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COVID-19 Update June 30
There is so much to celebrate in this country. In the midst of this global pandemic, so many people have reached out to help their neighbours and to build a stronger Canadian community.
The pandemic has also exposed how much needs to be done and the many people who do not share in our country's opportunities and prosperity. To help develop a better understanding of the changes that need to be made, I am hosting "From Support to Action" with Black and Indigenous leaders to find out how we as a community can pool our resources to fight for an end to racism and move toward real reconciliation. See Anti-Racism Town Hall below.
The City of Toronto is now asking everyone to wear a mask indoors. With numbers rising in the wake of reopening our economy, research shows that wearing masks, particularly indoors, will help reduce the spread.
The continuing seriousness of COVID-19 cannot be overemphasized. Some of you will remember that at the beginning of the pandemic I asked for thoughts and prayers for Stewart Nanibush who had contracted COVID-19 and was in the hospital. I am sad to report that after a long struggle he passed last week. His obituary can be found here. His wife Sylvia has been thankful for the support that she has been offered by community members and by CUPE Local 416 of which Stewart was a member.
In spite of the challenges, our city is moving ahead. There are new bicycle lanes on University Avenue and Bloor Street, with more to come. Also, our patios, which are the lifeblood of our neighbourhoods in the summertime, are thankfully open again.
Wishing you a safe and happy Canada Day!
Anti-Racism Town Hall
Join me on Thursday, July 9 for this important discussion.
Click on this link to join the meeting: megaphone.site/live/mpp-glover-anti-racism-town-hall
Toronto City Council has approved a report from the city's medical officer of health to make masks and face coverings mandatory in enclosed public places. Dr. Eileen de Villa made the announcement during a news conference at City Hall this morning, noting that in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 the city needs "as many people as possible wearing cloth masks or face coverings." The bylaw will take effect on July 7.
GTHA mayors and chairs released a joint statement to request that the Government of Ontario implement a mandatory face-covering measure for large municipalities. Any such order should apply to indoor public settings and would include appropriate exceptions for age and health. In the statement, they also call on the government to implement a regional approach for Stage 3 of re-opening the province.
Reopening Plan:
The Ontario government has extended all emergency orders currently in force that were made under s.7.0.2 (4) of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act until July 10, 2020. In addition, the government has removed certain restrictions for Stage 2 indoor sports and recreational fitness activities facilities.
In an effort to help large industrial and commercial companies return to full levels of operation without the fear of electricity costs spiking, the Ontario government will provide more stable electricity pricing for two years. Effective immediately, companies that participate in the Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI) will not be required to reduce their electricity usage during peak hours, as their proportion of Global Adjustment (GA) charges for these companies will be frozen.
Premier Ford said that he expects to use the same region-by-region approach when it comes time to move to the final stage of Ontario's three-stage reopening plan.
Childcare Reopening:
Yesterday, 11 of the 47 City of Toronto-operated Toronto Early Learning and Child Care Centres (TELCCC) reopened to support parents returning to work and to help with the restart of the economy.
Toronto Councillors Mike Layton and Joe Cressy are warning that tens of thousands of families in Toronto may not have access to childcare due to new provincial regulations that limit the size of groups within centres to 10 people. They have tabled a motion for next week's city council meeting that asks the province to commit to "locating additional child care spaces" for families who aren't able to return to their usual centres due to the new regulations. The motion also calls on the province to ensure funding for all centres forced to operate at reduced capacity "so that they can remain viable."
Support for Youth:
The Ontario government is investing more than $13 million to support community-driven and youth-led projects to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families facing economic and social barriers. The funding will flow through the 2020 Youth Opportunities Fund that will provide financial support to 43 community organizations that will benefit youth aged 12 to 25, and their families.
The Government of Canada has created the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG), a program that will provide thousands of qualified post-secondary students with learning and volunteer opportunities to address relevant COVID-19 challenges at Canadian not-for-profit schools during summer 2020. Students participating will be eligible to apply for a grant, which will provide up to $5,000 to be used towards post-secondary education costs. The grant is based on the number of validated volunteer hours completed between June 15 and September 15, 2020. Student volunteers receiving the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) ($1,250 monthly) are also eligible to apply for a CSSG.
The Prime Minister said yesterday that the WE Charity is the only organization capable of administering more than $900 million in grants for students this summer. Trudeau said federal public servants identified WE as the organization with the best nationwide network for connecting young people to paid volunteer positions this summer.
Seniors' Support:
The Ontario government is providing up to $4 million for the Seniors Community Grant Program. This funding will help non-profit organizations, local services boards, or Indigenous groups develop programs for seniors that focus on combating social isolation, promoting seniors' safety and well-being, improving financial security and making communities age-friendly.
COVID Hotspots:
New federal models in Canada show progress in the fight to curb the spread of COVID-19, but that significant hotspots remain, including Toronto. Other remaining hotspots for COVID-19 in Canada are among agri-farm migrant workers outside Windsor, where nearly 200 new cases occurred over the weekend. Health Minister Christine Elliott confirmed that of yesterday's 257 new cases reported, 177 were temporary farmworkers in Windsor-Essex. The Official Opposition has been urging the government to better protect migrant workers by ensuring PPE, paid sick days for workers, and alternate accommodations in which to self-isolate.
Construction Noise & Consultation:
Yesterday, Councillors Joe Cressy and Kristyn Wong-Tam requested that the Province rescind the provincial regulation overriding Toronto's Construction Noise By-Law. The Garment District Neighbourhood Association (GDNA), along with 13 other downtown resident associations, asked that this regulation be rescinded. The expansion of hours has had a profound effect on residents. Already anxious about COVID-19, stressed about employment/income insecurities, and spending endless hours sheltering in place, this ongoing noise adds an additional stressor without any perceptible benefit. Click on this link to sign our petition.
Municipalities, Construction and Building will be the next sector considered during the Finance Committee's review of the impact of COVID-19 on Ontario's economy. The deadline to request to appear is Monday, July 5 at 5:00 pm. The link to the signup page is here: https://www.ola.org/en/apply-committees (choose "Yes", then, on the dropdown menu, select "Study of the recommendations relating to the Economic and Fiscal Update Act 2020 and the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on certain sectors of the economy" and follow the prompts.)
Towing Industry:
In response to concerns raised about incidents of criminal activity and violence in the towing industry, the Ontario government is establishing a task force to improve provincial oversight of the industry.
City News:
Yesterday, Toronto City Council passed a motion seeking reform of the city's police department but rejected a 10% cut to the force's budget. Mayor John Tory put forth a motion proposing a number of changes to policing that includes overhauling the response to those in crisis along with anti-racism measures and the implementation of body-worn cameras.
The City of Toronto announced that the CaféTO report, which directs the City to take quick action and make way for additional safe outdoor dining spaces for local restaurants and bars, was unanimously approved with amendments by Toronto City Council. It's expected the first CaféTO locations will be in place on July 1.
Starting Thursday, the permit parking program will begin accepting and issuing new and renewed parking permits. While the office will be closed to the public, it can be accessed in the short-term by phone at 416-392-7873 and by email at [email protected] from 8:30 am to 8:00 pm, Monday to Friday. Existing permit holders can renew using the online renewal system at or by mail. Permit parking enforcement was paused due to COVID-19. Enforcement is expected to begin again starting August 14 at midnight.
Torontonians can cool off at all of the city's 140 splash pads and 56 outdoor swimming pools that will be open on Canada Day, with the exception of Summerville, Alexandra Park and Kiwanis outdoor pools which are undergoing repairs. The city's 100 wading pools will begin to open on July 1st on a location-by-location basis. Toronto beaches are open, and lifeguards will supervise swim areas from 11:30 am to 6:30 pm. The four Toronto Island Park beaches will open for swimming on July 1st.
Construction & Road Closures:
Beginning, Monday, July 6th to Friday, July 10th, Metrolinx East Track enhancement work crews will be in the south corridor at Lower Jarvis Street, overnight from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am. Two poles, one on the west and the other on the east side of the Jarvis Street bridge, and concrete foundation on the east side of the bridge must be removed to clear the vicinity for south-side bridge extension. The south-side extensions at both Lower Jarvis and Lower Sherbourne Streets will accommodate future tracks, E7 and E8 servicing the Don/Wilson Yard facility expansion. This work can be disruptive to nearby residents and can expect noise in the area caused by construction equipment. If you have any questions, call: 416-202-6911 or email [email protected]. We encourage all residents to subscribe to the weekly eBulletin by clicking the link below: https://metrolinx.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e3e2dcbefa63d1ca424de38bb&id=d003ab5b57
The City of Toronto is planning to deliver a number of construction projects on Bathurst Street between Fort York Boulevard and Dundas Street West in 2020. The projects include:
Bridge rehabilitation between Fort York Boulevard and Front Street West (May to December 2020)
Watermain replacement between Front Street West and Queen Street West (June to November 2020)
TTC track replacement between Wolseley Street and Dundas Street West (September to October 2020)
Due to the nature of the work taking place on the bridge, Bathurst Street will be CLOSED to ALL vehicles between Front Street West and Fort York Boulevard. This closure will take place from mid-May to December 2020.
Federal Announcements:
On Saturday, the Government of Canada announced a commitment of $120 million in support of the activities of the Access to COVID-19 (ACT) Accelerator – with $20 million of that total for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Canada will also invest an additional $180 million to address the immediate humanitarian and development impacts of this crisis, helping communities in developing countries mitigate and address the challenges they are facing right now. This funding will support programming aligned with international response plans on priorities, such as essential food security, nutrition, and education initiatives.
The federal government released new Canada-wide modeling projections (view the slides here) for COVID-19. Cumulative COVID-19 cases by July 12 could range from 103,940 to 108,130 — Canada is already at 103,250. Cumulative deaths by July 12 could range from 8,545 to 8,865 — Canada is already at 8,522. The modeling shows that while there has been a steep decline in transmission among older age groups, there has been a relative increase in Canadians aged 20-39 contracting COVID-19 since late May.
On March 27, the Government of Canada announced that it would allow businesses, including self-employed individuals, to defer all Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax (GST/HST) payments, as well as customs duty payments owed for imports, until the end of June. Yesterday, the government confirmed that GST/HST and customs duty payment deferral is ending as planned on June 30.
Air Canada has indefinitely suspended direct flights between Ottawa and five other Canadian destinations due to the pandemic.
Ottawa has extended the travel ban until July 31 for public health reasons. The ban bars entry to all travellers who are not Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or U.S. residents classified as essential.
Art Gallery of Ontario will be reopening its doors on July 2nd to members and annual pass holders who book timed-entry tickets in advance. Members can book tickets starting June 25 and annual pass holders can book starting June 26. Memberships can be purchased online, or those ages 25 and under can sign up for free. The AGO will be open every Thursday to Sunday, from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm. Visit www.AGO.ca for more information.
Canada's Ballet Jörgen is offering a free travelling in-person Ballet 101 program designed especially for children and youth and introduces the audience to ballet through a combination of performance and participation. Sponsored by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Canada Day 2020: The City of Toronto will mark Canada's 153rd birthday virtually through a live stream show that will engage local residents, connect diverse communities, and honour COVID-19 frontline workers. The show will offer a mixture of live and pre-recorded performances streamed on YouTube. Performers include Haviah Mighty, Gordon Lightfoot, Jully Black, Kardinal Offishall, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Ali Hassan, Cris Derksen, The Next Generation Leahy, and more.
Canada Day Weekend Celebration at Harbourfront: Hear the stories of Canada from coast to coast, told through the Canadian Songbook: past, present, and future. View the lineup here.
CN Tower Canada Day Light Show: The CN Tower will salute Canada Day with an extraordinary 15-minute light show beginning at 10:00 pm July 1, broadcast live on YouTube.
Immersive Van Gogh: Experience the world's first drive-in art exhibit where you can actually drive into the gallery, park your car, and experience the show from inside your vehicle. The exhibit was re-imagined in response to COVID-19.
Cases:
As of 4:00 pm June 28:
Monday June 29
257 – 0.5% increase
2,665 (+7)
Tests completed in the previous 24 hours
Backlog – waiting to be processed
Total tests completed
% Positivity
1.0% (-0.4%)
Hospitalized: 232 (+18)
ICU: 46 (-5)
Ventilated: 35 (-1)
Chief Medical Officer of Health:
53.5% of cases are female
35.8% are aged 60+
5,954 (-5) healthcare workers total have tested positive (17.1% of total cases)
Congregate Settings Summary:
Resident Cases
Resident Deaths
Staff Cases
Staff Deaths
Active Outbreaks
Cumulative Outbreaks
Long Term Care Homes
5,468 (=)
2,283 (-5)
5 (=)
69 (-2)
Retirement Homes: 16 (-1) active outbreaks, and 152 (=) outbreaks in total
Hospitals: 3 (-1) active outbreaks, and 91 (=) outbreaks in total


