Charity Sue's Place in Newark had its lottery grant turned down earlier this year and staff are now using cash reserves which will soon run out to continue their services for children who have lost a parent.
Six year old Jonathan never knew his dad Mark who died when he was just a few months old, but his mum Lorraine from Nottingham has made sure he knows all about him.
"I've always been honest with him and told him the truth about everything so that he could understand totally why he didn't have a dad and other children around him did."
The charity runs a play centre where youngsters and their parents can talk to support workers about their bereavement and get help to deal with any emotional problems. Last year it helped almost 300 families.
It was when he started school and was talking to classmates about their fathers that Jonathan started showing signs he might need help. His mother brought him to Sue's Place in Newark.
After eight weeks of play therapy, Jonathan's mother says that he has calmed down and started to concentrate at school and enjoy life.
Staff are now looking for other funding sources to help a future generation of children.


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Cocaine Ring Busted in Panama
panama articles coronado community Cocaine Ring Busted in Panama
Published: 12 January, 2008
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To infiltrate the cocaine ring, the man had to make his way into the bowels of a cargo ship docked off Staten Island and retrieve a newspaper and a hat that had been hidden there at a stopover in Panama.
Having thus proved his ability to get on and off a freighter at a heavily secured port without drawing scrutiny, prosecutors said, the man was then trusted by drug lords in Panama to pick up a more substantial prize: several dozen one-kilogram packages of Colombian cocaine.
The packages were stashed, prosecutors said, in the nooks and crannies of gigantic container ships bound for the New York Container Terminal on the west shore of Staten Island, to be delivered to drug wholesalers up and down the East Coast.
Of course, prosecutors said, the man was not really the corrupt longshoreman he appeared to be. He was an undercover investigator, and he promptly turned the drugs, and their importers, over to the authorities.
The result, the Brooklyn district attorney's office announced Thursday, was the seizure of 75 pounds of nearly pure cocaine, worth $10 million on the street, and the indictment of seven Panamanians on drug conspiracy charges.
The district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said that if the traffickers had succeeded in establishing a smuggling route on container ships that stop in Panama, their next step would have been to fill the containers themselves with drugs.
"This is no nickel-and-dime operation," Mr. Hynes said Thursday at a news conference at his office as he stood before a table piled with green and yellow packages the size of hero sandwiches, each one bar-coded and stamped "verde" (green) or "amarillo" (yellow), apparently by their shippers. "This was a wholesale attempt by people in Panama to use the sea routes to send up tons and tons of cocaine."
Five of the indicted people have been arrested so far, Mr. Hynes said: Sidney Dobbs, 33; Jessica Indira Ellis, 35; Eduardo Baptiste, 46; Omar Rios, 35; and Anabel Polanco, 33. All are natives of Panama.
Mr. Hynes said that some of them were arrested in New York but refused to offer details of the arrests. They face up to 45 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
Mr. Hynes's office is handling the case even though the drugs came into Staten Island because his office received the tip about the operation, he said.
The cocaine was seized in late November and December from three ships that had set out from China with their loads of hundreds of tractor-trailer-size freight containers filled with consumer goods.
The ships had stopped in the Panamanian port city of Manzanillo, where the smugglers loaded the drugs onto them, Mr. Hynes said.
They were hidden so deeply in the enormous ships that for one shipment, the undercover investigator needed a map to find them, Mr. Hynes said. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor also took part in the investigation, called Operation Final Voyage.

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In the Australian GP second day of practice weather conditions have been similar to Friday and so riders could continue their job on the set-up of the bikes.
also in the second qualifying session being able to ride under 1'33� lap time.
Andrea is satisfied about the step forward done today compared to the first day of practice and he is confident he can do a further improvement during tomorrow's warm up.
His team-mate Yuki Takahashi improved yesterday's time of 1�3 seconds and so tomorrow he will start from 9th position. Still not 100% recovered, Yuki will line up in third row.
�It hasn't been easy to find the right balance of the bike, but in the afternoon we went on the right direction and this made me feel more confident in riding. We made a clear improvement compared to yesterday but we have to complete the job during the warm up; the important thing, though, is to have eventually found a good solution. The gap from Lorenzo is big, but it doesn't worry me too much as it becomes smaller in the race configuration�.
�Things have definitely improved since yesterday; we have found a good set-up of the bike and now I am able to be faster in the entrance of the curves. It will be a very difficult race because I can't control perfectly the bike in the hard brakes. But, I feel more confident on the bike and tomorrow we are going to do few small adjustments during the warm up in order to be more competitive�.


