to the IASB, IFRS comprise interpretations issued by the SIC and IFRIC, and
International financial reporting standards issued by the IASB and international accounting standards issued by the IASC.
Which of the following countries uses IFRS?
According to the IFRS Foundation, approximately how many countries either require or permit the use of IFRS by publicly traded companies?
115 countries.
For which of the following types of companies is IFRS for SMEs intended?
Private companies.
For which of the following does IFRS for SMEs not provide a simplification of full IFRS?
Inventory.
A company must prepare IFRS financial statements for the first time on December 31, 2020. According to IFRS 1, what is the date of transition to IFRS for this company?
January 1, 2019.
Which of the following does not accurately describe a requirement that a company must fulfill when adopting IFRS for the first time?
The company must prepare an opening IFRS balance sheet at the beginning of the year for which the company is preparing its first set of IFRS financial statements.
Which of the following statements is correct with respect to the IFRS accounting policy hierarchy in situations where a specifically relevant IASB standard dealing with an accounting issue does not exist?
The IASB Conceptual Framework takes precedence over standards developed by standard-setting bodies in other countries that deal with the specific accounting issue.
What is the so-called Norwalk Agreement?
An agreement between the FASB and the IASB to make their existing standards compatible as soon as practicable and to work together to ensure compatibility in the future.
Which of the following statements is true for a foreign company registered with the U.S. SEC to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange?
The company may file an annual report with the SEC that is prepared in accordance with IFRS but need not also provide a reconciliation of IFRS to U.S. GAAP.
Which of the following best describes the extent to which the SEC requires or permits the use of IFRS by U.S. public companies?
U.S. public companies are neither required nor allowed to use IFRS.
Which companies are required to provide a U.S. GAAP reconciliation in their annual report filed with the SEC?
Foreign companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange that use financial reporting standards other than U.S. GAAP or IFRS in preparing financial statements.
Under IFRS, when an entity chooses the revaluation model as its accounting policy for measuring property, plant, and equipment, which of the following statements is correct?
When an asset is revalued, the entire class of property, plant, and equipment (such as Land) to which that asset belongs must be revalued.
In which of the following areas does the IASB not allow firms to choose between two acceptable treatments?
Recognizing development costs that meet criteria for capitalization as an asset.
If a partnership is liquidated, how is the final allocation of business assets made to the partners?
According to the final capital account balances.
Which of the following statements is true concerning the accounting for a partnership going through liquidation?
Gains and losses are reported directly as increases and decreases in the appropriate capital account.
During a liquidation, if a partner's capital account balance drops below zero, what should happen?
The partner with a deficit contributes enough assets to offset the deficit balance.
A local partnership is liquidating and is currently reporting the following capital balances:
Barley, capital (50% share of all profits and losses)	$	44,000
Carter, capital (30%)	32,000
Desai, capital (20%)	(24,000	)
Desai has indicated that a forthcoming contribution will cover the $24,000 deficit. However, the two remaining partners have asked to receive the $52,000 in cash that is currently available. How much of this money should each of the partners receive?
Barley, $29,000; Carter, $23,000.
A partnership is considering possible liquidation because one of the partners (Bell) is personally insolvent. Profits and losses are divided on a 4:3:2:1 basis, respectively. Capital balances at the current time are
Bell, capital	$	50,000
Hardy, capital	56,000
Dennard, capital	14,000
Suddath, capital	80,000
Bell's creditors have filed a $21,000 claim against the partnership's assets. The partnership currently holds assets of $300,000 and liabilities of $100,000. If the assets can be sold for $190,000, what is the minimum amount that Bell's creditors would receive?
What is a predistribution plan?
A guide for the cash distributions to partners during a liquidation.
A partnership has the following balance sheet prior to liquidation (partners' profit and loss ratios are in parentheses):
Cash	$	33,000	Liabilities	$	50,000
Other assets	100,000	Playa, capital (40%)	24,000
Bahia, capital (30%)	29,000
Arco, capital (30%)	30,000
Total	$	133,000	Total	$	133,000
During liquidation, other assets are sold for $80,000, liabilities are paid in full, and $15,000 in liquidation expenses are paid. What amount of cash does each partner receive as a result of this liquidation?
Playa, $10,000; Bahia, $18,500; Arco, $19,500.
A partnership has the following capital balances: X (50 percent of profits and losses) = $150,000; Y (30 percent of profits and losses) = $120,000; Z (20 percent of profits and losses) = $80,000. If the partnership is to be liquidated and $30,000 becomes immediately available, who gets that money?
$0 to X, $18,000 to Y, $12,000 to Z.
A partnership is currently holding $400,000 in assets and $234,000 in liabilities. The partnership is to be liquidated, and $20,000 is the best estimation of the expenses that will be incurred during this process. The four partners share profits and losses as shown. Capital balances at the start of the liquidation follow:
Kevin, capital (40%)	$	59,000
Michael, capital (30%)	39,000
Brendan, capital (10%)	34,000
Jonathan, capital (20%)	34,000
The partners realize that Brendan will be the first partner to start receiving cash. How much cash will Brendan receive before any of the other partners collect any cash?
Carney, Pierce, Menton, and Hoehn are partners who share profits and losses on a 4:3:2:1 basis, respectively. They are beginning to liquidate the business. At the start of this process, capital balances are
Carney, capital	$	60,000
Pierce, capital	27,000
Menton, capital	43,000
Hoehn, capital	20,000
The first available $3,000 will go to Menton.
A partnership has gone through liquidation and now reports the following account balances:
Cash	$	16,000
Loan from Jones	3,000
Wayman, capital	(2,000	)	(deficit)
Jones, capital	(5,000	)	(deficit)
Fuller, capital	13,000
Rogers, capital	7,000
Profits and losses are allocated on the following basis: Wayman, 30 percent; Jones, 20 percent; Fuller, 30 percent; and Rogers, 20 percent. Which of the following events should occur now?
Fuller should receive $10,600 and Rogers $5,400.
A partnership has the following account balances: Cash, $70,000; Other Assets, $540,000; Liabilities, $260,000; Nixon (50 percent of profits and losses), $170,000; Cleveland (30 percent), $110,000; Pierce (20 percent), $70,000. The company liquidates, and $8,000 becomes available to the partners. Who gets the $8,000? Determine how much of this amount should be distributed to each partner
Nixon Cleveland Pierce
$0 $6,800 $1,200
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No hand gesture is universal. Each culture has its own gestures and meanings and I think that is fascinating. The idea for this project came about while listening to my friends discuss the subtleties of translating sign language and how one sign can more accurately convey the speaker's meaning than another. So much is often lost in translation, but so much can be conveyed (and misunderstood) through only gesture. This is the paradox I explore in this series. There are more in progress!
The work up at Cafe Colonial.
What Chu Want?, 22″ x 30″ mixed media on heavy paper.


