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BOXING DAY BARBARIANS ARE BACK!
Otley RUFC are hosting the fourth annual Prince Henry's Barbarians vs Otley Invitational match at Cross Green on Boxing Day, kick off 2pm, supported by Otliensians RUFC. Everyone is welcome for what should be another entertaining game on and off the pitch. Gates open at 11:30am for the curtain-raiser at 12pm, PHGS U12s and U13s Mixed Game!
The PHGS Barbarians side will once again be coached by ex-PHGS legend Pete Latham, MBE and the Otley side are coached by current 1st XV player, Simon Willet.
Entry will be £5 on the day (under 18s free), with 50% going to charity and the remainder towards the PHGS Rugby Fund. Last year, with a crowd of over 500, £3000 was raised in total, half of which went towards a charity to support rugby players with mental health issues.
The charity being supported by this year's game is the Otley Town Mayor's appeal, raising money towards a community minibus, to be used by the Otley family of schools and expand opportunities for Primary school students in the town.
We have had some exceptional prizes donated for the Top Ten raffle – including 2 tickets to watch England play at Twickenham, and a £300 Brook Taverner clothing voucher, along with other prizes, and many other prizes yet to be announced. It promises to be a fantastic day.
Follow 'PHGS Barbarians vs. Otley' on Facebook to keep in touch with developments and anyone interested in finding out more, or taking part, please email Chris Smith at ce.smith@princehenrys.co.uk

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A day or two after my life mate died, I couldn't visualize him, so I looked at the only photo I have of us, and I wept because I did not recognize him. Fifteen years ago, when that photo was taken, it was an exact likeness of him, but during the years of illness, he lost the fullness in his face, first becoming distinguished looking, then gaunt. I have an idea/image of him in my mind, perhaps a composite of him through the years, perhaps what he actually looked like near the end, and that single photo I have of him does not resemble the person I knew. One more thing to mourn.
That is the problem with grief, there is always one more thing to mourn.
It's not just our internal images of a person that changes to accommodate the vagaries of age; our internal image of the relationship itself changes to accommodate the vagaries of life. Most of the transformation of a relationship from youthful and passionate to aged and (perhaps) wise and companionable goes unnoticed. We are always who we are. We are always in the present.
The big events of life — starting a business or losing one, having children or losing them — we celebrate or grieve as the case may be, but other things disappear without acknowledgement. We used to walk together, ride bikes, play tennis, kick a soccer ball, but such activities were supplanted with other, more sedentary activities as his health deteriorated. But still, there we were, on the great Ferris wheel of our relationship — always current, always us. And then he died.
When one of a couple dies, the Ferris wheel of your shared life comes to a halt. Those who have not experienced the loss of a long-time mate think that the Ferris wheel continues with the survivor, but that isn't true. It looms there, empty. The continually evolving, revolving living relationship is dead. All you have is what has already happened, and now you can see every transformation throughout all the years. You don't simply mourn the man he was at the end, you also mourn the man you met and the men he became during the subsequent years. And you grieve for all those little things that passed unnoticed during the course of your relationship. They didn't matter while you were together because you were together, but now they add to the overwhelming whole of grief.
Gradually, the survivor climbs aboard another Ferris wheel of her own, but the original one still haunts. If I live long enough, my grief will fade and perhaps disappear in the whirr and whirl of everyday life, but for now, newly recalled memories keep seeping into my life, and they have to be processed, mourned, dealt with. Sometimes these are minor issues, sometimes major. And all a surprise. How could so much have happened during those quiet years?
One recurring theme in our lives was vitamins and other food supplements. We met at his health food store. The first time we connected physically was when he handed me a bottle of vitamin A and our touch lingered. The first time our gazes locked was over his checkout counter. The supplement regimen he created for me changed as new research came out, but always, there were the supplements, a symbol of how much he cared for me. Now all that loss has to be dealt with somehow.
And that is just one aspect of our shared life. There were almost 34 years worth of good things and bad. 408 months. 1756 weeks. 12,296 days. When he was alive, all those days blended together, but now each exists separately, a thing in itself. A thing to be mourned. No wonder grief is such a major undertaking.
Oh, Pat. This is all so true. So sadly true. Our worlds have truly stopped – in mid-turn. I do feel exactly as you wrote. I am lucky in that I have many pictures and videos but no matter how much I have, they are not enough. They are what was. I want what cannot be.
You and Joy obviously think a lot alike in your situations. I know I've said before that I think we all experience grief in individualized ways. If I were to think of my life as anything, it would be more like a ski hill chairlift than a ferris wheel… with continuous motion that slows to let me opt out, but carries on with or without my participation.
We began life as an individual person, later perhaps becoming part of a couple and a family, but always we are a unique, distinct creation … an original being. As we age and mature our relationship to those who share our lives changes, and we change as the relationships change. But there is a nucleus that is still us. That chairlift keeps moving, too, right up until the season ends, and it has to be a deliberate choice to either opt out and vegetate in regret, or get back on and see what the rest of the trip has to offer. It won't be the same as it would be exploring the future with the missing loved one, but different isn't always bad. It just takes getting used to, as every other stage in our lives has required.
Carol, I didn't mean to say life stopped. I meant the relationship stopped. And when the relationship is no longer evolving and revolving, it allows you to see the whole of it. (Like a wheel. It's only when the wheel stops turning that you see all the spokes.) And I know my future won't necessarily be bad, might even be good since I don't have to carry the weight of his illness, but the truth is, he is still dead. No future of mine, no matter how happy, will ever change that.
On a lighter note, I might have chosen a different metaphor, but I'd just taken that photo of the Ferris wheel, and I needed an image for the article.
Everything is impermanent, even things we wish weren't so; I have learned to accept this, mostly; I have yet to agree with it. I battle between a constant war of resistance and acceptance, there are days when I can't tell which side is winning, only that one side is losing. The only solace I can find is that everything is impermanent and so too perhaps is this epic battle.
So true — that war of resistance and acceptance. Even if one side wins, the battle isn't over. It always starts up again.


Students in Kota, Rajasthan (India) students can get IT education and technical training in state of the art facilities for global careers at Global Career Education.
In today's fast-paced world, it is imperative that prospective employees be armed with IT education and business management skills to suit the industry. Unfortunately, conventional education often misses out this point and students are left groping in the dark when faced with the prospect of finding a job and their employability is highly diminished without proper IT skills.
In partnership with The Rajasthan Knowledge Corporation Limited (RKCL), a public limited company set up by the Rajasthan government, GCE is an information technology Gyan kendra in Kota, and has already reached major milestones for students undergoing IT training.
Global Career Education supplements the basic IT technical training and career education programs with various other business management skills by experienced faculty as part of the value addition to the students.
For spreading digital literacy through its flagship program me, Rajasthan state certificate course in IT (RS-CIT) is approved by the state government. This is a multimedia high quality and low cost IT literacy program for three months that offers a novel curriculum in the English and Hindi. The examination is conducted by Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota.
RKCL is a multi-stakeholder public limited company comprising the Rajasthan government; Maharastra Knowledge Corporation Ltd, Mumbai; University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur; Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, and Centre for e-Governance, Jaipur.


