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Rasmussen, John and Earle Waugh. "Saints". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 04 March 2015, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/saints. Accessed 18 January 2022.
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The first North Americans to be canonized (29 June 1930) in the Catholic church were the five Jesuits killed by Iroquois in intertribal warfare in Huronia in the 1640s: Jean de Brébeuf, Noël Chabanel, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier and Gabriel Lalemant.
Marguerite Bourgeoys was canonized in 1982 (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-12340).
Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montréal (photo by J.A. Kraulis).
The first North Americans to be canonized (29 June 1930) in the Catholic church were the five Jesuits killed by Iroquois in intertribal warfare in Huronia in the 1640s: Jean de Brébeuf, Noël Chabanel, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier and Gabriel Lalemant. Isaac Jogues, also a Jesuit missionary, and René Goupil and Jean de La Lande, donnés working for the Jesuits, lost their lives on missions to the Mohawk.
All were pronounced martyrs (though they were not put to death for their religious beliefs) and their collective feast day is October 18. The first candidate for sainthood born in Canada was Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (1701-71, canonized 9 December 1990), founder of the Grey Nuns.
During the papacy of John Paul II, who somewhat simplified the canonization process, 8 more Canadians have been canonized or beatified: Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700, canonized 31 October 1982), founder of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame; Brother André, né Alfred Bessette (1845- 1937, canonized 17 October 2010) of the Congrégation de la Ste Croix, who was instrumental in the building of Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montréal; Bishop François de Montmorency Laval of Québec City (1623-1708, beatified 22 June 1980), the first Canadian bishop; Mother Marie de l'Incarnation, née Marie Guyart (1599-1672, beatified 22 June 1980), the first Ursuline superior in Canada; Mother Marie-Rose, née Eulalie Durocher (1811-49, beatified 23 May 1982), founder of the Soeurs de saints noms de Jésus et de Marie; Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-80, canonized on 21 October 2012), the first Canadian Aboriginal saint; Mother Marie-Léonie, née Alodie-Virginie Paradis (1840-1912), founder of the Petites Soeurs de la Ste-Famille and the first to be beatified on Canadian soil (during the papal visit of Sept 1984); and Bishop Louis-Zépherin Moreau of St-Hyacinthe, Qué (1824- 1901, beatified 10 May 1987).
The Canonization Process
Canonization is often a lengthy process. It begins only after death and after there is popular urging that a person be declared a saint. Such popular pressure, for example, exists for Georges-Philéas Vanier (1888-1967), a former governor general of Canada. The next step in the process is taken by a local bishop, who formally initiates the cause and appoints someone to see to it that testimony concerning the candidate's life and holiness is carefully and exhaustively compiled.
The goal is to prove that the person lived a life of heroic virtue or died a martyr's death, and a case both for and against is prepared, presented and judged. If the result is favourable, "the cause is introduced in Rome"; that is, the evidence is evaluated by the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints, who may then declare the candidate to be "Venerable."
At least one posthumous miracle attributable to the candidate's intercession, or a general reputation for miracles, must then be proved before the Sacred Congregation in order for the next step, beatification, to take place. The requirement is, in fact, two miracles but the Sacred Congregation may waive one of them.
The beatification ceremony declares the candidate to be in heaven, bestows the title "Blessed" and authorizes public veneration of him in the country or countries where he lived. Canonization and the title of "Saint" comes after two more miracles have been verified (and again one may be waived); a canonized saint may be publicly venerated anywhere in the world.
By the mid-1980s causes had been introduced in Rome for 10 others, of whom one, Bishop Vital Justin Grandin of St Albert (1829-1902) has been declared venerable. Also from the Edmonton area was Brother Anthony Kowalczyk OMI (1866-1947); from The Pas, Man, Bishop Ovide Charlebois (1862-1933), apostolic vicar of Keewatin. From Montréal were those of Mother Émilie Gamelin (1800-51), founder of the Soeurs de la Providence; Jeanne Mance (1606-73), a driving force in the founding of Ville-Marie; and Mother Marie-Anne, (née Marie-Esther Sureau, dit Blondin) (1809-90) of the Soeurs de Sainte-Anne.
From St-Hyacinthe, Qué, was the cause of Élisabeth Bergeron (1851-1936) of the Soeurs de St-Joseph and Bishop Louis Zépherin Moreau of St-Hyacinthe (1823-1901), and from Trois-Rivières, Father Frédéric Janssoone, OMI (1836-1916). Father Alfred Pampalon, CSsR (1867-96) was from Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Qué; and from Québec City is that of Mother Marie-Catherine de St-Augustin, née Catherine de Longpré (1633-68), of the Augustines de la Miséricorde de Jésus.
The act of formally declaring a person to be a saint is not limited to Catholicism; the Orthodox churches also have canonized saints, although none of them are from Canada. There are, however, some Russian Orthodox saints from Alaska canonized by the Orthodox Church of America; these include Herman of Alaska (1760-1837) and a native, Peter the Aleut (d 1816).
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Q: javascript date object :Error while using addDays function I was trying to execute the below code in my javascript and got some exception
 var now3 = new Date();
 now3.addDays(-4);

Error throwed is
Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property or method
I m using jQuery 1.3.2 in my page .
Whats wrong with this? Please help

A: Well, you could add the addDays to the Date prototype:
Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
  this.setDate( this.getDate()  + days);
  return this;
};

This should work fine.

A: There is no addDays() method - you need to use setDate():
now3.setDate(now3.getDate() - 4);

See the Date object documentation for more information.

A: Greg's hint is the way to go. You can find more info on JavaScript date manipulations here: http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_date.asp

A: now3.addDays(-4);

put this function
Date.prototype.addDays = function(s)
        {

          var targetDays = parseInt(s)
          var thisYear = parseInt(this.getFullYear())
          var thisDays = parseInt(this.getDate())
          var thisMonth = parseInt(this.getMonth() + 1)

          var currDays = thisDays;
          var currMonth = thisMonth;
          var currYear = thisYear;

          var monthArr;

          var nonleap = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];
          // leap year
          var leap = [31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];

          if ((thisYear % 4) == 0) {
            if ((thisYear % 100) == 0 && (thisYear % 400) != 0) { monthArr = nonleap; }
            else { monthArr = leap; }
          }
          else {  monthArr = nonleap; }

          var daysCounter = 0;
          var numDays = 0;
          var monthDays = 0;

          if( targetDays < 0) {

            while(daysCounter < (targetDays * -1) ) {

              if(daysCounter == 0) {
                if((targetDays * -1) < thisDays) {
                  break;
                } else {
                  daysCounter = thisDays;
                }
              }else {
                numDays = monthArr[currMonth - 1];
                daysCounter += parseInt(numDays)
              }

              if(daysCounter > (targetDays * -1) ) {
                break;
              }

              currMonth = currMonth - 1;

              if(currMonth == 0) {
                currYear = currYear - 1;
                if ((currYear % 4) == 0) {
                  if ((currYear % 100) == 0 && (currYear % 400) != 0) { monthArr = nonleap; }
                  else { monthArr = leap; }
                }
                else {  monthArr = nonleap; }
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              }
            }

            t = this.getTime();
            t += (targetDays * 86400000);
            this.setTime(t)
            var thisDate = new Date(currYear,currMonth - 1,this.getDate())
            return thisDate;

