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Second Quarter Construction Backlog Jumps 3.9 Percent
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:00 AM
Contact: Gerry Fritz, (703) 812-2062
Ashley Currie, (312) 396-9763
ARLINGTON, VA. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today reports its Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) rose 3.9 percent during the second quarter of 2013 and now stands at 8.2 months, up from 7.9 months the previous quarter. Construction backlog is up 6.6 percent compared to the same time last year. CBI reflects the amount of commercial and industrial construction work under contract, but not yet completed.
"For several quarters, various surveys on nonresidential construction firms operating across the United States have indicated a growing sense of confidence regarding the near-term outlook," said Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu. "Now we know why: They're getting busier.
"While nonresidential construction's recovery can still be characterized as sporadic and highly constrained, there are a number of supporting macroeconomic developments," said Basu. "The pace of job creation has accelerated in recent months, U.S. financial markets have generated lofty returns, and both anecdotal and quantitative data indicate project financing has become somewhat easier to obtain.
"However, this does not suggest that recovery of the nation's construction industry has suddenly become assured," Basu said. "Even as certain economic factors indicate promise—such as solid consumer spending, a meaningful rebound in housing activity and rising energy production—the U.S. economy is on pace to expand less than 2 percent this year, which is still insufficient to foment the type of aggressive, broad-based nonresidential construction cycle for which many contractors have been waiting.
"Through the first half of this year, U.S. nonresidential construction spending was roughly flat," said Basu. "Performance should improve during the latter half of the year, but the CBI seems to be indicating that revenue opportunities are set to expand more forcefully in 2014."
The Northeast, South and the West all experienced construction backlog expansion.
The Middle States, includes slow-growth states such as Illinois and Wisconsin, continues to have the shortest average backlog at 6.3 months.
The Northeast, which includes rapidly recovering regional economies like New York and Boston, has experienced rising backlog for five consecutive quarters and now boasts the lengthiest backlog of any region.
CBI Map of Regions and Backlog Months: Q2 2012 v. Q2 2013
"Perhaps the biggest surprise in the data is that backlog in the South has not increased more aggressively," said Basu. "Most macroeconomic data indicate the South and the West are the fastest expanding regions of the United States, which would seem to suggest a higher backlog.
"However, anecdotal and other evidence indicate that a lack of available skilled labor may be slowing down construction progress, particularly in areas of the nation associated with oil and natural gas production," Basu said. "These constraints are less impactful in the Northeast, where there has been less stimulus from the nation's energy production renaissance.
"What is not surprising is the generally slow progress observed in the Middle States," said Basu. "Many state governments in this region of the nation are facing particularly large fiscal challenges, and the fiscal conditions of Detroit and Chicago have been featured heavily in the news of late. That said, there will be times in the future when the Middle States become more active than much of the balance of the nation as energy production expands in the Utica Shale region," Basu stated.
Industry Highlights
Industry-specific data reflect the contrast in nonresidential construction spending patterns, with privately financed segments generally outperforming publicly financed segments.
Construction backlog in the infrastructure segment has declined for two consecutive quarters and is more than 1 month below last year's second quarter level.
While construction backlog expanded in the heavy industrial segment during the second quarter, the most sustained progress has been observed in the commercial and institutional category, which is most directly aligned with household spending.
"The CBI and many other economic indicators reflect the fact that the U.S. recovery continues to remain heavily dependent upon consumer borrowing and spending," said Basu. "At the forefront of the recovery has been housing and auto markets, which are both closely associated with consumer financing.
"Progress in private investment categories has been more sporadic, including the heavy industrial category, which has tended to recover in only fits and starts in recent quarters, due in part to an unexpected level of global economic weakness," said Basu. However, it's likely that progress in heavy industry should accelerate going forward.
"With sequestration ongoing, prospects for significant progress in the infrastructure category remain highly suppressed," Basu said. "As if headwinds emerging from the federal government were not enough, Detroit's bankruptcy is likely to induce more cautious behavior with respect to capital budgeting at state and local government levels, which will further impact the outlook for infrastructure investment in the United State."
Highlights by Company Size
Larger firms continue to capture market share. Backlog among surveyed contractors associated with more than $100 million in annual revenues is now approaching 12.3 months, which represents roughly a 50 percent increase in backlog since late 2009.
Firms with less than $30 million in revenue, a group heavily comprised of subcontractors that specialize in a handful of disciplines, also rose in the second quarter, but remains proximate to year-ago levels.
The group exhibiting the least momentum are contractors with between $30 million and $50 million in annual revenues. These firms are often competing directly with larger contractors with a greater ability to develop and retain talent, as well as solidify key banking and insurance relationships.
Company Size Analysis
"Today's competition is being waged along many dimensions that favor large contractors, including resources available to comply with government regulations and an ability to attract talent entering the construction industry," said Basu. "These firms not only have the capacity to take on the largest projects, but also to embrace the latest productive and expensive technologies.
"In the past, we've often associated market responsiveness with smaller firms because their organizational structure allows them to make decisions more quickly," Basu said. "Today, larger firms are organizationally leaner, which positions them to reduce costs and speed up decision-making—and ultimately makes them more competitive against smaller firms."
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Wolfpack will face Notre Dame in Gator
RALEIGH - North Carolina State's dream bowl matchup became a reality Sunday when Notre Dame accepted a bid to the Gator Bowl to play the Wolfpack on Jan. 1.
It will be the first meeting between No. 17 N.C. State (10-3) and one of college football's most storied programs.
"It's kind of a Cinderella thing. I just hope we bring the slipper," N.C. State coach Chuck Amato said.
The Wolfpack accepted its bowl bid 12 days ago, but had to wait until the Bowl Championship Series released the Fighting Irish (10-2) on Sunday to get its opponent for the New Year's Day game in Jacksonville, Fla.
"With the following Notre Dame has throughout the country, and probably the world, everybody will be glued to that TV," Amato said.
"Here is a team that four weeks ago people were talking about winning the national championship. They were right in the hunt of the BCS bowls and possibly going to the Fiesta Bowl. And now we have the honor of playing them . . . they are awfully, awfully good."
N.C. State will be heading to its third straight bowl game under Amato with some momentum following a 17-7 win over Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State, giving the Wolfpack its first 10-win season in school history.
Meanwhile, No. 11 Notre Dame fell out of a BCS game after losing 44-13 to Southern Cal last weekend.
"It's one of those ones where we better be ready to play," Amato said. "Our last game was a big win and their last game was a spanking."
Amato laughed when asked if he would get in touch with Southern Cal offensive coordinator Norm Chow, a former assistant under the N.C. State coach, to ask him for some tips.
"We'll make a phone call," he said.

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Kibera Black Stars | The matches
KBS in Brazil
A journalist sent by GLOBO TV in Kibera
Top KBS in Brazil Discuss Bottom
Luis Nachbin is a brazilian journalist. He made a first movie about KBS in 2014.
He came back to Nairobi in October 2018 to shoot another documentary.
This time, Luis follows the team up to Kisumu. He brought luck to our players: We won 2-1 there in the last game of the season, yes we can, goalllllllllllllllll !!!!
This second documentary will be another nice exposure of our actions in the most popular Brazilian TV in July 2019.
The movie in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD_Uq9TEHsU
The documentary was launched in Kibera then in the Alliance française in the presence of Kibra MP, Ken Okoth, and The Ambasssador of France, Remi Marechaux.
Ambasssador Remi Marechaux makes a speech in Swahili:
Rémi Maréchaux, 10 001ème supporter des Kibera Black Stars
by Jean-Michel Rousset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4q3WYM5yuQ
http://kiberablackstars.org/?kbs-in-brazil.html


Actress Etinosa has again spoken on her recent scandal with Sunnews.
Recall the actress was seen stripping naked during a live video with singer MC Galaxy sometime last week.
"Growing up was cool. I'm a spoilt child. I got everything I wanted from my parents. My parents were so comfortable. So, I had a very good home. Although, my parents never admitted they had money. "My mum would blackmail us that she wouldn't live a luxury life because of us, but we know that she always got what she wanted for herself.


