There are 6 steps that you can take to help you deal with a sick pupil in your school or classroom. You can follow these 6 steps from the moment you learn that a pupil is ill.
For a more detailed explanation, download the information brochure 'Caring about, taking care of'. This booklet has been written to inform teachers about the consequences of illness and treatment for education.
Assign one person in the school to contact the parents and make sure you inform each other about everything concerning the education and illness of the pupil.
Schools vary in the way colleagues pass on important information. This also depends on agreements with parents. If you need practical or emotional support, discuss this with the members of your team. An internal school counsellor or coordinator may also play an important role.
If the illness and its consequences will be noticeable for classmates, it is important to inform them. This prevents misunderstanding or feelings of injustice, which may lead to bullying. Informing classmates may also evoke sympathy.
Expressions of support and concern from classmates and peers are important for a sick pupil. In the case of a long-term absence, the chances are that contact will deteriorate. As a teacher, you can play an important role in keeping in touch with the sick pupil. You can organise contact, for example by regularly sending emails or visiting the sick pupil.
Siblings of the sick pupil can be confronted with feelings of sadness, anxiety or anger. The changes in their home environment will often involve less structure and stability. Therefore, fixed school structures may be helpful.
When parents and grandparents are confronted with a child who is ill, a lot of attention is paid to the illness, the treatment and its consequences. As a result, the child's upbringing may be relegated to second place. However, as with any child, it is important for children with a chronic illness to experience rules and limits and teachers can play an important role in this.


Ethel Elaine (Stephens) Wheeler, 86, of Waverly (formerly of Stella), passed away Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014 at her home. She was born June 28, 1928 in rural Nemaha to Charles Russell and Zola (Shively) Stephens.
After the death of her father, her mother married Henry "Hank" Goehring, who raised Elaine to adulthood. She graduated from Shubert High School in 1945.
In January 1946, Elaine went to work for the Stella (NE) Bank. The bank, which would later become Richardson County Bank & Trust, benefited from Elaine's talents for more than 60 years until her retirement.
On Oct. 16, 1949, Elaine married Hobert Wheeler. They made their home in Stella to live out their lives. Even after Hobert's death in 1997, Elaine stayed in their house until shortly before her death.
Elaine had many interests to take up her free time. She enjoyed painting China, refurbishing old furniture, going to auctions and collecting coins. All her life she loved giving to people — taking care of them and animals.
In mid-December of 2014, Elaine went to live at the home of her niece in Waverly.
In addition to her parents and husband, Elaine was preceded in death by her sisters, Velma Grimes and Erma Wragge; niece, Judy Hugunin; great-nephew, Destrey Bassinger; and great-niece, April Bassinger.
She is survived by her nieces, Sandy (Bill) Balfour, of Nebraska City, and Kim (Kyle) Bassinger, of Waverly; great-nieces and nephews, David Balfour, Brooke, Michael and Cole Bassinger, Hyle Hugunin, Jr. and Chris Hugunin; special friend, Sue Bantz; and many other wonderful friends.
A graveside funeral service, officiated by Wayne Shafer, was held Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 at Prairie Union Cemetery near Shubert. Casket bearers were David Balfour, Michael Bassinger, Cole Bassinger, Bob Williams, Bill Williams and Bill Niedfeldt. Honorary bearers were Brooke Bassinger, Dora Wissler, John Wissler, Doris Jean Shafer, Elnora Fritsch, Sue Bantz, and Ruth "GiGi" Chambers. Burial followed the service.


I'm starting small and going at my own pace, but as we know, small steps lead to big changes.
Coming from a large Italian family, healthy eating isn't always the easiest (it's hard to say no to a bowl full of pasta and fried meatballs your Mom Mom has spent all day preparing), but I'm doing my best to choose healthier, fresher options when it comes to eating. I'm also a mindless snacker. I can go through an entire bag of snacks without realizing it if I'm distracted doing other things. So, I've been incorporating more fruits and veggies into my diet as well as more protein.
I'm also working hard at increasing my daily water intake. I write down on a notepad on my desk how many ounces I want to drink and by what time of the day. This really helps me to focus and make sure I'm staying hydrated throughout the day. It's definitely something I struggle with, but I'm getting better! No more soda for me.
And, as I type this, I'm STANDING at my new desk which was just installed this morning. Yes, you read that right -- standing! I can alter the height of the desk so that I can get some extra movement throughout the work day instead of being sedentary for the entire day. I'm so excited and it truly is the little things in life that can make a day that much better.
No matter what you do, it's the effort put forth that really makes all the difference. I can honestly say I'm already starting to feel better and have more energy with just the small changes I've made thus far. Do what works for you and change little things here and there. You'll be glad you did!
Wishing you all a wonderful, healthy week!


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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Romance Books
Authors: Jojo Moyes
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Aust'n. Love stories. The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown future. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England - aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. Rules of honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's Captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined. And Frances Mackenzie - the enigmatic young bride whose past comes back to haunt her thousands of miles from home - will find that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.

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Shaheen is a 25-year gay Afghan man in Kabul, Afghanistan. On March 6, 2017, his family confronted him was about his sexuality after his cousin saw him being intimate with another adult male. Shaheen was promptly dragged back to his parents' house where his uncle, father, brother and cousin smashed his legs with a leather belt and other objects until he confessed being gay and committing a carnal sin.
Having lost all hope for mercy, Shaheen accepted the fact that he was going to die alone with no one in the world who would care or know what happened to him. In a last minute effort right before the first stone was thrown and surging with "do or die" adrenaline, he bit his uncle's hand and fled, sprinting hard for the next 30 minutes. After losing his executioners, he collapsed and hid and then wandered around aimlessly until finally finding his way out.
He is currently still hiding inside Afghanistan with no friends or money to escape. I wired $125 US dollars to him as an emergency lifeline of support. We need to help him get a visa for Turkey, an airline ticket to Ankara, and support him for the first several months in the new country until he can recover from this trauma. A queer Afghan couple (a trans woman and gay man) have offered to pick Shaheen up from the airport, host him, and help him file for asylum at the local UN office.
Once he arrives safely to Turkey, he will make a video and share with you this harrowing experience (and hopefully his success story). Until then, he is forced to stay in a country that wishes his death. Shaheen's family has reported him missing and is actively searching for him.
Shaheen's uncle wanted nothing more than to murder his nephew to restore their family's honor and set an example so no other LGBTQ Afghan will try to be free and live a meaningful life honoring their true nature.
I have known Shaheen for over a year. I know he is a kind and hard-working young man, who completed his studies in engineering and had big dreams for himself.
This past week as the money in his bank account dwindled, he wanted to kill himself or turn himself in to the authorities. After he contacted me on Facebook to share his story in weeping sobs and say goodbye, I convinced him to live and escape.
Let's rescue Shaheen to show, that despite his family trying to annihilate everything good inside him, that the decent and dignified people of this world stand in solidarity with him. Let's make sure that he escapes safely and that his courage becomes a source of inspiration for the millions of LGBTQ Afghans inside Afghanistan who are criminalized to death and trapped in perpetual turmoil.
As the first public figure to come out gay and campaign for LGBT rights in Afghanistan, I personally know the beneficiary and can vouch that he is gay and has gone through all the hardships that I have described. Shaheen and I have corresponded by Facebook, Instant Messenger, and Skype. I plan to wire the money raised to him via international wire/remittance to his bank account in Afghanistan. Since I am a US resident with a valid US social security number, I will go ahead and fundraise on behalf of the beneficiary.
Shaheen's life matters. Please show your generosity and support. Thank you.
Nemat Sadat was a professor of political science at the American University of Afghanistan, where he came out as gay and became an LGBTI Rights activist. His story has been featured in the Guardian Magazine, BBC, El Mundo, Global Post, GT, Diplomat, Gay Times, Out, Voice of Israel, Voice of America Dari, and the Washington Post. He has appeared on segments of CNN, NBC News, TOLO News, and on Huff Post Live, and has worked at ABC News Nightline, CNN's Fareed Zakaria Show, and The UN Chronicle. He has graduate degrees from Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford.
Loosely based on the book of the same name, writers David Shields and his collaborator and fellow-combatant, Caleb Powell, decide to put their friendship on the line by spending four days together in a cabin in the Cascades. The men barely make it down the driveway before an argument breaks out. On the drive to the cabin, things degenerate even further, as they variously debate the idea of life versus art.


