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It's hailed as one of the biggest interior comebacks of the season, say hello to rattan and rejoice in its new-found star status – both inside and outside the home.
Rattan is rising from the interiors ashes to become a key trend for the home this year according to the Dailymail If you're still trying to recover from visions of musty, dusty wicker patio furniture (complete with floral cushion pads) from the first time around, then let us refresh your interior antennae with five great reasons to revel in rattan this summer.
Revel in Retro
From the catwalk to the kitchen, Seventies retro chic is one of the biggest trends for our wardrobes and our homes this season. So while you dust off your folk-style denims, mash up an avocado and chuck your keys into a jaunty fringed suede handbag, don't forget that rattan is one of the key materials of the era and is returning to our homes in a big way. For the 2016 revamp, though, rattan is taking on sleeker, more contemporary silhouettes with modern, boxy furniture or fine, sinuous curves in a range of neutral tones with accents of black. Long gone are the frilly, floral cushions and instead we're accessorizing our rattan at Bridgman with big, plump seat pads and scatter cushions in a line-up of rainbow brights or feel-good neutrals, which are waterproof to boot. It's enough to have you longing for re-runs of Mork & Mindy…
Covet a Coastal Vibe
If you love the coastal look, there's nothing that says breezy seaside chic like rattan furniture does. Whether you live in the heart of the city or a stone's throw away (or should that be pebble) from our breathtaking, British beaches, you can embrace the coastal vibe oh-so easily Pick out furniture in a classic weave in soft white or stone-coloured rattan, and rev up the holiday-at-home look with a pile of ticking striped cushions (red, blue and white are a classic coastal combo). Keep colours as neutral as possible, by opting for a backdrop of old white with pale greys and greens for a weathered, sunbleached look. Then make like a beachcomber and scour coastlines for soft, knobbly driftwood, smooth pebbles and pearly shells and fill vintage glass vessels with your treasures. Then relax on your adjustable sunlounger and let the sun shine on…
Versatility Counts
There seems to be no end to the talents of rattan in the hands of today's forward-thinking designers. As well as an incredible selection of garden furniture on offer, you'll find the high street and web filled with striking, sculptural lampshades, smooth, bent magazine racks, multicoloured woven platters (there's that 70s trend again) and handsome bed bases and headboards for that true tropical feel.
And, don't forget, the key to buying new garden furniture these days is to think outside the box and invest in good quality, great looking pieces that work equally well inside your home (conservatory, kitchen, bedroom etc) as they do in the garden. By splashing out on multifunctional pieces that can be moved in and out with the seasons, you'll definitely get more bang for the buck.
Take it Outdoors
Rattan has long been championed as a versatile and hardwearing material for garden furniture, and with summer just around the corner, there's no better time to invest in a few new chairs, an outdoor coffee table and lie-back lounger. Whatever the size of your garden, be it rambling lawn with trees or a petite patio, Bridgman has a range of rattan furniture to suit. Try modern, modular sofa sets, neat square dining tables, modern, low-slung armchairs, sunbeds-for-two and side tables to keep chilled drinks to hand. (Just remember to measure up your space accurately so you're not squeezing in too many bits and pieces). And think about the 'type' of weave, as this will alter the look and style of your outdoor room. Traditional round weaves in rustic brown hues will create a classic look, while modern flat weaves in grey, bronze and natural tones add a more contemporary, Scandi edge to your outdoor soiree.
Man-Made Versus Natural
A good quality natural rattan is beautiful and authentic but if you're planning to go outdoors with your rattan furniture, you might want to consider a man-made version, particularly given our unpredictable British climate. Synthetic rattan is a boon for gardens as it's incredibly lightweight, super-strong and stands up brilliantly to the elements. Bridgman's rattan-effect range is manufactured from a man-made, resin fibre called High Density Polyethylene (or HDPE) which, unlike other synthetics, is an organic material derived from a waxy substance. It's fully-recyclable and environmentally-friendly too, so you can conscience can be clear at all times.
