I frequently get asked about the best way to deal with sickness absence. Most of my clients are small businesses who prefer not to have very bureaucratic procedures to follow and have quite personal relationships with their staff, making formal or confrontational action difficult. With that in mind I've put together some easy-to-implement tips for handling problem absence, giving small employers the chance to make a real difference to their absence levels without having to get over-formal.
Ultimately whether you consider a level of absence to be a problem will be your call, and will probably depend on how much time off has been taken, what reasons are given for the absence and the previous record of the employee in question. It could be lots of different incidences of absence, a large quantity of days absent or a 'pattern' of absence, for example, lots of Mondays or Fridays off.
HOW SHOULD I DEAL WITH PROBLEM ABSENCE?
As with any employment issue, dealing with it sooner rather than later maximises the chance of addressing the problem successfully and minimises the disruption, stress and time required.
If an employee is having frequent absences for minor ailments, it is often partly because the employee feels they can easily 'slip in and out' of work almost unnoticed or with little or no consequence.
Return to work interviews are particularly successful for this type of absence problem. If employees know that every single time they phone in sick, even for one day, they will have to sit down for a return to work interview and will be quizzed about their absence, it is much less tempting to 'throw a sickie'!
When you are dealing with an absence problem, make sure you do a return to work interview EVERY SINGLE TIME. It may feel silly, especially in an informal small business environment, but it's the consequence every time that changes the behaviour. It doesn't have to feel formal – just a discussion about how they are feeling, whether they saw the doctor, whether there are any concerns they have, but just make sure a sit-down one-to-one conversation happens every time.
It sounds harsh but one of the most effective ways of sorting out an absence problem can be stopping pay. If the consequence of a day off work is losing a day's pay, that duvet seems a lot less tempting. Ensure there are conditions attached or some level of discretion applying to any occupational sick pay you offer, giving you the flexibility you need to handle each situation.
It's easy to get into the habit of not recording absence if your employees are only off occasionally, or you tend to pay them full pay. However if the 'odd day off sick' becomes more regular or turns into longer term absence, it will be difficult to deal with or even notice if you do not keep records.
Make sure you give the employee every opportunity to raise any concerns they may have or request any additional help or support they need. Make sure concerns are addressed if they are reasonable. Doing this will protect you later if you need to take more formal action.
Make sure your sickness absence procedure is fit-for-purpose, and works for you. Small changes like requiring employees to speak to you personally each morning they are off sick rather than allowing messages, texts or emails, can make a big difference. It is less tempting to stay in bed if you have to speak to your boss than if you can send a quick text.
If you have followed all the steps outlined above and there is a still an absence problem, you may then have to treat the absence as a conduct issue and use the disciplinary procedure. However if you are confident there is a genuine ill health problem rather than a conduct problem, and it is impacting on the employee's ability to be effective in their job, you should treat the absence as a capability issue and approach it with sensitivity. When issuing a disciplinary warning or dealing with a capability issue, it is highly recommended you seek guidance from an employment law or HR specialist. You should only consider dismissal as a last resort, after exploring all other avenues.
When you spot a problem, deal with it, don't put it off.


If you handle multiple Facebook Pages, you know how much time and effort it takes to juggle all of them while also actively participating in every conversation on each Page.
Hence, SocialPilot has come up with a solution - Social Inbox - one inbox for all your conversations.
How to manage visitors' posts on a Facebook Page?
All posts made by others on your Facebook Page are 'visitors' posts'.
Click on 'Social Inbox' -> Facebook from the side-panel.
This is your Social Inbox - where you can manage all your messages, comments, and visitors' posts.
Select the Facebook Page of your choice from the first fold.
In the second fold, you'll see a drop-down button 'All'. Click on the drop-down and select 'Posts'.
You'll see a list of your visitors' posts made on your Facebook page. Select a post you want to reply to and click on 'Reply'.
If you don't wish to see this post in your inbox again, mark it as 'Done'. You can view this post under 'Done' anytime.
How to manage comments on a Facebook Page?
Social Inbox ensures that you don't miss any comment and manage them all with ease!
Click on Social Inbox -> Facebook from the side-panel.
This is your Social Inbox for all connected Facebook Pages.
Select a Facebook Page of your choice.
In the second fold, you'll see a drop-down button 'All'. Click on the drop-down and select 'Comments'.
You'll see a list of all comments made on posts. Select the comment and type your reply.
If you don't wish to see this comment in your inbox again, mark it as 'Done'. You can view this message under 'Done' anytime.
How to manage Facebook Page Messages in Social Inbox?
All messages received on your Facebook Page can be seen under 'Messages' in your inbox.
Social Inbox helps you manage these messages by viewing and replying to them in real-time.
Select the Facebook Page of your choice.
As you click on a Page, in the second fold you'll see a drop-down button 'All'. Click on the drop-down and select 'Messages'.
Select a message from the list of conversations and type your reply.
If you don't wish to see this message in your inbox anymore, mark it as 'Done'. You can view this message under 'Done' anytime.
You will be able to see all your comments, posts, and messages from the last 30 days in your Social Inbox.


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Q: Nginx not showing custom 'Page Not Found' page in React app ok, So, I have built a React app and deployed it under Nginx. So, far everything is working i.e. Nginx serves the site over HTTPS though in my React app, I use react-router-dom with a default route to my custom 404 page.. see below. The one with /* routes unhandled requests to my custom 'Not Found' page. This whole thing works fine when I just run react app locally i.e. by running "npm run" though after I deploy the static build to my web server where I have Nginx as a reverse proxy, any attempt to access valid secured pages (post login) or invalid page routes only shows Nginx default 404 page. My Nginx config is as per below..
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    server {
        listen       80 default_server;
        listen       [::]:80 default_server;
        server_name  licenses.mydomain.como;
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
        #root         /usr/share/nginx/html;
        root         /srv/www/licenses;

        # Load configuration files for the default server block.
        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

        location / {
        index  index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
            location = /404.html {
                root /usr/share/nginx/html;
                #internal;
        }

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
        }
    }

const routes = [
{
    path: "/",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: false,
    page: () => <HomePage />,
  },
  {
    path: "/home",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: false,
    page: () => <HomePage />,
  },
  {
    path: "/changerequest/",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: false,
    page: () => <ChangeRequestApplication />,
  },
  {
    path: "/approvalcoderequest",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: false,
    page: () => <ApprovalCodeRequest />,
  },
  {
    path: "/staffapp/",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: false,
    page: () => <StaffApplication />,
  },
{
    path: "/reports/spotsallocationspersite",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: true,
    menuid: 24,
    page: () => <SpotsAllocationPerSite />,
  },
  {
    path: "*",
    exact: true,
    isPrivate: false,
    page: () => <NotFound />,
  },
];

A: Remove the following section in your nginx.conf file:
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
     root /usr/share/nginx/html;
     #internal;
}

Since your react app handles the 404 page already.
Replace the location block as follows:
location / {
     index  index.html index.htm;
     try_files $uri $uri/;
}

A: I found the solution in this SO post. Basically as per this post added below location segment to your ssl.conf or nginx.conf.
location / {

  if (!-e $request_filename){

    rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break;

  }

}

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The attached VBA macro works with Outlook 2010 Rules, saving the attachment in reservation messages that meet the condition of the rule. The macro saves an Excel .csv file attachment to a very specific location, that being: C:/MarinaPro/ResScheduler/.
I need to change the original .csv file name (Example: 11485_9301_14-12-2018_15-29-51.csv ) before it is copied to the ResScheduler folder. The new file name needs to be formatted as, for example, "121418_1030_CUSTLASTNAM.csv". Where the date and time reference is the "Sent" date and time of the email reservation message.
Just cannot get it to work.
' Get the reservation file name.
strFile = DateFormat & "_" & TimeFormat & "_" & "CustLastNam.csv"
Attachment files names changes during send!
Excel attachment file names change on their own!
Exchange 2007 File attachment limits by user?


The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before. Although inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, from Arthur Rackham to Edmund Dulac, Hockneys etchings re-imagine these strange and supernatural stories for a modern audience.
Text by Tim Barringer, Edith Devaney.


