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Le championnat du pays de Galles de rugby à XV (appelé en anglais Welsh Premier Division ou Welsh Premiership) regroupe l'élite des clubs du pays de Galles. Il est aussi dénommé « Principality Premiership », du nom de l'institution financière qui le sponsorise depuis 2005.

Historique
Depuis 1895, les clubs gallois convenaient de rencontres amicales entre eux, mais aussi avec des clubs anglais. Un classement officieux était établi, dont le premier fut récompensé pendant très longtemps par un trophée offert par le quotidien gallois Western Mail, puis par le quotidien londonien Daily Telegraph. Si donc il y avait donc bien un champion du pays de Galles qui était désigné (dans les années 1980, 18 clubs participaient à ce championnat), toutes les équipes ne s'affrontaient pas forcément entre elles et le nombre de matchs variait d'une équipe à l'autre, de sorte que le vainqueur était le club ayant le meilleur pourcentage de victoires. Il y avait d'ailleurs un deuxième classement, parrainé par la fédération galloise (WRU), qui ne prenait en compte que les matches joués entre ces équipes, le Merit Table. En 1980, par exemple, Swansea fut désigné champion, mais c'est Pontypool qui remporta le Merit Table. Au total, les équipes jouaient entre 30 et 45 matches chaque année.

À l'orée des années 1990, la fédération galloise, désireuse de mettre de l'ordre dans un sport qui commençait à se structurer de façon moderne et permettre à l'élite de ses joueurs d'être plus compétitifs au niveau international, décide de réorganiser ses compétitions sur le modèle de l'Angleterre qui en avait fait autant en 1987 (voir Guinness Premiership) et de l'Écosse, dont le championnat officiel remontait à 1972-73.

Lors des saisons 1999-2000 à 2001-02, le championnat est baptisé Welsh-Scottish League car Édimbourg et Glasgow sont invités à y participer.

Le championnat est alors la compétition la plus relevée du pays, mais la Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) bâtit un plan de « rugby régional » visant à regrouper l'élite des joueurs gallois dans des franchises régionales, pour les faire participer à un championnat fermé (sans relégation) et supranational, la Celtic League, et à la Coupe d'Europe. Ce projet controversé, mis en place en 2003, fait perdre au championnat son statut de plus haut niveau du rugby à XV gallois. C'est aujourd'hui une compétition semi professionnelle, où les clubs ne sont que des viviers pour les équipes régionales et ne peuvent pas toujours compter sur leurs meilleurs joueurs, phagocytés par les franchises. Plusieurs clubs n'ont pas apprécié cette rupture.

Au fur et à mesure des années la structure des équipes a été renforcée, et le critère sportif (le dernier du classement est relégué à l'étage inférieur de la hiérarchie) n'est pas toujours retenu pour le maintien dans l'élite.

En 2004-2005, la Welsh Premier Division comptait 17 clubs. À l'issue de la saison, les deux premiers de Division One, le champion Maesteg RFC et son dauphin Glamorgan Wanderers ont été promus en Premier Division, tandis que Caerphilly, Llanharan et Newbridge étaient relégués, portant le nombre d'engagés pour la saison 2005-06 à 16. À partir de 2006-2007, la Welsh Premier Division ne compte plus que 14 clubs.

Pour la saison 2012-13, il est annoncé que la Welsh Premier Division serait réduite à 10 équipes. Les équipes participantes seraient choisies selon trois facteurs : l'obtention d'une "licence A" en fonction de la qualité des stades, la signature d'un "accord de participation" et une analyse des résultats au cours des six dernières saisons. Quatre clubs, Pontypool, Tonmawr, Bridgend et Camarthen sont alors exclus pour ne pas avoir atteint les critères requis. Cependant, sous la pression des Ospreys et des Llanelli Scarlets, le championnat est finalement étendu à 12 équipes, incluant Bridgend et Camarthen. Tonmawr, invoquant des raisons financières, décide de ne pas participer et descend en . Pontypool engage un recours juridique pour éviter d'être la seule équipe reléguée, mais n'obtient pas gain de cause.

À partir de la saison 2016-2017, il est annoncé que la Welsh Premier Division est étendue à 16 équipes et n'aura pas de relégation avant la saison 2018-2019.

Les clubs de l'édition 2017-2018

 Aberavon RFC
 Bargoed RFC
 Bedwas RFC
 Bridgend RFC
 Cardiff RFC
 Carmarthen Quins RFC
 Cross Keys RFC
 Ebbw Vale RFC

 Llandovery RFC
 Llanelli RFC
 Merthyr RFC
 Neath RFC
 Newport RFC
 Pontypridd RFC
 RGC 1404
 Swansea RFC

Palmarès
Championnat non officiel

1894-1895 Newport RFC
1895-1896 Newport RFC
1896-1897 Llanelli RFC
1897-1898
1898-1899 Swansea RFC
1899-1900 Swansea RFC
1900-1901 Swansea RFC
1901-1902 Swansea RFC
1902-1903 Newport RFC
1903-1904 Swansea RFC
1904-1905 Swansea RFC
1905-1906 Cardiff RFC
1906-1907
1907-1908
1908-1909
1909-1910 Neath RFC
1910-1911 Neath RFC
1911-1912 Newport RFC
1912-1913 Swansea RFC
1913-1914 Pontypool RFC
1914-1919 : pas de compétition
1919-1920 Newport RFC
1920-1921 Pontypool RFC
1921-1922 Cross Keys RFC
1922-1923 Newport RFC
1923-1924 Aberavon RFC
1924-1925 Aberavon RFC
1925-1926 Aberavon RFC
1926-1927 Aberavon RFC

1927-1928 Llanelli RFC
1928-1929 Neath RFC
1929-1930 Llanelli RFC
1930-1931 Abertillery RFC
1931-1932 Pontypool RFC
1932-1933 Llanelli RFC
1933-1934 Neath RFC
1934-1935 Neath RFC
1935-1936 Cross Keys RFC
1936-1937
1937-1938
1938-1939
1939-1946 : pas de compétition
1946-1947 Neath RFC
1947-1948 Cardiff RFC
1948-1949 Cardiff RFC
1949-1950 Maesteg RFC
1950-1951 Newport RFC
1951-1952 Ebbw Vale RFC
1952-1953 Cardiff RFC
1953-1954 Ebbw Vale RFC
1954-1955 Cardiff RFC
1955-1956 Newport RFC
1956-1957 Ebbw Vale RFC
1957-1958 Cardiff RFC
1958-1959 Pontypool RFC
1959-1960 Ebbw Vale RFC
1960-1961 Aberavon RFC
1961-1962 Newport RFC

1962-1963 Pontypridd RFC
1963-1964 Bridgend RFC
1964-1965 Newbridge RFC
1965-1966 Bridgend RFC
1966-1967 Neath RFC
1967-1968 Llanelli RFC
1968-1969 Newport RFC
1969-1970 Bridgend RFC
1970-1971 Bridgend RFC
1971-1972 London Welsh RFC
1972-1973 Pontypool RFC
1973-1974 Llanelli RFC
1974-1975 Pontypool RFC
1975-1976 Pontypridd RFC
1976-1977 Llanelli RFC
1977-1978 Pontypridd RFC
1978-1979 Pontypridd RFC
1979-1980 Swansea RFC
1980-1981 Bridgend RFC
1981-1982 Cardiff RFC
1982-1983 Swansea RFC
1983-1984 Pontypool RFC
1984-1985 Pontypool RFC
1986-1986 Pontypool RFC
1986-1987 Neath RFC
1987-1988 Pontypool RFC
1988-1989 Neath RFC
1989-1990 Neath RFC

