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Pua Magasiva seemed 'happy, upbeat' on Wellington night out
12 May, 2019 6:00am
The New Zealand acting community is in mourning after the shock death of actor Pua Magasiva.
Herald on Sunday
The 38-year-old former Shortland Street star died suddenly overnight Friday during a visit to Wellington, where much of his family live. His wife is understood to have been in the capital with him.
He had been on a night out with friends at a bar in the Inter-Continental hotel in the capital's CBD shortly before 7pm. He was welcoming to both staff and other bar-goers.
"He was happy, upbeat and talking to everyone including the bar staff," a fellow guest said.
"He was very positive ... and complimenting the staff.
Pua Magasiva as Vinnie Kruse in Shortland Street. Photo / Supplied
"I thought 'that's one positive guy and an exceptionally good actor'."
Magasiva was also asking which were Wellington's top bars.
The man took a series of photos and a short video after recognising Magasiva from his acting roles to share with his friends.
Several hours later the man returned to the hotel and saw several police cars outside.
He didn't realise the officers were following up Magasiva's death until yesterday afternoon when he read stories of the actor's death.
Tributes for TV star Pua Magasiva
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Pua Magasiva working out at the Ludus Magnus gym in 2011. Photo / Getty Images
Yesterday Magasiva's older brother, actor Robbie, was flying to be with family in Wellington.
Management of the Inter-Continental would not comment to the Herald on Sunday last night.
A post shared by Shortland Street (@shortlandstreetofficial) on May 10, 2019 at 10:14pm PDT
Earlier, police had confirmed they were called to a sudden death at an address in the Wellington central business district in the early hours of Saturday morning. The death will be referred to the coroner.
A spokeswoman for South Pacific Pictures, which makes Shortland Street, confirmed Magasiva's death and said she could not make any further comment.
Magasiva's wife's post as she arrived in Wellington.Photo / Instagram
On Friday morning, Magasiva's wife Lizz Sadler posted a photo on Instagram from Wellington airport saying 'arrived'. The couple married in April last year, 18 months after meeting on Instagram.
Magasiva has a young daughter from his first marriage, and Sadler has a daughter from a previous relationship.
The pair travelled to Bali last month to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
Pua... brother. Just found out. Gonna miss your smile, soul, and side-step. Aroha and awhi to the Magasiva aiga. 💔
— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) May 11, 2019
Born in Apia, Samoa, Magasiva moved to New Zealand aged just 2, was raised in Wellington and attended St Patrick's College.
Magasiva had played the much-loved role of nurse Vinnie Kruse between 2003-06 and then 2011-18.
Cheeky Pua. I'll never forget that beautiful smile brother. My heart breaks for your aiga 💔
— Nicole Whippy (@NicoleWhippy) May 11, 2019
Fellow former Shortland Street stars Nicole Whippy and Teuila Blakely were among high-profile actresses and actors to post their sorrow yesterday.
Blakely put up a post of a broken heart on Instagram, while Whippy posted: "I'll never forget that beautiful smile brother. My heart breaks for your aiga [family]."
Shane Cortese – who has starred in Shortland Street as well as Nothing Trivial and Westside – wrote: "My heart goes out to the Magasiva family and the extended television alumni who had the honour of seeing the glint in his eye and the sound of his hearty laugh close hand. RIP my friend."
My heart goes out to the Magasiva family and the extended television alumni who had the honor of seeing the glint in his eye and the sound of his hearty laugh close hand.
RIP my friend #puamagasiva @ShortlandTweet
— Shane Cortese (@ShaneCortese) May 11, 2019
Two-time Olympic gold medal winner Valerie Adams also shared her sorrow, posting: "Rest in Peace Pua Magasiva. Thoughts and prayers to the family."
Rest In Peace Pua Magasiva. Thoughts and prayers to the family. ❤ https://t.co/cGPJFwwTie
— Dame Valerie Adams (@ValerieAdams84) May 11, 2019
As well as starring in Shortland Street, he also had key roles in the Power Rangers television series, Sione's Wedding and Outrageous Fortune.
Magasiva had co-hosted the breakfast show on Flava, a radio station owned by NZME, but left the show last year. NZME is the publisher of the Herald on Sunday.
NZME chief executive Michael Boggs said: "It is with deep sadness that the NZME family has today been told of the sudden death of Pua Magasiva.
"At this incredibly difficult time our thoughts, prayers and condolences go to Pua's family, friends and his many colleagues.
Pua Magasiva (left) and brother Robbie Magasiva in 2011. Photo / New Zealand Herald.
"For us at NZME, Pua was a loved member of our radio team at Flava. We've been in touch with Pua's former workmates and are offering them support."
Workers from Flava wrote on Facebook: "RIP to our brother. Our thoughts and prayers are with his whānau and friends."
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Shibu Onsen is a historic and attractive hot spring town in Yamanouchi, which has retained a traditional atmosphere. Nestled in a small valley, Shibu Onsen is spread out on a gentle slope beside the Yokoyugawa River, with Yudanaka Onsen located below and the Jigokudani Monkey Park above.
During its long history, the area has been visited for its hot spring water by a lot of people, including priests, samurai and poets. Some of the ryokan (Japanese style inns) that line Shibu's narrow streets, date back over 400 years, adding greatly to Shibu's atmosphere. Guests of the ryokan are encouraged to take a stroll around town in the traditional onsen clothing of yukata robes and geta sandals.
Yamanouchi is a municipality in northern Nagano Prefecture with a variety of tourist attractions. The area's Jigokudani Monkey Park draws many visitors because of its unique wild monkeys, who bathe in the park's natural hot springs. The monkeys are not the only ones enjoying the water, as the nearby towns of Shibu Onsen and Yudanaka Onsen are centered around the bathing experience.
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The Red Cross Bloodmobile will again be coming to Elgin.
Pope John XXIII Central Catholic will be sponsoring the bloodmobile when it comes to Elgin on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
The bloodmobile will be here from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Elgin Knights of Columbus Hall.
For an appointment, contact the high school at (402) 843-5325.


