Currently looking for employment as a writer/editor in the food/drinks/lifestyle space. Would also move to wine country for a cool job. Check out my Linkedin profile and see a curated portfolio of my work on Contently.
I moved all the way from Seattle to New York to become Senior Editor at Wine Enthusiast. I was also Senior Digital Editor.
I've written a couple personal essays for the magazine, the "Last Drop" on the final page of each issue.
The first is "Flying Blind While Tasting Wine." It's all about anxiety.
I also have opinions about wine things on The Thuse. Two other print pieces you can read online are my defense of (1) oaky white wines and (2) the Champagne flute.
Wondering what it's like to live on a family farm and cidery in the dead of winter? I wrote about that, too.
Prior to that I was Drinks Editor at msn.com.
Peruse my nearly five years of work as Wine Editor for Foodista.com.
2013 Saveur Best Food Blog Awards finalist in the Wine or Beer Blog Category? And 2015 finalist for Best Wine Coverage? Yes and yes.
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I have ten years of experience in the retail wine business.
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As technology evolves, we (the humans) tend to expect more and more from it. Initially we were flabbergasted at the sight of touch screen phones that could be operated with a stylus. Then came a wave of touch screen phones that were capable of handling touch and gestures made by our fingers. Today, there are personal assistant apps that give you the convenience of dictating commands to the phone without having to type a single word or pressing any button(s). Welcome to the new age of high convenience and technological marvels.
Check out the following 6 virtual personal assistant apps that will change the way you operate your smartphones.
Named after the beautiful and most sensual character from the Halo franchise, this virtual personal assistant app is Microsoft's answer to Siri and Google Now. This app was unveiled to the world at the Build Developer conference earlier this year. As of now the app is only available to users in the US, UK and China. However, a global release could be expected by early 2015.
Users have claimed that Cortana is superior than other assistant apps because it offers greater customization options, enhanced privacy features and abilities that indicate a combination of Siri's personality with the brains of Google Now. The only issue that has been raised for this is that it takes a long time to connect to the cloud servers. But considering that this app has not been released globally, a wider perspective of this issue is yet to be understood.
Samsung's popular S-Voice virtual assistant app offers great convenience to users of the company's smartphones. This app is compatible with most models. However, all Samsung phones that were released in and after 2013 have the S-Voice as a built-in app. It may not be as efficient as Siri or Google Now, but at least it gives Samsung users a personal assistant app that can work well with their smartphones.
Siri has become synonymous with Apple's products mainly due to the integration of this amazing personal assistant app in the company's devices. The first signs of this integration were evident in iOS 5 where Siri had become an important feature in the phone. The main differentiating factor was the app's personality which seemed to appeal to everyone.
The only flaws that were identified for this device includes inefficiency in comprehending Indian accents, slow response times, and less information being furnished as compared to the results provided by Google's search engine. It is interesting to note that if Apple had not acquired Siri, then it would have been made available for the Blackberry and Android platforms as well.
The Voice Mate was introduced with the LG G2 phone after being tweaked and renamed (earlier versions being the Quick Voice and Q Voice). This personal assistant app has decent comprehensions and interpretation abilities and can understand the contextual reference of the queries being provided by the user. It is interesting to note that this app was originally designed for supporting Korean language with the English version being developed in 2012.
The only complaints with this app include the inability to remember specific user information and location identification errors. With respect to the specific user information issue, the app cannot be trained to remember basic things such as which contact is your wife or your brother. You would have to provide the exact search terms to initiate an activity. The location issue pertains to the fact that a user cannot provide specific locations (office, home, market, etc.) to the app and this prevents faster navigation queries from being made.
"Google Now" first appeared in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and its immense popularity had led the company to introduce an iOS compatible version of the app which was provided as an update to the Google Search and Google Chrome Apps. This app was recognized as the "Innovation of the Year" for 2012 by Popular Science Magazine. Google Now deserves this appreciation because it has the fortune of being backed by the advanced searching capabilities of the Google Search Engine and the technological expertise of the company, which has enabled this app to thwart the competition by a great margin.
The only problems that are surfacing for this app relate to the app being more suited to certain phone models than others. For example, Motorola's devices seem to be making the most out of this amazing app because of the rich stock android present in the phones. Devices that use a customized Android OS will likely face minor issues with this app, depending on the extent of customization done for the software.
Google Now also lacks personality (something that Siri is known for) and does not work when the phone is locked. These are areas that could be worked upon but in terms of information and relevancy of content, no app can match the efficiency of Google Now.
With so many personal assistant apps being released, it was but obvious that Blackberry would also come out with its own virtual assistant app. The company had sent out "teasers" for the app, but it was finally unveiled as the "BB Assistant" launched with the Blackberry Passport. Given the time that it took Blackberry to develop it, the company has assured that the app is able to maintain contextual relevancy for the queries supplied to it.
It is interesting to note that the app is more than capable of providing answers and additional context even if you ask the questions from a Bluetooth device without having any access to the screen. The app is smart enough to know the manner in which queries are being provided so that the response may follow in the same manner. For example, if you type a query, then you would get a written response. If you give voice commands, then you would get the result in a speech format. Blackberry has indeed done a splendid job, but due to the time it took for the company to release a personal assistant app, many Blackberry users have migrated to iOS and Android devices.


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Laurent Niol (ur. 11 sierpnia 1973 w Bourg-Saint-Maurice) – francuski narciarz, specjalista narciarstwa dowolnego. Najlepszy wynik na mistrzostwach świata osiągnął podczas mistrzostw w Deer Valley, gdzie zajął 14. miejsce w jeździe po muldach. Zajął także 12. miejsce w tej samej konkurencji na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Salt Lake City. Najlepsze wyniki w Pucharze Świata osiągnął w sezonie 1995/1996, kiedy to zajął 26. miejsce w klasyfikacji generalnej, a w klasyfikacji jazdy po muldach był dziewiąty.

W 2006 r. zakończył karierę.

Sukcesy

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa Świata

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej
 1994/1995 – 61.
 1995/1996 – 26.
 1996/1997 – 55.
 1997/1998 – 82.
 1998/1999 – 42.
 2000/2001 – 26.
 2001/2002 – 106.
 2002/2003 – –
 2003/2004 – 49.
 2004/2005 – 75.
 2005/2006 – 188.

Miejsca na podium
  Breckenridge – 19 stycznia 1996 (Jazda po muldach) – 3. miejsce
  La Clusaz – 14 lutego 1996 (Jazda po muldach) – 3. miejsce
  Breckenridge – 24 stycznia 1997 (Jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce
  Tignes – 5 grudnia 1997 (Jazda po muldach) – 3. miejsce
  Oberstdorf – 6 stycznia 2002 (Jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce

 W sumie 2 drugie i 3 trzecie miejsca.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na stronie FIS

Francuscy narciarze dowolni
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2002
Urodzeni w 1973
Ludzie urodzeni w Bourg-Saint-Maurice

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Q: How to convert .xls file to .xlsx using C# and without Microsoft Office installed? I need help in converting a .xls file to .xlsx using C# and without using Microsoft Office.

A: With some coding work you can use the NPOI library to read the XLS data and write them back as XLSX.
The other way round (XLSX to XLS) is shown in Convert xlsx file to xls using NPOI in c#. That may be a good starting point to see the principle.

A: use below query,
private static string GetConnectionString()
    {
        Dictionary<string, string> props = new Dictionary<string, string>();

        // XLSX - Excel 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013
        props["Provider"] = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;";
        props["Extended Properties"] = "Excel 12.0 XML";
        props["Data Source"] = @"D:\data\users\liran-fr\Desktop\Excel\Received\Orbotech_FW__ARTEMIS-CONTROL-AG__223227__0408141043__95546.xls";

        // XLS - Excel 2003 and Older
        //props["Provider"] = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0";
        //props["Extended Properties"] = "Excel 8.0";
        //props["Data Source"] = "C:\\MyExcel.xls";

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> prop in props)
        {
            sb.Append(prop.Key);
            sb.Append('=');
            sb.Append(prop.Value);
            sb.Append(';');
        }

        return sb.ToString();
    }

    private static DataSet ReadExcelFile()
    {
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();

        string connectionString = GetConnectionString();

        using (OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(connectionString))
        {
            conn.Open();
            OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand();
            cmd.Connection = conn;

            // Get all Sheets in Excel File
            DataTable dtSheet = conn.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, null);

            // Loop through all Sheets to get data
            foreach (DataRow dr in dtSheet.Rows)
            {
                string sheetName = dr["TABLE_NAME"].ToString();

