A historic deal agreed on Wednesday to end the wasteful practice of throwing away healthy fish in European waters was hailed as a "breakthrough" by campaigners and politicians – but it will not be enough in itself to save fish stocks?
The discards ban will be phased in over several years, and the move to a scientific basis for fishing – a so-called maximum sustainable yield – has been delayed to 2020, which some campaigners said was too late.
EU citizens have been urged to keep fighting on the issue, to try to strengthen the measures and prevent likely backsliding among some member states.
Pressure from the public was one of the biggest factors in securing the deal. People have been so appalled by the throwing back – dead – of millions of tonnes of edible fish while European fish stocks dwindle that politicians were forced to act.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the food writer who spearheaded the FishFight campaign against discards, said the 800,000 people who had signed up to his campaign should be proud. "We have cleared a massive hurdle [in achieving agreement on a ban] and I've been really pleased with the way we've kept this in the public eye," he told the Guardian. "FishFighters should be feeling very upbeat."
But he called on people to keep up the pressure, because Wednesday's agreement will now be subject to months of backroom negotiating and debates in the European parliament. Despite the public support of some MEPs, several member states are against the ban and many MEPs vote in favour of fishing industry interests, so there is no guarantee that the parliament will pass the ban without strong public pressure.
"We are not home and dry," said Fearnley-Whittingstall. "But the outrage factor [among the public] is simply not going away."
There is also a danger that member states will try to backslide on some of the key dates agreed for phasing out discards, which many fishermen want to keep because the practice enables them to boost profits by throwing away lower value fish.
The compromise deal, which will mean discards of edible fish are phased out from 2014 to 2018, was clinched early on Wednesday morning after more than 18 hours of tough negotiations. Some nations held out until the last minute against a ban, before bowing to pressure. France was the fiercest opponent – the French minister was said to have agreed to the compromise only after phoning Francois Hollande, the new prime minister, close to dawn.
But the key dates for phasing out discards – 2014 for species such as mackerel and herring, a gradual phase out between 2015 and 2018 for cod, haddock and other white fish – are still in doubt. That is because they have been included in the agreement on a provisional basis only – they will be the subject of intense negotiations. If the dates survive intact, the European parliament is likely to vote on them in November.
Even if the dates are agreed, the measures will not be enough to guarantee the survival of key fish stocks, however. The delay of a move to a "maximum sustainable yield" until 2020 would result in the further destruction of EU fish stocks, warned Greenpeace. Saskia Richartz, Greenpeace fisheries policy director, said: "After decades of bad fisheries management that has devastated fish stocks, ministers are failing miserably on their promise of an overhaul of EU fisheries management. They want to leave reform hanging in the balance, condemning fish and fishermen to another decade of overfishing and stock decline, with dire consequences for species like cod, hake and tuna."
Xavier Pastor, executive director of the marine conservation group Oceana, said: "Although this result is highly disappointing, particularly with regards to the discard ban, it is realistically the best outcome we could have expected from the Fisheries council. Ministers did not question the need to change fisheries management, they just admitted that they are not ready to do it right now. It is now up to the parliament to lead and make the necessary and immediate changes required."
Over the last two months, market participants raised concerns that there will be a repeat of the same voting pattern as before, especially when another set of secret opinion polls published ahead of a two-week pre-election ban showed that no party was likely to win enough votes Sunday to form a government on its own.
In early May, the Greek bank stock index was down by 19 percent.
If the Greeks vote in an anti-bailout government, the concerns are that the country would most likely default, be pushed out the Euro and subsequently prolong its five-year recession and have serious repercussions across Europe.
"[An] exit would be economically ruinous for Greece (we estimate a decline in GDP of 25-50 percent)," said analysts at Société Générale (SG). "For the Eurozone, any Greek exit would have a negative impact, but more than that, it would dramatically reduce the time available to sort out the shambolic architecture that is threatening the system."
Announcing New Google Plus (G+) and Google+ Local Training For Business "What … - YAHOO!
Google has converted 80 million Google Places pages worldwide into Google+ Local pages. Google+ trainers Yifat Cohen and Maya Mendoza launch new G+ and Google+ Local courses to teach business owners what they need to know and do to generate leads and increase profits.
Google Plus is rapidly & completely changing Search and the way people find things online. And as Google integrate all Google services into Plus (G+) the question for every business must be: What will this mean for your business?
The latest change has seen the demise of Google Places. Google Places (Maps) has been a powerful Search & Reviews ally for companies looking to boost their local popularity. Now Google is taking the first step to eradicate millions of Google Places pages and morph then all into new Google+ Local pages.
Google believe that the new Google+ Local will bring people more relevant and better trusted results from their search queries.
Mendoza continues "This really is quite an exciting shift and businesses can expect a lot more radical changes to come".
As with any update there are bugs and lingering issues as a result of the major update. It appears that the transition from Google Places into the new Google+ Local pages have left many Google business users in a state of confusion and disarray.
For business owners who use Google Places already and understand the power that it brings to local search this integration with Google+ Business Pages has generated both concern and excitement.
"The main concern Google business users have expressed is that the changes came with no apparent warning. Many are worried about how Google+ Local will effect their search results and page rank and do not know what steps to take to maximise this opportunity."
Cohen continued "Although Google are promising increased merchant benefits from the new business rating system, and are planning to roll out many more helpful merchant features, this radical and sudden change to how they generate business has rocked the boat"
Both Cohen and Mendoza agree that the sudden switch over to Google+ Local pages raises a lot of questions for business owners. They have joined forces to bring effective Strategic Google Plus (G+) and Google+ Local Training & Services to their clients and a wider business audience across the USA and UK.
"The message that business can no longer afford to ignore the impact of social search is not getting across to people" says Mendoza "both Yifat Cohen and I are on a mission to help people get on board and benefit before their businesses get left behind".


The South African Institute for Advancement has appointed former deputy Health Minister and widely respected women's rights activist Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge as its new Executive Director. She will assume her duties at the non-profit organisation that works to strengthen South African civil society and grow local philanthropy on Monday 15 June 2015.
Madlala-Routledge, who also served as Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Caucus, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Minister of Defence, has a long and distinguished history of campaigning for human rights and working for civil society organisations that deepen and advance democratic participation. She served in the national liberation movement as Chairperson of the Natal Organisation of Women and on the Regional Executive Committee of the United Democratic Front (UDF). She later served on the executive of the Women's National Coalition as well as the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) as managing secretary for the Sub-Council on the Status of Women. Madlala-Routledge was one of the four-strong South African Communist Party (SACP) delegation to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) that negotiated the transition from apartheid. She also served with Cyril Ramaphosa in the Constituent Assembly that drew up our Constitution.
Over the last few years, Madlala-Routledge helped establish the African Women's Peace Table, a partnership forum for integrating women's perspectives on issues of peace and security in Africa. She also set up the women's human rights organisation 'Embrace Dignity' as well as 'Democracy from Below', a grassroots movement to strengthen participation in our democracy. Madlala-Routledge currently serves as Non-Executive Director of the 'Coalition Against Trafficking in Women' (CATW International) as well as 'Right to Care' and 'Right to Care Health Services', a section 21 company providing treatment and care for people living with HIV/Aids.
Madlala-Routledge says she believes her next challenge is to be part of the efforts to rebuild civil society in South Africa. "As we enter the third decade of our democratic transition, civil society faces new challenges of insecure funding from international donors, decreased support from government and a continuous drain in the leadership pool. Inyathelo is a key organisation supporting the deepening and advancement of democracy in South Africa and provides a much-needed resource to thousands of civil society organisations as well as our universities and other anchor institutions. Its work to promote the development of a philanthropic movement in South Africa is pioneering and I look forward to strengthening their efforts to help ensure the long term sustainability and independence of our vibrant civil society sector," says Madlala-Routledge.
Madlala-Routledge has an honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Cape Town, a Human Rights Award from the University of KwaZulu Natal, an honorary doctorate from Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA, and was a recipient of the Tanenbaum Peacemakers in Action Award.


