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Sample our local events
Plan your trip to coincide with the Applecross Highland Games, the Bealach cycle race, the vintage car rally, Celtman, or the fishing competition and raft race
Come to one of our music festivals and events to celebrate the 2015 Scotland Year of Food and Drink
You can hire kayaks or climbing gear for outings with qualified instructors. Cycle over The Hill and round the magnificent coast
For something more sedate, explore the network of paths around the village and peninsula, or hike to Coillegillie, our secret white coral beach
Relax at the Rock
Maybe you'd like to buy your own local provisions, and prepare a feast at home in the beautiful kitchen. Curl up on a comfy sofa and watch the sky change as you enjoy or add to our Spotify playlist. When it's stormy, light a fire and take your pick from a wide collection of books, art and films …
Award-winning local restaurants
Dine on ethically sourced local seafood prepared by a Michelin chef in the Applecross Inn, or the stunningly lovely Potting Shed Café who serve produce grown in the Victorian walled garden
Michelin star, award winning Applecross Inn
Potting Shed Café at the Walled Garden
Local Produce: home grown greens, fresh seafood, home-baked goods and meat
Bespoke Whisky tasting nights at Eagle Rock or the Applecross Inn
Fresh local fish and chips and delicious artisan ice-cream from Inn-Side Out
Bespoke on-site catering options at Eagle Rock (by prior arrangement)
The Applecross Inn
Cheeses come in from the West Highland Dairy. Chef Robbie MacRae is a local boy come home after being head chef for Marco Pierre White, and then at the Royal Oak, another Michelin restaurant down south.
Guest are blown away by the selection of fine malt whiskey – and by publican Judy Fish's talent for matching the malt to her guests. Sample micro-brewed ales, the local venison, the seafood from Applecross Bay itself, prawns, squat lobster, crab and lobster, local scallops, oysters, Mussels and Smoked Salmon. Also sample Applecross Estate Venison and as much garden produce as possible, (veg, fruit, and herbs…)
Judy Fish, a people-person to her core, is a great inspiration and friend to Eagle Rock and a devoted community leader. Many customers become friends, who return year after year. The unfailingly welcoming staff at Applecross Inn has served unpretentious, outstanding food for 25 years. Judy's sister Carolyn, and several nieces and nephews, give the pub a unique family feel
In the winter, sit at the crackling open fire, play pool and enjoy the chilled vibe. In the summer, savour fresh local seafood and game in the sea view garden
Applecross Inn website
John and Elaine Glover – and Jackie and Peter in the garden – restored this old Victorian Walled Garden to its former glory. They grow all the greens and veg they serve, and their all-day breakfasts are amazing! Try to catch one of their tasting menu nights. The Walled Garden has become very popular as a wedding and party venue. Jon has a marriage licence – you could not hope for a nicer wedding officiant! Jon and Elaine go to great lengths to make their guests happy and the staff is always smiling and helpful.
The Walled Garden also serves a selection of delicious home baked cakes, scones, brownies, and a wide selection of teas and coffees.
The Walled Garden website
Applecross Inn-Side Out
The Applecross Inn-Side Out, a 1950s-style Airstream trailer reflecting the sea, the sand and the sky of Applecross Bay, does a roaring trade serving fresh-ground coffee, the famous Applecross Inn beer-battered fish and chips, and home-made ice cream from Applecross Ices.
Ice cream chef Aron Paramor trained at Moro for seven years and spent time at Gelupo, in London's Soho, working with his ice-cream mentor Jacob Kenedy before setting up Applecross Ices. The flavours change constantly, but favourites include Toscaig Blackcurrant, Raspberry Ripple, Scottish Strawberry, Golden Syrup, Old-Fashioned Treacle, Biscuit, Key Lime Pie, Lemon Curd Ripple, Italian Cherry, Rhubarb Crumble…
His lovely wife Sarah often ably assists him
Bespoke catering/whisky nights
We offer a range of bespoke on-site catering options. Whisky tasting evenings, either at the pub, combined with a special dinner, or at Eagle Rock, seafood barbeques, cooked breakfasts. Tell us what you need and we will connect you to the right people
Bespoke catering at Eagle Rock
Applecross Store
Ali and Seonag Brown have been running rural shops for over two decades: It is incredible the range of goods you can find on their shelves! The Applecross Store and Post Office is only 5 minutes walk away from Eagle Rock
Call the Browns well in advance on 01520 744 421 to order your newspapers in advance, or any special food or alcohol you'd like. Remember to ask for their own organic eggs, locally made (delicious) creamy yoghurt, cheeses and locally smoked salmon, as well as wood, coal and basic supplies
The Browns also supply camping gas, wood, and hardware supplies
Caty MacLennans Lusan Salads and Herbs
Caty can provide organically grown salad from Easter – October from the MacLennan family croft in Toscaig, Applecross. The MacLennans hand pick their salad and sell mixed leaf bags for £1 to £2.
If you are interested in buying a bag or even picking it yourself, you can contact Caty at 01520 744447
Fish, baked goods and green produce
Local fisherman Alfie Edwards does a round of the Applecross Peninsula on Wednesdays and Thursdays in his van, offering fish (fresh and locally smoked), lobster, scallops, prepared crab in the shells, squat lobster, home-baked goods and fruit and vegetables. He is happy to take orders in advance, or come to Eagle Rock by arrangement. If you don't want to be tied down to a delivery time, you can catch Alfie in the village – just ask at the pub where he is likely to be
Give Alfie or his wife Maggie a ring on 01520 744
Cheeses come in from the West Highland Dairy. Chef Robbie MacRae is a local boy come home after being head chef for Marco Pierre White, and then at the Royal Oak, another Michelin restaurant down south
John and Elaine Glover – and Jackie and Peter in the garden – restored this old Victorian Walled Garden to its former glory. They grow all the greens and veg they serve, and their all-day breakfasts are amazing! Try to catch one of their tasting menu nights. The Walled Garden has become very popular as a wedding and party venue. Jon has a marriage licence – you could not hope for a nicer wedding officiant! Jon and Elaine go to great lengths to make their guests happy and the staff is always smiling and helpful
The Walled Garden also serves a selection of delicious home baked cakes, scones, brownies, and a wide selection of teas and coffees
The Applecross Inn-Side Out, a 1950s-style Airstream trailer reflecting the sea, the sand and the sky of Applecross Bay, does a roaring trade serving fresh-ground coffee, the famous Applecross Inn beer-battered fish and chips, and home-made ice cream from Applecross Ices
We offer a range of bespoke on-site catering options. Whisky tasting evenings, either at the pub, combined with a special dinner, or at Eagle Rock, seafood barbeques, cooked breasfasts. Tell us what you need and we will connect you to the right people
Dine on ethically sourced local seafood prepared by a Michelin chef in the Applecross Inn, or the stunningly lovely Potting Shed Café who serve produce in grown in the Victorian walled garden
Local fisherman Alifie Edwards does a round of the Applecross Peninsula on Wednesdays and Thursdays in his van, offering fish (fresh and locally smoked), lobster, scallops prepared crab in the shells, squat lobster, home-baked goods and fruit and vegetables. He is happy to take orders in advance, or come to Eagle Rock by arrangement. If you don't want to be tied down to a delivery time, you can catch Alfie in the village – just ask at the pub where he is likely to be
Fresh local fish and chips and delicious artisan ice-cream from InnSide Out
Cheeses come in from the West Highland Dairy.Chef Robbie MacRae is a local boy come home after being head chef for Marco Pierre White, and then at the Royal Oak, another Michelin restaurant down south.
Guest are blown away by the selection of fine malt whiskey – and by publican Judy Fish's talent for matching the malt to her guests. Sample micro-brewed ales, the local venison, the seafood from Applecross Bay itself, prawns, squat lobster, crab and lobster, local scallops, oysters, Mussels and Smoked Salmon. Applecross Estate Venison and as much garden produce as possible, veg, fruit, and herbs
Judy Fish, a people-person to her core, is a great inspiration and friend to Eagle Rock and a devoted community leader. Many customers become friends, who return year after year. The unfailingly welcoming staff at Applecross Inn have served unpretentious, outstanding food for 25 years. Judy's sister Carolyn, and several nieces and nephews give the pub a unique family feel
John and Elaine Glover – and Jackie and Peter in the garden – restored this old Victorian Walled Garden to its former glory. They grow all the greens and veg they serve, and their all-day breakfasts are amazing! Try to catch one of their tasting menu nights. The Walled Garden has become very popular as a wedding and party venue. Jon has a marriage licence – you could not hope for a nicer wedding official.! Jon and Elaine go to great lengths to make their guests happy and the staff are always smiling and helpful.
The Walled Garden also serve a selection of delicious home baked cakes, scones, brownies, and a wide selection of teas and coffees.
The Applecross Inn-Side Out, a 1950s-style trailer reflecting the sea, the sand and the sky of Applecross Bay, does a roaring trade serving fresh-ground coffee, the famous Applecross Inn beer-battered fish and chips, and home-made ice cream from Applecross Ices.
He is often ably assisted by his lovely wife Sarah
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Killer New York real-estate heir Robert Durst walked into a Houston pharmacy to pick up a prescription — and nonchalantly urinated on the cash register and candy rack before walking out, cops said.
A warrant for the cross-dressing multimillionaire was issued after he took a leak at a CVS blocks away from his upscale pad at about 12:15 p.m. Sunday, ruining at least $100 in sweets in the bizarre act, which was caught on surveillance video.
"He picked up his prescription, and he then exposes himself and pees all over the cash register and candy at the register and then walks out and walks down the street," Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva told The Post.
The candy rack was removed and a new one was in place Tuesday.
A warrant has been issued charging Durst (inset) with criminal mischief, Silva said. Once he is served, he will be taken to jail to await arraignment, she added.
The wealthy nut's lawyer, Chip Lewis, said he will address the allegations in court.
In 2001, Durst, now 71, was arrested as a fugitive and admitted to killing his neighbor and dumping the remains in Galveston Bay. He claimed self-defense and was acquitted of homicide charges.
Durst has been cut off from his wealthy family — which runs The Durst Organization, a privately held billion-dollar real-estate company that owns several New York skyscrapers. Last year, he was arrested for trespassing on his brother Douglas' property at 413 W. 43rd St., and 13 family members have taken out restraining orders against him.
Durst remains free on bail in the trespassing case, and is due back in court Sept. 22. But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Jill Konviser is likely to move that date up given the Houston charge, and could remand Durst or hike his bail.
Last week, The Post reported that he sold two Brooklyn properties for $21.15 million, more than doubling his initial investment.