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Q: how to implement vh and vw font-size unit for responsive font for older android browsers? It seems that older browsers of android doesn't support vh and vw font-size unit in css. Is there any way to use vw and vh or any other way to make fonts responsive in older browsers of android? I have lots of text with different font sizes and I don't want to use media query.

A: You can do this using jquery.There are 3 steps to make fonts responsive.

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*Adjust you fonts for a fixed with.For example 800px.

*Use a class name in any dom element where you want to make the font
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*Use the jquery code bellow to make the fonts responsive.

html code..

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jquery code..
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        fonts = fonts.replace("px","");
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        fontSize = fonts*windowWidth/800;
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change the code according to your class name "rf" and the with that you have used to adjust your font size "800".

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Bright shades with a subtle, printed texture in fine, lightweight, 100% European cotton. Classic fit, short sleeves, spread collar, shirttail hem, contrast print inside collar and cuffs. Dry clean or machine wash.


Pondering on what holistic living, holistic health, and other such terms really mean. So, what is holistic life? The term holistic refers to Holistic Living implies that one is living in harmony with nature, using natural products to nourish mind, body, and spirit. In choosing this path, individuals generally begin to look beyond themselves and become more understanding and tolerant of the people that surround them; reaching out to humanity in a quest to maintain peace and harmony spiritual well-being.
whole (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_health). In alternative medicines, the belief is that any dis-ease should be approached as a whole system, including, body, mind and spirit in order to find the source of ailment.
I realize that people use the word holistic quite loosely in conversation at times, without a clear definition of what they are refering to. Many individuals have interpretations of holistic living, which lead to some controversy as to what it means to be holistic. Does it mean you have to vegetarian to live holistically? Many are curious about this. Does it mean that you have to eat Kosher? This can be a very difficult concept to explain without causing a stir, because sos many people believe that they have it right.
inhumane way in which animals are slaughtered for marketing could be considered a good example of those reasons. Scientifically, when animals get pumped with adrenaline and go into a frightened mode during slaughtering, the endocrine system releases chemicals into their bodies. Does the meat becomes contaminated? Who knows? Nevertheless, many people who thrive to live in harmony with nature at some point refuse to eat animals slaughtered for consumption.


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Scottish Tory denies accusation of "dark money" donations
The Conservative Borders MP John Lamont has insisted that "donations were all permissible […] and properly declared".
In an attempt to dispel reports of "dark money" being used to fund the Scottish Conservatives 2017 General Election campaign, Lamont said the Prime Minister had assured him all donations by the 'Scottish Unionist Association Trust', were above board.
At the time the Trust had no established offices, public accounts or information on who was in charge of running the group.
Despite this they donated nearly £29,000 to Tory candidates across Scotland, and £12,000 to John Lamont in particular.
Under Electoral Commission rules, unincorporated associations that have donated more than £25,000 a year must register with the commission, and declare gifts of more than £7,500.
Despite this, the SUAT is not listed in the commission's register, leading the commission to conduct an examination.
In a statement the trust said it was formed in 1968 to take over the assets of the then Scottish Unionist Association.
It continued: "It invests those assets and makes the proceeds available to further the aims of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
"All UK taxation liabilities have been and continue to be met in full."
This isn't the first time the Scottish Tories have become mired in a "dark money" scandal, with questions still unanswered about former Tory candidate, Richard Cook's £425,000 donation to the DUP during the Brexit referendum.
Due to differences in Northern Irish electoral law, the DUP previously did not have to reveal who its donors were, or where the money came from in the first place.
Scottish Labour has called upon Tory party leader, Ruth Davidson, to reveal who the donors behind the trust are and what "they expect in return for their six-figure sum".
The Red Robin posted about Scottish Tory denies accusation of "dark money" donations on The Red Robin 's Facebook page 2018-07-12 14:58:29 +0100
The "dark money" trust is currently being examined by the electoral commission, after it was revealed that basic details were not in the public domain.
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Yoghurt, chocolate and rhubarb create an interesting sweet/sour combination in this light mousse. Perfect to serve to guests for dessert at your next dinner party.
Yoghurt is combined with cream to make this mousse both lighter and more flavourful. If you want a more tart flavour, use Greek yoghurt instead of the vanilla-bean. Stewed rhubarb is one of my favourite desserts in Winter. I love it with a warm custard or vanilla ice cream, and it goes very well with rich chocolate flavours like with this mousse.
This dessert always looks great served in martini glasses for a touch of luxury. Otherwise, go for cute tea cups on matching saucers if that's more your style.
For more mousse ideas, check out my chocolate avocado mousse, silky chocolate mousse with marshmallows or dulce le leche lime mousse with mango.
Combine the yoghurt and cream in a medium bowl and whisk until the mixture forms soft peaks.
Reserve ½ cup of this mixture and chill in the fridge.
Fold ganache into the remaining yoghurt cream mixture and blend until smooth.
Divide chocolate mousse between serving glasses and chill in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, simmer the sliced rhubarb, sugar and water until soft and pulpy (about 5 minutes).
Add the raspberries (or colouring) and cook for 2-3 minutes to tint the rhubarb pink.
Allow rhubarb to cool completely, then spoon onto the mousse. Top with yoghurt cream and a swirl of rhubarb.
Once cool, refrigerate until chilled to spoonable consistency.


