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Month: Mar 2020
When the world re-opens
'When the world does re-open, there will be some big surprises,' is how I ended my last post. Will we, in this country, be surprised? Or will it be more of the same?
We have deserted city centres. We're keeping our distance. At the same time we're coming together. The post-Brexit agenda has been sidelined. Will it, I wonder, resume in the same way? The same desire to separate from countries close at hand and do deals with distant countries in a world which will be even more cautious, looking closer to home, than in recent times?
Go global, with all the risks that involves? Talk up trade with China, and India. Anywhere that isn't close at hand. Give way to US demands even if they run counter to popular sentiment. Talk down our neighbours. Build barriers, where we least need them.
What is new is the proposed big spend on infrastructure, as outlined in Rishi Sunak's first budget this month.
It's probably a fond hope but it just might be that the new focus on community would encourage the government to rein in the current obsession with infrastructure for its own sake in favour of a more considered approach. Who would have imagined a few months ago the Tories switching so abruptly to a big state agenda? Philip Hammond, where are you now?
Manchester and Leeds are big beneficiaries. Liverpool and Hull miss out. Likewise the peripheral towns and villages which haven't the glamour of the big cities. The focus needs to be more on the detail, less on the big gestures which catch headlines. By that I mean (re)establishing a strong industrial base. Guaranteeing good local communications. A focus on effective local government, and investment focused around local funds going into local enterprises. Tempering capitalism with common sense. See my comments on Preston below.
Corbin is now claiming the Tories have stolen Labour's clothes. Labour talked about a people's quantitative easing. As a strategy that was scorned. The government's focus on debt is more or less the same thing, and yet the Tory press are silent. (Labour and the Conservatives have of course different ideas on where investment should go, and I'm not attempting to review Labour's plans here. And they are indeed already history.)
What the Tories haven't stolen of course is Labour's social agenda. The NHS may be getting more spending, but there's no sign of any sympathy for, let alone action on, reversing the appalling impact of austerity on the less privileged in society.
As for how the right-wing justify their volte-face there's an amusing quote from Jesse Norman, author of an excellent biography of Edmund Burke, linking big sending and Brexit. Tories love to call on Burke to justify their actions. It's akin to American Supreme Court justices with their strict interpretations of the constitution. Trying to apply 18th century notions to the present day is fraught with dangers. All it does is make Norman look foolish.
'It's a Burkean understanding that the nation is a moral idea: a group of people bound together by a moral affinity. It's that legitimating sense of self that underwrites a nation's capacity to tax.' (The Economist, 21st March)
The one thing we don't have is 'a group of people bound together by a moral affinity'. Not that I've noticed.
There's talk of renationalising the railways, with franchisees find themselves running out of cash as people work from home and radically cut down on travel.
Also part of the big state are attacks on the BBC and the judiciary, for supposed over-reach. Borrowing this time from the European far right. And at the behest of Dom Cummings.
Reducing immigration: another big state intervention. It assumes that UK-born care workers and workers in the hospitality sector will emerge from the woodwork, just because the government wills it. We've also had nonsense arguments about robots. Germany has x3 more robots than we have, South Korea x10. Immigration it seems is to blame. Businesses are deferring investment in robots because immigrants are an easier and cheaper option. This is an argument of convenience, without any semblance of truth as far as I'm aware. But it sounds plausible.
Also within Priti Patel's remit, a bigger prison population is also part of a bigger state. Money which would better go on community work and rehabilitation is wasted on building new prisons.
Preston, the Preston experiment, highlights the government's obsessions, and illustrates how opposed they are to genuine communitarian politics.
Preston has over the last few years encouraged 'anchor institutions' (councils, hospitals, colleges and the like) with big budgets to use local suppliers. To spend locally. That might seem to fit well with a post-virus localist mentality. But likely to be welcomed by the government? No way.
Johnson on Preston: 'I am sure they are an estimable bunch but Preston Council are not the locomotives of the economy. We Conservatives know that it is only a strong private sector that can pay for superb local services.'
Put simply, all Tory talk of big infrastructure spend will be as nothing unless local people, local councils, local businesses are empowered. Preston is not operating a socialist state. But it is seeking to ensure that local investment and expansion doesn't come from handouts but from local engagement, and self-belief at a local level.
Markets for the government are the ultimate arbiter. Creative destruction the watchword. I'm not arguing against creative destruction per se. Businesses rise and businesses fall. But it pays no heed to community. And what we do not want is a disempowered and disaffected community.
One great lesson of politics, maybe the great lesson, disregarded by politicians, and the current crowd are a worse-case scenario, is that you rarely get what you want. Big spending is high risk, and high risk rarely delivers. Remember, amongst others, two previous chancellors, Reggie Maudling and Anthony Barber, and their 'rushes for growth'.
However great the crisis we have to be thinking beyond. The big issues won't go away. But it may be the crisis will lead to a better understanding. So may a new Labour leadership better equipped to challenge the government. We shall see.
By zenpoliticsin Economy, Europe, Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Society Mar 28, 2020 Mar 29, 2020 1,053 WordsLeave a comment
Sunny days and coronavirus
We know that March can have wonderful days. Not this year, we thought. We were wrong. The wind is south-easterly, the sky a deeper blue than we Brits are used to, and the sun is warm, even hot by day, and the nights are chill. Floods are receding, the mud which clogs our field paths is drying out. Should we be exultant? The clocks will change this weekend…
If only. This is crisis time. Coronavirus has invaded all our lives. A time to be anxious, to worry about relatives and friends. If not ourselves. We've a wartime, a bunker mentality. We can't get together to chat by conventional means, so we find new ways.
All those political disagreements, the scars of four years of Brexit enmity, are put aside because we all of us have a bigger, shared agenda.
That may sound positive. But the real world is bleak For health workers, care workers, anyone travelling by public transport, for people working when they don't want to, living in towns or cities, built-up areas, blocks of flats, for people who've lost their jobs, or the self-employed, people without work or income, relying on promises from government.
Testing kits, ventilators, masks? We haven't had, and still don't have, the equipment. Anti-viral kits – available when?
The real statistics – how much worse are the real statistics, with so many untested?
What of the US? Trump believes the tide could be turned, restrictions lifted, by Easter. But New York is battening down. Has Italy peaked? Check the number of deaths there as a percentage of cases. So much higher than anywhere other than Spain. Spain now has more deaths recorded than China.
Reading through the data it is evident that different countries have radically different testing regimes. In the U.K., what about care homes? They aren't testing their residents – there simply isn't the equipment.
The available data suggest that France and Germany have far more cases, France twice as many, Germany three times as many, as the U.K. But France has forty deaths per one million population, the U.K. eighteen – and Germany only six. That suggests far more testing in Germany, and a realistic death rate, and far less testing in the U.K., which is indeed the reality. We have far more cases than the available figures suggest.
(The demographics are helpful in contrasting the U.K. and Italy and Spain. In 2018 just 16% of (British) 25-34 year olds lived with their parents, compared with 44% of Spaniards and 49% of Italians.' (The Economist))
India with only a small number of cases, that is, reported cases, has gone into lockdown. What indeed, would be the implications for a country as open and chaotic as India if the virus took hold? An early lockdown of 1.3 billion makes sense.
Coronavirus has scale. It has entered into very corner of our lives and, it seems, into every corner of the world. We are reminded, as maybe never before, that we are one world, one humanity, open to the same diseases, and with the same capacity for coming together in a crisis.
I try to keep up with wider news. Bennie Gantz being asked to form a government in Israel, though today's news is that he will serve in a unity government under Netanyahu. The end of Netanyahu?The reining in of settlements? Not yet.
Joe Biden looks odds-on to be the Democratic candidate for president. The opponent Trump didn't want. And backed by a Bloomberg billion or two. Trump has a remarkable ability to dictate agendas. It may be harder now. Especially if coronavirus heads west and south from New York across the USA.
And what of the USA and China, with their spat over the origins of the virus, and the impact it's already had by way of expulsion of high-level American journalists from China.
But as for other news, you may search, but you will not find.
When the world does re-open, there will be some big surprises.
By zenpoliticsin Europe, Health, Media, Society Mar 28, 2020 Mar 29, 2020 675 WordsLeave a comment


