Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to get an early start to what his public itinerary indicates may be a fair-to-middlingly busy day by dropping in on the inaugural meeting of the Prime Minister's Youth Council, which gets underway just after 8 a.m. this morning.
After that wraps up, it's off to caucus for 10 a.m., after which the PM will get a short break before taking his front-bench seat in the Chamber for the always raucous Wednesday edition of Question Period.
Conservative MP Andrew Scheer is expected to formally launch his bid for the party leadership when he hits the stage at the National Press Theatre at 1:30 p.m.
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand takes questions on his latest recommended fixes and enhancements to the federal election laws, which were tabled in the House on Tuesday.
Senator Nancy Greene Raine unveils the details of her proposed ban on "food and beverage marketing directed at children under 13 years old," which is laid out in her recently-introduced public bill.
When the Commons Chambers re-opens later this afternoon, MPs will pick up where they left off the previous day in debating the merits and weaknesses of the government's proposal to set up a special parliamentary committee to oversee national security and intelligence agencies and operations, which both the Conservatives and the New Democrats seem to feel does not go nearly far enough in ensuring its autonomy from the Prime Minister's Office.
MPs will also vote on several items of private members' business, including, perhaps most contentiously, a New Democrat-backed effort to ban the use of replacement workers during labour disruptions, which will likely fail to garner the necessary support from within the Liberal benches to pass.
Finance kicks off the testimonial portion of their pre-budget consultations with an extended three-hour session, during which members are slated to hear from no fewer than thirteen witnesses, including Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde and Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Aaron Wudrick, as well as representatives from additional First Nations advocacy groups, as well as industry associations, labour unions and other interested organizations.
Over at Status of Women, MPs resume their ongoing investigation into violence against "young women and girls," with social justice advocate Steph Guthrie set to share her thoughts via video link from Toronto, along with officials from YWCA Canada and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.
Representatives from Leave Out Violence Nova Scotia, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society and Shawn Matthew Glode will provide their collective and respective into suicide on First Nations reserves and within the community during an appearance before Indigenous and Northern Affairs.
Industry members get briefed on the current state of a very specific subset of the manufacturing sector, courtesy of the Entertainment Software Association of Canada and the National Angel Capital Organization.
Later this evening, members of an "all-party parliamentary delegation" will team up with EF Canada officials to share the details of a "first-of-its-kind, nationwide scholarship program," which will be timed, according to the advisory, "around the historic 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge," and continue throughout the 150th anniversary celebrations.
Reevely: Tax rebates for vacant buildings shoot through the roof, costing... @Kady: Surprise! It's a Senate Liberal caucus shuffle!


Ghost in the Shell, a fantasy/mystery has amazing graphics with a lot of detail built into the main character, buildings and enemy robots. The movie, directed by Rupert Sanders, is based on an anime by the same name released in 1996 in the U.S.
Major (Scarlett Johansson) is cyber-enhanced a perfect soldier and the only one of her kind. The best scene in this movie has to be when Major is on top of a building. The anxiety of watching her on the edge of the building as she calmly falls off is goosebumpy.
Sanders put so much time and work in this movie to make it look like the original animated one Ghost in the Shell which is out of this world. It's a good watch. The movie was released in theaters March 16. The budget was $110 million and produced by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks . It has made about $40 million in the United States.