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Posted on July 5, 2019 by dirkdeklein under Food, History, Technology, US Army, US History, World War 2
I am going to Spam this blog and I won't even apologize for it.
But wait before you delete the post.
On this day in 1937 the Hormel Foods Corporation, head quartered in Austin- Minnesota, USA, first introduced the product SPAM The square can of pork, salt, water, sugar, potato starch and sodium nitrite that first rolled off the assembly lines 82 years ago during the late depression era. it was invented .as a way to capitalize on the then-unprofitable pork shoulder.
According to Hormel ,SPAM stands for 'spiced ham' and not "something posing as meat"
The product became very popular during WWII.
It is actually said that SPAM helped win the war. It went global during World War II, when the US shipped out over 100 million cans to the Pacific, where it made an inexpensive yet filling meal for U.S. troops Millions of cans of SPAM were also sent to the Soviets and they loved it.
Khrushchev once said "SPAM was a godsend for another hungry group—Russian soldiers in World War II."
But how did get SPAM such a bad name when it comes to IT?
We have Monty Python to thank for that. in the 1970s Monty Python's Flying Circus had a sketch , which is the pop culture Spam reference most people will remember.
The sketch is about a customer in a restaurant who desperately tries to order something that doesn't contain SPAM, only to find that everything on the menu features it. In the course of his disastrous dinner, a nearby party of Vikings( It is Monty Python)breaks into song: "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, lovely SPAM! Wonderful SPAM!"
Taste of death-Margot Wölk ,Hitler's food taster.
Posted on November 14, 2017 by dirkdeklein under Assassination attempts, Food, History, Holocaust, World War 2
Every meal could have been her last. And when she had finished eating the bland vegetarian dishes put before her, 25-year-old Margot Wölk and her young female colleagues would burst into tears and "cry like dogs" because they were grateful still to be alive.
Hitler was a vegetarian, it is not precisely known when he became vegetarian but certainly throughout WWII. Allegedly he once commented that he didn't like to eat lobster because he thought it was cruel how lobsters were cooked alive.
Yet he had no issues killing millions of men,women and children, nor did he have any problems forcing 15 young women to become his food tasters, to ensure he wouldn't get poisoned.
Margot Wölk, (born 27 December 1917), is a German former secretary who was one of 15 young women who, in 1942, were selected to taste German leader Adolf Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia for some two and a half years in order to confirm that the food was safe to eat and didn't contain any harmful toxins or poisons.She was the only one of the 15 to survive World War II, and her background as Hitler's food taster was not revealed until a newspaper interview on her 95th birthday in December 2012.
She was the only one to survive. All her colleagues were rounded up and shot by the advancing Red Army in January 1945.
Just after Wölk's arrival in Gross-Partsch, she and 14 other young women were selected by the local mayor and brought to the barracks in nearby Krausendorf (now Kruszewiec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland), where cooks prepared the food for the Wolf's Lair in a two-story building. Wölk was picked up by a bus every day from her mother-in-law's residence. The tasting took place daily from 11 to 12 o'clock. The service personnel filled platters with vegetables, sauces, noodle dishes and exotic fruits, placing them in a room with a large wooden table, where the food had to be tasted. "There was never meat because Hitler was a vegetarian," Wölk said in an interview."The food was good … very good. But we couldn't enjoy it."
There were rumors that the Allies had plans to poison Hitler. After the women confirmed that the food was safe, members of the SS brought it to the main headquarters in crates.
After Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's failed 20 July plot in 1944 in the Wolf's Lair to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power, the security around the Wolf's Lair was tightened, and the food tasters were no longer allowed to stay at home. Instead, they were boarded in a vacant school building nearby. Each morning at 8 a.m., Wölk was rousted from bed by the SS, who shouted "Margot, get up!" from beneath her window. By that time, she was only needed if Hitler was actually at the Wolf's Lair,
"The security was so tight that I never saw Hitler in person. I only saw his Alsatian dog, Blondi," Ms Wölk recalled.
Security was draconian, but one night she was raped by an SS officer.-shack."Later in 1944, when the Soviet Red Army was just a few kilometers away from reaching the Wolf's Lair, a lieutenant took Wölk aside and put her on a train to Berlin. After the war ended, Wölk met the lieutenant again, and he told her that all of the other 14 food tasters had been killed by Soviet soldiers.
As Wölk returned to Berlin, she fell into the hands of the Soviet Army after the end of the Battle of Berlin. For two weeks, they raped her repeatedly, inflicting such injuries that she was never able to bear children.
A British officer called Norman helped her recover. He went back to Britain after the war. He wrote asking his German girlfriend to join him. But Ms Wölk told him she wanted to wait and find out if her husband Karl was still alive.
In 1946, she was reunited with her husband Karl; he was marked by years of war and imprisonment, but the married couple lived happily together until his death in 1980.
For decades after the war, Wölk never talked about what happened in Gross-Partsch; however, the experience came to her often in dreams. It wasn't until December 2012, on her 95th birthday, when a local Berlin journalist from the newspaper Berliner Zeitung paid her a visit and began asking questions, that she spoke about what she calls the worst years of her life.It was then, she suddenly decided to break her silence.
Food in WWII
Posted on October 28, 2017 by dirkdeklein under Food, History, World War 2
Anyone who knows me knows that I take my food seriously. Never mind the danger to my family or me, the deprivation of my daily requirements of food would probably be enough reason for me to go to war.
Luckily enough I never had to go a day without food(although it would have done me no harm). during WWII however some of my family had to do with tulip bulbs for food, apparently it tastes a bit like onion.
Even though none of my family ever mentioned this, I do know that not every cat was assured of any of its 9 lives during the war.(I hear it tastes like chicken) But that was the case in the Netherlands and most of the other occupies countries.
Although food wise Britain and the US fared better then the occupied countries they also had to ration their food.
This poster encouraged people to save peelings and food waste for the 'pig bin'.
Shoppers wait patiently in a queue. This photo was taken in London in 1945. There had been rationing in Britain since 1940.
One thing there was no shortage of was rabbits, so rabbits stew was not so much a popular dish but rather a dish born out of necessity.
Rabbits could be caught wild and the government encouraged people to keep them to provide food. This recipe uses rabbit and was adapted from a pre-war recipe which used cider. The wartime version uses grated apple instead.
If someone wants to try it out, below is the WWII recipe for Rabbit stew
1 whole rabbit, cut into joints
1oz flour
1-2oz dripping
2 bacon rashers, de-rinded & chopped (if available)
2 medium onions, sliced
3 medium carrots, sliced
1 pint (600ml) water or stock
1 cooking apple
fresh herbs (as available)
Put the rabbit to soak in cold water with the vinegar for 30 minutes
Remove and dry well
Mix the flour with the salt and pepper and coat the rabbit joints
Heat the dripping and add the bacon rinds. Then add the rabbit joints and cook steadily for about 10 minutes or until golden brown in colour
Remove from the pan
Add the bacon, onions and carrots and cook for 5 minutes then return the rabbit to the pan
Add the water or stock and the grated apple and stir as the liquid comes to the boil and thickens slightly
Add the herbs
Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes
Quickly put dish into the hay box and leave for 4 to 5 hours
Serve with seasonal vegetables

