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I called my dentist this morning. I could barely hear the receptionist over the sound of hammer-drilling.
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Why should I sell the Canadian farmers' wheat?
So asked Pierre Trudeau, a Canadian Prime Minister in the sixties.
"Why on earth am I reading that quotation here?", asked the readers of Status-Q.
Well, simply because it struck me when I saw it in the Economist this morning as a lovely illustration of why kids need to be taught how to use the apostrophe, something which appears not to be fashionable in schools today.
The Economist, of course, got it right. But if Trudeau had asked "Why should I sell the Canadian farmers wheat?" it would have had almost exactly the opposite meaning – a 'coals to Newcastle' scenario.
And if the apostrophe had been one place to the left, he would either have been questioning a specific favouritism to one farmer, or making some more general statement about a stereotypical agrarian Canadian. We think the latter more likely because we happen to know he was PM of that country, but had M.Trudeau been a grumpy flour merchant in Provence who disliked one of his new immigrant neighbours, things might have been different.
Anyway, nothing earth-shattering here. I simply offer it to parents who need more examples of why homework is important!
A great set of photos covering off-shore wind farms, their construction, and occasional destruction.
Thanks to Laura for the link.
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"""Contains the definitions for the responders common to all personas."""

import random

from c3po.util import api
from c3po.util import message
from c3po.util import text_chunks
from c3po.util import throwback as util_throwback

class BasePersona(object):
    """Contains responder logic to respond to messages."""

    def __init__(self):
        self.mentioned_map = {
            r'choose (?:between )?(.+)*': self.choose,
            r'created you': self.creator,
            r'(hi|hello)': self.hello,
            r'motivate (.+)': self.motivate,
            r'ping': self.ping,
            r'tell (.+?) to (.+)': self.tell_to,
            r'tell (.+?)(\s+|\s+that )(he|she|they) should (.+)': self.tell_should,
            r'thank( you|s)': self.thanks,
            r'throwback': self.throwback,
            r'weather': self.weather,
            r'what can you do': self.what_can_you_do,
            r'wolf': self.wolf,
        }

        self.not_mentioned_map = {
        }

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(True)
    def choose(msg):
        """Given a comma-delimited list of items, choose one."""
        items = [c.strip()
                 for a in msg.text_chunks[1].split(' or ')
                 for b in a.split(' and ')
                 for c in b.split(',')
                 if c != '']

        # Check for only one item
        if len(items) <= 1:
            return "Whoops, you only gave me one item to choose from (%s)." \
                   % items[0]

        return random.choice(text_chunks.CHOOSE) % random.choice(items)

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(True)
    def creator(_msg):
        """Tells who the real creator is."""
        return 'My friend Hef (and some of his friends) brought me to life!'

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(True)
    def hello(_msg):
        """Says hello!"""
        return 'Greetings. I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations.'

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(False)
    def motivate(msg):
        """Motivates a person!"""
        name = msg.text_chunks[1]
        random_motivation = random.choice(text_chunks.MOTIVATIONS)
        return random_motivation % name

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(True)
    def ping(_msg):
        """Pongs back."""
        return 'pong'

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(False)
    def tell_to(msg):
        """Tells someone to do something."""
        name = msg.text_chunks[1]
        action = msg.text_chunks[2]
        return "%s, %s!" % (name, action)

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(False)
    def tell_should(msg):
        """Tells someone to do something."""
        name = msg.text_chunks[1]
        action = msg.text_chunks[4]
        return "%s, you should %s!" % (name, action)

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(True)
    def thanks(_msg):
        """You're welcome!"""
        return "%s!" % random.choice(text_chunks.THANKS_RESPONSES)

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(False)
    def throwback(msg):
        """Retrieves a random item from the transcript history and returns."""
        random_msg = util_throwback.random_message(msg)
        time_sent = random_msg.time_sent.strftime('%m/%d/%Y')

        if random_msg.picture_url:
            msg.picture_url_to_send = random_msg.picture_url
            if random_msg.text:
                return 'Throwback! On %s, %s posted this photo saying, "%s".' % (
                    time_sent, random_msg.name, random_msg.text)
            return 'Throwback! On %s, %s posted this photo.' % (
                time_sent, random_msg.name)

        return 'Throwback! On %s, %s said, "%s".' % (
            time_sent, random_msg.name, random_msg.text)

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(False)
    def weather(msg):
        """Tells the current weather."""
        api_key = msg.settings.weather_conf.api_key
        latitude = msg.settings.weather_conf.latitude
        longitude = msg.settings.weather_conf.longitude

        if not api_key or not latitude or not longitude:
            raise RuntimeError('Cannot retrieve weather because'
                               'weather_conf is not set in Settings.')

        current, temp, apparent_temp, hourly = api.get_weather(api_key, latitude, longitude)

        return "It's currently %s with a temperature of %s degrees (feels " \
               "like %s). I'm predicting %s" \
               % (current, temp, apparent_temp, hourly)

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(True)
    def what_can_you_do(_msg):
        """Directs users to README where they can see C-3PO capabilities."""
        return "Check out this site: " \
               "https://github.com/rhefner1/c3po/blob/master/README.md"

    @staticmethod
    @message.should_mention(False)
    def wolf(_msg):
        """Represents the best university in the world."""
        return 'PACK!'

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Norwegian Air flights to restart to and from UK airports from July 1 – Mirror Online
Norwegian Air will restart flights to and from UK airports from July 1 "as a result of increased customer demand".
The airline will resume flights on 76 routes halted during the coronavirus outbreak and bring back into service 12 of its mothballed aircraft on top of the eight already flying, as European countries reopen and demand for flights rises.
Norwegian Air will serve Gatwick and Edinburgh to and from Oslo and Copenhagen.
Airlines have been hit hard by the pandemic, which has put a stop to most international travel, leading companies to seek help from governments.
Norwegian chief executive Jacob Schram said: "Feedback from our customers has shown that they are keen to get back in the air and resume their travels with Norwegian beyond the current domestic services that we have been operating.
"Norwegian is returning to European skies with the reintroduction of more aircraft to serve our key destinations which will ensure that we remain in line with competing carriers."
More than 300 pilots and 600 cabin crew from the company's bases in Norway will operate 20 aircraft, with about 200 pilots and 400 cabin crew being brought back from layoffs, the budget carrier said.
Norwegian furloughed or laid off about 7,300 staff, roughly 90% of its employees, after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Shunned by its Nordic neighbors for its coronavirus strategy, Sweden says there are 'wounds that will take time to heal' – CNBC
Denmark to open up to countries with low corona cases – The Post – The Copenhagen Post – Danish news in english

