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For the first time since 1979, Iraq is set to host the Arabian Gulf Cup (AGC) of the Arab Gulf Cup Football Federation. But a last-minute announcement, less than 48 hours before the opening ceremonies, might throw a wrench into the pitch, jeopardize the games, and with it, Iraq's hopes to re-establish Baghdad as part of the Arab world.


AS the Iraq war enters its second year, it has already barreled through at least four movie plots. What began as a "High Noon" showdown with Saddam Hussein soon gave way to George W. Bush's "Top Gun" victory jig. Next was the unexpected synergy with "The Fog of War," Errol Morris's Oscar-winning documentary underlining how the Johnson administration's manipulation of the Gulf of Tonkin incident was the ur-text for the current administration's hyping of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. And then Fallujah: "Black Hawk Down."
If the news from the war were better, there might be an audience now for Disney's new version of "The Alamo," with which Michael Eisner had once hoped to "capture the post-Sept. 11 surge in patriotism." But its opening weekend may have drawn fewer moviegoers in total than there were Jews at "The Passion of the Christ." Triumphalism is out. If we are to believe most commentators, the next title on our wartime bill will instead be "Apocalypse Now" (if we stay and sink into the quagmire) or "Three Kings" (if we cut and run). Though perhaps not quite yet. The most apt movie for this moment just may be David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia." Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton ambassador to the United Nations whose foreign service career began in Vietnam, said to me last week, "That's the image everyone I've talked to who saw the movie has in his head right now."
What Mr. Holbrooke is referring to is the story's mordant conclusion. The Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire, abetted by the heroic British liaison officer T. E. Lawrence and guerrilla tactics, has succeeded. The shotgun mandating of the modern state of Iraq, by the League of Nations in 1920, is just a few years away. But as the local leaders gather in an Arab council, a tentative exercise in self-government, there is nothing but squabbling, even as power outages and public-health outrages roil the populace. "I didn't come here to watch a tribal bloodbath," says Peter O'Toole, as Lawrence, earlier in the movie when first encountering the internecine warfare of the Arab leaders he admired. But the bloodbath continued — and now that we've ended Saddam's savage grip on Iraq, it has predictably picked up where it left off. Only Americans have usurped the British as the primary targets in the crossfire of an undying civil war.
It was last weekend, after I watched "Lawrence" again for the first time in years, that L. Paul Bremer was asked by Tim Russert to whom we would turn over the keys in Iraq on June 30, and gave his now immortal answer: "Well, that's a good question." We don't have a clue, and in part that's because we have no memory.
No, seriously, he wrote this. I know, you're saying to yourself: "No intelligent human being thinks that the movies tell it like it was"--but he really wrote this.
Anyone who's read any of a number of books--the best of which is probably David Fromkin's Peace to End all Peace--will be aware that most of today's problems in the Middle Easty trace directly to the failure to heed Lawrence and allow the Arabs to develop their own states. All the Brits and French did was to delay the necessary process of self-determination and democratization for several decades. Unfortunately, we're left cleaning up the mess they made.
If he's going to base his view of history on the movies alone, Mr. Rich would do well to at least choose his viewing more carefully. In this case, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia is more accurate than David Lean's masterpiece.
George W. Bush is indeed T. E. Lawrence, but he's also David Lloyd George and that makes all the difference in the world.
The celebrity brought about by Lowell Thomas's "Lawrence of Arabia" show propelled T. E. into the political limelight. Long before George Murphy became a U.S. Senator or Ronald Reagan became America's President, Lawrence was a sort of actor in politics. He threw himself into his roles wholeheartedly. Dressed in the uniform of a British officer, he spoke cynically of how he would manipulate the peoples of the Middle East, but wearing his native robes, he was the only prominent Englishman in favor of genuine independence for the Arabs.
Perhaps the disastrous box office for The Alamo is because the reviews all mentioned that it was "even-handed" in its retelling of history. Americans can read, even between the lines, and they don't want to spend their money on some PC retelling of our national myths.
I wonder when we'll finally get to see an even-handed account of Iwo Jima.
"Thanks to the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"
a film of Orde Wingate,the Zionist Lawrence, in this context.
Those interested in bursting myths may want to read Richard Aldington on Lawrence.
Though the Versailles: 1919 episode of The Young Indiana Jones did touch on it.


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5. Shred the pork in the slow cooker with a fork and allow pork to sit for 10 minutes in the sauce.
6. Serve alone or on a sandwich roll or bun. If desired, top with BBQ sauce and fried apples.


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Q: Detecting Period Symbol as not Valid against Number Input Pattern Using JavaScript I have an input tag of type number with pattern validation attached to it that has at least taken care of eliminating the 'e' '+' '-' characters from being input. However the '.' symbol still gets through for some reason. Here are the relevant portions of code from my program:
<input type="number" id="job-priority" min="1" max="99" pattern="[0-9]+" placeholder="1 (High) — 99 (Low)" style="width:186px; padding-left:14px; text-align:center;">

document.getElementById('job-priority').addEventListener('input', function () {
    // Check that characters typed into job priority field are valid.
    if (!document.getElementById('job-priority').validity.valid) {
        var value = document.getElementById('job-priority').value;
        value = value.slice(0,-1);
        document.getElementById('job-priority').value = value;
    }
});
document.getElementById('job-priority').addEventListener('change', function () {
    // Check that number entered into job priority stays within limits.
    var value = Number(document.getElementById('job-priority').value);
    var min = Number(document.getElementById('job-priority').min);
    var max = Number(document.getElementById('job-priority').max);
    if (value < min)
        document.getElementById('job-priority').value = min;
    else if (value > max)
        document.getElementById('job-priority').value = max;
});

From my own research on this up to this point, I have come across one previous question post on StackOverflow regarding input patterns with input type number. That post, in short, confirms that input patterns don't work for input type number. It proposes the solution to just use input type text instead with a pattern to allow only numbers through. However, I want to keep the input type to number because of the up/down arrows that increase/decrease the number in the input field. I would be willing to change the input type to text only if their is a way to keep the up/down arrows in question.
I also see that if I remove the pattern from the input tag, my event listener for 'input' still successfully takes care of not allowing the 'e' '+' '-' characters somehow. Of course, the '.' symbol is still being allowed when it shouldn't. So I guess at least I confirmed that the pattern wasn't actually doing anything from what I can tell.
More specifically, if the '.' is typed as the first character, the validation check successfully works and nothing appears in the input field which is the desired behavior. However, if the first character typed is a number and then second character typed in is the '.' symbol, then for some reason the '.' symbol appears when it should not have.

