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What You Should Know About Job Killing 'Worker Centers'
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
How would you feel if someone you never met from a "worker center" went to your boss and said he represents you? What if this person took outrageous positions that might get you fired, or might make your employer move out of state, or out of the country?
If you have never heard of worker centers, you are not alone.
Worker centers are tax-exempt organizations that offer education, training, employment services, and legal advice, as is appropriate for their 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. In addition, some advocate for worker rights through demonstrations, lobbying, and community organizing. They seek to persuade employers to change wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment.
Some worker centers' activities are similar to those of unions, which do not have 501(c)(3) status. Further, unions are required to file information about their finances with the Labor Department, and hold elections under rules put in place by the National Labor Relations Board.
Newly-confirmed Labor Department Secretary Thomas Perez began his career as a volunteer at the worker center Casa de Maryland, and rose to become president of its board of directors.
Chairman John Kline of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and Chairman David Roe of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions wrote to Perez on July 23, "Today, many of these 'worker centers' are dealing with employers directly on behalf of employees. Given these activities, a case has been made that at least some 'worker centers' are labor organizations as defined by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which would make them subject to annual filing requirements."
With a new Labor secretary and the expected confirmation of new members of the National Labor Relations Board, the status of worker organizations and their relation to unions is becoming increasingly relevant. The Labor Department and the NLRB, as well as the Internal Revenue Service, will likely be called to weigh in.
The IRS has been criticized for disallowing the tax-exempt status of organizations supporting right-wing political groups. Why has the IRS not investigated worker centers?
No complete count is available, but there were at least 214 worker centers in the United States in 32 states in 2012, up from 5 centers in 1992, 137 in 2003, and 160 in 2007.
One well-known worker center is the Restaurant Opportunities Center and its Affiliates (ROC). The group's mission is "to improve wages and working conditions for the nation's 10 million restaurant workers." Since January 2008, when the organization started focusing on developing groups outside New York City, ROC has launched affiliates in New Orleans, Miami, Michigan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington, D.C. to conduct workplace justice campaigns. In 2011, the latest year available, ROC listed revenues of $2.7 million. Of that, over 99 percent came from charitable contributions.
Another example, cited in Kline's letter, is the Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates (KIWA), which picketed restaurants with the object of increasing wages. And Organization United for Respect at Wal-Mart (OUR Wal-Mart) organized a series of protests outside Walmart Stores on the day after Thanksgiving in 2012.
Following complaints from Wal-Mart, the United Food and Commercial Workers union agreed to stop the OUR Wal-Mart protests in January 2013. The UFCW wrote to NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon that "UFCW and OUR Walmart have no intent to have Wal-Mart recognize or bargain with UFCW or OUR Wal-Mart as the representatives of Wal-Mart employees."
Labor unions cannot use extended picketing, disruptive protests, or secondary boycotts, but worker centers are not prohibited from doing so.
The powers and duties of labor organizations were specified in a succession of laws, beginning with the National Labor Relations Act, passed in 1935, also known as the Wagner Act; the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, also known as Taft-Hartley; and the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, passed in 1959, also known as the Landrum Griffin Act.
The upshot of these laws is that employees were given the right to choose representatives in mandatory regular elections, the organizations had to be transparent and file their financial reports with the Department of Labor for review, officers now had a fiduciary duty to members in matters related to labor unions' financial assets and property, and organizations that held exclusive bargaining power were required to fairly represent any worker in a bargaining unit, regardless of membership.
Worker centers claim to represent employees, yet they are not selected by workers to represent them in their dealing with employers.
Under current law, employees decide whether or not to be represented by an organization. It is not the organization that decides whether to represent employees, who are entitled to choose their representatives using a democratic process that involves a secret ballot election. Organizations that sponsor worker centers attempt to represent employees without their consent.
Plus, worker centers disregard the basic democratic principles that the law requires of labor unions. In addition to democratic elections for their leadership, employees have a basic right to full access to the union's books to determine their finances.
Worker centers do not have to file union financial disclosure forms to the Labor Department. The required filing of these forms offers union members a degree of financial transparency, since members know how their dues are being spent and how much union officials are paid.
Since most worker centers are organized as 501(c)(3) entities, they are allowed to receive tax-deductible donations. The tax code provides a large incentive to individuals to give to recognized charities. Not only does losing the 501(c)(3) status affect the amount donated by individuals, it also affects the amount received from foundations, because many foundations are required to give only to charities.
Labor unions, on the other hand, have 501(c)(5) status, and donations to 501(c)(5) organizations are not usually tax-deductible. While losing 501(c)(3) status does not guarantee that an organization would lose all its support from individuals, corporations, and foundations, it is clear that doing so would negatively affect the organization's donations. Some of ROC's $2.7 million in 2011 revenues might not materialize.
Worker centers have experienced dramatic growth partly due to their tax benefits and their ability to circumvent transparency requirements and election of officers. They have a distinct advantage in comparison to traditional unions, which have to comply with regulations and register under a specific tax status in order to insure they are representing members' wishes and making transparent use of their funds.
Under Secretary Perez and the newly-reconstituted National Labor Relations Board, worker centers may be getting more power. They should stop masquerading as friends of workers and admit they are self-promoters. If they act like unions, they should have the same tax status, and the same responsibilities.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, is senior fellow and director of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute. Follow her on Twitter: @FurchtgottRoth.
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In today's fast-moving culture, it's challenging enough just to raise a biological child or an adopted child who hasn't been abused. Adopting a child who has been abused requires parents to have extra stores of emotional intelligence and availability — and a large and strong support network, as well as significant amounts of resilience and flexibility.
Adoption of an abused baby or child is often a tough ride, maybe the toughest of your life. It will test you, and it will test your relationship with your partner or spouse. And, if you can maintain your steadfast love, you will find that it's probably the most rewarding, life-enhancing experience you could give your adoptive child, yourself, and your family. Just ask the vast majority of parents who have stepped in with big hearts and raised kids who were abused as their own, and you'll see how profound, and life-deepening an experience it can be.
However, you need to be committed to this experience down to your bones, because you will be tried in ways that you hadn't even thought possible. For example, a child who was abused will have to fight hard to work through that abuse and heal. This will not be pretty. In fact, kids who have been abused have all sorts of behaviors that they use to keep themselves "safe." They may hoard their food. They may never be willing to hug. They may have huge control issues that drive you crazy. They may not even be willing to speak to you except in flat monosyllables. They may act out by destroying absolutely everything in their room or threatening to hurt you — and then they'll expect you to abandon them. This is a common theme in fact.
Just when you think you're making headway, when a child seems to be adjusting well, something else will happen and their behavior will go off track again. But really all they are doing is working off the old hurts so they can truly receive the love you have to give. They need to release those old hurts from their systems to be able to think well and to heal. And over time, they will heal all the way and have a wonderful life full of possibilities.
But they need parents who are up to the task. Parents who won't blame themselves. Parents who can set firm boundaries in a loving way. Parents who won't feel guilty when they experience the opposite of love for a child who has just destroyed something. Parents who will see beyond the destruction to the heart and potential of the young life they have taken into their family.
An abused adopted child's sometimes awful behaviors are in fact smart ways they have figured out to cope at a very, very young age when their world was out of control and life was very threatening. It takes a big heart to see your child from this perspective, all while the other "bad" behaviors are going on.