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California firm takes cannabinoid research personally
by Invesbrain Tuesday, July 18, 2017
California firm looks to Israel for personalized cannabinoid approach
The news magazine ISRAEL21c reports a U.S. biopharma company is teaming up with an Israeli counterpart to forward the use of cannabinoids in the field of personalized medicine.
California-based CURE Pharmaceutical recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Therapix Biosciences of Tel Aviv. The "research collaboration" will be done in conjunction with the eight hospitals and medical centres of Israel's Assuta Medical Centers.
Therapix's lead compound THX-TS01 is currently in phase 2 clinical trials to treat Tourette's syndrome. It hopes to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial for another compound, THX-ULD01, for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment.
Both compounds employ an "FDA-approved synthetic THC."
Therapix is also developing new cannabinoid delivery technologies including nasal and sublingual (under the tongue) methods.
CMAJ commentary argues for two-stream cannabis system
Arguing 'recreational cannabis and cannabinoid-based drugs (including medical cannabis) are not equivalent,' the authors of a commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal say Canada should continue with a separate medical cannabis stream after legalization.
In a report by EurekAlert!, Elizabeth Cairns and Dr. Melanie Kelly of Dalhousie University's Department of Pharmacology, write that "(without) a program that supports medical use, patients may lose access to treatments that the Federal Court of Canada has deemed appropriate, which fosters safe and appropriate use."
The Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation also recommended a two-streamed system.
According to the EurekAlert! report, "the authors suggest that a medical stream for cannabis and cannabinoids would reduce risk to patients, provide incentives for research into the therapeutic effects of cannabinoids, and provide educational resources for health care practitioners on the latest advances in cannabinoid research."
U.S.-German-Israeli deal links cancer diagnostics with cannabinoids
MMJ Reporter writes an American cannabinoid firm with an R&D foothold in Israel is teaming up with a German "world pioneer in cancer diagnostics."
Cannabics Pharmaceuticals Inc. recently agreed to become "the exclusive international provider unit" of SIMFO GmbH's Circulating Tumour Cell (CTC) diagnostics to people suffering with cancer and being treated with CBDs.
SIMFO previously initiated preclinical trials into CBDs and drug development with Cannabics' cannabinoid formulations.
Cannabics' R&D facility is "concentrated" in Israel.
Data on CBD analogue to be presented at neuroscience meeting
Stockhouse reports Califonia-based NEMUS Bioscience is set to present research on its CBD analogue at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience this November.
The data, compiled by NEMUS' R&D partner the University of Mississippi "will show the superiority of the NEMUS proprietary analogue of CBD, NB2222, versus plant-derived CBD in ameliorating pain in a validated mouse (murine) model of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy using an opioid as an active comparator."
The firm will also present data on the anti-addictive potential of NB2222.
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Today Is Not Boxing Day
A little repost from 2010:
Today is not boxing day.
Once upon a time, there was a thing called a Christmas box. A Christmas box was a box with a small hole cut in it, like a piggy bank, through which coins could be dropped. It was kept in a church and, like a piggy bank, it could not be opened, only smashed. The smashing was done at Christmas, hence the name: Christmas box.
Christmas boxes were used by servants, apprentices, bloggers and other impoverished fools to save up some money for the frosty and festive season. In gambling dens there would be a Christmas box of tips for the benefit of the butler. As one chap put it in 1634:
It is a shame, for a rich Christian to be like a Christmas boxe, that receives all, and nothing can be got out, till it be broken in peeces.
Anyway, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the idea of the Christmas box shifted. There were lots of chaps like postmen and milkmen and butchers' boys and bloggers who didn't have loose change to be stowing away all year. Yet they still felt they deserved a little something at Christmas. So generous Victorians would make a little box of presents which they would present to all the delivery boys on the first weekday after Christmas, thus insisteth the OED.
The first weekday after Christmas therefore became known as Boxing Day. And today?
Today is a Saturday.
All those pleading postmen, beggarly bloggers and other assorted lazzaroni will arrive at your door on Monday morning, their usual truculence usurped by a poor smile and rich words. As Mr Weller remarks of his son's attempt at a Valentine's card in The Pickwick Papers:
''Tain't in poetry, is it?' interposed his father.
'No, no,' replied Sam.
'Wery glad to hear it,' said Mr. Weller. 'Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin'-day, or Warren's blackin', or Rowland's oil, or some of them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.'
You have, dear poetic reader, been warned.
(A beadle, by the way, was a sort of policeman paid for by the parish).
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Forcing Back the F Word
I should probably warn readers that there may be swear words in this post, and they may come very soon. If you are of a delicate temperament, now is the time to reach for your smelling salts.
I said in The Etymologicon that the word fuck was first recorded in the late fifteenth century, but the word has now been found all the way back in 1310. A historian called Paul Booth was happily leafing through the archives of Chester County Court when he came across (if that is the right expression), a defendant called Roger Fuckbythenavel.
Now, Roger is, of course, a funny name, and I've always thought it appropriate that James Bond was played by a double entendre; but it's the surname here that is new and a trifle surprising. I've spent a little while trying to see if there could be any other meaning at all. And I can't. It's...
How do you get a name like that?
Here I could hypothesise until the home-coming of the cows, but I assume that it must have been a nickname based on poor Roger's poor rogering, or perhaps on some misconception bred from the lack of sex education classes in Chester.
Anyway, it didn't have a good effect on him. Roger Fuckbythenavel was summoned to court three times over the next two years, and it all ended with him being outlawed, which isn't as romantic as it sounds. It probably just meant that he was hanged. And if the hangman did his job properly Roger was...
Dear reader, forgive me, a never saw a pun I didn't like...
Roger was well hung.
Capital Geezers of Iceland
Few things are as tedious as other people's holiday photos. That's why facebook exists: it allows people to show their photographs without anyone bothering to look. With that in mind, would you like to see my holiday photographs? You would? Splendid. I've just got back from Iceland.
That's a sign for the Hotel Geysir*. I didn't actually stay there. Just took a photo of the sign because Geysir is a place in Iceland and all of the other geysers in the world, all of those big, spurty things are named after that place.
The Icelandic word for geyser isn't geyser or even geysir (with a funny comma on it). They call them either laug, which means bath, or hverr, which means cauldron. But European travellers didn't know that, and so they took the place name and carried it off around the world.
To be fair though, the place name is related. Geysir basically means, and is cognate with, gusher.
Anyway, would you like to see another photo of Geysir? No? What if I told you the photo was utterly hilarious?
Now, the reason that photo is hilarious is that there's a sign in the foreground saying NO SMOKING but in the background there's what looks like smoke. So it looks as though the ground is breaking the law!!!!! How we did laugh.
They've even got the sign in Icelandic REYKINGAR BANNABAR: Smoking Banned.
Of course it's not smoke. It's steam. But it looks like smoke. All of which explains Reykjavik (the name Reykjavik, that is, not the bus system or the price of a beer).
The first man ever to arrive in Iceland and want to stay for the winter was a chap called Ingolfr Arnarson (and his wife). He (and his wife) had taken the high seats from a temple to Thor and he decided to toss them (and his wife) off the side of his boat to see where they washed up. (That's not true about his wife, although she probably did occasionally wash up).
The seats washed up in a bay that had lots of geothermal vents a bit like the ones inland at Geysir, and because they looked like smoke rather than steam, and because the Icelandic** for smoke was reykja and the Icelandic for bay was vik, he called it Reykjavik***.
Meanwhile, the Cockney geezer has nothing to do with geysers at all, it comes from the Nothern word guiser, which means someone in fancy dress (like dis-guise), which means someone who looks a bit foolish.
And here's a photo of me with a dominatrix puffin.
*I'm afraid I have less than no idea how to type Icelandic diacriticals.
** Yes, yes, I know.
*** It was initially Reykjarvik, but the point stands.
P.S. I've changed this post slightly as there was a mistake in my Icelandic kindly pointed out by Torkirra on Twitter.
Tin Pots Bells and McDonald's
I've been reading a novel called A Lady From The South, which is a peculiar little adventure novel so little known that I had to find it in the Rare Books room of the British Library (the copy I'm reading is NOT TO BE INTRODUCED INTO THE BRITISH EMPIRE). Anyway, it contains this little passage:
"In the ordinary way," pursued Miss Milligan, "a tin-pot President's job doesn't amount to anything, but in Guayacuador it's different. There are the tin mines, for one thing..."
And it made me wonder where the term tin-pot came from. I realised that I had been quite casually referring all my life to tin-pot dictators without ever wondering why a dictator would be in a pot at all, and why that pot would be made of tin.
In fact, tin-pot, in origin, has nothing to do with dictators at all. It's a kind of bell.
If you can afford it, you should have your bell cast in iron at a great big bell foundry, and you'll get a lovely resonant sound. If you can't afford it you can always find an old tin can and add a little clapper with a piece of string. This is a tin-pot bell and seems to have been common practice, especially among Australian shepherds who would attach such things to the necks of their flocks, as in the lovely poem I Don't Go Shearing Now by Walter Alan Woods:
Then with saddle for a breakwind and your oilcloth tucked in well,
You will listen for the tinkling of the little tin-pot bell
You'll find similar references to tin-pot bells in England in the C19th, and the important thing is that such bells are always emblematic of cheapness. They have no beautiful ding dong. Instead the sound is... well... tinny.
(I'm willing to bet, but have been unable to prove, that this is where the adjective tinny comes from. The chronology certainly works, and I can think of no other explanation for associating sound and metal).
Thus tin-pot became a universal adjective to mean cheap and inferior. It was applied to all things from bells to music to billiards, and finally, like all insults, to politicians, particularly those of the dictatorial type.
It struck me that this is roughly the same process as the Mc prefix that derives from McDonald's the ubiquitous beef bunners. First McDonald's, then the McJob, the McMansion and now a whole entry in the OED under the prefix Mc-.
Oddly enough, there were real McJobs in 1985, advertised by McDonalds, before the term became the subject of scorn. The LA Times reported that
... the McDonald's fast-food chain recently began a training program for the handicapped in the San Fernando Valley called McJobs. McDonald's has hired a dozen people after the two 10-week training programs held so far.
That's what you get for being nice.
The Inky Fool's manifesto
P.S. Another rather odd usage from A Lady From The South (1926). Mysogynist here clearly means not a skirt-chaser:
George, like all reasonably impressionable young men, liked to think of himself as something of a misogynist, an aloof, interesting, slightly sinister figure, courteous always to the Sex, but sheathed in cynicism against the shafts of Eros.
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Louche and Louching
The other day, I was lying in bed, sipping a Campari, when it occurred to me to wonder where the word louche came from. I imagined that it had something to do with luxury, and fell back to sleep. Which didn't help the Campari.