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8th Dec, 17
Purko
By Purko
Mount Anne
Left Hobart at 06:20 to make the 2.5hour trip to the start of the Mount Anne circuit, a 25km round circuit in the South West National Park including the highest peak in the region (1423m).
We deposited our bikes 7km down the road at the end of the route, and drove back up to the started. After only about 15mins it started to rain, and then hail and sleet! Not a good omen for the beginning of a 6-8 hour day! Just when it got bad, we arrived at the climbers hut and waited until it passed.
15mins later we pushed on to the summit plateau, where visability was a delightful 20m. However, like the earlier squalls, the cloud lifted after about 45mins up there and stayed clear for the rest of the day!
We didn't manage to summit Mt Anne as it involved a particularly slippy traverse across a slanted ledge with a 3-4m drop off it.
At 1pm we had a snack on the descent back to the col. It dawned on us that this might be more than 6-8 hours as originally thought! After another 2hours we had traversed along the ridge and the infamous "notch" which wasn't actually that bad, but might have been a different story if it was wet and slippy.
Now 3pm and not even half way around the route, we knew that we should pick up the pace a little, but this is very difficult when it's so incredibly rough! The descent off Lightning Ridge was very steep through thick bush filled with pencil pines, after which we arrived in the incredibly scenic Lonely Tarns. This would have been a nice time and place to camp if we had brought our tent...
Nevertheless we push on up and over the shoulder of Mount Sarah Jane, having at snack at 5pm and hoping that the downward walk out after the col (blip taken here) would be fairly easy.
Sadly it wasn't, and tempers got quite frayed here, with Charlotte lashing out at a tree after it ripped her OMM bag. After the heavy rain of the last week, the track was a boggy river, and thus crossing the 800m marsh was fun! We then lost the tack a couple of times which tested our patience a lot.
Now getting late, at 7pm, we hoped we were having our last snack before being back at the car, all was left was 4-5km more bushbashing and a 7km cycle ride!
To our delight, there was about 3km of boardwalk that sped things up nicely, and finished just as the sun set.
Incredible views, exciting scrambling, and man eating bogs sum up this very challenging day! Definitely the longest day for both of us, exactly 12 hours on the go from leaving the car and returning at 9pm.
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Debunking The Holocaust Denial Documentary Judea Declares War on Germany (Part 1)
Introduction To Gerald Fredrick Töben, Bloody Sunday, and the Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority
Posted on January 23, 2018 in Blog, Holocaust denial // 5 Comments
Introduction To Töben
No event of any significance in the world – be it terrorist attack, death of a celebratory, or flu pandemic – takes place without generating a flutter of conspiracy speculations.
We all know at least one person who believes the 9/11 attacks was orchestrated by the American government, that the moon landings were faked, or that vaccines cause autism and pharmaceutical companies are trying to hide it. As unpleasant and potentially dangerous a belief in one or more of these conspiracies can be they do, for the most part, come from a natural human desire to find an explanation for what appears to be unexplainable. However, there are times when an event is so well documented, articles are so well persevered, and understanding of what happened does not require specialised skills or knowledge, that a belief in a conspiracy theory comes from a very different place.
Some believe in certain conspiracies, despite what the evidence says, because they find comfort and security in them as they would prefer to live in a world where everything is orchestrated by shadowy figures because at least then there is some form of control. Others like the sense of power it gives them as they are the holder of privileged knowledge – a feeling they might not be getting in their real life. However, there are certain conspiracy theories that come from a much darker place. Where people bend reality to back up and justify their dislike or even hatred towards a certain group of people – and there is no better example of this than those who distort or flat-out deny the facts of the holocaust.
And on that note I would like to introduce you to Gerald Fredrick Töben.
Töben is a German-born Australian citizen who was the director and founder of the Adelaide Institute, which is considered to be a Holocaust denial group. However, Töben and his associates say they are not "holocaust deniers" claiming that they cannot deny that which never happened, and prefer the term "revisionists". The activity of the institute has been on the decline since the mid-90s, however, they still maintain a website. Töben is also quite active, despite no longer being the head of the institute, after he was incarcerated after failing to remove material from the institute's website that vilified Jewish people.
In 2006 Gerald attended the "International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust" in Iran. The conference was organised by Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and apparently was "neither to deny nor prove the holocaust…[but] to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their opinion in freedom about a historical issue".
Want to see what passes for a scholar at the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust? Luckily for us, Töben published a film back in 2004 which he shot in 1997 where he outlines what he believes really happened during the war.
Please note that this video may not be available in your country.
The video is called (Banned in Europe!) Exposing the Holocaust hoax zionist WW2 Lies….at least that's what the name of the video I found was called. The actuall name for the…..documentary (it doesn't feel right calling it a documentary) is Judea Declares War on Germany. The documentary is just over one hour long and mostly consists of video clips from Töben's visit to Auschwitz and Dachau, as an unknown Australian narrates over the top. The documentary takes its name from the title of an article published in the British newspaper. The Daily Express, which was on the subject of the Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933 where German products were boycotted in protest of the treatment of the Jews of Germany by Hitler's Nazi party. But that's not the story you hear in the documentary….according to the video, the reason they named it this is because zionists wanted to destroy Germany, and this predates any systematic hostility towards jews.
This is not the first, nor is it the last time, that Töben gets the timing of events wrong. The documentary is littered with temporal mistakes which are quite clearly deliberately done to mislead the viewer. One of the first examples of such a mistake is when Töben tries to justify Germany's invasion of Poland.
Bloody Sunday and the Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority
Like with the real title of the documentary, "Judea Declares War on Germany", Töben is trying to boil down a rather complicated historical event to a simple sound bite. This time, that Hitler had no choice and he had to invade to protect his people from the polish authorities who were organising and/or tolerating violent ethnic cleansing of Germans living in there. The event which Töben believes was the catalyst for the invasion happened on 3rd-4th September, 1939, in the city of Bydgoszcz. There, a large number of the city's ethnic Germans were killed by the Polish in, what is now known as, Bloody Sunday.
The term "Bloody Sunday" was created and supported by Nazi propaganda officials who wanted to exploit the event to try and gain support for the German invasion of Poland. Goebbels' propaganda ministry estimated that just under 5.8k Germans has been killed during Bloody Sunday, but later on increased their estimate to 58k…a number which was published in "Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland", which convinced more Germans for the invasion and generated more hatred towards the Poles. Töben, seemingly unaware, uses this same Nazi propaganda to try and justify the invasion and even goes so far as to promote the book, "Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland".
For Töben's story to work, you have to ignore the fact that Hitler's Germany had already begun to expand into different countries prior to the invasion of Poland. In 1938, they annexed Austria followed by occupying Czechoslovakia, all without igniting hostilities with the major powers. Hitler was hoping to do the same with Poland, but was worried that the USSR would come to Poland's aid and therefore, on August 23, 1939, signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. Hitler then gave orders for the invasion of Poland to take place on August 26th, but the day before, delayed the attack after he learned that Britain had signed a new treaty with Poland, promising military support should it be attacked. In response, the Nazis staged false attacks on themselves to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, using innocent people or concentration camp prisoners. This false flag nazi project was even given a name – it was called Operation Himmler after the originator, Heinrich Himmler. It was hoped that this would be seen as provocation for invasion and would prevent or obstruct any British intervention.
Regarding Bloody Sunday, there is still some debate on what actually happened, but the general idea is that Polish soldiers were attacked by the German minority, who then retaliated – killing many. There is still some discussion about the actual number of ethnic germans who died, putting the number between 300-400 – well below the 58k number published in "Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland".
But why would the German minority attack polish soldiers?
Months prior to the 1939 invasion of Poland, thousands of polish Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), both inside and outside Poland, were being secretly prepared for guerrilla and sabotage operations by the Breslau office of the Abwehr, the purpose of which was to provoke anti-Volksdeutsch reprisals that also could be claimed as provocations by Berlin.
But all of this is irrelevant because Bloody Sunday happened between 3rd-4th September, and the invasion of Poland began on the 1st September. Unless Hitler was some kind of time traveler or clairvoyant and saw the future, Töben's story falls apart.
It is quite clear, even at this early stage in the documentary (we have only covered a fraction of the things mentioned in the first fifteen minutes), that Töben is trying to rewrite history and, not only cast a shadow on the events of the holocaust, but also expunge Nazi Germany from any wrongdoing. For example, he talks about Bloody Sunday, but never mentions what happened after, when a number of polish civilians were indiscriminately executed by the German military in retaliation.
The following is from the interrogation of an Erich M, a former member of EK 1/IV, regarding "reprisals" in Bydgoszcz.
According to German historian Christian Raitz von Frentz, 876 Poles were tried by German tribunal for involvement in the events of Bloody Sunday before the end of 1939. This is where the following famous photograph of 6 polish men, moments before death by firing squad, comes from. Made famous because of the range of emotions on the condemned faces.
None of this makes it into Töben's documentary because Töben does not care about historical accuracy. Töben cares about pushing his warped fairy tale where Nazi Germany did nothing wrong and, as we will cover in later blog posts, that no Jews were gassed in the holocaust.
(Banned in Europe!) Exposing the Holocaust hoax zionist WW2 Lies
Adelaide Institute
Gerald Fredrick Töben
holocaust deniers
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust
Judea Declares War on Germany
Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority
revisionists
2 Comments on Debunking The Holocaust Denial Documentary Judea Declares War on Germany (Part 1)
Rob // January 24, 2018 at 8:42 pm // Reply
Keep up the good work Myles!
Graham // January 28, 2018 at 11:33 am // Reply
Good job. It's sad that we have to keep dealing with this vile nonsense over and over again. A former host of Canada's Reality Check podcast commented that Middle Eastern regimes used to bankroll Holocaust deniers, as they served a useful function in the propaganda campaign against Israel.
Debunking The Holocaust Denial Documentary Judea Declares War on Germany (Part 2) – Myles Power
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Ronald Ryan
Ryan escaped from the school in September 1939 and worked with his half brother in and around Balranald, New South Wales. Spare money that he earned was sent to his mother looking after his sick alcoholic father. At the age of twenty, Ryan had saved enough money to rent a house in Balranald and eventually settled there with his mother and three sisters, worked as a labourer and kept out of the hands of the law. Ryan's father stayed in Melbourne and died a year later aged 62, after a long battle with miners' disease, phthisis tuberculosis.
At the age of 23, Ryan returned to Melbourne where he was employed as a storeman. On the 4th of February that year at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Richmond, he married Dorothy Janet George, a secretary, educated at a private school, who had rebelled against her wealthy parents. Ryan had a long list of criminal chargers and these first started in 1953 when he was acquitted on a charge of arson.
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In 1956, Ryan used a number of forged cheques to pay for his gambling debts, and was only placed on a good-behaviour bond.
Although, by 1959, Ryan was virtually a professional criminal, leading a gang that broke into many shops and factories. After been in custody by the police in April 1960, he and three accomplices escaped from the police, but were recaptured after several days later. On June 17, Ryan pleaded guilty to eight charges of breaking and stealing, and one of escaping from legal custody. Ryan was sentenced to eight and a half years imprisonment. Appearing to want to rehabilitate himself, Ryan was released on parole in August 1963, but soon returned to crime.
He started robbing butcher shops and used explosives to blow their safes. Ryan and two accomplices were caught after a butcher shop robbery on January the 4th 1964. Ryan was charged with breaking and entering and theft offences. Bailed on the 3rd of February 1964, Ryan skipped town and fled to New South Wales where he later admitted to nine robberies, in New South Wales, between 4 April and 11 July 1964. On a visit home on the 14th of July, the Victorian Police caught Ryan.
On the 13th of November 1964, Ryan received another eight-year prison sentence for breaking and entering where he was sent to Pentridge Prison. Within 10 months of this new sentence, his wife divorced him. I wouldn't describe Ryan as a dangerous criminal. I think that he thought he had to do these crimes for a living or in order to survive. I believe that Ryan's life in crime started due to his traumatizing childhood. In my opinion, I believe that family background matters a lot in determining how a person will grow up to be.
Ronald Ryan did not have a great childhood and this obviously affected him. I do think that Ryan could have rehabilitated himself and started a new life for him and his family. Ronald Ryan escaped from prison with Peter Walker on Sunday 19th of December 1965 at 2. 07pm. Both Ryan and Walker were serving prison sentences for robbery. Ryan had planned to escape from prison after being informed that his wife was filing a divorce. After Ryan was to escape he had plans to take his wife and three daughters and live overseas. However, things did not go according to plan.
As prison officers were taking turns attending a staff Christmas party, Ryan and Walker scaled a five-metre prison wall with two wooden benches, a hook and blankets. Running along the top of a prison wall, they overpowered a prison officer who was on duty in a watchtower. Ryan took Lange's M1 carbine rifle. Apparently, Ryan had pulled the cocking lever of the rifle with the cocking-lever switch on, and then released it. This would have forced a round of ammunition to fall out of the gun onto the floor of the watchtower. Ryan threatened Lange to pull the lever that would open the watchtower gate.
Ryan quickly realised that Lange deliberately pulled the wrong lever so he jabbed the rifle into Lange's back and made him pull the correct lever. After finally getting the main gates open, Ryan and Walker ran out onto a busy street where they planned to steal a car. In this time, Lange had raised the prison alarm indicating a prison escape where armed prison offices quickly appeared to try and stop the two. Eye witnesses testified to seeing Ryan waving his rifle around to cars, while George Hodson, a warder, was seen chasing after Walker.
Armed prison officers were also seen aiming their rifles in the direction of Hodson, Walker and Ryan. Ryan apparently had another attempt to cock the rifle, which caused another round of ammunition to fall out of the rifle. In these scenes of chaos, one gunshot was heard and prison officer George Hodson fell dead on the ground. A single bullet had struck Hodson on the right shoulder, travelling from front to back in a downward angle, suggesting the shot had been fired from a distance at an elevated position.
The bullet had exited through Hodson's back, an inch lower than the point of entry. Although the bullet was never found. Ryan and Walker successfully escaped using a car they stole outside the prison. On the 24th December 1965 the Victorian government announced a $10,000 reward for the capture of Ryan and Walkers arrest. They were finally captured in Sydney on January 5th 1966. On the 30th of March the jury convicted Walker of manslaughter and Ryan guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Ryan was hanged in "D" division at Pentridge Prison 8. 00am on Friday 3rd of February 1967.
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As part of Engineers Week we are running a Night of Short Talks in TOG on Thursday 9th of March kicking off at 7:30pm. The night will be made up of a number of talks on a range of topics.
Many people are afraid to meddle with their cars often due to the fear of a complicated computer running under the hood with no easy way to see what the computer is thinking or doing. We unveil the computer and show low cost interfaces and easy ways to diagnose and repair faults along with modifications and DIY servicing and upgrades. Take the fear out of automotive repair and avoid costly dealer maintenance and repair all using free apps and Bluetooth and USB interfaces. We will also discuss diesel-gate and emissions monitoring.
An overview on Google Tango technology – how it works and what applications it may have. As an example I'll show a game I made for the Global Game Jam 2017 that uses Tango for positional tracking.
A collage of the objects that Peter has created and how he developed his personal maker skills and experience with no budget.
This was written by tdr. Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 11:24 am. Filed under Engineers Week, Talk. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed.	Post a comment or leave a trackback.