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Perl, is the first contact with dynamic languages for me(Pascal -> C -> C++ before perl). I've not written much Perl lately. Mostly because I have worked in a C++ environment. My small perl hacks where not especially appreciated, because some of my coworkers where afraid to learn new things.
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Arts|MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New 'Genius' Fellowships
MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New 'Genius' Fellowships
Okwui Okpokwasili, a choreographer and performer from New York, won one of 25 MacArthur "genius" fellowships.CreditCreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times
By Sopan Deb
There was laundry to be done for Okwui Okpokwasili, a choreographer and performer, as she walked out of her Brooklyn home early last month toward a laundromat. She was getting ready to fly to Berlin that night and, adding to her irritation, she kept missing calls from an unidentified number.
When Ms. Okpokwasili, 46, returned the call, an automated voice message provided no clarity. Maybe she was getting spammed, she thought. Then her phone rang again showing the same number, and she picked up on the street. A man with a friendly voice asked if she was alone.
Ms. Okpokwasili rehearsing her work "Poor People's TV Room" in 2017.CreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times
"I was like, 'This tone doesn't feel like a spamming tone.' So I dialed back my aggro-ness," Ms. Okpokwasili said, and then she found a tree away from prying ears to stand under.
The man had been trying to get in touch to tell her she was receiving one of this year's 25 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships. Commonly if not officially known as "genius" grants, they recognize "exceptional creativity" in various fields and come with no-strings-attached awards of $625,000 each, distributed over five years.
[See the full list of winners.]
The selection process, and the people who choose the winners, are kept mostly confidential, but 20 to 30 fellows are picked every year, with the hope that the money and recognition will help spur more creative work. There are no applications for the award. Past winners include Lin-Manuel Miranda and David Simon, but most of the recipients are less well known.
Ms. Okpokwasili is a multidisciplinary performance artist whose solo show "Bronx Gothic," inspired by her Bronx upbringing, won a Bessie, the dance world's equivalent of the Tonys, in 2014. She said she reacted to the news of her MacArthur fellowship at first with confusion and shock. As she went through a whirlwind of emotions, she proceeded to the laundromat to take her clothes out of the dryer. Ms. Okpokwasili was so worked up that she took out someone else's clothes.
A new reality was sinking in, she said in an interview last week: "I'm in a whole new tax bracket."
This year's winners, announced on Thursday, spanned several professions; they include a journalist, scientists, artists, musicians, writers and a human rights lawyer.
Ken Ward Jr., an investigative journalist who has reported for The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia ever since he graduated from West Virginia University in 1990, received the call in his newsroom as he was going to the coffee maker. Mr. Ward, 50, has won acclaim for his dogged coverage of the coal industry, including the 2014 Elk River industrial chemical spill that left 300,000 people across nine counties without access to clean drinking water. Given the tumult of local newspapers all over the country — including the sale of The Gazette-Mail this year, causing layoffs — Mr. Ward was thankful and, of course, surprised by the fellowship, which gave him a "great sort of nest egg."
Ken Ward, an investigative reporter for The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, won a fellowship.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
"It's a great kind of financial security for my family," Mr. Ward said. "I hope to keep doing the kind of work I am doing and maybe find some ways to do some experimentation of other ways to do local journalism."
One hitch for grantees is that they can tell only one person before the winners are announced. Sarah T. Stewart, a planetary scientist at the University of California-Davis, could tell only her husband, she said, even though she found out about the award a month ago, something she called "a form of torture." Dr. Stewart studies planet formation, with a focus on planetary collisions — a key process in the growth and evolution of planets.
Through her labwork and modeling, Dr. Stewart, 45, has been able to increase understanding about Earth's origin, and has proposed a new theory on how the moon was formed: It is the result of a synestia, a cloud of vaporized and molten rock produced when two objects collide at high velocity. Under Dr. Stewart's theory, both the Earth and the Moon formed from the same synestia, which would explain why both share similar characteristics. She wasn't quite sure what she would do with her $625,000.
"My personal goal is to do something new," Dr. Stewart said. "I don't want to do what I'm doing now because other agencies are already funding that. I'm thinking of it as an opportunity to do something creative and exactly what that is, I do not know. There may be some philanthropy involved but it will just not be the same."
Livia S. Eberlin, who has been an analytical chemist at the University of Texas-Austin for almost three years, was sitting in her office expecting a call from someone else when the foundation called.
Livia S. Eberlin, left, an analytical chemist at the University of Texas-Austin, develops methods to better detect diseases.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
"I was in disbelief at first, but it sounded very official," she said. Dr. Eberlin, 32, moved to the United States a decade ago after completing her undergraduate studies in Brazil, where she grew up.
After completing her Ph.D. at Purdue University and a post-doctorate at Stanford University, she now develops chemical methods and technologies to measure molecules from clinical samples like tissues. This information is used to better detect diseases, including cancer. Her crowning achievement, she said, was the development of the MasSpec Pen, a hand-held device that can detect cancer by touching human tissue.
Although many MacArthur fellows have no political element to their work, many winners align with the foundation's liberal values and mission ("creating a more just, verdant and peaceful world"). One winner this year is the Rev. William J. Barber II, a North Carolina pastor who has become a leading civil rights activist. In 2013, when he was still president of the North Carolina N.A.A.C.P., he rose to prominence with "Moral Monday" protests in Raleigh to combat voting-rights restrictions. He spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and has been a vocal critic of President Trump.
On Thursday, when reached by The News & Observer, a Raleigh-based newspaper, Mr. Barber, 55, was in Chicago leading a demonstration in support of raising the minimum wage. "I've just been arrested in Chicago, and I'm waiting on their process," Mr. Barber told The News & Observer. "For minimum wage, in front of McDonald's headquarters."
The foundation, which has long supported refugee and immigration causes and has been critical of Mr. Trump's policies, also gave a fellowship to Becca Heller, a human rights lawyer who runs the International Refugee Assistance Project, or IRAP.
Becca Heller, a lawyer in New York, runs the International Refugee Assistance Project and challenged President Trump's travel ban.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The organization, with a staff of 51 and 3,000 volunteers, provides legal aid to refugees from roughly 70 countries around the world, in addition to being politically active in immigration matters. When President Trump signed an executive order early in his presidency banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, Ms. Heller's group organized lawyers to immediately head to airports to help travelers who were blocked from entering the country. IRAP also was one of the groups that challenged the travel ban in court. They ultimately lost before the Supreme Court, though the groups' earlier court victories forced the president to modify his ban twice.
Ms. Heller, 36, said of her award, "I'm hoping that this allows us to shine a spotlight both on the issues facing refugees and immigrants, and also specifically on the cool and innovative things we're trying to do to address the issues."
Oh, and she'd also like to pay off her law school debt.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: 25 Win 'Genius' Grants. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners for 2018: The Full List
A Travel Ban's Foe: A Young Firebrand and Her Pro Bono Brigade
An Artist Who Blurs Bodies and Genres in Protest

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Sometimes, these symptoms are associated with actual nerve damage, such as in post-surgical pain or neuropathy. Sometimes, though, it is associated with excessively reactive and sensitive nerves, such as in fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome.
Is there a cure for nerve pain?
The first goal involves reducing pain and other symptoms. The second goal is two-fold: to reduce the fear, anger, anxiety, depression or sleep problems that tend to go along with living with chronic pain, and reducing the sense of disability that tends to occur with pain. Overall, these goals amount to assisting the patient to live well, work, and be involved in life, despite having some chronic nerve pain symptoms.
All three types of clinics treat nerve pain symptoms and the chronic pain disorders associated with them.
Common symptom management therapies include lidocaine patches, antidepressant medications, anticonvulsant medications, opioid medications, cognitive behavioral therapy, epidural steroid injection, nerve burning procedures called radiofrequency neuroablations, implantable spinal cord stimulators, surgeries, and chronic pain rehabilitation programs.


Description	 Ru's Sacrifice a Hand disables the Shields skill entirely and converts any Shields experience into piety, since one can no longer use a shield with a one-handed weapon (and apparently wielding *only* a shield is discouraged).
By this logic the same should apply to Bows, as none are one-handed. Presently, the game prohibits the use of bows after Sacrifice a Hand but the Bows skill remains active and trainable. Bows is the only weapon category with no one-handed option.
Sacrifice a Hand should disable the Bows skill and convert any Bows experience to piety, the same as with Shields.
Fixed in trunk a couple of weeks ago (0.17-a0-1953-gc7f8bfc), thanks!