I was very wrong, because louche means cross-eyed. Or it did once. To be precise there was a Latin word luscus, which meant one-eyed. The feminine was lusca, from which the French got lousche, which meant cross-eyed or squinting. And then louche.
Louche came into English in 1819, but it didn't mean what it means now. It had nothing to do with Camparis in bed. Instead it meant oblique, asquint, Not Straight-Forward. So the first usage is:
There is some~thing louche about him, which does not accord with the abandon of careless, intimate intercourse.
(Intercourse didn't mean what it does now either, lest you misunderstand Wordsworth's "The dreary intercourse of daily life").
For a good century, it seems louche kept its French meaning, but added to it the idea of being opaque, unclear and therefore dishonest. Only slowly, very slowly did it start to mean raffish, rakish, dissolute and bedbound Campari. This is recent enough, that the OED still doesn't mention that meaning.
But there is another meaning of louche, and this I didn't know at all until I was checking all this up. Louche can be a verb.
I don't know if you drink much pastis. Or ouzo? Or raki? Or absinthe? Or anything flavoured with aniseed. If you do, you should know of the strange thing that happens when you add water, for the beautiful clear liquid suddenly turns cloudy, and milky, and opaque. This is known as louching.
It can be known as the ouzo effect, but louching is a much better word, and it allows you to louchely louche your louche drink.
Next time it won't be Campari.
By the way, another term for louching is "spontaneous emulsification", which reminds me of this song, because I really don't think he does know what emulsified means.
Today I have been paying the farmer. Because, of course, farmers aren't farmers.
Some people have trade surnames: Mr Baker, Mr Butcher, Mr Farmer etc. And these people happily imagine that in some way off medieval time they had an ancestor who was a baker or a butcher or a farmer. The first two are right, but the Farmers are wrong. Because a farmer is a taxman. Or was.
The name has nothing to do with farms.
Once upon a time, there was the Medieval Latin word firma, which meant a fixed payment. (It's related in this to firm, firmament, affirm etc). From this you got the Old French fermier and the English farmer all meaning tax collector, or one who collects a fixed payment.
So Chaucer wrote (with his mind on what I'm doing today):
Him ought not be... cruel As is a farmer to do the harm he can.
This meaning of farmer actually survived all the way to the C19th, although by that time it had become rather odd.
But, feudally, rich landowners used to collect taxes on the land they owned, and they would have middle-men who were responsible for collecting the tax from a particular area. These tax farmers were responsible for a single farm from a single piece of land. They often had responsibility for making sure that it was cultivated its most profitable extent. Often they lived there as a tenant farmer.
People these days buy time-share apartments, which are often just referred to as time-shares. In the same way, the method of payment slowly came to be associated with the activity of agriculture. So the old words husbandman and churl were slowly replaced. And by the late C16th, farmer had become the standard word for somebody who simply owned a farm.
But the surname dates from the C13th. And that's why I've been paying the farmer.
Moors and Marrakech
The weather in England is, frankly, deplorable. So I've booked a ticket to Marrakech in Morocco, only to find that they're the same place, etymologically speaking.
Algeria is named after the city of Algiers (from the Arabic Al-Jazair "the islands"). Tunisia is named after the city of Tunis (which probably means something, but nobody can decide what). And Morocco is named after Marrakech (from the Arabic Maghrib-Al-Aqsa "the far west").
But wait (I hear you shriek), why did the As in Marrakech turn to the Os in Morocco? And why wasn't it named after Tangiers? And...
Very well, Tangiers had already given its name to a fruit called the tangerine, and anyway Marrakech used to be the capital. As for the As to Os, they're much more fun and will get you straight to the Steve Miller Band.
The French keep the As. They call it Maroc. And the Germans call it Marokko. But the English got terribly confused by Othello, and other Moors.
You see for years in English, the inhabitants of North Africa have been known as Moors, who were Moorish. So when a country got called Morocco, the English (who had just been watching some Shakespeare) decided that it must be named after the Moors and altered the spelling to make it look a little more like Moor-occo, which is what we blithely assumed it was.
But where does Moor come from? Well, once upon a time, during the Roman Empire, there was a province called Mauritania, and a chap from that province was called a Maurus, and hence Moor. And the odd thing is that even though Roman Mauritania was almost exactly where modern Morocco is, the words have nothing to do with each other (except in the English hybrid Morocco).
But it goes further! You see the English thought, for some reason, that their traditional folk dancing had originated amongst the Moors, hence Morris Dancing, which is really Moorish Dancing.
Moreover, there's a common first name meaning From Mauritania. Just as Adrian means from the Adriatic Sea, so all Maurices (and Morrises) should come from Mauritania.
Of course, they don't. For example, Maurice Prince of Orange was born in Dillenburg in Germany, and became Stadtholder of the Netherlands. That's why when Dutch sailors arrived at a little island in the Indian Ocean previously called Dina Arobi, they renamed it, in their prince's honour, Mauritius.
So, that's how you link Morocco, Marrakech, Mauritania, Moors, Morris Dancing, Mauritius, a novel by E.M. Forster and a song by the Steve Miller Band.
Of course, the second I'd booked my ticket to Marrakech, the weather forecast was changed and next week looks cold there too. Will we never be set free?
As a final titbit, the phrase "in Morocco" used to be a euphemism for naked.
The Servant Is Out Today
The Servant is out today: published and made public in the form of a Kindle Single. It is the strange story of a man who loses his identity. Also, it contains the line
It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.
Of which I am proud.
It's only £1.19 on the Kindle store. So, click this here link and give it a buy.
Tsundoku
The long-term tsunkdoku
I fear that the Japanese have been peeking into my bedroom. I can think of no other explanation for tsundoku, which is their word for a pile of books that you've bought and haven't got round to reading yet.
In fact, I'm not entirely clear whether tsundoku is the act of buying a book and not reading it, or the pile of books thusly abandoned on a bedside table. Or maybe it's both. Either way, it's a portmanteau of tsumu (to pile up) and doku (to read), and the verb is tsundeoku.
I actually have two tsundokus: one long-term tsundoku on the table in the corner, from which a book may, if it works very hard, graduate to the short-term tsundoku on my bedside table.
I suspect that those nosy Japanese have only seen the first one, as it's right by the window.
In other news, my short story The Servant will be available from tomorrow as a Kindle Single. It's a mystery story about a chap coming to terms with his own bottom, and you can order it now by following this link. As it only costs £1.19 it won't even matter that much if you consign forever to a virtual, ethereal, invisible tsundoku.
The short-term tsundoku
Gotham City and Ladies' Underwear
Herman Knickerbocker
Once upon a time, there were some goats (trust me, this is leading somewhere). These particular goats lived on a farm in Nottinghamshire a thousand years or so ago. This farm was therefore known as the Goat-Homestead or Gat-Ham. This later changed to Gotham. And the village of Gotham is still there to this day, just off the A453. There's a fish and chip shop there called Frydays.
Now, in the Medieval period, the people of Gotham gained a reputation for being fools. One much later account records them:
...some of the inhabitants engaged in endeavouring to drown an eel in a pool of water; some were employed in dragging carts upon a large barn, to shade the wood from the sun; others were tumbling their cheeses down a hill, that they might find their way to Nottingham for sale; and some were employed in hedging in a cuckoo which had perched upon an old bush which stood where the present one now stands.
This may all have been a subtle ruse, because madness was once considered contagious. So the people of Gotham just wanted to be left alone. But, either way, Gotham became a byword for foolishness, and the people of Gotham became a byword for Fools.
Now, we must journey forwards a few centuries, past the accidental discovery of a continent named America, to a chap called Washington Irving.
Washington Irving was living in New York (which has fewer castles than the old one) and was working for a satirical magazine called Salmagundi. Salmagundi had the sole porpoise of making fun of the good people of New York, and so, in 1807, in the 17th issue, Mr Irving referred to New York as "Gotham". This was nothing to do with Goths or anything like that. It was merely to imply that New Yorkers were all as foolish as the people from the goat farm.
Anyhow, Washington Irving was a New Yorker (who have few castles than Old Yorkers). He was thus and therefore acquainted with Herman Knickerbocker who represented New York in Congress. They were good friends and Irving said that they were like family. Mr Irving also had a plan to write a parodical history of New York under a pseudonym. As New York had originally been New Amsterdam, the pseudonym he chose was a Dutch one, based on his friend.
A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker came out in 1809. And, for our purposes, the important thing about it was that it fixed Knickerbocker as the stereotypical Dutch name. From then on, the original Dutch settlers of New York were called the knickerbockers, and the funny trousers (or pants) that they wore were called knickerbockers too.
Popularised by Mr Irving, and by George Cruickshank's illustrations, knickerbockers became a generalised term for odd bits of clothing worn beneath the waist. And thus and therefore, though American ladies wear panties, Englishwomen to this day wear knickers, which is just short for knickerbockers.
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COMPANY NEWS Halcrow sells out to CH2M HILL Sep 2011
Paula Wallis and Shani Wallis, TunnelTalk
Halcrow of the UK has concluded a deal to sell itself to CH2M HILL of the United States.
Under the agreement CH2M HILL will buy 100% of the issued and to be issued share capital of Halcrow Holdings Limited for £124 million ($194 million) in cash and take over the firm's outstanding debt and pension liability for a total reported purchase value of more than $356 million.
With the addition of Halcrow, CH2M HILL will more than double its international presence to almost 30,000 employees globally with more than 11,000 outside of the US. The Colorado-based, employee-owned, company reported $3.6 billion in worldwide revenues for 2010. Halcrow is currently owned by the Halcrow Trust and employee shareholders and employs about 6,000 people in about 98 offices in 70 countries around the world. It last reported a turnover of about £500 million for 2009.
Martin Knights, Global Director of Tunnelling for Halcrow, is upbeat about the move. "My initial reaction, along with the 350 strong tunnelling and geotechncial staff that l represent worldwide, is that the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts and that the two companies complement each other well."
Knights, the immediate past President of the ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association) added that Halcrow's technical excellence model and reputation is well known globally. "The acquisition will benefit both companies and enable the combined company to go for interesting large projects around the world."
Halcrow Chief Executive Peter Gammie
Peter Gammie, Chief Executive of Halcrow said that the board's decision to approach CH2M HILL to discuss the sale "reflects an increasing trend" in the global engineering industry. It "will create a very significant value proposition for clients [and] where we share geographies, we are reinforcing one another rather than duplicating." He said the buyout comes after having worked with CH2M-HILL on numerous projects going back many years.
The two companies are currently working on the Thames Tideway project in London where CH2M HILL is the project's program manager and Halcrow a subconsultant on the $6 billion sewage interceptor and storage tunnel through London. Both are also working on London's £14.5 billion Crossrail project.
