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HAPPY THANKSGIVING - HOLIDAY FUN FROM THE VIDEO VAULT - WKRP IN CINCINNATI - CIRCA 1978
We hope you are enjoying the warmth of family and the comfort of food on this Thanksgiving Holiday.
Here is a fast and funny flashback to one of the best episodes produced for the wacky and wonderous CBS series, WKRP IN CINCINNATI. Think of it as sitcom sorbet between full courses of parades and football.
From the MRSTEPHENRGILMAN YOU TUBE site is the WKRP Turkey Drop episode , scoped down to just thirty seconds. Best wishes for the holiday season, and enjoy!!!!!:)
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REALLY BIG SHOW WITH REALLY BIG LAUGHS - THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW - CBS-TV CIRCA 1948-1971
In the 1950's and 1960's, America's hottest comedy club was your parent's living room.
No cover charge. No drink minimum, Just the greatest array of comic talent that you could fit with the confines of a 21 inch television screen.
All for free.
YOu just had to turn your dial ( TV's once had dials for channel tuning) to your hometown, CBS Television station at 8pm Eastern time(7pm Central) on any Sunday night.
That was the time for television viewers to participate in a true American ritual and a show business institution , THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW.
First entitled THE TOAST OF THE TOWN when it debuted in 1948, it was one of the nascent Tiffany Network's first and finest offerings.The name of the weekly, video variety show was changed in 1955, to honor the clunky and constrained host.
The show was performed "LIVE" from CBS-TV's STUDIO 50, which was re-named THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER IN 1966.
Today, that facility is home to THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN.
Sullivan, while an awkward personality on camera, had an innate ability to successfully combine video and vaudeville. A native New Yorker,he was a teen aged boxer and an acclaimed Broadway columnist, before stepping in front of the primitive cameras and under the scalding lights required to produce the earliest network broadcasts.
Smart and facile, his acute awareness of social trends and his surgically sharp, journalistic instincts help to drive the stellar roster of guests. Sullivan, along with producers Marlo Lewis and Bob Precht, delivered the most diverse programs on the tube. On any given Sunday, recording artists, night club comics, plate spinners, opera stars, poets and puppets would share the sprawling stage of CBS Studio 50 on Broadway.There were no barriers of gender, color, race, ethnicity or religion. Talent was the only ticket to center stage.THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW defined variety in video.
While the earliest TV stars were comedians, and the actors who portrayed cops or cowboys, Sullivan defied definition as a performer. America embraced the stoic star as a family member.
Sponsored for many years by The Ford Motor Company's Lincoln/Mercury Division, Sullivan ( aka The Great Stone Face)was a welcome presence on Sunday nights for 23 television seasons.His program was still drawing large, household audiences in 1971, when his show, like THE RED SKELTON HOUR and THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW, were cancelled, as CBS and advertisers sought to cultivate younger, more urban demographics.
So many careers were launched, sustained or revived on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. The Beatles are ,actually, a small, albeit incandescent, part of the show's history. Like NBC's TONIGHT SHOW, Sullivan's weekly revue was a crucible for comedy. One appearance could launch a career.
Here from THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW YOU TUBE site, are six classic comic peformances from the mid-1960's through the early 1970's, when the program was in its primacy.Enjoy!!!!
RICHARD PRYOR - 1966
JOAN RIVERS - 1967
RODNEY DANGERFIELD 1970
GEORGE CARLIN 1966
THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS 1966
HENNY YOUNGMAN 1966
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THE KING OF COOL - DEAN MARTIN ON STAGE - CLOSED CIRCUIT - CIRCA JUNE 20, 1965
Dean Martin famously joked once that this is Frank Sinatra's world and we all just live in it.
But,if you examine the so-called Rat Pack , the show-biz confederation comprised of Sinatra, Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.,Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, through a nostalgic prism,one thing comes into focus: Dino was the very apotheosis of cool.Not icy and biting , but offering a refreshing brace.Like a heavy tumbler of scotch on the rocks after a round of golf on a torrid Palm Springs afternoon.
On stage, Dino was impeccably tailored. had classic good looks, a pleasant voice, a deep reservoir of humor and mischief in his eyes.
In the clip posted ,below, from the SERGIUNEGHINA YOU TUBE site, you'll see an excerpt from a classic Dean Martin performance. He radiates confidence and suavity, while singing, joking and kibitzing with an off-stage Sinatra.
This segment comes from THE FRANK SINATRA SPECTACULAR, a black and white, benefit variety show that was staged on June 20, 1965 at the Kiel Opera House in St.Louis.
The show was was a closed circuit telecast beamed to theaters across the nation, where proceeds from the tickets that patrons purchased, went to Dismas House, a half-way house for former convicts in St. Louis.
On this night, Martin (who was just months from the debut of his hit NBC variety series) shared the stage with Sinatra, Davis and, ironically, Johnny Carson acted as host, substituting for his regular TONIGHT SHOW,back-up,Joey Bishop.Enjoy!!!!!
CAMELOT CAPTURED ON KINESCOPE - THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JOHN .F KENNEDY - NBC-TV - CIRCA 11/08/60
Every day, in Living Color, Dolby Sound and High Definition Video, the fiber of this nation is tested by partisan politics, as the unending multi-media news cycle puts all of us on the front lines of the acrid debate.
Relax. KINESCOPE HD is not going all ideological on you.
We just want to take a moment to flashback on a more gentile, if not truly innocent, time in the American political process and a landmark night in network television news.
November 8th marks fifty years since the debonair, young, US Senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy,was elected President of the United States. A Democrat, he defeated the incumbent Vice President ,Republican Richard M. Nixon.
The adversaries made history facing off in the first televised debates in American History.While the content of their discourse is still being debated five decades later, most agree that it was a vital, virtuoso performance by Mr. Kennedy that propelled him to the American presidency.
JFK was as much a cultural phenomenon as a political option. He was handsome, charming, liberal and a Roman Catholic. Kennedy was the prodigal son in a family that was all but American royalty.His wife , Jackie was elegant, smart and socially engaged, while raising their toddler son, John-John and young daughter, Caroline.
Mrs. Kennedy was an aspirational figure for so many young women of the time. The personable Kennedy was positioned by many pundits and show business luminaries as the perfect figure to lead America into the 1960's, a decade laced with nuclear threat, social upheaval and sexual liberation, that offered more danger than optimism.
The dashing young president's personal involvements with the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Judith Campbell Exner would not be made public until years after his death.There are still questions centering on the role that organized crime may have played in getting him elected.
Cut down by an assassin's bullet in Dallas,Texas, on November 22, 1963, his short but electrifying time in office is still referred to by many as Camelot, in reflection of the mythical kingdom in which all who lived enjoyed a full, rich life.
On Election Night 1960, American television viewers and radio listeners turned to NBC NEWS in extraordinary numbers. From an elevated anchor position in the vast and versatile Studio 8H, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley anchored comprehensive coverage that was agile and contemporary in execution, while breezy and affable in tone.
It was one of the first times that television technology was commensurate with the scope of the story it captured, taking viewers across the nation.NBC turned to its corporate parent for the use of an RCA 501 computer to perform the high speed tabulations required to project key races.
As Tuesday night morphed into Wednesday morning, the TODAY SHOW team of Dave Garroway, Jack Lescoulie and Frank Blair joined Huntley and Brinkley to say that the network's morning show was deferring to election coverage and would join viewers when the all of the ballots were finally tallied.
The vote count in California ( Nixon's home state) was so slow that it would be after 7:00AM Eastern Time before NBC NEWS could project a Kennedy victory. NBC's News Division was back throughout the broadcast day to cover Mr.Kennedy's upbeat acceptance speech and Mr. Nixon's bitter concession.
Huntley and Brinkley dominated network news ratings during most of the 1960's, even in the face of relentless competition from CBS's redoubtable and respected Walter Cronkite. On election night and in every other major story of the decade, from War in Viet Nam to Man on the Moon, the pair was ably supported by Peacock Network stalwarts, John Chancellor, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, Merrill Mueller, Nancy Dickerson, Herb Kaplow, Ray Scherer, Peter Hackes and so many more.
Here from the David Von Pein 1 YOU TUBE site are nine, extraordinary excerpts of NBC NEWS coverage from Election Night 1960. Enjoy!!!!
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Concerns over child Internet safety is a common occurrence among parents. Cyberbullying, dangerous Internet "challenges," adult content spliced into children's videos, grooming, sexting and self-harm are all serious concerns in a tech-reliant society.
Though the Internet is more integrated than ever into our children's lives, safety precautions seem to be at an all-time low. Many parents have reacted to safety precautions by taking away their children's devices or deleting apps altogether. Yet, these actions rarely last long. The best option lies in taking simple precautions to make the Internet safer for kids.
Be honest, blunt and age-appropriate: Let kids know there are people on the Internet who have bad intentions. Being honest about the benefits and risks of online activity will encourage open communication.