Grilled Salmon Soft Tacos This recipes sounds AWESOME! But while in Kauai and Maui, I have fallen in love with Ono fish, it is soooo good in fish tacos.
This is so easy and quick, but the salmon is perfectly cooked and seasoned. With a bag salad and French bread, a great home cooked dinner is on the table in minutes.
One-Pan Salmon Asparagus recipe with a lemon-garlic-herb butter. Every bite is so juicy and flavorful! A reader favorite, 20-minute salmon dinner.
Place salmon fillet on center of each foil piece. Sprinkle with lemon pepper seasoning salt and salt; top with chives. Arrange lemon slices over salmon.
In a small microwave safe bowl, microwave butter until very softened, almost melted. Stir in garlic, lemon zest, salt, and red pepper flakes. Spoon mixture all over salmon fillets.
Looking for a great way to serve salmon? Lemon and dill are a great pair in the marinade and in the creamy yogurt sauce.
Thank you Alice for sharing this recipe and for adding your additional notes. I cooked salmon in the microwave tonight for the first time, with the mayo and a mild curry powder topping and it was delicious.
Cook the rice following pack instructions and 3 mins before it's done, add the soya beans. Drain and cool under cold running water. Meanwhile, put the salmon on a plate, then microwave on High for 3 mins or until cooked through.
Poaching salmon in a buttery white wine sauce in the microwave is a quick and easy method of preparing salmon and will save your kitchen from smelling of fish all evening.
An easy to prepare healthy salmon meal for mid-week, from BBC Good Food.
Try Giada De Laurentiis' Salmon Baked in Foil recipe from Everyday Italian on Food Network. This foil packet method keeps the fish extra tender and moist.


In my previous entry, I introduced Shirzad Chamine and his contention that we all have mental Saboteurs. And the universal Saboteur, to which we can all relate, is The Judge!
Where do those Saboteurs come from? Interestingly, Chamine contends that we unknowingly adopt them to help us cope with the emotional and physical struggles of childhood. They are actually an aid for helping us "get by" those times when we feel alone or we just don't understand what's happening.
Unfortunately, these Saboteurs are not like our baby teeth, naturally shed to make way for more mature ways of dealing with our environment. Like an old habit (which they are), they just hang around and hang us up!
For more insight, take a look at "You Adopted Your Mental Saboteurs to Help You Survive."