You can pretty much assume that your adopted child will need to fight hard to work through the abuse to heal. They may also have attachment issues, which simply means that they were not able to develop a healthy connection with a primary parent or caregiver at critical windows in their early years. They may have allergies, sensory issues, or other concerns. These can be addressed, too, through a strong network of support specialists. You can visit the Handinhand.org parenting website, which has forums that address many issues involving adopted children who have been abused.
Blended families are increasingly common in second marriages. In fact, some 65 percent of second marriages include children from a prior marriage.
While you cannot simply fill in the blank on a form to adopt your stepchild with the assistance of an experienced adoption attorney, adopting a stepchild is easier than you think, and the path to adoption of a stepchild can be streamlined in most cases. However, the other non-custodial biological parent must give up all legal rights and responsibilities to the child in question, or at least not object to the adoption. If that parent is unwilling to give legal consent, and objects to the adoption you can go forward with an adoption but it will be contested.
If the court finds the parent unfit to parent, possibly because of addiction, criminal history, neglect, mental illness, or abandonment issues, the court may terminate the parental rights and you can adopt the stepchild.
Or if the biological parent has not been in the picture for many years, the court may find that the other parent has willfully abandoned the child, thus paving the way for you to adopt. In any event an experienced adoption attorney can guide you through this.
When you adopt, you are committing to the stepchild, saying, "I am your parent and will be so forever." This can be a profound experience for the child in question. It sends a powerful message to the child that you are going to be there for him or her, no matter what.
When you adopt a stepchild, you assume all rights and responsibilities as a parent. The child can be given your last name if you and your spouse or partner choose to go that route. Your stepchild will be protected in case of the sudden death of your spouse or partner, and you will have the right to legally parent your stepchild. Your stepchild will have the same legal standing to inherit your estate as any of your other children.
At the law office of Cofsky & Zeidman, LLC, our lawyers bring more than 25 years of experience to every matter we handle. Attorney Donald C. Cofsky has personally handled more than 1,500 adoption proceedings since joining the bar in 1974. Attorney Bruce D. Zeidman has protected the interests of clients in state and federal courts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania since 1984.
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Samsung Galaxy Fold to be launched in India, will be more expensive
"Because the Galaxy Fold will not be manufactured in India, it will be more expensive to buy here"
Samsung has officially confirmed that its foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, will be available for purchase in India. An actual date wasn't given, but rest assured, folks in India will be able to get their hands on the new piece of technology. The Galaxy Fold is the first foldable phone from Samsung and features a 4.6-inch cover display and a 7.6-inch display on the inside. It is powered by the Snapdragon 855 processor, which is coupled with 12GB RAM, 512GB of storage and a 4,380mAh battery.
During the Indian announcement of the new Samsung Galaxy S10 series earlier today, the company confirmed that the Galaxy Fold will also come to the country. DJ Koh, the President and CEO of Samsung's IT and Mobile Communications Division, announced the same at the event. He stated the following while speaking to select media personnel in New Delhi:
"Indian market is, I clearly said, most important market — not only investment and everything, my long-term commitment is towards the market. In this market, why will I not deliver my newest technology innovation? Yes, I will do."
He did not provide any details about pricing or the exact date when Samsung plans to launch the phone. However, he mentioned that the phone would be manufactured in India, but will not use the 'Made in India' logo. The company plans on manufacturing all the units in one single plant as there will be limited quantities of the phone on sale. Because of this, the phone could be priced more in India.
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Fold last month, it announced that the phone could be pre-ordered in April for a price of $1980. That's about Rs 1,40,000 in Indian currency and it could end up costing more after taxes and other charges. We expect the phone to be launched in India alongside other regions. Apart from confirming that the Galaxy Fold is coming to India, Koh also stated that the Galaxy S10 5G will arrive when the time is right.
As of now, India doesn't really have the infrastructure for 5G enabled devices. It will happen eventually and Samsung is already working with several carriers to speed up the process.
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Nothing puts a smile on your face like a strawberry! Whether you imagine summers at your grandparent's house, strawberry picking, school lunches, eating chocolate covered strawberries, or enjoying a nice refreshing glass of strawberry lemonade, strawberries are one of nature's true gems.
Incredibly sweet and juicy, they're the most popular berry in the U.S. and a nutritionist's dream! One serving of eight strawberries is higher in vitamin C than an orange and has as much potassium as half a banana. Strawberries are packed with lots of other vitamins and minerals, including calcium, thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid, nitrates, and 18 different amino acids. They are also about 90 percent water and very low in calories. With less than six calories each, you can indulge to your heart's content without having to avoid the scale!
Strawberries are also high in antioxidants and beneficial for nerve function. Scientists are studying strawberries for their possible role in keeping cancer cells from multiplying, slowing the aging rate of the nervous system, and preventing and treating Alzheimer's and other progressive nerve function loss.
Strawberries are native to both the northern and southern hemispheres, growing wild on every continent except Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Historical records mention wild strawberries growing in Italy as far back as 234 B.C. Ancient Romans considered them a symbol of Venus, the goddess of beauty, love, and fertility, because of their red color and heart shape.
Strawberries fell out of favor in the Middle Ages, when Saint Hildegard von Binger pronounced them unfit to eat, claiming they were contaminated by toads and snakes because they grow so close to the ground. Charles Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, put this superstition to rest in the mid-18th Century, by switching to a diet consisting only of strawberries to prove them edible.
From then on, the popularity of strawberries hasn't missed a beat. Hybridizers lost no time in cross breeding strawberries from around the world to create distinctive flavors. One of the first hybrids, developed in France, created a pineapple flavored strawberry by crossing a Virginian variety and a Chilean variety.
Another big step forward for strawberries was in 1843, when growers in Cincinnati, Ohio first placed ice on top of boxes to keep them cool during shipping. Refrigerated shipping quickly expanded the market and increased the strawberry's popularity. By 1860, strawberries were widely grown and enjoyed throughout much of the U. S.
Today, strawberries are cultivated worldwide including every state in the U.S., every province in Canada, all over Europe, Australia, and even Iran.
A rose by any other name… would be a strawberry! The strawberry is a member of the Rosacea (rose) family. Their botanical name (Fragaria) is Latin for "fragrance". The French, Italian, and Spanish word for the fruit is "fraise" or fragrant berry. Narragansett Indians in North America called the fruit "wuttahimneash" or "heart berry".
As for the name English name, "strawberry", there are many views as to where it originated. Some attribute it to children in London who collected the berries, strung them on pieces of straw and sold them in the markets as "straws of berries." Others connect the name with the berry's characteristic spreading habit, deriving from the Anglo-Saxon verb to strew (spread), the fruit came to be known as streabergen, straberry, streberie, straibery, straubery, and finally, to the English "strawberry". Some claim the name originated over 1,000 years ago because of the runners which spread outward from the plant. It may also be derived from the straw placed around the growing plants for protection.
Regardless of its name, everyone can agree that strawberries are an iconic summer treat, perfectly snack sized and deliciously juicy and sweet.
There are over 200 varieties of strawberries worldwide, but essentially two major types - June Bearing and Everbearing or Day Neutral. Deciding which to plant depends on the amount of space you have and on your idea of the perfect strawberry.