                //if (!sheetName.EndsWith("$"))
                //    continue;

                // Get all rows from the Sheet
                cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [" + sheetName + "]";

                DataTable dt = new DataTable();
                dt.TableName = sheetName;

                OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(cmd);
                da.Fill(dt);

                ds.Tables.Add(dt);
            }

            cmd = null;
            conn.Close();
        }

        return ds;
    }
using (ExcelPackage epackage = new ExcelPackage())
        {
            ExcelWorksheet excel = epackage.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("ExcelTabName");
            DataSet ds = ReadExcelFile();
            DataTable dtbl = ds.Tables[0];
            excel.Cells["A1"].LoadFromDataTable(dtbl, true);
            System.IO.FileInfo file = new System.IO.FileInfo(@"D:\data\users\liran-fr\Desktop\Excel\Received\test.xlsx");
            epackage.SaveAs(file);
        }

A: I posted this answer that I was so impressed with, until I saw this link, which is way better and simpler:
I know this has been asked and answered, but here is what I borrowed from others... Sorry that I can't give credit as I don't know how gave me the idea, but in C#, create a process to copy the file from xls to xlsx. No fuss, no muss. This is in .Net Core 6.0 and o365.
Ultimately, the string you are running in the process (aka command prompt) should look similar to this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\excelcnv.exe"
-oice "\Share\Folder\Cash.xls" "\Share\Folder\Cash.xlsx"

public static class Xls2XlsxCmdProcess
{

    public static string processDirectory = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\";

    public static void ExecuteCommandSync(string pathToExe, string command)
    {

        var procStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(pathToExe, command)
        {
            WorkingDirectory = processDirectory,
            CreateNoWindow = false,
            UseShellExecute = false,
            RedirectStandardOutput = true,
            RedirectStandardError = true,
            RedirectStandardInput = true
        };

        var proc = new Process { StartInfo = procStartInfo };
        proc.Start();

        //proc.StandardInput.WriteLine(password);//If the app that requires a password or other params, they can be added here as a string.
        proc.StandardInput.Flush();

        // Get the output into a string
        string result = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        string error = proc.StandardError.ReadToEnd();

        Console.WriteLine(result);
        Console.WriteLine(error);
    }
}

To call it, specify all your params, your working directory, and you're off to the races!!!
        string baseFolder = @"\\Share\folder\";
        string fileNameCash = "Cash.xls";
        string fileNameDV = "DailyValue.xls";
        string fileNameCashOutput = "Cash.xlsx";
        string fileNameDVOutput = "DailyValue.xlsx";
        //Create cash & dailyValue as xlsx files (for ease of use with EPPlus4)
        string pathToExe = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\excelcnv.exe";//Path to office XLS to XLSX Conversion Tool for o365 - You can find a similar version by searching for the excelcnv.exe within "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office" folder.
        string commandFormat1 = string.Format(@"""{0}"" -oice ""{1}{2}"" ""{3}{4}"" ",pathToExe, @BaseFolder, fileNameCash,@BaseFolder,fileNameCashOutput);
        Xls2XlsxCmdProcess.ExecuteCommandSync(pathToExe, string.Format(commandFormat1));

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Art is a collaboration between artist and viewer, artist and subject, artist and medium, and in this case, between two artists; two friends - Dos Amigos.
When noted New Mexican painter Jim Wagner saw the Dreamboat photos of longtime friend, former actor Robert Walker, he was inspired to explore new territory. Jim has been an artist since childhood, flavors of which linger in his work as a quality of colorful imperfection that has wit, style, and irresistible charm. Bob once said, "If I could paint I would paint like Jim, with controlled abandon.
Since David O. Selznick gifted him with his first camera, Bob Walker has been fascinated with photography. It was a long journey from his Brownie box camera to his Canon digital, and not unlike his buddy Jim, he is ever discovering the vision of the moment.
The subject of Dos Amigos is boats, Dreamboats. Bob showed his images to Jim and waxed on about the potential of his small $400 camera with its almost supernatural zoom lens, and how back in the day with Dennis (Hopper) and Peter (Fonda) he would haul around a lens 1/4 as powerful that was at least 3 feet long and had to have its own tripod. Well, Jim said let's do a show together and call it "Dos Amigos". Let's have some fun. They went to a showing at the Hamilton Galleries and shared their idea with Warren who immediately set the date so they couldn't back out.
Ah birth, what sweet moments. Then the real work....Jim sending photos of his mono prints wowing Bob. Bob working with his printer to perfect his presentation, the magic comes together and laughter and joy ensue!
Romance! They both thrive on it, the real authentic thing. The wisdom, grace and poetry of romance bring out the best in them. The courage it takes to be authentic is pure joy for these two. Authentic Romantics. Who else could make shipping freight so beautiful?