Welsh Division 1
 1990-1991 : Neath RFC
 1991-1992 : Swansea RFC
 1992-1993 : Llanelli RFC
 1993-1994 : Swansea RFC
 1994-1995 : Cardiff RFC
 1995-1996 : Neath RFC
 1996-1997 : Pontypridd RFC
 1997-1998 : Swansea RFC
 1998-1999 : Llanelli RFC
 1999-2000 : Cardiff RFC
 2000-2001 : Swansea RFC
 2001-2002 : Llanelli RFC
 2002-2003 : Bridgend RFC

Welsh Premier Division
 2003-2004 : Newport RFC
 2004-2005 : Neath RFC
 2005-2006 : Neath RFC
 2006-2007 : Neath RFC
 2007-2008 : Neath RFC
 2008-2009 : Cardiff RFC
 2009-2010 : Neath RFC
 2010-2011 : Llanelli RFC
 2011-2012 : Pontypridd RFC
 2012-2013 : Pontypridd RFC
 2013-2014 : Pontypridd RFC
 2014-2015 : Pontypridd RFC
 2015-2016 : Ebbw Vale RFC
 2016-2017 : Merthyr RFC
 2017-2018 : Merthyr RFC
 2018-2019 : Merthyr RFC
 2019-2020 : Annulé
 2020-2021 : Annulé

Palmarès par club (depuis 1991)

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Coupe du pays de Galles de rugby à XV
 Pro14
 Liste de clubs gallois de rugby à XV

Liens externes
  Site officiel de la fédération galloise
  Restructuration du championnat gallois sur la bbc
  De nouvelles ligues pour le nord du pays de Galles

Compétition de rugby à XV au pays de Galles
Galles
Compétition fondée en 1990


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Immediately, you might have noticed something wrong with my title. Handwriting isn't really recommended during the early years, according to Charlotte Mason. Since the "sit down and write" type of work starts at the age of six, using her philosophy, Charlotte Mason handwriting isn't a thing until our little cherubs have exited their early years.
Education during these years is also very child-driven, and few mothers I know are willing to squelch a child's natural desire to learn. Or wrestle a purple crayon out of the hand of a five-year-old who desperately wants to write letters. Speaking from experience.
In our home, there's a very eager-to-learn child who started to write letters all on her own, just for fun, over a year ago. If I don't give her any direction, she will get in the habit of forming letters incorrectly. When we are ready for formal lessons, we'll have to spend time correcting these habits that I just let happen because I don't want to start formal lessons yet. So, for the sake of good habits, I'm going to help my five-year-old form her letters correctly. Using several of Charlotte Mason's passages about writing, I've decided how I'll approach early years handwriting.
The problem with being completely hands-off with our eager-to-learn children during these early years is that they may soon believe that their letter formation is right.
While Charlotte Mason is specifically talking about writing during formal lessons here, I don't see why his "moral sense" would not be "vitiated" or "his eye injured" just because he is writing voluntarily before the age of six. The longer letters are formed incorrectly, the longer it will take to help a child form them correctly.
Our sand tray for letter formation.
I used affiliate links here to share some sand tray options with you. There are several Melissa and Doug sets that come in pretty wooden trays. We have this stamp set and this this bead set , and we've upcycled the trays to practice letter writing. I painted the bottom so that the letter stands out more. You could also try using colored sand , but it's much less expensive to buy a big bag at your local home improvement store (and then you can use the rest of the sand for other things!) Of course, you might be able to find a flat platter at the dollar store that works well for this. You can even buy wooden sand trays on Amazon, but I'd rather upcycle something that we already have!
H started out writing this way, and right now, E (2) enjoys making lines and curves. I'm interested to see when he'll want to start making letters, too! When we aren't using the sand tray, I put it, sand and all, in a gallon-sized zipper bag and store it up high.
Since these years are child-led, I don't recommend throwing your child's work out the door when it doesn't look amazing. A five-year-old's best handwriting won't look the same as a ten-year-old's best work. What's more important than looking perfect during the early years is that they are formed correctly. But, there are some problems that you probably want to address right away.
Interchanging the lower case versions of these letters is very typical. I often say that as a first grade teacher, it didn't worry me at all, but as a third grade teacher, I started to get a little nervous. As a fourth grade teacher, b and d reversals might indicate that a child needs some further intervention.
A few months ago, my husband came to me with a piece of paper, and a puzzled look on his face. Our daughter had written her name entirely backward. Cause for concern? No! Young children often do this! I just congratulated her effort, and then said, "Wait…doesn't your name start with an H?" I was not about to make her write her name over again (at this point, at least!) but I did want to gently draw her attention to what happened. The next time we read a book together, I pointed out that words and sentences always begin on the left side.
Like I mentioned before, my self-starter will pick up anything she can to write- pencils, pens, crayons, paint brushes… There was no stopping her. She loves to write any time she gets the chance. If your child is not like this, please don't worry at all, and please don't rush your child into writing with a pencil. But, just like the other habits we've talked about so far, pencil grip is a habit that's hard to change once it's ingrained in your child. Help your self-motivated child to hold a pencil correctly from the start. While those squishy pencil grippers we remember from childhood can help, keep in mind that there is more than one way to correctly hold a pencil. This post from OT Mom Learning Activities helpfully explains correct pencil grip options.
Charlotte Mason handwriting is never a game of "drill and kill." When our children get older, they will practice handwriting through meaningful copywork. During these early years, handwriting should be child led, enjoyable, and as far from "drill and kill" as we can get it.
I think that sounds like a good choice for her!
Would you correct a 3yr old who taught themself to write and does not form letters correctly or wait until they are older?


