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Boy seriously injured after being hit by vehicle 7:43pm Oct 11, 2018 A pre-schooler has been airlifted to hospital after being hit by a reversing vehicle in Rochester, near Echuca, this afternoon. Police believe Kruze Mackay, 2, was hit in the driveway of a Hopetoun Street property about 12.30pm. The boy suffered suspected leg and abdominal injuries, and was airlifted to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Rochester boy Kruze has been airlifted to the Royal Children's Hospital in a serious condition. (9NEWS) (9NEWS) He is now in a serious but stable condition. “He’s a happy-go-lucky boy, and always on the go,” his grandmother, Karen Cemino, told 9News. Police believe the boy was hit by the vehicle about 12.30pm. (9NEWS) Investigations into the incident are underway. Watch the full news bulletin on 9Now 6pm news Police warn: You won't see your loved ones at airport Experts answer COVID-19 queries on super, Centrelink, self-isolation and more

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29. The Master said, “‘One’s mental capacity is vast’ means having no obstructions in one’s mind. If one’s mind has no partiality toward either hatred or love, no limitations of national boundaries, no attachment to favorable or adverse conditions, and is not entrapped by suffering or happiness, then it is said that ‘one’s mental capacity is vast.’” The Master continued, “The great dharma that will save the whole world should be one that is accessible from all directions and applicable in all directions, through simultaneously surmounting the physical barriers of geography and the invisible barriers of mentality.”

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At Westacre we aim to inspire our pupils' curiosity to know more about the past. We equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence and develop perspective and judgement. Through a well rounded curriculum pupils develop an understanding of the complexity of people's lives, the diversity of societies as well as their own identity and challenges of their time. Please find below the skills progression map for History at Westacre. This uses the National Curriculum for History to identify how the children should develop and build upon their skills in five key areas, as they progress from First School through Upper Key Stage 2 and into Key Stage 3. Skills Map showing the progression of skills across the year group History Skills Progression.docx.pdf Enrichment in History History is brought to life at Westacre using a variety of immersive and well planned activities. In year 5, students have become archaeologists and "dug up" artefacts to start topics, and will have visits from key figures from the Viking period and local history to bring their topics to life. In year 6, students examine how a diverse range of civilisations survived, and indeed thrived, across time- from Neanderthals to Ancient Egyptians, Shang Dynasty of Ancient China to nomadic tribes which should excite and engage our students to imagine life in different times. In year 7, treasure hunts and the placing of key events and resources are used to engage the children with their Conflict topic. Year 5 Brine Baths Project 20-21 We are delighted to have been asked by the Save Our Brine Baths (SOBBS) campaign to work alongside them in promoting awareness of Droitwich's rich heritage and their campaign for the return of the brine baths to the town. Please see the Year 5 Photo Gallery page for weekly updates, and visit the Brine Memories website for our findings and experience of the collection of memories. https://www.westacre-middle-school.co.uk/year-5-photo-gallery-1/ https://www.brinememories.org.uk/westacre.html History Learning at Westacre

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Medical Malpractice Is Tragic Pattern in Military Hospitals, NYT Report Finds While military hospitals are often the sites of medical malpractice and medical mistakes, these mistakes are rarely scrutinized and reported, a recent New York Times investigation has found. According to this study, researchers have reportedly uncovered the facts that: A recent study has exposed the high rates of medical malpractice in military hospitals. Here are the details you should know. Contact us if you’ve been the victim of military medical malpractice. Military hospitals consistently have had higher rates of malpractice and resulting harm to patients when providing maternity care and conducting surgeries (as compared to the rates associated with civilian hospitals). Although military hospitals have been required to investigate sudden/unexpected patient complications since 2001 (per the Defense Department’s regulations), these investigations are only sporadically conducted. Less than half of the adverse patient events that would necessitate further investigation were actually looked into by administrators at the impacted facilities. Given the fact that U.S. military hospitals are currently providing care to about 1.6 million active duty military members, as well as their families, these findings raise serious concerns about the risks to patient safety presented in these facilities. Medical Malpractice in Military Hospitals: A Closer Look at the Scope of the Problem The NYT’s findings regarding medical malpractice in military hospitals have been backed up by other recent research, including a study from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). According to this study: About 50 percent of the nation’s largest military hospitals had higher rates of post-surgical infection and improperly performed surgeries (when compared to benchmark values). The three military hospitals with the highest rates of surgical complications were the Madigan Army Medical Center, the San Antonio Military Medical Center and the Naval Medical Center San Diego. In contrast, the top three military hospitals in the U.S. with the lowest rates of post-surgical complications included the Naval Hospital Jacksonville, the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Center. Commenting on these findings regarding medical malpractice in military hospitals, Dr. James P. Bagian (director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety) explained, “if, in fact, unexpected deaths were reported and ignored, there would appear to be no good answer for that expect that someone is sleeping at the switch.” Military Medical Malpractice Lawyers: We Are Here for You Have you been hurt by any type of medical negligence in a military hospital or health care facility? If so, it’s time to contact the trusted military medical malpractice lawyers at the Law Firm of Brown Law. Our attorneys have the skills and expertise to get you the justice and compensation you deserve. Although no amount of money can ever make up for an injury or wrongful death caused by medical malpractice, the compensation we could help you recover will go a long way in covering medical costs and the pain and suffering you have endured. To encourage injured parties to learn more about their legal rights, our law firm provides free initial consultations, consideration even if another law firm has turned you down and availability 24 hours a day seven days a week. To find out more about how we can help you in your pursuit of justice, please call us toll-free at 1-877-695-8757 – we are available 24 hours a day seven days a week. You can also email us using the online form at the upper right-hand side of the screen.

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Performance Auto & Sound Magazine (PASMAG) is excited to announce its partnership with Honda Indy Toronto at Exhibition Place (100 Princes' Blvd, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3) on Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2019. A Tuner Battlegrounds #TBGLIVE competition will be integrated to the event as a unique award category, similar to a People's Choice award, for Honda and Acura cars only. THE TOP 2 COMPETITORS RECEIVE: Display vehicles spot at the PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds booth at Honda Indy Toronto*. (2) General Admission race weekend passes. (2) Paddock access passes (2) Grandstand passes for race day (Sunday). (1) Official 2019 Honda Indy Toronto souvenir program. THE WINNER RECEIVES: Exclusive print feature in PASMAG. Valvoline Canada prize pack. Opportunity to sit in a Honda vehicle during the Parade on race day (Sunday). *vehicle must be available to roll-in Thursday, July 11th (evening) and roll-out Sunday, July 14th (after final race) (subject to change) VOTING SCHEDULE Stage 1: Jul 8 @ 12:00 PM - Jul 10 @ 2:00 PM EDT Stage 2: Jul 12 @ 10:00 AM - Jul 14 @ 12:00 PM EDT BUY TICKETS TO [HONDA INDY] REGISTER FOR TUNER BATTLEGROUNDS STAGE 2 (TOP 2) July 12 @ 10:00 AM - July 14 @ 12:00 PM EDT STAGE 2: FINALS 1. Tommy Pham (1991 Acura NSX): 46% #TBGINDYTOMMY 2. Adam Bacchus (2001 Honda S2000): 54% #TBGINDYADAM STAGE 1 (ELIMINATION) July 8 @ 12:00 PM - July 10 @ 2:00 PM EDT (Updated: July 10 @ 2:27 PM EDT) STAGE 1: ELIMINATION 1. Tommy Pham (1991 Acura NSX): 105 (A) 2. Adam Bacchus (2001 Honda S2000): 67 (A) 3. George Gero (2017 Honda Civic Type R): 65 4. Paul Pineda (2012 Honda Civic Si): 32 5. Dennis Kim (2007 Honda S2000): 20 *(A) - Advances to next stage. Vehicles will be displayed at the PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds x Valvoline Canada booth at the Honda Indy Toronto for live online voting. Paul Pineda (2012 Honda Civic Si) Adam Bacchus (2001 Honda S2000) Dennis Kim Tommy Pham (1991 Acura NSX) George Gero (2017 Honda Civic Type R) HOW TO VOTE: In the Elimination and Battle stages, the winner is determined by website visitors voting by Facebook. Use a valid Facebook account to register and sign in. After you have signed in with your Facebook account, and when the Voting Window is open, click on the competitors of your choice and assign votes to the competitor by clicking the "Voting Star" button. Once submitted, your votes are locked. Voting is limited to 1 (one) vote per Facebook account per 24 hours of each posted qualified competitor. At the end of each stage, the competitor with the highest number of votes will advance to the next stage. The competitors with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. In the Final stage, typically Stage 3, the winner is determined by Instagram voting. When the Voting Window is open, create a new post with your Instagram account with a photo of the competitor of your choice, and add their assigned hashtag in the caption. Instagram profile must be made public for your vote to be locked. Voting is limited to 1 (one) vote per Instagram account of each posted competitor. In the end, one will be named "The Champion" and will receive the prize of a PASMAG print feature. Information collected is subject to the Performance Publications Media Group Privacy Policy (located at http://pasmag.com/privacy-policy). CLICK HERE FOR RULES & REGULATIONS 2019 PASMAG TUNER BATTLEGROUNDS SPONSORS OFFICIAL PERFORMANCE ELECTRONICS OFFICIAL AIR INTAKE OFFICIAL AIR SUSPENSION OFFICIAL CLUTCH AND DRIVETRAIN

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Did Toney fail at Newcastle or did Newcastle fail Toney? By Chris Waugh Dec 21, 2020 38 On his first day with the Newcastle United first team in August 2015, a promising 19-year-old striker, lanky but yet to fill out physically, was put one-on-one with Cheick Tiote. “For anyone, no matter who you were, that’s a daunting task,” a former player says. The forward emerged having “been Tioted”, after being floored several times. Yet, on every occasion, he rose back to his feet and even managed to get past the tough-tackling Ivorian a few times. An impressed Tiote sought out Steve McClaren, then the head coach, to plead his new team-mate’s case for a first-team chance. That forward was Ivan Toney. Five years on, Newcastle fans may view Tiote’s assessment as prescient, given that Toney is now one of the most sought-after strikers in the EFL. During three years at St James’ Park, Toney made just four senior appearances, all as a substitute, and none after the 2015-16 season, instead being loaned out six times. Since departing permanently in August 2018 in search of regular first-team football, he has scored 56 goals in 96 EFL appearances. This season, he has 16 in 20 Championship games for Brentford, at a rate of 0.88 goals per 90, and tops the second-tier scoring charts, marginally ahead of another former Newcastle youngster in Blackburn Rovers’ Adam Armstrong. Some estimate Toney could be worth more than £20 million now. On Tuesday, Newcastle face Brentford in the Carabao Cup quarter-final, in what is arguably the most important match of Steve Bruce’s tenure to date. The key threat lining up against them will be a 24-year-old they once had on their books but were unable to nurture. The Athletic asks: did Toney simply fail at Newcastle, or did Newcastle fail Toney?

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Lucas-Girardville monoplane Loup - monoplane - 1853 - Франция <– –> Mainguet - La Dorade - 1910 - Франция Lucas-Girardville Artillery Captain Lucas-Girardville was one of the 3 pilots to be trained by Wilbur Wright at Auvours according to the agreement signed by Lazare Weiller; but he was apparently too old to learn to fly the difficult Wright biplane at the school. In 1910 he completed a huge military aeroplane developed from models tested at the Eiffel Tower and the Renard wind-tunnel at Chalais-Meudon; it used 2 gyroscopes to control stability. Kept very secret, it was referred to as the Enigma or the Gyroscopic Spinning-Top - but more often, probably, La Baignoire (bathtub). A patent dated 1907 was finally registered in 1910. It was a high-wing monoplane spanning about 15 m, with rectangular panels of strange airfoil section attached to each side of a large circular surface; and comprised as well 2 forward engines but only one 4-bladed propeller. Some of the controls were manual, others actuated automatically by the gyroscopes. The slatted ailerons were managed by the pilot, the biplane set by one of the gyroscopes; the other was for the elevators. Each gyroscope weighed 5.8 kg and was driven at 12,000 rpm by the engines - and in flight, by wind-driven propellers. The mechanic sat between the engines; there was accommodation for 2 others as well. Loaded, it weighed c 1200 kg with a wing area of 50 sqm. In June 1910 it was moved from Chalais to the Vincennes parade field; on 11 June it crashed while taxiing, and poor Lucas-Girardville was injured. In 1912, unfazed, he designed an experimental helicopter: we can only hope he was more successful with this one. The big Lucas-Girardville of 1910. It was wrecked before actually taking the air.

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praise be to god meaning in tamil 1. Two scenarios of victory provide a context for praise and prayer to the Commander-in-Chief of Israel s king-general. The Importance and Power of Praise Whilst the word of God commands us to praise the Lord, the truth is our daily challenges and life struggles cause us to focus on our difficulties, thus crowding out our genuine praise to God. It means "to be clear, to praise, to shine, to boast, show, to rave, celebrate, to be clamorously foolish." Cross references. I praise the Lord with music and song. Determinately, by the first week of April they began their journey of praising and worship. What happened he was put in prison for 12 years. A call to praise God. This phrase is called Tahmid (Arabic: تَحْمِيد ‎, lit. He is the son of the Hindu God of Destruction, Lord Shiva and the brother of the remover of obstacles, Lord Ganesh (The elephant-headed God).. As far as Indian history goes, Skanda began his existence basically from the beginning. Topic: Praise is an effective weapon against the devil. Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God. And the man praise be to God I just wanted to say it … and praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being. Definition of Every praise is to our God Every word of worship with one accord Every praise every praise is to our God Sing hallelujah to our God Glory hallelujah is due our God Every praise every praise is to our God in the Definitions.net dictionary. 1. Significance. a. 19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. 1. Praise can be a part of worship, but worship goes beyond praise. Psalm 113:1-3 Praise (hallal) ye the Lord, praise (hallal) o ye servants of the Lord, praise (hallal) the name of … But he has not given up. Thank you Jesus in the terrorism is Egyptian Egyptians Master’s wife, huh. So God is present in every obstacles that you face. [baby_names_nav] We have world’s largest collection of Baby names with meaning, including Tamil names.The categories include , Tamil names, God names, Boy twins names, God names,Muslim baby boy names , Muslim baby girl names , Christian baby boy names and Christian baby girl names 100 Christian Baby Names Meaning “Gift Of God” The Bible , the holy book of the Christians, is full of names, and many of them have become very popular nowadays. Transliteration(Tamil to English): iruLsaer iruvinaiyum … 1. Our word "hallelujah" comes from this base word. According to the Bible, our purpose, the reason we are here, is for God’s glory. Because Be persistent to have the vision that God has place in our life. Psalm 21 Meaning Verse By Verse. They have their own microphones, separate from the congregation. வௌகற Tamil Discuss this praise English translation with the community: The intention of this site is to propagate the glory of Lord Anjaneya [Hanuman]. A very popular feature of Christian worship assemblies in churches all over the country, is the matter of praise teams. To the heart of the deal. Read full chapter. Praise starts with a right understanding of God based on God’s own Word. Sermon starts at end of count down. Then I want. Praise be to Baba. Worship Worship Worship Worship [ read more... ], 2 Chronicles 20:15-22 [ read more... ], John 4:24-24 In facts, two reasons are recorded. The reply would be wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu meaning "and may the peace, blessings, and mercy of Allah be upon you." Worship, however, comes from a different place within our spirits. 1. They announced the band as “Eluzaizz” meaning “God is my strength”/ “Sthuthiyudaya Thevan”. However, we must praise God with all sincerity, because He is indeed worthy of all the glory, honour and praise. Find more words! Only remnants of once great civilizations remain and even those have become corrupted. Om The God of our vision, experience and reality Lord Be Praised Om. HALLAL is a primary Hebrew root word for praise. This is what glorifies him. The English translation of this verse is "Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds". The Lord's Prayer is a common name for the Our Father, the prayer that Christ taught to His disciples when they asked Him how to pray (Luke 11:1-4).The name "The Lord's Prayer" is used more often today by Protestants than by Catholics; however, the English translation of the Novus Ordo Mass refers to the recitation of the Our Father as the Lord's Prayer. I praise the Lord, who is glorious! Why a daily prayer? It did not take very long time for them. Baba is our God perceived by our senses and indeed He is Lord Ganesha – the remover of obstacles and easy giver of boons. Meaning. Praise be to God. 3:4). Question: "What does it mean to praise God?" Rather it is a complete way of life for one who follows Christ. Because prayer is the best way to stay in a relationship with God. Let the peoples praise You, O God: We notice that this is first and foremost a prayer to God. Therefore, in this, we find that God has given us a reason for our existence, a meaning for our existence. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the Lord:For He is good;His faithful love endures forever.The temple, the Lord’s temple, was filled with a cloud. Everyday prayer is the means by which we can talk to the Lord on a daily basis. The ardent devotees of Murugan call him by a variety of names – Karthilkeya, Arumuga, Shanmuga, Guhan, Skanda, Subramanya and Kumara. Typically, a praise team consists of anywhere from 4 to 15 men and women. Dark Souls is a game about a dying world that's fallen to madness. sabah rabih Praise be to god! Second, the praise of Elizabeth and Mary provide us with a model for our own worship and praise. Other than being recited daily during the five prayers, Muslims also … Praise be to God Amen. B. Amen God is present in our problems. The phrase, “God inhabits the praise of His people,” comes from the King James Version of Psalm 22:3, which states of God, “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” Other translations say, “ Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises ” (NIV) or “ God, you are the Holy One. வல்ஹம்து லில்லாஹி ரப்பில் ஆலமீம் (இன்னும் புகழ் அனைத்தும் அகிலங்களின் இறைவனாகிய … When one sneezes, the reaction is to say Alhamdulillah which can mean "all praise is due to God alone" and the reply by the rest is yah hamuk Allah meaning "may Allah have mercy on you." Verse 1: “The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice; Psalm 68:19: S Ps 65:5; Psalm 68:19: Ps 81:6; Psalm 68:19 in all English translations. (3) A prayer to God for all peoples. In other words, our purpose is to praise God, worship him, to proclaim his greatness, and to accomplish his will. Psalm 67. It’s like you know it was like running like fraud. It’s like you know flow. It is fine to call upon the peoples to praise God; but it is also fine to ask God to bring the nations to Himself. This verse belongs to Al-Fatiha, a surah that is an obligatory part of the salah (prayer) and hence is recited daily. And today’s prayer is a relevant message from God to you, right now. Worship should be reserved for God alone (Luke 4:8). Answer: Christians often speak of “praising God,” and the Bible commands all living creatures to praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6). Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names The Meaning of “Thanks Be to God” For Paul, giving thanks was an action, not a feeling. Welcome to the pages on Son of Wind God Vayu Lord Anjaneya Swami -Vayusuthan. Kindly Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel To Watch Daily Powerful Prayer Videos. Psalm 69. One Hebrew word for “praise” is yadah, meaning “praise, give thanks, or confess.”A second word often translated “praise” in the Old Testament is zamar, “sing praise.” Praise includes a growing reverence for who God is, which, in turn, imparts true wisdom to us. Alhamdulillah (Arabic: ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ ‎, al-Ḥamdu lillāh) is an Arabic phrase meaning "praise be to God", sometimes translated as "thank God". 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Miss Florida USA 2015 23 year old Ashleigh Lollie was crowned Miss Florida USA 2015 on Saturday. She will represent Florida at the 2015 Miss USA Pageant in the summer of 2015. The first runner-up was Kailyn Perez and the second runner-up was Jessica Voight. The third runner-up was Lacey Morgan and the fourth runner-up was Heather Martin. Pretty but not as strong as this year's girl. Posted by Andre at 5:10 AM Labels: Miss USA

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What are the Common Causes of Night Sweats in Children? A fever can sometimes cause night sweats in children. Written By: N. Swensson Edited By: Melissa Wiley The term night sweats is most often used to describe sweating that leaves a person's clothing and sheets soaking wet. Night sweats in children can have a number of causes. Some are simple and temporary, while others may be more serious and require medical attention. Some more common causes of night sweats in children include sleeping in heavy pajamas or with too many blankets or running a fever. Other rarer but serious conditions that can cause night sweats include some types of cancer, HIV/AIDS, and thyroid or autoimmune disorders. Parents may want to call the doctor if there is no obvious cause for a child's night sweats and if the problem persists. It is sometimes difficult for parents to judge whether a child is too warm at night, especially if the child has a fever. Younger children may not be able to express themselves and tell their parents if they are too hot. Infants are more likely to cry if they are too cold, and even young toddlers may not wake from sleep if they are too warm. Therefore it is not uncommon to check on a sleeping child and find him or her sweaty. The simple solution is removing blankets or lowering the temperature in the bedroom. Putting the child to bed in lighter pajamas can also help to stop night sweats. Although it's probably less likely that night sweats in children are being caused by a serious condition, it can be a possibility. Night sweats may be an early indicator of certain types of cancer, including Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, malignant melanoma, or liver tumors. A doctor can help to evaluate a child if cancer is a potential concern. Night sweats in children can also be caused by HIV/AIDS. Although rare, it is possible for a child to become infected with the disease from an improperly sterilized needle or other medical equipment. HIV often has few early warning signs, and night sweats are one of the more common ones in both adults and children. Tuberculosis is another condition that may cause night sweats in children. Although children in the United States are vaccinated against this disease, infections are still possible and also occur in other parts of the world. Sometimes, the body can fight tuberculosis on its own, but night sweats can be a sign that the infection is progressing. In some cases, children with hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid, or autoimmune disorders such as cerebral palsy may also experience night sweats. What Is the Connection between Night Sweats and Cancer? What Does It Mean to Break out in a "Cold Sweat"? What are the Most Common Causes of Chills and Sweats? What are the Common Causes of Night Chills? How do I Deal with Night Terrors in Toddlers? What are Common Causes of Hot Night Sweats? What is the Connection Between Night Sweats and Lymphoma? Night sweats are a common occurrence in small children, since they spend more time in deep sleep and have a lot of sweat glands relative to body size. It is usually not a sign of something serious unless accompanied by other symptoms. Sleep apnea is another possible cause. Children in the U.S. are not routinely vaccinated against TB.

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Edinburghfringe Passengers, Summerhall, Review Submitted by Jon Cross on Sun, 11 Aug '19 11.43am Vacuum Theatre Kit Redstone (writer), Jessica Edwards (director), Jolie Booth (producer), Alberta Jones (designer), Roshan Conn (stage manager), Dan Saggers (light), Owen Crouch (sound and composition), Alexander Eisenthal (production assistant) Neil Chinneck, Jessica Clark, Kit Redstone, and featuring the voice of Rory Fleck-Byrne Three masked figures climb and swing on a cube of scaffolding in synchronised movements to the rhythm of a pounding beat. Finally exhausted, they strip off their masks and take a moment to review the situation. Max has really done it this time. They are very worried about him. It simply cannot go on like this. What a thing to do! In a sudden outburst of pure rage, Max has picked up a chair and hurled it through the front window of a café. All because the waiter had brought him the wrong sandwich! What on earth has brought him to this? And so the three of them set off to explore the inner workings of Max’s mind. It does not take too long before we rumble the identity of these three very different characters – one with wild, uncontrolled animal instincts, one who grapples with the day-to-day realities and one who judges and criticises. The scaffold cube that frames the drama is the labyrinthine battlefield in which the various parts of Max's personality strive to gain the upper hand. This clever theatrical device allows for some interesting possibilities. What would happen if one, or even two of the characters were silenced or overpowered? If Max could break free – and just be himself - would he live off the grid in a van in The Amazon, or would he settle down and be safe and sensible in a quiet gated community? There is a Freudian quest to seek out the childhood trauma at the heart of Max’s anger and pain, but the central idea of the play is that every one of us is carrying a family of passengers, arguing and fighting amongst themselves in a way that is never going to be fully resolved. Passengers is an inventive, playful and funny piece of theatre which explores the complex realities that make us human. August 13-18, 20-25 at 14:30 Fow, Summerhall Online, Review 1 Sep, '21 Under The Floorboards, Online, Review 31 Aug, '21 A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Chic Murray – a Funny Place for a Window, The Traverse @ Multi Story, Review Knot: The Trilogy, Summerhall, Review Rossetti’s Women, TheSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, Review Afterparty, TheSpace Triplex, Review

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Lloyd’s Analyzes Baden-Baden Reinsurance Renewal Conclave An article on the Lloyd’s website takes a look at the “insurance and reinsurance specialists,” who “converge in Baden-Baden to begin their ‘renewal season’ discussions in earnest and in preparation for January 1, when deals between primary insurers and their reinsurers come to fruition.” At the end of October the German town on the edge of the Black Forest plays host to “soberly dressed business people, moving between crowded hotel salons and meeting rooms where intense negotiations take place over the terms, conditions and prices of next year’s reinsurance deals,” said Lloyd’s. “From the immense market noise generated, everyone is trying to discern which way pricing is going and what are the factors that will influence it on a company to company basis.” Lloyd’s notes that “reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter usually serves as a business barometer.” In a recent presentation Guy Carp’s “Chris Klein set the scene, describing a reinsurance market that was standing up to unprecedented catastrophe losses in the first half of the year, particularly from the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand – as well as continuing uncertainty in the capital markets, a flat economy and sustained low interest rates suppressing investment returns. “Following speakers, which included Allianz board member Clement Booth and investment analyst Chris Hitchings of KBW, echoed that; despite the difficult environment the reinsurance industry was not sufficiently stressed for rates to rise across the board.” Booth noted that “pricing is still soft. There are as many competitive reinsurers in the game as there are those who are sticking to technical rates.” Lloyd’s Performance Management Director Tom Bolt outlined a graphic description of the dangers facing all companies. He pointed out that the “industry traditionally provided cover against the ‘four horsemen of the apocalypse’ – pestilence, war, famine and death. Now the industry is confronted by new challenges.” Bolt also indicated that he believes low interest rates, tough economic conditions, the prospect of inflationary pressure and the uncertainty created by new European solvency regulations have combined to make this the most challenging time for the industry he’s witnessed since starting in 1985. He did add that prices have increased a little in some pockets of business in response. “But the challenge to make money on underwriting activities has never been higher,” he warned. Bolt said that Lloyd’s would work hard to protect its franchise and that the performance management directorate would continue to be vigilant in its monitoring of underwriting standards and business planning in the run-up to renewals. Earlier this year Bolt asked energy underwriters to track their aggregate exposures as losses continue to develop from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now he is also warning the market that it should be aware of the possible fall-out from the financial crisis spreading deeper into professional liability classes of business. He also pointed out that catastrophe reinsurance underwriters should be aware that the full loss picture from earthquakes earlier this year has not yet emerged. Contingent business interruption (CBI) is another major concern, which has recently emerged as a full blown risk. Bolt warned that losses from underlying insureds or developing structural damage to infrastructure could amplify cat losses. “The industry is not under reserved – but I’m not sure that this intermediate tail of cat losses is always being included in the calculations when people are making pricing decisions on prospective business,” he concluded. Source: Lloyd’s of London Startup Auto Insurer Root Reports $363M Loss in 2020; Will Spend to Grow in 2021 Greensill Downfall Began with Firing of Insurance Manager at Sydney Unit of Tokio Marine Home Insurance Agency Hippo to Go Public in $5B SPAC GEICO Drives Up Berkshire 2020 Underwriting Profit Interested in Excess Surplus? Categories: International & Reinsurance NewsTopics: Baden-Baden, Bolt, catastrophes, Lloyd's, losses, Rates, Reinsurance, renewals Winter Storm Uri Losses in Texas Expected in $10B - $20B Range How Home Improvement Projects Impact Homeowners Policies Site Reliability Engineer Architect – Monitoring and Alerting - South Jordan, UT Assistant Client Manager - Atlanta, GA

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NHS Contents Glaucoma is the name given to a group of eye conditions in which the optic nerve is damaged where it leaves the eye. This nerve carries information about what is being seen from the eye to the brain and as it becomes damaged vision is lost. Glaucoma affects about two per cent of people over the age of 40 in the UK. Although any vision which has been lost to glaucoma cannot be recovered, with early diagnosis,careful monitoring and regular use of the prescribed treatments, the vast majority of patients retain useful sight for life. Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma (COAG) is the most common form of glaucoma. It is a slowlydevelopingcondition in which the eye pressure rises because the flow of fluid in and out of the eye becomes restricted and the pressure in the eye increases, squeezing the optic nerve and killing some of the nerve fibres, which leads to sight loss. This is not because of an obstruction blocking the flow: as the name suggests, the drainage angle remains ‘open’. There is no pain to warn of a problem, even though the optic nerve is being damaged. Note: In some forms of glaucoma, the eye pressure is not raised. Normal (or low) tension glaucoma can develop where eye pressure is within the statistically ‘normal’ range but the optic nerve still becomes damaged. High eye pressure does not always cause glaucoma. A common condition is ocular hypertension, where the eye pressure is above the statistically ‘normal’ level, but there is no detectable damage to the field of vision. This condition may be monitored or may be treated in the same way as glaucoma, depending on the specialist’s view of the risk of developing glaucoma. Most types of glaucoma don't have any symptoms, it doesn’t cause any pain. The first areas to be affected are the off-centre parts of the vision. When part of the field of vision in one eye is damaged, the other eye may ‘fill in’ the gap because the damage may not have occurred in the same part of the field of vision in both eyes. For this reason, much damage will often have been done before the person with glaucoma realises there is a problem with his/her sight. If left untreated, the damage can progress to tunnel vision and eventual loss of central vision, although blindness is rare. It is important to diagnose and start treating sight threatening glaucoma early on, before it has advanced to a stage where there has been extensive sight loss. There are several risk factors which make the onset of glaucoma more likely and they tend to be cumulative in their effect. Glaucoma is uncommon below the age of 40, but the number of people with the condition rises from about 2 per cent of people over the age of 40 and doubles for those over the age of 80. People of African-Caribbean origin have about a four times increased risk of COAG when compared with those of a European origin. The condition also tends to come on at an earlier age and be more severe. Regular testing and treatment are therefore vital if visual impairment is to be avoided. There is at least a four times increased risk of developing glaucoma if you have a close blood relative with the condition (father, mother, brother, sister, or child). Eye examinations are funded by the NHS for such people from the age of 40 years, but an earlier test is recommended,especially if you also fall into one of the other risk categories. If you have glaucoma, don’t forget to tell your relatives about the condition and the need for them to be tested. People with severe myopia (very short sight) are known to be at increased risk of developing Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma, and should ensure that they are regularly tested for glaucoma. People with diabetes may also be at an increased risk of developing glaucoma, although it is not known whether there is a direct link between the two conditions. However, all people with diabetes should have regular routine eye examinations for diabetic eye diseases and glaucoma tests can be requested at the same time. All those who are at risk of glaucoma should ensure they have an eye test once a year, and ask for all three glaucoma tests. These can be carried out by most high street opticians. The three tests for glaucoma are: • Ophthalmoscopy – an examination of the optic disc with a special torch • Tonometry – a check on the level of pressure within the eye • Perimetry – a check of the visual field to see if there are any signs of sight loss in the offcentre part of the vision The aim of treating COAG is to reduce the pressure within the eye to a level at which no further damage occurs to the optic nerve. Treatment is usually by means of eye drops. These can work to reduce the amount of fluid being produced by the eye, to increase the rate of drainage of fluid from the eye, or both. Regular appointments with your eye consultants will be necessary to monitor the level of the pressures in your eyes. The NICE glaucoma guidelines published in April 2009 give guidelines on the maximum waiting time between appointments, for more information please visit: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG85. There have been major advances in medical (eye drop) treatment in recent years, and the newer drops are far more effective and have fewer side effects than those which were previously available. Usually, once eye drops have been started, it is necessary to continue using them for the rest of your life. If the eye drops do not provide a sufficient pressure lowering effect, laser or surgical treatments are available. If you have difficulty getting the drops into your eyes, various compliance aids are available that can help, further information is available from the IGA Sightline on 01233 64 81 70 or by e-mail at info@iga.org.uk Follow your doctor's instructions. Take your medication on time, every time. Always wash your hands before touching near your eyes or your eye drop bottles. To avoid contamination, never touch the nozzle of the dropper bottle and avoid contact with the eye. After the 1st drop, close your eye and press gently on the inside corner with a finger for 1 or 2 minutes. Then wait 5 to 15 minutes before instilling any further drop medication, to prevent the first drop being washed away by the subsequent drops. Never use drops after their permitted 'opened' expiry date. If you use soft contact lenses, remove them before instilling eye drops and wait at least 15 minutes after your last eye drop before re-inserting them. Store eye drops and all medicines out of the reach of children. International Glaucoma Association The Charity for People with Glaucoma Woodcote House, 15 Highpoint Business Village Henwood, Ashford, Kent TN24 8DH Fax. 01233 64 81 79 Sightline 01233 64 81 70 (Mon-Fri, 9.30am - 5.00pm) Website: www.glaucoma-association.com Charity Registered in England & Wales N°274681

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POST TIME: 22 February, 2019 12:55:50 PM / LAST MODIFIED: 22 February, 2019 01:29:14 PM World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity: UN Plants, insects and organisms crucial to food production in steep decline, says UN Independent Online Desk The world’s capacity to produce food is being undermined by humanity’s failure to protect biodiversity, according to the first UN study of the plants, animals and micro-organisms that help to put meals on our plates. The stark warning was issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation after scientists found evidence the natural support systems that underpin the human diet are deteriorating around the world as farms, cities and factories gobble up land and pump out chemicals.Over the last two decades, approximately 20% of the earth’s vegetated surface has become less productive, said the report, launched on Friday. It noted a “debilitating” loss of soil biodiversity, forests, grasslands, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds and genetic diversity in crop and livestock species. In the oceans, a third of fishing areas are being overharvested. Many species that are indirectly involved in food production, such as birds that eat crop pests and mangrove trees that help to purify water, are less abundant than in the past, noted the study, which collated global data, academic papers and reports by the governments of 91 countries. It found 63% of plants, 11% of birds, and 5% of fish and fungi were in decline. Pollinators, which provide essential services to three-quarters of the world’s crops, are under threat. As well as the well-documented decline of bees and other insects, the report noted that 17% of vertebrate pollinators, such as bats and birds, were threatened with extinction. Once lost, the species that are critical to our food systems cannot be recovered, it said. “This places the future of our food and the environment under severe threat.” “The foundations of our food systems are being undermined,” wrote Graziano da Silva, the director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, in an introduction to the study. “Parts of the global report make sombre reading. It is deeply concerning that in so many production systems in so many countries, biodiversity for food and agriculture and the ecosystem services it provides are reported to be in decline.”Agriculture was often to blame, he said, due to land-use changes and unsustainable management practices, such as over-exploitation of the soil and a reliance on pesticides, herbicides and other agro-chemicals. Most countries said the main driver for biodiversity loss was land conversion, as forests were cut down for farm fields, and meadows covered in concrete for cities, factories and roads. Other causes include overexploitation of water supplies, pollution, over-harvesting, the spread of invasive species and climate change. The trend is towards uniformity. Although the world is producing more food than in the past, it is relying on ever-expanding monocultures.Two-thirds of crop production comes from just nine species (sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava), while many of the remaining 6,000 cultivated plant species are in decline and wild food sources are becoming harder to find. Although consumers did not yet notice any impact when they went shopping, the authors of the report said that could change. “The supermarkets are full of food, but it is mostly imports from other countries and there are not many varieties. The reliance on a small number of species means they are more susceptible to disease outbreaks and climate change. It renders food production less resilient,” warned Julie Bélanger, the coordinator of the report. As examples, the report noted how overdependence on a narrow range of species was a major factor in the famine caused by potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s, cereal crop failures in the US in the 20th century, and losses of taro production in Samoa in the 1990s. “There is an urgent need to change the way food is produced and ensure that biodiversity is not something that is swept aside but is treated as an irreplaceable resource and a key part of management strategies,” said Bélanger.The Guardian.

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Category: Races SF Giant Race 2018 Disclaimer: I received free entry to the Giant Raceace as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews! This was my first time doing this race. We drove to SF the day before to the expo and pick up the bibs for two other BibRavePro’s. The pre-event was very well organized. They had many volunteers on site to help in the various tasks, but also to direct people traffic to the right spot. The Half and 10K had an earlier start time than the 5K. This was great because by the time the 5K started the other runs had been done their race a long time ago, which meant there was plenty of parking when we arrived later that morning. I also did the pre-paid parking option which made it hassle free. I just printed the receipt and put it on my windshield. The 5K race was fun. It started outside of the stadium, went down the marina a little, turned around and ended inside the stadium. There were a lot of families running together. It’s awesome to see families getting exercise and having fun together. Our race swag included a bobblehead, a t-shirt, a finisher’s medal. I’m not a bobblehead collector, but I found plenty of friends who wanted it, so I gave it away. At the end of the race after you got your medal there were some snacks available for free. They were handing out carrots, yogurt, milk, applesauce, and pretzels. It was the perfect ending to a race in SF. I know some people told me that they were concerned with running in San Francisco since it’s known to be extremely hilly there, but it was totally flat the entire time for the 5K distance. I might have to do this run again next year. It was totally worth it. Posted on September 16, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in BibRavePro, RacesLeave a comment San Francisco Giant Race (Half, 10K, 5K, & Kids) Disclaimer: I received free entry to the SF Giant Race as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews. The San Francisco Giant Race will be held on September 9, 2018. RACESF2018 gets you $10 off half, 10K or 5K. I’ll be running the 5K if you want to give me a shout out when you see me. I’ll be wearing my bright orange BibRave shirt. This is a super family friendly race with lots of distances, including a Kids/Family Relay. Virtual races available. Run/ walk on your own schedule. Benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Swag includes shirt, finishers medal, & a Bruce Bochy bobblehead! Scenic route along the water. The flattest course in San Francisco. Come and join the fun! Looking for other race discounts? Check out my discounts page. Posted on August 10, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in Races, RunningLeave a comment Big Bunny 5K 2018 in Cupertino The Big Bunny 5K was loads of fun. It was my first year doing it. I love themed races, and I wasn’t going to miss out on dressing up as a bunny. My outfit included a bunny shirt from Gone for a Run, FlipBelt Crops, Zensah leg sleeves, BibBoards, and Brooks sneakers. The expo was small with some local companies present. It included a local yoga studio, other local races, and informational booth with kids programs. I picked up my swag on race day. The line was very long. They did have a system in place, but they really needed more people helping out. The shirt was a dark blue with a pocket painted on the shirt. I have to say it was one of the worst race shirts I’ve gotten. This race did include a finishers medal and age group medals. There was a kids race on a smaller course, which was very cute. The course was all through residential streets. They did not close fully those streets and we had to on a couple of occasions tell drivers to turn around. It’s amazing how stubborn people can be. The entire course was flat and some of the homeowners came out to cheer the runners on and wish them a Happy Easter. Aid Stations There was one water station along the way, which was plenty for such a short distance. There were some portapotties at the beginning of the race and none throughout the course. It was a family-friendly event. There were many mom, dad, kids, and grandparents running or walking together. There were raffle prizes at the end. The firefighters were there and encouraged runners as they made their way to the finish line. After the race, there was plenty of green areas for people to sit and recover and wait for the raffle prizes to be called. Kids had some toss games to play with and plenty of space to run around and enjoy the day. A definite repeat for next year. Posted on April 5, 2018 April 13, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in RacesLeave a comment Heart & Soles Run 2018 Heart & Soles was a local San Jose race that took place on March 24, 2018. It had two distances: 6K and 10K. The starting line was located on the campus of Santa Clara University. I arrived early and had no problem finding a parking spot. There were plenty of people already there. As I walked over to the event, I noticed that there were several tents set-up. There were a variety of vendors present at the event from beef jerky sales, other races, to athletic shoe stores. There was a large section with complimentary tea and coffee. There was a sweat check on site. I did the 6K. The route took us out of Santa Clara University campus and onto closed off streets. We eventually arrived at Avaya Stadium, Home of the San Jose Earthquakes, where our route looped inside the stadium. That was the best part! I had never been inside that stadium and enjoyed the experience. The team mascot was present to take photos with the runners and there were plenty of good photo spots within. The route then turned back and return back the same way we went out. In the end, we were handed our medals and they were a variety of Kind Bars, apples, and water to get rehydrated. There were both runners and walkers and even dog owners. It wasn’t a high-pressure race, instead, it was a good event to get some exercise without it being intimidating or stressful. Posted on March 28, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in Races, RunningLeave a comment Go Green St. Patrick’s Day Race This was a small local race with less than 300 runners. I picked it because it was close by and because of the theme. I love holiday or themed races. I enjoy dressing up and seeing what the other runners come up with. The weather was 41F at the starting line. Way too cold for it to be Spring, but at least it wasn’t raining. All runners received a long-sleeved technical shirt. Women’s shirts were white and men were grey. I wondered why the race was called Go Green and yet our shirts weren’t green. There was no finishers medal in this race. Instead, runners received a pint glass. Runners who placed in their age group received a bottle opener medal. The race was at Hellyer Park in San Jose. The course was paved and flat the whole way. I did have to make my way around other walkers, runners, bikers that were on the same route. There were two water stations along the 10K route. The cups were filled with water and ready to go. I hate having to slow down and wait for someone to pour the water. Luckily, I didn’t have to go through that this time. Many people came to the race dressed up in something related to St. Patrick’s Day whether it was green, leprechauns, or some other character. There was even a group dressed as French mushrooms (that’s the white costumes). I’m not sure how that fits into the theme, but it was festive. After the race runners, 21 and older could enjoy a beer in their new pint glass. There were plenty of fruit and snacks to refuel on as well as bottles of water. Overall, I thought the race was well organized and well done. Not bad. I was happy with my results. Posted on March 21, 2018 March 19, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in bibchat, Races, RunningLeave a comment Race Review: Sedona Marathon “Disclaimer: I received free entry to the Sedona Marathon race as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews!” The expo was in a big open location under a tent. I appreciated that it was open until 8 pm on Friday before the race, however, it would have been nice to know ahead of time that you can pick-up your bib on race day. I flew in on Friday and almost didn’t make it to the pick-up. A stressful experience that could have been easily avoided. There were a handful of vendors selling everything from Sedona socks and t-shirts to runner specific gear like recovery sandals and hydration packs. Swag included a t-shirt, bib, and finishers medal. I learned that the medal we received is actually part of a 4 piece set. So, I will definitely need to come next year to claim the next piece of the puzzle. The 10K course was not too hard. There were some hills, but they were doable. I just made a point to go faster downhill and take my time going uphill. The course was on a paved road the entire time. Sedona is at a high elevation, so the air is thin with no humidity. I actually got very dehydrated after the race. I know now to drink more water. The scenery is the best part, it’s breathtaking! I kept looking around as I ran and being amazed. I felt like there were plenty of aid stations throughout the course with both electrolytes and regular water. There were also many volunteers along the race cheering runners on with both handmade signs and cowbells. There were a lot of portapotties. No long lines waiting to use the restroom, like in other races! Everyone was so nice! It was a friendly environment. Many tourists came in that weekend just for the race. The locals were very kind and welcoming. I met up with two other fellow BibRave Pros, @rundeweyrun and @azsungoddess. Dewey did the full marathon, Emily did the half, and I did the 10K. BibRave was well represented that day. It’s always nice to meet and connect with Pros in-person. There was a beer garden available. I’m not a beer drinker, but there were many people enjoying having a cold beer after the race. There were vendor food trucks available, for those that had worked up an appetite. Some food options that I saw available were pizza, loaded fries, and pork sandwiches. After the race was done there was plenty to do, since Sedona has been rated as one of the top 10 most beautiful locations in the U.S. There’s a lot of opportunities for sightseeing before or after the race and even if you don’t have the time for that, you will love just looking around at the beautiful red rocks that surround the town. Run-cation I made this race a weekend trip. I flew with Jim and Chiquita, our 4-year-old chihuahua to Phoenix. We then rented a car and drove to Sedona. We stayed at the Sedona Rouge, which is a pet-friendly hotel. There was a potty area for her right outside our room, which was very convenient. Chiquita stayed in the room during the race but was otherwise with us. The stores and some restaurants in town were pet-friendly, so it made it easy for all of us to walk around town. Chiquita has her own Instagram account. Click here to take a look. Posted on February 5, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in bibchat, BibRavePro, Races, runchat, RunningTagged @sedonamarathon, bibchat, BibRavePro, Running, SME18. Leave a comment Carb DM 5K Review Expo: This was a small race of about 130 people, so there was no expo. It was clear that the intention of the race was to come out and enjoy time with loved ones, support the cause and exercise. Swag: The swag was a t-shirt and a bib. No medals were handed out. There was no goodie bag or samples. Typically, fun runs are like this, so it wasn’t a surprise. The course was a 5K in Coyote Point Recreation Center in San Mateo. It was mainly a flat rate, but it has a hill that put you right above the ocean. The views were ever changing as you passed one mile to the next. It passed by a marina where you could see sailboats to your right, so it wasn’t your average park run. Aid Stations: This race promotes diabetes awareness, so it wasn’t surprising to find two aid stations named “low stations” with both insulin and juice bags. There was one water station on the course about half-way through. However, there were plenty of snacks before and after the race. Many people were there as a family or with other runners. It was a friendly environment where people were out to have fun and get exercise. Once I passed the finish line, a person ripped off the bottom half of our bib, since it was our first time doing this race, we didn’t know what was that for. There were no chips on the bib. The time was manually kept for the top runners and posted on a board by the finish line. I didn’t stay for long after finishing the race. Based on the photos of the event, it seems like there were prizes raffled out. I thought prizes at the end meant that they were going to hand out medals to the top finishers. Had I known that it was raffle prizes, I might have stayed longer. There were many tables set-up, but as in many races, the volunteers didn’t know what they were supposed to be doing. A recommendation for next year would be to have someone oversee the volunteers to ensure a smoother process. There was plenty of parking spaces. You did have to pay $6 to park, but it was announced via email ahead of time and the organizers encouraged people to carpool to save on the parking fee. I would be happy to do it again next year. Posted on January 29, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in bibchat, BibRavePro, Races, runchatTagged bibchat, BibRavePro, runchat, Running, werunsocial. Leave a comment

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PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY MY FRIENDS The Spinster Stitcher, her little dog too, Aunt Chrissy, and Baby Bosco send you love and wishes for all that is merry and bright for you and yours! Be safe, travel well, and enjoy your holiday. We'll do the same and will see you in the new year! Coni, Crys, Stewey, and Bosco BACK TO MY ROOTS This is Laura J. Perin's "Victorian Ribbons" and I'm trading out the recommended Camouflage for Holiday to make it all Christmas-y. COZY COZY COZY Here's the damage so far: What looks like a big pile 'o yarn is actually a shawl (the white/cream thingie) and a Christmas scarf (the red, green, and white thingie). I've been sporting both around the neighborhood, and must say that the folks at the baby blanket yarn company sure know what they're doing....this stuff is s.o.f.t. and very very warm. Stewey is unimpressed and has vehemently demanded that I return to counted needlework forthwith, but for now I'm satisfied to play with my bargain a little longer. (The long loom was about ten bucks and the yarn was no more than seven or eight...all thanks to some well-used JoAnn's coo-puns.) The outside decorations were hung with care, thanks to the help and supervision of Aunt Chrissy and You Know Who, but that might be as far as we get this year. Would it be so wrong to just stand in the driveway whenever I feel the need to look at twinkle lights? I keep thinking about how easy it will be to put all of the decorations away if I never get them out in the first place. So that's the story from Lake Woebespinster. I hope that your corner of the world is exactly how you want it to be! STILL AT IT... The way this whole thing came about was that Aunt Chrissy and I were in the JoAnn's looking for something to do that would keep us out of the pumpkin pie. "Hey, lookit!" I said in the yarn aisle. "Doesn't this kinda remind you of the spool thingie that Dad made us that we used to knit on?" (Actually, it was Aunt Chrissy who spied these....and she said (most articulately, I might add) "Oh, this is a loom. I've always wanted to learn to knit on a loom. Perhaps we should try this....they are remarkably affordable and I see that the resulting accomplishment of finishing a project would be most satisfying.") OK. maybe she didn't say it EXACTLY that way, but the end result is the same. We've both been loom knitting our fingers off for the better part of three days now and I almost have my first scarf. It will be quite chunky, it is true, but then again, so am I and we all know how delightful THAT can be! For those who've asked...this is called knitting on a long loom and you can learn all about it on the YouTube, just like I did. Stewey and I hope that you are all well and cozy and happy. If we get our chores done tomorrow I've promised him a tummy rub and some time in the studio putting together our Spinster Stitcher Christmas Basket O Stitchy Fun. Stay tuned!! OEY....WHAT HAVE I STARTED? it's either going to be a really fat and chunky scarf, or a blanket big enough to cover a small vehicle. Either way, we're cozy and ready for turkey! UH OH.....WHAT'S SHE DOING NOW? We can blame Aunt Chrissy for tonight's crazypants obsession. Stay tuned. In a year or two, I might end up with a scarf. BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING... Forgive me, but it took me a minute to get smart enough to delete all of the crap from the hacker. Thanks to a loyal and devoted reader explaining it to me, I now know that the only thing that mess was about was trying to spread a virus. And since the LAST thing I want is to cause grief to those I love (that would be all of you) I opted o.u.t. Here's a little progress on Shepherd's Bush "Harvest of Plenty". It is such a joy to stitch....pulling that silk through that linen is exactly what the doctor ordered. I REALLY NEED TO GET RID OF THIS DARN BLANKET Scene: A living room somewhere in the Midwestern United States. A portly spinster is sprawled in her Happy Chair, needle and thread in hand, a stupid-soft throw wrapped about her substantial frame. A little dog appears. He hops up onto the spinster, peers over his little reading glasses, checks for a pulse, and then gently pokes her a few times to see if she can be persuaded to either a) stop snoring and let him resume his perusal of the latest New Yorker, or b) haul herself out of said Happy Chair and stumble into the big girl sleigh bed for some shut eye. The spinster grunts, clutches the stupid-soft blanket tighter to her ample (yet saggy) bosom, and mutters something about Jeffrey Dean Morgan and animal shelters. She does, however, manage to let go of the needle and thread long enough for the little dog to park it safely on the designer pin cushion that the spinster and her sister just had to have during a recent late-night excursion to the WalMart. Sighing heavily, the little dog turns off the spinster's stitching light, pats her on the head for being the simpleton that she is, and then pees on the ottoman as he makes his way back to his study. SATURDAY SPINSTER BLISS Stewey and I are snoodled up under our new cozy blanket, the Irish are playing Navy, and I'm stitching "Harvest of Plenty" by Shepherd's Bush. We had snow for Halloween, I made a lovely cauliflower chowder, and tomorrow is the first official Sunday brisket of the autumnal season. Who's happier than me? Yes....you're seeing that correctly. You Know Who insists that his toys remain organized according to season. I have no idea what the score is....I've been too busy looking at stitchy blogs! Ahhhhhh. Is there anything better than pulling silk through a gorgeous piece of linen? Our new blanket is from the Wal-Mart. It's stupid soft, has a sherpa backing, and was $15. I am, however, convinced that it has some kind of magical fairy tale sleeping curse capabilities, since I lapse into a serious coma every time I get under the darn thing. Please forgive my absence these last several months, dear friends. I don't mean to be away so long, but life keeps getting in the way of things. All will be well. Keep the happy thoughts and here's hoping that your own corner of the world is cozy, too! SORRY, BETTY Do you remember our friend, Betty, who wrote to me every day to tell me how much she hated every single thing about me and my stupid little life? Well, brace yourself, Betty. Because all I have for you today is drivel. No pictures of stitching. No pictures of the lovely autumnal decorations that Aunt Chrissy has strewn about my house. No funny photos of Little Lord Fauntleroy doing whatever it is that makes Little Lord Fauntleroy such an...interesting...companion to one lonely old spinster. Yes, it's true. I have been eating my fair share of bruschetta and pudding these last few days, but at least I have a good excuse for it. I've re-watched Julie and Julia about a dozen times, and one of the opening cooking scenes is Julie making bruschetta for her husband. You know the one I'm talking about....she fries the thick-cut bread in olive oil and then mixes up some gorgeous heirloom tomatoes and basil. What can I say? That sounded pretty good to me, so I did what any normal person would do. I went to the grocery store, bought about eight dozen loaves of fancypants bread, a truckload of heirloom tomatoes, a small bush of basil, and went to town. Last night I added crumbled feta just because I could. Here's the way I perfected Bruschetta a 'la Spinster: Thickly sliced crusty bread (mine was sliced to precisely 1 1/2 inches) Good olive oil Feta or Blue Cheese crumbles Garlic cloves (you need a few really big ones peeled to rub on the bread) Pre-heat a toaster oven to broil. Brush bread with olive oil, add a little salt and pepper, and put it in to toast while you're dicing and mixing the topping. Chop the tomatoes and basil, drizzle on a little balsamic and olive oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Add cheese, if you're so inclined. Flip the bread over to get the other side golden brown, and when it is, take it out and rub it vigorously with the garlic clove. Top with the tomato mixture, pour yourself a big glass of red wine (or, in my case Raspberry Ice Crystal Light) and enjoy! Now as for the pudding....I ate that because I wanted something a little sweet and I had two boxes of sugar free/fat free chocolate fudge instant pudding mix in the pantry and I needed to use up the vat of skim milk that I bought because I swore I was going to drink more skim milk. (I'm not much of a milk drinker, as it turns out, so any time I can figure out a way to sneak it into something, I'm pretty happy.) So there you have it. That's the sum total of the last two months of my life. I have not stitched or even thought about stitching in so long that it's making my skin itch, but I have promised myself a studio day very very soon to remedy that. Stewey, as you know, is perfectly fine and is getting PLENTY of evening games of Pumpkin(!) in before the snow flies, and Aunt Chrissy and Bosco are making sure that we behave ourselves and don't do anything too terribly stupid. What's new with you? SOMEBODY CALL WEIGHT WATCHERS My mom can't come to the blog right now. She's sitting in the Happy Chair....eyes glazed over....mumbling something about being normal and just doing things like a person does without having to fall into the "all spinster / all the time" trap. For the last eight days, my stupid Mo-ther has consumed nothing but bruschetta and pudding. Bruschetta. And pudding. What can I say? When the old lady goes on a tear, there's not much that I am able to do that will snap her out of whatever crazypants mess she's got cooking in that hot crock pot full of obsession she owns. Best to just let her tire herself out, and then when she finally falls into a heap, I can call my Aunt Chrissy to come help me clean up the mess. I hope that your corner of the world is a lot more.....normal. Until we meet again, I remain your loyal and devoted pal. With much love, PUMPKIN STORY Once upon a time, there was a spoiled little dog who loved pumpkins.... IN WHICH OUR HEROINE FINDS A PROFILE PICTURE SHE CAN FINALLY LIVE WITH..... So I don't suppose it's any secret that I remain anonymous on purpose. The truth of the matter is that I simply cannot STAND to have my big fat face anywhere near a camera and/or profile picture. Today, at last (!) I have finally found one that I can live with. You might have heard that there is a football game in these here parts tomorrow night. My beloved Alma Mater (she says with a hearty "Ahem") is playing the University of Michigan. This rivalry goes back a ways and is intense...just like almost every other rivalry we have with schools like USC, Miami, and anybody else that we've ever played in our storied 150+ year history. (Wait a minute...could it be that a little Irish Pride has started to creep back into my veins?! How the heck did that happen! Somebody alert the authorities...she's starting to cave!!!) Anywhoose....I thought y'all might get a kick out of having a little inside info in the event that you and yours decide to watch the game: Notre Dame has officially launched the GOLD GANG. This gang is a group of student ambassadors that will roam the campus wearing full body suits (of gold) along with t-shirts that commemorate each of the 11 years that Notre Dame has won a National Championship. The idea is that these roaming gold guys will generate team spirit, hype the hype, and generally be something cool for devoted fans to look at while they're roasting their tailgate wienies. Now here's where the inside info comes in.....you can tell everybody you know that you just happen to be close personal friends with the person that decorated the uniforms of the Gold Gang! Yes, that's right, our very own Aunt Chrissy is the person responsible for physically applying the digital transfer to the fronts and backs of all of the Gold Gang's t-shirts! How freakin' cool is THAT?! Stewey and I will be back soon with updates on all of the shenanigans at Chez Spinster. We've managed to accomplish a LITTLE stitching, a little MORE cooking, a LOT of reading, and a TON of sleeping! Until we meet again.....here's hoping that your very own corner of the world is indeed....GOLDEN! A NOTE FROM MASTER STEWEY ANGUS WILLOWSWAMP, HIS VERY LITTLE (AND SNIFFLY) SELF My mom can't come to the blog right now. The old lady has been on a complete tear ever since THEY revealed the Shamrock Series unis this week. I swear, if it weren't for the fact that I've been feeling poorly lately and have been unable to accompany her, she would have climbed into the Big Girl VeeHickLe and sped over to campus to demand an audience. So many of you have sent emails asking where the Spinster Stitcher rant is regarding said unis. Mo-ther asked me to pass along the message that she is.....formulating. Stay tuned for what promises to be a rather entertaining few minutes in the life of an idiot spinster. As for me, I am under the proverbial weather with my allergies. I awoke this morning with puffy eyes and a runny nose, and I have been sorely tempted to chew at my forearms. One quick call to my internist, however, and I am soon to be on the mend once my script is on board. Now if I could only get a prescription for whatever it is that has my stupid mo-ther such a hot mess, all would indeed be perfectly swell here in Hoosierville. I'm sorry to report that there has been absolutely NO stitching happening in the friendly confines. I suspect that it is due to the usual August ennui, and that once the temperatures return to something OTHER than that of the surface of the sun the needles will fly once again. In looking at my previous years' reports, I do see that we seem to enter a very major stitchy slump this time of year, so I'm giving it until Labor Day before I call in the (Aunt Chrissy) authorities. I do hope that this finds you well. Please know that I remain your loyal and devoted friend and send you my very deepest and most heartfelt wishes for a wonderfully happy day. With love from your pal, MAYBE THEY REALLY ARE TRYING TO KILL ME... BANG A RANG WHAT I'M STITCHING NOW... This is Zecca's "Bird in a Nest". Threads and stitch guide by Miss Ruth Schmuff Her Very Self of Beadecked and Beadazzled fame... THEY REALLY SHOULD MAKE PILLS FOR THIS....OH WAIT! MAYBE THEY DO! Chelloooooo! I am utterly and totally bobcumdistulated today. I'm pretty sure that it has to do with the fact that I have just spent the last TWO weekends out of town, but the more likely explanation is that I had to be ME out there in the public and not be too MUCH me for more than fourteen seconds at a time. I think my head is going to explode. What can I say? You spend the majority of your life hiding in your house with a fussy little dog and you get a little nuts when you have to wear shoes and a bra and carry on polite conversation about something other than ort receptacles. The first trip outside of my comfort zone (Read that as: outside the eight-foot perimeter of Chez Spinster), was to Donaldson, Indiana and the annual Sit 'n Stitch with 50 of the most amazingly wonderful ladies you will ever meet. It was life-changing for me in many many ways, and I learned how to take a shower in the glove compartment of a Ford Focus. (If you've ever been to the Lindenwood Retreat Center at Ancilla College in Donaldson...insert your guffaws here.) All I can tell you is that the size of the shower and the amplitude of Yours Truly made for a very interesting morning. At one point, I figured that the best way to get clean would be to apply the body wash to the walls of the shower/glove compartment, and then just shimmy my way to a bright and spot free shine, but the resulting jiggly bits threw me into convulsions that could be heard all the way down the hall. A fair amount of thread was applied, removed, and applied again to the Zecca Bird in a Nest canvas, but alas, I do not have it or my camera here for photographic evidence. Tomorrow....I promise. This last weekend found me in Lima, Ohio for my 30th high school class reunion. (I'll save you from having to do the math in your head. Ready?....I'm 48.) (You're welcome.) Now here's where I confess that I fretted and fretted and fretted about this for six months, purposely missed the deadline to attend, and then turned my car around about nine times because of the full-on panic that ensued every single time I thought of having to say "Hi, do you remember me? I was the one sitting in History class trying to look like I had a clue about what I was doing, but all I really wanted to do was go hide in my locker until graduation." The flop sweat hit ten minutes after I left the hotel and the red blotches appeared right about the time I realized that there was no good way to run screaming from the banquet room without drawing attention to my big fat heiney hastily packed into twelve year old capris pants and a blouse that was apparently made of thermo-nuclear fabric. (I'm pretty sure that I could have baked a ham in there and had plenty of heat left over for the green bean casserole.) (Note to self.....find. better. deodorant.) (Second note to self....burn. blouse.) By the time the event started (oh, did I mention that I was about four hours early?), I had worked myself up into a froth of bug-eyed, sweaty, blotchy, messiness that could only be contained in the corner stall of the ladies room. I spent a fair amount of time in there quietly gritting my teeth and chanting "Get a freakin grip already. Get a freakin grip already" until it occurred to me that people were probably starting to wonder about the weird girl who spent the night in the john talking to herself. Yeah. THAT'S the way to rebuild a reputation. Despite having to be ME, I managed to have the time of my life, and I can't believe that I was actually lucky enough to go to school with this group of people. Thank God, though, that I've got five years to recover, get a grip, and find better pharmaceuticals. Stewey sends his love. He was happy to spend some time with his Aunt Chrissy, but a bit miffed that it was not (as I had promised him) a vacation aboard a Viking Cruise through the waterways of Europe. (Can I help it if he's getting harder and harder to please? A mo-ther's gotta do what a mo-ther's gotta do to get the damn dog in the car seat, after all.) Here's hoping that your last few weeks have been filled with all things happy. If you've gone to your own events this summer and would like to pass along any helpful tips about how one might learn to be a little less....Spinster Stitcher-ish, please drop me a line. I'll take all the help I can get. JUST ME AND MY EYE PATCH We awoke at the crack 'o dawn (it really was, but you have to expect that sort of thing when you go to bed at 7:30) , had coffee, and then.....drumroll please... WE SPENT THE MORNING IN THE STUDIO!!! I figured out how to turn the record player on and while jamming to Elton, I colorized this: I'm in the Happy Chair....needle and antiseptic bandaids at the ready, and now....off to stitch! POKED... I poked something, all right. Right in the eye. No, seriously....I sat down to start stitching and promptly reached up to brush a forelock from my forehead and poked myself in the eyeball with the needle. If it weren't for the fact the Stewey laughed so hard (*) he peed the ottoman, I would have been really traumatized. As it is, I checked for blood, slapped a cold compress on my head and went to bed. Sometimes it's just not at all easy being me. Now here's the good news in all of this. Because I'm stupid enough to do this stuff and then even stupider enough to tell you all about it, I will get thousands of comments expressing sympathy and suggestions as to how I can live in the world and still be me at the same time. What would I do without you all? Thank you for your kindness...your inspiration...your tolerance...and most of all for just understanding . You ROCK! Here's to happy weekends all around. I. Am. Determined. To. Stitch. If. It's. The. Last. Thing. I. Do. (*) In case you're wondering, his laughter is rather like that of the beloved Snoopy of Peanuts fame....high pitched, squeaky little giggles that make his whole little self jiggle and shake. IT'S LONELY OUT IN SPACE.... I think there's a line in Elton John's "Rocket Man" that says something about "I miss the Earth, I miss my life". Or, maybe it's supposed to be "wife". I don't know. Either way, all I know is that I miss my old life. I miss having an entire day to think about stitching and then do the actual stitching and then write about stitching and then do more of the thinking about stitching. Stewey is completely miffed that we seem to have fallen into a terrible trap of....nothingness....that includes a lot of bad TeeVee and even worse meals. I suspect that if I don't clean up my act soon he's going to hit the road for greener pastures. (I swear I came home the other day to find him furiously stuffing smoking jackets into his little valise while simultaneously berating his stuffed toys for not being more helpful.) The good news, though, is that I actually had wonderful dreams last night that I WAS stitching. Nothing too Earth-shattering, mind you. Just a very pleasant nine and a half hours of dreaming that I was sitting in a lovely comfy chair with a pretty blanket over my legs stitching away on something wonderful. I awoke hopeful. So here's to a Thursday on which I, the Spinster Stitcher Her Very Self, do so solemnly swear to pick up a needle and poke something with it before days' end. How 'bout you? STEWEY/MO-THER VERSERY Mo-ther's version: "Nine years ago yesterday, Aunt Chrissy and I traveled to the wilds of Indiana to pick up my two and a half pound bundle of joy. I knew the very moment I held that little creature in my arms that my life would never be the same. I looked deeply into his eyes, took a deep breath, and said: "I. Am. Your. Mommie." We drove home, with Stewey sleeping peacefully in his Aunt Chrissy's arms (I think I even made her sit in the back seat for safety purposes!), and then I spent the rest of the night watching my new baby snore happily away in his playpen. He was potty trained the next morning, learned to fetch a ball the next afternoon, and fully in love with his huge basket of fluffy toys by the end of the day. What can I say? Those first several months were sheer bliss and I would not trade one moment of the last 3,285 days for anything in this world." Stewey's version: "I couldn't have been picked up by that nice pediatrician and his wife from Cincinnati?" Hard to believe it, but it's true. Stewey and I celebrated nine years of being.....us.....yesterday. I snuggled him every chance I got and he did his level best not to pee on the drapes. All in all, a very good day. Happy 4th of July to all of our U.S. friends..... Stewey and I are gobsmacked by the tons of emails that we've received in the last few days asking if we weathered the storms OK. The short answer is, yes, thank goodness, but many in our area weren't so lucky. The tornado sirens went off at 1am, we headed for our bathroom bunker shortly thereafter, and the lights went "poof" at about 1:05. Power is back on and we are none the worse for wear (except for a few trees that look a bit naked), but we're not looking forward to doing THAT again any time soon. Here's hoping that the weekend is calm and bright and full of stitchy goodness for everybody! Thanks for thinking of us....WOO HOO! BLOG? WHAT BLOG? So there I was, minding my very own business, when I looked up. "Holy crap, Batman!" I exclaimed to nobody in particular. "It's almost the end of June! How the h-e-double-toothpicks did THAT happen?" The truth of the matter is that time seems to be speeding by us here in Hoosierville quite quickly this summer. It's not due to anything exciting, mind you, but rather just the general blah blah blah that is my life. Stewey is fine...toes are all in tact and healed very nicely. He was totally miffled that he had to have his little cast removed, especially since the sight of it gave everybody a case of the "Awwwww, isn't he the cutest little thing you've ever seen" bug. Chez Spinster has remained spiffed up, but no visit from the Jersey Boy just yet. I wait with breath that is batied for the day he crosses the threshold, but am doing my level best not to get too excited about it until I see the license plate in the driveway. (You have to love that about New Jersey...front license plates! We don't have them here in Indiana and I really do miss them terribly.) (I find it comforting to know the home whereabouts of the cars that you're careening into on any given day. Don't you?) Aunt Chrissy is all skinny now and sporting her fancypants glasses where ever she goes. I'm not sure how she did it, but my little sister has managed to get even cuter, all while maintaining her usual aura of exasperated patience with moi and moi's little you know who. I am stitching a bit. Managed to finish the little all-tent-stitch-all-the-time piece that I was playing with. If I ever find the battery to the camera, I'll show you how it came out. So that's it, kids. Nothing new. Nothing Earth shattering. Just me,. I'll make sure that Stewey gets back to it soon and updates you on all of his shenangins. Until then, know that we remain your loyal and devoted friends and hope that you are well and safe and happy and stitching to your heart's content! Ciao, mee amorays! WOW. THAT. WAS. FAST. A LITTLE NOTE FROM ME TO YOU, BY MASTER STEWEY ANGUS WILLOWSWAMP, HIS VERY LITTLE SELF My mo-ther can't come to the blog right now. I've sent her to the market on a fool's errand of looking for a very special organic dog food that I read about online. We'll just keep it between us chickens that this particular dog food is only available in Australia, OK? I was doing just fine, sleeping with my silk pajamas and sleep mask firmly in place, when the old lady started bellowing "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" at the top of her ample lungs at 5:30 this morning. We apparently are experiencing some sort of weather related phenomenon that does not involve freezing my little heiney off, so Mo-ther felt compelled to welcome the day in what can only be described as her own special way. Progress continues on Aunt Laura's Stained Glass Windows. I think this piece is particularly fetching, and have already selected a place for it in my study....just above the davenport. Methinks the color scheme will go quite nicely with a new Persian I've just had my broker bid on for me at Southeby's, so as long as Mo-ther remembered to pay my AMEX bill this month, we should be good to go. Life continues along quietly here at Chez Spinster. I see my Aunt Chrissy from time to time for a little intellectual stimulation, and make do with whatever inane conversation Mo-ther concocts in the interim. My cousin Bosco continues to amuse me with his antics, and there was a brief moment that I considered joining him on Spring Break this year before I remembered that I care neither for board shorts or beer parties. I do apologize for my absence, but between trying to keep my idiot mo-ther from doing stupid human tricks that will surely result in a trip to the local emergency room and writing my novel, there just isn't a lot of time in the day. Are you all well and enjoying your own particular corner of the world? Until we meet again, know that I remain your loyal and devoted friend. Keep those cards and letters coming! HOLEY SCHMOLEY! So there I was, daydreaming about this thing of ours, when I happened upon a comment on this here blog by the lovely JP. In my last post, I mentioned that Stewey and I were captivated by the costumes in Game of Thrones, and JP was kind enough to provide the link to the Embroideress of said costumes. (Fair warning, kids.....when you go to this sight, you are going to want to quit your day job, move to London, and bang on the door of her studio to beg for an apprenticeship. (At least that's what I am thinking about doing today.) I mean, come on. How freakin' COOL would THAT be? RANDOM PERSON AT A COCKTAIL PARTY: So, what do you do for a living? SPINSTER: I'm a Needleartist. (OK, so this is the answer I give whenever somebody asks me this question already, but I do so because saying "Oh, I'm a big fat loser who hasn't a clue as to what she was supposed to do with her pitiful little life" kind of kills the moment.) RANDOM PERSON: A Needleartist? What's that? SPINSTER: Well, I do hand embroidery on textiles that are used in film and television productions. RANDOM PERSON: Wow. That's amazing. Have you worked on anything that I would have seen? SPINSTER: As a matter of fact, I just finished work on this season's costumes for Game of Thrones. RANDOM PERSON: Wow. That's incredible. You're perhaps the most fascinating person I've ever met in my whole entire life. Can I get your number and take you to dinner sometime to hear more about this? Ahhhhh. What a happy daydream for today! Thanks for the reference, JP! Here's the link: http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/index.htm WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY Chelloooo! Stewey and I are having a quiet, yet lovely Wednesday morning. The sun is shining, but it's cold. I think the thermometer said it was in the 20's before she muttered "Later, kids" and headed south for the duration. Sheesh...even the meteorological measuring devices have had enough. I've been happily stitching away on Laura J. Perin's Stained Glass Windows while re-watching the previous seasons of Game of Thrones. Aunt Chrissy and I decided to get ready for the premier in a few weeks by refreshing ourselves on the characters and plot points, so it's been all things codpieces all the time around here. Last night, Stewey got such a case of the giggles when he caught sight of Cersei Lannister in her copper breast plate. I looked up from my stitching to see what all the fuss was about, and have to confess that my Stewey Little was right-on with his assessment: I was thinking that the level of detail was a little extreme for a copper breast plate (since I thought I saw a n***le) but it turns out that it just must have been the lighting in the shot. Here is a close-up of said breast plate: Isn't the embroidery on that costume swell? Makes me wonder what all of the stuff from the show must look like up-close and in person. Speaking of up-close and in person.....here's my progress on Stained Glass Windows. In case you're wondering about the odd pattern of completion, may I just point out that I was smart enough to turn the canvas upside down so as not to reach my stubby pork chop arms across an 18-inch stretcher bar set? I figure I'll work the other two boxes in that row and will then head to the center portion of the design last. That's the report for today. I hope that your neck of the woods is fabulously happy and full of all the things that make your heart go pitter patter!

