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The unbelievable number of teens living on Universal Credit in Lincolnshire
Alice Cachia
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More than a thousand teenagers in Lincolnshire are on Universal Credit, a shocking investigation has revealed.
Analysis of the latest government figures reveal that 1,142 youngsters aged between 16 and 19 received the six-in-one benefit in August this year.
That works out as around one in every 29 teens of that age range across our county.
Campaigners said the findings reflected the huge number of people "struggling" on low incomes.
The figures also revealed that 79.0% of Lincolnshire's youngsters on Universal Credit were unemployed.
The controversial benefit is a monthly payment to help people struggling with living costs.
It replaced the previously separate child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, jobseeker's allowance, employment and support allowance and working tax credit.
The social security benefit changes that may force you on to Universal Credit
But the scheme - first introduced in 2013 - has been plagued by management failures, IT blunders and design faults.
It meant the rollout - which was supposed to have been completed by 2017 - fell six years behind schedule.
Across Lincolnshire, the situation was worst in East Lindsey.
There, one in every 20 teens aged between 16 and 19 was on Universal Credit as of August this year.
North Kesteven, on the other hand, had a rate of just one in every 43.
Earlier this year, the then-DWP Secretary Amber Rudd admitted that the rollout of Universal Credit had been linked to rising food bank usage.
Answering a ministerial question in the House of Commons, Rudd said: "It is absolutely clear that there were challenges with the initial rollout of Universal Credit, and the main issue that led to an increase in food bank use could have been the fact that people had difficulty accessing their money early enough."
Universal Credit payments set to go up - but only for some
Matthew Geer, campaigns manager at the poverty charity Turn2us, said: "The fact that teenagers are having to claim Universal Credit highlights how many families across the UK are struggling on low incomes.
"There are a number of reasons for under-18s to need to claim UC, such as a disability, a caring role, having a child of their own, or if they are without parental support.
"What is vital is that we don't demonise young claimants, but support them holistically.
"Ultimately, we all want to live in a society that empowers the next generation to develop their skills and enable them to be financially stable."
JobCentre staff in Lincoln reveal what life on Universal Credit is really like
Across Great Britain there were 98,563 teenagers aged between 16 and 19 who received Universal Credit in August this year.
That works out as around one in every 29 people in that age range.
The Department for Work and Pensions was contacted for comment.
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Trump and Biden have discussed the coronavirus pandemic over the phone
In this image from video provided by the Biden for President campaign, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual press briefing Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (Biden for President via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Joe Biden have spoken over the phone about the COVID-19 outbreak.
Trump confirmed the call during Monday's coronavirus task force briefing, calling it a "wonderful, warm conversation."
"It was a nice conversation," he said. "We talked about this. He gave me his point of view. It was a friendly conversation. It lasted about 15 minutes. It was really good. It was really nice."
The discussion was the culmination of a dayslong effort by aides to get the two on the phone and came after White House adviser Kellyanne Conway called on the former vice president to "offer some support" to Trump.
In recent weeks, the Democratic presidential front-runner has released suggestions and proposals for responding to the pandemic and has criticized the Trump administration for acting too slowly.

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Hippos pull off comeback to earn draw
Sam Cooper
Published: 9:19 AM September 9, 2020 Updated: 11:48 AM November 7, 2020
Action from the Honiton Town 2-1 home win over Holsworthy on the opening day of the 2020/21 South West Peninsula League Premier Division East campaign. Picture: ANDREW SYMONDS - Credit: Archant
Honiton Town came from two goals down to draw against local rivals Cullumpton Rangers in the South West Peninsula League Premier East.
Finn Rooke and Jack De Winton were the heroes for the Hippos as they scored a goal each.
The point means Honiton move into second place for the time being having played one more game more than the majority of teams.
Ilfracombe Town are top having also played two matches and won them both.


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Bempton birds – Cousin Puffin and the Ancestral Auk
David @ the HALL of EINAR 25 July, 2019 Nature Notebooks
Non-scientists often think the mysteries of the living world have been solved. Nothing could be further from the truth. There's plenty of assumption and conjecture as well as bad science around. There are also plenty of fields in biology which haven't been studied and there are still species we haven't yet discovered. We need far more study of the natural world to provide evidence of how it works. Yet what scientists call 'theories' are, despite their name, facts.
A Razorbill looks tiny against the magnificent Gannets at Bempton Cliffs
Evolution is the truth. It's a fact. It's how we got this incredible variety of natural life, including the weird and wacky birds at Bempton Cliffs. The theory of evolution by natural selection is the single most powerful insight into all our lives which has ever been described. It's tragically perverse that scientists continue to use the scientific word 'theory' to name it. To scientists, a theory is as close to the truth as it's possible to get without it being a mathematical proof. However, for many non-scientists, a theory means speculation or conjecture; it's something which sounds like it might be a good idea. Those two meanings couldn't be further apart if they tried.
I'm sure this Herring Gull would agree if it could:
A curious Herring Gull flies past Bempton Cliffs
I'm in favour of renaming the 'theory' of evolution as the 'fact' of evolution or the 'law' of evolution. Then its name would communicate what scientists want it to. Isn't that the point of communication? That the message meant is the one that's sent and is the same one that's understood? At the moment we have a tiny group of scientists insisting that millions of others are using 'their' word, theory, incorrectly. It would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. Why keep saying the word theory when you know almost everyone will misunderstand it and you'll constantly get frustrated by having to say 'I don't mean that kind of theory', in an exasperated and condescending voice?
It's as comical as this Puffin:
Incoming Puffin
Evolution was a fact long before people recognised that it was happening. In fact, it was a fact 3.5 billion years ago. Thousands of years ago, people in Ancient Greece first recognised that evolution had happened when they found fossilised sea creatures, that no longer existed, in rocks at the tops of mountains. It took real insight to understand the natural process which resulted in all of the diversity of life on Earth and it was Darwin and Wallace who gained that insight and shared it with the world.
This Razorbill looks excited about it:
A Razorbill comes in to land
What Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin proposed wasn't just evolution. What they proposed was evolution by natural selection. They weren't proposing whether evolution had happened, they were providing the evidence of how.
Kittiwake over the cliffs at Bempton
Evolution by natural selection is a simple but genius idea:
Characteristics are inherited from parents.
Parents have more offspring than will survive.
Small differences change the chance that particular youngsters will survive to have offspring.
Their offspring will inherit their characteristics.
Over many generations the population will change.
When isolated from each other, populations will eventually diverge and new species will form.
The diversity of life creates itself.
Puffins and Razorbills share similar characteristics. Going back in time there must have been a point where every Puffin and every Razorbill had a single common ancestor. It was their Ancestral Auk. That Ancestral Auk was a hairpin bend in the evolution of Puffins and Auks. It's from that exact point, and that exact individual, that their populations began to diverge, became separated, evolved different characteristics and became incompatible so they could no longer breed with one another. Their gene pools were forever separated. They are still cousins, close cousins, but distinctive and separate.
Cousin Puffin
That's true of all life. We are all cousins with every other form of life. If you trace your direct personal ancestors back through the generations, you get to your pre-human ancestors, and then you get to your long-dead mammal ancestors, and then extinct reptiles and finally to a single animal which is your ancestor and the ancestor of all birds. Turn the hairpin bend and march forward and you eventually reach today and this Puffin. That's probably about a 320 million year journey back. You are related to Puffins and we all have ancestors in common with them. We are all the cousins of Puffins, no matter how distant the relationship.
We are related to every other living species on Earth by the same hairpin bend of evolution and a single common ancestor at different points in evolutionary history. Mind-bending, isn't it? Hard-pin bending, even.
We are all tiny islands of biology, carrying with us an ancestral gift of our genetic inheritance, shared with every other form of life.
This Fulmar looks pretty amazed by it all:
Fulmars may look like gulls but their tubenoses give them away. They are more closely related to albatrosses.
There are just two species of Kittiwake in the world and we only have one of them on this side of the Atlantic:
The other is on the other side of the world. It had to be, otherwise they wouldn't have evolved into different species.
Many of the species we are familiar with are facing extinction because we are changing their environment. There is about to be more change in our climate in 100 years than in the last 10,000 and the natural world is struggling to adapt. Our problem is that humans have mastered control of natural resources in a way which is damaging the Earth and leading to uncontrolled global heating.
What do you do when you're a Puffin who mates for life, returns to your ancestral burrows to breed and the fish on which you depend have been caught or moved? We take 1,000,000 tonnes of sandeels and other fish out of the North Sea ever year and climate destruction means the Puffin's food is moving far, far away from their traditional nesting sites.
Witness for the Extinction
What are we doing with all those sandeels? We're feeding them to pigs to produce cheap bacon on spreading them on fields as cheap fertiliser. Unable to raise their single Puffling a year, the breeding success of Puffins has reduced significantly in many parts of their territory.
Unless Puffins adapt, and soon, we will never see them again. Unless, of course, we stop intensive agriculture, curb the fossil fuel industry and reforest and rewild large areas. Puffins. They are our cousins. That means we have a duty to treasure them and protect them. Doesn't it? The changes we are making to our shared world are too fast and over too few generations for successful Puffin adaptations to become widespread.
We've already made the Great Auk extinct so we could have a few meals and feather pillows:
A Caution to Everybody – The tragedy of the Great Auk
Are you willing to change your way of life to preserve the diversity of life on Earth? If so, when? And how do we persuade the rest of humanity to follow when there is so much inequality of wealth?
Every living thing is your family. It's selection, naturally.
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Bempton birds – coming in to land Landing makes flying seem easy: I love the way this Guillemot is dangling its feet, like two paddles, to provide… read more
Bempton birds – staring at the sky Gannets look astonishingly alien, don't they? They're not inhabitants of this world. When they display to one another they point… read more
Bempton birds – nesting materials A Kittiwake flies past with some grass in its beak. It looks like its nest needs reinforcements: They sometimes carry… read more
Bempton birds – violence and aggression It's not all mutual preening and sweetness and light at Bempton Cliffs. It's a difficult life, perched on a ledge… read more
Bempton birds – Gannets, Gannets, everywhere Try going to Bempton and getting a photograph without a Gannet in it. Try it. Go on. Here's a Puffin… read more
Evolution Extinction Global warming Herring Gulls Kittiwakes Puffins Razorbills
2 Responses to "Bempton birds – Cousin Puffin and the Ancestral Auk"
Pat Nelson says:
25 July, 2019 at 3:50 pm
'Tis a pity that humans seem to be intent on going the way of the Great Auk and taking many more species with it. Thank you for your passionate exposition of the fact of evolution.
Yes, tragic. Thanks very much Pat.
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Bempton birds – eyelids
Blinking birds. Gannets are everywhere at Bempton Cliffs. I'm hoping to get a good look at their eyes. Gannets' eyes are special. This one has closed its eyelids. Most birds don't have eyelids. Gannets do, because they hit the water head first at 60mph when they dive and that would damage
Bempton birds – when you know you're being watched
Many birds are perfect parcels of protein. There are plenty of predatory species which would treat them as a tasty snack. This Guillemot is watching me: No wonder. People from San Francisco took nearly 500,000 eggs a year from Guillemots on the Farallon Islands in the


