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One of the largest and most important cities in Norway, Trondheim is a major economical center, with some of the largest technical and medical research facilities in Norway, with both the NTNU and SINTEF making their headquarters here. It has been a major city since its first inception as a trading village back in 997 under the rule of the Viking King Olav Tryggvason, and was actually the capital of the country until 1217.
As such, the city boasts a long line of Norwegian history going back over the years, adding to the charm of Trondheim with more than just architectural wonders, but also plenty of cultural and historical significance. The Trondheimsfjord, an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, was an important waterway in the Viking Age, as it is still today, and is the third longest in Norway. It stretches from Ørland in the west to Steinkjer in the north, passing the city of Trondheim on its way, and offering some natural beauty to explore there.
From the Nidaros Cathedral—considered the largest church in Northern Europe—to the overwhelming student population making up nearly 20% of the city's 150,000 residents, Trondheim has quite a bit of boasting power at its disposal. Coming here is like taking a step back into Viking history, with plenty of wooden houses and ancient fortresses to go around, like the island fortress of Munkholmen, which is only accessible by boat, or Archbishop's Palace and Stiftsgaarden, which is the King's Residence. The city sits along the banks of the River Nidelva where it meets Trondheimsfjorden, and the natural harbor and sheltered conditions have partly attributed to the city's importance over the years, and give it a special appeal during the summer months when everything is in full bloom and the coolness of the river makes for plenty of riverside activities.
There are dozens of festivals throughout the summer months, so if you want to experience Norwegian life above and beyond the historical centers, this is the perfect place to do it. In addition, you have access to the surrounding countryside, and considering how far north the city is the summer nights can literally go on almost endlessly, making for an adventure that seems as though it will never end.
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Vassfjell Chapel
www.vassfjellkapellet.no
13.41 Km from Trondheim
Vassfjell Chapel (Norwegian: Vassfjellkapellet) is a chapel in the municipality of Klæbu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located on the northeastern side of the mountain Vassfjellet. There is no road access to the chapel, but there is a hiking path from a parking lot on the Trondheim-Klæbu border. The church was built in 1974 and was consecrated by the Bishop Tord Godal. The church is a part of the Klæbu parish in the Heimdal deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros.
Tautra Abbey
www.tautra.no
Tautra Abbey (Norwegian: Tautra Mariakloster) was a monastery of Cistercian monks founded in the 13th century on the island of Tautra in the Trondheimsfjord in Norway. That abbey flourished and lasted until the 16th century, when it was closed as part of the acceptance of the Protestant Reformation by the United Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. At the end of the 20th century, a community of Trappistine nuns formed a new monastery. The island is part of the municipality of Frosta in Nord-Trøndelag...
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Jan -2.2 123.9 28 48.8
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Dec -1.2 126.9 29.8 50
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When someone dies, it is necessary to value all of the decedent's assets, including real property such as real estate. As part of the valuation of assets at death by an estate tax appraiser, a date of death valuation determines the Fair Market Value of real estate as of the date that the owner died. This property valuation is used to determine if a federal estate tax return is due to the IRS, and the amount of estate tax, if one is owed. This is part of what is sometimes referred to as the death tax. The valuation of the property is also used to determine the new income tax basis for the decedent's assets when they are passed on to the person's heirs.
If a farm or ranch was owned by the person who has died, the farm equipment, livestock, and growing or harvested crops must be separately valued. These situations are usually stressful and complex, and must be handled carefully and with practices that will hold up in court, i.e., are defensible.
What is Fair Market Value of Real Property of an Estate?
The IRS has published an excellent page answering Frequently Asked Questions about Estate Taxes, including the definition of Fair Market Value:.
A date of death valuation requires an historical appraisal, also known as a retrospective appraisal.
This type of appraisal determines the Fair Market Value of property as of a specific date in the past. Attorneys, accountants and executors and others rely on the real estate appraisal services of Appraisal IQ for to help in the valuation of assets at death because of the familiarity and experience we have in performing residential real estate appraisals of this sensitive type.
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The IRS has defined the appraisal standards that must be met along with verifiable minimum education, designation and experience requirements for an appraiser performing appraisals for estate tax purposes. The estate tax appraiser must have experience with IRS Real Property Valuation Guidelines. Treasury Regulation Section 20.2031-1(b) requires the residential appraiser to follow the valuation guidelines when preparing a real estate appraisal for tax purposes or retrospective date of death valuations. In addition, the real estate appraiser should be designated and qualified under IRS tax regulations Section 1.170A-17(a).
When you hire Appraisal IQ as your estate tax appraiser, you can be confident that the appraisal professional that handles your case is qualified and licensed per all applicable regulations and guidelines.
In addition our opinion of value (appraisal) prepared by a certified or licensed residential real estate appraiser for valuing assets at death will be well supported by a detailed report as to how the appraiser arrived at his or her conclusions of the fair market value of the property. Your report will demonstrate to the user that the appraisal is well founded, substantiated, and meets with Treasury Regulations and state agency requirements. It is also wise to avoid submitting an appraisal that is more than two years old or an appraisal that does not meet other specific IRS guidelines for estate tax valuation of property.
In order to facilitate the appraisal of property as of a date in the past, you may need to provide records such as deeds, inspection records or photographs that can substantiate the condition of the property at the time the records were created. The appraiser will use this information, as well as historical market data (such as sales in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)) and construction data (cost to build) to determine the market value of the real estate as of the date required, i.e., as of the Date of Death.
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7 things you might not know about Facebook Shops
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By now, you've probably heard a lot about Facebook Shops, a mobile-first shopping experience that Mark Zuckerberg unveiled on his Facebook Live in May. That has got us wondering – with 1.73 billion daily active users on Facebook, will Facebook Shops serve as a true social commerce solution for businesses all around the world and redefine our shopping habits or is this all too good to be true? Here are 7 things you might not know about Facebook Shops:
With Facebook Shops, the key point is customisation.
For one, there's no limit on the number of products you can add, so go on and show them what you've got.
But don't go crazy with it! You don't want to present your customers with the paradox of choice. After all, the founder of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, did once say "I want to do one thing and do it well".
Next, you can also organise your products by collections. Having categories make it easier for your customers to find what they're looking for. And that could possibly mean shorter conversion cycles!
Lastly, you can customise your digital storefront. From choosing which products to feature, to selecting the best fonts and colours, to deciding on the store layout, the choice is all yours. Be bold and tell your brand story with passion and authenticity! Your customers will reward you and you'll thank us for this later.
Read more: Facebook Marketplace: The Ultimate Guide to Sell and Reach Potential Buyers on the E-commerce Platform
As Facebook Shops is a relatively new feature, the fine print will constantly be changing.
For now, Facebook Shops is only limited to physical items. So, if you're offering a service or are selling digital or downloadable products, you won't be able to start a Facebook Shop.
That's not all, Facebook currently does not allow international shipping. Meaning, you cannot sell products to countries other than where the Facebook Shop has been set up.
Thus, when a person from another country visits your Facebook Shop, they'll see an empty page.
Businesses with existing e-commerce platforms rejoice! Facebook announced that they will be partnering with Shopify, BigCommerce, Woo, Channel Advisor, CedCommerce, Cafe24, Tienda Nube and Feedonomics.
This means a fast and seamless experience for both you and your customers.
Your customers can find the right product on your Facebook Shop and be complete their checkout on the partnering platform.
On the other hand, you will not only be able to use these third-party platforms to manage your products and inventory on the Facebook Shop, but also the ads related to the Shop. Nifty!
