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BNR17: A clinically-validated weight management probiotic in tune with healthy eating trends
01-Apr-2019 Last updated on 29-Mar-2019 at 16:57 GMT
The world has a serious obesity problem. From the Americas to Zimbabwe, a fast-rising proportion of people are classed as obese or overweight. People initially sought out diets to bring their waistlines under control but increasingly are shunning these methods in favor of healthy lifestyles that prioritize real, wholesome food. Probiotics can play an important role in these lifestyles but will only gain traction if, like UAS Labs' Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17, they are backed by high-quality clinical data.
The need for effective approaches to weight management is more pressing than ever. Obesity, as defined by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more, has nearly tripled globally since 1975.1 That rapid rise means more than 650 million adults were obese as of 2016. Almost 2 billion adults were overweight. Data on children suggest the obesity figures will continue to rise. In 2016, 340 million children and adolescents aged five to 19 were overweight or obese. More than 40 million children under the age of five were obese.
The data show obesity is a global problem but it is a particularly-acute challenge in the US, where 40% of adults and 19% of children and adolescents are obese.2 As the obesity epidemic hit the US earlier and harder than other countries, the responses of Americans to the crisis can show what may happen in the rest of the world in the years to come.
Many Americans responded to the obesity crisis by dieting. A poll run in the US from 2013 to 2016 found almost half of people had tried to lose weight within the past 12 months.3 Among women aged 20 to 59, the figure increases to around 60%. However, none of the multitude of diet plans tried by these people have brought the crisis under control.
Having grown dissatisfied with the results achieved by diets, people are focusing more on wellness than weight loss. Evidence for the trend includes a CBD Marketing analysis of 8.6 million online posts, which found 18 to 35 year olds have little interest in dieting or fat-free foods.4 Instead of bouncing from fad diet to fad diet, these consumers are making healthy, natural meals at home and realigning their lifestyles to promote wellbeing.
The role of probiotics in healthy lifestyles
Probiotics fit into this holistic approach to health. Yet, relatively few people incorporate supplements into weight management regimes. Of the 9,117 people polled by the US National Center for Health Statistics, 122 took dietary supplements for weight loss.5 That suggests that while 50% of Americans are trying to lose weight, just 1% of people use supplements to help them achieve this goal.
Doubt about the efficacy of supplements is one reason for low uptake. A survey of undergraduate students at a midwestern university found people were more skeptical about the efficacy of weight loss products than any other type of dietary supplement.6 The students were right to be skeptical. A study of people who lost 5% or more of their body weight found no link between nonprescription products and successful dieting.7
The data paints the picture of a supplement market with huge potential — both from commercial and health perspectives — that is being held back by a historic lack of scientifically-validated products.
Clinically-validated probiotics are starting to fill this gap in the market. Having gained familiarity with probiotics in the context of digestive health, consumers are seeking out products that address other specific health needs or wants. The emergence of heart healthy probiotics is one sign of this trend. Another sign is the rise of weight management products, which accounted for 6% of new probiotic supplement launches in 2015.8
The growth of the category gives consumers a way to adopt personalized and semi-personalized regimes that support weight management through the use of probiotic supplements. This approach to weight management is in keeping with the broader move away from fad diets and toward ongoing healthy living.
To maintain momentum, manufacturers need to win over consumers with high-quality clinical data that dispels doubts about efficacy.
The evidence to support BNR17
UAS Labs responded to the need for clinically-validated probiotics that fit into consumers' healthy, weight-conscious lifestyles by licensing Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 from AceBiome. The strain has been through extensive preclinical analysis and three clinical trials, and is approved in South Korea as a functional ingredient for helping reduce body fat.
The scientific validation of Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 began after the strain was isolated from human breast milk. In preclinical tests, animals that received the strain gained weight more slowly. The studies also linked Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 to significant reductions in white adipose tissue.
That led to research into the strain's weight management mechanism of action. The data are from animals, so caveats apply, but they link the strain to the upregulation of genes related to the use of fats and changes in the levels of hormones involved in the control of appetite and metabolism.
These preclinical tests of BNR17's efficacy and mechanism generated data to support the advance of the strain into clinical trials in humans. The first of three placebo-controlled clinical trials of the strain enrolled around 60 overweight adults. After 12 weeks, the BMI and waist and hip circumferences of subjects who took two capsules of Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 before meals had decreased significantly.
The second clinical trial repeated the findings in obese and overweight adults. Subjects in the BNR17 arm experienced reductions in BMI and waist and hip circumferences. The trial also linked the strain to declines in body weight and visceral adipose tissue, the fat that surrounds organs and is associated with health issues.
With the first two trials generating data on the weight management applications of BNR17, the researchers then ran a third clinical study to assess its effect on digestive wellness. The third study linked BNR17 to the normalization of bowel habits in people with irritable bowel syndrome.
UAS Labs licensed BNR17 on the strength of the preclinical and clinical data package detailed above. The package paints BNR17 as a probiotic of particular promise, a point that was reinforced when 15 experts judged Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 to be the weight management ingredient of the year in the 2018 NutraIngredients-USA Awards. The award reflects the quality of the clinical documentation built up around BNR17 to date.
Yet, UAS Labs has no plans to rest on its laurels. Instead, the company's researchers are preparing a well-powered protocol for a clinical trial that will target relevant weight management biomarkers. The trial, which is due to get underway early in 2019, is designed to provide further high-quality evidence of the role BNR17 can play in healthy, weight-aware lifestyles.
Producing high-quality probiotics
The clinical trial is one of several ways in which UAS Labs plans to further burnish the status of the strain through the deployment of its expertise and capabilities. UAS Labs' other efforts leverage the strain-to-solution capabilities it has built up to give it total control over its ingredients and finished products.
Following a $60 million investment, UAS Labs can perform fermentation, concentration and freeze drying in a closed loop production system that monitors temperature, pH and other vital parameters around the clock. The system is designed to ensure each step in the process takes place under the optimal conditions for probiotic viability. When combined with rigorous testing, the system ensures all of the freeze-dried probiotic concentrate that leaves UAS Labs' facility has the right identity and purity.
Probiotic brand owners can source supplies of freeze-dried BNR17 produced in this highly-controlled system from UAS Labs. Some of the concentrate goes to UAS Labs' own finished goods manufacturing facility located in Wausau, WI, US for standardizing and blending into capsules, tablets and other consumer-ready formulations.
Regardless of whether companies buy the freeze-dried concentrate or finished products, they will get a product with a rare pedigree. In licensing BNR17, UAS Labs has combined a clinically-validated probiotic with one of the few end-to-end production processes in the world. To reinforce this strong proposition, UAS Labs is investing in further development of the strain.
The result is a probiotic that is poised to address a major need created by a confluence of trends. With obesity rising around the world and consumer attitudes to weight management changing, there is a need for personalized and semi-personalized supplement regimes that support healthy lifestyles. The data suggest BNR17 can meet this need and help people achieve their health goals.
Visit UAS Labs' website to learn more about the BNR17™ strain of Lactobacillus gasseri.
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4. New Research Proves Millennials Are Upsetting the Grocery Cart with Their Focus on Fresh, Fitness and Flavor. Available at: https://www.prnewswire.comnew-research-proves-millennials-are-upsetting-the-grocery-cart-with-their-focus-on-fresh-fitness-and-flavor-300526046. (Accessed: 21st August 2018)
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Swim Team Preps for NEC Championship
Sam Kimmel, Editor|February 3, 2017
J.D. Cavrich
The SFU swim team will travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Northeast Conference Swimming and Diving Championship, Feb. 15-18.
Now in his fourth year, head coach Rory Coleman led last year's team to a school-record 11 victories. This makes five straight winning seasons for the Red Flash.
"Over the last three years, we have placed fourth in the NEC," said Coleman. "This year we need to move up in the conference. Our biggest challenge will be moving up into second or third place.
"There should be a nice battle between four different schools that can possibly move into second. Wagner, LIU-Brooklyn, Bryant and [SFU] will be battling for second through fifth place."
The Red Flash opened the season with back-to-back losses before placing first at the Colgate Fall Classic, then posted wins against all six teams at the Northeast Catholic Invitational at Boston College.
The team will compete against seven other schools at the NEC Championships.
"The champions from last year, CCSU, are definitely a team to look out for again this year at NECs," senior swimmer Paige McLean said. "They have added a lot of fast freshman swimmers and are very strong as a whole.
"Wagner and Bryant are also very strong teams, although I believe we will be able to surprise many people this year."
McLean, an Ontario native, regularly competes in the 1650-freestyle and 400-individual medley. She will also swim either the 500- or 50-freestyle at the NEC finals.
"I believe we have a great team this year," said McLean. "In my four years here, I think this may be our fastest team. I am really excited to see what we can do this year at NECs."
Coleman believes that setting the tone early at the championship meet will be crucial.
"Our team swims at its best when they're having fun," said Coleman. "If we can set the mood right on the pool deck and have them all jump aboard the 'fun train,' things will go well for us.
"We are very serious about our swimming, but the mood on the pool deck needs to be goofy, silly, fun with a lot of dancing."
With just six upperclassmen on the roster, the young SFU team has already accomplished plenty.
"I am very proud of our team and the way they handled themselves in and out of the pool and especially in the classroom," said Coleman.
"We currently have the largest roster size ever at Saint Francis. This creates its challenges, but has its positives. I am very fortunate to have 26 women on the team who represent Saint Francis in a positive manner at all times."
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Krimmel Earns 100th Win as Head Men's Basketball Coach; SFU ESports Off and Running
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Delaware Defeats Men's Basketball
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Cross Country Teams to Run at Mid-Atlantic Region Finals
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Bosse defends sectional title, goes back-to-back
Chad Lindskog
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Final: Bosse 86, Mount Vernon 54
Mekhi Lairy scored a game-high 24 points in Bosse's seventh straight win.
BOONVILLE — If Bosse hadn't already made it apparent through 25 games, the Bulldogs showed after Saturday's Class 3A Sectional 32 championship how different they are this year.
Romeo Parker, a 6-foot-7 senior transfer, climbed a ladder to cut a portion of the net for himself after Bosse's 86-54 win over Mount Vernon. He couldn't figure out how to snip it off and essentially was sawing through it.
Mekhi Lairy and Jaidon Hunter, who were standing at the base of the ladder waiting their turn, jokingly gave Parker instructions until he finally chopped his part.
Bosse defended its title and is a back-to-back sectional champion, even though some are experiencing it the first time.
"We worked harder this year," Lairy said. "We stayed together all year and focused on one thing."
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 22-3 lead and were never threatened by the Wildcats (7-19). Their largest lead was 37 points and they were up 52-19 by the break.
Hunter, a 6-foot-3 senior, set the tempo with 12 first-quarter points. He made three 3-pointers and added a traditional three-point play on his way to 15 overall.
"I was feeling really good. It felt like everything was going in," Hunter said. "I was really surprised I missed two (3-pointers) in the second half, but it happens."
Bosse (18-7) came out with a sense of urgency and built off its 82-76 semifinal victory over Memorial, which had a championship-like atmosphere. Certainly more than Saturday, given the Bulldogs' first-half dominance on both ends.
"I don't know if we played a better first half defensively all year long. We were really good," Bosse coach Shane Burkhart said. "It's kind of hard to keep their attention after that knowing what the game and the situation is all about."
Lairy scored a game-high 24 points to break the 20-point threshold for the fourth consecutive game. He established himself as the Bulldogs' leader this season and has them riding a seven-game winning streak going into the Class 3A Washington regional next Saturday.
"I had to step up this year," Lairy said. "All the other seniors pushed me every day in practice."
Burkhart and his assistant LaMar Brown were reminiscing Saturday afternoon. Since they've been together, they've been in seven consecutive postseason championship games. They want the streak to continue.
"This one was important for both of us, giving our kids a chance to make memories and make sure our kids did it right," Burkhart said.
Bosse pulled its starters and many of its go-to reserves with about five minutes remaining. Jaylin Chinn added 12 points and Javi Langley scored 11, but everyone got a chance to play.
Last year, the Bulldogs didn't come together until just before the tournament. They've been tight-knit since the start of this season and are confident in what they're doing.
No. 5 Bosse will play either No. 3 Brownstown Central or No. 10 Salem next Saturday, but won't know until Monday about who stands in the way of another regional title.
At least now everyone knows how to cut the net.
"We took care of business in Southern Indiana and now we're moving higher," Hunter said.