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If you love Michael Keaton's portrayal of Batman, then you're going to love this new Batmobile Die-Cast Metal Figure from Jada Toys!
Based on the design from the 1989 film, this 1/24th scale figure also comes with its very own Batman action figure!
To add a sense of realism, the top of the batmobile is fully functional for opening and closing.
On top of that, it comes with built in guns and the wheels are mobile!
This is definitely one of the coolest Batman collectibles of 2017. Be sure to add it to your DC collection today!


A minimal visual identity that communicated everything.
The icon and literal face of Yellow Duck PR symbolizes the public relations company's logic and practice of the idiom "get your ducks in a row". Linda, the principal and executive director, navigates her clients through unnecessary clutter, creating structure and organizing communication so that it's clear to their audience.
Being a new company, Linda wanted the brand's communication materials—business card, corporate stationery and brochure—to be unexpected and memorable.
In the corporate materials, DWC brought life and personality to the brand's duck icon. For instance, we created a folded business card structure that allowed the duck's beak to open and close. On the letterhead and in Yellow Duck PR's marketing brochure, you'll even find the duck logo with a speech bubble of pertinent information.


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Cossacks in Exile è un film del 1939, diretto da Edgar G. Ulmer.

Trama
I Cosacchi ucraini rifiutano di entrare a far parte dell'esercito della Russia zarista, perché questo avrebbe significato far loro perdere la relativa autonomia di cui disponevano. Inutile risulta un'ambasciata inviata alla zarina Caterina II e guidata da Ivan Karas, cosacco dello Dnepr: i russi invadono le loro terre mettendo a ferro e fuoco il sič e i villaggi della Piccola Russia, cosicché i cosacchi sono costretti a riparare nel Delta del Danubio, allora sotto dominazione ottomana, mentre l'Etmano viene deportato in Siberia.

Ivan fa allora conoscenza del sultano turco sotto mentite spoglie, che interviene quando sua figlia adottiva Oxana rischia di essere giustiziata insieme al fidanzato Andrey, sospettati di essere spie.

Produzione
Il film è basato sull'opera comica Zaporožec' za Dunajem (Запорожець за Дунаєм, "Uno zaporogo oltre il Danubio") del compositore ucraino Semen Stepanovyč Hulak-Artemovs'kyj (1813-1873), autore anche del relativo libretto. Il produttore e sceneggiatore Vasile Avramenko, direttore di una compagnia di danza ucraina aveva in passato prodotto anche Natalka Poltavka dello stesso Ulmer.
Cossacks in Exile è stato girato in New Jersey nella tenuta di un monastero cattolico, con un budget stimato di .

