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The Tree of Life, Indeed!
An artist puts the finishing touches on a small tree of life.
The Tree of Life is a very popular design. Our artists make them in astonishingly different and creative ways and our customers buy them in all their iterations with great enthusiasm. To both groups, they are representative of a number of things; the beauty of nature, the interconnectedness of living beings, and life-giving abundance. Yet there is tremendous irony about trees in Haiti. There really aren't very many of them left.
Much has been written about deforestation in Haiti. The facts as they are presented in such online sources as Eden Projects and Triple Pundit are indeed pretty grim: Haiti has become 98% deforested and what little remains is disappearing at a rate of 30% per year. Contributing hugely to this deforestation rate is the practice of using nearly every bit of available wood for fuel. In a country with no natural gas or petroleum resources, wood is the logical choice for all cooking and heating in a poor nation whose population can afford little else. It's a devilish problem.
Eden Projects is a charitable organization that seeks to alleviate poverty by employing locals in countries such as Nepal, Madagascar, and Haiti to plant trees. Reforestation efforts aim to reduce soil and waterway degradation, which are the first steps in boosting the land's productivity and revitalizing the agricultural sector of the economy. It is a single, two-pronged solution to pressing economic and environmental emergencies .
One of the trees that Haitians have been hired to plant throughout the country is a variety of mesquite. Known as "bayawonn" in Haitian creole, the scraggly-looking tree is already yielding some encouraging results. Bayawonn is a particularly hardy species of mesquite that is able to withstand rough terrain, poor soil, and periods of high heat and low rainfall. Additionally, it is fast-growing – an important characteristic in establishing a tree canopy under which other plants may grow and flourish. They are particularly adept at nitrogen transfer, which it accomplishes by absorption from the air and sending it to its roots. The nitrogen is then released into the soil, thereby enriching it for other nearby plants. And there's more! Bayawonn pods can be used as a food source for livestock while the beans can be ground into flour and made into a hearty, healthful bread. Truly, there is much to be sung in praise of the bayawonn planting program in both short-term benefits and sustainability.
In a sense, then, the Tree of Life may have a specific form. Despite all of it's renditions conceived by artists and executed with great flourishes and embellishments, the Tree of Life in Haiti may, in actual fact be the scruffy, humble bayawonnn.
Created by Linda for It's Cactus
Tags: Bayawonn tree, deforestation in Haiti, Eden Projects, mesquite tree, reforestation in Haiti, sustainability, tree of life
Vetiver: The earthy, aromatic smell of success
The grassy roots of vetiver are blended with floral tones to create many of today's most expensive perfumes.
A grassy plant known as vetiver- originally introduced in the 1940s as a soil anchor to reduce erosion on the steep, dry, denuded mountainsides of southwestern Haiti – has become the premium cash crop of the region. The Haitians appreciated it for its quick-growing density and began cutting it seasonally for thatch, but its real value, as it turns out, is in its roots. When harvested and boiled down, the root oil becomes a primary ingredient for the world's perfume industry, which demands 100-120 tons of vetiver annually. Haiti is now the largest producer, raising over half of the world's total, with smaller quantities grown in Java, China, Madagascar, Brazil and Paraguay. Pierre, a Dutch-trained Haitian agronomist calls vetiver, "a miracle plant. You dig it up, cut off the roots, plant it right back and it produces again next year. It needs no irrigation or fertilizer."
Vetiver oil is the major ingredient in some 36% of all western perfumes, Caleche, Chanel No. 5, Dioressence, Parure, Opium, to name a few. (For a comprehensive list, click here: http://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Vetiver-2.html) It's value lies in the fact that it blends easily with other aromatic oils and because its fixative properties promote lasting fragrance. In the words of Dr. Chandra Shekhar Gupta, Senior Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resourses in New Delhi, vertiver possess, "aromatic verdancy, fragrant rootiness, subtle, refreshing citrusiness, enjoyable earthiness, a wonderful hint of woodiness, and a certain Guerlainesque leathery-ambery darkness in the drydown."
In addition to its direct perfumery applications, vetiver oil in its diluted form is extensively used in after-shave lotions, cosmetics, air fresheners and bathing products, as well as flavoring syrups, ice cream, and acting as a food preservative. It is used in cool drinks, incense sticks, and (I love this part!) for reducing pungency of chewing tobacco preparations, thereby providing a sweet note to other masticatories. Additionally, roots have been used for making screens, mats, hand fans and baskets. In Java, screens are hung like curtains in the houses and when sprinkled water, imparting a fragrant coolness to the air.
There is no synthetic substitute available, making vertiver a crop with excellent value and staying power. Approximately 150 pounds of vetiver roots are required to produce a scant 1 lb of oil. The roots are cut, cleaned, delivered and sold by the farmers to distilleries which produce the oil. From there, it is transported to major distributers of essential oils who in turn, sell to the perfume industry in 55 gallon drums, (sound familiar?!) the contents of which being worth between $30,000 – $40,000 each.
Unfortunately, the vetiver farmers of Haiti don't currently collect their fair share of that princely sum, but that is changing. Following the 2010 earthquake, both perfumers and distillation companies became (suddenly and curiously) overcome with the desire to engage in fair trading and sustainability practices. Schools were built, roads were excavated, wells were dug, and farming cooperatives were formed. To date, approximately half of all Haitian vetiver producers are participating in co-ops which protect their prices, teach good conservation practices, and provide incentives for superlative crops. As a result, the farmers' daily earnings have increased dramatically; up almost 30% since 2010. This is an astronomical growth in earnings, but bear in mind, the average daily wage back then was $2. In other words, there's still a long ways to go, but the trend is both important and encouraging.
Contributed by Linda for Beyond Borders/It;s Cactus
Tags: crops in Haiti, fair trade, perfumes, sustainability, vetiver


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Javier Calleja "No Art Here"
3110NZ by LDH Kitchen
Nanzuka is pleased to present "No Art Here," a solo exhibition of works by Spanish artist Javier Calleja at the gallery space 3110NZ in collaboration with Sushi Saito.
Calleja produces works that bring surprise and humor to viewers by incorporating subtle twists and interventions to various events within everyday life. Expressing a fondness for the works of René Magritte, Calleja attempts to reference and reinterpret the techniques of the surrealist master through contemporary portraiture. As testimony of such endeavor, his expressions carefully pay attention to details such as changes in color and shifts in scene, as well as gaps and discrepancies between his subjects and the messages that they convey. Furthermore, the setting for the narratives that naturally draw the attention of the viewer, are also an ingenious ploy that are executed on his part. When confronting his works, we as viewers come to realize that what is in fact represented within its context, is our own mentality and subjectivity.
This exhibition features his new paintings. Please enjoy the correlation with the text drawn in the work.
from November 25, 2020 to December 20, 2020
Javier Calleja
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Sissons broke out of a five-game pointless stretch with an assist Saturday against the Stars.
The 25-year-old winger has been a streaky commodity this year, running more cold than hot most of the time. He had a nice run in the first half of January, with six points in six games, but he's been very quiet since then. Considering he's the Preds' third-line center, he continues to see a lot of ice time (17:08 over his last 12 games); however scoring-wise, he just doesn't make the most of his minutes. From a fantasy perspective, he's still too high-risk for us to recommend owning him in most standard formats.


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Winner, 2011 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Winner, 2014 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
Dore Kiesselbach's first collection, Salt Pier, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and contains work chosen for the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and Britain's Bridport International Writing Prize in poetry. Kiesselbach has published poetry and prose in many magazines and anthologies, including AGNI, Antioch Review, FIELD, Plume, and Poetry.


