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Joy of Golf: Communication is key for McIlroy
Joy Chakravarty 06:30 10/11/2016
McIlroy was the posterboy of the tournament.
I was in Antalya for the Turkish Airlines Open last week, and it was easy to see how Rory McIlroy, the posterboy of the tournament, transformed into a villain.
McIlroy's face was visible everywhere – starting from the food menu of Turkish Airlines flights, to countless banners, hoardings and the event souvenir. Only McIlroy was nowhere in the vicinity of the Regnum Carya course, having pulled out on the Saturday before the $7 million tournament.
Apparently, the Turkish Golf Federation spent close to a million dollars in implementing various safety measures which were asked by the European Tour after reports emerged on October 14 that a couple of rockets were fired at the seas-side resort town from nearby mountains.
The organisers did everything they were asked for, including an extra chartered flight from Gatwick straight to Antalya. However, the week before the tournament, a car bomb exploded in the city (but almost 50kms away from the secluded resorts area).
Those two incidents spooked McIlroy and a few other players. He decided to forego the reported appearance fee of $1.5 million and also his chances of winning the Race to Dubai for a second consecutive year.
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Was McIlroy wrong in pulling out? Absolutely not. Personal safety has to be the biggest consideration for any action take by an individual. However, he could have done it in a better way. His biggest mistake was not communicating with the organisers.
Things do get magnified when McIlroy is involved. That has got everything to do with his status in the sport. Obviously, he is a free agent, but he also has the immense responsibility which comes from being one of the best in his profession. Very few players command the kind of appearance fee he gets, which is also the reason why very few players get the flak he gets for similar flubs.
It's tough to criticize McIlroy's decision to pull out, but he really was the face of #TurkishAirlinesOpen this year. Unfortunate really. pic.twitter.com/UVCZmIGEGR
— Joy Chakravarty (@TheJoyofGolf) November 1, 2016
GOLF THERAPY FOR CRICKET
A few years ago, I read a very interesting article about doctors in UK actually prescribing golf as therapy for their patients for a variety of illnesses.
It does make sense. For somebody who needs to exercise (like people suffering from obesity, diabetes), a single round of golf could mean an enjoyable walk of nearly seven kilometers.
But I never knew that golf could also be a cure for poor batting in cricket. England limited-over captain Eoin Morgan completely believes in this, and by all accounts, his advice has come in very handy for opener Alex Hales.
It seems after a poor Test series against Pakistan earlier this year, Hales was despondent about his string of low scores. Enter Dr Morgan, an exponent in alternate therapy.
Laid-back Eoin Morgan prescibes golf and rest to reignite Alex Hales' fire ahead of England's ODI series v Pakistanhttps://t.co/aDRyWssRFn
— Sam Peters (@Sam_sportsnews) August 23, 2016
Morgan felt Hales was not relaxed while batting and he was getting too uptight. Knowing Hales' love for golf, the captain asked him to spend more time on the driving range then at the nets.
Guess what happened six days later? In the third ODI of the series at Nottingham, England smashed the highest total in history of the format – 444 for three. And Hales' contribution in that? A massive 171 of just 122 balls!
STORM SUBSIDES FOR GRAEME
The sun is shining once again on Graeme Storm after a few days of despair.
The Englishman, who looked like without a permanent job for the 2017 season after failing to keep his European Tour membership by a mere 100 euros, received some great news this week when American Patrick Reed failed to save his European Tour membership by not playing the mandatory five 'regular' Tour events.
Reed needed to play 13 events to keep his membership, but missed last week's Turkish Airlines Open.
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The removal of the world No8 from the Race to Dubai has meant Storm secured the 111th and final qualifying place for 2017 season.
DRUGS-FREE GOLF
The International Golf Federation have revealed that a total of 197tests were conducted – by either the IGF, or the National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO) or the IOC – over the 60 male and 64 women who took part in the Olympics in Rio this year.
Despite the majority of field being tested more than once, the good news is that none of the tests came out positive.
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Defending the Honor of America's Most Disparaged Vegetable
By: Chuck Thompson Illustration: Adela Kang
Think iceberg lettuce is nutritionally bankrupt? Turns out, it's actually not much worse than other lettuces.
Admitting you have a thing for iceberg lettuce is like admitting you have an AOL account. You keep this shameful indicator of Pleistocene tendencies and cultural maladroitness hidden from all but your oldest friends. I'm here to confess to one of these social crimes. And no, I'm not giving out my AOL handle. To get that you had to have been pounding Rainiers with me back in the '90s.
I grew up with iceberg lettuce. Mom was from the Midwest, so we ate iceberg lettuce every day. As the base of all salads, naturally. But also atop sandwiches, tacos, burgers, casseroles, whatever.
But assuming the cool pop of iceberg is a taste limited to bland nostalgics is a mistake. A steakhouse wouldn't be a steakhouse without its hearty wedge salad—a greater bacon-and-blue-cheese delivery device will never be invented. The BLT would droop into irrelevance without the padding of some bright green shredded lettuce. Countless Asian dishes would have no crispy iceberg bed to serve as the perfect foil to chile oil, soy sauce, and five-spice powder.
From an early age, I understood why iceberg ranked atop the lettuce pile: taste, texture, and versatility. Then I grew up, went away to college, and, like a lot of people, lost touch with my roots. All those nutritionists! Suddenly, I was being beaten over the head with the message that iceberg lettuce wasn't healthy; it was a pallid stepsister to romaine and red leaf, an ugly rump of air and water best equipped for rolling into a bear cage at the zoo.
Then it wasn't even good enough for the bears. A professional guide to zoo nutrition programs I found online goes out of its way to specify four times that feeding lettuce to bears is fine, just as long as it's not iceberg!
Legendary California restaurateur Alice Waters has been a vocal hater. "It is omnipresent," she once complained to the San Francisco Chronicle. "It doesn't have a season. It doesn't have a sense of place."
The way our former national lettuce has been traduced over the last quarter century, you'd think it'd been stripped of its official status as a vegetable.
I'm calling bullshit on all the abuse. And not just because iceberg has a crunch and consistency no other lettuce can match. (Though, seriously, what's worse than a scrap of leaf lettuce rendered into a chewy washrag by a hot burger?)
Compare basic nutritional values of iceberg, romaine, red and green leaf, and butter lettuce and you know what you find? Not much difference, with the exception of vitamin A.
According to Ocean Mist Farms, a large California lettuce grower, a single serving of iceberg lettuce yields 10 calories, 4 percent of recommended daily fiber, 1 gram of protein, 6 percent of vitamin A, 6 percent of vitamin C, 2 percent of calcium, and 2 percent of iron.
Compare that with red leaf lettuce: 5 calories, 2 percent fiber, 0 protein; 53 percent vitamin A; 11 percent vitamin C, 1 percent calcium, and 2 percent iron.
I'd give you the breakdown of romaine, butter, and green leaf varieties, but they basically tell the same story.
So, OK, it's weak on vitamin A. Like this is a capital offense. You're already eating enough vitamin A in sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach, kale, bell peppers, asparagus, tomatoes, green beans, eggs, milk, cheese, and yogurt. As if every damn thing you put in your mouth has to be a parade of nutrition anyway. No one eats totchos or cookie dough Blizzards because they think they're gonna live forever.
It also turns out there's not much difference in water content among lettuce types. And listen to this from David Still, a plant science professor at California State Polytechnic University of Pomona.
"Iceberg, although it is not the most nutritious overall, does have the highest concentration of a few compounds—some of which the world will soon learn about!—and vitamins," he told me in an email. "Our data, and others, indicates the outer leaves (of iceberg) are just as nutritious, and in some cases, much more so, than other types. There is no single ideal lettuce type."
Still declined to elaborate on that "new compounds" tease, but his email implied ongoing research that could make iceberg's future even brighter than its past. Certain genes in lettuce connected to the production of vitamins and compounds require light before they're stimulated to "turn on," he told me. Because the interior of an iceberg doesn't receive light, a lot of its nutritional potential is held in a sort of genetic limbo. Still thinks this can be changed.
