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'How did things get so bad?': Mother of five speaks out about delayed cancer diagnosis
"When there's cancer in the house, the children are always worrying if everything is okay."
By Órla Ryan Wednesday 2 May 2018, 8:24 AM
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A WOMAN WHO had a delayed cervical cancer diagnosis uncovered in a recent review by the HSE has spoken out about the experience.
Emma Mhic Mhathúna, a mother of five children, said she underwent smear tests every three years since the birth of her 15-year-old daughter Natasha, and that all the results had come back as normal until 2016.
Speaking to RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Emma said: "The nurse called me and said that something was showing up in the smear, and that I needed to go to the hospital."
On 20 September 2016, Emma had a biopsy. She recalled: "The doctor said to me straight out there and then that he didn't need to wait to get the test results back. 'You have cancer and we have to act quickly, I'm ordering an MRI for you.'
"That was Wednesday and on Monday I got the MRI and the doctor told me I had stage 2B cervical cancer.
"I was saying to myself, 'How did things get so bad?'… I had the letter from (the smear in) 2013 to say everything was fine."
The CervicalCheck controversy was brought into the public eye following a court case by Vicky Phelan, who is terminally ill and was last week awarded €2.5 million over incorrect smear test results from 2011.
Yesterday, Health Minister Simon Harris announced the launch of a Health Information and Quality Authority statutory investigation into the CervicalCheck screening programme. The HSE has confirmed that 17 women whose cases were reviewed as part of an audit have died.
As of last night, only 113 of the 162 women not informed of audits into their smears have been notified, RTÉ News reports.
'The children are worried'
Emma, 37, was treated at St Luke's Hospital in Dublin, and she moved to Kerry six months ago. She is now under the care of Cork University Hospital.
Emma said she has an appointment at the hospital every four months "to check that everything is okay".
On 4 April, Emma's children were with her when she got the all-clear. "When there's cancer in the house, the children are always worrying if everything is okay," she noted.
Despite getting the all-clear, Emma has been feeling ill and is worried something is wrong.
"On 15 April, that's a fortnight ago, I knew there was something wrong with my body again. I went to the doctor and he found something that was more than 1cm there … I was at the hospital last week and had to get a biopsy done yesterday (Monday). Everything is up in the air now."
Phone call last weekend
Last Sunday, Emma's doctor in Dublin called her to tell her she was one of the women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy.
The doctor told me that the smear results I got in 2013 were wrong … the first indications of cancer, the cells changing in the body, were there.
"If I had got the right results at that time, I wouldn't be where I am now … I had a kidney infection in January, I have a lung infection now. My life … well, I'm not too worried about my life, but the kids are very, very young."
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Emma said she is worried about the future and has arranged for her son Mario, who is in fourth class, to make his confirmation with his older brother Séamus next week.
"It's good for me that they can both do it together. I had new clothes bought for them anyway."
Emma and her daughter Natasha feature in a video produced by the HSE last year in a bid to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine.
Source: HSE Ireland/YouTube
"There wasn't enough uptake on the HPV vaccine. After what I'd gone through … I said I'd have to take a stand and help people," Emma said of the video.
She said she's still in shock after finding out what happened.
"My head is spinning … is it true? In 2004, I got a knock on my door to tell me my mother was dead.
"It was unbelievable, she was 44. I was 23 at that time, and on my own. It's like that again. I'm waiting to open my eyes and to be back in my bed and that this is not true," she stated.
If you're concerned about the results of your smear test, you can contact the HSE's CervicalCheck freephone helpline:
From Ireland: 1800 45 45 55
From outside Ireland: +353 21 4217612
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Local Shelters call for improved trauma-informed response amid struggle with client mental health issues
Shelters call for improved trauma-informed response amid struggle with client mental health issues
By: Katie May Posted: 3:25 PM CDT Tuesday, May. 3, 2022 Last Modified: 7:39 AM CDT Wednesday, May. 4, 2022 | Updates
After dealing with months of violent behaviour and vandalism, prompting repeated calls to Winnipeg police, the manager of a transitional housing shelter is speaking up about the need for trauma-informed responses to people who have underlying mental health conditions.
This article was published 03/05/2022 (270 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
"If our only response is to call the police when something happens and their response is what we've seen, then we need to have a greater discussion about this and this needs to be more of a priority. Things need to change," said Aaron Black, general manager of Pan Am Place and Pan Am Boxing Club.
For the past four months, Black has been relying on police help to deal with incidents of threats, violence and vandalism at Pan Am Place.
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Aaron Black has called the Winnipeg Police Service emergency and non-emergency lines up to 10 times about the same individual in recent weeks. Officers have been responding and doing their job, he said, but their job doesn't include the kind of specialized support he believes is necessary.
The Exchange District transitional housing centre takes in men ages 18 to 30 who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The program accepts men who are on bail, have been released from jail, have nowhere else to go and who voluntarily want to make a change.
One former resident, a 19-year-old who lived at Pan Am for roughly eight months, was discharged late last year because he was becoming violent. Soon afterward, the man began uttering threats and setting fires to the building or Black's car — incidents captured on security cameras and sometimes personally witnessed by Black.
On one occasion, Black says the former client stabbed a knife through a window at the Arthur Street building. "He's dealing with some pretty serious mental health issues. He has nowhere to go."
The young man has been in and out of custody, getting released with no support and continuing to commit crimes, becoming increasingly aggressive, Black said.
It's a cycle Black wants to stop. "But when these violent things take place, we have no real other choice and we're reliant on somebody to come in and intervene."
Black has called the Winnipeg Police Service emergency and non-emergency lines up to 10 times about the same individual in recent weeks. Officers have been responding and doing their job, he said, but their job doesn't include the kind of specialized support he believes is necessary.
The WPS didn't respond to requests for comment.
During an incident in mid-April, Black says a responding officer made insensitive comments after the 19-year-old had been arrested again. The accused was handcuffed in the back of the police car, intoxicated and screaming. It was clear he had mental health issues, Black said.
"The officer mentioned to me how part of him really would like to just Taser him to settle him down, and in that conversation with him, he was just saying, 'This is what happens when you do drugs,'" Black said. "This whole thing was a result of a conscious choice, in his eyes, to use (drugs) rather than recognizing all the other pieces that conditioned him up to this point."
In December, a year-long municipal pilot project was announced to team some WPS front-line officers with mental health professionals from Shared Health's Crisis Response Centre. Five months in to the Alternative Response to Citizens in Crisis project, there's been no public update.
A trauma-informed response is needed, "as well as more people trained in de-escalation," Black said.
Many other local non-profit shelters have been calling for the same. When there are safety concerns, non-profits have to call police, despite concerns about criminalizing behaviour rooted in poverty or trauma.
"I think all of the agencies are having a similar experience and none of us are wanting to create a solution that only works for us: we want a solution that works for the sector," said Siloam Mission chief executive officer Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud.
Siloam has a good relationship with police, Whitecloud said, "But it would be a better opportunity for us and for the person being served if instead they had a mental health response or a supportive response that included after care, that included counselling."
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened challenges for clients and staff, said Maj. Gordon Taylor, executive director of the Salvation Army's Winnipeg Centre of Hope.
"It's definitely become even more of a strain during the last couple of years," he said. "The COVID fatigue and everything related to it has increased mental health issues, but it's also, on the other side of things, definitely worn down the resiliency of the employees who work in the field with that clientele."
He estimated the agency, whose work includes operating emergency shelter beds and a transitional housing program, calls police for help daily.
Many of the existing agencies and programs are underfunded, Taylor said.
"Whether it's shelters, police, mental health workers, everyone's trying to do their best and trying to work together, but there's just limitations to the way things are currently structured, and a better way needs to be found."
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Katie May is a general-assignment reporter for the Free Press.
Updated on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 7:39 AM CDT: Corrects headline

