Today Begins the Quest 300!
You'll notice a few changes to the team lineups from Copper Basin with Lefty and Drake (both two years old) bumping up to the "A" squad. Both youngsters have been doing fantastically well in training and earned a chance to strut their stuff with the big dogs.
We have a few Ryno Recruits joining the ranks for the Quest 300. You'll probably recognize the four athletes from Boundary Sled Dog Kennel (good friend Amanda Gecas) who have been with us for two seasons now. Jana, Charley, Drummer, and Pirate have been rock solid these past two seasons. In addition, Goblin will be joining Maliko's team from Sebastian Schnuelle's Blue Kennels. Goblin is a rockstar leader that will provide leadership and direction for Maliko's young team. Thank you to Sebastian for allowing Goblin to join us for the Quest 300!
There are only three adults not racing the Quest 300 from Ryno Kennel: Fez, Boone, and Amy. Fez's "bad" wrist from this summer's encounter with the porcupine flared up slightly after a long run a few days ago. She's sitting out the Quest 300 as a precaution so that hopefully she'll be 110% for the Iditarod. This will be the first Ryno Kennel race that Fez will not be with me (and finished). She will be DEARLY missed. Boone has appeared healthy ever since Copper Basin with the exception of a small bump on the top of her wrist. Though it caused her discomfort only one day, a veterinarian diagnosed the problem as a torn tendon, which takes months to heal. Torn tendons aren't necessarily painful, but given the amount of time it takes to heal properly and the fact that these dogs are extreme athletes, Boone is most likely out for the rest of the season. She'll rest up and be back stronger than ever next year! Amy...oh Amy. She's adorable, playful, super sweet, leads, and is one of my favorite dogs due to her cuddly personality, but after three years, I've finally accepted that Amy just isn't competitive. She's healthy and happy right now, but long miles just don't sound fun to her. Every dog has their own personality, and Adorable Amy would prefer not to race 300 miles.


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Bold, daring and impossible to ignore. Welcome to the exciting new world of Emilee Rose, an emerging solo artist currently making her mark on the global music scene. Her sound is highly accessible to all — with lusciously layered vocals, fast flows and pop-perfect melodies. Emilee's astounding anthems have been capturing the hearts of many for some time now. The rapidly rising star loves to tell tales through her music. Life is her biggest inspiration, as she tells all in raw and uncut detail. It's a highly intimate ordeal, with emotion-drenched bars and raw, relatable real-life stories.
Hailing from Colorado in the states, the young singer always had a deep love for performing. She did a ton of musical theatre as a child and was even part of an all-girl competitive acapella group that toured the globe. By the age of fifteen she was already writing her own songs and decided it was going to be her career. Her goal is to really dig deep into the feelings of the listener to evoke strong emotions. With her dreamily mesmerizing voice, it's hard not to be swept off your feet by her enchanting melodies. From the darkest depths of depression to the soaring heights of partying, Emilee tells spellbinding stories across the whole spectrum. The resulting sound obliterates the boundaries of genre, and oozes with originality.
Now based out of Atlanta, the singer is bringing her magical melodies to the global stage. She first made her mark with the timeless track "Goodbye" that paints a potent picture of what a break up is really like. She followed this up with "The Best", a softly soothing wholesome tune brimming with positive energy. After this she put out "Let Me Go" which showcases her versatile vocals and stunning songwriting. Her current single "Good Luck" which has been released under Sony/Orchard distribution is a feel-good floor-filler that pushes the boundaries of pop and electronic. Since moving out to Atlanta to chase her music dreams, she's had the blessing to work with a number of Grammy award winning producers. Something that shines through in her songs that are glistening with slick style and powerfully profound production. She has a fierce work ethic and won't stop grinding until the whole world knows her name.

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To this point, CommGAP recently organized a joint seminar with the World Bank's Demand for Good Governance Network of the Social Development Department. At the event, Robert Mahoney, Deputy Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), presented the harsh facts about press freedom around the world, with a particular focus on Africa and the Middle East.
CPJ, a non-profit organization based in New York, was founded some 30 years ago by journalists. The organization defends and advocates for the freedom of the press worldwide. CPJ has a significant amount of data on attacks against journalists and the status of press freedom in all regions. Their annual publication on international press freedom is used to pressure governments to protect the rights of journalists. The volume provides thorough analysis of the health of press freedom in more than 100 countries and key factors that impede a free press.
So, how serious is it? Since CPJ started monitoring incidents against the press in 1992, 856 journalists have been killed. In 2010, 145 journalists were imprisoned and 41 killed. It's not only journalists who are at risk, but also media workers who help with the production of news. From 2004 (at the launch of the Iraq war) and onwards, the killing of journalists has increased dramatically. For example, many of the journalists who have covered the Iraq war so far have been killed, 87% of those have been local and 13% foreign. Overall, the killing of local journalists is more common than that of foreign correspondents, in all regions.
What's so disturbing is that the majority of killings of journalists are unsolved, especially in Africa and Russia. There has been nearly no investigation or prosecution of these cases. CPJ has published a global impunity index that illustrates the number of unsolved killings in more detail. Journalists covering politics and corruption have been most at risk of being killed or imprisoned. In Libya, for example, there have been 60 attacks against journalists since the political unrest started this year, and six journalists have gone missing (out of which three journalists went missing after having appeared on the news). While the political turmoil has put journalists at great risk in the Middle East and North Africa, investigative journalism around corruption cases has been the major issue in sub-Saharan Africa. It all boils down to governments who want to control the flow of information and protect vested interests.
As we have seen, the assault against journalists extends to those active online. Mahoney pointed out that more than half of journalists in prison today are from online media. Online journalists, including citizen journalists, have become an important ally for traditional news sources in both gathering and distributing news around the world. However, social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, are often closely monitored by authorities who can quickly have these shut down.
While CPJ is continuing their excellent work in bringing these serious concerns to the forefront, they need support. Mahoney mentioned that while a few governments have made progress, it's a very slow process. The development community can be an important ally and facilitator in defending press freedom and securing the space needed for journalists to perform their work. The importance of building capacity for journalists to be able to perform their functions was discussed. However, it's more than building capacity. Training of journalists is of no use, if they can't perform their duties. There needs to be an enabling environment, such as a free, independent, and plural media, but this requires structural changes. In the end, a free press is needed for citizens to make informed choices and hold leaders accountable. The threat against journalists (and journalism in general) is a serious issue that ought to be addressed and better integrated into development work.
To view Mahoney's presentation, click here (PDF).
Photo Credit: Knight Foundation (on Flickr). Photo taken on August 7, 2010.
"Hundreds of Mexican journalists silently marched in downtown Mexico City in protest of the kidnappings, murder and violence against their peers throughout the country. The march started at the Angel of Independence monument and proceeded down Reforma Avenue to the Ministry of the Interior headquarters where banners draped on the building demanded justice and protection for journalists against violence perpetrated by drug cartels. Placards with written protests and photos of slain or kidnapped colleagues were left on the steps of the Ministry of the Interior and covered with red paint."


Today I am super excited to bring you this awesome tuna salad recipe.
What is so awesome about this tuna salad you ask.
Well, this bad boy errr tuna salad has ZERO net carbs!
Don't worry my friends, this tuna salad still tastes awesome. It is just that I have been so motivated to take the foods I like and make them low-carb or even carb-free 😲 so I can continue to enjoy them just like I did before I had this crazy awesome idea to go on Keto.
I don't know if you are like me, but as people, the majority of us tend to be creatures of habit.
We wake up at the same time, drink the same coffee, eat relatively the same breakfast, etc etc.
I tend to have a cheese omelet with salsa every morning. It is easy, tasty, fits my diet, and I can pretty much make it in my sleep.
I promise you that I go crazy on the weekends, I really do!
But enough about breakfast, why are we even talking about breakfast?
Oh ya, I started that, didn't I?
There goes that damn ADD again. I was looking at these photos but thinking, "Hmmmm I haven't eaten breakfast yet".
Please don't let my mind wander, it is too little to be left alone!
I have ever since I was a kid and it is really one of my favorite quick and easy lunches for the days where I am working and feel like I am going a million miles an hour in ten different directions.
So I started poking around to see if I could manipulate one of my standard faves into a lunch that I could nibble on, or have a ton of, without any guilt.
Now I can grab a couple of these super cute little artisanal romaine lettuce leaves, or one regular leaf if you can't find these guys, pile on my tuna salad, and get on with my day with a happy tummy!
Drain the tuna, then combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
Net carbs are the total carbs minus the fiber.
In this recipe I use carb free mayo and mustard, so you can remove 2.1g of carbs from the nutritional facts, which actually leaves you negative carbs!
Still looking for some fabulous recipes? Give recipes from some of my favorite bloggers a try!
I love those artisanal romaine leaves. I get the package at Costco. Love it! Perfect size for taco boats, tuna boats, any boats. Haha. Keep those delicious keto recipes coming Bobbi!