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Over 17% of Iran's knowledge-based companies work in oil industry
November 6, 2022 - 13:6
TEHRAN - Head of Iranian Petroleum Industries Equipment Manufacturers Association (known as SIPIEM) has said over 17 percent of the country's knowledge-based companies are active in the oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors, Shana reported.
Speaking at a conference on the promotion of knowledge-based companies dubbed "Development of relations with knowledge-based and technological companies", Ehsan Saqafi said the financial turnover of knowledge-based companies has increased 10 times over the past five years, from 350 trillion rials (about $1.2 billion) to 3.5 quadrillion rials (about $12 billion) at the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21).
The official noted that more than 40 percent of the knowledge-based companies active in the oil, gas, and petrochemical sectors are members of the SIPIEM.
According to Saqafi, the number of SIPIEM members that have knowledge-based activities has currently reached 231 companies which account for four percent of the country's total number of knowledge-based companies.
"These companies are responsible for about 10 percent of the financial turnover of the country's all knowledge-based companies," he added.
Organized by Bandar Imam Petrochemical Company, the "Development of relations with knowledge-based and technological companies" conference was held on Saturday.
The current Iranian calendar year 1401 is named "Knowledge-Based Production and Job Creation" by Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
In a meeting with some officials of the country in April, the Leader referred to the motto of this year and called the oil-free economy a long-term goal, saying that at least two governments in eight-year responsibilities must work to solve this problem (reliance on oil income).
In line with materializing the motto of the year, Oil Ministry and all of its subsidiaries have announced strong determination and prepared plans to this end.
Oil Minister Javad Oji has said, "We will increase oil production and reduce the import needs of the oil industry by relying on the power of knowledge-based production".
"At the Ministry of Oil, we called in five areas so that we could use the potential of knowledge-based companies to increase production. Low-efficiency wells and optimization of fuel consumption in collecting gases, import needs of the ministry, and the chain of petrochemical complementary industries are among these areas", the minister said in late April.
"During the short time that this government has been established various exhibitions of knowledge-based companies have been held, which I believe that they have a very good potential in both the upstream and downstream sectors", Oji further reiterated.
"According to the order of the Leader, the industry should become knowledge-based; it is possible, and we have started the work in this due", the oil minister noted.
"Also, with our call, very good and capable companies came forward, and the new formats of contracts we have designed will motivate these companies for cooperation", he added.
The managing director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), the main subsidiary of Oil Ministry, has also said that the main priority of the oil industry in the present year is increasing oil production relying on the knowledge-based approach.
"With the planning that has been done by using new technologies in the oil industry, we will strengthen the economic front in the oil industry more than before", Mohsen Khojasteh-Mehr has stressed.
Emphasizing that knowledge-based production will be at the forefront of the industry's plans, the official said: "Creating sustainable job opportunities while increasing production will definitely be a basic necessity and strategy that must be considered."
National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), the other major subsidiary of Oil Ministry, also plays an important part in materialization of the motto of the year.
As Majid Chegeni, the managing director of the company, has said, the activity of the gas industry is directly related to the issues of production and employment; because almost all industries in the country are dependent on gas energy, so the role of the NIGC personnel is highlighted in this due.
National Petrochemical Company (NPC), another main subsidiary of Oil Ministry, is completely familiar with the knowledge-based concept, and plays a significant management and development role in moving in the way of progress through a new and technological view, as stated by the managing director of the company.
In a meeting with the NPC directors and experts on materializing the slogan of the year, Morteza Shahmirzaei said the concept of knowledge-bases is familiar to the whole large family of petrochemical industry and the units have had very good activities in this field due to their area of responsibility.
"Many equipment and catalysts of the petrochemical industry are being fully domestically-produced relying on the internal technical know-how, and we should eliminate the need to import them due to the existing capacities in the country and relying on our domestic capability", the official stressed.
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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, in guidance issued last week, recommended capecitabine as the second line treatment for metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer.
Capecitabine and another antimetabolite, tegafur with uracil, have been recommended as options for the first line treatment of metastatic bowel cancer. NICE recommends capecitabine in combination with docetaxel for metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer when anthracycline based treatment has failed or is unsuitable.


ADA, Ohio - Christian Jones poured in 30 points for the Wilmington College men's basketball team, but the Ohio Northern University (ONU) duo of Nate Burger and Ryan Bruns combined for 51 points as the Polar Bears edged the Fightin' Quakers 92-83 in Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) play on Wednesday evening.
Wilmington made the first two shots of the game as Jordan Jones and Christian Jones hit layups. Trailing 4-0, ONU answered by scored 15 of the game's next 19 points to take a 15-8 edge at the 13:17 mark in the first half.
The Polar Bears would lead by as many as 17 points (43-26) in the first half, but the Fightin' Quakers ended the half on a 10-3 run fueled by a three-pointer from Andrew Russell and five Christian Jones free throws. Trailing 46-36 at halftime, Christian Jones got Wilmington within nine early in the second half by answering an ONU basket with a three-pointer.
Ohio Northern answered with a 20-10 run over the next six minutes to take a 68-49 advantage. Wilmington battled back to within four points at 85-81, but ONU hit free throws down the stretch to seal the victory.
Christian Jones led all scorers with 30 points on 9-of-18 shooting from the field and 11-of-13 from the free throw line. Jordan Jones, Russell and Nathan Scott also scored in double figures.
Burger finished with 27 points and nine rebounds for the Polar Bears. Bruns turned in a double-double with 24 points and 14 boards.
ONU made 28 of its 61 field goal attempts for 45.9 percent shooting from the field while Wilmington connected on 25-of-64 shots for 39.1 percent. The Polar Bears converted 31-of-41 free throw attempts compared to 25-of-32 for Wilmington. Both teams committed 26 fouls in game.
Ohio Northern outrebounded the Quakers 48-34, but the Wilmington defense forced 19 turnovers.
The Quakers (3-4, 0-2 OAC) host Heidelberg University for a 2 p.m. game at Hermann Court on Saturday.


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What is major depression in teens?
Major depression goes beyond the day's normal ups and downs. It involves a teen's body, mood, and thoughts. It can affect and disrupt eating, sleeping, or thinking patterns.
Depression is not the same as being unhappy or in a blue mood. It's also not a sign of personal weakness. It can't be willed or wished away. Teens with depression can't merely pull themselves together and get better. Treatment is often needed.
What causes major depression in a teen?
Depression has no single cause. Many factors, such as genetics and the environment, play a role.
Which teens are at risk for major depression?
What are the symptoms of major depression in a teen?
Each teen with major depression may have different symptoms. A teen often needs to have several of these symptoms during the same 2-week period to be diagnosed with major depression.
Feelings of wanting to die or wishing to already be dead.
Symptoms of major depression may look like other mental health problems. Make sure your teen sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
How is major depression diagnosed in a teen?
A teen with major depression may have other mental health problems, such as substance abuse or an anxiety disorder. So early diagnosis and treatment is important to your teen getting better.
A mental health professional often diagnoses major depression after a mental health evaluation. He or she may also evaluate the family and talk with teachers and care providers.
How is major depression treated in a teen?
Treatment will depend on your teen's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Antidepressant medicines. These can be very helpful, especially when used with psychotherapy.
Talk therapy (psychotherapy). This treatment helps teens with depression change their distorted views of themselves and the environment around them. It also finds stressors in the teen's environment and teaches him or her how to stay away from them. A teen will also learn how to work through hard relationships.
What are possible complications of major depression in a teen?
Without treatment, major depression can last for weeks, months, or years. It can cause relationship and social problems. Depression is also linked to a higher risk for suicide. This risk rises when the depressed teen has other mental health problems. These include conduct disorder and substance abuse. This is especially true for teen boys.
How can I help prevent major depression in my teen?
Researchers don't know how to prevent major depression in a teen. But knowing the risk factors, spotting it early, and getting expert help for your teen can help ease symptoms and improve your teen's quality of life.
How can I help my teen live with major depression?
Keep all appointments with your teen's healthcare provider.
Talk with your teen's healthcare provider about other providers who will be involved in your teen's care. Your teen may get care from a team that may include counselors, therapists, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Your teen's care team will depend on his or her needs and how serious the depression is.
Tell others about your teen's depression. Work with your teen's healthcare provider and schools to develop a treatment plan.
Reach out for support from local community services. Being in touch with other parents who have a teen with depression may be helpful.
Take all symptoms of depression and suicide very seriously. Seek treatment right away. Suicide is a health emergency. Talk with your teen's healthcare provider for more information on suicide including whom to call and what to do (for example never leaving the teen alone). Have a written emergency plan.
For several reasons, many parents never seek the right treatment for their teen with depression. This is true even though many people with major depression who seek treatment get better. They often improve within weeks. Continued treatment may help keep symptoms from coming back.
When should I call my teen's healthcare provider?
Call 911 if your teen has suicidal thoughts, a suicide plan, and the means to carry out the plan.
Major depression is a type of mood disorder. It is not the same as being unhappy or in a blue mood. It can be treated with a combination of medicine and psychotherapy.
Depression is caused by a combination of factors, such as genetics and the environment.
A teen may have a higher risk for depression if he or she has a family history of it. Trauma, stress, and abuse can also make a teen prone to it.
Symptoms include feelings of sadness, despair, and guilt. A teen may lose interest in activities and have problems sleeping and eating.
A mental health professional can diagnose major depression after a mental health evaluation.
Talk therapy and certain medicines can help treat depression.
Major depression is linked to a higher risk for suicide.