With well-known brands such as Gymshark, Sephora and Allbirds using third-party e-commerce platforms don't be surprised if you see them on Facebook Shops!
Seeing an ad, then being able to browse, save and order a product all while staying on Facebook sounds almost too good to be true.
It's no doubt that businesses big and small alike would jump on the Facebook Shops bandwagon and nearly a million businesses have signed up for Facebook Shops.
After all, businesses are constantly trying to streamline and improve their customers' shopping experience in exchange for higher sales.
Furthermore, creating a Facebook Shop is free and Facebook does not charge for transactions processed through its partner platforms.
But here's the catch – a 5% processing fee applies for businesses that use Facebook's Checkout feature.
That being said, the 5% processing fee is lower than what other online platforms such as Amazon or eBay charges.
Did you know that customers on loyalty programmes spend on average $42.33 more than shoppers who are not?
Gone are the days where you have to like a Facebook page and show it to the cashier for a discount for your purchase.
Why? Because Facebook is rolling out a tool to connect loyalty programmes on Facebook Shops!
Businesses have been using Facebook to better engage their customers and extend their social media reach for ages. However, most of the time, it results in clumsy execution with the lack of tracking metrics.
With this tool, businesses will have a better overview of their rewards programme. Allowing them to view and track points and rewards so as to better cater their offers and promotions. At the same time, customers will also have an added incentive to engage and buy.
As Facebook Shops is essentially a simplified version of your store that lives on Facebook (and soon, Instagram), it will make it easier for more people to find, browse and buy your products.
One such way is through live streaming. Influencers like Viya and "lipstick queen" Li Jiaqi can engage tens of millions of potential consumers per day. Taobao Live, Alibaba's live streaming arm even reached record-high sales of RMB 20 billion during the 2019 Singles Day shopping event. That accounted for 7.5% of the group's overall sales – all in one day!
Facebook has joined the fray by making it easier for customers to shop in real-time. Businesses would be able to tag products from their catalogues before going live. The product tags will then appear underneath the live videos, allowing customers to tap and purchase on the spot.
Most of us have scrolled through Instagram and seen something so nice that we wondered where the user got it from. Or even thought to ourselves "how convenient would it be to buy a full look off Instagram Explore". This gave rise to numerous Instagram accounts such as this that susses out K-drama fashion pieces.
If that's you, you'll be in for a treat when Instagram Shops launch later this year. You can browse through your favourite brands, filter through various categories and buy it immediately. That's not all, a new shop tab will also be added to the navigation bar, allowing you to get to Instagram Shops in a tap.
Talk about a "one-stop-shop"!
If your digital strategy only revolves around SEO and SEM, you might want to rethink it. Messaging commerce has been picking up momentum in recent years and Facebook Shops may just accelerate its rise. For such businesses, Facebook Shops is a great start.
Customers will be able to contact businesses through Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and WhatsApp. According to Facebook, last festive season, 2/3 people surveyed globally messaged a business and 100 billion messages are sent across Facebook's products every day.
Conversational commerce is something businesses simply can no longer ignore.
You might think that omnichannel retail is only used for good customer support. But that's not true! The WhatsApp Business API allows businesses to send out timely messages such as delivery notifications and order confirmations.
What's more, Facebook is looking to allow purchases to be made right from a chat in WhatsApp, Messenger or even Instagram Direct. With all these possibilities, it is easy to forget that other channels such as SMS also play a key role in messaging commerce.
The thought of managing both orders and customer support across all these different channels is enough to conjure up a headache. As such, businesses should also look into messaging solutions that collate all these channels for easy management and team collaboration.
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The bride had one idea in mind for her Memorial Day–weekend wedding—simple elegance. Bright florals and a chocolate-and-Tiffany-blue color scheme made her vision a reality.
The bride chose a cathedral-length veil by Paris from Bridal and Formal in Cincinnati and matched it with a bridal headband crafted from ribbon that the groom's mother purchased from Michaels arts and crafts store. Her bouquet consisted of peonies and snapdragons.
Jamie and Ean were married in a Catholic mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. As a surprise, the bride's mother arranged for a bagpiper to play before and after the ceremony.
Bouquets of fresh tulips crafted by Garden on the Square completed the bridesmaids' look. The maid-of-honor's bouquet also featured luscious pink peonies.
Jamie's flower girl, also in a Forever Yours dress, carried a pomander of pink roses designed by Garden on the Square.
For their getaway, Jamie and Ean arranged for a trolley ride from the church to the reception. On the back of the car hung this "Just Married" banner. Transportation, courtesy of Old Savannah Tours and Transportation.
The couple selected this three-tier square blue cake wrapped in a chocolate fondant bow from Custom Cakes. It was such a hit that guests still refer to it as the "Tiffany Bow Cake," Jamie notes. Silver letters spelling "I Do" and rose petals decorated the table.


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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the FIDH and the OMCT, requests you to intervene with the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia), with utmost urgency in connection with the following situation.
The Observatory has been informed by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, that on Tuesday 10th October, Miroslav Filipovic, a Serbian journalist imprisoned for human rights reporting, was released after an appeal court overturned his conviction for espionage and spreading false information.
The appeal, originally scheduled for the end of the month, was brought forward as one of the first acts of the incoming Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica. The Supreme Military Court, headed by judge Colonel Milan Ranic, ruled the conviction unsafe because of "procedural abuses during the investigation."
Filipovic faces a period of recuperation. While in prison, he suffered a potentially life-threatening heart condition, as well as a dramatic loss of weight, with the authorities denying him essential medical care. According to the information received, after spending one month in military hospital under basic medical surveillance, Filipovic was moved back to prison only four days before the elections in Yugoslavia, leading to a further deterioration in his health condition.
The Observatory wishes to thank all those institutions, organizations and individuals who intervened on his behalf.
Brief reminder of the situation
Mr. Miroslav Filipovic, a correspondant in Kraljevo (in the center of Serbia), for the daily independent Danas as well as the Agence France-Presse (AFP), and a regular collaborator with the Helsinki Commitee for Human Rights, was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the military Tribunal of Nis on 26 July 2000 for « espionage » and « disseminating false information. »
He was arrested for the first time on 8 May in his apartment in Kraljevo by members of the security services. Released on 12 May, he was re-incarcerated ten days later. Miroslav Filipovic was accused on 13 June 2000 on the basis of articles reporting about the testimony of officers on crimes committed by the Yugoslav army in Kosovo during the NATO bombings on the Internet site of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Mr. Filipovic's lawyers appealed the decision of the Tribunal.
The Observatory recalled that this sentence, the most severe ever given by the authorities of Yugoslavia according to Reporters Sans Frontières, was passed down in an atmosphere where the repression of Serbian independent media has worsened since the beginning of the year, as it has for all persons and organisations that speak out or defend positions which criticise and/or differ from the government.
Geneva-Paris, 11th October 2000
The Observatory, a joint FIDH and OMCT venture, is dedicated to the protection of Human Rights Defenders and aims to offer them concrete support in their time of need.