Today I learned that an old friend of mine is suffering from cancer. She is an entrepreneur, who has built up a thriving business in the past twenty-five years. She has traveled the world, met fascinating people, been married to a wonderful man, and raised beautiful children. She has battled cancer before; the last time was at least a decade ago, more, perhaps.
When she came home from the hospital after surgery, the last time, I decided my job was to get her out of the house for walks. We would bundle up, as it was still blustery and cold, and drive over to Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park. It's a wonderful park, especially off season when it isn't crowded; there is a long, crescent-shaped concrete promenade with arcades. The paving is smooth, and easy to navigate. In other words, there is nothing natural about it, except for Long Island Sound. Still, it was, for us, a deeply soothing place. We would walk very slowly, my arm crooked in hers; she would lean on me, every few steps, to rest, and then we would proceed. With every walk, we covered more of the promenade. From time to time, we would stop and lean against a hot concrete wall, and I would make jokes about how we were like those Russians in old photographs, starved for sunshine in the middle of winter. During those walks I would catch a glimmer of the future, beckoning us. This is what it will be like, I would think, this is what it will be like to grow old with friends; we will walk slowly, and lean on one another, and wait for each other to catch up, knowing that there is no longer a rush to get anywhere....And then I would brush that vision aside. Because we were always in a rush, a rush to get better, a rush to get somewhere--somewhere else, wherever we were not. Now of course I see that we would be lucky just to get back to that place, right where we were, contemplating our future old age together.
In the course of this afternoon's long talk, she said, "You know, people say that when something like this disease strikes you, you're supposed to think about what you are going to do with the time you have left--where do you want to go? Well, I've been to all kinds of amazing places. I've eaten at the finest restaurants. I've seen so much. None of that interests me now. I don't want to go anywhere. I just want to be at home. Do you know what I mean?"
Yes, I do. Many of us have spent our lives working hard, and mothering intensely, and loving deeply. And then something happens, some crack in the floor opens up, and we realize, suddenly, that there is one important thing we haven't done, and that has to do with a simple feeling of enjoyment. We haven't given ourselves the time to appreciate what we've accomplished; we haven't allowed ourselves a rest, and a chance to absorb all that we've exposed ourselves to; we haven't given ourselves permission to be happy.
"Now I know what I want to do with the rest of my days," my friend said. "I just want to be at home." To be, with all the quiet, meditative activity such a verb implies, in the place where we feel safest, most secure, and most free--if only we let ourselves go there. In honor of my friend, I'm going to spend tomorrow at home, not making myself crazy with chores and housekeeping, not leaving to run errands, not sitting at my desk trying to meet deadlines, not worrying about everything or anything. I'm going to let the rosy glow of the sunrise reach me in my bed, feel its warmth across my face at midday, feel the moist heat of the soil as I dig around in the garden, feel the shadows lengthen across the meadow, and think about how, when we feel lost, we can find ourselves...at home.
...as they say, "there's no place like home"!
What a lovely posting. Thank you. I expect you'll have once again struck a chord with many readers.
Not to spend all of my days telling you what to do with all of your 99 cents......but you should download this song (see link below). The poem is by Jane Yoland, and the song was written/sung by the inimitable June Tabor. I think you'll enjoy it on your Cistercian day at home.
et marchent lentement sur les chemins de foret.
Speaking of enjoyment, I am having such a good time reading SLOW LOVE. I didn't expect it to be so funny! It makes me want to send an email blast to all my friends urging them to go buy this book right away. Thanks for the reading pleasure.
This post takes my breath away.
Those of us who have survived cancer know how important home is. So glad you friend has a place to be and someone like you to lean on.
Having gone through my husband's bout with cancer and watching him 'circle the drain' a few times, as one resident said, I know how hard it is for family and friends. You're a good friend Dominique! It makes a big difference having a good friend to turn to! I'm turning the journal I kept while my husband had cancer into an e-book. (he's 9yrs. cancer free btw) It should be ready soon, and the cost is just a donation to your cancer charity of choice. It will be available through my blog, zeroto60andbeyond.com.
So glad I found your blog! I'm picking up your book this afternoon!
So true. To be "at home"--to have permission not to run away from the moment or ourselves. I'm still learning how to do that, but with practice I am finding that "at home" for me is to treasure the inner silence and the joy of oneness. Thank you for the wonderful post.
What a profoundly moving & inspiring article. I wish both you and your friend all the best in the coming days. You are both lucky indeed to have each other's friendship. Enjoy every moment of tomorrow.
i think you all would enjoy "If You Knew Suzy" a real celebration of life.
Home. Let's all revel and rejoice in it. What a dear friend you are!
thank you for this post....so very real....authentic...smiles.
I'm truly sorry for your friend's suffering. Cancer has hit our circle of family and friends as well. It's an evil disease. I do hope you and your friend will be able to enjoying BEING with each other and resting together.
I thought your article in Wired hit just the right tone.
I just finished your book, savoring every chapter. In fact I waited 6 hours before finishing the last two. This entry resonates with me as did your book. I'm giving myself permission to enjoy my solitude. My slate is clear, in part I made this happen and in part the universe conspired to take away my hectic, draining schedule that often took more from me than it gave back. I used to fantasize about watching the sun move from room to room of my house instead of sitting in sterile offices in endless meetings. And here I am, wish granted. Your book, and this entry, reminded me how full my life can be even if I spend many hours alone. I'm making peace with my solitude and filling a space within myself that has been empty for a long time. Thank you for the joy your book and blog have brought me.
Loss/tragedy ( in this case, cancer) is a universal experience.
The image of friendship that supports and loves during a crisis is what I hope I will be blessed with. For at 61, there will be loss ahead.
Being at home, safe and warm, has always been my comfort and security blanket. My tin roofed cottage, my gardens, all the sentimental bric a brac around me - give me a sense of past/present/ future that I treasure.
Loved your editorials in H&G, which led me to your books. I have shared them with like-minded friends. One of the small comforts of aging is having companions along the path who process the experience in a similar way.
I am one of the lucky ones. Decisions I made when very young(marrying and leaving my home country), not knowing any better, led me to live far away from my primary family (parents, siblings), so I learned to enjoy solitude, learned to garden, learned to be self-suficient. But I couldn't have survived without friends.
How in one moment, things will change forever. Not a new realization, but this time of life seems to be so uncertain - your beautiful writing joins us all together.
I think the gift of a busy, adventurous, far-flung life is the knowledge that, if we are so fortunate, we might be allowed the chance to roost when it's our choice to do so. To come home filled with memories and experiences and, when we need them most, the chance to savor each one again and again.
I often reply to someone who thinks I'm too busy or over-committed, that I hope when the day comes that I can no longer come and go as I please, I will have my cache of remembered sights, sounds and fragrances. And, they will comfort me and, perhaps, soothe the sting of bad news.
I hope your friend's homecoming brings that kind of peace to her.
Thank you so much for pointing us all back home. When four years ago I found myself laid up at home for what I thought at first might be a week or two, but ended up being months and then large swaths of the last four years, I discovered home. I discovered joy in my kitchen counters, happiness in my potted plants, thrill in making it to my yoga mat. But most importantly I started to soak in home so much that home came inside my body and I realized home was here in my presence and awareness, with me wherever I am. That being said, I still love long quiet days in my own space.
home--soft, warm, accepting, familiar, and kind.
In december of 2007 i lost my best friend to an unusually aggressive cancer. one day, when she was due for a (futile) radiation treatment, I saw how wan and exhausted she looked. "do you want to cancel the treatment and just stay home?" i asked her.
she cried with relief and nodded yes.
she died less than nine days later, at home in her own bed, in the arms of those who cherished her.
To many of us, particularly women, home has become a place of different to-dos. It is laundry, and cleaning, and email checking, and chores. We are always in preparation mode. But for what? For enjoying our homes. For enjoying solitude and offering its peace to others in our lives. This posting made me realize that we can fritter the day away with cleaning (and there is always just one more thing to do that to) or we can simply stop, stay in place, let our homes come down slowly over us. And reap what it is we are attempting, furiously, to sow. Thank you.
this is such a sweet post... i have had several friends pass (all in their 40's) in the last couple years and i have to remember daily that every day is truly a gift... and that all the stuff does not matter... it is family and friends health and love... period.