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The Three Main Ingredients Used in the Manufacture of British Women
Coats appeared as longer waist coats with the rich showing off many various features while the working class displayed much simpler details. When outdoors, a gentleman wore cloaks, which later grew to become highly retro. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have spoken to the media a day after their assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In southeastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine, Blinken stated on April 25 that the U.S. strategy of coordinating worldwide help for Ukraine and pressure on Russia "is having real results." Lisa Kasmer's looks particularly on the contributions of British Romantic-era feminine historians, in the broadest sense of the time period… Essays are vitally essential in serving to us to proceed to broaden our notions of what counts as history and in recovering women's voices that have been edged out of historic debates as historical past writing became professionalized. By helping to recover these voices, Kasmer broadens our understanding of British historiography during a vital interval of its improvement.
Signers included John Stuart Mill, who had efficiently run for Parliament on a platform that included votes for women.
She carried their classes into picketing the White House in 1917, holding the get together in energy answerable for delays in granting suffrage, and in her personal imprisonment and hunger putting.
And in China, the government has hired a three-time world champion to teach its curling teams.
This inclusive yet tightly-focused assortment formulates an innovative and provocative new feminist concept of satire.
Blinken stated the Iranian-American enterprise capitalist had been held for 4 years, and that the "family has waited anxiously for the Iranian government to release Emad.
However, the emergence of Bridges, who began hormone therapy final yr as part of her gender dysphoria treatment, and raced in men's events until February, has led to a hasty rethink. British Cycling additionally acknowledged there have been "concerns" that its transgender policy – which was only ratified in January – didn't match the guidance from the Sports Council Equality Group , which was based on an 18-month review of the science. Britain-Visitor.com provides journey info on Britain's cities and the important when and where and the way to get there.
"There was a slowdown in the fee of real-terms progress due to inflation. In nominal phrases, nevertheless, navy spending grew by 6.1 p.c." "Even amid the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, world military spending hit record ranges," stated Diego Lopes da Silva, senior researcher with SIPRI's Military Expenditure and Arms Production Program. Iran's archfoe, Israel, upped its military budget by 3.1 p.c, to $24.3 billion amid ongoing army operations in opposition to the radical Hamas Islamist group and its growing considerations over Iran's potential nuclear capabilities. The budget of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps grew by 14 p.c accounting for 34 p.c of Iran's complete military spending, the report said. Ukraine registered a drop in protection spending final yr, to $5.9 billion, accounting for 3.2 p.c of its GDP.
Book abstract views mirror the variety of visits to the guide and chapter landing pages. By utilizing this service, you agree that you will only hold content for personal use, and will not brazenly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing servicesPlease confirm that you simply settle for the phrases of use. Email your librarian or administrator to advocate including this guide to your organisation's collection are british girls easy. Politicians said the article was an excessive example of the sexism they encounter daily. Jeanette Winterson – her 1985 autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit a couple of young lesbian girl growing up in the north of England brought her to nationwide consideration. Claire Short (1946-) – born in Birmingham, Claire Short represented Birmingham Ladywood as MP and was Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003.
Marianne Faithfull (1946-) – got here to fame as a singer in the 1960s earlier than affected by drug dependancy and homelessness in the 1970s. Helena Bonham Carter (1966-) – certainly one of Britain's most famous actresses, she rose to fame beginning with A Room with a Viewin 1985. Naomi Campbell (1970-) – supermodel who rose to international fame within the late Nineteen Eighties and 1990s. Further information on most of the listed entries on British women can be found by way of accompanying links.
The Argument About British Woman
In England, the organized suffrage motion started in 1866, when a number of prominent women's rights reformers gathered some 1,500 signatures on a petition to Parliament requesting the right to vote. Signers included John Stuart Mill, who had successfully run for Parliament on a platform that included votes for ladies. From 1870 to 1905, a period also known as "the doldrums," suffragists did not make important headway in mobilizing either widespread help or in style enthusiasm for extending the suffrage. English girls gained limited suffrage in 1918, after which in 1928, the overwhelming majority of English women won the right to vote. Although English ladies had been allowed to vote in native elections and act on faculty boards because the Eighteen Eighties, full political equality eluded them. The WSPU was impatient with the reasonable NUWSS and with the intransigence of each the Liberal and Conservative events, for whom the suffrage issue was a political soccer.
Kasmer (Clark Univ.) incorporates revisionary research of each Enlightenment historiography and ladies's writing in her argument. These revisionary narratives complicate the intersection of style and gender through the interval and assist to explain how girls explored a selection of issues in fluid, advanced literary varieties. Genres such because the novel, the gothic story, drama, and historical past helped girls transfer from the domestic to the general public sphere in ways in which point to girls's fuller participation in the republic of letters than has previously been understood.
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He stated the go to to Kyiv was a chance to directly demonstrate "our robust ongoing help for the Ukrainian authorities." The United States has sent some $4 billion in navy assist since President Joe Biden's time period started last 12 months, and already introduced a new $800 million help bundle last week. In addition, Washington will sell $165 million value of ammunition to Kyiv, mentioned the American officials, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy immediately after their arrival within the Ukrainian capital late on April 24. The United States has despatched some $4 billion in military assist since President Joe Biden's time period started final year, and already introduced final week a new $800 million help package. Meanwhile, Russia launched rockets at two towns in Ukraine's central Vinnytsya region on April 25, inflicting an unspecified number of deaths and accidents, regional Governor Serhiy Borzov said. The governor of the Donetsk area mentioned four civilians, together with chidren, had been killed in the area on April 25. RFE/RL's Live Briefing offers you all the main developments on Russia's invasion, how Kyiv is combating back, the plight of civilians, and Western reaction.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and defense chief Lloyd Austin will go to Kyiv on April 24. On April 21, the Saeima, Latvia's parliament, "unanimously adopted a press release on the aggression and struggle crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, expressing solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian individuals." The UN's Ukraine crisis coordinator, Amin Awad, on April 24 known as for an "immediate cease" to combating in Mariupol to allow the evacuation of trapped civilians within the battered metropolis "at present." The go to would mark the highest-profile arrival by U.S. officials to war-ravaged Ukraine and observe a sequence of visits by European leaders, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg attends a information briefing following talks with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine in Kyiv on February 8.
New Ideas Into British Woman No Time Before Unmasked
Some mothers taught their daughters in the middle class until boarding faculties started to take place. While boys studied extra academic subjects, women have been believed to only have to be taught topics that were more on the road of talents. At the grammar faculties, boys attended college from about 6 or 7 within the morning till around 5 at night. They had been allowed some breaks for meals, but when they acted out of hand they'd be punished with a smack on their naked butt with birch twigs. Though this class construction was virtually at all times set from start and closely protected by those have been already inducted into high social standing, it was not impossible for those of decrease standing to break via.
What Does British Woman Mean?
Emad Sharghi was sentenced to 10 years in prison on spying charges, Iranian media have reported, saying he was detained whereas attempting to flee the country. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has referred to as on Iran to release a U.S. citizen he mentioned had been held for years as a "political pawn." "The war is in Ukraine, there are no our bodies in the streets of Moscow. It would be logical to go first to Ukraine, to see the people there, the implications of the occupation," Zelenskiy mentioned. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the non secular head of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, referred to as for humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and different areas of Ukraine, where he stated, "an indescribable human tragedy is unfolding." "It is possible to destroy the walls, but it is not attainable to destroy the muse on which the spirit of our warriors, the spirit of the entire nation, rests," he mentioned. Ukrainian authorities had on April 23 urged these celebrating to comply with spiritual providers on-line and to respect nighttime curfews. Serhiy Hayday, governor of the jap Luhansk region, said on April 24 that seven churches there had been destroyed in the combating.
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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the international governing body of professional soccer, and it is the organizer of the World Cup, which is held in a different country every four years. A total of 32 countries qualify for the World Cup, based on results from qualifying matches in the years leading up to the tournament.
FIFA was established in 1904 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and it is headed by a president and consists of a congress of representatives of member associations.
The organization oversees rules for the World Cup and handles ticketing, among other responsibilities.
FIFA Women's World Cup Ticket Nightmares Continue
FIFA World CupSoccerSportsWorld June 10, 2019
Soccer fans were fuming last month when ticket orders to the Women's World Cup were split up, and now, the craziness has continued. When the tournament started this past weekend, more problems with FIFA's ticketing service ensued. A day ahead of the match between France and South Korea on... Read more
FIFA Scrambles to Reseat Customers After Ticket Fiasco
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After initially shrugging off consumer complaints of separated seats from single orders, FIFA told reporters Tuesday that it is attempting to resolve the issue on the eve of the Women's World Cup in France, according to USA Today. "There's a holding position at the moment," FIFA spokesman Will Shand... Read more
FIFA Sparks Outrage After Splitting Ticket Orders to Women's World Cup
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Tickets for June's FIFA Women's World Cup were released to fans who purchased them online on Monday. Unfortunately for some, the excitement of receiving tickets to see the best in the world play in France was followed immediately by anger – apparently many received tickets for their orders split... Read more
FIFA Forced To Pay Broker $16.8M For Unissued World Cup Tickets
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FIFA was forced to pay $16.8 million plus interest to the U.S. ticket broker JB Sports Marketing, who never received World Cup tickets in 2014, a Swiss Supreme Court ruled. JBSM has been engaged in a lawsuit against FIFA since 2015. According to an email exchange between former FIFA general... Read more
FIFA Files Criminal Complaint Against Viagogo For World Cup Tickets
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Before the 2018 World Cup tickets were distributed to purchasers, the secondary ticketing site Viagogo AG already had tickets listed for resale – some for nearly four times the price of the original ticket. Now, FIFA has filed a criminal complaint against the site. The 2018 World Cup is... Read more
US Buys 80,000 Tickets To The 2018 World Cup Despite No Team
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The U.S. Men's National Team may have fallen short in its quest to make this summer's World Cup – but U.S. fans (or at least residents) are still planning on making the trek to Russia, purchasing the second-highest total of tickets to the quadrennial showcase of the world's most... Read more
FIFA Reveals New Design For 2018 World Cup Tickets, Kicks Up Security
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FIFA presented the new 2018 Russia World Cup ticket design last week, which includes personalized information, holograms, and special barcode security features. Match-related information, like the stadium, date, and time, are printed on each ticket, along with details on the category, and information on how to find the assigned... Read more
2018 World Cup Tickets Go On Sale, FIFA Ticket Site Crashes
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Football fans swarmed the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup ticket site Tuesday morning in hopes of scoring tickets, but many were kicked out of the site before they had the chance. Tickets have been on fan's minds for months as the countdown begins for the 2018 World... Read more
Over 2.3M Ticket Requests Received this Month for 2018 World Cup
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FIFA has provided their most recent update on ticket requests to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and reports that over 2,300,000 requests have been received thus far in the second sales phase that began December 5. Fans from all over the world requested 1,318,109 tickets in the first... Read more
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The Motor Vehicles Department in Nagpur is responsible to bring into effect the provisions and rules made under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988. The department mainly aims to simplify the movement of passengers and goods in the city and offer a range of services including registration of vehicles, issuance of driving license and vehicle fitness certificates, and more.
As per the MV Act, an unregistered motor vehicle cannot be delivered to the buyer. The vehicle must be temporarily or permanently registered by the dealer before handing the same to the customer. The act also prohibits the citizens to use an unregistered vehicle in any part of India. Similarly, it also mandates a two wheeler insurance for all motorcycles and scooters in India.
Temporary registration is required for vehicles that needs to be carried from a dealer's showroom to the vehicle registration office. Normally, the validity of a temporary registration is 7 days but can be extended to a period of 30 days in certain cases. An application for temporary vehicle registration can be made to the RTO in Form No.C.R Tem.A.
Any vehicle which is brought to Maharashtra for temporary use (maximum 12 months) does not need to be re-registered in the state. For any period exceeding one year, the vehicle should be re-registered with the concerned RTO. The process requires a vehicle owner to obtain an NOC from the vehicle registration authority where the vehicle is currently registered along with an NOC from the financier of the vehicle (if any). Along with the NOCs, the following documents need to be arranged and submitted to the RTO where an applicant wishes to re-register his/her vehicle.
Rule 54 of the Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Rules 1989 allows vehicle owners to apply for fancy vehicle registration numbers by making an application and submitting the required fee.