June Bearing strawberries are large and sweet. They produce one large crop each year, lasting about two weeks in June or in early spring, depending upon your area. June bearing strawberries spread easily, putting out lots of runners so you'll need space to let them grow. These are an ideal choice if you want an abundance to eat and preserve for the off-season.
Everbearing strawberries are sweet and petite. They have two to three smaller harvests, in June, late summer, and early fall. With few runners, they don't need as much space and are great for hanging baskets and strawberry pots.
Day Neutral strawberries are an improved type of Everbearing, producing a more continuous crop of fruit as long as temperatures remain between 35 and 85 degrees. A great way to enjoy fresh, home-grown strawberries through the summer.
Specialty or Gourmet strawberries are relative newcomers to the scene, providing a constant display of larger, showy flowers in shades of pink or red as well as traditional white. Blooms are followed, of course, with fruit. Some varieties have large fruit, others may be smaller like a wild berry, but all will be exceptionally sweet and flavorful. Plants are ornamental and also provide a regular, small harvest you can enjoy almost daily. Specialty berries are normally grown in window boxes, hanging baskets or other containers, and displayed on the patio, deck or other sunny spot within easy reach.
Whether you're looking to make jam, a fresh summer desert or share with your children, sweet, juicy strawberries will bring happiness to your taste buds all harvest long. They will also be one of your favorite plants to grow and you'll reap the benefits for years after your initial planting. Strawberries are hardy perennials in zones 4 through 8 and will return bigger and better than ever each year.
Strawberries are the first berries to ripen in the spring and a great way to kick-off the gardening season. Be sure to get your strawberry plants in the ground in early spring as soon as the soil is dry enough to work, to give them time to establish themselves before the summer heat. Choose a spot that gets at least six to eight hours of sun per day. Strawberries do best in rich, well-drained sandy soil.
Set your strawberries out on a cloudy day or in the late afternoon to minimize the shock of transplanting. Prepare the soil in advance by removing weeds, tilling, and working in a balanced granular fertilizer at the rate recommended on the package. Space plants 12-18 inches apart with 3 to 4 feet between rows to provide space for the runners to expand. Cover the roots with soil, but leave the top of the crown exposed.
Water the plants with 1 to 2 inches of water each week, in the absence of the equivalent in rain. For berries planted in containers, check the soil regularly and maintain consistent soil moisture.
Use clean straw to mulch around the plants, helping keep the soil cool and prevent weeds.
Once your strawberry plants are in the ground, the leaves and flower buds will grow quickly. For this first season, pinch off the early buds to help direct energy into the roots for a healthier plant. For Everbearing types, pinch off the flowers until July 1, then let them develop into fruit. For June Bearing strawberries, pinch all the flowers off the first year. This means you won't get a crop the first year, but your patience will be repaid abundantly in the years to come.
After your strawberry patch is established, fertilize once a year, right after the first harvest of the season. A balanced, granular product is best, worked gently into the soil and watered well so that it does not sit on the leaves or crowns of the plants. Follow package instructions for the product you choose. Fertilize berries in containers weekly with a water soluble product formulated for fruits and vegetables.
Pick strawberries when fruit is fully red, and leave the cap and a bit of stem on the fruit to help it stay fresh longer. Keep in a cool, shaded spot, and wait to rinse or wash them until just before you're ready to eat them. Check plants every other day for more ripe fruit. Fruit will have the best quality if picked in the morning when cool.
Companion planting is the way to go when it comes to strawberries, especially if you have a small area to work with. Since strawberries need lots of space, surround the patch with your companions, or center them between the planted rows of berries, using the garden plot to your best advantage.
With a few well-chosen plants, you can also add essential nutrients to the soil and mask the scent of your strawberries from potential pests.
Several plants will improve growing conditions for your strawberries.
Borage is an herb that adds a mild cucumber taste to salads, soups, and other dishes. It improves soil richness by adding trace minerals, such as calcium and potassium. Borage also attracts beneficial insects like pollinators and predatory wasps that will keep pests away. Its pretty, blue, star-shaped blossoms add visual appeal, and this annual herb will re-seed freely to become a permanent resident in your garden. Just pull out any unwanted seedlings.
Caraway also attracts beneficial insects that will defend your strawberries against pests that would attack them!
Sage attracts important pollinators. It has an earthy aroma and soft green or variegated leaves and pale blue, pink or white flowers. Sage leaves are delicious with poultry, meat and vegetable dishes.
Strawberry plants stay low and spread horizontally, so good companions are those that grow vertically or fit in between your strawberries and mature before or after the fruits.
Peas and beans will grow up trellises or poles and add nitrogen to the soil.
Lettuce and spinach have shallow roots that will not interfere with strawberry runners. They also pair well with berries in a fresh spring salad.
Onions and chives will keep away aphids, weevils, spiders and nematodes. If you choose to include onions, unfortunately you will have to forego planting beans and peas in this garden as they will not prosper together.
Marigolds are the go-to plant of the fruit and vegetable garden. They deter nematodes and provide a visual splendor of orange, yellow or red blossoms. Marigolds also have a distinctive aroma that is pleasing to any gardener.
Peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and potatoes can harbor verticillium wilt, a major strawberry disease.
Members of the cabbage family do not grow well with strawberries; these vegetables impair strawberry's growth. Avoid planting broccoli, broccoflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, Chinese broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, kale, kohlrabi, and Romanesco broccoli with your strawberries.
Winter Care: Strawberries are perennial in most regions, and with a little fall preparation you can enjoy your strawberry patch for many years. In cold winter climates, apply a loose layer of clean straw over the entire patch to insulate the strawberry crowns against frosts and freezing.
In spring when new growth resumes, remove the straw covering the plants. Tender flower buds are vulnerable to late frosts, so watch the weather forecast and re-cover if threatened. You may use a light frost cloth instead of the straw, especially for the early season back-and-forth.
Strawberries are generally pest-free and easy to grow, especially if they are kept weeded, inspected regularly and any signs of trouble treated promptly.
Birds love strawberries, and if they take more than you're willing to share, use bird netting, predatory bird decoys or scare-away devices like sparkly pinwheels or streamers.
Blackened or undeveloped fruit can be caused by frost damage. Often plants will send up another round of flowers; take care to cover them if freezing weather threatens.
Fruit rot can be prevented with frequent harvest, and remove any spoiled or missed fruit that you find, to keep other fruit from being affected. Fertilizing in spring before the harvest can also result in soft fruit that does not keep well.
After several years, if yields are reduced, you may renovate the patch by removing the older, original plants and replacing with younger ones that have started from the runners.
Strawberries are the only berry with seeds on the outside – all other berries have seeds on the inside. The average strawberry has 200 seeds.
Strawberries may make your teeth whiter! They contain malic acid, which acts as a natural astringent that removes stains and lightens mild discoloration.
Legend has it that breaking a "double" strawberry in half and consuming it with someone will cause the couple to fall in love.
Bavarian cattle herders tie small baskets of wild strawberries to the horns of their cattle as an offering to the elves, who crave the sweet fruit. They believe the elves, in return, will help the cattle produce abundant milk and healthy calves.
Medieval stone masons used strawberry motifs to symbolize righteous perfection.
Strawberry shortcake traces its roots back to Native Americans who made bread from crushed strawberries mixed with cornmeal.