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How Swisscom improved its newsroom by planning with Desk-Net
4 minutes	read
First of all, it is important to know that we are not a media company."
So begins Roger Baur, who is editor-in-chief at Swisscom's Newsroom. Being editor in chief of a non-media company neatly encapsulates the apparent contradiction that so many companies now find themselves dealing with.
No, of course, Swisscom is not a media company, it is a telecoms provider in Switzerland, supplying broadband, mobile, and TV to the country and indeed beyond via its majority shareholding in Italian telco Fastweb.
Roger Baur
Yet at the same time, it needs to generate, filter, and publish enough information to require a newsroom. It also employs a system involving no fewer than three different editors in chief working on a weekly rotation which is remarkably sophisticated for a 'non-media' company. That schedule requires disciplined scheduling to work smoothly, which is where Desk-Net comes in.
Planning across platforms
Michèle Westhues, Digital Experience Manager at Swisscom's Corporate Communications, gives us an idea of the scale and nature of Swisscom's publishing output.
"Within Swisscom's corporate communications, we mainly publish online across various channels. This includes the intranet, the Internet, newsletters, blogs, and Twitter. All of which are very different. We publish by channel several times a day (intranet), several times a week (Internet, blogs, Twitter) or, depending on the individual newsletter perhaps only a few times a year."
Michèle Westhues
Desk-Net's role in the newsroom
"With Desk-Net we have an overview of all our channels on a planning platform and can also access the planning of channels in other departments such as marketing communications," explains Michèle Westhues. "Users enter their articles, topics or events and campaigns here."
Editor-in-chief Roger Baur explains how it works: "As an example, a topic manager will enter an event into Desk-Net such as 'new product X launching on May 1st.' That means that this topic then gets taken up at a planning coordination meeting where it is decided if it works best as an external article, a media release, a tweet, or a combination of them all."
"After this session, the topic is handed over to an editor. The coordination of who delivers precisely what, and when (video, text, picture, everything together, mixed, parts of it, etc.) is done directly by the editor, and since we use Desk-Net as a planning calendar, it doesn't play a role beyond that point."
Publishing past, and future
Prior to using Desk-Net as their editorial calendar tool, Swisscom relied on a SharePoint based tool. SharePoint is web-based and collaborative with the benefit of Microsoft Office integration, but it is primarily a document management and storage system with little by way of newsroom planning features.
While Swisscom restricts its use of Desk-Net to the planning calendar, it clearly values that function enough that the previous SharePoint approach was streamlined to Desk-Net. This is in line with Swisscom's stated ambition to optimize both the publishing workflow and to standardize on tools.
Our goals are faster publishing, better targeting and the reduction of the number of systems used. We work in an increasingly agile environment with channels coming and going, while the boundaries between different formats are becoming increasingly blurred." - Roger Baur
Swisscom may not be a media company, but such is the pace of media development that it is surfing the same wave of media change as pure media players.
Desk-Net's goal is to help keep it on top of that wave.
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Last Chance Value Picks for NFL Week 14
Dec 10, 2021 at 11:31am EST • 2 min read
Quarterback Taylor Heinicke #4 of the Washington Football Team. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP
This week, there's been a ton of different line movement with players injured and out. But even with all of that taking place, there are still some spots where I see value for December 12, Week 14 in the NFL. Let's see the NFL odds.
Baltimore Ravens vs. Cleveland Browns
Sunday, December 12, 2021 – 01:00 PM EST at FirstEnergy Stadium
The Ravens haven't looked great this season. Yet, they're 8-4 on the season and are a legitimate contender to make the playoffs and do damage in the playoffs. Like it or not. The Ravens are on the road after losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers last week, 20-19.
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It was an embarrassing loss, especially after watching Thursday Night Football between the Steelers and Vikings. The Steelers didn't even look like they wanted any part of the game in the first half. Anyway, two weeks ago, the Ravens beat the Browns, 16-10, at home, despite Lamar Jackson throwing four interceptions.
It was a terrible offensive performance in that game and the Ravens still found a way to beat the Browns. If the Browns lose on Sunday, they'll drop to 6-7. And that's about right where they belong. The offense is averaging just 372 yards per game with only 224.9 yards in the air per game.
The running game can be electric at times, but overall, the Browns just aren't anything this season. Sure, they're coming off a bye week and maybe more healthy than they've been in recent memory, but I'd like to think that the Ravens figure out their offense against the Browns and limit turnovers while playing exceptional defense.
So for our NFL picks, let's take the Ravens getting the points, even on the road. I've got no trust in the Browns and what they've done recently shows me nothing. Cleveland has scored no more than 19 points in any of their last four games and that won't change against the Ravens.
NFL Pick: Ravens +3 (-120) with BetOnline (visit our BetOnline Review)
Ravens +3 (-120)
Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Football
Sunday, December 12, 2021 - 01:00 PM EST at FedExField
It's apparent that the Washington Football Team isn't getting the respect that they deserve. After four straight wins, the Football Team is right back in the mix for the NFC East. If they want this game, they'll have to beat the Cowboys.
If the Football Team beats the Cowboys, they'd be just a game out of first place. This is a huge game for Washington and they've got all the momentum. Washington has been playing in a tight game after a tight game, and now we're getting 4.5 points with Washington?
Sign me up for this. The Cowboys have allowed nearly 400 yards per game on the defensive end and have struggled to get stops outside of their interception spree. It seems like Washington has bought into Taylor Heinicke and the entire system as a whole.
They've played well and now they'll be at home in a big divisional game. There's value on Washington to go beat the Dallas Cowboys. The offense isn't that great but the defense should be able to hold the Cowboys to keep this game close. Even if Washington losses by three, you'll get the cover in your best bets.
NFL Pick: Football Team +4.5 (-110) with BetOnline
Football Team +4.5 (-110)
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Both Geraldine and Dorothy returned home after the war. Geraldine lived at Llanforda Isaf, Oswestry and died on 21 July 1980 in Treflach, Oswestry.
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Dick Cepek continues Bassmaster sponsorship.
STOW, Ohio (Feb. 10, 2016) — Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary Dick Cepek Tires & Wheels is continuing its sponsorship relationship with B.A.S.S. fishing competitions.
As part of its role, the firm will serve as supporting sponsor of the Bassmaster Elite Series, as well as Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Opens Series, B.A.S.S. Nation and Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops.
"Dick Cepek was a true outdoorsman," said Ken Warner, vice president of marketing for Dick Cepek. "He was an adventurer, and he developed tire and wheel products that could conquer any terrain. Our continued relationship with B.A.S.S. reflects the spirit of our brand."
Along with displaying its products and providing promotional material at B.A.S.S. events, the company will offer the Dick Cepek Rolling Forward Award to Elite Series anglers and will award $1,000 to the angler who makes the largest gain in Angler of the Year standings from tournament to tournament.
Dick Cepek-sponsored Elite Anglers for the season include Clifford Pirch, David Walker, J. Todd Tucker and Justin Lucas.
For more information on the Elite tournament schedule, visit Bassmaster.com.


