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In a recent article for ReadWriteWeb, Matt Asay talks about the very real need for IT to have security and control without becoming a bottleneck.
It's hard to believe, but just 10 years ago open source was considered "communist," an anti-American cancer and the terror of corporate legal departments everywhere. Now, as a recent Harvard Business Review article reports, it's business as usual. Mundane, even. Developers are to blame. Getting projects done proved far easier with open-source software than protracted licensing negotiations for proprietary software.
Now this same human desire to evade bureaucracy and foster productivity is driving broad adoption of cloud services, and this time it's not just developers driving adoption. Lines of business executives are also encouraging Shadow IT to skirt enterprise policies. The catch is that it is also introducing all sorts of security and management quandaries.
The cloud is here to stay—and with good reason. IT organizations know that using on-premise resources to serve unpredictable usage patterns, frequent setup and tear-down requirements, and minimal change management processes can result in wasted capacity or under provisioning. This then leads to cost inefficiencies, pervasive shadow IT across organizations, and a lack of visibility and control over cloud deployments for virtual environments.
So how are IT organizations taking on these challenges—gaining security and control without becoming a bottleneck? Many are turning to a hybrid cloud strategy.
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Enterprises can move workloads like development and testing, virtual training, and Demo/POC environments to a secure hybrid cloud, thereby creating a seamless and secure extension to their own existing internal IT infrastructure, resources, and processes. The end game: IT can achieve complete governance and reporting, giving teams visibility and control across a global pool of computing resources, projects, profiles, and build artifacts.
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Draft resolution on situation of refugees in OSCE region adopted
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Baku, Azerbaijan, July 1
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The draft resolution on the situation of refugees in the OSCE region was discussed during the 23rd session of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) in Baku.
Following the discussions, the resolution was put to the vote and adopted.
The draft resolution was proposed by the head of the OSCE PA Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos.
Santos said that the number of refugees exceeds 51 million in the world and stressed the importance of pursuing a common policy by all countries for preventing this problem.
Expressing support to the draft resolution, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE PA, Bahar Muradova stressed with regret that over one million of the total number of refugees falls to Azerbaijan.
"These people got into a very difficult situation as a result of the conflict [Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict] and were deprived of many rights," she noted.
Muradova pointed out that the Azerbaijani government does great work to improve the social position and solve the problems of refugees and IDPs.
Stressing that the number of refugees and IDPs has exceeded 1.2 million people, Muradova said that it is important to resolve conflicts in order to prevent this problem.
"It is necessary to reveal the causes of problems and prevent them, rather than discussing their consequences," she added.
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In light of the American military's opening of all combat roles to women, female cadets at the West Point Military Academy in New York will no longer be banned from attending the school's boxing classes — in fact, their participation is now mandatory. Beginning this fall, all students at the academy, female or otherwise, must take part in the school's boxing program — a program that already was facing criticism due to the number of concussions suffered by students who participate.
Nearly 1 in 5 concussions suffered at West Point occurred during boxing class, according to The New York Times, and medical research indicates that women are significantly more likely to sustain concussions than men.
Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr., the superintendent and top military officer at West Point, said that he was approached by alumni requesting a review of the school's ban on women taking the boxing class while at the 40th anniversary celebration of female cadets attending West Point. After receiving approval from top Army brass at the Pentagon, he said he instituted the change so that female cadets could also gain direct experience learning to react with "tenacity and resilience" while under direct attack.
According to first-year cadet Kiana Stewart, who said she was initially upset when told she would have to take up boxing, the actual experience of direct physical combat was simultaneously "scary" and "pretty cool." Stewart said she's already had her nose bloodied at least once during sparring, but that it only happened because she was careless.


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Published Apr 27, 2018 By: Lisa Terry
Beer Park by Budweiser, a large outdoor bar and grill perched over the legendary Las Vegas Boulevard, needed bright displays to show sports programming. In order to compete with hundreds of dining and entertainment options, the TV viewing experience had to be world-class. The displays also needed to provide crisp, clear viewing under challenging environmental conditions, including bright ambient lighting, intense temperature swings, and inclement weather.
Samsung was selected as the single brand for all 56 digital displays throughout the rooftop bar and grill. Video walls above the bars can show individual channels on each display or be combined to show a single channel when there is a big sporting event. High-brightness outdoor displays are installed on custom mounts throughout the dining and games areas for a 360° viewing experience. At the satellite bar on the ground floor, menu boards display food and beverage offerings with bright, eyecatching visuals.
High-bright outdoor displays provide 360° viewing experience.
Samsung displays have scored with sports-loving customers at Beer Park. The bright displays provide a world-class sports viewing experience throughout the day and night – from almost any viewing angle. As a result, customers are engaged and spending more time at Beer Park which has driven up ticket orders for food and drinks. The Samsung displays have helped Beer Park create a distinctive experience and positive brand impression that customers can take home.
Beer Park by Budweiser is Las Vegas' first rooftop bar and grill. Located at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, the 10,000-square-foot venue offers panoramic views of the Bellagio fountains and the iconic Las Vegas strip.
Customers can enter Beer Park directly from the high foot traffic Las Vegas Boulevard. The venue offers customers over 100 beer options and fan-friendly food, like pretzels, burgers, sandwiches, nachos, and hot dogs. A satellite bar on the ground floor offers a selection of drinks and food for walk-by traffic.
Beer Park is owned and operated by Chateau Management in a brand sponsorship with Anheuser-Busch, the parent company of Budweiser.
The Customer Need:
Creating a Unique Outdoor Entertainment Experience
Las Vegas is one of the most popular vacation destinations in the world with over 42 million annual visitors. Anheuser-Busch recognized the opportunity to further connect its beer brands with vacationers.
"We've been offering brand experiences at sports stadiums for a while and wanted to provide that same experience in Las Vegas to a global audience of tourists and convention attendees," says Josh Halpern, VP of On-Premise for Anheuser-Busch.