          } else {

            var diffDays = monthArr[currMonth - 1] - thisDays;

            numDays = 0;
            var startedC = true;

            while(daysCounter < targetDays  ) {

              if(daysCounter == 0 && startedC == true) {
                monthDays = thisDays;
                startedC = false;
              }else {
               monthDays++;
               daysCounter++;

                if(monthDays > monthArr[currMonth - 1]){
                  currMonth = currMonth + 1;
                  monthDays = 1;
                }

              }

              if(daysCounter > targetDays) {
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                currYear = currYear + 1;
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                currMonth = 1;
              }
            }

            var thisDate = new Date(currYear,currMonth - 1,monthDays)
            return thisDate;
          }
        }

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Dublin Airport will welcome a total of 23 new routes and four new airlines in the coming weeks, making this the busiest summer in the airport's 79-year history.
More than 1.3 million extra seats have been added across the airport's route network, which is a 6% increase in capacity when compared to last summer.
Four new airlines, airBaltic, Great Dane Airlines, SunExpress and TAP Air Portugal are joining Dublin Airport's growing list of airline customers.
Six long-haul routes and 17 short-haul destinations are being added to Dublin Airport's flight schedule this summer.
Of the six new long-haul routes, Hainan Airlines and Norwegian have already launched new services to Shenzhen and Hamilton Toronto respectively. WestJet will start a new service to Halifax, Nova Scotia in April and a new route to Calgary in June. American Airlines will launch a new service to Dallas-Fort Worth in June and Aer Lingus will operate flights to Minneapolis-St. Paul from July.
Dublin Airport Managing Director, Vincent Harrison said the airport is preparing for another busy summer and will have extra staff on duty in key areas. "We have a fantastic range of new destinations for passengers to choose from this summer connecting Dublin Airport to even more locations across Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region," Mr Harrison said.
The number of seats to and from North America is up 3% this summer, with an extra 91,000 seats this year. The peak summer months will see nine airlines flying 464 flights per week to and from 18 destinations in the US and six destinations in Canada, which equates to an average of 66 flights daily to and from North America.
Total capacity on existing short-haul routes is set to increase by 6% with almost 1.2 million additional seats this summer.
Dublin Airport has 17 new short-haul services to choose from this summer. Ryanair will operate services to Bordeaux, Bodrum, Bournemouth, Cagliari, Dubrovnik, Gothenburg, Kyiv, London-Southend, Lourdes, Milan/Malpensa, Thessaloniki, and Split. airBaltic recently launched a new service to the Latvian capital Riga, TAP Air Portugal will commence services to Lisbon, SunExpress will fly to Izmir, Great Dane Airlines will operate a new service to Aalborg in Denmark and Loganair will fly to Carlisle close to the Lake District in the UK.
Last month, Airports Council International (ACI) named Dublin Airport as the joint best airport in Europe in its size category for 2018. Dublin Airport won the award alongside Oslo Gardermoen and Zurich airports, having achieved the joint highest customer service score among European airports welcoming 25-40 million passengers per year. Each airport's score is based on a passenger survey that measures the key elements of the airport experience.
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Justia Dockets & Filings Eleventh Circuit Florida Southern District Salas, III v. Wellington Equine Associates et al Filing 173
Salas, III v. Wellington Equine Associates et al
ORDER denying 126 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment; denying 127 Motion for Summary Judgment; Adopting 161 Report and Recommendations. Signed by Judge Robin L. Rosenberg on 11/12/2015. (bkd)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 9:14-CV-81483-RLR CAMILO K. SALAS, III, Plaintiff, v. BEN L. SCHACHTER, D.V.M. individually, BEN L. SCHACHTER, D.V.M., INC.; WELLINGTON EQUINE ASSICATES; SCHACHTER 5320, LLC, SCHACHTER D.V.M., LLC; SCHACHTER MANAGEMENT, LLC, SCHACHTER NOTES, LLC, KATHRYN B. SCHACHTER; ALAN NIXON, D.V.M, & CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Defendants. / ORDER ADOPTING MAGISTRATE'S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon Defendant Kathryn Schachter's Motion for Partial Final Summary Judgment [DE 126] and Defendant Ben L. Schachter's Motion for Final Summary Judgment as to Count II for Negligence/Malpractice [DE 127]. Both of these motions were referred for appropriate disposition to the Honorable Dave Lee Brannon. DE 153. On October 28, 2015, Judge Brannon issued his Report and Recommendations [DE 161] recommending that both Motions be denied. Defendant Kathryn Schachter filed objections [DE 168] and Defendant Ben. L. Schachter did not.1 The Court has conducted a de novo review of Magistrate Judge Brannon's Report and Recommendations, has reviewed Defendant's objections, has reviewed the record, and is otherwise fully advised in the premises. Upon review, the Court finds Judge Brannon's recommendations to be well reasoned and 1 Defendant Ben L. Schacter did file objections to another Report and Recommendation which is addressed in a separate order. 1 correct. The Court agrees with the analysis in Judge Brannon's Report and Recommendations and concludes that Judge Brannon's conclusions should be adopted, however, Defendant's objections do warrant discussion. The central issue before Judge Brannon was the applicability of a hold-harmless clause that was contained in an authorization for treatment signed by Plaintiff. Judge Brannon concluded that because there was a question of material fact as to whether the scope of that authorization was exceeded by Defendants, the hold-harmless clause did not apply to Plaintiff's claims. Judge Brannon did not cite authority for that proposition. Defendant argues that if the scope of authorized treatment was exceeded, she cannot not be held liable because she was merely a nurse anesthetist—she had no authority to end the procedure or otherwise object to the scope of work performed by the attending surgeons at such time as the scope of agreed-upon treatment was exceeded. Ultimately, Defendant's objections are irrelevant. Defendant's objections are irrelevant because the hold-harmless clause did not cover the negligent acts of Defendant for any portion of the treatment—not just the portion of the treatment that may have exceeded that which was authorized by Plaintiff. Public policy disfavors exculpatory contracts because they relieve one party of the obligation to use due care and shift the risk of injury to the party who is probably least equipped to take the necessary precautions to avoid injury and bear the risk of loss. Applegate v. Cable Water Ski, L.C., 974 So. 2d 1112, 1114 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008). Nevertheless, because of a countervailing policy that favors the enforcement of contracts, as a general proposition, unambiguous exculpatory contracts are enforceable unless they contravene public policy. Id. Exculpatory clauses are unambiguous and enforceable where the intention to be relieved from liability was made clear and unequivocal and the wording was so clear and understandable that an ordinary and knowledgeable person will 2 know what he or she is contracting away. Cain v. Banka, 932 So. 2d 575, 578 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006). Here, Defendant cites to a single case for the proposition that the exculpatory clause in this case bars Plaintiff's negligence claims, the case of Sanislo v. Give Kids the World, Inc., 157 So. 3d 256 (Fla. 2015). Defendant cites that case for the proposition that an exculpatory clause need not contain an express waiver of the right to sue for negligence (for negligence claims to be precluded), and Sanislo does stand for that proposition. Id. at 271. Sanislo, however, is clearly distinguishable from this case. In Sanislo the exculpatory clause read as follows: [Defendant is released from] any liability whatsoever in connection with the preparation, execution, and fulfillment of said wish . . . [and] any and all claims and causes of action of every kind arising from any and all physical or emotional injuries and/or damages which may happen to [plaintiff]. [This release also includes] damages or losses or injuries encountered in connection with transportation, food, lodging, medical concerns (physical and emotional), entertainment, photographs and physical injury of any kind. Id. at 261 (emphasis added). The language at issue in Sanislo was extremely broad and extremely clear, and in light of this breadth and clarity the Florida Supreme Court held that the language clearly and unequivocally precluded the plaintiff from bringing negligence claims. See id. at 269-71. The waiver in Sanislo stands in stark contrast to the waiver in this case, which reads: I agree to hold [Defendants] harmless from circumstances arising out of the performance of their duties. I also acknowledge the risks associated [with treatment] have been explained to me and I understand them fully. DE 126-3. Further contrasting Sanislo from the instant case is in Sanislo the Florida Supreme Court noted that it was important to its decision that the activities at issue (residing at a resort) "were not inherently dangerous," whereas in the instant case an ordinary person would contemplate a more inherently risky activity—intensive surgery. See id. at 271. 3 Unlike Sanislo, the hold-harmless clause2 in this case does not use clear and unequivocal wording, such that an ordinary and knowledgeable person would know what he or she was contracting away—the right to sue for negligent acts.3 See also Torjagbo v. U.S., 285 F. App'x 615 (11th Cir. 2008) (exculpatory clauses in Florida are strictly construed against the party seeking to be relieved of liability). Accordingly, Judge Brannon's determinations were correct and the Court adopts his Report. For the foregoing reasons, it is hereby ORDERED and ADJUDGED as follows: 1. Magistrate Judge Brannon's Report and Recommendations [DE 161] is hereby ADOPTED and supplemented by the Court's rulings in this Order; 2. Defendant Kathryn Schachter's Motion for Partial Final Summary Judgment [DE 126] is DENIED; and 3. Defendant Ben L. Schachter's Motion for Final Summary Judgment as to Count II for Negligence/Malpractice [DE 127] is DENIED. DONE and ORDERED in Chambers, Fort Pierce, Florida, this 12th day of November, 2015. _______________________________ ROBIN L. ROSENBERG UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Copies furnished to Counsel of Record 2 The parties appear to dispute, to an extent, whether different law applies to waivers than to hold-harmless clauses or whether the hold-harmless clause in this case is more properly construed as an indemnification. Here, the Court's decision would apply even if Sanislo was intended to apply narrowly because Florida precedent prior to Sanislo required that negligence be expressly referenced in exculpatory clauses. See, e.g., Cox Cable Corp. v. Gulf Power Co., 591 So. 2d 627 (Fla. 1992); Univ. Plaza Shopping Cent. v. Stewart, 272 So. 2d 507 (Fla. 1973). Notably, however, the waiver in Sanislo did contain a hold-harmless provision, and the dissent in Sanislo indicates that the decision in that case did apply to hold-harmless clauses. See Sanislo, 157 So. 3d at 259, 272 ("I disagree with the decision of the majority that such explicit warning is required only for valid indemnity agreements, but not for combined releases, indemnification, and hold harmless agreements, such as the document in this case.") (Lewis, J., dissenting) (emphasis added). 3 The Court need not address whether the waiver would preclude claims for circumstances outside of the parties' control that arose independent of any negligent acts. 4


