Offering rebates and price reductions gains market share in the short term, but in order to sustain the industry and in turn help patients, pharma needs to take a more collaborative approach and share its knowledge.
"This isn't just about saving money, most importantly, it is about making sure that patients stay well and get the best outcomes from their medicines." – so said Lord Howe, when he was head of the National Health Service in the UK.
Isn't there anything better that the pharmaceutical industry could deliver besides rebates?
There are plenty of requests from the so-called market and the pharmaceutical industry has the ability to fulfil many of them. One issue, though, is that pharma does not seem to listen to those who want broader solutions to their problems and not just pills.
It seems as if pharma only knows one game to play: 'killing by rebates'. At first, this approach could 'kill' competitors, but the side effect is likely to be 'suicide' in the longer term. As long as pharma's only strategy seems to be to beat competitors' prices, the number of pharma companies will shrink over time. There are already a number of countries where the drug business is an oligopoly, with very few companies left.
Who will survive the rebate battle?
An increasing number of physicians, payers and other stakeholders in healthcare are complaining about pharma.
Many physicians complain about the time lost to medical rep visits that deliver little of use. The reps appear trained to talk, rather than ask questions and listen.
Payers suffer from poor outcomes from treatments, when only half of all patients are compliant and fail to adhere to the planned and prescribed therapy.
It varies by country, but governments and health ministers are struggling with the role of pharma, when the industry sells drugs to hospitals for almost nothing and demands high prices when they are prescribed for outpatients.
Patient associations are angry at the inequalities, because they see high-end drugs costing a fortune for them, while in other countries they pay only a fraction of the price.
Is pharma sensing the coming headwinds?
Pharma is one of the only industries hiring medical reps and paying them to make unsolicited calls in an attempt to sell drugs to people who do not even buy.
When reps can no longer increase the pharma company's revenue, the bosses change strategy and reduce prices. Every percentage point of rebate cuts into profits. One day, the margin is so slim that field forces have to be reduced. Then the CEOs and top management suddenly discover that the top line does not really suffer from the change. Instead, they see that, after the so-called restructuring costs are covered, the bottom line rises sharply.
This contradicts basic economics and goes against the power of differentiation. Where is pharma's 'Apple'? Simply granting rebates appears to be the magic bullet, ready to cure all problems.
But one problem remains: there is always someone granting more rebate and offering a pill even more cheaply. This lethal spiral is turning fast in pharma currently. In Europe's largest drug market, the oligopoly is there: seven companies cover almost 80 per cent of the generic market.
In a globalised world, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) rules and US Food and Drug Administration surveillance globally applied, with huge differences in production and other costs, many companies stand no chance of escaping a deadly price war. There are a number of countries and companies, with FDA-approved production, following GMP and any other regulatory detail, that can produce at much lower costs than other producers could ever achieve.
There are pharma companies still profitably producing pills, at costs and prices that the poor and deprived, many governments and all payers dream of.
There is a cure to this monomial procedure of reducing prices and granting rebates: If the pharmaceutical industry would develop strategies to get actively involved and contribute to healthcare by sharing all their knowledge and expertise around specific diseases, this could add huge value and considerably improve patient outcomes.
The business model would change from selling pills to improving healthcare and the sales model would change from 'pushing drugs' to Key Account Management 3.0.
Hanno Wolfram is the founder and owner of www.Innov8.de, a Germany-based firm offering consultancy for pharmaceutical companies. He is the author of the book KAM in Pharma 3.0, which was published in January.
Have your say: Is pharma ready to change and start knowledge-sharing?


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Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have announced their support for businessman and veteran parliamentarian Martin Fayulu as their coalition presidential candidate in next month's election.
The DRC is scheduled to take to the polls on 23 December with the highly-respected Martin Fayulu competing against little-known Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, a former interior minister who is now the ruling coalition's candidate. An opinion poll in July suggested that around 70% of voters favoured opposition leaders but the ruling coalition has significant financial and institutional advantages.
Opposition groups rally behind Martin Fayulu
Former oil executive and respected parliamentarian, Martin Fayulu has been one of the loudest critics during incumbent president Joseph Kabila's extended rule as president. Kabila's second term ended in December 2016 but he has held on to power while elections have been repeatedly delayed.
many opposition figures accused Kabila of attempting to facilitate a bid for a third term in charge, which is forbidden by the country's constitution, but the president won't be running in next month's election – assuming it goes ahead as planned.
Instead, Kabila loyalist Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary will campaign for the ruling coalition and Fayulu is shaping up as the only realistic alternative that could oust the political establishment.
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World Cup hooligan threat 'fake' - Russian official
The tournament will be played between June 14 and July 15 next year, across 11 Russian cities. Russia is also hosting the Confederations Cup, the traditional warm-up tournament, next month.
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A top organiser of Russia's World Cup dismissed the threat of hooliganism as "overblown" and "fake" on Thursday despite concerns after Russian fans went on the rampage at Euro 2016.
Alexander Djordjadze, deputy CEO of the Russia 2018 organising committee, gave assurances that fans would be safe at next year's tournament and blamed negative media coverage for stirring up controversy.
Since well-prepared Russian hooligans struck at Euro 2016 in France, one Russian legislator has called for hooliganism to be made legal and turned into a spectator sport.
A British documentary also filmed a leading Russian hooligan warning fans to expect a "festival of violence" next year, when Russia hosts the World Cup for the first time.
But Djordjadze, speaking at the World Football Forum in Changsha, China, said hooliganism was "not a problem" for the World Cup.
"We don't see any problems with the hooligans. Hooliganism is more endemic for the club football," Djordjadze told AFP.
"The World Cup and Confederations Cup have slightly different population groups coming so we don't see hooliganism as a security threat.
"The security threat comes from terrorism nowadays -- but hooliganism is not a problem."
Djordjadze said South Africa and Brazil, the two last World Cup hosts in 2010 and 2014, also faced questions over security but ultimately hosted successful World Cups.
"Of course it's overblown," he said, when asked about the threat of fan violence. "It's overblown by press in certain countries.
"Honestly it's such a miniscule issue compared to preparations for the World Cup. But the World Cup will be very secure, so we encourage fans to come."
He added: "It will be great if people follow their instincts and come to the World Cup, and not listen to sometimes fake and sometimes overblown news."
Despite playing down the danger of hooliganism, Djordjadze said the security presence would be high in World Cup host cities, and that Russia would make sure known offenders cannot enter stadiums.
"Measures are taken by our security agencies. They know the people who are on the hooligans' list. They are forbidden to come to the stadiums, similar to the UK practices. So we don't see it's a problem," he said.
"In general security will be on a very high level considering the recent experience in the past years," added Djordjadze. "But it will not impede the positive fan experience. You will not see (these) people in the arenas."
Djordjadze added that preparations for the World Cup were on track, with all stadiums expected to be completed this year and ticket sales starting in November.