Students from 48 Chicago, Ill. high schools will be receiving a combined school ID and Chicago transit reduced-fare card this year. The agreement is aimed at increasing transit use among students and cutting CTA's administrative costs in the existing reduced-fare program and is expected to be expanded to all Chicago public high schools within 18 months.
The student's smart card is similar to the CTA's contactless ChicagoCard, which means faster boarding times. Users can add value to the card at CTA vending machines. The CTA expects to save $500,000 annually in administrative costs.


So far, the ofo bike-sharing pilot has been going well as it continues into the third week in Revere.
The pilot program will continue for approximately five more weeks, weather permitting. Approximately 200 yellow ofo bicycles have been deployed around Revere as part of the pilot. You'll see them on Broadway, at the beach, in front of Revere High School and the Beachmont area, but the bikes can be driven anywhere.
Download the ofo app on your Apple or Android device.
Store your payment information on the app.
Use the app to find the nearest bike, and scan the QR code on the back of the bike with your phone to unlock it.
When you're done riding, park the bike safely and legally. One option is at a public bike rack. If you park on the edge a sidewalk, you must leave at least a five-foot minimum clearance for pedestrians. If you park it in a driveway or on private property, please be aware that ofo staff will come and retrieve the bike, so leave it at the edge of the property.
Turn the lock on the back of the bike to end your ride. You'll be charged $1 per hour of use in the app.
If you're experiencing issues, contact ofo customer service through the app, at [email protected], or 24/7 at 844-289-9747. ofo has staff located locally who rebalance the bikes throughout the day, redeploying them in high-use, legal parking spots such as City Hall.
So far usage of the bikes has been high and we appreciate the fact that there is widespread cooperation with the rules. The bicycles are all GPS-tracked, so inappropriate usage can result in your account being suspended.
If the pilot is successful, the bike share will return and be expanded in 2018.