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Life is often discouraging. In fact, it sometimes gets so discouraging that we feel there is no hope of our ever being able to turn our lemons into lemonade. But Dale Carnegie proposed two reason why we ought to try, anyway—two reasons why we have everything to gain and nothing to lose:
Reason one: We may succeed.
Reason two: Even is we don't succeed, the mere attempt to turn our minus into a plus will cause us to look forward instead of backward; it will replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts; it will release creative energy and spur inclination to mourn over what is past and forever gone.
Carnegie once recounted the story of Ole Bull, the world-famous violinist, who was giving a concert in Paris. The A string on his violin suddenly snapped. But Ole Bull simply finished the melody on three strings. "That is life," said Harry Emerson Fosdick, "to have you're a string snap and finish on three strings."
That is not only life…it is more than life! It is life triumphant.
Dale Carnegie said if he had the power to do so, he would have these words of William Bolitho carved in eternal bronze and hung in every schoolhouse in the land:
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
So, to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring us peace and happiness, let's remember Dale Carnegie's rule: When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Hell...it's not just for children
I'll save the details for a future post & just state that I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on anyone & that includes people I don't particularly like. It sucks to be blindsided by something & come to the realization that you have little control over trying to achieve a positive outcome. Oh, yeah, & the insomnia that's a byproduct of all this is hampering my ability to function, as well.
I'm generally a cheerful person & realize that there are people much worse off than me. In the long run, things will work out one way or the other. But they will probably suck for the next year or two.
In the meantime, after I get through this busy stretch at work, I hope to make better use of my new camera. I'm still such a novice at video & have always favored stills, but when my strobe shit the bed last month, I was forced to play with video. Here's a juvenile damselfish swimming around. No, I don't have Parkinson's. I just need to work on keeping the camera still on drift dives.
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- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Hmmm....this expresses something yet I feel A LOT is left out and I am missing a big part....ReplyDelete
I mean writing about shitty stuff is not easy and talking about, I think, is even harder....but whatever it is I hope you know that even though we all fuck with you, we are always here for you......
I hope things get better for you :)
- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2010 at 4:00 PM
I hope things will improve for you, soon... and not just at work. I know you have been dealing with stuff for a while now & I hope you will find a solution. I'll keep you in my thoughts and try to make you laugh whenever I can.ReplyDelete
1. I love the video! You should post more.ReplyDelete
2. I don't really know what I can add to this that I haven't already said about your situation, but just wanted to reiterate that you know I'm around anytime you need anything at all. And no matter what happens, you'll be OK. I promise.


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16 May 2013
Spin. The Minutes.
Alison Moyet's new album The Minutes has attracted consistent four star plus reviews since its release last week. With voice in fine form, The Minutes is varied, experimental and fresh hinting at her Yazoo past while very much in the present. My hit picks are All Signs of Life, Changeling and Apple Kisses with the lead single When I Was Your Girl growing on me the more I hear it. I wish I could see this set live, her show at Ronnie Scott's last year was simply astounding.
15 May 2013
Good Art #24. Taxi.
Pinterest, I have discovered the work of illustrator Ryo Takemasa. I was completely taken with the simple elegance of Taxi (pictured), though his London works are a very close second. Wonderful and whimsical, no wonder Monocle published work in their current issue.
13 May 2013
Glossy. Agnetha.
Eurovision is only days away, so no wonder Abba fever is hotting up again. Not only has a state-of-the-art Abba museum opened in Stockholm, but Agnetha has released her new album, A. Unlike her last album My Colouring Book (highly recommended), A features new songs. The Big Issue's interview with Agnetha in this week's London issue is bound to be intriguing. Smashing cover.
06 May 2013
Roaming. Helsinki Window.
Finland. Flowers. Helsinki. Red. Window Shop.
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I've had recent run-ins with old friends--the majority being the imaginary ones--and I realize how much of a change I have made as a being.
I used to think it was possible to ensconce oneself on clouds. I made it my primary goal in life. I later found out it wasn't possible. I cried for hours upon hours.
