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The Danny Ings injury has hit everyone associated to Liverpool hard, but none more so than the player himself, of course.
Yesterday, news broke that the 24-year-old striker, who missed almost the entirety of last season with an injury to his ACL, has injured his other knee and will miss 2016/17 as well.
That's two of the best years of his career entirely written off.
Editor's Column: LFC's Starting XI that got savaged by Watford in 2015/16 proves Klopp's a training ground God
Now, Ings won't be worrying about eventually getting into Liverpool's XI, but getting fit enough to make it as a professional footballer full stop.
But typical of the man, Ings is focussing on the positives. He's retweeted artist Banksy, who wrote this earlier today:
Always be thankful for what you have.
— banksy (@thereaIbanksy) November 3, 2016
Pretty fitting, really. We wish Ings all the luck in the world for a hopefully speedy recovery. He's obviously too down right now to post a proper message, but we're sure one will arrive in time.


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Brooks Lauds Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013
Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks (R-IN) offered the following statement today in support of the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 after the legislation's markup in the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce:
"Americans work extra hours every day trying to provide a better future for their families and help their companies succeed. In return, many of them would like to use those hours to better meet family and personal obligations down the road. The law should not prevent employers who want to honor that request from doing so.
Giving employees the opportunity to choose comp time is a common-sense policy and an example of renewed efforts within the U.S. House to make life work for all Americans. Outdated regulations should not cause parents to miss school plays and little league games or prevent adult children from caring for their elderly parents when the need arises. As a mom who's been both an employer and an employee, I know helping workers balance their career aspirations and personal responsibilities is a winning policy. This effort is all about giving hard-working Americans the flexibility they have deserved for some time."
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 mandates covered employees receive the overtime rate of "time-and-a-half" when working beyond the standard 40 hour work week. The law prevents private-sector workers from choosing paid time off or "comp time" instead of cash payments. The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 removes this outdated road block from federal law and allows private-sector employers to offer the same benefits and flexibility that their public sector counterparts enjoy.
Following today's markup, the legislation moves to the House floor for a final vote. To learn more about the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, click here.
Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks serves on the Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security and Ethics Committees. She is a former Deputy Mayor of Indianapolis and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Prior to serving in Congress, she was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Ivy Tech Community College where she led statewide workforce development and job training efforts.

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Our Youth Program provides an atmosphere of love and trust where children are empowered to fulfill their inherent potential. We have created a Sunday morning program where children explore and experience their oneness with God, make loving connections with each other, and learn spiritual practices. The lessons in the kid's room are matched to the talk going on in the sanctuary so the entire family can continue their Sunday experience at home.
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Durham Bulls (20-17, 9 gb). 1B Kevin Witt is tied for the International League lead with 8 home runs, while batting .287. The biggest surprise for the Bulls must be CF Darnell McDonald. He is 6th in batting (.331) and 5th in slugging (.541) with 6 home runs, 28 RBI and 8 stolen bases. Elijah Dukes has also put up strong numbers the first 37 games (.309-4-18). SS B. J. Upton continues to lead the league in stolen bases with 18. He has also raised his average to .292 with 4 home runs and 19 RBI. Oh by the way…he has committed a couple of errors. The pitching staff has been incredible for the most part. Jamie Shields (2-2, 2.91, 1.20) has been the beacon of control with a 40:4 strikeout to walk ratio. Brian Stokes (2-1, 2.06, 1.14) is among the league leaders in ERA. Chris Seddon, Edwin Jackson and Jason Hammel, have all shown signs of brilliance but have been inconsistent.
Montgomery Biscuits (22-16, 0.5 gb). 2B Elliot Johnson has been a pleasant surprise for the Biscuits. He is 5th in the Southern League in home runs (7) and batting average (.322). Wes Bankston who is trying to make the conversion to 3B has missed half the season with an injury, but was hitting .333 on the shelf but has committed 333 errors (actually 11). 1B Gabriel Martinez has slowed down considerably after a hot start (.273-5-15). Jason Pridie is only hitting .221 with 1 home run, but is 8 for 8 in stolen bases. In the starting rotation, Tony Paguero (4-3, 1.97, 0.91) and Jim Magrane (6-2, 2.61, 1.16) have been the lone bright spots. In the bullpen, Juan Salas has yet to allow an earned run in 18.2 innings and has struck out 28.
Visalia Oaks (14-23, 11.5 gb). C Jahn Jaso and SS Reid Brignac continue to splinter the ball. They are tied for 7th in the California League with .343 batting averages. Brignac is tied for 6th with 6 home runs, while Shaun Cumberland leads the league in dingers (9) and Patrick Breen is 3rd (7). Cumberland is also 2nd in RBI 29, but is only hitting .231. From the mound, Christopher Mason (2-2, 2.50, 1.21) is the lone starting pitcher that has been consistently good.
SW Michigan Devil Rays (20-17, 3.5 gb). There haven't been any early season standouts at the plate for the D-Rays. James Hall is batting .320 with 3 home runs, but is 2-8 in stolen bases. Garrett Groce is batting .291 and leads the league with 13 stolen bases. On the other hand, the pitching staff continues to be solid with several members that could be seen in Tampa in the years to come. Wade Davis (3-0, 1.23, 1.15) has a big league arm, but is still struggling with his control. He has only surrendered 19 hits in 36.2 innings but has also allowed 23 walks. He is 4th in the league with 46 Ks. Jacob McGee (3-5, 3.12, 1.27) has been nearly as impressive with a league leading 55 strikeouts. The most impressive in the rotation might be Michael Wlodarczyk. In 48 innings, he is 4-1, with a 0.94 ERA and a 44 to 15 strikeout to walk ratio. In the bullpen, Greg Dupas has 9 saves in 15 appearances, with a 0.95 ERA.