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Reading Into Identity
After our class conversation on Wednesday, I do think I look at The Importance of Being Earnest a little differently. Not that my earlier readings of the play, as a critique of Victorian society and a commentary on Englishness, have any less valence, but that there is an expanded sense of what the play speaks to, sitting more directly within the full nexus of Wilde's identities. My first instinct, when reading Wilde, isn't to focus on the queer aspects of his narratives, favoring instead his aestheticism and the Irish/English aspects of his works. But Colm Tobin's piece helped me to see, even more, how each of those aspects of Wilde inform each other as a part of his whole person — particularly in The Importance of Being Earnest. The hidden identities that both men take on, the secret lives they lead, become particularly poignant in light of Wilde's struggles with his identity and the way he shrugged them on and off — adding that tinge of darkness amongst the humor and social jibes. As Tobin aptly puts: "The problem about all of Wilde's work, but his plays especially, is that they are forced to compete with the drama of his own last years" (Tobin, 71). The heightened, though comic, drama of mistaken identity and misreading in the play then becomes a way of reading Wilde as well, for good or ill, and the play's final lesson about the certain inevitableness of being earnest, suggests the then inevitable outcome of Wilde's life, that there is an inescapable truth of self that comes to the fore no matter what you do, or perhaps despite it.
Tobin sums Wilde up well at the close of his piece: "The personal became political because an Irishman in London pushed his luck. He remains a vivid presence in the world one hundred years after his death. He played out the role of the tragic queer. He was witty, the greatest talker of his generation, skilled in the art-of the one-liner, the quick aside. But he was also untrustworthy and he was doomed" (Tobin, 84). Such a long string of adages seem necessary to fully encompass the life and tragedy of such a dynamic figure and there is no better space to locate that attempt than in Wilde's work itself, throwing away all pretense that the art doesn't reflect the artist. (When I initially wrote this last line, I wrote Wilde's work himself, as opposed to itself… a mistake, but a rather apt one for showing how easy it is to conflate the art and the artist — in a large sense, Wilde today is in fact his work.)
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Monday-Saturday. Captivating. Fascinating. Mesmerizing. Come witness the epic life story of the legendary Shawnee leader as he struggles to defend his sacred homelands in the Ohio country during the late 1700s. The huge, outdoor stages of the Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheater afford the audience the ability to see everything. You will sit beneath the stars as sheer spectacle surrounds you with a herd of galloping horses, live military cannon in action, and the most dazzling battle sequences offered on the American stage. One 15-20 minute intermission. Tecumseh is not recommended for children ages 6 and younger due to some violent content and loud battle scenes. All seats are reserved. Parking is FREE. Immediately following the performance, the cast members of Tecumseh assemble in the pavilion area for autographs and photographs. It is highly recommended you arrive to the facility no later than 6:45 pm if you will be attending a Saturday performance. We are a Pet Free and Smoke Free facility.
Box office Monday – Friday, 2:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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Mobile App Development – Is Our Real Estate Scenario Changing?
Technology teases us with glimpses of what our future might look like. It is quickly transforming our lives and the way we spend our time and money. The commercial real estate sector is evolving at a rather fast pace especially because of innovative mobile apps that continue to expand their scope and make the whole process of property sale and purchase simpler. There have been numerous innovations lately apart from realtor websites development and a lot of them have found their way into the real estate space. We have witnessed tremendous advancement in our devices. Technology today helps us capture data that can completely revolutionize the real estate scenario as we know it. Commercial real estate app development platforms are rising in importance. They help us perform various functions related to real estate and have allowed managers, tenants, buyers and sellers, and building owners to make the most of technology.
How Does The SmartPhone Real Estate App Prove Beneficial For Property Developers And Realtors?
Smartphones have become indispensable. They remain in our hand constantly and according to experts and studies over 80% of our purchase decisions are made over a mobile device/ phone. This habit of ours has changed the real estate scene significantly. Close to 75% of new property buyers use the internet and mobiles to research about any real estate deals close to them before committing to a real estate agent. Smartphones have made it easy for the user to gather information on the go. They don't just want it that way, they prefer it no other way and real estate app development experts have already seen this trend gaining more and more relevance as time is passing by.
Android and iOS are two primary platforms for which real estate Mobile app development has to be done and given that the smartphone user base continues to expand worldwide, it is advisable to have both, an app and a mobile website working for you. They have to be developed in such a way that right from deployment to functioning across a plethora of devices; everything is simple and quick. Their interface and UX design have to be competitive to that of native apps and should be able to take full advantage of the operating system and dynamics of the smartphones.
Any realtor that has their own mobile app and website are able to make their presence felt more easily. Their brand reaches everyone who is interested in making an investment or selling their property and uses a smartphone. These apps also let users connect their Facebook feeds, Twitter accounts and LinkedIn contacts, and other social media sites to their interface and upload necessary information or share their experience with their connections and do plenty more.
Do you know how fast and easy it becomes for a user to search and select real estate options with an app? As an agent or broker, you need to consider investing in real estate mobile applications right now if you intend to encourage your clients to return to you again and again. The user can gather all the important information he needs to, including price, area, relevant images, etc. of the property.
A robust real estate mobile app is what it does. It lets the user connect with the real estate expert. This is one industry where direct contact and communication with your clients is of utmost importance. It is very essential if you want to build good relationships with your clients. Real estate mobile apps are changing the whole scenario of the property industry and also making it easy for the company to update their latest listings and offer their customers more relevant information on the go.
The marketing process can be made faster and simpler. This could prove more informative and interactive for home buyers living across the world. The whole user interface can be designed in such a way that the sales happen in practically no time.
Using a mobile app means your real estate business can get access to the right target market. You can promote your brand and business to the right people without any additional cost. It also makes easy for the real estate professional to deliver offers and inform their users about any special deals without wasting any time. Apart from the traditional marketing channels you also get to utilize social media channels provided you opt for seamless integration.
Your primary intention of deploying a robust real estate app is to amplify the presence of your business. You want your user base to recognize your brand and that will eventually produce more business. With the ability to reach mass audiences, real estate mobile applications can help you carve a niche in the market and create a unique business identity. Your ambition of becoming a powerful brand in the industry will soon be realized.
There are plenty of benefits of mobile apps for real estate. This was just a piece of the pie. If you dig a little deeper, you will know just how much more impactful and practical these apps are going to prove in near future. Their growth is just in the initial stages and still very much palpable. Don't you want to be a part of this surge and claim your piece?
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Be the Best Dressed … For Less!
I want to let you all in on a little secret….
Written by Maggie, as dictated from Brian the dog.
It ain't easy being 17 inches tall! Daily life is a challenge when most things rest far above you. Sure I have a great sense of smell, but sometimes I like to see what I'm smelling too. Since we moved into our new home and have finished adjusting, I can say that there is one glaring problem with this place……I can't see out of a single window!!! Every single window in this place is so high up there that even if I sit on the very back of the sofa I can only see the very tops of trees and a bit of sky.
My Mom, Maggie, decided to resolve the problem and built me my very own doggy viewing deck! She added some safety railings, a plush blankie and a mile long carpeted ramp. I can now see the whole neighborhood and get some fresh air when she opens the window!
The ramp was a very tricky thing to master, but with Mom offering cheese along the whole way I managed.
Written by Maggie, as dictated by Brian the dog.
I have been recovering from the holidays and apologize for my disappearance. My family LOVES Christmas more than bacon and potatoes! Our house was all decked out with every kind of glitter, sequin, twinkle light, and evergreen. My personal favorite thing is the gigantic stocking that every year appears chock full of new baby dolls and squeaky toys!
This year everyone came to our house and we cooked and ate and watched funny movies. It was the best! Everyone snuggled with me on the sofa and everyone was more than generous with the table scraps too. I even got dressed for the event…..
Take a look around folks! The air is crisp and the leaves are tumbling down!
A million new things to see every day.
A million new scents to find with each new breeze.
Crunching leaves beneath my paws, look Mom! I am R-U-N-N-I-N-G!
Oh favorite green shrub in the far corner of the yard…..where are your flowers of pink and white?
Oh "Hi" neighbor, now that the fence is bare.
A change is coming, just look at my nose! Once blackest of black, now a pale shade of pinky tan.
Last night we sat on the front porch.
Snuggled in blankets. Mom with her hot coffee and big book to read….a thriller by Stephen King.
Winds a whipping and leaves a swirling.
Purple and orange twinkle lights up high on the door.
Ghouls and witches painted black through the glass.
Something is different tonight and it's tough to tell, but people aren't people after 5pm.
Evening light is fading and the sidewalks are buzzing.
Laughter and calls to friends from yard to yard.
What is coming down that hill and from behind that wall?
Strangers approaching right up my steps!
Glittering and flashing. Some even in masks!
What strange magic is this?!
Changing people to creatures of every type. You smell the same, but oh, what a fright!
"Trick or Treat" they yelled from house to house.
"You're giving THEM candy?!" She has gone mad.
Yucky days are meant for snuggling under blankies with my humans, with belly rubs and the occassional potatoe chip. If it is realllllly hot and I look sad enough, Mama gives me a doggie ice cream in a jadeite tea cup to "cool off". We have a HUGE moving fan to cool us while we watch those tv shows with screaming housewives. Sooooo many angry people on tv.
It's hard being Brian sometimes! I am under constant scrutiny from my public…..I am a dog people!
