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Q: using map type creates gcc error: expected unqualified-id before 'for' I am new to linux, using terminal in Ubuntu virual box environment. I cannot figure out what and why these errors are happening, and they don't seem to match a missing ';' or #define conflict.
Here are the errors I get from the gcc compiler:
my_predictor.h:82:42: error: template argument 2 is invalid
my_predictor.h:82:42: error: template argument 4 is invalid
my_predictor.h:84:9: error: expected unqualified-id before 'for'
my_predictor.h:84:23: error: 'g' does not name a type
my_predictor.h:84:44: error: 'g' does not name a type
my_predictor.h:91:42: error: template argument 2 is invalid
my_predictor.h:91:42: error: template argument 4 is invalid
my_predictor.h:93:9: error: expected unqualified-id before 'for'
my_predictor.h:93:23: error: 'f' does not name a type
my_predictor.h:93:39: error: 'f' does not name a type
my_predictor.h: In member function 'virtual branch_update* local_predictor::predict(branch_info&)':
my_predictor.h:107:57: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:111:40: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h: In member function 'virtual void local_predictor::update(branch_update*, bool, unsigned int)':
my_predictor.h:121:62: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:124:46: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:125:33: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:127:41: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:128:29: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:131:33: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:132:30: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:135:33: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript
my_predictor.h:136:30: error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript

I think the key problem is in the declaration and initialization of the Map construct with an index key, and then a bitset object which is a string of bits. It seems to create the later errors with the array [] operations (which are supposed to be valid from what I found on cplusplus.com/reference/map site).
Here is my code:
1:// my_predictor.h
// This file contains a sample gshare_predictor class.
// It is a simple 32,768-entry gshare with a history length of 15.

5:#include <bitset>
#include <map>
7:using namespace std;

64:class local_predictor : public branch_predictor {
65:public:
#define LHBITLEN 10
#define PREDCNTR 2
#define LOCHISTTABLERNG 4096
#define LOCPREDRNG 1024
70:     local_update u;
        branch_info bcopy;

        // otherwise ints, where each will be multiplied by 10, then add 1 if taken/true. Initial test case to change if 10 bits long already

75:     // ?correct location? Bit array of length 10 for local history table value entries
        bitset<LHBITLEN> lhthistval;
        bitset<PREDCNTR> lpcounter;

        // initialize to 0's
80:       // lhthistval.reset();

        std::map<int, (bitset<LHBITLEN>) > lochisttab;
        //map<int, (bitset<10>) > lht;
        for (int g=0; g < LOCHISTTABLERNG; g++) {
85:            //const int j = g;
            lochisttab[g] = lhthistval.reset();
            //lht.insert(pair<int, (bitset<LHBITLEN>)>(j, lhthistval.reset()));
        }

90:
    std::map<int, (bitset<PREDCNTR>) > locprediction;
    //map<int, (bitset<2>) > locpredict;
    for (int f=0; f < LOCPREDRNG; f++) {
        //const int j = f;
95:        //locpredict.insert(pair<int, (bitset<PREDCNTR>)>(j,lpcounter.reset()));
        locprediction[f] = lpcounter.reset();
    }

100:    local_predictor (void) {
    }

    branch_update *predict (branch_info & b) {
        bcopy = b;
105:        // address for locpredict based on value by modulus (remainder) of branch address divide by 4096
        int braddr = static_cast<int>(b.address % LOCHISTTABLERNG);
        bitset<LHBITLEN> address = lochisttab[braddr];
        // safe and compiler allow since it is only 10 bits long max?
        int indx = static_cast<int>(address.to_ulong());
110:        // use the MSB or Pos 1 in 2 bit array to set boolean Take/Don't
        bool take = locprediction[indx].test(1);
        u.direction_prediction (take);
        u.target_prediction (0);
        return &u;
115:    }

    void update (branch_update *u, bool taken, unsigned int target) {

        if (bcopy.br_flags & BR_CONDITIONAL) {
120:            int lhtaddress = bcopy.address % LOCHISTTABLERNG;
            bitset<LHBITLEN> addr = lochisttab[lhtaddress];
            int indx = static_cast<int>(addr.to_ulong());
            for (int i=1; i < LHBITLEN; i++) {
                bool prval = lochisttab[lhtaddress].test(i-1);
125:                lochisttab[lhtaddress].set(i,prval);
            }
            bool prev = locprediction[indx].test(0);
            locprediction[indx].set(1,prev);

130:            if (taken) {
                lochisttab[lhtaddress].set(0);
                locprediction[indx].set(0);
            }
            else {
135:                lochisttab[lhtaddress].reset(0);
                locprediction[indx].reset(0);
            }
        }
    }

};

Edit: I originally had no parantheses around the bitset arguments for the map declarations. The compiler gave the first error of "expected unqualified-id before 'for'". The template argument errors came from the parantheses (but I thought it was the result because of finally understanding the bitset data type potentially).

A: I would guess the spurious parenthesis around (bitset<LHBITLEN>) on line 82 are the problem -- they probably cause the compiler to try to parse it as a template value parameter rather than a type parameter, and then get confused as it tries to recover.
As is often the case with a cascade of errors like this, only the first one is relevant and tells you what the problem is.  The later ones are caused by the compiler throwing away too many tokens as it tries to recover a meaningful context to continue, getting confused as to what it is looking at.  It probably threw away the > and ; and thinks its still trying to parse a template parameter list when it sees the for

A: This is the syntax you need:
`map<int, bitset<10> > intBitsetMap;  //Note the space between the two: > >`