Beer Park would be an experience that was unlike anything else available in the Vegas market. It would be a fun, casual outdoor place to watch sports with friends and family, enjoy great beer and food, play games, or simply relax.
"Visitors have hundreds of entertainment options on the Strip, so we needed Beer Park to really stand out and be a showcase for the Budweiser brand," says Perry Rogers, partner of Chateau Management, owner and operator of Beer Park. "We needed to offer an experience that would not only make their jaws drop when they walked in, but keep them engaged – so the TV displays needed to be world-class."
Beer Park needed reliable, commercial-grade displays that met the challenges of outdoor operations. The displays needed to be extremely bright so programs could be easily seen in daylight, in shade, and at night.
The venue posed additional technical and design challenges. "Beer Park is outdoors so you're also dealing with rain, wind, dust and the heat of the desert," says Dan Shannon, Co-Owner of Ponto Solutions, an Audio/Visual solution provider retained by Beer Park to design and implement the A/V technology. "The displays had to seamlessly fit into the architecture and design of the venue while meeting all safety requirements."
"Samsung displays have really allowed customers to want to stay longer because they are having so much fun watching sports. With that comes repeat business and drives the longevity of the business."
— Jason Ellefson, General Manager of
Beer Park.
High-Bright Displays Deliver Superior Viewing
Based on a detailed assessment of the requirements, Ponto Solutions recommended Samsung displays to Beer Park. "When putting together the outdoor display recommendation, we had only one, which was the Samsung OH55," says Matt Abbrederis, Co- Owner of Ponto Solutions. "It has a 2,500 nit rating which is up to eight times brighter than a regular screen."
Twenty-three Samsung OH55 highbrightness displays are hung on custom mounts throughout the venue, including eating areas, game tables, and lounge areas. The displays provide unobstructed view of sports programs from almost any angle and have auto-brightness sensor. The OH55 displays are also IP56 certified for outdoor usage in heat, cold, rain, snow, and dust.
Beer Park has two large bar islands with sixty different beer taps. Above each island, wrap-around video walls with 55" and 75" Samsung displays show sports programming. The displays usually show individual channels, but if there is a big game, the staff can easily combine them to show a single game. The thin bezels create a nearly seamless picture across the video wall.
In order to ensure that the displays fit with the architectural design while meeting customer needs, Ponto enlisted the support of Premier Mounts. "We looked at the human factors, such as the dimensions, viewing angles, the audience's location relative to the displays," says Rich Pierro, CEO of Premier Mounts. Premier Mounts then designed a mounting infrastructure that also met design and building code requirements.
All of the displays and video walls are controlled with the included Samsung MagicInfo software, an intuitive content creation and management solution.
Beer Park also operates a satellite bar on Las Vegas Boulevard that serves drinks and snacks for walk-by traffic and helps drive visitor traffic to the main bar upstairs. Three 48" Samsung displays serve as digital menu boards to showcase eye-catching drinks and food. The staff can easily alter menu items with the Samsung MagicInfo software.
Ponto Solutions worked closely with Samsung experts during the planning and deployment. "Samsung has all the displays we need, they've got the software and they've got the expertise in the field," says Shannon. "We've engaged with probably a half dozen different people from Samsung in the field on this project and all stepped up and gave us the support."
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The Ultimate Beer and Outdoor Entertainment Experience
Samsung displays are helping Beer Park create the ultimate beer experience in Las Vegas, where people can relax, enjoy, and spend time with friends. Beer Park gets overwhelmingly positive reviews from the time customers enter until they leave. "When I watch customers enter the beer park for the first time, I see their mouths are open," says Rogers. "They are like, 'Oh my gosh, look at this!'
Visitors say they feel like they've entered sports heaven. They are delighted and share details with friends when they returning home. "We loved coming here. We are huge sports fans and the screens are so clear and so vibrant. We feel like were there (at the game)," says an out-of-town visitor. Beer Park is also becoming a standard for local residents. "I love coming here to watch the games," says a Vegas native. "The (Samsung) screens are awesome, and so clear and the atmosphere here is great."
"We couldn't have done it without Samsung's help, because they really understand how to create that positive customer viewing experience." — Josh Halpern, VP of On-Premise for Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch is also impressed with the Samsung displays. "We are a global brand and wanted to create a world-class experience with Beer Park," says Halpern. "Samsung displays definitely met the challenge. We've had customers ask who did our displays, because they are brighter and crisper than those in other restaurants."
Normally, a customer might spend an hour at a Vegas bar, but Beer Park customers are easily spending two or more hours. "Samsung displays have really allowed customers to want to stay longer because they are having so much fun watching sports," says Jason Ellefson, General Manager of Beer Park. "With that comes repeat business and drives the longevity of the business."
"We're already getting rave reviews on Yelp and other social media sites," says Halpern. "We couldn't have done it without Samsung's help, because they really understand how to create that positive customer viewing experience."
Lisa Terry
Lisa Terry is a seasoned B2B writer of articles, blogs, research reports, case studies, white papers and e-books, with a long list of media and corporate clients in hospitality as well as retail, IT and supply chain. She has written for Hospitality Technology, HTNG publications, Nation's Restaurant News, RIS News, Advertising Age, Consumer Goods Technology, Inbound Logistics, Washington Technology and many others.
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A new federal court case could overturn U.S. District Judge James Cohn's 2009 decision allocating which victims of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein would receive proceeds from an asset sale, the South Florida Business Journal reported yesterday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit could rule instead that a bankruptcy trustee overseeing the dissolution of Rothstein's defunct law firm, Hebert Stettin, had the authority to corral and distribute Rothstein's loot. The outcome of the case could set a precedent that would further define the powers of a bankruptcy court-appointed trustee versus the U.S. Department of Justice in a complicated financial criminal case. Rothstein's $1.4 billion fraud came to light at the end of October 2009. The feds moved quickly to seize cars, boats and luxury goods from Rothstein's home. Rothstein's law partners voluntarily sought a receiver to take over the firm on Nov. 1, 2009. Stettin was named a receiver under state court authority on Nov. 2. By Nov 10, investors who lost money in the scheme filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition, and Stettin became a bankruptcy trustee by order of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond Ray. Read more.