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Vedanta Announces Third Interim Dividend Of Rs 17.50 Per Equity Share
BusinessMarket NewsVedanta Announces Third Interim Dividend Of Rs 17.50 Per Equity Share
Vedanta: The record date for the purpose of payment of dividend is November 30, the company said, adding the interim dividend will be paid within stipulated timelines as prescribed under law.
Vedanta had earlier approved first interim dividend of Rs 31.5 (File)
Mining giant Vedanta on Monday announced the third interim dividend of Rs 17.50 per equity share for the current financial year, amounting to Rs 6,505 crore.
The mining giant's gross debt stood at Rs 58,597 crore as on September 30.
"The board of directors of the company through resolution passed by circulation on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 have approved third interim dividend of Rs 17.50 per equity share i.e. 1750 per cent on face value of Re 1 per share for the financial Year 2022-23 amounting to Rs 6,505 crore," Vedanta said in a filing to BSE.
The record date for the purpose of payment of dividend is November 30, the company said, adding the interim dividend will be paid within stipulated timelines as prescribed under law.
Vedanta had earlier approved first interim dividend of Rs 31.5 and second interim dividend of Rs 19.50 per equity share.
Moody's Investors Service had earlier said a large dividend from its cash-rich India operating arm has boosted billionaire Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources Ltd's efforts to refinance debt.
On April 28, Vedanta Ltd announced that its board of directors approved an interim dividend of Rs 11,710 crore (USD 1.56 billion), of which USD 1.02 billion will be received by its holding company Vedanta Resources Limited (VRL).
VRL owns 69.7 per cent of Vedanta Ltd.
Vedanta Ltd, an arm of Vedanta Resources Ltd, is one of the world's leading oil and gas and metals company with operations in oil and gas, zinc, lead, silver, copper, iron ore, steel, and aluminium and power across India, South Africa and Namibia.
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MI6 understands that due to the MGM bankruptcy plan being approved by the courts this week, the next James Bond videogame from Activision was taken off hiatus and is now green-lit again.
It was not just the MGM situation that put early work on the untitled game on hold, though. There are at least two main development teams at the Activision-owned Raven Software. Earlier this year, one team was finishing work on Activision's new property "Singularity", whilst another was in the early development and design phases of a stealth-centric James Bond game. Development on 007 was put on ice as the resources were re-allocated to work on a series of map packs for the financially lucrative "Call of Duty" franchise.
Raven's other future game, one based on the X-Men franchise and a follow-up to its work on X-Men: Origins Wolverine, was said to have been put on the backburner as well. Based in Madison, Wisconsin (USA), Raven Software last produced the "Wolfenstein" reboot last summer.
Of Activision's recent Bond-licence releases, FPS shooter "GoldenEye 007" was well received and is proving a strong title on the Nintendo Wii, although the third-person movie-style game "Blood Stone" has suffered poor sales and mediocre reviews.
There is no indication that Eurocom, who developed "GoldenEye 007", are working on another Bond title. Bizarre Creations, the studio behind "Blood Stone", were shuttered by Activision a week after the game's release.
It is not clear yet when Activision plan to release the 'stealthy' 007 title by Raven Software, but as development was put on ice for six months, fans shouldn't really expect to see anything until this time next year.


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Αρχική/Greek Business File/Greece: 5G is coming to town!
Greece: 5G is coming to town!
By Symela Touchtidou, @stouchtidou
On October 30, Greece's telecoms regulator, Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), launched a tender for frequencies in the 700 MHz, 2 GHz, 3400-3800 MHz and 26 GHz bands.
These are the frequencies allocated for the country's next generation telecommunication networks, the 5G networks.
In Trikala, the pilot program ran just for 3 hours during the 2019 Smart Cities Conference
Two elements differentiate the process in Greece from other European countries:
the low price for leasing the frequencies and
the fund called Phaistos that will be financed partly by the auction money. The Phaistos fund will finance startup companies in the 5G technology field.
The Greek Ministry of Digital Development says the first 5G networks will be available for consumer use in early 2021.
60% of Greece's territory is expected to be covered by 5G networks in the next three years. 94% in the next six years.
Healthcare and educational institutions are expected to be the first to use the new network.
Will it be uneventful?
Hard to tell. 5G networks cause controversy and dispute in communities all over the world. Many express concerns over the dense mast network they require to operate and its possible consequences on public health.
In the city of Zografou, operator Cosmote was not allowed to install a single mast.
In Greece, in 2019, three cities were chosen to host the first, pilot 5G networks:
Trikala (in Thessaly),
Zografou (in Attiki) and
Kalamata (in the Peloponnese).
None did particularly well.
To find out the whole story, buy the Greek Business File November-December 2020 issue
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Monday 14th May saw a very special gathering in Croke Park Dublin, as decision makers, public representatives, commissioners, regulators, campaigners, human rights activists, service delivery organisations, health and social care professionals and people with autism and their families and carers met to discuss the past, present and future of Autism in Ireland.
The event was opened by Finnian McGrath, Minister for State with special responsibility for people with Disabilities, who remarked on the importance of the event and the inclusive nature of the speakers, venue and audience.
People with autism and their families and carers participated in the event as panel members, speakers and in the numerous question and answer sessions spread throughout the day.
The keynote speaker was world renowned journalist Ron Suskind who shared his family's story of life with his son Owen. Ron's bestselling book Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism, was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated documentary. Life, Animated tells the story of his youngest son, Owen, who, after being diagnosed with autism, found a way to reengage with the world around him.
Ron's fascinating and engaging talk told how seizing upon Owen's love of animated Disney movies, the Suskind family re-enacted the films with him, pioneering a now-widely acknowledged method of emulative communication known as Affinity Therapy.
Speaking before the event Ron said "I'm excited to be coming to the Inspire conference in Dublin to share my family's story. The autism community is truly global, and I'm looking forward to hearing about the journey of other families with autism."


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The new Asus Zenfone 3 Max and Zenfone 3 Laser
August 30, 2016 • Android • Asus • New Launch
Asus has announced the Asus Zenfone 3 Max and Zenfone 3 Laser. Essentially, we're looking at budget smartphones that aim to offer relatively advanced performance in terms of battery life and image quality. Both phones run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and has fingerprint scanner present on the back of both devices.
The Zenfone 3 Max offers more battery life at the exchange of a thicker build. The main highlight of the Asus Zenfone 3 Max is its 4,100mAh battery and the ability to charge other phones or devices. Other specs for the Zenfone 3 Max include a 5.2-inch IPS display running at 1920 by 1080 pixels, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of integrated storage, and a fingerprint scanner which is said to unlock the handset in 0.2 seconds
The colors available are Sand Gold, Titanium Gray and Glacier Silver.
The Zenfone 3 Laser is a version of the standard flagship, the Zenfone 3, but with improvements in the camera department. The Zenfone 3 Laser comes with an ultra-fast laser autofocus system and its 13MP 'PixelMaster' primary camera only needs 0.03 seconds to focus on its target. The camera will be supported by an electronic image stabilization sensor. as well as a color correction sensor. However, it will be interesting to see if the Zenfone 3 Laser can actually shoot better-looking photos than the Zenfone 3 Deluxe, which comes with a larger-resolution 23MP primary shooter. Both the Zenfone 3 Deluxe and the standard model, which is equipped with a 16MP primary sensor, integrate mechanical OIS.
Other specs of Laser are quite similar to standard model - includes a 5.5-inch display running a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, a curved display glass, 4GB of RAM and 32GB of integrated storage, and a fingerprint sensor. It is available in Glacier Silver and Sand Gold.
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OpinionColumnistsDan Janison
Gains from U.S. tactics against Iran, Venezuela and China are hard to see
A view of Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday amid the ongoing outage caused by the Maduro administration's massive power cut. Credit: AFP/Getty Images/Matias Delacroix
By Dan Janisondan.janison@newsday.comDanJanison July 23, 2019
Six months after the leader of Venezuela's National Assembly declared himself president, dictator Nicolas Maduro remains in charge of his once oil-rich country.
The country is in a state of collapse. Millions have fled, and those who remain face severe deprivations. from a lack of essential supplies to electrical blackouts.
Amid tough talk and economic sanctions against the regime, American military intervention appears highly unlikely. Trump administration officials, who purportedly back the legislative leader, Juan Guaidó, told The Miami Herald this week of a willingness to leave Maduro alone and not prosecute him if he departs Venezuela.
So far, U.S. measures have brought no power shift.
More dramatically, President Donald Trump has re-imposed sanctions and proclaimed "maximum pressure" against Iran. To the dismay of European allies, he withdrew the United States from a 2015 multi-nation deal by which Tehran would ditch its nuclear-weapons efforts. Iran in turn says it has since increased its uranium enrichment, closer to weapons-grade levels.
Rather than make desired concessions, Iran has displayed more hostility. The nation's forces seized British tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, detained the crews and allegedly downed at least one U.S. surveillance drone.
Russia, still a key Iran ally, may or may not be helping the rogue regime in any practical way. In fact, Russian energy companies have competitively benefited from the U.S. sanction squeeze on Iranian oil.
Iran also claimed to have arrested 17 people as CIA "spies."
The United States also has been prodding China with tariffs, with the stated goal of gaining leverage in trade negotiations.
As reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, American businesses are absorbing the impact by taking less in profits, increasing their prices to customers and putting in new orders for goods from Vietnam and Mexico.
Amid the tit-for-tat tariff battle, exports of goods from Wisconsin were down 4 percent from January through April of 2019 versus the same period last year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis reported.
On Tuesday, CNBC reported that U.S. officials will travel to China for talks between Friday and Aug. 1. Officials suggested that the timeline for an agreement, if any, would extend into next year's election campaign — which could pressure American negotiators to create some show of success.
Trump threatened and backed off border closures with Mexico if it didn't stop migrants at the southern border. As previously promised, the government there has taken steps to stem the crossings by Central American refugees. Migrant detentions usually decrease during the hottest months, but this time Mexico says it has involved thousands of its military officers in its effort.
On Monday, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters: "We have managed to apply our strategy." Given a 36 percent decline in migrants-per-day arrested at the border, he said Mexico won't agree to a plan that would force many migrants to stay there instead of seeking U.S. asylum.
This hardly ends the issue. The jury is still out on whether the recent threats of economic harm will foster solid results.
By Dan Janison
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Dan Janison is a member of the Newsday editorial board.