Inform parents or guardians: Instruct your children to inform a parent or guardian immediately if they encounter anything a parent wouldn't like, or that makes them feel bad.
Don't talk to online strangers: Children should never talk to strangers online. It is easy to believe you are safely interacting with strangers online because you aren't physically with that person, but this is a false sense of security.
Don't download from the Internet: Tell your children never to download anything without a parent or guardian's permission. There are too many computer viruses and hackers out here that have destructive motives.
Internet etiquette or Netiquette: Talk to your kids about cyber-bullying and respect. Communicating from "behind the computer screen," that is, not face to face, can make kids less mindful of their words or actions. The written word doesn't include your tone or non-verbal communication, so it important to practice proper Internet etiquette.
In addition to these topics, inform your children that the Internet is a privilege requiring responsibility. Set clear rules and boundaries that have appropriate consequences when they are not followed.
It is possible to allow your children some freedom on their devices. Many of the popular Internet apps and enabled devices have comprehensive parental controls available.
YouTube and YouTube Kids: Parents can restrict accounts to only pre-approved content, enable age filters, and limit YouTube Kids to human-reviewed channels and recommendations.
Google Family Link: Google Family Link allows parents to track their child's location, activity and screen time, and is one of the best options for younger Android users. It also allows parents to create search filters, browser filters and lock a child's device remotely.
Apple iOS: Apple devices are trickier to monitor in versions before iOS 12. However, you can still restrict content by using a passcode on devices with prior iOS versions. Devices utilizing iOS 12 have Screen Time to set limits and restrict content.
Gaming devices offer unique challenges to child safety. Video game consoles now offer much more than just a means to play games. They are Internet-enabled, have communication features and expose your children to strangers.
Each major video game device contains parental control options. PlayStation allows parents to enable web filters, restrict communication while on the PlayStation Network, restrict play time, and restrict playable games by ESRB rating.
Xbox also has parental controls to limit screen time, filter content and set age limits. Nintendo is a prized family gaming option, with consistently rigid parental control options across all systems. The newest addition to the Nintendo family, the Nintendo Switch, allows parents to restrict and monitor their children's gaming devices from their smartphones in addition to managing them on the console. Parents can set age restriction levels, filter content, manage play time, and lock children out of devices.
The parental control options integrated into video game systems are great ways to keep your kids safe. However, it is still important that you consider your children's maturity level and, if necessary, supervise them while they are playing.
Parents with older children have the biggest challenges regarding Internet safety. Social media can be a great tool for teenagers, but it can also be dangerous. While some social media sites such as Facebook do have options to secure your teen's personal information, report abuse and check up on them, many apps do not have such options.
Apps without such safety options allow teens to post and live-stream videos, engage in chats where messages are deleted automatically, rate each other on physical appearance, ask anonymous questions, hide content on their devices, and more. They also sorely lack age restrictions in most cases.
The importance of communication cannot be emphasized enough when trying to keep your teens safe on social media and the Internet. Make sure you check in with your teens often and let them know you are still available to talk with them about anything that bothers them. Ensure that you are staying up to date on the latest apps and Internet trends. Do not feel guilty for monitoring your children's activities, checking their history, or banning apps for their safety.
Regardless of your preventive measures, there is still a chance they can be exposed to inappropriate or unsafe content. Regularly talking about identifying risks and unsafe content will teach your kids better avoidance tactics. Supervision remains the best option, at least until you are confident that your child has enough emotional and social maturity to be in another room alone.
Although keeping your child safe on the Internet can seem daunting, parental engagement goes a long way.
To stay informed and to get more wellness tips, follow our AMU & APU Public Health Facebook Page.
Whitney Rice is a Bachelor of Public Health Alumna at AMU and is currently enrolled in the Master of Public Health Program. She is the 2019 recipient of the APUS Undergraduate Academic Scholar Award for the School of Health Sciences. She is currently self-employed as a private STEM tutor for K-12 students. She is a volunteer at AMU, helping to compile and distribute public health information through social media. Whitney is a mother to a school-age child and strives to educate other parents about how to keep their children safe online.
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Samuel Roy Proulx est candidat au doctorat sous la direction d'Alain Leduc et Nelson Thiffault et le sujet de sa thèse porte sur l'interaction de croissance l'épinette noire et le mélèze laricin sur sol organique.
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Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Cheng, M., Jiang, H., Zhang, X., Peng, C., Lu, X., Zhang, M., Jin, J. (2018) Effect of drought on agronomic traits of rice and wheat: A meta-analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(5). (Scopus )
Drought has been one of the most important limiting factors for crop production, which deleteriously affects food security worldwide. The main objective of the present study was to quantitatively assess the effect of drought on the agronomic traits (e.g., plant height, biomass, yield, and yield components) of rice and wheat in combination with several moderators (e.g., drought stress intensity, rooting environment, and growth stage) using a meta-analysis study. The database was created from 55 published studies on rice and 60 published studies on wheat. The results demonstrated that drought decreased the agronomic traits differently between rice and wheat among varying growth stages. Wheat and rice yields decreased by 27.5% and 25.4%, respectively. Wheat grown in pots showed greater decreases in agronomic traits than those grown in the field. Rice showed opposite growing patterns when compared to wheat in rooting environments. The effect of drought on rice increased with plant growth and drought had larger detrimental influences during the reproductive phase (e.g., blooming stage, filling stage, and maturity). However, an exception was found in wheat, which had similar decreased performance during the complete growth cycle. Based on these results, future droughts could produce lower yields of rice and wheat when compared to the current drought. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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ABSTRACT = { Drought has been one of the most important limiting factors for crop production, which deleteriously affects food security worldwide. The main objective of the present study was to quantitatively assess the effect of drought on the agronomic traits (e.g., plant height, biomass, yield, and yield components) of rice and wheat in combination with several moderators (e.g., drought stress intensity, rooting environment, and growth stage) using a meta-analysis study. The database was created from 55 published studies on rice and 60 published studies on wheat. The results demonstrated that drought decreased the agronomic traits differently between rice and wheat among varying growth stages. Wheat and rice yields decreased by 27.5% and 25.4%, respectively. Wheat grown in pots showed greater decreases in agronomic traits than those grown in the field. Rice showed opposite growing patterns when compared to wheat in rooting environments. The effect of drought on rice increased with plant growth and drought had larger detrimental influences during the reproductive phase (e.g., blooming stage, filling stage, and maturity). However, an exception was found in wheat, which had similar decreased performance during the complete growth cycle. Based on these results, future droughts could produce lower yields of rice and wheat when compared to the current drought. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. },
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New York Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping Reforms to Use of Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Jails
Posted on February 2, 2014 by californiaprisonwatch
Reblogged from: Think Outside the Box
Press release from the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement.
January 31, 10:30 am
New York — At a mid-morning press conference at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, New York legislators will join advocates, survivors of solitary confinement, and their families to announce the introduction of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act (A08588 / S06466).
Introduced in both the Assembly and the Senate, the pioneering bill is being hailed by supporters as the most comprehensive and progressive legislative response to date to the nationwide problem of solitary confinement in prisons and jails. As written, it would virtually eliminate a practice that has been increasingly denounced as both dangerous and torturous, while protecting the safety of incarcerated individuals and corrections officers.
According to Assembly Member Jeffrion Aubry, who is sponsoring the bill in the Assembly, "New York State was a leader for the country in passing the 2008 SHU Exclusion Law, which keeps people with the most severe mental health needs out of solitary confinement. Now we must show the way forward again, ensuring that we provide safe, humane and effective alternatives to solitary for all people."
"Solitary confinement makes people suffer without making our prisons safer. It is counter-productive as well as cruel," said Senator Bill Perkins, the bill's Senate sponsor. "Solitary harms not only those who endure it, but families, communities, and corrections staff as well."
