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Kyle Busch Busted Doing 128 in a 45, in a Lexus LFA
NASCAR racer Kyle Busch is used to going stupid fast. Normally it's behind the wheel of his M&Ms sponsored No. 18 Toyota race car, but in what Busch describes as a "lack of judgement" the pro driver was recently clocked test driving a yellow Lexus LFA at a speed that is plenty fast, and even more stupid.
In a statement released today, Busch apologized after being busted driving 128-mph in a 45 mph zone near his house in Mooresville, N.C. The vehicle he was piloting is none other than the LFA supercar, one of just 500 to be built by Toyota's Lexus luxury division, with a 552-hp V10 engine and a $375,00 price tag.
"I apologize to the public, my fans, sponsors, and race teams for my lack of judgment," said Busch in a statement. "I take responsibility for my actions and I can assure you that something like this will never happen again. I thank the Iredell County Sheriff's Department and all law enforcement for the hard work they do every day to protect the public and to enforce the laws in a fair and equitable manner."
Busch is currently ranked third in the Sprint Cup standings and the incident is not expected to affect his status as a NASCAR driver. It could, however, have a less than positive impact on his sponsorship agreement.
Get more: Kyle Busch Busted at AutoGuide.com
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He's going to be driven around for a while and do a bunch of community service.
Maybe he should have gone down to the Charlotte track.
^^^yeah. I bet if it was me I'd be slammed to the ground and my car towed/impounded. I don't know, maybe it would be worth it if I had an LFA.
lol, crazy bastard, I'd so be in jail
2015 RC-F from 2008 IS-F...very happy :nerd:
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I guess thats the perks of being famous. Where he lives NASCAR drivers are like celebrities in hollywood. They get away with anything.
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Cultural Change as an Institutional Strategy
The University of Freiburg sets its sights on the future following the decision in the "Universities of Excellence" funding line
Freiburg, Jul 19, 2019
Photo: Sandra Meyndt
The University of Freiburg has ranked among the top ten German universities for years in all important rankings, yet its proposal in the "Universities of Excellence" funding line of the Excellence Strategy was not approved for funding. "We are very disappointed about this decision, particularly in view of the fact that our performance data tell a different story," says Rector Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer. "We're on the right track with our institutional strategy on the theme 'Connecting Creative Minds – Trinational, European, Global,' which more than 1000 people from all of the university's status groups contributed to developing with great dedication," emphasizes Schiewer. "We will continue to put our collective effort into establishing a new university culture marked by courage and creative impulses beyond classical hierarchies. We are determined to persist in our endeavor to develop an internationally recognized and attractive European university, thus further improving our prospects for success with new, strong proposals in future competitions for funding at the national and European levels."
With the help of the so-called university allowance from the "Clusters of Excellence" funding line, we intend to implement individual measures from our Excellence proposal: With "Saltus!," we will create a new funding format at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and at the future Freiburg Innovation Center (FRIZ) for promoting high-risk and promising fundamental research projects as well as startup initiatives. The program "Co-Creation" will encourage the dialogue between various status groups: Students researchers, and members of administrative, service, and technical staff will receive the possibility to form small teams with the necessary expertise to solve concrete problems, thus providing the university with fresh impetus. Furthermore, the University of Freiburg and its partners will continue developing their cross-border research collaboration in the trinational Upper Rhine region. The success of the consortium "European Partnership for an Innovative Campus Unifying Regions" (EPICUR), which was approved in June 2019 in the European Union's European Universities Initiative and in which the University of Freiburg is participating, exemplifies the potential of this involvement at the European level.
To become a "University of Excellence" at a later date, the University of Freiburg must have at least two Clusters of Excellence. In Freiburg, the funding for the current clusters CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies and livMatS – Living, Adaptive, and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems is assured until the end of 2025. In coming competitions, the university aims to apply for an extension in funding for these two research clusters and to apply for funding for new clusters in particularly strong university profile areas in order to continue to meet the requirements for attaining the status of a University of Excellence in the future.
Statement by Martin Horn, Mayor of the City of Freiburg
"That's a real pity for the more than 1000 people who worked toward this goal with vigor and dedication. The competition in the field of applicants, including six from Baden-Württemberg, was extremely tight. The decision was a matter of details. In spite of the disappointment, the decision must serve as a incentive for our University of Freiburg to continue resolutely on its path. Freiburg has an excellent university. And it will rise to the challenge of earning the title of University of Excellence in the future."
Quelle: Cultural Change as an Institutional Strategy — Office of University and Science Communications
https://kommunikation.uni-freiburg.de/pm-en/press-releases-2019/cultural-change-as-an-institutional-strategy ( Feb 01, 2023 )

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Q: Filtering based on object type I am consuming messages from a queue and after doing some processing, I need to route the messages to different services.
Queue -> service (activator) -> router
Currently I am using a chain containing service activator and payload based router. The problem is that the router lets to send to a channel only but I would want it to go another service.

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Queue -> service-activator -> publish-subscribe-channel-> Your services
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Lovely sized toms for this time of year. Envioscity is not the word. Not that I am growing toms this year. Am realising that my energies have been completely sapped and age is slapping me in the face with utmost abandon. Would love my own toms but…….each time I go out in the garden I find something to be done that is hard fo me to do. Perhaps I am lacking in something? Perhaps there is some sort of thing I should be ingesting, but what?
Do the cats 'up your way' nick baby tomato plants, too? Honestly, the time was when they were happy chasing birds. Must be a new super-breed of moggies, hey?
They don't take things away, but you don't want them after they've finished!