In my travels through Louisiana and the Gulf states of America, I'm always on the lookout for delicious Shrimp and Grits on restaurant menus. I've sampled many variations of this Southern dish and every time I eat one that I like, I make mental notes about what's so special about it. Here's my cheat-sheet of what I think makes excellent shrimp and grits: I like the roux-based sauce to be dark and nutty; grits cheesy and creamy while not being too runny or thick; I like some crumbled bacon to contrast the texture of the sweet shrimp; and I like a hint of lemon juice which freshens up the dish. I think it's important that the shrimp be cooked separately from the grits and not be overcooked. It should really be removed from the grill or stove a bit underdone. When the barely cooked shrimp is placed on top of the hot roux sauce and grits, the shrimp finishes cooking on the residual heat. I had these goals in my mind when I set out to create my perfect shrimp and grits. I hope you'll try my recipe and find it the tastiest version you've experienced.
I think the foundation of a good shrimp and grits dish is the roux-based sauce. A roux (pronounced "roo") is a thickening agent for soups and sauces with roots dating back more than 300 years in French cuisine. Roux is a staple in Cajun and Creole dishes, especially gumbo and jambalaya. You cook flour and oil until the raw flour flavor gets cooked off. Depending on how long you cook the flour and oil mixture, the color starts white (used for Béchamel sauce) and turns blonde, then brown, and then dark brown after about 40 minutes. The white and blonde roux are used to thicken sauces, soups, and chowders. The brown and dark brown versions have nuttier flavors but have less thickening ability than the light colored ones. Because it takes a while to make the darker roux, you can make more and store it in the fridge or freezer to save time when you need it next.
Pour ½ cup vegetable oil in a heavy bottom saucepan and set to med-low heat.
Whisk in ½ cup all-purpose flour. As the oil warms up, the roux will begin to cook and change color. Keep stirring the flour-oil mixture with a whisk until you reach the desired brown color you like. The darker the roux, the deeper will be the nutty roux flavor. It took me 25 minutes on my stove top burner to reach the color I wanted. The heat should be set to a low simmer. Try not to burn the roux else you have to start over.
When the roux is ready, remove your pan from the stove and slowly add water. Add a little water and stir to incorporate before you add more water. This amount of roux should make about 3 cups of gravy. Be careful in case the hot roux boils over. Return the pan to the stove top and gently simmer. Once roux sauce is done, season to taste with SYD All Purpose rub and set aside to keep warm.


At Lewis and Clark Middle School in Bellevue students recently tracked their phone usage, with some spending eight hours a day on their device on weekends. Seventh grade teacher Gina Stukenholtz wanted her class to see the startling research and admit they were addicted to social media and technology.
"There's definitely an uptick in mental health with teenagers, whether its anxiety, depression even suicide," Stukenholtz said.
So the students took a digital detox, turning in their smartphones for flip phones. They also gave up gaming and all social media.
With time away from their phones students turned to different activities. One focused on art work, another went to the library and signed up for a babysitting course, another decided to permanently give up social media.
Stukenholtz said if one student makes a positive change, the whole experiment was worth it.


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Q: MPMusicPlayerController.applicationQueuePlayer bugs in iOS 13.4 I submitted Feedback about this in Feedback Assistant already, but figured I'd post here too -- as of iOS 13.4, I have noticed various bugs in the MediaPlayer framework, specifically with the applicationQueuePlayer and applicationMusicPlayer.
The first is that on app launch when it initializes, it now throws this error:
[SDKPlayback] applicationQueuePlayer _establishConnectionIfNeeded timeout [ping did not pong]
That error is followed by this one, when prepareToPlay() is called:
Error Domain=MPMusicPlayerControllerErrorDomain Code=6 "Failed to prepare to play" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Failed to prepare to play}
Eventually after calling prepareToPlay enough times it'll get its head on straight and start playing the content, but even then I'm finding I have to call play() or pause() several times for it to do so reliably.
Anyone else seeing this in their apps post-13.4?

A: In my situation my player logic didn't always fire the player?.prepareToPlay() code.  I make sure to stop() the player, then fire the prepareToPlay immediately after.  Then I prep the player with the contentsOf: URL, and adjust the player settings, and then play.  I also have some weird volume adjustments I had to add because of a popping sound that was happening. I'll post my player code below.
  static func play(sound: Sound) {

    stop()
    player?.prepareToPlay()

     let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: sound.file, ofType: sound.extn)
        let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: path!)

    do {

        player = try AVAudioPlayer(contentsOf: url)
        player?.volume = 0 //starting volume at zero before playing eliminates pop on start
        player?.numberOfLoops = -1
        player?.play()
        player?.setVolume(1, fadeDuration: 0.3)  //fade in, no pop

    } catch {
      print(error)
    }
}

A: For a number of days now, I've been scratching my head as to why I wasn't able to play store identifiers for Apple Music catalog or library content. Turns out, setting the store identifiers directly with MPMusicPlayerApplicationController will play the content, whereas using MPMusicPlayerStoreQueueDescriptor and passing it to MPMusicPlayerApplicationController results in no effect.
I still get the following error logs:
[SDKPlayback] applicationQueuePlayer _establishConnectionIfNeeded timeout [ping did not pong]
[core] "Error returned from daemon: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9 "(null)""
iTunesCloud] ACAccountStore 0x283e1bdb0 - Error retrieving iTunesStore accounts. err=Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9 "(null)"
[iTunesCloud] [ICUserIdentityStore] Failed to fetch local store account with error: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9 "(null)".
...but gone is Error Domain=MPMusicPlayerControllerErrorDomain Code=6 "Failed to prepare to play" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Failed to prepare to play}.
Hopefully this might be useful for someone else who stumbles into this :)
Here's some code so you see what I mean:
class AMPlayer {

    private(set) var player: MPMusicPlayerController!
    // Every time `queue` is set, it'll ensure the player queue is "updated"
    private var queue: MPMusicPlayerStoreQueueDescriptor! {
        didSet {
            guard self.queue != nil,
                  let storeIDs = self.queue.storeIDs,
                  !storeIDs.isEmpty
            else { return }

            self.player.setQueue(with: storeIDs)
        }
    }

    // This is how I set the queue from outside the class
    public func setQueue(with resourceIDs: [String]) {
        self.queue = MPMusicPlayerStoreQueueDescriptor(storeIDs: resourceIDs)
    }

    // This is how I start playback
    public func play() {
        self.player.prepareToPlay { (error) in
            if let error = error as? MPError {
                print("Error while preparing to play: \(error)")
            } else {
                self.player.play()
            }
        }
    }

}

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If you're eager to see the Federal Housing Administration's 203(k) rehab program reopened to investors, do you want the sobering news first or the good news?
OK, first the good news. In discussions I had last week with FHA officials, they confirmed that the agency has heard — and is sympathetic to — the pleas from Realtors, lenders, homebuilders, contractors and small investors to bring back 203(k), which has been closed to investors since the mid-1990s.