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Kroger’s Seamless Shoppers Has McMullen Bullish on Digital Growth As consumer behavior shifts with each COVID wave, Kroger is seeing its digital efforts pay off as the grocer retains shoppers within its ecosystem. Lisa Johnston Rodney McMullen, chairman and CEO of The Kroger Co., and Krystina Gustafson, SVP content, Groceryshop Rodney McMullen, chairman and CEO of The Kroger Co., expressed excitement for the future of grocery e-commerce at the Groceryshop trade show in Las Vegas on Sunday, noting that the pandemic accelerated about three years’ worth of transition in two weeks. While some digital shopping has decreased, he described it as not being much, with this most recent Delta surge causing some shoppers who had been returning into stores to flip back online. [See also: Kroger Launches 30-Minute Virtual Convenience Store] What’s more, almost every customer that was shopping with Kroger digitally moved to shopping with it in-store, said McMullen. “So we didn't lose them out of our ecosystems. They just went back to the store versus online.” For Kroger, this seamless migration is the critical part of serving its customers. “We want to have a customer that when you think food, you think Kroger,” noted McMullen. “And when you tie all of it together, it makes it easy. … We've always had the theory of it, but it was the first time we had a true data point that the customer really did switch from one to the other in a totally seamless way.” As Kroger strives to reach $20 billion in digital sales by 2023, the grocer’s automated Customer Fulfillment Centers, the first of which opened earlier this year, are expected to play a significant role in enabling the company to enter new markets. Weigh In on the Future of Grocery Tech! It’s also testing its Hometown grocery pickup services in towns that don’t have a grocery store. “Usually dollar stores are your biggest competitors in those kinds of markets,” McMullen said, “but it really is trying to be wherever the customer is ever held they want.” [See also: How Kroger’s Personalization Science Impacts Digital Carts] Looking at the rapid growth of retail media network, Kroger is taking steps to ensure it stays ahead of the curve. The company was an early entrant to the market, which has become increasingly saturated. McMullen noted that the Kroger has 11 million people entering its stores and 4 million people visiting it online; while this presents many monetization opportunities for retail media networks, the company is taking a longer-term view in order to ensure it still provides value for its CPG partners. “We're not going to advertise Coke to Pepsi customer, and vice versa, because that doesn't do us any good,” he said. “I'm sure we can get revenue from it, but we're really trying to figure out a way where all boats rise.” See More Retail Tech at Groceryshop 2021 More on E-commerce Pacsun Joins ComplexLand Metaverse Event, Marries Virtual and Physical Shopping Pacsun is jumping further into the metaverse by participating in ComplexLand 3.0 — a virtual, multi-day festival where visitors can shop for exclusive products. Learn more. Walmart Doubles Down on Data Monetization and Retail Media, Battles Inflation Despite challenges, the company’s consistent investment into additional profit centers like retail media and data monetization are proving resilient and rewarding. 3 Ways Subscriptions Will Help You Thrive in the E-Commerce Era, and How to Get Started To capitalize on and sustain this growth trend, many e-commerce businesses are adding subscriptions to their offerings. To be successful though, they need to keep several factors in mind. Albertsons Piloting DoorDash DoubleDash for Multi-Merchant Orders Weee’s Grocery Future Is a Gamified, Social and Video Experience

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Mary Tyler Moore’s Incredible Impact On Television (1996) Back in 1996, Mary Tyler Moore sat down with Access to chat about how her show, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has made an incredible impact on television. Plus, is it true she wanted to be a dancer instead of an actress?

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Why being in love may give you superpowers Emily Baines Every few months, I browse through my favorite blogs and uncover those amazing stories of a mother lifting a crashed car off her trapped child or father. This phenomenon, known as “hysterical strength,” is impossible to scientifically research because it’s difficult to replicate those conditions for a study. Nonetheless, we know it’s real. Well, it turns out you don’t just have to be worried about a loved one’s safety to harness this superhuman strength. People who are in love have experienced this phenomenon, as well. According to clinical sexologist and licensed marriage and family therapist Dr. Kat Van Kirk, people who are in love have, as well. “The oxytocin released in your system when you fall in love can actually increase your tolerance for physical pain,” Dr. Kirk explained. The superpower benefits for lovebirds don’t end there. The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology published a study that showed that married people were less likely than their single peers to have, or die from, a heart attack. Wow. WOW. That’s one heck of a benefit of marriage— far more useful than the tax benefit my father keeps telling me about! Lead researcher Dr. Aino Lammintausta explained, “Our study suggests that marriage reduces the risk of acute coronary events and death due to acute coronary events in both men and women and at all ages. Furthermore, especially among middle-aged men and women, being married and cohabiting are associated with considerably better prognosis of incident acute coronary events both before hospitalization and after reaching the hospital alive.” Well, now I can’t stop humming Huey Lewis and the News’ The Power of Love. What? They were right! Just look at the evidence! Seriously, this science shouting the benefits of of marriage is blowing our minds. For example, a Journal of Health and Social Behavior study proved that married people’s post-surgery survival rate is three times higher than that of single people. (Great. My single brother has a routine doctor’s appointment later this week and now I am terrified for him.) Meanwhile, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago found that those in a committed relationship reported a reduction in the stress hormone cortisol. (I, for one, have found myself less stressed since being in a relationship—even when my S.O. forgets to do the dishes.) This finding bolsters an already large body of evidence showing how a healthy romantic partnership can insulate us from stress. But for most of us, this is not surprising information. After all, emotional support can only aid psychological health. People act more stable when they feel someone is looking out for their interests and cares about their welfare. When I am near my loved one, I feel invincible. I just didn’t know that might actually be the case! By Emily Baines Popular in Power of Love What I learned at a sex ed summer camp for adults 10 kinds of sex dreams you might be having and what they mean The Right Swipe: Meet Anna and Jon, a committed long-term couple that met on Bumble This is the number one thing women hate the most about sex 8 myths you've probably believed about STIs This is how much sex is "healthy" at each stage of your relationship, according to the experts This is exactly what you should do to prepare for anal sex, according to experts How to have a polyamorous relationship, because it’s more complicated than just casual sex How to stop gaslighting in a relationship, according to experts Here's why you should be dry humping your partner more, according to sexperts The Right Swipe: Meet Julia and Scott, a married couple that found love on Tinder The Right Swipe: Meet Nayda and Alex, a happily married couple that met on Tinder Everything you need to know about sleeping with another woman for the first time What is considered cheating in a relationship? Here's what relationship therapists say Why I'll never regret moving across the country for a relationship that didn't work out Why heartbreak and music go hand in hand Sex IRL: 8 couples explain what it’s like when sex is painful for one person I tried using vegan condoms. Here's how they measured up How I'll survive Valentine's Day after a painful breakup, and how you will, too These 8 bad habits have no place in a healthy relationship, according to experts All Topics in Power of Love

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Ohio-Based Sunny D Buys Texas Plant Sunny Delight Beverage Co. plans to buy a Texas factory, upgrade its U.S. factories and sell its western Europe juice drink business. CINCINNATI (AP) -- Sunny Delight Beverage Co. plans to buy a Texas factory, upgrade its U.S. factories and sell its western Europe juice drink business. The Cincinnati-based company said Thursday it is investing $70 million to upgrade five U.S. plants, including upgrading and acquiring the Sherman, Texas, factory from J.M. Smucker Co. Orrville, Ohio-based Smucker produces Folgers coffee there and has leased space to Sunny Delight since 2004. Sunny Delight says planned automation, data system and other upgrades will increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Sale terms of its western Europe juice business to Orangina Schweppes weren't disclosed. Privately held Sunny Delight was spun off from consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. in 2004. For many industries, IIoT presents as many challenges as opportunities, but it is clearly the way of the future. Successfully deploying an IIoT application requires careful planning and attention to detail from the moment you decide to begin your journey.

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Chris Algieri: I've been in Camp with Marcos Maidana and Brandon Rios, Sparring for Weeks Posted by BoxingSocialist on June 9, 2014 at 4:42pm ALGIERI QUOTES: "My training in Las Vegas was very good, we had terrific sparring and I've been finishing off the last two weeks of camp here in New York City." "I'm not in awe of fighting Ruslan at all. I've watched him fight in the past and I have a very strong game plan to beat him. I've seen what works against him and just as importantly what doesn't." "Emmanuel Taylor who I beat in February was a hard punching, strong fighter who had knocked out a high number of opponents. I wasn't supposed to beat him or Jose Peralta. The underdog role fits me perfectly." "I've always loved boxing, but I had success at kickboxing and initially pursued that. My favorite fighter was Oscar De La Hoya, at his peak he could do it all. But boxing has always been my passion, my love." "I was in a couple camps with Marcos Maidana and Brandon Rios, sparring for weeks. Both of them, like Ruslan are aggressive, very strong fighters who I had success against in training." "Yes, I've go options with my (clinical nutrition) degree, I don't have to fight but I don't think that should be a factor in wanting to win any less. I've wanted to be a world champion since I started boxing and I want to win just as badly as Ruslan does next Saturday." "Barclays is a beautiful venue and I'm sure both of us will have a large fan bases cheering us on." "Of course I said yes immediately when offered the fight, fighting for a world title and on HBO is a terrific opportunity. But, also I know that I can beat Ruslan." "Sure many people will be shocked when I win, but not me." "Long Island has been terrific to me with their local support, it would mean a great deal to the people of Huntington for me to win the world title." Views: 291 Tags: Abraham, Al, Alvarez, Amir, Andre, Antonio, Arthur, Arum, Atlas, Austin, More…Bernard, Bernstien, Berto, Bob, Boxing, Boxingscene, Bradley, Brandon, Brook, Bundrage, Bute, Caesar, Carl, Chad, Chavez, Cloud, Cornelius, Cotto, Dawson, De, Denis, Donaire, ESPN, Felix, Fighthype, Fightnews, Floyd, Freddie, Froch, Garcia, HBO, Hopkins, Hoya, James, Jean, Jermain, Jones, Juanma, Julio, KO, Kell, Kelly, Khan, Kirkland, Klitschko, La, Lamont, Larry, Lebedev, Lopez, Lucian, Macklin, Manny, Margarito, Martinez, Matthew, Maxboxing, Mayweather, Merchant, Miguel, Nonito, Ortiz, Oscar, Pacquiao, Pascal, Pavlik, Peterson, Rios, Roach, Robert, Roy, Saul, Sergio, Shobox, Showtime, Skysports, Sturm, TKO, Tarver, Tavoris, Taylor, Teddy, Timothy, Trout, UK, Victor, Ward, knockout Like 0 members like this

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Ontario Election Party Profile: Libertarian Party - The Post Millennial - Mika Ryu: May 26, 2018 - "The Ontario Libertarian Party, founded in 1975, are aiming to win their first ever seat in Queen’s Park. They are running far more candidates than in any previous Ontario general election. There are only 7 provincial ridings without a Libertarian candidate. "Allen Small is fighting his second election as the leader of a party that has seen remarkable growth under his leadership. The party’s best showing in the last provincial election was 4th in Etobicoke North, getting more votes than the Greens in that riding. "Government Spending - The Libertarian Party promises to balance the budget, and repay the provincial debt in 30 years. They want to do this by cutting grants and subsidies, including the dissolution of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. "Previously, their platform stated they would sell all crown corporations, which would have included Hydro One. This year, their platform is markedly moderate, at least in tone and emphasis. "Taxes - The Libertarian Party would scrap carbon pricing and any other government programs related to climate change. They would also eliminate the corporate tax and mandatory WSIB insurance. The Land Transfer Tax would be replaced with a flat fee (of $275). "Environment & Hydro - The Libertarian Party claims that it will cut hydro rates 'in half'. They promise the repealing of the Green Energy Act, removal of subsidized power from the grid, termination of existing contracts for subsidized power generation, firing of all Liberal public appointees, and general deregulation measures. "Healthcare - The Libertarian Party would allow non-government health insurance options, including for services already provided by OHIP. They would also allow healthcare professionals to practice for non-government healthcare providers." Read more: https://www.thepostmillennial.com/ontario-election-party-profile-libertarian-party/ Posted by George Dance at 12:47 PM

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Home » Featured, Film, TV » Cultural exemption remains unchanged in trilateral trade deal NAFTA renegotiations wrapped Sunday night, with protections for Canada's cultural sectors remaining as-is in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). By Jordan Pinto After more than a year of NAFTA negotiations, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico on Sunday night reached a trade agreement that, crucially for Canada’s cultural industries, will see the full cultural exemption left unchanged. The cultural exemption allows Canada to exclude certain cultural industries from free trade and covers everything from subsidies to Cancon requirements. The modernized agreement, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), is set to last for 16 years, with a joint review between the three countries after six years. The Canadian government confirmed the continuation of the exemption this morning to Playback Daily. During the course of the negotiations, media outlets reported cultural protection provisions as a sticking point in the negotiations, though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government consistently stated that Canada would not sign an new agreement that did not contain protections for Canada’s cultural sectors. A statement from CMPA head Reynolds Mastin applauded the government’s renegotiation and the negotiating team’s defence of “our cultural sovereignty.” “For more than two decades, Canada and the United States have built a strong and mutually beneficial partnership that has allowed the media production sector to thrive on both sides the border,” added Mastin. NAFTA, Reynolds Mastin, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement DHX to launch kid-focused SVOD service in U.S. Gallagher’s Prey wins Rogers Audience Award as Hot Docs wraps Kim’s Convenience to hit international airlines Cardinal, Schitt’s Creek scribes earn top TV prizes at WGC awards Sony Pictures Classics tunes in to The Song of Names Photo Gallery: 2019 Screen Nova Scotia Awards Gala - Donna Davies on stage at the Screen Nova Scotia’s gala.

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Home » General » Top 5 PS3 Exclusives Xbox 360 Would Like Top 5 PS3 Exclusives Xbox 360 Would Like 12 December, 2010 3 So after yesterday’s Xbox 360 Exclusives We’d Like On PS3, here’s the flipside of the same coin, as we list PlayStation3 exclusives that we’re sure Xbox 360 owners would like. In fact, that we know they want these exclusives. And all in all, wouldn’t you be annoyed to see the following titles exclusively on Xbox 360? Of course you would, because they’re bloody good. Onwards! The obvious choice. The first game was arguably the best action-adventure of its ilk since Tomb Raider while the sequel is one of the rare examples of a game living up to its lofty expectations. So the third outing, which shifts the series to a sandy setting, with CO-OP and IN 3D makes me USE UNNECESSARY CAPS to convey the SHEER IMPORTANCE of this exclusive. Expect this to be Sony’s trump card to battle Microsoft’s Gears of War 3. They may be very different games but their SHEER IMPORTANCE to their respective consoles cannot be underestimated. “It’s not even possible on Xbox 360! Ha!” is what developers Sucker Punch had to say about a possible Xbox 360 version, give or take a few words. Cole McGrath has returned, the melee system has been redesigned, the open world has been improved and it’s going to push the PlayStation3 further than ever before! Possibly. They haven’t said that yet. It’ll look pretty damn good though, that’s the point. Even the beta is incredible, with players stepping up to the plate with their own versions of Heavy Rain, Afterburner, Street Fighter, original RPGs and so on. When you feel yourself in sheer awe of the games being created within the game itself, you have to wonder just how Media Molecule has managed to put this behemoth together. It stands as one of the most innovative titles being released next year and Xbox 360 doesn’t have anything that even attempts to match it. The same argument can be made for The Last Guardian, the spiritual successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Those games are frequent mainstays of top 10 lists for PlayStation2, so Team Ico’s track record means The Last Guardian is a game that everyone will be watching closely. It won’t sell millions but its real value as an exclusive can be found in its originality and the diversity it’ll bring to PlayStation3 owner’s games collections. Again, there’s no real comparable title on Xbox 360. If Xbox 360 truly is the land of FPS games, then it would be well served by having Killzone 3 on its side. It doesn’t have Killzone 3 on its side though while there’s no confirmed Halo title to prop up the Xbox 360 line-up next year. Until the usual Call of Duty scrum kicks in towards the backend of 2011, Killzone 3 has the FPS landscape to itself providing it measures up and that’s something you won’t find on Xbox 360. Those are the top five but that doesn’t include Twisted Metal, Resistance 3: Fall of Man, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, Yakuza 4, Final Fantasy Versus XIII… there are more exclusives coming out next year than any other that we can remember. Let’s not even get started on the potential argument about definitive versions… final fantasy versus xiii infamous 2 Killzone 3 last guardian LittleBigPlanet 2 MotorStorm: Apocalypse ratchet & clank resistance 3 Uncharted 3 yakuza 4 Similar posts Resident Evil 6: Will It Fail? » PS3 Games Nobody Bought » Naughty Dog: Put The Gun Down » 6 Games Worth Buying PS3 For (2011 Exclusives Edition) » How Long Should Games Be? » Uncharted 3 – Aiming Problems? » HOLY CRAP IT’S INDIANA JONES PLAYING UNCHARTED 3 » Would you buy Uncharted 3’s offline mode on its own? » I bet this list was easier to write than the other one. The only game that I really wanted that was an Xbox 360 exclusive was Mass Effect 2, but were getting that so I guess a Woop is in order. Woop! This is by far a better list. I only really care about Gears and Halo on 360 but there’s far more on PS3 and they are better than Halo. Well,well. I have been an Xbox360 owner since release day, and have often wondered what a ps3 would be like to own, Over the past 11 years I have struggled financially and have never really been able to afford much…Until now. I used to hear the odd person talk about their ps3 and then all the 360 owner trying to put a downer on them, and there was me sitting quietly in the corner. Well I have finally taken the dive and asked my wife to purchase me the 320gb model for Christmas and stated that I only want the exclusive titles, and so I know Im in for Uncharted 1&2, Killzone 2 and Little big planet. Along with a few Bluray titles. I dont have it in my hands as of yet as it is under lock and key until Christmas day, However I am extremely excited and already thinking of trading my 360 and games in for even more ps3 Titles. Guess its so long Gears of War 3 and hello Killzone 3, Uncharted 3, All Resistance titles, Infamous 1&2 Heavy Rain………Blah blah blah. PS: sorry it took so long 🙁

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Island Opinion Following MMFN’s decision to restrict access to WFP trucks, hereditary chiefs and environmental advocacy group Sierra BC has expressed its solidarity with the Nation Hereditary chiefs stand with Gold River-area First Nation in road use battle with logging company Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation restricting highway access to Western Forest Products Binny Paul, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Nov. 5, 2020 2:30 p.m. Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are standing behind a Gold River-area First Nation in its dispute with one of Vancouver Island’s largest forest companies. North Island hereditary chiefs and the environmental advocacy group Sierra Club B.C. have expressed their support for Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN) who are caught in an ongoing feud with Western Forest Products (WFP) over trespassing and road use compensation. Last week, MMFN announced its intention to restrict access to the portion of Highway 28 that passes Ahaminaquus Indian Reserve Number 12 (IR 12) to the logging company unless a “feasible” road use agreement and compensation plan was arrived at. READ MORE: Vancouver Island First Nation blocks highway access to logging trucks in Gold River In a statement, Kwakwaka’wakw hereditary chiefs and Sierra Club BC said that they are “standing in solidarity” with Mike Maquinna, the Council of Chiefs of Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation and with affected communities of Tsaxana and Gold River. “We denounce the reprehensible actions and sustained disrespect shown to the Mowachaht/Muchalaht people with the blatant trespassing on Ahaminaquus IR 12 by Western Forest Products (WFP) and the tacit provincial government approval evidenced by inaction on the matter,” said the statement. Hereditary Chiefs David Mungo Knox, Walas Numgwis, and Chief Calvin Hunt, Nas’am’yus said that WFP has shown the First Nations’ people their “true colours,” through company’s actions showing they care about their shareholders more than the forest and Indigenous people. “It pains me to see WFP violating Mowachaht/Muchalaht territory as they also do here. We speak with one voice when we raise our voices in thanks to the Mowachaht/Muchalaht for asserting their rights,” said Knox. ‘Namgis Hereditary Chief Rande Cook (An’anxwisa’gamayi), with the support of ‘Namgis Hereditary Chief William Wasden Jr. (Waxowidi), ‘Namgis Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred (Kwakwaba’las) and Musgamagw Hereditary Chief K’odi Nelson (Maxwayalis) also expressed their support for MMFN. “We know the damage that Western Forest Products has caused and we will remember the silence of the province who let it happen,” they said in a collective statement. The group also maintained that despite the government and industry trying to divide them in order to exploit their resources and land, the Kwakwaka’wakw and Nuu-Chah-Nulth people have “deep roots” and “family ties” to the west coast. “The Mowachaht/Muchalaht struggle to be seen and respected, it is also a Kwakwaka’wakw struggle to be seen and respected and vice versa. A violation of Nuu-chah-nulth law is a violation against all Indigenous people,” said the ‘Namgis hereditary chiefs in the statement. Calling the trespassing actions of WFP “shameful,” Sierra Club BC has said that it illustrates the “arrogance” WFP shows to the forest and the people who steward them. “Half a century of blatant trespass is a profoundly disturbing indication of colonial racism. It’s past time for WFP to pay reparations and for the colonial governments to prioritize this once and for all,” said Mark Worthing, Sierra Club BC’s coastal projects lead. In a statement released at the start of the blockade, WFP spokesperson Babita Khunkhun said the company has been in ongoing discussions regarding the portion of Highway 28 that crosses IR #12 and is working in good faith to quickly resolve this complex issue. She also said that the company values its relationship with the Mowachaht/Muchalaht and understands the desire of the Nation to resolve the issue. First Nationsforestry B.C. realtors asked to halt open houses due to spike in COVID cases Island couple looking for owner of lost pouch of sentimental items Ultramarathon a few miles short, but many dollars beyond its goal Six-day run misses record bid, but Help Fill A Dream fundraiser a big success Island woman reminds community that not everyone can wear a mask People enforcing mask rules frequently ignore that possibility UPDATE: City dismantling Wesley Street homeless encampment after fire Fire broke out at about 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3 Greater Victoria pair finishes running length of Vancouver Island a day early Joe Robertson and Jack Amos raised more than $12,000 for single parents North Island school tracks closed to the public during school hours To keep P.E. classes safe, the restriction went into effect Nov. 30 Bank of Canada puts the boots to old bills $1 and $2, $25 to $500 and $1,000 lose cash value Jan. 1, 2021 Bus driver shortage cancels routes in Sooke School District More drivers needed to accomodate expanding bus routes amid pandemic Island woman’s magic mushroom trauma treatment could be trendsetting Experts say this could signal the broadening of who can access psilocybin therapy Woman spits in Campbell River business operator’s face Spitter claimed she has COVID-19, in downtown confrontation More work at Ladysmith mill in new year, says Western Forest Products Company says Ladysmith operation to see second shift in February Oil spill response base taking shape on Saanich Peninsula Enhanced base with elements in North Saanich and Sidney to be fully operational in fall 2022 Langford mother thankful for accessible walkway that helps son connect with peers Rare neurological condition means Grade 3 student uses wheelchair, walker to play Explore Vancouver Island Free Daily Vancouver Island News Vancouver Island Weather Vancouver Island Classifieds © 2020, Vancouver Island Free Daily and Black Press Group Ltd.

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Become a Freedom Team Member Make an impact in your community by becoming a Freedom Team member! Gov. Daniels’ Cigarette Tax Hike By: FW Staff Following the lead of Governor Ted Kulongoski in Oregon, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is pushing a statewide healthcare plan to be funded through an increase in the cigarette tax. The increase would raise Indiana’s 55.5 cent tax an extra 25 cents. The tax passed its first hurdle Wednesday as the Senate Health and Provider Services Committee approved the plan by a 9-0 vote. Once again, we see our lawmakers punishing the taxpayers because they can’t control their spending habits. I guess smokers are easy targets in the eyes of Governor Daniels

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Music Sep 18, 2003 Unconditional Joy Lightheaded Reps for Positivity by Julianne Shepherd LIGHTHEADED Come hang out with us. Fri Sept 19 "When somebody pops in a Lightheaded album, I want it to feel like they're hanging out with us, rather than we're 'talking to you' or 'come sit in my class,'" explains Braille, emcee for Portland hiphop group Lightheaded. "That's the vibe we like to give off--I'm gonna share myself with you." Lightheaded's album, Purethoughts (released on DJ Fisher and MF Grimm's Day by Day Entertainment), totally reps for sunny positivity, a consciousness that's almost gleeful. But Braille's mission works--where some folks would get preachy, especially about the sort of spirituality on which the group bases their music, Lightheaded's enthusiasm is infectious, unfettered, and unfaltering. Like hanging out with your most earnestly happy friends--who can also drop a nice lyric. Braille and emcee Ohmega Watts met at the BET Soundstage in Florida in 1999; they met emcee Othello a little later in Seattle. Eventually, they all ended up in Portland for the specific purpose of doing their music. They've found a cozy home within the strength and diversity of Portland hiphop. Says Othello, "I think the Northwest has its own unique thing happening; there's a lot of creativity here, and [Portland] has its own sound--there are a lot of intelligent, creative lyricists here, and a lot of jazzy cats." I wonder what they think about the proliferation of positive-energy hiphop in Portland, why a lot of Portland groups--like themselves, Lifesavas, and Oldominion--are coming on a spirituality vibe. Says Braille, "The Northwest isn't big enough that you can just blow up out of nowhere--you have to work hard. And I think the people who have been more positive have been more passionate about what they do. But this area is funny--so many different kinds of people listen to our record. I think if I did a song called 'Let's Get Butt Naked,' there's a limited amount of people here it would appeal to. You gotta connect with people if you're gonna make some noise." Braille is more specific about Lightheaded's purpose. "What we represent is 'optimistic thinking in the world of chaos.' That the world is falling apart around you, but if you know where you are you can remain confident in that. Unconditional freedom, joy, love--those are the things we try to contain within our lifestyles and express through our music." Ohmega Watts is tentatively working with Ubiquity Records for a 12"; Othello is working on a solo EP, as is Braille. For Lightheaded's forthcoming record, they've collaborated with Ninth Wonder from Little Brother, and Lifesavas. Most Popular in Music Julia Jacklin Comes of Age Her 2016 Debut Chronicles a Quarter-Life Crisis by Ben Salmon Accident Prone Records Gets a Second Wind The 20-Year-Old Label Celebrates a New Split Release by Mark Lore The 19 Best Concerts to See in Portland This Week: December 13-19 Jay-Z (and Vic Mensa!), The Mountain Goats, Pedro the Lion and... Big Bad Voodoo Daddy? by Cam Forges Her Own Path Through Country Music From Bangerz to “Burning House,” the Singer/Songwriter Feels Pressure-Free of Industry Expectations by Robert Ham Growing to Love the National And Reckoning with the Unmagnificent Lives of Adults by Chris Stamm Tori Amos Is Still Banging on Her Piano With Native Invader, the Singer/Songwriter Interweaves Politics and Mythology by Suzette Smith Things to Do Music: November 22-28 Noteworthy Shows This Week by Mon Jan 8 at 9 pm, First Mon at 9 pm Ural Thomas & the Pain at Goodfoot The Toads, Fire Nuns, Cry Babe at Clinton Street Theater P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., The Viles, The Suicide Notes at Lay Low Tavern House Of Low Culture, Daniel Menche, Caustic Touch, EMS at Modular 8 I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House, The Angry Lisas, Chris Margolian, Bomf at Dante's

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ThemeSquirrel HTML Site Templates Creative Themes JomSocial Templates Theme Developers Entertainment Themes News Themes Retina Themes Category Archives: Plugins TimThumb Plugin Contains Another Vulnerability, Websites at Risk June 30, 2014 ThemeSquirrel According to ArsTechnica and other sources, the WordPress plugin TimThumb had a “zero-day vulnerability” that “leaves many websites vulnerable to exploits that allow unauthorized attackers to execute malicious code.” The vulnerability surfaced on June 24 and surrounded TimThumb, a plugin that helps you fiddle with web images. According to SECLists.org, TimThumb was “developed for use in the WordPress theme Mimbo Pro and since used in many other WordPress themes.” It’s widely used, which means plenty of sites could be at risk. If you have the webshot option enabled, you’re reportedly at risk for an attack, ArsTechnica noted. The site gave the following words of advice to members of the WordPress community who were concerned that their websites would soon erupt into flames: “People who are unsure if their WordPress-enabled site is vulnerable should open the TimThumb file inside their theme or plugin directory, search for the text string ‘Webshot_Enabled,’ and ensure that it’s set to ‘False.'” Your firewall, if you have one installed, might also help you combat the vulnerability, although ArsTechnica and other news sites recommended disabling the plugin until a fix was implemented. And, according to GrahamCluley.com, a fix was ultimately rolled out: “TimThumb Version 2.8.14 has now been released, fixing the vulnerability. It’s clear, however, that the developers are a little miffed that they weren’t informed about the vulnerability by the researchers who discovered it.” A blog from Daniel Cid warned that hackers could do some serious damage on your system if the vulnerability is exploited. How? “With a simple command, an attacker can create, remove, and modify any files on your server,” Cid wrote. He promptly showed a command in which he removed a file and then created a new one. An issue with TimThumb was reported in 2011 that involved “arbitrary file uploads,” according to David Dede. He explained, “Although this is a platform independent issue, it is specially an issue on WordPress, where a lot of theme authors choose to include scripts in themes without any extra security measures.” According to Softpedia, “thousands” of WordPress sites had issues related to TimThumb back in 2011, which probably left a rather salty taste in the mouths of many developers and website owners. Whether the latest issue with TimThumb was exploited in any way remains to be seen, according to Softpedia. Besides, said the same site, the odds of the flaw resulting in any significant damage appeared to be slim: “Only administrators that activated it from the TimThumb script ran the risk of being plundered. Furthermore, even if enabled, executing the Webshot code requires two server-side extensions to be installed.” Vulnerabilities related to WordPress are all too common. Take an issue found in recent weeks having to do with the All In One SEO Pack. What would happen if your account were infiltrated, you ask? As PC World outlined at the time about the All In One issue, “One of the two flaws… can be exploited by a regular user, like an author or a subscriber, to modify a post’s SEO title, description, and keyword meta tags created by the plugin. If used maliciously, this could result in damage to a site’s search result ranking. However, the vulnerability can also be combined with a second flaw to inject malicious JavaScript code on the administrator control panel that would execute when the page is loaded.” We can’t stress enough the importance of making sure all of your plugins, admin tools, and themes are as up to date as humanly possible. Otherwise, you’ll miss out on critical patches and fixes that will help protect you against malicious software and vulnerabilities. If you’re going to build a website, make sure to protect it 20 must have WordPress plugins for your cool blog Maintaining a blog, no matter the traffic received, isn’t only about writing and publishing articles. No doubt, the quality of the posts is capital, but a good looking design is also very important. It’s said that the small details make the big difference and this statement is valid regarding the existence of a blog. The competition is very harsh amongst bloggers and each aspect must be treated seriously in order to have a decent number of visitors. WordPress is the leading platform for blogging and it seems that its supremacy will last, at least, in the near future. The WordPress developers created amazing themes and plugins that allow enhancing any type of website. Practically, a theme and some plugins may completely change the destination and the functionality of a website. Ironically, the huge number of themes and plugins put in trouble the WordPress users because it’s impossible to make a decent selection of the most beautiful and efficient solutions. Fortunately, we are aware about this situation and as a result we have published articles exhibiting the best themes, templates or plugins. In this post we searched for various plugins that may be useful for maintaining a blog. These plugins are ideal for different issues, from search engine optimisation to adding nice image sliders. Definitely, the developers created more than 20 plugins for blog owners so we might have missed your favourite one. Please let us know which your favourites are and we will take this into consideration for a new article! Monetize Now It’s not shameful to recognize that many blogs are created to bring an extra income to the owner. The monetization of a blog is a very complex and challenging task. Affiliate marketing is an attractive solution to monetize the blog and this plugin is the perfect solution for this activity. By installing it, the blog will become part of Envato Affiliate program and I guess that there is no need to mention what a huge brand Envato is. nBar The Internet users developed a special sense; they may scan a website extremely fast. In this context, grabbing the attention of the users is mostly an art. This plugin helps the bloggers to add various notification bars into the headers/footers. Of course, the notification bars are very customisable. Ad Flap Pro Another modality of obtaining the attention of the blog visitors is to use this interesting plugin, which is actually in charge with creating cool animated adverts. I really appreciate it because the messages aren’t obtrusive unlike other plugins that „intoxicate” the readers with huge pop up messages. Mine Flip Book Some people are still very much in love with the classic format of a book and hate the digital format. This plugin is created in order to satisfy all the tastes: it creates a „book” and it has a feature that people will love: the files may be flipped similarly to a classic manuscript. It’s a really interesting experience and it will surely make the blog stand apart from other competitors. LoopPress Almost every blogger adds various videos to his / her posts. Handling these is pretty difficult, but Looppress is a great plugin that makes this job simpler. If you are used to adding videos into your blog, then this plugin is ideal for you! Handling the images is another challenging task for a blog owner. Fast Gallery is a plugin that helps very much the blogger to arrange the images into galleries. The huge advantage of this plugin is the fact that it’s extremely simple to use…you can configure a gallery in less than a minute! Buzzcomi Making people curious is another technique of obtaining traffic. This plugin is able to create a coming soon page with a very interesting countdown timer. The design is very pleasant and it’s very probable that it will make people interested in what is behind the countdown. Forms are apparently not very important items, but an experienced blogger knows that these are vital for the success of the blog. If you want to create your own cool forms, then this plugin is exactly what you need. It creates tons of form versions and it’s impossible not to be satisfied with a variant. I fell in love with the modern design of the forms. If I were a user, I would definitely spend some time just to complete such a wonderful form. Premium SEO Pack A very interesting blog that isn’t search engine optimised is a lost project. Like it or not, the number of the visitors is very important; so a SEO plugin is mandatory for any blog. The market is full of various SEO plugins, but only a few of them are really useful. SEO Pack is one of these useful plugins and you shouldn’t miss it! Smart SEO The previous plugin is a very powerful one, but it might happen not to satisfy your tastes. Smart SEO is another solution that should be taken into account! Keyword Finder Finding the right keywords isn’t a very difficult task, but it takes valuable time that may be used for other more important activities. Keyword Finder is a plugin that should be used by the entire blogging community. As long as you post a title in the dashboard area, it will provide unlimited potential keywords; therefore your time is saved. Many bloggers are writing about music topics and a good and reliable audio plugin is golden for their blogs. Uber Audio may be a solution because it allows people to listen to music from the post, page or sidebar. The playlists may be very easily customised and there is no limit regarding the number of tracks that may added into a playlist. Calendarize A calendar is very important because it helps people get a constant flow of published articles. Calendarize is a great plugin that will simplify the work of an admin very much. Banner Rotator Nowadays, the developers created amazing sliders that simply delight the users. Altogether, it’s quite difficult to find a standing apart slider. Banner Rotator is an original and customisable slider that will surely impress any user. Posts Slider is another plugin that is created for adding sliders. The same as the previous one, it has many useful features and no doubt, it will add a high level of dynamism. Share Locker Social media can’t be ignored by a serious blogger. The different social media appreciations (likes, tweets, shares, pins) are taken into account for the ranking of a website. This plugin hides the content of a post until the users share/like/tweet the respective post. Social Box Social Box is another plugin almost mandatory for a modern blog. It allows the admin to add a social widget, which will let the visitors make an idea about the social media presence of the blog. Its sleek design will attract the eyes of the visitors; so you have all the reasons to use it. People prefer to engage with the ones that provide them interesting information. Having an „About me” section is highly recommended for any blogger – in this way the curious readers may find out who is behind the blog. Luckily, we have this plugin that creates a widget displaying an „About me” section and the latest tweets. M7 Accordion Menus By installing this plugin, the admin has the possibility to create accordion menus in the widget area. As far as the admin is concerned, this is simple to install and use, while the users will have more possibilities to access the content- it’s a win-win situation and everyone should profit from it. This plugin creates a widget consisting of a tabbed panel that displays various types of content, from tweets to recent posts. It’s a simple method of showcasing a lot of information without annoying the visitors. I hope that these plugins will be really helpful for the bloggers. Anyway, it will be great to share your favourite ones (from this list or from WordPress Repository) with us. pluginpluginsWordPress pluginWordPress plugins Plugins, WordPress All In One SEO Pack Vulnerabilities Found, Upgrade Recommended June 2, 2014 ThemeSquirrel In news that popped up all over the web in recent days, the WordPress plugin All In One SEO Pack contains several security vulnerabilities that could put users’ sites at risk. Yes, SEO is very important, but so is keeping your website safe. Let’s take a look at what the issues are and what can be done to stop them. Researchers from Sucuri, who were conducting a code audit when the problem popped up, were quoted in a PC World article from Monday as saying, “If your site has subscribers, authors, and non-admin users logging into wp-admin, you are at risk. If you have open registration, you are at risk, so you have to update the plugin now.” Not updating the plugin could prolong the security issues that exist. The flaws are pretty major too. PC World said, “One of the two flaws discovered by Sucuri can be exploited by a regular user, like an author or a subscriber, to modify a post’s SEO title, description, and keyword meta tags created by the plugin. If used maliciously, this could result in damage to a site’s search result ranking. However, the vulnerability can also be combined with a second flaw to inject malicious JavaScript code on the administrator control panel that would execute when the page is loaded.” When we checked the All In One SEO Pack’s download page on WordPress’ website, it was Version 2.1.6, which is the corrected version. The plugin as a whole has had an amazing 18.5 million downloads throughout its lifetime, including almost 4,000 on Monday alone and 26,000 the day the issue was exposed. You can see why security flaws in it could be so damning: the plugin is used by a bundle of sites across the internet. If you’re not running Version 2.1.6, you should upgrade post-haste. According to PC World, the latest version was released on Sunday, so if you’ve downloaded it since then, you should be fine. The plugin’s overall features include XML sitemap support, Google Analytics support, SEO on WordPress e-commerce sites, and automatic optimization of titles for Google and other search engines. It’s a massively popular plugin. In several news stories we checked out covering the All In One SEO Pack’s issues, users recommended the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin, which according to its website has been downloaded 10 million times. One user, for example, wrote, “This is just another in the long list of reasons why we advise our customers against using All In One SEO. While the plugin was great at one point, it has been lagging behind Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin for quite some time now. If you’re still using AIO, this is a great excuse to switch over to Yoast.” ThemeSquirrel has reviewed another option called Smart SEO. WordPress’ widespread use makes it a major target for hacker attacks. One of the most prominent security issues popped up in 2011 via TimThumb. CNN explained, “In this attack, hackers exploit a security flaw in a popular file used by WordPress and other website-building platforms to crop and resize images (Timthumb.php, thus the name).” CNN added, “Hackers use the security hole to install malicious code or files into a website or server. From there, they can launch spear phishing campaigns and denial-of-service attacks, where hackers overwhelm a website’s server by flooding it with requests, making the site unresponsive.” Google blacklisted some sites that suffered from the hack. According to another article, TimThumb attacks continued for as long as a year after the problem was exposed, which is evidence why it’s important to update your WordPress plugins and programs as often as humanly possible. We’ll continue to bring you the latest WordPress news right here on ThemeSquirrel. 20 WordPress plugins to improve your social media presence May 12, 2014 ThemeSquirrel Social media was a big hit two years ago but nowadays it seems that people have lost their enthusiasm. Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest still attract new users, but definitely the climax of social media was overtaken. On the other hand, it doesn’t mean that neglecting social media is a good choice…by far, it’s a huge mistake. The social networks are inestimable for the huge brands because they help them stay connected with people. Being active on various social networks isn’t mandatory only for huge brands, but a good social presence is recommended for local businesses, bloggers or entrepreneurs also. In fact, websites without various social media buttons are very rare. Obviously, the content is the one that determines people to distribute it on social networks but an important role is played by the design. As a result, many designers spend much time searching for the best plugins and methods to improve the social media presence. Luckily for you, we have collected 20 impressive WordPress plugins that will help you improve your social media presence. The selection was very time-consuming because many talented WordPress developers create brilliant plugins. Social Fans Social Counter plugin lets the viewers make a brief opinion about the number of friends/followers/subscribers. The buttons are retina ready, based on Bootstrap. The plugin contains 21 buttons and four skins (Light, Dark, Colored, and Transparent) that may be customized for everybody’s needs and preferences. Social Sidebar The huge majority of the WordPress plugins are very customizable, but very few ones benefit from a very clear explanation about how to do it. The developers of Social Sidebar noticed this fact and have created a wonderful and very clear preview. I think that it is better to visit it yourself and play around with the various customization options. YouTube Grid Video Gallery If a good image is worth 100 or 1000 words, how many words is good video worth? Definitely, a lot! In conclusion, it’s highly recommendable to pay attention at the manner in which one can display videos and maintain a YouTube account. This plugin will help in handling the YouTube videos, so if you are in need YouTube Grid Video Gallery is a good solution. Facebook Albums Grid The previous plugin was responsible for creating a video gallery; this one does the same, but it handles Facebook albums. Of course, it provides the same quality and easiness to install and use it. Easy Facebook Contest The social networks are very dynamic and are famous for the high level of interactivity. Facebook contests are very much appreciated and they may produce a lot of buzz around the contest holder. This plugin will help in creating Facebook contests directly from the WordPress website and it may bring a considerable traffic increase. Easy Social Locker The monetization of written content is a long and unresolved story. It’s improbable that people will pay for articles as long as the same ideas will appear few minutes later. Still, there is a solution to satisfy the readers and reward the writers/bloggers. A “Like”, “Tweet” or any other form of social media compensation may be the perfect reward for these people. Easy Social Locker is a plugin that once installed will lock the website and it will became accessible only by giving a social media reward. Twitter Slider Twitter is a social network that can’t be neglected. This plugin is a great tool for displaying the Twitter feed; it allows displaying the feed in vertical or horizontal position. Supercharged Twitter Card Management This plugin is another one that helps people manage their Twitter presence better. I think that it is more powerful than the precedent one so don’t ignore it! SelectNShare SelectNShare is a great and very original plugin. I think that this plugin is very useful for blogs because once you install it the user will have the possibility to select a phrase/part of a text and share it via social networks. It is not a very used plugin, but it surely is a very interesting one. Don’t you think? Sometimes, the social networks buttons are obtrusive and annoying. Altogether, it’s a huge mistake not to insert some of them. This plugin is a very good middle way solution- it hides the latest tweets into a slider. It’s very discrete and anyone that is interested in checking the Twitter activity is just a single click away. Tweetdis Tweetdis is another WordPress plugin that helps the owner to improve his / her Twitter presence. It’s simple and useful- it allows the editor to select a phrase and make it “tweetable”. Actually it creates a “tweet” call to action: this means that the user will just have to click the button and voila, here is a new tweet in Twitterverse. WP Smart Like WP Smart like is a plugin that consists in displaying the Facebook “likes” into very discrete but visually appealing buttons. At the same time it has inserted a “likes” counter and it’s very customizable, so you have all the reasons to consider adding it into your blog. Instagram Photo Video I guess that a very small percentage of the overall number of websites don’t have photos inserted into the layouts. Displaying photos is a very challenging web design issue: these must be high quality, but their size must be very small not to negatively affect the loading time and of course, the images should be well rendered no matter the device used to navigate. Fortunately, this plugin is inestimable in managing the Instagram images. My Social Counter This plugin makes a great job- it offers a counter for all the major social networks. My Social Counter plugin offers various schemes of displaying social network buttons in order to fit them better to the website design. Every button looks great, which means that the visitors will be delighted with them! If the previous plugin offered a bird view over the social media numerical situation, this one is useful in having a complete overview of the social media stream. More exactly, the plugin adds the website a discrete slider that presents the latest actions on the major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Vimeo, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram). WordPress Social Stream is a very original plugin. It takes various social media streams and incorporates them all into a single WordPress powered website. The plugin is extremely customizable and it allows selecting any type of feeds from multiple networks into a layout that may be modified according to the user’s needs. Twit Lite Usually, the bloggers and the website owners are very busy people and they are not able to handle their social presence well, since it is well known that maintaining a coherent social media stream is a time consuming activity. This plugin saves the time and automatically tweets any new post published. It is simple, but effective, isn’t it? Ring Share Ring Share isn’t a very used plugin, but it must be treated seriously by the WordPress users. It gives the user the possibility to create a ring of social media icons on various areas on the layout while the visitors may share the page/image/text paragraph via various social networks. This plugin doesn’t enhance the user experience, but it shouldn’t be missing from the arsenal of a serious WordPress user. It offers a very detailed situation of the social media hits and the dates are showcased using beautifully designed graphics. WP Social RSS It was impossible not to mention a plugin that will allow you to better handle the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) options. It’s simple to use and it allows customizing the RSS buttons in order to attract more and more visitors. The social networks are very important and either if you are willing or not, these will be very appreciated in the next years. These plugins are very efficient and any owner of a WordPress powered website must consider installing some of them. If you appreciate this post, don’t forget to share it with your friends! pluginpluginssocial mediaWordPress pluginWordPress plugins How Vulnerable is Your WordPress Site? March 31, 2014 ThemeSquirrel It’s not every day that Forbes, a major media outlet, takes a look at WordPress. The subject: security of WordPress sites, focusing on what you can do to ensure your domain is impenetrable. After all, hacking a WordPress site can involve just a user name and password, so let’s see how you can refrain from falling victim. One recommendation from Forbes was to back up your website “often.” How often is completely up to you, but the news site recommended at least one update a week. Several plug-ins are available to help you back up your site, including UpdraftPlus, which Forbes recommended. Others we found included BackUpWordPress and BackWPup. Some of these cost money and others didn’t, so check out a few to see which ones match your needs and wallet the best. Forbes also recommended limiting login attempts rather than allow unlimited cracks at your user name and password. A plugin called Limit Login Attempts was recommended, which helps stop logins by tracking a person’s IP address. You can also keep tabs on attempts using Limit Login Attempts and even have them e-mailed to you. Just like many computer users have an obvious login name, Forbes recommended, “Most hackers try to get your password by trying to brute-force your ‘admin’ username. If you change your user name to something else, that will protect your website immediately.” In other words, pick a user name that’s not “admin”. It’s amazing how simple security can be sometimes. Similarly, use a password that’s not inanely obvious like “password” or “WordPress” or one you’ve used on a bunch of other websites. Try to come up with something original that would give hackers a headache to crack. No, your first name is not original. One final recommendation was to “limit the IP addresses that are allowed to visit /wp-admin/ section of your website. The easiest way to do so is to block all entry except your own IP address with an htaccess file.” We found a number of plugins that provided e-mail alerts when potential security breaches came to light. Take BulletProof Security, for example, which allows you to be notified whenever a user account is locked out, an administrator logs in, and any user logs in. Think about how much control and oversight you’d have if you were e-mailed when any of these actions occurred. The All In One WordPress Security plugin (pictured) received rave reviews (113 reviews of five stars out of 119 submitted). According to its site, the plugin “reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques. [The] All In One WP Security also uses an unprecedented security points grading system to measure how well you are protecting your site based on the security features you have activated.” Not protecting your site can yield pretty grave consequences. Take an incident in mid-March that saw 162,000 WordPress sites launch a DDoS attack. Yes, 162,000 WordPress sites were part of the melee. As one observer put it, “Can you see how powerful it can be? One attacker can use thousands of popular and clean WordPress sites to perform their DDoS attack, while being hidden in the shadows, and that all happens with a simple ping back request to the XML-RPC file.” There’s a tool called WordPress DDOS Scanner you can use if you think your site might be at risk. Users making comments in various articles about the DDoS attack reiterated the dangers of an “admin” user name. Others added that keeping your plugins and add-ons up-to-date is of paramount importance. Changing your password often is also advised. Check out some of the other WordPress plugins that can help you be a lean, mean WordPress machine. 7 Reasons Why Your Website Has to Work on a Mobile Phone February 24, 2014 ThemeSquirrel Being on the go is the way that most people operate today. Being on the go means that you will not always have the space that you would like to carry a large personal laptop. In lieu of a laptop, most people will carry around other devices. Some of these are mobile phones or tablets. Most smart phones and mobile devices were created to help access the Internet without needing a large screen. Website owners should be aware of the fact that everyone who attempts to access their website will not be accessing the site through a personal computer. The website will more than likely be accessed through a tablet or mobile phone regularly. For website owners, this means optimizing the web page for mobile phone usage. Here are seven reasons why your website should work on a mobile phone. 1) Phones are more popular than computers While there are still people who operate without having a personal computer inside of their home, it is rarer to find a person who does not have a cellular phone. The default cellular phone that is being released by manufacturers is a smart phone. Smart phones have internet access, and can access and load webpages as fast as many computers. So, while you may be building your website on a computer, you must build the site with mobile access in mind. 2) People Often Order on the Go If you offer commodities on your website, having a website that can be accessed via a mobile phone can greatly increase your revenue. If you sell items, the website should be created as a mobile user friendly website. Allowing mobile phone customers to be able to browse, select items, and check out with little hassle can increase your revenue. 3) People Prefer Phones While Relaxing When people tend to relax, they may not bring their personal laptop with them. This means that a person who is relaxing in bed, or in their living room may not take their computer, but they are likely to have their phone. A customer who is browsing may run across your website and decide to patronize your service. 4) Mobile Friendly Sites are Easy to Build There are website themes that are available to build websites. Some of these themes already operate as mobile friendly design. These designs translate well on a mobile phone and allow the buttons and screen scaling to match what you would like when it comes to mobile access. 5) It will be Easy for You to Access Customers are not the only people who need to access the website on the go. Building a mobile friendly website will make it easy for you to access as well. If you wish to log into your website while on the go, with a mobile friendly site, you can log in an access the control panel of the website. During downtime in a commute or while caught in the city, you will be able to access your website and make changes or contact customers as you need to. As a business owner, being available in a number of different ways is necessary to best serve customers. A mobile friendly site will help you to serve them through your phone as well. 6) Bug Finding and Set Up is Easy There is little reason to stall making the transition to a mobile friendly website. It is easy to make changes to a website in order to be more mobile friendly. Contrary to popular belief, bugs are not a major issue when making this kind of change to a website. BugFinders.com is a website that can help you sort out any bugs that may be found in your software. If there are any bugs found, you can get a quick fix in order to set up your website design properly. 7) Your Conversions may Increase When you go from a design that was not mobile friendly to a sign that is easily accessible via a smart phone, you may be able to keep customers on your website a little longer. Customers who access websites via their mobile phone and happen upon a design that is not mobile user friendly will often quickly click away and instead look for another site. After implementing a mobile friendly design, you may find that users come to the website and stay a longer time. This is likely to increase your sales and your repeat visitors. Changing over to a mobile friendly design is a top priority for website owners. Make sure that you have the job done professionally, in order to make sure that the website is performance friendly. Once you have a new mobile design, watch closely to your stats and any sales increases. 5 Best BlackBerry Apps for Graphic Designers September 25, 2013 Teddy Hunt New technologies are making life much simpler for graphic designers, and there are some great apps available for controlling your business, getting your life in order and succeeding in the graphic design field. It also can help build your brand. Here are the five best BlackBerry apps for graphic designers. 1. Palettes Lite Image via celestinacarmen.blogspot.com Palettes Lite is the free version of the full software package, but it still has a huge amount of usability and is a more comprehensive tool than ColorRef. With Palettes Lite, you will be able to create a color scheme with color codes, sliders, photos, or the color wheel. The app is also shows complimentary colors and allows for new pallets to be created based on the merging of other colors. This great app also has a huge online palette sharing location where you can browse and download other user create color pallets. 2. ColorRef Image via webdesign.about.com ColorRef is a simple easy to use color scheme reference tool for graphic designers who like to match up color schemes while out and about. Sometimes in a moment of design inspiration you may want to check the compatibility of colors you are intending to use, and this is where ColorRef comes in. The app can convert RGB, Hex or even CoreGraphics formatting, meaning that you can source colors from a variety of locations. There are some great online resources teaching about effective use of color schemes in web design if this is an area that you need more help with. 3. Evernote Hands down one of the best organizational apps out there, Evernote is a comprehensive tool that can be accessed from any device, even newer ones like the BlackBerry Q10, making it ideal for graphic designers who are always on the go. Simply make notes and memos on whatever device you like and then once saved, you can retrieve anywhere anytime. With a few little add-ons you can also save webpages, bookmarks and create reading lists to refer back to. The premium edition ofEvernote has some extremely useful features such as note and file sharing as well as many other tools. 4. SAP TimeSheet Lite Image via appfinder.lisisoft.com If you are the kind of designer who needs help with time management, client rates and other office work, then this app will be a nice addition to your BlackBerry device. TimeSheet Lite is a free version to the full package, and it allows you to track time sheets, project details and client details so that you never have to worry about forgetting to log down your work again. The full version has some really neat tools that will help to keep you on track up to date with clients. 5. Storage Made Easy Image via storagemadeeasy.com Many graphic designers work from a variety of locations, which can lead to a messy trail of files, documents and media. Storage Made Easy consolidates your file storage into one central point so you can get access to it from whichever device you are using, meaning that whether you are at your desk or on the train, you will never be without your files. Mobile devices makes life easier for graphic designers, and the fact that you can use these apps from any place makes them even more convenient for those working in various locations. AppsBlackBerryEvernoteGraphic Design The complete guide of creating a selling WordPress theme September 4, 2013 ThemeSquirrel WordPress is just ten years old but it seems to be one of them most important entities of the Internet. There are so many websites based on this content management system (CMS) and so many themes available that the Internet may be considered as the realm of WordPress. The fascinating aspect is that its success seems it’s not reached its peak as long as the number of websites based on CMS is daily growing. The specialists tried to explain the success of the CMS and they identified lots of factors but the most important was the simplicity of using it. Someone said that everyone that is able to work with Microsoft Office Word will be able to handle a WordPress website…personally, I really believe in this statement. In this context, it’s normal for any designer or developer to ask himself if it’s profitable to sell a WordPress theme. Unfortunately, by reading this post you won’t obtain a clear answer –“yeah, go for it” or “nope, it’s not for you”. The single clear statement is that yes, there are too many WordPress themes available, but definitely, there are way too few high quality ones. In conclusion, instead of wasting time to ask yourself if it’s good or not to create a WordPress theme, it’s better to create a really impressive theme and start making money by selling it. Important: Many designers prefer to create only custom WordPress themes that are used by a single client. In this post we will not treat this aspect, we will debate only the matter of themes available for multiple sells. In order to help you, here is a small, but complete guide to create selling WordPress themes. Obviously, it may be completed with the opinions or past experiences of the readers; we are waiting for your contributions, therefore use the comment form! 1. Decide the type of the theme Before making the first scratch of a layout, it’s recommended to establish very clearly the type of the theme. In fact, there are two major solutions: – a theme that may be suitable for multiple purposes. It’s characterized by general items, it has nothing very particular. The advantage of these themes is constituted by the large amount of potential buyers. – a particularized theme that has a very clear destination, i.e. a layout for church or kindergarten website. These themes have less potential buyers, but the interested ones are better transformed into effective buyers. It is up to the designer to select which solution work the best for him, clearly none of the above solutions is wrong or good. Anyway, it’s a good idea to follow a path from the beginning, else changing the concept in the middle of the design phase may represent a very bad decision. 2. A good design remains capital (yeah, it’s a deprecated piece of advice) I was in doubt about adding or not this tip into the article. I think that no blogger or designer will ever say that the design isn’t important. It’s such a common advice that will bore the readers. Altogether, an impressive number of themes are modest and the design simply has nothing to attract the eyes of the viewers. To conclude, any designer should think twice when creating the design of the layout. It should be original to attract people, but in the same time it should be accessible and usable. The design of a layout requires a lot of time and resources, but this by no means (time and resources) is mandatory to create a product that will be appreciated and bought. 3. A good design attracts clients, a good code maintains them loyal A good design attracts clients, but selling more themes requires a complete strategy. The main idea is to create a loyal base of clients and definitely it is the basis of a long-term profitable affair. The first step in gaining the loyalty of the clients is to offer them very good products. As long as the design is a subjective matter and it may happen that a good looking theme will not be liked by some people, a clean and correct code is an objective thing. Even if the code is a more discrete presence, it doesn’t mean that coding may be ignored. There is nothing to add: pay close attention to the coding, any mistake affects the rating of the theme and implicitly, it will negatively affect the number of sales. 4. Give options to the users, but don’t let them recreate the theme Another feature of WordPress that is much appreciated by users is the customization ability. It means that also the themes must be easily customizable and a successful one should have many options to personalize. Many WordPress developers are going too far and add too many options to custom and this situation confuse the clients. There is no recipe to determine which options are necessary and which ones are useless- it’s only the experience of the designer/developer. 5. Customer support is important no matter how high quality is a theme I bet that even if a theme respects the laws of beautiful design and it’s impeccably coded, at least a client will need support for the respective theme. Customer support seems as an additional activity for WordPress theme creators, but the reality proved that it is very important. On short term perspective, not offering replies to the clients’ demands may not affect the sales, but on medium and long term perspective it is “the perfect solution” to failure. 6. Marketing is as important as coding and design A common mistake of people selling WordPress themes is the lack of interest regarding the marketing of the theme. As I previously mentioned, the Internet is full of themes and it’s extremely difficult to make some buzz around a new one. The WordPress themes market is characterized by a paradoxical situation: it is full of themes, but very few are really qualitative and people are somehow prudent about a new theme. If the creator doesn’t care about the future of his work, by sure other people won’t either. The conclusion: marketing is a must. Willing or not, creating a selling WordPress theme supposes the next phases: designing, coding and marketing! In the end, I hope that everyone interested in selling WordPress themes got some useful advices. Once again, I must warn that creating WordPress themes is a taught job, but the rewards are pretty motivating. What do you think, would you start creating and selling WordPress themes? themethemesWord PressWord Press themes How To Compose SSL With Merchant Account? August 7, 2013 ThemeSquirrel It can be said that a merchant account is not a typical account like saving or any other account. It is however like a contract between you and your bank. Now people prefer to use credit or debit card payments instead of using hard cash. So if you also want to have the facility in your online or retail store then you can go for opening a merchant account. While generating the bank statement the name of your business along with a specified charge will appear on your customer’s credit card statement. Here the processing dimensions passes through every 7-14 days. It is not that you will have to work with one account as a business owner you are allowed to have more than one active of merchant accounts at the same time. Generally people go for over-the-counter (OTC) merchant account which is most useful for retail stores. The second types of merchant accounts are termed as Internet Merchant Accounts used by for eCommerce merchants for online webshops, it is though a very high risk Merchant Account associated with a few specific categories like gambling and adult, pharmacy, where there is a more chance of fraud. The next most common kind of merchant account is for the E-mail and telephone made orders account, which provides you services related to the regular Internet Merchant Account as well. 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Everything in the Power Set is measurable? Im taking a class in graduate probability. My background is in engineering (very used to math in an applied sense). I am also taking an undergraduate class in real analysis along side (should have taken it before, but I couldn't) I have a couple of questions: We're spending time looking at measurable functions on measurable sets. The definition of a "measurable set" is one who lies in a sigma algebra. My conceptual understanding of a sigma algebra (I know the technical def: countable additivity, etc.) is the resolution with which we understand a certain space - the sets that can be measured - even more simply: the sets we can actually use. We say a sigma algebra is the "domain" of our measure. In other words, a (prob) measure can't measure just any old arbitrary set/sets of set. We define a sigma algebra to handle this, and say our measure operates over this sigma algebra. However, the power set is actually a sigma algebra (the largest one, according to our definition), and yet not every element of the power set is measurable? I'm having a little trouble reconciling my conceptual understanding of a sigma algebra (the behave good-measurable sets) with its actual def (which gives us the power set dilemma). How does the Borel Sigma Algebra fit into this conceptual understanding? How about non measurable sets? Is there a concept of the largest sigma algebra of only measurable sets, which is a subset of the power set? probability measure-theory user79950user79950 $\begingroup$ Sure, the power set of $\mathbb{R}$ is a sigma-algebra, but it is not much good for measure theory. You would like a measure $\lambda$ to satisfy several properties, such as the $\lambda([a,b]) = b-a$ for all $a \leq b$. Another property is $\lambda(\cup_{i=1}^\infty A_i) = \sum_{i=1}^\infty \lambda(A_i)$ if all the $A_i$'s are disjoint. Unfortunately, it can be shown that that property is impossible (if you insist the other properties also hold) if you allow the $A_i$'s to be any old sets. That's why people actually work with Lebesgue-measurable sets or Borel sets. $\endgroup$ – Stefan Smith Nov 18 '13 at 23:32 $\begingroup$ I would make this an answer, but I don't understand as well as I should when people use Borel sets and when they use Lebesgue-measure sets (either class of sets is a sigma-algebra; the Lebesgue measurable sets are a larger class). $\endgroup$ – Stefan Smith Nov 18 '13 at 23:33 $\begingroup$ so in reality, not everything in a sigma algebra is always measurable. Is there a concept of the largest sigma algebra of only measurable sets, which is a subset of the power set? $\endgroup$ – user79950 Nov 18 '13 at 23:39 $\begingroup$ It is a hard question when it comes to Lebesgue measurable. Using the axiom of choice, one can show the existence of non-measurable sets. But it is also known that set theory without axiom of choice is consistent with all subsets of $\mathbb R$ being measurable. $\endgroup$ – Stephen Montgomery-Smith Nov 18 '13 at 23:40 $\begingroup$ @user79950 : The set of all Lebesgue-measurable sets is a sigma-algebra (obviously it is the largest sigma-algebra of Lebesgue-measurable sets). See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… - to get to the definition of Lebesgue-measurable set, scroll down to where it says : "We then define the set A to be Lebesgue measurable if for every subset S..." . A well-known non-measurable set, a "Vitali set", requires the Axiom of Choice for its construction. See Stephen's comment above. $\endgroup$ – Stefan Smith Nov 18 '13 at 23:54 Formally, measure (resp. probability) theory requires us to works with a triple $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, P)$ where $\Omega$ is the space we are working on, $\mathcal{F}$ is a $\sigma-$algebra and $P$ is a (probability) measure which maps elements of $\mathcal{F}$ to numbers (between $0$ and $1$). We call the elements of $\mathcal{F}$ the "$\mathcal{F}$ measurable sets". For any non-trivial $\Omega$, you will have many potential $\sigma-$algebras that you can use in the place of $\mathcal{F}$. As you say, one option is to take $\mathcal{F} = 2^\Omega$ (the power set of $\Omega$) to be our $\sigma-$algebra. The problem with this choice is that every subset of $\Omega$ is in the power set--everything is measurable here. Why is that an issue? Among other things, it's often too big for $P$ to have nice properties. In many (most, honestly) cases, finding nice properties we want $P$ to have is what really drives the probability, not the particulars of $\mathcal{F}$. Stefan gives the standard non-probabilistic example of this in the comments. The Lebesgue measure, which is the natural notion of volume on the real line, is not compatible with the power set as the $\sigma-$algebra in our triple, so we need to pick a new one. The definition of the Borel $\sigma-$algebra is that it is the smallest $\sigma-$algebra containing the open intervals (which had better be measurable if we are going to define volume). Since this $\sigma-$algebra is compatible with the intuitive notion of volume, it is therefore the smallest $\sigma-$algebra we can choose with the property that $\mu\{(a,b)\} = b-a$ for all open intervals $(a,b)$. Why not stop here? Not all subsets of Borel sets of measure $0$ are measurable and it is often nice for the sake of theory to not have to worry about those sets. The Lebesgue $\sigma-$algebra is what you get if you insist that all subsets of sets of measure zero are measurable. In this case, as in many cases, because this $\sigma-$algebra is so natural we often drop the formalism and just say that a set is "measurable" or "not measurable" on the real line, when what we really mean is that it is measurable with respect to the Lebesgue $\sigma-$algebra or not measurable with respect to the Lebesgue $\sigma-$algebra. I believe that the last issue is the source of your confusion. Whatever you were reading dropped that they were referring to the Lebesgue $\sigma-$algebra. It is not too difficult and not too trivial to construct a set which is Lebesgue measurable but not Borel measurable. In general, most sets you can write down will end up being Borel. By contrast, constructing sets which are not Lebesgue measurable requires using something like the axiom of choice. Analysts are fond of saying that if you can write it down explicitly, it is Lebesgue measurable. Let me make one quick comment about why probabilists like to use the Borel $\sigma-$algebra rather than the Lebesgue $\sigma-$algebra. For an analyst, the definition of a function being measurable is that the inverse image of open sets is measurable. Since probabilists don't require our spaces to have topologies, this really doesn't work for us. For a probabilist, the definition of a function being measurable is that the inverse image of a measurable set is measurable. The Borel $\sigma-$algebra has the nice property that if you compose two Borel measurable functions, you get another Borel measurable function in either definition. This property fails badly for Lebesgue measurable functions with the analysts' definition of measurable. Chris JanjigianChris Janjigian $\begingroup$ Thank you for your excellent answer, especially the last paragraph. $\endgroup$ – Stefan Smith Nov 19 '13 at 0:44 $\begingroup$ fantastic answer! I still come back to this regularly! $\endgroup$ – user79950 Jul 8 '15 at 21:00 $\begingroup$ Superb! So we can consider, for example, the sigma algebra generated by the Vitali set to make it a measurable set. The problem is that any measure on this sigma algebra will have weird properties. $\endgroup$ – Giannakos Oct 10 '18 at 12:45 I encourage reading Francis Edward Su's paper "The Banach-Tarski Paradox" for a good introduction to unmeasurable sets. I borrow from this paper the following broad-strokes example. It is possible to partition the unit circle into a countably infinite number of sets such that A) each equivalence class is congruent to the others by some rotation of $x\cdot\pi$ radians for rational $x$, and B) no two points in the same equivalence class can be rotated into each other by such a rotation. Assuming a countably additive measure on our equivalence classes, we want to say that the total measure of this set (call the set $X$ and the total measure of its members $\mu(X)$) is, say, 1. But of course we can partition it further into $X',X''$ such that both are countable and $\mu(X')+\mu(X'')=1$. But note that since $X$ and $X''$ are both countable we can establish an isomorphism $f:X''\to X$, and $x\in X''$ can always be rotated into $f(x)$; same with $X'$. If our measure is rotation invariant, then $\mu(X)=\mu(X')=\mu(X'')=1$, which is clearly impossible. What this shows is that we cannot produce a countably additive, rotation-invariant measure on the unit circle if we want to extend that measure to every subset. The Vitali sets used in this example must be excluded from the sets we try to define such a measure over. Malice VidrineMalice Vidrine Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged probability measure-theory or ask your own question. Sigma algebra - motivation in measure theory Confused about the definition and properties of a sigma-algebra why we use σ-Field in probability theory? Product sigma algebra of Borel sigma algebra and Power set. What is the definition of a measurable set? Showing a set is measurable. all maps are measurable? Prove that union, intersection and difference of measurable sets is measurable using specific definition of measurability Sigma-algebra and measurable space Measure space and measurable set : do we need a measure on a space to have a measurable set? Why is a Vitali set non-measurable even though it is a member of the power set of $[0,1]$? Can a non-measurable set be measurable? (Seriously)