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Europe strives to hold back 'digital brain drain'
Jeremy Fleming
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This article is part of our special report e-Skills.
SPECIAL REPORT / With more than half of Spain's and Greece's young people jobless, those with in-demand digital skills are increasingly seeking work in stabler Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.
Thousands of young Spanish and Greek professionals are leaving their homeland in search of employment. The result is a mass exodus of young, educated Spaniards – a brain drain, the likes of which has not been seen since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939.
Most worrying from a European perspective, they are not simply leaving for northern Europe. Although firm figures are difficult to come by, Mexico's immigration office, the Instituto Nacional de Migracion, reports the number of Spaniards granted work permits in the last quarter of 2012 alone at 7,630.
These job migration trends have not gone unnoticed in the European Union, which is struggling with worst unemployment rates in decades following the 2008 financial and economic meltdown.
In March, the European Commission is set to launch a "Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs", outlining measures designed to increase job mobility, but also to rationalise training and certification in the sector to match skills to vacancies.
The root causes of the brain drain – a lack of available labour in southern Europe, and a lack of skilled youth in northern countries – will require deeper remedies, however.
New standards for competence in ICT
According to Fiona Fanning, the secretary general of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies CEPIS, the increasing demand for skilled workers in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in stabler economies is hampered not only by the lack of new entrants into the profession, but also by mismatches in competences that workers have today.
The lack of a common means to consistently understand and communicate ICT professional competencies and attractive career paths is considered one of the key reasons for this.
Seeking to resolve this challenge, the e-Competence Framework (e-CF) – a pan-European reference framework of ICT competences – will be recognised as a priority by the Grand Coalition.
It provides a standard to describe and communicate ICT worker and manager competences. These skill sets are country-independent and openly shared for use across all ICT-related professions.
The e-CF is intended to be applied in educational and standardisation institutes, in human resources, by ICT professionals who seek to deepen their careers and expertise and for specialists who provide ICT training, certifications, jobs and services.
The framework has been developed by a large number of European ICT and HR experts in the context of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN). It is hoped that its immediate deployment will foster mobility among ICT Professionals in Europe.
Grand Coalition will see series of certification launches
This initiative will be backed up by others relating to certification. For example, CEPIS is pledging to undertake a pan-European e-Competence Benchmark, an online interactive tool designed to enable current and future ICT professionals to identify the competences they need or lack for various ICT roles, thus enabling them to adapt to labour market demand.
Individuals can check their competences against a range of profiles and better equip themselves for future roles using the benchmark.
The e-CF Framework was also created by CEN and will be freely available to all after the launch at the March Grand Coalition launch.
Meanwhile the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), the key European certifying authority of computer skills, plans to announce a new approach in support of the Coalition. The 'new ECDL', with a wider range of modules and greater flexibility, reflects the growing need for certification options that support employability by aligning individuals' skills with employers' needs.
"Tailored skilling and upskilling of the workforce through a recognised certification standard that has flexibility will help create more and better jobs, as well as facilitate labour mobility," according to Damien O'Sullivan, ECDL's chief executive. 'New ECDL' will be announced at the grand coalition's inaugural event on 4 March, with the European network of certification providers, with over 24,000 test centres, undertaking to implement this in the months that follow.
Standards for ICT training desperately needed
All of this cannot come too soon, according to Kathryn Parsons, the co-founder of the De-Coded start-up, which runs one-day courses designed to help people learn how to programme computers.
De-Coded has seen unprecedented demand for its courses from professional and untrained workers of all ages and backgrounds. There is clearly unmet demand for training, according to Parsons.
"Coding is not being taught in schools, and there are no agreed methodologies for measuring coding ability," she told a 'Big Tent' brainstorming session for the ICT sector organised by Google in Brussels yesterday (20 February).
Yvonne van Hest, the manager of international labour market development on behalf of the thriving ICT cluster around Eindhoven in The Netherlands, acknowledged that the root problem of brain drain lies in the low standard of technical skills available in the Netherlands itself.
"We have only 18% of young people taking up technical subjects, whereas we need 40%," she said, adding: "We need to start reflecting the German system, where there is much more cultural value for ICT and technical engineers."
Migration can store up benefits in the long term
Van Hest said that Brainport is keen to solve the problem by collaborating more closely with regions in countries such as Spain which is providing a steady flow of skilled workers to The Netherlands.
A joint conference between technology sector interests from The Netherlands and Spain, along with EU executive representatives, will address the issue in April, according to Van Hest.
"We need to create more of a virtuous circle so that [the] skilled unemployed leaving Spain in higher numbers to come to the Netherlands are balanced with policies that mean the whole of Europe can benefit," she explained.
Nevertheless the narrative of 'brain drain' can also mask benefits arising from the phenomenon. Spanish technicians working in the Netherlands benefit the Dutch economy – and the workers themselves – but also Spain.
In the short run, migration reduces pressure on budgets as the Spanish unemployed move to Germany rather than claiming benefits at home.
And in the longer term, a pool of highly skilled workers can be re-deployed back in Spain once the crisis is over.
Europe faces up to 700,000 unfilled ICT jobs and declining competitiveness.
Meanwhile, the number of digital jobs is growing – by 3% each year during the crisis - but the number of new ICT graduates and other skilled ICT workers is shrinking.
4-5 March: Conference in Brussels to launch the Grand Coalition for Digital Skills and Jobs
Press release: Digital "to-do" list: new digital priorities for 2013-2014 (18 Dec. 2012) [FR] [DE]
Memo: Digital Agenda review: Frequently Asked Questions (18 Dec. 2012)
Digital "to-do" list: new digital priorities for 2013-2014
Digital Agenda website
Neelie Kroes's website and Twitter feed
Industry Federations
DigitalEurope: Letter to four European Commissioners offering support for the Grand Coalition (22 May 2012)
European professional standards
European Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS): pages on competence
European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL): Web site
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Coders from Spain are not very well trained, the Spanish education system is broken, to much learning by heart.