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In a pitch black, 140-foot-deep underwater cave, three divers make a stunning 13,000-year-old discovery: the oldest complete human skeleton ever found in the Americas. In this video, see the ancient remains, venture through the remarkable deep-water chamber, and see how a skeleton belonging to a teenage girl from the last ice age lead scientists to a major revelation about the earliest Americans.
The monumental finding has roots in 2007, when cartographer and National Geographic grantee Alberto Nava and his two friends, Alejandro Alvarez and Franco Attolini, were mapping 100,000 feet of underwater cave passages in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Expecting to see mostly tunnels, the team was shocked when they popped into an unknown 200-foot-wide abyss, littered with the bones of extinct creatures like saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and gomphotheres (elephantlike animals related to mastodons). "This was the discovery of a lifetime. It was mesmerizing," Nava recalls. "We really didn't know what to do. We were sitting there laughing. Our regulators were coming out of our mouths from laughing so much." The overjoyed team would name the giant void Hoyo Negro, which translates to Black Hole.
While Hoyo Negro was an amazing finding on its own, it's home to an even more exceptional discovery, many millennia in the making. While exploring the cave, Alvarez found a skull, "and all of a sudden," as Nava recounts, "we discover the most complete, and the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas."
Led by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History and supported by the National Geographic Society, Nava and an international group of scientists have spent years working to protect, recover, and study the skeleton. "We have an intact cranium. We have all her teeth. We have most of her vertebra, most of her ribs, all her limbs. We have the pelvis, and we have the pubic bone. It's just amazing," Nava says in wonderment.
"I feel proud of the discovery and we're all happy that we did it, but at the same time it's become this responsibility of seeing the site protected, seeing the research and the science done so that we can actually unravel all the secrets of Hoyo Negro," Nava says. "We're the first ones to interact with whatever is left of this human that lived during the last ice age."
That human was a teenage girl who lived about 13,000 years ago, before the cave was underwater. The Hoyo Negro team has affectionately dubbed her "Naia," after the water nymphs in ancient Greek mythology. "One of the researchers said, 'Okay, we got to give it a name,'" Nava remembers. "Because it becomes a different relationship. Now you're not talking about an 'it,' you're not talking about bone, you're talking about a person." And Nava thinks about the human element of the discovery frequently.
"For me, when we go in these caves, we think that we're doing this great exploration, but in reality the original explorers of these tunnels were Naia and her people. We're just following them 13,000 years later. I just imagine the conditions they were living in at that time. This is a deserted area and they're going in there and having to find water and food and shelter and fight animals," Nava says, wondering just how Naia found her final resting place in Hoyo Negro. "Hoyo Negro and Naia have become an integral part of my life, part of my story."
Turns out, Naia is part of a lot of Americans' stories, or at least their histories. Scientists were able to extract ancient, intact DNA from one of Naia's teeth, determining her DNA matches that of modern Native Americans. This suggests that the earliest Americans migrated from Siberia via a now nonexistent land bridge, and any physical differences among populations are due to natural changes that occurred after humans arrived in the Americas, and not from having migrated from multiple locations in Europe and Asia, as some anthropologists previously thought.
"The discoveries that we're making inside the cave in the Yucatán Peninsula give us a view of how life used to be and it gives you a sense of how small our existence is compared to what the planet has gone through, to what humans have gone through," says Nava. "For me, Hoyo Negro and Naia are the stars of this project, and we all work to bring their stories light so we understand a little bit better about where do we come from."
Alberto Nava is a grantee of National Geographic's Expeditions Council. To learn more about the science and exploration supported by the nonprofit National Geographic Society, visit natgeo.org/grants and be sure to check out more explorers in action in our digital series, Expedition Raw.
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|For other uses of Crow in the Fallout universe, see Crow.
"The spirits told me you'd be coming, and that you're looking to buy."
Crow sells clothing and armor around the Capital Wasteland in 2277.
Crow used to be a tribal shaman and his spiritual views on the wasteland can seem odd to the others - especially when they are mixed with his uncanny sense for selling armor. There are rumors that he came from Oasis, but if he did, he never talks about it.[1]
Agatha mentions that she and Crow are friends. Crow can be found wandering the wastes with his caravan guard and brahmin.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
|This character is a merchant.
|Caps: 483-1197*
Sells: armor and clothing
|This character can repair items.
|Repair cap: 79*
|This character is involved in quests.
- * After second investment.
- Merchant Empire: Investing fully in his business yields Crow's eyebot helmet in return as a gift of gratitude. It will also increase his Repair skill to 65, allowing him to repair items to a max of 79%.
|Other items
|On death
|Leather armor
Roving trader hat
|Scoped .44 Magnum
|Crow's supply key
- Crow's pack brahmin has a significantly higher amount of health than all other merchants' brahmin.
- If Crow is killed, his pack brahmin may do any of the following: wait outside the entrance of Rivet City, wait outside of Canterbury Commons, wander around in the manner of a mad brahmin, stay by Crow's corpse (following it along if it is moved by dragging), or continue to follow the trade route. This also happens if the pack brahmin is killed and Crow survives, with the roles being reversed.
- Agatha is friends with Crow, and mentions him on her radio station. He is one of the merchants that go to Agatha's house to trade supplies. Agatha has practically no material possessions to trade (as evidenced by the contents of her house and its remote location). When spoken to, she mentions that instead of trading items, she actually plays songs for Crow on her homemade violin in return for the supplies she needs.
Notable quotesEdit
- "The spirits told me you'd be coming, and that you're looking to buy."
- "If the clothes make the man, then here are the means to re-make yourself."
- "And here you are! The spirits have blessed me with many gifts, but you have given the more marketable gift of monetary investment. Please accept this offering - a mask and helmet made from the hide of the wisest spirits of the wind. May it benefit you as fully as it has myself."
Crow appears only in Fallout 3.
- Xbox 360 If Crow dies, Uncle Roe may not realize it as he does with the other merchants. [verified]
- Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Sometimes when Crow is seen wandering the wasteland, he will be fleeing from nothing. At Paradise Falls, he might flee into the drain hole nearby. [verified]
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in my life
i've thought i found
"the one"
& both
were amazing
before everything turned
in my life
i've thought i found
my lost part
my split apart
only to want to
lose it
i guess i am luckier
than some
not so lucky
as others
in my life
i've thought i found
true love…
will the third time
be the charm?
dreams of dusty and yawning loneliness leave me feeling empty & sad.
i wandered over to "okcupid" as i think i am no longer allowed on "plenty of fish"…and i am not willing to pay to look at pages & pages of men who i am not at all attracted to.
there are all these guys who insist they want a different kind of woman. they are all liars. also, there are tons of guys who just want to bitch about how every woman is either a "crack whore" or "playing games." what the what?
so i will report back. of course i feel optimistic. until i don't anymore.
misha wants to know why i am a bunny.
misha wants to know why i am brown.
misha wants to know why a snake is on my feet.
oh if only i knew.
ps. one of my older lambs got tangled in the new fencing i put up. she almost strangled herself, but i did get her untangled.
i guess that would solve my problem of butchering (i am hesitant to butcher) if my lambs just kill themselves….
now i have to watch & see if it was a fluke or if there will be more entanglements.
i don't know if it would have been better or worse if i was actually electrifying the fence.


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I finally got my hands on one of the so-called "Kopparkegs" after calling up to reserve one from Morrisons (they are literally flying off the shelves) as every visit beforehand proved to be a waste of time!
Price and Availablity
Priced at £18 per keg, the 5Litre keg is offered in two flavours; Strawberry and Lime, and the new for this year, Mixed fruits. I got the Strawberry and lime flavour, and I absolutely love it. Originally released last year, the keg was hugely popular, so a re-release was obviously needed. I'm not sure how many more kegs are available in the UK, but I have heard that Kopparberg is considering on releasing it again later on in the year, so if you miss out this time you can always try to get one during the relaunch.
The keg saves you about £3.70 when comparing it to the price of the equivalent in bottles (which are £2.17 each in Morrisons), so it's a good alternative.
The Taste
A lot of people I have spoken to really enjoy the taste of Kopparberg, and they often pass comment on the naturally sweet taste when drinking their products. I agree with this as the notes within certain products are sweeter than others.The Kopparkeg, however, is slightly different. Yes, it is sweet but this is due to the addition of strawberry and lime ''juices'' which are naturally sweet, rather than the addition of chemical flavourings which are chemically sweet.
I purchased the Strawberry and Lime keg and found that the bottles are more carbonated whereas, the keg, in the same flavour, has a smooth and still mouthfeel, this definitely makes the flavours of the cider more pronounced in my opinion. If you prefer a more fizzy approach to your ciders then the bottles would be better suited to you. If you dislike the fizz then the light ciders or the keg is more up your alley.
Getting it to work
Once you have secured your keg (Lucky you!) you might be a little bit intimidated by how to prime it so it's ready to use. It's really quite simple, actually. So, once you have set up the keg., pull the black spout tab out, then twist the red cap to the left until you hear it click. Now you are ready to pour, you can do this by pulling up the black trigger to release your cider, just remember to place your glass under it! ha-ha!
Are you a cider drinker and do you like Kopparberg? If you do then I fully recommend you try to get your hands on one of these beauties as they taste smooth, fresh and are great to share! You can pick these up in Morrisons, ASDA and Tesco's but they are going really fast).


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This photo is made the first time I saw my Klipsch loudspeakers. The seller only wanted to sell both (La Scala + subs), not La Scala only. So now I'm the owner of more speakers than I originally had in mind ;-)

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from 1960's to present
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"Our members deserve a collective agreement that reflects the true value of their services to the people they support in the community." - BCGEU Treasurer Stephanie Smith.
Vancouver (04 Jan. 2013) — Bargaining for members working in the community health sector will resume on January 7 following a break over the holidays.
"Members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU/NUPGE) who work in community health have been at the table for a year now. We have made some progress on the non-monetary issues but we are frustrated that talks have now stalled over wages and benefits," says BCGEU Treasurer Stephanie Smith. "Our members deserve a collective agreement that reflects the true value of their services to the people they support in the community."
There will be no job action this week, but if an agreement cannot be reached by January 11, rotating strike action will continue starting as early as January 14. Workers will be contacted through their stewards or local executive if their workplace is a target for job action.
Workers in community health have been without a contract since March 31,2012 and are among the lowest paid in the public sector. They are the frontline caregivers in B.C.'s health care system, providing compassionate, quality care and support to people in their homes and other facilities.
The bargaining association represents more than 14,000 members, the majority of whom are represented by the BCGEU/NUPGE. Other unions at the table are the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the Hospital Employees' Union (HEU), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Health Sciences Association of B.C. (HSABC/NUPGE) and the United Steelworkers (USW).
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one of Canada's largest labour organizations with over 340,000 members. Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to build a stronger Canada by ensuring our common wealth is used for the common good. NUPGE