When the cold case unit was formed in Los Angeles, detectives faced a daunting backlog of 9,000 unsolved murder cases dating back four decades. But killings don't get any colder than the 1957 murder of two young cops during a routine traffic stop. Investigators had all but given up on the case -- one of the oldest unsolved homicides in the country -- when modern technology finally caught up with justice.
I wonder whether I remove " on" away and the phrase "given up the case " is correct. Are the meanings of the two same to each other?
This is a difficult question. I feel a slight difference in meaning here. I will try to explain but I'm not sure I will do it well enough.
give up is not to difficult to understand it has several closely related meanings - stop, surrender, etc.
"give up on something" is more specific in some way for me it has the idea of "give up hope of success"
So if you use "give up the case" it would mean stop investigating it completely for some reason. On the other hand if you use "give up on the case" it means you "give up hope of ever being successful in solving it" this doesn't necessarily mean you have "given up" the case - murder cases are never technically "given up" as in this case new techniques could come along and it could be solved.
I hope that helps but it's difficult to be clear about the difference.
Thanks for not giving up on cracking this case. You shot works on me. I think I understood.


In this assignment, you are to evaluate two applications (or a major pieces of an application, such as "the graphing subsystem in Excel"). You will evaluate them with respect to the guidelines in chapter 5 of Nielsen's book. You are basically to use the Heuristic Evaluation approach described in section 5.11. The applications can run on Unix, Windows or the Macintosh, and should be a widely-available, system with a graphical, mouse-based UI (therefore, you cannot evaluate the Unix shell).
1) Pick a computer application or piece of one that you think has a particular poor user interface. Using the heuristics to guide your analysis, describe why the interface is poor. For this part, you should choose three (3) of the following guidelines and for each discuss how some feature of your system violates the guideline, and then what you might do to fix it. Be brief, concise and specific. If a single design feature of your system seems to violate multiple guidelines, you should mention them all, but you should still try to find two other problems. I am looking for insight, subtlety and depth (thus saying "the system doesn't have good color choices because it doesn't use color" is pretty trivial and won't count for much). It would be good if your report could show a picture of the application, so I can better understand your analysis.
2) Now pick a computer application or piece of one that you think has a particular good user interface. Using the heuristics to guide your analysis, describe why the interface is good. You do not need to use a particular number of guidelines, just enough to be convincing. It would be good if your report could show a picture of the application, so I can better understand your analysis.
3) For one of your design problems from question 1, discuss why you think the designers of the system did not make the correction you propose. Does your proposed new design have additional problems and/or conflicts with other guidelines?
4) Briefly discuss at least one example of how the various guidelines might conflict with each other in general. That is, how trying to meet one guideline might cause your design to violate another.
This homework is worth 5% of your grade in the course.


x, 96 pages ; 22 cm.
"In theaftermath of the Civil War, a young woman searches for her lost love at the edge of the West. The Civil War has destroyed Sarah Montgomery's marriage before it's even begun. After Sarah receives word that her fiancé, Rand Campbell, has been killed fighting for the Union, her brothers and ailing father persuade her to pledge herself to Ben Croftner--despite her strong misgivings. But when Sarah finds out that Rand is in fact alive--and that Ben Croftner knew it--she indignantly breaks off the engagement and goes in search of Rand. But Ben Croftner does not take rejection lightly--and a single woman with a sick father makes an easy target. When Sarah is abducted by her treacherous fiancé, Rand finally comes to her aid. only to reveal that he has been posted at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and intends to take her there as his wife. But could Sarah leave her dying father's side for the love of her life? And what plans are forming in the jealous heart of Ben Croftner?"-- Provided by publisher.
A heart's disguise / Colleen Coble.


We use only the freshest papaya for our papaya jam along with the goodness of organic honey. All natural and no high fructose corn syrup, or preservatives. Just natural goodness.
We use only the freshest ripe golden Hawaiian papayas picked from the tree for that all-natural tropical flavor of our papaya jam. Lightly sweetened with the goodness of organic honey, our papaya jam is a wonderful treat. Perfect for breakfast as a topping on homemade pancakes, biscuits or scones.


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Genaro
Male, 29
Playing guitar horribly, going to the movies, listening to music.
1 show during 1 tour
U2 360° Tour (1 show)
2011-06-18 Anaheim, California
Travelled to 1 country/state
California (1 show)
2011-06-18 Anaheim
Visited 1 city
Anaheim (1 show)
2011-06-18 Angel Stadium
Heard 24 different songs
Beautiful Day (1)
City Of Blinding Lights (1)
Even Better Than The Real Thing (1)
Get On Your Boots (1)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1)
I Will Follow (1)
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (1)
Miss Sarajevo (1)
Moment of Surrender (1)
Mysterious Ways (1)
Pride (In The Name Of Love) (1)
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (1)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1)
The Fly (1)
Ultra Violet (Light My Way) (1)
Until The End Of The World (1)
Walk On (1)
Where The Streets Have No Name (1)
With Or Without You (1)
Zooropa (1)
Along with 14 different snippets
All You Need Is Love (1)
California Soul (1)
Discothèque (1)
Don't Speak (1)
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (1)
Jungleland (1)
She Loves You (1)
Space Oddity (1)
You'll Never Walk Alone (1)
Last show,
10 years ago:
1989-12-27 - Dublin
"Excellent. My first review and i think.."
All 2 reviews
1989-12-27 Dublin
2001-06-09 Boston
Achtung Baby
Genaro92U2 heard 6 songs from the Achtung Baby album live.
All 11 albums
Achtung Baby (6)
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
All That You Can't Leave Behind (4)
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
The Joshua Tree (3)
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
No Line On The Horizon (3)
Get On Your Boots
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Moment of Surrender
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2)
City Of Blinding Lights
The Unforgettable Fire (1)
Zooropa
Miss Sarajevo
fan of the month interview
Genaro92U2 has featured as a U2start fan of the month, read the full interview.
"It's the sound of four people playing in a room, four people who have spent most of their lives together, but feeling like it's their first time. It really feels fresh to me." - Bono on recording songs in 2000
The song 'Numb' is about how The Edge felt when he split up with his wife. He felt like he couldn't do anything, he was useless. He felt numb.


Admit it. When it comes to creative holiday cookery, you're the master. You're like Leonardo da Vinci with a rubber spatula. Your vanilla crème cupcakes? Each a work of art. Your zesty gingerbread cake bites? Pure genius. And don't even get us started on your double-frosted sugar cookies. You have a way of adding perfect little touches, like these tiny candy sprinkles with green holly leaves and bright red berries, that add just the right amount of flair and make each of your culinary creations an edible masterpiece. Keep a supply on hand to inspire your creativity all season long. After all, even Leonardo couldn't have painted the Mona Lisa without a good brush.
Bag contains 5 pounds of Holly and Berries Holiday Mix Candy.


I love a good challenge and I love being inspired by how other people think, which makes today's post super fun! If you were given only 2X4's to work with (plus hardware) what would you make? A group of us took the challenge and today I'm sharing my project. I used a basic 2X4 from my scrap wood pile and turned it into a DIY Test Tube Vase Display with a farmhouse flare.
This was super easy, a project anyone can do!
I finished off the wood vase with a simple handwriting script and stenciled ' bloom' on it.
I'm also giving you a peek into some recent changes to our family room! I can't wait to give you a big tour soon.
For the holes, I started 2″ in, and then marked them 3″ a part.
Every new project I do is trial and error. I originally used a 3/8 bit but then realized it was a tad too small so I had to make the holes bigger with the 3/4.
I gave it two coats of Minwax Classic Gray stain.
Used my Silhouette to make a stencil in a fun font, and then painted it white.
Taryn, I can always count on you for high style… and this gorgeous vase take is no exception! This is gorgeous!
I love this Taryn! It shows how easy it can be to add beauty to a home with just a few supplies. The stenciling on the front is a beautiful.
This is so cute! Thanks for sharing. Visiting from Link Party Palooza.
Love, love this project! Got my inspiration juices flowing!


