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Women have come a long way, but there's a lot farther to go
Nobel Prizes for three African women is certainly a sign of progress, but here in Israel two-thirds of all companies have no women managers at all.
By SUSAN FISHER
2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners
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The announcement on October 7 that three African women have been awarded the Nobel Prize instantly made news. Much has been made of the fact that they are African, pro-democracy and religious, or any combination of these. But every article, website and report highlighted the fact that they were women.
Women and Work. Women and Leadership. Women and Politics. I have been listening to this debate my whole life. Are we up to it? Or as an early male chauvinist pig (remember those?) once said to me, "If you can't stand the heat get back in the kitchen."
When I was eight I wanted to be an airline stewardess. I was told it would be too hard for me because "you will need languages."
This was in the era when TV women on programs like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie had to have supernatural powers to have any power at all.
I do not think the scriptwriters of the hit 1960's series Madmen were exaggerating when Joan – the glam office manager – showed a new typewriter to Peggy – the clever secretary – and said, "Don't be overwhelmed by the technology. It looks complicated but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use."
I well remember people talking like that.
It's not that the world has never had its share of strong women. It has. No one could call Indira, Golda or Margaret shrinking violets. Today, Hilary can show some attitude while Angela holds Europe in the palm of her hand.
But what has really changed for the real women in Israel and abroad? One sure sign of progress is the numerous name changes over the years.
What began as women's emancipation over a hundred years ago changed into women's liberation, then became feminism.
In the workplace and public life it has now morphed into gender equality and – for the really progressive – diversity and inclusion.
Does this mean that, in the words of the iconic Virginia Slims advert, "You've come a long way, Baby"? The statistics, as always, are still fairly dismal.
Last month, The Economist reported that the World Bank "Gender Equality and Development: World Development Report 2012" points out that globally, women earn 10-30 percent less than men. They are also concentrated in "women's" jobs.
Annoyingly, economic growth does not seem to narrow the gap.
Here in Israel, women may serve as bank chiefs and even opposition leaders, but this is misleading. A 2009 survey by The Manufacturers' Association reports that 23% of all managers in Israel are women, but that there are no women managers at all in around 66% of companies. Less than 10% get to the highest levels of management.
Nobody in the West disputes any more that women have got what it takes to lead, manage or make a difference. The barriers of sexism and the lack of role models are no longer the main barriers to women.
Rather it is the taking care of children that women want or need to make time for that is the big obstacle. This means that many women are on a bumpy work-life balance seesaw their whole lives.
As co-chairwoman of the organization Digital Eve Israel, the largest women's professional networking group in the country, I have a ringside seat to watch the balancing act of working women in the country at different stages of their very busy lives.
That view has cemented my belief that working mothers can be leaders. My colleagues on our Steering Board are among the most able and focused women I have ever worked with. All are successful professionals, and all have a bunch of kids at home.
Of our nearly 2800 members, 70% are Israeli-born and 30% grew up abroad, including English speakers. Interestingly – and flatteringly for both sides – about 15% of our members are men. Everything related to work comes up on our online list: from the best social media practice to great programming jobs to requests for business partners overseas. But often the longest, strongly argued discussion threads relate to the old/new questions: Can women have it all? Are men willing to promote and share in our success?
We are battling the twin enemies of time and guilt, although we're getting better at it. The economic necessity that makes two salaries required for many households in Israel is one reason why we may not be lagging too far behind. But religion and its traditional roles for men and women are deeply rooted in Israel. Particularly in the religious sector, that there is still some ambivalence about women and leadership.
If that is still the case here, how much more so must it be in Africa. This, of course, is what makes the achievements of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman so noteworthy.
Can we imagine any of those three activist women from Africa saying to herself as little girl, "One day I am going to win a Nobel Prize? Or a black child telling himself that one day he would be president of the United States? Old prejudices may die hard, but they do die.
So the search goes on for that elusive equilibrium; fulfilling, rewarding work & pay with a happy and healthy life. But there is good news. In the global race for great talent, organizations are asking themselves hard commercial questions about gender diversity and talent management. This is often corporate blah blah for "how do we attract and retain good women in our company?"
One senior vice president of human resources I coached at a technology giant faced this challenge: In Israel that year, of the total number of computer engineering graduates around 20% were women. The target set by her US management was that they recruit the full 20% in that year's intake. Not bad for a bunch of people who used to get flummoxed by a new typewriter.
This shortage is even more pronounced in emerging markets – the BRIC countries and much of Asia and Africa. Companies need to develop the best-educated and best-prepared managers in those markets, which increasingly means women. But let's retain perspective. A recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reports that Asia is "missing" about 96 million women due to discriminatory health care, female infanticide and sex-selective abortion.
In the really progressive companies the business case is frequently made that performance is better and markets better served by diverse and inclusive companies. That means more women and family-friendly policies.
Last month saw the release of the movie I Don't Know How She Does It, based on Allison Pearson's best-seller about a young mother/finance executive trying to have it all. The movie stars Sara Jessica Parker, so we must have made it to the mainstream.
At the same time, legislation exists or is on its way to promote more women to the executive suite in Norway, Spain, France and Germany. That means reserving board seats for women.
And there has been another intriguing development. We are only now beginning to fully realize that when men and boys do not play a full part in the raising of children and the running of the home it is they who lose out. They are disenfranchised. The intriguing part is that they now seem to be realizing it too.
The writer is the director of First Class (www.first-class.co.il), a leadership, communication & global working consultancy & training company, and the co-chair of Digital Eve Israel.


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Marie-Étienne-Aimé de Saint-Martin-Valogne, dit Étienne de Saint-Martin, né le  à Guéret (Creuse) et décédé le  à Cluis (Indre), est un homme politique français.

Biographie
Petit-fils de Charles Saint-Martin-Valogne, membre de la Convention et député de l'Aveyron au Conseil des Cinq-Cents, et petit-neveu de Guillaume Boëry, député du Berry aux États généraux de 1789, il est licencié en droit et se fixe dans l'Indre où il gère le domaine du château de Puy d'Auzon, à Cluis, acquis par son père en 1832.

Il est maire de Cluis en 1864, président de la Société de secours mutuel, conseiller d'arrondissement en 1869, conseiller général du canton de Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre en 1870.

Il est révoqué de sa fonction de maire en 1870, ayant déclaré après le  ne vouloir tenir son mandat que du libre choix de ses concitoyens et non "d'un gouvernement d'aventures et d'aventuriers".

Il est membre en 1872 du conseil départemental de l'Instruction publique. Élu le  député de l'Indre (arrondissement de La Châtre), par   sur , il siège parmi la droite bonapartiste (Union des droites). Il est réélu le  en améliorant sa position ( sur ), et le sera (Union des droites) en 1881, 1885 et 1889. Son mandat lui sera renouvelé en 1893, 1898 et 1902. Après avoir été élu constamment au premier tour, il ne se représente pas aux élections de 1906, alors qu'il a 75 ans, et meurt dans son château de Cluis à l'âge de 80 ans.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 A. Robert et G. Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889

 Collectif, Le train d'Argenton à La Châtre, , 2003

Liens externes

Références

Naissance en septembre 1831
Naissance à Guéret
Décès en octobre 1911
Décès dans l'Indre
Député de l'Indre (Troisième République)
Député de la première législature de la Troisième République
Député de la deuxième législature de la Troisième République
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Député de la quatrième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la cinquième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la sixième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la septième législature de la Troisième République
Député de la huitième législature de la Troisième République
Conseiller général de l'Indre
Décès à 80 ans

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Horizontally scroll menu.
You can save effort to make scrolling menu.