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Dec 9, 2015 Warsaw / Poland
Henkel's success on the Polish market
Henkel celebrates 25 years of business in Poland
Henkel was one of the foreign companies that ventured into Poland soon after the country had embarked on its profound political and economic transformation. Having found itself well placed in the new reality, Henkel started to market new, previously unavailable, branded products, raising the quality of life for people in Poland. The company generated almost 400 million euros in sales in Poland last year.
Celebrating 25 years of success in Poland: (from left to right) Tomáš Alföldi, Karolina Szmidt, Markus Raunig, Piotr Ciborowski and Janusz Gołębiowski cut the birthday cake.
The history of Henkel's business in Poland dates back to 1990, when the company started selling construction adhesives. A year later it opened its first factory, in Stąporków. In 1991, Henkel acquired a detergent factory in Racibórz and started producing washing powders. In the same year, it entered the Polish cosmetics market, via Henkel Cosmetics company. Since 1993, when Henkel Metal Chemicals was established, the company has also been active on the market of industrial adhesive technologies.
Today, Henkel has 950 employees and six production centres in the country and holds leading positions in the Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care segments in Poland. Additionally, Henkel opened its Ceresit International Innovation Center for Construction Chemicals in Poland in order to develop and test new product formulas for customers in Europe and the Middle East.
"With our international know-how and innovative business approach, backed by the passion and dedication of our employees, we have carved out a solid presence in the economic landscape of present-day Poland. Thanks to our widely recognised and appreciated brands, such as Persil, Taft, Ceresit and Loctite, we have become a leading player on the Polish market, and our products are used by millions of Poles every day," Henkel Poland chief Janusz Gołębiowski said.
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The Minor Harriers is our youngest section and caters for athletes in the 7-12 age group. Sessions are held on Sunday mornings from 10.30am to 11.30am. The aim is to give youngsters an introduction to athletics, whilst helping them to master the basic skills.
No membership is required, just pay and play on the day. However discounted prices are available should you decide to sign up. First three sessions are free. Annual subscription is £20. Cost per session on Sundays is £2.00 for members and £3.00 for non-members.
We hold monthy Sportshall events for our minors and also encourage them to participate in our Minors Open Meetings, which are held three times a year. Details of this are at the bottom of the page. Any other queries regarding the minors section, please email Carl Reid.
We offer a pathway for minors through to junior athletics at the club, this info can be downloaded from our Junior Secion page.
January to March General co-ordination and mobility. Cross-Country running and Fun Runs. Sporthall Athletics which is held in a sportshall or large gymnasium is organised at local and regional level and is specifically aimed at the 8-13 age group.
October to December General co-ordination and mobility. Cross-Country running and Fun Runs.
10am-1pm. Entries on the day. Under 7s, U9s, U11s & U13s. Any three events from hurdles, sprints, MD, long jump, cricket ball & shot.
Please arrive in good time to fill out event form and collect race numbers.
Results will be posted on this page when available.
Cost is £2 for members and £3 for non members. This includes up to 3 events.
For more info on our Open Meets and past results please visit our WHOGM website.


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BELOIT — It was a momentous year for The Lincoln Academy, the community's first independent public charter school which broke ground in September at 608 Henry Ave., on the Eclipse Campus.
The 4K to grade 12 three-story school is scheduled to open for students in September 2021, with land for the school donated by Hendricks Commercial Properties.
"I am so pleased to be a part of bringing The Lincoln Academy to our children," said Chairman of the Board and Founder of ABC Supply Co. and Kids First Beloit Formation Board President Diane Hendricks. "I believe every child dreams about what they can do with their life and education is the foundation they need to pursue those dreams. Our goal is to challenge our scholars, and to support them. We will focus on character and we will equip our scholars with the knowledge and tools that allow them to live…
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Ring in new year, decade at Vacaville Ice Sports
By Nick Sestanovich | nsestanovich@thereporter.com |
In less than a week, people from all over will bid farewell to not only a year but also an entire decade. That should be enough cause to spend New Year's Eve doing something other than binging in front of your TV until the ball drops, and thankfully there are plenty of options for people to spend their final moments of the 2010s and first moments of the '20s — get used to saying that — outside of their home.
For example, one can literally skate their way out of this decade.
Once again, Vacaville Ice Sports is hosting its annual New Year's Eve Skate & Fun with fun events for the entire family. They can skate, play broomball or hockey, dance to music spun by a deejay with fog effects, enjoy pizza and soda, and play games and win prizes all night. It all leads to a balloon drop and sparkling cider toast at midnight. It will be just one way to provide some of the first memories of the new decade.
The party will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31 at Vacaville Ice Sports, 551 Davis St. Admission is $25 per person. For more information, call 455-0225.
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Argentina, Chile | 106 MINUTES
Cristina Llancaleo (Viviana Herrera), a young nurse from the countryside with big eyes and even bigger headphones, walks the streets of Santiago like a silver ball in a pinball machine, shooting from one person's life to another's. When she is not reading National Geographic articles to her elderly Hungarian patient Milos (Francisco Copello) or flirting with a gardener in the park, she is following Tristán Greenberg (Andrés Ulloa), a 33-year-old architect whose wallet she finds after he is mugged. Tristán, who is temporarily unemployed while the construction workers on his project are on strike, has been dumped by his too-perfect girlfriend Irene (Aline Kuppenheim), who it turns out is also worth following. With nowhere to go, he returns to the suburban home where he grew up, but his glamorous mother Laura (Coca Guazzini) is living with a sleazy magician and is soon throwing a pool party straight out of The Graduate. In writer director Alicia Scherson's offbeat and stylish first feature, old Santiago indigenous rubs against new European in an international melting pot of riotous color art directed within an inch of its life by Sebastian Muñoz and shot in crisp HD by cinematographer Ricardo de Angelis (Man Facing Southeast). Scherson punctuates her script with playfully arch dialogue in which her characters quote Pliny, argue over parts of speech, and confess dreams as inconsequential as their lives. Because for Cristina, who continues her stoop-shouldered, flat-footed trudge through the city, lighting yet another cigarette as if it were her first, the game is never over.
