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Structured data makes certain types of web content highly accessible and understandable by search engines and other third-party programs. Because the data on the page is tagged with standardized identifying code, it’s far easier to process and interpret than a regular webpage. For that reason, people refer to this type of data as “Linked Data” (similar to the way that the World Wide Web links billions of documents together). If you’re interested in a really detailed timeline of all the major happenings in the world of structured data markup, you can get access to that here. In the SEO world, the most common form of structured data we speak about is Schema.org. This is because it’s a standard that was developed by and for search engines. It’s stable, reliable and extensible. For that reason, its adoption has become very broad, and it has become the go-to vocabulary for linked data development by far more than the search engines. As Bradley noted, it strikes the “right balance between complexity and expressiveness.” It’s also community-driven, and comparatively little development happens elsewhere. The need for speed One thing that most active participants in the mobile web agree upon is that there are major opportunities to benefit from increasing its speed. Facebook led the way with its announcement of Facebook Instant Articles (FIA) back in 2015. What FIA did was to allow certain publishers to host content on the Facebook platform using a certain set of protocols, and in return, the social network gets content that loads pretty much instantly when a user clicks on it. While this was initially open to only a limited set of major publishers, it was made globally available in April of 2016. The platform leverages HTML5 tags, op:tags, op-* classes and the Open Graph. The FIA platform exists only inside of Facebook, so you need to be comfortable with your content being hosted there. However, you can integrate your own ads and analytics, so you can still control those aspects of what’s published there. (Or, if you prefer, you can have Facebook sell ads on your behalf, and currently, Facebook keeps 30 percent of the resulting revenue. However, this may be more attractive than it sounds, as there are publishers that report seeing an increase in revenue having Facebook sell their ads, rather than doing it on their own.) There are the obvious benefits of having your content load incredibly fast, but some companies, such as Buzzfeed and Vox, have reported that it also increases your organic reach, so Facebook may be favoring this type of content. Next into the game was Apple, which launched Apple News Articles (ANA) in November of 2015 (with iOS9). Content for this is provided via Apple News Format or RSS. The RSS version uses some HTML and supports Open Graph and Schema.org. The overall format is JSON-based and has a lot of metadata that is similar to Schema.org. Google was the most recent major player entering the fray, with its launch of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in February 2016. Implementing Schema.org in JSON-LD or microdata format is recommended, and Open Graph and Twitter Card markup are encouraged. In some tests I performed at Stone Temple Consulting, I saw a 71-percent reduction in page size using AMP, and the mobile page speed score for our pages (tested with Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool) went from 42 to 88, a really nice jump in overall performance. Rich results and rich cards Google rich cards are a type of “rich result” that Google has made the basic unit for presenting its search results. It’s built on the notion of rich snippets and uses Schema.org markup to allow the display of content in the SERPs in a more engaging visual format. It also makes it easier for Google to mix and match different types of presentation units. One of the main goals of this is to provide users with a better mobile experience. The image below gives you a quick look at the evolution of rich results over time. The first two rich card content categories supported by Google are recipes and movies: Support for rich cards is a part of AMP now, too, with the ability to see a mix of content from multiple sources (Try a query like “orlando news” on your smartphone) or from a single source (Try a query like “washington post”). Google Structured Data Testing Tool previews Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool offers great preview capabilities, and in fact, will flag errors that it spots in your structured data. You can see that here: There was an update to the tool in May 2016. Other changes reported by Bradley include: - All data type examples now open directly in the Testing Tool. - Testing Tools results now list each declared entity separately. - Keyboard shortcuts for search/search end replace functions. - Rich cards report added to Search Console. - Schema.org and JSON-LD auto-complete in the Testing Tool. The rise of JSON-LD If you’re not familiar with JSON-LD and what it’s about, this simple slide from Bradley’s presentation should help you get the picture in a quick nutshell: As you can see, the overall format is a lot simpler to look at, and as a result, it’s easier to implement without errors. Support for it was first added by Google in October of 2014, and it has been evolving ever since. As of May 2016, Google officially supports everything but breadcrumbs. As a result of its simplicity, it’s reasonable to expect that more and more developers will move toward using JSON-LD as the preferred choice for implementing markup. Many other players are adding support for JSON-LD as well. These include Yandex and Bing, although their support is limited. Among the distributed content platforms (AMP, FIA, ANA), only AMP provides support for JSON-LD. Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) GS1 defines trade items as products or services that are priced, ordered or invoiced at any point in the supply chain. GTINs are used to uniquely identify each of those trade items. Building on top of that is the GS1 SmartSearch standard, and this exists as an extension to Schema.org. As a result, it provides many more detailed properties that e-commerce sites can leverage with their products. I’ve reviewed and highlighted the first portions of the presentation, but there is much more in it that you can check out for yourself below. The bottom line is that the concept of linked data is an important one, and more and more platforms are going to support it. This makes it a key part of any website development effort, and it presents many opportunities that you should leverage. Historically, many have thought that they would only implement Schema.org if there is demonstrable evidence that Google (or other search engines) make use of it to implement rich snippets/rich cards. Now it’s become important that you take a much broader view of Schema.org, and structured data more generally. The reason why these formats exist is that it’s hard to parse free-form HTML that is implemented with any one of thousands of available publishing platforms and created by any one of millions of developers. Creating software that parse all that arbitrary code is a huge task. Structured data (Linked Data) makes that far easier, and it increases the certainty about what the true contents of the page actually are. This is what is helping drive and fuel this movement. As more and more people add support, and as its overall structured data capabilities (and dependencies) grow, there will be more and more to gain by having your web developers master it. See Aaron Bradley’s full presentation below: Some opinions expressed in this article may be those of a guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.

Included in one of the original 17th-century colonial land grants in Virginia, Arlington was a river port and commercial center for the surrounding tobacco plantations. The county was donated to the federal government to become part of the “ten square miles” designated by the U.S. Constitution for the creation of Washington, DC as the nation’s capital. The land was returned to Virginia in the 1840s. After the turn of the century, the county emerged as a major suburb and headquarters location for numerous governmental agencies and corporation, which solidified its ties to Washington, DC. The county is named in honor of Arlington House, Robert E Lee’s former estate. Situated on the south bank of the Potomac, Arlington is one of the most densely populated counties in Northern Virginia. The culturally diverse population of slightly less than 230,000 people lives in an area of approximately 26 square miles. The county is one of the safest, most educated and affluent areas in the country. The majority of residents are professionals employed by various governmental agencies, the military and associated businesses. Students attend the highly regarded Arlington Public School System. Arlington mixes suburban living with big city amenities. While the museums and nightlife of the District are a short Metro ride away, there is a lot to see and do in Arlington. The Synetic Theater at Crystal City showcases Shakespearean and Broadway style performances. Maintained by the National Park Service, Theodore Roosevelt Island is an 88-acre nature preserve reached by a footbridge from Arlington. In addition to a memorial to the 26th president, visitors enjoy hiking trails and boardwalks through the native habitats. The banks of the Potomac River Basin offer a variety of walking, jogging, and bicycle paths as well as playgrounds and dog parks. Arlington is the backdrop for several annual celebrations, such as the Taste of Arlington, Festival of the Arts and the Heritage Festival. Major shopping areas include the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City and Ballston Common malls as well as the wide variety of shops lining Clarendon and Wilson Boulevards between the Rosslyn and Ballston Metro Stations. Residents and visitors find an impressive array of upscale boutiques and eateries in Crystal City. In addition to the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery, the county is also home to a number of historic attractions and museums. These include the Iwo Jima Memorial, the DEA Museum, and the Arlington Historical Museum. Arlington has a humid subtropical climate featuring four distinct seasons that is typical for areas of the Mid-Atlantic region situated away from large bodies of water. Spring and fall are warm and mild. Regular rainstorms that keep temperatures in check punctuate the hot humid summers enabling more outdoor activities. While temperatures average 80 degrees, they can reach 100 degrees. The county has generally cool winters although there are frequent freezes and the occasional heavy snowstorm that snarls traffic. Average winter temperatures are 35 degrees. These two periods can place a peak demand on your heating and cooling system. A semi-annual air conditioning service from Brennan’s Heating & Air Conditioning will help ensure that your system operates at optimal efficiency during these high demand periods.

A 21-year-old Texas man was arrested Wednesday for the murder of his much-younger girlfriend’s mother and little sister, a day after authorities put out an Amber Alert for the missing teenager. Kirsten Nicole Fritch, 16, has been missing since Tuesday, when her mother and sister were found dead in their Baytown home. Officers conducting a wellness check Tuesday morning discovered the bodies of Cynthia Morris, 37, and her 13-year-old daughter, Breanna Pavilicek, each shot at least once, officials said. Morris’ mother had called 911, saying she had been unable to get in touch with her daughter or her granddaughters, and that her daughter had also not shown up for work, Baytown Police said. The grandmother went by her loved ones’ home and when she found the front door slightly open, she called police, officials said. Investigators determined that Morris’ car, a white, Chrysler PT Cruiser, was missing. Morris’ older daughter, Fritch, was also nowhere to be found. An Amber Alert was issued for the teen, who investigators said was last seen with Jesse Dobbs, 21, who authorities said was an acquaintance of Fritch’s. But according to reports, the pair had been dating and Morris was against the relationship. “Detectives are considering Mr. Dobbs a person of interest at this time and are concerned about the welfare of the 16-year-old,” police said Tuesday. Dobbs was found with Morris’ car Tuesday night, authorities said. A father-of-two and an avid user of social media, Dobbs wrote on Instagram: “I love my kids. I’m focusing on being a father.” “Looking for the one,” he posted on Instagram 12 weeks ago. But others said Dobbs seemed troubled, saying that he had recently threatened violence. Neighbor William Baron told KHOU that Dobbs suffered from drug addiction saying: “He told me the other day that, ‘I am numb, I don’t care what I do, if I kill somebody, I kill somebody.” Fritch is 5-foot-1, weighs 135 pounds and has brown hair and green eyes. Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Baytown Crime Stoppers at 281-427-8477 or the Baytown Police Department at 281-422-8371.

Updated: November 03, 2019 11:00 PM Created: November 03, 2019 10:56 PM (ABC 6 News) -- Many presidential campaign events took place in Iowa over the weekend. It's a race to the first in the nation caucuses that is coming up on February 3rd. One of those campaign events is South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg's Town Hall Rally in Mason City. Buttigieg was in the same room where Barack Obama campaigned in 2007 and on Sunday he spoke to a crowd of hundreds at the Lincoln Intermediate School. The town hall was just one stop on Buttigieg's three-day bus tour across Iowa. He said he wants to give voters a chance to ask questions and voice their concerns. And several North Iowans asked Buttigieg questions about climate change, Medicare, infrastructure, LGBTQ youth, and how he would pick his cabinet -- to which he said he's not afraid to not be the smartest one in the room, and that his cabinet would consist of at least 50-percent women. ABC 6 News reporter Brett Bachtle was at the event and asked Buttigieg why he has been focusing on the state of Iowa for his campaigns traveling to the state seventeen times. Buttigieg replied, "The first in the nation caucus is the first opportunity I have as a candidate for president to demonstrate my ability to reach different kinds of voters, to succeed, to organize, to do all the things you got to do to win in other states and nationally, too. This is a state that makes presidents and I think that's certainly true for 2020." On Sunday's event, a 10-year-old asked Butigieg a question saying "What would he do on his first day in office?" Buttigieg answered by saying "From day one, it would all be about bringing people together." On Monday, Buttigieg will make a stop at the Golden Grain Energy in Mason City for an ethanol tour and wrap-up his three-day bus tour. Copyright 2019 - KAAL-TV, LLC A Hubbard Broadcasting Company

(Last Updated on : 05/12/2013) Tamala, the Indian medicinal plant is scientifically named as Garcinia xanthochymus Hook. f. & T. Anderson. This plant is commonly named as 'Tamal' in Bengali, Hindi and Tamala in Sanskrit, 'Egg tree' in English, 'Karamala' in Gujarati , 'Anavaya' in Malayalam and 'Devagarige' in Kannada. The people of Goa call it by the name 'Dharambe' , the people of Maharashtra specify the plant by the name of 'Jharambi'. This same plant is recognised as 'Cheoro' in Orissa and 'Kulavi' in Tamil Nadu. Tamala, the Indian medicinal plant is widely distributed on a variety of soil types up to 1200 metre elevation in the lower hill forests of the eastern Himalayas from Assam to Bihar. In Orissa, in the Western Ghats from Maharashtra southwards to Tamilnadu and Kerala and in the Andaman Islands, this plant is found in abundance. The size of the Tamala, the Indian medicinal plant varies from medium to large. This is a bushy, evergreen tree, with a straight bole and angular spreading branches arising in tiers. The bark of the plant is dark and scabrous. The twigs are quadrangular. Leaves are large, coriaceous, shining and bright green in colour. The leaves are 20cm to 45cm long and 4cm to 10cm wide, linear oblong or oblong lanceolate, apex is acute or acuminate. The petioles are 1.2cm to 2.5cm long. Male flowers are white and borne in 4-8 flowered fascicles in the axils of fallen leaves. The pedicels are 2.5cm to 3.8cm long, sepals are five in number, fleshy, 4mm to 6mm long, unequal, orbicular, concave and persistent. There are five petals and they are orbicular, spreading and 8 mm in diameters. The flowers are hermaphrodite similar to those of the male but with longer pedicels. Fruits are smooth, globular, 5cm to 9cm in diameter, with a prominent beak and the fruits turn yellow when they get ripe. Each fruit contains 1 to 4 oblongseeds. The peak time of flowers is during the spring and fruits come out in summer. Tamala , the Indian medicinal plant is recognised for the medicinal properties it owns. The fruit has a juicy pulp with a pleasant and acidic flavour. The fruit is used as a cooling drink to treat biliousness and as a substitute for the fruit of Garcinia indica. The fruit is also considered anthelmintic and cardiotonic, and useful for improving appetite. The seeds contain antiscorbutic oil that is a powerful and effective remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea. The bark of Tamala is astringent and is useful for treatment of dysentery. The fruit functions as preservatives and in cookery it is used as a substitute for tamarind paste in curries.

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- A new Aston Martin Vantage AMR model is debuting soon, and it will have a manual transmission. - The Vantage is currently only available with an eight-speed automatic. - The manual will likely be the same seven-speed unit found in the previous-generation V12 Vantage S. We've been told that the Aston Martin Vantage would be getting a manual transmission since before the new generation even debuted in late 2017, and it looks like it's finally happening. Aston posted a teaser image online that shows three pedals, with the clutch colored in lime green. The teaser also shows the AMR logo, which is Aston's recently created performance sub-brand, hinting that the manual transmission will be found in a new Vantage AMR model. (Well, more than a hint, as the hashtag #VantageAMR confirms it.) The Vantage uses a version of Mercedes-AMG's twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8, which in AMG applications is paired only with an automatic transmission. Aston thus had to engineer a manual to fit all on its own, explaining why it has taken a few years. The gearbox will likely be the same dogleg seven-speed unit used in the previous-gen V12 Vantage S. Expect the AMR to also get a number of styling tweaks, chief among them lime-green accents—an AMR signature. We wouldn't be surprised to see some chassis upgrades and a bit more power, too. The existing AMR models are pitched as the highest-performance versions of Aston's cars, so this Vantage should be no different. We don't yet know if the Vantage AMR will be a limited-run car like the Rapide AMR and the previous Vantage AMR, or if it will be a regular production model like the new DB11 AMR. It's also possible the AMR will still be available with the standard Vantage's eight-speed automatic as an option. We should be finding out all the details in the very near future, as Aston says the Vantage AMR is "coming soon."

These vibrant, sweet, caramelized Grilled Carrots with Balsamic Glaze add a little drama to the table. A great side dish for BBQs and potlucks. I bought some beautiful young fresh carrots at the farmers market the other day to use for an upcoming potluck. I found a promising recipe for glazed grilled carrots on the New York Times Cooking blog that I used as a guide. Apart from a couple of minor tweaks to the glaze, I decided to alter the cooking method. Instead of grilling the carrots for 20-25 minutes (and paying close attention to avoid burning), I parboiled them. This reduced the actual grilling time to 5-6 minutes. The only trick to this recipe is to try to get the carrots approximately the same thickness to ensure even cooking. The carrots come out tender, flavorful and pretty. They pair with almost any protein. Here’s a few options: Grilled Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms, Grilled Turkey Breast or Sous Vide Flank Steak. These carrots would also be perfect in our Red Quinoa Salad With Roasted Carrots. Just replace the roasted carrots with the grilled carrots. Tailor To Your Taste - Use whatever herbs you like such as rosemary, marjoram, chives or thyme. - Replace the maple syrup with honey or the lime with lemon. Make Ahead Grilled Carrots - The carrots can be made many hours ahead and left on the counter. They can be served at room temperature or warmed for 40-60 seconds in the microwave (or 10 minutes at 350F in the oven). Sprinkle on the garnish just before serving. - Alternatively, parboil the carrots and make the glaze, leaving the final grilling to just before serving. Grilled Carrots With Balsamic Glaze - 2 lbs whole carrots, peeled (about 30 smaller, thin carrots or 10-15 medium) - Garnish: chopped green onion, thyme or chives - 3 tbsp good quality balsamic vinegar - 1 1/2 tbsp maple syrup (or honey) - 1/2 tbsp lime juice (or lemon) - 1 tsp grated fresh ginger (or pinch ground ginger) - 1/4 tsp kosher salt - 1 tsp fresh chopped thyme leaves - HEAT GRILL to medium high, 425-450F. Spray grates with oil or oil grates with a paper towel dipped in oil. - PARBOIL CARROTS: If using medium or large carrots, cut the carrots lengthwise in halves or quarters to about 1/2-3/4 inch thickness. Bring 1-2 inches of water to boil in large saucepan. Add pinch of salt. Add carrots and boil for 7 minutes or until tender and easily pierced with a knife. Drain. - MAKE GLAZE: While carrots are boiling, combine all glaze ingredients in a small bowl. - GRILL CARROTS: Lay carrots on a pan and brush with glaze. (I also spray them with some oil to be extra sure of no sticking to grill). Place on grill. Cover. Grill for 5-6 minutes total, turning and glazing a couple of times. - SERVE: Transfer to plate, Drizzle leftover glaze. Garnish with thyme, green onions or chives. Serve. Here are some recipes featuring carrots you might enjoy:

This plan is very high on protein. I’ve learned that high healthy fat is what’s needed, not high protein.. as I am now kicked out of ketosis due to high protein intake (insulin’s fault). Given the fact i didn’t eat a bowl of salad per day (my tummy doesn’t digest salad well at all – i get bloated), but i do eat broccoli (i don’t get bloated from those strangely enough), cauliflower, asparagus, mushrooms… tomatoes (rarely, though). So, my question is… are you in ketosis following the menu you’ve presented? I’m 5 months into Keto and the last 3 weeks i am not in ketosis. My carb intake is 20-30g… but my protein is pretty high. Eggs are a healthy, nutrient-dense food that has been incorrectly maligned for years. Cholesterol in food doesn’t increase cholesterol in your blood, so eat eggs liberally – they’re packed with protein and lutein, and they fill you up for hours. Make a healthy omelet with some cheddar, crumbled breakfast sausage, and shredded spinach and you’re already looking at over 30g of protein, just for breakfast! Spinach is a great source of magnesium and potassium, too. Add some sea salt and you’ve got a big dose of electrolytes that are so vital to maintaining energy and staving off headaches. Get the recipe and instructions Hi Mel, Assuming that your ranch dressing doesn’t have sugar added, you don’t need to worry too much about limiting it, but within reason. This is my homemade ranch dressing recipe, which has 0.9g net carbs per 2-tbsp serving. It would be hard to find a store bought one with much less than that, even though some round anything less than 1g down to 0g, which isn’t truly accurate. Also, keep in mind that if weight loss is your goal, some people find that too much dairy can cause a stall. Finally, make sure you aren’t using all your “available” carbs on ranch dressing – have it with some low carb veggies! The first modern study of fasting as a treatment for epilepsy was in France in 1911. Twenty epilepsy patients of all ages were "detoxified" by consuming a low-calorie vegetarian diet, combined with periods of fasting and purging. Two benefited enormously, but most failed to maintain compliance with the imposed restrictions. The diet improved the patients' mental capabilities, in contrast to their medication, potassium bromide, which dulled the mind.

Do you want to create a stunning e-commerce website for your business? There are around 100 online store builders and all of them claim to be the best. However, not all those stand for what they claim. But Shopify is somewhat different. Many people are transferring their businesses to Shopify and it is getting more popular as time passes. There might be a reason for such tremendous growth that whenever someone asks which the best website builder is, Shopify becomes the first name to come from their mouth. Therefore, let us have a look at the reasons of the website builder Shopify to be the most prominent and ahead of the crowd. Distant features of Shopify The well-known website builder Shopify has numerous amazing features that make it known among all the experts. Let us look at those features in-depth: It provides more than 70 professional themes With no doubt, Shopify has the most number of themes than any other platform which are not only attractive but are also very well-made and professional as well. Your website on Shopify will look charming with such a wide range of themes. It has 100 payment gateways You will never miss a single order because Shopify provides 100 of payment systems for the ease of transaction. Whether your buyer uses Bitcoin or PayPal, everything is acceptable with Shopify. It features payment gateway from all over the world, unlike BigCommerce that has only 40 payment gateways. It does the automatic calculation of taxes With website builder Shopify, you need not require involving the taxes on your products based on manual calculations. Shopify does it all for you. It calculates the taxes on the basis of your Geolocation and automatically applies it to the rates of your products. Moreover, the taxes are levied as per the tax rates of the country or state that means there is no chance of mistakes or biased rates. It provides customer account feature Yes, you heard it right, Shopify stores allows its customers to create accounts on the stores. The stores encourages users to create an account while on the checkout page so that the customers can become capable of saving their address details for later use. However, it is not a mandatory thing to create an account and a customer has full liberty of continuing as a guest as well. It provides ease of managing the store Shopify enables its users to edit and manage their store from anywhere in the world. Even if you don’t have access to a PC, you can use your smartphone for managing and running your store since Shopify provides a standalone app for the same. You can do anything like managing your inventory, contacting a customer, or fulfilling an order, all with the help of an android application. It makes the store pre SEO optimized The website builder Shopify provides all the SEO best practices such as customizable h1 and meta tags that help your customers to find your business on the search engine results page. Moreover, the themes that Shopify provides are already optimized for SEO. It provides a flexible Inventory management Shopify provides you to manage your entire inventory with ease. You can track your stock, and automatically prevent taking orders of the products that have run out of stock. It enables you to do numerous variations to your products With Shopify, you can create a large number of variations in the specifications of your products. You can mention everything from different colors, materials, sizes, and a lot of other specifications as well. Moreover, you can set a different price for all the different variations of products as well. It has an unlimited bandwidth Whether you get one hit or millions, your store will never go out of service and can bear nearly any amount of traffic. Shopify provides unlimited bandwidth for your shop and you will never have to pay even a single penny for it. With these features, there is no doubt in the fact that website builder Shopify is the best for e-commerce stores and nothing can compare its capabilities. The next more awesome webshop builder is LiquidBlox so make sure you check it out as well.