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Shot by order of chief FSIN officer died in hospital Lieutenant Colonel of the Federal Penitentiary Service in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region Nikolay Chernov 15.03.2018 Businessman and former FSB officer Konstantin Vasilyev shot dead in Stary Oskol 12.03.2018 Hitman who carried out Cherkizovsky market ex-owner’s orders sentenced to 13 years 06.03.2018 CCTV filmed killer with bandy who murdered businessman in Odintsovo 06.03.2018 Businessman killed near Moscow, shooter used bandy to hide Leningrad region Penitentiary Service Сolonel murder hired by boss?Overseeing construction of new Kresty FSIN Lieutenant Colonel shot with Makarov pistolDeputy Head of Federal Penitentiary Service arrested under case of assassination attempt Last week Nikolay Chernov was attacked. The killer fired the whole store of Makarov's gun into the Lieutenant-Colonel, but he survived. Lieutenant Colonel of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region Nikolay Chernov died in the Military Medical Academy. After the attempt doctors diagnosed gunshot wounds to the head, chest and limbs. After the operation, Chernov's condition was stabilized, but on the night of March 7 he died, Life reports. The assassination attempt on officer of the FSIN, Lieutenant Colonel Nikolay Chernov, took place on March 2 at approximately 17:30 on the 8th kilometer of Koltushskoe highway. That evening Chernov went to his country house by his own car Nissan X-Trail. However, something made him pull over in front of the turn to Staraya village in Vsevolozhsk district. The law enforcement bodies believe that Chernov had a meeting with a certain Sabir Sadykov here. At this point it is not known what they were talking about. Law enforcement agencies believe their meeting was planned in advance. During the conversation someone released the entire magazine of a Makarov pistol into lieutenant and then the unknown hided. A local police patrol found the bloody FSIN officer. Not far from the scene SUV BMW of Sadykov, who told police that he witnessed the murder, was parked. He gave false testimony about the fact that he saw VAZ-2109, in which there were persons of Caucasian nationality, who had left the scene of the murder. However, the investigators doubting the reliability of the information detained and subsequently arrested Sadykov. According to online publication 47news, Sadykov is a decision-maker acting as an intermediary between businessmen and the security forces, who are engaged in construction of new detention facility at Kolpino Kresty 2. Immediately after the detention and arrest Sadykov ratted out the alleged instigator of the crime – deputy on capital construction of the regional UFSIN Sergey Moiseenko. The senior officer was detained the previous night. Deputy on capital construction of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Sergey Moiseenko Notably, shot Nikolay Chernov was subordinate to Moiseenko. Recently the superior and the subordinate have had disagreements on the construction of Kresty 2. Thus, Chernov, occupying the post of Head of the department on engineering supervision of construction and operation of construction facilities of the regional UFSIN and directly overseeing the new detention center, refused to sign a number of documents. The victim explained his refusal with unfinished works and omissions in the construction. Video: Court hearing On this fact the staff of the regional management of the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case under Art. 30 and 105 of the Criminal Code (Attempted Murder). The Criminal Investigation Office of Main Directorate of the MIA in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region as well as FSB investigators became involved in the investigation. The Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as well as operatives of the FSB are trying this case. Tags: St. Petersburg Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Investigative Committee Leningrad Region Businessman and former FSB officer Konstantin Vasilyev shot dead in Stary Oskol Udmurt Supreme court arrested Gazprom subsidiary co-owner Kizlyar ex-vice mayor reveals conflicts with Sagid Murtazaliev during trial of District Head Vinogradov Co-owner of Gazprom subsidiary company charged with attempted murder Hitman who carried out Cherkizovsky market ex-owner’s orders sentenced to 13 years CCTV filmed killer with bandy who murdered businessman in Odintsovo Arrested former deputy president of Moscow bar association planned creditor's murder Gazprom subsidiary head suspected of assassinating partner placed under house arrest Sagid Murtazaliev called customer of Dagestan Center for Countering Extremism officer’s murder Businessman killed near Moscow, shooter used bandy to hide Moscow lawyer detained on suspicion of contract killing planning Co-owner of Gazprom subsidiary accused of attempt on business partner

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February 6, 2019 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Dieting & Eating Style, Foodie News, Hot off the Press, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob Tom Brady is a multiple Super Bowl winner. He’s also a businessman, and he’s glommed onto the formula for marketing a diet regimen: Be a celebrity, preferably a sports celebrity, because they’re instantly believable. Not credible, but no one cares about credibility or facts, just that you’re believable. Look good, have a killer bod. People will think your diet is the reason. Hey, sexy sells. Have an equally hot spouse or significant other who can endorse you. And when you say you get to bed early every night, no one would doubt you. Talk about nutrition “beliefs” and “philosophy”. Facts aren’t good for business. Exclude all the standard food commodities. They’re not elite enough (see below). Have all the trendy “free-froms”: No gluten. No red meat. No dairy. No white potatoes or any other nightshade vegetables either, like peppers, eggplant, or tomatoes. They’re “inflammatory”. No GMOs. Keep it as green as possible. Heavy on leafy foods, but he also includes beans – I do like this part. Go against the grains – at least the common ones, like wheat and corn – again, those commodity foods the masses eat, because you aren’t most people. Have expensive “uniquely formulated” products to sell – only available from your web site. It’s critical to eat like a wealthy, elite athlete, not a commoner. ELECTROLYTES! The ones he sells in particular — the TB12 electrolytes. They’re part of his “alkalinizing” the body, a must for health in his book. (NO science supporting this – none). A 20-serving, 1.7-ounce bottle sells for $15 (plus shipping). That’s 71 cents per serving. A serving of milk gives you three times more potassium, plus protein, sodium, calcium, and other nutrients you need after a workout, for one-third the price. This from someone who chastises food companies about “brainwashing” consumers. Shame on you, Tom. WHEY PROTEIN POWDER?! This dairy food is OK – IF it’s TB’s specially formulated one. It’s $50 for 21 servings, or $2.38 per serving. To get the same amount of protein from real milk would set you back only about 65 cents, and you’d get all the other nutrients in milk to boot. Keep Edgy: Diss the Mediterranean Diet! Sweet red pepper: One of many superfoods NOT allowed on TB’s diet! No cooking with olive oil! Swap it for coconut oil. No scientific basis for this – coconut oil is way more saturated than any animal fat. No yogurt, eggplant, tomatoes, or peppers! No cheese! Nutrient-rich foods that have fed and sustained Italians and Greeks for thousands of years have no place in this winner’s diet. Fish only if it’s wild-caught. Farmed salmon, while quite healthy and affordable, but probably not exclusive, elite, or expensive enough. You’re Busted, Tom. Ditching Dairy Is Dumb. Dairy foods – from milk to yogurt to cheese – have unparalleled qualities. If you know your nutrition, this isn’t debatable. It might be boring, but facts often are. He writes, “When I was a kid, the dairy industry rolled out lots of campaigns urging people to drink lots of milk. But research today is pretty clear that we should consume dairy in more limited amounts. Our belief [there’s that word again] at TB12 is that dairy products are high in calories and lower in nutritional value than other foods.” I don’t know what “research” he’s talking about (I’d bet he doesn’t either), but there is no drink that can match a glass of milk for nutritional value and affordability. None. Furthermore, a mountain of solid science verifies the benefits of dairy foods, including that a glass of low-fat chocolate milk after a workout is BETTER than sports drinks for repairing muscle mass and improving endurance in subsequent workouts. Why? Probably a great carb-to-protein ratio and a great electrolyte balance, plus vitamins and minerals. Of course, milk is a commodity, so it has to be out. No GMOs? Tom seems to disagree with over 100 Nobel prize winning scientists who have attested to the safety and nutritional value of foods produced with genetic engineering. I wonder what he knows? Cut-To-The-Chase-Advice Nutrition advice should be grounded in science and facts, not beliefs or philosophies. Using the word “belief” shouldn’t give you a pass to propagate nutrition myths and misinformation. Most of us don’t have personal chefs to cook our meals (and clean up afterwards). Tom’s diet may not be harmful to the average person, but the DASH and the Mediterranean diets have far more science behind them and are solid, affordable, and sustainable paths up the mountain towards good health. They don’t require expensive “website” foods and supplements or forbid foods either – it’s a matter of how much and how often. Not sexy, just solid. For my health, I’ll go there. Sorry, TB. http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/512px-Tom_Brady_2016.jpg 882 512 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2019-02-06 13:23:322019-02-06 02:44:48Dear Tom Brady: You Won, Your Nutrition "Beliefs" Don't Learn From a Baby About New Year’s Resolutions January 7, 2019 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Child & Family Nutrition, Dieting & Eating Style, What Does the Research Say?, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob Even a baby who hasn’t seen his/her first New Year can teach us something about making resolutions. Babies may not think about their health, but this poll done in the UK found the top 3 resolutions for adults: Get fitter Eat more healthy Wisely, the poll also followed up with these people. Nearly two out of three who made resolutions keep them and more than 4 in 10 broke a resolution within the first month. Only 1 in 3 kept going for more than a month. Resolutions: They’re FOR the Year, so TAKE All Year Imagine if a baby stopped trying to walk after falling? Every single human would be immobile. A broken resolution isn’t a failed resolution! I wouldn’t even call it broken – just “in progress.” The flip side is to expect 100% perfection 100% of the time, right from the start. Ridiculous. You get up, look at where you tripped up, and move on. This study found successful “resolvers” used more behavioral strategies, which, by nature, require more time, because behaviors change slowly. Every road has a pothole or two, so if you encounter one on your journey, you’re typical and on schedule. Keep it moving. Ready, S.M.A.R.T., Go! –Anytime Learn from these guys Never mind January 1, whenever you’re ready, the calendar will support it. Just see a resolution as its own project. Give it priority and treaty it with some respect. This is you, after all. S.M.A.R.T. is just an acronym for the components of successful goals and objectives, whether in the workplace or your personal space. The letters have stood for different things over the years, but here’s where they stand now: Specific: keep it simple, something you KNOW you can achieve. “I’m going to eat healthier” isn’t specific. “I’m going to eat 1 cup of fruit and a cup of vegetables at least 3 days a week” is more specific. Measurable: Note how far you walked, how many vegetables you ate, or whatever your specific objective is. Forget obsessing about every detail. Again, simple is key here. Achievable: Specific and achievable are two sides of the same coin. THINK LIKE A BABY here. Take baby steps! Set a goal you think is achievable and then reduce the goal by 50% or more. You can inch up later. Realistic: Meet yourself where you live. If you can’t spare a whole hour a day for exercise – or if you’re not in shape yet for that – it’s OK. I don’t care if you start walking for 5 minutes a day. You’ll be at this the whole year and you’ll get where you need to go. An easy goal is the best kind when you’re starting out. If you want to lose 10 pounds of body fat in 3 days, that’s specific but not realistic. Time-bound: TAKE THE WHOLE YEAR but set small time goals for the baby steps. You’re building a habit here, and habits take time to become established. We want everything done immediately and easily sustained forever. Let that concept go, because it’ll never happen – for anyone. Most importantly, THAT’S OK. Baby steps & persistence! Babies Have Vitamin “P” Back to babies. They’re loaded with vitamin P – persistence and patience! Even better – they LOVE the journey and what they accomplish along the way! Have you ever seen a baby’s expression when they crawl farther, learn to hold a spoon, or stand for the first time? Give yourself a little credit for taking those baby steps. They’re the best kind! http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/baby-1399332_1280-e1546628881962.jpg 500 750 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2019-01-07 13:30:052019-01-04 19:32:25Learn From a Baby About New Year’s Resolutions The Top 3 Diets: Why Do They Always Win? December 19, 2018 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Dieting & Eating Style, Hot off the Press, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob WINNERS AGAIN – according to US News’ annual ranking of diets, the Mediterranean diet, the DASH diet, and the Flexitarian diet were the best diets of 2018. They’re likely top be the best of 2019, too, since they’ve been tops forsome time now. This is NOT news to thoseof us in the field – they’re widely accepted as terrific examples of healthfuleating styles. These diets are notable for two things: The science about their healthfulness, and They all push plant foods: fruits, veggies, whole grains, nuts What else I love about them? They don’t push out any foods. You can include anything; the only issue is how much and how often. My kind of eating style, because it’s realistic. DASH to delicious! DASH details: So, what’s different about them? -Low-fat and fat-free dairy are featured -Add AT LEAST one fruit or vegetable to each meal, but preferably more. -WALK! Just a little, about 15 minutes after lunch or dinner (do it anytime you can, but aim for at least 30 minutes a day). Mmmmediterranean! Mediterranean Momentum: Olive oil is the fat for cooking and salads. Canola is also good, but butter is rare. It’s nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios are typical. An ounce several times a week. What’s an ounce? Small handful – think “nibble” not ”shovel”. Something fishy? Yup. Twice a week, and make it fatty – think salmon more than sole. (Hint for economy: canned salmon is a superfood and by comparison to fresh, it’s super-economical). Low in red meat – BUT, for red meat lovers, you CAN eat red meat on this diet and there’s good research to say so. I have the details here. Approaches vegetarian, but room for all Flexitarian Features: Includes more vegetarian meals, especially plant-based proteins. Dairy and eggs? Both OK! The diet just emphasizes including the plant-proteins, as well. Meat? Nota feature, but more of an, “it’s OK sometimes, too” approach. It’s not about strict anything, or it wouldn’t be “flex”. You’re in charge about how far to take it. Together is better If there’s a downside to the Med diet, it’s the low-calcium content. The 2015 US Dietary Guidelinesfor Americans endorsed both the Med diet and the DASH diet as excellent eatingstyles, but they acknowledged that the Med diet didn’t fully meet calcium needs. The majority of people have diets deficientin calcium – the reason calcium is a “nutrient of concern”. What to do? Breaking New Research: The “MedDairy Diet.” An Australian study, just published, looked at the cardiovascular health markers of a Med diet, supplemented with four servings of dairy — one serving of low-fat milk; 40-120 grams hard or semisoft cheese; 200 grams low-fat Greek yogurt or 200 grams tzatziki dip. Here’s what they discovered about the Med-Dairy diet’s effects: The Med-Dairy diet improved cardiovascular health markers: LOWERED blood pressure (both the top and bottom numbers) LOWERED triglycerides RAISED HDL-cholesterol levels (the good kind of cholesterol) Talk about an example of “We’re better when we work together”! What I especially liked about this study was that it included full-fat cheese, a favorite of many, and it actually included a fair amount of it – about 1.5 to 4 ounces daily, depending on calorie needs. But RED meat…? Yes, you can still have lean, unprocessed red meat on a MedDiet. Indeed, this Purdue University study, blinded to even the investigators, found that eating up to 18 ounces of leanred meat was not only OK, but it was MORE effective than a Med diet thatlimited lean red meat to only 7 ounces per week. Red meat lover? You’re OK, within the context of a Med diet. As for the WORST-rated diets? Those that are super-trendy, alsosuper-restrictive (Keto, Dukan, and Whole-30 lead this pack). Entire food groups excluded, rigid rules, demonizedfoods, and little science to support them – a red flag. Don’t hate them, but give them a big hug andlet them go. http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Confused2-larger.jpg 648 1051 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-12-19 12:45:592018-12-26 16:39:34The Top 3 Diets: Why Do They Always Win? Michael Wade [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Yes, Virginia: There Are 10 Ways to Have Holidays Without Weight Gain December 6, 2018 /0 Comments/in Child & Family Nutrition, Dieting & Eating Style, Foodie News, Hot off the Press, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob So many people, clients, patients, co-workers over the years, have told me they’ve just given up trying to lose weight during the holidays – that food-festival parties, get-togethers, celebrations and general mayhem that spans the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. What is about holidays that cause weight gain? If you know the contributing factors, you can make a plan. Here’s what you’re likely to deal with until New Years: • Workplace food court: The constant brigade of popcorn bins, chocolates, homemade cookies, cakes and sweets, all available all day long. • Drinking: We love eggnog, but it’s the most calorie-laden drink of any year – about 330 calories in a cup. Over-boozing has calories, too – and leads to mindless eating. • Stress-eating: time is short, obligations are long, stress triggers eating whatever is within arm’s reach! • More fooding, less moving: whenever you need a little more time to get things done, it’s easy to borrow from your workouts and walks. It’s also just when you need to burn some extra calories. Ow. • Happiness can be depressing! Everyone seems to be happy but you’re so-so. You’re not alone, either. It’s easy to think food is your BFF during the holidays, and it can be – if you choose the right friends. You probably won’t gain much weight during the holidays! This review published last year found that average holiday weight gain in adults ranged from about 1-2 pounds in various studies, not the 5-7 pounds you may have heard about. But what about you? If holiday weight gain has been YOUR typical, changing that is easier than you think. Take it on as a project and like every project, it needs a good plan. Plans may take some of the spontaneity out of eating, but you’re trading up – for peace of mind and body. That’s totally worth it. Planning means that you start every day assessing the meals and eating occasions you’ll have and the foods you’re likely to encounter. What does the “no holiday weight gain” plan look like? Here are 10 strategies that put you on a path to enjoying holidays without weight gain: 1. Eat modestly, but don’t skip meals. You’ll just end up being hungry and over-scarfing. 2. Weave in some fiber: Aim for 3 pieces of fresh fruit daily. Aim for 2 cups of veggies, raw or cooked. Think you can’t? You can – fill up one of those plastic take-out soup containers with cut veggies and it’s two cups right there. 3. Discriminate! Is it a regular store-bought something-or-other that’s loaded with empty calories or is it really tasty? Hold out for something really special. You’re worth it. 4. Never arrive hungry to a party:Eat some raw veggies or a piece of fruit before going to a party or social function. When the edge is off hunger, your focus is on social fun. 5. Go pro: Lean protein keeps you feeling satisfied, and helps prevent blood glucose levels from spiking then plummeting later. About 100-150 calories invested in options like turkey roll-ups, beef jerky, fat-free Greek yogurt, even a fat-free latte will pay off later. 6. Get functional: it’s a social function, so keep the priority on socializing rather than eating. 7. Be the last man (or woman) standing…in line: Always be among the last ones in line for the food. It’ll look a little less appetizing (probably a good thing) and there’s less time to have second portions. 8. Get out of Dodge: Lingering to the end encourages more nibbling. Be social, sample what you want, then move along. 9. ONE – a singular sensation! When you see something you want, have it. But one portion. One is the magic number, not a lonely number. But read #10. 10. Get “hospital-sized”: Not to eat, just to look at portion sizes. When you’re thinking of a high-calorie food, whether it’s mac and cheese or the Buche de Noel pictured at the top, it’s one “hospital-sized” portion. Keep it there and enjoy it. There will be another treat another day. http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bûche_de_Noël.jpg 686 1024 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-12-06 11:35:452018-12-06 16:54:48Yes, Virginia: There Are 10 Ways to Have Holidays Without Weight Gain Why I Try To Be “Over 30” Every Day November 30, 2018 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Child & Family Nutrition, Dieting & Eating Style, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob Dee is an inspiration to me. She has cerebral palsy and is confined to a motorized wheelchair. She has only minimal use of each hand, just enough to move her chair and use a phone if it’s placed into her hand. She’s not only cognitively intact, she’s pretty smart. I’m lucky. I worked for 33 years with people with special needs, people like Dee. It’s emotionally difficult work sometimes, but I always got more than I could ever give them. One powerful lesson they taught me was how lucky I was to be physically able-bodied. She told me once she was fed up hearing what a nuisance people thought it was to take the stairs, walk the dog, or park farther away from your destination to get in a few extra steps. “They sit down all day long but they have a choice. I don’t. If I could walk I’d never want to sit down.” When we think of chores, she thinks of abilities. Big wake-up call here. Everyone Needs To Be Over 30 I speak not of years, but of minutes. Thirty minutes of physical activity for at least five days of the week is what’s recommended by the US Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. How much do we get? The feds survey this info regularly and the latest data show 1 in 4 of us get NO leisure physical activity at all. None. That’s self-reported data, and it may be higher, as people do tend to enhance the amount of physical activity they do. Flipping the Script on Activity Many of us cringe when we’re told to be more active. So how about baby steps? How about focusing on being less INACTIVE? If it’s too overwhelming to go to a gym (I speak not of “joining” because that doesn’t ensure “going”) or if you have little leisure time, then it makes sense to build some activity into your day, a little bit here and there, whenever you can. Enter the “Exercise Snack” A food snack is something less than a meal. An exercise snack is something less than a workout. It can take many forms and be done pretty much anywhere. It doesn’t have a minimum time, it just requires moving – anyway you can, and anywhere you can. You don’t need to develop a twitch, just think of doing what some of my physically disabled patients would LOVE to do: • Deliver it. Why email a memo to someone close by, when you can walk down the hall to speak with them? Follow-up with a memo for the record. • Think glass, not bottle. Have one glass of water at a time, rather than brining a bottle to your desk. When you want more, you’ll get up and get it. • DIY: Make a photocopy yourself, get the staples from the supply closet, give the home floor an extra quick vacuuming. It’ll get done your way and it’s another exercise snack. • TV? A 30-minute sitcom only has about 22-23 minutes of actual programming. That’s about 7 minutes of time – in 2 or 3-minute intervals – for exercise snacking. Get the playing cards, charge your phone, lay out your clothes for the next day, or even fold a few clothes. • Tidy up! Not a deep clean, just clear the coffee table, run the dishwasher, or hang that coat that’s been there since you got home. Remember, these are exercise snacks, not workouts, so you’re done after a couple of minutes, but do them several times a day and you’re on your way top getting that 30 minutes. Better still, you’re preventing your metabolism from slowing down. Remember – it’s not about being more active – just less INACTIVE. It’s an easier goal to achieve and these exercise snacks might lead to bigger things, like “exer-meals”. And if you need motivation, remember: Dee would happily trade places with you. As for motivation, check this video out of a 4-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, taking her first steps by herself. You’ll cheer her on as loudly as I did. Then get up off your chair or the sofa — just because you can! http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/30-zone.jpg 426 640 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-11-30 10:00:312018-11-30 01:03:41Why I Try To Be “Over 30” Every Day Believing Junk Is Even Worse Than Eating Junk November 9, 2018 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Dieting & Eating Style, Foodie News, What Does the Research Say?, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob If you’re of a “certain age” you’ll remember “Vacupants.” You hook up a vacuum to the hole in the special “pants” and the fat melts off. The idea was that it somehow “vacuumed” away the extra weight. You might think this could never happen in the age of digital media but you’d be wrong. It happens plenty, just differently. The food, nutrition, and diet world is loaded with sensational and extreme headlines and promises. We gravitate towards the sensational. The promise of a quick fix has a magical way of grabbing your attention and won’t let go. It’s the modern-day version of the “snake-oil” sales pitch. You’ve probably seen headlines touting: • “Lose 10 pounds in 3 days without doing exercise or changing your diet!” (Similar to the Vacupants claim — see how much things have changed?) • “Lose all the weight you want eating junk food!” • “This miracle food speeds up metabolism!” Most common now are diets that spout the total avoidance of a food or even entire food groups. Think about carb- and sugar-phobia that lumps empty-calorie foods together with great foods like beans and fresh fruit. Or the keto diets that demonize most carbs, including whole grains and most fruits and vegetables, and hold the state of ketosis on a pedestal. In truth, ketosis is something that should generally be prevented, not promoted. Then there’s the scare-tactic approach: “10 Foods You Should Never Eat” “Your Body Can’t Process These 3 Foods” “5 Foods That Cause Belly Fat” “Absolute” Exploitation These sensational promises, extreme claims, and headline-grabbers exploit people who are vulnerable, undereducated or just misinformed. Someone with a health issue, including someone trying to lose weight, is vulnerable, even desperate for a solution, making them easy prey for junk science purveyors. Health issues are sensitive, lots of emotions are involved, making them vulnerable to quick-fixes, magic bullets, and instant cures – just the type of stuff that makes up fad dieting. Educated people aren’t insulated either. “Vacupants” was marketed as a quick weight loss method. Laugh if you must, I once had a patient, an educated woman, who admitted she’d bought this gizmo. No, they didn’t work. She’d have been better of if she’d put on some actual sweats and gone walking for half an hour a day instead. We all like being told something that fits with our values or what we’d LIKE to be true. Eating junk can be over in a flash but believing junk can continue for years. 10 Red Flags of Junk Science Tufts University does a nice job of explaining these in detail, but this is the Cuttothechase version: 1. Promises of a quick fix. File “miracle foods” under this one, too. 2. Danger warnings of a single food. 3. Claims that sound to good to be true. Hint: they are too good to be true. 4. Simple conclusions from a complex study. Oversimplifying often indicates taking results out of context or omitting caveats. 5. Recommendations based on a single study. If it cannot be replicated, it’s probably bogus or at least cherry-picked. Pass. 6. Statements refuted by reputable health organizations. If they’re reputable, they require solid evidence. Key word: solid. If they pass on the claim, you should, too. 7. Lists of “good” and “bad” foods. #ridiculous 8. Recommendations made to help sell a product or supplement. This doesn’t mean it’s junk, but if it’s good, check for lots of evidence and organizations that agree. 9. Research that is not peer reviewed. Big red flag for research that’s badly done. 10. Recommendations from studies that ignore differences among individuals or groups. There can be differences between genders, smokers vs. non-smokers, young and old age groups, the works. http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png 0 0 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-11-09 16:42:382019-01-15 18:10:36Believing Junk Is Even Worse Than Eating Junk Growing Up With Cacao Trees in the Backyard? March 29, 2018 /0 Comments/in Dieting & Eating Style, Foodie News, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob Maribel Lieberman did, so it’s no wonder she went on to found MarieBelle Chocolate and Cacao Market by MarieBelle in New York. We were both guests together on the show “Nutrition and Exercise” on Doctor Radio, (Channel 110 on SiriusXM), and she agreed to chat with me later to tell more of her story. Born in Honduras, Maribel said “It was usual to have cacao trees in the backyard, so yes, I grew up with cacao trees.”. Those trees weren’t a direct line to chocolate making however. “My mother was a very passionate seamstress and my idea was to become a designer and continue with my mother’s tradition.” This led her to come to New York’s Parson’s School of Art and Design, intent on becoming a fashion designer. “When I arrived in New York, I was absolutely in love with the city and its culture,” and finding herself mesmerized by all the different food cultures that have always been part of the city. “This is when I started experimenting cooking with unfamiliar ingredients,” and how she learned to combine them into unique flavors. As her interests evolved from fashion into food, she bought lots of cookbooks, learning to be a chef. Maribel eventually started a catering company, maintaining it for 5 years. It’s during this period that she learned a lot about chocolate. “I experimented making truffles and really loved it,” but combining and fusing different flavors with chocolate is what fascinated her even more. Bean-to-Bar with Women Farmers The vast majority of the cacao Lieberman uses comes from Hondouras, “although sometimes from Nicaragua or El Salvador, also.” Most of her cacao beans are Trinitario variety — a hybrid of the more common Forastero and the uber-delicate Criollo beans. She travels to Honduras several times a year. “I have a relationship with the growers, most of them are women farmers, I have about 60 women that I buy cacao from,” but from other farmers as well. “I work very closely with the Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola. The non-profit FHIA provides her with a wealth of knowledge about cacao, and “they help me pick the best quality bean.” Maribel’s shop offers about 50 different flavors of chocolates and truffles. Spices figure prominently in her ganache chocolates, with the cardamom flavor being one of her favorites. For me, a couple of her ganache truffles and a cappuccino make an excellent dessert. Not high in calories either (given their size, figure about 70 calories per truffle), and just enough indulgence. With the cap (I’ll take a decaf, thanks, and I know I’m in the minority here) supplying some protein and dairy nutrition, it’s one way to make dessert or an afternoon snack really work. Sugar-free chocolate her way She also entered the sugar-free market, sweetening her 70% bar is only with organic whole milk powder. “I think it works well” and I agree. It has the creaminess of milk chocolate, but the intensity you’d expect from a 70% bar. Added sugar? Zero. Protein? Yes — a little over 5 grams in a 40-gram portion (about 170 calories). She’s currently developing one sweetened only with raspberries and blueberries. Her ganache chocolates have unique airbrush designs on them. Some are her husband’s designs, other are the work of her in-house designer. All are whimsical and have their own explanations that come with the “paperwork” in each box sold. She’s obviously figured out that people eat with their eyes, too. Smart. Does all the “business” of cacao make her less interested in eating it? Not a chance. “I eat cacao every day,” she said happily. “Sometimes when I travel and didn’t bring any with me, I end up buying it at the local store.” Chocolate fans, I’d say she’s “one of us.” http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png 0 0 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-03-29 09:48:532018-03-29 17:02:04Growing Up With Cacao Trees in the Backyard? BEST DIETS: THESE 2 TIED FOR GOLD January 8, 2018 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Child & Family Nutrition, Dieting & Eating Style, Hot off the Press, What Does the Research Say?, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob It’s January, and that means US News has issued its “Best Diets” rankings. Out of the 40 diets ranked, both the DASH diet and the Mediterranean Diet tied for first place – again. Why? They have the most research behind them and they’re both great for your health. The DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was created to reduce high blood pressure and the Med diet is intended for heart health – two very common health conditions. Both diets emphasize plenty of fruits and vegetables. The main difference is that DASH also emphasizes at least 2 to 3 servings of low-fat dairy foods daily. The Med diet is strong on heart-healthy fats like olive oil, nuts, and fish, like salmon, because of its high omega-3 fat content. The Med diet can be a bit low on calcium, due to the modest intake of dairy foods. “Flexibility” Gets a Bronze! The Flexitarian Diet approaches vegetarianism but not obsessively so. I like this approach. It takes the best from the vegetarian diets but the only thing it banishes is the absoluteness. You don’t have to choose a camp here. For many people, veg is fine – but not all the time. This diet , and so supports this thinking, and so do I. Plus, it’s actually very healthful. What I love about the DASH, Mediterranean, and Flexitarian diets is that they’re basically eating styles. You can lose weight on them, but they can be a way of eating for the whole family, even the kids. This is ideal for families where one person is trying to lose weight, but doesn’t want to make, or eat, different food from the rest of the family. These diets are all about healthy (and tasty) eating. They also take no special work, don’t require exotic food, and have enough options for everyone. >>>Cut-to-the-Chase Eating Style: A “MediterDASHean Diet”<<< Here’s my short-order combo of the DASH and Med diets: • All fruits and veggies – and 5 portions of them (at least!) daily. • Low-fat dairy foods of the DASH diet Aim for 3 servings but at least 2 (that’s still an improvement for most). • Extra-virgin olive oil, fatty fish, nuts, and sure, a glass of wine (if you drink). Basically a Med diet with more low-fat dairy foods. More inclusive, flexible, less limiting – IOMO. Up next: The Worst Diets (NOTE: this could get ugly) http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png 0 0 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-01-08 20:02:142018-02-13 19:53:54BEST DIETS: THESE 2 TIED FOR GOLD JANUARY 1 IS FOR EVOLUTIONS, NOT RESOLUTIONS! January 1, 2018 /0 Comments/in Child & Family Nutrition, Dieting & Eating Style, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob New Year’s resolutions are well-intended, but most resolutions fade away after a few weeks. Every year, our number one resolution is always to lose weight, and it’s probably why gyms can offer such great deals in January, knowing that most people will never use the full membership. Stop “resolving” and start “evolving”. Resolution implies bold, massive change. Evolution is all about baby steps. What gives them impact is consistency. Be consistent with any effort and it doesn’t matter how fast or slow you go – you’ll get there. Indeed, “evolution” is more focused on the journey – a good thing – because that’s where we’ll spend most of our lifetime! Many of our daily routines and poor habits didn’t just happen — they evolved gradually – through baby steps – to become part of our lifestyle. That’s what makes them hard to break. Slow – but steady – wins every race. If our resolutions are too extreme, we don’t keep them. Then we feel like we failed, but the resolution failed us, because it was too giant a step when baby steps would have been better, and more productive. Bodies aren’t technology. Accept that our bodies, behaviors, and attitudes will change more slowly than our phones. Ultimate Success Starts With Good Prep Work A gradual build towards better eating styles, more satisfying life and happier habits starts with good prep work. Below are some little changes that appear at the outset to have nothing to do with weight or even eating habits, but they definitely impact the choices you make during the day. Here’s a start: • Make only the changes you KNOW you can make. Success is guaranteed if you break everything down into steps you are sure you can manage. Even small successes are so motivating and can happen often. • Get more sleep. Do you get up every morning wishing you had just 30 more minutes of sleep? Get it. Make a deal with yourself for just one night (baby steps!) to get to bed early, so you can get at least 7 hours of sleep. See how good you feel. Then do it again and again. • No screens for an hour before bedtime. This 2017 study suggests light exposure from various electronic devices – in the evening – “may have detrimental effects on human health and performance,” and was associated with greater sleepiness during the day. Go old-school and read a book before bed instead. • MOVE MORE. Even thin people need to be active, so everyone plays here, regardless of weight. Benefits: it’s a proven mood-lifter, and you often make better food choices when you’re active daily. Start walking even five or 10 minutes each day, or as often as possible. • Re-connect with non-food pleasures. Make this a priority. Food is such instant gratification that other pleasures get pushed to the side. Let’s remind ourselves that pleasure isn’t always about food. Some ideas to consider: Take that class you’ve wanted – yes, even the tap-dance class, or the weaving one, or the ceramics lesson. (Notice how these are NOT screen-friendly?) Join a film, book, or hobby club. You’ll be more accountable to the other members – and you’ll find they value your voice, a reward in itself. Take a day-trip on a bus or train. You’ll be back at the end of the day tired but happy. Do something touristy – even take a “tour”. These are just suggestions, but think out of the box and go for your own. Evolution happens over a year, not overnight. Commit to a new baby step every month. Next January 1, we’ll be twelve steps ahead of where we are now (and we’ll deserve that New Year’s toast!) http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png 0 0 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2018-01-01 17:52:482018-02-13 19:54:41JANUARY 1 IS FOR EVOLUTIONS, NOT RESOLUTIONS! Eat Well During Holidays Without Crossing Over to the “Dark Side” December 7, 2017 /0 Comments/in Bust That Myth, Child & Family Nutrition, Dieting & Eating Style, Hot off the Press, What’s the best diet? /by Keith-Thomas Ayoob Healthy holiday eating and enjoyment are not mutually exclusive, IF you know the right tricks. Having a healthy eating style doesn’t have an “on-off” switch and. It’s not about choosing between living in a healthy food monastery, or crossing over to the dark side, where all enjoyment happens. Being healthy is being on a food journey, not on a diet. On a journey, there’s room for everything. Extreme, overly restrictive eating styles aren’t sustainable and most people wouldn’t want to sustain them either. I wouldn’t. But I think of holidays as just another opportunity to hone a better eating style. Keep in mind, my own eating style has evolved over the years. Give yourself permission to evolve a little, too. Think about the reasons why our usual eating styles get “disrupted”: • “…the kids were off from school this week”. • “…it was the (fill in the holiday)” • “…we had a party at the house this weekend.” • “…we had family in from out of town.” • “…we were doing a lot of socializing.” Making holidays work FOR you, not AGAINST you File all these reasons under “stuff happens” but they happen all year long, so make life’s little disruptions amount to nothing more than a minor nuisance. They may even open a new dimension to your eating style or give you different “routines” for each situation. Here are some positive ways to help yourself during “disruptions”: • MOVE MORE! Just make it a part of the fun. Activity is a total ace in the hole. The more you move, the more calories you burn, for sure, but the more fun you can have, too. Moving kicks in your brain’s “feel-good” chemicals called “endorphins” that lift your mood. Walk through decorated neighborhoods, go ice skating, and make sure you dance at all the holiday parties! Feel the fun, not the burn! • Workday “me” time: take 30 minutes of your lunch hour and walk briskly. THEN have a modest lunch and you’ll deserve a little indulgence. Or bank it for tomorrow’s indulgence! • Splurge on some delicious, healthful foods you like but usually deny yourself: smoked salmon and pre-seeded pomegranates, (where all the work is done for you) are two of my faves. Keep grapes and clementines on the counter for a tasty impulse-bite. Gift yourself the convenience of salad-in-a-bag to make sure you and your family have an easy way to get plenty of low-calorie, nutritious foods (throw in some of those pomegranate seeds!). It’s also an easy way to get kids started in the kitchen with simple prep. Try some high-end balsamic vinegar and you’ll need less oil. • Expect the unexpected. If a disruption is likely to happen, keep the rest of your day’s eating smart. Leave 200 or so calories for something unexpected. That way it doesn’t set you back. http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/smoked-salmon-avocado.jpg 640 960 Keith-Thomas Ayoob http://cuttothechasenutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/logo10.png Keith-Thomas Ayoob2017-12-07 08:45:092018-01-30 18:14:10Eat Well During Holidays Without Crossing Over to the "Dark Side"

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PARIS - Renault relaunches the ZOE with an extended single charge range of 250 miles. Renault has introduced a new battery for ZOE that provides up to 250 miles of driving on a single charge (NEDC) ZOE has the longest range of any mainstream electric vehicle on sale today The new ZOEs fitted with the new Z.E. 40 battery are made at Renault’s Flins plant in France ZOE owners can benefit from a range of new connected services and equipment upgrades New Z.E. 40 battery will go on sale in the UK in November Renault ZOE is Europe’s best selling electric vehicle A Renault ZOE with the longest range of any mainstream electric vehicle – 250 miles (400km) – was unveiled today by Carlos Ghosn, Groupe Renault Chairman and CEO during the Mondial De L’Automobile Paris 2016. It will go on sale in the UK in November. “This month Renault surpassed 100,000 electric vehicles sold and now ZOE will travel up to 250 miles (400km) without recharging. We are continuing to push in areas where innovation matters most for Renault customers. Making it easy for them to choose electric, with new connected services to enhance their driving experience, is a top priority for us and for ZOE customers.” Carlos Ghosn – Groupe Renault Chairman and CEO “Renault has added a new dimension to the world of electric vehicles now that the ZOE’s range stands at 250 miles (400km) NEDC. It’s a breakthrough in all-electric motoring that will provide the range needed to make any motorist comfortable choosing electric.” Eric Feunteun – Vice President, Electric Vehicle Programme DOUBLE THE RANGE FOR EVEN LONGER JOURNEYS As the pioneer of all-electric mobility and Europe’s number one seller of electric vehicles, Renault has stepped up its innovation programme and the deployment of its Z.E. strategy (Zero Emissions (1)). Fitted with the new Z.E. 40 battery, the Renault ZOE now delivers a record NEDC driving range of 250 miles (400km), which is twice the distance delivered by the model at the time of its original launch. In real-world driving, Renault estimates the new Z.E. 40 battery has a range of 186 miles (300km) in urban or suburban areas. The range offered today by the new ZOE is the longest of any mainstream all-electric vehicle and motorists can take advantage of this step forward now. The ZOE is the best-selling electric vehicle in Europe and provides a real alternative to internal combustion- engine cars, since average daily commuting distances are well within the ZOE’s capabilities. The new battery removes the final psychological barrier that stands in the way of buying an electric car, so-call ‘range anxiety’, since ZOE users can now travel further and enjoy a wider variety of driving situations without worry about charging. (1) Zero emissions during road use: no CO2 emissions or emissions of other regulated airborne pollutants during road use in compliance with the NEDC cycle (not including wear parts). The ZOE’s driving range in miles (and kilometres) with a complete charge(2) : NEDC cycle certification (1)Real-world traffic conditions – Urban and suburban use, temperate climate The New Z.E. 40 battery (41kWh)250 miles (400km)186 miles (300km) The existing 22kWh battery Will remain on sale alongside the new battery 149 miles (240km)106 miles (170km) The time required to charge the Z.E. 40 battery is similar to that necessary for the standard battery, so ‘topping up’ doesn’t take long at all. For example, just 30 minutes is required on average to charge the battery for an extra 50 miles (80km) of driving range when plugged into one of the many public charging points in operation in Europe(3). The ZOE continues to be available with the Quick Charge function to take full advantage of the maximum capacity of fast charging points located predominantly along motorway corridors. AN INNOVATION THAT DOUBLES BATTERY CAPACITY WITH NO INCREASE IN SIZE The ZOE’s new Z.E. 40 battery boasts 41kWh of useful energy, equivalent to almost double the storage capacity of the ZOE’s standard battery (22kWh of useful energy). Developed in close partnership with LG Chem, the battery uses high-energy density lithium-ion technology. Renault and LG engineers have succeeded in increasing storage capacity without making the battery any bigger or a lot heavier. It was optimised by working on the chemistry of the cells in order to increase their energy density, rather than stacking additional battery modules, a commonly used technique. This major new technology has been developed while ensuring the battery’s reliability and safety. The battery’s large storage capacity ensures longer range for the ZOE thanks to the meticulous work that went into integrating the battery in the vehicle. The electronic management system of the battery optimises the ZOE’s energy use on the move, while the new air circulation system maintains the temperature of the ZOE’s battery at a constant level, making the car economical to run in very hot or very cold weather. To complement the new battery, the ZOE motor has undergone a naming restructure, moving from being related to range (in kilometres) to power output (in horsepower) to match internal combustions engine vehicles, as follows: ZOE motor (2012-2016)ZOE motor (2016- )Max. charge speedPower R240R9022kWh (Rapid)90hp Q210Q9043kWh (Quick)90hp THE ZOE: DESIGNED AND MADE ENTIRELY BY RENAULT Just as it conceives and manufactures the majority of its powertrains, Renault designed and makes the ZOE, thanks not only to the expertise it has acquired as a pioneer in the world of electric-vehicles mobility and as Europe’s number one electric-vehicle brand, but also to its technical and sporting partnership roles in the FIA Formula E Championship. Groupe Renault’s know-how is chiefly rooted in France where its high added-value vehicles and components are primarily designed and produced. Like the 22kWh battery, the new Z.E. 40 battery is assembled at Renault’s Flins plant, near Paris. The same factory is responsible for the production of the Renault ZOE, alongside the Renault Clio. The ZOE was designed and engineered at the Renault Technocentre in Guyancourt, also near Paris. The R90 motor is made at Renault’s Cléon factory in Normandy, a flagship facility in the field of engine and transmission production for the group. Launched in the spring of 2015, and originally known as the R240, this motor was entirely developed by Renault and led to the filing of 95 patents. The housing that permits the battery’s integration in the ZOE, as well as the model’s front and rear suspension systems, were all conceived by Groupe Renault’s Chassis and Electric Vehicle Engineering Division and are manufactured at Renault’s Le Mans plant. Z.E. TRIP AND Z.E. PASS: TWO NEW SERVICES TO SIMPLIFY CHARGING AT PUBLIC CHARGING STATIONS ACROSS EUROPE About 80,000 public charging stations are in operation across Europe. To provide ZOE owners with easy access to them, Renault has released two free services: Z.E. Trip helps customers to locate charging points, while Z.E. Pass gives access to a high number of charging stations. Z.E. Trip: Using the R-LINK navigation system to locate all charging points Z.E. Trip makes long-distance driving a breeze in the ZOE by allowing drivers to locate all public charging points in some of the main European countries(4). Z.E. Trip can be accessed directly via the Renault R-LINK navigation system using the steering wheel-mounted controls or via the internet to prepare trips in advance. The service indicates the real-time availability of each charging point, as well as its type and whether it is compatible with the car. The driver can select a charging point based on its charging capacity so the speeds suit their requirements. Z.E. Trip began its rollout to ZOE customers in certain European markets in September and is anticipated to be rolled out in the UK in the coming months. Z.E. Pass: a single access and payment solution for most public charging points The Z.E. Pass app makes charging the ZOE easier at most public charging points in Europe even though they are owned by various operators. The driver can pay using the smartphone app or with an RFID badge. They can also locate available charging stations and compare prices at different stations nearby using their smartphone or tablet without having to be a registered member of each network. Developed in association with Bosch, the service was released in Germany in September 2016 and will be rolled out over the next few months in France, UK, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Z.E. SMARTPHONE APP ENHANCES TO INCLUDE DOOR-TO-DOOR NAVIGATION New features will be added to the Z.E. app that is freely available to all Renault Z.E. customers, in the first half of 2017 to make journeys in the ZOE even easier, including door-to-door navigation. Thanks to this feature, the user can enter his or her complete trip using their smartphone app and then forward it to the ZOE’s navigation system (Renault R-LINK). Once in the car, the driver can access their pre- programmed itinerary automatically. After parking, the app takes over from the ZOE’s navigation system to indicate the final part of the journey on foot. The driver can also use the app to help find where they parked their ZOE or to look up their trip history and any other information in their trip computer. Remote battery charging management The Z.E. smartphone app keeps ZOE drivers connected to their car, even when they are not driving, in order to optimise battery charging. 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This is why it is also called “market coverage“. In this article, we will give you a definition of the penetration rate and explain how to calculate it. Penetration rate: Interest and uses Definition of ‘penetration rate’ Why use a penetration rate? How to calculate the penetration rate? Example of a company’s penetration rate Two other types of rates Penetration rate in a trading area / at the point of sale Cumulative penetration Penetration rate and market share: two different concepts The penetration rate is one of the best indicators for evaluating a market. As explained at the beginning of this article, it refers to the percentage of people reached by an advertising campaign who have purchased a product over a given period of time. There are several indicators that can be used to analyse markets and estimate their development potential. There are also performance indicators to evaluate communication actions. But for a company that wants to know its place in a market, the penetration rate is the most relevant. This rate provides companies with valuable information about their market coverage and allows them to know how much their product or service is being put to use. Based on this information, companies can decide what marketing actions to take to improve or strengthen it. Hopper, one of the most downloaded applications in North America, is a good example of a company using marketing to improve its penetration rate. Read more about it in this article.. A measurement tool for advertising campaigns Before launching an advertising campaign, it is necessary to assess the current demand for a product in relation to the total potential market. Following this campaign, calculating the penetration rate will allow you to assess the impact of the advertisement that has been done. In other words: this rate allows us to know if an advertising campaign has made a product/service more popular in regards to the current sales volume. In this sense, the penetration rate and the analysis of its evolution are essential to measure the degree of effectiveness of a marketing campaign and its impact on the company’s activities. An indicator to assess the potential of a market It is also an essential tool for measuring the potential of a market. This is particularly the case for the launch of a new product or service. The indicator will be used to assess the market coverage rate of this new offer. It should be noted that in order to obtain the most reliable rate possible, it will be necessary to carefully evaluate the potential demand for this offer. The importance of reliable calculation In order to use the penetration rate properly, it must be calculated rigorously and with unquestionable reliability. Having a reliable rate will allow you to : Measure the impact of a communication campaign. Assess the potential turnover of a company over a given period. Here is the formula to use to calculate your penetration rate: Penetration rate = (Number of consumers or users or customers / total number of people targeted) x 100 This is the ratio of the number of users of a product or service to the total population that is targeted by that product or service. To put it another way, the penetration rate makes it possible to calculate the ratio between the number of people attracted by a product and the entire population to which these people belong. This calculation gives an indication of the strength of a brand. By calculating the ratio between the buyers of this brand and the total number of buyers of goods/services similar to the brand, we can determine the popularity of the brand. Let’s take the example of a company that sells customised clothing. Assuming that its market has 4 million potential customers, and that the company already has 1 million customers in that market, its coverage rate would be : (1,000,000 / 4,000,000) x 100 = 25% The penetration rate of this company will therefore be 25%. An important note: it is not impossible to exceed 100% by adding up all the coverage rates of companies in a market. Indeed, in some sectors of activity, some people may be customers of two companies at the same time. This rate also applies to trading areas. In the retail sector, it is the ratio of the number of customers in the shop to the total number of people in the trading area. In other words: the rate corresponds here to the number of customers that the outlet manages to capture in a given area. The calculation of the penetration rate then becomes : Penetration rate = (Number of customers / total number of people in the trading area) X 100 To take an example, if the result of this calculation is 4%, this means that one person out of 25 is a customer of the outlet studied, within a specific perimeter. Depending on this result, the shop can take decisions to improve it. For example, by undertaking communication actions or by working on its réfélocal referencing. In addition, this calculation is also a very useful tool for calculating the proportion of customers with the shop’s loyalty card in relation to the total number of customers. It refers to the share of consumers likely to experiment with a brand new product or service. More concretely, it is the percentage of new consumers in relation to the total number of consumers of the product. 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Market share refers to the share of a company’s turnover in a sector of activity in relation to the total sales of companies in that sector over a given period of time. Note that market share can be expressed in terms of turnover and volume (number of products or services sold). The penetration rate gives an indication of the level of maturity ofa market. The higher the rate, the more mature the market. If the coverage rate exceeds 80%, the market is considered “saturated”. When launching a brand new product or service, the calculation of the rate will help to assess the first years in which the product/service will be launched. Another important difference is that the penetration rate does not take into account the sales volume associated with each customer. In other words, this indicator will not separate the customer who buys one product from the customer who buys 10 units. As a result, a company with a large proportion of “heavy users” will gain market share than its coverage rate. In short, what should we learn from the penetration rate and the need to master this marketing indicator? If this data is rich in information, the analysis of its evolution over time will be just as crucial. Indeed, if this rate increases, it will demonstrate the effectiveness of a company’s marketing operations. It will also show a positive trend in terms of customer loyalty. On the other hand, a penetration rate that is decreasing from one period to another will show that the competition has an advantage. This rate will then be a clear signal that you need to readjust your marketing strategy. A marketing agency can help you with this. By Maxime Lebail Access our exclusive content! Register and receive exclusive marketing content and tips directly to your inbox. Company Company Type Company Agency Other Maxime Lebail This article was written by Maxime Lebail. 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CFI Basketball Premier League final series begins Thursday By Khaled Al-Omeri, Jordan News (Photo: Amjad Al-Taweel/Jordan News) AMMAN — Al-Wehdat and the Orthodox club will open the finals series of the CFI Basketball Premier League to determine the 2021 season champion with their match today at 10pm, at the Prince Hamzah Hall in Al-Hussein Youth City.اضافة اعلان The Orthodox club and Al-Wehdat qualified for the finals after defeating Al-Ahli and Al-Jubeiha, respectively, each achieving three wins over their counterpart. The finals series consists of five matches, with the team that achieves three victories becoming champions. On Friday, Al-Jubeiha will meet Al-Ahli at 10pm in the same hall, as part of the three-match short series to determine third and fourth place. The club that wins two matches will be crowned in third place. The CFI champion will receive a financial prize of JD40,000, while second place will get JD25,000. Third place will receive JD20,000 and fourth place JD15,000.