Directed by Alicia Scherson
Alicia Scherson was born in Santiago, Chile in 1974. After graduating as a biologist, she studied filmmaking in the Escuela de Cine de Cuba, EICTV. In 1999 she went on a Fulbright scholarship to the U.S., where she earned her M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her short films have been screened and won awards at many international film festivals. In 2002 she returned to Santiago, where she now works as a film teacher. Her feature film Play was awarded support from the Hubert Bals and CORFO film funds and the Beca Fundacion Carolina from the Spanish Government.


Music and original lyrics by Richard O'Brien. Spanish translation by Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco.
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¿QUÉ LE HA PASADO AL SÁBADO AQUÉL?
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CRANMER, LATIMER & RIDLEY – THE OXFORD MARTYRS
Never one to sit down in front of the tele at the same time or on the same channel, I have developed the habit of watching a TV series all at once, easily finishing a season's worth in a day. I love it! It was no different when the time came to watch 'The Tudors' – my most favourite Royal family! Of course, I was to get more out of this series than expected – Christchurch and Canterbury have the most interesting ties with the Tudors.
Canterbury is an Anglican settlement; 'Anglican' is a very Kiwi term that is used instead of saying the Church of England. Our two founders, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and John Robert Godley were Anglican – as were the rest of the Canterbury Association. The Association's surveyors who marked out our streets and squares were also proud Anglicans and this still shows very much today by the names chosen for our first and oldest of streets. The Anglican pride was so strong that quite a community formed even on-board our first settler ships and when a family proved to have lied about their version of faith just to get the chance to immigrate, they found themselves most unwelcome and cast out. A small band of Baptists were pushed into South Hagley Park in those early months in 1851 to testify to us now about how the Anglicans preferred those different to be out of sight and out of mind.
I was christened and baptized a Cantabrian Anglican myself in 1976 and with this I am well satisfied – it further strengthens my ties with our first Cantabs to whom I was born to advocate for today. But these personal ties can go back even further – it ties me to King Henry VIII himself, being born in the spiritual care of the church he invented just because he couldn't keep his business behind his codpiece – it's true.
So, it should come as no surprise, with all the Anglican pride flying amongst the ocean of tussock and cabbage trees that the 'Oxford Martyrs' should find their honoured place in our Canterbury history. These three Bishops were the biggest supporters of the Church of England and it cost them their lives. Their names (and I hope these names ring some bells for you) were Thomas Cranmer (2nd July 1489 – 21st March 1556), Hugh Latimer (1487 – 16th October 1555) and Nicholas Ridley (1500 – 16th October 1555). Ridley? We don't have a Ridley Square! We actually do but we know it as Cathedral Square.
So yes, three of Christchurch's public squares honour these martyred Anglicans and I wonder how many of us have no idea. Plenty I bet.
There are a lot of politics surrounding these men's lives and I am not going to pretend to understand it all nor am I willing to go to deep into it. But I will introduce you to them the best, easiest and clearest way I can.
Thomas Cranmer was certainly the ringleader of this entire tale – his role in the establishment of the Church of England having been larger than the others. As the Archbishop of Canterbury, he supported Royal Supremacy, established the first doctrinal and liturgical structure and who also with Ridley, wrote the first two editions of the "Book of Common Prayer". He also helped to build the case for the annulment of the marriage between Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon – the founding cause behind the birth of the Church of England.
It had been the Boleyn family (Anne being King Henry's 2nd wife) which helped to secure the Archbishop position for Cranmer that came as a surprise for many at Court. Although ordained, Cranmer had had very little to do with the religious aspects of England since finishing his education at Cambridge. He had studied classical literature, philosophy and earned a Bachelor of Arts – as did Latimer and Ridley. Once securing the divorce that Henry desired, it was Cranmer who crowned Anne Boleyn Queen and baptized her daughter Elizabeth soon after the birth. This very action finally excommunicated Cranmer and all those involved from Catholic Rome.
The good times were not to last. With Henry's death and the rise of his Catholic first born – 'Bloody Mary I' – Cranmer found himself imprisoned at the Tower of London with Latimer and Ridley. They all faced trial together; first on 13th November 1553 and again on 12th September 1555. All were sentenced to burn at the stake. Latimer and Ridley went quickly to their deaths. Cranmer was made to watch the execution. Understandably, Cranmer began to withdraw from his Anglican faith and reconciled himself with the Catholic Church. This failed to save his life as Queen Mary was determined to make an example of him. With this, on the day of his death, he declared his true Anglican faith and his willingness to be a martyr for English reform. He was literally pulled from the pulpit and to his death after calling the Pope the Antichrist.
Hugh Latimer was the Bishop of Worcester and the Chaplain of King Edward VI – the very sickly, young son of Henry VIII. He had been a believer of reformation from the beginning and publicly spoke on the topic despite the grave danger of doing so. He attended Cambridge University and was their preacher and chaplain while he studied theology and earned a Bachelor of Divinity.
He was first imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1539 for opposing Henry VIII on his Six Articles and as a result, he lost his bishopric. He was restored to court by Edward VI and became the onsite preacher until 1550. When Mary became Queen, he was quickly imprisoned again and went to the stake with Nicholas Ridley in 1555.