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Fatal Fast-Evolution of Nasopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in an HIV Patient with EBV and HPV (-16 AND -33) in Blood Serum
Guillem Sireraa, b, Sebastià Videla*, b , Joan Romeua, b, MariPaz Cañadasc, Maria-Teresa Fernándezd, Susana Baloa, Beatriz Cirauquie, Laila Darwichf, Celestino Rey-Jolya, Bonaventura Cloteta, b, f
a HIV Clinical Unit, Department of Medicine
b Lluita Contra La SIDA Foundation
d Department of Pathology
e Department of Oncology; University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona (Barcelona); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (U.A.B.)
c GeneralLab, Barcelona
f Retrovirology Laboratory IrsiCaixa, Spain
First Page: 1
Last Page: 2
Publisher ID: TOAIDJ-2-1
Received Date: 11/12/2007
2008 Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
* Address correspondence to this author at the Lluita Contra La SIDA Foundation; Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol; Badalona, Barcelona-08916, Spain; Fax: (34) 93 465 76 02; E-mail: svidela@esteve.es
Our case illustrates the first report of an HIV-infected patient with a nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma with viremia by one Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and seropositivity by two high risk oncogenic human papilloma viruses (HPV)-types (HPV-16 and HPV-33), previous to his death. This patient presented a fatal fast-evolution.
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A 38 year-old man diagnosed with HIV in 1987 (disseminated tuberculosis) and HCV, who was an ex-IDU, smoker (30 cigarettes per day), and alcohol consumer (30 g/day), with poor HAART adherence, and a CD4 nadir of 6 cells/mm3 in 2005, was seen on April 20th 2006 in a routine HIV control. He reported having an oppressive headache in the last week. The exploration only showed hypoesthesia in the right side of the face. A small ulcer in the cavum and an exophytic polypoid lesion in the back and upper area of the right nostril were observed by nasopharyngoscopy. Computed tomography visualized a mass in the cavum. A biopsy diagnosed a moderately differentiated squamous cell cancer. P.E.T. showed a hypermetabolic mass from the skull base to the right jawbone (Fig. 1). In addition, P.E.T. also showed infiltration in the latero-cervical, supra clavicular and para-oesophagus nodes, in C3 and C6 (cervical vertebras), and in the liver (not shown). The patient restarted HAART on May 9th and was discharged. The patient was readmitted to the hospital on June 6th and he died one week later because of liver failure. The patient signed the informed consent to study HPV (June 6th) and his family authorized to publish this event.
Fig. (1).
P.E.T. showed a hypermetabolic mass from the skull base to the right jawbone.
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) were studied in biopsy and in blood serum sample (June 6th) by PCR real time and multiplex PCR kit, respectively. Furthermore, HPV was analyzed in samples from the oral cavity, anus, and penis. EBV was positive in the biopsy and in serum (63000 copies/mL) and HPV was positive in serum for two high risk oncogenic types: HPV-16 and HPV-33. HPV was also detected in the anus (HPV-16 and HPV-51) and in the penis (HPV-51).
We believe that our case illustrates the first report of an HIV-infected patient with a nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma with a viremia by one EBV and two high risk oncogenic HPV-types, previous to his death. Although EBV appears to be the most important etiological factor for the development of nasopharyngeal cancer and its presence in serum suggests metastasis [1,2], the HPV has been also implicated as an etiological factor in a subset of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC), and its presence in the sera has been related with an advanced HNSCC stage, or with a high risk for metastasis and with a poor prognosis [3-5]. Although we did not find HPV in the biopsy, we cannot dismiss its presence [3]. Moreover, he was HPV seropositive which could mean that the tumor was the source for it. The serum sample studied could only represent a single time point during the patient's care, however HPV DNA in serum may represent occult haematogenous spread of cancer cells. So, it may be acceptable that the origin of the serum HPV could be the tumor.
Patients with HPV-positive tumors have a better overall survival than patients with HPV-negative tumors [4]. It has been observed that a normal host immunity may block metastatic disease [3]. So, the rapid evolution observed could be mainly related to the severe immunodeficiency HIV related. Indeed, the widespread metastatic lesions suggest the expression of chemokine receptor CXCR4 which has been associated with a high rate of metastatic potential of human nasopharyngeal carcinoma [6]. Likewise, other risk factors such as being smoker and an alcohol consumer could contribute to the aggressive clinical outcome as well.
In summary, this case suggests that in very advanced HIV patients with severe immunodeficiency, tumors may have a rapid evolution and different viruses etiologically related (HPV and EBV) can be detected in blood which could be associated with a worse and rapid outcome.
S.V. has received honoraria for collaborating with Laboratorios Dr Esteve. B. Clotet has received honoraria for speaking and participating in advisory boards from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer.
[1] Mutirangura A. Serum/plasma viral DNA mechanisms and diagnostic applications to nasopharyngeal and cervical carcinoma Ann NY Acad Sci 2001; 945: 59-67.
[2] Psyrri A, DiMaio D. Human papillomavirus in cervical and head-and-neck cancer Nat Clin Pract Oncol 2008; 5: 24-31.
[3] Capone RB, Pai SI, Koch WM, et al. Detection and quantitation of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the sera of patients with HPV-associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Clin Cancer Res 2000; 6: 4171-5.
[4] Gillison ML Koch WM, Capone RB, et al. Evidence for a causal association between human papillomavirus and a subset of head and neck cancers J Natl Cancer Inst 2000; 92: 709-20.
[5] Fakhry C, Gillison M. Clinical implications of human papillomavirus in head and neck cancers J Clin Oncol 2006; 24: 2606-11.
[6] Hu J, Deng X, Bian X, et al. The expression of functional chemokine receptor CXCR4 is associated with the metastatic potencial of human nasopharyngeal carcinoma Clin Cancer Res 2005; 11: 4658-65.

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Dick DeVos Offers New Ideas to FAA
Ever since 2017, Dick DeVos has been involved with the Federal Aviation Administration. His wife was appointed to the 11th office of the US Education Secretary in the same year. Together, they have been working in Washington. Through philanthropy and education fundraising, the DeVos family has become a political force, but what are their objectives?
Dick DeVos comes from a family of entrepreneurs and business leaders. His father was Richard DeVos, the legendary co-founder of Amway Arenas, who passed away in 2018. Amway is one of the top companies in the world thanks to its sports arena franchise. DeVos learned quickly how to become a business leader from his father, and he has continuously shown that he is quite skilled at negotiation, collaboration, and finding opportunities.
His work with the Grand Rapids airport is a prime example of why he is such a business and political mastermind. His work started within the Grand Rapids business community in the early 1990s. He simply wanted to raise his hometown out of the economic crisis that was sweeping across Michigan at the time. The state had suffered severe setbacks due to the upheaval and removal of several factories. Western Michigan had been one of the hardest areas hit in the state.
However, DeVos had a plan to change all of that, and he worked with business leaders in the city to ensure that the plan would work. He built several areas around the business district to bring people back to the center of the city. This would include the DeVos Place Convention Center, which was instrumental in the next phase of DeVos' plan.
DeVos began to work closely with the CEO of the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. While it had been a small airport until recently, there had always been bigger aspirations for the airport. While it enjoyed a prime location in west Michigan, it didn't have the ticket sales to compete with some of the larger airports nearby. DeVos began to talk with the executive team at AirTran Airways. It's rumored that he made one phone call and asked for the CEO to open up flight destinations at the Grand Rapids location in order to boost ticket sales for his strategy.
DeVos saw that the airport could bring in business travelers, which would be a win-win as he wanted the city to become more of a business powerhouse. That was why he had built the convention center so close to the center of the city in the first place. These new destinations were approved, and once in place, ticket sales skyrocketed at the airport. In fact, the airport just surpassed 3.26 million passengers in 2018.
Today the airport is booming, and now DeVos has proof of his business traveler strategy that he can share with the new FAA council.
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Wedding card invitation represents ones culture and religion. I have seen many invitations which are really creative and has cool designs. At the same time I have also noticed one particular thing which is commonly used in most of the marriage invitations. It's the education and designation mentioned next to the bride / groom and relative's names. I wonder if it is really necessary to have those on a wedding card.
Mr. Abc, MS, XYZ Company, Engineer, London.
Are Degree, Company, Designation and Location really required ? It sounds more like a bio data than an invitation.
Hi Balu, in sixty's and even in seventy's they mentioned B.Sc. or B.A. also in some states. Nowadays proud parents will obviously show off. I want to see your Wedding invitation card. Best wishes and blessings.
I'm sill awaiting some photos of the lovely bride to be.
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Wow, someone is back :). Thank you Naima!
Yeah, and it was so refreshing to read all the joys in your life. Stay blessed. Thank you for sharing your beautiful world with us.


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The Library is celebrating Black History Month throughout October by highlighting books available to borrow from the library or read online. We will be displaying books about diversity, racism and black culture available to borrow from the Library on our lovely Library tree but we also have access to a collection of eBooks which all colleagues working in the NHS in England can access for free.
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After many years of deliberations and public hearings, the Department of Labor (DOL) is implementing a new fiduciary rule with regards financial advisors who represent plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The new DOL fiduciary rule requires all financial professionals associating with retirement plans or providing retirement planning guidance to be ethically and legally bound to fiduciary standards.
The simple definition of fiduciary says that a fiduciary is a person to whom someone has given their utmost trust and confidence to protect and manage financial assets. The DOL fiduciary rule is going beyond the simple definition and going with a legal interpretation that defines fiduciary duty as acting in the best interest of the beneficiary without any self-dealing or conflict of interest. The fiduciary is assumed to have greater knowledge and expertise than the beneficiary and must always put the needs of the beneficiary first.
—> An example is a stockbroker who sets aside all consideration of commissions when considering what investment is best for the client.
Previously, the investment advice fiduciary standards of ERISA were enforceable under the standard of suitability. An investment recommendation that met the stated objective and needs of the client was appropriate. Commissions and fees paid to the financial advisor did not matter unless they were overly excessive.
The problem with the suitability standard is that investors often paid unnecessary fees. These fees serve as a drag on investor returns. With more than $24 trillion in retirement assets including more than $7.5 trillion in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), the extra fees are conservatively estimated to be more than $20 billion per year.
Does the new fiduciary rule apply to my investments?
The DOL fiduciary rule applies to defined contribution plans including all 401(k) plans, Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plans, savings incentive match plans (Simple IRA), employee stock ownership plans, and 403(b) plans. The new fiduciary standard also applies to all traditional defined benefit plans and IRAs. After-tax investments in standard brokerage are not part of the new Department of Labor rules.
Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) and fee-only financial advisors will experience little change from the new fiduciary rule. However, securities brokers and insurance agents who receive the bulk of their compensation from commissions will be in a tough place in their new role as fiduciary advisors. Commission based products will still exist, but financial advisors will be required to obtain a signed Best Interest Contract Exemption (BICE) from their clients. The BICE is a statement on the client's part that they understand all the details regarding the financial representative's compensation. The financial advisor needs to fully disclose in plain language all forms of direct and indirect compensation.
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I mentioned this place and JR asked for my impressions. They are most favorable. The hotel is fairly new, with lovely rooms, nicely furnished in a small inn a block or so off the main plaza. Not exactly bargain-priced,but very reasonable for the quality. As for the restaurant, excellent. The menu looks like that of 1000 other places, but the difference is in the cooking. A mistress of the culinary arts at work here.The soup well flavored, the fish tender and moist, those Michoacan tamale things whose name escapes me steamed to a light fluffy perfection. We found the place too late in our stay get the full benefit of the discovery, but of all the accomadations we visited in a month, this waa the nicest.