Modulatory Effects of Imipramine on Pilocarpine-induced Seizures in Immature Rats.
The Effect of All-trans and 13-cis-retinoic Acid in Medulloblastoma and Glioblastoma Cell Culture.
E-selectin Mrna and Protein Expression Increase Transiently After Unilateral Cerebral hypoxia-ischemia in Neonatal Rats.
Changes of Prostaglandin E-2 Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Children with Febrile Convulsion.
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy : Clinical and Electroencephalographic Analysis.
Efficacy of Gabapentin Therapy in Refractory Seizure.
Predictive Factors of Seizure Recurrence & Persistence in Benign Epilepsy of Childhood with Centrotemporal Spikes.
The Influence of Low Serum Sodium Levels on the Risk of the Recurrence of Febrile Convulsions.
Effectiveness of the PRISM III Score for Predicting Mortality in Pediatric Intensive Care Neurologic Patients.
Factors Affecting Neurologic Outcome in Asphyxiated Term Baby.
Bilateral Cortical Dysplasias : MRI Findings and Clinical Aspects.
The Correlation of Clinical Findings of Neuronal Migration Disorders with Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characteristics.
Analysis of Usefulness of Biochemical Enzyme Assay and MR Spectroscopy(MRS) in Leigh Syndrome.
Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumors in Children with Intractable Seizures: Report of Two Cases.
A Case of Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome with Infantile Spasm.
A Case of Epidermal Nevus Syndrome with Infantile Spasm.
A Case Of Cerebellar Hemorrhage Associated with Cavernous Hemangioma and Developmental Venous Anomaly.
A Case of Acute Encephlopathy with Bilateral Thalamotegmental Involvement.
Reversible brain MRI Finding in Hypertensive Encephalopathy with Poststreptococcal Acute Glomerulonephritis.
A Case of Relapsed Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.
A Case of 13 Ring Chromosome Syndrome.
A Case of Battered Child Syndrome with Subdural hemorrhage.


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Premier League approves COVID-19 rescue plan to save Portsmouth and fellow EFL clubs
A £20m grant is being made available and £30m will be reserved to protect the status of clubs in League One and League Two
Josh ChalliesTrainee Sports Wire Writer
Fratton Park during Pompey's League One game against MK Dons
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The Premier League has approved a COVID-19 rescue plan to help protect clubs in the lowest two tiers of the EFL from going bust due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
A crucial shareholders meeting involving the 20 Premier League clubs took place on Wednesday, where it was unanimously agreed to put a halt to the controversial Project Big Picture plans which have rocked English football.
Under the rejected proposals, EFL clubs would have received an initial payment of £250m and would also be entitled to 25% of future revenue - but their fate would be in the hands of the Premier League's top six and the three other longest-serving clubs.
While those plans were batted away, the Premier League has committed to additional financial support to the EFL in the form of a rescue package, with a statement reading:
Former Portsmouth chief executive fires stark warning for EFL clubs amid match-fixing fears
"At today's meeting, it was agreed to make available a rescue package which aims to ensure that League One and League Two clubs will not go out of business as a result of the financial impact of COVID-19 and be able to complete the 2020/21 season.
"League One and League Two clubs rely more heavily on matchday revenue and have far fewer resources at their disposal than Championship or Premier League clubs and are therefore at more risk, especially at a time when fans are excluded from attending matches.
"This offer will consist of grants and interest-free loans totalling a further £50million on top of the £27.2m solidarity payments already advanced to League One and League Two this year, making a total of £77.2m.
The shock numbers that highlight just what Portsmouth's defenders did against MK Dons
"Discussions will also continue with the EFL regarding Championship clubs' financial needs. This addresses government concerns about lower league clubs' financial fragility."
Of the £50m, the Premier League has said £20m will be made available in grants in the short term and the remaining £30m will ensure no League One or League Two club goes to the wall because of coronavirus.


On vacation recently, I stopped into an independent bookshop that exclusively catered to children's books and let them know I was looking for charming chapter books. Moments later I had a number of books to choose from and was flipping through the first of four books in the Houndlsey and Catina series. What caught my eye was the mention that Catina (a cat) was vegetarian so her friend Houndsley (a dog) made a meal for her that included grains and tofu. A third guest at their dinner party, a bird named Burt, was surprised to learn that the "worms" he had been eating were really vegetarian. I just had to buy the book! Plus, I loved James Howe's Bunnicula as a kid.
After I read the book with my three-year-old, I returned the next day to get the rest of the series, the artwork is beautiful and the stories are truly charming. In this first book, Catina writes her memoirs because she wishes to be famous but she is not a very good writer. Houndsley is tactful and supportive. In the second chapter, Houndsley is encouraged by his friends to enter a cooking competition but he gets so nervous he even forgets the beans in his three bean (vegetarian) chili. In the third chapter, the friends resolve their experiences in the first two chapters and watch fireflies together. My mother in law said she wished Catina didn't admit to disliking writing but I thought it was good that she could be honest with her friend.
The other books are equally fantastic. I think they are wonderful read-aloud books but would be a good for beginning readers as the print is large and the chapters are short. Veg families will really appreciate the themes of compassion and friendship.
Congrats on becoming a mom! I may have to review some more board books, Ten Little Ladybugs is a favorite of my (now) 13 month old. They really love books with photos of babies or high contrast pictures in addition to touch and feel or lift a flap books. Oh, and mirrors are a hit, too. Best wishes!
What a great find — I love vegetarian characters in books, especially when they're portrayed in a positive light! I particularly like that everyone at Houndsley's dinner party ate vegetarian out of respect for their friend.
My 6-year-old, who reads short books herself but likes for me to read chapter books to her, loved this. Given the simplicity of the story, and the fact there are only 3 chapters, I suspect this might be one of the first chapter books she reads herself.
I am so thrilled! The other three books are equally charming but Catina's vegetarianism features most here. It was such a find because most reviews and blurbs leave out the veg friendly details. I am glad she liked it too!
We like this book a lot too, my kid brought it in to school for the teacher to read to the class. I love the tofu worms, and the ending which resolves the opening during which H is being critical of C's writing. Thanks for the review!


