June 2016 was one disaster after another for me. I was happy to say "Bye, Felicia" and usher in July. You see, in the course of a month, my HVAC unit needed replaced, the hot water heater went out, and my car broke down (on the way to my son's birthday party). I wish I were making this up — my life felt like a comedy of errors, except I wasn't finding any of it funny.
About getting to t-ball games and kindergarten meetings.
About doing it all alone.
My hair was going gray at a faster rate than normal, and I was without the money or car to remedy it. My usually bright and cheerful disposition turned solemn and sour. I was snapping at my kids more often. Did they listen to anything I said? I felt tired and weary and slightly crazy.
And I felt like I was failing as a parent.
July 4th rolled around, and the kids went to their dad's for the day. I had walked into standing water in the kitchen the night before (water heater again?), so I knew I wouldn't be much fun to be around anyway. I kissed them goodbye and took myself back upstairs to bed wondering if July 2016 was going to be just as bad.
I slept for a few hours, cleaned, did a couple of loads of laundry, watched some grown up TV. Then I waited. When would they be home?
As tired as I get and as often as I wonder if I'm failing and as flustered as they make me sometimes, those babies are my world. And everything feels off when they aren't with me.
They finally returned home. I had their pajamas ready, and we turned on a movie and snuggled on the couch. My son asked if he could have a snack (all day, every day). I told him if he got something out of the pantry I would open it for him.
On his way to the kitchen, he stopped and said, "Mommy, you're the best mommy." He was so sweet and sincere. Tears welled up in my eyes.
I hadn't been my best self or parent the past month. I was weary. I was in survival mode. But that's not what my son saw. And tired single mama, that's not what your baby sees.
She doesn't see the gray hair and worry lines.
He doesn't see the home improvements you think need done or the bills from the ones you've checked off.
She doesn't see the tears you cry after bedtime while you pray you're a better parent tomorrow.
He doesn't see the twenty pounds you would like to lose.
She doesn't see the floors that you need to sweep or the kitchen table with crafts all over or the dishes in the sink.
Instead, they see a home where they can play and learn and be themselves. They see a place that they are safe and well cared for. More importantly, they see a person who is beautiful because she has made it her life work to give them the best life possible. While they cannot comprehend the dedication and sacrifice (can anyone really until she is a parent herself?), they know who is always there for them — from tucking them in to getting them ready for their first year of school. Not just the fun stuff, not just what is convenient or fits into a tidy box. But they see a strong person who is there for all the messy and wonderful parts of parenthood.
Chin up, tired mama. They see the love. Most importantly, they feel it.
Lindsey Light is a single mama to two beautiful redheads—Deacon and Nora. She works as a professor of English and keeps up with the local sports teams. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and adventuring with her kids and Larkin (fur baby).


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EchoStar launches slimmest digital video recorder
EchoStar has introduced what it claims is the slimmest digital video recorder in the world. The ultra slim aluminium box houses a twin-tuner digital video recorder with a 500GB hard disk drive. At just 14mm high, it complements the latest flat screen designs, but could we soon see televisions incorporating such storage?
The latest EchoStar box is designed to support Freeview+ HD standards for digital terrestrial television transmission in the United Kingdom. It can record up to 125 hours of high-definition television or 300 hours in standard definition. It can also connect to broadband to deliver connected television features including access to the BBC iPlayer.
With no space for a bulky analogue SCART connector, it requires a television with an HDMI input. Recently on show at the Connected Television Summit in London, it is available for pre-order and will be in the shops from the end of May, priced at around £260.
"We pride ourselves on challenging the status quo to create truly inspirational products," commented Rhod Williams, the general manager of EchoStar Europe. "The Ultra Slim Box represents the coming of age for the DVR and is the perfect complement to the latest range of ultra slim TVs."
"We are delighted to see innovative companies bringing exciting new products to market on the Freeview platform," said Ilse Howling, the managing director of Freeview.
With the planned YouView platform yet to see the light of day, there is clearly still plenty of room for innovation in the Freeview retail market.
One of the key questions is whether in an era of network-connected televisions there will still be a place for the digital video recorder. Perhaps the best place for the digital video recorder is behind, rather than beneath the screen.
At just 14mm high, the EchoStar HDT-610R is about the same thickness as a small USB disk drive. Indeed it contains the 2.5″ form factor disk drive typically used in such devices.
Such a low profile could easily be fitted behind or incorporated in a flat screen display. Manufacturers appear to be competing to produce flat screens that are ever flatter and thinner and as yet appear to have largely ignored the opportunity to add storage to their screens, leaving their so-called smart screens with limited long-term memory. This seems strange, since it seems such an obvious addition.
Of course, there are other possible approaches, such as using solid state storage to achieve further miniaturisation, although there may be concerns about cost the number of write cycles that could be supported.
Storage has historically been separated from the television screen, although of course it is integrated in other devices, like laptops, tablets and smart phones.
It may be that storage is better attached to a local area network, as part of a media hub, or ultimately in the network cloud.
In the meantime, the EchoStar product is a refreshing alternative to the traditionally bulky box beneath our ever-flatter screens.
EchoStar Corporation reported first quarter revenues of $765 million to the end of March, a 59% increase on the corresponding period in 2011, with a net income attributable to EchoStar of $127 million, compared with $17 million for the same three months the previous year.
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Miami, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/23/2013 -- Internationally recognized image coach, Marlene Green, releases her second book in both paperback and Kindle through the Amazon.com website. Her second book entitled, "7 Secrets to Attraction: How to Be Irresistible to Everybody," focuses on 7 methods to achieve greater success in life through the use of human attraction. Attraction increases business and influence, and builds effective teams. Attraction consistently helps people achieve greater satisfaction in business and life.
Attraction is infectious and builds positive outcomes in almost every situation. The 7 Secrets of Attraction shows seven ways to make life easy and to build the skills of attracting others automatically. Program others to respond positively to you before you even meet them. Not only will people be more willing to buy what you are selling, but you will increase unsolicited help and assistance when you aren't even asking for it. Imagine receiving leads from people out of the blue, or someone that becomes your friend through your attractive reputation. All is possible when you put the secrets to attraction to use.
Prior to launching her own firm, Marlene Green worked for Warner Brothers and the Jenny Jones Show, where she was twice nominated for an Emmy. The Jenny Jones Show and other properties of Warner Brothers, including Jerry Springer and Multi Media Productions, utilized her expertise to develop on-air talent. Marlene has served as a contributing writer for Vogue and Glamour magazines and has authored numerous articles in the Chicago Sun-Times in her area of expertise. She has also appeared on Fox News and NBC.
As a professional executive coach, trainer, image consultant, and author, Marlene provides team-building strategies, executive coaching expertise, and talent development for senior executives. She works with Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, and academia. She is known internationally as an expert who consistently provides successful strategies and proven results for groups and individuals.
Marlene is also an insightful lecturer and has been a valued resource as Executive Coaching Instructor for the Kellogg School of Management for over 10 years.
With more than 25 years of experience, Marlene designed and presents on the Distinction of Leadership Presence, The 7 Secrets of Attraction, and The Science of Leadership Intelligence programs. She trained with Newfield Coaching in Boulder, Colorado, in its Coaching Excellence in Organizations program that focuses on training specific-to-business organizations. She is credentialed by the International Coach Federation (ICF) as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and is certified in Generative Leadership in Coaching Excellence in Organizations. She is certified to deliver DiSC personality profiles, and is a leading resource on transforming professional images. Marlene also participated as a presenter on Leadership Presence in the Face of Overwhelm for the European Mentor and Coaching Council in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.


When I got sober my friend Tommy G gave me a book called the Be Happy Attitudes by Dr. Robert Schuller. The book was awesome it was a spiritual book based on the Beatitudes, that guided you to a better life, a way to overcome any challenge and live with purpose. I used that book for quite a while and read it for a refresher when needed.
2. I will never block a helpful thought because it entails problems, or wait to begin until I find solutions.
3. I will welcome a possibility even if I've never done it before or can't imagine how it could be done.
4. I will design my plan to lessen the risk of failure.
5. I will cooperate in supporting a potentially good idea even if I can see something wrong with it.
6. I will never squelch a creative idea because no one else has ever succeeded in perfecting it.
7. I will declare any constructive concept to be possible even though I lack the time, money, brains, energy, talent, or skill to explore it.
8. I will never discard a plan or project just because it's imperfect.
9. I will never resist a proposal because I didn't think of it, won't get the credit for it, won't personally benefit from it, or may not live to see and enjoy it.
10. I will never quit because I've reached the end of the rope. I will tie a knot and hang on!