Antonio the Bull kissed this wine and fell in love. Now he travels the world to share it. Beso de Vino, the most international brand of the winery, designed by the Factory of Ideas and Drawings Kukuxumusu©.
Beso de Vino represents the creativity, ingenuity, vibrancy and happiness of the Spanish and it has positioned itself as the ideal brand to be enjoyed every day because of the extraordinary quality-price ratio.
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Walhydra's Porch
The Surly Librarian
The Empty Path.
Nonaligned faith and practice in the present
"Walhydra's salutary moment" – from October 25, 2006
Tags nostalgia, Walhydra's Porch 07/05/2020 Mike Shell
Walhydra likes to believe that her nostalgia is not as tacky and self-deceptive as some people's.
She thinks back on her youth—sometime in another century—as a time when she and her peers were profoundly affected by the liberation movements and communal aspirations of their era. Not to mention their discovery of sex…and those other two things.
This present Calvinist age mixes sensationalizing with trivializing of that earlier time, in order to sneer at the heartfelt cries of its children. Walhydra, middleclass, professional, aging hippie that she is, knows something different.
Last night, after an especially satisfying day of work and a similarly rewarding Taoist Tai Chi class, Walhydra was standing in the parking lot, talking to hubby Jim on her cell phone.
"We"ve just finished. How 'bout joining me at Tenbuck's?"
"Okay. See you there."
Though she knows it's not really this simple, Walhydra tends to divide the world into bar people and coffeehouse people.
Having joined the latter camp in high school, she now recognizes coffeehouse life as part of how she stays young. Well, ageless, at least.
There is a constant stream of ages and of ethnic and social class varieties coming through the door—especially in the Tenbuck's of this city's bohemian Five Points area. More to the point, the twenty-something baristas are the same folks, several generations on, that Walhydra hung out with in college.
Walhydra loves to watch hubby Jim, now Doctor Doctor Jim, professor of statistics, teasing and chatting with youngsters the age of his own undergrad students. When she's not busy studying or writing, Walhydra joins in the bemused, leftish political head-shaking.
Either that or, smiling to herself, she settles back for a discreet, old guy, "intellectually horny" lust after the same sort of slender, elfin boys she used to watch from her closet when she was their age.
Now, Walhydra acknowledges a mild case of "homosexual arrested development." But she doesn't mean what the neo-Calvinist, neo-Freudian psychiatrists of the mid-20th century meant.
She means that the homophobia of her era kept her from experimenting with and maturing into gay sexuality while she was still a teenager—when all her straight peers got to do their version. Walhydra had to learn about teen-lust-disguised-as-love in her mid-twenties.
So…even though she's already their grandparents' age, she still watches—with a sober, aesthetic regret—the sort of boys she couldn't play with back then. It's not pederasty. Just appreciation—and, yes, nostalgia.
She smiles at hubby Jim, life mate of over twenty years, all the while envying this newer tribe of gay, straight and "other" kids, for whom the closet ended almost as soon as puberty hit.
Then she hears the opening chords of Carlos Santana's "Black Magic Woman." Ah. Tenbuck's plays such great classical music!
She tries to explain to JimJim the viscerally aesthetic experience of riding the remembered guitar riff of a master. "It's like…being the strings themselves…," she attempts, ineffectually.
Hubby Jim has a way of rolling his eyes indulgently, without appearing to do so. He knows the opening of a rant when he hears one.
"It gets me how now days they do such a superficial, we're-so-much-more-realistic portrayal of Those Years!" Walhydra says. "And all these acquisitive teens and yuppies—yes, I know that's an old term!—with their MySpace and MyHummer and MyGrande-Lowfat-Splenda-Caramel-Cask-of-Amantilladicino!"
She huddles over her plain doppio espresso in the "for here" ceramic cup.
"But it was real!" she insists to hubby Jim, who knows it was.
"The genuine, deep, religious connection at those rock concerts! No flashpots, mobile mics, video screens or lip-synching. Just the longing for real community!"
As she pauses, they both hear with horror the opening lines of a very different song:
No, I can't forget the evening
Or your face as your were leaving….
"Oh, no!" Jim winces with mock alarm.
"Quick," says Walhydra. "Let's get out here before he reaches that awful chorus!"
They grab up books and papers and jackets and head for the door.
Outside on the patio, their young, off-duty barista friends are gathered round with their own beautiful, multiracial crowd, joking together and playing with a disposable digital camera.
Walhydra nods to one of the boys she knows. "Watch out," she warns, nodding toward the outdoor speakers. "He's getting to the chorus!" She sees that the other youngsters are glancing at each other, having recognized the song.
As she steps off the curb, Walhydra turns to them and grins stupidly. "Now, everybody do a Pepsi commercial."
Whether or not they've heard her, they move together spontaneously and fling out their arms at just the right moment, singing along in falsetto with Harry Nilsson:
I can't liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive
If living is without you….
The camera flashes accidentally and the girls giggle.
Walhydra gets a warm glow. They do remember!
This story was originally published on Walhydra's Porch in 2006. Walhydra is, of course, my grouchy old crone storytelling persona, annoyed that for this incarnation she has come back as a gay male, would-be writer.
Image: "Latte art," by Mike Shell, from Bold Bean Coffee Roasters, Riverside, Jacksonville, FL (11/8/2017).
Image: Cover for Abraxas, the 1970 Carlos Santana album that includes "Black Magic Woman" (listen at https://youtu.be/I_SOAdAxFfo0).
The album cover features the 1961 painting Annunciation by German-French painter Mati Klarwein. Santana had "just discovered that music and color are food for the soul." When he saw this painting, it captured the spirit of what he was doing with his music (see "Santana's 'Abraxas'," on the Groovy History website (4/6/2019).
For more on the historical impact of this song, see "Santana On 'Black Magic Woman,' A Pioneering Cultural Mashup" by Felix Contreras, NPR's Morning Edition (5/9/2016).
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This unit embraces the Primary Health Care Policy of the Ministry of Health – thus; focusing on basic chronic health diseases/challenges directly affecting the population.
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Die ROKiT World Seniors Championship 2021 war ein Snookerturnier der World Seniors Tour. Es fand vom 6. bis 9. Mai statt. Sie war die zehnte Ausgabe des Turniers, seit sie 2010 als regelmäßige Veranstaltung eingeführt wurde. Zum dritten Mal war das Crucible Theatre im englischen Sheffield der Austragungsort. Dort hatte zuvor zweimal in Folge Jimmy White den Titel geholt.

Im Finale setzte sich der Engländer David Lilley mit 5:3 gegen seinen Landsmann Jimmy White durch und gewann damit zum ersten Mal die World Seniors Championship.

Qualifikation
Wie im Vorjahr bestritten 16 Teilnehmer das Turnier.
Eingeladen wurden unter anderem
  Jimmy White (Titelverteidiger)
  Michael Judge (Nummer eins der Seniorenrangliste)
  Stephen Hendry (siebenfacher Weltmeister)

Wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie und der geltenden Einreise- und Quarantänebestimmungen, sagten Cliff Thorburn und, wie schon im Vorjahr, Tony Drago ab und der Vertreter des amerikanischen Verbands PABSA Bob Chaperon aus Kanada wurde vom noch aktiven brasilianischen Profi Igor Figueiredo ersetzt.

6 Spieler qualifizierten sich über die World Seniors Q School, die in zwei Veranstaltungen im Januar und im April 2021 ausgetragen wurde. Barry Pinches und David Lilley qualifizierten sich im ersten, Patrick Wallace, Lee Walker, Darren Morgan und Phil Williams im zweiten Turnier.

Turnierverlauf
Die Spiele der ersten Runde wurden im Vergleich zum Vorjahr auf Best-of-5 verkürzt, die nächsten beiden Runden blieben bei Best-of-7 und das Finale wurde über maximal neun Frames entschieden. Die erste Runde wurde auf Donnerstag und Freitag verteilt, das Viertelfinale fand am Samstag und Halbfinale und Finale fanden am Sonntag statt.

Finale

Century-Breaks
Es wurden im Turnierverlauf 4 Century-Breaks erzielt:

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It's estimated 82% of adults are regular coffee drinks, but on hot summer days is drinking a mug of coffee really the best refreshing drink? I don't know about you, but I really go off tea and coffee during the warmer months but sometimes I just crave that delicious coffee taste. That's where cold brew comes in to save the day!
Unsweetened Black & While Cold Brew made with almond milk - it's 100% GMO free, free from gluten, suitable for vegans and soy free too. This cold brew is a dream enjoyed just by itself, but I love blending it into smoothies to create a refreshing, cooling, summer coffee drink. My go-to recipe is a coffee & coconut blend, and lucky you....I'm sharing the recipe in this blog post!
This Coffee & Coconut layered smoothie tastes so indulgent (almost like a dessert!) but it's also loaded with goodness, only contains natural ingredients, there's no added refined sugars and it looks pretty too! If you want, you don't have to create two smoothies and layer them but simply add all the ingredients in one go - I just like the contrasting colours and it makes it super fun to drink.
The cold brew coffee layers are made with frozen banana, almond butter and the Califia Farms cold brew coffee - delicious, rich and super flavoursome! The coconut layers are made using frozen banana, desiccated coconut and Califia Farms coconut milk which I love as it has no added sweeteners or artificial ingredients (plus it tastes so creamy!).
Both these Califia Farms products are available in Sainsbury's stores nationwide, as well as some of their other products including their vanilla almond milk which I'm obsessed with!


We have the workflow with syndication step. All has been working fine, but sudenly today syndication is not working. There is only an information in log: "The system cannot locate the resource specified. Error processing resource "
Manual syndication works fine, but it is not working with workflow.
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We just opened syndication map and closed it. since then it started working. I do not know what happened.


Over the past decade or so the Paralympic Games has established itself as a major sporting event in its own right. Each edition delivers hundreds of compelling stories created by thousands of athletes in front of millions of viewers.
This Nielsen Sports report examines the rising interest in the Paralympics, its growing status as a media product and how the games already works for partners. It also highlights the opportunity it provides to change attitudes – and, critically, what that might mean for current and future para-sports sponsors.
By almost any measure, London 2012 has been the most successful edition to date, building on the successful summer games in Beijing four years earlier: more viewers, more recognition for athletes and more interest in para-sports. That also stimulated new commercial opportunities for brands at either a global or national level, a chance to associate themselves with great athletes, growing profiles, and events that are growing in stature.