"We have identified genes that require light, and one could, I believe, use biotech or CRISPR technologies to turn these genes on," Still wrote. "Would the public accept that? Scientifically, there would be no harm in doing that."
Professor Still confirmed what I've long suspected—that iceberg isn't the pitiful nutrition player we've been led to believe. I was anxious to get the news out.
For a long time now I've imagined the existence of a K Street firm called something like the American Iceberg Lettuce Association, where disgruntled staff members sit around bitching about the bad rap their prized Lactuca sativa gets, just waiting for a guy like me to come crawling out of the cabbage patch with an exposé that'll vault iceberg back to its rightful place of prominence. This didn't turn out to be precisely accurate. Finding a vested iceberg cheerleader was trickier than expected.
The first place I contacted was the Grower Shipper Association of Central California. Located in the Salinas Valley in Monterey County—"the Salad Bowl of the World" produces 61 percent of the leaf lettuce and 56 percent of the head lettuce consumed in the United States—the GSAAC was founded in 1930 specifically to promote iceberg lettuce, which back then and well into the 1990s dominated salads in the United States. The GSACC seemed the perfect outfit to give me some heavy ammo. But the VP of communications demurred—"I'm not the best person to answer your questions"—leaving me puzzled but undeterred.
A couple other likely experts passed as well but pointed me to a woman named Mary Zischke of the California Leafy Greens Research Programs. But Mary never responded to my inquiries. And anyway, in a 2013 Smithsonian article supposed advocate Zischke took a big dump on iceberg saying, "Tastes have changed. And the darker, leafy greens have a better story to tell from a nutrition standpoint."
Where was the passion for iceberg?
Finally I found Diana McClean, the director of marketing for Ocean Mist Farms, which grows all types of lettuce and vegetables in California and Arizona. I liked McClean right away. She's easygoing, forthcoming, and candid. Imagine the opposite of Sean Spicer.
Is Big Iceberg aware of its woeful reputation, I asked. Does it have a chip on its shoulder?
"Iceberg is not a sexy vegetable," she replied. "Dark leafy greens, that's where you're gonna get your iron. Every pregnant woman knows that's where you get your folic acid and iron."
So I was gonna have to get pregnant to appreciate just how bad iceberg sucked?
"What you see in restaurants is often what will trickle down to your dinner plate," she said, more or less implicating snooty chefs. "There are other things that are more exciting to talk about and add to a menu than iceberg lettuce."
The stats sort of back this up.
"The number of times restaurants have mentioned iceberg lettuce as a menu ingredient in salads has dropped 17 percent in the last three years," according to a 2016 MarketWatch story. Friggin' Chick-fil-A, not exactly a culinary think tank, declared iceberg dead to them in 2016, making a big deal of the fact that it was removing the populist staple from its salads.
McClean did allow that iceberg's pleasing crunch set it apart from the crowd of mostly soft competition in the texture category. But when I asked her if she ate iceberg lettuce herself, she simply said no. The line went silent for an awkward moment. I was starting to see why Trump values a guy like Spicer so much.
I'm currently carrying on my love affair with iceberg lettuce from Portland, Oregon, where chefs would rather put lawn trimmings and bison ovaries in a salad than defile it with a shard of iceberg. If someone figured out how to make iceberg lettuce beer, I suppose that'd fly here.
But outside the most self-aware eating city in America, it turns out iceberg is, if not king of lettuces, still firmly in the royal court. Despite the calumny regularly spread about iceberg's popularity—in 2011 Britain's Telegraph declared, "The era of iceberg lettuce is over," as though Mussolini had just been strung up in the town square—iceberg is still chopping up most of the competition.
Although romaine took its crown as the top-selling American lettuce in 2015, iceberg remains the country's solid number-two variety, according to Matt Lally of Nielsen Perishables Group. (Yep, the same company that tracks our TV viewing also knows if we're eating our vegetables.) But even he had to toss a shovelful of earth on poor old beleaguered iceberg.
"Total dollar sales of iceberg lettuce [in 2016] declined 9 percent, compared to a decline of 0.6 percent for romaine lettuce," Lally told me.
Mildly distraught, I wandered to the Safeway down the street from my house. Iceberg lettuce was still stacking up pretty well there, even if it gets a little lost amid the modern grocery's RGB produce palette. Looking at the entire lettuce family getting along so well, I wondered how this little ball of light had garnered so much antipathy.
For being tasteless? What, like vodka? Nutritionally deficient? Shit, there's a whole aisle in every supermarket in the country dedicated to colored sugar water. Clearly there was more work to be done in my quest to see the dignity of iceberg lettuce restored. No matter how it works out, iceberg lettuce isn't getting pushed off my plate anytime soon.
Chuck Thompson is the former executive producer of CNN Travel and author of BETTER OFF WITHOUT 'EM: A NORTHERN MANIFESTO FOR SOUTHERN SECESSION. He's written for a range of publications from Outside to The New Republic. He splits his time between the eating meccas of Portland, Oregon, and Juneau, Alaska.

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The disorder does not present a clear-cut clinical picture; the range of symptoms that its victims may have is quite varied. Nor is the disorder recognized by many medical authorities. Despite disagreement among medical practitioners and researchers about the nature of environmental hypersensitivity, however, it is certain that many patients who attribute their ill health to this disorder suffer greatly, and that some of them are seriously disabled.
Therefore, it was decided that the disorder required study and, in November of last year, George Thomson, a former provincial court judge, was appointed chairman of the Committee on Environmental Hypersensitivity.
The committee's mandate was to advise the Ministry of Health on the occurrence of environmental hypersensitivity in Ontario and on current methods of diagnosis and treatment. Further, the committee was to make recommendations to the ministry concerning future approaches to treatment and research that should be taken.
To learn as much as possible about environmental hypersensitivity, the committee held public meetings, reviewed the relevant scientific literature, interviewed many interested people and visited clinics in the United States which specialize in treatment. In addition, the committee received more than 1,000 submissions and thoroughly examined the cases of nearly 200 patients.
Following this extensive investigation, the committee presented its findings to the ministry in a report of more than 300 pages. The report is divided into eight chapters. Its conclusions cover nine major areas and it gives 30 recommendations concerning prevention, research, funding of tests and treatments, information and education about the disorder, as well as financial and social support for patients.
The appendices of the report contain confidential medical and personal information that was provided to the committee by many individuals. Therefore, it was necessary to postpone making the report public, pending permission from those individuals to release this information. This permission has now been obtained and I am pleased to table the committee's report for the information of the members of this House.
Thomson Report. Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto, 1985.
"The Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Hypersensitivity Disorders (note plural) was commissioned by former Ontario health minister Keith Norton. The report's authors included Judge George M. Thomson, two teaching hospital physicians, and an epidemiologist. They pointed out that there was an existing, publicly-insured method of diagnosis, and a method of patient management long known to physicians.
People who were to be protected have been injured or killed, instead.
More than fifteen years ago, I chaired a committee on environmental sensitivities established by Ontario's Ministry of Health. The committee included two eminent teaching hospital physicians and a highly respected epidemiologist. We issued a report that identified existing, publicly funded means of diagnosis, and accepted various methods of patient management, including avoidance of offending agents.
Equally important in our minds were measures, such as income support, that would provide concrete assistance to members of this vulnerable group and reduce the risk of preventable harm.
To this end, we recommended that financial and social support services be awarded on the basis of the extent of a patient's disability, rather than on the basis of a particular diagnosis.
This would reduce the risk of depriving patients of support simply because medical professionals might be unable to differentiate between the myriad possible causes.
We also called for further research and the development of services to support that research, while also helping those who were experiencing a wide range of very difficult symptoms.