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Omega-3 ethyl esters may make blood vessels more elastic: Study
18-Apr-2013 - Last updated on 19-Apr-2013 at 13:00 GMT
Related tags: Omega-3 fatty acid, Fatty acid, Blood pressure
Supplements of omega-3 fatty acids in the ethyl ester form may reduce the stiffness in arteries and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in obese people, says a new study from Australia.
Using the Lovaza/Omacor product, researchers noted that 12 weeks of supplementation with four grams per day in combination with a weight loss diet resulted in increases in arterial elasticity of about 20%. These changes were not observed in people only adhering to the weight loss diet.
Writing in the Journal of Nutrition, researchers from the University of Western Australia and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth note that adding omega-3s to the weight loss diet produced greater improvements in systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and triglycerides.
"Our data suggest that the combination of omega-3 fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) and weight loss not only corrects dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension but also improves [artery elasticity]," wrote the researchers, led by Annette Wong.
"In light of the recent evidence suggesting the association between arterial elasticity and incidence of future coronary and peripheral artery diseases, our new data also support the addition of omega-3 FAEEs to weight loss to improve arterial elasticity."
Caution
Commenting independently on the study, Harry Rice, PhD, VP of regulatory & scientific affairs for the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED), urged caution when interpreting the results.
"Results from this research should be considered preliminary in nature. Given the low number of subjects combined with an absence of a placebo control, these results need to be interpreted with caution," Dr Rice told us.
Wong and her co-workers recruited 25 obese individuals to participate in their randomized, single-blind trial. All the participants were assigned to a 25% energy deficit weight loss diet, with 13 of these also receiving addition omega-3 supplements (4 grams per day of Lovaza/Omacor, providing 46% EPA and 38% DHA).
After 12 weeks of interventions, the researchers noted that, in the weight loss diet-only group, body weight decreased by 3%, waist circumference decreased by 4%, systolic and diastolic blood pressures both decreased by 3%, triglyceride levels fell by 25%, and insulin resistance (as measured by the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA)) decreased by 12%. HDL cholesterol levels increased by 9%, they added.
The weight loss diet-only group did not experience any significant changes in measures of arterial elasticity.
Adding omega-3 supplements to the diet produced significant improvements in arterial elasticity, said Wong and her co-workers.
In addition, the omega-3 group displayed significantly greater improvements in systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and triglyceride levels, compared to the weight loss diet-only group.
Commenting on the potential mechanisms, the researchers made three proposals: The omega-3 ethyl esters may enhance the production of the vasodilating molecule nitric oxide (NO); it may displace the pro-inflammatory omega-6 arachidonic acid (AA) from cell membranes and offer anti-inflammatory activity; or the anti-inflammatory effects may directly influence a vasodilatory effect in smooth muscle cells.
For a discussion on the merits of the different omega-3 forms, please read: Battle of the omega-3 forms: Triglycerides, ethyl esters, or phospholipids?
Source: Journal of Nutrition
2013, Volume 143, Number 4, Pages 437-441, doi: 10.3945/jn.112.169359
"Supplementation with n3 Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters Increases Large and Small Artery Elasticity in Obese Adults on a Weight Loss Diet"
Authors: A.T. Y. Wong, D.C. Chan, P.H.R. Barrett, L.A. Adams, G.F. Watts
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I'm here to take back all the pieces of myself I left in you. I need them to make me whole again. Apparently, even the broken pieces of me still work. Apparently, I can still fix what you broke.
As long as I do it.
As long as you stay out of it.
It's time to take back the pieces of my heart that you stole and damaged, the ones you fooled when you said you cared, the ones you ripped off when you said I was the only one and the pieces you broke when you walked away before returning them back to me. It's time to take back my heart because it's not yours anymore. You don't know how to make it breathe, you don't know how to make it feel alive. It's time to take my heart home.
It's time to get my self-respect back. The one I swept under the rug for you. When I let you get away with treating me like I wasn't important, when I would let you have everything your way because you made me believe that you know better. You made me believe that you're the best and I'm just lucky to be by your side, and I almost believed that being with the best means you have to put yourself last, that being with the best means neglecting myself and what I need.
But little did I know that the best could be the worst, that those who claim they are the best, never really see anyone else but themselves. They only want to be validated. They only want to be loved without loving anyone back.
It's time to fix what you broke. It's time to sanitize myself from your dirt. It's time to cleanse my mind from your thoughts and it's time to find my beauty without you making me feel ugly.
Because I'm finally ready to live without you. I'm finally ready to move on from everything you did to me. I'm finally ready to forget you. I'm finally ready to live again.
I decided to live. Life is kind. It's not cruel. It's the people we surround ourselves with that make our lives cruel and bring us all kinds of pain and illnesses. It's what they do to us. It's what they tell us.
Life doesn't hurt but people do.
And I decided that I'm done living with those who hurt me, but I'm going to pay them all one last visit, to take back all the pieces of me I left with them and start over. I'll hug the pieces of me and apologize to them for not knowing any better, for giving them to all the wrong people, for not fighting for each and every one of them.
I'm taking them all back and showing them a better world. Showing them love. Showing them that they don't have to stay broken or dirty and they can still shine and glow.
Rania Naim is a poet and author of the new book All The Words I Should Have Said, available here.