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Is Jonvic Remulla dumping Binay?
Miriam Grace A. Go
MANILA, Philippines – Expect to see less of Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla in the campaign of Vice President Jejomar Binay.
"Jonvic wants his peace...before the campaign takes its toll on him," his brother, gubernatorial candidate Jesus Crispin "Boying" Remulla said, on Thursday, April 21.
It "does not necessarily" mean Jonvic is "transferring support" to another presidential candidate, Boying said.
Rappler sought the family for comment after reports started circulating in political camps in Manila that Jonvic, who had been a spokesman of the VP, was breaking away.
Jonvic is out of the country.
On Tuesday, April 19, Binay was asked by a few reporters in Cagayan de Oro if it was true that the outgoing Cavite governor was leaving his camp. The Vice President said, with a straight face, "Wala akong alam (I don't know anything)."
If the Remullas pull out their support from Binay, they will be the second political family from a vote-rich province to do so. In March, the Garcias of Cebu broke away from Binay's United Nationalist Alliance after the national party reportedly bypassed One Cebu in coordinating local sorties.
Cebu and Cavite are the two provinces with the highest number of registered voters. Cebu (including Cebu City) has 2.72 million, while Cavite has 1.84 million.
In August 2014, Jonvic officially joined Binay's campaign as a spokesman after two years of being in talks with and doing "research" for the VP. He left the Nacionalista Party and brought the local Magdalo party to an alliance with Binay's UNA.
That year, he wrote on Rappler why he was "all in" for Binay.
In his sorties, Binay had told Caviteños that he would appoint their outgoing governor as secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government should he be elected president.
Undoubtedly, Remulla helped project Binay positively during crucial points in the campaign. Cavite hosted Binay when he delivered his counter-State of the Nation Address in June 2015 – his first since resigning from the Aquino Cabinet.
During that event, students said they came to listen to Binay because they were supporting Governor Jonvic.
When Binay was being criticized for delaying by more than an hour the Comelec-organized presidential debate in Cebu in March, it was Jonvic who faced the media to explain that the misunderstanding over debate rules was not the Vice President's fault.
The Remullas would not comment on the dynamics in the Binay campaign that could have made Jonvic stay away.
However, half a year before the campaign officially started, Rappler wrote about how the role of the Vice President's children in his campaign had been causing conflict within the camp, often reversing what strategists and consultants had decided on. (READ: The Scrum: VP Binay should stop listening to his family) – Rappler.com
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Home Arts and Leisure It's St. Joseph's Day, Eat Your Zeppole
It's St. Joseph's Day, Eat Your Zeppole
Forget the corned beef and cabbage, break out the zeppole! March 19 is St. Joseph's Day, time to trade in the green for the red and forget about St. Patrick.
Italian-Americans throughout New England celebrate St. Joseph's Day by binging on the luscious pastry known as zeppole, available in most Italian bakeries. Rhode Islanders especially dote on the saintly snack. Nearly one in five Rhode Island residents, 18.9 percent, claim Italian ancestry, making it the most Italian state in the country.
But you don't have to have an Italian ancestor to love zeppole, also known as St. Joseph's fritters or bigne de San Giuseppe.
Zeppole Come to America
Zeppole (pronounced ZAY-poe-lay) are loosely defined as baked or fried donuts or fritters with fillings such as cream, custard or jelly and topped with sugar or fruit.
According to food writer Nikki Batsford at Quahog.org, the consensus in Rhode Island is that zeppole are baked rings of pâte à choux (the dough used to make éclairs) filled with flavored pastry cream and garnished with powdered sugar and a maraschino cherry.
They came to New England with waves of Italian immigrants starting in the 1880s. Most came to escape grinding rural poverty in Southern Italy and Sicily.
St. Joseph, or San Giuseppe, is the foster father of Jesus and the patron saint of Sicily. The story goes that a severe drought struck Sicily in the Middle Ages. The people promised St. Joseph they'd cook a big feast for him if he brought rain. He did, and the tradition was born.
St. Joseph by Guido Bruni
From Fava to Zeppola
Pope Gregory XV in 1621 declared March 19 the feast of St. Joseph. The original staple of the St. Joseph's Day meal was the fava bean, which had saved the Sicilians from starvation.
Eventually the fava bean gave way to dessert. Some credit the convent of Santa Patrizia in Naples with making the first zeppola in the 16th century. During the 19th century, a Neapolitan baker named Pasquale Pintauro popularized the treat by selling them from a street cart every March 19. Wearing red also became part of the St. Joseph's Day tradition.
In Providence, zeppole were long sold by Calise & Sons, a bakery that started on Federal Hill around the turn of the century. By the 1970s, the bakery had to hire a police detail to control the crowds clamoring for zeppole.
Bakeries ramp up production of the sweet pastry in the run-up to St. Joseph's Day, but you can buy them year round in a couple of Providence shops.
Though associated primarily with Rhode Island, markets in Italian-American neighborhoods throughout New England sell zeppole, including Boston, New Haven, Hartford and Springfield, Mass.
For a zeppole recipe, click here.
Image: Zeppola by By News21 – National – Zeppole, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34876662
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don cook April 6, 2017 - 5:18 pm
Wow; i've been eating variations of that since the 1980's….usually croissants…..nice to know i've been semi-supporting my Rhode Island Ballou/Cook's taste for more than thirty years–in Southern California, having never heard of Zeppoles! karmic inheritance 🙂
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To WNC, With Love
To WNC, With Love: A local writer ruminates on her affection for the region
Nan Chase
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My husband and I recently celebrated a big anniversary with a party for friends and family—but it wasn't to mark a marital milestone. We simply wanted to pause in appreciation for having lived in WNC over the last 35 years. For having chosen, almost at random, a place where we could put down roots, grow, and thrive, a place where, from their earliest years, our children learned what community means and where the natural splendor stays perennially fresh. A place where our lives expanded in ways we couldn't have imaged as children of the suburbs. Those years were a precious gift, and we wanted to say "Thank You."
In our time here we have lived on a farm, in a small town, and now in a real city, all the while within five miles of the magnificent Blue Ridge Parkway, which has become like a friend to me.
Along the way, among other marvels, we met legendary storyteller Ray Hicks and observed his astonishing faith-healing powers—and found faith ourselves. We hiked hundreds of miles of beautiful trails surrounded by the forest's musty perfume, joined friends at a High Country farm where backwoods neighbors staged their own operas because television didn't reach that far, and learned that religion, political party, race, and accent don't always matter much, because the spirit of generosity in this region binds us all together as one people. No questions asked, just a helping hand when one is needed.
For me, living in WNC brought the satisfactions of learning to press apple cider, can dilly beans, and grow my own food, of becoming a garden club lady, and of watching friends' children grow from newborns to adults with families of their own. For my husband, Saul, life here gave him room to run for political office, sometimes winning and sometimes losing, and the rewards of joining more than one top-notch chorus and sharing his love of music.
For our kids, growing up in WNC—namely Boone, where we lived for 25 years—meant having the freedom to roam all over town and country with minimal supervision, well before cell phones and location trackers existed. While the youngsters might not have known it, we parents kept our eyes on everyone's children and usually knew where they were.
Saul and I might have moved anywhere on the East Coast to live closer to our extended families, which reside in Maryland. But there was a job for him in Glade Valley, North Carolina, at an antiquated country boarding school far from anything familiar, in a time when Alleghany County had only one stoplight.
My first impressions of WNC were inauspicious, but love's like that sometimes. Saul and I had driven for two days from Wisconsin with a cranky toddler and a screaming infant in the backseat. When we finally parked the car, staggered by the humid heat, I took one look at the hard red soil and burst into tears myself. How could anyone live here?
But Glade Valley was a wonderful place to live, a real hamlet with a post office, a thrift store, and no traffic. The school, set on a working farm, had classrooms and dorms but also produced cattle, potatoes, sorghum, and apples. We had free housing, and one of the farmhands even plowed up a patch of our backyard so we could grow vegetables. The county ag extension agent came and taught me how to can. I joined a sewing circle of young moms, and Saul and I sang in the acclaimed Highland Camerata, just over the Virginia line.
The job lasted two years, and then we moved on to the nearest college town, Boone, where we bought a big drafty house a block from the main street. We had a third child, and the kids grew up roaming downtown in summer and sledding in winter. Then each one headed to UNC Chapel Hill. Saul and I reveled in small-town life together: along the way I had joined a garden club and he had won a seat on the town council.
Eventually, though, with our children on their own, we grew restless for a big city, and nowhere but Asheville would do. The walking lifestyle, the scenery, the "What's next?" attitude, and the continued proximity to the Blue Ridge Parkway lured us. And now, a decade has flown past.
These days, I never ask, "How could anyone live here?" but "How could I live anywhere else?"
Nan K. Chase is the author of Asheville: A History and several other books.


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PODCAST: Chef faces uncertain future due to COVID-19, DACA
Hailey Godburn, Lindsay Shively
By: Lindsay Shively , Jill Silva
Posted at 11:53 AM, Jun 16, 2020
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chef Zaid Consuegra isn't just worried about reopening and running a restaurant after shutting his doors because of COVID-19.
As a DACA recipient, he is waiting to hear what the Supreme Court will decide about the program that allows him and thousands of others in the Kansas City area to work and avoid deportation.
Listen to our Chew Diligence episode with Consuegra below, or download wherever you find podcasts.
"I refuse to go back to the shadows, I refuse to go back into like fully undocumented," Consuegra said.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on if President Trump's administration can end the program.
"This is different times. If it goes away, if DACA goes away we won't have any protection," Consuegra said.
Chew Diligence reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and an ICE official told us that while they can't speculate about what will happen with DACA, most of their arrests come from people "in local jails who have already been arrested by local authorities for other crimes" and that anyone who "has DACA but commits a crime may be subject to arrest and ultimately removal from the United States."
If DACA is rescinded, then DACA holders "would be subject to the same enforcement as any other illegally present individual."
That ICE official also said, at least in the midst of a pandemic, that "ICE is focusing resources only on public safety threats and those who may be subject to mandatory detention," and that for others they're delaying enforcement or using "alternatives to detention" until after the health crisis.
A report from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services shows approximately 649,070 active DACA recipients in the United States as of December 2019 with 3,480 in the Kansas City area. The report showed more than 5,600 living in Kansas and more than 3,000 living in Missouri.
Kansas City immigration attorney Michael Sharma Crawford said while he can't know for sure what ICE will do or what the Supreme Court will decide, he believes if DACA ends that any enforcement from ICE would likely come down to a matter of resources.
"They don't have the time. They don't have time to go find them, so they're gonna prioritize them," he said. "I think the fear is real. I think strategically from a resources point of view, you're going to see ICE targeting DACA kids whose work cards have expired who have removal orders because that's the easy — that's the easy take first."
Consuegra's restaurant, Pirate's Bone Burgers, reopened in May for carryout only with a simpler menu and just a few days a week.
Chew Diligence co-hosts Lindsay Shively and Jill Silva talked to Consuegra in April about why they closed their kitchen in March during stay-at-home orders.
"If I would have kept my doors open, we probably would have had to shut down completely because of the lack of funds," he said.
Hear more about the COVID-19 changes at Pirate's Bone Burgers, and other ways being a DACA recipient impacts Consuegra as a chef in our full episode.


