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fosun pharma sponsors "a climbing race for public welfare and health" on its 20th anniversary to raise funds for impoverished children
on 27 december 2014, an event titled "climbing race for public welfare and health", co-sponsored by shanghai fosun public welfare foundation and fosun pharma, was held in fosun pharma's headquarters building, where nearly 30 teams of about 100 members, including employees, their family members and media, all participated to witness and celebrate the 20th anniversary of fosun pharma's establishment.
in line with the principle of "enhancing the awareness of fitness, environmental protection and energy saving, and demonstrating team-work spirit", the event was a climbing race designed to promote public welfare and health. during the event, fosun pharma set a public welfare objective for each of the participating team, which would propel shanghai fosun public welfare foundation and fosun pharma to donate rmb3, 000, as long as the team completes the whole game within a specified time period, to impoverished children for their happy, healthy and decent growth. the total amount of donation was expected to be rmb100, 000. meanwhile, fosun pharma also set a chest to receive donations by any possible compassionate person present at the event.
at around 10:50 a.m., all contestants immediately started the intense and fierce competition on hearing the starting gun fired by li haifeng, vice president of fosun group and vice chairman of shanghai fosun public welfare foundation. it's a relay race, where the first member of each team started at the starting point and the second and third would then finish the whole game. all teams completed the whole game to the hurray and cheer of the audiences.
shanghai fosun public welfare foundation and fosun pharma will channel all the donations into charity and public welfare causes. the donations made during the event, along with the raised funds from the "public welfare chest", will be used to help promote impoverished children' s healthy and happy growth. the specific range of public welfare projects will be voted by all of the contestants. the event, featuring transparency and openness, aims to enhance the contestants' involvement in a public welfare event.
fosun pharma owns its achievements through 20 years' development to efforts made by all interested parties. fosun expects the public welfare event to promote interested parties' involvement in the public welfare to create a more harmonious industry ecological circle. has long been adhering to the principle of sustainable development, fosun pharma sees its commitment to public welfare as a way to proactively fulfill its social responsibilities as a corporate citizen. since 1998, fosun pharma has taken part in and organized numerous public welfare events in education and research, environmental protection, health care and social needs, and culture, with projects covering various countries and regions. meanwhile, dedicated to health and public welfare, fosun pharma has proactively organized its employees and company volunteers to contribute to many related public welfare events. fosun pharma has organized its employees to participate at the public welfare event titled "an egg on the rampage" for three consecutive years, an event sponsored by shanghai public welfare cause development foundation ("shanghai united foundation"), raising over rmb100,000 in 2014. for many years, fosun pharma has organized company volunteer teams to carry out a host of public welfare events at shanghai welfare house to help children there.
in 2014, fosun pharma has launched multiple public welfare events through shanghai fosun public welfare foundation, donating to "fosun china association of plastics and aesthetics technological award", tan jiazhen bioscience award foundation, shanghai rare disease prevention & treatment foundation, and offering scholarships in china's 5 universities to bolster education. during recent years, fosun pharma has made total donations in the amount of over rmb20 million to public welfare, with a spending of over rmb5 million alone in the year of 2014.
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The knife attack on monica seles at the rothenbaum
The 30. April 1993 changes the tennis world. Monica Seles is stabbed by a mentally disturbed man at the Rothenbaum in Hamburg. She is still lucky.
Monica Seles takes a deep breath. She looks tense and also a little exhausted. After a seven-week break from the tournament, the tennis star has not yet really regained her rhythm. In the quarterfinals of the clay court event at Hamburg's Rothenbaum, the world number one nevertheless leads 6-4, 4-3 against Bulgaria's Magdalena Maleeva. Seles, even in bad shape at the time, is too good for the competition. She is an exceptional player. The Serbian now needs eight more points to get closer to her dream final against her long-time rival Steffi Graf.
The sides are changed. Seles sits down on the white bench next to the referee's chair. She leans over to her water bottle, takes a sip and wipes the sweat from her forehead. That move, doctors later say, probably saved her from being in a wheelchair today. A loud scream silences thousands of spectators on Centre Court. Seles staggers towards the net. Pandemonium breaks out in the row behind her bench. The situation is confusing. These are moments that change the tennis world.
Knife attack during the break in the match
At first, it is unclear what exactly happened on this warm spring evening of the 30. April 1993 at the Rothenbaum. Seles can no longer keep on her feet. She collapses in front of the net and is now lying in the red ash. "It was a crueler pain than I could have ever imagined", she says later. Helpers rush in to give the Serbo-Croatian first aid. Her white shirt is bloodied at the back. Meanwhile, a man in the first row of seats is overpowered by several people. He holds a knife in his raised hands, wants to stab a second time, defends himself as best he can. His baseball cap falls to the ground during the fight. So did the long butcher knife with which he had previously stabbed Seles in the shoulder.
"Man with a wicked grin on his face"
The inconspicuous but also sinister-looking man with the unkempt hairstyle and the patterned purple shirt is led away. His name is Gunter Parche. He comes from Thuringia, is unemployed and a paranoid admirer of Steffi Graf. And Seles will never be able to erase it from her memory. In her biography "Getting a grip", published in 2009 (Getting a grip) she describes the moments that changed her life: "Immediately I turned around, saw a man with a vicious, sneering grin on his face. In his hand: a long knife! He stabbed me with it millimeters next to the spine. Doctors told me later that if I hadn't leaned forward at that moment, I could have been paralyzed."
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Seles is lucky. Physically, she suffers no permanent damage. The scapula remains intact; the puncture only injured muscle and fibrous tissue. Doctors predict that, with luck, she will be able to resume training in five weeks. Two days after the assassination attempt, the then 19-year-old receives a visit from Steffi Graf. The German stays only a few minutes in the hospital. She has to go to Rothenbaum to play the final against Arantxa Sanchez Vicario from Spain.
Seles is distraught. She had assumed that the event was canceled after the attack. In professional sports, however, no consideration is given to individual fates. The tennis circus moves on – for now without the best player in the world before the assassination attempt. The teenager can't muster the strength for a quick comeback. "I got stabbed, on the tennis court, in front of ten thousand people. It is not possible to talk about it in a detached way. It irrevocably changed my career and damaged my soul. A split second made me a different person.", Seles later wrote in her biography.
She struggles with anxiety, depression and nightmares after the attack. Only after psychological therapy can she return to the WTA Tour in August 1995 – more than two years after Gunter Parche's insane act.
"'Can't understand why he didn't have to atone'
While Seles is still struggling with the consequences of the attack today, the perpetrator gets off with a two-year suspended sentence. The unemployed lathe operator is found in court to have a "highly abnormal personality structure and diminished ability to steer. Seles is horrified: "I can't understand why this person didn't have to atone for what he did."
A claim for damages of 12.2 million euros against the German Tennis Federation, the organizer of the Rothenbaum tournament, also fails. Seles will not compete in Germany after the assassination attempt. "Now this is the country that did not adequately punish the man who attacked me", she said bitterly.
Although Seles celebrated some remarkable successes after her comeback, the now US-American never finds her way back to her old form. In 2003 she played her last professional match. Constant back and foot problems subsequently prevented an intended return to the WTA Tour. In 2008, Seles officially ends her career, which would probably have been much more successful had it not been for this 30-year anniversary of her death. April 1993 at the Rothenbaum.