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Q: Ember route transitions from one nested object to another Here is the issue I'm having.
Say you have an app with two models, Project and Post. All posts belong in a specific project. So, the paths to the posts contain the project ID as well (example.com/:project_id/:post_id).
How can I transition from post X on project A to post Y in project B? Simply calling transitionToRoute('post', postA) from post B's route will retain post B's project ID in the url.
Here's a fiddle describing my predicament. As you can see, when using the project links at the top of the page, the correct posts appear in the correct projects. However, click the link after "other post" and you'll see how Ember is happy to display the post in the context of the incorrect project.
How can I transition between these "cousin" routes in Ember?
The JS:
window.App = Ember.Application.create({
    LOG_TRANSITIONS: true
});

App.Store = DS.Store.extend({
  adapter: DS.FixtureAdapter
});

App.store = App.Store.create();

App.Router.map(function(match) {
    this.resource('projects');
    this.resource('project', {path: ':project_id'}, function(){
        this.resource('post', {path: ':post_id'});
    });
});

App.Project = DS.Model.extend({
    title: DS.attr('string'),
    posts: DS.hasMany('App.Post')
});

App.Post = DS.Model.extend({
  title: DS.attr('string'),
    body: DS.attr('string'),
    project: DS.belongsTo('App.Project')
});

App.Project.FIXTURES = [
    {
        id: 1,
        title: 'project one title',
        posts: [1]
    },
    {
        id: 2,
        title: 'project two title',
        posts: [2]
    }
];

App.Post.FIXTURES = [
  {
    id: 1,
    title: 'title',
    body: 'body'

  },
  {
    id: 2,
    title: 'title two',
    body: 'body two'
  }
];

App.ApplicationController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
    projects: function() {
        return App.Project.find();
    }.property()
});

App.PostController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
    otherPost: function(){
        id = this.get('id');
        if (id == 1) {
            return App.Post.find(2);
        } else {
            return App.Post.find(1);
        }
    }.property('id')
});

And the templates:

A: I found 3 issues.
1. Your belongsTo fixture data is missing the id's they belong to.
App.Post.FIXTURES = [
{
 id: 1,
 title: 'title',
 body: 'body',
 project:1
},
{
  id: 2,
  title: 'title two',
  body: 'body two',
  project:2
 }
];

2. When you transition to a resource, if you only send in a single model, it will only change that resource's model, if you want to update multiple models in the path, send in all the models necessary
{{#linkTo 'post' otherPost.project otherPost}}{{otherPost.title}

3. linkTo routes should be in quotes. (in the future it won't work properly without them), see example above
http://jsfiddle.net/3V6cy/1
BTW, thanks for setting up the jsfiddle, it makes me like a million times more likely to answer a question.  Good luck working with ember, we love it!

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Beauty and the Beast: Living or Dead?
Which cast members of 2017 musical film produced by Walt Disney Pictures Beauty and the Beast have died?
2017 musical film produced by Walt Disney Pictures
Release date 17 Mar 2017
Released 3 years, 10 months ago
Duration 130 minutes
Cost 160,000,000 USD
Box office 1,261,000,000 USD
Release date is wrong
Emma Watson at the Cannes Film Festival.
About Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay written by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films. The film is a live-action reimagining of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 18th-century fairy tale. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as the eponymous characters with Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson in supporting roles.Principal photography began at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, United Kingdom on May 18, 2015, and ended on August 21. With an estimated budget of around $255 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. Beauty and the Beast premiered at Spencer House in London on February 23, 2017, and was released in the United States in standard, Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D formats, along with Dolby Cinema on March 17, 2017.The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with many praising Watson's and Stevens's performances as well as the ensemble cast, faithfulness to the original animated film alongside elements from the Broadway musical, visual style, production values, and musical score, though it received criticism for some of the character designs and its excessive similarity to the original. The film grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing live-action musical film, and making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2017, the tenth-highest-ever-grossing film in North America and the 14th-highest-grossing film of all time. The film received four nominations at the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards and two nominations at the 71st British Academy Film Awards. It also received Academy Award nominations for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design at the 90th Academy Awards.
The following people were involved in the making of Beauty and the Beast:
British actress, model and activist
English actress and writer
English actor
Scottish actor
American singer and actress
American actor, writer, film producer and film director
English actress
British actress
Haydn Gwynne
Michael Jibson
Ray Fearon
Clive Rowe
Henry Garrett
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COVID-19 severity in relation to sociodemographics and vitamin D use
COVID-19 severity in relation to sociodemographics and vitamin D use.
The aims of this observational study of 428 recovered COVID-19 patients in Iraq, conducted by online questionnaire, were to evaluate COVID-19 severity and relate severity of disease to sociodemographic characteristics and the use of prophylactic dietary supplements. Prophylactic vitamin D use was a significant predictor of COVID-19 severity; the prophylactic use of vitamin D predicted less severe COVID-19 disease. The proportion of hospital visits for patients who received prophylactic vitamin D supplements was statistically lower in comparison with patients who did not receive supplements (32.3% for vitamin D vs 46.0% for no vitamin D).
According to the general severity rating for COVID-19, 285 (70%) participants were within the mild-moderate group, and 122 (30%) were in the severe group.
Advanced age and the presence of comorbidities were the most significant positive predictors of disease severity.
One hundred twenty-seven (29.7%) participants used vitamin D supplements before contracting COVID-19. Thirty-nine participants (30.7%) took a daily dose <1,000 IU, 49 (38.6%) took 1,000-4,000 IU/day, 28 (22%) took >4,000 IU/day, and 11 (8.7%) could not recall the dose.
Prophylactic vitamin D use was a significant predictor of COVID-19 severity; the prophylactic use of vitamin D predicted less severe COVID-19 disease.
The proportion of hospital visits for patients who received prophylactic vitamin D supplements was statistically lower in comparison with patients who did not receive supplements (32.3% for vitamin D vs 46.0% for no vitamin D).
No significant difference was observed between the patients with and without prophylactic use of vitamin D in terms of the hospitalization, use of medication, use of plasma, or use of oxygen therapy.
Included in this study were 428 patients (190 males, 44.4%; 238 females, 55.6%) in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq who had recovered from COVID-19. The median age was 33 years, ranging from 15-80 years.
Because it is a patient-based survey, the data are more subjective than objective and affected by the personal perspectives, emotions and ratings of severity of patients.
Patients' recall of their use of prophylactic supplements prior to infection, their symptoms and the severity of disease during the infection, could be inaccurate as the data were collected after complete recovery from COVID-19.
Another limitation of this study is the relatively small sample size that did not allow for proper analysis of several parameters including dose of supplementary medications, especially after stratification by age and BMI.
Few elderly or pediatric patients participated in this study.
Not all patients were RT-PCR confirmed cases of COVID-19. Some patients were diagnosed based on typical high-resolution computed tomography or on typical symptoms, their contact history in combination with chest x-ray, and/or serology.
Vitamin D supplementation was not substantiated by serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
Stress, age and the presence of comorbidities were the most important positive predictors of COVID-19 severity, while prophylactic vitamin D use and smoking were significant negative predictors. The use of protective measures and other prophylactic dietary supplements were not significantly associated with symptom severity.
This was an observational study of a sample of patients who recovered from COVID-19 that was conducted in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq between July and August 2020 through an online patient-based survey.
The questionnaire asked about the following topics: general and personal patient characteristics; place of residence, work and risk; the use of protective measures; prophylactic drug and dietary supplements; and COVID-19 severity and symptom profile.
Abdulateef DS, Rahman HS, Salih JM, Osman SM, Mahmood TA, Omer SHS, Ahmed RA. COVID-19 severity in relation to sociodemographics and vitamin D use. Open Med (Wars). 2021 Apr 8;16(1):591-609. doi: 10.1515/med-2021-0273. PMID: 33869781; PMCID: PMC8034240.