Currently, about 3,800 people are in Special Housing Units, or SHUs, with many more in other forms of isolated confinement in New York's State prisons on any given day, held for 23 to 24 hours a day in cells smaller than the average parking space, alone or with one other person. More than 800 are in solitary confinement in New York City jails, along with hundreds more in local jails across the state.
New York isolates imprisoned people at levels well above the national average, and uses solitary to punish minor disciplinary violations. Five out of six sentences that result in placement in New York State's SHUs are for non-violent conduct. Individuals are sent to the SHU on the word of prison staff, and may remain there for months, years, or even decades.
The HALT Solitary Confinement Act bans extreme isolation beyond 15 days–the limit advocated by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan E. Méndez, among others. It also bars vulnerable populations from being placed in solitary at all–including youth, the elderly, pregnant women, LGBTI individuals, and those with physical or mental disabilities.
"No person should be put in solitary confinement except when they are a risk to someone else," said New York City Council Member Daniel Dromm. "As a major opponent of the practice, I have introduced three pieces of legislation into the City Council. I applaud the proposed state legislation that sets parameters on who can and who cannot be placed in solitary confinement and limits the amount of time they are forced to stay there."
For those who present a serious threat to prison safety and need to be separated from the general population for longer periods of time, the legislation creates new Residential Rehabilitation Units (RRUs)–high-security units with substantial out-of-cell time, and programs aimed at addressing the underlying causes of behavioral problems.
"Isolation does not promote positive change in people; it only damages them," said Jennifer J. Parish of the Urban Justice Center's Mental Health Project. "By requiring treatment and programs for people who are separated from the prison population for serious misconduct, the legislation requires Corrections to emphasize rehabilitation over punishment and degradation."
"The HALT Solitary Confinement Act recognizes that we need a fundamental transformation of how our public institutions address people's needs and behaviors, both in our prisons and in our communities," said Scott Paltrowitz of the Correctional Association of New York. "Rather than inhumane and ineffective punishment, deprivation, and isolation, HALT would provide people with greater support, programs, and treatment to help them thrive, and in turn make our prisons and our communities safer."
Many of those represented at the press conference are members of the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC), which was instrumental in drafting the bill. CAIC unites advocates, concerned community members, lawyers, and individuals in the human rights, health, and faith communities throughout New York State with formerly incarcerated people and family members of currently incarcerated people.
"Solitary is torture on both sides of the prison walls," said family member Donna Sorge-Ruiz, whose fiancé is currently in solitary. "Loved ones on the outside suffer right along with those in prison, every day that they endure this pain. It must stop!"
The widespread use of long-term solitary confinement has been under fire in recent years, in the face of increasing evidence that sensory deprivation, lack of normal human interaction, and extreme idleness can lead to severe psychological damage. Supporters of the bill also say that isolated confinement fails to address the underlying causes of problematic behavior, and often exacerbates that behavior as people deteriorate psychologically, physically, and socially.
In New York each year, nearly 2,000 people are released directly from extreme isolation to the streets, a practice that has been shown to increase recidivism rates.
"The damage done by solitary confinement is deep and permanent," said solitary survivor Five Mualimm-ak. An activist with CAIC and the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, Mualimm-ak spent five years in isolated confinement despite never having committed a violent act in prison. "Having humane alternatives will spare thousands of people the pain and suffering that extreme isolation causes–and the scars that they carry with them back into our communities."
Several state prisons systems, including Maine, Mississippi, and Colorado, have significantly reduced the number of people they hold in solitary confinement, and have seen prison violence decrease as well. HALT takes reform a step further by also providing alternatives for the relatively small number of individuals who need to be separated from the general population for more than a few weeks. Advocates see the bill not only as a major step toward humane and evidence-based prison policies, but also as a model for change across the country.
"Article 5 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, states that 'No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,'" said Laura Markle Downton of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. "As people of faith, we recognize the use of solitary confinement in a prisons, jails and detention centers fundamentally violates this prohibition against torture. Now is the time for New York to lead the way in bringing an end to this human rights abuse plaguing our justice system nationally."
"The HALT Solitary Confinement Act implements rational humane alternatives to the costly, ineffective, and abusive use of long-term solitary confinement in New York prisons and jails," saidSarah Kerr of the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project. "The need for reform is well-documented and the time for change is now."
PRESS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
Date/Time/ Location: Friday, January 31, 10:30 am
Judson Memorial Church, Meeting Room Balcony
55 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
Assembly Member Jeffrion L. Aubry (D, 35th District, Queens), Assembly sponsor
Senator Bill Perkins (D, 30th District, Harlem), Senate sponsor
City Council Member Daniel Dromm (D, 25th District, Queens)
Five Mualimm-ak, survivor of solitary confinement in New York prisons and Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement
Jessica Casanova, aunt of individual currently in solitary and Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement
Scott Paltrowitz, Correctional Association of New York and Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement
Claire Deroche, National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement
PRESS KIT INCLUDES:
Fact Sheet on Solitary Confinement in New York State
Summary of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act
Full Text of HALT Act (A08588 / S06466)
New York Voices from Solitary Confinement
"Solitary Confinement's Invisible Scars," op-ed by Five Mualimm-ak
Scott Paltrowitz, 212-254-5700, spaltrowitz@correctionalassociation.org
Sarah Kerr, 212-577-3530, SKerr@legal-aid.org
Five Mualimm-ak, 646-294-8331, endthenewjimcrow@gmail.com
http://www.nycaic.org
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SINGAPORE - Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) slumped 11.7 per cent in March, after a short-lived rise of 4.8 per cent in February, on the back of the biggest year-on-year drop for electronics exports since 2013.
Enterprise Singapore noted the "high base" effect from a year ago as it released the export data on Wednesday (April 17).
Still, the March figure was way worse than the 2.2 per cent drop expected by analysts polled by Bloomberg. It is also the biggest year-on-year monthly fall in Nodx since the 12 per cent fall in October 2016.
Before February, exports had slid year on year for three straight months: 10.1 per cent in January, 8.5 per cent in December and 2.8 per cent in November.
March's dismal showing was led by the 26.7 per cent year-on-year plunge in electronic exports, following the 8.2 per cent drop in the previous month, which means that this sector has contracted for about a year.
Integrated circuits (-22.2 per cent), personal computers (-46.3 per cent) and disk media products (-40.3 per cent) contributed the most to the electronics slump.
However, experts suggest this could be indicative of the regional electronics market.
She added that the electronics downcycle may be nearing its bottom and that weak recovery in the industry may be seen in the second half when the US-China trade deal is finalised in May.
"There are tentative positive signals, with PMIs (Purchasing Managers' Index) for most of Asia showing an improvement in March," she said.
Non-electronic exports declined 7 per cent year on year, reversing from the 9.4 per cent increase seen in February. This was mainly due to shipments of pharmaceuticals (-36.5 per cent), specialised machinery (-24.4 per cent) and petrochemicals (-15.1 per cent).
He added that the 11.7 per cent plunge can be attributed to the "lingering effect of the trade war" as well as a high base and ongoing slowndown in China.
"A turnaround in the sequential month-on-month figure as well as electronics demand will be crucial for an improvement in the overall manufacturing sector performance," he said.
He also sounded a more optimistic note looking ahead.
"While there could be more downside risk ahead, the ongoing trade negotiation between the US and China is seeing light at the end of the tunnel," he said, pointing to labour market conditions in the US remaining firm.
"Stimulus measures from China could also start to spill over to Singapore's export performance in the coming months," he added.
Nonetheless, some other experts warned of slower growth ahead.
Nomura research analysts Euben Paracuelles and Charnon Boonnuch noted that the fall in Nodx growth was reflected in "lower-than-expected" estimated GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 1.3 per cent year on year in the first quarter of this year, based on the Government's advance estimate.
Singapore's non-oil exports to the majority of the top markets shrank in March, except for the United States (+23.1 per cent), said Enterprise Singapore on Wednesday.
Exports to Japan declined the most, at 36.6 per cent, following February's 42.6 per cent contraction. The other markets that saw large drops were Taiwan (-27.4 per cent) and Hong Kong (-22.4 per cent), while shipments to China shrank 8.7 per cent.
Non-oil re-exports grew 5.9 per cent in March, following February's 7.2 per cent increase, due to growth in non-electronic re-exports which outweighed the decline in electronics.
Total trade decreased over the year by 0.9 per cent in March, with exports declining by 3 per cent while imports grew 1.5 per cent. On a seasonally adjusted basis, total trade reached $84.2 billion in March, lower than February's $87.1 billion.


