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The 80c budget tip for seeing Berlin
Public drinking is allowed in Berlin — and a cheap beer will set you back just 80c.
by Mikaella Clements
7th Mar 2019 11:17 AM
OVER the 20th century, despite wars and walls and other momentous historical events, Berlin still remained a favourite destination for visitors, who flocked to the city for its art, culture and music scene - not to mention the bars.
Today it's still one of the most exciting hubs in Europe, living always by its unofficial motto, Poor But Sexy. In Berlin you'll find beautiful cityscapes, fascinating history and some of the best watering holes in the west.
SPÄTI BEERS
Berlin's bars are famous, but if you're after a cheap(er) drink, just go to one of the thousands of Spätkaufs across the city. Beers start at 80c and the fancier ones go for €2 (about $3.20), bottle openers are at the counter where you pay, and public drinking is allowed in Berlin. You can sit by the canal, River Spree, in one of the city's many gorgeous parks, or by a lake, and enjoy the fairground atmosphere.
JOURNEY UP HIGH….
Berlin's Fernsehturm (TV Tower), built in East Berlin in the '60s behind the Wall, forms a spire you can use to orientate yourself across Berlin; those seeking bird's-eye views can take the charmingly outdated lift up to the top. Or try Klunkerkranich, a rooftop bar atop a shopping centre in the hip Neukölln district, for a more relaxed view of the city with a beer in hand.
… AND DOWN LOW
There are plenty of underground bars in Berlin, like Le Croco Bleu, hidden in the engine room of an old brewery in Prenzlauer Berg. But you'll find history underground, too. Try the Berlin Unterwelten tours, which take you through bunkers left from World War II, and when you visit the Holocaust Memorial, don't miss the museum located directly underneath the momentous stones.
Hire a bike for the cruisy way to see Berlin.
TRAVEL A/B
Berlin's U-Bahn (underground subway) system is super easy to navigate. The ticketing system? Not so much. The city is divided into three rings of A, B and C, but nearly everywhere you'll visit as a tourist is in the A/B zone, so if you get a ticket with that marking you should be safe. Just don't get tricked on your way home - Schoenefeld Airport is in Zone C.
Save the scramble for change before you jump on a train. If you're going to use the U-Bahn, download the BVG app, which lets you buy tickets online and hooks up easily to your credit card or PayPal account.
OR GET WHEELY
Berlin is a bike city, with lots of bike lanes, a mostly flat surface and a surprisingly small area, which makes it easy to get around on two wheels. You'll find bike rental stores in every neighbourhood, usually for a maximum of €20 per 24 hours, or try Rent A Bike 44 in Schillerkiez, a rental outfit famous for its friendly attitude and fitting you to the perfect bike for your ability and needs.
SHOP BEFORE SUNDAY
Most businesses in Berlin, including tourist-focused ones such as bike rentals and many restaurants as well as supermarkets, are closed on Sundays. If you're staying a while, make sure you have snacks ready or be prepared to eat fast food all day.
Berlin Strand Bar on the banks of the Spree.
WATCH YOUR FEET
Some of Berlin's memorials to WWII, including the Holocaust Memorial and the Jewish Museum, are impossible to miss but others are smaller. Keep an eye out through
the city for the Stolpersteine (literally means stumbling stones) - little squares of gold embedded into the cobblestones with the names and fates of Jewish people who lived in the city in the 1930s.
DON'T MIND YOUR MANNERS
Berliners are known for their direct and even confrontational style. Don't waste time on pleasantries or small talk with your waiters, bartenders, and shop assistants; most of them will be baffled and the rest will be actively annoyed. Stick to a polite bitte (please) and danke (thank you). And don't worry if you get some funny looks - staring isn't rude in Germany, and it's quite common to have a stranger lock gazes with you on a long train ride home.
SMILE AND NOD
Nearly everybody in Berlin speaks English, however, many of them don't like to. If you're buying tickets to tourist attractions or ordering a meal, you'll probably be able to speak English. But for small encounters in corner shops, supermarkets or at markets, it's best to just push your purchase across the counter, hand over enough money and escape without exchanging a word in either language.
SMOKER'S PARADISE
Unlike in most countries, smoking in bars is still legal in Germany as long as there is no food being served. For smokers, this means you don't have to duck into the cold for a quick smoko between drinks. For non-smokers, make sure to pack plenty of clothes and don't wear your favourite coat on a night out - it can be quite hard to get rid of the smoky smell.
Berlin's TV Tower is the focal point of the city skyline.
TURKISH TASTEBUDS
You'll want to try all the usual German delicacies while you're there: wurst (sausages), pommes (chips, usually doused in mayo and tomato sauce) and schnitzel. But take a moment to notice the huge Turkish population in the city and you'll find some of the best eating, too, from kebabs to lentil soup to deliciously seared lamb. At Mehringdamm U-Bahn is Mustafa's, the city's most popular doner joint - the line usually stretches several blocks.
STAY CASHED UP
Berlin is still a cash economy; most bars, many restaurants, every corner shop and even some museums won't accept any card payments, especially international ones, so make sure to keep euros on you. ATMs are also costly to use - sometimes as much as €5 per transaction - so it's worth it to take out enough money to last you for the next few days for when you do visit one.
If you're visiting in winter, when the city takes on a slightly deserted appearance, you might struggle to find some of the hidden hotspots for which Berlin is most famous. When at a loss, head to Weserstraße in Neukölln: every second door is a welcoming bar or restaurant.
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Last year the Williamstown Theatre Festival premiered a new musical based on Todd Haynes's movie Far from Heaven – a perplexing choice, since the material (whatever one thinks of it) is so rarefied and dependent on cinematic reference points that transposing it could only alter the meaning, or at least reduce it to a series of social-problem-melodrama clichés. This year WTF mounted another new musical, based on Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County, and that's puzzling too, though for a different reason. Waller's novel about a short-lived affair between a married Iowa farm woman who's an Italian émigré and an itinerant photographer is basically a Harlequin romance for the women's-book-club set, with sufficiently self-conscious style to make readers believe that it should be taken seriously. It's a suffocatingly bland volume, with characters who are barely more than ciphers, and the only thing that makes the 1995 movie version more distinctive is the miscasting of Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood in the two principal roles. (Eastwood directed the picture.) So why bother turn this story into a musical?
You won't find the answer in the musical itself, set in 1965, which contains the bare bones of a book by Marsha Norman and twenty-two uninteresting songs by Jason Robert Brown. Young musical-theatre actors are drawn to Brown's output, probably because it's pumped up with phony theatrics, but I've never thought he had much talent, and his songs are too insubstantial to serve performers well. Here they're in a musical-theatre version of country-western mode, which means that you can't imagine a single country-western singer you like covering any of them. And there are so goddamn many of them that almost all Norman can do as a playwright is string spare lines of dialogue between them, mostly to cover a few plot points. There isn't much plot anyway. Francesca (Elena Shaddow) has a comfortable but low-passion marriage to Bud (Daniel Jenkins), whom she met when he was a soldier stationed in Italy. They have a pair of ordinary teenagers, a boy (Nick Bailey) who's interested in sex and weed, and a girl (Caitlin Kinnuven) who's raised a steer. Francesca meets Robert (Steven Pasquale) when her family is away at a state fair and he stops by her house asking for directions to a covered bridge he needs to photograph for a magazine assignment. (Pasquale starred opposite Kelli O'Hara in Far from Heaven; O'Hara will take over the role of Francesca when the musical moves to New York in the spring.) Shut in, still lonely for home, feeling she's long since given up any chances at adventure, Francesca finds herself instantly simpatico with Robert; they sleep together, he asks her to run off with him, but when her family returns she finds she can't. But she remembers him all her life, though they have no further contact until, some time after Bud's death, a lawyer brings her news that Robert, too, has died and left her his camera. End of musical.
The production has an attractive scenic design by Michael Yeargan and is warmly lit by Donald Holder; they're more successful at getting the wide, flat feel of the Iowa prairie than the designers of last year's Giant were at conveying the overwhelming hugeness of Texas. The director, Bartlett Sher, opens the show well, using the ensemble to paint in a sense of the community and to give the first number, "To Build a Home," a kinetic dimension. The musical is directed with some finesse, the actors and set pieces continually reshifting the look of the stage picture, but the material doesn't appear to offer Sher (who's a great director) many ideas. And though – except for Bailey, who play-acts the role of the restless adolescent son – the actors all give perfectly competent performances, no one in the cast is memorable. The one brief exception is Whitney Bashor, who lends an unexpected edge – sadness bordering on bitterness – to Robert's ex-wife Marian's song, "Another Life," in which she accompanies herself on guitar so that it feels like a bar number. Shaddow and Pasquale are fine singers but they don't have strong enough personalities to compensate for the underwriting of the roles. I'm not a fan of Marsha Norman's plays, but she can't be blamed for this problem, since (a) Waller gives her so little to work with and (b) the songs keep crowding out any contribution she might have made to the project. This is the musical-theatre era of the disappearing book writer; songwriters feel they have to write one and a half times as many tunes as earlier generations of songwriters did, and it strikes me that the imbalance benefits no one. As it happens, "Another Life" is the only song I cared for in the score of The Bridges of Madison County, but surely Harold Arlen or Cole Porter would have been hard pressed to come up with nearly two dozen decent songs for a single show. (My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof each have fifteen.) Someone has to rethink the modern musical.
– Steve Vineberg is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches theatre and film. He also writes for The Threepenny Review and is the author of three books: Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and High Comedy in American Movies.
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The wait is finally over. The much talked-about gaming system, Super Nintendo Entertainment System's Classic (SNES Classic) mini version is finally going to be launched on September 29 at a price of $79.99. It comes after last year's launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES) which was very limited in supply but was an instant hit.
The SNES classic will have Fox Star 2, a game which isn't available on any Nintendo consoles. It was originally intended to be released along with the Nintendo 64 but was canceled by Shigeru Miyamoto at the time because Nintendo was being rivaled by other core powerful consoles. If the supply of this console is similar to the NES Classic, then maybe it will be a pity that all of the fans won't be able to enjoy the game. The only way everyone gets to play it is if Nintendo releases it on the Nintendo Switch's Virtual Console.
All we can hope for is that the supply this time is adequate.
It's a big surprise in a small packet, costs just $80 but has a cool HDMI port for playing the game on an HD tv set. That's the USP of the device for me.
And also includes 21 games - that's quite a number of games you can get in that amount - the games as well as the device too.
Yeah, it was a good hit and didn't take long to become a runaway success actually. $80 for the starting is not bad.
And to add to it is that there's Fox Star 2 in the lineup of the SNES classic - the one and only.