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5 X 7 Pre-opened white front / clear back bags on rolls are used on automated packing machinery. They are made with tubular construction and a durable bottom seal. These 5 X 7" auto bags have an opened slit in the front and perforated back for automatic or fast hand product loading. Can be heat sealed, tied, stapled or taped shut. Pre-opened bags are neatly wound on 3" cores. Some sizes (usually bags 12" and over in length) have a vent hole.
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Does the Federal Government Have a Monopoly on Science?
Earlier this month President Clinton's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS issued a harshly worded "progress report" complaining about "inadequate" federal AIDS research funding and a "lack of progress in the federal response to AIDS." The publisher of a magazine for people suffering from AIDS said of the Clinton administration, "They just don't give a damn."
Such critics begin with the presumption that the federal government must do something about AIDS, because nobody else will. But to date government AIDS researchers have produced precious little in the way of results. Does it nonetheless make sense to regard government research as the best hope for progress against the disease?
Hardly. Even a cursory look at the historical record leads one to the opposite conclusion. The private sector has a long and distinguished record in advancing scientific research. It has been responsible for some of the most significant scientific breakthroughs this century:
· The discovery of the structure of DNA was largely a product of private action. Physician O. T. Avery became the first person to learn that DNA was the molecule of inheritance while working on a cure for pneumonia at the privately funded Rockefeller Institute in the 1940s. "Once Avery had discovered the importance of DNA," writes author Terence Kealey, "the subsequent development of molecular biology was inevitable — thus the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 became a race between three teams, Linus Pauling's in CalTech, Watson and Crick in Cambridge, and Franklin and Wilkins in London."
· The Rockefeller Foundation was instrumental in bringing penicillin to the market as well. Penicillin had been discovered in 1929 by English scientist Alexander Fleming, but most scientists — including Fleming — believed that it was an unstable substance and doubted its medicinal value. Nevertheless, Oxford researchers Howard Florey and Ernst Chain continued to explore the practical applications of penicillin, and in early 1939 they applied to the government‐run Medical Research Council in England for funding. Their request was rejected, so they turned to the Rockefeller Foundation.
Today private research groups face an important competitor — the federal government — which is increasingly crowding out investment and philanthropic giving.
Florey, writes historian Gwyn Macfarlane, "decided to appeal to them for a grant that would support his penicillin research for three years. He asked, in November 1939, for £1,670 per annum for salaries and recurrent expenses and £1,000 for the initial cost of equipment, and he got even more than he asked for, since the Foundation gave him grants for five years." Less than two years later, Chain and Florey had completed their work and Merck was producing penicillin for both the English and the American markets. Chain and Florey shared the Nobel Prize with Fleming in 1945.
· While polio has nearly been eradicated in the United States, it once was a very serious problem. In the early 1950s, on average, more than 300 new cases were reported each week; for some weeks in the summer, that figure rose to more than 2,500. In a poll during that period, more than 60 percent of Americans said that they knew someone afflicted with the disease. Thanks to the work of private organizations like the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, however, victims of polio received medical care, and beginning in the mid‐1950s nearly all Americans would be protected from the disease by vaccine. In her book Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine, Jane S. Smith reports, "Operating without an endowment or a wealthy patron, the National Foundation raised enough money every year to pay for the hospital and rehabilitation costs of any polio patient who needed help." Moreover, she states, "In its heyday in the early 1950s the privately supported and administered Foundation spent ten times as much on polio research as the tax‐supported National Institutes of Health." Such funding led, in 1954, to the development of a vaccine effective against all three varieties of the polio virus.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was not an atypical organization; in the first quarter of this century more than 75 groups were established to raise money to combat specific diseases. For example, the National Tuberculosis Association, the American Cancer Society, the National Society for Crippled Children (now the Easter Seal Society) and the American Heart Association all emerged between 1904 and 1924, years before the federal government became heavily involved in health issues and medical research.
The private sector is more than capable of conducting important and valuable scientific research. And if given the chance, the private sector likely would produce tangible results in AIDS research, as well. Today, however, private research groups face an important competitor — the federal government — which is increasingly crowding out investment and philanthropic giving. If Americans wish to see a renaissance of scientific discovery and innovation — and progress in the battle against AIDS — they should look to the private sector and quit expecting so much from the public sector.


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Etiquette Tips for a Job Interview Held in a Restaurant
These days, it's not uncommon for job interviews to take place over a meal instead of in an office environment. If you find yourself called in for an interview in a restaurant, here are some etiquette tips to keep in mind.
Brush up on your table manners before your job interview
Unless your interviewer launches right into the questions the moment you sit down, don't start talking business until you've both ordered your meals. It's hard to have a meaningful conversation about job-related topics when the server is still bringing your drinks, pouring water, telling you about the specials, and taking your order.
And speaking of the menu, if you know the restaurant you'll be eating at ahead of time, you might want to check out their website and have a look at the menu in advance. That way you'll be able to order quickly (you'll look decisive) and you'll know how to pronounce the menu items (you'll look sophisticated). You'll also get a glimpse into the menu prices which will tell you how formal or informal the dining environment will be.
Even if you're eating in a casual restaurant, don't get casual with your attire. Always dress to impress, no matter where the interview is being held. Here are some more tips on how to handle yourself during a mealtime job interview:
- Follow the interviewer's lead. Just as in an office interview, don't sit down until you've been asked to do so by the interviewer.
- Treat everyone in the restaurant---from the busboy to the waiter to the coat check clerk---with courtesy and respect. Your prospective employer doesn't just want to know how you'll treat him, he also wants to know how you treat people in general. Be your kindest, most patient self during the interview.
- Compliment your host on his or her choice of restaurant but don't gush about the place either. You don't want your future employer to think you are a socially awkward bumpkin who never goes out to eat. You want your prospective employer to know that you have fine dining experience and a healthy social life.
- Keep your cell phone off and out of sight. Whatever you do, don't put your phone on the table. It doesn't make you look important. It makes you look like you don't know how to manage your time or coordinate your appointments so you won't be disturbed during the really important stuff---like job interviews!
Don't fall flat on your face
- Don't order sloppy dishes like noodles or burgers. Order an entree that is easy to manage and that won't drip or splash on your clothing. Also, avoid foods that are meant to be eaten with your fingers. Finger foods can lead to greasy fingerprints on any papers you may have to handle in the middle of the interview.