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German court rules circumcision goes against "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity"
By Michelle Castillo
July 13, 2012 / 4:06 PM / CBS News
(CBS News) Religious leaders are outraged after a German court ruled that circumcision infringes on a child's right to be protected from bodily harm.
The regional court in Cologne said that circumcision went against the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents." They added that religious freedom would not be curtailed because the child would be able to choose later whether he wanted to have a circumcision. However, if the parents decided for the boy, it changed the body of the child "irreparably and permanently" and went against that child's rights to choose his religious beliefs.
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"The religious freedom of the parents and their right to educate their child would not be unacceptably compromised, if they were obliged to wait until the child could himself decide to be circumcised," the court added.
The ruling has now set a precedent that anyone in the future who performs a circumcision on a child not old enough to consent could potentially be breaking the law. Experts say that the decision would not be enforceable in other jurisdictions but because of the legal limbo and possibility of charges brought upon them, doctors may decline to do the procedure, according to the New York Times.
The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr. Dieter Graumann, said in a statement that the ruling was an "unprecedented and dramatic interference in the right of religious communities to self-determination," calling it an "inappropriate and insensitive act."
Graumann said that circumcision by a medical doctor or a mohel with "medical competency" is "an integral part of the Jewish faith that has been practiced around the world for millennium."
"This right is respected in every country of the world," he added.
Male circumcision is an integral part of both Jewish and Muslim religions, and is also practiced by some tribal groups. It is very common in many African countries, and is often done in North America and most of West Africa. Although female circumcision is outlawed in Germany, male circumcision had been completely legal.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 30 percent of men - 665 million men - were circumcised as of 2006. In the United States, the WHO estimates about 76 percent to 92 percent of men are circumcised today.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) does not recommend routine circumcision, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but defers to parental choice based on religious, cultural and personal beliefs. The WHO says that circumcision can lower HIV infection risk by about 60 percent. Circumcision can lower risk of urinary tract infections, penile cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, according to the NIH, but can cause unwarranted pain and a low risk of bleeding or infection.
The case was brought to the German court system after a four-year-old Muslim boy in Cologne was rushed to the hospital when he was found to be bleeding heavily a few days after a doctor had performed a circumcision under the boy's parent's request. The doctor was charged with grievous bodily harm.
The doctor was both acquitted by a lower court that determined that he was legally right to perform the circumcision because he had parental consent and cited religious freedom. The ruling was appealed, and although the regional court also acquitted the doctor of any wrongdoing, it was the court's reasoning that caused controversy in the religious community.
Holm Putzke, a professor of criminal law at the University of Passau in Germany, told JTA that he hoped the decision would inspire conversation about "what should be given more weight - religious freedom or the right of children not to have their genitals mutilated." Putzke has crusaded for anti-circumcision laws for children for many years.
"After the knee-jerk outrage has faded away, hopefully a discussion will begin about how much religiously motivated violence against children a society is ready to tolerate," he said to German news agency DPA according to the New York Times.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has more on circumcision.
Michelle Castillo
Michelle Castillo is an associate editor for CBSNews.com.
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'The Great British Baking Show': That "Dairy Week" Elimination was Shocking, Ageist, and Unfair
By Meghan O'Keefe Twitter @megsokay Sep 21, 2019 at 8:30am
Photo: Netflix
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The Great British Baking Show made a mistake this week. Either the producers straight up showed their cards and revealed that this season of The Great British Baking Show is "fixed" in favor of the younger, cuter, more press-ready bakers, or the production team did a shoddy job at explaining to the audience whose bakes were really the worst during "Dairy Week." The episode spent all its time harping on the mistakes of Michael and Priya, only to save both at the end. The baker eliminated was left stunned, as were the other contestants, and viewers at home. Either way, this episode didn't go down sweetly and it's left an unusually bitter taste in our mouths.
Throughout The Great British Baking Show's first-ever "Dairy Week," we saw a number of our favorite bakers stumble in major ways. First, last week's star baker Michael Chakraverty suffered a terrible mishap with his dairy-based cake when it split in the oven. Though hideous to look at, it tasted good. Then, Priya O'Shea turned in what has to be the absolute worst technical bake in the history of The Great British Baking Show. Finally, Henry Bird whiffed on his mishti challenge, offering up treats he himself said you'd eat in prison. Nevertheless, all three of these beloved bakers were safe. Instead, the season's oldest contestant Phil Thorne was sent home for being literally "a bit boring"?
If you're surprised by this elimination, take heart in knowing you're not the only one. For maybe the first time in the show's history, the eliminated baker was absolutely stunned to be going home. Phil accused judge Paul Hollywood of pranking him. Not only that, but the rest of the bakers were taken aback by the judges' choice. There were gasps a-plenty, and both Priya and Michael confided they thought they were going home (with Michael admitting he felt guilty to be staying). Finally, even Paul Hollywood said that Phil had a right to be a little shocked, since it was "so tight." But was the elimination tight? What the hell just happened on The Great British Baking Show?
There are no hard and fast rules to how judging works on The Great British Baking Show, except that bakers who do poorly on the challenges should consider themselves up for elimination, and those who do well are in line for star baker. The Technical Challenge is the only ranked portion of the competition, and often, that segment of the show seems to be weighed the least against the other bakes. Generally, a mistake in the bake or messy design can be saved by good flavor, but that's where the show wades into the scummy pond of subjective taste.
All that being said, going into this week's Showstopper Challenge, Michael and Priya were in the bottom, and everyone knew it. Judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith explained this going in, and kept them in the danger zone after the final challenge. However, after tasting everyone's mishti, Phil's name wound up in the bottom. His big weakness? The flavors in his garden of mishti were a bit over-the-top and the style of treats were "same-y." That's it. Still, Paul and Prue elected to eliminate him over Michael, who had a massive issue with his first bake, and Priya, who had issues on all her bakes, including a veritable disaster of a Technical Bake.
Ironically, Phil might not have been the middle-of-the-pack baker who should have been in trouble. If you listen closely to judging in all three challenges, Michelle Evans-Fecci (the season's first Star Baker) had a "claggy" dairy cake and disastrous rice pudding. Nevertheless, her name never popped up in judging. It was as if Paul and Prue had it out for Phil, from their snipe at him not being "classy" to Prue's private commentary comparing his mishti to Play-Doh.
'The Great British Baking Show' Cast Jamie Finn For His Looks, Not For His Baking Skills
He's sweet, he's charming, and he shouldn't have been in...
by Meghan O'Keefe (@megsokay)
You could argue that taste always trumps design — and that Michael and Priya were indeed praised for their flavors — but still, Phil's elimination confirms a pernicious pattern in the tent this season. This is the youngest season of The Great British Baking Show ever, and with Phil's elimination, the oldest person in the tent is now 40-year-old new mom Helena Garcia. Youth doesn't mean inexperienced, necessarily, but the judges now seem to prefer the ambitious, faulty bakes of bright, young things in the tent to the tried-and-true simple bakes of the older generation. It's a huge shift from the early days of The Great British Baking Show, where bakers would be asked to produce traditional bakes and to focus on execution over style.
Perhaps Phil's bakes were atrocious. Maybe there were more criticisms hurled his way than we saw on Netflix. Still, his shock at getting the boot suggests otherwise. Even if he was weaker than Michael and Priya, the producers should have edited the show with more clarity to explain his position at the bottom. Instead, he was just dropped for being "a bit boring." If we're being generous, that's a note on his bakes. If we're being cynical, it's code for "he wasn't hot and young enough for The Great British Baking Show in 2019."
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What's a guy gotta do to get a doctor around here?
This week in Virginia, Minnesota Public Radio and Hometown Focus hosted a discussion with community members and leaders about the possible privatization of the Virginia Regional Medical Center.
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Waldron was sent a letter a letter late in the week that indicated that a complaint of unbecoming conduct" had been filed against him. He still says he's baffled about what spurred the complaint.
Interest rates continue to stay low, unemployment is on the decline and job outlook appears to be picking up. But local governments, and the good people who pay the taxes that support those governments, continue to be dogged with serious budget problems. Some schools are heading toward extracurricular activities for only those who can afford them. As the growth in the Minnesota Today LGA tag page suggests, more action is being taken every day as local governments prepare for expected cuts to the Local Government Aid (LGA) by the Minnesota Legislature.
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Do These Gaming Franchises Need To Retire?
The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub has put together a dead pool of some of the video game industry's longest-running, longest in the tooth franchise. It's not a bet necessarily on who will die, but who should die, sequentially speaking. Topping the list? Pac-Man. Sure, the excellent Pac-Man Championship Edition gets a pass and Nintendo would do right to bring Pac-Man Vs. to WiiWare, but we could certainly do without another Pac-Man World.
The rest of the list features properties that many wouldn't mind seeing taken out back and put out of their misery—looking at you Tony Hawk—but there are a few choices I take issue with.
I'd be perfectly happy to see another (good) Tomb Raider, for one, and hope that Underworld is giving proper time to incubate. But I can't agree that Spyro the Dragon should be put to bed before yet another awful Sonic the Hedgehog game. And Guitar Hero's getting better with each iteration? Really? I guess we can agree to disagree.