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Thread Index - May 2021 - FOLIO Reporting SIG
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Antam is a vertically integrated, export-oriented, diversified mining and metals company. With operations spread throughout the mineral-rich Indonesian archipelago, Antam undertakes all activities from exploration, excavation, processing through to marketing of nickel ore, ferronickel, gold, silver, and bauxite. The company has long term loyal blue chip customers in Europe and Asia. Due to the vastness of the company's licensed exploration areas as well as its known large holdings of high quality reserves and resources, Antam has formed several joint ventures with international partners to profitably develop geological ore bodies into profitable mines.
Nickel ore is one of Antam's important products. Antam produces and exports high grade nickel ore with a minimum 1.8% nickel content and a maximum 25% iron content (saprolite) and low grade nickel ore with a 1.2% minimum nickel content (limonite) and minimum 25% iron content.
Antam has approximately 447.7 million wet metric tons (wmt) of saprolite and 498.8 million wmt of limonite reserves and resources which could last for many decades at current extraction rates. While Antam has more than enough ore to support its current long term nickel expansion plans, in order to prolong the life of its own reserves, Antam may seek third party ores to supplement its own supply.
Antam's nickel ore mines are at Pomalaa, Gee, Tanjung Buli and Tapunopaka. Pomalaa, Southeast Sulawesi, is Antam's oldest nickel mine and is nearly depleted. Tapunopaka is Antam's newest mine, located in Southeast Sulawesi. Gee and Tanjung Buli are located in North Maluku.
Antam's main gold and silver production is sourced from its gold mine at Pongkor, West Java. Indications of gold deposits at Pongkor were discovered by Antam's Geology Unit in 1981, and production commenced in May 1994 after Antam secured the mining license in 1992.
The Pongkor mine has three primary veins of gold: Ciguha, Kubang Cicau and Ciurug. A conventional cut and fill stoping mining method is used for the first two of these veins. A mechanised cut and fill method, with hydraulic jumbo drill and load haul dump (LHD), was introduced in 2000 for the third vein, Ciurug. The use of mechanised cut and fill is intended not only to assist in meeting the increased production targets but also to lower overall production costs and to improve efficiency. Antam expects mine life of Pongkor until 2019 with current gold reserves and resources amount to 1.1 million oz.
Following the closure of the Kijang bauxite mine in 2009, Antam is currently developing two alumina projects to further add value to its vast bauxite reserves in Kalimantan. More information on Antam's alumina projects can be found on our Development Project section. Antam has around 347.2 million wmt of bauxite reserves and resources in Tayan, Mempawah and Munggu Pasir, all are located in Kalimantan.


Combine Cheeseball Mix with cream cheese until well combined. Spoon 4 Tbsp. of cookie crumbs into each of the mason jars; top with 4 Tbsp. of cream cheese mixture. Cover with layers of fruit, cookie crumbs, and cream cheese mixture. Top with whipped cream and sprinkle with Topping packet and a few berries for garnish.
Tip: Use 8 smaller jars to double your parfaits!


Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jeff McMahon, who notes that there are a limited number of Sangean PR-D4W units on Amazon.com.
If you're seriously considering this radio, check out Gary's overview on the Herculodge blog.
This entry was posted in Deals, News and tagged Herculodge, Jeff McMahon, Radio Deals, Sangean PR-D4W on February 1, 2019 by Thomas.
Well, my refurb PR-D4W worked great for one day, then the AM reception degraded dramatically the next day. You can read my comments on the Herculodge blog regarding the details.


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NBA 2K21 Demo: Release Date, Gameplay Changes, Teams, Modes, Platforms And Everything We Know
By Nick Farrell
When Can We Play?
2K has always been the undisputed king of basketball games, and this year they are looking to rebound after a rocky last year.
NBA 2K21 is just around the corner and we are getting more and more news every week from Take-Two Interactive.
With this Fall looking to be one of the biggest release windows in recent years, 2K is looking to captivate fans as they were once able too.
Here's all the news about 2K21's demo!
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NBA 2K21 Demo Live - 24th August
The NBA 2K21 demo is now live on Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Demo Release Date
NBA 2K21 has officially been confirmed to release a demo for players on August 24, 2020.
The demo will also kick-off at 7:00am PT/3pm BST which was confirmed by 2K via a tweet.
2K21 Release Date
Although players will be able to jump into the demo next week, the full game is not slated to release until September 4th, 2020.
This will also be the current-gen version of the game only! As the next-gen iterations are not releasing until the Series X and PS5 are purchasable.
Found on the 2K21 blog post regarding the demo for the game, they had this to say about the demo and the platforms players will be able to play it on:
"Best of all, you'll have the opportunity to check out how the game plays for yourself when we release the NBA 2K21 demo on August 24 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch!"
As of now, we do not know what game modes are going to be playable in the NBA 2K21 current-gen demo.
Last year, we were able to create our own player as many times as we want, and we were also given a short teaser of the story mode!
New Gameplay Mechanics
Also found in the blog post were some details about new pro stick mechanics for this year's title.
Here is what they had to say:
"The Pro Stick has been a staple of 2K basketball for years now, and for the most part, has largely gone unchanged since its inception. For NBA 2K21, we saw this as a big opportunity to freshen up the game on the offensive end. In past games, you could hold the Pro Stick in any direction to take a jump shot. That was limiting us from utilizing the right stick as a fully featured dribble stick. So this year, we're making a pretty significant change to how the Pro Stick works. In a nutshell:"
"Hold RS down = jump shot
Hold RS left or right = escape dribble moves
Hold RS up = signature size-ups
Tap the RS = quick 1-to-1 dribble moves
Tap the RS with Sprint held = quick momentum dribble moves"
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Closing Thought–21Nov19
After I returned from Vietnam and left the Army I was a staunch opponent of ROTC on college campuses and later in the program called JROTC…where the military comes tomhi9gh schools and recruits…..my opposition was for naught for the program made it into the high schools in my area.
The rising costs of war and the dwindling amount of recruits has made the idea of a "national service" return to the backrooms in the Pentagon….
Over the past five years, retired Army Maj. Gen. Dennis Laich and Col. Larry Wilkerson along with members of the All-Volunteer Force Forum have traversed the country in an effort to address what they see as a looming crisis in the military — dwindling numbers of qualified and interested recruits for a military straining at the seams.
And they've got the solution: Bring back the draft.
The pair, along with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy spoke to a crowd of a few dozen attendees in the Capitol Visitor's Center Tuesday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/11/19/rising-costs-dwindling-recruit-numbers-increasing-demands-may-bring-back-the-draft/
So the Army has decided to avoid the unpopularity of a draft the Army has decided that brain washing the young would be acceptable…..
Well the Army is beefing up their JROTC program…..
One of the Army's biggest strategic challenges over the next few decades will be continuing to staff its all-volunteer force amid a shrinking population of capable and interested youth — but high school JROTC units could be part of the solution.
The Army has been "tearing apart" its recruitment data to figure out how to boost its accessions in an increasingly competitive job market. One of the solutions potentially on the horizon involves more focus on the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at high schools.
The service, which is trying to grow to 500,000 active-duty soldiers by 2028, has found that Americans at high schools with JROTC programs are more than twice as likely to enlist after graduation, according to Maj. Gen. John R. Evans, Jr., who helms Army Cadet Command.
"And you don't have to even participate in the program," Evans told a crowd at an Association of the U.S. Army forum Wednesday. "The mere presence of the program at your high school has at least a corollary effect on your desire or your willingness or your propensity to serve your nation. So, pretty powerful data point there for us."
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/11/07/how-increased-footprint-in-high-schools-may-help-army-fix-recruiting-shortfall/
I still believe that ROTC does not have a place on a campus unless it is a military academy…..and the young do not need a good washing of the brain…..they need an education not uniforms.
But that is me.
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Are youngsters still willing to believe the 'hype', after all they have seen on TV of service in Afghanistan and other areas of 'conflict'?
I'm not so sure that half a million of them will fall for that.
Promises of glory and stuff does play well….of course most of it is lies but that never stopped them before….chuq
CARL R D'Agostino says:
Junior ROTC is part of the Miami Dade Country Public School System. It has brought stability and a sense of service and a sense of discipline to a system with a very high population of "at risk" teenagers. The experience has given them a sense of belong to something important. Whether the coose to enter the military or not they are better prepared for adulthood and the world of work from the experience.
Why not make it about serving the community instead of the need for war? chuq
johnliming783gmailcom says:
The Boy Scouts can do just as much.
I agree with Chuq on this one. We do not need the military brainwash to begin in our most susceptible children … pre-schoolers, high-schoolers and entry-level college kids.
I fought against in the day….and I did not succeed but still think it is not a good idea….chuq
It is definitely not a good idea. Kudos to you on this one!