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Multi-millionaire venture capitalist JD Vance has made issues of race and white privilege central to his Senate campaign. In fact, he went so far as to be against white privilege that he claims people can sue businesses that tell people they need to "break their privilege, or they need to sacrifice or repent of their whiteness."
But — like Vance's beautiful about his past criticisms of Donald Trump — the Silicon Valley veteran took a very different view on white privilege not long ago.
In a year 2017 interview announced two weeks after Trump's inauguration, Vance told Ezra Klein that "obviously there are still advantages to being white" and that "there are still disadvantages to being black."
Vance was answering Klein's question about how Vance's bestseller, Hinterwäldler Elegie, addressing the concept of white privilege. In particular, Klein wanted to know how Vance's reaction to white people, faced with this idea of privilege, might respond, as Klein put it: "Fuck. Nothing about my community tells me I'm privileged and should be at the end of the line to get some help here. "
After pointing out the disproportionate support Trump received from the Scots-Irish community, Vance addressed the issue.
"But to connect it to the conversation about white privilege, I think it's important to note that it's clear that white people still have advantages, there are still disadvantages to black people, even if you have complete control over class, income, etc," he said.
Vance later added in his reply that he understood that "most people" making arguments about white privilege are not "reduced," but "much more sophisticated." in what they are saying [about] How privilege works in different dimensions of our society. "
Vance's problem, he says, is that it "seems off" to other people – specifically white people, perhaps less worldly than himself – who lack the "perception" to process the concept. that black Americans have historically been marginalized in some ways that white Americans are not.
In this regard, Vance proposes that asking "the son of an unemployed West Virginia coal miner" to "check his privileges" or to understand how former President Barack Obama's daughters might interact. For "privileged or incompetent", would be "just asking too much from basic human perception. "
Notably, Vance — who left his classic Ohio hometown for Yale Law School and then investment firms in San Francisco — made it clear that, unlike the son of a coal miner, his assumptions, he himself has the wisdom to navigate this matter.
Vance even acknowledged the very example he gave in that interview – that the Obamas, who made it to the White House, first had to overcome the anticipated difficulties of race specifically, while the Trump family does not. In 2016, the self-styled champion of the Appalachian poor "liked" a photo on Twitter mocking Melania Trump's famously plagiarized GOP speech, note, "Growing up a black woman in Chicago is not easy, but I believe the world is safer for my 2 daughters, Sasha & Malia."
However, Vance believes that, unlike himself, the presumptive West Virginian young man "can't look at his life and talk about a group of people he doesn't understand, that he doesn't even get in touch with. contact many days, that their lives. much worse than his. This is what "modern discourse around racial privilege and racial disadvantage misses," says Vance.
In a private interview with Guardians That same year, Vance pointed out that Trump's inaccurate, cartoonish depictions of "inner cities" rife with poverty drew negative reactions and rejections from his white supporters. he, "But when Trump [delivered] a very similar message — your community is falling apart, you can't get any work, that sucks — to a white audience, they're much more willing to listen." Vance said in 2017.
When asked to comment on the comments, Vance campaign strategist Jai Chabria told The Daily Beast he didn't believe Vance's position was "any difference".
"You write what you want to write, as you always do," Chabria said, shortly before hanging up.
But it is Vance's words today that paint a very different portrait of a jockey who discusses white privilege with little, if any, acknowledgment of nuance or sentiment. communication to minority groups.
Last March, when the Silicon Valley veteran started dusting off his dirt, he Interview with Breitbart leading to the headline, "JD Vance: The 'White Privilege' Narrative is 'Disgusting.'" Vance reverses his failure to capture the nuances of the privilege debate, criticizing those libertarian about the same failure evoked his sympathy in adopting the West Virginia Child.
"There's a story in our country, right now, that if you're white, you're privileged, and the idea that there's a white, working-class family, is going on. struggle in identifiable ways. for many non-white Americans — and many white Americans too — that's not something current cultural fervors are comfortable with," says Vance.
He also blames this ideology for the warm reception of his book's film adaptation. "That's not what [those] people want to hear," said Vance. "This moment runs into the politics of identity — a privileged white man's superconscious moment — and the film suffers from that."
In May 2021 speech to the Claremont Institute — a suspended right-wing think tank intellectual muscle against Trump's baseless claims of a rigged election—Vance came up with the idea that discussions of white privilege are so pernicious that they could be illegal.
"If you are actively teaching racism in American schools, in American corporations, if you are creating a hostile work environment because you have to tell people that they need to get rid of the their rights, or they need to sacrifice or repent of their chastity, then you're breaking the law in this country, and people can sue you," Vance said.
The Ohio Senate candidate also frequently sought to exploit an unfounded fear of critical race theory, a decades-old academic framework for explaining systemic racial inequality in the United States. USA. This issue has consumed the political discourse of the right, and popular between Vance's rivalry in the fierce Republican primaries.
For example, in November, Vance told Fox News that "everyone" has become "really worried" about their children being "taught up." Parents, he said, talk to him about it "constantly".
And after parents opposed to CRT turned violent and threatened teachers and staff, prompting the Justice Department to take action, Vance sarcastically tweeted that the attorney general "would commend them" if they "put on a BLM shirt, scream "no justice, no peace" and then throw Molotov cocktails at school board members."
In the other interview during the summer — in which the author once again complained that criticism of white privilege had damaged his film's reception — Vance complained that the "liberal story" was "for that every black person is disadvantaged and that every white person is privileged."
In that same interview, Vance insisted there was "no reason" to think Trump supporters were primarily motivated by racism. 5 years ago, Vance "Like" a tweet implies that Trump supporters are anti-Trump.
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Ten of the Ten Thousand Things Wrong With 10,000 BC
Thursday March 6, 2008
This one is unbelievable. Quite frankly, it's amazing. And jam packed. Jam packed with every single clichè ever used to tell a story. With this kind of computer generated epic it's kind of defeatist to take it seriously, but there are some basic rules of consistency that, if followed, would allow you to actually bring your brain along for the ride for a change. Instead, the story goes as follows: A tribe of prehistoric people get jacked by a sophisticated band of foreign meanies who kidnap their women and children, including our hero's blue-eyed girlfriend. He and a small band of hunters set off to bring them back, and along the way join forces with other tribes who have suffered the same fate. Together the makeshift army travels across continents, following the north star and eventually brings down the evil pyramid building empire that has enslaved their people. Psychically guiding the trip from her hut in the mountains is a medicine woman who has visions that tell of an ancient prophecy about a hero with a white spear who will free the world and bring life back to the barren lands. Guess what happens?
1. There should always be breath when people live in a cold climate.
2. Prehistoric people didn't have good teeth.
3. Enough with the prophecies. Overall they are overdone, tired and a lame way to create an unintentional hero out of a normal guy. Even worse is one that has a white man bringing together all other races in the battle against some vague Persian-like evil.
4. Dreadlocks are NOT OK as a hairstyle for prehistoric Europeans. More twiggs.
5. Do all marauding bands of baddies arrive on horseback and have mean looking animal skulls on their helmets?
6. If you are going to promote that you have massive beasts in your movie, go the distance. Give us more than a few furry elephants, a couple of carnivorous ostriches and one saber-tooth tiger that conveniently only appears for one scene… in order to justify the ridiculous prophecy.
7. When you kill an adversary, make sure they are dead or they will inevitably kill you from behind as you run in slow motion. Twice.
8. If you are an evil tyrant making a sacrifice to prove a point, it is important to do so with style. Don't just throw some random guy nonchalantly off a ledge. Make a show of it! Otherwise how will the million slaves hard at work understand it was a sacrifice?
9. If you kill the freaky headed bad guy to prove he isn't a god, at least let us see his face so we know why he was so darn freaky.
10. Slow motion does not necessarily equal dramatic tension, especially when it is a spear throwing sequence from far away.
Bonus: If you work from the premise that women and children are being kidnapped, when you save them, there should be some women. Men only cultures don't last long.
Double Bonus: They speak english. In Europe. In 10,000 BC.