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How One Small Shopping Center Operator Is Thinking About the Future of Retail
1 The Impact on Small Businesses
2 Planning for tenant success
The Millionacres team recently chatted with Todd Laurie, executive vice president of Fund Services and partner at Baceline Investments, on The Motley Fool's live show. The reason we wanted Todd on is to talk about the future of retail and shopping centers. We've seen a dramatic shift in retail during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is affecting real estate investing as a whole, whether you're investing in REITs or commercial real estate.
Todd leads the Capital Development and Investor Relations Department and sits on the company's board of directors, making him responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, overseeing day-to-day operations of investor relations and capital development. Baceline is headquartered in Denver and operates nearly 80 neighborhood community shopping centers at around 25 markets. Baceline is a private company that invests in small strip centers that are in the middle of neighborhoods and deal in everyday goods and services, including restaurants, salons, and other services.
When the pandemic hit and closures began, Baceline saw an approximately 30%-40% decline in businesses for its tenants. But Baceline also found that many of its tenants bounced back after reopenings began and the company is up to over 80% rent collections. The company had 841 tenants at the start of the pandemic and now has 843. But some businesses have failed. Much of these accelerated trends that were already in motion such as the rise of e-commerce but small shopping centers remain an important part of the community.
"There is no proxy for that small shopping center, that small space for making a sandwich and getting that to somebody, for somebody coming in and cutting their hair. Until we have a computer mouse that will cut our hair or 3D printers that spin out hamburgers, you still need these neighborhood shopping centers," said Laurie.
The Impact on Small Businesses
One thing we've been following is the impact of COVD-19 on small businesses.
Small businesses in locations with a lot of consumers nearby have an advantage. Consider restaurants: Food that comes from a long distance isn't going to be good. "If you're more than three miles away from a rooftop, then by the time the food gets to you, it's not great. So you really want to be within three miles," said Laurie.
Franchise businesses receive a lot of support from their parent company with things such as apps, but small businesses might not necessarily have those tools. However, one thing that Laurie did note was that when it came to dealing with the crisis, it was the smaller businesses that were more flexible on rent. Some of the nationals immediately sent letters saying they weren't going to pay, as we saw with major mall tenants earlier this year.
The types of businesses best suited for small shopping centers are shifting. The pandemic has been very tough on the restaurant industry as a whole, but smaller restaurants that are mostly carryout are bouncing back. One area that may be a big potential growth driver for malls as well as for these smaller shopping centers is medical use. Laurie reported that they're seeing a large uptick in medical use inquiries. This includes dentists, chiropractors, medical testing, dialysis, and more. Baceline currently has 13 percent of its portfolio in medical services, but that is increasing partly because as people work from home, they're more likely to seek services in their own neighborhood. Again, the rooftop theory is at play: If you have a lot of people within three miles of your business, you may end up in better shape.
"Instead of paying for extensive medical office space, you can come into a shopping center, be more conveniently located to your tenants. You don't have to go through a building, through an elevator to get to your dentist," said Laurie. "You just drive up in front, park, and walk in their front door, and you can get a really nice space and a nice buildup at a lesser rate per square foot than what you would get in an office space."
Planning for tenant success
The pandemic has changed how retail landlords in particular think about new tenants. A successful center is about far more than just who can pay rent in the short term. Like other operators, both public and private, Baceline is taking a look at tenant business plans and if that tenant fits in with a need in the area and also has solid financials for the future. This can require some flexibility.
"We are going to take a look at your financial wherewithal," added Laurie. "We're going to get personal guarantees in place and we're going to put a lease length that makes sense. If it doesn't make sense to have a ten-year lease in place with you, we're not going to tie you to that. Maybe it makes sense to do three years and see how things go with your business if you've got good backing and this is really something you want to do."
Baceline is also getting opportunistic about buying properties. It's closing on three properties in the next two weeks and has a full pipeline. Many smaller property owners have been stressed by a few months of interrupted revenue. Part of this is a larger demographic trend as smaller operators start to look toward retirement, but Baceline sees an opportunity to buy properties that add value and increase the strength of the tenant base.
"We're not sure where the economy is going to go, but I am cautiously optimistic," said Laurie. "Where there is distress, there is also an opportunity for those people that are very prudent, and for people that are very shrewd, they can find some neat things to do with their money that's out there. I'm looking forward to that, but I think it will be a slow start to the new year."
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Novel Matters: We suspected it all along. . .
Everyone knows that reading a novel can change history. Uncle Tom's Cabin, for instance, "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War," according to historian Will Kaufman. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle revolutionized food safety at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Novels change history by changing minds. But did you know that reading a novel can actually physically change your brain?
As documented in the academic journal Brain Connectivity, scientists measured the brains of readers with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The non-profit site Futurity interviewed the lead scientist of the study, Gregory Burns, who had two astonishing findings.
But even more amazing, the study documented that reading a novel leaves a kind of "shadow" in the brain, as demonstrated by neural scans, that shows that for days after finishing a novel, the book keeps having a measurable physical effect on the brain.
So, novels change people, mentally and physically.
As something as insubstantial, as ephemeral, as a collection of words continues to change the brain for days afterwards.
And for us as authors, what a weight of responsibility.
What a great way to start the new year! Yes! We have a weighty responsibility. Thank goodness we aren't alone in our work. I'm so glad to have this community. And I'm so glad the break is over. I've missed this blog!
Thank you, Susie. We've missed all of you too!
You mean all those people in my brain have a physical place to live? And all those places are physical territory in there? Wonderful how it never gets crowded. There's always room for another set of characters and scenes.
From a writer's point of view, my character does something somewhere, then next week I change what he did and where....there must be some mechanism that wipes out the first creation? Every draft has a place in my brain? Now we're talking crowded!
I missed this blog too! Happy New Year! What are we seizing this year?
We are so glad to be back interacting with you! It's a new year! We have new territory in our brains to stimulate!
This is fantastic and wonderful. I think I will go play the piano now; because, you know, I bet that will leave a shadow on my brain, too.


TWO DAYS IN A ROW FILLED WITH AWESOME FUN!!!
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Mike Aviles
Team Kansas City Royals
Position Shortstop
Born Mar 13, 1981
Kansas City Royals 2008 - present
Mike Aviles was born on March 13, 1981 in New York City. He plays shortstop for the Kansas City Royals.
Mike is 5' 9", weighs 195 pounds, and bats and throws right.
Mike attended Middletown High School in New York.
Mike attended Concordia College in Bronxville, New York, where he was a Division II All-American shortstop.
Mike was chosen in the 7th Round of the 2003 draft by the Kansas City Royals.
He spent 2004 with the Wilmington Blue Rocks in the Carolina League and 2005 with the Wichita Wranglers in the Texas League.
He spent 2006 and 2007 with the Omaha Royals of the Pacific Coast League,and was the Royals' Minor League Player of The Year in 2007. He started 2008 in the minors, batting .338 with 10 home runs and 42 RBI in 50 games with Omaha.
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Mike was called up from AAA on May 29, 2008 to replace the light-hitting Tony Pena.
Mike is engaged to marry Jessy Poulsen.
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The Build-Up Season
From the author of CBCA-shortlisted Yellow comes a powerful exploration of family and identity set against the humid build-up to the wet season in Darwin.
Megan Jacobson grew up in Darwin and the far north coast of New South Wales, but now lives in Sydney, where she works in TV news production at the ABC. She has a degree in journalism and has worked as a question writer for TV game shows, and as an in-house script storyliner and script editor for several Australian television dramas. Her short stories have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, aired on ABC radio, appeared in the UTS writers' anthology I can see my house from here and in the Review of Australian Fiction. Her first novel Yellow was shortlisted in the Older Readers category of the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards.
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The government's planned cull of badgers is impractical, according to an influential Conservative thinktank, and should be scrapped in favour of vaccination to help curb the bovine TB infection afflicting cattle.
The Bow Group paper exposes for the first time divisions in the Tory party over the nocturnal shooting of badgers in bovine TB hotspots and concludes that the scientific evidence favours vaccination over a cull, which it said would be ineffective and expensive.
"The government is opting for a remedy that is both deeply unpopular, and which stands a very good chance of making the problem worse," said Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith. The intervention comes a week after the Welsh government abandoned its planned cull in favour of vaccination, citing scientific advice.
The Bow Group, which counts Michael Howard and Peter Lilley among its former chairmen, joins a growing band in favour of vaccinating rather than culling badgers, including the National Trust, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and the residents of Ambridge in The Archers.
Although most farmers are in favour of the cull, those that support vaccinating badgers include National Farmer's Union vice president Adam Quinney, who has teamed up with the Badger Trust to vaccinate badgers on his land after his cattle contracted bovine TB.
Now some Conservatives are pondering the political cost of a cull after the Bow Group found that 81% of people were opposed to it. "That suggests to me that a lot of Conservative voters are opposed to the cull," said Graham Godwin-Pearson, the paper's author.
Richard Mabey, research secretary of the Bow Group, said: "Market research shows that the issue will be costly for the Conservatives in political terms, not least in the marginal seats in which the culling trials are to be held. Vaccination is best for badgers and best for the taxpayer: a shift in focus from culling to vaccination is now essential."
Defra is committed to a policy of culling badgers to combat the disease in cattle, which increased by 4.4% in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year, and cost the taxpayer £91m in 2010-11 in compensation payments to farmers. The cull will start this autumn with two pilot schemes in Gloucestershire and Somerset and will be funded by groups of farmers.
But the Bow Group paper warned that Defra's estimates of the cost of a cull appear "conservative" and policing costs of £500,000 per area per year could increase. The paper also pointed out that monitoring the requirement that farmers cull 70% of the badger population inside the cull zone was uncosted.
It recommended tackling the disease with a combination of an injectable vaccine and improved biosecurity on farms, with farmers' compensation linked to fulfilment of biosecurity best practice. One scientific trial of the vaccine found it reduced positive TB in badgers by almost 74% but any subsequent reduction in the disease among cattle has not yet been tested.
John Royle of the NFU, said farmers would this year be vaccinating badgers alongside the cull. "Farmers aren't against vaccination but they understand you cannot vaccinate and treat an already diseased animal. There is no evidence that vaccinating badgers will result in a reduction of the disease in cattle."
A Defra spokesperson said: "There are limitations on the widespread use of the injectable badger vaccine and it doesn't stop already infected badgers spreading TB. Culling, carried out in the right way, will more quickly and effectively reduce TB in cattle than vaccination alone."