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Even Paper Will be Smarter Than Us Soon
Posted on May 17 2013 - 8:25pm by Robert
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It seems that everything is getting smarter these days, doesn't it? The next thing we can expect to get the smart treatment is the humble old sheet of paper.
It seems that researchers from North Dakota State University in the US have worked out how to slip a radio frequency identification chip into a sheet of paper in a way which is going to open up a lot new uses for it.
For example, the use of these chips could help cut down on fraud if they are used in bank notes or legal documents. Other possibilities could include the use of these chips on travel documents and smart labels.
A Giant LEAP for Paper
The work which has been carried out to date is to be presented to the audience of the upcoming conference at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the paper in question has been labelled Laser Enabled Advanced Packaging (LEAP).
The current smart paper (known as RFID enabled) uses chips which are much thicker than these ones, which means that it becomes very bulky and in some cases unprintable.
With the LEAP process a laser is used to embed the chips and antenna as precisely as possible, but even so the process is said to be twice as quick as the methods which are currently used, while it is also said to be a good deal cheaper, according to Professor Val Marinov, who just happens to be the head of the project.
It has been more or less a decade since the likes of the European bank and Bank of Japan said that they wanted to go do this avenue and this latest research appears to be a huge step forward.
labels June 1, 2013 at 8:30 am - Reply
Cool… its amazing how papers can be upgraded like this. Old labels, notes, and documents could have a better use.

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$150K for schools and teachers
Designed to advance educational opportunities with technology across K-12 schools nationwide, the winning schools, individuals, and "Best Teacher in America" will receive more than $150,000 in money and prizes.
Chance to see STEM ideas come to life
Entrants are asked to dream up a cool invention idea that makes life more awesome and demonstrate how science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) can make their ideas a reality. The grand prize winner(s) will have their idea developed by lead innovation firm Fahrenheit 212. The extent to which the idea will be developed will depend upon the nature of the idea.
$150K for education's game-changers
The 2012 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education seeks to acknowledge current and emerging leaders who are developing new ideas to address the major challenges currently facing American education. These leaders will exhibit forward-thinking ideas and concepts, or, in the words of Harvard's Clayton Christensen—"disruptive innovations," which are poised to address current and future challenges in education. These individuals will have imagined future challenges and engineered a solution.
News Literacy Project helps students sort fact from fiction in the digital age
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a national educational program that taps experienced journalists to help middle and high school students "sort fact from fiction in the digital age."
According to its website, the project teaches students critical-thinking skills that will help them become smarter consumers and creators of information across all types of media. It shows students "how to distinguish verified information from spin, opinion, and misinformation—whether they are using search engines to find websites with information about specific topics, assessing a viral eMail, viewing a video on YouTube, watching television news, or reading a newspaper or a blog post."
Working with educators, students, and journalists, NLP says it has developed original curriculum materials "based on engaging activities and student projects that build and reflect understanding of the program's essential questions. The curriculum includes material on a variety of topics … that is presented through hands-on exercises, games, videos, and the journalists' own compelling stories."
NLP also is working with the American Library Association (ALA) on a brand-new news literacy campaign. The campaign, called "News Know-how," is supported by the Open Society Foundations.
The two-year, $722,000 project seeks to teach students information literacy principles to help them develop critical thinking skills and analyze news coverage in all of its formats. As part of the project, high school students—with public libraries as their "newsroom"—will learn how to distinguish facts from opinions, check the source and validity of news and information, and identify propaganda and misinformation.
"In today's mass media environment, it is critical that students are taught to analyze news coverage," said Barbara Jones, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
Libraries that will kick off the project include the Chicago Public Library; Oak Park, Ill., Public Library; Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore; and several Iowa rural and urban libraries working with the State Library.
http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org
Microsoft sees future in Windows 8 amid iPad's rise
Microsoft is developing a version of Windows 8 that can run on the more tablet-friendly microprocessor technology licensed by ARM Holdings.
Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom, and it's pinning its hopes on a new version of Windows that could spawn a new breed of hybrid machines: part tablet computer, part laptop.
Since the company released its Windows operating system in 1985, most of the sequels have been variations on the same theme. Not that it mattered much. Regardless of the software's quality, Microsoft managed to remain at the center of the personal computing universe.
The stakes are much different as Microsoft Corp. puts the finishing touches on Windows 8—perhaps the most important piece of software the Redmond, Wash., company has designed since co-founder Bill Gates won the contract to build the first operating system for IBM Corp.'s personal computer in the early 1980s.
A test, or "beta," version of the revamped operating system will be unveiled Feb. 29 in Barcelona, nudging Windows 8 a step closer to its anticipated mass market release in September or October. The company will offer the most extensive look at Windows 8's progress since it released an early version of the system to developers five months ago.
Microsoft designed Windows 8 to help it perform a difficult balancing act. The company hopes to keep milking revenue from a PC market that appears to be past its prime, while trying to gain a stronger foothold in the more fertile field of mobile devices. It's a booming market that, so far, has been defined and dominated by Apple Inc.'s trend-setting iPhone and iPad and Google Inc.'s ubiquitous Android software.
"Microsoft's future path is riding on Windows 8 and its success," said Gartner Inc. analyst David Cearley. "This is a chance for Microsoft to re-establish itself in a market where it's becoming increasingly irrelevant."
If Windows 8 is a hit, it could also help lift the fortunes of struggling PC makers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. Besides giving businesses and consumers a reason to consider new PC purchases, Windows 8 is expected to spawn a new breed of hybrid machines that will be part tablet computer, part laptop.
Survey: Wired world to be boon, bane for Generation Y
There is a good chance young people growing up in today's always-wired world will eventually become bright, nimble decision makers-if they don't wind up intellectual lightweights unable to concentrate long enough to chew over a good book, Reuters reports. So say 1,021 technology insiders, critics and students surveyed by the Pew Research Center who were fairly evenly split about how always-on technology will impact the teenagers and twenty-somethings of "Generation Y." In the survey, released on Wednesday, 55 percent agreed with a statement that in 2020 the brains of young people would be "wired" differently from those over 35, with good results for finding answers quickly and without shortcomings in their mental processes. But 42 percent were pessimistic, agreeing with a second statement that in 2020 young technology users would be easily distracted, would lack deep thinking skills and would thirst only for instant gratification…
Many students could skip remedial classes, studies find
Even as policymakers struggle to reform remedial-education requirements blamed for derailing the aspirations of countless community-college students, two new studies suggest that many of those students would do fine without them, says Jon Marcus from the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit based at Teachers College, Columbia University, for the Washington Post. The studies, both by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, found that as many as a third of students sidetracked into remedial classes because of their scores on standardized tests would have earned a B or better if they had simply proceeded directly to college-level courses. Three out of five of all entering community-college students are required to take remedial classes in math and other subjects, spending time and tuition money reviewing material they should have learned in high school, yet earning no credit from these classes toward their degrees. More than 75 percent never graduate—in many cases, the researchers say, because they drop out from boredom and frustration. Providing remedial education also costs community colleges an estimated $2.5 billion a year…
Minn. Senate allows schools to fire teachers based on performance
The Minnesota Senate passed a bill Monday that would let schools lay off teachers based on their performance in the classroom rather than by seniority alone, the Huffington Post reports. The bill passed by a 36-26 vote would let schools make layoffs based on evaluations that consider how well a teacher's students perform. The state currently requires school districts to consider only teacher seniority in deciding layoffs, unless individual districts negotiate their own arrangements to consider other factors. The bill's lead sponsor, Sen. Pam Wolf, R-Spring Lake Park, said the legislation would allow schools to keep the most effective teachers. Several Democrats opposed the bill. They said a statewide teacher evaluation system now in the works needs more time to develop before layoff policies are changed. The new system would base about one-third of a teacher evaluation on student test results…
Opinion: Are virtual academies better than traditional public schools?
Are virtual or e-schools better than traditional brick and mortar public schools? In many ways the answer would be a resounding yes, says Tara Dodrill for Yahoo! News. More states are offering alternatives to the typical public education, according to PBS. Until recently learning from your kitchen table evoked stereotypical images of a home-school environment fueled by strictly religious beliefs. Modern parents are not intimidated by technology and most children by the age of 8 can type as quickly as an accomplished secretary. Virtual academies allow children to work at their own pace, an aspect which offers the above average student the chance to excel. Public school teachers must create lesson plans which can be readily accomplished by a classroom of diverse learners. Such a scenario inevitably hampers those who are forced to wait for their average and below-average peers to master the curriculum. High school students attending a public virtual academy also have far more opportunities to complete school early, earn dual credit, college credit and flexible credit. A student can participate in internships and workshops geared to a future career interest to earn elective credit or advanced credit in core subjects…
Watch: Years later, teacher sends hundreds of birthday cards to former students
Lois Hayes, 66, may have retired from her career at an elementary school, but she hasn't forgotten her former students, the Huffington Post reports. Every week the Lexington, Miss., resident rolls through an index of cards with past students' names and birthdays. And every week, she sends out a handful of handwritten, personal birthday notes for the upcoming birthdays–about 400 each year, MSNBC's The Daily Nightly reports. Hayes says the tradition began when she decided she wanted her students to know they were "special." "It brings back memories to think of them, and what they were like when I taught them," she says.
"When I retired, I really was afraid we would not be able to send cards anymore," Hayes told the news source. "I buy the cards by the box and it has never been a problem, coming up with the postage or buying the cards. The Lord has provided for us, so it has been a joy to be able to do it."