A: Figured out a solution to my problem.
document.getElementById('job-priority').addEventListener('input', function () {
    // Check that characters typed into job priority field are valid.
    document.getElementById('job-priority').type = 'text';
    if (!document.getElementById('job-priority').validity.valid) {
        var value = document.getElementById('job-priority').value;
        value = value.slice(0,-1);
        document.getElementById('job-priority').value = value;
    }
    document.getElementById('job-priority').type = 'number';
});

You'll see that what I did was change the input type to 'text' temporarily just for the input validation. Then, as soon as it's done, immediately change the input type back to 'number'.

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Perhaps, you've found that exercising or cleaning the house is much easier when listening to catchy pop music? Or maybe the quality of reading and writing is higher when you have an orchestral instrumental playing in the background? It does appear to many of us that a certain soundtrack can ease the task at hand.
Music therapy has been proven to be effective in treating numerous medical disorders such as amnesia, heart disease, stroke, and dementia. The roots of music therapy can be traced back to the US Army, specifically in 1945 when music was used for reconditioning among recovering service members who were in Army hospitals.
"Music therapy is a dynamic treatment method for service members recovering from the invisible wounds of war," says Hannah Bronson, one of the authors of a new paper titled 'Music Therapy Treatment of Active Duty Military: An Overview of Intensive Outpatient and Longitudinal Care Programs'. Published in the journal Music Therapy Perspectives, the study highlights how music rebuilds damaged neural connections and aids the release of dopamine to help service members who suffer from traumatic brain injury and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).
By significantly improving patient outcome and survival rates, music and other creative arts have become increasingly popular in recent years for the treatment of combat-related psychological injuries. Experts have also backed the power of rhythm in treating people with attention disorders.
Brain.fm is an app that provides brain-stimulating music backed by scientific research and a patented AI engine. The software, in collaboration with music composers, offers different kinds of 'sessions' based on what listeners are looking for - Focus sessions, relaxation sessions or sleep sessions.
On 20 March 2018, the company announced that they have received a grant of $225,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). With recognition from the government, the company will conduct research to approve their Focus sessions as a therapeutic tool for those diagnosed with ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) or even those who don't meet the criteria but do suffer from inattention.
In simple terms, ADDitude Magazine explains how music builds focus by providing a sense of structure to the mind. "Music is rhythm, rhythm is structure, and structure is soothing to an ADHD brain struggling to regulate itself to stay on a linear path," author Anni Layne Rodgers writes.
To investigate the link between brain oscillations and behavior, researchers from McGill University released a study based on audio entrainment, demonstrating how the brain's rhythmic activity could be manipulated to improve performance. The study titled 'Selective Entrainment of Theta Oscillations in the Dorsal Stream Causally Enhances Auditory Working Memory Performance' was published on 23 March 2017 in the scientific journal Cell.
This study is one among many from the science-backed research that Brain.fm is based on. The company expressed hope that the Focus sessions, which impact neural oscillations to aid sustained attention, could one day become a non-invasive replacement for ADHD medication.
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1-Nitro-2-phenylthioethylene1
[101933-27-1] · C8H7NO2S · 1-Nitro-2-phenylthioethylene · (MW 181.23)
(Michael acceptor for the preparation of nitro enamines,3,4 a-nitro aldehyde acetals,5 and indolizines;6 dienophile in the Diels-Alder reaction3,7)
Alternate Name: 1-phenylthio-2-nitroethylene.
Solubility: sol EtOH, acetone, THF, Et2O, CHCl3, CH2Cl2.
Analysis of Reagent Purity: NMR d 6.66 (d, J = 12 Hz, 1H), 7.24-7.56 (m, 5H), 8.18 (d, J = 12 Hz, 1H).
Preparative Method: from 2-nitroethanol2 by the sequence shown in eq 1,3 which can be extended into a general synthesis of b-phenylthio nitroalkenes.3
Michael Acceptor.
Electron-deficient alkenes substituted with nitro and phenylthio groups are useful reagents for the preparation of 1-nitroalkenes via the addition-elimination sequence. The reaction with various amines affords a general method for the synthesis of nitro enamines (eq 2).3,4 However, the reaction with alkoxides does not give 1-alkoxynitroethylenes, but gives 2,2-dialkoxynitroethanes; this affords a useful method for the synthesis of a-nitro aldehyde acetals (eq 3).5
This reagent reacts with the pyridinium salts in the presence of Triethylamine to give the indolizine (eq 4)6 via the azomethine ylide.
Dienophile.
Although this reagent undergoes the Diels-Alder reaction with reactive dienes (eq 5),3 its reactivity is low compared to that of the corresponding sulfoxide and sulfone.
Oxidation of this reagent with m-Chloroperbenzoic Acid gives 1-phenylsulfinyl-2-nitroethylene, which is an excellent dienophile and acts as a nitroacetylene equivalent in the Diels-Alder reaction (eq 6).7
Related Reagents.
1-Nitro-2-phenylsulfonylethylene.
1. (a) Ono, N.; Kaji, A. S 1986, 693. (b) Ono, N. Nitro Compounds: Recent Advances in Synthesis and Chemistry; Feuer, H.; Nielsen, A. T., Eds; VCH: New York, 1990; p 1.
2. Noland, W. E. OSC 1973, 5, 833.
3. Ono, N.; Kamimura, A.; Kaji, A. JOC 1986, 51, 2139.
4. Kamimura, A.; Ono, N. S 1988, 921.
5. Kamimura, A.; Nagashima, T. S 1990, 694.
6. Tominaga, Y.; Ichihara, Y.; Hosomi, A. H 1988, 27, 2345.
7. (a) Ono, N.; Kamimura, A.; Kaji, A. JOC 1988, 53, 251. (b) Jung, M. E.; Grove, D. CC 1987, 753.
Noboru Ono
Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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I've decided to "restart" my blog and website, moving to a new platform that is far simpler and adheres to a minimalist philosophy. Previously, I was running WordPress, which is currently the most popular blogging platform available. It works great, and frankly there wasn't anything really wrong with it. But what bugged me was the whole complexity of everything -- there were endless places where configurations could be changed, and I ended up having to spend quite a bit of time unraveling exactly what was going on to tweak things the way I wanted to. In the end, what my site was doing was rather silly -- running PHP to generate the website on the fly based on the comments and data, and then caching these pages once again to serve static files that would load faster.
Now I've moved to a system where everything is a static HTML file. I've stripped out as much of the fancy CSS, links, and design that might have looked cool, but didn't really improve my writing, my projects, or anything really. I'm using Jekyll, which is super simple. You write text documents however you want, save them, and you get a static web page in return. I'm still using Linode for hosting, since it's super simple. And since cool URIs don't change, you can still get to every one of the old pages, like my old labs page.
I'm trying to remove more and more of the crap that stands between the time when I have an idea and start working on it, and when I can show it to others and get feedback on it. I think programmers today face an extraordinary number tradeoffs when starting a new project. There are innumerable programming languages; many dozens of frameworks for anything complicate matters more. And then there are all of the meta-frameworks like version control systems, documentation systems, etc that real software should have, but isn't really necessary for ideation.
But a lot of this middleware I've realized isn't really productive when working on small projects by myself, just to learn some new language or play with some ideas. Not everything needs to have version control, particularly if it's just some kind of technology demo that was made in an afternoon and will never be maintained by anyone. Using a large framework like Django for running a web application is often overkill -- by the time you're done with all of the configuration, you are left with no energy to actually do what you set out to do in the beginning.
That's why I've been spending more time with simpler frameworks that make fewer and fewer assumptions about what you're trying to do. Wordpress assumes that you need all of these categories and tags and comments and three types of feeds and something else. Django assumes you're writing a news site that stores things based on documents and needs a complex admin to manage dozens of contributors. Instead, I like things like Flask that have a single purpose and do it well -- take requests from the web and run Python based on them. D3 is another great example -- it's a visualization framework that doesn't make many assumptions about how you want to display anything, just that you'll load some data and then manipulate it.
It's hard to leave the many features that complicated frameworks provide. But when you do, you'll find it liberating, and probably learn more while you're at it.