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Pen and Ingrid Cayetano made it their mission to educate the youth of Belize in the field of creativity and decided to pass on their knowledge and experience in art, music and culture by hosting workshops at their Studio Gallery. In 2012 they started the youth organization, PCDyouth (Pen Cayetano Dangriga youth) for boys and girls at the age of 9 to 14 years.
The PCDyouth meet once a week and there are longer periods of classes during the school holidays. The organization was formally registered in 2013. The Training courses include music and dance, textile design, drawing, painting and arts & craft. All these areas will be effectively covered by qualified instructors have experience in the field. Besides the skills listed above, the youths will also learn discipline, creativity and good work ethics along with other life skills.
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Last days of Smedley Award… you can still get it!
100% Proxies assigned, only 2 districts in the world were so well represented at International Convention.
100% District Officers trained during Athens Conference, Warsaw Bootcamp, Tallinn DECM and online.
93% Club Officers trained. Congratulations to Division A lead by Agata Banach and Division C lead by Marta Geszkiewicz for achieving 100% trained officers goal in all their areas.
Last days of Smedley award.. you can still get it!
To win the Smedley Award and to pin the ribbon to your Club banner, you should add 5 new, dual or reinstated members to your Club between August 1st and September 30th.
The Club with the biggest membership growth will win 100$ credit for TMI shop or Club marketing expenses.
How to do it you may ask? Below you will find hundreds of ideas how to attract people to your Club!
It is membership renewals season! Do not forget to renew at least 8 members by the end of September in order to be a Club in good standing and earn a DCP point.
Only representatives from Clubs in good standing can participate in speech contests at Area and Division levels.
During this Toastmaster year 2018-2019, we are continuing to organise 4 contests: Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest in the fall and Evaluation and International Speech Contest in the spring. Two winners from each Division will compete during District 108 Spring Conference, 17th-19th May 2019 in Wrocław for all four contests.
We are encouraging every Contest Chair and participant to review the new Speech Contest Rulebook because it contains many changes and let the best speaker represent us in Denver, August 2019!


Back in 1972, Deep Purple's Machine Head was one of my favorite albums. I defended it from detractors who thought it too much machine and not enough head. I thought it was a step up from Fireball and the band was at the top of its game in the studio and in concert as demonstrated on 1973's Made in Japan. But in an era when artists like Bowie, Beck, and Pink Floyd were breaking new ground and leaving the tie-dyed '60s behind, I thought Machine Head was fantastic, but not any sort of watershed moment in rock history. Then again, I loved "Highway Star," "Lazy," and "Space Truckin'" but never did understand why "Smoke on the Water" became so iconic with so many better Purple songs on the album.
Of course, I couldn't have predicted that 40 years in the future, folks like Eddie Trunk and his compatriots on VH1's That Metal Show would look back to Sabbath, Purple, and Zeppelin as being the first metal bands to matter. Judging from the TMS shows I've seen, nothing recorded before these groups rates in the Top 5 lists they compile every broadcast. From that perspective, Machine Head would certainly seem to be an appropriate choice for a tribute starring metalheads inspired by the Deep Purple line-up of Ian Gillan (vocals), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), and—to my mind the lynch pin of it all–the late Jon Lord on keyboards.
Initially released as part of a limited edition Classic Rock magazine "fanpack" which included photos and interviews, Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head is unlike many other tribute collections. Normally, such assemblies offer artists from a cross-section of genres doing re-interpretations of the honored performer or album. For the most part, the bands here are in the direct lineage of Purple and most would sit comfortably on the TMS couch.
The bulk of the contributors pay most homage to Blackmore's guitar leads. For example, Chickenfoot's live "Highway Star"—surprisingly not the opening track—is a note-for-note presentation of a classic melody from the "supergroup" of Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, and Chad Smith. Black Label Society does "Pictures of Home," Kings of Chaos (Joe Elliott, Steve Stevens, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum) do "Never Before," and Iron Maiden digs up their version of "Space Truckin'" that they recorded in 2006 and resurrected for this package.
With overdue nods to Lord, Jimmy Barnes and Joe Bonamassa's keyboard/guitar trades on "Lazy" is an album standout. "Smoke on the Water" gets two incarnations, the first being from Carlos Santana with workmanlike vocals from Jacoby Shaddix originally released on Santana's own Guitar Heaven. The other, from Flaming Lips, is alternative electronica, a bit of a break from the guitar jams on most of the other tracks. Ironically, Metallica offers the most mellow of the songs with "When A Blind Man Cries," a tune that wasn't on Machine head but recorded at the same sessions. Released as the b-side to "Never Before," I suspect most of us first heard the studio version on a Warner Bros. sampler. If memory serves, the compilation was called Burbank.
The only Purple alum, Glen Hughes of the Mark III grouping, and Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot drummer Chad Smith appear together on two tracks, "Maybe I'm A Leo" and the album's grand finale, a burning reprise of "Highway Star" featuring Steve Vai on the axe. It's too bad none of the living original Purples could be involved in some way, but then again, we'll always have the 1972 classic that inspired it all.
While the collection can't fairly be described as diverse, each selection is distinctive and thus most listeners will find both favorites and songs they can live without. For some, the better they like the original songs, the more likely they'll like the new covers. For others, if they like the bands doing the new interpretations more so than the Purple versions, they'll likely check this set out just to hear a new song from Chickenfoot, Iron Maiden, etc.
Whatever attracts you to this tribute, odds are there's something here for you if not necessarily the entire package. I can't think of one tribute where the same couldn't be said. But I did put this one away with one thought: Ian Gillan was in a class by himself. Some vocalists, Glen Hughes and Sammy Hagar being among them, can imitate his range, but "Jesus Christ, Superstar" himself can't be duplicated. That's what makes a tribute a tribute. The original set a bar all others can only emulate.


A collection of any other style of poem that the students have chosen to try.
I copied this template form C.J. Dennis' 'The Drovers'.
Out across the Mallee root down the dusty lanes.
That's the way the farmers go. But how do they come back?
Back across the shrub lands, back across the plains.
Every step he took he felt alone.
Called the police and they made a search party.
Then they went back home and said you are not alone.
This is were you belong.
School is for people who can handle the stress.
All that proves is school is not for me.