The Best Shampoo For Loss Of Hair ~ Hair Loss Remedies Results Loss of hair: An Introduction. There are 10s of millions of people who experience loss of hair each year in the United States. This is a problem that can influence the self-confidence of both males and females. The typical development of this disorder will certainly more than likely cause the loss of all of your hair if it is not treated. The good news is, contemporary science has provided us several products that are quite capable of reducing the worst effects of this condition. The Best Shampoo For Loss Of Hair Before we get involved in exactly how to deal with loss of hair nevertheless allow’s take a glimpse at the science behind loss of hair. Factors That Can Impact Your Hair Loss - Your DNA - Hormonal Discrepancies - Growing older - Overall Health and wellness Obviously, the number one showing factor for their not you will experience right here loss will certainly always be your genes. 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A step-by-step tutorial for hanging picture frame molding wainscoting and a shortcut to make it easier. Watch out, y’all! The nursery makeover has officially started and it’s getting reeeaaal! I mentioned in the last tour-through-my-brain-about-this-makeover that I kept envisioning lots of white picture frame molding on the walls (or wainscotting… potato/potahto). This was the nursery a few weeks ago. Not gonna lie… I was really intimidated by this one. (Mainly because this former English teacher does not do math, and molding requires quite a bit of it.) But Robert and I knocked out this one in two days, and it was not nearly as complicated as I thought it would be. Woot! DIY Picture Frame Molding Supplies Used: (Some affiliate links are provided below.) - Level (we used a long one and a short one to handle different widths of wall space) - Carpenter pencil - 3/8″x4″x2′ board (to use as a spacer for a measurement shortcut – this spacer board is technically 3.5″ wide, which we considered in deciding our measurements later) - Chair rail molding in your choice of width (we used this one) - Coping saw - Loctite construction adhesive - 1 1/4″ brad nails - 11/16″ x 1 3/8″ finger-jointed molding - Miter saw (we use this one) - Tape measure - Pneumatic brad nailer (we have this one and love it) 1. We measured all of the widths of our walls first. 2. Then, to hang the chair rail, we marked 36″ from the floor onto the wall to set the height of where we wanted our chair rail to be. 3. Using a level, we marked a horizontal line all the way around the room at the 36″ height. 4. Then, using the miter saw, Robert cut his first chair rail piece at a straight cut to the width of our first wall. 5. We applied Loctite adhesive to the back of the cut chair rail piece, positioned it onto the straight line we had previously marked with the level on the wall, and pressed the chair rail into place. 6. Using the pneumatic brad nailer, we nailed the chair rail piece to the wall. 7. For the next chair rail piece adjoining the one we first hung, Robert cut the chair rail piece to the width of the next wall at a 45 degree angle. 8. Then, using a coping saw, he carved out the profile of the 45 degree cut on the chair rail to make it fit snug to the design on the already hung chair rail piece. 9. He continued that process of measuring, cutting at a 45 degree, coping, applying Loctite, and nailing the chair rail all the way around the room. 10. To add the picture frame molding, we decided how many frames we wanted to place on each wall based on the measurements. None of the walls have to have frames that are all the perfectly exact width all the way around the room, but you do want them to be the same width per each individual wall. Our largest wall was 123″ wide. We decided to place 3 frames on the wall with 3.5″ spaces in between to make each frame 36.3″ wide each. (The 3/8″x4″ board is technically 3.5″ wide, which we used for the spacer.) To figure out the math, use this formula: Total wall width – (3.5 x total number of vertical spaces between frames) / total number of frames = width of each individual frame For the other walls, we knew we wanted each from to be as close to 36.3″ side as possible. Using that same formula, one 81″ wide wall would have 2 frames at 35.25″ wide. And one 94″ wide wall would have 2 frames at 41.75″ wide. To the naked eye, those three different sizes on those three different walls would closely look like the same width. 11. Using the 3/8″x4″ board, we pressed it against the top and bottom of the chair rail, baseboard, and crown molding and against all of the corners in the room to mark the spaces with a pencil. 12. To mark the spaces between where the frames would go, we divided the wall’s measurements by the number of frames. 123″ wall divided by 3 frames would be 41″. We penciled a tick mark at 41″ and 82″ to find the spaces between the frames. We placed the middle of the spacer at those tick marks and drew lines with a level to mark the spaces for all 3 individual frames. 13. Once all of the walls were marked with our frames’ outlines, we started measuring each horizontal line for the tops and bottoms of the frames. 14. Then, we cut each piece of finger-jointed molding to the measurements of our frames at a 45 degree angle on the miter saw. We worked in batches by cutting the top and bottom lengths of the frames first. 15. To attach the finger-jointed molding to the walls, we applied Loctite adhesive, positioned it along the penciled line, and attached with the pneumatic brad nailer. 16. Once we had the horizontal pieces attached to the wall, we measured the vertical side pieces, cut them at 45 degrees on the miter saw, and repeated the process of Loctite and brad nailing. The whole process was a lot of measuring and cutting, but at least using a spacer helped cut down on a big chunk of the work. It was tedious but worth every single second! Ahhh so gorgeous! Here’s the dramatic before along with where we are now: Now that the entire room’s picture frame molding is up, next on the list is to caulk and paint. Then we’ll be ripping out the old carpet to refinish the existing hardwood floors underneath and replacing the ceiling fan with something more on the feminine side. If y’all need us, we’ll be caulking over here for the next century. If you want to save this post for later, you can pin it here:

The Pretty Dish Book Club – May! And a little recap of April! The Pretty Dish Book Club has turned into such a fantastic fun experience – it’s become more than I ever imagined. These photos here are just a fraction of the thousands of pics shared on Facebook and Instagram from The Pretty Dish. It has been incredible and has blown my mind. We’ve been having an absolute blast in the Facebook group. We have the best chats and some exclusive content (and giveaways!) so be sure to join if you haven’t yet! I promised some giveaways for the month of April if you shared your content on instagram too! This month, I’m giving away three of the Cerastone Ceramic Skillets that I love so much (the white skillet that you guys ask about!!). Below are the random winners from instagram (and email!) entries: Congrats guys! Please email me at howsweeteats [at] gmail [dot] com with your mailing address! To be eligible for next month’s giveaway, be sure to post photos under the instagram hashtag #prettydishbookclub to be entered to win and I’ll randomly choose winners! May Book Club recipes: For the month of May, I increased the number of recipes for you after taking a poll in the Facebook group. So many of you made the recipes for April in the first week, it was crazy. So I added a few more, just in case you have the time to get through them. Blackened BBQ Salmon with Mango Salsa Asparagus with Shallots, Bacon & Parmesan BBQ Bourbon Burgers Hand Cut Fresh Spinach Pasta Strawberry Almond Mascarpone Tart Blueberry Hibiscus Mint Juleps Now remember – these are just a guide! Over in The Pretty Dish Facebook Group, everyone shares ALL the recipes they make from the book, and I love it! So make what you’d like. When deciding on these monthly recipes, I wanted to keep things seasonal, because that’s how I cook in my own kitchen. So we have salmon for a nice weeknight dinner. Asparagus as a seasonal side. Burgers for Memorial Day! The strawberry tart for Mother’s Day or even the Kentucky Derby (the run for the roses!) – along with the mint juleps for the Derby too. And the spinach pasta as a little spring challenge, something out of the box. I can’t wait to see your creations! As a quick reminder, here’s how you can join The Pretty Dish Book Club: - get your book! - join the Facebook group! - share your creations in the Facebook group and on instagram all month long with the hashtags #prettydishbookclub (using #howsweeteats and #theprettydish help too!) Thank you guys for all of your amazing support with the book! xo

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Lovely 2 Bed House With Office Space, Leeds Villa with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom in Beeston And Holbeck, England From £483 per week Villa to rent in Beeston And Holbeck, England This 2 bedroom villa is located in Beeston And Holbeck and sleeps 4 people. It has WiFi and parking nearby. Share this holiday home Villa overview - owner's description Our cosy two bed house is ideal for couples or families travelling to Leeds. We are especially close to the White Rose Centre and Elland Road. The property is newly renovated two bed house set up entirely for the use of short term guests with free WiFi, Freeview TV and two lovely comfy double beds. There is a separate shower/bath/toilet room and an equipped kitchen where you will find everything you need to cook a meal. The house is a two bed terraced house that has been converted for the sole use of serviced accommodation. The two bedrooms are of a good size with double beds in each. There is also a travel cot that can be used. You will need to bring your own bedding for the travel cot. The house also boasts an office space equipped with desk for those days where work just can't wait. Guests will have full access to the property. The neighbourhood is residential and therefore no noise can be tolerated what so ever. The number 1 pass the property on the main road every 10 minutes, to Leeds City Centre. A taxi costs between £8 and £10 depending on where in Leeds City Centre you go. Other Things to Note: The property is in a residential area and can not tolerate any kind of noise what so ever. The property is not suitable for parties or for those intending to use the property as a base for clubbing in Leeds City Centre. The property is a family home and is intended for this use. Any reports off noise through the night will result in the guests being asked to leave buy the nigh security personnel. • No smoking • No parties or events • Check-in is anytime after 3:00 PM This villa does not have any reviews. Prices and availability Updated 7 July 2020 - Your booking - Available start/end date Select your travel dates on the calendar £20.00 per booking, paid with booking 2 bedrooms, Sleeps 4 Internet / WiFi, TV Open fire, Hair dryer Private Owner From Leeds, United Kingdom Member since Oct 2017 Response rate: 0% Last seen: a year ago Number of properties: 8

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A new investigation could end many of the speculations about the works of El Greco and the man himself. A hand-written annotation to a book, similar to the glosses of Saint Emilianus, found in Spain in a copy of Lives of the most excellent architects, painters and sculptors by Giorgio Vasari, has led Nicos Hadjinicolau, a researcher from the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, to conclude that the artist – contrary to popular belief– was a defender of Byzantine art. A new study by Greek art historian Nicos Hadjinicolau, who is a member of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies and Spain’s honorary consul in Crete, contradicts the widely-accepted hypothesis that views El Greco as a painter of Byzantine origin who assimilated and reflected the spirit of Castile after his arrival in Spain, and who was indifferent to the art of his country of origin. Part of this perception is based upon the 1908 book El Greco by Manuel Bartolomé Cossío. Hadjinicolau says there are no other records of the painter’s critical opinion on the art form aside from the hand-written annotation attributed to him. “The passage I have studied is the exception to the rule, the only time that he makes a comment – and a spirited one – against Vasari,” the expert tells SINC. A literal translation of the note attributed to the painter reads: “If [Vasari] really knew the nature of the Greek style of which he speaks, he would deal with it differently in what he says. He compares it with Giotto, but what Giotto did is simple in comparison, because the Greek style is full of ingenious difficulties.” El Greco obtained the book from which this annotation was taken during Italian painter Federico Zuccaro’s visit to Toledo in May 1586. The text that the painter later handed over to his disciple Luis Tristán contained many annotations. How can it be definitively proved who wrote the note, however? Hadjinicolau says that “from a graphological point of view it is easy to compare these comments with El Greco’s signatures, and their authenticity is not in doubt, although the greatest discoveries in this field have been made by Xavier de Salas and Fernando Marías, chair at the Autónoma University of Madrid”. There is, however, a difference between Marías’ and Hadjinicolau’s translations. What the Spaniard reads as “full of deceptive difficulties”, the Cretan translates as “full of ingenious difficulties”. It seems the original word was cut by the “book binder’s knife”. The Greek expert says the difference between the sense of the two words is nothing more than a “systematic, artificial and erroneous ‘Spanishisation’”, while the most important aspect is that El Greco’s annotations “have a very oral component – he writes as if he were speaking, and we have never before seen him defend Byzantine art in such a vehement way”. A second part to Hadjinicolau’s work, again preceded by Marías, focuses on another annotation attributed to El Greco and hand written on a copy of The Ten Books of Architecture by Vitruvio. In this note, Nicos Hadjinicolau says the painter “shows obvious pride in his ‘Greek fathers’, as he calls the ancients, but believes they had been outdone in modern times”. The unique style of El Greco Nearly everything that is known today about Doménikos Theotokópoulos is based upon interpretations. El Greco is considered one of the most important painters in the history of the Western world, and his career, which alternated between the Byzantine style of Crete and the mannerism of his latter years in Toledo, has been and still is the subject of much theorising by experts. El Greco, despite embracing the spirit of the Counter Reformation in his painting, continued to include many elements stemming from Greek tradition (today known as Byzantine) during his final period in Toledo. In pictures such as El Expolio (‘The Disrobing of Christ’), the painter makes use of Byzantine iconography, although Hadjinicolau does not believe this was necessarily done consciously. “El Greco lived for 26 years in Crete. He had a studio and pupils. These things cannot be taken in isolation, and the iconographic elements from Byzantine culture that appear in Orgaz or El Expolio are independent of the defence we perceive in the annotation,” he says. In spite of this, the researcher, who has written works such as El Greco: Byzantium and Italy and El Greco: Works in Spain admits that “it is clear, since this is the same person, that there is a link between what he says and what he paints”.

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Senior quarterback Hector Petri accounted for both touchdowns as top-seeded Valley Tech (9-2) held on to beat visiting Shawsheen 14-7 win Saturday in the State Vocational Large School semifinals. Valley Tech plays Northeast Metro in the championship game on Thursday, Dec. 1 (site and, TBA). Before that, Valley Tech plays at Div. 3 A Central champion Nipmuc on Thanksgiving. Petri scored on a two-yard run in the first quarter and connected on a 10-yard TD pass with sophomore Jordyn Amero in the second quarter. Kevin Barthelmes made both PAT kicks to give the Panthers a 14-0 lead. Shawsheen scored before halftime on an interception return to make it 14-7 at the break.In the fourth quarter, Valley Tech’s defense made a goal-line stand and stopped Shawsheen on downs. The Beavers then went on a long drive for most of the rest of the quarter before turning it over on downs at the Shawsheen 2-yard line. Valley Tech held on to close out the win. Girls Cross Country Natick sophomore Grace Connolly came in first place at the Division 1 girls cross country state meet on Saturday at the Gardner Municipal Golf Course in Gardner. Connolly’s time of 18:27 was nearly a minute faster than second-place finisher Margot Ehrenthrol (19:25) from Concord-Carlisle and Amherst-Pelham’s Sophia Jacobs-Towns came in third with a time of 19:30. “I knew going into it that it was going to be pretty much her really just pushing herself and being really consistent with her splits,” said Natick coach Ashley Davidson. “She did excellent, she wanted to get better than the 18:31 she ran at the Bay State Invitational a couple of weeks ago. “She did great and has been trying to make sure she’s peaking next week at the (Northeast Foot Locker Cross Country Championship in New York).” If Connolly makes her way into the top-10 at Regionals, she will qualify for Nationals in San Diego in December. Franklin junior Nicole Clermont placed fourth with a 19:36 time in the 5K meet and coming in 23rd was junior Kate Hartnett with a 20:23 finish for the Panthers. “Both girls ran well, under control and did a great job for us today,” Franklin coach Paul Trovato said. “It is a very hilly course and really taxes you on the first mile.” BLUE RAIDERS SOLID IN GIRLS DIV. 2 MEET: Hopedale sophomore Isabelle Doran placed 40th with a time of 20:47 in the 5K Division 2 All-State meet at Gardner Municipal Golf Course. As a team, the Blue Raider s came in 14th out of 19 teams. Hopedale had two eighth-graders, Madison Gannon and Katelynn Brunt compete with Gannon taking 92nd (21:54) and Brunt finishing 104th (22:11). Junior Carrie Maurais ran a 22:33 and came in 120th place. “It was a great finish to a great season,” Hopedale coach Tim Maguire said. “We’re looking to hopefully come back next year.” Hopedale sophomore Isabelle Doran placed 40th with a time of 20:47 in the 5K Division 2 All-State meet at Gardner Municipal Golf Course. Boys Cross Country Led by senior Ben Matejka, Wellesley edged Lowell by six points to win the Division 1 cross country meet at Gardner Municipal Golf Course in Gardner with a total of 76 points. Matejka finished with a time of 16:23 as Wellesley also received strong performances from junior Thomas Weiss (16:32, 13th place) and senior Sam Gilman (16:47, 21nd) as the Raiders depth outlasted two top-six finishes from Lowell. “It was pretty incredible, going into it we knew even if we had given it our all and done our best races we still might not be able to pull out the victory,” Matejka said. “But we all went out there and raced really well. “Even after the first mile, kind of looking up and seeing a bunch of Lowell jersey’s around us it was nerve-racking,” added Matejka. “But we were able to race hard and block out all the noise and I’m just so proud of everyone on the team.” HALL POWERS BLUE RAIDERS TO STATE TITLE: Brandon Hall’s 13th-place performance helped guide the Hopedale boys cross country team to a Division 2 state title. Hall ran a time of 16:55 at the Gardner Municipal Golf Course as Hopedale (89) outdueled Wakefield (108) and Newburyport (178) to win its fourth Div. 2 state title as a program. “It’s an honor to be on a team this good,” Hall said. “We put in a lot of miles during the summer and work hard and during the season we push ourselves to do the best we can to win.” Hopedale senior David Wollensak was the second highest finish for the Blue Raiders with a time of 16:57, good for 15th overall. “It means so much to work so hard with your brothers every day for four months and to have that culminate into something so meaningful means a lot,” Wollensak said. “It’s something I’ll probably never forget.” Senior Jake Murray (17:20, 31st overall), junior Bryce Brown (17:21, 32nd), and junior Andrew Doran (17:22, 33rd) rounded out the top-five for the Blue Raiders, who won their second state championship of the past three seasons. “This one was special because these guys really worked hard all summer,” said Hopedale coach Joe Drugan, who celebrated his 73rd on Saturday and is in his 24th season with the Blue Raiders. “They put the town on the map and I couldn’t ask for any better thing from any of these guys and I’ll tell you in my book champions aren’t born they are made and they made it.”

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. John F. Kennedy Did you know that writing paper from Japan can be as thin as 52 gsm? I used to think that the copy paper I use for my printer was thin, but it is 80 gsm, so just imagine how thin 52 gsm feels in your hands… You are almost afraid to touch it, but it’s not only thin but known for its durability. This paper is similar to what you find in Bibles and old fashioned Phone books – but made to be used, to be journaled on, or even to be written on with a fountain pen! It’s called Tomoe River paper, and when I found out you there was blank notebooks made with this kind of paper in it – I jumped at the chance to try it out. I ordered myself a notebook in A6, my favorite little size! The Tomoe River Paper Tomoe River paper can usually be found in the much popular Japanese planner called Hobonichi Techo (also available in English). I think part of it’s fame is the paper. You can jam a lot of pages into a planner made from this paper. The paper is made by a company called Tomoegawa, and it is specially formulated for handwriting. It is said to be very fountain pen friendly with high resistance to bleed-through and feathering. My research tells me the company is an 100-year-old paper manufacturer who spent five whole years in the 1980s conducting research to create a ultra thin paper, and finally they came up with the Tomoe River paper. It is sold on to other companies that creates planners, stationary or notebooks. Unboxing of a new notebook I just edited and uploaded the unboxing of this notebook if you want to take a look. But know that I got this notebook last year (!) and filmed the unboxing back then. I don’t know where time flew to… I still wanted to share it with you even though I’m a liiiiittle bit late with the “news” – haha. I hope you don’t mind me being both late and absent minded over here? I do mean well, I really do. I just have a huge back log of photos, video, ideas and text to work on… But anyway, a new video. Yay? If you can’t see the video click here to watch the unboxing of this notebook on YouTube, and while there please consider giving this video a thumbs up and a comment – it helps more people find me over there. But if you’re in a browser and reading this, just watch it right here. Yeah, I say it’s and A5 in the beginning of the video, but it’s not – it’s an A6 notebook, as you can tell. That is 148 x 105 millimeters (5,82 x 4,1 inch). A Nanami Cafe Note notebook The notebook I bought is actually made in the US, but using Japanese papers from Tomoegawa, the company that manufactures Tomoe River papers. It comes with a dust jacket, a pink blotter paper and a whooping 480 pages. I picked the notebook from Nanami Paper that had grid pages because I love grids, and think of this a bit like it’s a fauxbonichi even though I don’t use it daily. It’s just a diary-like notebook that I enjoy noting things down in. The grid pages are printed with a 3.7 mm grid, and I adore how tiny the squares are. It just all matches together. The small notebook, the ultra thin pages – and the tiny grid that makes me want to write as small as I possible can force myself to write. I have added in watercolor backgrounds to great satisfaction. It’s not bliss, exactly, to paint in this notebook, but it can be done if you don’t mind that the pages bubbles up a little. I love adding little doodles, text and quotes to the pages, when inspiration strikes. I plan on using this wee friend for many years, filling it with happy, little thoughts. Have you ever tried tomoe river paper, and if so, what did you think of it? One of my favorite things about this notebook is the sound of the pages, as they move and crinkle, a very soothing sound that any notebook aficionado could fall in love with, I think. Or wait, maybe it’s how easy it is to carry around but still it has so many pages. Hmm, I think I have lots of favorite things about this notebook actually. If you feel like getting yourself something similar there is a pretty Tomoe River Notebook in A5 (with 368 pages) or for example, a black leather covered Tekukor B6 Notebook to try out via Amazon (affiliate links).

Preparing for the CPA Exam at University of Lynchburg The education necessary to become a certified public accountant in the Commonwealth of Virginia, like most states, includes a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and a total of 150 semester hours of college credit. College courses must include accounting and business subjects distributed as follows: - At least 30 semester hours of accounting including courses covering the subjects of financial accounting, auditing, taxation, and management/cost accounting; and - At least 24 semester hours in business subjects other than accounting, taken at the graduate or undergraduate level. Candidates may apply to take the CPA exam with only 120 semester hours of college credit. You need not have a master’s degree, nor even an accounting degree, to take the CPA exam, but you must have an undergraduate degree and the coursework specified above. To obtain a CPA license, you must meet the 150-semester-hour requirement. You can satisfy the educational requirements for the CPA exam at University of Lynchburg. A Bachelor of Arts in Accounting requires a minimum of 27 semester hours in accounting, including the coursework specified above. You will need to complete one additional accounting elective course to meet the 30 semester hour accounting requirement. An accounting degree also includes more than 24 semester hours of non-accounting business and economics course work. All bachelor’s degree programs at University of Lynchburg require a minimum of 124 semester credit hours of course work. Students must earn 26 semester hours beyond this minimum to meet the 150-hour requirement to sit for the CPA examination. Students earn these additional hours in a variety of ways, including earning more hours than the minimum required to graduate at the undergraduate level, taking local community college classes, enrolling in the University of Lynchburg 36 semester-hour MBA program, or taking classes at nearby colleges after graduation. CPA Examination Subject Areas The CPA examination is divided into four sections. Candidates take one section at a time in a computer-based format. The subject areas and testing times allotted per section are: - Auditing and Attestation (AUD) – 4.5 hours - Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) – 4.0 hours - Regulation (REG) – 3.0 hours - Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) – 2.5 hours For more information about the CPA exam, visit the Virginia Board of Accountancy. If you plan on seeking licensure as a CPA in a state other than Virginia, check with that state’s Board of Accountancy to ensure that you meet their requirements. Visit the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy for a complete list of state boards.

Date of birth: July 7, 1957 Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.Oles Honchar Dniprovsky National University. In 1979 graduated from Dnipropetrovs'k State University, 1986 - defense of the candidate's dissertation (Dnipropetrovsk State University); 2000 - defense of doctoral dissertation (Dnipropetrovsk National University). Student of the Faculty of History of the State Pedagogical University (1974-1979), teacher of history of secondary school № 58, Dnipropetrovsk (1979 - 1982), postgraduate student of the State Pedagogical University (1982 - 1985), assistant professor, lecturer, DDU (1985-1994), doctoral student of the State Pedagogical University (1994-1997) ), head of the Department of History of Ukraine DNU (1997-2010), dean of the historical faculty of the DNU (since 2002), candidate of historical sciences (1987), doctor of historical sciences (2001), member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and All-Ukrainian Union of Local History Studies (1999). ), A full member of the Academy of Social Technologies and Local Self-Government (2003), a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Ka (2017) Main scientific works: Nationality in Ukraine in the 1960's and 1980's. Analysis of publications of documentary sources: monogr. (D., 1995); Nationality in Ukraine in the 60's and 80's of the nineteenth century: theoretical problems of source history and history: monogr. (D., 1999); Social movement in Katerynoslav region in the 50's and 80's of the nineteenth century: monogr. (D., 2006); The World of Modern Ukraine in the late 18th and early 20th centuries. sciences Ave (D., 2007); The National Book of Memory of the Holodomor Victims of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk region / rep. edit S. I. Svetlenko (D., 2008) (in co-authorship); The figures of state authority and self-government of Dnipropetrovsk region: historical essays: 2 t. / S.I. Svetlenko (ed.) And others. (D., 2009-2010) (in co-authorship); Historical memory of Dnipropetrovsk region: a collection. monogr /WITH. I. Svetlenko, E. I. Borodin, V. V. Ivanenko [and others] (D., 2012); Oral History of Dnipropetrovsk National University named after Oles Honchar: Sb. documented mater - T. 1. - (D., 2013; 2nd ed., 2016); The same. - T. 2 - (D., 2016); The same. - T. 3. (D., 2017) (co-authored - VV Vashchenko, Yu. A. Svyathets, etc.); Dmytro Yavornytsky: a scientist and a teacher in the Ukrainian intellectual society: monogr. (D, 2015; 2nd View - 2017); Historian and power. Collective monogr / bp edit V. Smolij; creative guiding Project I. Kolesnik. - (K., 2016). - (co-authors - V. Andreev, O. Bogdashin, etc.).