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Nick Hook, Vin Sol, and Matrixxman come together for a raucous EP on Classicworks - FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
The bi-coastal production trio plumb the depths of ghetto house on the I Can Feel It EP.
While Nick Hook has worked with a wide range of artists (Drop The Lime, Azealia Banks, Cubic Zirconia, etc.), his latest collaboration takes him out the New York underground and joins him with Soo Wavey bosses Matrixxman and Vin Sol.
Across the three tracks of the I Can Feel It EP, the trio acknowledges the lessons taught by labels like Underground Construction, Trax and Dance Mania: sometimes all you need for a dance track is a drum machine and a jumpy vocal sample.
Preview the EP below. It's due out on 12″ vinyl on March 25 and digitally on April 8 via Classicworks, the "retro-futuristic club music" hub run by Barcelona producers Nehuen and Cardopusher.


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Alan Longmuir
(1948-06-20)20 June 1948
Larbert, Scotland
Rock, pop rock
Alan Longmuir (20 June 1948 – 2 July 2018) was a Scottish musician and a founding member of the 1970s pop group, the Bay City Rollers. He played the bass guitar in the band whilst his younger brother Derek Longmuir was drummer.[1]
Longmuir was born at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, Edinburgh. His father was an undertaker. A member of a musical family, he formed his first band at the age of 17, with his brother Derek and two others. They changed their name and line-up to become the Bay City Rollers.[1] Until their career took off, he worked as a plumber.[2]
In 1976, at the height of the band's popularity, Alan Longmuir left and was replaced by rhythm guitarist Ian Mitchell, a man ten years his junior, who would in turn make way for Pat McGlynn. Tam Paton, then the group's manager, alleged that Longmuir had tried to commit suicide. Paton's own conduct was later revealed as a contributory factor in the unhappiness of some band members.[1][3]
Longmuir returned to the group in 1978 following McGlynn's departure, and thereafter switched between bass guitar, rhythm guitar and keyboards. He also played piano accordion.[4]
Longmuir was married twice, first to Jan Longmuir, from 1985 until their divorce in 1990; they had one son, Jordan.[5] His second marriage was to Eileen Rankin, and lasted from 1998 until his death; Eileen had two sons of her own.[6] In 2016, it was claimed that Eileen had fought backstage with the wife of another band member, after the latter criticised Alan Longmuir's playing at a reunion concert.[7]
While owner of the Castle Campbell Hotel in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, he suffered two heart attacks and a stroke,[6] and in 2000 he decided to retrain as a building inspector.[8]
Longmuir died on 2 July 2018 at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland, after contracting an illness while on holiday in Mexico, where he had been a patient at the Galenia Hospital in Cancún but had been cleared to return home. He was 70.[9][10]
^ a b c "Obituary - Alan Longmuir, bass player with the Bay City Rollers". Herald Scotland. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
^ Diane King (2 July 2018). "Alan Longmuir family issue heartfelt statement after star's death". Edinburgh News. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018.
^ Pierre Perrone (11 April 2009). "Tam Paton: Disgraced former manager of the Bay City Rollers". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
^ Hal Erickson (1 September 1998). Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993. McFarland. pp. 200–. ISBN 978-0-7864-3093-2.
^ "Alan Longmuir obituary". The Times. 3 July 2018. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018.
^ a b Liam Rudden (2 July 2018). "Bay City Roller Alan Longmuir obituary: From Gorgie tenement to superstardom". The Scotsman Edinburgh News. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018.
^ "Bay City Rollers wives in 'backstage bust-up'". Access All Areas Edinburgh. 12 July 2016. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ Stephen Naysmith. "Tributes paid after 'original' Bay City Roller Alan Longmuir dies from mystery bug". Herald Scotland. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ "Bay City Rollers bassist Alan Longmuir dies aged 70". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
^ "Alan Longmuir, 70: Founding member of the Bay City Rollers, who made 70s hits". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
Stambler, Irwin, Encyclopedia of Pop, rock & Soul. 1974. St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York, New York, ISBN 0-312-25025-8
Eric Faulkner
Derek Longmuir
Les McKeown
Stuart "Woody" Wood
Nobby Clark
John Devine
Duncan Faure
Billy Lyall
Archie Marr
Eric Manclark
Pat McGlynn
Ian Mitchell
David Paton
Once Upon a Star
Wouldn't You Like It?
Rock n' Roll Love Letter
It's a Game
Strangers in the Wind
"Keep on Dancing"
"Remember (Sha-La-La-La)"
"Shang-a-Lang"
"Summerlove Sensation"
"Bye Bye Baby"
"Give a Little Love"
"Saturday Night"
"Money Honey"
"Rock and Roll Love Letter"
"I Only Want to Be with You"
"Yesterday's Hero"
"You're a Woman"
"Don't Worry Baby"
"It's a Game"
"You Made Me Believe in Magic"
"The Way I Feel Tonight"
"Don't Let the Music Die"
"Where Will I Be Now"
"Another Rainy Day in New York City"
"All of the World Is Falling in Love"
Shang-a-Lang
The Krofft Superstar Hour
Burning Rubber
Tam Paton
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Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye…Probably.
The just in from AICN and Heatvisionblog.com
"Jeremy Renner is in final negotiations to join "The Avengers," Marvel Studios' big-screen take on its superhero team that's being directed by Joss Whedon.
Renner will play the bow-and-arrow-carrying hero Hawkeye, who, while not one of the initial members of the team when it was created in the 1960s, became an integral member soon after when the misguided villain switched sides.
Renner will join Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Don Cheadle as War Machine.
The Hulk may also be a character in the movie, but at this stage, there is no deal that would bring back Ed Norton, who starred as the emerald giant in 2008's "The Incredible Hulk."
Renner's involvement was initially rumored last fall, although the actor, who was in the middle of the awards derby with his war thriller "The Hurt Locker," was at the time more taken with Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled drama and was being heavily courted by Universal for "Battleship."
Renner never joined "Battleship," and while he still has definite interest in Anderson's film, that project is still cobbling financing and has seen its start pushed back several times.
Renner saw a chance to take on work in a role that, while key, is not starring in nature and will allow him to slide into Anderson's film if it should come together.
To keep costs manageable for the "Avengers," Marvel is trying to keep a lid on the movie's finances and the actors are taking salary cuts, according to insiders.
Renner, repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, next appears in Ben Affleck's "The Town."
Marvel did not confirm that Renner is in negotiations."
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Yes, it's another week of this long term experiment I call "the podcast". Why do I call it an experiment? Because it changes all the time. It's been through at 4 names (that I can remember). I've tried multiple formats, multiple process, and, well, here we are.
My philosophy has always been — Podcast like no one is listening. Because let's face it, sometimes, no one may ever listen. But it's the same as Dance like no one is watching. It's about ME!! It's what I want; its what makes me feel however I want to feel. But it turns out that has not always been the case.
So go ahead and dance like no one is watching, but stop to eat, and sleep, and other stuff too.