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Millennials are facing a shortfall compared to other generations when it comes to their paychecks.
Overall, millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did at the same stage of life, according to "The Emerging Millennial Wealth Gap," a recent report from the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank New America. Specifically, median earnings for those 18 to 34 are lower than they were in the 1980s, a disparity that was first noted in a 2017 report from the non-profit Young Invincibles. And the flow of today's paychecks is less predictable due, in part, to the effects of the Great Recession and a rise in contract and freelance positions that may be less consistent in hours and pay.
That's in spite of overall higher education levels. Nearly 40% of millennials 25 to 37 have at least a bachelor's degree, compared to just a quarter of baby boomers and 30% of Gen X when they were the same age, Pew Research Center found.
These lower wages may lead to long-term problems for this generation, experts say.
Lower pay slowing long-term wealth
Lower income levels are already having a long term impact on millennials' ability to accumulate wealth, either through savings or home equity. "Millennials are going to be on a completely lower trajectory than previous generations," says Reid Cramer, director of the Millennials Initiative at New America.
The generational wealth gap has reached "historic proportions," Cramer says. The average millennial's wealth in 2016 (ages 23 to 38) was 41% less than those who were at a similar age in 1989, the report says.
It's also true among young families. Households headed by someone under 35 in 2016 had an average net worth of $10,900, which is $8,000 less than it was in 1995.
Part of that can be attributed to the Great Recession and its aftereffects. Those who entered the workforce following the recession had fewer job opportunities and lower wages, starting them off at a disadvantage. At the same time, many faced higher college tuition costs, leading to higher student loan and personal debt rates, the report finds.
The recovery was not experienced by everyone, either. "Even as the economy steadily added back jobs lost, the protracted recovery was experienced unevenly, with well-off households doing better at the expense of others," Cramer writes.
In 2016, the top 10% of the country's highest income earners received half of the total income generated in the U.S. That's up dramatically from the same segment of households receiving just 38% of the country's total income in 1992.
Millennials held an average of $162,000 of assets compared to Gen X's average of $198,000 at the same age, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
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These income and wealth challenges have transcended into other trends for millennials, specifically with fewer in this generation getting married, buying homes and starting families, or experiencing delays in these life milestones. For example, marriage rates among millennials are estimated to drop by 70% and a record number will remain unmarried by age 40, according to the Urban Institute.
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"Income is stagnant, relative to the past, it's been more volatile relative to the past — that combination leads people to have a lot less and be really suspect about making commitments to the future," Cramer says.
That may effect millennials' ability to retire comfortably and pass on wealth, since homeownership, in particular, is still one of the most secure ways to build wealth and one of Americans' biggest chunks of equity. "There's just less available to do everything else with, including build wealth and save," Cramer says.
This has potential fallout not only for millennials, but also for future generations, says Liz Hipple, senior policy advisor at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
"It means there's less financial resources for investment in tomorrow's generation," she says. If millennial families have less money to spend on their children's health and education, then it may have negative implications for those children's earning potential.
"It matters for our kids and their outcomes," Hipple says.
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Follow Your Art Photography, Utah Baby, Child, Senior, Family Photography, photographer: My 3 beautiful nieces!
How lucky am I to have such beautiful nieces who loooove to have their picture taken. We had so much fun driving around looking for fun places to shoot in. Thanks again girls, I love you!
Tiffany-the pics are great! Your awesome. You can come down anytime and take care of my kids.I sure they would give you a run for your money. They are crazy!!


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Common acute and overuse sports injuries of the foot and lower leg
Pain felt under the ball of the foot, usually worse at end of the day or when barefoot. Described as the feeling of walking on a pebble. Can be as a result of poorly cushioned or worn out shoes, over overtraining. May require X-rays or MRI scans to rule out bursitis or neuromas (swollen nerves). Commonly treated with crescentic metatarsal pads, softer soled shoes, massage, referral to a Podiatrist or injections of steroid.
Usually occurs in the second metatarsal, pain is felt in the front of the foot after unaccustomed exercise or a too rapid increase in training. Only shown on X-rays after several weeks and may require an MRI scan for diagnosis. Treated with rest, inserts (orthotics) rocca soles shoes or in severe cases an aircast boot for four to six weeks. May also require a bone density scan if there are any risk factors for osteoporosis.
Plantar Fasciitis (Policeman's heel)
Pain felt under the heel, usually worst first thing in the morning or arising after rest. Can be relieved after warming up. May require X-ray or MRI scan. Usually treated with rest, ice, stretches, anti-inflammatory medications, massage, ultrasound, heel cushions, or a steroid injection.
Pain and thickening usually worst first thing in the morning. May require an MRI scan to look for signs of cyst formation or impending rupture. Usually treated with rest, stretches, ice, ultrasound, acupuncture, heel lifts, night splints, physiotherapy, steroid injections or in severe and protracted cases, surgery to release scar tissue or to bypass the tendon with a synthetic ligament.
Pain felt on the outside or inside of the shin after running for a while, often worse running downhill. May require an MRI scan to exclude a stress fracture. Can be relieved by lacing shoes less tightly, stretching or exercising lifting the ankle up and down with a paint pot hooked under the big toe. May also require physiotherapy.
Patella Tendonitis (Runner's or Jumper's Knee)
Pain just underneath the kneecap, worse during exercise. May require an MRI scan to rule out cyst formation in the tendon. Usually treated with rest, massage, stretches, steroid injections or rarely in protracted cases (when there is cyst formation in the tendon) surgery to drain the cyst.
Pain felt in the front of the knee, often worse descending which may be associated with crunching or grating noises. Usually the result of excess pressure on the kneecap, in combination with tight outer soft tissues leading to imbalance. Often needs an MRI scan, and is usually treated with, rest (avoiding kneeling and squatting) stretches and exercises to strengthen the inside of the thigh muscle (so called VMO or Vastus Medialis Obliquus). Can rarely lead to keyhole in severe cases to smooth off the roughened joint surface (see separate section on Knee Arthroscopy).
Torn or Worn Washer Cartilage (Meniscus)
Pain commonly on the inside of the knee, worse kneeling, squatting or twisting, can be accompanied by locking or giving way and swelling of the knee. Usually requires an MRI scan and often requires Arthroscopy (keyhole surgery) (see separate section on Knee Arthroscopy.).
Medial Collateral Ligament Injury
Usually the result of an injury forcing the shinbone sideways or rotating outwards. A common skiing or contact sport injury. May require an MRI scan to measure the extent of injury and rule out other injuries. If only partial can be treated with rest and strapping, if complete, may require bracing for several weeks or if combined with cartilage tears keyhole surgery. In rare cases when there is in addition a complete tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (see next section), this may require surgery to reconstruct the ligament.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear
Usually the result of the knee overextending, being forced forwards in a ski, or as the result of a severe sideways movement with outward rotation, again common in contact sports or skiing. The may feel stable on smooth dry surfaces, but will give way on uneven ground, when twisting or walking on a wet pavement. There is often pain below the kneecap and a reluctance to fully straighten the knee. May require an MRI scan to diagnose and rule out other injuries. May be treated with rest, and physiotherapy, which can leave up to two thirds of patients able to return to non contact sport.
It may need surgical reconstruction, if combined with other ligament injuries (See medial collateral ligament injury paragraph above) or cartilage injuries (see paragraph on cartilage injuries); or in patients who are unable to achieve a stable knee by these means. Surgery involves taking one or two of the Hamstring tendons via a small incision below your knee and then inserting this harvested graft through holes drilled in the shin and thighbone. It is held in place with a screw and a cuff-link like device called an endobutton. This is followed by intense physiotherapy and activities will need to be modified for several months afterwards.
Ilio-tibial Friction Syndrome
Pain felt on the outside of the of the thigh, either at the side of the thigh near the hip or lower down by the outside of the knee, often a curse of middle distance runners. Can occur as a result of overtraining, or orthotics for over-pronation that push the foot too far outwards. In other cases may be the result of a back problem, which has tilted the pelvis and tightened the outer soft tissues. Sometimes associated with a swollen sac of fluid near the hip (Trochanteric bursitis). Can be treated with rest, stretches, ice, lying on the side and rolling on a foam cylinder, physiotherapy, massage and steroid injections. May sometimes be confused with sciatica and need an MRI scan.
Pain felt in the buttock or rear of thigh, may be associated with pins and needles in the lower leg and can be confused with sciatica. It is a result of a tight muscle in the buttock that can pinch the sciatic nerve and usually responds to stretches and massage (an excellent self help massage being to sit on a tennis ball!)
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Congratulations to our Year 7 Football team, who remain unbeaten this season and are through to the semi-finals of the Sussex Schools County Cup and the District Cup!
The boys, who play 9 a-side until Year 8, have comprehensively beaten all local opponents, racking up victories against Claverham (4-0), St Richards (4-0) and St. Leonards Academy (7-2). The team are awaiting their Eastbourne based semi-final opponents. In the Sussex School County Cup, Parker have been on the wrong end of the draw, having to travel in every round. Coincidently, every match has been against Brighton based schools. Hove Park were beaten 3-1 in the first match of the season, the Regis school forfeited the second round match. Blatchington Mill were beaten 6-1 which set up a quarter final contest versus Dorothy Stringer.
Parker found themselves a goal down at half time, but regrouped and continued to plug away against a very organised team. An excellent piece of skill on the right wing from Jamal Lubanga set up captain Benn Ward who rifled a shot into the roof of the net from outside the penalty area. The game went from end to end as both teams searched a winner. The defence held firm as Jamal Palmer delivered a hopeful ball into the box which was unfortunately diverted into his own goal by the unlucky Hove Park defender. This latest victory sets up another away match against Warden Park, Haywards Heath, in the semi-final of the County Cup. The game is scheduled to be played in the first week after the February half term.
Ahead of their next game, the team posed with the Barclays Premier League Trophy, which was visiting Ark 6th Form East Sussex with Barclays Life Skills - best of luck to the team!