[![Carthage compatible](https://img.shields.io/badge/Carthage-compatible-4BC51D.svg?style=flat)](https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage)

![Demo](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4578511/17367235/25c7e36e-59ca-11e6-988d-765819c878aa.gif)
![Demo2](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4578511/17402517/a61451dc-5a8e-11e6-972c-06bd2baabd1e.gif)

## Runtime Requirements

- iOS8.0 or later
- Xcode 7.3.1 - Swift2.2

## Installation and Setup
### Installing with Carthage

Just add to your Cartfile:

```ogdl
github "fuji2013/ScrollMenu"
```

### Manual Installation

To install FJSAlertController without a dependency manager, please add files to your Xcode Project.
- Menu.swift
- MenuView.swift
- ScrollMenu.swift

## How to use

Create `FJSImageViewController` instance where you want.

```Swift
// setup ScrollMenu
scrollMenu = ScrollMenu(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 50, width: view.frame.width, height: 50))
scrollMenu?.scrollMenuDelegate = self

// prepare menu
let menu1 = Menu(title: "Menu1",
                defaultBarColor: UIColor.redColor(),
                selectedBarColor: UIColor.redColor(),
                selectedTitleColor: UIColor.redColor())

let menu2 = Menu(title: "Menu2",
                defaultBarColor: UIColor.greenColor(),
                selectedBarColor: UIColor.greenColor(),
                selectedTitleColor: UIColor.greenColor())

let menu3 = Menu(title: "Menu3",
                 defaultBarColor: UIColor.blueColor(),
                 selectedBarColor: UIColor.blueColor(),
                 selectedTitleColor: UIColor.blueColor())

// add menu to scrollMenu
scrollMenu?.addMenu(menu1)
scrollMenu?.addMenu(menu2)
scrollMenu?.addMenu(menu3)
scrollMenu?.selectIndex(0)

// add scrollMenu to view
view.addSubview(scrollMenu!)
```

## Contribution

Please file issues or submit pull requests for anything you'd like to see! We're waiting! :)

## License
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Drought stirs up dust between states
Marketplace Staff Dec 17, 2007
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KAI RYSSDAL: There's a chance of rain in Atlanta Christmas Day. That's not ordinarily something locals would be pleased with. But the persistent drought in the Southeast will probably make a rainshower or two a welcome present. The governors of Georgia, Florida and Alabama held a meeting in Florida today trying to resolve a fight over ever-shorter water supplies. There was no hard progress to report, but they did announce that they'll meet again in mid-February. And they've promised to make peace by then. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer explains how things got so bad.
NANCY MARSHALL GENZER: Water is everyone's lifeblood. It nourishes crops, livestock and people. Now states that once took it for granted are parched. Northern Georgia never built its own state reservoir system and is now suffering through its worst drought in at least 20 years. Critics say Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue still doesn't have a plan. Instead, he prayed for rain in a highly publicized outdoor service.
GOV. SONNY PERDUE: God, we need you. We need rain. Thank you, Lord, for the rain to come. Amen.
The rains did come. Of course, the governor's timing was fortuitous — showers were in the forecast. The rain didn't put a dent in the drought, though. And Georgia hasn't put mandatory restrictions on big water users like Coca-Cola bottling plants. The state has limited the amount of water that consumers can use in the Atlanta area. In September, Georgia banned outdoor watering. Hotlines were set up so people could tattle on their neighbors.
CALLERS ON HOTLINE: They had a hose running the whole time and I think it's a gross violation…. They're watering the front entrance every morning…. The water was running into the street. The sprinklers were going.
Georgia's problems have spilled over into Alabama and Florida. Georgia's Lake Lanier reservoir feeds the rivers that flow to Georgia's neighbors. The reservoir is also Atlanta's prime water source. The Army Corps of Engineers controls how much reservoir water flows downstream. Georgia says the Corps is releasing too much. Alabama and Florida want more. It's a food fight — over water.
CHICK KRAUTLER: Everybody has lawsuits against everybody else.
Chick Krautler heads the Atlanta Regional Commission, the city planning agency in charge of water use.
KRAUTLER: There are five different lawsuits in four different courts that are all very complicated and none of them are making any progress.
Georgia says it has to balance water restrictions with the needs of Atlanta's growing population and booming economy. But Alabama argues it needs water for the Farley Nuclear Power Plant.
On one day in September 44,000 gallons of water per minute from the Chatahoochee River cycled through the plant.
Downstream, oysterman Johnny Richards has worked Florida's Apalachicola Bay for more than 50 years. He says he's hauling fewer oysters onto his boat this year.
JOHNNY RICHARDS: The fresh water coming down is like blood in our bodies. It's coming down the bay to sustain life in the bay — not only oysters — fish, crab, shrimp, depends on the river flow. Without the fresh water our bay will die.
When the balance of salinity to fresh water goes out of whack, oyster predators thrive. The Sunshine State needs fresh water for both wildlife and tourism. And it's aggressively protected its water resources. It doesn't allow developers to build until they prove there's enough water for new houses. But the state is still vulnerable when it comes to a lack of planning by neighbors like Georgia. Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology says other states need to learn from Georgia's mistakes.
JUDITH CURRY: I hope this serves as a wake-up call that each state needs to have a good plan and there is a need for some federal involvement in order to deal with these interstate wars that are inevitable.
Curry expects the next water wars to break out among other Southeastern states more used to hurricanes than drought. Usually lush Virginia and North Carolina are dry right now. One town in Tennessee is so parched its mayor is trucking in water.
I'm Nancy Marshall Genzer, for Marketplace.
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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – 21 January 2014 – Dennis Nally, Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International, presented some of the key findings of PwC's annual survey of business leaders from around the world at a press briefing in Davos, Switzerland.
For their own companies, 39% of CEOs say they are 'very confident' of revenue growth prospects for the next 12 months. That's up from 36% last year.
For PwC's 17th Annual Global CEO Survey, 1,344 interviews were conducted in 68 countries during the last quarter of 2013. Available video includes highlights from PwC's press briefing in Davos, interview clips and general footage of Davos.


A unique folk art, Chinese paper cuts are hand crafted artworks and each one is an original. We have very few of each paper cut and sometimes only one. They are listed here until we add a description and move them to the proper category.


The United States is expected to announce that its large-scale spring joint military exercises with South Korea will be replaced with smaller-scale drills, an official says.
The Iranian Army's Ground Force practiced a tactic to prevent the enemy from closing in on the battlefield by creating a long row of blasts using remote-controlled land bombs during a military exercise in central Iran.
The US military has been caught using Russian-styled air defense systems during major military exercises in the southern state of Mississippi, as the Pentagon shifts focus from operations in the Middle East to confronting Russia and China in the Pacific.
A fleet of Chinese warships has been carrying out combat exercises in waters near the Taiwan Strait on a daily basis for more than a week, much to the dissent of self-ruled Taiwan, which is claimed by China as part of its territory, amid heightened tension between Beijing and the island state.
China has announced that it will launch live-fire naval drills in the strait which separates the mainland from the breakaway island of Taiwan.
The American and South Korean militaries have launched annual joint war games after an initial postponement that was meant to avoid upsetting North Korea.
North Korea threatened on Saturday to "counter the US" if the United States holds joint military exercises with South Korea, and said it would not beg for talks with Washington.
North Korea warned if the United States goes ahead with delayed military exercises with South Korea after the Winter Olympics it will not "sit idle", the North's foreign minister said in a letter to the United Nations.
South Korea and the United States went ahead with large-scale joint aerial drills on Monday, a move North Korea had said would push the Korean peninsula to "the brink of nuclear war", ignoring calls from Russia and China to call them off.
South Korean warships will take part in upcoming joint drills involving three US aircraft carriers, a Seoul military official said on Friday.
Iran's fighter jets have carried out numerous sorties over the country's western borders as part of joint military drills by the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) which continued for the second day on Monday.