News to some of you, perhaps, that the poet Philip Larkin had a lighter side – but indeed he did.
D. J. Roberts. Photograph ©Harpreet Kalsi.
It's this affirmative side of his life which is explored in a new exhibition at the National Poetry Library on the South Bank – an exhibition called "Larkinworld" – put on by my friend, the artist D. J. Roberts (http://www.djroberts.org/).
As he writes, "The show is very much my personal take on Larkin's world, and to many it may seem surprisingly upbeat. This is because I have always had an unusual relationship with Larkin … I respond to many of these poems rather differently to the way it is clear Larkin intended". It is the special sense of place – the landscape and townscape in Larkin – to which the artist responds – "Psychologically Larkin's world may often be one of morbid obsession, but physically it is a world of bars and shopping malls and cinemas, and this is the world I identify with".
It's a very thoughtful, intriguing and understated exhibition. Beyond Roberts' own exquisite little sketches – and the splendidly affirmative "Enormous Yes" of his neon sign – there are simply scattered through it little clues, suggestions and quiet symbols of Larkin's wider life. "I've selected records, books, images and ephemera that conjure up for me Larkin's world" – things mentioned in his writings, some excerpts, the places he knew, his interests, the writers he admired, his fondness for cricket, and some friends.
It's a world of music – Larkin wrote extensively about jazz of course, well beyond his "Daily Telegraph" pieces collected in "All What Jazz" in 1970. There's his poem "For Sidney Bechet" – "Like New Orleans reflected on the water" (you can listen to a recording of Larkin reading this) – but oddly, even bizarrely, this highly revered jazz critic, generally regarded as an apostle of "trad", is also on record as saying that he thought Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" just about the best song ever written. And we all know what began "Rather late for me / Between the end of the Chatterley ban / And the Beatles' first LP". There is homage too to Billie Holiday and Bix Beiderbecke (who was played at his funeral) – and a display of Larkin's own unpublished blues lyrics.
And it's a world of books. There are nods to some of Larkin's literary heroes – Dickens, Hardy and Surtees – but what pleased me most when I was asked about lending some books for the exhibition was that I was able to come up with some of Larkin's favourite light reading. I never knew Larkin, but I did know his friend and bibliographer, the late Barry Bloomfield.
Philip Larkin & Barry Bloomfield.
Both librarians by trade, they shared a taste for vintage old-school detective fiction. Among Barry's books was an almost complete collection of the sixty or more mysteries written by the Brentford school-mistress Gladys Mitchell, featuring her psychoanalyst sleuth Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley – "dry without being shrivelled, and bird-like without being pretty". She was a particular Larkin favourite and although most of Barry's books were shelved elsewhere, the Gladys Mitchells were kept in the Bloomfields' guest bedroom so as to be readily at hand when Larkin came to stay.
Gladys Mitchell, "Merlin's Furlong". London : Michael Joseph, 1953. Jacket design by B. G. Yates.
I was so pleased that I still had a couple of them left in stock (she is quite heavily collected by the cognoscenti) so as to be able to offer a choice for the exhibition. I can't quite claim that Larkin read this one in bed – but he would certainly have seen it and been able to so had he wished.
Do get along to the exhibition if you can – it's illuminating and thought-provoking – and Larkin's reputation doesn't diminish. It's on until the 28th April 2017 at the National Poetry Library, Level 5, Royal Festival Hall – details here at https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/119846-larkinworld-2017.
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A Great American
I just finished David McCullough's terrific biography of John Adams.
John Adams was a simple man. He loved the same woman all his life. He never owned a slave. In his youth, even as an ardent revolutionary, he defended British soldiers in a trial because he believed everyone deserves a fair hearing in court.
He proposed complete religious freedom because he held firm to the Protestant view that every man is equal before God. He endured years-long separation from his family living in Europe doing the country's difficult and crucial foreign business in England, France and the Netherlands. He despised the luxury he saw in Europe, and believed it would lead to corruption.
He believed strongly in the balance of powers. He lived his last years as a farmer, still earning a living, living a simple life. He also read and wrote voluminously.
I have been developing a considerably dimmer view of Thomas Jefferson, Adams' vice president and successor to the White House, that this book did nothing to change.
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and promoted religious freedom, and established the University of Virginia. But he owned dozens of slaves, fathered children with one of them and freed only five of them upon his death – the mother of his children was not among them.
He lived the life not of a simple American farmer, as Adams did before and after his presidency, but of a European aristocrat – expanding then tearing down Monticello several times, all of which depended on revenue generated by the labor of his slaves. Adams died solvent; Jefferson, despite owning slaves, died $100,000 in debt.
Perhaps slave ownership allowed Jefferson the luxury of his utopian vision of a country of small farmers and an equally small government. He never apparently asked himself the hard questions of how those small farmers might get their goods to market without government taxation that allowed for the building of roads and bridges, and law enforcement to keep the goods safe. This vision sadly left him equally enamored of the French Revolution, even after that event descended into wanton murder. These victims he viewed as casualties of war, and, from this grew his famous statement that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Adams was the deeper thinker and had a more mature understanding of self-government. He understood that for a union to work, taxes had to be paid, and a national government thus allowed to function. Anarchy would result otherwise. It seems to me this is an idea one segment of our country doesn't, or doesn't want to, understand.
Adams began the U.S. Navy, and thus kept us from war with France when we were too small and weak. To do this he imposed taxes that earned him Jefferson's ire, his own defeat, but the country's lasting gratitude.
Adams also rightly feared the horrible cost slavery would exact on the country, and abhorred its expansion following the Louisiana Purchase.
Both men, however, embodied the key to the success of the American Revolution, for both were lawyers. Despite its numerous contradictions, slavery being the main one, the American Revolution was made by lawyers, and thus the rule of law not of men was its cornerstone. The tenets of self-government they had thought out and debated in some detail. This is why the Revolution did not collapse into slaughter.
Having lived in a country where the rule of law is weak, I can say that this is fundamental. There is no justice, no equity, no development, no innovation without the rule of law. To the fact that the Founding Fathers were, for the most part, lawyers, and many of them thoughtful about the biggest questions, we can attribute the Revolution's success.
Interestingly, it might easily not have been so had the wrong people gained power – Alexander Hamilton for one, I suspect. We're enormously lucky that our first president was, though a general, so unwilling, and left power as quickly as he could.
At the end of their lives, Adams and Jefferson, friends, then adversaries, were friends again.
In one of the great details in U.S. history, the last two signers of the Declarations of Independence died within hours of each other on, amazingly, July 4.
Tagged as American Revolution, David McCullough, government, John Adams, lawyers, rule of law, self-government, slavery, taxes, Thomas Jefferson


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Gamers Club é uma plataforma digital brasileira de jogos eletrônicos. Fundada em março de 2016 com a intenção de transformar jogos competitivos online em um esporte profissional, a Gamers Club está comprometida com o desenvolvimento do cenário latino-americano de esportes eletrônicos. Atualmente, a companhia tem mais de 1 milhão de usuários registrados em sua plataforma multijogos onde eles podem jogar casualmente e disputar campeonatos de Counter-Strike: Global Offensive e League of Legends.

História
A Gamers Club foi fundada em 2016 por Yuri "Fly" Uchiyama, Felipe "WeRT" Pregnolatto e Juliano "memelo" Mirandolli. Neste mesmo a ano a empresa uniu forças com a Games Academy que, até então, pertencia a Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo. Entre as primeiras mudanças estão contempladas o nome da Liga Games Academy para Liga Gamers Club e, também, a integração das aulas em uma só plataforma.

Em 2017 recebeu um investimento liderado pela Canary e com participação da Go4it Capital.

Em 2019 a Gamers Club foi adquirida pela Immortals Gaming Club (IGC).

Gamers Club Masters
Gamers Club Masters é um torneio de Counter-Strike: Global Offensive criado pela Gamers Club em 2017 e que já tem seis edições disputadas. Abraçado pela comunidade, o campeonato recebeu o apelido de "Major brasileiro" por sempre ser disputado pelas melhores equipes do país. Em 2020, para fomentar o cenário feminino, a organizadora da competição criou também uma edição para as mulheres: Gamers Club Masters Feminina.

Edições mistas

Edições femininas

Gamers Club Media
Gamers Club Media é a área criada pela Gamers Club em abril de 2020 que engloba os meios jornalísticos: DRAFT5, Tropa Free Fire e VALORANT Zone. O conglomerado conta com mais de 20 jornalistas especializados que alimentam os sites 24 horas por dia.

DRAFT5
A DRAFT5 foi fundado em janeiro de 2017 ainda como calendário de partidas competitivas de Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Em janeiro de 2018 adquiriu a GCB Games, lançando o departamento editorial que se difundiu rapidamente na comunidade brasileira, quebrando recordes logo no primeiro ano de lançamento.

Atualmente é o maior site especializado em Counter-Strike na América Latina, disponibilizando conteúdo diário com reportagens próprias em formato de texto, fotos, áudio e vídeo.

Tropa Free Fire
Tropa Free Fire lançado em maio de 2020, é especialista na cobertura do dia a dia do cenário competitivo de Free Fire da Garena, além de produzir conteúdo sobre os influenciadores, streamers e personalidades famosas do cenário do jogo no Brasil.

VALORANT Zone
VALORANT Zone inaugurado em abril de 2020, é o maior especializado em conteúdo de Valorant em língua portuguesa.

O site disponibiliza conteúdo em texto, áudio e vídeo com os programas Spike Site e Spike Plant, que ocorrem bimensalmente entrevistando e discutindo os tópicos mais importantes do cenário de VALORANT.

Premiações
Ouro no Festival de Publicidade de Cannes 2019 com a campanha #eQuality.