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Baton Rouge Metro Airport receiving $5.2 million in federal funds
by: Allison Bruhl
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A total of $5.2 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be headed to the Baton Rouge Metro Airport.
According to Senator Bill Cassidy, funding will be used to replace three existing passenger boarding bridges that are no longer serviceable at the airport.
"Having modern, efficient airports are essential for economic growth," said Cassidy. "This funding from the infrastructure law will help bring jobs and outside investment to Baton Rouge."
ExxonMobil starts up $500 million facility expansion in Baton Rouge
These aren't the only improvements coming to Baton Rouge airport. In December, local leaders broke ground on a $113 million project. The investment made by Burrell Aviation aims to develop a hub for air cargo and other aviation-related activities, leaders previously said.
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HomeCultureNope, Declaring Oneself A Nationalist Does Not Make One A Racist.
Nope, Declaring Oneself A Nationalist Does Not Make One A Racist.
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Calling oneself a nationalist does not make one a racist or a white supremacist.
The Communist media complex and comrades are attacking President Donald J. Trump for acknowledging that he is proud and unapologetically American.
President Trump called out globalists, spat in the face of political correctness triggering the easily trolled by referring to himself as a "Nationalist."
"You know what a globalist is? A globalist is a person who wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country so much, and you know what, we can't have that.
You know they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned..It's called a "nationalist" and I said really…we're not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, okay? I'm a nationalist."
A "nationalist" is one who puts the interests of his or her country first. A "nationalist" believes in the sovereignty of his or her nation.
It is no surprise that easily triggered anti-Trump, anti-America propagandists financially invested in the global world order flipped out….
beginning with that schmuck, Jim Acosta who decided that he would challenge the President on what Progressives perceive as a dog whistle.
How on earth is accepting one's nationalism racist? The President made short work of Acosta, discussion of which continued at 04:53 of the following video.
So much for that.
As if eight years of Barack Obama's apology/appeasement/anti-American tour wasn't enough, the Communist plantation dispatched its Soros-funded house slaves to attack the President. These house slaves using the race card lied and declared the term "nationalist" ("nationalism") the new "n" word.
Queen Don Lemon, is the typical useful idiot who advocates for an ideology that has historically oppressed, tortured and murdered not just gays and people of various ethnicities but all voices of opposition.
Nationalism IS NOT a Bad Word.
Let us not forget the president of the NAACP, North Carolina chapter, Rev. William J. Barber II who is vehemently anti-Trump, anti-American, a Progressive and gatekeeper of the Communist plantation and his globalist masters.
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Of course, funding from Soros' Open Society helps. Soros funds the NAACP nationally.
Barber, a Black theologian, according to Huffington Post stated that "Nationalism suggests a commitment to one country to a fault…Patriotism is a love for country that is willing to call it to question and challenge its flaws."
Pushing white privilege, anti-Trump propaganda which at times didn't go so well, the NAACP has rejected Nationalism for a higher pay day.
NAACP Embraces Globalist World Order Masters
We should be mindful that the NAACP decades was absent from Black communities across the United States for decades only to surface in time for Barack Obama's 2008 victory.
Two words come to mind, i.e., CASHING IN.
A look at their website puts their priorities on display and it is not the concern of Black Americans. It is social justice and the global world order. Their puppet master or man hiding behind the curtain, if you prefer in spite of their anti-white rhetoric is a globalist which brings three other words to mind, i.e., BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
That is NOT patriotism. Patriotism cannot be bought. George Soris is not a patriot. Furthermore, Soros is a globalist. He has wet dreams of becoming king of the New World Order. Convinced that he is just that close, he can taste it which explains Soro's case of TDS.
As most of you know, I live in New York City, a sanctuary city with somewhere around 10 million illegal aliens, maybe more (emphasis on "more.").
It is business as usual to see people waving their national flags and/or wearing emblems, head wraps with the colors of their national flags.
Absent far too often from the scene is the Star Spangled Banner, i.e., the red, white and blue.
Having made my views known, I am not challenged as I imagine others may be but yes, "American" nationalism deserves to be front and center; and anyone who opposes, challenged.
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Below is an op-ed in USA Today written by James Robinson. I do not agree with everything he says but the opinion columnist gets it.
…Appeals to the inherent goodness and manifest greatness of America used to be a staple of political oratory. It was so commonplace that it was entirely noncontroversial. Love of country was taken for granted.
But when President Donald Trump described himself as a "nationalist" at a rally in Texas, it set off a firestorm of criticism. Nationalism is now the new "n-word." CNN's Jim Acosta pathetically insinuated the president was making a secret appeal to racism. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace invoked her History Channel-based education to tie in Nazi appeals to German nationalism, while perhaps being unaware that the Nazis also were ardent socialists. Maybe she missed that program.
We need a national narrative we can believe in
President Trump's patriotic appeals are controversial only because hating America has become so deeply embedded in progressive thinking. But if our nation is to survive, it must have a national narrative that seeks not to blame but to inspire, not to divide but unite, not to demean but uplift.
I am an American, a wife, mother, grandmother and proud yes, a Nationalist, brown skin and all. Why? Because I love this nation which has been blessed by God, warts and all. All Americans are privileged as we are all blessed by God. We are blessed to live in America.
There is nothing fascist or racist about rejecting the New World Order. Oh yes, it does exist better known as the globalist world order aka globalism which entails the confiscation of America's wealth while usurping American sovereignty.
Not on my watch and thankfully, not on President Trump's watch either.
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The residence of Dr. J. A MacPherson was known locally as "The Last House" when it was first built as it was surrounded by empty fields and was the last house one would encounter if heading west from Strathcona.
Dr. MacPherson arrived in Edmonton in 1912 after graduating from the University of Edinburgh to serve as the assistant to Dr. Seymour Archibald, the C.P.R. surgeon in Edmonton at the office, #3 Hulbert Block on Whyte Avenue. Dr. and Mrs. MacPherson initially lived in #1 of the same building, but later that year, began construction on three properties of the Hulbert addition, later known as University Avenue. The exterior of the building was completed near the end of 1912, but Dr. MacPherson and his wife did not move into their new home until the spring of 1913 when he moved his practice into the Tipton block on Whyte Avenue.
The MacPherson residence is an excellent example of the American Four-Square style of home that became popular in North America at the beginning of the 20th century. features a symmetrical facade with the typical hipped pyramidal roof design and central dormer seen on American Four-Square houses. When it was first constructed, thestone-dash finish above the clinker-brick second story was pseudo half-timbered in the tudor-revival style that had gained popularity in Edmonton. The house also originally featured a large arch roofed front veranda, but this was replaced by the sun-porch seen today sometime in the 1930s. Architecturally, the house is most significant for its largely original condition and details, clinker-brick construction and unique tall timber-mullioned paired casement windows (of which no other examples remain in Edmonton). The interior details have been remarkably well preserved with the original, light fixtures and switches grates and much of the original mill-work remaining intact. Large quantities of natural wood elements are seen throughout the house, such as maple wood strip flooring, central oak staircase, clinker-brick fireplaces with heavy oak mantles, built-in oak pocket doors, seating benches and cabinetry. The second floor is detailed in fir instead of the more expensive oak as guests were unlikely to see the second floor.
"I would set it and splint it," was a regular answer.
"Splint with what?" he would reply.
Dr. MacPherson never retired and his 35-year tenure serving the residents of Edmonton came to an end when he died of a heart attack in 1947.
Aside from a change to the front veranda to a sun-porch sometime in the 1930s, the interior and exterior of the house have been largely unchanged and extremely well preserved. The MacPherson Residence has never passed into the hands of strangers and has been, so far, home to five generations of Mrs. McPherson's family.