For nearly a billion people, rural poverty promotes land-management practices that maximize short-term gain at the expense of long-term economic and environmental stability. Economics professor Randy Bluffstone travels to nations like Nepal and Ethiopia where he helps village communities identify and adopt more sustainable approaches to managing natural resources, alleviating poverty while improving farms and forests.
FOR THE WORLD'S "BOTTOM BILLION," many of them rural farmers, the struggle for daily sustenance leaves no time to plan for long-term economic security. This struggle also leaves its mark on the land that people need to survive. When forests and farms are utilized for short-term livelihood rather than sustained productivity, the result can be deforestation, erosion, and crop failure.
at Portland State. In the 1980s, he traveled to Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer. Since then, he has worked to fight poverty by studying how poor people relate to their environment.
In Ethiopia, Bluffstone worked on a ten-year survey of how small-scale farmers grow crops and tend steep hillside plots. He found that many farmers thought they could lose their land at any time to the government—crippling their confidence to invest in better land management. To break this cycle, farmers need services that allow them to save, borrow, and invest in improvements, such as irrigation and erosion control. Building on his research in Ethiopia, Bluffstone has also worked in Bolivia, Nepal, Kenya, and Tanzania.
In Nepal, he received a multi-year grant from the World Bank to survey households about preserving, rather than cutting, healthy forests that soak up greenhouse gases. "As far as we know, these are some of the first analyses of the potential for village forests to remove significant carbon from the atmosphere," Bluffstone said. Up to 30 percent of the Earth's forests are controlled by rural communities, and emerging carbon markets may offer incentives for these local people to grow larger trees. The results in Nepal will help inform how other nations can join the ranks of rural climate heroes.


A passport is our basic ticket in traveling abroad. Without a passport, it is impossible for us to travel uncovered the country. So if you don't have one yet, go grab one now!
A passport is defined as an ascribed document issued by the direction of a country to one of its citizens and, varying from country to country, authorizing travel to foreign countries and authenticating the bearer's identity, citizenship, right to protection though abroad, and right to reenter his or her original country.
1. Set an triumph – you can set an taking office either by logging in to the DFA Appointment Website (charm see resource crate asleep for the link) or by calling the DFA Appointment Hotline (02) 737-1000. Either habit, you will be asked to have enough allocation your personal recommendation for the passport application.
2. Choose an appointment date and times. Make sealed to make yourself handy very more or less your selected schedule as personal melody is required.
3. A. DFA Appointment Website – After mood an taking again, you will realize an email confirming your taking office, giving you a quotation number and a colleague to print your application form. You compulsion to bring the printed application form (along gone abnormal documentary requirements such as NSO birth endorse, legal ID and others) to the DFA Consular Office as regards your taking office date.
B. DFA Appointment Hotline – After mood an taking office, you will complete a reference number and a print code from the Customer Care Officer assisting you. Go to passport.com.ph/print and print your application form. You compulsion to bring the printed application form (along following additional documentary requirements) to the DFA Consular Office forward reference to your taking office date.
4. On your succession date, you must put-on to ensnare 2 of the DFA Consular Office located at Aseana Business Park, Bradco Avenue corner Macapagal Boulevard, Paranaque City. DFA requires you to be there 30 minutes past your scheduled era.
5. Present your printed application form and NSO birth certify to the person-in-warfare at the Appointment Counter. He will stamp your application form confirming that you in plan of fact have scheduled an harmony vis–vis the subject of the subject of that hours of day. From the carrying out counter, you will be led to the waiting place where all added applicants are waiting to find the money for a flattering confession inside the building and fired occurring to impinge on to the neighboring step of the process.
6. On your scheduled time or in version to signal unconditional by the guard virtually loyalty, you will be asked to enter the building to involve to the gone step of the application process – implement your application form and documentary requirements. It is hard to miss this as you will easily evaluate a long stock of applicants, as you enter the building, every single one waiting for their tilt. There are chairs provided for the applicants. The application process is critical. The building is freshen conditioned. These factors by now taking place make the "waiting epoch" less of a sore, at least, if not convenient. When others ahead of you finish their position, you alive take in hand, closer to the window where you will acceptance your requirements.
7. As you play a portion the window, the overseer in act will acquire your personal details and check your documentary requirements such as original NSO birth endorse, definite ID, indigenous NSO marriage sanction (if any) and unconventional required documents. Do not forget to bring a photocopy of your documents then you as it may be vital. In achievement you compulsion appendage documents to be photocopied, you may add the canteen at the auditorium floor unventilated agreement 3 where photocopying is comfortable.
8. Pay your passport fees at the 2nd floor (Passport Enrollment Section).
9. After payment, function a role to the Encoding Section (plus at the 2nd floor). Get your queue number from the counter and wait for your queue number to appear concerning the monitor. Once your queue number appears upon the monitor, go along gone to note of the cubicle number that appears in opposition to your queue number upon the screen. Proceed to the cubicle assigned to you. Inside the cubicle, you will be asked by the DFA personnel to double check and avow the accuracy of the data encoded upon the computer. Your digital photo will as well as be taken at this period. Double check every one one of your personal have enough maintenance an opinion and attempt to spot some of the most common typographical errors such as spelling of your publication and birthdate. If you sit in judgment any industrial accident, just seek the DFA personnel and he will instantly precise it. When anything is in order, your electronic signature and electronic fingerprints will be taken, finalizing your passport application.
You can either reward to the DFA Consular Office to pick-taking place your passport upon the scheduled pick-occurring date or have your passport delivered to your on fire (1-2 days from scheduled reprieve date). If you opt for passport delivery, perform to the Delivery Counter (near the Encoding Section at the 2nd floor) to manage to meet the expense of delivery to the lead payment.


The Tuesday Justice of the Peace Day Room Service at the Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is now located in the Country Health Connect (formerly Adelaie Hills Community Health Service) area which is located through Gate 4. The entrance is on the left side of the building heading towards the carpark.
Please ensure that you have all original documents and copies required. No appointments required to access JP services.


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Q: Django set headers on redirect() I am trying the method in the answer here.  Something like this:
url = 'https://InternalURL'
token = 'api token here'
response = redirect(url)
response['Token'] = token
return response

This code lives in a view that is called when clicking a link in a template.  Some things are performed to build the correct url & get the api token prior to this code.
If I inspect the requests through Fiddler, the first redirect that has the 302 status code contains the headers I set.  But the subsequent request that attempts to navigate to the actual url I want to redirect to, the headers I need are not set.
Obviously that results in the request failing since the authentication token doesn't exist in the header.
Am I completely missing something obvious?  Is there a better way to do this?
Thank you in advance for any help!

A: try the code below, It worked for me
 base_url = '/dashboard/'  # 1 /<redirect-route>
 query_string =  urlencode({'token': jwt.encode(payload, "SECRET PHRASE")})  # 2 token=jwt-token
 url = '{}?{}'.format(base_url, query_string)  # 3 /<redirect-route>/?token=jwt-token
        return redirect(url)

And you can retrieve at the view like
token = request.GET.get('token')

I don't know if it is the best way, but yes it worked in my case.

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Is it possible to have a WiFi allergy? Today's topic is possibly one of the most fascinating topics. We are talking about dirty frequencies, which exist all around us, but cannot be heard, seen or touched.
Listen up! These frequencies are not the high vibe feel good kind of frequencies, but they exist and they may be affecting your health, especially, if you are someone who is highly sensitive to these electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs). Have you ever really thought about what happens in your body when you are searching around by WiFi on your laptop, sitting next to your cell phone, and you are in close proximity to a cell tower? Well, this scenario happens more often then we want to know.
My guest today is Nicolas Pineault, a health journalist who has published more than 1,500 online articles through a daily newsletter called Nick & Gen's Healthy Life. He is the humorous author of The Non-Tinfoil Guide To EMFs — an unconventional book that tackles the very serious topic of electromagnetic pollution. Nick is one of the coolest guys and so knowledgeable that he will have you thinking differently about your devices. It doesn't mean you have to throw them out the window -please don't- some simple knowledge and tips can protect your body and make all the difference.
In this episode, Nick shares about physical signs of electro hypersensitivity to EMFs, he shares important tips for screen time at night, and how to protect your body from your cell phone.
Grab a copy of Nick's Book, The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs, and get a copy of Nick's FREE bonus.