Keep your little one happy while you prep for party time with this Foamies® Halloween melty bead kit. Let her arrange all the pieces to her liking, and then help her complete the project with your iron. Ages 6+. Three assorted styles. Priced individually.
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How to Craft a Stonecutter in Minecraft
By Shreetesh January 14, 2022
A stonecutter is a handy tool in Minecraft that you can use to create different stone building blocks. What's impressive about this tool is its ability to use minimal resources while making blocks, like stairs, slabs, etc.
Besides that, you can also make unique stone blocks, like polished Andesite, chiseled stone blocks, and more.
So, let's take a look at the detailed process of crafting a stonecutter and how to use it.
How to Craft a Stonecutter in Minecraft?
The stonecutter recipe does not require many items, and it is easy to make as well. To summarize, you will need to place three stone blocks and one iron ingot on a crafting table.
First, gather three cobblestones and smelt them in a furnace to get stone blocks.
Then, mine raw iron and use the furnace for smelting it into an iron ingot.
Open your crafting GUI by right-clicking on the crafting table.
Fill the bottom row of the GUI with one stone block in each space.
Place the iron ingot in the middle section of the second row.
You can then grab the stonecutter from the right side of the GUI.
How to Use the Stonecutter?
Using a stonecutter is easy. All you need to do is place any stone block on the left side of the GUI and select the product you require. Let's look at an example of crafting stone stairs using a stone cutter.
Place one stone block in the input section of the stonecutter.
Choose the stairs icon located in the middle of the GUI.
You can then grab the stairs from the product section on the right.
You can use the stonecutter to make different shapes and variations of stone blocks, such as Andesite, Granite, Sandstone, etc.
If you are unsure about what blocks you can use in the stone, you can check the list below. Here, you can find out what blocks are compatible with the stonecutter.
All the stone variants, which include cobblestone, stone, smooth stone, mossy stone/cobblestone, Blackstone, and all the deepslate stones
Sandstones, cut sandstones, and red sandstones
Regular and polished Diorite
Regular and polished Andesite
Block of quartz and smooth quartz
Prismarine, Prismarine bricks, and dark Prismarine.
Bricks, nether bricks, and stone bricks
Purpur blocks
End Stone and End stone bricks
All the different copper blocks such as exposed copper, waxed copper, cut copper, etc.
It is best to remember that you can use the stonecutter to change the profession of a villager into a mason. You can then trade with the mason to get experience points or other useful items you may need.
What is the Difference Between Using Stonecutter and Crafting Table?
Although you can use the crafting table to change stone blocks into stairs or slabs, the stonecutter gives you more versatility. For instance, you can use the stonecutter to make chiseled stone blocks, walls, slabs, stairs, bricks, brick stairs, brick slabs, and more using a stone block.
Another distinctive is: the crafting table requires more resources than the stonecutter. For example, you need three stone blocks in a crafting table to get six stone slabs. When using a stonecutter, you can use only one stone block and get two stone slabs.
Although the output is in the same ratio in the example above, the requirement decreases, making it easier for you to craft new items.
Additionally, some processes, such as crafting a chiseled stone, require multiple steps in the crafting table. Meanwhile, you can get the item directly using a stonecutter.
Where does the stonecutter generate naturally?
You can find stonecutters in villages. They generate inside the mason's houses. But masons may not spawn in every village, so you will have to do some legwork if you want to find a village with a stonecutter.
Is the crafting recipe for stonecutter the same in Java and Bedrock Editions?
The recipe for a stonecutter is the same in both of the editions of Minecraft. However, Bedrock Edition gives you the ability to use any stone block (stone, Diorite, Andesite, Granite) in the recipe.
Meanwhile, Java strictly needs stone blocks. Also, the Bedrock Edition even lets you use different types of blocks at the same time while crafting a stonecutter.
How do you pick up the stonecutter?
You can use a pickaxe to break the stonecutter and grab it. But if you were to use any other items to break the block, it will destroy the stonecutter, and you will have to craft it again.
Shreetesh
A casual gamer during his free time, an avid writer, and a poet.
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AB Open > News > Community > RISC-V Foundation Announces Security-Focused Soft-Core CPU Contest Winners
RISC-V Foundation Announces Security-Focused Soft-Core CPU Contest Winners
Community October 2, 2019
Gareth Halfacree
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The RISC-V Foundation has announced the winners of its RISC-V Soft CPU Contest, launched back in July with a view to promoting security-focused RISC-V implementations.
"With the proliferation of connected devices, security is one of the key challenges in hardware design. The free and open RISC-V ISA presents an incredible opportunity for the ecosystem to collaborate to develop more robust solutions for the growing security demands of today and the future," said RISC-V Foundation chief executive Calista Redmond at the opening of the contest. "This contest is an opportunity for designers and hardware enthusiasts to rethink what is possible with computing design and build a secure RISC-V soft CPU that can prevent software security attacks."
Now, the Foundation has announced the winners – and taking the top prize of €5,000 plus a HiFive Unleashed with Expansion Board add-on is Changyi Gu, whose Rattlesnake soft core scored 78 out of a possible 100 on the judging metrics while implementing a "dirty bit" protective system to tag consecutive suspicious writes and halts if tagged memory is executed.
The second-place prize went to Matthew Ballance for Featherweight RISC-V (FWRISC-S), which protects defined memory areas until the core is reset. Finally, third place went to Jörg Mische for RudolV, which also allows for memory regions to be defined as non-executable when associated with suspicious memory writes.
A special mention was also given to Ecco, a team made up of Alexey Baturo, Anatoly Parshintsev, Fedor Veselovsky, Igor Chervatyuk and Sergey Matveev, who presented a soft-core processor which implements memory tagging using a pseudorandom number generation. "Starting from the SPU32 processor, they showcased how RISC-V can enable anyone to work at a hardware level, even a team made up of software engineers," the Foundation explains. "While the Ecco team's solution ran on a different board than outlined by the contest rules (and was thus ineligible to win), we appreciate all their hard work."
More information on the contest can be found on the RISC-V Foundation blog, while the three winners are available in the Rattlesnake, FWRISC-S, and RudolV GitHub repositories.
Gareth Halfacree is a technology journalist and technical author best known for his work on the Raspberry Pi User Guide and an upcoming book covering the BBC's micro:bit project. A keen open source advocate and RISC-V fan, Gareth is responsible for curating our fortnightly community round-up posts.
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The year began with a great experience for Norton on Derwent, yes, I am talking about the town being involved in stage two of the Tour de Yorkshire Cycle Race. I was pleased to see so many members of our community embrace the concept and create an atmosphere worthy of the event. It really did create a great buzz amongst the community. Well done and thank you to all those involved.
In 2015 we moved to a new lighting contractor for the Christmas Lights which illuminate Church Street and Commercial Street. These are 20 pole mounted lights, in two designs and three colours. From comments received there was much appreciation for the improved lights, with their bright, vibrant colours. The contract for the same lighting is in place for three years and then we get the opportunity to select new lights. It is hoped in time to have some blue water themed ones to enhance County Bridge and form a link with Malton.
Boxing Day again saw Malton and Norton subjected to flooding of the River Derwent and our sympathies must go out to those whose homes and businesses were affected. Surely we are now at the point where all agencies involved must work together to bring an end to these problems.
We are all acutely aware of the construction, engineering works throughout our road networks, British Telecom, British Gas, Yorkshire Water, have all had an impact on our livelihoods and movement through the town. Although grateful that their efforts will improve the quality of our lives, I think we all look forward to the time when we bid farewell to all these contractors.
I believe we are all aware of pressures being placed on Malton and Norton by central government for even more housing, of course this brings with it increased infrastructure issues on already aged and approaching capacity infrastructure, schooling, health and welfare being paramount.
A proposed development off Beverley Road, whilst not only funding land for a new Primary School, will bring with it a connecting road from Hugden Way through to Beverley Road. This should help through traffic by pass our town and the heavier vehicles delivering to the industrial estate, thereby reducing congestion on our roads and pollution of our environment.
The Town Council is planning to upgrade the play equipment at the Burdale Close play area, which is now almost 30 years old. The upgrade will include the replacement of the old play equipment along with two new pieces of equipment. The work will hopefully be carried out in the coming month or so, funding for the upgrade is being provided through planning gain 106, and will therefore not be a charge on local council tax payers.
The Town Council continues to work closely with our colleagues in Malton with jointly being responsible for the local Skatepark, but also in producing a Neighbourhood Plan for the two towns.
While I am sure the year ahead will have many challenges, I would like to thank all those that have met the challenges of the past year alongside myself and the Council.
Councillor Ray King, Town Mayor, Norton-on-Derwent.