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Labour will Save Invermay
Labour has announced that it will save Invermay. The Otago Daily Times has commended this decision.
A decision to save Invermay is easy. It costs nothing and increases New Zealand's productivity. If you're new to the Invermay story, watch this short video to understand why it is important to save it.
Scientists are currently scheduled to leave Invermay in 2017 – so in one sense there's plenty of time. But actually there isn't. We also know that AgResearch's top scientists are casting about for work elsewhere and some have already left the organisation.
When top scientists leaves NZ we are all the poorer (quite literally). It takes many years to build the kinds of scientific collaboration and commercial partnerships that make Invermay the success that it is.
I've spoken again in Parliament about the changes. If you feel moved to act, please sign the petition which is still available in council offices and public libraries across Otago or at www.saveinvermay.co.nz to download.
If you've already signed the petition: thank you! Please help colleagues, family, and friends to do the same.
8000 signatures have been collected on the petition so far. 10,000 will be a hard number for any Government to ignore.
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Why Is the Liturgical Establishment Not Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Novus Ordo?
An article published at NLM last Thursday ("Lessons from the Sixties: Selective Synodality and Princely Protests") begins thus: "It is actually astonishing how little of Paul VI's liturgical reform, especially his Novus Ordo Missae, which he promulgated fifty years ago, is being commemorated this year." That has been on my mind, too, for the whole of 2019.
It should strike us as exceedingly odd, at least prima facie, that liturgy committees, Vatican dicasteries, theology departments, chanceries, religious orders, and every other sort of postconciliar bureaucratic apparatus is not engaged in a huge song and dance about the golden anniversary of the new Mass promulgated by Pope Paul VI on April 3, 1969, and effective in most countries on the first Sunday of Advent of that year, November 30. (In the same way, Summorum Pontificum was promulgated on 7/7/07 but did not take effect until the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14).
Certainly, one might think, if there is anything postconciliar that deserves to be toasted, fêted, and proudly clapped on the back, it would be this monumental modern makeover. Yet the number of events, nay, the number of mentions on the part of the Pauline rite's friends and supporters could be counted on one hand. The total number of events celebrating Summorum Pontificum's rather modest anniversaries (5 years, 10 years…), in contrast, already go up into double digits. Perhaps the most high-profile piece — and it wasn't particular high-profile — was an article in L'Osservatore Romano on April 6, 2019, by Fr. Corrado Maggioni, S.M.M., Under-Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, published in English at PrayTell on April 17. [1]
Can we understand this perplexing silence? I think the answer can be summed up in an alternative title that I considered using for this article: "Memory Hole: On the Destruction of the Knowledge of Tradition."
What got me thinking along these lines was an interesting exchange at Facebook, of which I will now reproduce the most valuable segments. It began this way:
I have met plenty of people who call themselves Catholic who have never had the slightest idea there ever were any changes, and have no idea what the term "Novus Ordo" even means, the rewriting of history has been so complete.
Another fellow chimed in:
When I was first at University I was vaguely aware that before Vatican II Mass was in Latin, but I thought it meant the liturgy exactly as we had it in the Steubenville chapel, but in Latin. Then I went to a TLM just out of curiosity and discovered just how wrong that idea was.
The first person replied:
I assumed precisely the same thing. The idea that they would simply brazenly concoct something new by committee was something that I had to be forcibly convinced of. It wasn't until I had put the two texts side by side that I began to realise how we had been utterly swindled all our lives. Then I started reading Michael Davies and it was all over.
A third person chimed in:
I converted from Anglicanism, having read my way to Catholicism. The Novus Ordo (though I didn't know it was called that at the time or for many years) was a bit of a shock, but I just thought that's how it was, and I had to get on with it. I never even knew the Latin Mass still existed. I lapsed, came back, and I will always believe it was no coincidence that the weekday Mass I happened to stay for after my confession was a TLM. Usual stuff after that — read Michael Davies, etc., went through the whole anger, "I've been cheated" thing — and out the other side. Praise God.
A question was raised: "Why among Catholics is there so much ignorance not just of history in general, but even of our recent history? Fifty years ago isn't that much time… You'd think that a Church 2,000 years old would want its members to know how great it was that the bad old dusty-musty liturgy was replaced by a shiny new model." And to it, there came this reply:
The answer to the puzzle is that there is no longer supposed to be any knowledge that the "Novus Ordo," as such, exists at all. It is supposed only to be "the Mass," full stop. The fact that there were ever any changes made to the liturgy is supposed to be sliding down the Memory Hole with each passing year. The people who remember the old Mass well, who would have known just how radically different the new is from the old, and who remember how violently the changes were made — these people are dying off. That is, the ones who didn't simply give up and leave long ago. Catholics who still practice the Faith are not supposed to know there ever was an "old rite" or that there is a "new rite" at all. The entire project of the Revolution at this stage is to deny there ever was such a thing as the Old Faith.
Anyway, all this is why they are as furious as a bag of feral cats that there are still Traditionalists, and that the traddie movement is gaining ground. That lot was supposed to have died out or been driven out, and the fact that there are new ones, people like me who never knew the old rite in the wild, and the families now having twelve kids and going to the Missa Cantata, and all the homeschooling and whatnot... Combine that with the internet's ability to let everyone know what's really happening, and plenty of beautiful pictures besides, and it must be making them absolutely apoplectic.
Apoplectic, perhaps; but also strangely silent. How many websites are there that pursue a strongly reformist line? Not that many. Maybe just one: PrayTell. How many websites pursue a strongly traditionalist line? Quite a few. It seems, in short, that the progressives have run out of steam, or run out of confidence, or run out of on-board personnel, or think that talking about it too much risks introducing still further Catholics to the forbidden subjects — and thence, to possible defections.
A reader of OnePeterFive wrote to the editor:
I was already looking for God when I went to school, but the fullness, reality, and beauty of the Church and her Tradition was unknown to me until I discovered 1P5 … I say my encounter with Tradition was a second conversion because my experience immediately following my baptism and confirmation within Francis' church was segregated from any knowledge that the Church before the 1960's had been different than it is today.
Exactly. The success of the "transformation of all forms" ultimately depends on as many people in the Church not knowing what came before 1969, or thinking that our worship and our life could, or should, be any different from that which the Vatican, the USCCB, the chancery, or [fill in the blank] would have us think it must be.
At the moment, I am copyediting a manuscript of a translation of a very fine book by Michael Fiedrowicz, Die überlieferte Messe: Geschichte, Gestalt und Theologie des klassischen römischen Ritus, which will be published by Angelico under the title The Traditional Mass: History, Form, and Theology of the Classical Roman Rite. The following paragraph eloquently summarizes the points I have been making:
The celebration of the liturgy in its traditional form thus constitutes an effective counter-weight for all levelings, reductions, dilutions, and banalizations of the Faith. Many who are unfamiliar with the classical liturgy and are acquainted only with the re-created form believe that what they see and hear there is the entirety of the Faith. Scarcely anyone senses that central passages have perhaps been removed from biblical pericopes. Scarcely anyone notices if the Church's orations no longer expressly attack error, no longer pray for the return of those who have strayed, no longer give the heavenly clear priority over the earthly, make the Saints into mere examples of morality, conceal the gravity of sin, and identify the Eucharist as only a meal. Scarcely anyone even knows what prayers the Church said over the course of centuries in place of the current "preparation of the gifts," and how these prayers demonstrated the Church's understanding of the Mass as a sacrifice, offered through the hands of the priest for the living and the dead.
As I discovered the traditional Latin Mass in my late teens and early twenties, I distinctly remember stumbling on important truths of the Faith — truths taught by the Bible, the Church Fathers, the Councils, and, of course, the Tridentine missal — that had become muted, invisible, or even extinct in the Novus Ordo. And subsequent study has only confirmed the extent of that systematic bias. This is why I like to say (admitting it's a bit of an exaggeration): "my daily missal made me a traditionalist."
Catholics who do not give themselves trustingly to the 2,000-year tradition of the Church will not be in contact with the whole doctrine and morality of Catholicism. This is hard to hear, but so is much of the teaching of Our Lord: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" (Matt. 16, 24). The same is true, in a way, of tradition: we have to deny our modern prejudices, take up the blessed burden of our tradition, and follow it, in order to be integrally Catholic.
Joseph Ratzinger famously and repeatedly said that forgetfulness of God is the major problem of the West. In his Foreword to Dom Alcuin Reid's The Organic Development of the Liturgy, he wrote:
If the liturgy appears first of all as the workshop for our activity, then what is essential is being forgotten: God. For the liturgy is not about us, but about God. Forgetting about God is the most imminent danger of our age. As against this, the liturgy should be setting up a sign of God's presence. Yet what is happening, if the habit of forgetting about God makes itself at home in the liturgy itself, and if in the liturgy we are only thinking of ourselves?
The same theologian, as Pope Benedict XVI, wrote in his letter concerning the remission of the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops:
In our days, when in vast areas of the world the faith is in danger of dying out like a flame which no longer has fuel, the overriding priority is to make God present in this world and to show men and women the way to God. Not just any god, but the God who spoke on Sinai; to that God whose face we recognize in a love which presses "to the end" (cf. Jn 13:1) — in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. The real problem at this moment of our history is that God is disappearing from the human horizon, and, with the dimming of the light which comes from God, humanity is losing its bearings, with increasingly evident destructive effects.
It is still difficult for many in the Church today to realize — either because they are totally ignorant of the past (as the revolutionaries intended), or because, being aware of it, they are afraid to do their homework and connect the dots — that the changes in the liturgy have actually contributed, profoundly and lastingly, to the crisis of our forgetfulness of God, and that the primary cure for this amnesia will be the restoration of the classical Roman rite.
From the ordination of a priest of the Fraternity of St. Peter in 2017
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Posted Monday, October 28, 2019
Labels: 1960s, 1969, Alcuin Reid, Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, Michael Davies, Paul VI, Peter Kwasniewski, restoration, usus antiquior


The Monk Eumenios from the time of his youth was noted for his virtuous life. He strove to serve the One God and therefore he shunned worldly temptations. Concerned about salvation of soul, he distributed all his substance to the poor. By the blessing of God the Monk Eumenios was chosen and elevated to the dignity of bishop of the Gortineia Church on the Island of Crete. The saint like a compassionate father comforted his flock in their sorrows, and cared for the orphaned and indigent. He prayers were so strong before God, that once during the time of drought he called forth abundant rain upon the earth. Saint Eumenios wisely and zealously defended the Orthodox faith against the then arising Monophysite heresy. For his opposition to the heresy the saint was banished to the Thebaid, where he died in the VII Century. His body was then transferred and buried in Gortineia.