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Intelligence Alert: Oman to Lift Nightly Curfew
Update 29 | Critical Alert | Alerted October 21, 2020 at 10:51 a.m. EDT
Omani authorities will lift a nationwide nightly 2000-0500 curfew from 0500 Oct. 24 amid a gradually phased easing of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions. With the general exception of Dhofar Governorate, restrictions on travel and closures on shops and public places will end.
Only Omani and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nationals, as well as Omani residents who possess valid residency visas, are allowed to fly into the Sultanate. Non-Omani nationals are required to have international health insurance that covers COVID-19 expenses for at least one month. Foreign nationals who do not have valid residency visas should seek approval via their airline. Alternatively, their sponsors can contact the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
All arrivals must download the "Tarassud+" mobile application before entering Oman. All arrivals over the age of 15 will be subject to a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test. If travelers stay in Oman for less than seven days, they can end their self-isolation upon receiving a negative test result. Travelers staying in Oman for more than seven days are required to self-isolate for 14 days and wear a tracking bracelet for the duration of self-isolation. No persons require prior approval to exit the Sultanate. Other COVID-19 measures in effect and recent changes are included below:
Restrictions are in place in Dhofar governorate banning all travel to and from the governorate. Police patrols and checkpoints have been increased to ensure that these measures are enforced.
Public gatherings are banned. Parks, beaches, and other public spaces are closed. Tourist sites, including Jebel Al Akhdar and Jebel Shams, remain closed until further notice, with entry and exit prohibited.
The use of protective facemasks in public spaces and transportation remains mandatory.
Educational and religious institutions are set to reopen Nov. 1 and Nov. 15, respectively.
Companies are allowed to operate at 50-percent workforce capacity, provided they can comply with social distancing and other safety guidelines.
In exceptional circumstances, residents may enter the Sultanate via the land border with the UAE but must have prior permission from Omani authorities and meet UAE COVID-19 testing exit criteria. Residents may also exit Oman's land border to the UAE but must have prior permission from Emirati authorities and meet UAE COVID-19 testing entry criteria.
Oman Air (WY) has resumed flights to 20 countries. Domestic public transport resumed Sept. 27.
Authorities could introduce new preventive measures or further ease restrictions, depending on disease activity in the coming days and weeks.
Oman's travel restrictions and preventive measures are similar to actions other governments are taking globally in response to the spread of COVID-19. COVID-19 is a viral respiratory disease caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (previously known as 2019-nCoV). Symptoms occur 1-14 days following exposure (average of 3-7 days). These symptoms include fever, fatigue, cough, difficulty breathing, sometimes worsening to pneumonia and kidney failure - especially in those with underlying medical conditions. On March 11, the WHO declared the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.