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Annette Bening Teases Her Role In 'Captain Marvel'
By Matthew Aguilar - September 22, 2018 12:21 am EDT
Annette Bening's role in Captain Marvel has yet to be revealed, but it appears it could involve Bening getting into some fisticuffs.
Bening appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live recently, where Kimmel brought up the fact that she doesn't get to take part in fights onscreen very often. Bening concurred, but then said "I did...I can't give anything away." Kimmel asked if she was referring to Captain Marvel, which she confirmed.
Kimmel then did try and get something about Captain Marvel, but Bening couldn't divulge much without conferring with them first.
"No, in fact, I need to call them again and they have to tell me exactly what it is that I can't say," Bening said. "All I can tell you is that it is as much fun as you would imagine it could be. At least it was for me. It was so much fun, and I can't tell you why because then it would give something away. It was like when you're a little kid and you imagine what it would be like to be in a superhero movie, that's what it was like. Seriously. It was fun."
So, from that first part, Bening might actually be involved in some sort of fight in the movie, though it could either be on the offensive or the defensive. While her role hasn't been confirmed, a previous report did say she is going to lay the role of Carol's mother, which would have her playing Marie Danvers.
Normally we would assume Carol ends up in a fight with the Skrulls (or the Kree for that matter) on Earth and her mother has to improvise and help out, but thanks to the latest issue of The Life of Captain Marvel perhaps it is something more. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
The Captain Marvel film follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Captain Marvel stars Academy Award® winner Brie Larson (Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou (Korath), Lee Pace (Ronan), Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan (Minn-Erva), Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, McKenna Grace, Kenneth Mitchell (Joseph Danvers), with Clark Gregg (Phil Coulson), and Jude Law (Marv-Vell).
Captain Marvel launches on March 8, 2019, the fourth Avengers movie on May 3, 2019, and Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 5, 2019.
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Phantom Facebook Pages Could Spoil Marvel's Comic-Con Reveals
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Home > Blog > EU News > With Dominique Strauss-Kahn a broken force, how long before the IMF line on bailouts changes?
With Dominique Strauss-Kahn a broken force, how long before the IMF line on bailouts changes?
One interesting thing about the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is that it has become increasingly clear that IMF technical staff are not fully aligned with eurozone political leaders regarding the eurozone sovereign bailouts, but Strauss-Kahn was (unsurprisingly, given his high-profile role in French politics).
The central European political doctrine, since 2008, has been "no creditor shall lose". If any bondholders, anywhere in Europe, start to experience haircuts, there is a chance that the whole bailout strategies since 2008 will unwind.
Suppose, for example, Irish bank bondholders took losses. That would mean losses for various bondholders in, say, Belgium. But the Belgian taxpayers are supporting banks there that owe money to French banks. If the Irish taxpayers aren't protecting foreign creditors, why should the Belgian taxpayers do so, instead? So the Belgians might impose losses on the bondholders of their banks. That would involve losses to the French. That could mean French taxpayers being faced with providing extra bailout funds to that French bank or imposing losses on its bondholders. And so on, with the whole (absurd) no-creditor-shall-lose strategy deployed since 2008 collapsing.


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Yakgwa é um prato tradicional coreano. Ele foi originalmente considerada como uma sobremesa e, mais recentemente, como produtos de confeitaria (hangwa), devido ao seu sabor doce. Yakgwa é feita principalmente a partir de mel, óleo de gergelim, e a farinha de trigo.

Origem
A origem do yakgwa não é clara, uma vez que este alimento teve muitos nomes diferentes. No entanto, parece - coreano , as pessoas começaram a comê-lo durante a Unificação de Shilla. Durante a Dinastia Goryeo, yakgwa foi conhecido até mesmo na China sob o nome de Goryeo mandu. Foi a essencial sobremesa na corte real.

Literalmente, yakgwa significa medicamento (藥) e produtos de confeitaria (菓). Este nome veio a partir de principais ingredientes que o compõe. Na Coreia, durante a Dinastia Joseon , o mel era considerado como um medicamento bom para a saúde. É por isso que ele era chamado de medicinais.

Ingredientes
Yakgwa é tradicionalmente feito de mel, óleo de gergelim, e a farinha de trigo. Recentemente, Yakgwa tem sido fabricados por empresas que adicionam mais ingredientes a fim de melhorar o sabor do biscoito.

Formação
O Yakgwa obtém-se a forma ao ser pressionado em moldes de madeira ou achatada em azulejos decorativos. Tanto a pistola e moldes deve ser untada com o óleo de gergelim.

Ver também
 Mandugwa
 Lista de sobremesas coreanas

Culinária da Coreia

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May 26, 2017 Contact Author	Dakota Blauvelt, PA, reviewed by Mark Trott, M.D., and Antonio Cruz, M.D.
Many of us are far too familiar with the unsightly consequences of having too much fun in the sun (redness, possibly even swelling, blisters and peeling of the skin), but what isn't as obvious is the damage being done underneath the skin.
A sunburn is a preventable risk factor for accelerating aging of the skin and skin cancer. Dermatologists agree that the most effective way to keep skin looking young and healthy is to protect ourselves from the sun. As the season of long sunny days approaches, let's review why this simple bit of advice is important to adhere to.
A sunburn is an inflammatory response of the skin caused by excessive ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure. Both UVA (320 to 400 nm) and UVB (280 to 320 nm) wavelengths can induce a sunburn; however, UVB are the most successful at provoking erythema (superficial reddening of the skin) and DNA damage.
No matter how close to the equator your clients may find themselves this summer, remember that UVB intensity is highest everywhere between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The risk of a sunburn is inversely related to latitude, and therefore, the greatest risk is closest to the equator, where UVB intensity is most significant1. No matter how close to the equator your clients may find themselves this summer, remember that UVB intensity is highest everywhere between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
So what exactly is happening to the skin as it's absorbing all this UVR? UV photons damage the bonds between the four nucleotides that make up cellular DNA (thymine, cytosine, adenine, and guanine). These damaged cells then undergo apoptosis (programmed cell death), which leads to a cascade of unfortunate events.
Within 30 minutes, the superficial blood vessels under the skin begin to vasodilate1. Blood, along with inflammatory mediators, rush to the site of damage to help with the healing process. As a result, we experience redness and painful inflammation of the skin. The acute skin manifestations associated with sunburns typically resolve on their own within three to seven days1.
The damage that happens on the cellular level is not always as transient. Sometimes, UVR causes damage to the DNA repair process in a way that allows cells to mutate and acquire the ability to avoid dying, which leads to the disease process known as cancer3.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States4. Susceptibility to a sunburn is a red flag for susceptibility to skin cancer; however, everyone, regardless of skin type, is at risk for the potential adverse effects of UVR. Therefore, the use of sunscreen should be a part of everyone's daily skin care routine.
Broad-spectrum products with a sun protection factor (SPF) 30 or greater are recommended. Sunscreens should be applied generously, repeatedly and to all parts of the skin that are exposed to the sun.
Studies have shown that the average size adult or child needs about the amount of sunscreen that it takes to fill a shot glass in order to evenly cover the entire body.
Your clients can use the "shot glass rule" when applying sunscreen. Studies have shown that the average size adult or child needs about the amount of sunscreen that it takes to fill a shot glass in order to evenly cover the entire body.
Experts also agree that it is best for sunscreen to be applied 15 to 30 minutes before going out in the sun to allow the formation of a protective barrier and should be re-applied every two hours2. Avoidance of the sun during peak daylight hours and the use of protective sunscreen are vital to keeping your clients' skin young-looking and cancer-free.


We are in Sri Lanka traveling from Colombo, north, to the ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya. We had hired a car with a driver, an affable young Muslim man who entertained us with stories of some of his less than agreeable clients.
Being well versed with the route he detoured off the main road and took a shortcut through beautiful lush green landscapes, mile after mile of jungle interspersed with emerald green rice paddies.
Spying a hand painted sign beside a track leading into the jungle he pulled over and asked us if we would like to try Toddy. Toddy is an alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of the Coconut palm. I have seen many of these local Toddy "Bars" in India but never tried it and leaning more towards the adventurous side when on holiday I said, sure why not.
We set off on foot up the dirt track, into the jungle, the driver leading the way. After a few minutes we spotted a local man on the track ahead, walking in our direction.
In fact, walking would be an exaggeration. A more accurate description would be some form of tribal dance as he bobbed and stumbled from side to side. One step forward, two steps sideways, one step back, pause, wave arms in the air, shout into the undergrowth, two steps forward, one step to the other side, one step back. It took him almost 5 minutes to cover the short distance between us.
Our driver, Rahim, approached him and asked him if he knew where the Toddy Shop was. The local stopped his dance and stood swaying like a tree in the wind, considering the questions, spittle forming bubbles on his lower lip.
Rattling off a long explanation in Sinhalese, he gesticulated with both hands while, peculiarly, each eye rotated independently of each other.
Translating for us, Rahim explained that the toddy shop was a long way off and it had taken the local man most of the day to reach us from the shop. He was in fact exhausted by the long walk.
The local started babbling again, the spittle on his lips now morphing into long strings of drool, one eye looking left while the other looked up. The only word I could catch was "dhura, dhura" which I assumed meant the same as "dur" in Hindi, far. We thanked him and he continued haltingly on his way, one step forward, two steps back, 3 steps sideways, two long strings of saliva now reaching the ground.
To the right of us another local was standing by the side of the track leaning against a coconut palm, watching the proceedings, a big grin on his face.
Wondering whether to continue further into the jungle I thought it wise to get a second opinion.
"Excuse me, How far is the Toddy Shop' I asked him.
I am planning a drive up to Mumbai at the end of the month. It is over a 1000 kms so I plan to break journey half way. My regular readers will remember that the last time I did the trip I had a less than pleasant experience with the Hotel in which I stayed (posted here). Not wishing to repeat the experience I have decided to loosen the purse strings and go a bit more upmarket.
Discovering that the Taj Hotels Group have opened a new hotel in Belgaum, I have decided that this will be a good place to lay my weary head after 500 kms of dodging slow moving goods vehicles, wandering livestock, and the inevitable motorcyclists heading the wrong way down the highway.
The Boss was hugely unimpressed and urged me to change it as she said she will be so embarrassed when I check in.