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A Nigerian Develops A Video-Based Vehicle Counting System, You Need To See This - AutoReportNG "AutoReportNG-The No 1 Car Blog In Nigeria That You Can Trust - AutoReportNG"
Nigerians are a bundle of talents and so they excelled in their given career despite having little or nothing to work on.
Traffic congestion is a major challenge in many cities around the world, especially cities in developing nations where road networks are poorly designed and cities overpopulated. Collecting quality data about the flow of traffic is crucial in traffic management, as jams can be anticipated and prevented, and vehicles can be intelligently directed to routes with less traffic.
This project aims to improve the traffic situation on, and condition of Nigerian roads by implementing a vehicle counting system that provides accurate data for traffic control agencies and systems.
The significances of this system include estimating traffic flow on a given road per time, predicting future traffic conditions, understanding traffic patterns and the factors that affect them, and optimizing existing manual traffic management systems.
A final year student of the university has developed a video-based vehicle counting system. The model was built using OpenCV (Python) and a pre-trained YOLO v3 object detection model. With this model, it can help to count the number of cars that pass through a certain road in minutes. Imagine if we want to take the data analysis of the number of cars that pass through 3rd Mainland Bridge in 2 minutes, this counting system will be best used.
The vehicle counting system is made up of three main components: a detector, tracker and counter. The detector identifies vehicles in a given frame of video and returns a list of bounding boxes around the vehicles to the tracker. The tracker uses the bounding boxes to obtain regions of interest (ROIs) and uses them to track the vehicles in subsequent frames. The detector is also used to update tracker objects periodically to ensure that they are still tracking the vehicles correctly. The counter draws counting lines across the road. When a vehicle crosses the line, the vehicle count is incremented.
Many Nigerians have been pouring encomiums on him and many are already seeking partnerships already.