- Don't be a high-maintenance diner. Now is not the time to interrogate your server about nutritional content, preparation techniques, sustainability, organic this, free-range that. If you take forever to make a decision, you can be pretty certain that your prospective employer will be taking note. If you have genuine food allergies, arrive at the restaurant prepared. Either check out the menu thoroughly beforehand or call ahead and find out what dishes would be suitable for any dietary restrictions you may have. Also note, talking about your food allergies could, unfortunately, cause an interviewer to have second thoughts about hiring you. Although it is against the law to discriminate against someone based one a disability or health status, it doesn't mean it won't happen. You are not obligated to talk about your health during a job interview.
- Don't order an expensive menu item.
- Don't start eating until both your and your hosts meals have arrived.
- Take small bites while you eat. Not only is it impolite to gobble your food in huge bites, if your interviewer asks you a question right after you've taken a bite, it won't take forever to chew up your food and swallow before answering.
- Never talk with your mouth full. It's far ruder to talk with a mouthful of food than it is to have your dining companion wait until your mouth is clear. Imagine how embarrassing it would be to have bits of food fly out of your mouth while you are talking.
- Avoid dishes with cheese or creamy sauces. Dairy products can create excess phlegm in your throat. You don't want to be coughing or constantly clearing your throat during the meal.
- Keep your briefcase or purse in any easy to reach spot beside your chair. Don't plop bags or cases down on the table. Keep your side or the table neat and tidy during the interview.
- If possible, avoid drinking alcohol during the interview. Sparkling water with lemon is a smart choice. If your host insists on buying a bottle of wine and sharing it with you (and you normally do drink alcohol) then accepting a small glass of wine would be appropriate. You don't want to embarrass or offend your interviewer/host. Do not over indulge and do not drink and drive, ever.
- Stir you coffee or tea without clinking the edges of the cup.
- Wear appropriate interview clothing. Avoid distracting jewelry such as bangles that jingle and jangle every time you move your arm.
If you're really nervous about your job interview being held in a restaurant, go to the library and check out some books on modern manners and etiquette.
© 2016 Sally Hayes
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I'm grateful for Lana del Rey melodies throwing me back to days spent writing love poems and drowning in emotion, when I lost my heart to find myself. When the world stopped for nights and I started finding my art. And this old never-supposed-to-be-romance turning into the most natural friendship, eye to eye. Accepting the roles we play in these lifetimes.
I'm grateful for genuine compliments and goosebumps truths, stars aligning, for another wish coming true, another 2018 stone starting to roll, a beautiful opportunity opening up and how excited I am about this adventure coming soon. A dream manifesting 🌍
Grateful for seeing my dear @luiseliebt again, petting @pennymops and receiving the most amazing birthday gift, that I'm so excited to dive into 📖
For sudden gratitude rushes putting tears in my eyes and smiles on my lips. For where I am today. Having survived. Overcome. Grown. Arrived. Awaken ✨ .
For this mission being everything, my hearts deepest desire, my soul's calling, my true purpose. For that I chose this trajectory, realized my fate.
For @lindaboese arriving safe back home after this hurricane craziness yesterday – even though I already miss her so much.
For how doing good just feels good, how we are simply made to connect, to find yourself in me and myself in you, for how overcoming this illusion of separateness that we agree to as humans is deeply healing us in the most beautiful way. For opening up to my hidden potentials, those laying at the edge of our fears, far beyond those comfort zones, installing the purest faith, empowering us to choose self respect over destruction,courage through fear.
I'm grateful for seasons, for enjoying this winter, knowing spring will always come and having sacred sunshine in my heart anyways these days. For train rides to hamburg, walking through the icy cold, grateful for the warmth of home. For our desperate moments being these viral invitations to make the tiny steps turning out to be the most important ones. For the down times that get us to the core of our being, down to our knees to devote ourself to the path we chose to embark on. #jjgratitudebook // .
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FreeBSD 12.2-BETA2 Now Available
The second BETA build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: o 12.2-BETA2 amd64 GENERIC o 12.2-BETA2 i386 GENERIC o 12.2-BETA2 powerpc GENERIC o 12.2-BETA2 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 12.2-BETA2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 12.2-BETA2 sparc64 GENERIC o 12.2-BETA2 armv6 RPI-B o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 BANANAPI o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 BEAGLEBONE o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 CUBIEBOARD o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 CUBIEBOARD2 o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 RPI2 o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 WANDBOARD o 12.2-BETA2 armv7 GENERICSD o 12.2-BETA2 aarch64 GENERIC o 12.2-BETA2 aarch64 RPI3 o 12.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64 o 12.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system. Installer images and memory stick images are available here: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.2/ The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail. If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/12.2" branch. A summary of changes since 12.1-BETA1 includes: o A regression affecting the PowerPC architecture had been fixed. o A race condition that could lead to a system crash when using jails with VIMAGE had been fixed. o Several wireless driver updates, including an update to ath(4), as well as 802.11n support for run(4) and otus(4). o Capsicum support had been added to rtsol(8) and rtsold(8). o A fix to certctl(8) to prevent overwriting a file on rehash. o TRIM support had been added to the bhyve(4) virtio-blk backend. o Fixes to libcompiler_rt have been added. o The ice(4) driver had been added, providing support for Intel 100Gb ethernet cards. o Fixes to ixl(4) affecting the PowerPC64 architecture have been added. o Support for the Novatel Wireless MiFi 8000 and 8800 have been added to the urndis(4) driver. o Fixes to the ure(4) driver to prevent packet-in-packet attacks have been addressed. [SA-20:27] o Fixes to bhyve(4) to prevent privilege escalation via VMCS access have been addressed. [SA-20:28, SA-20:29] o A fix to the ftpd(8) daemon to prevent privilege escalation via ftpchroot(5) had been addressed. [SA-20:30] Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.2-RELEASE cycle progresses.
Also: FreeBSD 12.2 BETA2 Brings TRIM For Bhyve's VirtIO-BLK, Intel ICE Added
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Microsoft has been releasing freebies for Windows 7 users fairly regularly. However, that doesn't mean that Microsoft has completely forgotten about users of older versions of Windows. The Windows team has released a new set of goodies for Windows Live, which are available not only for Windows 7 but also for Windows XP and Vista.
The Windows Experience Pack allows you to enjoy the beach, explore the city, go on a safari or experience the mountains without leaving your computer. It is mainly targeted towards Windows Live users and includes display pictures (static as well as dynamic), winks, emotions and messenger scenes. Windows 7 users will also get a new set of desktop backgrounds (wallpaper) and screensavers. The desktop wallpaper is personalized and features your online avatar.
The so called Windows Experience Pack is little more than a set of Windows Live goodies. If you don't use Windows Live you won't really find this exciting. However, one can't really complain about something which is free.


