It can be one of the most important times in a man's life: spending time with a newborn. Having some time away from work is a necessity at such a crucial time.
But paternity leave is often misunderstood. Is it equal to maternity leave? How much time off are dads entitled to? Can it be extended? We like to keep things simple here, so you'll find some straightforward answers below.
You may know this already, but let's make sure: paternity leave is a form of planned absence from work. It's taken by a dad when their child is born, so that they can bond with their new one, and take care of them alongside mum.
Studies have found that paternity leave is good for the health and wellbeing of the mother, as well as building stronger relationships between father and child. It's also good for the relationship between the parents.
Paternity leave is also available for parents who are adopting a child, or having a baby through surrogacy.
In the UK new dads are entitled to up to two consecutive weeks of paternity leave, depending on their length of service so far. You must have been working for the same employer for 26 weeks by the end of the 15th week before the week your baby is due.
A 'week' is the same as your normal working week. So if you're Monday - Friday, that's five days, but working Monday - Wednesday is only three. So two 'weeks' in that case would be six days.
No matter how many babies you have, the allowance stays the same. So you wouldn't get 16 weeks for octuplets, unfortunately! You're also entitled to time off to join your partner for two antenatal appointments (up to 6.5 hours each).
The rules are a bit different when adoption is involved - have a look on Gov.uk for the options available. And for LGBT couples, there's some specific advice on Stonewall.
The employment rights of fathers are protected while on paternity leave. So this includes your right to pay rises, the accrual of holiday allowance, and returning to work.
You might also be entitled to Shared Parental Leave. We'll cover the details of that in another post, but in short, you can share your partner's allowance. So you'd take more while they take less. And you can split it up, too - taking blocks of leave between periods of work.
Is UK paternity leave paid?
Normally you have to have worked for your employer for at least 26 weeks, and give them plenty of notice you'll be taking leave (at least 15 weeks).
"£145.18 a week or 90% of average weekly earnings (whichever is lower). Tax and National Insurance need to be deducted."
If your employer has extra paternity pay as a benefit, that can be added on top. Check your employment contract to see what's available.
Can paternity leave be extended?
Yes. There aren't any official rules around extending it, but a case can be made depending on the circumstances.
It could come in the form of an informal conversation. If issues arise after birth that need attention, managers might make exceptions and grant some time off, paid or unpaid. You do also have rights to parental leave as the child grows - up to 18 weeks of unpaid leave per year, as long as you've been with your employer for at least a year. This has to be taken in blocks of a week though, so it's more for dealing with a priority issue, such as a bad illness, rather than last-minute childcare situations.
Soon we'll cover the topic of shared parental leave. Stay tuned for that and more blogs about all sorts of workplace absence issues.


Almost wordless: Cow Parsnip is a biennial and a member of the carrot family. It's a plant to avoid contact with – they can cause a rash similar to poison ivy. I found these plants in the wet woodland area in the nature park. They are about 4 feet tall already and will grow to a height of 8 or 9 feet.
Lovely! I always have to look twice to distinguish them from Queen Anne's Lace.
Very pretty. I'd never heard of them before.
I noticed them popping up last year in the restored wetlands along the nature trail. They resembled Queen Anne's Lace, but were huge. When I saw them again last week, I looked them up and found out they are Apiaceae, the same family as parsley and carrot.
You find the most amazing things! Have you considered making a photo book?
No photo book yet but I am thinking maybe a nature calendar of unusual plants and critters.
8 or 9 feet? That would be enough to keep me away!
Yes! When I went on my walk yesterday they were already 6 feet tall. They look almost prehistoric with those huge pods for flower buds. And I stay far away from them.


Recent figures reveal that millions of British holidaymakers are opting for staycations this summer, boosting the holiday rental market.
According to the Daily Mail article, the weak pound (its 14% devaluation means Brits get less for their money abroad) has persuaded many to stay in the UK - with the knock-on effect being that the holiday rental market is enjoying a surge.
various holiday lettings agencies have reported a spike in rental revenue, with a 74% increase in short break stays Brits get away for a weekend instead of a full week.
3.7 million tourists visited in April this year – an increase of 19% compared to the same month last year and the highest in April since records began.
The UK holiday rental market consists of some 165,000 properties and generated £2.1 billion last year. The average rental income per holiday property in the same period reached £22,281 - double the average of £11,052 for residential properties.
Further reading: The Complete Guide to Owning a Holiday Home.