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I'm trying to get the div that's 'full' to expand from the middle out, pushing the others out of the way in the process. What I've got now will push them to the left edge and then expand them. I know that this is because I've got position:absolute. Any ideas on how I can acheive this effect?

A: Here is a working example of what I think you are describing: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pKfAw
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Conservatives and abortion
Contest time! Who can find the number of commenters on this web site – or in the media, if you have time – who insisted the Harper regime would never, ever touch abortion? Best examples welcome!
"While [Stephen] Harper has not promised to raise pro-life or pro-family legislation he has promised to allow such legislation to be introduced by others and to permit free votes…." – Anti-abortion Web site LifeSite.net, March 22, 2004.
http://jeansansum.shawwebspace.ca/blog/post/quotes_by_and_about_stephen_ha_1/
There was a chorus of Conservatives on this proto-blog, bleating away that there was no way Harper would be stupid enough (not my phrase, theirs) to open up the abortion issue. Well he has, pretty much right on schedule and all of Mr. Tulk's semantics doesn't change that one bit.
Jason King says:
Yeah Phillip, and once you answered Gord, Im sure he will pull out one of his chestnuts that starts with "A better question for the Liberals would be…"
Same difference.
Mr. Harper's intent was to slip this issue in through the back door, using a no name MP. We have discussed this particular tactic ad nauseum on this proto blog. Thus the complete lack of surprise on anyone's part that the abortion issue has reared it's head. Harper not explicitly telling the Canadian people that abortion was off the table is meaningless, if the intent to back door the legislation is there. Which it obviously is.
A better question for the Conservative Party is why they feel they can't level with Canadians about their core values. If you are afraid to talk openly about them in public, then it perhaps it's time to drop them.
eg Candice Hoeppner and the gun registry trick from last spring.
I found one!
Domenico says:
It is quite apparent that Harper is floating trial balloons through his back benchers like Woodworth and Trost. I suspect He is gauging the amount of push back he will get before allowing a "private members bill" to come to a vote. Obstensibly because he is suddenly in favor of relaxing party discipline, but with the de facto aim of pushing his conservative social agenda.
Whoosh there go the semantic goalposts again!
Here's the backup:
Found two! Oh wait…
You mean a term like "fetus", which is more acceptable to science and medicine?
allegra fortissima says:
"Many forms of so-called contraception are, in fact, aborbifacient, that is, they destroy, at its beginning, a life which has already been conceived." ~ Cardinal Raymond Burke, Advancing the Culture of Life in Hope and With Obedience, October29, 2011
Keep your rosary off women's ovaries, PLEASE!
Nah you should just have deleted the entire quote. It was lame rather than witty.
The Religious Right is not only opposed to abortion but also opposed to contraception. So yes, "Keep your rosary off women's ovaries" is a good start!
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/12/18/2011-war-on-contraception
RDS says:
"Justice Minister Rob Nicholson also sent out an emailed statement Monday saying that while the government had no power to influence motions from individual MPs, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised not to re-open the debate."
Really. "No power?"
I call shenanigans.
I am pretty sure an "emailed statement" that said, "If you introduce a motion that even remotely touches the abortion debate you will be summarily kicked out of the caucus," might "influence motions from individual MPs."
Disingenuous at best. Only the Tulks of the world buy these lame denials; everybody else either won't understand that this (allegedly) isn't a government bill, or will understand that His Royal Steveness has managed to keep a lid on this for six years and darn well could continue to keep the lid on if he wanted to.
There is no parliamentary rule, but we have all gotten used to PMSH controlling everything his MPs say and do. All of a sudden his MPs are aloud to speak?
According to these guys, he's promised a free vote. And just how do you think that free vote would go?
Please read what I wrote, and what Rob Nicholson wrote.
"Power to influence" is not parliamentary authority. The PM certainly could expel a member from caucus, and certainly could call a whipped vote and insist that all members vote against it.
Unless he does those things, he is demonstrating that regardless of what power or influence he does or doesn't have, he has no real interest in suppressing this issue, which is far more important. If he did everything he could to stop this and it still went ahead, maybe we'd believe he doesn't want it. But he hasn't.
Gord, how do you feel about Dean Del Mastro, P.Sec. to the PM, as a feature speaker at Pro Life Rallies, telling everyone who is a real Catholic and who is not?
Whoosh go the goalposts. Gord only talks bout things from other regions if he can waggle a finger and act like "lecture dad"
true or false Gord… Dean Del Mastro should be dumped from the CPC.
frmr disgruntled Con now happy Lib says:
A number of em from your "Agenda, not so hidden" blog dated Jan 12/21012
But here's a personal favourite: ******** says:
As my granpappy used to say, "Betchall feel real dumb now that ya said that"! There is no hidden agenda on SSM…PERIOD.Same goes for abortion,death penalty etc etc.
Please do keep up the fear mongering though because election after election thousands of swing voters are realizing that mainstream libs have very few tools other than trying to portray Harper as a boogieman. 3 election, 7 years and none of it has come to play. But please do continue.
Is lard-ass in the country or isn't he? We're treated to shots of him and Laureen getting in the doomed airplane in the morning and then in the afternoon we see him sitting beside Grand Puppet Johnston smiling at and shaking hands with people who just want to strangle him. Is he in China blowing the Politburo or isn't he?
Warren think about this for a bit: imagine that the LPC and NDP get all concerned about the country instead of their own belly buttons and decide to provide some kind of united opposition to lard-ass and it becomes clear to all and sundry that the Cons have no chance of re-election even to a minority. Is Harper crazy enough to go all scorched earth on us, do you think? He could do a fuck of a lot of irreversible damage to the place with the majority he's got and I sense no backbones at all, well a few whiners maybe, in the Con caucus. If Tulk is any indication Harper has a certain number of rabid asswipe supporters around who'd applaud anything he did even if, or perhaps especially if it involved unweaving the last 70 years or so of federal Liberal and even PC legislation. Of course Tulk and his ilk would like it even better if it involved dead puppies and kittens on the clothesline but even he or she or it must've heard of the Rolling Stones.
Whaddya think – how crazy is this fat little motherfucker?
Mulletaur says:
What is this Conservative obsession with controlling female reproductive organs ? Machismo ? Fascism ? Trying to (re)impose male dominance over the female of the species ? What ?
What a woman decides to do with her body is up to her, Gourd, not you, and certainly not the gang of patriarchal anti-abortion nutters (i.e. Harper Conservatives) that you represent. The most ironic part of the rubbish you posted above is that you rely on science that doesn't even exist to buttress what is eventually an extreme religious view. I am not in favour of abortion except in very exceptional circumstances, but it's just not my decision – it's a woman's decision.
You and your hypocritical ilk want to impose your choices on women by law – that is the strongest evidence that you have no convincing arguments. I say hypocritical because you would not hesitate to send the living into battle to kill and be killed, no matter what the pain it causes the living – and if the Great Canadian Public would let you get away with it, you wouldn't have the state do a single thing to improve the lives of people once they were brought into this world. You would just leave them to their own devices.
Philippe says:
My theory on this is that Harper's given his blessing for this to get thrown out there to "test the water".
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/730478–tory-rips-no-good-jobless
"There has been no such apology from Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott for his unflattering depiction of women seeking abortions, which also applauded Saskatoon doctors for restricting access to abortion services.
"Pro-life feminists have … come to see abortion as part of a male agenda to have women more sexually available," said the controversial MP in an anti-abortion news release sent out Nov. 20."
Steve T says:
Just so I'm clear, we are saying that no MP may even speak about abortion – otherwise it will be equated to the entire Tory caucus (and the PMO itself) re-introducing the abortion issue?
Remind me – wasn't there a lot of bleating about Harper being a control freak, who never lets his MPs speak their mind?
Gord, the German people were responsible for Hitler's actions. Harper can float his trial balloons while being voted into power by
24% 0f the eligible voters. There will come a time when the 76% of the Canadian population says that starving grandmas and
other draconian measures are not acceptable. He will be arrested for crimes committed against the Canadian people.
GPAlta says:
Abortion rates are higher in countries where abortion is illegal, sex education in schools is the only other policy measure ever shown to reduce abortion rates, abortion rates are declining in Canada. Meanwhile, Conservatives want to make abortion illegal, conservatives want to end sex education in schools. Therefore Conservatives want to increase abortion rates in Canada.
Win! You've correctly connected the dots.
JH says:
Whoa! The level of debate, while partisan, is usually pretty high on here. Sadly not on this topic.
BTW – If you check you'll find lots of private memebers bills from all sides of the house. They were never considered party or government policy under any PM. I should also add that the anti-abortion MPs group in Parliament has members from all parties.
And like many on here, I too thought Stephen Harper was a control freak, who called the shots on everything within his government and the CPC. Apparently not – can't have it both ways. Too bad.
Unless we are watching Harper float a trial ballon using a back bench MP. This is still Harper being very much in control of his Conservative Party and his caucus. He loses nothing by having Stephen Woodworth float this out. If there is little push back, he gets to move forward on a file that is very close to is heart. If the ballon gets punctured, Harper gets puff and posture about listening to his core voter but respecting the wishes of all Canadians. He simply can't lose.
Tired of it All says:
Anyone else curious why our PMSH iron clad grip on communications has suddenly gone *poof*? Capital punishment, fetal rights, two huge hot-buttons and MPs are suddenly allowed to publicly muse about them… HMMMMM. Trial meet balloon. And there will be many more until they are just a common buzz, daily, and no one will notice when they get tabled.
I was talking yo a certain former PM yesterday who said the same thing.
Hoohah says:
Yawn. Enjoy blowing your brains out, tinfoil hatters. There's zero chance anything will come of this, no matter how many Vellacotts, Trosts and Woodworths are in the Tory caucus – unless of course, there's 155 of them out of 166, all of whom are prepared to openly defy the Prime Minister. Anyone want to take bets on that happening? Anyone? Bueller? This will come up for discussion, the so-cons in the CPC caucus will get to blow off some steam, and then Harper will ensure it gets voted down. It's simply not conceivable he would let any legislation on this matter pass. Not. Gonna. Happen.
Even better: Harper corners the market on the pro-life vote (since unlike every other party that treats pro-lifers like lepers, Harper lets them speak) AND his credentials with pro-choicers go up since he will have proven that even with a majority he's not beholden to the pro-life wing on the party. After all, wasn't that the constant warning we got? Don't let him have a majority! He'll ban abortion! Well, he'll have had 4.5 years of a majority. And abortion will remain totally untouched, no matter how much debate rages on and folks insist the secret plan is just around the corner.
But don't take my word for it. Just wait and see (I guess we have no choice: it's a majority, after all) But when election 2015 rolls around and there's absolutely no change to the (no) abortion laws in this country, how dumb are you going to look, Warren, for repeatedly suggesting the Tories were going to bring it in by stealth?
Keep drinking the Kool Aid, pal.
Tim Sullivan says:
I was at a meeting where MP Pierre Lemieux spoke. The crowd was friendly to this pro-life MP. Two questions posed to him were essentially – WTF's up with your government?!? Where is the legislation to outlaw abortion?
Lemieux's response was: the maternal health initiative was a start, caucus is chomping at the bit to do something, and we have to proceed with baby steps, under the radar. Keep praying … and send money!
It was at this point I objected to the presence of a politician attending our non-political association and asking for money. He had been asked not to request money. My focus of questioning was more in line with "Why does the government lie so often and endlessly?"