"I quit my job and moved to live in France for a short while, because I wanted to spend time with a girl that fascinates me more than anybody I have ever known"


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I'm a singer, songwriter, mother, daughter and party girl (when I have time).
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A reminder from the organizers of the Senior All-Night Party: Doors open at 9:30 pm and all students are expected to arrive by 10:30. Seniors should be picked up by a parent - please don't expect them to drive home after they have been up all night - between 5:15 and 5:30 am.
we approach the time to turn in laptops, please make sure that your
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returned. Check on any athletic uniforms etc. at the same time.
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Thanks, and have a great summer!
Next Monday is our annual Lifeskills Day for Seniors. This day is unique to Cathedral. We spend a fun and valuable day teaching some of the life skills that we might have missed in our very academic program. We offer personal finance, automotive skills (how to change a tire), social dance, cooking in a dorm, interview skills, and many more. We are so grateful to the parents, community members, and teachers who come in to teach these classes for us.
Cathedral Summer Camps: Regisrations are being accepted for Summer Camps 2015 here at Cathedral. There are a variety of sports camps, plus a new art camp, science camp and more. Camps are open to everyone. Click on "Summer Camps" on the front page of our website: www.cathedralcrusaders.org
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Let's set a date for a raft up in order to get to know each other. (Perhaps I'm the late one to the party and you all have already done this)
So who's up for it?
Not sure where everyone is - perhaps the Chester or Corsica River? Great anchorage spots there. We could do Jellyfish Joels - Fairlee Creek if most folks are north, or anchorage near Camp Letts if most folks are south of the Bay Bridge. I'm on the Magothy so I am in the middle.
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Taxonomic history
Eurhopalothrix floridana is a small (~2.5 mm) brownish red ant with a triangular head, 7-segmented antennae, deep antennal scrobes, small eyes, triangular mandibles, distinctive appressed spatulate hairs and no spongiform. Although described from Florida relatively recently, there is broad speculation that it is not native to Florida or any other part of North America north of Mexico (Brown & Kempf, 1960; Deyrup, 1991; Deyrup et al., 2000; Deyrup et al., 1997). Eurhopalothrix species are predatory, and observations of one species suggest that these ants may be somewhat specialized predators of termites (Wilson & Brown, 1985.
Florida, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic.
Deyrup et al. (1997)argue that E. floridana is actually fairly common in Florida, and are skeptical that it could have remained undetected for so long if the species was native. They point out that the species is unknown from the West Indies, from where almost all of Florida's tropical ant fauna is derived. The authors also present arguments for its status as a native species, including its cryptic nature, low tolerance for disturbed habitats and capacity for surviving in xeric conditions. The discovery of a specimen from Key West collected in 1887 makes for inconclusive evidence of native status, as Key West was a thriving commercial port during that time which received many shipments of exotic horticultural plants from Mexico.Add your content here.
Diagnosis among workers of introduced and commonly intercepted ants in the United States. Head shape triangular. Antenna 7-segmented. Antennal club 2-segmented. Antennal scapes not conspicuously short; easily extended beyond eye level. Antennal scrobe present and deeply excavated. Eyes small (less than 5 facets), situated on upper margin of scrobe. Frontal lobes do not obscure face outline between mandible and eye. Posterolateral corners of head unarmed, without spines. Mandibles triangular. Pronotal spines absent. Propodeum armed with spines. Waist 2-segmented. Spongiform not attached to any portion of waist. Color brownish red. Abundant ground pilosity characterized by small whitish appressed spatulate hairs.
Among introduced and commonly intercepted ants of the United States, Eurhopalothrix floridana is most likely to be confused with Pyramica species that have triangular mandibles, such as P. margaritae and P. membranifera. However, E. floridana is easily separated from these by its 7-segmented antennae (vs. 6-segmented in Pyramica), eye that is situated on the upper margin of the antennal scrobe (vs. lower margin in Pyramica), and lack of spongiform on either waist segment.