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All the honey is transported to the depot in Klein Joostenberg, near Stellenbosch, where the pure South African honey is bottled, packed and distributed to various chain stores country wide.
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Citi says customers can now pay for rent and school fees using its credit cards
Published Tue, Feb 26 20192:53 AM EST Updated Tue, Feb 26 20199:45 AM EST
Saheli Roy Choudhury@sahelirc
U.S. banking group Citi said Tuesday it is launching a digital payment service allowing users to pay rent and school fees every month using the bank's credit cards.
The service, called PayAll, can be accessed from Citi's mobile app and every transaction would incur a fee payable to the bank.
Asia has been a test bed for the bank's digital and mobile lending services, which are subsequently rolled out globally, Sergio Zanatti, head of cards and unsecured lending in Asia Pacific at Citi, told CNBC.
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U.S. banking group Citi said Tuesday it is launching a digital payment service that allows users to pay rent and school fees every month using the bank's credit cards.
It is currently available in Singapore where average transactions are around $3,500. The service is expected to be available in Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand by the end of the year. Additional spending categories are expected to be introduced over time, the bank said.
Asia has pioneered the bank's digital and mobile lending services, which are then rolled out globally, Sergio Zanatti, head of cards and unsecured lending in Asia Pacific at Citi, told CNBC.
"We saw a significant 44% growth in digital lending penetration in 2018," he said, adding the new service will give customers "more value on their spend."
To keep up with start-ups that have been disrupting the banking and financial services space, banks have increasingly embraced the use of technology in their day-to-day businesses. Many of them have moved their consumer banking services online and onto mobile apps, making it easier for users to make payments, apply for credit cards or transfer money to others with ease.
For its part, Asia is leading the charge in internet penetration and the adoption of smartphones with massive markets in countries such as China, India and Indonesia. Southeast Asia, for example, is predicted to have an internet economy exceeding $240 billion by 2025, making it a lucrative region for companies to test out new products and services.
Still, traditional banks like Citi have to compete with start-ups that are often leaner in their operations due to the use of technology. In addition, after the chaos and disruption of the 2008 global crisis, customers have come to trust technology more than they do in established financial institutions.
Large payments such as rent are usually done through recurring bank transfers. However, Citi's Zanatti explained, users can "enjoy a free financing period" by charging rents to a credit card, since the amount is not immediately debited from their accounts. Customers can also receive Citi reward points as well as airline miles, something that "represents a significant benefit" to those users, according to Zanatti.
Last year, the bank said it was shifting its focus from physical branches in the region to its digital banking services — which included improving retail banking and credit card services on its mobile app, spending more of its advertising budget on digital ads, and creating systems that allow people to apply for cards online.
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La tònica o aigua tònica és un refresc carbonatat lleugerament amargant fet amb aigua amb gas i quinina. Al principi, tenia una funció medicinal per a combatre el paludisme (durant l'etapa colonial europea en els països tropicals) i, per tant, contenia prou de quinina per a ser efectiva; actualment, però, la quantitat de quinina és per sota del llindar terapèutic. És molt usada sola o en combinacions amb begudes alcohòliques, especialment amb ginebra, barreja anomenada popularment gin tònic.

La beguda va obtenir el nom pels efectes medicinals del seu sabor amarg. La quinina s'afegia a la beguda com un profilàctic contra la malària, ja que inicialment estava destinada per al consum a les zones tropicals del sud de l'Àsia i Àfrica, on aquesta malaltia és endèmica. El còctel gintònic es va originar a l'Índia colonial britànica, per a la població britànica, i barrejava les propietats medicinals de la quinina tònica amb el gin perquè fos més acceptable.

Història
Ja al segle XVII, els espanyols utilitzaven quinina de l'escorça dels arbres de quina per tractar la malària després d'aprendre el remei dels pobles indígenes del Perú, Bolívia i Equador.

A principis del  a l'Índia i altres llocs tropicals de l'Imperi Britànic, es recomanava quinina medicinal als oficials i soldats britànics per prevenir la malària, on es barrejava amb refresc i sucre per emmascarar el seu sabor amarg, creant l'aigua tònica.