To contact the Observatory, call the Emergency line : Fax : 33 (0) 1 55 80 83 92
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The PowerEdge R730 is an incredibly versatile 2U rackmount server that combines powerful processors, an impressive memory footprint, and flexible and fast storage options to tackle the most demanding high performance computing environments. As part of Dell's 13th Generation line of servers, the R730 is a reliable, general purpose system with the latest technology to equip your data center for the future and accommodate increasing application demands. Flexible I/O capabilities and optional GPU accelerators make the R730 a perfect compute node for IT as a service (XaaS) providers, medical-imaging solutions, and high-performance computing (HPC). Aventis Systems offers the R730 in three different chassis options: the 8-bay 2.5" hard drive model listed below, as well as the 16-bay 2.5" model, and the 8-bay 3.5" hard drive model. Invest in your infrastructure today with the optimal mix of memory, storage, and processing power in the R730!
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He doesn't make it easy for himself. Hamburg photographer Johann Cohrs is a specialist in photographing liquids. He doesn't like it when they get out of shape though, so he only presses the shutter release once he has tidied up the subject. In Cohrs' world, this means giving the liquids structure: flow lines, transparency, even edges.
Cohrs, born in 1981, sits in his Hamburg studio and tells me how he came to work for Passugger. It is quite obvious that he knows his liquids and that working with liquid substances fascinates him. The fact that he has the patience and love of detail which is required for visually capturing elements which have no solid boundaries also says much about his character. Cohrs describes himself as a perfectionist, someone who sets great store by quality, someone who looks beyond the surface, but also someone who is "crazy" about his work. This is entirely believable, even before he mentions that he was already a serious photographer in the eleventh grade. Nonetheless, he didn't initially set out to be a professional photographer.
But back to his work for Passugger. Initially, he and the art director considered making the Passugger images rugged and dynamic. "That was the first association we made for mineral water from the mountains." However, lengthy discussions with the company led them to move away from this idea. "The return to local ownership, the company philosophy of course..." He pauses and thinks for a minute. "The attractive, high-quality bottles. These speak to my sense of good product design." That is how the company opted for the subtle and soft approach that we see today.
The resulting images were created using light provided by lamps from the Swiss firm Broncolor; Cohrs swears by them. He's also loyal to his camera, a Danish Phase One. For the images, he set the water in motion using compressed air from a compressor, a method he has been using for a long time. "I just wanted to achieve a uniform transparency," he explained. Later on he mentions that, in addition to his photographic studio, he also has a workshop in which he experiments extensively with materials and their physical states, before putting them in front of the camera.
He doesn't make it easy for himself.
"The honey you eat in childhood defines your idea of real honey," says beekeeper Aschi Iten. For him, this means honeydew honey from his childhood days on Lake Lucerne.


Rainbow, the rare earth element mining company, is pleased to announce an update on its Gakara Rare Earth Project ('Gakara') in Burundi, where first production and sales of rare earth concentrate are being targeted for Q4 2017. Gakara is one of the highest grade rare earth element mining projects globally, with an estimated in situ grade of 47-67% Total Rare Earth Oxide ('TREO').
At the Gasagwe site, the Company has focused on the pre-stripping work since April 2017, which has exposed the 'Main Vein' to a depth of around 3–5 metres along 90 metres of strike with several other subsidiary veins that are connected or adjacent.
Following completion of the construction of the run-of-mine ('ROM') bunkers at the Kabezi plant site, Rainbow has commenced extraction of ROM ore and will be stockpiling the feedstock in advance of plant commissioning within the next six to eight weeks.
Rainbow continues to develop a new processing plant and remains on track to deliver first rare earth concentrate for sale in Q4 2017. The plant is ideally located at Kabezi, approximately 20km from the Company's mining areas and 10km due south of Bujumbura and is, importantly, next to a main asphalt road, which will provide ease of access for the container trucks collecting rare earth concentrate for export.
Since the Company's last Operations Update on 5 June 2017, Rainbow has completed bulk earthworks at the site and has made timely progress with the necessary civils construction in preparation for the erection of the processing plant, albeit with some temporary delays caused by local shortages of cement and aggregate.
Rainbow has already imported over half of the planned container shipments of plant and machinery, with the balance due to arrive during September and October.
Since reporting on Burundi's national fuel shortages in the 5 June 2017 Operations Update, Rainbow's activities, and those of sub-contractors, have generally been able to progress without interruption, however there have been further reports of potential shortages in recent days. Rainbow is monitoring this situation closely and has developed contingency plans to cater for any local shortages, but at present does not foresee any issues in supplying its own equipment.
In partnership with thyssenkrupp Raw Materials ('TK'), Rainbow expects to make first sales of rare earth concentrate in Q4 2017. Prices for rare earth elements have been increasing rapidly in recent months and this has translated to Rainbow's own basket price, which by 18 September 2017 had risen to over US$18 per kg (an increase of more than 80% since the IPO on 30 January 2017).
As discussed previously, Rainbow will receive a discounted sales price to the basket price, which is adjusted for the grade of the concentrate and to reflect the costs of processing the concentrate by customers. The discount remains subject to negotiations undertaken by TK with individual end customers.
Based on recent market feedback Rainbow and TK are confident that there is strong demand for all of Rainbow's planned near term production, which is to achieve a run rate of 5,000tpa of rare earth concentrate before the end of 2018.
Rainbow's focus is the Gakara Project in Burundi, one of the highest-grade (47%-67% Total Rare Earth Oxide) rare earths projects globally. The Company has raised US$8 million to fast-track the fully permitted Gakara Project to production ahead of targeted first sales of concentrate by the end of 2017. Rainbow has a ten-year distribution and offtake agreement with multinational thyssenkrupp Raw Materials secured for the sale of at least 5,000 tpa of concentrate produced. The Gakara basket is weighted heavily towards the magnet rare earths, including neodymium and praseodymium, which are driving demand and account for 70% of annual global REE sales due to their use in vital components in motors, generators, wind turbines, and electric vehicles.


Black Friday and Cyber Monday are nearly upon us, and thousands of us will be using these sales events to hopefully cut the expense of Christmas gift shopping. But do you know your rights when it comes to buying online and on the high street?
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are fast becoming the most popular shopping days in our calendars.
In fact, UK shoppers spent more than £3.3bn over the Black Friday weekend last year.
But, according to research published by Clear Returns, as much as £180m of those purchases were returned within days – that's £1 for every £18 spent. And in a recent Which? survey of more than 2,000 shoppers, half said they'd returned something they'd bought in the past year.
Online or offline – what are your rights?
Surprisingly, for a nation of returners, we also found that just three in ten of those surveyed knew you have different rights when shopping online than on the high street.
With most online orders you have 14 days to let a seller know you no longer want an item, you then have a further 14 days from that date in which to return the item to the seller.
In store, however, you're at the mercy of each shop's own returns policy, unless your product is faulty.
So, if you're going to get caught up in deal hunting on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, you're probably best placed doing it online. That way, you'll be better protected should you make a rash decision or two that you later regret.
The average UK family spends just over £800 on Christmas. But if anything goes wrong it can pay to know where you stand and how to put things right.
Before you hit the high street or hammer the online sales, take our quiz and test your knowledge. Let us know how your score stacks up.
Do you know your shopping rights? Has a retailer ever tried to fob you off?
Hey, I'm a shopping rights guru! You haven't wasted your time on me, Which!
But I did get this wrong: "If you buy a smart TV and the pre-installed software stops working within 30 days from when you receive it, you can reject the TV and get a full refund". I thought you would just be told how to re-instal or repair the software somehow. Anything to get away with not refunding.
I must have learnt something from my years with Which? with a full correct score. I thought the answer to question 4/7 didn't quite fit the circumstances somehow.
Let's have this as a downloadable document that we can print off and carry with us on our shopping expeditions [or as a postcard slipped inside the next Which? Magazine].