CH2M HILL Chairman and CEO Lee McIntire called the acquisition a game changer for the company's clients. "Our global footprint will be deeper and our bench strength will be even more robust," he said. "By combining our resources and leveraging our collective technical know-how, we will set a new standard for the marketplace. Best of all, our two firms are ideally suited in terms of cultures, markets, geographies, and we have a shared long-term vision for the future."
While both firms are putting a good spin on the move, contractions in the UK infrastructure market as well as payment difficulties in the Middle East are said to be driving the consolidation. According to reports McIntire says the combined firm would have $7.1 billion in revenue.
There is no news of a new name for the merging major players, but for Halcrow it will be end of the independent entity since it was founded in 1868. As well as the Crossrail and Tideway projects in London, the company is heavily invested in the Middle East and is working on tunnelling projects for the metros in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Rio de Janeiro, the high-speed rail proposal between Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and water projects in Argentina.
Signature projects for CH2M HILL include the Singapore Deep Tunnel Wastewater Program, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Program, the Panama Canal expansion program, and the sustainable MASDAR City in the United Arab Emirates.
Gammie, who is set to retire and become a consultant once the deal is complete, said the company was still in the process of informing employees and industry partners of the sale. "CH2M HILL is an ambitious and progressive company with strong growth plans, and I see great opportunity for employees and for Halcrow as a business," he said.
Knights said the coming weeks and months will be very busy reassuring clients that the consolidation will not impact their projects adversely and in helping the two companies merge. He added that he is already in contract with Steve Hunt, his counterpart at CH2M HILL. "Steve and l are already talking about the future. He is as positive as me and my Halcrow colleagues are about yesterday's formal announcement."
Halcrow shareholders and the UK High Court must approve the deal that is set to close in November.
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Lee Tunnel start for London's Thames Tideway supersewer project - TunnelTalk, Mar 2011
Two extremes in one for Singapore's DTSS - TunnelTalk, Mar 2005
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Home News National & World
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, reveals she had a miscarriage in July
by CNN
10:20 AM EST, Fri November 27, 2020
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, revealed she was pregnant her with second child but suffered a miscarriage in July.
The Duchess wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times, saying she "felt a sharp cramp" while changing the diaper of her first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
"I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right," Meghan wrote.
"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second."
In the piece, Meghan reflected on the difficulty of losing her second child and the hardships of the past year.
"I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we'd heal," she wrote.
The Dutchess referred to an interview in late 2019 in which she held back tears after a journalist asked "Are you ok?"
"Sitting in a hospital bed, watching my husband's heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine, I realized that the only way to begin to heal is to first ask, 'Are you OK?'" Meghan wrote.
"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few," she said.
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, around 10 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage.
"Despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning," Meghan wrote.
Women are often encouraged to keep their pregnancy private until they are at least 12 weeks along because almost 80% of miscarriages happen in the first trimester.
The Duchess also wrote about the human impact of the pandemic and the movement against structural racism and police brutality that have defined 2020, reported CNN.
"Health rapidly shifts to sickness. In places where there was once community, there is now division," she wrote.
And she referred to the proliferation of misinformation and the aftermath of the 2020 US election, adding: "We aren't just fighting over our opinions of facts; we are polarized over whether the fact is, in fact, a fact. We are at odds over whether science is real. We are at odds over whether an election has been won or lost."
"As much as we may disagree, as physically distanced as we may be, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all we have individually and collectively endured this year," she concluded.
Harry and Meghan stepped back from their roles as members of the royal family at the start of this year, moving to North America.
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Daniele Lorenzini Warwick University
Keywords: Avowal, Governmentality, History of Sexuality, Subjectivity, Truth
On the Government of the Living plays a pivotal role in the evolution of Foucault's thought because it constitutes a "laboratory" in which he forges the methodological and conceptual tools—such as the notions of anarcheology and alethurgy (or, better, what I call here the "alethurgic subject")—necessary to carry on his study of governmentality independently from his History of Sexuality project. In this paper, I argue that Foucault's projects of an anarcheology of the government of human beings through the manifestation of truth in the form of subjectivity and of a genealogy of the subject of desire, albeit essentially linked to one another, are conceptually autonomous. These projects are both part of a genealogy of the modern subject but should be treated independently insofar as it is the former, elaborated in On the Government of the Living, that provides us with the key to understanding Foucault's interest in the care of the self and parrhesia as an integral part of his analyses of governmentality and the critical attitude from the late 1970s.
Daniele Lorenzini, Warwick University
Daniele Lorenzini Department of Philosophy University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL United Kingdom Daniele.Lorenzini@warwick.ac.uk
Butler, Judith, "What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue," in The Judith Butler Reader, ed. Sara Salih and Judith Butler, 302-322. Malden: Blackwell, 2004. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203163986
Carrette, Jeremy, "'Spiritual Gymnastics': Reflections on Michel Foucault's On the Govern-ment of the Living 1980 Collège de France Lectures," Foucault Studies 20 (2015), 277-290. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.4942
Cohen, Jean L., "Reflections by Jean L. Cohen," Foucault 13/13, 7 February 2016. http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/foucault1313/2016/02/07/reflections-by-jean-l-cohen/
Davidson, Arnold I., "In Praise of Counter-Conduct," History of the Human Sciences 24:4 (2011), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111411625
Elden, Stuart, Foucault's Last Decade. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5251
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Foucault, Michel, "The Political Function of the Intellectual" [1976], Radical Philosophy 17 (1977), 12-14.
Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction [1976]. New York: Pan-theon Books, 1978.
Foucault, Michel, "What is Enlightenment?," in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow, 32-50. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Foucault, Michel, The Use of Pleasure: Volume 2 of The History of Sexuality [1984]. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
Foucault, Michel, Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault [1982], ed. Lu-ther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachu-setts Press, 1988. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269518900200110
Foucault, Michel, "On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress" [1983], in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow, 253-280. New York: The New Press, 1997.
Foucault, Michel, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975, ed. Valerio Mar-chetti and Antonella Salomoni. London: Verso, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300009789
Foucault, Michel, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-1982, ed. Frédéric Gros. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i3.881
Foucault, Michel, Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974, ed. Jacques Lagrange. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i4.898
Foucault, Michel, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978, ed. Michel Senellart. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i5.1412
Foucault, Michel, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979, ed. Michel Senellart. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276408097812
Foucault, Michel, The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983, ed. Frédéric Gros. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274730
Foucault, Michel, Du gouvernement des vivants: Cours au Collège de France (1979-1980), ed. Michel Senellart. Paris: Seuil-Gallimard, 2012 / On the Government of the Living: Lec-tures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i8.2918
Foucault, Michel, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice [1981], ed. Fa-bienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226922089.001.0001
Foucault, Michel, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dart-mouth Col-lege, 1980, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1086/692385
Foucault, Michel, "Qu'est-ce que la critique?" [1978], in Qu'est-ce que la critique? suivi de La culture de soi, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, 33-70. Paris: Vrin, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.septentrion.16440
Foucault, Michel, Dire vrai sur soi-même: Conférences prononcées à l'Université Victoria de Toron-to, 1982, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Paris: Vrin, 2017.
Foucault, Michel, Les aveux de la chair: Histoire de la sexualité 4, ed. Frédéric Gros. Paris: Gal-limard, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1086/701002
Foucault, Michel, Discourse and Truth [1983], ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Loren-zi-ni. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Foucault, Michel, "Cours de São Paulo" [1975], Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds Michel Foucault (NAF 28730), box no. 56; to be published in La généalogie du savoir mo-derne sur la sexualité [working title], ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Vrin, in preparation. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.1789
Foucault, Michel, "La notion de repression," Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds Michel Foucault (NAF 28730), box "Cours 1975-1976, 'Il faut défendre la société'"; to be pub-lished in La généalogie du savoir moderne sur la sexualité. Vrin, in preparation. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.1789
Foucault, Michel, "La chair et le corps," Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds Michel Foucault (NAF 28730), boxes no. 87-89.
Foucault, Michel, "Séminaire au New York Institute for the Humanities" [1980], Biblio-thèque nationale de France, Fonds Michel Foucault (NAF 28730), box no. 40; to be pub-lished in La généalogie du savoir moderne sur la sexualité. Vrin, in preparation. https://doi.org/10.3917/vaca.029.0054
Foucault, Michel, "Le gouvernement de soi et des autres," Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds Michel Foucault (NAF 28730), boxes no. 72-74. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i8.2918
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Harcourt, Bernard E., "Introducing On the Government of the Living," Foucault 13/13, 7 Febru-ary 2016. http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/foucault1313/2016/02/07/introducing-on-the-government-of-the-living/
Harcourt, Bernard E., "Foucault's Keystone: Confessions of the Flesh. How the Fourth and Final Volume of The History of Sexuality Completes Foucault's Critique of Modern West-ern Societies," SSRN, 30 November 2019. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3497030 https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3497030
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Senellart, Michel, "Le cours Du gouvernement des vivants dans la perspective de l'Histoire de la sexualité," in Michel Foucault: Éthique et vérité (1980-1984), ed. Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel, and Arianna Sforzini, 31-51. Paris: Vrin, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4000/lectures.13959
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package org.kie.workbench.common.forms.editor.client.editor.changes.conflicts;