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Justice S N Prasad was sworn in as a permanent judge of Orissa High Court here today.
Chief Justice Vineet Saran administered the oath of office to Justice Prasad inside the High Court premises in presence of several members of the bench and bar.
Justice Prasad, a native of neighbouring Jharkhand, was elevated to the bench of Jharkhand High Court as an additional judge in September 2014 and he was transferred here in the same capacity in March last year.
With this, Orissa High Court now has 16 permanent judges (including the Chief Justice) and three additional judges against the sanctioned strength of 17 permanent judges and five additional judges.
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The Latest Sensation – Android QWERTY Phones
Android is probably the most useful operating system in mobile phones. While there are a lot of people who are addicted to the touch pad of an Android, many people seek something which offer even more ease of usage. Android QWERTY phones have come as a big relief for people who found it very difficult to type on the tiny buttons that were present on the screen and often ended up making a lot of mistakes.
A majority of the Android QWERTY phones that you can find these days, have a keyboard that slides open and also give you the touch pad option. There are immense benefits with these phones because even when you have a problem with the touchpad, your keyboard will allow you access to the basic functions of the phone so that you can type, message or save notes to yourself without interruption.
The gaming experience is also enhanced as most users prefer some king of key control rather than having a complete touch and play experience. With the Android QWERTY phones a lot of users are now able to carry their Android based phone as their portable office as well. These phones with a few add on features might end up replacing the laptops for sure. They already have the structure that is strikingly similar to any of the fancied laptops.
Most of the big mobile companies have an Android QWERTY which is already in the market or is in the process of being launched, two of the most popular ones are as below:
Motorola Droid 2
One of the best phones in this segment, it is quite a steal at under $200 of pricing. It comes with Android 2.2 and an amazingly sleek design. The phone is highly recommended for people who want a great Android QWERTY that has good multimedia options and at the same time can be used as a smart phone for office use. With a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM and the ability to also support Flash, this is a definite winner in all categories. You can opt for Motorola Droid 2 if you are looking for a reliable Android based QWERTY phone. It is possibly the best option you have!
Sony Xperia Pro
A smaller phone version of the high popular Sony Xperia, the Xperia Pro is a close second to Motorola Droid 2 as an Android QWERTY phone. With the expected designing and great UI features from Sony, you can enjoy multimedia and also Android 2.3 with this phone. The place where the Pro loses out to the Droid is probably the sleekness in the phone. Also the QWERTY keyboard is not as good as the one with Droid 2 and this makes it the second preferable phone in this category.
There are other popular Android QWERTY phones which include HTC Desire Z, Samsung Epic 4G and with HTC Doubleshot and the Droid 3 up for grabs the competition is definitely immense. You can evaluate each phone on your parameters and choose the piece that meets your needs and budget!