The Government believes that we need to reform our school system to tackle educational inequality, which has widened in recent years, and to give greater powers to parents and pupils to choose a good school. We want to ensure high standards of discipline in the classroom, robust standards and the highest quality teaching. We also believe that the state should help parents, community groups and others come together to improve the education system by starting new schools.
• We will promote the reform of schools in order to ensure that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; that all schools have greater freedom over the curriculum; and that all schools are held properly to account.
• We will fund a significant premium for disadvantaged pupils from outside the schools budget by reductions in spending elsewhere.
• We will give parents, teachers, charities and local communities the chance to set up new schools, as part of our plans to allow new providers to enter the state school system in response to parental demand.
• We will support Teach First, create Teach Now to build on the Graduate Teacher Programme, and seek other ways to improve the quality of the teaching profession.
• We will reform the existing rigid national pay and conditions rules to give schools greater freedoms to pay good teachers more and deal with poor performance.
• We will help schools tackle bullying in schools, especially homophobic bullying.
• We will simplify the regulation of standards in education and target inspection on areas of failure.
• We will give anonymity to teachers accused by pupils and take other measures to protect against false accusations.
• We will seek to attract more top science and maths graduates to be teachers.
• We will publish performance data on educational providers, as well as past exam papers.
• We will create more flexibility in the exams systems so that state schools can offer qualifications like the IGCSE.
• We will reform league tables so that schools are able to focus on, and demonstrate, the progress of children of all abilities.
• We will give heads and teachers the powers they need to ensure discipline in the classroom and promote good behaviour.
• We believe the most vulnerable children deserve the very highest quality of care. We will improve diagnostic assessment for schoolchildren, prevent the unnecessary closure of special schools, and remove the bias towards inclusion.
• We will improve the quality of vocational education, including increasing flexibility for 14–19 year olds and creating new Technical Academies as part of our plans to diversify schools provision.
• We will keep external assessment, but will review how Key Stage 2 tests operate in future.
• We will ensure that all new Academies follow an inclusive admissions policy. We will work with faith groups to enable more faith schools and facilitate inclusive admissions policies in as many of these schools as possible.
• We will commit to establishing an independent commission to review the longterm affordability of public sector pensions, while protecting accrued rights.
• We support the provision of free nursery care for pre-school children, and we want that support to be provided by a diverse range of providers, with a greater gender balance in the early years workforce.
• We will take Sure Start back to its original purpose of early intervention, increase its focus on the neediest families, and better involve organisations with a track record of supporting families. We will investigate ways of ensuring that providers are paid in part by the results they achieve.
• We will review the criminal records and vetting and barring regime and scale it back to common sense levels.
• We will significantly accelerate the reduction of the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes.
• We will introduce arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints.
• We will set out a plan for deficit reduction in an emergency budget. We have created an independent Office for Budget Responsibility to make new forecasts of growth and borrowing for this emergency budget.
• We will make modest cuts of £6 billion to non-front-line services within the financial year 2010/11, subject to advice from the Treasury and the Bank of England on their feasibility and advisability. A proportion of these savings can be used to support jobs.
• We will hold a full Spending Review reporting this autumn, following a fully consultative process involving all tiers of government and the private sector.
• We will reduce spending on the Child Trust Fund and tax credits for higher earners.
• We will promote the radical devolution of power and greater financial autonomy to local government and community groups. This will include a review of local government finance.
• We will freeze Council Tax in England for at least one year, and seek to freeze it for a further year, in partnership with local authorities.
• We will create directly elected mayors in the 12 largest English cities, subject to confirmatory referendums and full scrutiny by elected councillors.
• We will allow councils to return to the committee system, should they wish to.
• We will undertake a fair pay review in the public sector to implement our proposed '20 times' pay multiple.
• We will give residents the power to instigate local referendums on any local issue.
• We will give residents the power to veto excessive council tax increases.
• We will support the creation and expansion of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises, and enable these groups to have much greater involvement in the running of public services.
• We will give public sector workers a new right to form employee-owned co-operatives and bid to take over the services they deliver. This will empower millions of public sector workers to become their own boss and help them to deliver better services.
The Government believes that our universities are essential for building a strong and innovative economy. We will take action to create more college and university places, as well as help to foster stronger links between universities, colleges and industries.
• We will seek ways to support the creation of apprenticeships, internships, work pairings, and college and workplace training places as part of our wider programme to get Britain working.
• We will set colleges free from direct state control and abolish many of the further education quangos. Public funding should be fair and follow the choices of students.
- attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• If the response of the Government to Lord Browne's report is one that Liberal Democrats cannot accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.
• We will review support for part-time students in terms of loans and fees.
• We will publish more information about the costs, graduate earnings and student satisfaction of different university courses.
• We will ensure that public funding mechanisms for university research safeguard its academic integrity.