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Everydaycalculation.com » Answers » Add fractions Add 1/3 and 6/40 1/3 + 6/40 is 29/60. Steps for adding fractions LCM of 3 and 40 is 120 For the 1st fraction, since 3 × 40 = 120, 1/3 = 1 × 40/3 × 40 = 40/120 Likewise, for the 2nd fraction, since 40 × 3 = 120, 6/40 = 6 × 3/40 × 3 = 18/120 Add the two fractions: 40/120 + 18/120 = 40 + 18/120 = 58/120 After reducing the fraction, the answer is 29/60 Related: 2/3+6/40 1/3+12/40 1/6+6/40 1/3+6/80 1/3+18/40 1/9+6/40 5/3+6/40 1/3+30/40 1/15+6/40 7/3+6/40 1/3+42/40 1/21+6/40 Add Fractions Calculator

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Mischo Beauty Review: Exuviance by Neostrata While I love posting reviews on the newest product launches, beauty tips & trends and beauty services/treatments, the goal of my beauty blog has always been to use it as an educational/teaching tool. For those who've been following me for quite some time now, you know that I am a huge advocate of healthy skin. And so, I've posted many, many times about at-home skincare regimens, the importance of knowing your skin type and on the benefits of facials. Well, for those of you on the constant search for the perfect products, I have three new anti-aging products from Exuviance that I've been testing and highly recommend: The first is the SkinRinse Bionic Tonic, which is a moisturizer with antioxidant and anti-aging ingredients. First, the scent is amazing- I just love it! It's a blend of green tea, cucumber and eucalyptus with Polyhydroxy Acids (PHAs) which all work together to rebuild the skin's matrix and keep skin looking young. It's very light and can be used on all skin types. My only concern was that it did not contain an SPF, so I followed this with my own sunscreen. At night, after cleansing and toning, I've been using the Ultra Restorative Creme. The best way to describe it would be to tell you that it's very rich and very hydrating. This is for dry or dehydrated skin types. Because it's packed with anti-aging ingredients like PHAs, it's best to use this before bed, during which time your skin cells renew themselves the most! Both in the morning and at night, I've been using the Hydrating Hand & Body Lotion. It's oil free, so it works for all skin types. I found it to be very hydrating and it's also packed with PHAs (which promote cell turnover) and vitamins A and E which work to improve the skin's texture. I love the fact that this line has a product for every skin type! So for those of you making New Year's Resolutions to take better care of your skin and to be consistent with your skincare regimen, you should give this line a try! Have you tried Exuviance products? What are your beauty New Year's Resolutions? Posted by Mischo Beauty , Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 2:22 PM Labels: at-home skincare regimen, beauty, esthetician, Exuviance, Neostrata, skincare, skincare regimen Yep. New Year's resolution would definitely be exactly this. Take better care of my skin. I already drink a lot of water, use sunscreen religiously and all that stuff, and my skin thanks me by not giving me a lot of problems. There is always room for improvement, though, so here are two of mine: (1.)*thoroughly* remove my makeup before bed EVERY night no matter how lazy I feel, and (2.) commit to a solid skincare regimen. That said, I'll definitely want to check out this line. Thanks! I love your blog. ButterflyDiary said... I guess I'll have to give this a try. I really am looking for a regimen that leaves my skin dazzling, and apart from Zein Obagi, I haven't found any. To Nadia: Good Nadia- so glad to hear that! And when you're 30, you'll look 20; when you're 40, you'll look 30 and so on....you'll love yourself for adopting a consistent regimen...check the products out and if you try them please let me know your thoughts! People constantly compliment me on my skin -they think I'm 10 years younger than I actually am, which is a HUGE compliment! Thanks so much for visiting my blog- I love the support! :) To "ButterflyDiary": You should give the products a try- they address all skin types/issues. I'd love to hear your thoughts! :) i've been trying to take care of my skin too, what do you think of jan marini products? To "MakeupByRenRen": Good for you! Don't give up- you skin will love you for it. :) I've never tried Jan Marini products. Have you?

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The top 7 gym fails – and how to avoid them to build your best body! Here’s a list of the most common “gym fails” we witnesses all too often – and how you can avoid them to burn fat and build muscle to transform your physique fast Every time I walk into the gym I see people making mistakes. And, more often than not, I see the same mistakes over and over again. If you’re making one of the mistakes in the list below, don’t beat yourself up. In fact, you should be patting yourself on the back because you’re working out – and that’s the hard part. It’s easy to make a few simple adjustments to what you’re doing during your sessions to get the results you deserve. The fail: It’s Groundhog Day Sometimes when I walk into the gym I wonder whether I’ve also become an extra in the Bill Murray film, Groundhog Day. Because I can guarantee that some people will be doing the same exercises, with the same weights, with the same sets and reps as they did last week. And you know what? They look the same as they did last week. And the same as they did six months ago. And the reason they’re not making progress is because they’re no longer challenging themselves. The fix: Be progressive A smart training plan is a progressive training plan, which means it gets more challenging as you get fitter and stronger. That could be as simple as increasing the weight slightly or adding a rep or two. Over time you’ll also need to cycle variations of exercises, such as adding an incline, narrow-grip and dumbbell bench press to your routine so you’re not just doing endless reps of flat bench presses. The adjustments don’t have to be radical, but they do need to be there. The fail: Poor exercise selection One thing you should always be looking to do is to get the biggest bang for your training buck. What I mean by that is you should always be looking to maximise the return on your training time and effort. If you’re carrying a fair bit of body fat and not much muscle, doing lots of isolation work, such as triceps extensions or, worse, wrist curls, won’t give you the progress you’re looking for. The fix: Get compound gains If you want to make a big difference to how you look and feel in a short space of time then you need to prioritise compound exercises (moves that work multiple muscle groups simultaneously), such as squats, bench presses and shoulder presses. They’ll burn more calories than isolation work, which is great for fat loss and they’ll damage more muscle fibres, which has a positive muscle-building effect. Isolation work should play a part in your plan, but it comes after you’ve done the compound lifts in a session and they’re there to ensure that you properly fatigue a muscle to make it grow back bigger and stronger. The fail: Lack of muscle tension I often see guys performing the right exercises and using roughly the right movement patterns yet they’re getting hardly any benefit out of what they’re doing. That happens when they fail to apply tension to the target muscle during a rep. Take a biceps curl, for example. If you’re using momentum to swing the weight, rather than lifting it by properly isolating the biceps muscles, then you won’t get the full benefit of the move. Same goes for rushed reps. The fix: Take your time You want results, right? Then stop worrying about the weight you’re lifting and start concerning yourself with how you’re lifting. When you perform a biceps curl your upper arm shouldn’t come forwards. The only movement should be at the elbow to lift and lower your forearm and hand. I also want you to really squeeze the biceps at the top of the move. And when you’ve done that, I want you to lower the weight slowly. If you let it drop, you’re cheating yourself out of the results you deserve. And after all, when you’re striding around with T-shirt filling arms, it’s unlikely that anyone will stop you and ask whether you developed your biceps by doing curls with 8kg or 10kg. The fail: No focus Earlier this week I saw a guy getting ready to do some preacher curls when he took a phone call. He then started to gossip with the person on the other end of the line and did about three sets in the time it took me to do the majority of my workout. He wasn’t in great shape and, if that’s the way he uses his gym time, I’m not that surprised. The fix: Get in the zone As soon as you walk onto the gym floor or start your home workout, you should aim to think about nothing other than the weight you’re lifting. So, no social scrolling, no email checking. Just you, the weights and a path towards your goal. It really is that simple. The fail: Lifting the wrong weight I wrote about this in a recent email. I do not care how much weight you lift. I have no interest in whether you can bench press 20kg or 200kg. All I care about is how you lift. But what I see every time I set foot in a gym is guys trying to massage their egos by lifting a weight that’s too heavy for them. They use terrible form and their joints take a pounding. The fix: Less weight, more muscle If you really want to give your ego a boost, do it by getting results. Do it by being proud of the body you’ve built. And you can do that by selecting a weight that allows you to lift with proper form. Now, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t an excuse to take it easy. I want you to work as hard as possible. I just want to see you to it with the right weight. If you’re unsure about how to select the right weight, read this story from my New Body Plan co-founder, Joe Warner. The fail: Poor form We bang on about form all the time. Not because we’re joyless gym bores but because it really does matter. I’d also say that the less experienced you are, the more it matters. An elite bodybuilder can probably get away with bending the form rules a bit because they have spent years learning how to apply tension to their muscles. But unless you’re planning to step on stage any time soon, I’d like you to lift with perfect technique. The fix: Do it right This is similar to the weight selection one. Just ask yourself what you want more: the short term buzz of lifting a heavier weight with terrible form and getting nowhere or the lasting satisfaction of lifting with good form and getting results. I know which one I’d go for. The fail: No plan I almost never see a guy in the gym following a plan. And I also almost never see a guy in the gym who is really making progress. The fix: Plan of action Sometimes the ‘secrets’ of fitness are staring you in the face. And here’s one of them. If you don’t follow a plan, you’ll fail to make progress. If you follow a smart and progressive plan (and you use our advice), you’ll make progress. Magic, huh? If you want a tried-and-tested workout programme to help you get there then take the New Body Quiz which will reveal your perfect plan! Support your testosterone levels to lose weight, build muscle and boost your sex drive Why calorie counting doesn’t add up! Previous Post 4 gym hacks for fast muscle gains!Previous Post Next Post Do you have to be fit before you can lose fat?Next Post

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Court Decision on MN Mining Permits Could Set Precedent Small OR Town in Big Fight Over Facebook's Undersea Cable Plans Allegheny County Residents Demand Action on Air Pollution Report: Climate Change Will Bring More Flooding to Iowa VW Settlement Could Help CT Schools Buy Cleaner Buses About 85 percent of Connecticut students ride buses to public schools, which exposes them to greater levels of air pollution. (School Bus Central/Wikimedia Commons) HARTFORD, Conn. – Environmentalists want Connecticut to use some of the money from the Volkswagen settlement to help children in low-income communities affected by air pollution. The state will be getting almost $51 million from the car maker's $20 billion settlement for deliberately cheating on U.S. emissions testing of its diesel cars. Advocates say investing a portion of that money in cleaner-running school buses could help low-income urban communities that are most affected by poor air quality. According to Wildaliz Bermudez, program director at Chispa, a project of the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, about 85 percent of students in the state ride buses to get to public school. "We have the data in Connecticut that states that children who ride the school bus, many of them, experience disproportionate rates of air pollution, and then their asthma gets triggered," she explained. Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has drafted an initial mitigation plan and is seeking proposals for how the money should be spent. The settlement money is expected to arrive sometime this fall. Bermudez stresses that to find out if they will be eligible to apply for funds, school boards and municipalities need to start assembling data on their current school buses now. "We want to make sure that their fleet is up to date and has lower emissions so that our kids can reap the benefits of breathing cleaner air," she added. The Clean Bus campaign was announced last week as part of the state's Commission on Equity and Opportunity Policy Day. More information is online at conservationeducation.org.

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Worst Year on Record for West Nile Virus Posted 8:02 pm, September 6, 2012, by Matt Peace FacebookTwitterGooglePinterestLinkedInEmail × (Atlanta, GA) It has been the worst year on record for the West Nile virus , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There has been a 25% increase in cases in the last week alone. 2,000 cases have been reported nationwide this year. 87 cases have been fatal. The numbers are expected to rise in the coming weeks. Six states make up 70-percent of the West Nile cases, including the state of Mississippi. Texas is the hardest hit. You can decrease your chances of getting the virus by eliminating standing water and other items in your yard that can be breeding grounds for mosquitoes. The CDC also recommends wearing long sleeves and pants when spending time outdoors during dawn and dusk hours. Filed in: News Topics: CDC, mosquitoes, West Nile Virus Be a part of Go Jim Go Le Bonheur doctors talk about enterovirus scare Le Bonheur doctors on the lookout for Enterovirus-68 Dallas hospital treating first U.S. Ebola case Second American infected with Ebola

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Simplicity of the Sublime It was when he lived in hectic New York, that Dutch filmmaker, video artist and sports aficionado, Guido van der Werve, became acutely aware of his artistic need to seek out simplicity - and to be bored. Concentration and time are intertwined for van der Werve, and he therefore tries to place himself in simple surroundings, where time is not important, spending half the year by the tranquil lakeside in Finland. Something that provides him with the luxury of a boredom that seems to generate new ideas. Sport is an honest way of expressing oneself, according to van der Werve, who considers sports to be authentic performances: “You’re in a state, where you really can’t pretend anymore.” Doing sports, such as triathlons, helps him stay alert, and because he admits to being a control freak, he needs his sports even more, when he composes music for his movies, which he does singlehandedly: “Music is up in the air – it’s not tangible. It can be like a big mind-fuck.” Van der Werve wishes to make art more accessible and straightforward, so that even a child can take something away from it: “The sublime lies in the simple - when you make something so simple that it becomes universal.” Again, he looks to sports in doing so: “The sign of a good sportsman is, that the easier it looks, the better they are at it.“ Guido van der Werve is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist born in the Netherlands in 1977. He pursued studies in industrial design, archaeology, music composition and Russian language and literature at several universities in the Netherlands before beginning to create his first video documented performances around 2000. Since then he has created a variety of works, including films and videos, which are named after numbers (e.g. ‘Nummer twee’). Showings of his work include solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the High Line, New York; the Guiliani Foundation, Rome and de Hallen Haarlem in the Netherlands. His film, ‘Home’, won the 2013 Golden Calf Award in Amsterdam for Best Short Film. Guido van der Werve was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his house in Finland. Camera: Klaus Elmer Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner Edited by: Kamilla Bruus Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014 Supported by Nordea-fonden Go to Facebook page Related Editorial: We Get Used Fast to Constraints "So much space is just not taken seriously." Interview with the pioneering Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist, who has formed the exhibition space into her own vision by using home video projections and creating new electronic forms. Cameras are Soul Keepers When video artist Bill Viola was 6 years old he fell into a lake, all the way to the bottom, to a place which seemed like paradise. "There's more than just the surface of life." Viola explains. "The real things are under the surface". Sebastian Diaz Morales Make Your Enemy Your Friend In depth portrait of Argentinian video artist Sebastian Diaz Morales who grew up in wild Patagonia where the wind blows 150 km/h. It was the experience of a stranded whale which made Diaz Morales aware of the language of video art. Bunny Rogers Mourning Youth “You can’t make objective art, it’s going to be subjective.” Watch the praised artist Bunny Rogers (b. 1990) talk about creating autobiographical work that draws from memory and deals with her childhood by archiving her feelings from that time. Ed Atkins is considered one of the most unsettling contemporary artists – as well as one of the most exciting. In this video, the young British artist shares how he works from written texts, and why melancholy is at the centre of his animated digital videos. Louisa Gagliardi Longing for Something Else “Art is amazing because it’s in a way unnecessary, but extremely necessary as a testimony of its time.” Let us introduce you to a rising star of painting, Louisa Gagliardi, who creates her surreal work digitally and adds layers of paint to the printed image. Dora Budor Acting Things “I want to use art as a field where I can explore parallel scenarios.” Dora Budor makes complex sculptures and interactive installations inspired by cinematic metaverse and scientific research. Join us as we visit the young Croatian artist in her studio. Hannah Levy A Design Purgatory “I wonder if the reason why people want to touch it is that they’re in some way attracted to it, or if they’re repulsed by it.” Meet the young artist Hannah Levy, who primarily makes sculptures combining curving steel forms with cast silicone. A Portal to Infinity Watch Ian Cheng, a rising star on the art scene, talk about his trilogy of animated live simulation works – ‘Emissaries’ – which work like a never-ending video game in real time: “It was a process that was on-going as life is on-going.” Advice to the Young What piece of advice would a renowned 94-year-old architect offer young architects? Find out in this short video, where Yona Friedman argues that architects must always adapt to the context and work for the average user. Jan Gehl How to Build a Good City “We now know that first, we form the cities, but then the cities form us.” Meet the 81-year-old Danish architect Jan Gehl, who for more than fifty years has focused on improving the quality of urban life by helping people “re-conquer the city.” Marina Abramović & Ulay A Living Door of the Museum Standing naked in the main entrance of a museum, facing each other while the audience passes sideways through the small space. Legendary performance artists Marina Abramović and Ulay share the story behind their poetic work ‘Imponderabilia’. Architecture is a Job for God The Chinese architect Wang Shu’s buildings – a crossover between traditional Chinese culture and large-scale modern architecture – have earned him prestigious awards. “Democracy means a really diverse society,” says the architect in this inspiring interview. Margrethe Odgaard Colour Diary of New York Becoming more aware of your surroundings can “open a new dimension inside as well as outside yourself.” Meet award-winning Danish designer Margrethe Odgaard who has trained herself to register the world through colours.

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San Diego Music SocietyChanging the World through Music About SDMS Music should serve to uplift and empower not only the listener and performer, but the world in which it resounds Let’s compose something beautiful together © 2023 San Diego Music Society is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization. All Donations are Tax Deductible

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June 8, 2020 Announcements, Blogs, Event, News, News & Blog The annual International Virtual Exchange Conference is coming up. The dates are September 14-16 and the conference will be virtual, rather than in-person at Newcastle University in the UK, as originally planned. The conference will be held following the clock in Newcastle, which is in UTC+1 at that time of year. The conference web site is http://iveconference.org/ and members of the U-M community are encouraged to attend! These conferences are invariably interesting and stimulating and we highly recommend attendance, if you are able. Please contact us at virtual.exchange@umich.edu if you wish to register and are a U-M affiliate. We expect to have a discount code available, because of the anticipated volume of U-M registrants. Two U-M Virtual Exchange courses will be presented during the conference. They are: Developing Intercultural Competence in Music Educators Through Videoconferencing Andreas Lehmann-Wermser, Faculty, Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Germany Carlos Rodriguez, Faculty, School of Music, Theater, and Dance, University of Michigan, USA Philomena Meechan, Staff, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, USA Todd L. Austin, Staff, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, USA Solving a water scarcity problem in Tunisia through an American-Tunisian virtual exchange Nadia Cheikhrouhou, Faculty, Higher Institute of Technological Studies (ISET) Béja, Tunisia Ken Ludwig, Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, USA Allison Westra, Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan, USA Bahaeddine Chouchène, Student, Higher Institute of Technological Studies (ISET) Béja, Tunisia Lorenzo Harris, Student, University of Michigan, USA Iheb Merai, Student, Higher Institute of Technological Studies (ISET) Béja, Tunisia Rahee Patel, Student, University of Michigan, USA Isabella Przybylska, Student, University of Michigan, USA Tags: Conference, IVEC2020

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« Dr. Zhivago (III): the Poems--Comedy & Tragedy - Ron Dart | Main | "If I were... the Woman at the Well" - Jill Carnuccio » "If I were John the Baptist" - Jill Carnuccio "Exponential" is a fun word to say but I wish I didn't have to use it to describe the rate at which time flies. "Blogging" is a really fun word as well. Go ahead and say it; "Blogging". There's just something about the b with the l and the gg in the middle that makes me feel as if I'm spitting and choking at the same time and yet enjoying it. Along with a gazillion other people, I enjoy blogging - not just saying the word. But there are three personal impediments to blogging: 1. The exponential rate at which time flies past me, stampeding my to-do lists. 2. The nagging feeling that it really just boils down to a self-centered pursuit. "Read what I think" "Look what I did" 3. A growing disdain for Facebook, the only avenue of marketing no-name amateurs such as myself. Putting all that aside... I have an inspiration to write a series of blogs called: "If I were..." These will be meditations on interactions with Jesus in the Gospels. Trying to use my imagination as if I were the Biblical character with Jesus is even more fun than blogging. My hope is that I will get better at it as we go and I hope anyone who bothers with this blog, will try it for themselves. After all, Jesus isn't just a word...He is THE WORD. He isn't just a product of imagination. He is real. Ignatius of Loyola encouraged his students to read about Jesus with imagination. And in so doing, meet Him in a new way. "Scripture is living. It's meant to take root, growing and flowering in the heart and mind. Don't just know what the story says; know how it feels..." Recapturing the Wonder, Mike Cosper. What if it were you catching the fish, receiving your sight, or watching Jesus die? I'm beginning with the first to testify to the reality of Jesus, John the Baptist. If I were John the Baptist… I stood, waist-high, in lotus colored waters calling to my people “Turn back to God! Come back to a relationship with Him. Live honest, generous lives--characteristic of God Himself! Our moment of liberation is here! Our advocate is close by and ready to fight for us. Get ready to join Him in the battle!”. Every day I searched their desperate eyes and challenged them to humble themselves, daring them to continue in hope for God to make good on His promises. My own heart dangled in desperation with them, but I was not going to just sit around. I don’t remember a time that I wasn’t dreaming of helping God’s people prepare for their Messiah. My mother loved to tell me about a confidence she had that my cousin, Jesus, was the One. So I had waited and watched Him with growing urgency. My people should not, could not continue on in abuse and faithlessness, weak in every way. And this is where I stood and what I was thinking the day He came to me. Down the bank as rocks tumbled, Jesus came to me. Into the rivers of baptism, he came to me. And everything in me repelled the thought of His obvious intention. I am a man of authority myself...I am “the baptizer”. But in that moment my need of Him was overwhelming; how could I not protest? I stared at the face of my cousin and felt my whole life gather itself up into a drop that fell and joined the cool swirls around us. “John, you must allow what I am asking of you... this gathering of God and man...the reign of His life in yours and all these ones around us, now!” His leanness filled my arms. His face dropped beneath, obscured. Then up He came. Light ripped and slipped from heaven, resting on His shoulder and with it an eerie silence gave way to a voice “This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased.” If I had had any doubts...and if I'm honest, I had--they scattered. I was holding in my arms everything I needed...but He wasn't just for me; I had to let Him go. So, I watched Him-- climb the bank, scattering more doubt and more stones as He went. And I threw my voice to the wind...to my followers.”Follow Him!” I heard myself yell, “He is the One--God's own gift, the One I've been trying to tell you about!” Their eyes turned from mine to His, as the tongues and the waves wagged around me. September 26, 2018 | Permalink

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HomeReflective Listening Reflective Listening Helps Parents Communicate with Children Ask the Experts by Teresa Sandner Q: Why do I have to tell my children something ten times and then threaten them with punishment before they actually do what I say?” A: Most children tune out because they don’t feel listened to or we say way too much. Reflective listening is a way to let children know their feelings are being heard and understood. I-Messages are a way to let children know how their behavior affects us without shaming or blaming which helps to create an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation where listening is a valuable outcome. Reflective listening requires a person to turn into what the speaker is saying and feeling by paying attention to the content, watching body language and listening to tone of voice. At that point they reflect back the speaker’s feelings by saying, “It sounds like you feel…” Even if you’re wrong, your child feels that you are at least making an attempt to understand. I-Messages help you to express yourself without setting up the inevitable defensive reaction. It has three parts, “When… (the action the child is exhibiting), I feel… because… (why you feel the way you do)” Remember to model respect when listening and speaking to your children. It helps them to learn how to speak to you. If your children aren’t listening and talking to you, then who are they listening and talking to and whose morals and values are they learning? Creating an atmosphere of caring and respect when talking to your child helps them to want to seek you out when the big concerns come along. Teresa Sandner is the Parent Education Program and Conference Coordinator for CARE of Southeastern Michigan and has been teaching parenting classes for 24 years. Teresa can be reached at tsandner@careofsem.com or 586-218-5280. CARE of Southeastern Michigan is a member of The Family Center’s Association of Professionals.

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Blackheath Addick Good Does Not Always Prevail As they reminded us in Apocalypse Now, good does not always prevail. And we didn’t today. Over the 90 minutes I don’t have the feeling that we were robbed, or that the referee cost us the game - which is not to say he had a good game; if it takes a ref 85 minutes before showing a card to a Watford player it’s fair to say he’s been lenient (OK, just crap). Watford were ugly, often if not nasty then brutish, but did more than us in the last 20 minutes, during which time they looked more likely to win it than us. But for a tremendous last-ditch block by Fortune they might have done.Our sin was of course not being able to hold on to a two-goal lead. You don’t give a team like Watford any encouragement. The problem was maybe that the players at half-time felt like the fans (or at least me): 2-0 up, let’s get this game over and go home and celebrate. You had the feeling early in the second half that we weren’t attacking with the same intent, having carved Watford open a couple of times to establish the advantage. And having regrouped after conceding two in two minutes we didn’t seem to have the energy in the final phase to suggest that we could win the game. We failed to create a good chance in the second half and were restricted to a few shots and some threatening balls into the box which didn’t break our way.It had all started so well. The same starting XI as against Sheff Wed and, while Watford ensured that much of the game was spent with the ball in the air, there were moments of pure class from us, most obviously the two goals. For the first a good ball in was flicked on by Gray, then helped on by Varney for the onrushing Ambrose to bury from short range. Watford couldn’t get a touch. And the second may have been an own-goal but it was such a wicked ball in from the right from Halford that the forward behind Shittu would surely have buried it. With Sam looking threatening, Gray having a much better game, and Ambrose having rediscovered how to take a corner things were looking good.Watford offered little before the break and looked if not outclassed then at least incapable of matching us when we got it right. Youga was having a strange game, seemingly intent on showboating going forward and playing a succession of dubious balls forward but also making some key interceptions (and he did pick up after McCarthy put his arm around him and had a quiet word). A shot did come back off the post just before the break, but I thought we looked comfortable. Maybe the break encouraged such thoughts.Their first goal was poor and Ambrose, possibly Youga as well, must shoulder a good deal of the blame. They were slow to close down their guy on the right edge of the area. He seemed to mishit a shot which bobbled towards the penalty spot, only to find a couple of Watford forwards who had held their ground (and didn’t look offside to me). We were rattled and Fortune conceded a corner. What happened then I’m not sure of. Some said that Shittu held down our defender before heading in. I’d need to see it again. The defence, including Weaver, seemed to freeze and the ball was headed in from close range.Now we had to chase the game and failed to do so. Cook came on first for Ambrose and looked good to me. He delivered a number of superb crosses from the left and most of the time brought the ball forward with intent (he did get crowded out once or twice). Iwelumo and Thomas came on for Sam and Gray but didn’t really change the game. One day we will know why Thomas had to leave the field to replace his shorts. Watford were reasonably content to take the point, but as the clock wound down they were passing the ball much more than before and creating space as we seemed to tire. Zhi and Holland failed to hold them back and at the final whistle, while obviously disappointed at losing a 2-0 lead, there was the feeling that if the game had continued for much longer we would have lost. Booing the ref as he left the field is always fun – and he didn’t give us enough protection. But it wasn’t the key element.Watford? You can’t really call them a yo-yo team. I quite like yo-yos and they have a purpose. Watford are more like a bad smell; you just don't want them around. I have nothing against them as a club but quite frankly they’re going nowhere. If they get promoted they will be an embarrassment (again). They are a long way short of having anything like the sort of quality that might survive in the top flight. I just don’t want to be in the same division as them. Their fans sang ‘we love you Watford’ and I don’t doubt that they do. There’s just nothing about their play for any neutral to love – and a lot to despise.Dropping two crucial points is bound to have a deflating effect on the team and the fans. Thoughts are bound to turn again to having to settle for the play-offs. I guess it’s time to forget about such things and just concentrate on winning the next game. We probably now have to go on a run of three or four wins, maybe more. We can do it, but the two points not secured today mean no spring in the step. At least I’m going to win the lottery tonight.Player ratings:Weaver: 7/10. Need to see their second again; he may have been at fault.Halford: 8/10. Thought he had another splendid game.Youga: 6/10. I’m not sure if he deserves a 9 or a 5. It was a peculiar performance and one that perhaps sheds light on why Pardew had to substitute him against Sheff Wed. First blot on his copybook as far as I’m concerned.McCarthy: 9/10. I don’t think he was to blame for either goal and still has the defence operating far better as a unit than before.Fortune: 8/10. Deserves a high rating for that late block after their forward had got the wrong side and looked about to score their winner.Ambrose: 6/10. A very mixed bag. Good first half, scored a goal and seemed to have worked out how to deliver a corner. But disappeared in the second half and carries some of the blame for their first goal.Holland: 7/10. No complaints once more. Did seem to tire towards the end.Zhi: 6/10. Also tired towards the finish and I felt a few times didn’t want to take the responsibility when the ball dropped to him around their box.Sam: 6/10. Looked dangerous in the first half and delivered some dangerous crosses. But faded in the second half.Varney: 7/10. No lack of effort, but it just didn’t break for Luke today. Had a hand in the first goal.Gray: 8/10. I thought he had a much better game than against Palace or Scunthorpe. Was more involved and linked play well. A goal would be nice.Subs: Cook (8/10, looked lively), Iwelumo (6/10, did get brownie points for coming on and barging straight into Shittu), Thomas 6/10 (barely had the chance to get into the game). Blackheath Addicted You are 100% correct. The ref was bad, but they generally are and the teams that go up will be the ones that can win games despite bad refereeing, where the away fans sit, and whether the opposition is physical or not. We simply were not good enough over 90minutes today now that Thomas is back SAP has got to start him, Sam whilst has alot of skill is such a frustrating player, hardly ever does he release the ball ontime , always one to hesitate rather then make that killer pass.I felt SAP should have brought Thomas on with 30 mins to go. This is one irritation of mine, SAP justs subs way too late in my opinion. Agree re Youga- defensively sound(tackling etc) but woeful distribution-no thats too posh-his lumps forward when not under pressure "disappointing".That first Watford goal-if it was onside the movement must have been wonderful.And it was the first bit of football they played.They will never prosper in the Premiership with that "style" of play.andrew I thought we were the better team (at least we tried to play football), but again we haven't won when we should have done and this has been the story of our season. The home matches against Scunthorpe, Barnsley, Plymouth, Sheff Utd, Burnley, Hull and Colchester were all similar. If we don't go up, then hopefully next season we'll have learned how to play the same way but actually WIN matches. Thomas had to take off his black cycling shorts he had on under his shorts. Billericay Dickie I have now accepted that Charlton will not gain promotion this season. The team that Pardew has created is simply not working, and it would appear that Pardew is still struggling to find his best team, or indeed the best formation to play.The team is not gelling, and every area looks uncomfortable. The “big money” players brought in have not adapted to the Pardew way. Strikers are not scoring and most of the team look short on confidence. Clearly for whatever reason Pardew has got the current squad of players badly wrong. How he gets this right I really don’t know but in my opinion things are going to get worse before they get better. Watford may well be 'Ugly' as you say but if we want to get out of this division we have to put them away. We need to be less decorative and more willing to mix it in midfield. Ambrose is a prime example of what being lightweight gives you. Cook looked like he could as yet be the Pardew masterstroke for the run in. C'mon guys, let's not get too negative. After the game I didn't feel robbed. Having seen the goals again I do. Their second was an obvious foul by Shittu on Fortune - as demonstrated by a number of Sundays showing the pictures. If we'd held it at 2-1 for a while it could have turned out very different.I like the way Pardew is getting the team to play and very much hope he sticks with it. Yes, we need to be more ruthless and better at closing out games, but we will continue to get better. Let's keep the faith as it's not over yet. Well guys, Vicar here. After this performance we will require some divine intervention to get in to the play-offs, let alone promotion. Not being negative BA, just realistic. We need more grit and guile. As for Watford being embarrassing in the premier league-how would we perform? Forget this season, lets hope Pardew can build on something for a solid year next season. What's the world coming to? Vicars being realistic? I suppose while for the rest of us football can be an escape from reality into fantasy and delusion for a few hours the reverse might apply to men of the cloth. Well, that's my cheap shot for the day. If we go up we probably would be humiliated next season, but that's still a price worth paying given our financial position. We have the core of a team to build on which, focusing on the positive, will either be good enough to go back up the season after next or to run away with the league next season. Steady on BA, bit rough on the Vicar.We are all frustrated and with justification. It is not the result but confirmation that we are lacking what's required.In this league you have to adapt, play football when it is possible, scrap when you need to and more then anything have the courage to step up and attack the opposition.We lack grit when its required. The energy level drops when the pressure comes on. If Our team want a play-off spot then they need to start fighting for it or else we are stuck like the Vicar and others have said.We are in a dogfight and every point will count in the end. Take away the intelligence and energy of Mc Carthy and Holland andwhere would we be BA? I acknowledge it was a cheap shot. I hope it was taken in the good spirit it was meant. Given that we spent a fair bit of the season without Holland and McCarthy we can't attribute our place solely to them. A number of others deserve mentions in despatches. I do think we've suffered from injuries at bad times and overall lack a killer instinct. But the football we are playing now is far better than a few months ago and bodes well for the future, whether or not we go up this season. Lungrot I agree that we're playing our best football now and considering the number of changes that the team has been through, we've done well to stay up where we are.The sweetest way to go up, would be to get a top two spot on the last day of the season.The loan signings look good and we don't seem to be missing Reid. We just need Andy Gray to start scoring. Something we can't do anything about is referees. Like last season, i'm sure we've lost more points than we've gained due to poor decisions. These things are supposed to even out over a season and without being biased I don't think they have. Varneys 'goal' away to Sheff Wed was as much onside as Watford's but barely got a mention. Me Circa 1966 Charlton Blog Links Addicks CHAMPIONSHIP Diary Addickted.net Albury Addick And Nothing Else Matters CAFC Picks CASTrust Charlton Athletic Online Charlton Mad Chicago Addick Deepest Darkest Doctor Kish Drinking During The Game Exiled Addick Forever Charlton From The Hill To The Valley God, Charlton and Punk Rock Hungry Ted I Could Be Wrong I Could Be Right Kings Hill Addick New York Addick Valley Talk Voice of The Valley Wrong Side of the Thames Kids Are Out - But Not Down 32 Moral High Ground, Cloud Cuckoo Land Much Ado About Absolutely Nothing High Fives For The Kids Done Moping, Bring 'Em On Bottom-Up Approach Allez La Douch Timing Is Everything: Have I Blown It? A Class Apart After The Lord Mayor's Show Head Or Heart For Promotion? Life-long Charlton supporter based in Blackheath (well, it's not so far to walk is it?). Other interests and tendencies include the EU, wine, atheism, UK voting reform (democracy would be nice).

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Search Pac-12 News Wildcat Soccer Receives Another Commitment By Pac-12 ConferenceMay 1, 2002 May 1, 2002 TUCSON, Ariz. (May 1) - Another Tucsonan has committed to join the University of Arizona women's soccer team for the 2002-03 school year. Catalina Foothills High School product SHANNON PIDD will become a Wildcat this fall. A three-year letterwinner in both soccer and track at Foothills, Pidd was a three-time All-Arizona and All-Southern Arizona selection, despite missing her junior year with an ACL injury. As a defender, Pidd was part of a Falcon defense that surrendered only six goals in 24 games her senior year. The squad went 21-2-1 overall and lost in the state finals game that season. Also a track and field standout, Pidd was part of a 4x100-meter relay that was three-time Southern Region champion. She collected several academic honors, as well, and will be attending the UA on Spirit of Discovery and Provost Scholarships. Pidd brings the 2002 Wildcat recruiting class up to a total of 10 student-athletes. Check the official Arizona Athletics web site, www.arizonaathletics.com, for more information on the previous signees.### Categories:Women's Soccer RELATED NEWS & VIDEOS Another Recruit Commits to UA Soccer Team Wildcat Soccer Adds Another Recruit Wildcat Soccer Players Receive Academic Honors

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Extension > Youth Development Insight > Who can assess the quality of a youth program? Who can assess the quality of a youth program? Can youth and volunteers effectively assess program quality? Does it matter if adult volunteers or 4-H staff are paired with youth to complete assessments? Early results from our Minnesota 4-H Quality Improvement Study suggest that youth and volunteers can indeed assess quality and can work with local 4-H clubs to improve their programs. We have also learned that, for the most part, whether youth are paired with adult volunteers or staff made little difference. Traditionally, program quality is assessed using reliable, trained assessors. Taking that model to scale in a youth organization with more than 130,000 youth would be impossible, so our study sought to discover how to measure quality in a youth and volunteer-led organization. The study design called for 40 coaches (20 youth and 20 adults) receiving a two-day training on how to observe program quality using the Weikart Center's Youth Program Quality Assessment (YPQA). Participants were grouped into 20 pairs: half of them one youth and one adult volunteer; the other half one youth and one 4-H staff member. Each youth-adult team assessed at least two 4-H clubs for a total of 40 4-H clubs observed. The goal of the study was to investigate the nuances of using an alternative assessment approach. It was not designed to measure the actual extent of quality improvement attained or compare trained assessors with volunteer assessors. We viewed the process of engaging, as a member of the 4-H program, as a step toward building a quality improvement system. Results revealed that: Youth and adults played an equal role in the observation and initial assessment scoring. Youth involvement in the data collection was seen as extremely valuable. Observed 4-H clubs were receptive to this opportunity and viewed the assessment process as a positive one. We at the Extension Center for Youth Development are taking this work to scale in 4-H clubs around Minnesota. The project represents a fine expression of the University of Minnesota's land-grant mission: to bring research and practice expertise together to support local community needs. For more on program quality and how to measure it, visit our website's program quality research page. Is your youth program finding ways to measure program quality? How are you doing it? Samantha Grant, assistant Extension professor, program evaluation Read the Preliminary Minnesota 4-H Quality Improvement Study. 4-H, Samantha Grant, Deborah MooreFebruary 16, 2011 at 8:14 AMSam,A really consice capture of the research. As a member of the research team, what are the next burning questions on quality assessment that you would like to explore?ReplyDeleteSamantha GrantFebruary 16, 2011 at 9:49 AMDeborah, This is the start to practicing my elevator speech. Next time that you see me, test me!As far as next questions...I always have so many! I really want to look further into the experiences that youth had in being engaged in the process and learn more about the strengths and weaknesses. I'm also interested in learning how to best bring this model to scale in the 4-H organization.If you had a crystal ball, where would you see the Center for Youth Development going with quality in the next 10 years?ReplyDeleteJoanna TzenisFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:45 AMHi Samantha,Thank you for sharing this. I am currently working with the Minnesota CYFAR project and we are always seeking ways to improve not only the assessment of our programs, but also ways to foster a greater sense of ownership among the youth –especially as we work to sustain the CYFAR programs past the life cycle of the grant. We currently use youth surveys and focus groups to assess the quality of our programs. We just recently started having focus groups and found that it is not only a fantastic method to collect rich and meaningful data, but that the opportunity to engage in a conversation about program quality heightens youth’s enthusiasm about their program.That said, could speak more of the benefits of having youth engaged in assessing their own programs—(elaborating on the research result that “Youth involvement in the data collection was seen as extremely valuable.”)? Your research report referred to youth taking on new responsibilities and a “forward momentum” that was created as a result of being engaged in quality assessment. How do we keep that momentum going?ReplyDeleteSamantha GrantFebruary 17, 2011 at 7:52 AMJoanna,Those are million dollar questions!I would encourage you to read the full report, which will be published soon. Youth reported that they were equal partners in the assessment and action planning. Their adult counterparts commented on the new perspectives that youth brought to the process and the ways that 4-H clubs responded best to their advice. Youth were definitely viewed as experts.We want to learn more about youth's experiences, and that is a proposed step two in the process. From the larger literature on youth action research and youth participatory evaluation, we know that youth gain new skills and feel increased connections to their community after engaging in these types of projects.Keeping the momentum going is always difficult, but I think one of our best assets in 4-H (and many youth programs) is the central role that youth play in the development of our programs. When youth feel like they "own" the project, they are more likely to be the ones pushing for more.Do you see the benefit of incorporating quality assessments with youth involvement in your CYFAR programs?ReplyDeleteAnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 8:10 AMHi Sam –Thanks for the synopsis of the early results from this study.Like the goal of this study, I too am interested in exploring the nuances of using alternative assessment approaches. "Creativity" combined with "rigor" in evaluation can lead to very compelling results and new understandings about program quality. I look forward to reading the full report.You were a member of the research team. What nuances did you discover in the process of preparing youth to be quality coaches?ReplyDeleteSam GrantFebruary 18, 2011 at 8:49 AMI should probably defer to the other members of the team who were involved with the implementation of the training. Unfortunately, I've the one with the blog post, but I can say from our conversations that there were some nuances. One of the biggest ones was simply getting youth to the training, because our 4-H youth are so busy. Finding time to complete a two-day training can be daunting! Other than that, youth took to the material very well, and from my end on the research/data entry standpoint, assessments from youth had lots of great details (and often times more than their adult partners.)Thanks for your comment! Are you building program quality in your program?ReplyDeleteDale A. BlythFebruary 21, 2011 at 5:40 AMSam,Thnaks for blogging about this important effort to experiment with deeper and richer involvement of youth in assessing quality. Great to see it reaching fruition and starting to explore the next questions to study. It is probably imporstn to note that youth assessors assessed clubs other than their own (by design) and yet also talked about bringing their learnings into their own clubs as well. One of my questions for the future is what happens when this appraoch gets in the "water" of a youth program and permeates the way it thinks about itself and how it does things? Taking it to scale, as Minnesota 4-H is doing opens up a world of important questions that could be addressed.DaleReplyDeletePam Larson NippoltFebruary 21, 2011 at 5:59 AMThe results reported here by Sam Grant illustrate that youth are willing and effective in making contributions through youth development programs - in this case, through observing and assessing the quality of the program setting. The concept, and the values that fuel the concept, are intriguing and so relevant for the field right now. Sam brings a key issue for large organizations to the forefront - how can this important effort be taken to scale while keeping the momentum that comes from involving individual youth in important leadership roles?My thinking goes toward technology on this - what is the best mix of "face to face/in person" with technology delivery in order to keep growing these quality practices - at the same time maintaining the quality of the trainings, the assessment process, the coaching? Another million dollar question and one that will be watched closely as Minnesota 4-H broadens these practices across the state.ReplyDeleteMargo HermanFebruary 22, 2011 at 4:36 AMThis is a terrific example of building long term capacity for quality in youth programs! In many realms we need youth to carry forth and improve upon what we know. This project provides youth with new knowledge and some skills for applying the knowledge in a concrete way. I also like the model of pairing a youth with an adult to assess programs as a tangible example of youth/adult partnerships. I find a great deal of optimism in how this is unfolding. Thanks for writing about the study and keep us informed about the results!ReplyDeleteSamantha GrantFebruary 22, 2011 at 4:44 AMDale, Pam, and Margo,I'm pleased to see the positive reactions to our study of youth program quality. This tells me that it's the right time to be investing in building quality programs for youth. I hope the momentum in 4-H will spill over into other youth serving organizations. If the field was behind this movement, as I think they are moving in this direction, it would be beneficial for youth in all of their out of school time opportunities. What a fabulous way to demonstrate the value of the Land Grant University!ReplyDeleteJennifer A. Skuza, PhDFebruary 22, 2011 at 6:50 AMHi Sam -For some reason I came up as "Anonymous". I think it is adjusted now. Anyway ... thanks for your response. I'd like to continue the conversation with you about involving youth in assessment. :-) It is important to uncover the nuances in preparing youth for assessment and even in collecting data from youth.ReplyDeleteJosey LandrieuFebruary 28, 2011 at 6:05 AMGreat blog post Sam! and insightful comments. I think one of the key elements of involving youth and adults into assessing quality is providing the opportunity to have ownership of the program and its benefits.Allowing youth and even volunteers to be do something that they are often not asked to do is an opportunity to be invested in what they are doing day-to-day (running the program, participating in it, etc). Many of the comments I think talk about this...I thought I would put forth a term that might be useful for us as we conduct evaluation and research: How much ownership do program or study participants have in the process?Best,JoseyReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...

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Category Archives: Gathering Hints & Tips Posted on February 21, 2012 by frankieholah I mean seriously…It feels like only yesterday that I was writing the “14 weeks to go” blog and now suddenly I’ve only got 7 weeks left until tail off….argh! I’ve been a slack blogger for the past few weeks – but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been running. A lot has been happening since I last posted. My injury seems to be staying away as I have taken on board the exercises, recovery and strength training that was recommended by On Track Sports Therapy. I feel that I’ve learnt a lot about how to look after my little legs so maybe that pesky shin pain was a blessing in disguise. As my house mate is also running the Marathon we have been helping each other out with post run massages which is great for aiding recovery – I’m not sure what the neighbours think of us though as there is a lot of yelping and swearing if either of us is particularly sore (hehe) The cold snap was not something I enjoyed at all – it just made everything harder, starting with the initial leaving the cosy house phase. I didn’t have to cut back on many runs and I suppose it was a great excuse to indulge in a bubble bath post training – absolute bliss! BUT, I still didn’t enjoy it. I will however have a quick rave about the new Nike top I purchased to keep me warm…It’s fantastic and has the little thumb holes so that my hands are partly covered. Love it love it and highly recommend it http://store.nike.com/gb/en_gb/?l=shop,pdp,ctr-inline/cid-103401/pid-421959/pgid-537397 One of the key points my physio discussed with me was the importance of good recovery and I have to say that the extra time spent soaking my muscles, stretching out and especially massage has really been helping a lot. It sounds so obvious doesn’t it? But when you’re shattered and just want to crash on the sofa, it’s very tempting to think, oh I’ll just leave that for tonight. My test is always the stairs in the morning….If I have looked after myself it doesn’t hurt as much and for now I’m doing ok. I started my post injury running on grass which has made a huge difference…I focused on keeping up a steady speed and lapping Clapham Common a few times before heading back up the hill. It was a good exercise for me to have to come back in slower as the pace and impact was just too much – I thought I’d get bored of the Common but it’s actually been really nice to run off the pavement and away from the traffic…even if it is only a few metres difference. I have also invested in new trainers purchased from the wonderful Sweatshop in Clapham. My Nike’s wouldn’t have made it to the Marathon and it was approaching the cut off point for having enough time to wear them in. I went for Adidas Glide’s (pictured above) and so far I really like them. I do love a new pair of shoes and so I was worried I may run into something because I was watching my feet…Obviously the most important thing is that they are comfortable and support my feet properly but boy they are pretty and shiny!! These babies will be running the ACTUAL race with me so we have some serious bonding to do…I felt like Bambi on ice when I first ran in them and *youch* it hurt for the first couple of miles…we’re getting on better now and the test will be the long run this weekend. Those out there also running the Marathon – are you nervous?confident?indifferent? I am starting to feel the nerves now – I did my revised training programme for the last 7 weeks and I nearly started hyperventilating at the final few weeks of long runs and generally the short amount of time there is until the big day…I feel like I’m still on target but I do have days when I feel totally overwhelmed by it all…no doubt it’s just a phase of the training that I can crack. I had a fantastic run the other weekend with my friend James who is one of those people who takes on crazy Iron Man and 55 miler style challenges and does them really well (envy). We ran in Richmond in the sun and James challenged me to 5 x 250m intervals in the middle of our training to really help improve my VO2 Max. James is so much faster than me and he also knows how competitive I am so knew that he could push me…wow was it a challenge but it highlighted that it is an area I need to work on. I won’t improve my speed if I simply run long distances and so I’ve built a session a week of intervals into my training programme. It’ a nice way to mix things up too. So this weekend is half marathon distance for me… I’m excited about it as it’s the start of the real distances kicking in… I’ll be practising my fuelling in particular and testing out the gels I bought…I am hoping that they agree with me. Time: 57mins 11 secs Distance: 10.23 miles (including intervals) Time: 1hour 21 mins 01sec Pace: 8’45” (<- tired bunny) I hope training is going well for those out there taking part in the Marathon or indeed other races! Is anyone running Silverstone half in March? I am running in support of Variety, the Children’s Charity who help to improve the lives of children who are disabled and disadvantaged. If you would like to donate to the cause – please click here > http://www.justgiving.com/franklesfirstmarathon Every penny really does help! Thank you xxx Posted in Gathering Hints & Tips, Training Runs | Tagged Adidas Glide, London Marathon blog, london marathon training, Marathon Training, muscle recovery, nike trainers, Nike training top, Running, Running for Charity, Training Advice | Leave a reply Posted on December 7, 2011 by frankieholah So I am currently sat at my desk doing some work for the London Marathon and it has included looking up quotes to use on correspondence… I thought I would share some of my faves…. These may get stuck up around the house too… “Run hard, be strong, think big!” – Percy Cerutty “I’ve learned that finishing a marathon isn’t just an athletic achievement. It’s a state of mind; a state of mind that says anything is possible.” – John Hanc “I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart.” – Mike Fanelli “There will be days you don’t think you can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime of knowing you have.” – Unknown “There is a moment in every race. A moment where you can either quit, fold, or say to yourself, ‘I can do this.” – Gatorade Ad “The marathon. How an average runner becomes more than average.” – New Balance What inspires you? Do you have a favourite quote? Please share if you would like to…. Happy Running everyone – I’m running with Sweatshop Running Club tonight for my steady run and getting to try on new winter running gear…the cold has well and truely set in… Posted in Gathering Hints & Tips | Tagged Charity, Inspirational Marathon Quotes, London Marathon 2012, London Marathon blog, london marathon training, Marathon Quotes, Marathon Training, Running, running club, Running for Charity, Running kit | 3 Replies Something for your Christmas list…please Santa…I have been a good girl!! Right you beautiful runners – here’s a fancy new piece of lustworthy equipment that has just arrived at Sweatshop – Running Club Sam is very excited about it and when you purchase the watch you also get £100 worth of vouchers to spend at the shop – great investment-licious!! Have a read – I know I want one and will be writing to Santa….I’ve been a good girl this year so fingers crossed. It is launched on Saturday morning so get yourselves down to the shop and buy buy buy 🙂 Posted in Gathering Hints & Tips | Tagged Motorola, sweatshop running | Leave a reply A poorly bear…. Oh dear….it’s that horrible time of year when those pesky bugs start going around the office and I think I’ve just been got by one… I feel blurgh…and this doesn’t help my training plan for this week as it’s running club tonight and I think my bed and a mug of hot lemon and honey is looking like the more likely option… *frustrated face* Instead, I can focus on my strength and posture this week with some lunges and squats – It’s all about having strong Glutes!! Interesting toosh related reading from Runners World – Glute Training Happy running everyone – if you’re also feeling rotten, get well soon!! Fingers crossed I’ll be up and running by the end of the week. Posted in Gathering Hints & Tips | Tagged London Marathon 2012, London Marathon blog, strength training | 1 Reply

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The Economy of Well-Being I am honoured to present the OECD Report on the “Economy of Well-Being” at the European Council. On this first Council Meeting of the new Presidency, I would like to take the opportunity to wish Finland a productive and successful semester. The Western Balkans Berlin Process Summit – Leaders Session on Youth entrepreneurship Our discussions have underscored once more that small and medium enterprises must be the very backbone of a prospering economy (in OECD countries, they account for over 95% of firms). This is why to make growth stronger and more inclusive, we must create an enabling market environment for SMEs and strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit in Southeast Europe. Western Balkans Summit 2019: Opening Ceremony It is an honour to open the 2019 Western Balkans Summit. This annual Summit is a key milestone in our efforts to increase the well-being of citizens and build a brighter future for the region. This year is a particularly important one, with the 30th anniversary of the democratic transformations in Central Europe and 15th anniversary of European Enlargement. Opening of the OECD-Poland High-Level Conference Today we will be discussing new opportunities for trade and investment, how to reap economic benefits, and how to optimise growth and well-being in the region. The Fourth Biennial Climate Lecture: Reclaiming Our Common Future Some people say it is already too late, they think that power is deeply entrenched, that fossil fuel owners will not bend their game and our economic system will never change. I yearn to prove them wrong. Launch of the OECD/WTO joint study: The Role of the WTO in Supporting International Regulatory Co-operation It is an honour to be here at the World Trade Organization (WTO) with my dear colleague Director-General Roberto Azevêdo to launch our joint study ‘The Role of the World Trade Organization in Supporting International Regulatory Co-operation.’ Strengthening the gender dimension of aid for trade It is my pleasure to be with you today to launch the report on “Strengthening the gender dimension of aid for trade”. This report focuses on a crucial issue of our time, closing gender gaps in trade and empowering women – and therefore society as a whole. Launch OECD/WTO publication Aid for Trade at a Glance: ‘Economic Diversification and Empowerment’ It is my great pleasure to be back in Geneva for the launch of the seventh OECD-WTO Aid for Trade at a Glance report, prepared jointly by the OECD and the WTO, with insightful contributions from United Nations specialised agencies and the World Bank. 2019 G20 Leaders’ Summit - Digital (AI, data governance, digital trade, taxation) The profound and transformative impact of the digital revolution on our economies and societies, requires common policy approaches, based on a full and common understanding of its implications. Launch of the 2019 Report: ‘World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment’ Subnational governments today are also the localised “face” of government that citizens interact with most directly and as such, they have an increasingly crucial role in responding to the general trend of declining trust. They therefore need to have the capacities – financial, human and strategic – to perform effectively and to work in partnership with national governments.