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Versus Bracket
Tuesday November 19th, 2019 at 10:39 AM
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Fidtz
"The Volcano" vs "The World" or "The Justice League" or "Marvel", depending on your view of various super powers.
reconbot
In Predator vs Godzilla I'd put my money on Predator
Some works didn't make the cut; in "Ecks vs. Sever" vs. the passage of time, the latter seems to have won pretty decisively.
silberbaer
Final four: Larry Flynt, Predator, Marvel, and Batman?
Superman would realistically beat batman. I ended up with Predator vs Volcano vs Marvel vs Superman
lahosken
You might also like: https://twitter.com/xkcdbracket
wine fraud
Monday June 11th, 2018 at 12:29 PM
Abstruse Goose
All better than Merlot for a Wedding! Valpolicella or Beaujolais could be inexpensive red options too.
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I don't care what the experts say. The experts would have me serve Merlot at my wedding reception, and that is simply not happening.
Good lord, what experts say that? That is the worst choice for a random group of people.
Well, that's what the people at the winery I visited suggested. I'm probably gonna go with a Riesling for white (my personal favorite), and maybe a Malbec or Pinot Noir for red. Even if I did think Merlot was a good choice in general, it doesn't fit our menu.
Temperature Preferences
First xkcd for a while I don't think works. I have been to Riyadh and Hong Kong in the summer. I find it hard to believe anyone who loves one of their climates would even like the other. Dubai+Delhi seems dubious too though I have no first hand experience there.
mooglemoogle
Yeah that's the thing, heat and humidity don't necessarily go together. I could definitely see liking hot, dry summers but hating hot, humid ones. I would understand the other way less but that's just me :)
kazriko
I'm tolerant of hot, dry, but I don't like it. Hot and humid, or even warm and humid just makes me miserable.
zippy72
Lisbon doesn't get a look in? I'm hurt...
FourSquare, qv
claudinec
So true. Wellington, Edinburgh and San Francisco are at the top of my revisit/migrate list for the weather as well as the culture.
ameel
Awesome. And I love that both Lahore and Karachi are in there!
angelchrys
I was wondering if KC would make it and sure enough, it is where it belongs: if you love cold and love heat. I live here and love neither.
infogulch
Yup. I also hate both, but I hate heat more. Looks like I need to move in the direction of New York (on the chart, obviously).
This Is Real by noreply@blogger.com (Melissa McEwan)
Wednesday February 8th, 2017 at 7:30 PM
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I felt like I needed to stipulate right in the headline that this is not "fake news," because, well, it may be difficult to believe that this is where we are.
Following Betsy DeVos' confirmation as Secretary of Education, Republican Representative from Kentucky Thomas Massie introduced legislation to abolish the federal Department of Education.
The legislation, H.R. 899, is one sentence long: "The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018."
It already has at least seven co-sponsors: Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), and Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID).
In a press release, which you can read in its entirety at Massie's House website, Massie says: "Neither Congress nor the President, through his appointees, has the constitutional authority to dictate how and what our children must learn."
And: "Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development."
And: "It is time that we get the feds out of the classroom, and terminate the Department of Education."
You might imagine that Massie's legislation is some sort of critical commentary on the selection of DeVos, but that would be wrong. Because DeVos almost certainly shares his opinion about the department she was just confirmed to run.
After all, as I have been observing since the day Trump selected her, DeVos' only qualification is her willingness to destroy the Department of Education.
She was chosen specifically to be the perfect partner for Trump, who has said he wants to break up the "government-run education monopoly," and for Pence, who has been destroying public education in Indiana for quite some time, and for Bannon, whose exploitation of ignorance is significantly aided by subverting public education.
The GOP has spent decades shouting at poor and/or marginalized people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and now they want to take away their best opportunity to access a pair of boots.
superiphi
There's a serious difficulty trying to make a country work without national standards. Especially education, which relies on the assumption that people can move from one state to another....
Idle, Bradford, United Kingdom
National standards can be agreed upon between the states without having a free-standing bureaucracy to trump the local initiatives. The Common Core initiative actually began as a state-run cooperative (And was actually popular... Until the DoE tried to force it.) We had minimal federal oversight of education as part of one of the other bureaucracies for decades before the Department of Education was formed in the late 70's.
Friday January 6th, 2017 at 12:07 PM
2051, solid 1960's style future prediction there!
stsquad
hooges
IRC, never die!
emdeesee
OK, fine. When the galactic singularity becomes an option, I'll consider switching from IRC.
beowuff
Don't worry. It'll still run irc as it's back end, so you can still connect.
What if I'm only still on IRC because the rest of my groups are?
2078: He announces that he's finally making the jump from screen+irssi to tmux+weechat.
The Future of Democratic Values by Sean Carroll
Tuesday November 8th, 2016 at 7:18 AM
Hey, did you know we are having an election here in the United States? I think I saw it mentioned on TV. Whatever your preferences may be, everyone eligible should try to get out and vote.
This election has, without a doubt, been somewhat unique. I'm cautiously optimistic that Hillary Clinton will win, that we will celebrate the election of the first female President in the history of the republic, and that she will do a relatively good job — although as a good Bayesian I know that empirical predictions are never certain, and in an atmosphere like this uncertainty runs relatively high.
Even if Clinton wins and the U.S. avoids complete embarrassment, I'm still very worried about what this election has revealed about the state of the country. No matter who our next President might be, there are real reasons to be concerned that the U.S. is veering away from some of the foundational principles that are necessary to a functioning democracy. That may sound alarmist, but I don't think it's unwarranted. Historically, democracies don't always last forever; we'd be foolish to think that it can't happen here.
This isn't a worry about the specific horrible wrongness of Donald Trump — it's a worry about the forces that propelled him to the nomination of one of our two major political parties, and the fires he so willingly stoked along the way. Just as a quick and hopelessly incomplete recap:
Trump built his early political notoriety via "birtherism," explicitly working to undermine the legitimacy of our elected President.
He has continually vilified immigrants and foreigners generally, promoting an us-against-them mentality between people of different races and ethnicities.
He has pledged to violate the Constitutional principle of freedom of religion, from banning Muslims from entering the country to tracking ones that are here.
His campaign, and the Republican party more generally, has openly engaged in suppressing the vote from groups unlikely to support him. ("'We have three major voter suppression operations underway,' says a senior [Trump] official.")
He has glorified violence against protesters who disagree with him.
He has lied at an unprecedented, astonishing rate, secure in the knowledge that his statements will be taken as true by a large fraction of his intended audience.
He has presented himself as a uniquely powerful strongman who can solve problems through his personal force of will, and spoke admiringly of dictators from Vladimir Putin to Kim Jong-un to Saddam Hussein.
He has vowed that if he wins the election, he will seek vengeance on those who opposed him, including throwing his opponent into prison.
He has repeatedly cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election outcome, implying that he would refuse to accept the result if he lost.
He has pointed fingers at a shadowy global conspiracy in charge of world finance, often with explicitly anti-Semitic overtones.
Several Republican politicians have broached the prospect of refusing to confirm any Supreme Court nominees from a Democratic President.
A government agency, the FBI, has interfered in a Presidential election.
Republicans have accused Democratic officeholders of being traitors.
A number of Trump supporters have spoken of the prospect of violent resistance if Clinton is elected.
This is not a list of "why Donald Trump is a bad person who is disastrously unqualified for the Presidency"; that would be much longer. Rather, I wanted to highlight features of the campaign that are specifically attacks on (small-"d") democratic norms and values. The assumptions, often unspoken, by which legitimate political opponents have generally agreed to operate by over the course of the last two centuries and more. Not all of them, of course; there are glaring exceptions, authoritarians who have run roughshod over one or more of these norms in the name of personal glory. History generally looks down upon them, and we consider ourselves fortunate that they didn't have greater success. But fortune can run out.
The most worrisome aspect of the situation is the very real prospect that these attacks on the foundations of liberal democracy will not simply disappear once Donald Trump rides off into the gold-plated sunset; that they will be seized upon and deployed by other politicians who couldn't help but notice Trump's success. If that's the case, we will have a real reason to be concerned that American democracy will stop working, perhaps sooner rather than later. I don't think it's likely that such a disastrous scenario would come to pass, but one has to balance the small likelihood against the devastating consequences — and right now the probability seems closer to 0.05 than to 10-5.
Democracy is a curious and fragile thing. It's not just "majority rules"; crucial to the project are the ideas that (1) minority rights are still respected, and (2) in return, losing minorities respect electoral outcomes. It's the second of these that is under siege at the moment. Since the time of the Federalist Papers, it's been understood that democracy is an attempt to provide common self-rule for people who don't agree on everything, but who at least share the common values of democracy itself. Having strong, even extremely passionate, political disagreements is inevitable in a democratic system. The question is whether we cast those with whom we disagree as enemies, traitors, and cheaters who must be opposed in every measure at every turn; or as partners in a grand project with whom we can fiercely disagree and yet still work with.
I don't claim to have a complete understanding of how we got to this precarious point, though there are a number of factors that certainly have contributed. Arguments have raged over whether Trump's support among the less well-off should be attributed to the economic anxieties of a class that sees their way of life eroding, or whether we should point the finger at racist and nativist sentiments that have been so ostentatiously on display at his rallies and on the internet. The answer is surely some combination of both; the economic anxieties are very real, and in many cases that anxiety has been channeled into distrust and outright hatred for people with different skin colors or nationalities. A lot of the blame for that channeling has to lie with the politicians who find "stroking resentment" to be a cheap and effective road to electoral success; it's an old, familiar strategy.
But there are other causes, which can arguably be traced to specifics of our system of government. A politician whose goal is "attain and preserve political power" might have a very different game-theoretic calculation of how to behave while campaigning and in office than one whose goal is "make the country and the world a better place." It's not that hard, from a somewhat Darwinian point of view, to see how the former type might prosper in the struggle for political survival. Suppose you propose a certain system for dealing with health-care costs. But then your political opponent begins advocating an essentially similar system. Do you congratulate them on finally seeing the light, or change your mind about the system because it gives you a convenient issue with which to criticize your opponent?
My personal suspicion — quickly acknowledging that there are people out there who are much more expert than I am on these matters — is that the Trump phenomenon is a logical outgrowth of the Tea Party movement. When Barack Obama came into office in 2009, the economy was in shambles, and the government had to navigate a tricky course of promoting job growth, rescuing the financial system and industry, and not blowing the federal deficit too high. Seeking a weapon with which to oppose the newly-elected Democratic administration, Republican officials seized on simmering resentments about taxation and government interference, and flamed them into a full-scale "movement." Hard-core Tea Partiers, however, went well beyond boilerplate Republican platform items about cutting taxes, and pushed hard on a politics of resentment, often to extremes. One of the arrows in the movement's quiver was to mount primary campaigns against Republican officeholders who were deemed insufficiently committed to the cause. This had the effect of shifting the GOP uniformly away from the political center, and placed a very high emphasis on obstructing anything remotely associated with the Democratic party. Many in the Republican establishment didn't subscribe to Tea Party extremism themselves; they just wanted to fire people up to get their votes. They didn't imagine that those same people would prevent good establishment soldiers like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio from being nominated, in favor of an anti-establishment buffoon with zero loyalty to the party apparatus. It's often hard to put the genie back into the bottle.
What they don't tell you in school is that democracy is really hard. Voting is easy; the difficult part is to accept the outcome and work with your opponents for the common good. To think of those with whom you disagree as honest people with different opinions, rather than corrupt hell-beasts who should be thrown in jail. Our psychology tempts us into less lofty ways of thinking. In The Big Picture I talked about a concept in social psychology called the "Pyramid of Choice." Two people with almost exactly the same views and preferences face a close decision, and the two of them end up choosing different alternatives. Over time, our brains work to justify these decisions; we forget it was a close call, and convince ourselves that the choice we made was the obviously correct one from the start. By this process, the two people who started out from nearly identical beliefs are driven ever further apart. You can see how this plays out in political contexts. People get nudged toward one side of the spectrum or the other, start thinking about all the reasons why it's correct, listening to news that confirms their beliefs, and prop up their self-esteem by looking at their opponents as haters and losers. Tribal identity is a hell of a drug.
Democratic values, including most especially the ability to disagree without demonizing, are certainly not dead yet. Here's an example of such values in action, when Barack Obama chides his own audience for behaving disrespectfully toward a protester:
Nor are such values confined to the Democratic side of our two-party system. Everyone remembers John McCain, politely disagreeing with his own supporters who wanted to paint Obama as a frightening foreigner:
We can disagree with each other and still work together. It's happened, with some bumps in the road, for more than two centuries now. But it's far from certain that we will continue to succeed.
Good point to focus on


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is a video game developed by Beam Software and released in 1991 exclusively for the Game Boy. It is a follow-up to the original Choplifter and the first entry in the series released for the Game Boy.