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Grenfell Jones MBE, better known as "Gren", produced a daily cartoon for the South Wales Echo for over 45 years. His cartoons won him numerous awards including the much coveted UK Provincial Cartoonist of the year six times.
Gren continues to be a household name both in Wales and around the world and is synonymous with everything Welsh. His gentle humour and unique artistic style of work have appeared in numerous books, calendars and record covers.
He received a gold disc from EMI for his art work on the record cover of Max Boyce's album "we all had doctors papers" and Gren came second in the world to Pink Floyds "Dark side of the moon" cover.
With the syndication of his work throughout the UK, Gren's art continues to delight his audience on a regular basis. He was also the creator and producer of the Ponty and Pop cartoon strip which was set in the fictitious village of Aberflyarff. The cartoon strip enjoyed both radio and TV success.
Gren "In the office" 1970
Gren was honoured by the variety club of Great Britain for his charitable work and a dinner was held in his honour. In 1990 Gren was awarded the MBE for his contribution of cartoons to the British public and this was presented to him by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Gren was a highly respected and established artist and this has been reflected in both commercial and personal plaudits. In December 2008 HRH Prince William unveiled a 40 feet by 12 feet iron monumental art work depicting Gren's Ponty and Pop cartoon characters. The iron work erected on the new Media Wales building 6 Park Street, Cardiff.
The Gren name and legacy has been proudly carried on by Darryl Jones who is one of Gren's sons. This has been successfully achieved by Darryl learning his dad's skills by watching over his shoulder throughout previous years when his dad was drawing cartoons. This has enabled him to produce the now world wide distributed Gren Calendar and also artwork displayed on other products.
Even though his dad is no longer with us, Darryl by his own admission will say that he continues to learn this unique art of the Gren style of cartoons to ensure the Gren name continues on. This is not for his own benefit but for the people of Wales and beyond.
There are many famous names to come out of Wales, Gren being one of them and it is Darryl's intention to keep the name of Gren in the public eye by producing the annual (and very funny!) Gren Cartoons Calendar together with other products.
This is the only official website for prints, calendars and other merchandise.
Visit our shop and pick up a gift for you or your family members.
Use our online enquiry form
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Wine often travels long distances before it makes it's way into your home. Perhaps you purchased some wine on a weekend trip to wine country and drove it home in the trunk of your car. Maybe it was shipped to you from a wine club or online retailer, from many cities or states away. Imported wines also have to travel a long distance to get to the US, and they often make it onto a retailer's shelves just a week or two after passing through customs.
Many wine professionals believe that you should let your wine "rest" after it spends any time on the road. A wine that has been exposed to the elements of long-distance travel often tastes different than the same wine that has not. There are a variety of mysterious reasons for this, but two factors are temperature fluctuations and vibration during travel. I've experienced "travel sickness" in wine many times first-hand, and it took me a few encounters to realize what was going on.
Travel sickness and heat damage are two different things. Travel sickness seems to resolve on it's own with a little time, while there's no cure for a wine that's been overheated. You never want to let your wine get hot, or expose it to excessive temperature fluctuations. When wine gets warm, the liquid expands and pushes the air out of the bottle. When it cools back down, the liquid contracts, pulling oxygen into the bottle, and causing oxidation. This is one of the reasons wine collectors store their wine in climate-controlled warehouses with very specific, stable temperatures and humidity. Wine that was exposed to hot temperatures often tastes stewed, prune-y, high in alcohol, bitter, or astringent.
Wines that are simply "travel sick" often seem disjointed or out of balance. Perhaps the wine tastes more acidic than it usually does, or the oak is very pronounced. Maybe the nose is muted and closed, when the wine is typically very aromatic. Sometimes the tannin can seem abrasive and harsh, while under normal circumstances they are well-integrated and firm. Letting the wine sit in a cool, dark place for several days, weeks, or months, seems to cure it of this ailment.
Don't buy from retailers or wineries who ship during the hot summer months without taking extra precautions to ensure your wine won't be exposed to extreme temperatures during shipping, or left on your porch on very hot or cold days.
If you do have wine shipped, let it sit in a cool, dark place for at least a week (preferably longer) before you drink it.
Never leave wine in your car on a warm day. Even a cool, sunny day can be enough to make your car inhospitable to wine. If you are planning on leaving wine in your car, bring a small cooler and some ice packs to keep it cool.
If you're going on a far-away adventure on an airplane, remember that most airlines will allow you to check wine like luggage before the security checkpoint. Bring some of your favorite bottles to enjoy on your trip, or bring some discoveries back with you from your travels. Wine shipping boxes are a good idea for transport and can be purchased from most packaging supply stores. Check with your airline for specific policies for transporting wine.
It's important to remember that wine is a living, breathing thing, as well as a food product. Care must be taken when moving it around if you want it to be as delicious as it was made to be. Do your yourself and your favorite winemakers a favor by following these simple guidelines.


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"What is Advent?" For many Catholics unfamiliar with the liturgical year, there may be some confusion surrounding the meaning of the Advent season. Some people may know that the Advent season focuses on expectation and think that it serves as an anticipation of Christ's birth in the season leading up to Christmas. This is part of the story, but there's more to Advent. The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ's Second Coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord's Birth on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from December 17 to December 24, focus particularly on our preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas). Advent devotions, including the Advent wreath, remind us of the meaning of the season. An Advent calendar can help you fully enter in to the season with daily activities and prayer suggestions to prepare you spiritually for the birth of Jesus Christ.
The History of Advent: The word "Advent" is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming," which is a translation of the Greek word parousia. Scholars believe that during the 4th and 5th centuries in Spain and Gaul, Advent was a season of preparation for the baptism of new Christians at the January feast of Epiphany, the celebration of God's incarnation represented by the visit of the Magi to the Baby Jesus (Matthew 2:1), His baptism in the Jordan River by John the Baptist (John 1:29), and His first miracle at Cana (John 2:1). During this season of preparation, Christians would spend 40 days in penance, prayer, and fasting to prepare for this celebration; originally, there was little connection between Advent and Christmas. By the 6th century, however, Roman Christians had tied Advent to the coming of Christ. But the "coming" they had in mind was not Christ's first coming in the manger in Bethlehem, but His Second Coming in the clouds as the judge of the world. It was not until the Middle Ages that the Advent season was explicitly linked to Christ's first coming at Christmas.


Did you know that according to the International Franchise Association, a new franchise opens every 8 minutes of every business day and drives over 40% of all retail sales?
Is it that easy? Just open a franchise and make money?
Like most things in life, if you are thinking about owning your own business you have choices.
The first choice is to start your own business, your second choice is to buy an existing business and your third choice is to buy a franchise and become a franchisee.
To learn more about your options and how to decide what's best for you, click this link – Business ownership – what are my options.
The International Franchise Association (IFA), says franchising can be traced back to the 1850s; so the idea has been around for a long time.
A franchise almost always offers a successful and proven business model. The owner of the concept or Franchisor has started the business or concept, built it up, made mistakes, corrected the mistakes, made the business stronger and put together a repeatable system that is now available for franchisee's to buy and get a return on their time and investment.
As a franchisee, this helps you manage your risk of as an aspiring business owner.
Annually, franchising accounts for over $800 billion in sales, and employs over 8 million people.
Franchises are the most successful businesses on the planet with an over 95% success rate and at the same time creating over 170,000 new jobs per year.
Do you know that franchising accounts for over 2.3 trillion in the U.S. economy and provides 1 out of every 7 private sector jobs in the United States?
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The majority of franchise buyers are success-oriented, educated, family minded, corporate people.
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Q: Why does the inner class complain about generic type? I have a class that implements Iterable so that the user can use an iterator. I'm using generics to allow the user to use any type and work with the class.
This is the working code below without warnings-
public class CustomStackUsingArray<Type> implements CustomList<Type>, Iterable<Type> {

    Type []arr;

    public Iterator<Type> iterator() {
        return (new ListIterator());
    }

    private class ListIterator implements Iterator<Type>{
        //Implement Iterator here
    }

    //Implement other methods here
}

However, if I have the ListIterator defined like this-
private class ListIterator<Type> implements Iterator<Type>

I get a warning in Eclipse, The parameter Type is hiding the type Type
Why does it complain when I specify the generic type after my class? Shouldn't I have to do that in order for me to be able to use Type inside my class? I added Type when defining CustomStackUsingArray and that works fine.