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Fabrica at the 2010 Milan International Furniture Show
Fabrica will present a change-inspired collection of wood furniture, Down Side Up among the off-show events at the Milan International Furniture Fair, 14-19 April 2010.
Hosted in historical Palazzo Borromeo, Down Side Up is an encounter between experimentation and consumption, where design challenges shapes, volume perception and directions to create objects with constantly varying functions and interpretations. And so by adding a few essential accessories like legs, handles, hooks or hands, and by choosing a precise orientation, a simple basic wood unit is transformed into something new with a unique personality. The heart of each unit is a hole, a functional element which also gives the unit an aesthetic value. Therefore the effectiveness of each article lies in its versatility of use and its potential for creating customised modular systems.
Palazzo Borromeo is also the venue for Around the Table, a selection of blown glass and ceramic objects, the fruit of many years of collaboration between Fabrica and the Roman gallery Secondome. New designs in 2010 include a collection of cake stands, an article with an old-fashioned air that evolves into a completely unexpected form and a series of ceramic objects, the result of a workshop between Fabrica's designers and a master craftsman in the Puglia region, Italy. The ancient savoir-faire of the artisans meets the creativity of today's designers who, applying their own experience and culture to the creation process, give birth to new experimental forms.
Fabrica will also be at Salone Satellite (a major launching pad for young designers from the world's top design schools) with The Riot Act, a collection of 12 decorative articles. The collection takes its name from the 1713 Act of the British Parliament which gave local authorities the right to order the dispersal of groups of 12 or more people deemed unlawfully assembled. Each of the 12 designers from Fabrica was given a ceramic cylinder to transform it in form and function through modifications, processes or additions of new elements.
Invited by INTERNI magazine, Fabrica's young Portuguese designer Catarina Carreiras will present her Divine Providence project at INTERNI THINK TANK, an exhibition/event that offers an opportunity to reflect on the necessity of new approaches and on changes in design values in the new millennium.
In a society dominated by technology, it is important to stop and think about the relationship between human beings and machines. We unconsciously continue to become attached to everyday objects. We pass more time and waste more energy with objects than with our loved ones. We seek attention, understanding, information, knowledge - and even love - from an inanimate being. Divine Providence looks at technology as an entity with a soul, a kind of private god that we adore and trust, to whom we turn for guidance and advice. Using web printing, a new concept developed by HP Imaging&Printing Group, Catarina Carreiras creates a new "religious arsenal" for the contemporary designer. The printer is considered a creative tool - ignoring the role it plays in mass production - to create a limited series of images illustrating a new enunciation: design providence.
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Favorite Cape Cod thrift stores
By Lorelei Stevens
We asked our readers to tell us about their favorite Cape secondhand stores – and did they, via more than 380 emails. From Provincetown to Sandwich, here's a sample of some reader-favorite Cape thrift shops.
Debbie Rossi manages the Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop and stands in from of the bric-a-brac shelf. Steve Haines/Cape Cod Times
People are passionate about Cape thrift shops. We received more than 380 emails from shoppers, volunteers and other boosters in response to a late-January callout asking readers to tell us about their local favorites.
With names like The Thrifty Niche, Bearly Used, Helping Hands and Noah's Ark, the Cape's scores of nonprofit shops gladly accept gently used cast-offs to resell for the benefit of good causes. They also create a community of friends for volunteers, offer money-saving opportunities for shoppers and, for many, provide the thrill of the hunt.
Judi Novak, of Brewster, wrote to say The Corner Thrift Shop, operated by the First Congregational Church in Harwich Center, was her favorite.
"I love finding a treasure," she said. "I think it is the ultimate way to recycle and help our community."
From Provincetown to Sandwich, here's a sample of some reader-favorite Cape thrift shops:
Hope Chest, Post Office Square, Orleans
Beneficiary: Lower Cape Outreach Council
Amount raised last year: Approximately $80,000
Best buy: Mexican cobalt blue glass pitcher — $20
Cozy chairs, couches, and tasteful displays of clustered collectibles give the Hope Chest a living-room kind of feel. So does assistant manager Nancy Brown as she happily greets visitors like guests arriving at her own home.
The thrift and consignment store recently moved from its longtime location in the Friends' Marketplace Plaza across the street to Post Office Square. The new, freshly painted space is open with window-framed rooms for men's and women's clothing, artwork, household items and more.
"All walks of life shop here, from people with Section 8 (subsidies) setting up new homes to people with homes on the water," Brown said.
Furniture moves fast, but customers also come just to browse around and, if they're lucky, come up with a little piece of nostalgia.
"You can never predict what you'll find," Brown said. "My grandmother may have served us pudding in those little dishes."
Friends of the Eastham Council on Aging Thrift Shop, 580 Massasoit Road, Eastham
Beneficiary: Eastham Council on Aging
Amount raised last year: $25,366
Best buy: A barely worn women's L.L. Bean jacket — $9
Housed in the historic Brackett's General Store on Massasoit Road, the Friends of the Eastham Council on Aging Thrift Shop is still a meeting place.
"This time of the year, it's mostly locals," said shop manager Rosemary Murrman. "But in the summer, everyone comes."
Household goods, clothing, artwork and bric-a-brac fill every nook of the shop. There's no room for furniture. Much of the inventory comes from cottage clear-outs, said Pat Lariviere, president of the friends group.
"We get such interesting donations when people clean out their parents' homes," she said.
Vacationers drop by the two-story Victorian house built in 1879 when they need a few more wine glasses or don't have enough sheets, and young workers from overseas come in looking for jewelry to take home for gifts, according to Murrman.
"When the tourist season is here, we clear $300 a day," Lariviere said. "And that's selling $2 and $3 items."
Volunteer Stephanie Whalen said the money raised helps support Council on Aging programs for Eastham seniors. The shop even offers gift certificates.
Provincetown United Methodist Church Thrift Shop, 20 Shankpainter Road, Provincetown
Beneficiary: Local nonprofit groups, including Helping Our Women and AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod
Money raised last year: $45,000
Best buy: Brown Westhead Moore & Co. five-piece English chamber set predating 1890 for $120
The Provincetown United Methodist Church Thrift Shop looks like a traditional secondhand store, but given the exceptional wealth and artistic heritage of the community, it can be a treasure trove.
Tucked behind the church social hall, the little shop has shelves crammed with household goods, walls loaded with paintings and drawings and a small room filled with clothes. The corridor outside is stocked with books, umbrellas and pet necessities.
"All ages come here, from kids to seniors," said manager Betty Villari. "We try to keep our prices really reasonable, especially in the winter, and we try to keep it simple because most people don't have time to shop. They're too busy working."
Villari characterized the donations the shop receives as "unbelievable." She pointed out an antique bathroom set with a chamber pot, washing basin, pitcher for $100 plus a matching shaving mug set for $20. Her online research indicated that similar sets were valued at more than $1,500.
"We have people who come for the weekend from New York and bring their stuff here," she said. "And the artwork we get, especially with all the artists in this town."
Second-View Thrift Shop, 451 Route 6A, East Sandwich
Beneficiary: Riverview School vocational programs
Best buy: Never-worn, tags-attached Alex Evenings velvet pant suit for $10.99
Matthew Oremland leans over the cash register of the Second-View Thrift Shop, deep in concentration as Lisa Pupa walks him through ringing up a customer's purchase.
Oremland is a Riverview School student and Pupa is both the shop manager and a job coach. The students do much of the work at the shop, she explained. They sort, size and tag donations at an offsite processing center and then merchandise the clothing, books, toys and knick-knacks in the store.
"They learn the retail business — pricing, display work — and social skills," Pupa said. "They leave here having learned these skills and that gives them confidence, real self-esteem."
The shop's reasonable prices draw a range of customers from young mothers to seniors and even businesspeople, Pupa said.
Rose Hanley, who has homes in East Sandwich and New Jersey, was recently browsing through the racks of fine women's clothing. Admitting she was not a shopping fan, she said she appreciated the carefully curated merchandise.
"I feel like someone else did half the work for me," Hanley said, delightedly showing off a like-new, two-piece Talbots skirt set priced at $1. "I love a good deal, and I like that this supports the school."
Cape Cancer Thrift Shop, 1085 Route 6A, West Barnstable
Beneficiary: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Best buy: A one-of-a-kind, hand-thrown covered pottery dish for $18
Located in a bright, airy former home, the Cape Cancer Thrift Shop offers exceptionally fine merchandise, especially when it comes to furniture.
The items for sale and the presentation are all part of director Maryann Crossley's mission to transform the store into an "upscale thrift shop" that also carries fine bed linens, clothing and jewelry.
"People call us when they want their houses cleaned out," she said. "We donate many things to others. What we take, we price to sell."
Volunteer Debbie Callahan, who retired to the Cape about four years ago, said many of the people who donate their goods and time have been touched by cancer.
"They come in to buy things as a way to give back," she said.
Volunteering has its perks, too.
"It's a nice way to meet a lot of nice people," Callahan said. "Plus, I go home every week with a little treasure. I have to tell everyone not to let me buy anything."
Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop, 690 Main St., Hyannis
Beneficiary: Cape Cod Hospital
Best buy: A Forecaster of Boston, made-in-the-USA, full-length wool coat for $20
Every item in the Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop is carefully chosen for quality and style. Manager Debbie Rossi and her 24 volunteers even wash, iron and mend a good piece of clothing if needed.
Their goal is to create a boutique that draws in customers and generates revenue.
"We raised $99,000 last year and gave it all to the Cape Cod Hospital to renovate the emergency room," Rossi said. "We're not just a little thrift shop. My job is to keep things moving and keep the money coming in."
She does that by reasonably pricing only the best donated merchandise. Anything that's not in style and great condition is re-donated to other organizations. The roomy store has uncluttered racks of men's and women's clothing and a separate room for household goods and freshly washed linens.
Pam Nickerson, of Hyannis, a regular shopper, said she liked that the store was neat and clean.
"I like the service and the way it looks," she said. "There's plenty of room to walk around in here."
—Follow Lorelei Stevens on Twitter: @CCTLorelei.


The words we use matter. The words we use reveal who we really are and what we really think.
We make small talk all the time with friends and strangers. How many times a day do you make small talk with strangers at the convenience store, the supermarket check out or the water cooler at work?
The subtext of the phrase "I'm hanging in there" is that you are being dragged along by circumstance and you are measuring success by your mere survival. That's what you are really saying.
The first time I was taken aback by this. Then upon hearing that day in and day out, over and over, my only conclusion was that this person was miserable at work and was just going through the motions.
In those nine short words, you can inadvertently communicate what is really going on whether you mean to or not. Words matter.
Knowing that words matter, and how we use them says a lot about us, there are some trends that we as creators and entrepreneurs need to keep in mind.
Until next time, keep building the future; it's closer than you think.
If you are more interested in learning how to be more persuasive writer or speaker, you can download my guide, The Art of Persuasion, here.