Nicolas Ridley was the Bishop of London and Westminster. After being at ordained at Cambridge, Ridley moved his life to Paris to continue his education. In 1537, he was appointed by Cranmer to be one of his chaplains and returned to England. As one of the King's Chaplains, he was arrested for heresy in 1543 but was soon released. This experience didn't seem to have scared him though. As the Bishop of Rochester, he had all the altars removed from his churches so that supper tables could be put in their place, thereby encouraging the common man to take his place having Holy Communion. His downfall came with the failed attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne after the death of King Edward VI. During this time preached publicly of Mary and Elizabeth being bastards who had no rights to rule England.
Tragically he is remembered as being the martyr that suffered the most at the stake. He burned slowly and the gunpowder pouches under his arms failed to explode!
*Image of Thomas Cranmer courtesy of Los Blogs de Religionen Liberted – http://www.religionenlibertad.com*
*Image of Hugh Latimer courtesy of For All The Saints – https://forallsaints.wordpress.com*
*Image of Nicholas Ridley courtesy of Continuing Reformation – https://continuingreformation.wordpress.com*
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Ольга́нівка — село в Україні, у Луцькому районі Волинської області. Населення становить 234 особи.

Географія
Село розташоване на правому березі річки Стир.

Населення
Згідно з переписом УРСР 1989 року чисельність наявного населення села становила 244 особи, з яких 117 чоловіків та 127 жінок.

За переписом населення України 2001 року в селі мешкали 234 особи. 100 % населення вказало своєю рідною мовою українську мову.

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Посилання
 Погода в селі Ольганівка

Населені пункти Луцького району
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For this installment in the Living a Full Life series of articles, Andrew D. Seidman, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), was interviewed by Guest Editor Jame Abraham, MD, FACP. Dr. Seidman is a nationally recognized breast cancer expert in the management of both early-stage and advanced breast cancer. His research interests include the clinical investigation of novel chemotherapeutic and targeted agents in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
Long Island, New York, stretches about 115 miles eastward from New York Harbor to the fishing village of Montauk Point, situated on the lip of the Atlantic Ocean. Although densely populated, Long Island's shorelines and semirural areas offer plenty of opportunity for outdoor activities and sports, such as cycling, which has been a life-long passion for Andrew D. Seidman, MD, who grew up in the historic hamlet of Old Bethpage, a place that hosts Revolutionary War reenactments.
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Binghamton University in upstate New York, Dr. Seidman entered Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Seidman did an internal medicine residency at Pennsylvania Hospital and an oncology/hematology fellowship at MSK, where he remains to this day. In 2003, Dr. Seidman received the Gay Clark Stoddard Memorial Award, conferred by the Komen Foundation to a health-care professional who consistently provides exceptional and compassionate care to patients with breast cancer. And in 2013, he received ASCO's Career Development Award for his research on the role of taxanes in breast cancer treatment.
Dr. Seidman recollected a house call he made to a very sick patient. "There's so much I get back from my patients on a daily basis, that it is truly humbling. Over the years, on occasion, I've made house calls to patients when they were no longer able to make it to the clinic. My nurse and I visited a patient on Staten Island who was dying of liver metastases. We went into her bedroom and before I could get settled in, she wanted to know if her family had put out a spread of snacks for us. Here she was, facing her own death, and she was worried about us. Experiences like that are what make this such an incredible profession," shared Dr. Seidman.
Dr. Abraham asked how Dr. Seidman balanced all of his demanding clinical, research, and educational travel activities. He replied: "In terms of balancing the demands of an academic career, which entails caring for patients, being a trialist, and presenting at various oncology meetings, the simple answer to that is that it takes a village, and I'm fortunate enough to be part of one. In fact, I've always told my patients that my support team is what makes me look good." While discussing the value of having a tight-knit care-delivery unit, Dr. Seidman mentioned he'd just taken his team out for a holiday party, a retro night of bowling, and, with care, he named each one, detailing his or her specific contribution to the care model.
Dr. Seidman stressed that one of the special aspects of his career at MSK is there is no typical day. "On Mondays, I'm usually devoted to seeing outpatients in my clinic. Other days are a mixture of all my various activities in the clinic or research lab. I also lecture and teach. One recent thing I really enjoyed was serving as Associate Chair for Promotions and Appointments within the Department of Medicine here at MSK. It's a role I've taken on to help promote faculty and prepare them for promotions. I think of this as the People magazine job at MSK, because it allows me a glimpse into the lives of my colleagues that others aren't afforded. And it made me realize what an amazingly talented group of people we have at MSK," said Dr. Seidman.
In terms of balancing the demands of an academic career, … it takes a village, and I'm fortunate enough to be part of one. In fact, I've always told my patients that my support team is what makes me look good.
Stress and burnout within the oncology community are well documented, so do emerging technologies add to or decrease stress? "I firmly believe new technologies are going to decrease our stress. Many of us are overly burdened by mechanical rote activities, such as completing electronic documentation. And one of the more stressful aspects of our profession is the pressure we put on ourselves to make sure we're making the best clinical decision possible for our patients. For me, the ability to leverage an artificial intelligence program to help me make that decision, gives me more time with the human aspects of patient care, which is what being a doctor is all about," said Dr. Seidman.
"Whether your primary focus in oncology is on patient care or research or both, it can become all-consuming, and I think most of us tend to be type A personalities and feel if we're not working 24-7, it leaves us feeling inadequate." he continued. "But we need to realize that if we are going to be at our best over the decades of our career, we need to evolve as humans, too. And that means caring for ourselves—physically and spiritually," said Dr. Seidman.
Aside from being an avid cyclist, Dr. Seidman also travels out West to Utah or Idaho for a yearly skiing trip with life-long friends, usually on the weekend of the Super Bowl. He is a firm believer in constantly seeking out new ways to challenge and invigorate himself. Yet those needed respites from the busy clinic don't always come from cycling or slashing down the slopes of Sun Valley, they come close to home, also.