import java.util.function.Consumer;

import org.kie.workbench.common.forms.editor.client.editor.changes.conflicts.element.ConflictElement;
import org.kie.workbench.common.forms.editor.model.FormModelerContent;
import org.kie.workbench.common.forms.model.FormDefinition;

/**
 * Component able to handle possible conflicts on the {@link FormModelerContent} for the {@link FormDefinition} which is
 * being edited.
 */
public interface ConflictsHandler {

    /**
     * Checks if the {@link FormModelerContent} has any conflict
     * @param content The actual {@link FormModelerContent} for the {@link FormDefinition} that is being edited.
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Although arnica is well-known for its anti-inflammatory properties, coconut oil can also help when trying to relieve lower back pain.
Would you like to treat lower back pain naturally?
Lower back pain, also known as lumbago, is an uncomfortable pain in the lower back. Normally, the intense pain is accompanied by inflammation. The most common cause is the deterioration of the muscles caused by aging.
In this article, we'll share a cheap and easy ointment that you can make to treat lower back pain.
Both women and man can suffer from this pain, and it often appears between the ages of 30 and 50 years old. It's a pain located around kidney height and is one of the most common reasons for visiting the doctor and absence from work.
The main causes for this pain are a slipped disc or degeneration of the vertebrae, which gets worse with age.
The older we get, the weaker our bones,the less agile we are, and the weaker our muscles get. At the same time, the spinal discs lose fluid and flexibility and aren't so well-protected.
Lumbago has many different causes that are often related to age.
Muscle weakening is one common cause. Sometimes, making a strenuous effort to lift a heavy object can cause the muscles to stretch, and this can cause problems lifting things or even walking.
Sciatica, which manifests itself as a strong pain in the leg, can cause lower back pain.
Spondylolisthesis, which is where a vertebra becomes displaced in the lower part of the back. This can cause instability and compromise the nerves.
Osteoarthritis in the lower back, where the spinal discs wear. This causes inflammation as well as a lack of stability in the lower back. This condition causes pain, inflammation and discomfort in the lower back. It can even cause sciatica in many cases.
Other common causes are fractures in the spinal cord, osteoporosis, spinal cancer, a slipped disc, kidney infections, kidney stones, problems with a woman's reproductive organs, or problems relating to pregnancy.
Luckily, ointments can be very effective to treat lower back pain naturally.
This ingredient has analgesic properties that soothe pain caused by sprains or other muscle injuries. It's also an anti-inflammatory and helps reduce the swelling caused by injuries thanks to a compound known as Helenalin.
Because of its antimicrobial properties, it can soothe irritation when applied to the skin.
Arnica also has the ability to stimulate blood circulation. This helps treat bruises and reduces the chance of them occurring.
The saturated fats in coconut oil are absorbed very easily by the body.
The make-up of coconut oil includes lauric acid, palmitic acid, myristic acid, oleic acid, and linoleic acid. It also contains iron and vitamins E and K which make it a fantastic ingredient for your health.
Furthermore, it's antimicrobial, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial. It even stimulates the immune system and is used as a muscle relaxant.
Combining the properties of arnica and coconut oil turns out to be a cheap and easy natural solution to treat lower back pain. Adding a little beeswax will give it some consistency and help in its application.
Heat the beeswax in a Bain Marie.
When it has melted, put it over a low heat and add the arnica and coconut oils.
Stir everything, turn off the heat, and leave it to cool.
If you start to notice lower back pain, it's better to attend to it before it gets worse. As we mentioned, the causes can be many, but for each one there is a specific treatment.
While you wait to receive the right treatment for you, you can use this ointment to soothe the pain. It works really quickly, and is safe and natural.