I purchased a sim card and activated my account and updated the carrier but I still don't have any network. Im using an iPhone 7 unlock and it still says no service. Can anyone give me a hand?
You should have received and e-mail confirmation and a text message on your phone.
It might take a little while before it activate, especially if you have ported a number from your old provider.
In anycase it's a good thing to restart your phone.
Restart your phone and try again. May be due to the outage Fizz had.
Did you try this yesterday between 6pm-3am because there was an outage and others including myself are having similar issues.
Your best bet will be to try using the sim in another Fizz-Compatible unlocked phone. If you get service, there's something wrong with your iPhone 7.
I had similar issues on an iPhone 6s that was "Unlocked" but I still needed to contact my previous carrier to have it re-unlocked for some odd reason.
Try to restart your phone. It worked for me.
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I know it's been a week or two since Shawnee Mission South coach Brett Oberzan lost eight seniors — three from dismissal and five who voluntarily left the program.
I'm not here to discuss what transpired or why it happened.
But I want to dig a little bit into a more problematic issue at hand.
This should be a non-story. No offense to SM South, but the Raiders are 0-4 after coming off a 1-8 2015 campaign. A lack of wins equals a lack of coverage. That's the way it goes in the industry.
I'm going to speculate, but my guess is the only reason the Kansas City Star picked up the story was because a parent dropped the reporter a tip.
If that's the case, what was the end goal of this tip? To reinstate the player(s)? If that happened, there would still be discord between Oberzan and the players.
Was it to put Oberzan on the hot seat? High school sports aren't like college sports. Oberzan doesn't get to recruit players like college coaches. Like college, he'll have players for four years, but it's usually less as freshman and sophomores don't typically play varsity.
What this group of seniors did was selfish. It does nothing but harm the team and the program. I applaud them for sticking up for each other, but there's a better way than firing off a tweet.
There's a reason why Oberzan benched running back Cameron Union, but only Oberzan knows why he did it.
Seniors aren't entitled to a starting spot or even playing time; it still has to be earned.
If anything, it's harmful because that sense of entitlement will be expected in the future because they've been handed everything.
What good comes out of entitlement? What lessons can be learned? I don't think any.
It starts with the parents understanding it's OK for their kids to fight their own battles. I also understand parents will always advocate for their children, but at the same time they need to take a step back and look at it from the coach's perspective, which is hard because a parent doesn't go to watch other kids play.
Coaches aren't just coaches, they are teaching life lessons. It just seems hard to teach lessons in an environment where coddling is prevalent.


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Hokies freshman Isaiah Wilkins says he defended Devin Vassell's tying 3-pointer as well as possible.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As opening acts go, Virginia and Virginia Tech approached exceptional Thursday afternoon at the ACC tournament, the Cavaliers with excellence, the Hokies with drama.
Thursday's headliner, naturally, was the late-night return of Duke's Zion Williamson, sidelined for five games with a knee injury. The Blue Devils announced that Williamson would play about 10 hours before tipoff, sending television execs into joyous convulsions of ratings gold.
But the two afternoon quarterfinals at the Charlotte Hornets' arena provided considerable discussion points and darn near an all-commonwealth semifinal Friday night.
Virginia (29-2) advanced to the semis with a 76-56 conquest of North Carolina State, followed by Virginia Tech's second overtime setback to Florida State in 10 days, this time by a 65-63 margin.
Start with the Hokies (24-8), a likely No. 4 or 5 regional seed when the NCAA tournament bracket is revealed Sunday at 6 p.m. They had talked among themselves about a potential semifinal against U.Va., followed by a possible Duke-North Carolina clash.
"That would have been cool," Tech guard Wabissa Bede said. "Everyone would have been watching. … It doesn't get better than that, having two rivalry games."
The Hokies almost did their part. Despite trailing by 13 points early, missing all 11 of their first-half 3-point attempts and making only 53.8 percent of their free throws for the game, they led 56-53 with 6.7 seconds remaining in regulation.
Applaud Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Ahmed Hill and Kerry Blackshear (54 points combined) for the offense. Credit everyone for the defense that harassed Florida State (26-6) into 17 turnovers and countless forced shots/disheveled possessions.
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And the defense was again ideal on the Seminoles' underneath inbounds play in the final seconds of regulation. Freshman Devin Vassell caught the entry pass deep in the left corner, and with Tech's Isaiah Wilkins blanketing him, elevated from a terrible angle for a 3-pointer that was true.
Vassell shoots 41.3 percent from beyond the arc but averages only 4.4 points per game. He scored 14 Thursday, his ACC-best.
"I didn't think there was anything else I could do," Wilkins said. "Obviously he's a great shooter. I just did the best I could without fouling. I thought it was going to hit the side of the backboard, but it didn't."
Overtime was even more painful for Tech as Terance Mann's transition jumper rattled around the rim a few times before falling with 1.8 seconds left.
But as much as the Hokies craved a third game against Virginia, Thursday's exit, on the heels of Wednesday's thrashing of Miami, should not discourage them. With only seven available players, Tech competed valiantly against a 10-deep opponent that will be a top-four NCAA regional seed.
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Moreover, the Hokies will not be burdened by one or two more ACC tournament games. They'll be able to rest, practice and hopefully welcome injured point guard Justin Robinson (left foot) back to the lineup. Tech is 7-5 without Robinson, and with him they'd be a threat to reach the Sweet 16.
Virginia hardly looked like the national-title contender it is during a first-half slog against N.C. State. But the Cavaliers' second-half offense was ruthless: 62.5 percent overall shooting, 60 percent from beyond the arc, 81.3 percent from the line and a mere three turnovers.
After a bye into the quarterfinals, this was U.Va.'s postseason debut, and a setback would have alarmed the masses and commenced chatter of demons in the building where the Cavaliers fell to UMBC a year ago. Instead, Virginia rode Kyle Guy's other-worldly shooting and Jack Salt's career day.
Guy made 7 of 9 from deep en route to 29 points, the latter one shy of his career-high. In the last five games, he's 26 of 41 from beyond the arc, an absurd 63.4 percent.
A spur-of-the-moment fashion decision led Guy to wear one blue shoe and one white Thursday, and here's guessing he's similarly shod Friday.
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Conversely, Salt had not scored in Virginia's last six outings. Slowed by a cranky back, he'd attempted only four shots in that stretch.
Thursday the 6-foot-10, 250-pound senior scored 18 points, six better than his previous career best. He had a trio of three-point plays, one with a baseline drive and reverse layup.
"I've seen him try that," Guy said. "Never seen him make it, though, so it was a beautiful sight for my eyes."
A career 44.2-percent free-throw shooter, Salt even made 4 of 5 from the line, his stance and release altered by Virginia coach Tony Bennett.
"It looks terrible," Guy said, "but he's making them."
Salt could loom large again Friday against Florida State's rugged frontcourt. The contest figures to be fierce, and here's guessing it's far more competitive than U.Va.'s 65-52 victory over FSU in early January.
The Seminoles have won 13 of their last 14. So have the Cavaliers.
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This course is comprises 210 placement hours in the human services, health, community, disability and aged care sectors. It is possible to undertake a placement outside of Australia subject to approval of a proposal and the obtaining of a qualified overseas supervisor. Students will require access to e-mail and have internet access to UConnect for this course. Outcomes of student and supervisor negotiations must have the approval of the Course Examiner. Students must enrol in this course in their selected semester and complete all course requirements within the term enrolled unless alternative arrangements have been made and approved by the course examiner.
IMPORTANT NOTES: Working with Children: State law in Queensland requires that all adults (including university students in industry placement) working with children under the age of 18, in the State of Queensland*, obtain approval before commencing such work. This course includes a practical component (professional experience, project work, research, assessment etc.) that may require engagement with children under the age of 18. It is your responsibility to ensure that you possess a current suitability card (Blue Card) before commencing any practical components of this course. *If you are undertaking practical experience outside the State of Queensland, Australia you should check local requirements.
The course provides opportunities for students to refine and apply professional attributes and skills in areas such as case work, client and stakeholder communication, analytical thinking, teamwork and organisational management. The field experience and assessment will also enable implementation of theoretical frameworks and techniques available to human service practitioners.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students are not to commence work in the host organisation without authorisation from the assigned USQ staff member. The USQ staff member will need to approve the suitability of the host organisation, the work plan, and the supervisor, prior to starting the placement. Failure to receive prior approval before commencing will be working outside the parameters of the course and will not be recognised or supported by USQ or its insurance coverage. Additional information about professional placements can be found on the Bachelor of Human Services Studydesk site, located on the main Studydesk page for Human Services students.