We did not feel that more research was needed before these and other measures were introduced to protect patients from being caused harm through inappropriate labelling or the denial of reasonable accommodation.
In the years immediately following the report, several positive steps were taken in response to the recommendations. Public support systems became more accepting of these individuals' needs. At the federal level, departments and agencies began addressing unhelpful attitudes about this disability, not only within the departments and agencies themselves, but also within doctors' offices, medical associations and the broader community.
Health Canada organized conferences, distributed documents and publicly supported recommendations to protect patients from unnecessary harm. The Department of Justice and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation funded self-help groups to support citizens with environmental sensitivities.
Regrettably, over the past few years, that initial momentum has been largely lost, and many of the earlier recommendations seem to have been forgotten. An ongoing, legitimate, but separate debate about medical approaches is again obscuring protection issues and returning us to the situation that prevailed when the report was written.
In 2016, Ontario announced the Task Force on Environmental Health. While this looks good, I have to wonder what is different now?
How will they address the multi billion dollar chemical and pharmaceutical elephants in the room?
"Ontario is Canada's largest chemical-producing province – its $21-billion chemistry industry has major operations in Sarnia, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and in the eastern regions of the province.
Ontario's chemistry industry is also poised for growth, and could secure up to $5 billion in new investment over the next decade.
When in 2016 we STILL have no safe access to health care, housing, employment, services, products, etc., despite all this knowledge, then it IS genocide, and industry profits are being valued more than our lives..
It's not only the canaries suffering and dying, it affects everyone.
As we are discovering, exposures to toxic chemicals are causing all kinds of health problems, and pharmaceuticals (which contain petrochemicals too) often exacerbate symptoms, as well as cause fatalities, even when used as directed, but the oil, gas, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies are at the table when our health (and money) are being discussed.
With that crowd, I'm surprised the tobacco industry wasn't there, but notice the representation from the wireless industry, as their devices are also causing health harm. Banks were there too!
Who is looking after the environmental health issues that those companies are causing when public health is concerned?
Making people sick and selling drugs to deal with some of the symptoms has become so great for the (toxic) economy!
They don't want the canaries with "sensitivities" to be heard.
When the canaries are all gone, who will be there to warn you?
Who is going to save the canaries?
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Other allergens are also far too common, and also not disclosed. Prescribers rarely look into this when recommending meds to their allergic or "sensitive" patients.
Adverse effects and deaths from meds are rarely reported or tracked.
But the law misses the first key step, Hohl says, adding it doesn't require health-care providers to document serious drug reactions such as those that lead to hospitalization, deaths, near fatalities and congenital malformations.


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Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Awards Generous Grant to ARISS
September 13, 2019 by Paul Stoetzer
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) has awarded a very generous grant to ARISS for the Next Generation radio system. ARDC is the owner and manager of the Internet network known as the AMPRNet. In June of 2019, ARDC initiated a philanthropic endeavor to provide monetary grants to organizations, groups, projects, and scholarships which have significant potential to advance the state of the art of Amateur Radio, and digital communications in general.
The ARISS Next Generation radio system (or Inter Operable Radio System – IORS) will support easier radio mode transition, to enable new, exciting capabilities for hams, students and the general public including:
New amateur radio communication and experimentation capabilities, including an enhanced voice repeater and updated digital packet radio (APRS) capabilities.
Slow Scan TV (picture up and downlinks) in both the US and Russian segments of ISS.
New multi-voltage power supply will support present and future radio capabilities and allow wireless experiments to be conducted.
In July, the Inter Operable Radio System successfully completed a battery of stressful tests required as part of the final certification of the hardware for launch to and operation on the International Space Station. Final assembly of the flight safety certification in preparation for launch is now underway and ARISS is working towards launch ready status by the end of the year.
For more information on the award please see: https://www.ampr.org/g2019-09-01a/
To contribute to ARISS and the IORS please see: https://www.ariss.org/donate.html
ARISS and AMSAT thank ARDC for their generosity in supporting this important project.
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Q: How not to print dots (.) instead of space and hyphens in an xslx file using the write.xlsx function? Good night,
Earlier today I tried to print into a .xlsx (and also .xls) file a table which had names containing hyphens and dots, such as in the dummy example and the image below . However, only dots were printed in the place of the hyphens.
foo = cbind(c(2,4),c(4,6))
colnames(foo) = c("UP-DOWN.E","DOWN-EAST")
row.names(foo) = c("yesterday","now")
foo

Can anybody explain why that happens and how to fix it or at least avoid it happening again?
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3 Orlando doctors convicted of $4.3M kickback scheme involving pain creams
By Naseem S. Miller
A pharmacy owner and two doctors were convicted for their role in a kickback scheme that involved pain and scar creams. Some of the creams cost as much as $17,000 per bottle.
Larry Howard, owner of Fertility Pharmacy in Oviedo; Dr. Nicole Bramwell of Apopka; and Raymond Stone of Orlando were convicted for their role in a kickback scheme that involved pain and scar creams, totaling $4.3 million in false and fraudulent claims to TRICARE between October 2014 and May 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Howard paid kickbacks to Stone to refer patients to doctors, including Bramwell. The doctors in turn prescribed expensive pain and scar creams, which Howard filled and billed to TRICARE, according to the agency, Some of the creams cost as much as $17,000 per bottle, the agency said in a news release.
• Five Central Florida hospitals were hit with Medicare penalties because of their high rates of patient injuries, including hospital-acquired infections from various procedures and in-hospital injuries such as sepsis, hip fractures and bed sores.
They include HCA's Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford and Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee; Orlando Health's Health Central in Ocoee and South Lake Hospital in Clermont; and Leesburg Regional Medical Center. None of them were penalized last year.
They were among 751 hospitals nationwide to get the penalty and will lose 1 percent of their Medicare payments in 2018.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Central Florida (The Center), has changed its name to The LGBT+ Center Orlando, and unveiled a new logo.
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The Center is turning 40 this year.
Nemours Children's Primary Care opened its 17th practice in downtown Orlando on S. Orange Ave. in January. Nemours has been providing specialty care at that location since 2012. Dr. Michelle Tellado will lead the team. Nemours has 19 specialty care satellite locations.
CleanSlate, a national chain of office-based opioid treatment centers, has opened a new facility in Orlando on North Alafaya Trail. It's the company's fourth location in Florida, and its 33rd across the country.
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Atlanta pawn shop? Get the facts first | March 2019
March 16, 2018 Georgia, Pawning Around the U.S., Uncategorized
Have you ever visited an Atlanta pawn shop?
Pawn shops have existed for over 3000 years globally, and pawn shops in Atlanta date back to at least 1924, when the Fulton Loan Office was founded. But to truly understand Atlanta pawn shops, we have to look to the Middle Ages in Europe.
According to Wendy Woloson's book, In Hock, pawn brokers in Europe emerged "as a distinct profession" in the Middle Ages. She quotes Kenneth Hudson, a writer from the early 20th century, to explain that these proto-modern pawn shops were built to serve the wealthiest of Europe. Hudson wrote that pawn shops in the Middle Ages served to finance "the needs of powerful and ambitious rulers, who required money to finance wars and the building of castles, palaces, and churches, and to maintain a standard of living which they considered appropriate to their rank, power and social position".
Pawn N Shop
While some European countries experimented with "non-profit" pawn shops, they initially failed because of the corruption of their managers and investors. Independent pawn shops remained common but did not proliferate until the First Industrial Revolution in the 18th century (1700s). They were especially common in England's industrial centers, like Manchester and London. Pawn shops grew in number to serve not just aristocrats and royalty, but to serve a growing population of city-based consumers and workers. Those workers, unlike their peasant ancestors, had possessions and material goods that could collateralize a loan.
Pawn shops did not make their way to America– let alone to Atlanta, Georgia– until the early 19th century, the 1800s. When they came, they raised the same concerns that they did in Europe. Pawn shops were perceived as against feudal Christian order, in which most varieties of money lending were banned. However, early economists and political thinkers like Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham argued in favor of them. They believed that, as a rule, flexible lines of credit could help grow the economy and wealth of the population.