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BREAKING NEWS! Click on the link below
Connecting the ASD community to the natural world
The ANT at Letchworth State Park
The Autism Nature Trail (The ANT)
A unique experience in nature, designed specifically for visitors with ASD, their families, teachers and caregivers -- but enjoyed by all abilities and all ages!
To be located in spectacular Letchworth State Park in western New York - voted #1 state park in the country (2015) and #1 attraction in New York State (2017)!
Provide a unique experience in nature with its healing qualities for all ages and abilities
Create a first-of-its-kind trail designed specifically for those with ASD/intellectual disabilities
Offer an accommodating, "judgment-free" zone for families living with ASD to enjoy together AND make outdoor family recreation affordable, convenient, accessible and fun!
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2018, WE HAVE RAISED $1.75 MILLION -
LET'S FINISH THIS!
We need 3-year pledges from your organization, your business, your co-workers,
your friends, your family and YOU!
INCLUSION IS THE GOAL!
graphic by "A Collaboration Toolbox To Build a School for All"
This exquisite schematic design is the work of the amazing team at in.site: architecture, Perry, NY.
PLEASE CHECK OUT THESE LINKS:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2018/05/17/travel-industry-takes-another-look-all-inclusive-and-begins-accommodate-special-needs-guests/bvLGDBVSU3aPpynsGLwBKO/story.html
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/2018/pamela-helming/fall-2018-edition-rural-futures (see page 8)
http://13wham.com/news/local/first-of-its-kind-autism-nature-trail-proposed-for-letchworth-state-park
http://www.whec.com/news/autism-nature-trail-letchworth/4465319/?cat=565
http://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/letchworth-state-park-adapting-to-meet-needs-of-people-on-autism-spectrum/688087677
http://www.wkbw.com/am-buffalo/autism-nature-trail
http://wivb.com/2017/04/05/letchworth-state-park-adapting-to-meet-needs-of-people-on-autism-spectrum/
http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/bdn01/letchworths-autism-trail-to-offer-unique-experience-for-everyone-20170331
http://www.mywnynews.com/arcade_warsaw/news/latest_news/article_cca69ef8-14a7-11e7-9b81-afd965b17759.html
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ANT SPONSOR AWARDED $2 MILLION NIH GRANT
How a $2M Grant Could Change the Way Autism Is Diagnosed (Amanda Pedersen)
Early treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can significantly improve the lives of affected children and their families, but diagnosing the disorder is often a challenge. A company in Syracuse, NY has developed an epigenetic test that could facilitate the early diagnosis of ASD, however, and in turn accelerate access to treatment.
The technology, developed by Quadrant Biosciences, managed to impress a panel of grant reviewers, landing the company a $2 million small business technology transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funds are expected to help the company refine the technology and bring it to market.
STTR grants are meant to facilitate the translation of promising technologies to the private sector and ultimately provide beneficial healthcare innovations to consumers. The technology was developed in partnership with researchers at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, and Quadrant Biosciences.
"This grant will allow us to validate epigenetic technology with the power to dramatically advance autism assessment," said Steven Hicks, MD, PhD, a researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. "I am honored to play a part in this groundbreaking work."
Quadrant and the company's collaborators recently completed an NIH-funded study that included more than 500 children between the ages of 18 months and 6 years and utilized RNA features to differentiate children with ASD from peers with typical development or developmental delay. The diagnostic accuracy of the technology exceeded 85%, the company noted. The additional NIH funding is expected to further develop and confirm the efficacy of the test. The next phase of the study expands enrollment to five different academic medical center locations around the United States and involves recruitment of 750 additional children. As in the first study, the study includes not only ASD and typically developing children, but also children with developmental delays that are often difficult for clinicians to distinguish from ASD.
"While our results thus far have been very promising, further evaluation is always warranted," said Randall Carpenter, MD, executive director of clinical development at Quadrant Biosciences.
CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT RICH UHLIG AND EVERYONE AT QUADRANT BIOSCIENCES -- AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE AUTISM NATURE TRAIL AT LETCHWORTH STATE PARK!
CONGRATS, JEN!
News from the Rochester Women's Network
Jennifer Hackett, Executive Director of Camp Puzzle Peace/Family Autism Center of Rochester, is a 2018 Women Inspiring Women Award honoree. Jen and her staff are the operational partners for the Autism Nature Trail -- we are in great hands!
GUIDEBOOK FOR THE ANT
Dr. Skott Jones has authored a guidebook for caregivers to facilitate language development along the mile-and-a-quarter Autism Nature Trail (The ANT) at Letchworth State Park.
Dr. Jones, Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Ithaca College, completed the project while on sabbatical during the fall 2017 term.
"At each station on the trail," Dr. Jones writes, "there are ample opportunities to use language to describe the various sensory experiences of an individual. By collating evidence-based facilitative language strategies into a parent-friendly guidebook specifically designed for the trail, caregivers will have the opportunity to model for and elicit language from children with autism spectrum disorders."
The five principles of facilitating language in children with ASD are based on 30 years of research and are presented in this easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide for use by parents, teachers and other caregivers visiting The ANT.
Dr. Jones has been a highly engaged member of The ANT Advisory Panel since its inception in 2015. We are grateful to him and to Ithaca College for their extraordinary commitment to this project.
ANT CONSULTANTS
Our logo was created by RUSTY KEELER, a key member of The ANT consultant team. Over the past two decades, Rusty has worked with hundreds of community, school, parks, university and childcare leaders to dream, design and construct engaging outdoor environments for the young and the young at heart. He is a pioneer in the movement to reconnect children to nature, and his designs reflect his sincere desire to create a more beautiful world in which to grow and explore.
DR. AMY LAURENT, principal autism consultant to The ANT, is a developmental psychologist and occupational therapist who serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Rhode Island. She is one of four collaborators who developed SCERTS®, an innovative educational model for working with children with autism spectrum disorder and their families. Her research and publications have focused on the development of emotional regulation in children and adolescents with ASD and its impact social competence.
"NEXT STEP" PARTNERS FOR 2018
SENSORY-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES
Glen Iris Inn Restaurant, Castile (in the Park)
A "quiet tables area" available, trained staff and accommodating menu choices
The Hole in the Wall Restaurant, Perry
Quality, homemade meals for families with sensory needs in a non-judgmental atmosphere
Lila Pilates, Perry
Individual/group instruction in body awareness and agility by a NYS certified teacher/LMT
Silver Lake Twin Drive-In Theater, Silver Lake
First-run movies in the comfort of your own vehicle with volume and light control
Silverlaken (on airbnb.com), Silver Lake
Accommodations include glamping & tree tents, log cabins, lodge, ADA-compliant boathouse
Sinclair Pharmacy, Warsaw
Full-service pharmacy with trained staff and expertise in custom medications
Spotlight Theater, Warsaw
"Free To Be Me" (sensory-friendly) Movie Matinees the 2nd Saturday of each month
Theatre @ 37, Perry
Workshops in puppetry to increase communication skills with specially trained staff
Boy Scout Troop 54, Castile
Genesee Region Special Olympics, Rochester