I was about 10 years old when my mother decided it would be a good idea for her and me and my uncle and his four kids and mother-in-law to pack into a Ford Econoline van and head to Florida together in August. It took only until the first New Jersey rest stop for my mom to get so aggravated she started chasing me around the van with a shoe in her hand. In a cartoonish sort of manner, I scurried up the Econoline's rear ladder and onto the roof for safety. I forget what happened when I got down; just another repressed memory, I guess.
During that interminable trip it seemed we ate at Denny's at least once each day, sometimes more. And I loved it. Not so much for the food — I'm sure a grilled cheese sandwich tastes the same everywhere — but for the Flintstones toy figures, which were top-quality, not that flimsy Happy Meal stuff. The toys were good for the parents, too, as they kept all us kids quiet for a few minutes after returning to the van. Denny's: Good with kids. But bad with food, I would later find.
Things were going uncomfortably wrong that whole night, but I was expecting some decent food at Denny's for some reason, given my positive associations with the place from childhood. Plus, it was 2 a.m., after several hours out that involved a Capitals hockey game and beer. What could taste bad at that point?
What I got was an omelette that looked exactly as it did in the picture, like a piece of plastic. It was as if the thing had been prepared — supposedly grilled, though I didn't see any flaky brown evidence of a grill — on an assembly line hundreds of miles away, then reheated here in 40 seconds. This way-too-yellow-to-be-a-real-egg concoction was seriously horrendous. Indeed, the whole place was awful for anyone accustomed to eating in a Greek or Turkish diner. And it was in a Denny's booth that I idiotically agreed to go to this person's cousin's wedding. I thought she would flip or burst into tears if I said no, and I was about an hour from my home. (I actually went to the wedding; but that column is for another day.) I haven't thought much about Denny's since.
Fast-forward 11 more years. Now comes news from a government source that Denny's wants to come to Riverhead. I'm not sure if the corporation has noticed, but Long Island is the diner capital of the world. And right here we have some really good ones, the Peconic Bay and Greek Island diners. I actually can't imagine any Denny's doing well anywhere in Suffolk or Nassau, but then again, Long Island is home to three Olive Gardens.
Here is my own selfish reason for not wanting a Denny's here, aside from my dislike of the food and atmosphere: The place just isn't any fun.
I'm not completely averse to corporately run restaurants, but I've been opining for years that Riverhead, mainly downtown, needs some fun and some action. Even on Route 58, Denny's would just be stealing space from a possible Miller Ale House or Buffalo Wild Wings or even a Texas Roadhouse. Sure, these places also have that manufactured feel to them, but they're always abuzz, seem to strive for top-quality food and good prices and are great meeting places for sports and birthdays and other friend- and family-oriented events. Denny's? Snoooozer!
And it could be catastrophic if such a place should come downtown. It would fly in the face of everything being envisioned for Main Street, which is an eclectic mix of family-run mom-and-pop shops and restaurants. The anti-Route 58, if you will. Denny's could stifle such a movement.
Ed Tuccio, owner of Tweed's downtown, even told the News-Review he's heard Denny's could be looking for tax abatements from the town — as if such a restaurant could offer some one-of-a-kind, job-creating and blight-busting boon to the area. To me, Denny's is a blight. If representatives of the Spartanburg, S.C.-based Denny's Corporation actually come to ask for tax breaks, town officials shouldn't think twice about giving them an old-fashioned fuggedaboudit! (They won't know the difference between Brooklyn and Riverhead.) And tell them to pay up, or get lost.
Denny's bribes us. We don't bribe Denny's.
Michael White is the editor of the Riverhead News-Review. He can be reached at 631-298-3200, ext. 152. Or at [email protected].