La primera aigua tònica comercial es va produir l'any 1858 quan va ser patentada pel propietari de Pitt & Co., Erasmus Bond. El còctel anomenat gintònic també es va originar a l'Índia colonial britànica, quan els britànics van barrejar la seva tònica de quinina medicinal amb ginebra i altres ingredients per fer que la medicina amarga fos més agradable. Als soldats de l'Índia ja se'ls donava una ració de ginebra, de manera que la barreja dolça era fàcil de fer. L'any 1868 per primera vegada va descriure el Gin & Tonic. Va ser a la revista "Oriental Sporting Magazine" i es va definir com un còctel refrescant per als espectadors de les curses de cavalls, no com una medicina.

Contingut de quinina
L'aigua tònica medicinal originalment contenia només aigua carbonatada i una gran quantitat de quinina; la majoria de les aigües tòniques modernes contenen comparativament menys quinina, i sovint es milloren amb sabors cítrics. Com a resultat del menor contingut de quinina, l'aigua tònica és menys amarga i també se sol endolcir, sovint amb l'addició de xarop de blat de moro o sucre d'alta fructosa. Alguns fabricants també produeixen aigua tònica dietètica (o "slimline"), que pot contenir edulcorants artificials com l'aspartam. L'aigua tònica d'estil tradicional amb gairebé exclusivament quinina i aigua carbonatada és menys habitual, però pot ser la preferida pels qui desitgen el sabor amarg.

Als Estats Units, la Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dels EUA limita el contingut de quinina a l'aigua tònica a 93 mg per litre, mentre que la dosi terapèutica diària de quinina està entre 500 i 1.000 mg, i 10 mg/kg cada vuit hores per a una prevenció efectiva de la malària (2100 mg al dia per 70 kg. Sovint es recomana com a alleujament dels rampes a les cames, però la investigació mèdica suggereix que cal tenir cura en el control de les dosis. A causa dels riscos de la quinina, la FDA adverteix als consumidors que no utilitzin medicaments amb quinina que no estiguin correctament etiquetats per tractar les rampes a les cames.

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L'aigua tònica s'utilitza sovint com a mixer de begudes per a còctels, especialment el gintònic. El vodka tonic és una altra possibilitat. L'aigua tònica amb llimona o suc de llimona dolça afegit es coneix com a llimona amarga o llima amarga, respectivament. És popular pel seu sabor amarg però dolç. Un altre ús de l'aigua tònica és al cafè. L' espresso & tonic es va crear a Helsingborg, Suècia, a Koppi Roasters després d'una festa del personal on van barrejar aigua tònica, xarop i un espresso. Des del 2007, la beguda ha crescut en popularitat a Escandinàvia, Europa i els Estats Units.

Efectes negatius
Se sap que l'aigua tònica provoca exantema, que és un tipus de reacció de la pell a les drogues, a causa del contingut de quinina. Diverses revistes científiques han informat que la ingesta repetida d'aigua tònica pot causar aquests efectes amb una gravetat variable, i també s'ha reportat com a causa de l'aparició de la síndrome de Stevens-Johnson. Els casos d'exantema es van observar després que els pacients beguessin aigua tònica, sola o barrejada amb ginebra. Alguns símptomes d'aquesta reacció de la pell inclouen màcules pigmentades, febre alta, plaques eritematoses i bulloses. La reacció és més probable en persones que tenen un ritme cardíac anormal o sucre en sang baix, estan embarassades o tenen malalties renals o hepàtiques.

Fluorescència
La quinina de l'aigua tònica genera fluorescència sota la llum ultraviolada. De fet, la quinina és fluorescent a la llum solar directa sobre un fons fosc. Les molècules de quinina alliberen energia com a llum en lloc de calor, que és més habitual. L'estat no és estable i les molècules finalment tornen a l'estat fonamental i deixen de brillar.