The Oxford English Dictionary defines Light as; (noun) the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible.
A few weeks ago I signed up to Belinda Davidson's School of The Modern Mystic Level 1 online course 'The journey into the white discovering your life's purpose'. This course is about what most bloggers I follow would call "woo-woo" stuff. So far I've gathered it's about meditating, using the power of white light, to cleanse my Chakra's in order to make my life better (there is a lot more to it than this, but you get the gist).
It sounds oh so easy! Just sit or lie down for a little while and BAM! Squeaky clean Chakra's and a brand new life!! But alas, nothing worth having comes easily and meditation is hard. I get up really early in the morning and turn the mp3 on, I lie down and try to relax, my mind wanders, I get fidgety from sitting/lying still for too long, I fall asleep (sometimes I drewl…) BUT what do I get in return? So far, I feel really relaxed and happy during the day. I also feel more space in my life, it's a strange feeling, but the only way I can describe it is it's like all the cobwebs sticking everything together have been cleared out, some dusting has been done and now I have space to focus on the things that are important to me. I've only been doing the meditation for two weeks every couple of days, it's pretty powerful stuff! And I'm not even staying conscious for the whole thing! Imagine how I'll feel when I can consciously focus on the meditation the whole time.
Over the past two weeks I've struggled, wondering why I find it so difficult to stay focused and awake during the meditation and finally I read that meditating is like working out, and it is! As soon as I read that I realised how silly I've been to give myself a hard time, no one has ever won a marathon without doing some serious training! Like wise I need to "walk" before I can metaphorically run.
So I'm super excited about what the course has to offer me, it runs for six months and even if I get nothing from it but more calm and space in my life, I'll be pretty happy. I'd also be pretty happy if I could complete the mediation completely comfortable, focused and relaxed from start to finish.
I've always been quite spiritual and from my very earliest memory of what I thought life was about, (before scripture or church or well meaning Aunts), was that of reincarnation, but I think my idea was rather warped… Every time I think about this memory I see a chicken… weird, I remember thinking that if I didn't get this life exactly right, I would have to keep living the same life over and over until I got it perfect. A little OCD maybe? It must be where I got my sense of perfectionism from. I've also had various spiritual "happenings" such as Astral Travelling involuntarily to check on one of my patient's at work, I was pretty worried about her and I guess my spirit was too.
So that is why I feel I've "clicked" with what Belinda Davidson writes about in her blog. If none of you have heard of Belinda Davidson, I'd get on her blog pronto! She is a wonderful woman, with a very special gift that she is freely sharing with the world (free white light healings of a Monday evening, get on it!). Belinda has really great stories and insights into life, reading her blog is a joy.
Anywho, it's getting late and I have to get up early because I have a date with an mp3. Just wanted to let you all know about this wonderful little journey I've embarked on.


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Bruce Robertson
Founder & CEO, Gulu Agricultural Development Company
Bruce Robertson is the founder and CEO of Gulu Agricultural Development Company Ltd. Through GADC he invested in northern Uganda in 2009 as it emerged from the murderous reign of the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony. Starting by buying and ginning cotton, GADC has branched into sesame and chillies, and now trains 60,000 farmers across northern Uganda in agronomy, financial management and organisation development. GADC has also planted 500 ha of timber and 60 ha macadamias. Bruce has worked with the Ugandan government, cotton farmers and other ginners for the last decade and a half to rebuild the cotton crop after Idi Amin's regime destroyed it. He is the Chairman of the Uganda Ginners and Cotton Exporters' Association which provides farming inputs to 300,000 cotton farmers. From 1991 to 1995, Bruce was general manager of Premier International Development where he was responsible for trade in wheat flour, maize, and edible oils for Premier Group in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also investigated investment opportunities for Premier in other African nations. He was Regional Coordinator of Consultative Business Movement from 1990 to 1991 (Johannesburg Region). He was responsible for establishing dialogue between business leaders and political leaders in the area of economic policy, development and conflict resolution. Bruce was educated at Hilton College, University of Natal (MS, Agricultural Economics) and University of Cambridge (MPhil, Economics and Politics of Development). He is married to Janina Masojada, has two young children, Aleks and Klara and lives in Durban. In his spare time he runs, surfs, plays polo, and reads. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa and a moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Your Nigerian Economist
Inclusive growth lies at the heart of Nigeria's development. From macroeconomic policies to energy resources; trade to development topics, Your Nigerian Economist engages the citizenry in discussing relevant economic issues and proffers solutions towards a fairer, more developed economy.
Nigerians are educated and jobless
Mma Amara Ekeruche
Amara works as a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA). She holds a BA (first class) in Economics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and an MSc in Economic Policy from University College London.
Educated Nigerians are becoming unemployed at an alarming rate. According to the recent unemployment report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), unemployment among people with post-secondary school education has almost tripled within three years—from 12% in 2015 to 30% in 2018. Even the most academically qualified Nigerian workers are struggling with unemployment: nearly 10,000 PhD holders are currently unemployed.
When you consider that the national unemployment rate is at 23%, you realise that an educated Nigerian is more likely to be unemployed than the average Nigerian. In short, the likelihood that you have a job is lower if you have gone to university. Education no longer provides the assurance of getting a job and this has many implications for parents striving to put their children through school, students extending themselves to get a degree, and the government that intends to build the economy on the back of a productive workforce.
Part of the problem lies with the slow rate at which the Nigerian economy is creating formal jobs. For instance, in 2015 alone, about 251,000 formal jobs were created whereas popular estimates show that Nigerian universities produce 500,000 graduates annually. At the same time, key sectors are shedding jobs. About 350,000 jobs were lost in the petroleum downstream oil sector following the 2016 economic recession.
A young and growing population does not help matters. Essentially, too many people are chasing too few jobs. While Nigeria's labour force grew by nearly 4% between 2010 and 2017, jobs grew at a rate of just 1.6% in the same period. The future remains bleak for graduates if formal jobs are not created at a considerably faster rate considering that the country has a young population and many people still in school.
Another reason why Nigeria has so many educated and jobless people is that there is a mismatch between the skills that workers have and the skills needed in the jobs available. Many educated people are not trained to suit the demand of employers. This is attributed to the poor alignment between labour market needs and the curriculum the education system teaches. There is a wide gap between theory and practice in universities, such that it becomes difficult to apply taught courses to real-world issues. Instances have been given of people who graduate with a degree in computer engineering but still have never used a computer.
Even worse, local employers have said that many graduates cannot read and write, and do not have adequate numeracy skills. On the other hand, labour market entrants have criticised employers for expecting an unreasonable level of work experience with no opportunities for mentoring at the beginning phase of the job.
As a way to solve the unemployment crisis, the Federal Government started the N-Power programme to empower and upskill young graduates by providing them with short-term job opportunities in agriculture, schools, health centres and tax administration departments. The programme already has 200,000 beneficiaries and aims to cater to 300,000 more at completion. The private sector has also facilitated job creation through innovation centres where emerging entrepreneurs benefit from mentorship and funding. Co-Creation Hub, one of Nigeria's foremost innovation centres, has helped many start-ups—such as BudgIT and LifeBank—to scale. Civil society organisations have also attempted to alleviate the situation by training job seekers on necessary competencies and connecting them with employers. The West African Vocational Education (WAVE) Academy is active in this space. As at the end of 2017, the academy was training 2,000 youths on basic work competencies.
Despite these interventions, the livelihoods of many educated Nigerians are threatened. With no national safety net system in place, many cannot afford to be unemployed and have to make do with low-productivity and low-paying jobs that underutilise their skills, time and educational qualification. Unsurprisingly, underemployment within this group is 14%, pointing to a relatively high number settling with part-time work. It is now common for many skilled Nigerians to have multiple jobs or side hustles to maintain an adequate living standard. The high proportion of educated unemployed has also created a perverse trend: a slow transition from school to work. Although Nigerians have a flair for education, many have cited the lack of jobs as the reason for going for another degree.
On the bright side, the lack of jobs for educated Nigerians is fostering a sizeable entrepreneurial class, with roughly four out of five employed Nigerians working for themselves, according to the World Bank. However, the quality of these entrepreneurs is highly questionable, and many are mere imitators and are unlikely to become engines of economic growth or job creation. Moreover, not everybody—Your Nigerian Economist included—wants to run a business. Some of us want to be job takers and should have the opportunity to do so. Education should remain the gateway to our kind of success: Go to school, get a degree and get a job.
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Resource highlights industrial market opportunities for Canadian soybeans
By Ontario Soybean Growers
Nov. 17, 2009 -Soy 20/20, a Guelph-based organization that supports development and innovation for Canadian soybean products, has released a 16-page brochure, outlining some of those unique products, as a guide for new industrial market opportunities for Canadian soybeans.
Guelph, Ontario –Industrial Uses and Opportunities for Canadian Soybeans, a new brochure highlighting industrial market opportunities for Canadian soybeans, is now available. The goal of the 16-page resource, produced by Soy 20/20, is to generate awareness of the many new soy-based products and applications being developed, as well as those already commercially available.
"Bio-products are an emerging new market for Canadian soybeans that is just starting to evolve," says Jeff Schmalz, President of Soy 20/20, a Guelph-based organization that supports and develops new bioscience opportunities for Canadian soybeans. "Many people are familiar with food-based applications for soybeans, but this guide specifically focuses on the many exciting industrial developments that are happening as well."
The brochure describes various industrial applications for Canadian soybeans using oil, protein, hulls and other components of the plant. This includes wood adhesives, rubbers and plastics, inks and resins, foam, lubricants and fluids, paints and coatings, wax and biodiesel. Many of these applications are available for further development or commercialization.
The bio-products sector in Canada, which is being encouraged through organizations like Soy 20/20, will reduce dependence on fossil fuels and make manufacturing more environmentally friendly. It will also provide soybean farmers with more options to market their crops.
"Our goal at Soy 20/20 is to encourage the development of these new applications through increased investment in Canadian soybean processing businesses," says Murray Booth, Business Development Manager with Soy 20/20. "This is expected to generate more value for everyone along the value chain from plant breeders and farmers, to processors, distributors and end users of these innovative new products."
The brochure complements the resource released last year, called Canada's Soybean Value Chain. Copies of both are available from Soy 20/20 by calling 519-826-6559 or by visiting www.soy2020.ca. An additional brochure focusing on food-based applications for soybeans is planned for 2010.
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The Apprentice!
It's that time of year again – the leaves are turning and Lord Sugar is back on our TV screens with 20 aggressive new hopefuls on the new series of The Apprentice.
As we watch keenly to see which of them makes the grade and which gets the finger pointed at them, the spotlight falls on the real apprentice schemes which have given half a million people a chance of gaining a recognised qualification while earning a salary.
From SME's to multinationals, the apprentice scheme is catching on, but recruitment specialists The Works are still dealing with a gap in the specialist skills market, particularly in engineering. Chairman and founder of The Works, Craig Burton believes that more youngsters should be encouraged into apprentice schemes to fill this skill shortage, despite the intial low wages. "The minimum wage for a 16 yr old school leaver on the apprentice scheme is currently £2.73 which I admit doesn't sound a lot, but it's over £100 in your pocket at the end of the week" says Craig.
"The scheme can provide training in the kind of skillset like engineering that we constantly see a lack of. Along with on the job training, a foot in the door, being an apprentice teaches you about the responsibilities of working and will, in most cases, lead to a step up the ladder once completed".
"Rolls-Royce has had an Apprenticeship programme for over 100 years with five Apprenticeship programmes in the UK. In 2013 recruited nearly 300 apprentices, bringing the number to over 1000 apprentices on its programmes around the world, so we have to change our opinions of apprentice schemes as just another number crunching exercise by the government to reduce unemployment figures. My theory wold be to market the schemes to the parents as much as the students, parents being the influencing factor that they are" continues Craig.
Why Choose An Apprentice Scheme?
Apprentice schemes are catching on with the top band of academic achievers, many of whom are now eschewing traditional university courses in favour of an apprenticeship with one of the UK's leading firms. Rather than incur student debts of up to £30,000, the real-life apprentices can bag salaries of up to £25,000 although most starting salaries are likely to be between £7000 and £15,000.
Wages tend to rise with each year of work and study, with an apprentice at Unilever starting on £13,400 but ending on £24,000 at the end of the three-year programme.
It's not hard to see the appeal of such schemes, a coveted place on the National Grid's engineering apprenticeship scheme pays around £23,500 rising to £30,000 after two years, with a company car thrown into the mix. Obviously, competition is high for these top schemes and they are often more highly subscribed than a place at Oxford. Top students with A* grades at GCSE and A Level compete to hear the words "You're hired".
It worked for me
One such lucky person was Leeds teenager Meghan Gallagher, who has been working on an apprentice scheme in the Audit department with Baker Tilly, Leeds for two years. Meghan is studying for an AAT qualification and started out by gaining a work experience placement with the firm, joining after leaving school with her A Levels. Meghan explains how the scheme has given her the opportunity for real hands on learning.
"As part of my induction process I learnt all about Baker Tilly on a national level; the firm as a whole, its strategies, aims, goals and where I as an individual fit into that."
The government backed apprentice scheme covers all areas of work, from Agriculture to Arts and Media. Vacancies are posted regularly on the internet such as the website http://www.leedsjandc.org.uk/new-apprenticeship-vacancies, which lists apprentice schemes in and around Leeds.
Despite the obvious success stories of the scheme, more companies do need to sign up and be a part of it. A recent YouGov poll suggested that apprentices are crucial to the survival of the UK's smaller firms.
Three quarters of senior decision makers at the UK's small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) said that apprentices were necessary for the future success of their businesses. However, only one in five plan to recruit more apprentices or graduates in the next year.
The poll suggested three reasons for this reluctance to hire and train new talent: 30pc of SMEs don't have the cash to invest in an apprenticeship scheme; 37pc blame low awareness among young people about the opportunities afforded by the SME sector; and 44pc think graduates and apprentices are more interested in working for bigger business.
If your company is interested in offering an apprenticeship, Government-run websites apprenticeships.org.uk and the National Careers Service can provide information and advice.
For up to date vacancies and more info visit www.theworksrec.co.uk