Salpicon offers authentic & contemporary Mexican cuisine served in a fun & festive atmosphere.
Scott recommends Salpicon for its fresh flavors of the Southwest and Mexico.
Lenyr thought it was a little pricey and says most of the food was mediocre.
Rick wishes the menu was less trendy and more traditional.


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Q: How to avoid error when multiplying an array with one element in PDL? I've tried using PDL to multiply arrays in a faster way, but get an error with one-element piddles. The example code is
use PDL::Core;
use PDL::Primitive;

my $m = [ [ 2 ] ];
pdl($m) x pdl($m);

The error is:
Undefined subroutine &PDL::mult called at /home/user/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/PDL/Primitive.pm line 263.

Primitive.pm source code is:
sub PDL::matmult {
    my ($a,$b,$c) = @_;

    $b = pdl($b) unless eval { $b->isa('PDL') };
    $c = PDL->null unless eval { $c->isa('PDL') };

    while($a->getndims < 2) {$a = $a->dummy(-1)}
    while($b->getndims < 2) {$b = $b->dummy(-1)}

    return ($c .= $a * $b) if( ($a->dim(0)==1 && $a->dim(1)==1) ||
                               ($b->dim(0)==1 && $b->dim(1)==1) );
    if($b->dim(1) != $a->dim(0)) {
        barf(sprintf("Dim mismatch in matmult of [%dx%d] x [%dx%d]: %d != %d",$a->dim(0),$a->dim(1),$b->dim(0),$b->dim(1),$a->dim(0),$b->dim(1)));
    }
    PDL::_matmult_int($a,$b,$c);
    $c;
}

*matmult = \&PDL::matmult;

It seems that multiplication is not defined when there is a single element. Is this a bug? Way it is the adequate way to solve it?

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The Online reputation of a company matters a lot. The selling of your brand will be determined by the kind of a reputation which the business has from their previous customers because when they are served in the best way, they will fill you online review and will comment positively and the vice versa is also true.
Whether it is a small business or one that operates on a large scale, the online reputation of that particular business has to be well taken care of under a good reputation management system.
Online reputation management is very important for every company in the ways elaborated in this article and you can read more here now.
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When a company or business has the best online reputation management services, it means that they will be able to gauge their products and services from the perception of the customer and be able to tell the difference between what is bad and good for the customers.
A well-managed online reputation system give the company a chance to detect any negative comments and comments form a customer so that thy can take it down and work towards solving that issue in a humanly and upright manner that will not ruin the reputation of the company.
Are your nearest one suffering from alcohol detoxification process?
Alcohol detox or detoxification is really an aching experience while an alcoholic attempt to leave it before they experience a different process to accomplish the symptoms also be on the retrieval period.
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There are several medicines in this situation – including Xanax – to aid make the detoxification process easier. This is really your brain trying to trick you into consumption.
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Continue reading "Alcohol Detoxification Symptoms – One Must Know About It"
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Continue reading "The Art of Mastering Strength"
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You should also be able to have some good plans for the same. Planning ahead will be one of the things that will be much important when it comes to the success of the event.
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When it comes to the fin moments it will be better to have some kind of the ways that the members will have some time to solve the needs of the company. The use of the chance in the corporate retreat event to solve some issues will be one of the best opportunities that you can have.
Continue reading "Practical and Helpful Tips: Teams"
The stress of an individual to lose weight has been an issue that has been lasting for long and seems not to get an appropriate solution as the individual wishes it comes to an end. Losing weight through going to the gym for exercise is not a favorite thing that every individual wanting to lose weigh can do. The individual can have the necessary solution as having the individual to eat proteins can help in losing weight easily without even attending any gym sessions. The appetite of the individual can be well boosted with the intake of proteins as the proteins make the individual to be full faster hence making the individual to have the intake of calories at a low. The proteins that the individual has taken in impacts the hormones contributing to the individual feeling that the hunger is no more. The individual can have the body losing weight as the proteins that the individual is eating are much hence making the body not to have much calories stored making it easy to lose weight.
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Continue reading "Short Course on Wellness – Covering The Basics"