In 2001 the Welland Local Architectural Conservation Committee (LACAC) designated our building as a Welland Heritage Designated Tour Site and presented us with a plaque which was displayed on the outside wall beside our front entrance. Over the years the plaque became deteriorated and cracked and had to be taken down, leaving us with nothing to show our heritage. Bob Hansen felt our heritage history should continue to be displayed, and arranged for the purchase of a handsome, new bronze heritage plaque. Morley Yungblut crafted a beautiful wooden frame and, with the help of Norm McLeod, installed it on the left side of our front doors where it can be seen by all who enter as well as by passers by.


Find your local 3G Mobile Repair Centre store at the Norton Plaza shopping centre. Offering an extensive range of LCD repair Liquid damage rectification, tempered glass screen protector, restoration, housing repairs, speaker repair, vibration, anti-freeze, unlocking of sim, pin retrievals, unlocking of security codes and many more services. Find the latest mobiles services and products at your local 3G Mobile Repair Centre store in Leichhardt.


Traveling soon? There are some pretty compelling reasons to make it a road trip. No ticket to keep track of, no gate changes, no wardrobe worries, no security checks, no luggage limitations, no annoying seat mates (unless you invited them), more options for sightseeing, better food, and a lower overall cost.
Despite those great reasons, not everyone reacts to the idea of a road trip in the same way. Some recoil in complete revulsion like they've just found liver and onions on their dinner plate. Others will run and get in the car at the mere mention of the words.
Our culture generally embraces the idea. Several iconic movies have depicted great road trip stories: Thelma and Louise, National Lampoon's Vacation, Rain Man, Little Miss Sunshine, the aptly named Road Trip and for those who like two wheels, Easy Rider are but a few of the successful movies on the subject. But there are many more.
There are many more that could/should be on the list.
For many, the single most valuable reason to take a road trip is to harvest the memory of it. It's one of those gifts that keeps on giving as recollections move across the mind's stage. A smile is sure to follow, even when the little catastrophes come to mind.
Road trips are often social binders. Those who travel with us, those we might meet along the way, are connected to us by the common memory.
As a teenager, I would invite my four younger siblings on day trip adventures. To the beach, the mountains, to who knows where, the destination never really mattered.
We still laugh and remember 50 years ago getting to Morton, WA when they were holding their annual "Loggers Festival." The only street through town was blocked off for the the big parade. We waited patiently for it to pass and pulled into line at the back of the parade. With windows rolled down we offered sweeping "parade waves" to the citizens lining the streets. They clapped and cheered us on our way and genuinely seemed glad we joined in. I do wonder from time to time what they thought a '54 Ford full of kids was doing in the parade, but that doesn't really matter. The joy of the moment and the wonderful memory we share are what matter and created only because we were on a road trip to Mt. Rainer.
My daughter and I share perhaps the weirdest of my road trip memories. It took place at the changing of the millennium, Y2K as it was known. She had taken a job in Texas and I was helping her move from Yosemite, CA where we had been working.
When daylight came, I realized the red lines on the map were for demarkation of the county lines, not highways. For a while, where we were and where we had been, was a mystery. She finally pulled over and we both slept for a bit.
That was Tuesday night. We woke up Wednesday morning to a bright sunny day in a parking lot off of Route 375 with a sign that said "Earthlings Welcome." Upon entering the store I saw the calendar said Thursday.
"You're a day ahead of yourself aren't you? This is Wednesday?" I said, trying to correct the store clerk.
I wanted to stay and argue the fact but my daughter, ever the peacemaker, ushered me back to the truck with my chips and Dr Pepper. She showed me the Las Vegas newspaper, its date was Thursday, December 30.
Somehow, someway Area 51 had stolen a day from us. We've never reconciled where it went, and we can't account for it. But remembering it together, laughing about it and the retelling of the story binds us, father and daughter in a very remarkable way. I'd gladly give up a day to have that connection. That's the power of the road trip.


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Sergey Alekseyevich Kuznetsov (; born 12 May 1966) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1984 for FC Spartak Tambov. Kuznetsov is the first Russian to play in the Bulgarian A PFG.