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Understanding what is a good credit score and why you need to have one is important. Learn the coolest information on how this score works and what it has to do with your credit report below.
Is this score 7 points like a touchdown and the following extra point? Or, is it 4-0? Four soccer goals for your team and zero goals for the opposing team? Well, nothing quite so easy!
Wikipedia defines "credit score" as "a numerical expression based on a statistical analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of that person, which is the perceived likelihood that the person will pay debts in a timely manner."
While Wikipedia's definition is virtually correct, it doesn't really expound upon the mechanics or the meaning of a person's credit score. Let me explain.
A good score helps lenders determine that you are likely to make your payments on time and as agreed to. A bad credit score may induce lenders to offer you a higher interest rate for the home you would like to buy or the car you want to purchase because they view you as a high risk.
Worse yet, they may reject your credit application altogether! What's your credit score? 580? 630?
Your credit score is based upon information in your credit report. Lenders purchase your credit score from the three credit bureaus: TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. The higher your credit score, the better your chances of obtaining the loan you want AND obtaining favorable terms for that loan.
When lenders talk to you about what is a good credit score, they are typically referring to your FICO score. The FICO score was developed by the Fair Isaac Corporation and is the scoring system which is most common today. The FICO system assigns scores from 300-850. The most common scores are in the 600s and 700s; however, the higher the FICO score, the better!
Is 700 a good credit score? Lenders, for the most part, feel that FICO scores above and beyond 700 are a sign of financial health (sort of like being on the winning side of the scoreboard!) and are more willing to negotiate a lower interest rate and more favorable terms since they feel you are a good risk for their company (sort of like negotiating a new contract with the team owner!).
Scores lower than 600 are a red flag to lenders and will make their eyes bulge, their pulse quicken and cause their sweat glands to work overtime (sort of like considering signing one of football's bad boys to the team!)!
All in all, a good credit score is imperative to the healthfulness of your credit standing. It can mean the difference between low or high interest rates, acceptance or denial of a credit application and the ability to purchase the items you want in life.
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A toothsome young woman swoons through a lambent wheat field in search of her missing lover. Her eyelids labor to stay parted as her delicate frame works against a puckering bullet wound in her upper back. The woman, Barbara, bends to pick up an abandoned scythe amid the rustling stalks of flaxen grain and nearly collapses from the strain on her torn wing. She steadies herself and continues her desperate, heart-breaking enterprise. The golden meadow in mid harvest works to disorient her time and again and she pauses, to grope feverishly at the torn adhesion on her back.
As she considers the blood from her injury a feathery touch on her ear calls Barbara to alert. She spins wildly, her hand extending the gritty grey blade of the sickle which goes whistling unobstructed through a heavy, autumnal, Spanish waft. Her cutting stroke comes to rest with benign tension at the throat of her elusive paramour. Barbara's eyes momentarily cleared of the haze of physical pain burn instead with the incomparable disdain of an inamorata betrayed. This man, Manuel Blanco Romasanta, has taken from her more than trifling, figurative virtue; he has stolen her soul and now on point of a reaper she has the chance to return the cruelty.
"Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt" is a 2004 film by Paco Plaza (dir. "Rec" and "Rec 2"). It recounts with a mixture of speculation fiction and fact the story of Spain's first serial killer. Manuel Romasanta was convicted of 13 murders in 1852; in his defense he asserted that he was cursed and that the murders were committed after he had literally taken the form of a wolf.
The film picks up the story in 1850; Romasanta has settled down to live with a widower named Maria, her handicapped tween daughter Teresa and Maria's comely younger sister Barbara. The area they live in has experienced a rash of grisly killings that have all been attributed to the local wolf population. Manuel makes his living as a traveling merchant and he convinces Maria to relocate under the guise of finding a special school for Teresa. Maria implores Barbara to stay behind at the farm citing Barbara's obvious attraction to Manuel as an impediment to the new couple's continued bliss.
Shortly after the trio leave Manuel returns to the farm without Maria or Teresa. He tells Barbara that her sister and niece are doing well and then promptly sets about the task of seducing the young beauty. The two enter into a short but torrid tryst that is quickly interrupted by the discovery of more bodies in the forest and the appearance of a crazed stranger who tries to shoot Manuel. Barbara eventually learns her family's real fate as well as the malevolent nature of the man she has taken as a lover. With his killings brought to light Manuel takes flight, but what the 'Wolfman of Allariz' doesn't suspect is that his greatest undoing may not be the tenacious police inspector but rather his former lover's blood vendetta.
If it were simply the sum of its parts "Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt" would be a top-shelf entry into the cinematic lycanthropy canon. Unfortunately, this lupine lark is a set of really elegant parts with nothing that feels like a true heart at the center. Perhaps it is the unsuccessful genre mixing that contributes most to this hollow impression. Paco Plaza's film dabbles in horror, Conan-Doyle styled sleuthing, steamy seduction and sweeping period romance. All of this could have fused into an incredible tour-de-force had the film not insisted on laying everything bare to our eyes as it happened. A little more circumstantial mystery could have cast a stronger tone across the whole of the story and really worked to unsettle the viewer by giving us a chance to sit in uncertainty.
The choice was instead made to focus on Romasanta's enigmatic affair with Barbara. The problem there is that the chemistry between Julian Sands (as Manuel) and Elsa Pataky (as Barbara) is never quite good enough to make the emotion work for the rest of the film. Much like the first paragraph of this review the central relationship of the movie just comes across like a passage from a weak romance novel, with a dashing serial killer playing the part of Fabio.
Paco Plaza has managed to deliver a sumptuous looking film here. The cinematography, the painterly lighting and the well rendered gore sequences are almost worth a look by themselves. Despite the lack of chemistry with one another Pataky and Sands manage to trade-off moments of reasonable smolder and do come together for one very memorable bathing sequence. There are a couple of surprising turns in the script, the wolves in 'Romasanta' look great and the opening sequence is a top notch table-setter.
If there had been a little more that was working between the actors or a little less information revealed as the story built I might have been a big fan. Alas, what do persist all too strongly in my mind are the schmaltzy, woman-in-love-with-dangerous-stranger clichés on display in the movie. This makes it hard to focus on the themes and unless your partial to Harlequin sentimentality it makes it impossible to fully absorb yourself in the atmosphere of the story.


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Portland one of US 7 most haunted citiesOctober 25th, 2013
Family Circle magazine, in a new article, lists Portland among the 7 most haunted cities in the U.S. – and recommends the Beyond Bizarre Walking Tour!
The article specifically recommend the 7 PM tour, which is fitting to the magazine's "Family" focus – the 7 PM all-ages tour is family-friendly.
But don't forget about the 10 PM "Adults-only" tour, which is equally ghostly – but there we take the kid gloves off and skip the euphemisms. Grown-up talk only at late-night.
And the (also adults-only) "Way Beyond Bizarre" tour didn't hit their radar either – but is even more intense, as you can mix it up with real professional ghost hunters and clairvoyants.
Anyway, in case you want to read it for yourself (and see what the other six cities are), here's the link to the story.


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Talk:NorthernFurs (UK)
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
FurNet IRC Chanserv info (Retrieved 2008 May 18)
- -ChanServ- Information for channel #northernfurs:
- -ChanServ- Founder: Bear
- -ChanServ- Description: A secondary channel to northukfurs# to be created due to the widening difference of opinion (half for more highbrow chit-chat, others for the more naughty)
- -ChanServ- Registered: Feb 13 01:50:39 2008 CET
--EarthFurst 17:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
So Sheffield is the biggest city with 92+ and Manchester is the second with 100+, am I noticing a maths error? Shouldn't it be Manchester, then Sheffield?
still active?[edit]
Article says group "disbanded". Current version and July 31 wayback both say "Admin Note: Yup. The website's back up. Transpires the domain had just been renewed 'til July 2018, so I figured we might as well use it.". Seems to no longer be disbanded. --EarthFurst 08:51, 11 December 2013 (EST)


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Most of us rely on the same wonderful, tried-and-true plants to serve as a sturdy skeleton for our gardens: plumbagos and pentas, palmettos and live oaks, impatiens and peace plants.
But — correct me if I'm wrong — you like having at least a few that make visitors say, "What is that? It's so cool looking!" Totally understandable. Cooks have signature dishes. Crafters have stylistic flourishes. Gardeners are no different. The artist in us wants our creation to be something all our own.
That's the idea behind Jim Hawk's presentation, "25 Palms Your Neighbors Don't Have." He's a Hillsborough County master gardener and, as such, gives free informative talks all over the county. Local gardeners know Jim well. To keep the master gardener title, volunteers like Jim must complete several weeks of training through a University of Florida Extension office, then deliver 35 hours of gardening education and outreach a year. As of May, Jim had logged 101 hours this year.
"I like palms because they're fun," he says. "They're kind of a 'welcome to the tropics' type of plant.''
You can hear it in his voice as he points out the many varieties growing in his gardens on a lakeshore acre in Odessa.
Jim on seashore palms: "Make sure you highlight this one. It has no negatives. . . . Are you writing? Look at the stripe in this leaf! It really stands out. Isn't it pretty?"
On ribbon palms: "Don't you just love it? The leaves hang like ribbons! When the wind blows, they're like streamers blowing in the breeze. And look how clean it is" — he strokes the unblemished trunk. "It's a self-cleaner; you don't have to cut a thing. When a frond dies, you find it on the ground the next morning."
There are at least 50 palm varieties that thrive in Tampa Bay, but most are hard to find, Jim says. If you want something different, you have to hunt it down.
"I looked for this seashore palm for a long time," he says. "I finally found it at a small, backyard nursery in Bartow."
For starters, check the webpage of the Central Florida Palm & Cycad Society, tinyurl.com/d97uhld or on Facebook.
Contact members and let them know what you're looking for, Jim says.
"You might find members who are hobbyists who are growing it, or you might get the name of a backyard hobbyist who might be growing it.
"They may tell you, 'Try Joe the Palm Guy.' So you try Joe, and he doesn't have it, but he says, "Oh, you should try Phil the Palm Guy.' Soon, you'll have yourself a little black book full of people who know other people or who can get you your palm."
When you finally get your hands on what you want, it'll mean that much more to you, Jim says.
A few other Jim favorites:
High plateau palm: "Its claim to fame is that it looks like a coconut palm," he says. True coconut palms won't tolerate our cold temperatures and, in South Florida where they thrive, they're getting wiped out by lethal yellowing disease.
Wallich's dwarf fishtail palm: Distinctive, variegated fishtail-shaped leaves add unusual color and texture in shady areas.
Arikury palm: If you love the look of a queen palm but don't have room for it, try this lookalike smaller relative. It's slower growing and gets only about 12 feet tall.
You might also check out cycads. They're in a different genus — a totally different plant — but they're often confused with palms because of their similar look.
"Cycads are the only plant that's been here since the dinosaurs," Jim says. "These are what the dinosaurs were eating! I've got cycads because I feel it's important to grow them — there aren't a lot around."
The shrub-sized coontie is a native Florida cycad often seen in highway plantings because it thrives in our sun, sand and summer rains. Cardboard plant is another popular landscape cycad, but native-plant enthusiasts would prefer you choose coontie — it's the larval food for the endangered atala butterfly.
Whether you opt for palms, cycads or both, your garden will stand out from the rest on the street if you take the time to find the lesser planted varieties.
"When I've got something that nobody else has," Jim says, with a smug little smile, "that really floats my boat."
If you're interested in becoming a Hillsborough County master gardener, call (813) 744-5519. Penny Carnathan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. See other photos and garden tales on her blog, www.digginfladirt, or on Facebook at Diggin Florida Dirt.