A: When you say class Something<T> (possibly with more than one type parameter), you're telling the compiler that you're defining a new generic class, with T as its parameter.  You could have said private class ListIterator<Type2> implements Iterator<Type2>; that would have been legal, but not what you want.  It would have created a new generic class, where Type2 refers to the name of the new type parameter.  When you say private class ListIterator<Type> implements Iterator<Type>, you're actually doing the exact same thing, but with the type parameter named Type instead of Type2.  This Type has no connection to the Type of the outer class.  Also, inside this new class, whenever you say Type, you are referring to the new type parameter, which means you can no longer refer to the outer type parameter--it's hidden, which is what Eclipse is telling you.
This all happens because you told the compiler you wanted to create a new generic class.  But you really don't.  You just want an inner class that is part of the outer generic class you're defining (I think).  Therefore, you need to leave off the first <Type>.  And it should work the way you want.

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Krishnan, Girish and Shivaprasad, AP (1987) Quaternary unary operators. In: International Journal of Electronics, 63 (2). pp. 253-267.
Unary operators are functions of a single variable. Realization of quaternary unary operators (QUOs) using quaternary multiplexer (QMUX) is presented in this paper. QUOs are divided into eight groups on the basis of the number of change overs in the output for an input sequence of 0, 1, 2, 3. This grouping reduces the hardware required to realize them. QMUX with two, three, and four input lines are proposed for the realization of QUOs belonging to the eight groups. A systematic procedure for the selection of QMUX and the implementation of the QUOs are given. The QMUXs are designed using CMOS ICs. The hardware required for their implementation is also discussed.


WATEC Israel 2019 – take a sip from where water breakthroughs happen!
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The 8th biennial WATEC international event will be held this year, from the 18 until the 21 November 2019, at the Peres Center for Innovation and the David InterContinental Hotel in Tel Aviv, with hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of visitors from all parts of the world. According to experts, the world is on the brink of a global water crisis, which can only be prevented through advance preparation. Therefore, the upcoming WATEC conference will not only address the latest water innovations, but will also look forward at the future of water around the world and how the impending crisis can be managed.
Israel's reputation as the startup nation is already well-established as a global leader in a range of water usage and technology, such as desalination, monitoring and irrigation. This year the emphasis will be on True water technology development and execution (Digital Water; Water Urbanization; Innovation as a Policy and Innovative Policy Making; Women and Water Industry; Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations; Water Pricing; Water Ownership; The war over water from different sectors, Water Security and much more.
Access to safe water has a tremendous impact on the world. According to studies it's the 5th global risk facing the world today. In the last century, water consumption was increased by 600%. By 2050 water demand will grow by a further 55% leaving 40% of the global population in "water stressed areas"*.


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Hans Vonk joins Ajax, Sander Boschker leaves on free transfer
Ajax have signed Hans Vonk. The 34-year-old goalkeeper, who leaves SC Heerenveen on a free transfer, signs for one year. As usual, Ajax do not disclose financial details of the agreement.
Hans Vonk is part of the national squad of South-Africa. He is currently with the national team in Bloemfontein, South-Africa. Hans Vonk will join Ajax's first team on 7 July, when Ajax start the preparation for the new season. Ajax coach Ronald Koeman can also count on goalkeepers Bogdan Lobont and Maarten Stekelenburg in the first team.
Ajax and Sander Boschker part ways per 1 July 2004. It has been agreed that the 33-year-old goalkeeper can leave on a free transfer. Boschker still had a contract to July 2005.


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Founded in 2011, the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC) oversees implementation of the Fair Food Program, a unique farmworker- and consumer-driven initiative consisting of:
A wage increase supported by a price premium paid by corporate purchasers of Florida tomatoes; and
Human-rights-based Code of Conduct, applicable throughout the Florida tomato industry.
The price premium and the Code of Conduct, which were developed by tomato workers, growers, and corporate buyers, form the foundation for a new model of social accountability.
The Fair Food Program emerged from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) successful Campaign for Fair Food, a campaign to affirm the human rights of tomato workers and improve the conditions under which they labor. In 2015, the FFP expanded to the summer operations of Florida-based growers in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey as well as to pepper and strawberry farms in Florida.
Comprehensive, Verifiable and Sustainable Change
The high degree of consolidation in the food industry today means that multi-billion dollar brands on the retail end of the industry are able to leverage their volume purchasing power to demand ever-lower prices, which has resulted in downward pressure on farmworker wages. The Fair Food Program reverses that process, enlisting the resources of participating retail food giants to improve farmworker wages and harnessing their demand to reward growers who respect their workers' rights.
The Fair Food Program provides an opportunity for those corporations to bring their own considerable resources to the table – their funds and market influence – to help forge a structural, sustainable solution to a human rights crisis that has persisted on U.S. soil for far too long. In the process, the Fair Food Program is building the foundation for a stronger Florida tomato industry that can differentiate its product in produce aisles and restaurants on the basis of a credible claim to social responsibility and so better weather the challenges of an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Under the Fair Food Program, Participating Growers have agreed to:
A wage increase supported by the "penny per pound" price premium Participating Buyers pay for their tomatoes;
Compliance with the human rights-based Code of Conduct, including zero tolerance for forced labor, child labor and sexual assault;
Worker-to-worker education sessions conducted by the CIW on the farms and on company time to insure workers understand their new rights and responsibilities;
A worker-triggered complaint resolution mechanism leading to complaint investigation, corrective action plans, and, if necessary, suspension of a farm's Participating Grower status, and thereby its ability to sell to Participating Buyers;
Health and safety committees on every farm to give workers a structured voice in the shape of their work environment;
Specific and concrete changes in harvesting operations to improve workers' wages and working conditions, including an end to the age-old practice of forced overfilling of picking buckets (a practice which effectively denied workers pay for up to 10% of the tomatoes harvested), the provision of shade in the fields, and the use of time clocks to record and count all compensable hours accurately; and
Ongoing auditing of the farms by the Fair Food Standards Council to insure compliance with each element of the program.
The FFSC is based in Sarasota, Florida, and has responsibility for implementing, monitoring, and enforcing the Fair Food Program.
Judge Laura Safer Espinoza is Executive Director of the FFSC.


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Patriarkalisme er en politisk teori, der voksede frem i England i det 17. århundrede. Den forsvarede monarkiets absolutte magt gennem et sprog, der lagde vægt på kongens "faderlige" magt over staten og sine undersåtter.