Referências

Counter-Strike
League of Legends
Esporte eletrônico
Empresas

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Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems to partner on in-space refueling technologies
by Jeff Foust — February 23, 2021
Orbit Fab's first tanker spacecraft will carry hydrogen peroxide propellant to refuel thrusters developed by Benchmark Space Systems. Credit: Bryan Versteeg
WASHINGTON — Two startups are partnering on technology that they hope can jump-start the market for in-space refueling of satellites.
Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems announced Feb. 23 that they are teaming up to provide the capability to refuel Benchmark's thrusters with hydrogen peroxide propellant provided by an Orbit Fab tanker in low Earth orbit.
That tanker spacecraft, called Tanker-001 Tenzing, will launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission later this year brokered by Spaceflight. Benchmark will test fueling that tanker on the ground before launch using an interface called RAFTI developed by Orbit Fab. That same interface will be bundled with Benchmark's thrusters for customers seeking in-space refueling of their spacecraft.
"This was an obvious step. We wanted to make our fueling port availing to more and more customers," Daniel Faber, chief executive of Orbit Fab, said in an interview. "It made sense to bundle these as a product offering to make it simpler for satellite integrators and satellite operators."
Benchmark doesn't have any of its thrusters in orbit but has several customers, including Spaceflight, which will use them on its Sherpa tug. Chris Carella, vice president of business development and strategy at Benchmark, said the company expects to have a half-dozen of its propulsion systems in orbit by the end of the year.
"All of our customers are potential Orbit Fab customers," Carella said in an interview, but noted none had yet signed up for refueling. Among potential early users are Spaceflight for its Sherpa tug, as well as unspecified Defense Department customers who want the capability to "maneuver without regret" by being able to refuel after performing maneuvers, thus extending the life of the spacecraft.
Another example he cited was a startup planning to offer on-orbit inspection services. That company is seeking "mobility as a service" so that, rather guessing how much fuel its inspector will need to carry out its mission, Benchmark can provide refueling services through Orbit Fab's tanker. Benchmark is considering demonstrations of rendezvous and proximity operations as part of the partnership to "prove out other pieces of the tanking operation."
That tanker will carry a version of hydrogen peroxide called high-test peroxide (HTP), a fuel Benchmark selected because it avoids the handling challenges associated with a toxic propellant like hydrazine, but unlike other nontoxic propellants does not need "exotic materials" for its catalysts, Carella said. "We're able to avoid a lot of costs by using hydrogen peroxide."
HTP is not a new propellant, but he said modern varieties of the propellant are cleaner and perform better, making it more suitable for spacecraft applications. "It's based on recent experience with new materials and manufacturing processes, paired with modern HTP synthesis," he said.
The companies hope the agreement will address the "chicken and egg" problem for in-space refueling of satellites: no satellites are designed to be refueled because there are no refueling services available, and no refueling services are available because no satellites are designed to be refueled.
"We have attacked that pretty directly," Faber said. "That's what our customers need to see to have confidence: not just the first tanker but an end-to-end full-scale trial, a demonstration of this capability in various conditions."
"Once we're through this, the industry will be different," he argued, allowing companies to shift expenses from building new spacecraft to operating existing ones. "These things are going to be very common in a short time."
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We recently had a conversation with an associate of the very prestigious global law firm Denton's. She was amazed at the varied data collection quotes (ranging from $1000-$5000) she received from vendors in the Tampa Bay area. That conversation inspired this blog post. Herein we explain some of the costs associated with forensic data collection. We also provide a few questions you may want to ask a data preservation vendor before you hire them.
Assuming the vendor is qualified, the first item associated with the cost of forensic imaging is the hardware and software used to collect the data. FTK, Encase, and other software companies offer forensic imaging software at no cost. The forensic imaging software has to be used with a computer and a write blocker, which protects the source media from contamination. This method of collection is often slower and more costly when compared to using a "stand-alone" forensic imaging hardware. We use the Tableau TD1, TD2 and The Voom Hardcopy 3p stand-alone forensic imagers.
A vendor using a laptop and write blocker is costing you money. Less reputable vendors will intentionally use this method simply to generate more billable hours.
A vendor using free forensic software and a free software write blocker is inexperienced. In addition to potentially compromising the original, you may later learn that your forensic image is useless. The forensic image is the cornerstone of preservation and admissible evidence.
Question #1: Ask the vendor which tools and methods they use to collect data.
Standalone forensic imaging devices such as Voom's Hard Copy 3p offer the forensic expert the ability to quickly create multiple verified images of a single source drive at the same time. Typically one copy is used during the examination. The second verified copy is stored in evidence, shipped to the client, or provided to the opposition if needed. The second copy is also a spare in the event the first copy is damaged, compromised or fails.
Question number two should be, how many forensic images will you create per source media?
Storage media is the next expense associated with the forensic imaging process. Some vendors will generate one forensic image to a single hard drive, then bill the client for the cost of each drive. For example copying one 500 gigabyte image to a 2 terabyte drive, verses copying three or four 500 gigabyte images to one 2 terabyte drive. Vendor "A" would charge you for four hard drives where vendor "B" would charge you for only one.
Question number three should be, do you use a single hard drive per image or multiple images on a single hard drive?
In some cases the vendor is asked to make multiple forensic copies. One to be shipped to the client and the second to be held onto until the first copy is received and re-verified. Hard Drives that are recycled by the vendor must be sanitized before they can be used for the next client. This process can take up to 4 hours for a 268GB hard drive. Not only does this make the drive unavailable for use, there is a behind the scene labor cost associated with the process. Additionally drive sanitizing hardware is expensive.
Will your data collection project be subcontracted?
It's been my experience that when a client receives an outrageous quote for forensic data collection, the excessive estimate is usually the result of the work being outsourced to a third party. A national brand is usually a fancy way of not saying, we use subcontractors. Your cost is marked-up from there.
Question number four, will your companying be doing the work or do you use subcontractors?
An experienced vendor can estimate your cost and won't go over unless there is some unknown variable. Other costs are based on demographics. Competitive markets have companies that offer reduced prices. For example, we offer discounts to data collection if we conduct the analysis.
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Practice speaking Spanish with 138 frequently used words, Let's do the work!
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Sample videos for the June 2 & 3, 2018, Newfoundland PA L1V, L1I, L2C, L2I trials, are posted in this gallery. There is one sample video for each search filmed. I filmed all searches in the L1V and L2C trials. Due to a recent rule change in 2018 allowing Interior Element Specialty Trials to be filmed, I was permitted to film 3 searches in the L1I trial and all 4 searches in the L2I trial.


Responding to criticism of collusion between him and one-time supporters of the LTTE, Fonseka appealed to the remnant LTTE cadres to join his campaign to restore democracy in the country. He said that even LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's parents were welcome to back him. He said there were neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies and he was determined to receive the support of all parties to defeat the government.


↑ Nairita (2011-09-15). "JK CM Omar Abdullah confirms Divorce but not Marriage". News Oneindia. http://news.oneindia.in/2011/09/15/jk-cm-omar-abdullah-confirms-divorce-but-not-marriage.html. अन्तिम पहुँच तिथि: 2014-04-26.
↑ "Omar Abdullah divorcing wife after 17 years". Times of India. 2011-09-15. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-15/india/30160010_1_omar-abdullah-zahir-and-zamir-j-k-cm. अन्तिम पहुँच तिथि: 2014-04-26.
↑ "Omar Abdullah divorcing wife after 17 years". Indian Express. 2011-09-15. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/omar-abdullah-confirms-separation-with-wife/847125/. अन्तिम पहुँच तिथि: 2014-04-26.


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Delivery of the product took longer than I would have liked.
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I use on my iPhone 6, 8, iPad Pro and Mini. I really like the longer cable length.
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Yaw Donkor 'Denies' NCA Gang
It has turned out that the immediate-past National Security Coordinator, Yaw Donkor, did not sanction the purchase of the cyber-security equipment for the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) for counter terrorism purposes.
An Accra High Court hearing the case of the former National Communications Authority (NCA) Board Chairman and four others was told that Mr. Donkor was not even aware of plans by the then Deputy National Security Coordinator, Alhaji Salifu Osman Mimina, one of the accused persons, to purchase the equipment.
The investigator of the case, Detective Chief Inspector Michael Nkrumah, told the court that during interrogation, Mr. Donkor indicated that he never authorised his deputy – Alhaji Osman – to write any letter to NCA requesting financial assistance for the purchase of the equipment.
Led in his evidence-in-chief by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Yvonne Attakora-Obuobisa, the investigator told the court that the former National Security Coordinator said he had no knowledge of the request letter which he (Detective Nkrumah) showed to him.
Interestingly, the witness also revealed that Mr. Donkor stated that NSCS did not need the Pegasus system, and that if the council needed it, it would pass it through him because he was the representative at the National Security Council and not his deputy – Alhaji Osman.
"He told me that he was seeing the letter for the first time and that he had no knowledge of it. He further told me that he never authorised his deputy Alhaji Osman to write the letter to NCA," the witness said.
Detective Chief Inspector Nkrumah told the court that he extended his investigations to the current National Security Coordinator, Joshua Kyereme, who also indicated that he was not aware of the request letter seeking funds to purchase the letter.
According to him, there was no record of the request letter at the NSCS Registry where such letters and requests emanate.
He stated that the National Security Coordinator showed him the handover note from his predecessor which did not contain the request letter.
Baba Kamara
The investigator further told the court that when the equipment arrived in the country, they were installed on the premises of Baba Kamara, former National Security Advisor to former President John Mahama.
Detective Chief Inspector Nkrumah stated that the 'airway bill' on the equipment was also addressed to the office of Mr. Kamara as the consignee of the equipment.
He said Mr Kamara, however, denied prior knowledge of the Pegasus equipment and airway bill.
"I further found out from him as to why the equipment was installed on his premises and he said he was there in early 2016 when Alhaji Osman approached him that NSCS was purchasing cyber security equipment and he needed a place to install them. Baba Kamara further said that he voluntarily gave out a single room which was empty for Alhaji Osman for that purpose," Detective Nkrumah.
The investigator said, "I then asked Mr. Kamara why the equipment were moved from his house to a private warehouse and he indicated to me that in early 2017 after the NDC had handed over to NPP, he asked Alhaji Osman to retrieve the items from his premises and send them to the National Security's premises. So he could not tell why the pieces of equipment were taken to the PSB Warehouse," the witness added.
Meanwhile, the trial judge, Justice Eric Kyei Baffuor, has dismissed a "Trojan Horse" application by Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, counsel for William Tetteh-Tevie, to expunge the testimony of the Deputy National Security Coordinator Duncan Opare.
The court also dismissed another application by Reindolf Twumasi Ankrah, counsel for businessman, George Dereck Oppong, to exclude the admission of certain documents the prosecution intends to rely on because they were not part of the earlier disclosures.
The investigator would continue his testimony on February 28, 2019.


