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London 2012: For Canada's Custio Clayton, boxing was love at first fight
By Paul HunterFeature Writer
Sun., July 8, 2012timer8 min. read
The kid couldn't have weighed more than 60 pounds and he looked even scrawnier standing in the comparatively vast expanse of a boxing ring.
Gary Johnson had trained national champions before, including his own son Kirk, who went to the Barcelona Olympics. So when the scraggy 8-year-old followed an older cousin into the City of Lakes Boxing Club in Dartmouth, N.S., the seen-it-all-before gym guru likely greeted him with little more than a harrumph.
Boys came and went all the time, their flirtation with the sweet science usually lasting only a workout or two. Why make any emotional investment? This one would be gone soon enough.
That's when something special happened. On that afternoon 16 years ago, Custio Clayton won Johnson over. Clayton not only began the journey that would take him to this summer's London Olympics, the young lad who was being raised by a single mom found a father figure.
"He did a cartwheel in the ring," Johnson recalls of Clayton's show-us-what-you-got debut.
"He stood on his hands for a while. Then he started walking on his hands. I was surprised. He was so strong, walking on his hands in the ring. Then he did some push-ups with his feet up against the wall. I said, 'Wow.' I couldn't believe how strong and athletic he was. And he had so much balance. He was only a small little kid but his eyes were so sparkly. He was so intelligent. You'd show him something and he'd imitate your moves. He'd get it perfectly."
It was a perfect pairing. Johnson found his latest protegé and Clayton said he found instant comfort in the gym that "smelled like boxing." Johnson was his great uncle — something the boy didn't realize at the time — and several of the others working out there were either friends or family. The kid was hooked. It was love at first fight, or at least the first hint of a fight.
"As soon as I walked in that gym, there was nothing on my mind but boxing," Clayton, now 24, recalls.
It was a love affair that blossomed though workouts once a week for a year, those early days focusing on technique. He then graduated to three times a week and eventually, before he turned 11, he had his first exhibition fight. Always landing more blows that he absorbed, he told everyone he was going to the Olympics, even though he had no idea what the Olympics were. He had three Canadian titles by the time he was 15.
Rather than recoil at the thought of her son trading punches in the ring, Elizabeth Clayton worked at whatever jobs she could in Dartmouth, cleaning houses and pulling warehouse shifts, to support his passion. Though she says they lived in good neighbourhoods, first in North Preston and then, after a short move "into the city," in Dartmouth, she worried about the dangers that could entrap an idle teen. She liked the dedication Custio showed towards boxing and the discipline it gave him.
"Boxing kept him out of trouble," she says. "I used to work all kinds of different jobs just to try to help pay off tickets for him to travel and to pay his dues and his registration fees."
As with many love affairs, there were rough patches. Clayton stopped boxing after his third Canadian junior title. After all that intense focus and time in the gym, he said he wanted to be a kid for a while.
"I was just trying to finish high school and graduate. I was 16 at the time, I still wanted to get a little of the teenage years," he said.
For two years, Clayton didn't fight. He indeed got his high school education. He made the school basketball and track teams, just to see if he could. He hung out with his buddies. He became a dad.
Finally, mom had enough and stepped in with a major attitude adjustment.
"I said, 'You haven't been in the gym, you took time off for whatever. You are to go back to the gym because I'm the one forking out my money. You're the one that wants to do this and you're going to do this. If I'm going to spend my money out of my pocket, you're going to do this.' It was what he wanted to do so he went back and he did not quit (again)," recounts the 42-year-old, who now works as a nurse at a seniors' home.
"Children will be children. He found out what he wanted. Some of his friends were out there, doing this, doing that and he wanted no part of it. He takes after me. He's a momma's boy. He never drank, never smoked."
Clayton says that all along his intention was to return to the ring. He just needed a break.
"My mind was still on boxing. I never did quit," he maintains. "I just wasn't competing. I was still training. I just didn't feel like fighting. I wanted to be able to go when I wanted to go, go hang out with people. I always had the thought that once I'm done school, I'm going back (to boxing)."
Clayton, saying he felt better for the mental break, hit the gym hard again. And he reeled off three more national titles as welterweight.
Clayton does not believe he would have qualified as one of Canada's two male boxers going to London if not for the support and encouragement of his mother.
"Days I wanted to stop, she made sure I kept going," he says.
Also important was Johnson, who has been in the corner of so many national champs — 14 to be exact — that he doesn't even count the silver and bronze medals any more.
Clayton's father lived in Toronto and wasn't in the boxer's life much when he was a young boy — they now have what the boxer calls a "good relationship" — and it was Johnson who filled the role of male authority figure.
"When Custio came along, (Johnson) just took him under his wing as if he was one of his own," says Elizabeth Clayton.
"Gary means everything to Custio. Without Gary, Custio would not be as far as he is. Gary trains him well. He sets him straight. He tells him what to do and what not to do. He was just like a father to him."
Johnson, who says he is in his 60s, said his latest champ is a natural, a man gifted with athletic talent that would have made him successful in any sport. But, more than that, he says Clayton has the dedication to spend hours fine-tuning his technique and to meticulously study video of his opponents, looking for an edge.
"He's very quick, very intelligent," says Johnson. "He's got a photographic memory, I would say. You show him something once and he catches it right away."
Johnson describes Clayton as a "soft-spoken, family-type of guy" who, after that mental break he took as a teen, has never wavered in his dedication to boxing. For that, Johnson says his mom deserves credit for instilling proper values in her son.
"She supported him in the sport while being the mother and the father to him," says Johnson. "To keep a kid out of trouble in this day and age is a big job being a single mother. Just staying out of trouble these days is a big feat when there are so many guns and so many drugs on the street. Custio managed to stay away from all of that."
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Clayton says he was never really tempted by the pitfalls that can interrupt an athletic career.
"Even when I was young and a little boy, I always had my own mind. I never did nothing bad," he says. "I got a lot of buddies that smoke and drink and they were trying to get me to do it. But that's something I never wanted to do. . . . I wanted to make something out of boxing."
The discipline Clayton inherited from his mother is now crucial outside the ring as well. He has two children of his own: a daughter who is about to turn 7 and who lives with her mother; and a 2-year-old son who lives with Clayton and his girlfriend Charis Diggs. Clayton juggles his training routine around looking after the children while his girlfriend is studying to be a nurse.
He will, for example, do his running in the morning, look after the kids — including picking his daughter up from school — in the afternoons while Diggs is away and then do two hours of gym work in the evening five or six times a week.
"It's a busy schedule but I've been doing it for a while now so I'm used to it," he says.
When the Olympics are over, the 5-foot-9 Clayton plans to turn pro and he knows coming home with a medal from London would help make the jump.
"That would be huge," he says. "The Olympics are my first dream but . . . hopefully one day I'll be world champion. First I'll go to the Olympics and hopefully I can bring home a medal for Canada."
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It's a tough, experienced field but with a good draw, Nova Scotia's Custio Clayton could bring Canada its first boxing medal since 1996.
Daniel Trepanier, the high-performance director of the Canadian Amateur Boxing Association, puts Clayton in the top 12 welterweights (69-kilogram division) in the world and says he is a boxer with enough strength, speed and technical savvy to surprise in London.
"He's got a pretty good chance (at a medal), depending on the draw," said Trepanier. "Top eight is really possible. With a good draw and little bit of luck, he could have a bronze."
What the 24-year-old Dartmouth resident hopes to avoid is taking on one of the powerhouse fighters in his weight class in his preliminary match or in the round of 16 as the field is pared from 32 boxers.
Among those that Clayton would prefer to match up with later, if at all, is Ukraine's Taras Shelestyuk, who is considered the Games' top welterweight. The 26-year-old won gold at the 2011 world championships.
Another gold-medal contender is Kazakhstan's Serik Sapiyev, who lost 16-10 to Shelestyuk in the final at that world championship. The 28-year-old Sapiyev was world champion as a light welterweight (64 kilograms) in 2005 and 2007 and won a bronze at the 2009 worlds after moving up to welterweight.
Other significant stumbling blocks to the podium are Fred Evans of Wales, Alexis Vastine of France and Russian Andrey Zamkovoy.
The American hope in this weight class is Errol Spence, the top welterweight in the U.S. over the last three years. He also has a shot a medal.
Clayton is one of only two Canadian men who qualified to box at the London Games. Super heavyweight (91-plus kilograms) Simon Kean of Trois-Rivières, Que., is the other but he is a longer shot than Clayton to reach the podium.
Action in the men's welterweight division gets underway on July 29; super heavyweights begin Aug. 1. Matches are three rounds of three minutes each.
Canada's last boxing medal was a silver won at Atlanta in 1996 by Halifax heavyweight David Defiagbon.