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'Hamlet' Themes and Literary Devices
Appearance vs. Reality
Literary Device: Play-Within-a-Play
Revenge and Action vs. Inaction
Death, Guilt, and the Afterlife
Hamlet Study Guide
Key Quotes
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered of the most thematically-rich works of literature in the English language. The tragic play, which follows Prince Hamlet as he decides whether to revenge his father's death by murdering his uncle, includes themes of appearance vs. reality, revenge, action vs. inaction, and the nature of death and the afterlife.
Appearance versus reality is a recurrent theme within Shakespeare's plays, which often question the boundary between actors and people. At the beginning of Hamlet, Hamlet finds himself questioning how much he can trust the ghostly apparition. Is it really the ghost of his father, or is it an evil spirit meant to lead him into murderous sin? The uncertainty remains central to the narrative throughout the play, as the ghost's statements determine much of the narrative's action.
Hamlet's madness blurs the line between appearance and reality. In Act I, Hamlet clearly states that he plans to feign madness. However, over the course of the play, it becomes less and less clear that he is only pretending to be mad. Perhaps the best example of this confusion takes place in Act III, when Hamlet spurns Ophelia leaving her utterly confused about the state of his affection for her. In this scene, Shakespeare brilliantly reflects the confusion in his choice of language. As Hamlet tells Ophelia to "get thee to a nunnery," an Elizabethan audience would hear a pun on "nunnery" as a place of piety and chastity as well as the contemporary slang term "nunnery" for brothel. This collapse of opposites reflects not only the confused state of Hamlet's mind, but also Ophelia's (and our own) inability to interpret him correctly. This moment echoes the broader theme of the impossibility of interpreting reality, which in turn leads to Hamlet's struggle with revenge and inaction.
The theme of appearance versus reality is reflected in the Shakespearean trope of the play-within-a-play. (Consider the often-quoted "all the world's a stage" remarks in Shakespeare's As You Like It.) As the audience watches the actors of the play Hamlet watching a play (here, The Murder of Gonzago), it is suggested that they zoom out and consider the ways in which they themselves might be upon a stage. For example, within the play, Claudius's lies and diplomacy are clearly simple pretense, as is Hamlet's feigning madness. But is not Ophelia's innocent acquiescence to her father's demand that she stop seeing Hamlet another pretense, as she clearly does not want to spurn her lover? Shakespeare is thus preoccupied with the ways we are actors in our everyday life, even when we don't mean to be.
Revenge is the catalyst for action in Hamlet. After all, it is the ghost's injunction to Hamlet to seek revenge for his death that forces Hamlet into action (or inaction, as the case may be). However, Hamlet is no simple drama of vengeance. Instead, Hamlet continually puts off the revenge he is supposed to seize. He even considers his own suicide instead of killing Claudius; however, the question of the afterlife, and whether he would be punished for taking his own life, stays his hand. Similarly, when Claudius decides he must have Hamlet killed off, Claudius sends the prince to England with a note to have him executed, rather than doing the deed himself.
In direct contrast to the inaction of Hamlet and Claudius is the forceful action of Laertes. As soon as he hears of his father's murder, Laertes returns to Denmark, ready to wreak revenge on those responsible. It is only through careful and clever diplomacy that Claudius manages to convince the enraged Laertes that Hamlet is at fault for the murder.
Of course, at the end of the play, everyone is revenged: Hamlet's father, as Claudius dies; Polonius and Ophelia, as Laertes kills Hamlet; Hamlet himself, as he kills Laertes; even Gertrude, for her adultery, is killed drinking from the poisoned goblet. In addition, Prince Fortinbras of Norway, who was searching for revenge for his father's death at Denmark's hands, enters to find most of the offending royal family killed. But perhaps this fatally interlocking network has a more sobering message: namely, the destructive consequences of a society that values vengeance.
From the very beginning of the play, the question of death looms. The ghost of Hamlet's father makes the audience wonder about the religious forces at work within the play. Does the ghost's appearance mean Hamlet's father is in heaven, or hell?
Hamlet struggles with the question of the afterlife. He wonders whether, if he kills Claudius, he will end up in hell himself. Particularly given his lack of trust in the ghost's words, Hamlet wonders if Claudius is even as guilty as the ghost says. Hamlet's desire to prove Claudius's guilt beyond all doubt results in much of the action in the play, including the play-within-a-play he commissions. Even when Hamlet comes close to killing Claudius, raising his sword to murder the oblivious Claudius in church, he pauses with the question of the afterlife in mind: if he kills Claudius while he is praying, does that mean Claudius will go to heaven? (Notably, in this scene, the audience has just witnessed the difficulty Claudius faces in being able to pray, his own heart burdened by guilt.)
Suicide is another aspect of this theme. Hamlet takes place in era when the prevailing Christian belief asserted that suicide would damn its victim to hell. Yet Ophelia, who is considered to have died by suicide, is buried in hallowed ground. Indeed, her final appearance onstage, singing simple songs and distributing flowers, seems to indicate her innocence—a stark contrast with the allegedly sinful nature of her death.
Hamlet grapples with the question of suicide in his famous "to be, or not to be" soliloquy. In thus considering suicide, Hamlet finds that "the dread of something after death" gives him pause. This theme is echoed by the skulls Hamlet encounters in one of the final scenes; he is amazed by the anonymity of each skull, unable to recognize even that of his favorite jester Yorick. Thus, Shakespeare presents Hamlet's struggle to understand the mystery of death, which divides us from even seemingly the most fundamental aspects of our identity.
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Chadha, Anju and Madyastha, KM (1982) Omega-hydroxylation of acyclic monoterpene alcohols by rat lung microsomes. In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 108 (3). pp. 1271-1277.
Rat lung microsomes were shown to ω-hydroxylate acyclic monoterpene alcohols in the presence of NADPH and O2. NADH could neither support hydroxylation efficiently nor did it show synergistic effect. The hydroxylase activity was greater in microsomes prepared from β-naphthoflavone (BNF)-treated rats than from phenobarbital (PB)-treated or control microsomal preparations. Hydroxylation was specific to the C-8 position in geraniol and has a pH optimum of 7.8. The inhibition of the hydroxylase activity by SKF-525A, CO, N-ethylmaleimide, ellipticine, α-naphthoflavone, cyt. Image and p-CMB indicated the involvement of the cyt. P-450 system. However, NaN3 stimulated the hydroxylase activity to a significant level. Rat kidney microsomes were also capable of ω-hydroxylating geraniol although the activity was lower than that observed with lungs.