"There's simple comfort in returning home after a long day at MSK and sitting down with my wife and talking about our day. And over the past few months I've taken up baking as a hobby. My wife's a great cook, but she has no interest in baking, so I figured it was sort of a carve-out area for me. I recently baked a birthday cake for my daughter, which came out quite good," admitted Dr. Seidman.
DISCLOSURE: Drs. Abraham and Seidman reported no conflicts of interest.


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Sophia Grace focuses on competition and access law, as well as economic regulation. She has broad experience advising businesses and regulators in those areas.
Sophia advises on the economic regulation of industries, in particular under national regimes administered by the Australian Energy Regulator. Sophia also advises on restrictive trade practices/antitrust under Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act. In addition, Sophia has significant experience advising on access to essential infrastructure, including under Parts IIIA and XIC of the Competition and Consumer Act. Sophia's experience includes representing clients in the Australian Competition Tribunal and Federal Court.
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Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the High Court of AustraliaSolicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Advising clients on an ongoing basis on compliance with Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act, including advice on price fixing and other anti-competitive arrangements, reviewing the client's business conduct, responding to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) enquiries and making applications for immunity under the ACCC's cartel immunity policy
Advising various electricity and gas network service providers on reset processes before the Australian Energy Regulator under the National Electricity Law and National Electricity Rules, and National Gas Law and National Gas Rules. This includes advising two electricity distributors on the Victorian electricity distribution price review by the Australian Energy Regulator for 2011-15 and 2016-20
Advising the ACCC Mergers Branch on its assessment of the acquisition of Patrick Corporation by Toll Holdings. Also advised the ACCC Mergers Branch on Patrick Corporation's proposed acquisition of FCL Interstate Transport Services Pty Ltd's Australian logistics business
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Prior to joining DLA Piper Australia, Sophia acquired broad experience in litigation and competition. She was Associate to Justice Goldberg in the Federal Court of Australia and the Australian Competition Tribunal during the hearing of major commercial proceedings and authorisation and access cases under the Competition and Consumer Act. During this time, Sophia gained a valuable insight into the decision making approach of courts and review bodies in competition matters.
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Why do psych. assessments appear to be in short supply?
I promised I'd do a blog or FB post on the topic and I chose blog. I like the formatting better and it might bring people to my website.
For those who haven't any experience with this type of assessment, an Ed. Psych. Assessment should be explained. This kind of assessment is done by Registered Psychologist when parents and teachers need more information about how a child learns. It's usually an assessment done when a student is struggling academically (or sometimes when it is being questioned whether a child may be gifted). It is often diagnostic. In other words, from the results of file reviews, conversations with parents and teachers, sometimes observations, and psychological and educational testing, the Psychologist may diagnose a specific learning problem (there are many diagnoses that can impact learning in school). Sometimes, at that point, a special education need is identified. Then an individualized program plan (IPP) will be developed.
With respect to how many Ed. Psych. assessments may be done in the course of a year in any one school, I've heard exactly the same number as @standUpAB, this year. At least some schools in CBE are being told that they may only be able to have 2 students assessed this year.
In my experience - when doing very complex assessments, that take the very most time, a full time psychologist doing nothing but assessment could do at least 40 or more per academic year (there is down time over holidays, certain times of year can't be used for assessment e.g. first/last parts of the school year, before/after holidays, etc.). That means that about 12 psychologists should easily be able to complete 2 for every CBE school. There were at least 2-3 times that number of psychologists able to do assessment work as recently as one year ago and there have not been drastic cuts to psychology staff this year.
So, if there is plenty of staff, and ed. psych. assessments aren't being done, the question must be "Why"? There is only one reason that I can see. Administration does not want there to be more assessments completed. There are many psychologists hired by CBE who have the skill set to do these types of assessments. For years, the number of assessments actually done by CBE psychologists has been declining, despite the fact that demand has not been declining.
Psychology managers have experienced declining authority to manage the team of psychologists. Day to day direction has been given more into the hands of Area Directors (who are not psychologists). Psychology managers who worked hard for improvement are no longer with the CBE.
Do NOT let this make you believe however, that more money comes to the CBE when students have formally identified special needs. That is no longer the case. Years ago the province went to a new model of funding for inclusive education. The current model provides a total amount of money for the CBE to meet all sorts of diverse needs. It isn't provided on a student by student basis. However, since the province changed its funding model, the CBE has not changed its model of funding schools. That has been the same for many years now.
There are two main things that I believe are behind the decline in the number of assessments being completed (without a decline in psychologists' time to do them). One is that tI believe there is no desire in administration for there to be more needs identified, There could be debate about the ideas that lead to a preference not to identify the needs. I think that a good part of it is knowing that increased identification requires more resources to go the school via the Resource Allocation Method (RAM). The second is that I think there is a strong, philosophical resistance to assessment in some very senior administrators. I have observed that they do not seem to like any form of objective measurement no matter how well established the reliability and validity of the measures, nor how good the practices are that are being undertaken for interpreting and using the results of assessment.
Until the huge 'elephant in the room' is discussed, this problem, and many others that directly underlie many parent and teacher concerns will not be dealt with. There is a clash between scientific approaches to evaluating student needs and instructional methods, and the methods used by those who are mainly interested in the 'social' construction of knowledge which subsumes everything to the group and prevents objective assessment and diagnosis of the individual.
There are books to be written on this topic, and I can't do it now. I can say however, that I see this one conflict underlying much of the disconnect between the CBE and parents (Math & discovery learning; early reading and ongoing literacy problems; report card issues - grades and report cards, and so on).
Is it okay to try to measure/scientifically evaluate things like achievement, or progress, or learning challenges? If you say yes, you are likely a parent or a teacher or a psychologist or one of many other professional and other support staff. If you say no, you are probably a senior administrator, aspiring to be a senior administrator in the CBE, or someone whose child isn't facing the challenges that require this sort of assessment.