Letchworth Gateway Villages, Geneseo/Mt. Morris/Perry
Perry Main Street Association, Perry
Wyoming County Business Assistance Corporation, Warsaw
Wyoming County Industrial Development Agency, Warsaw
Bryant & Stratton College, Occupational Therapy Assistant Program
Canisius College, Institute for Autism Research
Genesee Valley Educational Partnership, Batavia, Building Trades Program
Genesee Valley Educational Partnership, Mt. Morris, Metal Trades Programs
Nazareth College, Center for Civic Engagement
Western New York Tech Academy, Bergen
Spheres of Influence
ANTS RULE!
Genesee Valley Educational Partnership teacher Olie Olson presents our new ANT made from 100% recycled materials by welding students from Wayland-Cohocton High School in Steuben County, NY. This extraordinary piece of sculpture was crafted from discarded farm equipment and will serve as a seat (which moves gently up and down), a percussion instrument (the head, thorax and abdomen each make a different sound when tapped), and a conversation piece (the detail is seen best in the shadow), Thank you, Mr. Olson and students!
Did you know: Ants have varied sleeping patterns from naps of just a few seconds to a few minutes — but they rest only as much as they need to. They make use of every moment they have.
Endorsements Boost Our Visibility
We feel very fortunate to be supported by such respected individuals as autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin, actor and activist Joe Mantegna, researcher and autism expert Dr. Amy Laurent, AutismUp Director Sarah Milko, and Head of New York City's LearningSpring School Margaret Poggi.
If you haven't seen these endorsements, be sure to download them from the link below!
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Check out this great video by Joe Mantegna in support of The ANT!
Design & Access Planning Retreat for The ANT
Consultants and planning team members will reconvene to determine effective wayfinding measures along the Trail.
Indoor Cornhole Tournament Fundraiser at Notre Dame
73 Union Street, Batavia
Join Notre Dame High School students in family-friendly cornhole competition (youth, adult and senior categories) with raffles, silent and live auctions with MC Jimi Jamm from CJ Country Radio. To pre-register for cornhole, to be a sponsor or to donate themed baskets/items for auctions, call (585) 201-8066 or email: letchworthsensorytrail@gmail.com
ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE ANT!
Blazing Trails to a Brighter Tomorrow
5555 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester
Great food, live music and dancing lakeside at the Rochester Yacht Club to benefit Camp Puzzle Peace (The ANT's operating partner). Business casual attire. Only 150 tickets available! Go to: familyautismcenter.com and follow link to event.
Autism Awareness Breakfast
9 am - 12 noon
2 Washington St., Castile
This autism awareness event at the Castile United Church of Christ will feature a buffet-style breakfast with a free-will offering at 9:00, followed by guest speakers, information tables and raffles at 10:30. All proceeds benefit children with autism in Wyoming County. Sponsored by S.P.O.K.E.S.
Community Forum on Autism at Roberts Wesleyan College
Shewan Recital Hall
Hear first-hand perspectives from individuals living with autism. Gather as a community to expand our understanding of autism and learn about area resources for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In the Cultural Life Center, Apple Lane, North Chili.
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
Please come back soon! For more information, see below.
We are committed to autism awareness, acceptance and understanding every month of the year. Follow us as we finalize plans for The ANT and raise the funds needed to construct and endow it PERMANENTLY!
Contact Us about The ANT
PERPETUAL NAMING OPPORTUNITIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE! Please call us at (585) 201-8066. Want to know how you can help? Want to be kept informed on our progress? Drop us a line!
READY TO DONATE? Go to: https://goo.gl/MYowJu and select "The ANT" from the menu.
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Sexual harassment is a scourge of the modern workplace. No one should have to endure that kind of behavior. Fortunately, both state and federal law prohibit sexual harassment in your place of employment and provide many remedies if you have been a victim.
Quid pro quo: This refers to the practice of offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors, as well as retaliating for refusing such offers.
Hostile work environment: This type of sexual harassment occurs when inappropriate conduct (such as described in the list above) is intended to, or has the effect of, creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment for the victim.
The above workplace behaviors are not only wrong, they are against the law. If you find yourself in one of these situations, you have rights and remedies available to you. If you are unsure if the conduct constitutes sexual harassment, please contact an attorney who can advise you of your rights.
If the harassment was perpetrated by a supervisor or agent of the employer, the employer is strictly liable.
The employer may also be held liable for acts of non-employees against protected individuals, if the employer knew or should have known of the harassment and failed to take "immediate and appropriate corrective action." An example of this is when an employee at a restaurant is harassed by one of the customers.
The employee is personally liable regardless of whether the employer knew or should have known and failed to take action.
What responsibilities does the employer have to prevent sexual harassment?
Employers are required to take "all reasonable steps" to prevent the occurrence of sexual harassment.
Employers must post a poster outlining the sexual harassment law made available by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH).
Employers must distribute a brochure published by DFEH or an equivalent document to employees, intended to educate them on the law regarding sexual harassment.
For employers with 50 or more employees, 2 hours of classroom training on sexual harassment must be provided to supervisory employees, as well as further training and education every 2 years.
If you are or have been a victim of sexual harassment, there are several things you should do. First, you should communicate to the harasser that the conduct is unwelcome, both verbally (i.e., telling them to stop) and nonverbally (i.e., walking away). Second, you should report the incident or behavior, either to your immediate supervisor or to someone else (i.e., someone in human resources), depending on the circumstances.
You also have the right to file a complaint with DFEH. The complaint must be filed within one year of the harassing conduct. The Fair Employment and Housing Commission can impose fines of up to $150,000 on each responsible party, as well as awarding back pay, promotion, or reinstatement at the position if you were fired. A civil lawsuit is also possible, which can result in much higher damages, depending on the circumstances.
Sexual harassment can appear in many forms, and technology has increased the ways it can be perpetrated. If you are a victim of sexual harassment, please contact an experienced sexual harassment attorney who can help you determine your rights.
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The Ashton-Munster Pastoral Charge held a service of worship on 17 August 2014 at Prospect United Church. While the church has been officially closed for several years now, a service can be held when requested.
A good turnout of members from both Ashton and Munster congregations received the interesting and inspiring message delivered by Rev. Arlyce. Following the service refreshments were enjoyed. Thank you to all who helped organize this service and provide treats and refreshments.
The congregation was established many years ago.
A view of the church from the adjacent cemetery.
A view of the rear of Prospect Church shows the position of windows behind the pulpit area.
A good turnout at Prospect United Church.
A view of the other half of Prospect Church.
At the front are Pat Lindsey and Jeff Gilbert who provided music leadership for the service.
Everyone enjoyed refreshments and snacks following the service.
Delicious lemonade capped off the time at Prospect United Church.
Bill Simpson at Prospect United Church.
Friends catching up with news before departing.