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Rachel Kremen, Rutgers University
How "Teach-Backs" and Game Shows Can Keep Attendees Off Their Phones
A Rutgers journalism professor brought new ideas to the classroom to get students focused. Her tactics can work for your meetings, too.
When Rachel Kremen first began teaching journalism in the Journalism and Media Studies department at Rutgers University, she quickly realized that hour-long lectures weren't going to cut it. "Students were on their phone the whole time, and I'd even see people snoozing in the back," she says. Kremen, who's pursuing a master's degree in instructional design, immediately switched gears. "My class is now interactive nearly 90 percent of the time, and people come in fully ready to participate," she says.
The first tactic she incorporated was the teach-back method, where she presents a new topic and then assigns sub-topics to each student; the students then research the topic in class and present their findings to two other people. (Kremen has discovered that three students is the ideal group size. "If there's more than three, it's too easy for some people to hang back and not contribute," she says.) She finds that when students do the research on a topic themselves—rather than her teaching it—they retain more of the information. The best part: "If you know you've got to present something to the class in a few minutes, you're going to stay alert," she says. "You cannot be on your phone the whole time if two other people are counting on you."
To ensure that students arrive focused, Kremen will sometimes assign them the sub-topics to research before coming to class so they're ready to present as soon as they walk in the door. Recently, when teaching a unit about whistleblowers, she assigned each student a different whistleblower in history to research. "This was an exciting topic since whistleblowers have been in the news lately," she says. "You can bet that everyone stayed awake and alert."
Kremen also uses games to keep her classes engaged and to help bring reticent students out of their shells. "I sometimes find that students who are shy about speaking in class will be more likely to tune out," she says. To promote participation, she has instituted a culture where games are the norm to check for understanding of content. For example, she might break students up into small teams and ask them to pick a jungle animal to be their team name. In game-show fashion, Kremen fires out questions to the group, and teams chime in with the call of their jungle animal to indicate they know they answer. The first time she tried this tactic, Kremen says, some students were reluctant to participate. "A lot of people were too worried about being cool," she says. But by the third time she tried the game, everyone felt comfortable.
"Suddenly, people were Googling to find out what kind of noise a giraffe makes, and the results were hilarious," she says. The best part: "Even the shy people participated."
Kremen believes this tactic could be adopted in meetings as well, especially among groups "where a culture of fun and games is the norm. It's a great way to get people out of their shells and make sure everyone is heard," she says.
Next Up: Freddy Tran Nager, University of Southern California, uses improv and creative brainstorming to keep students off their devices
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There is nothing better than spending a day on your pontoon boat. But as you may know, it can be very stressful if you don't properly plan your excursion. Imagine a day on a pontoon boat where you visit the same area and do the same activities as the time before, more for lack of imagination than because of the fun quotient. Not to mention the chaos that can ensue if there isn't enough food, water, or sunscreen for everyone in the party.
Explore: Instead of visiting the same place every time, mix it up and boldly go where you haven't been before.
BBQ: If your pontoon boat has a BBQ on it, why not enjoy a beach BBQ?
Scavenger Hunt: Invent a scavenger hunt where you stop at various places and solve clues. Will there be buried treasure at the end?
Mega Raft: If your friends all have pontoon boats and families, tie up all the boats together and make a mega raft.
Waterproof Camera: There is no better way to capture the day and take some memorable underwater photos.
Remember proper and creative planning, and you are sure to have an exciting day on the water.
Download our infographic for more tips for family fun on the water.


"Lego", short for "Legolas" or "Legs" as he is fondly known, lives with Lynne and Martin Hopkins and is the perfect foil for 'Kylie', their other border collie. Lego is a laid back, amenable gentleman ever willing to please.
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Q: How do I install the 64bit version of Firefox without losing any of my data? Firefox 43 comes with a 64bit version. But the one delivered with Ubuntu is 32bit.
Download Firefox link
but in this link there is an option to download 64bit version but its in tar.gz format. Does that mean firefox gets automatically updated and its resources gets added to the software sources or do I have to download again when a new version comes?

A: The answers provided to you in comments by people such as mchid are dead wrong.
64 bit Firefox for Linux has existed for some time.  What's new is 64 bit support for Windows.
You should use apt to list what packages you have installed, grep for Firefox, and see which architecture you have installed.  If it's x86_64, you're good.  If not, you should uninstall and sudo apt-get install Firefox-x86-64 (or whatever it is called in apt).

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Two prong set rectangular step cut natural emeralds, measuring 8.00 x 6.00 x 3.80mm, exact total weight 3.13ctw., clarity is heavily included, type III, medium, moderately strong, green color, (GIA G 5/4), cut is good. Transmitting light somewhat diffusely, transparent to translucent. Naturally occurring internal and external characteristics are present. Measurements & the color grade are an average for the pair. Graded in the setting.
Ninety-eight prong and bezel set round brilliant cut diamonds exact total weight 98 Stones = 1.02ctw. The clarity & color grade reflect the overall average for the group. Graded in the setting.
Total Weight of Colored Stones 3.13ctw.
Total Weight of Diamonds 1.02ctw.


La Renaissance is ready to help make your Fourth of July picnic, barbecue or family gathering as easy as pie–or custom cakes, tarts and more. We're sure to have just what you need to complete your summer menu. How about grilling up some of our award-winning fresh bread as an appetizer? Wouldn't your friends love to dive into a tray of our delicious cookies by the pound? You'll really be the hero of the party if you show up with a customized strawberry shortcake to feed the crowd!
See the full array of options on our web site, and call us at 914-472-0702 to place an order ahead of time, or stop in to sample and select from our array of freshly baked sweet and savory selections.
We've Got What You Need to Help Celebrate Grads & Dads!
Whether you're looking for a great idea to help celebrate an upcoming graduation or hoping to surprise Dad with a fantastic treat on his big day, you can take care of your grad AND your Dad with custom cakes, pies, tarts and so much more from La Renaissance Bakery. No matter what flavor or style you want, we've got something to suit every craving, from fresh & fruity to rich & decadent, and everything in between! Check out our web site, call us at 914-472-0702 to place an order ahead of time, or stop in to sample and select from our array of freshly baked goods.
There's nothing we like to do more than help you create a unique and delicious cake for your special occasion.
This month, we'd like to share with you two cakes that we created this month–one for a First Communion, and one for a baby shower.
The Communion cake shown above is actually an oversize sheet version of a Napoleon, with flaky layers of puff pastry layered with vanilla cream and covered with chocolate and vanilla icing. The baby shower cake below–a Strawberry Shortcake with custom decoration–was a special commission for a party held at Mulino's Italian Restaurant in White Plains, NY.
On Wednesday, May 5, La Renaissance Patisserie participated in Scarsdale-Edgemont Family Counseling Service's Gourmet Galaxy, a special fundraiser held at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, NY. The event featured a buffet of culinary specialties from the chef at La Renaissance and a host of other great Westchester chefs, as well as a silent auction and raffle.
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Be sure to get Mom a special treat for her big day. Come to La Renaissance for one of our very special Mother's Day ganache cakes, truffles, chocolate-covered strawberries and heart-shaped cookies — plus our full line of pastries, tarts and cakes!
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Canada's Team Matt Dunstone edged past Scotland to seal their spot in Sunday's final.
Sweden's Team Niklas Edin brought their big-game mentality to the Curling World Cup as they recorded must-win victories over Switzerland (8-5) and Japan (7-2) on day four.
But the world champions will face a stern challenge from past Canada's Team Matt Dunstone, who are in terrific form in Jonkoping after wins over China and Scotland.
"It was amazing to see the crowds before this game. It's not a big arena but it's packed in here. They even sold too many tickets so they had to move people into the VIP section! So it's really good to see that we can fill the stands here.
"[On playing Canada] They're one of the top teams in the world. It seems like they're really fired up, they're screaming and shouting when they're scoring points so I think it will be a tough game."
Skip Edin, 33, was in a confident mood during the last round-robin encounters and in front of a capacity crowd, delivered two world-class performances.
Likewise, Team Dunstone were imperious throughout the fourth day with a comfortable 9-2 victory registered in the morning over China setting up a compelling, winner-takes-all match-up against Scotland in the final session.
After the Canadians forced Ross Paterson's rink to take a single in the seventh end, they kept a firm grip on the last end to pick up a 5-3 success to ensure their place in Sunday's showpiece.
"We have brought our A-game so far and played well in every game and quite frankly we should have been six and zero here," said 23-year-old. "It's been a pretty good week so far but one more big one to go.
"We are firing on all cylinders right now. We are our rock sin the right spots and the curling gods are on our side.
United States had a contrasting day after losing 8-2 to Japan in the morning, they bounced back to defeat Switzerland 10-3 in their final game, while China recorded a terrific 7-5 victory over Suzhou finalists, Norway's Team Steffen Walstad.