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Smoothies are one of my favourite ways to get a few extra nutrients into my diet and to fill me up when I'm in a rush. They're quick, easy and (if you manage to find the right combination of ingredients) taste delicious!
So I've decided to start up a weekly Smoothie Saturday recipe post to give you guys some ideas of easy recipes to try.
I toyed with the idea of listing the nutritional info in each recipe and explaining all of the benefits each ingredient offers you, but then I figured that if you're anything like me you'll probably skim right past this part and go straight to the recipe anyway. Therefore these recipe posts will be fairly short each Saturday just to basically give you the recipe.
Last summer I posted this particular recipe on my Instagram feed and it is still without doubt my absolute favourite smoothie recipe…probably because it doesn't taste like it's actually good for me. But it is!
This is something I will often have when I'm in a rush and don't have time to make lunch, as it's so filling that it keeps me going (along with a few snacks) until I get the chance to make a decent sized dinner.
Put the banana, milk and protein powder into the smoothie cup and add the peanut butter last (just to prevent it sticking to the bottom of the cup when you whizz it all up).
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Vinyl LP pressing. A year after the runaway success of At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash took his stellar live concert behind the walls of California's oldest penitentiary. The resulting album, At San Quentin, was The Man In Black's first to top both Billboard's country and pop charts, and spun off his biggest pop hit, "A Boy Named Sue." Released alongside the premiere of his successful television show and featuring classic renditions of "I Walk The Line" and the Bob Dylan-penned "Wanted Man," this album is a must for vinyl collectors seeking to discover the legend of Johnny Cash.


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Saturday Links: Latest COVID-19 Surge Claims Six Lives at SF's Laguna Honda Hospital
Six residents lost their lives at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco as a result of the most recent state-wide COVID-19 surge. Between December 11, 2020, and January 7, 2021 — a time frame that saw historic rises in coronavirus-related death rates — resulted in the passing of a half dozen people at the nation's largest publicly run skilled nursing facility; "We are not yet on the other side of this surge, but we are seeing promising signs including a decrease in new cases and many resident recoveries," read a statement from the hospital — which has seen several separate outbreaks of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. [KRON4]
San Francisco's vacant storefront continues to be vandalized as the city's stay-at-home order drags along. Most notably among the defaced and damaged business appear to be restaurants; the Inner Sunset's taco eatery Underdogs Tres recently burglarized along with another half dozen restaurants in and around the neighborhood. [KTVU]
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SFMTA is considering reopening Twin Peaks to cars since closing it to personal vehicles early on in the pandemic. [Hoodline]
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Frontex stations long-endurance drones in the Mediterranean Sea
For the next two years, the EU Commission is looking for an operator of large drones at airports in Malta, Italy or Greece. They should remain in the air for at least 20 hours and carry up to 230 kilograms of surveillance equipment. The high requirements are likely to lead to a competition between companies from the USA and Israel.
The new Frontex regulation came into force on 4 December. The border agency of the European Union wants to build up a "Standing Corps" of 10,000 police officers by 2027. In this way, Frontex is to become a "European Border Police" and will be given powers that were previously reserved for the EU member states. The agency, based in Warsaw, can now conduct its own operations and use police coercive measures. This affects joint operations at the EU's external borders as well as deportations. "Frontex stations long-endurance drones in the Mediterranean Sea" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 15/12/2019 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter CPIP, Drones, EMSA, EU Commission, EUROSUR, Falco Evo, Frontex, General Atomics, Greece, HERON 1, Israel, Italy, Larissa, Libya, Malta, Pull backs, Push backs, SeaGuardian, USA
Migration control: Drones now fly across the English Channel
1,700 migrants are said to have crossed the strait between France and Great Britain in small boats this year. Both governments therefore requested patrols with drones from the European Union next year. Until then, the border authorities will fly with their own aircraft.
The British Coast Guard will observe the English Channel with drones in the future. This is reported by the British BBC with reference to the British Ministry of the Interior. The government in London wants to prevent the crossing of migrants from France across the 30 kilometre wide strait to Great Britain. However, it is unclear which unmanned aerial vehicles will be used and which company was awarded the contract. The Ministry of the Interior refused to provide any information to the BBC.
The drones take off from the airport in the small town of Lydd and monitor the approximately 50 kilometres of Dover road. The national civil aviation authority has set up a restricted area for other air traffic between the cities of Eastbourne and Margate, which will initially be valid until 31 March next year. According to the authority, the corridor serves "national security" and "the protection of human life". "Migration control: Drones now fly across the English Channel" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 05/12/2019 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Belgium, Civil Aviation Authority, Coast Guard, Drones, EMSA, English Channel, European Maritime Safety Agency, France, Great Britain, United Kingdom
Maritime Walls
How armaments companies benefit from Fortress Europe
Several agencies in the European Union are responsible for the maritime regions of the Member States. The tasks of the Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) include the control of shipping, while Frontex coordinates the surveillance of maritime borders. Both use modern technologies, and the agencies have now pooled their capabilities. The EU Fisheries Control Agency is another partner to benefit from this tripartite working agreement.
Frontex specialises in satellite reconnaissance using the EUROSUR border surveillance system. With this platform, the agency wants to detect irregular refugee camps in Morocco or suspicious ship movements in the Mediterranean. The images come from an EU satellite programme for monitoring environmental and security matters. "Maritime Walls" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 08/11/2019 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Airbus, Building Walls, Drones, EFCA, EMSA, EU Commission, European Union, EUROSUR, Fortress Europe, Frontex, Mediterranean, ROBORDER, Signalis
EU extends maritime surveillance with drones
Three EU agencies are responsible for maritime safety, in an agreement they want to benefit from joint reconnaissance capabilities. Drone flights are used for border, fisheries and customs controls, law enforcement and environmental protection. Seven European states are currently participating and an enlargement is planned.
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has extended its drone flights to a total of six EU Member States and Iceland. According to EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, unmanned aerial vehicles of various sizes fly in Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Croatia, Italy.
The drone surveillance services are carried out for the coastguards of each country. They cover irregular immigration, smuggling, illegal fishing and air or sea pollution. If necessary, the drones can also be used for rescue at sea. EMSA works with the European Aviation Safety Agency to integrate the drones into civil airspace. "EU extends maritime surveillance with drones" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 26/09/2019 08/11/2019 Schlagwörter Camcopter S-100, Croatia, Denmark, Drones, EFCA, Elbit Systems, EMSA, Fortress Europe, Frontex, Greece, Hermes 900, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, ROBORDER, Spain
Frontex monitors sea border with unmanned airship
In the new Frontex budget, more than two billion euros have been reserved for the procurement of the company's own ships, aircraft and automobiles. After drones, the EU Commission is now testing other technologies for aerial border surveillance
The Greek coast guard is using an unmanned airship in the Aegean Sea. The so-called Aerostat is used to monitor the sea area off the island of Samos. The pilot project is carried out in cooperation with the EU border agency Frontex and is part of Operation "Poseidon" in the eastern Mediterranean. The tests last one month and are intended to determine the suitability for the detection of irregular border crossings.