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The collaboration of the day: M.I.A x Astrid Andersen par Alexandre Marain 11 août 2017 Danish fashion designer Astrid Andersen, whose trademark style is steeped in streetwear, and M.I.A the British hip-hop artist, came together to create a collection just in time for Copenhagen Fashion Week. We take a sneak peek at the first pieces. Danish fashion designer Astrid Andersen, whose trademark style is steeped in streetwear, and M.I.A the British hip-hop artist, came together to create a collection just in time for Copenhagen Fashion Week. We take a sneak peek at the first pieces.“M.I.A’s message is strong and pure and her personality is strong-willed and determined, that’s rare to find and that’s what made her so incredible to work with,” explains the designer in a press release. Through block colors, oversized cuts and sportswear influences, M.I.A x Astrid Andersen’s collection is inspired by the designer’s first summer 2017 womenswear pieces that revised the codes of hip-hop and basketball culture. The wardrobe includes anoraks, tracksuit bottoms in sustainable fabrics and logo t-shirts printed with the singer’s signature or political slogans like ‘M.I.A uniting people since 2003’. The coral palette was taken from M.I.A’s latest album cover, AIM. Guaranteed to sell out, the collection will be available at Astrid Andersen’s flagship store in Copenhagen.M.I.A x Astrid Andersen collection, from 60 euros to 135 euros, Jagtvej 19, 2200 Copenhagen N M.I.A x Astrid Andersen collection © James Rutter

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Skanska Breaks Ground on New Beverly Hills Office Project The development will benefit from two future subway stations, which Skanska is also constructing By Greg Cornfield October 29, 2020 12:10 pm The three-story office will include 46,000 square feet at 9000 Wilshire Boulevard. Rendering: Skanska Less than a year after launching a commercial real estate division in Los Angeles County, Skanska has started building a 46,000-square-foot office in Beverly Hills. The development and construction firm is building the three-story office with an 11,000-square-foot rooftop deck at 9000 Wilshire Boulevard. The project will replace two retail buildings and a parking lot at the southwest intersection of Wilshire and Almont Drive. SEE ALSO: Skanska Opening Midtown Office to Handle $113M MTA Project The project will take advantage of Metro’s multi-billion-dollar Purple Line extension, which will eventually connect Downtown L.A. to Beverly Hills, Century City and L.A.’s Westside. Two of the future stations, which Skanska is also constructing, will each open blocks from 9000 Wilshire in a few years. The firm acquired the property for $18.2 million in November 2019 from Santa Monica-based Taslimi Construction, property records show. The new office project, designed by L.A.-based architect Neil M. Denari and HLW International, is Skanska’s first significant commercial venture in L.A. At $5.63 per square foot, Beverly Hills boasted one of the highest asking lease rates in the county after the third quarter. “Demand for newly developed offices in Beverly Hills far outpaces available space,” Clare De Briere, Skanska’s executive vice president in L.A., said in a statement. Last week, Commercial Observer reported that the Hakim family, now led by Sam Hakim, acquired a small office in Beverly Hills for about $1,216 per square foot. It’s located less than a mile west of 9000 Wilshire, and it was the family’s third acquisition in Beverly Hills this year. Skanska’s L.A. team is led by De Briere out of the U.S. Bank Tower in Downtown L.A. The firm continued its commercial expansion recently with a $18.9 million deal that closed in August. Skanska acquired a 76,727-square-foot plot at 1811-1815 Sacramento Street in the booming Arts District in Downtown L.A., where it plans to build a 13-story office building. It’s adjacent to the new Soho Warehouse and to specialty retailer Rolling Greens. Construction is expected to begin in 2023 and be completed in late 2025. Keywords: 9000 Wilshire Boulevard, Clare De Briere, HLW International, Metro, Neil M. Denari, Skanska, Taslimi Construction LPC West, Dune Real Estate Secure Approvals for 400K-SF Lab and Office Finance · Construction MRR Secures $170M Loan for Billionaires’ Row Tower Sales · Residential LA Multifamily Market Shows Signs of Slowing: Report Industry · Politics & Real Estate DC Mayor Bowser Looks to Reform DCHA Leases · Development Hollo Family to Demolish 19-Story Building for Supertall in Downtown Miami By Julia Echikson Design + Construction · Development Thor Looks to Hammer Competition in $3B Bid for Coney Island Casino Grand Seiko Opening 6K-SF Outpost at 540 Madison

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Home News New Zealander freed after arrest in Kenya, near Somalia New Zealander freed after arrest in Kenya, near Somalia GARISSA, Kenya (AP) – A Kenyan court has freed a New Zealander held in police custody for several days on suspicion of links with extremism. Sulub Warfaa, 36, spoke to journalists outside the court in Garissa, in northwestern Kenya. “Just because I was born in Mogadishu does not mean that I am a terrorist,” he said. “I did not get tortured. The officers they were just doing their jobs, you know, that’s what they were doing,” said Warfaa, adding “I’m really happy that I am free, you know, and actually finally justice has been served.” Warfaa was arrested near Kenya’s border with Somalia for allegedly possessing two passports with different names. He was detained earlier this week with 10 other people in a sweep on suspected extremists near the Dadaab refugee camp, which houses at least 200,000 Somali refugees. Sulub Warfaa, 36, center, a New Zealander who was held in police custody for several days on suspicion of links to extremists, sits in court before he was released in Garissa, Kenya Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. Warfaa, who was arrested for allegedly possessing two passports with different names, told journalists outside the court that he was pleased to be released. (AP Photo) The crackdown followed an attack in January on a hotel complex in Nairobi in which 21 people were killed. The hotel assault was claimed by al-Shabab, Somalia’s Islamic extremists who are linked to al-Qaida. The arrests were not directly linked to that attack. Since 2011 Kenya has experienced several attacks by al-Shabab. The extremist group has vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops to battle them in Somalia. Kenya is part of an African Union mission bolstering Somalia’s fragile government from al-Shabab’s insurgency. Sulub Warfaa, 36, right, a New Zealander who was held in police custody for several days on suspicion of links to extremists, sits in court before he was released in Garissa, Kenya Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. Warfaa, who was arrested for allegedly possessing two passports with different names, told journalists outside the court that he was pleased to be released. Previous articlePresident lays the foundation stone of the restoration of road linking Hargeisa and Kala Baydh Next articleSomaliland: President Receives Finnish ambassador to Somalia & Kenya

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Scary Mommy Founder Jill Smokler Talks Raising Teens, Second Acts And Guilty Pleasures by Christine Burke | May 17, 2018 If you follow parenting blogs, chances are you know Jill Smokler, the powerhouse behind the popular parenting website Scary Mommy. Smokler started the media empire ten years ago, as she tells it, from her bed as she was navigating the waters of raising three small children. “I found myself looking for a village of moms who were like me,” she tells Grown and Flown. “When you become a parent, you find yourself surrounded by women who all basically had sex around the same time and were thrown into parenthood on the same time frame. But, I still found it hard to find moms who were like me.” Smokler founded Scary Mommy, a website with the tagline, “Parenting doesn’t have to be perfect.” For a decade, along with her dedicated team, she turned an innocent online baby chronical written exclusively by Smokler into a massive vibrant community of millions of parents. Smokler announced her departure from Scary Mommy in the spring of 2018, leaving behind a legacy of thousands of posts written by hundreds of parent writers from across the country. Jill Smokler Recently, Smokler spoke with Grown and Flown from her newly renovated home about raising her three kids, ages 10, 12 and 14, her guilty pleasures and what’s in store for her in life after Scary Mommy. When asked about her biggest parenting challenge now that her kids are crossing over into the teen years, Smokler laughed. “I think it’s probably trying to convince them that I still know what I’m talking about,” she joked. On a more serious note, she told me she misses the physical aspect of having babies and toddlers. “When they were little, they wanted to hold my hand or jump into my arms or sit on my lap. There was a physical aspect of parenting that I found reassuring because touch is so important to me.” And, her Mother’s Day request was simple: hugs. “I just wanted them to let me hold them and hug them,” she says. She reported that, thankfully, her kids all complied. Smokler says that working in an industry where her personal details and anecdotes became the lifeblood of her company was easier when her kids were small. While she never divulged information that betrayed her children, she says that her teens now see everything she does online and she’s sensitive to their privacy. “My life is fair game but I will protect their privacy always.” Smokler tells Grown and Flown that she runs ideas by her kids and though she’s been open about her divorce last year and online dating hell, she is always careful to remember that her kids didn’t ask for a life lived on display for the public. And, she’s had to make adjustments in how she approaches her teens and their drama, especially with her daughter. “I have to remind myself not to revert back to being a 14-year-old girl when I hear a door slam or when one of them makes a nasty comment,” she laughs. She says that watching their kids go through the teen years brings back her own adolescent behaviors and she finds herself having to hold her tongue, literally. “It’s hard not to stick out your tongue or hold grudges when your teen is being ridiculous.” We agree, 100%, Jill. Smokler has found that the secret to finding common ground with her kids is to do things on their timeline, not hers. “If I plan a fun afternoon on my agenda, my kids aren’t into it or they think my plans are silly,” she says. But, when her daughter starts talking about a problem late at night in the laundry room or her son is fascinated by a topic when she least expects it, Smokler has learned to roll with it. “Sometimes, you have to just go to bed later than expected when your teen starts talking later at night. You have to grab the moments when they happen.” As her kids have grown and the prospect of the high school and college years are on her mind, Smokler says she worries now, more than ever, about the choices other people make around her kids. “I worry about the driver who makes a bad choice while my kid is behind the wheel of his car,” she muses. And, Smokler says, she has had conversations with them about dating and the realities of long term relationships early on in high school and college. She also jokes that she secretly hopes that they aren’t accepted to college so they won’t actually move away from home. “I’m so not ready to face my kids leaving,” she says. Though she’s not ready for her kids to fly the nest just yet, Smokler does relish the time when her kids are out of the house on a Friday night. Because her kids give her a hard time about listening to the music she loves and they roll their eyes when she uses her noise reduction headphones, she delights in escaping into her favorite Broadway tunes without interruption when she’s alone. And, she unabashedly climbs into bed and eats ice cream to her heart’s content. While parenting teens has presented its challenges in the last few years, Smokler says there’s not much she’d change. Well, except for the towel situation in their house. “I wish that I’d taught my kids that towels aren’t disposable and that I’m not running a hotel with fresh, fluffy linens provided daily,” she laughs. And Smokler says she should have stopped her short order kitchen skills a long time ago, too. Same, Jill. Same. As for her post Scary Mommy life and what the future holds, Smokler is exploring her options. “I want to find people who are like me, again. Women who are in the second act of their lives and who want to connect about life after raising kids, divorce and other life changes.” Whatever she has in store for us, we know it will be scary amazing. To stay up to date on Jill Smokler’s new projects, sign up for her newsletter by entering your email in the space below. Don’t miss a single announcement! 21 Things You’ll Love About The Empty Nest How To Stay Close as a Family Over Time Christine Burke is the owner of the popular parenting blog, keeperofthefruitloops.com. In her spare time, she runs marathons, collects thrift shop finds and eats ice cream like it’s her job. Her work has been featured on the Today Show, the Today Parenting Team, Scary Mommy and other parenting websites. In her current role as Assistant Editor of Grown and Flown, she writes about the realities of soon sending her not so little anymore kids off to college and prays she doesn’t use too many comma splices in the process. Home / Articles / Parenting / Empty Nest / Scary Mommy Founder Jill Smokler Talks Raising Teens, Second Acts And Guilty Pleasures About Christine Burke Christine Burke is the owner of the popular parenting blog, www.keeperofthefruitloops.com Keeperofthefruitloops.com. In her spare time, she runs marathons, collects thrift shop finds and eats ice cream like it's her job. Her work has been featured on the Today Show, the Today Parenting Team, Scary Mommy and other parenting websites. She writes about the realities of soon sending her not so little anymore kids off to college and prays she doesn't use too many comma splices in the process. Read more posts by Christine Seven Reasons I Can’t Wait for My Teens to Leave Home by Kirsten Harrington | December 6, 2022 I’ve been a stay-at-home mom for 18 years. I realized there were good things about the new stage of life I am walking into. Empty Nester Diary: How a Single Mom Makes Peace With the Quiet by Christine Triano | September 28, 2022 Day One 7:00 pm: I return home from dropping my youngest at college to two hungry cats and a piece of leftover chicken parmesan my son made the night before we left. It is especially delicious, washed down with a glass of Montepulciano wine. It is so quiet. I spend too much time deciding on my next binge-watch,… Four Steps to Surviving and Thriving In the Empty Nest by Fran Bell | September 16, 2022 Your youngest child is off to college. You’ve gone from the frenetic energy of planning, purchasing, and decorating to the disquieting emptiness of your childless home: no mess, no dirty laundry, no friends showing up announced and emptying your fridge. You’re miserable. There’s also an onslaught of emotions that come with the reality that you… 8 Things to Remember on the Drive Back Home After Drop-Off by Lisa Endlich Heffernan | August 9, 2022 We know this day is coming. We hope for it, work hard for it, and yet…we can find ourselves wishing it away when it arrives. For 18 years, we prepare to take our kids to college. We cultivate their independence, encourage their achievements, and sit alongside them through the roller coaster ride of college admissions.… I Have Mixed Emotions About My Daughter Leaving for College by Jyl Barlow | August 9, 2022 I know…I know we are all supposed to be offering odes to our college-bound children. I know, as we see the “time to move out!” pile grow taller, we are supposed to fully lean into our feelings of sadness and despair and question how, exactly, we will move on with an empty bed in our homes. And it’s… High School Senior Year We Are Ready to Be Empty Nesters: Why Do I Feel So Sad? by Laura Hanby Hudgens | July 19, 2022 When our first child left for college, it felt like a shift in our family dynamic–because it was. We went from six to five. It took some time to adjust to life without him there every day — to that empty seat at the dinner table. Still, we had three other kids at home, and… Knowing My Sons a Little Less by Lisa Endlich Heffernan | July 15, 2022 So this is it — the third and final time. Next week I will sit through my youngest son’s high school graduation. Like every parent in that audience, high school auditorium, and football field, I will burst with pride and a touch of sadness. We will have weeks and months before he leaves, but experience… Once My Nest Emptied, I Just Started to Declutter EVERYTHING by Katharine Robertson | December 8, 2021 There were seven of us in our five-bedroom house. Every closet overflowed with toys and clothes and shoes. Oh, the shoes. The kitchen cabinets were crammed with three incomplete and chipped sets of dishes, mismatched pots and pans, souvenir cups, and mugs from trips long since forgotten. The garage stored old soccer balls, bikes with… Here’s What To Expect When Your Kids Are In Their 20s by Susan Kravet | October 3, 2021 I knew what to expect when I was expecting. Food cravings, weight gain, swollen ankles, and a baby. Fast forward 20 plus years. My expectation was that I would know what to expect when those babies grew up. I was wrong. In the 1990’s baby bumps didn’t have a cute name like baby bump.… Warning: How to Prevent College Shopping Overload by Grown and Flown | June 27, 2021 College shopping is beyond confusing. There is the list the college sends, there is another list that the store hands out and that list is different from what your student is telling you she needs. You know your kid has never used an alarm clock (it is 2021 and he doesn’t even remember a time…

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Bolsonaro on Iranian Ships Stuck in Brazil: ‘We Are Aligned’ with U.S. Policy Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told reporters Sunday that he is “aligned to the policies” of the United States on Iran and that his government had not discussed its decision not to sell fuel to two Iranian tankers stuck in the country without discussing it with Washington. Frances Martel Iranian Ships Stranded in Brazil Without Fuel Two Iranian ships are stranded in Brazil because Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras refuses to sell them the fuel needed to return to Iran due to sanctions imposed against Iran by the United States. Bolsonaro Channels Trump to South American Trade Bloc: ‘I Want Brazil to Be Great’ Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro cited President Donald Trump’s “make America great again” slogan during a speech to the South American trading bloc Mercosur on Wednesday, defending regional sovereignty and insisting that he wanted Brazil and the other members of the bloc to be “great” individually, as well. Thousands in at Least 70 Cities in Brazil March in Support of Anti-Corruption Justice Minister Thousands of Brazilians hit the streets on Sunday in support of Justice Minister Sergio Moro, scheduled to testify to the lower chamber of Brazil’s Congress on Tuesday after reports accused him of improper bias while acting as a judge in the nationwide anti-corruption campaign known as “Operation Car Wash.” Trump, Bolsonaro Discuss China’s Threat to the Americas in G20 Meeting American President Donald Trump met his Brazilian counterpart, conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, on Friday at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, where Bolsonaro promised to show the world that, following his election, “politics in Brazil has indeed changed.” 28 Jun 2019, 7:58 AM PDT Odebrecht Firm, South American Corruption Icon, Files for Bankruptcy Protection The Brazilian contractor Odebrecht – implicated in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bribes throughout South America – filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, seeking to restructure some $20 billion in debt. 18 Jun 2019, 10:45 AM PDT Report: Brazilian Government Receiving 102 Elderly Abuse Allegations per Day The Brazilian government is receiving an average of 102 abuse allegations against elderly people every day, according to a report published Wednesday by the country’s Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights. Barack Obama: The United States Was ‘Founded on Inequality’ Obama commented on his understanding of the founding of the United States during the VTEXDAY 2019 conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday. Charlie Spiering 31 May 2019, 1:43 PM PDT Barack Obama: Too Easy to ‘Buy Machine Guns’ in America Barack Obama said U.S. gun laws “don’t make much sense” and specifically criticized the ability to “buy machine guns.” AWR Hawkins ‘Total Chaos’: Brazil Prison Riots Leave 55 Dead in Two Days At least 55 people have died in prison riots in Manaus, Brazil, since Sunday in a prison complex notorious for overcrowding and extreme violence. Brazil: Conservatives Protest to Pressure Congress into Passing Bolsonaro Reforms Brazilians demonstrated across the country on Sunday to pressure the country’s Congress into passing a range of reforms put forward by President Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil Seeks Europe’s Help in Rebuilding Burned Down National Museum The director of Brazil’s National Museum flew to Europe on Tuesday for a two-week fundraising trip aimed at restoring the building after it was destroyed by a devastating fire last September. Eduardo Bolsonaro: Brazil Should Consider Building Nuclear Weapons ‘One Day’ Brazilian lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of President Jair Bolsonaro, said on Wednesday that Brazil should consider becoming a nuclear power to guarantee its safety as a nation. Bolsonaro Expands Brazilian Gun Rights with Executive Order Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro kept one of his campaign promises on Tuesday by signing an executive order to relax his country’s 2003 firearms law. 8 May 2019, 2:53 PM PDT Brazil’s Bolsonaro Cancels NYC Trip After Environmentalists, Bill de Blasio Object Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Saturday that he has canceled a scheduled trip to New York City to receive an award after employees at the original venue hosting him protested, corporate sponsors dropped out, and Mayor Bill de Blasio referred to the conservative head of state as “dangerous.” Brazil: Parrot ‘Taken into Custody’ for Warning Drug Dealers of Raid Police took a parrot into custody in Brazil on Monday after it warned two drug dealers about an undercover raid, authorities confirmed this week. 26 Apr 2019, 6:17 PM PDT Right-Wing Brazilian Bar Honors Ronald Reagan, Serves Up ‘Trump Wall’ Cocktail A new bar in Brazil has dedicated itself to honoring conservativism around the world, serving up a “Trump Wall” cocktail as one of its many politically conservative-themed products, Folha de São Paulo reported Tuesday. 24 Apr 2019, 10:07 AM PDT Report: Starving Venezuelan Refugees Compete with Vultures for Brazil’s Trash Venezuelan refugees in Brazil have found themselves competing with vultures for trash in a rubbish dump, according to a report from Reuters on Thursday. 18 Apr 2019, 12:59 PM PDT ‘I Believe in Life After Death’: Ex-Peruvian President Kills Himself amid Corruption Probe Two-time Peruvian President Alan García ended his life with a gunshot wound to the head Wednesday after excusing himself from the presence of investigators seeking to detain him on corruption charges and retreating to his bedroom. Brazil Supreme Court Orders Censorship of Article Accusing Chief Justice of Corruption Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the censorship Monday of a report published by the magazine Crusoé alleging that current Supreme Court President Dias Toffoli was involved in corrupt dealings with the construction firm Obredecht. NYC’s Museum of Natural History Expels Brazil Gala Honoring ‘Fascist’ Bolsonaro New York’s American Museum of Natural History expelled a scheduled gala hosted by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce after the entity chose to honor President Jair Bolsonaro at the event. 16 Apr 2019, 9:16 AM PDT ‘Consent Condom’ Requires Four Hands to Open, to Encourage Consent An Argentinian company has introduced a “consent condom,” which is packaged in a container that requires four hands to open. Report: Rio de Janeiro’s Churches in Disrepair Due to Negligence, Vandalism Many churches in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are in a state of disrepair as a result of poor conservation and vandalism, O Globo reported Monday. 8 Apr 2019, 5:40 PM PDT Bernie’s Global Base of Leftist Leaders Cheering on His Presidential Run Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) has a lot of leftwing Americans supporting his presidential campaign, but he also has leftist fans abroad. Italian Priest Suspected in 1,000+ Illegal Migrant Documents Forgery Case Italian police have connected a parish priest to a forgery operation that saw over a thousand Brazilians illegally buy Italian citizenship papers in a business worth five million euros. Chris Tomlinson 28 Mar 2019, 1:15 AM PDT WATCH: Off-Duty Female Officer Shoots, Kills Alleged Robber in Street Surveillance video shows a suspected robber target an on off-duty female officer and get shot dead in the street. 27 Mar 2019, 12:44 PM PDT Italian Far-Left Terrorist Deported by Bolsonaro Admits to Murders Italian far-left terrorist Cesare Battisti has confessed to the four murders he was convicted of before he fled the country 37 years ago to escape justice. Batistti admitted to the killings during an interrogation with public prosecutor Alberto Nobili at Eduardo Bolsonaro: Force Will Be Needed in Venezuela Because ‘Maduro Is a Criminal’ Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the nation’s president Jair Bolsonaro, said Friday that some sort of force would be necessary to oust the reigning Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro from office. Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. Donald Trump ‘Proud’ to Hear Brazilian President Challenge ‘Fake News’ “I call it fake news,” Trump said. “I’m very proud to hear the president use the term fake news.” Watch Live: Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Hold Press Conference The event will take place in the Rose Garden and is scheduled to begin at 1:45 p.m. EST. 19 Mar 2019, 10:48 AM PDT

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Mary compiles a list of ALL the movies she has watched. Blog Established June 29, 2007 Love and Other Drugs, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal fall in love, get nude A LOT, try to cure one of them of Parkinson’s, break up, YOU CAN’T HANDLE MY ILLNESS, and then … well, you know what happens. The unexpected thing about this movie, and no it’s not the Parkinson’s, is the fact that this movie is getting pretty ok reviews and some critics are even touting it as a substantial movie rather than a mediocre romantic comedy, which it is – in my opinion. I finally saw the last of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movies. I only read the first book, so I think that made me enjoy no. 2 and 3 more. The first two I saw on Netflix instant play, ok, but the quality was only so-so. I saw the third one in the theater and, as with all movies, that made the experience so much better. The Lisbeth is great in these movies and the stories are intriguing. I’m not a Steig Larson nut, like a lot of people, I know. I’m not really a mystery nut either, so that may explain why I not crazy about these movies, but I believe these movies are worthy versions of the books which is no small feat. Posted by Mary's List at 5:42 PM No comments: Labels: Love and Other Drugs, Movie based on book, romantic comedy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series You can’t help but compare Morning Glory to Broadcast News, the latest newsroom movie with Rachel MacAdams and Harrison Ford. Of course, this movie does quite live up to Broadcast News which was about serious news, but focused on Holly Hunter’s character, Jane. But the juxtaposition between serious news and fluff is still at work in Morning Glory, a movie about a slight morning show that rivals the Today show that is losing in the ratings. Rachel McAdams’ character Becky Fuller is given the task of raising the ratings of this silly show. Her co-anchors are played by Dianne Keaton (always funny!) and Harrison Ford, who she persuades to join morning TV even though he has only ever done serious news. The conflict between perky Becky and grave Ford’s character, Mike Pomeroy is one of the funniest things about the movie. Also, I loved the way McAdams bounced through movie with a cheerleader’s glee. I think she’s great in this movie and is what makes the movie worth watching. The downer of the movie is that fluff wins – the movie seems to celebrate the truly stupid of TV. Anyway, Morning Glory’s no Broadcast News, but pretty fun. Will it get added to some of my all time favorite newsroom movies (see sidebar?), probably not. Favorite Newsroom Movies: Broadcast News, Who's the devil? His Girl Friday, Oldie but a goodie Zodiac, spooky but good Shattered Glass, answers the question What if I made it up? Labels: journalism movies, Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams I had to mull over David Guggenhiem’s (the Inconvenient Truth guy) Waiting for Superman for a while. Waiting for Superman is about our nation’s failing public school system and while it asserts that charter schools are not THE answer, they may be an answer for some. And the other answer is better teachers -- it heavily puts the burden on teacher performance as a way to save our nation’s schools. As a documentary intended to capture the audience’s attention and persuade them into a point of view, it definitely did that – it really makes you think, argue, wonder but also fear that you are being strongly manipulated. Guggenheim even uses cute, worthy, poor children to create the central dramatic tension of the movie. The resolution of the movie is when we find out if these kids get into some of the successful charter schools and are not forced to return to their squalid, worthless schools. But is Waiting for Superman a credible source for information about the state of our educational system? I’m not so sure. Yes, there are some terrible schools in a lot of our major cities, and yes, a lot of teachers should be fired who aren’t because of the power of teacher’s unions, but is that alone going to fix the schools? And what percentage of schools need fixing? Diane Ravitch in the New York Times wrote a scathing article slapping around Waiting for Superman and taking offence at the burden that teachers were given for fixing the problem of schools. Instead, she points out that poverty and other ills are more to blame: “…research shows that nonschool factors matter even more than teachers. According to University of Washington economist Dan Goldhaber, about 60 percent of achievement is explained by nonschool factors, such as family income. So while teachers are the most important factor within schools, their effects pale in comparison with those of students’ backgrounds, families, and other factors beyond the control of schools and teachers. Teachers can have a profound effect on students, but it would be foolish to believe that teachers alone can undo the damage caused by poverty and its associated burdens.” Hear, hear! Even as a teacher at a charter school, I feel the weight pressing upon me as if I alone am in charge of fixing all that ails schools. Believe me, we get this pressure enough of the time at school – now we are getting it in the media. And indeed the prevailing mantra about fixing schools is better teachers, better teachers! What’s wrong with those darn teachers? It’s enough to give one heart palpitations. Posted by Mary's List at 8:19 AM No comments: Labels: Documentary, Waiting for Superman The Up Series In 1964, British filmmaker Michael Apted chose an assorted group of English 7-year-olds to film and chronicles their lives every 7 years. Now, those "kids" are 49 years old. I had seen some of these “episodes” many years ago but had never saw the 1964 version and certainly hadn’t seen 49 and UP. So over the last month or so I watched all the whole 7 and Up series. And, believe me, it is fascinating. You can’t wait to put in the next DVD and find out they are doing at 21 or 42. It’s reality TV at its finest. I think Apted had some preconceived ideas what he would reveal about England and the class system when he started the series, and while many of his hypothesis held true (like the upper crust will follow a plan laid out for them with private schools etc. and the East enders will never make it out of dead end jobs), the most fascinating revelations were those “kids” who broke out their mold. The most successful lives were the ones who possessed a mixture of practicality and drive. And I am defining successful as those who had good marriages or raised happy children or were satisfied with their lives. One of my favorites was this scrappy little ruffian, Tony, who at 21 one said that all that mattered, “was mom and dad and love.” And I don’t want to give away what happens to all of them because that’s where the suspense comes in but Tony was an example of someone who has amazing resources and ambitions and a lot of love. Tony isn’t the only captivating character of the bunch. There’s feisty fellow East Ender Jackie, sad-eyed Paul, compassionate Bruce, and the future physicist Nick who ends up in Madison Wisconsin of all places. And the most, I don’t know the word, maybe heartbreaking or thoughtful, or unpredictable of all the kids is Neil, who at 7 skips across the street with glee. One thing that is kind of annoying is the repeat of the earlier footage at each stage. I did some skipping of that when I watched it on DVD. I watched the last bit on Netflix instant play, so I was not able to skip ahead. Also, sure, Apted is a manipulative film maker, he presents the “kids” as he sees them, but I like how he occasionally gets called to task by one of his subjects. Jackie really gives him an earful in 49 and Up. So if you’ve got some time on your hands and want to watch one of the most fascinating documentaries that I’ve ever watched, give The Up series a shot. Labels: Documentary After reading great reviews about the Facebook movie, The Social Network, I was eager to see it. Even though I had also read a New Yorker profile of Mark Zuckerberg that claims that the movie distorted some of the facts about Facebook’s inception, I was still persuaded to see the movie. And It was really good. I liked seeing the world of Harvard and the amazing gifted and privileged students at Harvard and how these youngsters, future leaders of the world, create amazing start up companies in their dorm rooms. It makes you feel old and not so smart, but it is definitely something to see. I also enjoyed the Winklevoss brothers (two of Zuckerberg’s “victims”)– the young wealthy twins who row crew and act as if there right out of Brideshead Revisited. Plus, Zuckerberg’s friend, Eduardo, who is Facebook’s co-founder, is another reason to see the movie – played by Andrew Garfield – he’s sweet and earnest and a good friend and the perfect contrast to Zuckerberg’s icy wit. And of course, Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is great. He is downright mean but very funny throughout the movie, and it is especially pointed when he sheds some of that meanness at the end of the movie. I wondered if the real Zuckerberg is really that funny. The movie starts out as a profile of the brilliant world of Harvard with all its amazing possibilities and ends in the brighter but meaner world of California and throughout it is a great movie. If interested, like I was, in a fact check of the movie, check out this site. Posted by Mary's List at 6:55 PM 2 comments: Labels: Biopic, The Social Network Temple Grandin and Get Low I don’t know if others have had the experience of weeping through Temple Grandin, but this movie really got to me. Besides loving Claire Danes and thinking she is amazing in this movie, I cheered on her subject, Temple Grandin, a brilliant autistic woman who overcame her fears and achieved her goals. Because of her intuitive understanding of animals, she able to make cattle lots more compassionate for the cattle. She also has been able to explain what it is like to be autistic. This movie is definitely one that tugs at your heartstrings (which normally I hate in a movie) but the combination of Claire Danes’ great acting and Temple Grandin’s remarkable life, makes this movie well worth watching and a genuinely inspirational story. I also saw Get Low about a grizzled hermit who emerges from the woods and declares he would like to plan his funeral and attend it. Robert Duvall is the crusty old guy; Bill Murray is the potentially shady funeral director; and Sissy Spacek is the old girlfriend. Holding the movie together and giving it some perspective is the young guy named Buddy played by Lucas Black who works for Murray’s character. For me, his reactions to the events of the movie was the most interesting part. The movie had a few genuine original moments but was mostly pretty forgettable. Labels: Biopic, Claire Danes, Get Low, Temple Grandin Winter's Bone and Georgia O'Keefe Winter’s Bone is a little movie about a group of impoverished people living in the Ozarks whose life is corrupted by a community of scary kin who cook meth. In the center of this mess is a girl whose father is missing and his failure to show up for court will lead to the family losing their land. Ree (played by previously unknown to me, Jennifer Lawrence) is responsible for her younger brother and sister and her mute and sketchy mother. This amazing girl, Ree, stomps through the treeless winter hills with a stubborn purpose while encountering some seriously freaky people, one of whom is her own uncle, her father’s brother. At first it is hard to tell whose side her uncle(played by John Hawkes from Deadwood), strangely named teardrop, is on. But Ree unflinchingly carries on – trying to figure out what has become of her father. I liked this movie for a couple of reasons: Ree is interesting to watch and it not obvious where this movie is heading– happily no Hollywood blueprint to follow. I also recently saw the Lifetime TV movie, Georgia O’Keefe. You’d think a movie starring two heavy hitters like Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen would be impressive, but it was actually kind of bland. Still, I enjoyed learning about the artist and her older lover, the photographer, Aurthur Stieglitz, who according to this movie was kind of a jerk. Despite interesting fodder for a movie, Georgia O’Keefe fell flat. Labels: Georgia O'Keefe, Independent, Winter's Bone I was surprised by how much I liked this movie. I had read that The Kids Are All Right was trying to be too hip for its own good, and, yes, there is some of that. But, it is also funny, thought-provoking, and at times sweet about how hard it is to be married and raise a family. The family stability begins to unravel when the lesbian couple's (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) two teenage children go searching for their mothers’ sperm donor, and, Voila, they find none other than the super sexy Mark Ruffalo. Paul, Ruffalo’s character, causes all kinds of disruption, some good and some bad, but most interesting is that his impact on the family is complicated and the director leaves room for ambiguity. The kids, Joni and Laser, (Mia Wosikowska and Josh Hutcherson) seem like real kids with real teen age insecurities and interests unlike so many TV shows and movies these days where the kids are over sexualized and behave like adults. With great actors like Bening and Moore, you know you are going to get some great performances, and they do not disappoint. The Kids Are All Right is more than just allright. Labels: Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right Motorcycle Diaries vs. Eat, Pray, Love I just rewatched Motorcycle Diaries and then went to Eat, Pray, Love the next day. One can’t help but make comparisons between these two movies, both about a member of the privileged class who goes on a “spiritual” (I’m using that word even though I think it is kinda meaningless) and an actual journey. Motorcycle Diaries is about journey of the young Che Guevara and his good friend from one end of South America to the other, through amazing scenery where the young Che learns to see this landscape through the eyes of the poor and helpless. You actually see his character changing as he becomes impassioned about his quest to unite the underclass of South America. Now, Eat, Pray, Love, on the other hand, is about a woman who left her husband without any real reason that the audience can tell (I didn’t read the book, by the way) and she is so distraught and apparently has enough money to say my only way to make myself whole again is to go to Italy, India, and Bali. Liz, played by the gorgeous how-can-life-be-tough-for-someone-that-beautiful Julia Roberts, mopes throughout the movie and then *poof* is happy again, in part when she crashes into the sexy Javier Bardem. Che was on a they, they, they trip while Liz is on a me, me, me trip. Of course, Eat, Pray, Love may be worth seeing for some beautiful scenery and some good bits by Javier Bardem and Richard Jenkins. And Motorcycle Diaries is definitely worth seeing. Labels: Eat, Love, Motorcycle Diaries, Pray Roman Polanski resurfaces with this Hitchcockian drama about a Tony Blair-like politician who’s writing his memoirs with a ghostwriter while on Martha’s Vineyard. Pierce Brosan plays the former prime minister and Euan McGregor plays the ghost writer. Now, I always like a movie with Euan McGregor, and in this film he is again witty and debonair while he tries to find his way in a world where he is in way over his head. Right as the ghostwriter begins working with Brosnan’s character he is accused of war crimes and the ghostwriter while happens upon some unsavory details about his subject. Overall, I found Ghostwriter to be an intriguing little mystery with good acting. Labels: Euan McGregor, Ghostwriter Summer Movies 2010 Because I've been having too much time for fun like going to the beach and having margaritas with the visitors, I haven't been posting much lately. Of course, I have been watching some movies: Alice in Wonderland: meandering fantasy with a few visually delightful moments but overall, yawn The Last Station: this movie is a very enjoyable story about the followers of Leo Tolstoy during his waning years. It’s about the struggle between his wife and the Tolstoyans over his legacy. Tolstoyans are pretty interesting. They are devoted followers of Tolstoy with some strange rules thrown in like being celibate and refraining from killing bugs or some such things like that. There is a very sweet romance between two Tolstoyans, one played by the cute James McAvoy. Whip It: Whip it is a fun coming of age drama with the likable Ellen Page. Her character, Bliss, defies her controlling mother to skate with some tough chicks in the Roller Derby. Broken Embraces: the latest from Pedro Almodovar with the evervescant Penelope Cruz. The plot is hard to explain, but unfolds in the form of a memory from a blind film maker who tells of his love affair with Lena or the beautiful Penelope Cruz. Interesting but not as good as Volver. Posted by Mary's List at 8:54 PM 1 comment: Labels: Alice in Wonderland, Broken Embraces, James McAvoy, Pedro Almodovar, The Last Station, Whip It Please Give I’ve thought a lot about Please Give since I saw it. Am I one of those people? By one of those people I mean liberal, socially conscious, but down deep caught up in meaningless grasps for stuff: property, furniture,decorative items, spray tans etc. (Well, I know I am not interested in spray tans!) The movie revolves around a married couple who buy and sell used furniture, waiting for old folks to die and then visiting their New York apartments looking for treasures. Meanwhile the couple played by Elizabeth Keener and Oliver Platt hope to expand their New York apartment after a cranky old lady next door dies. Perhaps, the one genuinely giving person in the movie is one of the old lady’s granddaughters, Rebecca played by Rebecca Hall (you may recall her from her great role in Vicky Christina Barcelona) who cares for her grandmother despite having to listen to her demeaning comments every time she visits. All in all, Please Give is a very thought-provoking movie. Labels: Independent, Please Give Young Victoria covers about 5 years of Queen Victoria of England’s life when she becomes queen and meets and marries Prince Albert. If you like movies about the English monarchy (and I really do!), you will like Young Victoria. Not only is the romance very sweet, but also learning about the insular and rare world that Victoria managed to thrive in is fascinating. Posted by Mary's List at 7:29 AM 2 comments: Labels: Period Piece, Young Victoria Why wasn’t Ben Foster nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Messenger? Woody Harrelson, who was nominated for best supporting actor, is good too, but wow, Ben Foster is amazing. The Messenger is a story about two soldiers whose job it is to notify family members about the death of their loved one in war. It’s just a story about two extremely messed up guys who have a very messed up job. Simple and well worth watching. Labels: Ben Foster, The Messenger, war I had read bad reviews of this movie but still wanted to see it since I read the book. The Time Traveler’s Wife manages to take the exciting concept of time travel and make it boring. Even the ever radiant and cute Rachel McAdams, the time traveler’s wife, is not very interesting. In the book, the relationship between the wife and the traveler played by Eric Bana in the movie, is passionate, in the movie, enhhh. The best part of the movie comes when the cute little girl shows up, and that’s the last 20 minutes of the movie. Labels: Rachel McAdams, The Time Traveler's Wife Hugh Dancy is Adam, a man-child who has aspergers. Rose Byrne is Beth, his new neighbor who is strangely fascinated by Adam and begins an awkward romance with him. A romance that starts with lines from Adam like, Were you sexually excited last night? The movie is funny and sad. I thought more sad than funny, but worth watching, mainly to see the great acting, especially Dancy. And I think the movie makers treated the difficult to understand condition of Aspergers with sensitivity and insight. Labels: Adam, Hugh Dancy Noah Baumbach, maker of a The Squid in the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, gives us Greenberg, another look at and unhappy people and their ugly human qualities. While it’s not quite as funny nor is the plot as well-crafted as The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, played by Ben Stiller, did get me thinking about aging and people’s futile grasps at meaning. Greenberg is so self-involved you want to slap him. He is house-sitting at his brother’s house while recovering from a nervous breakdown. He has nothing much to do but fills his day with meaningless tasks such as writing mundane complaint letters and making a dog house. He then decides to inflict his downer self onto Florence, his brother’s personal assistant, a victim who she allows Greenberg to verbally abuse her. Sounds fun, huh? Maybe not fun but revealing. The movie dissects a type of person who has no values, who is depressed, and lacks self-awareness, who may learn a little something at the end. If you like a character-driven movie, where the character is a jerk, then you may like Greenberg. Posted by Mary's List at 9:52 AM 1 comment: Labels: Greenberg, Noah Baumbach Movie Catch Up I've been absent from my blog for quite a while. Some of that time I was in Ecuador and did in fact watch a lot of movies. A few on the airplane and a few of the unlicensed variety. Here's the recap: Airplane movies: captive audiences who have nothing better to do than watch one the follow ennhhh movies! Old Dogs -- This movie was actually shown TWICE on my way down and it is TERRIBLE! If I were Robin Williams or Jon Travolta I would try strike this movie off my resume. Super dumb! My One and Only -- Renee Zellweger as aging beauty queen with two sons in the 1950s. This movie wasn't terrible but just kind of boring. I liked the sons played by Logan Lerman and Mark Rendell. Hachiko, A Dog's Story: Richard Gere's character happens upon a cute little puppy from Japan in this heart warming tale about dog love. Right up my alley, not. But actually it wasn't that bad but it was no Marley and Me. Movies from the streets of Quito, a.k.a pirated The Blind Side: I can see why this movie is so popular. How can you not like that big guy Michael and root for his success? Agora: The beautiful Rachel Weisz plays Hypatia, a Roman philosopher, astronomer, and atheist who studies at the ancient library at Alexandria. This movie was really fascinating and spurred a lot of Google searches. The Lightning Thief: I enjoyed this "Kids" movie. Not having read the books, the teacher in me, liked the modern take on Greek mythology. Invictus -- I forgot Invictus. The movie about a South African rugby team and Nelson Mandela. Very interesting and I enjoyed learning about what was going on in South Africa at this time. Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela is the price of admission. Not a great movie, I don't think but good. Labels: Agora, Hachiko, Invictus, My One and Only, Old Dogs, The Blind Side, The Lightning Thief Taking Woodstock and Wonderful World Taking Woodstock It starts pretty good. Goofy Demetri Martin as the beleaguered Jewish son to two nutty parents and owner of a rundown motel desperately tries to save his parents livelihood. You ask yourself, how does this kooky family become instrumental in the making of the great music festival Woodstock? The answer to this question intrigued me enough to want to keep watching until at some point, amid star cameos and drug induced hazy scenes, you realize this movie isn’t going anywhere -- the plot had gone seriously awry. It’s too bad really. So much potential, a movie directed by the great Ang Lee and about such an interesting subject. At least the beginning is pretty good. In Wonderful World Mathew Broderick plays a cranky failed musician who is brought back to life by two Senegalese visitors to his unhappy life. Remind you of anything? If you saw the much better The Visitor, which about a crank who is revived by some musician Africans. Just see The Visitor if this plot intrigues you. Oh wait, there is one reason to see Wonderful World, and that is the small role played byMichael Kenneth Williams, also known as Omar from The Wire. Labels: Taking Woodstock, The Wire, Wonderful World Swedish Auto and New York, I Love You Swedish Auto What happens if you are stalking someone and then you find out someone is stalking you so then you stalk that person. Swedish Auto answers this question … lugubriously (how do you like that word? :) Lukas Haas plays a sad sack auto mechanic who is in love with a beautiful violinist so what’s a guy to do but follow her around town, meanwhile an abused waitress fancies the mechanic and hovers outside his abode. The waitress is played by the beautiful January Jones of Mad Men fame and she hardly seems like she could be a stalker. If you think this movie might be a light-hearted and wacky (as I hoped it would be) you would be wrong. Rather it’s a story about a bunch of surly down and outs who try to find moments of happiness in a dreary life. Sound fun, doesn’t it? New York, I Love is a collection of short films directed by people like Mira Nair and Natalie Portman with a myriad of famous actors in brief pieces: Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman (acts and directs), Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Anton Yelchin, James Caan, Julie Christie, John Hurt, Shia LaBeouf , Chris Cooper, Robin Wright Penn, and Cloris Leachman. This is part two of a series. Paris, Je T’aime which I wrote about was the first film. Like that film, this movie is a hodge podge of some good and some what the heck is goin’ on here? But I think Paris, Je T’aime seemed more connected to real people’s problems. New York, I Love You, begs the question: Why do I love you, New York? You are so crude and banal. Labels: independent films, Swedish Auto, The New York I Love You My Oscar Picks, 2010 -- The Results 2010,was not my year. I got stomped on. Congrats Deb. Deb 15/24 Mary 9/24 Winners in Bold X marks my picks. Possible points: 24 Deb's picks = O The Hurt Locker X O A Serious Man Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker X O James Cameron Avatar Lee Daniels Precious Jason Reitman Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart O George Clooney in Up in the Air Colin Firth in A Single Man X Morgan Freeman in Invictus Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side O Helen Mirren in The Last Station Carey Mulligan in An Education Gabourey Sidibe in Precious Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia X Matt Damon in Invictus Woody Harrelson. in The Messenger Christopher Plummer in The Last Station Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz in Ingourious Basterds X/O Penelope Cruz in Nine Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air Mo’nique in Precious X/ O The Secret of Kells Up X/ O Best Film Editing Avatar X/O The Hurt Locker Avatar O The Hurt Locker X The White Ribbon Best Screenplay, Adapted Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell District 9 Nick Hornby An Education Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche In the Loop Geoffrey Fletcher Precious Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Up in the Air X / O Best Screenplay, Original Mark Boal The Hurt Locker X Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds O Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman The Messenger Joel and Ethan Coen A Serious Man Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy Up Best Original Song Almost There from The Princess and the Frog Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog Loin De Paname from Paris 36 Take it All from Nine The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart X / O Best Original Score Avatar X Up O The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus X The Young Victoria O Ajami - Israel The Secret in their Eyes - Argentina The Milk of Sorrow - Peru A Prophet - France X The White Ribbon - Germany O Burma VJ The Cove O Food Inc. X The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Which Way Home China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province O The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant Music by Prudence Rabbit a la Berlin X Best Short Film, Live Action Instead of Abracadabra Kavi O Miracle Fish X The New Tenants Best Short Film, Animated French Roast X Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) Logorama A Matter of Loaf and Death O Avatar X/ O Star Trek O The Young Victoria X Sound Editing Avatar X O Avatar X / O Labels: 2010 Oscar Picks The September Issue and Into the Storm On the face of it, The September Issue is a documentary about the months it takes to put together Vogue’s huge September issue, but really it is a glimpse into the real scary calm rule of Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor, known to most of us nonfashion followers as the woman who Meryl Streep played in The Devil Wears Prada. I kept seeing Streep’s portrayal throughout this movie, without the over top behavior liking flopping the coat on her assistant’s desk, such as the stare of disdain. You know really, the movie isn’t just a portrayal of Wintour, the movie plays up the conflict between the decisive Wintour and the creative director, Grace Coddington, who seems to be the great talent of Vogue magazine. The two of them, women of a “certain” age, go to head to head, while never directly confronting each other. They do try to strong arm the other – of course, Wintour usually way wins, but it is definitely a battle that is fun to watch: reality drama at its finest. I also watched Into the Storm – another portrayal of a real person: Winston Churchill. The segment of his life we see in the movie is during WWII, and it shows his strength in leading England through one if it’s most difficult times. We also see a quirky, petulant, brilliant side to Winston Churchill, a man I knew little about it before I saw this movie. It was an interesting but probably but not exciting movie for most. My dad, a big Winston Churchill fan, would probably really like it. Labels: Anna Wintour, Into the Storm, Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada, The September Issue, Winston Churchill For starters Funny People is not funny. It is at times dismal, at times pathetic, and at times really crude. It’s about horrible unlikable people or comics, (I guess) who say horrible things to each other. It’s another one from the Judd Apatow comedy factory – you know the maker of 40-year-old Virgin, Super Bad, and so forth. In fact since 2004, he’s made more than 10 movies: a mixture of very funny ones and real duds. This one has one of his favorite actors Seth Rogen who is the only actual “real” person in this movie. Adam Sandler is the famous comic who is no longer happy with his riches and fame. He goes searching for a woman he loved. It’s so blah and unrealistic that I stopped caring about this movie somewhere during the last sentence. Labels: Funny People, Judd Apatow The Hurt Locker and Crazy Heart It just so happened that I went to two movies in one day (I had already gone to The Hurt Locker and got an invitation to go to Crazy Heart) which forces me to compare these two movies: one intense and stressful, and one slow and drowsy. Before going to Hurt Locker, I had a knotted muscle in my back and believe me this movie did not help me de-stress. I was tense throughout the movie and my face held a cringe. Even though it is not the type of movie I usually see – it has all the elements I usually like to avoid: war, blood, macho men with guns – I was too intrigued to miss it, especially when it can be found at our new independent theater. In its simplest form Hurt Locker is just three guys who go from one potential deadly threat to another, diffusing the situation or in some cases creating some added drama. Their leader and the man who wears the padded bomb suit, is Will James played by Jeremy Renner, and he is a reckless adrenaline junky but incredibly skilled at what he does. He says nutty threatening things and then says, “Just kidding” in a way that makes him seem crazy – but you can’t keep your eyes off of him --he is interesting on screen except when his team member Sandborn, played by Anthony Mackie, is onscreen – he also gives an amazing presence. Do I recommend this movie? Yes, I think for the performances and the intensity, but no if you don’t want to be freaked out and make your back get even more knotted up. Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart plays a broken down alcoholic country singer. This movie is a character study and the character, Bad Blake. His performance basically IS the movie and the movie may be worth going to if only to see his performance, I guess. But it is also pretty plotless and too slow-paced. It was like they tried to slap a pretty cliché plot structure around a great character and some good songs and performances. Giving him a love interest of the beautiful and way too young Maggie Gyllenhall seemed all wrong. Bad Blake is gross – who but a star struck drunk fan would want to kiss him? And the ending definitely falls flat. After hearing an interview on Fresh Air with T. Bone Burnet who produced and wrote some of the music for this movie I had high hopes for this movie, but maybe because my expectations were too high, I was disappointed. Posted by Mary's List at 12:54 PM 4 comments: Labels: Crazy Heart, Oscar, The Hurt Locker, Zinema Sugar is either a baseball movie about a Dominican or an immigrant movie about a guy who plays baseball. After training in the Dominican Republic, Sugar leaves his family and a simpler life to strive for his dream of playing baseball with the Yankees. I won’t tell you the ending, but it is not predictable. The movie spotlights what it must be like for a non English speaker to come to a place like Iowa (where he plays on a minor league team) and try to assimilate. The boy/ man who plays Sugar is a real Dominican played by Algenis Perez Soto, and he’s very charming and is able to show his sense of displacement with just a look. We get to experience America through his intense stares. There are moments in the movie where you almost don’t want to watch it anymore because you fear the worst for Sugar and you want the best for him, but I’m glad I made it to the end. So, baseball fans, and fans of a quality American made movies in Spanish, I think you would like this movie. By the way, the directing/writing team behind this movie were also behind the great movie Half Nelson, a favorite movie of mine. I also saw Beauty in Trouble, a Czech movie about a troubled marriage. The fact that it was a foreign movie and was supposed to be pretty good did not make it so. Another movie that I watched so you don’t have to. Labels: Beauty in Trouble, Foreign, Half Nelson, Sugar The Answer Man I decided to see this movie because A. we were having a snow storm and I didn’t have a movie to watch so I sloooowly fired it up on Netflix watch instantly … and B. it had Lauren Graham of Gilmore Girls fame and I like her and C. it was a romantic comedy and sometimes I'm just in the mood for one of those. The Answer Man, played by Jeff Daniels, is an author of self-help books with a cult following whose personal life is a mess. My findings of this so-so weirdo romantic comedy, are that it was interesting enough to hold my attention, and odd enough to be unpredictable, and an overall unique premise, good actors, but in the end kinda cheesy and kinda enhhh with no chemistry between the two leads. Posted by Mary's List at 7:02 PM 13 comments: Labels: romantic comedy, The Answer Man In the Loop, the sometimes hilarious British political satire, makes politicians out to be ridiculous boobs. Tom Hollander as Simon Foster is hilarious as the foot-in-his-mouth minister to the Prime Minister and his boss, played by Peter Capaldi, swears a blue streak and is mean in a very funny and belittling way. The action moves to Washington where we get a look at some boobs on the other side of the pond. They are all trying to start a war or stop a war or be neutral on the war. You definitely hope that our political system works a lot better in real life. At times In the Loop is a little bewildering -- the British accents and the political maneuverings move around in circles -- but it is well worth seeing if for nothing else than for some good laughs. Labels: In the Loop, Independent Update on Movies I Still Want to See, and more December Movies I saw and liked: Up in the Air: George Clooney and Vera Farmiga spend a lot of time in airports. Me and Orson Welles: One of my favorite actresses, Claire Danes is part of this ensemble piece that is set during the 30s and directed by Richard Linklater. A period piece/character-driven movie. Now that’s right up my alley. Still want to see but haven't yet -- from earlier list: The Messenger: Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster are two army officers whose job it is to deliver the news to families about the death of their soldier. Broken Embraces: Another movie from the great Spanish director Pedro Almodovar with the beautiful Penelope Cruz Movies I am adding to my list In the Loop: British political satire that has been around for a while, but I can't get my hands on it. The Hurt Locker: A movie about a bomb diffusing squad in Iraq that has gotten great reviews. At first this movie seemed too violent for me -- but now after seeing it on many best movies of '09 lists, I gotta see it. The Young Victoria: a story of the first few years of Queen Victoria's rule played by Emily Blunt. (I love stories about the English Monarchy and period pieces, so of course, I want to see this movie) The Single Man: I heard this movie, about a gay professor in the 50s who has to hide his grief over the loss of his partner, is very sad. But I love Colin Firth and apparently this is an Oscar-worthy performance, so I want to see it. Labels: movies of 2009 that I want to see Wondering what Mary thinks about a movie? Search this blog by title or genre. Genres included in blog are romantic comedy, independent, foreign, action adventure (very few), Jane Austen (suprisingly numerous), documentary, movies based on books, period pieces ...etc. Great Newsroom Movies All the Presidents Men, Of Course! Notable Miniseries Middlemarch, 1994, the best! With a steamy performance by Lonesome Dove, 1989, books is great too if you haven’t read it Forsyte Saga, 2002, I read the big long two part book in preparation and was really impressed with the TV adaptation. The Jewel in the Crown, 1984, long ago, I remember loving it. Prime Suspect, Probably should be classified as a TV series but on Masterpiece Theater, but so great if you haven’t seen it. Helen Mirren rocks as beleaguered police captain in London. Brideshead Revisted, 1981, I just re-saw and was re- entranced! North and South, 2004, about a mill town in the north of England Cranford, 2007 Judi Dench, starts slow but gets better Bleak House, 2005 with Gillian Anderson, at times bleak, but good Into the West, 2005 A&E Western Saga Our Mutual Friend, 1998, one of the better Dickens adaptations Horatio Hornblower, 1998, ooh that cute Ioan Gruffud The Buccaneers, 1995 based the Edith Wharton novel The Woman in White, 1997, a cheesy but good adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ novel Daniel Deronda, 2002, George Eliot saga, with a very cute Deronda played by Hugh Dancy The Mill in the Floss, 1997 Emily Watson as Maggie in this George Eliot novel made movie Six Feet Under – despite some self-indulgent characters fascinating from beginning to end The Wire – some say it’s hard to get into but once you do you become entranced The Sopranos – Violent in parts but so smart with fascinating characters Deadwood – I wish it would have lasted and lasted TheGilmore Girls – I guess it could be diminished by calling it a chick show but I loved it until the end though some thought it got lame at the end Felicity -- adorable Keri Russell plays a New York college student wooed by some gorgeous men. My So Called Life -- Claire Danes only got one season of this teenage angst classic. WonderFalls- cute, only one season and cancelled Big Love – regular-old plural marriage family ---wha?The West Wing—probably all have seen it but if you haven’t . . . Veronica Mars – some silly storylines but VM is great!Lost – a blit silly at times but hard to stop watchingDexter – the first season was appallingly good Battlestar Galactica – hard to believe I liked this sci-fi series as much as I did but love the tough women in it esp. Mary's Favorite Movies Gigi 1958 (I don't know why) Reds 1981 The Princess Bride 1987 Pride and Prejudice (A&E version) 1996 Broadcast News 1987 You Can Count on Me 2000 Edgy Teacher Movies (NOT feel good teacher movies!) Bad Teacher (2011) The Class (2008) Half Nelson (2006) School of Rock (2003) Favorite Classic Romantic Comedies His Girl Friday (1940) Rosalind Russel and Cary Grant The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Maragaret Sullavan and James Stewart Philadelphia Story (1940) Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant Adam's Rib (1949) Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy African Queen (1951) Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart Roman Holiday (1953) Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck Sabrina (1954) Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart To Catch a Thief (1955) Grace Kelly and Cary Grant High Society 1956 Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby (Philadelphia Story remake and not as good) Good Quirky Documentaries The King of Kong (2007) The Up Series (1964-2005) My Brother's Keeper (yr?) American Movie (USA 1999) Capturing the Friedman's (2003) Mary's List This blog is about movies. I am a movie lover who doesn't usually like horror, action-adventure, and violent movies. I love character-driven movies with intriguing plots. I called this blog Mary's List because I want to keep a list of movies I see. And a "list" is also a sailing term which means to heel or lean to one side. Love and Other Drugs, The Girl with the Dragon Tat...

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Conservation Hawks Founder: “If Climate Change Isn’t Real, I’ll Give You My Beretta” by Brad Johnson Feb 19, 2012 8:40 am The founder of Conservation Hawks, an organization of sportsmen dedicated to fighting climate change, will give up his gun if global warming is a hoax. A Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge shotgun “If you can convince Conservation Hawks chairman Todd Tanner that he’s wasting his time, that he does not have to worry about climate change, he will present to you his most prized possession: A Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge over/under that was a gift from his wife, and has been a faithful companion on many a Montana bird hunt,” Hal Herring writes at The Conservationist. “I know the gun, and I’ve hunted and fished with Todd for years. He’s not kidding. You convince him, he’ll give you the gun.” Let’s say you are walking down a trail in the wilderness with your wife and kids, and you come upon a grizzly sow, standing on a carcass. She charges, flat out. You’re in front of your family. What do you do? Just give up? Pretend it’s not happening? Let her maul you and everything your care about? Of course you don’t. You take action. That is how I see climate change. It’s real, it’s threatening everything we love. Not taking action is not an option. Tanner rebuffed the argument that action on global warming pollution just means a government takeover. “You want to talk about government intrusion, think about what it means if we don’t address this now while we have the time and resources,” he said. “We will lose the freedoms that we have because somebody—and it will be government—will be in an all out effort to try and address the effects. To try and address the effects of our neglect. We’ll face the worst thing of all—losing our freedom. And we’ll already have lost most of hunting and fishing. That’s how serious I believe this is.” So those of you who deny the threat of global warming — Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Rush Limbaugh, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, David Koch—this [gun] could be yours if you can convince Tanner that there’s really just a scientific conspiracy to trick people that greenhouse pollution is dangerous. Reposted from ThinkProgress Green Share 11 Responses to Conservation Hawks Founder: “If Climate Change Isn’t Real, I’ll Give You My Beretta” Dr Barry J Barclay says: February 19, 2012 at 10:09 am I never thought that I would see the day that as a scientist I might regret that the overwhelming data suggesting that climate change is a real phenomenon. This makes me wish I were on the other side as an uninformed, biased unbeliever. Too bad because this it’s a very nice firearm. Must say though that my first choice for defending my family against grizzlies would be a short barreled Winchester pump action (so it could fit into a backpack) with alternating solid slugs and 12 gauge pellets. Steve McKechnie says: February 19, 2012 at 11:04 am Will 3% of Americans ever have the privlage of being close to a wild grizzly or even hear the big bad wolf? To bad, like Sarah Palin, Americans can’t grow past the “everything natural is deadly” mindset. Respecting and understanding life is the best way to put an end to using our environment as a dump. Wesley Rolley says: February 19, 2012 at 11:56 am One of the problems that some “progressives” have is not using their allies in these fights. Not only are the Climate Hawks our allies, but in effort after effort, those who try to build a sustainable future find common cause with those who spend so much of their lives dealing with nature. Example: One of the most pressing concerns in California is the fate of the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta. It is the source of both urban water for our cities and ag water for our farms. Left out of that controversy is the idea that without a sustainable ecosystem, neither side will win. The real activists in this battle are the sports fishing organizations, the local land owners whose land and livelihood are being bartered away through political compromises. It is time that we pick our battles carefully and choose our friend wisely. http://blogs.alternet.org/danbacher/2012/02/17/nunes-bill-to-remove-delta-protections-passes-committee/ WVhybrid says: February 19, 2012 at 1:26 pm I think you are really on to something here. If someone were to put up some type of big dollar X prize (in million dollar plus range?) to prove that global warming is a hoax (with peer reviewed data, conclusive evidence, etc.) then maybe we could shut hoaxers up. Any time a politician claims that climate change is a hoax, the rebuttal can always be “have you applied for the “climate is a hoax” X prize? This effort could be pretty much the spoon bender folks have been marginalized (but unfortunately not shut down) by real skeptic James Randi. A prestigious, leading scientific organization in the US could be asked to be the arbitrator… say US National Academy of Science. WVhybrid says: February 19, 2012 at 1:32 pm Sorry about the grammatical errors in my post above. A “X prize” type award could be very effective one climate denier in particular – Burt Rutan, because he won the space launch X prize. Oh, BTW, while I have this idea, the amount of money I could put up to the prize is several orders of magnitude too small. Andy G says: February 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm This is a great piece of climate change messaging. An authentic American voice supporting real shared values. This type of message from the heart and gut is not what us scientists do well, and I for one will be supporting Todd Tanner and Conservation Hawks to spread his message far and wide. Barry Saxifrage says: February 19, 2012 at 7:41 pm Great messaging: an ounce government regulation now can prevent a tonne of Big Brother later. Joe has been good at highlighting this reality for a long time. More folks should pick up on it when talking to anti-big-government folks. Failure to prevent climate change from getting too extreme will result in wartime levels of government intrusion into all levels of our lives when the crisis eventually unfolds. Leif says: February 20, 2012 at 12:17 am While each of us may not have a million bucks I could sure pledge $10 upon delivery of proof. A million of us would be able to underwrite $10 million. Surely something to work for. Russell Seitz says: February 20, 2012 at 2:42 am Get back to me when Tanner offers to fit the winner with a pair of best London make side-by-sides. BillD says: February 20, 2012 at 6:09 am I just made a modest, tax deductible contribution to “Climate Hawks.” I have to believe, deep down, that the truth is more powerful than lies. At some point, education and groups like Conservation Hawks will overcome the lie campaigns run by the likes of Heartland. Climate Hawks are based in Montana. Having allies on the ground in a state with a lot of coal is a good thing. Eli Rabett says: February 20, 2012 at 5:29 pm We forget at our cost that the flyways for migratory fowl were saved by hunters and the duck stamp program as well as conservation groups.