Gameplay

Gameplay is largely the same as the original Choplifter and revolves around piloting a rescue helicopter into hostile territory and rescuing hostages. Enemies like birds, fighter jets, and ammunition fired from various weapons can harm the player's helicopter. Saving more hostages than the scenario requires will allow players to collect extra points. However, losing a lot of hostages will lead to a loss of continues; regardless of how many lives the player has during that time.

Reception
Mean Machines gave the game a 90%, calling it a "perfect mini blastathon which packs thrills and spills in a totally addictive package that's impossible to resist" and "a simple, yet highly compelling game..." that "should keep you glued to your Gameboy for weeks". Gary Whitta, writing for Advanced Computer Entertainment, gave the game a positive review, commenting on the portable sequel's faithfulness to its predecessor.

French Magazine  gave the game an 82%, calling it a "pleasant and fun game which still has a flaw; the controls".

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THE HERITAGE OF CAVES OF HELLA
Our family has been taking care of the caves for nearly 200 years. In 2019, four out of twelve caves were opened to the public. The family is committed to restoring the caves to their former glory and keeping their history alive. We tell stories, told by our forefathers, about mysterious caves and the settlement before the arrival of the Vikings.
The caves are man-made, but nobody really knows when they were originally constructed. Some sources indicate that they were made by Celts who inhabited Iceland before the official Norse settlement of Iceland in the late 9th century.
The caves have been used throughout history as dwellings, sheep sheds or storage. After World War II Icelanders started building houses from concrete and traditional turf houses and caves soon fell into disuse.
The restoration project is under the supervision of the Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland. We focus on slow and sustainable tourism, working closely with the local community using local guides and local products. The main aim of the project is to continue the restoration of the caves, opening up more caves to the public.
"The surroundings remind you of the movie sets of Indiana Jones or The Lord of the Rings. Amazing in every way."
Júlía Margrét Einarsdóttir, cultural attaché, The Icelandic National Broadcsting Service, 2019.


I do believe in the words of Socrates who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Art then becomes the method through which I continue to make a personal, examined, life-long journey towards fulfillment. Casting an internal light and painterly eye into my shadow places I am working to engage my subconscious mind in a self-enlightening conversation. This search involves a mental digging through my past and examination of my present situation which by necessity assumes a physical form as I paint and write. The dependant origination of that which I perceive as 'self' is a continual unfolding; I am because other things are, just as my paintings are because I am, and they and I both continue always to become, yet again, something else as time and days pass from present into past.
Seemingly stable beneath my feet, dirt is a living organism and is subject to short-term fluctuations. Digging and peeling away at my layers to find a deeper understanding, I am contending with external environmental societal fluctuations and the consequence of impermanence. I may want to escape into fantasy, from the world in which I live, but instead acknowledge and contend with the fact I am both a product of environment and a creator of the same. Sometimes feeling grounded and often cast adrift, there is the desire to grasp and a need to let go.
A crucial component in terrestrial ecosystems, soil is a heterogeneous medium. Its solid components form aggregates and an interconnected system of voids filled with water and air. Using this as a context, I find in this a foundation for personal metaphor composed of, among many things, my thoughts, moods and flesh. A cauldron of emotional and physical feelings, cognition, perception, predispositions and volitions, I am conscious awareness in physical form, rooted and growing from the rocky soil of my depths, from the stories I unearth, from the gems, the myths and the hidden mysteries that I find.
I am sometimes reminded of the song lyrics written by Peter Gabriel; "I'm digging in the dirt, to find the places I got hurt, open up the places I got hurt". Even on days I feel like cringing, crying or hiding I find a kind of comfort reaching for my paint and brushes. In the midst of my efforts at shattering my delusions in a derivative Buddhist fashion, Gabriel's words also remind me that I too, am a voice, as well as body, mind and artist in my search for profound meaning and ways to express it. That realization helps shed light into those darks days when I feel like that fish of proverb, which when asked seemed unaware of the water in which it lived. My mind screams at the danger inherent in that ignorance. Being unaware of the medium I live in, forgetful that my stories are just stories, I can mistakenly begin to think instead that they are the world. Unlike that fish however, I can effect change in the proverbial water, to the medium in which I find myself. I have an ability to enact a greater change in self and worldly situation. My art is both the process through which I do this and the result of a constant psychological cleansing and a flushing away of debris.
I am digging to unearth those accounts of the world that do not serve me well, that keep me locked into old ways of habitual thinking. When those stories are changed and become different, the world can potentially become different too. There is no part of my life that is carved into stone. It is within this script, dialogue and continuing narrative that I find those things that teach me what is real, valuable and possible. Without it there would be no way for me to engage the world, because there would be no world for me, no self, no well of artistic expression to draw from or to pour fourth.
Confronted with metamorphic process, sometimes I wish I were more like a caterpillar, existing in only the present, unconcerned with what's to come, finding Nirvana in this lifetime, in this around and around, this confluence the Buddhist's call Samsara. But that has never been the case for me, desire an ever present companion and I am always too aware of the past, the present, the many potential futures and the pitfalls to be found along the way. In archeological self-excavation, I am digging and searching within while looking outward for that kind of existence; in a constant state of worm, chrysalis and transformation that is always striving to paint, create and live better in the now. Stumbling around in the dark as much as not, not knowing always where to look I know the essence of what I seek exists inside. This digging, searching, wandering is self-evident on the canvas lying at the tips of my fingers and provides a personal road map of that journey.