If Frontex detects boats that are not seaworthy while still sailing in Turkish territorial waters, the Agency may inform the responsible Turkish sea emergency centre in accordance with maritime law. Aerial images are also to be used to track smugglers. "Frontex monitors sea border with unmanned airship" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 01/08/2019 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Aerostat, Airbus, Bundespolizei, EMSA, EU Commission, Falco, Fortress Europe, Frontex, German Federal Police, Germany, Greece, Greek Coast Guard, HERON 1, IAI, Leonardo, Mediterranean, Poseidon, Samos, Surveillance of maritime Area of Interest (AoI) service, Turkey, UNHCR, Unmanned Airship, Zeppelin
Drones watching Fortress Europe
The market for military long-endurance drones is dominated by two companies from Israel and one from the USA. Their products are now flying missions to monitor the Mediterranean Sea.
The Israeli company Elbit has been commissioned by the European Union to monitor the Mediterranean Sea. The company, which specializes in defence and surveillance technology, announced this at the beginning of November. For two years unarmed drones of the type "Hermes 900" are to be launched from Portugal for reconnaissance missions. The flights will probably take place in the western Mediterranean around the Strait of Gibraltar. Responsible is the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), which announced such plans two years ago. Last summer, EMSA tested two different drones in a pilot project. With their long endurance, they also belonged to the so-called MALE class, but are considerably smaller than the "Hermes 900". "Drones watching Fortress Europe" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 22/11/2018 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Airbus, Border security, CeiiA, Drones, EBCG, EFCA, Elbit, EMSA, EU Commission, EUNAVFOR MED, European Union, Falco Evo, Frontex, General Atomics, Hermes 900, HERON 1, Homeland Security, IAI, Israel, Italy, Leonardo, Mediterranean Sea, USA
The European Border Intelligence Service
With EUROSUR, the EU Commission has a powerful border surveillance system at its disposal. It brings together reconnaissance data from aircraft, drones and soon also aerostatic balloons. Based on the images, a Frontex unit then decides on further measures in the "pre-frontier area".
The EU border agency Frontex has launched a series of new surveillance methods in the Mediterranean. This was written by EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in response to several questions from MEP Sabine Lösing. The capabilities are part of the EUROSUR border surveillance system launched by the European Union five years ago. It links the Frontex headquarters in Warsaw with the border authorities of the 28 Member States. Through their national coordination centres, Frontex is informed of all important incidents at the external borders of the European Union. According to the latest figures, around 148,000 irregular migration incidents have been reported since EUROSUR was set up, and around 33,000 have concerned organised crime. "The European Border Intelligence Service" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 08/09/2018 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Airbus, Border Intelligence, Border Surveillance, Copernicus, Dimitris Avramopoulos Migration ;, Drones, EMSA, EU Commission, EUROSUR, Frontex, Frontex Risk Analysis Unit, Mediterranean Sea, Multi-purpose Aerial Service, MUSO (Multi Source) Migration Analytical Assessment, OSINT, Pre-frontier area, ProDetect service, SatCen, SOLAS Convention
New FRONTEX agency: satellite reconnaissance and drones over the Mediterranean
The EU is taking its maritime surveillance to a new level. The three agencies responsible for coastal and maritime surveillance are to be merged. 81 million euros has been earmarked for unmanned aerial vehicles alone, with hundreds of millions also being spent on the necessary satellite capabilities. The money is flowing into the coffers of arms companies.
The FRONTEX border agency, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) have signed a new cooperation agreement. Its aims include improving border surveillance, intercepting vessels suspected of "engaging in criminal activities" and combating illegal fishing. The agreement was signed on the margins of a conference at which the agencies discussed new forms of maritime surveillance, information sharing and capacity building. "New FRONTEX agency: satellite reconnaissance and drones over the Mediterranean" weiterlesen
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 10/06/2016 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Airbus, Copernicus, Drones, EBCG, EFCA, EMSA, European Border and Coast Guard, EUROSUR, Frontex, GMES, Migration, SpaceDataHighway, Sunny
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If you search 'Armani jacket,' you get one million versions of the same thing, with slight adjustments: golden buttons or silver buttons, big sleeves or short sleeves – all these modifications. And there's a little bit of creativity put into every version of it. There is something strangely appealing about it. I think about our place as designers within an ocean of images and garments, a kind of melting pot. Originality is about figuring out how to use those components and play with them.
The relationship between advertising (brand) and editorial (publication) in fashion has never been straightforward. As journalism scholar Lynda Davis argues 'editorial is perhaps the most valuable form of media content because it is perceived to be unbiased and believable. Its ''purity'' (precisely because it is not advertising) derives from its aura of authority and neutrality.' We examine the notion of editorial transparency, and how four different publishing platforms – The Business of Fashion, Nowness, Porter and The Talks – are dealing with the issue in relation to their respective funding models.
Many are those who today speak of the necessity of a 'fashion revolution.' Certainly there are some fundamental issues in the way fashion currently functions; the pressure on brands (high and low) to distribute garment collections at a faster pace, the question mark over the role of fashion weeks in the current climate (and the fashion show as the optimal model for displaying clothes), and the flux that the role of the 'creative director' of high fashion brands is currently undergoing – not to mention the ethical concerns that have dogged the industry for decades. In T Magazine's 'These Two Guys Are Changing How We Think About Fashion,' Alexander Fury talks obliquely about rules that need to be broken, and implicates 'the editors, the designers, the corporations' as the manufacturers of these rules. But if the fashion system at large is at fault, what role does Fury and T Magazine (the editors) alongside Michele and Gvasalia (the designers) of Gucci and Balenciaga (the corporations) play?
A two-part collaborative project between the National Gallery of Victoria and Vestoj, we explore the often-unseen spaces of a gallery archive with photographer Adam Custins and writer Winnie Mitford. Following a selection of garments assembled by curator, Paola Di Trocchio, each unique with its own provenance, maker, wearer and cultural context.
Dressing the body is an act of covering nakedness – the fashioned figure's opposition. In this sense, nakedness is a blank canvas, with no signifiers of social and cultural context, and from which the process of concealing (and sometimes revealing) occurs.
From the exclusive realms of haute couture, to traditional systems of dress, there are processes that – although they sit as cultural polar opposites – share common themes. Cutting is a technique that creates form on the body; be it of the skin or fabric.


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Q: Integration Substitution I want to solve $\displaystyle \quad \int\frac{dz}{1+5z^2}$
and Wolfram says I need to use the substitution with inverse tan, taking $u=\sqrt{5}z$, giving me $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}\int\frac{du}{1+u^2}.$$
Surely this is incorrect as the 1 in the demoninator would now be $\sqrt{5}$ too. What don't I understand?

A: If $\;u = \sqrt{5}z\;$ then $\;du = \sqrt{5}\, dz \;\implies\; \color{red}{\bf{dz = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt5}} \,du}\;$ and
$$\int\frac{1}{1+5z^2}\,dz = \int \frac{1}{1 + (\sqrt{5}z)^2} \,\color{red}{\bf dz}=  \int\frac{1}{1+u^2} \cdot \color{red}{\bf{\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}\,du}}\; = \;\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{5}} \int \dfrac{1}{1+u^2}\,du \;= \;\;?$$

A: $du=\sqrt 5 dz$, you have to account for this when substituting

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The aim of this study is to look at the impacts of land use and climate change on extreme runoff regimes in selected catchments of Slovakia, with an emphasis on selected characteristics of hydrological regimes, catchment runoff, and, especially extreme runoff. Changing climate conditions, characterized especially by changes in precipitation, air temperatures, and potential evapotranspiration in future decades, have been predicted by recent outputs of the KNMI and MPI regional climate change models and the A1B emission scenario. The land use changes were characterized by various future land use scenarios. Assuming these scenarios are accurate, the hydrological regime characteristics were simulated by the WetSpa distributed rainfall-runoff model, which was parameterized for the selected river basins with a daily time step until 2100. Changes in the total runoff and its components (the maximum and design discharges), as well as changes in soil moisture and actual evapotranspiration, compared to the current state, confirm the assumption of an increase in the extremes of the hydrological regimes during periods of flood events. The results of the study showed a need for a reevaluation of design discharge values for future designs of water management structures.