No country has a more compelling combination of history, culture, and wildlife than South Africa. In Johannesburg, the painful years under apartheid are gone but never forgotten. Game drives during a safari take you within shouting distance of elephants, lions, rhinos, and more. And Cape Town is a favorite destination for many, thanks to its cosmopolitan atmosphere and stunning scenery.
Head to Langa, a former South African township or dormitory-styled, racially divided suburb. En route, you'll gain local insight into the socio-political realities of pre and post-apartheid. With your expert guide, you'll visit the local community center where residents can learn job and life skills. There's an opportunity to purchase some locally produced arts and crafts. On your guided walking tour, you'll connect with locals before visiting a local preschool and a shebeen (community center).


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Q: Hiding a dynamically created table row on click I'm currently trying to hide a dynamically created table row after a button has been pressed. So far I have managed to handle part of the dynamic functions.
Each dynamic row has a "Cancel" and "Save" button, I have managed to respond to these with ease. My problem is actually working with the row itself.
$(function() {
    $(".add").click(function(){
        // Just append to the table
        $("table#bookmarks tr:first").after("<tr class='new' id='<?php echo rand(1, 9999); ?>'>	URL: <input type='text' id='newURL' />
Title: <input type='text' id='newTitle' />
Description:
<textarea id='newDesc'></textarea>	Tags: <input type='text' id='newTags' />	Save
Cancel
");
        $('span#links').html('You must reload to recount links!');
        // Actually, the user doesn't want to add another link
        $('.cancel').click(function() {
            $(this).parents(".new").animate({ backgroundColor: "#FF0000" }, "fast").animate({ opacity: "hide" }, "slow");
        });
        // Seems the user wants to add a link!
        $('.save').click(function() {
            $("table#bookmarks tr.new #id").animate({ backgroundColor: "#FFFFFF" }, "fast").animate({ opacity: "hide" }, "slow");
        });
    });

});

I need to now hide the row, I have tried all sorts of various methods, .parent, .attr to name a few.

A: Try chaining your jQuery functions like this:
$(function() {
    $(".add").click(function() {
        $("
	URL: <input type='text' id='newURL' />
Title: <input type='text' id='newTitle' />
Description:
<textarea id='newDesc'></textarea>	Tags: <input type='text' id='newTags' />
")
            .append($("	")
                .append($("Save
")
                    .click(function() { $(this).parents(".new").animate({ backgroundColor: "#FF0000" }, "fast").animate({ opacity: "hide" }, "slow"); }))
                .append($("Cancel")
                    .click(function() { $(this).parents(".new").animate({ backgroundColor: "#FF0000" }, "fast").animate({ opacity: "hide" }, "slow"); })))
            .insertAfter($("table#bookmarks tr:first"));
            $('span#links').html('You must reload to recount links!');
    });
});

(This is a modified version of your original code so it's still a bit messy.)

A: You can use jQuery live, new since jQuery 1.3.2, to preserve the click function on a dynamically created item.
http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live

A: I tossed together a quick example but I'll admit I'm a tad rusty on jQuery.  This code however does work, at least for me.
$(function() {
$(".add").click(function(){
    var save = $("Save").click(function() {
        $(this).parent().animate({ backgroundColor: "#FFFFFF" }, "fast").animate({ opacity: "hide" }, "slow")
    })

    var cancel = $("Cancel").click(function() {
        $(this).parent().animate({ backgroundColor: "#FFFFFF" }, "fast").animate({ opacity: "hide" }, "slow")
    })

    var buttonTD = $("	");
    buttonTD.append(save);
    buttonTD.append(cancel);

    var row = $("<tr class='new' id='<?php echo rand(1, 9999); ?>'>	URL: <input type='text' id='newURL' />
Title: <input type='text' id='newTitle' />
Description:
<textarea id='newDesc'></textarea>	Tags: <input type='text' id='newTags' />
")
    .append(buttonTD);
});

});

A: The jQuery live function:
$("#sendmail").live("click", function(){

    // your code goes here

});

here is an example of how I used it.
$("#sendmail").live("click", function(){

    $("#emailres").html('');
    var youremail = $("#youremail").val();
    var subject = $("#subject").val();
    var message = $("#message").val();

    $.ajax({
    type: 'post',
    url: 'email.php',
    data: 'youremail=' + youremail + '&subject=' + subject + '&message=' + message,

    success: function(results) {
        $('#emailres').html(results);
        }
    }); // end ajax

});

To hide the selected row, do something like this:
first give your table an id (something like #mytable)
$("#cancel_row").live("click", function(){

    $(this).$("#mytable tr").hide();

});

hope that helps you.