Among the New World species in general, E. floridana has a double mandibular tooth row, like E. gravis. Unlike E. gravis, it has a reduced number of spatulate setae. Florida populations have a single pair on the posterior vertex margin. Populations in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic may have a posteromedian rectangle of 2 pairs. The promesonotum has a full complement of 3 pairs. Eurhopalothrix vulcan from Guatemala and E. sepultura from southern Mexico are similar, but have more than 2 pairs of erect setae on the face. Eurhopalothrix apharogonia from El Salvador is similar but has a much narrower head and only 1 pair of erect setae on the mesosoma.
Brown, W.L., Jr. & Kempf, W.W. (1960) A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini (Hym. Formicidae). Stud. Entomol., (n.s.)3, 161-250.
Deyrup, M. (1991) Exotic ants of the Florida keys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). In: Eshbaugh, W.H. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 4th symposium on the natural history of the Bahamas. Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas, pp. 15-22.
Deyrup, M., Davis, L. & Cover, S. (2000) Exotic ants in Florida. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc., 126, 293-326.
Deyrup, M., Johnson, C. & Davis, L. (1997) Notes on the ant Eurhopalothrix floridana, with a description of the male (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. News, 108, 183-189.
Longino, J. T. (2013) A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa, 3693, 101-151.
Wilson, E.O. & Brown, W.L., Jr. (1985) Behavior of the cryptobiotic predaceous ant Eurhopalothrix heliscata, n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Insect. Soc., 31, 408-428.
Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in riparian woodland, 1 times found in roadside, secondary scrub, 1 times found in pine forest, 1 times found in swampy riparian woodland, 1 times found in xeric coastal hammock, 1 times found in Palm Hammock.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 2 times ex sifted leaf litter, 2 times Sifted litter, 1 times in soil at base of stump, 1 times pine litter, 1 times litter sample, 1 times leaf litter.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 1 times winkler, 1 times berlese funnel, 1 times direct collection, 1 times sample 625, 1 times Berlese.
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Taft Claims Sunday Special
The Keystone Unlimited All-Stars joined up with the Upstate NY UAS for a trip to Race-1 Motorspeedway for a Memorial Day Weekend show. This was a bonus race for the Upstate and the first "Wild Card" race for the Keystone region. After several days of hot humid weather in Northwest PA, the hopes were there that the showers would hold off for one more night. A few drops had come down by the time I arrived and looked like everything was going to pass.. looked was the key word. A steady shower followed some thunder and Mother Nature's own light show. The track did get wet, but not nearly what the surrounding areas had. Prior to the track run in, a meeting was called to determine how to run out the races for the night. Instead of the 2 heats and feature, we followed the along with the other classes with a qualifying – heat- feature program.
With the rains subsiding, the Dubois banked oval was able to shed a lot of water and with the diligent work of the track staff, we were ready to practice and qualify.
The UAS was the last group out for qualifying, as to let more karts work in the track and help keep the track from coming up. With a slick track, the prior classes saw times hovering in the 11-12 second bracket with a few breaking into the high 10's. Early in qualifying, Kirk Cox cracked a sub 10 second time and the look on the spectators faces suddenly was priceless.
Here is the qualifying times listed fast time first for the driver (not in lap order):
Heats were separated into 2 groups, which saw Heat "A" go to Kyle Pease in a close race. Heat "B" was a great race which looked like Skip Giberson was going to take it, but a broken chain left him coasting and seeing Ben Taft sneak past for the win.
The feature saw a couple early cautions, mainly spins that took drivers into the infield. There were a few close calls, but all in all, a pretty solid race.
Feature results:
All in all, it turned out to be a pretty solid night of racing. I cannot thank Any Watt and the staff at Race-1 for their hard work and optimism that the race was going to get in. The track was pretty good for the amount of rain it took. It is a lot of fun to be a part of an event that many have not seen a muscle kart before. I received a lot of compliments, questions, and saw some great reactions especially when the feature came around. Thanks again to everyone who came out and made the night a fun time! It was a pleasure meeting the Giberson crew and getting to catch up with those up north.