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Apdex
Apdex (Application Performance Index) is an open standard developed by an alliance of companies for measuring performance of software applications in computing. Its purpose is to convert measurements into insights about user satisfaction, by specifying a uniform way to analyze and report on the degree to which measured performance meets user expectations. It is based on counts of "satisfied", "tolerating", and "frustrated" users, given a maximum satisfactory response time t, a maximum tolerable response time 4t, and where users are assumed to be frustrated above 4t. The score is equivalent to a weighted average of these user counts with weights 1, 0.5, and 0, respectively.
1 Problems addressed
2 Apdex method
3 Apdex Alliance
When engaging in application performance management, for example in the course of Website monitoring, enterprises collect many measurements of the performance of information technology (IT) applications. However, this measurement data may not provide a clear and simple picture of how well those applications are performing from a business point of view, a characteristic desired in metrics that are used as key performance indicators. Reporting several different kinds of data can cause confusion. Reducing measurement data to a single well understood metric is a convenient way to track and report on Quality of experience.
Measurements of application response times, in particular, may be difficult to evaluate because:
Viewed alone, they do not reveal whether people using the application consider its behavior to be highly responsive for their particular needs, merely tolerable, or frustratingly slow.
Using averages to summarize many measurement samples washes out important details in the measurement distribution, and may obscure evidence that many users may have been frustrated with application response times that were significantly slower than the average value.
The objectives (or goals or targets) set for response time values are not uniform across different applications. This makes it difficult to view comparable data for several applications side-by-side (such as in a digital dashboard), and see quickly which are meeting their objectives and which are not.
The Apdex method seeks to address these problems.
Apdex method
Proponents of the Apdex standard believe that it offers a better way to "measure what matters". The Apdex method converts many measurements into one number on a uniform scale of 0 to 1 (0 = no users satisfied, 1 = all users satisfied). The resulting Apdex score is a numerical measure of user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications. This metric can be used to report on any source of end-user performance measurements for which a performance objective has been defined.
The Apdex formula is the number of satisfied samples plus half of the tolerating samples plus none of the frustrated samples, divided by all the samples:
[math]\displaystyle{ \mathrm{Apdex}_\mathrm{t} = \frac{\mathrm{Satisfied Count} + ({\mathrm{Tolerating Count}}*{0.5}) + ( \mathrm{FrustratedCount} * 0 )}{\mathrm{Total Samples}} }[/math]
where the sub-script t is the target time, and the tolerable time is assumed to be 4 times the target time. So it is easy to see how this ratio is always directly related to users' perceptions of satisfactory application responsiveness.
Example: assuming a performance objective of 3 seconds or better, and a tolerable standard of 12 seconds or better, given a dataset with 100 samples where 60 are below 3 seconds, 30 are between 3 and 12 seconds, and the remaining 10 are above 12 seconds, the Apdex score is:
[math]\displaystyle{ \mathrm{Apdex}_3 = \frac{60 + ({30}*{0.5}) + ({10}*{0})}{100} = 0.75 }[/math]
The Apdex formula is equivalent to a weighted average, where a satisfied user is given a score of 1, a tolerating user is given a score of 0.5, and a frustrated user is given a score of 0.
Apdex Alliance
The Apdex Alliance, headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, was founded in 2004 by Peter Sevcik, President of NetForecast, Inc. The Alliance is a group of companies that are collaborating to establish the Apdex standard. These companies have perceived the need for a simple and uniform way to report on application performance, are adopting the Apdex method in their internal operations or software products, and are participating in the work of refining and extending the definition of the Apdex specifications. Alliance contributing members who incorporate the standard into their products may use the Apdex name or logo where the Alliance has certified them as compliant.
In January 2007, the Alliance comprised 11 contributing member companies, and over 200 individual members. While the number of contributing companies has remained relatively stable, individual membership grew to over 800 by December 2008, and reached 2000 in 2010. In 2008 the Alliance began publishing a blog, the Apdex Exchange, and in 2010, began offering educational Webinars. These activities address performance management topics, with an emphasis on how to apply the Apdex methodology.
Apdex website
Apdex specifications
Defining The Application Performance Index by Peter Sevcik, Business Communications Review, March 2005.
CloudNetCare (Load testing tool using APDEX) by NLiive, April 2012
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex. Read more
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Saudi Arabia has offered to award major arms contracts to Russia in return for Moscow curtailing cooperation with Iran.
Saudi Arabia has offered to award major arms contracts to Russia in return for Moscow curtailing cooperation with Iran, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified diplomatic sources.
The Kremlin declined to comment immediately on the report, as did Saudi Arabia's embassy in Moscow.
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow for talks on Monday that focused on widening bilateral cooperation.
"The Kingdom's leadership advised Moscow to phase out cooperation with Tehran and in return promised attractive contracts with Saudi Arabia," said the paper, one of Russia's most respected dailies.
"In essence, Russia was offered to become a major partner in the Middle East."
The paper said Bandar, who heads Saudi Arabia's National Security Council and is an influential former ambassador to Washington, fleshed out the proposal when he met Kremlin leaders this week.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil producer and a close U.S. ally, is wary of Iran's ambitions and shares Western concerns that Tehran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear programme is peaceful.
Russia, which has tried to boost cooperation with Tehran, says there is no evidence Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon but Moscow fears a conflict in the region would stoke instability close to its southern borders.
Russia, awash with oil cash, has been trying to increase its influence in the Middle East after the chaos which accompanied the fall of the Soviet Union.
Moscow is helping Tehran build its first nuclear power station and Putin, while still president, visited both Riyadh and Tehran last year.
It was the first visit by a Russian leader to the Saudi kingdom and marked closer ties since a 2003 visit by King Abdullah, then crown prince, to Moscow.
Saudi Arabia is interested in buying air defence systems, helicopters and tanks from Russia, Kommersant said.
"Saudi Arabia strives to have varied sources of arms," Bandar was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Monday after talks with Putin.