REVIEW SUMMARY: Bucholz has written a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat story about a generation ship bound for another planet, and the secrets it contains just might destroy the ship and everyone on board.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: When Laura Stein discovers a plot to split the generation ship in two (killing half of the passengers before they reach their new planet), she stumbles upon a vast conspiracy involving martial law, genetic manipulation, and political intrigue.
PROS: Bucholz keeps us guessing at every turn, offering clues about the conspiracy at just the right times; pacing, humor, and dialogue are spot-on.
CONS: Some scenes are too heavy on the technical detail and too light on character development.
BOTTOM LINE: If you're looking for an addictive story that explores issues of human colonization, genetic manipulation, and the vagaries of human nature, you need to read Severance.
In Severance, Bucholz takes us on a roller-coaster ride of spaceship technology, genetic manipulation, and politics as dirty and shameful as anything you can find in the news these days. Although we're never really told why humans left Earth, or even how they decided who would get to leave, we do know that by the time the story begins, many of those on the ship are either listless, really dumb, or both. They form vomiting clubs, dress up as horses, and do all kinds of other "interesting" things to stave off the intense and mind-numbing boredom that comes with shooting through space on a pretty uninteresting ship.
Good thing the Argos is near its destination, and it's time for the ship to start decelerating. Easy, right? Just apply the brakes. But of course it's not that easy. Enter Laura Stein, a "canned baby" who was able to overcome the stigma of her "unnatural" creation to become a successful member of the ship's maintenance crew. She also has a hobby- sneaking around in the ducts and vents. Her friend Bruce has the same hobby, only he also has sticky fingers.
When Laura starts noticing a strange pattern in maintenance requests, together with an unexplained murder of another member of the maintenance crew, she starts asking questions. Just before she can connect the few dots that she has, though, all hell breaks loose. The captain of the ship, Helot, has forced the civilian government into hiding and initiated ship separation: in other words, he tries to split the ship in half. Apparently, a generation before, the higher-ups on the Argos realized that, due to course corrections, the entire ship wouldn't have enough fuel left to successfully decelerate to Tau Prius. A smaller chunk of the ship, though, would be able to do it.
Bucholz tells this, at times nail-bitingly tense, story with the kind of deft humor and irony that makes you laugh out loud. The swear-laced banter between Laura and Bruce, Laura's jaded perspective on life, and even the narrator's detached irony make the story highly entertaining. What struck me the most, though, was how Bucholz sets up this tale of an awe-inspiring, courageous trip to settle another world and then peoples it with humans who will throw themselves off of high places just because they're so freaking bored. Nobody on the ship is noble or larger-than-life. In fact, a heavy dose of cosmic radiation a couple of generations back severely damaged many people's DNA, and gene-tinkerers tried to repair the damage, while also making it so that the majority of the population would become docile and obedient. Hence, a general "dumbing down," from which only a handful escaped.
There were times throughout the story when I could have done with less detail about the ship's innards and the reasons why the first attempt to split the ship was so unsuccessful. Also, the jump between the ending and the epilogue seemed too great- I had many unanswered questions that should have been answered.
Overall, I enjoyed Severance and Bucholz's style, and I look forward to reading whatever he writes next.