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SM Gains Top Awards for Transparency and Investor Relations
Thursday, Apr 20, 2017
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(20 April 2017. Pasay City, Philippines) SM Investments Corporation (SM) won two top awards at the 9th Annual Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Summit & Awards held in Malaysia on March 30 to 31.
SM was the only Philippine company that bagged two platinum awards for the categories Best Corporate Communications & Investor Relations and Best Governed & Most Transparent Company. This marked the second consecutive year that SM was recognized in the said categories.
The Global CSR Awards, organized by The Pinnacle Group International in Singapore, is touted as one of Asia's most prestigious awards for Corporate Social Responsibility. The awards program recognizes and honors companies for outstanding, innovative, and world-class products, services, projects, and programs implemented in the past or present. These projects should demonstrate the company's leadership, sincerity, and on-going commitment in incorporating ethical values, compliance with legal requirements, and respect for individuals, communities, and the environment in the way they do business. The Good Governance Awards is a high profile international recognition award event held in conjunction with the Global CSR Summit to recognize companies and public institutions with the highest standards in governance, transparency, and performance.
SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is one of the leading conglomerates in the Philippines with highly synergistic businesses in retail, banking and property development. SMIC is one of the more responsible companies in the country due to its progressive approach in business and its comprehensive sustainability programs for its host communities through SM Foundation and SM Cares.
SMIC's retail operations enjoy a strong brand franchise consisting of THE SM STORE; a strong portfolio of leading specialty retailers including Ace Hardware, SM Appliances, Homeworld, Our Home, Toy Kingdom, Watsons and others; and its food retail chains, namely SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket, Savemore and WalterMart stores. SM's property arm, SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is one of the largest integrated property developers in the Philippines with interests in mall, residential, commercial and tourism development. SMIC's interests in banking are in BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO), the country's leading bank and in China Banking Corporation (China Bank), the sixth largest private bank. Combined, these two banks have a network of over 1,600 branches nationwide.
For more about SM, click here: www.sminvestments.com
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Taking Aim
Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
by Michael Cart, Marc Aronson, Edward Averett, Francesca Lia Block, Chris Crutcher, Alex Flinn, Gregory Galloway, Jenny Hubbard, Peter Johnson, Ron Koertge, Chris Lynch, Walter Dean Myers, Joyce Carol Oates, Eric Shanower, Will Weaver, Elizabeth Wein, Tim Wynne-Jones
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Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late great Walter Dean Myers, the poetic Joyce Carol Oates, the prophetic Elizabeth Wein, and the gritty Chris Crutcher, these are evocative voices that each has a different perspective to give. Capturing the hurt and the healing, victims and perpetrators, these stories get to the heart of the matter.
From a boy whose low self-esteem is impacted when a gun comes into his possession to a student recalling a senseless tragedy that befell a favorite teacher, from a realistic look at hunting to a provocative look at a family that defies stereotypes, each emotional story stirs the debate to new levels. The juxtaposition of guns and their consequences offers moving tales, each a reminder of how crucial the question of guns in our society is, and the impact they have on all of us.
Other acclaimed contributors are Marc Aronson, Edward Averett, Francesca Lia Block, Alex Flinn, Gregory Galloway, Jenny Hubbard, Peter Johnson, Ron Koertge, Chris Lynch, Eric Shanower, Will Weaver, and Tim Wynne-Jones.
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Michael Cart
Michael Cart is a writer, a lecturer, a consultant, and a nationally recognized expert in YA literature. He is the former director of the Beverly Hills (California) Public Library and a past president of the Young Adult Library Services Association, and his column "Carte Blanche" appears monthly in Booklist magazine.
He is the author or editor of twenty books, including the gay coming-of-age novel My Father's Scar, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature; and—with Christine A. Jenkins—The Heart Has Its Reasons, a critical history of young adult literature with gay/lesbian/queer content. His many anthologies include Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are, and How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity.
In 2008, he became the first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Achievement Award, and in 2000, he received the Grolier Foundation Award for his contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by young people. Mr. Cart lives in Columbus, Indiana.
Marc Aronson
Edward Averett
Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.
Chris Crutcher has written nine critically acclaimed novels, an autobiography, and two collections of short stories. Drawing on his experience as a family therapist and child protection specialist, Crutcher writes honestly about real issues facing teenagers today: making it through school, competing in sports, handling rejection and failure, and dealing with parents. He has won three lifetime achievement awards for the body of his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the ALAN Award, and the NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award. Chris Crutcher lives in Spokane, Washington.
Alex Flinn loves fairy tales and is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Beastly, a spin on Beauty and the Beast that was named a VOYA Editor's Choice and an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Beastly is now a major motion picture starring Vanessa Hudgens. Alex also wrote A Kiss in Time, a modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty; Cloaked, a humorous fairy-tale mash-up; Bewitching, a reimagining of fairy-tale favorites, including Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, and The Little Mermaid, all told by Kendra, the witch from Beastly; Towering, a darkly romantic take on Rapunzel; and Mirrored, a fresh spin on Snow White. Her other books for teens include Breathing Underwater, Breaking Point, Nothing to Lose, Fade to Black, and Diva. She lives in Miami with her family. Visit her online at www.alexflinn.com.
Gregory Galloway
Jenny Hubbard
Peter Johnson grew up in Buffalo, New York, at a time when they had a good football team, which seems like fifty years ago. Similar to Benny Alvarez and his friends, Peter always loved words, knowing he was going to be a teacher or a professional baseball player. Also, being from a long line of Irish storytellers, he loved reading and telling tales, and when he realized that his stories changed every time he told them, and that he could get paid for this kind of lying, he decided to become a novelist. His first middle grade novel, The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini, was named one of the Best Children's Books by Kirkus Reviews, and he's received many writing fellowships, most notably from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ron Koertge
Christine Heppermann and Ron Koertge are the authors of acclaimed young adult books and are writing for young readers for the first time. After meeting through Hamline University's MFA program, they decided to collaborate. Christine lives in New York, and Ron lives in California, so they work most of their magic long-distance.
Chris Lynch
Chris Lynch is a National Book Award finalist and the author of many highly acclaimed books for young adults, including The Big Game of Everything, Who the Man, and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Freewill; Iceman, Shadow boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; and Extreme Elvin. He also mentors aspiring writers and teaches in the creative writing program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Eric Shanower
Will Weaver
Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends.
Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein is the holder of a private pilot's license and the owner of about a thousand maps. She is best known for her historical fiction about young women flying in World War II, including the New York Times bestselling Code Name Verity and Rose under Fire. Elizabeth is also the author of Cobalt Squadron, a middle grade novel set in the Star Wars universe and connected to the 2017 release The Last Jedi. Elizabeth lives in Scotland and holds both British and American citizenship. Visit her online at www.elizabethwein.com.
Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones has twice won the prestigious Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in Canada, most recently for his novel The Maestro. He makes his home in eastern Ontario, Canada.
Other Works by Tim Wynne-Jones
By Tim Wynne-Jones
Taking Aim by Michael Cart, Marc Aronson, Edward Averett, Francesca Lia Block, Chris Crutcher, Alex Flinn, Gregory Galloway, Jenny Hubbard, Peter Johnson, Ron Koertge, Chris Lynch, Walter Dean Myers, Joyce Carol Oates, Eric Shanower, Will Weaver, Elizabeth Wein, Tim Wynne-Jones
Monster: A Graphic Novel
Juba!
Just Write: Here's How!
How Beautiful the Ordinary
Dope Sick
I've Seen the Promised Land


Nick Temple, from Social Enterprise UK.
I started this morning off 'launching' the Wandsworth Enterprise Week at the first event, a session on social enterprise.
The week is an enhancement of the council's previous annual business forum. While that even was always popular (attendance always in the hundreds) and always well-received (indeed, I always thought the evaluation forms we received were probably a bit too ambitious) it missed something. The nature of a single set-piece event in a dynamic borough like Wandsworth meant it was trying to do too much. Certainly they would have inspiring and informative speakers, but inspiring and informative isn't the same as relevant.
This year, by having an entire week of events it means we can have more focus on specific topics, invite more relevant speakers and provide more value to attendees.
Holding the business rôle on Wandsworth has been a privilege, but always slightly humbling, because for all my admiration for those running businesses I've always been a little too risk averse—and perhaps a little too lazy—to join them. But if you don't suffer those faults then take a look at the Wandsworth Enterprise Week website and see if there's anything that takes your fancy.


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Andrew Baron (born 1962) is a self-taught, award-winning paper engineer and singled out by Robert Sabuda, a leading children's pop-up book artist, as a wunderkind of pull tabs, specific devices used to cause movement in pop-up books.