The 2017 NACLNC Conference is less than two months away, so it's time to start planning all your excursions and figuring out all the fun things that you'll want to do onboard too. The Harmony of the Seas is brand new and one of the largest cruise ships in the world.
Cruise the Hoods: The Harmony has seven different neighborhoods – Central Park (my favorite for the trees and squirrels), Royal Promenade (my favorite for the shopping), Pool and Sports Zone (my favorite for the excitement), Fitness Center (my favorite for the weight-lifting), Vitality at Sea Spa (my favorite for relaxing), Entertainment Place (my favorite for dancing) and the Youth Zone (my favorite because all my CLNC friends can drop their kids there for the week) and we can then enjoy "adult" time together.
Dance Your Heart Out at the Family Silent Party: When you enter this disco you get your own set of headphones, pick your own music and can sing and dance without the fear of anyone hearing you. Here's the best part, whether you're dancing to Frank Sinatra, Prince or Milli Vanilli, no one will know but you. Remember, at sea no one can hear you sing (unless they take their headphones off to listen). Count me in!
Escape the Mundane: Joining the ultra-trendy "escape room" games, Harmony's "Escape the Rubicon" strands a small group of travelers in a pretend space ship. They then have less than an hour to find and follow the clues to get the spaceship underway. Apparently less than 40% of "normal" travelers solve the puzzle, but I'm sure that 100% of the CLNC consultants will (or they better, LOL).
Travel Back to the Future: The 1887: A Journey in Time ice show has been described as the best steampunk ice show at sea. If you don't know what steampunk is, well perhaps you'll have to join your Certified Legal Nurse Consultant colleagues and enjoy the show, or just see it on your own first.
Take a Sea Horse Ride: Not really a sea horse per se, but CLNC consultants of all ages should enjoy at least one ride on the one-of-a-kind, handcrafted carousel located in the Boardwalk neighborhood. You may not catch a brass ring, but you can sure enjoy the ups and downs of some good old-fashioned fun.
Get Lost in the Perfect Storm: Choose from three different water slides that each offer their own particular brand of thrill. Or, you can ride all three of the Supercell, Typhoon and Cyclone. Race a colleague down the 3-story drop, but be sure to choose the Cyclone which deposits you into a giant champagne bowl (and then go celebrate with a glass of real champagne to celebrate your derring-do).
Zip It: What's an 1,187 ft long cruise ship without a zip line? We'll never know because the Harmony has its own zip line far above the Boardwalk. Wave to your fellow Certified Legal Nurse Consultants as you fly by their inside balcony staterooms – just don't let go!
Take the Flow to the Max: No this isn't about pharmaceuticals. Here's your chance to surf a 60,000 gallon/minute flow of water. The line is sure to be short because the Harmony has two Flowriders® for double the CLNC fun. If you've never hung ten, this may not be the time to try but we'll all enjoy watching.
Enjoy the Robotics: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants may have mixed feelings about robotic surgery, but one thing they can all agree on is mixed drinks by a robot bartender. The good news is that the only risks here are falling off your stool after one martini too many.
Rock Out: If you've ever wanted to enjoy the view from the top, take a chance and climb to the top of one of the two rock-climbing walls. Once you're up there you'll enjoy an unparalleled view from more than 200 ft above sea level. I'll meet you up there!
Ride the Tide: The Rising Tide Bar is a unique moving, or rising, bar that goes from the Royal Promenade deck up to Central Park. You have plenty of time to savor your drinks on the way up, down or both. Think of it as an "adult" elevator ride or riding a lifeboat with really good drinks.
Drop Down a Rabbit Hole: I've always warned Certified Legal Nurse Consultants about going down rabbit trails in their legal nurse consultant jobs, but all the way up on Deck 16 is a slide called The Ultimate Abyss. You'll ride a magic carpet (really a mat) down a 10-story drop ending up on the Boardwalk. There's two so you can race a friend to lunch, if you have the stomach afterwards.
Enjoy the Show: With theaters, ice shows, comedy shows, dance parties and more, you'll never run out of things to do, so plan on getting out of your cabin and having some fun with your family and CLNC colleagues. Just remember to attend the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants educational conference sessions on Monday and Thursday!
Get Wired (or Wireless): The Harmony calls Voom the fastest wireless Internet at sea. It will allow you to stay in touch with your attorney-clients and keep up-to-date on your legal nurse consultant jobs – if you choose. Check out the Cruise Planner and Royal Caribbean website for more information.
Stay Hydrated. We are nurses and we need caffeine! Bottled water and wine bills can add up quickly onboard, especially if you're traveling with your spouse. Purchase your all-you-can-drink soda or wine plans before or after you board. You can even buy a bottled water package in advance too. Pricing varies, so visit Royal Caribbean's Blog for pricing and tequila options (just kidding – maybe).
Join Us for the Exclusive NACLNC Networking Events. We have lots of special events planned for you. Your family and cabin mates are invited to ALL of the NACLNC networking functions. Look for me, your CLNC colleagues and the pirate flags. We can't wait either!
Saturday, March 4 from 7:30-8:30pm – MANDATORY NACLNC Conference Registration and Welcome Reception. Go to Dazzles on Deck 8 to sign in. Get registered early because the NACLNC Welcome Reception starts right at 7:30pm and you can't get your free tropical drinks if you haven't signed in!
Every evening at 8:30pm – NACLNC Networking Dinners. Join us in the Main Dining Room for late-seating dinner. We have a special section just for CLNC consultants, your guests and families. To make the most out of this unique opportunity, be sure to sit with someone new every evening. Nothing's better than networking over dessert, especially if it's on fire!
Sunday, March 5, 7:15-8:15pm – Captain's Welcome Aboard Reception. And it's formal night, so put on your tux, formal, little black dress or just something extra fancy and strut down the Royal Promenade in style. You can get your photo taken with the Captain and head to the 8:30pm NACLNC Networking Dinner! After dinner we're off for some serious table-time in the ship's casino or a formal moonlight stroll. I'm having a hard time choosing between that romantic stroll and the craps table. I don't have to gamble on what Tom's choice will be – what about yours?
Monday, March 6 at 7:30pm – CLNC Night at the AquaTheater. After an action-packed day of NACLNC educational sessions, come to Deck 6, aft for a thrilling performance.
Thursday, March 9 at 10:15pm – Ice Show. After another fun day of NACLNC educational sessions, join us in Studio B on Deck 4 for one of my new favorites, the Ice Show. I'll see you there and remember it's formal night, so dress up and shine!
Friday, March 10 from 5:00-6:00pm – CLNC Night at the Royal Theater. After a full day of cruising and enjoying all the Harmony has to offer, come to the Royal Theater on Deck 4, forward for a Broadway-style show.
Friday, March 10 from 7:30-8:30pm – Private NACLNC Farewell Reception. It's our last trip to Studio B on Deck 4 and there's no better way to end your cruise than with cocktails and snacks. Come raise a glass and toast to your fellow CLNC colleagues.
Since I know you're not on the 2017 NACLNC Conference Cruise for the vacation and fun, remember the two days of premier NACLNC educational sessions designed just for you. We've scheduled them for sea days so you won't miss a single port city. Get your CLNC legs ready and CLNC you onboard!
P.S. Comment and share your fun ideas for the 2017 National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Conference Cruise.
P.P.S. If you are joining me on the cruise, watch for an email from me on February 9, 2017 which will give you the link to the Conference textbook. Then on February 16, 2017, you'll receive very important announcements which you'll want to read and print before you depart for the cruise. Next, on February 23, 2017 you'll receive final important instructions.
P.P.P.S. Just a reminder to make sure you (and everyone in your party) have passports. You'll need them to get on the ship and back into the states when we return. Like I always say, if you don't look like your passport picture now, don't despair, you will by the end of our time together!
2017 NACLNC® Conference Cruise Update – Day 6: More Education at Sea!
2017 NACLNC® Conference Cruise Update – Day 8: Homeward Bound!