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This blogpost has been inspired by my purchase and reading of Norman Baker's latest publication: 'What the Royal Family don't want you to know …. AND WHAT DO YOU DO?' (2019). I first came across the work of Norman Baker, former Minister of State and current Privy Councillor, when his work: 'The Strange Death of David Kelly' (2007) was referenced in 'An Inconvenient Death - How the Establishment covered up the David Kelly Affair' (2018) by Miles Goslett. Here is a link to the blogpost that I published after reading Miles Goslett's brilliantly researched and disturbing book:
https://robdonovan.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-death-of-dr-david-kelly-summary-of.html
I should point out that in my concluding paragraph I suggest that the lack of reviews of Miles Goslett's book was in itself suspicious. In private email correspondence, Miles Goslett reassured me that there were other reviews that I had not seen.
And I am now looking forward to reading Norman Baker's book on the strange death of David Kelly; I've just ordered it. We need more whistle-blowers such as Norman Baker and Miles Goslett. Take a look again at the blog-spot title caption I wrote in January 2016: 'Unrobing the Emperors and other matters of concern. An author's blog revealing political deception in the UK ….' Why do you think I wrote 'The Road to Corbyn' (2016), originally called 'Deception'?
Brilliantly researched and disturbing reading - as are the two books about the strange death of David Kelly I have referenced above.
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Your starter for ten points …. How many monarchies are left in Europe, what are they - and name one big difference between ours and the others?
There are 10 monarchies left in Europe. They are in Britain, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Liechtenstein and Monaco. All call themselves constitutional monarchies - but we only have an unwritten constitution. Our British
monarch does not swear to uphold democratic values - the coronation vows only require the new monarch to respect God and the church. They remain unchanged despite our transformation into a democracy over the last two hundred years.
Stars or Pound Signs in the sky?
And now for other interesting questions ….
What is the Sovereign Grant, how is it linked to the Tories in government - and how much are we, the British people, losing out as a result of its introduction?
April Fool's Day 2012 saw the Sovereign Grant Act (2011) implemented. The Sovereign Grant replaced the Civil List that had been used to provide state finance for the royalty since 1760 when George III did a deal with the government. He surrendered to the nation the lands that became known as the Crown Estates in return for money from the government to support him and his family and lifestyle through an increased Civil List, set at £800,000 a year. The government took over all the costs of funding the armed forces, the secret service, the judiciary, and other public institutions.
By the first decade of this century, the Civil List had reached an annual cost to the taxpayer of just under £8 million (£7.9 million). In 2010, the Tory-led Coalition government came to power in the UK under the premiership of David Cameron, who had a distant royal family connection. In 2011, the cost of the Civil List nearly doubled to £13.7 million. Meanwhile, the government's policy of Austerity was dramatically reducing public expenditure and increasing poverty and social inequalities. British people died as a consequence of Austerity. By 2012 - the first year of the Sovereign Grant - the cost to the taxpayer of supporting the royal family more than doubled to £31 million. By 2017, when Theresa May narrowly led the Tories to victory in a general election, the annual Sovereign Grant had risen to nearly £43 million (£42.8). The latest figure for 2018-19 is nearly £83 million (£82.8 million) - almost doubling in two years.
Taking an axe to excess in public expenditure to save the nation - a crackpot policy made all the nastier by the contrast with the exponential rise in the fortune owned by the royal family in this same decade.
If you are thinking 'This doesn't smell right', consider this royal icing on the cake:
Elizabeth Windsor has been on the throne since 1952 and her son and heir Charles has become more and more envious of the performance of the so-called Crown Estates - the lands that George III gave up as part of the deal in 1760. These Crown Estates had now become a well-endowed and well-placed, very profitable property company. Charles' pressure on governments to get some of the fruits from these public estates was resisted until the Tory-led coalition arrived in power in 2010. As part of the change to a Sovereign Grant, a scheme was introduced whereby a percentage of the profits of the Crown Estates went to the royal family - the 'Firm', as they call themselves. This was initially set at 15%. It is now 25%. What a wheeze!
And what a money-spinner! In July 2019, the Crown Estates - who hold the rights to the sea-beds around Britain - announced an auction for the biggest offshore wind power development in the world. Elizabeth Windsor and the Firm will get hundreds of millions of pounds from her 25% share of the profits, money that would otherwise have gone to the Treasury - to us - to fund our public services, our hospitals , our social care, our local government, and all the other institutions and agencies crippled by a decade of cutting in the name of Austerity. Remember, Austerity was always a political choice, never an economic necessity.
All this to the monarchy who already had the Privy Purse - the Queen's private income from sources such as the Duchy of Lancaster which owns the land on which the Savoy Hotel is built in London. Read on, following the words of the Daily Telegraph website:
'That money comes from the Duchy of Lancaster — a portfolio of land and other assets that's been in the royal family for hundreds of years. It contains $715 million (£548.6 million) worth of net assets (including 18,433 hectares of land) and is made up of residential, commercial, and agricultural properties, Wall Street Journal UK correspondent Max Colchester reported.
London's Savoy Hotel sits atop land controlled by the Duchy of Lancaster - the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall seem to have been regarded as so insignificant they were overlooked and omitted from the 1760 agreement between George III and the government. A costly mistake for the people of Britain. Before he became PM, Clement Attlee was telling the Commons in 1936: 'The Duchies are historic survivals … they cannot be considered in any way to be private estates'. But even socialist PMs such as Attlee suppress their original views on the monarchy once in power.
It brought in $27 million (£20.7 million) in 2019, according to The Journal. According to the royal family website, this sum helps with costs not covered by the Sovereign Grant — namely, it's used to pay "expenses incurred by other members of the royal family."'
Such as Andrew and Edward Windsor, for example? They are very high maintenance.
Another question to consider:
Which royal family in Europe has the most residences? How many - and how many are owned by the state and how many does that royal family have as private residences?
No surprise to find out that the Spanish, Dutch and Danish royal families manage with just two palaces apiece. The British royal family has occupation rights in 15 residences owned by the state. They also privately own several including Balmoral and Sandringham, the upkeep of which we pay for, to a degree. We are top of the leader-board in Europe for royal palaces.
The portfolio of 15 residences owned by the state and held in trust for the nation includes Buckingham, St James's and Kensington Palaces, Windsor Castle, the Royal Mews and Paddocks at Hampton Court, and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.
Until 1952, the monarch was required to fund the upkeep of Buckingham Palace entirely from the Civil List. Yet by 2016 - under a Tory government - '... the government was agreeing on behalf of the nation that public money should be used to foot the entire bill for a no-expense-spared £359 million revamp of Buckingham Palace' (Norman Baker (2019), p.198).
Buckingham Palace - a London residence 'sans pareil'.
And how do you think you should answer this one? Take care not to offend against royal protocol.
Name three actions you may not perform in the presence of Elizabeth Windsor (the Queen)?
You may not arrive at an event after Elizabeth Windsor. Nobody can.
You may not be in a location where you will be in a position to look down on Elizabeth Windsor at such an event. Nobody is allowed to do that.
You may not leave the event before Elizabeth Windsor chooses to do so. She must be the first to leave. It would be disrespectful for it to be otherwise. (Norman Baker (2019), p.359).
Windsor Castle, almost a stone's throw from Eton.
'Get those bloody planes off my castle' - words attributed to the Queen's consort, Philip, in the 1980s, as he successfully commanded the diversion from Windsor of the No 1 flight path into Heathrow.
Finally, some quick-fire questions:
Is the monarchy subject to our Freedom of Information Act, passed in 2000?
No. It's worth quoting Norman Baker again: '... the Queen in particular consistently generates strong popularity ratings …. [But] Is this because the real facts are hidden? The blanket exemption from the Freedom of Information Act hides the gluttonous excesses and the breath-taking tax breaks, and the unique ability to seal wills hides the enormous wealth that has been accumulated. A forelock-tugging political Establishment turns a blind eye, and a compliant media, fearful of losing access to the royal photos and press passes, is careful never to go too far in its criticism'. (Norman Baker (2019), p.8).
Who warned British students in China not to stay there too long, lest they return with 'slitty eyes'?
Philip Windsor (Elizabeth Windsor's husband - the Queen's consort).
Windsor Castle - Green Drawing Room
Who said, according to one of her ladies-in-waiting, 'The Africans just don't know how to govern themselves … What a pity we're not still looking after them.'?
Elizabeth's mother (The Queen Mother).
Is it true that a niece of the Queen Mother - a cousin of Elizabeth Windsor - spent most of her life in a home for people with learning disabilities, unvisited, unacknowledged?
Yes. In 1941, Katherine Bowes-Lyon and her sister Nerissa were dispatched to the royal Earlswood in Redhill, Surrey, aged 22 and 15. Three others - second cousins to the then Queen - also arrived that same day - Idonea, Rosemary Jean and Ethelreda Fane. Nerissa survived until 1986 and Katherine until 2014.
Read the story below for an even deeper insight
Here is Norman Baker on the subject: 'Nor, despite her fabulous wealth, her sixty servants and £300 bottles of champagne, did she (the Queen Mother - and a patron of Mencap, a charity dedicated to helping those with learning disabilities) provide her niece with even the most basic essentials. Until 2002, the royal family did not even provide Katherine with her own underwear. The fees for her stay at Ketwin House, also in Surrey, to where she had been transferred upon the closure of the Royal Earlswood, were picked up by the ever reliable NHS. Ketwin House was in fact closed while Katherine was resident there after allegations of physical abuse, the washing of female residents by male staff, and question marks over the handling of patient finances.
There's much more in Norman Baker's book - a timely expose of what we should have known and considered before. Here's a link to the Wikipedia article about the Sovereign Grant - it contains the fact that the annual cost of having a monarchy is at least £300 million:
'The Queen and the Prince of Wales also receive private income through the Duchy of Lancaster and Duchy of Cornwall.[18] The Sovereign Grant only accounts for a small part of the total cost of running the monarchy, which is approximately £300 million annually.[18] The Sovereign Grant does not cover the costs of police and military security and of armed services ceremonial duties.[8] Nor does it cover the costs of royal ceremonies or local government costs for royal visits.[18]'
In my four years of blog-posting, I have published on the republican theme once before - in 2016. Here is the link:
https://robdonovan.blogspot.com/2016/09/jeremy-corbyns-socialism-and-my-hopes.html - this post explores the links between my socialism and my republicanism.
Is it time for the peasants to start revolting? Now we are out of the EU does this benefit them even more? Could Buckingham Palace be officially declared as a home for the demented and bewildered? So many questions which I doubt will be answered..
ROB DONOVAN 1 February 2020 at 17:13
To doubt is the first step to sanity.