Generally, one must suffer an accident at work. Accidents are literally construed in favor of the injured employee under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. Some accidents are single and unexpected events. Other accidents occur as a result of repetitive trauma.
An aggravation of an old injury or an old condition can also be determined to be an accident under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. This is true even though the original accident may not have been work-related.
The law requires that, to be compensable, the accident must arise out of and in the course of one's employement. There are instances at work-related and compensable accidents occuring at company-sponsored events, fights over the job, and even accidents in the company parking lots.
There is a requirement under the Illinois law that the employer be given notice of the accident within forty-five (45) days of its occurrence. The burden is on the employee to inform a person in charge of the accident and to show that it occurred at work. This notice can be given orally but it is generally a good idea to give this notice in writing.
Once it has been determined that an employee has been injured at work and has been given notice, the employee is entitled to temporary total disability, medical care, and permanent partial disability and, if it it can be proved permanent total disability. Temporary total disability is basically two-thirds of the employee's average weekly wage for the year proceeding the injury. It should be noted that these benefits are tax-free and are payable for the entire period of lost time due to injury.
Temporary total disability is paid after a waiting period of three lost working days. Once the injured has neen off work for fourteen (14) days due to his injury, the waiting period of three working days is paid. There is no limit on the loss of time that temporary total disability (TT) is paid. Before July 1, 1975, it could only be paid for sixty-four (64) weeks. This limit was changed after that date.
The injured employee is also entitled to all the necessary medical care needed to cure the effects of his injury. As a result of changes in the law on September 15,1980, the injured employee has a choice of two doctors. Should the first doctor refer the injured employee to another doctor, it is not considered to be a second doctor. There is no law that stipulates that the injured party must be treated by the company doctor.
If the doctor that the injured employee chooses places the employee in a hospital and the hospital refers the employee to another doctor, this counts as only one doctor under the law. This stipulation became effective on September 15, 1980.
Also connected with the liability of the employee to provide medical care is the right of the injured employee to be entitled to rehabilitation should it become necessary. This would also include vocational rehabilitation if the injured employee cannot perform the normal functions that he used to perform on his job.
Once the injured employee has returned from work or if the medical care has taken the employee as far as he can go, it is time to determine whether the employee has suffered a permanent injury.
In many cases these permanent injuries are settled by means of a pink settlement contract approved the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (IWCC). There is no other method for the employer to receive credit before the IWCC other than having the Commission approve the settlement contract.
If an employee signs the pink settlement contract and has the contract approved by the Commission, he usually has to give up his right to submit his case to arbitration, the right to have the decision of the arbitrator submitted to the Commission for review, the right to any further medical treatment for results of his injury at the employers' expense, and the right to additional benefits if his condition worsens further as a result of the accident. In rare instances these terms are sometimes waived.
If a case is not settled, it is generally proceeds to arbitration.
Many times, cases that are abitrated before the IWCC proceed to review process.
If a decision of the IWCC is final, the injured employee is entitled to medical care for the results of the injury for the rest of of his life. Should the condition worsen within two and one-half (2 1/2) years aftet the IWCC decision becomes final, the injured employee can apply for additional benefits or disability as a result of that accident. This is very important criteria to consider when one tries to settle a workers' compensation claim.
It is important to remember that, under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act, the injured employee is entitled to two-thirds(2/3) of his average weekly wage for the year proceeding the injury tax-free, payment of medical bills,and disability in the form of either a settlement or an award by the IWCC.
A claim must generally be filed within three years of the date of the accident. There is also a provision which allows the claim to be filed within two years from the last payment of temporary total disability payments. Thus, a filing may be made within either of these time provisions and later one controls.
In my experience, it has generally been advisable to file the claim as soon as possible as it allows the attorney to gather the facts, documentation, and witnesses that are necessary to adequately prepare the case.
Additionally, the attorney receives the same fee whether he has the case for three years or three weeks.
The maximum fee on a workers' compensation case is twenty percent while before the IWCC. While it is not necessary to hire an attorney, it is many times advisable because of the complexities of these cases.
The injured employee can be entitled to many benefits under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. It is of the utmost importance that these benefits can be recognized by the injured employee.