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Thu 26 Jul 2007 05.35 EDT First published on Thu 26 Jul 2007 05.35 EDT
Relatives of the 22 kidnapped South Koreans in Afghanistan react to a television news programme about their loved ones. Photograph: Getty Images
Twenty-two South Koreans being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan have not been harmed despite the passing of a deadline for the Afghan government to meet the kidnappers' demands, a Taliban spokesman said today.
There had been fears that more of the Christian volunteers could be killed after the body of their pastor was found yesterday.
Bae Hyung-kyu, who turned 42 on the day of his death, was found with bullet wounds to his head, chest and stomach in Ghazni province, the central region where the group was seized on July 19 while travelling south from Kabul by bus.
After killing the pastor, who was leading the group in voluntary work in the country, the Taliban gave the government until 1am today (9.30pm yesterday BST) to agree to exchange the remaining South Koreans for captured Taliban rebels.
Although this deadline had passed, none of the other hostages had been harmed, the Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told the Reuters news agency this morning.
"They are safe and alive," he said, adding that the Afghan government "has given us hope for a peaceful settlement of the issue".
The local police chief in Ghazni province confirmed that the remaining hostages, 17 men and five women, were believed to be safe and said the government hoped to resume negotiations.
"I was awake all night and if the Taliban had killed any of them I would have known," General Ali Shah Ahmadzai told Reuters. "We are trying to contact the Taliban for resumption of talks."
South Korea's government, which expressed outrage over the murder of Mr Bae, reiterated today that it did not want the Afghan government to attempt a military rescue of the remaining hostages.
"We oppose military operations and there won't be military operations that we do not consent to," said Chun Ho-sun, a spokesman for South Korea's president, Roh Moo-hyun.
The Taliban had initially urged South Korea to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Seoul reaffirmed that it already intended to pull its troops out of the country by the end of the year.
South Korea has about 200 troops serving with the 8,000-strong US-led forces in Afghanistan, largely working on humanitarian projects, such as medical assistance and reconstruction.
The militants later changed their demand, asking to swap South Korean captives for an equal number of imprisoned Taliban fighters.
Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has pledged not to swap prisoners for hostages after being criticised for releasing five Taliban militants from jail in March in exchange for an Italian reporter.