Pawn World
It's hard to say exactly when Atlanta pawn shops first emerged. But like most pawn shops in America, they grew alongside the rest of the city, and their composition reflected its industries. In Atlanta, use of pawn shops was closely tied to the fortunes of the healthcare and fast food industries.
A brief history of the pawn shop business in Atlanta. This article is about information regarding pawn shops in the local community. Get money.
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FDA Update: Budeprion XL 300 mg Not Therapeutically Equivalent to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg
Oct 4, 2012 10:10am
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed new data that indicate Budeprion XL 300 mg (bupropion hydrochloride extended-release tablets), manufactured by Impax Laboratories, Inc., and marketed by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., is not therapeutically equivalent to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. FDA has changed the therapeutic equivalence rating for this product in the Agency's Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Orange Book) from AB to BX, signifying that Budeprion XL 300 mg fails to demonstrate therapeutic equivalence to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. Impax has requested that the Agency withdraw approval of budeprion XL 300 mg extended-release tablets. Impax and Teva have stopped shipping the product and are issuing detailed information to their customers. This announcement relates only to Budeprion XL 300 mg manufactured by Impax and marketed by Teva. It does not affect the Impax/Teva Budeprion 150 mg product or generic bupropion products made by other manufacturers.
FDA has approved five generic versions of Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. Each of these generics was approved based on bioequivalence studies comparing the 150 mg strength of the products to Wellbutrin XL 150 mg. Studies were not performed directly on the 300 mg strength of the products. Rather, the bioequivalence studies were performed using the 150 mg strength, and the results were extrapolated to establish bioequivalence of the 300 mg product. This methodology was based on FDA's guidance at the time the products were approved. FDA has determined that this approach is no longer appropriate to establish bioequivalence of 300 mg bupropion hydrochloride extended-release tablets to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg, and the Agency is revising its guidance to industry for how to conduct premarket bioequivalence studies in generic bupropion products.
The Impax/Teva product, Budeprion XL 300 mg, was approved in December 2006. Soon after, FDA began to receive reports that patients who were switched from Wellbutrin XL 300 mg to its generic counterparts were experiencing reduced efficacy. FDA analyzed those reports and concluded that the complaints appeared to be linked to the Impax/Teva product. FDA therefore asked Impax/Teva to conduct a study directly on its 300 mg extended-release product to compare its bioequivalence to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. FDA asked that the study include patients who had reported lack of efficacy after switching from Wellbutrin XL 300 mg to Budeprion XL 300 mg. Impax/Teva began the study, but terminated it in late 2011, reporting that, despite efforts to enroll patients, Impax/Teva was unable to recruit a significant number of affected patients to generate the necessary data.
In 2010, in light of the public health interest in obtaining bioequivalence data, FDA decided to sponsor a bioequivalence study comparing Budeprion XL 300 mg to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. This study was conducted in 24 healthy adult volunteers and was designed to measure both the rate and the extent of release of bupropion into the blood. The results of this study became available in August 2012, and show that Budeprion XL 300 mg tablets fail to release bupropion into the blood at the same rate and to the same extent as Wellbutrin XL 300 mg.
FDA has not identified any new safety information associated with Budeprion XL 300 mg; however, in some patients, the drug may not provide the desired efficacy (beneficial effect).
FDA did not conduct bioequivalence studies of the other four generic versions of Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. FDA did, however, recently ask each of the other manufacturers – Anchen, Actavis, Watson, and Mylan – to conduct their own studies to assess the bioequivalence of their 300 mg extended-release bupropion tablets to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. FDA has asked these companies to submit the data from those studies no later than March 2013. FDA believes the study results may be unique to the Impax/Teva version of 300 mg bupropion hydrochloride. FDA does not currently have data indicating that the other four generic products are not bioequivalent to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. The Agency will review the data from the additional bioequivalence studies when the data are received, and will provide additional updates at that time.
Budeprion XL 300 mg tablets manufactured by Impax and marketed by Teva are not therapeutically equivalent to Wellbutrin XL 300 mg and will be removed from the market by Impax/Teva. FDA's actions with respect to Budeprion XL 300 mg reflect FDA's ongoing role in monitoring drugs on the market to ensure their continued safety and efficacy. The role of patients and health care professionals in sharing their experiences with generic versions of Wellbutrin XL 300 mg contributed to further studies, which led to this action. FDA remains firmly committed to its science-based responsibilities and to making sure that generic drugs are safe and effective. This commitment is reflected in the results of the FDA-sponsored bioequivalence study described above.
Patients taking Budeprion XL 300 mg as a substitute for Wellbutrin XL 300 mg should talk with their health care professionals if they have questions about taking this medication.


I am a lawyer by education who practices principally in relation to technology issues: Internet governance, domain names, and 9-1-1 policy matters. I was a National Commissioner of the CRTC (the Canadian broadcast and telecom regulator) from 2008-2013.
I am the Chairman of the Canada Chapter of the Internet Society whose goal is to keep the Internet free as in speech and cheap as in salt. The Canada Chapter is one of many Internet Society Chapters around the world.
Between January 1st, 2009, and August 2017, I served as a member of the Board of Trustees of ARIN, the American Registry of Internet Numbers, being re-elected in 2011 and 2014, by the ARIN electorate for three year terms. I served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of ARIN from January 2011 to August 2013.
I am also concerned with how Canada will evolve its 9-1-1 and public alerting systems into an IP-based architecture.


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More Constitution
Name the first three Presidents of the US in order.
What are first 10 Amendments to the Constitution called?
What is the Bill of Rights
The US fought in 5 declared wars during the 1900s. Name four of them.
Whar are
World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War.
Name the 3 Branches of government?
What are the two Houses of Congress Called?
What are
What ocean is on the West Coast of the U.S.?
What is the Pacific?
Who was the US President during the Great Depression and most of WWII?
Who is FDR?
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe three of them.
A: Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote).
A: You don't have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.
A: Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.) A: A male citizen of any race (can vote).
The US fought in four wars during the 1800s. Name two.
Mexican-American
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
How many members of the House of Representatives are there?
What are the two longest rivers in the US?
What are the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers?
Name three US Presidents who served as Generals in the military before becoming President.
William H. Harrison (Whig), Zachary Taylor (Whig), Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison and Dwight D. Eisenhower Of the generals elected to the presidency, only three were Democrats — Andrew Jackson, Franklin Pierce and Andrew Johnson
Name four of the five rights protected by the First Amendment
petition the government
After the passage of the US Constitution, three different US cities have been the Capital. What are all three?
How many Justices are on the US Supreme Court?
What is 9
How many years does a Senator and member of the House serve? (Two different answers)
Senator 6 years
House Member 2 years
There are four US states that border Mexico. Name three.
Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico
Four US Presidents were assassinated while in office. Name three.
Who were
Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), and John F. Kennedy (1963).
Name two of the three things that the US Constitution does.
What are:
Protects Individual Rights
Establishes the branches of government
Sets up powers of each branch of government
What year did the Treaty of Paris end the American Revolution?
What is 1783?
Who is the current US Chief Justice?
Who is John Roberts.
Name the two Senators from South Carolina
There are five US territories. Name three of them.
Puerto Rico * U.S. Virgin Islands
American Samoa * Northern Mariana Islands * Guam
Besides Donald Trump, there are four former US Presidents who are still alive. Name them.
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
How many amendments to the Constitution are there?
The following dates are very important to US history. Explain 3 of them July 4, 1776; May 9, 1865; December 7, 1941; June 6, 1944; September 11, 2001
End of US Civil War
Attack on Twin Towers
Name five members of the President's Cabinet. Hint: Most are "Secretaries."
Secretary of Homeland Security
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Interior
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
Who are the members of the House of Representatives from South Carolina? Name 2
Who are?