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Ori Hofmekler is the author of The Warrior Diet, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat, and the upcoming book Unlock Your Muscle Gene. In this interview, he discusses the surprising ramifications of under-eating and exercise.
Ori Hofmekler is an expert on how to use food to build muscle and improve your health. This topic is also the focus of his latest book, Unlock Your Muscle Gene, and I've learned a lot from him personally on how to optimize nutrition to enhance exercise performance.
Like Ori, I too believe that, as a species, humans are not designed to be fat and unfit; we're actually genetically programmed to be lean and muscular. But just how do you reach this goal? And how does your particular diet affect your innate capacity to build muscle?
In previous interviews, we've covered the benefits of specific dietary components for optimizing muscle building, such as whey protein and leucine. Here, Ori discusses the surprising benefits of under-eating, or calorie restriction, combined with exercise.
Most people who are actively trying to improve their physique focus on eating the "right" foods, but what if part of the answer was simply "not eating"?Interestingly enough, your body has a preservation mechanism that protects your active muscle from wasting itself. So if you don't have sufficient fuel in your system when you exercise, you're going to break down other tissues but not the active muscle, i.e. the muscle being exercised.
"We can literally re-design our physique but we need the combination of under-eating, hunger, and exercise together," Ori says. "As you get older, your tissues also get older – your muscle fiber, skin, your whole body. But your body has a mechanism to prevent aging; to actually preserve itself, and one of them is the recycling of your proteins, cells and tissues.
This mechanism targets broken protein, tumors, sick cells – it tags them, digests them, and recycles the amino acid to build new cells and improve the muscle tissue. It's a phenomenon! As we get older, this mechanism becomes increasingly intense. That's the reason why as we get older, tissue wasting tends to set in. Though, it's unfortunate that most of us fail to turn tissue wasting into tissue recycling."
So, what happens is, if you exercise when this rejuvenating mechanism is on, the removal and recycling of unwanted protein in your body is happening. And you end up sparing your active muscle tissues—which means you can actually build muscle tissue and keep it young when you exercise while under-eating!
That said, neither Ori nor I advocate starvation combined with rigorous exercise. There is a wealth of scientific evidence supporting the value of calorie restriction, but if you exercise regularly, or are a protein type, you could get yourself into trouble if you're not careful.
Ori addresses these concerns in his new book Unlock Your Muscle Gene. There is actually more science behind calorie restriction than any diet in the world today, and it's been shown to extend life in various animals. However, there are side effects to chronic calorie restriction, such as decreased thyroid function and decreased testosterone.
"I doubt you can build lean muscle mass and be strong on calorie restrictive diet," Ori says. "I personally don't think this is the ideal way. There's a lot of science behind it, and we can take advantage of the science, but it's not the right way."
From a biological standpoint, the important part is not how many calories you eat per day, although to build muscle you definitely need calories. You cannot get by on protein alone. But there's compelling evidence showing that calories from fat are far better than calories from carbohydrates.
Which brings us to the next important factor—the type of fat you should eat for optimal health, as clearly, not all fat calories are created equal either.
I've written about the benefits and dangers of various types of fat on many occasions. Contrary to popular belief, saturated fat does NOT cause heart disease. Damaged omega-6 trans fats do. Part of the scientific confusion about saturated fats relates to the fact that your body is capable of synthesizing the saturated fats it needs from carbohydrates, and these saturated fats are principally the same ones present in dietary fats of animal origin.
However, and this is the key, not all saturated fatty acids are created equal. There are in fact more than a dozen different types of saturated fat, but you predominantly consume only three: stearic acid, palmitic acid and lauric acid.
It's already been well established that stearic acid (found in cocoa and animal fat) has no effect on your cholesterol levels at all, and actually gets converted in your liver into the monounsaturated fat called oleic acid. The other two, palmitic and lauric acid, do raise total cholesterol. However, since they raise "good" cholesterol as much or more than "bad" cholesterol, you're still actually lowering your risk of heart disease. And there are additional benefits. Lauric acid (as from coconut oil) has shown to boost thyroid hormone activity along with the body's metabolic rate. This is obviously a huge advantage to those interested in weight loss or those who suffer from underactive thyroid. Saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources provide a concentrated source of energy (calories) in your diet, and they provide the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances. In addition, they act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K.
Next, it's extremely important to get sufficient amounts of omega-3 fats, and to maintain a healthy ratio between omega-3 and omega-6, which typically means increasing omega-3 while simultaneously decreasing your intake of omega-6. High omega-6 intake has been shown to cause serious health effects in both animals and humans.
"It's better to cook with butter than cooking with canola oil. People need to know the truth," Ori says. "Coconut oil is one of the best oils in the world. It has a magnificent ratio of fat proven to be utilized very efficiently by your body."
My favorite source of healthy omega-3 fats is krill oil, rather than fish oil. There are many reasons for this—one of which is because it contains astaxanthin, a potent antioxidant that naturally protects it from going rancid. Fish oil does not have this built-in protection. For more information about this, please see my interview with Dr. Rudi Moerck on this topic.
"Omega-3 oil is very important because it activates good prostaglandins, which are hormone like compounds with anti-inflammatory, tissue restoring activities. So for treating an injury, omega 3 is a must," Ori says. "If you have a good source of omega-3 oil from food, it is a good idea to increase the consumption if you have an injury or if you exercise intensely. Remember, intense exercise causes micro-injuries in your muscle.
You really need to be careful with the amount antioxidants and the omega-3 that we consume. You can't allow yourself to be deficient. Studies have revealed that the first thing your muscle loses is omega-3. So that should be part of your diet."
The most important factor for optimal muscle building, however, is a good protein source, along with proper timing of your meals.
"Milk and milk proteins (including raw milk, cheese, and especially whey) are the best protein for human fitness," Ori says.
Why? Because it helps your body build muscle and lose fat simultaneously. Now, many will object and disagree with Ori on this point. One common argument against milk protein is that no species of animal, other than humans, drink milk past the point of being weaned off the mother's milk.
"I totally disagree," Ori says. "I've heard about this opinion. But science has shown the opposite. There is more scientific record on the benefit of dairy protein on human fitness than any other protein food. And scientists today are puzzled with the idea of human breast milk. It's a super food designed to nourish and support the new born (who has no immunity). Breast milk enables the newborn to develop and grow into a healthy adult.
Regardless to the moral connotation of drinking human breast milk, scientists worldwide believe that it's very possible that once we find a way to mimic human breast milk, it will fit any age, including the elderly. Again, it's a super food that promotes build up and rejuventaion. And our bodies constantly need to rejuvenate.
We don't need to grow bigger, but we need to recycle tissue; we need to rejuvenate our bodies. That's one of the most important elements of anti-aging—to give your body the chance to remove broken protein, destroy sick cells and recycle tissues. High quality whey protein and milk protein have shown to support your body in this regard. They have unique Immuno compounds that do not appear in any other protein food, which potentially help your body to do those actions."
Many, particularly weight trainers, are fond of using branched chain amino acid supplements. But there are drawbacks and risks to this.
"That's a very interesting phenomenon, but I think the science is still in its infancy of understanding it fully," Ori warns. "When you infuse or administer amino acids into your body, particularly branched chain amino acid, they do signal the muscle to grow… but they may turn you diabetic. I.V. administration--infusion of amino acids—cause a level of insulin resistance that not even fructose can cause."
According to Ori, all amino acids, including the most beneficial ones, administrated intravenously have been shown to cause about six times more glycemic impact than the same amount of glucose, administered in the same way.
"Actually scientists are still puzzled but these are the facts," he says.
It may simply be that our bodies are not designed to adapt to a massive flux of amino acids, because when you get your amino acids from whole food, the release of protein is rather slow. The excessively high rate of release you get through intravenous administration ends up shutting down your insulin system.
"When you take free form amino acid as a supplement, you may put yourself at a similar risk due to the un-natural flux of amino acids to which your body hasn't adapted. Why would you take such a risk?" he warns. "The one thing that nobody argues about is the opposite effect on blood glucose that happens when you eat the same amino acid as part of a whole food. Then this amino acid has amazing glucose-sparing effect. It has a blood sugar stabilizing effect.
In fact, old research already showed that good quality protein from meat and whey food has a positive effect on blood sugar, muscle building, changing body composition, and sparing muscle while losing fat. It's just an amazing simple phenomenon. You cannot make money on that."
"As you exercise, there is total inhibition of the mechanism that builds protein. In fact, proteins are breaking down. But what's interesting is that there is a compensation mechanism which kicks in right after exercise. If you take advantage of this anabolic mechanism and eat your protein meal—low glycemic, no sugar added—right after exercise, the compensation is swift.
Protein breakdown stops and shifts instantly toward build-up that can last for four hours after every exercise. Some scientists say 24 to 28 hours after exercise.
If you are smart with the timing of your protein recovery meals, you can have not just one, but even two or three recovery meals after the exercise, and get 30 to 90 grams of net protein utilization over a period of four to five hours (at 30 grams per meal). It's phenomenal. You'll probably need to eat 2-3 lbs of meat to utilize the same amount of protein albeit with lower efficiency and higher digestive stress."
Although there will be some differences depending on your weight and gender, the difference in protein per meal is not very great. According to Ori, even a 135 pound woman can benefit from two recovery meals rather than one, and a 200 pound muscle-man may need a third meal or even fourth meal.
'The point is this, it's not so much the amount of protein that you need to deposit in the muscle," Ori says, "it's how much muscle protein was broken down, and what kind of protein and how much your muscle needs to recover."
For example, the branched chain amino acids leucine, valine, and isoleucine are top priorities for your muscle. So, when you eat protein, the majority—as much as 50-80 percent—of the nine essential amino acids (and some non-essential amino acids) are degraded and never get past your stomach. But branched chain amino acids are not digested like other amino acids. They're spared for other purposes. Over 80 percent of them reach your circulation. Technically, that's because your stomach lacks the specific enzymes that break them down, Ori explains.
"Your body has it's own priorities," he says. "It sees it as a top priority that branched chain amino acids will be available to your muscle. And your muscle can utilize them for more than just building blocks. These amino acids are used for fueling as well as stimulation of muscle build-up.
Leucine for instance triggers muscle protein synthesis. But note that as a general rule, your body wants to use all amino acid as a building block… So in order to grant a viable anabolic effect. you need to supply enough leucine to exceed maintenance, which is at least three grams a day."
Even if you're not interested in strength training, you need to maintain that level in order to prevent tissue wasting. Beyond that, the extra leucine is used for other functions, such as glucose homeostasis. (Leucine supports the production of alanine, to support the alanine-glucose cycle.) But most importantly, it's used to activate the mTOR mechanism, which builds protein in your muscle. That's why it's so important to have a high protein breakfast.
"If you are interested in muscle build up,, have a high protein, low glycemic meal made with quality whey to cover at least the leucine requirement early in the morning," Ori recommends. "It will also boost your energy and support your health. And if you want to lose body fat this is a most effective way to do that as well. Once you cover your basic Leucine requirement, every other meal becomes anabolic. It's a fantastic opportunity."
For more information about what makes whey protein the perfect breakfast, see this previous article. Ori has also covered the topic of leucine to prevent muscle wasting in depth here. If you missed it, take a moment to review it now, as it offers even more information on this important issue.