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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has completed the two lotteries to choose the H-1B applications that will be processed this fiscal year. In total, USCIS received 190,098 H-1B cap petitions between April 2 and April 6, 2018, a 8,902 decrease in applications from last year. The first lottery was for the 20,000 cap exemption spots reserved for holders of U.S. advanced degrees. The second lottery was for the 45,000 spots for standard degrees or its equivalents, adding up to a total of 65,000 visas.
This year, standard cap filing has roughly a 45% chance of selection in the lottery. The advanced degree cases have a slight higher percentage chance because these filings get a second chance for selection if they are not chosen in the initial lottery.
Employers whose petitions are selected for processing should get filing receipts in the coming days, receipts will be mailed to petitioners or their attorneys by regular mail. Cases not selected in the lottery will be returned to applicants with their filing fees. The petitions that are selected will be adjudicated but do not expect results any time soon as premium processing has been suspended. To learn more about the H-1B visa and its requirements, please click here.
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Q: Finding Extra Condition for a function to satisfy $f(n)=n$ Given a function $f$ defined on the set of all natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$ with three conditions:

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*If $m,n$ relatively prime, then $f(mn) = f(m)f(n)$.

*$f$ strictly increasing.

*$f(2) = 2$.
Find a 4th condition such that the result will be that $f(n)$ must equal $n$ for any natural number $n$. (Of course all the conditions together are needed. Your 4th condition should not make any of these three conditions redundant.)
This is posted in my university website:
[1]: http:// mathstat.uohyd.ernet.in/noticeboard/generaldetails.php?id=12

A: In fact, it's a theorem of Erdős that every non-decreasing multiplicative function $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{R}$ is $f(n)=n^c$ for some constant $c$. This implies that those three conditions are already enough to prove that $f(n)=n$.
You can read a proof by Pierre Pbornsztein here.

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The Everyday & Everydayness
By Henri Lefebvre
Edited by Amber Husain
Art by Julie Mehretu
A new, affordable edition of French Marxist and proto-Situationist Henri Lefebvre's classic text on the everyday, illustrated by Julie Mehretu
The work of French Marxist sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre radically transformed the discourse of political geography. Witness to the rapid urbanization of the 20th century, Lefebvre conceptualized public space as socially produced—a mirror image of capitalist ideology—and levied a humanitarian slogan in response: "the right to the city," a notion that has energized the thought of leading American geographers such as David Harvey and Edward Soja. Lefebvre also worked closely with the Situationist International, collaborating with them on urban experiments in the '50s and '60s. Arguably his greatest legacy, however, is his theory of "the everyday"—a topic he returned to throughout his life, culminating in his three-volume magnum opus, The Critique of Everyday Life. Like public space, Lefebvre argued, the everyday is a social structure concurrent with modernity: "the everyday is a product, the most general of products in an era where production engenders consumption."
In this edition of Lefebvre's classic but largely unavailable text, New York–based artist Julie Mehretu responds to Lefebvre's 1987 essay, reflecting upon its implications during a time when conceptions of "the everyday" are both heightened and obscured. She identifies thematic connections between his text and her own work, casting into relief the enduring relevance of Lefebvre's consideration of time, space and place.
Published by Walther Konig and Afterall Books, 2021
Softcover with 64 pages
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 6 inches (21.59 x 15.24 cm)
By Henri LefebvreEdited by Amber HusainArt by Julie Mehretu A new, affordable edition of French Marxist and proto-Situationist Henri Lefebvre's classic text on the everyday, illustrated by Julie Mehretu The work of French Marxist sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre radically transformed the discourse of political geography. Witness to the rapid urbanization of the 20th century, Lefebvre conceptualized public space as socially produced—a mirror image of capitalist ideology—and levied a...


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Children in Ontario will return to in-person learning on Jan. 17 following an extended break from physical classrooms, provincial officials have confirmed.
Schools in the province were originally slated to return to in-person learning on Jan. 3.
However the province pushed that date to Jan. 5, saying an extra two days would give them time to provide N95 masks to staff and to deploy 3,000 more HEPA filter units.
Then the government announced last week that it would have kids learn remotely until at least Jan. 17 due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the province.
Premier Doug Ford said on Jan. 3 that a return to modified Step 2 restrictions and remote learning would help keep the health-care system from being overwhelmed and would give the province time to get more booster shots out to the population.
On Monday evening, Ford's office confirmed that elementary and high school kids will return to in-person classes on Jan. 17. His office did not say why it was taking the decision.
One parent who has been campaigning for schools to reopen told CP24 that she is elated kids will soon be back in classrooms.
"I'm very, very thrilled to hear this news. I think it's definitely what we need to hear," Bronwen Alsop said.
The move follows calls from a number of groups to get kids back in the classrooms, though some stakeholders have remained divided about how quickly that should happen.
"The question that needed to be asked everyday with a response from government is what is taking place to make schools safer to reopen and stay open? Without those answers, I don't see what makes January 17th any better given what is happening in other cities/jurisdictions," Dr. Andrew Boozary, the head of the social medicine program at the University Health Network, said in a tweet.
Hospitalizations have skyrocketed in Ontario in recent weeks, driven by the more infectious Omicron variant. The province reported Monday that there are now at least 2,467 patients with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals, with 438 in intensive care.
Teacher unions have called for a number of safety measures, such as N95 masks for education workers, HEPA filters in all classrooms and the availability of rapid antigen tests. The unions and opposition critics have criticized the government for not investing in the safety measures sooner.
In recent weeks, education workers have received prioritization for booster shots ahead of the return to classrooms.
However the government also recently said that it would no longer report COVID-19 infection numbers among students and staff.
Teacher unions and school boards said Monday evening they had not been notified about the decision yet.
Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation President Karen Littlewood told CP24 she was "surprised" to learn about the decision on Twitter.
"I don't think that's how we should be informed about the return to in-class learning," Littlewood said. "I really, I think many educators feel very disrespected."
She said that while booster clinics for education workers have been held in the GTA, education workers in other parts of the province still can't get an appointment until February. She also pointed out that school-aged children are not yet eligible for booster shots, thought by many to be necessary in order to have good protection against the Omicron variant.
"You're not allowed to dine in a restaurant right now, but students can dine in a classroom at lunchtime or in a cafeteria," Littlewood said.
She called the decision "sudden" and said she understood that the government would reevaluate at the end of the two-week period.
"I'm not sure what they're reevaluating because unless I missed something today, I think the ICU numbers are up and not coming down," Littlewood said. "So again, what are the metrics that the government is using in order to make this type of decision?
"We want to be in the classroom, we want to see students. That's the model that we really support – the OSSTF and other education workers – but the schools need to be safe. And are they? That's the question that I have back to the government."
Other teacher unions also weighed in.
"Students, parents, and educators all want schools to return to in-person IF it is safe to do so. Is that your final answer @fordnation and @Sflecce? Schools are safe this time??," Barb Dobrowolski, provincial president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association tweeted Monday night after seeing the news about a return to in-person learning.
In addition to concerns about COVID-19 spread in schools, there have been concerns that the same staff shortages currently plaguing many industries because of COVID-19 infection and isolation protocols could affect schools as well.
Earlier Monday the province said that an agreement with the Ontario Teachers' Federation will allow retired teachers to be re-employed in the public school system for 95 days until the end of June. That's nearly double the previous limit of 50 days.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement that the change will help smooth both remote and in-person learning.
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Q: How to show correct value using JSON.parse()? I have JSON code which I want to parse but it is not parsing as I expected. I need to show only messages but it is showing me extra information like Object, Array. How to fix it?
var txt = "";
var json_string = JSON.stringify(data.json_data);
var json_object = JSON.parse(json_string, function(key, value){
    txt += value;
});
console.log(txt);