President Barack Obama admonished Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday for refusing to say whether he will accept the outcome of the November elections.
"That is not a joking matter," Obama said. "No, no, no. I want everyone to pay attention here."
Obama added: "That is dangerous."
The president, campaigning in Miami for Hillary Clinton and Senate candidate Chris Murphy, said that "when you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our elections, that undermines our democracy."
"Then you are doing the work of our adversaries for them," Obama argued. "Because our democracy depends on people knowing their vote matters."
Obama was not the first to criticize Trump for the comments — not by a long shot.
In the immediate aftermath of the final presidential debate on Wednesday, Republicans trained their fire on their nominee for threatening to upend a cornerstone of American democracy.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee for president, rebuked Trump in a statement, saying it is the "American way" to peacefully accept election results.


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Are you really exempt from Health & Safety requirements?
Self-employed exempt from Health and Safety Act demands. Or are they?
As part of their commitment to reduce red tape for small business in the UK, the Government has exempted the self-employed from meeting the demands of the Health & Safety at Work Act. But despite this headline announcement, there are still some industries and certain roles that remain bound by the Regulations.
One of the "scheduled activities" (those industries who still have to uphold the Act) is construction. If you work on a building site, or hold one of the specified Construction (Design and Management) roles, nothing has actually changed and you are duty bound to perform routine workplace risk assessments and implement safeguards to protect other people on site.
Because of the ongoing dangers of asbestos exposure, any role that involves contact with the substance also remains bound by the Act. Whether handling asbestos or sampling substances suspected to contain the compound, you will still need to implement suitable procedures to minimise the risk of exposure, along with documentation to prove you have properly assessed each situation.
The inherent dangers of working with potentially explosive gas means that self-employed fitters and engineers will also need to continue as before. You should already have the necessary frameworks in place to meet your obligations – and if you don't, you need to get something ready now.
Other scheduled activities include contractors working with nuclear fuels or installations, anyone involved in agricultural activities, persons working on railways and scientists handling genetically modified organisms.
And if you are exempt?
The 2015 amendment contains a very important caveat that every business needs to be aware of – if your business poses a risk to the health and safety of anyone else, you will still be bound by the Act. So the reality is that although everything seems to have changed for most self-employed individuals, nothing has actually changed at all.
Whether you carry out a full risk assessment, or simply perform a quick check, you'll still need to identify and mitigate any potential dangers to yourself, your employer or the general public. And because of the ambiguities of the phrase 'if your work activity poses a risk to the health and safety of others, then the law applies to you', virtually anyone could find themselves on the receiving end of a HSE investigation.
To be on the safe side, most self-employed people would be well-advised to continue with compliant health and safety assessments to ensure legal compliance, and to provide a suitable level of protection for themselves and others.


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"Arrowsmith's finely written introduction [to The Face of the Buddha] complements Empson's style in its mix of erudition and wit, and provides a compelling account of a unique journey which has its mirror in many others."
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"The introductory essay [to The Face of the Buddha] by Myanmar-based scholar and poet Rupert Arrowsmith is a tour de force of insights into [William] Empson, Buddhist art and Buddhism itself."
Peter Tasker
"The Face of the Buddha is brilliantly imaginative, grand in its intellectual scope, fired by intense convictions about religion, art and politics. Hats off to the British Library for spotting it, Rupert Arrowsmith for his fine editorial work, and OUP for its richly illustrated edition. We're only in June, but this must surely be one of the books of the year."


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Q: How to access NavigatorScreen > options inside Screen component? Is there any way I could access navigator-screen options object inside Home component ?
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            name="Home"
            component={Home}
            options={
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A: you can use navigation.setOptions for your home screen
function Home({ navigation, route }) {
  React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
    navigation.setOptions({ headerTitle: getHeaderTitle(route) });
  }, [navigation, route]);
}

for more detals you can read this documentation screen options


A Wits theatre and performance lecturer has received a final warning and resigned, following a student sustaining serious injuries during a supervised practical, which took place on May 22.
Nondumiso Msimanga formally tendered her resignation at the end of June, after 19-year-old Michela Nordmann fell through the roof of the Wits Theatre while rehearsing an in-class performance with her group.
According to Msimanga, the group of three students present on the day were rehearsing for a sight specific performance. She said that she had received authorisation from the department and the Wits Theatre to use the space.
"It was the first time we were on the roof. I went to the roof when I was a student here, so I was familiar with the space. It should have been a safe enough space for them to do what they had to do," said Msimanga.
The first year student fell two storeys into the men's bathroom, landing next to the sinks. She sustained various injuries, including "breaking my pelvis on my left-hand side, I broke it in two places, and I fractured my hip. I also broke my wrist and fractured two of my vertebrae from the fall".
Wits student Michela Nordmann is forced to wear a back brace after falling through the roof of Wits Theatre during a practical.
long-term problems with my spine," she added.
She was also forced to deregister from her BA in performing and visual arts, as she was medically unable to meet the practical requirements of the course.
The Wits Employee Relations office initiated an investigation against Msimanga that concluded last month, subsequent to her resignation.
According to Msimanga, the investigation recommended that she seek trauma counselling and provided her with "what was essentially a final warning".
Msimanga said that her resignation was prompted both by the incident and other personal reasons, however, "my resignation kind of concluded what they were going to do anyway," she said.
Wits Vuvuzela was unable to get official comment from the university at the time of publication. However, Nordmann said that her family had approached the Dean of Humanities, Ruksana Osman, and that the university is helping her with psychological support and physiotherapy.
Msimanga will have served her resignation notice period at the end of September.


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New Marvel series "WandaVision" stuns and leaves audiences shrouded in mystery
James Barberis
Deputy Arts and Culture Editor
It has been a painstakingly long 564 days since the most recent piece of Marvel Studios content was released, with 2019's "Spider-Man: Far From Home" serving as the last time we were able to see one of our favorite heroes on-screen.
Now, following this devastating drought, Marvel Studios returned to form in a huge way, dropping their first-ever television series on Disney+ on Jan. 15, and it did not disappoint.
"WandaVision" tells the tale of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's two most powerful heroes, the romantic couple of Scarlet Witch and Vision, as they have begun to undertake quiet, suburban lives until they begin to suspect nothing is truly what it seems.
The series follows the traditional sitcom formula, with each episode spanning a half an hour and our titular characters involving themselves in comical hijinks, including hosting a dysfunctional dinner party and performing at the community talent show. These situations do not seem like usual Marvel fare, which is ultimately the point. Showrunner Jac Schaeffer and director Matt Shankman made it their intention to keep audiences in suspense as to what is actually going on within the pristine, black-and-white world.
The show is Marvel at its wackiest and certainly most mysterious. Characters behave in cartoonish and unusual manners, the setting has little to no consistency and the plot implies that what is being shown is not any form of reality. In the two episodes that premiered last Friday, fan speculation ran rampant as the teases promise the reveal of a grand, shocking twist that will believe Marvel fans in disbelief. But, until the later episodes are released, we will just have to wait and see what the creators have in store.
Leads Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are absolutely spectacular in their roles, despite having never portrayed these caricature-like versions of Scarlet Witch and Vision.
Olsen does an excellent job playing the emotionally-conflicted, deeply-tormented Wanda Maximoff in Marvel films such as "Age of Ultron" and "Infinity War," but in "WandaVision," she had to completely revise her character to fit the typical peachy-keen, housewife type, and she nails it. Her performance is warm and homey, but in key moments, the actual Wanda peeks out and Olsen delivers some truly heart-wrenching lines every now and then.
Meanwhile, Paul Bettany's altered portrayal of Vision reveals the actor's comedic abilities, as the character has consistently been dry and analytical, given the fact that he is an android. Regardless, Bettany channels the energy of sitcom greats such as Dick Van Dyke and Desi Arnaz and delivers a massively enjoyable performance, matching his counterpart Olsen beautifully.
In just two episodes, "WandaVision" has proven to be one of Marvel's most memorable creations to date. Its humor is charming, its drama is moving and its mystery is everso compelling, and it is just getting started.
There are still seven more episodes upcoming, with each likely pulling back the curtain on another enigma surrounding the reality of Wanda and Vision's existence. Now, in the fallout of Friday's premiere, there are certainly much more questions than answers, but the inability to pinpoint the truth about the show adds to its overall enjoyment.
"WandaVision" may be a tough pill to swallow for some, but for fans of the Marvel franchise, it is just what they have been craving for the past year and a half.