We offer a three year MCI recognized program with a history of excellence. We practice in a very large, very busy, tertiary care hospital located in Navi Mumbai. Our state of the art infrastructure includes 1.5 Tesla MRI with all coils, 128 slice CT scan, multiple sonography and doppler machines as well as x ray and fluoroscopy machines. We also have bone densitometry and mammography machines. All our scans are digitally stored in our PACS ensuring that a vast array of clinical material is available to our residents at the click of a button.
Our students are actively involved in various research projects. They are actively encouraged to participate and present papers in various conferences and competitions. The excellent infrastructure, large patient load and focus on academics ensures that ouur students are ready for their practie at the end of their residency.


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Q: Why is visual studio blurring the fonts I recently updated my notebook and did a clean install of windows 10. I have a dual graphic cards (nvidia 850m & intel 4600hd). it took a while to set up everything correctly and I have the machine working like it should. The only thing that bothers me is that VS is blurring the fonts like the picture, like I have a bad refresh rate or something and I can't figure out what. Do I need to install the original drivers (from 3 years ago) for windows to detect correctly the graphic cards it is something else causing the issue?
The funny thing is if I resize the font (using the mouse wheel) it gets fixed for a few seconds and the blurry again. I didn't see any other issues outside visual studio
Help me stackoverflow, you are my only hope!

A: I had a similar issue with blurred fonts but after installing Windows Creators Update it went away.

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Our view is that if it is not fun, it is not Scientology. We wanted to return the subject to where it thrived most in tone and workability in the 1960s and 70s when it was enjoying the successes of its application without alteration or suppression and was just plain fun to do!
We started delivering unaltered Scientology Courses and auditing in 2013. Shortly after, we became a mobile service delivery organization, traveling to our clients nationwide, with our home base in the Great Plains of the Central US. After six years of an establishment through delivery on the road, we have located our organizational offices in our home town of Kansas City, Missouri, conveniently located five minutes away from Kansas City International Airport with access to multiple eateries and hotels within walking distance. Some, less than a 100 yeards away.
We initiated delivery services with the intent of righting the technical wrongs in friends and family that kept crossing our path as FLAG trained auditors, recurrently witnessing the Corporate Church of Scientology's misapplication and dilution of LRH's technology to its members.
It has blossomed into a consistent demand for auditing and training as well as a new age in Scientological technical training films in multiple languages, free to the public from our film production division. Using cutting edge technology to educate, train and deliver auditing services to the public with standard Scientology methods, without arbitraries or deletions to its original texts, intent, and effectiveness in making Clears and OTs.
Unfortunately, this is the case with the corporate Church of Scientology. Over three and a half decades of alterations, suppression, divisiveness, and denied goals of spiritual freedom. Empty buildings bought and paid for by hapless partitioners who only wanted to go free. No more are the course rooms bustling with eager winning students and PCs raving about their success stories as they were once want to do in past decades of standard unaltered application long ago in the COS.
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We prove that any metric of non-positive curvature in the sense of Alexandrov on a compact surface can be isometrically embedded as a convex spacelike Cauchy surface in a flat spacetime of dimension \((2+1).\) The proof follows from polyhedral approximation.
The authors want to thank Giona Veronelli who pointed out an error in a preceding version of this text. Most of this work was achieved when the second author was a post-doc in the AGM institute of the Cergy-Pontoise University. He wants to thank the institution for its support.


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When we sit for too long, our blood sugar levels rise, because of enzyme changes that occur in our muscles. In fact, spending too much time sitting has been linked to a two-fold increase in the risk of developing diabetes. Scary, right? If you work a desk job, or sit down for long periods, make sure you get up every 30 minutes and walk around, do a few pushups or even a few squats!
Sitting too long linked to an early death? It seems so, according to a study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, which found that sitting for long periods of time increases the odds of dying young. Even individuals who exercised regularly risked shortening their lifespan if a majority of their day was spent sedentary. Sitting for more than 6-8 hours a day is not good, so make sure you keep active!
People who spend a majority of their day sitting have an increased risk colon cancer, as well as breast and endometrial cancer. The main link between these cancers and sitting for long periods is the increased insulin levels that encourage tumour cell growth. Moving around every now and then helps lower insulin, and getting up after a meal instead of sitting helps lower blood sugar. Go for a walk in nature after dinner and watch your health improve!
As we have seen, sitting too long results in higher insulin production – and what organ produces insulin? The pancreas of course! Insulin helps carry glucose to cells for energy, but cells in a chronically in-active body don't respond as readily to this insulin release. The result? More insulin production and a higher risk of developing diabetes and other diseases. One study found that with just 1 day of prolonged sitting, the insulin response was drastically reduced.
You burn 30% more calories when you're standing, than when you're sitting, no surprise, but when you're sitting, the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase also shuts down, contributing to a larger waistline. Researchers at Tel Aviv University even found that sitting on your bottom for too long will make preadipocyte cells (cells that turn into fat calls) literally transform into fat cells faster!
Muscle strain and tension is a major cause of neck pain. This is often a result of muscle overuse from sitting at a desk or computer for too long. When you're sitting, you're often slouching too (especially if working on a computer at a desk) – this "crane neck" posture strains the cervical vertebrae and can lead to permanent imbalances. Slouching also overextends shoulder and back muscles, which results in chronic poor posture and "rolling in" of the shoulders.
When we are actively engaged in any form of activity, soft discs between the vertebrae expand and contract like shock absorbers, helping supply the disks of nutrients, fresh blood, and oxygen. When we are sitting for long periods of the day, the disks are out of balance, and also starved of these crucial nutrients. Collagen also hardens around tendons and ligaments that help support the spine, resulting in a stiff back with little flexibility. My tip? Do some yoga and slowly work your way into backbends – one of the most fool-proof ways to heal the spine.
When sedentary for long periods of time, everything slows down, even our brain function! This is no surprise, given the fact that when we move, fresh blood and oxygen are pumped to our brain at a faster rate, helping improve the release of productivity- and mood-enhancing chemicals.
When we stand straight and walk around, our abdominal muscles help keep us upright. But when we are sitting, our posture is often situated in such a way that our stomachs bulge and our ab muscles are loose. Always engage your core when sitting, especially if you work a desk job. Tuck in your lower abdominal muscles so that you can feel tightness and "engaging" in your abs.
Excessive sitting can actually shorten (and tighten) your hip flexors, which isn't good news for those of us trying to improve our flexibility. People who sit for long periods of the day rarely extend their hip flexors, limiting their range of motion and stride length. How do you prevent your muscles from shortening? Deep squats, lunges, standing hip extensions and prone hip extensions are a good place to start.
When you're sitting, your legs are doing nothing – and they get used to it too. Weak, limp legs can result in a host of biomechanical issues in the body like reduced stability, poor balance and increased risk of injury. Weak legs also increase your risk for having a higher rate of bone fracture – the stronger your legs, the more muscle there is protecting and supporting the bone.