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At the present moment, you have only one more chore connected with your forthcoming collection of stories. Sometime during the week ahead, you'll receive a batch of ARCs, advanced reading copies, some of which you send out in hopes of getting blurbs, others go to potential review sources.
One copy will become the equivalent of what used to be proofs, read by you to make sure the equivalent of i's being dotted, t's being crossed, periods rather than commas as signifiers that the sentence is over and does not have ambitions of morphing into something longer, more pendulous. To be sure, the publisher has a proofer assigned as well. From your own experiences with any number of publishing ventures where you drew a paycheck, you understand how the potential still exists for some word or phrase to emerge meaning something different than your intent in writing it.
Indeed, at one point your editor wrote you a note about the ending of a story in which a character returns to the kitchen to prepare dinner after having set fire to a barn. There are some tips of the hat to writers you admire, a notable one to Graham Greene with the title for one story, "The Man Within." You are by all accounts an admirer of Faulkner, who has had a few barns burned during his writing career. Yet you could think of no story of your in which you had a barn, much less a story in which you had some character or force of nature cause that barn to combust.
You did the only thing you could think of under the circumstances; you reread the story in question, alert for typos or the materialization of a barn. The best you could come up with was a character finding a long stub of candle, breaking it in half, then using his pocket knife to expose enough wick to burn, whereupon he lights both candle stubs before returning to the kitchen to prepare his dinner. Don't ask about the transmogrification of candles into a barn. You don't want to know. You have seen enough such things appear in books of all sorts, within publishers of all sorts.
You hope to be a part of a concentrated effort to insure your stories will come forth into the world without a single typo or glitch that is the result of numerous eyes having passed over it without having caught it. You expect some buyer will approach you after publication date either in person or via email with a comment to the effect that she or he found the following typo on page one or two.
Your goal is to take a sincere, informed shot at perfection of performance, a thing you can do. In fact, such an attempt can be applied to the same project, each time you enter it. You are more interested in working for perfection, which is then an abstraction, rather than achieving perfection, which is not going to make the stories any better or worse than they already are.
In a number of cultures, the performers of important rituals take exquisite pains to do what is required of them with sincerity and focus, thus, however primitive or improvised the ritual, the spiritual forces for whose attention the ritual is performed will be satisfied then provide the results for which the ritual is done. There is a touching sincerity about such attitudes, speaking to you, a relative unbeliever in such things, of the great value of doing all things with sincerity of intent. One culture you have some awareness of calls this approach karma yoga, which is translated to work or action as worship.
After you--still, after all these years, a dreadful speller--proof your stories one more time, then send the work back to the publisher, your production work will be finished. You will have speeches, book signings, guest blogs to write, and other publicity-related things, which you will need to braid into your other responsibilities.
You already know the next book you wish to write, have a reasonably strong proposal, outline completed on it, and a literary agent who is eager to submit it when you have a few more chapters done. You even know who you hope will write the introduction, and have discussed the matter with the individual, who seems excited by the prospect.
You also know of an essay you have agreed to write, and long to get started with it, aware of two novels you are eager to get back to. You know enough about process and yourself to know how such an orderly appearance is fraught with misadventure. This is the misadventure of a dreadful speller, a person who is not intrinsically neat, who needs to remind and pursue himself to pick up things now as opposed to some time in the evanescent future. You need to get the unabridged dictionary off the floor and back to its shelf before you retire for the night. You need to tend to the two corrugated paper shipping crates in which the new espresso maker was delivered.
The truth of such things may border on abstractions of its own, while yet another truth, one of process, obtains. On this night, on this very night, you were presented with a road to follow, a road that has been blocked for nearly twenty years. The story has to do with a group of pre-historic hunters, probably Cro-Magnons (because in the past twenty years, you've edited an authoritative book on such persons and have absorbed some sense of their self-hood), who have just returned from a hunting venture in which they have apparently been successful in bagging a large woolly mammoth.
The word "apparently" is key to the onset of the story, also to the revelation you have experienced about where the story goes from there. For the longest time, when you think of this story, waiting with you through all these recent events in your life, you'd begun to think of it this way: If Elmore Leonard were to have written stories about pre-historic characters, his pre-historic characters would have been like these. And yes, you even have names for many of them. The protagonist, for instance, is called Lefty.
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This Week in Scandals: Bailout Moves Threaten to Backfire
by Alexandra Andrews
April 10, 2009, 4:25 p.m. EDT
Every week, we take stock of how the week unfolded for the stories we're tracking in Scandal Watch (see the right sidebar). Here is how we do it. And, as always, feel free to suggest new scandals.
1. Market Crisis
The Obama administration is concocting a plan to sidestep congressionally mandated restrictions on bailout funds, like executive pay caps, in future rescue efforts, the Washington Post reported this week, prompting the House oversight committee to open an investigation. Meanwhile, other aspects of the administration's strategy came under fire for being too risky. The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin concluded that the Federal Reserve's plan to insure 85 percent of the loans investors will use to buy toxic assets (as part of the Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program) will actually add "more risk, not less, to the system." And the Post raises the possibility that the administration's plan to ramp up financial oversight will actually spur greater risk-taking.
Also this week, the congressional panel that oversees the bailout suggested some "potential policy alternatives," including liquidating problem banks and ousting some bank execs. "The very notion that anyone would infuse money into a financially troubled entity without demanding changes in management is preposterous," the panel's head, Elizabeth Warren, told The Observer. Meanwhile, Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Weil asks why the administration hasn't forced financial institutions to "come clean about their losses."
And finally, get ready to add life insurers to the list of bailout recipients, although no one yet knows "how hard a bargain the government will drive" with these companies.
2. AIG
AIG has forked over $50 billion in taxpayer funds to its counterparties since its first bailout, leaving many wondering why the government felt the need to pay those contracts in full. Well, as we reported this week, it turns out the Treasury did have some other options, although none of them were entirely risk-free. Meanwhile, those payouts will be getting scrutiny from Neil Barofsky, the bailout's inspector general, who said this week that he had begun an audit.
And to all those optimists out there patiently awaiting the day when AIG repays the government its $180 billion: Don't hold your breath. Analysts are questioning whether AIG's plan to sell off its assets will actually reap enough dough to get it out of debt.
3. Madoff's Long Con
New York's attorney general filed a civil lawsuit this week against J. Ezra Merkin, a money manager who placed his clients' funds in Bernard Madoff's hands without telling them. According to the lawsuit, Merkin was warned repeatedly about Madoff. Merkin's lawyer called the suit "hasty and ill-conceived."
And finally, those counting their lucky stars that they had withdrawn their funds from Bernard Madoff's firm were dealt a blow yesterday when the appointed trustee of Madoff's business filed the first lawsuit against one such investor. The suit demands that a company in the British Virgin Islands pay back $150 million that it withdrew from Madoff's firm six weeks before the arrest.
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Last meeting: Amazing animals! The wonderful biodiversity of Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park.
Four evenings with tales, images, discoveries and curiosities about lesser-known animals that sometimes scare us a bit.
Organized by the Pietro Rossi Cultural Centre in Piazza Pilori in Belluno, the meetings are addressed to an audience of all ages and are led by Flora: Nature Guide and Environmental Educator of Coop. Mazarol.
The fourth and final meeting is Friday 8th February 2019 with: Reptiles and Amphibians, an evening to learn more about two groups of animals often mistreated or feared, but essential to ensure the ecological balance.