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Acadian Business (LA) – The Joint opens first clinic in Lafayette
Now Open: The Joint
The husband and wife team of Drs. Michael and Ashley Fontenot has opened The Joint at 4302 Ambassador Caffery Parkway in the Kohl's shopping center (next to Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which is, thankfully, finally under construction).
The clinic, a concept designed to make chiropractic care more affordable, is owned by Dr. Virgil and Vi Bryant and operated by the Fontenots. Michael and Ashley, both Eunice natives, received their Doctor of Chiropractic degrees from Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, Texas, in 2008 and 2006, respectively.
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What I Did on my Holidays, Part One
Published by Matthew Davidson on Wed, 09/02/2022 - 4:11pm in
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TL;DR: I drank. A lot.
We begin on Friday morning at Sawtell station. Yes, that's all of it. No bustling phalanx of porters, no guards or ticket collectors, no dining room serving Devonshire teas, no passengers apart from yours truly. This is not a consequence of Covid; this is normal.
In fact I'm astonished to find that I'm actually able to get the train, rather than a replacement bus service, as was the case for my last trip down to Sydney. That was a nightmare. A tin can full of hillbillies, knees hard up against the seat in front of you, a dozen excuse mes, sorrys, and thank yous between your seat and the stinking lavatory. Thank God I don't have to go through that again.
The train arrives dead on time, stopping for nobody but little old me. I'm drunk with the power to halt an entire train single-handed.
There are some cows to look at. Which is nice. You don't get cows from a car window now that it's all motorway between Coffs and Sydney.
I catch up on podcasts. Really enjoyed this one with Bill Mitchell wandering off core Modern Monetary Theory into politics a bit more than usual.
Not that many people in my carriage, so I'm not bumping elbows with anybody. No screaming babies, and the only yammering hillbillies are some distance away and only going as far as Port Macquarie for a music festival. No prizes for guessing what genre of music it is.
The situation appears altogether too good. I'm prepared for the nine hour trip: a packet of pork scratchings and three plastic soft drink bottles. One is cool from the fridge, another cold from a few hours in the freezer, a third frozen overnight in the freezer. Your classic alcoholics' Goldilocks strategy: take each one in series when it's just right.
My patented blend: cardboard box wine, a splosh of fruit juice to disguise the fact that it's box wine, and if I'm feeling fancy perhaps some herbal tea but otherwise just water to get it down to somewhere approaching beer strength. I hear that in Mediterranean countries it's common to drink watered down wine with meals. Obviously not good quality wine, but with the horrible stuff I can afford to drink, there are no rules.
Well, there is one rule: no BYO drink on NSW Transport vehicles. But that rule obviously only applies to amateurs, not responsible professionals. Moreover, as I trust I need not stress with too much stressiness: nine hours! There is too much Australia. We need a good tailor to take it in. It's really quite baggy.
While looking for an unoccupied lavatory, I find that the front two carriages are completely empty. It actually is a wonder that I'm not on a bus.
It's gone noon, and the entertainment value of the cows is diminishing, so I crack open bottle number one. Bracing, but not technically abusive. You would be within your rights to demand your money back, but no court in the land would award you damages.
We stop to let a northbound passenger train go past. There's only a single track running along the East coast of Australia, and few sidings where trains can pass each other. Accordingly, everything is very tightly scheduled. If your train is more than a few minutes late, it's missed it's "window" and is obliged to make way for everything else. So you get later, and later, and later.
As a natural pessimist, I assumed that in the unlikely event that the train turned up at all, that this would be the case (as it had been on previous trips). From which it logically follows that the scheduled eight PM arrival time in Sydney could only be the product of pure unicorns-and-rainbows thinking. So I had the perfect excuse to book a hotel room rather than change trains for a further fifty minute suburban trip down to the family estate in the Shire.
The ostensible purpose of my journey is to partake in a solemn ceremony involving scattering my late father's ashes from the deck of a Sydney Harbour water taxi. I'm not entirely convinced that feeding the fish of Port Jackson is the sort of thing he'd have been enthusiastic about — at least not in this capacity — but my mother seems to think it a good idea.
I really haven't a clue about the propriety of such things, so I'm more than happy to go along with whatever wiser heads than mine consider appropriate, but I would rather not go back to the old house. I stayed a few days there on my last Sydney trip a couple of years ago as a sort of dare to myself, wandering about the unpaved suburban streets where I spent my childhood, thinking that as a forty-[mumble] year old grown-up I was by now surely immune to the enervating effects of that nasty, violent, ignorant, bigoted environment. (Not the house itself, mind; my parents are/were almost entirely harmless. It's the ghosts milling around it that I cannot exorcise.) I ended up in a massive funk which persisted for weeks afterward.
Also I'm now of a certain age, and I appear to have gone through The Change. I get terribly emotional about things. I must say it's quite unexpected and embarrassing. In this condition I couldn't stand spending even a couple of nights in a house where my father would now consistently fail to be where I expect to find him. I'd be a wreck. So I told my mum that, on the grounds that I would be feeling very much like just flopping into bed on arriving at Sydney Central, rather than embarking on a further long commute, a hotel made perfect sense. I'd meet everybody in town the next day, and pop down for a visit the day after. She seemed satisfied with that excuse.
In fact things are going altogether too well. The train remains stubbornly on schedule. As we get into Wauchope, mobile phone signal returns, and I get an SMS. The train for my return journey has been cancelled and replaced with a coach service. Ah, equilibrium has been restored.
Quaint little country towns flash by, as do the podcasts. The Something About the Beatles podcast has a few episodes of first reactions to the Peter Jackson doco based on the footage and audio recorded in January 1969 for the vague project which the following year became the film/album Let it Be. Titled the Musician's Get Back, I expected the podcast to be a trainspotter's guide to vintage musical/audio equipment and a complete yawn, but it's (mostly) about group dynamics and those four (or five, or six, or seven) guys who love each other, despite and because of everything. I get quite teary (The Change again - and maybe the wine).
The country around the Hunter Valley is gorgeous. You don't see any of it from the motorway. Rolling green hills which put one in mind of James Herriot and the brothers Farnon rolling up their sleeves and startling a cow or three.
There's a limit to how much of a fifty gram bag of pork scratchings one should consume in one hit if one is to avoid nausea (for the record, it's about ten grams), so I go to the dining car for a sausage roll fresh from the drawer it's been stewing in since dawn, and a can of alleged beer.
It's 330ml of mid-strength lager. Australia likes it's beer flavourless, but this is really the apotheosis of the antipodean brewers' art. To all intents and purposes, the can was already empty when it was sealed. I'll refrain from citing the brand so as to avoid a stampede of connoisseurs rushing to not experience it.
Eight dollars! Eight flipping dollars! Just for the zero point nine standard drinks, then another five for the sausage roll!
I love the name Fassifern. I think it should be a term of mild rebuke. i.e. "Oh, don't be such a fassifern!" You instantly understand what it means by the way it sounds. Never been there. The place, I mean; I've probably been a fassifern for most of my life.
Appear to have mobile signal for most of the time now, which was definitely not the case on previous trips. I briefly wonder if it's because of all the Gates/Soros 5G microchips in my bloodstream, but my old phone is only 4G. Did they stealthily vaccinate my phone as well? The bastards!