SUGAR LAND, Texas , July 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) today announced that Ted W. Owen , currently Team's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has been promoted to President of the Company and elected to its Board of Directors.
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Farmworker Livestock Salary
in San Antonio, Texas
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The average pay for a Farmworker Livestock is $23,496 a year and $11 an hour in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The average salary range for a Farmworker Livestock is between $18,596 and $27,345. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in San Antonio, Texas.
Cares for livestock, such as cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, llamas, and horses on a farm or ranch.
Cleans and maintains animal housing areas, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, and shovels.
Monitors food and water supplies; mixes feed and additives and fills feed troughs with feed or puts out hay, and waters livestock according to schedules.
Herds livestock to pastures for grazing when grass is available, and transfers them between quarters and pastures as necessary.
Farmworker Livestock Job Prevalence in San Antonio, Texas, United States
Job family: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
Estimated population of Farmworker Livestock jobs: 1,517
About San Antonio, Texas
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Description: San Antonio (; from Spanish, "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populous city in the United States, and the second-most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States, with more than 1.5 million residents. "San Antonio" ranks second worldwide on the List of popular place names. Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city became the first chartered civil settlement in present-day Texas in 1731. The area was still part of the Spanish Empire, and later of the Mexican Republic. Today it is the state's oldest municipality. The city of San Antonio...
Farmworker Livestock Job Listings for San Antonio, Texas
Farmworker Livestock
Charleston, SC$25k Buffalo, NY$26k Huntsville, AL$24k
Livestock Yard Attendant$22k Horseshoer$29k Horse Exerciser$27k


This recipe is my mum in law's creation and by far, the best possible Arvi ki bhujia, I have ever had. It is another recipe of hers (other than her famous Lemon Chicken) that is now popular in my family too.
Arvi (Colocasia Roots) is a vegetable with a lot of health benefits because of high potassium and low fat and sodium content. It is a tricky vegetable to cook, as it can become really gooey (it leaves a lot of lais), but in this recipe, I will tell you my mum in laws trick to deal with that.
Peel & wash the Arvi and let it dry on a fabric/paper kitchen towel for a couple of hours. Let it dry before you start cutting it. This will ensure that they will not become gooey (laisy) when cooked.
Once it is dry from the outside , chop it into slices.
Heat the oil in a wok and then add zeera. Fry for a couple of minutes and then add the julienned ginger, 1 chopped green chili and haldi and fry further for a minute or so.
Then add, the chopped Arvi and stir fry for a few minutes on medium-high heat.
Cover it and leave it to cook on low heat for about 20 minutes or till the Arvi is cooked. (TIP: Every time, when you open the lid to check, make sure you throw the condensed steam on the lid away.. not to add any water in the arvi).
Pour the lemon juice over it and let it cook for another 5 minutes.
Garnish with the chopped green chilies end enjoy!


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Countdown to summer has begun. What still missing many months? If you're planning to get in shape to show off Palm in swimming pools and beaches, time is short.
It is the time to join the Spartan challenge if you have not yet done so.
It has precisely been to start the challenge when I have come to realize the importance of choosing a good sports bra. I am new to this sport; It was never the time to start so far, which thanks to the challenge I feel motivated and I'm starting to notice the results.
As well, once decided to join the challenge I protected me with a suitable sport clothes and good shoes. I thought with that already had everything until I started the aerobic work out to run. I have enough chest and just had five minutes running when the movement of the chest went from being annoying to be painful.
It was when I began to investigate what type of BRA was the most suitable for me. What features should I have? A good sports bra should be able to reduce much of the movement generated by the chest when it comes to a sport, provide comfort, not make scratches and have the ability to perspire.
Then I discovered the Shock Absorber: here's a simulator in which to see the movement of the chest do different sports disciplines without a bra, using a fastener normal or with a pinch of this brand. Scientific studies attest to that movement and trajectory of the breast is different depending on the type of sports activity that is carried out.
You can see the effect produced according to Cup bra that we use and the sport that we carry out. Do not forget the importance of using a good sports bra to prevent discomfort and not accelerate the break of the fibers that hold the breast. To know more about Shock Absorber: FASHIONRULING.COM.


S&P, Moody's, and Fitch: Why are they so hard to kill?
If everyone hates the credit rating agencies, why won't anyone enforce the Dodd-Frank provision to dethrone them?
Yet the stock performance of the rating agencies doesn't suggest that they're losing their relevance. Moody's stock is one of the best-performing for any big U.S. company this year. There may be a good reason. Last week, the House financial services committee held a hearing about the rating agencies. Much of it was devoted to the possibility that the agencies would downgrade the United States, but the various witnesses brought prepared statements about the progress of section 939A. After reading these, I'm not convinced that this important reform is going to happen.
"Credit ratings … will likely remain a widely accepted, standardized evaluation tool that banks and other market participants will use as part of their efforts to assess the risks of their exposures," said the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in its statement for the record.
"OCC believes the absolute prohibition against any references to ratings under section 939A goes further than is reasonably necessary," said David Wilson, senior deputy and chief national bank examiner for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
"There is no silver bullet to change this industry," said James Gellert, the CEO of a startup called Rapid Ratings, which is attempting to compete with the established NSRSOs.
That reference to the "global banking system" gets to another problem: Despite European dislike of the American rating agencies, ratings are ingrained in the global capital standards–even those implemented after the 2008 sub-prime crisis, which exposed the ratings agencies' unreliability. As the OCC's David Wilson pointed out, the latest global regulatory framework ("Basel III") continues to use ratings to judge creditworthiness. "U.S. regulators cannot conform our capital standards to those agreed to internationally if section 939A precludes any reference to or reliance on credit ratings," wrote Wilson in his statement.
This lingering attachment to the ratings agencies isn't limited to banks and regulators. Investors—yes, the very same people who got burned relying on the rating agencies three years ago—don't want to see them go. As Gellert, the CEO of Rapid Ratings, put it, "There are many market players who benefit from, and support, the status quo." If investors no longer have ratings to rely on, then they'll have to do the credit analysis themselves. If they're wrong, they won't be able to blame those accursed rating agencies! And as Gellert explained, the allure of ratings goes beyond the avoidance of responsibility. Ratings actually help investors game the system. In what's known on the Street as "ratings arbitrage," funds that are statutorily prohibited from buying non-investment-grade bonds buy the highest yielding bonds with the lowest investment grade rating that they can find, thereby juicing their returns. That creates an artificial demand for securities that don't merit the rating they received, at least by the market's judgment. Ratings arbitrage is what put the most dangerous mortgage-backed securities in greatest demand at the peak of the subprime madness.
Investors don't just want to keep credit ratings around—they want to keep credit ratings from the current big three. After the crisis, in 2010, Jules Kroll, a well-known investigator, formed Kroll Bond Ratings in order to provide investors with an alternative. But Kroll noted in his testimony that investors often require before they'll buy a security that it have not just a rating, but a rating from Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and/or Fitch. Kroll Bond Ratings took an informal survey of the top 100 pension funds, and found that of the 67 that published their guidelines, almost two-thirds required a rating from at least one of the top three firms. "It is self-evident that this practice further entrenches the incumbent rating agencies," wrote Kroll in his prepared remarks.
In fairness, the regulators, or at least the SEC, do still seem to be plodding gamely ahead. In March, the SEC proposed to remove credit ratings from the rules that govern which securities a money market fund may purchase. Gellert says that his business is doing very well, because although investors may still be using ratings from the big three, they're also eager for another opinion. That can only help. And he says that at the hearing he saw bipartisan support for removing ratings from regulations.
Then again, on July 21, in a little-noticed vote, the House financial services committee approved (over the objections of Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, ranking Democrat on the committee and one of the named authors of Dodd-Frank) a repeal of the part of Dodd-Frank that (quite reasonably) subjects the credit rating agencies to "expert liability," meaning that if the ratings agencies screw up they'll face the same legal risk as accountants and other third party advisers in bond sales. The July 29 Wall Street Journal reported that various business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, are suing the government to overturn various parts of Dodd Frank that they don't like. The Journal piece didn't mention section 939A, but it would seem a likely target. According to the OCC's testimony, some in the industry are already recommending a "legislative change" to the section. Loathe them though everyone does, reliance on the credit rating agencies turns out to be a terrible habit that almost no one is willing to break.