This is Tuesday evening's scene. Do you know, I had to leave it till 8.30 to take the picture to avoid shooting into the sun. Yep, in amongst that 'now-I think-I'm-a-photographer' speak I did say sun. Tuesday was just lovely. And today gentle WOYWWers, promises to be the same. Oh! To be in England now that summer's here. Even if for only a day more, it really is a lovely place in the sunshine! Anyhoo, I'm putting off the inevitable really. Returning to type, my desk I think, betrays my complete inability to make up my mind and finish something. I'm meant to be preparing samples for a 'Men's Cards' Workshop. I know what I need/want to use in terms of product, I know what sort of techniques will suit the workshop, and I can't yet get a grip on the finish...so far, none of the cards on the desk match the idea in the head. The head, it appears, is the more wooden of the two at this stage. You will hear more about this, I fear. Or you fear.
So put me out of my misery and show us your successful work surface this week...we wanna see what you're doing and what you've got. Naturally. Please include WOYWW in your blog post title. Link it here and we'll visit. There were only 2 last week that I simply couldnt leave a comment on; one because it was too promotional (I noticed that only one WOYWWer had commented on it by the time I got there on Sunday) and the other was number 142, Ashton Elaine....the link was wrong/damaged and no amount of searching got me there, so am really sorry if you were disappointed by lack of comments!
Meanwhile, link here, go ahead, make your day.
Lots of goodies on your desk as usual. Your upcoming workshop sounds like fun! You will be in for a shock when you visit as you actually get to see some DESK today! I'm back in the Paper Palace this week - though it's not what you think!
Blimey I am the first to comment! Its not like me is it! Although I am not at all myself at the moment, so maybe its appropriate! I see the usual creativity going on on your desk & inspiring stuff! Like the diddy little alpha stamps, must make more use of mine! Have a good week Julia!
Yes, I'm with you. If the link is too hard-sell I pass on by. Thing have been a lot better lately with Blogger but this new thing of it filling in my google id means I have to be on my toes lest I just click without thinking. I think I may have an old, never used blog there somewhere.
You're right, it does make my day!!! I love it here and want to stay please. I love your overhead shot... very arty, and yes, the sun was lovely today while it lasted.
I went outside to mow my grass after you didn't post at midnight your time. What a shock when I came back in and found you had already posted. I got too anxious to be doing something constructive, I guess (grin).
well it may not be a successful desk but at least it's seeing some action, unlike mine that is sadly neglected.
Can't believe I got in so early this week! Yes, its been nice to see some sun, lets hope it lasts a while. Hope you get your men's cards sorted out - I always find them tricky - no lace, no glitter, no bows, no flowers, no bling - sure what else can you put on them!?
SUN what is that! This has been the coldest June on record here. It has rained most of the month so hopefully summer will change that.
Good look with your workshop and thanks for allowing us a look at your workspace.
Happy WOYWW Julia!!! Sorry your cards aren't matching up with your vision...I just hate it when that happens!! It looks like you're having lots of crafty fun on your desk this week though. Hope your creating gets easier!
The sun was a shock, wasn't it? I feel bad because I do have a productive desk this week. I'll do my best to send creative/productive vibes your way.
We had sun today too, and at last my runner beans are in...(In HUGE pots) before they strangled each other! Mind you we were holding on to the arwning on Sunday in all that rain....it nearly blew away. Desk looks very productive to me! and mine is a bit tidy...but you can't see it.
Hi there Julia - am so glad you are getting some of that sunshine too and hope you get lots more as well as know from when I was there how much it is needed - sure did not see much of it!
As my desk shows I ma suffering from the same amount of indecision, and also showed some of our lovely weather here too..
Well Julia, I think the Men's cards will be just fine..looks like clock work to me. a wooden head, or a wooden heart just can't function up to par. Good Luck you'll feel wonderful when the plan comes together. Enjoy WOYWW and have a wonderful week ahead.
Sun you say...hmm...don't mention it otherwise you might frighten it away. I've been hearing how wet your June has been... maybe the tanks empty now and you'll be all summery until September?
Your desk always looks so interesting and creative...you just never know what you'll see next.
Good luck with the cards ~ enjoy!
Oops...see in so much of a rush forgot to include my number.
I had a good close look at your desk as something caught my eye. Under the pile of cards towards the back, which have the gorgeous fob watch, it looks like something says "Will show knickers"!!!! I am intrigued by this, are they yours or is it for "mens cards"??? I conjures up all sorts of things in my little mind.
I'm so glad you have the sun out at last, I've felt your sort of temps lately and I feel your pain. Hope the sun stays out for you, it's shining bright here.
So glad to hear your summer has arrived...send some sunshine over here to Vancouver, Canada please...we would like some of that sunshine too!!!
Glad to be back playing with all of you.
I'm sure your mojo has kicked in since you posted and you are acing those projects for the class.
So happy you have sunshine. I get all down when the sun doesn't shine. Guess that's why we live in the "Sunshine State"! Lovely busy desk as usual, Julia!!
OMG Julia you do such an amazing job to get around and comment on everyone's post. I wish I could say I put in the same amount of effort. Loving the sunshine here in Sydney today but, I won't brag last week it rained and was very bleak. Love the pocketwatch stamp.
Love the desk, with your arty overhead shot - good luck sorting the workshop! The sun yesterday was gorgeous indeed... sad they're not forecasting it to last after today! Woke at midnight - checked - no post, back to sleep - woke at 4.30 (think it was the birds outside) -here you are with 30 odd already listed!! have a great day, Julia!
Yeah! I managed to get my post in early...USA time is 9 pm on Tuesday! Looking forward to spending more time spying on workdesks.
Wow! You got to all but 2 people last week?? You're a hard working gal! I'm having trouble leaving comments on Wordpress blogs. I hope to get to more blogs this week. Have a great WOYWW!
Hi Julia Its hard when its all so clear in your head but it won't come together on the project !!
Have a wonderful week, Julia! I hope your wooden head comes to life for you soon!
Hi Julia! How wonderful to have beautiful sunny days! Here in the Philippines we've hit rainy weather and the first day of school got cancelled!
how nice for you to have some sun! the clock stamp is a great one for some men's cards steampunk style. happy WOYWW!
Oh Julia, maybe you will dream the perfect design for your Man card tonight...sometimes I get inspiration out of desperation LOL! I saved an ATC for you if you send me your address I will send it to you!
Glorious sunny blue skies here on the South Coast...yaaay!
I doubt your head is wooden more the subject matter - ie men - that caused the block. We have sun as I type too. A very rare commodity and not generally known to me at this time of day. One week I intend to succeed in making it round the whole list.
Wow! I can't believe you managed to get around all but two! Every week I tell myself I'll do the lot, but every week my troublesome baby demands more and more of my time.. Haha!
My photos taken last night were without the aid of artificial light, funnily enough. And in that particular room, that's unheard of!
I'm sure inspiration will hit you soon enough. Did your ATC arrive, by the way?
I didn't wait for the sun to go down, as the mess would not have been made any better by it, except by perhaps, complete darkness! Still sunny here this morning! Yah!
Hi Julia from a sunny Lancashire, and it's not often I have been able to say that this month - makes such a difference. I like that clock stamp, should make some good male cards with that one. Well done on getting round everyone last week, what a star.
Ooh, Mens Cards workshop....that's a hard one (WHY are men so difficult!!).
It seems Mr Linky is working this week....sorry but I commented last week and added my deets but didnt realise I had to come back once linky was working and re add my deets so I was missed too! Fingers crossed it all works this week.
Good morning Julia, from sunny Rossendale Valley in Lancashire.
I've had a good look round your desk and like the clock stamp, think I can feel a purchase coming on.
I've stopped struggling with being late doing things as I know I'm always on the last minute (even with our companies vat) so I just accept that's how I am and it seems to work for me.
What a trooper you are getting round people's desks. Thank you from me and the Doodly Birds for popping in to see us.
Oh how lovely to see the sun. What a difference it makes but of course when I'd got the double buggy out yesterday to take the munchkins for a walk in it the sky started to drop rain on us here! Typical eh?
Hi Julia! I am so glad that I joined the WOYWW this week :) At least now I know I am not the only one suffering from the lack of sun here. Being your neighbour (I mean living in Ireland)I heard a joke here about summer.