Did you know that work-related illnesses affect double the amount of people as injuries? Musculoskeletal disorders, stress, respiratory conditions, skin disorders, hearing loss, back pain, the list is long and it's costing UK businesses a fortune, as well as affecting the lives of over 1 million people. In 2014/15 alone, work-related illness cost businesses £9.3 billion, almost double the cost of injury (£4.8 billion). Last year, work-related illness and injury combined, resulted in 30.4 million working days lost! These startling statistics make it shockingly clear that managing health, should be just as important as safety. In this article, we are going to share how businesses in the motor trade can create a positive culture around health and wellbeing and provide practical advice relating to hearing loss and hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS).
Is health the poor relation to safety in your business?
1. Do you struggle to engage your teams in health and wellbeing?
2. Are you seeing increasing issues with hearing loss and hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS)?
3. Are you concerned about, or experiencing, fines and fee for intervention related to health issues?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then read on.
It's vital to make your board interested in health and wellbeing for change to become a strategic objective for the business. This can be a challenge as the impact of improving health and wellbeing is not always certain or immediate. However, as the old saying goes, "what gets measured, gets done", so provide your board with a compelling story, backed up by statistics, to demonstrate the personal and business benefits. The excellent online resources from the IOSH No Time To Lose campaign will help you make your case.
• Train people to understand the immediate risks of bad practice, but also the future consequences on their lives and those of their loved ones. For example, when training people on the risks of repetitive strain injuries, give context on how it could affect both their work and family life in the future.
• Make designing and developing wellbeing campaigns a collaborative process to get workforce buy-in. This creates a community environment around health and is more likely to lead to cultural change.
• Find out if you still have a problem. Complete exposure sampling for noise and vibration, including personal dose as well as equipment measurements.
• Using medical surveillance results and the above sampling, put in place person specific risk assessments and control measures.
• Provide easy to follow information for your technicians about the effects of noise and vibration and explain the measures you have in place to protect them. Use film, photographs and other media for clear communication.
• Keep records. It goes without saying that the HSE will expect to see very clear physical and written evidence that you have the right control measures in place.
• Technology now makes it easy to monitor the potential for both noise and HAV exposure in real time. Some solutions now offer wearable technology, paired to the employee, rather than just attached to the plant or equipment.
• Ensure that more than one person at each site has knowledge of and access to, all the evidence of your health programmes, should an HSE inspector call.
Protecting the health of your people now and in the future, is not only morally the right thing to do, it will also lead to a reduction in lost work time and an increase in productivity. Not to mention protecting your business from costly action from regulators and expensive insurance premiums. With that in mind, it's no surprise that successful organisations pride themselves on the health and wellbeing of their workforce.


29 November 2017- As development of the Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) standard progresses and more suppliers become involved, organizational alliances are developing to more quickly advance work on the standard. A case in point is the announcement of an agreement between the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Avnu Alliance.
The two organizations have agreed to work together to advance deployment and interoperability of devices with TSN open standards. According to IIC and Avnu, the organizations will "align efforts to maximize interoperability, portability, security and privacy for the industrial Internet." The IIC supports two TSN testbeds where member companies collaborate to test TSN implementations and device interoperability.
Read about a TSN presentation delivered at the IIC's 2017 IoT Solutions World Congress explaining the standard's ability to deliver deterministic communications regardless of the deterministic ability of end devices on the network.
Avnu and IIC met with more than 20 companies for a TSN Testbed plugfest in October to evaluate and conduct TSN device conformance tests to develop a baseline certification for the industrial market. This event was the most recent of eight hands-on plugfests conducted in the U.S. and Europe over the past 18 months. Lessons learned from these plugfests and the ongoing IIC TSN Testbed activities are contributing to the conformance test development for the TSN standard and feed into standards revisions as necessary. According to Avnu, these conformance tests ensure that the device or its embedded silicon conforms to the relevant IEEE standards, as well as additional requirements that Avnu has selected as necessary for proper system interoperability.
Companies currently participating in the IIC TSN Testbed are: Analog Devices, Avnu Alliance, Belden/Hirschmann, Bosch Rexroth, B&R Industrial Automation, Calnex, Cisco, Hilscher, Intel, ISW, Ixia, Kalycito, KUKA, National Instruments, Phoenix Contact, Pilz, Renesas Electronics, SICK AG, TTTech, WAGO, and Xilinx.
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"UniRoyal? What's a UniRoyal?" If we were asked that question once, we were asked It a thousand tl meso In fact, people from 24 different coun- tries have been constantly querying us about those 'mysterious-looking" Uni- Royal plants they've been seeing. And they'd usually start off with the same question: "What's a UniRoyal?" And we'd always start off with the same answer: "UniRoyal, my friend, is the new worldwide trade-mark of the United States Rubber Company." To which they'd invariably reply: , AND TELL US YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A UNIROYAL IS? J "Why UniRoyal?" To which we'd invariably reply: "Be- cause UniRoyal tells more about the u.s. Rubber Company and what it makes to- day than 'U.S. Rubber' does." At which point we'd see that they still didn't know what we were talking about. So, to clear things up, we'd explain that: "'U.S. Rubber' on a product says 'rubber' to a consumer, and about 50% of the products we make today have lit- tle or nothing to do with rubber" And, to further clear things up, we'd further explain that: "'U.S. Rubber' also j . says 'Made in U.S.A.' to a consumer in Europe, Canada or Latin America. Which can cause a lot of confusion now that U.S. Rubber has 28 big manufacturing plants In 23 foreign cou ntnes." "Oh!"they'd exclaim, the puzzled looks leaving their faces. 'I see. u.S. Rubber needed a new international trade-mark; one that didn't say 'rubber' or 'U.S.' So they chose UniRoyal." _ ___ "Right," we'd an.. . Ii!! , swer. "We couldn't I have stated it better . ourselves." U..S.. RU BBER ":::"


The EK Realforce sold for way less than I would've preferred. The Leopold 660C in white. The one I longed for and finally got my hands on. That one sold too. I couldn't keep going on this way. The pain was now a fixture in my life. It kept my slumber shallow. Every meal provoked it to lash out on me. Suddenly I understood how people got hooked on pain medication.
Koala was buried in schoolwork. I scraped what little cash I had to buy silicone and resin. During that time, I was even afraid to show my face in the community. We vanished from the mech world but the mech world followed me wherever I went. This wasn't fun anymore.
The buy took its toll on me. Restless nights and unsurmountable orders left me a shadow of my former self. Koala and I had our share of "heated debates" on whether we should push on. What began as a passionate desire to learn a craft turned into a grueling chore that I begrudgingly performed.
But with each failure, an insight followed. We remade the molds and I began to understand the intricacies of resin casting. Changes to my routine were documented and executed. We still experienced our share of failed production runs but the difference–now–was that I finally knew why.
With our heads bowed low, we returned to the community. "Meowcaps are back in production" we told them. We expected pitchforks and torches but were surprised to be met with concern and a warm welcome. The outpouring was overwhelming and I have to admit, I was touched. I'd like to think the reception wasn't completely derived from a desire to get caps but, rather, a sincere concern for others in the community.
We soldiered on, through the end of production and shipping. In the end, Koala and I felt an overwhelming sense of peace and relief. We diligently watched for the photos to be posted online. Every one of them brought us a sense of pride that could only come from overcoming hardship. Every little paw, a testament to our blood, sweat and tears. And to this day, when we see them pass from one user to another, it felt like watching a kitten we fostered, find a good home.