The Pioneer Symphony Orchestra will head to Chicago Dec. 20-23 to participate in The Midwest Clinic, the world's largest music educators' conference.
The public is invited to attend the orchestra's Preview Concert on Wednesday, December 13 from 7-8 p.m. at the school. The concert includes works by Copland, Friesen, Strauss and Pioneer alumna Stephanie Ann Boyd. You will see an exceptional display of talent, musicianship, and collaboration.


I arrived in Accra about 20 minutes before schedule, I got of the plane trough the passport control without any line at all. My bag was the second coming out on the baggage belt so I was through the airport in no time. I was going to be piked up at the airport, but of course no one was there because they did not expect me to be out at the same time that the plane was scheduled to land. When I was waiting it was a lot of taxi drivers trying to convince me to take their taxi. But after a while they let me alone.
After about 10-15 minutes i was picked up and we got to Grete and Henry's apartment, where we had something to drink and got early to bed. The plan was to drive to Kumasi early the next day.
The traffic in Ghana is interesting, you have a lot of private owned buses (Tro-tros) that thinks that they are allowed to do anything to get in line before you, another thing is that no one will ever let you go before them if you do not force yourself in. So when we where driving out of Accra we ended up in a traffic jam, I guess we used about 45 minutes on a 200 meter stretch before the police came and sorted the traffic out.
The road to Kumasi was an interesting road that when trough a lot of villages with markets and people doing business almost in the road, the problem with this was that the drive took a lot of time. But we arrived in Kumasi before it got dark.


Ok, so this really isn't a storm chase, but ya gotta take what you can get..
Well after the deluge of rain we received over the weekend, many rivers and streams were over their banks. I decided to do a first ever "Flood Chase" for the heck of it.
On a side note, the Red Rock lake just east of my house is set to rise to near 1993 levels within the next week. So much for going to the beach!
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Joanne Polin, a native of Maryland, is the Founder and President of Polin Public Relations. Since its inception in 2007, Polin has quickly established itself as the premier boutique marketing and public relations firm in South Florida. The sought-after firm has won numerous awards for its creativity and performance, and prides itself on its high level staff and attentive customer service. The firm has quickly earned a reputation for its cutting edge out of the box thinking. Throughout her corporate career, Joanne hired and managed agencies across the United States and Puerto Rico providing a true understanding of a client's needs.
The firm has a strong commitment to the community providing pro bono services to a variety of organizations including the George Snow Scholarship Fund and G Star School, the nation's only charter school dedicated to film production. Polin's team members serve on professional boards including Leadership Florida and Public Relations Society of America.
From 2002 to 2007, Polin served as Vice President of Marketing for HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation, where she developed and managed an aggressive marketing and media relations program for multiple offices and 300 Associates throughout the state of Florida. During her tenure, HomeBanc received numerous awards, including Southwest Florida/Uncommon Friends Business Ethics and local recognitions.
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31 August 2019 Charles Saumarez Smith Leave a comment
I have been enjoying the garden in it's late summer mode.
The crab apple tree, Malus John Downie:-
And its companion, Malus Golden Hornet:-
The medlars, or cat's arse:-
Angelica gigas:-
Abuilon megapotamicum:-
I'm learning.
The sacking of Sonia Khan
31 August 2019 Charles Saumarez Smith 12 Comments
I'm surprised that there hasn't been a bit more commentary on the sacking of Sonia Khan, because, as I read it, it was almost certainly illegal. From what I have read in today's papers, she was a career civil servant who had worked in several other departments before being employed in the Treasury by, first, Philip Hammond and, now, Sajid Javid. So, she will either have reported to the Permanent Secretary – most likely – or Javid himself, if she had the status of a Special Advisor. Either way she should surely have been subject to the normal disciplinary procedures of the civil service, if she had, indeed, committed an offence, which is unclear.
Of course, she won't go to an employment tribunal. People seldom do because they will be conscious that it will damage their future employment prospects.
What Cummings has almost certainly done is something which he wasn't authorised to do, contrary to all established HR procedures, and possibly open to the charge of bullying.
Funny that ! It feels like their general approach to the rulebook, which is why they are so keen to tear it up.
Prorogation (2)
30 August 2019 Charles Saumarez Smith 6 Comments
Having read a certain amount about the decision to prorogue parliament today, I am struck by two things particularly. The first is the letter that Boris Johnson wrote to the One Nation group of MPs in order to win their support in July in which he said so categorically that he 'would like to make it absolutely clear that I am not attracted to arcane procedures such as the prorogation of Parliament. As someone who aspires to be the Prime Minister of a democratic nation, I believe in finding consensus in the House of Commons'. He put the issue so beautifully clearly. This was a month ago. How must they now feel if they voted for him ?
The second is that he appears not to have discussed the decision in cabinet, which includes so many, including Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid and Matt Hancock, who have gone on public so recently expressing their extreme hostility to the idea of prorogation. So, it is not just parliament that he has kicked in the teeth, the Queen and his political opponents, but so many of his allies and supporters. How must they feel as they face their families and friends over the breakfast table and have to defend, and support, a decision, which they so vocally don't and can't ?
I have been asked for my views on the Prorogation of parliament, but the truth is that I have rather given up commenting on politics after Edward Chaney, a passionate pro-Brexiteer and, as he claims, a founder member of UKIP, pointed out, which I do not deny, that I am not especially well informed on politics and do not speak, and so therefore, cannot write with any particular authority on it. I am also conscious that I represent exactly the constituency of people that the Brexiteers detest: a London-based, middle-class professional who is pro-Europe as much for historical and cultural reasons as for its economic and political benefits, which are, and always have been, more disputed.
The truth is that I feel, as many others must do, a colossal sense of anxiety and disillusion. I have never previously experienced what feels like a putsch from a group of highly motivated, politically dedicated, well-organised and passionate believers in a cause I do not share. I am sure they regard themselves as well-intentioned, fighting for what they believe to be a just cause. I know some of them. But we have lived at least since the seventeenth century in a parliamentary democracy and I had understood that that was what the Brexiteers most wanted to preserve: the sovereignty of parliament. So, to suspend parliament and to think that this will help create a spirit of national unity behind a forced Brexit is, so far as I am concerned, deeply anti-democratic, probably, but not necessarily, fatally misguided. But I am not yet out on the streets protesting. Just worried.
The Thames in Rotherhithe
28 August 2019 Charles Saumarez Smith 1 Comment
Before Monteverdi, I walked down to the shore of the Thames, which is reached past the Mayflower and warehouses and was beautiful at dusk, the quiet of the river, with Tower Bridge in the distance and the Shard looming over it all:-
Monteverdi in Rotherhithe
I was invited – and was very pleased to have been – to a performance of Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1638) by Ante Terminum Productions, a group of young singers, dancers and musicians assembled by Frederick Waxman. It was in the most astonishing space – a vacant drum, belonging to the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, which I think must be the original Grand Entrance Hall to the tunnel under the Thames, which was designed by Brunel for the East London line, with a fine red staircase recently added by Tate Harmer.
It provided a wonderful resonance, even in spite of the noise of the trains, for Monteverdi's music, dance and singing:-
Since pork pies are much in the news at the moment (and we know what an expert Boris Johnson is on them), I feel I should recommend our local Anglesey pork pies, made by The Fat Pig at the Marram Grass, and as good as any I have tasted, although probably not in Thailand:-