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Q: Why using XML to create GUI is a good practice in Android I am from Java Swing background. May I know why using XML to create GUI is a good practice in Android? For instance, instead of writing the code in (Which makes me feel more comfortable with it as I use to Swing desktop application)
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       TextView tv = new TextView(this);
       tv.setText("Hello, Android");
       setContentView(tv);
   }
}

We write the code in XML way.
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
    }
}

In tutorial, it states that,

This structure makes it very easy to
  quickly build up UIs, using a more
  simple structure and syntax than you
  would use in a programmatic layout.

However, I don't really buy the idea, as I feel that creating a separate XML file is more cumbersome.
Can anyone give a real world example (in the sense of Android), why using XML to build GUI is more superior than bare Java code?
If GUI programming through XML is really a good stuff, why it still hasn't become a common practice among GUI desktop application developers?

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If GUI programming through XML is really a good stuff, why it still hasn't become a common practice among GUI desktop application developers?

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*.NET development uses XAML, which is XML

*Flex development, for Web and desktop via AIR, which is XML

*XUL development is XML

*There are ~20 XML bindings for Swing and SWT
Considering that .NET development alone probably exceeds all other desktop GUI development combined, I would argue that it has "become a common practice among GUI desktop application developers".
Moreover, using XML for GUIs is one facet of the larger "declarative UI" trend, which has many non-XML forms, such as the JSON-ish QML for Qt. AFAICT, all major GUI development is moving to incorporate such declarative markup in one form or fashion.

A: Using XML layouts has many advantages over Java code. You get easy references to strings, drawables, dimensions, themes, etc. But the biggest advantage is automatic support for multiple configurations. Without changing your code you can have different layouts for landscape and portrait by just having an XML layout in layout-land/ and layout-port/. And you can do the same to adapt the layout to different resolutions, languages, etc.

A: As i think you are from the Java Swing background so may be you consider the programmatically creating layout easy task. But there are many reasons that you can think of XML strategy:
1) XML layout design is easy to understand as well keep application user interface seperate from the application code.
2) There ary many devices in the market having diffirent-diffrent display sizes and Android provides an easier task to create UI  for all using XML and keeping them seperate.
3) Also if you want to develop an multilingual application then XML is the best one.
Bottom line:
Only use the Java code for layout if you really need otherwise you have still best option XML.

A: Think of creating a UI using HTML/CSS. I always find that handy as compared to Swing. And I believe, its not just me, but other folks too think in the same way i.e. Jelly Swing.

A: Well, for one thing, it allows you to use GUI builders (like the eclipse-powered builder Google provides).
It also helps you separate your business logic from your display logic.
Probably, though, you're just really good at Swing code, and you've forgotten how long it took to build up those skills. :)

A: I have to say, either ways can work well if developer is skilled.
However, I think we have to consider how this work in a team. I agree with tangentstorm. In this way, we can easy to decouple UI developer and app developer. In a team, ppl can only focus what they are doing.

A: Here are my thoughts:

*

*a nice way to take care of my GUI plumbing.

*whenever I need to experiment with  GUI dimensional values, code doesn't need recompilation

*XML Layouts are usually very easy to understand - initial GUI development becomes simplistic

A: One thing that you should consider is that performance of creating your UI dynamically in your code has better performance in android. Telegram has so good performance also uses dynamic UI.
Also, you can check article about dynamic and XML in performance in android that dynamic always has better performance.
But it's obvious that dynamic UI is much harder than XML.

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Intel Corp. launched a new chipset for desktop computers on Tuesday and vowed to take back market share lost to its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., by the end of the year.
The P965 Express chipset, formerly code-named Broadwater, will work with Intel's new Core 2 Duo desktop processor, also known as Conroe, which is due to go on sale next month. The chipset has started shipping in volume to PC makers already, Intel said.
Chipsets are collections of chips that surround the main processor and connect it to other parts of the motherboard. Together, the new desktop chips will offer a big boost in PC performance, including better graphics, while also using less power, said Anand Chandrasekher, an Intel senior vice president, in a speech at the start of Computex trade show in Taipei.
They are among several upcoming products designed to help Intel claw back market share lost to AMD. Other upcoming launches include the Woodcrest server chip, due later this month, and the Merom laptop chip, due in August. Like Conroe, Merom and Woodcrest are based on Intel's new Core processor design, which replaces the Netburst architecture it uses today.
Intel has discussed the processors before, but Chandrasekher also offered performance figures to show how much they will improve on its current offerings.
Conroe will be 40 percent faster than Intel's best desktop chip today, but consume 40 percent less power, he said. The Merom notebook chip will offer 20 percent better performance and about the same battery life. Woodcrest, the server chip, will offer an 80 percent lift in performance but use 35 percent less power, according to Chandrasekher.
The boost comes partly from the new Core architecture, and also from a move to more advanced manufacturing techniques. The figures are unofficial, based on Intel estimates using a benchmark called the SPECint_rate_base2000, the company noted.
It's in the server arena that Intel could use a boost the most, since it is here that AMD's Opteron processors have been stealing market share. Speaking to reporters after his speech, Chandrasekher vowed that Intel will start to recover market share from AMD by the end of the year.
There was no mention of Intel's Itanium server processor in the executive's speech. He told reporters afterwards that the first dual-core Itanium, codenamed Montecito, is on track to ship the middle of this year — meaning any day now — but he declined to be more specific.
Chandrasekher likened the significance of the Core 2 Duo chips to the introduction of Intel's first Pentium processor a decade ago.
Perhaps ironically, he also announced a marketing shift in which Intel will relegate its Pentium line of processors to what the company calls its "value PC" segment, or those for cheaper PCs, alongside the Celeron. The Celeron brand in turn will be used for very low-end PCs, such as those sold in emerging markets, the executive said.
The upcoming Core 2 Duo chips will occupy Intel's top pricing band, while its existing dual core chips will occupy the middle tier, Chandrasekher said.
The Intel chief also announced what he called Intel's first "ultra low voltage" dual-core notebook processor, the Core Duo U2500, which is based on the existing Netburst architecture. The chip will ship this month, he said. Pricing and specifications weren't immediately available.