UV Water Purification systems use special lamps that emit UV light of a particular wavelength that has the ability, based on their length, to disrupt the DNA of micro-organisms.
Sanitation -Water in our float cabin is circulated and turned over up to 7 times between every user, which is more than required by regulators.
Showering – everyone is required to shower before entering the float cabin to remove make-up, creams, hair products, etc.
Salt -If you're wondering why salt has been used as a preservative against bacteria, mold, and spoiling since ancient times. Short answer, cells need water to live. Salt absorbs water from cells making the environment too dry to support harmful mold or bacteria.
So consider this next time you jump into your non-regulated backyard pool or spa. The safest place for you may be a float cabin!
Was it the red pill? Or was it the blue one?
Once only popular among hippies and artists looking for out of body life-changing experiences. Today the same principals are used to spark creativity, prepare for important events and optimize performance by lowering brainwave activity bringing you into a deep state of relaxation or 'Dream' state, similar to what you experience right before sleep where visions or hallucinations can happen.
In the past few years with wellness and 'mindfulness' becoming more of a mainstream priority, floating is the perfect way to forcibly remove distractions leaving you no choice but to relax. It provides you with a shortcut to a meditative state only achieved by practising meditation. We find that floating is very complimentary to yoga and meditation practitioners because they are able to enter this 'Zone' much easier and quicker than people who don't. So don't be disappointed if you don't enter a wormhole to another dimension during your float experience but you may return from another trip knowing yourself more clearly, feeling re-energized and motivated to make changes, things clearly and accomplish goals.
We've found that the main reason people are hesitant to try Float Therapy, even though their body and mind is begging them to, is not the most common reason which is 'Claustrophobia' but the idea of being enclosed, in the dark and not knowing where you are. Then there is the silliness that your mind conjures up as it begins to come up with scenarios such as " is somebody going to sit on the door?" or "saran wrap the lid shut?!" Well, the float therapy rooms at Fluid Float Studio are not equipped with "pods" or "tanks"—they're CABINS. At almost 5 feet wide, eight feet long, and nearly seven feet high, they ensure that nobody gets claustrophobic during their session. What's more, they don't even have to be in the dark. It doesn't HAVE to be total sensory deprivation. With optional remote controlled music and lights, clients can create their own custom mood, from introspective silence to soothing ambience to peaceful rave. Including an intercom that you can communicate with staff whenever you want.


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Mr. Martlew: I was in the chair at yesterday's meeting, which meant that I had the advantage of being able to put the first question to my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport. That was the question that I asked, and his reply was that the matter would be decided by the SRA before the end of February. I believe that in some areas of the country it will be relatively cheap to allow trains to run at 140 mph, but that it will be very expensive in other areas.
A decision therefore has to be made, but there is no doubt that the original costings that caused Sir Richard Branson and Virgin to buy trains that could travel at 140 mph were sadly flawed. Those costings put the total amount of money involved at around £2 billion or £3 billion, not £10 billion. I believe that the train companies using the west coast main line will come to a sensible agreement on the matter.
Finally, I turn to that part of the SRA report that deals with the need for a National Rail Academy. I am pleased that it has finally been accepted that there is a massive skills shortage on the railways. I asked my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State about that two years ago, and he replied that serious problems existed. The SRA clearly accepts that.
Earlier in 2000, I had discussions with the then Minister for Lifelong Learning, my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, North (Malcolm Wicks). He came to Carlisle and we gave him a good demonstration of how the National Rail Academy could work. We showed how it could be funded, where it should be based and how quickly we could get the project off the ground.
My right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport will not be surprised when I tell him that all the available data pointed to the fact that the academy should be based in my constituency. However, if the SRA is serious about reducing the skills shortage quickly, a quick decision on the National Rail Academy is needed. Carlisle is one of the options for its location. If we do not get the skills,
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we will not complete the 10-year plan. It is simple as that, and it will not matter how much money is spent or whether it comes from the private or the public sector—if we have not got the skills, the plan will not work.
In conclusion, the Secretary of State has my full confidence. He has taken some hard decisions and a lot of criticism—he seems to be able to take a lot of criticism, and I applaud that as well—but he has to change the Government's policy on the railways and Railtrack, and the decision that he has taken will bear fruit in the future.
Sir George Young (North-West Hampshire): Whatever disagreement the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) may have had with the last Conservative Government, we did at least have his support on one issue—the fact that there was a separate Department of Transport for the whole period from 1979 to 1997, whereas Labour put transport back into a much larger Department. I clutch at that straw from his speech as a sign of support of the Conservative party's transport policy.
When I saw the Liberal Democrat motion on the Order Paper, my first feeling was one of sympathy for my successor but one at the Department of Transport—it is a difficult portfolio and a subject on which every citizen has a view and the press can be pretty merciless—but when I saw the Government amendment that feeling of sympathy soon passed.
In the weeks since Railtrack's collapse, the Government have sought to defend what they did by saying that privatising the railways was wrong, that it was a privatisation too far, that the structure was too fragmented and unsustainable and that there was therefore something of the inevitability of a Greek tragedy about what has happened in recent months. As one of those who was directly involved, I should like to put the opposite case, not just to explain why we did what we did, but, more important, because we will get the wrong solution if the wrong analysis is made of the current crisis. Simply parroting the words "botched privatisation" or "fatally flawed" gets everyone nowhere.
There was one overpowering argument for privatising the railways: privatisation would unlock the capital needed to modernise the rolling stock, the permanent way, the signalling and the stations and to build new links such as Thameslink 2000. Decades of underinvestment had to be confronted. That investment was, in turn, the key to a balanced and sustainable transport policy, reducing dependence on the car and the lorry by developing attractive alternatives and seeking to contain the never-ending demand for more roads. But there were other reasons as well.
Geraint Davies: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Sir George Young: This speech will not stop at many stations, but I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment.
British Rail was inefficient, monolithic and hidebound by tradition. The skeleton of the advanced passenger train at Crewe is a monument to the problems that the public sector had in introducing new technology. British Rail's culture stifled the good management potential that was locked inside.
Privatisation was going to transform an industry that looked inwards to the Department of Transport for support into one that looked outwards to its market for custom. It was going to bring into a rather introspective and protected industry successful operators of other transport modes. It was going to reduce the subsidy for running trains, by removing some of the cosy practices that had grown up unchallenged for decades and freeing up the money for other public services. So the policy was not some mad ideological transfer—John Major was a pragmatist with a deep suspicion of ideology. We both wanted a better railway, and privatisation of transport was part of an approach to improving public services that had worked successfully elsewhere.
That starting point was underlined by my experience of getting money for transport when the railways were in the public sector. I would appear before EDX, or whatever Cabinet Sub-Committee was adjudicating on public expenditure, usually chaired by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke). My colleagues would declare their pleasure at seeing me, saying how imaginative my view on the future of the railways was and how well presented was the associated bid for funds, but they would say, "But, George, you have to understand that our priorities are health, education and law and order. Colleagues in other spending departments have put forward equally interesting proposals, more central to our manifesto. We are sure you will understand if your bid is cut back, and your presentational skills will enable you to defend the settlement."
Although much has changed since 1997, that feature has not. In Labour's first term, only one section of the transport industry was starved of the capital that it needed—the only section still in the public sector: London Underground. Passengers faced fare rises higher than those on the railways, and the backlog of investment got worse.
As the Secretary of State said on Monday, passengers do not mind where the money comes from, and when the industry was moved from the public sector to the private sector, which is where I believe it should be, the dead hand of the Treasury was lifted. The constraint on expenditure was no longer how much I could get out of the Chancellor, but how fast the train operators, the train manufacturers and Railtrack could sensibly invest.
People might accept the strategic decision on privatisation, but have doubts about the structure—the so-called fragmentation. That is a highly complex issue on which I wish to make two brief points. The first point is simply that industry today is more disaggregated than it was 40 years ago. People make less themselves and buy more in from others. There is more specialisation, more subcontracting and greater flexibility in the market. Car manufacturing is a good example, with the manufacturers basically assembling bits made by other people. That specialisation and subcontracting is not just a feature of industry; it happens in medicine, education, the sciences and services. So the British Rail monolith was no longer the best model.
There is a second, more specific, point, however: the safest and most successful transport industry in this country is the most fragmented—civil aviation. That industry is subdivided into far more component parts than the railways. The stations—the airports—are in multiple ownership. Some of them are owned by the British Airports Authority, some by local authorities and others
by bus companies. Signalling—air traffic control—is totally separate from the airports and the airlines. There are tens of different train operators—the airlines—and if a new airline puts on a new service from Luton to Glasgow, we do not say that it is an unwelcome fragmentation of the industry; we welcome the new service. The airlines do not own the aircraft; they lease them, and they are maintained and serviced by others. Someone else does the baggage handling and other companies do the catering. Civil aviation is a disaggregated, specialised industry, linked by contracts. Critics might call it fragmented, but it is safe, successful and popular.
Mr. Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Sir George Young: I will briefly stop at Surbiton—an important suburban station.
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Palmarès
Giochi olimpici
Atlanta 1996: bronzo nello slalom K1.