Well, I didn't wish to brag but having banged on about using SoGA and CRA on so many occasions I was relieved to be a 7/7. Question 4 is a good resolution; if a repair is not effective you can opt for a replacement but may have lost confidence in the product so a refund is a sensible option. And if software fails why should you have to go through all the trauma of trying to reinstall it; someone else caused the problem and should deal with it professionally. If it fails on a quality issue you should have the right to a full refund.
We need to use the rights that consumer law gives us but we need support to do that, in both understanding our rights, knowing how to pursue them and forcing certain retailers to stop (illegally) avoiding their obligations. Early problems such as discussed above are only part of our rights.
We also have the right to expect products to last a reasonable length of time, given their price and that they have been used properly. It is high time information was given to consumers to enable them to pursue "durability" claims when they arise. This is particularly so when products fail not long after their guarantee expires but well before their expected life should expire. Several Convos illustrate how consumers have been hit by this problem. I spoke to a Which? staff member at the AGM who told me he had had such a failure but not pursued a claim, simply replaced it. That's all wrong that people should feel they can only do that. So I'd like Which? to address consumer rights under CRA in a much more active way.
Malcolm – I agree that Question 4 is a good resolution, but the answer given is not as clear as you have provided in your explanation. I won't repeat the given answer here but I think your version is better, more comprehensible, and much more helpful.
I found you could get 4 out of 7 by just hitting the same button every time – but I won't say which one!
Some years ago (many years ago?) Which? produced a smart little card detailing all our SOGA rights, which was wallet-sized and ideal for flashing at the obstructive manager. Rather useful it was, too.
We need some more challenging questions, Adam.
@wavechange as a group you're all very engaged with consumer issues, and I'd expect nothing less than high scores here. These are question we put out to a nationally representative group of the general public, so you can bench-mark where you stand in the country. Making no promises, and very much dependant on the demands on my time over Christmas, I can have a look at producing a couple much more fiendish questions for you all.
You are quite right Adam. I often bring up consumer issues when chatting to people and it's amazing how little people know about their rights. If we could only get Which? to help a few of its subscribers to take on companies that deny us our rights it could make a very good TV documentary.
We already have Rip Off Britain, Watchdog, dispatches and similar programmes. The danger is that they'll want to sentationalise a topic to make a point rather than simple explain our rights and give sensible examples. Education rather than incitement, but that makes for less entertainment.
We need real action to improve the consumer's lot. Someone mentioned making it a requirement for all retailers to prominently display an official notice outlining consumers rights in their shops, – and also perhaps distributed with all on-line purchases, not just on websites. We need retailers prosecuted when they deny consumers their rights – that should wake the offenders up to dealing properly with customers. Which? can help with this with its lobbying, parliamentary contacts, its legal powers, helping customers through Briefcases and Which? Legal. But it needs approaching in a considered, balanced and professional way, not by sensationalising it.
That is exactly what I have in mind for a documentary. For a TV programme to be of popular appeal, you might have to compromise a bit on the presentation style.
I would hope that Which? would be well remunerated for providing quality material.
A manual Carpet Sweeper has broken after only about 6 months when trying gently to extricate it from under a door, when it snapped like a matchstick with no apparent force applied. It was the integral plastic piece linking the base with the broomstick part. What would seem like a fair approach. The manufacturers say I would need to return to the family Ironmonger I bought it from locally.
– freedom from minor defects (such as marks or holes)…..
and " be fit for purpose".
As floor sweepers generally are expected to be pushed under furniture they should be resistant to stresses when they are being used like that.
Jean – I suggest that you do approach the retailer since most retailers are happy to sort out problems within the guarantee period. They can make a claim against the manufacturer, of course.
Despite UK consumer protection law, I have (on a couple of occasions) found AmazonUK extremely difficult to deal with when returning faulty items after Amazon's intitial return period has expired. Their customer service pages appear designed to discourage this and when you finally achieve contact, they will try hard to make you deal with the supplier/manufacturer. In the case of items they simply handle for smaller businesses, it can be almost impossible to get things repaired or secure a refund and Amazon has what amounts to a "couldn't care less attitude." It also seems that Amazon has an undisclosed policy of closing the account of anyone who returns too many items or makes too much of a fuss about things.
That doesn't surprise me, Bill. Amazon's reviewing facility is tightly constrained as well so that justified negative feedback about Amazon Marketplace traders is not accepted. I rarely buy anything other than books and music from Amazon now. For domestic products and hardware I try to track down original sources and companies that have a shop-front and a reputation to protect.
I eventually received an email response which I'm rather astounded by shown below. Surely this retailer cannot be allowed to operate in this fashion??
Unfortunately there is no way of checking as to whether or not that deal existed.
However Cyber Monday deals are online only and do not apply in store, this may be why your instore purchase was more expensive than the offer advertised online.
The deal in question was in-store as displayed on their advertising monitor and not online, but regardless, surely they should be aware of what deals they offered to their customers??
It's well worth printing a copy of web pages showing discount prices or saving the pages as pdfs. I have used this as evidence that a product was sold with a free extended warranty.
It might be worth calling at the store you bought the monitor from and the staff may remember the price offer.
We recently purchased a bed off a well known website. We had no notice of delivery so I contacted them. I was told that the manufacturer would contact me directly for delivery details. 2 days later I arrived home from work at 11pm and found the bed had been dumped outside the front door in the pouring rain. Water had got through some holes in the packaging. I ran g to complain and was told they would give me a 10% discount as a good will gesture. Am I entitled to a new bed or a full refund?
If you have notified them promptly that the bed was received damaged then they must refund or replace.
Almost certainly, the terms Darren will have agreed to will insist that problems are notified promptly – probably within 24 hours.
It's always useful to take photos and protect goods from deteriorating further. The contract is with the company that took the money and they are responsible for the manufacturer and delivery service to do proper jobs.
£149.99 and hopefully they will apologise for their error.
If you buy from a Christmas fair vendor, what happens if the item needs to be returned or exchanged?
I bought a silver (925 silver) locket and chain for a friend and I wasn't sure if the chain was going to be big enough or too big.
Also, I wasn't given a receipt, which I felt that the vendor should have given me at point of sale.
You have the same rights at a market as in a shop but the retailer does not have to replace an item or give a refund if it was sold in perfect condition. So far as I am aware, receipts are not mandatory at the point of sale but you must be given one on request. If the Christmas market is still trading you can return and speak to the trader but the chances are it will be gone by Christmas Eve. The organisers of the market should have a list of stall holders and might help you trace the one who sold you the locket and chain. The local council should have details of who organised the market. If the chain is too long that will not be a problem because any good jeweller will be able to take some links out to shorten it. If the chain is too short you might have to buy a longer chain unless the links are of a common pattern and new matching ones can be easily inserted. If you need to buy a longer chain you might be able to negotiate a part-exchange with the original chain. Let's hope it fits perfectly and full gratitude is shown.
I brought my husband and pair of slippers which turned out to be too tight for him. Had the receipt but shop would not exchange because he had worn them. (Only worn to see if they were ok) . They said they were not resellerable.
Have you tried to complain to company on their social media channels? Many of these channels will help with customer service, I've successfully complained to a retailer on Twitter before after a store rejected a return. Alternatively you could call its customer service telephone line.
I bought a coat online using a promotional code and returned the item within 7 days of receiving it. The company are now saying I am not entitled to a refund, only online store credit. Reading the Consumer Regulations I don't think they can do this. Am I actually entitled to a refund?