On the daily I hear: I hate his mohawk. Whats wrong with his ears? Why is he so skinny? How did he get so fat? Oh Wow, you got chubby. Somebody got clipped. He is gonna die sleeping in that window.
All I want to do is be with my family and greet our friends that come to see me, quite often, at work. I want to sleep in the sunny window and people watch while protecting the town of Needham. I want to freely accept the loving pats and snacks from happy people. I wish to lean on the calves of those who forgot to say, "Hi" to me. Sometimes I feel kinda crazy and go to the OTHER window!
I love when my friends tell me they love me. Tell me I am handsome, soft, sweet, smart and the coolest dog ever! There is no need to tell me bad things about myself, especially when all I want to do is love you.
I ruv going for rides with my Mama. I have at least two car rides every day!! I have a sweet car seat that doesn't slide around when we turn and boosts me at perfect window height. We listen to the radio with the windows open. Mama drinks her iced coffee and laughs at the voice on the radio. Usually I get the last three bites of Mama's breakfast in the car too….so now my seat is always filled with crumbs.
We drive through a million towns to get to work everyday. I smell a bazillion different smells out the window. I see cows, goats, chickens, rabbits, dogs, cats, lots of horses, sheeps, and birdies. My ears flap in the air and I stretch my neck out the window to take it all in. Stop lights always catch me off guard and make me almost fall every time. When the light goes green Mama always tells me to "Hold On" and I do my best to brace myself for lift off.
Cars make me happy. I am the co-pilot paid in snacks and love. I do a good job.
Strollers rolling, babies squeaking, binkies dropping.
Forgotten ice cream cone on the ground a million ants's new home.
Pick up your poo! You other bad dogs! Yuck Yuck.
Softball season, soccer soon, kiddos running.
Fire hydrant, my old friend.
Blue trash can, how ya been?
Random basketball….I will not pee on you.
Back to work for me!
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Ben Sollee
Ben Sollee's Climate Action Contribution
Current Climate Actions Ben Sollee Is Taking:
Commit to Reducing Waste Produced on Tour
There are many simple and easy ways to decrease waste while on tour. This includes: coordinating with venues, concessionaires and catering to reduce waste at the source by using environmentally preferable serve-ware and straws; consulting with catering to to make entire service plastic-free, aiding venues and caterers in reducing non-reusable water bottle consumption; collecting and recycling guitar strings, collecting and properly disposing of used batteries.
Commit to Eliminating Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles
Only about 23% of plastic bottles are recycled within the U.S.1 By providing hydration stations on tour, encouraging fans to bring refillable water containers, where allowed to performances, and ensuring tour buses and catering are stocked with environmentally preferable hydration options, will reduce the use of single-use plastic bottles.
Commit to Educating Concert Attendees on the Environmental Impact of Tour
Action cannot be taken without awareness. Develop sustainability messaging for your website, social media content, or engage concert attendees on pledges to reduce CO 2 e missions, eliminate single-use plastic bottles, etc.
New Climate Actions Ben Sollee Commits To Take:
Commit to Reducing Energy and CO2 Emissions From Touring
All tours, big or small, can calculate and offset all emissions generated from a tour and acquire an offset of CO2 emissions. The majority of the CO2 emissions from touring are from fan travel. You can encourage fans to carpool and take mass transit to the shows to reduce this.
Commit to Reducing Food Waste
Every year in the United States, approximately 31% (133 billion pounds) of the overall food supply is wasted, which impacts food security, resource conservation, and contributes to the 18% of total U.S. methane emissions that come from landfills2. Coordinate with caterers and venues to donate excess food to local shelters and food banks, where regulations allow it.
Over the ten years following the release of his debut record, Learning to Bend, Sollee and his rugged cello, Kay, told an unconventional story. Seeking a deeper connection to communities on the road, Ben packed his touring life on to his bicycle in 2009. Since then he has ridden over 5,000 miles! He has been invited to perform and speak on sustainability at a number of festivals including South by Southwest Music, TEDx San Diego and Richmond, Telluride Mountainfilm, EarthX and more!
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With increasing business opportunities due to increase mobile usage, mobile app development is something every entrepreneur wants to adopt to boost sales. However, having an iOS or Android app has its own challenges. More and more businesses have keen interest in getting an app developed to reach out to their customers.
1. What is the Purpose and Motivating Factor for Building the App?
You are not building an app simply because you want to; you are building it with a purpose. So, what exactly is the purpose and what is motivating you to develop the app. While fame and money are neutral and standard factors, they are not enough. You should have a clear vision and passion to ensure that what your app can successfully accomplish. It should offer a solution to the target audience.
2. How Can I Protect the App Idea?
Since you have a great idea for your app, you have to keep it a secret. Make sure nobody else uses it, or discloses it, before the launch. A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), in this case, can be a great help. However, you should understand the basic requirements and rules for signing the NDA.
Rather than barring yourself from relevant and meaningful discussion with the ones that can assist you with the app, postpone the NDA part and share only the non-proprietary information about the app idea. This information can include a general focus of the app, comparing with similar apps, platforms that you may be interested in launching the app on, timeline and budget.
3. Which is the Most Appropriate Platform for the App?
Android makes the first and foremost choice for all apps with Android device audiences. It is also the best choice when you need features that are not supported by iOS.
For consumer-oriented apps, you may want to go with iOS. Because iOS users can match key demographics required for their early-stage ventures, they also spend more time with the app and stay engaged for long hours. That is not all, but iOS users also earn better revenue than most Android apps. In addition, iOS based apps are much easier to build and faster as well. This shows that iOS apps can also cost less for creating as time is directly tied into the budget needed for building the app.
Weigh your priorities and let an expert advice you. Do a bit of research too and take an informed decision.
4. What Makes the App Different or Special?
On the Google Play Store, Apple's App Store and amongst Windows Apps, there are over millions of apps. In this flooded market, what is the single specific feature of your app that would make it stand out? It is very important to have a clear and concise idea of the differentiating factors, how would the user experience be, and what is your geographical target market. These factors would work like the compass when different directions are offered.
5. How Much is the App Going to Cost?
The features of your app, platforms you are targeting, and other factors would be taken into consideration to determine the cost of your app. A brilliant app could easily cost up to six figures for promising startups with bigger and better ideas. App developers generally identify the key considerations and then determine budget and predict comparable costs in their detailed analysis.
App cost may also be influenced by who you choose to build the app. If you have chosen the largest app developers, they can charge you real high. However, if you choose freelancers, the cost becomes significantly less. Offshore app development is also a cheaper option, though there are challenges and risks involved.
6. How Long is it Going to Take to Build the App?
Quality apps generally take 4 to 6 months to be created, although there are several ways to build apps much faster. However, bear in mind that this range does not include the development time needed. For the ones who build apps strategically, it would also include strategic planning, design, UX, quality assurance, app store submission, and many more steps in between. These stages involved in app creation are equally important to make sure that the app meets all the elements needed to build a brilliant app.
The process and expertise of the team building the app also determines how long it could take to come up with the final product. This is exactly the factor indicating that you should always choose a proven app development team rather than an inexperienced team.
7. In What Ways Can I Raise Money for the App?
Before creating an app, you have to raise money for the entire process. As many early-stage business ventures are usually capital intensive, you have to rely on trusted investors to get the app through. Before approaching any investor though, you should ensure that you have honed the pitch well. It is only your pitch that can convey the purpose of the app in short. Additionally, make sure you have some marketing materials like logo, email address other than Yahoo! and Google, app landing page etc.
You should have a positive approach to convince your investors that you are serious in the venture by investing your funds into the app. In doing so, you can make significant contribution to the success of your app beyond just investing your thought, time, and effort.
8. Is There A Way To Prevent Failure of My App?
The process of creating an app is really complicated. Even if you can take care of all the external factors like hiring a team and fundraising, it may not work as you want. Sometimes, startup companies make a blunder by forgetting that an app is more meaningful than just a mere app. Factually, an app means business. So, it requires an extensive holistic approach to address all the important factors that businesses have to contend with such as customer experience, analytics and marketing.
Another way in which you lead your app towards failure is by becoming too removed from users. App founders can become over possessive and obsessive over the features of their apps that are irrelevant to users. This can lead to founder blindness, which hampers the scope of the app.
9. Who Are My Key Stakeholders?
Questions related to the project owner, budget holder, contact person and different stages of decision making, fall under this category. Whom should you consult at what stage to progress from ideation to prototype, to development and test, and finally, release? Who are you supposed to work with post launch, or is there a more organic approach? If so, what are the points of Risk Register?
10. How Often Does the App Need an Update?
The launch of your app does not mark the end of the project; it is rather a new beginning. To make sure your business keeps growing, you have to keep updating your app to attract as well as retain users. One fundamental way of generating excitement around the app is to release bug fixes; the other way is to release future updates. Updates are meant to address concerns related to the app, and feedback, as well as provide some additional features not scoped in the app launch. Generally, a plan to release 1 to 4 updates per month depending on your user feedback, app roadmap, and budget, is great. It is also a smart move to time the updates with major OS releases.
By providing frequent updates for the app, you can generate more excitement amongst users, which would keep them active. It is also a master strategy to offer something new to users to keep the hype alive.
Paying attention to answer these aforementioned questions can determine the success of your app in app stores. Whilst you may encounter several other considerations during the process of creating app, these concerns would set the foundation for experiences to come.