We have an opening in our Personal Insurance Team at our FORT FRANCES location for an Account Manager. We are pretty excited about the opportunity and know you will be too! Hurry, as like all good things, there is a deadline and it's July 8th!
We are continually growing and presently have an opening for an Account Manager in our FORT FRANCES office.


The Group has played an active role in contributing to Singapore's built environment through developing eco-friendly properties and adopting green practices in our operations. We strive to build and maintain good relationships with our employees and the communities that we operate in. We wish to create a collaborative, competent and safe working environment for our employees. At the same time, we are actively involved in community engagements and service programs to give back to the society at large.
As a leading Property Developer, we strive to deliver fine quality homes that cater to the sustainability aspirations and lifestyles of our customers. We are committed to building homes with innovative and functional concepts by integrating environmental sustainability into architectural design, building details, construction work and providing good maintenance and after-sale service.
Over the years, the Group has obtained many Green Mark Awards and Quality Mark Certifications by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) of Singapore. In 2018, our project Nim Collection was awarded the BCA Green Mark Gold PLUS and the Asia Property Awards Best Housing Architectural Design (Asia). 8 St Thomas was also awarded the Asia Property Awards Best Condo Architectural Design (Singapore).
Our office has established an Environment Sustainability Committee (ESC) to promote green initiatives. In 2017, in recognition of our continued commitment to sustainability, we have renewed the "Eco-Office Label" by the Singapore Environmental Council (valid until 2020) after first receiving it in 2015.
Since 2015, we have launched an annual "Plant-A-Tree" event to offset our carbon emissions. On 21 August 2018, all of our staff came together and planted 25 trees in Luxus Hills Park. We plan to continue this initiative and increase the number of trees to be planted at an increment of 5 trees every year thereafter. This demonstrates our active role in playing a part to mitigate global climate change.
To better govern our environmental performance, we have established an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certified Quality & Environmental Management System (QEMS).
We believe the social value we create is as important as the economic value. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee governs our community engagement endeavours. The CSR Committee selects and carries out Corporate Community Involvement (CCI) activities in line with the Group's CCI guideline.
We invest in our employees so as to give them an opportunity in realizing their potential. When new employees first join the company, they are orientated on the Group's business, policies, corporate culture and core values. They will also be attached to career mentors for on-the-job training. Our employees are encouraged to attend seminars, workshops and skills programs whenever they identify a learning need. In FY18, we have achieved an average of 18 hours of training per employee.
We are committed to ensuring a healthy and safe working environment for our employees. On a regular basis, risk assessments are carried out by a designated Risk Assessment Team to identify potential safety hazards in the office. We have an established Workplace Safety and Health Manual, which is available on the Intranet. In addition, we have set up contingency plans for a diverse range of emergencies, including fire, natural disasters and medical emergencies. We uphold the same high level of safety standard in our projects through all stages, from the design inception, to the later construction, and eventually property management.


This stunning industrial wine cabinet would be the perfect accessory to finish of any modern or vintage designed home. This item has 3 drawers, bottle shelves and glass holders to create the perfect storage. This item would look great in bedrooms and hallways. A real statement piece that will be a talking point with all your friends and family. Please check out all of our other items that we have on offer at The Cave UK.


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Un cake pop, ou parfois pop cake, est un type de gâteau en forme de sucette.

Il s'agit généralement d'un petit gâteau arrondi de la taille d'une grosse bille qui est recouvert d'un glaçage, de chocolat ou de décorations, puis est fixé sur un bâton de sucettes.