Biography
Baron was awarded the Movable Book Society's Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering in 2004 for Knick-Knack Paddywhack!  The book, by Paul O. Zelinsky, has "200 movable parts, 300 glue points – twice the usual number – 15 lift-the-flaps, and 10 parts on the last spread alone, moving simultaneously with one tab!... 500 people [at the Hua Yang Printing Company in China] worked on the book." Of this book, Robert Sabuda noted, "his designs are unique, complex, thoughtful and he doesn't skimp on the amount of paper or rivets needed to accomplish an action."

Baron has also repaired and restored old clocks, music boxes, radios and typewriters since childhood. In 2007, Baron spent about 70 hours repairing the "Draughtsman-Writer" automaton by Henri Maillardet (1745–1830). A version of Maillardet's automaton, a self-powered robot that writes poetry and draws four different images, was in Martin Scorsese's movie Hugo and Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Selected bibliography

Exhibitions

External links
 Official Andrew Baron Website  http://popyrus.com/
 Video lecture, The Birth of a Corporate Pop-Up Book, given at the National Museum of American History, on April 18, 2011, as part of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Paper Engineering Lecture Series.
 The Baron of Santa Fe, a studio interview with Baron, by Adie C. Pena, 2001

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Living people
1962 births
Pop-up book artists


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JIn more than last two years, the Organization has grown from strength to strength striving hard to transform that vision into reality. Today the company's name has become synonymous with the quality Construction business.
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Today is my 39th birthday!
I didn't hit my weight goal, and even though I knew it was a HUGE stretch and extremely unlikely, I'm still a bit disappointed in myself. BUT. I'm writing this to convince myself of my own awesomeness and shut up the little voices of negativity. So here's what it amazing.
2. I have been SO GOOD with my eating this month, staying within my calorie range 21/31 days. And overall, I've averaged 1522 calories/day, which is only 22 calories over. This is much better than months past. And I did it while still enjoying life and eating 'bad' things sometimes -- ahem wine and cookies. In moderation, of course.
3. I am lighter than I've ever been. (Well, as a fully grown human, anyway.) It's continuing to creeeeeeeeeep slowly downward. A loss is a loss is a loss.
5. I feel better in my own skin than ever before. I feel happier and healthier and stronger and fitter and more confident in general. That is not something that comes easily to me, for I am the queen of internal negativity.
Tomorrow I have my third and final DEXA scan and nutritionist appointment, so we'll see how I'm doing on their fancy machines, but I'm feeling pretty good. Ultimately, it's only been about five pounds in three months and therefore the scans won't show some insane improvement, but clearly slow and steady is all I can hope for. Less fat mass, more muscle mass. That's the goal.


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Bringing Back Manufacturing Jobs Would Be Harder Than It Sounds
By Jim Zarroli
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally in Erie, Pa., last Friday.
It's a line that draws thunderous applause at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign rallies, one that can sometimes even bring the crowd to its feet: Let's bring back America's lost manufacturing jobs.
And is there any question why? The United States has lost nearly 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000 alone, hollowing out factory towns all over the country and leaving countless working-class Americans struggling.
Getting those jobs back is a goal that politicians of all stripes eagerly line up behind. But the plain truth is that, legally speaking, there's not a lot that Trump or any other president could do to bring those jobs back, without an act of Congress.
Presidents simply don't have the power to tell companies whom to hire or where to manufacture, says Jeffrey Bergstrand, professor of finance at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
"Firms are going to make the decisions for their shareholders. If he wants to do this, he is going to have to use government institutions and laws to restrict the decisions of firms," Bergstrand says.
And it's not at all clear Congress would support such an effort.
What presidents can do is try to make it tough for companies that ship jobs overseas to make money in the United States, by imposing tariffs on their products. Trump has often talked about doing so.
At a rally in Pennsylvania last Friday, Trump talked about slapping heavy tariffs on the air conditioners made by the Carrier division of United Technologies, which recently decided to move part of its Indiana manufacturing operations to Mexico.
"Every single unit you make that crosses our now very, very strong border, we're going to charge you 35 percent of the cost of that unit," Trump told the crowd.
He has also talked about imposing even larger tariffs on goods imported from China.
Presidents do have the power to impose tariffs unilaterally in the interest of national security, although it's rarely been done, says Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
The last time was in 1971, when President Nixon imposed a surcharge on imports to prevent a run on the dollar after the U.S. went off the gold standard.
Bown notes that just because a president can impose tariffs doesn't mean doing so is a good idea.
"We would lose the tens of billions a year in soybean exports we send to China, and corn and wheat and autos, and all of the people that work in those sectors now all of a sudden are going to be losing their jobs," Bown says.
Such a move would almost certainly invite retaliation by other countries, hurting U.S. companies that export.
"China's going to respond by raising tariffs on us and restricting goods," Bergstrand says. "Then other actors and other countries around the world are going to start raising tariffs. And that's actually what pushed the world economy ... into the Great Depression."
The long-term ramifications of a tariff war would be hugely disruptive to businesses all over the world, casting a pall over the entire superstructure of international trade.
"If I'm running a business and it's unclear to me if Donald Trump is going to allow me to be able to import parts and components to allow me to make my particular good, I don't know what to do," Bown says.
"In the end, because we're all tied together, what's going to happen is there's going to be a huge reduction in demand for goods and services, and it's going to cut off the entire global supply chain of economic activity," Bergstrand says.
Presidents can take a lot of steps to make it easier for companies to manufacture domestically, by addressing tax and regulatory reform, for instance, says Aric Newhouse, senior vice president of policy and government relations at the National Association of Manufacturers.
He says presidents can also open talks with foreign countries to encourage them to open their markets to U.S. goods.
"It's really, unfortunately, not one magic bullet," Newhouse says. "It's not, if you do this one thing, manufacturing is going to come back to the United States. You have to do a little bit of a lot of things."
But such efforts would take time, and even if they succeed, they won't necessarily mean the return of a lot of jobs.
The common perception is that manufacturing jobs have disappeared because they've been sent to low-wage countries in Asia and Latin America. The truth is that a lot of work has been lost to automation.
U.S. manufacturers have become a lot more productive and simply don't need as many workers as they once did, Bown says.
"It's a lot more robots and computer equipment and many, many fewer people," Bown says. "So what you see is, there still is, even today, a lot of manufacturing activity in the United States. It's just done with many, many fewer workers."
Jim Zarroli
Jim Zarroli is an NPR correspondent based in New York. He covers economics and business news.
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Obviously I went on another one of those "sabbaticals" from me ol' blog, to pursue pebble paths of piffling and pishposhery. Obviously my inexplicable fondness for alliteration has survived, intact, with nary a crack.
I'm one year older! Wow. It just gets better and better doesn't it? Maybe one of these days, I won't be carded at carousing establishments. Maybe that'll mean I'm eighty years old. Or maybe one day I'll actually frequent carousing establishments. The Carousing Carousel would be a fun name for a bar wouldn't it and it would spin round and round and everybody would get sick. Bad idea bear.
hotel room teal-ish and pink color scheme, the same Monet water lilies picture in front of the chair. I wasn't expecting to step back in time. But then I had to dig out my credit card to pay for everything.
And now I also have an ear infection. So I feel all extra off-kilter and a bit like a cranky toddler who needs to take lots of naps. Okay, maybe that part is not so different from before.
At least I don't have to practice piano!!!
Ahhhhh! Braces! I'm scarred from my braces days!