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Excellence Fair: presentations by the laureates of 2019, Paris
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The Excellence Fair is an initiative designed to offer the laureates of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards an opportunity to present their projects to their peers and the wider public. Each year, the award winners of the respective year are invited to discuss the success and impact of their project, but also to expand on the challenges that they faced and had to overcome. The result is a fascinating and educational insight into the inner workings of a successful heritage project. As such, the Excellence Fair is an outstanding opportunity to showcase the very best practices in the field of cultural heritage from across Europe. Participants are invited to discover and draw inspiration from these great achievements in favour of our shared cultural heritage.
This year's edition will be held on 28 October in the elegant Hôtel de Ville, located in the centre of Paris. The day will be divided into four rounds of discussions, each themed according to a different cornerstone of the "Five Pillars of the European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage". This ambitious document was released by the European Commission in December 2018 and has set a common direction for heritage-related activities at European level, primarily in EU policies and programmes. The following themes will be the guiding principles of each round of talks: inclusive heritage, sustainable heritage, resilient heritage and innovative heritage.
Each winner will be given the stage for about five minutes. With the help of audiovisual material, each of the laureates will speak about their project and respond to current themes in the conservation, promotion and management of heritage. The laureates will be encouraged to discuss the challenges that they faced at the different stages of implementing the projects or initiatives as well as how they succeeded in overcoming these hurdles.
The Excellence Fair is expected to be attended by approximately 300 people, including heritage and cultural professionals, academics, volunteers and supporters.
The European Heritage Awards Ceremony will take place the following evening, on Tuesday 29 October at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards are supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
09.00 – 9.30 Registrations
09.30 – 09.45 Opening remarks
09.45 – 10.45 First session: Inclusive Heritage
10.45 – 11.45 Second session: Sustainable Heritage
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.15 Third session: Resilient Heritage
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.30 Fourth session: Innovative Heritage
15.30 – 16.00 Lecture on Notre Dame
16.00 – 16.15 Conclusions
16:15 – 17:00 Closing Drinks
European Cultural Heritage Summit 2019
27 - 31 October 2019 - Paris, France


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Martial Artist of the Year – Taekwondo NZ
Master Evan Davidson completed 8 years Military Service with the New Zealand Army from 1969 to 1977. He then joined the New Zealand Police and completed 30 years Service (1977 to 2007) retiring in August 2007.
He is currently employed part time as an administrator with the Te Awamutu Safer Community Charitable Trust.
His ITF Taekwon-Do training began in 1972 whilst stationed in Singapore with the NZ Army training at the Chong Pang village Do jang and HMS Terror Navy Base Do Jang. He also trained at the Johore Bahru Taekwon-Do School in Malaysia.
He was promoted to 1st Dan Black Belt in September 1973 by ITF Examiner Mr. Lee Sung Soo.
On his return to New Zealand he established Taekwon-Do Schools in the suburbs of Miramar and Khandallah in Wellington. He later transferred to Te Awamutu with the NZ Police and subsequently opened ITF Taekwon-Do schools in the towns of Te Awamutu and Cambridge.
He became President of the New Zealand National Taekwon-Do Body (ITFNZ) in 2004 and he has attended and officiated at three ITF World Championships. (Dortmund-Germany 2005, Quebec-Canada 2007 and Mar Del Plata-Argentina 2009)
Master Davidson is currently Chair of the ITF Taekwon-Do Ethics and Discipline committee.
Master Davidson is committed to the late General Choi's original and authentic Taekwon-Do, its philosophy and teachings. He is dedicated to ensuring that the true ITF Taekwon-Do is practiced and spread throughout New Zealand, and also to the rest of the World, under the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF).
As Chair of the ITF Ethics and Discipline Committee, he undertakes all that is required to support and assist the ITF in whatever endeavour and direction they take according to their democratic processes. He sees all nations, it's peoples and cultures regardless of ideology coming together in trust and freedom under the ITF Taekwon-Do banner to build a more peaceful world.