I bought two items of bed linen from a local store at a special price on Black Friday. Without opening the packaging it was clear when I got them home that they were the wrong size. When I took them back to the shop a few weeks later to exchange them for identical items of the right size I was asked to pay extra. Is this right? After all the shop now has the original items which it can resell at full price and I've lost my Black Friday discount.


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CHRIS NOLAN QUALIFIES FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Christopher Nolan's 11th place finish at Junior Nationals in December awarded him a spot on the 2014 California-Nevada All Star Team to compete against the Itoman Swim Club of Japan at the Wakayama Championships scheduled over the February 15-16 weekend. The 36-member team (18 male and 18 female) will depart on Tuesday, February 11th for Osaka, Japan to allow time for acclimation and recovery from the time change. Team members include swimmers such as National Record Holder, Alex Valente, as well as a number of National Junior Team, and National Select Camp members. Chris is scheduled to compete in the 100 fly, 400 IM and 200 fly events. Swimmers were selected based on their performance at Nationals, Junior Nationals, and national rankings resulting from performances at Sectionals. The All Star competition with Japan is the first of a two-year exchange. Japan is tentatively scheduled to compete here in America the following year.
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Trump's First 100 Days: Science Education and Schools
The new administration will champion controversial school choice policy and potentially undermine the teaching of evolution and climate change
By Devin Powell on December 5, 2016
On the campaign trail, education often took a backseat to issues like trade and immigration for Donald Trump. He offered few concrete details about his plans, which were often vague and even at odds with what any president has the power to do.
Yet the tone of his campaign—and his rhetoric on issues ranging from minorities to climate change—has many educators and academics worried about the future of liberal arts and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. "Donald Trump has shown a contempt for science, a willingness to play fast and loose with the very idea of truth and an absence of intellectual curiosity," says Laurence Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School. "This leaves me with the sinking feeling that he will have a terribly destructive impact on the entire project of making excellent education broadly available."
The President-elect's clearest stance may be his support of school choice, the view that families—not the government—should decide where their children go to school and be allowed to use public education funds for public or private education. Opponents of school choice argue there is no evidence that it improves academic performance, and that it threatens the divide between church and state by channeling government funds into private religious schooling.
Trump's pick for secretary of education, Republican philanthropist Betsy DeVos, is chairman for the American Federation for Children, a nonprofit organization that advocates for public funding to allow families to send their children to private and charter schools. "She has been heavily involved, if not the main architect of the educational system that is in place in Detroit, where charter schools are among the worst in the country," says Douglas Harris, a professor of economics at Tulane University. "Her general preference on these things is for as little government as possible."
Vice President–elect Mike Pence has also championed the cause of school choice; as governor of Indiana, he oversaw a tenfold increase in the number of students receiving vouchers—public funds used to cover private school costs—over the past four years. Trump has pledged $20 billion in federal funds in support of school choice for families living in poverty; whether this money would come from U.S. Department of Education funds remains unclear. He will ask states to chip in another $110 billion, according to his Web site.
Much of Pres. Barack Obama's work on education could be undone soon after he leaves office. He relied heavily on executive orders, legally binding directives that interpret existing laws related many issues, including education. "Obama's legacy stands on clay feet," says Jonathan Turley, professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. "It would be relatively easy to obliterate it."
Trump has promised to use his executive powers to "cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by Pres. Obama." If the President-elect follows through, Obama's federal task force investigating sexual assault on university campuses—opposed by Turley and other law professors concerned about due process—could be dismantled. His order allowing transgendered students to use the bathroom of their choice in public schools—challenged by a federal court in Texas—might disappear. Department of Education inquiries into for-profit educational institutions—which led to the closure of ITT Technical Institute—could cease. Regulations that give the federal government a greater oversight over programs that prepare new teachers—issued only recently—will die.
But there are limits to presidential power. Trump said in an interview in 2015 that he might "cut" the U.S. Department of Education. Such a move would require Congress, and that body has consistently increased funding to the department since Pres. Jimmy Carter elevated it to cabinet-level status in 1979.
The new administration will also have no official say over what is taught in the classroom. Consider Trump's oft-repeated pledge to "end" the Common Core, a set of standards for math and English developed by state leaders (not by the federal government, as is often believed). The U.S. Constitution does not grant the president—nor Congress—the ability to set education standards. Each state makes its own decision. Recent legislation, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), further restricts the federal government from even trying to influence a state's decision—as Obama did with his $4.35-billion Race to the Top Fund, which favored Common Core states when awarding federal grants. ESSA shields state adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards from federal meddling; released in 2013 by a coalition of states and scientific organizations, these research-based standards have so far been adopted by 17 states.
If the Trump administration has any influence on curricula, it could well be via the antiscience rhetoric of its inner circle. Pence has publicly supported the teaching of creationism. Myron Ebell, head of transitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and director of the Center of Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a vocal climate change skeptic. So is Trump, who tweeted in 2012 "the concept of climate change was created by and for the Chinese." (The Chinese have corrected him.)
Science education advocates warn the legitimization of such nonscientific views at the highest levels of government could trickle down to local policies. Education boards in several states, such as Louisiana and Texas, have already been battling over how evolution and climate change should be taught, as have state legislatures considering bills that would allow teachers to treat these subjects as controversial. Nearly all of this legislation has emerged in states that were won by Trump. "We see 10 to 12 of the bills every year, and their intent is clearly to give teachers cover to teach nonscience in science classrooms," says Ann Reid, executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). "None have passed recently, but there's a danger that the people introducing these bills and school boards trying to change standards will be emboldened." According to Reid, NCSE surveys suggest that many teachers avoid teaching evolution and climate change, concerned that parents will complain. She predicts community pressure around these issues will only increase.
Just as White House rhetoric could influence what is taught in classrooms, silence on STEM or other education issues like diversity could also have an impact, cautions Quincy Brown, program director for STEM Education Research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She highlighted Obama's 2011 State of the Union call to train 100,000 new STEM teachers; the coalition of public, private and nonprofit organizations that formed in response, 100Kin10, reported that 30,000 new teachers have been trained to date. "These kinds of initiatives motivate the educational community," Brown says. "If messages like that are not coming from the top, I wonder whether there will be a shift in priorities."
Even Trump's views on seemingly unrelated issues could affect STEM education. He has called for restrictions on H-1B visas, which allow companies in the U.S. to hire temporary workers from abroad for specialized positions that are hard to fill. But revenue from these visas, amounting to $1 billion, is the sole source of funding for a technical skills training program for domestic workers run by the U.S. Department of Labor as well as a STEM scholarship program for students that is administered by the National Science Foundation.
Amidst the uncertainty, some remain hopeful that the federal government will continue its support STEM education. Trump has said he will cap student loans, an issue popular with Democrats. And his plan for his first 100 days in office pledges support for vocational and technical schools. "This could be an area of overlap between Trump and Obama," says Jon Miller, director of the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy at the University of Michigan. "They both embrace community colleges."
Hoping to influence policy, a group of organizations representing science teachers has reached out to the new administration. "We have been in contact with the transition team," says David Evans, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association. "We have laid out a paper highlighting the importance of STEM education for the workforce priorities they have."
Evans has yet to hear back from Trump's team, which also did not reply to repeated interview requests from Scientific American.
Devin Powell
Devin Powell is a freelance science journalist living in New York City. His work has been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Nature, National Geographic, Smithsonian and a variety of other news outlets.