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Australian Guild of Music & Education Ceremony and Concert 2018 Performances: Caleb Garfinkel ~ Norah Jones – "Don't Know Why" on guitar. Peter Sheehan & Davis Takagi ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber – " Music of the Night" on Violin and Vocal. Kate Hodgson & Harrison Whalan ~ Gabriel Morel – "Norwegian Cradle Song" – Pianoforte Duet. Kevin Read & Russ Read ~ Rogers & Hammerstein – "My Favorite Things" Christopher Norton – "Latin Prelude VII – Mambo" on Piano and Double Bass Duet. Rochelle Natoli ~ Jessie J – "Who You Are" with Jessica Spahr and Accompanist Andrea Harrison. Daniel Langdon ~ David Hicken – "Incantation" on Piano. Christina Adam ~ Fabrizio Paterlini/Ludovico Einaudi – "soffia La Notte/Nuvole Bianchi". James Haydon & Catherine ~ Haydon Mozart – "A Little Mozart" Pianoforte Duet. Jessie Filipovski ~ Lindsey Stirling – "Ascendance" on Electric Violin. Isaac Walters ~Klaus Badelt Arranged by Jarrod Radnich – Pirates of the Caribbean ~An original Medley" on Pianoforte. Congratulations for the Class of 2017! Public Examiner ~ Catherine Haydon Bachelor of Music ~ Jack Barrile, Renay Broad and Shannon Brown Music Proficiency Certificates ~ Kate Hodgson, Isaac Walters, Harrison Whalan, Alexander Kwan. Music Associate Diploma ~ Peter Sheehan. Music A Mus Recital Diploma ~ Nicholas Godfrey Music L Mus Recital Diploma ~ Daniel Langdon One of the most Comprehensive music & speech education providers in Australia.