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2020 has been quite the year.
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented level of online activity, as millions of Canadians work and study remotely, using digital tools to stay connected with family, friends, and colleagues.
At Microsoft, we are working to do our part by ensuring the safety of our employees. We are striving to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate. And we are providing technology, solutions, tips, and resources to help people work and learn remotely while they stay safe and connected.
From Introducing Canadian French to Microsoft Translator, to Revealing new devices and Upskilling the Leaders of Tomorrow, the past 12 months have been a roller coaster ride for Microsoft Canada, and the tech world in general.
Thank you for being with us through all the announcements and discussions. To celebrate the closing of 2020, and to usher in the new year, we have rounded up 10 of the most-read stories on Microsoft News Center Canada over this past year.
10. Staying Secure in a COVID-19 Climate
Microsoft's recent Digital Defense Report finds that threat actors have significantly increased the sophistication of their methods over the past year, making them harder to spot as they threaten even the most well-protected targets. While it's critical for organizations to stay up to date on their cybersecurity practices, we also realize the importance of hardware security. Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever built with end-to-end security right from the cloud to the hardware itself. With innovations such as System Guard and Windows Hello, we are always improving on our protections to ensure that we are keeping pace with the threat landscape. To build on this, we announced the Microsoft Pluton security processor, in collaboration with our leading silicon partners AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm Technologies Inc. Read More
9. Microsoft salutes the nation with Great Canadian Innovators 2020 Yearbook
With COVID-19 impacting organizations across the globe, around 14 percent of SMBs face collapse and closure. As some businesses prepare to reopen while others remain completely remote, SMBs face unprecedented challenges. As part of our mission to empower every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more, we released a 2020 version of Great Canadian Innovators yearbook. The new edition features a collection of 15 remarkable, technology-driven Canadian companies innovating in their field leveraging AI, IoT and BI. Read More.
8. Jewish General Hospital uses Microsoft mixed reality and business applications to protect doctors while treating COVID-19 patients
Using Microsoft HoloLens with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist, the Jewish General Hospital works to improve health care delivery above and beyond the specific demands of the pandemic. Read More
7. Microsoft Canada and 12 post-secondary institutions announced the Canada Skills Program.
As a global technology leader, we have a responsibility to ensure future generations of workers have the tools they need to succeed, and to help strengthen our economies overall. Canada Skills Program delivers training, curriculum, and Microsoft Azure credits, enabling students to graduate with in-demand data analytics, AI and cloud certifications. Read More
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Our A.I. Meets World is an award-winning podcast series, developed in partnership with Globe Content Studios, a division of the Globe and Mail. In Season 1 of AI Meets World, we pulled back the curtain on AI and machine learning and got Canadians thinking about how they can integrate AI into their businesses. AI Meets World Season 2 offers an extensive examination of how AI is already making a difference in our everyday lives and how it can unlock new opportunities for people, industry and society – now and in the future. And you won't just hear from Microsoft; season 2 is hosted by, Avery Swartz, founder of Camp Tech; Avery will be be speaking with some of the brightest minds in the industry including, Jim Balsillie, Michael Geist, Bianca Wylie and Caitlin MacGregor. Enjoy A.I. Meets World
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3. In Unimaginable Circumstances, Teachers are Using Technology to Help Reach Students
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2. Accelerated digital transformation in response to pandemic has strengthened business resiliency
The majority of Canadian business leaders (69 per cent) are confident that their business will survive the pandemic into 2021 and just over half (54 per cent) feel confident their company will be able to adapt to whatever the upcoming year might hold. Similarly, half (51 per cent) are confident their business could survive the second wave or spike in coronavirus infections. These are some of the key findings from a survey released by Microsoft Canada that explores confidence levels among Canadian businesses months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact technology has had on their operations and workforce. Read More.
1. Building a more resilient and inclusive future through assistive technology
When it comes to inclusion, we strive to create tools and products that are designed with accessibility in mind from the start – because we know removing barriers for people with disabilities benefits everyone.
To celebrate The International Day of the Persons with Disabilities #IDPD, Microsoft Canada released the stories of two incredible young Canadians who are leveraging the power of assistive technology to not only overcome challenges but hope to inspire people of all abilities to accomplish their dreams. Watch these amazing stories here.
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Woman uninjured after deputy-involved shooting in Cape Canaveral
A homeless woman is in jail and a deputy is on paid administrative leave after the deputy fired at the woman early Monday.
Woman uninjured after deputy-involved shooting in Cape Canaveral A homeless woman is in jail and a deputy is on paid administrative leave after the deputy fired at the woman early Monday. Check out this story on floridatoday.com: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2019/02/08/woman-uninjured-after-deputy-involved-shooting-cape-canaveral/2814862002/
Tyler Vazquez, Florida Today Published 2:51 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2019 | Updated 3:54 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2019
Mariah Dusak, 42, charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. (Photo: BCSO)
A homeless woman is in jail and a deputy is on paid administrative leave after the deputy fired shots at the woman early Monday.
Brevard County Sheriff's Office deputies received calls of a disturbance on Chandler Avenue in Cape Canaveral just before 2 a.m. Monday when they arrived to find 42-year-old Mariah Dusak driving erratically in the parking lot of an apartment complex where she struck another vehicle.
Dusak then drove at the deputies, one of whom fired a single shot, striking her vehicle, according to arrest reports. She pulled out onto the road where she crashed and fled the scene on foot before being found in a bush nearby.
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Arrest reports state that Dusak and the deputies were uninjured during the altercation.
Dusak was charged with DUI, DUI with property damage, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, fleeing and eluding an officer and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
She is being held at the Brevard County Jail Complex without bond.
Court records show Dusak was on probation for a conviction of battery on a law enforcement officer.
The deputy has not been named by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, citing Marsy's Law.
The law is an unexpected result of voters passing Amendment 6 last fall. It took effect Jan. 8 and is designed to broaden the rights of crime victims, in part by preventing "the disclosure of information or records that could be used to locate or harass the victim or the victim's family or which could disclose confidential or privileged information of the victim."
Some local law enforcement agencies are interpreting this to mean that they are to withhold information about crime victims.
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Marshall is a world class traveler who speaks Spanish fluently. He has traveled to 26 countries including Europe, Asia and Africa. When asked about his service to the community he says, "I just enjoy being involved, much better than sitting on the sidelines". His hobbies include: canoeing, hiking, rafting, long city walks and UT football. If he could travel anywhere, he'd like to go to Russia "in the dead of winter." But get this… he wants to go with a girlfriend and take a romantic sleigh ride!


Bedrooms are our sanctuaries, meant for rest and retreat. These rooms are our most private spaces, and for that reason, can often be overlooked when it comes to keeping things neat and tidy. But nothing cools the mood or clutters up peaceful thoughts faster than a disorganized overflowing closet. So forget about rest for now – and get cracking on these great tips for organizing your bedroom closet. You will thank yourself later.
The biggest problem area for most people is keeping clothes well organized. Whether clothing ends up crumpled on the floor or lost at the back of an over-full closet, the way we manage our clothes can definitely use some improvement.
Make more room in your closet by sorting through your clothes seasonally. Be realistic about what you did and didn't wear. Store your out-of-season clothes in boxes up high or under the bed. Unused items can be donated to charity or sold online. By eliminating clutter every 3-4 months, your closet will stay streamlined and compact. Put your seasonal switch-out on the calendar and keep on it.
Color code: Arrange clothes by color, from light to dark. This creates a sense of visual calm and, importantly, also makes it easier to locate a certain piece you have in mind.
Eye Spy: Store your most-used items at eye level, lesser-used items at the bottom of your closet, and least-used items up top.
Clothes hangers are NOT your grandmother's hangers anymore. Those old wire hangers might have worked fine back in the day, but c'mon, we all have smartphones now.
Like with Like. Invest in some coordinated hangers. Doing so will go a surprisingly long way in creating a clean look that will make you want to take care of your clothes and stay organized.
Made Of? Proper clothing care calls for appropriate hangers: satin padding is perfect for delicate items and sturdy wood hangers are best for heavier items like jackets. Felt hangers are great for day-to-day use because they keep items from slipping off, and come in many coordinating colors.
Double Down. There are lots of great products on the market that allow you to extend and double the number of pieces that fit on each hanger. For the closet-challenged, these magic doublers are a great option.
Pro Tip. Hang your clothes with the hanger facing out or "backwards". Once an item is worn, hang it facing in. This will help you know when things need to be washed, and will also clue you in about which items are never being worn. When your seasonal swap comes around, these items can be donated.
Keeping shoes neat and tidy can be daunting – especially if your habit is to kick them off into an ever-growing pile. But invest in a few key storage accessories and kick-off a new era of organization.
Rack It: Shoe racks, cubbies or tiered shelves are the way to go. Buy a pre-fab unit or opt for a DIY custom solution. Corralling your shoes will free up much-needed closet space.
Box It: For lesser-used shoes, clear plastic boxes are perfect. They stack compactly, and allow you total visibility, keeping your shoes stored but handy.
Hang It: Canvas shelves offer an inexpensive shoe storage alternative, while a hanging boot rack is the perfect solution for tall and winter boots. Hang multiple pairs in a slim vertical space and rejoice at your clutter-free zone.
Shelf Dividers: to tame those stacks of folded clothes.
Stackable Bins: get some with pull-out drawers to store smaller items like undies, scarves or belts.
Back-of-the-Door: add a rack or some hooks to make the most of the unused space behind a closet door.
Now that your closet is in tiptop shape… take a rest! You deserve it.