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Today, Ontario reintroduced the Patients First Act, 2016 that would, if passed, improve access to health care for patients and their families.
Giving Ontario's 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) an expanded role in improving and integrating planning and delivery of front-line health care services, directing more funding to patient care within the existing system.
Improving access to primary care for patients, such as a single number to call when they need health information or advice on where to find a new family doctor or nurse practitioner close to home.
Improving local connections and communication between family doctors, nurse practitioners, inter-professional health care teams, hospitals, and home and community care to ensure a smoother patient experience.
Ensuring that patients only have to tell their story once, by enabling health care providers to share and update their health care plans.
Providing better patient transitions between acute, primary, home and community, mental health and addictions, and long-term care.
Improving consistency of home and community care across the province.
Strengthening health planning and accountability by monitoring performance and outcomes.
Establishing a formal relationship between LHINs and local boards of health, to ensure local communities have a stronger voice in health planning.
Ontario will continue working with First Nations, Métis, Inuit and urban Indigenous partners and health providers to ensure their voices are heard, in particular with respect to equitable access to services that meet their unique needs.
Ontario will honour its commitment to meaningfully engage Indigenous partners through a parallel process that will collaboratively identify the requirements necessary to achieve responsive and transformative change. Ontario is also committed to ensuring that any proposed changes will not negatively impact their current or future access to care.
The reintroduction of the Patients First Act is part of Ontario's commitment to reintroduce all government bills that were before the legislature in spring 2016, so that debate on important issues may continue.
Over the past several months, the government has consulted with stakeholders from across the sector, including doctors and hospitals. This legislation includes proposed amendments based on the feedback that the government has received.
Improving access to health care is part of the government's plan to build a better Ontario through its Patients First: Action Plan for Health Care, which is providing patients with faster access to the right care, better home and community care, the information they need to live healthy and a health care system that's sustainable for generations to come.
Investments in home and community care are up 90 per cent over the past decade.
LHINs plan, integrate and fund local health care, improving access and patient experience.
If passed, the new legislation would amend the Local Health System Integration Act and the Home Care and Community Services Act, among other statutes.
This document was published on October 06, 2016 and is provided for archival and research purposes.


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Playing a cunning game of survival in the war zone
He is gone Mad, he knows very well his political career is about to finish. So Presdent Musharraf probably thought to write a book and make some Dollars in hurry. He feels, being an army man he did not expect to be questioned on what he wrote or could not be asked to produce proof. Since he is not a democratically elected leader who feels his hands are tied by the constraints of a democratic system, he does not have to worry about the direct or indirect consequence of his words. The book might have boosted President financial standing but it had neither served the cause of truth nor the interests of your own country.
Pervez Musharraf was, by his own admission, a naughty child. His discovery that an unfiltered cigarette made an efficient time fuse led him and some friends to construct firecracker bombs that exploded deafeningly in rubbish bins and mail boxes outside the houses of school staff. "There was utter confusion," he recalled with satisfaction.
Old habits die hard, it seems. Last week the president of Pakistan fired up a string of incendiary revelations that embarrassed the White House, upset Downing Street and goaded President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan into a hissy fit. For good measure, he appeared on an American chat show and traded jokes about President George W Bush. Musharraf was promoting his memoirs, a task usually left to retirement, but like most dictators, the 63-year-old army chief of staff shows little enthusiasm for leaving the stage. And just as his schoolboy prank went unpunished, he can count himself fireproof as one of the main beneficiaries of 9/11. Once a pariah whose links with terrorists accounted for President Bill Clinton's refusal to be photographed shaking his hand, he is now feted by western leaders as a key figure in the global war against terror.
His first thunderflash last week was a stunner. Musharraf claimed the US had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" if it did not co-operate with America after the September 11 attacks.
A shaken Bush said he was "taken aback" by the claim and Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state accused of making the threat, insisted he had merely said "you are either with us or against us".
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JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – THE Pan-African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), buoyed by the factional squabbles afflicting the ruling party and the official opposition, looks in good stead to attain its aspirations of doubling its representation in Parliament from 25 legislators when South Africa holds general elections in May.
EFF, founded in 2013, has been spared the ructions troubling the major political parties in recent months, with the governing African National Congress (ANC) undergoing a leadership change after the then-party president, Jacob Zuma, lost out to Cyril Ramaphosa after a divisive elective congress in late 2017.
Zuma would in 2018 be recalled as the head of state with his own party spearheading his ouster from office.
ANC is still reeling from the infighting as evidence of links between Zuma, his party and government officials to the controversial Gupta family emerge.
These have split the tripartite alliance consisting of the ANC, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and South African Communist Party (SACP).
Analysts observe the divisions will work against the continent's oldest liberation movement in the forthcoming polls.
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) heads for the elections with its house not in order.
Led by Mmusi Maimane, it has suffered the departure of its "woman of steel" Patricia de Lille. The former mayor of Cape Town, a DA stronghold, parted ways with the party at the height of divisions afflicting the main opposition.
De Lille has formed her own opposition party called GOOD.
The intermittent fallout between former party leader, Helen Zale, and the party, is another headache for the DA ahead of polls.
EFF, which made the most gains in the last poll in 2014, has bucked the trend and has been the embodiment of unity ahead of the watershed polls.
Central to its manifesto is the reclamation and redistribution of the vast resources in Africa's most advanced economy.
"This is where true South Africans, who are concerned in the economic freedom of the country would know which party to vote for," said Lerato Moreno of Rustenburg, North West during an interview with CAJ News Africa.
Nokuthula Majola of Newcastle in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) is among scores of ANC supporters that have crossed floor to EFF, a party formed by Julius Malema and colleagues expelled from the ruling party over differing ideologies.
"This is because their policies (EFF) resonate well with the youths and almost majority blacks being economically sidelined by white minority," Majola said.
Sibongile Dlamini from Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province, said, economic transformation pledges were hollow without the reclamation of land.
"As a nation, let us deal with this emotive issue once and for all (expropriation of land without compensation). For that reason, EFF is my party," Dlamini said.
A study carried out in 2018 indicated EFF's Pan Africanist approach would claim highest turnover of legislators by an estimated 61 percent, a development that would guarantee Malema's party 55 Members of Parliament.
EFF has emerged the party of choice for youth leaders. South Africa's official population of 51,8 million (2011 census) is predominantly youth.
Among EFF's aspiring legislators are former university 'Fees Must Fall' leaders Vuyani Pambo and Naledi Chirwa.
EFF Student Command leaders Peter Keetse and Phiwaba Madokwe are also good bets to secure parliamentary berths.
Ringo Madlingozi, the award-winning pop musician, is another figure tipped to be a member of the EFF in the National Assembly.
EFF's anticipated good run in the 2019 general elections is also based on its pledge to the unemployed youths, who are desperate to find jobs.
The lack of transformation in leading sectors such as banking, insurance, technology, automobile, energy and mining has also frustrated youths hence they are projected to align with EFF at the polls.