So I exchange a few texts with Ruben, which helps pass the time.
Newcastle appears to be encroaching on Gosford, or vice versa, as there is now rather little open space between them. From here on you're essentially in the outer suburbs of Sydney. I used to work with people who would commute into the city from this distance.
As there's more built environment, I'm getting more alert my my surroundings. Multi-story buildings! Public transport! Pedestrian crossings! Pedestrians! All the sinful delights that are foreign and abhorrant to the denizens of Coffs Harbour.
Indulge me for a moment: Imagine being confronted with a vista of the most glorious natural splendour. Gravity-defying geological formations. Waterfalls, ravines, rivers and streams. Lush, luxuriant plant life of unimaginable variety; herds of gigantic herbivorous mammals, placid and graceful; gorgeously sleek and agile predators; eye-wateringly colourful birds soaring and swooping to pluck impossibly bejeweled insects from mid-air. And just off to one side a single squalid shack in the distance, with a thin wisp of smoke rising from an open fire.
I've tried several times, in conversation with self-avowed misanthropic nature lovers, to persuade them that in that situation they could not stop their eyes being drawn to that shack. They refuse to concede this, but I am certain that we are attuned to seeking signs of the presence of other human beings. It tickles us in a way we cannot resist. We are homo sociali. I say this as the most introverted person I know. (Not that I know that many people, what with being the most introverted person I know.)
As a lifelong socialist and an amateur macroeconomist, I should abhor metastasising high rise and construction cranes on the horizon as indicators of neoliberal welfare-for-the-rich and impending economic collapse, but my eyes widen and pulse quickens at the sight of them.
Then suddenly Sydney. Oh, Eddy Avenue! How I've missed you!
A block and a half away from Central Station is George Street and the art deco Great Southern Hotel. They gave me the perfect room for a web developer who doesn't like to be found.
If I ever own a place to live, I'm having hotel carpeting throughout.
Now, about that plan to collapse straight into bed… Sod that!
I drop my bags and head up George Street, or "SYDNEY'S STREET OF FEAR", as the Daily Telegraph memorably characterised it on a front page thirty years or so ago. Utter poppycock! I used to practically live on George Street when it was a solid strip of pubs, bookshops, junk food outlets, and video game arcades, and I've never felt so safe anywhere before or since.
A lot of pubs are now derelict due to the current crisis, or the previous crisis, or in anticipation of the next crisis. The first promising target from a nostalgia point of view is Cheers. In the late 80s it was a modest subterranean dive for people who wanted to avoid going to work or going home, but now it occupies several levels with huge sports-screens for vaping gamblers.
I buy a beer on the ground level and head downstairs to the den where so many of my brain cells sacrificed their all so that I might… well, "live" is perhaps too strong a word. At the bottom of the stairs there's a table with a couple of smiling callow youths who explain that the venue is closed to the general public for a private function. Spread out before them are a few open binders full of things in plastic pockets which appear alarmingly collectable. The youths are anxious to explain the nature of the function, saying that for a nominal cover charge I would be most welcome to join them.
It's at this point that my friend Ruben would have leapt eagerly into the fray, spending the whole night having a whale of a time, aquiring an exhaustive knowledge of a hitherto unfamiliar subculture and a bundle of lifelong friends. Alas, I am not that kind of person, so I make my excuses and head back upstairs.
I carry on uphill, past where there are no longer book liquidation stores, video game arcades, and junk shops all blaring the same tape loop of this one guy bunging on a cockney barrow boy accent, promising "You'll never pay full price again!"
Still, it's home.
One block east of the town hall is the Criterion. I remember in the 90s flicking through a guide to Sydney pubs which said it was the place to go if one happened to be a connoisseur of bulbous red noses. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? It's since been acquired by a particularly noxious pub chain who turned it into just another sports bar, but at least they haven't (yet) smashed out all the tiles and bricked in the leaded windows. Also, it's gone quite pink. Which is nice.
In more affluent times, I would never dream of staying out in town to drink on a Friday or Saturday night, these being the nights when the amateurs would spoil the atmosphere with their uncouth behaviour. However I've only a few days and want to make the most of it.
It used to be common for big hotels to have a number of bars in the one complex. I used to quite like the Tudor Bar on the first floor of the Hilton Hotel in Sydney. As the name suggests, it was all vacuum moulded fake timber and horse brasses, but easy on the eyes and a surprisingly cheap no-nonsense boozer for those in flight from reality.
Alas, there is no longer a first floor of the Hilton Hotel. It's been blasted away and replaced by a vast, glass-fronted empty space saying in effect "We don't need to make money from this real estate, but it amuses us to prevent others from doing so. So if you enjoy setting fire to hundred dollar notes in front of homeless people, this is the place for you." In that respect, it's like the similarly cavernous and glazed Apple store across the road containing a sparse smattering of lecterns with elegantly designed flat things propped up on them.
The one bar which the Hilton Hotel still appears to maintain is the Marble Bar. As the name suggests, every surface is at least faux-marble. It's like swimming in a Jackson Pollock kaleidescope. This is not a place for drinking in. It's a place for briefly gawping at and promptly fleeing. In my day it was pretty consistently empty. I supposed it was kept on as a gaudy monument to 1970s excess. Perhaps middle managers and their secretaries found it useful as a place to meet unobserved, I don't know.
Tonight it is packed with coked-up Hooray Henrys and Henriettas.
If ever there's a portent of an economic bubble about to burst, this is it. In my Sawtell finery, which to the untrained eye is indistinguishable from Sydney hobo rags, I feel distinctly unwelcome. As tradition demands, I gawp and flee.
A stroll past more shuttered venues once dear to my heart, and I find myself near the harbour, in the financial district. Knowing there's little joy to be had here I turn around and head back south up Pitt Street. There's a new pub on the corner of Hunter Street that looks enticingly empty. The girl behind the bar asks whether I want a pint or a schooner. I opt for the latter, and she pours me a half pint, which - not to be pedantic - is a hefty gulp or two shy of a schooner and charges me nearly ten dollars for it. A steady stream of beautiful people coming through the door and heading directly upstairs indicates that I'm just in the foyer of a far grander venue, not meant for the likes of me.
There's always street art. This piece is about as old as me. I used to roam this manor professionally back when mail boys used to carry high-denomination cheques from one place to another. Do digital mail boys meet to skive off in electronic pubs?
You must be this emaciated to shop here. Blimey. I'll stick to KMart.
Now, this is more like it. The Hotel Downing in Castlereagh Street. My ex-girlfriend used to work across the road, and I would occasionally wait for her in the other half of this pub which is now reserved for button-slappers. Thankfully, you can't see any of that from this bar, and the mandatory sport screens cover only two of the four walls, so you can keep your back to them and pretend they're not there. Also most of the customers appear to be staff, so there's a lovely family atmosphere. This pub I like.
And about time, too. There's a time and a place for dancing, and it's at the kitchen sink while doing the washing up. Anything else is an abomination. I can't remember which pub this sign was in…
But apparently I thought a distressed selfie in the mirror of the gents' lavatory would be sufficient to jog my memory later. Clearly it was time to revert to Plan A and flop into bed.
Continued in part two.