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The Youth Friendly Parish
Everyone wants to see youth involved in the Church and there are many reasons for this. Clergy see them as a sign of parish vitality and growth. The elderly see them as a guarantee for the Church's future. Parents hope and pray that their children will find an example in the Church by which to live their life. Youth look for peers who share their faith to affirm that they really do belong in the Church. But how does a parish actually get them involved? The real questions are: What characteristics do parishes need to be places where youth do come and participate in the life of the Church?
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Orthodox Christian Youth of Belarus and the Russian Diaspora Meet at a Round Table
Source: Romanian Orthodox Youth in America and Canada
Everyone wants to see youth involved in the Church and there are many reasons for this. Clergy see them as a sign of parish vitality and growth. The elderly see them as a guarantee for the Church's future. Parents hope and pray that their children will find an example in the Church by which to live their life. Youth look for peers who share their faith to affirm that they really do belong in the Church. But how does a parish actually get them involved? The real questions are: What characteristics do parishes need to be places where youth do come and participate in the life of the Church?
What makes a 'youth friendly' parish?
Youth, as adolescents, by virtue of their stage in life, are in the process of evaluating everything in their lives and choosing what they will accept and what they will reject.
Often they are making choices without being fully informed. As they begin to determine the role the Church will play in their lives, they probably are not aware of everything the Church teaches. They may or may not be aware of having a direct and genuine encounter with the Living God. Another problem that arises is that often we, as sinful adults, have incorrectly taught them, through our example, about what the Church teaches. Children and youth learn most effectively by example and from experience.
How often, in our daily and weekly actions, do we teach them that Church teachings can be disregarded at a whim, or that the Church is a place where people fight and gossip? For these reasons the youth-friendly parish wants above all "to be identified by young people as a community of care and concern," a place where young people can see and experience the Love of Christ living and acting in its members.
Educators and psychologists agree that adolescents require four basic needs:
• the need to find a place in a valued group that provides a sense of belonging.
• the need to identify tasks that are generally recognized in the group as having adaptive value and that thereby earn respect when skill is acquired for coping with tasks.
• the need to feel a sense of worth as a person.
• the need for reliable and predictable relationships with other people, especially a few relatively close relationships–or at least one.
Youth spend most of their adolescence searching for a place that can fulfill these needs. Unhealthy subcultures such as gangs and cults attract so many teens precisely because they provide these four elements to adolescents. But why should young people have to go to such destructive extremes to fulfill their basic needs? Our Church provides the perfect place for all these things: the parish community. What better place to find a sense of belonging, build reliable and predictable relationships, and develop a sense of worth as a person, than in a community whose vision is to actualize the Kingdom of God in this fallen world? It is a place, a community, with people of many ages, talents, and backgrounds. It is a place where all these people have no other purpose than to proclaim the Gospel of Christ by living as a group who support, challenge, and work for each other. Based upon this, the youth-friendly parish continually evaluates how it can best address these needs. It continually asks itself:
• Do we see our parish as an essential place for people, including teenagers, to spend their time, where they are provided with a genuine sense of belonging, where they are needed, where they receive what they need; or is it just somewhere you have to go on Sunday?
• Does our parish give teenagers opportunities to learn and do important and valued tasks within its life (reading, serving, directing the choir, singing, leadership, making prosphora, etc.), or does it really just want them standing quietly in the back at worship services?
• Does our parish continually affirm to teens that they are special and essential persons within the community, or does it feel that they are a problem that must be dealt with (i.e., too much youthful energy, apathy, etc.)?
• Do people within the parish try to develop reliable relationships with youth where Christ is the center point, or are the youth avoided and sent away whenever possible?
• Does the parish provide the necessary opportunities for teens to meet and develop these types of relationships with each other, or is everyone just too busy with other things to exert the effort and time?
These questions require the interest of more than one or two people. To put it bluntly, if most of the people in a parish are not concerned with learning even the names of young people, the parish will not be a place where youth will want to spend their time. Attracting youth to the Church and encouraging them to be active in her life is a task which involves the entire community.
There are four things a parish must be ready to do if it wants to become more "youth-friendly."
Pray with and for them. Take time to pray with them about an issue that is important to them. Pray for them that God will help them with their problems. As part of your daily prayer life, simply pray for them to know God acting in their lives. It is even helpful to let them know you are praying for them (without bragging). When you let them know that you care enough to pray for them, you show youth that they are valued by the community and by people in the community. It also indirectly teaches them about the power and purpose of prayer, and how to pray. Just be consistent, and respectful of their privacy. One way to do this is by placing a "prayer list" somewhere in the church or church hall where everyone in the parish can write down the names of persons they want to be prayed for and why. These people can be included in the services' litanies and in people's private rule of prayer.
Spend time with them. It sounds like an obvious suggestion, but we need to remember that young people spend most of their time with peers and very little time with adults who want to be part of their lives. This lack of significant adult relationships is a major reason why teens and young adults go to peers for help in dealing with difficult problems rather than adults, who may have more wisdom, knowledge, and experience in dealing with the problem. As Christian adults, it is our calling to develop significant and dependable relationships with young people. Our attempts to build relationships just need to be genuine and not condescending or sporadic.
Learn about their world. If you are going to spend time with kids and hope to influence their lives, you must be sure to respect them enough to know about the world in which they spend their time. Find out what they listen to, watch, and read. Be sure to ask them about it. The way you perceive something and the way they perceive it can be very different. It is important to respect that. The key is to "learn it, don't live it." If you are an adult you need to be an adult and not try to live like a teen. Everyone, including youth, feel the falseness of an adult behaving as if he or she were 15. Next, as St. Basil instructed the educators of his time, search for what is good and true in youth culture. The lyrics of much of today's music talk about principles found in the Gospel.
On the other hand it is necessary to weed out and talk to young people about what is not of God in much of today's pop culture. Studies have shown that each year television programs bombard viewers, explicitly or implicitly, with over 14,000 acts of sexual intercourse, and that 94% of these acts are between people who are not married. Adults need to reaffirm to teens (they already know that the Church says "NO" to sex before marriage) that this is not "normal" or healthy (physically, emotionally, or spiritually). They must also be ready to explain why.
Really listen to them. Jesus spent significant amounts of time simply listening to people before He ever said a word. (Take time to read the biblical accounts of Jesus' encounter with the apostles on the road to Emmaus, and with the Samaritan woman at the well.) How often do adults ask teens for ideas on certain subjects with no intention of taking anything they say seriously? How often do we tell teens that we want them to talk to us about their problems only to listen halfheartedly and quickly hand out trite one or two-sentence quick answers based upon "when I was a teenager?" A teen's greatest desire above all is to be heard.
But what are some things a parish can do to make itself more "youth-friendly?" Here are four concrete steps. You will notice that they all require the commitment and involvement of the entire parish.
• First, provide the setting in which youth will share and discuss their needs and fears. This requires a group of committed people (clergy, lay adults, and youth) who already possess a genuine experience of God's presence in their own lives and in the lives of others, and who want to share that experience with youth. Make it a parish project to recruit and train these people. For assistance you can contact the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries.
• Second, provide activities where these youth ministers can spend time with youth, either through retreats, camps, weekly sessions, service projects, or other activities. These activities should include opportunities for Fellowship, Education, Worship, and Service, (the F.E.W.S.).
• Third, ensure that youth are not only ministered to, but also expect, encourage and allow youth to minister to others as a living expression of their faith and belief in Jesus Christ. Find ways they can help others, draft a schedule and make it a regular part of young people's parish life.
• Fourth, form a local parish or regional youth group and/or club which meets on a weekly or monthly basis to plan and accomplish the first three steps. Many parishesare forming "YO" (Young Orthodox) groups to accomplish this.
At a time when many denominations are launching huge campaigns, and are planning elaborate programs and events for their young people, we must remember that activities are worthless if youth are not "at home" in a regular parish community. Your parish may not have elaborate and expensive programs, but it can still be "youth-friendly" if your parishioners are committed to building personal Christ-centered relationships among their community's children, youth, and adults. The type of parish that youth are attracted to is one where they are respected, valued, challenged, and most of all loved unconditionally.
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And here are pictures of both teeth 3D printed.
I intend to make molds of both of these and trying to get casts of as many different types of materials as I can. I really want to take a cast in water so that I can freeze it and have it kind of resemble what happens if you don't take care of your teeth. Obviously the tooth melting over time would actually be the resemblance to the frozen tooth. Ill be working on these molds over the next few days to see how many casts I can get out of these.