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Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson & More Hit San Francisco Stage For Paul Newman Charity Benefit
Published October 28, 2008 • Updated on October 28, 2008 at 7:51 am
Weeks after the passing of Oscar winner and humanitarian, Paul Newman, Hollywood's elite helped took to the stage to honor and raise funds for one of the late star's charities.
Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, Warren Beatty and Casey Affleck were among the A-listers who hit the stage at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall on Monday evening, performing a reading of "The World of Nick Adams," to benefit the Painted Turtle, a medical specialty camp in California, which helps provide hope and joy for children with life threatening illnesses. And, according to Danny Glover, who also joined the cast, though the night was for the children, it was also in celebration of their late friend.
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"Paul means so much to all of us," Danny told Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell shortly before the performance. "He's always been there, not only in support of his work he has, but advocating… So, it's gonna be tough. You don't replace a giant like Paul Newman."
A young Paul once starred on Broadway as the title character in "The World of Nick Adams," by A.E. Hotchner, based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. On Monday night, however, Casey took on the role of the 19-year-old Nick who breaks up with his girlfriend, leaves his small town and family behind and runs into a motley crew of characters on his way to enlisting in the Italian Ambulance corps.
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"We wanted to come out and support the fundraiser for the Painted Turtle," Casey, who hit the red carpet with his pal Joaquin Phoenix, another show participant, told Access before the performance. "We're just happy to be a part of it."
Dressed in a pressed white shirt and wearing reading glasses, Jack Nicholson played the narrator, Ernest Hemingway, who described Nick's experiences and run-ins, as members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra provided a sonic backdrop.
Hundreds of patrons were left delighted by the near two-hour production, which was kept to modest standards. Most of the actors, who sat on the side of the stage until their part required them to journey front and center, had just minimal costuming and read animatedly from their scripts.
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Despite the stripped down performance, even the actors themselves were drawn in.
At times, as Jack read his lines, Julia, who sat to his left, leaned her face on her hand, admiringly gazing at her co-star.
Later, when Julia took the stage to play a brassy broad alongside Rita Wilson, Jack couldn't contain his enthusiasm for their spirited portrayals as his trademark laugh echoed through the venue.
Danny DeVito and Joaquin, who played a team of thugs, stole fistfuls of laughter, no doubt due to the enthusiasm Danny said he was feeling when he hit the event's red carpet shortly before curtain call.
"It's really a joy to be here," Danny told Nancy. "We miss Paul, but he's here in spirit. We're all very, very excited about doing this for him."
Though the cast, which also included Billy Crystal, Annette Bening, Edward James Olmos and Bruce Willis kept the crowd enchanted, it was the children of the Painted Turtle who stole the show. Following the reading, alumni from the camp joined singing star Bonnie Raitt for a rendition of "Put A Little Love In Your Heart."
Laughing, dancing, hugging and singing, the young people left some of the stars slightly misty eyed, as they put on a performance Paul would have been proud of.
"He's made such a huge difference," Bonnie told Nancy. "He's a real hero to all of us. We miss you if you are looking in."
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Hate groups helped storm the Capitol. These groups have been active in Pennsylvania.
By Matt Petras
The Capitol riot exposed U.S. extremism on a broad scale. Pittsburgh is no stranger to white supremacist activity.
As the country braces for unrest, here's what you should know about staying safe in Pittsburgh
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The checkered decade of one Pittsburgh officer shows the shortcomings of police discipline
By Rich Lord
Pittsburgh provides new look at allegations against police, but not at resulting discipline
By Rich Lord | December 14, 2020
Every year, Pittsburgh's Bureau of Police issues a report showing how many officers have been reprimanded, counseled, suspended and terminated, and for what types of violations. And the city's Office of Municipal Investigations [OMI] separately characterizes and tallies the accusations it probed in the prior year.
By Rich Lord and Amanda Su | December 7, 2020
Someone you love is having a breakdown. They could hurt themselves. Who do you call? If 911 leaps to mind, you'll likely get a visit in a few minutes — from police, whose training includes behavioral health but is focused more on addressing criminality. If you can remember 1-888-796-8226 (or 1-888-7-YOU-CAN), you'll get a mental health professional from resolve Crisis Services, a 13-year-old unit of UPMC hired by Allegheny County to handle behavioral incidents.
Fine and fee workshop helps Pittsburghers satisfy court debt through restorative approach
By Juliette Rihl | November 20, 2020
Diona Brown was at Pittsburgh Municipal Court last month for another case when she learned she had two outstanding court fines for when she was at school, two decades ago. Both were for truancy, dating back to 1999 and 2000. She was 16 years old.
It was so long ago that Brown couldn't even remember why she'd missed school. "Who knew once you grow up you have to take care of that stuff?" she said.
The outstanding amount totaled $404.50. For Brown, who's been staying at home caring for her three children while they attend school virtually, the amount is insurmountable.
Policing task force calls for 16 reforms, more data on Pittsburgh law enforcement
By Rich Lord | October 19, 2020
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and his hand-picked task force released 16 recommendations for reforming policing on Monday, as the mayor pledged to consider them all and to start implementing data-related measures promptly. The report of Peduto's Pittsburgh Community Task Force on Police Reform
comes nearly five months after the death of George Floyd, under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, set off a summer of protests and reignited concern with police use of force, especially against Black people. 10 big problems with policing, and approaches to addressing themThe mayor called the 47-page report "a baseline" for improving policing in the city. "We're at a very historic moment in this country," Peduto said at a press conference in the City-County Building. "And there has never been a time like this, since the late 1960s, in order to address systemic racism, and in all the different areas that we can see it, whether it's through education, or access to healthcare, or housing, or whether it is in police brutality."
The report's recommendations:
Gather and analyze more data on routine policing actions, to better understand "disparate outcomes" in which race seems to be a factor in law enforcement.
10 big problems with policing, and approaches to addressing them
By Rich Lord and Juliette Rihl | October 15, 2020
Based on reporting by PublicSource and others, before and after George Floyd's death, here are 10 of the region's policing problems, and approaches under consideration here, or tried elsewhere.
By Juliette Rihl | October 12, 2020
Allegheny County Council considers bill regulating facial recognition and other surveillance technologies
By Juliette Rihl | October 7, 2020
A new bill could regulate Allegheny County's use of facial recognition and other surveillance technology. Legislation introduced to Allegheny County Council Tuesday would require county officials to obtain council's approval before soliciting, acquiring or using facial recognition or other surveillance technologies, except in extreme circumstances. It would also require a public policy detailing how each technology can be used. "The public use of facial surveillance can chill the exercise of constitutionally protected free speech," the bill states, also noting the technology is less accurate in identifying the faces of women and people of color. "...The benefits of using face surveillance, which are few and speculative, are greatly outweighed by its harms, which are substantial."