Jeff Duncan
Ralph Norman
James Clyburn
Tom Rice
Joel Wilson
There are 13 US States that border Canada. Name 6 of them.
A: Maine
A: New Hampshire
A: Vermont
A: New York
A: Pennsylvania
A: Ohio
A: Michigan
A: Minnesota
A: North Dakota
A: Montana
A: Idaho
A: Washington
A: Alaska


An Act to amend 49.45 (6u) (intro.); and to create 25.17 (1) (jv) and 25.77 of the statutes; relating to: supplemental medical assistance payments to reduce operating deficits of county, city, village, or town nursing homes, creating a medical assistance trust fund, and requiring payments or completion of payments to facilities for wage or salary and fringe benefits supplements.
(1) All federal moneys received that are related to payments under s. 49.45 (6m) and are based on public funds that are transferred or certified under 42 CFR 433.51 (b) and used as the non-federal share of medical assistance funding.
(2) All public funds that are related to payments under s. 49.45 (6m) and that are transferred or certified under 42 CFR 433.51 (b) and used as the non-federal and federal share of medical assistance funding.
13,3m Section 3m. Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) Payments or completion of payments to facilities for wage or salary and fringe benefits supplements. Notwithstanding 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, section 9123 (9m) (c), the department of health and family services shall, before July 1, 2001, pay or complete payment, as appropriate, of all moneys required to be paid under 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, section 9123 (9m) (a), to each facility, as defined under section 49.45 (6m) (a) 3. of the statutes, that applied for the moneys in accordance with 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, section 9123 (9m) (a) and appealed, before January 30, 2001, a decision by the department of health and family services under 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, section 9123 (9m) (c).
(1) Supplemental medical assistance payments to nursing homes. The treatment of section 49.45 (6u) (intro.) of the statutes takes effect retroactively to July 1, 2000.


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How To Watch 'Game Of Thrones' Season 8 Without Cable
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Game of Thrones finally returns Sunday after a nearly two-year hiatus for its final episodes. The series, based on George R.R. Martin's series of novels, is considered by many to be the last monoculture show. In an era in which television audiences have become more fragmented than ever before, Game of Thrones might be the last show that, it seems like, everyone watches.
But of course, not everyone watches Game of Thrones, in part because not everyone has HBO. How can those without cable or HBO subscription partake in the final Game of Thrones season? There are a few ways.
In the early years of Game of Thrones, there was a lot of grumbling from fans that there was no way for fans to buy an a la carte subscription to watch the show. This meant fans either had to spring for an expensive cable subscription or watch the show through less legal means. One campaign, called Take My Money HBO, articulated this specifically.
HBO, and its then-parent company Time Warner, finally bowed to those with this viewpoint when they launched HBO NOW in 2015. This gave non-cable subscribers the opportunity to pay a monthly subscription fee in exchange for access to HBO, including the archives of older seasons and other shows.
Therefore, Game of Thrones fans who lack cable can subscribe to HBO Now and watch the show through there.
Password-Sharing
Another option for Thrones fans who aren't cable subscribers? They can rely on friends in a few different ways. Some HBO show fans have been known to borrow friends' or family members' passwords for either HBO Now or HBO GO, the streaming platform for authenticated cable subscribers.
HBO's longtime CEO Richard Plepler has said in multiple interviews over the years (per Buzzfeed) that he and HBO don't object to sharing of passwords. And while HBO has since been sold to AT&T, and Plepler has departed the company, there's been no announcement of a password-sharing crackdown by the network's new leadership.
The viewers probably won't stay though.https://t.co/kgJrOfAVYe
— CNET News (@CNETNews) April 8, 2019
Game of Thrones can be a fun show to watch in a communal setting, so another option for those without cable is to go to an organized watch party or set up a weekly Sunday night excursion to the home of a friend or loved one who has HBO. Some fans may not want to appear to be mooching, but since the upcoming season is only six episodes, they won't need to spread their watching among too many different friends.
There are also sometimes public screenings of new Game of Thrones episodes, but HBO has come down on those in the past, including cease-and-desist letters in 2015, per BGR.
Torrenting
Entirely illegal and not at all recommended, Game of Thrones, for nearly all of its existence, has been at the top of essentially every list of the most pirated TV shows and continues even after the launch of HBO Now. Per TorrentFreak, Thrones dropped off the list of most pirated TV shows in 2018, for a simple reason: It didn't air a new season that year.
However you watch it, enjoy the new season of Game of Thrones.


This is the moment when a Turkish special operations fighter was killed in Kurdish town of Nisêbîn.
Mass grave in Şengal of killed Ezidi Kurds.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Turkish government is carrying out "urgent expropriation" of properties in four provinces in the country's Kurdish southeast to build security outposts, media reports said on Monday.
"The government has decided to 'urgently expropriate' properties in multiple districts of southeastern provinces," the Hurriyet Daily reported.
It said the expropriated properties will include land in the Baglar and Kayapınar districts of Diyarbakir province, Turkey's Kurdish heartland.
Also included are the "Cukurca and Yuksekova districts of Hakkari province, the Kızıltepe district of Mardin province and the Cizre and İdil districts of Şırnak province," the daily said.
"The recent fighting has marked the deadliest period in at least two decades of the conflict," it reported.
"THE KURDISH ISSUE DOES NOT EXIST ANY MORE … " – DERSIM GENOCIDE !
MOSCOW, Russia— The Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow and the Kurdistan region have maintained "some level of cooperation" in the war against the ISIS militants, although the Kurds are closer to the US-led coalition, he told Rudaw Thursday.
"The Kurds have achieved a great deal. Apparently the US is coordinating with them very actively, but our military forces are also in touch with them," Putin said.
"We should see the Kurds as they are; they are a courageous people who have confronted the terrorists very effectively and bravely," Putin said.
Moscow has been a key ally of the Syrian president Bashar Assad, but it also maintained a friendly relation with Syria's Kurds over the past year and pushed for their inclusion in the country's ongoing peace talks.
On Wednesday Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and former Kurdish prime minister Barham Salih met in Moscow to discuss the current developments of the war in Iraq.
Russia was also the first European country to allow Syria's Kurds officially open an office in Moscow.
"The ISIS and Al-Nusra Front try to drive out the Kurds from their areas and we see this which is why we support the Kurds," he added.
British special forces soldiers were involved in a Javelin anti-tank missile launch that took out an ISIS car-bomb in Syria, footage has revealed. They said about a dozen British, American and French soldiers were involved in the missile launch.
The footage shows the soldiers in military clothing arranging airstrikes from American A-10 tankbuster warplanes, reportedThe Times.
The Ministry of Defence did not comment on the footage in line with government policy of not commenting on special forces operations.
The video shows the car - resembling those in apocalyptic action film Mad Max - careering through the desert at high speed.
The missile hits it, making the vehicle explode in a huge fireball of black smoke.
Kurdish troops then can be heard whooping and cheering as they celebrate their success - but the video reveals that a coalition of British, American and French forces were the ones who launched the strike.
New US reports suggest that Russia has delivered a shipment of armaments to Kurdish fighters of the YPG in Efrin who have been fighting with rebel forces in northern Aleppo in the past days.
Moscow is also pushing to include Kurdish factions in the Geneva peace talks.
Will Syria's Kurds succeed at self-sufficiency?
GAZIANTEP — Most Syrian cities are reeling under the effects of the ongoing civil war, which has naturally dealt a blow to the local and national economies. Amid the conflict, the Kurdish-controlled areas of Jazira, Kobani and Afrin in the north are attempting to become economically self-sufficient, but receiving goods, including raw materials and medicines, from inside Syria is a struggle. Traders control the market entirely, deciding on shipments and setting prices at will, which has resulted to high prices. Also, border crossings with Turkey have been closed since 2012, because Ankara accuses the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which administers the Syrian Kurdish areas, of being affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party.