The next Keystone UAS race is a trip to Red Rock Raceway in Claysburg, PA for our first National ¼ pts race of the season on June 18th. Upstate NY has a trip to Paradise slated for a ¼ pts race with the Empire UAS on June 11th.
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Bexar County assumes control of RMA
Vote's implications unclear but likely to be far-reaching.
Citing an effort to save money and eliminate job duplication, Bexar County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to undertake management of the day-to-day operations of San Antonio's only tolling authority.
The vote will now bring the decisions of the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority "closer to an elected body," said Commissioner Kevin Wolff, who made the proposal.
The RMA board remains intact for now. The commissioners already appoint the entire RMA board, and the governor names the chairman.
"If we would merge at the very least the operational aspects of the RMA today and the county, I think we can save ourselves a considerable amount of money over time," Wolff said.
No RMA board members, nor any staffers, were on hand for the vote.
County Manager David Smith said he still has not determined how much money could be saved by the county taking over the RMA operations.
The county's Public Works Department likely will absorb the RMA staff responsibilities, Director and County Engineer Renee Green said. Public Works has a staff of more than 250 people, including 11 engineers.
Green said taking on the RMA projects — for example, the construction of the interchange at Loop 1604 and U.S. 281 on the North Side — could mean hiring additional engineers. The county will study the RMA's administrative responsibilities to determine where and how they can be absorbed.
"Obviously, we feel we can achieve savings," Green said.
"If it's necessary to retain certain RMA staff, we want to do that."
About $1.2 million of the RMA's $1.6 million operations budget goes to personnel costs, such as salaries and benefits. Executive Director Terry Brechtel collects an annual salary of $186,277.
RMA Chairman Bill Thornton said he and the staff will begin meeting with the county to ensure no RMA projects are negatively affected.
"After that our job is to listen to the court, see what they want to do and be as helpful as possible," Thornton said.
The implications of the 4-0 vote — Commissioner Sergio "Chico" Rodriguez was not present — are unclear but potentially far-reaching.
The RMA, created in 2003, has the right to build toll and nontoll road projects on Loop 1604 and U.S. 281. The agency has not yet built any toll roads, but it can issue toll revenue bonds, power the county does not have. Under current statute, Bexar County cannot become a tolling authority without legislative action.
Commissioners have not yet decided if that's a road they want to take.
Calling the vote a defining moment for transportation in the Alamo City, Commissioner Paul Elizondo said the transition should be a "slow and deliberate thing."
In the future, the RMA board could continue to retain its powers, with the county handling only operations; or Bexar County could push for legislation to allow it to become a tolling authority. The RMA board also could dissolve and cede all tolling authority — and tolling revenues — to the state and the Texas Department of Transportation.
"They (TxDOT) have the authority to do it," County Judge Nelson Wolff said. "They don't really need us. That could end up being a possibility."
Thornton cautioned against handing tolling authority to TxDOT, which would allow the state to collect local toll revenues and siphon that money to its general fund — and not back to San Antonio.
"If the RMA's influence is decreased, then it's my hope the Commissioners Court steps up ... to maintain control over our local projects," Thornton said.
County Judge Wolff suggested a fourth possibility: Officials could merge the RMA board and the county's Advanced Transportation District, which is made up of the board of VIA Metropolitan Transit.
Wolff said it makes sense to consolidate transportation agencies and increase efficiencies. A similar move was attempted in 2009 but the legislation failed.
On Tuesday, commissioners also voted to allocate $100 million in Advance Transportation District dollars to expansion projects on Loop 1604 and U.S. 281.
The proposed projects would add nontoll expressways to segments of both corridors. But toll lanes would also eventually be part of the mix, according to the plan officials are considering.