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Dermaptera (Earwigs)
Current information regarding Earwig population occurrences in the Valle Della Luna is primarily taken from first-hand observation during Spring (Pre-Vernal/Vernal) 2018 and largely by literature review. The scientific paper 'I Dermatteri Di Sardegna' (Taglianti, 2011) has been tremendously useful in providing data indicating Dermaptera species present in Sardinia, more specifically the Olbia-Tempio and Sassari regions local to Capo Testa and differing habitat types. There are 45 species occurring in Europe (most are Forficulina), with 25 species present in Italy and 9 species inhabiting Sardinia. According to criteria set out in 'I Dermatteri Di Sardegna' 8 species are of possible occurrence, some more likely than others. The species identified for further research are set out as follows (click on species name below for profile), although very little is known about the behaviour, habits and Cenosis (interactions within specific ecosystems) of many species. The common European Earwig (Forficula auricularia) on the other-hand is well documented, so in-depth information about its nature, reproduction, lifespan, behaviour, communication/perception, food habits and predation can be provided, and to a point can be inferred to other species.
Observation of large numbers of Earwigs in Spring 2018 indicate the likelihood of common occurrence, with specialist habitats, for instance: Rocky/Sandy Shores & Macchia requiring further in-depth study by direct searching, using pitfall traps, beat-sheet and sifting research techniques .
Forficula decipiens - Olbia Tempio, Sassari - Very Likely.
Forficula auricularia - Olbia-Tempio, Sassari - Likely.
Forficula pubescens - Olbia-Tempio, Sassari - Possible.
Anisolabis maritima - Olbia-Tempio - Possible.
Labidura riparia - Olbia-Tempio, Sassari - Possible.
Euborellia moesta - Olbia-Tempio, Sassari - Possible.
Nava lividipes - Olbia-Tempio, Sassari - Possible.
Labia minor - Sassari - Less Likely.
Forficula decipiens (Isperragoa)
Above left: Female with young, Above right: Male, note larger & curved pincers.
Identification: 15-19mm. Head: yellowish-orange. Abdomen: reddish-brown. Pronatum, tegmina & legs: Yellowish. In both sexes. Similar to Forficula aricularia (Common European Earwig) differing in colouration, known to exist in symbiosis in some sites (Taglianti 2011).
Habitat Preferences: Characteristic of Thermophilous-Mediterranean bioclimate, in open-formations such as under rocks and dry-meadows (Servizip PID, 2007), but also in Ecotones of Forest, Macchia & Garriga (Taglianti, 2011). Especially bushy habitats close to the sea (Muranyi, 2013). Particularly common in central & southern Tyrrhennian regions in Sardinia, Corsica & Sicily. Widespread in smaller islands, is often the only species of Dermatory (Earwig) present (Taglianti, 2011).
Habitat Interactions: "Very common year round under rocks and under the bark of trees" (Gene,1837). During the day they prefer dark, moist places to hide from predators. During mating season females prefer soil sites, in which to burrow, hibernate & deposit eggs, approx. 5-8mm in depth (University of Michigan ADW - Forficula auricularia, 2014).
Trophic Level (Food-Web): Level 2/3 as Scavengers & Predators.
Ecosystem Interactions (Biocenosis): Omnivorous but mainly Phytophagous on living & decaying Plants, Lichens & Algae. On other organisms both dead & alive, including Aphids, Mites, Maggots, Spiders & Protozoans. In other words they do not seem to be particularly picky eaters. They are preyed upon by Tachinid-Flies, Birds, Reptiles & a range of Beetles (especially Ground-Beetles) (Inferred from 'University of Michigan ADW - Forficula auricularia, 2014 & Primary Observations).
Significance (in Valle Della Luna): Important Mid-Trophic species as a component of localised food chains, providing a large timely food resource for predator species early in the year, before Birds, Reptiles & Beetles emerge in abundance. Conservation status unknown (non-regulated species).
Further Research: To be conducted in Pre-Vernal, Vernal, Aestival, Autumnal & Hibernal parts of the Ecological Calendar - by Direct Searching, Dry-Pitfall Traps & Beat-Sheets.
Identification of populations and Biomass-hypothesis.
Exact habitat preferences.
Ecosystem Interactions: Preferred food plants, specific prey & predator species.
Substrate (Soil) preference for nesting/hibernation.
Behavioural monitoring where possible.
Behavioural Notes: Found commonly in Spring on plant specimens (flowers & foliage) in Arborescent Matorral/Garriga/Macchia close to the sea, whose populations support large communities of Aphids. Please refer to the 'Forficula auricularia' profile for inferred data relevant to the below listed elements. This information is currently unknown but as the species are very similar, behaviours may well be very similar also:
Behaviours Description.
Reproduction.
Lifespan.
Communication & Perception.
Above left: Habitat-type, Above right: Male Labidura riparia threatened by predator.
Labidura riparia (Striped Earwig)
Habitat Preferences: Coastal/Riparian, along margins of various water-bodies, a preference for sandy underground habitats from beaches to riverbeds (Foottit & Addler, 2018). From tropical to sub-temperate regions. Characteristic of Sandy-coast communities (Psammophilous), particularly the stretch at the front of dune formations. Shoreline to Fixed-Dune habitats (Taglianti, 2011).
Habitat Interactions: Found in a variety of niches, although generally sand dwelling, the primary environmental characteristics being dark, sheltered & moist to hide from predators in the day-time. For instance, moist-sand underneath vegetation. L. riparia tends to penetrate deeper into the soil than most species of other Earwigs. Special nests are dug for molting, feeding & egg-laying, usually under a rock (or tree bark) by the female. They loosten the sand with their forelegs & transport it in their mandibles, thus excavating burrows approx. 10-40cm deep, in which they rest in the day. Their burrow also acts as a winter quarter from which they re-emerge the following year (vernal/aestival). In the summer (aestival/serotinal) they excavate a brood chamber in the soil, where the female deposits her eggs and remains with them for the 9 day embryonic period. Food is stored in the burrow (Gunther & Hernez, 1974. Harz, 1957,1960).
Trophic Level (Food-Web): Level 2-4. Primarily as a generalist Predator, also as a Scavenger.
Ecosystem Interactions (Biocenosis): Omnivorous but with a dietary preference for animal nutrition. They have a preference for Lepidoptera larvae & insect eggs, but will eat any available insec. In the littoral zone they prey upon small crabs, beetles, flies & other insects. In drier locations they hunt millipedes, spiders & hairless caterpillars (Eisenbeis & Wichard, 2012). Because of their flexible eating habits they adapt well, as long as their are insects around. In abscence of a ready food supply, they have been known to eat nymphs/eggs of their own species. They eat primarily just after sunset (Tarwik, 1973). Their primary predator is ants, as they
feed on unattended eggs. Overlap of predation does occur between organisms though, as Striped Earwigs prey on Ant eggs. The effect of the Ants on the Earwig populations has been found to be greater than vice-versa (Gross, 1969). Other predators include a range of animals; Carabid & other Beetles, Grasshoppers/Crickets, Spiders, Centipedes, Lizards, Birds & other Insectivores (Eisenbeis & Wichard, 2012.
Significance (in Valle Della Luna): Unknown to be verified as present. In Sardinia the Shoreline-Fixed Dune system is becoming rarer due to anthropogenic actions, i.e. seaside tourism. this ideal habitat for Striped Earwigs has been categorised as under rapid reduction and disappearance (Taglianti, 2011).
Further Research: To be conducted in Vernal, Aestival & Autumnal parts of the Ecological Calendar - by Direct Searching & Dry-Pitfall Traps.
Identification of populations.
Communication & Perception
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Fatty deposits in the eyelids just don't look good. Fat is thick, oily, slimy and dense. Fat is found under the skin between the muscles, and in all the familiar places that we loathe it to be.
And fat is found behind the eyeballs in a place that is very helpful to us, unless it is in excess.
If you have fatty deposits in your eyelids you might also have excess thirst, slow metabolism, water retention, and love to sit and read or maybe even love to sleep a lot.
You can be skinny and have fatty deposits in your eyelids ,also? too skinny is a fat metabolism imbalance, also.
Do you ever get burning feet or hands? Or do you get multiple boils? These are real blocks to your beauty and are also health problems. These symptoms are related to fatty deposits in the eyelids and other places.
The first step to eliminating the ill effect of fatty deposits in your eyelids is to recognize them as a part of an extended health imbalance. Understand that it is related to your heart, liver and possibly your thyroid.
You can do a test in Ayurveda to measure your fat to find out if your fat metabolism is impaired. Measure the width of skin around the belly, breast, buttocks and hips with a common sewing tape measure. Do this daily. Do this weekly and compare. You will begin to see your body's metabolism pattern.
Check your weight before eating. Eat your average meal. If you gain a half pound or more one hour after meal this is an indicator that you have a slow metabolism.
If you have fatty deposits in your eyelids, Ayurveda recommends for your daily beauty practice a specific diet.
Avoid salt, alcohol, red meat, hard cheeses, and, of course, fatty or fried foods.
The following herbs are the Ayurvedic recommendations for restoring good fat metabolism. But, please consult an Ayurvedic professional if you decide to use them; in Ayurveda every body is different and you need expert advice as to how to apply them to your unique needs. Trikatu, cumin, coriander and fennel are excellent for restoring healthy fat metabolism. If you cook with them regularly they are like a miracle for a person with fatty deposits and obesity.
Ayurveda recommends as a daily chant: "Exercise,Exercise, Exercise." This is the mantra for the person who has this beauty issue. Also recommended is the breathing exercise known as the lion, in which you open your mouth like a lion, roars and breathe out ,stick your tongue out and shout out. The other breathing type is Bhastrika which is forceful exhalation and inhalation.
Emotional stress is a direct link to fat. The neuro-emotional science explaining stress and fat metabolism in the body has been mapped. So, there is not a discussion as to whether this is true or not. You could spend the next five years reading all the material already on the subject in modern science today. Just be aware of your need to exercise, eat spicy foods, light foods and do the breathing exercises I have mentioned. Fatty deposits in your eyelids are definitely a beauty challenge and it is a wake up call about the health of your fat metabolism.
The body types Ayurveda zeroes in on if you have fatty deposits in eyelids are KaphaVata, KaphaPitta, and predominate Kapha, and Vata body types if their fat metabolism is imbalanced are also affected.