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Chained Women: Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery of Jewish Women in the 20th Century
René Cassin // News // Blogs // Chained Women: Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery of Jewish Women in the 20th Century
Posted on Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Lesley Urbach, René Cassin Fellow
At the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century Jewish European women were trafficked across international borders to be sold into sex slavery. Today, this would fall under the banner of human trafficking.
Poverty and the Promise of the 'New World'
The Industrial Revolution (during the 1850s-1900s) saw living conditions across Europe decline, due to poverty, overcrowding, unsafe and insecure work, and the social and economic devastation that followed war and political upheaval. Eastern European men faced conscription and were forced to leave their families for war. Many were killed or disappeared, leaving their families without means of support. Those with means and ability, the majority of whom were men, left Europe to greener pastures in the 'New World' and brought with them an increasing demand for sex work.[1]
Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
During the second half of the Nineteenth Century, state sanctioned antisemitism left much of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities in poverty. Antisemitism was rife in Eastern Europe: faced with Partition in Poland, Jewish people were stripped of their traditional ways of living and earning money and forced into ghettoized living in the cities. Furthermore, between the 1880s and early Twentieth Century, pogroms, deadly and violent attacks on Jewish communities, frequented the Russian Empire. Communities were destroyed, and the survivors left in poverty. Consequently, an approximate 10% (0.52 million) of Russian Jewry fled to Western Europe and the 'New World'. Men would often leave before their wives and families, leaving women in vulnerable socio-economic positions.[2]
Life for Eastern European Jewish women in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century was incredibly difficult. Women had limited employment options beyond domestic, factory, or sex work. Single, widowed and abandoned women, many living in extreme poverty and facing the very real threat of antisemitism, sought solace in the comforting words and promises of traffickers.
Jewish women who fled Eastern Europe, to escape poverty and persecution, often found life abroad just as unbearable as their lives of poverty back home. For example, young Jewish girls often emigrated alone, to join family abroad. Many came with as little as a name or vague address of their family's whereabouts, consequently finding themselves alone and out-of-pocket on the shores of a new country. These women were susceptible to entrapment and coercion into situations of exploitation including sex work, such as the offer of cheap lodging in brothels. This made impoverished immigrant Jewish communities, in America and London, ideal conditions for the entrapment of Jewish women. Once in sex work, women and girls found it near impossible to leave, as social, cultural and religious norms saw them as outcast from their communities.
Many of these women were subsequently trafficked into sex slavery in South America (Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), the United States (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia), South Africa, Turkey (Constantinople), Egypt, England, Palestine, Russia and the Far East.
The 'Modus Operandi'
As with human trafficking today, poor and vulnerable Jewish women were lured into sex slavery with the promise of a better life by criminals within their own communities. Described in an article in the Whitstable Times and Hern Bay Herald at the time: 'The modus operandi is the same in all cases. Replying to advertisements for governesses, companions, etc., the unfortunate girls are enticed into Turkish territory. Once there, they are treated as prisoners, and compelled to submit to the most brutal and ignominious treatment'.[3]
These criminals abused customs and traditions within the Jewish community, to exploit and enslave Jewish girls and women. For example, criminals and traffickers would marry their victims under false pretenses, in small ceremonies (two witnesses and a Rabbi) and force them into sex slavery. These perpetrators would use their marriage to their victims to alienate them from their families and communities, and often refusing to give their victims a gett (divorce). Women who are refused a gett by their husbands are known as agunah (a chained women), unable to leave their husbands and remarry.
Those involved in human trafficking used local agents to entice women with an escape from poverty. Advertisements in newspapers lured women and girls with the promise of jobs, immigration certificates, and marriage proposals. For example, one British newspaper reported on the arrest of a couple, in Bordeaux, en route to Buenos Aires, with two girls who were to be forced into working in a brothel upon arrival. The girls had been lured from their lives of extreme poverty with the promise of café jobs in Geneva.
A notorious example is the Zvi Magdalena Society, a successful Jewish Polish criminal group that trafficked women and girls to South America from poor Jewish ghettoes and villages in Poland and Russia. The group sent well-mannered and elegant-looking Jewish men to these villages who would advertise domestic work for young women, in Argentina, at the local synagogues.
Terrified about pogroms, and often extremely poor, many parents sent their daughters away with these men, hoping to give them a fresh start abroad. However, after a shtille chupah (quick wedding ceremony), and once the marriage was consummated, the women were taken to large cities and then trafficked abroad in groups: 'The poor victims are banded together in some Prussian town, whence they are exported like other goods or chattels to Riga or Wilna(sic) in the Baltic provinces, where Russian "merchants" have the pick of the market, with which to supply St. Petersburgh and Moscow'.[4]
Upon arrival at their destination, after enduring sexual abuse and violence en route, the women were placed in brothels and badly beaten if they did not do what they were told. As with many slaves in the present day, these women were told they would have to work to repay the cost of their travel. This method of enslavement and coercion has come to be known as debt bondage.
Many different people were involved in the various stages of the trafficking of Jewish women: tricking young women and their families; obtaining papers and tickets; arranging passage through borders; accompanying women to their destination; and running the brothels and sex trafficking rings the women were enslaved in.
Sex slavery and human trafficking was immensely profitable trade for the perpetrators. For example, by 1900, the Zvi Magdalena Society had an annual turnover of 50 million dollars. These profits continued to soar and by the 1920s, the Society controlled 2,000 brothels with 4,000 women in Argentina alone.
A Part of Jewish History: Victims and Perpetrators of Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery
While it is difficult to obtain accurate statistics on the number of Jewish women in the global sex work industry, at the time, it is estimated that the proportion of Jewish women in the sex industry was never greater than the proportion of Jews in the overall population.
Individual Jewish involvement in human trafficking and sex slavery was used to incense and cement the growing trend of antisemitism throughout the world. Journalist W. T. Stead often used his platform to spread antisemitic theories that Eastern European Jews were responsible for the victimization and trafficking of non-Jewish (predominantly Christian) English women and girls.
In reality, whilst there were Jewish individuals and groups involved in the trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, most of them used their knowledge and trust within their own communities to victimize Jewish women and girls.
In response to the growing wave of antisemitic rhetoric around the human trafficking and sex slavery of women, at the time, the Jewish Chronicle published the following: "I am assured by those who are in the best position to estimate the part played in the traffic by Jews and non-Jews that the Jewish part is by no means a large one. What is indisputable, however, is that there are many Jewish victims of the trade-a state of things due, as we all know, to the abominable conditions of Jewish existence in certain continental countries".[5]
Protest against child labour in a labour parade in New York City, May 1, 1909
A Part of Jewish History: Jewish Community Response to Human Trafficking & Sex Slavery
Outraged about the involvement of Jewish individuals in the exploitation and trafficking of women and girls, Jewish communities ostracized known perpetrators. For example, perpetrators were not allowed to participate in Jewish life: go into synagogues or be buried in a Jewish cemetery. (In response, the Zvi Magdalena Society set up its own synagogues and cemeteries in Argentina and Brazil).
However, whilst action against perpetrators was swift, it took longer for the communities to organize and respond to the needs of the victims. Initially in England, in the absence of Jewish community support, Jewish victims sought support from Christian missionaries for food and lodging.[6] However, after newspaper reporting exposed the suffering of Jewish victims, the Jewish community developed their own response to help these women and girls.
Whilst most of the Jewish women who fell victim to human traffickers remain unknown, Raquel Liberman, a Jewish woman who escaped a sex trafficking ring in Buenos Aires, and whose witness testimony led to it's eventual demise, was recently honoured by the city with a memorial tile in the Jewish neighbourhood of Once.[7]
Human Trafficking and Slavery in the Present
It is estimated that that there are at least 40 million people trapped in modern day slavery worldwide, trafficked within or to outside their countries of origin. Suggesting little has changed since the plight of women and girls over one hundred years prior. The scourge of slavery and human trafficking must be erased.
Slavery continues to be prevalent in many sectors across the UK. The number of people identified as victims of modern slavery has been rising year on year with over 130,000 victims of slavery identified by the Home Office, however, the real number of people trapped in slavery is estimated to be much higher. Much of this manifests in trafficking in humans for forced labour and sex work.
In 2019, the UK's largest-ever modern slavery ring was uncovered following an investigation by West Midlands Police. The criminal gang behind the ring trafficked more than 400 people, preying on ex-offenders, homeless people and other vulnerable people from Poland to the UK with the promise of gainful employment. The victims were made to live in squalor with minimal food provisions while working in poultry factories, farms and refuse centres. Some were paid just 50p per day for this backbreaking labour. Their passports were confiscated, prohibiting them from returning home, while threats of violence and coercion were used to intimidate victims into submission.
[1] Jeanne Rathbone, Lady Battersea Constance de Rothschild www.sheelanagigcomedienne.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/lady-battersea-constance-de-rothschild
[2] Bukivek Predrag, East and South –Eastern European Jews in the 19th and 20th Centuries. 16/04/2012, http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/europe-on-the-road/jewish-migration/predrag-bukovec-east-and-south-east-european-jews-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries
[3] Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 19 November, 1892 p.
[4] 'A White Slave Trade' Liverpool Echo, 20 March, 1885, p.3
[5] 'Correspondence' Jewish Chronicle 8 March, 1908
[7] 'Jewish woman who helped take down sex-trafficking ring in 1930s honoured' Jewish News, 26 September 2020 https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jewish-woman-who-helped-take-down-sex-trafficking-ring-in-1930s-honoured/
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Play the local vs off-shore card. If your preferred supplier is local and there is an off-shore vendor (and make sure you know of at least one), you'll want to indicate that you'd really like to purchase local, but they'll need to move on their price some more. Sales people are all too aware of the intense off-shore competition and it's a big motivator to make a better deal.
Ask for payment-term discounts. Prepaid discounts, or 2% discount for Net 10 day payments are the most common. Cash is king and you'd be amazed at the deep discounts you can get by having it at the ready. If there are no terms-discounts available, ask for extended payment terms, 60+ days is a good starting point. Companies with over-extended lines of credit or who have third parties collecting customer payments are more likely to give worthwhile incentives for quick or pre-payments. You can figure this out by looking at their previous invoice and seeing if the "Remit To" is the same as the company address. If not, the company may be in some financial trouble and might be more flexible with their pricing.
If it's a big capital purchase, tie in the final payment with performance criteria. i.e. it must perform according to an agreed to specification to have the final payment released. This often allows you to get an additional discount if the product under-performs.
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So anyway, PLANG, it happened.
I was asked to help a friend move.
Now, don't be mistaken—the experience itself was not traumatic. Just tedious. The process of gathering, wrapping, and boxing every single solitary item of your earthly existence and carting the whole mess to another location is unadulterated first-world hell, but that wasn't what PLANGed me.
A friend moving out is a friend no doubt.
A friend relocating is a friend ingratiating.
A friend moving furniture is a friend who's been earnedfersure.
No, what smacked my visage into a flattened cartoon face shaped like a long piece of aluminum siding was the flashback. Travel with me, won't you, way back to 1973. Your vision's getting wavy as harp strings carry you away to plaid polyester land. Don't look down. Damn it, I told you not to look down! Y es, those are saddle shoes you're wearing, with heels the size of an 8-track tape player. Take a gander around. Spiro Agnew has just resigned from the Veep's Office. On TV, William Conrad is nabbing crooks, usually by sitting on them, as Detective Frank Cannon; Tony Orlando and Dawn top the charts with, yech, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." And out of nowhere, Mom and Dad have called it quits, meaning that little eighth-grade you must bury all your possessions in cardboard coffins and follow the parental unit of your choosing to every apartment, trailer park, and government-subsidized housing complex this side of Tulsa. And you have to say goodbye to your dog, Cricket, because it's been determined that she's too much to care for in all the hubbub.
Yeah, I recall those times as the Years of Living Transiently (YLT). Never did I feel unloved or hungry or victim of any of the true terrors that so many youngsters must endure. After about the third move in less than a year, however, I learned not to unpack fully but to simply shift my more immediate necessities to the tops of my boxes. I'm sure that kids of military parents share a similar memory of quicksilver logistics. My wife's gypsy-like youth was comparable. You live like a MASH unit, always on alert for immediate evac.
Through all the moves uncounted during my YLT era, though, I also learned that no matter how many times you move, you never get it quite right. Every time you pull up stakes, you say to yourself this is going to be the one where I'm uber-organized. Socks here, books in this box, bowls over there. Then you end up throwing everything anywhere it fits. When you get to your new abode, you open a box and find it has a can of motor oil, floss, and toilet paper. Another box has detergent, silverware, three bags of old Doritos, and your high school copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Same goes with your moving-in process at the new place. As you're unpacking, you determine that you will be the epitome of efficiency, the Martha Stewart of domestic organization (except for the jail time). So you organize your cereal boxes by bran content, your CDs alpha by artist, your spices as they appear in the song Scarborough Fair, and so on. And, of course, this all goes out the window the minute you eat your first bowl of Trix.
This was great! Explains why you guys have been at your house for so long!!
I was wondering who put the toilet paper and motor oil in the same box. Thank you Rodger, thank you for being a friend.
Dang, I need to reorganize my spices.
PSR&T. it's just that easy, Jane.
Well, I would help out, MissFit, but that old war wound flaring up again.
So whatever happened to Cricket?!
One of my mom's coworkers took her (while we moved to Oklahoma and back–very long story).