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National |
Three Vietnamese universities enters Times Higher Education rankings
Three universities of Vietnam have entered the World University Rankings 2020 of the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine for the first time.
A doctorate of HUST works in Engineering Physics Institute – Photo: HUST
The Vietnam National University (VNU) – Hanoi and the Hanoi University of Science and Techonology (HUST) make onto the list of world's top 800-1000 while the VNU – Ho Chi Minh City is in the 1000+ group.
Among the three Vietnamese educational establishments in the rankings, the VNU – Hanoi takes the lead in scores for teaching, research and international outlook while the VNU – HCM City comes first in scores for industry income. The HUST holds the highest scores for citation.
The University of Oxford for the fourth year in a row leads the rankings. The California Institute of Technology rises three places to second, followed by the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Meanwhile, top 1,000 also sees 16 universities in Thailand, 13 in Malaysia, six in Indonesia and two in Singapore. One school in Thailand and two in Malaysia are ranked 801-1,000th.
The THE World University Rankings 2020 includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries and territories, standing as the largest and most perse university rankings ever to date.
The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators which are grouped into five areas of Teaching (the learning environment); Research (volume, income and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (staff, students and research); and Industry Income (knowledge transfer).
VNF ( VNA )
The Prime Minister launches a tree planting festival in Ba Vi on New Year of Cat.
Fifty years ago, on January 27, 1973, the Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam was formally signed, marking a significant milestone in the glorious revolution of the Vietnamese people and Vietnamese diplomacy.
Vietnam News Today (Jan. 28): Vietnam Remains Good Business Partner of Hong Kong
Vietnam News Today (Jan. 28): Vietnam records sharp influx of foreign arrivals during Tet; Vietnam remains good business partner of Hong Kong; Hoi An, HCM City among world's top 25 trending destinations in 2023; Severe cold continues to blanket northern, north central regions.
Vietnam News Today (Jan. 26): Vietnam - Important Partner of RoK
Vietnam News Today (Jan. 26): Vietnam - important partner of RoK; HCM City maintains growth momentum, reaps successes in 2022; Vietnam's tourism forecast to strongly rebound in five years; Many localities attract a large number of visitors during Tet.
Vietnam News Today (Jan. 25): Vietnam - A Country of Safety
Vietnam News Today (Jan. 25): Vietnam - a country of safety; EVFTA presents tremendous trade, investment advantages; Vietnamese football confident of a bright future; Two Vietnam's beaches among top ten most popular destinations: Tik Tok.
Localities Welcome First Foreign Tourists in Lunar New Year
Budget carrier Vietjet's Flight VJ5317, departing from China's Chengdu international airport, landed at Cam Ranh international airport, the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, on January 23 morning, the second day of the Lunar New Year festival.


The Southern California Library documents and makes accessible histories of struggles that challenge racism and other systems of oppression so we can all imagine and sustain possibilities for freedom.
SCL is a community library and archive located in South Los Angeles. Founded over 50 years ago, the Library holds extensive collections of histories of community resistance in Los Angeles and beyond. Everyone is welcome to use the Library's resources to research and put to practice the histories of everyday people working to create change.
SCL was founded by Emil Freed, the son of anarchists and brought up with the consciousness that the world needed to be changed. Emil attended Manual Arts High School, on Vermont Avenue just north of where the Library is currently located, graduating in 1917. He then attended the University of Southern California, graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
During the 1930s, Freed was an active member of the Communist Party and participated in the independent labor movement before the creation of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). He was involved with the California Labor School in Los Angeles, which was formed by several unions, including the communications league, rubber workers, and seamen among other trades, and held meetings, dance classes, art exhibits, lectures, and readings.
Freed began independently saving pamphlets and other political material, motivated by a desire to create a historical legacy of leftist thought and fear that this material would be lost. At the time, such publications were published in the hundreds of thousands, and sold for a penny a piece at local bookstores.
In the late 1940s there were a number of strikes in Hollywood against management. While Emil did not work in Hollywood, he was selling CP newspapers across the street from a strike, and was arrested, spending a year in jail in 1949.
Freed's fear that material would be lost was heightened during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s. During the McCarthy era, a number of Emil's friends did not want to get caught with the leftist materials they had in their possession. People began to bury or burn materials they had long cherished. Emil took on the task of taking people's literature, and filled his own garage and at least four others to save what he understood as important history.
Then in 1952, the California Labor School was shut down, and the contents of its small library were left vulnerable. Freed took on the task of finding a home for the books. He rented a space on La Brea Ave. and 9th St. for $50 a month, using money he had solicited from the board of the Communist Party. Over the next several years, Freed obtained equipment from defunct businesses and public libraries to house a growing collection of material.
By 1970, the current space had reached capacity and Freed began seeking a new home. Freed located a former household and appliance store that had no windows and a leaky roof in South Central. Freed borrowed money to purchase the building and moved his growing collection into what remains the Library's current location. With a new space, volunteers loaded boxes of books to bring to the Library, and eventually organized what has endured for 50 years as the Southern California Library.
Library founder Emil Freed (front) on a picket line.
Professional affiliations of board members are listed for identification purposes only.


People born in the Year of the Dog possess the best traits of human nature. They are honest, friendly, faithful, loyal, smart, straightforward, venerable and have a strong sense of responsibility. On the negative side, they are likely to be self-righteous, cold, terribly stubborn, slippery, critical of others and not good at social activities. Ranking as the eleventh animal in Chinese zodiac, Dog is the symbol of loyalty and honesty.