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package sri.test

import sri.test.components.HelloLifeCycle
import sri.test.components.HelloLifeCycle._

class ComponentLifeCycleTest extends BaseTest {

  before {
    willMount = false
    didMount = false
    rendered = false
    willUpdate = false
    didUpdate = false
    shouldUpdate = false
    willReceiveProps = false
  }

  test("test life cycles1") {
    val instance = getMountedInstance[HelloLifeCycle.Component](HelloLifeCycle())
    assert(willMount)
    //    assert(didMount == DID_MOUNT) TODO check didMount not called in shallowRender
    assert(rendered)
    assert(!willUpdate)
    assert(!didUpdate)
    assert(!willReceiveProps)
    assert(!shouldUpdate)
    instance.updateState()
    assert(willUpdate)
    assert(didUpdate)
    assert(!willReceiveProps)
    assert(shouldUpdate)

  }

}

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Coleophora niveiciliella is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in France, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Inula conyza.

References

niveiciliella
Moths described in 1877
Moths of Europe

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EU opens probe into Halliburton, Baker Hughes merger
EU antitrust regulators opened a probe on Tuesday into the proposed acquisition of oilfield service supplier Baker Hughes by rival Halliburton on fears that the deal could hike up energy prices in Europe.
The investigation by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, follows regulatory difficulties in the US, where competition authorities rejected the latest divestment remedies set forward by the companies, delaying the deal.
Halliburton and Baker Hughes, both Texas-based, provide well services and drilling products to large oil companies like ExxonMobil and Total.
Texas-based Halliburton and Baker Hughes both provide well services and drilling products to large oil companies like ExxonMobil and Total ©Mira Oberman (AFP/File)
They announced their $34.6 billion merger agreement in November 2014, with Halliburton, number two in the oil-services industry, buying number-three Baker Hughes to take on market leader Schlumberger.
"The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether the proposed acquisition of oilfield service supplier Baker Hughes by rival Halliburton would impede effective competition in breach of the EU Merger Regulation," the European Commission said in a statement.
The opening of an in-depth inquiry does not prejudge the final result of the investigation and the commission now has until May 26 to take a final decision.
Faced with the regulatory challenges, the two companies last month set April 30, 2016, as a new deadline for completing the deal.
A December 15 deadline to finish the merger was missed, but with the US Department of Justice still open to "further proposals" to divest assets from the companies.
The companies were prepared to sell businesses to win regulatory approval for their merger, including assets in Halliburton's well completion and production business, two Baker Hughes pressure pumping vessels in the Gulf of Mexico and its offshore cementing business in Australia, Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, Norway and Britain.
The combination "is good for the industry and customers," the companies said in December.
In midday trade on Wall Street, shares in Baker Hughes sank 2.41 percent at $40.51, while Halliburton fell 1.8 percent to $30.99.