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Jimmy Kimmel to Roy Moore: 'There Is No One I Would Love to Fight More Than You'
By Eli Meixler
A Twitter feud between Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and late night show host Jimmy Kimmel continued to escalate on Thursday, with the comedian telling Moore "there is no one I would love to fight more than you" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The squabble kicked off when comedian Tony Barbieri—for a segment on Kimmel's show—infiltrated a Nov. 29 Moore campaign event at a church in Theodore, Alabama. Barbieri, playing a character called "Jake Byrd" and wearing a "Gimme Moore" T-shirt, shouted down a protestor before being escorted out by security, AL.com reported. "The judge is a man's man," Ribieri said mockingly. "Does that look like the face of a molester?"
Moore, a former federal judge who is running for the Alabama Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has been accused by multiple women of sexually predatory behavior when they were teenagers.
Moore tweeted a link to a Breitbart story about the stunt on Thursday, challenging the late show host to come to Alabama and settle their differences "man to man" in Alabama and instigating an exchange of tweets that culminated with Kimmel saying he would "leave his daughters at home" if he met Moore.
Kimmel addressed the quarrel on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night, where he again questioned Moore's Christian convictions, in light of the allegations against him. Moore's campaign has denied and sought to discredit the allegations against him, which were originally reported by the Washington Post, by focusing on his evangelical background and portraying himself as the victim of a campaign by mainstream media to silence Christian conservatism.
"I happen to be a Christian too," Kimmel said. "And I will share what I learned at my church: at my church, forcing yourself on underage girls is a no-no. Some even consider it might be a sin."
Kimmel reiterated his willingness to meet Moore in Alabama and talk over their political differences— or to settle the dispute with their fists, "which is kind of what it sounds like," Kimmel said. "I accept by the way," the late night host said to cheers. "I will put my Christianity aside, just for you, for a fight."
Ribieri has made previous appearances as his long-lived "Jake Byrd," character at President Donald Trump's inauguration at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in San Diego in March 2016. At the event on Nov. 29, he also interrupted interviews attendees in the parking lot to praise Moore as a "genius," and confused local media, who took him for a genuine supporter.
The full segment will air Friday night.
Write to Eli Meixler at eli.meixler@time.com.


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Russ Meyer R.I.P.
I have to admit that I've never seen a Russ Meyer's film - like "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" or "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens" - but it bears a mention that he favored women of a certain level of...um...endowment. His starlets made Pamela Anderson look like Selma Blair. Speaking of which, the way they've got Selma made up for the new John Waters flick, "A Dirty Shame", is precisely what Meyer was known for:
Got cookie?
Roger Ebert was a friend and wrote "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and has a real informative tribute which reveals:
His films were X-rated but not pornographic. Meyer told me he had two reasons for avoiding hard-core: (1) "I want to play in regular theaters and keep the profits, instead of playing in porn theaters and doing business with the mob." (2) "Frankly, what goes on below the waist is visually not that entertaining." For Meyer, what went on above the waist was a lifelong fascination; he cheerfully affirmed his obsession with big breasts.
Take that, Hef!
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Kent's Cavern report on the way?
Results of tests on a jawbone excavated from Torquay's Kents Cavern are being eagerly awaited to see if the piece is Britain's first example of Neanderthal remains.
The piece has been analysed by the University of Hull's Centre for Medical Engineering and Technology and all that is awaited now is the findings of a detailed CT scan.
The research was initiated when Dr Roger Jacobi and Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum obtained new radio-carbon dates for animal bones found in cave sediments directly above and below where the jaw fragment was found at Kents Cavern.
These indicated that the layer in which the maxilla was found dates to between 37,000 and 40,000 years ago, and, if the jawbone fragment is a similar age, it would be even more significant than first thought.
If the jaw proves to be Neanderthal, then Kents Cavern will not only be the only place in Britain where there is direct evidence that Neanderthals once lived, but also it would confirm that Neanderthals spread across Europe and reached Britain far earlier than is currently thought.
I wrote about the reanalysis of KC 4 in early 2005, and added a post with Keith's diagnosis of the specimen.
Scanning is fun and all, but I really doubt that an internal scan is going to reveal anything diagnostic about the specimen (i.e., outside the range of one or the other possibility). And based on the last couple of years of papers, I would say that finding a modern mtDNA sequence would essentially be a negative result: nobody seems to be willing to say that the presence of a modern sequence can be distinguished from contamination.
So, I suppose it will be a Neandertal -- the first known from Britain. I hope the Torquay Museum puts on an exhibit about how hard it is to tell Neandertals from modern humans -- that would be interesting!