All I can say at the moment, is that if you want a Trustee that has a good sense of where the issues truly lie, and how they can be addressed, you would do well to vote for me.
Ed. Psych assessments evaluate learning abilities and current academic achievement.


Being a lifetime resident of this county and I heard about the possibility of a barn quilt trail, I realized that I wanted to be a part of it. Having worked in the real estate business a large part of my life, I wanted to participate. When I saw the "House/Home" quilt block, I knew that was for our office building. This building has been a very important part of our family since the early 1970's. I have eaten many a meal in this house prepared by my daughter's great grandmother over the years. I have many fond memories of this property and am so pleased that it is still in our family.


Each foot is a complex structure. It consists of 26 bones, with ligaments and tendons, blood vessels and nerves. Healthy feet are essential to help us stay active and mobile. Good foot care is essential for healthy feet. Try to have routine of caring for your feet.
As we get older, foot problems, are often related to our general health. Arthritis, circulatory and neurological diseases and diabetes often affect the feet. But many problems can be avoided by a little regular care and attention.
-	Wash your feet every day in warm, soapy water. Never soak them.
-	Rinse your feet with clean water.
-	Gently pat your feet dry. Never rub in between toes.
-	Gently rub in a small amount of moisturizing cream (lanolin or other emollient). Don't use dusting powder.
-	Cut your nails regularly.
-	Use a proper nail clipper.
-	Cut the nails straight across and not too short.
-	Never cut down the sides into the nail grove.
To remove dirt from the side of the nail use a soft nail brush. A tooth brush might be easier to use because of the long handle. Use an emery board or file to reduce a thickened nail.If you find your nails too difficult to cut, visit your chiropodist or public health nurse.
In winter you need to keep your feet warm. Sometimes you may not realize your feet are cold.
-	Wear loose fitting woolen socks.
-	Keep your room warm.
-	Keep active, walk and take exercise.
-	If you get your feet wet, wash them in warm water and dry them carefully as soon as possible.
-	Remove hot water bottles from your bed before getting in.
As we get older our blood does not circulate as well in our bodies. Hands and feet can be particularly affected.
-	Put your feet and legs up on a stool or other chair when sitting.
-	Don't cross your legs.
-	Don't sit too close to fires or heaters.
Badly fitting socks and stockings can be harmful. Make sure that elastic stockings are properly designed and fitted to suit you. Ask your public health nurse, family doctor or chemist for advice. Never wear garters.
Wear good fitting laced up shoes with soft uppers. Soft rubber soles will also be more comfortable. Have your feet measured when buying shoes. Only wear slippers for short periods. Remember, expensive footwear is not necessarily good footwear.
Good foot care may not always stop problems happening. If you have problems with your feet speak with your family doctor or chiropodist. Never treat corns or painful nails yourself. Look for advice early and as often as you need it.
You can find out about chiropody services from your local health board or public health nurse. Some services may be free to eligible persons.


Today, it seems content marketing is often touted as an alternative to SEO. However, it is possible to create content that not only creates value for users but also build and improve on SEO In Los Angeles.
SEO used to be as easy as throwing keywords in the meta tags, and you could rank for nearly anything, no matter whether the content on your website matched the keywords in the Coto tags. But as the internet has evolved and search engine marketing have uncovered it can important to treat their users as customers, the method that you build rank has altered significantly. And the competition for that ranking has greatly increased. The situation was, the majority of the content out there wasn't designed to assist individuals looking for information – it was waste written to game the search engines into a higher ranking.
Content marketing became a way to provide the search engines with the quality content they desired to serve to their users. Additionally, it became a way to educate your prospects about the products and services you offer, without directly being a sales pitch.
Content marketing and SEO Company In Los Angeles became connected the moment we started out embracing search engines to solve our problems, and the search engines started out filtering out the poor content in favor of well-written, informative content.
While the two disciplines are interdependent and overlap, there are a few clear dissimilarities between them. SEO is a narrower style that is more tech in nature. Content marketing is more broad and holistic. You have to use Search Engine Optimization techniques when you implement your content marketing plans, or you're environment the campaigns up for failure.
Still, there are some "experts" out there claiming that content marketing has replaced SEO – and the two are very different. Yes, there are locations where they are different, but the concept that you don't need SEO for content marketing is crazy – because seo optimization is necessary to guarantee the content ranks in the first place.
You may get eyes on your content without it ranking highly on the internet, thank you to social media and paid advertising, but the far better long-term pay off comes from organic and natural traffic.
SEO is a guy known as John. Content marketing is a guy named Hersker. John makes demands of Adam – gives him requirements, over the course of a conversation. Husfader steps in to meet those demands. John wishes content. Adam is the content. You can't have Los Angeles SEO Firm without content – you require the words and articles to develop the compound and have an area the keywords. John would like keywords. Adam uses them and gives them to John. John wants backlinks Adam offers the way to earn them. Quality content gets links – and makes it better to build links.
Start with some basic keyword research. When it could be tempting to create a bunch of content about your companies services and how awesome you are, that's not the right approach. Keyword research will reveal what people in the people in your target market are looking for when they're looking for information that you have to offer. You can use keyword research to find pain points, questions, and other things you may use to create content that addresses your potential customers concerns, and shapes your products and services as they ideal solution for them. When you have keywords to work with, it's time to come up with ideas content that not only makes sense for those keywords but helps the audience without expecting whatever in return from them.
What is your ideal customer like beyond their interest in your product? What else do they enjoy? What are their pastimes and interests? How exactly does your product or service help them solve one of the key problems in your daily course? What are their concerns and fears, not merely about your products or services, but in basic? What can you do to ease those concerns and create trust with your prospects? What are their hopes and dreams? Thus what do they want from life? How exactly does your product or service help them get closer to those goals?