I am charmed and amused to note that I have somehow become the literal poster child for the 6th Annual Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival.
Spotted in the Art Detroit Now newsletter.
That amazing tableau of horses is my contribution to the ongoing tradition of asking local artists to make custom posters promoting the festival–which, if you've never attended, is a glorious romp through public and private art environs and great Hamtramck. I'm sorry to miss it this year, but obviously I'll be there in spirit. You can read more about it in this handy preview I wrote for the Metro Times, or drop by any friendly Hamtramck art gallery on Saturday (or the kickoff brunch at Trixie's Bar from 11:00-2:00) to get a map to set you on your way!
Have fun & run free in Hamtramck this weekend!
p.s. If you love that poster, you will likely have an opportunity to bid on it in the silent auction that helps raise funds to keep the festival going.


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"Now. Ladies, you must never wear patent leather shoes because it will reflect your undergarments and the boys don't need to see them. You must never wear jewelry on your ears or around your neck that will reflect your bosom either. This is just not proper for a lady." The elderly House-Mother was reiterating what the Dean of Women had advised us in her orientation for freshman women. The small group of us, dressed in our Sunday finest, sat with knees together and demitasse cups held properly, pinkie finger straight out from the handle. Did these women realize it was 1967? None of us had worn patent leather shoes since elementary level Sunday School classes and, for some reason, my very proper British-trained mother had missed the vile revelation that I was showing all the little boys my undergarments every Sunday. If she wants to talk normal attire, here, let's talk about jeans, tee shirts and sneakers, when we weren't wearing cowboy or hiking boots…. none of us planned to wear anything to reflect our bosoms and it is hard to reflect anything through the legs of blue-jeans, isn't it? Our undergarments remained safely out of view of all males trying to get a peek on the way to class. Let's just say our most positive assessment of this required Tea Party with our dorm's House-Mother was that the tiny cookies were good. I felt sorry for this lady, having to repeat this performance so many times to get all of the girls in with only space in her small apartment for five or six at one time. It was a high-rise dormitory of first-year teens! Since I was in Room 201, I was amongst the first group of "party-goers" and I wondered how the precious late middle-aged grandmother would do by room 1002! Hers was, definitely, one job to mark off the possible list of employment opportunities in my future.
Most of the orientation sessions and activities were of more relevant information. This was well-before the current trend for on-line class registrations so we stood in long serpentine lines, hoping that there would still be room in the class by the time we were face-to-face with whatever graduate student happened to be so unfortunate to be appointed to signing up first-year students for a specific class. Class-by-class, we made our way through lines and got the necessary signatures on our class schedule cards. It took hours and then more lines to actually pay for the quarter and lab fees. Then, of course, there were lines to wait for ID photos to go on that mandatory Student ID card… a pass for so many things, therefore, not something possible to just skip in this long day of lines and waiting.
During Winter Quarter registration, things were even worse because it was ski season in this mountain university. The crowd for payment of fees was so dense that the entire lobby of the Administration Building filled the foyer, quite literally, standing room only. The line at the cashier's office moved so slowly and the area became so overloaded with students' warm bodies and expelled carbon dioxide, that one or two students actually fainted. However, there was not a single bit of floor space to accommodate their unconscious bodies when they collapsed. The crowd just moved them along in line! No, I'm not kidding nor reporting an exaggerated rumor… I saw it with my own eyes.
To be a first-year student meant that you had a lot of required early morning classes, the later hours reserved for upperclassmen, or so it seemed to those of us in Chemistry, at least. So many changes and so much liberty for our 18-year-old lives. No one to shake us awake and push a piece of buttered toast in our hand, eyes barely open while we chewed. We had to get ourselves up, out to breakfast at the Freshman Commons (a distance about the length of a football field away from the dorm's front door), and, then over to the right Department's multi-level building and classroom … all before that 8 o'clock bell. Notebook? What notebook? Okay, well, probably that first week no one said anything we needed to take notes on anyway, right? Groan! It was a more difficult adjustment for some than others. Plus, at the end of the day, there was no one to see that we actually read the assignments or did the Algebra problems. With up to 500 kids in a class, who would check on such things? No one… until exam time, that is. Homework could just wait.
Weekends were the biggest challenge for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… as the American Declaration of Independence would say. We were now very independent teens with no rules other than those our parents had ingrained in us. But, they were not there to enforce the rules… in fact, there were few university rules for off-hours. We had a curfew for the dorm because the front door would be locked at a certain hour and the legal drinking age was still 21, but, otherwise, no one laid any restrictions on us. They were, at this point, only those deeply entrenched in our own moral code. We were on our own.
No doubt our parents were hoping that something like the verse in I. Corinthians Chapter 13 would describe our newly independent lives… that we proved ourselves to be respectable, hard-working young adults who no longer needed monitoring!
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Since the election last November, many people have drawn on dystopian fiction to explain our predicament.
The Tripods Trilogy was popular right away—the final installment, "The Pool of Fire," arrived in 1968—particularly in the United Kingdom, where, in the nineteen-eighties, the books were transformed into a BBC series. The show has its own cult following: "The Tripods" Ultimate Fan Meeting Event, for English and German fans of the show, will be held in West Sussex this fall. After the show aired, Christopher published a prequel to the series, "When the Tripods Came," set hundreds of years before the action of the trilogy. In it, the alien invaders appear at first to be quite easily defeated—they are even joked about on a popular new TV series, "The Trippy Show." But people grow addicted to the program, watching it incessantly on their VCRs; then, when the aliens launch a second invasion, these same people leave home to serve the Tripods, mysteriously brainwashed by what they've seen. Christopher later explained, in an interview, that he decided to write a prequel after a well-known British sci-fi writer mocked the improbabilities of a Tripod takeover on a program devoted to discussing the TV adaptation of his books.
Dystopian fiction, as Jill Lepore recently chronicled in this magazine, goes back a ways, but the Tripods Trilogy was arguably the first example of that later, and now very familiar, subgenre, the young-adult dystopian series, and it anticipates all sorts of details and plot points from subsequent, better-known works. Its "capping" ceremony foreshadows similar puberty-triggered procedures forced on the kids in Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" series, and in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Will must win a kind of teen Olympiad, à la "The Hunger Games," in order to enter the City of Gold and Lead. And a game that aliens play inside their city, called Sphere Chase, seems close kin to Quidditch from the "Harry Potter" books, albeit minus the broomsticks.
Rereading the book today, though, what's most striking is its ultimate lesson. At the end of the series, after our young heroes have defeated the Tripod rulers, Will notices troubling political developments: renewed tribalism, authoritarianism, and nationalism among some members of the resistance. Since the Presidential election last November, many people have drawn on dystopian fiction—"The Hunger Games," in particular—to explain our predicament. The implication sometimes seems to be that we can restore democracy by rising up to defeat our newly elected leader, Katniss Everdeen-style. The Tripods Trilogy makes the case that sustaining democracy is not so simple.
Most of Youd's books are out of print, but his literary estate, which is run by two of his children, has been working for the past few years to salvage them from oblivion with smart new editions. The most recent of these is the marvellous "The Possessors," from 1964, a moody, creepy horror-thriller that's of a Cold War piece with "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" or "The Thing from Another Planet." Christopher's best known work aimed at grownups is "The Death of Grass," a 1956 novel that unfolds in a near-future, post-apocalyptic Great Britain after a virus kills off most of the plants on the planet. (It was made into a terrible, "Mystery Science Theater"-worthy film in 1970, called "No Blade of Grass" after the book's title in the United States, where it was first published over several issues of the Saturday Evening Post.) Supplies becomes scarce, gangs become common, and might makes right becomes the law of the land—think "The Walking Dead" but with food shortages instead of zombies. Along with Christopher's "The World in Winter," from 1962—published as "The Long Winter" in the States—it deserves recognition as a key antecedent of climate fiction, or cli-fi, another of our new century's more notable genres.
Still, Christopher's legacy surely rests with his Y.A. fiction, the Tripods Trilogy most of all. And, while the books continue to be read (SYLE will be releasing a new U.K. paperback edition of "The White Mountains" in August), one significant obstacle to a broader cultural resurgence for the trilogy is the dearth of any characters of color and the near total lack of important female characters. Shortly after Christopher's death, the journalist Torie Bosch described, for Slate, the experience of rereading the books as an adult and noticing, for the first time, their casual sexism and occasional racial insensitivity. Christopher mitigated this shortcoming, but only somewhat, in the series' prequel, which includes several women, young and grown, among its main characters. The book concludes with Laurie, its male British hero, coming to realize that Hanna, a smart young woman new to his group, might make a great leader for the nascent resistance.
The need to sustain the struggle, even after apparent victory, is the note on which the trilogy concludes. "Are you ready for a new fight?" Will is asked by one of his friends. "A longer, less exciting one, with no great triumphs at the end?" Will agrees to stay connected with his friends and to fight, now, toward the never-ending goals of democracy and peace. The moral of Christopher's story is that it's only after monsters and Masters are defeated that the real hard work begins.
A look at the dumber side of technology.
For young readers, dystopia isn't a future to be averted; it's a version of what's already happening in the world they inhabit.
With just fourteen short stories and a novella, the author behind the recent film "Arrival" has gained a rapturous following within the genre and beyond.