Message in browser console:
Enter the same password as above, for verification.  crud.js:45:25
Array [ <1 empty item> ]  crud.js:45:25 <-- DONT NEED TO SHOW
Email already exists.  crud.js:45:25
Array [ <1 empty item> ]  crud.js:45:25 <-- DONT NEED TO SHOW
Object {  } <-- DONT NEED TO SHOW

A: I have got solution for you. Please check below code.
var data = {
    'json_data' : {
    'test1' : 'test1',
    'test2' : 'test2',
  }
}

var json_string = JSON.stringify(data.json_data);
console.log(jQuery.parseJSON(json_string));
var json_object = jQuery.parseJSON(json_string);
$.each(json_object,function(index, value) {
    console.log(index);
  console.log(value);
});

It will work.
Please check below link as well
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An anonymous source claims that former Full House actress Lori Loughlin is freaking out over the possibility that she may serve jail time for her alleged role in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal.
Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that Lori Loughlin and her husband have been indicted by a federal grand jury with regards to their involvement in William "Rick" Singer's college admissions scam.
According to court documents, Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade was included on at least one email conversation between her parents and allege college admissions scam operator William "Rick" Singer.
14 parents charged in the DOJ's college admissions bribe scandal investigation decided to plead guilty on Monday.
BOSTON (AP) — Actress Felicity Huffman agrees to plead guilty in college admissions cheating scam that has ensnared wealthy parents.
Prosecutors are "determined" to see that Hollywood actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman receive jail time for their part in the elite college bribery case, according to a report.
BOSTON (AP) — A procession of wealthy parents, from a Napa Valley vineyard owner to a Hot Pockets heiress, are appearing in court Friday to hear charges that they paid bribes to get their children into top colleges.
USC has confirmed that Lori Loughlin's daughters are still enrolled despite claims that they had decided to drop out.
In a recently resurfaced vlog clip, actress Lori Loughlin complained about spending "all this money" on her daughter's education.
Mike Rowe chimed in on the college bribery scandal this week, making the case that the cost of attending college is a bigger issue in the United States.
Late-night legend Jay Leno said the scandal over parents, many of them Hollywood figures and CEOs, cheating their children's way into elite colleges was the "legal definition" of white privilege.
With streaming giant Netflix dropping her from its Fuller House series, actress Lori Loughlin has lost another job after being arrested in the wide-ranging college bribery and cheating scandal.
A teacher from Oakland, California, is suing Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin for $500 billion, claiming their alleged college bribery prevented her son from gaining admission to his preferred colleges.
Lori Loughlin's daughters have reportedly decided not to return to the University of Southern California, blaming potential bullying by classmates and the media.
The Hallmark Channel has cut ties with actress Lori Loughlin after she was arrested for her alleged part in the college admissions bribery scandal revealed by the Department of Justice this week.
As Lori Loughlin traveled to Los Angeles on Tuesday to face arrest over her alleged role in bribing USC officials to admit her children, her daughter Olivia Jade was reportedly partying on a yacht owned by USC's board chairman.
Late-night comedians weighed in on the recent college admissions bribery scandal that has engulfed scores of celebrities and wealthy individuals, with Stephen Colbert attacking President Donald Trump over the scandal.
Olivia Jade, daughter of actress Lori Loughlin and one of the students at the center of America's largest college admissions scam, once bragged about not wanting to attend class on her popular YouTube channel.
BOSTON (AP) — A fast-moving college admissions scandal moved from bombshell indictments to guilty pleas in a matter of hours, yet the full fallout from the federal case against the rich and famous could take months or more to unfold.
Character actor Dean Norris had sharp words for the "rich fuckwads" whose parents cheated and bribed their children's way into elite schools.
'Desperate Housewives' actress Felicity Huffman was arrested Tuesday morning over a mail fraud charge related to a college admissions scam that involves 33 elite parents paying their children's way into colleges like Yale, the University of Texas, and Stanford.
BOSTON (AP) — Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged along with at least 40 other people Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents bribed college coaches and insiders at testing centers to help get their children into some of the most elite schools in the country, prosecutors said.


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Q: Sequelize Transaction Bulk Update followed by Bulk Create I am working with Sequelize transaction and would like to know how to do a bulk update before sequentially doing a bulk create.
My current code is something like this:

return sequelize.transaction(function(t){
  return sequelize.Promise.each(arrToUpdate, function(itemToUpdate){
    model.update(itemToUpdate, { transaction: t })
  });
  //How to do a sequential bulk create after the bulk update is successful in sequelize
  //transaction?
  //Bulk Create code would be return model.bulkCreate(itemsArray, { transaction: t })
});

A: I believe you're just after promise chaining with then? The first line should return a promise - so just call then on the result:
return sequelize.transaction(function(t){
  return sequelize.Promise.each(arrToUpdate, function(itemToUpdate){
    model.update(itemToUpdate, { transaction: t })
  }).then((updateResult) => {
    return model.bulkCreate(itemsArray, { transaction: t })
  }, (err) => {
    // if update throws an error, handle it here.
  });
});

Note: now your function will return a promise, so whatever calls your function will have to use then to get a handle on the result.


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Ben Fogle recently joked about watching birdlife with a double meaning of women on his programme New Lives in the Wild, so it must be okay, but I have no need to do it in this blog post, as it just features birds of the flying kind.
These photos were taken in the Santa Rosa park in Costa Rica's north-west. I think I just found out twenty-three years later it's a white-throated magpie jay, and a cover star of the park's speciality birds. The name reminds me that I also saw beautiful blue jays and redolent red cardinals in North America.
These photos were taken in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands. The first photo features parrots, and I think the second does too.


Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of women workers at a silk mill, 1843. They are 'doublers': doubling is the combining of two or more single threads into one to increase the strength and thickness of the thread. Each woman sits beside a spinning wheel, which she turns with her right hand. With the other she draws single threads from bobbins so that the threads lie side by side on the wheel. (Twisting the threads together, 'throwing', was another process, which at this date was done by machine, powered by steam or by hand). This scene was sketched in the Lombe silk mill, Derby.