A Faculty Christmas party with all the trimmings of a brightly lit tree, a myriad of decorations and a stream of greetings and well wishes for a merry Christmas. And so yet another season begins and once again we wonder where we fit.
I looked at my Jewish colleague and wondered if she was feeling what I was experiencing…. a strange sense of not belonging, or looking from the outside in. As usual I searched for something vegetarian to eat amongst the array of foods spread out. It was interesting, but not surprising that there was not much of a choice.
As a matter of course I scoured the beverage table for something non-alcoholic. As usual a friendly face approached me and I found myself being pulled into the age-old debate about Muslim customs and traditions. I put on my best smile and found myself responding in the most politically correct manner, whatever that entails.
Suddenly, face to face with my Jewish colleague, I am not quite sure what happened but whatever it was prompted us to explore the premises of this tension that we experience virtually every day of our 'public' lives.


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Kamel Djahmoune (born 16 June 1961) is an Algerian footballer. He played in six matches for the Algeria national football team in 1986 and 1988. He was also named in Algeria's squad for the 1988 African Cup of Nations tournament.

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About Oakham
Oakham Congregational Church
Nestled in the Vale of Catmose, in the heart of rural England lies the town of Oakham: Oakham is the county town of Rutland, England's smallest county.
Oakham is a delightful market town boasting a Castle which is a major local tourist attraction. It remains a requirement that every peer of the realm who passes through the town must give a horseshoe which is hung in the main hall.
Oakham, and indeed Rutland as a whole, has become something of a tourist attraction following the major reservoir, known as Rutland Water, which came into existence in the early 1970's
The Congregational Church is situated in the middle of the High Street. It is a lovely gothic style building which was built in 1861. One of the Deacons who purchased the land on which the Church was built was Thomas Smith whose great granddaughter Elizabeth Beswick is a current deacon, and who is the Church organist and pulpit supply secretary.
The Church has a vibrant and hard-working congregation who are actively involved with the Churches' Together in Oakham and District Forum. This group occupies the Church premises each Wednesday to supply meals and social contact to a considerable number of elderly local residents.
A variety of clergy occupy the pulpit to preach the word of God each week. The Church is currently looking to expand its role in the wider local community as a whole.
For further information please contact Mr. Robert Beswick on 01780 460780.


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Become a party-crasher in Ibiza as part of an official police team
Leave a Comment / English / By Jezz
POLICE on the Spanish island of Ibiza are inviting foreigners to swap parties for patrolling in a new initiative to help crack down on illegal parties.
With most of the big clubs now closed in Ibiza due to the number of COVID-19 cases, ravers are hosting illegal gatherings to make up for the loss of nightlife. But these parties are being blamed for a surge in COVID cases.
To help crack down on the parties, people – specifically 'foreigners' – aged between 30 and 40 are being asked to apply for a role in the 'party-crasher squad', an initiative which police say is 'a necessity to safeguard the health situation in Ibiza'.
With clubs closed partiers are holding illegal gatherings
The illegal gatherings are 'not only an issue related to public order, which they have always been, but now they pose an obvious risk to people's health,' Mariano Juan, a local official, told the Diario de Ibiza newspaper.
"It is not easy as the profile we're looking for are foreigners between 30 and 40 years old, but I have no doubt that it (the scheme) will be up and running this summer," he said.
Cases on the party island have climbed to 1,814 per 100,000 people, over the last fortnight, despite the closing of clubs and a ban on mixed-household gatherings between 1am and 6am – anyone found abusing this rule could face fines of up to €600,000.
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(SPOT.ph) There have been a lot of great Pinoy rom-coms throughout the years, but there are some that were just so unforgettable and made their mark on Pinoy pop culture. It's not unlikely that you'll find a hilarious meme or at least, a reference to them when you're scrolling through social media. So, whether you've watched every love-team offering for the past few years or if you're just getting into the rom-com game, we've rounded up the essential flicks you have to see at least once. To make things easier for you, we've listed all the places where you can stream them, too.
There's nothing like a best-friends-turned-lovers story to get you swooning. Ned (Marvin Agustin) and Bujoy (Jolina Magdangal) have been friends since childhood. While Ned is busy trying to impress another girl, Bujoy only has eyes set for Ned. Things change when Bujoy starts dating Ned's bandmate, which makes Ned question his feelings for Bujoy. A follow-up is already in the works with Magdangal and Agustin reprising their roles, so you'll have more Ned and Bujoy to fall in love with soon enough.
Perennial bridesmaid Toni (Claudine Barretto) has always disliked Lorenz (Rico Yan) for taking bad photos of her at weddings. But still, she agrees to do a photoshoot for him in exchange for him trying to find her the perfect guy. It's one of the best Pinoy rom-coms for good reason—Barretto and Yan's chemistry is palpable even if they're supposed to hate each other, so you can't help but feel kilig at the all-too-cheesy scenes.
It's impossible to never have heard of Popoy (John Lloyd Cruz) and Basha's (Bea Alonzo) love story. After breaking up over chicken skin (because Popoy is too controlling) the two go on their separate lives—or well, at least they try to. Popoy starts dating the monthsary-celebrating songwriter Trisha (Maja Salvador) while Basha focuses on her career as an architect. It's only when one of their friends drinks shampoo (yup, for real) that Popoy and Basha start thinking about their relationship and if they ended it too soon.
It's definitely a must-watch film if it became the start of a trilogy that includes You Changed My Life and It Takes a Man and a Woman. In A Very Special Love, Laida Magtalas (Sarah Geronimo) finally gets to work with her lifelong crush Miggy Montenegro (John Lloyd Cruz) at his publishing company. But with all of Miggy's arrogance and hotheadedness, Laida soon finds out that he's not exactly who she thought he was.
When Irene (Toni Gonzaga) gets left at the altar by Apollo (John Lloyd Cruz), she does the only reasonable thing when she runs into him later on: Pretend to have amnesia. While you might be torn at first, Apollo's attempts to win her back and woo her again—pick-up lines, sticky-notes-filled houses, and all—will make you swoon soon enough.
This tear-jerking drama about the Salazar family also touches on the love stories of siblings Teddie (Toni Gonzaga), Bobbie (Bea Alonzo), Alex (Angel Locsin), and Rebreb (Enchong Dee), who's having the titular wedding. (Shaina Magdayao's Gabbie doesn't really have a romantic storyline.) Aside from the satisfying scene where Alex drags Mocha Uson out of a bar, the 12-minute-long confrontation scene that involves the whole family is what makes this movie such a gem. Streaming it is now easier than ever, so you don't get to use Bobbie's infamous line, "Bakit parang kasalanan ko?" when someone asks you why you haven't watched this flick yet.
When Ginny Gonzales (Toni Gonzaga) had a crush on her teacher Marco Villanueva (Piolo Pascual), she probably never imagined she'd be the one leaving him for another country with no explanation. That's why things were bit awkward when Marco asks the architect Ginny years later to design his and his girlfriend Patty's (Iza Calzado) new restaurant. It's not always the best idea to work (or even reconnect) with your ex—which is what makes this movie a relatable and emotional watch.
Love-team partners Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla play two generations of star-crossed lovers in this complicated-but-ultimately-rewarding movie. In the '90s timeline, Kenji (Padilla) tries to get his ex-girlfriend jealous by dating Athena (Bernardo). As their fake relationship blossoms into a real one, the current timeline follows the story of Kenji's son Kenneth (also played by Padilla) and Athena's niece Kelay (also played by Bernardo).
Arguably the film that put director Antoinette Jadaone in the spotlight, That Thing Called Tadhana has earned itself a spot on plenty of must-watch lists. You won't find crazy kabit confrontation scenes here. Instead, you'll get relatable sawi lines as the heartbroken Mace (Angelica Panganiban) goes on a life-changing road (or should we say feels?) trip with stranger-turned-confidant Anthony (JM de Guzman).