Eva Aagaard, MD, a noted physician and educator at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been named senior associate dean for education at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her appointment begins Sept. 1.
Eva Aagaard, MD, a highly regarded physician and educator at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been named senior associate dean for education at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Her appointment, which begins Sept. 1, was announced by David H. Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
Aagaard's philosophy reflects the School of Medicine's educational mission that has distinguished it as one of the nation's premier medical schools: commitment to excellence and collaboration across scientific and medical disciplines.
"I am honored to join Washington University's world-class medical school," said Aagaard, who has served at the University of Colorado as a professor of medicine, associate dean for educational strategy and founding director of the university's Academy of Medical Educators, which works to create an environment that promotes and rewards teaching excellence and enhances education.
Aagaard succeeds Alison J. Whelan, MD, who joined the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) as its new chief medical education officer in October.
Since then, Mary E. Klingensmith, MD, the Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery and vice chair for education in the Department of Surgery, has served as the interim senior associate dean for education.
At the University of Colorado, Aagaard serves as founder and director of the Academy of Medical Educators, a campus group that offers faculty certificate programs in medical education and leadership, one-on-one coaching, a longitudinal and online curriculum for faculty development and a residents-as-teachers program, among others.
Aagard also is director of the Center for Advancing Professional Excellence, a standardized patient and simulation center for medical students, residents and fellows, students in related programs such as nursing, physical therapy, public health and pharmacy and faculty development programs on communication skills.
She has served in national leadership positions with the American Board of Internal Medicine, National Board of Medical Examiners and the Society of General Internal Medicine. In those roles, she has collaborated with the AAMC and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
"These positions have provided me with significant insight into the challenges facing medical education today, the dynamics of leading in a premier medical school and the complex financial issues facing medical schools and their clinical partners," Aagaard said.
Aagaard earned her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1995. She completed her residency and fellowship in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined the faculty there in 2000 and the Colorado faculty in 2006.
She and her husband, Russ Aagaard, a small-business owner, have two children.


During a conversation at the weekend with friends, we got to discussing old catchy and memorable commercials and jingles. The first example we came up with was the old "Three Little Pigs" commercial for Coldseal Windows.
We all know a catchy jingle from a tv or radio commercial from years gone by that we can't help but sing everytime you go shopping and see the product. Actually, 45% of us say it pops into our heads against our will!
In a recent survey, the number one jingle has turned out to be Cornetto's "Just One Cornetto, give it to me", an advert that ran during the 1980s.
Go compare took second place, with a jingle sung by opera singer Gio Compario. Third place went to "P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin" and "A Mars a day" was fourth.
What old catchy jingles and commercials do you remember from years gone by?


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Q: Kак правильно использовать входные данные во вставке? Как можно использовать входные данные для заполнения ячеек?
Вот мой запрос:
INSERT INTO storage_deposits (user_id, user_name, cashier) VALUES (
    '781776587', 'MrParabellum888', (
        SELECT storage_requests.club_nick
        FROM storage_requests
        WHERE storage_requests.username = user_name));

Мне нужно заполнить ячейку cashier данными из таблицы storage_requests, если в столбце username есть user_name, который имеет значение MrParabellum888.

A: Вот тут:
[...] WHERE storage_requests.username = user_name
                                    ----^^^^^^^^^

столбец user_name в подзапросе неизвестен и будет получена ошибка:

Unknown column 'user_name' in 'where clause'

Надо указать напрямую значение:
[...] WHERE storage_requests.username = 'MrParabellum888'

Посмотрите на воспроизводимом примере, как можно сделать:
create table t1 (id integer, t2id integer, name varchar(8));
create table t2 (id integer, name varchar(8));
insert into t2 values (1, 't2 name1');
insert into t2 values (2, 't2 name2');

insert into t1 (id, t2id, name)
    values (1, 1, (select name from t2 where t2.id = t2id));
Unknown column 't2id' in 'where clause'

insert into t1 (id, t2id, name)
    values (1, 1, (select name from t2 where t2.id = 2));

insert into t1 (id, t2id, name)
    select 2, id, name from t2 where t2.id = 2;

select * from t1;

id  t2id  name
--  ----  --------
 1     1  t2 name1
 2     2  t2 name2

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Professional legal recruiters are an indispensable resource for new law graduates looking to maximize employment opportunities; they're also an invaluable asset to law firms looking to hire more promising candidates. If you've never employed a legal recruiter, it can be difficult to understand how they help you, so here's a review of four specific benefits that explain how professional legal recruiters provide such positive results to employers and applicants alike.
The legal job market can change quickly and dramatically due to influences from the economy, the demand for legal services, competition from software and online services, as well as changing public policies. Luckily, professional legal recruiters exist specifically to cope with such challenges. Recruiters maintain constant vigilance over the job market and are aware of its trends and movements. Whether you're keeping track of new legal job openings or looking to hire someone who is doing just that, expert knowledge of the job market will keep you privy to every available prospect.
Professional legal recruiters bring a depth of knowledge, experience and expertise to the table. Young lawyers often begin at an articling firm and face the results of a hire back decision. This decision may determine whether a new graduate stays focused on a preferred type of practice or whether they consider alternatives. As the legal market changes, and as new types of economic activity create new opportunities, these plans can take yet another direction later in one's career.
Employers and applicants both stand to benefit greatly from an extensive job search provided by an expert legal recruiter, which includes traditional, trending and emerging types of legal employment. You can visit The Heller Group blog for more discussion of career changes in response to the changing job market.
Recruiters understand the vital importance of presentation. They can spot weaknesses in a resume or in a client's interview preparation – and they'll often recommend effective remedies or improvements.
Changes in technology yield changes in the ways interviews are conducted. A legal recruiter will provide advice on the latest technological trends and the best ways to employ new technology. For example, video interviews can offer the convenience of a telephone meeting, along with the benefit of a visual introduction, while eliminating travel costs for preliminary discussions.
Professional recruiters are able to provide personalized advice designed to fit the specific requirements of a client, which can be beneficial in terms of long-term legal career goals. The depth of knowledge that recruiters bring to the job search can help guide choices that build a career.
The success of a law firm depends largely on its ability to build a dependable legal team. You can't afford to gamble with a reputation you've worked hard to secure. Recruiter knowledge, extensive job searches and advocacy, and long-term career planning are only a few of the benefits provided by professional legal recruiters. Outsourcing human resource management tasks to a professional provides employers with the security of a dependable hiring process, while allowing them more time to focus on current legal client work.