You may or may not know but I love the paranormal. I have been interested in it since I was a child. I once attended a psychic fayre and I was told I had a gift and If I ever wanted to tap into it I could contact them and they would help me. I have always left that door closed. Sometimes I think about it and wish I had done something with it just to see what would happen. But I am also happy with my decision to not open that door as once it is open I would think there is no closing it.
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[CLOSED] Data Analyst & Researcher – Nairobi, Kenya
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Code for Africa (CfA) / ANCIR has an immediate vacancy for a Data Analyst & Researcher to join our main civic technology lab in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Prins Constantijn av Nederländerna, född 11 oktober 1969 i Utrecht, är yngste son till tidigare drottning Beatrix av Nederländerna och Claus von Amsberg. Han är bror till kung Willem-Alexander och prins Friso av Oranien-Nassau.

Constantijn studerade juridik vid Rijksuniversiteit Leiden där han tog en mastersexamen 1995. Han genomgick också en MBA-utbildning vid INSEAD i Fontainebleau 2000.

Den 19 maj 2001 gifte sig Constantijn med Laurentien Brinkhorst.

Constantin och Laurentien har tre barn, Eloise, Claus-Casimir och Leonore.

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Bottomless Scandinavian Brunch? Skål to that at KuPP!
Ever experienced Scandinavian brunch?! If you're looking for a healthy weekend brunch alternative to really set you up for the week ahead, then KuPP is the place!
Scandinavian food to share, with a British twist, is what this ultra modern restaurant offers up every day of the week, but come the weekend, you can sit in their glass house right on the Paddington Basin with fabulous views out across the water and enjoy a Bloody Mary or three, just a stones throw from Edgeware Road.
In the summer, this is definitely the place to be with paddle boarders on the canal and floor-to-ceiling windows which open up for a truly apres dining vibe. But in winter, it's just as cool, but rather, cosy, with a good brunch deal at £30 for unlimited smörgasboards and cocktails (Bloody Mary or Scandi Collins) or Czech Pilsner Krušovice served straight from giant silver tanks.
If you're a big bruncher and fan of through the day drinking, you'll know the list from your usual hangout inside out. Well, we dare you to forgo your Eggs Benedict and try something completely different with four loaded boards filled with everything you can think of.
On the brand new KuPP Veggie Bord, you'll be treated to Danish blue cheese, roast beetroot and smoked red onions, cheeses, tarts and oven baked quinoa. On the Fiske Bord, big juicy Altantic prawns and fresh home smoked trout along with delicious cold smoked salmon and Norwegian cured beetroot gravadlax.
For meat lovers, the Smokin' Roast Bord (definitely my favourite) was a Scandinavian twist on a traditional British roast dinner complete with more-ish slices of smoked fore rib of beef, roasted new potatoes, butternut squash and absolute sensational chive buttered smoked onion. A small jug on the side filled with rich red wine gravy was the icing on the cake! Or if the roast doesn't quite take your fancy, don't worry, the signature KuPP Bord will definitely not disappoint. With house smoked meatballs, chorizo sausage roll, hams, potato salad and full-of-flavour potted rabbit, this giant feast will have you going back for more until the bords are bare!
KuPP itself is a really stylish venue, all exposed brickwork, modern art and clean lines, wooden furniture, brightly colored chairs at the tables and long picnic style benches which are perfect for families. Children eating with an adult go free too, with a dedicated kids menu. There's also a gorgeous little cafe to the right as you walk in, selling all kinds of pastries and coffees for both sit in and take out. I have a feeling, we're going to gracing those bords quite a lot over the next few months… Bring on the Scandinavian summer!
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Show your support for NNA(UK) and donate to the cause with one of these fab silicon wristbands. Wear it at local vapemeets or Vapefest to raise awareness and annoy Ged. They also make a very good grip for unscrewing sticky threads on tanks and mods – handy when you forget your rubber gloves. What more could you want to complete your vape kit?
In the grand scheme of things much is said about how giant monolithic entities control and distort everything even when those entities have absolutely nothing to do with the subject. If that is the case, why then do many "public health" faux charities insist on blaming "Big Tobacco" for every fopar they have ever made?
In the global catalogue of scientific literature, there is no poorer an illegitimate runt than the integrity-free BMJ'sTobacco Control Journal.
Its 'research' is always almost exclusively policy-based garbage (see here and here for recent examples) which is hardly surprising considering the editorial board comprises a global who's who of tobacco control industry junk 'scientists'. However, an item in their July 2015 rag lowers that bar by some margin…..
The average person, upon learning that there is violent opposition to tobacco harm reduction (THR), is quite reasonably baffled. It is difficult for them to fathom that an entire (taxpayer-funded) industry could be devoted discouraging smokers from switching to low-risk alternatives, or even to discouraging people from making the free choice to use a low-risk product rather than being abstinent….


NDP Deputy Leader Sara Singh said Saturday that they are relieved that Ron Taverner won't take command of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on Monday. Singh said the investigation by the integrity commissioner needs to move forward and the province needs answers about this hiring process.
TORONTO – The man selected to become the next Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner has rescinded his resignation from the Toronto police force and will return to his old job.
Supt. Ron Taverner, a longtime friend of Premier Doug Ford, will return to his role as unit commander of three divisions in the city's northwest end, Toronto police spokeswoman Meaghan Gray said Monday.
"He was only absent 24 hours," Gray said.
The Ontario government said over the weekend that Taverner requested his appointment to the OPP's top job be delayed until an investigation into allegations of political interference in the hiring process was complete.
The choice of Taverner as the province's top cop has drawn ire from within the OPP and from Ford's political opponents, who noted that the qualifications required for the position had been lowered, allowing the premier's longtime ally to qualify.
The Progressive Conservatives have repeatedly denied that the premier's office had anything to do with Taverner's hiring.
Gray said she didn't know Taverner's long-term plans, but said he was back at work with the Toronto force.
Former acting OPP commissioner Brad Blair has asked the courts to order Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dube to investigate Taverner's hiring, after the ombudsman declined his request to carry out the probe.
Blair's lawyer, Julian Falconer, said the ombudsman won't investigate because he believes the matter is out of his jurisdiction since the hiring was ultimately a decision made by cabinet.
Falconer said Blair will be replaced at the helm of the OPP by Gary Couture, who is currently the force's deputy commissioner.