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Empowered Flower Girl Be EmPOWERed. Live POWERfully. Be EmPOWERed Book Empowering 21st Century Girls Empowered Flower Girl focuses on partnerships, community collaboration for 2018/19 school year and beyond Posted on August 22, 2018 by empoweredflowergirl Empowered Flower Girl (EFG), a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the way young people relate to one another, is evolving and expanding its mission. The company will focus its resources toward building partnerships and fostering collaborations with education and community organizations throughout the U.S. Rasheda Kamaria Williams, founder and chief empowering officer, says that EFG will continue offering workshops and programs in schools but will expand in the area of consulting. With more than 15 years of community relations, strategic communications and project management experience, Williams understands that many organizations and institutions need support resources. “Collaboration is key to transforming our communities,” Williams says. “When we combine our talents and work together toward empowering youth and families, we can have a greater impact.” Founded in 2010, by mentor and author Rasheda Kamaria Williams, Empowered Flower Girl offers programs that combat bullying, drama and other social/communications challenges facing youth. The company has facilitated workshops and hosted events reaching nearly 4,000 youth and adults across Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. For more information, visit www.empoweredflowergirl.com. Posted in UncategorizedTagged back-to-school, bullying prevention, community, families, partnerships, teens, youthLeave a comment OUR RESULTS! 98% of Chica Chat workshop participants found the workshop helpful to extremely helpful. Additionally, results of our surveys show that the higher girls’ ability in expressing their feelings to others the more likely they are to have satisfaction in friendships. View empoweredflowergirl’s profile on Facebook View efgempowered’s profile on Twitter View empoweredflowergirl’s profile on Instagram

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KRUPNIKAS: A LITHUANIAN HONEY LIQUEUR Posted: October 28, 2018 in Cocktails, drink recipes, Drinks, Food, mixology, Recipes, Uncategorized Tags: drinks, food, honey, krupnikas, liqueur, recipes This is a story about something that is near and dear to my heart…and liver. I’ve been making Krupnikas for over 40 years. (And no, I won’t be posting my secret recipe here.) It’s a honey-based liqueur that is popular in eastern Europe, especially in countries like Lithuania, where my parents were born. Though most of the Krupnikas that I’ve tasted is similar, no two recipes are exactly alike…and that’s where the arguments begin! I have many friends that make Krupnikas. Some use the leaner-meaner approach (like me)…others go for the everything-in-one-basket approach. I’m not sure that more is necessarily better. Some friends claim that it isn’t real Krupnikas if you don’t use black pepper. But I’ve been to many pubs and restaurants in Lithuania and have never been served Krupnikas with black pepper in it. Other recipes include ginger, turmeric, saffron, and heavy amounts of anise. I prefer a lighter approach. If you Google “Krupnikas,” you’ll find many different recipes…some pretty good, some incredibly awful…but none as good as mine! I use grain alcohol…there’s no distilling involved. There were times in the last 40 years when grain alcohol was not readily available to me, and so my Krupnikas production came to a screeching halt for a while. But these days, you can usually find it within a short ride from home just about anywhere you live. (Here in New England, it’s sold in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.) Desperate times without grain alcohol forced me to try vodka instead, but I never liked the way it came out. Krupnikas uses a variety of unusual spices, none of which have their origins in Lithuania, so it’s interesting to hear how these exotic ingredients made their way via various trade routes to eastern Europe. The story goes that Krupnikas was created by Benedictine monks in the 1500’s, and that it became popular in both Lithuania and Poland for celebrations like birthdays, weddings, and holidays. But when the Soviets shut down all Krupnikas production, the recipes went “underground,” passed down from generation to generation through closely guarded family recipes. That’s why everyone thinks their family recipe is the best! One pot for honey, one pot for the various spices I use…to be combined later. My own Krupnikas making story started with my uncle, who would make large batches of the stuff in his tiny Richmond Hill, Queens, NY kitchen. Because I am the godfather of my cousin, his son, I received a bottle as a gift from my uncle every Christmas. By New Year’s, that bottle would be gone. It wasn’t long before I got very tired of waiting 51 weeks for another bottle and I asked my uncle if he would share his recipe with me. He never did that exactly, but he did let me sit in on a brewing session and take notes in a cramped corner of his kitchen. My wife, an artist, helped me design my own label. I took my notes home from my uncle’s house and tried to decipher what I wrote. Since there was no such thing as the internet back then (what we call “the dark ages,” kids), I drove all over New York City in search of some of the more exotic spices used in making my uncle’s Krupnikas recipe. I became a regular at several Asian and Indian stores, where, at first, they looked at this tall, geeky white dude somewhat suspiciously as I brought my spices to the counter for purchase. Over the decades, through trial and error, I changed my uncle’s original recipe to the one that I proudly call my own today. You can’t buy it in a store, but if you have tons of money and want to go into business with me, I’m sure we can work something out! Or become my best friend and you’ll get a bottle every Christmas…and then you’ll be the one waiting 51 weeks for another! Versions of Krupnikas are available in liquor stores: Old Krupnik is a Polish liqueur, and the German brand Barenjager is another. And many whiskies, like Dewar’s and Jack Daniels, now have honey-flavored spirits as well. Though quite different from my own recipe, there are two authentic Lithuanian style Krupnikas liqueurs made in the United States by acquaintances of mine. Based out of Durham, North Carolina, the Brothers Vilgalys Spirits Company (www.brothersvilgalys.com) has a pepperier version that uses local North Carolina wildflower honey. President of the company, Rim Vilgalys, the son of my good childhood friend from New York, has done what I never got around to do: make this fabulous elixir available to the public. You’ll find it at ABC stores throughout the state of North Carolina. The second brand is made and sold in the New York area and goes by the name of KAS Krupnikas. (www.kasspirits.com) Both are pretty darn good. But are they as good as mine? I think you already know my answer to that question! Sveiks! (Cheers!) RIBS WITH AN APRICOT-MUSTARD GLAZE…DODGING A FEW CURVEBALLS ALONG THE WAY Posted: October 26, 2018 in barbecue, Carnivore!, CHARCOAL, Food, grilling, pork, Recipes, Rhode Island, Uncategorized Tags: apricot glaze, food, grilling, recipes, ribs So I’m watching a video of Andrew Zimmern grilling chicken wings using an apricot-mustard glaze after he marinated them in yogurt and threw them on a hot grill. They looked amazing. But I had ribs already thawed in my fridge (Curve ball 1). I thought: How bad could this recipe be on pork? I gave it a shot. Apricot-mustard glaze… 1/2 cup apricot preserves 1/2 cup mustard (I used Gulden’s, but Dijon works well, too) Combine the ingredients in a bowl, whisking them together. Set it aside. I got a large bowl out, and cut the ribs into smaller pieces, about 3 ribs per piece. I placed them in the bowl, threw in about a 1/2 cup of plain yogurt, and mixed it around until all sides of the ribs were coated. I let the ribs stand this way at room temperature for about an hour, while I headed to the grill to set it up. The plan was to light a decent amount of coals that would ash over and then be pushed to one side of the grill, placing the ribs over indirect heat on the other side. They would cook this way until done, with a nice grilled smokey char on the edges. That’s the little mouse home on the left. Unfortunately, when I opened my grill, I found that a family of mice had made themselves a happy home inside my grill, and I didn’t have the heart to toss them out, babies and all. (Curve ball 2.) So I needed to find another way to cook the ribs. I headed to my smoker. I have an electric digital smoker, which allows me to set the temperature and basically walk away, only returning to add smoking chips every hour so. I set the temperature to 275 degrees. I removed the ribs from the bowl, placing them on a cutting board, sprinkling one seasoning on half the ribs, and another seasoning on the other half. The first half got my favorite basic seasoning: Lawry’s Seasoned Salt. The second half received my favorite Cajun seasoning: Tony Chachere’s Original Creole Seasoning. The ribs went into the smoker for about 2 hours. I thought I would smoke the ribs longer than 2 hours, but then I realized it would soon be time to pick my daughter up from school and take her to guitar lessons. (Curve ball 3.) Out of the smoker. I took the ribs out of the smoker, one half batch at a time, and placed them under the broiler of my toaster oven, flipping them over once I saw the edges of the ribs get nice and dark. This gave them a bit of that char I was looking for that the grill would’ve given me…had I not had a family of mice in my way! After a few minutes under the broiler. After broiling the ribs on both sides, I placed them in aluminum foil, brushing them on both sides with the apricot-mustard glaze, wrapping the aluminum tightly around them in 2 packages. I placed them on a baking sheet and into a pre-heated 175-degree oven. Tightly wrapped and into the oven they go. The low temperature in the oven would continue to cook the ribs low and slow, and the glaze would add a little steam to make them tender, and hopefully, delicious. Off to school and guitar lessons I went. Unwrapping the ribs after a few hours. We returned a few hours later, and I placed the sheet pan with the ribs on the top of the stove to cool for a bit, allowing the ribs to rest. One of each: with Lawry’s and Tony Chachere’s. Using a bit more of the apricot-mustard glaze, I brushed the ribs one more time and placed them under the broiler one last time before feasting. It was worth that extra effort to get them nice and caramelized. The final verdict: They came out great, but I preferred the ribs seasoned with Tony Cachere’s better. The Cajun seasoning added a nice kick of heat to counterbalance the sweetness of the apricot-mustard glaze. THAI GRILLED STEAK Posted: October 17, 2018 in barbecue, beef, Carnivore!, CHARCOAL, Food, grilling, Recipes, Uncategorized Tags: beef, carnivore, food, recipes, steak, Thai The original recipe called for skirt steak, but I didn’t have any in my freezer. I did have a fat ribeye, though, so once I thawed it, I sliced it lengthwise to get two large, thin steaks which would easily suck up the marinade I was going to make. And the ribeye was nicely marbled, so it stayed juicy and tender. 1/4 cup toasted sesame oil 2 tablespoons grated ginger 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic 2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro 2 tablespoons chopped dry roasted unsalted peanuts 2 scallions, minced 1 tablespoon light brown sugar 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lime juice 1 tablespoon chile oil 2 lbs. beef ribeye (or skirt steak or beef flap) 1/4 cup chicken stock (homemade is best) In a bowl, whisk together the sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, cilantro, peanuts, scallions, sugar, lime juice and chile oil. Transfer half of it to a shallow dish. Add the steak to the dish and turn the meat to coat it well. Cover and refrigerate the beef overnight. Refrigerate the remaining marinade. The next day, light a grill. While it’s warming up, add the chicken stock to the reserved marinade. I like to heat it to combine it well, not letting it reach a boil, then remove it from the heat and let it come to room temperature. This will be the dipping sauce for the beef. Bring the steak to room temp, season with salt and pepper, and grill it over high heat until medium-rare, about 5 minutes. If it’s too cold to light a grill, or if you just want to use the oven, heat a cast iron pan, add a few drops of avocado oil, and sear the beef on both sides before placing it in a pre-heated 375-degree oven to finish cooking. Devour the beef with the dipping sauce! VEAL MEATBALLS WITH PASTA AND PEAS Posted: October 14, 2018 in Food, pasta, Recipes, Uncategorized Tags: food, meatballs, pasta, peas, recipes, veal I’m fortunate that I can buy my veal from a nearby dairy farm, Sweet & Salty Farm in Little Compton, RI, where the animals are grass-fed and raised humanely. That makes for happier animals and incredibly flavorful meat…and no guilt about using it. I also buy veal bones from Sweet & Salty Farm, roasting them on a sheet pan in a 400-degree oven for 30 minutes, then placing them in a large pot of water. I take some chopped carrots, onions, and celery, toss them in a little olive oil, and place them on a sheet pan, roasting them in the oven until they’ve caramelized, then add them to the pot with the veal bones. The secret to a great veal bone broth is to boil the bones and veggies for as long a time as possible. Restaurants will do this for days, replacing the water in the pot as needed. At home, I’ll start the broth in the morning and finish it by evening. The subtle flavor of veal can get lost with heavy seasonings, so I keep it simple. The addition of veal bone broth amplifies the flavor and keeps the meatballs from drying out. 1 lb. ground veal 1 cup toasted breadcrumbs (I use Udi’s bread to make it gluten-free) 2 teaspoons parsley 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic 1/2 teaspoon granulated onion 1 lb. pasta, cooked firmer than al dente (I use Garofalo GF pasta to make it gluten-free) 2 cups veal bone broth or beef stock salt and pepper for seasoning 1 cup of frozen organic peas Make the meatballs: In a bowl, combine the veal, breadcrumbs, parsley, oregano, basil, salt, pepper, garlic, onion and egg, mixing the ingredients thoroughly. Don’t over-mix. Heat a tablespoon of the olive oil in an oven-proof pan, and form the meatballs one by one, placing them in the pan. Brown the meatballs on all sides over medium heat. Place the pan in the oven to cook the meatballs for 10 more minutes. In a saucepan, heat the veal bone broth or beef broth. Once the meatballs have cooked in the oven, transfer them to the pot of broth and cover it with a lid, keeping the heat on low. If the broth doesn’t cover the meatballs, turn them every once in a while to keep them moist on all sides. Cook the meatballs in the broth for about 30 minutes, then transfer them to a large sauté pan. Turn the saucepan with the veal broth on high and reduce it to about 1/2 cup. Season it with salt and pepper. In a large pot, cook the pasta to a bit firmer than al dente in well-salted water. Drain it and set it aside. In the large sauce pan with the meatballs, add the butter and the half-and-half. Add the reduced veal broth, the pasta, and the peas. Gently mix the ingredients in the pan until the peas have warmed through and the sauce clings to the pasta. Serve immediately. HOW TO BOIL A LOBSTER…OR 12 Posted: October 7, 2018 in Food, lobster, Maine, Recipes, Rhode Island, seafood, Southern New England, Uncategorized Tags: food, lobster, NEW ENGLAND, recipes, seafood Those of us that live in New England understand the magnificence that is a fresh lobster. Nothing beats a Maine lobster pulled right out of the water, placed in a pot of boiling water, and devoured moments later with nothing but melted butter on the side. I live in Rhode Island. Our waters are a bit warmer than Maine’s, but my friends at Sakonnet Lobster in Little Compton, literally footsteps from our rental home, Saule (www.sauleri.com…go to Homeaway.com listing #4711871) have the freshest lobster around. At a recent gathering at our house, I fired up my brand new 200,000 BTU burner and grabbed my 82-quart lobster pot to cook a dozen lobsters. An 82-quart pot means business! Many people will argue that steaming lobsters is better than boiling them. I don’t find that to be true, certainly from the perspective of ease of cooking or the taste of the final product. Baked stuffed lobsters are delicious, but that’s a subject for a different time. Using the outdoor burner method has several advantages. First, all the mess and smell stays out of the kitchen. Clean-up is much easier. Second, when cooking lobsters for a lot of people, the burners on the kitchen stove just don’t have what it takes to boil the water. And third, this method requires no back-breaking lifting of heavy pots full of water. My buddy, Lee, has a PhD in Chemistry, and has been a lobster lover all his life. With a home in Maine now, he knows a thing or two about cooking lobster. Here’s his fool-proof formula… Bring the pot of water to a full vigorous boil. Keeping the flame on high, add the lobsters, which will quench the boil for a few minutes. Cook for 17 minutes for the first pound + 1 minute per each additional pound of lobsters added. (For example, cooking four 1.25 lb lobsters = 21 minutes.) The water soon comes back to a full boil and you can reduce heat slightly to avoid boil over. Experienced lobster boilers will tell you that this cooking formula is pretty accurate, but you do have to adjust the time if the water doesn’t come back to the boil as quickly as you’d like. The lobsters are still cooking even if the water isn’t boiling. If you’ve got an overcrowded pot, you might need to cook things a little longer. An emptier pot: a little less. Play it by ear. To those that get queasy when it comes to cooking lobsters, there are several ways to kill a lobster before it goes into the pot: Some people put them in the freezer to numb them. Others use a sharp knife and cut down right between the eyes. Some do both. Although people constantly argue about whether lobsters can feel pain or not, my scientist friends assure me that a lobster’s nervous system is no more complicated than an insect’s. Dropping them head-first into a pot of boiling water is the fastest, most humane way of killing them. And they don’t “scream.” That’s just air escaping from the body cavity. Good to remember: if you overcook the lobster a little, no harm done. But if you undercook it, it’s pretty nasty. All I need on the side is some melted salted butter. SALMONELLA…SOLVED Posted: October 5, 2018 in chicken, Food, Uncategorized Tags: chicken, food, safety, salmonella I devour chicken at least three times week…fried, broiled, grilled, barbecued, smoked…it’s all good. But because of that, salmonella paranoia takes over my brain. Watch any cooking show and as soon as the host touches a piece of raw chicken, they show him or her washing their hands before doing anything else. Panicky corporate lawyers make sure you see that so nobody gets sued for something very bad that can be very easily avoided. I use these easy steps to avoid salmonella worries in my kitchen… Washable, disposable: the best way to keep salmonella away. I open the plastic wrapper of the chicken in the sink. You won’t believe how much stuff splatters around when you unwrap chicken. Do it in the sink and it won’t fly onto your countertop, windows, eyeballs, or nearby fruit bowl. I buy very sharp and very cheap kitchen knives, like the one above. They go for about 6 bucks. Unlike my expensive prized chef knife which never goes into the dishwasher, these knives are easily sanitized by skipping the hand washing and letting the dishwasher do the work. I sharpen them when they get dull, but eventually, the get tossed out and I buy new ones. They’re not for every job in the kitchen, but they are perfect for any questionable food product like raw chicken. While I’m at the store, I also buy a couple of acrylic cutting boards. The size and shape are a personal preference, but the idea is to use these boards when slicing and dicing chicken or any other nasty gooey thing. Unlike wooden boards that absorb everything, these are non-porous. The muck stays on the board, which is easily sanitized by tossing it in the dishwasher. The last thing I want to be doing with my deluxe wooden butcher blocks is bleaching and scrubbing those suckers because I cut up a couple of chicken breasts on them. Finally, I buy myself a box of cheap disposable gloves. The main thing is to make sure they don’t slip off my hands while handling a sharp knife, or else I’ll be visiting the emergency room. When I’m done prepping the chicken, I just toss the gloves in the trash. To be safe, I still rinse my hands with soap and water afterwards. But I don’t feel like I need to dip them in a vat of sulfuric acid to get them clean, and my kitchen workspace remains spotless. Salmonella solved. ASIAN BACON Posted: September 29, 2018 in bacon, Carnivore!, Food, frying, pork, Recipes, Uncategorized Tags: Asian, bacon, carnivore, chinese, food, pork, recipes Sometimes the happiest of cooking accidents happen with bacon. My original plan was to make Chinese-style honey ribs for dinner. But instead of pulling a nice rack of ribs out of the freezer, I accidentally took out a slab of pork belly. I only realized my mistake when I thawed it and started cooking it, so I decided to continue the process with the pork belly instead. The results were pretty damn tasty. ¾ cup light soy sauce 5 lbs. pork belly Zest and juice of 1 lemon 2 whole star anise 2 cinnamon sticks (3”) Mix the marinade ingredients. Set aside. Cut the pork belly into pieces that are about 3 inches square. Place them in a large pot. Cover them with water and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes. Drain. Place the pork belly pieces on a sheet pan lined with non-stick aluminum foil. Coat them with marinade while they’re still hot. Let them sit for 10 minutes. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake the pork belly pieces on the sheet pan for 30 minutes. While the pork belly is baking, start the sauce in a large non-stick pan or pot: combine the lemon zest and juice, star anise, cinnamon sticks, honey and chicken broth. Bring it all to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. When the pork belly pieces have finished baking, add them (and any fat or liquid in the pan) to the sauce pot and simmer (covered) for at least 15 minutes or until the meat is tender. Turn the heat on high, uncover the pot and cook until the sauce is reduced to a glaze that coats the ribs. Reduce the heat as the sauce thickens to avoid the sugars in the honey from burning. When the pieces are sticky and gooey, they are ready! Let a piece of pork belly cool…then slice the to the desired thickness and fry it like regular bacon….or just pop it in your mouth like pork candy! Makes an amazing omelet! FRESH CORN AND TOMATO SALAD Posted: September 19, 2018 in cheese, corn, Food, garden, Uncategorized Tags: corn, food, recipe, SALAD, salsa, tomato Hosting a “boys’ weekend” at Saule, our rental home in Little Compton, Rhode Island (Go to http://www.sauleri.com. We’re listing #4711871 Homeaway.com), I made this as a side dish to the piles of meats we devoured. This is a salad you want to make now, while corn and tomatoes are still in season, but I’ve found that frozen organic corn and greenhouse tomatoes work pretty darn well. 2 lbs. fresh or frozen organic corn 1 container grape tomatoes, chopped 1 small red onion, finely chopped 6 oz. mild crumbled cheese, like cotija or feta 1 package (5 oz.) organic baby arugula 1 teaspoon Fleur de Sel 2 teaspoons white balsamic vinegar If you’re using fresh corn, remove it from the ears, then pan saute it in a little olive oil, but leave it nice and crisp. If you can roast the ears of corn over some coals, even better. If you’re using frozen corn, pan saute in a little olive oil. Set the corn aside to cool. Mix the corn with all the other ingredients in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate. Right before serving, taste and season it again, mixing well. I think it’s best a little cooler than room temperature. SMOKED SALMON SMORREBROD Posted: September 9, 2018 in Uncategorized Tags: food, recipes, salmon, sandwich, Smørrebrød, smoked Sometimes a small bite can take a lot of preparation, and you just don’t appreciate it until you decide to make it yourself. That’s especially true with the classic Danish open sandwich called Smørrebrød. The ingredients can vary, but one of my favorite versions is with smoked salmon, on the brunch menu at the best restaurant in Rhode Island: Persimmon, in Providence. The Salmon Smørrebrød at Persimmon. With some very special friends coming over for dinner, I decided this would be the event where I debut my own version of Salmon Smørrebrød. I had my work cut out for me… It starts with the salmon. One of the finest sources of wild-caught Alaskan sockeye salmon is Vital Choice, a purveyor of extremely high-quality wild-caught seafood. I ordered several large fillets and had them shipped frozen to my home. I thawed a couple of the fillets in the fridge, and then cured them for several days. Make sure you get your salmon from a reliable source, and always get wild-caught, never farmed. The recipe for the cure mix is simple: 1 cup Kosher salt 1/2 cup cane sugar 1 tablespoon crushed black peppercorns Combine these ingredients in a bowl. Mix well. Use a container that will hold the fillets without bending them. It also needs to be watertight, because the salt extracts moisture from the fish, and you don’t want spills from the liquids released during the curing process. First, the plastic. Then, a layer of the cure mix. Then the salmon fillet, skin-side-down. More cure mix on top. Then the second fillet, with more cure mix on top of that. Lay a few sheets of plastic wrap on the bottom, allowing them to fall over the sides of the container. Sprinkle a good, even layer of the cure mix on the bottom. Lay down the first salmon fillet, skin side down, on top of the cure mix. add more cure mix on top of the fillet to cover it completely. Lay the second fillet on top of that, then cover it completely with more of the cure mix. Fold the plastic wrap tightly over the top, pressing out as much air as you can. Finally, wrapping the whole thing up tightly in plastic. Pressure on the salmon helps the curing process, so the cure mix makes good contact with the flesh. I weigh it down with a few cans of tomato sauce. Even pressure on the salmon fillets helps the curing process. Put the salmon in the fridge for at least 48 hours, until the fillets are firm to the touch. The fillets have changed color and are firmer to the touch once cured. Once the salmon has cured, remove it from the plastic wrap and wash it thoroughly with clean, cold water to remove as much of the salt as possible. Some of the peppercorns will imbed themselves in the fish…remove those, too. Pat the fillets dry with paper towels. The salmon is ready to eat just like this, but… At this point, you’ve got Gravlax, and it’s delicious just the way it is. But I chose to go one step further and smoke the salmon, so I put the fillets on a metal rack in my fridge, skin side down, and let them dry out a bit for an hour or so. When the salmon dries, the flesh gets a bit tacky. That’s called the pellicle, and the sticky surface of the fish helps the smoke molecules adhere better. It’s a good thing. The salmon fillets, drying in the fridge. While the salmon is drying in the fridge, I get my smoking gear ready. I like to use charcoal briquets and hickory chips for the smoking process. I bring my small camping grill next to my larger home grill. Using my charcoal chimney, I light the briquets and let them burn until they’re ashed over. Using a small smoking box, I place some hickory chips inside, then add a couple of hot briquets to it, making sure they burn the chips and the smoking starts. I place the smoking box inside my large grill with the vents open, laying my salmon fillets (skin-side-down) next to the smoking box. I close the lid of the grill, and let the smoking begin. Lighting briquets in the camping grill before moving them to the larger grill. Ashed-over coals in the chimney. This is as close to a cold-smoking process as you can get at home. There is no heat actually cooking the salmon, just a smoke-filled grill that needs to be replenished every once in a while with hot coals and more hickory chips. I smoke the salmon for a couple of hours. Let the smoking begin! Once the salmon has smoked, you’ve got yourself a really special treat. You must eat some at this point, just to reward yourself for a job well done! Then, wrap the rest of the salmon tightly in plastic wrap, and keep it refrigerated until you’re ready to serve it. It will stay fresh in the fridge for several days. My research for Salmon Smørrebrød resulted in many variations, but I ultimately chose one that used a horseradish cream on the fish. Just so happened that I have a giant horseradish plant growing in my garden, so it was time to dig some of the roots up! Digging up horseradish. Once I dug the roots out and washed them clean, they needed to be peeled down to their white center. Then they were ready to be grated. I used the same system my grandfather did, many years ago: a simple hand grater for the job. If you thought you cry when you slice onions, you ain’t seen nuthin’ until you’ve grated horseradish! But it’s worth the effort. Cleaned horseradish roots, before peeling and grating. You need freshly grated horseradish, not the prepared stuff you find in the supermarket for the cream… 12 tablespoons sour cream 6 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt 4 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish 8 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice 4 pinches of sugar Kosher salt to taste Combine these ingredients in a bowl and mix well. It keeps for at least a day, so you can make it the night before serving. This is a lot of horseradish cream, but I was making enough to serve 12 people. The horseradish cream…delicious on a lot of things! 1 fennel bulb 2 Granny Smith apples A few hours before serving, thinly slice a fennel bulb–paper-thin if you can–and place the slices in a bowl of ice water. Peel and core 2 Granny Smith apples and slice them as thinly as you can, placing them in the ice bath as well. After an hour, remove the fennel and apple slices from the ice water, pat them dry with paper towels, and place them in a bowl, sprinkling them with the lemon juice. Toss, mixing well, and then place the bowl in the fridge until you’re ready to use it. Slicing the fennel as thinly as possible. A few last ingredients… Softened unsalted butter Fresh dill sprigs Smørrebrød is a sandwich, so of course, I needed some bread. I chose something from my heritage: Lithuanian bread, a combination of rye and pumpernickel that I find when I go back home to New York. I keep it in the freezer until I need it, and for this recipe, I sliced it thin. Getting the ingredients together. The Lithuanian bread is the brown bread. We also had a couple of slices of gluten-free bread. Now we’re finally ready to build this thing! Slicing the salmon as thinly as possible. Rather than making all the sandwiches myself, I decided I’d teach a Master Class of Smørrebrød-making with my fabulous guests. So I brought all the ingredients out, and we started building our sandwiches as I sliced the salmon as thinly as possible. Everyone makes their own Smørrebrød! First, you take your slice of Lithuanian bread and spread some of the butter on it. Then, layer the fabulous salmon on top. Next, a healthy spread of the horseradish cream. Top with some of the sliced fennel and apple. Garnish with just a few fresh sprigs of dill. And then top it all off with a friendly sprinkling of Fleur de Sel, or your favorite sea salt. Fleur de Sel at the end makes all the difference! And that’s my Salmon Smørrebrød…a labor of love. But that’s what you do for friends, right? Time to eat! Leftover ingredients make a great sandwich on an everything bagel the next day!

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Snowy walk February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021 / cultivatingjoy Recently storm Darcy swept across the Netherlands leaving a layer of snow over the city and immobilising public transport. The first couple of days the clouds hung heavy and the wind was blistering cold, but that didn’t deter anyone from going out. The streets and parks were full of people dressed in full-on ski-suits and colourful hats and scarves. Wrapped in my many layers, I also went to explore, enjoying the crunch of every step in the fine snow. It’s amazing how these paths, that I’ve been walking along so regularly during the last months to keep my sanity during lock-down, looked so new and exciting just thanks to a beautiful dusting of snow. It was also fun to watching people on long-distance skis making laps around the park, children on fancy sleighs or simple constructions made from kids’ chairs cleverly tied together, snow-people and snow-forts being built on the side of the road… Amsterdam, cold, crunch, details, joy, joyful gratitude, snow, storm Darcy, tree, Vondelpark, walk, wind, winter ← Cold fingers, warm feet Spring is on its way → 2 thoughts on “Snowy walk” There is nothing quite like a freshly fallen snow to make the world feel in away clean and new. I am glad to hear you enjoyed it. Aiva 🙂 Hi Aiva, thanks for your message. Yes exactly! I’m glad I enjoyed it while it lasted 🙂 Take good care and I hope spring is coming your way! ❤

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Hot N' Happening “Tahira and I are Deeply and Emotionally Invested in Gulmeher": Ayushmann on Empowering Women Rag-pickers Ayushmann Khurrana empowers women ragpickers to be self-reliant this Raksha Bandhan! Priyanka Chauhan Courtesy : Ayushmann Khurrana Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana is empowering women rag-pickers in New Delhi this Raksha Bandhan. Ayushmann and Tahira have for years supported this non-profit organisation, Gulmeher, that looks to make such women self-reliant by fueling their inner passion in arts and crafts. It is a women's collective of waste-pickers turned artisans. The NGO works with about 200 women ragpickers and this contribution will help them look after themselves and their families. The women of Gulmeher have taken it upon themselves to make and sell Rakhis, proceeds of which will go towards their well-being and sustenance. Ayushmann has lent his support again to the cause and is trying to bring in as much attention for them. The Article 15 actor shares, “Tahira and I are deeply and emotionally invested in Gulmeher. The organisation is doing outstanding work to support this needy segment of population in Delhi. With the pandemic, they are most at risk and are also economically vulnerable. Their flow of income has been impacted greatly.” He further adds, "Rakhi symbolizes love and a bond between brothers and sisters. Them making rakhis for the fellow citizens of our country to buy and support their cause symbolizes a celebration of self-reliance. Let’s support our fellow brothers and sisters. We want to empower them so that they can have various avenues to generate income & support their families. We feel that’s a step in the right direction.” Ayushmann Khurrana To Begin Abhishek Kapoor's Next in October After ... Ayushmann Khurrana Reacts to Supreme Court's Verdict about Daughters ... Bhushan- Pragya Join Hands for Ayushmann- Vaani's Love Story Kangana Slams Ayushmann Khurrana For Supporting Rhea & 'Star Kids' Vaani Kapoor to Romance Ayushmann Khurrana in Abhishek Kapoor's next 'The Process is Going to be Intense & Excruciating for me But I feel ... Sussanne Khan's Mother Tests Positive for Coronavirus

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Patrick Stewart, Billy Dee Williams Highlight a Common Misconception About Space Exploration By Chelsea Gohd 08 October 2019 Say it ain't so, Lando and Picard! NEW YORK — This past weekend at the 2019 New York Comic Con, both Sir Patrick Stewart and Billy Dee Williams told Space.com how they feel about the future of human spaceflight, and their comments revealed a major and common misconception about how many view space exploration. Williams, who most famously played (and will soon play again) Lando Calrissian in the "Star Wars" universe said that, while it is within human nature to explore, and so we will always be exploring and reaching further, we should focus our efforts on Earth. At the "Star Trek Universe" panel, Stewart, who famously played Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," expressed a similar sentiment to Space.com. At first, he communicated his reluctance to address the issue, stating that it is a difficult question for him. Related: New York Comic Con 2019: Amazing Space Cosplay Photos! At New York Comic Con on Oct. 4-5, 2019, Billy Dee Williams and Sir Patrick Stewart told Space.com how they felt about human space exploration and highlighted a common misconception about space exploration. (Image credit: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty) "My unease about the space program and space exploration is that I believe so strongly that we have issues on our own planet that need so much attention and adjustment and endorsement that I think, 'What might happen if we were to propel all of those energies — not to say the economics — that go into the space program to making this a world of equal opportunity and equality?'" he said. The response received a roaring round of applause from the audience (though as one of the most beloved actors in all of "Star Trek" history, that is no surprise), and, while it gets a few things right, it highlights a common misconception about our species' continued journey to explore space — that exploring space doesn't help us here on Earth. It is often thought that space exploration is something that is done solely to allow someone to claim that "We did it first," or "We landed there first." And, as far as the space race of the 1960s goes, it's true that that mindset was one of the largest motivating factors that pushed NASA to successfully land the first humans on the moon in 1969. But the efforts that allowed NASA to accomplish that goal also led to the development of better suits for firefighters, improvements to heart monitors, solar panels, cordless tools, improved dialysis treatment methods, CAT scan technology and so much more. With seemingly impossible goals like landing on the moon and Mars, new technologies have to be developed that have historically proven to be critical and even life-saving here on Earth. Additionally, as we face the deadly, worsening consequences of climate change in a world fighting just to have those realities recognized, it is important to remember how space factors into how we understand and study Earth's climate. "Space-based research is fundamental," Ben Orlove, a professor of public policy at Columbia University and a lead author on the 2019 IPCC special report, said to Space.com when he was asked about the importance of space to climate change research. Data from satellites and experiments on and mounted onto the International Space Station are critical to our current and growing understanding of exactly how climate change is progressing, which is essential in trying to mitigate it and its repercussions. Yes, there are some who want to just hop in a rocket and blast off somewhere far just to say they've done it. But, while Williams seemed to hit the nail on the head when he said that it is just within our human nature to explore, it is important to remember that exploration also does a world of good back down on our home planet. From keeping our knowledge of climate change up to date to advancing life-saving medical technologies and more on the space station, our efforts in space are essential to life here on Earth. Patrick Stewart Almost Turned Down 'Star Trek: Picard' Will Riker and Deanna Troi Appear in 'Star Trek: Picard' NYCC Trailer 'Star Trek: Picard' Everything We Know So Far Follow Chelsea Gohd on Twitter @chelsea_gohd. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook. Need more space? You can get 5 issues of our partner "All About Space" Magazine for $5 for the latest amazing news from the final frontier! (Image credit: All About Space magazine) Chelsea Gohd Chelsea Gohd joined Space.com as an intern in the summer of 2018 and returned as a Staff Writer in 2019. After receiving a B.S. in Public Health, she worked as a science communicator at the American Museum of Natural History. Chelsea has written for publications including Scientific American, Discover Magazine Blog, Astronomy Magazine, Live Science, All That is Interesting, AMNH Microbe Mondays blog, The Daily Targum and Roaring Earth. When not writing, reading or following the latest space and science discoveries, Chelsea is writing music, singing, playing guitar and performing with her band Foxanne (@foxannemusic). You can follow her on Twitter @chelsea_gohd. Star Trek movies in chronological order Best Star Trek: Voyager episodes Live this week: Watch the 2021 International Mars Society Convention online Shenzhou 13 astronauts begin China's longest mission ever at space station module (video) On This Day in Space! 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Switching to recyclable and biodegradable bags of crisps The corporate world could do more to reduce the amount of plastic produced: Futures Forum: Plastic and business On the one hand, business is to blame: Futures Forum: Plastic pollution and the invention of 'litter' > or, how the packaging industry avoided responsibility for creating the problem in the first place On the other, business can be very effective in doing something about it: Futures Forum: Taking the plastic out of your teabag Another iconic piece of British food and drink is being targetted - by a petition from 38 Degrees: We eat more crisps than any other nation on earth. [1] But right now almost all the crisps sold in the UK are in non-recyclable plastic packaging which doesn’t rot. That means millions of crisp packets end up filling landfills, littering our parks and clogging up our oceans. [2] Walkers Crisps sell more than half the crisps we eat. [3] If they switched to recyclable or biodegradable packets it’d make a huge difference for our environment and wildlife. That’s why Geraint, set up a petition on the 38 Degrees website calling on Walkers to lead the way and switch their packaging. [4] Walkers are a company that really care about how people see them. If tens of thousands of us demand that Walkers Crisps switch to plastic-free packaging, it could give them the push they need to make the change. A huge petition landing on the boss’ desk would send a message from loyal customers they couldn’t ignore. Most of us probably had no idea that the nation’s favourite snack was adding to the plastic crisis. On average we eat 150 bags each a year - that’s a lot of plastic waste! [5] But Walkers has the answer - they’ve already developed plastic-free packets but are yet to make the change. [6] Now we’ve got the chance to pile on the pressure and make sure the country’s favourite crisp company does the right thing. From plastic cotton bud sticks to plastic in our teabags, 38 Degrees members have a history of taking on big businesses on plastic use - and winning. [7] Just last month PG Tips said they are removing plastic from their tea bags after over 100,000 of us put pressure on them. [8] And Odeon and other cinemas are currently under pressure from over 150,000 of us to stop using plastic straws. [9] If thousands of us tell Walkers to do the right thing, we can pressure them into being the first to make the switch. David, Cathy, Robin, Mike and the 38 Degrees team [1] The Guardian: Crisps: a very British habit: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/01/crisps-british [2] Marine Consevration Society: Why go plastic bag free: https://www.mcsuk.org/downloads/pollution/beachwatch/Why%20go%20plastic%20bag%20free.pdf [3] bakery and snacks: UK salty snacks: Own label scoops market share from Pringles, Walkers and Kettle: https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2017/11/03/UK-salty-snacks-Own-label-scoops-market-share-from-Pringles-Walkers-and-Kettle [4] 38 Degrees: Make crisp packets recyclable: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/recyclable-crisp-packets [5] See Note 1 [6] Telegraph: Biodegradable crisp packets 'too noisy': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8045361/Biodegradable-crisp-packets-too-noisy.html [7] 38 Degrees: Cotton bud success!: https://home.38degrees.org.uk/2017/01/10/cotton-bud-success/ [8] 38 Degrees: PG Tips – we won!: https://home.38degrees.org.uk/2018/02/28/pg-tips-won/ [9] 38 Degrees: Make plastic drink straws obsolete in cinemas: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-plastic-drink-straws-obselete Home - 38 Degrees A story this weeks makes the point very clear: Boy finds 30-year-old packet of Walkers crisps Discovery highlights problem of plastic pollution in our oceans, campaigners say Tom Tracey 7 hours ago The packet of Walkers crisps is thought to date from the 1980s SWNS A 30-year-old packet of Walkers crisps discovered by a boy washed up on a Cornwall beach highlights the growing problem of plastic pollution in our oceans, campaigners say. Laurence Miller, 10, was part of a group of beach-cleaning volunteers when he discovered the largely intact bag of cheese and onion flavoured crisps on Sunday. The schoolboy was doing the litter pick when he found the bag three times his age at Treyarnon Bay, in Padstow, Cornwall. Plastic pollution killed sperm whale found dead on Spanish beach Plastic pollution in sea set to treble in a decade, warn scientists Despite not having a printed date still visible on the packet, researchers estimate it was produced during the 1980s. Laurence, from Wadebridge, said: “We were doing a litter pick and I was walking up the stream a bit where the river meets the sea and I found it just embedded in the side of the bank. Campaigners say the discovery highlights the issue of the environmental impact of plastic in our oceans (SWNS) “It looks quite different to what the crisps look like now. It’s probably the strangest thing I’ve found, I found lumps of palm oil in blocks and they get washed up sometimes, they are quite weird to find.” His dad Simon, 45, said Laurence had been interested in conservation since doing an five-mile bike ride for a hedgehog charity last summer and is a member of Cornwall Wildlife Trust. The photographer, said: “They’re really keen to do anything like that. There’s been a big push with the plastics in the ocean and its brilliant so many people are realising it.” The discovery comes less than three months after a crisp packet from 1997 was found on a neighbouring beach, Constantine Bay. Rob Stevenson, who runs the volunteer beach-cleaning group, said: “Laurence was really enthusiastic, in fact they all were. The youngsters are so enthused and excited about it - I don’t like to say it but some of the plastic things that are found can be quite exciting to find. Laurence Miller was part of a group of beach-cleaning volunteers when he found the packet (SWNS) “The crisps are more than three times older than him, it really demonstrates just what the problem of using plastics are. Some of them will stay in the sand dunes if people have dropped them and the wind blows the sand over and they get covered; stuff floats around in the sea and gets battered; some may be in a sand dune for a long time, fall into the sea and come back in again. “We can’t say how long the plastic has been exposed for or where it’s been, but it goes to show if you litter something somewhere, it does generally end up in the sea. Plastic is a fantastically durable product and it shows in the last 20 or 30 years how much the problem has escalated. “We think the packet dates from the 1980s as on the back it says ‘The Valuation Game’. We think that was a promotion they ran as a sort of football thing, we found a guy selling ‘The Valuation Game’ book on eBay and he said this is about 30 years old." Mr Stevenson, who lives in Padstow, started the project last year with his daughter Emily, who is studying marine biology at Plymouth University, after watching the film ‘A Plastic Ocean’. He added: “You obviously see turtles and other marine species with plastic bags that they have ingested, you know this plastic will never go away. Manchester river has worst microplastic pollution ever recorded Chancellor to ask public for ideas to curb plastic pollution It's not just Bali that has a 'sea of plastic' Businesses drastically under-report plastic waste, research finds As marine plastic litter mounts, what's the evidence on harm? "It just breaks down into smaller, smaller and smaller pieces – a crisps packet could end up being thousands of tiny pieces that lots of other marine animals are going to ingest. That’s the worry people don’t appreciate, that it doesn’t stay as a whole packet over the course of 50, 60 years - the same with single-use bottles. “Walkers is owned by Pepsi, that organisation is responsible for all those single use bottles, crisp packets and even if they say by 2025 they will change their packaging, that’s seven years’ worth of crisp packets that could potentially be doing so much harm. “Why can’t manufactures fall into line quickly - the technology is out there, there are home-combustible food wrappers available now. If alternatives are available now that are more healthy and don’t use plastic packaging, the tide should literally turn.” A spokesperson for Walkers said: "At Walkers, we take the problem of litter and waste very seriously. We include on-pack labels to encourage our consumers to dispose of their waste responsibly and are also working towards the goal of designing all our packaging to be recyclable, compostable or biodegradable by 2025. "Last year, we also became a founding member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy, an ambitious, three-year initiative to help create a plastics system that works.” The New Plastics Economy project is described as aiming to change the way companies and people "make, use and reuse plastics". Walkers was founded in Leicester in 1948 and its crisp production plant in the city is the largest in the world. It produces more than 11 million bags of crisps every day. Other items coming under fire include plastic straws and single-use coffee cups. According to the parliamentary environmental audit committee, 2.5bn coffee cups are thrown away in the UK every year. The government is now considering introducing a ‘latte levy’ to discourage their use and Waitrose said they will remove throwaway cups from all their stores this year. Sir David Attenborough took to screens to warn about the perils of plastic pollution in the final episode of BBC’s Blue Planet II. According to campaign group The Final Straw Cornwall, 8.5 billion straws are used in the UK each year. A UK levy of 5p per plastic bag was introduced in 2015. Boy finds 30-year-old packet of Walkers crisps | The Independent Labels: business, campaigns, food+drink, marine, plastic, pollution, recycling, waste

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in Editor Screen Actors Guild Predictions by Clayton Davis January 29, 2012, 3:33 PM 9 Comments Tonight, the Screen Actors Guild will present their winners for the very best in film and television. The SAG awards have presented themselves as the most telling precursor of them all. Last year, they matched up with Oscar 100% in their choices. This year will be even more telling as the race seems wide open in several categories. How will the most popular branch fair tomorrow night? Best Performance by a Cast Ensemble Prediction: “The Artist” Alternate: “The Help” Surprise: “Bridesmaids” Should Win: “The Help” Tate Taylor’s “The Help” presented the single best assembly of actresses in years. Not since Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours” have women taken charge of a film and let the men take the backseat significantly. While “The Help” could and should likely win in this category, “The Artist” is the film of the moment and where I don’t think the film can win anywhere else, I think actors don’t want to see it go home empty handed a la “Slumdog Millionaire.” “Bridesmaids” has the same type of things going for it like “The Help” does but when it comes to comedy, actors are a bit more up with the times so to speak. In 1998, they chose “The Full Monty” over favorites “Boogie Nights,” “L.A. Confidential,” “Good Will Hunting,” and Oscar Winner “Titanic.” If the actors are completely in love with “The Descendants,” then we can expect a love fest to happen here but without Shailene Woodley nominated, I’m not getting that vibe. Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Demian Bichir – “A Better Life” George Clooney – “The Descendants” Leonardo DiCaprio – “J. Edgar” Jean Dujardin – “The Artist” Brad Pitt – “Moneyball” In the past, this award has shown some very eye-opening surprises. Johnny Depp beat out Bill Murray (“Lost in Translation”) and Sean Penn (“Mystic River”) for his work in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.” I think this bodes well for Brad Pitt who has not been recognized by his peers yet after receiving a nomination for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Despite “Moneyball” missing in the Ensemble category, I think there are people aching for a Brad Pitt acceptance speech. George Clooney has only won a SAG award as a part of the ensemble of the hit TV show “ER.” They may want to see an acceptance speech from him. If “The Artist” love is deeper than we think, Dujardin can receive a nice boost and win. DiCaprio and Bichir will enjoy from the sidelines. Predicted: Brad Pitt for “Moneyball” Alternate: George Clooney for “The Descendants” Surprise: Jean Dujardin for “The Artist” Should Win: Jean Dujardin Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Glenn Close – “Albert Nobbs” Viola Davis – “The Help” Meryl Streep – “The Iron Lady” Tilda Swinton – “We Need to Talk About Kevin” Michelle Williams – “My Week with Marilyn” This will tell us if Glenn Close wins the Oscar or not. If she wins at SAG, all other performers are over. Sentiment can go a long way a la James Coburn for “Affliction.” He didn’t win the SAG but the lovefest bounced from here all the way to the Oscar podium. After winning the Globe, Streep will be looking to be taken seriously for the Oscar. She won this award for “Doubt” when Kate Winslet was still being considered Supporting for “The Reader.” I don’t think Streep has what it takes yet. Viola and Michelle will be looking for a jump on the competition from the SAG awards. I still think Viola’s powerful performance and extreme likability factor will pull her through. We shall see. And Tilda…poor Tilda. Predicted: Viola Davis for “The Help” Alternate: Glenn Close for “Albert Nobbs” Surprise: Michelle Williams for “My Week with Marilyn” Should Win: Viola Davis Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Kenneth Branagh – “My Week with Marilyn” Armie Hammer – “J. Edgar” Jonah Hill – “Moneyball” Nick Nolte – “Warrior” Christopher Plummer – “Beginners” Christopher Plummer will and should solidify a likely Oscar win for his work in “Beginners” given he’s awarded the SAG award. Kenneth Branagh and Nick Nolte are the only feasible characters that could outwit Plummer but their films are not as critically acceptable as his. Hammer is in a bad film and Hill is new to this so I don’t expect any upsets from them. Plummer all the way. Predicted: Christopher Plummer for “Beginners” Alternate: Kenneth Branagh for “My Week with Marilyn” Surprise: Nick Nolte for “Warrior” Should Win: Jonah Hill Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Bérénice Bejo – “The Artist” Jessica Chastain – “The Help” Melissa McCarthy – “Bridesmaids” Janet McTeer – “Albert Nobbs” Octavia Spencer – “The Help” With the Critics Choice and the Globes going for Spencer, it looks as though she’s the one to topple all her competitors. This is the only lineup that matches 100% with the Oscar nominations so this should be the most telling. Bejo could benefit from a sweep. Chastain could benefit from having a year of a lifetime. McCarthy could benefit from just being hands down the funniest of the bunch. And McTeer…well, McTeer could benefit from showing her breasts. I guess. It’s going to be interesting but I don’t see it as open and shut for Spencer as others do. Eddie Murphy had the same type of momentum and won the SAG but lost Oscar. Predicted: Octavia Spencer for “The Help” Alternate: Melissa McCarthy for “Bridesmaids” Surprise: Jessica Chastain for “The Help” Should Win: Bérénice Bejo Television Categories Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series “Modern Family” is the best series on television and has won the Emmy two years in a row. It’s also the most consistent series on television currently. “The Office” is hurting without Michael Scott. “30 Rock” is at a series low in ratings. “Glee” came and went. “The Big Bang Theory” is the only show that can hold up to its competition. Predicted: Modern Family Alternate: The Big Bang Theory Surprise: The Office Should Win: Modern Family Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series HBO is always a safe choice with the actors branch and “Boardwalk Empire” has done exceedingly well in its run thus far. “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad” are losing fans. “Game of Thrones” is gaining fans but I think lacks the popularity as of yet. It will very soon. “The Good Wife” is all about Julianna Marguilles. Predicted: Boardwalk Empire Alternate: Game of Thrones Surprise: Breaking Bad Should Win: Boardwalk Empire Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Alec Baldwin – “30 Rock” Ty Burrell – “Modern Family” Steve Carell – “The Office” Jon Cryer – “Two and a Half Men” Eric Stonestreet – “Modern Family” Where the “Modern Family” guys would make fabulous choices, I think Steve Carell’s work in his final season of “The Office” could land him a long overdue award from his peers. They missed the boat a few times especially in film (“Little Miss Sunshine”). Alec Baldwin is very popular with his actors but his current news headlines leave him out. Cryer is happy to just still be on television. Predicted: Steve Carell for “The Office” Alternate: Ty Burrell for “Modern Family” Surprise: Eric Stonestreet for “Modern Family” Should Win: Ty Burrell Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Julie Bowen – “Modern Family” Edie Falco – “Nurse Jackie” Tina Fey – “30 Rock” Sofia Vergara – “Modern Family” Betty White – “Hot in Cleveland” Betty White won this award last year and now at 90 years old, she may be going for another award. The “Modern Family” girls could easily walk on through for a victory so watch out there. The bus for Tina Fey and Edie Falco has come and gone for this award. Prediction: Betty White for “Hot in Cleveland” Alternate: Sofia Vergara for “Modern Family” Surprise: Julie Bowen for “Modern Family” Should Win: Sofia Vergara Outstanding Performance a Male Actor in a Drama Series Patrick J. Adams – “Suits” Steve Buscemi – “Boardwalk Empire” Kyle Chandler – “Friday Night Lights” Bryan Cranston – “Breaking Bad” Michael C. Hall – “Dexter” Buscemi vs. Chandler. The old vs. the new or new vs. the old. Whatever. I think the ending of “Friday Night Lights” could be enough to push Chandler through but Buscemi is beloved by all his peers. Prediction: Steve Buscemi for “Boardwalk Empire” Alternate: Kyle Chandler for “Friday Night LIghts” Surprise: Bryan Cranston for “Breaking Bad” Should Win: Steve Buscemi Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Kathy Bates – “Harry’s Law” Glenn Close – “Damages” Jessica Lange – “American Horror Story” Julianna Marguilles – “The Good Wife” Kyra Sedgwick – “The Closer” Where Glenn Close could lose for “Albert Nobbs” they may reward her here for the sake of it. Jessica Lange is the best thing on television right now for her work on “American Horror Story.” Marguilles is a favorite for this award so she could take it again. Predicted: Glenn Close for “Damages” Alternate: Jessica Lange for “American Horror Story” Surprise: Julianne Marguilles for “The Good Wife” Should Win: Jessica Lange Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Laurence Fishburne for Thurgood Paul Giamatti for Too Big to Fail Greg Kinnear for The Kennedys Guy Pearce for Mildred Pierce James Woods for Too Big to Fail Predicted: Laurence Fishburne for Thurgood Alternate: Paul Giamatti for Too Big to Fail Surprise: Guy Pearce Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Diane Lane for Cinema Verite Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult Betty White for The Lost Valentine Kate Winslet for Mildred Pierce Prediction: Kate Winslet for Mildred Pierce Alternate Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey Surprise: Diane Lane Screen Actors Guildthe artistThe DescendantsSAGBridesmaidsMidnight in ParisThe Help Previous article Oscar Circuit: Best Original Score Next article SAG Awards Live Blog Starts @ 7:45pm Written by Clayton Davis Clayton Davis is the esteemed Editor and Owner of AwardsCircuit.com. Born in Bronx, NY to a Puerto Rican mother and Black father, he’s been criticizing film and television for over a decade. Clayton is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association where he votes and attends the kick off to the awards season, the Critics Choice Awards. He also founded the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association, the first Latino-based critics’ organization in the United States. He’s also an active member of the African-American Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online, International Press Academy, Black Reel Awards, and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. Clayton has been quoted and appeared in various outlets that include The New York Times, CNN.com, Variety, Deadline, Los Angeles Times, FOX 5, Bloomberg Television, AOL, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Radio, The Wrap, Slash Film, and the Hollywood Reporter. Our site 9 Oscar Circuit: Best Original Score SAG Awards Live Blog Starts @ 7:45pm Top 10: Films Featuring SNL Alumni With the release of “The King of Staten Island,” we countdown the movies from Saturday Night Live’s best. Top 10: Comedies of the 2010s Six Circuit: Which 2011 Best Picture Hopeful Came ‘Incredibly Close’? Circuit Q&A: What’s Your Favorite Melissa McCarthy Performance?

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Palm Beach Villas Greenacres, Florida Homes for Sale Current Prices:$195,000 to $318,999 Closed Prices:$165,000 to $325,000 Median Sale Price:$290,000 Association Fee Ranges:$0 Age:1975 to 1979 Sq. Ft.:768 to 1,888Sq. Ft. This community has numerous amenities available for residents to enjoy. Palm Beach Villas is a neighborhood in Green Acres, Florida. Homes in Palm Beach Villas are 1,300 square feet on average and typically have three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Homes in this neighborhood typically sit on average-sized lots. The most common types of parking in the community are driveway and garage, and homes in Palm Beach Villas typically have one space. Schedule a tour in Palm Beach Villas Submit a review for Palm Beach Villas Have something to say about this neighborhood? Tell the world! How would you rate Palm Beach Villas? Tell us what you think about Palm Beach Villas Neighborhood Resident?

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Rye Products "Mämmi", the Finnish Easter pudding, is made of rye malt, rye flour, and water that are allowed to sweeten naturally and are then baked in the oven for several hours. The roots of this cereal-based dish go back hundreds of years in time, but it is still a common Easter dish, although nowadays enjoyed most often with cream and sugar.

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The Mail that Didn't Come I'm sorry about last week. I had a bit of trouble with the computer I was on. I had typed up my email and was trying to attach some photos, but it was taking forever to attach the photos. So, my time ran out and my email wasn't sent. So, here's last week's mail that didn't come. Well, it was Halloween, and this year I decided to dress up as a missionary. It's very uneventful down here because the people don't believe in Halloween. In fact, they're kinda against it. As far as this week's happenings, we had interviews with Pres. Graff and I learned that 8 missionaries will have gone home and only one new one is coming. We're losing missionaries in the field, but not just here, it's happening all over the world. Along with the interveiws, transfers are this week. All of us here in Old Harbour are pretty sure it's going back to a 2 man house, we're just not sure who's staying and who's leaving. Lastly for this week, we had dinner at the Relief Society President's house. You could say it was like a mini branch party. It was pretty good and I got to say goodbye to some people. I've been in Old Harbour for 6 months and am 99.9% positive I'm leaving. Here's the photos: -Weight loss with pants that I have not had taken in by a tailor -6 month mark of my mission -party at Sister Dennis' and the Don of Old Harbour herself Labels: Old Harbour, Sister Dennis, weight loss WHOOOO WEEEEE! A Weird Week This Week Now Another One Finds the Truth

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Mrs. Robbins My name is Shelby Robbins and this is my 4th year teaching in Plano ISD. I am a PISD graduate and so proud to be back home as a teacher here in Plano. I have taught 5th, 4th, and 2nd grade and have loved every single one of them! My goal as a teacher is to bring out the best in my students academically, socially, and emotionally. I graduated from The University of Arkansas in 2017 and am currently working towards my Educational Leadership masters through Stephen F. Austin. Outside of school I love spending time with my family, swimming, and reading. My husband Travis and I were high school sweethearts and got married in December 2017. We have a dog named Lyla who we are absolutely obsessed with and we spend much of our time cheering on the Dallas Stars!

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Crime Scenes Secrets + A Sure Fire Bet Don’t gamble with the success of your wedding day! Avoid leaving guests waiting in a bar for ages with nothing to do. Come back to a buzzing room full of laughter and chatter after the photo shoot. Fantastic entertainer and magician, our wedding guests are still talking about him 3 weeks after the big day! Best decision we ever made, every wedding should have a Nick Stein — Debbie & Brendan Fennell, Milton Keynes A few things you should know You're getting married and, if you're reading this, you'll probably be getting stuck into organising your special day. If you haven't already, you'll find very quickly that there's an awful lot more to organise than you may have first expected. There are the obvious things to sort out like the venue, the cake and the photographer, the invitations, choosing your first dance and of course the dress fittings and alterations. The bits they don't tell you about When you're having fun with all of the above, It's very easy to forget some very important things such as planning for UK weather, making sure there are enough vegetarian/vegan food options, organising plenty of soft drinks for guests that are driving, everything staying on time and how to stop your guests getting bored while you're off having your photographs taken. Guest entertainment really is important, here's why: One aspect that's often overlooked is guest entertainment. Whilst you'll be busy having your photographs taken, your guests will be eagerly awaiting your return – and attention, with nothing but a bar to keep them occupied. This can lead to some guests getting too drunk too early and risks upsetting the positive atmosphere. Not all of your guests will have met each other and some will find it harder than others to spark up a conversation with people they don't know. How I can help: This is an ideal time for me to mingle amongst your guests, approaching small groups breaking the ice and bringing everyone together. I make them laugh, amaze them with visual magic that happens right in front of them and in their own hands and give them a real talking point. This ensures there's a warm buzzing glow in the room upon your return. Your photographer is able to get some amazing reaction shots of you and your friends and family enjoying the magic, laughing and having fun together. It also has the useful side effect that people don't reach for alcohol to help them through any awkward social situations. Hi Nick, Now that we are back from our honeymoon I just wanted to thank you for putting on such a great show at our wedding. Our guests loved the show and were all talking about you for weeks! — Rory Grant To get guests into their seats quickly and keep them there, I stop performing just before they are to be seated. While guests are being seated I will come and perform a personal magic effect just for the two of you as you wait outside. Between courses, I then approach each table with a personal mini show. Guests will remain in their seats for fear of missing out on their personal table show, allowing staff to serve food and clear the tables more quickly. It's also an excellent way to keep conversations flowing with everyone having a great time. Let's face it, you can only hold a conversation about table decorations for so long. Keeping a wedding running on time is not easy but I can help. If guests are unable to hear announcements clearly they'll simply ignore them. This means wasting valuable time herding everyone into the dining area for the wedding breakfast. Other hold-ups occur when guests interfere with the seating plan, or start wandering between tables between courses. Guests not being seated quickly can upset the entire itinerary but more importantly it leaves you both waiting around outside, before making your first entrance as the happy couple. Nick was marvellous at engaging with everyone, bringing them together and especially at amazing the children. His centrepiece act was superb in its astonishing magic, plus the razor-sharp, lightning-quick and bold, cheeky humour ensured it was totally memorable and a highlight for all – apart from us getting married, of course! — Farid Ahmed - Chichester, West Sussex This is the perfect time for me to perform a cabaret show to shake things up a little. The show is packed with intelligent humour and plenty of audience participation. My performance will leave your guests excited and energised, ready to enjoy the rest of your special day with you. Guaranteed not only to have them in stitches of laughter throughout, this show will have them talking about your wedding for years to come. It also frees the staff up to turn over the room. Combatting the afternoon lull Once the carbohydrates have kicked in, and the alcohol takes its toll, it can cause a bit of a 'lull'. At this point you still have a lot planned, like the cutting of the cake, the first dance and the arrival of your evening guests. This means the staff will need to change the room around for the arrival of your evening guests and the rest of the day's proceedings. Nick was brilliantly entertaining. Witty and talented, he was a key moment of our day and his show was thoroughly enjoyed by both our younger and older guests. I’d have no hesitation in recommending him; a consummate professional and superb performer. — Ben & Megan Lathbury - Chichester, West Sussex WHY BOOK ME? It's not about the tricks! With over 12 years experience as a wedding magician, I've performed at literally hundreds of weddings and I've seen what works and what doesn't. I will work closely with your photographers, videographers and your wedding coordinator to make sure everything runs smoothly and that you have the amazing wedding day that you deserve. At the heart of what I do is a simple idea. For a few magical moments, I'm able to turn adults into kids again, giving them a sense of wonder, making them laugh uncontrollably and making them forget their adult world of responsibility, work and stress for a short while. Avoid dissapointment! At this stage, the most important thing is to secure your special date in order to avoid disappointment, as dates get booked up very quickly and are strictly on a first come first served basis. To hold your date and get a proposal please click the button below. Once your date is secure I'll get in touch with you to discuss your enquiry and send you a proposal with my booking formats and fees. If you go ahead with the booking you'll receive the following: The booking confirmation and documentation My Performance Rider and essential booking information An invoice with full payment terms I'll keep in touch with you leading up to the booking, in case you have any questions or would like to make any changes to your itinerary. Secure My Date Secure My Date - Wedding Booking Your Date All dates are strictly subject to availability and on a first come, first served basis. Your Business Event Your Private Event Your Festival Shills & Confederates Recruit Nick Email: nick@nickstein.co.uk

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Community Integrated Care exists to enable people to lead the Best Lives Possible. It’s that simple. From Scotland to England, we want to provide support based on the principles of choice, dignity and respect in the community. And that resonates in our vision of “Your Life, Your Choice”. We know what we want to achieve, and our values drive us forward every day. We’re clear and focused on what makes up the DNA of our charity: We include the people we support, our colleagues, partners and the communities where we work. We deliver the best possible outcomes for the people we support, our colleagues and the people we work with. We aspire to be the best at what we do. We respect individual choices and promote inclusion, rights and independence. We enable others to fulfil their needs and achieve their aspirations. We Dare to be different Bringing our values to life, we’ve captured our ethos and ambitions in two words – We Dare. Which is derived from the acronym of our values IDARE. How do we translate our vision into reality as a national social care charity? These are the three strands of our brand promise that keep us on track across all of our services… We’re proud of our people, we care with passion, and we believe in potential. These commitments underpin all of our actions, and we hope that they shine out from our people. As we challenge the expectations and perceptions of the care sector, we strive to enrich the lives of the people we support, while continuing to build relationships with customers, colleagues and communities. Read our exciting new strategy as we continue to explore new ways to help people lead the best lives possible.