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Texas Lieutenant Governor race again features Dan Patrick against Mike Collier
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team and FOX 4 Dallas Digital Team
AUSTIN, Texas - The fight for the second-highest executive office in Texas government is a familiar one. Incumbent Republican Dan Patrick and Democrat challenger Mike Collier face off for the second time, in a repeat of the 2018 race for Lieutenant Governor.
In that race, Patrick beat Collier earning 51.3% of the vote compared to Collier's 46.5%.
The race has been an interesting one, with longtime Republicans like outgoing Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, Amarillo state Senator Kel Seliger, Corsicana state Rep. Byron Cook and Rep. Bennett Ratliff of Plano, endorsing Collier over Patrick.
Recent polls show Patrick leading the race, but the only results that truly matter are on election day.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Candidates
Dan Patrick, Republican
Dan Patrick has served as Lieutenant Governor for the state of Texas since 2015. He was re-elected in 2018 and is seeking his third term.
Patrick calls himself a "preeminent voice for principled conservative policies both in Texas and across the nation." He has been an outspoken supporter of overturning of Roe v. Wade, and efforts to prevent female transgender students from participating in girls sports. Following the shooting in Uvalde, Patrick pushed for state leaders to move around $50 million dollars in the state budget to provide bulletproof shields for school police officers. He also has pushed for the state to get into a legal showdown with the federal government over border security.
Patrick coasted to victory in the 2022 Republican primaries, earning 76.6% of the vote. Patrick ramped up his campaign efforts in recent weeks, going on a statewide bus tour with 131 stops across Texas, including many rural areas. Patrick has also received an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
Prior to becoming Lieutenant Governor, Patrick was a member of the Texas Senate representing part of Houston and Northwest Harris County. He was also a small business owner and hosted the radio program Dan Patrick & Friends.
Mike Collier, Democrat
Mike Collier, a Houston-area accountant, is in his third run for public office, and is seeking his first victory.
Collier lost to Patrick in the 2018 Lieutenant Governor race. In 2014, he ran for state comptroller and lost to Glenn Hegar. Collier beat out Michelle Beckley and Carla Brailey in the March 2022 primary, earning 41.8% of the vote.
Collier's platform emphasizes a lack of funding for public schools, and promises to "fix the damn grid." Collier worked in the private sector as a CFO for a Texas energy company, and calls himself an "energy expert", promising to hold ERCOT leaders and corporations responsible for the Texas power grid's failure in 2021. His campaign platform also promises to rein in property taxes and codify protections from Roe v. Wade into state law.
Shanna Steele, Libertarian
Shanna Steele is on the ballot as the Libertarian candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
Steele is a proponent of legalizing marijuana and claims using tax money from its sales could eliminate property taxes.
What does the Texas Lieutenant Governor do?
The Texas lieutenant governor is the president of the Texas Senate and serves as the leader of the Legislative Budget Board, among other duties. The lieutenant governor also establishes all Senate committees, appointing chairpersons and members.
Lieutenant governor races are held every 4 years. There are no term limits for the position.
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Trump Signs Directive Banning Transgender Military Recruits; Fate of Current Troops Unclear
President Donald Trump on Friday directed the military not to move forward with an Obama-era plan that would have allowed transgender individuals to be recruited into the armed forces, following through on his intentions announced a month earlier to ban transgender people from serving.
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks towards the Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House prior to a departure Aug. 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The presidential memorandum also bans the Department of Defense from using its resources to provide medical treatment regimens for transgender individuals currently serving in the military.
Trump also directed the departments of Defense and Homeland Security "to determine how to address transgender individuals currently serving based on military effectiveness and lethality, unitary cohesion, budgetary constraints, applicable law, and all factors that may be relevant," the White House official said.
The White House official who briefed reporters on the memo on Friday evening declined to say whether transgender troops would be allowed to remain in the military under those policy guidelines.
5 Transgender Service Members Sue Over Trump Ban
But the official signaled that the administration was returning to the military's pre-2016 policy under which no transgender individuals were allowed to serve openly in the armed forces.
The guidance comes a month after Trump said on Twitter that he would reinstate a ban on transgender troops, an announcement that took many in the military's leadership — including the joint chiefs of staff — by surprise.
"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump said in a series of tweets. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."
"Thank you," he added.
The White House offered no guidance at the time as to how the ban would be implemented, leaving transgender servicemembers wondering about their future in the military.
A Week After Trump's Tweets on Transgender Troops, Pentagon Awaits Formal Direction From White House
Trump's decision reversed a policy initially approved by the Defense Department under President Barack Obama, which was still under final review, that would allow transgender individuals to openly serve in the military. Defense Secretary James Mattis announced in June that he was delaying enactment of the plan to begin allowing transgender individuals to join the US military.
Trump's decision was met with widespread rebuke by members of both parties and civil rights advocates, who argued that Trump's decision reversed years of progress for LGBT rights and flew in the face of studies showing minimal impacts on the military.
A 2016 Rand Corp. study commissioned by the Defense Department concluded that letting transgender people serve openly would have a "minimal impact" on readiness and health care costs, largely because there are so few in the military's 1.3 million-member force.
The study put the number of transgender people in the military at between 1,320 and 6,630. Gender-change surgery is rare in the general population, and the Rand study estimated the possibility of 30 to 140 new hormone treatments a year in the military, with 25 to 130 gender transition-related surgeries among active service members annually. The cost could range from $2.4 million and $8.4 million a year, an amount that would represent an "exceedingly small proportion" of total health care expenditures, the study found.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Were Blindsided by President Trump's Tweets on Transgender Troops
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CAPITAL: One of the four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. It includes the manufactured (or previously produced) resources used to manufacture or produce other things. Common examples of capital are the factories, buildings, trucks, tools, machinery, and equipment used by businesses in their productive pursuits. Capital's primary role in the economy is to improve the productivity of labor as it transforms the natural resources of land into wants-and-needs-satisfying goods.
Chapter Ten: The Purple Village
With the yipes of ferocious puppy-snakes fading in the distance, the student twosome hastened their pace. Even though they had been travelling in this expansive red valley for most of the morning, they were not quite half way to the destination Tyler had identified as 'the end of the path.'
"What do you think those purple things are?" Tyler pondered aloud in obvious reference to the dozen or more patches of purple randomly dispersed around the red valley. One such patch, perhaps two miles away, lay directly in their path.
Cali squinted and shaded her eyes from the brightness of the blue midday sun overhead. "I don't know," she answered. "They look like purple beehives."
This comment induced Tyler's on again, off again apprehensions of ravenous creatures devouring his bloodied carcass. Perhaps he and Cali were bumbling directly into a nest of large, hungry insects. He recalled old science fiction films with large insects eating major metropolitan cities.
Tyler tried to alleviate his own seemingly ever-present and expanding anxiety, but their recent encounters with cute, but hungry, puppy-snakes; the hideous drooling monster; and a mythical griffin the size of a bus, did not help. Who knew what peril the unnamed evil professor would next place in their path.
It took Tyler and Cali no more than thirty minutes for them to approach within a hundred yards of the purple beehive. Cali's initial comparison was not far off. In the center of the purple patch was a relatively large domed structure, marked by several randomly placed holes. The structure appeared to be constructed from some type of purple mud or clay. Several smaller similar structures, congregated around the periphery of the larger dome were. They were made from the same type of purple substance. Each of the smaller structures, of varying sizes, contained a few openings. The entire complex of purple structures was about the size of city block.
Slowing their pace, but approaching closer, they saw movement in and around the structures.
"What are those?" Tyler asked, "Rabbits or something?"
Cali laughed, then said, "No, silly. Those are probably Leornian instructors."
"Of course," Tyler eagerly agreed, then chuckled in relief. Given that his experiences with the Leornian instructors were, so far, not life threatening, his monster-devouring anxiety faded. "I guess I didn't expect to find those instructor-guys anywhere but on the path."
When they were about twenty yards from this purple village, Tyler noticed something else that he had not expected.
"Say... uh Cali...," he cleared his throat, "What are those purple balls over there..."
Cali stopped.
"They look a lot like your purple fruit," she gave Tyler the response he was hoping not to hear.
"It can't be," Tyler protested. "The instructor said there was no other fruit along the path. There must be thousands of those pieces over there." He spun around noting the dozen or so purple patches spread across the valley. "And I bet all of those also have fruit."
He plopped both his bag and himself onto the red foliage.
"But we're not ON the path, Tyler," Cali tried to console him. "There probably isn't any more fruit ON the path."
"But my jewels," Tyler cried, as if mourning a newly deceased relative. "All of those jewels, just laying there." Tyler felt as though his worst fears had come to pass. "It's not fair. I left two bags of... so I could... and there is all of... Awwhhhh... I could just..."
"It was part of the test," Cali tried to console Tyler. But the consolation was of no help.
"I think I'm going to be sick," he said weakly. Then remorse turned to anger. "Where is that frog? That mutated amphibian. It was the one that told me to take the fruit. That's probably why it's not with us -- so I wouldn't strangle it when I found out what they had out here."
Tyler sat quietly at Cali's feet. She patted his head.
"I'll be okay," he muttered, "just let me... suffer for a moment."
As Tyler sat and suffered, Cali scanned the village more closely. Unlike a beehive in the real world, there seemed to be very little activity. Although there was an abundance of pointed-eared creatures, they weren't doing much.
Tyler slowly got to his feet. "We'd better get going," he finally said with little enthusiasm.
Cali grabbed his arm.
"Wait a second," she said, "We can't just waltz in there like we own the place."
Tyler nodded. He was so caught up in his unnecessary loss of wealth that he forgot they were in a strange and hostile land. The instructors were friendly in the trees, but no telling what they were like out here.
"What should we do?" Tyler queried.
Cali considered a strategy, but stopped when activity around the complex increased. Several creatures had gathered on the periphery of the purple village, pointing in the students' direction.
"I don't know if we have a choice now," Cali said, "They've seen us."
"Uh-oh," Tyler muttered, "I hope they're friendly."
Cali tugged on Tyler's arm and said, "Let's go meet them."
They walked slowly toward the Leornian group that grew larger as others joined. All were dressed in varying shades of purple clothes. While they resembled the instructor from the trees, these creatures tended to be on the thin side. Tyler was more reminded of the timid fellow called Aristotle than of the know-all instructor.
As they approached the group they hoped it was a welcoming party and not a hunting party.
With a few yards separating the students and the Leornians, one purple-clad creature stepped forward. He hesitated and retreated back to the group. They urged him forward with little pushes and words of encouragement. Tyler was reminded of the time his young niece had been enticed to recite a newly memorized poem.
Then the timid creature spoke, "I am Issac Newton. Everyone calls me Issac. Welcome to our village," he scurried back the others. They all waited meekly.
"Well... uh... Thank you. I am... Cali O'Toole and this is Tyler Martin," Cali said, nodding her head and smiling. Then she said, "Issac Newton, that's an interesting name. Were you named after the physicist?"
Issac gave a blank look, "Physicist?"
"Yes, your name. Are you named after the physicist?"
Issac shrugged his shoulders. "My name is Issac Newton," he repeated. "Welcome to our village."
She saw no reason to ask again, but once more nodded her head and smiled. This prompted the group of Leornians to cluster around Tyler and Cali. They gently escorted them into the purple village. Cali looked at Tyler and shrugged her shoulders.
The Leornians politely maneuvered Cali and Tyler in and around the various structures of the village complex. The paths between the structures were just wide enough for a single person or two of the creatures. The group formed a long line following Issac, the apparent and reluctant leader, with Cali and Tyler near the front.
After a short walk, they stopped near one of the larger structures next to the main beehive. Issac smiled and motioned with his paw toward the structure.
Cali smiled politely, then nudged Tyler to do the same.
"Learners?" Issac asked, then motioned again to the structure.
Tyler gave Cali a quizzical look.
Issac repeated, "Learners? You are learners?" and motioned again to the structure.
"Learners?" Cali asked back. "What do you mean learners?"
"You are learners from the trees?" Issac asked.
Cali nodded, "Yes... uh we went to the trees to learn. But now we're looking for...."
Not allowing Cali finish, Issac motioned to the structure again. "Please, you can learn here, too."
"Oh, I see," Cali said softly to Tyler, "They're trying to teach us something." Then turning back to Issac she asked, "Are you instructors?"
Issac gave an embarrassed chuckled, "Oh no, no, no. I think... the instructors... yes instructors... live in the trees," he paused in thought, then said," Yes, I'm certain they live in the trees. We are locators."
"Locators?" Cali asked, "What are locators?"
"We locate learners for the instructors," Issac responded proudly.
It was Tyler's turn to nudge Cali. He whispered, "I bet Aristotle, the fellow I met on the path, was a locator. He said it was his job to find people."
"Please," Issac continued, "please learn about our village," then he motioned again to the adjacent structure.