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Margaret Thatcher, and the man in the shadows
Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist. Over the last 20 years he has been exposing the secret power of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and élite Bilderberg Conferences where the dark forces of corporations, media, banks and royalty conspire to accumulate wealth and power through extortion and war. Tony has spent much of his life too advocating solutions which heal the wealth divide, such as free housing for all and a press which reflects the concerns of ordinary people rather than attempting to lead opinion, sensationalise or dumb-down. Tony tweets at @TonyGosling. Tune in to his Friday politics show at BCfm.
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Baroness Margaret Thatcher (AFP Photo / Suzanne Plunket) © AFP
Eyebrows have been raised around the world to see Brits in their thousands dancing through the night in spontaneous street parties following the death of 1980s Prime Minister 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher.
As the nickname suggests, she had a fearsome reputation round the world for hitting hard for Britain, but at home it was a different story. In the industrial North most knew several families who lost their livelihood on her watch. Londoners saw ominous shifting sands, homeless youngsters begging on the streets whom her regime had turned it's back on.
The taboo not a single commentator has broached though is the shadowy 'advisory' role played throughout her premiership by European banking fraternity's Labour peer Lord Victor Rothschild. He was revealed in the book the Thatcher government tried to suppress, Peter Wright's Spycatcher, to be behind London's top secret service appointments. In 1986 Rothschild penned 'Paying for Local Government' the policy paper that led to the notorious Poll Tax that fell hardest on the poorest, and which brought Britons onto the streets of London in their hundreds of thousands in 1990, riots echoing London's Poll Tax revolt of 1381.
And according to the then BBC Chairman Marmaduke Hussey, Lord Victor also initiated the sacking in 1987 of the last independent-minded Director General of the BBC, a castration from which the corporation never quite recovered.
One word captures the essence of the Thatcher legacy; 'privatisation'. As an exasperated former Tory Prime Minster Harold Macmillan put it "she's selling off the family silver!". And so tens of mind-boggling billions of pounds of silver were auctioned off to the highest bidders, mostly to Rothschild's kith and kin. From shipyards and public housing to telephones, steel, oil, gas and water, anyone in the world was free to own the infrastructure and manufacturing heart of Britain that was once collectively 'ours'.
Was this to pay the USA Lend-Lease second world war debts? To repay Britain's humiliating 1976 IMF loan? Or simply to fill the hole left in the national accounts after Thatcher dropped income tax on Britain's richest by more than half from 83% to 40%? Or was it just daylight robbery? When she refused to join the EMU, the forerunner to the vice-like Euro, she was promptly knifed in the back by those who sing her praises today.
Since Thatcher, City institutions have bought up much of our politics and mass media, leaving a post-industrial wasteland 'museum' of a nation where the Joseph Rowntree Foundation recently estimated six-and-a-half million British adults are being cruelly blamed, punished and made destitute for 'not wanting' full-time jobs, that don't exist.
Today the cracks that Margaret and Victor's turbo-charged crowbar opened up have become a chasm which is reawakening this nation's anger at injustice. The £10 million of taxpayers money being spent on Lady Thatcher's state funeral, by the millionaires for the millionaires, is rubbing salt in the wounds. Hundreds of thousands of Britons who know right from wrong will turn away and raise a solemn glass to the damnation of Margaret Thatcher and her 'rehabilitation of greed' this week, demanding better. The sleeping giant of the British public is rousing from its slumber.
As millionaire Prime Minister David Cameron reads the Christian eulogy at Lady Thatcher's lavish funeral, those of Britain's ruling class who still have something resembling a conscience will do well to heed them.
Britain's first woman Prime Minister - the Margaret Thatcher timeline
1925 October 13 - Margaret Thatcher is born in the market town of Grantham, Lincolnshire
1947 - Thatcher graduates from Oxford with a Chemistry degree
1954 June 1 - Qualifies as a lawyer
1970 - Enters the Cabinet as Education Secretary
1975 February 11 - Elected Conservative Party leader, beating Edward Heath.
1975-9 - Leader of the Opposition
1979 May 4 - The Conservative Party wins the general election, Thatcher succeeds James Callaghan as PM
1979 December 13 - Abolition of Exchange Controls
1980 - Buses deregulated and bus routes privatised
1980 - British Aerospace partly privatised
1980 - April - Local Government stopped from building council homes and tenants given the right to buy
1981 - March Prisoners at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison go on hunger strike to regain status as political prisoners
1981 - April-July Urban rioting in Brixton in London, Toxteth in Liverpool and St. Pauls in Bristol.
1982 - January Unemployment tops 3 million
1982 - April-June Falklands War
1983 - Associated British Ports (ABP) privatised
1983 - British Shipbuilding privatised
1983 June 9 - Second term as PM begins; the Conservatives secure a landslide election victory
1984-5 - Miners strike, amid the closure and privatisation of coal mines
1984 - British Leyland car manufacturers privatised
1984 October 12 - Narrowly escapes death after the IRA bombs the Conservative party conference in Brighton, killing 5
1984 November - British Telecom (BT) the old Post Office Telecommunications is privatised
1985 - Attempted suppression of former MI5 officer Peter Wright's autobiography 'Spycatcher' which is then published in Australia & Scotland.
1985 June 1 - Battle Of The Beanfield, Britain's traveller peace convoy destroyed near Stonehenge, Wiltshire by violent police action as recorded in the 'Operation Solstice' documentary
1986 - January Wapping dispute as Rupert Murdoch embraces electronic publishing and breaks the power of print unions, depicted in the documentary 'Despite The Sun'
1986 - British Airports Authority (BAA) privatised
1986 - March Abolition of Ken Livingstone's opposition Labour controlled Greater London Council or GLC
1986 October 27 - Big Bang deregulation of the City of London financial sector which many believe contributed to the 2008 financial crisis
1986 December - British Gas privatised
1987 January - After several TV and radio programmes critical of the Thatcher government Victor Rothschild & Marmaduke Hussey sack BBC Director General Alasdair Milne
1987 February - British Airways privatised
1987 - Majority share in British Petroleum (BP) privatised
1987 - Rolls Royce aero engines privatised
1987 June 11 - Wins third term as Prime Minister
1988 - British Steel privatised
1989 - British Aerospace fully privatised
1989 - Water Boards privatised
1990 - The Electricity Act began the complex privatisation of electricity (except nuclear)
1990 March 31 - Poll tax riots culminate in a 200,000 strong march on central London, as portrayed in The Battle Of Trafalgar documentary
1990 October 30 - Thatcher No!, No!, No! speech in Commons makes it clear she is set against European Monetary and Political Union
1990 November 13 - Geoffrey Howe resigns in protest at Thatcher's refusal to agree a timetable for European Monetary Union
1990 November 14 - Former cabinet minister Michael Heseltine challenges Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership
1990 November 28 - Thatcher resigns, despite having won the first ballot. She is succeeded by John Major
1992 - Thatcher leaves the House of Commons, joins the Lords as Baroness Thatcher
1994 - Praises Tony Blair and New Labour as her proudest achievement
2013 April 8 - Lady Thatcher dies in The Ritz hotel owned by Daily Telegraph proprietors the Barclay twins.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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Not too long ago I came across a news piece on the mission of Barbara Harris, a woman who started a group called Project Prevention which offers $300 cash to drug addicts if they agree to get on "long term" birth control. According to their most recent statistics, they have paid 3,848 addicts, with tubal ligation as the number one birth control option chosen.
I commend Harris both for her role as a former foster parent and adoptive mother of four children born to a drug addicted woman and I certainly understand her frustration. A friend of mine who worked at a crisis pregnancy center in St. Louis once told me once that the one of the hardest parts of her job was seeing women, many of whom had a history of substance abuse, come in pregnant with their 2nd, 3rd, etc… child. These children often live in very unstable and abusive situations at home or they are taken away from their parents and put into foster care, sometimes even separated from their siblings. What's worse, many of these women are having multiple abortions as well, or abusing alcohol and drugs while pregnant so their babies end up being born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or other drug-related conditions.
It's maddening to say the least. Harris is right to be angry at the damage that these drugs do to children and she has loads of public support, but is paying addicts to get sterilized the answer?
I'd say it's a bit misguided, at best. Chiefly because, as awful as their situations are, the children are not the problem. Substance abuse is the problem. Sexual immorality, and in many cases sexual abuse, is the problem. Eliminating the possibility of children being born is not an answer to either of these problems, nor is it a "positive step" for all addicts/alcoholics" as Project Prevention asserts on it's website.
Project Prevention says that one of the benefits of sterilization for the addict is that it would prevent them from "the guilt and pain they feel each time they give birth only to have their child (sic) taken away." But why is that a good thing? That only leaves them with less incentive to ever get clean. Certainly some addicts do choose drugs over their children, but for many others the feeling of responsibility for another person is powerful motivation to seek help for their addiction and the other problems in their lives. My friend saw this happen a number of times in her pregnancy resource center. That's not to say that addicts should be encouraged to have children in the hopes that it'll help turn their lives around. Nevertheless, new life is new hope, not a problem to be eliminated.
Not every addict is going to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant and just because someone is on drugs today, doesn't mean he still will be tomorrow or several months or years down the road. Bribing them to undergo an unnecessary medical procedure to render themselves permanently sterile: a. sends the message that there is no hope for them to ever be rehabilitated and b. denies them the opportunity to start a legitimate family when and if they do finally get clean.
While I'm grateful that they're not advocating forced sterilization this approach still has a eugenic feel to it and exploits vulnerable people, people who are at probably the lowest point in their lives and struggling financially. Drug addicts have been known to do anything for money, whether it's to buy more drugs or to just pay their rent and buy some groceries. No doubt $300 in cash looks awfully good to someone broke or in debt from their addiction, even if it means they have to undergo unnecessary surgery to get it.
The welfare of children should be our highest priority, but using cash incentives to often poor and vulnerable men and women raises serious ethical questions.
Addiction is an epidemic in America and it is one disease we can not afford to underestimate. To their credit, Project Prevention does acknowledge that ideally every addict should have the opportunity to seek and find treatment. But such treatments, they point out, are not widely available and from my understanding the ones that do exist often come with a very hefty price tag that most insurance companies will not cover.
The bigger problem, I think, is that, because of the social stigma of drug abuse, support for drug addicts and their families is just lacking in society in general (a matter not helped by urging them to get sterilized). As one mother testifies, "When I had breast cancer I opened up the door and there were twenty women out there to help me. Everybody wanted to help me. But when my son was an addict I opened the door and there wasn't anybody. So, you're alone and you isolate yourself." It seems to me there is less sympathy towards drug addicts because, unlike breast cancer and other similar illnesses, which the person does not ask for, substance abuse often begins as a personal choice. The problem is that eventually the disease of addiction takes over and the addict is no longer acting on his own free will.
By and large people with addiction don't need "clinic" as much as they need "community" and, as it's name suggests, that's just what the Comunità Cenacolo is. It's community. It's family. It's love. It's hope. Not only are they dedicated to reaching out to drug addicts and their families, but their services are free and, through prayer, hard work and personal outreach, they provide for the underlying reasons many of these people turn to drugs in the first place — loneliness, low self-esteem and sense of self worth, selfishness and, of course, lack of faith. It is a "school of life", providing for the complete person, not just helping them get "off drugs" but giving them the tools to deal with their defects when they re-enter the world and all its temptations. This is the kind of healing that needs to take place in order to truly build up a culture of life!
The baby is always the problem from the human standpoint. From God's standpoint, the baby is the solution. After all, that is what Christmas is all about!
The only way out of this mess is one soul at a time. Fixes like sterilization that are themselves immoral are only going to hurt in the long run. Mother Teresa had it right – if you want to help save the world, answer God's call to personal conversion and then go where He sends you.