After the unfortunate incident with Kevin Ward, the Atlantic Race was going to be Tony Stewart's big comeback. However, the race did not go as planned and ended up in disappointment for the racer. The pro racer stuck the outside wall twice at the Oral-B USA 500 Sunday at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The first time that this happened was when Kyle Busch came up the track and Stewart stuck the wall. The latter was on the 122nd lap, and the right side of his car was dented and the suspension was damaged as well. Stewart instantly sent an SOS to his crew saying, "We just got run over big-time!" "I hit the wall pretty hard there." The crash resulted in his coming down to 19th position from a more promising 11th position. Repairs were carried out by the crew;however, all of that went to naught.
When Stewart was on the 170th lap, he faced another problem when the right side tire punctured. The Chevrolet car was taken to the garage and Chad Johnston, the crew chief told Stewart that the damage could not be repaired. As he said, "It went really tight and ended up blowing the right front," "its terminal. No way to really fix it here." Stewart remarked, "Sorry guys, you deserve better than this."
Johnston also said, "It was awesome," "It was like he was never gone. We never skipped a beat. He's a champion. That's what true champions do. That's why he's a champion, and he'll be a champion again." "He's the owner. He's the leader. He's the driver. Most important, he's the leader of the team. We all look at him to lead us and guide us, and it's good to have him back. We look forward to going on the rest of the year and getting him to victory lane." He also liked to bet on Bwin site.


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Danny, we hardly knew ye.
Tropical Storm Danny, which shut down beaches and chilled a soggy Manhattan, is finally gone.
The Big Apple today can expect "high temperatures in the low 80s and low humidity," Accuweather.com meteorologist Brian Edwards said.
But, he warned, "it will be a nice day to be at the beach, but not to swim," due to leftover rip currents.
Meanwhile, Jimena, the 10th named storm of the Pacific season, became a Category 2 storm yesterday, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph off Mexico.


By Ingrid Lunden. This article originally appeared on Tech Crunch, January 31, 2018.
Trifacta, a big-data startup that is building tools to help businesses structure and analyse data that gets generated in their networks through customer interactions and other actions, is today announcing that it has closed out its Series D round at $48 million, with a notable list of strategic and financial investors that includes Google, Ericsson, the Deutsche Börse, Accel and more.
The funding brings the total raised by Trifacta to $124 million, and while it is not disclosing its valuation, this puts the company's valuation at $258 million, based on figures from PitchBook. The company did not dispute that figure when I asked about it.
The company plans to use the funding to expand globally as well as add more firepower to its platform. The company has tripled its customers in the last year, although it's not releasing any hard numbers about how many customers it has, or its revenues.
The rise of digital services — where all business interactions and transactions that might have once been analogue exchanges between people are now done by people using networked devices — has created both a growing opportunity and headache for organizations. On one hand, businesses are sitting on massive troves of data that they generate through those exchanges that can be used to gain more insights, and make better business choices. On the other, many companies aren't well equipped to "read" that data to understand what it might be saying.
This is where companies like Trifacta come into the picture. The company describes itself as a "data wrangler" (which so far is not an official, technical term, but maybe watch this space). It uses a combination of machine learning with human nudging to query and organize that trove of data to produce various insights. Examples of where Trifacta's engine has been applied include areas like customer relations, risk analysis and Internet of Things deployments.
There are a number of other companies out there looking to put their own spin on how to "wrangle" or read unstructured or otherwise unordered data, to tap into what IDC estimates as $210 billion opportunity by 2020. They include GoodData, Looker, Sisense and more.
Trifacta's approach is to democratise the process, turning it into something that the people generating the data can fix themselves without needing to rely on data science teams. This includes drop-down menus to help them figure out what kinds of outcomes they would like to find; lots of suggestions for what to do next and more.
Its name seems to be word-play on "trifecta", meaning either three wins or someone predicting the top three finishers in a competition. You can see how both apply to what Trifacta is doing: it's trying to predict more insights (and wins) for its users by relying on the data that is already in their hands.
The problem that Trifacta is tackling is not a small one. One estimate puts our collective digital output at 2.5 quintillion bytes per day, and that growth of data-producing services is creating an equally growing opportunity for startups trying to read that information in a better way.
As some of these start to get snapped up by bigger fish — Lattice Data, a specialist in dark and unstructured data, was snapped up for about $200 million last May by Apple — it's interesting to see Trifacta pick up not just financial but strategic investors, which gives them more say (potentially) in steering how it develops.
"Investing in and partnering with Trifacta, an innovator with its leading data wrangling offering, helps us expand our capabilities in data-driven areas such as risk management, investment decision making and trading analytics meaningfully," said Ankur Kamalia, MD & Head of Venture Portfolio Management and DB1 Ventures, Deutsche Börse, in a statement.
Others in this round, in addition to the Börse, Google, Ericsson and Accel, included Columbia Pacific, New York Life, Cathay Innovation, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, and Ridge Ventures.
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Thank you for your interest in holding a screening of Dust. The great Asbestos Trial.
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With the increasing use of asbestos in China, Russia and other countries, asbestos production has grown apace, so that 70% of the world population is now exposed to this carcinogenic material.
Starting from the first court hearings in Turin involving the multinational Eternit, which now faces claims of having caused the death of nearly 30,000 former plant workers and among the local populace at Casale Monferrato, the film takes us to India and Brazil on an exploration into a multi-million dollar business managed by a lobby that holds sway over the policies of many countries.


The financial crisis has not affected Germany's charitable spirit, leading aid organisations reported Thursday. UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and Caritas International are all expecting this year's private donations to be at least on a par with 2008.
A survey carried out by news agency DDP found that Germans have not given any less to charity in 2009, despite a tough economy. The United Nations children's aid organisation UNICEF is expecting a similar level of donations to last year, according to the spokesman of its German branch Rudi Tarneden. "We're not seeing a direct effect of the financial crisis," he said.
UNICEF made €52 million from donations in 2008, plus another €16.4 million from the sale of greetings cards. Tarneden says that around 30 to 40 percent of Germans give to charity, and this proportion has not changed in the current year.
Doctors Without Borders spokeswoman Claudia Evers said the humanitarian-aid organisation was even expecting to exceed the €44 million that was donated in 2008.
Rainer Lang, spokesman for the Protestant charity Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World) agreed: "It's a very positive signal for us as a Christian relief organisation that we can record an increase despite the financial crisis." Lang said Brot für die Welt had received €1 million more by the end of November than it had in the first eleven months of 2008.
Spokeswoman for Catholic aid organisation Caritas International Christine Decker also said they were also expecting donations to stay at the same level as last year, but only after subtracting donations for the 2008 earthquake in China. There had not been any comparably "media-effective" disasters this year, Decker said.
But Simone Pott of the German aid organisation Welthungerhilfe (World Hunger Help) disagreed with her peers. Pott said that 2008 had been a particularly strong year for donations, and her charity was unlikely to exceed the €37.1 million it received then.
"The economic crisis arrived in 2009," Pott explained. Donations from businesses had declined particularly, she said, predicting that Welthungerhilfe would finish 2009 with between €32 million and €34 million in donations.
Dawid D. Bartelt of human rights organisation Amnesty International told a similar story, saying that in comparison with the "very high" level achieved in 2008, this year would see a small decline. But Bartelt added that this had been expected and was not causing the organisation special concern.