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'Official Chukyagiri' Season 2 is presented by Digene in association with Dabur Red Gel Toothpaste and Bankbazaar.com. The show will be available on Arré and its channels on YouTube and Facebook. It will also be available on JioTV, Jio Cinema, YuppTV, SonyLIV, Ola Play, and Vodafone Play.
The show is produced for Arré by Amritpal Singh Bindra and Anand Tiwari of Still and Still Moving Pictures, who also produced Season 1.


Microarray chips for use as a diagnostics tool are produced by depositing small amounts of biopsy material, taken for instance from a patient's tumour cells, onto a substrate. It is often only possible to gather a tiny amount of the relevant cell material, and this limits the extent of testing that can be carried out. But if a patient is to receive targeted treatment, then comprehensive testing is essential. That is why it is important to optimize preparation of the biopsy specimens by ensuring they are used to make as many microarray chips as possible. Microarrays are usually produced using microdispensing systems, which function in a similar way to an ink-jet printer. The major drawback of these systems is that the printer head quickly becomes obstructed by many proteins, such as antibodies, that are crucial to the analysis. The process has to be halted and the printer head either cleaned or replaced – making it tremendously time-consuming and costly for users.
Fraunhofer ILT has developed a laser-based bench-top system for the fabrication of protein microarray chips. Unlike conventional printer technology, this system is able to deliver microscopic amounts of all kinds of proteins directly onto the substrate material. With the aid of this so-called "protoprinter", Dominik Riester and his team have succeeded in using proteins to produce a functioning test system for cell analysis.
This is how the printing process works: The microarray is situated beneath a glass slide which has the biopsy material on its underside along with an intermediate titanium absorber layer. A pulsed laser beam is focused on the absorber layer, evaporating the titanium, and the resulting forwards impulse transfers the biopsy material onto the microarray. This laser-based process has no need of a printer head and so it can transfer all the relevant proteins. The absence of a printer head also means there is none of the associated sample wastage caused, for example, by feeder lines. This dramatically reduces the amount of biopsy material required to carry out the analysis. What is more, the protoprinter can produce spot sizes of 10 µm to 300 µm – which means up to 500,000 protein spots can fit onto a surface the size of a thumbnail, allowing diagnosis to be performed with a minimum of material. Until now it has not been possible to deposit sample material onto a substrate with such precision and efficiency and in such small amounts. "The protoprinter is reliable and it saves both resources and time. That's what makes it more cost-effective to use than a microdispensing system," says Riester.
The design of the protoprinter is currently being refined to make it capable of producing artificial hematopoietic stem cell niches. In this, the researchers are focusing in particular on integrating an automated camera-assisted recognition process. Its job is to enable the targeted transfer of cells and other biomaterials – so providing optimal control of the printing process.