Cali whispered back to Tyler, "They think this is part of our lesson. I guess we should do as they ask, at least for now."
She moved closer to the structure and peered through one of the openings. She motioned for Tyler to do the same.
"What do you make of this?" Tyler asked.
"It looks like a small factory," Cali responded. "Look over there. Aren't those the test signs like we saw along the paths?"
Tyler nodded, and whispered, "But from the looks of things, they haven't made any signs in here for quite awhile."
Cali turned and smiled at Issac, "This is very nice."
Encouraged by this response, Issac then guided them to another structure. The learners looked through the openings. Inside was another small factory. It was obvious that this 'factory' had also been idle for quite some time.
"Looks like they made clothes in this one," Cali observed.
"Yeah," Tyler agreed, "but, I see only two colors, purple and green."
Cali turned away from the opening and casually observed the crowd of creatures around her. All were dressed in various shades of purple. She whispered softly to Tyler, while smiling at the throng of Leornians. "Do you recall what color your instructor wore?"
"Let's see," Tyler strained to remember. "I had the same instructor for both tests, and he was wearing green, I think. No, wait. Yes, it was green. I'm sure... I think... It was green."
"Mine too," Cali agreed. "I bet all instructors wear green. But these 'locators' are dressed in purple."
"That's right," Tyler vaguely recalled Aristotle, "I think... no I'm sure... I think.. the one I met near the fruit patch was wearing purple."
"Interesting, isn't it?" Cali whispered to Tyler as she smiled at Issac.
"I guess," Tyler agreed without quite understanding.
The Leornians escorted Cali and Tyler to several other structures, each used to make some sort of good. But it was clear that none of the factory structures had seen any activity recently.
"Learning?" Issac asked them eagerly.
Cali nodded, "Yes, we're learning all right." She readjusted the bag of water on her shoulder. It sloshed.
Issac fell silent, his eyes widened as he stared closely at the bag. He touched it.
"Water?" he questioned meekly.
Cali nodded, somewhat surprised. "Would you like a drink?" she asked.
Issac nodded his head vigorously. Cali removed the bag of water from her shoulder and gave Issac a drink. He drank it slowly and deliberately. The other Leornians watched his satisfied reaction. Cali offered him another drink.
He shook his head, and said, "No, I can't drink all of your water. Not without paying. Let me give you estoffe."
He scampered into a small nearby structure. In a short time, he returned with a small purple pouch that he offered enthusiastically to Cali.
"I know this is not enough, but it is all that I have," Issac said. "It's real estoffe, not tokens."
Cali shook her head and pushed the estoffe pouch away with her hand. "I can't take this, if that's all that you've got."
"Please," Issac said, "I am glad to give it to you for the water."
Reluctant to offend the Leornian leader, she took the pouch and said, "Then please, take a big drink."
He did, accompanied by words of encouragement from the others.
As he drank, Cali looked into the pouch. It was filled with a purple paste-like substance.
"What is this... this estoffe?" she asked politely.
With a slight smile, Issac glanced at some of the other Leornians.
"It is estoffe," he said, as if she should know.
Growing frustrated, but remaining diplomatic, she asked, "What can I use it for? Is it good to eat?"
Issac nodded and answered, "Eat? I guess." He paused as if a new realization had dawned on him, then continued, "We use it for many things in our village." He moved his arms in a sweeping fashion. He then tapped the side of one of the structures. "We use estoffe for our homes. We use it for clothes. We use it for everything. Yes of course, we use estoffe for everything."
"That's interesting," Cali said thoughtfully as she closed the pouch. "Thank you very much. I will treasure it."
Several other Leornians reached toward Cali and her bag of water, but Issac stopped them.
"We have no water in the village," Issac apologized. He motioned to his companions. "They all would like a drink. But, I'm sure you don't have enough for everyone." He clearly hoped she would deny his statement.
instead, Cali clutched the water bag closely with the sudden realization of it's obvious value. She, like Tyler, had thought fruit was the more valuable of the commodities.
"Perhaps some can drink later," she said. With the blue sun sinking behind the mountains, Cali weighed her exhaustion with the professor's command to reach the end of the path. Exhaustion won. "Is there a place where we can sleep tonight?"
Issac sized up the humans who were easily twice his stature.
"We've never had learners here before," he said apologetically, but surprised at his own recollection. "Our homes are all full. We have many locators in the village and few homes."
He paused to consider alternatives, then said, "I know what. Yes, of course. Come with me," excited by his solution, he scampered down a path between the structures. The students, accompanied closely by the pack of Leornians, followed. They stopped at one of the largest of the smaller structures surrounding the domed beehive.
"Our meeting room," Issac said. "It's big enough inside, but..." he paused to size up the opening. "We will need to make a bigger entry."
He scampered back through the curious, but easily parted, crowd. A moment later, the crowd parted again to let Issac and four other Leornians through. The four new Leornians carried various crude purple tools that resembled hammers, chisels, and pick axes. They vigorously attacked the small entry hole with their tools. Even though the task could have been accomplished easier and quicker by only one, they quartet soon made the entry large enough for Tyler and Cali.
Issac responded to obvious excess of workers and said, "We are all very eager to work. We have little to do without the instructors." He then pointed to one of the four workers. "The instructors recently taught George Washington how to make structures. He's eager to work."
Cali thought to herself, 'George Washington?' but said nothing.
The students followed Issac into the structure.
He said, "Let this be your home while you learn."
When Issac turned to leave, Cali said, "Thank you, you are very kind. If there is anything we can do for you before we leave, please do not hesitate to ask." While Cali felt compelled to make this offer, she hoped it was but a mere formality.
Issac, however, paused to consider her offer, but left without responding.
Bumping into several other Leornians crowded around the opening, Issac scooted them away. A few pointed ears and young furry faces peaked through the 'window' openings, but they were quickly pulled away.
The students were suddenly alone.
"Some place, eh?" Cali said surveying the structure's interior.
It was clearly a large structure for the locators, probably averaging ten feet in diameter. However, the ceiling was barely six feet at its domed peak. Both students had to stoop anywhere but the middle of the room. While the interior had been completely empty, a handful of locators brought some purple cloth-like bedding after a brief period. It wasn't home, but it was a place to sleep. Best of all for Cali, she was finally out of the bright sunlight of the valley that had been her nemeses all day.
Tyler peered through one of the many window openings in the side of the structure as Cali fluffed her bedding material.
"What do you make of all this?" he asked.
"An interesting setup they have here," Cali spoke, trying to sort out their brief stay in this village. "I wonder what Issac meant when he said they locate learners for the instructors," Cali continued. "I'm sure that's why they call themselves locators. But how or why do they locate learners? I thought the professor sent learners like us, if that's what we are, to this place. What do the locators have to do with it?"
Edging away from the opening, Tyler noted, "You're awfully curious, aren't you?"
Cali instinctively blushed. No one had EVER accused her of being curious. "Well," she realized, "there's a lot to be curious about in this place." She took a drink water.
"It seems to me," she continued excitedly, "that these locators make products that the instructors use on the lesson paths. But why? And what is this estoffe stuff?" she held up the pouch given to her by the leader and shook it. "These locators think it's very valuable. But it looks like purple goo to me. I don't understand. I have to know what's going on!" She nearly screamed.
"Whoa," Tyler said, "don't get so excited."
"I'm not getting excited," she said becoming somewhat less excited.
"Well, you ARE acting a little strange," Tyler observed.
"ME? I'm acting strange?" she exclaimed incredulously, "You're the one who's acting strange, what with your pointing in this direction and that direction. Saying 'go this way' and 'go that way.'"
"I just get a feeling," Tyler said defensively. "But you're standing there acting like the professor with your 'why this?' and 'why that?'"
"Awwwhhh," she tried to control a scream, "why don't you just go back home."
"I'm trying to," Tyler screamed.
This struck Cali as distressingly funny. She laughed until tears came to her eyes. The laughter became infectious and Tyler joined along.
"This is stupid," Cali said with a smile, "Why are we arguing?"
"I don't know?" Tyler answered, with his own smile, "You started it."
"I started it?" she responded, severely overacting her degree of hurt. She took a few sprinkles of the precious water and splashed him.
He countered with one of his fruit, bouncing it softly off her forehead.
She pick the fruit from floor and lunged at him. After a well-executed headlock, she bopped him on the head several times with the fruit. He twisted from her hold and moved around behind her, his glasses falling off in the process.
"Now you've had it," he warned once his spectacles had been retrieved.
Their confrontation was cut short by a horrendous sound at one of the openings. Then dove to the floor, recent encounters with the assorted Leornian monsters keeping them instinctively apprehensive. With nighttime blanketing the room with darkness, they could see nothing but shadowy outlines.
And there -- in the opening -- was a shadowy outline.
"What is it?" Cali screamed.
The shadowy outline fluttered its wings, then croaked a meow.
Tyler laughed, "That's the cat-frog."
"What?" Cali exclaimed. Then realizing it was their companion from the trees, she also laughed.
"Did you decide to join us?" Tyler asked.
The frog-cat said nothing, clearly bored, yet satisfied with its perch on the edge of the opening.
"You know," Tyler continued, "I have a score to settle with you over this fruit business."
Still silence.
Tyler threw his hands in the air. "It's no use," he said, "I'm going to sleep."
Cali, also exhausted, silently agreed.
Before he dozed off, Tyler said to the frog, "Keep a watch out for us, will you?"
The frog blinked its eyes and assumed a slightly more comfortable perch.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
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Sport Horse Racing
O'Brien says he'll 'struggle' to catch leaders in title race
Jockey Donnacha O'Brien. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile
Johnny Ward
Donnacha O'Brien is quietly fancied by many to give both Colin Keane and champion Pat Smullen a real rattle in the Flat riders' title race - but the youngster is far from optimistic.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/obrien-says-hell-struggle-to-catch-leaders-in-title-race-36059852.html
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With sister Ana out injured, the son of Aidan is picking up some rides she might have had for both his father and brother Joseph, though he is still 19 winners behind the in-form Keane.
With Dermot Weld back in form, Pat Smullen will be hopeful he can retain his crown, but O'Brien was only trading at 5/1 on Sunday. However, Paddy Power eased him to eights yesterday, with Keane cut to 10/11. O'Brien, champion apprentice last year, said: "I am going to try ride as many winners as possible but realistically I'll struggle to get near Colin and Pat."
Smullen, an uncle-in-law of O'Brien, trails Keane by 10, and his boss Weld concedes it will be an uphill task. "Pat will find it very difficult to retain his title as a lot of the two-year-olds that I have are more staying-bred and I won't rush them for later this year," the trainer said.
"I'm hoping we might have a Derby horse for next year among them. We don't have a big, strong team of three-year-olds ready to run."
Meanwhile, God apparently loves a trier and few would begrudge Alluringly a victory over Enable - behind which she has finished on all three occasions they have clashed - in tomorrow's Darley Yorkshire Oaks.
The daughter of Fastnet Rock won a Listed race at Gowran recently for Aidan O'Brien but finished behind Enable at Chester in May in the Epsom Oaks and Curragh equivalent. John Gosden also runs Coronet but stablemate Enable's biggest threat might come from Roger Varian's Nezwaah.
O'Brien will rely upon Actress as he seeks a first triumph in the Sky Bet Lowther Stakes, in which she will be joined by the Ken Condon-trained Mamba Noire.
Happy Like A Fool will attempt to go one better than at Royal Ascot when she steps up in trip for the six-furlong Group Two.
Meanwhile, Ger Lyons expects Sunday's exciting Curragh maiden winner Gobi Desert to race elsewhere. The Oasis Dream-bred, backed into 3/1 favourite, scored nicely from the well-bred Threeandfourpence in the colours of Annette O'Callaghan of Yeomanstown Stud.
"More than likely, sadly, he'll be sold to Hong Kong," Lyons said. "I'll be lucky to hold to him but the owners are traders and there is excellent prize-money in Hong Kong.
"The owners have been inundated with calls of interest but at least they are holding onto him for the time being."
Threeandfourpence, a War Front brother to Hit It A Bomb, delighted Aidan O'Brien with his run and he expects that the strapping juvenile will progress with racing.
There is no Flat racing at Sligo this year, its drainage issues quite well-documented and only National Hunt combat being held there, as it was last evening.
However, after heavy rain in the region, Ruby Walsh was deeply impressed with the terrain at a track that often suffered badly, quite possibly getting more rainfall than any other course in Ireland.
Walsh was talking after his mount Shanning justified long-odds-on favouritism on her Irish debut in the two-mile maiden hurdle. He said: "It's only yielding out there. I'd say it's all draining into the car-park.
"I'm very surprised at how dry it is. The old Sligo would have been a bog.This Sligo isn't a bog anymore, which is great. They may buy a watering system now!"
Lyons hoping 'Funk' can cope with testing terrain at Killarney
'Cliffs' and Heffernan look the value in gripping International showdown
Dynamic 'Defi' confirms status as two-mile chasing king
Independent.ie Sportsdesk Defi Du Seuil continued his dominance of the two-mile chasing division this season with a scintillating display in the Matchbook Clarence House Chase at Ascot on Saturday.
Minella leads from front to take maiden chase win
Thomas Weekes Last year's Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle hero, Minella Indo, stuck to his task from the front to get off the mark over fences in the Eco Friendly Cups Beginners' Chase at Navan.
Defi Du Seuil's turn of foot shows all the hallmarks of a champion chaser
Marcus Armytage Defi Du Seuil, Philip Hobbs' improving seven-year-old, put in his strongest claim yet for Champion Chase honours when he showed an electric turn of foot to beat Un De Sceaux an eased-down two-...
Dynamic 'Defi' confirms status as two-mile chasing king Horse Racing
Take Un De Sceaux to reverse form with 'Defi' Horse Racing
'Emery' can end Mullins' Champion wait Horse Racing
Sharjah on track for Champion as Mullins considers team Horse Racing
Robbie Power: Trip the Light fantastic on a Wingin A Prayer Horse Racing