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BloodGuts UK Horror Awards
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ABC's of Death
Altered Perception
Amateur Porn Star Killer
Angus Macfayden
Apocalypse Kiss
Banshee Chapter
Bedlam Stories
Martyn Wakefield
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (REVIEW)
Dir. Dan O'Bannon
Reviewer. Dan Cook
19 years before Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg lovingly lampooned George Romero's zombie movies with SHAUN OF THE DEAD, ALIEN co-author Dan 'O Bannon paid his own affectionate tribute to the father of the sub-genre with 1985's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, an uproariously entertaining horror comedy that revels in outrageous gore, shameless nudity and shameful 80's fashion. (ed - Also extremely ironic that Wright isn't a fan of this film for it paved the way for his.) Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen and Don Calfa as well as a host of recognisable character actors such as Miguel Nunez and scream Queen Linnea Quigley, the film sees a small Kentucky town being completely overrun by a hoarde of resurrected corpses after a freak chemical accident causes the deceased to rise out of their graves to ravenously feast on the pulsing brains of its inhabitants.
One of the first films to feature fast moving undead and the originator of the now traditional brain-eating zombie, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD unintentionally ended up being just as influential to the genre as the Romero pictures it was poking fun at and with some enjoyably gruesome set pieces of cannibalistic carnage, a rocking soundtrack of 80's punk, some very funny one-liners, an eye-popping dance scene from Miss Quigley and a great overall reinvention of the zombie mythos, this cult classic is an absolutely riotous gem that will most definitely appeal to anyone who loves a healthy dose of man-munching mayhem.
(ed - The Cult Classics documentary, MORE BRAINS! A RETURN TO THE LIVING DEAD, is a fantastic companion piece that explores the making of and subsequent cult status the film has received)
New immersive London horror experience, BLOODBATH, is yours to attend... if you dare (NEWS)
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Ramstein Cadet Squadron: Finding a way to yes
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark R. August, 86th Airlift Wing commander (left), speaks at the Ramstein Cadet Squadron change of command ceremony Feb. 25, 2019, on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Members of the 86th Airlift Wing, 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, and 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing supported the cadet squadron throughout the last few years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devin M. Rumbaugh)
U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol Lt. Col. Christopher Blank, Ramstein Cadet Squadron commander, assumes command from U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark R. August, 86th Airlift Wing commander during a change of command ceremony Feb. 25, 2019, on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Blank also serves as a U.S. Air Force technical sergeant, as an assistant first sergeant with the 86th Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devin M. Rumbaugh)
Members of the Ramstein Cadet Squadron listen to a briefing during the 24th Intelligence Squadron open house tour Feb. 2, 2019 on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. A 24th IS Eagle Vision 1 operator described her unit's capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devin M. Rumbaugh)
U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Cody Ray, 24th Intelligence Squadron mission operations commander (right), speaks to members of the Ramstein Cadet Squadron during an open house tour Feb. 2, 2019, on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Ray talked about the Air Force's initiative on generating ideas to innovate existing processes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devin M. Rumbaugh)
By Senior Airman Devin M. Rumbaugh
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- Every organization in the U.S. Air Force has a set of Air Force Instructions that provide a framework for how the unit should function. As an official civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, Civil Air Patrol guidelines were created specifically for stateside units. For the Ramstein Cadet Squadron, being overseas leaves a lot of room to find a way to solve their unique challenges.
The Ramstein Cadet Squadron was established in 1987 and is the second-oldest, continuously operating organization on Ramstein. The Ramstein Cadet Squadron is the largest overseas squadron and now has more than 100 personnel.
Cadets range from 12 - 21 years old and senior members are 18 and up. CAP squadrons train members in cadet programs, Aerospace education, and training in emergency services. This gives cadets a chance to learn leadership skills and develop an interest in aviation related careers. The training also teaches them skills they need to serve the emergency services functions of the CAP, including aiding in search and rescue, and disaster relief operations. Many training opportunities and capabilities are limited for units operating overseas.
Master Sgt. Michael Livesay, 721st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron production supervisor, is also a Civil Air Patrol Major who recently relinquished command of the local unit. He said one of the challenges he faced was securing space to conduct the annual training encampment. But, he said U.S. Air Force units like the 86th Airlift Wing, 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, and others in the Kaiserslautern Military Community take a total force approach to supporting the local unit.
"The 435th Construction and Training Squadron compound gave us the capability to hold the encampment at the CTS training grounds," said Livesay. "We put the cadets out in the field for seven days. They have so much fun that whole week. It's a highlight of their summer, and their time in CAP."
The Ramstein Cadet Squadron created a training conference for senior members to further their career development and volunteers from the 521st AMOW and 435th AGOW trained junior cadets during the encampment.
"We had two prior basic military training instructors go out and had a wonderful interaction with the cadets," said Livesay. "The training they gave as instructors was scaled perfectly for the cadets."
Brig. Gen. Mark R. August, 86th Airlift Wing commander, allows cadets and their families to tour the base and participate in open house visits with units on Ramstein Air Base. With such a large organization the CAP unit has to navigate transportation and logistics. The unit cannot permanently have a government owned van.
"Every year we get bigger and bigger, and we have to figure out how to move these cadets," said Livesay. "We worked with 86th Vehicle Readiness Squadron to get a bus to move our cadets on time."
The group visited with the 24th Intelligence Squadron to fulfil the aerospace mission to allow cadets to meet U.S. Airmen who work in aerospace and engineering careers and ask questions about the work they do to generate interest in the career field.
One of CAP's notable training opportunities is the chance for cadets to fly single engine aircraft and gliders. Livesay says every cadet who joins stateside gets five seat rides in a powered air craft and five in a glider. The cadets meet specific training objectives with each ride.
"CAP stateside has the largest fleet of Cessna aircraft in the world," said Livesay. "Overseas, we're not allowed to have any aircraft. So we work with a local aero club, and our national headquarters, and figured out how to coordinate everything to get cadets their orientation flight."
Because of their efforts the organization has been able to spread the capability across the European theatre and helped members from Wiesbaden, Ramstein, Stuttgart, Spangdahlem, and Mildenhall accomplish orientation flights. Livesay says through trial and error, the cadet squadron has redefined what it means to be an overseas CAP unit.
"Someone asked me what my proudest achievement when I was in command I think it was pushing the envelope," said Livesay. "You can't keep them in the box. They will always find some way to push it out. 'You can't do this?' Well, why not?"
They are the first overseas squadron to receive the quality cadet unit award two years in a row and were also awarded their fourth unit citation.
volunteer Civil Air Patrol CAP Ramstein Air Base support 86th Airlift Wing RAB 521st AMOW 435th AGOW 435th Air Ground Operations Wing 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing Ramstein Cadet Squadron