The Northern Territory remains a territory of the Commonwealth and is subject to the plenary legislative powers of the Commonwealth Parliament under section 122 of the Commonwealth Constitution. Self-government was granted to the NT under the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 and Regulations.
In contrast, the States and their heads of government, legislatures and Supreme Courts are recognised in the Commonwealth Constitution, and the relationship between the States and the Queen have been further consolidated by the Australia Act 1986. Implicit in the Constitution is that the Commonwealth cannot impair the States' vital functions nor discriminate against any of the States.
In 1987, the Northern Territory Cabinet endorsed the principle that a grant of Statehood to the NT must be on terms and conditions that will ensure constitutional equality with the existing States. Cabinet directed a series of Cabinet submissions be prepared dealing with different aspects of the grant of Statehood.
Attached to this Cabinet Submission is a document entitled 'Towards Statehood', which includes a Ministerial Statement by the Chief Minister made on 28 August 1986 and a paper entitled 'Northern Territory Constitutional Disadvantages', which considers the constitutional disadvantages flowing from the status of the Northern Territory as a self-governing territory, and the advantages of a grant of Statehood. Two main types of disadvantage are: 1) where the status or treatment of the NT is inferior to the States, and 2) where the Commonwealth retains legal capacity to alter current equal treatment with the States, to the disadvantage of the NT. Some of the issues discussed include protection by the Commonwealth against invasion and domestic violence; freedom of religion; free trade between States; Commonwealth acquisition of property on just terms; Aboriginal Land Rights; National Parks; Industrial Law; Courts; Offshore Settlement; and the Australia Act 1986.


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Hitchens minor on the English and their history
January 2, 2016 in history and current events
Peter Hitchens is less well known in the United States than his late brother, but when asked to write for the New York Times, he delivers his Mail columnist goods, full-strength. Regarding Robert Tombs's English and their History:
Even in free countries it is sometimes necessary to alter the past to suit the present. For instance, I recall the day at my English boarding school in the early 1960s when our sober, patriotic old history books were gathered up and carted away to a storeroom. In their place we were handed bright, optimistic replacements, with a good deal less to say about the empire, the Protestant martyrs or what we had been taught without embarrassment to call the Glorious Revolution.… Older English people look back fondly on 1940, when we supposedly stood alone. In fact we were a major industrial and exporting power with a global navy, more or less self- sufficient, nationally cohesive and bolstered by the tribute of a still-great empire. Now all of that is gone. Is it possible that, after a thousand astonishing years, our island story has finally come to a full stop? Will the next great history of our nation and people be written in Chinese?
Now that George MacDonald Fraser has died, the sources for such views of the empire and its history seem fewer each day.
There was no national curriculum in the 1960s, so who did this "gathering up"? My money is on Signor Ben Trovato, busy as ever.
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Governing Women's Capabilities in China's Urban Expansion
Sally Sargeson, Sally Sargeson
By the middle of the twenty-first century, China's urban population is likely to have grown by about 500 million, to more than 1.1 billion people. This article applies Amartya Sen's concept of capabilities to explore how the government of urban expansion is affecting the generation of rural women whose villages currently are being enclosed by cities and towns. Drawing on interviews, press reports and government and Women's Federation documents from Zhejiang province, it illustrates how local governments' economic growth strategies hinge, in part, on reconstructing gendered relations in the spatial organization, civic management, production and social reproduction in new metropolitan sites. The article concludes, first, that unless China's leaders commit to involving rural women's representatives in urban planning and management, enforcing women's rights to property and enabling women to decide whether and when to work and retire, the capabilities of this generation of rural women will expand little; and, second, that Sen's concept overlooks organizational and material conditions that are necessary for women to enhance their capabilities.
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Rural women Social Sciences 100%
China Arts & Humanities 61%
women's representative Social Sciences 46%
Amartya Sen Arts & Humanities 41%
women's rights Social Sciences 33%
urban population Social Sciences 32%
urban planning Social Sciences 30%
federation Social Sciences 28%
Sargeson, S., & Sargeson, S. (2007). Governing Women's Capabilities in China's Urban Expansion. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9(2), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616740701259804
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Yesterday I recapped Christmas, and today I'm talking NYE.
NYE was alot of fun this year! We usually hang out with my brother in law and sister in law and the kids, and this year 2 more couples/kids joined us! We ordered all our food from a restaurant and had it delivered to avoid anyone from having to cook and it was the best idea.
We made sure to have some games for the kids - one of them being that saran wrap game. Have you heard of it? You wrap a bunch of stuff up with saran wrap (I used candy, little blind bags, notepads, etc. It's a good time to do this because everything is on clearance at the stores! Plus I had a few items that completely didn't make their way into the kids' stockings so I threw those in the game too) - Someone starts with unwrapping the ball and the person to the right has to roll a specified number (we chose "2") as soon as they roll a 2, the ball moves to them and so on. It was a major hit and I'm bummed I have 0 pictures to show of it. We realized halfway through that the littler kids need more time since it's really hard to unwrap. Maybe next time I'll make a separate ball for the younger ones.
We played Left, Right, Center, once with the kids and once with the adults at the end of the night. That game is so, so fun!
We had a balloon drop this year and we decided to put it in the garage (our garage is like another hangout spot - there's a TV, a fridge, and Rick made sure to get it nice and toasty in there before the party) The balloon drop was somewhat of a fail because the string you pull broke, but the kids still had so much fun with it.
Here's to a great 2018!!
So fun that you did your own balloon drop! We have played that saran wrap game too but with wrapping paper.
Yay for a fun NYE! Your balloon drop looks a lot more classy than ours did over here. Haha! I'm sure the kids loved it even though the string broke. Loving the last four standing, as well!!! Haha! Happy New Year!
How fun is this?! cheers to the new year friend!
We did the saran wrap game too! I was so much fun. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Ordering take-out is the best idea. And there's usually less clean-up which means more time together. My favorite! The saran wrap game is such a blast. The balloon drop is a fantastic idea for celebrating the New Year with kids. I'm going to have to remember that for next year. Mase would get a big kick out of that. It looks like you guys had a great time. I love the pictures.
Sounds like a fun evening and very similar to how we spent ours. Our girls made it until 1:00 in the morning though!!! I am immensely thankful we all slept in the next day.
It looks like you all had so much fun! Happy New Year!