Mondiali - Slalom
Merano 1983: oro nel K1 a squadre.
Augusta 1985: oro nel K1 a squadre.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice 1987: argento nel K1, argento nel K1 a squadre.
Savage River 1989: oro nel K1, oro nel K1 a squadre.
Tacen 1991: oro nel K1 a squadre.
Mezzana 1993: oro nel K1, oro nel K1 a squadre.
Nottingham 1995: oro nel K1 a squadre.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


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Eneclann > News > Eneclann guides Obamas through their Irish family history
Eneclann guides Obamas through their Irish family history
At lunchtime yesterday (17th June 2013) Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia Ann and Sasha, took part in a private genealogy event about the President's Irish ancestors at a special exhibit at the Long Room in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin.
This very personal event was co-ordinated and presented by Fiona Fitzsimons with Helen Moss of Eneclann. Fiona, Research Director at Eneclann, gave an overview of the history of their family, which is better documented than that of other Irish-American presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or even JFK. The Obamas' story includes wig and shoemakers, merchants, farmers and (no surprise) politicians. While their deep ancestry (Kearneys, Donovans, etc.) are of Irish origin, an important line, the Benns (or Behn) were continental religious refugees who settled in Limerick before 1700.
Fiona explained how the surviving paper trail enabled her and the Eneclann team to trace the family back to the 1600s. The exhibition contained a display of important documents from their Irish family history, including the parish register for Templeharry church in Moneygall kindly lent by the Representative Church Body Library, maps from the National Library, and records from Trinity College Library. Other records are detailed in the Eneclann online exhibition.
This includes the Landed Estates Court rentals, which Fiona described as "The document that gave us the breakthrough that allowed us to bridge the generational gap in the parish registers, and trace the family back another four generations". This important resource is now available exclusively at www.findmypast.ie
The detailed research carried out by Fiona, the Eneclann team and colleagues is available to view online for free. Alternatively, take a look at some images from the event. After the event, Fiona commented "It was very exciting to meet Michelle Obama and her two daughters at Trinity on Monday 17th June. It's a real privilege to be given the position of trust, to present the first family with the narrative of their Irish family history. They listened intently, and were interested and amused by the stories of their Irish ancestry."
Posted on June 17, 2013 by Caitlin Bain


Aparagoyana means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
One of the four great continents into which the earth is divided. It is to the west of Sineru and is seven thousand yojanas in extent. It is surrounded by five hundred islands (SnA.ii.443). According to the Anguttara Nikaya (i.227; v.59), each cakkavala (world system) has an Aparagoyana. It is inhabited by men (KhA.123), but they have no houses and sleep on the ground (ThagA.ii.187-8). In the centre of the continent is a Kadamba tree, whose trunk is fifteen yojanas in girth and whose trunk and arms are fifty yojanas in length.
This tree stands for a whole kappa (DhsA.298; AA.i.264; Vm.206). When the sun rises in Jambudipa, it is the middle watch of the night in Aparagoyana; sunset in Aparagoyana is midnight in Jambudipa, and sunrise is noon in Jambudipa, sunset in Pubbavideha and midnight in Uttarakuru (DA.iii.868). A cakkavatti king first conquers Pubbavideha in the east and Jambudipa in the south, and then sets out to win Aparagoyana in the west and Uttarakuru in the north (Mbv.73-4; BuA.113). Thus King Mandhata, having conquered Jambudipa, journeys on with his retinue to Aparagoyana and conquers it straight away (Dvy.215).
Punnaka, in his play with Dhananjaya, staked a jewel, by gazing into which the continent of Aparagoyana could be seen. J.vi.278; so also in the necklace mentioned in the Harapradana Jataka. (Mtu.ii.68).
In this context the name given is Goyaniya. So also in the Mahavastu: Aparagodanika, godaniya (ii.159, 378, etc.). In the Dulva it is called Aparagaudani (Rockhill, 84).
Some of the inhabitants came with Mandhata from Aparagoyana to Jambudipa and settled down there. The country they colonised was called Aparanta. DA.ii.482; MA.i.484.


Anxiety is not a one size fits all disorder, and not every treatment works for everyone, but now Teen Vogue reports that there's a new test teenagers can take to see if therapy or medicine will work best for their anxiety.
This new test is called ERN, which stands for error-related negativity, and as Teen Vogue continues, with this test, you are "set up with a scenario in which" participants are "pretty much guaranteed to make a mistake." When you make the mistake, and then the test measure how you react to the stress of making the mistake.
You are tested through electrical responses in your brain, and if the electrical responses are high, you would probably benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, and if the responses are lower, medication may be a better road to combat anxiety.


This book is designed as an introduction into what I call 'abstract' Topological Dynamics (TO): the study of topological transformation groups with respect to problems that can be traced back to the qualitative theory of differential equa is in the tradition of the books [GH] and [EW. The title tions. So this book (,Elements. ' rather than 'Introduction. ') does not mean that this book should be compared, either in scope or in (intended) impact, with the 'Ele ments' of Euclid or Bourbaki. Instead, it reflects the choice and organisation of the material in this book: elementary and basic (but sufficient to understand recent research papers in this field). There are still many challenging prob lems waiting for a solution, and especially among general topologists there is a growing interest in this direction. However, the technical inaccessability of many research papers makes it almost impossible for an outsider to under stand what is going on. To a large extent, this inaccessability is caused by the lack of a good and systematic exposition of the fundamental methods and techniques of abstract TO. This book is an attempt to fill this gap. The guiding principle for the organization of the material in this book has been the exposition of methods and techniques rather than a discussion of the leading problems and their solutions. though the latter are certainly not neglected: they are used as a motivation wherever possible.