This week we are talking about something near and dear to my heart…Naps!
· How many of you love to take a nap?
· So there are at least 10 great reasons for taking a nap, I need to tell this to my kids. They HATE naps.
· I love it when I can take a nap after Sunday morning service. It doesn't always happen, but when it does I can testify to most of these benefits. I feel much better and can concentrate better.
But, should we take spiritual naps?
Tonight we are going to talk about why taking spiritual naps are not good for you. The body needs rest but the spirit needs to be strengthened.
o Who is Peter? (A knucklehead who sticks his foot in his mouth…but Jesus chose him to do something major).
o Jesus takes Peter, James and John to come with Him to pray. He chose them over the other 8 disciples that were there, which is significant. (Judas has left at this point) These men were considered to be Jesus' inner circle.
o So the three men were given a task to do while Jesus cried out to the Father over His mission.
o Jesus was at a difficult time in His earthly life. He was dealing with the stress and weight of all the sin of the world being put on His shoulders. He was not concerned about the physical punishment that awaited him but the thought of being separated from God for the first time ever. He was ready to be the sacrifice for our sin, but the full wrath of God awaited him and it pushed him to his humanly limits.
o So these yielded to Jesus' request. They stood strong and prayed and petitioned the Father while Jesus spoke to Him as well from a distance, they encouraged each other and Jesus during this time. They were spiritual giants.
§ Just Kidding…they fell asleep.
o Jesus comes back and finds them asleep.
· Why do you think He does this?
· He makes the claim that he will never deny Jesus, even if he has to die.
· This is why I call Peter a knucklehead. He makes bold claims and ends up sticking his foot in his mouth.
§ "God if you let me do this, I will do that…you get the idea.
· We tend to make deals to try to get us out of trouble or to make ourselves seem more spiritually mature to God, and others. The funny thing is, Jesus knew what he was going to do and even told him. So for Peter to even say it wouldn't happen shows how much of a knucklehead he really was, and how much of a knucklehead we can be, too.
o What I want to do, I don't do and what I don't want to do, I do.
o When we get to the point that we think we have everything figured out about this Christian Life we begin to nod off and end up falling on our face.
o What we can learn from Paul's words here and from Peter's actions is that we can always grow spiritually. There isn't going to be an "I've finally arrived" moment in this life. We can always grow closer to God.
o Jesus came back a second time and they were asleep again. This time he let them sleep.
o I think that Jesus had one of those "smh" moments. You know, when you ask someone to do something important and then they still don't do it…all you can do is shake your head and walk off. So He was clearly disappointed in them but He went back to praying.
o This entire interaction was a pointer to spiritual warfare.
· How many times have we started praying for something and then next thing you know there is a puddle of drool on your pillow and a little bit on your cheek?
· It's so easy to get distracted when we are trying to do spiritual things.
o How many times do you get up and go do something you conveniently remembered needs to be done?
o You get phone calls/texts interruptions left and right that don't normally happen (Happened to me constantly today).
o I kid you not, it happens every time.
§ Sometimes you will hear from someone that you haven't heard from in years.
o Jesus returns for a third time after praying to the Father and wakes them up and tells them the time has come. Everything that he has been telling them that he would accomplish, that moment is finally here.
o Peter, James and John have failed to do what Christ has asked of them and we all know what happens at Jesus trial. All 11 Disciples abandon him. They fell asleep physically and spiritually because they could not do what Christ told them. I wonder if they didn't really believe that he was going to be captured and crucified… it makes you think.
o Had they really believed that He would be crucified, do you think they would have tried a little harder to petition the Father on His behalf?
· I want to ask all of you a question. Are we napping spiritually? Are we like Peter, James and John, sleeping when we need to be aware of what is coming?
o Let's think again about what Paul said, "What I want to do, I don't do and what I don't do, I do. The fact that we realize that we mess up shows humility in our lives. We need to wake up from our spiritual naps and constantly remind ourselves that we will always have room for growth until we are standing with Christ in heaven.
Spend a few minutes praying that God would speak to you about your spiritual health, that you would stay humble and always seek to grow spiritually.


There's more than a little unseemly about the pervasiveness of complaints about the high price of gas. Of course, you can't really expect anybody really to like high gas prices, at least from a consumer perspective. But disliking something is not the same thing as getting irate and pointing fingers.
But whining about the price of gas just might be unethical — or at least unseemly — in a couple of circumstances.
Another problem is when the gas-price complaints are aimed at gas stations themselves. Most of those are actually independently-owned small businesses, with precious little control over the price of gas. And as James Cowan recently wrote for Canadian Business, high gas prices don't mean big profits for station owners. Picking on small businesses to express displeasure at the effects of fluctuations in worldwide commodity prices is thoroughly shameful.
Finally, I've heard surprisingly few people, in all this, bother to challenge the notion that high gas prices are a bad thing in the first place. What happened to everyone's zeal for going green? Economics 101 says that when prices go up, demand goes down. And we all want demand for gas (i.e., consumption of gas) to go down, right? Now demand for gas, in particular, doesn't change much when prices go up, but it does go down a bit. So if we want gas consumption to go down (as most of us agree would generally be a good thing) then we should be happy, in our less-selfish moments, to see gas prices going up. Now, admittedly, high gas prices don't affect everyone equally. But nor do the high price of anything else. One of the few sane voices in all this is The Economist. A recent editorial there pointed out that the most effective thing that governments can do to take the sting out of high gas prices isn't to do anything directly about those prices, but rather to insist on higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars. This suggests that the bad guys in this story, if you need to point fingers, are more likely to be found among the big auto makers than among the big oil companies. But even that is pretty lame. Car companies only make the cars that people show a preference for buying. Like it or not, not every unhappy story has a villain.


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RE: Groovy DevCon in Copenhagen?
Subject RE: Groovy DevCon in Copenhagen?
Subject: Re: Groovy DevCon in Copenhagen?
I'll definitely be there if I can prepare a talk that gets accepted within the next week.
If not, I may still be able to attend though I can't say with any certainty.
the roadmap, technical decisions, etc., courtesy of the GR8Conf organizers.
Who plans on coming to GR8Conf and would be willing to participate?
We could hold that the day before the start of the conference, on May 31st, potentially.
You guys could also propose talks to the Call for Paper by the way!
Happy to help make that happen if you need any help with that.


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Eli Arnold and the Keys to Forever Book One: It's About Time
Sixth grade behind, Eli Arnold and his brother head to Florida for their summer vacation. They are whisked through time and around the globe as they struggle to reunite and to find the powerful Keys to Forever. Eli has no idea that he was chosen millennia ago to save the world. Aliens, mummies (the blood-thirsty kind), dragons, and more await as they battle for each other and to find a way home.Eli Arnold headed to Florida for a quiet summer vacation. Sixth grade behind, he and his older brother, Brady, were ready for some fun. Little does Eli know, however, that he was chosen millennia ago to save the world. Manipulated by unknown forces, Eli is plunged into a centuries old battle between the Keepers and the Order of Disorder. Botched alien abductions, lost civilizations, and "blood-thirsty" mummies (that's Eli's story and he's sticking with it) are just a few of the many dangerous situations in which Eli finds himself. The action is non-stop as he travels time and the globe in an attempt to recover the powerful Keys to Forever, find his brother, and get home.


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Shaun Ollison (born La Shaunda Sha'vonne Ollison May 7, 1980 Berkeley, California) was the first black woman crowned Ms. San Francisco (1998) and Ms. California (2000).