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Study says women are underrepresented in top animation jobs
June 10, 2019 9:59:00 AM
LOS ANGELES -- Women make up roughly half of all executives in animation, but a study released Monday says the numbers fall significantly when it comes to female directors and other leadership roles in the industry.
The study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the nonprofit advocacy group Women in Animation said that in the past 12 years, only 3 percent of animated film directors were women and only one, "Kung Fu Panda 2" director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, was a woman of color.
In some areas, like producing, animation has better female representation than live-action films. The study found that women made up 37 percent of producers on the 120 animated films surveyed going back to 2007. On live-action features, women make up about 15 percent of producers.
"The proportion of women in this leadership role in animation, and the progress made in the last decade indicates that there are spaces where the industry is taking inclusion seriously and affecting change," said initiative director Stacy L. Smith in a statement.
Women also made up 13 percent of directors of popular animated television shows from 2018, the only year covered by the study. But women of color were underrepresented in all areas.
Women are also outnumbered in below-the-line roles like head of story, lead animators and art directors, the study found.
And in front of the camera, only 20 of the top 120 animated features across the past 12 years had a female lead or co-lead. Of those, three, "Moana," "The Princess and the Frog," and "Smurfs: The Lost Village," had a woman of color as the protagonist
Marge Dean, the president of Women in Animation, says a better understanding of the numbers will help push the industry toward achieving 50-50 gender representation by 2025.
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Texas Gas Utilities Co. v. Barrett
Texas Gas Utilities Co. v. Barrett case brief summary
460 S.W.2d 409 (1970)
Petitioner sought review of the judgment from the Eleventh District Court, Swisher County (Texas), which held in respondents' favor in petitioner's suit against respondents' for minimum payments due under a contract between the parties.
Petitioner's predecessor and respondents entered into a contract under which petitioner's predecessor was to supply respondents' farm with natural gas. Thereafter, petitioner filed suit against respondents for payments due under the contract. The trial court held in respondents' favor, and the appellate court affirmed holding that the contract was unenforceable for lack of mutuality of obligation. Petitioner sought the court's review.
The court held that contract had to be based upon a valid consideration, and that a contract in which there was no consideration moving from one party, or no obligation upon him, lacked mutuality, was unilateral, and unenforceable.
Further, where no other consideration was shown, mutual obligations by the parties to the agreement furnished a sufficient consideration to constitute a binding contract.
Here, because petitioner's predecessor was bound to deliver natural gas to respondents' property, and where respondents were in turn bound to pay for the gas, the contract embodied an exchange of obligations of value to each party.
Accordingly, the contract was enforceable against respondents, and the trial court's judgment was reversed and remanded.
Judgment in respondents' favor reversed and remanded where because the contract between the parties contained mutual obligations by the parties, it was therefore enforceable against respondents.
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Q: Problem with website indexing on Google (Wordpress + Yoast plugin) I am using Wordpress and Yoast plugin and I have problem with website indexing. I added the website to the Google search console succesfully and verify it in Wordpress dashboard. Also I added sitemaps succesfully (image below)

But my page is not indexed on the Google, it says that there is some problem with noindex pages. I will provide you more images below:

Does someone know some solution for this?

A: Did you check if your Wordpress installation is allowing Search Engines to index your site?


Investors are eyeing up another potential mega merger in the pharmaceutical industry.
Shares in Shire surged by as much as 12% on Thursday in London trading after two rival drugmakers said they were considering a bid for the biotech company.
Things kicked off when Japan's Takeda said it had floated the idea of paying about -42.4 billion ($60 billion) for Shire, but that its proposal had been rebuffed. Takeda said it would continue talking to Shire about a possible bid.
Reuters then reported that New York-traded Allergan was also considering a bid for Shire, citing unnamed sources. That's when Shire stock really took off.
Allergan responded with a statement saying it's "in the early stages of considering a possible offer for Shire." Its stock dropped by as much as 8.5% on Thursday.
Shire did not respond to questions about a possible Allergan bid. But it said in a statement that it had received and turned down three different proposals from Takeda in the past month.
The Ireland-based company said its board and management were "focused on fully evaluating internal and external opportunities to maximize value for shareholders, including any further proposals from Takeda."
A bid worth $60 billion, if it materializes, would be the biggest so far in 2018, according to data from Dealogic. And if a takeover of that scale is done, it would be the third biggest acquisition of a UK-traded company in history.
The largest UK takeover closed in 2015 when Anheuser-Busch InBev bought SABMiller for more than $130 billion, including debt.
Shire focuses on developing and selling medicines that treat rare diseases and cancers. Its main markets are in the United States, China and Japan, according to FactSet. Most of its employees are in the United States.
Takeda's best sellers include drugs that treat metabolic diseases, cancers and cardiovascular problems. Allergan is best known for its dermatology and beauty treatments, including its Botox injections.