we could always ask swedish television if they still have the version they used in the documentary!
phlextro wrote: we could always ask swedish television if they still have the version they used in the documentary!
What documentary? I suppose you're thinking about Center of the Universe?
some here probably remember the Teenage Crime "Copenhagen Mix", which Axwell gave us for free, maybe he will do that with this track as well!
I think now would be the perfect time to release the 2008 version as a free download. There's so much love in the air! Don't you agree?
oskaaar wrote: I think now would be the perfect time to release the 2008 version as a free download.
axwell wrote: something im working on!
Goddamn it we need to travel back in time and take care of business.


When Nicole of Lillyella asked me to pattern test her new Wicked Weaver pattern, I jumped at the chance because (1) she's super rad and awesome and (2) her patterns are legit. Like #2legit2quit even.
So I immediately knew that I wanted to do either a blue or green spider. After officially getting the heebie jeebies from looking at spider pictures, I landed on this color story.
Right away, I knew I had a winner on my hands going with the blue and this uber rad Lecien L's Modern fabric to make the spider web.
Never in my life did I ever imagine I would stare so closely at pictures of real life 🕷and flies for detail inspiration, but I have survived with only minor trauma so Yaaaaay!
The different weights of Aurifil Thread totally resuscitated me and brought a depth to this mini that I'm super stoked I explored. The black floss used for the flies allowed me a variance that was perfection and the use of 12wt for the web brought the natural flow of the #Lecien background to life. Thanks @lillyellasworld for entrusting me with this #wickedweaverpattern because it was loads of fun! As far as I'm concerned, everyone needs one of these ladies in their home!
Where might I purchase a pattern for your Lillyella WIcked Weaver ?


Oracle was ordered by a California jury to pay $3 billion after finding that billionaire Larry Ellison and his company violated a contract to support software for Hewlett-Packard 's Itanium chip. Oracle said it would appeal the verdict.
Oracle decided to stop developing software for use with HP's Itanium-based servers in 2011, saying that the chips were nearing the end of their life and that Intel - the chips' maker - was shifting its focus to its x86 microprocessor.
However, HP said it had an agreement with Oracle that support for Itanium would continue, without which the equipment using the chip would become obsolete.
In 2012, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that there had been a contract. The jury on Thursday decided damages.
The Itanium chip, developed in collaboration between HP and Intel in 2001, was once touted as architecture that would be pervasive in the computer industry. The processor failed to win industry-wide adoption, causing both HP and Intel to reduce their investment in it.


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Con il termine sensibilità, in statistica, più precisamente nel campo della epidemiologia, si indica la capacità intrinseca di un test di screening di individuare in una popolazione di riferimento i soggetti malati. Tale concetto si contrappone a quello di specificità cioè la capacità del test di individuare come veri negativi i soggetti sani.

Non è correlato alla prevalenza della malattia in esame.

Calcolo
Essa è data dalla proporzione dei soggetti realmente malati e positivi al test (veri positivi) rispetto all'intera popolazione dei malati.

Un test sarà tanto più sensibile quanto più bassa risulterà la quota dei falsi negativi (cioè di soggetti malati erroneamente identificati dal test come sani). Un test molto sensibile, in definitiva, ci consente di limitare la possibilità che un soggetto malato risulti negativo al test.