Fresh berries are easy to use! Toss a few on your favorite breakfast cereal, pancakes, French toast or waffles. Create all sorts of desserts, pies, muffins, parfaits or a simple dish of whole berries sprinkled with sugar, stevia, or lightly sweetened sour cream. A delicious addition to mixed fruit salads, or slice onto a spring green salad with a fruity vinaigrette for a refreshing treat.
If you're lucky enough to have too many strawberries, they are easy to freeze for future use. Simply wash them well, remove the stem and leaves, and pat dry. Spread them out on in one layer on a cookie sheet and freeze for 24 hours. Once frozen you can put them in a freezer bag.


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Q: Problem with resources folder in Xamarin.Android I've got this piece of code in my MainActivity.cs of my Xamarin.Android project.
ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;

Somehow I get the error: Resource.Layout doesn't contain a definition for Toolbar. I don't understand why, because I've got the Toolbar.xml file in my layout folder. Can anyone help me with this?

A: Try unload and reload project.
Note : I am designing views in intelliJ Idea(Community version is free) and transfer xmls to Visual Studio later.  I think Xamarin designer is still has problems.

A: Well, I just copied the lines which are in the 'Toolbar.xml' file of another project and somehow that worked.
Nevertheless, I want to thank everyone for their help!
Try this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" android:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

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Employment interviews - and trying to stay ahead of those who read the books on how to game them . . .
Beechmont Hotels Corporation is a hotel company. We're not a specialist in human resources; we're not a recruiting firm or an employment agency.
We don't feel a divine calling to reinvent the field of human resources or fix this totally broken, dysfunctional profession -- but it's either that, or put up with it and the way it's been done for the last fifty years or more, in the matter of finding and keeping people to staff our hotels.
Employment interviews tend to be an adversarial process. The applicant wants the job (and often thinks he or she is perfectly qualified for it, entitled to it even; and would feel slighted or wronged if he or she is 'rejected') and perhaps needs the work (so survival is at stake, to some extent); the interviewer doesn't want to hire, or okay, a person who turns out in some way to be a bad hire and will get him into trouble or cause him embarrassment. (It doesn't help at all if the human resources department is made up of the sort of alpha-girls and boys you knew from high school who got to decide who's 'in' and who's not, and who never outgrew that.)
In most companies, the entire game is not only a demeaning process not only for the applicant (yes, I've spent entirely too much of my life as an applicant), but sometimes for the interviewer as well. The person's sitting right there trying to con you, make a fool of you, and manipulate you -- and most infuriatingly of all, go about it like you should be so easy to con, make a fool of, and manipulate -- because that's the way it's done, that's what he thinks is expected of him, that's what you should want him to do, that's what gets him the job. When the process is adversarial, and no agreements on any 'rules' can be applied effectively, it all turns into a sick little game that rewards the gamers (including the cheaters), the self-interested, and the workplace psychopaths; and penalizes the truly willing, the sincere and the authentic. Individual self-interest ultimately prevails, even among people who got the job years ago and have been working at the company for that long.
Yet, running a company and getting a team to work together that is based on adversarial or intramurally-competitive relationships is unsustainable.
Finding a permanent solution to that problem probably won't occur in my lifetime but our start on one is a fundamental agreement we seek with our applicants (even if we don't always get it, can't always pick up on it if someone is not living up to it, and have no way to enforce it other than to end the process once we pick up on it that that's what's happening). We define 'being fair to the applicant' as giving him or her every chance to communicate to us the best he or she has to offer us, and we commit ourselves to do that with every applicant. In return, we ask that each applicant knock it off already with the 'act', be completely authentic, and lay it all out; his weaknesses as well as his strengths, her failings as well as her virtues. The process assures them repeatedly that problems in their work history won't necessarily be held against them, but any dishonesty or withholding of material information, will.
We require the applicant to surrender unconditionally to the process, and let us make the choice. Our 'let's see what you can bring to us' conversation, not the applicant's 'put on your best face and sell yourself' agenda, will control the process. When, in dealing with an applicant, we discover that our conversation is not controlling the process, we terminate the interviews, and permanently ban the applicant from any further consideration for the current or any future staffing need.
(But isn't trying to compete with and outshine the other applicants the way it's done? Well, yes . . . Wouldn't our insistence on not buying into that cause us to pass over some good applicants? Actually . . . no. Once an individual is already employed, if she is always doing or saying things, or running little games, or playing one person against another, in order to gain some advantage for himself over the other employees or to act out her ambition inappropriately, we'd run her right out of there regardless of any other 'contributions' she might make; so why would we put up with it from an applicant, who is not yet an employee and from whom we don't have to put up with it? Or even worse, communicate to her to think that it's desirable -- or even worse, that it's desired -- behavior in our workplace, and reward her for indulging in it? By offering her a job, no less? Regardless of whatever else she may have to offer? We're just asking for trouble if we hire such a person.)
It doesn't do much for the survival needs of the applicant that we've noted, and we'll keep working on that. (We'd like to think that in the unlikely event that we're your only hope if you're employable at all and not too fussy about what we might ask you to do, then as long as you're straight with us and you're coachable, sooner or later we'll find somewhere to put you.) But for now, it's all about the company's needs, not those of the applicant. For the applicant and his or her survival needs, all we can tell you for now is, don't make us your only hope. If it's truly your ultimate career goal to work for Beechmont and your desire to do so is healthy, that's worth something, but sometimes these things take time; and in order to pay the bills you'll have to work somewhere else for awhile -- and hopefully, learn something new or acquire some experience that you can bring to us as a further contribution.
We don't claim to have the badly needed answers on human resources management. No one does. Not even the Son of God, who could instantly get a thorough read on someone and needed no reference checks, could pick twelve men to take His message into the world and carry on His work after He was gone, without getting a Judas among the bunch (the original one at that); and I don't hope to match even His 91.6% success rate. We're working on finding those answers. (As you see if you've read this far, we've hit on a few already, but nothing close to something we can share around -- or even better, package and sell.)
But this is where we explore the topic and share our progress in working toward a solution that works well for all involved, and invite input and feedback from others.
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NSF Awards $2M Grant to UMD-led Team to Develop...
NSF Awards $2M Grant to UMD-led Team to Develop Quantum-based Machine Learning Algorithms and Hardware
NSF Award
Professor Edo Waks
Researchers from the University of Maryland (UMD) and collaborators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been awarded $2 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a quantum idea incubator aimed at developing quantum-based machine learning. The $26 million grant is funded by the Quantum Leap Big Idea Program and the Division of Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems in the Directorate for Engineering.
NSF funded the project, "Quantum Machine Learning with Photonics," as part of an initiative known as the Quantum Idea Incubator for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QII - TAQS). QII-TAQS is designed to support interdisciplinary teams that will explore highly innovative and potentially transformative ideas for developing and applying quantum science, quantum computing, and quantum engineering.
"Our team is exploring a completely new approach to quantum computing that takes machine learning into the quantum domain," said Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Edo Waks, who is a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute and the Quantum Technology Center, and the principal investigator of the grant. Co-principal investigators include Andrew Childs, UMD Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Professor, and Co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, and Professors Seth Lloyd and Dirk Englund of MIT.
In contrast to conventional approaches where computation is decomposed into logic gates, the investigators will focus on quantum computing architectures inspired by machine learning and deep learning. These architectures are naturally efficient and robust to noise, and are ideally suited to maximize the computational capabilities of currently available quantum processors which are composed of many noisy quantum bits. The project represents a highly multi-disciplinary effort that combines quantum hardware based on integrated and nonlinear optics, with algorithms and computer architecture and design. Success of the project could enable currently available quantum hardware to efficiently solve problems in a broad range of fields, such as medicine, biology, nuclear physics, and fundamental quantum science.