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Q: CSS min-height isn't working I have an dropdown menu, for an webshop.
But whenever i add more items then there should be, the box isn't getting larger,
Simple question huh? the answer is "min-height". But here's the problem! It isnt working. I've been using it for a long time now, and this is the first time it doesn't work. Are there any specific things i need to know?

A: On line 43 in your CSS, you need to set the height to auto, which is being inherited from line 16, as part of the menu's class declaration.
Here is the full working coded-up example that I've just done for you.


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Gravity sensors developed by academics at the Quantum Technology Hub have progressed rapidly during the Hub's first phase from lab research to prototype instruments. The new partnership with BGS will enable sensors to be tested in real-world environments.
Dr Paul Wilkinson, a Theoretical Research Geophysicist at BGS, said: "We were very pleased to be invited to participate directly in the second phase of the Hub to help develop quantum gravity sensors for use in geophysical surveys and applications." Dr Wilkinson is working within the Hub's Geophysics work package, led by Dr Michael Holynski and Professor Nicole Metje, from the University of Birmingham, to set up field trials to test and evaluate quantum gravity instruments and engage with end users.
The development of quantum gravity sensors through to commercial use has the potential to be hugely impactful. It will mean that we will have a much more accurate understanding of what lies beneath the ground. For example, in 2014-15, road occupation due to utility street works incurred costs of more than £1.5 billion, and traffic delays accounted for 6.16 million days of work in the UK. The cost of these street works to the UK economy was estimated around £7 billion, and the projected cumulative total cost of utility street works in the UK from 2013 and 2030 is £319 billion.
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Dr Wilkinson said, "You can set up this technology [PRIME] to make the same set of measurements on a regular basis, and get the data transmitted back as a time lapse sequence. The system takes the data, turns them into 3D images, and translates these into parameters that site operators are more interested in, such as moisture content, and this is delivered automatically to the end-user."
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A conversation between Larissa Babij and Corina Apostol
In the following conversation the use the word "we" refers to past events (involving several or more participants of the Assembly) and positions that have been agreed upon and declared as common views of the ACU.
One of the defining characteristics of the Assembly (one which is often criticized) is that it does not have a consolidated voice. Based on the principle of horizontality, which defies hierarchy, the Assembly functions through self-organization. Initia-tives come from individuals and the initiator is responsible for making his/her proposition happen. No one gives or fulfills orders. And no one is delegated the responsibility for speaking or answering or deciding for the group. The Assembly expresses its positions in letters addressed to particular government officials and in public statements published on the Internet. Audio and video recordings of almost all meetings are also available via the Internet within Ukraine.
Corina Apostol (CA): I would like to start with very basic questions about how the Assembly came into being and how it's developed over the past month. We've recently heard of cases of art workers' protests in Bucharest or Belgrade, and even occupations of museums and public institutions; at the same time, these actions seemed to be effective only for a short period of time, as some kind of conscious-ness-raising moments.
Larissa Babij (LB): The Assembly for Culture in Ukraine came into being after three months of continuous protest and civic tension in Kyiv and all over Ukraine. The Assembly has been meeting regularly in the basement of the Ministry of Cul-ture since February 23, 2014. Those who have been involved in the protests in some form or other have accepted the fact that you have to give up your daily routines and certain expectations in emergency situations. Work in the Assembly demands a lot of time, patience and flexibility, but there are enough people interested in re-forming culture in Ukraine that it has persisted for two months already, albeit with varying momentum.
CA: How did you decide to occupy the Ministry of Culture? As I remember, the situation in Kyiv back in February was very dramatic and volatile, in terms of the political processes and protests on Maidan.
LB: The week between February 18-22 was the most violent on the Maidan: a hundred people were killed and many of my colleagues and I were volunteering in hospitals. As former President Yanukovych seemed ready to withdraw, on February 21, Ukrainian students took over the Ministry of Education. The following day I saw a Facebook post from an unfamiliar person calling people to gather and oc-cupy the Ministry of Culture. Since I have often picketed the Ministry of Culture together with the Art Workers' Self-defense Initiative (ISTM), most recently in a series of demonstrations aimed at the Ministry itself in January, I decided to go and investigate this proposal to occupy the Ministry.
Initially a group of 40-50 people, including cultural workers, journalists and a student "self-defense" brigade from Maidan, gathered near the Ministry. Someone called the Minister of Culture and his deputies to come and open the building, as it was Saturday. Our main goal was to prevent people from the previous adminis-tration from removing documents from the building, especially those containing evidence of corruption.
CA: How did you manage to establish yourselves inside the building?
LB: After an hour or two of standing and calling through the windows of the Min-istry, someone from inside opened the doors, and then they let us inside. There was an unused space in the basement that we were allowed to set up for our discussions. We then decided to call an official meeting the next day for everyone who works in or is concerned with the cultural sphere and how it has been organized thus far in Ukraine.
On February 23rd the Assembly as such was born. Over three hundred people came to the meeting, including some former and current bureaucrats. Many attendees wanted to complain about their experiences, but others began to formulate what has to be done to change the Ministry of Culture and restructure the cultural process in Ukraine.
CA: What was the reaction of the people still working in the Ministry? Did they join the discussions?
LB: Initially no, the occupation occurred over the weekend and almost nobody was working there. At that time there was no Minister of Culture, because all the for-mer cabinet members had been dispersed and no one had been appointed yet. On the day after entering the Ministry a few of the occupiers sealed all the doors of its offices to prove that no documents had been removed, and we continued to block access to most Ministry employees until the new Minister was appointed.
CA: And how was the new Minister appointed?
LB: He was put in power by the new government, but he also had the support of the Maidan. He is an actor who spent a lot of time on the Maidan stage. On the most violent days in February, when there was a lot of shooting, he was there, trying to calm people and giving directions where medical help was needed. His appoint-ment, like that of other current Ministers, was an attempt to build a bridge between the protests and the new government.
CA: The Assembly was also responsible for putting out a series of concrete de-mands to change the Ministry. How would they affect the way the Ministry is organized and functions?
LB: In the first week when we were physically blocking the building of the Min-istry we set out some demands: one was to set up a financial audit of the institu-tion, one was about lustration. When the minister was appointed, he met with the Assembly and signed a memorandum, which included (in addition to the above-mentioned demands) his promise to recognize the legitimacy of the Assembly, im-plement structural reforms and to develop together with the Assembly mechanisms by which the public can exercise control over the Ministry's decisions and policies. While the first demands are practically aimed at preventing further corruption, the other points demand that the Ministry begin to function as a public institution, listening to and serving the people. The main task was to start developing new or-ganizational mechanisms in collaboration with the Minister, and in parallel develop mechanisms through which the Assembly and the general public could have access to and influence the decision-making processes of the Ministry.
After the new Minister was appointed, he dismissed most of the previous deputy ministers, and the Ministry went back to work. An independent organization has been hired to perform a financial audit, but it hasn't started yet. The Assembly has regularly demanded meetings with the new administration; these demands have been met with reluctance. We've met officially with the Minister five times so far, plus several meetings with his new deputies. The administration has tried to get the Assembly to go away, but the Assembly persists in meeting in the basement of the Ministry of Culture and pestering officials to produce evidence of beginning systemic reform.
CA: The Assembly adopted a non-hierarchical model of organization, similar to that used in the Occupy movement. If I understand correctly, there is not one lead-ership, but everyone who is present at these meetings can influence the process.
LB: Yes, that was a fundamental decision. When the group was just forming, we realized that if we are trying to change the system, the more the Assembly mim-ics the existing system the less likely we are to make meaningful changes. The Assembly is a method for collectively discussing issues and making decisions; its membership is fluid. There have been tensions in the group over maintaining this non-hierarchical, horizontal organization, which demands a lot of time and pa-tience from its participants. The second meeting with the Minister, which revealed how little interest the official structure actually has in the ideas and demands of the Assembly, deepened a schism between the Assembly's participants over priorities and fundamental principles. While there are staunch proponents of the Assembly as such, even though its radical, utopian methods may ultimately only yield small esults, others prefer efficiency and effectiveness, especially in influencing policy and decisions within the specialized departments of the Ministry, to the slow, laborious process of systemic change. However, the Assembly is still meeting and working through these differences to identify common goals and ways to work together.
CA: Could you say a bit more about the composition of the Assembly and the participatory impetus behind different groups in its constituency?
LB: The Assembly is open to everyone: the amount of people that show up for any given meeting varies from just a few people to several hundred. I'd say there are around 30-40 people who are very active, and each meeting usually has around 20 attendees, including continuous newcomers. People participating in the Assembly, while they may be members of various groups and organizations, speak for them-selves and do not represent the interests of any other group. Thus the Assembly does not supersede, replace or deny any other cultural organizations.
Because the first meetings had so many participants, a decision was taken to break up into working groups. While there were conflicting views on how the groups should be organized, the principle that was chosen was by discipline: film, circus, music, design, contemporary art, festival organizers, coordination, etc. The problem is that this to some extent mimics the existing structure of the Ministry of Culture, favoring the old-fashioned division by genre, which does not reflect today's cultural production. However, there is also a group devoted to analysis, which is developing a proposal for reorganizing the Ministry.
The working groups researched and prepared reports on the needs of their respec-tive spheres. The Assembly also had conversations with people who had worked in cultural administration in other countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Poland and Lithuania; those from the latter countries shared their experiences restructuring their cultural administration when transitioning to the EU.
CA: Tell me a bit about the drawings created within the Assembly that begin to describe what new structure you had in mind.
LB: The Assembly agreed that the Ministry was not serving the needs of culture, but instead serving whatever ideology the government wanted to promote and functioning as a mechanism for corruption. Since the system itself is dysfunctional, regardless of the individuals working in it, the challenge is finding a way to change the entire system, without immediately dissolving the existing structures.
The first drawing shows how the old Ministry was working, with ideology from the top sifting down through all the departments. The main conceptual shift proposed by the Assembly is eliminating the top-down vector, so the people and their needs become the focus of cultural activity and administration. The system that would provide coordination and resources for cultural activities should be focused on the public – viewers, thinkers, doers. Practically speaking, this system could be orga-nized as a series of autonomous agencies focused on different aspects of culture (conservation, development, innovation) and a center for coordination and analysis that would distribute the national budget according to the needs of the public and the needs of the agencies. It is imperative to separate state cultural policy from the budget; in this model, those who develop cultural policy make direct recommenda-tions to each agency, but do not influence the distribution of funding.
CA: How do you negotiate the relation between the Kyiv-based Assembly and other cities across Ukraine?
LB: The Assembly for Culture in Ukraine is nationwide. From the beginning in other cities such as Zaporizhya, Kharkiv, Lviv, people formed their own assemblies. In an attempt to avoid centralization in the capital, the assemblies in Kyiv and other cities share a lot of their minutes and recordings of meetings online. Informa-tion is also passed along personally when people travel between cities.
CA: What are some of the most important things that you feel the Assembly has achieved so far?
LB: As in the model I described above, where cultural administration focuses on aspects of conservation, development and innovation, I have observed that the members of the Assembly include people who are conservators of an authoritarian system of thinking (waiting for a commands from above), people who believe that cultural management and other forms of "modernization" should be implemented in Ukraine's cultural sphere, and people who see the Assembly as a means to invent new ways of working together. At its core the Assembly – as a foundation for Ukraine's future culture system – really is about social relations. One of the impor-tant things is to keep the Assembly autonomous from the Ministry, which not only allows for a certain degree of unpredictability and mobility, but also clarifies the dif-ference between exercising one's rights as a citizen and aspiring to power. It is also worth noting that the Assembly's work to reform the Ministry of Culture began immediately after the Yanukovych regime dissolved, affirming that cultural reform is fundamental to any kind of social, political or economic change.
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I riti della settimana santa di Francavilla Fontana rappresentano uno degli eventi più importanti e rinomati che si svolgono nell'intera area jonico-salentina durante il periodo pasquale. Hanno inizio il venerdì di Passione, antecedente alla domenica delle palme.