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Forgotten Fire
by Adam Bagdasarian
Grade Level: Ninth to Twelfth Grade
Brutally vivid, Adam Bagdasarian's Forgotten Fire is based on the experiences of his great-uncle during the Armenian Holocaust. The abhorrent events of the genocide that Bagdasarian describes are almost unbearable, yet his style of writing is such that one can manage to read through this astonishing description of one of the worst human rights catastrophes in human history.
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Forced to watch his father escorted out of their lives by Turkish police, his brothers shot to death in their backyard, his grandmother murdered by a rock-wielding guard, and his sister take poison rather than be raped by soldiers, 12-year-old Vahan Kendarian abruptly begins to learn what his father meant when he used to say, "This is how steel is made. Steel is made strong by fire." Up until 1915, Vahan has lived a cosseted life as the son of a wealthy and respected Armenian man. But overnight his world is destroyed when the triumvirate of Turkish leaders, Enver Pasha, Talaat Bey, and Djemal Pasha, begins the systematic massacre of nearly three-quarters of the Armenian population of Turkey, 1.5 million men, women, and children. Soon Vahan is an orphan on the run, surviving by begging, pretending to be deaf and mute, dressing as a girl, hiding out in basements and outhouses, and even living for a time with the Horseshoer of Baskale, a Turkish governor known for nailing horseshoes to the feet of his Armenian victims. Time and again, the terrified and desperate boy grows close to someone–and loses him or her to an appalling, violent death. Through three years of unspeakable horror, Vahan is made stronger by this fire, and by perseverance, fate, or sheer luck, he survives long enough to escape to the safe haven of Constantinople.
Brutally vivid, Adam Bagdasarian's Forgotten Fire is based on the experiences of his great-uncle during the Armenian Holocaust. The absolutely relentless series of vile events is almost unbearable, but the quiet elegance of Bagdasarian's writing makes this a novel of truth and beauty. Parental guidance is strongly suggested for younger readers of this extraordinary, heartbreaking account. (Ages 14 and older) –Emilie Coulter