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Summer is right around the corner and so is Father's Day! For Father's Day gift ideas, head over to the What's New, Worth Checking Out & Current Sales page. If you're still stumped on how to show Dad your appreciation for him, then get him a gift card to Falling Water Gardens. Don't forget to mark your calendars for the Sorticulture Garden Arts Festival that is happening on June 8th-10th and our annual Father's Day Weekend Celebration on June 16th & 17th (Dad's get to take home a free goldfish).
For this month's How To, we address what may be happening in your pond right now. For plants looking good right now, head on over to the Cool Plants section. We also have our list of events and classes for June. For our most recent landscaping projects, click here.


The leadership and the influence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Samoa Water Authority, Matataualiitia Afa Lesa, has been acknowledged by the Pacific Water and Waste Association (P.W.W.A).
The former Cabinet Minister received the P.W.W.A Water Professional 2016 Award during the Association's gathering in Tonga recently.
It was one of five awards collected by S.W.A at the regional gathering.
Present at the Awards Ceremony was the Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure, Papali'itele Niko Lee Hang who was accompanied by the S.W.A Managing Director, Seugamaalii Jammie Saena, members of the management and staff.
Papalii Helen Lei Sam, of the Authority's Engineer Planning and Design Division collected two awards. The first was the P.W.W.A Young Female Water Professional 2016 Award. It recognizes a young female professional who has made a significant contribution to the water industry and general community and has demonstrated the potential to play an influential role in the Pacific water industry.
Papali'i went on to pick up the Best Presentation award following her presentation on the topic of "Water and Jobs." Papali'i and Peter Lokeni had submitted proposals and were accepted to present at this year's conference.
The fifth award collected by S.W.A was the Best Climate Resilience Water Utility award, recognising international best practices and adaptation measures in its systems and operations to minimize the impact of climate change on infrastructure and operations.
"The Authority is pleased with the recognition of its achievements in the development of water services in Samoa as well as being a prominent water utility in the Region," a statement from S.W.A says.
Judging of the awards was managed through a peer-review process by a panel of water sector experts from relevant areas of the industry, using the P.W.W.A Benchmarking process.
The member countries are Samoa, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Saipan, Marshall Island, Papua New Guinea, Tokelau, Guam, Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Fiji, Kiribati and Northern Mariana Islands., New Caledonia.
The Pacific Water and Waste Association is a regional organization comprising of 26 Pacific Island water and wastewater utilities across 20 member countries. Its mission is to enhance the delivery of quality water related services that enhance the wellbeing of the people throughout the pacific region.
Every year the Association gather to recognize and encourage corporations and individuals who have made significant contributions to the enhancement and delivery of quality water services in the region.


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L'OPL (pour Open Programming Language, précédemment Optimization Programming Language ou Organiser Programming Language) est le langage de programmation des ordinateurs Psion, apparu sur les modèles MC, comme dérivé du POPL des Organiser I et II.