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Charles Glass, Syria Burning:
A Short History of Catastrophe
After the missiles
If anyone ever thought that President Donald Trump would be changed by his high office, his responses to the poison gas attack on civilians in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun should put that thought to rest.
President Trump and plain old Donald Trump are one and the same.
For the so-called "leader of the free world" as for the billionaire builder, the 4-time bankrupt, the intramural basketball bully on the University of Pennsylvania — all the world's a game, and you win by breaking the rules.
Sometimes you break specific rules to gain a particular advantage, but more often you break basic rules to put your opponents on the proverbial back foot. They can't plan a strategy if they have no idea of yours.
There are a lot of people who say this is dangerous, immoral, just plain nuts. But, as Trump would be the first to tell them, "You're not the President of the United States. I am, and I will do things my way."
In the context of the crisis in Syria, this has been President Trump's way.
His first reaction to reports that President Bashar al-Assad's Air Force had once again used Sarin gas to kill his own citizens was a shrug: "I am not the world's policeman."
Then, after he had seen video of dead and dying children, or perhaps after he realized that much of America and the world had seen those pictures, he became a global cop with a billy-club, laying a 59 Cruise missile whacking on the Shayrat Air Base from which US intelligence says, Syria's Sarin-bombing planes were launched.
Like that "old school" street cop, he calibrated his whacking, taking out a few Syrian planes and hangars but not disabling the base, and issuing a warning in advance to prevent Russian and Syrian military casualties.
The attack delivered 3 messages:
chemical warfare really does cross America's, and the world's, "red line."
we could have hurt you worse…and
we're prepared to hit you again, if you step out of line…the meaning of which is left conspicuously undefined.
Since then, as the NY Times notably noted, many top members of the Trump Administration, some by name, some not for attribution, have added messages of their own, some contradictory. The President himself has remained silent, leaving journalists, American politicians and other world leaders confused and anxious.
Which is exactly where, I believe, President Trump wants to leave them. "I don't telegraph my moves," he loves to say, as if world affairs were a chess or boxing match.
Is this a brilliant, winning strategy or just a cover for seat-of-the-pants maneuvering without any plan? I guess we'll find out, but we ought to say, the prosperity, peace and stability of the nation and the world could very well be in play.
Charles Glass is a broadcaster, journalist and writer, who began his journalistic career in 1973 at the ABC News Beirut bureau with Peter Jennings. He covered the October Arab-Israeli War on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts. He also covered civil war in Lebanon, where artillery fire wounded him in 1976. He was ABC News Chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993. Since 1993, he has been a freelance writer in Paris, Tuscany, Venice and London, regularly covering the Middle East, the Balkans, southeast Asia and the Mediterranean region. He has also published books, short stories, essays and articles in the United States and Europe. Just last year he published Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/world/middleeast/syria-trump-assad.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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On February 28, 2020, the Law School is pleased to recognize two esteemed alumni, Jim Millstein '82 and Franklin A. Thomas '63, in the Ballroom of Cipriani 42nd Street. For inquiries, please contact Katrina Sullivan at 212-854-6486 or [email protected].
Jim Millstein '82
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One of the most respected global advisors to companies, investors, and sovereigns on restructuring and recapitalization transactions, Jim Millstein is a turnaround specialist who has worked in Asia, Europe and throughout the United States. During the Obama Administration, Millstein served from 2009 to 2011 as the chief restructuring officer at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he was the architect of the successful restructuring of the American International Groups (AIG). He also oversaw several of the government's investments in the financial sector that were made during the fiscal crisis.
After his government service, Millstein founded the advisory firm Millstein & Co., which he sold in 2018 to Guggenheim Securities, LLC, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners. He currently serves as co-chairman of Guggenheim Securities and is a member of the Investment Committee of Mill Point Capital, a middle-market private equity firm.
Millstein began his career as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he became a partner in 1991 and headed its restructuring practice. In 2000, he joined Lazard Frères & Co. as a managing director and served as global co-head of its restructuring practice.
His philanthropic activities are diverse and include his serving as a board member of the Weanitoge Heritage Land Trust, the largest of its kind in Connecticut, and as a board member of the Land Trust Alliance, a national conservation organization that represents more than 1,000 member land trusts. He serves on the Senior Leadership Council of Her Justice, which provides pro bono legal counsel for women living in poverty.
Millstein earned his B.A. in 1978 from Princeton University and an M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, before receiving a J.D. in 1982 from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Millstein serves on the advisory board of the Law School's Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, which was founded by and named for his father, a 1949 graduate of the Law School, who received the Medal for Excellence in 2014. In 2016, father and son established the Millstein Public Service Fellowship that supports recent Columbia Law graduates working with the federal government in the area of financial regulation. In 2019, he co-taught a Law School seminar on private capital.
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and former President and CEO of the Ford Foundation
Franklin Thomas, former president and CEO of the Ford Foundation, is the first African-American to lead a major U.S. philanthropy. During his tenure at the foundation from 1979 to 1996, Thomas oversaw grants of more than $200 million annually to aid needy communities, finance educational and cultural institutions, support civil and human rights in the United States and around the world, and strengthen and empower policy influencing organizations. He is currently a consultant for and board member of The Study Group, a nonprofit that assists development in South Africa.
Thomas's career is defined by public service. After graduating from Columbia College in 1956, he served in the Air Force until 1960, when he entered Columbia Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1963. He then worked as an attorney for the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and deputy commissioner for legal matters for the New York City Police Department. In 1967, he was appointed by New York Sen. Robert Kennedy as president and CEO of the newly created Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, a non-profit involved in physical and economic development, where he served for a decade.
Regarded as an astute adviser on corporate and charitable matters, Thomas has been a director of Citicorp/Citibank, PepsiCo, Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), Avaya, CBS, Inc., Cummins Engine Co. Inc., and Lucent Technologies. His other nonprofit work includes serving as chairman of the September 11th Fund, and on the boards of the Friends of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.
Thomas has deep ties to Columbia University. As an undergraduate at Columbia College, he became the first African American to captain an Ivy League basketball team and was inducted into the International Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame in 2003, and the school's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010. From 1969 to 1975, he served as a trustee of the university, which awarded him an honorary degree in 1979. His many other honors include the Columbia University Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Columbia College Alexander Hamilton Award, the Columbia University Medal for Excellence, and Columbia Law School's Wien Prize for Social Responsibility.
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We are called to "test everything" (1 Thess. 5:21), to "discern what is best" (Phil. 1:10). To see this process of discernment at work, consider the history of Lent—the traditional 40-day season (not counting Sundays) of preparation for Easter.
Kuiper said no to the ancient idea that Lent should feature a lot of spiritual disciplines, like fasting. As Kuiper argued, if we strengthen our piety during Lent, aren't we likely to become lax afterward? Aren't we supposed to be "always excelling in the work of the Lord" (1 Cor. 15:58)? Don't Lenten obligations lead us to legalism?
At the same time, Kuiper said yes to the importance of a season of preparation for Easter, citing a longstanding Reformed practice of sermons on Jesus' sufferings as a fitting approach.
For the past three generations, Christian Reformed congregations have typically been warm to sermon series on Jesus' suffering and death, rather cool to too much emphasis on spiritual disciplines including fasting and prayer, and downright cold to other traditions that grew up around Lent: Mardi Gras parties, fish on Fridays, and setting aside the word "Alleluia" during Lenten worship (until Easter morning). This is why, for example, the 1987 Psalter Hymnal's section on Lent focuses almost exclusively on Jesus' suffering and death.
In part because of the limited historical information available to him, Kuiper gave no attention to another dimension of Lent: the link between Lent and baptism. As recent historical studies have shown, Lent came about as early church leaders were also saying yes and no to possible ministry practices in light of contemporary cultural challenges.
In A.D. 313 the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, and made it legal—even preferable—for Roman citizens to become Christian. Suddenly the church had a lot of adult baptisms to celebrate!
But that created a challenge: How was the church supposed to ensure that people who wanted to be baptized were serious about Jesus? And what did the church need to do to shape these new Christian lives? Baptism alone was not enough. More was needed to form these new Christians as disciples of Jesus.
So the church developed a 40-day course of preparation for baptism—a time of Bible study, catechism study (that's right—catechism study 1,200 years before John Calvin), and spiritual disciplines including prayer and fasting. This was a super-charged "40-day spiritual adventure" or "40 days of purpose" (both are modern riffs on an ancient idea). The idea was that during those 40 days believers should be either preparing for their own baptism or encouraging someone who was preparing for baptism.
In terms of doctrine, this put the emphasis not only on God's gift of forgiveness (justification), but also on the gift of new life in Christ and the Holy Spirit (sanctification). Lent was a time for new and veteran Christians to live into—to "practice"—the basic moves of the Christian life: to deny oneself, to turn to Jesus, to put off gossip and bitterness, and to put on patience and compassion. Just as athletes need to drill key skills and musicians need to practice scales, so too Christians need to practice self-denial and self-giving love.
In other words, Lent was developed in what we now call a "missional context." It was a pastoral innovation for a time much like our own, where vast numbers of people do not grow up in the church. Lent was the church's way of saying yes to the free offer of salvation and no to cheap grace—baptism without discipleship.
By the time John Calvin came along, the memory of Lent as a season for shaping new Christians had long faded. Adult baptisms were rare. Just about everyone was baptized as an infant. The Lenten disciplines were still practiced, but they were often imposed by the church in a distorted way as a means of currying favor with God.
So Calvin said yes to the practice he felt his people needed—teaching built around the catechism. But he said no to the season of Lent as too hopelessly superstitious to be of help to his people.
So how should we celebrate Lent today?
We need to join fourth-century pastors, John Calvin, H.J. Kuiper, and a lot of thoughtful contemporary Roman Catholic leaders who are studying the same history, in making wise choices that promote faithful discipleship. We, too, need to say both yes and no in response to particular challenges we face in our own ministry contexts.
In other contexts there may be great wisdom in adopting Lent as an identifiable season of preparation for Easter. All of us need to sanctify our calendars and make clear that nothing in the winter and springtime of the year—not Valentine's Day, not spring break, not March Madness, not even the hockey playoffs—is as important to our identity as Jesus' death and resurrection.
In missional places, where we long for a lot of adult baptisms at Easter, there is a lot of wisdom in recovering the idea that Lent is not just about Jesus' suffering and death, but also about our union with Christ in baptism. There may be great wisdom in intentionally practicing our new life in Christ with disciplines of prayer, fasting, and repentance—disciplines that are so life-giving that we plan on keeping them going long after Lent ends. After all, many of us live in cultures with too few—not too many—of these disciplines.
Sometimes we inherit from our spiritual ancestors settled answers to key questions. But often we inherit instead models for asking unsettling questions. How can we put Jesus at the center of how we mark time? How can we convey the beauty of baptismal identity to seekers and strengthen it for veteran believers? How can we practice disciplines in the Christian life without coming to trust in or be overly proud of those practices?
May God's Spirit equip us with all "love and spiritual knowledge to discern what is best" (Phil. 1:10).
What kind of worship service do you associate with Lent? Is it any different than worship at any other time of year?
What do you think about using spiritual disciplines during Lent, such as fasting or other means of giving something up?
How does self-denial and self-giving love tie into preparation for baptism or remembrance of your baptism?
Is it a good idea to "adopt Lent as an identifiable season of preparation for Easter"? Why or why not?
How can we put Jesus at the center of how we mark time?
Note: This article appeared in The Banner, February 18, 2011.