Supponiamo che un test di screening dia come risultato solamente due opzioni: positivo al test e negativo. Essere positivi al test equivale ad essere ammalato, ma indagini diagnostiche successive possono rivelare l'effettiva malattia o meno. Perciò si otterranno 4 tipologie di osservati: Sani Negativi (veri negativi), Sani Positivi (falsi positivi), Malati Positivi (veri positivi) e Malati Negativi (falsi negativi), rappresentabili così in tabella:

La sensibilità del test verrà così calcolata:

Sensibilità = Veri positivi / Totale malati = Veri positivi / (Veri positivi + Falsi negativi)

Esempio
Viene condotto uno screening tramite l'utilizzo di un test su una popolazione di 86 persone, le quali poi vengono tutte sottoposte ad un'indagine diagnostica e si ottiene la situazione che segue:

Calcoliamo la sensibilità del test di screening:

Note

Voci correlate
Specificità
Predittività
Valore di cut-off

Statistica medica

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They're Showing up in MY Community!
by admin on September 1, 2004
Mile High Ministries in inner-city Denver was the victim of its own success. The poor were rapidly disappearing from the neighborhood and it no longer made any practical sense to keep bussing them back to the ministry center from the suburbs. When Jeff Johnsen started the program two and a half decades earlier, its location in the heart of Denver's roughest neighborhood was strategically "on the mark." He acquired dilapidated houses and commercial buildings for a song, rehabbed them using volunteers and donations, and created an array of excellent, life-reclaiming services. But much had changed in twenty-five years. Starbucks had arrived. Boarded-up storefronts now housed avant-garde eateries. Flop-house hotels had become lofts. The destitute, the addicted, the people of the street – they had simply disappeared. Denver's mayor, of course, was delighted. Mile High Ministries had done a remarkable job of cleaning up the area. Its school for street kids had intervened where the public school system could not. Its drug treatment home had turned addicts into job-holding citizens. Its neighborhood crime watch helped make the streets safe again. Mile High was precisely the kind of front-line ministry needed to reclaim a devastated community. And it had been highly effective in its brief history. Perhaps too effective, its staff and board pondered.
The mayor of nearby Aurora was not so elated. Jeff had assumed that he would be pleased to have the support of Mile High Ministries. After all, Aurora was the suburban edge-city where many of the poor from Denver were migrating to. And besides, the mayor was an active Christian. "The poor are not coming here," the mayor declared to Jeff as they drove together toward Aurora's poorer side of town. Jeff knew differently, of course. His staff had been spending excessive amounts of time and gas money shuttling folks back and forth from Aurora to their Denver center. Attempting to tactfully correct the mayor's faulty perception, Jeff proceeded to point out some of the apartment complexes and cheap motels the urban migrants were moving into. "You misunderstood me," the mayor interrupted. "The poor are not coming here!"
It was his duty as mayor, he looked Jeff straight in the eye, to keep his city safe and prosperous. "As a Christian, I love what you are doing. But as a public official there's just no way I can support your bringing this kind of thing to my city." The influx of rabble with their vice, their pathologies, their propensity toward lawlessness was not welcome in his town. He would do everything within his power to keep these influences out. And no, he wanted no services, Christian or otherwise, that would make the troublesome feel more welcome in Aurora.
The incident is not unique to Denver and Aurora. The same scenario is being played out all over the country. After a half-century of disinvestment and decline, our cities are springing back to life. The idyllic promises of picket-fenced suburbia have lost their attraction for a younger generation. In-town living is in. Cheap urban land and decaying buildings are attracting developers like moths to a porch light. And with condos, lofts and gated communities selling like hotcakes to a moneyed gentry, eateries, boutiques and branch banks are rushing in for their market share. From abandoned warehouse districts to aging in-town neighborhoods the trend has spread and, like a swelling tide of new prosperity, it carries with it rich economic nutrients. It's called gentrification – the return of the property owners.
It takes little imagination to understand why big-city mayors are thrilled by gentrification. For decades they have struggled against overwhelming odds to keep their cities alive, even as their tax bases relentlessly eroded out from under them. Smoggy, congested urban life could not compete with the lure of half acre wooded lots in pleasant suburban communities. And money followed the market out of the city – en masse. The resulting decline in urban property values became an immediate attraction for the less-advantaged who were drawn in by cheap housing, public transportation and accessible human services. Meanwhile the prosperous edge-cities were enjoying the security and abundance that a vibrant economy affords, largely immune to all the woes that were plaguing the city. By the latter years of the twentieth century the situation had grown so dire that many cities despaired that recovery would ever come. The urban plank had disappeared from the political platforms of state and national politicians, social programs were bankrupt, and a post-industrial economy seemed to be doing just fine without city centers.
And then, almost magically, the giants began to stir. The cities were alive after-all! There are doubtless a dozen valid explanations for the awakening. But the short answer is: the market woke up to an opportunity. Devalued real estate coupled with the appetites of a younger generation for the stimulants of urban life became an irresistible combination. Gays, artists and gutsy urban pioneers were first to venture back, followed by waves of educated singles, professional couples and empty-nesters. By the dawn of the new millennium it was a full-fledged movement. And for the first time in decades, mayors were confronted with issues of density rather than disinvestment – a challenge they were delighted to accept. The tax-base was returning!
What is good news for the Denver's of the nation, however, means bad news for the Aurora's. Or so it would seem at first glance. Poverty is suburbanizing. As urban real estate values escalate, rising rents and condo conversions push low-income residents out to the periphery of the city, out to 30 year old class-B apartment complexes now owned by real estate investments trusts (REIT's). Because many of these properties have impersonal owners (you and I may own minute pieces of them in our retirement portfolios), they are valued for their bottom line rather than the quality of life they provide. As persistently as water finds its way to lower ground, little rivulets of the displaced trickle quietly into still-charming suburban communities, taking advantage of the reduced rates. These uninvited neighbors show up in the classrooms of affluent school children. They appear at the rapid-rail stations where once only commuters in business attire and their in-coming maids passed. The very presence of these unwelcome intruders triggers fears that the problems of the big city are invading the serenity of the suburbs.
Suburban paranoia is understandable. But the arrival of these new neighbors need not signal trouble. Change, yes, but not necessarily trouble. Rightly planned for, these new-comers could mean the arrival of a much needed labor-force. A host of important, difficult-to-fill jobs (food service, construction labor, landscaping type jobs), unattractive to the children of the affluent, beckon eager workers. And for the people of faith who have spent millions on mission trips, there is now an opportunity to serve the culturally different right in their own back yards. The stranger, the uprooted, the very ones in need of kindness and care, have appeared at the doorstep of comfortable Christians, hoping against hope to find acceptance.
This Diaspora of the dispossessed, now a recognized demographic shift of inner-city residents to the edge-cities, signals the need for new paradigms in ministry. Inner-city ministries are at a crossroad – either switch to active community development work that creates opportunities for the poor to remain and share in the benefits of reviving communities, or become passive migrant ministries with vans and mobile satellite centers that follow the steams of displaced poor out of the city. The suburban church, which has led the way in constructing volunteer-built homes in the inner-city, now faces the need for affordable housing in its own communities. And it will take more than youth groups and paint-bucket brigades to get the job done. The kind of mixed-income housing strategies that will adequately accommodate the need requires the talents of the church's real estate developers, and its bankers and property managers. The church, above all institutions, can lead the way in creating healthy, affordable, well-managed apartment communities where its members extend hospitality and enter into neighborly relationships.
Significant changes are upon us. Exciting changes for the new urban gentry. Fearful changes for the displaced. And much ambivalence for those whose protected lifestyles are about to be changed. It is one of those defining moments in our history that presents us with the opportunity to get it right. I hope we are up to the challenge.
Bob Lupton


Where a sexual harassment complaint has been made, a thorough investigation coupled with appropriate disciplinary action, if complaint is established, is an employer's best defense to sexual harassment lawsuits. When combined with a good, well-disseminated sexual harassment policy with a clear complaint mechanism that by-passes that alleged harasser, employers are adequately prepared to defend harassment claims.
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In selecting the individual to conduct the investigation, an employer has to carefully evaluate the various issues that may affect that individual's objectivity. Office politics, established relationships, unclean hands of an investigator, personal friendships and interdepartmental frictions are factors that may affect the objectivity an in-house investigator.
In some instances, the victim and his/her witnesses are disciplined by the biased in-house investigator and no discipline is given to the harasser who is sometimes permitted to interfere with the investigation by intimidating witnesses and rounding up supporters for his cause. Mishandled investigations of this sort create difficulty for employers during litigation and could result in a guilty verdict and possible award of punitive damages. As such, the appropriateness of using an external investigator or law firm should be carefully evaluated.
Our experienced sexual harassment employment attorneys can assist as necessary. Upon request, we help employers by using our staff to conduct a thorough and objective investigation. We will prepare a summary of the investigation and recommend appropriate discipline or other remedial action, if warranted.
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Leon Joubert was a French artist who specialized in landscape painting. Like many of the painters during the 19th century he studied with one of the premier artists of the period - Léon G. Pelouse (1838-1891) who was known for his majestic landscape images.
Joubert debuted at the Sociétaire des Artistes Français in 1883 and received an honorable mention in 1884 and a third class medal in 1889. His work was included in both the Exposition Universalle of 1889 and 1900 – receiving the bronze medal at both.