Il existe une version pour les Series 3, une version étendue pour les Series 3a, 3c, Siena et 3 MX (gestion du niveau de gris, du plus grand écran etc.), et une version pour Series 5, très différente, gérant, par exemple, les menus cascadés ou l'écran tactile.

Il est possible de faire tourner les programmes écrits pour Series 3 en mode compatibilité sur les ordinateurs plus récents de la même architecture.

C'est un langage facile d'abord, grâce à la bonne documentation fournie par PSION, souvent à l'achat du matériel, et grâce à la présence, sur l'appareil, de l'éditeur de programmes et du compilateur.

Le langage est procédural, les variables sont typées et déclaratives, et le code est semi-compilé (réversible avec le logiciel revtrans).

L'éditeur étant limité à  pour le texte source (mais il y a déjà moyen de faire beaucoup dans cette limite), il existe un programme additionnel permettant de gérer les include.

Il est possible, également, d'incorporer dans l'OPL des parties de code en C.

Liens externes
Exemple de code OPL

Langage de programmation


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The actress rocked this solid peacock style Rodarte dress, embodying a whimsical frame while looking delectable.
The actress power played the boldness of red and black in this sequinned Prabal Gurung gown, while looking her polished best.
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Bringing a mega cape moment, the singer looked like a pure superhero in this Tadashi Shoji gold and white dress.
The actress wore an all-white Christian Siriano ensemble, keeping the styling simple and the drama of the skirt high.
Looking classic and gorgeous, the model opted for this simple Diane von Furstenberg black and red polka dotted gown.
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This object lesson is perfect to use at Halloween. Something that people use as decoration will remind children how Jesus saves them from their sin.
Needed: 2 jack-o-lanterns. One should have a frown carved, and should be warped and ugly. It shouldn't be cleaned out completely and shouldn't have a light in it. If you can, leave it to rot for a few days. The more disgusting it is, the better. The second jack-o-lantern should be clean, with a smile on its face and a candle in it.
Everywhere you go at this time of the year, you see jack-o-lanterns. Did you know jack-o-lanterns can remind you of how Jesus saved you. Before Jesus came into your heart, you were like this jack-o-lantern. Show first jack-o-lantern. You were full of sin and dirty inside. You had no light inside you, and you were very unhappy. But Jesus came into your heart and cleaned all the sin inside. Show the second jack-o-lantern. He gave you peace and put a smile on your face. He even shines His light through you. So everywhere you go this Halloween, when you see a jack-o-lantern, let it remind you of what Jesus did when He saved you.
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great way to use a wordly thing for Christ. I remember when God gave you the object lesson many moons ago.


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Delight in a dazzling array of festivals, events and shows from world-renowned to unique and local, year round in Ontario.
Celebrate creativity, pride and wine and culinary excellence in Ontario's many cities and communities. Ontario proudly hosts great music festivals and welcomes talented new and established artists at venues across the province. Discover a rich and colourful mosaic of local artists and live music venues. Our four distinct seasons keep things fresh in Ontario. From summer's festivals to spring's sweet maple treats, autumn's wine and cranberry festivals to winter's festivals of lights, there's always something happening in Ontario.
Celebrate winter with ice carving displays, kids activities and skating on the largest ice skating rink in the world.
Watch Shakespearean drama come to life, part of the Canadian Signature Experiences.
Three million colourful tulips and lots of fun activities.
A diverse festival of arts and creativity.
Ottawa is the place to be to celebrate on July 1st!
Enjoy military music and spectacle on Wednesday evenings during the summer.
Talented impersonators from around the world honour the King of Rock 'n Roll.
Summer sizzles with this Caribbean celebration.
One of the top film festivals in the world, features mainstream Hollywood productions to indie and international cinema.
Wine tastings, vineyard tours and concerts during grape harvest.
Colourful light displays and panoramic views of the icy Niagara Falls.
Captures the tradition of a European Christmas market.
A huge array of diverse festivals and events take place across the province. Ontario celebrates throughout the year! View events by location, type or date on the calendar below.


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World's Smallest Dolphin Needs Our Help. Endangered And Few Remain, It Will Shock You.
The last remaining 55 of world's rarest species of dolphins could disappear within three decades if New Zealand doesn't act now, wildlife advocates say.
The Last 55 campaign was launched by WWF-New Zealand at the Maritime Museum in Auckland today, calling on the Government to extend protection of marine reserves to cover the habitats of Maui's dolphins.
The campaign launched a petition to attempt to collect 55,000 signatures before this year's general election.
"Today, WWF is saying enough is enough. We're running out of time," said WWF-NZ executive director Chris Howe.
Maui's dolphins are an inshore coastal species with limited home range, slow to breed, and only found in the West Coast of the North Island.
The species has been in rapid decline since the fishing practice of set-netting and trawling was introduced during the 1970s, when the dolphins numbered around 1800.


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The Portland Stage Affiliate Artists present and participate in a diverse range of programs each season, dedicated to exploring new theatrical works, bringing the written word to the stage, and welcoming the community into the theater. Click here for information about our Studio Series.
Unless otherwise noted, all Affiliate Artists events take place on the Portland Stage Mainstage at 25A Forest Avenue in Portland and are open to the public on a pay-what-you-can basis.
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Pro-ISIS Hackers Targeting Media Outlets
Recent widely publicized cyberattacks have made clear that nation-state hackers are now hacking companies for political purposes and they appear to be focused on broadcasters and other media companies.
For example, last week, self-proclaimed Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) hackers calling themselves Cyber Caliphate infiltrated social media accounts of various media outlets. The group hijacked the website and Twitter account of a Maryland TV station for nearly two days, displaying ISIS propaganda on the station's website. The group launched a similar attack on the Albuquerque Journal, using the paper's Twitter account to display a profile picture supporting Islamic militants and other sensationalist posts. The breaches included what appears to be personal information about area residents and warnings that their confidential information is at risk. This marks the second time in two weeks that the newspaper has been hacked by Islamic State extremists.
Attacks such as these are not likely to stop, as evidenced by Cyber Caliphate's more recent attack on U.S. CENTCOM. Cyber Caliphate wrote on its Facebook page "You'll see no mercy infidels. We are already here, we are in your PCs, in each house, in each office…We hacked FBI databases. We won't stop…We know all your personal data: where you live, what you eat, your diseases, and even your health insurance cards." While their true affiliation is unknown, targeting these social media accounts to spread personal and/or sensitive information would signal a new tactic for ISIS.
These types of attacks are occurring more frequently against media companies. The FBI reports that "similar [cyber]attacks have been quietly happening to media companies across the United States." Media companies should consider ensuring that proper controls are in place to protect their social media accounts in addition to their network accounts and other confidential information. Remediation plans should also be in place to ensure that, if an attack occurs, the company can swiftly respond before too much damage is done.
These attacks are occurring at a time when the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission are increasing their vigilance over data security. For example, although the FCC took no action against broadcast stations following the infamous 2013 "Zombie Attack"—when hackers infiltrated emergency alert equipment to broadcast a fake Zombie invasion—the FCC has made it clear that it expects entities under its jurisdiction to take reasonable steps to protect data. Most recently, the FCC fined two telecommunications carriers $10 million for failing to take basic precautions to protect sensitive customer information.
The attorneys in Cooley's Telecommunications and Privacy & Data Protection practices work with a wide variety of media and telecommunications companies. We have substantial experience leading incident response efforts and advising entities that have experienced data breaches or other data security incidents. If you would be interested in learning more about our team and the collaborative approach we take in developing solutions to our clients' data security objectives, please let us know.
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Refuse workers in Hull are out to give the bosses hell
Published Tue 3 Apr 2018
Waste management drivers in Hull are on strike for two weeks to demand sick pay for all workers (Pic: Tony Smith/Facebook)
Drivers at an FCC waste management depot in Wilmington, Hull, are striking for two weeks to demand sick pay for all workers.
The action follows a previous seven-day strike. Workers in the Unison union rejected a 2 percent pay rise on the basis that it wasn't being paid to everyone.
The action has grown with workers from Driffield who also work for FCC, showing their support on the picket.
FCC managers have threatened agency staff with the sack.
And they have suspended two workers who were on strike previously—including the Health and Safety rep—on trumped up charges.
Despite this the mood among pickets has hardened.
Senior shop steward Russell Bowering said, "They're always saying to us that FCC are a company that like to do the right thing. It's time they realise that what they're doing is wrong and they need to pay everyone sick pay."
Waste collection workers in Essex are set to start a wave of strikes against "rubbish management" on 12 April.
The 65 Unite union members plan to walk out every Thursday and Friday for the next three weeks.
They are then set to strike for 72 hours from 1 May and a further three 24 hour strikes in May.
Migrant workers win with a wildcat strike
Workers at the Orion recycling plant in east London struck last week without going through all the usual balloting requirements last week—and won their demands within hours.
The ten migrant workers in the United Voices of the World Union, all from Peru, fought for proper safety and hygiene equipment. They won a personal pledge from the company owner to provide proper face masks, air filters, gloves and four pairs of protective overalls each.
There was also a pledge to provide soap and toilet paper, and showers on site within a month. The boss also pledged to meet with the union to discuss a pay increase to meet the London Living Wage, plus occupational sick pay.
The strikers also received a personal apology from the site manager for abusing the workers. And they won the promise that they would still be paid and not be victimised for the day of this unprecedented wildcat strike.
Tue 3 Apr 2018, 15:30 BST
Hull strikers refuse to be treated like trash
Reports round up: Trade unionists protest in Philip Hammond's constituency