La loro origine, sebbene incerta, si può datare intorno al XV e XVI secolo, epoca in cui si costituirono le prime confraternite.

L'inizio delle celebrazioni

Il venerdì che precede la domenica delle palme, definito venerdì dei dolori di Maria esce la statua della Madonna Addolorata vestita con un abito nero ricamato in fili d'oro. La processione percorre lentamente la vie cittadine ed è accompagnata dai confratelli, vestiti di nero, della Reale arciconfraternita dell'orazione e morte. Marce funebri accompagnano la processione dall'inizio alla fine.
La vestizione della statua della Vergine Addolorata è privilegio delle eredi della viscontessa spagnola donna Carmela Brost in Forleo, la quale donò la statua di scuola veneziana all'Arciconfraternita. Il privilegio della vestizione divenne diritto nel 1879.

La domenica delle palme, prima della messa, vi è la benedizione dei rami d'ulivo. Subito dopo, un corteo di confratelli del Carmine incappucciati, salmodiando un'antica nenia di perdono, si recano presso la collegiata del SS. Rosario (chiesa matrice), per ricevere il precetto pasquale. Al termine di questa celebrazione, i confratelli ritornano nella loro chiesa di appartenenza, questa volta però salmodiano una nenia, nella quale evidenziano la loro gioia per aver ricevuto il perdono. Intanto i bambini di ogni parrocchia, girano per le case dei fedeli per offrire i ramoscelli di ulivo benedetti. La sera, presso la chiesa di Santa Chiara (della Morte), vi è un concerto musicale, dove si rappresentano le 14 stazioni della Via Crucis, musicate dal francavillese padre Serafino Marinosci e cantate dalla corale di Francavilla Fontana.

Mercoledì santo
Il mercoledì Santo, come da tradizione, i bambini portano in giro per la città i "piatti", ossia dei baldacchini fioriti e grano verde appena spuntato, in segno di pace. Al termine della giornata i "piatti" vengono portati nelle varie chiese dove resteranno per i giorni del Triduo Pasquale. Intanto nelle case si iniziano a preparare i dolci tipici di questo periodo, come ciambelle, dolci o anche salate (la tipica "palomma"), ciambella con uovo sodo al centro.
Nella sera, presso la chiesa di Santa Chiara (della Morte), sede della Reale arciconfraternita dell'orazione e morte, vi è l'aggiudicamento tramite un'offerta a concorso (fino a qualche anno fa tramite un'asta), delle statue da portare in processione il Venerdì Santo da parte dei confratelli della Morte.
Ad Oria, intanto, sede vescovile, vi è la consacrazione degli olii da parte del Vescovo.