Developing sales-oriented sites to ensure the highest efficiency of sales is not brand-new for the online local business owner at this age. The moment that the value of an internet site counted on how visually pleasing it is are long gone. It is everything about being sensible, meaningful, as well as leading the visitors to the internet site making an activity which profits the company at the end of their browsing trip. Hubspot Vs Clickfunnels Which One Is Better as well as Hubspot Vs Clickfunnels Which One Is Better are two services that aid mostly start-ups and also entrepreneurs to make useful sites that in fact drive the sales. Both firms have their very own advantages and disadvantages, as well as people have actually been discussing on which internet site is much better for a lengthy time. This short article contrasts and contrasts both these solution in order to come to a last verdict regarding which service is much better!
Hubspot Vs Clickfunnels Which One Is Better I have actually remained in Digital Advertising for over a decade, as well as I instruct it at Penn State University. Clients come to me at all times looking for cutting-edge methods to make their organisations function online. I wished to know just how on the internet sales legends like Mike Filsaime, Robert Kiyosaki, Tai Lopez and Give Cardone handle to relocate many different items on the net, without any troubles. They simply placed something online as well as it markets! It does not stop selling. So, I spent myself in a number of research and unsurprisingly, discovered that software lagged it all. These individuals don't bother with web sites and also spending a tiny ton of money on company building, when they wish to offer something particular on the internet.
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Sudden numbness/weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body.
The majority of strokes are caused by a blood clot which blocks the blood supply to a part of your brain. A clot dissolving drug called tPA can make the difference between death, severe disability or returning to a normal life. However, tPA must be given within 3 hours. Over 90% of stroke victims wait to call 911 or their Doctor and don't get to the hospital in time to get tPA treatment.
What's the worst that can happen?
If you call 911 and they think you are having a stroke then you will be taken to the hospital immediately and have treatment that may save your life. If the paramedics say you aren't having a stroke you were wise to be safe, not sorry.
Some physical and mental problems after a stroke may be: paralysis (on one side or parts of the body), having trouble with speaking, swallowing, seeing, depression, memory loss, emotional upsets, and judgment difficulties. It is important to start rehabilitation immediately to maximize the results. Your recovery plan may include Physical, Speech, Occupational, Recreational and Music Therapy. Therapy that is started in the hospital usually continues once you return home. If you need some modifications to your home in order to be as independent as possible, the Occupational Therapist will identify what is needed. Those arrangements should be made prior to leaving the hospital.
"Did you know that this year, 120,000 women under 45 will have a stroke-far more than the number who will be diagnosed with breast cancer and HIV/AIDS combined" Prevention November 2003.


This is a project that is developing a portal where you will be able to gain insights into the cryptocurrency world with access to a lot of stuff as relevant news and other stuff that is important for review before investment. Their goal is to give users the opportunity to let go of the guesswork and invest in proper projects, on time.
XResearch is a revolutionary product when it comes to knowledge and research on investments, both for professional traders and beginners in the crypto market. The company behind is a dedicated cryptographic research company and news source. Owners of their tokens will be seen as co-owners of the company.
Several private companies deal with similar tasks within the traditional market, but there are few within the blockchain world.
The upcoming platform will be open to all, and you do not need tokens to use this platform. Analyzes and other material will be available wherever you are in the world. Finally, their goal is to create a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), which functions as the crypto trader's mecca when it comes to communities where investors all over the world come together to find the best in the blockchain world.
Token Holders, on the other hand, could receive additional benefits by owning their token unit, which will soon be issued during a token issue held to fund the project. Token holders, will be able to take advantage of benefits such as the ability to contribute research, become a verified user and the ability to charge for services and knowledge. Access to the tracking of the API, purchase research services, become a compensatory node in XResearch's network, and last but not least – be a co-owner of the company, such as in the stock. However, we can not call it a share, because they come from the bank!
Tokens will then be represented as a currency in the network that can be used for various services and that it represents an asset in the company. This is something that is revolutionary with the new token economy that is about to take over the traditional market. The values are really put into use when it has so many uses, which will also give it value. If this project becomes a success, the token published will also be worth a while. If this project is going to stand out in this technological bubble, only time will show.
According to XResearch's own business plan, the coin issue will start at the end of the year. The tokens that are not sold will be burned as defined as a pre-set smart contract so the value can rise. Private sales are soon around the corner and it is already now possible to sign up for whitelisting. During the first quarter of next year, the headquarters of the company will be set up and a whole development team will be hired for further development of the platform. The launch of the main network will take place in 2020, where the platform will gradually transition to full decentralization, and then the project will eventually become a DAO.
Their business plan is therefore full and long with a clear goal of being one of the leading applications in investment research. The project is led by several individuals who have extensive experience in various fields when it comes to investment, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, financial consulting and research on new products. It will be exciting to keep up with this in the future. You can find the entire business plan, the entrepreneurs behind, the token issue and more about the product on their website, Xres.io.