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Iran, Syria to Broaden Strategic Cooperation in Reconstruction, Electricity Fields
TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Iranian and Syrian officials in a meeting in Tehran underlined the need for expanding mutual cooperation in the strategic fields such as reconstruction and electricity.
During the meeting in the Iranian capital on Saturday, Chairman of the Board of Iranian MAPNA Group for Electricity Abbas Aliabadi and Syrian Electricity Minister Mohammad Zuhair Kharboutli explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating bilateral relations in joint projects.
The two sides discussed the contract signed between them on constructing a power generation station in Lattakia Province with a capacity of 540 watts with an estimated cost of 411 million Euro.
The two sides also discussed means of providing spare parts, in addition to signing a contract on importing gas to Aleppo Station as well as repairing Aleppo thermal power generation station with a capacity of 400 Watt.
The Iranian side, meantime, voiced its readiness to provide all sorts of technical support to the Ministry in different projects within the framework of the reconstruction process.
Iran has been the main supporter of the Syrian government in the course of the almost decade long struggle of the Arab nation with foreign-funded terrorism. Syria's closeness to Iran has been the main source of animosity held by the US, Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia which have funneled billions of dollars and massive amounts of arms and weapon to terrorist held areas of the war-torn country to make Syria pay for its alliance with Iran.
Earlier in April, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani cabled a message to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad reassuring that the Islamic Republic of Iran was fully prepared to help Syria with the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
"Just as it stood by the Syrian people in their fight against terrorism, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to stand by you in Syria's reconstruction employing all it has in power," Rouhani said at the time.
Then in May, Iranian Road Minister Abbas Akhoundi visited Damascus and met with Syrian President Assad, reassuring that Iran will keep supporting Syria in the course of post-war reconstruction.
"The development of economic cooperation with Iran and all the countries that insist on defending their sovereignty and independence is one of the most important ways to confront Western plots," President Assad said in a meeting with Iranian Road and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi in Damascus.
"The Western powers are resorting to sanctions and coercive economic measures as a means to impose restrictions on nations and obliging them to bow to their hegemonic policies," President Assad said.
Also in late May, Iran and Syria signed a memorandum of understanding to boost economic cooperation.
The MoU was signed by Akhoundi and Syrian Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade Mohammad Samer al-Khalil.
Iran-Syria alliance dates back to early 1980s when almost all Arab countries of the region, except Syria, supported former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain in an unfair war against Iran in bid to meet their pan-Arab ambitions in the region. AT that time, the then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad supported Iran and voiced opposition to Saddam's expansionist agenda which was at that time even supported by the then US President Reagan and the then Saudi kings Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
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Envoy: Iran, Syria Enjoy Needed Capacities to Widen Economic, Trade Ties
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Minister: Iran to Construct Power Plants in Syria
FM: Iran to Quit JCPOA If EU Fails to Fulfill Commitments, Preserve N. Deal
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If it weren't for double standards, Speaker of the House Sara Gideon (D-Freeport) wouldn't have any standards at all.
Yes, that's a damning indictment, but how else can we explain her decision to block consideration of a legislative resolution celebrating freedom of choice in education? I thought Gideon was pro-choice.
But wait! That's not where I'm going with this.
Last week, Speaker Gideon defended her decision to kill a joint Senate/House resolution recognizing the seventh annual National School Choice Week on the grounds that leadership wants to stay away from "politically divisive" resolutions. Frankly, that doesn't even pass the straight-face test.
The language of the proposed resolution actually recognizes public schools as the first choice for parents and their children. No reasonable person could possibly interpret any of the verbiage in the proposed resolution as the least bit divisive or partisan. It is entirely neutral with respect to which choices are best for students.
Rewind to the 126th Legislature in 2013.
In her first term in the House, Rep. Gideon was fine with voting for a joint resolution calling on Congress to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. Sponsored by former Senate President Justin Alfond (D-Portland), the ideologically-driven pro-amnesty resolution was extremely divisive. Gideon and all her Democrat colleagues in the House followed like sheep when then Speaker of the House Mark Eves (D-North Berwick) put the measure up for a vote.
Clearly, Speaker Gideon's lame excuse about why she blocked the parental-choice resolution is just that: lame. Gideon has dropped the mask, and revealed herself as a left-wing progressive legislator marching in lockstep with the teachers' union bosses. Her ideological bias against allowing parents to choose what is best for their own children is now on full display at the very beginning of her tenure as Speaker.
Fortunately, while she did succeed in killing a parental choice resolution, she won't be able to shut down debate on legislation aimed at increasing freedom of choice in education during this session of the Legislature. Several pending bills address Maine's education crisis. Yes, I said crisis. Simply put, we're not getting much of a return on the vast sums of money Maine taxpayers spend on public schools.
Year after year, legislators receive reports that fewer than 40% of Maine eighth-graders are proficient in reading and math. Yet spending on public education is up 27% in the past decade, an increase of nearly half a billion dollars. Meanwhile, K-12 enrollment is in a free-fall, down 23,000 students over the past ten years. We're spending more money year after year to educate fewer and fewer students, and student achievement is flat at best. More than half of Maine high-school graduates who enter the community college system are unprepared; they need to take remedial courses.
Parents understand what's going on, and they want better options for their kids. That's why we have wait lists at 8 of the 9 charter schools in Maine.
I don't believe we will ever fix what's wrong with Maine's public schools until we recognize that compulsory unionism is at odds with quality education. Monopoly collective bargaining empowers teachers' union bosses to perpetuate mediocrity in the classroom. It's common knowledge that terminating an incompetent teacher once tenure has been achieved is a long and expensive process that few administrators are willing to tackle.
A fellow legislator, who served as a high school principal in Maine for decades, told me that it took him on average five years to terminate the contract of an underperforming teacher. Make no mistake: union bosses aren't paid to make sure kids get a great education; their job is to protect teachers' job security, pay, and benefits.
If her voting record is any guide, Speaker Gideon will once again side with the union bosses when workplace freedom (right-to-work) legislation comes before the House later this year.
Bottom line: we need more freedom, not less, for parents to choose the best education options for their children. Unfortunately, Maine's new Speaker of the House has demonstrated she's on the wrong side of this debate.


Earth will almost certainly warm by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels by the end of the century, the threshold set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. That's the sobering conclusion of a new study by scientists at the University of Washington, who analyzed population trends, economic growth, and the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each dollar of economic activity. The researchers estimate there is only a 5 percent chance temperatures won't rise above 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, and just a 1 percent chance the world will stick to the Paris accord's more aspirational target of 1.5 degrees.