-did you have summer this year?
Yes! More sunshine, even as I type! I think it's due to disappear again tomorrow - my day off, lol.
Don't know the late evening sun Julia, it's the longest day tomorrow and the days start getting shorter…….dark at 5pm in no time!
It's brave of you to do a class with Men's cards, they are so difficult but I love the colours that you're using.
I've been AWOL for a while - things going on to keep me occupied away from crafting and blogging. I'm hoping to get started again soon, and have tried to make a restart byupdating and renaming my blog (the name as suggested by one of my WOYWW visitors). No photo yet this week, but hopefully next Wednesday.
Long week of weirdness for me. You're my port in the storm.
There are some very eager eyed bloggers our there as I didn't see the 'will show knickers' thingie!
Glorious weather, planning to sit out in the back garden with a cup of tea and double chocolate chip muffin later...well it is my birthday!!
Hmm, I don't like doing men's cards either... they never flow as easily.
Enjoy the sun, it may only last a couple of days!
Hi Julia - just popped in to say I'm afraid I'm too busy this week to join in - got the craft show on Saturday and I've still got a lot to prepare. Wanted to wish everyone a happy WOYWW and hope to catch up with you all next week!
Thanks for everyone's understanding last week when I couldn't see any of my comments for a few days. All is now well.
Great shot of your desk. I'm so glald you are getting some much needed sunshine! Here in the Southern portion of the States, the sun is broiling. We are in the 90's and steamy! Oh how I wish I could visit the UK! It's always been a dream of mine!
How right you are, Julia. We are so lucky to live in a beautiful country which looks stunning in the sunshine. Just a pity it rains so much!! I shall be making the most of it today!!
I hope your head starts to co operate soon, it's so frustrating when things just don't work isn't it. I'd take a glass of something cool outside and when you come back it'll all flow I'm sure.
Oh I hate when what in my head and what's on the desk don't want to match up!
Funny how it never turns out on paper the same as what's in your head! Maybe a rather good idea in my case lol!!!
Take care and thanks for sharing your fab creative space.
Morning Julia. Thanks again for the fab WOYWW Badge.
The card I can see looks fab just needs a sentiment and maybe a ribbon, what about making a faux watch strap to go across the card?
I am just off to get that mosquito that has dared to fly in before he bites me! Anyone would think it was Summer out there!
Yes! Sunshine! I have actually posted TWICE today (almost unheard of!), because the sunshine was soooo lovely, that I took the camera into the garden.
So, today's WOYWW is also accompanied by a Midsummer Morning post!
But your desk, Julia, looks amazingly busy! Wow, what a lot going on. Looks as if you have been having a lovely time. I do like that "clock" stamp.. I may have to get one of my own!
It's always so strange to me how long the sun stays out during the summer. A good thing, mind you, but strange. A men's card workshop, sounds interesting. Could go a couple of ways with that one :) Hope your head becomes less wooden. Ha!
Hi Julia! Thank you for visiting my desk last week. It's a real treat when you stop by. I can totally relate to the creative procrastination that occurs during projects. I am in one right now but hoping today's visit to desks will give me the push I need to jump in. When you get those men's cards flushed out, let me know because I need to start creating more masculine cards and woodgrain was what I used on my father's day cards for my shop. But I'm thinking I need other options. Have a great day. It's really hot here in Massachusetts today. Beginning of extreme heat - upper 90s. More like extreme bad hair day! If you have time, pop on over to my desk.
Mens cards are so pesky, but let's face it, men are just plain pesky! You'll get there though. I don't like the ac on much either, and it's very expensive to run so we're economical with it, but I really prefer fresh air, so if it isn't too hot or humid we just have the windows open and the ceiling fans on, much better for you I think. Unfortunately when it's this hot you can't really do anything with it, you have to stay indoors. SO last night it was an episode of Midsomer Murders in the cool!
LOL! You are too hard on yourself! Your desk looks like a fabulous place of streaming creativity! Art is always in progress in one way or another!!!!
Will show knickers for WHAT?!
Good morning Julia. I'm happy for your sunshine! Today is Summer Solstice and the longest day with sunshine (although I suspect it might be only seconds longer than yesterday). We lived in Ohio for a few years where twilight occurred around 10pm at midsummer. It was fantastic!
Boy is your desk busy! Almost no room to work... a sign of a creative mind. Your workshop sounds like fun, too!
Men'S cards? Always makes me shudder!
I always dread having to make them but always do in the end.
Loving the sunshine down here too, although it'll be gone tomorrow!
A sunny England cannot be beaten by any tropical clime but we do have to enjoy it day by day without a chance to rely on the next day being as good.
So many WOYWWers have lost their mojo this week.... I think your's will come with the most suitable weather! Rain stops outside play but starts crafting time.
Hi to all WOYWW ers. This is my first attempt at joining in with this great crafting community, so I hope it worked!!! I'm looking forward to poking around lots of desk and getting lots of inspiration! Have a wonderful crafty week everybody!
Julie a big thanks to you and everyone for comments on my blog last week. It really helped easy the pain of Spunky's passing.
The sun has been lovely here too.
Lots to see on your desk Julia but I think you need to be out soaking up the rays - afterall, its supposed to be downhill from tomorrow.
Ah.... so she fancies herself a photographer now does she? I have some finished projects to show off today--just for you I left the photos of the unfinished ones off. However, nothing manly and none of it came from my brain.
Not linking up this week (time ran away from me) but am still planning to visit some desks. Yours looks interesting -- and wow, the sun was shining through that lovely window!
I'm sure the head and cards will match up soon - go and enjoy some sunshine while waiting for inspiration to strike. And mega well done for getting around all those desks!! Oh, we have sun here too, ooop north(!) and it was sports day at baby bugs school, think I should probably go and put the lottery on now!
Ooooh, I like that pocketwatch stamp!
Well, I didn't have much to show this week, so did the What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday--Daughter Edition.
It is lovely in England in the summer! The year I was in London and then went on to stay with a family in France it was very beautiful! I still look at the photos of me on the London Bridge, in front of the palace, etc. with amazement that I was there! Your desk is filled with potential again - I hope today you find a match between the cards and your vision! :<) Wishing you a nice day today!
Happy woyww! Finally managed to link once I got home to a 'proper' computer lol!
Good luck figuring out how to translate what you have in your head to card. That can be so challenging sometimes!
Helooooooo .....should I hang my head in shame for not sharing since...what....February???...or high five that I finally have??????
So, as you will see, I am in blissville and long may it stay that way!!!
so happy to have my first WOYWW. and i love peeking at other people desks.. so much fun.
Well, it has been awhile since I linked up here so I thought I would come visit! Happy Wednesday!
Hello. No desk from me this week. I was in London on Monday and Tuesday and came home very late last night feeling too tired to even go in my room. It didn't look any different either as I was desperate to finish my bolero to wear on Monday!
London was gorgeous bathed in sunshine and I even burnt the top of my back/neck!!
When it is sunny in UK there is no need to go abroad!
My workdesk is actually my easel this week. I hope it's OK. Blessings!
Derp. Anyway, I made it before midnight this week. I love this look into other people's crafting spaces!
113 comments posted and I am 164 I think some forgot to tell you they have posted.
I am so sorry my link is so late I have had issues with up linking all my fault due to work location.
I have the post on my blog since yesterday. and have posted on your site now, so all good.
Again sorry, I am off to blog hop.
Julie i think you need to walk away from your desk...go and enjoy the sunshine....and when you get back you will sort out those cards with fresh ideas!!
Sorry Jlia I have just seen you want short post....will do so next week!
I was told that my link from #38 was going back to an old post, so I corrected it. I'm now at #165. So much for being early this week! Lol.
I am so upset! I missed the party yesterday!! But I see I can still play, so I might put up a quick post. When the kids are off from school, it takes me a week or two to adjust. I keep thinking it's the weekend!!
The sunshine didn't last but I made the most of it and hope you did too.
Well,I am a day late, but I am here! I am so glad that it's not only me who envisions something, only to be very disappointed that it doesn't come out as planned! I wish you well. I know that you will eventually come up with what you wanted!!!
Oh boy I wish it was sunny here. Today it's wet and dreary. Love your desk with lots of things happening on it - unlike mine lol.