Far from civilization, on the Peloponnesian peninsula between Patras and Corinth, at an altitude of 1,200 meters lies a site of raw and majestic beauty offering space for meditation retreats. The site has been used as a summer camp for international courses since 1988 and has been in the possession of the Diamond Way Buddhism Foundation since 2003. In 2010 we were able to construct a Kalachakra stupa – a Buddhist monument for peace and freedom. The construction of this stupa in particular and the use of the site in general are projects which foster international cooperation and multinational friendships.


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Gregula (lat. Puffinus yelkouan) je vrsta morske ptice iz porodice zovoja. Živi na području Mediterana.

Duga je 30-38 cm, s rasponom krila 76-89 cm. Boja joj varira od tamno-smeđe do bijele.

U letu izgleda kao leteći križ držeći krila pod pravim kutom. Vrhovima krila gotovo dodiruje vodu. Na moru je tiha, ali noću, za vrijeme sezone parenja jako glasno gakće.

Gnijezdi se na mediteranskim otocima i obalnim hridima. Prirodni neprijatelji su joj galebovi. Da bi se zaštitila od njih, gnijezdi se u jazbinama. Jako je društvena ptica, što se posebno vidi u jesen.

Hrani se ribama i mekušcima. Zbog toga slijedi ribarske brodove i uzima odbačene riblje iznutrice.

Prije je bila smatrana podvrtom malog zovoja. Nakon prvog razdvajanja smatrana je nominativnom podvrstom više od desetak godina.

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Drummer Ernest D. Dudley
Submitted by MBujok on 10th November 2018
Volenteering, at the age of 15, in November 1914, he served on important duties at various stations until 1916, when he was drafted to the Western Front. Whilst in this theatre of war he fought on the Somme and was gassed, and after his recovery served at Passchendaele, St Quentin and Villers-Bretonneux, and in subsequent engaguements until the cessation of hostilities. He was demobilised in February 1919 after his return to England.
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Drummer John (Jack) Copley
Submitted by Deejaya on 17th February 2017
Drummer John (Jack) Copley, 15563, 7th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in action on February 17th, 1917, at Boom Ravine on the Somme.
A letter to his father, Walter, at Danesbury House, 98 Old Bedford Road, Luton, from his adjutant said John had been killed in action on February 12th (although the Boom Ravine battle was on February 17th). He wrote that the battalion was in action in front of Miraumont and John was killed by shell fire while delivering despatches. He was buried on the field of action and a cross marked his grave.
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Drummer Albert Edward Cockle
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Drummer Albert Edward Cockle, 8041, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in action at Hill 60 in Flanders on April 19th, 1915. He was aged 29.
Drummer Cockle, son of Walter and Emma Cockle, had served in the Bedfords for nearly 11 years, mostly in India and South Africa. He had returned from South Africa the previous September.
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Drummer Richard Leonard Freeman
Submitted by Deejaya on 1st November 2014
Drummer Richard Leonard Freeman, 9752, 1st Battalion, Beds Regt, was killed in action on October 25th, 1914. He was aged 20.
The only son of the late Sgt Richard L. Freeman, of Park Street, Luton, he lived with his sisters at 74 Cambridge Street, Luton, before he went out with his battalion at the beginning of the war.
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Drummer William Henry Fensome
Submitted by admin on 5th April 2014
Details imported from Luton Absent Voters list 1918
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Drummer Horace Gutteridge
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Drummer E J Blagdon
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DRUMMER AND A WOUNDED COMRADE "WAITING OUR DEATH" LUTON NEWS LETTER JANUARY 1915.
Drummer E J Blagdon, of the 2nd Battalion Beds Regiment, describes some narrow escapes in a letter he has just written from the front - he says -
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Nice townhome in West York that backs up to rural fields. 2 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms on the first floor and a bedroom and family in the finished lower level. Fenced rear yard ideal for children and pets. No Home Owner's Association.
3 Bedroom 1 bath single wide in Dover. Home features a separate laundry room, new laminate floor, new drywall throughout, large open, eat-in-kitchen and a shed for storage. Home is in great condition.
Fantastic is the word to describe this beautiful 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath colonial in the sought after Hepplewhite Estate development. The spacious kitchen has a large tiled breakfast bar, solid granite counter tops, eat in area for your morning coffee, solid cherry cabinets and GE Profile appliances. Nice dining room with crown molding, chair rail and tray ceiling.
Cute Cape-Cod in Central Schools! Lovely lot in mature neighborhood convenient location!. Family room with pellet stove. Eat in Kitchen and separate dining room. Rear sunroom. Everything you need is on the first floor. Home has been updated through out move right in. Lot contains 2 sheds, patio, level an awesome garage with additional storage above.
Customize this beautiful Mayfield model with Berks Homes in The Landings at Garden Spot Reserve. Featuring 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a 2nd story loft, 9ft ceilings, and 1,938 sq ft. of living space.
Nice 5,100 SF Warehouse with 1,800 SF Office. 10' overhead door, dock, paved parking, fenced in area in rear.
Someone cared and it shows! Fall in love with this well maintained 3BR, 2BA Split-Level in West York Schools. Nothing to do, but bring the moving truck and start unpacking your belongings! Wonderful updates including a new kitchen, upgraded counter tops, replacement windows, rear deck, and level fenced yard. Need more space? Additional room to expand on the lower level.
Like new Garman-built home-- Only 2 years old with attractive upgrades throughout. Huge kitchen island, granite counters and desirable white cabinetry. Master bedroom retreat with his and hers walk-in closets. Dramatic two-story dining area with overlook from second floor hall. Room to expand in the full walk-out basement. Neutral decor, hardwood floors and deck off of dining area.
Great home in established neighborhood completely remodeled Kitchen with granite and all new appliances breakfast area pantry all completely new. Seller has added 2 bedrooms to the second floor and also a full bath. There is enough space upstairs make an upstairs family or play room. The lower level is practically finished. Huge room for media or lower level family.


Test automation has become more and more prevalent, thanks to the advancement of available commercial and open source tools. Different tools have become sophisticated and mature enough that it would almost seem silly to not take advantage of them, but it's the growth of agile that has made automation less of a choice and more of a necessity.
Unlike waterfall, where people had to do their best to explain the value of automation, agile more naturally promotes that need for these tools through its rapidity and integration of testing throughout the development process.
In a sense, agile assumes that test automation is the key ingredient of your testing mission strategy. It can seem impossible to keep up when you're only focusing on manual testing to get the job done, and that's why Kalyan Konda, the president of Gallop Solutions, sees more and more of the companies he works with leaning on test automation.
Test automation can help simplify your agile processes, but that doesn't mean you're going to find a single, catch-all tool that will get each and every job done. Konda explains that even though companies hope to centralize their tooling and automation, they often rely on commercial test tool vendors for their legacy hardware needs and look toward open source tools like Selenium in the mobile realm.
That means you need test automation as well as multiple tools to be successful, but in order to make it all work, pulling together a single automation framework is key.
You've heard it before, but it bears repeating: Automation isn't automatic. It's a necessary step in the testing process, and that means you have to understand it at many different levels to correctly implement it.


Watch the weather: Since winter conditions are unpredictable, check the forecast before leaving. This will help ensure you don't hit any surprise snow storms.
Leave early: Don't rush out the door late. Slippery conditions combined with the sheer number of people on the road often cause delays.
Care for the car: The last thing you need during Christmas travels is a breakdown. Get an oil change and any car repair projects completed before the trip.
Local Auto Repair Mechanics Whether you need new tires, an engine tuneup, or a brake installation, the professionals at Auto Specialty of Lafayette, Inc. can take care of all auto repair needs. We've been serving Lafayette (including West Lafayette) with our prompt and affordable services for over 25 years. Our experienced technicians can handle everything from small tuneups to large car repairs. Call www.AutoSpecialtyofLafayette.com at 765-477-7300 to make an appointment. We look forward to serving you.


Benefit Fraud investigations are now undertaken by the Department for Work and Pensions under the umbrella of the Single Fraud Investigation Service. However, the Council remain committed to supporting the Department for Work and Pensions and helping them tackle Benefit Fraud.
People who work but do not declare this when they claim benefit.
People who claim as a single person but actually live with a partner.
People who claim from an address but do not live there.
People who do not tell us the full amount of income, savings or capital when thy claim benefit.
To report suspected Benefit Fraud, you can ring the Benefit Fraud Hotline service on 0800 854 440 which is a free phone number and all calls are treated in absolute confidence. A trained member of staff will take any information you can provide regarding people committing benefit fraud.
Alternatively you can send any Benefit Fraud allegations to NBFH, PO Box 224, Preston, PR1 1GP.


This and many more errors have become a staple with Google which is really acting up of late. Not all the time of course but for those who use it daily, it's occasional bad moods become very noticeable. And it's the whole network. Temporary errors on Gmail, Gtalk, and Adsense, and article/comment publishing are becoming all too common. The one in the picture is as straight forward as they come but if you're not lucky you're confronted by a whole page of techno babble when trying to publish.
Few things in blogging are as frustrating as not being able to post articles and comments when you want to. But maybe the most annoying of them is when you write a comment and try to publish only for it to disappear into thin air. Just like that. And blogger says 'done'. Done what? Where is my comment? And then you'll have to go back to the post and open the comment window afresh. Woe unto you if you had not copied the comment elsewhere like in Microsoft Word – in which case you'll have to retype it.
Some people have said it's a question of poor internet connections but I beg to differ. Does poor internet connection only come to play when it comes to google? Does Africa Online and Access Kenya for example fall under poor? Plus how can you explain a scenario where there are several people sharing the same internet connection on a network and only one or two get these errors at any one time?
Something strange happened on this blog last week. 'CIS vs Kenyan Law – Who Will Nail The Culprits' was posted by HLumiti on July 16th with proper paragraph formatting. Then on July 21st it suddenly changed formatting and the whole article became one huge paragraph. How does an article change formatting when it's already live for 4 days? Of course it can always be edited back although the whole 500 plus words article gets blown to what must be font size 20 in the edit window. It's good Google are hosting our blogs, mail and all but can they also be flawless in the process? After all they're Google no?
Maybe there are still a few things I'm yet to figure out about blogger. Any experts out there? Your word will be highly appreciated.