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BOOM: Liberals Attack Trump's Grandson, So Tomi Lahren ENDS Them On Live TV…
On Monday's "Hannity," host Sean Hannity brought up a boycott for an elite Upper East Side school that parents are planning because Trump's grandson "is rumored to be attending kindergarten there in the fall."
TheBlaze's Tomi Lahren was on the set and absolutely blistered the proposed boycott, saying the left has no problem "going low" and attacking the president's family, which includes his grandson.
"Sadly, this is just the latest example of the left demeaning the family of President Trump," he said.
"Why are they going after kids and what would happen if we did that?" Hannity then asked Lahren.
Lahren immediately used Michelle Obama's and the Democrat party's favorite expression against them, saying, "When they go low, we go high."
"It's a different set of standards, obviously," she said.
She then turned her attention toward the mothers who brought up the boycott, saying that if they're that bothered by a kid coming into kindergarten then "it's going to be a rough life for some of these individuals."
Jessica Tarlov, director of research at Bustle, echoed Lahren's sentiment, calling the parents' behavior "unacceptable."
"I think that going after a ten-year-old is completely unacceptable," she said. "Boycotting a school, it's a great school, completely unacceptable."
SHARE on Facebook and Twitter if you agree with Tomi Lahren!


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How to hide whatsapp Photos, Videos and Audio files from Gallery in Android devices
Whatsapp the most popular chatting platform at the moment and there are millions of photos being shared everyday and some are personal and some just for fun asn you must be knowing that whether they are private or not all these can be seen in your android phone Gallery App in the Whatsapp folder.
So when you give your phone to your friend to looks at some photos and they suddenly see your personal photos on your device it turns out to be quite embarrassing which we are here to solve by letting you know how you can easily Hide pictures or photos from appearing or being shown in your Gallery App.
You do not need any rooted phone or anything but you have to first download a File Manager App like ES File Explorer, Astro File Manager or Total Commander etc. After installation of these files you can follow the given below steps and hide your Whatsapp photos and images easily from prying eyes and have some privacy and peace of mind while giving your phone to others.
Steps to Hide Whatsapp Photos or Images, Videos or Audio Files from Gallery App in Android:
For hiding Videos and Audio Files: Follow the same steps mentioned below by selecting the Video folder or Audio Folder instead of the Images Folder.
- Launch your File Manager App which you have installed or have one already on your device.
- Go to WhatsApp folder in the files section under SD Card, if you are not able to find the folder type WhatsApp in Search
- Now Tap on the WhatsApp folder to open it From the folders available you have to tap on the Media Folder to open it
- You can find various folders like Wallpaper, Audio, Profile, Video, Voice and WhatsApp Images. Tap on WhatsApp Images to open it.
- After you enter the Folder you can see your WhatsApp images, at the bottom or top of the screen depending on which file manager you are using you can find a "+" symbol and tap on it
- A new Pop up box can be seen where you have to Add a New Folder, Tap on "File" In the Box appearing you have to create a File named ".nomedia" and tap on OK.
- After the file is created go back to your phone's Gallery app to make sure that the WhatsApp images folder is Hidden.
- If the WhatsApp folder is not hidden and you are still able to see your whatsapp images folder in Gallery you have to Clear Cache and Clear Data of WhatsApp application: Go to Settings -> Tap on Applications -> All Apps -> Scroll for Whatsapp -> Tap on it to open -> Tap on Clear Cache and Clear Data Buttons in the page.
- After you have cleared the cache and data go back to your gallery and now the files will be hidden and you will not be able to see the folder.
How to See Hidden WhatsApp folder or Images, Videos or Audio files in Android Gallery:
After you have hidden the photos you want to see the photos or videos or audio files yourself and they are missing so you have to follow these steps to unhide the hidden whatsapp folder.
- Go to your File Manager which you have used to hide the Whatsapp files and go to settings and scroll down in the options to find the Show Hidden Files option.
- The Show hidden files option will be "OFF" and you have to turn it "ON" to be able to see hidden files which are the whatsapp photos folder.
- And after you are done with seeing the photos you can again hide the folder by turning off the the show hidden files option in your file manager.