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Local restrictions support grant 021220
Support scheme
Local Restrictions Support Grant (OPEN) Scheme
Last updated 06 January 2021
1.0 Purpose of the Scheme and background.
2.0 Funding
3.0 Eligibility criteria.
4.0 The grant award, award periods and application process
5.0 Excluded businesses
6.0 The Effective Date
7.0 Who can receive the grant?
8.0 How will grants be provided to Businesses?
9.0 EU State Aid requirements
10.0 Notification of Decisions
11.0 Reviews of Decisions
12.0 Complaints
13.0 Taxation and the provision of information to Her Majesty's Revenues and Customs (HMRC)
14.0 Managing the risk of fraud
15.0 Recovery of amounts incorrectly paid
16.0 Data Protection and use of data
2 December to 29 December 2020
The following definitions are used within this document:
'Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG)' means the additional funding provided by Government. Funding will be made available to eligible Local Authorities at the point that national restrictions are imposed or at the point the Local Authority first entered LCAL 3 local restrictions;
'Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)'; means the Government department responsible for the scheme and guidance;
'Effective date'; means, for eligibility of the grant, the date of the local restrictions or the date of widespread national restrictions. For the purpose of this scheme the date cannot be before 9th September 2020;
'Hereditament(s); means the assessment defined within Section 64 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
'In-person services' means services which are wholly or mainly provided by the business to their customers face to face and which cannot be provided by other means such as online or remotely by telephone, email, video link, or written communication;
'Local Covid Alert Level' (LCAL) means the level of alert determined by Government and Local Authorities for the area. LCALs have three Tiers. Tier 1 (Medium): Tier 2 (High) and Tier 3 (Very High). For the purposes of these schemes the definitions used are LCAL1, LCAL2 and LCAL3.
'Local lockdown'; means the same as 'Local restrictions';
'Local rating list'; means the list as defined by Section 41 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988
'Local restrictions'; and 'Localised restrictions' means legally binding restrictions imposed on specific Local Authority areas or multiple Local Authority areas, where the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requires the closure of businesses in a local area under regulations made using powers in Part 2A of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 in response to the threat posed by coronavirus and commonly as part of a wider set of measures;
'Local Restrictions Support Grant Scheme (Closed)'; means the grant scheme developed by the Council in response to an announcement made by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy made on 9th September 2020, amended on 9th October 2020 and which is applicable to businesses forced to close under either LCAL3 or where national restrictions are in place;
'Local Restrictions Support Grant Scheme (Open)'; means the grant scheme developed by the Council in response to an announcement made by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy made on 22nd October 2020 and which is applicable to businesses that are still open but severely impacted by the restrictions imposed by LCAL2 and LCAL3;
'Local Restrictions Support Grant Scheme (Sector)'; means the grant scheme developed by the Council in response to an announcement made by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy made on 9th October 2020 (effective from 1st November) and which is applicable to businesses that have been required to close on a national basis since 23rd March 2020 due to restrictions being put in place to manage coronavirus;
'Rateable value'; means the rateable value for the hereditament shown in the Council's local rating list at the date of the local restrictions;
'Ratepayer'; means the person who will receive the grant will be the person who, according to the Council's records, was the ratepayer liable for occupied rates in respect of the hereditament at the date of the local restrictions;
'State Aid Framework'; means the Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak published on 19 March 2020; and
'Temporary Framework for State aid'; means the same as the 'State Aid Framework'.
1.0 Purpose of the Scheme and background
1.1 The purpose of this document is to detail eligibility and the application process for a payment under the Council's Local Restrictions Support Grant Scheme (Open).
1.2 The grant scheme has been developed by the Council in response to an announcement made by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy made on 22nd October 2020 which sets out circumstances whereby a grant payment may be made by the Council to businesses that are not legally required to close but which are severely impacted by the localised restrictions on socialising put in place to manage coronavirus and save lives.
1.3 Whilst the awarding of grants will be the Council's responsibility, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has set down certain criteria which must be met by each business making an application. The Department has also indicated the types of business which should be given the grant.
1.4 The scheme applies where local restrictions either under LCAL2 (High) or LCAL3 (Very High) are put in place on or after 1st August 2020.
1.5 Localised restrictions are legally binding restrictions imposed on specific Local Authority areas or multiple Local Authority areas, where the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requires the closure of businesses in a local area under regulations made using powers in Part 2A of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 in response to the threat posed by coronavirus and commonly as part of a wider set of measures.
1.6 Grants under this scheme will be available for the 2020/21 financial year only.
1.7 Where there is a widespread national restriction, this scheme will be replaced by the Council's Local Restrictions Support Grant Scheme (Closed) and potentially the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme.
2.1 Local Authorities, subject to local eligibility, have received funding to meet the cost of payments to businesses within the business rates system based on an assessment of the number of eligible business hereditaments.
3.1 The Local Restrictions Support Grant (Open) is primarily aimed at hospitality, hotel, bed & breakfast and leisure businesses. The Council does have the discretion as to how to award grant funding to individual businesses and may award to businesses outside of these sectors.
3.2 Government, whilst wanting Councils to exercise their local knowledge and discretion, has strongly suggested that the Council follow their criteria for the awards. The Council has decided to adopt these principles, and, in all cases, the Council will only consider businesses for grants where all of the criteria are met.
Eligibility criteria determined by the Council.
3.3 The Council has determined the following criteria:
Businesses that were established and trading on the day prior to the introduction of LCAL 2-type (High) or LCAL 3-type (Very High) restrictions within the area are eligible;
All businesses can apply, however, those that provide hospitality, hotel, bed & breakfast and leisure businesses will be considered as priority. The grant allocation will be determined on the basis of the property's Rateable Value (RV).
All businesses that are not legally required to close but which are severely impacted by the localised restrictions on socialising are eligible. Each business will be required to certify to the Council that they have been severely impacted by the restrictions. Businesses will need to provide proof of a reduction of at least 30% in turnover.
Where the business is shown in the local non-domestic rating list
4.1 The Council has decided that the following awards shall be granted:
Rateable Value
Where the business is NOT shown in the local non-domestic rating list
4.2 In addition to the above, the Council has decided that the following awards will be available to businesses that are not currently shown in the non-domestic rating list, who are able to remain open but who are severely impacted by the restrictions.
Businesses in shared spaces
Bed & Breakfast businesses that pay Council Tax
£46.70 for each day's worth of normal market activity in Wyre Forest during a fortnight, subject to a maximum payment of £467
Award periods
4.3 It should be noted that, in all cases, grants will be paid for every 14-day period that the criteria are met. Any business failing to meet the criteria will not be awarded a grant.
4.4 Applications for the Local Restriction Support Grant must be made online using the application form at https://www.wyreforestdc.gov.uk/business-and-work/national-non-domestic-rates.aspx
4.5 Once you have submitted your application you will be contacted to request evidence to support your application. We require the following documents:
Bank Statements for November and December 2020. Business account statements should be supplied if applicable. If a personal account is used, please highlight on the statement the transactions relating to the business.
Bank statements for December 2019 showing income from trading. Where this is not available, other evidence which demonstrates a significant reduction in income due to tier 2 restrictions will be required.
Evidence of business address – if the bank statements do not show the address that the business operates from, then additional evidence is required showing that address e.g. recent rent invoice, utility statement, business rates statement.
Companies house registration number/Unique Tax Reference/Charity Commission number
Sole traders – correspondence from HMRC to verify the Unique Tax Reference
5.1 The following businesses will not be eligible for an award:
Businesses that are able to continue to trade and are not severely impacted as they can continue to provide their services normally;
Businesses in areas outside the scope of the localised restrictions, as defined by Government;
Businesses which have already received grant payments that equal the maximum levels of State aid permitted under the de minimis and the COVID-19 Temporary State Aid Framework;
Businesses that were in administration, are insolvent or where a striking-off notice has been made at the date of the local restriction or national restriction; and
Specific businesses subject to national closures since 23rd March 2020 will not be eligible for this funding. They will be provided support through the strand of the Local Restrictions Support Grant (Sector) for nationally mandated business closures.
6.1 The effective date for eligibility of grants under this scheme is the date of the local restrictions.
6.2 Where a business is shown in the local non-domestic rating list the Rateable Value used in determining the level of grant will be that shown for the hereditament in the local rating list as at the effective date. Any changes to the local rating List (Rateable Value or to the hereditament) after that date, including changes which have been backdated to this date, will be ignored for the purposes of eligibility.
6.3 The Council is not required to adjust, pay or recover grants where the local rating list is subsequently amended retrospectively to the effective date.
7.1 Government has stated that the person who will receive the grant will be, where the business has a hereditament in the local non-domestic rating list, the person who, according to the Council's records, was the ratepayer in respect of the hereditament at the effective date. Where the business is not subject to rating, the Council will decide who should receive the grant.
7.2 Where grants are awarded to businesses who are not liable for rates, the Council shall decide who shall be awarded the grant.
7.3 Where the Council has reason to believe that the information it holds about the ratepayer or business at the effective date is inaccurate, it may withhold or recover the grant and take reasonable steps to identify the correct ratepayer.
7.4 Where, it is subsequently determined that the records held are incorrect, the Council reserves the right to recover any grant incorrectly paid.
7.5 Where any business or individual misrepresents information or contrives to take advantage of the scheme, the Council will look to recover any grant paid and take appropriate legal action. Likewise, if any business or individual is found to have falsified records in order to obtain a grant.
8.1 In all cases businesses will be required to confirm that they are eligible to receive the grants. This includes where the Council already has bank details for the business and are in a position to send out funding immediately. Businesses are under an obligation to notify the Council should they no longer meet the eligibility criteria for any additional grants.
8.2 The Council reserves the right request any supplementary information from businesses, and they should look to provide this, where requested, as soon as possible.
8.3 An application for a Local Restrictions Support Grant (Open) is deemed to have been made when a duly completed application form is received via the Council's online procedure. The deadline for submitting grant applications is 31 January 2021.
8.4 All monies paid under this scheme will be funded by Government and paid to the Council under S31 of the Local Government Act 2003.
9.1 Any Local Restrictions Support Grant is given as aid under the Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak published on 19 March 2020. This means that businesses receiving support under these provisions can receive up to €800,000 in aid over three years (being the current and the previous two years).
9.2 Any grant awarded is required to comply with the EU law on State Aid. This will involve the applicant declaring to the Council if they have received any other de minimis State aid or aid provided under the EU Commission COVID-19 Temporary Framework.
9.3 If the applicant has not received any other de minimis State aid, they are not required to make that declaration to the Council or to complete any declaration statement.
10.1 Applications will be considered on behalf of the Council by the North Worcestershire Economic Development and Regeneration service (NWedR).
10.2 All decisions made by the Council shall be notified to the applicant either in writing or by email. A decision shall be made as soon as practicable after an application is received.
11.1 The Council will operate an internal review process and will accept an applicant's request for a review of its decision.
11.2 All such, requests must be made in writing to the Council within 14 days of the Council's decision and should state the reasons why the applicant is aggrieved with the decision of the Council. New information may be submitted at this stage to support the applicant's appeal.
11.3 The applicant will be informed in writing or by email of the decision, as soon as practicable.
12.1 The Council's 'Complaints Procedure' (available on the Council's website) will be applied in the event of any complaint received about this scheme.
13.1 The Council has been informed by Government that all payments under the scheme are taxable.
13.2 The Council does not accept any responsibility in relation to an applicant's tax liabilities and all applicants should make their own enquiries to establish any tax position.
13.3 All applicants should note that the Council is required to inform Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of all payments made to businesses.
14.1 Neither the Council, nor Government will accept deliberate manipulation of the schemes or fraud. Any applicant caught falsifying information to gain grant money or failing to declare entitlement to any of the specified grants will face prosecution and any funding issued will be recovered from them.
14.2 Applicants should note that, where a grant is paid by the Council, details of each individual grant may be passed to Government.
15.1 If it is established that any award has been made incorrectly due to error, misrepresentation or incorrect information provided to the Council by an applicant or their representative(s), the Council will look to recover the amount in full.
16.1 All information and data provided by applicants shall be dealt with in accordance with the Council's Data Protection policy and Privacy Notices which are available on the Council's website.
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