The concept is that if someone finds your content and it resolves their problem, while also being related to your product or service – they'll return to you when they are in the market for what you have to offer because you'll certainly be at the top of their head.
As today's consumers are becoming more and more savvy – using advertising blockers to avoid disrupting their online experience, your marketing has to become more superior consequently. Content material marketing provides value to your audience while keeping your content and business in front of them without pushing a difficult sell.
The bottom lines is – SEO Services In Los Angeles is about content marketing, and content marketing is all about SEO. You're not working as an SEO unless if you're also working as a content marketer. And you aren't working as a content marketer unless you're working as an SEO. As you work with us at SEO Inc., we incorporate content marketing into your SEO strategy, because you need both to be successful in today's online marketing climate.


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Dermot O'Leary's parents 'really enjoying' move back home
Updated / Tuesday, 26 Sep 2017 07:07
Dermot O'Leary - "I think because they've always had the connection from home and we've always spent the summers back home they've seen Ireland change and evolve."
X Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary has said his parents Maria and Seán are "really enjoying" their move back home to Ireland, and that it has not been as big a culture shock for them as it is for other returning emigrants.
After spending almost 50 years living in the UK, the couple said goodbye to Essex during the summer to make the emotional journey back to their native Wexford.
Their son was a guest on the Ryan Tubridy Show on Monday on RTÉ Radio 1 and O'Leary said that his parents are actually back visiting him in London at the moment while he launches his first children's book, Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape.
Dermot O'Leary's first children's book, Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape, is inspired by the presenter's own blind cat, Toto Photo: Dermot O'Leary Instagram
"At the moment they're just eating porridge downstairs," he laughed.
When asked how his parents were settling in back in Wexford, O'Leary replied: "A lot of that kind of post-Windrush Generation [a term used to describe Caribbean immigrants to the UK after WWII] came back [to Ireland]."
"And a lot of people, I think - maybe just anecdotally from what I've heard - have struggled because they didn't go back regularly. I'm patron for the London Irish centre over here, which do a fantastic job in certainly helping a lot of that generation and the current generation now," he continued.
Dermot O'Leary's parents Maria and Seán outside their former home in Essex Photo: Dermot O'Leary Instagram
"I think because they've [his parents] always had the connection from home and we've always spent the summers back home they've seen Ireland change and evolve. I think it's a bit of a culture shock but I don't think it's as much of a culture shock."
O'Leary added that his father Seán wasted no time when he arrived on home ground.
"My dad, immediately, has been watching hurling and camogie every weekend so he seems pretty happy," he said.
"And they're down in the south... So they've got the great coastal walks and everything down there. They're really enjoying it."
When asked for the latest on this year's X Factor, O'Leary said: "We're just in the middle of filming X Factor - the Judges' Houses bit. We go to various nice locations around the world.
"We're quite honest about the fact that they're not all their houses now, otherwise Louis [Walsh] would own about 20 houses, including stables outside Barcelona!"
"Where is his house this year?" asked Tubridy.
"His house this year is in Istanbul!" laughed O'Leary.
Dermot O'Leary with the X Factor judges (L-R) - Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne, Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell
"Well that makes sense," said Tubridy.
"Of course, yeah - he's always there in the souks!" replied O'Leary.
The X Factor continues on TV3 and ITV on Saturdays and Sunday nights. The Ryan Tubridy Show is on RTÉ Radio 1 weekdays from 9.00am.
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Murabito desu ga Nani ka?
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Densetsu no Yuusha no Konkatsu
The story takes place in a world after the legendary warrior defeats the demon lord. After he brought the peace to the world, he decides to set on another adventure to search for his wife.
Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekake-chuu
The protagonist fell asleep while playing an online game. However, he awoke in a strange world with his game character's appearance. In a state of shock, he noticed that he was equipped with nothing but his strongest weapon and armor. To make matters worse, our hero's appearance was changed by the special avatar skin『Skeleton』when he enter this new world. The protagonist wanted to live without drawing attention, but he got acquainted with the dark elf Ariana and received her request.
The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised.
Kumo desu ga, nani ka?
When a mysterious explosion killed an entire class full of high school students, the souls of everyone in class were transported into a fantasy world and reincarnated. While some students were reincarnated as princes or prodigies, others were not as blessed.
Our heroine, who was the lowest in the class, discovered that she was reincarnated as a spider! Now at the bottom of the food chain, she needs to adapt to the current situation with willpower in order to live. Stuck in a dangerous labyrinth filled with monsters, it's eat or be eaten!
Ragna Crimson Manga
On a continent ruled by chaos, the Lords have the power of a holy seal that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each other s holy seals to gain dominion over one another. Shiruuka, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, make an everlasting oath to work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.
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A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan died from overworking, and was reincarnated in a Medieval Parallel Europe.
He was reincarnated as a 10-year-old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, had attained an inhuman skills of ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction.
In a society in which dubious medical practice are rampant, price gouging thru the monopoly of the pharmacist guild, and good medicine aren't available to the commoners.
Wortenia Senki
High school student Mikoshiba Ryouma was summoned to a different world in the middle of a war. Sensing the malice from the one who summoned him (a summoner of the O'ltormea empire), he uses his martial arts to run away, killing important people of the empire during his escape. After the escape, he rescues two twin sisters from the hands of thieves. The sisters who can use magic, swear to serve him as subordinates. Thus, Ryouma begins his journey on the path of the supreme ruler.
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Lies are forbidden and love is doubly forbidden. In the near future, when young people in Japan turn sixteen, they are assigned a marriage partner by the government. People don't have to go through the trouble of looking for someone, and everyone accepts that the country will find a compatible partner to make them happy. Yukari Nejima is fifteen years old. He lives in a small corner of the country, and just can't seem to get ahead in life. Both academically and athletically he's below average. But in within him, he hides a heart burning with passion!
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