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Truth or Consequences: Truth or Dare for Adults
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This month we are looking at some classic television game shows. I have fond memories of watching Bob Barker hosting Truth or Consequences when I was a little girl, but I must admit I had no idea it continued for so long. I would have guessed it ended in 1970.
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The premise of the show was to blend trivia answers with wacky stunts, like a Beat the Clock Jeopardy. Contestants had two seconds to answer an obscure question before being beat by Beulah the Buzzer. If the contestant was able to answer the question, the host would then mention there was a part two. When the contestant was not able to answer the question with the truth, they had to take the consequence; similar to Truth or Dare for Adults. The consequence was typically a crazy stunt that often was embarrassing for the contestants.
For example, in Conveyor Belt of Doom, a woman had to stop a complex machine before the conveyor belt dropped a pie on her husband. She flipped a lot of switches and lights but later learned the only way to stop the machine was to unplug it. On one episode, while contestants were in the Green Room waiting, they "saw" a gorilla escape from a cage and run after them, not realizing it was a man in a suit and being shown to the viewers.
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Occasionally the contestant was there for a special reason and during or after the stunt they were surprised by some event like a child coming home from the military or a long-lost relative found.
During Barker's run on the show, a segment was added called Barker's Box. The box had four drawers and three of them contained money with a pop-up item in one drawer. The contestant chose a drawer at a time and could keep the money unless the pop-up was revealed. Barker also ended all his shows with the closing, "Hoping all your consequences are happy ones."
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Ralph Edwards created the game and it was a hit immediately. It began on NBC radio where it ran from 1940-1957. In 1950 the show debuted on television on CBS. After his stint as host, Edwards would create This is Your Life which also became very popular. In 1952 it moved to NBC when Jack Bailey hosted. Three months after going off the air, NBC revived it, bringing in Bob Barker to emcee. Barker would stay with the show until 1975. During Barker's time on the show, a primetime version was also created hosted by Steve Dunne for part of 1958. In 1977 a syndicated version of the show was produced. Barker had already accepted a position as host of The Nighttime Price is Right, so Bob Hilton became the host but the show was canceled after one season. A decade later the show was revived again with Larry Anderson at the helm. This one also lasted one season.
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In 1949, Edwards aired a request as a joke that the first place to change its name to the name of the show would be the host for the tenth-year anniversary taping of the show. The town of Hot Springs, New Mexico agreed to change its name to Truth or Consequences. For fifty years afterward, Edwards returned to the town every first weekend in May for a festival called Fiesta. The town still goes by Truth or Consequences today, and Fiesta is still celebrated annually.
Barker said that the show was not affected by the quiz show scandals in that decade. He said primarily it was because they did not give away a lot of money, and the show was more about the stunts that were performed. The only way they would have been able to "fix" the show was to bring in actors and the whole appealing reality concept of using actual people on the show would have disappeared.
With the exception of Jeopardy, we tend to think of game shows as prime-time offerings. Many old shows have been rebooted in the past few years. However, in the fifties and sixties, they were an essential part of daytime programming. Truth or Consequences was one of the highest-rated game shows on the air during those decades, and the show propelled Bob Barker to stardom. When contestants were slimed on the Nickelodeon network or have some humiliating consequence on Ellen's Game of Games, they can thank Truth or Consequences for inspiring such outcomes. It seems odd that a show that relies so much on visual antics was so successful on the radio for 17 years. I guess we all had more imagination back then.
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Wonderful purchase!! I was nervous about the bottoms because I normally purchase after trying on but they fit perfectly. If you have a bigger bust, just use a closepin to keep the top together because it does unzip sometimes and you don't want that happening at a pool party or the beach. Overall so happy with it!!
It fit a little small on me. I'm 34A. Otherwise it's really cute! It'll look amazing with a tan.
Absolutely loved my pink swimsuit!! I live in Las Vegas and usually order size small but after reading the size chart I got the xsmall and it fit perfect! So comfortable and cute!


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Team Green Youth Wrestling: Expanding Program Services to Reach Youth Within the Wabash Valley
Rohrbach, 2021.pdf (4.531Mb)
Rohrbach, Melissa
Team Green provides youth, pre-k through the eighth-grade, ages four through eighteen, an opportunity to experience a wrestling program to develop increased wrestling interest, program participation and self-confidence while receiving guidance and mentorship to build personal leadership skills to be a successful community leader. As Team Green expands through program services incorporating two new services, Middle of the Mat and Wrestling Bride Leadership, the foundation will be reinforced with objectives to achieve being a youth program using wrestling as a vehicle to teach youth how to strive for success in all aspects of life, develop their character, self-confidence, discipline, work ethic, and mental toughness to be a successful leader with strong leadership skills. Team Green's Middle of the Mat membership will be open to the Wabash Valley area youth encompassing four school districts: Clay Community Schools, South Vermillion Community School Corporation, North Central Parke Community School Corporation, and Vigo County School Corporation. This inclusive youth wrestling program opportunity will expand Team Green's target audience, create new competitive athletes for local high schools, and provide a cohesive expansion of Team Green's already successful program. Through attributes of determination, skill, passion, and discipline, Team Green's Middle of the Mat will incorporate role model behaviors through guidance and mentorship of character, leadership, and partnership to provide a cutting-edge program for each youth program participant.
Wrestling; Children; Youth; Leadership; Wabash River Valley


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Pentecost Forums Allow Churches to Question Candidates
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CHICAGO, IL (June 1, 2007) – Upcoming televised forums featuring presidential candidates offer an opportunity for churches to ask questions about faith, poverty, and politics, says Glenn Palmberg, president of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
CNN will broadcast the first forum at 7 p.m. EDT Monday from Pentecost 2007 in Washington D.C. The event is sponsored by Sojourners/Call to Renewal—Palmberg serves on the group's board of directors. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards are scheduled to participate.
"The goal of 'Pentecost 2007: Taking Vision to the Streets' is to call individuals, churches, and most importantly, our political leaders to commit to putting poverty at the top of our national agenda," states the event's website. "We believe that the conversation about moral values in America has been widening and deepening, building into a movement for real change."
A similar forum for top Republican candidates has been scheduled for September in Iowa. More information on that event will be published as it becomes available.
Church members are encouraged to gather for "watch parties," at which they can discuss questions before and after the forum. Questions to consider before the event could include, "What question would you ask the candidates?" or "What important subjects regarding faith are being addressed or not addressed on the campaign trail?"
Following the event, participants may want to ask questions such as "What did you hear tonight that most impressed or troubled you?" or "What one specific proposal did you hear that you liked and one that you disliked?"
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I don't know why but launchpad doesn't allow build on this version. Only the last LTS (Cosmic) and the following non LTS version are supported for build.
Skrooge can not be built on trusty due to too old dependencies.
This is why, I would like to build the appimage on cosmic but this doesn't work.