Welcome to Kids' Quest at Cross Point Church. We are excited to have you are here! If this is your first time at Kids' Quest or you currently attend, please find our Family Check-in Station in the main lounge or the Hut in the Kids' Quest Room. A Kids Quest Guide will be there to help check-in your child and provide your child with a nametag ticket and you will receive a matching ticket to use when you come to pick up your child. Once your child is checked-in, you will be directed to your child's safe and secure Kids' Quest environment.
Kids' Quest Jr. is our children's ministry for Preschoolers, Toddlers and Babies (6 weeks to 4 years) and Kids' Quest is our children's ministry for kid's Kindergarten through 5th Grade. Our time together begins at 9:15 and ends at 10:45. Each week, dedicated volunteers provide opportunities for your child to love God, love Other's and develop a stronger faith through age appropriate Bible Stories. Your child will experience hands-on learning activities, games, crafts and worshiping through singing songs and dancing. We look forward to seeing you!
Fun times learning how to honor God by being a cheerful giver!


This release note describes the new major build for Appspace App v1.31.
Support for play and pause events on Cards.
Support for play and pause events in TV mode, allowing cards with animations or videos to respond to the events via remote control or other custom triggers. To utilize these functions, please contact Appspace.
AE-3943 - Remote Control mappings for volume controls do not work on BrightSign devices.
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Pancreatic cancer is formed inside the pancreas, a body organ that is located behind the stomach. The pancreas is made up of two glands inside that produce two different kinds of cells exocrine and endocrine. The names of the two different kinds of tumors that can be found in patients with pancreatic cancer are adenocarcinomas (exocrine tumors) and islet cell tumors (endocrine tumors).
Older men are at the highest risk of getting pancreatic cancer and people of the African American race are more likely to have this disease than Caucasian people. These are three different risk factors that there is no control over. If you are an African American male over the age of 55 and have any of the below risk factors too you should speak to your doctor about getting screen for pancreatic cancer.
Some of the risk factors of pancreatic cancer that we do have control over are our diet, whether or not we smoke and maintaining a healthy body weight. In order for body weight to be an issue, a person would have to be considered clinically obese (very overweight). If through your work you are routinely using or exposed to chemicals such as bug spray, gasoline, or dyes this could put you at a higher risk of pancreatic cancer.
Many people with diabetes are at a higher risk of pancreatic cancer. Diabetes is a disease where the pancreas does not produce or does not produce enough insulin for the body. There is a link between the pancreas not creating enough insulin and an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
There is an increased risk of 10% of getting pancreatic cancer if there is a history of the disease in someone in your family. It is not known for sure what causes pancreatic cancer but these are some of the risk factors that could indicate you may be at risk of getting it.