Councilwoman at-large Bethany Hallam, a Democrat who is sponsoring the bill, told PublicSource: "We're trying to bring transparency and accountability to one of the least transparent and accountable facets of law enforcement, and that's surveillance." The bill is co-sponsored by Democratic Councilwoman Olivia Bennett whose district includes Downtown, North Side and Bellevue Borough.
Police chase settlement pushes lawsuit payouts beyond $12 million since 2009
By Rich Lord | September 29, 2020
PublicSource reviewed the cases because federal court is typically the referee of last resort in disputes between citizens and police. Officials sometimes portray the court as a backstop against other systems' shortcomings. Scholars of law enforcement, though, view federal court as an uneven playing field on which results have little to do with the severity of a constitutional violation or the injuries caused.
Pittsburgh City Council votes to regulate facial recognition and predictive policing
Pittsburgh City Council voted Tuesday to regulate the use of facial recognition and predictive policing technologies by city entities, including the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police [PBP]. The legislation requires city council approval of such technologies before they are acquired or used, except in "an emergency situation."


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Right now, we're witnessing what's referred to as a declining workforce with the share of employees older than 55 years old increasing and the number of new-borns decreasing.
This decline is expected to create challenges for organisations in the near future as companies not only try to retain the skills and knowledge of existing employees but, in the war for talent, try to attract the attention of Generation Z.
How can companies become more attractive and retain their workforce? What would keep employees working for their employer?
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LinkedIn advises companies wanting to foster a culture that makes people want to work and stay with the company need to invest in their employees. How? "When it comes to retention, one of the top factors keeping professionals at their company for more than five years is having strong workplace benefits", LinkedIn shares.
LinkedIn's research also emphasises the importance of parental leave benefits and shares that, among other things, employees are "proudest to work at companies that promote work-life balance and flexibility.
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Work-life balance is crucial to our happiness. As we share in an earlier post, while doing satisfying, interesting and meaningful work contributes to our happiness, so do the things we do outside of work, such as our hobbies, family and friends. Therefore, it's important that employers offer benefits that support and recognise the whole person.
Scandinavians seem to understand this concept well. Every year since launching The World Happiness Report in 2012, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have all ranked in the Top 10. In addition to government and tax-funded systems, such as unemployment benefits, healthcare, education, childcare, elderly care, paid parental leave and other social benefits, Scandinavia is also known for its healthy work-life balance, which contributes to the region's overall happiness.
Among the Benefits Employees Want
While work-life balance takes many forms, closely linked to it is parental leave. LinkedIn's survey reveals that parental leave benefits are among the benefits employees want. Again, we only need to look at Scandinavia to see the most generous parental leave programs in the world.
Although there are differences between each of the country's parental leave systems, one thing they have in common is an emphasis on both parents sharing the leave. Improving gender equality by reducing the impact that maternity leave has on a mother's career and enabling fathers to play a more prominent role in the early part of their child's life, shared parental leave has many advantages.
In Sweden and Norway specifically, there is what is known as a "daddy quota", which is a part of the parental leave reserved explicitly for fathers. This period of parental leave is granted on a "use-it-or-lose-it" basis to ensure fathers partake in parental leave.
In today's war for talent, if employee benefits, including parental leave, play a significant role in employee retention, it's time for companies everywhere to review their benefits offer to make sure their offer supports employee work-life balance.
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A change in career can be tough. Not only is it a financially strained time, but you also need to train yourself for a whole new position. Here are a few tips for transitioning from one career to another in 2018.
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Consider what transferable skills you have. Despite not having the exact skills needed for the new career you're chasing, consider the skills that you currently have and cross-examine how you can apply them to the next chapter. List your strongest traits, which may be something like public speaking or problem-solving. If you're struggling to find some that you consider transferrable, consider what hobbies you have, and what skills you have gained from them. Are you an avid gardener? Gardeners often have the skills of learned patience, respect and responsibility. So, get out the rake and shovel from your large garden shed, and look at things from a different perspective. Those who love art often have creative skills, those who love Sudoku have problem-solving skills. Your transferable skills are around you, you just have to look for them.
Change can often be unsettling. There's something very comfortable about staying in the same circumstances, even when those circumstances may not be ideal. But, a new career can also be an exciting time that sparks renewed enthusiasm and growth. Identify all of your strengths and achievements – every single one and write them down. Asking your friends and social networks is another good way to build this list – you'll be pleasantly surprised by the comments you receive. You can use this list to not only boost your confidence, but it can also be helpful for creating your own Unique Selling Proposition (USP), which will help you in writing a persuasive resume and cover letter. You are never too old to make a career change and a little preparation goes a long way. Are you thinking about changing jobs? What steps are you taking?" Find out more about Age Defying Careers by following them on Facebook and Instagram.
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According to the NHS website, 'Anger is a normal, healthy emotion'. It's normal to get angry if someone treats you or someone that you love badly. Problems arise when we don't have the ability to control our anger and when we get angry over trivial things. People have anger issues for a variety of reasons. A lot of times it stems from things that happened in their childhood such as physical abuse, emotional abuse, abandonment and neglect. Many parents beat their children as a form of discipline not realising that the beatings may cause long term emotional issues for their child. Pit bull terrier dogs have been banned in the United Kingdom under the Dangerous Dogs Act after a number of violent incidents involving these dogs. Pit bulls are not inherently violent, most of the dogs involved in violent incidents were trained to be aggressive through beatings and abuse. Likewise, if a child is constantly beaten, there is a strong chance that the child will resort to violence when he or she is older.
People who experience abuse as children won't all necessarily grow up to be violent adults, but there is a good possibility that they will have emotional issues if they do not deal with the trauma that they experienced as children. If a person is struggling with any anger issues they can refer themselves to a therapist through the NHS website. Alternatively, they can speak to their GP who can make the referral on their behalf. It's important for them to get help because if their condition goes untreated they may find themselves doing something that they later regret.
We need to control our thoughts because negative thoughts have the power to make us feel depressed and miserable. Once we realise that there isn't anything that we can do to change a situation we should actively try to stop thinking about the issue by filling our minds with thoughts of other things. In an interview that he did whilst in prison Tupac said that he listened to different types of music to calm his soul and that music helped him to get through his time in prison. I agree that music is a great way to clear the mind of negative thoughts because when we recite the words to an uplifting song we are pushing negative words out of ours minds and replacing them with positive words. Any time the negative thoughts try to creep back in we need to push them out by saying something positive.
Our thoughts control our emotions so in order to keep our emotions in check we need to think about positive things. If you are feeling negative I encourage you to think about the great plans that you have for their life and how you are going to implement them. Think about your talents and abilities and how they can use them to help other people. If possible, I suggest that you surround yourself with positive people who encourage and motivate you. I recommend that you spend time reading and learning new things. All of these things help you to feel more optimistic and instead of looking at the glass as half empty you will see it as half full.
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Sometimes when you separate yourself from your friends to do your own thing you might receive a negative reaction. This is normally because they miss your presence. Don't take it too personally, they'll get over it. If they are true friends they will want to see you succeed in life. If they don't want to see you be great you don't need them in your life because they are only going to hold you back from reaching your potential.
In the previous post I mentioned that I spoke with some teenage boys who had a twisted Robin Hood mentality. As they were poor they believed that it was fair for them to rob from people who were richer than them. They felt that the people they were mugging had an abundance of money and wouldn't miss the money they were robbing. They were ignoring the emotional trauma that they were putting their victims through and were blind to the fact that what they were doing was wrong. People growing up in impoverished communities are often surrounded by influential individuals who convince them that criminal behaviour is acceptable. Take Nazi Germany for example, people were brainwashed into thinking that what Hitler was doing was right. In the same way, there are mini Hitlers in impoverished communities around the world who indoctrinate their followers into a life of crime.