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by: Juno Mendiola, Springdale, Maryland
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make FRIENDS of them? one of compassion.
quote by: Abraham Lincoln, (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) 16th President of the United States
My piece interprets the theme through accepting our history and learning from it. The past should never be hidden or skewed in order to look at it objectively and to learn from our mistakes. I included children because they are open-minded. A child clearly sees that someone may look different but, unless they are taught otherwise, the fact is simply accepted and does not dictate how the child treats someone. As we grow older we become more defensive and use our differences to separate us instead of using them as a tool for education.
We can always hope for a time when the lessons will be understood, childhood will be regained, war will only be a word on a textbook page, and we call play when it's over.


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Putting Good Charlotte on hold The Madden Brothers and are serving up a new sound in their new album Greetings From California...
Currently judges on The Voice Kids here in Australia, Joel and Benji Madden have new side project and have just unveiled the track listing for their new album Greetings From California.
Due out in September The Madden Brothers new album will be showing two sides to the siblings talent, with one side having upbeat, sunny pop tracks produced by long-time collaborator Eric Valentine, and side two, showcasing a warm blend of folk, southern rock and 70's style pop, that we recently witnessed in their single We Are Done.
Here's the track listing...
Dear Jane Intro
Dear Jane
Out Of My Mind
We Are Done
U RJealousy (All Your Friends In Silverlake)
Love Pretenders
California Rain Intro
California Rain
Good Gracious Abbey
Empty Spirits
More details as we get them, until then grab a listen to their new sound below on We Are Done and grab your copy on iTunes now..!


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CINDY DAY: Why so many different forecasts?
I had a wonderful vacation. For the first time, I was off for two consecutive weeks.
When I left work the Friday before Christmas, I promised myself I would not spend any time analyzing weather charts, tracking or forecasting weather systems. I spent the first week of my vacation on the farm. There, we talked about the weather and perhaps because it's winter and the fieldwork is done, no one asked me about the weather. I was very busy and went to bed tired, but my head was enjoying a lovely break. It was amazing.
Week two of my vacation was different; let's call it an eye-opener. I was home wondering about road conditions, heavy rainfall, high winds and flash freezes. I was now a weather consumer, getting my information from a variety of sources – just like you. The exercise was both frustrating and enlightening. It helped me understand some of the comments I see on my Facebook page: "Why are no 2 forecasts the same…? How much are we getting…? Why are some calling this a storm…?"
I decided to take this opportunity to point out a few things about weather forecasts that might help you – when I'm on vacation, of course.
Meteorology is a science. Data is gathered; computers take in the surface and upper-air numbers and plot forecast charts called models. Certain computer models handle some parameters better than others. Meteorologists go over these models and come to a consensus regarding the expected weather conditions for a region. So why do we have such a smorgasbord of weather forecasts?
Consider the source
Our national forecaster – Environment and Climate Change Canada – prepares and disseminates weather forecasts. Radio and TV stations are free to use these products. Because I've worked on both sides, I can tell you that liberties are often taken with these forecasts. A scripted forecast is not usually very sexy, so sometimes announcers take it upon themselves to tinker with terminology. What can start as five to 10 cm of snow can end up as "a stormy day" when that was never the intent.
Meteorology is a science. Data is gathered; computers take in the surface and upper-air numbers and plot forecast charts called models.
Buy local
Consider where the forecast is coming from. There are local meteorologists, then there are weather readers living outside our region delivering our weather. When preparing a forecast, so many local effects need to be taken into consideration. It took many years before I fully understood and was comfortable with the intricacies of Atlantic Canadian weather. I can't imagine doing this from an office somewhere in southern Ontario.
The last word goes to my dad who might explain it something like this:
All wooden tables are made of wood, but some are sturdier than others. If you gave the same wood to five people you could end up with five different tables. An experienced carpenter would likely produce a solid piece of furniture. An enthusiastic person who loves wood but who has no training or experience in woodworking might not fare quite as well.
The other day, after watching more than one shopper stop to ask me about snowfall amounts, the clerk asked me why I do it. That's easy. I have always done it to help people plan their day and safely get to where they are going.
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From Guantánamo Bay to ISIS Fighter Prisons in Syria: 15 Years of Wartime-Detention Reporting
Our national security law expert in Washington has been writing about legal and policy problems related to the government's handling of captured terrorism suspects since 2003.
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"Can you keep a secret?"
The voice on the phone belonged to Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The secret was that he was organizing a bipartisan congressional research trip to go into Syrian territory held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.), a Kurdish-led militia that is a primary ally of the United States fighting on the ground against the Islamic State. The delegation would tour prisons where the S.D.F. is warehousing captive ISIS fighter suspects from nearly 50 countries, raising a dilemma to which he believes the world needs to pay more attention: What should happen to them?
Plans for such a sensitive trip are kept quiet to avoid tipping off militants about a potential target, but I had a reason to know about them: Senator Graham was inviting me to travel with the group and write whatever I saw fit about what we would see. This was a unique opportunity: The Kurds normally do not let journalists tour their ISIS fighter prisons.
I have been writing about legal and policy problems related to the government's handling of captured terrorism suspects for 15 years — for three newspapers and in two books — ever since I made my first of many reporting trips to the American wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003.
I was hooked after picking up my first detention scoop on that trip: The Bush administration had quietly decided to build a permanent, concrete-walled prison at the base to replace the open-air cellblocks the military erected the previous year to hold hundreds of men largely captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The move signaled that its almost off-the-cuff decision to bring hundreds of terrorism suspects to Cuba — claiming it could hold them in indefinite wartime detention without trial — was hardening into a long-term policy.
Prisoner-of-war-style detention until the end of hostilities developed during wars between uniform-wearing armies as a humanitarian alternative to slaughtering enemy captives in order to prevent them from returning to the battlefield. When the Bush administration claimed after the Sept. 11 attacks that it could hold certain terrorism suspects that way, it raised novel issues.
Traditional wars end, after which P.O.W.s go home. But the conflict with Al Qaeda and its morphing, splintering progeny is open-ended, meaning life imprisonment without trial. Still, the Supreme Court upheld the practice in 2004.
As the years passed and the costs and headaches of indefinitely imprisoning large numbers of men at Guantánamo accumulated, the Bush and Obama administrations tried to close the prison. Today, of the roughly 780 men who were brought there, only 40 remain. But it proved to be tremendously difficult, bureaucratically and politically, to let captives go: Any transfer creates some risk and the opportunity for blame.
The government's policy in more recent years has been to prosecute terrorism suspects in civilian courts — winning long sentences to keep them locked up in a legally stable way — or to avoid taking custody of them in the first place; the Pentagon opposes getting more deeply back into long-term detention — especially for rank-and-file nobodies. This is why the Trump administration has yet to bring any new detainees to Guantánamo, for all its rhetoric about filling it back up.
Still, even President Obama was unwilling to abandon wartime detention power: His idea for closing the prison, before Congress blocked it, was to move several dozen detainees who were deemed untriable but too dangerous to release to a different prison for continued detention. Human-rights advocates have relentlessly shamed the United States for that approach, espousing the generally European view that terrorism suspects should be prosecuted or released. Yet many European nations are now themselves effectively using wartime detention to solve their ISIS citizens problem — by outsourcing imprisonment to the Kurds.
Curious to see how the S.D.F. was handling that burden, I applied for a visa to travel to Iraq and then linked up with the congressional delegation — Senator Graham; Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire; and several aides — on a connecting flight from Istanbul. At the Baghdad airport, we were ordered to put on helmets and body armor and then driven in a convoy to the American embassy compound, a bland campus littered with concrete "duck and cover" shelters in case of incoming mortar fire.
The next morning, a military plane flew us to an airstrip in northern Syria, where we were met by a Special Operations team that would shuttle us around via armored vehicles and helicopters. We went first to Manbij — an Arab town that the S.D.F. liberated from the Islamic State in the fall of 2016 and from which the Turkish military now wants to oust the Kurds — walking through a now-thriving-again market and meeting with local leaders. After stopping at a remote Special Operations base, we traveled to the two prisons I described in my article.
For someone who usually works out of a cubicle in Washington — talking with people over the phone or coffee, watching congressional and court hearings, and reading legal documents — it was a very unusual work day. At the same time I was acutely aware that this quick in-and-out, within the bubble of the physical security the American military was providing for the senators, was nothing compared with the sustained risks taken by my colleagues who routinely go into war zones without such protection to tell the world what is happening there.
Some Pentagon officials had not been thrilled about having a reporter along for a congressional trip that was already a big responsibility. Even as I was boarding the plane to the Middle East, Senator Graham later told me, the military bureaucracy had tried to avoid taking me to a prison site by abruptly saying there would be room in a planned convoy for each lawmaker to take just one aide. Only after he declared that his second spot would go to me, the senator said, had they grudgingly added more vehicles.
As we were heading to the first prison, a military official told me I would not be permitted to take any photographs inside its walls. I leaned on my Guantánamo experience to appeal to Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk II, the commander of the coalition forces fighting in Iraq and Syria, who was accompanying the delegation. I explained to him that at Guantánamo the military permits journalists to take photographs inside the prison so long as detainees' faces are not visible, and he agreed to switch to "Guantánamo rules."
As it turned out, there was no way to take any shots of the ISIS detainees from our vantage point outside a cell that would not show their faces. But being able to take other pictures inside the compounds was helpful for remembering details, and a few were decent enough that The Times published them — one on the front page. As colleagues ribbed me about my photojournalism skills, I jokingly vowed never to write again.
That evening, the group flew back to Baghdad. In the embassy mess hall, we talked over what we had seen. And after flying home, I continued to report out the piece. I learned more about why some European governments are reluctant to take their citizens back from the S.D.F.: In part, it is because they fear they will not be able to successfully prosecute them all or win sufficiently lengthy sentences under their legal systems.
What are the alternatives?
Could there be an international war-crimes tribunal? There would be many obstacles to setting one up.
Could Iraq take them? Its government is dealing with ISIS suspects arrested on its soil by handing down death sentences after 10-minute trials, but it appears to have neither the desire nor the legal ability to prosecute non-Iraqis captured in Syria.
Could the S.D.F. just keep them? If it holds onto its territory, perhaps other countries would end up paying it to continue imprisoning their citizens. But if the S.D.F. falls in the next phase of the war, detainees might break free in the chaos, with some potentially spreading new mayhem around the world. And what if the Kurds make a deal with the Assad regime? Would it take over the prisoners, and murder them all?
The uncertainty had me reflecting on something Senator Graham said several times during the trip: "Seventeen years after 9/11, we still haven't figured this out."
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Recent years have seen a surge in the interest in ultrafast dynamics in solids. This is also due to the discovery of a number of effects that arise from the non-trivial interplay of out-of-equlibrium electron equilibration and transport in band structures with specific characteristics of real band structures and heterostructures, and the formation and propagation of electromagnetic fields. These new discoveries could pave the way to a fully sub-picosecond spintronics, which would be thousand times faster than current electronics.
A key example was the prediction and subsequent verification of superdiffusive spin transport as one of the drivers of the ultrafast demagnetisation. That discovery laid the ground to the field of ultrafast spin transport. This opened a rich playground where effects such as hot-carrier-driven demagnetisation, the ultrafast increase of magnetisation, and the production of THz radiation were predicted and observed. Recently the ultrafast injection of highly spin polarised current pulses into semiconductors has been predicted. All these effects can be explained and understood only by describing the electronic motion in real band structures and real multilayers, with explicit coupling to the dynamics of electromagnetic fields. The Boltzmann approach is the best way to tackle such an ambitious task, which is way beyond the reach of other quantum mechanical methods.
I will first show how, in spite of the common feeling, the so unfortunately called "semiclassical approximation" is instead extremely precise and can be seen as an extremely clever transform of the Schrödinger equation, and how its reduction to the Boltzmann equation is acceptable for ultrafast incoherent dynamics. I will then describe the main challenges in solving numerically the Boltzmann equation, namely the scattering term, the progress we have done so far, and the problems we will be able to tackle in the near future.