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Radiohead's new album to drop May 8; listen to new single 'Daydreaming'
by: Michael Cooper May 6, 2016
When it was announced in April that a new Radiohead album was on its way, the hype and anticipation reached a fever pitch immediately. Things only escalated as the band delivered mysterious pamphlets to fans, erased their online presence, and released their new single "Burn The Witch" with a claymation video.
The Oxfordshire quintet has now shared their second single, "Daydreaming." The official video features frontman Thom Yorke walking hurriedly around an empty parking garage, looking concerned — though, admittedly, Yorke is something of a cypher. The musical accompaniment features tape effects to make the track slide and reconfigure, while also featuring a twinkling chime-like sound. The band has collaborated with Hollywood auteur Paul Thomas Anderson for the video.
Radiohead has also confirmed that their album will be released on May 8.
Radiohead/Paul Thomas Anderson "Daydreaming" https://t.co/azK7cIc47f
Our album will be released digitally on May 8th pic.twitter.com/TIXCfUuldb
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Mystery solved: Northern Ontario toddler didn't have measles, health unit says
The Canadian Press Published Friday, February 27, 2015 7:13PM EST Last Updated Friday, February 27, 2015 7:14PM EST
TORONTO -- It's so CSI.
Laboratory testing has solved the mystery of how a little girl from Elliot Lake who had not travelled outside Northern Ontario contracted measles.
The answer: She didn't.
Work done at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg showed that the measles virus that had been picked up by a swab inserted into the little girl's nostril was actually the strain contained in the measles vaccine.
Measles vaccine contains a live but weakened virus that induces an immune response but does not trigger the disease.
That means something else was almost certainly the cause of the little girl's illness, says Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, acting medical officer of health for the Algoma region, which includes Elliot Lake.
"We weren't expecting this result. But in the end I think it's good news for the community and for Northern Ontario at this point in time," says Sutcliffe.
How the vaccine virus ended up in the little girl's nose isn't really clear at this point, Sutcliffe admits.
The child received a her first dose of measles vaccine last fall. Because it's a live virus vaccine, she could have shed viruses for a short period after she got the shot, even as long as three weeks out from the immunization. But you would not expect to see vaccine viruses in her nose this long after vaccination.
Sutcliffe says one hypothesis is that she picked up the vaccine virus at the daycare she attended. Several children at the daycare had recently been vaccinated and were likely shedding viruses.
Kids touch things and then stick germ-laden fingers in mouths or nostrils. This doesn't mean the vaccine virus would have made the little girl sick. It was just present.
"It's almost like in this situation, because that test is so sensitive, that the virus was picked up almost like a bystander, in a child who also had some illness. She had a rash and some of the symptoms -- not exactly typical of measles -- but did have symptoms of measles," Sutcliffe says.
Striking the case from the record means Ontario has recorded a total of 18 cases so far this year, all in the Toronto and Niagara regions.
Meanwhile the measles outbreak in Quebec that is linked to the large Disneyland outbreak continues to grow.
A spokesperson for the Lanaudiere health region, headquartered at Joliette, says the health unit has now recorded 32 cases, all part of one chain of transmission that started when a person who became infected at Disneyland returned to Quebec.
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- According to an estimate released today by the American Gaming Association (AGA), Americans will bet $4.2 billion on Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, up 8% over last year.
Nearly 97% of those bets — $4.1 billion worth — will be wagered illegally, standing in stark contrast to the approximately $115 million bet legally on the New England Patriots-Seattle Seahawks game last year. In fact, the illegal market is 35 times greater than the legal marketplace.
"As Americans celebrate a milestone Super Bowl, they'll also bet a record amount on the Big Game," said Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the AGA. "Just like football, sports betting has never been more popular than it is today. The casino gaming industry is leading the conversation around a new approach to sports betting that enhances consumer protections, strengthens the integrity of games and recognizes fans' desire for greater engagement with sports."
Overall, AGA's estimate found that Americans wagered $149 billion on sports in 2015, up from nearly $145 billion in 2014.
Before last January's Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl, AGA released its first-ever estimate predicting fans would wager $3.8 billion worth of illegal bets on the title game.
Late last year, following months of study and deliberation, AGA's Board of Directors issued a set of recommendations that marked a major shift in the industry's approach to sports betting. AGA is building a broad coalition that will determine whether a rational alternative to current sports betting law in the United States exists. Such an alternative could include strict regulation, rigorous consumer protections and robust tools for law enforcement to eliminate illegal sports betting and strengthen the integrity of games.
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Casey Affleck to be Honored at Palm Springs Film Festival
Posted: Friday, November 11, 2016 – 1:25 PM
(CNS) – Casey Affleck will be awarded the Desert Palm Achievement Award at January's Palm Springs International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Friday.
Affleck will be honored for his role in "Manchester By The Sea," set for wide release next week.
According to Festival Chairman Harold Matzner, "Casey Affleck delivers his finest performance in `Manchester By The Sea,' playing a Boston janitor living a lonely and isolated existence. He has earned rave reviews from critics and is sure to garner awards attention. It is our honor to present the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, to Casey Affleck."
Past recipients of the award include Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeff Bridges, Johnny Depp, Bradley Cooper, Matthew McConaughey, Sean Penn, Colin Firth, Brad Pitt and Eddie Redmayne.
Affleck will receive the award at the Film Awards Gala, held Jan. 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, and hosted by Mary Hart.
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will run from Jan. 2-16.
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The Claire Pettibone collection embodies the designer's vision of vintage romance with an enchanted bohemian spirit. Claire's gentle use of color, couture details, European laces and graceful embroideries create a look that is both romantic and ethereal. She creates lines that flatter the body and is known for her signature illusion back details. Each season tells a unique story, and the beautiful embellished fabrics that Claire dreams, sketches and drapes are the first chapter. Each style is lovingly hand made in Los Angeles.
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Q: A mixture of AP and GP A battery loses $10$ mAh of after every hour when in use. The same battery loses $1\%$ of its current amount of charge every hour when not in use.
Suppose that the battery is fully charged with $1000$ mAh. The battery is used for an hour, left unused for the next hour, use for the consequent hour, and left unused again for the consequent hour.
How much charge does the batter have left after $2n$ hours, where $n$ is a positive integer?
I came up with a recurrence relation to describe the amount of charge left after $2n$ hours:
$$A_n = (A_{n-1} - 10)\cdot0.99\\=0.99A_{n-1} - 9.9$$
And then I rearrange to get
$$A_n -0.99A_{n-1} = -9.9$$
Now, I suppose that I would have to apply some sort of summation to both sides such that the LHS experiences a whole lot of summation, to leave $A_n$. However, I could not think of anything.
Is my method sound? Also, what summation should I apply? This came out in today's test and I ended up confusing myself with my workings (3-hr long papers are tiring).

A: Your working is sound, here is what you do, to sum a mixture of A.P. and G.P.
Given a sum of the form,
$$\underbrace{a+(a+d)k+((a+d)k+d)k+\ldots+((a+d)k+\cdots+d)k}_{\text {n terms}}$$
We want to obtain a closed form solution.
$$\underbrace{a+ak+ak^2+\cdots+ak^n}_{\text{Geometric Progression} = S_1} +dk+dk^2+dk+dk^3+dk^2+dk+\cdots+dk^n+dk^{n-1}+\cdots dk$$
$$S_1+ ndk+(n-1)dk^2+(n-2)dk^3+\cdots+dk^n$$
$$S_1+\underbrace{n(dk+dk^2+\cdots+dk^n)}_{\text{Geometric Progression}=S_2}-d(k^2+2k^3+3k^4+\cdots+(n-1)k^n)$$
Can you do it now?
I think there might be a better solution though.

A: Charge consumed in $2n$ hours = $$d+0.01(a-d)+d+0.01(a-2d) + \dots + d + 0.01(a-nd) = nd+0.01(na-\frac{n(n+1)}{2}d)$$
where $d=10$ and $a=1000$.


This You Tube film clip is an extract from 1987 TV documentary film by Glyn Edwards showing highlights of the parade and mass gathering of Punch & Judy 'Professors' celebrating the 325th 'birthday' of Mr. Punch in London's Covent Garden.
Next year, 2012, is the 350th anniversary and there will be celebrations taking place all over the UK including a massive party in London. Find out more by visiting the Big Grin web site.
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The Braves won the NL East title for their first playoff appearance since 2013 and have one of baseball's most exciting young rosters.
Manager Brian Snitker is leaning toward moving Ender Inciarte back to the leadoff spot, where NL Rookie of the Year Ronald Acuna Jr. thrived last season, which would allow the rookie star to drop down into the cleanup spot. Donaldson would hit second, followed by Freeman, Acuna and Markakis, setting up an order that goes back and forth between left- and right-handed hitters. Ozzie Albies, Dansby Swanson and whoever is catching – either Tyler Flowers or Brian McCann – would fill out the bottom of the lineup.