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AWARDS: 1st Overall (Awards plus IronMind Gift Certificates) in Men's and Women's Divisions; and 1st – 3rd Place Award in OVERALL in each weight category.
Please NOTE that we will combine weight categories if we do NOT have at least 3 registered athletes in any one weight category by registration deadline of October 6th.
Ties will be broken by bodyweight (less weight scores higher). Overall Scoring: Percentage based scoring will be used. For example, if 100 kg wins the Rolling Thunder, that athlete will receive 100 points. If the second-place athlete lifts 90kg, they will receive 90 points. The winner is the athlete with the most points at the end of the contest. Should two athletes tie, the athlete with the lower body weight at the time of weigh ins will place higher.
The athlete (reverse order of entry form received) will attempt to crush and then hold a 19mm CoC Silver Bullet™ between the handles of a No. 3 or 2 Captains of Crush (CoC) Gripper (women will use No. 2 or 1) and hold it until it falls out or the athlete's hand opens. Athlete's hand must be vertical position (not supinated or pronated), in front of athlete's body, and clear of athlete's other hand. A 2.5kg weight (CoC Silver Bullet disc) will be attached to the CoC Silver Bullet and the best time wins. No grip aids other than chalk.


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The following counties are sponsoring a marker that will be placed along the Park's "300 Years of Military History" sidewalk. County markers are available for sponsorship for $500. Statistics from wars are optional. Please contact Board Chair Don Helton for more information at 502-243-9998 if your county is interested in joining these counties.
FROM A LETTER DATED MARCH 12, 2013 FROM THE KENTUCKY OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN RESPONSE TO WHETHER IT IS LEGAL FOR A COUNTY TO PURCHASE A MARKER IN VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK OF KENTUCKY: "SINCE THIS IS A PUBLIC PURPOSE WHICH THE COUNTY MAY ENGAGE IN, THE FISCAL COURT MAY DONATE MONEY TO A PRIVATE INSTITUTION FOR THIS PURPOSE IF IT SO CHOOSES".
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The Wetherspoons beer mat "manifesto"
By Georgina Lee
In a first for FactCheck, we find ourselves studying beer mats. It's an unusual method of political communication, but it seems to be making a splash.
Patrons of the Wetherspoons chain of pubs may have noticed that on Wednesday, half a million mats were placed in the company's 895 branches across the UK – to deliver a "hard-hitting message on Brexit to Parliament".
Clearly, the first statement is a matter of opinion. We'll leave that question for parliamentarians and columnists.
The third point has been discussed at length already. We're pleased to see that Wetherspoons haven't fallen into the trap of repeating the now-infamous "£350 million a week" claim that we heard from some Leave campaigners before the referendum.
There are many ways of calculating this, but estimates from the House of Commons library suggest that the UK's net contribution to the EU in 2019 will indeed be £200 million a week.
This figure is calculated based on the £390 million a week we will give the EU in 2019 minus the £190 million we will get back in the form of rebates and payments to the UK public sector.
But what about the second, less familiar, claim?
"The EU currently charges taxes on food imported from outside the EU. From March 2019, the government can and should eliminate these import taxes. This will result in a reduction in food prices in shops and pubs"
Regular readers will remember that last month, we FactChecked a related statement made by Chris Grayling about the future of food in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
We found that a no-deal Brexit would mean the UK would have to put tariffs on imports from the EU if it wanted to levy existing tariffs on non-EU imports.
This – according to the British Retail Consortium – would mean tariffs of around 22 per cent on food imports from the EU, which would "put upward pressure on consumer food prices".
It seems the boss of Wetherspoons, Tim Martin, disagrees with this approach. He says "there is absolutely no doubt that food prices will be cheaper without a deal, if the UK chooses the free trade option" and that the 22 per cent figure is part of a "coordinated campaign to dupe the public".
Mr Martin reckons that his pubs will "save an average of 3.5 pence per meal and 0.5 pence per drink if we leave the EU and abolish food import taxes in March 2019 – similar savings are likely to be made on meals consumed inside or outside the home in the UK".
We asked Wetherspoons to show us how they reached this calculation. They couldn't provide us with the exact figures.
But when FactCheck spoke to Mr Martin, he told us "as regards UK consumers, they would only pay higher tariffs – which is what most people seem to think would happen – if the UK government decides to impose tariffs on EU products".
He argues that the UK could opt not to charge any tariffs on imports – EU or otherwise – which would equate to savings for the consumer.
On the face of it, that makes sense. If the UK was willing to abolish all import charges (from EU and non-EU countries), one element of the cost of food and drink would go down.
But that's far from the full picture.
We spoke to Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He explained: "Wetherspoons is correct to say that UK food prices are higher because of the tariffs applied on imported food as a result of EU membership."
But he points out some problems with Mr Martin's claims.
"Wetherspoons is remiss in not taking account of the possible impact of higher trade costs on imports from EU on UK food prices. True, if the EU is a higher cost source of imports after Brexit, and the UK switches to importing all its beef from Brazil rather than an EU country like Ireland, these higher trade costs are irrelevant.
"But that scenario is highly unlikely. The UK will still want to import Italian parma ham, Spanish chorizo, Irish beef, French cheeses etc. In these cases, even if the UK does not impose tariffs, there will be higher trade costs of moving these goods through customs and port health checks."
Professor Matthews cites the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), which estimates that these additional costs could add 8 per cent to the cost of some food imports from the EU.
This is important because 79 per cent of our food and drink imports come from the EU, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
A cost increase of 8 per cent would "offset some of the gain from lower tariffs", says Professor Matthews. "Even if we streamline customs clearance, the fact that exporting and importing firms will now have to manage customs clearance documentation or employ freight forwarding agents to do this for them will add a percent or two to the cost of food imports from the EU even if they are not animal, fish or dairy products."
He goes on: "Weatherspoon is also remiss in ignoring the impact of Brexit on exchange rates which has an inflationary impact on food prices.
"Already, the day after the Brexit vote, sterling lost 10% in value and it has not recovered since, and this 10% depreciation is pushing up food prices now in the UK. If there is a hard Brexit as the company supports, it would be highly likely that sterling would further depreciate, given the damage it would do to the UK economy.
"Any further depreciation of sterling would also offset perceived savings of shoppers from lower tariffs."
FactCheck verdict
The boss of Wetherspoons, Tim Martin, is technically right that the cost of import tariffs could be avoided if the government decided not to impose any tariffs at all.
But these modest savings would be offset by two more significant factors.
Simply getting goods across the border without a trade deal will become much more expensive for UK businesses, even without tariffs
The no-deal Brexit that Mr Martin advocates is likely to weaken the pound even further, which drives up prices of imported food and drink to the UK
These two factors alone are likely to push up the cost of food and drink overall.
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Nigel Simpson says:
You did not include WTO rules of 10%
Or that people would buy British beef and products because they are cheaper.
Or that EU countries would offer discounts to match any increased tariffs…
3 Nov 2017 at 11:42 am
John Blanksby says:
Point 3 also includes a comment about the auditing of the EU accounts. Is this true or yet another myth?
Philip Allen says:
I would add that the comment about EU accounts not being properly audited since 1994 is false. They have been audited every year and have been unqualified since 2007. The recent auditors' report has recently been published.
This is part of a dangerous tend in which very wealthy men have begun to attempt to influence debate in an undemocratic way. Why doesn't he stand for election and see whether his views are supported, instead of pushing them on to a captive audience of customers?
3 Nov 2017 at 11:15 pm
Carl Thomas says:
Should also be worth noting that without any kind of tariffs on food and drink imports our local producers would be unable to compete as, in common with most wealthy nations, costs of production are higher here.
It's actually quite odd that this gentleman I presume considers himself proud to be British but is keen to take advantage of cheaper imports at the expense of British farmers.
The cynic in me thinks that he advocates 1) to ensure his pubs can keep their wage bill under control and 2) as he thinks he can increase his profit margins. Getting rid of EU regulations offers other opportunities to further increase profit margins, getting shot of various annoying workers' rights.
Wealthy guy with a platform using that platform to advocate for policies that will make him wealthier. How novel.
John Middleton says:
We would fall back on to WTO rules. And those WTO countries would impose tariffs on our exports we could chose not to impose them but that would leave us at a trading disadvantage. Our industries would suffer from cheap imports theatening jobs particularly in agriculture.
Richard Oppenheimer says:
Zero tarriffs on food imports would not be allowed under WTO rules
Eleanor Piggott says:
Really Wetherspoon's manifesto. 79% of food and drink exports come from the European UK. What % of UK food and drink consumption is imported? This makes a difference to the argument, as potentially UK could produce more of some things to avoid EU imports.
Bert Callander says:
Complete biased left wing opinion from channel 4 .
6 Nov 2017 at 8:29 am
Chris Lovett says:
The EU accounts have in fact been audited every year since 2007.