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Opinion: Algorithm 'gatekeepers' undermine democracy and health
The reliability of information in our societies should not be left to the incentives of the attention economy.
Taylor Owen and Ben Scott - Special to Montreal Gazette
One of the most acute and pernicious problems the COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced is the danger of undermining the reliability of information in our democracies.
The search for trusted information in a crisis exposes the architecture of power at the intersection of media, society and government. It isn't what it used to be. Newspapers and broadcasters dedicated to public service journalism remain central to our media landscape. But they are no longer the gatekeepers of information in our society. For better and (mostly) worse, that role is now played by digital media platforms like Google and Facebook.
Internet platforms are not designed to give us quality information; they are calibrated to maximize attention capture and corporate profit. The editorial role is now played by complex algorithms devoid of local context, culture and histories. The result is that conspiracy theories about the pandemic are flooding Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. It turns out replacing newsroom editors with advertising technology is terrible for democracy and society.
This means that misinformation, disinformation, online hate, state propaganda and partisan news are not simply unfortunate byproducts of an open internet. They are structural flaws in our information ecosystem.
The platforms — to their credit — have made some efforts to push back against the public-health-harming noise cascading over their systems. But these efforts aren't nearly enough.
The ad tech keeps pushing forward harmful content. False accusations about migrants carrying COVID-19, fake remedies and cures, attacks on adversaries to blame them for the pandemic, and good old-fashioned conspiracies circulate unabated.
As we reimagine the world post-COVID, we believe that we will see a wholesale rethinking of our information ecosystem.
Realigning the commercial incentives of Big Tech with the values of democracy and social welfare does not mean a government-imposed standard for truth or draconian limits on free speech.
The starting point for restoring a healthy relationship between media and democracy will be rules governing data and algorithms. This is the heart of the matter. The sins of digital media monopolies start in the massive dragnet of data collection they perform every day that in turn informs audience profiling and content targeting. And this data feeds an automated system of information curation (what we used to call the work of the newsrooms) that is programmed to service the advertiser, not the public. With modernized rules that limit data collection and restrict how it can be used, we can weaken the machine of disinformation.
Second, every major industry that has a deep impact on social welfare, like financial services or pharmaceuticals, is overseen by public institutions. Global companies that control information markets should be no different. We will see global governance overseeing the flows and storage of data, co-ordinating content moderation policies, and forcing norms of transparency on the financial and algorithmic models that drive the attention economy. We will also see countries, finally, begin to co-ordinate their digital polices in order to create sufficient market pressure to change the behaviours of these global companies. Major interventions in competition policy to restrain the power of monopolies, reshape markets and open opportunities for new entrants will be critical.
Third, we will also begin to see a new wave of investment in public media and digital literacy. The crisis of public health information ushered in by this pandemic will be our wake-up call.
In our post-pandemic world, we will know with clear-eyed certainty that leaving the reliability of information in our societies to the incentives of the attention economy has tragic consequences. Citizens will demand a better world, and democratic governments will finally rise to challenge of governing our digital public sphere.
Taylor Owen is a CIGI senior fellow and director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy in the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University.Ben Scott is executive director at Reset, an initiative focussed on tackling digital threats to democracy.
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SAT Writing Passage Title: A Moveable Street: Haussmann's New Paris
If you were to travel all over the world, you might notice that each of the world's most famous cities is characterized by a certain look. Tokyo offers neon billboards and colorful signs. 1 Paris fans out from the base of the Eiffel Tower, a system of wide, treelined avenues and low, neo-Classical buildings made of gray stone. This area has been inhabited for thousands of years. 2 Regardless, its current look is a relatively recent development. Visiting Paris two hundred years ago, 3 the city would have looked very different. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Paris was characterized by overcrowded conditions and narrow, winding streets. It bore a closer resemblance to the London of the 1500s than the modern "City of Lights" so frequently depicted in popular movies and photographs. [1] Paris's transformation was largely the work of 4 one man: Georges-Eugene Haussmann, whose official title was Prefect of the Seine Department. [2] He was appointed to recreate Paris by Napoleon III, who had declared himself Emperor of France in 1851 and wanted to cement his legacy by creating a modern capital.
[3] At the time, the city was divided into many small, cramped neighborhoods that 5 was disconnected from one another, making transportation difficult. [4]Moreover, the overcrowding in these areas led to unhygienic conditions in which disease spread easily. [5]The aims of Napoleon's reforms were twofold: to make Paris more aesthetically pleasing and to make it more functional. [6]Infant mortality rates in these neighborhoods were skyhigh, and epidemics were very difficult to control.
6 To address these problems, Haussmann installed several wide 7 boulevards. These both opened up the city visually and made it easier to get from place to place. In order to create these thoroughfares, though, existing roads had to be widened. Many small streets dating from Paris's medieval past were completely demolished. In some other areas, Haussmann was forced to work around existing streets in order to preserve buildings of historical importance.
Other changes that Haussmann made to the city included the addition of more green space in the form of both large and small public parks, 8 constructing two new train stations to connect the city to the rest of the country, and the modification of the city's borders. Consequently, Paris's population 9 quadrupled in number of people by a factor of four.
Not surprisingly, Haussmann's projects cost millions of francs, which made him a target for politicians' criticisms. 10 Furthermore, many Parisian citizens were unhappy with how dramatically he had changed their city Haussmann' Ideals, however, went on to become influential in the "City Beautiful" urban planning movement in the United States. Cities like Chicago, Denver, and 11 Washington, D.C. all owe a debt, to Haussmann.
At this point, the writer wants to add another example to support the claim made in the first sentence of the paragraph. Which choice most effectively accomplishes this goal?
Option A : Tokyo was almost entirely rebuilt after World War II.
Option B : Hong Kong, like Tokyo, is a major international financial center
Option C : Dubai features glittering skyscrapers rising out of the desert.
Option D : London and Paris have more similarities than Paris and Tokyo.
Option B : However,
Option C : Furthermore,
Option D : Particularly,
Option B : Paris would have looked very different.
Option C : the difference in the city would be seen.
Option D : you would have seen a very different city.
Which choice results in the most effective transition to the information that follows in the paragraph?
Option B : one man; Georges-Eugene Haussmann
Option C : one man, George-Eugene Haussmann;
Option D : one man, George-Eugene Haussmann:
To make the paragraph most logical, sentence 5 should be placed
Option B : is
Option C : has been
Option D : were
Option A : where it is now
Option B : before sentence 1
Which choice most effectively combines the underlined sentences at the underlined portion?
Option A : boulevards in that they
Option B : boulevards, which
Option C : boulevards; it was these boulevards that
Option D : boulevards, the purpose of which in relation to Paris was to
Option B : boulevards; it was these boulevards that
Option B : the construction of
Option C : constructing of
Option D : to construct
Option B : increased in population count of the number of people by a factor of four.
Option C : quadrupled.
Option D : increased and grew.
Option A : Kept, because it provides information that helps set up the paragraph's next sentence.
Option B : Kept, because it supports the previous sentence with an explanation for why politicians were criticizing Haussmann's expensive projects.
Option C : Deleted, because the sentence blurs the paragraph's focus on Haussmann's international influence.
Option D : Deleted, because it unnecessarily repeats information provided in the previous paragraph.
Option B : Washington, D.C., all owe a debt
Option C : Washington, D.C., all owe a debt,
Option D : Washington, D.C.; all owe a debt
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Inequality, The Pandemic
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By Alissa Quart
Theodore "Teddy" Dorsette III is a deaf filmmaker who directed the autobiographical "Silent Life." The 34-year-old Detroit native—whose buoyant character comes through in his signing, even over Zoom—has routinely encountered obstacles when he's tried to secure a fellowship or funding for his projects.
I met him at a convening of Creative Futures, an initiative of the Ford Foundation, that was devoted to the subject of nonprofits and money (I was facilitating). Through an ASL translator, Dorsette recounted how hard it was for people with disabilities to connect with funders. He had trouble with, say, accessing information so he could effectively apply for grants and funding, he told me later. He and others like him needed literal and proverbial on-ramps. For instance, it was all too rare for funders to provide translators for face-to-face meetings with grantmakers. Dorsette had an elemental question for philanthropic honchos: "How do we meet you?" As a deaf artist of color, he didn't always see a way in.
Democratizing philanthropy, for makers like Dorsette, as well as the nonprofits that serve them, is a subject that has become all the rage in the sector, at least in theory. Foundation leaders and staff have been getting into more inclusive practices like participatory grantmaking. In this year of disaster, funders have been trying to be less controlling of, and more responsive to, their grantees. Some of the strongest advocates for these trendy cooperative mechanisms are disability rights activists, but promising efforts are arising all over the place. That said, many funders have been slow to jump on the democratization train, perhaps uncertain about its potential for novelty.
For myself, as an executive director of grassroots-ish journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, democratizing philanthropy has meant one thing above all else: getting our talented and sometimes indigent reporters money to do their work, quickly, with as much creative leeway as possible. For example, EHRP has, at points, paid people upfront or sent them necessities for their reporting. We mailed a reporter a replacement camera when his was broken in the Portland protests, and paid an unbanked and homeless essayist in gift cards. These were ongoing acts of emergency funding that were not part of any pre-determined, five-year plan.
For these and other efforts, we need philanthropies not to act like controlling spouses, reviewing all the credit card charges on their partners' bills. We need them to stop narrowing the scope of nonprofits' spending and then insist on grant reporting detailed enough for an exegetical scholar.