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A mezzo-soprano praised for her "stylish" singing (Opera Magazine) and the "emotional force" (The Times) of her performances, Joanna Harries enjoys a varied career on both the opera stage and recital platform.
A recent graduate of the National Opera Studio, in the 2022/23 season Joanna makes her debut with Opera Rara and the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Finocchini in Offenbach's La Princesse de Trébizonde (recording and concert performance at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall), Contessa Ceprano Rigoletto for Opera Holland Park, Lucinda La forza dell'amor paterno for The Barber Opera. She is the mezzo soloist for Paul Rissmann's Through the Looking Glass suite with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Concert Hall and is one of the 25 singers competing in the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition with duo partner Thomas Ang. She also brings mental health initiative SongPath back to Oxford Lieder's 2022 Festival with co-founder Jess Dandy.
In the 2021/22 season Joanna was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London, performing scenes as Cherubino, Idamante, Ruggiero, Le Prince Charmant and Cenerentola with the orchestras of English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Scottish Opera. Concerts this season included a tour of Scandinavian Song with Sholto Kynoch for Oxford Lieder, a series of recitals for Opera Prelude and a Britten Pears Young Artist recital with Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton. Joanna was awarded a Sybil Tutton Opera Award and Tait Memorial Trust Award, and was a finalist in the inaugural Boosey & Hawkes SingFinzi competition.
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Born in New Zealand and raised in Wales, Joanna was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and before training at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Her opera roles stretch from baroque to contemporary, including Dido Dido and Aenea (Purcell), Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina Don Giovanni and Bastienne Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart), Hélène Une éducation manquée (Chabrier), Varvara Kat'a Kabanova and Karolka Jenůfa (Janáček), the Drummer Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullmann), and Sāvitri Sāvitri (Holst). She has performed with companies including Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and British Youth Opera. Joanna was also an Emerging Artist for the Royal Opera House "Opera Dots" programme.
As concert soloist she has performed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, with the BBC Philharmonic at Harrogate Royal Hall, and at the Bach Festival Świdnica in Poland. A keen recitalist, Joanna has performed with Oxford Lieder, the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings, Pushkin House and the National Portrait Gallery. She is an Opera Prelude Young Artist, Handel House Talent artist and Britten-Pears Young Artist, and was awarded the Edith Brass Prize for Lieder at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Joanna is in demand as a performer of contemporary music and has premiered roles in new operas including Prometheus in Tim Benjamin's The Fire of Olympus, Tartine in David Blake & Keith Warner's Scoring a Century for British Youth Opera, Awen (cover) in Pwyll ap Sion's Gair ar Gnawd for Welsh National Opera, and Girl/Psychiatrist in Scott Stroman & Tamsin Collison's Fever Pitch, an adaptation of the iconic Nick Hornby book, and Diana in Scott Stroman's new opera The Weekend based on Michael Palin's play. She has also premiered works by composers Lucy Armstrong (Cheese at the Bridgewater Hall), Melissa Douglas (Sonnet 116 at the John Ryland's Library, Manchester), Michael Betteridge (Dawn Chorus at the Royal Exchange Theatre), and Anna Appleby (winning composition, 2015 Rosamond Prize). She performed as vocal soloist in the UK revival of Steve Reich's video opera Three Tales (Ensemble BPM) and has collaborated with performance artist Maeve Rendle at Manchester Art Gallery, The Whitworth and the Harris Museum in Preston.
Joanna runs SongPath with co-founder Jess Dandy, a mental health initiative bringing together music, nature and mental health in specially curated outdoor events, alongside free workshops for local branches of mental health charity Mind. Since 2019 they have taken SongPath to Cumbria (Ulverston International Music Festival), Yorkshire (Leeds Lieder) and Oxfordshire (Oxford Lieder).In 2021 Joanna was awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Enterprise Award for her new podcast Songs of the River.
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Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Drummer)
"An outstandingly intense cast (Chiara Vinci, Joanna Harries, Peter Brathwaite)...help to evoke the manic mixture of desperation, determination and fatalistic urgency."
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Handel Agrippina (Ottone)
"Another outstanding interpretation was that of Joanna Harries as Ottone...She has a beautifully schooled mezzo and projected each of her emotionally penetrating arias with great accomplishment."
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Commercial Cleaning Services – Are the Benefits Worth It?
As a business owner, you recognize that commercial cleaning services can save you precious time and money. Cleaning professionals get the task done faster and better than you would. Furthermore, a professionally cleaned environment helps you to present a positive atmosphere to your employees and customers. Your workspace will be healthier and safer with fewer allergens and germs in the air and on surfaces. A clean lobby will make your customer feel good. Would you return to a car dealership or dentist if the waiting area was dirty with overflowing trash? There is really no downside to hiring professional cleaners for your business.
The commercial cleaning company saves the business time because it does the cleaning job in less time, and less time means more money saved.
Employees get a positive impact from the work of commercial cleaning companies because it increases their productivity when they work in a clean environment.
Hiring a commercial cleaning company makes the office healthier and cleaner and decreases the amount of allergens and germs that will be passed between employees.


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Henry Jakob, Cheryl Worley of Hughes Watters Askanase
to Speak at Landlord-Tenant Seminar
HOUSTON (Oct. 11, 2007) - Hughes Watters Askanase L.L.P. (HWA) attorneys Henry Jakob and Cheryl Worley will be speaking at the Landlord-Tenant Law in Texas seminar on Nov. 13 in Houston. Jakob and Worley will present on the Bankruptcy Reform Act and how it affects landlords, tenants and ethics in landlord-tenant law, focusing both presentations on evictions.
Worley was chosen as a presenter because of her real estate and bankruptcy experience, and Jakob was chosen because of his experience in real estate, collections and creditors' rights.
The Landlord-Tenant Law seminar is sponsored by Sterling Education Services, a non-profit continuing legal education (CLE) company. Attendees will qualify for CLE credit. To register or for more information on this seminar, visit http://www.sterlingeducation.com/.
HWA, a law firm based in Houston, has extensive bankruptcy experience in addition to expertise in real estate, litigation, corporate transactions and consumer finance.
"As a litigator, I spend most of my time in court, so when Sterling asked us to present I said 'yes,'" said Jakob. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to discuss ethics with other attorneys in this industry because I find the topic very interesting."
Jakob, who joined HWA in 1998, focuses his practice on consumer and commercial litigation and counsels clients on a variety of landlord/tenant disputes and proceedings in bankruptcy. Worley, who joined HWA in 2005, concentrates her practice on bankruptcy, consumer financial services and litigation. She frequently represents clients in bankruptcy litigation regarding adequate protection, fraudulent transfers, dischargeability and preference complaints. For full biographical profiles on Jakob and Worley, please visit http://www.hwa.com/.
"It's important to maximize the provisions of the bankruptcy code for the benefit of the client," said Worley. "The code's intricacies make that job fascinating, and I'm thrilled for the opportunity to present on the subject."
About Hughes Watters Askanase
For more than 29 years, Hughes Watters Askanase L.L.P. has helped business organizations, financial institutions and individuals succeed with their business endeavors. The firm's attorneys play a strategic role and support clients through every stage of existence and operation, from formation to liquidation. The practice focuses on the six interrelated areas which provide the greatest opportunities and most challenging obstacles: bankruptcy, business planning and strategy, commercial finance, commercial real estate, consumer financial services, and litigation. For more information on Hughes Watters Askanase L.L.P., please visit http://www.hwa.com/.
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Our sales marina is large and one of a kind. It is a place where a buyer can fall in love with your boat. The marina is usually open six days a week and is always manned by one of us. More than fifty sailing boats and motorboats are berthed there; ready to be viewed.
Our long opening hours (we're open until 8pm on Thursdays in the summer) and the fact that there is no need to make an appointment, lower the threshold to visit the marina and compare various boats. The concept is as simple as it is effective. For the sale of a boat, a viewing is necessary. In our sales marina, your boat is viewed abundantly. The greater the number of viewings, the larger the chance of a good and fast sale!
Jachtmakelaardij Kappers has a diverse assortment of sailing boats and motorboats. Boats starting at 10 metres and up to 20 metres, in various price classes. We think it's important to give your boat the attention she deserves, and that she is viewed by as many potential buyers as possible. Your boat can also be viewed by interested parties – who otherwise might not have seen your boat – on the Internet. The more views, the larger the chance of finding a buyer. This is why you can visit our harbour six days a week to view our boats for sale. In the summer months, our harbour is open until 8pm on Thursday. Our specialised team is at the ready for you at all times.
A buyer can immediately view various boats and compare them, without having to make an appointment and without having to drive back and forth to different boats. In short, the sales marina provides a good chance for a fast and good sale! Make use of it!
Would you also like a carefree sale of your boat? Feel free to contact us!


Besides the parties, living steps away from our best friends, and guiltless binge drinking, the thing we miss most about college are the discussions about current events that were bound to happen when you put a large concentration of nerds in one place and then force them to study for 10+ hours a day. These conversations were fun to us because they not only helped us reevaluate our world views and consider the opinions of others, but they also forced us to hone our skills communicating and defending our own positions. Now that we have graduated and are woefully underemployed, we have found that these kinds of conversations are harder to come by. The solution? We did what any group of self-respecting frustrated millennials would do – we started a blog.
This blog is meant to serve as a digital substitute for the scholarly discussions we used to have among our classmates. A way to keep our research and communication skills sharp as we navigate the seas of "funemployment." Our goal is to post at least one article a week covering recent events, politics, law, or anything else we happen to be interested in at that moment. We will write these articles in the same manner in which we used to prepare for our class assignments: well researched, reputable and well cited sources, and probably finished mere minutes before the deadline.
What we promise our readers is that what we write will not be unsubstantiated. We have had enough with articles lacking in sources and research pervading throughout our media and political landscape. The core foundation of a successful and democratic government is a well informed citizenry. As Americans, we all deserve a better form of political writing. Writing that goes above and beyond to both inform the reader and demonstrate the claims made by the authors, along with a comprehensive background on the topic will be the (un)common goal that we will strive for. It's easy to make claims, but for something to be informative and persuading it must be backed by research and data. So the writers at The Finest Bagels Blog will promise you this, we will peer-edit, proofread, and research as much as possible to ensure clarity and accuracy in the claims made by our writers.
We also know that you may not always agree with us, but we will try our damnedest to both write fairly and make sure you thoroughly understand where we are coming from. So please direct all questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, and death threats to finestbagelsblog@gmail.com and let us know where we have hit the mark or have been led astray. May you always drink from the keg of glory.