The people who say that they don't need God to be good normally do not come from poverty stricken environments. It's easy to say that you wouldn't steal if you've always had food to eat. People who follow the teachings of Karl Marx are often critical of religion because they believe that capitalist societies use religion to keep poor people in a state of poverty. They argue that religion is like a drug that makes poor people happy with their condition preventing them from doing anything to change their situation. Although I can see their points, I respectfully disagree. Most religions do not make people ignore their poverty, instead they help people to find joy in things other than material possessions.
People growing up in impoverished communities are less likely to be caught up by the negative aspects of their environment if they have something else to live for. Believing that they were created for a purpose provides them with a sense of direction.
The Love of Money
When I was around 14 years old, my younger sister and I were heading with my friend and her father to her high-rise flat in Kilburn. When we got to the main entrance we saw a pool of blood on the floor. "I wonder what happened there?" Her father said in his strong Scottish accent. We started to get more concerned after seeing more blood in the lift. My heart was pounding as we got out of the lift and saw the trail of blood leading right to the door of my friend's apartment. As I had my younger sister with me, my friend and her father asked us to wait outside their door while they went inside to see what had happened. My friend came out a few minutes later, white as a ghost and told us that her mum had been attacked. Apparently some boys had mugged her mother brutally injuring her in the process. There was only a small amount of money in her bag and she hadn't resisted so nobody could understand why they had harmed her.
Prior to that incident I had met boys in the area who had been arrested for mugging ladies. Concerned that they might do something like that again I tried to dissuade them from that kind of activity. "How would you feel if someone did something like that to your mother?" I had asked. They went on to tell me people who rob ladies normally target rich people so it's unlikely that anything like that would happen to their mothers. My friend's mother is from Columbia and is of mixed heritage so I suspect her attackers assumed that she had a lot of money because of her appearance. She is a sweet, harmless lady who is less than 5 feet tall so I am baffled as to why they injured her so badly.
Money in itself isn't evil but the love of money definitely is. The barbaric way in which my friend's mother was attacked makes me believe that her attackers were driven by an evil desire for wealth. Their lust for money hardened their hearts making them cold-blooded and merciless. When mentoring people from impoverished backgrounds we need to stop them from idolizing money by helping them to focus on spiritual values instead. We need to help them to understand that who they are inside is more important than what they possess. There are numerous wealthy individuals who have committed suicide making it clear that money doesn't guarantee happiness.
Teaching Self-Esteem
Society does a great job of making people feel inadequate if they don't have money. Some people are immune to this snobbery while others are more impacted. In the song December 4th, Jay-Z raps about feeling ''worthless" when he was young because his clothes weren't matching. He explains that after he started selling cocaine his "self-esteem went through the roof" because he had the latest clothes, he was popular and "light-skinned girls" with "wavy" hair started to love him. I respect Jay-Z's honesty because these are the the same issue affecting black boys from impoverished communities in the UK. In addition to dealing with issues of poverty, black boys from poor areas contend with issues of self-hate as well. Self-hatred is caused by indirect racism and crime is one of it's effects. In order to stop these boys from committing crimes we need to first deal with the roots by teaching them to love themselves.
Keep Ya Head Up by 2Pac
Tupac Shakur was so much more than a rapper, he was an actor, a businessman, an activist and more. He was far from perfect but he had a good heart. Songs like, Brenda's Got a Baby, Keep Ya Head Up and Dear Mama highlight Tupac's caring and compassionate nature. His mother, Afeni Shakur was a member of the Black Panther party, an organisation dedicated to uplifting black people. She instilled a deep sense of pride into Tupac which gave him the confidence to go out into the world and blossom into a star. Tupac had a strong desire to help people but he became side-tracked from his original purpose. Nonetheless, he left a large body of work for us to learn from. Tupac's mistakes are a lesson of what not to do but we shouldn't discount all the positives because of the negatives. The fact is, young black boys from the inner city areas are more likely to be inspired by Tupac than Martin Luther King. Tupac was from the streets and his lyrics often speak to people who growing up in similar environments to the one that he came from. His song White Man'z World reprimand black people for killing each other while encouraging them to love themselves.
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The McLeod Gift Collection
On behalf of its owner, Yarra Ranges Council, Burrinja manages a rare public collection of over 600 items of Aboriginal and oceanic art from Papua New Guinea. The collection was donated to the Shire of Yarra Ranges in 2001 by Neil McLeod, a local resident and renowned photographer, book author and field collector.
The McLeod Gift Collection includes Aboriginal artworks as well as one of the most significant collections of post-colonial Oceanic artefacts from New Ireland and New Britain in Australia. Neil McLeod accumulated these over a lifetime's experiences gained from his deep involvement with Indigenous people from various parts of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
"Many of the works are extremely rare and of invaluable ethnographic significance and constitute a valuable repository of evidence of rapidly disappearing cultures. My wish is for this unique resource to remain in the Shire of Yarra Ranges where it will be an enjoyable asset for local people and visitors to the hills and so that it may educate and foster understanding of the creators of the works."
- Neil McLeod, 2001
A number of items in the collection are also listed on the Victorian Collections website.
Burrinja manages the McLeod Gift Collection on behalf of its owner, Yarra Ranges Council, actively seeking to present, store and preserve collection items to industry best practice and national museum standards.
Luke Nganjmirra Kunwinjku, Arnhem Land, NT Acrylic and ochres on bark 144 x 50 cm
Ulitjiri Thompson Kunwinjku, Arnhem Land, NT, Male Bandicoot, blue and white chalk on black paper, 51 x 76 cm, c1988
The McLeod Gift Collection contains around 70 canvas and bark paintings from The Kimberley, Central Desert, South Australia and Top End. These include works by internationally renowned artists such as Rover Thomas Joolama, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Queenie McKenzie, Jonathan Kumintjarra Brown, Derrick Oobagooma, Jack Dale Mengenen, David Mowalpariai, Nawakadj (Bobby) Nganjmirra, Patsy Lulpunda and Lily Karadada.
Additionally, the Collection includes a unique collection of over 200 Aboriginal drawings on paper, many created by Ulitjiri Thompson, Bobby Nganjmirra and other members of the Nganjmirra family.
Jack Dale Mengenen Ngarinyin, Kimberley, WA, Djunba: Ceremonial Dance Board, Ochres and wool on ply board, 230 x 100 cm, C2000
Neil McLeod knew many of the artists personally and visited them regularly on his numerous trips to The Kimberley and Top End. Often artists came to visit him in Tecoma and painted in his studio. He has organised and curated many exhibitions, including several at Burrinja. He published several books, including books on Nawakadj Nganjmirra and Jack Dale Mengenen.
Selected Aboriginal paintings of the McLeod Gift Collection formed the backbone of the Footprint of the Spirits exhibition, which toured to seven public galleries in New Zealand in 2002 and throughout Australia in 2004-2010.