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Farm teaches students to live off the land
By RODNEY MANLEY
The Telegraph of Macon
GRAY, Ga. (AP) — The muddy trail to Salamander Springs is full of twists and turns.
A young deer darts across the road and bounces off into a stand of pines. Around the bend, a hand-painted sign tacked to a tree warns hunters: "No Hunting — Amazonian Women's Poet Society."
"There's nothing better to keep hunters away than a women's poet society," Debbie Waugh explained with a chuckle.
The rugged road winds on past piles of rocks stacked neatly in front of a pair of rough-hewn but colorful cabins. It ends as the woods open to Waugh's farm, where college-age volunteers weed the patches of green growing in the raised beds of earth and compost that dot the hillside's red clay.
Hand-dug holding ponds catch the rain and runoff. Water is a precious resource, and not just here, where holding tanks and gravity provide the only running water.
Waugh's 50-acre homestead in Jones County near the Baldwin County line is off the grid. Solar panels provide what little power exist on the farm. A solar inverter on a wall in Waugh's home feeds two rows of car batteries.
"We have an occasional movie night," said Nate Kermiet, a 20-year-old from Lansing, Mich.
Kermiet is a "WWOOFer," a volunteer with the organization World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, which hooks up young people like Kermiet with a network of natural farmers. Waugh's farm is a permaculture classroom, teaching students how to cultivate their own "naturally grown" foods while promoting sustainability through practices that protect the planet.
They live — and learn — off the land.
"You're creating a permanent culture, design systems that are sustainable, long-lasting," Waugh said.
Waugh, a teacher at Central Georgia Technical College, estimates that about 200 volunteers have worked on the farm since it started six years ago.
"This is the first time in history that young people could decide to be doctors and lawyers and they're becoming farmers," she said. "It's really popular, especially with the economy being really bad." Salamander Springs is part of what Waugh calls a "burgeoning natural farm community in central Georgia." It's one of about a half-dozen farms in the area that eschew pesticides and chemical fertilizers for more organic methods, though few are as hard-core as Waugh's.
Daniel Schmidt, of Sacramento, has lived there off and on for two years, traveling to Alaska for seasonal work and then to California to visit his family before heading back to Georgia.
"It's just seems like a meaningful way of life," Schmidt said while breaking down a truckload of cardboard boxes for use as mulch around fruit and nut trees. "The work that I do puts food in my belly and not money in somebody else's pocket."
'Place of peace and beauty'
Over the hilltop, a wood-stoked fire roars in the kiln-like oven shaped by hand from a sturdy clay-and-straw mix called cob.
Once the blaze dies down and the oven's walls are hot, bread is baked for the next day's market in Macon. Soon, the volunteers will start gathering crops, herbs and other potted plants to sell.
"The work ends up not feeling like work, it's like everyday living," Kermiet said. "It gets to where I don't differentiate between work and play. You feel like what you're doing is for a cause."
Kermiet arrived at the farm in October and worked there until mid-March, when he set out on a bike ride from Oregon to San Francisco.
"It's never dull," he said. "I thought I might get tired and bored pretty quick, but it hasn't happened yet."
Kermiet proved to be quite the carpenter, skills he picked up from his father. He built a solar-powered shower and, in keeping with the farm's philosophy, constructed an impressive cabin almost completely from discarded materials. The $200 spent on the structure mostly was for screws and nails.
"I've never built anything from the ground up. I've never built anything from trash," he said.
Kermiet installed old doors, sideways, as windows. He laid tile floors inside and outside the cabin. He built a bay area and mosaic-tiled bench, also from cob. And he installed an old window as a skylight and encased rows of glass bottles in a section of wall, again, also built from cob.
Kermiet, like many of the volunteers who come to Salamander Springs, is a musician and artist, and the cabin has offered a peaceful place for writing songs and making art.
"I see it as more of a sculpture piece," he said, "a functioning piece of art."
Waugh hopes that Kermiet can get noticed and gain entry to a green building school in Asheville, N.C.
"He's very talented," she said.
The farm does a lot of what Waugh described as "scavenging and repurposing, as it is now called."
"Most everything out here is built from something somebody threw away."
Kermiet also landscaped, digging a mote and transplanting moss that he hopes will spread around the area. With permaculture, structures should blend in and "become part of nature," Waugh explained.
A plaque on the grounds declares, "Nature is the art of God."
"My vision," Waugh said, "is also to create a place of peace and beauty."
A typical day at Salamander Springs, which gets its name from the four natural springs on the property, begins about 8 a.m. with breakfast cooked over an open fire outside the tent-like kitchen that Waugh named, "Kitchen on the Edge of the Universe."
Some days wind down with a gathering around a campfire, a short walk across a bridge that spans the creek cutting through the property. From there, trails wind through 49-acres of forest, offering a serene walk for WWOOFers wanting to get even closer to nature.
Some have coined a description for their stays at the farm: "insanely committed camping."
"We only go inside to sleep, don't we?" Waugh jokingly asked one student.
The farm does offer a bicycle-powered smoothie machine. Students laughed that their only entertainment is the "chicken channel and dog channel." But they're not completely cut off from the outside; during breaks, several were chatting on cell phones.
Salamander Springs relies heavily on help from neighboring farms. "All of our farm friends have donated materials," Waugh explained. There's also some old-fashioned bartering, which can help bring in venison and pork for WWOOFers who aren't vegetarians.
A large holding pond on the hillside garden, between an orchard of fruit and nut trees and the garden, sat empty, but not for long. The farm planned to borrow pigs from one farmer who hopes to fatten them up for his daughter's wedding. The farm, in turn, plans to use the pigs' proclivity for wallowing in the mud as a natural means of sealing the pond so that it will hold water.
"My biggest challenge, being off the grid, is keeping everything watered," said Waugh. "I try to hold moisture in the soil rather that take it from the aquifer."
Waugh started the farm as a place for her grandchildren. Between the hundreds of students she's hosted over the years and the area's natural farming community, she has "a huge extended family."
Amy Bean, owner of The Little Farm in Jones County, describes Waugh as "the sweetest person I know."
"She loves to share her knowledge, loves to encourage people," Bean said.
Waugh is teaching an introduction to permaculture class this month at Central Georgia Technical College in Milledgeville. She also often hosts workshops at the farm and at markets in Macon and Milledgeville.
One hands-on experience for the public that also supports the farm is its tree-sponsoring program.
"For $25 you get to plant a tree, get a plaque and you get to eat fruit from it," said Waugh.
For more information on this and other programs at the farm, call (478) 952-3544.
For Waugh, a former school teacher, the WWOOFer program has been rewarding, both professionally and personally.
"It's great for the farms. You get the help," she said. "You stay inspired because they want to learn. It's not like teaching high school, where you have to ram it down their throats. I learn from them, too, because they've been to other farms."
Kermiet, the would-be green architect, said the growing interest in all things permaculture reflects a new attitude in his generation.
"There are a lot of young people thinking differently about what they want their lives to be," he said. "Do they want to determine what lives will be, or do they want a corporation to determine their lives for them?"


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Ithaca, home to Cornell University and Ithaca College, may be best known as a laid-back college town, but given its stunning setting on the south shore of 40-mile-long Cayuga Lake, and sandwiched between two incredible gorges, it perhaps deserves to be even better known for its natural beauty. Certainly that's not lost on residents, many of whom cruise around town with T-shirts or bumper stickers that read "Ithaca is Gorges." Ithaca is a cosmopolitan town with many of the amenities of a bigger city, such as good restaurants, bars, and theaters, but few of the hassles -- all of which contributed to its once being ranked as the no. 1 "emerging city" in the U.S., by Cities Ranked & Rated. The city and surrounding Tompkins County abound in beautiful natural areas ripe for hiking, biking, and other outdoor activities, while wine fans can follow the Cayuga Wine Trail. Some 15 wineries line the southern (and mostly western) section of the lake, where they are easily accessible from Ithaca.
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Fall and all its glory is here. I enjoy the delicate way in which leaves scatter themselves along the surface of streams, rocky ledges and the forest floor, creating lacy textures, and colorful patterns with their shapes. This collection of images was made in the New York State's Finger lakes area and in Maryland's Susquehanna State Park. All the images were run through snapart2 for a soft impressionist feeling.
I have had the pleasure of tutoring one on one with some very talented women photographers this week. That is always fun. On Wednesday I went to Fells Point and was very fortunate to witness the Great Schooners in the harbor, set sail for a parade of sails before the race out of Baltimore on Thursday morning to Norfolk. My student was photographing the event for her lesson and I was kicking myself for not having my camera! But I was working and it was about her not me, but it was still pretty cool to witness!
I am looking forward to my workshop tomorrow for Penn Camera at the Susquehanna State Park and meeting Teri-Lou at the beach on Sunday.