Giovedì santo
Il giovedì santo inizia il pellegrinaggio ai sepolcri; durante la messa in Coena Domini (l'ultima cena) vengono distribuiti pani anemici ai fedeli, nel momento in cui i canonici e i confratelli di ogni congrega della città siedono in fila e, tolti i piedi dalle scarpe, porgono al proprio parroco il destro che lo bagna.

I pappamusci

I "pappamusci" sono coppie di confratelli della Congregazione del Carmine, che, dalle prime ore pomeridiane del giovedì santo, per tutta la notte, fino al tramonto del venerdì santo, attraversano il paese scalzi, in gesto di penitenza, visitando tutte le chiese cittadine e pregando davanti ai sepolcri, dove riposa il Cristo morto.

Sono vestiti con una veste bianca semplice o ricamata. Alla cintura hanno il cingolo, simbolo del sacrificio; sul petto lo scapolare, l'abitino color marrone, segno dell'appartenenza alla Confraternita e privilegio, anzi "Decor Carmeli", proprio del Carmine. C'è anche il cappello, ad indicare il rispetto e l'ossequio del pellegrino. Infine si caratterizzano per la presenza del cappuccio, che nasconde il volto, e per il bordone, il bastone dei pellegrini.

Venerdì santo
Il venerdì Santo i pappamusci continuano il loro pellegrinaggio durante la mattina, che è accompagnata dalle processioni di tre statue raffiguranti la Vergine Desolata, che ogni anno (essendo sei le confraternite) cambiano. Particolare è l'anno che tocca alla Venerabile Confraternita di Maria SS. del Carmine, che porta due statue unite, raffiguranti la Vergine e San Giovanni. Anticamente questa serie di processioni avvenivano la mattina del sabato Santo.
Nel primo pomeriggio, in ogni parrocchia, vi è l'Adorazione della Croce, che annuncia la morte di Gesù.
La sera è, invece, dedicata alla processione dei Misteri, simbolo della morte di Cristo.
Durante la processione, aperta dalla Croce dei Misteri, sfilano i confratelli delle varie congreghe trasportando le statue rappresentanti i vari momenti della Passione, realizzate in cartapesta policroma dell'Ottocento.
Un passo lento conduce l'intera processione per le vie principali di Francavilla, guidato dal suono della "trenula".
Un momento particolare è costituito dai "Crociferi", detti anche Pappamusci cu lli trai: penitenti o semplicemente devoti, anch'essi scalzi ed incappucciati (per rimanere anonimi), che trasportano pesanti travi di legno sulle spalle, seguendo la statua detta "della Cascata", raffigurante una delle cadute di Cristo per recarsi sul Golgota.
La processione è conclusa dal clero cittadino, che precede la statua di Cristo morto, portata in spalla dai confratelli della Morte (anticamente dai prelati del Capitolo cittadino) ed accompagnata dal Sindaco, dal Capitano dei carabinieri, dal priore della Reale arciconfraternita dell'orazione e morte e dal primo magistrato cittadino. La statua è seguita dai priori delle altre confraternite e da alcuni cavalieri del Santo Sepolcro di Gerusalemme, provenienti dai vari luoghi della diocesi di Oria.

Pasqua
La domenica di Pasqua incomincia con la veglia iniziata la sera del sabato santo, quando il sacerdote, insieme ai fedeli, accende sul sagrato della propria chiesa il fuoco benedicendolo. Successivamente, dopo l'entrata in chiesa del corteo e l'accensione del cero pasquale, vi è l'annuncio della Pasqua.
La sera, partendo dalla parrocchia dell'Immacolata, esce la statua di Cristo risorto: la statua seminuda, con la bandiera crociata di rosso in mano, sale per le vie cittadine dalla Confraternita di Maria SS. Immacolata fino a porsi tra le nuvole di carta attaccate all'addobbo.

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Bibliografia
La Settimana Santa e la Chiesa di S. Chiara in Francavilla Fontana, Fasano, Grafischena, 1974.
APT Brindisi (a cura di), Riti della Settimana Santa Francavilla Fontana: fede e tradizioni, 2008, .

Domenico di Castri, Francesco Memmola: i sepolcri della settimana santa nella chiesa matrice di Francavilla Fontana, Oria, Italigrafica, 1995, .