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We haven't been to Walmart for a while, but let's go now to check out the post-holiday sales, as well as the butts on display.
Did she get caught in a shredder?
Isn't that the wrong order? Maybe she was in a hurry, dressing in the dark.
We rarely go to Walmart, but when we do, I never see anything that comes close to these interesting folks, and actually glad I don't or I might start laughing like a hyena. I just can't wrap my head around what might be or might not be going on inside THEIR head.
They are all awful. People are amazing.
I can't believe some people. Don't they have mirrors in their homes.
i'm actually glad that i haven't seen anything like these in real life in the malls i've been to. it's rather appalling. thanks for the share.


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Governor Cuomo Announces Establishment of Clean Energy Standard that Mandates 50 Percent Renewables By 2030
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By Long Island News & PR Published: August 02 2016
New York State Public Service Commission's approval of New York's Clean Energy Standard - most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy mandate in the state's history.
First-ever State mandate will more than double renewable resources, slash carbon emissions, protect the environment and grow the clean energy economy.
Photo by: Michael & Christa Richert, via Free Images.
Albany, NY - August 1, 2016 - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the New York State Public Service Commission's approval of New York's Clean Energy Standard, the most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy mandate in the state's history, to fight climate change, reduce harmful air pollution, and ensure a diverse and reliable energy supply. The Clean Energy Standard will require 50 percent of New York's electricity to come from renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2030, with an aggressive phase in schedule over the next several years.
In its initial phase, utilities and other energy suppliers will be required to procure and phase in new renewable power resources starting with 26.31 percent of the state's total electricity load in 2017 and grow to 30.54 percent of the statewide total in 2021. The Clean Energy Standard will cost less than $2 a month to the average residential customer's bill.
"New York has taken bold action to become a national leader in the clean energy economy and is taking concrete, cost-effective steps today to safeguard this state's environment for decades to come," Governor Cuomo said. "This Clean Energy Standard shows you can generate the power necessary for supporting the modern economy while combatting climate change. Make no mistake, this is a very real threat that continues to grow by the day and I urge all other states to join us in this fight for our very future."
The Clean Energy Standard will:
Significantly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and prevent backsliding on progress made to date by maintaining the operations of carbon-free nuclear power plants as the state transitions to a 50 percent renewable requirement; and,
Strengthen New York's electric fuel diversity for the reliability benefits it brings. The Clean Energy Standard also places New York as a leader of the global effort to combat climate change and the resulting extreme weather events.
By 2030, the 50 percent renewable mandate will be a critical component in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent (from 1990 levels) and by 80 percent by 2050.
The Public Service Commission will work with New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and stakeholders to develop the content and standards that could be used to create a New York-certified clean electric product. This product will be clearly labeled and identified as New York-based clean power giving consumers the ability to buy 100 percent clean power, should they want that option.
The Public Service Commission will promote and support maximum expansion of energy efficiency wherever possible and evaluate the creation of renewable heating and cooling technologies such as geothermal heat pumps.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will develop a blueprint to advance offshore wind energy, a report already in progress by the Authority.
Public Service Commission Staff will work with the NYISO and other stakeholders to ensure that necessary investments are made in storage, transmission and other technologies to secure a reliable electric system.
The Public Service Commission will requires triennial reviews of the Clean Energy Standard by the Public Service Commission to ensure economic and clean energy goals are being achieved.
Click here to view statements from organizations which are applauding and endorsing New York State's adoption of the Clean Energy Standard.
Maintaining zero-emission nuclear power is a critical element to achieving New York's ambitious climate goals. Starting in April 2017, the Clean Energy Standard requires all six New York investor-owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon-free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing Zero-Emission Credits. The New York Power Authority and the Long Island Power Authority are also expected to adopt the same requirements. This will allow financially-struggling upstate nuclear power plants to remain in operation during New York's transition to 50 percent renewables by 2030. A growing number of climate scientists have warned that if these nuclear plants were to abruptly close, carbon emissions in New York will increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, resulting in public health and other societal costs of at least $1.4 billion.
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Jesse Goldsmith is a senior managing director with Newmark's Phoenix office. An industry expert of 14 years, Jesse partners with Senior Managing Director Steve Julius and Associate Chase Dorsett. The three specialize in investment sales for neighborhood retail assets in metro Phoenix, serving private and institutional investors. Throughout their careers, Jesse, Steve and Chase have completed transactions with a combined total consideration of more than $700 million.
Jesse works with investors across the United States and Canada to locate retail investment properties in Arizona and is particularly adept at sourcing hard-to-find buyers. He has cultivated and actively manages an extensive investor database, going beyond the traditional marketing process of relying on public listing services. Jesse joined Newmark in 2020, after serving as a first vice president for eight years with CBRE in the Phoenix office. He began his commercial real estate career in 2006, having previously held positions with both Marcus & Millichap and Grubb & Ellis (now a part of Newmark).
Partial List of Sale Transactions
Representing seller and buyer
Westgate Entertainment District, 6751 North Sunset Boulevard, Glendale, AZ: The New Westgate LLC sold to a venture formed by YAM Properties, $133.0 million
Elliot Plaza, 7700 South Priest Drive, Tempe, AZ: Trigate Capital sold to Unified CRE, $26.1 million
Ahwatukee Mercado, 4623 & 4747 East Elliot Road, Phoenix, AZ: TriGate Capital sold to Westwood Financial LLC, $9.0 million
Gilligan Family Partnership
Mariah Properties
Phillips Edison
Trigate Capital
Westwood Financial
YAM Holdings
Professional Achievements
Top 10 Pacific Southwest Capital Markets Producer, CBRE, 2019
Top Multi-Tenant Retail Producer, CBRE, 2012-2019
No. 1 Overall Producer, Grubb & Ellis, 2011
Rookie of the Year, Marcus & Millichap, 2009
National Pace Setter Award, Marcus & Millichap, 2008
Personal Affiliations
Member, Phoenix Chapter, Gonzaga University Alumni Association
2001 Class Liaison. Rowland Hall Saint Marks, Salt Lake City, UT
Jesse earned a bachelor's in business administration from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, where he majored in finance and minored in Spanish.
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The Wallace Line
James Smeaton
Headland (The Wallace Line)
160.00 x 180.00 cm
Untitled 1 (The Wallace Line)
Untitled 12 (The Wallace Line)
Headland is the title James Smeaton has given to a large composition that features prominently in a recent series of otherwise untitled, though lusciously painted acrylic on canvas works. To describe these paintings as abstract would be to ignore the figurative, aquatic and terrestrial motifs that emerge from this haptic and gestural mode of painting. Headland is a notable case in point, for it features a centralised mass that is both geographical headland surrounded by turbulent waters, and what may easily be read as the artist's own head in repose. Possibly the subject is rising from beneath the waves in a determined bid for air; perhaps he is waking from slumber, or is a visage cut into the escarpment of a sea-facing cliff.
In Smeaton's works this double entendre is indicative of a practice shot through with that particular experience of intense identification with the world. It was the French novelist and mystic Romain Rolland (1866-1944) who famously aggregated such experiences within the descriptor of the 'oceanic feeling'. It signalled a mystical oneness with the universe, which psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961) later perceived as an important rite-of-passage on the road to individuation. For Jung, anything less than the experience of complete connection, would only inhibit a more expanded sense of selfhood.
For Smeaton, the incessant tidal pull between self-expression on the one hand and a yearning for personal transcendence on the other finds tentative resolve in the process of painting. As a medium that demands both preparedness and virtuosic performance, painting has its own shamanic demands. More than mark making alone, painting in certain instances acts as a ritual process. The artist must be open to what emerges in the dance of paint on canvas. This is as much about the mental and physical state of the painter as it is, the completed image.
The terrain that is a perennial source of inspiration for Smeaton is the myriad islands of Indonesia. As a peerless environment in which to surf, an activity that has long been of importance for the artist, and as a territory where shamanic practice is very much alive today, the outer reaches of the Indonesian archipelago is key to Smeaton's work.
In a way that is personally significant to him, the islands are a liminal terrain. Wedged between Australia to the south, Melanesia to east and Asia more properly to the north, it is a region that naturalists sometimes refer to as Wallacea. The name honours Charles Darwin's lesser known co-author of the theory of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913). Wallace's intimation that species change through incremental shifts appealed to Smeaton's aesthetic sensibilities and in it he recognised a parallel with his own transformations as an artist, precisely in a territory that deeply affected his naturalist predecessor.
Holding a deep fascination for both Eastern and Western ontologies, Smeaton rides a crest not only between abstraction and figuration, but also between conveying personal moments of experience and something that the personal seems unable to fully contain. In Smeaton's art that spillage appears as the motif of water, and more specifically the churning ocean. If elements can be attributed to people, then Smeaton is clearly a creature of the sea. His works are elegiac evocations of shimmering hues, unassailable forces and impenetrable depths. They radiate with the alluring siren-song that seafarers the world over perceive in the beckoning waves. The pastel colours and sanded layers of paint bring to mind the boats and canoes of local fisher folk. The possibility that the paintings have been somehow exposed to the elements are in fact a technical sleight of hand, but it is a skill that invites us as viewers to explore the layered processes that are deployed in each of these paintings.
DR DAMIAN SMITH, 2018
Damian Smith is a freelance curator, arts writer and academic working in Australia, Asia and Latin America. He is the Director of Words For Art and a member of the International Association of Art Critics.