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Jamaican Teas upsizing factory by 50 per cent
Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 12:19 AMNeville Graham/Business Reporter
John Mahfood, CEO of Jamaican Teas Limited.
Jamaican Teas Limited is adding 12,000 square feet of factory space, a $150-million investment that will give the company over 50 per cent more room to make non-tea products for its expanding market.
CEO John Mahfood says construction is planned for March-April in 2021, which means the new space should be commissioned into service by next September, taking the company's Kingston-based factory from 22,000 square feet to 34,000 square feet.
"Of course, there will be additional racks and shelving, along with manufacturing production equipment," said Mahfood. "Based on the type of construction we should be operational in four to five months," he said.
Jamaican Teas currently runs three work shifts, six days per week, but with food being a COVID-resistant market, the company, whose core business is tea production under Tetley and Caribbean Dream brands, but also the maker of other items, says it needs new capacity for non-tea goods.
At year ending September 2020, the tea maker reported record revenue of $2.2 billion, and, as Mahfood noted, Jamaican Teas achieved its objective of getting most of its revenue from exports, which accounted for 65 per cent of top-line income.
The company did not fare as well at the bottom line, due to its holdings in equity investor QWI Investments Limited. Jamaican Teas say a reversal in investment income from positive $533 million to a loss of $433 million, coming mostly from the heavy unrealised losses from QWI during the second quarter, due to COVID-induced collapse of the equities market. Consequently, Jamaican Teas' net profit fell from $396 million to a preliminary estimate of $210 million this year. The 2020 numbers are still subject to audit.
DEEPEN MARKET PENETRATION
The factory expansion will allow the company to focus even more on exports, while concurrently addressing demand in its home market, he said.
Mahfood is projecting US$1 million in additional revenue from the expansion, which will centre on soups and spices and other non-tea items.
"We're very fortunate that we've been able to reap the benefits of years of hard work in building that base. With this expansion we expect that our distributors will deepen the market penetration, by expanding the customer base and the number of locations we go to, especially in the USA," he said.
He added that the Caribbean market, which has been growing at about 20 per cent per year, is ripe for further expansion.
Last week, to create more supply of the company's shares, Jamaican Teas sought and got approval from shareholders to execute a three-for-one stock split, effective November 30. It will grow the listed JAMT shares from 695.08 million to 2.085 billion units.
While reporting to shareholders about the company's overall performance, Mahfood said Jamaican Teas had seen a 70 per cent spike in revenue over the past year, arising from a 49 per cent increase in exports, seven per cent growth in domestic sales, a full year of supermarket sales, as opposed to just four months in the previous period, and income from the sale of the Manor Park apartments developed by the company's real estate arm.
Of the 18 units at the Manor Park complex, 12 were sold outright, while five are under contract for sale, and one remains unsold – bringing in enough cash to finance the additional factory space, he told the Financial Gleaner.
"The real estate development delivered $380 million. That will give us sufficient resources to deal with the expansion," he said.
Jamaican Teas has another real estate project under way at Belvedere, near Red Hills, St Andrew. The 25 residential units, priced at $14 million to $20 million, are under construction and due for completion in October 2021.
neville.graham@gleanerjm.com
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Tiny toddlers can express some big emotions. Psychologist Melanie Woodfield shares four thoughts on what might be going on inside our little ones' minds.
When parenting young children, it's crucial to remember that toddlers are egocentric wee creatures, but not in the nasty sense. Put simply, they struggle to see a situation from someone else's point of view and assume that everyone else shares the same thoughts, feelings, likes and dislikes. Carefully presenting Mum with a huge worm is an example of this – assuming that, because it's precious to them, it'll be appreciated by Mum too. It's also why the question "How do you think Sarah felt when you took her toy?" can be tricky for a young child. Understanding how other people are feeling is beyond their point of reference right now. It's absolutely a helpful question to ask to encourage learning when everyone's calm, but just expect to have to provide some input – "You felt happy, but she felt sad".
Toddlers also tend to think literally ('concrete thinking') and find it hard to think abstractly about things that they can't see or touch. That's why it's more meaningful to say "We're going to music after you've eaten your apples for morning tea" rather than "We'll head out about 10am". It's also why they tend to struggle with clichés and sarcasm – "I'm over the moon!" or "Yes, I just love you hitting your brother" don't make much sense when you're tiny.
Thoughts and feelings have a very close relationship with each other. This is a complicated concept but the core ideas can be introduced from a young age. To start with, help your child to notice their own emotions and have a word or label to describe these – wouldn't it be wonderful if your child could tell you they're angry, rather than demonstrating this feeling by throwing something? With babies, try babbling the likes of "Oh, bubby is a sad bubby", or "Happy boy!". With toddlers, keep categories simple (happy, sad, angry and possibly 'worried') and try things like "I can see your face has gone red and you're frowning – you are angry!".
With slightly older children, you can help them get to know their thoughts, and the relationship between thoughts and feelings. If your child says "No one likes me", help them to see that this is an idea, which is not necessarily true (even though it feels true). And help them to notice that, when they have that thought, their feelings change. For all ages, praise any behaviour you want to see more often, along the lines of "Thanks for telling me how you feel".
Finally, toddlers are not cognitively capable of consciously manipulating you. Their actions are almost always an attempt to figure out how the world works. It's their job to be curious and notice things. They've noticed that pulling all the books off the shelf leads to Mum making a loud noise and rushing over … they're intrigued. But they're not consciously trying to ruin your day. Step back, take care of yourself (something to eat or a cup of tea, perhaps?) and it'll become clearer that your challenging toddler is simply doing what toddlers do best – learning how the world around them works.
Dr Melanie Woodfield is a clinical psychologist and mother of two, who teaches and writes on the side.