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VIDEO: Greg Wycliffe on "wokeness" and the powerful impact of a message shared through comedy
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Greg Wycliffe came on our livestream on Sept. 30, 2020. He spoke on various topics including "wokeness," sharing a message through comedy, late night television, "wokeness" in video games — and of course politics. To check our the whole livestream, it can be found here.
Greg Staley — Q: "Do you think impersonations and doing that kind of this is a great medium to get the message out? … You can make quite a powerful impact sharing a message through comedy can you not?"
A: "Yeah, I'm a big believer in comedy, absolutely, and in many ways because of comedy and because of what I found funny — at a certain point — I would say five to six years ago. That's why I said to myself 'I guess I'm converbative 'cause I find these memes way funnier. Like to me this has way more to do with truth — this has a lot more to do with what's actually going on," said Wycliffe.
"Simultaneously we have — you know — late night TV being a former shadow of itself — of what it once was, you know? Late night TV use to be like edgy and funny and now you know — what do they say — it's about getting clapter now — not laughter — clapter … It's almost like this ritual of being woke and saying all the right things and saying 'I care about this and I care about that and it's — well first of all it offends me as a comedian, no I'm not a comedian really, but like it offends me as someone who likes comedy, like it offends me because this is not entertaining — it is uh — this sucks!," said Wycliffe.
He's right in more ways than one. Just look at Don Cherry and Hockey Night in Canada — CBC Dropped the show, losing $175 Million — its ratings dropped substantially after his dismissal from the job for telling people to wear a poppy.
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THE OCEAN IS BROKEN
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NEWCASTLE HERALD
By GREG RAY
Oct. 18, 2013, 10 p.m.
Ivan Macfadyen aboard the Funnel Web. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers
IT was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it.
Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.
And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.
What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.
The birds were missing because the fish were missing.
Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line.
"There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled.
But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.
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No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.
"In years gone by I'd gotten used to all the birds and their noises," he said.
"They'd be following the boat, sometimes resting on the mast before taking off again. You'd see flocks of them wheeling over the surface of the sea in the distance, feeding on pilchards."
But in March and April this year, only silence and desolation surrounded his boat, Funnel Web, as it sped across the surface of a haunted ocean.
North of the equator, up above New Guinea, the ocean-racers saw a big fishing boat working a reef in the distance.
"All day it was there, trawling back and forth. It was a big ship, like a mother-ship," he said.
And all night it worked too, under bright floodlights. And in the morning Macfadyen was awoken by his crewman calling out, urgently, that the ship had launched a speedboat.
"Obviously I was worried. We were unarmed and pirates are a real worry in those waters. I thought, if these guys had weapons then we were in deep trouble."
But they weren't pirates, not in the conventional sense, at least. The speedboat came alongside and the Melanesian men aboard offered gifts of fruit and jars of jam and preserves.
"And they gave us five big sugar-bags full of fish," he said.
"They were good, big fish, of all kinds. Some were fresh, but others had obviously been in the sun for a while.
"We told them there was no way we could possibly use all those fish. There were just two of us, with no real place to store or keep them. They just shrugged and told us to tip them overboard. That's what they would have done with them anyway, they said.
"They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing."
Macfadyen felt sick to his heart. That was one fishing boat among countless more working unseen beyond the horizon, many of them doing exactly the same thing.
No wonder the sea was dead. No wonder his baited lines caught nothing. There was nothing to catch.
If that sounds depressing, it only got worse.
The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear.
"After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead," Macfadyen said.
"We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.
"I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen."
In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.
"Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look."
Ivan's brother, Glenn, who boarded at Hawaii for the run into the United States, marvelled at the "thousands on thousands" of yellow plastic buoys. The huge tangles of synthetic rope, fishing lines and nets. Pieces of polystyrene foam by the million. And slicks of oil and petrol, everywhere.
Countless hundreds of wooden power poles are out there, snapped off by the killer wave and still trailing their wires in the middle of the sea.
"In years gone by, when you were becalmed by lack of wind, you'd just start your engine and motor on," Ivan said.
"In a lot of places we couldn't start our motor for fear of entangling the propeller in the mass of pieces of rope and cable. That's an unheard of situation, out in the ocean.
"If we did decide to motor we couldn't do it at night, only in the daytime with a lookout on the bow, watching for rubbish.
"On the bow, in the waters above Hawaii, you could see right down into the depths. I could see that the debris isn't just on the surface, it's all the way down. And it's all sizes, from a soft-drink bottle to pieces the size of a big car or truck.
"We saw a factory chimney sticking out of the water, with some kind of boiler thing still attached below the surface. We saw a big container-type thing, just rolling over and over on the waves.
"We were weaving around these pieces of debris. It was like sailing through a garbage tip.
"Below decks you were constantly hearing things hitting against the hull, and you were constantly afraid of hitting something really big. As it was, the hull was scratched and dented all over the place from bits and pieces we never saw."
Plastic was ubiquitous. Bottles, bags and every kind of throwaway domestic item you can imagine, from broken chairs to dustpans, toys and utensils.
And something else. The boat's vivid yellow paint job, never faded by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way.
BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with the shock and horror of the voyage.
"The ocean is broken," he said, shaking his head in stunned disbelief.
Recognising the problem is vast, and that no organisations or governments appear to have a particular interest in doing anything about it, Macfadyen is looking for ideas.
He plans to lobby government ministers, hoping they might help.
More immediately, he will approach the organisers of Australia's major ocean races, trying to enlist yachties into an international scheme that uses volunteer yachtsmen to monitor debris and marine life.
Macfadyen signed up to this scheme while he was in the US, responding to an approach by US academics who asked yachties to fill in daily survey forms and collect samples for radiation testing - a significant concern in the wake of the tsunami and consequent nuclear power station failure in Japan.
"I asked them why don't we push for a fleet to go and clean up the mess," he said.
"But they said they'd calculated that the environmental damage from burning the fuel to do that job would be worse than just leaving the debris there."
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ilinda, thanks so much for finding this story...wow that is far worse than I had thought...
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Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It's Going To Get Worse) |
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What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they'd be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami that caused a meltdown at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Three nuclear reactors melted down and what happened next was the largest release of radiation into the water in the history of the world. Over the next three months, radioactive chemicals, some in even greater quantities than Chernobyl, leaked into the Pacific Ocean. However, the numbers may actually be much higher as Japanese official estimates have been proven by several ...
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High blood pressure is a common condition that affects most people at some point in their lifetime. The condition, which is also known as hypertension, could be caused by eating an unhealthy diet, or by not doing enough exercise. Having high blood pressure puts extra stress on your vital organs, which could ultimately lead to some deadly complications – including heart attacks or strokes. You should speak to a doctor straight away if you notice a tingling in your hands, it's been claimed.
Tingling hands could be an early warning sign of a deadly hypertensive emergency, revealed medical website LiveStrong.
The feeling could be mistaken for numbness, and may also develop in your feet, it added.
If you develop the symptom, it could be caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure, that could ultimately damage your organs.
"When not controlled, blood pressure levels can rise to the point that you start to experience physical symptoms," it said.
A hypertensive emergency could result from uncontrolled high blood pressure, said WebMD.
It's a relatively rare condition, but when it does occur, patients could be at risk of immediate organ damage.
Common hypertensive emergency symptoms include headaches, blurred vision, confusion, and seizures.
You should speak to a medical professional straight away if you think you're having a hypertensive emergency.
Left untreated, it can cause heart failure, heart attacks, strokes, or even aneurysms.
Meanwhile, high blood pressure is often known as 'the silent killer', because many people have hypertension without even knowing it.
High blood pressure symptoms only tend to reveal themselves if you have extremely high blood pressure, and may include chest pain or severe headaches.


I'm so proud to have Alexa & Bryan's Wedding as the very first wedding blog entry for Charlie Little Photography. I have known Alexa for about 10 years now and was honored to photograph her wedding. She and Bryan have wonderful families that added to this fun, emotional and awesome wedding!
The day also included a second shooter; Laurie from Prism House Photography (http://prismhousephotography.wordpress.com/ ) She did a phenomenal job in helping to capture this beautiful wedding. Thank you Laurie!
I started out with meeting Alexa and the girls at the salon while Laurie hung out with the groomsmen. At the salon I proceeded to photograph Alexa's adorable nieces about a million times. These two live miles upon miles away from each other but you would never know it because they are as close as sisters and the camera loved them.
Then we were off to the hotel to get ready for First Look photos. I the love moments where I can blend into the background and capture those incredible memories of a parent seeing their daughter as a bride for the first time. Alexa's mom made me tear up. So very sweet.
After a beautiful First Look we headed over to Smolak Farms which is a charming farm with deer roaming around, an ice cream shop and beautiful blooming apple trees. The ceremony was packed full of tears and laughter. Alexa's brother married them and you could tell how incredibly proud he was to perform this very special job. After a short but sweet ceremony the party started and didn't stop. This wedding was a BLAST! Congrats Alexa and Bryan!