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Twitter does not currently allow for embedded Instagram photos, and the results are pretty ugly. When you post a photo from Instagram to Twitter, it shows up as a link to Instagram's website. This isn't Twitter's fault, so don't hate the micro-blogging site, hate the game. Or hate Facebook… post-buyout, Instagram decided not to support Twitter Cards, the system Twitter set up to allow users and developers to attach media to their tweets.
As they are on opposing teams in the Great Social Media Wars, it's unlikely Instagram will start supporting Twitter Cards anytime soon, which is why Wired reporter Michael Calore generously shared his hack to get around it, which involves using Tumblr. But if you use a service called IFTTT, there's an even simpler workaround than this.
Sign up for IFTTT
IFTTT (which stands for "If this, than that") is a crazy wonderful service that helps you connect all the stuff you use on the Internet. It lets you create "recipes" to link up different services you use, and Instagram and Twitter are among these services. Some popular recipes include automatically backing up iPhone photos through email, and automatically cross-posting from Twitter to Facebook. Signing up is free, and just requires a valid email address.
IFTTT used to have a beef with Twitter, but that's all done now. And an IFTTT user called djuiceman created a recipe that allows you to post your Instagram photos directly onto Twitter.
So once you sign up, go to djuiceman's recipe and click "Use Recipe."
If you haven't already activated your Twitter and Instagram channels, you will need to go through that authentification process, which only takes a minute. Once you activate the recipe, a trigger will fire whenever you upload a photo to Instagram, automatically posting it to Twitter.
Upload your photos and be the envy of everyone who hasn't figured this out yet
Now you have all your social media photo ducks in a line. Start using that Toaster filter. Every time you take an Instagram photo, IFTTT will activate its recipe to post them to Twitter. Boom. Your Instagram photo will be embedded on Twitter, caption and all.
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Belgian Gaming Commission initiates new rules for advertisements
The Belgian Gaming Commission has announced the introduction of new guidelines for gambling advertising with the country's top football league Jupiler Pro League.
These guidelines have been developed by the Belgian Gaming Commission and aim to encourage responsible gambling across the country. Belgium is indeed not the first nation to have its professional football league regulated, as Spain also recently banned every gambling sponsorship. Luckily for Belgian operators, the Belgium's brand new advertising guidelines are not as suffocating as Spain's are. Instead, the regulatory body has banned partnerships between league clubs and gambling companies who are not licenced in the country.
Moreover, all partnerships should absolutely be reported to the regulatory body. If an operator defies any of the guidelines for responsible gambling (or loses their licence), then the Belgian Gaming Commission will notify the relevant football club and expect them to take appropriate action.
The new guidelines also indicate that gambling ads must not include an attraction to bet. The regulatory body is going to ban placing bets on some stages of a football match as well.
The Belgian Gaming Commission and Jupiler Pro League announced:
"The absolute starting point of communication and marketing around games of chance and betting is the protection of consumers. It is essential that excessive gambling should be prevented as much as possible. That is why the Gaming Commission and the Pro League want to go further than what is legally imposed today."
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BGC calls government to strengthen measures on the industry
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BGC is urging the UK government to enter and strengthen restrictions on the black market, in their upcoming Gambling Act white paper.Time newspaper reports that the...