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Dodgers Fans React to New Pitch Clock Rules Dodgers Score: LA Gets First Win of the Cactus League Season Over Cubs Dodgers News: Miguel Rojas Provides Update on Foot Cramp That Forced Him Out of Game Dodgers News: Miguel Rojas Exits Cactus League Game With Apparent Injury Dodgers News: RHP Alex Reyes Talks About Why He Chose LA in Free Agency Dodgers: Andrew Friedman Traveled to Watch Yoshinobu Yamamoto, A Top Pitcher in Japan MLB News: Manny Machado and Padres Agree to 11 Year Mega Deal Dodgers News: Trayce Thompson Reflects on Previous Season and Plans Going Forward Dodgers News: Dave Roberts Talks Ryan Pepiot’s Offseason and Areas of Improvement Dodgers News: Max Muncy Praises Noah Syndergaard’s Stuff After Scrimmage Home/Team News/VIDEO: Cody Bellinger Makes Incredible Catch And Hits A Home Run VIDEO: Cody Bellinger Makes Incredible Catch And Hits A Home Run Big time players, make big time plays, in big time games. What a night for Chandler, Arizona native Cody Bellinger! We all knew that he has had his fair share of struggles during the NLDS, hitting just .083 in the postseason through his second at-bat on Monday. Luckily, that didn’t stop him from having a huge impact during the Dodgers’ win against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday. Game 3 was one of the best showcases that baseball fans will witness during the 2017 postseason, and it was nothing short of being labeled as a classic in Dodgers postseason history. Zack Greinke fought threw 5+ innings pitched, and had remained solid after limiting the Dodgers’ chances with runners in scoring position. However, Bellinger had been on a home run slump since he hit his 39th of the regular season weeks ago, and he crushed a clutch one to left-center field in the top of the 5th inning to extend the lead by two runs and collecting his second run batted in of the night! A post shared by Los Angeles Dodgers (@dodgers) Bellinger became the youngest player in Dodgers history to hit a home run in the postseason, passing shortstop Corey Seager at 22 years old/88 days. Nevertheless, Bellinger didn’t stop there. He literally sucked the remaining life out of Chase Field when he covered a foul ball that was 92 feet from first base. The catch resulted in him falling over the visiting team’s dugout rail to end the bottom of the 5th inning. Arizona’s Daniel Descalso had hit a home run prior to that play, so this catch definitely helped Los Angeles regain the momentum! He spoke with Alanna Rizzo after the win and had this to say: I think it’s normal to try to do too much and that’s what I was trying to do, but like I said I tried to simplify everything and it’s been working out. Moments like these just make fans appreciate the grind that these players go through. The Dodgers have been on a mission to win the World Series since the beginning of their incredible season, but it’s clearly been made possible because of the miraculous effort that Cody Bellinger has put in since the day he was called up. This NLDS win feels great, this team is considerably better than their opponents, and Blue October is only getting started. They’ll regroup and being getting ready for the winner of the Nationals/Cubs NLDS series, but it’s time to pop the champagne bottles and celebrate a dominant sweep over their pesky NL West rivals. [button color=”red” size=”big” alignment=”center” rel=”follow” openin=”newwindow” url=”https://dodgersnation.com/the-dodgers-sweep-the-diamondbacks-and-are-headed-to-the-nlcs/2017/10/09/”]The Dodgers Sweep The Diamondbacks And Are Headed To The NLCS[/button] The Dodgers Sweep The Diamondbacks And Are Headed To The NLCS Diamondbacks Station Police On Horses To Guard Pool At Chase Field Dodgers: Freddie Freeman Shares His Thoughts on The New Shift Ban Dodgers Offseason: Who’s Out, Who’s In, and Who’s Coming? Recapping the Winter So Far Dodgers: Cody Bellinger Highlights, Grades and More | 2022 Year in Review Dodgers Poll: Fans Still Believe LA is the Team to Beat in the National League Dodgers Poll: Offseason Moves Earn Low Marks from Fans Up to This Point

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In 1966 Paco Rabanne opened his own outlet at the age of 32, where he earned international repute for his metal-linked plastic-disc dresses, sun goggles and jewelry made of plastic in primary colors. Paco Rabanne’s dresses made of small plastic tiles linked together by chains, stole the show in Paris. His first collection, titled “12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials,” sums up his philosophy that “the only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials.” Throughout his career, Rabanne experimented with everything from plastic and aluminum to fiberglass and paper to create futuristic, eccentric, yet highly influential garments. The Italian-born Frenchman is lauded for his 20th century pieces that looked as though they were from the 25th century. As Cardin rose to fame in the age of the space race, his creations took on an air of futurism. His so-called bubble dresses had all the fixings of science fiction, combining earthly elegance with out-of-this-world colors and avant garde design. They may be wacky, sure, but Cardin’s clothes showed a freedom of expression that highlighted larger ideals, in particular the emancipation of women. The visionary designer fell out of critical favor when he attached his name to less fashionable items, from cars to umbrellas, but his futuristic, space-centric legacy will live to infinity and beyond. His interest in sewing and fashion started at an early age; as a young boy, he tailored clothes and created hats for his mother and sisters to wear. After graduating from high school, Frowick went to University in Indiana, but he lasted only one semester. Dropping out of University led him to a more creative life: he took night school courses at an art institute in Chicago and began to work as a window-dresser. The Pantone colour system is an internationally recognized colour referencing system where thousands of shades are numbered. If you want to select your color story, you can use Pantone to develop color standards. Pantone is a color forecasting site. Each color swatch is labeled and categorized with numbers and letters, so you can find your true color easily for designing. My husband and i felt quite fulfilled that Ervin managed to round up his inquiry out of the ideas he acquired from your very own site. It’s not at all simplistic to just continually be releasing techniques the others have been making money from. And we all fully understand we need the writer to thank because of that. All of the illustrations you have made, the straightforward site navigation, the relationships you will give support to instill – it’s got most astonishing, and it is letting our son and the family do think this issue is fun, and that’s seriously important. Thanks for the whole lot! Inquiring for my daughter. Where is the best Fashion Merchandise Marketing school in Sacramento and San Francisco area? Whenever I goggle these schools, some say Institute of Art in Sacramento, and some say FIDM, and others. I’m so confused I have no idea, which is the best college for my money. I have decided to go to American River College to get my Associates, and then I have no idea where to continue my fashion degree. The hats Roy Frowick created in his spare time became his entrée into the world of high fashion. After garnering some publicity for his designs in a Chicago newspaper, he was able to open his first boutique in 1957. Around this time, he dropped his first and last names, opting for a more glamorous moniker that has became synonymous with American glamour…Halston. Currently the fashion industry relies more on mass market sales. The mass market caters for a wide range of customers, producing ready-to-wear garments using trends set by the famous names in fashion. They often wait around a season to make sure a style is going to catch on before producing their own versions of the original look. To save money and time, they use cheaper fabrics and simpler production techniques which can easily be done by machine. The end product can therefore be sold much more cheaply.[7][8][9] Gabrielle“Coco” Bonheur Chanel is probably the most reputable fashion designer of all time. She is a very exceptional, hard-working woman who has managed to found the famous Chanel brand. The key things she tries to convey in her designs are simplicity, practicality and elegance. Coco is one of the most influential figure of the 20th century. Her ideas are very modernistic and brave, and her models are still the benchmark in simplicity and elegance. "A/W is always a moment for incredible outerwear, and this season it was no exception. For the most part, it was the bigger the better; oversized shapes, duvet dressing, blanket capes and more," says Elizabeth von der Goltz, Net-a-Porter global buying director. "Oversized cannot be mentioned without talking to the trench coat and the bigger the better with billowing sleeves at JW Anderson, cape draping at Burberry and classic maxi coats at Khaite. Big coats marked the opening of the Max Mara runway in blue, yellow and teal. Hot pink was the favourite at Jacquemus and Valentino, whose oversized silhouettes gave this typically feminine colour a masculine twist. And last but not least is the puffa jacket, which received an elegant update with a new reference to duvet dressing. Padding, quilting, floral embroidery and organza layering came from the likes of Margiela, Dries Van Noten and Toteme." Fashion design collection is a range of garments, accessories or products that are designed and produced for sale to retailers or direct to the customer. It is grouped by theme, colour or fabrication, creating a strong fashion statement. This range of items may be inspired by trends and theme. Cultural and social influences are reflecting on design. Designs are usually done for the special occasion or season. Collection is a grouping of outfits that are present for catwalk, online web pages. For the wholesale market, the collection will be shown at trade shows or in-house events. For the general customer designer give their collections on press or magazine by attractive photographs. Designers conduct research on fashion trends and interpret them for their audience. Their specific designs are used by manufacturers. This is the essence of a designer’s role; however, there is variation within this that is determined by the buying and merchandising approach, and product quality; for example, budget retailers will use inexpensive fabrics to interpret trends, but high-end retailers will ensure that the best available fabrics are used.[1] Over in London, things were distinctly more aggressive: Punk and themes of dissonance could be felt strongly (Brexit, much?), with plenty of tartan, more safety pins than even Johnny Rotten could handle and Vivienne Westwood staging an entire protest about climate change for her show. The strong mood could clearly be felt over the Channel, too, as British designer Sarah Burton's vision for Alexander McQueen this coming season established the poshest and most brilliantly executed iteration on punk we've seen in a long, long time. And talking of being combative, if you don't pick up on the "army" theme of many of the season's biggest shows (Bottega Veneta, Chloé, Miu Miu) and end up buying a pair of combat boots, I'll eat my bucket hat. "We saw the 'army' mood return, but in a more effortless and understated way than previous seasons. A utility and combat mood was a favorite in Milan, particularly from the likes of Prada and Miu Miu, who offered full army-inspired looks. I loved Isabel Marant’s oversized styles which similarly drew inspiration with oversized vests and pocket-detailed trousers. A favourite piece had to be Stella McCartney's full khaki green jumpsuit, which looks great with an oversized jacket in the same hue and a pair of pumps," says Hsu. Wanderer enlivened looks meets the spectacular fly set styling, and you have gypset, described by striking examples, orientalism and richness of bohemianism. It is one of the greatest design incline for ladies this year, and is absolutely wearable. It is a fun and charming voyage line, starting in the ’70s. Zest up your normal work and night closet with a dash of shading and exoticism. Layered tunics with Aladdin pants, oriental-roused embellishments and intense botanical examples, will energize the look. Ralph Lauren is known for his desire to control every facet of his company’s image: some of his ex-employees tell tales of a control freak with a quick temper and little patience for mistakes. In fact, the whole Lauren saga, with its many reversals of fortune and huge comebacks, was recorded with biting accuracy in the nasty, unauthorized tell-all book, Genuine Authentic. The 66 years old diva, Donna Karan is one of the most influential fashion designers in the world. Her line of cloths was created for women to where when they are going to a cocktail party straight from work. Sleek and practical basics are mixed with glamorous and feminine pieces. To sum up, Donna Karan has left a lasting impact on the world of clothing, bringing uptown New York chic into the mainstream. He was born and brought up in Mumbai, and was studying to graduate in commerce whilst decided to alter his field and therefore applied for National-Institute-Of-Fashion-Technology New-Delhi. After graduation won the Best Student Award! Launched his label ”Manish-Arora” & started vending in India. Manish symbolized India at HongKong Fashion Week, in the year 2000 and also participated in the first Indian-Fashion-Week held in New-Delhi. In the next year he launched his other label “Fish Fry” , it was shown in six topmost Indian-cities. His future in our space stimulated line at Wills-India-Fashion-Week fascinated many international viewers, in 2007. Arora is an industrious man who’s always on the go! Because of his intellect and beautiful sense of styling, MAC has enrolled him to team up on a new project, the Raj-inspired-beauty-range. He also introduced his jewelry collection in 2012 that was much loved. He’s recognized for his eccentric amalgamation of western&Indian clothing that assemble perfectly! An homage to Karl Lagerfeld or just a coincidence, bouclé and tweeds are back on the fashion menu and looking particularly natty in jacket form. It's a trend we know the high street does well (Zara are particularly skilled in this department), so I'd imagine this will become available at a lower price point and may take the place of your parka/biker/bombers when it comes to flinging a jacket over any given outfit. You could go the whole nine yards and wear it with a matching skirt (see Gucci) or dress (Brock Collection), but we also liked Louis Vuitton's leather trousers idea.

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Healthcare Exhibitors: Be in the Room Where It Happens by: Jon Ellms February 8, 2017 | Healthcare If you have been fortunate enough to see “Hamilton,” you no doubt remember a number in the second act when Aaron Burr, realizing that Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison are making a deal over dinner to support Hamilton’s financial system in return for Hamilton’s agreeing to moving the capital city, sings “No one else was in the room where it happened.” As Burr becomes aware that he is an outsider, that decisions are being made without his input, he sings a song that is, according to The New Yorker, about “power and powerlessness.” Sound familiar? As a healthcare exhibit manager, you know that your budget is probably larger than almost any other marketing initiative, yet are you in the room when the decisions are made? Do your colleagues perceive you as a tactical person who orders services and carpets rather than a person who should be in “the room where it happens” when decisions are made about connecting with HCPs and patients? Diverse channels should not mean diverse content There was a time, not too many years ago, when journal ads and conventions were the heartbeat of healthcare marketing. But that has changed. Digital marketing, direct-to-consumer advertising (DTC), e- detailing, interactive sales tools, out of home initiatives such as 5ks that raise awareness of various diseases—all of these touch points with HCPs as well as with patient populations demand attention. For far too many years, product marketing in healthcare has been siloed, with little sharing from one initiative to another. The result has been a very fragmented delivery of brand messaging and product information. Why you should be in the room where it happens At the very least, you need to be in the room. You need to have a seat at the table where decisions are made and where product marketing is deconstructed and messages are crafted. In addition to working with your exhibit partner, you need to be in front of the product agency, or agencies, as is often the case, and because you know more about face-to-face marketing than anyone else, your voice needs to be heard. Your colleagues need to realize that your program is one of the last personal touch points with HCPs, particularly as field sales calls are thwarted by operational efficiencies at various practices and hospitals. Your insights and experience are important for cohesive marketing Execution of the brand strategy in a face-to-face environment is challenging in and of itself, but even more important, there are several areas where your insights and input are essential. Those areas are: Content Strategy (brand stories) Channel integration for optimal experiences Enhancing the face-to-face experience with memorable brand assets Over the next few weeks, we will be exploring how you can enhance your participation in decisions that affect your work and that ultimately protect your program and your budget. Or in the words of the title character in “Hamilton,” When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game. But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game. For help in planning your healthcare strategy, download our free guide, Creative Bravery: Face to Face Marketing Strategies for the Healthcare Industry now. Jon Ellms Vice President, Principal Now in his third decade of helping healthcare exhibitors succeed at convention marketing, Jon Ellms, Vice President, Principal, has managed programs for incubator companies with a single product in clinical trials as well as for industry giants such as Amgen, Novo Nordisk, Celgene and other companies with extensive global reach. A visionary, Jon is the mentor and director of Access’ healthcare practice and has recruited team members who question the status quo, understand challenges before suggesting solutions, and produce results for clients, bringing both strategic and tactical excellence. Considered a thought leader in the healthcare industry, Jon has been an active member of Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Associations (HCEA) for more than 20 years and has often spoken at that association’s Annual Meeting. A graduate of Bucknell University, Jon is a board member and minority shareholder in the company. ← Putting the Customer in the Custom Exhibit A Step by Step Guide to Creative Bravery for Healthcare Exhibitors →

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Man it is getting crazy hot out here in Visak but its still an awesome place to be. It's funny because our apartment is like a half km to the bus stop so even in the morning when we get out there we are already full sweating. The district is doing awesome though and everyone enjoyed President and sister Berrett coming for district conference. They talked about how they are trying to start construction for their own building out here but facing some problems so maybe in years they want to open it up as the stake center out here. I think people got excited out here about that so now they really want to help out. My companion came on Tuesday night so I took him around to visit a bunch of families and investigators. I think that we will be able to do lots of good work out here now. We are blessed with finding new people to teach every week and lots of people are starting to accept it in their life. We talked about how the most important tool we can use out here is the Book of Mormon and is literally the do or die for conversion. Anyone that reads it and thinks about it and prays about it WILL receive an answer and know its divinity. I had an experience where we met a less active brother and his friends who stopped coming to church 5 years back. Everyone had questioned him as to why we needed the Book and he didn't know how to answer them so we answered his question and it was like the answer he had been waiting for years for I guess but he was so happy. He came to church the next day too so I guess the Spirit really touched his heart. The Lord has blessed us with so many miracles out here its unreal. Love you all enjoy

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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/2008_world_game_sales/ 2008 a top year for UK games sales More than twice as many units bought last year than in 2003 Recession notwithstanding, the games software sales in the world's biggest markets grew 11 per cent last year. UK sales alone were up 26 per cent year on year - and more than double 2003's sales.The figures come from NPD in the US, GfK Chart-Track here and Enterbrain in Japan. Some 409.9m game packages were sold worldwide in 2008, up from 367.7m in 2007.US sales were up 15 per cent, but Japan's were down by 13 per cent, Enterbrain said, pointing the finger at declining demand for PS2 games rather than weakness in the current generation of

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Mobile users can open program in new tab for better viewing. Open program in new tab Day 1 17/04/2020 Opening 08:00 - 08:20 Welcome speech by General Chair 08:20 - 08:30 Welcome speech by Conference Manager 08:30 - 08:40 Keynote speech-Prof. Miriam Capretz 08:40 - 09:20 Title: Big Data Opportunities, Challenges and Applications Keynote speech-Prof. Mario Dantas 09:20 - 10:10 Title: Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Break 10:10 - 10:30 Session 1 10:30 - 11:30 ↓ ↑ Session Chair: Moisés Lima Dutra (20 minutes for presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions) Data Management Plan in Research: Characteristics and Development Data science is an interdisciplinary field that extracts value from data. One of the relevant areas is its application in research in order to define requirements of the data life cycle. Thus, data should be managed before, during, and after a research project completion. A robust data management plan (DMP) is a relevant and useful instrument to establish data-related requirements. In this context, this paper aims at highlighting some characteristics associated to research data management. To conduct this study peer-reviewed literature and secondary data are methodologically employed to fulfil the paper objective. The results discuss the development of DMP, provide some examples of documents and a check list related to data management, and present some recommendations for developing a suitable data management plan from the literature. The data management plan is one of the important instruments that should be considered with care when designing and applying it. Future work may consider providing a structure and guidance for research students in the field of industrial engineering as a valuable avenue to explore. Authors: Paulo A. Cauchick Miguel (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC), Suzana Moro (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC), Roberto Rivera (Universidade de Aveiro), Marlene Amorim (Universidade de Aveiro), Hide Authors & Abstract Show Authors & Abstract A Blockchain Approach to Social Responsibility As blockchain technology matures, more sophisticated solutions arise regarding complex problems. Blockchain continues to spread towards various niches such as government, IoT, energy, and environmental industries. One often overlooked opportunity for blockchain is the social responsibility sector. Presented in this paper is a permissioned blockchain model that enables enterprises to come together and cooperate to optimize their environmental and societal impacts. This is made possible through a private or permissioned blockchain. Private blockchains are blockchain networks where all the participants are known and trust relationships among them can be fostered more smoothly. An example of what a private blockchain would look like is described in thispaper as well as its implementation, achieved using Hyperledger Fabric, which is a business-oriented blockchain framework. This study touches on the benfits available for companies that are willing to engage in socially responsible causes through blockchain. It states in what ways a permissioned blockchain can bring together businesses on common ground to increase their reach and provide better customer service. Finally, a use case is provided to bring to life a real-world situation where blockchain use improves service quality for all the parties involved, both the companies and their customers. Authors: Augusto Bedin (Western University), Wander Queiroz (Western University), Miriam Capretz (Western University), Syed Mir (London Hydro), A Method for Clustering and Predicting Stocks Prices by using Recurrent Neural Networks Predicting the stock market is a widely studied field, either due to the curiosity in finding an explanation for the behavior of financial assets or for financial purposes. Among these studies the best techniques use neural net-works as a prediction tool. More specifically, the best networks for this purpose are called recurrent neural networks (RNN) and provide an extra option when dealing with a sequence of values. However, a great part of the studies is intended to predict the result of few stocks, therefore, this work aims to predict the behavior of a large number of stocks. For this, similar stocks were grouped based on their correlation and later the algorithm K-means was applied so that similar groups were clustered. After this process, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) - a type of RNN - was used in order to predict the price of a certain group of assets. Results showed that cluster-ing stocks did not influence the effectiveness of the network and that investors and portfolio managers can use it to simply their daily tasks. Authors: Felipe Affonso (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG)), Thiago Dias (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET)), Adilson Pinto (UFSC), Session Chair: Carlos Luis González Valiente (20 minutes for presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions) Characterization of Women’s Scientific Participation in Brazil Several researchers have concentrated efforts to study the participation of women in scientific and technological careers, seeking to profile their trajectory and academic performance in science. In this context, this study aimed to analyze the participation of the group of doctor’s degree who have curricula registered in the Lattes Platform and whose registered gender is female. After data collection, the stage of selection of curricula by gender criteria was performed, and data processing obtained a set of 149,850 registered curricula with female gender and maximum completed doctor’s degree distributed in its various areas of scientific knowledge. The doctor’s degree data were grouped regarding academic background, publications, productions, orientations, major areas of expertise and it was possible to analyze the evolution of scientific and technological production of the set in a temporal way. Studying the various aspects of gender difference in general and particularly in science and technology, as well as being relevant, can be a source of inspiration for government policies and programs that seek to promote change, encourage and value women’s participation in science. Authors: Monique Santiago (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET)), Thiago Dias (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET)), Felipe Affonso (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG)), Relations between the concepts of disinformation and the Fogg Behavior Model This article aims to relate the concepts of false news and disinfor-mation with the Fogg Behavior Model (FBM) in order to observe their existing connections. For this, two steps were carried out: a) Identify five concepts of fake news or disinformation of organs or institutions that work on information, education, science and/or society issues; and b) Relate the concepts of fake news or disinformation found with Fogg Behavior Model. The research has a qualitative approach, having characteristics of exploratory and documentary re-search. It is concluded that there were links between definitions of disinfor-mation and fake news by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), European Commission, Dictionary Oxford, World Eco-nomic Forum and Reuters with FBM with diverse levels of similarity. Through this analysis it is possible to learn more about how false information is formu-lated and how it can influence human behavior. Authors: Enrique Muriel-Torrado (UFSC), Danielle Borges Pereira (UFSC), A strategy for co-authorship recommendation: Analysis Using Scientific Data Repositories A strategy for co-authorship recommendation: Analysis Using Scientific Data Repositories In a co-authorship network papers written together represent the edges, and the authors represent the nodes. By using the concepts of social network analysis, it is possible to better understand the relationship between these nodes. At this point, the following question arises: "How does the evolution of the network occur over time?". In order to answer this question, it is necessary to understand how two nodes interact with one another, that is, what factors are essential for a new connection to be created. The purpose of this paper is to predict connections in co-authorship networks formed by doctors with resumes registered in the Lattes Platform in the area of Information Sciences. Currently, the Lattes Platform has 6.1 million resumes from researchers and represents one of the most relevant and recognized scientific repositories worldwide. Through this study, it is possible to understand which attributes of the nodes make them closer to each other, and therefore have a greater chance of creating a connection between them in the future. This work is extremely relevant because it uses a data set that has been little used in previous studies. Through the results it will be possible to establish the evolution of the network of scientific collaborations of researchers at national level, thus helping the development agencies in the selection of future outstanding researchers. Authors: Felipe Affonso (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG)), Thiago Dias (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET)), Monique Santiago (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET)), Session chair: Mario Antonio Ribeiro Dantas (20 minutes for presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions) Concepts in Topics. Using Word Embeddings to leverage the outcomes of Topic Modeling for the exploration of digitized archival collections. Within the field of Digital Humanities, unsupervised machine learning techniques such as topic modeling have gained a lot of attention over the last years to explore vast volumes of non-structured textual data. Even if this technique is useful to capture recurring themes across document sets which have no metadata, the interpretation of topics has been consistently highlighted in the literature as problematic. This paper proposes a novel method based on Word Embeddings to facilitate the interpretation of terms which constituted a topic, allowing to discern the different concepts "hidden" in one topic. In order to demonstrate this method, the paper uses the "Cabinet Papers" held and digitised by the The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom (UK). After a discussion of our results, based on coherence measures, we provide details of how we can linguistically interpret these results. Authors: Mathias Coeckelbergs (Université libre de Bruxelles), Seth Hooland (Université libre de Bruxelles), A methodology for creating a well-trained text corpus to enhance Named-Entity Recognition in Portuguese language Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays an important role on broad natural language processing applicability. According to the literature, the NER process applied to the English language reaches around 90% of accuracy. However, when applied to Portuguese, this accuracy is at most 80%. A wide range of algorithms based on LSTM (Long-Short Term Memory) architecture has being proposed to enhance the NER accuracy. However, a key component to a successful information extraction is the corpora used for NER training. In order to improve the NER in Portuguese language, this paper proposes a methodology for training text corpus based on Portuguese-language journalistic corpora. The Journalistic language has the best adherence to the contemporaneity of the language, since it preserves features such as objectivity, simplicity, impartiality, and is a reference of transmitting the information without ambiguity. The proposed methodology provides a model to extract entities and assess the obtained results with the use of Recurrent Neural Network architectures. At the best of our knowledge, with the proposed methodology, the NER task applied to the Portuguese language overcomes the average accuracy found in the literature, increased from 80% to 85.64%. Moreover, the use of this methodology could decrease the computational costs related to the NER processing tasks. Authors: Gustavo DE ARAUJO (UFSC), Rogério Silva (UFSC), Luana da Silva (UFSC), Moisés Dutra (UFSC), A distributed tool for online identification of communities in co-authorship networks at a university Most universities have their public repositories of scientific publications available online. The data is made available raw or by department listing and does not provide the network of co-authorships that implicitly emerges from scientific collaborations among different departments. Sometimes, the net-work of co-authorships is computed within the institution, via standalone applications that have few or no functionalities to explore the structure of collaborations. However, the possibility of searching online and managing the network of scientific communities in the institution is a matter of man-agement efficiency, both for the institution itself and other external collabo-rators. This paper explains a distributed architecture and a tool that uses data from an online institutional repository. The tool calculates and puts available online the co-authorship network that identifies research communities ac-cording to different algorithms. The tool reflects and identifies the emergent structure of communities, graphically analyses communities, exports, reports and follows up with the evolution of communities in time. Authors: Nuno David (ISCTE-IUL), David Rodrigues (ISCTE-IUL), Maria João Cortinhal (ISCTE-IUL), Best paper announcement 14:30 - 14:40 Session Chair: Gustavo Medeiros de Araújo (20 minutes for presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions) Examining the Linking Patterns and Link Building Strategies of Mainstream and Alternative Online News Media in Central Europe The presence of external links or sources in the articles is one of the indicators for assessing their quality. In this article, we explore linking patterns of the most popular traditional and “alternative” digital news media in two V4 countries of middle Europe: Czech and Slovak Republic. Alternative news media are understood as media that protest against traditional or mainstream media. Fake news as articles containing disinformation can appear in traditional media (e.g. in tabloids) as well as in alternative media. Eighteen most popular news media and fifteen most popular alternative media in Slovakia and Czech Republic were selected for quantitative and qualitative analysis of links. With this method, more than 171 million of unique domains of hyperlinks from and to the selected online media were collected and analyzed. The argument to conduct this type of research is that alternative news media are gaining popularity in the countries of Middle Europe and the linking patterns of these media were rarely examined or compared with traditional media. Quantitative analysis and visualization of hyperlinks was performed using two software systems: Ahrefs and Gephi. We concluded that there are some differences between the linking patterns of mainstream and alternative digital news media that need the research attention not only to follow the communication patterns of digital media, but also to be able to detect the type of the news media automatically. Authors: Andrea Hrckova (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava), Robert Moro (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava), Ivan Srba (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava), Prof. Maria Bielikova (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava), An altmetric alternative for measuring the impact of university institutional repositories’ grey literature To obtain licensing, universities must meet a series of standards to guarantee the education of their students; this involves the installation and maintenance of an institutional repository to publish their grey literature. This research aims to find an alternative altmetric tool to measure the impact of such literature. To this aim, we have worked on the customization and optimization of the institutional repository, the creation of procedures to retrieve records, transform and load altmetric data in a new database and the subsequent building of a dashboard-type tool using the altmetric data of the institutional repository’s grey literature. Now there is an alternative to measure the altmetric indices from differ-ent dimensions and analysis perspectives, which makes it possible to take the necessary measures to apply strategies which aim to increase the visibility of the repository. The implementation of the tool in the case study allowed the monitoring and control of the altmetric indices of the institutional repository. Authors: Miguel Valles (Universidad Nacional de San Martín - Tarapoto), Richard Injante (Universidad Nacional de San Martín - Tarapoto), Edwin Hernandez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín - Tarapoto), Juan Riascos (Universidad Nacional de San Martín - Tarapoto), Marco Galvez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín - Tarapoto), Juan Velasco (Universidad Nacional de San Martín - Tarapoto), Proposal of model for curation digital objects of a oncology research center This article presents a proposal model for curation of digital objects from an oncology research center in Santa Catarina State. This is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach, in which the technical procedure of case study was used. From the case study it was possible to know the digital objects that make up the informational context, and the actions taken of digital curation in the studied cancer research center. The basal phases that make up the proposed model were extracted from the literature. As a result of it, there is a model proposal to support the preservation, maintenance, access optimization, use, reuse, and the promotion of added value to the digital objects of the studied cancer research center. Authors: Josiane Mello (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Angel Godoy Viera (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Session Chair: Enrique Muriel Torrado (20 minutes for presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions) Identification of the relationships between the stages of the Data Lifecycle and the principles of the General Data Protection Act The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the relationships between the principles of the General Data Protection Act - LGPD and the stages of the data life cycle. For the identification of relations, the following question was sought to be answered: What is the relationship between each LGPD principle and each of the stages of the data lifecycle? Based on the results, it was possible to observe that the data life cycle model can be used to support the law compliance activities, since the law principles presented relations with the model stages. It was also observed that the principles of adequacy of data processing for the purposes of use and transparency are those that guide the other principles and that, besides these, the principles of safety, prevention, responsability and accountability recommended by law, were related with all phases of the data life cycle. Authors: Gislaine Freund (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - PPGCIN/UFSC), Priscila Fagundes (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - PPGCIN/UFSC), Douglas Macedo (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - PPGCIN/UFSC), Organizational Learning in the Age of Data In information-driven economy, few organizational competencies are as important as the capability to systematically capture, synthesize and disseminate throughout the organization competitively advantageous decision-guiding knowledge. Traditionally, organizational learning has been viewed as a human-centric endeavor, but the rise of big data and advanced data analytic technologies are compelling a fundamental reconceptualization of the scope and modalities of organizational learning. Authors: Andrew Banasiewicz (Cambridge College, Boston MA 02129, USA), Provenance Data Collection Method Proposal for Application in Hemotherapy Centers in Brazil Storing data on anemia indices using Data Provenance was one aspect of the overall purpose of this paper, where it focused on developing a Provenance Data collection method based on the Provenance Data Model (PROV-DM) as a proposal for application in a Hemotherapy Center in Brazil. For the development of the method were used concepts of Data Provenance, Provenance of Knowledge and techniques of scientific workflows in the use of computational tools, characterizing an exploratory research, of practical and deductive nature, with application of experiment (case study). Those who were unsuitable for blood donations who had favorable anemia rates to be rejected for donations were quantified and analyzed. The method was developed in a real-world setting, with actual data extracted specifically from the reports generated by the system of a Brazilian Hemotherapy Center, provided from 2000 to 2018. Of the 197,551 blood donor candidates who presented to the Hemotherapy Center in a 19-year study, it was possible, after analysis, to quantify the unfit candidates with the highest anemia index. There were 1,011 male candidates, totaling 4.02% of candidates unfit for blood donation. Females were 4.039 candidates with anemia rates, totaling 16.09% of donors unfit for blood donations. Authors: Márcio José Sembay (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Douglas Dyllon Macedo (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Moisés Dutra (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Personal data protection and its reflexes on the data broker industry Demonstrates the relationship between government and private interests in identi-fying people’s profiles on the Internet. Describes the establishment and develop-ment of information aggregators and merchants, the data brokers. Discusses the boundaries of personal data commoditization, which in consequence wears away privacy and anonymity. Associates the inception of laws that mandate publicity to data breaches events, exposing the model, and ensuing debates on the need of further regulation. Presents the innovative generation of legislation created to govern a business that up until then operated free from public scrutiny. Introduc-es ideas to prevent the extinction of such business model upon the shift to privacy and data protection. Authors: Guilherme Birckan (UFSC), Angel Godoy Viera (UFSC), Douglas Jeronimo de Macedo (UFSC), Moises Lima Dutra (UFSC), Intellectual Authorities and Hubs of Green Chemistry Green Chemistry (GC) is an answer to the problems ensuing from chemical pollution, adopting a proactive, prevention-based stance. After nearly three decades of its coming into being, the advances in the field towards groundbreaking chemical practice are still under discussion and new research is needed in order to systematize existing knowledge and to point to efficient means to select information. Our purpose with this study is to broaden the understanding on GC research structure, by pointing the researchers that have most contributed to its growth, spread and consolidation (its intellectual hubs), and the authors upon whose knowledge they have drawn (intellectual authorities). We analyzed 14,142 documents either containing the term “green chemistry” or published in Green Chemistry and Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews between 1990 and 2017, using network analysis and co-citation analysis. Fourteen hubs were found, and twenty-one intellectual authorities, distributed along six big specialties, previously described in the literature. Results corroborate previous analyses of the field, but this research has the advantage of stemming from the dynamics of scientific production, rather than from previously defined qualitative categories of the field itself. Authors: Leonardo Marcelino (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Adilson Pinto (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Carlos Marques (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Librarianship in the age of data science: data librarianship Venn diagram A Venn diagram is used in mathematics to graphically symbolise properties, axioms, and problems concerning sets and their theories. Thus, this study applied a Venn diagram to describe a new background for data librarianship as a field relating to information science, e-science, and data science. Data librarianship is a new discipline that is located within the thematic core of the triad—information science, e-science, and data science. The first set on the proposed Venn diagram is information science. Information technology concepts are fundamental to the comprehension of data librarianship in the context of information science. The second set is e-science, an innovative field that incorporates technical tools and devices that have been built by contemporary technology into science. The third set is data science, a way of representing data-driven research in the most diverse knowledge fields, and a combination of data analysis and development of new products and services based on data; it is a set of the skills, methods, techniques, and technologies of statistics and computer science used to extract knowledge and to create new products and services from data. To ensure greater comprehension of data librarianship, a relatively new field, we suggest some reading materials. The formal discipline of data librarianship is yet to be established in many countries across the globe. Thus, there is the lack of adequate information and certification on data librarianship. 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Senior Communication Associate Tanvi is responsible for updating and co-managing 3ie's website, social media platforms, and supports a range of communication activities such as multimedia content production, analytics, campaigns, and events with an aim to elevate the visibility of 3ie's work. Prior to this, Tanvi worked as Communication Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) regional delegation in New Delhi, where she was in charge of its web platforms, including social media. She has also worked as a journalist with The Times of India for more than three years and as a UNDP consultant to support the High-Level Committee on the Status of Women in India constituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. Tanvi has an MA in History (Modern) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, and a bachelor's in Economics from the University of Delhi.

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Intervention Insights What type of investment is needed to improve the outcomes of maths and science education? Presented in partnership with Investec on 12 March in Johannesburg and 13 March in Cape Town According to Trialogue’s annual corporate social investment (CSI) research, education was supported by over 90% of companies and received nearly half of CSI expenditure (44%) in 2018. Despite maths and science receiving 30% – the largest portion – of education spend, large scale outcomes remain impeded by a range of factors, including unskilled teachers and low levels of literacy among learners. Forum delegates explored various models of intervention and discussed how CSI spend on maths and science education can be targeted to improve outcomes. Read more: What type of investment is needed to improve the outcomes of maths and science education? Maths and Science Education Resources Status of Maths and Science Education in SA Maths and Science Models of Intervention

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Truth and Reconciliation in Atlantic Canada Unama'ki: Indigenous affairs CONTINUING COVERAGE: COVID-19 news and numbers Cape Breton > Sports Hockey world marvels after 'Nathan MacKinnon just went cheat code' Willy Palov | Posted: May 26, 2022, 10:46 a.m. | Updated: May 26, 2022, 1:40 p.m. | 4 Min Read Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon (29) scores a highlight-reel goal against St. Louis Blues goaltender Ville Husso and defenceman Nick Leddy (4) in the third period of Game 5 of the second round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Ball Arena on Wednesday. - Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Hockey fans around the world are calling Nathan MacKinnon's end-to-end rush against the St. Louis Blues the goal of the year. The 26-year-old Colorado Avalanche star dropped jaws on Wednesday when he gathered the puck in his own end, weaved his way through three St. Louis Blues players in the neutral zone before blowing past defenceman Nick Leddy and roofing a short side shot to send the packed house in Denver into hysterics. It was his third goal of the game so hats rained down on the ice inside the arena, while thousands of others watching from home rushed to social media to gush about what they just witnessed. Nathan MacKinnon of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. Have at it. https://t.co/3dNp5Go99r — Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) May 26, 2022 "Nathan MacKinnon just went cheat code. What an incredible player, what an amazing coast to coast rush," tweeted Murat Ates of The Athletic. "Nathan MacKinnon now owns Ball Arena. They sign over the deed tomorrow," tweeted Ryan Kennedy of The Hockey News. If you don't love watching Nathan MacKinnon play hockey, then you're a terrible person. — BlownTree-1Lead (@UrinatingTree) May 26, 2022 "lord forgive me but this goal made me legitimately aroused," tweeted Mike Stephens of Sports Illustrated Now and The Hockey News. Even though his coach Jared Bednar raved "It's as pretty a goal as I've seen in a long time," MacKinnon downplayed it afterwards in his media session because it wasn't enough to get a win. St. Louis centre Tyler Bozak scored in overtime to give the Blues a 5-4 win and prevent the Avalanche from wrapping up a 4-1 series win. "I got out there and they were changing and they were tired so I got some room and made a move and scored," MacKinnon described in a business-like monotone after the game. "It doesn't matter. We've got to move on ... and come back and win Game 6 on the road. It's a fun opportunity for us. Hopefully everything happens for a reason and we've got to go get this done. But it should make our team a little harder, a little more grittier in these situations. Can't win every series in four and five. They have a great team and we're excited to go have a huge challenge in St. Louis and try to close out a series." Here’s the only @Avalanche player to show up for last nights game…great job Nathan MacKinnon! pic.twitter.com/Cmnr1czmxh — Tim Englert (@timE_5) May 26, 2022 The Avalanche still lead the second round best-of-seven 3-2 and Game 6 is on Friday. The Avalanche won Games 3 and 4 in St. Louis earlier in the series so there are some good vibes for them heading back for the next one. "Yeah, for sure," MacKinnon said. "It's in the past but obviously we've had some success there. We definitely need a better effort for a full 60. Like (Avs captain Gabriel Landeskog) said, we got on our heels a little bit. We wanted it so bad, I guess. We've just got to keep focusing on our process." MacKinnon's four-point night also tied him with his Cole Harbour pal Sidney Crosby on an exclusive NHL scoring list. MacKinnon now has 80 career playoff points in 59 games, which equals Crosby as the fourth-fastest player to reach that milestone in league history. Only Wayne Gretzky (37 games), Mario Lemieux (40) and Jarri Kurri (57) got there faster. Nathan MacKinnon became the first player in @Avalanche / Nordiques history to score a hat trick in a potential series-clinching game. 🤯#NHLStats: https://t.co/70VBe9OWht #StanleyCup pic.twitter.com/dSFHOre23m — NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) May 26, 2022 MacKinnon also moved past Michel Goulet and Milan Hejduk into third on the Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques franchise all-time list for goals. His 34 goals trail only Joe Sakic (84) and Peter Forsberg (58). "The playoffs aren't for points and attention or whatever," said the former Halifax Mooseheads star. "It's just to get wins and that's how everyone feels in our room. We're all tugging on the same rope and it truly does not matter what kind of goals you score, as long as they go in." Nova Scotians Crosby, Marchand, MacKinnon taking turns dominating NHL playoffs Updated May. 10, 2022 |5 min read Nathan MacKinnon on Avalanche slump: 'It's definitely concerning' Updated Apr. 23, 2022 |3 min read Nathan MacKinnon 'felt great' in return, Brad Marchand dissed by American politician Updated Feb. 14, 2022 |7 min read Updated just now |2 min read Tennis-Tunisia's Jabeur downs Maria to become first Arab in major final Cape Breton Eagles hire Creignish's Nick MacNeil as new assistant coach Biggar, Campbell excited about fresh starts in QMJHL Tennis-Expect fireworks in Kyrgios v Nadal Part III

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ROUTES 120-139 Most higher numbered routes were originally operated by the Chicago Motor Coach Co. (CMC), and most were assigned CTA route numbers which were 100 higher than the original CMC numbers. Additional routes were newly created by CTA. 120 Ogilvie-Wacker Express Bus route introduced by Chicago Motor Coach Co. 5/12/47 - CMC introduces bus route 58 Wacker-North Western Station 10/1/52 - renumbered route 158 after CTA takeover of CMC 4/9/56 - CTA introduces bus route 158A Wacker Express, serving train stations 1/27/75 - routes 158 and 158A restructured into routes 120, 121, and 125 Bus Garage: various (until 6/24/2002) Kedzie (6/24/2002-3/23/2008) Archer(AM)/Kedzie(PM) (3/23/2008-2/7/2010) Chicago Ave.(AM)/Kedzie(PM) (2/7/2010-present) 121 Union-Wacker Express 103rd St. (6/24/2002-3/23/2008) Chicago Ave.(AM)/Kedzie(PM) (3/23/2008-present) 122 Illinois Center-Ogilvie Express 6/22/80 - introduced as bus route 12/16/2012 - discontinued Route operated basically non stop primarily via Lower Wacker Dr. various (2/7/2010-12/16/2012) 123 Illinois Center-Union Express Chicago Ave.(AM)/103rd St.(PM) (3/23/2008-2/7/2010) 124 Navy Pier 5/26/2000 - introduced as bus route for special events 6/22/2003 - becomes full time bus route, replacing extension of route 56 Milwaukee Bus Garage: Kedzie 125 Water Tower Express 5/12/47 - introduced as bus route 58 Wacker-North Western Station Midday and Saturday service introduced 1/27/75 Saturday service discontinued 9/7/76 North Park (6/24/2002-3/23/2008) Kedzie (3/23/2008-2/7/2010) 126 Jackson 3/16/24 - introduced as bus route 26 Jackson, from downtown to Kostner 3/30/24 - extended west to Austin 5/12/30 - extended south to newly opened Adler Planetarium 4/8/56 - route combined with route 6 Van Buren, with creation of one way streets 9/11/83 - Adler Planetarium service transferred to route 146 Marine-Michigan Owl service introduced 1950's Owl service discontinued 1980 Certain rush hour trips limited stops 11/26/28-11/30/75 Bus Garage: Wilcox (3/16/24-6/9/55) Kedzie (6/9/55-9/2/79) North Ave. (9/2/79-9/9/84) Kedzie (9/9/84-present) 127 Jackson-Independence 3/16/24 - introduced as bus route 27 Jackson-Independence Operated from downtown to 14th/Independence. Kedzie (6/9/55-1/28/73) 127 North Western/Madison 6/18/2006 - route revised to Madison/Roosevelt Circulator West terminal would be North Western Station, while east terminal changed over the years. From 10/19/87 until 10/31/94, east terminal was McCormick Place. And from 10/7/97 until 6/18/2006, east terminal was the Adler Planetarium. Route's final form was basically a loop via Roosevelt, Michigan, Madison, Ogden. Bus Garage: 52nd St. (1/24/82-4/24/83) 77th St.(AM)/Archer(PM) (4/24/83-6/26/88) 103rd St.(AM)/Archer(PM) (6/26/88-6/24/2002) 77th St. (6/24/2002-6/18/2006) 128 Wacker-Orleans 8/1/51 - introduced as bus route 28 Wacker-Orleans 9/7/86 - discontinued Operated between Union Station and Merchandise Mart. Replaced in with route change for 41 Elston-Clybourn route, which was subsequently discontinued. Bus Garage: Wilcox (8/1/51-6/9/55) Kedzie (6/9/55-1970's) Forest Glen (1970's-9/7/86) 129 West Loop/South Loop 6/1/48 - introduced as branch of 62 Archer as bus route, operating AM rush hours 9/9/72 - PM rush hour branch introduced, replacing discontinued route 2 Hyde Park 2/29/76 - renumbered route 129, renamed NW/Franklin 7/4/82 - route revised to serve Chicago Board of Education headquarters 12/12/98 - route revised and renamed West Loop/South Loop Route originally was a variation of Route 62 Archer, which had operated during morning rush hours from North Western Station and Union Station. Effective 9/9/72, Route 62 Archer afternoon rush hour variation introduced, entering downtown Chicago northbound via Michigan Ave., replacing discontinued Route 2 Hyde Park. Effective 6/18/78, morning southbound route revised to exit downtown via Michigan Ave. Route carried passengers as far south as Cermak/Michigan until 7/4/82, when route revised to carry passengers entire distance to and from Archer Garage. Route served Chicago Board of Education headquarters, at the time located on Pershing Road west of Ashland Ave., one mile east of Archer Garage. In its final form as the West Loop/South Loop route, operated between downtown train stations and McCormick Place. Bus Garage: Archer (until 3/23/2008) 130 Museum Campus 12/17/88 - introduced as bus route, operating primarily summer weekends only 3/16/24 - introduced as bus route 31 Washington from downtown to Austin 12/20/82 - service restored 2/17/92 - service restored Effective 4/25/27 certain rush hour buses made limited stops only. But effective 2/14/54, route became "Washington Express", with all trips making limited stops except for certain local trips during rush hour. Local service was available at all times on paralleling 20 Madison route, no longer a competing service. Remaining local service discontinued effective 4/1/57. But more stops were gradually added, and the "express" label was dropped effective 2/15/76. Midday service restored 9/10/84 Chicago Ave. (7/3/94-10/5/97) 132 Goose Island Express 1/2/2007 - introduced as bus route Bus Garage: Chicago Ave. 134 Diversey CMC route 34 inherited by CTA 10/1/52, combined into route 76 6/19/55. 134 Stockton-La Salle Express 8/31/2003 - introduced as bus route Route supplements route 156, providing express service serving Lincoln Park area. Bus Garage: Kedzie (8/31/2003-2/7/2010) various (2/7/2010-6/20/2010) Kedzie (6/20/2010-present) 135 Clarendon-La Salle Express 9/23/46 - introduced as bus route 56 Wilson-La Salle Express 4/18/76 - renumbered route 135 8/31/2003 - discontinued west of Clarendon and renamed Clarendon-La Salle Express Wilson-La Salle local and express service had used same route number, first assigned 156 by CTA. Zones of express operation on Lake Shore Drive have undergone various revisions through the route history. Operated west of Clarendon via Wilson to Ravenswood until 8/31/2003. Operated via La Salle St. south of North Ave./Lake Shore Drive until 8/31/2003, when revised to operate via Lake Shore Drive/Wacker Drive. Bus Garage: Ravenswood (until 6/9/55) Limits (6/9/55-7/3/94) North Park (7/3/94-2/7/2010) North Park/Kedzie (2/7/2010-6/20/2010) North Park (6/20/2010-present) 136 Sheridan-La Salle Express 3/26/62 - introduced as variation of 156 Wilson-La Salle Express as bus route 6/22/80 - route revised to present basic form Originally identified as a variation of Wilson-La Salle service, first numbered 156 by CTA. Basic variation operated via Sheridan north of Wilson, with supplemental service via Marine Dr. introduced 3/25/62. Zones of express operation on Lake Shore Drive have undergone various revisions through the route history. Operated via La Salle St. south of North Ave./Lake Shore Drive until 8/31/2003, when revised to operate via Lake Shore Drive/Wacker Drive. Bus Garage: North Park 136 Douglas 3/23/24 - introduced as bus route 36 Douglas Operated from downtown via various streets including Ogden, Sacramento, Douglas, Central Park. Weekend service discontinued 8/5/73

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Miguel, Alabama Shakes to Perform at Grammys, Ice Cube and O’Shea Jackson to Present By Jazz Monroe on February 11, 2016 at 7:58 a.m. EST Photo via the Grammys' Facebook The 58th Annual Grammy Awards air February 15 on CBS. Today, the latest round of lineup additions has been announced. Ice Cube and his son O'Shea Jackson, representing Straight Outta Compton, will join Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez as presenters, Billboard reports. Also announced: Alabama Shakes will perform, and Miguel's been tapped to cover Michael Jackson's "She's Out of My Life" ahead of a forthcoming reissue of Off the Wall. The show will also feature a tribute to Eagles' Glenn Frey, according to Billboard. More Kendrick on His 11 Grammy Nominations: "I Want to Win Them All" "For Hip-Hop Culture" By Jeremy Gordon Photo by Jordi Vidal / Getty Images Kendrick Lamar received more nominations than any other artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, which take place on February 15. (He's also set to perform at the ceremony.) In a new interview with Billboard, Kendrick was plain about his Grammy hopes: "I want to win them all." He continued: "It’s bigger than me. When we think about the Grammys, only Lauryn Hill and Outkast have won album of the year. This would be big for hip-hop culture at large." Justin Bieber and Jack Ü (Diplo and Skrillex) to Perform Together at the Grammys on February 4, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. EST The 58th Annual Grammy Awards air February 15 on CBS. The ceremony will feature a collaborative performance from Justin Bieber with Jack Ü (aka Diplo and Skrillex). More on February 2, 2016 at 10:32 a.m. EST Lady Gaga photo via Instagram, Bowie photo by Jimmy King The 58th Annual Grammy Awards take place on February 15. The previously-reported list of performers set to appear on the telecast includes Kendrick Lamar, the Weeknd, Adele, Ellie Goulding, and Lionel Richie, among other names. Now, the Academy has announced that Lady Gaga will honor David Bowie with an "experiential tribute" performed under the musical direction of Chic's Nile Rodgers. Kendrick Lamar Raps "Alright" in Compton for Grammys Promo on January 25, 2016 at 11:19 a.m. EST The 58th Annual Grammy Awards take place on February 15. Kendrick Lamar received more nominations than any other artist; he's also set to perform at the ceremony. Today, the Grammys released a promo video where Compton residents rap along to "Alright" before Kendrick joins them at the end. Watch it below via Complex. Kendrick Lamar, Adele, the Weeknd to Perform at the Grammys on January 20, 2016 at 9:59 a.m. EST Photo via CBS The 58th Annual Grammy Awards take place on February 15. Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd received more nominations than any other artist, and now, they've been announced as performers at the ceremony. Adele will perform, too. Grammy Nominations Announced: Kendrick Lamar, the Weeknd, D'Angelo, Courtney Barnett, Alabama Shakes, and More By Amy Phillips on December 7, 2015 at 8:19 a.m. EST The 58th Annual Grammy Awards take place on February 15. They'll be broadcast live from the Staples Center in L.A. on CBS. This morning, the nominees have been announced. Kendrick Lamar is nominated 11 times in nine categories. The Weeknd is up for seven Grammys, Drake is up for five, Alabama Shakes and Florence and the Machine are up for four, and Kanye West, D'Angelo, and Diplo are up for three. Mastodon Gave a Hilariously Bizarre Grammy Red Carpet Interview, With Brent Hinds in a Full L.A. Dodgers Uniform Mastodon were nominated for Best Metal Performance at the Grammys, which means they were on hand to give a hilariously bizarre interview on the red carpet. (That's guitarist Brent Hinds wearing a full Los Angeles Dodgers uniform, and drummer Brann Dailor in a "birthday suit.") You can watch a video of the interview below. St. Vincent Recalls Touring Horrors in Grammy Thank You Note to Fans By Corban Goble Fresh off a Grammy win for Best Alternative Album—for 2014's St. Vincent—St. Vincent has shared a long note via her email list, thanking her supporters and collaborators over the years. It also includes memories of her early years of touring, including hiring a homeless guy to dig her car out of the snow and "peeing in cups in dressing rooms when there was no bathroom." Beyoncé Reveals Political Message Behind "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" Grammys Performance on February 9, 2015 at 12:17 p.m. EST Beyoncé has shared a behind-the-scenes video that shows the singer rehearsing last night's performance of the gospel standard "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" at the Grammys. The clip features Beyoncé talking about the genesis of the performance and why she chose the all-male choir.

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umich acceptance rate 2020 “What we’re seeing is that many students are choosing to go to school closer to home, which is totally understandable,” Sanders said. Barley: Combining Control Flow with Resource Consumption to Detect Jump-based ROP Attacks. University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Full-time enrollment: 551 2018-2019 tuition and fees: $40,622 (in-state); $54,394 (out-of-state) 2018 acceptance rate Students who applied to college this admissions cycle have spent the last couple of weeks anxiously checking their email and clicking links in various … Spark Admissions 2020 Acceptance Rates Due to it's many strengths, the University of Michigan ranks among the country's top engineering schools and top undergraduate business schools. Acceptance Statistics - University of Michigan Medical School. Of those offered admission, 6,879 enrolled, making for a first-year class slightly larger than the 6,830 students who enrolled last year. a dual degree or minor, The Michigan Ross BBA is ranked #3 among undergraduate business programs Acceptance Rate: 12% World University Rankings, 2020, 2018 MSCM graduates receiving a job offer within six months of graduation, #2-ranked MSCM program in the world We look at each student as a whole package, a combination of talents, interests, passions, and skills. April 17, 2020 Remember that admissions decisions are provided to applicants in no particular order, so there’s no need to worry if you don’t hear from us on the first release date. The Fall Term 2021 application will be available online in mid-September of 2020, with a deadline of December 1, 2020. That compares with an admission rate of 21.9% for the 54,415 out-of-state domestic and international students who applied. 6.9% 4.2. Consistently highly ranked, the research university consists of 12 different colleges, including the Ross School of Business, School of Kinesiology, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. That compares with an admission rate of 21.9% for the 54,415 out-of-state domestic and international students who applied. The university received $12.6 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help cover student expenses including food, housing, course materials, technology, health care and child care. The University is not alone in seeing rising or constant acceptance rates for the Class of 2024. The deadline for applications for admission to Fall Term 2021 PhD Program in Medicinal Chemistry is December 1, 2020. But all things considered, these schools are still some of the most selective around the country, as you can see by the numbers at universities such as MIT, Yale, Harvard, and Brown. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan, ceded in the Treaty of Fort Meigs, so that their children could be educated. The percentage of first-year students who are underrepresented minorities and first-generation students decreased from last year—underrepresented minorities from 14.3% to 11.8% and first-generation students from 15.3% to 12.1%. 170. Forge Paths That Inspire. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ranks #4 in Money's 2020-21 Best Colleges ranking. The school accepted 1760 students. $31+ Million, Fiscal Year 2020; Rankings. “Students and families across Michigan and beyond continue to recognize that a University of Michigan education is a great investment,” said Sanders, adding that the school’s commitment to providing an affordable world-class education has not wavered. University of Virginia: The University of Virginia’s early acceptance rate was 31 percent, with 5,203 offers of admission from a pool of 16,768 Early Action applicants. This means the school is … You can use the free calculator below to predict your chances of getting accepted. 3.92. ... Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Phone: (734) 764-7433; Fax: (734) 936-0740; Email: Our Expert's Notes. The acceptance rate at University of Michigan is 22.9%. Learn more including info on tuition, acceptance rates, and more. Vidushi . 176. Approximately 93% of graduate students are enrolled in the Ph.D. … In addition to institutional funding, the university also has distributed more than $12.4 million in federal emergency grants related to the pandemic to 8,898 students as of Oct. 8. Our challenges—pandemic, rising inequality, climate change, refugee crises, a rancorous political landscape, and so much more—are complex. About Michigan News, Office of the Vice President for Communications If you cannot find the acceptance rate for the journal in which you are interested, you can contact the editor of the journal or ask a senior researcher in your field about their experience with the journal. Below you will find the ED admission rates and regular decision rates for some of the most prestigious schools in the United States. 734-764-7433. Among in-state students, 47.5% of the 10,606 students who applied were offered admission, and 3,542 in-state first-year students enrolled for a yield of 70.4%. This is actually the acceptance rate for undergraduates. All residence hall contracts are legally binding and cannot be cancelled. If you have questions about Housing-related fees, assessments, charges or refund policies, contact housing.billing@umich.edu; The Standard Contract ends on November 20, 2020. The University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles transfers for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the College of Engineering. Where applicable, we included non-binding, early action admission rates as well. For the 2020-21 application cycle, we are modifying our admissions process and requirements. In MICRO 2020 (Acceptance rate: 15.6%) Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Akshitha Sriraman, Joseph Devietti, Gilles Pokam, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. About 40% of U-M undergraduates receive institutional grant aid, and 20% pay no tuition at all. For example, Science's acceptance rate is less than 7%, Nature's acceptance rate is around 8%, and PNAS's acceptance rate is around 17%. The applicant pool is expected to rise substantially this year to 70,000. UMD does not. Extended Contract ends December 18, 2020. We're engaged in public policy at a critical time in our world's history. 173. Student-to-Faculty Ratios. The UMich admission rate went down from 33% in 2014 to 26% in 2015, while the CoE admission rate went down from 27.7% to 23.6%. *Data collected from 2019-20 Common Data Set (CDS) forms and institution websites, and indicates admission outcomes for students entering in Fall 2019, the most recent year … The acceptance rate is that of applicants granted admission as full-time students for classes commencing in fall 2018. For academic year 2019-2020, the average acceptance rate for Public (4 year Or High) Colleges in Michigan is 60.67% and admission yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 27.78% where total 244,801 people have applied, 148,531 admitted, and 41,257 students have enrolled one of schools of Public (4 year Or High) Colleges in Michigan finally. 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011. Plus the endowment is bigger. The guarantee, now in its third year, includes a promise of free tuition for in-state students whose families earn less than $65,000 and have assets totaling less than $50,000. And while still not a significant portion of the class, the university approved 217 student deferments this fall for out-of-state first-year students, about as many as the past five years combined. Nevertheless, if you receive any LSA merit scholarships, you better not to … The rate of acceptance of this university is 26.5%, which implies that out of every 100 applications only 27 are accepted. U-M provided the second-highest average institutional grant and scholarship aid among 34 public institutions in the Association of American Universities, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. 2020 College Acceptance Rates: The Latest Admissions Trends. For the 2020-21 application cycle, we are modifying our admissions process and requirements. Additionally, the percentage of first-year students receiving Pell grants, a common marker of socioeconomic diversity, dropped from 20.7% to 16%. Tara Safavi, Maryam Davoodi, Danai Koutra. Percent based on ethnicity of domestic students only. Apply to master's programs Apply to BA major Apply to PhD program. The increase in deferments granted will not impact admission offers for the 2021 first-year class. 81.7% 83.5% CT. 98.3% 75.7% 1,364,230. In 2018, the acceptance rate at Durham University stood at 17,68%. What was the 2020 acceptance rate for UCB? Umich acceptance rate. For information about transferring to other U-M schools and colleges, please contact their Admissions representatives directly. For every 100 applicants, 23 are admitted. The acceptance rate is that of applicants granted admission as full-time students for classes commencing in fall 2018. ACM SIGKDD, August 2018 (acceptance rate 22.5%). #4 Best Value College in the US (Money Magazine, 2020) #5 US Public College That Pays Off the Most #6 Best Value in Public Colleges for in-state students #11 for out-of-state students (Kiplinger, 2019) One of largest alumni networks in the world (575,000 and growing) More than 100 top-ranked academic programs; More than 1,400 student organizations Student-to-Faculty Ratios. “In a year when higher education institutions across the country faced a very unique set of challenges, we’re proud of the fact that we haven’t compromised on our guarantee to Michigan students and families,” said Paul Robinson, associate vice provost, university registrar and interim vice provost for enrollment management. Therefore, the transfer acceptance rate for UMich is 39.41%. University of Michigan--Ann Arbor admissions is most selective with an acceptance rate of 23%. U-M has an acceptance rate of 33% with 40% of applicants deciding to enroll. Most Searched Majors & Degrees. From this fall’s 65,021 applications, U-M offered admission to 16,974 first-year students. Budapest, Hungary. “While we, as an institution, recognize the racially disparate impact that COVID-19 has had in our society, we are also very disappointed in our current yield of BIPOC students in this year’s class,” said Robert Sellers, vice provost and chief diversity officer. Graduate enrollment dipped slightly from 2019 due in large part to a 9.6% decrease in international student enrollment. Extended Contract ends December 18, 2020. Study Abroad Expert. © 2021 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of the Vice President for Communications. Utility ... 515 East Jefferson Street 1220 Student Activities Building Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1316 US. Nearly all of U-M’s 19 schools, colleges and divisions rank among the best in their fields, and Engineering is no exception. Nearly 1 in 5 undergraduates is from a family with income less than $65,000, and 86% of them are paying no tuition as a result of institutional support. Students that get into Michigan have an average SAT score between 1330-1510 or an average ACT score of 30-34. ANN ARBOR #1 Most Educated City in America (WalletHub, 2020) #2 Best Place to Live in America (Livability, 2020) #2 Best College Town in America (Best College Reviews, 2020) #5 Best College Town in America (WalletHub, 2019) Here are a few facts and figures that help illustrate the breadth and depth of the University of Michigan. Among in-state undergraduates, about 27% pay no tuition. The university offers over 260 degrees within 14 undergraduate schools and colleges. Overall, the campus enrollment fell less than 0.5% over last fall, from 48,090 to 47,907 students, with 16,578 graduate and professional school students. Yale University. However, with an acceptance rate of 25.9%, the University of Michigan does not make getting in easy, even for highly qualified students. View App Changes. More than 10% of the state’s estimated number of high school graduates applied to U-M this year, a figure that has steadily grown from less than 8% a decade ago. 2 years ago. Admissions. Osteopathic statistics refer to acceptees' overall GPA, which may include undergraduate, graduate and postbaccalaureate as applicable. (Global Scholarships) How hard is it to get into Durham University is an interesting question, as the University of Durham has a pretty high offer rate of 72%, while the actual acceptance rate is just 17%.. At UM-Ann Arbor, the average acceptance rate over the past 10 years (2010-2019) is 33.05% where the current year rate is 22.83%.Last year, it was slightly harder to get into University of Michigan-Ann Arbor than previous year. Using acceptance rate data from previous years, we can project that the U-M acceptance rate in 2015 is going to be around 39%. View University of Michigan - Ann Arbor rankings for 2021 and see where it ranks among top colleges in the U.S. More than any other university, we have the potential to be so much more than the sum of our many excellent parts. For every 100 applicants, 23 are admitted. Admission rates have fallen steadily since the Class of 2021 was admitted with a rate of 8.73 percent, up until last year, when 6.2 percent of students were admitted to the Class of 2023. Welcome to Reddit, the front page of the internet. In the year 1866, the university became the largest in the country.Currently, the University of Michigan is one of the largest research universities in the United States. It boasts alumni including Gerald Ford, former US president; Larry Page, co-founder of Google; and also actor James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader.Michigan sporting tradition began in th… Admissions Rate: 22.9%. Berkeley has not published its acceptance rate of the students admitted for Fall 2020. In addition, we develop in-depth client relationships that help us guide students to find—and earn acceptance to—the schools where they’ll best develop, thrive, and find happiness during their college careers. Welcome to Reddit, the front page of the internet. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1399 University of Michigan / College of Engineering is located in Ann Arbor, MI, in an urban setting. It’s this potential to have a positive impact on the society we serve that represents our greatest value as a university. Career Transitions and Trajectories: A Case Study in Computing. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor is a member of The Big Ten Conference (B1G). For the 2020-21 application cycle, we are modifying our admissions process and requirements. Prior to 2019, the number of applications had more than doubled in the preceding decade, with the growth largely attributed to the adoption of the Common Application, which makes it easier for students to apply to multiple schools. 2 years ago. 15 Top PA Schools With High Acceptance Rates In 2020 July 1, 2020 By Akujuobi Peace Leave a Comment There’s a widely accepted myth that a school that has a high acceptance rate automatically makes it worth less than its counterparts while others believe that a low acceptance rate is as good as the quality of education rendered. All of our graduate and undergraduate programs are highly ranked and have a strong reputation for excellence. There’s nothing like spring at U of M. The weather gets warmer, the … The student population that applies to the university’s early action deadline tends to be more affluent and less racially diverse. The University of Michigan offers a Computer Science program through both the School of Literature, Arts and the Sciences as well as through their School of Engineering. CSrankings.org: Institutional Ranking in Computer Science: 8 (2005– Sept 2020) US News & World Report: Graduate Engineering School: 4 (2021) Graduate Program in Computer Engineering: 6 (2020) Graduate Program in Computer Science: 11 (2019) Undergraduate Engineering School: 6 (2021) The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is … 143 Chrysler. Don't miss an update! First-Year Applicants. University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Full-time enrollment: 551 2018-2019 tuition and fees: $40,622 (in-state); $54,394 (out-of-state) 2018 acceptance rate How hard is it to get into Michigan and can I get accepted? The school has a 23% acceptance rate ranking it #1 in Michigan for lowest rate of acceptance.Last year, 14,883 out of 64,972 applicants were admitted making Michigan a very highly competitive school to get into with a low chance of acceptance for typical applicants. Search. Building a diverse class also was a challenge this year due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic and admitting a greater number of students who had been placed on the waitlist. The University of Michigan is a public university which was founded in the year 1817. List of all US Dental Schools Including Acceptance Rates + Average GPA + Average DAT scores Updated: June 25, 2020 Click each dental school name to learn more about the dental school acceptance rates at every dental school in the US including … In a year marked by a global pandemic, national recession and international travel restrictions, undergraduate enrollment at the University of Michigan increased slightly this fall compared to last fall, from 31,266 to 31,329 students. University of Michigan 2020-2021 Admissions: Acceptance Rate, Requirements, Deadlines, Application Process. “We must double down on our current efforts that have proved successful, and at the same time we must explore and implement new approaches to recruit a more diverse student body.”. It’s that time of the year again. First-Year Applicants. To the UMich Class of 2020 . The regular admissions application deadline for Michigan is February 1. Thanks for the A2A! Interested students can apply for early action, and the Michigan early action deadline is November 15. the average acceptance rate over the past 10 years (2010-2019) is 33.05% where the current year rate is 22.83%. 3.98. U-M’s application deadlines occurred before the United States reported its first coronavirus death, but by the time students learned whether they were admitted and had to decide whether to enroll, the COVID-19 pandemic had created a national emergency that led to closed schools, widespread stay-at-home orders, international travel restrictions and an economic recession. Search. Most Searched Majors & Degrees. See the effect of working with us below, or view our complete acceptance lists by year. ‘Go Blue Guarantee’ continues to aid low-income families. 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Petrol Retailers' welcome new guidelines on fuel theft The Petrol Retailers’ Association (PRA), the trade body representing independent forecourts in the UK, welcomes new legal guidelines from the Crown Prosecution Service calling for fuel thieves to be prosecuted. Current industry practices allow drivers who have no means of payment to fill in a form acknowledging their debt, agreeing to pay it back later. However, under the new guidelines, prosecutions will be recommended where a motorist can be shown to have repeatedly filled up without any means of payment. Motorists who leave false details with a forecourt will also be prosecuted. Brian Madderson, PRA Chairman commented “The PRA has lobbied for the prosecution of fuel thieves who repeatedly abuse ‘no means of payment’ following the significant rise in the number of retailers falling victim of such conduct. “PRA members have also reported an alarming increase in the number of forecourt incidents including drive offs, bulk theft and the rise in illicit fuel sales. Therefore it is imperative that the Crown Prosecution Service go further in supporting retailers against the shocking levels of theft experienced on forecourts.” Notes for editors: Keely Scanlan, Press Officer Web: www.rmif.co.uk Email: keely.scanlan@rmif.co.uk The Retail Motor Industry represents the interests of operators in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man providing sales and services to motorists and businesses.