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Inflation Expectations and Risk Premiums in an Arbitrage‐Free Model of Nominal and Real Bond Yields
JENS H. E. CHRISTENSEN
JOSE A. LOPEZ
GLENN D. RUDEBUSCH
Differences between yields on comparable‐maturity U.S. Treasury nominal and real debt, the so‐called breakeven inflation (BEI) rates, are widely used indicators of inflation expectations. However, better measures of inflation expectations could be obtained by subtracting inflation risk premiums (IRP) from the BEI rates. We provide such decompositions using an affine arbitrage‐free model of the term structure that captures the pricing of both nominal and real Treasury securities. Our empirical results suggest that long‐term inflation expectations have been well anchored over the past few years, and IRP, although volatile, have been close to zero on average.
Jens H. E. Christensen & Jose A. Lopez & Glenn D. Rudebusch, 2010. "Inflation Expectations and Risk Premiums in an Arbitrage‐Free Model of Nominal and Real Bond Yields," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(s1), pages 143-178, September.
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In society's quest to have its individuals adhere to its social norms, it follows the centuries-old tradition of social sanctions.
As individuals, we constantly thrive to find, mould and maintain our self-identities, which is an integral part of our personality. In the journey of finding ourselves, we often don't realise the immense impact that society and social norms have upon us. In society's quest to have its individuals adhere to its social norms, it follows the centuries-old tradition of social sanctions.
Social norms are generally considered as prescriptions of behaviours and attitudes that are considered acceptable or not in a given social unit. They describe the socially appropriate way to act and denounce the inappropriate one. Social norms specific to groups do have a distinctive quality as each group creates its own standards for what attitudes or behaviours are acceptable and desirable.
Bengaluru-based clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Pallavi Tomar explains that in clinical practice, many patients who present symptoms of anxiety disorders and clinical depression have difficulties in coming to terms with discrepancies in their own experience of the self, and the expectation they believe the society has from them in terms of what is deemed acceptable.
She adds that in worrying about the repercussions on family members and other close ones, a lot of guilt and shame exists in individuals, on feeling responsible for putting their family and friends through social ostracisation of any kind.
Pallavi also points out that this even makes it difficult for these individuals to ask for any kind of support from near and dear ones, as there seemingly exists a tremendous pressure of adhering to standards that are considered 'normal' by the community they belong to, and the society at large.
Many of the psychological effects of social sanctions that are mindless to the uniqueness of human nature and individual personalities are immense and adverse. Growing up in noxious, regressive, suppressing and unfriendly environments shape personalities that have significant difficulties in emotional regulation, in emotionally relating to self and others, and in creating and maintaining a stable sense of self-image and self-identity. More often than not, they find themselves in unstable and volatile inter-personal relationships, and into self-destructive and self-injurious behaviour. These adult experiences that arise due to the fear of harsh social sanction, and the constant fear of rejection by family and society at large pose a damaging burden on the psyche of these vulnerable individuals.
It is interesting when she subtly uses the word abnormal to hint at some elements outside the social or cultural norms. From a more clearer objective lens, many elements outside the social or cultural norms cannot be laid out as being abnormal, but can well be attributed to rising out of an individual's divergent thought patterns and creative ideas. When it is a well-acknowledged fact that every individual is unique — courtesy an ocean of research and studies in various disciplines in the study of humans — it is ironic that many social norms and social sanctions still manage to hold a strong fortress to curb the uniqueness of an individual.
Gunjan asserts that she doesn't want to be rejected by everyone on the grounds of labels based on any kind of prejudice or discrimination or for going against any social norm that otherwise gives her the sense of being suffocated. "I also don't want to sacrifice my individual choices for the 'greater good' and 'maximised justice' that has been decided by someone in the past. Too much conformity will compromise on my being, and will allow social systems (oppressive or not) to continue, thus minimising the possibility of change," she adds.
The struggles for individuals in different societies across the world is more or less the same — to strive to maintain each one's individuality despite the straps of the society around oneself.
Although creating and maintaining individual identities is better than heavily conforming to social norms, the healthier strategy could lie in defining and maintaining a balance between preserving individual identities and still belonging to society as it becomes harder for a man to live in isolation.


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North American P-51D Mustang 44-72216 'Miss Helen"
Robert TyrrellNick2020-04-25T16:09:11+00:00
North American P-51D Mustang 44-72216 'Miss Helen" | Robert Tyrrell
LOCATION: Goodwood Aerodrome
OWNER: Robert Tyrrell
LENGTH: 9.83 m32 ft 3 in
WINGSPAN: 11.28 m37 ft 0 in
ENGINE: Rolls Royce Packard Merlin V1650
MAXIMUM SPEED: 440 mph708 km/h
RANGE: 1,650 mi 2,656 km
P-51D Mustang "Miss Helen" was delivered to the US Army Air Force (USAAF) in 1945 where she saw active service in World War II with 352 Fighter Group (FG) 'The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney', and has several confirmed kills to her name. She was flown by Capt. Raymond Littge as 'Miss Helen' and by later by Lt. Russell Ross as 'Miss Nita'. Today wearing the same paint scheme as she did in 1945 and is the last original 352nd Fighter Group P-51 known to exist. 352 FG flew nearly 60,000 combat hours in just 19 months of WWII, claiming 519 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air, 287 on the ground and produced 26 aces for losses of 118 aircraft. Her full name is 'P-51D-20NA 44-72216' and when she was delivered to Capt. Littge he already had a kill tally of 10.5, including an Me 262.
It's uncertain exactly how many missions Littge flew in Miss Helen but it's known for sure that he flew her on a mission escorting B-17 bombers to the marshalling yards in Dresden on April 17th 1945, along with another 51 Mustangs. They came across an airfield at Platting with about 70 parked aircraft and Littge made an astonishing seven passes, destroying three Me 109s and 2 Me262s on the ground, despite having been hit in the initial attack on enemy flak positions which nearly emptied his oil tank.
She's passed through several hands since the War, including those of the Royal Swedish Air Force and Israeli Air Force, starred in the Hollywood film Memphis Belle, and is now owned by Robert Tyrrell and based at the Boultbee Flight Academy at Goodwood Aerodrome