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UK Hospital Negligence Guide
Medical Negligence Solicitors
Compensation for a Soft Tissue Injury to a Baby during Birth
There are many different soft tissue injuries that can be sustained by a baby during its birth – bruising, scarring and nerve damage being the most common – and, although some of these injuries are unavoidable, when your child has suffered unnecessarily due to hospital negligence, it may be possible to claim compensation for a soft tissue injury to a baby during birth.
When you make a claim for a soft tissue childbirth injury, it has to be shown that the injury was avoidable "at the time and in the circumstances" and attributable to a level of care lower than the standard generally accepted by the medical community. In order to prove hospital negligence, you solicitor will request access to your medical records and those of your child.
The medical records will be reviewed by an independent medical expert, who will assess whether the injuries to your child could have been avoided with greater care, or if the situation in which they occurred could have been predicted prior to your labour. The medical expert will report back to your solicitor with his or her findings.
Making a Claim for a Soft Tissue Childbirth Injury
If there is sufficient evidence of hospital negligence to support a claim for a soft tissue childbirth injury, your solicitor will send a "Letter of Claim" to the NHS Trust responsible for the standard of care at the hospital where you gave birth to your child. The letter will advise the NHS Trust that you are claiming compensation for a soft tissue injury to a baby during birth on behalf of your child.
The NHS Trust has ninety days to respond to the letter, and either accept liability for your child´s injury or contest your claim for a soft tissue childbirth injury. If negligence is accepted, your solicitor will meet with the NHS Litigation Authority to settle the claim according to the nature and extent of your child´s injuries.
If liability is contested, your solicitor will discuss the options with you. These may include the issuing of court proceedings, but your solicitor will continue to attempt resolving your claim for a soft tissue childbirth injury by negotiation to spare you the trauma of a full court hearing. Quite often, the issuing of court proceedings encourages the NHS Trust responsible for your standard of care to review their response to your claim.
How Much Will Your Child´s Claim be Settled For?
As mentioned above, how much compensation for a soft tissue injury to a baby during birth your child will be entitled to will depend on the nature and extent of the injury. Your solicitor will also take into account any long term consequences of your child´s injury and how it may affect them in the future. This includes possible confidence issues as they grow up and any effect the visible consequences may have on their future employment prospects.
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Q: How to end the load infile process in oracle I am trying load the data using in ctl file , But  syntax error I am getting ,that is :SQL*Loader-350:   Syntax error at line 15.
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 COS "TRUNC(:COS/32)",TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
 following code is my try.
load data
INFILE 'rtd.txt'
INTO TABLE RTD_ATTLAS_TMP
APPEND
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\|'
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TRAFFIC_CUST_ID "UPPER(:TRAFFIC_CUST_ID)",
SOURCE_DEV_NAME "UPPER(REGEXP_REPLACE(:SOURCE_DEV_NAME, '\\.\\D+', '', 1,  0))",
DEST_DEV_NAME "UPPER(REGEXP_REPLACE(:DEST_DEV_NAME, '\\.\\D+', '', 1, 0))",
DATE_STAMP boundfiller,
TIME_STAMP "to_date(:DATE_STAMP ||' '|| :TIME_STAMP, 'mm/dd/yyyy   hh24:mi:ss')",
MIN_RTD,
AVG_RTD,
MAX_RTD,
COS "TRUNC(:COS/32)",TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
)