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Buckle up: A big day for California
by Emily Hoeven August 16, 2021 August 16, 2021
From left: Dina Kassan talks with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who visited Carl B. Munck Elementary School, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. The governor announced that California will require its 320,000 teachers and school employees to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing. Photo by Santiago Mejia, San Francisco Chronicle, Pool
Local election offices must send ballots for the Newsom recall election to every active registered voter as the campaign starts its final sprint.
Today is a big day for California.
First, it's the deadline for local elections offices to start sending mail-in ballots for the Sept. 14 recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ballots have already started hitting mailboxes in many parts of the state, prompting Newsom and his leading challengers to turbocharge their campaigns over the weekend. The governor, attempting to rally apathetic Democratic voters who appear largely unaffected by his blitz of TV ads, pivoted to in-person events in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. He appealed to organized labor and Latino voters while pinpointing conservative talk show host Larry Elder, whom he described as "more extreme" than former President Donald Trump, as his biggest threat.
Elder, who has consistently led other recall candidates in the polls — including one from CBS/You Gov released Sunday — hosted his campaign's first virtual press conference on Friday, focusing on state policies that he said adversely impacted Asian Americans. Meanwhile, the California Democratic Party on Saturday filed an ethics complaint against Elder, citing a Los Angeles Times investigation that found he appeared to have not properly disclosed his business holdings — obscuring potential conflicts of interest.
Also today, students in San Francisco and Los Angeles Unified will return to campus for full-time in-person instruction — a milestone complicated by the challenges and uncertainties ahead. Los Angeles is scrambling to fill thousands of vacancies for teachers, counselors, special education instructors, nurses and mental health specialists. The district, which on Friday mandated vaccines for all staff — a stricter stance than the state's — also said more than 12,500 students plan to pursue online independent study, up from around 1,300 before the pandemic. In San Francisco, there aren't enough spots for all the families who want to enroll their kids in independent study.
San Francisco parent Shurrin Ho: "I'd rather have my kids be stupid, without an education, rather than die. That represents what many, many parents are saying."
If California had kept its color-coded reopening system governed by COVID rates, 19 counties — including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento — would be blocked from reopening schools. But coronavirus isn't the only challenge: Some Northern California rural schools have delayed their reopening plans as wildfires ravage the region.
Finally, state lawmakers return to Sacramento today after their summer recess. To prevent further Capitol coronavirus outbreaks, lawmakers, key legislative staff and journalists must submit to a strict testing regimen, regardless of vaccination status.
Lawmakers have until Sept. 10 to pass or kill hundreds of bills and decide the final details of California's $263 billion budget — meaning we're in for a frenzied four weeks.
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The coronavirus bottom line: As of Saturday, California had 4,022,222 confirmed cases (+0.3% from previous day) and 64,183 deaths (+0.1% from previous day), according to state data.
California has administered 45,332,525 vaccine doses, and 64.4% of eligible Californians are fully vaccinated.
Plus: CalMatters regularly updates this pandemic timeline tracking the state's daily actions. We're also tracking the state's coronavirus hospitalizations by county and lawsuits against COVID-19 restrictions.
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1. Vaccine fight heats up; hospitals stretched
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Among the bills that will likely face intense scrutiny: one that would block protesters from getting within 30 feet of people entering vaccination sites, which some First Amendment experts are already declaring unconstitutional. It's the latest chapter in the Golden State's fierce vaccine wars, which took a violent turn on Saturday when a man was stabbed and a reporter attacked during an anti-vaccination rally in front of Los Angeles City Hall. Meanwhile, state worker unions representing firefighters and maintenance employees filed unfair labor practice charges against Newsom's recent directive that they either get vaccinated or tested weekly, just days after California's largest state worker union did the same. The state's correctional officer union on Friday pledged to fight an order that it says would mandate vaccinations for health care workers in its prisons. And hundreds of San Francisco employees are seeking exemptions from a city vaccination mandate, with some sheriff's deputies threatening to resign over the policy.
Amid this pushback, the successes of Imperial County are all the more impressive. Despite the county's remoteness and high poverty, 86% of its eligible residents have received at least one dose — one of the highest vaccination rates in California, CalMatters' Ana Ibarra reports.
But, health officials warn, the battle isn't over yet. COVID patients have doubled in California hospitals, prompting some facilities to postpone elective procedures. At the same time, emergency rooms are seeing an unprecedented surge in non-COVID patients, stretching space and staff to their limits.
Paul Larimore, ER manager at La Mesa's Sharp Grossmont Hospital: "We're really reaching a kind of pinnacle of all aspects flooding in at one time."
2. A complex unemployment picture
California's unemployment situation is looking iffy. Even as desperate businesses beef up benefits to attract workers — offering everything from yoga classes to therapy to 401(k)s — nearly 69,000 Californians filed new jobless claims for the week ending Aug. 7, federal data show. That's an increase of more than 6,000 from the week before and the state's highest total in nearly three months — a stark contrast from the nation overall, which saw new claims drop by 12,000. And although California's problem-plagued Employment Development Department is making progress on its claims backlog, more than 216,000 claims had been stuck in the logjam for at least three weeks as of Aug. 7.
Further complicating matters, the federal $300 weekly unemployment supplement and a host of other federal jobless programs are slated to expire on Sept. 4, throwing millions of Californians into limbo. Experts say this could push some low-wage workers to reenter the job market, though opportunities in other sectors remain scarce.
Mary Robinson, an Oakland resident laid off from her job as a procurement analyst at an insurance company: "I have not been able to get a job, and I have applied like my hair was on fire. I have an MBA, a BA and 10 years experience in my field, and I can't even get a temporary position. … I would take an administrative assistant job, but no one's going back to the office."
3. Fire and drought hit Northern California
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The numbers quantifying the destruction of the Dixie Fire, now the second-largest in California history, are staggering: 553,000 acres charred, 29,000 people forced to evacuate, 15,000 homes threatened, 1,120 buildings destroyed and another 74 damaged. More than 6,500 personnel are assigned to the blaze — representing nearly 25% of firefighters attacking large uncontained fires nationwide. And the Dixie Fire is only expected to grow: Thunderstorms and dry, gusty winds were predicted Sunday along the Sierra Nevada mountains, meaning Bay Area residents will likely spend their fifth day in a row under smoky skies. PG&E warned Sunday night that it may shut off power for portions of the Bay Area close to the Dixie Fire. Meanwhile, another fire ignited late Saturday in El Dorado County, forcing more evacuations.
In addition to the flames, Northern California is also getting hit hard by drought — which Southern California is much more prepared to handle. In Mendocino, for example, water is so scarce that restaurants have closed their restrooms to diners, instead directing them to portable toilets on the sidewalk. Today, the state could start issuing formal orders blocking thousands of farmers, landowners and others from diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed.
Julian Lopez, owner of Café Beaujolais in Mendocino: "There's that fear in the back of all our minds there is going to be a time when we don't have water at all."
Podcast: CalMatters reporter Joe Hong and CapRadio reporter Sammy Caiola discuss how teachers and health care professionals are reacting to Newsom's new vaccination mandates.
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CalMatters columnist Dan Walters: With the outcome of the Newsom recall election too close to call, it's time to ponder what might happen if he's ousted.
California must adopt universal voting: That way, residents could focus on the caliber of candidates and quality of legislative proposals, rather than worrying about how and when to vote, argue Kevin Frazier of the UC Berkeley School of Law and Ann Ravel, former chair of the Federal Election Commission.
A more humane way to handle human trafficking: State lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow individuals like me to be seen not as criminals, but as survivors and humans, writes April Grayson of the Young Women's Freedom Center.
Other things worth your time
Former Gov. Jerry Brown praises Biden for 'courageous' Afghanistan pullout as country falls to the Taliban. // Fox News
California recall: Governor race has Democrats nervous about Feinstein seat. // CNN
Compton city councilman charged with election rigging, bribery in race decided by one vote. // Los Angeles Times
Effort to recall six Huntington Beach council members could get messy. // Orange County Register
Judge rules against California charter schools in class-action funding lawsuit. // Los Angeles Times
Cannabis might be legal on streets of California, but not in its prisons, court rules. // San Francisco Chronicle
Kern County will sue Newsom for efforts to ban fracking. // Governing
No criminal charges in fatal 2018 California wildfire. // Associated Press
Inside the political battle to preserve a sprawling national forest in California. // National Geographic
Boy dies from brain-eating amoeba in California. // Associated Press
Riverside County desert ghost town sells for $6 million. // Orange County Register
Oakland Athletics analyst brings astrophysics expertise to pitching. // Mercury News
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Fubo Launches New Sports Network on Samsung and LG Smart TVs
By Daniel Frankel 24 July 2019
FuboTV's new 24-hour sports channel, Fubo Sports Network, will now be available on Samsung and LG smart TVs.
The fledgling sports channel will be available within the the Samsung TV Plus and LG Channels OTT ecosystems starting today. According to Statisa, market leader Samsung and LG controlled half of the U.S. smart TV market in 2018.
Last month, start-up FuboTV soft-launched Fubo Sports Network, a digital channel that it hopes will some day become a full-fledged, 24-hour network devoted to event coverage and studio analysis, similar to how Cheddar, recently acquired by Altice USA, gestated around financial news.
But until today, the channel has only been available in the basic tier of virtual pay TV service, FuboTV, as well as AVOD platform Xumo.
Related: FuboTV Seeks to Follow Cheddar Playbook with Sports Network Launch
"It's still early days for Fubo Sports Network, and I'm pleased partners like Samsung and Xumo are embracing the power of the network to reach sports fans," said David Gandler, co-founder and CEO, fuboTV. "Our goals for fubo Sports Network are ambitious yet simple: We plan to deliver sports programming 24/7 that's a bit edgy, always fun and with a clear point of view, and make it free to sports fans on multiple platforms and on every device."
FuboTV said 90% of viewing of its vMVPD platform occurred on connected TVs in the second quarter.
The company said "talent-driven" original programming will debut on Fubo Sports Network "in the coming weeks."
"We're thrilled to expand the reach of fubo Sports Network to LG Channels powered by Xumo and Samsung TV Plus so quickly after our soft launch just a few weeks ago," said Min Kim, vice president, business development, fuboTV. "24/7 live networks are a natural fit on smart TVs and, with our viewers wanting sports content nonstop, we're excited to bring the fubo Sports Network free to consumers on two of the largest smart TV platforms."


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1. The Commission on the Truth considers that there is full evidence that Dutch journalists Koos Jacobus Andries Koster, Jan Cornelius Kuiper Joop, Hans Lodewijk ter Laag and Johannes Jan Willemsen were killed on 17 March 1982 in an ambush which was planned in advance by the Commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, Colonel Mario A. Reyes Mena, with the knowledge of other officers at the El Paraíso barracks, on the basis of intelligence data alerting them to the journalists' presence, and was carried out by a patrol of soldiers from the Atonal BIRI, under the command of Sergeant Mario Canizales Espinoza.
Today an event was held in San Salvador in commemoration of the Dutch journalists and to urge that the perpetrators of the killings be brought to justice. The event featured the use of journalism to seek justice for the ambushed journalists with the presentation of a new book titled La Emboscada (The Ambush) written by Colombian journalist Nancy Sáenz and Salvadoran journalist Willian Carballo. The book covers the Dutch journalists' work in El Salvador, the ambush, the search for justice, and the path forward.
The event today featured two panel discussions. The first discussion covered emblematic cases of crimes against humanity in El Salvador and where the search for justice stands today. The second discussion centered on the Dutch journalists and included family members and colleagues of the journalists as well as the authors of the book. You can watch both panels on Facebook: Panel 1, Panel 2.
Many of the speakers at today's event also spoke out against a proposed law of "national reconciliation" proposed in an Ad Hoc Commission of the National Assembly which would re-institute amnesty for war crimes in El Salvador.
The office of El Salvador's Human Rights Advocate, Raquel de Guevara, also announced her office would work to assure the Dutch journalists case is pushed forward.
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Do you know if there is an English version of the book planned for / available?
Although the 2016 ICE War Crimes Unit's initial case was closed after a very minimal effort was made investigation wise, it is possible it has been re-opened in lieu of the 2018 documentary and continued efforts of the Dutch Prosecutor's Office in Holland to see Reyes Mena brought to trial.
Certainly his excited utterances when confronted by the Dutch journalists when they found him did not present him in the best, or most contrite, of light.
The renewed awareness campaign you describe is a masterful stroke of activism. I look forward to reading the book - and to learning of Reyes Mena (hopefully) being deported from the United States to either El Salvador or Holland to stand trial.