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Home Books 7 Books You Need to Read This June
7 Books You Need to Read This June
From Milan Kundera's first book in more than a decade to Aziz Ansari's guide to romance, bookworms have plenty to latch on to this month
Thomas Harlander
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, out June 9)
By Katherine Taylor
Ingrid Palamede has traveled the world running from her past, but in the wake of a crippling breakup, she returns to her family's once-magnificent vineyard just outside of Fresno. Taking the reins from her ailing father, she attempts to bring the family's crops around for a successful harvest. And, reunited with her family, an old friend, and a could-have-been lover, she begins to find healing. Taylor's novel is dusty, drunk on the sweltering Central Valley summer. It shows us how life can be influenced by landscape—how devotion to the nourishment of crops can be both harsh taskmaster and salve to the soul. It's a story of forgiveness, of finding serenity in day-to-day ennui of manual labor and family life. Reading it is a sensory experience: it's as potent as an old wine with all the zing of a frozen grape on a hot day. But that's not to say the story is free from intrigue, treachery, and compelling plot—it has all those, too. Sensitively crafted, Taylor's sophomore novel is a delight (and it pairs wonderfully with a nice Cabernet Sauvignon).
Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World
(Grove Press, $25, out June 2)
By Mark Haskell Smith
Did you hear about the hole in the nudist colony wall? The police are looking into it—and what they see is Mark Haskell Smith. In typical Gonzo won't-know-'til-you-try spirit (he got stoned—a lot—while researching Heart of Dankness, his book on cannabis farmers), Smith drops trou and dives in to the bizarre and brazen world of nudism. Naked at Lunch provides an inside look at the rise and fall of nudist clubs, the banning of San Fran nudity by Supervisor Scott Wiener (yes, he gets the irony of his name), what exactly a nudist fashion show entails, the phenomenon of Tobias-Funke-esque gymnophobia, and what a man at a nudist resort is supposed to do if he gets…well, you know. Join Smith for a cruise on the Big Nude Boat with a bunch of senior citizens for a new appreciation of the human body—a healthy, unabashed acceptance of the droopy, wrinkley, unsexiness that is everyone except for maybe Halle Berry's destiny. As long as you don't mind Smith's tendency to ramble (and aren't bothered by having to read the phrase "waggling penises" on every other page), Naked at Lunch is worth an ogle.
(Knopf, $27.95, out June 23)
By Don Winslow
In this sequel to international best-seller The Power of the Dog, DEA agent Art Keller is back and once again facing off against Adán Barrera, former head honcho of the El Federación cartel and murderer of Keller's partner/best friend. Set against the harrowing backdrop of the Mexican-American drug wars, The Cartel is a tale of what happens when the quest for justice gets personal. It's an adrenaline rush, addictive as crack, and epic in the pre-Del-Taco-marketing-their-burritos-as-"epic" sense of the word. Don Winslow deals in corruption, subversion, and revenge with an intensity that makes him irresistible.
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
(Harper, $35, out June 2)
By Rosemary Sullivan
Spoiler: Stalin had a daughter—she lived in Wisconsin—who you've never heard of until now. In this biography, Rosemary Sullivan weaves together interviews, letters, and information from the CIA, the KGB, and Soviet files to construct a comprehensive portrait of Svetlana Alliluyeva, a woman whose primary goal in life was to distance herself from her father's infamy. From Alliluyeva's lonely, detached life as Communist royalty through her gradual realization of her father's savagery to her fresh start in the United States in 1967 after the death of her Bronchiectasis-afflicted Indian lover, Sullivan chronicles it all. With a gentle literary touch, she lets readers follow Alliluyeva as she wanders the U.S. and U.K., running from her past—how would you grapple with the knowledge that your father was a mass murderer?—or, perhaps, searching for her future.
The Seven Good Years
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If the cover of Years seems reminiscent of the popular iPhone game Angry Birds, it's intentional: in his new memoir, bestselling Israeli author Etgar Keret lives with a constant threat of violence, and yes, he comments on the apparent terrorist attitude underpinning everyone's favorite bird-related app. The Seven Good Years is Etgar's first nonfiction book to be released in the States, and it has all the keen observation and sardonic wit of his best fiction (Suddenly, a Knock at the Door). The memoir is bookended by his son's birth and his father's death, and it cunningly details the interplay between tragedy and joy. Etgar ruminates on the fact that his son will someday be conscripted into the army. He describes the result of drastically different siblings coming together—The Darjeeling Limited-style—around a parent's death. This is a story of mustaches, half-hearted exercise, minimalist architecture, and the looming shadow of war—but it is also a story of the hope that somehow rises out of devastation.
(Penguin Press, $28.95, out June 16)
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If Aziz Ansari had coauthored, say, Thinking About Sociology: A Critical Introduction, we all would have paid a lot more attention in SOC 101A. As it stands, the Parks and Recreation star has joined forces with Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, to write a book about romance. What the two of them are doing here is marrying comedy and science, and the result is a book full of smarts, empathy, and meticulous research.
@azizansari The whole thing was more than a year and a half of research, hundreds of interviews all over the world, from Wichita to Tokyo.
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By Milan Kundera
In a prior novel, Slowness, Czech expatriate/French author Milan Kundera alluded to his desire to write a book "that would not have a single serious word in it." Insignificance, which suggests we stop taking life so seriously, might be that book. With his first release in more than a decade, Kundera embraces the unending folly of civilization, not so much with irony or scorn but with good humor. The novel is a sort of epilogue to his prior work, and we can imagine Kundera penning it with a grin: here is a vignette in which Stalin tells a long story to a comrade who desperately has to pee; here is a timely reflection on the erotic nature of the navel (particularly pertinent considering the crop top's currently en vogue status). Unsurprisingly, Nietzsche's notion of "eternal recurrence" again influences Kundera's writing, as, near the end of the novel, life plays itself out as a drama in the Luxembourg Gardens. By its final pages, we started to wonder if there wasn't a sort of seriousness underscoring the comedy of this wonderful and baffling novel.
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Microsoft says Surface Duo phone has been in development for years
Microsoft's Surface Phone 'Surface Duo' is the same Andromeda hardware that the firm originally planned to ship with Windows Core OS mobile shell.
Windows Core OS for Surface Duo was later shelved due to the app gap problem but Andromeda project was still being worked on. Last year, Microsoft quietly swapped out Windows Core OS in favour of a highly skinned Android layer.
During the past few months, Microsoft has been working with Google to build a new experience for dual-screen Surface Duo and similar hardware.
At a recent event at a Microsoft Store, Surface product lead Panos Panay confirmed that the Surface Duo and Surface Neo have been in development for years. He also admitted that approach to announce the device a year ahead of its launch was a very difficult decision.
"That was emotional. Sharing what we were working on early…was challenging. Having those conversations," he said.
Surface Duo is the result of a long development and it's not a device that happened overnight, Panay explained
"We think we have something here that's the start of new category…they have been in development for years and [we want to] get them in developers' hands," he added.
Surface Duo won't hit the shelves anytime soon and the device is still being worked on. For example, Microsoft has been considering a powerful camera solution for the dual-screen hardware and a prototype is already in the works, but plans are subject.
While Microsoft insists this isn't necessarily a smartphone, Surface Duo is expected to be a disrupter in the smartphone market, and it could be a decent device if Microsoft finds a solution to large bezel and camera challenges.
At the Surface event on October 2, Panos Panay was spotted using a black version of Surface Duo with a large hole for a future camera module. Although the overall design of the Duo will likely not change over the next year, we might see several colour options and new camera technology.
The current prototype uses a Snapdragon 855 processor, which is also expected to change when the product is ready for masses.
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Q: Using Spring JPA Projection with JHipster I'm having some difficulties to use Spring Data JPA Projections in a project generated with JHipster version 4.14.5.
I'm following Spring's orientation on how to make projections using JPA respositories, however I'm not having any success. The repo give me null values when I try to use projections.
Since I'm not a big connoisseur of JHipster's pipes, I hope somebody out there may help me out.
My Entity
@Entity
@Table(name = "research")
@Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE)
public class Research implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;