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Q: After sudo passwd -e [user] , then I login getting an "Authentication token manipulation" error I try to expire a password of a user, called student, within a root circumstance.However, When I run 'sudo passwd -e student' and login student, there is a error as below:
Junzuo:Linux Echo$ ssh student@127.0.0.1 -p 2222
student@127.0.0.1's password:
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Last login: Fri Jan 13 09:22:09 2017 from 10.0.2.2
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changing password for student.
(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.

P.S I can change the user student's password within root environment.So the /etc/shadow file is read/write in my opinion.Furthermore, I try the way of
mount -o remount,rw /
chmod 640 /etc/shadow

But it doesn't work.Could anybody give me an advice to solve it? Thank you in advance.

A: A way to fix this issue is to remount filesystem and then to check permissions of /etc/shadow file.
$ mount -rw -o remount /
# or
$ mount -o remount,rw /

Check the write permission of /etc/shadow file.
$ ls -l /etc/shadow
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1025 Feb  11 22:11 /etc/shadow

That's OK, now passwd will work well.
$ sudo passwd USERNAME

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Minister of Enterprise Trade & Investment Arlene Foster, has celebrated the innovation of local food and drink companies mostly artisan businesses, at a special event in Cultra. Among the companies she invited were Kettyle Irish Foods.
Pictured: Maurice Kettyle, Managing Director, Kettyle Irish Foods and Minister Arlene Foster.