The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) The MOU establishes the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (SuAsCo CISMA). It describes the structure of the organization and when parties join SuAsCo CISMA, they sign the MOU.
Strategic Plan The plan is to guide management efforts within the watershed and determine priorities for management.
Annual Priority Actions A list of priority action items on a yearly basis categorized by the current subcommittees.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishes the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (SuAsCo-CISMA). The Parties to the MOU have a mutual interest in invasive plant control within the SUASCO watershed and recognize that uncontrolled invasive species populations in one jurisdiction greatly affect the ability of other land managers to control invasives on lands they administer.
The Parties desire to come together in a formal manner and promote an integrated invasive species management program throughout the SuAsCo CISMA that includes public relations, education, and training focused on invasive species, as well as, coordination of invasive species control efforts and methods, resource sharing, and other natural resource protection measures relative to invasive species management.
The Parties agree that it is to their mutual benefit and interest to work cooperatively to prevent the spread of invasive species across jurisdictional boundaries within the SuAsCo CISMA. They agree that it is mutually beneficial to inventory, monitor, and control invasive species; and to educate the public, other stakeholders, decision makers, and themselves about the problems with and solutions to invasive species proliferation.
The Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Rivers (SuAsCo) watershed Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) is a group of federal, state and local land owners and land managers committed to controlling invasive species within the watershed. The structure of the CISMA is detailed in the SUASCO CISMA Memorandum of Understanding. The CISMA group engages participants in a collaborative effort to share knowledge, expertise and resources as well as to coordinate invasive species management activities within the watershed.
Invasive species pose one of the greatest threats to the biodiversity, natural landscapes, agricultural interests, recreational activities, quality of life and scenic beauty of the watershed. There are many ways to deal with this threat including initial prevention, early detection, and control through manual removal, mechanical treatment, pesticide application, biological control, grazing and fire. Invasive species do not stop at ownership boundaries, and without a coordinated effort among a broad range of private and public land owners and land managers, these species will continue to invade our watershed, altering the habitat and reducing the recreational and aesthetic value of the watershed.
The intention of this plan is to guide management efforts within the watershed and determine priorities for management that will be detailed as Annual Priority Actions. The plan will be updated regularly to reflect new priorities within the watershed.


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Юрий Владимирович Кузнецов (19 августа 1931 год, Огарёвка, Щёкинский район, Московская область — 11 апреля 2002 года, Москва) — советский организатор производства, генеральный директор Прикаспийского горно-металлургического комбината, Герой Социалистического Труда (1984). Лауреат Государственной премии СССР (1989). Заслуженный рационализатор РСФСР (1966).

Биография
Родился 19 августа 1931 года в рабочей семье в посёлке Огарёвка Московской области. После окончания средней школы поступил на физико—технический факультет Уральского политехнического института, который окончил в 1955 году по специальности «инженер-механик». Работал на различных предприятиях Министерства среднего машиностроения СССР.

С 1957 года на Чепецком механическом заводе (п/я 38) в городе Чепецк, Удмуртская АССР. В 1959 году вступил в КПСС. На этом предприятии прошёл путь от мастера до начальника цеха. Внёс несколько рационализаторских предложений, в результате чего на предприятии увеличилась производительность труда. В 1966 году за свою трудовую деятельность был награждён Орденом Ленина и в этом же году был удостоен звания «Заслуженный рационализатор РСФСР».

В октябре 1973 года был переведён в город Шевченко, работал директором завода, и. о. главного инженера, директором Прикаспийского горно-металлургического комбината по переработке урановой руды. С 1990 до марта 1995 генеральный директор ПО «Прикаспийский горно-металлургический комбинат».

С 1996 года советник генерального директора Московского завода полиметаллов. В 1999 году присвоено почётное звание «Ветеран атомной энергетики и промышленности».

В 1990—1991 годах — член ЦК КПСС.

Скончался 11 апреля 2002 года в Москве. Похоронен на Щербинском кладбище в Москве.

Награды
 Герой Социалистического Труда — указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 14 сентября 1984 года
 Орден Ленина — дважды (1966, 1984)
 Орден Октябрьской Революции (1981)
 Государственная премия СССР (1989).

Примечания

Литература

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 Юрий Владимирович Кузнецов

Выпускники Уральского технического университета
Организаторы металлургической промышленности в России и СССР
Персоналии:Глазов
Персоналии:Актау
Члены ЦК КПСС
Похороненные на Щербинском кладбище
Делегаты XXVII съезда КПСС
Делегаты XXVIII съезда КПСС


I am always finding and trying new skincare products. My skin has really looked better over the past couple years, so it's been easier to try new products. I haven't been worrying quite as much about break outs. The only break outs I've been getting lately are either hormone related or diet related.
Normally I'm not one for face wipes. I always have some around to wipe off swatches from my hands, but typically I save my face wipes for traveling. These wipe are formulated with AHA from hibiscus. If you've never tried AHA in your skincare routine, I would recommend trying something gentle like this. It makes your skin look so fresh and glowy. In fact, I kept reaching for these over and over again, and now I've run out! Botanics is usually carried at Target, but my local one doesn't have it. I might have to order them online!
Along the same lines, they sent me a few more All Bright products. These are all formulated with AHA from hibiscus. The Botanics All Bright Micellar 3-in-1 Cleansing Solution is perfect for wiping off your makeup before you use the face wipes. It completely melts away my makeup. I have really been loving this!
The other All Bright product they sent me is this eye roll-on. This is meant to do the same thing — brighten your skin. I am already using a peptide eye gel cream at the moment, so I didn't see any results with this. I do think if you've never used an AHA product on your skin, you would see results. It felt so refreshing and cooling on my skin, I've been using it over my eye gel cream anyways.
I featured the Botanics 100% Organic Toning Spritz in my spring favorites, so I've already spoken quite a bit about it there. If you missed that post, you can find it here. This toning spritz is wonderful for adding another layer of moisture. I've seen a difference in how my skin and makeup look since I started using this. Bonus that it's affordable and from the drugstore!
While my husband and I were wondering around Target, I picked up a few sheet masks to try. A few of them were from Pacifica (and they were all awful) and a few were from Acure. Acure is one of my favorite brands for skin and hair, so I expected to like these eye gel masks. What I did not expect was for these to work so well I couldn't stop staring at my under eyes. I know that sounds weird, but these masks literally blurred my dark circles. It was amazing! I got them at my local Target.
Farmacy is another brand that pops up on my blog from time to time. This moisturizer has been so, so nice. It doesn't have SPF, which is a little bit of a bummer, but I just make sure to use a primer or foundation with SPF. The consistency is a light cream, but it feels very moisturizing. My makeup just glides right over my skin after I apply this. It's very airy, and it takes just a little bit to cover my entire face. I love it when products go a long way, don't you?
I bought this at the same time as the eye gel masks. I was very intrigued by this! Have you ever seen a face cleanser that looks like deodorant? So, the idea is that you smooth this over your skin and then add water to lather it up. It foams up really well! I was surprised, again, by how little I had to use for it to be effective. In fact, one of the cons is that you can easily spread too much on your face. Once you get the hang of it, it's a really easy cleanser to use. It removes my makeup and cleanses my face. I think this would be really great for traveling, because you don't have to worry about anything spilling.
Can you tell I'm on an Acure binge right now? This was a free item in my Grove Collaborative order (you can sign up here with my referral link for a 5-piece gift set). I've been using it off and on between the Farmacy Honey Drop Lightweight Moisturizer, and it's very nice. For a cruelty free drugstore option, this is awesome. I love that Acure has expanded and rebranded, because I've been seeing more and more of their products at my local Target.
I don't think I've ever mentioned this, but basically my entire hair care routine is Acure products. It might be time to write a post about that. What do you think?