The UMD award is one of 19 QII-TAQS projects intended to deliver new concepts, platforms, and approaches that will accelerate the science, computing, and engineering of quantum technologies, resulting in breakthroughs in quantum sensing, quantum communication, quantum simulation, and quantum computing systems.
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Q: Moving folders on external hard drive using Bash - Operation not permitted This is somewhat of a follow up to:
Bash script for searching directory and moving files to a new directory, deleting any copies
My bash script now attempts to move folders to the specified directory and delete the old one. However, the bash script returns a list of "operation not permitted" errors instead. I have tried everything, including all variants of advice found here:
https://superuser.com/questions/279235/why-does-chown-reports-operation-not-permitted-on-osx
I've manually unlocked the drive itself, and the drive is formatted as mac os extended, but nothing has made the slightest difference. I can manually add or extract files from the drive by dragging them, but not en masse using a script. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm using the latest Mavericks. Here's my script:
echo "Organizing files!"
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
MOV=$(find ./Backups.backupdb -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "*movies*")
for filename in $MOV ; do
for file in ${filename}/* ; do
    base=$(basename ${file})
    if [ "$base" == "Series" ] ;
        then
        mv -n "$file" ./Seriesholder/ && rm -f "$file"

    elif [ ! -d ./MovieLibrary/${base} ] ;
        then
        mv -n "$file" ./MovieLibrary/ && rm -f "$file"
        echo "file added"
    else
        mv "$file" ~./Trash
        echo "file trashed"
    fi
done
done
IFS=$SAVEIFS
echo "Archive organized"

A: When you right click on your hard drive partition, can you unlock the lock at the bottom?
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HUNTERS could be encouraged to use bows and arrows to cull wild boar in an Italian region where the population of the animals has exploded. The wild boar are already culled using rifles, but officials in Lombardy in northern Italy say there are now so many of the beasts that other means of controlling them must be considered. The issue was highlighted last month when a herd of wild boar crossing a motorway caused a multiple crash in which one person died and 10 others were injured. Critics have described the initiative, put forward by the Right-wing League party, as "barbaric". However, the regional government of Lombardy yesterday approved a motion which, if it becomes law, will allow the use of bows. Bow hunting of boars is already popular in the United States and parts of Australia, where feral pigs are a threat to farmland and native wildlife. Lombardy, which extends from the flat lands of the Po Valley to the Alps on the Swiss border, is undergoing a "wild boar emergency", according to the regional administration. Officials are also calling for hunters to be able to kill boars outside the official hunting season. The proliferation of boar necessitates "the application of all means provided by the law in order to tackle the increase in damage done to people and to agriculture," the regional politicians declared. The problem has become worse in the past two years with farmers becoming increasingly worried about the effect on their crops. The animals, which are also moving closer to homes, break down fences and invade roads, causing injury to people and damage to their cars. The prospect of hunters armed with bows and arrows was likened by one Italian newspaper to Robin Hood and his Merry Men. However, it was criticised by wildlife groups as well as Codacons, a national consumer watchdog. "It represents a return to barbarity and will allow archer-hunters to go around killing animals," the organisation said. "It is necessary to limit the population but hunting them in this barbaric way is not the solution." There are an estimated one million wild boars in Italy. Rome' s failure to adequately collect its rubbish means the capital has become a favoured haunt of the animals. Some residents have taken to feeding them while others curse the danger to traffic. City officials announced last month that they want to hire marksmen to shoot the boars with tranquilliser darts. They would then be relocated to the countryside or put down. Boars are considered to be a problem in other parts of Europe, too. Last week, Denmark started building a 43-mile fence along its border with Germany to keep out wild boar amid fears that they could transmit African swine fever to domestic pigs, which would prove calamitous to Denmark' s pork industry which is worth around 4billion (£3.5 billion) a year.


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Canton Spring Softball League
These are the Canton Little League Softball Rules. These were reviewed and agreed on by various members of the CLL board of directors. Our goal is to teach the girls the rules that are being played in other towns and will help better prepare them for future play. It is not about winning…it is about teaching the girls the skills. Play by the rules!!
Participation, play, equipment and field requirements will all be in accordance with the ASA "2011 Participation Manual: Official Rules of Softball" with the following exceptions or noted points of emphasis:
General Rules Applying to All Divisions (Grades 3-8)
1. Each player present and able to play will bat in continuous, consecutive batting order. (Free defensive substitution).
2. If a player must leave the game for any reason, that spot in the batting order is skipped without an automatic out being charged, unless the reason for leaving is ejection (automatic out recorded for ejection).
3. Teams must field at least eight players to start and finish a game. (Forfeit if less)
4. If a team is playing with less than nine, an automatic out will not be charged for the virtual ninth batter.
5. No slashing (clear intent to fake a bunt, then pulling back to swing for a hit).
6. Slapping and drag bunting are allowed.
7. Game will start once scheduled time occurs and teams have enough players.
8. 5-run/inning rule is in effect. A team's time at bat will end after that team scores 5 runs in an inning. In the last regulation inning or last inning as determined by the umpire subject to the time limit, a team may score as many runs as possible before their third out is declared.
9. Run-Ahead rule in effect when a team is up by 15 runs after 4 innings
10. Players must slide OR avoid contact; umpire has sole discretion in this area. If by avoiding contact a base runner runs out of base path, then an out is charged.
11. Courtesy runners may be used for pitcher and/or catcher. Courtesy runner will be the player who made the last out. (If courtesy runner is on base and that person's time at bat comes up, then an out will be charged). This rule is in play when there are two outs and the courtesy runner is the person who made the last out.
12. Batters and base runners must wear approved helmets with face guard and chin strap
13. Pitcher shall be removed from the game after directly hitting 3 batters in an inning or 4 in the course of a game (bounced pitches do not count).
14. Pitchers can pitch a maximum of 3 consecutive innings per game, and cannot return once a new pitcher has started.
15. All pitchers MUST wear a face mask.
16. No new inning after 1 hour and 30 minutes and games must end after 2 hours of play
a. If there is no winner after last inning played, the score reverts to the previous inning. For example, Team A (home team) is up 11-4 on Team B (away team) after 4 innings and you start the 5th inning at the 1 hour and 25 minute mark. Team B bats first and scores 8 runs since it is unlimited. Unfortunately this takes 30 minutes and Team A is not able to bat (or it takes 20 minutes and Team A is up but is unable to finish the inning or get the go-ahead run in time), the score would then be entered based on the 4th inning score of 11-4
Junior League-Specific Rules
1. 35-foot distance from back point of home plate to front edge of the pitching rubber.
2. 11" ball to be used
3. 6-inning game
4. May play with 10 defensive fielders, in which case four must be outfielders, who must play on outfield grass/area.
5. Infield fly rule is not in effect. A girl is allowed to tag up on a fly ball, whether it is in the infield or the outfield
6. Batter may not advance on dropped third strike
7. There is no leading. A base runner may not leave the base until the ball has crossed the plate
8. No continuous walk, batter may only advance one base (to first base) when awarded a base on balls
9. Runner may only advance one base on a steal attempt; no stealing home; no advancing to home on a WP/PB-Must be a batted ball or a walk with bases loaded.