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Watch New "Forever Country" Music Video With George Strait, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Carrie Underwood & More
by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | September 20, 2016
By now you've probably heard that 30 of country music's biggest stars—both past and present—have come together to record a new song and video, "Forever Country," for the CMA Awards' 50-year anniversary.
The star-studded mashup features a fresh take on three of country's most classic songs: John Denver's "Take Me Home," Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" and Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." The new tune, which was produced by Shane McAnally, features vocals from Willie, Dolly, George Strait, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and many more.
The music video for "Forever Country" debuted on Dancing With the Stars tonight, Sept. 20.
Check it out below.
See Complete "Forever Country" Lyrics and Which Artists Sang Them
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Nortel slashes again
James Cope (ARN) 04 April, 2001 13:40
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In an announcement last week, Nortel Networks warned that its first-quarter earnings would likely be even worse than forecast last month and said it would cut another 5000 jobs.
The Canadian-based network equipment company said it now expects a first-quarter loss of between 10 and 12 cents per share, compared with the anticipated first-quarter loss of 4 cents per share it announced on February 15. Nortel said revenue for the quarter would be between $US6.1 billion and $6.2 billion, only slightly lower than the $6.3 billion in its February forecast.
Last year, Nortel reported first-quarter earnings of 23 cents per share on revenue of $6.32 billion.
Nortel said it plans to eliminate the 5000 jobs by mid-year to help mitigate its financial woes. That's in addition to the 10,000 job cuts the company announced just last month. In its statement last week, Nortel noted it didn't expect the February cuts to provide any relief for the company's bottom line until the second quarter of this year.
Like many companies, Nortel is finding it difficult to see through the current economic fog. According to Nortel president and CEO John Roth: "We continue to feel the impact of the economic downturn in the US and are now seeing customers globally assess its effect on their businesses. Given the poor visibility into the duration and breadth of the economic downturn, and its impact on the overall market growth in 2001, it is not possible to provide meaningful guidance for the company's financial performance for the full year 2001."
According to analysts, both Nortel and one of its prime competitors, Cisco Systems, are saddled with large inventories in an economic environment in which large corporations have put a hold on IT spending.
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China's retaliatory tariffs will hit Trump country hard
China imposed tariffs on 128 U.S. goods on April 2. The move is retaliation for tariffs President Trump announced on Chinese aluminum and steel. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)
By Philip Bump
National correspondent
It was inevitable that China would respond in kind to tariffs levied against it by President Trump. The president argued that the trade deficit and Chinese theft of intellectual property necessitated taking economic action. But the net effect is that China also will charge more for American products to enter its country — tariffs that are likely to affect places whose residents voted for Trump more significantly than voters in other areas.
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The products to which China will add additional duties include manufactured products such as airplanes and vinyl records. (For some reason.) But they will also apply tariffs to a number of agricultural goods, according to CNBC, including:
Yellow soybeans
Black soybeans
Uncombed cotton
Other durum wheat
Other wheat and mixed wheat
It won't surprise you to learn that agricultural areas produce most of these goods. And rural areas supported Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Take soybeans. Soybeans are heavily produced in the Mississippi River region and on the East Coast.
If we overlay 2016 election results onto that map, though, the point becomes obvious: A tariff on soybeans affects a lot of places that backed Trump.
We can do the same thing for other products on the list, such as corn, which is heavily produced in the upper Midwest — a region that helped propel Trump's narrow electoral-vote victory.
The map for wheat is dramatic, encompassing wide swaths of the country, mostly red.
The pattern is the same for cotton, sorghum and tobacco.
If we tally up the vote in each county with significant production of each crop, Trump earns more votes in every case — except for corn-producing counties, which roughly mirrored the national 2016 vote.
This is a rough calculus. Not all soybeans and corn are shipped to China, for one thing. But any action taken by Trump that might negatively affect agriculture is almost necessarily going to affect places that preferred him to Clinton by a lopsided margin.
That seems clearly to be the case with the duties China will apply in retaliation for Trump's tariffs.


Investigations, Arrests and Other Information.
September 03 Deputy/School Resource Officer filed a report with this office regarding 2 students in altercation prior to class on school property at CHS. Video is being reviewed while both the parents and juvenile authority have been contacted. The school will also address the administrative action.
September 05 Deputy/School Resource Officer filed a report with this office regarding a juvenile student at CHS allegedly in possession of a concealed fixed blade knife and chewing tobacco. The parent and juvenile officer were contacted. Evidence was retained and the student released to a parent. The school is addressing the administrative action in addition to the juvenile authorities.
September 05 a juvenile reported that 2 days prior having been physically assaulted at the ball park in Utica. Victim reported unknown teenager punched the victim in the face. Investigation continues.
September 05 we arrested Michael A. Gordon, 28, Lexington on 2 Livingston County warrants one for seatbelt violation and other failing to appear in court. Bond was posted and Mr. Gordon released.
September 08 we began investigating a reported theft of an iPad from a children's day care. Review of the video provided information as to who the suspect was that had entered the facility. On September 10 a deputy and CPD officer made contact with the suspect and allegedly upon informing the man he was under arrest the man refused to comply with the officer's requests and he physically resisted arrest. Officers incarcerated Tibrucio V. Almojera, 30, for alleged stealing and resisting arrest. Mr. Almojera is currently on probation/parole for felony child support and possession of controlled substance violations.
We have recently removed a citizen from our office lobby and instructed him to never return to our facility unless reporting an emergency or criminal act. The resident from the SALT Center had allegedly been harassing an employee in our office and tried to discuss inappropriate things about himself.
After complaint of a sports car in the north east part of the county frequently driving careless and imprudent between 0645 and 0700 weekday mornings, a deputy was in the area monitoring traffic early Monday morning and stopped a Chula resident for 80 in a 55 at Route KK and Liv 273. The driver was cited for the excessive speed and his parent was called and notified.
We recently recovered 5 stolen automotive type batteries that had been stolen from locations in Trenton/Grundy County. The items and suspect information was submitted to the respective agencies.
Sheriff Cox attended the Utica town meeting Tuesday evening and the Chula town meeting last Thursday evening. Area information was exchanged with those in attendance.
Currently we have 41 people incarcerated in the Daviess Dekalb County Regional Jail.
Very top photo is south of Chillicothe by the Grand River Access and above photo is just north of Roach Lake on the east side of U.S. 65 on 9-11. It is of a levee break that was protecting a large milo field.
If you have any information on these or other crimes, please call us at 660-646-0515 or after administrative hours at 660-646-2121.


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  OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *filter_;
}

@end

J2OBJC_FIELD_SETTER(OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause, occur_, OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *)
J2OBJC_FIELD_SETTER(OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause, filter_, OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *)

@implementation OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause

- (instancetype)initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter:(OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *)filter
       withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur:(OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *)occur {
  OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter_withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur_(self, filter, occur);
  return self;
}

- (OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *)getFilter {
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}

- (OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *)getOccur {
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}

- (jboolean)isEqual:(id)o {
  if (JreObjectEqualsEquals(o, self)) return true;
  if (o == nil || !([o isKindOfClass:[OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause class]])) return false;
  OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause *other = (OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause *) cast_chk(o, [OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause class]);
  return [((OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *) nil_chk(self->filter_)) isEqual:other->filter_] && self->occur_ == other->occur_;
}

- (NSUInteger)hash {
  return ((jint) [((OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *) nil_chk(filter_)) hash]) ^ ((jint) [((OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *) nil_chk(occur_)) hash]);
}

- (NSString *)toStringWithNSString:(NSString *)field {
  return JreStrcat("$$", [((OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *) nil_chk(occur_)) description], [((OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *) nil_chk(filter_)) toStringWithNSString:field]);
}