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Science Sunday | The Fire Triangle
August 5, 2018 August 6, 2018 / Tash	/ Leave a comment
The fire triangle is a simple model for understanding the three key requirements for a fire; a fuel source, oxygen and heat (an ignition source). A fire will occur naturally when these three conditions are present. To extinguish a fire, remove one of these elements.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee
Likewise, a relationship needs the same conditions; fuel, air and a spark. Remove any one of these and it cannot survive.
Science Sunday | Hypothesis
July 15, 2018 July 15, 2018 / Tash	/ Leave a comment
A scientific hypothesis is a question and suggested solution, that has no pre-determined outcome, for an occurrence that cannot be explained within current scientific theory. The only condition is that it must be testable/falsifiable. This means that it must be something that can be supported or refuted by carefully crafted experimentation and observations.
Science Sunday | Chemistry 101
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Chemists joke about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Depending on its form – solid, liquid, or gas – direct contact with it can burn you, or freeze the tissues and fluids in your skin. If you ingest significant quantities it can kill you. Of course, not ingesting enough will kill you too. According to these consequences, dihydrogen monoxide sounds like a nasty chemical. But it is just the humble water molecule. (I never said chemists make good jokes.) All of the dangers are true, though. Dihydrogen monoxide – H2O – water – is a chemical which can burn you, cause frostbite, or dilute the salts in your blood so much that you die from water intoxication (hyponatremia). And just like water, chemicals are everywhere. Everything that you can see, smell, touch, and taste is made of chemicals. And everything you can't.
It is impossible to see a single atom, even with the most powerful microscope. Although, scientists have managed to photograph an atom's shadow. How few atoms does it take to cast a shadow? Just one. But while one atom alone cannot be seen, when many are joined together we see them everywhere. Or, we see the things they make up. Water. Trees. Cars. Houses. Hearts.
The Periodic Table of the Elements lists the species of atoms that have been discovered. There are one hundred and eighteen in total but only ninety-four occur naturally. The rest are synthetic and must be made in laboratories. Everything around us is a combination of these ninety-four elements.
At room temperature, some elements exist as liquids, some as solids and some as gases. They can be volatile like the metal sodium: soft, silvery white, and highly reactive. If you've ever seen a tiny piece of sodium dropped into water, you would remember it. The violent reaction breaks the bonds between the hydrogen atoms and the oxygen atom in the water molecule. Enough heat will be given off that the newly formed hydrogen gas explodes.
Some elements may be toxic like the gas chlorine. Like sodium, it's too reactive to occur on its own in nature. When it is isolated, it is a yellow-greenish gas that is heavier than air. It smells a lot like bleach because it is just one of the elements that creates bleach. If you breathe in chlorine gas, you will feel like you're choking and it can cause damage to your respiratory tract and lungs which is why it has been used as a chemical weapon.
But when sodium and chlorine join together into one substance, they become something necessary for life. Something we need every day to keep our hearts beating. They become sodium chloride – or salt.
Chemistry happens around us all the time. It is the change from rubbery dough to fluffy bread when heat is applied. It is how shampoo gets sudsy when you scrub it into your hair. It is why metals rust, or they don't. Chemistry isn't a secret or some sort of dark magic. It's the explanation for everything that occurs around you and inside you – your heart pumping, or hurting.
Chemists study the composition, structure, properties, and relationships formed between substances, and how these substances can change. Reactions that are measurable. Changes that can be quantified. Attraction or the way elements and atoms bond. Why some bonds are hard to break apart and why others disintegrate, dissolve or separate easily. Chemistry is the understanding of matter.
Or maybe, it's the understanding of things that matter. Relationships. Emotions. Attraction. Hearts racing. Body temperature rising. Stomach churning. It's the properties of love and how it can change.
But love can't be measured with a litmus test.
Science Sunday | Newton's First Law of Motion
June 10, 2018 November 10, 2019 / Tash	/ Leave a comment
"An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted on by an external force."
This afternoon I visited a friend and as we walked around the local wetlands, we paused at a bridge. She pulled out her iPhone and began to play Hymn to the Sea from Titanic. It is a dramatic orchestral piece; exquisitely sad and gloriously hopeful. I hadn't thought about Titanic in a long time. Although, when it was released, I watched it at the cinema three times.
Titanic was unsinkable.
Could it ever have ended any other way?
Sometimes, it feels like we are living the same story over and over. We say "better the devil you know". Or "old habits die hard". Or something else to justify it.
But our thought patterns will continue in the same direction until acted on by an external force. We repeat situations until we learn the lesson. Until we choose to change.
People hit icebergs too. And we can either change direction, or sink.
Snippets and glimpses are all you give me, never the full picture, just pieces of you, mismatched, jagged and broken, and so you find in me no more.
TASH AGAFONOFF
insatiably curious | chemistry nerd
hopeless wanderer | writer of words
Tash Agafonoff is a freelance writer who lives and works on Gunaikurnai Country (Gippsland, Victoria)
I acknowledge the Brayakaulung people of the Gunaikurnai Nation, the Traditional Custodians and Owners of the land on which I write–whose Sovereignty was never ceded–and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
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