Paintings in the McLeod Gift Collection also gave inspiration to Burrinja's recent touring exhibition Black Mist Burnt Country, in particular Jonathan Kumintjarra Brown's Maralinga Before the Atomic Test. Jonathan Brown features among over 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists with works across the mediums of painting, photography, sculpture, new media and video. The exhibition has been curated by Burrinja and will travel to eleven metropolitan and regional galleries in five states from September 2016 to February 2019. Full details on the Black Mist Burnt Country Website.
Oceanic Art
Neil McLeod has been a keen field collector of Papua New Guinean ceremonial art for many years. As part of the McLeod Gift Collection he donated 200 objects from various locations of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago in the North-East of Papua New Guinea: Tabar Island, New Ireland and the Gazelle Pensinsula of New Britain. These include rare ceremonial Malangan objects such as masks, wands, friezes and other carved objects, including a canoe. A similar canoe exists only in the collection of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.
Additionally the Collection also contains around one hundred rare Iniet figures made by the secret Tolai society on New Britain's coastal Gazelle Peninsula. These stone carvings date from the post-colonial period, some almost a hundred years old.
Ben Sisia Malangan, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Horizontal Frieze Decorative Carving, Wood and pigment, 15 x 81 x 12 cm, 1990s
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land where we live, work & play. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Burrinja extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today and acknowledges them as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. It is through valuing their history, traditions, culture and beliefs that we strive to stimulate awareness and promote respect for Indigenous contemporary art and culture and create a positive future for Indigenous and non-indigenous communities together.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was always will be Aboriginal land.


남자친구와의 관계에서 고민중인 연희는 어느날 레즈비언인 원진을 만나게 된다.
Yeonhee struggles regarding the releationship with her boyfriend, Junhee because she is not physically attracted to him. One day she gets to meet a lesbian girl, Wonjin.


Trochanteric bursitis is the term we use to describe the pain which is felt on the outer aspect of the upper thigh that develops spontaneously mostly in middle aged females. It is of gradual onset but on very rare occasions, is associated with an injury. Often the pain progressively worsens, eventually becoming quite disabling. It may prevent the sufferer from lying on either the affected or the opposite side causing sleep disturbance and limiting walking distance because of pain. The pain is usually quite well localised, is made worse by standing and walking and as it progresses, there can be the associated development of a limp.
For a long time, this pain has been attributed to inflammation of the lubricating sack (bursa) called the "Trochanteric Bursa" which covers the bony prominence of each hip. The treatment instituted for this pain has always been directed at reducing the irritation in the bursa and involves local anaesthetic and cortisone injections, physiotherapy, muscle stretches, massage, chiropractic and osteopathy treatments. These modalities of therapy can result in some improvement in the pain and have, up to now, been the main method of treatment for this pain.
If you have had any of these treatments or perhaps even all of them and you are no better, you have fallen into that group of patients whose pain is not due to bursitis at all but is caused by a tear in the underlying hip tendons which separates the tendon from its bony attachment and results in abrasion of the tendon on rough bone. The irritation of the bursa is just "collateral damage" because the tendons are frayed by the tear and irritate the bursa. If the treatment is directed only to the bursa, then the underlying cause remains untreated and the pain will persist and perhaps worsen.
There is a simple and obvious reason for this condition to develop. When we take a step, we are standing with all our weight on one leg. To balance ourselves, the muscles around the hip joint which attach to that bony bump which can be felt on the side of the upper thigh, must contract. The force they need to exert to work properly, varies between one and a half to three time our body weight. For the average 70 kg individual this is 150-200 kg. That is close to the weight of a 750-cc motor bike. If we take on average about 1,000,000 steps each year, it should not come as a surprise that the tendons in some individuals wear out and break down. Such tendon problems are familiar to many of us in the form of a ruptured Achilles tendon (heel tendon) and torn/ruptured rotator cuff (shoulder tendon). The size of the tear varies greatly from one individual to another but can be a few square centimetres to the entire tendon being separated. Interestingly, the amount of pain felt is not closely related to the actual size of the tear.
When the tendon is torn, Cortisone and oral medication may help the pain but won't specifically deal with the problem which will persist and slowly worsen. Washing your car will not make it go better if the gear-box is broken. Put simply, if the pain is severe enough and disabling enough, only surgical reconstruction of the tendon will fix the problem and permanently settle the pain.
The operation is a reasonably big procedure as is any operation involving a large joint like the hip. The tendon is exposed and the damaged area is removed leaving a clean healthy tendon surface. Then the bone surface is prepared and the tendon is reattached by sutures passed through tunnels in the bone. The hospital stay is generally three to four days. It is important to prepare for the operation by practising the use of crutches or a walking frame depending on your age, fitness and balance. You will need to protect your weight-bearing on the operated side for about six weeks after the surgery. This will give the tendon time to heal onto the bone and it is essential to the success of the operation for this to happen.
All operation can have complications and this is no exception. The most common complication is that which is common to all hip operations and that is a blood clot in the vein (DVT). The chance of this happening is about 3%. Other complications are infection, worsening of pre-existing medical problems such as diabetes and failure of the repaired tendon to stay attached to the bone (3%). Although this seems a lot, it also means that you have better than 97% chance of having no problems at all and losing all your pain.
After leaving hospital, arrangements can be made for you to go to a specialist rehabilitation centre. Most patients are well enough to go straight home. While weight-bearing on the leg is not advised, it is desirable that you move around as much as possible on the walking aid to maintain good muscle tone. After five weeks, weight-bearing commences by graduating 25% weight and then at six weeks to one crutch on the opposite side of the operation, then onto a stick and finally full weight-bearing. The best exercise by far to train your hip muscles is walking on flat ground. However, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and a dedicated home exercise programme will help to restore your normal tendon and muscle function more quickly. Initially the muscles become quite sore because they are weak and unfit but this improves with regular exercises.


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The European Commission (EC) has adopted its 2004 Annual Programme for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Kosovo.
The European Commission (EC) has adopted its 2004 Annual Programme for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In 2004, within the Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) Programme, a total of €65 million will be spent assisting Bosnia and Herzegovina in its reform and modernisation efforts. The priorities of the 2004 programme are: building the capacity of BiH's State institutions to serve their country effectively and act as reliable counterparts for the international community; supporting economic reform and development, and strengthening the rule of law. Since 1991, the European Union has been the largest donor of assistance to the Western Balkans. Bosnia and Herzegovina - Priorities within the CARDS Annual Programme 2004 Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) (€ 23.5 million) BiH faces challenges in areas such as immigration, border control and organised crime. In August 2003, the United National Security Council, in Resolution 1503, endorsed the establishment of a War Crimes Chamber within the BiH Court as an essential prerequisite for compliance with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The fight against organised crime and Border management are other key issues in the JHA sector which the Commission's CARDS assistance continues to address as matters of priority, notably by providing support to the administration of justice, through capacity building activities within the government in order to enhance the ability to combat organised crime and by further promoting concepts of integrated border management. Democratic stabilisation (€ 4.5 million) To achieve democratic stabilisation objectives, BiH's Action Programme 2004 will focus on the return of refugees and internally displaced persons. Objectives and strategies for the return sector were set at the end of 2002 in the "Strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the implementation of Annex VII of the General Framework Agreement for Peace (the "Dayton Agreement")". CARDS assistance aims to build BiH authorities' capacity to take over full responsibility in the sector. Administrative capacity building (€ 21.5 million) The BiH administration is still characterised by fragmentation, under-qualified and poorly trained personnel as well as by administrative overlaps and lack of co-ordination between its various levels. BiH set out its strategy for the reform of the public administration in March 2003, and following a CARDS-funded analysis of needs and identification of required reforms, assistance under the 2004 Annual programme will help BiH to implement the necessary reforms. Economic and social development (€14.1 million) Although BiH has enjoyed the benefits of strong post-conflict growth, the basis for sustainable development remains questionable over the medium term. This situation is exacerbated by a rigid labour market, high levels of unemployment (estimated at 40%), underdevelopment of the education and training sector, a large proportion of the population living close to the poverty line (45% estimated to earn less than 500 Convertible Mark (CM)/month(1) ) and continued dislocation of much of the population. Shortages of government funding to support pensions and the social safety net, further expose disadvantaged groups. Under CARDS the Commission and BiH have formulated effective strategies to address these issues such as the implementation of a comprehensive framework for corporate governance, the creation of a regional economic development framework for sustainable development and preparing the country for EU integration, the development of external trade as well as expanding opportunities for vocational education and training. Environment and natural resources (€ 1.4 million) The EU is promoting environmental protection and sustainable development in BiH, in particular by supporting the institutional strengthening of environmental management, especially focusing on the upgrade of the legal framework and on technical assistance to public authorities. Background: Since 1991, the European Union has been the largest donor of assistance to the Western Balkans. Since the establishment of the Cards programme for the Western Balkans in 2001, € 325.9 million has been made available to Bosnia & Herzegovina in technical assistance (this amount includes the € 65 million for 2004).