- (NSString *)description {
  return [self toStringWithNSString:@""];
}

- (void)dealloc {
  RELEASE_(occur_);
  RELEASE_(filter_);
  [super dealloc];
}

+ (const J2ObjcClassInfo *)__metadata {
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    { NULL, NULL, 0x1, -1, 0, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
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    { NULL, "LOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur;", 0x1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
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    { NULL, "I", 0x1, 3, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
    { NULL, "LNSString;", 0x1, 4, 5, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
    { NULL, "LNSString;", 0x1, 4, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
  };
  #pragma clang diagnostic push
  #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wobjc-multiple-method-names"
  #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wundeclared-selector"
  methods[0].selector = @selector(initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter:withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur:);
  methods[1].selector = @selector(getFilter);
  methods[2].selector = @selector(getOccur);
  methods[3].selector = @selector(isEqual:);
  methods[4].selector = @selector(hash);
  methods[5].selector = @selector(toStringWithNSString:);
  methods[6].selector = @selector(description);
  #pragma clang diagnostic pop
  static const J2ObjcFieldInfo fields[] = {
    { "occur_", "LOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur;", .constantValue.asLong = 0, 0x12, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
    { "filter_", "LOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter;", .constantValue.asLong = 0, 0x12, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
  };
  static const void *ptrTable[] = { "LOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter;LOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur;", "equals", "LNSObject;", "hashCode", "toString", "LNSString;" };
  static const J2ObjcClassInfo _OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause = { "FilterClause", "org.apache.lucene.queries", ptrTable, methods, fields, 7, 0x11, 7, 2, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 };
  return &_OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause;
}

@end

void OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter_withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur_(OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause *self, OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *filter, OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *occur) {
  NSObject_init(self);
  JreStrongAssign(&self->occur_, occur);
  JreStrongAssign(&self->filter_, filter);
}

OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause *new_OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter_withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur_(OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *filter, OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *occur) {
  J2OBJC_NEW_IMPL(OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause, initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter_withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur_, filter, occur)
}

OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause *create_OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause_initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter_withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur_(OrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter *filter, OrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur *occur) {
  J2OBJC_CREATE_IMPL(OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause, initWithOrgApacheLuceneSearchFilter_withOrgApacheLuceneSearchBooleanClause_Occur_, filter, occur)
}

J2OBJC_CLASS_TYPE_LITERAL_SOURCE(OrgApacheLuceneQueriesFilterClause)

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Oregon Senate Republicans plan delay tactics to press GOP agenda
By Dirk VanderHart
Kristyna Wentz-Graff
OPB
The Oregon State Senate convenes on inauguration day at the Capitol in Salem, Ore., Jan. 9, 2022.
The announcement highlights resentments that have lingered between lawmakers in Salem for years.
Republicans in the Oregon Senate say they've got plenty of ideas that will benefit Oregonians, and they're willing to slow this year's nascent legislative session to a crawl in order to force Democrats to take them seriously.
In a press conference on Tuesday, leaders in the 12-member Senate Republican caucus laid out dozens of bills they hope to pass by the time lawmakers wrap up work this summer. The list includes several bipartisan proposals, but also many ideas that are unlikely to be palatable to Democrats, who retain majorities in both chambers and hold the governor's office.
So even as they preached a vision of bipartisan harmony, Senate Republicans indicated they'll begin this year's session by employing a time-honored tactic: forcing all bills to be read in full before they can get a final vote on the Senate floor.
"If our colleagues in the Democrat majority want a bipartisan Legislature, we're all in," said Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, "If they just want to run a national progressive agenda of Nancy Pelosi and [U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], we're gonna fight them to the last breath of this session."
Oregon's Constitution requires that all bills be read in full before passage — a rule that can only be waived by a vote of two-thirds of lawmakers, and which drastically slows the pace at which the Legislature can pass new laws.
Members of the Oregon State Senate take their oath of office on inauguration day at the Capitol in Salem, Ore., Jan. 9, 2022.
Until relatively recently, that provision was seen as the outdated product of a time when legislation wasn't easily accessed online. For years, it was common for lawmakers to agree to waive the rule for entire sessions, as a way to speed the passage of bills.
Lately, though, requiring bill reading has become commonplace in Salem, so much so that both the House and Senate now use computer programs to read lengthy bills when relations between the parties break down.
The party in the minority, most recently Republicans, generally uses such slow-down tactics as a way to gain leverage. In 2021, for instance, House Republicans stopped bill reading after securing a promise from then-House Speaker Tina Kotek to give them equal say in redrawing political maps — a pledge she later broke.
But Knopp would not offer specifics Tuesday when asked what Republicans might seek in order to vote to waive bill reading.
"It's the minority's responsibility to make sure that everyone is heard and that the majority is accountable," Knopp said. "So we'll determine whether they meet that as a caucus … if we feel that we're making progress and we're having a bipartisan session and our constituents are being listened to and included, maybe we will revisit that."
Staff in Senate President Rob Wagner's office had not seen a list of demands from Republicans as of Tuesday afternoon.
"My door is always open and I have been reaching out to Republicans," Wagner, D-Lake Oswego, said in a statement. "We know there's a lot of potential for bipartisan collaboration on housing, behavioral health, semiconductors and jobs and I am optimistic about getting things done."
House Republicans have so far not indicated plans to require that bills be read in that chamber. A spokesperson, Claire Lynn, said Tuesday the House GOP feels it has a positive working relationship with House Speaker Dan Rayfield's office but is reserving all its options if that relationship sours.
The announcement of likely delay tactics threatens to inject early rancor into a session in which both parties seem to agree on their priorities: housing and homelessness, mental health, addiction services, a worsening public defense crisis and more.
The roster of bills floated by Senate Republicans on Tuesday, which GOP legislators dubbed "Equitable Oregon," featured proposals on most of those topics. But many are unpopular with Democrats, and similar ideas have failed to gain traction in successive sessions. They include bills to pare back a new business tax passed in 2019 to raise money for education, ease requirements for reducing carbon emissions, bolster the rights of gun owners, promote charter schools, and cut into the emergency authority of the governor — none of which currently feature a single Democratic sponsor.
Other bills do feature bipartisan support, including a proposal that offers tax breaks to people who rent out rooms in their homes and another to provide state funding to build housing for people with "moderate" incomes.
Knopp suggested Tuesday that Republican senators haven't had time to get Democrats to sign onto many of their proposals. The legislative session began last week.
While Republicans signal they will gladly use delay tactics to exert influence this year, they are hamstrung from using what has recently been a more potent tool: Walking away from Salem to stop legislative action entirely.
Under a measure passed by voters in November, any lawmaker who amasses 10 or more unexcused absences during such a walkout is ineligible to run for the Legislature in the next term.
There doesn't currently appear to be any bills in the rotation that are controversial enough to force a walkout, and Knopp said Tuesday his members had no plans to test the new rules.
A challenge "would need an aggrieved party — so someone who got more than 10 absences to have standing before there could be a lawsuit," Knopp said. "No one's volunteered at this point."
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Dirk VanderHart is JPR's Salem correspondent reporting from the Oregon State Capitol. His reporting is funded through a collaboration between public radio stations around the Northwest called the Northwest News Network.
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I've heard it said that we have to exercise our Faith Muscles just like we exercise our bodies. So, I will do my PT ankle exercises and exercise my Faith Muscles too. When things look impossible from man's point of view – that's just the recipe for a miracle – all things are possible with God!
Let us focus today on You, Your Word, Your Promises. Let us listen for the melody of the future and dance to it today! And thank you Lord, that we don't have to wait for the "Mical's" approval; we are gonna rejoice in you with reckless abandon, despite what anyone says or thinks, in Jesus Name!
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This was beautiful and inspiring as usual, and it spoke to me. I used to do interpretive movement (I won't call it dance, because I truly can't dance, but I CAN worship). Anyway, due to back pain and knee pain, I've been unable to do it, but, what if I did it anyway, in spite of the pain? What if I danced before the Lord, and my movements were stiff and awkward? What if I just offered my worship up to Him, regardless of how it might look to others? What if there was healing in my attempt to dance before the Lord? What have I got to lose?
Thanks for the inspiration, Diana!
I shared at church that although MS has kept me from dancing for the Lord like I used to do, this verse has been my promise for several years that the dizziness and fatigue will yield and I will rise again.
"When things look impossible from man's point of view – that's just the recipe for a miracle – all things are possible with God." Amen!!! You can't have a miracle without first having an impossible situation to trust God in. Great post!
Thank you Anna, I have to keep reminding myself of that. God's abundant blessings to you!
Bravo, brilliant, breathtaking – you are simply amazing! I can feel each writing deep within my heart!
WOW… AWESOME.. Great post. Beautiful pic.


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