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The Winnipeg Icelander
Over my lifetime, I've read thousands of poems, as a student, as a teacher and as a reader who loves the well-wrought word.
Keats and Shelley and Donne and Yeats and Plath and Wakoski and Bly and Eliott and Frost and Berryman and Shakespeare and….the list seems endless. I call it the anthology of my mind.
There is in that anthology a poem that I often think about it, and that is "The Winnipeg Icelander" by Guttormur Guttormsson from Riverton.
It's a fun poem. Some might call it verse. I call it the mark of a society in transition. Here is the first verse.
Eg fór on' í Main street með fimm dala cheque
Og forty eight riffil mér kaupti
Og ride út á Country með farmara fékk,
Svo fresh út í brushin eg hlaupti.
En þá sá eg moose, út í marshi það lá,
O my- eina sticku eg brjótti!
Þá fór það á gallop, not good anyhow,
Var gone þegar loksins eg skjótti.
It is a satirical look at how the Icelanders in Winnipeg spoke Icelandic.
It encapsulates, perhaps better than anything else, the internal conflict among the immigrants over whether they should assimilate as quickly as possible or whether they should isolate themselves from Canadian society in their New Iceland and remain as Icelandic as possible.
This conflict existed from the very beginning of the emigration. There were those who believed that the emigrants should go to various locations, hire out to established Norwegian and Swedish farmers and learn how to live and farm in North America. Photographs from the time show well-established farms, buildings, equipment and cultivated land. On the other side were those who wanted to create a New Iceland where everything would remain Icelandic, where it would be just like Iceland except in location.
The language, that secret code, that privileged communication, that way of identifying us from them, was the marker of identity.
It was also the evidence of how impossible was the dream of isolation. As Guttormur's poem makes clear, this was a new land, it contained within it things that did not exist in Iceland. E.g. moose
The immigrants, during the first years, in Nova Scotia, in Kinmount, in New Iceland, struggled to stay alive. Many didn't make it. They died on board ship, as they travelled across the continent, in various locations across North America. Graveyards tell their story.
Not to adapt was to die. Only a fool, and a short-lived one, at that, would have insisted against all evidence, on keeping fishing with the nets brought from Iceland. Only a fool would not have learned how to cut down large trees safely and how to build with them. Only a fool would have insisted that he, or she, would only do things just as they were done in Iceland, never mind the -40 below, the summer heat, the mosquitoes, the forests, the vast distances.
Why would language be any different? Only a fool would insist that no object be talked about if it didn't exist in Iceland.
When people are going hunting in a Manitoba winter, trying to learn how to hunt animals that they had never before heard of, and returning empty handed, when they were trying to figure out how to get through four to six feet of ice to set nets and had to invent the tools to do it, when they had to plant crops they'd never planted (in Iceland, they'd planted no crops) in land that first had to be cleared, they didn't have time for effete intellectual exercises in creating a new Icelandic word for the thousands of things with which they were confronted on a daily basis.
When they had a chance to buy bif (something they weren't able to buy in Iceland), or bins or kabits and karats to cure scurvy, there wasn't time to have a discussion about how these new items should be properly described in Icelandic. The people they were buying from didn't have time, either. They, too, were living on the edge of survival.
In Winnipeg the situation was less dire. There was work, at least for the women, sometimes for the men. However, Winnipeg was a city of immigrants. Survival required communication. Getting work from bosses from other ethnic groups required that Icelanders learn, as quickly as possible, to communicate, to learn a new vocabulary, one that described the world they woke up to every day. There was no time to write to Iceland to ask if the academic authorities would please tell them what to call a bonkhús. If these authorities had any idea of what a bunkhouse was. And then wait for a reply.
A lot is made of the fact that Icelanders today can still read the sagas. Some would claim that means that Icelandic doesn´t change. Hogwash! In my reading about Iceland in the 19th C. I come across words that even Icelandic historians do not recognize or they disagree about the meaning. Language exists to communicate not to ex-communicate, although some would have it that way. Purity of language, enforced by official purifiers, is an exercise conducted in a society with resources to spend, where hunger doesn't greet you every morning and go to bed with you every night.
My grandfather built a bunkhús, he told his Icelandic relatives that he´d built a bunkhús, and since he went to Winnipeg buying supplies, he learned to go to the hólsíl. When the Icelandic emigrants were leaving Iceland, there were few fences, there were, however, lots of stone walls because there was little wood and lots of stone. Stone walls are walls, not fences and, in Canada there was lots of wood and it was necessary to fence land, and the Icelandic immigrant learned to build a fens. They learned to build a fens on a hómsteð. There were no hómsteðs in Iceland. The very idea was foreign, beyond imagining for most people in Iceland. It required a new way of thinking.
None of this change, physical, mental, spiritual, was done without sacrifice, without pain, without suffering, without conflict.
Guttormur's poem, "The Winnipeg Icelander," nicely encapsulates a society in transition, moving from the past into the present. He was able to do it in a clever, amusing way. GG left us a poem to enjoy but more than that, he left us a picture, through language, of the transition our Icelandic ancestors underwent as they struggled to survive and prosper.
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The Lazy LInguist
Learning to read, write and speak a language other than your own, unless you are a natural polyglot, is hard work. Learning all those grammar rules, vocabulary, how to say the words properly, getting just the right accent. However, I've found a way around it. It's fun and it's easy. I like fun and easy.
Instead of learning the language, I just learn the accent and speak English with that accent.
I learned this from some of my Icelandic Canadian friends. They consider being able to talk English with the same ringing and dinging cadence as Icelandic is every bit as good as speaking Icelandic and absolutely, completely confirms their identity as Icelandic. Practice an Icelandic accent and eat vinarterta and Icelandic citizenship is guaranteed.
I love curry. I really love curry. When I have people over for a curry supper, then we all do our best to speak with an East Indian accent. To get ready for such suppers, some of us seek out East Indian taxi drivers, especially for long drives to the airport and we ask them endless questions, doing our best to get the accent just right. It doesn't matter what they say, it's the way they say it. Never mind all that history and political and cultural stuff. We also make it a rule that every dinner guest brings with them the names of six common objects from that language like roti, bazaar, chili, chutney, curry, dhoti, hubble bubble, madras, jodhpurs and find ways to fit them into the conversation. The more words someone fits into the conversation, the more points. It´s very competitive.
Sometimes, we have Greek evenings. I think Greek food divine. Succulent lamb, Greek salad, yogurt. And everyone brings a Greek accent. If you've been to Greece, you get bonus points. Spanakopita, feta, salata, calamari, ouzo, baklava, opa (but not with my good china). They've got this crazy alphabet but if you're just learning the accent so you can speak English as if you are Greek, you don't need to worry about that. It´s sort of like the Icelandic alphabet with its weird letters. If you get the accent right when you are speaking Icelandic English, you don't have to worry about things like þ and ð and ö. Who needs them anyway? Th, d and oo do just fine.
I always look forward to going to Vancouver. I love Chinese food and I love having authentic Chinese dinners. Chow Mein. I love Chow Mein. Sometimes, though, we mix it up and also have Swedish meat balls. When I go to Vancouver, I try to overhear Chinese conversations. I go to the Chinese stores and while I'm looking at brightly colored fans and dragons and chopsticks I might use for decore for the supper, I listen as closely as I can to how Chinese people speak English. I want to get that accent just right.
International evenings are fun. Sometimes, we have an international potluck night and each person brings food from a different ethnic group and they also speak with that accent for the evening and try to use some specific words from that culture. You might have someone with a Swedish accent, next to a Russian accent, next to an Irish accent, next to a Texan accent, next to Japanese accent, next to an Italian accent, next to a German accent. Fantastic! It is really international and really multi-cultural. And all those different tastes! Of course, we always have someone who has an Icelandic accent.
When I was a kid, everyone was trying to get rid of their accents. They all wanted to talk like the announcers on the BBC. It was incredibly boring. Plummy voices and plum pudding. We needed Spanish accents full of sunshine during the winter.
Our club's annual Thorrablot is coming up soon. I'm so looking forward to it. I'm practicing my Icelander-speaking -English accent. I'm practicing my vocabulary so I can sprinkle in some authentic Icelandic words: faktori, farmari, fón, harvista, jarður, kabits, balari, bif, bonkhús. My grandfather built a bonkhús for unemployed men in his back yard. They had very little money so they ate a lot of kabits and bins. Sometimes a farmari would give them work making a fens. None of them had a fón. If they wanted to shop at the hósil in Vinnipeg, they had to take the bus.
I'm going to eat dried cod, rotten shark , boiled lamb flank and vinartera. I might even have a drink of black death, a vodka like drink made from potatoes and spiced with caraway. Three black death and my accent will be perfect.
If the honorary consul is there, I'm going to demand an Icelandic passport.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accents, Canadian, ethnic, grammar, Icelandic alphabet, multi-cultural, Thorrablot | 2 Replies
Google Translate and Star Trek
I hope readers of this blog got a laugh out of the cartoons I posted. I hope they got a bigger laugh at my lame attempts to translate the captions under the cartoons.
I used Google Translate and Zoega's Icelandic dictionary but I have no background in the Icelandic language. My great grandparents and my Icelandic grandparents spoke, read and wrote Icelandic. My English great grandfather, my Irish grandparents, did not speak Icelandic. This is the way of an immigrant, multi-cultural country like Canada.