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"Knockout is here, and the first issue features some of the finest writers working today. Half of the proceeds from sales of issue one will go to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, an organizaiton established to help those affected by the civil war in Sudan, and a portion of the proceeds from teh sale of future issues will go to other charitable causes.
"The first issue, all poetry, includes work by a number of well-known writers, including Marvin Bell, Thomas Lux, Todd Boss, Aaron Smith, Carl Phillips, Carol Guess, Larissa Szporluk, Laurie Blauner, Lynn Levin, Timothy Liu, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Meyer, Jim Elledge, Christopher Hennessy, Ronald H. Bayes, CAConrad, Gerard Wozek, Jeff Mann, Michael Montlack, Jeffery Beam, Robert Bly, Ger Killeen, Denver Butson, Dan Pinkerton, Charles Jensen, Brent Goodman, Theodore Enslin, Alberto Rios, David Mason, Billy Collins, Mabel Yu, Kim Lambright and Joseph Massey, among others.
"Knockout is considering poems for #2 & #3. Translations are welcome, as long as you have permission of the author (as long as they are still kicking), and we're particularly interested in translations in German, Chinese, the Nordic Languages, and translations from the Middle East."
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Instrumental and vocal jazz at its finest, featuring Bill Shreeve on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones and flute. A three to seven piece band featuring classic standards to contemporary jazz and original material, this band showcases some of Southern California's finest musicians.
Bill has been performing professionally since 1976 in a variety of musical ensembles from small jazz groups, to 17 piece big band orchestras, to top 40 and rock bands. Bill has performed with Fattburger, Peter Sprague, Steve Laury, Bill Watros, Jaime Valle, Hollis Gentry, The Coasters, Danny Gans Orchestra, The Temptations, Charo, local cover bands Haute Chile, NRG, Liquid Blue, Soul Persuaders, Diva Soul, The Heroes, Kicks, Baytown Band and many others. He is a freelance woodwind player in a variety of pop, rock, and jazz groups in the Southern California region.
Bill is strongly influenced by a diverse bunch of Saxophone luminaries including Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, Cannonball Adderley, Phil Woods, Michael Brecker, Brandon Fields, David Sanborn, Eric Marienthal, and Hollis Gentry to name a few. In the early eighty's, Bill began leading his own jazz groups, Tangerine, The Shreeve Brothers, and then The Bill Shreeve Sextet performing at all the popular jazz nightclub venues throughout the San Diego region.
In 1985, Bill created what was to become one of Southern California's more popular dance bands, Aire Play. Aire Play performs almost exclusively at corporate events, weddings, and private parties of every nature and features five to twelve musicians. Aire Play delivers a wide selection of material from current top 40, rock, soul, disco, R & B, contemporary and classic jazz, swing, Latin, and big band era music.
This compact, talent rich trio delivers a full variety repertoire of listening and dance music in just three pieces! With Bill on saxes and flute, a keyboardist (also playing key bass), and a drummer/vocalist, the Power Trio is the smallest, most versatile variety band in Southern California. You get quality instrumental jazz and a range of vocal material from jazz to rock, pop and soul!
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Capitalism, Historians, and Lessons for Liberty
In 1951 Friedrich Hayek organized a session at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting with speakers Bertrand de Jouvenel, Louis Hacker, and T. S. Ashton. In 1954 their presentations, along with two other reprinted articles by Ashton and H. W. Hutt, were published as the book Capitalism and the Historians. This colloquium attempted to address the question of the book's continuing relevance to current debates about the nature of free competitive institutions, combining the original work with some cogent current historical reflections on the nature of history and the history of capitalism.
The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
by By Ludwig von Mises
Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves
In The Anti-capitalistic Mentality, the respected economist Ludwig von Mises plainly explains the causes of the irrational fear and hatred many intellectuals and others feel for capitalism. In five concise chapters, he traces the causation of the misunderstandings and resultant fears that cause resistance to economic development and social change.…
Appleby, Joyce Oldham. "The Vexed Story of Capitalism Told by American Historians." Journal of the Early Republic 21, no. 1 (2001): 1-18.
Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth About History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
Ashton, T.S., "The Treatment of Capitalism by Historians" In Capitalism and the Historians, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. 33-63.
De Jouvenel, Bertrand, "The Treatment of Capitalism by Continental Intellectuals" In Capitalism and the Historians, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. 93-123.
Hacker, Louis, "The Anti-Capitalist Bias of American Historians" In Capitalism and the Historians, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. 64-92.
Hayek, Friedrich A, "History and Politics" In Capitalism and the Historians, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. 3-29.
Mises, Ludwig von. Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution. Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.


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There are 1,166.25 miles from Union Pier to Miami International Airport (MIA) in southeast direction and 1,366 miles (2,198.36 kilometers) by car, following the I-65 S route.
Union Pier and MIA Airport are 21 hours 25 mins far apart, if you drive non-stop.
This is the fastest route from Union Pier, MI to MIA Airport. The halfway point is Marietta, GA.
Union Pier, MI and MIA Airport are in the same time zone (EDT). Current time in both locations is 4:31 am.
A car with an MPG of will need 63.26 gallons of gas to cover the route between Union Pier, MI and MIA Airport.
The estimated cost of gas to go from Union Pier to MIA Airport is $179.02.
During the route, an average car will release 1,239.33 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.91 pounds of CO2 per mile.
If you want to meet halfway between Union Pier, MI and MIA Airport or just make a stop in the middle of your trip, the exact coordinates of the halfway point of this route are 33.950485 and -84.586304, or 33º 57' 1.746" N, 84º 35' 10.6944" W. This location is 683.18 miles away from Union Pier, MI and MIA Airport and it would take approximately 10 hours 42 mins to reach the halfway point from both locations.
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Das Stade Ernest-Wallon ist ein Rugby-Stadion im Stadtteil Sept Deniers der französischen Stadt Toulouse, Département Haute-Garonne. Es befindet sich an der Rue des Troènes und ist die Heimspielstätte des Rugby-Union-Clubs Stade Toulousain, der in der obersten Liga, der Top 14, vertreten ist. Die Sportstätte bietet Platz für 19.500 Zuschauer. Benannt ist es nach Ernest Wallon, dem ersten Präsidenten des Vereins.

Stade Toulousain nutzte ab 1907 das Stade des Ponts-Jumeaux, das bis 1950 mehrmals Austragungsort des Finalspiels der französischen Meisterschaft gewesen war. Es wurde 1980 abgerissen, da es der damals im Bau befindlichen westlichen Ringautobahn weichen musste. Als Ersatz entstand etwas mehr als einen Kilometer nördlich davon das neue Stadion. Die Bauarbeiten begannen 1978 und waren vier Jahre später abgeschlossen.

Während der Rugby-Union-Weltmeisterschaft 1991 war die Anlage Austragungsort eines Vorrundenspiels zwischen Kanada und Rumänien. Bei Spitzenspielen weicht Stade Toulousain auf das knapp doppelt so große Stadium Municipal aus.