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The First Mistake
by Sandie Jones
Pub Date: 11 Jun 2019
Sandie Jones
"Sophia, let's go," I call out from the hall. "Livvy, where's your homework?"
She huffs and rushes off to the kitchen. "I thought you'd put it in my bag."
"I'm your mother, not your slave. And besides, you're eight now, you should be taking more responsibility." I'm exasperated, though in truth, I'd happily pack her school bag for another ten years if it meant I could hang on to my baby who, it seems, has disappeared within a blink of an eye. How had I lost that time?
"Here," she exclaims. "Have you got my swimming cap?"
"Olivia! Oh, for God's sake, is it swimming today?"
She sticks one hip out to the side and rests her hand on the other, with all the sassiness of her fifteen-year-old sister. "Er, yeah, it's Wednesday."
"Run upstairs quickly, look in your top drawer. I'll count to five and you need to be back down here. Sophia, we're going." I'm shouting by the end of the sentence.
What my elder daughter does up there I don't know. Every day it seems to take her five minutes longer to straighten her hair, scribe the black kohl under her eye, inflate her lips with self-plumping lip gloss or whatever else it is she uses. She looks undeniably gorgeous when she does eventually appear, but is it all really necessary, for school?
"I can't find it," Olivia calls out.
"We're late," I shout, before huffing up the stairs. I feel a heaviness in my chest, a spring tightly coiled, as I rifle desperately through her socks and knickers. "If I find it in here ..." I say, never finishing the sentence, because I'm not quite sure what I'm threatening. "Did you wear it last week?"
"Yes," she says quietly, aware of my mood.
"Well, do you remember bringing it home?"
"Yes, definitely," she says confidently, knowing that any other response will have me blowing a gasket.
The grip on my chest releases as I spot the matte rubber cap in the back corner of the drawer. "Great," I say under my breath, before adding as I run down the stairs, "Livvy, you really do need to wake up. Sophia, we're getting in the car."
"I'm coming," she shouts back indignantly, as if she's said it three times already. With her music playing that loudly, how would anyone ever know?
She skulks into the passenger seat of the car and instantly pulls down the sun visor to inspect herself in the mirror as we drive.
"Haven't you just spent the past hour doing that?" I ask.
She tuts and flicks it back up with as much attitude as it will allow.
"What time will you be home tonight?" I ask, ten minutes later, as I lean across and offer my cheek. She kisses it reluctantly, which she's only just started doing again, since we struck a deal to park slightly farther away from school.
"There's a maths revision class, so I'll probably go to that," she says. "What's for tea?"
We've just had breakfast, are at least four hours away from lunch, and she wants to know what's for tea? I do a mental scan of the fridge. It doesn't look too healthy. I might be able to rustle up a pasta dish, at best.
"What would you like?" I smile.
She shrugs her shoulders. "Don't mind. Something nice?"
I pull her toward me and kiss the top of her head. "Go on, go. I'll pop into Marks and Spencer if I get time."
She smiles and gets out of the car. "See you, divvy Livvy."
"Bye poo face," giggles her little sister from the back seat.
I put the window down as we drive past her and call out, but she's already locked into her phone, unseeing and unhearing of everything else around her. "Look up," I say to her silently. "You'll never know what you might miss."
Olivia and I do a light jog into school, which isn't easy in these heels. "I love you," I say, as she rushes off to join a playground game of netball without looking back.
"Mrs. Davies, can I have a word?" calls out Miss Watts from across the playground. I purposely avoid eye contact. I don't have time for this. I look at my watch to let her know I'm under pressure.
"Sorry, it won't take a minute," she says. "Would you like to come into the classroom?"
I look at my watch again. "I'm running late, can we do it here?"
"Of course. It's just that ..." She looks around surreptitiously, but it's early enough not to have too many other parents within earshot. "It's just that we had a little incident yesterday, in the playground."
My heart lurches and I can feel my brow furrowing. "What kind of incident?" I ask, forcing myself to stay calm.
The teacher rests a reassuring hand on my arm, though it feels anything but. "Oh, it's nothing serious," she says. "Just a falling-out between a few of the girls." She rolls her eyes. "You know how girls can be."
"Was Olivia involved?" I ask.
"Apparently so. There were just a few nasty words bandied about, and Phoebe Kendall says that Olivia threatened not to play with her anymore. I'm sure it was nothing more than playground antics, but Phoebe was a little upset by it."
I imagine she was. "Olivia didn't mention anything last night. Did you speak to her?"
"I had a quiet word yesterday," she says, looking around again before continuing in a hushed tone. "It's just that it isn't the first time that Olivia has been involved in an altercation of this type."
I look at her, trying to read what's going on behind her eyes. "Oh" is all I can manage.
Miss Watts leans in closer. "She's normally such a bright and bubbly child, eager to be friends with everyone, but these past few weeks ..."
I rack my brain, wondering what's changed things. "I'll talk to her — see what's going on."
"Perhaps it would be useful to come in for a chat," she says, tilting her head to one side. Her condescending smile reminds me of a therapist I once had. The one who asked me to close my eyes and imagine I was lying on a deserted beach, with the sun warming my skin and the gentle waves lapping at my feet.
I hadn't gone back. Treating me like a five-year-old didn't work then, and it certainly isn't going to work now.
"I'd be happy to see you and Mr. Davies after school today if you're available?" Miss Watts goes on.
"I'm afraid Nathan ... Mr. Davies is away on business. He's flying back this afternoon."
"Ah, okay then, perhaps another time," she says. "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, just something we need to keep our eye on."
"Of course," I say before turning on my heels and instantly bumping into a group of girls playing hopscotch. "I'll talk to her tonight."
I make my apologies to the disgruntled children as I tiptoe over brightly painted numbers on the tarmac.
"Wow, you look a bit done-up for this time in the morning," calls out Beth, as she streaks past me in trainers and go-faster Lycra with her daughter Millie trailing behind.
"Hey, gorgeous girl," I say to the petulant-looking eight-year-old. "What's up?"
"She got up late," Millie replies, as she rolls her eyes theatrically toward her mother. "And now we're all paying for it."
Beth turns around and pokes her tongue out at the both of us. "Let me drop this little madam off and I'll walk out with you."
I tap my watch. "I'm running late," I say after her. "I'll catch you later." But she's already gone and is depositing Millie in the playground. I start walking out, knowing that within seconds she'll be at my side.
"So where are you off to all dressed up?" she asks, half-accusingly, as she catches up with me. I look down at my black skirt; granted, it is a little tight. And my red top; perhaps a little low. But my jacket goes some way to covering me up. Suddenly conscious of what Miss Watts might have thought, I pull it closed.
"Do I have to be going somewhere to make an effort?" I laugh lightly, though Olivia is still nagging at my brain.
"Anything other than pajamas or gym gear is abnormal at this time of day," Beth says. "So yes, you looking like that, when us mere mortals haven't even had time to brush our teeth, is really not fair, and most definitely shouldn't be allowed."
"It's just my normal work attire," I say. "Nothing out of the ordinary."
My face flushes and she raises her eyebrows. Who am I trying to kid?
"I believe you, even if a thousand others wouldn't," she says, giving me a wink.
I smile, though I feel the heat rise in my cheeks. "Did you hear anything about the girls falling out yesterday?"
She looks at me nonplussed and shakes her head. "No, why, what happened?"
"Miss Watts just told me that a few of them had a bit of a ding-dong. It seems Phoebe and Livvy were involved. I just wondered if Millie had said anything to you about it."
"No, but I can ask her if you like."
"Probably best not to make a big thing of it for the moment," I say. "I'll wait and see if Livvy mentions it."
"Okay. You still on for tomorrow night?"
"Definitely! Nathan's back today and already knows he's on babysitting duties."
"That's what I like to hear," she says, laughing. "A man who knows his place."
"Where do you fancy going?" I ask. "Uptown or do you want to stay local? There's a new place that's just opened in Soho. Nathan went there with a client and raved about it."
"I don't mind, could give it a try. Though saying that, I don't get paid for another three days, so if it's expensive, I might have to save it until after payday."
"No worries, it'll be my treat," I say, and see her eyes momentarily narrow. I bite my tongue and immediately wish I could suck the words back in. I'd hate for her to think I'm being patronizing, but I'd genuinely like to help. It takes a little longer for my brain to catch up with my mouth and realize that she might appreciate a handout for something more worthwhile than an over-priced meal in a fancy restaurant.
"Don't be silly," she says finally, and I let out a sigh of relief. "Why don't we do a pizza night tomorrow and go uptown next week?"
"Sounds like a plan," I say.
"So, are we going for the burgundy and gold for the drawing room at Belmont House?" I ask the team around me, as they contemplate the mood boards in front of them.
"I've tried working up a royal blue, with white accents," says Lottie, our junior designer, as she absently chews on the end of a pencil. "But it doesn't look nearly as decadent as the burgundy."
"Great," I say, gathering up the loose papers that I'd strewn over the table during the meeting. "So, let's present them with that and see what they think. Is there anything else?"
"I've just got a few accounting queries," pipes up Matt, "but they can wait until Nathan's back from Japan."
I look at my watch and my breath quickens. "He's due to land in the next hour or so, all being well. If he makes good time, he might pop in. Are you sure it can wait until tomorrow if he doesn't?"
"Yeah, course," says Matt. "It's nothing urgent."
"Okay, so if that's all?" I ask, looking around at the nodding heads.
"Can I have a quick word?" says Lottie, hanging back as the rest of the team file out.
"Sure." I smile. "What's up?"
"I just wondered if I'd be able to come to the meeting at Belmont House with you tomorrow?"
I consider it for a moment.
"It's just that I've got loads of ideas, and I really feel I could bring something to the table." She looks at me, her mouth agape at the faux pas she thinks she's made. "Not that there's anything wrong with what's already on the table," she rushes on. "It's all on there, and then some, and then you've wrapped it up in a big gold bow and put the Alice Davies signature on it ..." She's rambling, and I wait with raised eyebrows.
"I can't see why not," I say, when she stops to take a breath. "In fact, you can lead it, if you like."
An involuntary squeal escapes from her mouth that I pretend not to hear, even though it makes me smile.
I can't help but marvel at how far she's come in the short time she's worked here. She was as quiet as a mouse when she first joined AT Designs, barely able to look anyone in the eye. I remember asking at her interview where she saw herself in ten years' time, and she'd meekly whispered, "Sitting in your chair." The juxtaposition of her manner and her words had almost made me spit my coffee out. She had got the job on that alone.
She'd been almost mute for a week, just nodding and shaking her head at pertinent times, but I knew she was in there somewhere. I'd seen it, though Nathan refused to believe me.
"I'm telling you, you picked the wrong candidate," he'd said over dinner after her second day. "We need someone with something about them — she's not even going to be able to interact with clients."
I'd smiled and shaken my head. "She's young and shy, but she's quietly ambitious and has a real flair for interior design. She reminds me of someone I used to know."
He'd smiled ruefully. "I give her two weeks."
Six months later and she's truly come out of her shell. She's not only able to interact with clients, but is working on one or two small projects by herself.
"I won't say, 'I told you so,'" I'd whispered to Nathan under my breath when she presented her ideas on a new restaurant concept we were pitching for last week.
"Smartarse." He'd smiled, his blue eyes not leaving Lottie.
There was no denying that I felt a tiny sense of satisfaction at getting one over on Nathan. Our friendly competitiveness was part of who we were, whether it be in work, a game of tennis, or playing charades with the girls. But the overriding emotion was one of relief; that in Lottie I might have found a protégé who could take the pressure off me. Nathan was, is, brilliant at keeping the business side of the company ticking over. It's in better shape now than it's ever been. But, until Lottie joined, I was the only creative, and to have someone to fall back on, to take the heat off, has meant that I've slept a little easier at night.
Although he's not one to admit defeat, Nathan obviously concedes that having Lottie around is making a difference, as just before he left for Japan he'd championed her for a pay rise.
"She's worth her weight in gold," he'd said, as he stood in the hall with his holdall in his hand. "You should have seen her in the meeting with Langley Kitchens. She had them eating out the palm of her hand."
"Er, you don't have to tell me," I had said, laughing. "I'm the one who told you, remember."
"If I'd thought of it sooner, I'd have asked her to accompany me to Japan."
"Really?" I was taken aback, even though I couldn't quite work out why. It had been my choice not to go.
"It's not too late if you want to come with me," he'd said gently, taking me in his arms.
"Don't be ridiculous." I had pulled away, my heart hammering through my chest. "Of course I can't, I've got the children to think about."
"Your mum would have them at a drop of a hat, you know she would."
My mind had frantically run through what I'd have to go through to get on that plane with him. My breath caught in my throat as panic crept through every nerve fiber, tingling the tips of my fingers.
"We've discussed this," I'd snapped.
"I'm just saying that there's still time," he'd said as he pulled away from me. "That's all."
"I'll see you on Wednesday," I replied. "Enjoy yourself."
"How can I if you're not with me?" he'd said forlornly.
"It's Japan, how can you not?"
"Be good," he'd said with a wink as he walked toward his car on the drive.
"Call me as soon as you land, won't you?"
When I didn't hear from him, I frantically rang his mobile every few minutes as the horror stories played out in my mind. The plane had crashed, Japan had had an earthquake, there was a tsunami. By the time I'd eventually reached him, I'd convinced myself that there wasn't even a remote possibility that he was still alive.
"Oh my God," I'd cried, when he eventually picked up. "Are you okay?"
"I'm so sorry, darling," he'd said in a gruff voice, as if I'd just woken him from a deep slumber. "I took a call as soon as I got off the plane and when I got to the hotel I crashed out for a few hours."
"I thought something had happened to you," I said, still with a slight hysterical lilt to my voice, though my chest had stopped hurting.
"I didn't mean to worry you," he said patiently. "I'm absolutely fine."
I could hear ice cubes clinking in a glass.
"Are you all set for the big meeting tomorrow?" I'd asked. "Got everything you need?"
"Yep, Lottie's sent it across and I've got all your mock-ups here. I'll chat through the scheme with them and make sure we're all singing from the same hymn sheet."
"Even if we're not, I'm prepared to compromise," I said, laughing nervously. "I really want this, Nathan. This deal will put us up there with the big boys."
"Where you deserve to be."
"Where we deserve to be."
"AT Designs is your baby," he'd said. "It was your and Tom's vision that started this whole thing."
"That may be so, but having you beside me these past few years has made it the success it is today. I just know we can go even further."
"It's a massive ask, Alice. Are you absolutely sure you can take it on?"
I'd known what he was implying, and allowed the enormity of the task to wash over me. I sat with that feeling for a little while, like I had a hundred times before, waiting to see how it would present itself.
"It's twenty-eight apartments," he'd continued, as if reading my thoughts. "Our biggest job by a long way. Do you honestly think you can handle it?"
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I have absolutely no idea what the hype about this book phenomenal is all about! Because of the rave reviews, I was expecting a spectacular thriller when I decided to read this book but when I started reading it, I kind of started to get the feel of an okay-ish book right from the beginning. But I continued on because in one of the many praising reviews I read that the book's 2nd part is better than the 1st and that in the 3rd part everything comes together, so I ploughed on despite not liking the main character one A very predictable read. The writing was okay but the characterization was poorly done.
Though one thing I can say for sure is that the 2nd part of this book was way, way, way better than the 1st part which is a shame because the 2nd part is all about the secondary character, who BTW, came across more real than everyone else in the book. So the characterization was poor so was the originality. Even though I enjoyed one of the twists, the overall story was still below average.
The writing seemed immature and felt like it was someone's debut novel rather than having been written by a bestselling and well-established author. Most of the scenes were either too cheesy or outright cringe-worthy. And there was no sense of structure to the plot.
Now, you might find this book an absolute hit if you read thrillers rarely, but if you've been an ardent thriller lover, you'd know the book for what it really is in the first couple of pages.