When I was a boy in the 1940s, Icelandic was still spoken in homes, in stores, at social occasions. By the time my great aunts and uncles started dying in the 70s and 80s, Icelandic was mostly a kitchen language, spoken over coffee with relatives or other people with a strong Icelandic background. Today, a small group meets at Amma's restaurant in Gimli for the opportunity to speak Icelandic.
Part of this was because, in an immigrant society, getting ahead, that is, getting a good job, making a good income, achieving some social status, requires integration and integration, inevitably results in assimilation. If our great grandparents didn't know this then, certainly, our grandparents did. In places like Gimli, Riverton, Arborg, Lundar, there were holdouts, people who wanted to maintain an Icelandic community. These people were no different from those who, in other places, wanted a New Denmark, New Finland, New Sweden.
The two desires, to get ahead in business and socially, and to preserve an exclusive community were in a conflict. The need to earn a living, particularly in urban areas, won. How could it be otherwise? It was in rural areas where the need to work with other ethnic groups was less pronounced that an ethnic identity could be best maintained.
The erosion of physical communities, even when they re-formed, in places like the West End of Winnipeg, or Victoria, BC, or Seattle, was inevitable. Public schools bring young people from all ethnic communities together. It's certain that there will be intermarriage and, with it, a need for a new identity. The immigrants were Icelandic, Danish, German, Norwegian, Dutch, English, Scots, Irish, Ukrainian, Polish, and others, plus the local native population.
The Canadian solution was to speak English. This was enforced in the schools. Children caught speaking languages other than English at school were often physically punished. You only need to be strapped once to realize that speaking your parents' original language is a bad thing, to associate it with pain and punishment, not pleasure and knowledge. Languages other than English were seen as inferior. Accents betrayed people's immigrant background and were to be discarded as quickly as possible. No wonder I can't say Icelandic words properly.
The result was that ethnic languages were lost. The problem is that when a language is lost so is a culture.
Icelandic, with its complicated structure, its different alphabet, may give North Americans who are brought up speaking it, a sense of identity, a feeling of being exclusive, but the pool of the exclusive grows smaller every year. The vast majority of people, like me, are locked out of Icelandic history, culture, literature both in the present and the past.
One can go around saying, "Amma, we're still Icelanders aren't we?" Or "I'm proud of being Icelandic." But with our history and culture locked away in books and documents that we cannot read, any pride, any identity has to be based on a lack of knowledge, not on knowledge. No identity means much of ethnic identity in Canada is based on is the fact that a person eats vinarterta or perogis or strudle.
People of Icelandic descent in North America are not suddenly all going to learn to read, write and speak Icelandic. Therefore, the solution is the regular translation of materials into English.
However, as my public examples show, Google Translate is a long way from Star Treck's simultaneous translation of alien languages. Many times, the translation is gibberish. At best, one can try to sort it out with a dictionary or by making a best guess. However, one shouldn't be guessing when it comes to translation. Look at where some of my guesses took me.
How eroded is our ability to read Icelandic? Logberg-Heimskringla is, in spite of its name, published in English. The literary magazine, The Icelandic Connection, is published in English. The speeches at Íslindingadgurinn are in English and Íslindingadagurinn is now called The Icelandic Festival.
However, the real example of the loss of culture through the loss of language has been evident many times on my doorstep. Because of my work with The Beck Trust over the years plus my writing, people have frequently left boxes of Icelandic books and magazines on my doorstep. Usually, there is note explaining that someone´s amma or afi has died, that this library was brought from Iceland in the late 1800s or the early 1900s but no one in the family reads Icelandic anymore. These books were so important that they were brought to Canada and preserved under the most difficult of circumstances.
Today, these books are irrelevant. A book that cannot be read is irrelevant. One might as well have books on one´s shelves that are in Chinese or Japanese. One might keep them on one´s shelves out of nostalgia but not out of a love of the words or the importance of the information.
If we want to preserve our Icelandic heritage, if we want to understand what it is, if we want to make sense of who we are and why we are the way we are, we have to organize and support the translation of documents central to our understanding our Icelandic history and culture.
We already have the Icelandic library and Icelandic department at the University of Manitoba. It would seem to be the easiest and best path to provide the department with a fund, the interest from which would pay for translation. This would provide income for graduate students and also attract visiting scholars. It could, over a period of years, provide translations of material that is central to our identity.
The great benefit of such a fund would be that no one would have to suffer with my rather sad attempted translations with Google and a dictionary, translations that mix up I and cat and cream jug. Translation disasters are good for a laugh but it is correct translations that open up our history and culture and can help us maintain our identity.
Amma laughed at this
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Laughter: Jeg (I), the cat and the cream jug
It is 1892, my lang amma has been in Canada for 17 years. She is married, very Icelandic but has chosen an Englishman, an army officer, the son of minister who has a master's degree from Oxford. Surprisingly, shockingly, he leaves the army at Fort Garry, moves with her to Gimli, Manitoba, and learns how to fish. However, letters reveal that, like everyone else, his struggle to feed his family means hunting, often without much result, taking on construction work. The fact that he is English, speaks English, has an English name, Bristow, doesn't make life any easier for him or Fridrikka in the Icelandic settlement of Gimli. Perhaps, if they'd moved to Winnipeg where his name and accent would have counted for something, life would have been better.
Like the cat, Bristow, as he was referred to, needed to find another way of getting at the cream in the jug. Just as the Icelanders needed to find other ways of getting the cream out of the jug or the fish from under the ice.
These were real people, people who when they got up every day, wondered where the next meal or the meal after that was coming from, wondered where they could go to make enough money to buy basic food stuffs, clothes, equipment, dogs, a horse and sleigh. Santa Claus didn't come along and say "Here you are. All the cream you want and you don't have to do anything to get it."
So, maybe when they saw this cartoon about the cat appear in the Almanak and his having to work out how to get the cream, their laughter may have been partly from self-recognition.
Here is my translation. Corrections and additions not only welcome but sought. Give me a more accurate translation and I'll make the necessary changes.
It's painful to be as hungry and thirsty as cat is. She cannot get her head into the blessed cream pitcher. She has tried and it is impossible.
Wonderful is the taste of the cream even though the cat had to wait but patience, after all, is a virtue.
Pussy is not used to thinking things out and planning but when there's a goal in mind, she can manage it.
And I, how often have I longed for the cream in the cream jug and how hard have I had to think, to plan, to work to figure out a way to get the cream out of the jug?
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Women are better marathon pacers than men – study
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Rebecca Preston joins Brett Sutton's tri squad
Triathlon coach Brett Sutton has announced that Australian athlete Rebecca Preston is joining his superstar squad after a long hiatus, in a bid to wrap up her tri career on a high. Advertisement Preston was at her peak in 2006 and 2007, when she claimed back-to-back victories at Ironman Switzerland. She also placed fifth in…
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Texan mum-of-four Jynessa Weed and her birth photographer Kourtnie Elizabeth generously shared this beautiful home water birth story with Babyology readers.
Jynessa was just over the full-term mark with baby number four, when her contractions started, slowly and steadily.
Amazingly, Jynessa was still working at 40 weeks, so she determined to soldier on, regardless.
"I started noticing this annoying pinching feeling in my cervix; I was at work just trying to ignore it," Jynessa said.
An hour later, she did a bit of a rethink, calling her midwife, Mercy, and arranging to meet her at home to find out what the pinching was all about. Mercy soon discovered the mum-to-be was already 3cm dilated, but Jynessa was in two minds (but hopeful!) about whether this baby was really on the way.
Adopting the wait-and-see approach, Jynessa headed out for a manicure with her mum-in-law. She quickly realised, on arrival at the nail salon, that this actually really WAS IT!
Contractions became more intense and more regular and Jynessa's father-in-law ended up driving her home… to have her baby!
Photographer Kourtnie Elizabeth – of KE Documentary – was there to beautifully capture the birth.
"I love being a part of an amazing team, of being trusted with such a life changing moment in a family's life," Kourtnie Elizabeth said.
"I changed out of my clothes and into comfy shorts and a sports bra. Can I even begin to tell you how awesome it was to labor in my own home? Walking around and listening to my own music. I face-timed my dad as we were getting the pool set up," Jynessa recalls.
Jynessa was experiencing "back labour" and, in pain and understandably a bit frightened, was unsure if she could really manage this birth.
"If you have ever had the pleasure of experiencing back labor it's pretty much hell on earth. Liz [Jynessa's doula] got out her tens unit which was ahhhmazing, still painful but manageable at that point," Jynessa explained.
Needless to say, her misgivings were unfounded and she handled her labour beautifully – with the help of partner Anthony and an outstanding birth team.
Baby Scout Madelynn Dawn Weed was born later that evening and could not have been more beautifully welcomed or loved by her family.
You can read Jynessa's full birth story – in her own words – over at KE Documentary– photographer Kourtnie Elizabeth's website.
Thanks so much to Jynessa and Kourtnie for sharing this story with us.