@NotNull
@Column(name = "answer", nullable = false)
private String answer;

@OneToOne(optional = false)
@NotNull
@JoinColumn()
private Question question;
// getters and setters

Entity projection:
public interface ResearchSimple {
    Long getId();
    String getAnswer();
}

Entity's repo:
@Repository
public interface ResearchRepository
extends JpaRepository<Research, Long> {
    @Query("SELECT r FROM Research r)
    List<ResearchSimple> findAllAsSimple();
}

Test Results
List<ResearchSimple> result = repo.findAllAsSimple();
assertEquals(result.size, dbSize); // OK
ResearchSimple simple = result.get(0);
assertNotNull(simple); // OK
assertNotNull(simple.getId); // FAIL!
assertNotNull(simple.getAnswer); // FAIL!

Debugging the value obtained in simple I've noticed that the projection was made, but I can't access it's value. Notice that the class br.com.pixinside.projection.ResearchSimple is present in simple's advised.
org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactory: 2 interfaces    [br.com.pixinside.projection.ResearchSimple, org.springframework.data.projection.TargetAware]; 3 advisors [org.springframework.aop.support.DefaultPointcutAdvisor: pointcut [Pointcut.TRUE]; advice [org.springframework.data.projection.DefaultMethodInvokingMethodInterceptor@1d62a0b], org.springframework.aop.support.DefaultPointcutAdvisor: pointcut [Pointcut.TRUE]; advice [org.springframework.data.projection.ProxyProjectionFactory$TargetAwareMethodInterceptor@3b89f41a], org.springframework.aop.support.DefaultPointcutAdvisor: pointcut [Pointcut.TRUE]; advice [org.springframework.data.projection.ProjectingMethodInterceptor@198453c9]]; targetSource [SingletonTargetSource for target object [org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.AbstractJpaQuery$TupleConverter$TupleBackedMap@319267ad]]; proxyTargetClass=false; optimize=false; opaque=true; exposeProxy=false; frozen=false

A: if you wanna use projection with manually queries , then you should use aliases that matches field names in your projection interface. @Query("SELECT r.id as id, r.answer as answer FROM Research r)
Or just skip @Query, and use List<ResearchSimple> findAllSimplifiedBy();

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McLean, Va. – (October 11, 2018) – DynCorp International (DI) has received a $173 million modification to an existing contract for T-34, T-44 and T-6 training aircraft support. This program was awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) in Orlando, Florida.
The modification will include organizational, intermediate and depot-level maintenance for 16 T-34 Mentors, 54 T-44 Pegasus and 287 T-6 Texan aircraft. The work will be performed at naval air stations in Corpus Christi, Texas and Milton and Pensacola, Florida, as well as other locations across the United States. The contract modification is expected to run through September 2019.
The Mentor, Pegasus and Texan II are light turboprop planes used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for basic flight training. Their simple design and relatively forgiving flight characteristics allow pilots to learn fundamentals before advancing to more sophisticated aircraft.
"It's great to see our teams recognized for their excellent support to NAWCTSD, NAVAIR and the Chief of Naval Air Training. We look forward to this continued partnership," said Jeremy Stanbridge, DI's program manager.