In light of Easter Sunday, PUBG Mobile launched its own in-game Easter egg hunt.
#GamingBytes: Comparing PUBG and Apex Legends; which one is better?
PUBG is the king of Battle Royale titles. It was among the first games that popularized the genre and holds a special place in the hearts of gamers.
As a part of the update 0.11.5, PUBG Mobile has launched the long-rumored subscription models, Prime and Prime Plus.
Developers of PUBG Mobile have released the latest update 0.12.0.
Fans of PUBG Mobile have been asking for a rocket launcher since quite some time now.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) had recently garnered criticism from the Indian community after it reportedly put a 6 hours/day playing restriction, citing 'health risks'.
PUBG is one of the most popular Battle Royale games and attracts new gamers every day who want to try and win the chicken dinner.


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A: ".navbar-default" is not cause. To remove the border and round corner from the nav-bar, You should try it:
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Any discussion of dogs' sense of smell ultimately leads to the greatest, most imponderable question about dogs -- the question that nags at children and leaves their parents groping for an appropriate answer: why do they have wet noses?
Scientists have many answers for this. One is that evaporation or moisture from the nose helps cool the dog. Another is that added moisture in the nose makes the dog more sensitive to odors.The most boring answer is that many digs simply lick their noses with their tongues, thus wetting them.
A folk tale that goes back to biblical times gives yet another answer. When God flooded the world, the story goes, all life on the planet was inside of Noah's ark. The two dogs Noah had chosen constantly patrolled the ark, checking on the other animals, and generally just poking around as dogs do. One day, the dogs were taking their daily stroll when they noticed a coin-sized leak, throuh which water was rushing in at a rapid rate. One dog quickly ran for help, while the other dog gallantly stuck his nose in the hole to plug it. By the time Noah and his sons arrives to repair the hole, the poor dog was in great pain and gasping for breath, but a major disaster had been averted. According to this tale, dogs' cold, wet noses are simply a badge of honor, conferred upon them by God in memory of that heroic act.
Dogs love the chase. Be it a vehicle, jogger, child, or another dog—if it's moving, they'll try to catch it. Why? Understand that all canines, from the Whippet to the wolf, are programmed to capture prey, which scamper away whenever a predator appears. This flight from danger triggers the canine's predatory instinct to chase and capture the prey.
The drive to chase is stronger in certain breeds. Herders, such as the Shetland Sheepdog or Border Collie, are infamous for going after anything that moves; their desire to control is just too powerful, so off they go nipping and barking, oblivious to traffic. Territorial or predatory breeds such as Rottweilers, Huskies, sight hounds, and most terriers can also exhibit an obsession to chase, particularly when another animal is the target. For them it's almost obligatory to let the "invaders" know whose home they are passing. But even easy-going breeds like Labs or Poodles can surrender to the chase. It's as much a function of learned behavior as it is breed.
An untrained dog is more apt to chase something or someone if the mood suits. Owners with little control over their dogs tend to relinquish the leadership spot, which leads to pets that do as they please. A dog without rules doesn't know any better and will simply take off after a car, jogger, bicycle, or animal because that's what his instincts tell him to do. The way you interact with your dog can play a large role in persuading a dog to chase. For instance, playing chase games encourages dogs to generalize the behavior over to other individuals. Fido may have a hard time discerning the difference between chasing you in the backyard and chasing joggers down the block. Also, trips to the dog park, though great for socialization, inadvertently encourage dogs to chase other dogs. So, when a jogger or a dog trots by the home, your dog naturally goes after them.
To stop your dog from chasing, first be sure he knows his basic commands, and that he will obey them not only at home, but under varied conditions with changing levels of distraction. This will ensure he obeys you even if tempted by other stimuli, such as another dog or a group of kids playing. Next, make sure he cannot run free when you are absent. No dog, especially one without rules, should be left loose and unsupervised. Finally, leave your dog in the back yard, if possible, where he will observe less traffic and territorial challenges than from the front yard. Remember, no amount of training will help if you continue to leave your dog in a front yard where traffic or people passing by will regularly reinforce his chasing instincts. Teaching the "Come Here" command is especially useful with chasers, as it can short-circuit the dog's reactive instinct to run after something. If you teach it properly, the fun your dog has returning to you can defeat the lure of the chase. Just be sure to master this difficult command on a long lead, before trying it off-leash.
If your dog does chase, try this. First, purchase a "face" collar, and over a few days acclimate your dog to wearing it (follow the manufacturer's directions). Face collars work just as horse bridles do; control the head and you control the animal. Next, clip his leash onto the ring of the face collar, and then take him out to the edge of the road, preferably one where he has done some chasing before. Allow him to face the road while you linger behind, holding the leash. Be sure to have slack in the leash. When a car or person approaches, watch your dog. The moment he shows any sign of pulling or chasing, pull the leash toward you while saying "No. Leave it!" Then, walk the dog off a bit and have him sit. The correction should be just firm enough to stop his forward motion. Never pull too hard or maintain pressure on the leash, as this could hurt the dog's neck. And remember, this training is essential to break your dog of his bad habit, so don't feel remorseful when he looks at you reproachfully. Walk the dog down the street a few yards, and then position yourself and the dog again in hopes that another car or person will pass. Repeat the corrections if necessary. When you notice your dog hesitating before attempting to lunge after the object, praise him mightily and give him a treat. You can even feed him his dinner in the driveway to further desensitize him to cars and people. Practice this each day until he gets the idea. Always keep your dog on leash when near the road, to prevent injury. Once your dog masters the basics, try it with a ten-foot lead. With him by the side of the road, amble off until he is at least ten feet away. Then do the exercise the same way, correcting him for attempting to chase anything, and praising when he behaves. By moving farther away, you lessen your direct influence and allow the dog to think independently. Do this until he shows little desire to chase. Be sure, though, that the longer lead does not allow him access to the road. By using these techniques and regularly practicing your dog's obedience, you should be able to minimize the chasing habit. Remember though that the instinct to chase is strong; never put your dog in a position in which he can independently decide to chase anything. In addition, be sure to socialize him in controlled environments, to make social situations less stimulating. The more he learns to relax around people, the less likely he'll be to chase them.
The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center recently released a list of the ten most common poisons that dogs ingest. What is immediately striking about the list is how ordinary each of the poisons is—most of us have these compounds in our homes or garages. The list is a reminder that it is important to keep medications and potentially toxic items locked up or stored safely away from our pets.
Ibuprofen is a widely used human non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. In dogs, this medication can cause stomach and kidney problems and even impact the nervous system causing symptoms such as depression and seizures. If you drop a pill, be very careful to find it before your dog does. Labs and Beagles are notorious for snarfing up dropped drugs. If this happens in your household, be sure to make your dog vomit, if you can, as soon as you suspect he ate any pills, and then call your veterinarian. Never give your dog ibuprofen for pain or discomfort.
Chocolate has two potent substances – theobromine and caffeine. The amount of these compounds present in chocolate varies greatly depending upon the type and brand of chocolate. The dog who indulges in chocolate with large amounts of theobromine or caffeine may show increased heart rate and excitability leading to possible seizures. If you can make your dog vomit close to the time of ingestion, do so. Then head to your veterinarian. It may take up to three days for the theobromine effects to wear off, and this can be dangerous for your dog's heart.
Ant and roach baits may be found in motels when you travel, as well as in areas around your home. Luckily the toxic substances are generally present in small amounts, but they are often mixed in with tasty treats like peanut butter that your dog may find irresistible. If your dog ingests the bait, he is more likely to have a problem with the parts of the container he eats than with the ingredients, but take him into your veterinarian just the same. Better to be safe than sorry.
People often rely on rodenticides to remove mice and rats when they don't have a good cat or a skilled terrier to do the dirty work. Most of these products contain anticoagulants that stimulate fatal bleeding in rodents. They can also stimulate bleeding in dogs that eat the treated blocks. Paralysis, seizures, and kidney failure are all possible effects of these potent drugs. Induce vomiting if you can, but then head directly to your veterinarian. Your dog may need fluids, blood tests to follow the progression of treatment, vitamin K injections, and possibly even a blood transfusion. Some versions of rodenticides have cholecalciferol that can cause elevated blood calcium and phosphorus levels, which lead to renal failure. This may require a much different course of action for your pet. If possible, bring the container for the poison into your vet's office, so they can determine exactly what your dog is up against.
Acetaminophen is an extremely common pain medication for people. Unfortunately, this drug can cause liver failure, swelling of the face and paws, a problem with oxygen transport in the blood, and even a decrease in tear production for dogs. N-acetylcysteine is an antidote to the problem, but it needs to be repeated until all signs of poisoning are cleared. Supportive treatment for the liver and dry eyes is recommended. If your dog ingests acetaminophen, he will probably need to be hospitalized.
Numerous over the counter cold medications contain pseudoephedrine. In dogs, this drug causes panting, excitement, increased temperature, and increased heart rate. Sedation and even general anesthesia may be required to settle your dog down, while fluid therapy will help to flush this substance from your dog's system.
Thyroid hormones are used to treat both people and dogs with low thyroid levels. Luckily, most dogs handle an overdose of these medications quite well. An increased heart rate and a hyperactive dog that is bouncing off the walls are common signs that your dog has eaten something he shouldn't.
Most bleach products used at home are fairly dilute. Commercial bleaches, however, can be very strong and cause irritation to your dog's eyes or skin. A quick bath is ideal if bleach is on your dog's skin or coat. If your dog inhales bleach, especially any bleach mixed with ammonia products, she could develop a deadly chemical pneumonitis. This can affect you too, so don't breathe deeply yourself. Get your dog out into fresh air as quickly as possible and then to your veterinarian.
Fertilizer can be very attractive to dogs. Additives such as bone meal are enticing. While the basic fertilizer formulas of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus are generally not highly toxic, additives such as fungicides can be. Most dogs that ingest fertilizer show gastrointestinal signs such as vomiting and/or diarrhea, but they do recover on their own. In some cases, however, they need fluids for hydration and medications to settle and soothe the stomach and intestines. Consult with your veterinarian for the best course of treatment when your dog ingests fertilizer.
Rounding out the list is hydrocarbons. These products can be found in paints, polishes, and fuel oils—including kerosene, acetone, and gasoline. Dogs that swallow these products tend to have gastrointestinal upsets. The skin can also be irritated from contact. If your dog simply breathes in fumes or aspirates these products, he may suffer from depression or hyperexcitability along with secondary pneumonia and liver or kidney damage. Dogs that have breathed or ingested hydrocarbons should not be made to vomit as the risk of aspiration is too high. Instead, they need symptomatic treatment and supportive care such as fluids to flush their systems, baths to remove any residue, and saline flushing of the eyes if any residue splashed into them.
All of the products on the ASPCA list can be found in most of our households. To keep your pet safe, be proactive. Store goods safely in locked cupboards, use secure, non-breakable containers, and always keep careful track of all medications in the household. Taking some basic precautions can go a long way toward avoiding a catastrophe for your dog.
If you have questions about the safety of a substance or you suspect your pet may have ingested something he shouldn't have, don't wait--call the National Animal Poison Control Center at: 888-426-4435.


A Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) team gave FASB's standard on business combinations a mixed review, according to information provided by FAF.
The FAF post-implementation review team performed an in-depth analysis of FASB Statement No. 141 (revised 2007), Business Combinations (Statement 141R), which is codified in ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations.
Statement 141R's principles and requirements generally are understandable and can be applied as intended, according to the review report, available at tinyurl.com/k7fcvlm. The review also found that investors generally find the information resulting from application of the standard useful, and that the standard generally resolves some of the issues associated with the purchase method of accounting for business combinations.
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In certain areas, the standard also is more costly and complex to implement than FASB had anticipated, according to the review, which was undertaken by a FAF team working under the oversight of the FAF board of trustees.
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) also is conducting a post-implementation review of IFRS 3 (revised 2007), Business Combinations, which was issued concurrently with Statement 141R. The FAF review team's next task will be reviewing Statement No. 157, Fair Value Measurements.
FASB is giving consideration to the findings described in the report in other projects that already have begun. The board will wait for the results of the IASB's review and the Statement No. 157 review before taking any standard-setting action. FASB's full response is available at tinyurl.com/kzfebyh.
The AICPA Financial Reporting Executive Committee (FinREC) expressed significant objections to FASB's financial instruments impairment proposal.
The high-profile project is designed to address some of the causes of the recent financial crisis and calls for measurement and reporting of expected losses rather than incurred losses.
Although the project began as a convergence effort with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), FASB took a different path from the IASB in developing a current expected credit loss (CECL) method for impairment.
In a comment letter to FASB, FinREC said the proposed CECL model, as well as the current IASB proposal, require significant work to be operational and result in improved, faithful financial reporting. The letter is available at tinyurl.com/n8qrxko. FinREC is a senior committee of the AICPA for financial reporting and is authorized to make statements on behalf of the AICPA on financial reporting matters.
Unjustifiably increases the accounting and financial reporting burden for smaller financial institutions and nonfinancial services entities.
FinREC encouraged FASB to keep working with the IASB to reach a converged, high-quality model for reporting impairment of financial instruments.
After the vote, FASB was scheduled to issue an Accounting Standards Update, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Deferral of the Effective Date of Certain Disclosures for Nonpublic Employee Benefit Plans in Update No. 2011-04, reflecting the change. The deferral will be effective upon issuance for all financial statements that have not yet been issued.
The indefinite deferral applies to disclosures of certain quantitative information about the significant unobservable inputs used in Level 3 fair value measurement for investments held by certain employee benefit plans, according to a FASB news release. The deferral applies specifically to EBPs—other than those plans that are subject to SEC filing requirements—that hold investments in their plan sponsors' own nonpublic entity equity securities, including equity securities of their nonpublic affiliated entities.


Despite a number of challenges, many Syrian refugees find Turkey offers much more than Europe does.
While Jordan offers comparatively favorable labor laws for the region, many migrant workers remain legally and economically vulnerable.
As the self-proclaimed Islamic State retreats further north in Iraq, they have left behind a wake of damage and destruction and a population facing hunger and the cold Iraqi winter.
The flow of migrants to Europe has increased dramatically over the past year even as their trips become more dangerous.
This year's unprecedented Jerusalem pride parade was a political movement uniting diverse minority groups against violence rather than a celebration of selective freedoms.
Months of planning and Russian air support led to a final, successful battle to recapture Palmyra by Syrian regime forces that has helped boost their morale.
Military and police forces are gradually regaining strength in Benghazi after two years of frequent assassinations.
The flow of smuggled goods and people along Libya's southern border illustrates the lawlessness and insecurity across that stretch of land.
Amid shortages of workers and resources, Benghazi hospitals have to rely on volunteers.
The fighting in Benghazi has ravaged its infrastructure, including schools, leaving 50 percent of the city's children unable to resume their education.
Amid the violence of the fight for Aleppo, local residents have come up with makeshift methods of survival and resistance.
African migrants making their way to Europe are caught in Libya in a humanitarian crisis of insufficient aid and worsening detention conditions.
Strong shared institutions unite Egypt's Armenians and preserve the shrinking minority's identity.
The central government determines and implements urban projects, giving Egyptians little input on revamping the country's inadequate metro and bus network.
The Israeli blockade, along with donor fatigue and the prospect of continued conflict, has prevented reconstruction efforts in Gaza.
After several setbacks outside of Damascus, Assad's regime has turned to fighting terrorists operating near or inside Yarmouk refugee camp, while its residents are trapped between the two assaults.
Amid censorship and bureaucratic obstacles, Egypt's independent filmmakers endeavor to produce art that impacts public consciousness.
Although Tripoli appears calm, graffiti covering much of the city's walls hints at the political divisions simmering beneath the surface in Libya's capital.
The inability of the Lebanese state to figure out where Arsal stands has made public and state perceptions increasingly hostile toward the town.
New art by young Egyptians aims to jolt viewers out of their worship of strongmen.


Raspberries herald the joy of summer to the mountains. Their bright color and brilliant flavor have long been considered a luxury here. Our Raspberry Jam highlights the pungent, tart flavor that makes them unique.