Gabriella Pico is a member of the class of 2016 and majored in Public Policy at Hamilton College. As an American of Cuban descent, the issues of Cuban and Cuban-American women have interested her for many years. In collaboration with Professor Vivyan Adair, the Emerson Grant program, and the DHi, she explored literature and photography by Cuban-American women in an effort to understand how these two cultures influence these women at the micro and meso levels. Gabriella used the skills she had learned in exploring and analyzing the intersections of culture, class, and race in these women's writings. Her research culminated in a written analysis which she will contribute to an ongoing digital platform in collaboration with Lafayette College's DHi. This platform aims to make information more accessible to those scholars who, due to structural economic inequalities, find themselves outside of the academy, and unable to engage with scholarly material.


I haven't been to San Francisco in about three and half years, E probably more like five. Though it's been a while, at times past we've been regular visitors to the Bay Area as my oldest sister M has lived in the peninsular city since 1998. We 1st journeyed to this city on the bay in April of 2001. I was 21 and E was 23. Our love, relationship and selves were young, as we'd just met the previous August, both enrolled in the same yearlong, residential Americorps program that had an emphasis on environmental restoration, which was achieved through various modes of physical labor and habitat restoration techniques. We lived rustically in co-ed, commune-like barracks located in the back of the Mt Adams Ranger Station in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The Forest Service outpost was located about 25 minutes north of Hood River on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge in the town of Trout Lake. While Hood River had a movie theater, the Full Sail Brewery and a few decent restaurants, the nearest big city was Portland, Oregon, about an hour and a half away from Trout Lake.
San Francisco is not that large geographically, only a seven-by-seven-ish mile piece of land that juts up between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the San Francisco Bay to the east but it's densely populated and has a large metro area. That first trip, E and I stayed in the 2-bedroom apartment that M and one of her best friends were renting at Stockton and California, right on the outskirts of Chinatown. M's apartment was in a prime tourist location, less than a quarter mile away from some of the city's more opulent, expensive and historic hotels like the Fairmont, Stanford Court and Huntington.
E and I embraced being tourists in an unexplored, new-to-us city. We walked all over town checking out the shops and sites. We trekked up Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower and marveled at the fabulous 360-degree views of the city. Lombard Street was crooked indeed, its switchbacks zigzagging down the famous stretch of road, looking very much like all the pictures you've ever seen. Fisherman's Wharf was everything an over-marketed tourist trap should be, complete with kitschy museums, resident sea lions, and clam chowder filled sourdough bread bowls.
We ferried to Alcatraz – a uniquely strange and ominous piece of history that is worth a visit. The ride across the bay offered a unique view of the city and brought us on to the water that so defines the city. The former prison seems like it could be a touristy bust with no real value but it's anything but. A fact-filled audio tour let us know what we were looking at, what infamous criminals spent time in which cell and what uprisings and events happened where. The island unexpectedly evoked deep thought and reflection. The negative energy felt when I entered the solitary confinement chambers was stark and frightening – inducing the most terrifying, hairs-standing-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck feeling I'd ever experienced at that point in my life, a morbid distinction it would hold until five years later when I visited a Nazi death camp in Poland.


I'm going to be trying a few new things to speed up my workflow. It's taking too long to do each page, and I think I've found a way to actually up the quality but definitely increase the speed. Fingers crossed!
Hey Cliff, I love how fun this scene is. I feel so happy to see the gang having a good time. Also, I love the brand of Tequila they are drinking:). May Rachel drain that Asshat dry:)!
I was hoping you'd notice that! Hopefully I'll find a way to work ...(RockB) into an Easter Egg.


At Hannover Messe 2019, Tetra Pak has unveiled its "factory of the future" where digital technology revolutionises the way food manufacturing plants operate.
Johan Nilsson, VP Industry 4.0 and Digitalisation at Tetra Pak said, 'We are in a period where the market is changing at high speed. Consumer demands coupled with regulations require a new way of food manufacturing that is much more efficient and food-safety guaranteed.


July marks the middle of summer and for movie lovers this marks the strongest month of the theatrical summer movie season. As far as the home entertainment movie releases this year has proved to be a strong July. Below is a list of the Blu-ray/DVD, VOD and limited theatrical releases you should see.


Many of Missouri's small town centers are filled with old Victorian-style buildings with overhanging cornices and quaint cupola domes.
Today, these historic buildings are treasured. But 80 years ago, Missourians regarded them differently — as eyesores.
In the mid-1930s, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Better Housing Committee created a statewide campaign with a goal to "Lift the Face of Main Street." The face-lift idea was promoted by committee chairman F.T. Brown in several issues of this magazine from 1936 to 1937.
The "Topsy" he cited was once a well-known cultural reference. Topsy was an elephant who performed in New York at the turn of the century. The elephant killed a spectator in 1902. Topsy was later put to death in a filmed spectacle that was distributed around the country via coin-operated kinetoscopes.
While the reference is macabre, Brown and his committee were pushing for Missouri's Victorian-style facades to meet a similar fate.
"Main Street was built in a day when grandfather or great-grandfather put up a store building in keeping with the ideas of his day. Unfortunately for us, the architects and builders of those times ran a bit haywire on what constituted charm and beauty," Brown wrote.
The Better Housing Committee was promoting the idea of remodeling Missouri's downtown business districts to conform to the modern, clean, geometric lines of what we now call Art Deco. The Missouri Chamber offered a free plan communities could use to guide this work.
The plan called for cities to form planning boards that would write regulations and guide reconstruction.
If done property, Brown argued, giving Main Street a new look could spur growth.
Months later, Brown wrote that the campaign was having an impact. Several cities had held meetings to "bring their Main Street up to par in looks." The September 1936 magazine included a drawing of potential renovations to Higginsville's downtown.


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19-year-old woman arrested in deadly San Jose shooting
by: Kayla Galloway
Posted: Dec 5, 2019 / 09:49 PM PST / Updated: Dec 5, 2019 / 09:49 PM PST
SAN JOSE (KRON) — A 19-year-old woman is suspected of killing a 42-year-old woman back in September in San Jose — and on Wednesday, police took her into custody.
The 19-year-old suspect, Jennifer Del Real Sanchez, has been booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on a murder charge.
Police say just before 10 p.m. on Sept. 23, they found the victim, Kiia Marie Morris, shot along the 5200 block of Monterey Road.
She was pronounced dead on the scene.
Police have not provided details on a possible motive for the shooting.
Those with information on the shooting or suspect are asked to contact San Jose Crime Stoppers at (408) 947-STOP (7867).
Woman shot to death in San Jose
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by J.R. Stone / Jan 21, 2020
SAN JOSE (KRON) -- Jerry Rice -- A San Francisco 49ers great, a Hall of Famer, an all pro -- is doing what he loves to do best these days.
On Tuesday night, Rice talked Niners and workout -- something he was seen doing quite a bit at the NFC Championship game.
by Taylor Bisacky / Jan 21, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- "It's just a very busy street so you have to be cognizant of that when you're crossing and when you're driving. I've almost been hit biking on Market Street before."
People in San Francisco describing their commute on Market Street as "pretty crazy" and crowded.
by Kayla Galloway / Jan 21, 2020
VALLEJO (KRON) -- The City of Vallejo released surveillance video Tuesday night showing the minutes leading up to and the moment a man was shot last November by an off-duty Richmond police officer in the parking lot of a gas station.
The video shows the two men, 38-year-old Eric Reason, of Vallejo and the off-duty Richmond police officer Sgt. Virgil Thomas, getting into some type of argument before shots were fired.
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49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers to become first woman to coach in Super Bowl