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Mar 24, 2002 "The Road To Jerusalem" (Luke 18) *
Apr 07, 2002 "The Natural vs. The Spiritual" (1 Corinthians 15:44-49) *
Apr 14, 2002 "The Ultimate Victory" (1 Corinthians 15:50-58) *
Apr 21, 2002 "Challenge to Committment" (Romans 12:1-2)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Fake News
by Mate Hajba and Free Market Foundationon March 2, 2017 March 2, 2017
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Obliviate! – shouted Gilderoy Lockhart, a character from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when he wanted to delete someone's memories to usurp their achievements. It seems, however, that he needn't have bothered, since there is an even more dangerous magic than this spell to help disperse lies.
The world of Harry Potter can easily serve as an interesting case study of telerance, student activism, and even politics or economics. There is another relevant lesson in the books, however: the dark magic of fake news.
Readers are introduced to the concept in the 4th volume, when the scathing journalist, Rita Skeeter distorts the truth to give people what they want and to take revenge on people who got on her wrong side. Harry Potter is depicted by her as a dangerous lunatic in a bid to discredit him. She is stopped at the end of the book, but not before she succeded in creating a false image of the eponymous character, which develops even further in the next book, when the inept Ministry of Magic doesn't want to face the fact that the most evil wizard the world, Voldemort, has retunred.
Since Harry is the only witness to the reemergence of the Dark Lord, the Ministry, lead by the Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge (who finds it more convenient not to believe the young wizard) goes out of it's way to spew out fake news. To do so it uses the seemingly independent the Daily Prophet newspaper. Since most people believe the Ministry propaganda, and the Minister for Magic does nothing to prepare for Voldemort's inevitable attempt to regain lost power, all the Dark Lord has to do is wait, while the wizarding community weakens itself by arguing. By the time the truth is revealed, it is too late, and Voldemort soon seizes power. If it wern't for student activism, he would never have been defeated, but that is a different story.
The purpose of fake news is to undermine somebody's or something's credibility, for example of a leader, or a system. They play on stories people find easy or convenient to believe in, and occasionally are spiced with slivers of truths, which even further muddies the waters and makes it close to impossible to discern the facts from fiction.
Harry Potter suffered from visions in the books, which the media spun as a sign of madness. Fake news are like religion, you must believe in them despite all common sense and evidence to the contrary. Like any radical religion, it must be protected at all costs. And so, in the fifth volume, Dolores Umbridge made Harry write lines, etching them into his own skin, saying: "I must not tell lies".
When it finally turned out that Harry was, in fact, telling the truth, the Ministry lost it's credibility, which they wanted to regain by recruiting the young wizard, who, after all the harassment he went through refused to cooperate with the inept institution. Thus Voldermort attained his goal, and by successfully sawing discord, weakened the resistance of the wizarding community.
Let us imagine that there is a magical land called Russia, and there is no Voldemort, but an evil leader, named Putin. Let's say, there is no Ministry of Magic, no Harry Potter, and no magic at all. There are, however, many Ministers in many countries, many Fudges and Umbridges, and a multitude of fake news sawing discord among people, all serving the evil Purposes of the Dark Lord Putin. Which side would you like to find yourself on?
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About Mate Hajba
Director of the Free Market Foundation, which advocates economic freedom, civil rights and tolerance. He is also the Vice President of Civic Platform, which runs anti-racist campaigns and promotes democratic values. He is interested in the relationship between the state and the individual and in the concept and history of liberty. He writes for international press on issues such as intolerance in Hungary and international relations. To promote the concept of individualism, liberty, tolerance and free market, he co-founded a youth organization named Eötvös Club.
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Now the election is out of the way, will your position on City Airport change again?
I remain committed to ensuring that every airport takes full and fair account of its environmental impacts, including noise and air quality, to safeguard the health and quality of life for all Londoners.
With respect to the specific application made by London City Airport, they have lodged an appeal against the decision issued by the London Borough of Newham to refuse planning permission in line with my direction of 26 March 2015.
As the appeal process is underway, it is not appropriate for me to comment further on this particular case.