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What explains the enormous more than 50 fold difference in maternal mortality rates across this river? Both areas of Tajikistan and Afghanistan are "in geographically contiguous poor, post-conflict, highly conservative, mountainous countries." How can the obstetric risks for women be so different? To continue our review of this fascinating study, we take a closer look at the differences between the Tajik and Afghan sides of the river as reported in the study by Kylea Liese.
The Tajik side has a large Soviet era hospital, some basic equipment and some medical personnel. And the Tajik women have a maternal mortality rate 50 times lower than the Afghan women, who have little to no medical care. So it stands to reason that the presence of the emergency obstetric care and medical facility explains the difference, right? Not so fast says our anthropologist/nurse/midwife Kylea Liese. Instead, her observations reveal that the Tajik hospital is large, but poorly equipped. Even the physicians who may be working there do not actually have training in emergency obstetric care. The author says "Expecting a physician to provide emergency obstetric care was like starting to bake a cake with all the right bowls and pans but none of the right ingredients."
Liese makes a bold argument saying:
" I will argue that advanced obstetric care to treat complications is an insufficient strategy to reduce high levels of maternal mortality because it does not address what is causing women to have such a high level of pathological pregnancies. Instead I will argue that certain social structures and practices influence women over the course of their lifetimes, irrespective of access to EOC [emergency obstetric care]. These chronic risk factors result in higher rates of life-threatening complications in some countries and lower complication rates in others."
Interestingly, she argues that on the Tajikistan side, the appearance of a nice facility and some technology makes it seem as though these factors are contributing to the much-lower maternal mortality rate. However, in reality, the women have lower rates of obstetric complications because of lifelong differences in the status of women in their culture.
What are some of these differences that cause lifelong risks to women? Liese sees long-term, chronic, social and physiological stresses are present on both sides of the river: gender inequality, poverty, poor nutrition, religious conservativeness and violence. But certain factors PROTECT the Tajik women--factors including the Soviet emphasis on girls education, emphasis on reproductive health care and marriage laws.
The takeaway point: One can not look at the moment of birth to explain the differences in maternal mortality.
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Yum! Brands' Fourth-Quarter Earnings Preview - Valuentum Securities Inc.
Yum! Brands reports after the bell today. Watch Valuentum's President Brian Nelson on CNBCAsia at 5:40CT.
If 16%+ comparable-store sales growth during any given period can ever be described as such, Chipotle (CMG) dropped the ball during its calendar fourth quarter. The fast-casual burrito maker's shares are facing pressure as a result of management's overly conservative comp guidance of low-to-mid-single digit growth for 2015, as if we haven't seen this before. Chipotle sets the bar low and then hurdles over it like an Olympic high-jumper. McDonald's (MCD), on the other hand, is in a world of hurt, and with CEO Don Thompson's retirement, the brand has been shaken to the core as it struggles to connect with millennials. Investors in the Golden Arches are still in the denial stage, and shares aren't cheap.
Will Chipotle's ongoing strength hurt Yum! Brands' (YUM) Taco Bell? Is McDonald's performance foretelling of difficult times at KFC and Pizza Hut in the US? What about China (FXI) and its 7.4% pace of economic expansion in 2014, the slowest pace in a quarter-century? Will $2-per-gallon gas be a huge catalyst?
Auto makers including Ford (F) and GM (GM) are literally firing on all cylinders thanks to plummeting prices at the gas pump, but frankly the impact from lower gas prices has been mixed across our coverage. At the high end of consumer spending, Tiffany (TIF) reported that holiday comparable store-sales fell 4%, and on February 4, Polo Ralph Lauren (RL) missed top and bottom-line expectations. The results of both firms were impacted by currency headwinds, and while we don't view currency shifts as material to the calculation of long-term intrinsic value, we're paying close attention to them. We wouldn't expect the high-end ultra-luxury and aspirational players to see much of a benefit from plunging prices at the pump because their core customer demographic is already quite well-off from a financial standpoint, and any bump from a lower gas bill is largely negligible. This is why we don't view falling gas prices as a catalyst for high-end, non-durable, status-reinforcing consumer goods.
However, the bill at the pump will have a big impact on the dollar stores and Walmart (WMT), where a customer's budget is extremely sensitive to what they pay to get from point A to point B. Fred's (FRED) January same-store sales improved 4%+, for example. If it now costs $20 less to fill up the tank every week, that's an incremental $20 that will fall into the hands of the dollar-store operations, which serve customers primarily in the low- and middle-income brackets. In fact, more than a third of the discount-retailer industry's customers live in households that earn less than $20,000 a year. The percentage jump in their discretionary income due to plunging energy costs is significantly larger than that of the rich and ultra-rich, which fuel the brand portfolios of Richemont (CFRUY) and Louis Vuitton (LVMH), for example.
But what about fast food? If McDonald's is any indication, Yum! Brands is in for a very difficult fourth-quarter report and 2015, though even a poor showing may be improvement over a 2014 that was mired in meat sourcing scandals and sub-par results in its China division. Global comparable sales fell ~1% at McDonald's in its fourth quarter, and $2 gas did little to help. In the US, comparable sales dropped almost 2%, and its Asia sales continue to be hurt from supplier issues in China and Japan. McDonald's is working hard to reinvent itself, and the executive suite is doing all that it can to reconnect with millennials to offset the growing pressure from upscale fast-casual establishments from Chipotle and Panera (PNRA) to up-and-coming burger joints such as Habit (HABT) and Shake Shack (SHAK). McDonald's is trying a Create Your Taste sandwich-customization platform, but this may just add complexity. Clearly, the Golden Arches is running out of ideas.
The fast food market has never been more competitive, and millennials are opting for fast-casual items. The success of companies such as Noodles (NDLS) and one of the greatest growth stories-to-be Zoe's Kitchen (ZOES) epitomizes the trend toward this segment. Pricing pressure from the likes of Burger King (QSR), which is selling 10 nuggets for just a $1.49 is hurting everyone, especially McDonald's. Yum! Brands' KFC is losing the battle to Chik-fil-A in the US, and its efforts to right the ship in China have yet to completely pan out.
We're also not sure of the conviction of Yum! Brands' management in new concepts from Bahn Shop (Vietnamese) and Super Chix (chicken sandwich concept) to US Taco Co and Urban Taproom (fast-casual tacos). Why it isn't also pursuing a fast-casual pizza operation to capitalize on its industry experience with Pizza Hut we do not know. Fast-casual pizza will be a huge theme in 2015 and beyond, with hundreds of operators entering the fray. Buffalo Wild Wings' (BWLD) Pizza Rev may end up as the winner, though there appears to be room for quite a few players. Pizza is a good business, especially for the franchisers.
According to Black Box Intelligence, restaurant same-store sales in the fourth-quarter rose at the fastest pace in six years. However, the latest read on Yum! Brands, as recently as December 9, was that China same-store sales aren't recovering as fast as had hoped. 2014 earnings-per-share growth is now expected to be in the mid-single-digits, and 2015 expansion is targeted at 10%+. In 2014, management had been looking for earnings per share expansion of at least 20% growth, revealing how the Shanghai Husi scandal stopped the recovery in its tracks (earnings per share fell 13% in 2013 due primarily to avian flu concerns). In the fourth-quarter report, we wouldn't expect the executive suite to tweak 2015 targets so early in the year. Unfortunately, there's still a lot that can go wrong.
As with its global peer McDonald's, Yum! Brands has a fantastic and recognizable brand name and tremendous free cash flow generation to fund the sustainability of its dividend (Yum's Dividend Cushion ratio is close to 2). The firm's top priority is the turnaround in China, and the largest delta to profit growth will come from a recovery in that region. Though its reputation has been tarnished to a degree, customers still trust the big 3: KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. "If KFC food is not safe, then nothing is safe in China." – Focus Group Consensus (December 11, 2014, Yum! Brands' Analyst Meeting Presentation).
Yum! Brands is one of the best, if not the best, restaurant growth story in China. There are 57 Yum! restaurants per million people in the US and only 2 Yum! restaurants per million people in the largest 10 emerging markets. In China, it has the opportunity to triple the number of KFC and Pizza Hut units from 4,800+ and 1,300+, respectively. Taco Bell's breakfast initiatives are off to a great start, and the company is looking to double sales at Taco Bell by 2022. Digital initiatives at Pizza Hut are also helping sustain the brand in the face of competition from Domino's (DPZ) and Papa John's (PZZA). Clearly, the runway for expansion and reinvention is long. It's up to management to execute.
The challenge for investors is that Yum! Brands' growth story is well-documented. The bar is set high. We value the company's shares at $68 each. The restaurant reports after the bell today.


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A destination that has been in the heart of Boston for over 90 years, this year's conference will take place at the Boston Park Plaza hotel. Experience the historic charm and contemporary elegance the hotel has to offer.
MBA CSEA was able to receive a group discount rate of $274 per night. Click here to reserve a room within the block and receive the discount rate. The deadline to reserve a room within the MBA CSEA block is June 3, 2019 (or until our block sells out). We recommend you book your room right away.
The Boston Park Plaza is perfectly located amid shopping, transportation, restaurants around Boston. Enjoy an ideal location among the Back Bay hotels, just steps away from the Public Garden, Theater District and many of the city's most popular historical sites.
There are several options for transportation to and from the airport and around the city. Boston Travel Tip: There are various mobile apps for iPhone and Android devices that will help you navigate transportation throughout the city of Boston and surrounding areas. Be sure to download the MBTA Transit App and the MBTA mTicket app prior to your arrival.
The Logan Express provides a comfortable and convenient ride directly to the Back Bay area of Boston, stopping at the Boston Public Library, which is just a short 11 minute (0.5 mile) walk from the Park Plaza Hotel.