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The Right Chemistry
Bringing 'do no harm' to building materials
By Howard Williams
CC license by La Citta Vita/Flickr
What will it serve if we halt global warming, restore our natural environment and transition to alternative energy only to find we left humanity behind to deal with its chronic illnesses?
We expect our "place" — home, school, store, hospital, office or place of worship — to be healthy and safe.
But buildings are made of stuff that contains chemicals, some of which are chemicals of concern. Chronic diseases are on the rise, with seven out of 10 deaths among Americans each year attributed to them. Those diseases are also increasingly linked to chemical exposure.
We spend over 90 percent of our lives indoors. Buildings either can be the cause of illness or consciously designed and built in ways that contribute to better health.
The Green Guide for Health Care states, "Imagine cancer treatment centers built without materials linked to cancer," but we should not only do that, but imagine all buildings built with materials safe for humans and the environment.
Immunologist and allergist Dr. Claudia Miller suggests that the architectural community may have a greater influence on human health than physicians. Physicians can recommend behavioral changes that will lead to better health and wellness, but the results will depend on an individual's willingness to change their habits. Architects and designers face the same behavior change challenge when designing wellness features into a building or site. But when it comes to healthy building materials, no behavior change is required; just a firm hand on the specification is needed.
Architecture always has sought to design in ways that enable people to interact favorably with their built environment.
Interestingly, when we turn that traditional view 180 degrees, we begin creating built environments that interact favorably in terms of health and wellness with people.
Some began to engage in this introspective work over a decade ago, while others have waited for a more audible market to form around the premise that buildings should be health-positive and wellness-active.
Image credit: CC license by La Citta Vita/Flickr
The idea of being health positive is grounded in the belief that building materials should be free of chemicals of concern. All stakeholders have the right to expect this beneficial interaction with their built environment. Health positive is a hazard-based concept that respects not only the site boundary, but also the full length of the supply chain. (End users may be at risk if the hazardous chemical escapes from the material, whereas many others along the supply chain may have dealt directly with the hazardous chemical.)
The drivers of this change are varied and many, and we may never know when the tipping point naturally would have occurred. We know only that at GreenBuild 2012, Rick Fedrizzi, CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council, played the ball from where it lay and healthy buildings gained a bodyguard through a highly resolved commitment to LEED v4, Materials & Resources. Wasting no time, the USGBC held a Green Building and Human Health Summit in January because, in Fedrizzi's words, "Healthy places are a human right." The NIH reconvened the Health in Buildings Roundtable in April for the purpose of building a body of research from which additional evidence-based strategies may be drawn and acted upon in a series of continuous improvement cycles.
I participated in both meetings and although additional research was discussed, I don't recall anyone suggesting the buildings industry currently lacks actionable findings or sufficiently informed consumers willing to use their buying power to pull new, safer building materials into the market.
Joining the leaders
So who is answering the consumer's call for healthy buildings materials?
Building owners in the healthcare, education, commercial and residential markets are making materials a key consideration.
Architects and designers such as Perkins+Will, HKS, HOK and HDR Architecture are recognizing material health as a vital subset of sustainability.
The USGBC is responding to its customers by introducing LEED v4's Materials & Resources transparency, avoiding chemicals of concern in materials and supply chains.
Building product manufacturers are responding to their consumers through transparency, labeling and avoidance/removal of chemicals of concern.
Rigorous multi-attribute third-party product certification, such as the Cradle-to-Cradle Product Innovation Institute's C2C Certification, addresses the full spectrum of sustainability and all of its stakeholders. The Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Program rates products across five critical quality categories and recognizes achievement and a commitment to continuous improvement. The five critical categories are the sustainability primaries: material health (chemistry), reutilization (recycle), water (use reduction), energy (renewables instead of fossil) and social responsibility. The five are inseparable aspects of sustainability.
To get started on using or making safe building materials:
Bring to all your business decisions William McDonough's insight: "Design is the first signal of human intention."
Contact the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
Contact McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry.
Establish a chemicals policy governing products and processes.
There are many ways to characterize and define sustainability, but I've found none so compelling as what Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th U.S. President, said in his farewell address:
"As we peer into society's future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage."
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Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 4 July 2019
Questions (95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100)
Michael McGrath
95. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of removing the restriction for the key employee engagement programme, KEEP, on employees to work in a single company in a group in order to enable them to work in the companies within a group structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28791/19]
96. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of removing the requirement for an employee to work full-time in a company for the key employee engagement programme, KEEP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28792/19]
97. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of removing the requirement for the key employee engagement programme, KEEP, that all shares in a company must be new shares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28793/19]
98. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the cost of the key employee engagement programme, KEEP, in 2018; the number of persons that availed of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28794/19]
99. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of removing the restriction to 50% of the employee's annual emoluments for the key employee engagement programme, KEEP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28795/19]
100. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of increasing the €3 million share option market value restriction to €6, €12 and €24 million, respectively and removing it altogether in relation to the key employee engagement programme, KEEP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28796/19]
Written answers (Question to Finance)
Minister for Finance
I propose to take Questions Nos. 95 to 100, inclusive, together.
The Key Employee Engagement Programme (KEEP) came into effect on 1 January 2018. The aim of the incentive is to support SMEs in Ireland in competing with larger enterprises to recruit and retain key employees, by way of a targeted share option programme.
KEEP provides for an exemption from income tax, USC and PRSI on any gain realised on the exercise of a qualifying share option. With limited exceptions, a key employee must hold the option for twelve months prior to exercise. However, it is likely that employees may hold the KEEP share options for a number of years before exercise, as the options must be granted at not less than market value on the date of grant, so a benefit will only arise to the employee if the shares increase in value from that date. Where share options are exercised, and the shares are subsequently sold, such individuals will be subject to Capital Gains Tax on the disposal of the shares.
As KEEP is a demand-led scheme, uptake will depend on the decisions made by qualifying SME companies with regard to the offering of share options to employees, and also on the growth in value of the employer company shares in the period between grant and exercise of the options. The uptake of KEEP thus far has been limited. Given the longer-term nature of the incentive, Revenue has, as yet, relatively little information on which to estimate the cost and other consequences of possible changes.
I am advised by Revenue that, as there is no information available on the potential increased uptake of KEEP if employees were allowed to work in multiple companies within a group structure, or if the shares were not restricted to new shares, there is no underlying data on which to estimate a cost of removing such restrictions. Under KEEP, only full-time employees or directors who are required to work at least 30 hours per week with a company are eligible to participate.
I am also advised by Revenue that there is no information on the potential increased uptake of the programme if the requirement in respect of being a full-time employee was removed. As such, there is no underlying data on which to estimate the cost of such a change.
I am further advised by Revenue that some 10 companies granted qualifying share options to 87 key employees during 2018 (the first year of the scheme). As no exercises occurred in 2018, there is no cost to the exchequer for 2018 in terms of income tax, USC and PRSI. Returns for 2019, which will contain details of all options granted and exercised during 2019, will not be filed with Revenue until 31 March 2020.
With a view to enhancing the attractiveness of the scheme, Finance Act 2018 amended the restriction applying to the total market value of shares which can be granted by the qualifying company to a qualifying employee, by increasing the limit from 50% of salary to 100% of salary (i.e. that participants may now receive of equal values of shares and salary). This required state aid approval from the European Commission, which has recently been granted, and I expect to commence this change shortly. Revenue advise me that there is no underlying data on which to estimate the cost of this change.
Currently, the total market value of the issued but unexercised qualifying share option a company may grant cannot exceed €3 million. Revenue advise me that it is not possible to estimate the number of companies who might exceed the €6 million, €12 million or €24 million thresholds outlined by the Deputy and thus benefit from raising this restriction or removing it.
Finally, and as the Deputy may be aware, my Department recently carried out a public consultation process in relation to KEEP and other tax incentives targeted at the SME sector with a view to identifying possible enhancements that might be made to the scheme to make it more efficient and effective. The intention is that issues raised by stakeholders during the consultation will be analysed and proposals will be submitted to me for consideration in the context of this year's Finance Bill.


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Medical equipments are designed to aid in diagnosis, monitoring and the treatment of medical conditions, also known as armamentarium. Disinfectants are the anti-bacterial agents which are used to clean or disinfect the medical instruments. Disinfectants are less effective than sterilization as it does not kill all the micro-organisms, especially resistant bacteria spores. A disinfectant destroys the cell wall of microbes or interfering with the metabolism, which differentiate it from the antibiotics and biocides. Disinfectants are mostly used in the hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and ICU. Disinfector's are an efficient tool for the cleaning & thermal disinfection of all the medical instruments and accessories. Endoscopy refers to looking inside the body using an endoscope for medical reasons. Endoscopy reprocessors help to disinfect the instruments used in the endoscopy.