The above introductory comments are edited excerpts from an article* by Michael Snyder (theeconomiccollapseblog.com) entitled From This Day Forward, We Will Watch How The Stock Market Performs Without The Fed’s Monetary Heroin. Snyder goes on to say in further edited excerpts: Since November 2008, the Fed has created about 3.5 trillion dollars and pumped it into the financial system…[and] pretty much everyone agrees that this has been a tremendous boon for the financial markets…In essence, the entire quantitative easing program was a massive 3.5 trillion dollar gift to Wall Street. If that sounds unfair to you, that is because it is unfair. Why is the Federal Reserve finally ending quantitative easing? Well, officially the Fed says that it is because there has been so much improvement in the labor market…but that is not true at all. [As can be seen in the chart below,] the percentage of Americans that are working right now is about the same as it was during the depths of the last recession…so, [in fact,] there has been no “employment recovery” to speak of at all. …[In addition,] the percentage of Americans that are homeowners has been steadily falling throughout the quantitative easing era…[as can be seen in the chart below] so let’s put the lie that quantitative easing helped the “real economy” to rest. It did no such thing. Instead, what QE did do was massively inflate stock prices – [nothing more!]. Last Wednesday former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan made a speech to the Council of Foreign Relations in which he said that…”[while] the purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities did help lift asset prices and lower borrowing costs, they didn’t do much for the real economy…[where] effective demand is dead in the water” and the effort to boost it via bond buying “has not worked,” [but] boosting asset prices, however, has been “a terrific success.” Moving forward, what did Greenspan tell the members of the Council on Foreign Relations that they should do with their money? This might surprise you… Mr. Greenspan said gold is a good place to put money these days given its value as a currency outside of the policies conducted by governments. Wow!.. Since November 2008, every time there has been an interruption in the Fed’s quantitative easing program, the stock market has gone down substantially. Will that happen again this time? Well, the market is certainly primed for it. We are repeating so many of the very same patterns that we saw just prior to the last two financial crashes: - there have been three dramatic peaks in margin debt in the last twenty years. - One of those peaks came early in the year 2000 just before the dotcom bubble burst. - The second of those peaks came in the middle of 2007 just before the subprime mortgage meltdown happened and - the third of those peaks happened earlier this year. You can view a chart that shows these peaks very clearly right here. The Federal Reserve appears to be confident that the stock market will be okay without the monetary heroin that it has been supplying. We shall see, but it should be deeply troubling to all Americans that this unelected, unaccountable body of central bankers has far more power over our economy than anyone else does. During election season, our politicians get up and give speeches about what they will “do for the economy”, but the truth is that they are essentially powerless compared to the immense power that the Federal Reserve wields. Just a few choice words from Janet Yellen can cause the financial markets to rise or fall dramatically. The same cannot be said of any U.S. Senator. We are told that: - monetary policy is “too important” to be exposed to politics and - the independence of the Federal Reserve is “sacred” and must never be interfered with. I say that is a bunch of nonsense. No organization should have the power to print up trillions of dollars out of thin air and give it to their friends. The Federal Reserve is completely and totally out of control, and Congress needs to start exerting power over it [and] the first step is to get in there and do a comprehensive audit of the Fed’s books as U.S. Senator Ted Cruz called for recently in a USA Today saying: - “Americans are seeing near-zero interest rates on their savings accounts while - median incomes are falling, and - millions of people are facing - higher gas prices, - food prices, - electricity prices, - health insurance prices. - Enough is enough. The Federal Reserve needs to open its books — Americans deserve a sound and stable dollar.” Whether you agree with Ted Cruz on other issues or not, this is one issue that all Americans should be able to agree on. If you study any of our major economic problems, usually you will find that the Federal Reserve is at the heart of that problem so if we ever hope to solve the issues that are plaguing our economy, the Fed is going to need to be dealt with. Hopefully the American people will start to send more representatives to Washington D.C. that understand this. Editor’s Note: The author’s views and conclusions in the above article are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original post. Furthermore, the views, conclusions and any recommendations offered in this article are not to be construed as an endorsement of such by the editor. *http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/from-this-day-forward-we-will-watch-how-the-stock-market-performs-without-the-feds-monetary-heroin (Copyright © 2014 The Economic Collapse) If you liked this article then “Follow the munKNEE” & get each new post via Interest rates will not rise again in our lifetime. Why, you ask? Because the leverage in the system would collapse the very financial assets and governments which underpin the global financial systems. It is INFLATE or DIE and it provides the additional benefit of feeding insolvent welfare states and the socialist politicians to feed their “useful idiot” supporters. Today’s missive will put some meaning into that observation. Read More » It’s widely expected that at the end of this month, the Federal Reserve will end its third round of quantitative easing (that began in September of 2012)…[but] is there another round of QE coming? Here’s why I ask: Read More » The Fed and the bond market are responding appropriately to declining risk aversion and a somewhat improved economic outlook. There is no reason to fear the end of QE or the beginning of higher short-term interest rates. Let me explain further. Read More » Unknowingly, with QE Infinity, Bernanke has put in motion a runaway move in the stock market that will end in some kind of crash this summer. The crash will cause Bernanke to double down on QE which will trigger a spike in commodity prices. Let me explain my rationale. Read More » Ever since the Dow broke the 14,000 mark and the S&P broke the 1,500 mark, even in the face of a shrinking GDP print, a lot of investors and commentators have been anxious. Some are proclaiming a rocket ride to the moon as bond money now rotates into stocks….[while] others are ringing the warning bell that this may be the beginning of the end, and a correction is likely coming. I find it a bit surprising, however, that no one is talking of the single largest driver for stocks in the past 4 years – massive monetary base expansion by the Fed. (This article does just that and concludes that the S&P 500 could well see a year end number of 1872 (+25%) and, realistically, another 28% increase in 2014 to 2387 which would represent a 60% increase from today’s level.) Words: 600; Charts: 3 Read More »Read More » One couldn’t imagine any better Christmas gift for hard assets and stocks than Ben Bernanke’s surprise introduction of QE4 right on the heels of QE3. Call the duo QE7. “QE7” promises to expand the monetary base far faster than the markets had been discounting [which is great for gold] and also raises the floor under stocks. I suspect we’ll close 2012 with a run at the highs, and possibly climb just short of 1,600 on the S&P 500 sometime in Q1. As for Treasury bonds, well, could this spell the end of the bond market? [Let’s look at the ramifications of QE4 more closely.] Words: 516 Read More »Read More » QE3 looks like a desperate act to feed money to large banks, offload MBS toxic waste from their balance sheets, devalue the dollar against houses, commodities, and other currencies and create significant collateral damage in the form of consumer price inflation according to a number of respected economists and critical thinkers on the subject of QE3. [Let’s take a look at what they have to say.] Words: 1661 Read More » With the pop from the USFed’s latest attempt at financial shock and awe already seeping from lackluster markets, and the teleprompter news networks losing steam over their promotion of the same, it is time to take a look back at the decisions made on 9/13/2012 and set the record straight on some things. Read More »

Christians confess their sins to God to practice humility before him and to fess up to the bad things they have done. It takes a humble person to admit their mistakes! Humility is a vital part of confession and aids the restoration of Christians who have quenched the Spirit of God. Selah Psalm Kevin Halloran is a blogger and coffee aficionado. Follow Kevin on Twitter or visit his blog. Sin is a power that resides in the human heart against which we You need to find out what they are. When are you tempted? Is there Here are 5 key passages from recent Christian content around the web, including one on fighting covetousness and another on resisting temptation. Three Biblical Encouragements to Fight Covetousness Jason Helopoulos, Servants of Grace Dear Christian, look to Christ, live in contentment, and rejoice in thanksgiving, and send covetousness scurrying from Who is there like you, God of mercy and grace who loves us as you do? Who knows and understands our actions as you do? Who hears the thoughts and words of our heart as you do? Who knows our joys and sorrows and shares them as you do? Confession ≠ Repentance Who feels the pain we endure and comforts us as you do? Who hears as we confess our sins and forgives as you do? Who takes a broken heart and makes it whole as you do? Bring to my sinfulness the cleansing waters of your forgiveness, that having washed, I might know refreshment and release. Forgive me those times when I consider myself to be of little value. Remind me constantly that you died for me before I even knew you. I want to move forward with you, Lord, but I am held back by burdens I carry, afraid to let go, lessen the load, let myself become vulnerable to be loved and in turn love, to receive and in turn give. I want to move forward with you, Lord, but my ways are often not your ways. Open my heart to forgiveness, and let it touch the hearts of others, that all might be blessed and in turn become a blessing. For those whose hearts are troubled, or spirits crushed by sin or circumstance, Good Lord, deliver them. Bring healing and wholeness of mind, body and spirit, and freedom, to be the person they were always meant to be. Remind me when my life falls apart, that you are an expert in the art of restoration. Forgive me for the things I have done and not done. Why should you confess your sins? Forgive me for the things I have said and not said. Forgive me for the life I have lived and not lived. That I might reflect the image of the one I profess to follow, in thought, word and deed, and in discovering my true self draw others into that light. You call us to follow and our footsteps falter, reach out your hand and we treat you as stranger, whisper our name and we simply ignore you. Gracious God, slow to anger, swift to bless, forgive us, restore us. Grant us hearts that stand firm, a faith that is strong and a hope that endures. You are the everything we desire, the everything we do not deserve. You are the love we have yet to find, the peace beyond imagining. You are the breath of life enlivening the hardest heart. You are the vibrant colour illuminating the darkest dawn. You are the truth that calls in quiet whisper and through storm. You are the precious moment we reach out and touch the divine. For those days when we forget, forgive us. When life distracts and focus shifts forgive us. When self imposes its own will forgive us. When our praise and worship fail to please forgive us. Embrace us once again, we pray in sweet and loving fellowship with you. By your Grace we are forgiven, in your peace our lives are lived. By your touch we know healing, in your strength are we made whole. When this is forgotten, our focus on self, your face obscured, forgive and restore. Take our mustard seed of faith and let it grow, take root and blossom in our hearts and lives. Through our Saviour Jesus Christ and in no other name do we ask this. God of Grace forgive our ingratitude for the blessings we have received. Help us live the lives we proclaim. - Related Content. - Systemic Transformation, Trade and Economic Growth: Developments, Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Results (Contributions to Economics)? - Fish Boogers; - Why confess your sin if God already knows your sin?; God of Peace forgive our impatience with the actions of our neighbour. God of love forgive our intolerance toward those of other faiths or none. God of mercy forgive our reluctance to offer a word of forgiveness. God of hope accept our repentance as a sweet-smelling offering along with the service of our lives. Let us be still before the Lord Rest quietly in his presence Listen Pause Let us bring before the Lord the words that may have hurt and all those left unsaid; the anger we have felt and resentment we have fed. Draw near to him rest quietly in his presence Listen. When faith is tested to the limit, and we stumble, forgive us. When feet stray from the path, and we wander, forgive us. When our neighbour is in need, and we pass by, forgive us. When the voices of this world, drown out your whisper, forgive us. When love draws us to your feet, in repentance, forgive us. When we have failed to recognise your love in the actions of friend or stranger, forgive us. When we have failed to recognise your presence in the world in which we live, forgive us. When we have failed to remember your gospel in our actions, thoughts and words, forgive us. Take our lives and use them, as a sacrifice of love. Forgive us, Lord when we are struggling with life, searching for answers in vain, relying on our own strength and failing again. Remind us, Lord that you are the strength upon whom we can call, the power to endure, the answer that we seek, the one in whose arms we can safely fall. Forgive us, Lord when we forget. Forgive our sin. Help us hear your voice above the clamour of this world, recognise the difference, and follow only you. We pray for confidence to share your Word with others and for the opportunity to proclaim it. So how do we grow in a joy-giving habit of repentance? Here are eight steps. Confession and Repentance Define the sin. The first step to meaningful confession is understanding what sin is. Each term has been deliberately chosen for its unique meaning. David also says his sin is deep—there is no minimizing or excusing it. Avoid defensiveness and see God rightly. He committed adultery, orchestrated a murder, and tried to cover it all up. How can that be? Related Confessions: Repentance Copyright 2019 - All Right Reserved

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Saturday – March 21st @ 1 p.m The Fox Chase Reading Series presents the poets and writers of Red Dashboard Press. Open Mic will follow. The reading will be held in the 2nd Floor Gallery of Ryerss Museum and Library, 7370 Central Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111. Ryerss sits atop the hill at Burholme Park. Born in Fort Worth and raised in Carrollton, Texas, on Stockyard Rodeos and Pioneer Days during the 60-70s— Elizabeth Akin Stelling is a wife, mother, chef, an editor/writer, activist for CHD and grief counselling after losing her daughter to heart disease in 2000. Elizabeth is also managing editor of Red Dashboard LLC—Z-composition, Annapurna and Cowboy Poetry. She has works published in vox poetica, Referential Magazine, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Curio Poetry, Wordgathering, River Review, Tuck Magazine, CrazyLitMag, Texas Observer Magazine, and culinary trade magazines. And known as Chef E, her food poetry has been heard on CroptoCuisine Radio, out of Boulder, CO. Her most recent poetry collection: My South by Southwest- A Cast Iron Tempo Recollection. James Temp “Preacher” Kelley was born and raised in the Salt Grass area of the Texas Gulf Coast near Houston, Texas. It was his rearing between this area of Texas and his grandparents’ farm in the central part of the state that he started developing into the one thing that he most wanted most to be, a cowboy. After graduating from Sam Rayburn High School, in Pasadena, Texas, he embarked on a career in the United States Army, which lasted for over twenty years, until he retired in 1993. Upon his retirement “Preacher” went to work for a major pharmaceutical company in northeastern Pennsylvania. Throughout his life “Preacher” has worked with livestock and chased arena lights of the small town rodeo circuit as a saddle bronc rider, and a bull rider. He also spent quite a bit of his spare time as a working cowboy with various small cattle concerns throughout the country. All of the things associated with rodeo and working cowboys were his passion, a passion that he still has today at age sixty. He currently resides in a small town in the mountainous Coal Region of northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife Kathleen, a pack of dogs, a couple of cats and a house full of grandchildren.” Barry Gross doesn’t remember exactly when he first wrote, “Observe and Record” in one of his journals, but he uses that phrase from time time to remind himself why he writes. He has participated in poetry readings in New Hope, Newtown, Trenton, Philadelphia, and Souderton, where many of this book’s poems have been performed. He’s worked as a department store Santa Claus, a stadium beer vendor, window washer, bartender, waiter, cook, proofreader, newspaper production, and currently works as a teacher. Barry reviewed books for the Times of Trenton, and his work has been seen in The Mill Hunk Herald, The North Colorado Review, and the Bucks County Playhouse Best of Talk Story 2014. “Coiled Logic,” a Red Dashboard LLC Press production, is his first chapbook. . Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of more than a dozen books and chapbooks and the editor Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013).Her poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Thirteenth Moon, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award, a Will P. Jupiter Award, a Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship, a Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and grants from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Focus for the Arts, the Center for the Great Plains Studies, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. She has a masters from the University of Arizona in Women’s Studies and a doctorate from the University of Nebraska in English. Currently, she teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/ Marion Deutsche Cohen is a mathematician, math prof, and the author of 23 books, including two memoirs. The latest memoir is Still the End: Memoir of a Nursing Home Wife. She teaches math and writing at Arcadia University in Glenside PA, where she has developed the course, Truth and Beauty: Mathematics in Literature, and is working on developing the course Alternating Currents: Societal Issues on the College Campus, where she will use, in lieu of a text, articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Other interests are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, ethnic food, four grown children, and five grands, including twins. Her website is: www.marioncohen.net Joshua Gray is an internationally published poet whose poems have been published in journals such as Poets and Artists, Front Range Review, Iconoclast, Zouch Magazine, Tar Wolf Review, Chaffin Journal and Blind Man’s Rainbow. He was the DC Poetry Examiner for Examiner.com for two years where he wrote reviews of books by local DC authors as well as reported on the local poetry scene. He regularly writes critiques of individual poems which can be read or linked to from his Web site. His book Beowulf: A Verse Adaptation With Young Readers In Mind was published by Zouch Six Shilling Press in 2012 and he is the editor of Pot and Sticks, a collection of poetry by Charles A. Poole, and Principles Of Belonging, Red Dashboard LLC Publishing. He lived in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India, but is currently back in the United States for a stint. http://joshuagray.co/ Erin Locks has studied at CUNY Brooklyn, TNCJ Jersey, and is currently working as a Graduate Student in the field of Food/Economics and how it affects the family in various economies through history. She is a published poet, Annapurna Magazine, and attends open mics in New Jersey and PA.

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In the midst of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, when machete-wielding Hutu extremists murdered 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days, Paul Rusesabagina turned the hotel he managed in Kigali, the country’s capital, into an oasis of safety. His actions, which saved the lives of 1,268 refugees, inspired the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, in which he was memorably portrayed by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle. But in his recently released memoir, An Ordinary Man, Rusesabagina rebuffs suggestions that he was a hero, saying he was just doing his job. Now a critic of Rwanda’s Tutsi-led regime, which he says has turned a blind eye to revenge killings of Hutus, Rusesabagina (pronounced roo-seh-sah-bah-GHEE-nah) lives in exile in Brussels. He recently set up a foundation to help Rwandan women and orphans, and he has been speaking to audiences across the United States about his efforts to prevent future genocides. At a recent appearance in Philadelphia, where he received the first Rev. Leon H. Sullivan Humanitarian Award, the predominantly African American crowd treated him like a rock star, lining up for autographs and photographs. Sitting down after his talk, the 51-year-old Rusesabagina was affable to a fault, displaying a beguiling mix of self-confidence and modesty, boasting of his accent-free French and still insisting he’s nothing more than a hotelier. Mother Jones: Your book’s title is interesting, because I’ve talked to Holocaust rescuers, and this is a familiar theme: “We weren’t heroes, we were just ordinary people.” Paul Rusesabagina: Which is true. Who is a hero, actually? MJ: If anybody’s a hero, isn’t it somebody who stands up to overwhelming force? PR: That was nothing special. I was a hotel manager. I just kept on being a hotel manager. If to be a hero is to remain who you are, everyone would be a hero. MJ: You’ve often been compared to Oskar Schindler because, like him, you were able to deal with the devil. People who were responsible for genocide sat down with you, and you were able to negotiate with them. PR: I believe in one thing: Each and every heart, even the hardest, has always got a very soft, small part of it with which you can always play around and come up with a positive conclusion. MJ: In Hotel Rwanda, your character goes from being concerned primarily with his family to embracing all his fellow Rwandans. That’s a standard movie convention; did it reflect real growth on your part? PR: Actually, that is what happened. Initially, I was not concerned by what was going on. There was a government, there was a war, the United Nations was there. But when I saw the government completely dismantled, I had to take responsibilities. The very first day, I had 26 neighbors in my house. When I had to leave my house, I was not going to leave those people behind. So it became a very big extended family, from 6 to 32, and then 400 and something. That is how it happened—people kept on coming to the hotel. And toward the end, I had 1,268 people. It would have been easier to care for six people—my wife and four children and myself—than caring for a thousand. But if you turn your back, leave a thousand people, that’s on your hands. That is cowardice. MJ: Do you think that the film captured the essence of your story? PR: Definitely. My main concern was that Paul remain the hotel manager—not be transformed and manipulated in that Hollywood way of doing things. MJ: I would think that every hotel in the entire universe would want you as their manager now. PR: Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed. So I started driving a taxi in Brussels. After one year, I bought a second one. After three years, I opened a trucking company. And I’m a father and a husband. I’m now very busy. But I remain a hotelier. I won’t be anything else in my life. MJ: You left Rwanda as an exile. Why? PR: I got threats from the Rwandan government. I do not know why, but since the movie came out, the president takes me as a threat, I think. MJ: You describe today’s Rwanda as a place of “cosmetic democracy with a shallow system of justice.” What do you mean? PR: Rwanda has got 50,000 [accused murderers] in prison. The first priority is for justice to be done, but up to now, only a few thousand people have been convicted in Rwanda. At that speed, how many years will it take to try and convict 50,000 people? And justice is now a one-way street, only judging, trying, and convicting Hutus and ignoring that Tutsis also killed so many. MJ: And who’s to tell the innocent from the guilty? PR: Oh, that is the biggest problem. Almost everybody is guilty. MJ: Except for you. PR: Even me, I might be. [Laughs.] MJ: In your talk, you said that history teaches us no lessons. I was surprised to hear that, because your book is very optimistic. PR: Yeah, history never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up. Hotel Rwanda should be a lesson to show us what was going on in Rwanda in 1994 and remind us that it never ended. It is still happening in many different parts of Africa. Nobody talks about the Congo. And I traveled to Darfur myself, to see what was going on with my own eyes. What happened in Rwanda—it is exactly the same there. MJ: Why did you create the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation? PR: [Shortly after the genocide] I drove with my wife and a friend to see my wife’s sister and her husband. When we arrived, the husband had been killed, and one of their daughters was killed, along with my mother-in-law. My sister-in-law remained with eight children. One of them was a young boy. She had kept him in a bag, so she could go out and people would think that she was going to buy things. Whenever she was at home, she was hiding him under the bed because the killers were hunting for boys. I took her and her children to my house. About two weeks later, her younger sister came from the Congo with her three sons. I had to create jobs for my sisters-in-law and also pay for the education of their 11 children. Today, most of them are in university. When Hotel Rwanda came out, it was then or never to create a foundation to help educate those kids and many others. The genocide left us with half a million orphans, and on top of that, AIDS keeps adding more and more. And all those kids need education. They need medical care and psychological solace. Someone, somewhere, has got to care for them. MJ: You seem to radiate a quality of joy. If I knew nothing about you and saw you sitting across from me, I would say, “That’s a happy man.” PR: Well, that is true. I think I’m a happy man, and I’m a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

CES 2016: US marshals raid Chinese hoverboard stand Changzhou First International Trade Company accused of infringing on US patent A hoverboard user in California. The electronic skateboards that have captured the imagination of geeks recently have been dominated by dozens of off-brand companies. On Thursday afternoon, two US federal marshals showed up at the CES to conduct a raid. As a crowd gathered, the marshals packed up a one-wheeled skateboard on display at a Chinese company’s booth, as well as a sign and fliers promoting the product, and carried them away. It quickly became clear this wasn’t the usual CES publicity stunt. Staffers for the company, Changzhou First International Trade Company, were stunned. Until that moment, Changzhou First International Trade was having a successful day. It wasn’t the only discount electronic skateboard dealer around, but passersby seemed taken by the design of its product, the Trotter. Instead of a board with a wheel on either end, like the popular hoverboards seen around the show, the Trotter looks like a seesaw with one big wheel in the middle. One man with a microphone and a camera stopped to take some footage; another quizzed employees about how fast the thing could go. The booth’s staff had trouble answering even basic questions in English, but they did their best. CES has always been full of small-bore dealers, many from China, selling products that look like something you might find in the discount bin at a Best Buy. The Consumer Technology Association, the trade group that puts on the show, welcomes them, as long as they pay the appropriate fees to rent a booth. Unoriginality is not against the rules. But there is a long-running strain of resentment among companies that feel their patents and trademarks are being violated by low-cost competitors. CES’s legal department issues guidelines for those who feel wronged, and there’s even a list of rules for face-to-face disputes, including prohibitions on “loud, offensive or embarrassing confrontations” and a limit on the number of people who come along to accuse someone of ripping them off. The CTA asks companies not to bring more than two employees, one translator, and a lawyer. The raid on the show floor, which involved federal law enforcement, was the result of a weekslong effort by Future Motion, a Silicon Valley startup that said it invented and patented a self-balancing electric skateboard that looks strikingly similar to the ones the marshals confiscated. The company sent about a half-dozen people from its legal team to accompany the marshals in the raid. The CTA declined to comment, as did a woman present during the raid who appeared to be in charge of the booth, saying the company intended to consult a lawyer. Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals official, said marshals served a court order at CES. Future Motion’s Onewheel skateboard is the brainchild of Kyle Doerksen, a designer who had previously worked on electric bicycles. Several years ago, Doerksen quit his job at the design company Ideo, made a prototype, and rented a booth at CES 2014. The idea was popular enough that a Kickstarter campaign, launched on the same day, eventually raised $630,000. The following year, Doerksen came back with a more finished model. His company, which decided against getting a booth this year, is in town to meet with potential business partners. Doerksen began the process of patenting aspects of the Onewheel several years ago. In August, Future Motion received a patent for the underlying technology. Earlier this week, it got a second one for the device’s design. This patent prohibits competitors from making something that an ordinary observer might confuse with the Onewheel. ”Would we have done this without the design patent being issued? The answer is we wouldn’t have bothered,” said Shawn Kolitch, a lawyer for the company. ”If you can show the design patent drawing next to an accused product side by side, and they look identical, it helps your case.” Future Motion first found out about the Changzhou First International Trade product late last year, when a Onewheel user posted about it in an online forum. A listing by the Chinese company on Alibaba’s online marketplace promised to provide some 2,000 boards per month for about $500 apiece to retailers. (Future Motion sells the Onewheel for $1,500 through its website.) “We said, ‘Wow, that’s clearly a knockoff,’” Doerksen said. According to Alibaba’s website, retailers in Iceland, Germany, and the US bought about $70,000 worth of products. In December, Kolitch sent a letter to Changzhou First International Trade demanding that it stop selling the products. He never heard back. Kolitch tried again the day before the show floor opened, by approaching the booth directly but got nowhere. By 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Onewheel filed a request with a judge to stop the Trotters from being displayed on the show floor. The newfangled electronic skateboards that have captured the imagination of geeks recently have been dominated by dozens of off-brand companies. A recent segment on NPR’s Planet Money reported how the hoverboard trend has emerged almost spontaneously from dozens of Chinese factories at once. But Shane Chen, a Chinese-American inventor, disputed that idea. He said the so-called hoverboards were his idea. Like Doerksen, Chen is trying to get the government to crack down on his competitors. After the raid at CES, all the merchandise and signs had been stripped off the booth. The Chinese company’s staff sat around, unclear about what to do next. For Doerksen, getting the booth shut down serves not only to cut off what he saw as an illegitimate competitor but also to protect the reputation of the entire electric skateboard industry. The explosion in popularity of these products have been threatened by reports of low-quality hoverboards bursting into flames. “If customers start to view the space as full of low-quality, low-cost products, that reflects poorly on everybody,” said Doerksen. “We hate to see someone poison the well.”