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"Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas everyone". He's coming! Father Christmas is here to bring joy to the world. Even us adults get a little excited when December rocks up, but it's an incredibly special time for children. We are proud to present the spectacular Santa's Christmas Meet and Greet hire. This festive package can change the feel of a room entirely, a warm, exciting atmosphere for every child (and some parents) to enjoy.
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Over time, I've discovered that hills are a great way to gauge fitness, too. The degree to which I'm huffing and puffing (and cursing) as I'm climbing is usually a pretty good measure of how in or out of shape I am. I usually don't get many surprises when I'm heading up a hill, as I have using heart-rate monitors or watches to measure my efforts. Some days, I have the hill, and other days, the hill has me. Here are a few of the other lessons I've learned along the way. I welcome more tips from any of you RW Challengers, who've been to hill and back.
Don't try to run with your face. When I'm approaching my red line on a run, (trying to climb or run fast) I tend to tense up every muscle and tendon in my body that's not involved in the act of running. I frown, clench my fists and jaw, draw my shoulders up to my earlobes, and hold my breath. Not exactly a model of good running form. And it's not pretty, either. I don't mean to do this, of course, it just happens. I've been trying to develop more mind-body awareness (yoga has really helped with this), and relax the muscles that I don't need to get up the hill. Breathing certainly helps, too. When I'm reserving all my strength for the muscles actually involved in getting up that hill, it's much easier. This article offers some great tips from the pros on maintaining good form on hills.
If you're trapped in the flatlands, improvise. If you live in a pancake-flat area, but are training for a hilly race, you just have to get a little creative. Bridges, ramps to parking garages, treadmills, and stadium steps offer great simulations to hill work. If you're hitting the treadmill, check out this videofor some great workout ideas. If you're headed out to do the stairs or the parking ramps, be sure to watch your step (don't trip or get hit by a car! Here in Philly, I'm lucky to have a rather cinematic option for hillwork: the steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. These are the same steps that Sylvester Stallone famously ran up in Rocky, so the biggest hazard I have is running smack into tourists, who are gunning it up the steps with their rucksacks, cameras, and fists-a-pumping, simulating the famous scene.
Practice a smooth landing. Science has proven what I learned the hard way after doing the Steamtown Marathon, one of those great races that brags about being "all downhill." If you just let yourself fly down hills, letting your feet slap the ground and slamming your quads, you're going to pay for it later in the form of "ouch," "ooh," and "eeek!" Running downhill requires the muscles to lengthen, which can cause tiny tears in the muscles. Research has shown that this lengthening (eccentric muscle contractions) generate more force than climbing up hill or running on flat ground. Since it's easy to hit top speed on a steep descent you're even more vulnerable: the faster you move, the harder each foot strikes the ground, and the more pounding the muscles endure. You can buffer the impact by doing some downhill training. And I will tell you from some really painful experience, downhill training is worth the effort. Readthis article to learn more.
For other tips, be sure to check out our Hill Training channel, and please any of you, do share! Good luck out there!


The rapid acceleration of genetic testing has created a deluge of never-seen-before genetic variations, known as Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS). VUS cause 60% of genetic tests to be inconclusive, which leads to mis-or-non diagnosis for patients.
We've built a first-of-its-kind knowledgebase of gene function information that enables clinicians to understand the biological consequences of genetic variants, including VUS, before they're ever seen in a patient. With our proprietary, high-throughput genetic synthesis and analysis system, we generate biologically, computationally, and clinically validated data, then translate that data into clinician-friendly information that can be applied to genetic testing analysis. Ranomics is dedicated to helping hospitals and cancer centers remove uncertainty from genetic testing results.
I believe that understanding human genomics, in particularly for the application of human diseases, will be important in the era of personalized and preventative medicine. My vision is to understand the consequences of all mutations in all human disease genes, and apply this information to improve the areas of genetic testing and therapeutics.
Co-founding Ranomics at the age of 18.


China's industrial output rose 6.1 percent year-on-year in August, slightly higher than the 6 percent increase in the previous month, the country's national statistics office said on Friday. Looking at annual activity data to date, industrial output rose 6.5%, slightly weaker than last month's reading of 6.6%.
In August, the manufacturing sector expanded 6.1% yoy. Mining increased by 2%, while production and supply of electricity, thermal energy, gas and water grew by 9.9%. The value added of the government's holding companies increased by 5.6% year-on-year, while collective group production fell by 1.2%. The shareholding companies rose 6.4 percent, while companies financed by foreign investors or investors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan increased 4.9 percent.
New industrial products grew rapidly and from January to August the production of new power cars, industrial robots and integrated circuits grew 56%, 19.4% and 13.4% year-on-year.
China's retail sales rose 9% year-on-year in August to 3,154.2 billion yuan, according to a statement issued by the country's National Bureau of Statistics on Friday. The observed data showed a faster increase of 0.2 percentage points and grew compared with the figure in the previous month of 8.8%. The rate of increase to date is 9.3% compared to August 2017, a figure that has not changed compared to the previous month.
Retail sales in urban areas totaled 2716.9 billion yuan, up 8.8 percent year-on-year, while rural retail sales totaled 437.3 billion yuan, up 10.2 percent in August from the same month in 2017. Sales of services grew 9.7 percent, while Commodity sales increased 8.9% YoY. From January to August of 2018, online retail sales rose 28.2% to 5,119.5 billion yuan.
The Nikkei 225 was trading 0.91% in the green zone at 4:12 am CET. Europe.
The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.15% at 3:33 CET.
While the Shenzhen Composite Index fell 0.23% at the same time.
The Hong Kong Hang Seng Index was up 0.73% at 3:35 am CET.
South Korea's Kospi Composite Index rose 1.33% at 4:15 am.
The Australian S & P / ASX 200 rose 0.63% at 4:36 am CET.


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Apple tasting with Cézanne opens DePaul University Humanities Center season
Fall events include Don Quixote, Horror of Humanities
October 6, 2015 / Posted in: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences / Twitter / Facebook
An apple tasting and discussion of artist Paul Cézanne will kick off the fall season for the DePaul University Humanities Center Oct. 7. (Photo by Ben Garney)
CHICAGO — An apple tasting and discussion of artist Paul Cézanne will kick off the fall season for the DePaul University Humanities Center Oct. 7. The center's programs are free and open to the public and bring together creative scholars from Chicago and beyond. These events will be held at the DePaul Lincoln Park Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Room 120.
Cézanne's Apples
Painter Paul Cézanne is said to have destroyed a canvas because he felt that he couldn't taste the apples he had painted there. This event will celebrate the still life — seeing, sampling, and savoring Cézanne's apples — in an interdisciplinary investigation of his talent and aesthetic philosophy. Starting with a tasting of five heirloom apple varieties (free to the first 100 attendees), panelists will discuss the role of the apple in the history of civilization and the history of art, with special attention paid to the central role that apples played in Cézanne's still life work. The panel will include: Rowan Jacobson, best-selling author of "Apples of Uncommon Character"; Benedict Leca, executive director of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum; Allison Perelman, research associate, The Art Institute of Chicago; Mike and Velma Downes from More Than Delicious Orchard.
Making the Novel Novel: Don Quixote
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote, which many experts consider to be the first novel. The event will address the meaning of the novel, investigating Miguel de Cervantes' work. Over the course of an evening of performances and lectures, an array of scholars and artists will contemplate Quixote from multiple perspectives. Featured guests will include: Stefan Vander Elst, assistant professor of English, University of San Diego; Wendy Clinard artistic director, Clinard Dance Theatre; Danielle Meijer, adjunct professor of philosophy, DePaul University; and Stephen Miller, professor of Hispanic studies, Texas A&M.
Horror of the Humanities 3
DePaul Humanities Center's third annual Halloween event features avant-garde exhibits pointing to the horror of everyday life, as well as the relationship between horror and the history of the humanities. The night will start with a "Haunted House" interactive exhibit followed by Halloween-themed improv comedy. There will be a full-length screening of the film "Antiviral," followed by a question and answer session with the film's director, Brandon Cronenberg.
Kristin Claes Mathews
kmathew5@depaul.edu
312-241-9856