Dr. Mark Rogers, Optometrist, Eye Exam - Mark E. Rogers, O.D.,P.A.
Eyes are part of an entire body. Dr. Rogers examines your eyes and provides treatment with a holistic approach, considering how you function as a whole person.
Dr. Rogers addresses eye strain and how it can create neck pain and headache. For that reason he is careful not to prescribe more power than what you really need, so don't worry if you cannot tell which lenses are better, "number one or number two". Dr. Rogers can tell even if you can't.
Dr. Rogers looks forward to providing you with the very best eye care. Eye care is more than 20/20. There are many people, including young children, who may have "20/20" vision and still have problems in their visual system. These problems include focusing or reading strain which could require eyeglasses, and glaucoma or retinal problems which can remain "hidden" from a person's awareness. The American Optometric Association recommends annual eye exams. Children can have their visual system examined by a pediatric eye doctor at one year of age to detect problems early in the child's development.
Dr. Rogers provides all types of eye care including specialty glasses, specialty contacts, colored contacts, eye disease diagnosis and management, including cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes, macula degeneration, dry eye, conjunctivitis, inflammations and infections and vision therapy for "lazy eye", "reading strain", visual perception difficulties which can affect learning (including poor visual memory skills, figure ground differentiation, or fine motor visual integration) and depth perception or balance problems.
Dr. Rogers does accept some insurances (given proper eligibility and pre-authorization) including medicare, medicaid, vsp, vcp, vci, eyemed, spectera, davisvision, avmed, amerigroup, advantica, safeguard, and some commercial plans offered by cigna, aetna, humana, UHC, and blue plans (other plans not listed, so ask).
Dr. Rogers has been practicing in Tamarac and the tri-county area for over ten years. He examines all ages from 1 year of age to 111 years of age.
Patients are naturally curious regarding the background of their physicians. Dr. Rogers educational and training background includes an Ivy League education, professional school graduation with honors, and Florida Board Certification scores in the top ten percentile.
Binocular vision dysfunction is a general name for a variety of conditions which make it difficult for a person to see their surrounding space and environment or their reading material accurately in a clear, single, three dimensional fashion as most people do. Some of these conditions include amblyopia (one or both eyes see less than 20/25 even wearing glasses with best correction), strabismus (commonly known as cross-eye), eso- or exo- phoria (called by some as poor eye teaming or straining which can cause double vision - either momentarily or frequently, whereby the person's eyes have to make extra effort than is typical to zero in on words or objects in order to keep these words or objects single and clear), accommodative infacility (difficulty maintaining focus and sometimes referred to commonly as eye strain), and suppression (commonly referred to as turning one eye off and relying on one eye more or relying on only one eye).
There are effective treatments for these ailments. These treatments do not require drugs nor surgery. They require the person becoming aware of these deficiencies and having a coach show them how to overcome them; how to strengthen their vision system; how to practice these skills which other people take for granted. This coach is an optometric physician like Dr. Rogers, who is trained in and understands binocular vision dysfunction therapy (vision therapy for short). There is no magic in vision therapy. It is all common sense. Just as a pianist must learn how to use their brain in conjunction with their hands and ears and eyes on a methodical practice schedule or as a baseball pitcher needs to learn the careful motions to pitch accurately with the help of a coach, or as some people need to learn to hone their listening skills so that they do better in class when the teacher is speaking, some people need help in gaining control over their eye movements to make them smoother, or their focusing to make it more accurate, or their eye hand and general balance to make their vision system locate objects more accurately. Sometimes a coach such as Dr. Rogers, can utilize a special type of lens called a prism lens to either alleviate the deficiency or to help train and strengthen the person's own natural vision system. There are other tools and devices which sometimes can be employed by the coach and student such as polarized filters, strings and visual games, and flashlighting. The vision system is more than the eye itself. The eye is a sort of camera which creates sight. Vision is created by the brain coordinating the use of two individual cameras (eyes) and accuracy is influenced by other sensory systems (eg, touch/balance and hearing) attached to and integrated by the brain, both on a conscious as well as subconscious level. The term biofeedback is commonly used to describe how the conscious level can be used to sort of recalibrate automatic or subconscious function. Binocular vision dysfunction therapy often employs techniques which yield biofeedback information to the patient so that they can recalibrate, for instance, their focusing accuracy. There is plenty more to read and learn at a website named children-special-needs.org check it out or send Dr. Rogers an email with a question.
Glaucoma is a disease that causes blindness. There are different types of glaucoma, including one type that can happen suddenly and painfully. Usually glaucoma happens very slowly, first by taking away the side vision and then can progress to take the central vision as well. Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve or nerve fibers in the retina of the eye. The one million nerve fibers slowly die off and blind spots develop. This process can be identified early if you come in to see your eye doctor regularly through the use of computers and different examination techniques and careful analysis. Diabetics have special risk for this disease. It can be passed on through the generations as well. The percentage of people that actually get glaucoma is small but certainly not rare. It is often written that half the actual cases of glaucoma in the general population have not yet been identified. Dr. Rogers has diagnosed many cases of glaucoma each year often in people who never suspected it themselves and a significant number of these new patients were already wearing glasses and had occasional eye exams in the past.
Recently, Dr. Rogers, an optometric physician, saw a patient who had eye drops at one time long ago but at present was not using eye drops. He was not exactly sure which drop it was and he was not so sure he had glaucoma. He had not been to an eye doctor for a long time. Dr. Rogers found that the eye pressure had climbed to 27 mm hg. This was too high for this patient. Blind spots had developed. New drops were prescribed for the patient by Dr. Rogers.
Dr. Rogers finds that sometimes patients go to a hospital and when they are discharged, a medicine list is issued and glaucoma drops are overlooked. Sometimes, pharmacies run out of refills and do not call Dr. Rogers' cell phone to ask for extensions. This is another reason patients might find themselves without drops and soon forget they should be taking them.
Glaucoma drops should not be discontinued unless your optometric physician has found a necessary reason to discontinue, such as allergy or drop ineffectiveness. Occasionally, a drop could be become ineffective after prolonged use. The doctor might change to a different eye drop. This is a reason to keep rechecking glaucoma patients periodically. Another reason is to review instructions and methods of installation. It does not do much good for a patient to have an eye drop if the patient is having trouble actually instilling the eye drop consistently.
Good glaucoma care requires careful analysis over time, considering different tests and factors to determine whether eye drops should be used or surgery pursued. Sometimes simple observation might be appropriate for some cases which may simply be glaucoma suspicion and not "active" glaucoma.
A geriatric patient had been feeling discomfort in his eye. He knew he had cataracts and thought the discomfort was the cataract.
Dr. Mark E. Rogers, an optometric physician ( optometrist ) , stopped by a home to see this bed ridden patient. Using his hand held BioMicroscope, Dr. Rogers observed the real culprit that caused the discomfort; it was an inflammation. There was an area of whiteness on this patient's peripheral cornea. The neighboring conjunctiva, or white part of the eye, was faintly red, too small for his caretaker to notice. Usually corneal infections hurt and are very red. However, some inflammations and infections like this one can persist for a long while, as the body keeps it in check but cannot resolve it completely. Dr. Rogers prescribed an antibiotic called ciloxan, in this case. In other cases, Dr. Rogers selects an antibiotic combined with a steroid when the eye is very red and there are no contra-indications to the steroid. This patient's eye returned to normal and the discomfort went away. Now that the patient felt better, the patient felt cataract surgery could wait until later.


The Keren Shemesh Foundation is a privately funded non-governmental organisation investing in the next generation of business leaders.
The Keren Shemesh Foundation was founded in December 2005 by the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation in Switzerland and the Rashi Foundation in Israel, and became an accredited member of Youth Business International in 2007.
Keren Shemesh's mission is to help transform the lives of young entrepreneurs in Israel: to give them the essential tools and support to turn their ideas into successful, job-creating businesses. Through a dedicated community of mentors, staff, alumni, and partner organisations, it provides young professionals with guidance that is carried with them both in the launching of a business, and well into the future.
The result is a significant contribution not only to the individuals in the program, but also to the Israeli economy, which largely relies on the existence, innovation, and drive of its young entrepreneurs.


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Hello, and welcome to Counter Culture Games! Our aim is simple – to bring people and games together.Board games and card games have changed a lot over the last 20 years, and up and down the country thousands of people are rediscovering the joys of tabletop gaming.
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If you think that board games are about arguing over Monopoly or studying complicated Chess openings, we have great news for you; there's so much more to modern games.
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Pandemic is a hugely successful game that introduced the idea of cooperative games. In a cooperative game, the players are not playing against each other, they are playing as a team against the game itself. Either everyone wins, or everyone loses. In Pandemic, the...
Ticket to Ride looks more like what most people think of when they think about board games. It's got a big colourful board for everyone to sit around and lots of little trains for each player. But there are no dice, and once again, no one is eliminated before the end...
Carcassonne is almost as well known as Catan. It was first published in 2000 and is still going strong. It's like a modern take on dominoes, but with much more colour and charm. Inspired by the medieval walled town of Carcassonne in France, the game is about building...
Catan (or Settlers of Catan)
Catan (formerly known as Settlers of Catan) is the most popular and well known of the new generation of board games. It came out in 1995 and has sold millions of copies across the world. The aim of the game is to build villages, roads and cities across the almost...
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We don't just sell games, we want to help you find people to play them with as well. That's why we are organising game events at various venues around Essex. We know that the best advertisement for our games is the games themselves. That's why we're taking our collection of demonstration copies on the road for you to try them out for yourself. Take a look at our calendar to see if we're coming to a venue near you. If not, why not get in touch with your suggestions? We'll try to arrange something.