What is “authentic”? Chicken’s feet vs. Chicken Chop Suey? MSG or “umami” flavors? Mom’s recipe for stir fry…or Bobby Flay’s? Folks often ask me where to find authentic Chinese food in Atlanta or whether a specific restaurant is authentic. It’s a funny question to me. The short answer is: It depends. Authentic to whom? I, myself, like to ask servers to give me their personal recommendations. If Shanghai-styled steamed buns are filled with a different combination of meat and vegetables grown locally in the South, are they less authentic? If the dish is delicious, is it unworthy because it’s not made that way in Beijing? Does authenticity trump quality? Actually, I’ve tasted some authentically bad Chinese food while traveling in China and some of the best Asian meals I’ve had were in California and New Jersey…also in Chamblee and Duluth, Georgia. The Chicken Chow Mein and Pepper Steak served at our restaurant in Smyrna, Georgia was authentically Chinese American. Some non-Asian foodies search endlessly for products unavailable locally, or may actually be unfamiliar to American-born Asians. Some even undertake to cook “authentic” dishes that most Asians view as too laborious to make. I happily smack my lips on both sides of the buffet line. There is nothing like hot-off-the-wok sizzling and glistening Pepper Steak, Kung Pao Chicken or Shrimp with Pepper Sauce. And there is nothing like my aunt’s braised pig knuckles. If you asked a Southerner to rank which barbeque is better—Memphis or Carolina style, you might start something you wish you hadn’t. California Roll, Eggrolls, Pot Stickers, Fried Rice, Chow Mein, Lo Mein, Teriyaki, Tempura. Banh mi, Pho, Coconut Rice, Curry, Pad Thai, Sriracha, Chinese Hot Pot, Tofu, Bok choy, Ginger, Green tea, Sushi, Stir-fry, Sesame candy, Pocky sticks, Rice noodles, Korean BBQ…and the list goes on. Many of these dishes and products are familiar to American food lovers. Are these authentic? The authenticity question is as loaded as curry is with different spices! I think to myself: Authentically what? Chinese, American, Chinese American, Mainland China, Taiwan, Chinatown Chinese? In China, I ate dishes that were authentically bad. In America and elsewhere, I’ve had creative versions of Chinese food that were un-authentically amazing. I grew up in Smyrna, Georgia eating boiled peanuts alongside Five-Spice Rutabaga stew. Dad prefers a good hamburger over Chinese food and listens to Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Mom rustles up an irresistible bacon bok choy stir fry in an iron skillet. The conversation started about food but a little voice inside asks: Am I authentic? Asian food and culture have moved from the exotic to the mainstream. Chinese-influenced dishes and recipes are all over the internet, restaurant menus, cooking shows and talk shows. Even though trendy foods, like, pork belly buns, Korean tacos and tapioca desserts were likely the creations of someone’s grandmothers, mothers, daughters, aunts, who passed down their recipes, Asians and Asian women, in particular, seem to be disproportionately underrepresented in the audience and in celebrity chef line-ups. Women cooking in the home is the norm, but women cooking as paid professionals are still the minority. In the original Japanese version of Iron Chef, women were absent altogether. The most popular American food competition shows, except for desserts, feature predominantly Caucasian male participants, chefs, hosts and judges. In a recent newspaper article on chefs in Atlanta restaurants, all eight interviews (with photos) were white men. In many households, guys may pull out the grill or Big Green Egg to rustle up ribs or make pancakes on weekends, but women are still responsible for cooking every day meals for the family. New Age or retro trends often feel like a recycled, but more expensive version of the Old Age. Thrift store and second-hand clothing were a lot cheaper before “vintage” shops came into the picture. Chinese-styled dresses and silk beaded slippers were the domain of grandmas and concubines in China, not fashionistas. It’s exciting that I (and my Oriental tops) can come out of the closet and be greeted by a brave new open-minded world. Asians have become trendy but my mom now uses a fork more than chopsticks and I am starting to forget some Chinese words. Epicurious.com food videos have non-Asian chefs from the Culinary Institute of America teaching How to Make Korean Bulgogi. In 20 years, where will we be? More good food for thought: We Are What We Eat (Changing Face of America series)

We're Cold Comfort, a Dublin based band with a cocktail of blues, rock and roll and country. We've been in the studio for the past five months putting together our Debut Album 'Tainted Winds'. It's 11 tracks long and up to now has been funded in its entirety by our own good selves (round of applause). But before the Album's released in late May / early June we'll need to some help getting funds together for the Mastering, Printing, Pressing and Duplication of the Cd. In return for your generosity, however small or large (size doesn't matter ) we will box you off with some sweet rewards e.g. - Signed Albums, E.Ps, Tickets to our Album Launch, Private gigs, T-shirts and of course you get to play a big part in getting 'Tainted Winds' to the masses. We respect how tight funds are at the moment so no pressure. We’ve put together a list of whopper incentives that you can avail of, if you can help a bit with our cause. Thanks for spending the time reading our proposal and we appreciate whatever support you can offer whether it is monetary or just helping us spread the good word and share the love. Rob Walsh, Colm Hassett, Joey McGowan and Eoin Morrissey With Rob Walsh on vocal, guitar and harmonica, Colm Hassett on drums and percussion, Joey McGowan on bass guitar, Eoin Morrissey on lead guitar, Cold Comfort are a band set to take you on a journey. They have been together for two years and have gathered a dedicated following in that time. The songs tell tales of misspent adventure, lost friends & honest, poetic observations on the way we live. The music has been described as “a cocktail of blues, rock & roll and country" but they go beyond these genres to create a funky, foot-stomping, eclectic sound. Since 2011, Cold Comfort gigged regularly with support slots for Whipping Boy and Alabama 3 on their recent UK tour (with Rob Co-writing songs for their recent Shoplifting for Jesus Album). They also hit the Dublin live music scene with frequent appearances. The past summers have seen Cold Comfort play sets at most of the Irish festivals. "With the deliciously tuneful Rob Walsh on the mic and Colm Hassett of Whipping Boy on drums, it comes as no surprise that folk rock fivesome Cold Comfort have produced a thoroughly enchanting debut single. There’s a kind of humdrum charm to ‘Sweet Light’, but once you hear those epic strings kick in, you’re bound to give it a second listen" - Hotpress "If common sense holds true, and a good start is half the work, Cold Comfort should be coasting from here. The recently formed Dublin quintet have hit the ground running. Eight months into their career and they’ve just completed a tour with Whipping Boy, and are about to embark on one supporting Alabama Three" - The university observer

and The 2010 Texas Association of Shrine Oriental Bands State Champions We specialize in fun, fellowship, good music and good times. Now we all don't know how to read music and some of us have never played anything harder than a radiobefore we joined. If you can play a musical instrument, that is great, but if you can't, we still want you. Our primary instruments are musettes (a reed instrument), drums, cymbals, bells, and tambourines. Besides those who play in the band we have other members who carry flags and banners and function as actors. During the year we show up at the Moslah Temple Shrine Circus, Fort Worth Parade of Lights, Granbury Fourth of July, and other places as we are invited. We have a trailer for the longer parades and events. How can we describe some of the fun that we have? Easy! The Moslah Bedouins offer plenty of opportunities for participation. There are band practices, Texas Shrine Association Mid-Winter meetings, Oriental Band competition, Imperial Shrine competition, parades, picnics, golfing, dove hunts, numerous parties both formal and informal. However, the best thing about being a member of the Oriental band is the fellowship. The Moslah Bedouins have fun any time we can find a reason to get together. Noble or lady, you will find that we have a bunch of friendly folks that enjoy a good time, and we are always looking for others who also want to enjoy their Shrine membership and experience the good life. The Bedouin Stated Meetings held the first Tuesday of each month at the Shrine Center/Masonic Temple on 1100 Henderson Street, starting at 7:00 PM. Practices are usually also held at Moslah Shrine Center in the band room, lasting about one hour. There are several classes of membership but the primary ones offered to new members are Active and Social. We are a family oriented unit. We are also the largest unit in Moslah and have loads of fun. Try us, you'll like what we do!

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller Realize you don’t know where you’re going and the weather changes often. Steer between the stars like songbirds coming back at night. Listen to the whirring of a thousand, thousand miles of dark. —Susan Elbe, from “How to Fall in Love.” diode: poetry. fall 2008 volume 2 numb er 1 Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau Today I heard my heart screeching like a subway train loudly enough to remind me it was still human loudly enough to hurt —Audre Lorde, from “Hard Love Rock,” Coal. (W. W. Norton & Company August 17, 1996) Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. ― Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V. (Modern Library February 16, 1999) Originally published 1925. A Story That Could Be True If you were exchanged in the cradle and your real mother died without ever telling the story then no one knows your name, and somewhere in the world your father is lost and needs you but you are far away. He can never find how true you are, how… Continue reading William Stafford No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had. ― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores. (International Vintage November 2006 ) Originally published October 19th 2004. An old willow with hollow branches slowly swayed his few high gright tendrils and sang: Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood’s edge. —William Carlos Williams, “Epitaph,” The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939. (New Directions; Reprint edition September 17, 1991) Originally published 1951. I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies. – Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking Adult, 2004) And that is the precise heartbreak of the past: that is doesn’t return, not even when you don’t want it to. —Carrie Fountain, from “Restaurant Fire, Truth or Consequences,” Burn Lake (Penguin Books, 2010)

How to make a success out of blockchain Blockchain is now a business priority for the most senior executives at financial institutions. There is pressure for CEOs to decide how distributed ledger technology (DLT) fits into their business strategy, and those without a clear vision often incur scrutiny. Regulators also recognise how blockchain could advance their own processes, and some have created sandboxes and incubators to enable technologists to work on their innovations. So what is all the excitement about? Blockchain or DLT is a single source of truth stored on a secure database which cannot be altered or changed by anybody. Transactional information or client data is stored sequentially, making it seamless for financial institutions or regulators to access. Blockchain is an exciting innovation but the technology has flaws. It may be several years before blockchain migrates from the test stages to mainstream market applicability. Blockchain will have to be carefully analysed by market institutions and regulators given the systemic and highly supervised nature of the industry. Blockchain is in the test cycle of its life development, but challenges still lie unresolved. The technology remains immature and there are a number of blockchain technology companies – each contending to have their own unique value add. In such a disorderly environment, standards are unlikely to be agreed upon about how blockchain should operate. These providers will have to consolidate and the dominant blockchain vendor is likely to utilise the protocol which eventually becomes the industry norm. It is important that financial institutions and market utilities such as Swift, which have a long track record and thorough experience in developing industry-wide standards such as the ISO 20022 messaging format are included in any forums on blockchain standards. Groups including R3, which counts BNP Paribas as an active participant, are helping to make blockchain standards a reality. However, standards or regulations cannot be implemented until blockchain matures more fully. The current blockchain test cases cover niche or illiquid asset classes. Blockchain must convince interested parties it can offer latency and scalability. Could blockchain effectively deal with millions of transactions that currently pass through the Target2Securities (T2S) platform without adding huge costs, disruptions or risk to those connected to T2S? Some markets have taken a lead. The Chess platform operated by Australia Securities Exchange (ASX) is being phased out by blockchain in equity trade settlement and clearing. It is possible that a dematerialised market or a new economy unaccustomed to market infrastructures could create blockchain utilities with simplicity. However, developed European, Asian and North American markets may find this harder as blockchain will have to interface and interoperate with huge volumes of legacy technologies and be compliant with long-standing regulations and market practices. Such technology conversions will also have risks during both the upgrade and actual implementation process. Any error during implementation could have systemic consequences. Cyber security is clearly a major concern for financial institutions and, while blockchain may deploy highly-secure cryptography developed by the finest mathematical minds, that does not mean its systems are impenetrable. Transactions and customer information are proprietary and confidential, and Blockchain must convince the market its cyber defences are in line with industry and regulatory standards, if not superior. If these challenges can be solved, how could blockchain impact the market? It could remove manual intervention for a number of repeatable processes like know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks. Customers must currently supply financial institutions with paper bank statements, personal identifications (e.g. birth certificates and passports) or tax documents for on-boarding purposes. Rules such as the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS) have only intensified the importance of client due diligence. For the customer, paper-driven processes are inefficient and invasive. For financial institutions, they are costly, resource consuming and susceptible to errors. The latter can have obvious regulatory or even criminal consequences. In a Blockchain world, such laborious processes could be fully or partially abandoned. All it would require is for a financial institution to interface with the blockchain, pull out the relevant data and verify a specific client is tax compliant or absent from any criminal databases or sanctions lists. Intrusion for the customer is kept to the minimum, and costs for the financial institution are much reduced. Blockchain is also being tested in crowdfunding, something which BNP Paribas Securities Services has been actively working on in the French market. This scheme will enable retail investors to lend to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) through financial instruments known as mini-bonds. These mini-bonds will be recorded and issued on a blockchain platform. At present, there is a strong case for blockchain to be used as a record-keeping device for illiquid transactions before being rolled out across multiple asset classes which are higher volume. Blockchain may succeed in automating processes where many of its predecessors have failed. To scale such heights is naturally a tough proposition, and perseverance will be required as different parties try and figure out how to make use of the technology and in what format. Some years may pass before blockchain becomes an accepted market infrastructure. Philippe Ruault, chief innovation and digital officer, BNP Paribas Securities Services Innovation Lab

Today when I woke up, I was wondering what healthy breakfast should I prepare for Devansh. I felt like trying something new and yet simple. That’s when I remembered these whole wheat pancakes my mom’s been making since I was a kid. We Maharashtrians call them “Godachi dhirdi”. Preparation time is less than 5 minutes and cooking time is 5-10 minutes max. What more can you ask for on a lazy weekend? These pancakes are made of whole wheat flour and sooji, so they are super healthy for babies, toddlers, and kids alike. If you are feeding these pancakes to babies, you can make small pieces of the pancakes and soak them in warm milk for a couple of minutes to make them soft. Devansh preferred eating the pancakes with some melted ghee instead of milk. I wanted him to have some milk too, so I tried adding some jaggery in the milk. Jaggery worked, he liked the pancakes with the sweetened milk than plain milk. Hope your kids like the pancakes. If they’re older kids, you can lure them by calling them “pancakes” instead of “dhirdi”. If you make very thin, dosa-like pancakes and you can call them “crêpes”. Even at young age we’re such suckers for all things “phoren” aren’t we. 😉 P.S. These days (at 5 years of age) Devansh likes to have his pancakes with honey, so added those pics too. 🙂 Whole Wheat Pancake Recipe (Godachi Dhirdi) - 3/4 th cup whole wheat flour chapati atta - 1/4 th cup sooji semolina - Approx. 1 tbsp jaggery - Pinch of nutmeg powder optional - 1-2 tsp homemade ghee clarified butter - Approx. half cup milk - Salt to taste - Take some water in a bowl and dissolve jaggery in it. (Optionally you can use powdered organic jaggery.) - Mix whole wheat flour, sooji, nutmeg powder, and salt in another bowl. - Add dissolved jaggery, and then go on adding some milk till you get a batter of desired consistency. (The batter should have dosa batter-like consistency.) - Whisk well to ensure no lumps remain in the batter. - Heat a non-stick tava pan (flat skillet pan), add 1 tsp ghee and spread it on tava evenly. - Pour the batter in the center of the pan and then spread it evenly to form a small pancake. - After a couple of minutes when one side is properly cooked, flip the pancakes to cook the other side. (Initially cook the pancakes on medium flame, later on you can lower the heat.) - Serve the pancakes hot/warm with some ghee added on top. You can also serve them with some milk. You can serve the pancakes by adding some honey on top. In which case, don't add jaggery in the batter.

|Delivery Type||Delivery length / details| |Practical||Incorporated into PH15010 and PH15510| |Other||Workshop. 4 Example Classes| |Assessment Type||Assessment length / details||Proportion| |Semester Exam||3 Hours end of semester examination||70%| |Semester Assessment||Course Work: Example sheet.||30%| |Supplementary Exam||3 Hours Supplementary exam||100%| After taking this module students should be able to: - Understand the basic principles of electromagnetism, oscillations and waves and apply them to simple macroscopic and microscopic systems. - Analyse the superposition of oscillations and waves and the response of simple electronic circuits to alternating currents. - Discuss the concepts of temperature and heat transfer. - Describe the basic properties of dielectric, magnetic, electrically conducting and thermal materials. Classical Physics describes the macroscopic world of electricity, magnetism, mechanics, optics, heat and sound, the knowledge of which underpins much of today's engineering and technology. The origins of classical physics, though, lie in the microscopic world of electrons, atoms and molecules and many phenomena at this level can be inferred at least qualitatively from classical ideas. Concepts like electric charge and current, electric and magnetic fields and electromagnetic induction describe the operation both of electric circuits and of dielectric and magnetic materials. Together with the ideas of mass, displacement, restoring force and friction, potential and kinetic energy, they furnish our understanding of oscillatory and wave motion and form the basis for defining temperature, heat transfer and also the propagation of sound and light. This module concentrates on electricity, magnetism, current electricity, oscillations, heat and temperature, waves, sound and light. Electric fields and the laws of Coulomb and Gauss applied to different geometries of electrical charge distribution. Electric potential versus electric field, equipotential surfaces, capacitors and electrical energy density. Dielectric materials. Magnetic fields, current loops and magnetic materials. The laws of Biot-Savart and Ampere applied to electric currents in wires and solenoids. Electromagnetic induction (Faraday's Law and Lenz' Law), self inductance and magnetic energy density. dc current, electrical resistivity of conducting materials and batteries. ac currents in resistors, capacitors and inductors. Simple Harmonic Motion (period, amplitude, velocity, acceleration and energy) and its application in mechanical pendulums for measuring g and LC circuits for frequency generators. Damped and forced oscillations. Resonance in mechanical (suspension systems) and electrical systems (LCR circuits). Heat and Temperature: Oscillations in molecules, energy, temperature, thermal expansion and thermal conductivity. Thermometers and the ideal gas temperature scale. Thermal equilibrium versus heat transfer and the Zeroth law of Thermodynamics. Thermal materials. Travelling waves and the wave equation (wavelength, frequency, phase velocity). Superposition of waves, interference and standing waves (e.g. in water). Dispersion, wave packets and group velocity. Doppler Effect in sound waves and light. Reading ListRecommended Text P.A. Tippler and G. Mosca Physics for Scientists and Engineers 5th edition W. H. Freeman 2004 Primo search This module is at CQFW Level 4

Saturday 19 Jan at 8:30 pm at Cinema Akil Friday 25 Jan at 3 pm at Cinema Akil Dir: Erika Cohn 2017 | PG | Documentary | Arabic | 81’ Book Your Tickets Here A vérité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari’a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice. When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts. THE JUDGE offers a unique portrait of Judge Kholoud—her brave journey as a lawyer, her tireless fight for justice for women, and her drop-in visits with clients, friends, and family. With unparalleled access to the courts, THE JUDGE presents an unfolding vérité legal drama, with rare insight into both Islamic law and gendered justice. In the process, the film illuminates some of the universal conflicts in the domestic life of Palestine—custody of children, divorce, abuse—while offering an unvarnished look at life for women and Shari’a. About the Director: Erika Cohn is an Emmy award winning director/producer who Variety recognized as one of 2017’s top ten documentary filmmakers. Most recently, Erika completed The Judge, a film about the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a courts, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and will be broadcast on PBS’ 2018 Independent Lens series. Erika co-directed/produced, In Football We Trust, an Emmy award-winning, feature documentary about the unique faith and culture that ultimately drives young Pacific Islander men into the NFL, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ 2016 Independent Lens series. Her work has been supported by IFP, the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Institute, Hot Docs, Sheffield, ITVS, Women in Film, BAVC and the CPB Producer’s Academy among others. In 2013, Erika founded Idle Wild Films, Inc., which has released three feature documentaries and produced numerous branded content and commercial spots, including Gatorade’s Win from Within series, for which she received a 2016 Webby award nomination. Erika is also an avid photographer and served as a U.S. Ambassadorial Film Scholar to Israel/Palestine.

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What is Data Visualization? Data visualization is the creation and study of the visual representation of data. Data visualization is sometimes referred to as visual communication or descriptive statistics, and includes the techniques to present data in a visual way so as to clearly communicate information and stimulate viewer engagement and attention. As data generation has increased, so have the ways for people to communicate, analyze, show and share these large quantities of information. The main objective of data visualization is to understand the significance of data and to communicate this information clearly and efficiently. Analyzing and reasoning about data through visualizations makes complex data more accessible, understandable and usable. For many people, seeing analytical results presented visually makes interpretation easier and makes it easier to see patterns trends and correlations. Some of the main reasons for using data visualization are: - to explore sources - to tell stories - to predict sales volumes - to identify areas that need attention or improvement - to understand what factors influence customers’ behavior - to know which products to place where - to discover how to increase revenues or reduce expenses - spreadsheets are hard to visualize - patterns and trends can be spotted quickly and easily - saves time and energy The main advantages of communicating and analyzing information through visual means are that it is faster for people to grasp meaning, the data is easily interpreted, it is easier for decision makers to see things that were not obvious, and it is simple to share ideas. Nowadays, advanced interactive data visualizations allow the user to not only put vast amounts of data into a pictorial or graphical format, but using computers and mobile devices allows users to drill down into charts and graphs for more details — changing what data is seen and how it is processed. Overall, good data visualization should simplify data. It should make analytical tasks, such as making comparisons or understanding causality, providing insights into a data set, exposing and recognizing patterns or relationships easier and more effective. The best uses of data visualization will have a balance between form and function. This meaning the visual representation of data should not only be visually attractive, but also informative. Inversely, visual objects contained in graphics do not need to be boring or overly simple to convey useful information.

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“This is not just about coming to the show, hearing someone speak, exchanging a bit of information, and then walking away. It’s really about starting a conversation.”, Social Media Week video. The #SMWLDN 2017 Event: Topics, Conversations and Numbers Social Media Week, aka #SMW, one of the most prominent global social media conferences has once again visited London this September. The event gathered more than 1,000 social media professionals and 66 brands, including Facebook, National Geographic, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, BuzzFeed and Spredfast around the theme: “Language and the Machine” - how algorithms are shaping human language communication; data and analytics and visual storytelling. The conversation around #SMWLDN for the five-day span between the 11th and the 15th September produced more than 7.8K posts on social media, generating an estimated reach of 4.8M people. Compared to the five-day span in the previous year, we observe a 36% increase in the audience reach (3.5M estimated reach in 2016). The most used social platform for sharing content was Twitter, accounting for 91% of all discussion around the event. This was followed by Instagram and Facebook, with 6% and 2% of content, respectively. One brand, one speaker and one influencer left their mark on this year’s #SMWLDN by contributing to its success on social and attracting particularly high engagement. Who were they and how did they do it? The #SMWLDN Brand: National Geographic National Geographic, well-known for its social media savviness, with over 19.6M followers on its official Twitter alone, came first with mentions in 229 posts, scoring a total of 2.37M impressions and reaching an audience of over 193K people. “We are explorers, ready for the next chapter”, said Nadine Heggie, the company’s VP of Global Partnerships. She also revealed that National Geographic’s brand success on social media, with tens of thousands of photos shared each day, followed a simple formula: “We take the community to drive our brand forward”. At its talk, ‘Masters of Storytelling: How NatGeo Engages 350 Million Fans on Social’, Nadine’s colleague whom she partnered with, Stephen Alvarez, an award-winning National Geographic’s photographer, shared one of his photos with the audience, which was claimed to be the “the oldest selfie”. — Cecile Midrouillet (@Midrouille) 12 September 2017 Alvarez’s selfie reached an audience of 3.73K people and generated 46.5K impressions, while the keyword @alvarezphoto’s estimated reach was 63K. The keywords @NatGeo and #SMWNatGeo had an estimated reach of 169.8K and more than 2.6M impressions. The #SMWLDN Speaker: Adrian Cockle Adrian Cockle, Hootsuite’s Industry Principal for EMEA, spoke about ‘Powering the human connection’. In his talk, he addressed the growing need for brands to prioritise human interactions as opposed to only pursuing technological innovation. — Beth Lloyd-Wright (@BethEllenLloyd) 14 September 2017 “Let’s build communities, not just products” called out Cockle in an attempt to portray social media as a dialogue and make a point about successful social media management. Cockle’s surefire recipe for social media would follow the rule: “Build your employees into your social strategy”. Focusing on the other ends of the interaction, rather than just getting tied up by algorithms and data-driven decisions, is what, according to Cockle, defines the interplay between humanity and technology. Cockle’s speech sparked a total of 67 posts using his direct handle @ade, reaching over 1.58M impressions and an audience of 126K 'humans'. #Hootsuite appeared in 49 posts, #hootsmw in 92, #Hootsuite_UK in 44, reaching a total of 2.9M impressions. Cockle’s speech reached the most impressions and audience among all 53 talks at the SMWLDN conference. The #SMWLDN Influencer: @Tompaisley Thomas Paisley is an award-nominated Social Media Marketing Manager at Smart Energy GB. Paisley’s engaging content in the form of mood gifs posts, sharing both opinion and good humour around #SMWLDN resulted in 668K impressions and a 53.4K estimated audience reach, and granted him first place in the Social Media Week’s London 2017 influencers rank. Things that Love Island brought to its audience... ? — Tom Paisley ?/?/? (@Tompaisley) 13 September 2017 Paisley’s social media blueprint was in his excitement and creativity as seen in his posts. His blog on Social Media Week further depicted his favourite tweets throughout the event. It’s Not Just About the Speakers. It’s About The Conversation Each year, Social Media Week results in a raft of inspirational content being shared across social media channels, with Twitter being the focus of this. This year’s conference in London reached more people on social media than the year before, whereby this achievement is not owed only to the speakers and their talks, but also to the conversations their storytelling provoked among the audience. Thanks to our platform, we were able to recognise Social Media Week’s success by capturing and analysing social data and conversations throughout the event. — Linkfluence UK (@linkfluenceUK) 12 September 2017 If you think Linkfluence’s social media intelligence solutions can help you gather actionable data insights to grow your business, please get in touch for a one-on-one consultation with one of our advisers.

Ever since her debut performance last year, Sara Ali Khan has been making headlines for all the right reasons. She won the Best Debut award at the IIFA and Filmfare Awards for her movie Kedarnath, and more recently, the Fresh Face award at the Vogue Beauty Awards. Sara’s journey to Bollywood goes hand in hand with her fitness journey, both of which began just a few years ago. Not only did she lose a whopping amount of weight, she also managed to dazzle the whole country with her skill as an actor. We’ve broken down some of Sara Ali Khan’s workouts to give you all the motivation you need to hit the gym today, tomorrow and day after. Like many celebrities such as Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Varun Dhawan and Sonakshi Sinha, Sara also trains with celebrity trainer Namrata Purohit for pilates. This low impact flexibility workout is much harder than it seems and more importantly, it is super effective. With endurance movements that are much slower than normal workouts, Pilates help you build muscular strength, improve your posture and drastically strengthen your core. Celebrity trainer Cindy Jourdain conducts a unique bootcamp program, which she has formulated combining her knowledge of CrossFit, martial arts, yoga and dance. Sara often joins these group classes, which help her build her strength, flexibility, agility, and focus. In this video, Sara is a part of an intensive body conditioning session in one of Cindy’s classes. The session covers 10 TRX scapula push ups, 10 scapula pull ups, 10 kettlebell back lunges with each leg, advanced hollow man hold for 30 seconds, 10 TRX atomic push ups, 5 eccentric pull ups, 10 kettlebell split jerk with each leg and rocking hollow hold for 15 seconds. We don’t know about you, but that sure does sound like a lot to us. In this video, Sara is part of a session designed to improve agility and movement. The students are given different tasks and workouts with sticks and are also required to do a fireman lift with another person on their shoulders. You probably already know that dancing is a great cardiovascular workout. Be it hip hop, classical, jazz, ballet, or good old Bollywood, an intense session of busting some moves can give your metabolism the boost it needs. Here’s Sara dancing on the song Sweetheart from her movie Kedarnath. > More on Fitness