We rent out our guest room (B&B), which can accommodate 2 people in a 1.40 bed or if you like one is in bed and one on mattress on the floor. In the guest room there are also washbasins. Kitchen and shower are shared with us, as well as fridge and freezer. Alternatively, you can stay in a small cottage without amenities near the house and then use the house's toa, kitchen and shower. We can decide that in place. Washing machine available, but not tumble dryer or drying cabinet.
Bring your own bedding or sleeping bags.
Scenic and individual location by the lake Glan, where you can swim if you want. Only 6km to the E4 means that you come quickly to Kolmården. To stages when Finspång is driving west of Glan and not having to pass Norrköping.


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Our clients come to us with really specific mandates: to win campaigns, to communicate their missions, to increase engagement with their supporters, to name a few. We're looking for a thoughtful developer who can understand what our clients are trying to accomplish and work collaboratively with our team to win. This includes, but isn't limited to, developing and testing websites, bulk email themes and working with the team to execute large and small projects to perfection.
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Restaurant industry lost nearly 200,000 employees since pandemic began
Amir Ali
While the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors to varying degrees, the restaurant industry in Canada has been hit particularly hard.
According to a deep dive from The Monitor and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), the pandemic forced many restaurant employees into different sectors, and better paying jobs.
As of September 2021, the industry employed about 180,000 fewer workers compared to February 2020 — the dawn of the pandemic.
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By February 2021, almost a quarter of a million hospitality employees had found a new line of work.
David Macdonald/The Monitor
One of the main revelations of the analysis is the fact that the industry may not be compatible with the post-pandemic labour market, due to the wages that are offered being too low to entice new workers.
"Given sufficient time, it's possible that the food and accommodation industry may build up a new pool of underemployed workers from youth who graduated into the working world during the pandemic or from future newcomers, although this will certainly take time," writes David Macdonald, senior economist with the CCPA.
Wages in the pre-pandemic world in the industry averaged around $14.35 an hour. In the second quarter of 2021, the average was $14.75.
Adjusted for inflation, it actually suggests the real wage fell by 0.1%.
One of the things that's striking about food/acc sector is how many of its workers aren't sitting on the sidelines, instead a 1/4 mil of them are back in the labour market, just in a different sector. @ccpa https://t.co/OJsoxPRbxI pic.twitter.com/2LR3xePmKd
— David Macdonald (@DavidMacCdn) October 13, 2021
It is well known now that employees of the hospitality industry have been hit hard by the pandemic in more ways than one, particularly when it comes to how staff are being treated.
There has been much anger and hate directed at staff around controversial topics like vaccine cards and other restrictions and limitations.
This, combined with numerous closures and operations being inhibited by COVID-19, which could limit the number of shifts you get, makes for a bleak employment situation when trying to make ends meet.
The Monitor points out that offering lower wages means more vacancies, and that this has always been a problem in the industry.
In short, one of the main ways the industry could recover is through higher base wages, which would drive up interest for new workers in the industry.
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It's always nice to see Drew Barrymore in a film. This time it's one with Toni Collette about friendship. Miss You Already is a story of two long term friends when tragedy strikes one and something special strikes the other. It's the sort of film that will make you laugh and cry over what is happening.
They say opposites attract. Milly is the woman who has everything: a successful career; a devoted husband and two gorgeous kids. Her best friend is Jess, Jess works in a community garden; lives in a boathouse with her boyfriend Jago and desperately wants a baby.
A powerful story for every modern woman, MISS YOU ALREADY charts the obstacles life throws in our path and celebrates the bond of true friendship that ultimately cannot be broken, even in life's toughest moments.


Conjoined twins represent a rare but fascinating congenital condition, the aetiology of which remains obscure. Over the past four decades, the paediatric surgeons at Red Cross Children's Hospital have been involved in the management of 46 pairs of conjoined twins, of which 33 have been symmetrical and 12 asymmetrical. Seventeen symmetrical twins have undergone separation with 22 children (65%) surviving; all of the live asymmetrical twins survived separation. We describe the important features of this unique cohort, outline our approach to management and present the results of this approach. We consider some of the ethical and moral dilemmas we have confronted, and discuss the prenatal diagnosis, obstetric implications and postnatal care of these children, including the relevant investigations and anaesthetic and surgical management. Specific aspects related to the cardiovascular system, hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal tracts, urogenital tract, central nervous system and musculoskeletal system are highlighted.
Rode, H., Fieggen, A. G., Brown, R. A., Cywes, S., Davies, M. R. Q., Hewitson, J. P., ... & Matthews, L. S. (2006). Four decades of conjoined twins at Red Cross Children's Hospital-lessons learned. South African Medical Journal, 96(9), 931-940.


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Ulice Na Perštýně je situována v jižní části Starého Města pražského a probíhá přibližně severojižním směrem jako spojnice Husovy a Spálené. Název ulice je odvozen od původně Perštejnského domu či domu Na Perštejně (Na Perštýně 344/5), který od roku 1524 vlastnil Jiřík Kasík z Pernštejna.

Ulice je vyústěním raně středověkých komunikací od bývalých vltavských brodů a později mostu směřujících k Vyšehradu a dalším osadám v prostoru později založeného Nového Města. Při křižovatce s Národní probíhala od 13. století hradba Starého Města pražského, ve které byla vložena důležitá Martinská brána (pojmenovaná po nedalekém kostele sv. Martina ve zdi, kolem kterého se před založením Starého Města rozkládala důležitá osada Újezd svatého Martina), zvaná též Zderazská (podle někdejší osady Zderaz).

Zástavba

Západní, levá strana

Národní

 1 (Národní 29), čp. 342/I., původně Braunerův dům s kavárnou Union v přízemí; 1965-1969 novostavba Dům dětské knihy a sídlo Státního nakladatelství dětské knihy, později přejmenovaného na Nakladatelství Albatros; architekti Stanislav Franc, Luděk Hanf a Jan Nováček; nyní sídlo pobočky České spořitelny
 3, čp. 342/I.
 5, čp. 344/I, Pernštejnský dům, dům U Herzogů, též U brány Zderazské. Gotický dům s klenutými sklepy se poprvé připomíná roku 1398. V první polovině 16. století byl majitelem Jiří Kasík, zvaný z Pernštejna – po něm má ulice své dosavadní jméno. V letrech 1833-1836 byl dům radikálně přestavěn podle návrhu Jana Kristiána Vítka. Později byl interiér přízemí propojen na restauraci s vedlejším domem čp. 345 U medvídků a po roce 1990 na fasádě chybně označen U medvídků.
 7, čp. 345/I. U Medvídků. Gotický dům s původními klenbami v suterénu, byl přestavěn kolem roku 1614 a v 19. století pro hostinec U Nedwidků. V nadpraží bosovaného renesančního portálu se dochovalo domovní znamení: dva černí medvědi s nápisem Zde slowe od starodawna U Nedwidku a letopočet 1614.
 9, čp. 346/I. sídlo Policie České republiky.
 11 (Bartolomějská 14), čp. 347/I. Kancelářská budova ve stylu kubismu z let 1920-1922. Arch. Alois Dryák.

Bartolomějská

 13 (Bartolomějská 13, Průchodní 2), čp. 309/I. Dům U Starých Šedivých, U Kasírů. Středověký dům přestavěný barokně a částečně klasicistně.
 15, čp. 349/I. Dům U Zlatého hroznu. Eklektická novostavba z let 1901-1902. Arch. Vratislav Pasovský.
 17 (Betlémské nám. 7), čp. 350/I. Dům U Šedivých, U Mladších Šedivých. Stabvba románského původu, přestavěná goticky, renesančně a barokně, v 19. století upravena klasicistně.

Betlémské náměstí

Husova

Východní, pravá strana

Národní

 2 (Národní 31), čp. 362/I.
 4 (Martinská 2), čp. 360/I. Novobarokní nájemní bytový dům. 1905-1906. Arch. Otakar Bureš.

Martinská

 6 (Martinská 1), čp. 359/I. Dům U Modrého kola, U Zázvorků. Středověký dům upravil v roce 1794 architekt Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi.
 8, čp. 358/I. Dům U Sedmi stříbrných hvězd. Raně barokní dům v klasicistní úpravě z roku 1868. Arch. Antonín Vondráček.
 10, čp. 357/I. Dům U Zlatého anděla, U Zatočila, Nesybovský dům. Poslední přestavba 1848, arch. Antonín Hellmich.
 12, čp. 356/I. Purkrabský pivovar.
 14 (Skořepka 2), čp. 355/I., konstruktivistický dům z let 1928-1930; Arch. Oldřich Tyl.

Skořepka

 16 (Skořepka 1, Jilská 2), čp. 527/I. Dům U Mladých Goliášů, Bechyňovský. Novorenesanční novostavba, 1889. Arch. Antonín Wiehl a Karel Gemperle.

Jilská

 18 (Jilská 1, Husova 2), čp. 352/I. Dům U Sladkých, U Krtkovců. Původem středověká stavba přestavěna zejména v baroku a v 19. století.

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