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H1-B Visas – Going Where the Talent Is
By John Smith Access to Talent April 5, 2017
H1-B Visa Restrictions
"As of April 1, new H-1B VISA restrictions include increased site visits to those workers who sit offsite at a different company's location. Anticipating that the talent will not be available in the US, many CEOs are publicly announcing they will access the talent overseas or across borders utilizing proper contingent workforce best practices and abiding by global compliance." Louis B Calamaras
CEO's – Go Where The Talent Is
The U.S. has resumed accepting applications for its H-1B work visas, but uncertainty over the program is leading some technology firms to consider shifting business overseas if they are unable to find top talent.
"If I'm not able to get those people here in the U.S., I absolutely will have to go and find a way to hire them wherever they are," said Hitesh Sheth, CEO of U.S.-based cybersecurity start-up Vectra Networks, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect computer hacks.
The business currently conducts all of its research and development in the U.S., but Sheth didn't rule out shifting R&D overseas if it means guaranteeing access to a skilled workforce.
Staying Competitive
"It is something that I want to really resist from doing so, but at the end of the day, being competitive is one of my highest priorities, obviously. And so I'll go where the talent is," he told CNBC's "The Rundown."
The H-1B visa is for specialized workers attached to local employers who say they cannot find enough American employees with needed skills. A modest 85,000 temporary work visas are made available each year.
Still, a total of 236,000 bids were made in the program's first open week for applications last year, and each visa is randomly awarded by a computerized lottery system.
"It is that tough to find the right kind of talent, and H-1B is a crucial program in enabling companies to find the best and the brightest," said Sheth.
Vectra Networks employs about 120 people. Its core team consists of threat researchers, data scientists, network security engineers and user interface designers. According to the company, four current Vectra Networks staff members have H-1B visas.
"I assure you they are doing incredible work for us. That means we have more success with our customers, and that means we can hire more people here in the U.S.," Sheth said.
He also told CNBC he may need to apply for two or three additional H-1B visas to fill specialized roles as his business grows.
"For companies like us, who are trying to recruit the best and the brightest, we need every means available to us to be able to do that — and very often those people will be from countries outside the United States," he said.
The Trump administration has cracked down on the program and recently revised a series of H-1B guidelines aimed at entry-level software programmers and IT companies ahead of the application opening. The expedited processing of applications was also suspended.
The above article was posted Tuesday, 4 Apr 2017 on CNBNC.com. Click here to view the original article.
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St. Anthony's Parish
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St. Anthony's Parish Parish
2347 Inglewood Avenue
West Vancouver, BC V7V 1Z9
The choir enhances the liturgical celebrations by leading the music ministry at Sunday Masses through hymns and songs that will ensure the "full, conscious, and active participation in the liturgical celebration" (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 14). The whole church community benefits from participating in the Eucharist through prayerful music.
The Ministry of Music enables us to rejoice in and worship the Lord through His wonderful gift of music! James 1:17 explains that every good gift comes from God - and music is most certainly one of those gifts. We experience the Word of God, His message for us and the Holy Eucharist each Mass in various ways. The many songs written for His glory are just one of those ways!
The Music Ministry is thoughtfully and prayerfully provided at each weekend Mass by our devoted group of musicians and long-time parishioners. Their efforts and joyful praise have given the parishioners of St. Anthony's a long tradition of beautiful liturgical music. The Sunday Mass choirs are directed by Ian Law at the 9:00 am Mass and Alenka Rener at the 11:00 am Mass, while Noel Murphy provides the music for the 5:00 pm Saturday Mass.
If you love music and would like to join one of our 2 choirs, or would like more information, please leave a message at the parish office. We are always on the lookout for new members and welcome any level of musical ability. Our regular Sunday Masses start with a rehearsal approximately 45 minutes before each Mass, and additional rehearsals for special occasions are announced as needed.
Catholic Women's League
The Catholic Women's League of Canada (CWL) is a national organization rooted in gospel values calling its members to holiness...
Youth are an integral part of the life and growth of the Church. At our parish, we put priority on the formation &...
Parish Religious Education for Children (PREP)
The goal of PREP is to assist parents in the religious education of children attending public schools in Kindergarten to Grade...
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these" Luke 19:16 The...
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for Vocations Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursdays. We pray for Vocations to the...
Sunday: 9:00 am and 11:00 am
Monday to Friday: 8:00 am
Saturday & Holidays: 9:00 am
First Friday: 7:00 pm
Saturday: 9:30 am and 4:15 pm
Monday to Saturday: before morning Mass


Earlier this year, a team of scientists from the New York Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution deployed an acoustic buoy to record the sound of whales off the coast of New York City. The buoy is listening 24/7 and conducting the largest ever survey of the whales that visit the Big Apple. Within two weeks, the listening post recorded its first visitor, and it was a big one — a fin whale.
In what's likely a surprising revelation to many people, New York is home to a diverse population of whales, with seven different species having been sighted offshore by both scientists and whale-watching vessels. Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the New York Aquarium, wanted to learn more about this population and deployed a sophisticated acoustic listening buoy that'll float off the shore. The bright orange buoy will bob at the surface of the ocean in a location known as the New York Bight, a wedge-shaped section of the continental shelf that extends from the eastern tip of Long Island to the Cape May area of New Jersey.
Designed by Woods Hole scientists and manufactured by EOM Offshore, the buoy is comprised of three essential parts — an orange surface portion with a satellite antenna, an anchored bottom node with a digital acoustic monitoring device, and a stretch hose that transmits sounds from the monitoring to the surface. Themonitoring device hovers a few feet above the ocean floor, capturing and recording the vocalizations of the offshore whales. It can distinguish whale sounds from background noises and identifies which whales are making that sound. These signals are sent through the stretch hoses to the buoy, where a satellite antenna is used to send the information to a land-based computer. The recorded data is then shared on a public website in nearly real time.
After deploying the device on June 23, the team recorded its first whale vocalization a mere 12 days later on July 4. The first whale to visit the buoy was a fin whale, the world's second-largest species of whale. Known for its streamlined shape and dorsal fin, the fin whale is commonly spotted in the Bight by whale watchers. Since its first vocalization, the fin whale has been detected several times, with the most recent visit recorded on July 30. Only the fin whale has been identified to date, but the researchers expect to hear other whales, such as the commonly spotted humpback whale and the endangered North Atlantic right whale, in the future.


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Gravestones No. 10-14 and No. 24 are of the children of Joseph Jason Spencer (gravestone No. 9) and Celina (née Kettelle) Spencer.
Joseph Jason Spencer is the third son of Roby (née Tarbox) and Richard Anthony ("Deacon") Spencer (gravestone No. 6).
Richard Anthony ("Deacon") Spencer is the fourth son of Huldah (neé Johnson) and John Spencer (gravestone No. 2).
This entry was posted in All Gravestones, Born into the Spencer line,, Sets of Siblings on January 20, 2013 by Heather.


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Blue Monday is supposedly the most depressing day of the year, and collectively we're all starting to crave carbs and comfort food to boost our moods! According to research, most people are opting for the chocolate – which is no surprise. Second on the list comes pizza, which I can totally understand too.
Making a simple pizza at home can give you the food you crave, with lower calories than their takeaway equivalents and they taste so good when served hot, straight from your own oven. Kids also love to get involved in making the pizza dough and spreading out their own toppings.
This pizza fiorentina recipe is great, since it also gives you an egg on top – which is well known for it's nutritious and energy boosting properties.
The ingredient quantities above serve 4 – multiply as required to feed a bigger family.
1. Heat the oven to 220°C, gas mark 7. Keeping a little aside for kneading, tip the bread mix into a large bowl and add 320ml water at room temperature. Bring together to make a soft dough. Knead for 5 minutes, then divide equally into four balls.
2. Lightly dust the surface with the reserved bread mix and roll the balls out into four 18-20cm rounds. Transfer to two large non-stick baking trays, cover with a clean tea towel and leave to rise in a warm place for 10 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, wash the spinach well and cook in a large pan or microwave for a minute or so, until wilted. Squeeze out the excess water.
4. Spread the passata over the pizza bases and arrange the spinach on top, leaving a space in the centre of each for the egg. Scatter the mozzarella over the spinach, then crack an egg into the centre of each pizza.
5. Lightly spritz the pizzas with olive oil spray, then bake for 15-20 minutes, until the edges are browned and the eggs are set. Serve straightaway with the salad.
Using their research on Blue Monday cravings, Waitrose.com has created a 'Brighter New Year' page with a selection of healthy and colourful recipes packed with a variety of different nutrients to help you feel good about yourself, so do check it out for some more healthy recipes ideas.
And of course, don't forget to follow our own healthy food board on Pinterest!