Race Day Nutrition…it's more than just a pasta dinner!
Nutrition for the big race doesn't start the night before. Just like training takes months, nutrition training should start well in advance to make sure that you are ready for the BIG day. Remember, that everything you do in the days before the race, on race day, and during the race itself, should have been tested-out in training. Here are a few easy to follow guidelines to ensure that you are ready once to gun goes off.
Ensure that you are eating a variety of foods from all food groups, including vegetables and fruit, grain products, milk and alternatives, and meat and alternatives. Another important aspect is ensuring that you are hydrated as dehydration can lead to a decrease in performance. The goal for meals would be to include at least three of the four food groups and for snacks to include at least two of the four food groups. For hydration, aim for light yellow colored urine (not apple juice yellow) by drinking fluids throughout the day.
The goal for your pre-race meal is high carbohydrate, moderate protein, low fat and low fibre…and don't forget fluids!
The goal during the race is fluid intake and for longer events, electrolyte and carbohydrate intake as well. This is important to enhance physical and mental performance, prevent injury, delay fatigue and spare protein. Remember to start ingesting carbohydrates from the start of the race. Slowly work on building your intake in training, and try different combinations of solids and fluids and different brands to see what works for you. What you eat/drink should help you stay mentally and physically ready to compete, it should not give you stomach problems.
Recovery, recovery, recovery! Although the race is (finally) over, nutrition is still important! Follow the 4R's to recovery to help with soreness and fatigue in the days to follow: Rest with sleep, Rehydrate with fluids, Replenish with carbohydrates, Repair/Rebuild with protein.
– Have a snack before you head home from the race by taking advantage of all the great food that is offered once you cross the finish line!
Have more questions on how to get race ready, fueling during your race and/or on enhancing your recovery? Contact Janelle at the Pan-Am Clinic (204-927-2660) to book your nutrition appointment and take the next step in optimizing your performance.
WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT CADENCE?
Cadence is the number of footsteps per minute, also known as stride rate. The ideal cadence is between 170-190 steps per minute.
Similar to checking your heart rate, count the number of steps when running over 15 seconds and multiply by 4. Wearable can be used to assist with checking cadence.
Why is cadence so important?
Increasing cadence will allow the runner to be more efficient, reduce impact, reduce heel strike and most importantly reduce and correct over striding. Over striding is the most common mistake made in recreational runners and the reason for many running injuries.
The ideal and most efficient landing position of the foot is when it lands underneath you, ie: your center of gravity. Over striding is when the foot lands outside the center of gravity, typically in front of the body, resulting in a higher heel strike angle. This will increase the ground reaction forces traveling up the leg, making the runner more susceptible to injury.
Another reason why a higher cadence is advised is simply because it reduces the amount of time the foot spends on the ground. The longer the foot is on the ground during stance phase, the more ground reaction forces will impact the body. Optimal running includes getting the foot in and out of stance phase as quickly as possible, limiting time spent on the ground, propelling the runner forward and ultimately improving efficiency and preventing injuries.
Shorten your stride and run gently. Try to run as quietly as you can. Imagine that you are running over hot coals or over thin ice on a lake. Focus on smaller steps.
Check your cadence at the beginning, middle, and end of your run to see how it varies with warm up and fatigue.
Run to a beat by using a metronome app on your phone in 30-60 sec intervals during your run or download music by beats/minute from Apple Music, iTunes, or Spotify.
Try cycling or spinning for 5 minutes before your run at a high RPM, then running. See how briskly your feet want to move!
After your runs, slip off your shoes and run for 2-3 x 30-50m on grass in your bare feet!
From my own personal experience, changing your cadence will feel very weird at first. It is definitely something to get used to. A common mistake runners make is to simply run faster. The best advice I could give a new runner trying to improve their cadence is to not focus on speed. Cadence should be trained independently from speed in those beginning phases, best done on a treadmill while maintaining a consistent speed. This will improve overall efficiency and over time speed will also increase.
See the link below on YouTube for more information re: using a metronome.
WHY SOMETHING SO RIGHT FEELS SO WRONG!
1.) Place one hand in the center of your chest pressing into the breast bone.
2.) With the other arm straight in front, open the arm to stretch the pec while at the same time the opposite hand pulls the skin on the breast bone away from the moving arm.
3.) Hold for one second and reset to the starting position.
4.) Repeat up to six times on each side.
POSTURE – WHY SOMETHING SO RIGHT FEELS SO WRONG!
We all know that good posture is, well…good! Especially in running, correct posture decreases unwanted pressure through your back and neck, aligns your body so breathing is more efficient and helps negate a lot of chronic injuries and pain by promoting muscle balance throughout your body.
Why then, does "correct" posture feel so awkward and uncomfortable?
Simply put, we live in front of our bodies – from typing on the computer, to driving, from texting, to washing dishes, our actions are generally executed forward from our core. This promotes a hunched over position with frontward rounded shoulders and a forward head poke. You know which posture I'm talking about! In the clinic, we call this upper cross syndrome.
So now when you go to straighten up during your run, your back posture muscles are not only at a structural disadvantage, but they're also fighting gravity, plus all those locked and short front muscles! I would be cranky and tense too if I had to work as hard as those poor postural muscles do!
Create a habit – every time you check your phone or watch, sit-up or stand-up slightly straighter. Over time, this habit change will start creeping into your running. Don't force it into your running!
If you lift weights, try two back (pulling) exercises for every front (pushing) exercise.
We're already forward, so now you're just evening out the playing field for your posture muscles!
Spend time doing range-of-motion exercises, stretches or physical therapy to help lengthen and unstick those short, locked front muscles. Some ideas are: heart-opening yoga, pec massage work and pec stretching, or anything where you are promoting extension through the back and opening through the chest and neck.
Now your back is not fighting your front!
Your body uses less energy to hold you upright, it has greater room to breathe, and allows for more efficient movement of your limbs not only in running but in daily activity! Better posture in running also creates an environment where injury is less likely, and that is something we can all stand-up for!
If you haven't yet made it out to the ABAS AUTO STONY MOUNTAIN RUN – you really need to consider putting it on your Fall race calendar!
This year's event is our fourth annual and is on September 22nd. Early bird discount ends on August 31st, so don't delay!
Stony Mountain provides a great location for an event like this with a combination of quiet town roads and wide/smooth scenic gravel trails through the forests and old quarry. Actually, the Run is the prime fundraiser for the development of the local walking/running trail network and a new section will be built just in time for the Run! Oh, and did I mention the hills? Yes we have hills!!
We also offer custom finisher medals for everyone and awards (complete with podium!) for the top three male and female in each event.
Also, for those youth members, our 3K event is part of the MRA Youth Series.
Event/distance details provided below and more information at the links provided (including Running Room registration link).
ALL-FAB OLYMPIC – 10K QUARRY RUN: Timed event. Finisher medals. Medals for top three female and male runners.
Registration cost $20 (early bird), $25 (regular) or $30 (late/race day). Start time 10:00am.
DEPREZ & ASSOCIATES PWM – WHAT THE HILL 5K RACE: Timed event. Finisher medals.
Medals for top three female and male runners.
Registration cost $20 (early bird), $25 (regular), or $30 (late/race day). Start time 10:15am.
NOTE this is a change from past years where each runner ran 1 mile. Timed event. Finisher medals. Registration cost $20 (early bird), $28 (regular), or $36 late (race day). Start time 9:45am.
SUNOVA STONY SCAMPER: 3KM fun walk or run. Open to all ages!! Timed. Finisher medal.
Medal for top three female and male runners born 2005 or later. Part of MRA Youth Series.
Individual Registration cost $15 (early bird), $20 (regular), $25 (late/race day). Family rate $45, $60, $75. Start time 10:15am.
2018 T-REX TOONIE RUN: Short sprint for Kindergarten and Pre-school age children.
Registration $2.00 on race day (no online registration). Start time 9:40am.
Active Aging in Manitoba (AAIM) formerly known as ALCOA-MB, is collaborating with Sport Manitoba to present the 2018 Active Aging in Manitoba Expo: Toward Sport for Life on Monday, October 1st, 2018 at the Canada Games Sport for Life Centre, 145 Pacific Avenue in Winnipeg. Save the date and plan to participate! For more details contact: jevanchuk@sogh.mb.ca or call: 204-632-3947.
Please feel free to share with anyone who may be interested. We hope to see you there!
Each registered runner will receive a FREE technical shirt (while quantities last). After the run/walk, participants will be treated to a hot breakfast.
We challenge runners and walkers to be creative and dress up for this event. There will be a prize for the most creative outfit.
Each registered runner will be included in a prize draw at the conclusion of the race.
We'd greatly appreciate your help.
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THE MRA FAMILY ICE CREAM RUN ENDS TONIGHT!
Online registration for the MRA Family Ice Cream Run #1 1k & 2.2k closes at midnight tonight. Avoid the line-up and register online for our first Ice Cream Run on Wednesday, July 4th 7:00pm at Crescent Drive Park in Fort Garry. On-site registration is also available by filling out the entry form and bringing it with you. This is probably the least expensive event you'll do all year and you get ice cream at the finish line! Individual registration is $10 and families with up to 6 members living at the same address are $20. Register for both of our Ice Cream Runs at the same time (series) and get a $5 discount. Strollers and dogs are welcome! Both the 1k and the 2.2k are part of the MRA Youth Race Series.


Are you facing the toilet that fights back?
The one cleaning job we face often when completing move out cleaning for rental properties, one off cleans ready for new owners or deceased estate cleaning is that the toilets can be very dirty to the point sometimes of no return and home owners just want to grab the dynamite!
thousands of dollars from replacing new toilets in their units.
Today, I will share how we got a very dirty toilet clean and how easy it can be. There are many cleaning hacks that tell you to buy a bottle of coke and pour it all over your toilet, or rub lemons on the bowl 3 times and keep your fingers crossed. It does not need to be that difficult.
Yes some cleaning tips/hacks may work but let's keep it very simple and cost effective and less time consuming.
Other dish washing liquids work well but Palmolive is the best by far. Simply put a little in the bowl on the ceramic where the marks are. Just a little and squirt it around the bowl and leave it for approx 3-5mins.
Simply scrub of and it will come off easily and has far less chemical components that harsh cleaners.
For marks on the seat, finger marks, dirt and grime I use a magic eraser or Jif or a mixture of both – once the entire toilet is clean I will respray it with disinfectant to make it just perfect and smelling just right.


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