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Progress is Only Possible by Working in Partner-ship with Farmers, Communities, Governments, Suppliers and Non-profit Partners
January 29, 2016 By Namrata Rana in Conversations
Which are the main pillars of your CSR and Sustainability strategy?
Our Sustainability 2020 goals place us at the forefront of the fight against climate change and support our 2020 ambition to be the leader in well-being snacks.
We're adopting science-based targets to reduce absolute CO2 emissions from manufacturing as part of our ambitious end-to-end approach. We will also implement deforestation interventions in key agriculture supply programs, such as Cocoa Life, and as progress is made on the ground will publicly report the resulting end-to-end carbon footprint reduction.
We aim to create a sustainable supply of critical raw materials, support smallholder livelihoods and food security with signature programs focused on impact at scale.
What have been some of the greatest challenges in realizing your CSR and Sustainability goals in the past year, and how has your company overcome them?
Insights from our work with life cycle assessment experts has shown us that the greatest environmental impacts often fall outside our direct control in our agricultural supply chain. We also know that significant socio-economic challenges exist in some supply chains, like cocoa.
That's why we are working to create a sustainable supply of critical raw materials, such as cocoa, to support smallholder livelihoods and food security with signature programs focused on impact at scale. Through Cocoa Life we are committed to empowering 200,000 cocoa farmers and reaching a million people in cocoa communities in six cocoa-growing countries by 2022.
From our work in these programs, we know that progress is only possible by working in partner-ship with farmers, communities, governments, suppliers and non-profit partners.
We also use our position as the world's largest snack company to be a catalyst for change across the industry through broad scale partnership and engagement. For example, we are tackling deforestation through our Palm Oil Action Plan, which engages our suppliers to imple-ment traceability and more sustainable production practices.
We also support change across the sector as a whole. For example, we co-authored the Consumer Goods Forum's Palm Oil Sourcing Guidelines and sit on the board of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). And we have supported policy engagement by working with the United Nations Development Programme, the Government of Indonesia and other partners to develop the Indonesia National Palm Oil Platform.
Keeping in mind the targets set in the Paris accord what do you see on the horizon for corporate sustainability initiatives? How can companies and government work together to achieve sustainability and CSR goals?
At Paris, we unveiled a first-of-its-kind partnership with the government of Cote d'Ivoire to participate in its national deforestation program, supported by UN REDD+ and the World Bank. Through this partnership, we are leading private sector action in the program by integrating action to combat deforestation into Cocoa Life.
Focusing on two initial areas in Eastern and Central Cote d'Ivoire, we will support forest mapping and monitoring, working with the NGO, Salva Terra. We will help reduce deforestation by training farmers to increase productivity by adopting fertilizer and plant protection products as well as practices like agroforestry, so they can increase incomes without expanding into the forest.
Partnering with the Ivorian government, with the support of the World Bank, allows Mondelez International to have a greater impact and to protect forest areas more effectively than any one actor could on its own. We call for the private sector to step up and to embrace the opportunity to work with governments in forested countries to produce raw materials in a way that tackles rural poverty while reducing emissions from deforestation.
What are your goals for 2016 and your priorities for the year?
Our sustainability goals build on our heritage of leadership in sustainability and ongoing commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In manufacturing, by the end of 2020 we will implement a science-based goal to reduce absolute manufacturing CO2 emissions by 15%. This aligns with current approaches to support the global effort to limit climate change to less than 2 degrees C. We also plan to reduce water usage by 10% in manufacturing sites where water is scarce; reduce total manufacturing waste by 20%; roughly reducing 83,000 tonnes of waste per year; and eliminate another 65,000 tonnes of packaging materials. These new goals will drive reductions in the total environmental impact of our manufacturing.
In raw materials, our unique agriculture programs will drive our end-to-end approach to reducing environmental impacts, focused on areas where we can make the biggest difference, like cocoa and palm oil. Our initial focus is to reduce carbon footprint by tackling deforestation in our agriculture supply programs, like Cocoa Life and through our Palm Oil Action Plan.
Our focus in 2016 will be to ensure our programs align with these new goals and to drive progress to achieve them.
In conversation with Mr. Jonathan Horrell Director Sustainability for Mondelez International. (Original Post)
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It's hard to sum up a writer whose reputation is as large, whose oeuvre is as substantial and whose creative talent is as magical as Fleur Adcock's. Perhaps her name is a good place to start? Somehow, I've always connected her last name with the qualities of an ADze: the integrity and hardness of stone, a poetic vision with a sharp cutting edge, able to slice through all layers of artifice to reach the heart of the matter.
And then there's the first name: the delicacy of a flower, the lightness of touch that seems so natural, one can only wonder: How did she do that? Yes, somehow her dual-natured name, the balancing of opposites, symbolises all that she is as an artist.
When I visited Fleur Adcock in her North London house, we drank tea, chatted about New Zealand poetry and wandered in the nearby woods. For someone like me who's always in a hurry, that crisp sunny afternoon felt miraculously sealed off from the bustle of ordinary life. Adcock has the ability to live completely in the moment. Yet far from losing herself in it, she encourages it to approach: absorbs it (nothing escapes her curious interest, from the pattern on a bone-china teacup to the blazing grandeur of an English oak) – and then, with a kind of poetic alchemy, transforms it with a deceptive casualness that never eschews elegance.
Adcock was born in New Zealand to English parents, who took her back to wartime England when she was a child. Her adolescence was spent in New Zealand, but when she finally returned to England in the 1960s, it seems to have been a homecoming of sorts: she's been based in London ever since. More than twenty books later, with an OBE (1996) and a Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (2006), she's become a well-respected and much-admired institution in the world of British poetry.
my sister and I and the Morris kids. We wore our bathing-suits under our dresses (subterfuge), crossed the live railway lines (forbidden), and tramped through bluebell woods.
Yet as recently as 2014, she based an entire collection around her New Zealand ancestry. The Land Ballot was a poetic sequence recounting the story of her grandparents, immigrants from Manchester, who won a hundred and fifty acres of 'unbroached bush' at Te Rauamoa. In a compelling mix of fact – 'things turn folkloric if you wait too long' – and conjecture, Adcock recreates one of the most fascinating and strange periods of colonial history: small isolated communities establishing determined pockets of Europeanness in an alien environment.
… your gentleness is moulded still by words from me, who have trapped mice and shot wild birds, from me, who drowned your kittens, who betrayed your closest relatives and who purveyed the harshest kind of truth to many another, But that is how things are: I am your mother, And we are kind to snails.
This is pure Adcock: the unsentimentality yoked with deep emotion; the seemingly casual tone countered by the finely wrought rhyme and form – and then the searingly understated, undeniable denouement, which has the finality and force of a blow or a kiss. This is surely what Carol Ann Duffy referred to when she described Adcock's talent as being encountered like 'a razor blade in a peach'.


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Jim Turner, News Service of Florida
Published: September 22, 2017, 5:21 pm
Tags: Florida, News, Money, Hurricane Irma
Toll suspension cost $3M a day
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – More than $45 million in revenue is believed to have been lost when the state suspended highway toll collections to help speed evacuations and relief efforts for Hurricane Irma, Florida's Turnpike system estimates.
However, the estimated $3 million-a-day impact is not expected to hinder operations of the system or ongoing work programs, "as impacts such as toll suspensions due to a hurricane are taken into consideration during the annual budgeting process," turnpike spokesman Chad Huff said in an email Friday.
Funding 404 full-time positions, the turnpike system is budgeted at $1.57 billion for the current fiscal year, which began July 1.
Tolls were lifted by Gov. Rick Scott on Sept. 5 in advance of Hurricane Irma's trek across Florida. Toll collections resumed at 12:01 a.m. Thursday across the state, though they remained suspended on the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike south of State Road 874 in southern Miami-Dade County, as Monroe County recovery efforts continue.
Irma made initial landfall Sept. 10 in Monroe County and a second landfall in Collier County before traveling north and exiting the state Sept. 11.
As Irma approached Florida, an estimated 6.3 million people were directed through mandatory or voluntary evacuations to find shelter inland or further away.
The state has not estimated how many people took to the road in advance of the storm.
The Florida Department of Transportation also suspended construction, clearing work zones to reduce traffic impacts for evacuees.
The turnpike system backed the governor's toll suspension.
"Governor Scott's top priority was to keep people safe as our state faced the threat of Hurricane Irma and to ensure Floridians had no reason to not evacuate if they were in evacuation zones," Huff wrote. "Suspending tolls was critical to helping Floridians travel safely and quickly during the largest ever evacuation in U.S. history."
Also Friday:
Scott continued to focus on debris removal, which he earlier blamed for slowing efforts to restore power lost from storm and causing public health issues. Scott on Thursday invited debris removal companies to contact the Florida Department of Transportation --- if willing to work "at a fair price" --- as he's received complaints from local governments about debris-removal contractors not abiding by pre-storm contracts.
Scott expanded license-free freshwater and saltwater fishing through June 30, 2018 for utility workers. The same offer was provided for Florida law-enforcement officers and first responders on Thursday. The offer includes free day passes to Florida state parks through October 2018.
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GUATEMALA CITY – Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt testified for the first time at his genocide trial Thursday, denying charges he ordered the massacre of indigenous people during his 1982-1983 regime.
"I declare myself innocent," the 86-year-old former general told the court after asking to take the stand in the final arguments of his landmark trial.
Rio Montt denied the prosecution's charge that he authorized military plans to exterminate the Ixil Maya population.
"I never authorized, I never signed, I never ordered attacks against a race, an ethnic group or a religion. I never did!" Ríos Montt thundered.
The former dictator, taking sips of water during his 50-minute testimony, accused left-wing rebels of committing human rights violations against civilians.
Prosecutors have requested a 75-year prison term against Ríos Montt and his former military intelligence chief, José Rodríguez, over the massacre if 1,771 Ixil Mayas during the country's civil war.
The massacre was one of the darkest chapters in the 36-year conflict, which pitted leftist guerrillas against government forces until 1996, leaving some 200,000 dead or "disappeared," according to the United Nations.