10. All other rules as per ASA Participation Manual except as noted under General Rules listed above
11. Fill out umpire evaluation forms. This really helps us to work with the umpires to improve the game.
12. The umpires are just kids trying to do their best. There is a lot of pressure on them to do a good job. Do not yell at the umpires!! If you feel they missed a call, talk to them in between innings and then fill out the evaluation form after the game
13. The umpires MUST wear the face mask or they don't get paid. Please remind them that they need to have the mask. (umpire equipment is located in the field houses with the bases)
Senior League-Specific Rules
1. 40-foot pitching distance
2. 12" Ball
4. 5 runs per inning
5. Infield Fly rule in effect
6. Batter may advance on a dropped third strike
7. Continuous walk allowed. A player who is awarded first base on balls should move down the first base line and touch first base. After touching first base she can immediately return to the base without liability of being put out if there is no feint or attempt to second base without stopping. A batter-runner who rounds first base toward second may stop, but then immediately return to first or attempt non-stop to second. Play ends when the pitcher has possession of the ball in the pitching circle
8. Stealing once pitcher releases the ball (no leading until pitcher releases ball)
9. All other rules as per ASA Participation Manual except as noted under General Rules listed above
Pitching Rules
1. The most primary rule is to start with 2 feet on the rubber and then to use any form of Windmill. All of the remaining pitching rules should be loosely enforced.
2. The ball must be delivered in an underhanded motion with the ball below the hip and the wrist no further from the body than the elbow.
3. The ball must be in the gloved hand or pitching hand, the two hands are apart and in front of the pitcher for a full second. Then the hands must be brought together, and then separated (only once) as the motion begins.
4. The pivot foot must remain in contact with the pitching plate at all times prior to ball release. The pivot foot is permitted to be dragged off the plate along the ground. What is not permitted anywhere is a "crow hop" in which the pivot foot leaves the plate, does not drag on the ground, and then replants at a new point of impetus before the ball is released. Obtaining a second point of impetus is always prohibited.
5. Two full revolutions of the pitching arm is prohibited. A pitcher cannot deliver the ball with a windmill motion after which she continues to rotate her arm in another full circle. Nor can she deliver the pitch after having made two full circles. In other words, wherever the pitcher's arm begins the forward motion, whether that is for windmill, slingshot, or another type of delivery, it cannot pass that point twice.
Additional Rules
1. Coaches should do their best to keep the girls in the dugout area during the game
2. Keep the girls off of the rock/hill behind 3rd base dugout at Walsh Field
3. Keep off the hill behind the 3rd base dugout at Tilden Field
4. Enter scores (winning team) on website within 24 hours
Borrowing Girls
There may be a time where you are short a few players and rather than forfeit the game, you should try to contact other coaches to see if they have girls that would like to play. The goal is not to stack your team for that one game but avoid the forfeit and let the girls play.
1. Girls being borrowed can't miss their own team game. You must pick from teams not playing that night
2. Any girl borrowed is not allowed to pitch or catch
3. Any girl borrowed must bat in the 6th spot or higher in the batting order
4. You can only borrow the same girl twice in a season
5. No borrowing in the playoffs


ISO 15189:2012 is an international standard designed for the accreditation of medical laboratories. This standard includes an assessment of the laboratories quality management system and technical practices. It aligns with good medical laboratory practices such as the importance of: appropriate technical qualifications, ethical practices, safe environmental conditions, rigorous traceable reporting requirements, the use of validated methods, sample storage, retention and disposal requirements and traceable equipment and reference standards.
ISO 151859:2012 can be utilized by regulators or by end users as it gives them confidence laboratories are competent to perform medical tests/examination results, have staff committed to the quality of their lab, that their service has up to date technologies and its procedures and techniques reflect current best practice.
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Stand By Soft has released RationalPlan 3.15.7, a powerful project management software application developed to assist project managers in creating plans, tracking progress, allocating resources, managing budgets and analyzing workload. The new version comes with email integration with Yahoo, Hotmail, Live, added quantity column in assignment table, it remembers last used time scale, added predecessors end date and successors start date columns and many more enhancements.
Starting with this version managers can send emails to resources with their assignments not only through private email servers or GMail server but also through the well known Yahoo, Hotmail and Live platforms.
The assignments table from the task details panel also got richer with a quantity column needed for material resources.
At user requests RationalPlan now remembers the time scale used in each view on the graphical chart. Project managers have different types of projects: some spreading on a smaller time range (days/hours) and other complex projects that span over several years/months. This way based on the usual project type the manager no longer has to zoom in/out each time he starts the application.
By adding the predecessors end date and successors start date columns in the predecessors and successors table respectively, project managers have a better insight over the project schedule. Now they can see easier how a given task can influence its predecessors or successors and indirectly the project plan and can take better decisions related to the duration and work of that task: how many resources to allocate, whether it is necessary to have those resources work overtime or not depending on whetter the critical path is broken or not, etc.
Several other minor improvements where made and bug fixes where fixes: interface related issues, localization issues and others.


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What is not to like? Always different and always wonderful. Obviously as a wedding photographer, I get to see a lot of flowers and bouquets and I love it. Often I get to met florists, doing the final touches to a big display and like me, they want the couple's day to go perfect. Attention to detail and calmness is key.


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The Recommendation List (Sept 2018).
The Recommendation List is a collection of art and media that I experienced for the first time in the month prior, and which I expect to either inform my future projects or that had at least one element that sticks with me. These posts are exclusive to my Patreon subscribers for three months, and then posted to the Creative Control blog for posterity after that period. This is the first such installment, and I welcome comments along the line of "If you like X, you need to check out Y."
The Drawing Class
By Nicole Eisenman
I happened across this 2011 painting hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago during an after-hours company party and it spoke directly to the same parts of my brain that have always been enamored of Rene Magritte. I love the number of different stories that exist within the individual characters, I love the subversion of the spectacle, I love the way you can come up with multiple meanings of the words "drawing" and "class." The work manages to embody both comedy and dread and the way its chosen perspective turns the viewer into a character as well implies a certain level of previously unknown complicity in the circumstances that led to this event. The subject at the center of the room is somehow filled with anxiety despite having few details of its own, and one of the possible horrors of the image is to think that we have arrived an hour after everything that gave the subject its identity has been stripped away–that the students are not drawing this person, but have instead withdrawn everything about this person that made them a person in the first place. Looking at the image online is one thing, certainly, but I encourage you to spend some time directly in front of it.
Hasib & The Queen of Serpents
By David B.
Since I'm embarking on my own adaptation of a tale from The Arabian Nights in the near future I was drawn to this gorgeously illustrated work that came out in June of this year. The story, about a wise man's son who grows up foolish and gradually learns wisdom through his experiences with beings both earthly and fantastical, not only captures the magical qualities of the original tales but also the narrative tendencies towards tangents, in which one character encounters another and begins to listen to their story, which sometimes involves that character listening to another story.
Middle Passage
By Charles Johnson
I was introduced to this novel — the 1990 winner of the National Book Award — by incoming Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Ilesa Duncan, who previously co-wrote and directed a stage adaptation of the work. This story follows Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who went to New Orleans in 1832 to become a gambler and general ne'er-do-well and then, through a series of bad choices and circumstances, ends up a crewman on the slave ship Republic. Besides having the dynamic, intelligent voice of Calhoun as its narrator, the novel also benefits from Johnson's incisive allegorical perspective, in which the ship and its passengers become a metaphor for America's complicated, unhealed racism scars.