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Home » Press Releases » The 3rd World March is announced
The 3rd World March is announced
18/10/2020 04/10/2020 by Antonio Gancedo
The 3rd World March for 2024 is announced at the Forum for Nonviolence in Mar del Plata – Argentina
During the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Week for Nonviolencein Mar del Plata, promoted by Osvaldo Bocero and Karina Freira, where activists from more than 20 countries in America, Europe and Africa participated virtually..
There, Rafael de la Rubia announced from Madrid that the 3rd World March (WM) for Peace and Non-Violence will take place in 2024.
The Forum for Nonviolence began with a small and emotional ceremony asking for world peace in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and Guaraní. They were few minutes of meditation and connection between the participants.
Osvaldo presented the progress and achievements of what began as a Week for Nonviolence within the framework of the 1st World March in 2009 and how it has progressed during these 10 years. A short documentary summarizing that journey with images was screened.
We present here some of the proposals Rafael de la Rubia, the spokesperson for the World March, made in his speech:
"This Week for Nonviolence is an example of permanence for 10 years, which serves as inspiration. It is the sustained activity in the process, which shows us the way and the progress."
Nonviolence word:
On this day we want to pay attention to the term nonviolence
At the beginning of February 2016, at the Peña Blanca Forum (Honduras), the humanist association WWW launched the campaign for the inclusion of the word nonviolence in the dictionary of the Academies of the Spanish Language.
It is about extending this action to other languages that do not have the word either. Nonviolence in Russian is ненасилие, in Czech it is nenásilí, in German gewaltlosigkeit, in Italian nonviolenza and in English nonviolence, but in Spanish it does not exist.
In order to include it in the Spanish language dictionary, it must be documented that the word is used normally. It is therefore up to the social agents to work so that its use is generalized and its meaning is assimilated and understood in all places where Spanish is spoken.
We take the Nonviolence Day as an opportunity to invite all to use it as a single word, together and without the hyphen, and thus we can get the word official in the Spanish language. Let's collaborate to popularize its use and, with it, to give entity to a key word for a new social era.
Nonviolence Film Festival: Today begins this 3-day International Festival promoted by FICNOVA, acronym in Spanish.
Mediterranean Sea of Peace: This campaign started in the 2nd World March, it aims to turn the Mediterranean into a sea of peace, free of nuclear weapons and where cultures meet.
-Sketchbook from Editorial Saure. 100 pages. It will be released in a few weeks. In Spanish and Basque languages. Editions in other languages are expected.
– Book of the Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: WWW has been asked to write the chapter on nonviolence. It will be delivered in December this year.
–Book of the 2nd World March. We are working on the content and assembly. Information is still missing from some places.
The book release may take a little longer and could take place once the TPNW goes into effect. In that case we would incorporate a specific chapter on that topic.
–-Next activities
– We are working on holding a Festival of Global Civic Cyber-activism on the subject of TPAN to celebrate its entry into force when it is proclaimed by the United Nations. We calculate for the beginning of 2021.
– We will participate in the Perugia – Assisi Peace March next October 10th.
– International Conference: The Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates has invited WWW to collaborate together with four other international organizations in an event where the young from these organizations will present their proposals, projects and actions related with the subject. In Geneva at the end of October
– Regional Forum for Peace in Latin America, in March 2021, promoted by the Secretariat of World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates with the support of the city of Mérida in Mexico and 9 universities in the Mayan region. Our organization WWW is also invited.
–3rd World March
-We formally announce that the 3rd WM will begin on October 2, 2024
-As in the 2nd MM it will begin and end in the same city after circling the planet.
-It will include regional tours such as: South American March, Central American March, March for the Mediterranean Sea of Peace and Latin American March. We hope that there will be others that will join. Hopefully we have marches with identity across continents.
-It will also have a virtual tour format, in order to give the greatest possible participation to those interested.
Calendar of the 3rd World March
-On 6/21/2021, the bases will be known for cities to apply for the 3rd MM 2024.
-The candidate cities will send their application on 06/21/2022.
-2/10/2022 will be announced where the 3rd MM will begin/end.
–2/10/2024 the 3rd World March will start
The WWW World Coordination Team inform me that this October a members census will be carried out and then there will be elections for the new world Coordination Team. We then invite you to participate and join World Without Wars and Without Violence.
That is it, thank you very much…
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SINGAPORE - A government committee will be set up to study how to improve the family justice system, with an eye on easing the pain and healing ties when families break up.
This move to address the emotional and psychological well-being of the family members was announced by Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee on Monday (Nov 6).
It will be headed by the permanent secretaries of the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) and Ministry of Law - the top bureaucrats in the ministries - and the Presiding Judge of the Family Justice Courts, Mr Lee said in response to a question from Mr Seah Kian Peng (Marine Parade GRC).
The committee will also include representatives from the social services sector, legal system, judiciary and academia.
It will start work by the end of this year, but Mr Lee did not say when its recommendations can be expected.
Separately, Senior Minister of State for Law Indranee Rajah said her Ministry is looking at improving the practice of family law in Singapore.
"Work is underway to design a specialist family law and multi-discipline training for family lawyers," Ms Indranee said in response to a question from Ms Rahayu Mahzam (Jurong GRC).
Lawyers who have undergone specialist training in the field will also be accredited under a new Family Law Practitioner scheme.
She also disclosed that disputes in the Family Justice Courts are being resolved faster.
Interim judgements for divorce cases took an average of 53 days to obtain last year, down from 67 days in 2012.
At the same time, the average time for divorce cases to be resolved dropped from 155 days in 2012 to 115 days last year.


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Man is killed in Spain's Mallorca after cutting his neck with a chainsaw
By Isha Sesay • 04 February 2020 • 15:55
Under Investigation: 2 Guardia Civil officers allegedly drugged and abused a young woman in Madrid. Credit: Guardia Civil
A tragic death has taken place in Spain's Mallorca as a man was killed after slicing open his neck with a chainsaw.
As reported by the Guardia Civil, the man's lifeless body was found by a local resident on his property in Calle Bernat in Santa Eugenia in the municipality of Santa Maria del Camí this afternoon (Tuesday, February 4).
Immediately alerting the 112 emergency services hotline, officers promptly arrived at the scene where it is reported that the man had suffered a significant amount of blood loss from a gaping wound on his neck. It is also understood that the chainsaw was lying beside him.
As Euro Weekly News understands, an investigation has now been launched by the police and investigators are not yet at this time treating the death as suspicious.
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