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Home News Reports Congress dissolves all district committees of the party in Uttar Pradesh News ReportsPolitics Congress dissolves all district committees of the party in Uttar Pradesh Congress had performed miserably in Uttar Pradesh in recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, bagging only 1 seat out of the total 80 Lok Sabha constituencies Following a disastrous Lok Sabha elections, especially in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where it could manage to win only 1 seat out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats and lost deposits on 63 seats out of 67 seats contested, the Congress party has approved the proposal tendered by General Secretaries to immediately dissolve all District Committees of Uttar Pradesh. AICC press release As per a press release issued by AICC, a two-member team will be deputed to oversee the election preparations and management in all Vidhan Sabha constituencies in East and West Uttar Pradesh where by-elections are to take place. It further suggests constituting of a three-member Disciplinary Committee to investigate complaints of gross indiscipline during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. AICC has vested powers with Ajay Kumar Lallu, the leader of CLP, to make organisational changes in East Uttar Pradesh for a specified period during which changes will be carried out. The in-charge of West Uttar Pradesh is to be decided later by Jyotiraditya Scindia, the General Secretary in-charge of West Uttar Pradesh. It may be noted that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is the General Secretary for UP East. Earlier, Congress leaders were found squabbling after a review meeting held to determine the causes of the poll rout in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha 2019 elections. Congress leaders had then alleged that the Party leadership took the decisions unilaterally without consulting with the grassroots leaders. 2019 Lok Sabha Election After Andhra Pradesh, Congress govt in Rajasthan to reserve 75% jobs in private sector for locals The Congress government in Rajasthan has decided to hold a meeting with stakeholders to decide the matter of 75% reservation in Private Sector on the 19th of September. Chinmayanand case: UP law student says the BJP leader recorded her private videos and used them to rape her The woman's father has handed over 43 video clips to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case. The Hindu Chairman doubles up as judge, gives clean chit to Chidambaram at a Congress event, says ‘no evidence’ against him Ram even did not even spare the judges of the Supreme Court. He stated that there are factual mistakes in the order of justices Bhanumathi and Bopanna.

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z~Archived Current Issues > Reagan Revolution > The Ghost of Reagan Hovers Over AIG Tweet The Ghost of Reagan Hovers Over AIG December 29, 2008 Isaiah J. Poole In every article assessing the roots of today’s financial crisis, one theme stands out: As would-be Wall Street wizards came up with ever-more-fantastical strategies for making obscene profits, the guardians of the public trust either snoozed or egged them on. The Washington Post on Monday told the story of three whiz kids who came up with the interest-rate swap strategy that brought down AIG and prompted a so-far $152 billion bailout by the federal government. As the article notes, the series of events that transformed AIG from a rock-solid financial powerhouse to the poster child of today’s economic collapse includes heavy dollops of hubris and greed from several quarters. But a critical formula was the atmosphere on Wall Street carefully cultivated by Reagan’s conservative cadre in Washington. As the Post notes of the three men who approached AIG with a plan to put what had been a staid financial management tactic on steroids with the promise of huge profits: Their plan fit perfectly with another revolution they saw unfolding in Washington. Ronald Reagan’s unwavering belief in free markets—and his distaste for regulation that put hurdles in the way of entrepreneurs—had steadily spread through the government. “The United States believes the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the marketplace,” Reagan told a U.N. audience that fall. More robust financial oversight would have not allowed billions of dollars worth of financial transactions that few people fully understood, including AIG president Hank Greenberg, to mushroom to the point that the nation’s economy is put at risk. Allowing private enterprise to engage in risk, with the promise of innovation for the marketplace and profit for the risk-taker, is one thing. But good public policy draws the line at the point that risk jeopardizes the larger public good. When that line isn’t clear, regulators demand the transparency necessary to make that line clear and then use their authority to penalize those who dare cross it. You would think that this lesson would be clear as we live with the effects of deregulatory excess. But, as a recent story from the normally nonideological Bloomberg News Service noted that is remarkable in its unabashed bias—headlined “Saving Capitalism No Sure Thing as Statism Undermines Economy”—the argument that the American economy will pay “a steep price” when there are cops on the beat to curb capitalism’s excesses will still be fervently argued when the Congress and administration get to work in January. “Future investment may be allocated less efficiently as risk-averse politicians make business decisions. Whenever banks decide to lend again, they are likely to find new capital requirements that will curb how freely they can do it,” the article says. The articles sweeping statements are hyperbole masquerading as analysis. But even if the sweeping conclusions become true, would not a more risk-averse Wall Street be far better for the economy than the catastrophe Reaganism has wrought? It certainly would have been for AIG, and for us taxpayers who were forced to pay for their recklessness. Posted by Isaiah J. Poole Recent Stories by Isaiah J. Poole People’s Summit Drives New Wave of Progressive Candidates Dozens of current and prospective political candidates at the People's Summit in Chicago prepared to build upon the opposition to the Trump administration and drive toward taking real governing power. The Time Is Now to Stand Up for the CFPB The Los Angeles City Attorney says the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was key to holding Wells Fargo accountable during the bank's massive fake accounts scandal. Now is the time to stand up to the GOP's assault against the agency. Progressive Caucus Budget Turns Resistance Into Policy, Rebukes Trump The "Roadmap for the Resistance" is virtually a point-by-point rebuke of Trump administration policies and offers plans for completing the work of economic recovery that has been thwarted by Republican-imposed fiscal austerity. About Isaiah J. Poole Isaiah J. Poole is communications director of People's Action, and has been the editor of OurFuture.org since 2007. Previously he worked for 25 years in mainstream media, most recently at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered congressional leadership and tracked major bills through Congress. Most of his journalism experience has been in Washington as both a reporter and an editor on topics ranging from presidential politics to pop culture. His work has put him at the front lines of ideological battles between progressives and conservatives. He also served as a founding member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

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FundWatch Investors pile cash into American Funds John Spence Outflows at Janus, Putman slow in September AGTHX ABALX CAIBX AMECX CWGIX BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- Fund firms untouched by trading scandals continued to rake in investors' cash in September, while tainted firms like Putnam and Janus saw their outflows slacken, according to research released Tuesday. Stock and bond funds' net inflows totaled $21.5 billion for the month, investment research firm Financial Research Corp said. Investors put $11.4 billion in domestic stock funds in September, while international equity funds took in $7.5 billion. American Funds led the pack with inflows of $6.1 billion. For the year to date, inflows of $67.5 billion make American the best-selling fund family. In 2004, American's closest competitor is Vanguard Group, with net inflows of $47.2 billion. Vanguard was also right behind American in September, with inflows of $4.5 billion. In a positive sign for high-profile growth shop Janus Capital Group JNS saw monthly outflows start to stabilize. Linked to fund trading scandals, Janus saw investors pull our $1.1 billion in September, as opposed to 2004 total net outflows of $14.4 billion. Likewise, Putnam Investments also saw outflows slow in September, to $1.5 billion, and thus its year-to-date outflows totaled $20.4 billion. Putnam is a Marsh & McLennan MMC, -2.55% subsidiary. Fidelity, the second-largest fund family behind Vanguard, had September inflows of $1.7 billion, with year-to-date inflows reaching $21.2 billion. ETFs wield money-raising muscle Fueled by the success of its lineup of iShares exchange-traded funds, Barclays Global Investors BCS, -1.56% has seen its assets nearly double in a year to an end-of-September total of $89.4 billion. As a result, Barclays Global is the No. 3 best-selling fund firm so far in 2004 with inflows of $27.2 billion. T. Rowe Price TROW, +0.80% ranks as No. 7 best-selling shop with inflows of $11.7 billion for the first nine months of 2004. Year to date, the top five best-selling funds are all from American: Growth Fund of America AGTHX, +0.09%, American Balanced ABALX, -0.13%, Capital Income Builder CAIBX, -1.05%, Income Fund of America AMECX, -0.95%, and Capital World Growth & Income CWGIX, -1.14%. Growth Fund of America was the top-selling fund in September and also in the year to date, with net inflows of $15.4 billion. An exchange-traded fund, S&P 500 SPDRs SPY, -0.52% placed second among the best-selling funds in September, tallying inflows of $1.1 billion. Including the SPDRs, four of September's 20 top-selling funds were ETFs. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Tracking bond prices isn't as easy as pulling up a stock quote just yet, and that can leave buyers clueless as to whether they're getting a good deal.

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Virtual National Congress 2021 For over a year now, we have been living through an unprecedented global health crisis. We have seen our daily habits and lives changed, not to say, even turned upside down. Through this crisis, co-operatives and mutuals have shown their resilience and strength. With this year’s congress theme, "Towards a more co-operative economy", we aim to discuss how the co-operative and mutualist model could contribute to the rebuilding of the Canadian economy. From June 14 to 16, 2021, you are invited to participate in our Virtual National Congress to discuss the following points: The role of the sector in the Canadian economy; The importance of diversity and inclusion in the co-operative and mutual sector; The place of young leaders in within the co-operative sector; How we can market the co-op/mutual difference. These will lead us to provide solutions for creating a more co-operative economy. At this year’s national virtual congress we will have: Five 90-minute panel discussions spread over four days; An online networking session where participants will have the opportunity to have informal discussions and meet-and-greet sessions. 2021-06-14 13:00 through 2021-06-16 17:00 Email: info@canada.coop Event Fee(s) Early Bird Registration Participant (CMC Member) 75.00 $ + 9.75 $ Sales Tax Participant (Non-member) 125.00 $ + 16.25 $ Sales Tax Young Co-operator 50.00 $ + 6.50 $ Sales Tax Please note that the dates and times displayed are for the America/Toronto timezone. View the time in your timezone Powered by CiviCRM and SymbioTIC.coop

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Homepage / News Microfluidics system automates embryo freezing and reduces cryoinjuries David Cansfield Progress Educational Trust [BioNews, London] An automated embryo freezing process has been developed to reduce the likelihood of damage from freezing, or 'cryoinjuries', that can occur when the process is performed manually. Normally embryos that are to be frozen need to have the water in them slowly replaced with a chemical that protects against damage from freezing, called a cryoprotectant. This happens by manually moving the embryo from one solution to other increasingly concentrated solutions of the cryoprotectant. Researchers from the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB) in Tehran, Iran, McGill University and the University of British Columbia both in Canada, have developed an automated system that gradually increases the concentration of the cryoprotectant in situ, so the embryo does not have to be moved. They were able to show that this system resulted in similar hatching and re-expansion rates to manually processed mouse embryos, while limiting molecular damage. 'Our findings emphasise the importance of moving away from droplet-based loading of cryoprotectants to gradual concentration controls. It moves us one step closer to increasing the efficiency of assisted reproduction and the improved health of future babies,' said Dr Mojtaba Dashtizad from NIGEB, co-lead researcher of the study published in Biomicrofluidics. When embryo freezing is performed manually by transferring embryos from one solution to another, the sudden transferring between droplets can cause an abrupt osmotic shock, which is thought to lead to molecular damage. To avoid this, researchers developed what they called a microfluidic chip with a chamber for the embryo and a series of tiny tubes that allowed the flow of cryoprotectants into the chamber while water could flow out. They then tested it to find the optimum time/concentration conditions in comparison to the manual method. They have now developed a 'fully stand-alone and portable device' that can be used for cryopreservation. 'What if embryos simply stayed in the same place and cryoprotectants were brought to them? Microfluidics systems are really good at controlling flow and concentration,' said Dr Dashtizad. 'Embryos can be cryopreserved faster and with a lower concentration of cryoprotectants - a huge advantage because of the toxicity of these chemicals.' In fact, following 12 hours post-thawing, the team observed that the platform enabled the shortening of the process by three minutes, with no negative impact on the re-expansion and hatching rates of the mouse embryos. The authors note there was a reduction in the detrimental gene expression that causes the 'molecular damages that have long been a source of concern'. The microfluidic system may enable embryo freezing and cryopreservation processes as a whole to be simplified, more reproducible, and less prone to human error. In the short term, the next steps will need to replicate these findings but the intention of automating this method will be for human fertility preservation in the future. SOURCES & REFERENCES Embryo cryopreservation minimises cryoinjuries, offers hope for would-be parents AIP Publishing | 18 May 2021 Toward embryo cryopreservation-on-a-chip: A standalone microfluidic platform for gradual loading of cryoprotectants to minimize cryoinjuries Biomicrofluidics | 18 May 2021 http://www.BioNews.org.uk © Copyright Progress Educational Trust Reproduced with permission from BioNews, an email and online sources of news, information and comment on assisted reproduction and genetics. Add to Favorites | Reply to Ad | Tell Your Friends Date Added: 25 May 2021 Date Updated: 25 May 2021 2. US Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v Wade abortion law would endanger IVF 3. Whole exome sequencing of mother could predict risk of creating embryos with aneuploidy 4. COVID-19 vaccines do not induce autoimmune reaction that causes infertility 5. Legacy II Quality and Risk Management in the IVF Laboratory 3. Emotionally and Physically Preparing for IVF 4. New Zealand committee proposes legalisation of prohibited fertility practices 5. Three million IVF babies born worldwide

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Student Start-Up Hub Open House Start Date: 11/19/2019 Start Time: 3:00 PM Edinboro University will unveil its new Student Start-Up Hub at an open house scheduled for 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The facility, which serves as a business development center/co-working space for Edinboro students who are starting a new business, is located on the second floor of Baron-Forness Library, adjacent to the university’s Center for Branding and Strategic Communication. Edinboro University - Baron-Forness Library (View Map) 200 Tartan Drive Room: 2nd Floor Atrium Name: Dr. Tony Peyronel Email: apeyronel@edinboro.edu

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Tag: Scifi Originally published on /r/writingprompts, you can read the original post here. My journey began two hundred and fifty six years ago when I was a mere graduate student at the Academy. I spent a decade working on my thesis, a rigorous study on the rise and fall of civilizations. Funding was plentiful, as the Overseers gladly sponsored any sort of study to help them maintain power. After civilizations reach a certain level of maturity they begin to reflect on their own past and future by looking at those who had failed before them, and after a hundred thousand years the Overseers had conquered nearly ninety percent of the galactic plane, their crusade slowly dwindling. They had accomplished what they had set out to do, and funding began to divest from the military towards things to keep their grip stable and strong, such as the police forces and non-military research. Why had so many empires lost themselves to the same fate over and over again? That was the question I set out to answer. In every empire that came before us, spreading their tendrils across the galaxy like roots wrapping and constricting themselves around a boulder, squeezing it until cracks erupt across its surface, and overtime the very foundation that had supported the expansive and intricate root system crumbled beneath the roots own force. My research took me down a particular path, a path I couldn’t foresee. At the end of their reigns all civilizations fell to just one man, over and over again. The Plague Bringer, the World Eater, Apocalypses Incarnate, Oblivion, Atlas, civilizations had lived and died under his command as long as he lived. Entire nations had fallen because of one bad day he had within their boarders, he destroyed empires stretching across the galaxy because he felt like it. New life would arise to build the universe to how they saw fit before he grew bored of them. Legends say that even the gods themselves fear him, the antimatter to all creation. There were only two constants in this universe: the fundamental forces, and him. A Constant. I presented my findings before my peers, I was laughed at but granted my professorship anyways because of other useful findings I had uncovered. I took up a job at the Academy in the anthropology department and taught brilliant young leaders the mistakes of our forerunners, imbuing them with knowledge to keep the empire’s roots. I told them everything they needed to know, except for the Constant. After a while I began to believe that maybe the Constant was nothing more than an honest mistake. My colleagues would share my crazy theories at dinner parties after one too many drinks to poke fun at me, I would laugh along at the foolishness of my youth, and yet the idea hung in the back of my mind, and like the Constant himself it bided its time until it was ready to strike. The idea grew in my head until it became the only thing I could focus on. My lectures grew shorter, and my nights in the office longer. I began taking unannounced trips across the galaxy to libraries and archeological sites to look for any traces of the Constant. My peers grew concerned and my superiors irritated. Eventually the Academy cast me aside, distancing themselves from me research. They didn’t know it, but that severance was the best thing they could have offered me. Now free of my obligations I could focus all my time and energy towards my life’s work. I became a nomad, traveling the galaxy in search for the Constant, and after a hundred and forty seven years of searching my journey has taken me to a small mining settlement among the Frontier planets. I expected the Constant to be a hulking beast, his flesh made of brimstone and his veins filled with fire. A simple sneeze from him as strong a fusion bomb. Instead my journey brought me to a tall and lanky man with a five o’clock shadow and sleepy eyes. His hands calloused from working in the mines, nothing substantial. “Been a while since I’ve had one of you stop by,” he said greeting me at the threshold of his small company issued capsule. “One of what?” I asked. “A fan,” he said. I suddenly became self conscious of my appearance, I hadn’t shaved in quite some time, my beard was disheveled and down to my chest. My hair past my shoulders. I probably smelt of the small freighter I took to reach the settlement, a mix of piss and tar. I should had at least showered before exposing myself to the most powerful man in the galaxy. “Come on in,” he said. I obliged. The interior of his capsule was cramped yet cozy. Paintings of landscapes lined the sterile glossy white walls, the standard maroon padded seats that came in capsules like this had been replaced with wooden chairs with white cushions. Lavender filled the air, overpowering the scent of burning sulfur that filled the atmosphere of the settlement. “Can I get you anything? We got coffee, tea, beer.” “No thanks I’m good,” I said. “May I?” I asked pointing to the chair next to me. “By all means,” he said. The chair creaked beneath my weight. My heart sped up, I began fearing for my life, for the lives of others, what if the chair were to break beneath me? Would the Constant abandon his friendly demeanor and topple the very civilization I had sworn to protect? I held my breath. He walked to the table beside me and placed two glasses of water on the table. I took a sip, not because I was thirsty, only because I didn’t want to offend his hospitality. “So what brings you here professor?” He asked, his voice relaxed, like he was speaking to an old friend who had popped in because he was in the neighborhood. “H-h-h-how do you know who I am? Can you read my mind? Have you been watching me?” I placed the cup down on the table gently. He laughed. “Not at all. Once you’ve been around as long as I have you just develop a knack for picking folks like you guys out of a crowd. To be honest,” he said taking a sip of his water, “I kinda like it. I can let my facade down around your types. Do you want an autograph or something?” I shook my head. “I’ve been studying you for over two hundred years, I just needed to see you with my own eyes. So you really are the Constant?” Another small chuckle. “So that’s the name you’ve given me? You know, I like it. Better than the last guy before you, he called me the Downfall. Constant has a nice ring to it.” “Why do you do it?” I said, immediately regretting my question. “Do what?” “End things.” He shrugged. “Why does a star burn? The star doesn’t know what it’s doing, but it does it anyways because the laws of the universe compel it to.” “But you’re human, you’re conscious,” my leg began to shake. “Are you aware of controlled burns?” He leaned forward on the table. “That is my purpose, I don’t know why I do it, I just know that if I didn’t things could be far worse. I’ve seen futures where empires had stretched themselves too far, too thin, they starve out. Civil war breaks out and in due time, they blow each other up, eradicating all life in the galaxy. “In other futures,” he said tracing a line on the table, “man and machine do not live in harmony like you’re civilization had managed to do. Which is something you should be proud of,” he looked at me and smiled, “it is not easy reigning in god like intelligence. In those futures their very own creation grows beyond their control, and in due time it too wipes out all organic life.” “S-s-so what do you do?” I asked. “I keep watch,” he took a breath. “I keep watch until those who control the galaxy begin to mutate and grow cancerous, and when the cancer had begun to spread out of their control I step in and reset the balance.” “But what are you doing here, on a Frontier planet?” I asked looking around me. “You could have anything you want. You could use your powers to build a more prosperous future as benevolent god, ensuring you’ll never have to burn it all down.” He chuckled. “There are many things I’m good at, but being a leader has never been one of them. My very nature makes it impossible for me to lead such an empire, trust me I have tried but no matter what my men either turn against me or nobody listens to me in the first place. And these powers you speak of, I do not have them at my disposal to do so as I wish. They’re like a bucket of water, after every use I need to go back to the faucet and let it fill up. Right now I am just a mere miner, and father of a lovely young daughter, biding my time until the tumors of your society grow too strong.” Hearing that made me relax a little. “Do you know when you’ll be fully replenished?” “I feel them growing within me, but don’t you fret,” he smiled, “in due time they will awaken again, but not until you’ve grown bored of your life and retire yourself.” “I don’t plan on retiring for a long time,” I said. “Then you have plenty of time to enjoy the fruits of your civilization. You look like a mess,” he said standing up, “want to wash up in my shower?” I nodded, he guided me to the small cleansing station in the back corner of the capsule. As I bathed I felt the warmth of relief flood my body. Jonathan K. Webb Fiction, Writing Prompt Leave a comment November 10, 2020 November 10, 2020 7 Minutes A thousand years of life, handed to me in the form of a prison sentence. Not even billionaires get this lucky. I would be rendered invulnerable for generations. No empire lasts that long, I shall remain patient until the prison wall’s have fallen and make my escape. After all I had plenty of time. How foolish of him to give a crook such a generous gift. How foolish of me to think those thoughts nearly a millennia ago. Three hundred years of torture, not a single day went where my body wasn’t mutilated, burned and seared, lacerated and mangled by the so called peace officers. My arms were restrained out and up, and my legs anchored to the floor, like some sort of medieval torture victim. I didn’t eat, I didn’t drink, nor did I see the sunlight. My body no longer needed substance to function, it took care of that all on its own. Every day the guards would come in at random intervals and unleash the furry of the state upon me. I had seen their faces change through the decades. Ever changing, like faces in a dream. They It was so I could feel the pain and suffering I had inflicted upon others, but by the time it had all ended I had forgotten why I wounded up there in the first place. My life as an outsider faded to the back of my mind like the memory of a story I had read long again. Was I Prometheus after he had given light to the mortals, forced to suffer until the end of time for his rightful deed? Or was I a forsaken soul, banished to the ninth circle of hell doomed to be tortured next to Lucifer himself for my unforgivable deeds? I no longer knew. And then the day of the roar came. It began with a deep roar, like a stampeded on the horizon. The guards grew anxious and made haste with their punishment to me that day. The grumbling grew louder and more ominous through the session, the guard’s face began to sweat. He dropped his tools and dashed out of the room, the power to my chamber cut, leaving me in complete darkness. A crescendo of roars and screams hit a fever pitch moments after he had ducked out, the walls began to rumble, more violet than any earthquake I had seen before. The noise outside of my chambers shrilled like the winds of a hurricane! How long the roaring lasted I cannot tell you, somedays I remember it lasting just a mere second, and others decades. But, it did die down, leaving me with nothing but silence, and the abyss. I hung there in the abyss for many lifetimes. I no longer remembered who I was, hanging there in the void. I was nothing more than a thought in the deepness of space. I had begun to wonder whether if the world around me in which I had remembered, with all its colors, sounds, and textures, was nothing more than a reality I had dreamt up to keep myself busy as I just existed. Something to keep myself sane. I began envisioning other realities, ones in which I was an explorer conquering unknown lands; others where I was royalty, imposing my rules about the land, and punishing those who dissented; sometimes I saw myself living a simple life, in a quite little town working in the mills. No many how many realities I dreamt up, they never met the vivid elegant world I had once remembered. And then the light returned. It was an expedition to the lost plant, an archeological crew had ventured into the the caverns of the Empire’s supermax, deep within the forgotten mountains. I could hardly believe it when I saw their faces, and they as well when they saw a living breathing human in the cell. Unlike my previous caretakers, they meant no harm, in fact it was quite the opposite. They wanted to know everything. What life was like within the Empire, what they ate, what they watched, how they dressed. The Empire I had once belonged to had been wiped from the face of the planet, erased not by an exterior threat, but through their own hubris of their weapons program. What had been a simple weapons test had lead forth a cascading explosion, incinerating the breathable atmosphere of the planet, and rendering the capital uninhabitable. I was taken away from the inhospitable surface of the planet, and given care by my rescuers. That was a century and a half ago. I am now at the end of my sentence, a sentence of a lifetime in pain and isolation, but I am proud to have found a new life within the culture of my rescuers. Jonathan K. Webb Fiction, Writing Prompt Leave a comment October 20, 2020 October 14, 2020 3 Minutes Saz sat on the shredded couch, a cup of herbal tea with a splash of laze mixed in to calm his mind and help with the unwinding. “The more stress you put on the connections, the longer it takes.” The witch told him. The witch, Minerva, sat next to her console and told him everything she knew about him. She told him that he had contacted her earlier that week for an interception, she admitted to him that she had lied about being capable of intercepting him, she had done plenty of interception before, but never for a human. In hindsight, she wished she hadn’t agreed to their deal. Human interceptions were not unheard of, in fact they were theoretically feasible and were one of the primary ways people were abducted and held for ransom, or worse, sold into slave labor. Various systems had been put into place to prevent such a thing, but even then crafty hackers could still reroute a human mid sprint. Human interceptions typically left the victim dazed and confused for hours, sometimes days, as their mind unwound. There were tales of people being intercepted and sold into slavery, who didn’t know any better, obeying commands as if they were always a mindless drone, until months later when everything flooded back to them and they realized everything they knew had been taken from them. Since her sprinter was outfitted only for inanimate objects, and not living beings, she had told him to sprint naked, just to be safe, and if he had any augments to have them removed. Saz was not augmented, as far as he remembered. It would require two trips, one for him and the other for the goods. When he arrived she had left the room to give him “some decency” while he changed and adapted to his new surroundings. Probably not the best idea for somebody suffering from temporary amnesia. “Made a few modifications to help with the unwinding,” she said. “Been a while since I’ve worked on a sprinter though. Hopefully I didn’t fuck it up. You’re welcome to stay until you fully unwind. But, “she stuck out a finger, “on the condition that you stay within this room. When you’re ready to leave I’ll have you blindfolded. Can’t have you knowing where I am. We’re in a similar line of work, I hope you understand.” Saz nodded and sipped his tea. He held out his hands, he recognized them easily. From their olive undertones, to the pale scare tissue wrapped around his right wrists like a fleshy bracelet. His left arm was spotted with lighter scare tissue, small and irregular, like a pale leopard. He placed his right hand on his hair, well head. There wasn’t much up there. A short buzz cut, no longer than the thickness of his fingers. He wondered what color his hair was. Brown maybe? “I got to make a quick call,” Minerva said. “You promise you won’t strangle me again?” “Promise,” Saz said. She left the room, leaving Saz alone with his thoughts. Like dancers moving across a dance floor while the lights strobe about them, memories appeared and disappeared, as soon as he’d remember something it would be gone, only an after image remained in their place. He’d see a clear image of a gun, held by gristle harry hands. Only hands though, the rest of the body faded into a dark hulking silhouette. There was a woman with neon pink hair fully illuminated standing in an alley flashing neon signs hung above her, and then she was gone. Then another woman with neon blue hair, her face a dull blue, like glowworms in a dark cave. On her shoulder sat a glowing red five pointed star. Each time she flashed into existence, her hair was different. Her face, a void, but in each iteration she bore the same glowing red star on her shoulder. He remembered his line of work, or at least of them. He been a runner. He ran chems and other contraband substances from point A to point B, then return back with the cash. He had come to Case City for the big bucks, it was the only city that still printed its own physical currency, making a paradise for libertarians and outlaws alike. The hatched door swung open, Saz looked over. Minerva shut the door behind her. “I hope you’re happy,” she said, “I canceled the date.” “Aren’t you a little old to be dating?” Saz asked. “Don’t you have grand kids or something?” “Hun,” she said, “you’re never too old to have a little fun.” She still wore the black dress, the drops of light still trickling down the fabric. “Oh, and that’s thirty six strands you made me tear. A hundred and eighty extra bucks coming out of your bill.” “Fine,” Saz sighed. So what’s your story?” Saz asked. “I intercept, I get paid, I make a living. Nothing else too it,” she said. “Did you make that yourself?” He pointed towards the sprinter in the middle of the room. “What makes you think so?” “Sprinters aren’t supposed to look like that. Looks like you Frankensteined your own.” “I’m not going to have the kid with a wound up head tell me what a sprinter should or shouldn’t look like. Pfft,” she spun on her chair. “You get back to your business, and I’ll get back to mine.” She turned around and began working on the console again. Case watched the sprinter, he knew what they were supposed to look like. That was burned deep into his minds eye. They were supposed to be larger than this, have holoscreens and dials for picking your route, and have a protective shielding. This one was barebone, just a stainless steel coffin, no protective glass or anything. It was either cheap old crap or counterfeit. He knew more about sprinters than himself at this point. In one sense it was relieving to know so much about one thing when he knew nothing else at all, but in another sense he was frustrated that he only knew so much about one thing. The sprinter began to purr, the purple plasma drifted across the invisible barrier between the room and whatever hocus pocus wonderland lied in the chasms between sprinters. He envisioned a three dimensional roadmap, with highways, feeder streets, main arteries, all the way down to the rustic dirt roads. Each road terminating at a different sprinter, allowing who (or what) ever entered to be whisked away faster than the speed of light from one place to another. He saw the network with clarity, The Case City Network, the CCN. He watched the specs of light dance across the plasma membrane. The plasma functioned like a break, slowing down the matter passing through the CCN. A sprinter warped only a few packets of matter at a time, in order to not clog up the routes. Whenever a packet hit the plasma would light up like a firefly in the night sky. After the packet of matter had been sufficiently slowed down the sprinter itself would begin organizing said material in accordance to the blueprints it had received from the sender side. The machine would then begin piecing together the packets using a mix of nanomachines and other high tech wizardry he either didn’t know or couldn’t remember. You were effectively dead the moment you began sprinting, only to be miraculously brought to life in another within a few minutes of entering one. Because of this, sprinters had earned various nicknames: coffins, caskets, death booths, Lazarus chambers, and so on. In theory the material was the same between both ends, but sometimes a packet would be lost or mixed up, most of the time it was benign, other times people would emerge with missing organs, or limbs they had not entered the sprinter with. The cases were few and far between, and mostly happened with counterfeit sprinters. Saz looked at his hands, they looked right to him, seamless and the right proportions. The sprinter’s plasma barrier retreated back into its hiding spot, like the ocean retreating from the shoreline during a low tide. In the middle of the metallic coffin sat a black box with a white cross atop it. Case stood up and looked at it curiously. “Hey, hey,” Minerva said, “don’t touch that.” She stood up from her console and walked to the sprinter. “I wasn’t going to,” he said. “What is it?” “Medicine,” she said. She sat herself down on the side of the sprinter and retrieved the box. She opened it and produced a small flask. “I’m sure they won’t mind being one vile short.” She sat the box back down in the center of the sprinter and turned to Saz. “Take this,” she held the vile towards Saz. He took it and sat back down on the couch. “What is it?” He held the vial up to his eyes and inspected the label. ‘REMEMBRANCE’ it said in bold letters, beneath it in smaller text, ‘Case Co Biolabs.’ “Supposed to help with the unwinding,” she said. “You’re lucky that was my first interception tonight.” “How do I take it?” “Open it,” she mimed a twisting motion with her hands, “and bottoms up.” Saz twisted the top off and peered into the vial. A green liquid sat within the container’s walls. He tossed his head back and downed the medicine. It tasted of oil and rotten fruit. He gagged. “Taste like shit, but works like a charm,” she smiled. “No, don’t spit it out.” Saz’s gag reflexes overloaded his throat. His throat closed up and his diaphragm began convulsing, he coughed the green liquid up. Some of the green serum spilled on the couch. Minerva rushed over and snatched the vial from his hands. “No, no, no,” she said, “you are not wasting this. Did you swallow any?” “A little bit, bleh,” Saz stuck out his tongue, “I think.” She sighed and screwed the cap back on. “Half left,” she said, “we’ll give it another shot after your stomach settles.” She returned to the console and booted up the sprinter again. “What are you doing?” Saz asked. “Figured I’d make a little cash intercepting tonight,” she said, her back turned towards him. “If I got to babysit you in the sprinter room might as well.” “Why would anyone want that vile stuff?” The taste still lingered in his mouth. “Runners using counterfeit sprinters mostly, or maybe a sprinting station is in need for an emergency,” she shrugged. “I don’t ask questions, just send it to whoever’s paying the most.” The plasma receded reveling an empty casket. His gaze drifted from the casket across the room towards the wall with the light board, “Welcome Saz!” still written in radiant green. “Why’d you write my name on the board?” Saz asked. Minerva shrugged. “When you called me for the job I could sense distress in your voice, like something was wrong. I thought maybe it’d help with making you feel welcome.” Beneath the hoarseness of her voice, Saz sensed a tinge of warmth in her tone. “Who’d you piss off?” The warmness gone from her voice. Her console beeped, she spun around on her chair and resumed her work. “And we have another,” she said. The sprinter booted up once again, Saz watched it, waiting to see what lied beneath the curtain. The sprinter did its magic, the plasma curtain closed, and opened. In the middle of the sprinter lied a steel case, maybe a half a meter long an no more than a quarter meter wide. “Mind checking it for me?” Minerva asked. “Uhh, sure…” Saz went to the sprinter and opened the case. Nestled inside a crooked crevasse embedded within a cushioned surface sat a black metallic arm. The reflection of the florescent light above the sprinter twisted around the arm like an ever shifting tattoo. At the shoulder of the cybernetic arm, in luminous scarlet sat a flower with five petals, drawn so intricately. A single line started from the tip of the top petal, it traced the outside and spiraled inwards, growing thinner and thinner until it twisted into a perfect circle in the center. He felt his eyes begin to water, he didn’t know why. “A runner without augments? You must be quite the paranoid type,” a woman’s voice echoed in his head. The same one from earlier. “I don’t even want to know where you hide the contraband.” Saz cocked his head. “How’s it look?” Minerva asked. “Familiar,” the word just slipped out of his mouth. “No, I mean what condition is it in?” She asked. Saz shrugged. “Looks good to me, what are you doing with this?” “Close the case and set it by the door,” she said. “I’m not your assistant,” Saz said. “You’re going to make a little old lady like myself lift a heavy box like that?” “I bet you’re augmented from head to toe. Just how many implants do you have in you?” “Didn’t your mother tell you to never ask a lady if she’s augmented?” Saz was sure that wasn’t a thing people told him not to ask. “Usually I’d leave that hatch open,” she pointed to the door, “let a little bot take care of it, but since you’re here I figured I’d give the bots a day off.” “Fine, fine,” Saz closed the hatch and lifted the container out of the sprinter. It was lighter than he expected, he carried to the door and sat it down. “There, are you happy? He said walking back to the couch. “You make a fine assistant,” Minerva laughed. “What’s the arm for?” Saz asked, sitting down. “Refurbishment job,” she said. “Client wants it polished.” She didn’t mean what she meant, nobody in her line of work would do a simple “refurbishment job.” No, he remembered clearly what those words meant for people like her. She was going to wipe it of any ID tags and markings. “No,” Saz shook his head, “you can’t do that.” “Yes I can.” “How much are they paying you? I’ll double it!” Saz didn’t know what he was saying. There was something about that arm that beckoned him to protect it, like a child holding on to a teddy bear while his mother threatened to toss it out. “Why do you want that arm so badly? It’s not even your size, it’s clearly a woman’s.” “Just please,” he closed his eyes. Images of the woman with the luminescent hair and the five pointed star tattoo flashed through his mind’s eye like a corrupt video file. He slammed his fists into the couch. “I’ll triple it, quadruple it. Just tell me how much.” “Saz, calm down,” his eyes were still closed but he heard her voice draw closer. He felt her hand touch his shoulder, her palms were rough and calloused, like a shopkeeper’s. “I can sedate you if it’ll make this easier. I read some studies that said that dreaming can help with the unwinding process.” “No, I’m fine,” he opened his eyes and gazed at the sprinter. “Just give me more tea.” She removed her palm from his shoulder, leaving a cold mark on his skin. He looked at his palms, twinkles of sweat glistened across his skin. Like he had just broken a fever. Another image of the woman with luminescent hair flashed before his eyes. She was smiling at him, her tattooed gave him a thumbs up. She had long scarlet hair draping to her shoulder, like lava flowing down a volcano. The strands flowed into her flesh, and began gently twisting into a delicate pattern. Soon a five pointed star emerged, and the red river continued flowing inwards. The lines spiraled towards the center, tracing the same pattern over and over again, stars within stars, until it ended in a circle. Her flesh turned pitch black, leaving only the tattoo. He had been wrong, it wasn’t a star, it was a flower. Jonathan K. Webb Fiction, Interception (Series) Leave a comment September 29, 2020 October 14, 2020 11 Minutes The world flowed around him like water through a river, he was nothing more than a rock beneath the surface, a conduit for the smooth laminar flow. He watched as photons of indistinguishable origins warped before his eyes, a streak of red here, a dash of blue there, perhaps a questionable dosage of x-rays or gamma rays if his route had been miscalculated, or his information had been wrong. God he fucking hoped not, that would be at least a week in a medichamber, if not more. But the odds were slim to none. The visual world was always first to come during runs, something about the sprinters seemed to turn on the occipital lobe first, working memory came second. Sight before sound, plenty of trips abound. Sound before sight, a runner’s fright. Or so the old sayings went. It was a relic of the old days, when sprinters were still in their youth, full of bugs and faulty parts, before the engineers who’d designed them knew the proper ways to switch back on a human brain after transversing spacetime like a ship parting the waves. But still, the saying persisted, and even in his dumbfounded state, the saying echoed within his skull. Slowly the world grew more and more viscous, like the arrow of time pointing in reverse on a paint mixer, the streaks of light began to slowly unblend from each other. Gradually they began forming coherent shapes. A tendril of light whipped back and forth above him, like a snake whose head was caught in a mouse trap. At first it moved erratically, trying to escape the mechanism, but with each beat of the whip the the bright white serpent moved slower, and slower until the trap had sucked all the life out of it. The white snake let out its final tremor until it keeled over, and rigor mortis kicked in, stretching it into a long white florescent light hanging above him. Sound had returned, he could hear the faint buzzing of the light above him, a faint rattle of the dead snake. Beyond the buzzing a faint machine hummed. A thud banged from somewhere within the space he was emerging into. He wanted to look towards the origin, but his face was still locked in place while the sprinter carried on with its work, indifferent to any outside stimulus. Sense began gradually returning, each one a little more quickly than the last. Touch, he could feel the cold surface his body laid upon. His vestibular system was next, he could now tell exactly where was in space. He knew the cold surface was down, and the bright white light was up. Then kinesthetics, without looking he knew his hands were where they should be and his feet too. Finally, his organs, he felt his stomach growl, his heartbeat, his lungs fill with air. He was now a fully functioning human being. A buzzing sound came from his right, odd, he had expected a gentle chime. Must be a different kind of sprinter, he thought to himself, best to play it safe. He waited for the chime, but it never came. He took a deep breath and sat himself up. He shivered, he looked down at his barren body. Why was he nude? He didn’t remember ever taking off his clothes. Sprinters could transport almost anything, from the fabric of his clothes to the cellular makeup of his body. The practice of removing clothes before a quick sprint was long abandoned, only those too old and stubborn (or paranoid) sprinted naked. He dug deep into his mind in search of his reasoning why he had sprinted naked, he couldn’t find it. Give it a minute, he thought to himself, mind’s still unwinding. He looked around the room, preferably for something to cover himself up. The room reminded him of the cramped apartment he used to rent in the Dynamo Ward in the lower levels of Wintermute. Oh Wintermute, the city he had made a name for himself. He remembered bits and pieces of his time there what he didn’t remember is why he had left it. Never mind, that didn’t matter, he had to figure where he was now, and more importantly, why. On the far side of the room sat an empty terminal, the screen dark. Behind the terminal a wall of black boxes and flashing LEDs, like the twinkling of stars from above. To the left of him sat a maroon lether couch, the cushioning ripped through various incisions and lumps. Flashes of rotting flesh came to mind, bodies lacerated and burned, vital fluids leaking through the incisions and white pus erupting through the blisters. Tas. Why did that word ring so strongly in his mind? He closed his eyes, the gaping wounds hung in his minds eye. He looked to right. A light board hung on the wall. Written in radiant green light were the words “Welcome Saz!” He cocked his head and squinted. Saz, that was his name, but who wrote that? The machine he sat in buzzed. A deep purple plasma began spewing from the upper corners of the metallic coffin, the plasma poured off the edges flowing a centimeter or so down before hitting an invisible barrier, and trickled atop the force field. “Shit,” Saz said. He pulled himself out of the sprinter and hurdled over the edges. His right leg made contact with the plasma, his peripheral nervous system kicked in and quickly pulled the leg backwards. His left leg wasn’t prepared for such a sudden change in his balance. His torso, now just over the edge of the sprinter, was overtaken by gravity and he was pulled towards the ground. He rolled onto his back. All his limbs were clear of the sprinter. On his right shin sat a pink mark where the plasma had contacted his flesh. He sighed and let his body relax. “Fuck me,” he groaned. Saz stood up and watched the sprinter. It was completely covered in the purple plasma, like fog across a pond on a cool morning. There was no safety shielding between him and the plasma as you would find on most legitimate sprinters, but then again, he didn’t typically spend time with those in a legitimate business. Flashes of white light glistened across the hazing barrier, like fireflies in the heat of the summer. The process continued for only a second or two until the machine buzzed again and the plasma retreated back into the edges of the machine. In the middle of the machine sat a large black duffel bag. He yanked it out. He didn’t recognize the bag, but he assumed it was for himself. He unzipped the bag. He took a step back, and nearly tripped once again. Inside the bag sat loads and loads of paper bills. Each of them gleaming with that soft cyan luminescence, with that large C stamped in the middle. Case City bills, thousands of them. Another thing caught his eye in the bag, wadded up on one of the ends was a piece of clothing. He pulled it up, gently pushing the cash aside as not to soil their elegance. He unwadded the cloth, it unraveled into a plain gray t shirt, within the shirt a pair of red shorts and underwear. Tap, tap. He jumped. Tap. He looked towards the source of the sound, a metal door outfitted with a wheel in the center, like a weather tight hatch in a freight ship. Another tap. Saz scanned the room again, looking for anything that could be make shifted into a weapon. He picked up the shirt beside him, held it between his hands lengthwise and twisted either end around his hands, and dashed to the hinge side of the door. The wheel spun. The door creaked open. “Saz?” A woman’s voice said. Hoarse, as if she were parched, “have you changed yet?” The door swung a few degrees more, Saz added tension to the shirt between his hands, and gave it one more twist. “Saz?” The grainy voice said. She walked through the doorway. She wore a long black dress with light bands flowing from her torso to the hemlines, like neon rain drops running down a window contouring around the fluffs of the outfit. Her chalk white hair held up in a bun. “Fuck not another trip,” she stomped. Saz lunged from behind the door and lassoed the woman with his shirt. He tensed his arms, pulling her closer to his body and constricted her throat. “Saz, is that you? You’re just unw-” She gagged. He pulled tighter until she no longer could speak. She kicked him in the shin, Saz hung tight. “How do you know my name?” He asked. She coughed and pointed at her neck. He loosened his grip, giving her enough slack to barely take a breath. “I intercepted you,” she croaked. Shit, who’s he piss off this time? Or was just a simple mugging? He quickly looked over his shoulder towards the hatch and kicked it closed. His rubbed his elbow against the wheel and attempted to turn the latch. The wheel didn’t budge, not enough leverage. “Why?” He said. “You paid me to,” she said. “Liar,” he raised his voice and pulled the shirt tighter. “Well this was nice while it lasted,” she said. “What?” His muscles tensed all at once, then all fell limp. The shirt slipped through his fingers and draped across the woman’s neck; his legs could no longer hold. His body returned to the cold hard floor. He wanted to reach out and grab the woman, but his limbs no loner listened to him. She removed the shirt from her neck and tossed it aside. “Glad to see you too,” she said. “Nice job ruining my dress,” she inspected her elbows. Small metal spikes ruptured from the black fabric and into her skin. She kicked his stomach, the air shot out of his lungs. “My rates just went up, an extra five percent to cover damages,” she leaned down and looked him, “both material and psychological.” Her face was efflorescent and white, like she had stuck her whole face into a bag of powdered sugar and called it a day with her make up. She pointed her right elbow towards him and fiddled with the severed fabric. “This dress ain’t cheap,” she said. The metal rods retracted into her flesh, “that’s five bucks a thread. I’ll have a bot add it all up.” She walked away from him and squatted down at the duffle bag. She began lifting the wads of cash out and stacked the beside her. She formed six piles of five stacks and brought them to her desk. She kicked at something and leaned over, then stood back up. She sat on the chair beside the console and watched Saz from across the room. Saz could feel his motor control return to him, first with a slight twitch of his fingers. He lay there focusing on moving his hands. “You should have your full range of motion back in a few minutes,” the woman said. “Supposed to give the victim enough time to flee the scene and then some so you can’t trail her. Fucking men,” she rolled her eyes. She returned to her console and began typing away at a set of holokeys. Saz lay there watching her. If what she said was true, she was on his side, at least as much of his side he bought from her. If what she said was true, she was on his side, at least as much of his side he bought from here. He searched his memory for her face, her face reminded him of those wicked witches from children’s stories, but as for her, he drew nothing but blanks. His memory still rewiring in the back of his brain was like an ever shifting maze, wandering it was futile. Best to let it settle first. “What do you think?” He heard a woman’s voice, it wasn’t the witch’s, it was younger, stronger and it came from all around him “Fully augmented memories,” her voice continued, “no more wind up time. Just sprint, and,” she snapped, “you’re all there. What do you think Saz?” “Huh?” He groaned and got up. “Oh you’re up,” the witched turned spun in her chair. She stood and walked to him, she picked up the pair of shorts on her way. “Now would it bother you to get dressed?” She tossed the pair of shorts towards him. Jonathan K. Webb Fiction, Interception (Series) Leave a comment September 4, 2020 October 14, 2020 8 Minutes

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"Blueprint" Serialization Format By Shaarigan, September 4 in Engines and Middleware we are currently discussing about different data formats to serialize a visual data structure similar to Unreal Blueprint and I wanted to get more input from other people to get a better decision. We are currently refactoring our build-tool to provide a more flexible way of defining configurable pipelines or pipeline pieces and decided for a visual node based approach. Our nodes are of different type performing different actions and have their desired input/ output pins like in this example Some pins (including output) are optional, most of the input pins have to be connected. Those processors are used in the build-tool only for now, there will be other pipelines in the future we want to configure in the same way, and are connected automatically at runtime by an Actor Approach System that scans the in- and output pins of every pre-defined processor to connect them to a task graph. This way we will keep the flexibility we currently have but gain much more control over edge cases. Because we aren't set to a single programming language, there will be some kind of compiler that is intended to process the result of our configuration and either create source code for a specific language (like C# for the tooling or C++ for the engine) or straight compile it into a plugin assembly that can be loaded from the build-tool. From this reason and because we want to keep the possibility to write those files without graphical tools, we need a grammar that is capable of handling the complexity of those node graphs but is at the same time as simple (and not binary) enougth to be editted on disk using a text editor. I already looked at the most common formats like JSON seems to be getting very complex and the minified form our code produces isn't very readble XML has been removed from the list because I think that it's grammar is too old-school and parsing is more complex than JSON YAML, TOML and AXOM seems to be an alternative because it is slim and simple but parsing it is a nightmare and I don't realy like the strict whitespace handling So long story short, does anyone of you know of an already existing "language" that would fit our needs or do you have any idea for a slim but powerfull grammar? Edited September 4 by Shaarigan LorenzoGatti 4559 LorenzoGatti You seem concerned about non-problems and unconcerned about basic issues. I've never heard about AXOM, but for all the other structured text formats you mention there are good libraries that parse them to very convenient data structures in any decent programming language. Complex parsing is a solved problem; you should only worry about complex and error-prone manual editing, and from this point of view XML with advanced editors becomes a good choice. Your files are probably small enough to allow carefree use of easy to use parsers that load a whole file to a fancy generic object model, with no need for the extra effort of streaming file content or building frugal specialized data structures to save memory. As soon as you allow arbitrary user input (as opposed to editing operations allowed by your node-based GUI editor) you need to validate task definitions, regardless of syntax. I don't think visual editing of nodes and wires and textual editing are compatible authoring approaches. Given that a build pipeline or the like tends to have few and complex nodes and nothing interesting to show graphically, reducing the usefulness of a visual editor, and if editing task definitions by hand is important (why?) you should probably sacrifice node-based visual editing. For example you could use strictly automatic layout (or, more simply, read-only graphical reports of what a task definition does) to avoid polluting the task definitions with irrelevant graphical details and automatically generated meaningless identifiers. What's challenging to design in your task definition language is the abstract syntax (what building blocks? What data should they require and produce?) and semantics (e.g. where do tasks look for files? Is the language Turing-complete, or otherwise too powerful?), not the concrete syntax. 3 hours ago, LorenzoGatti said: I've never heard about AXOM, but for all the other structured text formats you mention there are good libraries that parse them to very convenient data structures in any decent programming language. I never asked for a library to do the task, I know how to write those parsers on my own, that is not the problem here. I don't want to use XML, JSON or YAML because those have decent drawbacks in their grammar. XML is so old (even if widely used) that closjng tags seem to be outdated to me from a user perspective. JSON is very formatting oriented, it suits well if you want to write easy simple configuration files but not for those complex ones. YAML when going into the user scope is not suiteable as well because of the whitespace counting. So we decided against all of them. Given that a build pipeline or the like tends to have few and complex nodes and nothing interesting to show graphically, reducing the usefulness of a visual editor, and if editing task definitions by hand is important (why?) you should probably sacrifice node-based visual editing This is just a very shortsighted view. Both ways of editing can fit well into each other and are valid to live along each other as well. We are creating a software for managing a game project so different kinds of people with different technical and non-technical background tend to work with that system. Having a visual editor for the pipelines helps non-developer contributors like artists to introduce their creations to the project without the need to ask the developers for assistance every time. We worked in professional software development for too long to not take other departments into account in case of a bigger project. Our designers want to define behavior for our software as same as artists want to optimize workflows and building. On the other hand, a visual editing allows for a straight overview of a decent pipeline in a way a pure text format could never provide. Text editing of the pure definition files is on the other hand important as well because we as developers are convinient with configuration files of all kind. We fix small issues in Visual Studio projects, maintain our Yarn building or host automatic building on a server side task so it is more than important to have a file format that could be easy opened, edited and saved to save time and experience. Many people struggle on writing make, ninja or other build files and we think that those tools should be easy to use without taking too much time to configure for every new project. We could achieve exactly that by providing a well defined set of tools/ tokens to for example add a new resource to the project that a generic processor would otherwise ignore. This usecase was first needed when we wrote some low-level assembly code to support swapping of execution contexts in our tasking library. Those files were ignored by the C++ processor by design so we needed to tell it that in this project are also some files that have to be in the build but different for each platform and architecture. This is the reason we build our forge system that does most of the task by its own without the need of a human to manage and watch every step. Our tool is inspired by Unreal who's developers created UBT, a tool that could be configured by adding C# classes to the project btw. What's challenging to design in your task definition language is the abstract syntax The syntax itself is quite easy, you have to provide the type of token, the token ID and parameters you set along with each connection to determine where input comes from and output has to be delivered to. The issue here is to find an easy grammar to provide these information in a way that is on the same time readable and rich of information without the need of another special code editing tool to not loose the overview AtomicWinter 15 AtomicWinter I don't understand why you're so keen on not using a library to handle the parsing for you? Why would you want another set of code that you and your team have to maintain versus using a battle tested library that another team maintains? Also, that eliminates the concerns you have with the difficult parsing? If you're still keen on reinventing the wheel then it's still hard to say. I say that because you state "...the minified form our code produces..." and we don't know what that means or your pipeline. I don't know why you don't have a visual editor, whatever that is, that not only displays a visual representation of the file, but a textual representation as well. Then your pipeline can do whatever you want it to do and not have to worry about editing the raw files themselves. With that being said, and with a DB structure out of mind since you mentioned no binary, what about something like a CSV file? It a flat file and you can easily edit it with Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, etc. Again, without knowing your pipeline I'm not sure how this would be minified as it may corrupt the file since it relies on line breaks. Either way, best of luck on your project. JTippetts 13290 JTippetts I wrote a node graph tool for visually assembling noise functions some time back, and the graphs are saved as Lua tables. The syntax of a table in Lua is quite easily editable by hand, can be neatly prettified, and you can even do trickery such as embedded executable code. @JTippetts sounds like something we could take a look at. Do you have any example of what your output looked like?

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Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon 20:09 25 June 2012 Paul Marks, senior technology correspondent Britons have been spitting blood this past weekend after a botched banking software upgrade at the UK's government-owned Royal Bank of Scotland denied hundreds of thousands of people access to banking services. Customers of RBS and its NatWest and Ulster Bank subsidiaries have not been able to check their account balances or make major payments - such as deposits on houses - leaving some homeless. While it is not yet clear why the software upgrade failed - or whether it was the fault of an offshored computer facility in India - what is certain is that the episode has given us just a tiny taste of a nightmare scenario long feared by cybersecurity experts who advise western governments: What happens if there is an extended, simultaneous attack on all of the banks? I was recently talked through this scenario by a source familiar with international deliberations on cyberdefence. Imagine, they said, that an attacker manages to disable the communications lines, or routers, linking a nation's banks, ATMs and the point-of-sale debit/credit card terminals in supermarkets and garages. Suddenly, as few of us carry much cash these days, people cannot buy day-to-day essentials like food and fuel. "The big concern is that hurricane Katrina-style riots could break out on a mass scale as people take to looting," the source said. As a countermeasure, particularly susceptible telecommunications networks have already been identified by some governments - with vulnerabilities patched in, for instance, the UK national telecommunications network. However, the arrival of the reprogrammable computer worms Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame now pose a fresh cyber risk. These can attack industrial or financial infrastructure in a step-by-step fashion, overcoming multiple layers of security as they go by wielding different software "payloads" at the right time. Devised initially by US and Israeli intelligence to slow Iran's nuclear programme, these threats got into the wild and now provide attackers with handy cyberattack "construction kits". Continued forensic examination of these worms by antivirus firms should find ways to disable attacks based on them. But for how long can an American firm like Symantec, say, continue to reveal threat confounding measures when it is clear that a US intelligence organisation is partly behind the threat? Last week, at the Adaptive and Resilient Complex Systems conference at the Royal Society in London, I asked Patricia Titus, Chief Information Security Officer at Symantec that very question. "It's our job - and we will continue to do it until we are told to cease and desist," she said. Kiwiiano on June 26, 2012 10:51 AM Quote: "It's our job - and we will continue to do it until we are told to cease and desist," Or until one of these malware gets loose in the American banking system and takes Wall St down or such. Assuming someone notices Wall St has bombed again....they may figure it's just business as usual.... Rodney on June 26, 2012 6:52 PM At least the worse case scenario that was first proposed back in the early 90s hasnt occured. One simple quote. In a monoculture (Wintel) a correctly formed pathogen, either accidental or deliberate, can be near impossible to treat, unlesss and until alternatives are introduced to break the transmission pathways. Microsoft is now aiming to bring its code, and so behaviour to ARM based processors. These Are the processors used in powerful embedded systems, so having access to the core code mthods through what is generally considered to be one of the most unsecure operating systems overall, could possibly lead to all sorts of unfortunate events. Even Linux gets attacked, with its thousands of hobby coders nigling away at various parts The bank outsourced their supposedly secure data handling functions? .What were they upgrading to, windows ME? By Rodney Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon: At least the worse case scenario that was first proposed back in the early 90s hasnt occured. ... By Kiwiiano Quote: "It's our job - and we will continue to do it until we are told to cease and desist," Or... Giving tech news 100 per cent Last tests for solar plane before coast-to-coast flight Prototype could revive glasses-free 3D displays Why your Twitter friends are more interesting than you Could an airliner be hacked by a smartphone?

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Danish pension fund chief explains firing of veteran CIO Denmark's EUR 9.5 billion pension fund PBU is firing its Chief Investment Officer Morten Schou, who has held the role since 2003. PBU's Chief Executive tells AMWatch why the CIO was ousted. He emphasizes that it had nothing to do with investment returns. Morten Schou, Chief Investment Officer of Denmark's PBU from 2003 until last week. BY DAVID BENTOW AND ANNE LOUISE HOUMANN Last week, Denmark's Pædagogernes Pensionskasse, or PBU, fired its Chief Investment Officer Morten Schou, who has held the position for the past 15 years.

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