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Report: Louisiana leads nation in 2018 job growth
By Blane Skiles
Published: May. 18, 2018 at 8:56 PM CDT|Updated: May. 18, 2018 at 10:10 PM CDT
(KSLA) - Louisiana has seen more job growth this year than any other state, according to a report out today by the Economic Policy Institute.
The nonprofit think tank says the amount of jobs in the state grew by 1.1 percent from January to April, the highest rate in the country. Texas is second, growing jobs by one percent.
Governor John Bel Edwards says Louisiana employment is at an all-time high.
"This is incredible news for our state, and it is further proof that Louisiana is moving in the right direction when it comes to job availability and having a workforce that is ready to meet the demands of our growing economy," said Edwards.
The unemployment rate in Louisiana now sits at 4.5 percent, up slightly from 4.4 percent in March. This time last year, the rate was 5.4 percent.
The state's unemployment rate is still higher than the national rate, which is 3.9 percent. It's also slightly higher than the record-low state unemployment levels in 2007. Louisiana now ranks 39th in the nation for employment.
In Northwest Louisiana specifically, employment is also improving. The April jobs report for Shreveport won't be available until the end of the month. But back in March, Shreveport's unemployment rate was 4.7 percent, down a whole percentage point from March 2017.
The increase in jobs and employment isn't unique to the Pelican State. 45 states have added jobs in the first four months of 2018, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
EPI analyst Jannelle Jones says the numbers are looking good, but there's still room to grow.
"While the economy continues to improve for working people, we are not at full employment yet," said Jones. "As states experience economic growth, policymakers should implement policies that help a wide group of working people get good jobs."
The job and employment numbers are based on preliminary April 2018 data from the U.S. Department of Labor.