Word self-organization in time and space?: algorithms and evaluation.
ABSTRACT: Words are time-bound signals and are amenable to temporal processing. The human brain has an innate ability to encode serial events into spatial patterns of neural activity (David Beiser & James Houk, 1998). Temporal Hebbian SOMs (THSOMs) allow us to take the two assumptions seriously. They provide a novel computational framework accounting for many paradigm-based generalizations in a natural and insightful way. This claim is validated on inflectional data from German, English and Italian.
Presentazione tenuta in occasione del "Franco-Italian Morphology Meeting", Toulouse, 17-18 novembre 2010. Documento powerpoint. 2010.


We are looking for a young person from Ireland to join this project starting in August for 11 months.
The Ecole d'Humanité is a progressive, international boarding school in the heart of the Swiss Alps (in the winter ski area Meringen-Hasliberg) that fosters the discovery and development of individual talents in an atmosphere that encourages self-determination, innovation, and tolerance. 120 Students and 50 teachers from over 20 different countries live together in a dynamic community overflowing with academic, artistic, practical, athletic, and social opportunities. Whether admiring the beauty of a poem, projectile motion in a calculus-based physics class, performing an original piece of guerilla theatre or summiting a 4000 meter peak, Ecole students are challenged to actively discover and pursue their passions, and share them with others.
As an EVS volunteer you'll have the position as "Artist in Residence" and part of the Ecole-community taking part in the community life within the so-called "Ecole Families." A volunteer's work could be in the following areas: work as artist, give afternoon classes in a certain topics (depending on your talents), work in so called "intense weeks" together with small groups of students, networking among former students of the Ecole, work in the public relation activities, manual work such as gardening, caring for house pets, housework, and intercultural dimension.
If you would like to apply for this project please send your CV and letter of motivation , highlighting your inspiration to volunteer on this project. Please send both documents to Mateja in VSI, mateja@vsi.ie and use 'Artist in Residence' in the subject of the e-mail and state in the email this is the project you are applying for. Skype interviews will begin after deadline.


The EFL Day of Action highlights the work undertaken to tackle some of society's biggest issues, showcasing the work to tackle a diverse range of social issues, from homelessness and mental health, to community cohesion and the battle against plastic pollution.
Recently, the Boro squad were out and about across the local area visiting different community events, hosted by the MFC Foundation, as part of the charity's Week of Action.
Britt Assombalonga and Darren Randolph got creative with pupils from Thornaby Academy who were taking part in the Raise Your Game programme at the Riverside Stadium.
Dani Ayala and George Friend surprised a class of pupils with learning difficulties from Abbey Hill School during their #iWill session with the Foundation.
Stewart Downing was over at John Emmerson Batty Primary School in Redcar to join a Premier League Primary Stars session and Mo Besic, John Obi Mikel, George Saville, and Lewis Wing, together with first team coach Curtis Fleming, welcomed 13 members of the Foundation's Club Together programme for refugees and asylum seekers to Rockliffe Park.
Take a look at our gallery from the MFC Foundation's Day of Action and more images from other community events this year above.


The Power Systems Chin-Up or Pull Up Bar is solid piece of strength training equipment designed for serious results. Whether you work out at home or at the gym, you can use our bar for chin-ups or pull-ups to give you the upper body of your wildest dreams.
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Wander the Stands, Make Appointments, or Both!
Why Exhibit at SC Marketplace?
Conversation Theme: 'Let's Do Business'.
Sourcing City Marketplace is an established and universally acclaimed industry VIP Networking Event. The two day trade event is appointment based and exclusively for individually invited promotional merchandise industry VIP's.
Traditional exhibitions tend to focus purely on product, and some would consider that conversations have become repetitive for experienced exhibitors & visitors alike. Suppliers have a more important story to be told, that is explaining 'all' of the reasons why distributors should do business with them.
Every supplier has services & processes that can help a distributor be more efficient & profitable, ...but the distributors do not always know.
This is the place to meet both new potential suppliers, and your existing suppliers by appointment. The environment is relaxed, and conversations are focussed on the event theme of 'Let's do business'. You will hear about the suppliers' added value services, late season new products, product range overviews, and you can develop & review your individual trading partnership plans. VIP's make appointments for supplier meetings prior to SC Marketplace, and suppliers can also contact top distributors to make key appointments prior to SC Marketplace.
To ensure that all invited VIP's can have quality conversations with the suppliers' full attention, it is necessary to limit who is invited to SC Marketplace. VIP's are invited from distributor companies which have a turnover of promotional merchandise sales of between £10m+ and £500k pa.
All supplier hosts at SCM enjoy Free Pre-Show Speakers, Free Breakfast, Free Roving Tea Trolley, Free Lunch & Drinks, Free Crepes & Smoothies, Free Sweets, Free Drinks Reception, Free WiFi, Free Parking & Shuttle Bus Transfers.
VIP's are also invited to either the 'Platinum Networking Dinner', or 'Diamond Dinner', hosted by a group of sponsoring suppliers on the evening of Day One at SC Marketplace. The evening provides further opportunities to network, and to meet & build relationships with suppliers and fellow VIP's.
Event is six months before SC LIVE!
Note: Invitations are made to VIP's across the industry & not limited to Sourcing City customers.
Most distributors do not mind what product they sell, they care about what their customers will buy... more importantly, they highly value a supplier who provides added value at all levels.