Without their interventions, the Brexit and Trump results might have been very different.
Come and meet the millionaires who are trying to buy up democracies and shrink states. They have infiltrated the supposedly strong and stable US system, as well as ours. What they do is not illegal – but it is unethical.
Think of them as political equity operators, asset strippers who want to get rid of checks, balances and regulations and then reshape nations. Elections are for wussies. Politicians are no more than puppets. The most prominent characters are fabulously rich white men who, perhaps, are tired of amusing themselves with flashy cars, yachts and islands. They play geopolitical games and win, grabbing unseen power.
Without their smart interventions and data mining, the Brexit and Trump results might have been very different. We are learning more about these backroom movers and shakers through the assiduous investigations carried out by two female journalists.
First came Jane Mayer, an award-winning journalist at the New Yorker who, in her book Dark Money uncovered the hidden circle of billionaires who "[exercise] their power from the shadows, meeting in secret, hiding their money trials, paying frontmen."
They fund hard-right think-tanks and journalists. They get access to information. They aim to get change the way America thinks, to marginalise and eliminate progressive thinking. Trump is simply the beneficiary, the mascot of this sinister league of power brokers.
In Britain, Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr has gone deep into the internet and talked to reliable sources to find out more about these networks and their plans for the UK. It is investigative journalism of the highest standard, morally-driven and rare in our impatient times.
She has discovered a lot of stuff about Robert Mercer, a brilliant, wealthy, secretive computer scientist who reportedly gave undeclared funds to the Leave campaign while allegedly avoiding boring old rules on election donations.
He bankrolled Trump's campaign too and is a very good friend of Nigel Farage. There are rumours of data gathering, modelling and psychological targeting of individual citizens via various secretive hi-tech companies that are part of this 'movement'.
Last February, Alexander Nix, CEO of one of those tech companies (Cambridge Analytica), told a magazine that they were working with Brexit promoters to "better understand and communicate with UK voters".
"We have already helped supercharge Leave.EU's social media campaign by ensuring the right messages are getting to the right voters online," he wrote.
A techie friend of mine explained what they actually do: "They go into your head, plant thoughts. They are able to sell you ideas better than any advertiser. They can even make you decide not to vote. It's really effective and really spooky."
The Information Commissioner is looking into the illegal use of data. The Electoral Commission, which should be looking into this massive scandal, is slow and rheumatoid.
Next, let me introduce Steve Bannon, another millionaire and key Trump appointee, who formally ran the notorious hard-right website Breitbart. Mercer invested millions of dollars in Bannon's pernicious site. Bannon has said he wants to arouse the bellicose and dissatisfied, to whip up populism and break down the walls of the establishment. This he has done and is still doing, relentlessly.
Now we have Aaron Banks, the biggest funder of Ukip and the man who spent millions on the Leave campaigns. Nothing wrong with that, you might say. But since the Brexit vote, he has promised to use his cash to help oust any Remain MPs, to "drain the swamp" – in his own words.
Recently Banks also bankrolled Westmonster, a news website modelled on Breitbart. It runs some of the most obnoxious articles on migrants and the left in general. Since the election was called, the shrillness and bias has got much worse. Farage is good friends with both these masters of the universe. Circles within circles.
And finally to Jeremy Hosking, a financier, steam locomotive collector and extreme Brexiter who wants to use his money to unseat Remainers fighting the election. I once had tea with Tony Benn and we talked about British elections and governance. Lobbyists, donors and unwholesome figures, he felt, had too much influence on politicians, especially on new Labour: "The British think corruption happens in Africa and India or Pakistan. Never here."
What is happening now is way beyond mere corruption. It is a bid for power, an ideological takeover. These conspirators want to dismantle the edifices and protections of liberal democracies, and, more worryingly, to establish an authoritarian, unequal, uncivil, right-wing state.
Stephen Kinnock, a Labour politician, is one of the few public figures to see our democracy is seriously imperilled by these operators. He has called for a public inquiry. He's likely not to get one. Theresa May is on course to win, and she is highly unlikely to go after these guys, who want what she now wants – a hard Brexit and nativist policies.


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Everyone knows it was Justin Bieber's birthday on March 1. Girls across the world flocked to their Twitter accounts to wish the teen pop sensation a "Happy Birthday." Despite Bieber stating that this was his "worst birthday ever,"he certainly will be happy when he makes a stop at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener. THEMUSUEUM recently hosted The Justin Bieber Experience, which feature three display cases, appealing to the inner fan girl in all of us.
THEMUSEUM was where Bieber's birthday gift from his father was displayed—a Batmobile-themed motorcycle. The motorcycle is a 2013 MV Augusta F3, personalized specifically for Bieber by Lucent AC. The bike came with a jacket and helmet, which are also on display. The exhibit also sports a signed pair of Nike shoes, a magazine signed by J-Biebs and his Christmas present from last year, a Batman themed skateboard.
On top of these artifacts, some of which date back to the year 2004, THEMUSEUM allows guests to enter a contest to win two VIP tickets to a Bieber concert, a 'swag bag' and the signed Nike shoes mentioned earlier. The Bieber Experience is stationed next to a Bob Marley exhibit, which displays some iconic memorabilia of the famous reggae singer.
A voice of the Bieber generation had the chance to see this exhibit, and in her words is a 15 on a one to ten scale of Bieber fandom. 17 -year old Stacy Hughes said that she "loves" the"Baby,"singer and that she "doesn't want him riding the motorcycle" because he might hurt himself. "I like it, but I don't think he needs it," continued Hughes.
With the Never Say Never DVD playing in the background, Hughes stated that she "hates Selena Gomez" and can never forgive her for dating her man. She wants to make sure she also writes on the 'Happy Birthday Justin' wall that THEMUSEUM has set up for people of all ages to write birthday messages to Bieber.
The exhibit closed on St. Patrick's Day.
Bieber never did stop in Kitchener at THEMUSEUM, which seemed like a perfect location for the exhibition, although it is not actually in the hometown of the Canadian pop idol, the Kitchener Museum is only a 40-minute drive from the Stratford native's house. The curator of the show only hoped that Bieber would tweet about the event.
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Altamira är en ort i Colombia.   Den ligger i departementet Huila, i den centrala delen av landet,  km sydväst om huvudstaden Bogotá. Altamira ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Altamira är kuperad, och sluttar norrut. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km sydost om Altamira. Runt Altamira är det ganska glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Timaná,  km sydväst om Altamira. Omgivningarna runt Altamira är huvudsakligen savann.