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 stadetoulousain.fr: Stadion auf der Website von Stade Toulousain (französisch)

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MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) Josh Williams had 36 points to out-duel Jimmy Boeheim and lift Robert Morris to a 98-89 overtime win over Cornell in the first round of the CIT on Tuesday night. Boeheim led the Big Red with a career-high 31 points.
Matt Morgan had 24 points, including the game-tying shot at the end of regulation, for the Big Red (15-16).


Switch medication from maprotiline to agomelatine.
Day 1: simultaneously start administration of agomelatine in a dosage of 25 mg/day.
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Q: Detect Text Fields with CNN and convert it to feature array I'm trying to detect mostly text fields (not OCR, i.e, my goal is not to detect what is written but areas where is written some text). Some images may be important as well (but not much)
For example:

The output must be an feature array.
I had an VGG19 from keras working, but the results aren't awesome because i think it isn't trained to deal with text fields or documents.
img = image.load_img(imagepath, target_size=(224, 224))
img_data = image.img_to_array(img)
img_data = np.expand_dims(img_data, axis=0)
img_data = preprocess_input(img_data)
features = model.predict(img_data)
features = np.array(features)   - expected output

Is there any CNN already trained to do this? If not, what approach do you suggest?


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We had the new Starbuck's breakfast sandwiches (good), Jim's Restaurant coffee cake, and Public Market breakfast tacos.
We had iced coffee everyday. Aaron broke down and got one of the double walled cups too, only Venti sized.
Aaron tore down a wall in the basement and started our basement improvement project.
Outside, I planted our window boxes, herbs and then we planted our garden.
A lot of work but we also saw "I Love You Man", "Terminator Salvation", "Night at the Museum" and watched "The Happening" on Netflix.
And we didn't turn the TV on once this weekend!
My husband asked me the other day: "What did we do before we had kids?? I can`t remember...". And neither could I.
When I opened up my first laptop TV pretty much disappeared for me. I would watch anime online or or... I am not sure what I did, but I was in college so without TV time seemed to pass anyway.
You are refreshingly as creative and cheerful as you always were.


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Q: Simulate React events in minified code in iframe I have files main.js and test.js, containing compiled clojurescript code.
When I open my-site.com/test, it loads test.js, which adds an iframe to the page that loads my-site.com/main, which in turn loads main.js.  test.js then tests various user interactions with my-site.com/main inside the iframe.
The problem is that I'm using React, so I need to simulate React events.  Part of the reason I'm using this iframe structure is because I learned that React.addons.TestUtils is not loaded in minified code.  I thought that, by leaving test.js un-minified, I woud be able to use its version of React.addons.TestUtils.Simulate to simulate React events in main.js, even if the latter is minified.  I thought this would enable me to test production code.
What I found through much trial and error was that, when main.js is not minified, I can use its version of Simulate just fine, but when it is minified, I can't use Simulate from test.js on elements in main.
Am I right?  Is it possible to use React.addons.TestUtils.Simulate if the library wasn't loaded in the relevant window?  Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do, or is there a better way?

A: After hours' more trial and error, I finally discovered that I don't need to use ReactTestUtils.Simulate at all.  I had never been able to trigger events in my React DOM before, but it turns out that all I needed to do was set bubbles: true on a regular Event for it to trigger the appropriate React event.
Moreover, since the event I was trying to simulate was a "keyup", I also discovered that I can't set the which or keyCode property on a KeyboardEvent, at least in my browser (which and keyCode are deprecated).  So I had to change my listener to look for event.key instead of event.which.  (I am still looking for which to accomodate older browsers, but I'm checking key first).
This works:
inputElement.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keyup", {key: "Enter", bubbles: true});

Hopefully this saves someone else some trouble!


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CentOS Project Announces Availability of CentOS Stream 9
Dec. 3, 2021 — The CentOS Project is delighted to announce the availability of CentOS Stream 9, the latest major release of the CentOS Stream distribution.
CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Before a package is formally introduced to CentOS Stream, it undergoes a battery of tests and checks—both automated and manual—to ensure it meets the stringent standards for inclusion in RHEL. Updates posted to Stream are identical to those posted to the unreleased minor version of RHEL. The aim? For CentOS Stream to be as fundamentally stable as RHEL itself.
To achieve this stability, each major release of Stream starts from a stable release of Fedora Linux—In CentOS Stream 9, this begins with Fedora 34, which is the same code base from which RHEL 9 is built. As updated packages pass testing and meet standards for stability, they are pushed into CentOS Stream as well as the nightly build of RHEL. What CentOS Stream looks like now is what RHEL will look like in the near future.
CentOS Stream is Community
CentOS Stream is developed through collaboration between the CentOS community and the RHEL engineering team. Although many CentOS Stream contributions derive from Red Hat employees, CentOS Stream thrives on community support. CentOS Stream is a stable, reliable platform for open source communities to expand upon, allowing people from all areas and backgrounds to collaborate in an open environment.
Because CentOS Stream ultimately becomes RHEL, contributors also have an opportunity for their work to influence future builds of RHEL; this makes CentOS Stream an ideal environment for creativity and forward-thinking.
Getting CentOS Stream
CentOS Stream can be downloaded as an ISO from our mirrors and is compatible with 64-bit x86 (x86_64 v2+), 64-bit ARM (AArch64), IBM Z (s390x Z14+), and IBM POWER (ppc64le POWER9+) architectures.
Contribute to CentOS Stream
Community is at the heart of the CentOS Project, and there are many ways you can contribute. A list of areas where you can contribute is available on the CentOS Wiki.
Because CentOS Stream is upstream of RHEL, it offers an ideal environment for applications which are designed to be deployed in RHEL. We welcome and encourage contributors from all backgrounds—especially those developing for the post-RHEL production stream—to use CentOS Stream to build, test, and deploy the applications that are special to you and to the greater Linux community.
You can also contribute by joining (or creating) a Special Interest Group (SIG) in an area of your interest. Visit the CentOS Wiki to learn more.
CentOS Stream is made for you to make it what you want it to be. To learn more about CentOS Stream 9, visit the CentOS Website: centos.org/stream9.
Source: Rich Bowen, CentOS


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Man killed mom 2 days after completing sentence for murder
By: CBS58 Staff
Posted: Feb 18, 2016 12:54 PM CST | Updated: Jul 28, 2016 5:27 PM CST
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing his mother just two days after completing a 30-year prison sentence for the murder of a neighbor, reports CBS New York.
Steven Pratt pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing his 64-year-old mother, Gwendolyn Pratt, in their Atlantic City home in October 2014. An autopsy revealed she died from massive blunt-force head injuries.
Pratt was 15 years old when he shot and killed his next-door neighbor Michael Anderson in an apartment building in 1984. He was tried as an adult and convicted of murder in 1986.
According to court records, Pratt and Anderson argued after Pratt and some of his friends refused to leave an apartment hallway where they were noisily hanging out. Pratt went back to Anderson's apartment with a lead pipe, but Anderson took the pipe away from Pratt and bloodied his face, the records show.
Pratt then returned with a borrowed handgun and shot Anderson in the face and shoulder, the court records show. Anderson, who Pratt said acted like a father to him, died days after the shooting.
Pratt was in tears Wednesday as he told a judge that he was guilty of killing his mother and didn't want a trial.
Pratt, 47, must serve 85 percent of a 25-year prison sentence before he'll be eligible for parole.


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Głuchowo – nazwa miejscowości wymieniana w zestawieniach z 1980 r. i 2013 r. o miejscowości typu kolonia położonej w Polsce, do 1998 w województwie bialskopodlaskim, w gminie Konstantynów, od 1999 w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie bialskim, w gminie Konstantynów. Nazwę miejscowości zniesiono w 2023 r. Według urzędu gminy nazwa miejscowości była tożsama z kolonią Siekierka.

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