By ELIZABETH KOH, HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU (Published September 24, 2019) For almost every waking hour of his day, 33-year-old Jason Hahr needs someone else to do what his own body cannot. Hahr has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means he needs a personal care assistant to physically help him perform the basic activities of daily living. He also writes and advocates for people like him, often from his home next door to his parents in Ocala. When Hahr writes, an assistant helps him type the letters. When he goes out to eat, an aide helps him feed himself, because his condition has left his arms and hands contracted, curled into balls. His assistants help him get in and out of bed, dress, shower, and brush his teeth. Those services are possible only because of a state Medicaid program for impoverished and disabled Floridians, which provides Hahr and other people with disabilities money to get services — such as in-home nursing, physical therapy and transportation — they need. But state disability administrators are developing a plan to restructure the state’s home and community-based waiver program for Hahr and more than 34,000 others like him, because the Legislature says the state’s disabilities agency has spent too much beyond the budget it is given. “Without the waiver services, I could never afford care,’’ said Hahr, who makes some money from his advocacy work but not enough to cover the 12 to 14 hours of assistance he needs each day. “If I wasn’t on the system, I wouldn’t be able to be a functioning member of society. I would be just a body.” Even as he worries about what care and services the state may take away, Hahr is one of the fortunate ones: There are nearly 22,000 more people who are on a waiting list for services, some of whom have waited for years, if not decades. Those on the Medicaid waiver are waiting to see how state administrators intend to change the program. Hahr says the consequences are about more than just money for him and tens of thousands of other clients — they could mean the difference between continuing to live in their own homes and communities and being pushed into large, segregated institutions. One of the proposed changes, made public through records shared by Disability Rights Florida last month, includes cutting the number of hours of assistance Hahr and other Floridians receive to 10 hours a day or less. For Hahr, losing even some service time would mean giving up the simplest things others take for granted — going to doctor’s appointments, eating dinner out with family, going to a movie or on a date. If he can’t keep the assistance he needs to continue to live on his own, Hahr said he fears he’ll eventually end up in a group home or a nursing facility in order to survive. “They don’t want to see us,” said Karen Clay, a Tampa advocate whose son, Michael Phillips, has spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic condition that requires him to breathe with a ventilator and communicate through sensors on his forehead. “We’re invisible to them because we don’t have money, we don’t have lobbyists, we don’t have the voice we should in Tallahassee.” ‘It scares them half to death’ Lawmakers in Tallahassee have criticized the state Agency for Persons with Disabilities, or APD, for years, saying it overspends its budget to the detriment of the state’s coffers — though it is lawmakers who hold the agency’s purse strings. In May, the Legislature ordered state administrators to control those costs, directing them to find ways to “identify core services” and ensure “budget predictability.” But many of those most profoundly dependent on APD’s services have fretted that the mandate leaves no room to adequately fund the program. They worry “core services” means some services won’t be deemed vital, or that a “predictable” budget won’t allow more spending even if needs are significant — and unmet. The state has tried before to cut or limit agency services, cycling through different “tiers” or algorithms to ration care. Caregivers and clients say they already count their days in hours of therapy, of treatment, of time that providers have to tend to them. Even small services that APD provides can mean significant help to families that care for loved ones with disabilities, advocates said. “Things that may not seem like such a big deal to us can make all the difference in terms of whether a family can stay together, and whether families can continue to provide the bulk of the care if you take that ability away,” said Jim DeBeaugrine, a former APD secretary who lobbies on behalf of people with disabilities. “Even if it doesn’t look important on paper, it may be that very, very inexpensive service that allows a family to stay together.” DeBeaugrine’s brother-in-law, Peter, who has Down syndrome, was able to spend years at home with his mother because of the program’s services. Until a stroke required he move into a group home, one of his most essential services was a companion who accompanied him to a Toastmasters group every week, DeBeaugrine said. “That’s not fluffy stuff. To some people it sounds like it’s not important, but it is,” DeBeaugrine added, noting his brother-in-law became an officer with the chapter. “That’s what kept him engaged with people. That’s why his social skills didn’t deteriorate. It also was so important to his emotional well-being. He lived for that.” Living in limbo over services that might be cut drains the people who care for them, DeBeaugrine added. “It scares them half to death. They rely on these services. They’re not frivolous.” More than a lifeline When Clay, the Tampa advocate, gets up every day to care for her son, she can tell she’s getting older. For more than 30 years, her son Michael has been able to remain at home with her in Florida, through the Medicaid waiver that provides services that make her care-giving possible. But “I can’t do today what I did ten years ago,” Clay said. “Twenty years ago, I could lift Michael and carry him up a flight of stairs. Today I can’t even get him on his bath chair.” The services Clay relies upon — including a personal care assistant who helps Phillips move — make being able to stay in his home possible. They also enable Phillips, who communicates through sensors, to play a part in his community: He writes regularly on the Internet and has been a passionate advocate for people with disabilities through Twitter and other social media. “Medicaid is a lifeline, but the Medicaid waiver is life,” she said. “You take that away from people and you start reopening those institutions and people have two things to look forward to in life: isolation and death.” If Phillips were institutionalized, Clay says she fears his communication would decline, that he would end up cared for by people who know far less than she and his family do about what he needs. Someone might not check on the tiny battery he depends on to communicate. His ventilator might break down while a distant staffer might not be paying attention. “There would be no family, no friends, no nobody that he knew,” she said. Clay said that when she’s gone, she knows other members of her family, like Phillips’ brother, will always look out for him. But she doesn’t intend to leave it to them, she says half seriously: “My plan right now is I’m going to live forever.” When the draft documents were released last month, APD said that there were “a breadth of alternatives to be considered” and that the final recommendations report was not yet complete. But lawmakers will soon make the final determination after the report is sent to them this month. Clay and other advocates have begun a postcard drive and plan to rally outside the Capitol when the legislative session begins in January. About 5,000 out of 7,000 postcards have already been mailed as part of a drive to urge the Legislature to reconsider any cuts, Clay said. “This is the fight we cannot afford to lose.” At the heart of the program is what everyone wants, advocates say: a way to be cared for in a setting like everyone else.. People with disabilities aren’t always seen as deserving of that care, said Arizona Jenkins of Ybor City, a neighborhood in Tampa. Jenkins, 43, has cerebral palsy and has been on the waiver “literally my whole life,” he said. It makes it possible for him to get by day-to-day: the personal care assistant who comes by daily to help bathe and groom him, to help him eat, change his linens and wash his clothes. “Everything that you would do for yourself, I have to have someone to do it,” he said. His assistant once wasn’t paid through the program for three months, he recalled, yet still came to his home to help care for him. “That’s what the waiver is for,” Jenkins said, “human needs.” The waiver makes living in their own homes possible, but Hahr, the Ocala advocate, said it may also make his dreams of leaving it happen, too. He wants to move to Tallahassee in a few years, he said, where he thinks he would be able to better advocate for other people with disabilities. The only way that can happen, though, is through the Medicaid program, which pays for the care he needs to live independently, he said. “The waiver, the way it is now, provides me the best opportunity to live a full life,” he said.

Eschenbach was found in Germany in 1913 and is a world leader in the manufacture and distribution of high quality magnification solutions including low vision aids, reading glasses and binoculars. Throughout its history, Eschenbach has become renowned for its continuous innovation. One of the company mottos is "Innovation in Sight". Eschenbach has introduced more magnifying devices than all of its competitors combined. For example, it was the first to introduced illuminated magnifiers. In addition to consistently staying ahead of the technology curve with new products, Eschenbach strives to ensure that all of customers realise the full value of each product through the longest useful life. Designed to be held in the hand, these lightweight magnifiers can be moved into position to get the best image. The range of magnification is wide and some have integrated lighting to enhance vision further. Also with Eschenbach, you know that whichever price range you choose, quality if still evident. They are generally small or compact in size and are ideal for carrying with you for easy-to-use out and about vision. Spectacle mounted, clip-on magnifiers are designed to provide spectacle wearers with hands-free magnification. They are lightweight, hands-free and will fit most spectacle frames. The lens is set 2 inches from the eye, allowing for a more comfortable working distance and when they are not needed, the lens can be flipped up and out of the way. The Eschenbach range of stand Magnifiers are set to be at the correct position to give the optimum image focus. They are slightly bulkier than hand magnifiers so are less suitable for carrying around. However, they leave the hands free to hold or manipulate the near task underneath. The range of powers/magnification is good but generally slightly less than for hand magnifiers. Eschenbach tend to utilise LEDs in their illuminated magnifiers ensuring that you get a bright light and long battery life. Having a light source close to what you are trying to see can greatly improve both contrast and visibility. There are a number of stand and hand held magnifiers that feature integrated illumination.

Korean American Early Voting Day is organized every year by Hyunja Shin Norman, a fierce woman who for years has almost single-handedly educated and organized first-generation Korean American senior citizens to vote. She advertises in all the Korean print media, personally invites congregations from Houston’s Korean American churches and distributes fliers through Korean American civic organizations to encourage our community to take part and pride in our responsibilities as new Americans. On the day of the event, Norman does everything from providing rides to the Trini Mendenhall polling location, at the epicenter of “Koreatown” in northwest Houston, to organizing a group of volunteer translators to help ensure that voters can navigate the ballot. This year, her efforts were thwarted by an election judge who decided to ban Korean language translators from the polling site and relegated them to the 100-foot electioneering and loitering line. News of this went viral nationally and resulted in a joint statement from dozens of civil rights, voting rights and other advocacy groups. The election judge acted as if a group of people who spoke a language she didn’t understand might be electioneering, despite witnessed oaths to the contrary. Rather than allowing those sworn to continue providing language assistance, she revoked access to the facility and suggested that they “solicit” voters 100 feet away from the entrance — a distance equivalent to a third of a football field. She reinforced her directive by calling Harris County constables, who arrived in two full Suburbans, dogs included. Astoundingly, the Harris County Clerk’s Office, the Harris County Attorney’s Office and the Texas secretary of state all upheld her decision. They agreed that the Texas Election Code — specifically Section 61.003 — considers the offer to translate as electioneering or loitering, which must be done beyond 100 feet of a polling site. This is legally and ethically indefensible. Seeking to translate is neither politically influencing nor is it loitering. These decisions exacerbate already low voter engagement in our communities. While we saw a surge in turnout for the 2018 elections in Harris County and across Texas, participation remains a challenge for non-English-proficient citizens. Since 2004, Latin and Asian American voters have been unable to crack the 50 percent voter turnout rate, compared to other demographics whose turnout is well above 55 percent. Harris County residents speak 145 different languages. Our local officials have a duty to provide citizens with reasonable access to language assistance. The Census Bureau’s 2017 American Community Survey identified 12 percent of Harris County residents as having limited English proficiency (LEP), including 30 percent of Spanish and Asian/Pacific Islander-speaking households. Section 203 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act ensures that election information such as ballots and voting instructions are provided in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese, and that bilingual poll workers speaking those languages are provided at certain poll sites. To accommodate the 140-plus other languages, we rely on Section 208 of the VRA, which allows a voter to choose anyone other than an agent or officer from their employer or union to help translate the ballot. To meet the demand, community organizations and leaders like Norman have been offering to assist voters translate the ballot for years, holding specific events like Korean American Early Voting Day, where volunteer translators are made available to make the voting process more accessible. This year, we were barred from offering to translate and all solutions we suggested to address concerns of electioneering were dismissed by then-Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart’s office. Thankfully, relief may have come in the form of his election loss. We petition County Clerk-elect Diane Trautman to allow any volunteer translators who take an oath not to influence or intimidate voters trying to greet and engage with those they reasonably believe might desire their services or to be paired with LEP voters as needed. Community organizations and leaders have been doing everything in their power to make the voting process easier for everyone to help safeguard a healthy and robust democracy. It’s time for the Harris County Clerk’s office to meet us halfway. To do so, it will need to allow us back inside the 100-foot line. Murphey, MD, PhD was a volunteer Korean language translator banned from Trini Mendenhall. Wu is vice president of OCA-Greater Houston.

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NEW YORK – CBS News newsman Ed Bradley died of leukemia Thursday at the age of 65, the network confirmed. CBS said Bradley, a pioneering black journalist who became the network's first African American White House correspondent, passed away at New York's Mount Sinai hospital. With his signature earring, Bradley was "considered intelligent, smooth, cool, a great reporter, beloved and respected by all his colleagues here at CBS News," Katie Couric said in a special report. The 2006-07 season was Bradley's 26th on "60 Minutes." He joined the broadcast during the 1981-82 season. He also anchored and reported hour-long specials. CBS News' Mike Wallace described Bradley as, "a man of gentleness, a man of strength, a man of integrity — he worked so damn hard and he covered the world, seriously. Bradley was a complete reporter and a reporter's reporter." Wallace told FOX News that around lunchtime every day, Bradley would leave the office and go to the gym. "We figured he was indestructable and to hear what happened is hard to believe," Wallace added. On the job, Wallace said Bradley "wasn't the least bit reluctant to claim his turf" in his quest to cover the important stories of the day. Bradley joined "60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris. "He was a great journalist who did the most serious work without ever seeming to take himself seriously," Barbara Walters said in a statement. Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. "I was told, 'You can be anything you want, kid,"' he once told an interviewer. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it." After graduating from Cheney State College, he launched his career as a DJ and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963, moving to New York's WCBS radio four years later. He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War; he was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. Bradley moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974, 14 months after he was named a CBS News correspondent. He later returned to Vietnam, covering the fall of that country and Cambodia. After Southeast Asia, Bradley returned to the United States and covered Jimmy Carter's successful campaign for the White House. He followed Carter to Washington, becoming CBS' first black White House correspondent — a prestigious position that Bradley didn't enjoy. He jumped from Washington to doing pieces for "CBS Reports," traveling to Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. It was his Emmy-winning 1979 work on a story about Vietnamese boat people, refugees from the war-torn nation, that eventually landed his work on "60 Minutes." Producer Don Hewitt, in his book "Minute by Minute," was quick to appreciate Bradley's work once he joined the "60 Minutes" crew. "He's so good and so savvy and so lights up the tube every time he's on it that I wonder what took us so long," Hewitt wrote. Bradley won 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till. Other Emmys came for reports on brain cancer patients in April 2002, sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in June 2002 and his interview with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in March 2000. Bradley's reporting on the April 2001 Columbine High School shooting revealed on "60 Minutes II" that authorities ignored telling evidence that could have helped prevent the massacre, according to CBS. He was just honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1993, Bradley responded to rumors that he might be lured to ABC News by commenting: "I happen to be on the No. 1 show on television. That's a pretty strong incentive. Besides, CBS is home. There are people here I grew up with." Bradley retained a lifelong interest in jazz and art, and recently served as a radio host for "Jazz at Lincoln Center." Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, called Bradley "one of our definitive cultural figures, a man of unsurpassed curiosity, intelligence, dignity and heart." Accepting his lifetime achievement award from the black journalists association, Bradley remembered being present at some of the organization's first meetings in New York. "I look around this room tonight and I can see how much our profession has changed and our numbers have grown," he said. "I also see it every day as I travel the country reporting stories for '60 Minutes.' All I have to do is turn on the TV and I can see the progress that has been made." The Associated Press contributed to this report.

S ANGELES (AFP) – DeMar DeRozan scored 37 points as the Toronto Raptors overwhelmed the Washington Wizards 130-119 to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference NBA playoff series Tuesday. A record-breaking first-half performance laid the foundations for the Raptors, who had surged into a 76-58 lead at half-time to leave Washington chasing an 18-point deficit after the break. DeRozan, who also contributed four assists and five rebounds, spearheaded a rampant Toronto offense, which saw six players finish with double-digit points tallies. “I just let the game come to me,” DeRozan said afterwards. “It’s not like I go out there thinking I have to score 30 or 40 points. Tonight I just wanted to be aggressive.” Jonas Valanciunas scored 19 points, while C.J. Miles had 18 off the bench as Toronto took a firm grip on the series with game three set for Washington tomorrow. “We’re strong as a team, it’s not about individual players,” Valanciunas said. “We did it as a team tonight. We were great defending, helping each other. It’s a team sport and when you play together and support each other it’s fun.” Washington’s resistance was led by John Wall with 29 points, but the Wizards were rarely in the contest,.Wall had given Washington hope of a recovery after draining two free throws to take the Wizards back to within five points at 108-103 in the fourth quarter. But Toronto slammed the door with a rapid burst of scoring to take the game away from the Wizards for good as the clock wound down. Earlier, the Raptors wasted no time in forging ahead during a lop-sided first half. Toronto powered into a 24-11 midway through the first period and were soon 34-13 up. Toronto maintained a 20-point cushion through most of the first half, and they quickly passed their franchise record points tally of 63 to finish on 76 as the half-time the buzzer sounded at the Air Canada Center. Elsewhere, second seeds Boston shrugged off their injury crisis to down Milwaukee 120-106 to take a 2-0 lead in their first round series. The Celtics are still reeling from confirmation that star Kyrie Irving will miss the rest of the season. But the Boston club sealed a win that puts them firmly in the driving seat in the best-of-seven series. Jaylen Brown shouldered the offensive burden in the absence of Irving, scoring 30 points. Brown said the Celtics had been unfazed by the raft of injuries that has threatened to derail their season. “I don’t pay attention to that we just want to win games,” Brown said. “We’re confident as ever. Teams have been writing us off all year and we just keep proving people wrong.” Terry Rozier had 23 points with eight assists on a night when six Celtics put up double figures. Giannis Antetokounmpo led the scoring for the Bucks with 30 points, with Khris Middleton adding 25 in a losing effort. In Portland, New Orleans took a 2-0 lead in their series against the Trail Blazers with a 111-102 victory on the road. Jrue Holiday scored 33 points for the Pelicans – including 12 in a fourth quarter rally – to guide New Orleans home, with Anthony Davis adding 22.

Pathways, Education, Training and Skills (PETS) for Rural Victoria Recognising your healthy body systems – the Sustainable Farm Families approach Farmers and agricultural workers have met at RIST to undertake the pilot of material, created by the National Centre for Farmer Health, to make health units at VET level more relevant for the farm environment. The unit Recognise healthy body systems in a health care context was run over two days and included a health check, hearing test, supermarket tour, information about preventative health strategies and OH&S advice. Workforce Project Officer, Tim Harwood, says that the course sits comfortably with a foot in both camps. “Farmers can learn a bit about how their body works in order to understand the damage that they are doing to themselves by not putting on sunscreen, not eating right and not exercising enough.” “By explaining how the digestive system works, showing them their BGL (Blood Glucose Level) and cholesterol and then taking them to a supermarket and doing an exercise on how to read the nutritional information on food labels, you’re going through the whole lot. If you have high BGL then low fat foods, which compensate with sugar, might not be best for you. It might be best to go for the full fat option and just take care of your portion control.” Farmer Mark Bryant found the course very rewarding. “Many of my peers have weight issues,” he says “(courses like this) could be the key”. Statistics show that farmers and agricultural workers have higher rates of workplace accidents, obesity and poorer outcomes when suffering from conditions such as heart disease and cancer than those living in urban areas. Through education at various levels the National Centre for Farmer health seeks to redress this imbalance. “It is very exciting to be expanding the program into the VET sector. Many workers in the farm industry gain a lot from their studies with institutions such as RIST and we are delighted to be adding another string to their bow” Tim says. Department of Health – Workforce Innovation Grant The Victorian Department of Health under its Workforce Innovation Grant program (WIGP) 2010 -2011 was developed to explore, identify and trial (where appropriate) innovations that improve the utility of the health workforce, while maintain and improving quality outcomes, efficiency and worker satisfaction. Under this initiative eight projects were funded to ‘improve the delivery of chronic disease management’, two projects looking at ‘pathways into health and community services’ and five projects were funded for ‘access to healthcare in non acute settings’ which included the PETS project. The National Centre for Farmer Health will develop and implement Pathways, Education, Training and Skills (PETS) for Rural Victoria. The project builds on the highly successful Sustainable Farm Families™ (SFF) program, which has been developed to bring better health, wellbeing and safety to farm men and women and their families. The project will undertake a scoping and mapping exercise between the SFF training materials and existing units of competency available in the health, community services and agricultural training packages. This mapping will identify opportunities for units or skill sets to be developed and imported across existing qualifications. The mapping process will also explore and identify the training gaps in the rural health area and will seek to develop accredited units of competency and/or courses with articulated pathways into the health, community services and agriculture training packages, and higher education to meet this demand. This project is an initiative of the National Centre for Farmer Health, funded by the Victorian Department of Health and delivered in partnership with Rural Industries Skills Training (RIST) http://www.rist.com.au PETS update New The PETS project is well under way, with initial scoping and mapping undertaken between SFF training material and existing units of competency available in the health, community services and agricultural training packages. Articulated pathways into these training packages have been identified and we look forward to trialling some of the new SFF based units. Currently, in partnership with local RTO’s, we are developing course content for implementation in 2012 with the objective of expanding scope of current competencies, giving the VET demographic more options than what is currently available. With the roll out of the new course content, PETS aims to achieve a more cross-sectored trained workforce committed to improving farming men and women’s health. Long term, this innovation hopes to improve the utility of the health workforce, while maintain and improving quality outcomes, efficiency and worker satisfaction.

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Haters gonna hate. That’s what they do best. That’s all they do best. To all the haters that do not and will not give President Obama ANY credit for taking out Osama bin Laden, I have one question: Would you be withholding your criticism is Obama had approved this action and bin Laden had escaped? Never mind. That was a rhetorical question. Eight years ago yesterday, a self-aggrandizing asshole and liar stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!” Only took until 5/11 to bring a small degree of justice to the evil bastard behind the attacks of 9/11. Just like a certain presidential candidate said in 2008. I should be surprised the haters on the Far Right along with the haters on the Far Left are intellectually incapable of giving President Obama any credit for signing off on the order to take Osama bin Laden out. I should be, but I’m not. When some people find out they’re wrong they change their minds. The others just insist they’re still right. But I’ll be more gracious and say President Obama finished the job President Bush began. People need to understand where Osama bin Laden came from and need to read The Looming Tower, the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Lawrence Wright which painstakingly reveals how bin Laden became radicalized and the roots of Al Qaeda were sown. The HBO documentary, “My Trip to Al Qaeda” is based upon the play Wright created about his experiences. The joy and excitement of 5/11 is the flip side of the grief and depressing most Americans felt after 9/11 and it is equally as valid and authentic a response. What some people do not get is for many young Americans, there were two major historical events to occur within the last decade of their lives: the election of Barack Obama and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Taking down OBL is now the third biggest thing to happen within their lives. This is a “win” for the United States just as September 11 was a loss. I don’t care even one little bit if some folks are put off by the outpouring of patriotism. These kinds of spontaneous expressions of happiness from the man in the street is EXACTLY the natural response to be expected. Or did were they expecting quiet reflection instead? It was a military operation that took out bin Laden and the Navy SEALS deserve the credit. But Obama is the Commander-in-Chief and it was his call. He gets some of the credit too. Is this a clean win for the president? Not entirely, as the relative ease and comfort in which bin Laden lived in under the noses of the Pakistan government (or with their nodding approval?). That is an issue that isn’t resolved yet, but that is a story for another day. The end of bin Laden is not the end of terrorism. The threat remains, but the world is still a much better place without Osama bin Laden than it ever was with him. I am very proud of my country and my president today.

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When Leanne and Kevin Peters set off to give birth in the Kamloops hospital from their home on Loon Lake Road on Feb. 11, they did not think they would end up having the baby by themselves in a parking lot in Cache Creek, nearly the same week a Williams Lake mom gave birth on the side of Sheep Creek Hill. Leanne had been having contractions during the day as well as the night before but they hadn’t been regular, she says. They started getting stronger in the afternoon. Usually, they tell you to come in when they’re three to four minutes apart, according to Leanne. “The contractions weren’t really consistent throughout the day.” They didn’t want to go to the hospital and just be sent home because it’s a 120 km, the same distance it’s to 100 Mile House for them, she says (although 100 Mile House doesn’t do births anymore). “I guess it was about 8 o’clock and things kinda slowed down a little bit with the contractions. So, I thought ‘oh we’ve got some time.’ We have a two-year-old daughter as well, who we had to drop off at friends before we went to the hospital… I thought, ‘I know this baby is going to come tonight at some point so let’s just start heading into Kamloops and we’ll drop off our daughter at friends on the way,’ they’re about 10 km away, ‘instead of waking everybody up in the middle of the night to drive to Kamloops.’” They completed some chores on their small ranch and at about 9 p.m. they loaded everybody up in the truck, according to Leanne. She’d let the maternity ward in Kamloops know they were on their way before they left. “We were all still pretty relaxed at that point. We weren’t in a huge rush.” They dropped off their daughter and Leanne felt totally fine during that drive, she says, adding that she doesn’t think she had one contraction in that time, which she now thinks was the transition phase. By the time they got back to the bottom of the driveway it totally changed and it felt like the baby was going to be coming, she says. “It was just really, really quick all of a sudden.” She phoned the Kamloops delivery ward and they told her to phone 911 if she felt like the baby was coming so an ambulance could meet them, says Leanne. “I think it was a three-minute phone call with them and by the end of that three-minute phone call, I was sure that we definitely weren’t going to make Kamloops.” She hung up and phoned 911 right away and they had just about reached the highway, she says. “When he [Kevin] saw me dialling 911 he kinda went ‘oh boy’ and his foot just went down on the gas pedal even further.” It took a little while to figure out where the ambulance was going to come from, she says, but after talking it over, they were going to send one from Ashcroft. “We were just like two kilometres before Cache Creek still and I asked [the 911 dispatcher] ‘okay, where is the ambulance now?’ and they were seven kilometres away still from Cache Creek.” At that point, Leanne knew the baby wasn’t going to stay in past Cache Creek, she says, and they pulled over in the parking lot near the junction of Highway 97 and 1 for the ambulance to meet them there. Once they pulled over and knew it was happening their attitude changed and they weren’t panicking or stressing, according to Leanne “We parked and left the truck running.” Leanne says there wasn’t even time for a game plan, adding that her water never broke. Kevin quickly took out the car seats and found some old towels while she stood by the back door in hopes that would feel better. “He was great, and just thought about what needed doing next, without us even talking about it. After another minute, standing really wasn’t working for me either, and I knew we had no more time to wait – I had to get in the back seat.” As Kevin was looking at the phone to talk to the 911 operator, Leanne says she felt the baby come out. “I yell at him, ‘what are you doing?’ and it only took that split second for him to look at the phone before her head was out and he put his hands down and the rest of her came out and he grabbed her and put her on my chest right away.” It only took a minute to a minute and a half of being in the backseat, before the baby was born, according to Leanne, adding that Kevin was the perfect person to have there with her and not just because he’s her husband but because, as a rancher, he knows what to expect with animals anyways (both of them are also firefighters for the Loon Lake Volunteer Fire Department). There were no complications or anything like that, says Leanne. “Fortunately everything was fine.” “It did turn out okay but if there was something wrong with the baby or me then it would have been a totally different story.” The paramedics got there about a minute after she was born, she says. There were some concerns about the baby being too cold with it being about -20 C with the wind. The truck doors were open part of the time and they walked over to the ambulance where they cut the cord and everything, she says. Leanne says they were treated really well when they got to Kamloops. “It’s kind of neat to have that story for her, that we have such a good story that we kinda birth our baby by ourselves, the two of us,” she says, “at the same time, thank goodness that everything was fine. Yeah, because if there was a slight issue with the baby or me it could just be a very bad story that we’re telling right now.” They haven’t talked about it yet but if they have any more children they would probably go and get a hotel in Kamloops, she says, because “the hospital turns you away unless you’re pretty much ready to have a baby. “If it was even in Ashcroft, the Ashcroft hospital, if you drive in and get sent home, it’s only 40 kilometres, it’s not that big a deal but to go 120 kilometres in winter and then just get turned around and be sent back home and drive back in in another two hours say… you don’t want to make that trip three times.” Thinking back, Leanne says that if they had left home 10 or 15 minutes later, they wouldn’t have had cell service to call an ambulance and their two-year-old daughter would still have been in the back seat. “In hind sight, we think about how it was so close to happening that way and that would have been really bad. I guess it did really help us knowing the ambulance was at least on its way for us, and we at least had communication, in case we needed help.” They named the baby Carsyn Mary Peters.