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Ty Coryton
Ty Coryton Home
Ty Coryton is a bright, open and fun place to live and learn. Situated next to Ty Coryton School is our home for children with autism between the ages of 8 to 19.
The home and school work closely together to offer a seamless blend of learning and living.
With our home located on the same site as the school, Ty Coryton offers a wide range of learning and living options. Accommodation can be offered on a part-time or full time basis. We offer weekly boarding where children can return home every weekend, a term-time only option or a full time 52 week living arrangement.
Our large spacious home at Ty Coryton is a series of six flats. The flats are bright and spacious, each with a large lounge, a kitchen and dining area, so plenty of communal space for spending time with friends, and each with bedrooms for four or five children. Children are encouraged to get creative and put their personal stamp on their own space, bringing as much or as little from their home as they like.
At Ty Coryton children are supported to socialise and meet lifelong friends in a safe and nurturing environment where children have access to a peer group, where they can learn, make mistakes, practice and ultimately succeed.
Located close to Whitchurch Village, and just minutes from Castell Coch and the Taff Trail, we are also close to Cardiff's vibrant city centre, where there is a wealth of after-school options for our children here.
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At Ty Coryton our mission is to provide friendly and nurturing learning and living environments that inspire confidence and self-esteem, encouraging children to develop into independent, active and valued members of society as they become young people and adults.
By blending education with modern living and a therapeutic approach to care, children develop a positive self-image, learning how to make positive choices and maintain their health and wellbeing.
Learning that extends from school into the home serves to reinforce independence and life skills throughout the waking day, in education, at home and in the community. For children at Ty Coryton, the world is one big classroom and an infinite source of both practical and inspirational learning opportunities.
Children at Ty Coryton have a voice and are listened to. They are encouraged to directly shape their own learning and living experiences.
Having fun and learning at Ty Coryton
Ty Coryton is located in a former manor house surrounded by several acres of gardens.
The house was built in 1900 for the Cardiff shipping magnate J. Herbert Cory who named the site Coryton House. The land itself was part of the Llwyn Mallt Farm estate and was to form part of Coryton Garden Village, however the First World War intervened and this development did not take place.
In 1913 J. Herbert Cory became Sheriff of Glamorgan and in 1915 he became Conservative MP for Cardiff. He was knighted in 1919 and died in 1933 after which Lady Cory continued to live at Coryton House for several years.
During the Second World War Coryton House was used as the Civil Defence Headquarters for Cardiff.
In 1952 the house and grounds were eventually purchased from Lady Cory and it empty for a number of years.
The site was purchased by Orbis in 2006, opening its doors as Ty Coryton, with the first pupil arriving in April 2008. The residential home was built next door to the school on the same site, its six flats all named after J.Herbert Cory's children.
Today, many of our children both live and learn on the same site, thus benefitting greatly from our blended 24 hour waking curriculum of education and care.
Ty Coryton — Manor House
Visiting Arrangements
Maintaining contact with families is of paramount importance and of course we welcome visits on a pre-arranged basis. Indeed, we ask that family visits are planned so that we can ensure that children are prepared for visits and possible changes to their routines.
After-School Curriculum
Our busy and engaging after school curriculum is full of ideas and options. In fact, the range of options is almost as broad as the children's interests.
With both Whitchurch Village and Cardiff on our doorstep we have a great number of museums, parks, walks and castles to choose from all within a few miles of Ty Coryton. As well as this, we are only 30 minutes from the beaches of Barry Island and Porthcawl and the coastal town of Penarth with its Victorian and Edwardian architecture.
Cardiff is a young city with a large student population. It is perfect for a day out spent shopping or taking in a film, going for a meal or watching a theatre performance or other live event including sporting fixtures.
Our several acres of landscaped gardens provide on-site spaces in which to play, do a spot of gardening or have a bounce on the trampoline.
The home is the perfect environment in which to practice life skills learned during the school day. Children are supported to learn tasks and personal care skills in the home, and can be provided with evening timetables and schedules, work schedules, signs and symbols to help them maintain their routine.
Our home at Ty Coryton is presented as a series of six flats. Each flat is bright and spacious, each with a large lounge, a kitchen and dining area, so plenty of communal space for spending time with friends. Each also has bedrooms for four or five children.
Children are encouraged to get creative and put their own personal stamp on their space, bringing as much or as little from their home as they like, and turning the room into an extension of their personality and identity.
At Ty Coryton children are supported to socialise and meet lifelong friends in a safe and nurturing environment where children have access to a peer group, where they can learn, make mistakes, practice and ultimately succeed. Children have plenty of space in which to be together, whilst also having the option to have privacy and quiet time.
When our children are ready to move on from Ty Coryton, some move on to our adult homes, where their friendships can continue to thrive long into adulthood.
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Melly Melody presents, Good Morning Vietnam – Songs from the Vietnam War Era, A Live Concert Experience!
It was the war that generated some of the 20th Century's most iconic pop, folk, soul and rock songs. The music of a generation who stood on the precipice of massive change! These were the songs of hope, courage, love, loss, anger, frustration, and resistance…most of all, these were the songs of connection.
This was a generation defined by its music: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Credence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, Peter, Paul and Mary…the list goes on, just like the beat!
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM – Music from the Vietnam War Era, Live in Concert! features iconic songs from the '60s and early '70s. Featuring a rocking on stage live band, and incredible vocalists, together with images and stories. Come and relive the music of a generation, as you sing and dance along to every iconic song!
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM – Music from the Vietnam War Era, Live in Concert! includes songs like Fortunate Son, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, For What It's Worth, These Boots Are Made For Walkin', Ring of Fire, Purple Haze, My Girl, Proud Mary, Leaving On A Jet Plane…and so many more iconic songs.
Ticket Prices – Adult: $55 | Concession: $45 | Defence Force Employees: $45 | LEC Member: $45
WARNING: Contains adult themes. Recommended for ages 18+.
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Does the wage structure depend on the wage contract? A study of public sector wage contracts in Iceland
Doktorsritgerðir Íslendinga varðar við erlenda háskóla
Title: Does the wage structure depend on the wage contract? A study of public sector wage contracts in Iceland
Author: Ólafsdóttir, Katrín
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University/Institute: Cornell University
Subject: Hagfræði; Kjarasamningar; Stjórnsýsla; Doktorsritgerðir
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/718
It is widely accepted within the field of labor economics that centralization of collective bargaining leads to lower wage dispersion. But is it possible to change the wage structure through changes in the collective bargaining agreement and decentralization of the bargaining process? A unique opportunity to explore this question presented itself when changes were made to collective bargaining contracts in the public sector in Iceland. In the first chapter I look at the Icelandic labor market. The Icelandic labor force is often described as being flexible. But is it really? Using definitions of labor-market flexibility, I explore whether the Icelandic labor market can be classified as such and find that on most measures of flexibility the Icelandic labor market can be described as flexible. In the second chapter I explore the effects of the changes in the bargaining structure and decentralization in the public sector in Iceland on the wage structure. Did wage dispersion increase with decentralization, as theory would predict? I find that wage levels rose significantly, and that the wage structure for total wages did not change but that the dispersion of daytime wages increased. In the third and final chapter I develop a model of collective bargaining as a two-stage process in the manner of Manning (1987). The resulting two-equation nonlinear structural model is then applied to the central government in Iceland in order to determine whether the collective bargaining structure changed along with the changes in the collective bargaining agreements. The decentralization of bargaining and the change in the collective bargaining agreements has changed the bargaining structure in the public sector in Iceland. I find that the unions have a greater bargaining power over employment than over wages, whereas their bargaining power over wages currently seems to be much greater for daytime wages than for total wages. Based on the means of the estimates of the bargaining power of unions over wages and employment, respectively, I can reject the monopoly union and right-to-manage bargaining models.
A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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This was the first (and still our favourite) of our "Themed" real estate videos for Adam Drummond. Instead of a standard video tour Adam wanted to try something different by adding a story and some comedy. this video had over 3000 views within the first 48 hours of being uploaded. For a town of 60,000 people, thats an amazing result & it definitely got people talking.


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West Winfield Star
Food Co-Op Finds Space In Waterville
The initiative to provide a food co-op to serve West Winfield and Waterville could become reality with a store in Waterville.
John Brouillette of Waterville, who is treasurer of the 4 Corners Food Co-Op and owner of the Triangle Bank Building in Waterville, will rent space to the Co-Op on the first floor of his building. Space will allow for a store and a cafe.
At a Co-Op meeting last week in the building, Board member Ben Wood of Waterville outlined a grant being submitted this month to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wood said the group was encouraged to apply for a $225,000 implementation grant. The USDA told 4 Corners the project was further along for the planning grant initially applied for by the Co-Op.
The grant would provide funding for a director, equipment and supplies, rent and other costs.
The Co-Op would take over what had been the area where the bank tellers worked, with the old vault used for storage and setup. Initially the cafe would be in the former office near the tellers counter, with plans to move it across the hall.
Finding a space for the Co-Op has long been a problem because of the scarcity of empty affordable buildings between West Winfield and Waterville. Co-Op Board members discussed having a delivery service to a drop-off point for customers in West Winfield.
"If we have a good product it will not matter where it will be,'' Co-chair Kari Thomson said.
Despite numerous membership drives and a Fall Harvest celebration, only about 30 households have signed on as members. Co-Chair Renee Winne said people are interested, but want to see a store before committing.
"They're excited and say they want to support local, but need to see something first,'' Winne said.
The Co-Op has a list of vendors and will meet with them later this spring to discuss what they can provide. For members of the Co-Op, who will receive various discounts through membership, another one will come when purchasing products from the four local counties: Oneida, Madison, Herkimer and Otsego.
In addition, under the setup of a co-op, members are also owners and can weigh in on decisions affecting the store.
People who have already signed up are invited to a Members meeting Thursday, March 31 at 7 p.m. at the Bank building. More details about the Co-Op's opening will be discussed.