At the convening where I met Dorsette, held in mid-January, I asked the participants—a mix of acclaimed artists, journalists, tech specialists, and at least one dancer—to list the obstacles they experienced when applying for foundation support. By the end of the event, they had formed a checklist for making philanthropy more of a collective process, one that better reflected the grantees, not just grantmakers. I believe it's worth recounting here.
Unrestricted support, long-term, and lots of it
The first item on the list is a refrain that will be all too familiar to those working in or adjacent to philanthropy—nonprofits and individual grant recipients needed unrestricted funds most of all. You could add to that list: as much cash as possible, and in multiple-year tranches. Unrestricted funding was what the nonprofit leaders gathered at Ford said they needed most from their funders, especially in a time of disasters such as COVID.
In a conversation separate from this event, Molly de Aguiar, president of Independence Public Media and frequent commentator on justice in philanthropy, told me that access to vast and transformative amounts of money "is one important component of getting to systems change." Although that level of funding may not be possible, there are things givers can do to make the money work better for their grantees; as de Aguiar continued, "Stop with all the strings attached, stop with all the hoops and reporting. They [philanthropies] are supposed to be society's risk capital," she said.
Learn from pandemic funding practices
The second democratizing request was that philanthropies continue to deploy the best elements of the disaster philanthropy model that is helping so many grant recipients during COVID. Sofía Gallisá Muriente, a thirty-something artist who just wrapped up six years co-directing the nonprofit Beta-Local, based in Puerto Rico, said she wanted to extend reactive "disaster funding" techniques to ordinary times.
"People need to be supported in ways that value their lives over their projects," Muriente said. She led the conversation that day at the Ford Foundation, seated on an outside balcony in the sun, as if to embody both living the good pandemic life while staying true to her art.
As Muriente talked through this second item on the checklist, the kinds of problems she described were quite familiar to me. An estimated 27,000 media workers lost their jobs during the pandemic, and many publications froze or eliminated freelance budgets, threatening the livelihoods of independent journalists—our clients—and prompting us to distribute emergency relief funds for our colleagues in painful straits. Though not a journalist, Muriente experienced similar struggles and more as a Puerto Rican artist, having "lived in a colony that has faced bankruptcy, hurricanes, earthquakes, massive protests, drought and the same pandemic as all of you."
Get closer to the ground
The third method to help democratize philanthropy: Philanthropists should seek out grant recipients that are located outside of New York, Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. In other words, stop giving massive gifts only to Harvard, or the arts and journalism equivalents—what I have called shock benefactor gifts. Instead, philanthropists should do the investigating and uncover the smaller and closer-to-the-ground nonprofits.
Organizations in the South, for instance, receive only a small percentage of arts funding. According to the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and Grantmakers for Southern Progress, between 2011 and 2015, foundations nationwide invested 56 cents per person in the South for every dollar per person they invested nationally. These sorts of regional disparities need to be addressed.
Cultivate and support diverse leadership
The final recommendation is perhaps the most obvious: Bring people of color, disabled people, gender non-conforming people, and women (and I would add working-class people) into leadership positions in nonprofits—and underwrite those groups first and foremost.
Sidney Hargro, who runs the Philanthropy Network of Greater Philadelphia, for instance, is attempting with his network to co-create a new nonprofit sector with Philadelphian community members, focused on bringing people of color into organizations. "What philanthropy needs is not a new framework, but a new endgame, racial liberation," Hargro has written.
And you can see some of this final funding strategy at work in the enormous giving of MacKenzie Scott, which included gifts to bottom-up institutions like community, regional and very small historically black colleges, including $40 million to Morgan State University, an HBCU in Baltimore, and $50 million to Prairie View A&M University in Texas, both the largest donations either institution has ever seen. Scott's version of more responsive philanthropy made serious news, partially because of the size of the gift overall, and partly because she is Jeff Bezos's ex-wife. But the coverage of her gifts also reflects that efforts to democratize philanthropy have, in the last five years, finally entered the mass media—and finally reached the highest levels of philanthropy.
Major voices in the democratization-of-philanthropy movement include the author Anand Giridharadas, whose critical bestseller "Winners Take All" posed as its central question whether philanthropy was simply an offshoot of plutocracy. As he put it in one interview, would the wealthiest and most powerful people in our society be, in fact, "willing to do the only thing that is actually going to get us there, which is fighting for the kind of systemic change that would reduce their own power?"
The necessity of democratizing philanthropy has also been echoed in the public philosophy of Ford Foundation President Darren Walker (full disclosure: my organization is a Ford grantee), who, as early as 2015, announced that he planned to double unrestricted support, and elsewhere noted that "philanthropy replicates the worst dynamics and inequalities of our broader society."
Balancing out these inequalities is daunting. But if Big Philanthropy implemented the checklist of these four methods alone, the sector could start to shake off some of the inequities that now bedevil it. It could become less bureaucratic and less detached, more inclusive, and less capricious.
As Dorsette put it, democratizing philanthropy means "providing more seats at the table while serving the same fare," but also something more transformative: "reallocating power over its decision-making and resources." As he waits for this transformation, though, Dorsette is still rallying people around his cause. You can follow his new campaign #BlackDeafTalent on a platform with far fewer gatekeepers: Twitter.
Alissa Quart is executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of "Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America."
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Alissa Quart is the author of five books of nonfiction including the forthcoming Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream (Ecco, 2023), Squeezed (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018) and Branded (Basic Books, 2004). She is the Executive Director of the non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project which she collaborated on with the late Barbara Ehrenreich. She is also the author of two books of poetry and the creator of "Going for Broke," also producing the show's first season, a podcast. She has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. Her awards include an Emmy, an SPJ Award, and a Nieman fellowship. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
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Lorna has done crime prevention community work and offered astrological input to the police for homicide investigation. She is also a naturalist. Her nature articles have appeared in the "Toronto Field Naturalist" and "Conscious Country Magazine". She has also sold greeting cards that feature her nature photographs.
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Horacio Valsecia Horacio, the author of the Child Report, the Adult Report, Vocational Guidance, Solar Return, and Lunar Return.
Born September 29, 1958, 10:52p.m., in Corrientes, Argentina, under the sign of Libra, with Gemini as rising sign. With Uranus in the 3rd house and Mars in Gemini, his vocation for writing astrological and metaphysical subjects was manifested at a young age, beginning to publish articles at Kier Editorial uninterruptedly since 1983.
Horacio was an astrologer from the age of 21 and he also dedicated himself to teaching and transmitting his knowledge about the subject. Also, he has written, Egyptian Tarot Course, Spanish Tarot Card Course, etc. and he published his first book in Argentina called "New Age Love". Horacio passed away on February 14, 2000.
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IPSE: "Narrow" self-isolation exemptions list "leaves freelancers in the lurch again"
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said that the government's "narrow" self-isolation exemptions list leaves many freelancers – even those who are double-vaccinated – being forced to self-isolate and lose income in the coming weeks.
IPSE has said that although it is understandable the government's list is based on the critical importance of certain industries, it fails to take into account working situations, thus leaving many freelancers who cannot work from home standing to lose significant income.
This comes after new data revealed that a record 618,903 people were told to isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app in the week to 15 July, causing staff absences within businesses and supply chain disruption.
From 16 August, those with two vaccine doses will not be required to isolate. IPSE is calling for government to bring this forward and expand its list of exempt industries to include double-vaccinated people in self-employed dominated industries such as construction, building trades and transport drivers.
Derek Cribb, CEO of IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed), said: "The government's narrow self-isolation exemptions list yet again leaves freelancers and the self-employed in the lurch. Although it is understandable that government has focused on critical industries, it has failed to account for people's working conditions and the fact that for many self-employed people, being told to isolate can be a financial catastrophe.
"From plumbers to construction workers, many of the UK's self-employed cannot work from home: isolation can therefore mean up to 10 days of lost earnings and delays to projects. Freelancers have felt the worst of the financial impact of the pandemic – especially the up to one million who were left entirely without support. For many of them, therefore, the fact that government has let them fall through the cracks again will be a serious blow.
"We urge the government to consider the damage the enormous and growing number of self-isolation orders is doing to many self-employed people. If it cannot bring the test and release system forward, we urge the government to extend the list of exemptions for double vaccinated people to include self-employed-dominated industries such as construction and business trades."
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The dust has nearly settled on new German solar photovoltaic (solar PV) tariffs.
The new tariffs, new degression schedule, and new limits on generation are all being widely reported in the trade press. I won't go over ground covered more effectively by others. See the links below for more information.
What is clear is that Germany's renewable energy policy will be a key issue in the upcoming federal elections. Unlike in North America, the fight will not be about whether to have a renewable energy policy or not. No, that decision has been made. Instead, the fight will be about how fast to develop new renewables, especially solar PV, and who will get to own the generation.
The new tariffs in particular penalize homeowners, small businesses, and farmers by limiting the amount of electricity they can sell to the grid. Only 80% of solar PV generation from this tranche qualify for the new tariffs, effectively cutting the tariff even further than the posted price.
Large groundmounted systems, in contrast, can sell all their generation at the posted price.