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Micmacs (2009) dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Dany Boon, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier, Dominique Pinion, Michel Cremades, Marie-Julie Baup, Andre Dussolier and Nicolas Marie
By Greg Klymkiw
There is a particular brand of whimsy that forces me to eject globs of bilious half-digested food matter into whatever receptacle might be handy (and God forbid those around me if I am bereft of such a loving cup). My revulsion is so intense that even hearing the word "whimsy" (or seeing it or writing it) can inspire in me, at the very least, the dry heaves. In spite of this, there are many movies of a whimsical nature that I like or even love which leads me to believe that ultimately, not all whimsy is created equal.
Let's take Tim Burton, for example. If I ever have to see even one more frame from "Big Fish" again, I will find a water tower, climb atop it with a high-powered sniper rifle and start shooting innocent passersby at random. "Edward Scissorhands", however, is a movie I am always happy to see - not a steady diet, mind you, but enough to remind me of what I love about it (and to pinch me on occasion with respect to its occasional dollops of minor bile-inducement). Perhaps it's as simple as feeling that the whimsy is machine-tooled in the former and tied genuinely to emotional truth in the latter. Granted, we feel Burton's weighty hand in each movie, and his intentions might well have been true in both pictures, but one seems false, while the other seems perfectly natural in its use of magical realism.
Of late, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a director who has sadly allowed whimsy to consume his work in a manner that is mind bogglingly sickening. His first major solo directorial effort after the thoroughly decent, but mildly overrated Caro collaborations "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children" was "Alien Resurrection", the third sequel to Ridley Scott's absolutely perfect blend of science fiction and horror. While all the sequels to Scott's near-masterpiece "Alien" seem ill-conceived, Jeunet's foray into the franchise was poppy, pulpy and, at times, downright scary - a far cry from the dour, humourless clamour of Cameron's "Aliens" and Fincher's dour, humourless mess that was "Alien3". (While the first AVP was stupid, it was at least kind of fun.) So when "Amelie" finally came along, I was primed for more Jeunet - especially since "Alien Resurrection" was so solid.
I saw "Amelie" with my wife. We had (and continue to have) a silent code at the movies (which now extends to my daughter and I). When we both agree that a movie is intolerable, we leave the theatre and sneak into something else in the multiplex. The code is rather simple and not obtrusive to others in the cinema. I turn my head towards her and just stare until she turns her head and either nods (in which case, we totally walk the fuck out of there) or gently shakes it (and we give it more time). Sometimes it's vice-versa, but usually (and surprisingly, no doubt, to those who know me), I am usually the instigator of the courteous silent "let's hit the fuckin' road!" With "Amelie", I relentlessly drilled holes into the side of my wife's head for what seemed an eternity. She refused to look at me. Her eyes were transfixed upon the screen. Finally, I jabbed her with my elbow. She turned. I had the tell-tale "let's fuck off" look on my face. She returned my gaze with surprising confidence and whispered, "Please let me enjoy this movie." I relented and spent the entire time wanting to rip that idiotic grin off Audrey Tatou's bone-headedly whimsical face whilst swallowing cold lumps of vomit that needed to desperately escape my gullet.
I never bothered to see "A Very Long Engagement" but in order to make my Jeunet-hatred complete and most importantly, truly informed, I suppose I will, at some point, nail my feet to the floor and suffer through the damned thing. For now, however, Jeunet's latest dive into the cesspool that is whimsy, more than makes up for this omission in my cinema literacy.
Strangely enough, "Micmacs" opens rather promisingly. At the beginning, we find ourselves on a Moroccan desert where a group of soldiers are sweeping for mines. Sadly, one of the soldiers discovers a mine and carefully sweeps sand away from it. In doing so, the strangely embossed logo on it is the last thing he'll see as the mine explodes in his face.
Back in France, a dreamy young boy hears the jangling of a telephone. After his mother answers, he hears her grief-stricken sobs. He peers in to see her trembling, her face almost draining of sanity as he stares with a mixture of knowing dread and confusion.
After the funeral, the mourners gather in the family home of the fallen soldier. The boy's mother is catatonic. When presented with a box filled with his father's effects, the boy makes a mysterious find that will become important later in his life. Mom is carted off in an ambulance to the loony bin and the young boy is sent to a private school and orphanage run by the meanest nuns I've seen since my own childhood. At one point we see him forced to kneel for hours on end, his bare kneecaps resting painfully on a long square of thin wood. (For me, it was bare-kneed on uncooked rice, but that's another story.)
Thirty years later, our dreamy young orphan has grown to manhood and promisingly appears to us as Bazil, an even-more-dreamy sad sack working late night in a video store. Happily, Bazil is played by the truly brilliant actor/comedian Dany ("Joyeux Noel") Boon - his gentle poker-face endearing him to us immediately. Even more heartening (and heartbreaking in all the right ways) is how we find him sitting alone in the dusty, old store watching "The Big Sleep" in French and expertly mouthing all of Bogart's dialogue.
Great! So far! No whimsy alarm bells of note and a vaguely melancholy drama with one of the world's great actors.
Bazil's cinematic Heaven is rudely interrupted by a car chase outside the store. Two thugs speed along, shooting at each other. Bazil walks outside to survey the ensuing carnage worthy of a Luc Besson film.
So far, so good. Perhaps we'll be immersed in a noir-like thriller.
And then, my heart sinks. One of the thugs is shot. His gun flies in the air. It discharges as it hits the ground and a bullet propels across the street and directly into Bazil's skull. This would officially be whimsy alarm bell Number One!
In the operating room, the presiding surgeon explains that if they leave the bullet in, Bazil has a chance to live a normal life - but just a CHANCE. There will always be the threat that it could discharge in his brain. If they operate, he will possibly live, but as a vegetable.
Bazil's fate is then decided when the surgeon flips a coin. This would officially be whimsy alarm bell Number Two!
With bullet in brain, Bazil is discharged to find that all his worldly goods have been confiscated and/or stolen, that he has been evicted from his apartment for not paying rent and that he's lost his job at the video store to a cartoon-watching, big-breasted bubblehead who conveniently has found and bestows upon him the casing of the bullet in his brain which also bears the strange markings we've seen earlier. The plot, as it were, is thickening - like a salt-free split-pea soup.
Bazil is forced to become a street performer whose specialty is recreating silent movie comedy routines. He is, in essence, a mime artist.
Mime!
And yup, you guessed it, this would officially be whimsy alarm bell Number Three! Or, in the parlance of baseball enthusiasts the world over: "Three strikes and yerrrrrrrrr out!"
At this point, my only thought is, how bad can this possibly get?
Well, hold on a moment and you, like I did, will receive the answer.
After a mime performance in the street, he is hailed over to the table of a distinguished looking old rapscallion (Jean-Pierre Marielle) who introduces himself as Slammer (he's spent most of his life in prison - get it?). Bazil is convinced by Slammer that he needs a safe haven, a place to be useful, a family. Slammer bids Bazil follow him to what could be a new home and beginning.
Here is where the vomit-meter overloads. Within the bowels of a dank cave-like environ, Bazil is introduced to a group of fellow misfits who live happily together - away from the cruelty of the outside world, and spend their time assembling other people's junk and ever-so whimsically, transform the trash into a variety of magical contraptions and/or art. Jeunet stalwart Dominique Pinon plays some loser who wants to get himself into the world record books for being a cannonball artist. Claude Zidi regular Michel Cremades plays an especially offensive whimsy-poo who creates all manner of "magical" art and toys and has the stupidest bovine expression on a human face since Audrey Tatou in "Amelie". As if this wasn't sickening enough, there is a female contortionist who becomes Bazil's love interest and some idiotically whimsical young lady who can only communicate through complex calculations (Ulrich Seidl knows such a character needs to be treated disdainfully as a cretin - much like a similar character in the admirable Austrian iconoclast's "Dog Days).
If any of this hasn't invoked bile yet, I've saved the most disgustingly whimsical character for last - a cherry, so to speak, on an ice cream sundae, flavoured with waste-treatment-plant sludge for syrup. The matriarch of this utterly horrid "family" is the porcine Mama Chow who dotes over all the "children" (losers) since she moronically lost her own children when they entered a house of mirrors at the circus and never came out. I can only assume she is meant to be rather challenged in the brain department.
Oh yeah, and if you're still not convinced to avoid this grotesquerie, feel free to become Father Damien and hop onto the isle of Molokai that is "Micmacs" and thrill to this group of loveable spastic lunatics as they band together to destroy the arms manufacturers (yes, the companies bear the same mysterious logos we've seen earlier) who orphaned Bazil with the mine that killed his Dad and turned him into a walking dead man with the bullet that's lodged in his brain.
What finally drives me insane about this picture and "Amelie" (and no doubt, the one I still have to force myself to see) is that Jeunet is clearly a born filmmaker. Cinema is hardwired into his DNA. He is not only an artist of the highest order, but he's proven that he also has proficiency, a sense of humour and the potential to make some great movies that will truly knock us on our ass, or, at the very least, scare the living wits out of us.
This horrendous phase of machine-tooled whimsy must end. Better Jeunet should instil vomit through the GENRE of horror rather than the horror that is this unrelentingly happy-happy-happy-let's-do-good-for-society nonsense. The first fifteen minutes of the picture suggested that greatness would follow. I try to imagine the picture it could have been, but I suppose that's completely unfair. Jeunet decided to crap where he sleeps and instead, delivered a bunch of "loveable" losers to make (a) losers feel good about themselves and (b) those who do not consider themselves losers to feel good about EMPATHIZING with losers.
There are many who will love this film. I'm not one of them. Give me the Caro-Jeunet collaborations or "Alien Resurrection" anytime over this whimsical sack of dung.
In the meantime, I pray that someday Jeunet will make a genuinely great picture. It's in him. He's just got to do it.
"Micmacs" opens May 28 in Toronto and Vancouver via E1 Films. It has already been released in international territories outside of North America.
Posted by Greg Klymkiw at 09:17
Labels: 'Greg Klymkiw Reviews' , * 1/2 , 2009 Films , Comedy , French , Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Too bad. I was a big fan of the early ones, especially Delicatessen which for a long time was one of my favourite movies. Alien Resurrection is pretty great until the freaky alien baby is born...
But even the preview for this one looked way too precious for its own good.
Speaking of whimsy, you must have just LOVED The Science of Sleep, Greg.
Greg Klymkiw said...
Yeah, Patrick. I pretty much detest Gondry. Weirdly enough, though, I kind of like "Be Kind Rewind" which a lot of people hate. One need not get me started on Science of Sleep, et al
Frankly, I know it's silly, but I even liked that freaky alien baby, but do agree the rest of the movie falls short of greatness because of it.
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We learn programming by being introduced to the simplest concept of an algorithm: an ordered set of actions that, when executed in sequential order, solves a problem by doing the calculations related to each action. The key point here is that some of us fix that sequential order idea and never forget it. However, not all action in an algorithm have to executed in the given order to achieve the same result.
Some operations are not related to each other (reading and writing different variables), which make it possible to execute them in any relative order, or even at the same time. Every program (and related problem) has some inherent parallelism. But how further can we go in exploiting it?
See that even in a quad-core machine, as expected, the speedup will be less than 2. Also remember that we are not considering any overhead or other issues in parallelizing the P instructions. This limit is sometimes depressing but it shows that parallelism is not easy, even if you do know what to do.
Do different work that is parallel such as solving problems that were not possible before (aka real-time ray tracing).
What is being said is that the available power of the extra cores can (and should) be used. A key thing is that this power will not come for free, and not all programs can be refactored to use it. In the next section we'll be looking at how the hardware has been engineered to implicitly exploit (or expose) paralellism.
Data parallelism – comes from data-structures that allow for the parallel manipulation on them. It is usually regular and massive.
However, not all available parallelism can be exploited in practice, so one must account for the utilized parallelism at runtime. Part of the available functional parallelism can be exploited implicitelly by techniques that try to squeeze the most of each piece of (expressed) sequential code. Most of these techniques can be though of as ILP (instruction level parallelism). ILP accounts fine grained, often machine level, instructions that do not have a mandatory sequential order to execute. The good news is that (good) compilers and also hardware are capable of tackling most of these cases succesfuly. The bad news is that this form of parallelism does not allow for really noticeable speedups.
Again, from the programmers point of view, there is another layer on top of this one that have to be taken into consideration: the memory model. Given that we have more than one processor and some ammount of available memory, the memory model accounts for how much of it is directly accessible from each processor. Shared memory architectures allow for all processors to access all memory addresses directly. Still, this access can be uniform (UMA – uniform memory access), where there is no latency or bandwidth difference for each processor. In this category are SMP and multicore machines. Non uniform access (NUMA) provide a direct addressing for the whole memory but latency and bandwidth vary depending on data locality, such as CPU accessing its own RAM and VideoRAM from the GPU. Figure 1 shows an ilustration of this pattern.
Distributed memory models are all those architectures where there is no direct addressing for all available memory. Most clusters and GRIDs are into this category. Figure 2 ilustrates this model.
Some real world scenarios, however, are not strictly into only one of these models. Most clusters now use SMP or multicore machines, ending up as a hybrid architecture. Also the IBM Cell Processor (Sony Playstation 3) has one main processor that addresses all available memory in NUMA pattern, while each synergistic processor accesses only its own memory (distributed model). Figure 3 shows this practical scenario.
It is also important to mention that while some software platform (as we will see in the next part) hide these architecture details from the programmer (such as allowing for global addressing in distributed architecture, or message passing in shared memory), knowing the instrisics of the hardware platform is still mandatory if one wants to squeeze the most performance out of it.
In the next part we will be discussing programming models and languages to exploit exposed parallelism. Some subjective propositions will be put on team and individual instruction approaches to learning parallelism.
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Teachers say eating fruit in class groups helps to encourage a sharing, calm, social time
When suppliers think of putting their fresh produce onto the UK marketplace, how many of them think simply about supermarkets? Probably most. There are plenty of other routes to Britons' stomachs though including a small but important opportunity in the School Fruit & Vegetable Scheme (SFVS) in England, which puts fresh-produce into tiny hands. Produce Business UK runs through a few key facts
SFVS was set up as one aspect of the 5 A Day programme with the aim of increasing children's consumption of fruit and vegetables and has become the biggest programme to support children's nutrition since the introduction of school milk back in 1946.
It was one of three initiatives run as part of the government's Healthy Food Scheme and was introduced after the NHS Plan, launched in 2000, included a commitment to implement a national fruit and vegetable scheme by 2004. It was piloted in England in 2000 and 2001 among 500 schools.
Since 2004, SFVS is funded by the Department of Health (DoH) to the tune of £40 million after initial funding from the Big Lottery Fund backed the region-by-region roll out.
It sees all Key Stage 1 children (four-to-seven years old) in 16,333 schools in England receive the free portion of fresh produce over the school term. That is a total of 2,281,476 pupils. It operates for 190 school days, so 433 million portions were served in the last school year.
Products included in the scheme
The core products are apples, pears, bananas, carrots, cherry tomatoes and easy-peel citrus. Then throughout the year the scheme also includes raisins – usually for use on the first day back after a school holiday - sugarsnap peas, strawberries, tomatoes.
Some 40% of the produce is grown in the UK.
How it is organised
NHS Supply Chain, which is operated by DHL Exel Supply Chain Ltd, is master contractor and manages supply of the fresh produce destined for the scheme on behalf of the DoH.
It appoints, through competitive framework agreements, around 20 suppliers and distributors of produce to serve the whole of England.
The contracts established under these frameworks are all in line with EU public procurement directives and are for specified time periods and for named commodities, or lots.
The contractors are typically small-and-medium-sized businesses.
Companies supplying the scheme
These include Capespan, Fresh Direct, Minor Weir & Willis, SH Pratt & Co, GW Price and Total Produce.
How to ender for a contract
Each framework agreement runs for a period of four years.
The procurement calendar identifies all forthcoming tender opportunities for NHS Supply Chain contracts (including both new and renewed contracts) prior to their publication on the Tenders Electronic Daily website where suppliers are able to register and respond to the tenders.
The current framework expires in April 2016 and the launch date for the new contracts and re-tendering process is August 27 this year.
Applications are online and interested suppliers should follow the guidance document and register first.
There is also information on the opportunities on the NHS Supply Chain website.
What the contracts are for
Previously there have had two tenders – one for supply and one for distribution and they both run concurrently. This time around, only one tender will be published incorporating both aspects as different lots.
Changes on the horizon
The scheme is considering offering some new products – grapes, sweet-bite mini-capsicum peppers and possibly mini-cucumbers.
What happens in schools
Feedback from teachers shows that they find that distributing the fruit in class groups helps to encourage a sharing, calm, social time.
It also allows them to incorporate the scheme into teaching and learning.
All the fruit and vegetables are washed before they are handed out, which is usually just before the mid-morning break in individual class groups.
SFVS produce is not handed out at lunchtime, ensuring that the fruit and vegetables supplied are not simply replacing the fruit and vegetables that might have been eaten at lunchtime anyway.
Some primary schools and education authorities are keen to keep up the habit of fresh-produce consumption and are funding their own extension of the scheme into the seven-11 year-old age group using the same suppliers as the SFVS.
Evaluating the scheme
Evaluations were carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research and published in 2005, 2007 and 2010.
Broadly, the evaluations concluded that:
•universal provision under the scheme encourages children to try new fruit and vegetables that they might otherwise not have tried;
• compared to measures taken in 2004 children who received the SFVS in 2008 eat more fruit and vegetables than those who did not;
• given the differences in consumption patterns at school and home, the effects of school-based interventions do not carry over into the home environment
• positive changes to healthy eating habits at school the researchers identified, may be associated with other aspects of the 5 A Day programme, in particular the introduction of school food standards.
What the fresh-produce sector thinks
Nigel Jenney chief executive of the Fresh Produce Consortium says: "We support the NHS with advice and guidance and we talk to the DoH to encourage government to extend the scheme further.
"We maintain a positive relationship with the department and about 10 years ago, took part in the evaluation against the terms set by the DoH.
"The value to the trade of the scheme is twofold; it gives encouragement to young children to get into the fresh-produce-eating habit early and it gives fresh-produce firms a business opportunity that is worth some £40m a year."