The Father Costello Community Care Centre is in it's 13th year of operation (commencement-2005) and we require your help to ensure the viability of the organizations. Formerly The Nativity Church, the Costello Centre houses three active and vibrant charities within our building, at a minimal cost to each. These charities are The Lord's Kitchen, St. Martin de Porres (Timmins Food Bank) and St. Vincent de Paul. In the past year, we have seen an increase in the amount of people falling on hard times. This is evident in the increase numbers of people attending dinners (up to 700 meals served) at the Lord's Kitchen, the increase of 1500 people utilizing the Timmins Food Bank and the amount of people entering St. Vincent de Paul Thrift shop each week.
Annual costs (heat, hydro, insurance, security system, snow removal, etc.) average $46,000 while rent collected from the charities average $40,000. This does not include general maintenance of the building.
Increasing rents would only be counterproductive to the objectives of these charities within the CCCC.
The Centre is non-denominational; Father Costello did not discriminate. His example was to help anyone who came to the door. We are continuing this philosophy.
Costello Community Care Centre (CCCC) is run by a volunteer board of directors; annual administration costs average $240 for office supplies.
The board meets every month with the three charities for progress updates on how we are all helping the community. There is also an annual public meeting held every September.
We are a registered charity and do provide tax deductible receipts for any amount of donations.
When you are considering your plan for supporting the community, we are looking to you to assist us in continuing the viability of the Costello Community Care Centre. Your contribution, in cash or in kind, will ensure that these charities can be assured of a central and stable home. We understand that you receive many requests of this nature and are hopeful you will be able to donate what you can. Together, we can increase our chance of survival. Should you require further information please do not hesitate to contact us.


Today's prompt: You're told that an event that's dear to your heart — an annual fair, festival, or conference — will be cancelled forever (or taken over by an evil organization). Write about it. Today's twist: read your piece aloud, multiple times. Hone that voice of yours!
As all the other parts, this post/episode can be read on its own, but if you'd like to read the previous parts, 1-4, just scroll down after reading!
Last night I dreamt I returned to…. Part 5.
I can't remember the first day I met Stella because I've known her as far back as my memories go. We were born in the same year, in the same hospital, and lived on the same street. We played together at nursery school, of course I don't remember that, my mother used to tell me about it. Apparently I chased her around the playground, and wouldn't play with any of the other toddlers.
Later on, we went to the same primary school. We'd walk there together with our mothers. Sometimes my mother would take us both, because her mother had to work shifts at Highwood Hospital.
We were in the same class, although not on the same table. I remember she was on the blue table where the brighter girls were, and I was on the yellow table with the slower learners. She taught me to read and helped me with my maths. She was always cleverer than me. I liked it. I admired her. I showed off because my girlfriend was the cleverest girl in the class, and the prettiest.
I always said she was my girlfriend, even when she wasn't, even when we split up for a time because she went to a Convent School and I went to the local Comprehensive. Even when she went out with Chris O' Keeffe, because her mother said he was a nice Catholic boy. Even when she moved away from our street and went to College in Cambridge, I still said she was my girlfriend.
She used to say, 'Peter, stop saying that. I'm not your girlfriend. I'm just your friend. I'll always be your friend, but never your girlfriend.' And then she'd hug me, and hold my hand, and tell me about her 'other' life, the life she led when we were apart.
Today, 20th June, is our wedding anniversary. There's no way I'm spending today without her. I have to find her. We've celebrated it together since we married, thirty-eight years ago. Before that we'd been living together for almost ten years, and before that, well, we were apart for a few years, while she finished College and travelled the world. She said she had to get it out of her system. I waited. I knew she'd come back.
Meanwhile, I was apprenticed with my father at the bakery. When she returned, I had saved up enough money to buy our first flat, but when her father died, and her mother went to a nursing home, she wanted to live in this house, the house she was brought up in, so we moved. It was a mistake.
I'm sorry, Chris, but I have to go. I know I told you I would wait, but I can't stay here any longer. I've realized it's not my house, or our house. It never was our house. The terrible things which happened here — we thought it didn't matter, but it does. We thought we could start again, but we can't. I understand why now. He is still here. She knows. You shouldn't stay either.
Why can't she just forget about Chris?
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Atieva Powers Season 6 of Formula E with Spec Battery Pack of Its Own Design
Atieva, the Silicon Valley-based electric vehicle technology company, announced that the spec battery pack of its own design will power the entire 24-car Formula E field for the upcoming 2019/20 race season in association with its partners.
The Formula E battery pack was conceptualized, designed, tested, and manufactured by Atieva at its Silicon Valley headquarters in Newark, California. Atieva is the technology wing of Lucid Motors.
Formula E is considered the world's premier form of open-wheel electric racing, and 2019/20 will be the second consecutive season powered by the Atieva-designed battery pack. Prior to this, the race cars were battery-limited to a half-race distance. By enabling a full-race distance while also providing increased performance, Atieva's battery pack will further demonstrate the potential of electric vehicle technology over the course of 14 exciting races.
"We were delighted with the performance of the pack in Season 5," said Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO of Atieva's parent company, Lucid Motors. "We are proud that our technology has played a role in advancing this important form of motorsport and we look forward to the upcoming season."
In creating the battery pack, Atieva first leveraged its substantial proprietary database of battery cells, with its engineers identifying a cell with the perfect blend of energy and power for this racing application. They next verified its suitability by simulating a full race season at pack level.
With the cell determined, Atieva's engineers proceeded to design the pack with a unique and innovative trapezium shape to best integrate into the aerodynamic and structural envelope of the race car. Finally they computer simulated and extensively tested the pack for key attributes such as thermal management and structural performance. The Battery Management System (BMS) software was also created entirely in-house and ensures that the pack performs for the duration of the season with no significant degradation. The packs were then manufactured at Atieva's headquarters.
For more details on the Formula E battery, read the article "Why Formula E Ventured into the Valley to Climb The Mountain," found in the December 2019 copy of Race Tech Magazine.
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The 3 simple steps to nationwide marriage equality
By German Lopez@germanrlopez Jun 14, 2014, 10:00am EDT
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With court rulings against states' same-sex marriage bans piling up, LGBT advocates now say a favorable Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage could be a year or two away.
How those cases actually end up and win at the Supreme Court is a bit complicated. Here's a simple guide, in three steps, to how it could happen.
1) Circuit courts give their rulings
The Ninth Circuit Court's building. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images News
The next major battles for marriage equality will occur at circuit courts, the second highest federal courts in the country. It's expected that the Fourth and 10th Circuit Courts will be the first to rule this summer or fall, since same-sex marriage cases are most advanced in those circuits.
this next step could produce much more mixed results for LGBT advocates
As ThinkProgress explained, this next step could produce much more mixed results for LGBT advocates than lower court's unanimously pro-marriage equality decisions. While the Fourth, Ninth, and 10th Circuit Courts are considered liberal, the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuit Courts are fairly conservative and also facing same-sex marriage cases.
Now, judges don't necessarily decide their cases based on partisanship. The judge who struck down Pennsylvania's same-sex marriage ban, for example, was supported by Republicans Rick Santorum and George W. Bush. But partisanship can certainly play a role, especially in the higher courts.
2) The Supreme Court agrees to an appeal
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After one or more circuit court hands down a ruling, the case can be appealed to the Supreme Court for a final decision. The Supreme Court doesn't have to accept appeals, but, with same-sex marriage cases now reaching all corners of the country, it's widely expected they will.
"the Supreme Court wants to be the one to decide this issue, not the lower courts"
The chances of the Supreme Court taking the case will also grow if circuit courts give contradictory rulings. If one circuit court rules in favor of marriage equality and another rules against it, that would place a lot more impetus on the Supreme Court to clarify the issue and give a final judgment.
If there aren't contradictory rulings and all circuit courts support same-sex marriage rights, it's possible that marriage equality could be established in all the circuits — in other words, nationwide — before the Supreme Court makes a decision.
But even if that happens, the Supreme Court could still take a same-sex marriage case. Given the interest in the issue, LGBT advocates argue the Supreme Court has an interest in settling the issue once and for all — perhaps even before all circuit courts get a chance to give their own judgments.
"My personal view is that the Supreme Court wants to be the one to decide this issue, not the lower courts," Paul Smith, a leading LGBT rights litigator, said in a previous interview. "So the Supreme Court will probably take it."
3) The Supreme Court rules
Justice Anthony Kennedy prepares to testify before Congress. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images News
If the Supreme Court accepts a same-sex marriage case, they'll likely make a precedent-setting decision. There are legal technicalities the court could use to punt on the issue even if it takes a case, but those tactics seem unlikely at this point.
"Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways"
How the court will rule will be an open question until the day of the decision. But LGBT advocates are fairly confident the Supreme Court will rule 5-4 to strike down states' same-sex marriage bans, just like the court did in the case against the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Key swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, after all, wrote the majority opinion that ended the federal government's ban on same-sex marriages.
"Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways," Kennedy wrote. "By its great reach, DOMA touches many aspects of married and family life, from the mundane to the profound."
Similar reasoning could be applied against states' same-sex marriage bans, and in fact has been applied in lower court rulings that struck down the bans. If that's the track Kennedy takes, then marriage equality could be nationwide in the next couple years.
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Want to get your GED® certification in Scarville IA? The exam is for adults who have not received their high school diploma. The certificate that you receive upon completion of the Iowa GED® test is accepted as an equivalent credential to a high school diploma by employers and colleges across the United States.
The GED® exam tests basic subjects that students are taught in high school. Subjects reviewed in GED® classes include reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. These are the subject areas that make up the test in Iowa.