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Bronxville Middle School Presents 'Fiddler on the Roof Jr.'
The cast and crew for Bronxville Middle School's production of "Fiddler on the Roof, Jr."pose for a photograph. Photo Credit: Contributed (courtesy of Bronxville Union Free School District)
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- Bronxville Middle School will present its production of "Fiddler on the Roof Jr.," on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30.
Under the direction of theater director Pamela Simpson, who has been the high school musical and vocal director for the last 17 years, the production features more than 50 talented students who are part of the cast and crew.
"It has been such an absolute joy to work with these students," Simpson said. "Their professionalism, dedication and hard work have been evident since our first interest meeting. They have all been so kind and supportive of one another and it's beautiful to witness."
"Fiddler on the Roof Jr." tells the story of a poor dairyman who tries to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his close-knit community in the face of changing times and government persecution. Throughout the show, the audience will see the many facets of the family's life – joy, love, sadness and betrayal.
"Traditions are repeated and also broken as the new generation finds their own way," Simpson said. "It's a wonderful musical for middle school students as they are also searching for the place where they fit in."
Simpson chose "Fiddler on the Roof Jr." in part because of the timely subject matter. "While the show is in no means political, we have talked about situations in the world where people are forced to leave their homelands," she said. "We have tried to have an understanding of what it might be like to leave the people and places you love."
Taking the helm as vocal director this year is Bronxville graduate Hannah Geiling. Charlie Diserens, also a Bronxville graduate, is the crew and technical director, while Jason Summers is returning for his second season as choreographer.
As part of the theater experience, Simpson said they've been holding workshops to teach students how technology plays a role in theater.
"The beauty of 'Fiddler' is its simplicity," Simpson said. "There are no revolving stages or pyrotechnics. We follow the lives of the people in the village of Anatevka and, in the end, we hope our vision of the story leaves you holding those dear to you a little closer."
The performances on both nights will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by clicking here.
Bronxville Middle School is at 177 Pondfield Road, Bronxville.