Some Tesla owners will soon have more to do in their cars than simply driving them. Karaoke, anyone? The car company on Thursday announced its latest software update, Version 10, which will offer a number of new features that range from a self-driving feature to Caraoke, a tool that brings a library of songs and lyrics in multiple languages to the car's center console. Customers will start receiving prompts to update their cars' software in coming days. Calling it Tesla's "biggest software update ever" Version 10 "is yet another example of how Tesla ownership continues to get better over time," the company said in its blog post announcing the update. Tesla delivered a record 95,000 cars in the three months ending in June, but it has still struggled to turn a profit in recent quarters. The company projected it would grow earnings for the quarter ending in September, an aim that may be helped by the new offerings. Here's a breakdown of some of the new software's features: New self-driving capability Called "Smart Summon," this new feature will make it possible for cars to navigate through a parking lot to its owner — without anyone inside — so long as the car is within the owner's line of sight. Smart Summon is available for customers who purchased full self-driving capability or enhanced autopilot on their cars. "It's the perfect feature to use if you have an overflowing shopping cart, are dealing with a fussy child, or simply don't want to walk to your car through the rain," Tesla said in a blog post. The company did add, though, that customers who use the feature "must remain responsible for the car and monitor it and its surroundings at all times." With the update, Tesla customers who drive a Model S, Model X or Model 3 will be able to connect their Netflix, Hulu and YouTube accounts to the center console to watch -- as long as they're parked. China-based customers will be able to connect iQiyi and Tencent Video, and Tesla said it expects to add more streaming and entertainment services over time. Also available in the center console will be Tesla tutorial videos to teach customers more about their vehicles, something Tesla executives mentioned as a priority on the company's last earnings call. They said many customers visit service centers simply out of confusion over how to use the autopilot feature. Tesla is also expanding music offerings, with access to Spotify Premium, and adding games to Tesla Arcade. Exploring with Tesla Activating the new "I'm Feeling Lucky" and "I'm Feeling Hungry" features in the cars' navigation systems will prompt people's cars to lead them to a nearby restaurant or "point of interest". "In testing, we've been taken to hole-in-the-wall restaurants, gourmet meals, national parks, city landmarks and more," the company said in the post. Also new in navigation: Tesla said it has improved its maps so search results will be sorted by distance to each destination, and drivers can select a destination to view business ratings, initiate a phone call or being navigating to that location. Along with the Version 10 update comes new mobile software, which will allow people with the Tesla app to open and close their garage doors, defrost the vehicle's cabin and open and shut windows remotely from the app.

By- Claudia Quesito As you certainly know, attributive adjectives—words used to modify nouns—agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to. The aggettivi del primo tipo—the so-called “easy ones”—end either with –o (masculine) or –a (feminine) in their singular form, and turn respectively to –i and –e in the plural form, as in bello, bella, belli, belle. The aggettivi del secondo tipo— aka the “tricky ones”—only have two endings: –e in the singular and –i in the plural form. Where’s the trick? They only show number, not gender. See intelligente (singular) and intelligenti (plural). There’s no way to tell if intelligente refers to a man or a woman. Luckily, there are normally plenty of clues: a noun, an article, and context. Still, these adjectives can be confusing since they do not necessarily match the noun ending. Compare, for instance, il libro interessante and i libri interessanti. As for the placement, adjectives normally follow the noun they modify (una città fantastica) except some very short and common ones that go before the noun. These include bello, brutto, caro, buono, and bravo (as in una bella città). However, even these must precede the noun when modified (una città molto bella) or for emphasis or contrast. Some adjectives have a different meaning depending on their placement. They keep their literal meaning when following the noun. Consider un amico vecchio, (a friend who is old), and compare it with un vecchio amico (an old friend, as in one you have known for a long time). In this last case, the subjective point of view of the user prevails. Along the same lines, compare ho comprato una macchina nuova and ho comprato una nuova macchina. In the first case, you are saying “I bought a brand- new car,” while in the second phrase “new” could also mean that you bought a second car, in addition to one that you already had in your garage.

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- Mid-Terrace house - Living room - Rear garden - Sought after village location - 2 double bedrooms - Dining room - Modern bathroom - Immaculate décor - Chain free SOLD BY FLYING FISH PROPERTIES Just a short walk from Southborough's local shops, sought after schools and excellent transport links, sits this pretty house with plenty of kerb appeal. Deceptively spacious you enter a porch with room for coats and muddy boots which leads you through into the spacious open plan reception room. The living room is cosy and welcoming with plenty of room for a large sofa to curl up in front of its fireplace in the colder months. Opening off the living space is the dining area which sits conveniently next to the kitchen and enjoys views of the garden from its rear window. Behind is the country style kitchen with lots of warm wooden work top space and a good selection of cupboards. With a fitted electric oven, 4 ring electric hob, extractor, space for dishwasher and fridge/freezer it has everything you need. There is also a utility cupboard which neatly houses the washing machine while a part glazed door opens into the garden. Climbing the stairs to the first floor the pretty main bedroom is at the front. It has fitted alcove wardrobes, warm wooden flooring and a shuttered window bringing in lots of natural light. Next door is the bathroom. It has a modern suite with a panelled bath and separate shower cubicle. A window to the rear reflects light off its white fittings and contemporary tiles creating a soothing bathing experience. A further flight of stairs to the second floor takes you up to the second bedroom. It is also a generous double with its own window overlooking the quiet street below. Outside to the rear is an idyllic cottage garden with a paved and decked terrace perfect for a table and chairs. A pebbled pathway meanders through stocked flower beds to a circular paved area with planting. It also benefits from a wooden shed for storage. This immaculate home has been well maintained throughout and is perfect for a young family or professionals due to its fantastic location. A must see! Entrance porch with tiled flooring, space for coats and shoes and part opaque glazed door, which opens into: Living Room: 12 x 10'9 front aspect double glazed window with plantation shutters, fireplace with painted wooden mantle and stone hearth, mid height alcove cupboards, wooden flooring, radiator and opening into: Dining Room: 12 x 9'2 rear aspect double glazed window, wooden flooring, radiator and door opening into: Kitchen: 6'3 x 12'9 double glazed side aspect window above ceramic sink with drainer and mixer tap over, side aspect part opaque glazed door, 4 ring electric hob, electric oven, space for fridge/freezer, space and plumbing for dishwasher, utility cupboard housing wall hung boiler and with space and plumbing for washing machine, tiled flooring and radiator. The kitchen has plenty of wooden worktop space and a good selection of eye and base level units. Stairs up to first floor and doors opening into: Bedroom 1: 12 x 11'2 front aspect double gazed window with plantation shutters, fitted wardrobes with internal shelving and hanging rails, radiator and wooden flooring. Bathroom: rear aspect opaque double glazed window, panel enclosed bath with mixer tap, walk in shower cubicle with wall mounted shower, pedestal wash hand basin with mixer tap, low level WC, tiled walls, radiator and wooden flooring. Stairs up to second floor and door opening into: Bedroom 2: 12 x 12'2 front aspect double glazed window and radiator. Outside: a mid-height brick wall with iron gate fronts a paved area with shrubs with bin store room to the side. To the rear there is a paved terrace at the rear of the house which leads to a decked terrace. Beyond is a pebble and paved pathway that curves through stocked mature flower beds to a decorative circular area with central tree. A further paved area sits in front of a wooden shed at the back. The garden is fully enclosed by close boarded fencing. Local authority: Tunbridge Wells District Council Council tax: Band C (£1,604.00) EPC: E (50) Area Information: Southborough, Tunbridge Wells Southborough lies just a couple of miles north outside the historic spa town of Tunbridge Wells with its big retail names and its Georgian colonnade, the Pantiles, offering a vibrant café culture. It also sits just south of Tonbridge, with the A26 passing through it offering easy access to the A21 which leads to the M25. Southborough Common, situated towards Castle Street's end of the village, is a conservation area where cricket has been played for more than 200 years. If you're a runner, dog owner or casual walker, the woodland area of the Southborough Common, nestled behind St. Peters Church, is a very beautiful space. Ancient and young trees slope down to a stream with access to Holden Pond and Bidborough and Speldhurst villages beyond. Excellent secondary, independent, preparatory and private schools can be found in both Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, while Southborough and Bidborough have their very own primary schools. Castle Street is also within the catchment areas for the 5 highly regarded and sought after Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge Grammar Schools. The nearest mainline station to Southborough is at High Brooms, about a mile away, with fast and frequent train services to London Charing Cross. There are also mainline stations on the same line at Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. Tonbridge Station is just over 2 miles away and with two lines passing through, it provides on average 34 trains a day from Tonbridge to London Bridge in as little as 35 minute journeys. There is also a luxury coach service, that drops up and collects a short walk from Vale Road, straight to Canary Wharf, the City, Embankment and other central London destinations. It is half the cost of rail travel enabling you to slumber or work using its Wi-Fi connectivity as you travel. Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.

June 20, 2020 13 Minnesotans sickened by Cyclospora from bagged salads linked to national outbreak Consumers advised not to eat ALDI or Hy-Vee Store Brand Garden Salads The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is working with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and public health agencies in other states to investigate an outbreak of Cyclospora infections associated with infections linked to ALDI and Hy-Vee store brand “garden salads” containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage, and carrots. Information on the national outbreak can be found on CDC’s and FDA’s websites: Outbreak of Cyclospora Infections Linked to Bagged Salad Purchased at ALDI, Hy-Vee, and Jewel-Osco Stores in Multiple States, 2020 and Outbreak Investigation of Cyclospora: Bagged Salads. Thirteen Minnesotans are among people from six states whose Cyclospora infections have been linked to the multi-state outbreak. Illness onset dates for the Minnesota cases range from June 1 through June 9. No cases required hospitalization for their illness. The ill Minnesotans ranged in age from 24 to 79 years. Two are metro area residents, and 11 are from Greater Minnesota. Consumers should not eat ALDI Little Salad Bar Brand Garden Salad or Hy-Vee Brand Garden Salad, and if they have it in their refrigerator, throw it away. This applies only to the store brand salads labeled as “garden salads” and not for other types of store brand packaged salads sold at these retailers. Infection with Cyclospora, known as cyclosporiasis, is caused by the parasite Cyclospora and is spread through consumption of fresh produce; it is not spread person-to-person. Washing of produce, or routine chemical disinfection or sanitizing methods, are unlikely to kill Cyclospora. Symptoms typically include watery diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, loss of appetite and weight loss. People typically become ill about a week after exposure, but this period can range from 2-14 days. Diarrhea can last several weeks or longer if not treated. More information on Cyclospora can be found on the MDH Cyclosporiasis website.

Whether you’re going the DIY route and making kombucha at home or sipping on a kombucha-based cocktail at a trendy bar, chances are you’ve tried and maybe even grown to love this delicious fermented beverage. From arthritis to Crohn’s disease, kombucha is credited with being a cure-all drink for anything that ails you, and many people swear by its healing properties. Although many of these claims are still in need of corroborating research, there are definite benefits to drinking kombucha besides its addictive fruity–sour taste. So grab a glass of your favorite fizzy kombucha and let’s toast to your health and these five benefits of the trending elixir. It’s alive! But just what the heck is kombucha? In basic terms, kombucha is a fermented drink that’s made by combining a SCOBY with sweetened green or black tea. “But what on earth is a SCOBY?” you might be asking yourself. It’s an acronym, for starters. It stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast and it’s the foundation (otherwise known as the mother) of any batch of kombucha. A SCOBY is a living culture, which means it feeds off of the sweetened tea as it ferments, giving kombucha its delightful fizziness. You can see what one looks like in our video: To take full advantage of kombucha’s health benefits, it’s important to drink raw or unpasteurized kombucha, as the pasteurization process kills off the healthy bacteria that are naturally formed. To prevent contamination, make sure that any unpasteurized kombucha you drink is from a reputable source; meaning, maybe avoid the kombucha your friend is making in their basement. 1. Make friends with the probiotics in kombucha. Just like yogurt or kimchi, kombucha is fermented, which means it contains billions of friendly bacteria that are commonly referred to as probiotics. Probiotics have been shown to have a positive effect on chronic digestive issues, bladder infections, and yeast infections and are also known to promote overall gut health. 2. A Vegan Source of Complex B Vitamins As with other fermented foods, kombucha is potentially a good source of vitamin B12, especially if you eat a largely plant-based diet. Naturally occurring vitamin B12 is responsible for turning our food into energy and is almost exclusively found in meat, fish, and dairy products. Give yourself a pat on the back the next time you’re sipping kombucha, and remind yourself you’re consuming this vital nutrient. 3. Antioxidant Power Kombucha made with black or green tea is an excellent source of antioxidants, surpassing even fruits and vegetables in its free radical–destroying abilities. In addition to regular use of black and green teas in beauty products, the same antioxidants found in kombucha have been shown to have a positive effect on heart health, cholesterol levels, and stroke prevention. 4. An Impressive Immune Booster The same probiotics that are found in kombucha and other fermented foods have shown promise in clinical studies researching their immune system–boosting properties. Studies have shown a positive correlation between gut health and a strong immune system. And probiotic supplementation, such as drinking kombucha, can have a positive impact on your digestive system. 5. Keep your blood sugar under control. A study summarized by the American Institute for Cancer Research that originally appeared in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research has shown that the compounds found in green tea, which might just be a component of your favorite kombucha flavor, may be beneficial for people who have high blood sugar or type 2 diabetes. In fact, kombucha is sometimes recommended to patients with diabetes, and current research suggests it could play a high-impact role in diabetes treatment in the future.

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An unregistered gas fitter has been sent to prison after carrying out work at more than 85 homes across South Yorkshire and Worksop that left families and children at risk. Steven Carter, 49, of Maltby, Rotherham, appeared before Doncaster Magistrates for sentencing today (17 April) on three charges under the Gas Safety regulations for work carried out for two landlords at 85 properties in Rotherham, Doncaster and Worksop between 1 April 2010 and 18 March 2011. During sentencing, District Judge Jonathan Bennett told Mr Carter: “This was a reckless breach of the law… It is by good fortune that there has not been any serious injury or ill health as a result of the offences. However, there has been the potential for serious harm to the tenants in the houses where you worked. “You were an experienced gas fitter working without registration for 11 months on numerous properties. In two houses the work was dangerous and people were at risk. Considerable steps have had to be taken to remedy your work.” The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), working with Gas Safe Register investigators, found a series of defects had been left by Mr Carter when carrying out work on gas boilers, fires and cookers. Some were identified as ‘immediately dangerous‘, indicating there was a risk to tenants of injury or even death from exposure to carbon monoxide or an explosion. Many more defects were classed as falling well below current standards. Mr Carter also claimed to have successfully carried out various safety tests on appliances when in fact it was not actually possible or required to test that particular appliance. He had failed to renew his registration with Gas Safe, which had expired on 30 March 2010. The court was told that Mr Carter had been employed by two landlords, one in Doncaster and one based in Stanstead. Part of the work involved safety checks at rental properties to comply with their legal responsibilities as landlords on gas safety. Both were unaware that Mr Carter’s Gas Safe registration was invalid. HSE cited examples of dangerous or defective work found in properties in Orchard Street, Burton Avenue, Leinster Avenue and Denison Road in Doncaster; William Street in Rotherham, and in a number of homes in Denbigh Avenue, Worksop. Steven Carter, of Wood View, Maltby, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998, including one charge relating to the illegal work at over 85 properties. He was jailed for a total of 16 weeks. After the hearing HSE Inspector Mark Welsh said: “Mr Carter carried out work that he knew full well to be Illegal. He is now in prison, which reflects the seriousness of his offences. I hope this sends a strong message to illegal gas fitters that HSE will take enforcement action in such cases. Mr Carter left appliances in a dangerous state, putting lives at risk, and much of his other work was well below acceptable standards. “There are legal rules and obligations governing gas work for the very simple reason that defective work can be lethal. Steven Carter should not have carried out any of the work in those 85 properties. It is pure good luck that a more serious incident had not occurred before the level of poor and dangerous workmanship was identified. “Gas work should only be undertaken by someone qualified and competent to do so. That means they need to be current Gas Safe members with up to date competencies.” Russell Kramer, chief executive of Gas Safe Register, said: “Every Gas Safe registered engineer carries an ID card which shows who they are and the kind of work they are competent to carry out. Qualifications and registration need to be renewed on a regular basis so always check the ID card for expiry dates or check with us by calling 0800 408 5500 or visiting www.gassaferegister.co.uk ” For advice on safe working with gas visit www.hse.gov.uk/g

Life insurance is a thought at the back of most people’s minds – something they know in theory they should take care of, but that seems like one of those things you can take care of when you get around to it. Unfortunately, life insurance is also one of those things that you could need at any time, and if you didn’t get around to taking out a policy, it could mean a financial struggle for your loved ones at a time when they are already struggling with grief. You Need Life Insurance Today Odds are good you won’t die tomorrow, especially if you’re young and healthy. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen. Young people are the least likely to feel they need life insurance, especially those without children or major financial obligations like a mortgage. But there are some very compelling reasons to get life insurance when you’re young. The biggest reason to take out life insurance even before you think you need it is that you will qualify for the best premiums. Being young and in good health means that you’re a good risk for the insurance company. That means you can lock in a low rate on a good policy and have a death benefit already in place when you do reach that point in life where you have a family to protect. That’s not the only reason to buy young. No matter who you are, there are always final expenses to consider. You may have student loans and other debts to pay. And that money could allow your loved ones the financial safety net they need not only to pay those debts, but to take the time to grieve without worrying about lost wages. That alone is a good reason to buy life insurance. Protecting Your Family The need for life insurance only increases as you move into new stages of life. Buying your first home, getting married, and having children all increase the need to be able to provide something for your family should a tragedy occur. The death benefit from a life insurance policy could mean the difference between allowing your family to remain in their home and forcing them to move at a difficult time. It can prevent them from being left to pay your outstanding debts as well as your final expenses, and without the means to continue the life they have been enjoying – the one you are working hard to provide. Even if you aren’t the main breadwinner in the family, a life insurance policy is still a good idea. It will help the family deal with final expense and will also ensure there is money for future expenses as well, leaving the parent left behind with some extra help in a difficult time. Leaving a Legacy There’s no worse thought that not being there for your children as they grow up. But while we can’t stop tragedies from occurring, we can ensure that a legacy is left for those children if the worst should happen. A life insurance policy means you can still provide for your children’s future. Life insurance policies are a good way to ensure there is money for a university education, or to buy your child that first car. It can provide a legacy that will ensure they can pursue those dreams, whether they are the dreams you have for them or ones they haven’t even thought of yet. Life insurance can even be a legacy for another beneficiary should you choose – providing for other family members or even for a charity that is close to your heart. When It’s Too Late, It’s Too Late Life insurance is one of those things that you can’t obtain once it’s already too late. When the diagnosis of a terminal illness comes down, or there is a sudden accident, hindsight won’t help take care of your loved ones. The only way to do that is to purchase life insurance while you still can. Many life insurance companies won’t provide a policy to people with certain conditions – even if they aren’t necessarily terminal illnesses. Rates may be much higher as you age or face conditions like high blood pressure, or cholesterol that can come with age. Sometimes the cost can become prohibitive. Buying life insurance as soon as you can is the best way to ensure your loved ones are protected. Everyone needs a policy in place, and the best way to determine your needs is to talk to your insurance professional, or use an online calculator and then compare life insurance quotes. You’ll likely find that it’s more affordable than you though to get peace of mind.

Sleep disturbances are very common in combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In fact, two types of sleep disturbances -- nightmares and insomnia -- are actually diagnostic criteria for PTSD. We’re not sure why PTSD affects sleep so profoundly but research is getting closer to finding out. But can sleep disturbances in combat PTSD be treated and if so, how? Combat PTSD Symptoms One of the things all of us in the combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) arena struggle with, is getting veterans to admit to experiencing combat PTSD symptoms. There is a pervasive problem – in spite of educational initiatives – wherein veterans just don’t want to admit to struggling post-combat (or at any time). Considering the culture of the military and society at large, it’s understandable. Here are some of the reasons why veterans don’t admit to combat PTSD symptoms. Unfortunately, when it comes to combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), additional mental illnesses occurring with combat PTSD is almost the rule, rather than the exception. When one diagnosis exists with another, this is known as comorbidity. Studies have found that of veterans with combat PTSD, about half have an additional, current mental illness diagnosis. Comorbidity makes treating combat PTSD more complicated and, of course, tends to increase suffering for the patient. Here is some more information about mental illnesses that commonly occur with combat PTSD. There are four symptom types of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) but are the symptoms of PTSD missing from the fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5)? Two 2015 studies seem to think so. One study calls for a seven symptom-type model while another calls for a six symptom-type model. Both studies indicated these models were more valid than the current four symptom-type model. So are there symptoms of PTSD missing from the DSM-5? While I, typically, discuss standard combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as it is the most common, today I’d like to highlight a more rare form of PTSD caused by prolonged trauma – complex PTSD. Today I'll answer the question, “What is complex PTSD?” A new study investigates the possibility that when combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression occur together, this increases anger in veterans. This actually makes sense as veterans with combat PTSD often experience increased anger. Additionally, anger has been found to be an aspect of major depressive disorder, for many. Therefore, anyone who suffers from both depression and combat PTSD could, quite reasonably, experience increased anger. For veterans, unemployment is the biggest predictor of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, says a new study. The PTSD symptoms may be combat-PTSD-related or sexual-trauma-related, but either way, veteran unemployment predicts the severity of PTSD symptoms more than even indicators like depression. Organizations that employ veterans, like the one I mention below, may actually help those suffering from combat PTSD. While it’s something that many people don’t want to talk about, sex matters to people. Sexual function and sexual desire can be important parts of a person’s life, particularly if he or she is in a relationship. And, unfortunately, what we know is that combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects a veteran’s sexual desire and sexual function in negative ways. In fact, some studies have showed such a correlation between sexual dysfunction and PTSD that some have proposed making it an official, diagnostic criteria. A few weeks ago, I discussed how hyperarousal (or feeling “keyed up”) is a symptom area of combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A symptom that is part of hyperarousal is an exaggerated startle response. But what is this response and what might this PTSD symptom look like? A while back I wrote an article on how symptoms of combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be seen in the children of veterans. Not surprisingly, PTSD symptoms can also be seen in some spouses of those with combat PTSD, even though the spouse never directly went through the trauma the veteran did. This is often known as secondary traumatic stress or secondary traumatic stress disorder.

The Benefits Of Selling Your Property To A Cash Buyer Pittsburgh Reports indicate that people have now embraced the idea of selling homes to cash buyers. It is something that has been happening for quite a number of years. Well, although this has been happening, you could still not be quite sure if this is the correct step to follow when you are selling your property. Read on and get a clear understanding of selling your house for cash and why it is the best option. For one, selling to a cash buyer is never complicated. You first have to contact the buyer, to let them know of your intentions and provide basic information. Once the buyer has the details, they then get to find out more on the location and neighborhood as they determine the price of the home. You then get a cash offer. If you feel satisfied with the offer, they will most likely come and have a look at the property. After this, the sale can proceed. The process mainly happens with an attorney present to ensure the parties are protected. You will pocket all the cash that comes out of the sale. This is quite huge. Well, once the deal is done, that is it. You will not have to plan how to start sorting out a realtor or someone else. Simply put, you get to keep every penny. Further, selling a property to the cash buyer is the quickest way to get yourself a cash deal. The process with them is quite easy. Marketing the property and trying to make it appeal to customers will not be something you will be required to do. Also, some buyers could be willing to buy the home but fail to secure loans for the purpose. None of these things will be in your list of worries when it comes to selling to a cash home buyer. Just contact a cash home buyer, let them price your home and settle a deal. In addition, your home will not require any repairs or even deep cleaning. When it comes to the cash property buyers, they purchase homes as they are. If you do not have the willingness and ability to make fixes to the damages and faults, just leave the home as it is. They will not be a deterrent when it comes to closing a deal. Repairs could also end up costing much time and money. It is critical and wise to check the company you choose. The reputation of a company is something you need to consider for sure. Work with reputable companies such as Pittsburgh Cash Home Buyers LLC.