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Power over the global game must be handed back to fans, and it's far from impossible.
As much as I am looking forward to dusting off the old vuvuzela and diligently filling out my game-by-game wall-chart for the World Cup, there is a serious side to football at the moment. Brazil 2014 must be the last tournament run by FIFA in its present, undemocratic form.
Over time, control of world football has become concentrated in the hands of a remote elite, headquartered in Switzerland, who have lost touch with the game and its billions of fans. Some figures at the top seem to think they are untouchable.
The ongoing allegations that Qatar resorted to bribery in order to host the World Cup are depressing, but have attracted desperately needed mainstream scrutiny of FIFA. That renewed focus must now be matched with action to make sure that something like this can never happen again.
Because it's not just the bribery claims that prove the need for a revolution in world football. As Jim Murphy and others have highlighted, workers in Qatar are toiling under appalling conditions to build the stadiums in the desert that the next World Cup requires. The tales of passport theft sound close to kidnapping in some cases and Nepal's embassy reports that so far 400 of its workers have died of heart failure after working long shifts in the terrible heat.
It's instructive to compare FIFA's apparent lack of urgency in relation to Qatar's exploitation of workers with their active intervention on behalf of big money sponsors. Brazil had a long-standing alcohol prohibition in football stadiums, but FIFA ordered their sovereign parliament around like a class of naughty children and instructed them to overturn the ban to please Budweiser – one of the top sponsors for the World Cup.
"Alcoholic drinks are part of the FIFA World Cup, so we're going to have them. Excuse me if I sound a bit arrogant but that's something we won't negotiate," FIFA's general secretary Jerome Valcke brazenly told the world.
Discussion closed. Brazil's Congress swiftly agreed to the 'Budweiser Bill'.
And that's the nub of the problem. World Cup sponsorship and driving revenue are clearly where FIFA's prioritises lie. This state of affairs is a direct result of FIFA becoming a corporate behemoth, distant from the real game it supposedly runs.
But how can we expect FIFA's leaders to be responsive? They're answerable to almost nobody. We know FIFA didn't prioritise appalling working conditions in Qatar; fighting racism is not high enough up the agenda; corruption on the Executive Committee has become expected, and reforming the organisation from within is not going to happen to any acceptable degree.
Amazingly, despite all of the tales of bribery and corruption, FIFA's website still carries this statement:
"Based on the extent of the measures implemented so far, FIFA considers the reform process to be successfully accomplished."
FIFA's leaders are wrong. Power over the global game must be handed back to fans, and it's far from impossible.
Each national Association should elect their own FIFA representative through as open and fair a poll as possible. It's worth spending some of FIFA's money to allow anybody in a given country to register their details and vote online.
Forming a football assembly, these national representatives would be tasked with selecting people for the top jobs at FIFA. And crucially, it should be this full body of directly elected representatives who choose the World Cup hosts.
They should carry out both these tasks in public, at a convention in FIFA's fancy Swiss offices, with their votes recorded. If we don't like how they vote, or if a delegate is linked to corruption, fans can throw them out when their term ends every two years. How much harder would it be to buy a World Cup then? A clean FIFA might step up to a position of moral authority and lead real efforts against racism in the game and stop the exploitation of workers on football projects.
Of course there would be pitfalls along the way with a more open system, but how could it be worse than the current regime?
It doesn't even seem like a particularly extreme idea when you remember the alternative: allowing the 24 people on FIFA's Executive Committee to keep running the global game like they've been doing.
FIFA have been brutally honest – they think the reform process is basically over. That's why change needs to be non-negotiable. Governments with large populations of football fans should insist on action and lead the way.
With over a billion people about to tune in to the action from Brazil, it should be clear to anyone that football can't belong to a handful of people in a room in Switzerland. Whatever the solution, the time for radical change is overdue.
Kenny Young is former press manager to Ed Miliband. He is a former Rangers FC season ticket holder
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7 Responses to "Football can no longer belong to a handful of people in a room in Switzerland"
As much as I hate FIFA, they're entitled to make hosting the world cup conditional. If Brazil don't want to sell alcohol at the grounds, they shouldn't have applied.
Kenny Young
I think FIFA would have a lot more credibility and moral authority if it was a clean, open organisation. At the moment, it's unacceptable, in my view, for a murky closed-shop to boss a national parliament around. As I mentioned, it's sadly instructive that they would intervene so sharply in Brazil to protect the interests of sponsors, but appear to be so relaxed about the appalling exploitation in Qatar. It's not a comparison that sheds a pleasant light on FIFA.
But FIFA does not care about credibility or moral authority – just so long as the chosen few can live the high life and trouser a few sweeteners
Kenny Young
Yup, I think that's a good point. The suggestions in my article are for urgent change to that situation so that it's not a breeding ground for corruption and graft. Do you agree with the ideas that I put forward? They're not meant to be The Only Way, but I had hoped it would spark a discussion about how to immediately begin the process of change in FIFA.
I think the only way you could change things now would be to get the leaders of a few of the major football nations say- Eng, Fra, Germany, Holland, Italy, Brazil, Argentina to form a breakaway association. Without them FIFAs power would diminish as would their hold over the smaller nations
Once we have briought FIFA under Public Scrutiny, can we turn our attention to Formula One.
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Uganda Cranes goalkeeper and captain Dennis Onyango was named on the FIFPro Africa CAF team of the year.
This was during the Aiteo CAF Awards 2018 held in Dakar, Senegal on the night of Tuesday, 8th January 2019 attended by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, CAF President Ahmad Ahmad, President of Republic of Senegal Macky Sall and Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) President Eng. Moses Magogo.
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Onyango was once again inspirational for Uganda Cranes in the qualification to the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations, making it unbeaten with a game to spare and not conceding in as many as five matches.
The other players on the team include; the CAF footballer of the year 2018 Mohammed Salah, Aurier, Benatia, Bailly, Koulibaly, Keita, Partey, Mahad Mahrez, Aubameyang and Sadio Mane.
Onyango was present in Dakar to pick his award. FUFA CEO Edgar Watson led a strong delegation from Uganda at the awards that had Cranes coach Sebastien Desabre. FUFA President Eng.
Moses Magogo was also in Dakar as CAF Executive Committee Member where he also attended the meeting that confirmed Egypt as this year's hosts for the AFCON tournament.
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CAF Male Player of the Year 2018 – Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Liverpool)
Women's Player of the Year 2018 – Chrestinah Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa & Houston Dash)
Youth Player of the Year – Achraf Hakimi (Morocco & Borussia Dortmunmd)
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Men's Coach of the Year – Herve Renard (Morocco)
Women's Coach of the Year – Desiree Ellis (South Africa)
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Suspected in Murder Case
Yulia Tymoshenko is suspected of organizing a hit on a rival, three others.
Jan. 19, 2013 -- Former Ukrainan Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a galvanizing figure in the Orange Revolution of 2004, has been named a suspect in the murder of a powerful businessman and lawmaker and three others in 1996.
Supporters of Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year sentence in a separate case, say the accusations are just the latest in an attempt by President Viktor Yanukovich to keep his rival behind bars.
Tymoshenko's political party said the latest allegations represented a "shameful day in the history of the Ukrainian law enforcement system," The Associated Press reported.
The prosecutor's announcement comes as the European Court of Human Rights is expected to rule that Tymoshenko's current imprisonment is illegal. The fiery opposition leader's party said the the new case is just a way for the government to keep her in jail when that happens.
"Understanding that the European Court of Human Rights will put an end to the dirty and empty tricks against Yulia Tymoshenko in the near future, Yanukovich's associates have resorted to a desperately brazen and mendacious step," the Fatherland party said in a statement.
"They are no longer hiding that they want to hold not only the opposition leader but all of Ukraine behind bars for life," it said.
The European Union has called her jailing "selective justice."
The 52-year-old is suspected of "ordering and organizing" a hit on the life of Yevhen Scherban and three others, who were shot to death as they stepped off an airplane, the Prosecutor General's Office said on its website.
Scherban was a member of Parliament and one of Ukraine's richest men. At the time of the killing, Tymoshenko was a prominent gas trader. Prosecutors said the alleged hit appeared to stem from a business rivalry.
Tymoshenko has not yet been formally charged, but the announcement of her status as a suspect paves the way for prosecutors to pursue charges.
The latest allegations come just weeks before the European Court of Human Rights is expected to issue a ruling on the detention of Tymoshenko.
She is serving a seven-year sentence for abuse of power for ordering a gas deal with Russia in 2009. Prosecutors claimed she did not have cabinet approval to proceed with the deal and that it is was detrimental to Ukraine's economy. She denied the charges.
Tymoshenko said she believes her prosecution and detention are politically motivated and that she has not been granted judicial review, the court said in a news release. She also complained about inadequate jail conditions, according to the release, and said she has not been afforded proper medical care for her health issues, which reportedly include a debilitating back condition.
On Friday, her attorney, Serhiy Vlasenko told the AP that when he tried to visit his client recently, she was unresponsive for several minutes. Doctors said she had taken sedatives and was in satisfactory condition.
Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution in 2004, when hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians protested in response to allegations of widespread fraud in the election of Viktor Yanukovich over rival Viktor Yushchenko.
Thousands of Ukrainians occupied the center of Kyiv, insprired by the fiery speeches of Tymoshenko, and the movement only grew until the election results were voided and Yushchenko was elected president in a new vote.
Tymoshenko briefly served as acting prime minister in 2005. She was elected in December 2007 and served until March 2010.
She was convicted on the abuse of power charges in October 2011 and was banned from holding public office for three years.
The imprisonment of Tymoshenko has contributed to unrest in the country.
The Oct. 28, 2012 election was marred by claims of stuffing the ballot box.
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It feels as if there is nothing more tragic than the suicide of the world's most loveable funny-man. How can it be that behind all of that funny was a tidal wave of hopeless, insurmountable sadness? That makes me so sad.
I sift my mind for my most vital memories of Williams. Ha – there he is climbing out of his big glowing egg in that red and silver suit doing his weird alien salute. I was only a kid, but I loved that quirky Orkan and his rainbow-striped suspenders. But just now, when I looked on the internet for pictures of him in that role it's hard to equate the handsome young man I see with Williams. It seems I may have retrospectively transplanted Williams at his current age back on Mork. The reverse is true for my own self as I get older. When I look in the mirror I find myself dragging earlier reflections of me across the years into the present – for comparison, commendation, appeasement or scorn, depending on my mood.
When I think of Williams alive I see him dressed in drag as bosomy Mrs. Doubtfire; yelling "Good morning Vietnam" over the wireless. And I see him consoling a crying Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets Society. But the most vivid memory of him is tied up with my own tears – I cried oceans of them while flying half way across the world, watching Williams as dead physician Chris in What Dreams May Come. When the hostess offered a tissue I blamed the altitude, Williams' amazing acting and the achingly sad narrative about true love surviving beyond death. It was all of that but mainly I was just sad to be leaving London after two-and-a-half years: leaving 16 Ballater Road; leaving L'Oréal; leaving the Dog Star and the Brixton Academy; leaving the Catherine Wheel and my friend Catherine; leaving the TGV to Paris on the weekends; leaving flying to Dublin for Easter; leaving Steve and Little Bird and Simba; leaving the Jamaican guy who knew I was never going to buy a copy of The Big Issue at Brixton train station; leaving the bookshop on Cold Harbour Lane where I'd discovered Ginsberg and Kerouac and Bukowski; leaving H & M on Kensington Street; leaving my sister behind; leaving my boyfriend who thought he was going to join me back home in a few weeks but didn't know my heart had already decided I wasn't ready for all of that and would phone him to say "don't come home for me". What Dreams May Come is the soundtrack to those emotions and that blue jacaranda tree magnified my sadness until I was simply bawling.
And now I have a new sad Robin Williams memory – jumping back into the car after taking pictures of a beautiful statue of the virgin and her baby at La Nou de Gaià village (Spain) and Jez says looking at his phone:
"Oh, shit, Robin Williams is dead. Committed suicide."
I'm devastated. I can't believe it. And I can't stop thinking about him alone in his apartment, contemplating death, and what it could have been that pushed him to make that final, awful, irreversible decision.
I saw that Hollywood's Laugh Factory posted on their marquee: "Make God Laugh". Beautiful. I'm sure he will. Thank you Robin Williams, thank you even for the sad times.
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