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Expert Insights March 2, 2017 March 7, 2017
Leading Change in Times of Change
by Melissa Marsh
Learning to navigate and manage change successfully can help us make the most of its benefits and avoid its pitfalls. Here are six best practices for change management from PLASTARC.
Image courtesy of PLASTARC.
Change has a reputation for being difficult, and understandably so. Change demands our attention, disrupts our habits, and takes up our time with new questions and learning curves.
But of course, change can also be our friend, when it brings refreshment, improvement, and new opportunities into our lives.
Loathe it or love it, change is a fact of life. Learning to navigate and manage change successfully can help us make the most of its benefits and avoid its pitfalls.
The need for workplace change management can stem from any type or size of change. Maybe your organization is updating its technology, or reformatting its space, or simply trying to do more with less — in any case, you'll likely have some kind of physical transformation taking place, and you'll certainly have people's sensory experiences and emotions in play. All of that can make for a heady combo, especially when it comes in addition to everyone's regular workload.
Change management is one of PLASTARC's core competencies (okay, it's a borderline obsession): a topic we've long been researching, and a process we've helped scores of clients approach successfully. We see change management as an exercise in UX (user experience) design.
We've distilled half a dozen best practices from our years of experience in change management; below, we relate them to the research of one of our discipline heroes, John Kotter. Dr. Kotter pioneered an 8-Step Process for Leading Change that we've found to be inspirational and affirming in much of our work. (While we're at it, we'd also like to give a shout-out to our friend Martha O'Mara, a fellow advocate of using the Kotter model in workplace change management. She co-authored a terrific paper[1] on the topic for Corporate Real Estate Journal in 2014.)
Images courtesy of PLASTARC.
Six best practices for change management
1. Start now
PLASTARC says: Start early, start often
Start practicing all possible upcoming changes now. Don't wait until the day your office is going to start using a new software to screen a video tutorial about how to use it. Understand the scope and degree of change on the horizon and plan incremental steps toward it.
Professor Kotter says: Create a sense of urgency
Help your people see the need for change through a bold, aspirational statement of opportunity that communicates the importance of acting, and acting now. A sense of urgency can be a powerful tool in a world that's moving increasingly fast.
2. If you make the workplace a business solution, oppositions to change become oppositions to the business
PLASTARC says: Find your advocates and know your audience
Who already holds influence in your audience? Who's a natural connector who could help others get in the swing? These people are critical resources in your change management dossier; they should be considered and leveraged along with formal organizational leadership. In addition to these valuable change agents, take care to tailor your change strategy to the particular individuals who are poised to experience the change most directly, as well as to the overall culture of the organization. Work to discover what these groups value (quality? speed? expertise? inclusivity?) and how they expect to be introduced to a new idea (top-down? ground up? as a matter of fact, or a premise up for debate?).
Professor Kotter says: Build a guiding coalition
Formal hierarchies have a place in many businesses, but such defined "operating systems" struggle to adapt quickly enough to the opportunities and challenges change can present. Invest in a second, more agile, "network-like" structure that can work in concert with the hierarchy to maintain order while seizing the moment.
3. Listen to each individual and strive to understand what the benefits are to them. Search for ways to answer their big question: What's in it for me? (WIFM)
PLASTARC says: Sell it
Your organization markets products or services to consumers. Good change management effectively markets change to your organization's employees. Just as in the case of outside consumers, the changes you're implementing internally need to be positioned relative to local value in order to be successful: What's so great about this new thing? How will it make employees' lives better? How will it help your organization's overall business strategy? Make these connections clear and voice them often. Underscore the business case for change.
Professor Kotter says: Form a strategic vision and initiatives (part 1) and Enlist a volunteer army
Show people how the future will be different from the past, and how they will make the future a reality through clear initiatives. Your strategic vision aligns your team around an image of who they want to become together, and prompts everyone to raise their hands to help make it happen. Large-scale change can only occur when great numbers of people rally around a common opportunity. They must be motivated to buy in and move in the same direction.
4. Research is a vital precursor to successful change management and provides the groundwork for these first three phases
PLASTARC says: Listen and laud
Research builds a "case for change," so that when you're actually doing the work of it, it doesn't seem spurious, mercurial, or (most importantly) only cost-driven. Ask employees directly what questions and apprehensions they have about the planned changes. When people feel their concerns are being sincerely heard, they feel calmer and more ready to proceed. Publicly recognize employees who make an effort to be change agents and early adopters.
Professor Kotter says: Generate short-term wins
Wins are "the molecules of results"; the proof of progress. People's achievements must be captured, recognized, and communicated early and often to track of progress and motivate everyone to keep going. Teams that discover and generate wins reduce resistance to change efforts: when people are excited to show up, share their successes, and celebrate their impact, they see change as empowering, not threatening.
5. See every change management effort as its own campaign, requiring sound market research and advocacy efforts
PLASTARC says: Enable ownership
Autonomy is reinforced through individualization, so provide opportunities for employees to self-assess or receive individualized training. Hearing from a trusted colleague, rather than from an "outsider," is also a great way to strengthen people's self-identification with anything new. Panel discussions with staff who have gone through a similar change before are repeatedly one of the highest-rated change communication tools.
Professor Kotter says: Form a strategic vision and initiatives (part 2) and Enable action by removing barriers
When a compelling strategic vision and set of initiatives is written in the hand of the leadership team, their words speak to each individual in an organization as well as to the collective, creating a terrific level of ownership. Removing inefficient processes and outdated hierarchies provides people with the freedom necessary to work across silos and use their existing skills, expertise, and institutional knowledge to generate real impact.
6. Work to see change issues from as many perspectives as possible
PLASTARC says: Make it real… and beautiful
Seeing is believing. That's why people love to take a walk-through of their new work environment while it's under construction. Such a site tour can be complicated to organize, but it's well worth the effort. (When you're done, provide a place for employees to view and share videos, photos, and impressions about their new space.) Similarly, don't underestimate the power of beauty to illustrate the effectiveness of a change and elicit support for it. Whether it's the presentation you give to explain the change, or the design of your future work environment, if people are attracted to how something looks, they will want to be part of it.
Professor Kotter says: Institute change and Sustain acceleration
Make the connections between employees' new behaviors and organizational success as clear and tangible as possible. Don't stop: take every opportunity to illustrate these beneficial, causal relationships until they're strong enough to replace the old ways. New habits, structures, and policies are what will transform your beautiful vision into a beautiful reality.
Lastly, we say: enjoy yourself. Despite its many benefits, change can be stressful. Agility is a good quality to hone in ourselves and encourage in others no matter the situation, but we're especially resilient in stressful situations when we commit to being flexible and focusing on the positives. Whenever possible, make aspects of the changes you're managing pleasurable and socially engaging. Find ways to have fun.
[1] Mandel, A., O'Mara, M., & Temmink, C. (2014) "Change management models for workplace transformation." Corporate Real Estate Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 281–292.
Melissa Marsh
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Nice presentation of a powerful complex issue. A must read fro all workplace designers.
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Panama makes its debut on the International Feature Oscar shortlist with the character-driven thriller Plaza Catedral . This contender from Abner Benaim ( Ruben Blades Is Not My Name ) is a taut two-hander between a grieving mother and a young street hustler, with a sobering message about corruption and violence. Samuel Goldwyn Films recently acquired the title. Alicia (Ilse Salas) is a well-heeled Mexican architect working in Panama, who moves into a swish new apartment in Plaza Catedral. A young teen known as "Chief" (Fernando Xavier De Casta) offers her "VIP parking" and she haggles wearily, assuring him she's no "gringa." Over the coming days, they develop a grudging understanding. When he shows up on the stairs of her building bleeding from a gunshot wound, she has a choice. Help the boy and risk her own safety, or turn a blind eye? It's a palpable moral dilemma in a city where crime is around every corner, and trust is hard-earned. "The younger they are, … [Read more...] about Int'l Critics Line: Panama's Oscar-Shortlisted 'Plaza Catedral'
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When you see a big brown delivery truck you automatically think UPS. When you see a pink Cadillac you automatically think Mary Kay. Some business vehicles have been around for so long they become part of the cultural background, immediately recognizable icons of decades-old businesses. However, startups don't get that type of visibility.
Online presence: you'll need a website and social media presence, and your email should be tied to your website instead of just using your personal email address. This indicates more permanence and professionalism to potential clients.
Hire professionals to help with marketing, design, and branding. As the old saying goes, if you think it's expensive to hire a professional, just wait until you hire an amateur.
Pass on free business cards. They aren't that expensive to buy anyway and looking cheap can cost you more in the long run.
Keep your website and blog up to date. It's important to blog regularly to show that you are constantly thinking about ways to improve your business.
If you show up to meet a potential client in your old dented college car, chances are they aren't going to care that you are pouring all your resources into other aspects of your business. The way you present yourself professionally has a lot to do with how successful you will be in your business, and clients pay attention to this key detail. Just as you wouldn't show up to a client meeting in ripped jeans, driving a basically clean and orderly vehicle is part of how you present yourself and your company to the world.
One of the most often overlooked advertising methods is mobile. Vehicle wraps can turn your businesses' transportation fleet into mobile billboards for your business. Nothing else says this is a serious business that intends to stick around for the long term like a vehicle wrap does. What you drive says a lot about you, and this is something that can speak to your level of professional commitment in the eyes of your customers.
Celebrities' businesses are themselves, and maintaining a strong personal brand is crucial to keeping them working. As such, their cars typically speak volumes about their personal brands, signaling to the outside world that they are committed to playing the part. Oprah Winfrey's Tesla Model S signals that she's serious, practical, and environmentally conscious, while Paris Hilton's pink Bentley GT Continental signals that she's committed to being noticed wherever she goes.
Chris Brown has a fighter-jet inspired Lamborghini, signaling that he is no stranger to controversy and even may embrace it. Many celebrities drive plain vehicles, signaling that they haven't let their fame go to their heads. From the looks of Jennifer Lawrence's Volkswagen and Daniel Radcliffe's Fiat hatchback, many celebrities don't feel the need to be noticed every moment of every day.
The only thing that will differentiate you from a crowd of other people trying to do the same thing is how you demonstrate your level of commitment to your business. You don't have to drive a Lamborghini or wear an Armani suit when you are growing a startup, but you do have to consider how your clients will perceive you. How will potential clients and other businesses perceive the vehicle you drive?