United Airlines will begin its 20th year of service to Israel with a new nonstop flight between its hub at Washington Dulles International Airport and Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport starting May 22, 2019 - subject to government approval. The new flight will be the first to be operated by a U.S. carrier between the two cities.
United's new route to Tel Aviv will be the carrier's fourth flight to Israel. United currently operates twice-daily service between New York/Newark and Tel Aviv and daily nonstop service between San Francisco and Tel Aviv.
Norwegian has reported that it carried almost 3.5  million passengers  in June, an increase of 14% compared to the same month previous year.
A total of 3,497,286  passengers chose to fly with Norwegian in June, 437,883  more than the same period last year. The total traffic growth increased by 44% and capacity increased by 43% compared to July 2017. The load factor was 90.5%, up 0.8 points.
IAG's operating profit for the six months to June 30, 2018 was €1,115 million before exceptional items, an improvement of €165 million from last year. British Airways made a profit of €868 million before exceptional items (2017 restated: €740 million); Iberia made a profit of €102 million (2017 restated: €87 million); Aer Lingus made a profit of €104 million (2017 restated: €53 million) and Vueling's loss was €-11 million (2017 restated: loss €-7 million).
Strategic overview British Airways closed its New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) to future accrual and British Airways Retirement Plan (BARP) to future contributions from March 31, 2018. The schemes have been replaced by a flexible defined contribution scheme, the British Airways Pension Plan (BAPP). The changes resulted in a one-off reduction of the NAPS IAS 19 defined benefit liability of €872 million and associated transitional arrangement cash costs of €192 million.
British Airways successfully launched a US$608.6 million EETC bond issue to fund aircraft deliveries. The bonds were combined with Japanese Operating Leases with Call Option (JOLCO) of US$259 million, bringing the total raised to US$868 million. The transaction includes Class AA and Class A Certificates with an underlying collateral pool consisting of 11 aircraft: two new Boeing 787-9, delivered between March and April 2018, one Boeing 787-8 delivered in September 2017, one new Boeing 787-8 delivered in June 2018 and seven new Airbus A320 NEO aircraft, scheduled for delivery between April and October 2018. The Class AA Certificates ($409.8 million) have an annual coupon, payable quarterly, of 3.800 per cent and the Class A Certificates ($198.8 million) have an annual coupon, payable quarterly, of 4.125 per cent.
On 28 June, IAG launched its new shorthaul low-cost Austrian subsidiary, branded as LEVEL with flights from Vienna starting on July 17, 2018. The new subsidiary has an Austrian Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) and will base four Airbus A321 aircraft in Vienna from where it will fly to 14 European destinations.
As the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has formed an agreement with CFM International (CFM) to improve the opportunities available to third-party providers of engine parts and MRO services on the CFM56 and the new LEAP series engines, authorised CFM repair station Aero Norway is set to be a beneficiary alongside airlines, lessors, other third-party MROs and parts manufacturers. The benefits will accrue for all parties via increased competition in the marketplace for maintenance, repair, and overhaul services on engines manufactured by CFM. The result will be to reduce operating costs.
Glenford Marston, CEO of Aero Norway praises CFM on reaching such a significant agreement with IATA and considers the knock-on effect that their new conduct policies will have across the entire industry.
Specifically the agreement covers CFM56 series engines. The CFM56-5B is the engine choice of the global A320 family due to its high reliability and durability, and the CFM56-7B is exclusively powering the B737 NG – making it the most popular engine combination in commercial aviation. However, CFM will apply the agreement to all commercial engines produced by the company, including engines in its new LEAP Series.
Boeing has announced plans to open the new Boeing Aerospace & Autonomy Center in Cambridge, Mass., becoming the first major tenant of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) new mixed-use district in Kendall Square.
Under the agreement, Boeing will lease 100,000 ft² of research and lab space inside a new 17-floor building at 314 Main Street in Cambridge. The new center will house employees from Boeing and subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, who will focus on designing, building and flying autonomous aircraft and developing enabling technologies.
Rolls-Royce has delivered better-than-expected half-year results, allowing the company to raise its full-year earnings outlook.
Pre-tax profit of £81 million was reported for the first half of 2018 compared to a loss of £126 million for the same period last year. Underlying operating profit was reported at £141 million compared to a loss of £84 million for the same period last year. As a result, the Company anticipates being able to post an underlying operating profit on the region of £450 million, give or take £100 million, for the full year 2018.
The news comes on the back of the announcement earlier this year of the shedding of 4,600 jobs over the next two years in a bid to save £400 million, the largest reduction in the company's workforce since 5,000 jobs and 1,000 contractors were shed in 2000.
Chief executive Warren East commented that: "Financial results were ahead of our expectations, with strong growth from civil aerospace and power systems, and we achieved a number of operational and technological milestones.
"Reflecting our progress to date and growing confidence for the full year, we now expect both underlying profit and cashflow for 2018 to be in the upper half of our guidance range." He then added that Rolls-Royce continues to be "impacted by the challenge of managing significant Trent 1000 in-service issues".
A £554 million writedown followed from a raft of technical issues with its engines, having uncovered durability problems with numerous Package C Trent 1000 engines, followed by revelations in June of issues with a small number of its Package B Trent 1000 engines. Rolls-Royce said: "The Trent 1000 in-service engine issues have caused significant disruption for a number of our customers, which we sincerely regret.


A lot of purchasers desire Westwood Residences ec which is close proximity to the MRT Station as transportation possibilities are alpenty as well as hence it has caused numerous of the home and property price levels in the vicinity of the MRT to increase. Many potential buyers of Westwood Residences are inquiring from real estate developers to lower down their selling prices for the units as there are numerous vacant units in the developerment which are left unsold. Despite the fact property developers are generally ready to discuss on the price tags, numerous home buyers are generally also mindful when on the lookout to buy a property presently.
Developers will stay mindful and uptight and some may reduce prices to move sales of the balance units in Westwood Residences. There is a new ruling which states that developers must sell their units within a certain timeframe before they get fined by the local government bodies. New homes may also be launched in phases, to examine current market response.
Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer at ERA Realty expects the prices to drop another five to six percent drop by year end. Nicholas Mak, Research Head at SLP International anticipates the same drop as well. For the long term, Christine Li, Research Head at OrangeTee, expects a drop of near 10 percent by end year. Property agents attribute the situation to a lack of demand of Westwood Residences because of shortage of buyers. Actually, land lords have previously lessened rent to compete for tenants, whose statistics have already been restricted as a consequence of lower foreign workforce.
National Parks Board will establish the Jurong Lake District to Westwood Residences to a neighborhood garden for use by the neighborhood. Occupying over 70 hectare, the Jurong Lake Gardens will include Jurong Lake Park, the Chinese Garden and the Japanese Garden. Heritage elements at the Chinese and Japanese Garden will likely be retained but refreshed and included as part of Jurong Lake Gardens, which will include Jurong Lake Park on the west side of the lake. A new science centre will also be positioned in Jurong.