Here is my file to be loaded 'rtd.txt':
NEW FEEDS TEST|ARAETSBUEAR01H03|172.20.227.220|10/08/2014|00:00:00|159|159|159|104

A: I have changed this in my code , it is working fine,
COS TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE  "TRUNC(:COS/32)"


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Man City referred to Uefa financial body
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Manchester City say they are "disappointed, but regrettably not surprised" after being referred to Uefa's club financial control body.
BBC Sport reported this week that Uefa investigators want City banned from the Champions League for a season if found guilty of breaking financial rules.
Chief investigator Yves Leterme has made his recommendation to Uefa but it is not known if he supports a ban.
City said "the accusation of financial irregularities remains entirely false".
Former Belgian prime minister Leterme, chairman of the investigatory panel of Uefa's independent financial control board (CFCB IC), had the final say over what action to take.
Leterme and his team looked at evidence first uncovered in a series of leaks published by German newspaper Der Spiegel last year.
The reports alleged that City broke Financial Fair Play regulations by inflating the value of a multimillion-pound sponsorship deal. City were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.
It understood Leterme's fellow board members firmly expressed the view at a recent meeting that a season-long ban would be a suitable punishment if City are found guilty.
Uefa said Leterme, "after having consulted with the other members of the independent investigatory chamber", decided "to refer Manchester City FC to the CFCB adjudicatory chamber following the conclusion of his investigation".
European football's governing body said it "will not be making any further comment on the matter until a decision is announced by the CFCB adjudicatory chamber".
City, who won the Premier League for a second year in succession last Sunday, have denied any wrongdoing.
"The leaks to media over the last week are indicative of the process that has been overseen by Mr Leterme," read a City statement.
"Manchester City is entirely confident of a positive outcome when the matter is considered by an independent judicial body.
"The CFCB IC referral ignores a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence provided by Manchester City FC to the chamber.
"The decision contains mistakes, misinterpretations and confusions fundamentally borne out of a basic lack of due process and there remain significant unresolved matters raised by Manchester City FC as part of what the club has found to be a wholly unsatisfactory, curtailed, and hostile process."
It is unlikely any punishment for City will apply to next season's Champions League because they could appeal, and even take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
City could also soon face a transfer ban, with the Football Association, Premier League and Fifa investigating the club over the signing of youth players.
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Woody and the Gang Are Back: See the Teaser Trailer for 'Toy Story 4'
Since 1995, Pixar's 'Toy Story' film franchise has earned $1.9 billion at the global box office
By Zach Johnson
Published Nov 12, 2018 at 8:19 AM
At long last, the first trailer for Disney/Pixar's "Toy Story 4" has arrived.
For the fourth installment in the franchise, the studio says, "Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called 'Forky' to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy."
The dreamy teaser trailer features everyone's favorite toys floating through the air, set to Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." Midway through it, a frightened Forky screams, "I don't belong here!" The makeshift toy's panicked response sets off a chain reaction, sending the other toys spinning--literally. It also leads some of the older toys to utter their catchphrases from past films, like Woody's "There's a snake in my boot!" and Buzz Lightyear's "To infinity and beyond!"
"I'm not a toy!" Forky screams toward the end. "Ahh!"
"Hey! Hey!" Woody tells the group. "Somebody get him before he pokes an eye out."
Pixar's Best Movies
Since 1995, Pixar's "Toy Story" film franchise has earned $1.9 billion at the global box office.
"Like most people, I assumed that "Toy Story 3" was the end of the story. And it was the end of Woody's story with Andy," the film's director, Josh Cooley, said in a statement given to E! News Monday. "But just like in life, every ending is a new beginning. Woody now being in a new room, with new toys, and a new kid, was something we have never seen before. The questions of what that would be like became the beginning of an entertaining story worth exploring."
And so, audiences will follow Forky's journey when "Toy Story 4," produced by Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera, hits theaters on June 21, 2019. Brought to life as a craft-project using googly eyes and pipe cleaner, Forky feels out of place in Bonnie's room with the manufactured toys.
"The world of Toy Story is built upon the idea that everything in the world has a purpose. A toy's purpose is to be there for its child. But what about toys that are made out of other objects? Forky is a toy that Bonnie made out of a disposable spork, so he's facing a crisis," Cooley says. "He wants to fulfill his purpose as a spork, but now has a new toy purpose thrust upon him."
Emmy Award winner Tony Hale was cast to provide the voice of Forky. "It's a huge thrill to be part of the Toy Story family," he confessed. "But it's going to take a while for it to really sink in."
Tom Hanks, back as Woody, spoke about the reason for his return earlier this month on BBC's "The Chris Evans Breakfast Show." "When I realized what they were going for, I realized, 'Oh, this is a moment in history.' The emotional range of the movies has become more and more deep and profound and affecting." Calling the people at Pixar "geniuses," Hanks said he's proud to work on a "special collection" of films that hit "each one of us in a completely individual way."
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La gare d'Épluches est une gare ferroviaire française de la ligne de Pierrelaye à Creil située dans la commune de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (département du Val-d'Oise).

Ouverte le 7 janvier et inaugurée le  par la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, c'est une gare de la Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) ouverte au service fret et desservie par les trains de la ligne H du Transilien (réseau Paris-Nord).

Situation ferroviaire
La gare est située au point kilométrique 28,763 de la ligne de Pierrelaye à Creil. Établie au niveau du sol, à proximité du cours de l'Oise, son altitude est de . Au sud-ouest, le « raccordement d'Épluches » situé entre les gares de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône et d'Épluches permet la relation directe Pontoise - Creil sans rebroussement à Pierrelaye.