Marvel's Luke Cage (Season 2)
Netflix (Various Writers/Directors, created by Cheo Hodari Coker)
Of the five core Marvel / Netflix collaborations — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher — only Luke Cage has thus far been fully successful in making its dramatized Harlem an alive and breathing locale with a rich history and breadth of both class and culture*. The series takes pains this season to draw distinctive differences between the black American power structure represented by the Stokes family and the less predictable immigrant Jamaican organization that moves in to assert dominance, as well as offering nuanced portrayals of the everyday citizens, both criminal and non-, caught in between. Cage's journey navigates grayer, more complex areas in both this social paradigm and within his own sense of righteousness, and where it leaves him by the end of this season does not leave one feeling optimistic about where he may go in the next season.
Additionally: Alfre Woodard delivers a powerhouse performance of a very difficult character in her work as Mariah (Stokes) Dillard, a woman who repeatedly dances back and forth between being sympathetic and monstrous without even stopping to catch her breath. She's ably supported by Theo Rossi as her lieutenant and lover Shades, who seems not to lack a moral compass but who consciously ignores it until it becomes impossible to do so. Generally, the performances in this show speak to a cast that's very committed and invested in the story being told, but Woodard's is especially not to be missed.
* Although the second season of Iron Fist, which I'm halfway through, is doing some decent work with its version of New York City's Chinatown.
Netflix (Various Writers, created by Luke Pearson)
Fellow playwright Nick Izzo recommended this series for me and my family, and I'm elated that I took him up on it. Based on a series of graphic novels, Hilda feels like a charming version of Miyazaki's sense of magic, placed within a Scandinavian setting, while blending in a dash of Steven Universe's offbeat brilliance and heart, the spirit of adventurous friendship that was so key to early Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and a soundtrack by Canadian electronica artist Grimes. I'm especially floored by how casually it shows us the diversity of its small-town setting — for example, there's a brief shot of a young girl in a hijab playing dodgeball that was stunning simply for having been put into the series at all. And it's lovely to have programming that provides my son with a brave, kind young woman as a protagonist.
By Alexander Danner and Jeff Van Dreason
This audio drama was recommended to me by HartLife managing director, inventive game designer, loyal Patron, and longtime friend Eleanor Hyde, and it's so utterly the kind of fiction I both love to write and to listen to: character-based storytelling with a strong sense of place and events that seem both plausible and deeply weird at the same time. It's hard to describe with any sort of plot summary, so the best I can do to recommend it is to say that if you like Pushing Daisies and David E. Kelley's shows from the mid-90s, but wished the former had been less whimsical and the latter less smug, this might be what you were looking for.
Give It Back To You
The Record Company
I'm just now getting around to this Grammy-nominated rock trio from Los Angeles and I'm loving everything about their no-nonsense, blues-based sound. The opening track of this album, "Off The Ground," has a driving bass line that reminds me of the best of Morphine, and the remainder of the tracks travel some of the same highways as artists like John Fogarty and Howlin' Wolf. I'm also going to mention that I got to this album in part because of a recommendation to check out Greta Van Fleet, a young rock band heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin. Generally speaking, I appreciate a band that can still put together a catchy rock song requiring little more than the basics of instruments and voice.
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These 10 suggestions for keeping mosquitoes away, naturally, can have those with liver disease enjoying the great outdoors – without putting their liver's health in jeopardy.
The arrival of summer puts more people outside to enjoy the warm weather than any other time of year. Although most of us consider summer's picnics, hikes, swimming and other outdoor- activities to be fun and carefree, this season also has a dark side. Especially for those who tend to be targets for buzzing, biting nuisances, the itchy welts left by mosquitoes can put a damper on any summer celebration. To prevent being bitten by hordes of mosquitoes, many people rely on commercially available insect repellents. Unfortunately, most of these products are too toxic to be safely used by those with a compromised liver.
Any kind of chemical that must be removed from the body's blood supply puts an added burden on the liver. Those with chronic liver disease are either at risk of or already have a liver with limited capacity to function. Thus, introducing unnecessary chemicals to the liver's daily workload could put too much stress on the hepatic system and result in subsequent liver cell damage.
To keep mosquito annoyances at bay, the most popular solution is the topical application of DEET-containing mosquito repellents. While DEET (diethyl-meta-toluamide) is fairly effective at repelling mosquitoes, its toxicity is a major concern for those who have chronic liver disease.
Preventing insect bites from mosquitoes, biting flies, fleas and other small, flying insects, DEET was developed by the U.S. Army in 1946 for protecting soldiers in insect-infested areas. Despite reports confirming DEET's toxicity, this chemical has been used by the general public in the United States since 1957.
· Skin Absorption – DEET-containing products are usually applied topically – directly on the skin. After being applied, DEET is found in the blood for up to 12 hours. Greater quantities of this chemical are absorbed when it is in a product containing alcohol or when it is combined with a sunscreen.
· Inhalation – DEET can be unintentionally inhaled when insect-repelling sprays are used, especially when applied in indoor spaces where the vapors can linger.
· Ingestion – Although no one purposefully ingests mosquito repellent, accidental ingestion occurs easily when hands are not washed thoroughly after using DEET on the skin.
Regardless of its ability to gain entry into the bloodstream, DEET-based insect repellents represent big business. However, even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hints at DEET's toxicity. According to the EPA, DEET should not be used frequently. Confirming the need for caution, The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one application of DEET per day for children. These positions assume that a person's liver is functioning at 100 percent. Because of the variety of ways DEET can gain access to the bloodstream, those with chronic liver disease are urged to find alternative ways to repel mosquitoes.
1. Wind Power – Because mosquitoes are known, weak fliers, they don't have the strength to battle wind. Thus, many people are placing powerful fans in outdoor areas, not just to keep cool, but also to blow away biting insects.
2. No Standing Water – Mosquitoes are attracted to and breed in standing water. Therefore, make sure you are not encouraging their presence. Replace all standing water regularly as found in birdbaths, ponds and unfiltered pools and make sure receptacles that could catch water have drainage.
3. Time it Right – Avoid going outdoors during dusk and dawn when mosquitoes are most active.
4. Skip Bananas – When heading outside, choose foods other than bananas and other high-potassium foods. Experts believe eating such foods attracts mosquitoes, because they are attracted to the lactic acid given off after consuming potassium-rich foods.
5. Go for Garlic – Mosquitoes appear to be naturally repelled by its smell, so include fresh garlic in your summer menu planning. Others insist that pinching a garlic clove and rubbing its juice over exposed skin is the best natural mosquito repellent.
6. Screen Repair – Check and repair all screens (doors and windows) for holes or tears that mosquitoes can use to enter a home. Experts suggest putting mesh screening or hardware cloth over bathroom and other vent outlets on the roof to keep insects out.
7. Befriend Bats – One small brown bat can catch about 600 mosquitoes per hour. Many people benefit from installing a bat house on their property to attract these useful insect eaters.
8. Lighten Up – When dressing for the outdoors, opt for white or light colored clothing, because mosquitoes are attracted to dark colors.