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30 Jun Richmond’s Park Ranger: Why Betty Reid Soskin Has ‘No Time To Waste’ By Steve Early Richmond’s renaissance as a “progressive city” has thrust many of its leading personalities into the media spotlight in recent years. But none of our local luminaries can match the singular popularity of 98-year old Betty Reid Soskin, whose life and work are now the subject of a new documentary called “No Time To Waste.” It premieres on NBC Bay Area, this Saturday at 7 p.m. (Watch the trailer) Soskin joined the National Park Service 13 years ago and became the biggest attraction at Richmond’s Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park after she was furloughed, along with 800,000 other federal employees, during the government shutdown of 2013. Rather than sit home and quietly wait for that Republican-engineered disruption to end, Soskin became a media sensation as the octogenarian in a Park Service uniform and Smokey the Bear hat who insisted on the urgency of her mission as a public educator about African American history. As she explained to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, talk show host Arsenio Hall, the Associated Press, and others, she had “no time to waste” due to her advanced age and late start on the federal payroll. In the new film of that name and her 2018 autobiography, “Sign My Name to Freedom,” Soskin tells the personal story that has drawn thousands of people, from the Bay Area and far beyond, to the site of Richmond’s World War II Kaiser shipyard. After her family moved from New Orleans to Oakland, Soskin became one of the thousands of African American workers who gained unprecedented job opportunities in Richmond during its ship-building hey-day. Hired at age 19, she spent the war years doing clerical work in the Boilermaker’s union hall, keeping track of its huge influx of new members. After World War II, she became a suburban housewife and mother of four children. She got involved in the Democratic Party and served as a national convention delegate for presidential candidate George McGovern in 1972. Home Front Heroes Soskin’s political activism eventually led to a job doing local constituent service work in Richmond for a California assembly member. In that capacity, she was invited to participate in the planning of what is now the visitors center dedicated to Rosie the Riveter, the iconic bicep-flexing white female in blue overalls and red kerchief featured in a famous war-time propaganda poster. The story of Richmond’s “Rosies,” who were hired for shipyard jobs when white male labor ran short, is the subject of a documentary film called “Home Front Heroes,” which is screened daily by the Park Service. Using old newsreel footage and interviews with aging Kaiser workers, “Heroes” has a warm and fuzzy “greatest generation” feel. It celebrates “ordinary people doing extraordinary things” — i.e., knocking out merchant marine ships at record speed — while overcoming divisions based on race and gender, during what one Rosie in the film recalls as “a wonderful time of coming together” for the common good. After Soskin moved from consulting on the project to serving as a Park Ranger, the World War II story telling of the Richmond Historical Park got grittier and more inclusive. Soskin used audience discussions of “Home Front Heroes” to provide a counter-narrative to the film. She explained how African Americans were originally hired at Kaiser only as “helpers and trainees” — with Black men finally gaining access to other shipyard jobs in 1943 and Black women the following the year. Richmond’s waterfront army of new welders was only fully integrated, out of necessity, in the final months of the war in 1944-45. These gains owed much to A. Phillip Randolph, leader of the Pullman Car Porters’ Union, who used the threat of a civil rights march on Washington to win a federal ban on racial discrimination in hiring for defense industry jobs. As Soskin explains, this “Double V” campaign helped launch the modern civil rights movement” and put pressure on “Jim Crown unions” (like the one she worked for) to accept Black members. In Richmond, African Americans were required to pay full dues to the Boilermakers Union. Yet they were denied full membership voting rights, couldn’t file grievances, and were consigned to a segregated “union auxiliary” of their own. Soskin also informs her audiences about the hazards of wartime work by African Americans in the Bay Area, even though they were far from the nearest battlefield. Many accidents, injuries, and even deaths occurred at Kaiser due to the relentless pace of ship-building. Among defense industry workers nationwide, there were more than 37,500 casualties. In her history talks, Soskin recalls how she and her first husband, Mel Reid, went to a party in July 1944 and met a Black seaman on day leave from Port Chicago, a naval ammunition station located along the Sacramento River Delta in Concord. Later that night, while segregated work crews were loading tons of munitions onto naval vessels bound for the Pacific, a huge explosion destroyed much of the facility, killing more the 320 people (200 of whom were Black). This disaster triggered a famous work stoppage in which surviving African Americans balked at returning to work under the same hazardous conditions. Instead of addressing their safety concerns, white Navy officers court-martialed the protestors for mutiny, securing convictions against fifty men, who were sentenced to 8 to 15 years in the brig. By the end of the war, 20% of the Richmond shipyard workforce of 100,000 was African American. But no children of Black workers were ever permitted to enroll in Kaiser’s day care center and public housing in the city remained strictly segregated. Rank-and-file shipyard workers who had challenged the discriminatory practices of the Boilermakers Union later formed a Richmond branch of the NAACP. It soon became the civil rights organization’s most active West Coast affiliate and a persistent foe of postwar racial discrimination in housing and employment. In her Richmond history talks and tours, Soskin has long fostered discussion about the past, present, and future of work — and the planet. Among the young listeners she has helped inspire are women of color in Richmond who get training for “nontraditional” jobs, in building construction, through the Rosie the Riveter Trust, a privately funded program. Other audience members have included Richmond police officers, assigned to attend her talks as part of their training in “Fair and Impartial Policing.” Echoing Naomi Klein in her book “This Changes Everything,” Soskin frequently makes the point that current environmental challenges require emergency measures and creation of a public jobs program like those associated with World War II and the New Deal before it. As Richmond’s Rosie museum illustrates, fossil fuel rationing, greater public transportation use, various forms of recycling, and nationwide “victory” gardening were embraced by millions of Americans as their contribution to winning the war against Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. “What we do or fail to do about global warming and climate change is going to determine whether our grandchildren will inherit a livable climate,” she informs her visitor center audiences. “We met the threat of fascist world domination…but now this generation will have to exceed that mobilization, on an international scale, to save the planet.” As always, there is good reason for Betty Reid Soskin’s compelling message that she — and we — have no time to waste in the continuing fight for racial justice, workplace rights, and environmental protection. This story was originally published at Beyond Chron. Steve Early is a Richmond resident, DSA member, and author of “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City,” which profiles Betty Reid Soskin and other local figures. He can be reached at Lsupport@aol.com

|Date of Birth:||2003, April 21| |Age:||17 years old| |Birth Name||Xavi Simons| |Birth Place||Amsterdam, Netherlands| |Famous Name||Xavi Simons| |Position in Team||Midfielder| |Currently Working For||PSG| Xavi Simons is a Dutch soccer player who plays as a Central Midfield who recently announced his move to the youth team of Pairs Saint-German (PSG). Previously, he played for Barcelona in their youth team and joined PGS recently on July 23, 2019. The 16-year-old wonder kid is a son of a former Dutch striker, Regillio Simons, and his wife, Peggy. Moreover, he was named after the famous Spanish midfielder, Xavi Hernandez. Below here are the details about his bio, net worth, salary, personal life, and professional career. As a teenage player, Xavi is yet to collect money as net worth; however, he earns a significant amount of salary from his club. His current salary after signing the contract with PSG is around €1 million. Well, he will receive the same salary until the end of 2022. Well, the young player hasn't earned much, but as per the estimation, his current net worth exceeds $1 million. View this post on Instagram I think I just found a secret super power feature on my new Nike boots. If you could have any super power for a day what would it be? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. #nike #magista #obra #2018 #worldcup #superpower #superhero #vacation #vacaciones #libre #verano #celebration #holiday #summertime #spain #xs #lafamilia #friends #family #summer #football #soccer #futbol #xavi #xavisimons #lafamilia #fcbarcelona #sports #barcelona #barca #footballplayer Additionally, the famous young midfielder earns an additional amount form endorsement deals. Exploring his social account, it seems like he has an agreement with Nike through which he receives a handsome sum of money. However, the concrete details about his endorsement earnings are not in the media yet. Simons is enjoying his massive paycheque as it can be seen on his Instagram posts. He will undoubtedly reach the level of an experienced player in no time. Well, Xavi is too you for the relationships and affairs; instead, he is focused on his professional career. Moreover, he is a young player who enjoys playing soccer, and he doesn't have anything in his head rather than soccer. Apart from relationship and affairs, he enjoys a good bond with his parents. Don't Miss: Griffin Yow Besides, he is spotted clicking pictures with a girl named, Daniela Blasco which is kind of suspicious that she might be his girlfriend or just a friend. However, we cannot confidently claim about his relationship with Daniela, but we will undoubtedly find more about his relationship status. Make sure you visit us frequently for detailed information. Xavi, who is just 16 years old, is yet to develop his physique to compete at a higher level. Notably, he stands in the height of 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) and weighs around 65kg. Xavi was born on April 21, 2003, in Amsterdam, Netherland. Additionally, he was born to his parents Regillio Simons, and his wife, Peggy. Also, he is a Dutch native and belongs to the mixed ethnic group. Additionally, he has an older brother named Faustino Simons. Moreover, he was born under the star sign Aries. Similar Bio: James Olayinka Further, his father, Rogelio, is a former dutch striker and also has coached young players at Ajax from 2013-2017. His father has played for the different teams like Telstar, NAC Breda, Kyoto Purple Sanga, Den Haag, and TOP Oss. As of 2019, Xavi currently plays as a midfielder for the team PSG. He played for the Barcelona as a youth and joined his current club, PGS on July 23, 2019. Moreover, Xavi is an earnest young talent who gained fame after his individual YouTube highlights went viral. Read More: Gabriel Martinelli He started playing for Barcelona at the age of seven and was brought to the team form Deportivo Thader. Moreover, Xavi played as a captain for the U14 team of Barcelona. Besides, he made the record of scoring 164 times in 25 games in the 2016-17 season.

The countrys largest trade union,Siptu, has urged its members who work for the State to accept the proposed new public service agreement. The union said its national executive had decided to recommend acceptance of the proposals as, on balance, the benefits in the accord such as the protections against outsourcing outweighed the potential for what might be gained by running the risk of rejection. Siptu said that if members accepted the proposed deal it would vigorously pursue implementation of all elements of the proposals. Siptu said that in particular it would insist on the full implementation of a clause in theproposed agreement which envisaged the establishment of a process to satisfactorily resolve the issue of pay for new entrants. Siptu represents more than 70,000 staff working across various parts of the public service. The union had previously indicated that it could not support any deal that weakened existing safeguards against outsourcing of public services. However in the final draft agreement the Government backed away from earlier proposals to relax the current restrictions in placed against out-sourcing of public services. The trade union Impact, which represents about 60,000 public service employees, has also urged its members to back the draft deal. A decision on whether to ratify formally the proposed agreement is based on an aggregate vote of affiliated member unions of the public services committee of theIrish Congress of Trade Unions. Under this process each affiliate union is given a weight based on the size of its membership. If a majority vote in favour of the deal, it is deemed to be ratified. However in the past some unions have refused to be bound by such a majority decision in cases where their own membership had voted against a proposed deal. If members of Siptu and Impact follow the recommendations of their union executives and back the proposed accord, a majority of the public services committee would be in sight, particularly if the deal was backed by members of some of the civil service unions. However one problem for the Government could be in the teaching sector where the Irish National Teachers Organisation and the Teachers Union of Ireland have urged members to reject the proposed deal on the basis that it did not do enough to tackle the problem of lower pay for recently-recruited staff. The position of the ASTI on the draft deal will not be known until the autumn. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, which had campaigned for special financial incentives to address recruitment and retention problems – which were not provided for in the agreement – is scheduled to set out its position next week. TheIrish Medical Organisation(IMO) said on Wednesday that it had deferred making a decision on the proposed public service agreement amid rising concerns about a recruitment and retention crisis for doctors. The IMO said it was seeking clarification on key issues including recruitment and retention and pay rates for new entrant consultants. DrAnn Hogan, president of the IMO, said that the organisations council had considered the proposed deal but felt unable to reach a conclusion on the issue at this time . We cant divorce the debate about the pay agreement from the crisis in retention and recruitment for doctors. The agreement fails, in its current form, to adequately address this issue and in the absence of substantial proposals, it is not realistic for the IMO to reach a conclusion on the merits or otherwise of the pay agreement. TERMS OF PROPOSED PUBLIC SERVICE DEAL: * About 250,000 State employees will receive pay improvements of between 6.2 per cent and 7.4 per cent over three years * A further 50,000 civil and public service staff recruited since 2013 and who have a less generous pension scheme will receive pay improvements of 7 per cent and 10 per cent over the same period. * About 23,000 State employees such as Garda, military personnel and prison officers, who have faster accruing pensions than other groups, will benefit least from the proposed new agreement. * The deal, if accepted, will cost the exchequer 880 million over three years. * From January 1st, 2018 public service staff will receive a 1 per cent pay rise with a further 1 per cent increase to follow on October 1st next year. * Staff earning up to 30,000 will receive a one per cent rise in January 2019 with all personnel to get a 1.75 per cent increase in September 2019. * A further rise of 0.5 per cent will be put in place for those on salaries of up to 32,000 in January 2020 with all staff to get an additional 2 per cent in October 2020. * The existing public service pension levy, which was introduced as a financial emergency measure in 2009 following the economic crash, is to be converted into permanent additional superannuation contribution on a three-tier basis which is aimed at reflecting differing pension benefits.

APPROVED MINUTES FOR THE 3RD REGULAR MEETING OF THE FACULTY SENATE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES-CAMDEN FEBRUARY 7, 2006 CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 12:23 p.m. in room 121 Armitage Hall, Dr. Charles Jarrett, President, presiding. 1. The December 6, 2005 Faculty Senate meeting minutes were APPROVED, VOICE VOTE . 2. Dr. Gary Golden, Director of the Paul Robeson Library, distributed a packet of information about Information Literacy for Faculty and Administrators. Information Literacy is a three prong, web-based program on academic research that is available on line. It was noted that students entering Rutgers their freshmen year are taught Information Literacy as part of their regular studies. Two-year transfer students may need assistance from their instructors. Dr. Golden said that Information Literacy packets are available, and that he will be sending out more information. 3. Dr. Charmé, Chair of the Academic Policy Committee, distributed copies of the proposal for a Minor in Classical Studies. Dr. Fisk, who will be Director of the Classical Studies minor, explained that the interdisciplinary, multicultural minor in Classical Studies will help students acquire a well-rounded Liberal Arts education as well as supplement their major work in other humanities and social science disciplines. The minor will require 18 credits, requiring World Masterpieces, 6 credits at the 100-200 level, and 3 credits at the upper level. As interdisciplinary programs in Classical Studies become more prevalent in universities across the country, this minor will not only facilitate interdepartmental dialogue on campus but will help Rutgers-Camden gain national recognition. The Minor in Classical Studies was APPROVED, VOICE Dr. Bill Whitlow presented two new courses for the Psychology Department that will fill present gaps in course offerings. Course 830:440 Developmental Psychopathology will cover the major psychological disorders that occur among children and adolescents. Course 830:441 Theories of Therapy describes and evaluates different theoretical approaches to psychotherapy. Both new courses were APPROVED, VOICE VOTE. Dr. Jonathan Tittler presented a new course for the Foreign Languages Department. Course 560:131-132 Intermediate Italian I and II will expand offerings in foreign languages available to all students and potentially to contribute to a European studies minor. This course will provide practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Italian and review of grammar and study of significant texts. Intermediate Italian I, II courses were APPROVED, 4. Dean Mary Beth Daisey presented a faculty update on the Degree Audit. She stated that this new system is moving along, and she stressed its valuable. With it, both advisors (and students) can see all prior notations on a file. Dean Daisey offered to sit down with departments to review their major requirements. She will send out a memo to describe in detail how the new system works. 5. The Faculty Senate reviewed a copy of Dean Palis’ memo on how classes with fewer than five students will be treated as independent studies and not counted as part of faculty members’ teaching loads. To compensate, faculty members will have to teach an additional course in the next academic year. Various members of the Senate pointed out that upper-division courses for their majors often have fewer than five students registered, and that students would have to postpone graduation if departments waited for larger numbers of students. There were also comments about how the Senate needs to consider this issue collectively, as well as questions as to how the new policy conforms to Section 15- Professional Duties of the collective agreement with AAUP. An ad hoc committee consisting of Dr. Rushing, Cowley, and Saidel was designated. A motion was made for the ad hoc committee and was APPROVED, VOICE VOTE. The meeting adjourned at 1:10 p.m. REPORT ON ATTENDANCE: Members Present: C. Jarrett, J. Meyer, L. Bernstein, J. Dighton, W. Saidel, L. Burke, IM Chiu, S. Fiske, R. Habib, M. Amdur, A. Espiritu, J. Rushing, A. Shankman, L. Thomas, J. Still, H. Herrera, H. Li, M. Greipp, J. Wall, R. Cowley, K. Bezrukova, K. Thierry, J. Van Til, J. Siegel, B. Adelson, L. Garcia, J-L. Hippolyte, J. Schiavo, R. Members Excused: G. Kortsarz, J. Golden, N. Sulik, G. Caputo, K. Shienbaum, C. Singley, C. Brenner Members Absent: W. Glasker Laurie Bernstein, Secretary Faculty Senate (AY 2005-2006) APPROVED MINUTES FOR THE 3RD REGULAR MEETING

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I seek leave to make a brief explanation before directing a question to the Minister for Regional Development on the subject of office staffing allocations. The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: The budget papers show that the minister has some 12 FTE positions in her office, at a cost of $1.73 million. Listed also in the budget papers for the Deputy Premier are 10.6 FTEs and the Treasurer has 9.6 FTEs. Can the minister explain why she has more FTEs than both the Deputy Premier and the Treasurer? The Hon. R.L. Brokenshire: This is where the real work is done. The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Public Sector Management, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister for Gambling) (14:27): Exactly! That's right. I am with the Hon. Robert Brokenshire. I concur with his interjection. The FTEs—the staffing arrangements in our office—fluctuate from time to time. I could not tell you today whether it still is 12 FTEs or whether that was a particular fluctuation at a particular point in time, but it would be— The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins: So you don't know how many people work for you. The Hon. G.E. GAGO: No, I don't. I couldn't stand here and tell you how many FTEs, no. I could approximately but, no, not exactly. It does fluctuate. It fluctuates considerably and it fluctuates from time to time. These are operational matters, and I have staff members who manage these, but all of those arrangements are absolutely transparent, and we are absolutely publicly accountable for it. It is all a matter of public record. In terms of why it may have been a particular number at that point in time, if you look at the number of portfolios I currently have, Mr President, I think I have more portfolios than any other single minister. It might just dawn on the honourable member that in fact it reflects the scope of work that I currently have responsibility for.

As the world goes ever more casual, it’s refreshing to encounter Carolyne Roehm, who celebrates the beauty of classical design, formal gardens, and sparkling dinner parties. It’s one thing to admire these things in the abstract; it’s another to live amongst them, day in and day out. But she does. And that’s precisely what she writes about in her lush, inspiring books: ways of elevating the everyday. Her latest publication, At Home in the Garden, sums up her vision of what the garden can be in one’s life. Carolyne’s ultimate canvas is her beloved Connecticut retreat called Weatherstone, tucked in a pastoral corner of Connecticut. There she’s created a beacon of neoclassical architectural; true to the era that inspired it, not one of the antiques inside is later than 19th century. And it’s wrapped with parterre gardens—those geometric gardens you might have seen in Versailles. But before we get carried into another century, let us say this: Carolyne’s no anachronism. She’s as busy and Scandal-addicted as any of us. Her restoration projects and her output of books and blogs makes the head spin. Yes, she’s listed in the International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame, but most days are so busy that she’s been known to wear yoga pants, “and then I never get around to doing any yoga!” She’s like her home in that way—full of graceful refinement but grounded in lots of natural beauty. Step inside Carolyne’s world. Creating Something That’s Truly Hers More than 30 years ago, Carolyne and her former husband bought Weatherstone, a 1765 Georgian mansion with a blend of neoclassical detailing and some Colonial notes (low ceilings, for example). She loved every inch, and over the years Weatherstone carried her through a divorce and all the rerooting that comes with it. Then, in 1999, an electrical fire burned the original home to the ground. Carolyne’s devastation was intense: “The shock was so sad, I thought about leaving it. Then I thought, This could be a window to creating something that’s truly mine. By then, I was divorced with no children, so I didn’t need lots of extra rooms.” She decided to rebuild it in a pure Georgian form, with neoclassical architectural notes—pilasters, graceful arches—throughout, with no more low ceilings. And she decided to devote square footage to one dramatic, two-story great room, which you walk into when you first come inside. “I’d always admired a two-story room in a New York apartment and thought that would be magical,” she says. Carolyne sold her Paris apartment to remain in Connecticut and stay hands-on during the entire construction process. The shock was so sad, I thought about leaving it. Then I thought, This could be a window to creating something that’s truly mine. Returning to the Classics “Classicism is my great love,” Carolyne says. “I wanted the whole classical order, down to the Corinthian columns.” Basing a blueprint on ancient Greece—or rather, the neoclassical period of the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries—might seem lofty, but in Carolyne’s hands, it became a design scheme that beautifully suits her independent lifestyle. “Classicism was born out of the humanities, and everything is done so that the human form is never diminished,” she explains. “In very modern homes, I feel cold and alone. But I never feel alone in these rooms.” And with 16 windows in the great room, she managed to banish any darkness. “The light gets extraordinary,” she says. While the original house had lots of darker English mahogany furniture, Carolyne wanted these furnishings to be light. Starting with Gustavian furniture—with all of its airy painted tones—she expanded to painted furniture from Italy, France, and England. All of it suits the delicate lines of the neoclassical architectural backdrop. “The latest my furniture goes is about 1825,” she says. In very modern homes, I feel cold and alone. I never feel alone in these rooms. Getting the Morning Light “I realized that a formal dining room is a waste of space. I’d walk past this big unused dining table and feel a bit depressed,” Carolyne says, so out went the table and in came an airy morning room, to take advantage of the eastern light and parterre-facing views. In the same vein, she had the floors, which had been a dark mahogany, painted a navy-and-white pattern. “Painted floors bring so much light and reflectivity. I just love them. ” As for her dinner parties, now they take advantage of the full home. She’ll move tables into rooms depending on the season and the gathering, and voilà: instant dining room. As she explains it, “Someone once told me, ‘You live very informally in a very formal house,’ and I think that’s quite true.” Up and Out the Door Carolyne’s only in her breakfast room briefly—“I’m up at 6 a.m., put on a pot of coffee, and take the dogs outside to walk the gardens,” she says. While she’s had as many as 13 dogs, she has 8 at the moment. “It ebbs and flows because people might get a divorce and their dog needs a home, or I might find a rescue.” Recently she bought an entire litter of Havanese. The breakfast room does play a key role, however, since Carolyne’s vast stores of china are kept there. “I do use good dishes all the time. What’s the point otherwise? Although there’s one beautiful, dreadfully expensive 18th-century French set that I use very judiciously. I hate to think something’s lasted all those centuries and then gets chipped at my house,” she says. At Home Outdoors Carolyne’s newest book, At Home in the Garden, puts forth a new personal philosophy about the garden. “It’s not from the perspective from a landscape architect or garden designer,” she explains. “It’s the fact that my life is lived out there, taking care of it all. I wanted to show the wholeness of the garden, that this is a whole canvas to live, to entertain, to be creative, to design.” She also wanted to strip away the emphasis on perfection, which is out of place somewhere as alive as a garden. “Sometimes, myself included, you’re looking at these beautiful gardens and think, How do you ever achieve that? You have to be honest and say there are many failures too.” In spite of the many formalities of her home and garden design, she says the flowers remain at the heart of things, always. “When I was a little girl, I’d make corsages from my grandmother’s flowers. For me, in spite of all the other elements, it’s always really about my love for flowers.” Until I made my first trip to Europe, the term ‘formal garden’ was to me an oxymoron. Gardens were places where you ate tomatoes off the vine with one hand and pulled up carrots with the other. A Romantic Outdoor Escape As her original greenhouse became more antique than functional, Carolyne decided not to do a labor-intensive restoration: “With old things, once you start chipping away, you often discover it will all fall away.” Instead she decorated it romantically and whimsically, creating an entire wall of preserved butterflies. Meanwhile, a hoop house became the place where all the gardening action happens and many of the plants spend their winters. An Evening Retreat At the end of a day, there’s nothing like a proper retreat. “I wanted one cozy room,” Carolyne says of her wood-paneled library. “When you’re down or tired, you need a retreat.” After a big snowstorm knocked the power out, Carolyne realized how lovely it was to light rooms by candle—“That became one of my favorite nights.” Since then, she filled this room and others with hurricane lamps, which she loves for their weighty elegance. While she often pulls in a table here for a cozy dinner party, this room is a favorite of hers for an off-duty night of television. “I’ve never seen a Kardashian anything, but I love espionage and thrillers. I’m totally in love with Scandal.” I wanted one cozy room. When you’re down or tired, you need a retreat. Work, but Happy Work Though Carolyne grew up in Missouri, unaware of formal gardens and dreaming “of being a fairy princess with a tiara,” she has long since fashioned her life around her passions for interiors, for flowers, for beautiful things. It has all taken her hard work, steady focus, and a driving passion. “It’s a luxury and a blessing to have these homes, but it comes with a lot of responsibility and work. Nothing happens by itself. I have a lot of help, but I don’t want to turn everything over to a staff. I want to be totally involved, since I love it all.” That means, while she sets about restoring a Charleston mansion, she’s “the Queen of Trader Joe’s and Lowe’s,” going there twice a day to keep the project going. As for how and where she finds peace—besides a morning walk through the garden—she says, “I can’t stop hopping along. I’m working on six projects, and my brain is everywhere at once. I flunked meditation, but watercoloring for me is the only time I’m quiet and focused. I do need to fight for more time for watercoloring.”

Chris Cornell recently co-wrote a song with a fan. Called I Promise It's Not Goodbye, the story behind the track is quite extraordinary. Texan fan Rory de la Rosa lost his six-year-old daughter Ainslee to cancer last year. Shortly afterwards, he himself was diagnosed with the same illness. Rather than losing himself to despair, however, de la Rosa reached out to Cornell to tell him how much his music impacted his life and of the bond it helped create for him and his daughter. Through a caregiver at de la Rosa's hospice, the two succeeded in contacting Cornell via the internet. Cornell discusses the story "I have had a friendship with him by telephone and e-mail for a while now," says Cornell. "I was made aware of his story and that he wanted to talk to me because my music had been important to him and his family through what I think of as an unimaginably hard time. "After speaking to him I knew we would stay in touch. I think he is an extremely brave man and has been nothing but a gentleman in every conversation we have had, never once complaining even when I know he may be having a bad day. "To the contrary, he has sent me messages that have lifted my spirit at times when I was down and without knowing, reminded me how trivial my few troubles really are. What he did to lift my spirits the most was to send me his poem. What I read gave me such a sense of relief that Rory had an insight. A strength and hope that was inspiring beyond measure." A poem becomes a song De la Rosa sent Cornell a poem called I Promise It's Not Goodbye, and Cornell was so moved that he turned it into a song. "It was a pleasure to put it to music and an honor that he ask if I would ever consider it. It was with his permission that I posted it for people to listen to." To download a free MP3 of I Promise It's Not Goodbye, visit Chris Cornell's official website. Cornell does ask, however, that you will consider making a donation in memory of Rory's daughter Ainslee and to help ease the financial burden of Rory's disease. In our opinion, it's one of the most memorable tracks Cornell has ever recorded. Be sure to check it out. Also, give a listen to MusicRadar's exclusive podcast interview with Chris Cornell.