Histoire
La , est officiellement mise en service le  par la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, lorsqu'elle ouvre à l'exploitation sa ligne de Paris à Lille et Valenciennes. Elle est établie, entre les stations d'Herblay et d'Auvers, à environ  de Paris. La ville compte . Des voitures, en correspondances avec le chemin de fer, desservent Magny, Gisors et Marines.

Elle constitue à l'époque la première gare de Pontoise, alors sur l'itinéraire originel de la ligne de Paris-Nord à Lille, avant l'ouverture de l'actuelle gare de Pontoise en 1863.

De Paris-Nord, la ligne originelle se dirigeait vers Saint-Denis, puis Ermont, passait par la gare d'Épluches (au nord de la commune de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône) où elle empruntait la vallée de l'Oise, qu'elle remontait en rive droite jusqu'à Persan - Beaumont, puis Creil.

Le nombre de voyageurs quotidiens était inférieur à 500 en 2002.

En 2012, 110 voyageurs ont pris le train dans cette gare chaque jour ouvré de la semaine.

Selon les estimations de la SNCF, la fréquentation annuelle de la gare figure dans le tableau ci-dessous.

Service des voyageurs

Desserte
Elle est desservie par les trains du réseau Transilien Paris-Nord (ligne H) assurant la relation entre la gare de Pontoise et celle de Creil via Persan - Beaumont, où aboutit par ailleurs une autre branche de cette ligne H venant directement de la gare de Paris-Nord.

Ce n'est pas une gare au sens « sécurité », mais un chantier qui dépend du secteur circulation de la gare de Pontoise.

Intermodalité
La gare est desservie par la ligne 56 du réseau de bus de la Société de transports interurbains du Val-d'Oise (STIVO).

Service des marchandises
C'est une gare marchandise, au sens commercial fret, qui comprend des voies de débord et des voies longues (plus de ) qui permettent de recevoir des trains de marchandises et de garer les trains de banlieue des lignes H et C qui ne peuvent être stationnés à Pontoise. Seuls deux embranchés sont aujourd'hui desservis à partir du chantier d'Épluches. la zone industrielle de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône ayant perdu de nombreuses activités, le trafic marchandises est relativement réduit.

Remisage
Épluches est un des lieux de stationnement des Z 50000 ou automotrices Francilien de Bombardier desservant la ligne H du Transilien. Les voies 6 à 12 ont été remaniées et un chantier de petit entretien et nettoyage des rames créé. Les voies 4, 14 et 16 utilisées pour le fret et les voies 18 à 20 restent utilisées par l'infra (maintenance) pour le stationnement de train de travaux.

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Articles connexes
 Liste des gares du réseau Transilien
 Ligne de Pierrelaye à Creil

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A new set of average speed cameras is to to be switched on in the next few days.
Leicestershire County Council says it is soon starting enforcement with the sixth of a set of cameras set up in recent months as part of a £500,000 year-long pilot scheme to try to persuade drivers to stick within speed limits.
Cameras already established in Measham, Walcote, Sharnford, Groby and Oadby have caught nearly 10,000 speeders since they were activated in September and November.
The latest cameras to join the trial will be on Beacon Road near Woodhouse Eaves.
The county council has however said the cameras only enforce the limits at certain times according to random phasing.
It says it wants to be proportionate in the number of fines issued.
Officials say even when the cameras are not issuing £100 penalties they are still collecting data on speeding traffic as well as acting as a deterrent to those who would drive to fast.
County Hall says it is the first authority in the country to put cameras at 'community concern' sites - that is in places where residents have raised worries about speeding.
Cameras are usually placed only at spots where there is a history of injuries and fatalities.
Cabinet member for environment and transport councillor Blake Pain said: "The objective of the trial is to act as a deterrent and prevent speeding from happening rather than to catch motorists exceeding the speed limit.
A further set of cameras at Freeby, near Melton, will be turned on in the near future.
The council decided to install the cameras hoping to persuade the Government to allow it to keep the first £500,000 to cover the cost of setting them up.
Fines currently go directly to the Treasury and Whitehall has so far refused to change the rules to allow any of the money to be retained locally.
Council leader Nick Rushton has a date in the calendar to meet treasury secretary Robert Jenrick to press the case.
Liberal Democrat county councillor Bill Boulter said a year after outlining its plans the council seemed no closer to getting its hands on any of the fines money.
Deputy council leader Byron Rhodes said: "We think at this stage they have misunderstood what we are trying to do.
"The general policy of the Treasury is not to hypothecate the revenues from fine income.
"We are trying to devote part of the income in the first year to meet the capital costs of installing them.
County council transport director Ann Carruthers explained the cameras only enforced some of the time in a recent meeting.
She told councillors this was due to the limitations of "the back office software required" in dealing with the numbers of offences, as well as "the police resources in order to enforce and the court resources in order to take through the process".
She insisted the objective was not to fine drivers but to get them to change their behaviour.
She added: "What we want out of this is not the funding and the money and the fines. We want them to stick to, or below the speed limit.