From an early age, Parker always said that he would be an astronaut. But no matter how much he studied, worked, and took tests, he was never selected. Finally, he grew over the maximum age for taking the selection tests. He would never be able to fulfill his dream.
People thought about all the time and effort Parker had put into trying to be an astronaut, and they felt sorry for him. Despite what he was told about having to abandon his ambition, Parker continued training and studying, as though he was going to sit the tests next month.
He carried this on as he got older, and when he was a very old man he heard that they were doing some very important medical experiments. For those experiments they needed a very old astronaut. Parker, who now walked with a stick, was the only old man in the whole world who was trained to fly in a rocket. So, when no one expected it, Parker found himself flying in space, all in the aid of science. The knowledge gained during those missions helped to cure one of the worst sicknesses for old people, and Parker was celebrated as a hero.
Photos of the astronaut with a walking stick and no teeth spread all over the world, and became a symbol of how you can never train or learn too much. It showed that persistent effort always brings reward, even though that reward may not be in the form we had first expected.


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The League has also organized a recreation league comprising four teams. It is designed to prepare players for the main competitive teams in the DCGFFL. The League is open to people of any orientation. More recently, the number of heterosexual players joining DCGFFL has increased.

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DCGFFL teams have won four Gay Bowls:
2019 - Gay Bowl XIX (New York City) - Washington Generals 32, LA Express Starz 27
2018 - Gay Bowl XVIII (Denver) - Washington Generals 29, San Diego Toros 13
2004 - Gay Bowl IV (Atlanta) - Washington Monuments 34, Boston Hancocks 33 (OT)
2003 - Gay Bowl III (Boston) - Washington Monuments 27, Chicago Spin 21

DCGFFL teams have placed as Runners-Up in two Gay Bowls:
2015 - Gay Bowl XV (San Diego) - San Diego Bolts 33, DC Admirals 12
2013 - Gay Bowl XIII (Phoenix) - San Diego Bolts 27, Washington Generals 26

Community Involvement
The League released a "Skins and Shirts" calendar in 2011  and 2016, with proceeds going to support LGBT high school athletes in the local area. Every season, DCGFFL takes a weekend off from games to host a day of service to volunteer for the local community.

The DCGFFL contributes annually to the Team DC Scholarship Fund, which supports local LGBTQ-identified student-athletes by awarding scholarships to support these impressive leaders as they continue their academic careers.

See also
 Homosexuality in sports in the United States

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Semi-professional American football
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Voted Top Bullriding Event in Canada for 2018!
Come on down to the fair for even more excitement in 2019 as Jason Borton ramps up the event with some new heart stopping events as he rolls out the 19th running of the Cochrane Classic Bull Riding!
Mark your calendar and plan to check out the excitement at the outdoor arena with a great dance to follow! Tons of spectator room to see the bullriders in action!
COCHRANE DODGE takes top billing as main sponsor for the Bullriding!
Bullriding excitement starts at 7 pm with a super Dance to follow after 9 pm!
EXCITING EVENTS at the OUTDOOR ARENA!
3 GREAT DAYS of MUTTON BUSTING!
Mutton Busting is FREE but you MUST purchase an admission ticket for the fair if over age 5. Watch for Pre-registration coming soon!
Make sure to catch this team of trick riders! Their athletic skills and their speed driven horses are truly amazing!
MINI CHUCKWAGON RACES all three days! CONGRATULATIONS to the 2018 CHAMPION ~ SPRAY LAKE SAWMILLS!
GREAT MIDWAY open late Friday & Saturday night night!
President's Choice SUPERDOGS are coming!
Watch these dogs in action and then meet the stars of these shows! These dog & owner teams are amazing!
Check out the REPTILE SHOW!
FAMILY FRIENDLY BEER GARDENS in the Entertainment Tent!
Come in out of the sun, eat lunch, and enjoy a cool one while the family takes in the fun entertainment!
Check out the Karaoke and the Mechanical Bull!
Great shopping at the MARKETPLACE! ~ Check out the Facepainting, Drumming, The Reptile Show, the quiet Mother's Area, and more!
LOTS OF ANIMALS & ACTIVITIES at the FARM DAYS AREA! ~ Come visit the horses! Sheep dogs, pony rides, miniature horses, buffalo and more! FUN ACTIVITIES TOO!
FAIR STARTS FRI 4 PM, SAT & SUN 10 AM!
$10/person, 5 and under free.
Click on an icon below to view more details about that event.
THE FAIR COMMITTEE IS BUSY PUTTING TOGETHER A SUPER FUN LINEUP OF ENTERTAINMENT & ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE WEEKEND SO KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR MORE INFORMATION!
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Forrester's research of Boomi enterprise customers shows that organizations enjoyed an average ROI of 307 percent over three years, with payback beginning in less than a year.
$3.4 million in new revenue. Organizations realize $3.4 million in incremental revenue by using the Boomi platform to connect data from siloed systems, helping them capitalize on opportunities for new revenue streams and innovation.
$1.5 million in infrastructure savings. Transitioning to the cloud and eliminating infrastructure and management costs needed to support legacy on-premise integration tools generates savings of $1.5 million.
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Welcome to a real Moroccan experience. After your collection from your Hotel we will wisk you off to our stables for the collection of your Camel each person has their own camel. Our quide will accompany you over the sand dunes to the 6.5 kilometre unspoilt sandy beach at the foot of the Atlantic Mountains, take in the beauty that Morocco has to offer whilst aboard your very own camel. Follow the trail onto Tagazout bay,our camels are very friendly as are our guides who will ensure they capture your memories on your camera for you, upon arrival back to the stables we will prepare you a Moroccan treat you can select from a traditional Tagine or a BBQ.


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Q: Activereports is removing the last subreport I have a subreport in the detail section of the report that is working for all but the last subreport on each page. When I use keepTogether on the detail section the last subreport just doesn't show up. When I turn keepTogether off it only shows what will fit on the page then throws the rest of it out.
What do I need to look for to fix this?