In 2001, Ollison moved to Paris, France and began her career as an international top model. Whilst in Europe, Ollison decided to contribute to the cause of the re-development of Africa, and to issues concerning the continent. She has also coordinated exchanges between African natives and the African Diaspora.

Currently, Ollison is the godmother for a school of orphaned children in Ouidah, Benin. She, along with the school's leaders, have established a pen pal exchange between them and children in the United States.

Ollison is also a member of the African Union, the only model so included. She is the (US) ambassador to the refugees of the Ivory Coast, and founder/CEO of Ellüre Ja'tie, an organization created to support models, designers, and artists of the diaspora.

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Living people
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Cyclist dies after colliding with tractor trailer
Coroner's Office: Michael Roberts died from blunt force trauma
Updated: 12:10 PM EDT Oct 2, 2016
Myra Ruiz
Anchor/Reporter
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The South Carolina Highway Patrol said a cyclist died after colliding with a tractor trailer about 12.5 miles north of Travelers Rest.According to the Greenville County Coroner's Office, 55-year-old Michael Roberts of Greer died from blunt force trauma.Troopers said the cyclist and 2001 Freightliner tractor trailer were both heading south on U.S. Highway 25 shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday.Roberts' Trek bicycle hit the front tire of the truck and caused the cyclist to spill, according to troopers.Roberts was airlifted to Mission Hospital in Asheville, where he died.No charges were filed, according to the troopers.
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. —
The South Carolina Highway Patrol said a cyclist died after colliding with a tractor trailer about 12.5 miles north of Travelers Rest.
According to the Greenville County Coroner's Office, 55-year-old Michael Roberts of Greer died from blunt force trauma.
Troopers said the cyclist and 2001 Freightliner tractor trailer were both heading south on U.S. Highway 25 shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
Roberts' Trek bicycle hit the front tire of the truck and caused the cyclist to spill, according to troopers.
Roberts was airlifted to Mission Hospital in Asheville, where he died.
No charges were filed, according to the troopers.


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Have Some Sympathy And Some Taste
September 27, 2015 Vinyl2010sSteve
Since the evening of 8th May 1984 I've considered Benjamin Franklin a liar, he said "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Well, immediately after Vyvyan proclaimed "to the station!" the bass started and one of the Devil's own (aka Lemmy) launched into "Ace of Spades". It was then I knew that Franklin was a liar and for the last 31 years (and counting) I've been proved right as the third constant in the world has been down and dirty rock n roll courtesy of Mr Kilmister.
I'd been following Motorhead for a couple of years and this was post "Fast" Eddie Clarke but it was this performance that showed me that Lemmy was not just a fallen angel he was also a rock star.
Recently however it looks as if 'm going to be proved wrong after all as the underworld is doing its best to reclaim Lemmy – presumably just to ensure that once again the Devil has all the best tunes (obviously Heaven has the best choreographers).
The good news is that he's not going to go down without a fight. Despite having to give up the daily bottle of Jack Daniel's and the speed he's still hammering out the music both in the studio and on tour (I've tickets for February 2016 – only 18 weeks and counting). The latest release "Bad Magic" is everything that you'd expect from them plus, for extra kudos, their version of "Sympathy for the Devil" – and they play it pretty straight and loud, presumably as it's a paean to their ultimate boss…..
Motorhead – Bad Magic (2015) – Vinyl
Victory or Die
Fire Storm Hotel
Shoot Out All of Your Lights
Teach Them How to Bleed
Till the End
Tell Me Who to Kill
Choking on Your Screams
When the Sky Comes Looking for You
Humphrey, We're Leaving
September 20, 2015 CD2000sSteve
This CD was on quick turnaround in the car during a recent week away – unfortunately not because it was a favourite but due to the lack of CDs available (my fault……)
When Mika first emerged with "Grace Kelly" he seemed like a breathe of fresh air into the turgid 'popular music scene', unfortunately this was a view that seemed to decrease with each subsequent release and he rapidly fell off of my personal radar.
Wind forward 8 years and I invested a couple of £s in this CD that I saw in a charity shop – was it worth it? Well yes and no………….
He's definitely a talented musician and can write songs but in recording this CD he should have been reigned in – there needs to be a flow between tracks when you're listening to music, that's missing here it's all over the place. I've heard "Life In Cartoon Motion" being referred to as 'cartoon rock' but that gives it too much credence and in reality a good dose of quality control would have made this a much better release.
Mika – Life in Cartoon Motion (2007) – CD
My Interpretation
Love Today
Relax (Take It Easy)
Any Other World
Over My Shoulder
Total Tracks: 623, Time: 47h 10m 37s 49


Amy Hennig tells good stories. They have engrossing plots, deep characters, and rich backdrops. And that's one of the reasons the co-creator of games such as Uncharted and Soul Reaver will be speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 conference.
Hennig, an independent writer and director, will join Phil Harrison, vice president at Google and the leader of the company's Stadia cloud-gaming platform, in a fireside chat. They will talk about the possibilities for games and interactive storytelling that arise from technological advances such as cloud gaming. Hennig brings a storyteller's perspective on what has been a technology story so far.


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Join us on our guided sea kayak trips on the Hardangerfjord, The Queen of Fjords . Or go rafting or white water kayaking on the rivers in Eidfjord…afterwards you can enjoy hiking on the spectacular high mountain plateau, in Hardangervidda National Park.
On our glacier trips we take you to our neighbouring National Park, the Folgefonna National Park.
For a day trip Trulltunga is only 80 km. away, so we feel confident that we will be able to satisfy your hunger for extraordinary outdoor adventures .
Your safety is of the uttermost importance to us. On all our trips we therefore have experienced guides / instructors who make sure everybody has been given the sufficient instruction and knowledge to manage any activity – that may be rafting , rock climbing, white water kayaking or ice climbing in the crevasses of the glacier – when you feel safe and know you can trust the equipment, no doubt you will enjoy your adventure on a higher level.
Our activities being naturebased, the weather plays a major role for our planning of the day's activities. We always monitor the weather conditions carefully and our instructors conduct the activities according to the forecasts and their great experience, in order not to compromise the safety of our guests.
Being blessed with some of the World's greatest nature FlatEarth Adventures feels a strong responsability to conduct all our activities in a way that leaves no trace in the nature. Our location is chosen specifically to meet the demand of having our activities in walking distance and thereby reduce the CO2 pollution.
Take environmental responsability , go green, and join us on our unforgettable trips.
Your adventure starts here ! FlatEarth Adventures offers a wide range of different activities. From breathtaking blue ice glacier trips to peaceful sea kayaking on the majestic Norwegian fjords – and of course a lot of other exciting mountain and water sports activities.
FlatEarth being a Multi Activity Company enables us to provide instructors and equipment for all activities offered ourselves.
Whether you are looking for a calm and nature embracing experience or an adrenalin kicking adventure in the great Outdoors you have come to the right place.
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Resume posted by ATaylor in Theatre.
I am a dancer with Tampa Ballet Theatre and the former wardrobe mistress of Ballet Theatre of Maryland. I was in charge of designing and creating, as well as refurbishing, costumes for ballets. I know how to create a classical tutu from start to finish.
I attended the University of Oklahoma and received a BFA in Ballet Performance.
At Ballet theatre of Maryland I was a principal dancer as well as wardrobe mistress. I designed and created the costumes. I worked closely with parent volunteers to coordinate children's fittings, minor repairs, hair and make-up requirements. I also worked closely with the artistic director to finalize designs for the professional company's costumes. I have designed costumes for many ballets including The Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and Swan Lake. I also own an etsy shop selling custom leotards.


Greg Premru is a photographer who specializes in residential and commercial interiors and architecture. His residential interiors are bright and polished, relying on precise lighting and composition to create a natural and immersive experience. Whether Greg is shooting interiors or exteriors, each image is carefully crafted and inviting. His work is widely published in magazines and books both locally and nationally. Greg is an archetypal "New Englander" living in a small Massachusetts town west of Boston. When not photographing, Greg can be found working on his 19th-century house or enjoying the outdoors.