Cannon Street Brickworks was one of the four substantial works in Stoke-on-Trent at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Cannon Street Brick Company operated from its central Hanley works during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It appears in trade directories for 1912 but not 1921.


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Ken Coates discusses 'trigger warnings' on CBC's The Current
MLI senior fellow Ken Coates was recently part of a panel discussion on CBC Radio's The Current, discussing how universities should treat potentially disturbing material in class, and how to avoid triggering emotional distress in students. CBC notes that Oberlin College in Ohio "has passed a motion that requires professors to 'be aware of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, able-ism, and other issues of privilege and oppression.' It also calls on professors to remove triggering material -- anything that may cause a damaging emotional response -- when it doesn't directly contribute to learning goals. It also encourages professors to 'strongly consider' making triggering material optional."
Coates, who is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the University of Saskatchewan's Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and author of Campus Confidential: 100 Startling Things You Don't Know About Canadian Universities, was joined on the panel by Carrie Rentschler of McGill University and Raechel Tiffe of Merrimack College. Coates argued that universities are very concerned with the psychological well-being of students and have many mechanisms to help them, but the he doesn't support warnings on class materials. "The world has changed and I think we should be really careful about being overprotective of university students", Coates said.
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Henry Butler (16 or 17 November 1821 – 22 August 1885), was a surgeon and politician in colonial Tasmania.

Butler was the third son of Gamaliel Butler, solicitor, and was born in Cornhill, London, England. In 1823 the family emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). Butler was educated in England, and chose medicine as his profession, becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843, and in 1849 a fellow of that college. After studying at some of the hospitals on the Continent, he returned to Tasmania, and began the practice of his profession in Hobart.

Butler contested the seat of Brighton in the old unicameral Tasmanian Legislative Council without success in 1851, however he was elected in 1854. On the introduction of free institutions in September 1856 he entered the new Tasmanian House of Assembly (lower house) as member for Brighton, holding the seat, apart from the period from November 1862 to October 1866, until his death. In August 1869 Butler became a member of the James Wilson Ministry without portfolio. In the following October he was appointed Minister of Lands and Works, a position which he held till November 1872, when he resigned with his colleagues. He succeeded Sir Robert Officer as Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in April 1877, and having been twice re-elected in the interval, resigned in July 1885. Dr. Butler took a prominent part in educational matters. In 1853 he was appointed a member of the Central Board of Education for the colony. In 1856, when two boards were appointed, he became Chairman of the Southern Board. In 1863, shortly after the amalgamation of the two boards, he was appointed Chairman of the Central Board in succession to William Nairn. Butler had the role of Surveyor General of Tasmania (as Minister of Lands) from 1869 to 1872. As chairman he administered the educational system of the colony with ability and success until the abolition of the Board of Education in 1884 and the transference of the control of the education department to a Minister directly responsible to Parliament. Dr. Butler married Catherine Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith, of Glen Rock, Sydney. He died at Hobart on 22 August 1885.

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The town of Crested Butte has received more than 200 vacation rental license applications for short-term rentals in town under the town's new rules regulating vacation rental properties.
The deadline to apply without a penalty was December 31. As of Tuesday, 206 total applications were approved for renewal at least temporarily. Applicants have until the end of January to pay their fees.
There are two types of vacation rental licenses. The first is an unlimited license that allows eligible property to be short-term rented for an unrestricted number of nights each year. The town imposed a 30 percent cap on such rentals, which would limit that number at 212. If that cap is reached, a waiting list will be started.
The second license is meant for "locals" and their primary homes. A home in town that serves as a primary residence for locals can be rented up to 60 nights a year. There is no cap on the number of those licenses.
The unlimited license application fee is $750 per year and the primary residence license fee is $200 annually.
Only 13 applications submitted are for the primary residence license.
According to Treadwell, 176 approved vacation rental license renewals have paid all the license fees and are operating with temporary licenses. Five of these are temporary primary residence vacation rental licenses. Meanwhile, 21 property owners are on the wait list for an unlimited vacation rental license.
In 2017, there were 247 people on the town's vacation rental list. Of those, 38 people informed the town they would not be applying for the new licenses. Treadwell said property owners in town, especially those who had rented their property in the past, had been informed of the new licensing requirements.
"On October, 25 the town mailed letters to 40 local residents with active vacation rental business licenses informing them that two types of vacation rental licenses had been created; the 'Unlimited Vacation Rental License' or a 'Primary Residence Vacation Rental License,'" Treadwell explained.
Treadwell said that on December 18, the town mailed out 45 more reminder letters to vacation rental business license holders who had not taken any action to renew their licenses for 2018.
Treadwell said this notification process has resulted in some license holders contacting town to inform Treadwell that they will not be renewing their vacation rental license. Others have submitted their renewal forms. Some have not taken any action to renew or not renew.
Temporary licenses are being issued to applicants until an inspection of the property is performed. Treadwell said inspections would begin the second week of January.
The inspections will focus on "life-safety" issues, along with neighborhood impacts. Treadwell explained that he would be looking for things like working fire extinguishers and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Proper parking spaces and bear-proof trashcans will also be looked at during the process. The parking is a major consideration for the town. Inspections are scheduled by appointment.
Renewal applications will be accepted until January 31 but there will be an additional $500 fee.


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Олівія Гонсалес (14 жовтня 1978) — мексиканська плавчиня.
Учасниця Олімпійських Ігор 1996 року, де в змаганнях груп у складі своєї збірної посіла останнє, 8-ме, місце.

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The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists expanding institutional critique in the 1990s, Dion adopted the methods of the archaeologist or the natural history museum, juxtaposing natural objects, taxidermy, books, and more to reorganize the natural and the manmade in poetic, witty ways. These sculptures, installations, and interventions offer novel approaches to questioning institutional power, which he sees as connected to the control and representation of nature.
Generously illustrated, this publication introduces new insights and features more than seventy-five artworks. Essays address topics ranging from Dion's ecological activism to his loving critique of museums. A diverse group of contributors explores his work as a teacher, his public artworks such as Neukom Vivarium in Seattle, and his intricate curiosity cabinets installed throughout the world. They reveal how Dion's practice and formal investigations—which are rooted in history—connect to contemporary questions of disciplinary boundaries and the acquisition of knowledge in the age of the Anthropocene.
Ruth Erickson is Mannion Family Curator at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.