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Man 1st To Be Jailed For Using Contraband Drone
A London man has become the first person to be jailed for using a drone to send banned items into prisons including one in Hertfordshire.
Daniel Kelly, 37 and formerly of Grove Park in London, has been sentenced to 14 months imprisonment for the offence, after admitting sending items, including spice, a psychoactive substance, and tobacco, into HMP The Mount Hemel Hempstead and two prisons in Kent.
Kelly was arrested on 25 April after officers on patrol spotted a vehicle parked in Eastchurch Road, Leysdown. The lights were on but it appeared unoccupied.
A person then ran into the front passenger seat and the vehicle sped off. It was later found in a holiday park in Leysdown and Kelly was arrested at the scene.
The drone was found in the boot of the vehicle. In an attempt to avoid detection, it had been sprayed black - having previously been white. Black tape had also been placed over its lights.
Flight data revealed that Kelly used the drone to send items into HMP Elmley on 20 April and into HMP The Mount on 24 and 24 April. He also used it to fly into HMP Swaleside on 25 April.
Unsuccessful attempts to fly the drone into HMP Wandsworth were made on 17 April and 21 April.
Detective Constable Mark Silk, who served as investigating officer, said:
"Kelly's offending was serious. It shows a lack of respect for our justice system and it is appropriate that he has received a custodial sentence.
Psychoactive substances and tobacco have an inflated value in prison and this can lead to offences being committed within. This places both inmates and prison staff at risk."
Detective Sergeant Richard Allingham, the senior investigating officer, added:
"I am extremely proud of the work my officers have put into this case, from beginning to end. It was a good piece of instinctive policing to spot the suspicious behaviour that led to Kelly's arrest and everyone involved since has spent a lot of time paying attention to minute details linked to this case.
As with all new offences, investigating this presented challenges that we have not come across before but the officers were able to corroborate all of the evidence and secure a conviction in a relatively short space of time."
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Lawley Trio Teacup, Flower Handle Tea Cup, Saucer & Side Plate, Art Deco English China.
This pretty set is in good vintage condition. Beautifully hand painted against a buttery background. While set has no chips or cracks, it does have a little paint loss on the edges from time and use, please check all photos. Lots of character in this set!
Beautiful for every day use or as a pretty display piece, this set will give years of pleasure. Full sized set.
Made in England. Backstamp as pictured.


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What Is it Like to Own a Coin Laundry Business?
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The coin-operated laundry business brings in $5 billion annual revenue in the U.S. alone. Although the use of laundromats may have declined over the past couple of decades, entrepreneurs are reimagining the laundromat concept, combining washers and dryers with bars, restaurants and even mailboxes. If you want to open a coin laundry business, it's important to provide the services that today's consumers demand without alienating the existing customer base.
Laundry businesses aren't just for people who don't have laundry facilities in their homes. Many professionals are choosing to use laundry services because they just don't have the time to do their own laundry.
The Business Model
Laundromats can seem, on the surface, to be a good investment. Laundromats were self-service before self-service was the norm, which means you probably won't have to invest in a team of employees to be on site 24 hours a day. In fact, some locations are fully automated, meaning you won't need an employee on site at all.
However, location can be very important when you're buying a laundromat. Consider areas where residents are less likely to have their own washer and dryer, and find a safe, well-lit area, preferably in close proximity to retailers and restaurants. College students, apartment-dwellers and those living in urban areas are more likely to need laundry services than a suburban area filled with single-family homes. You'll also need to choose an area that isn't already serviced by a coin laundry.
Drop-off and Delivery
Although a coin laundry can see plenty of traffic in urban areas and college towns, it's important to understand today's consumers. Younger generations are increasingly relying on app-based delivery and pickup for everything from groceries to restaurant meals to dry cleaning. In fact, 63 percent of young adults now use third-party delivery apps.
What does this mean for your coin laundry? It means that the bundle services that have long been a part of these businesses are more important than ever. You may find that the bulk of your annual income comes from paying delivery drivers to pick up and deliver laundry, as well as additional staff to "fluff 'n' fold" it for these customers. Allowing customers to drop off and pick up their laundry will bring in even more revenue, but you'll need to pay enough employees to wash, dry and fold all of those clothes.
Startup Capital Required
Although coin-operated laundries may have relatively low operating costs, getting started can be very expensive. You'll need enough commercial-grade washers and dryers to handle the daily workload, as well as comfortable seating and amenities like Wi-Fi, televisions and vending machines. Expect to pay between $200,000 and $500,000 for a new coin laundry business, whether you purchase one or start from scratch.
Things can get even more expensive if you plan to modernize your business. Some laundries are attracting customers by setting up play areas for kids, keeping friendly, helpful attendants on site or even hiring local entertainers to keep customers entertained while they wait. If you plan to offer even more amenities, you may need to partner with a manager who can help with building and overseeing a café, bar, snack stand or restaurant.
Ongoing Business Fees
If you haven't been to a coin laundry in a while, you may not realize that the "coin" has been taken out of the equation. Many facilities accept credit cards and mobile payments, so you'll need to consider the transactions fees you'll pay. This is in addition to your monthly lease and utilities, regular cleaning services costs and business licensing fees, as well as taxes. Although self-service laundries have traditionally been mostly free from taxes, recent legislation may change that.
There's also the issue of security. You may want to install security cameras to keep theft down, whether you have an attendant on site 24 hours a day or not. One issue you'll face is that customers may put clothing in machines and leave the premises. This can be especially common if you have shops or restaurants nearby.
It's important to have signage installed letting customers know that you aren't responsible for clothing left unattended, and you should also have a posted policy as to what will happen to clothing that is abandoned.
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Stephanie Faris is a novelist and business writer whose work has appeared on numerous small business blogs, including Zappos, GoDaddy, 99Designs, and the Intuit Small Business Blog. She worked for the State of Tennessee for 19 years, the latter six of which were spent as a supervisor. She has written about business for entrepreneurs and marketing firms since 2011.
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