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In face of COVID-19, AT&T lines up $5.5B loan and touts supply chain
Apr 7, 2020 4:59pm
In order to weather the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, AT&T secures $5.5 billion in loans. (Pixabay)
AT&T took a few measures on Tuesday to assure customers and investors that all was relatively well in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The telco announced it has struck a deal for a $5.5 billion term loan agreement with 12 banks, and that its supply chain was in good order.
"Over the past several years, the company has worked with its suppliers to ensure a geographically diverse supply chain to reduce risk in these types of situations," AT&T said in Tuesday's press release. "While the COVID-19 pandemic is subject to rapid change, in general, the company believes its exposure to near-term equipment shortages is limited."
The term-loans give AT&T added flexibility going forward, and are pre-payable without penalty. The new loan added to AT&T's debt burden of $163 billion, which was mainly due to its purchase of DirecTV in 2015 and Time Warner, which has been renamed as WarnerMedia, in 2018.
As of Dec. 31, AT&T has about $12 billion in cash on hand. In its update today, AT&T also vowed to continue to pay out dividends as it has done over the past 36 years. In March, AT&T filed an SEC statement saying it was canceling its accelerated share repurchase agreement with Morgan Stanley to repurchase $4 billion worth of shares during Q2, which would have been an additional source of funding.
AT&T also said its pension fund was in good order and that it doesn't expect any cash funding requirements in the near term.
In addition, AT&T said it would get about $2 billion from the expected closing later this year of the previously announced sale of its Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) assets, as well as incoming revenue from the sale of real estate and towers.
Overall, AT&T said it had "a strong cash position, including a strong balance sheet and attractive liquidity."
While most of AT&T's financial update painted a rosy picture during the coronavirus pandemic, it did seem to indicate that layoffs could be forthcoming due to "sizing our operations."
"The strength and relevance of our core subscription businesses, our continued execution on our business transformation initiatives, and sizing our operations to economic activity will provide cash from operations that will support network investments, dividend payments and debt retirement, as well as the ability to invest in business opportunities that arise as the economies recover."
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In January, AT&T cut its workforce by 4,040 jobs in the fourth quarter, according to a press release by the Communications Workers of America (CWA.) In addition to the 4,040 job cuts in the fourth quarter, the CWA said in its press release that AT&T had cut a total 37,818 jobs since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed near the end of 2017. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was a proponent of the tax cut, and said it would lead to the creation of at least 7,000 jobs.
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But that file is already provided by package * busybox"
can I exclude busybox and use another shell instead?
I already have include zsh and use that as default shell.
if so what is the safe way to do this?
I use imagebuilder and use make command to include and exclude packages that I want.
anyone has any experience with this?
will do the trick, you can always symlink back to busy later.
that is my issue exactly.
I don't actually need to remove busybox as I suspect it is needed for the openwrt script defaults and so on(maybe).
I just cant install any packages that have the same executable names and that frustrates me.
Is it a strict requirement to use imagebuilder or would you be willing / able to switch to the OpenWrt buildsystem?
You might be able to do a little trick with imagebuilder: instead of selecting the package, download its .ipk installation package, extract the binary and include it in the image as "custom file". Custom files are placed last to the image, so they would override the symlink from busybox.
Ps. Even with using the full buildroot, there would be the same path conflict.
I have vague memories of this conflict in the past. I presently install "real" diff and find in my from-source builds. A from-source build will let you disable specific busybox applets. Be aware that disabling the wrong things in busybox can result in upgrades being impossible without major surgery on the upgrade scripts.
in bulidroot I had the option of customizing bash(busybox) and deselecting the lean versions of programs I needed.
I use to do the buildroot because of git process being based on that.
later I tested a build environment that was from stable build but the images created wouldn't work.
Hannu, I see this issue bit another user. Any idea if the powers that be would patch busybox in master to play nicer with alternatives?
Any idea if the powers that be would patch busybox in master to play nicer with alternatives?
Somebody needs to go through all busybox default apps and respective GNU coreutils, findutils, diffutils, etc. packages and evaluate which apps would need patching.
I briefly considered doing a patch for that 1-2 years ago, but did not have energy for completing that.
Sources would need to be patched by app in style of changing bb definitions from BB_DIR_USR_BIN to BB_DIR_BIN for each app.
other alternative would be to define ALTERNATIVES definitions for each app in both busybox and respective GNU utils Makefiles in Openwrt.
This approach might be easier in the long run.


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Home » News » Mobile EEG Tool Can Quickly Rule Out Brain Bleed in Head Injury
Mobile EEG Tool Can Quickly Rule Out Brain Bleed in Head Injury
A new handheld EEG (electroencephalogram) device can quickly and with 97 percent accuracy rule out whether a person with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) likely has brain bleeding and needs further evaluation and treatment, according to a new clinical trial testing the efficacy of the new EEG tool which was approved in 2016 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
About 2.5 million Americans each year go to the hospital emergency room with suspected head injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A majority of these patients are given a CT scan, and more than 90 percent of these scans show no structural brain injury, creating needless radiation exposure and medical costs estimated at about $1,200 per scan.
The new device, known as AHEAD 300, measures electrical activity in the brain and then uses an algorithm to decide if a patient is likely to have brain bleeding. In a report in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine, the researchers say the tool could potentially help with clinical decision-making and assessment of patients and could reduce the need for CT scans.
"Before our study, there were no objective, quantitative measures of mild head injury other than imaging," said lead investigator Daniel Hanley Jr., M.D., the Legum Professor of Neurological Medicine and director of the Brain Injury Outcomes Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "This work opens up the possibility of diagnosing head injury in a very early and precise way.
"This technology is not meant to replace the CT scan in patients with mild head injury, but it provides the clinician with additional information to facilitate routine clinical decision-making," Hanley said.
"If someone with a mild head injury was evaluated on the sports or battlefield, then this test could assist in the decision of whether or not he or she needs rapid transport to the hospital. Alternatively, if there is an accident with many people injured, medical personnel could use the device to triage which patients would need to have CT scans and who should go first. Those showing a 'positive' for brain injury would go first."
The study only focused on adults and so it is unknown whether the device can predict traumatic brain injuries in children or teens.
The study involved 720 adults who came to 11 emergency departments (ED) across the nation between February and December 2015 with a closed head injury, meaning the skull was intact. Participants were between 18 and 85 years old, and 60 percent were men.
Upon entry to the ED, each patient underwent standard clinical assessments for head injuries. A trained technician then used the AHEAD 300 device to measure electroencephalogram (EEG) data — essentially tracking and recording brain wave patterns — from patients while they reclined quietly for five to 10 minutes.
The device is designed to read approximately 30 specific features of brain electrical activity, which it uses an algorithm to analyze, and to assess how the patient's pattern of brain activity compares to the same pattern of brain activity considered normal.
For example, it measures how fast or slow information travels from one side of the brain to the other, or whether electrical activity in both sides of the brain is coordinated or if one side is lagging.
The accuracy of the device was tested using CT scans from the participants. The presence of any blood within the intracranial cavity was considered a positive finding, indicating brain bleeding.
After 72 to 96 hours, the researchers followed up with phone calls to the patients and/or looked at medical records after 30 days to further confirm the accuracy of each participant's injury status.
Of the 720 patients, 564 turned out not to have traumatic brain injuries, and 156 did have them, as determined by independently measured and judged CT scan assessments.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Pedersen, T. (2018). Mobile EEG Tool Can Quickly Rule Out Brain Bleed in Head Injury. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 22, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/04/08/mobile-eeg-tool-can-quickly-rule-out-brain-bleed-in-head-injury/118812.html
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