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NBC Universal strikes pair of format deals with Vietnam's VTV
NBCUniversal International Formats has struck two deals for local remakes of entertainment shows with Vietnamese network VTV. The first will see a local version of Japanese format Who Is The Real Celebrity (WITRC) (pictured) launch on VTV. Produced by MEGA GS Communication and Entertainment, the 13×75' version titled AI LÀ BẬC THẦY CHÍNH HIỆU will air on Fridays at 9pm […]
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Business format Shark Tank is heading into Southeast Asia for the first time after VTV in Vietnam ordered a local version of the evergreen show. VTV's 16-episode version of the show rolls out next year and was announced as the ARTF market in Singapore draws to a close. Sony Pictures Television distributes the finished show […]
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BEST TELENOVELA EVA LUNA, VENEVISION PRODUCTIONS Venevision's Eva Luna is the most successful telenovela ever produced in the US. Having been a huge hit for Univision, Venevision sold it around the world in 2012 including to broadcasters in countries as diverse as China, Poland, Italy and Kenya. Venevision Productions' president and CEO Peter Tinoco talks […]


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Denton is implementing new way to tackle commercial trash pick-up
by Ta'Corian Tilley
At the beginning of September, the city of Denton began a series of beautification projects, creating parking spaces and reducing outdoor odors, starting with swapping out the shared-dumpsters used by businesses and giving each store their own set of smaller trash containers.
The south side of the Square, home to popular establishments such as LSA Burger and Beth Marie's, was the first target and on Sept. 23, the city swapped the bins on the east side as well.
"Basically it's a shared service downtown," the Solid Waste department's Business Account Coordinator Brandi Neal said. "There were about four or five dumpsters on those streets. They are taking up parking, causing a lot of odor and illegal dumping."
When the managers heard about the transition, they did not know how to take it.
"We were petrified," LSA General Manager Kristin Allen said. "We were completely nervous on how this would go."
But despite her initial worries, Allen said the process has been going well.
"The people that pick up the bins, when they see that we need more, or that our volumes have decreased, they either take away or put more out there," Allen said. "They are really great."
In addition to the service, Allen said you can tell the program is already making a difference.
"You can already tell that for us there is less trash on the street," Allen said. "It's so far so good"
Allen said the city checked on them constantly in the beginning, but now that they are moving forward, they have dialed back a little.
"They were here the first week every hour just checking on us," Allen said. "Now, I don't see them every hour but every time I go outside I don't have overflowing trash. So they're coming but I don't know what it's come down to."
"Right now they are servicing them five times a day and we will probably be able to cut back as we learn more of their business profile and how many times we need to come by," Neal said.
This service does come with a price, but Neal said it is structured based on how much trash each store produces. There is a five-tiered system and each store is placed in a tier based on their waste production.
"It's a five-level tier system and the first tier starts at $24.70 and it goes all the way up to $460 a month," Neal said.
But even with the tiered system, if a business has a full bin, they will be serviced.
"There is no need for everyone [to be serviced] because some people only generate maybe a bag a day, but when [the workers] are outside they may peak and see if there is a need and if there is they will grab them," Neal said.
During the initial start-up, Brian Boerner, the director of solid waste, said that the prices might actually allow most businesses to see a reduction in pick-up costs.
"Currently we have 141 businesses on our shared service," Boerner said. "The way we've assigned the tiers we anticipate 100 of those will actually be paying less than what they're paying now."
Allen said she imagines the cost for this service has affected her store, but she isn't certain.
"I would imagine the cost has increased, but I don't get that bill because it goes to our office," Allen said.
But even with the associated costs, Allen believes her store can still benefit directly.
"I think what will improve with me is that I'll spend less in labor dollars," Allen said. "So I look at it as I may benefit from this because people don't have to dilly-dally walking down to Walnut Street [to throw away trash]."
This transition will continue along each road until all bins along The Square and down Fry Street have been swapped.
"We're doing it every two weeks," Neal said. "We run the tracking period for two weeks and after that we meet and discuss with the businesses the next steps moving forward."
Neal said the city hopes to complete the process on Fry Street by Nov. 18.
Featured Image: Rather than sharing large dumpsters or trash bins, businesses in Denton are being provided with smaller bins that are regularly picked up by the city. Image by Grace Davis
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Tomorrow after school, Tuesday May 12, there will be a call-out meeting for girls planning on playing volleyball this fall. The meeting will be held in Mrs. Huppert's room. If you cannot make the meeting, be sure to contact Mrs. Huppert for summer calendars and league information.