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Q: jQuery: Expand div upwards and downwards at the same time Thank you for reading. I would like to animate a div so that it expands upwards and downwards at the same time to match the top div and bottom div. At the moment it only expands downwards, you can see it working here:http://www.jjtans.com/www/New_folder
Here is my jquery:
$(document).ready(function()
{
  $('#article').toggle(
     function()
     {
       $('#register').animate({"bottom": "300px"}, 1000);
       $('#message').animate({"top": "300px"}, 1000);
       $('#content').delay(100).show(1000).animate({
         height: '150px'}, 1000);
       },
     function()
     {
       $('#content').delay(0).hide(500);
       $('#register').animate({"bottom": "0px"}, "slow");
       $('#message').animate({"top": "25px"}, "slow");
     });
});

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Starting this year, UCPB GEN will be giving the Most Outstanding Shop Award to the Gawa-Agad Program–accredited shop (GAP Shop) with the highest year-round overall satisfaction survey score. The award was created to honor the excellent customer service extended by the GAP Shop to all UCPB GEN / Direct Link motorcar insurance policyholders.
There will be two (2) recipients of this award, one from GAP Tier-1 consisting of shops that handled 80 and more repair jobs, and another from GAP Tier-2 or shops with repair jobs of less than 80.
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One of the known benefits of applying gypsum is displacing sodium (Na) in the soil with calcium so that it can leach below the root zone with irrigation or rainfall.
Why is sodium bad for plants?
Most people are aware of the damage and corrosive effects of salt on automobiles. On heavily traveled highways, 40 to 80 tons of salt may be applied per mile of highway per year. We know the effect of that salt on vegetation along highways – or lack thereof. Salt contains both sodium and chloride and plants can accumulate toxic amounts of both.
When excess sodium (Na+) ions are available in the soil, a plant will absorb them instead of more beneficial potassium (K+) ions, which is a macronutrient for the plants. It can also replace other nutrients (cations that are positively charged), making it problematic when in high concentrations and ultimately limits the growth of plants.
Curious about sodium levels in my soil, I pulled several soil samples (8 inch depth) in March from a couple fields and from my vegetable garden and sent them to a laboratory that does soil analysis. As part of their standard soil test, they measure phosphate (an anion) as well as cations (+ charge) potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium and hydrogen (H is a measure of pH).
Over the years looking at soil tests we can measure salts but generally in field situations in the Midwest there is no measurable sodium and salts levels are generally not high enough to impact crop production. Most growers don't irrigate and those that do, don't use irrigation water that is high in sodium so we don't accumulate sodium in our soils.
But when I got the analysis back from the laboratory I was surprised to see that while the field samples had no measurable sodium (that is what I expected), the garden had sodium levels of 163 ppm, or over 300 lbs per acre of sodium – very high.
The high test results on the garden soil shocked me and I began to wonder what was applied to this area over the last 35 years (house was built in 1980) that would accumulate that much sodium when generally sodium is not very measurable in Nebraska. I'm guessing it's in the water. The house has an underground sprinkler irrigation system that has been broke for as long as we lived the house for 7 or 8 years. The source of the irrigation water is our well, so perhaps the water has high levels of sodium. We do have a water softener but I have never tested the water, so I guess it is time to see if the water is the source of sodium.
The laboratory recommended applying 0.5 tons per acre or 2 pounds per 100 square feet of gypsum. Fortunately I have about 500 lbs of pelletized gypsum sitting in bags in my garage and will spread it. Now I wonder about the lawn which I did not test and intend to do.
The sodium measured was exchangeable sodium and held on the soils exchanged complex. The only way to displace the sodium is to exchange it with calcium. The sodium will pop off the exchange sites and can then be washed deeper in the soil will water.
So how many of you have tested your lawns, gardens or flower beds for sodium? Pull a soil sample, send it to a reputable laboratory and ask them to make sure they run exchangeable sodium.
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Type II diabetes occurs when people become resistant to their own insulin and can't regulate the concentration of sugar in their blood.
The researchers examined a subset of women in an ongoing study of heart disease. In the first 4 years of the study, 188 women in this subset developed diabetes. The researchers compared these women's medical records to those of 362 participants of similar ages without diabetes.


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Happy June! It's time for May's monthly report. See past reports here.
Keeping things short and sweet for this month's report! We've been spending time working outside whenever the weather cooperates. A few weekends ago I made a couple of planters for our front porch. I followed this youtube video. I'm really pleased with how they turned out!
I've pulled together most of the dining room, and now have all my vintage enamelware and vintage Pyrex out and on display! I love having it all together again. Here is my shelf with all my Cathrineholm, Dansk Kobenstyle, and Arabia Finel pieces.
I've been sewing, still working mostly on smaller projects. One of which was another little stuffed mouse! I made one for my Mom for Easter (see it here), and this one I made for myself. Her name is Penelope. I used this pattern, and my favorite tiny heart buttons.
One project from last month was this simple mini quilt that I made for my Mom for Mother's Day. I've been holding onto these panels by Suzy Ultman from Appleville for years. I still have a few pieces left, but it felt good to use up a few!
Two George photos this month, because why not? He's been his usual cute self.


Well the away allocation is sold out anyway!
Sunderland AFC will be backed by a capacity travelling crowd again when they take on Middlesbrough FC at the Riverside, with the club's allocation now sold out.
The revised date for the fixture has yet to be decided. Supporters are advised that the tie will be rearranged by the Premier League and further information will be announced regarding this in due course.
Sunderland AFC will be providing complimentary buses from the Stadium of Light to the Riverside (and return). Supporters must book their place in advance, by contacting the ticket office on 0191 5515004, between 9.30am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Departure times will be confirmed at a later date.


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package org.pnri.depchain;

import java.util.Comparator;

import colibri.lib.Concept;

public class ConceptDepOrder implements Comparator<Concept> {

	@Override
	public int compare(Concept c1, Concept c2) {
		int c = c1.getAttributes().size() - c2.getAttributes().size();
		if (c == 0) {
			c = -1*(c1.getObjects().size() - c2.getObjects().size());
			if (c == 0 ) {
				c = c1.getAttributes().compareTo(c2.getAttributes());
			}
		}
		return c;
	}

}

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