The Utrecht Computational Structural Biology group will be part of a large European consortium under the INDIGO-DataCLoud project (11 million budget), funded under the Horizon 2020 e-Infrastructure programme (H2020-EINFRA-2014-2 call).
This project aims at developing a data/computing platform targeted at scientific communities, deployable on multiple hardware, and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures. The platform will be built by a consortium of 26 partners from 13 different countries under the coordination of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare). The team gathers leading European developers, resource providers, e-infrastructures and scientific communities, including among others the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and the Florence NMR group (CIRMMP) with which the Utrecht group has long-standing collaborations.
Within this consortium, the Utrecht group will provide the connection to user communities in the Life Sciences and Structural Biology (e.g. the INSTRUCT ESFRI and WeNMR projects), and further develop and adapt its flagship software HADDOCK to test, make best use of the developed CLOUD solutions and offer software as a service.
First H2020 E Infrastructure Project Landing was published on January 14, 2015 .


SAN FRANCISCO — September 22, 2016 – RadiumOne, a leading data-driven marketing technology company, today released the results of its Holiday Consumer Behavior Data Report, highlighting how retailers can capitalize on online consumer behaviors during the holiday season.
The research showed that marketers have a huge opportunity to reach more potential buyers during the holiday season due to their increase in online shopping, media consumption and social sharing. In fact, the report found that connected devices play an important role in holiday research and shopping, with more than a third of gift givers researching or buying presents online. It also revealed that media consumption increases significantly during the holidays, as most consumers will spend more time online, watch more TV and go to the movies more often. Additionally, one in three consumers will share more content during the holidays than the rest of the year, with 82 percent of all online holiday sharing activity coming from dark social channels such as email, instant messaging and text messaging.
The report dove into consumers' shopping habits during the holiday season and revealed that 38 percent of consumers will research and purchase presents online, with only 8 percent of consumers reporting that they will research and shop exclusively in-store. However, 28 percent of gift givers wait until the final month to start planning for holiday gifts, with 5 percent waiting until the final week.
The study also found that 29 percent of online shoppers will use multiple devices for shopping and research. Desktop was the most common device used (37 percent), followed by tablet (15 percent) and mobile (12 percent).
Findings from this report discovered almost half of consumers will spend more time online during the holiday season. Where consumers increase their time on devices the most television (59 percent) tablets (53 percent) and smartphones (53 percent).
The research found 72 percent of consumers share content online during the holidays. The most commonly shared content includes festive pictures (65 percent), festive videos (49 percent) and gift ideas (45 percent). The majority of sharing happens through dark social, compared to only 8 percent on Facebook, 3 percent on Twitter and 7 percent on other channels.
Not surprisingly, sharing activity on Black Friday and Cyber Monday is twice as high as the average for the rest of the holiday season.
The report looked at the online activities of 1,000 consumers who celebrate the holidays. Anyone interested in the full report and methodology can contact radiumonepr@shiftcomm.com.


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China slaps separatism charges on Uighur blogger
February 26, 2014 3:29 PM ET
New York, February 26, 2014--Chinese authorities should immediately release a Uighur blogger and academic who has been charged with separatism after being held incommunicado and without charge since January 15, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Ilham Tohti's wife, Guzaili Nu'er, said she was told of the arrest on Tuesday and that her husband was at a detention center in China's far-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, about 2,000 miles away from their home in Beijing, according to reports. This was the first time Guzaili Nu'er had learned of her husband's whereabouts or the official accusations against him since he was picked up from his home by police.
Tohti's lawyer, Li Fangping, told Reuters that if convicted of separatism, Tohti could face between 10 years and life in prison, or even a death sentence. Li has not been allowed to meet with Tohti during his time in custody, the reports said.
The Xinjiang Public Security Bureau released a statement last month, accusing Tohti of fomenting ethnic hatred through Uighurbiz, the website he founded several years ago, according to news reports. The statement said that the website "concocted, distorted and hyped up" acts of ethnic bloodshed. The website has been shut down since his detention, according to reports.
Tohti, who also lectures on economics at a Beijing university, is a member of the Uighur minority, a large Muslim group in China's northwest. He has frequently questioned the Chinese government's ethnic minority policies but has not advocated for Uighur separatism, reports said. Tohti, who has often been critical of China's treatment of Uighurs, expressed concern on his website about increased pressure on Uighurs after a deadly attack in October in Beijing that authorities have blamed on Uighur separatists, according to reports.
Ongoing clashes have erupted over the years in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, an area bordering ex-Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India that China considers to be of strategic importance. Separatist activities are seen as a serious offense in the country.
"The arrest of Ilham Tohti is another reminder of China's aggressive reaction to critical ethnic minority voices, and shows how vague state security laws can be abused to silence journalists at any time," said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz. "Chinese authorities should drop the charges against Tohti and release him immediately."
On February 7, Radio Free Asia, a U.S. government-sponsored radio network, aired an interview recorded on July 24, 2013 that Tohti asked to be publicized if he were to be detained in the future. In the interview, he said, "I have relied only on pen and paper to diplomatically request the human rights, legal rights, and autonomous regional rights for the Uighurs. ... I am almost confident that the Chinese government is trying to get rid of me this time."
Local and international human rights groups have expressed concern over Tohti's welfare. Chinese citizens have begun an online petition calling for Tohti's immediate release.
In 2009, Tohti was questioned about Uighurbiz and was detained for more than six weeks, CPJ research shows. Several bloggers affiliated with Uighurbiz have been given long jail terms, including Gheyret Niyaz, a contributor, who is serving a 15-year sentence. CPJ documented at least 32 journalists in prison, many of them ethnic Uighurs, in China when it conducted its annual census on December 1.
For more data on China, visit CPJ's Attacks on the Press.
Gheyret Niyaz
Guzaili Nu'er
Li Fangping
Uighurbiz
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Short URL: https://cpj.org/x/5983
Labor rights website editor Wei Zhili arrested in China; another is missing
March 21, 2019 1:47 PM ET
Taipei, March 21, 2019 -- Chinese authorities should immediately release ILabour.net editor Wei Zhili and ensure that editors and reporters will not be arrested for reporting on workers' rights....
China arrests Uighur editor, newspaper directors for being 'two-faced'
September 7, 2018 12:15 PM ET
Taipei, September 7, 2018--Chinese authorities should immediately release Ilham Weli, Xinjiang Daily's deputy editor-in-chief, Memtimin Obul and Juret Haji, directors at the newspaper, and Mirkamil Ablimit, the head of the newspaper's subsidiary Xinjiang Farmer's Daily, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Chinese police arrest critical blogger Chen Jieren
July 11, 2018 10:32 AM ET
Taipei, July 11, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Chinese authorities to immediately release Chen Jieren, an independent blogger who frequently published articles critical of the Communist Party officials on his blog, Jieren Guancha (Jieren Watch)....
World Health Organization blocks Taiwanese outlets from attending annual assembly
Taipei, May 25, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by the World Health Organization's decision to deny Taiwanese media outlets press accreditation to its annual decision-making function, the World Health Assembly, which started on May 21....
Chinese police detain Hong Kong journalist
Taipei, May 16, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Chinese authorities to stop harassing and detaining journalists and to explain why they detained and injured a cameraperson reporting on a human rights lawyer's court hearing....


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