Rogue Chimp, a Scranton, PA, based band, creates progressive-electro fusion music by incorporating the bass, drums, an electric violin and synths. These tools of melodies help them create their “nostalgic video gameness.” Rogue Chimp’s self-titled EP Rogue Chimp paints hues and hints of many musical genres, but mainly embodies a jazz and techno creation. Rogue Chimp comprises three tracks: “Critical Mass,” “PI,” and “Frank.” Each song on the album combines classical and futuristic sounds with their usage of electronics and a mini-orchestra. “Critical Mass” marries techno sounds with organic ones through constantly forming new incarnations and elements of beats as it advances. The track “PI” offers the most familiar musical experience. Though unclear if “PI” stands for the mathematical equation or an abbreviation for another word, it works best when comparing the melodies to pop culture’s portrayal of a PI, private investigator. A lot of the sounds throughout “PI” echo 80’s and 90’s cop and detective shows and movies’ theme songs. The changing dynamics in the song could also work to symbolically capture the heart pumping thrills and dangers of being a PI. “Frank” acts as an instrumental and electronic medley, with its infusion of different well-known and unknown beats. It is the most playful track on Rogue Chimp. The violin solos on Rogue Chimp create an unusual, but refreshing element to this type of genre. On “Frank,” the violin solo mid-way through the track creates a spellbinding point in the album. Every song on Rogue Chimp is longer and more complex than the last one, which gives listeners something new to explore with every single change. Rogue Chimp definitely has enough complexity and creativeness to appeal to both fans of techno-fusion music and general music enthusiast. We are dedicated to informing the public about the different types of independent music that is available for your listening pleasure as well as giving the artist a professional critique from a seasoned music geek. We critique a wide variety of niche genres like experimental, IDM, electronic, ambient, shoegaze and much more. Are you one of our faithful visitors who enjoys our website? Like us on Facebook

Museums, parks, castles, zoos, gardens, palaces, abbeys, the list goes on! How many of these have you been to? The visitor attraction industry is forever growing and customers are becoming spoilt for choice. But are they visiting yours? Visitor experience is an extremely important factor and companies should be constantly trying to find new ways of improving this. Companies should be aiming to exceed their customers’ expectation every time they visit attractions; only then will the customers return. The main objective here is to minimise customer effort and this will demonstrate a positive impact upon the visitor experience. Creating a positive customer experience means making it easy for the customer; put yourself in their shoes, what don’t you like about visiting attractions? Waiting in long queues and spending a lot of money are probably two of the main reasons that discourage customers from visiting. Technology creates opportunities for companies to increase customer satisfaction and it enables a more effective and efficient solution. A solution which is most beneficial to businesses, as well as customers, is online ticketing. Benefits to the customer means that it is much faster than standing in a queue or waiting on the phone. As much as people in Britain like to boast about how patient we are and how good our queuing etiquette is, you still can’t deny that the sight of a long line is frustrating. It is also much cheaper, companies encourage customers to buy online and to do this they offer discounts and special promotions. Naturally, companies like to cut down on the amount of work they have and as always, customers revel at the thought of saving money. A win-win, wouldn’t you say? Accessibility is a major feature that customers also benefit from. This starts from the company’s website; is it smart phone and tablet friendly? It is guaranteed that most customers will buy their tickets when they are out and about, browsing the internet. What is the point of a website if no one can access it? People may see a flyer and want to book online wherever they are and you, as a company, need to be able to provide this. Furthermore, customers will want to have e-tickets as well as the paper tickets the can print off at home, saving on postage for the customer and admin for you. Before you ask, yes, there are benefits to businesses too! One of the main advantages of getting your customers to book online is the collection of essential data. As customers book online, you can create a database and with this be able to plan marketing campaigns in the future on a personal level. In doing so, the percentage of customers returning is a lot higher. Maybe entice them with an offer too! In addition, having customers book online means companies incur less costs, which is always a plus. It also induces a more ethical approach to companies; less paper means a reduction in carbon footprint. Customers like to see that businesses are ‘green’ and making a step towards sustainability. Social networking plays a big part in all of this. Everyone loves to post updates and statuses and it’s always a good idea be included in all of these. It not only gets you free publicity but it gives you brand visibility which is ever so important, especially in the visitor attraction industry. MerlinSoft offers an integrated solution for online ticketing and venue management. We work with visitor attractions all over the world to ensure we are giving you the exact tools you need to offer an exceptional visitor experience. Our websites are built to your specification to ensure your brand matches your website; we don’t use templates we build your website from the ground up. You have total control over tickets and events, as well as all of the customer data that is collected for your use at no extra cost. To find out how we can help your visitor attraction call us on 01226 294413 or email firstname.lastname@example.org

Big medals haul at World Championships Three students from Bristol based World Tang Soo Do Association clubs attended the World Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina during July, and came away with four Gold, one Silver and a Grand Champion cup between them. Tom Woodford (3rd Dan Black Belt), Chris Woodford (1st Dan Black Belt), both from the Frome Valley Tang Soo Do club which runs on two sites, the URC church hall on Muller Road, Horfield, Bristol and Wellesley Primary School, Yate, and Nick Davison (Cho Dan Bo) from the Bishopston Tang Soo Do club who train at St Bonaventure’s School, took part in the two day competition in the United States competing in Weapons, Hyungs and Free Sparring categories. They were part of a larger GB Team of 51 students who flew across to the USA for this competition. Overall, the GB team won 96 medals and 3 Grand Champion trophies. Tom wasn’t placed but performed really well in a very tight group. However, Chris won a gold medal for Hyungs, and a silver medal for Weapons and Nick went one better winning Gold in each of the categories. Nick was also awarded the Snr Male Gup Grand Champion cup. Instructors of the two clubs, Master Rachel Woodford from Frome Valley TSD and Jordan Chappell (3rd Dan Black Belt) from Bishopston TSD, accompanied the group to Greensboro, and were both extremely proud of the achievements of their students. Master Woodford said: “The students have been working towards this competition for over a year, taking part in regional championships in preparation, and working hard to identify areas they could improve and develop as well as maintaining health and fitness during this long lead-up. Their success at the World Championships reflects the hard work and dedication that they have given.” Tang Soo Do is a traditional martial art dating back over 2,000 years and The World Tang Soo Do Association has maintained its links with these traditions. Competition is part of the activities that the local clubs take part in, with the World Championships held every two years in the United States. With over 1,700 competitors, the Championships are held over a two-day period and the Opening Ceremony highlights the promotions of Senior Masters and celebrates outstanding contributions by students and Instructors of the Association. Demonstrations are included during this part of the event, and this year, for the first time, an All-Female demonstration was given by over 500 students from around the world. The students had been practising a special hyung, but this was the first time they had come together to demonstrate this. Master Rachel Woodford, instructor from the Frome Valley Tang Soo Do club, took part in this demonstration, and felt that this was one of the best moments she had experienced since taking up Tang Soo Do in 1996. In Bristol there are nine Tang Soo Do clubs linking to the World Tang Soo Do Association, and new students are always welcome at all these clubs. Frome Valley TSD meet on a Friday night (in Horfield) and a Tuesday night in Yate, whilst Bishopston TSD meet on a Thursday evening. For more information contact the instructors (Master Rachel Woodford on 07712 729726 and Jordan Chappell on 07702 173791) or go to the website, www.btsda.co.uk

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Please know that the following post is long and covers topics that are not my usual focus. However, the times we are living in are calling me to write from a place deep within that has been stirred by certain personal and global events during the past months. It is my opinion we (humanity at large) have entered a contemporary dark age that mirrors and aligns with historical periods such as: the fall of the Roman Empire, the Crusades, and the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Evil is stalking the earth and seeking the ruin of souls. Perhaps evil is also fostering the demise of civilization as we’ve known it. The earth is raped and pillaged daily by corporate greed while certain political voices spew hatred and pour fuel on the fires of racism and bigotry. Innocent people live daily in harm’s way while radicals terrorize their towns and villages. The list of travesties and torments endured by humankind have grown to monumental proportions. The state of the world and our personal lives often troubles one’s sleep and fosters fear and rage. Too many sleepless nights incites countless addictions into play to numb the body, mind, and soul to the ensuing chaos. You may be wondering what has occurred to inspire this outpouring. I will briefly highlight a few reasons including: a recent car accident, the increase of incidences of rape, and the rise of terrorism. My husband and I were in a car accident two weeks ago. We experienced a violent jolt when the car was broadsided when another car ran a red light. The airbags deployed and for several minutes while I gathered my wits, I actually believed someone had thrown a bomb into the car. There is a huge physical impact associated with airbag deployment. It is a disorienting and violent experience. It felt to me as if I had been inside an explosion. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured. During my initial moments of shock, I felt spiritually transported. I was suddenly, through Grace, viscerally connected with countless others around the world that live daily with a thousand times the impact of what I had just experienced…through the ravages of war, the physical and emotional detriments of extreme poverty, and the chaos of human deprivation, bigotry, and fear for personal safety and the safety of beloveds. For days afterward, this feeling of “global” connection caused me to have sudden uncontrollable outbursts of tears for our suffering world. The accident changed me. My sense of awareness of the depth of human suffering beyond the boundaries of what I had previously experienced on an intellectual level, became embodied within my being. We sat in the car awaiting the police and I asked our driver, who happened to be from Palestine, if he was alright…should he phone his family? Badly shaken, he shared that a call would upset his wife. He and his wife had moved to the U.S. leaving loved ones behind. He cried as he mentioned their three month old son. For the next twenty minutes until the police arrived, I thought about the endless and meaningless boundaries and labels that we humans have created… “immigrants and nations, them and us,” etc., etc. Again, intellectually and spiritually I previously held the intellectual and spiritual belief that the human family is one family beyond religion, race, or nationality. However, that Thursday afternoon sitting in the wrecked car I experienced the embodiment of the reality that the people of the earth are One Family. Another monumental issue that has assumed residence within my being is my awareness of the incidence of rape of young girls and young women. I personally know several women who have endured the horror of sexual assault in recent months. The numbers are growing. For millennia rape has been an unconscienable yet “given” issue during war, but the question of why it is now so extremely prevalent in high schools on college campuses seems like a “canary in the mine” with regard to the health of our culture and patriarchal attitudes towards women. This one indicator alone signifies to my way of thinking that we are in serious serious trouble. The sexual abuse of women all over the world brings feelings of rage. In my latest book, I write about the difference between rage and “holy outrage.” Holy outrage can become a catalyst for meaningful service and transformation…. Holy outrage yields passion. Passion begets service and ministry. Service and ministry inspire solutions to support healing, and resolve conflict. Solutions, healing, and resolved conflict foster peace. Peace gives rise to hope. Hope encourages renewal. Renewal aids the healing of broken hearts. Healed hearts beget Love. The Way of Belle Coeur: A Woman’s Vade Mecum Rage is rampant these days but holy outrage is the spiritual, peace-making, and healing action that is born from an initial reactive response to abuse, betrayal, injustice, and evil in all its myriad forms. The third factor that has inspired this post is the energetic fallout and fear caused by terrorism. This prevalence of evil is so pervasive it has been called the “new normal.” I don’t accept that. There is nothing normal about it. There is so much more I could write and I’m sure you could add a chorus to this outpouring of what’s wrong in the world today. The list is seemingly endless: Addiction, consumerism, corporate greed, political unrest, racism, endless war, misuse of technology, and all manner of mistrust, hatred, and fear. Evil is stalking the world seeking the ruin of souls… Because I’m a visual person, to my mind, I imagine there is a spiritual war raging in the ethers, throughout the invisible realm. It is a war between the angels of Light and the dark angels. At times this concept feels viscerally palpable. Whether my scenario is a literal or metaphorical event I leave to your discernment. However, I feel that energetically we humans are experiencing a spiritual war that is taking place in a parallel dimension. Perhaps we consciously or unconsciously sense this in the same way that we subliminally and physically absorb what is happening globally or personally, within our families and with our beloveds and friends in the here and now. Questions arise… How do I respond to the onslaught of grief and despair that depicts the state of our world? What is God’s invitation for me at this present time? What is the call that comes with my deepened empathy and awareness for the condition of humanity? How can I best be of service to foster healing and peace? Who do I need to forgive? What is my definition of “right action?” Personally, I feel called to engage in spiritual warfare. The three components of my response to the spiritual war that is raging are: Prayer, Presence, and Promise. Prayer, takes form through my rededication to the prayers of the Rosary and to the writing of my daily prayers in a prayer journal. Throughout the day I also feel called to recite the Hail Mary or Jesus prayer as a mantra whenever dark or foreboding thoughts intrude. Daily spiritual practice and prayer are my shield from my own pervasive fears and anxieties. Presence, is a path I seek with the intention and hope to become fully present to each moment. I pray to stay awake and aware to life’s challenges rather than succumb to fear, fed in large daily doses through the media. The practice of Presence is soul work. It’s not easy and many days I falter and fail. However, for me, I believe that engaging the full presence of one’s being within the context of all of life’s encounters through relationships, prayer, work, service, and the natural world is the spiritual practice of becoming a spiritual warrior. The outcome of this practice is the offering of Living Love and Responsive Action. Love, forgiveness, and servant leadership shine light upon the darkness. Promise, reflects my committment to the spiritual practices of prayer and presence. Commitment, whether to daily physical exercise, a change of habitual patterns or addictions, or the full engagement with spiritual practice…all of these intentions facilitate change, healing, and blessing. When one person heals there is a ripple out effect that offers the invitation for others to heal their broken places as well. The practice of promise is personal. It is the intention to take a stand for Love when confronted by evil and fear. The sacred practice of promise is a covenant with the Divine Presence and those angels of Light I mentioned earlier. It’s important for me to remember there are spiritual (unseen) allies working alongside me. I have discovered that in order to maintain the level of prayer, presence, and promise I’ve referred to, it’s essential to practice extreme self-care. This means self-permission for periods of immersion within the process of the creation and experience of beauty…arranging flowers in a vase, creating an altar, lighting candles, listening to uplifting music, preparing a meal for family, reading sacred texts and the wisdom of the saints, walking in nature, to name a few. All of this is ultimately offer a beacon of hope. If you’re still reading and this post has stirred you in some way, please take heart. Good and evil have been in conflict since time began. What we are experiencing isn’t new, rather it’s ancient but now tangibly apparent through the instanteous delivery of the Internet and all forms of technological devices. Over the past days as I’ve contemplated my feelings about these issues and others too numerous to mention, I’ve come to realize a fact that elementary and obvious but easily ignored. The fact of the matter is, it is how I respond to my awareness of evil that matters. My prayer is to be given the strength not to feed and nourish evil’s presence with my fears nor engage it through its temptation and seduction. My hope and shield is that many of us will begin a Spiritual and Creative Renaissance as prayerful purveyors of beauty and truth. I pray that those who feel called will become a fierce and radiant presence of Love that with God’s help will turn the world around towards Eden.

Qatarlyst takes strategic step forward with acquisition of RI3K Transformational transaction increases Qatarlyst membership by over 600% Qatar Insurance Services LLC, owner of Qatarlyst S.P.C., the technology-based insurance and reinsurance trade fulfilment system based in Doha, is pleased to announce that it has acquired RI3K, the London based pioneer and innovator of technology that supports paperless transactions for the commercial insurance and reinsurance industry. This is a transformational deal for Qatarlyst, expanding its international reach and enhancing its service offering to London and beyond, creating additional opportunities for growth and providing a quantum leap in the number of members served to over 330, whilst more than doubling its headcount to over 45. RI3K provides a global ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS) that replaces the paper-based processes that support the transactions of all types and classes of large commercial insurance and facultative and treaty reinsurance. The service has been developed to support the way that buyers, brokers and carriers around the world conduct business. It allows them to collaborate, create contracts, distribute risk and transact in a way that is faster, more accurate, more efficient and cheaper than the paper and email based processes that currently support commercial insurance negotiations. RI3K facilitates transactions for over 4,200 individual users drawn from over 290 of the world’s largest and most successful blue chip insurance companies and intermediaries such as Aon, Swiss Re, and Zurich operating in the London and other global insurance markets. The strategic rationale The acquisition significantly increases the scale and scope of the existing Qatarlyst business. The two businesses are expected to be fully integrated over time to create a single platform with enhanced functionality and accessibility. The Qatarlyst System is provided by Qatarlyst S.P.C. (“Qatarlyst”), a Single Shareholder Company incorporated in the State of Qatar and Licensed by the Qatar Ministry of Business & Trade. Qatarlyst is 100% owned by Qatar Insurance Services LLC (“QIS”) which is incorporated in the QFC and Licensed by the QFC Authority to conduct Professional Services (Consulting). QIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFC Authority). Qatarlyst provides a web based solution for regional brokers and insurance firms to negotiate, place and accept large commercial insurance risks electronically, is expected to benefit from RI3K’s interface with London and the international markets. In turn, existing RI3K customers will benefit from long term financial security and Qatarlyst’s superior functionality in areas such as Retakaful, Claims and Accounting. The combination of Qatarlyst and RI3K will help to accelerate the development of the Qatar Financial Centre in its declared ambition to become a leading hub for reinsurance in the GCC region and beyond. This acquisition also gives Qatar the opportunity to help to meet London’s insurance market needs for enhanced paperless trading. Headquartered in Qatar with a significant presence and investment in London, the enlarged business will connect global, regional and local markets, enabling brokers, insurers and reinsurers to drive down their transactional unit cost, save valuable time and will provide increased data accuracy, management information and control. Abdulrahman Al Shaibi, Chairman of Qatarlyst and Managing Director of the QFC Authority, commented: “The acquisition of RI3K is a clear sign of our long term commitment to develop the Qatarlyst offering. We firmly believe that the future success of our business is dependent on our ability to offer far into the future a financially and technically secure e-platform solution on which our clients can transact quickly and efficiently. “In addition, our continual investment in and development of our platform supports the wider strategy of the QFC Authority to develop a regional hub for reinsurance and captive insurance and one that is efficiently connected to other key global centres. London is the world’s oldest insurance market and it is important that we secure and maintain strong links with it and other global markets.” Robin Merttens, Chief Operating Officer of RI3K and who will become Marketplace Director heading up the London office of the enlarged group, commented: “The long-term nature of Qatar's commitment to the building of an industry utility should provide all the comfort and reassurance our customers and prospects require. Going forward, the strategy for the enlarged Qatarlyst service is consistent with the change programme in London and will contribute significantly to it.” James Sutherland, CEO of Qatarlyst commented: “This acquisition is a good strategic fit both technologically and geographically for Qatarlyst giving us access to the key London and international markets. Our ambition is to become the single e-platform that supports existing distribution channels and markets with the next generation support tool for placement, claims and accounting workflows between counterparties. We support the London Market Reform agenda and our aim is to win over all the major brokers and risk assumers in the London Market to using the single Qatarlyst platform to facilitate their business.” Marlin & Associates acted as exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Qatar Insurance Services, trading as Qatarlyst. About QIS and Qatarlyst The Qatarlyst System is provided by Qatarlyst S.P.C. (“Qatarlyst”), a Single Shareholder Company incorporated in the State of Qatar and Licensed by the Qatar Ministry of Business & Trade. Qatarlyst is 100% owned by Qatar Insurance Services LLC (“QIS”) which is incorporated in the QFC and Licensed by the QFC Authority to conduct Professional Services (Consulting). QIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFC Authority). Located in Doha, Qatar Qatarlyst has been established in order to play its part in achieving Qatar’s stated desire to become the region’s leading insurance and reinsurance centre. Launched in 2009, over 40 insurance firms in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan have been approved to use the Qatarlyst service. These include Oman Insurance, Doha Insurance and Nasco Insurance Brokers. QIS has a distinguished board of non-executive directors drawn from business and the insurance and technology sectors: Abdulrahman Al Shaibi, Chairman (FD of Qatar Petroleum, a member of the Qatar’s Finance Policy Committee, a Board member of various other companies including Qatargas, its sister companies and QASCO. Mr. Al-Shaibi is the Chairman of QFC Authority Board Audit and Risk Committee). - Ian Cormack, Deputy Chairman (previously European Chief Executive of AIG Inc) - John Coomber, NED (previously CEO of Swiss Re) - Mike Peachey, NED (CEO of CTC Axiom and of the Insurance Services Division of Charles Taylor Consulting plc) - Stuart Pearce, NED (previously CEO of QFCA where he remains a non executive board member) - Leonard Schrank, NED (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ACT3 Technologies LLC, and previously CEO of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)). - Max Taylor, NED (Currently Chairman of Mitsui-Sumitomo London Insurance Companies and previously Chairman of Lloyd’s of London. - Khalid Al Mughesib, Deputy CEO (previously with Qatar Petroleum and Al Koot Insurance & Reinsurance Co. (QP Captive) as Energy Insurance Manager and Al Jasr Takaful as General Manager. He brings 18 years of experience in local, regional and international insurance RI3K (Reinsurance and Insurance for the 3rd Millennium) is the privately owned paperless trading service for the insurance and reinsurance industry. RI3K allows all types and classes of large commercial insurance and facultative and treaty reinsurance to be transacted over the Internet. RI3K has over 30 staff based in London looking after a blue chip client base including AON, BMS, Aviva, RSA, Brit Insurance and Ace. The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) is a financial and business centre established by the Government of Qatar and located in Doha. It has been designed to attract international financial services institutions and major multi-national corporations in particular those operating in the reinsurance, captive insurance and asset management sectors and to encourage participation in the growing market for financial services in Qatar and elsewhere in the region. The QFC operates to international standards and provides a first class legal and business infrastructure for those operating within the QFC. The QFC was created by Qatar Law No. (7) and has been open for business since 1 May 2005. The QFC Authority is the commercial, administrative and legislative body responsible for leading the expansion of Qatar’s financial services sector, providing a uniquely sustainable platform for regional growth in reinsurance, captive insurance and asset management. About Marlin & Associates Marlin & Associates Holding LLC is a boutique investment banking and strategic advisory firm specializing in acquisitions and divestitures of U.S. and international middle-market firms that provide technology, digital information and healthcare-related products, technology and services. The firm is headquartered in New York, NY and has additional offices in Washington, DC and Toronto, Canada. Marlin & Associates Securities LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marlin & Associates Holding LLC, is a broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is a FINRA/SIPC member firm (www.finra.org). Investment banking and/or securities are offered through Marlin & Associates Securities LLC. Marlin & Associates' professionals have advised on more than 200 successfully completed transactions. More information is available at www.MarlinLLC.com.

For those who know me well, they can surely say that I probably have the shortest attention span. I have to have a place or an activity or website that I can easily go to or visit when I get bored. I have to thank Pinterest for constantly picking me up on hours that I am down; serves as my virtual pin board actually. :) I was quite delighted to see these two interesting things when I first logged on to prep for work. Let’s admit it: this cardboard castle is just divine! I absolutely love it. I was thinking if I collect enough boxes and cardboards, it would make a good rainy day project. I don’t know if this is a direct reflection of my emotional quotient, but it’s a really nice work of art. And kids can do it too! They can make their own castle without having to rely on Disney. Hahahaha. This is the best thing ever! An ink calendar. Yup, you read that right. You get to see the dates because the calendar absorbs the ink as each day passes. How cool is that?! This is made by an artist named Oscar Diaz. According to his page, “Ink Calendar” make use the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are “printed” daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it. The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a “color temperature scale”, each month having a color related to our perception of the whether on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to, three shades of green in spring or oranges, red in the summer. The scale for measuring the “color temperature” that I have used is a standard called ‘D65’ and corresponds roughly to a midday sun in Western / Northern Europe. The Ink Calendar was exhibited at the London Design Festival in 2007. I would love to get one of these! So I guess you can say this is a pretty good morning for me. How about you? How is your morning?

Disclaimer: Please note that some of the links in this blog post are affiliate links which means I earn from qualifying purchases. I recommend these products either because I use them or because companies that make them are trustworthy and useful. You already know the statistics: one-third of children in the U.S are overweight or obese and rates have more than tripled since the 1970’s. Although we hear a lot about childhood obesity itself, what I think is often missing in the message is the why. We talk a lot about eating right and exercise, which are of course, important to prevent childhood obesity, but what seems to be missing is a focus on the several long-term health consequences of childhood obesity. Perhaps even more important is that many of the health risks of childhood obesity can affect kids both when they’re young and as adults. Although many health conditions have physical symptoms and can be diagnosed, some are insidious and may not be detected until much later in life. Here, read on for 8 health risks of childhood obesity—and why they matter. 1. Type-2 diabetes According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), some of the immediate health risks of childhood obesity include higher than normal blood glucose levels (known as impaired glucose tolerance), insulin resistance, a condition in which the cells cannot use insulin effectively, and type-2 diabetes. A condition previously only seen in adults, today, cases of type-2 diabetes in kids are on the rise. According to an April 2017 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the rate of newly diagnosed cases of type-2 diabetes in children between ages 10 and 19 increased by 4.8 percent. 2. Cardiovascular and heart disease Children who are obese have risk factors for cardiovascular disease including high cholesterol, high blood pressure and problems with blood glucose tolerance. In fact, a 2007 study in the Journal of Pediatrics of 5-17-year-olds found that approximately 70 percent of kids have at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease and 39 percent had two or more. What’s more, according to an October 2015 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, children and teens with the most severe obesity also had worse cholesterol and blood glucose levels. 3. Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Yet in recent years, more children than ever are also being diagnosed. Studies show up 38 percent of obese children have NAFLD, a 2.7 fold increase since the 1980’s. NAFLD is also the most common cause of liver disease in children. Although it’s unclear of the causes, NAFLD is associated with insulin resistance, type-2 diabetes and high cholesterol, and obesity is a risk factor. (NASH), which causes inflammation and liver cell damage, cirrhosis of the liver and liver failure. Approximately 9 million children in the U.S. have asthma, a disease which causes the airways to become sore and swollen and causes symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, tightness in the chest and trouble breathing. Experts say childhood obesity may play a role. In fact, a December 2018 study in the journal Pediatrics suggests childhood obesity increases the risk for childhood asthma by 30 percent. Kids who were overweight also had a 17 percent increased risk for asthma. Although the study doesn’t prove that obesity causes asthma, research suggests weight loss can improve or reverse it. A January 2019 systematic review in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society found obese children who lost weight may improve their asthma. 5. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) According to the National Sleep Foundation, between 1 and 10 percent of kids have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition that causes symptoms like snoring, restless sleep, pauses in breathing and bedwetting. Left untreated, obstructive sleep apnea can lead to high blood pressure, heart trouble, poor weight gain, learning problems and behavioral problems. The reason is that the tonsils become enlarged from fatty tissues in the upper airway, and fat deposits in the neck and chest encourage the airways to collapse during sleep, Lisa Shives, M.D., said in this article. 6. Joint problems According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, kids who are obese can have problems with the growth and health of their bones, joints and muscles. Excess weight can damage the growth plates, and alter the length and shape of the bones when they’re fully grown. Being overweight also ups the risk for premature arthritis, broken bones and other serious conditions. In fact, an October 2018 study out of the U.K. suggests that raising rates of obesity are leading more teens to develop Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE), a debilitating hip disease that requires surgery and can cause lifelong disability. 7. Mental Illness In the U.S., mental illness is a serious issue for all kids, but kids with obesity in particular are more likely to be at risk for emotional problems that last into adulthood. In fact, a 2006 study in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care found obese teens were more likely to have anxiety, depression and low self-esteem than those who had a normal weight. Of course, the stigma associated with being overweight, social discrimination and bullying all impact an overweight child’s self esteem and confidence. 8. Obesity into adulthood There’s no question that kids who are obese are more likely to stay overweight into adulthood and face the same heath risks, but those risk factors are also likely to be more severe. Although there’s a clear link between obesity and cancer, research suggests that childhood obesity rates are also causing more young adults to get cancer. According to a March 2018 study in the journal Obesity, certain types of cancer that were previously seen in adults over 50 such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer and thyroid cancer, are now being diagnosed in younger adults (as young as 20), and childhood obesity rates may be to blame.