Note: Do not search for the .nomedia file in your file manager and try to delete it to see the hidden files, just follow the above mentioned technique.
This is a simple trick to maintain your privacy even when you give your device to other people who can see other photos and videos but will not be able to see your WhatsApp Images, videos or audio files.


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Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Herman Spector
ADDRESS 4121 Third Avenue, NYC
DATE January 5, 1939
1. Date and time of interview
2. Place of interview Chicken Market under Delancey Street bridge at Pitt Street
3. Name and address of informant Ralph Lifshitz
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant. None
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
This is a sawdust-littered loft opening on dark street-island under the broad ramp of the Bridge. Butchers and
shoikets in long white coats stained with blood walk about. Just-killed poultry and those just expiring can be seen on floor or fluttering madly in baskets. Coops full of live chickens and geese are stacked to ceiling-height against the walls. Feathers everywhere. An office, divided by wire partitioning, at the side. An air of activity is created by the constant cackling and casual moving of the restless fowl.
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STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Herman Spector
ADDRESS 4121 Third Avenue, NYC
DATE January 5, 1939
"You caught one of then yawning, you say? Oh, that one, sticking his neck out of the coop? Probably bored with life; anxious to get it over with. A nice fat goose, isn't he? They've all been specially fattened for the holidays. No, I don't mind the smell anymore. After six years, you don't notice it. Friend of mine quit this business; studied medicine, opened up a practise. He came around to see me the other day; he said, 'You know, Ralph, I've been away so long I even begin to notice the smell of a market now.' He's lucky. But come inside; it's warmer, and we can talk without being interrupted.
"Take your coat off, you don't want to catch cold. I hope you don't mind, it's a little filthy, I can hang it up for you. It's not exactly a business I would want to go into if I had the choice. Yes, it's an honest living, but I wanted something else. It wouldn't interest you...Well, journalism. Graduated N. Y. U., then waited around, nothing turned up, so here I am. This place was built by my
"This street was once the fish and poultry center of the city. There was a city-owned fish market across the way, but it didn't make out. People moved uptown, the markets moved with them. We still get plenty of business here. Not the same kind of trade, of course. I would say it's more discriminating today. If you want to get an interesting picture of the change in tastes you should come here at about nine o'clock Thursday morning; that's our busiest time for the housewife trade. You should see how they pick up a chicken, blow on it from all sides, examine the color...Oh yes, you can tell that way. A yellowish color shows fattiness. Then, by feeling the breastbone, a housewife can usually detect whether a chicken is plump enough. Years ago almost anything went. Roosters over a year old - plain meat, but it was cheap, so they bought it. Nowadays they want something tasty; we couldn't sell a coop of roosters in a month's time.
"Most of our sales are to butchers; they're choosy too, but you'd be surprised, they don't know any more about what's good than the housewife. We have six
shoikets (ritual slayers of fowl) working here, and they have plenty to do. They are unionized, you know. it's a skilled trade, and naturally they have a sort of monopoly on it. They have to Schreetor (slaughtering) before they can touch a chicken. The knife they use is called a
chalif: unless the point is perfectly smooth, it isn't considered
kosher. When a chicken, for any reason, is wrongly out, it's called a
Schmootoor; and it can't be used as
kosher. They make a nice living, the
shoikets; they are paid by the pound. Oh, yes, they always check on weights. When they kill they pronounce a prayer...wait a minute, I'll get it straight for you...It goes like this:
'Zeh chalifasy, zeh timurasy,
Zeh caparasy, zeh hatarnigol;
Yalaych l'misah, veyani ekanays,
Veh aylach lechaim,
Tovim aruchim ulshalom.'
"Translated roughly, it means: 'This is my redemption, this is my salvation, this is my substitution. This is the chicken that will go to its death, and I shall enter and go into a good and lasting and peaceful life.'