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The Nostalgia Machine is a virtual jukebox showcasing the most popular songs from each year, dating back to 1960.
Relive Popular Songs from Your Childhood
The Nostalgia Machine is a site built by freelance designers J. Doran and E. Slevin. It's a simple premise but it can lead to hours of entertainment since it's executed so well. The basic concept is that you enter a year on The Nostalgia Machine's homepage, and you're transported to a virtual jukebox of all the most popular songs from that timeframe. It truly is a nostalgic experience, especially seeing songs like Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" or Blues Traveler's "Run Around" on the page for 1995. Most of the songs are embedded straight from YouTube, so it's easy to listen to a song or to jump around from track to track.
Explore the Sounds of Different Decades and Years
In addition to YouTube streaming, it's also possible to play through the songs of a particular year as a playlist on disco.io. The developers have hosted playlists for all the years offered on The Nostalgia Machine, which starts in 2013 and dates back to 1960. The homepage suggests that users select a childhood year "for optimum nostalgia," but the site is also useful for finding a dedicated space to listen to the most popular songs of an era with which you might be less familiar. The songs were all chosen from the Billboard year-End Hot 100 singles, though, so it's likely that you've heard the majority of them. Still, the site itself is a fun trip through decades of musical history.
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We continued to work closely with industries on collaborative research projects and develop programmes in support of the national SkillsFuture movement. While helping students and fresh graduates to enhance and deepen their capabilities, we also create opportunities for our staff and students to stay up-to-date on market practices.
FORGING NEW LEARNING PLATFORMS
As an educational institution committed to meeting Singapore's manpower needs, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) works closely with our industry partners to ensure that our courses and students remain relevant and well sought-after. Such collaborations open doors to more learning opportunities for our students. Students also get to put their skills and knowledge to test, while gaining insights into latest technologies and practices in the industry. Some highlights are as follows:
NP partnered local startup Glints to develop an online career discovery platform, which allows students and alumni to apply for internships and job opportunities. Users can build their profiles on NP@Glints which will use its skills identification feature to unlock a list of internship and job opportunities that fit their fields of study and preferences.
NP signed an MOU with Action Community for Entrepreneurship in March 2016 to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs. As part of the MOU, the ACE Student Chapter will be established to facilitate student-driven entrepreneurial activities. NP students can also look forward to interning at one of the 500 startups that are part of ACE's community. NP and ACE will also co-organise activities such as Campus Life Hackathons where participants will brainstorm solutions to solve campus issues and ideas to improve the campus life experience.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by NP's School of Engineering (SoE), Lions Befrienders Service Association (Singapore), Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities and NTUC Health Cooperative Limited to develop five sets of RoboCoach systems for senior activity centres. A robot exercise instructor, RoboCoach is programmed to coach the elderly in performing arm exercises, in a fun and engaging way.
SoE has been working with the Singapore Police Force to jointly develop security and safety innovation projects in the past. Both parties signed a new agreement in November 2015 to continue the collaboration in the same direction.
Three research collaboration agreements that were signed with Meiban International Pte Ltd, Nippecraft Ltd and TGI Technology Pte Ltd pave the way for students from the School of Design & Environment to jointly collaborate on product design projects.
COLLABORATION ON SKILLSFUTURE INITIATIVES
During the year, we contributed to the national SkillsFuture movement as Sector Coordinators for Accountancy and Financial Services, Power Engineering, and Offshore and Marine Engineering. Here are the initiatives that were implemented:
Led by the School of Business & Accountancy, NP inked an agreement with 16 accounting companies and financial institutions to provide enhanced internships and the SkillsFuture Earn-and-Learn Programme (ELP) for polytechnic students and graduates. Through the ELP, polytechnic graduates will get to acquire work experience and professional skills while pursuing further study options part-time, through a structured work-study pathway. Offered by NP in collaboration with the Singapore Accountancy Commission, polytechnic graduates who successfully complete the 18-month programme will attain an Advanced Diploma in Accountancy. This certification offers an alternative pathway for polytechnic graduates and part-time students to become Chartered Accountants of Singapore, without first having to obtain degree qualifications. Upon completion of the ELP, they will be eligible to enrol in the Singapore Qualification Programme to qualify as Chartered Accountants of Singapore.
The Electrical Engineering Division of NP coordinated the signing of an MOU with 17 key energy sector partners and four post-secondary institutions to attract more talent to the power engineering sector. Under the MOU, polytechnic and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) electrical engineering students will embark on enhanced internships with focused learning outcomes and clear job scopes for Year 2 Electrical Engineering students. They will also be matched with industry mentors who will guide them. In addition, polytechnic graduates who join the power engineering sector will be able to deepen their skills and enjoy better career prospects through two post-graduate diplomas as part of the SkillsFuture Earn-and-Learn Programme. NP will launch a Specialist Diploma in Electrical Design and Operation in October 2016, while Singapore Polytechnic will offer the Advanced Diploma in Power Engineering from April 2016.
Eight key players of the Offshore & Marine Engineering sector from the industry and post-secondary education institutions signed an MOU to facilitate SkillsFuture initiatives for the sector. Led by NP's Mechanical Engineering Division, the sector unveiled several new initiatives such as the SkillsFuture Earn-and-Learn Programme in Offshore & Marine Engineering for fresh polytechnic graduates, and enhanced internships for polytechnic and ITE students. NP currently offers the Specialist Diploma in Marine Production, while the Specialist Diploma in Marine Design will be offered in October 2016.
Thanks to the new Industry Mentors' Network (IMN) programme, first-year students from NP, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic will have industry professionals assigned to them as mentors. These mentors will provide career advice and opportunities for students to gain insights into the industries and careers they are interested in. This programme is aligned with the objectives to strengthen Education and Career Guidance under SkillsFuture. NP, which initiated this programme, will start with 850 students from eight diploma courses such as Advertising & Public Relations and Information Technology. More than 200 mentors from at least 20 companies are part of the IMN programme. The companies – ranging from multinational corporations to local enterprises – inked an MOU with the polytechnics in December 2015.
Our students also get to work with community partners and public agencies to develop social innovations that solve real-world problems. Here are some examples:
Three Mechanical Engineering students came up with an idea to improve the life of bedridden patients. Inspired by the IV-drip stand that is usually found next to hospital beds, the students invented a portable hair washing device. This can be attached to a wheelchair and taken to the patient, who can use it to wash his or her hair. The inspiration for the device came during a visit to All Saints Nursing Home, when the students noticed the challenges faced by healthcare workers.
Xuan, a robotic exercise instructor developed by a group of Electrical Engineering students, has been deployed to the Lions Befrienders Senior Activity Centre. Its novel way of teaching the elderly to keep fit also caught the attention of foreign media such as CNN and CNBC. Looking ahead, five more robots are being developed, and a more advanced version of Xuan is in the works.
A multi-disciplinary team consisting of students from the Environmental & Water Technology, Electronic & Computer Engineering and Product Design & Innovation courses developed Aqon, an aquatic device that could save fish farmers in Singapore millions of dollars in future. With the Aqon, fish farmers will be able to monitor key variables and analyse trends that will help them spot potential algae blooms.
Students from the School of InfoComm Technology worked with the National Kidney Foundation to develop an app that bridges the language barrier between nurses and patients. Using voice recordings of native speakers, the app provides translations of medical phrases from English to Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese and Hokkien. It also allows the patient to provide simple feedback by selecting from common phrases and pictures on the app.
Two Engineering Science (ES) students designed a bionic robot arm that can replace human workers operating in dangerous environments, such as defusing bombs or carting away toxic waste. The bionic robot arm won the "Encouragement Award" for the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award 2016, and the "Outstanding Technology Team Award" for the Ngee Ann Student Excellence Award 2016.
Two other ES students developed a mind-reading robot on wheels that is controlled by the user's brainwaves. The robot moves when the user is in a relaxed frame of mind, and changes directions when the user blinks. The robot can be adapted for the physically disabled who are wheelchair-bound.
Four Automation & Mechatronic Systems (AMS) students created M.A.T.A.R, a multi-purpose all terrain autonomous robot, to help police officers conduct site investigations remotely.
Another AMS student, Wang Jinyu, developed an Eye-gesture Controlled Wheelchair that allows patients with limb disabilities to be independently mobile. A motorised wheelchair is connected to a laptop and an eye-tracking device. With a customised graphical user interface, patients can view onscreen directional arrows on the laptop. Using the arrows as a guide, patients move their eyes in a specific direction – emulating a joystick control – to steer the wheelchair.
Product Design & Innovation graduate, Lim Cai Jin, developed Voyar, an assistive walker with a fold-up seat to help children with cerebral palsy stand and walk. Specially-designed springs located under the seat help the children in standing up. If they accidentally fall backwards, the seat unfolds and "catches" them. Cai Jin worked on the prototype with XentiQ Pte Ltd, a local product development and manufacturing firm, as well as the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore. Voyar can be used by children aged between 5 to 12 years who suffer from varying degrees of celebral palsy.
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Fat makes up a vital part of the human diet, providing a portion of the energy our bodies need to grow and function. It also cushions our organs and allows our bodies to absorb such nutrients as vitamins A, D, E and K. A diet that cuts out all fat isn't a good diet. Despite messaging that would have you believe otherwise, it's entirely possible to include fat in your diet in a healthy (and essential) way.
Before we get to the good, a quick look at the bad. Without a doubt, not all fat is friendly. The worst is fully or partially hydrogenated fat, aka trans fat. Created during a chemical process that converts liquid vegetable oil into solid fat (think margarine), trans fat's been linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Processed foods often contain hydrogenated fat (including certain types of crackers, cookies, chips and peanut butter), so always read the label.
Fat that's been minimally processed gets the green light – in moderation, of course. The following recipe for Primal Nut Bars (from Mark Sisson's blog) for example, includes good-for-you fat derived from such foods as virgin coconut oil (associated with helping to prevent kidney diseases and improve the condition of skin and hair) and almonds (associated with reducing the risk of coronary heart disease). Plus, these bars will give you the energy you need to do your Bikram Yoga best.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees; toast nuts until golden brown, stirring occasionally.
2. Transfer toasted nuts to blender; give a few pulses until they are a coarse meal.
3. In a medium bowl, stir blended nut meal into nut flour.
4. Warm coconut oil and almond butter together in microwave, about 20 seconds. Stir well. Add honey, vanilla and salt; mix until creamy.
5. Fold nut mix into honey mix; add dried fruit.
6. Pat into 8 x 8 baking dish and sprinkle with the unsweeted dried coconut; cool in fridge for at least one hour until solid.
7. Cut into squares; store in fridge.
Make 'em, let us know what you think!