New footage, released by GerillaTv, seems to show a (PKK) Kurdish fighter shooting down a Turkish "AH-1" Cobra chopper, using a Russian anti-aircraft "9K38 Igla" system.
According to the original source, the video took place on 13 may 2016, in southeast Turkey, near the Iraqi-Turkish border.
Meanwhile, Turkish authorities have said that they lost a military helicopter near the Iraqi border due to a technical failure.
UN CH-47 TURCO, TBN DERRIBADO X SAM.
Exclusive to Kurdistan Channel: The PKK Freedom Fighters shot down a Turkish Helicopter (NATO & American Provided latest Chinook) around Hakari region in occupied North Kurdistan, clashed followed and more than 15 Turkish Soldiers were killed and many more wounded. The Turkish Media claim the downing as "Crash".


A common reason why reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives often do not generate the expected achievable results is competing priorities and focusing on the wrong things.
A great example of this is technology. Technology is good and necessary and maintenance people like technology. It is common that the improvement effort will focus on technology instead of processes and people. There are many stories about engineers and these stories almost always make fun of our personalities. For example: "How do you know an engineer is extrovert?" "The engineer looks at your shoes, instead of their own shoes when they talk to you". Many engineers are used to working with facts in designs and specifications. In a maintenance organization, you will have to manage people with different opinions and all that come with that.
A new vibration analyzer, a handheld data collector for inspections or an online condition monitoring system are all good and valid technologies, but if they are not used by qualified people, in a well-defined and executed process, the possible improvement from the use of these technologies will be absent.
For the example above there would be processes to do vibration analyses and inspections, with the right methods and frequencies, and a work management process to prioritize, plan and schedule the corrective action from failures found using these technologies.
As mentioned before it is relatively easy to develop, document and communicate the processes. To instill a culture to execute work in these processes takes much more effort and time.
This will include the education and training of people to achieve awareness, understanding and skills.
To sustain craft skills to perform precision maintenance repairs, it is important to first implement the basic processes of inspections and work management in order to reduce reactive work. When that is done, people should be trained in precision maintenance repairs.
If not done in this order, the people trained will fall back into reactive maintenance. In a reactive mode, too much work is urgent so there will not be time to do for example precision alignment.
The skills acquired during training will be lost and people will be disappointed.
In summary: Most people know what to do, but cannot find the time to do it. As Illustration1 describes. Too many conflicting priorities are common reason for this. If you implement and execute the basic reliability and maintenance processes and execute them well, you will free up time to do what you do not have time to do today.
Christer Idhammar, is Founder and CEO of IDCON INC a reliability and maintenance consulting firm headquartered in the United States with partners in Norway, Finland, Italy, Germany, Australia, and South America.
Caverion and Telia Finland have signed a contract covering the control room operator services and property maintenance of the new Telia Helsinki Data Center. The open data centre to be built in the Pitäjänmäki district in Helsinki will be the most secure, energy efficient and environment-friendly data centre in the Nordic countries.
Detecting errors before they occur - that's the objective of preventive maintenance. The HANNOVER MESSE will be addressing the topic of "Predictive Maintenance" with a dedicated exhibition area, where SONOTEC will be demonstrating how companies can save energy and improve the efficiency of the entire production cycle using SONAPHONE technology.
A materials processing plant replaced its previous vibration monitoring system on the low-speed calciner drum with the online system Intellinova Compact after a test installation involving SPM HD measurements had proven successful.
Backlog management has a number of different but, interdependent focuses: Backlog Work Order Quality, Age of Backlog and Backlog Size Management. This article will focus on Backlog Size Management. In parts 2 and 3, the Age of the Backlog and Backlog Size Management were discussed in detail.
The NVDO Maintenance Compass gives an overview of the trends and current state of the Dutch maintenance market. For the NVDO (Dutch Maintenance Society), the goal of the Maintenance Compass is to facilitate its members concerning their developments and challenges related to maintenance within the asset management chain.


Step into the 2019 Ford F-150. Ford prioritized practicality, efficiency, and style by including: delay-off headlights, a tachometer, variably intermittent wipers, a rear step bumper, an outside temperature display, tilt and telescoping steering wheel, and much more. Ford ensures the safety and security of its passengers with equipment such as: head curtain airbags, front side impact airbags, traction control, brake assist, ignition disabling, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. Electronic stability control ensures solid grip atop the road surface, no matter how challenging the driving conditions. You will have a pleasant shopping experience that is fun, informative, and never high pressured. Please don't hesitate to give us a call.


A bassinet that is lightweight, safe and portable. Something that will fit through a doorway to freely move around the house. our Coco bassinette fits the bill on all fronts, and is absolutely stunning and whimsical (enough to take 'Pinteresty' photos of baby sleeping - only you know how long it took to get them there!?. it comes in white or tan colour for the base, includes breathable air mesh sides and is made from good quality New Zealand pine and 100% cotton.
Further on from this, a travel cot that you can erect everywhere - even in your own lounge room - is a great thing to have. Travel cots are spacey and can double as a play area when your bub is smaller and you need to get some things done around the home. Our new 2 in 1 Bassinet Portacot is lightweight and fuss free, allowing you to setup in seconds out or about, and folds down into a small carrier. The difference between this portacot and any other one of the market is, it has a specially designed bassinet mattress that sits higher in the cot, just like your one at home. This is then removable for a deeper cot for either play or sleep.
Versatile clothes for baby wrapping, baby wearing and baby cleaning! Cotton and bamboo are your best bet as they're gentle on skin, will wash easily and have a sight stretch to them (for wrapping etc). Baby wraps are one of those absolute necessities for the first few months of baby life, and making your life easier.
Your nappy bag should hold a plethora of everything bum related. Creams, nappies, bags, wipes, change mats and everything in between. Our U Shaped Change mat is the perfect portable mat to throw in your bag and wipe down after use.
Being able to see your baby as you drive is crucial, and no matter how many babies you have you'll always use a baby rear view mirror for a period of time! Since babies legally must be rear facing until at least 6 months (and up until 2 years old), being able to see their face gives great peace of mind.
You may have read about breastfeeding pillows and pregnancy pillows, both of which are excellent option for new mums. At Mothers Choice, we've done you one up and combined the two into a single pillow. The pillow supports your back, bump and knees at the same time while you sleep and ultimately helps to achieve optimal foetal positioning with the bump rest, It can then easily convert into a wonderfully comfortable pillow for breast feeding support for those long night feeds.
Maternity pads, large underwear, some good eye cream, a coffee machine and a subscription to Netflix. Welcome to motherhood!
Bonus tip - While you might not need to think about a highchair before you give birth, the first 4 months roll around quick and you'll be immersed in baby led weaning and purees galore. Our 3 in 1 Egg highchair takes the guess work out of it, and leads the market, functioning as a highchair, low chair and booster seat. When not being used as a high/low chair, the chair detaches from the base ad can be attached to a normal dining chair. It is designed to be used from approx 6 months to 3 years, is lightweight and has a cup holder with an easy to wipe down top.


He is from England but lives in China for the last 6 years.
Listen to the podcast to learn how Chris has been sourcing products for over 20 years and how he moved to China for work, where he know runs his Amazon business.
Why are you in China?
Why do I need a VPM before going to China?
What Amazon markets do you sell in?
What advantages does it have to be in China when it comes to choosing products or suppliers?


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An Interview with Prof. Li-Shih Huang, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Interviewer: Madhukar K C
Thank you very much for joining us on the NNEST-of-the-month blog. Could you briefly tell us about your background and how you got interested in learning language and becoming an educator, especially a teacher of English?