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This interior door is engineered using a high density internal particle board core (PBC) with an pre-finished Oak exterior, providing you with maximum strength and stability for your new internal door. This door also comes with a 10 year warranty, meaning it was built tp last.
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Either Canelo Alvarez got tired of hammering the human heavy bags that were placed in his path.
Or Oscar De La Hoya sensed that Gennady Golovkin was getting ready to join KARP (Kazakhstan Association of Retired People).
Or everyone feared the proposed Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather Gong Show might soak up all the remaining pay-per-view dollars in the universe.
We should not commit overanalysis on what broke the paralysis. Nor should we complain.
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will fight Sept. 16, 2017, A.D. Yes, they will.
The announcement at T-Mobile Arena was a last-second bid to salvage Saturday night, to soothe the shame of devoting money and time to Canelo's slow demolition of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Gee, you think this was in the works all along?
Jerry Jones has long wanted this fight to be at AT&T Stadium, and his Dallas Cowboys are not playing that day. Sanchez said the camps have heard from Dubai. Golden Boy has reserved the Sept. 16 date at T-Mobile, just in case.
The Canelo-Chavez pay-per-view numbers are supposedly very good. They will tell us if boxing has recovered from the $500 million Mayweather-Pacquiao eyesore, which attracted 4.4 million buyers and untold remorse.
Certainly the stars are lining up. Anthony Joshua's win over Wladimir Klitschko in London nine days ago attracted 90,000 customers and was the best scrap between two legit heavyweights in 25 years (Riddick Bowe over Evander Holyfield).
In July Andre Ward will try to beat Sergey Kovalev again. Errol Spence, everybody's favorite young welterweight, goes to London to challenge Kell Brook.
Never mind that Jacobs didn't make the 160-pound middleweight limit and was 180 when the bell rang.
"I guess it is a compliment," Sanchez said, "when you've set such a high standard that people expect absolute dominance every time out.
The early odds favor Golovkin nevertheless. The reason? Strength of schedule.
Golovkin not only beat Jacobs, he battered David Lemieux. Canelo hasn't faced middleweights like that. He knocked out a blown-up Amir Khan, he dismissed the talent-challenged Liam Smith, and he won every round by miles over Chavez, who landed only 71 pitches in 12 rounds and always comes up small regardless of weight.
And Canelo, who made the agreed catch-weight of 164.5 by half a pound, still didn't knock him out.
Showtime analyst and former champion Paulie Maglinaggi thinks Canelo is an eaiser matchup for GGG than Jacobs was.
Ten years ago the media ordained Mayweather-De La Hoya as "The Last Great Fight," another chapter in the eternal boxing-is-dead narrative.
The truth is that you never know when the Next Great Fight happens. But we thought Canelo-GGG might never happen.


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How to Get Ready for Football Season With Workouts
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List of Workouts to Become Explosive for Football
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Football is a game of fairly brief plays, some of which only take a few seconds to complete. With only an occasional exception, the competitors begin each play from a standing start, so explosive power is a key to success. Explosive power helps receivers burst off the line of scrimmage, and allows defenders to push blockers aside before the offensive player can counter the move.
Plyometric Workouts
Plyometric exercises are specifically designed to boost your explosive power, so they deserve a place in any football player's workout routine. Do exercises such as box or depth jumps, single-leg jumps, hurdle hops and medicine-ball throws. To perform a stand-alone plyometrics workout, select three to five exercises and do a total of 120 to 140 repetitions. Perform plyometric workouts four times each week, but don't train the same muscles on consecutive days. If you do jumps on one day, for example, you can perform upper-body plyometric activities the next day.
Performing standard resistance exercises such as squats, deadlifts and bench presses add strength that can help you build explosive power. To develop explosive strength more directly, do the standard exercises at a fast pace, or perform activities such as box or bottom-up squats, kettlebell swings and asterisk lunges, in which you lunge quickly in different directions while holding dumbbells. Perform two to five exercises per workout, two or three days each week, with at least one day of rest between workouts.
Agility Drill Workouts
To improve your ability to change directions and accelerate explosively, perform four or five agility drills, such as running back and forth between cones set up in various shapes. For example, set up four cones in a square, 5 yards apart. Run straight from the first cone to the second, run laterally to your right to the third cone, backpedal to the fourth cone and then run laterally to the left, to the first cone. Do the workout twice each week.
Hill Training
Hill running is a functional exercise that builds lower-body strength. Sprint up a short hill -- roughly a 50-yard distance -- as fast as possible, eight to 10 times. Conclude the workout with two or three explosive, standing starts on level ground. Do the workout two or three times per week, but not on consecutive days.
Stack: Top 3 Plyometric Exercises for Explosive Football Players
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Brian Mac Sports Coach: Hill Training
M.L. Rose has worked as a print and online journalist for more than 20 years. He has contributed to a variety of national and local publications, specializing in sports writing. Rose holds a B.A. in communications.


There are many good reasons for making a will. A will records who you (the "testator") wish to benefit from your estate (that is, your assets). You can provide for people - such as friends - who would not be entitled to anything from your estate if you died without a will.
If you die without a will (called dying "intestate"), the law dictates who will receive your assets after you die: see How to deal with a relative dying without a will.
What should go in the will?
The most important things to provide for in your will are who will be your executors, and who will be the beneficiaries of your assets.
In making your will, you should consider any future children you may have, and provide for them in your will. You should also consider how you would like your property to be distributed should your spouse or partner die at the same time as you.
It is also possible in a will to forgive any debts owed to you.
You should consider who you want to be the executor of your will (the person that your will appoints to manage and distribute your estate). The executors will be in charge of carrying out your wishes, so they should be responsible and trustworthy.
It is preferable that you appoint two people to be executors, in case one of them dies before you do.
What are the formal requirements for a valid will?
The two witnesses should preferably be at least 20 years old.
Witnesses cannot be beneficiaries under the will, and nor can the spouse or civil union or de facto partner of a witness. If they are beneficiaries, this does not make the will invalid, but they are not entitled to receive anything under the will.
Do I need a lawyer to draw up the will?
The will need not be drafted by a lawyer. Printed forms for drawing up your own will are available from major stationery stores.
However, the cost of getting a lawyer to draw up your will are relatively small. Further, if the will is relatively straightforward, some law firms may not charge for this service. In any event, even a small charge would be cheap compared to the problems that can arise if a will is badly drafted and therefore unclear, or if the will is invalid because it has not been signed and witnessed properly.
What if I make a spoken promise to provide for someone in my will?
A will must be in writing: a spoken will is not binding. However, if you promise to provide for someone in your will in return for services that he or she has performed for you (for example, looking after you while you were sick), that person may bring a claim against your estate under the LAW REFORM TESTAMENTARY (PROMISES) ACT 1949. For more details, see How to contest a will.
Can I change my will after I've made it?
Yes, you can do this either by making a new will or by adding a "codicil" (an amendment) to the will: see How to change a will.
These are explained in detail in How to contest a will.
If you are concerned about whether your children will benefit under your will if you leave everything to your spouse, you can establish a family trust in your will to ensure that your children's needs will be met (see How to establish a trust).
Badly drafted wills can lead to much confusion after the maker of the will has died, and you should therefore try to be as clear as possible in stating your intentions in the will. Obtaining the services of a lawyer will greatly reduce the likelihood of any difficulties to do with the validity or the interpretation of your will.