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Mr. Arthur J. Premo
November 22, 1919 - April 17, 2013
Arthur J. Premo, 93, of the Gagnier Rd., Churubusco died Wednesday, April 17, 2013 surrounded by his loving family at CVPH Medical Center, Plattsburgh, NY. Born in Churubusco, NY on Nov. 22, 1919, he was the son of Theodore and Virginia (Venette) Premo. He was married to Doris Gagnier on July 5, 1947 in St. Philomena Church, Churubusco. She predeceased him on Dec. 26, 2001. Mr. Premo graduated from Chateaugay Central School with the Class of 1939. He owned and operated the Premo Family Farm in Churubusco where he was a dairy farmer and potato grower for many years. He was a Councilman for the Town of Clinton for 6 years, Deputy Supervisor and Town Assessor. He was also secretary/treasurer of the Burke Cooperative. Mr. Premo was a communicant of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Churubusco. Mr. Premo is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, John Premo of Churubusco, Paul and Donna Premo of Churubusco; seven daughters and six sons-in-law, Angela and Donald Degon of Constable, Martha and Gary Cayea of Ellenburg Depot, Kathryn Premo of Winston-Salem, NC, Rosemary and Ken Green of Chateaugay, Mary Lou and Raymond Tucker of Burke, Maggie and Mike Carter of Altona, Patricia and Joe Zuchowski of Schenectady; 25 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Besides his wife, he was predeceased by his parents; a brother, Victor Premo; eight sisters, Mary Louise, Victoria Colton, Albena Premo, Flora Dumont, Cecilia Wenski, Bernadette Johannes, Aurora Robinson and Theresa Primeau. There will be private calling hours. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 12 noon on Saturday, April 20 in Immaculate Heart of Mary Church with Rev. Howard Venette officiating. Entombment will take place at Whispering Maples Memorial Gardens, Ellenburg Depot. Donations in his memory may be made to Churubusco Fire Dept.
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Home Football Leicester on the brink of a European exit as Racing 92 thump Tigers to a nadir
Leicester on the brink of a European exit as Racing 92 thump Tigers to a nadir
Leicester's interim head coach Geordan Murphy and England fly-half George Ford admitted to deep-seated problems at the club after this eight straight defeat in all competitions left them on the brink of early elimination from the European Champions Cup.
Although Leicester mathematically remain in contention to qualify for next spring's quarter-finals, if they can beat Scarlets and Ulster in the last two rounds in January and squeak through as a pool runner-up, the team who were kings of Europe under Martin Johnson's captaincy in the early 2000s now look like rugby paupers compared with Racing 92, and plenty of others besides.
Heavy beatings have become so miserably common for Leicester that this 34-point score against them was no longer a shock.
Read more: Leicester Tigers recover some of their old form but fall short against Racing 92
Murphy, who was a stylish full-back in those serial title-winning teams, domestically and on the continent, has seen his beloved Tigers lose nine of 13 matches in the league and Europe this season, and the Irishman described this yesterday as the "lowest ebb" in his 21 years at the club. "We are on an horrific run, and confidence is low," said Murphy, as he contemplated this Saturday's crunch Premiership match at home to Harlequins which former Tigers star Austin Healey described in TV commentary yesterday as the biggest in the club's history, such is the looming threat of relegation. "Quins will come here and really sense blood in the water," Murphy said. He also referred to simple one-on-one tackles missed, and Racing's Scotland fly-half Finn Russell "waltzing through" and yet supposedly no lack of effort by Leicester, which all leaves a lot to solve if matters are not to become drastically worse with demotion to the second division.
Problem areas
George Ford of Leicester Tigers passes the ball against Racing 92 at Welford Road (Getty Images)
Ford's father Mike was here watching, and he has been linked with a role at Leicester, having coached England's and Ireland's defence among his past roles. David Ellis is also said to be in the mix for sorting out a catastrophically leaky barricade.
But Ford junior aimed his fire much wider. "Everyone is speaking about the defence," the No.10 said. "We have got other issues as well, if you ask me. There are a few things that need fixing, and quite urgently. We can still improve in attack, improve in our breakdown area, and probably tactically and strategically.
"It's horrible, really. Every time you lose it hurts especially in front of your own fans. It's not an effort thing; the lads are shattered. We just need to improve in all areas."
Ford said Leicester may have "stood still" since they last won the Premiership, in his first spell at the club, in 2013. "If you look at the top teams in Europe, and the top teams in England, they have taken their games to the next level, we need to have a serious look at what we can do to catch them up."
It would be no surprise to see a change at board level, soon, but Leicester face losing the playing talent they do possess if they go down.
Racing demolition job
From Racing's cinema-style indoor arena last week, the main features at good old Welford Road were grass, a blue-grey sky, a breeze, the odd burst of birdsong and the same dispiriting result for Leicester.
Relying on the Tigers' line-out in the Racing red zone was a flawed thought. And the home defence showed its colours when Racing's Irish full-back Simon Zebo made a clean break for the opening try by scrum-half Teddy Iribaren.
Juan Imhoff and Virimi Vakatawa also went over for Racing before half-time, with Leicester replying through George Worth. The full-back who is fourth choice behind the injured Telusa Veainu, Mat Tait and Matt Smith scooped up a loose ball as Thompstone was hauled down by Zebo, following surges off a line-out by Matt Toomua and Manu Tuilagi.
Another Leicester chance went west when the Test prop Ellis Genge lost the ball in a tackle after a line-out in the Racing 22. Genge has a great deal going for him as a running, scrummaging loosehead, but he also looks perpetually vulnerable to opposition wind-up merchants. His midweek observation that English rugby, generally, should be recruiting more from the working class was fascinating. Leicester need to find a solid core from somewhere.
Russell's second penalty goal gave Racing the first points of the second half. And while a slightly harsh yellow card to Leicester tighthead Dan Cole after 59 minutes, for leading with his elbow, was not damaging, points-wise, it helped prevent any comeback.
Tuilagi was replaced by Gareth Owen, with eight minutes remaining, to save some energy for the Harlequins scrap to come. Racing's final thrust, involving Maxime Machenaud on the France scrum-half's reappearance after seven months injured, gave Imhoff his second try in the last minute.
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PGA of America Career Services Welcomes Two Consultants to serve Northern and Southern California
Photo: Kendall Murphy, PGA (left) & Ed Winiecki, PGA (right)
The PGA of America is pleased to introduce two new career consultants to serve the Northern and Southern California PGA Sections. PGA Member Kendall Murphy will serve as PGA Career Consultant for the Northern California Section and former Southern California Section PGA Member Ed Winiecki will return to the Section as their Career Consultant.
Kendall returns to his Northern California roots, having grown up in Oakland, CA. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and his Master's degree from Saint Mary's College of California. He previously served as the Assistant Director and Program Coordinator of the PGA Golf Management Program at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Among his many accomplishments, Kendall serves as the Honorary President of the Southern Nevada Chapter PGA in the Southwest Section. In the Southern Nevada Chapter, Kendall was the 2019 PGA Professional of the Year, the 2018 PGA Professional of the Year and in 2016, he received the PGA Player Development Award. He has also been named the 2018 "Rebel Pride" Golf Professional of the Year.
His career has been dedicated to service having sat on PGA of America's National Education Committee, the Advisory Council for the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship and Career Expo, and as a Board Member and Foundation Director of his former Southwest Section PGA. As a member of the Southern Nevada Junior Golf Association, he has been Chair of Programming and a Board Member of the Southern Nevada Golf Association.
PGA Member and CMAA Member Ed Winiecki joined the team of PGA Career Consultants in January and will serve the Southern California Section beginning this month. Ed has over thirty years of experience in the golf industry and was elected to PGA Membership in 2003. Over the course of his career, Winiecki has served as Assistant Professional, Head Professional, General Manager, Tournament Director, Executive Director and Regional Manager. He is certified in all six areas of expertise and is currently pursuing Master Professional. Ed recently achieved Certified Club Manager status through the Club Management Association of America.