9. Try Essential Oils – Sold individually or in combinations as natural insect repellents, there are several essential oils that deter flying pests, including citronella, eucalyptus, geranium, catnip, lavender and clove.
10. Weed Whack – Remove overgrown and unneeded vegetation from your outdoor space. This eliminates having a desirable place for mosquitoes to rest.
Being outdoors during warm weather involves taking a mosquito gamble – there is no guarantee you will escape their bite. This even applies to those applying DEET-based repellents on a regular basis. However, many people successfully escape mosquito bites with the insect repelling suggestions above without putting their liver health at risk.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/001586.html, Chemical Mosquito Repellant DEET Causes Neurological Damage, Gets Absorbed Through The Skin, Mike Adams, Retrieved July 1, 2010, Natural News Network, 2010.


Originally a monastery dating back to the 17th century, now converted to a luxury vacation property, Chalet Toit du monde has preserved the tradition and old world charm in its most authentic form. Nestled on the slopes, Chalet Toit du Monde is a landmark property in the hameau of La Daille in Val d'Isère. Along with its twin brother chalet called the Himalaya, they can comfortably accommodate 16 to 20 guests.
Chalet Toit du Monde perfectly combines warmth with the most luxurious modern comforts imaginable. You can imagine the monks sitting and reading by the stunning window stone seats and the massive fireplace. These original features are accented by modern decorative elememts and state of the art facilities. The spacious and well furnished sitting room featuring a fireplace exudes a convivial ambiance while crystal glasses and silver cutlery placed elegantly on the dining room table glint invitingly. The fully equipped kitchen is lavishly outfitted with all the modern amenities and appliances. Built on four floors, Chalet Toit du Monde features four double bedrooms with en suite bathrooms; all the suites have separate sleeping and relaxation areas. The bathrooms are extremely opulent with gracefully carved snowflakes adorning the marble walls and ingeniously heated floors. The bathrooms are very spacious and feature rain shower; can also be converted into a steam room for 4 accented with remote controlled lights. Latest technology is incorporated in the form of a movie screen that can appear at the touch of a button and the invisible swimming pool that can pop up between the dining area and the cigar room giving an opportunity for the guests to relax after enjoying the gourmet delights prepared by the chef.


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Directed: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
M: Action Violence
Captain Marvel is the newest iteration into the MCU. As not only the 21st film in the behemoth franchise, but also the first solo female-led superhero film in the same franchise it has a lot of expectations to fill. There is a lot to unpack about this movie, with so many beats and developments, it has all the makings of a great addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Captain Marvel is an origin film of sorts as we follow Carol Danvers as she tries to understand who she is and where she's from while caught between a war between the Kree (a race of mostly blue aliens who we have seen in other Marvel films) and the Skrulls (who are shapeshifting aliens in their first introduction into the MCU).
Its full of sci-fi visuals, 90's references, bopping beats, entertaining action and a decent story.
Brie Larson plays the titular character and she really dives into the role of an exceptional warrior, trying to figure out who she is while also trying to stop a war. Her character is confident, but also burdened by her lack of memories about who she was before joining the Kree empire. She holds her own as both a woman, but also as an individual, trying to find out who she is, was, or could be. Her main desires and drives in the movie are put to the test and at the end she comes out as a more interesting individual.
Ben Mendelsohn is definitely the MVP in the film apart from Captain Marvel herself. He plays his character, Talos, with a lot of layers and nuance. Despite being a character who can shapeshift, there is more to him than what appears on the surface. His character is also a brilliant introduction to the entire race of Skrulls and who they are as a people.
Samuel L. Jackson is once again portraying Nick Fury, but the younger version before he became the director. His involvement in the film is an interesting way to add more layers to his character as he appears in later movies and partly why he is like the way we have seen him. His banter with Captain Marvel is also a standout feature.
Jude Law is a nice addition as a lesser known character, Yon-Rogg, but his role is reduced somewhat leaving us wanting a bit more from his character after having seen so many of the others be given the same care.
Lashana Lynch plays the best friend of Captain Marvel, Maria Rambeau, who plays an important role related to Carol's past. Her friendship feels real, relatable and something lacking in modern Hollywood of good female friendships.
The story takes us in several different directions as Captain Marvel is tasked with hunting down Skrulls as part of the elite unit of Kree warriors. It changes gears a few times, as Captain Marvel herself begins to change too and question things she thought she already knew. The story feels reminiscent of the Bourne Identity as both characters are on a journey to find out who they were, to influence who they are now. Each of the story directions are strong in their own right, but feel a little disjointed at times.
The villain in the film is not as clear cut initially, leading us to wonder who exactly is on the right side and who is on the wrong side. When the villain is finally revealed it is a bit lacklustre as they don't feel as compelling a character compared to the rest. They're more of a barrier and less of a direct antagonist. The final confrontation is cool but feels a bit of a letdown.
The action in the movie is impressive, vibrant, colourful and full of energy. The action, much like the 90's action films that inspired it, hardly slows down and plays into a real kinetic movement of sorts, blending sci-fi visuals, awesome powers and close quarters combat into quick paced scenes. There are a couple of moments where the action is a bit too fast to see and its hard to tell what happened. Or the visuals are a bit too bright, which makes it hard to focus on what is going on. But these are only very minor issues.
Marvel once again proves they know their stuff with the clever humour. There are quite a few laugh out loud scenes with either subtle motion or great jokes. Its not a comedy, but the humour is well placed to add that lovely flavour to characters and situations.
There are quite a few clever twists throughout the movie, and these do come as a nice surprise to what was expected a pretty easy paint by numbers story. These changes in direction are important moments for Carol Danvers, to figure out who she is and who she wants to be.
Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck provide a much-needed deft touch for the film, giving Captain Marvel her own voice and a chance to stand on her own two feet. Its clear how they wanted to introduce her and tell the audience who is this Captain Marvel, which is why by the end, you feel like you've known her all along.
The soundtrack is also a highlight. While not as good as the Guardians films, the 90's nostalgic music are still great choices to shine an extra light onto specific scenes.
There are a few things which do drag the movie down a bit. The sequences on Earth slow the film down quite a bit and it isn't until about halfway through when the pace begins to pick back up. There is a lot of important information and character development on Earth, but the first half is hampered by a slower pace than what it presented at the beginning. You almost wish you could go back to space and get back to having a cool intergalactic adventure. This is a similar issue faced in the first and second Thor film, where cosmic characters arriving on Earth feels like a drag.
There is also a lack of threat towards Captain Marvel as she is rarely seen facing an opponent which provides a real danger to her. This is evident, particularly towards the end, where she becomes nigh unstoppable. The only times we see her injured of any sort are in flashbacks.
There is also a lovely tribute to Stan Lee at the beginning of the movie which is sure to bring a tear to many an eye.
The movie has two post-credits scenes. One which holds a lot of potential for Avengers: Endgame and the other is both cute and funny.
Captain Marvel is a film that features the first solo female hero and rather than bashing you on the head with that knowledge, it simply wants to tell you its own story and what makes Carol Danvers different to the vast array of other superheroes in the Marvel pantheon. What makes her different isn't just that she's a woman, but that she is a person in her own right.
Its big, bright and such a wild, fun ride. Captain Marvel is a definite watch on the big screen, that is sure to entertain and leave you looking forward to more.
Marvel have once more, done it again.
8 stars out of 10.


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