A: The comment by GrapeCity Team was right.
I was attaching the subreport in the FetchData event which has worked in other reports. I want to say the reason is because the previous reports I made were designed to fit on one page.
From the AR documentation:
http://helpcentral.componentone.com/nethelp/AR7Help/OnlineEn/Subreport.html

Coding best practices
Use the ReportStart event of the main report to create an instance of
  the report for your SubReport control, and then dispose of it in the
  ReportEnd event. This way, you are creating only one subreport
  instance when you run the main report.
In the Format event of the containing section, use the Report property
  of the SubReport control to attach a report object to the SubReport
  control.


"Well now, I dunno," said Matthew, who, being patient and wise and, above all, hungry, had deemed it best to let Marilla talk her wrath out unhindered, having learned by experience that she got through with whatever work was on hand much quicker if not delayed by untimely argument. "Perhaps you're judging her too hasty, Marilla. Don't call her untrustworthy until you're sure she has disobeyed you. Mebbe it can all be explained--Anne's a great hand at explaining."
"No. But please, Marilla, go away and don't look at me. I'm in the depths of despair and I don't care who gets head in class or writes the best composition or sings in the Sundayschool choir any more. Little things like that are of no importance now because I don't suppose I'll ever be able to go anywhere again. My career is closed. Please, Marilla, go away and don't look at me."
Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color--a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect. Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so grotesque as Anne's hair at that moment.
"I little know how you got into this fix, but I mean to find out," said Marilla. "Come right down to the kitchen--it's too cold up here--and tell me just what you've done. I've been expecting something queer for some time. You haven't got into any scrape for over two months, and I was sure another one was due. Now, then, what did you do to your hair?"
"But I didn't mean to dye it green, Marilla," protested Anne dejectedly. "If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose. He said it would turn my hair a beautiful raven black--he positively assured me that it would. How could I doubt his word, Marilla? I know what it feels like to have your word doubted. And Mrs. Allan says we should never suspect anyone of not telling us the truth unless we have proof that they're not. I have proof now--green hair is proof enough for anybody. But I hadn't then and I believed every word he said implicitly."
"Oh, I didn't let him in the house. I remembered what you told me, and I went out, carefully shut the door, and looked at his things on the step. Besides, he wasn't an Italian--he was a German Jew. He had a big box full of very interesting things and he told me he was working hard to make enough money to bring his wife and children out from Germany. He spoke so feelingly about them that it touched my heart. I wanted to buy something from him to help him in such a worthy object. Then all at once I saw the bottle of hair dye. The peddler said it was warranted to dye any hair a beautiful raven black and wouldn't wash off. In a trice I saw myself with beautiful raven-black hair and the temptation was irresistible. But the price of the bottle was seventy-five cents and I had only fifty cents left out of my chicken money. I think the peddler had a very kind heart, for he said that, seeing it was me, he'd sell it for fifty cents and that was just giving it away. So I bought it, and as soon as he had gone I came up here and applied it with an old hairbrush as the directions said. I used up the whole bottle, and oh, Marilla, when I saw the dreadful color it turned my hair I repented of being wicked, I can tell you. And I've been repenting ever since."
"Oh, Marilla, what shall I do?" questioned Anne in tears. "I can never live this down. People have pretty well forgotten my other mistakes--the liniment cake and setting Diana drunk and flying into a temper with Mrs. Lynde. But they'll never forget this. They will think I am not respectable. Oh, Marilla, `what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.' That is poetry, but it is true. And oh, how Josie Pye will laugh! Marilla, I CANNOT face Josie Pye. I am the unhappiest girl in Prince Edward Island."
"I didn't say anything when Josie said that to me," Anne confided that evening to Marilla, who was lying on the sofa after one of her headaches, "because I thought it was part of my punishment and I ought to bear it patiently. It's hard to be told you look like a scarecrow and I wanted to say something back. But I didn't. I just swept her one scornful look and then I forgave her. It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? I mean to devote all my energies to being good after this and I shall never try to be beautiful again. Of course it's better to be good. I know it is, but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it. I do really want to be good, Marilla, like you and Mrs. Allan and Miss Stacy, and grow up to be a credit to you. Diana says when my hair begins to grow to tie a black velvet ribbon around my head with a bow at one side. She says she thinks it will be very becoming. I will call it a snood--that sounds so romantic. But am I talking too much, Marilla? Does it hurt your head?"
"My head is better now. It was terrible bad this afternoon, though. These headaches of mine are getting worse and worse. I'll have to see a doctor about them. As for your chatter, I don't know that I mind it--I've got so used to it."