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Ah, the Caribbean. Warm sunshine, sparkling turquoise waters, powdery white sand, and lush rainforest. It's a traveler's tropical paradise, complete with a rich mix of cultures and luxury spas that create a sense of pure escape. While away your time indulging in fresh seafood, calm dips in the ocean, deep sleep against the rhythm of the crashing waves, and therapeutic treatments infused with isle elements. We're relaxed just thinking about it!
Scroll through our picks in the Caribbean, from Turks and Caicos to Jamaica to St. Lucia and more!
Presented by Regent Palms Turks and Caicos, pictured. Read more about the spa here.
A true Caribbean treat, the award-winning Regent Spa at Regent Palms Turks and Caicos is the definition of island chic. Verdant foliage and reflection pools surround treatment spaces, some of them white-tented cabanas, while soft candlelight fashions a romantic, tranquil vibe; other sophisticated elements comprising the 28,000-square-foot spa include a sun-dappled water garden. Spa splendor continues as you try indigenous holistic rituals drawn from the isle, including the exclusive Mother of Pearl Body Exfoliation (30 or 60 mins), utilizing native, hand-crushed queen conch shells.
Learn more about Regent Spa at Regent Palms Turks and Caicos.
If it was good enough for Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy, it's good enough for us! Round Hill sits on a 110-acre peninsula overlooking a private beach, but what we love most about the property is its delightful wellness fixtures: Wind through a jungle-lined trail to reach Spa at Round Hill, housed within an 18th-century plantation building fronted by a 10-acre expanse of lawn stretching to the sea. Ralph Lauren designed the interiors to highlight the island's easygoing elegance, and treatments can be taken indoors or alfresco.
Learn more about Spa at Round Hill at Round Hill Hotel & Villas.
We could spend all day talking about the many amenities of the 7,000-acre Casa de Campo, including its private beach and three golf courses, but what we really want to focus on is its eco-friendly spa. Here, you'll discover Zen gardens, a meditation labyrinth, and 100-percent naturally derived products crafted in the on-site spa pharmacy. Treatment spaces include suites and gazebos on the beach; the Water Sanctuary Suite comprises a steam room, sauna, and hot and cold plunge pools.
Learn more about Casa de Campo Spa at Casa de Campo.
The Waldorf Astoria Spa's flawless locale—on a cliff top overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and El Yunque rainforest—echoes the Caribbean description we referred to on our intro slide. The spa has three distinct areas: The nature-inspired welcome space; the Vitality Level, made up of the fitness center, movement studio, juice bar, and café; and the Tranquility Level, with relaxation lounges, 25 treatment areas for Ayurvedic and hydrotherapy services, a eucalyptus-infused steam room, and Jacuzzis.
Learn more about Waldorf Astoria Spa at El Conquistador Resort & Las Casitas Village, A Waldorf Astoria Resort.
We've spotlighted the idyllic Parrot Cay several times and for good reason: This tranquil oasis on its own 1,000-acre private island (you're transported by plane to marina to ferry boat) rivals some of the best spa destinations worldwide, due to its serene COMO Shambhala Retreat and yoga and Pilates events led by many of the best experts in the business. Amenities comprise holistic Asian-inspired treatments, an outdoor Jacuzzi garden, and Japanese baths set in low-lying pavilions overlooking the North Caicos Channel.
Learn more about COMO Shambhala Retreat at Parrot Cay by COMO.
Learn more about The BodyHoliday at LeSPORT.
The Spa at Sandy Lane, a golf and spa destination on Barbados' western coast, blends a bit of luxury, bliss, and Barbadian hospitality. A marble reception area and grand stairways lead you to treatment suites designed with bamboo and dark wood. Following a decadent island ritual like the Bajan Indulgence Package (which combines a sugar cane scrub, warm clay and banana leaf wrap, and coconut-oil massage), visit the sauna, Rhassoul, experience showers, crystal cold room, and hydro pool.
Learn more about The Spa at Sandy Lane at Sandy Lane Hotel.
This is a destination for everyone—laden with nightclubs, a golf course, waterpark, marine habitat, and casino—a theme that extends to its 32,000-square-foot Mandara Spa. Among the amenities? A wide selection of European and Balinese services from which to choose, including Elemis and La Therapie facials and treatments for the kids. Plus, this is a spa that even dad can enjoy, as there's a plasma TV in the men's relaxation lounge.
Learn more about Mandara Spa at The Atlantis Resort and Casino.
Learn more about La Samanna Spa at La Samanna.
Learn more about Kai Belté Spa at Anse Chastanet.
One&Only Spa also calls Paradise Island its home, which is fitting, as this haven is designed to be, you guessed it, paradise. Asian-inspired services incorporate Bahamian spices, fruits, and minerals and are performed in Balinese-style treatment villas, complete with teak massage tables, waterfall showers, daybeds, and jetted tubs in secluded gardens. If that doesn't put you in a state of bliss, the tea ceremony following your treatment certainly will.
Learn more about One&Only Spa at One&Only Ocean Club.
Usher into wellness at this particular Mandara Spa, the brand's first location in the Caribbean. Tranquil touches encompass Balinese-style interiors, VIP couple's suites with jetted tubs or Vichy showers, and a menu of signature Indonesian-influenced services that fuse Eastern and Western techniques. From the after-sun Aloe and Milk Bath Wrap (50 mins; $145) to the generations-old Massage de la Aruba (50/80 mins; $120/180), this treatment menu is a treat.
Learn more about Mandara Spa at Aruba Marriott Ocean Club.


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Working across the chemicals, agriculture, metals and mining, and pulp and paper sectors, Raffaele has counselled executives on an international basis, with projects in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.
Focused on helping companies establish stronger financial performance, Raffaele has led numerous major cost-reduction and procurement-optimization programs. In the chemicals and agricultural-inputs industries, his teams have achieved 10 to 20 percent cost savings globally.
Before joining McKinsey, Raffaele worked for Toyota in Europe, where he promoted and implemented the company's production system approach, orchestrating suppliers to more than 20 plants across 11 countries. He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.