When I became single again, and a wife was gone, and the children were gone, and I was gone from myself, in many ways, I used to do yard work at a house that had three lawns: a large, sun-coated one in front; a smaller strip of wet-green in the back that descended into forest; and a curving riband of grass on the side, where salamanders slept at the edge and could get their backs split open by the rake.
The wall of the house by that third, slim lawn had two window wells that looked into the basement. I had always looked into window wells. The house where I grew up had them, and it always seemed that if you stayed away for a few days, when you came round again there would be animals in the well.
Usually moles and mice, but sometimes a baby bird. I used a little plastic shovel to get the birds out, and also the mice and moles after the first time I'd seen one of each in the window well. I told my mother what I saw that first time, and she went to the neighbors and told them.
They were very old. They lived in the town when the settlement we lived in was still woods, before streets like ours had been cleared. They had an old cat who'd snarl when you went near him, louder if he was on his back, lounging in the sun. My mother brought the cat over and put him in front of the window well, and after that, I always made sure not to tell her if anything was there.
So at the house where I sometimes did yard work I'd check the two window wells by the third lawn. They were always empty, lined at the bottom with smooth, round rocks that made me wonder if they'd been in a tumbler, or else had been collected at a beach in a bucket that would have come with a shovel like the one I used to use.
Checking was a formality, given that this was not my house, but if it hadn't been I wouldn't have seen how the window well closest to the large, hot front lawn had been covered over with layers of spider webs. I hadn't been in some time. It could have been that my services were no longer required. No one came out. Maybe they were on vacation. You could look through the webs, like they were this gauzy scrim, and see the bottom. There was a snake, probably a black racer. It didn't look like it was moving, but its head and most of its body were off the ground, like they'd been frozen that way, or the snake was very good at holding still.
I figured it could climb out. I wasn't going to touch it. But I did break the web and in a single motion, as fast a motion as I could make, I cleared it away with my rake. And then I walked around the corner to the front lawn, to take a break from my work, and I saw a girl who was walking faster than people walk. Walking faster, even, than people run.
She went in one direction, hard, and then another, and when she arrived at each point she arrived in a manner that you felt you could not see how she was able to. From farther away she looked tall, very tall, taller than I was, like I was looking up at her even as she stood on the far side of the lawn. Then she was in front of me, and she was lower, at first, as if she was growing up from out of the ground, and so close that we were going to collide even though neither of us was moving forward or backward.
I was scared of her, but I wanted to try and help. I wanted to say, as calmly as I could, "what is your name?", but instead I said "who are you?" and kept repeating myself when she didn't answer and began to move again from point to point in a way that was faster than walking or running until she returned again practically right up into me, closer than the last time, and began to scream.
She didn't stop even for breath. It just kept going, getting louder and louder. And then it stopped, and she started moving again, from point to point, not a blur, but not traceable, until she was at the far edge of the lawn, and I put down my rake, with as little movement as possible, and began walking away as quickly as I could without running, down the path I used as a shortcut that led back to the main street.
The rake was where I left it when I came back the next day. I walked to the side lawn. The window well was covered over in spider webs again. I didn't look into it. I kept a sawhorse behind the house, and I took some old pieces of plywood from under the deck and nailed them over the openings of the sawhorse.
The sawhorse was bulky now, but I lifted it around the corner and put it over the window well. I had a marker in my pocket, so I used that and wrote "Leave This Here" on the front of my wooden sentinel steed. I saw that the rake was not where I'd left it, but I also figured maybe it wouldn't be, as I walked as quickly as I could without running to the shortcut I sometimes used that went back to the main road, always back to the main road, the default road, the central artery that is not the heart's.
The coffee from yesterday warmed up and left in the microwave, the late-December sky two hours before the sun comes up outside of smudgy windows. Sitting. The desk. The bed. The bed the desk. It's funny the things we hold on to, for no particular reason, or no good reason. I got an early start today because I want to have a good start to the year. Try to get somewhere. Get what I want. What I need. What I search for. What I used to tell myself at the end of a year might be attained in the next, until I stopped because there comes a point when the pursuer need never remind himself again what is being pursued. As I was watching a film—The Twilight Zone movie, which really isn't very good—I decided to clean out the photos on my phone. Carpet, meet thy broom. Time to get lifted. I don't scroll back through photos, normally. I don't know why I take any. Memory doesn't function that way for me. Like, "here's a photo, and now a feeling I once had is more real to me." I hadn't realized how many there were of you. In various stages of undress. I hadn't realized you wore that hat of mine when it got very cold. I didn't realize I had a photo of that bed soaked with so many juices and squirt. That blue sheet. Like Linus's blanket gone way, way wrong. The substance of a running joke. Of which no one else could partake. But there it was. I thought, as I looked at some of the photos of us together, of how your former neighbors, in the town where you grew up, contacted your parents voicing concern. According to you. Because you were posting photos of yourself with someone you said you cared about. They had no clue I was older. I didn't look it. We didn't look it. Strangers would say nice things when they saw us. "What a happy couple." "You two just go together." But everyone only knew the years of stage presentation. From which there must be no veering. Says more about other lives. Boredom. Discontent. The agenda derived therefrom. "I play a part," is how you described it before I even met you. But if they only knew, right? If they only knew how you lived then, and how you live now. What I embodied. What was there. The shared wavelength, the salubrious presence. What you found wonder in, as I, in turn, believed in the wonder in you. How much I cared once, too. But one photo stood out in particular. You were working at the dining hall. It was before your shift started. We were sitting together, and you are looking at me with a look that, if I did not know better, if I did not know that no matter how much something looks like something it can always be something else, I would say is love for another person made visual. But I know it wasn't actually that. But if I could have believed such a thing could be conveyed in a look, that photo would have been a pretty good argument maker. Like I said, it can be very strange that we keep the things we keep. I wonder if someday you'll still have this note, if you ever even see it, if I even ever send it, which I will, probably in thirty seconds, because I know me. But yes, strange the things we keep. Stranger, maybe, what we are left with.
I fled the rat's nest I live in earlier tonight because something bad was going to happen if I didn't. I was going to drink and break my streak of not drinking for fifty days, and I figure, this time, if that starts again I'll drink until I'm dead.
Went to a 9:30 screening of the 1947 Robert Mitchum film Out of the Past. Looked like a crazed homeless person. Didn't have socks on, gym shorts, two weeks of beard growth. Not that Mitchum would mind, I figured. Grizzled guy. You don't get many chances to see classic film noir in a theater. Death is on my mind a lot. With death on your mind that's how you think. "Last chance to dance," so to speak.
I was engaged to someone who is basically Kathie Moffat, the woman who destroys Mitchum in the film. Femme fatale writ over-large. Some scenes made me jolt, given that it's not easy to encounter someone in real life who resembles a person like Kathie Moffat. Good luck with that search. Which would be a pretty screwed up search. Dystopian search. As in, why on earth are you looking for that?
I always sit in the same seat—last row of the balcony, dead middle, so everyone else is in front of me. For some reason that matters to me. Not sure why. Don't like the feeling of having my back exposed to anyone anymore. There was this guy in the front of the balcony, maybe in his early thirties, shaved head. The type of guy you think maybe should have a neck tattoo, but he didn't. He was tearing up a plastic container, crunching a can, scrunching plastic bags. Super annoying.
Film ends, lights go on, and everyone in the balcony—about ten people—stand up to take a look who the noise-making prick is. The floor around him is covered in ripped up items. Blanketed. There's rudeness, and then there's something else going on, and this had to have been that.
There was this woman a couple of rows in front of me, early forties, very attractive, married—you always note the presence of a ring, when you go through certain things in this life—but there by herself. She had gotten a copy of the two-month schedule of films that are in stacks around the theater, and had been circling pictures she'd like to attend before the movie started. I do that. So I thought, you know—maybe. Just maybe. I'm here a lot because I have no life and I have to flee things, and she's here a lot and maybe she's separated and while I usually go for younger maybe—maybe—maybe.
I don't know. I felt like Mitchum in Out of the Past would have read a lot into that, having been through what he went through. Maybe that's why I did. Maybe that's why I thought about walking over to the dude and putting my hand on his shoulder and asking him if he needed anything. Maybe that's why I didn't, and walked out into the night with my head down, more aware of the wind than usual and picking up my pace as I walked into it.


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Parosmodes lentiginosa is een vlinder uit de familie van de dikkopjes (Hesperiidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1896 door Holland.

Dikkopjes