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Commercial taxi services charges to be lowered, says Goa Transport Minister
To bring down the taxi fare, Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho has said that the service charge applicable to commercial taxis, which is at INR 484, has been asked to reduce for the ease of customers. He said this during a meeting that was held to discuss the functioning of the Manohar International Airport, Mopa, transportation issues and other linked problems.
Manohar International Airport begins commercial operations in Mopa, IndiGo makes inaugural landing
The new Greenfield airport in Goa inaugurated by Prime Minister in December, 2022, Manohar International Airport at Mopa has kickstarted its commercial operations from today. The first flight operated by IndiGo landed at the new Mopa airport at 9 am. followed by 11 more flights scheduled to land at the airport. Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, V K Singh joined the event virtually. Union Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Tourism Shripad Naik and CM Pramod Sawant were present on this occasion.
Cab registration on new app starts for Mopa airport, Mormugao port cruise terminal
Given the opposition from the taxi lobby, the state government has opted for a "soft launch" to test the waters. The app, which has one component for the driver and one for the customer for booking and payment, was launched on December 19, 2022 with only the driver component activated.
Goa gets busier as world arrives to celebrate Christmas, New Year
 Hotels in the state are almost full. The government's decision not to impose any Covid-19-related restrictions has helped the mood. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday clarified that the state will not impose any pandemic-related restriction till January 2, 2023, but appealed people to take precautions on their own.
Focus on qualitative rather than quantitative tourism, says Goa minister
The Goa Tourism Board has decided to focus on "spend per tourist" rather than the number of visitors coming to the coastal state. "It was decided to focus on spend per tourist, rather than the number of arrivals. Suggestions for the Tourism Masterplan included dispersal of tourism, sustainable development in the hinterland and mapping tourism spend," minister Rohan Khaunte said.
Govt. departments must work together to address tourism issues: Goa Tourism Minister
To efficiently address issues plaguing the tourism sector, including the illegalities occurring along the coastal belt, government departments need to step up and work together, said tourism minister Rohan Khaunte. Admitting that traffic congestion has increased, Khaunte said that Goa police's traffic cell needs to ensure proper flow of vehicles while each panchayat must enforce proper parking.
Goa to host International Lusophone Festival from December 3
The festival will include performances by visiting cultural troupes from the CPLP countries (70 artists) at several venues in Goa namely ESG complex, Azad Maidan, Sanskruti Bhavan, Ravindra Bhavan among others. As part of the festival, workshops on Lusophone music for artists and volunteers, various workshops-cum-exhibition of photocopies of historical records, unique Goan architecture, Goan handicrafts and Goan furniture are being organised.
Mopa airport expected to commence operations from January 5, passengers to be informed by SMS
GMR Goa International Airport Limited (GGIAL), which will operate the airport, is looking at January 5 as Mopa's opening date.
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Even if Mopa opens mid-Dec, 'flights may not take off so soon'
One of the key tasks pending is the operational readiness and airport transfer (ORAT), a process of turning a newly constructed airport into an operational facility by operationalising everything from commercial spaces and parking spaces to training of staff and management. Domestic airlines have sought 100 landing and take-off slots, but the director general of civil aviation has yet to approve the requests.
Mopa airport to be inaugurated by December 11 in Goa
Recently, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had said that the decision to pick a name for the new airport would be taken by the Union government. The state has not proposed any name, he said. After reviewing the ongoing works at the airport, the CM had said that nearly 95 per cent of the work has been completed.
Hand over ports, jetties to pvt players for revenue: Niti Aayog to Goa
The Niti Aayog has said that key infrastructure in Goa can be handed to private players for a limited period to operate, collect fees, maintain and then hand over back to the state government. Handing over stadiums and district sports complexes to private players. This would enable development of world class infrastructure and increase the economic profile of the locality, it said .
Goa's Chief Minister Pramod Sawant flags off train to Tirupati; Shirdi, Velankanni to be launched next
The scheme, notified in November 2021 to allow senior citizens free travel and stay to religious places of three major religious communities, was amended last month to reduce the lower age limit for applicants from 60 to 50 years.
Mopa airport to be commissioned after Dec 8 by PM, says Goa CM
"The date for commissioning of the airport will be decided depending on the availability of the Prime Minister. Tentatively, it would be inaugurated after December 8. The arrival and departure areas, baggage facility etc are ready. The airport has also received licence for its aerodrome," Sawant informed. The airport has the capacity to handle 4.4 million footfalls annually.
Dabolim and Mopa airports in Goa to function simultaneously: Union minister V K Singh
The opposition parties had earlier raised suspicion that the Dabolim airport would be shut after the new airport at Mopa becomes functional. Asked about commissioning of the new airport at Mopa in Goa, Singh said CM Sawant has already written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about it and the date for its inauguration will be fixed soon.
Need to develop India into the world's most attractive destination: Sarbananda Sonowal
Speaking about Goa, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, said that a solar ferryboat will add to the dimensions of the potentiality of the latest facility for the global and domestic tourist who visit the coastal state every year.
New visa rules likely to bring fewer Brits to Goa this season
Goa will likely see fewer arrivals of tourists from the UK this season as Tui Airlines, which was looking at operating four flights a week starting November, may start with a single trip a week. This is primarily because of reduction in load factor, TUI informed the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa.
Goa CM to look into issue of high shack fees: Calangute MLA
During his recent meeting with Chief Minister of Goa, Pramod Sawant, Calangute MLA Michael Lobo discussed issues pertaining to stakeholders of the tourism industry. The Calangute MLA said that Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte has started the shack allotment process and even granted a one-year extension.
Goa to take issue of e-Visa to UK with Home Minister
The Goa government has decided to take up the issue of 'e-Visa' to the UK with the Central government to help the tourism industry of the state. Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG), in June, had urged Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to convince the central government to include UK, Canada, Kyrgyzstan and other nations for issuance of e-visas.
Goa CM tells MLAs not to oppose app-based taxis as it drives tourism in the state
Goa CM Pramod Sawant, while speaking in the House during the ongoing monsoon assembly session, said that the state government is ready to bring in app-based taxi aggregators in order to improve the state's tourism sector. The Chief Minister said that Goa's taxi operators continue to flout norms by refusing to use digital meters even though the state government is offering a subsidy to install them. While Sawant assured the House that the subsidy would be released, he also urged all the legislators to support the government when app-based taxi aggregators are introduced.
Historical forts, memorials in Goa to be restored
After making budgetary provision to restore temples demolished during the Portuguese colonial rule in Goa, the state's BJP government has announced plans to restore and beautify forts and memorials having historical importance. It has also focussed on passing the history of Goa liberation to the next generation by including it in textbooks.


If you were fortunate enough to attend Holly Littlefield's presentation at the ABC convention in Seattle this past week, you were treated to an entertaining and highly instructive selection of social media failures. Her talk, "Audience, Brand, Channel: Using Social Media Cases to Teach Communications Concepts," offered a taste of everything from cringe-worthy image choices to clumsy non-apologies.
The examples Dr. Littlefield was able to show during her time slot are only a sample of the episodes she has collected, and she has generously agreed to let us share the full set with you. This extensive PowerPoint presentation (11 MB) offers a variety of cases that highlight the need to understand audiences and make intelligent decisions about communication channels.
Our thanks to Dr. Littlefield for sharing her insights and teaching resources.


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In the last Digest I mentioned the start of the annual Christmas Event on SCS Software's truck sims. The theme this year was Giving and the premise was that we had to deliver gifts from cities to other cities. For every 1000 deliveries made by the community from a city, a star was awarded up to a maximum of 5 stars. This was an interesting twist on the normal requirement to make a certain number of deliveries as there was no point in taking gifts from a city that had already reached its quota. Cities in the core European Truck Simulator map area very quickly got all their stars, making it more and more difficult to find routes that would add to the total deliveries from other cities and to find jobs going to cities that still needed to make deliveries. Most of France eventually got done and so did Scandinavia but a number of cities in southern Italy, the Baltic States and the new Black Sea map never achieved their quota. This is a factor of the DLC system – not all players own all the new maps so fewer were able to complete deliveries in those areas.
In American Truck Simulator, the story was a little different. There is a smaller player base than ETS2 but most players have been buying all the map expansions. As a result, instead of a core area being quickly completed, we saw cities along the main interstates being completed first – Los Angeles, Flagstaff, Albuquerque for example. But there were always plenty of other places needing to deliver their gifts. Once again, there were cities that never achieved their quota – the likes of El Centro and Tonopah which only have single farming industries naturally were rarely available as options to deliver to and therefore didn't get visited to deliver from.
The event ran from 17/12/2019 to 15/01/2020. In that time the community achieved 1300 stars. We made over 2.5 million deliveries between us with nearly 320 thousand taking part. My personal contribution was 123 deliveries, 59 in ETS2 and 64 in ATS. I also did 27 positioning deliveries of other goods to overcome the issue of moving from cities that no longer needed to send gifts. Add in 2 other moves to facilitate changing trucks and my total moves during the event was 152. In ETS2, 4 different trucks of mine took part – The Renault T in Renault Racing Livery… …My DAF – which holds the company title for most deliveries in the event of 37… …My 625HP heavy haul Mercedes which is normally based in Limoges for the marble quarries there… …and the latest addition to the fleet – my Scania R580 which is destined to be based in Florence for the quarry works there…
In ATS 5 trucks took part. Our 1st International LoneStar took the first deliveries… …Before handing over to Kenny – our Kenworth K100… …Autumn Gal took over and did most jobs of the Republik Trucking effort with 23… …She handed over to Ol'Dawg, our Mack R… …before Scarlett, the longest serving truck in the fleet came on duty to complete the last days of the event…
So that was the Christmas Event done and dusted for another year. It was great fun and also quite challenging! If you want to read more details of the event and the community effort, please see the SCS Blog Post. Keep the shiny side up everyone 🙂