Addressing some of your Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), here are some How-to guides that take you step-by-step through tasks within the various online tools you use everyday – Google Apps for Education, Moodle, Online Evaluations and Adobe Connect for Web Conferencing.
Syllabi are most likely to be the first thing uploaded to your Moodle course. Follow this short step-by-step guide to successfully upload any files that you might want to have online for students via Moodle.
to be specifically assigned as GTI. This guide shows how to do that.
How to Import Old Course Material into a New Moodle Page.
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Use Firefox as your server. Safari and Chrome work but could cause playback errors.
There is going to a lot of information transferred to and from your computer. If possible, use a wired connection instead of Wifi.
It is also recommended that you use a microphone headset. If you need a headset, one can be borrowed from Pam Stefanuca in the Academic Technology Department.
Pam would also be happy to help test run your Adobe Connect presentation with you at least one week in advance: pstefanuca@mica.edu.
A common audio issue with Adobe Connect is a sound echo. It happens when the computer speakers play audio and the sound is captured by the microphone on the same computer creating an audio loop or echo. This doesn't always happen in Connect sessions, but it can sometimes happen. Adobe Connect is designed to cancel any audio echoes in the default setting of Enhanced Audio.
If you choose to use a microphone headset, you may need to adjust sound settings on your computer speakers in the following way (MAC). Make sure you do this before going into a new Adobe Connect session.
Connect your microphone headset to the computer.
Go to System Preferences> Sound> Output. Here you should see your headset and internal speakers on the list for sound output.
Select the headphone set (it is usually labeled as the brand of your headphones). Your headset earphones are now selected for sound output.
Next, select the "Input" tab and select your microphone headset as your default Input. This will make sure your headset microphone is selected for sound input.
As a host or presenter, you can share the PPT, PPTX, PNG, MP4, F4V, Adobe PDF, SWF, FLV, JPEG, and MP3 file types from the Content library or your computer.
When you are in a session, click on the "Share my Screen button in the middle of the presentation pod.
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On the following Thursdays from 2-4 pm, we will offer Open Hours for Moodle Training in Bunting 205.
On Tuesday, January 14th at 12 noon, we will also be offering a brief lunchtime session called Using Adobe Connect for Guest Lectures. Location updated: Bunting 207.


First, this feature is only available on the Beta membership site till the middle of June 2006.
On a New Article Submission: Selecting *draft save* will create a draft of the current work, start the save timer, and the draft becomes the current 'working' document.
Editing an existing draft: The edited draft is the working document, and the timer starts right away.
Editing an existing non draft document: Selecting draft save copies the current document to a Draft version and starts the timer. Saves are done to the draft copy created during that session.
The AUTOSAVE timer is currently defaulted to 10 minutes to limit the amount of database resources needed for this function. There is a possibility in the future for the number of minutes to become user-definable.
The next phase of this new feature will be a count-down timer that will tell you when autosave will activate.
Lastly, I need to make this very clear: We're not responsible if you lose your new article because this new feature failed as there are no guarantees it will work perfectly for everyone. Hey, it's something new we're testing. Think of this feature as a loss-mitigation tool that we're adding to help the many authors who write their article within the interface.
Personally, I think it's much safer idea to write the article in MS Word or a text editor, SAVE IT on your local hard drive, and then upload it to your EzineArticles membership interface. :-)…but, I hope this new AutoSave function will save countless hours of work that are lost due to technology problems for those who don't have saved/backed-up copies of their articles.
What do you think of this new AutoSave feature?
New features everytime I turn around here. I prefer writing off line and was thinking it would be nice if I could paste multiple articles on my clipboard, dump them on the membership submission page, then cut and paste each one. Then I figured Windows probably would allow me to do something similar but I don't know Windows very well. An article dump like this would save me about three minutes per article and I only submit a few at a time, so it is not an important thing for me.
I like to type & save everything in "word"…so I'll just continue keep up my copy and paste skills. You guys/gals are just "new feature animals". Wow…very impressive!
Any 'save' function is great for me! No matter how much attention I give my article when working in my text editor, I always find something to fix or edit once it's pasted into the ezine article interface. I have had some real heartbreakers losing stuff. The ability to save a draft has been a life saver and I am gonna love this autosave feature!
This happened to me on my very first article! I had the article edited, done the "Preview with spell check," found an additional item to change and clicked the back arrow instead of the "Modify" link at the bottom and lost all the new edits, and new segments that had come to mind while I edited.
I was bummed to say the least, but figured it was a learning process and went back to work.
I, like the others, write my complete article in MS Word, then cut and paste it in…do another final read through and edit again (don't we all?!) find something to change and modify a couple of times before final submission.
So, I'm sure that after a few submissions we are so used to the process that the mistake only happens once. But, you are probably saving other newbies like me a lot of headache/heartache with the new feature, so here's a thank you from them, even before they get here.
A nice feature, but I still recommend everyone create their work offline and then cut and paste here. Still, I like to modify things once I have them on EzineArticles.com so this feature will still be handy and useful.
Thanks for constantly improving the system. This site is *always* on the cutting edge of article submission/distribution technology.
Thanks Chris for another useful tool.


Content warning: This piece deals with the subject of death.
I have a white bear rule – don't think about dead people before bed. I started this rule in residency, when I would finish a shift that often involved an unsuccessful resuscitation of someone in cardiac arrest from heart disease, gun shot wounds, opiate overdose, or one of the many other fatal disease processes plaguing our area. After middle shifts, I would drive home late to my sleeping spouse, eat dinner, watch mindless tv, and go to bed. While trying to fall asleep, I could easily jump from pondering my day to analyzing my role in that last resuscitation to remembering what it felt like to watch someone die, because that was often my job.
Thinking about dead people before bed is not great for wellness. I refer specifically to dead people – not death, not loved ones who have passed, but the physical and sensory experience of the hands on care of someone undergoing death despite resuscitation. I have innumerable physical memories of what that experience feels like, looks like, sounds like, smells like. Emergency personnel experience a great deal of secondary traumatic stress from caring for people in catastrophic life and death circumstances. It comes with the job. I'm grateful for wellness strategies like meditation, mindfulness, exercise, and family support to help me through that stress. I have elaborate rules about what media I will consume to avoid triggering topics that may spin me down a rabbit hole to seeing dead people at bedtime. Though somewhat counter intuitive, mystery novels that aren't too gory are my favorite. Grey's Anatomy is a hard no. Those strategies work for me and are essential to maintaining ongoing wellness.
But. As much as I love mindfulness and resilience strategies for stress management for the essential roles they play in my life, I am profoundly concerned about how these strategies are recommended as an antidote to burnout in medicine.
The days I am most frustrated and disconnected from my work are not the days when someone is critically ill. I love advanced resuscitation. I am honored to be present with families in these challenging moments and do my best to be there for them. That is the heart and soul of Emergency Medicine.
I hate when stuff breaks. I hate when the phones don't work. I really hate when the phones don't work, my patient has a ruptured appendicitis, and surgery is nowhere to be found. I hate when the otoscope in room 8 is broken. Again. I hate when I can't find an intubating stylet. I hate when it takes me longer to document a case in the EMR than it takes to actually see the patient. I hate when I can't get rocuronium for rapid sequence intubation. I hate when the script printer breaks and I can't fix it. I hate when I'm arguing with a consultant about the best care for a patient when the real problem is that neither of us have the resources we need to do our jobs. I hate when there are no beds in the hospital and people board for over 24 hours in the ED. I hate when there aren't enough doctors and nurses working to take care of all the patients. I hate when I'm shifting my circadian rhythms to accommodate my work schedule and I still can't fall asleep. I hate when I feel like there's nothing that I can do to fix it. Those are the problems that contribute to burnout for me. They are struggles healers face across the country and around the world.
Where are all the clinician burnout strategies aimed at rectifying those deeply problematic systems? We hold providers accountable for their wellness, but what about institutions? How can organizations step up to take accountability for their staff's wellness? Clearly a bi-directional approach is necessary. Resilience and mindfulness are essential for coping with the daily stresses of working in medicine as we work to combat suffering. Organizations must also look inward to learn what systems are contributing directly to staff burnout, fix them, and develop systems to build resiliency at scale.
I was encouraged by this recent Ross 2017 article in Annals of EM on wellness that discussed both individual level interventions and systematic improvements related to meaningful service, administrative burden, and the hospital culture around tribalism, feedback, and debriefing. Table 2 is on point!
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement created an extensive "Joy in Work" model for leaders. Their strategies rely on listening to staff about what matters to them, identifying impediments, and committing to systems improvement. This impressive resource guides leaders on how to make a difference by augmenting joy and improving quality care.
Healers need individual strategies to cope with the life and death challenges we regularly face at work. Health systems need to scale up resilience so that the process of healing doesn't destroy the healers.
This piece originally appeared on Dr. McNamara's blog Joy and Justice.