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Banks still first in creditor queue
By Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday Economics Editor
Updated: 19:00 EST, 9 March 2002
BANKS have forced the Government to climb down over plans to curb their right to seize the assets of insolvent companies. Key features of the Enterprise Bill, due to be presented to Parliament this week, are thought to have been watered down after fierce lobbying.
Most importantly, the banks will effectively stay at the head of the queue to claim the assets of insolvent companies owing them money.
The Department of Trade and Industry had wanted banks to lose their privileged position as secured creditors. In return, the Crown, chiefly the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise, would give up its privileges. The post of receiver, an insolvency practitioner acting mainly for the banks, would have been abolished. Most company failures would be dealt with by court-appointed administrators acting for all creditors.
But these plans have been diluted in the Bill's final draft. While the Crown will become an ordinary creditor, the banks effectively keep their special position. Administrators will still largely replace receivers, but banks will have new powers to put a company into administration without even having to prove it is insolvent.
Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt will unveil proposals for up to 10% of insolvency proceeds to be ring-fenced for low-priority unsecured creditors such as suppliers and employees. The Bill also contains controversial proposals to liberalise the law on personal bankruptcy to give those 'who have failed through no fault of their own' a second chance.
Most bankrupts will be discharged after 12 months instead of the present three years, though those who have been 'irresponsible, reckless or culpable' face bankruptcy restrictions lasting up to 15 years.
But R3, the body that represents insolvency professionals, warned: 'These proposals will be a disaster. They fail to recognise that more than half of personal bankruptcies are accounted for by consumer-related debt, up from 39% in 1992. Increasingly, personal bankruptcy has nothing to do with business people who have hit a bad patch and everything to do with people who have spent more than they can afford.'


Kindergarten & 1st Grade Teachers – this deal is for YOU!
If you are a Kindergarten and/or First Grade teacher, head over to the Colgate site and request a FREE Bright Smiles Bright Futures Kit for your classroom!
Simply click on the appropriate link and complete the registration form. Each kit will include easy-to-use in-classroom materials and Colgate Kid's toothbrush and toothpaste samples for 25 students! Awesome!
Kits are also available to those that home school. We have received one in the past. It came with about 25 red toothbrushes, sample toothpaste, a dvd, and worksheets.
Thanks for sharing, Autumn! Glad you have been able to snag this one before! When selecting the Home school option on the form, it denied my request. Bummer!
I am a school nurse and signed all my KG/1st teachers up last time you posted. They trickled in, but all 8 of my teachers got them. Thanks so much!
Yay! That's SO awesome! You're welcome, Jessica!
Got two for our schools kindergarten teachers. Thank you!
Thank you for posting this, my students love getting their toothbrushes last year!
You're welcome! Too cute! Glad to hear what hit they were!
I've applied every year for the past 5 years at least and I finally got my box today. Woohoo my students were so happy to get their new toothbrushes.
I just got mine delivered to my school for my 1st Graders! Will go perfectly with my Scholastic News issue about teeth. Thank you, Colgate!
Oh awesome! You're welcome, Karla!
Do you offer anything like this for licensed Family Child Care homes?
Please send me 20 for my first grade class!
Oh darn! Hoping you receive them it you decide to sign up again!
Waynesburg Elementary got ours this year. Thanks so much Colgate our kit was awesome!


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Mike Goulian has been awarded the International Council of Air Shows Sword of Excellence at a ceremony held Wednesday, December 9th during the organization's annual convention. The award is presented annually in recognition of contributions made to the air show industry by a group or individual.
The International Council of Air Shows (ICAS) is responsible for promoting the safety, and visibility of air show events, promoters, and performers. Established in 1968, ICAS is recognized as the leading authority within the air show industry. Its members assist in providing regulatory governance to air show events in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Goulian has established himself as a leader in the air show industry over the past twenty years. His career has been highlighted by wins at the United States National Aerobatic Championship in both the Advanced and Unlimited categories. Goulian achieved further popularity as a competitor in the former Red Bull Air Race Championship. In the 90s Goulian wrote two books on Aerobatics, popular even today, and used by many aspiring air show and aerobatic pilots: Basic Aerobatics and Advanced Aerobatics. Today, his air show performance is an athletic display of airmanship that combines the precision flying of his competition experience with modern, gyroscopic, high performance aerobatics.
Goulian received the ICAS Sword of Excellence in recognition of his tireless efforts to promote a culture of safety and professionalism within the air show industry. Goulian accepted the award on behalf of his team, stating that his successes reflect the dedication of those around him. In a video released at the awards ceremony, Goulian was praised for setting a standard by which all air show participants are measured. His efforts in the air and on the ground have helped to elevate the stature of the air show business to what it is today.
The ICAS Sword of Excellence is considered the highest honor within the air show industry. Since 1981, the Sword has been presented to those who have made significant, selfless contributions to air shows. Past pilot recipients include Bob Hoover, Patty Wagstaff, Sean D. Tucker, Leo Loudenslager, and The Blue Angels.
Goulian becomes only the seventh air show professional to be awarded all three of the air show industries top honors; the ICAS Sword of Excellence, Art Scholl Memorial Showmanship Award, and the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship.


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Die Liste der portugiesischen Botschafter in Südkorea listet die Botschafter der Republik Portugal in Südkorea auf. Die Länder unterhalten seit 1977 direkte diplomatische Beziehungen, die auf ihre ersten Beziehungen nach der Ankunft der Portugiesischen Entdeckungsreisenden auf der Koreanischen Halbinsel im Jahr 1604 zurückgehen.

Im Jahr 1977 akkreditierte sich der erste portugiesische Botschafter in Südkorea, Portugals Vertreter mit Amtssitz in der japanischen Hauptstadt Tokio. Portugals Botschafter in Japan wurde weiter in Südkorea zweitakkreditiert, bis zur Eröffnung der portugiesischen Botschaft in der südkoreanischen Hauptstadt Seoul 1988.

Neben der Botschaft und seiner konsularischen Abteilung in Seoul unterhält Portugal in der südkoreanischen Stadt Busan ein Honorarkonsulat.

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Siehe auch
 Portugiesisch-südkoreanische Beziehungen
 Außenpolitik Portugals

Weblinks
 Liste der portugiesischen Botschafter in Südkorea beim Diplomatischen Institut im portugiesischen Außenministerium
 Website der portugiesischen Botschaft in Seoul (portugiesisch und englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Sudkorea
Portugal


I don't know what is going on with this show. It's like they're stuck in a rut or something. It's like the author had all these little side stories and merged them altogether to make one strange story. I think we are going off track here.
I mean, the start was just funny. Umaru went out late at night without her brother knowing and that ended up being quite the interesting scene. Then they decide to put a curtain in the room to make a place for both of them, so that both of them can have a little bit of privacy. You'd think that something like that would lead to an interesting event, but no….