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ii view: Ocado still confident as new customers stick with it
This FTSE 100 stock was a winner in 2020, but has proved to be this year's biggest loser so far. We assess prospects.
Ocado Retail – Fourth-quarter update to 28 November 2021
Retail revenue down 3.9% compared to Q4 2020 to £547.8 million
Average orders per week up 8.5% to 375,100
Active customers up 22% to 832,000
Retail division chairman Tim Steiner said:
"We are very encouraged by the underlying trends which are driving growth in our business. Hundreds of thousands of UK consumers have tried online grocery over the last eighteen months and the vast majority are continuing to shop online and are not going back to physical stores.
"At a time of growing momentum in the channel shift from physical stores to online we are bringing significantly more capacity to market and are confident that we are on a strong, long-term growth trajectory".
Ocado (LSE:OCDO) operates via the two divisions of Retail and Solutions.
Retail is the company's own online supermarket business, now run as a 50:50 joint venture with Marks & Spencer (LSE:MKS). It delivers over 50,000 products, including big-name brands, a range of M&S and Ocado own brand products and a growing non-food selection.
Solutions is responsible for helping other retailers with their online offerings using its Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) software and robot technology. Current retail partners include Morrison's in the UK, Kroger in the US and Coles in Australia.
For a round-up of this latest retail divisional trading update, please click here.
Analysts broadly break the Ocado business and its prospects into three areas. First, its UK Retail business; second the valuation of contracts around its Solutions business; and thirdly, expectations on newly won Solutions contracts. Ocado shares have been the biggest faller within the FTSE 100 index year-to-date, down 28%, having been the biggest company riser - apart from fund Scottish Mortgage (LSE:SMT) - over the pandemic hit 2020, gaining by almost 79%.
For investors, expectations of a slowdown in sales for its UK retail business, as UK pandemic restrictions eased over 2021, appear to have fed into its year-to-date underperformance. The broader FTSE 100 index is up by over 12% so far during 2021. A fire at one of its premises and the subsequent operational disruption also offered challenges, as have broader labour shortages and cost price pressures.
But Ocado once estimated its addressable market for its Solutions business to be around $700 billion, and a US court ruling in Ocado's favour over patent claims from Norwegian robotics company AutoStore also eases uncertainty. However, pandemic impeded international travel is unlikely to be oiling the wheels of Solution business deals - around 80% of Ocado's stock market value is considered by analysts to be attempting to value its Solutions business, the other 20% the UK Retail business. For now, and while difficulty beating tough year-on-year comparatives is evident, an estimated analyst fair value price of £21.43 arguably implies potential for long-term upside.
Efficient technology-based packing of customer orders
UK capacity continuing to grow
AutoStore to appeal against US court decision
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"2nd Sonata for Flute and Harp" Composed in 1998, this 4 movement sonata is grand in scale and evokes powerful emotions. Individual flute part included.


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September 6, 2013 November 11, 2013 Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D
Why The B-2 Bomber Is Well-Suited To Strike Operations In Syria
When the Obama Administration first began contemplating punitive strikes against Syrian military forces following the use of chemical weapons on August 21, it expected to rely solely on Tomahawk cruise missiles launched by Aegis warships. Tomahawks have been continuously upgraded since their inception so that they can now be retargeted in flight to strike within 10 yards of fleeting targets. That means that even though they are one-way, unmanned weapons, the Tomahawks can respond flexibly to changing tactical conditions — delivering the kind of precise and limited effects the administration says it is seeking.
If the administration had struck quickly in the immediate aftermath of chemical-weapons employment by Syria, the Navy's Tomahawks would have been sufficient to do the job. But the delay associated with seeking congressional approval for military action has given Bashar al-Assad's forces plenty of time to relocate the likely targets of U.S. attacks. Not only is U.S. intelligence having trouble keeping up with where key Syrian assets have moved, but in some cases it is no doubt finding they have been deployed very close to noncombatants as a way of deterring U.S. strikes. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon now thinks it will need to use other strike systems in addition to the Tomahawks.
It doesn't take a lot of reflection to figure out what the preferred alternative might be. It will be the Air Force's stealthy B-2 Spirit bombers, which can safely transit Syria's heavily defended air space to precisely destroy sixteen separate targets in each flight. The Spirit has accomplished similar missions in the past, taking out time-sensitive targets in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya while suffering no operational losses thanks to its low-observable features and jamming of hostile radars by Navy electronic-warfare planes. The usual mission profile is to fly non-stop from its home at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, extending the plane's 7,000-mile range with aerial-refueling tankers.
That's a long, long trip for the two-person crew, but in limited strike operations like the proposed attacks on Syria, it makes more sense than trying to set up a regional operating hub for the highly sophisticated bombers. B-2s require special skills and infrastructure to optimize the features that make them nearly invisible to enemy radar. Aside from their payload, range and survivability, what makes the B-2s a useful addition to cruise-missile strikes is that they have pilots and sensors on board suited to search-and-destroy missions. The bomber was originally conceived to track down mobile Soviet strategic targets in the midst of a nuclear war, and it was later adapted to performing similar missions with conventional munitions.
Although Tomahawk has become a remarkably versatile weapon, it can't match the capacity of a B-2 to detect, track and destroy movable targets in a dynamic combat environment. With Syrians long since alerted to the fact that the Yanks may be coming, it makes sense to employ the one bomber in the U.S. arsenal that can safely penetrate defended air space to strike pinpoint targets without causing collateral damage to nearby civilians. The F-22 fighter provides similar survivability and accuracy but has a much smaller bomb-load, while the stealthy F-35 joint strike fighter is not yet operational. Non-stealthy strike aircraft such as the B-1 Lancer bomber and carrier-based F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter might be shot down by Syria's air defenses.
If there is a moral to this story, it is that the B-2 bomber provides genuinely unique warfighting capabilities to the joint force. That will continue to be the case for the next two decades whether Congress approves action in Syria or not, because it will take the Air Force 20 years to develop, produce and field its next bomber. It therefore is crucial to national security that the service keep upgrading and refining its 20 B-2s with better communications links, munitions and stealth features to assure it remains relevant to warfighting needs. No other nation has a long-range strike aircraft comparable to the B-2 bomber; it is a vital warfighting capability that must be preserved.


Michigan regulators said Thursday that they ordered the closure of 210 medical marijuana businesses over a two-week period, largely because their owners failed to apply for a state license by a mid-February deadline or did not receive authorization from their municipalities.
Harns said the 210 shops that were ordered to close did not apply for a license, applied too late, submitted an application without their municipality's blessing or possibly filled out some information incorrectly.
"If it's considered an incomplete application, it can possibly be fixed," he said. "Our team is receiving phone calls from people who have questions about this. ... If they feel like they received a letter in error, we obviously have an open form of communication with them."


We've seen plenty of powerful op-ed pieces popping up from voices in Hollywood in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Sarah Polley and Lena Dunham both wrote essays for The New York Times, but none seems to have sparked as much attention as The Big Bang Theory's Mayim Bialik's.
In a piece titled Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein's World written by the mother of two, the former Blossom star made several comments that has Twitter up in arms.
After describing at length how she has always felt out of place and less physically adequate than her peers in the industry ("I was always aware that I was out of step with the expected norm for girls and women in Hollywood"), Bialik had many raising their brows when she implied that it was her very unwillingness to fit into society's standards of beauty that protected her from such atrocities as those described by Weinstein's victims.
The line sparked offense in many, who saw her comments as suggestive of the idea that feminism can't co-exist with interest in beauty. "Since when does being a strong, independent feminist equate to homeliness?" one reader wrote.
.@missmayim Its hard to fathom that as an educated woman you don't understand that women can be both physically attractive and intelligent.
People were not here for the suggestion that to cover up would prevent the heinous actions of a predator.
"It never happened to me. Let me lecture the victims."
You may now safely avoid reading Mayim Bialik's essay.
Mayim Bialik's NYT op ed is garbage. It's basically saying pretty women are asking for assault.
I was 8 years old in long petticoats in the theater when grown men were inappropriate with me. Nothing to do with flirting/outfit/manicure.
As if women in burqas don't get assaulted. Or children. Or elderly women. Blaming women & their clothes instead of the men is so dumb.
Also, guess what, people you are intimate with can also sexually assault you.
She'll certainly have plenty to talk about!
What did you think of Mayim's words? Share with us over @BritandCo.