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Q: Three.js Moving the camera along a path after click event For the past ... many hours, I've tried, searched and read on how to get a camera moving along a path in Three.js. I just can't seem to find it, or I've become saturated and can't see an answer, even if it bit me in the face.
What I want isn't that hard. I have several icon-like things in a 3D space, that I want to be able to click on. I've got the THREEx extension for it, so that part is fine. Now the part where the camera moves smoothly along a predetermined path, together with its lookAt Y-axis, so that it faces the next 'icon'.
My first approach was to make a path using a Bezier curve and find out how to make one of those in a spiral-shape going slightly upwards, then finding out how to animate the camera along that path after the click event. I'm still stuck - hard - at trying to find out how to make a simple path that curves upwards, let alone the daunting part after.
Am I on the right track at all? If so, how do I make a path like that? Or should I just make a regular Bezier curve and rotate and edit that until it fits my needs? And lastly, how dow I make the camera follow the path in a (short) animated, smooth motion?
Thanks in advance!

A: Take a look at this link: http://cubic.org/docs/hermite.htm
It explains curve calculation, including variations you'll want to be aware. For example, a bezier curve is not a good curve for animation because it does not drop points equal distant front one another, leading to an unintended speed changes with the camera.
At the link, the discussion starts with a quit math explainer, provides pseudo code, and then shows how to derive several popular types of curves with variations of the same initial math. This continues to TCB: Tension, Continuity, & Bias Curves, which give you the nice type of controls you'll want on your camera.

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Q: Catastrophic Exception on ConnectAsync w/in BackgroundTask [UWP] Trying to do a simple ConnectAsync in a BackgroundTask.
It throws a Catastrophic Exception (0x8000FFFF) which can be seen when "Break on all Exceptions" is turned on. I have even rolled by my source to known good branches and it still does this.
my code:
IBandClient client = null;
try
{
    client = await BandClientManager.Instance.ConnectAsync(band);
}
catch { }

Exception:

System.Exception occurred
  Message: Exception thrown: 'System.Exception' in Microsoft.Band.Store.dll
  Additional information: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))

In v20217 the DLL name is Microsoft.Band.Store_UAP.dll
The curious thing is even after throwing this exception, client still gets populated with an IBandClient object.
Seems like we could do better in terms of the exception being thrown (or better yet not throw one).

A: The Band SDK documentation (section 9.3.2) indicates that one might notice an (expected but not blocking) exception when using the SDK within a background task of a Universal application, related to retrieval of the application ID.
Obviously "expected exceptions" are not ideal, but sometimes the design of the underlying platform APIs leave little choice.


Input a start and finish destination and desired time and see the step by step results of public transport options. Straightforward and sorted!
CityLink - The CityLink bus service operates every 30 minutes (every 15 minutes during evening commuter hours) between Southampton's Central station (South Side) and Red Funnel's ferry terminals via the WestQuay shopping centre. The journey time (Southampton Central <> Town Quay ferry terminals) is approximately 7 minutes.
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Direct local rail services via South West Trains run to Totton, Romsey, Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh and Southampton Airport from Southampton Central. There are also 7 local stations at Redbridge, Millbrook, Swaythling, St. Denys, Bitterne, Woolston and Sholing.
National Express provide more than 500,000 coach journeys to and from Southampton Coach Station every year with the most popular journeys to London, Bournemouth and Portsmouth.
Details of all transport options can be found at the My Journey website, a one-stop-shop for travel needs.


Relatives of Ukrainian political prisoners took part in the OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw (Poland) and talked about the crimes of the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea today, September 13, according to the information on the website of the public organization CrimeaSOS.
Aliye Degermendzhi, wife of a Crimean Tatar involved in the "Vedzhie Kashka case" and the mother of the person involved in the "case of February 26", as well as Umer Ibragimov, the father of Ervin Ibragimov who was kidnapped in the annexed peninsula, participated in the round table "Violation of human rights and international crimes in the Crimea".
"In 2015 my son was arrested, in 2017 - they took my husband. All the charges against them are fabricated and false. We came here to say not only about our pain, we are talking about the pain of the entire Crimean Tatar people. Men who are currently in jail are very sick. Therefore, we are asking you to help us find a solution to this problem," Aliye Degermendzhi said.
Father of Ervin Ibragimov asked the OSCE to help find his son who was kidnapped in the Crimea in 2016.
Earlier, the speech of Russian propagandists in the Crimea was blocked at the OSCE conference. When one of the representatives of the Russian delegation introduced himself from the rostrum saying "Republic of Crimea, Russia", his microphone was turned off.


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The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is an area in London, England where a fee is charged for driving the most polluting vehicles.

Plans were laid out under Mayor Boris Johnson and introduced by Sadiq Khan in April 2019 in Central London, covering the same area as the congestion charge. In the four months following its introduction there was a 20% reduction in emissions in Central London and the number of the worst polluting vehicles dropped from 35,600 to 23,000.

However, some research suggests the ULEZ caused only small improvements to air quality.

In August 2023 it will extend to cover all of Greater London.

Current charging scheme
The £12.50 charge applies 24 hours a day every day of the year, and is based on European emission standards:

    Motorbikes that do not meet Euro 3 standards (most vehicles pre-2007)
    Petrol cars and vans that do not meet Euro 4 standards (most vehicles pre-2006)
    Diesel cars and vans that do not meet Euro 6 standards (most vehicles pre-2015)
    Buses, coaches and lorries must meet or exceed the Euro VI standard or pay £100 a day

History and planned extension

Plans for an ultra–low emission zone were under consideration since 2014 under Mayor Boris Johnson. In February 2017, Mayor Sadiq Khan announced plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone in April 2019 beyond Central London, one year ahead of schedule. Drivers do not pay both the ULEZ and the previous £10 T-charge, but they are still subject to the London Congestion Charge. The money raised from the ULEZ is invested in the transport network and improving air quality in London.