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Q: PHP - Validate phone number I need to validate phone number in PHP, but the example below do not work.
$phone = '(123) 458-1542';

if(preg_match("/^([0-9]{3})-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$/", $phone)) {

}

A: Use this regex:
^\(*\+*[1-9]{0,3}\)*-*[1-9]{0,3}[-. /]*\(*[2-9]\d{2}\)*[-. /]*\d{3}[-. /]*\d{4} *e*x*t*\.* *\d{0,4}$

Following phone numbers have been tested:
1-234-567-8901
1-234-567-8901 x1234
1-234-567-8901 ext1234
1 (234) 567-8901
1.234.567.8901
1/234/567/8901
12345678901
1-234-567-8901 ext. 1234
(+351) 282 433 5050

Example: http://www.regexr.com/3bp4b

A: Add a space and escape the round brackets:
^\([0-9]{3}\)[- ][0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$
 ^^        ^^^^^^

See the demo
I added a character class [- ] just in case there can be either a space or a hyphen after the area code. Parentheses must be escaped in order to be treated as literal symbols and not as a grouping construct.
PHP demo:
$phone = '(123) 458-1542';
if(preg_match('~^\([0-9]{3}\)[- ][0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$~', $phone)) {
    echo "Matched: $phone";
}

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POLITICS OF GRAMMAR COLUMN
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STUDY IN AMERICA
Q and A on English Usage and Idiomatic Translations
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
In this week's edition of my Q and A series, I answer more questions from readers. Enjoy.
Can "either" and "neither" be used with more than three items? I'd always thought it should be used with only two items. In one of your recent Weekly Trust columns, you used "neither" and "either" with more than three items, and I was confused. In your article titled "What's Really President Goodluck Jonathan's Ethnic Group," you wrote: "For me, the most exasperating ignorance that pervades Nigeria is what I call Nigeria's tripodal ethnic reductionism, which is the infuriatingly ill-informed notion that every Nigerian is—or should be— either Hausa or Yoruba or Igbo. The unanticipated rise of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan—who is neither Hausa nor Yoruba, nor Igbo— as Nigeria's president has ruptured this simplistic narrative."
You know, when we read your articles, we don't just read them for the content, which is often stellar; we also read them for grammar and style. I hope you're aware of that.
When I wrote the article you referred to, I was conscious of the age-long disputations over the grammatical propriety of using "either" and "neither" for more than two items. People who argue that "either" and "neither" should be restricted to only two choices or items point out that the words traditionally mean "each of two" or "one or the other of two." Based on this, they say the words should not be used where there are more than two options. That was correct from about the 14th century to the early/mid-19th century.
However, as several prestigious dictionaries and usage guides attest, that pedantic, prescriptivist usage rule has evolved over the years. The Oxford English Dictionary, for instance, says "either" and "neither" can legitimately be used to refer to "any one of more than two." Similarly, in their authoritative and well-received book titled The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum write: "while 'either' coordinations are characteristically binary, multiple ones like 'either Kim, Pat or Alex' are also possible."
In their book, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik write: "Although commonly stigmatized, (a multiple correlative like either) can add clarity to constructions whose complexity might otherwise cause confusion. For this reason, such constructions are sometimes used even in careful written English, eg in the rubric of an examination paper: Candidates are required to answer EITHER Question 1 OR Question 2 OR Question 3 and 4."
Finally, in the Longman Guide to English Usage, Sydney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut wrote: "There is nothing wrong with using 'either' and 'neither' as adjectives for more than two: Come on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday."
I can go on, but the bottom line is that in modern usage, "either" and "neither" can be used for more than two items or choices. The semantic evolution of "either" and "neither" is akin to that of "alternative," which used to mean "one of two," but which is now widely used to mean "one of a number of things" as in "millions of alternatives."
I am accustomed to saying "jokes apart" when I want to get serious after joking, but I was checking my dictionary this morning and I saw the phrase "joking apart/aside," which means the same thing with what I know as "jokes apart." I want to know which one is more correct than the other.
Although it may sound strange to many Nigerians, the correct idiom is "joking apart" or "joking aside." Sometimes it's rendered as "all joking apart/aside." The phrase "jokes apart," I've discovered, is unique to Nigerian English and Indian English. I am yet to figure out why only Nigerian and Indians render the phrase as "jokes apart." Although both varieties of English are descended from British English, their unique phrasing for the idiom is certainly not British. A search for the phrase in the British National Corpus yielded not a single match. (The British National Corpus is a "100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.")
Could it be a holdover from old-fashioned British English? That's doubtful, too. I will update this response when I get a definite answer.
I think it's noteworthy that popular Nigerian comedian Julius Agwu titled his 2013 autobiography "Jokes Apart: How Did I Get Here?"
I am a regular reader of your good work in the Sunday Trust. I really appreciate it. Please, could you share with us how native English speakers greet people when they break their Ramadan fast? In other words, what is the English equivalent to the Hausa sannu da shan ruwa? What about gyara? Does it have an English equivalent?
There are many expressions that are simply untranslatable to other languages because of the vastness of the socio-cultural differences between the languages. Sannu da shan ruwa is one such expression. A literal translation of sannu da shan ruwa (greeting on drinking water) makes absolutely no sense in English, and an idiomatic translation of the expression in English is impossible. So if I were to meet a native English speaker who is a Muslim and I need to greet him or her after iftar, I would simply say "sannu da shan ruwa" (or, if I want to be linguistically nationalistic, I would say "bese ka noru," which is the literal and idiomatic Baatonu equivalent to the Hausa sannu da shan ruwa) and explain what the expression means instead of trying to get an English equivalent for it, because it doesn't exist.
Read my previous articles on this issue here and here.
It is conceivable, however, that in the near future, if enough Hausa people live in environments where English is a native language, these kinds of unique socio-cultural phrases will be literally translated into English and adopted by the speakers—if such phrases fill a cultural void. That is what happened with the expression "long time no see." It is a direct translation from Chinese, which makes no grammatical sense in English. Another example is the phrase "enjoy!" often uttered in (American) airlines and restaurants after people are served a meal. It's an attempt to translate the French "bon appetit," which would literally translate as "good appetite" in English, but which actually means "enjoy your meal." It's a unique French sociolinguistic quiddity that English speakers now have a need to mimic. (Native English speakers don't traditionally utter any special expression before meals).
The closest American linguistic and cultural approximation to "gyara" (which is rendered as "jara" in certain variants of Nigerian Pidgin English) can be found in the word "lagniappe" (pronounced LAN- YAP), which my dictionary defines as "A small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase.)." That is precisely what "gyara" means in Hausa.
In my December 4, 2010 article titled "Neologisms and Ebonics in American English," I wrote: "The word 'lagniappe,' for instance, is an exclusively Louisiana invention, even though it is now usual to hear many people in the [American] South use it….
"It means 'a small gift, especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase.' But this definition does not adequately capture the cultural meaning of the word. Its exact socio-linguistic equivalent is "gyara" in Hausa (now incorporated into Nigerian Pidgin English as jaara).
"It is also used to indicate any kind of addition or extras. While the word sounds and looks French, its semantic content is decidedly African. I once wrote about the intriguing convergence of French, Spanish, and African influences in Louisiana's racial, cultural, and gastronomic landscape. This convergence also manifests in the socio-linguistic experience of the people in many ways. It is conceivable that the "gyara" culture was brought to Louisiana by former [Hausa] slaves."
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