Thank you for the kind invitation and the opportunity, and above all, for what you and the NNEST-IS members do in your advocacy work for NNEST in our profession. Since I am someone who tends to shy away from talking about myself, I will instead focus on the serendipitous occurrences in my life that led me to where I am today. Before specializing in second language education, I had worked in the advertising industry and subsequently for a prestigious group in the hospitality sector for seven years. During that time, I was also teaching EFL at private schools any time I got a chance. While moving through the organization's ranks, working long hours on all the major holidays because of the nature of the business, an opportunity arose for me to take on teaching English for Specific Purposes at a hospitality university, which I took. Discovering that teaching, and not the success of climbing the corporate ladder or securing major sponsors for hosting over a hundred events a year, was what really spoke to my heart, I decided then to return to Canada to pursue a master's degree in education, enrolling initially in the comparative education program. But then one evening while waiting for my class to begin, I decided to sit in on a class in second language learning taught by Birgit Harley, and that evening changed the trajectory of my life. The next day I switched to another program, and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.
What are your main areas of interest for research, publishing, and presentation at conferences? How do you think your academic publishing and your presentations at conferences contribute to the literature of NNEST issues, World Englishes, ELF, and EIL?
My interests in research and scholarly dissemination extend quite broadly, including areas such as EAP needs and outcomes assessment, corpus-aided teaching and learning, learner strategies in language learning and language testing, and reflective learning. Gratefully I've had support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Educational Testing Service (ETS), and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) for my work in these areas. In publishing and presentations, I try to devote my attention to both scholarly and professional audiences, perhaps the latter more, as I expressed in this op-ed, which I authored a few years back. This choice is also evident in the nearly five dozen articles or posts I have published for teaching purposes. I'm not certain how much I have contributed to the areas you specify, but an area I have devoted regular attention to is raising the awareness of learners and instructors about ways to support NNES learners and teachers. Over the past decade, these efforts have included 291 presentations and workshops I have delivered across 25 units, both within and beyond my institution.
Could you share with us your memories of some of the opportunities and challenges you encountered as a consequence of your NNES identity while working as a language-teaching professional in Canada?
I am fortunate because I have been afforded opportunities to continue to develop my skills and expertise, and I rarely, if ever, have felt that my differences impeded me from pursuing what I do. Although it's been pointed out that pronunciation may be the linguistic feature that faces the most judgment as it is the most noticeable, such that one's accent can easily evoke bias in others, people's perceptions about who we are do not define us. Rather, our accents and linguistic backgrounds are part of who we are, as I have often shared with my students since the late 1990s, when the "native-like" pronunciation model and accent "elimination" reigned supreme. I intentionally, and critically, use pedagogical tasks in my own teaching to question previously held assumptions, to honor my students' voices, and to shift how learners view themselves as they come to see that differences are not deficiencies to be eliminated but rather can enrich our voices and facilitate our development. To me, perhaps the biggest challenge lies not in teaching the what-and-how of communication, but in expanding the ability to suspend judgment and to question our own assumptions and interpretations, since these assumptions, which are often deeply rooted in our upbringing and experiences, are critical to transforming our perspectives. Challenges surely abound in what we do every day, challenges that may relate directly or indirectly to our NNES identity and, by extension, to our qualifications to meet our students' learning needs. Challenges, however, often come with meaningful and rewarding moments that let us know that what we do matters, that we are making a difference in the lives of language learners. My position has indeed enabled me to see the challenges of learners from the viewpoints both of someone who has been trained to tackle those challenges, and someone who has gone through those challenges herself. These perspectives have in turn uniquely benefited me in designing and implementing various research and service programs in my areas of specialization.
You were awarded the Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in the Development of Pedagogical Materials by TESOL International owing to your expertise and creativity in designing pedagogical materials. You were also the recipient of the 2014 Humanities Teaching Excellence Award and the 2017 TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST Issues. Could you highlight the main thrust of your research paper on NNEST issues to our valued readers from TESOL community and beyond?
In my research under one of my current SSHRC grants, I am working to contribute to refugee resettlement efforts by developing culturally sensitive language training, which is critical to integrating refugee learners into the Canadian workforce and society. Faced with limited funding and resources, Canada is having to address enormous challenges related to language training as it seeks to resettle an unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees. As headlines have reported, over 36 cities across Canada are encountering critical problems related to language training for refugees. My work, which draws on approaches to teaching language that are backed by the most up-to-date theories and research, aims to identify the language-learning needs of the Syrian refugees and integrate them into a language-training program that builds on their own rich linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The project incorporates several sources of data to capture their specific needs, including needs assessment surveys, interviews with learners and teachers, and learner corpora. This work will also help practitioners working with refugee learners, and will be extended to any instructor interested in developing lessons or units that are grounded in theory and empirically substantiated, and that draw on learners' own languages to scaffold English-language learning based on task performance. The final phase of this work will involve empirically substantiating the instructional materials and approach.
You are currently an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Learning and Teaching Scholar-in-Residence. What courses do you teach for graduate programs at UVic? As an NNES teacher educator, what opportunities and challenges have you experienced working at your university so far?
I teach mainly core courses that survey key areas in the broader field of applied linguistics and research methods. A great deal of my time in the graduate program is devoted to mentoring the students' research projects required for their doctoral candidacy papers or theses/dissertations. These have involved a wide range of topics, including testing and assessment, learner strategies, refugee resettlement, EAP needs, instructional approaches and methods for French as a second language, language-teaching methods in language revitalization, Japanese pedagogical material development, second language writing, game-based learning, and vocabulary learning in Russian. For me personally, one of my biggest ongoing challenges, as for many of us in our line of work, revolves around work-life balance. I am often asked whether or not I sleep! Maintaining a high level of engagement and time commitment to do the job well and meet personal and professional expectations is time consuming. Being an NNES instructor and imposing high standards of work on myself often doubles the amount of time I need to complete my work. There are also the issues posed by the growing evidence for inherent gender and race-related biases, whether explicit or implicit, in student evaluations. So being acknowledged by awards for pedagogical material design, teaching, and research and being placed in the category of "a very small, very exceptional coterie of professors who earn top ratings from students" has been truly uplifting and heartening. As an NNES teacher educator, I see a great many opportunities working with the next generation of teachers and teacher educators. This past term, for example, among three articles published by ELT journals in 2017 that I offered as options for my students to choose one to explore (following my approach detailed in my article), the group selected the article about equity and enrichment in the TESOL practicum. The wonderful discussion that ensued inspired in all of us a great deal of hope and optimism about the progress of the profession in the hands of these future teachers, NES and NNES alike, with whom I have had the privilege to work. Raising awareness is a first step to creating ripple effects that can transform our own individual and collective practices, and thereby change the state of our professional community.
What advice would you give to your NNES students at UVic and TESOL professionals who wish to succeed as EFL instructors and researchers in Canadian schools/colleges/universities? What advice would you provide to graduate students (Master's and Ph.D.) trying to publish their research works in peer-reviewed journals?
I'm not sure I have the best advice to offer those wishing to succeed as instructors and researchers in Canada because this work has been a life-long quest of my own. In my work of training future ELT professionals, my deep commitment to connecting theory, research, and practice is known to any student who has taken my courses. These courses are carefully built around facilitating various tasks and activities that require students to experiment throughout the term, so they can learn experientially how to apply the theories and discussions they have read in research articles written for practitioners. Specifically, they make the application through their own experimentations in a recursive and cyclical process involving feedback, reflection, and revisions, as they build their professional practical knowledge and repertoires. Never stop experimenting with your approaches and methods, and never stop challenging your own assumptions, are not only words of advice for my students, but are also what I practice personally. For practicing teachers, I would go a step further to encourage them to share their discoveries with other instructors, whether informally or through presentations and publications, as I have also sought to do over the years. For instance, I have written many posts for various trade publications that are the fruit of such experimentations.