Ed served seven years on the Board of Directors for Southern California PGA, and more recently, served seven years on the Board of Directors for the Northern California PGA where he was the Section's Vice-President. In 2010, he was selected Golf Professional of the Year for Southern California PGA, and he received the same high honor for the Northern California PGA Section in 2017. He is the only PGA Professional to receive this accolade in both Sections. Ed also was the 2006 Horton Smith and the 2008 Bill Strausbaugh award winner in the Southern California Section. He is a regular guest speaker at seminars and golf colleges on club management and has been a member of the Association of Golf Merchandisers for the past 21 years. He also volunteers time for charities, fundraisers and local junior and PGA events. Ed has raised more than $170,000 in funds for Junior Golf and Special Olympics throughout his career.
Both men will be mentored and trained for 2021 by longtime Southern California PGA Career Consultant Ken Ferrell, PGA. The SCPGA Hall of Fame inductee in 2019 will remain as part of the Career Consultant team as Aloha Section Career Consultant and support the department's growing Executive Search efforts in California.


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I was in church today for the evening service (I was on worship leading duty) and the sermon was on the last portion of 1 Corinthians 10, particularly on 10:31b, "...whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
1. To glorify God is a command. It requires obedience.
2. It is a very serious command with awful consequences of disobeyed.
3. The glory of God is more precious than anything in the world.
The thing is I get all that, but I decided to ask a simple question: what does it mean exactly to "do it for the glory of God."
I feel that it is a very deep question. It boils down to the very purpose why God gave us life.
In the general sense, it may be easy to answer it. To glorify God is to obey him on all things that we do. It is to read God's word, to know him, to love him and to serve him. It is to live our lives in him and being involved in his work and the Gospel. But that sounds like a pat answer.
Our lives are complicated. We have dreams, relationships, desires, habits. To put it simply, we are sinners and our motives are more often than not questionable.
So how do we glorify God in all that we do?
I think we do it by surrendering our lives to him, daily -- to acknowledge that he is God and he is King, and that we are nothing on ourselves without him. All that our lives are is because of Jesus who died for us on the cross. And do all that we are and all that we do, we offer ourselves at the foot of the cross.
And the fact is that we live because of him. It's not us, but him. If we recognize that every moment of our lives, we will be living our lives doing what we do with gratitude and worship in our hearts.
It's living our lives for him, and how we live it that will bring him glory.


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The Best 30 Finest Michael Jackson Songs Ever, Ranked In Order Of Greatness
Chris Walter/WireImageMichael Jackson's songs do not sound much like Akon's songs. Despite this, Jackson and Akon collaborated on a hit that was released following the King of Pop's death. Akon revealed how one of Jackson's music videos changed his life. Michael Jackson's hits are gigantic, songs that have turn out to be entrenched not just in music history, but in the public consciousness as a whole. The levels of superstardom and musical dominance that he reached in the late '70s and '80s have rarely been approached.
He returned to the U.S. in December 2006, settling in Las Vegas, and attended James Brown's funeral in Augusta, Georgia later that month, exactly where he gave a eulogy calling Brown his greatest inspiration. In early 2006, it was announced that Jackson had signed a contract with a Bahrain-primarily based startup, Two Seas Records absolutely nothing came of the deal, and Two Seas CEO Guy Holmes later stated it was in no way finalized. That October, Fox News reported that Jackson had been recording at a studio in County Westmeath, Ireland. It was not identified what Jackson was working on, or who had paid for the sessions his publicist stated that he had left Two Seas by then.
The melodies are melancholic as they should be on a record like this, and Michael knows precisely which notes should really go where, as each and every second will have you wrapped in all of the dynamics. Michael Jackson knew how to touch people's hearts, and this track will go down in history as a fan preferred. I can comfortably say this is simply a single of the finest Michael Jackson enjoy songs as it does not get any much describes it more sensual than "I Just Cannot Stop Loving You." The drum kit sounds best for lounging with your important other also. Despite the fact that the artist's vocals tend to please on every song, the range he chose to function with on "The Way You Make Me Feel" will send a tingle down your spine. Complete of danceable qualities, it's hard not to get moving to the large pop drums and enveloping tempo.
He opened his own property for visits by underprivileged or sick children and provided special facilities and nurses if the children needed that level of care. The London residency was elevated to 50 dates immediately after record-breaking ticket sales more than one particular million were sold in less than two hours. The concerts had been to run from July 13, 2009, to March six, 2010. Jackson moved to Los Angeles, where he rehearsed in the weeks top up to the tour under the path of choreographer Kenny Ortega, whom he had worked with during his preceding tours.
A few weeks earlier, it had been reported that he had skin cancer, which was later denied. That was according to TMZ, which was gaining a reputation for celebrity scoops. Paris also blamed Dr. Murray for acquiring her father hooked on propofol. And spoke out against critics who didn't believe that Michael was really her biological father.
Michael didn't hate himself it's just there was no other way to deal with it so he bleached what was left of his dark skin. And yeah folks didn't like it but they didn't know what he was going via so it produced the problem so a lot tougher for him to deal with and persons sneak a peek at this web-site started questioning wether he hated his dark skin or if a thing was definitely up. It is speculated by quite a few people that Michael Jackson bleached his skin to even out his skin tone.
Quincy Jones wanted a "My Sharona" for the '80s — be nonetheless my beating heart. Jackson gave him a thing greater a moral that played to Jackson's public persona but also a rock backing that, though undeniably faux, was adequate, and Jones produced certain it sounded so great on the radio nothing else mattered. The opening sounds are novel and the measures of drumbeats generate a ideal quantity of tension. "Show them how funky and sturdy is your fight" — I do not know what that means either. This is essentially 1 of his handful of ballads that somehow feels balanced, not excessive. It is a weepy song it doesn't matter that his voice is a bit weepy too.
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He was undoubtedly 1 of the greatest performers of our lifetimes, and his life inside and outside of the music market captured the interest of millions. In the later years of his life, Michael was pretty seldom observed in public with no a sunglasses and a surgical mask covering components of his face. His nose was after again very unique and his skin started to become noticeably lighter. After Thriller was released, you can see some other modifications in the images of Michael. His facial features are additional defined and he has long hair. Michael rocked a long hairstyle from this point forward for the rest of his life.
On June 24, 2009, according to history.com, Jackson left dwelling about 7 p.m. The rehearsal went effectively but later that evening he complained to Murray about getting tired and wanting propofol. Murray gave him Valium instead until mid-morning on June 25. Jackson suffered cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, at his dwelling in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, right after getting the anesthetic propofol from Dr. Conrad Murray.
"Billie Jean's," opening drum groove caught the listeners interest quickly. The equalization utilized on the drums reduce brilliantly by means of all forms of speakers. The drums' basic drum groove that sounded so sonically fantastic and felt so soulful was embraced by fans of all music. The minor chord bass line that crept in was both mysterious, sensual and completely addictive.
By 2001, Jackson's face differed markedly from its former self. Here are pictures documenting the evolution of Michael Jackson's face over the decades. When the couple divorced immediately after 3 years of marriage, Rowe gave up her parental rights, a choice she stated she never read this ever has regretted. Rowe mentioned the singer was devastated by his earlier divorce from Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter. Attorneys for Katherine Jackson, Deborah Chang, left and Kevin Boyle listen as jurors are polled following the verdict in the civil trial that lasted for five months. Upload your creations for men and women to see, favourite, and share.
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