The home of the Beta Theta Pi at Wabash, "Old 513"
The Tau Chapter of Beta Theta Pi was founded at Wabash in 1846 and has played a particularly important part of the College ever since.
It has earned a long-held reputation as being an unusually well-rounded house with particular emphasis on academics, athletics, and campus activities. Only one other fraternity on campus has won the academic trophy more times than Beta Theta Pi. The chapter typically numbers 65 members, making it one of the largest houses on campus.
The chapter house is a five story brick structure that matches the architecture of the campus. Built in 1962, it replaced the original chapter house that stood on the same spot. It received a $2 million major expansion and renovation in 2000.
The Chapter is part of the Beta Theta Pi international social fraternity for men which was founded just a few years before our chapter in 1839. Members come from all walks of life, religions, races, and countries of origin. Its reason for existence is to foster mutual assistance in worthy causes, active development of the mind, and a true, shared brotherhood.
There are approximately 130 chapters across North America. Tau Chapter is Beta Theta Pi's fourth oldest chapter in continuous operation.


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Homepage Military AviationTu-160M2 TO PERFORM ITS MAIDEN FLIGHT THIS MONTH
Tu-160M2 TO PERFORM ITS MAIDEN FLIGHT THIS MONTH
The original schedule calls for TU-160M2 first flight in February but Tupolev has promised to fly it earlier
As reported by TASS, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin disclosed that the Tu-160M2 supersonic bomber will be making its first flight by end of the month.
The original schedule calls for the first flight in February but Tupolev has promised to fly it earlier.
"The Tupolev Design Bureau actually promises to take the plane into the air earlier – at the end of January," the deputy prime minister wrote on his Facebook page.
The Tupolev Tu-160 Beliy Lebed (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing, heavy strategic bomber. The Blackjack is the largest and heaviest combat aircraft, the fastest bomber currently in use, and is the largest and heaviest variable-sweep wing airplane ever flown.
The aircraft entered operational service in 1987, and as of 2016 the Russian Air and Space Force (RuASF) fields 16 Tu-160s. The Blackjack fleet has been undergoing upgrades to electronics systems since the early 2000s. The first upgraded Tu-160M has been delivered in December 2014.
The Tu-160M2 is essentially a prototype of a next generation variant of the venerable Blackjack and represents a huge effort undertaken by Russia to modernize its bomber fleet. In fact as Michael Kofman, a research scientist specializing in Russian military affairs at the Center for Naval Analyses told The National Interest, "a new line of Tu-160s […] involves relearning the original manufacturing process for the bomber and establishing a production line for something Russia's defense industry had not made in quite some time."
The new bomber will feature new mission systems and will be powered by upgraded versions of the existing Kuznetsov NK-32 afterburning turbofan. The upgraded engines are more fuel-efficient and more reliable than the original ones.
"The new engine is the NK-32 02 series, which is supposed to be much more fuel efficient," Kofman noted. "The original NK-32 engine had issues."
Russian plans to buy about fifty Tu-160M2.
Photo credit: United Aircraft Corporation and Alex Beltyukov via Wikipedia
Tu-160M2 PERFORMS ITS FIRST FLIGHT, "BUT THE AIRCRAFT FEATURES ONLY SMALL UPGRADES" SOURCE CLOSE TO RUSSIAN MILITARY SAYS
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PUTIN SUGGESTS CIVILIAN SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT BASED ON Tu-160 BOMBER
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Why West Cork is the right move for you – and your career
By Siobhan Cronin
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This article originally appeared in our 28-page DREAM HOMES WEST CORK magazine which is free in this week's Southern Star. Pick up a copy in shops across West Cork now or via our digital edition.
THERE has never been a better time to make the move to West Cork.
Since the start of the pandemic, estate agents have been inundated with queries about West Cork properties, at all ends of the scale.
Lockdown in a city made many apartment dwellers and homeowners living in crowded suburbs realise there just had to be more to life.
The yearning for wide open spaces and beach walks isn't just an Irish phenomenon. Right across the globe the arrival of Covid-19 has left people wondering if there has ever been a better time to just go for it – find that home by the beach, on a leafy country road, or nestled in an atmospheric forest, and just do it.
In July, The Southern Star reported how estate agents Sherry FitzGerald O'Neill said they had numerous enquiries from couples and singletons wanting to move 'back home' and leave the cities.
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And Sean Carmody of Charles McCarthy auctioneers told us then: 'Interest levels have grown significantly, especially for young families,' Sean said. 'Last weekend I had viewings from a number of people in Dublin and Cork city.'
Auctioneer Martin Kelleher told us he had the same queries, but also calls from London and New York.
The biggest drawback stated by those interested in making the move was, of course, connectivity.
Broadband services have been getting quite a bad rap recently, but to counteract that, e-centres and digital hubs are springing up faster than daisies on a warm summer's lawn.
Cork County Council has its own supply dotted all over the region – but there are also many local business groups getting together to organise 'hot desking' facilities for those wanting the comfort of an office environment with top quality connectivity, but within a few minutes' drive of home.
A situation which drove the people of Gaggin round the twist – and off to their local church carpark – recently, but luckily a local TD and broadband provider 3 came to the rescue.
But if you do need to work from home in West Cork, as well as broadband solutions, there are lots of other supports available.
If a new life choice comes with a plan for a new business start-up, then Cork County Council's Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) can offer expertise, know-how and financial support.
There are two Local Enterprise Offices in Cork county and the Cork North and West one has an office in Kent Street in Clonakilty.
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The office provide direct financial supports to micro businesses (ie those businesses with 10 or less employees) and can advise on a range of alternative funding options available.
They offer business information, advisory services and enterprise support and can even organise high-quality training and mentors and can guide you to the services most relevant, to support the growth and development of your business.
The LEOs also provide advice on local authority regulations, planning, accessibility, environment and procurement and can put you in touch with resources like the Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection for Enterprise Supports; Microfinance Ireland for business loans; Revenue for start-up relief for entrepreneurs, education and training boards for business courses, Enterprise Ireland, and the Credit Review Office if a bank has refused you credit.
They can also offer local property solutions for start-ups and business expansions and help you organise key enterprise events.
For more see: www.localenterprise.ie/CorkNorthandWest
It's all about the lifestyle, really
So, if you do opt to make that fantasy move home, or just to the coast, what's on offer in West Cork?
Well, quite a lot, actually.
There are the obvious lifestyle benefits: cleaner air, less populated towns and villages and an overall sense of calm and well-being.
While there are many people who move here for the lifestyle, there are many more who only discover themselves after they have made the move.
After years of being office-bound, many have discovered a latent swimmer, or hillwalker, or painter, or vegetable gardener, was just looking for the chance to get going.
Instead of weekends spent in overcrowded city centre parks, here you can take your choice between a stroll through a farmer's market, a kayak around Bantry Bay, a hike to Hungry Hill or through the stunning forest in Gougane Barra, or an afternoon just sitting by a lake, on a beach, or a hillside, reading your favourite writer.
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Less commuting means more time for the stuff that makes life worthwhile. Painting with the kids, bringing them to nearby riding lessons, sports events or baking with them – drawing from the amazing selection of local produce in West Cork for your ingredients.
Instead of a Saturday sipping an overpriced coffee on a polluted street, why not grab that flask and a blanket and head to the sea – there are so many tiny coves and nature walks on the peninsulas that you could find a different spot every weekend.
And, if you need that urban 'hit' every now and then, the city's just up the N71. You can leave before lunch and be back home for the tea!
So, go on, make the move. You know you want to!
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