A vacation home is a luxury most people dream about. While many nurture visions of lakefront cabins and beach bungalows, others imagine a cozy, snowy hideaway—the ski chalet. We pulled together some of the most lavish, modern mountaintop retreats we could find to get you daydreaming about a hot chocolate by the fire after a long day on the slopes.
Serving as both a winter and summer home, this ski chalet combines modern with enough rustic to maintain a woodsy feel. Plenty of windows and an open floor plan allow for breathtaking views from most anywhere in the house. Our favorite touch? The heated bathroom floors.
An exposed timber frame sounds traditional, but this up-to-the-minute ski retreat is anything but. The compact 590-square-foot space is the antithesis of a grand ski chalet, and the well-lit, sparse interiors make for a bright environment. The size and layout make it possible to heat the home using just a small wood-burning stove.
Although confined by local restrictions, the architect of this alpine ski home was able to create a sustainable structure with a modern envelope. Despite its contemporary appearance, the house fits in comfortably with its picturesque surroundings, thanks in part to a design that incorporates stone and wooden columns that take cues from local architecture. Rainwater collection and thermal isolation contribute to the building's green credentials.
A modern-day chalet, Maison Glissade employs a cantilevered second floor that includes an outdoor seating area for warmer days or for stargazing on chilly nights. The open floor plan of the main living space allows for large family gatherings.
As with a traditional ski lodge, this contemporary interpretation employs plenty of wood. By subbing the rustic with the sleek, this California chalet stands out as modern while still echoing its earthy backdrop.
The renovation of this classic ski chalet allowed for a modern update to both the interiors and exterior. The use of recycled and natural materials helps the home blend in with its surroundings, while solar collectors fuel power and hot water. We particularly like the small section of green wall in the dining room, which brings a little life to wintery surroundings.
La Luge, a 1,300-square-foot winter retreat in Canada's Laurentian Mountains, makes the most of its compact size with an open floor plan, expansive window walls, and warm wood interiors. Amenities include a flexibly furnished bunk room to accommodate a crowd of vacationers, and a huge spa-like bathroom to get away from them. If you like what you see, you can book a stay and experience this contemporary ski chalet yourself.
The prefab movement is stronger than ever. We've seen prefab homes and beach houses, and now a modern ski chalet. The unique slope-side structure is painted black, making for a stark contrast against the snow.
Others may be seeking white on the nearby slopes, but the homeowners of the Wee Ski Chalet, in Colorado, had green in mind when they set out to construct their winter getaway. The near-net-zero house utilizes passive solar siting and wheatboard interiors, while concrete floors inside retain thermal energy and a photovoltaic array provides power.


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For the safety and welfare of all patients and staff, Grand Terrace Health Care Center is a non-smoking facility. The designated smoking area is in the main outside patio.
Grand Terrace Health Care Center has a vibrant atmosphere with dynamic, individualized activities that match the capabilities and needs of patients and their guests. We also have active resident and family councils as well as volunteer programs. Scheduled activities include: music, fitness activities, religious meetings, outside entertainment, games, gardening, field trips/outings, and volunteer involvement. If you would like to arrange something special or have suggestions and ideas for individual or group activities, please inform our activities director. We welcome and encourage involvement from family and friends.
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Patients must have a Medicare card that reads "Hospital Insurance". They must also be admitted to the facility with a physician order within 30 days of a three consecutive night hospital stay. Generally, during the first 20 days of care, Medicare will pay 100%. For days 21-100, a $161.00 daily co-insurance rate is required. Medicare does not cover skilled nursing fees over 100 days.


The other night as my head hit the pillow I felt weighed down by a lingering cloud of guilt. I couldn't shake the sense that I was doing something terribly wrong, or at least not doing enough. Either by commission or omission, I was failing. But what I couldn't understand was why I felt this way on that particular evening. There were no catastrophic accidents with the twins that day. No one had a meltdown that was out of the ordinary. I hadn't lost my temper with Daniel, the boys, or anyone else who got in my way that day. By the outward looks of things I had no real reason to feel like I was missing the mark.
While it didn't look like I had a reason to repent over my actions, I did. Here is what I mean. For starters, I have noticed in the past week that I have allowed myself to grow lazy in training the boys. Instead of stopping whatever I am doing at the moment to help them in their burst of emotional outrage or fight over a stolen toy, I often stick to quick fixes without really understanding what is going on or showing them a better way. When I recounted the events of the day that particular night I was struck by my own selfish actions towards my boys. I didn't deal with them because it wasn't convenient for me. I didn't lovingly break up the fighting because I didn't want to be bothered. Immediately I was reminded of all of the biblical warnings for failing to discipline and train our children and I confessed to my husband that I was certain I had failed them for life (I'm a little dramatic at times).
But there is something less obvious that needed my swift repentance. It's the thing that I have noticed most in my own heart as I've learned this whole parenting thing.
I can't save my children and I need to stop acting like I can.
My children will be who they will be in spite of me. While I would like to think that if I just did all the right things for the necessary period of time, my kids will come out praising Jesus, but the unfortunate fact is they won't. They might, but it's not a guarantee. The promises of God are not a magic potion.
Of course, for the many biblical truths about God's sovereignty over salvation there are countless ones that talk about our need to be faithful with what he has given us. I will give an account for how I raise these boys. I have a responsibility to teach them and train them in God's ways. God's sovereignty is intertwined with my responsibility. But that doesn't mean I can save them. It doesn't mean that my every sin towards them will lead them on a swift path to destruction. It doesn't mean that my catechizing of them will lead them to repentance and faith. I obey and God gives the results.
This is incredibly freeing for an often sinful momma. But it's freeing for everyone, really. Maybe the unsaved person in your life is your brother or sister, mother or father, husband or wife, co-worker, friend, or neighbor. The truth remains. There is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved (Acts 4:12). And that name isn't Courtney (or your name). It's Jesus Christ.
We will not always present the message of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection perfectly. In fact, we often won't even come close. At times, our lives will betray the very Jesus we love. We will miss the mark with those we care about. We will sin against them. We will serve them in our own interests, not their own. But Jesus is the one who saves. The same blood that covers us can cover our loved ones, too.
There is freedom in that, my friends. When we are overwhelmed by how much we sin against our kids, our spouses, our friends, and church members we are given an opportunity to show them that Jesus saves us, too. We repent before God and them, seek forgiveness, and trust in his grace to make us more like him. Our kids will see that testimony of the power of Jesus just as evidently, if not more so, than if we had always done everything well.
I'm so thankful that Jesus saves. It gives me hope, not just for me, but for my kids, family, and friends, too. He makes dead hearts beat again. He opens blind eyes. And he alone can save even the vilest sinner.