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THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists last week condemned plans to axe 200 jobs at the Daily and Sunday Mirror, and The People and will discussed a plan of action with NUJ reps from across the three titles on Friday 11th June.
Pay women workers what they are owed !
THE PUBLIC sector union Unison last week called on Birmingham City Council to stop wasting council taxpayer's money and drop its appeal against the recent equal pay judgement that it lost at the Birmingham Employment Tribunals.
THE CIVIL Service union PCS is leading a protest campaign in Deptford, south-east London, over Government plans to close the local job centre in November.
MATTHEW BOLTON of the public sector union Unison last weekend addressed a rally of the London Citizens' group — of which he is the lead organiser.
London Citizens is the community organising group which has successfully brought together faith groups, schools, community groups and unions to fight for a living wage for some of London's lowest paid workers. It is part of Citizens UK, which aims to be the national home of community organising.
THE TUC last week attacked the new Con-Dem government's plans to cut back on health and safety regulations.
The Government said its review of health and safety legislation announced on Monday will "investigate concerns over the application and perception of health and safety legislation, together with the rise of the compensation culture over the last decade".
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "This will not be an open and frank review aimed at achieving better regulation. Instead it is an attempt to undermine the already limited protection that workers have by focusing on the needs of business.
PEACE campaigners are planning to mark Armed Forces Day on 26th June with a Day of Action in London and the next day begin a five-day peace walk from London to Colchester as an act of solidarity with Joe Glenton, the British soldier who is currently in military prison for refusing to return to Afghanistan, which he describes as "an unjust war".
THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit is five times greater than the number of job vacancies — with London, North-East England and Scotland the worst hit, according to a TUC analysis of the latest employment data published last Tuesday.
The TUC analysis of Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA) claimants and vacancies advertised in Jobcentre Plus shows that despite the recent economic recovery, the jobs market remains bleak with the number of JSA claimants increasing in half of all local authority areas between April 2009 and April 2010.
THE PUBLIC sector union Unison last Monday attacked Government doublespeak and myths about public sector pensions, accusing them of scaremongering, peddling myths and of breathtaking double-speak.
The union's general secretary, David Prentis, said: "Only a few months ago, Clegg was warning that cutting public spending now would threaten the economic recovery. Now he is saying that public sector workers should pay the price for the banker's recession, with cuts to their pensions.
THE NATIONAL Housing Federation last week warned the new coalition government that house-building in Britain will "fall off a cliff" due to a combination of financial cutbacks and changes to the planning system.
THE GIANT union Unite is to stage a public rally in Coventry on Saturday 19th June to defend public services in the West Midlands.
The rally will be held at Methodist Central Hall, Warwick Road, Coventry between 12-4pm.
THE IRISH government has expelled an Israeli diplomat following the use of forged Irish passports in the assassination of a senior member of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the day he landed in the United Arab Emirates from Damascus.
Hamas' Mahmoud al Mabhouh was murdered in his hotel room in Dubai in January by Israeli agents using fake European and Australian passports. Eight Irish passports were used by the Mossad agents, which Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin said was "clearly unacceptable".
VIOLENCE in Afghanistan is growing by the minute, despite the reinforcement of troops and the occupying forces after the US-led invasion in 2001 on the pretext of "fighting" against regional terrorism.
In nine years of occupation, the Taliban resistance has not diminished but has gained ground and intensity while increasing casualties among foreign forces, who have encountered a fiercely strong opposition.
Kyrgyzstan's unrest — will Russia intervene?
WIDESPREAD riots have shaken southern Kyrgyzstan, leaving at least 124 dead and 1,685 injured. The unrest has caused grave concern in the international community. Amid calls for an early restoration of stability in the Central Asian state questions remain over why violence has again erupted in past two months; how the Kyrgyz government will respond and whether Russia will send troops to intervene.
THE HAWKISH regime of south Korean President Lee Myung Bak, with Washington's backing, has moved to take the case of the Cheonan warship disaster to the UN Security Council, charging that the ship was sunk by a submarine from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
PRESIDENT Kim Il Sung began the work to found a new party totally different from the former Korean Communist Party (KCP) after signalling the fresh start of the Korean revolution with the formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU), the first genuine revolutionary organisation of a new generation in Korea, in 1926.
MARTIN McGUINNESS, deputy First Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, told friends and supporters of Sinn Féin at the House of Commons last week that "the political process and the peace process in my opinion are steadier now than at any time in the past".
AS THE WORLD gears up for the World Cup in South Africa, the continent's first, and as a global pandemic of Soccermania promises once again to engulf the international community, the United Nations Organisation is aiming to channel public enthusiasm for sport into awareness about other more pressing social issues.
OUR BOURGEOIS media are doing a sterling job promoting the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. There can be few people in this country at least who haven't grasped the fact that it is the latest BIG THING, to be celebrated with awe and joy.


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CoachUp Nation Coaches Building Mentally-Strong Linemen
Building Mentally-Strong Linemen
Joshua Jetton
There's not a ton of players that show up on the first day of practice asking coaches if they can play on the offensive line. When I was in high school 10 years ago, all of our lineman wanted to be lineman. We believed in ourselves. Not only did we believe in ourselves, we believed in ourselves because our teammates and coaches believed in us. This is the key to building mentally-strong lineman, which could in turn ultimately result in more wins.
From the time I first started playing Pop Warner Football, I have been told football is won on the line. In my high school, the offensive line would get an extra 30 minutes of individual drills while the rest of the team would only get 15 minutes of offensive individual time. I will never forget one high school game where we had a rough start. The offensive line was missing blocks that we shouldn't have missed. Our quarterback walked up to the huddle and said, "Listen up: if I go the rest of the game without getting sacked again, I'll buy everyone ice cream at school tomorrow." He didn't get sacked for the rest of the game, and we all got our ice cream.
Currently I'm an Offensive and Defensive Line Coach in a high school as well as the Head Football Coach at a middle school that plays football in the winter. I find myself in a challenging position where I'm having trouble motivating athletes to play the offensive line. Everyone wants to play a "skill position." I recently went to a football clinic with a coach from Utah as the guest speaker who said "all positions are skills positions."
Build up your linemen's mental toughness by underscoring how all positions require skill to play and all positions require different skills.
The key is to not act as if the offensive line is lesser and do not let the other kids act this way either. When you are putting kids into positions, tell them "this is where your skills fit better." In some cases, kids are good football players but may be too slow to play in the open field, so they fit better on the offensive line. No matter your reason for putting them where you put them, the Offensive Line is a "skill" position.
Another way to encourage your linemen is through awards. One coach I know gives out a "Pancake of The Week" award to whichever lineman has a great week at practice. At the end of the year, the player with the most awards receives a trophy. You can award players with decals; something as small as circles on the back of the helmets motivates players. This is a way to create a friendly competition amongst the team, with teammates counting each other's stickers and talking smack to each other.
Creating a mentally tough offensive line can be challenging depending the type of athletes you have.
The most important part about creating a good offensive line is telling them how valuable they are.
Our performance determines the flow of the game on the decisions made during the game. In many cases, the offensive line determines what playbook you should run. The bottom line is that every team needs to encourage and believe in their offensive linemen to help build up their confidence and mental toughness.
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Andrea Anders is a renowned American actress. She is popular for her role in the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted. Her date of birth is 10 May 1975 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Andrea Anders age is 47 years .
Famous Name: Andrea Anders
Full Name: Andrea Anders
Nick Name: Andrea
Height: 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m)
Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Net Worth: $5 Million Dollar (As in 2020)
Famous for: She is popular for her role in the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted
School: DeForest Area High School, DeForest, Wisconsin
University: Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Anders was brought up in DeForest, Wisconsin; and now lives in Los Angeles. She moved on from DeForest Area High School in DeForest, Wisconsin, in 1993; and got a four year certification in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1997. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University.
Brother(s): Sean Anders
Sister(s): Torri Anders
Hairs Color: Blonde
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
1st Tv (Show): One Life to Live (1998)
1st Movie/Drama: Better Off Ted (2009-2010)
One of Anders' first appearances on TV was a business for Dannon that ran during the 1990s and afterward again around 2006. She likewise showed up on a scene of Law and Order "The Fire This Time" (2001) as adolescent Emily Hoyt. Anders is generally outstanding for her work on Joey as legal advisor Alex Garrett and on the gathering circumstance satire The Class as Nicole Allen (née Campbell), an ex-football player's significant other. She showed up in all scenes of both Joey and The Class. The two shows were in no time dropped.
Anders has additionally shown up on One Life to Live, Law and Order, Guiding Light, and Tru Calling. She showed up in five scenes of HBO dramatization arrangement Oz as Donna Degenhart and showed up in the 2004 film The Stepford Wives, filling the role of Heather. Anders likewise showed up on Numb3rs in 2008.
Anders showed up in two successful TV pilots, Spellbound and News To Me. All the more as of late, Anders showed up on Better Off Ted, a solitary camera work environment sarcastic satire composed by Victor Fresco for ABC. In 2011, Anders co-featured in the TV arrangement Mr. Daylight close by maker Matthew Perry. ABC got the satire as a middle of the season swap for the (2010–11) TV season. In May 2011, ABC dropped this arrangement.
Anders showed up quickly as a team promoter in the music video "Retribution of the Nerds", a rap melody recorded by her previous Better Off Ted co-star Malcolm Barrett under the stage name "Verbal". The video includes the various fundamental entertainers from the Better Off Ted arrangement in appearances either as their TV characters or, on account of Anders, new characters.
One Life to Live (1998) (Elaine)
Oz (2003) (Donna Degenhart)
The Stepford Wives (2004) (Heather)
News To Me (2004) (Emma Leeds)
Tru Calling (2004) (Fake Chris Berensen/Kathy)
Joey (2004-2006) (Alexis "Alex" Garrett)
Never Been Thawed (2005) (Christian Band Slut)
The Class (2006-2007) (Nicole Allen)
Numbers (2008) (Rena Vining)
Sex Drive (2008) (Brandy)
Better Off Ted (2009-2010) (Linda Zwordling)
Mr. Sunshine (2011) (Alice)
Necessary Roughness (2011) (Laura)
Return to Zero (2014) (Trish)
About a Boy (2014-15) (Joanne)
Modern Family (2014-15) (Amber LaFontain)
Speechless (2016) (Audrey)
9JKL (2018) (Lauren)
Young Sheldon (2018-20) (Linda)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019) (Hannah)
The Good Fight (2019) (Cheryl Lamore)
Mr. Mom (2019) (Megan Anderson)
Ted Lasso (2020) (Michelle Lasso)
Andrea Anders is a famous American actress who has estimated total assets $5 million dollar according to Celebrity Net Worth.