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The children in Mozambique
UNICEF Representative
The Rights Responsibility
UNICEF and Magnum Photos take us on a unique voyage through Mozambique.
The third least developed country in the world, Mozambique has been recording some of the world's highest rates of economic growth in recent years, leading many to believe a major transformation awaits. As Mozambique prepares to take a big leap forward, will children continue to be left behind?
Every day, 320 children under the age of 5 die in Mozambique due to entirely preventable diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. With a majority of the population living on less than a dollar a day, more than half of whom are children, life for the deprived is a relentless struggle for survival.
At the same time, Mozambique continues to draw major investors to vast natural gas and coal reserves, described as "an embarrassment of riches", and though hard to exploit, expectations are the country will eventually be propelled out of poverty.
UNICEF and Magnum Photos take us on a unique voyage through Mozambique, introducing us to realities and destinies rarely seen or told, of life in the shadow of the economic boom, where schools exist but quality education often not, where disability continues to condemn a child to life-long misery, where a health worker faces an army of patients every day, where a girl is likely to be married or a mother by 18, where children's voices are rarely heard despite constituting a majority, and where safe water is a luxury most can't afford.
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To Speak To Be Heard
I like disseminating our rights, our duties, so that children aren't molested, so that they know the rights and duties they have.
Erica Sandrano, child presenter, Roda Viva
Participation is a human right, enshrined in Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and includes for children the right to expression and to active involvement in decision-making in matters that concern them. It requires information sharing and dialogue between children and adults, based on mutual respect and power sharing. Genuine participation gives children the power to shape both the process and outcome. But fulfilling the right to participation poses numerous challenges, from social norms to economic barriers and lack of political will to engage meaningfully with young people.
The Participatory Child Rights Media Network in Mozambique provides a space for children, who comprise more than half the country's population, to come together and produce programmes that promote and discuss rights, issues, and priorities that impact their lives. At community radio stations, Radio Mozambique, and TV Mozambique, around 1400 kids have produced peer-to-peer programmes that reach out to other kids, but that also engage adults in debates and discussions on sometimes difficult issues, such as abuse in schools.
The children and young people fortunate enough to have access to the activities and spaces created by the Network and other participatory spaces witness an often remarkable transformation. They have a better understanding of their rights and form a strong commitment to civic processes. They find a channel to speak up and out on matters that affect them. They are more confident in standing up to peer or family pressure and are often able to negotiate out of harmful situations, such as unsafe sex, domestic violence and work instead of school.
More needs to be done to expand and consolidate the results of successful participation interventions, extending the right to more children and young people to help define and develop the future that is ultimately theirs.
Child Friendly Schools
Before, pupils in the classroom were mere objects. Pupils now get involved and participate actively.
Angelina Avelino, school director
While 9 out of 10 children in Mozambique today are enrolled in primary school, only 6 of them complete their education. More schools are needed, but it's the quality of education that requires the most urgent attention.
Quality education in a child-friendly school begins with a well-trained teacher, who can create an effective and inclusive classroom, introduce the latest teaching methods, and make sure children don't drop out. The physical environment, from the design of the classroom to the materials used to build it, is also central to improving the learning experience, as is promoting the physical and emotional well-being of children.
The Child-Friendly Schools initiative in Mozambique models an integrated approach to education that includes water and hygiene, health, social protection, and participation, and urgently needs scaling up. The principal goal is to ensure that all schools in Mozambique become child-friendly learning environments with minimum quality standards that promote and protect the human rights of the country's children.
A System For Life
In this ward, we treat on average 80 patients a day. That's too much work for only one nurse.
Dr. Ermelinda Gomes, paediatrician
With just one doctor for every 35,000 persons, and with the nearest health center at 25 kilometers' distance on average, the health system in Mozambique continues to face challenges in addressing the health needs of the country's population, considering the major public health threats such as malaria and HIV and AIDS.
Children's lives in particular depend on the strength of the health system. With limited qualified human resources on the ground and with a disproportionately small number of health centres, service delivery needs to be strengthened.
For children to receive satisfactory and relevant health services, key programs must be fully financed, needed medicines and drugs must not run out of stock, rigorous systems to collect and analyse data must be in place, and political support must exist on all levels to make sure the population's health is properly attended to.
UNICEF works on strengthening the health system, but interventions need to be scaled up to reach a maximum number of children, including programs dealing with behaviour change and social norms, without which the health of children in Mozambique will continue to be compromised.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Children in Mozambique
Because there is not a lot of water, children go to the river and this puts our health at risk.
Domingo Sarmento Collette, community councilor
Like in most of the developing world, small towns in Mozambique are growing fast. This is in part thanks to rapid economic growth, as well as migration and natural population growth. But rapid expansion has outpaced local governments' capacity to provide essential services, such as access to adequate water and sanitation facilities, leaving outdated infrastructures severely overwhelmed. This phenomenon is seen across much of Mozambique today, and has considerable consequences for the population, especially children.
The water and sanitation challenge in rapidly growing towns touches households and schools, health centres and hospitals, and, coupled with poor waste management and inadequate hygiene practices, is leading to disease, pollution, increased healthcare costs, and lost productivity.
With flagging interest from the donor community, which traditionally favours rural or large urban areas, small towns often fall in between, struggling to fund their development plans.
And yet, with intelligent and proactive policies, the problem is entirely avoidable. By virtue of their smaller size and lower population density, towns offer opportunities for cost-effective interventions that could greatly improve the lives and health of millions of children.
In a final push towards Millennium Development Goal 7c, UNICEF is working with partners to enable hundreds of thousands of people access to safe water and sanitation, including school children.
These children don't need charity, they need dignity.
Ricardo Moresse
Invisible Children explores the disability challenge in Mozambique, and meets children and their families, as well as activists such as Ricardo Moresse, head of the Mozambican Forum of Disability Associations, who is working to build the country's capacity for inclusive education and services.
Mozambique ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2012, yet everyday life for persons with disabilities remains woefully precarious, especially for children. Education is not a given here, with access an issue even for able-bodied children. Just as crucially, the misconception prevails that a child with a disability is not at all suited for education. All too often they are kept at home or in an institution, receiving no education at all.
Children with disabilities frequently fall victim to stigma and discrimination, fed by misconceptions, superstitions and the common belief that they are a punishment or a curse on their family.
Like all of us, children with disabilities need love, support and protection. They need to be treated with dignity and respect. But until these basic needs are met, children with disabilities in Mozambique will continue to be invisible.
UNICEF has launched a 2-year project integrating education, child protection, and communication for development, and is an important first step towards ensuring that children with disabilities in Mozambique fully realize their right to basic education and an inclusive environment.
Too Young To Marry
I think that we should all wait for the right moment, at least until our 20s, before we get pregnant.
Alice Velemo Nhancume, 15, mother of 4-month old baby
Child marriage is a form of violence. In Mozambique more than half of girls are married before turning 18.
Reports confirm that 38% of teenagers are already mothers or pregnant with their first child. At school, it is not uncommon for teachers to give passing grades in return for sexual favours. Silenced by fear and not knowing where or how to seek help, girls often drop out of school.
In Mozambique, communities often accept child abuse and a culture of silence prevails. Reporting is minimal, with sexual abuse for example usually resolved at family- or community-level, preventing perpetrators from being brought to justice or sent to jail. Child victims themselves rarely have access to adequate health and social services.
All this will have to change.
In the fight against child marriage, UNICEF is helping children access legal and medical aid, training teachers, physicians, police officers and judges, and raising awareness through schools, religious groups and community radios.
But more needs to be done, most urgently, on the response side. Interventions that help push more cases of violence against children through to the justice system, so that they are properly tried in courts of law, need urgent scale-up.
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The Glenlivet Founder's Reserve & 12YO & 15YO quantity
The Glenlivet owes its unique taste to a number of specific factors relating to its production and location. Indeed, the distillery is located in the Cairngorms National Park, at over 270 metres above sea level. According to weather records, it is considered to be the coldest place in Britain, characterised by strong winds and heavy snowfalls in winter. Water is drawn from Josie's Well, a source of hard mineral water, which enables complex aromas to develop during the distillation process. Then, the lantern-shaped stills used for distilling give the spirit its outstanding balance and strong character. Lastly, a careful ageing process, particularly in American oak casks, gives The Glenlivet its full flavour. An echo of George Smith's original classic with a note of pineapple. Aged in a variety of cask types, including American oak for an amount of time, this whisky acquires a vanilla note and smoothness.
Balanced, rich and elegant, this is a whisky for special occasions.
The 15 Year Old is deep gold in colour, and leaves behind traces of sweet almond and spice.
The 15 Year Old gets its distinctive rich and exotic character from a process of selective maturation in which a proportion of the spirit is matured in French oak casks. In fact, we at The Glenlivet were one of the first to use French oak for making whisky, a technique that has since been imitated the world over. The Limousin oak we use is cut in France's Dordogne region, where it's often used to mature cognacs. Its low density allows whisky to sink deep into the wood, and we carefully control how long the whisky matures in the casks so as not to overpower the desired result: a unique, pleasing spiciness.
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