Jeff Fowler (MA TESOL '12) and Kimby Murakami (MA TESOL '12) travelled to India to work for fellow MIIS Alum Tarana Patel's (MA TESOL '06) education organization, LearnEd, at Sankalchand Patel Colleges in Visnagar. They each taught two classes in the intensive English program at the college. In addition, the duo collaborated to present English for specific purposes (ESP) courses to engineering faculty.
Fowler taught English to undergraduate students with high-beginner to low-intermediate proficiency majoring in Computer Application, Business Administration, and Natural Sciences. Murakami taught undergraduate and graduate students with intermediate to advanced English proficiency majoring in Dentistry, Pharmacology, Engineering, and Computer Application. Each course incorporated a community outreach component chosen by the students. In team of two to three, students taught a 45-minute lesson to students in grades 1 through 5.
Fowler and Murakami reported that the students were enthusiastic to practice English and to share their culture with the foreign teachers. Both teachers enjoyed participating in Indian festivals (e.g., Kite Festival, Festival of Colors), exploring the ancient buildings in nearby towns, and sampling the culinary delights available in India.
Murakami heads back to India this month with MIIS alum Angie Petinos (MA TESOL '12) to work in a 6-month teacher training program offered by LearnEd at Divine Child International School.
This entry was posted in Alumni, careers, Language Education and tagged alumni, career, education, esl, India, language, Language Education, MIIS on July 3, 2013 by GSTILE.


What explains the weird way Congress voted down food aid reform?
UNICEF has put out an analysis and interactive mapping tool ranking the wealthier countries on how they do when it comes to child well-being. The US is right down there in the bottom third of this report card, with Lithuania and Romania. Go Team America!


Kingston-upon-Thames public order crime statistics in maps and graphs.
Annual crime rate in Kingston upon Thames postcode area is 6.1, i.e. 6.1 crimes committed per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, Kingston upon Thames's crime rate is at 79%. Public order crime makes up 6.6% of all crimes committed in the postcode area. The total number of "public order crime" is 3.1k, and this number has increased by 2.7% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019.
Public order crime rate is 6.1 crimes committed per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 43. lowest crime rate out of 104 England and Wales' postcode areas.
The total number of "public order crime" is 3.1k, and this number has increased by 2.7% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019. In the graph below, postcode area are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the postcode area crime rate between March 2018 - February 2019 to the postcode area crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes committed. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes committed in the postcode area.


5 Things WWE Is Doing Right In 2018.
It's no secret I'm madly in love with #BeckyLynch. She has some serious mic skills and is able to beat any women in a promo battle. I love looking at her twitter beefs and when she's in the ring she seriously delivers. Same can be said about #SethRollins. Man, this guy is awesome.
Every match he's in makes sense and delivers. My worry every time is "are they giving him enough time tonight", and they do. He's the type you can't just watch a 5-minute match. He needs to be on our screens for a while. I love his booking and he just works.
5 Things WWE Is Doing Right In 2018. Top 5 things right with World Wrestling Entertainment. 5 things WWE has done right this year.
← Evolution? More Like an EDIT-lution. WWE Edits Women Out.