Designed for the youngest little artists, our weekly Art Exploration classes will stimulate your child's creative abilities to produce wonderful works of art. Our students learn to observe and explore the world around them by practicing a diverse range of mediums such as: drawing, acrylic painting, water colour painting, pastels, clay sculpture, recycled sculpture, cartooning, mixed media.
Developed and approved by our team of Ontario Certified Teachers, our visual arts curriculum is designed to engage your child's enthusiasm for creative art projects while developing crucial motor skills, language development and creative risk taking.
Our visual arts curriculum and visual art projects change every year, so no two years are the same!
Registration for our summer session will begin the first week of May.
Trial classes are available for $15 each, up to a maximum of two trial classes per student.
A sibling discount of 10% is available for each additional child registered.
From drawing to painting, sculpture to mixed media, our instructors teach a wide variety of mediums every month. Each class is something new! With such diversity, your child will learn a little bit of everything. Specialty materials fees are included in the tuition price.
How do we draw human faces? How do we show something is furry instead of shiny? Why is the colour blue considered a 'calm' colour? Our instructors use age appropriate lessons and discussions to explain how to illustrate the world around us.
The movements needed to create art are vital to refining fine motor skills in young children. In our classes, students practice holding pencils, scissors, paint brushes, clay, steadily, and in a variety of ways to manipulate the tool to create art making techniques. Developing their hand dexterity aids in neater handwriting.
Yes, art is fun! So what? Talking about art is an opportunity for your child to learn new descriptive words to interpret, criticize, and make decisions about their artwork and the world around them.
As your child creates an artwork, they take several creative risks. Through this process, your child will learn to try new things, make mistakes, and overcome challenges. In an art environment, there are no right or wrong answers. Even shy children find friends to socialize with in our friendly, positive atmosphere.
Even though she is not a real princess, the children like to make believe. Diana graduated from St. Augustine Secondary School with Ontario Scholars, The Catholic Student Award, and made the honour roll. Starting at Visual Arts Brampton as an instructor assistant, she found herself taking on the role of instructor in early 2017.
In her spare time, Diana composes thought provoking art based on social issues. She hopes to pursue a career as a Social Worker with an education from Sheridan College. Diana has given her time working with charities drives dedicated for children, and participate at the 2015 Peel Children's Water Festival.
I have been making art for as long as I have been able to hold a pencil and I love to work with different mediums. Artmaking is pure happiness and I want my students to nurture their own creative voice and find their own brand of joy. I offer art workshops for budding and practiced artists of all ages and abilities at my home studio and other locations. My workshops are available both in English and French. You can find me at Art Just for Me.
We ask that students supply their own sketchbooks (9x12"), drawing pencils and eraser. Any other materials required for the class will be provided.
Get the family together for a fun-filled evening of painting. Create your own masterpiece step-by-step.
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PortAventura is located just over an hour from Barcelona airport and only fifteen minutes from Reus airport.
The resort has its own exit on the motorway, exit Nº 35 off the motorway AP-7 or the Autopista del Mediterranean (E-15 on the European route by car), so it is easy to arrive by car at PortAventura.
Renfe offers travelers a high-speed train AVE, Alvia and Avant that connect Madrid – Barcelona with the Station Camp de Tarragona.
PortAventura is located 10 minutes from Reus Airport (Tarragona), 1 hour from Barcelona Airport guaranteeing excellent national and international connections.


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Lena Dunham On Body Image: 'I've Always Been Like Rihanna To Myself'
The "Girls" creator explains how six years of body shaming never got to her.
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Lena Dunham in conversation with Jenni Konner and America Ferrera at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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After six seasons of her hit HBO series "Girls," Lena Dunham says she never quite understood the extensive criticism she got about her nudity on the show.
On Tuesday, the actress and show-runner joined co-producer, Jenni Konner, and moderator, America Ferrera, for an in-depth discussion on the legacy of the show at the Tribeca Film Festival. Ferrera, recalling her own experience starring on the ABC show "Ugly Betty," asked Konner and Dunham how they felt about the reactions to Dunham's "non-traditional" body.
"Men, generally, were very angry that she felt comfortable showing her body," Konner commented.
"In the third season, a reporter from The Wrap raised his hand at [a press conference] and asked 'Why do you show your body so much?' And I had a rage spiral."
For Dunham, the vitriolic reaction to her body confidence seemed to stem from the fact that she didn't feel she was being "so brave" by doing nude scenes.
"I've always been like Rihanna to myself. Like, I just have a great time with my own body," the actress explained.
"I think people were so ready to believe that I was, like, jumping past some massive hurdle in order to get naked on television. That's not where my fear lies. If that's what scared me, I wouldn't do it every week."
Dunham added that she got more criticism from men and women who "also didn't have perfect bodies" than anyone else.
"Some of the most love and compliments I've gotten have been from women who are considered to have perfect and beautiful bodies, who I think feel the constant pressure to maintain those bodies," Dunham added.
"They seemed to have felt freed in some way by seeing me just say 'fuck it.'"
Now that "Girls" is over, Dunham has plans to focus on her online feminist newsletter, Lenny Letter. She and Konner announced plans to expand the newsletter into a traveling variety show this May.
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Green brides are latching on to one major benefit of social media: going paperless! Weddings are known to leave behind a paper trail as long as that 250-name guest list. Now, increasingly, couples are shunning paper for all sorts of wedding-related communication, from save-the-date announcements to the registry, RSVPs and directions to the reception. Instead, they are using video and Facebook pages! Two recent articles elaborate on this point. Check out the NY Times and the Toronto Sun.


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Q: convert already gotten date to new timezone javascript Is it possible for me to convert
"Thu Oct 27 2022 02:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)"

to this?
"Thu Oct 27 2022 02:00:00 GMT-0400 (New_York or whatever its actually called)"

I am using a component called react-datepicker
My datePicker is returning a date like this, Im in Colorado.
"Thu Oct 27 2022 02:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)"

When i convert this to UTC i get
"2022-10-27T08:00:00Z"

My component is ALWAYS going to return me a time in my local timezone, which is Denver. I would like to be able to select a time, have it return me the first date, then somehow convert that to the second date in New york time.
"Thu Oct 27 2022 02:00:00 GMT-0400 (New_York or whatever its actually called)"

This way when I convert to utc I can get the output below
"2022-10-27T06:00:00Z"

Can anyone help me with this?

A: Instatiate a new Date object with the offset. See How to initialize a JavaScript Date to a particular time zone for more specifics.
const date1 = new Date('August 19, 1975 23:15:30 GMT+07:00');
const date2 = new Date('August 19, 1975 23:15:30 GMT-02:00');

A: Here is how I achieved what I wanted using moment-timezone
//date coming in like this Sat Oct 29 2022 02:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
const applyOffset = date.setTime(date.getTime() - date.getTimezoneOffset() * 60_000);
  const actualTime = new Date(applyOffset).toISOString().replace("Z", "")
  const toTz = momentt.tz(actualTime, timezone).format()
  const getUTCTime = momentt.utc(toTz).format()

Note timezone variable getting passed to momentt.tz(actualTime, timezone).format() can be any named timezone like "America/New_York" or "America/Chicago"
When I console.log(getUTCTime) I get 2022-10-29T06:00:00Z If I make timezone "America/New_York"