Danielle worked as a scientist at the NIH. Her boss agreed to be her PhD. faculty advisor at a local university. To satisfy him and the requirements for a student loan she took 4 courses per semester, worked 6 days a week in the lab, and spent every evening and Sundays doing homework. Three months later Danielle experienced continuous sharp stabbing pains in her stomach. The doctors could find nothing wrong and suggested antacids. When interviewed, the part of Danielle that was generating the stabbing pains said it wanted her to quit graduate school because she was only eating one meal a day and not getting enough sleep. The stabbing pain stopped instantly when Danielle promised to eat 3 meals a day and get 8 hours of sleep every night regardless of unfinished homework.
In our busy world of ambitious people and out of balance lives, we often forget to take care of our bodies, our creative or artistic or musical or adventurous sides, our inner child selves, etc. People raised in dysfunctional families find it even harder to function in life because they often do not form strong healthy internal adults. They experience life as children in adult bodies, faking it. Sometimes the inner children run the show even though they are not equipped to do this. In addition, the inner child parts don't trust the inner adult and are constantly looking for someone else to be their parent, take care of them and tell them what to do.
Over time I realized that beyond needing to develop into a mature healthy (internal) adult, you need to actually be the boss, i.e. the CEO of your life. You need to take charge of all aspects of your life in a loving, nurturing, attentive way. Coordinating your conscious mind, unconscious mind, and body with your soul, you need to plot the course of your life, hold the vision, and acquire resources to enable all parts of yourself to do their jobs, etc. A good CEO creates a company culture in which every person is a valued member. The CEO is the one responsible for making things happen and for the quality of your life. When there is no responsible CEO it creates internal feelings of anxiety, betrayal, and abandonment.
In reaction, the parts of you that feel uncared for can generate a variety of seemingly inexplicable emotional, physical, behavioral, mental, and spiritual symptoms including body pain, headaches, acid reflux, depression, anxiety, and isolation. When we interview these parts to find out what they need from the person, the requests are surprisingly simple and easy to accommodate. Such requests include stop insulting yourself, take care of basic body needs, listen to music, have more fun, take time to create, etc. Once the person hears these parts out and agrees to do what they ask, the symptoms spontaneously disappear!
1. "Are there any parts of you that feel that you don't love or care about them?" If yes: * "Are any of these inner child parts?" If yes, "Do they want somebody else to be their parent besides you?" * "Are any of these other kinds of parts besides inner child parts?" If yes, how many and what parts are they?
2. Where in your body are these parts located?
3. Interview each part (the inner child parts may be interviewed as a group) and ask, * "Why do you (parts) feel that he/she (client) doesn't love or care about you? What is it he/she does or doesn't do that makes you feel that way." List the reasons.
4. "What are the reactions and symptoms – emotional, physical, behavioral, mental, spiritual, or other that these parts are causing because of this problem?" List them.
5. "What would he/she (client) have to do or not do to convince you (parts) that he/she really does love and care about you?" List them.
7. "Do you have all the skills, resources, and capabilities that you need to do what these parts of you need in order to convince them that you do love and care about them?" The answer is usually yes.
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Cheng Qingchong stood about one meter behind Su Zhinian and said politely, "CEO Su, we're all waiting for you to continue the meeting."
"Hmm" Similar to before, Su Zhinian merely gave a soft reply, but before he could get the reply out, the irrepressible intent to laugh caused his voice to go a smidge higher than usual. Cheng Qingchong looked at Su Zhinian rather curiously.
Su Zhinian immediately stopped talking. To prevent the awkwardness from lingering, he walked past Cheng Qingchong to head toward the meeting room. He tried swallowing in an attempt to suppress the bubbling laugh, but he ended up choking on his own saliva. Su Zhinian pressed his lips tightly together to preserve his image that would be lost if he laughed in front of the whole office. Not long after that, his fair skin developed a red hue from all the holding in.
"CEO Su?" Noticing the phone that was lying on the floor, Cheng Qingchong called after Su Zhinian to remind him.
Su Zhinian thought that was Cheng Qingchong noticing something off with him, so he ignored her and walked even faster.
"CEO Su?" Cheng Qingchong called again.
Realizing Su Zhinian didn't stop, she bent over to pick up the phone and chased after him in her heels. Her heels clicked across the office floor, and they were like sounds from a nightmare to Su Zhinian's ears as they got louder and louder. The place was filled with ST Empire's workers, and while they were used to seeing Cheng Qingchong rush all over the place to fulfil Su Zhinian's demands, they hadn't seen their boss run in a panic before, and they weren't going to.
Just as Cheng Qingchong's footsteps were about to reach him, Su Zhinian whipped his body around in both shame and anger. He was about to unleash hell on Cheng Qingchong when his secretary offered him his phone and said, "CEO Su, you left her phone behind."
Cheng Qingchong's words had completely stopped Su Zhinian's reprehension in his throat. After a few seconds of hesitation, his face frosted over as he grabbed the phone more than a little bit harshly away from Cheng Qingchong and walked in the meeting room. The innocent Cheng Qingchong felt a mixture of confusion and fear. I didn't do anything wrong, did I?
The meeting room door was pulled open once more and out walked Su Zhinian. Cheng Qingchong was so spooked that she held her breath. As Su Zhinian walked toward her, her back slowly broke out in cold sweat. When Su Zhinian stood before her, Cheng Qingchong felt like her heart was going to stop.
"You can leave work now"
Cheng Qingchong sighed under her breath and lowered her head to hide the dimness in her eyes. Then, Su Zhinian's cold voice continued to say, "Because I need you to go to Shin Kong Place to help me buy some stuff. Wait for my message that will give you all the information you need"
After a pause, Su Zhinian added, "Then, send all the stuff to Golden Corner. Book me a private room and place the stuff in it. After that, you're free to leave work."
Su Zhinian finished giving his orders and turned around to head back into the meeting room. Cheng Qingchong closed her eyes in congruence with the closing of the meeting room door. She patted herself on her chest to calm her beating heart down. She took several deep breaths before she was feeling herself again.


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MOTOWN THE MUSICAL to hold open auditions for West End production opening Feb 2016
TO HOLD OPEN AUDITIONS FOR WEST END PRODUCTION
OPENING FEBRUARY 2016
The West End production of Motown the Musical, opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre in February 2016, will hold open casting auditions next month for the opportunity to portray the iconic artists of Motown in the musical. The open auditions will be at The London Welsh Centre on Tuesday 7 July 2015, with registration open on the day from 10am until 1pm.
With music and lyrics from the legendary Motown catalogue and book by Motown founder Berry Gordy, Motown the Musical is directed by Charles Randolph-Wright. London previews begin on 11 February 2016, with press night on 8 March 2016 and booking until 22 October 2016. Tickets are on sale now.
With just $800 borrowed from his family, Motown founder Berry Gordy, goes from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul, discovering and launching the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and many more. Motown The Musical uncovers the true story of the legendary record label that changed music history and created the soundtrack of a generation.
Featuring a sixteen piece orchestra playing 50 Motown tracks including Ain't No Mountain High Enough, I'll Be There, Dancing In The Street, Stop! In The Name Of Love, My Girl, I Heard It Through The Grapevine and For Once In My Life, Charles Randolph-Wright's production tells the story behind the classic hits.
Tony nominated Motown the Musical received its world premiere in April 2013 in New York at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre andrecouped its $18 million investment by the end of 2014. The first US National Tour opened to critical acclaim last spring in Chicago, grossing $20 million dollars during its standing room only sixteen-week run, and continues to play to packed houses across America.
Motown the Musical has music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Ethan Popp, co-orchestrations and additional arrangements by Bryan Cook, dance arrangements by Zane Mark and music direction by Gareth Weedon. Choreography is byPatricia Wilcox and Warren Adams, scenic design by David Korins, costumes by Esosa, lighting by Natasha Katz, sound by Peter Hylenski and projections by Daniel Brodie. Motown the Musical will be produced in the West End by Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris, Berry Gordy and Adam Spiegel."
The original Broadway cast recording of Motown the Musical is available via Motown Records, a label of UMG Recordings - www.classicmotown.com
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Theatre: Shaftesbury Theatre, 210 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8DP
Dates: First booking period 11 February – 22 October 2016
Press Night: 8 March 2016 at 7pm
Performances: Monday – Saturday 7.30pm, Thursday & Saturday matinees at 3pm
First midweek matinee 18 February 2016
Prices: £19.50 - £69.50 Monday – Thursday, £19.50 - £75 Friday and Saturday.
A limited number of premium seats are also available at £89 Monday to Thursday and £99 on Friday and Saturday.
No booking fees via www.motownthemusical.co.uk, over the phone on 020 7379 5399 or in person at the Shaftesbury Theatre Box Office.
Day seats will go on sale from the Box Office, in person only, from 10am on the day of performance.
Website: www.motownthemusical.co.uk
Twitter: @MotownUK
Facebook: MotownMusicalUK


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Vidas robadas puede referirse a lo siguiente:

Vidas robadas (telenovela argentina), telenovela argentina, original de Marcelo Camaño y Guillermo Salmerón.
Vidas robadas (telenovela mexicana), telenovela mexicana, original de Jorge Maestro.


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La daïra de Bordj Bou Arreridj est une daïra d'Algérie située dans la wilaya de Bordj Bou Arreridj et dont le chef-lieu est la ville éponyme de Bordj Bou Arreridj.

Localisation
La daïra de Bordj Bou Arreridj est située au centre de la wilaya de Bordj Bou Arreridj.

Communes de la daïra
La daïra de Bordj Bou Arreridj n'est composée que d'une seule commune : Bordj Bou Arreridj.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Daïras de la wilaya de Bordj Bou Arreridj

Liens externes
 Monographie de la wilaya de Bordj Bou Arreridj sur le site de l'ANIREF

Bordj Bou Arreridj


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