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Women Influence for safer roads in Namibia
ROAD Safety stakeholders are getting together to plan for the upcoming festive season under the theme 'Do the Right Thing and Save Lives' road safety campaign. As drivers, we all know that road safety is governed by the Road Traffic and Transport Act. There is thus no excuse to violate the law or go against what is reasonably right.
We also know that vehicles were made to help us move from point A to point B without causing any harm to ourselves and to others, this is because we are in control and as drivers we decide when, where and how to drive.
A lot has been done and many millions have been invested into road safety projects over the years. This is noticeable along our roads, at road checkpoints, newly constructed roads and all other efforts made to ensure that road safety remains a priority that ensure safety of all road users.
We also know that road deaths are not necessarily due to accidents and that road deaths from crashes are seldom "accidents". They are most often preventable!
Many road crashes, where one vehicle caused the death of more than two people, or as in the tragic case where 13 people burned to ashes in a single crash, where the victims are young learners transported in an overloaded minibus or at the rear of overloaded bakkies are more devastating and horrific.
These road crashes leave the nation traumatised, while other drivers and their passengers become terrified of using the road. These recurring events remain a constant specifically to commuters and passenger that have no choice but to take a minibus or other unsafe vehicle again and again to get to their destinations.
In general, Long Distance Travel (LDT) is known to be a desirable activity, both in the leisure and travel segment populations and income or more generally economic growth – on the one hand and technological progress providing cheaper, faster and more convenient service on the other would be the basis of historical trends towards longer annual distances travelled by citizens. The situation forces the operator to continually grow their business and funds, while the driver is rushing to ensure that at least he make enough money to cover his salary per trip.
For most long-distance public transport, drivers have become seriously antagonistic and aggressive as they often grab passengers, bags and belongings at all corners around the country. At the same time it is about how quick and fast the driver can drop off and pick up passengers between towns without resting. All this is done at the cost of passenger safety and places other road users at risk. This is also the time when long distance transport providers' price lists increase overnight, and as a passenger you have no choice but to pay.
The increased rate of urbanisation, private car ownership and regional mobility requirements by government necessitated meeting the demands and travel needs of passengers between towns with at least provision of high quality passenger travel experience. However because transport is for profit the service is expected to be at least convenient, accessible, safe and secure, while at the same time affordable.
This is the only mode that facilitates the movement of people to ensure mobility in a dynamic and growing economy. The festive season, however, changes all that. The demand for transport increases so as the number of passengers and on the other hand the road safety risk ratio also increases.
Passengers take risks and make decisions without studying the situation at hand. As a result, they their lives are at risk in many cases. Most of the time they are not allowed to say anything but have to sit and allow the driver to drive in the manner he feels right for him. Whether the driver is drinking while driving, speeding, playing loud music and or changes a CD, USB and uses the phone while driving, the passengers do not have much say.
On the other hand, passengers become dangerous and can contribute toward road crashes in many ways. They become a serious distraction by drinking and become drunk, being loud and annoying towards other passengers and the driver, putting them in serious danger.
It cannot be disputed that some long distance passenger transport operators grow their business at the cost of passenger safety. Some see it as job creation in response to increased demand for road transport services. Negative factors have been observed for quite some time, such as the working conditions of public transport drivers, which can include increased stress levels, decreased wages and excessive demands being made on drivers, influencing work and resting times of drivers, thus compromising the safety of passengers.
The Women in Road Safety project is calling on all road users to do the right thing and save lives. It must become a priority to all drivers to ensure that their vehicles are safe; that each live is valuable. It is vital that we all work together to save lives and arrive alive at our destinations. Passengers must be vigilant at all times and record the details of the vehicle they are traveling in. they should also ensure that their names are recorded at the bus terminal where they board. Drivers must drive within the required speed limit and avoid overtaking where not safe to do so. Share the road with others without competing on the road. Value lives and ensure that all passengers arrive safely at their destinations.
For more tips and how to become a Woman in Road Safety champion in your region contact hileni@aa-namibia.com or call +264 811279321.