It's fair to say that in order to connect theory, research, and practice in this way, I believe that practitioners must stay abreast of the literature and research on pedagogy so they can make informed decisions. I am a firm believer that no one can tell you unequivocally what will work best for you in your own teaching contexts, or that there is a one-size-fits-all solution to your teaching challenges. And certainly, no study in the sea of literature can tell your particular story or directly answer your own teaching-related questions. It is only through experimenting and testing our own hypotheses—whether informally through trial and error, or formally if your institution supports such professional development through action research or SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning)—that we can continue to reflect on our experiences and improve our practices. Seek out peers or colleagues who share similar interests and would be interested in collaborating on research directly relevant to your own teaching. Then mobilize or translate that knowledge so that those who share similar challenges can benefit from your insights. For early career teachers, my advice would be to seek out opportunities to hone your skills and develop your expertise. Speaking from my personal experience, the countless hours I have put into developing a lesson, course, series, or program, whether remunerated or not, cannot be replaced by any amount of training, classroom learning, or textbook reading.
For graduate students trying to publish their work, there is no shortage of advice offered by those who have dedicated their lives and work to helping other emerging (and established) scholars publish (e.g., @write4research, @ThomsonPat, and @explorstyle). This is a complex area that deserves more than a brief response, but if I had to choose one piece of advice from which I would have benefited during my early career (and as I look at the manuscripts I never returned to!), I would encourage these students to look at "revise and resubmit" in a positive light. (This is one reason I encourage graduate students in all my courses to revise and resubmit their work as many times as they like.) Take heed of the astute advice offered by Robert MacIntosh and the wise words of Robert Graves: "There is no such thing as good writing. Only good rewriting." Writers have different approaches to writing, and there are no right or wrong answers; find out what works optimally for you—when, where, how, with whom, and why. Learn to deal with (even harsh) rejections because they come with the territory, and write your own story of perseverance.
We often come across discriminatory job advertisements on social media, websites of various ELT/TEFL/TESL industry (i.e., universities, colleges, private language and training schools) that tend to perpetuate the ideology of native speakerism. Could you shed light on Canadian EFL/ELT academic contexts with regard to hiring policies and practices? How do you think ELT/TESOL educators should address this prevalent issue of bias and discrimination to bring social justice and professional equity?
This is a really challenging, sensitive, and emotionally charged question for many, and one that is difficult for me to respond thoughtfully and succinctly. I cannot speak to the Canadian ELT context with regard to hiring policies and practices because I do not have the expertise, nor have I immersed myself in the literature enough to form an objective viewpoint. However, I do think it fair to say that it is not uncommon to come across or experience discriminatory practices. My most recent encounters have been related to, in one case, serving on a search committee where I experienced overt biases that for me shattered the façade of the hiring process. Another case relates to a hiring post listing "no Asian face" and "native speaker only" as among the qualifications shared by an admirable, outspoken twitter user. The eye-opening experience was the number of responses arguing that there was nothing wrong with making "native speakers only" one of the eligibility criteria, which underscores the challenges ahead of us. Having said that, I also recognize that in recent years, because the ideology of native speakerism has risen to the surface, our collective consciousness of its ramifications has also increased considerably, thanks to scholars and practitioners whose work has prompted reflection and a call for change. Various professional bodies have also taken a strong stance on equity issues related to our profession. My own awareness of these issues, though not necessarily related to hiring, has also greatly increased because of recent life occurrences heightened by the current geopolitical climate. I've learned that statements about diversity, inclusion, and equity are not enough, nor are they sufficient in combating implicit or structural bias and discrimination. In the post-secondary context, it is, however, encouraging to see the work by Frances Henry and other race-focused and social justice scholars who have joined forces to push us to think and examine more deeply the ways that race and racism play out on Canadian campuses over issues related to equity in pay and hiring, the lack of visibility of racialized faculty, and racial discrimination. These have been treated using empirical evidence in their work titled "The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities" (2017).
Certainly, we still have a long road ahead to affect changes at the micro- and macro-levels, but I also believe in my heart of hearts that, first and foremost, one does not have to engage in discriminatory practices in order to be an impediment to equity in our profession. Silence will do it. Silence is never neutral. As Nelson Flores has encouraged us: "Disrupt the notion of right/white ELT qualifications by sharing experiences of racist nativism in order to prompt reflection" (2017). Above all, I hope that we will all consider lending support to our less privileged colleagues. It's one thing to proclaim to care about equity and diversity, but another thing entirely to put such a proclamation into action. To borrow the words of Deb DeHass, "It is everyone's responsibility, every day and at every level, to create the culture that can make [inclusion] happen." It starts with me, with you, and with the voices of many other people.
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After months of trying to remove her father, Jamie Spears, from her conservatorship, pop sensation Britney Spears' legal battles have hit another snag.
Britney Spears' $57m fortune at risk
by Grant Hodgson, the Sun
10th Oct 2020 10:27 AM
Britney Spears' $57 million fortune is at risk by her "refusal to perform" and a "burn rate" of lawyer fees, new court documents obtained exclusively by The Sun claim.
The paperwork also reveals Britney, who this week stripped down to tights and a crop top as she filmed herself dancing around her LA home, won't consider getting onstage or in a recording studio again until she gets to run her finances the way she wants.
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The star, who last performed in Las Vegas in December 2017, is trying to employ a new legal team so that she can appoint the New York-based Bessemer Trust to manage her affairs.
But her dad Jamie, who controls the pursestrings to her cash as head of her conservatorship, says the cost is too high.
Britney wants to employ the Loeb & Loeb law firm to replace her father and make the independent Bessemer Trust her conservator.
But their fees said to be between $590 and $945 an hour is not "in the best interest of Ms. Spears given the inevitable, very substantial expense that would be incurred" her dad says in the paperwork.
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Jamie's attorney says in new documents: "The 'burn rate' that the Estate is experiencing is high, and Ms. Spears has determined not to work at this time.
"Mr. Spears remains concerned about the 'burn rate' and at the same time, believes it is in Ms. Spears' best interest to ensure that Ms. Spears may return to work with ease if she wishes to do so in the future.
"Of course Mr. Spears acknowledges that her decision to work is completely up to Ms. Spears."
The 38-year-old mum of two has been trying to remove her dad from her conservatorship for several months now.
Britney's legal rep, Sam Ingham, says in reply: "Britney simply does not share Jamie's vision of a future in which she resumes performing and leaves the management of her estate completely to him as she did in the past.
Britney Spears with dad Jamie. Picture: Supplied.
"Instead she has nominated Bessemer Trust as an independent, extremely well qualified full service financial advisor with whom she can work collaboratively to plan for her future needs, whether or not she ever chooses to perform again.
"The only way to ensure Britney's voice is heard will be for her to have qualified litigation counsel available in order to place her on a level playing field with Jamie."
He argues there won't be an "inevitable, very substantial expense" by employing new lawyers, adding that her father's reps just need to pick up the phone to sort the problem out.
"His counsel are always welcome to pick up the phone to discuss a resolution," the docs say.
The paperwork also reveals that Britney's estate spent $300,000 on lawyer fees fighting a separate case against her former manager, Sam Lufti.
He and Britney fought a long-running libel case which started in 2009 and ended in 2016 when he was awarded a figure reportedly in the low six figures.
Jamie Spears is due back in court – with daughter Britney – on October 14.
Britney has her own court appointed lawyer Sam Ingham while her dad uses the law firm Freeman, Freeman & Smiley.
Britney's estate pays all its costs, said to have run into "millions" since her affairs were taken over by the conservatorship in 2008 following her well-publicised breakdown.
Dustin Strand, one of the organisers of the Free Britney movement which is trying to end her conservatorship, said: "Britney's dad is just delaying things so that he maintains control which ironically is also costing a huge amount of money.
"Britney has spent millions in legal fees over more than a decade because of this unfair conservatorship.
The 'Free Britney' movement is trying to end her conservatorship. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images.
"Her dad is now fighting her every step of the way and it's really sad for them both to have got to this stage."
Britney's conservatorship will be back in court in Los Angeles on October 14.
This article originally appeared on the Sun and was reproduced here with permission
Originally published as Britney Spears' $57m fortune at risk
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