October 2021 expansion
The zone was expanded to cover the Inner London area inside the North and South Circular roads on 25 October 2021 so that it covers an area containing 3.8 million people. Around a million vehicles a day drive in the expanded zone, but Tfl estimated that 87% already complied with the emissions rules, meaning nearly 140,000 vehicles would have to be replaced or pay the charge, including 100,000 cars, 35,000 vans and 3,000 lorries.

There was a scrappage scheme to help those on income support or disability benefit to get rid of their old vehicle. This was used to scrap at least 12,000 vehicles. The Mayor said on 14 October 2021 that there was less than £2 million left in the £61m fund.

A month into the expansion, TfL said that the proportion of compliant vehicles had risen from 87% to 92%, and the number of the most polluting vehicles had fallen by over a third (from 127,000 to 80,000 on weekdays). They also said that 94% of cars complied compared to 78% of vans.
Six months after the expansion, TfL estimated that NOx in Inner London was 20% lower than it would have been without the expansion and found that 95% of cars and 83% of vans now met the standard.

August 2023 expansion
The zone will be expanded in August 2023 to cover all of Greater London. TfL estimates 20,000 to 40,000 vehicles will be taken off the road due to the expansion. Khan said "This is also a matter of social justice – with air pollution hitting the poorest communities the hardest. Nearly half of Londoners don't own a car, but they are disproportionally feeling the damaging consequences polluting vehicles are causing."

Critics argue the expansion disproportionately impacts poorer Londoners, who are more likely to own an older, non-compliant vehicle that will be subject to the daily charge.

TfL found that 60% of those who responded to its public consultation into the expansion plans were opposed, as well as 70% of outer London residents and 80% of outer London workers.

Effects

Effect on air pollution
The zone was introduced on 8 April 2019 and led to a 20% reduction in emissions by July 2019.

From 2016 to 2020, NO2 pollution dropped five times as quickly in Central London as it did in the rest of the UK.

However, a study from Imperial College London found the ULEZ caused only small improvements to air quality after it was implemented. It stated that there has been a longer-term downward trend in London's air pollution levels and argued that the ULEZ on its own is not an effective strategy for improving air quality.

Effect on vehicle numbers
The number of the worst polluting vehicles entering the zone each day dropped from 35,578, in March 2019, to 26,195 in April of the same year, after the charge was introduced.  The number further dropped to 23,054 in July 2019. The proportion of vehicles which complied with the standards rose from 61% in March 2019 to 74% in September 2019. It further rose to 85% in December 2020, including 90% for cars, and the number of non-compliant vehicles dropped to around 12,000 (of which 4,000 were exempt from the charges).

The total number of vehicles entering Central London each day also dropped from over 102,000 in February 2017 to 89,000 in April 2019.

Reaction
The Ultra Low Emission Zone has been described as one of the most radical anti-pollution policies in the world. A poll in April 2019 by YouGov found that 72% of Londoners supported using emissions charging to tackle both air pollution and congestion. However, the Federation of Small Businesses said that many small firms were "very worried about the future of their businesses" as a result of the "additional cost burden".

Exemptions
Residents of the zone did not pay the charge until October 2021 as long as they were registered for the residents' Congestion Charge discount and met the T-charge standards. Vehicles in the "disabled" tax class are exempt from the charge, as are London-licensed taxis, private hire vehicles which are wheelchair accessible and historic vehicles (over 40 years old). There are also exemptions for agricultural vehicles, military vehicles, certain types of mobile cranes and non-road going vehicles which are allowed to drive on the highway (e.g. excavators).

See also
Clean Air Zone
London Low Emission Zone (LEZ)

References

External links
ULEZ.co.uk - ULEZ expansion
Transport for London - ULEZ: Where and when
Transport for London - ULEZ expansion

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Fare collection systems in London
Motoring taxation in the United Kingdom
Road congestion charge schemes in the United Kingdom
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It can be used not only to help you improve your personal brand equity but also as a focal point of your development.
As a leader, I have built self-reflection into my leadership routine.
I reflect on any feedback I've gotten in the past week, I reflect on how well I planned and stuck to my plan, I reflect on any disconnects between expectations and execution that were impacted by my leadership or lack of.
I ask peers and those on my team for feedback and reflect on perceptions I may have missed.
I place myself in a cyclical environment of learning via both feedback and self-reflection.
Combined, these two things can help you to have a more authentic state of leadership and brand equity awareness.
Visibility as a leader is directly correlated to his/her effectiveness which impacts leadership brand equity.
Visibility can appear in many ways – Participating in or leading meetings, conference call presence, mentorship roles, the leader's name or area of responsibility at the top of a scorecard.
Positive words and recommendations spoken by those with influence about your leadership can create visibility that extends beyond your tangible presence.
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Shadow a mentor and connect with others in their network.
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Though the French admire and revere the older women, which Brigitte Macron epitomises. However, stylists unanimously agree her choice of Vuitton actually dates her. It is an older, very established brand. In fact, it is my favourite brand, though I'm a few years behind the First Lady.
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Harvard University museum has returned a Standing Bear's Tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader to his tribe after being housed for decades in a museum at Harvard University.
According to the report by AP, members of the Ponca tribes in Nebraska and Oklahoma visited the Massachusetts university on June 3 for the ceremonial return of the Standing Bear's Tomahawk artefact, the tribes said in a recent announcement.
Standing Bear's Tomahawk the report revealed had originally gifted the pipe-tomahawk to one of his lawyers after winning the 1879 court case that made him one of the first Native Americans granted civil rights.
The tomahawk changed hands several times before being acquired by Harvard in 1982.
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Stacy Laravie, a descendant of Standing Bear who is also the historic preservation officer for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, agreed.
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Harvard and the museum have faced criticism over the pace of repatriating Native American remains and other significant objects to tribes, as required under federal law.
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The Ponca tribes say they will announce plans to exhibit the tomahawk at a later date.
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