The Housing Department is responsible for looking after the housing sector in the state. There are various housing schemes formulated and implemented by the state government. It is the function of this department to engage in all the co-ordination of these housing schemes. The Kerala State Housing Board is governed by this department.
The Kerala State Housing Board (KSHB) was established in 1971. They direct and plan the preparation and execution of housing schemes in the state. The functions of the Board is operated by the Director Board consisting of a Chairman, government appointed officials and non officials nominated by the government. The head office of the Housing Board is at Thiruvananthapuram and has 39 offices. It includes 3 regional offices, 14 division offices, 2 project divisions and many branch offices. The topmost institution among the housing sector is the Kerala State Housing Board.
The main aims of the Board include implementing housing schemes, formulating housing loans etc. The housing loans for different income groups have to be taken into consideration. The other functions include improvement schemes, government directed schemes and deposit work.
Earlier in 1980, the Board has launched an Advance registration scheme in various centres in the state. The public can register for house plots with building in advance by depositing an amount based on their needs. This enables the Board to provide the public with their demand and formulate housing schemes by acquiring land in bulk. The Board decided to acquire the necessary land to satisfy the registered people within a period of three years. After reviewing in detail about the progress of this scheme, the Board decided to discontinue it. They have also decided to start a new registration scheme in areas where demand for house is more.
Total Housing Activity Reconciliation And New Generation Application Management popularly called as THARANGAM is a web based software developed internally for The Kerala State Housing Board. It makes the various internal procedures easier to carry out and provide effective service to their customers. It can also provide details of the customers and resolve their complaints. The first phase of this has been already installed in all the KSHB offices. The various modules covered under this are Financial Accounting system, Revenue recovery system, rent management system, Pay bill and KSHB –PF system.
The Kerala government has launched the one lakh house scheme where houses are constructed and distributed for the poor. Each family is to be provided with a house with 2 rooms and a kitchen. The target was to construct 96000 houses with the aim of providing 100 units in 960 panchayats. As these houses were constructed around three decades back, the condition of those houses is pathetic and requires maintenance. So the KSHB has proposed plans for renovating the damaged houses.
A scheme has been proposed for renovating the one lakh houses. The renovation cost for each house is about Rs 50,000. The scheme also includes converting broken down houses twin houses into single units and reconstruction of single houses.
The government has proposed schemes for constructing houses for the tribes in Wayanad. This includes the construction and distribution of around 270 houses for the tribes in Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad. The construction cost for each house is Rs 90,000. These buildings are completed and distributed to them.
This scheme includes providing financial help to the economically weaker section in the society. Those who are eligible for getting this help are selected and financial aid is given to them for constructing a house if they own atleast 2 cents of land. The cost given for each house is Rs 30,000. Now the Board has proposed a new Suraksha scheme where the cost for each house is Rs 1,00,000. Under this scheme, The Board has planned to construct around 2000 houses during the next year.
Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra (KESNIK) is an agency which is engaged in the propagation and promotion of various techniques in house construction. They generate innovative ideas in the field of house construction. They have 12 production centres all over Kerala. Their objectives include to co-ordinate and monitor the activities of the Nirmithi Kendras, to provide guidance to the government regarding housing concepts, to select required technology for dissemination, conduct training programmes for the workers regarding the various buiding construction skills etc.


Zachary: "Steeeeeetch because Mom asked me to."
Zachary: "I wonder if they need a Spokesdog?"
Using a Clik Stik - a combination telescoping pointer and clicker Gadget to get the boys to Stretch their necks.
Zachary could do this all day, assuming I didn't run out of Cookies.
Have I mentioned that Henry is really, really sweet?
FWIW: I purchased the Clik Stik some years ago and basically never use it, although I'm challenged to think why not.
It does exactly what it was supposed to do, and it does it very well.
It's probably been a year or two since I last used it, and Zachary still remembered what to.
I'm not sure Henry has ever seen it before.
Our Daily Challenge - Jul 9, 2014 - "Gadget"
Daily Dog Challenge 981. "Stretch"
… it just sort of happened.
You get a glimpse of the camera remote (also a gadget, I suppose) in my right hand, plus the ramekin of Cookies, and the oh-so-essential blue microfiber drool rag.
That IS a pretty neat little gadget!