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During the past few years the word "worldview" has entered our public space of common discourse as never before. It is not only the intellectual and cultural elites who are talking about worldviews. The concept of worldviews has found its way into the popular cultural as well. Perhaps this is because the world-wide accessibility and influence of radio, TV, movies, videos, music, news, journalism, entertainment, the internet, iphones, laptops, tablets, facebook, twitter and the like have all served to make us radically more aware that we live in a pluralistic society and global age of multiple, competing, autonomous and overlapping worldviews.
Worldviews are sets of assumptions, beliefs, values and commitments that we hold, consciously or not, about the nature of reality and the world in which we live. These are ways that we attempt to make sense of and interpret the meaning of what we know and experience. Worldviews have implications for not only what we believe but also how we choose to live. They have implications for how we view ourselves and relate to others in terms of the grand scheme of things.
Worldviews attempt to answer such fundamental questions as these: What is the nature of fundamental reality and the world in which we live? What is the relationship between matter and mind? is the physical universe the whole of reality, or are there other non-visible dimensions, levels, or meta-universes? To what extent, if at all, can we know our own nature, origin, purpose and destiny? Is there a god or gods? Can god or the gods be known What does God (or the gods) want? What does life require of us? What is a human being? Are we determined or free, or some combination of both? What can we know? How can we know it? How ought we to live? What is the basis for ethics? What is the good society? What is wrong with the world? Why is there suffering? How do we negotiate such cultural values of individualism and community, competition and cooperation, masculinity and femininity, initiative and receptivity, pride and humility, hierarchy and equality, restraint and expressiveness, certitude and ambiguity, closure and openness, judgment and perception, activism and contemplation, asceticism and hedonism, enterprise and environment, short-term goals and long-term goals? What is our vision for the future? Is there life after death? For what can we strive and hope?
One of the major worldview questions involves the "mind-matter problem." What is the relationship between mind and matter? The worldview of Cartesian substance dualism views these are two realities and offers no attempt to explain if or how they might be related. This is not unlike the Two Kingdom Theory of Christianity, or the Two Realms, spiritual and material, of classical Gnosticism.
The worldview of idealism views mind or consciousness as primary and matter as secondary or derivative, an emanation of Eternal or Emergent Spirit, or else an illusion.
The worldview of materialism or physicalism views matter as primary and mind as secondary, a surface phenomenon that can be explained, without remainder, in terms of mathematical, physical, bio-chemical, neurological and physiological phenomena.
The worldview of panpsychism or panexperiential (the Whiteheadian process philosophy version) views mind and matter as two distinct but inseparable aspects of a single reality (dual aspect monism) that goes all the way down to the quantum sub-atomic world, and all the way out to the entire cosmos. Panpsychists "agree to disagree" among themselves as to precisely when and where indeterminacy, freedom, experience, sentience, consciousness, subjectivity and intersubjectivity come "on line" as we work our way up the physical and biological chain of increased awareness and complexity. Some believe a rudimentary form of awareness, sentience and consciousness is operating even at the cellular and molecular levels. Others think awareness, sentience and consciousness require a central nervous system and a brain. But what they all have in common is the view that matter influences mind and mind influences matter because in a fundamental way there were never separated to begin with. Panpsychists refuse to separate mind and matter as dualists do. They refuse to assign ontological priority to mind, as idealists do. And they refuse to assign existential priority to matter, as materialists do.
Religious dogmatists and secular ideologues on all sides will be unhappy with this agnostic and ambiguous stance since it regards the question of the fundamental nature of reality and the relation between mind and matter as one that probably cannot be conclusively decided, whether by various appeals to reason, evidence, intuition, experience, tradition and authority.
Some individuals have a split-level worldview. On the upper level they reserve a generous space for the ultimate, the infinite, the mysterious, the unknown, the unseizable. They may call this Mystery by various names, such as God, the Godhead, Being, the Absolute, the Unnamable Tao, the Source, the X Factor, the Meta-Verse, and in so doing may inadvertently slip back into the language of dualism, idealism, materialism or panpsychism. On the lower level such persons posit and defend one of the worldviews with which they feel the greatest affinity, were it to come down to a choice. Such persons will indeed make their appeals to reason, evidence, intuition, experience, common sense, exemplars, tradition and authority in support of their worldview assumptions, beliefs, values and commitments, but they will reserve to take the conversation "upstairs" into the realm of Ineffable Mystery. Or they may claim that introspective intuition and spiritual experience (whether shamanic, numinous, prophetic or mystical) give them "direct or mediated access" to a Transcendental Reality beyond words that philosophical reason and empirical science are not adequately equipped to handle without going outside the boundaries of their legitimate circumscribed disciplinary and epistemological domains.
Still others will view any shift from the lower level of presumed knowledge about the fundamental nature of reality to the upper level of Ineffable Mystery as a cop-out, a failure of nerve, a retreat into obscurity. But for those who at home with a split-level worldview that combines a qualified claim to knowledge with as humble admission of Mystery, such an approach is the only way to do justice to our need for convictions on the one hand with our recognition of human finitude on the other.
For those who have embraced the modernist assumption that questions about the fundamental nature of reality can be answered conclusively by appeals to "objective" critical reason and empirical scientific experiements, the entire quest ends like a bad dream. Appeals to the full repetoire of rhetorical persuasion techniques, along with appeals to relativity theory, evolutionary theory, quantum theory, systems theory, chaos theory, last man theory, and so forth, can and have been employed in the service of competing worldviews. All one can do is strongly object that others are interpreting and applying a given theory incorrectly. But what this really means is that one is employing a theory in the service of a different worldview or organizing paradigm. Not only are all worldviews "theory-laden," but all theories are "metaphor-laden." For this reason the objection that one is interpretating and applying a theory incorrectly may come down to the claim that another is using a shared metaphor in the service of a different interpretive meaning. Because metaphors go "all the way down" in turns of the roots of language and symbolic communication, it may be almost impossible to say who is using a given metaphor correctly and incorrectly. When it comes to the polysemic use of metaphors and analogies, "correctness" and "incorrectness" may be in the eye of the beholder.
Moreover, it may be more helpful to speak of the fundamental reality through employing multiple metaphors and analogies rather than becoming married to any one of them exclusively, and reifying it into a form of covert metaphysics.
Materialists prefer to speak metaphorically of fundamental reality as a Great Machine or an incredibly complex Computer.
Idealists prefer to speak metaphorically of fundamental reality as a Great Mind, a Universal Consciousness, an Akashic Field, a World Soul.
Dualists prefer to speak of it as Two Kingdoms, Two Realms that co-exist without intersecting, except perhaps for rare and occasional moments of mystical epiphany, divine incarnation, eschatological revelation or miraculous intervention.
Panpsychists prefer to speak metaphorically of fundamental reality as a Head and Body that are distinct yet inseparable since each requires the other to live.
Perennial Traditionalists prefer to speak of fundamental reality as Eternal Being and Timeless Essence, the Transpersonal Absolute, the One without a Second.
Process thinkers prefer to speak of fundamental reality as Creative Process, Dynamic Systems, the Teleological Imparative, the Lure of the New.
All of these worldview ways of speaking about the nature of fundamental reality use metaphors that their more zealous and sectarian devotees have forgotten are metaphors, having conflated metaphors with metaphysics. This applies even to materialists who insist that they have no metaphysics. When metaphors are absolutized and made exclusive through what Whitehead called the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, they take on the force of metaphysical dogma to be militantly defended against the threat of other metaphors.
On the practical level what is the challenge of living in a pluralist society and global age of multiple worldviews, belief systems and ways of life? It may mean that we need to learn some new skills, like how to live in "the middle way" between the extremes of dogmatic absolutism on the one hand and relativistic nihilism on the other. It may mean that we learn to live with the search for pluralistic integration on the one hand and the realism of incommensurable perspectives on the other. It may mean that we continue the quest for knowledge, understanding, insight and wisdom, and that we practice the discipline of "epistemological humility" by making room for Wonder and Mystery along side our pursuit of Meaning and Mastery. Call it "Crazy Wisdom," but we must learn how to integrate the many polarities of our astonishing and bewildering existence into a creative paradoxical whole.
It needs to be said that there are many factors that influence the formation and development of a worldview. The chart below highlights some of these important factors. Intellect, knowledge and education may play a part, but only a part. Often a greater role of influence is played by the other factors, including experience factors, psychological factors, emotional factors and social factors. As we enter into conversation with others, it is illuminating to explore how each of us has been influenced not only by our assumptions, beliefs, values and commitments, but also by our formative life experiences, psychological temperament, emotional responses and social relationships. We do not "think" merely as disembodied free-floating minds or as one-sided rational-analytical left brains but with our whole brains and our whole bodies within a complex and changing environment. Our entire somatic, sexual, emotional, social, mythic, imaginative, volitional, ethical, intuitive and spiritual self needs to be consulted as we weigh and consider, dialogue and discuss the meaning and value of our personal experiences and the dynamically fluid phenomena of our natural, historical, cultural and social environment.
Worldviews also include multiple dimensions. In his book, Worldviews, Ninian Smart explores the experiential, mythic, doctrinal, ethical, ritual and social dimensions. For different individuals and worldview communities these various dimensions will be given relatively different levels of importance. Consequently, when persons who live in different worldview traditions and hermeneutical communities come together in dialogue, they may wrongly assume that their dialogue partner ranks the various worldview dimensions in the same order of importance as they do. We need to listen deeply to others if we are to understand not only what they believe and value, but which worldview dimensions are of greatest importance to them, and why. Otherwise, it is likely that we will only end up talking past each other and miss out on the opportunity for creative dialogue as a transformative encounter.