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The gender pay gap recedes, slowly…
By Greg Ardé featuring Darius Zeederberg
Published Date: 2019/03
International Women's Day in March once again brings into sharp focus the difference men and women are paid for the same work. Business writer Greg Ardé reflects on the gender pay gap in the legal sector. GRM's Head of Global Recruitment Darius Zeederberg weighs in on the issue.
"I'd happily give input to your story," the Ugandan lawyer offered, "But, I don't know about any gender pay gap and I'm not discriminated as a consequence of my gender." Alas, this lucky lawyer is in a tiny minority. Statistics suggest African women are paid substantially less than men even though today (March 8), International Women's Day, has celebrated women's contribution to society for the last 110 years.
Check a raft of reliably backed websites and they will tell you the extent of the gender pay gap in Africa. Figures range from six to 30 per cent.
There is a fascinating website which boasts that it is backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. To see the difference between what men and women are paid across the continent, visit https://gendergap.africa/.
A man and woman in Benin, for example, are only 6 per cent apart on salaries. But in Algeria, men earn a staggering 447 per cent more than women.
Other studies offer different statistics. For example, the International Labour Organisation's Global Wage Report 2018/2019.
A story on that report late last year by www.timeslive.co.za says the ILO found the gender pay gap was 20 per cent on average globally (based on a survey of 70 countries and about 80 per cent of wage employees).
The news agency quoted the report saying Sierra Leone had the highest gender pay gap at 46.6 per cent followed by The Gambia at 44.3 per cent.
Precious Gondwe, from Precious and Partners in Botswana, says prior to her admission to the Bar, a man could earn double what a woman did. Gondwe says it is a "real issue and it happens all the time". It leads to bitterness and resignations.
"It demoralises female lawyers and makes them question their capability. Mind you we all undergo similar training to become lawyers. I started my own practice to give female lawyers a platform to thrive and be accorded equal opportunities in the workplace."
Women around the globe are agitating for a fair deal.
According to a story on www.malaymail.com shareholders in big firms listed on the NY stock exchange are demanding companies reveal male and female wage differences. One investment firm is asking nearly a dozen tech, retail and banking companies to disclose median pay at their annual meetings.
Darius Zeederberg is Head of Global Recruitment GRM Legal, in South Africa.
His firm did over 100 interviews with female partners at law firms in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
In one interview a woman said, "On the one hand, South Africa has made huge advancements in reducing the gender pay gap in recent years, on the other hand, global and local statistics still indicate there is huge ground to be covered before gender pay gaps are eradicated."
Zeederberg says GRM research indicates that pay disparity issues are greater in more skilled legal roles.
"Our data indicates that, overall, there are no statistically significant gender pay disparities in South Africa. In some cases, we see firms with very clear pay structures and pay visibility while other firms employ a more case-specific salary determination structure and offer little or no visibility."
Zeederberg says many of the female legal professionals his firm has spoken to feel that, while there is no notable pay gap, gender bias, sexual harassment, and unfair discrimination still permeates their daily work.
"For example, a partner at a Big 5 law firm felt she was more harshly penalised for personal time spent away from the office and clients than her male colleagues. To this effect, women have lower billable hours due to family responsibilities."
According to an article on PWC's website, director Rene Richter says companies need to focus on the pay disparities.
"Overall, we are seeing more transparency in reward programmes, as well as increased scrutiny of performance and bonus outcomes by gender. Some countries have adopted mandatory quotas to increase the participation of women on boards. In 2008, Norway obliged listed companies to reserve at least 40 per cent of their director seats for women or face dissolution."
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I read this article and wanted to share it with you: How to Boost Your Own Health Through Homeschooling https://blog.sonlight.com/how-to-boost-your-own-health-through-homeschooling.html.
I recently saw a list of 100 reasons why homeschooling is good for families. Reasons 80-85 were all about health. And I agree!
Homeschooling can definitely improve children's health. They often get more sleep, more active play, healthier food, and are exposed to far fewer germs. I also think homeschooling can be great for your health as a parent. Much of that comes from the flexibility homeschooling gives you to craft the lifestyle you want. Here are some ideas to make the most of that flexibility and boost your own health.
I think many moms, if home alone, will just scrounge and find whatever is easy to eat for a meal. Ever eaten a bowl of chips and called it good? But when you're with your kids all day, you're more likely to be more intentional about food for their sake. If you're preparing them a healthy lunch each day (or providing ingredients for them to make it on their own), chances are you'll eat a real lunch, too. And with your children watching, you're more likely to choose an apple with peanut butter for your afternoon snack instead of that candy bar.
We know that homeschooled children get significantly more sleep on average than their public school peers. This helps them face the day's academic and emotional challenges.
But it's not just children who need sleep. The fact that they're getting good sleep helps you get good sleep, too! You don't have to get up early to pack lunches and get groggy kids to the school bus. You don't have to stay up late with them working through frustrating homework assignments. Instead, you can find the amount of sleep that is ideal for you and then try to guard that. You'll be better able to serve your family throughout the day if you give your body the rest it needs.
It's true that homeschooling adds a layer of stress to your life. But you also get to skip many other stressors you'd face if you put them in school. So since you have the freedom, find a schedule that works for you.
Do you need to add a morning walk or afternoon run with your kids?
Or institute a post-lunch nap/quiet hour?
Would it help if you started your days later or earlier?
What if you switched around the order in which you tackled each academic subject?
As with everything in homeschooling, figure out a schedule that works for you and go with it. Less stress usually equals more health.
Chances are your children will get sick less often at home than if they were in school. And that probably means you'll get sick less often as well. Fortify that benefit by some simple steps when you do go into a germ-laden area. When you get home from the library or playground, for example, simply have everyone wash his or her hands. Eating healthy and staying hydrated can also boost your immunity.
Don't have time for regular workouts right now? Try to find ways to stay active alongside your kids during the day. Lots of moms will enjoy an riding bikes with their children, jumping on the trampoline, or playing a game of kickball. If the weather is lousy, put on some music and have a dance party instead. Check out Homeschool Family Fitness for more ideas. And don't forget to count it all as Physical Education!
You give so much time and energy to your children as you help them be healthy in every sense of the word. As you serve them, I'd encourage you to pay attention to your own health as well. Do any of the ideas above resonate with you? Is there one small change you could make to further enjoy the health benefits of homeschooling?


Lake State Railway Company (LSRC) is a Michigan – based progressive short line railroad that has been providing "excellence in transportation" since 1992. LSRC's approximate 300 miles of track run from Flint through its headquarters in Saginaw, up to Gaylord and Alpena. Lines also run to Midland, Bay City, and Paines.
Thank you for visiting Lake State Railway Company (LSRC) and welcome to our website. LSRC was founded in 1992 by the late Jim George. In 2010, I joined LSRC as President and CEO, and we are proud to say that we have provided Excellence in Transportation for over 25 years.
Through a strong commitment to customer service, LSRC has experienced consistent business growth. This growth is expected to carry on as we continually search for new or expanding business opportunities.
LSRC is well-connected to the North American rail network with the ability to move traffic to and from our nearly 300-mile system via multiple routes. Close working relationships with both connecting rail carriers and other rail carriers allow us to quickly respond to most business opportunities.
The success of LSRC can be directly attributed to the combined efforts of our dedicated employees. These positions, from maintaining equipment and track, moving railcars, customer service, dispatching, office staff, and the management team, are all focused on safety and providing the best service possible.
Thank you again for visiting our website. I hope that you find it helpful and that your visit results in an opportunity for LSRC to provide service to you or to expand our current relationship. LSRC considers it an honor to serve its customers and the communities in which we operate.


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Home World Cold front brings snow to cities in Rio Grande do Sul
Cold front brings snow to cities in Rio Grande do Sul
Cold front: This Wednesday night (28), the scenery of the cities of Rio Grande do Sul changed completely with the arrival of the cold front, which brought temperatures below 10ºC and snow! The polar mass that reaches the region should remain until August 1st.
According to residents' reports, snowflakes began to fall during the afternoon and within a few hours it was possible to see cars, streets and houses covered by snow. The municipalities Canela, Gramado, São Francisco de Paula, Arvorezinha and Caxias do Sul were the most affected.
As reported by the Climatempo website, the cities with the highest snowfall had a minimum of -2°C and a maximum of 9°C, they are Canela, Gramado, Arvorezinha and São Francisco de Paula. Caxias do Sul had a milder cold with a minimum of 0°C and a maximum of 9°C. The polar wave still promises a thermal sensation of up to -25°C in regions of higher altitude until the end of its passage.
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A practical completion inspection is often refered to as a 'PCI' or 'Builders Walk Through' this is the stage of construction where the Builder advises that your new home has reached the stage of being practically completed. Typically the Builder will nomimate a day and time to meet on site where they will explain each aspect of the home and perhaps point out some defects they are aware of and then ask you to sign a Practical Completion Certificate. It is recommended that you engage an experienced independent building inspector who has a keen eye for detail. The majority of our clients who have engaged our services are often surprised by the significant number of defects that we identify and include within our reports. As an example, after one of our clients received our building report they sent us the following email 'I'm very disgusted at how much is actually wrong with the house and would like to thank you once again for picking these things up, as for handing the report back to my builder obviously 10 days isn't enough to rectify 123 items'. Interestingly, just prior to our appointment the Builders supervisor in charge of this home had suggested to the client that it was a waste of money in them appointing an independent building inspector.
We will inspect your new home at the same time as the Builder has advise the home has reached practical completion and provide you with a comprehensive typed individual building report, which will be fully described and worded in simple language which you can forward to the Builder. We suggest that you have written onto the Builders Practical Completion Certificate 'Our independent building inspectors PCI report forms part of the Practial Completion Certificate'.
We suggest that you advise your Builder via email or in writing that you have appointed an independent building inspector to carry out the Practical Completion Inspection on your behalf (if your builder sends you any documentation to sign regarding your appointment of a building inspector, our advice is NOT to sign anything and to first contact ourselves to discuss, as some builders try to have clients sign, which will restrict timing and inclusions within the building report, which is not in your best interests).
Single Storey Homes $445 fixed price and includes GST.
Two Storey Homes $495 fixed price and includes GST.
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This is an example of Non-Compliance and Potenial Fire Risk (No protective guard seperating downlight from insulation).