The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological – and helps to shed light on why a majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier a majority of Labour party members voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
A few years ago the American writer Chris Hedges wrote a book he titled the Death of the Liberal Class. His argument was not so much that liberals had disappeared, but that they had become so coopted by the right wing and its goals – from the subversion of progressive economic and social ideals by neoliberalism, to the enthusiastic embrace of neoconservative doctrine in prosecuting aggressive and expansionist wars overseas in the guise of "humanitarian intervention" – that liberalism had been hollowed out of all substance.
Liberal pundits sensitively agonise over, but invariably end up backing, policies designed to benefit the bankers and arms manufacturers, and ones that wreak havoc domestically and abroad. They are the "useful idiots" of modern western societies.
Reading this piece on the fallout from Brexit by Zoe Williams, a columnist who ranks as leftwing by the current standards of the deeply diminished Guardian, one can isolate this liberal pathology in all its sordid glory.
There is a reason why, when Marine le Pen and Donald Trump congratulated us on our decision, it was like being punched in the face – because they are racists, authoritarian, small-minded and backward-looking. They embody the energy of hatred. The principles that underpin internationalism – cooperation, solidarity, unity, empathy, openness – these are all just elements of love.
One wonders where in the corridors of the EU bureaucracy Williams identifies that "love" she so admires. Did she see it when the Greeks were being crushed into submission after they rebelled against austerity policies that were themselves a legacy of European economic policies that had required Greece to sell off the last of its family silver?
Is she enamoured of this internationalism when the World Bank and IMF go into Africa and force developing nations into debt-slavery, typically after a dictator has trashed the country decades after being installed and propped up with arms and military advisers from the US and European nations?
What about the love-filled internationalism of Nato, which has relied on the EU to help spread its military tentacles across Europe close to the throat of the Russian bear? Is that the kind of cooperation, solidarity and unity she was thinking of?
The anger of the progressive remain side, however, has somewhere to go: always suckers for optimism, we now have the impetus to put aside ambiguity in the service of clarity, put aside differences in the service of creativity. Out of embarrassment or ironic detachment, we've backed away from this fight for too long.
That includes seeking the ousting of Jeremy Corbyn, of course. "Progressive" Remainers, it seems, have had enough of him. His crime is that he hails from "leftwing aristocracy" – his parents were lefties too, apparently, and even had such strong internationalist principles that they first met at a committee on the Spanish civil war.
But Corbyn's greater crime, according to Williams, is that "he is not in favour of the EU". It would be too much trouble for her to try and untangle the knotty problem of how a supreme internationalist like Corbyn, or Tony Benn before him, could be so against the love-filled EU. So she doesn't bother.
But no, Williams assures us, Labour needs someone with much more recent leftwing heritage, someone who can tailor his or her sails to the prevailing winds of orthodoxy. And what's even better, there is a Labour party stuffed full of Blairities to choose from. After all, their international credentials have been proven repeatedly, including in the killing fields of Iraq and Libya.
And here, wrapped into a single paragraph, is a golden nugget of liberal pathology from Williams. Her furious liberal plea is to rip up the foundations of democracy: get rid of the democratically elected Corbyn and find a way, any way, to block the wrong referendum outcome. No love, solidarity, unity or empathy for those who betrayed her and her class.
There hasn't been a more fertile time for a Labour leader since the 1990s. The case for a snap general election, already strong, will only intensify over the coming weeks. As the sheer mendacity of the leave argument becomes clear – it never intended to curb immigration, there will be no extra money for the NHS, there was no plan for making up EU spending in deprived areas – there will be a powerful argument for framing the general election as a rematch. Not another referendum, but a brake on article 50 and the next move determined by the new government. If you still want to leave the EU, vote Conservative. If you've realised or knew already what an act of vandalism that was, vote Labour.
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Whenever a chemical reaction occurs, molecules break bonds with each other and form new bonds with other molecules to create a new substance. We can usually see the outcome of this, but it is impossible to see the entire process with the naked eye. This magic milk activity will give you and your family a closer look into the movement of molecules during a chemical reaction, and it is pretty amazing to watch!
Pour milk into the plate so that it fills the entire surface of the plate.
Drop a few droplets of food coloring into the milk in various spots. Do this for all the colors.
Drop one droplet of dish soap into each spot of food coloring.
Watch as the colors begin to move throughout the milk!
This science activity is a great demonstration of how soap works. You probably already know that the reason we use soap is to dissolve substances like oil and grease on our hands. This is because these substances are hydrophobic (repelled by water) and non-polar (unable to be dissolved in water). Milk is made up of water, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fat. Although it is difficult to see with the naked eye, the fat and water molecules in the milk are separated because the fat oils are non-polar. On the other hand, soap molecules have both polar and non-polar heads, meaning that they can attach to both the fat and water molecules in the milk. Therefore, when we add the soap droplets to the milk, the soap begins to move throughout the milk by surrounding the fat molecules with the non-polar end of the soap molecule while the polar end attaches to the water. Thanks to the food-coloring, we can see all of this molecular movement in action, and we get quite a show!


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People in the wellness space (myself included) always say, "Listen to your body." "Eat intuitively." "Practice mindfulness." But, ummmmmm. What does that mean? Well, that's why today we're breaking down how to listen to your body so you can be on your way to finding Food Freedom.
The amazing thing is, if you know how to listen to your body, you can STOP dieting forever (and who the heck doesn't want that?!) By using the simple practices of intuitive and mindful eating, you can find Food Freedom – the sweet spot between eating what makes you happy, and eating what keeps you healthy. When you reach Food Freedom, it means you already know how to listen to your body, so you can stop relying on food rules and diet labels to maintain a healthy weight, have amazing energy, and a positive outlook on life.
People talk about listening to your body all the time, but how the heck do you know what to eat? How do you tune into what your body is trying to tell you or if it's even saying anything at all? How are you supposed to eat mindfully and intuitively when you have no idea how to listen to your body?
That's exactly why you start off with 3 simple keys when you first learn how to listen to your body.
A HUGE deal (maybe the biggest deal) in your healthy lifestyle, is your food. You have to have a sustainable, healthy diet that frees you from emotional eating, food guilt, and other disordered eating habits… so it's crucial to learn the valuable skills that teach you how to practice mindful and intuitive eating.
Your mind and body are separate things, but they're also part of the same being… YOU! So, if you want to learn how to listen to your body, you need to also listen to your mind. One of the biggest mistakes is thinking that your body only wants to do the healthy thing. Your body wants what's best for YOU as a whole person. That means your body also cares about what happens to your mind. If you're unsure about what I'm talking about, here are some examples that show what I mean when I say the body and mind are connected.
Your body is impacted by your emotional and mental stress.
If your gut health is poor, you are more likely to experience depression and anxiety.
When you're happy, you're a LOT less likely to fall victim to the binge eating cycle.
So, given those examples, we can see that the body and mind can influence each other in major ways. That means if you want to be a mindful and intuitive eater, you need to listen to your body AND your mind. You need to eat foods that keep you healthy AND make you happy.
What foods have I been restricting myself from?
How would I feel if I was allowed to eat my favorite unhealthy foods?
Would I be happier if my meals were more delicious?
Let's get this straight: the world is not simple. Life is very complex. We don't live the exact same life every single day. Things happen, good and bad, that change our routine. You go on vacation, you forget to bring your homemade lunch, you miss the last train home, you meet friends for dinner, you get invited to work or school events. So then what happens? What happens when you don't have access to YOUR food? When YOU aren't the one cooking? How can YOU listen to your body then?
If you want to learn how to listen to your body, you can't be so restrictive around food that it makes it impossible to stray from your routine. From my experience with orthorexia, I know how extreme restriction can get. A restriction is just a way of using your mind to sabotage your happiness. But the mistake is, you can't listen to your body if you're so caught up in fear, guilt, and anxiety around food. You have to find Food Freedom and loosen your restriction if you truly want to practice mindful and intuitive eating habits.
Food fear – going outside of your routine and comfort zone should not result in fear and anxiety around food.
Food guilt – indulging should not result in a food binge, restricting your food the next day, or feeling guilty for allowing yourself to enjoy delicious foods.
Self-love – your food should not have an impact on your self-worth. Food is something completely separate from who you are as a person.
Know which foods (if any) are sensitivities or irritating to your gut.
Have a foundation of eating real food without living by restrictive diet labels.
Get support in recovering from dieting mindsets and/or eating disorders.
If you want to be happy, you truly need to understand what it means to practice mindful and intuitive eating. That means you 1. need to eat what's healthy for your mind AND your body, 2. live without restriction and inflexible standards, 3. eat in alignment with your most basic needs.
You are the sweetest! Thank you so much Ale! I am so happy to share and I love your blog too!!!