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The dynamics of U.S. industrial production: A time-varying Granger causality perspective
Christopher F. Baum, Stan Hurn, Jesús Otero
Grupo de investigaciones. Facultad de Economía. Universidad del Rosario
The concept of Granger causality is an important tool in applied macroeconomics. Recursive econometric methods to analyze the temporal stability of Granger-causal relationships have recently been developed. These recursive procedures are used to re-evaluate the temporal stability of Granger causality between US industrial production and three macroeconomic variables. There appears to be significant evidence of temporal variation in the causal relationships. A clear pattern that emerges from the results is that the causal channels from all three variables to industrial production appear to be very strong in the latter part of the sample period.
Econometrics and Statistics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.10.012
En prensa - 2021
Estadística y probabilidad
Economía y econometría
Estadística, probabilidad e incerteza
10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.10.012
Enlace a las citas en Scopus
Baum, C. F., Hurn, S., & Otero, J. (Aceptado/En prensa). The dynamics of U.S. industrial production: A time-varying Granger causality perspective. Econometrics and Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.10.012
Baum, Christopher F. ; Hurn, Stan ; Otero, Jesús. / The dynamics of U.S. industrial production : A time-varying Granger causality perspective. En: Econometrics and Statistics. 2021.
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Tito's Is Hosting A Virtual Music Festival Through October With Proceeds Supporting World Central Kitchen
With the absence of music festivals this summer, Tito's vodka wanted to bring the music festival to you. The liquor brand has put together a "Made to Order" music festival that will be streamed live and features headliners like Dierks Bentley and Portugal. The Man.
Made to Order Festival starts off this week on Thursday, August 27. Then, every two weeks, there will be another show with the final installment taking place on October 8. Each livestream will have a theme in line with different parts of the country. The first show kicks it all off on the West coast with musical guests Channel Tres, Kali Uchis, and Portugal. The Man.
The next show will give kudos to the South on September 10 with Bun B, Morgan Wallen, and Dierks Bentley. On September 24 the East coast will be honored with A-Trak, Young M.A, and Summer Walker and the final show on October 8 will shoutout the North and feature Claude VonStroke, Louis the Child, and ZHU.
Not only will this online festival fill the void of music festivals this year, but Tito's is donating $100,000 leading up to the festival to World Central Kitchen, with an emphasis on supporting Black-owned restaurants and healthcare workers. There will be a donation link at each show and audience members who donate will be entered for the chance to win a meet-and-greet with the headliners.
The concerts will be live on the Tito's website and their YouTube channel. Just be sure to stock up on some Tito's to sip on while enjoying the music from home. It's only right!
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In political geography, critical interest in how area studies knowledge is produced has recently been revived. However, the place of the political risk industry in the evolution of area studies has not yet been examined. In this project, perspectives from political geography are integrated with approaches from science and technology studies to examine the evaluation cultures of political risk analysis. The research will involve historical analysis of political risk reports (1980s to present) focusing on Bangladesh and South Africa, interviews with key figures in the political risk industry, and short periods of participatory research at global political risk summits. The project will improve understanding of how regional expertise is cultivated outside the university sector, and the influence this expertise has on decision-making in transnational business.
Project timeframe
This research project commenced in April 2017 and will end in September 2018.
Responding to concerns that universities in the UK are facing a crisis in area studies that threatens the cultivation of regional expertise, political geographers have begun to highlight the existence of 'third wave' or 'critical' area studies This third wave takes account of transnational migration, and of postcolonial critiques of the regional units established by the first wave of Imperial area studies - designed to foster forms of regional expertise that could aid in the colonial project - and the second wave of social scientific area studies that was institutionalised in the USA during the Cold War.
However, most work on the history of area studies has not engaged with the political risk industry, where firms produce maps, briefings and advice for transnational business operators, and which is now seen as a 'growth industry in its own right'. While there was early interest in the in-house political risk capacity of US firms operating in newly independent postcolonial nations, this work did not address the form or content of regional expertise directly.
This project seeks to address a gap in the geographical literature by exploring regional expertise in the growing political risk industry. It does so by asking four inter-related questions:
Who produces regional expertise in the political risk industry, and what kind of regional experience and linguistic competency is required?
What demands are placed on the form taken by regional expertise in the political risk industry, and how do these relate to the institutional context in which it is produced?
How do regional units or areas become stabilised or associated with political risk through the circulation of political risk analysts in global forums and summits?
What constitutes a political risk, and how do political risk analysts contribute to the propagation of particular models of geopolitics and ideal relationships between state, society and transnational corporations?
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Karen Doell (born 29 July 1965) is a Canadian softball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Doell was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

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Breast cancer treatment new research
A new study from the University of South Australia has shed vital information about the mechanism of progression of breast cancers from benign to aggressive form.
The study, led by Senior Research Fellow Doctor Marina Kochetkova and Adelaide University's Deputy Head for Molecular and Biomedical Science Professor Shaun McColl, found a direct link between aggressive breast cancer cells and therefore the dual CXCR4-CCR7 chemokine receptors (proteins).
There is new hope for women with #breastcancer as @UniversitySA@CCB_Research and SA Pathology discovers early warning signs on #cancer cells which could help identify aggressive tumors.
The study, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, shows a connection between the number of these receptors and the severity of cancer, marking the first time in history this protein interaction has been observed in both animal and human cells.
universally, breast cancer is the most common cancer in ladies, yet despite decades of medical study, a cure remains out of reach.
One of the study's experimenters, Valentina Poltavets, says blocking the interaction between CXCR4-CCR7 proteins could deliver novel treatments for invasive breast cancer.
" universally, breast cancer affects more than 2.3 million women each year, with aggressive breast cancer accounting for more than forty percent of all cancer-related deaths in women," Poltavets says.
" There is no current cure for metastatic tumors, which is why new therapies which will target the spread of carcinoma to different organs within the body are so urgently needed."
" On their own, CXCR4 and CCR7 proteins are found in multiple cell types including breast cancer cells. But we saw that in more invasive and metastatic breast cancer cells, they are bound to each other to deliver specific signals that make these cells grow and move rapidly".
Poltavets, who completed her Ph.D. on the expansion and spread of breast cancers, says that despite growing research resulting in improved carcinoma survival rates, further work is required to understand hard-to-treat breast cancers.
" There is no doubt that research is advancing our knowledge in breast cancer," she said. " Step by step, we were deliberate to seek out a cure for this devastating illness."
As part of the study, the study team from the University of South Australia also created a system that forced the CXCR4 and CCR7 proteins to interact on the cell surfaces of non-invasive carcinoma cells, showing how they are going to make the cancer cells more aggressive and invasive.
During the last two years of the epidemic, ninety percent of breast screens in Australia have been canceled or delayed, risking the lives of thousands of women.


An immaculate poster. Ferrari, Monaco, and Le Mans (inset) interest.
One of several different posters I have for this fascinating Hugh Hudson bio-pic of the great master.
The movie has never been on release in the UK(or in many other countries) because Hudson, and his backer Volpi, would not bow to the Censor\'s pressure to take out graphic footage of the 1955 Le Mans shunt, and several other horrific racing accidents.