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For my summer vacation, I'm writing "Quonnie: The Musical 2012," teaching voice and acting classes at three different summer camps, prepping new classes for the fall in three different locations, and communing with my fellow Somatic VoiceWork voice teachers in hot, humid Virginia. I'm trying to brush the mats out of my 19 year old cat's fur. I'm ordering books for my high school freshman son. I'm cheering my daughter as she practices ice hockey. I'm also doing some weeding in the garden, growing pumpkins and radishes (I ate my own radishes yesterday!), doing some weeding, trying to grow sweet potatoes, and doing some weeding.
I haven't written much since I completed the first "Quonnie" script a year ago. I was looking forward to researching the history of my area again, and actually yes, that part is fun. But the scriptwriting has been difficult. I told myself the only way to improve on last year's show was to write my own music, in addition my own lyrics. I forgot that Elton John had Bernie Taupin, Lennon had McCartney, and even the Captain had Tennille. I was alone and adrift.
Seeing my distress, my husband asked, "Why are you trying to write a first draft perfectly?" He had described my thought process exactly. I gave up trying to control what came into my head, and as soon as I did, ideas and lyrics pushed their way into my brain and onto the page. I may still have time to write the music, but if not, there's always next year.
In the rear view mirror, all writing is easy. I wrote Bride and Flatulence three years ago and finally got a performance of it up on YouTube. I had read Austen's books, and wondered about the private lives of all the genteel men in her literary universe. I wondered what they were like when the women were off catching butterflies and planning balls. Then I stumbled onMr. Darcy Takes A Wife, an R-rated fan fiction sequel to Pride and Prejudice. The Darcys' "compleat delight" in each other, energetically expressed in several locations in and around Pemberley, resulted in the production of an heir, plus a few more progeny. Instead of exploring their most intimate pleasures, I imagined Darcy and Elizabeth's most intimate . . . embarrassments.
Mr. Darby and Miss Bennett in "Bride And Flatulence," 2010. Click on the photo to watch the whole play.
Looking at the video, I think it turned out well. I look at the video and recall happy rehearsals and sentimental thoughts. But, digging a little deeper into my memory, I also remember writing feverishly through the night before the play's due date. I emailed updated versions of scenes into the wee hours, until my future husband finally said, "Good night, and send me the rest at 6am!" I remember the first reading was at 9am and even the adrenaline could barely keep me awake. I was out of . . . gas?
Writing is like childbirth -- you forget the pain, but if you think long enough, you'll remember it. (And still be glad you did it.) And, there's no way to do it perfectly -- just get on with it, take all the help you can get, and hope for a happy ending. It usually works out.
And now, back to writing . . or teaching . . or weeding.


The Big Bang Theory is one of the biggest success stories in contemporary television, and with any amount of success, backlash is to be expected. But is there backlash simply because a TV show has done well, and we€™re all jealous that we couldn€™t have come up with such a concept? Perhaps, but there is also just ground for The Big Bang Theory deserving some negative criticism, no matter its success. Its current state of affairs is rather hollow and shallow €" racially and sexually stereotypical jokes are still part of the show€™s artillery, and the male character€™s lack of social skills and the €˜hilarious€™ shenanigans they find themselves in because of this wore thin long ago. And then there€™s Sheldon. Sheldon Cooper is possibly the quintessential character whom the audience loves to hate. And that hate is justified. His slow, sometimes backward character development continues to drag the show down - how far exactly can the show go with a character like him? Is the big payoff on the series finale going to be Sheldon finally having it away with Amy? And is that all we€™ve got to look forward to in general - these nerds getting laid? The largest shake-up the show has experienced in recent times is Penny getting a new hairstyle, heavily suggesting that a kick up the show€™s pants is desperately needed. So let€™s look then at ten reasons why one particular shake-up should happen - that of Sheldon Cooper being killed.


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Evenafter four months time limit fixed, no high level committee was constituted and all other issues remained unsettled. Government constituted committees after committee - Implementation Committee, Empowered Committee, Allowance Committee, Pension Option-I Committee, NPS Committee, Anomaly Committee etc. - but till this day no High Level Committee for increasing Minimum Pay and Fitment formula is constituted eventhough a Group of officers headed by Additional Secretary (Expenditure) held two meetings with the staff side without any discussion on Minimum Pay and fitment formula.
1.Allowances Committee delayed its report for about ten months to deny increase in HRA rates and arrears from 01.01.2016.
2.Pension Option-I Committee rejected the one and the only favourable recommendations of the 7th CPC i.e; Option-I parity for pre- 2016 pensioners.
3.NPS Committee categorically stated that withdrawal of NPS is not under the purview of the committee.
As the dominant organisations of the NJCA have left from the path of struggle for realization of the 7th CPC related justified demands raised in the July 11th indefinite strike charter, Confederation has decided to carry forward the struggle against the betrayal of the Government and non-implementation of assurances given by the Hon'ble Ministers. We have made it open that we strongly disagree and disown the stand taken by the Secretary, National Council JCM staff side, (Who is also the convenor of NJCA) by welcoming and thanking the Government for the decisions on Allowances including HRA. Confederation represents the sentiments of entire Central Government employees pensioners especially grass root level workers. It cannot be a party to any statement or action which the ordinary workers feel as betrayal of their cause.
Confederation shall continue its struggle against the injustices meted out to the Central Government employees and Pensioners (including Autonomous body employees and pensioners, Gramin Dak Sevaks and casual, Contract workers) by the NDA Government.
Descending to the level of submitting to the dictates of the Government, compromising on the basic principles of trade Union, leaving away the path of struggle ignoring the of principles of collective bargaining, getting addicted to the JCM machinery of never ending, no-result-oriented discussions and consultations — is not the tradition of Confederation. Confederation is a different organisation which our critics and enemies cannot understand.


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Blue Cross of TN fined $1.5 Million
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HITECH rule an important enforcement tool . . .
BlueCross-BlueShield of Tennessee has agreed to pay a$1.5 million settlement and carry out a corrective action plan in the wake of a 2009 breach that affected more than 1 million individuals. In addition to the $1.5 million payment, the settlement calls for the health insurer to review, revise and maintain its privacy and security policies and procedures; conduct "regular and robust" training for all employees on their responsibilities under the HIPAA privacy and security rules; and perform reviews to ensure compliance with the corrective action plan, according to anHHS announcement.
"This settlement sends an important message that OCR expects health plans and health-care providers to have in place a carefully designed, delivered and monitored HIPAA compliance program," says Leon Rodriguez, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights. "The HITECH breach notification rule is an important enforcement tool, and OCR will continue to vigorously protect patients' right to private and secure health information."


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Yesterday, the FCC handed over to T-Mobile licenses to cover the 31MHz of 600MHz spectrum that it won at the FCC's auction of low frequency airwaves. Unlike high-frequency airwaves, these travel farther and penetrate buildings better. By year's end, the nation's third largest carrier will own more than 1-million square miles of 600MHz spectrum. T-Mobile already has 700MHz low-frequency spectrum that it employs for its Extended Range LTE service.
New handsets from Samsung and other phone manufacturers will be available around the end of the year, allowing T-Mobile customers to take advantage of the features found with low-band spectrum. And while the auction allowed T-Mobile to quadruple its holdings of the low-frequency stuff, Sprint has been hoarding inventory of the high band 2.5GHz airwaves, which is one reason why many analysts call a T-Mobile purchase of Sprint the best possible M&A combination in the business.
In addition to using the 600MHz spectrum to enhance and improve its LTE pipeline, T-Mobile also will be using some of this spectrum to build out the planned nationwide 5G network it talked about early last month.
I'm eagerly waiting for 5G. Hope it arrives by 2020 atleast. Till then, everyone should be striving to perfect 4G LTE.