"We don't exactly have seasons here, but holidays are important. Before "Simkas-Torah" - that's the holiday of rejoicing in the giving of the Torah - they use ducks. During the Passover holidays the best of all poultry is used - all the luxury items; capons, turkeys, and the finest chickens. This past Thanksgiving - not a Jewish holiday, of course - but I believe more Jews bought turkeys than ever before. Why? In my opinion, it's due to particular world relations at this time,
Chanukah week they prepare fat for the Passover, so specially fattened geese are brought to the city then, like the ones you saw outside. With the devout housewife, not to be able to have a
genzil (goose) for the holidays would be a tragedy of of the first order.
"Generally, we find that there has been a drop in the consumption of poultry. I don't think it's poverty alone that's responsible. For one thing, the family of today is smaller than that of twenty and twentyfive years ago. There were seven in my family, for instance, but you won't find so many among the younger generation. Then there has been a shift toward vegetables, toward a balanced diet. And the younger Jewish housewives, not being so religious, also tend to buy
trafe (non-kosher) chickens, because the prices are cheaper. And many people like the taste of cold-storage chickens, you know. Still, quality is always a consideration, and we have customers coming from all over the city and Long Island for our chickens. Even Gentiles, who feel that Jewish poultry is healthier, shop in the East Side markets. You know, it's only the Jews and Italians who go in for fresh-killed meat. That is, to any extent.
"We work all hours; it's not as bad as in the old days, naturally; there's even a tendency to make it a six-day week in this industry, and maybe five days eventually. The routine is a little different each day, it depends on the
Schreetor, which usually lasts till five o'clock.
We're closed from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, naturally. Sometimes we may work from Saturday sundown to late Sunday night without stop. Thursday we do, I should say, sixty percent of our entire business. I guess I'm used to the hours, you know how it is, we have coffees on the job, hang around and
schmooz when it's slow...when I get home usually I'm too tired to even think of reading a book. Funny, you know. I never could see myself in a business like this. You have to mix with all kinds; not my type. Outside the job, I try to mingle with more of my own element - doctors and lawyers you know; at least I think they're my element. You can't do what you want when you've got a family to think of. it's a living, that's all...Well, drop in some time again. Glad to see you anytime. Don't mention it...."


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Mauricio Pochettino welcomes back rested quartet Younes Kaboul, Aaron Lennon, Kyle Naughton and Emmanuel Adebayor for Tottenham's match against Stoke at White Hart Lane.
The four players were left in London as Spurs travelled to Greece to face Asteras Tripolis in the Europa League.
Goals from Harry Kane and Andros Townsend helped Pochettino's side to a nervy 2-1 win on Thursday night, and the English duo will be pushing for a starting spot on Sunday.
Kane scored his tenth goal of the season with his header against the Greeks and with Adebayor and Roberto Soldado struggling in front of goal, many might think the England U21 striker would lead the line against Mark Hughes' side.
However, Stoke's physicality and aerial threat will see Adebayor return to the side although this may be the Togolese forward's last chance to impress for a while.
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Despite this, Kane could get his chance in place of Christian Eriksen. The Dane has struggled to replicate last season's form and Pochettino may go with a more physical approach.
In defence, Naughton should return for Eric Dier while Hugo Lloris will come back into the side for Michel Vorm, along with the usual league regulars.
The only long term absentees are Kyle Walker (abdomin) and Nabil Bentaleb (ankle)
Predicted starting XI:
Lloris; Naughton, Vertonghen, Kaboul, Rose; Capoue, Mason; Lamela, Chadli, Kane; Adebayor


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Require Plain Text for Funding
The rule has been plain text for years now, but some agencies refuse. This is still causing conflict in day to day commications. Deupties requesting firefighters to 10-25 them for 10-54 because they are 10-6. We quit teaching firefighters and EMS 10-codes almost 8 years ago when we went to plain text. It does no good for the firefighter to say "I don't understand you" and the deputy to angerly repeat the same 10-codes ...more »


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Summer of Art - Digital Invasion
Saturday 05 July 2014 - Sunday 31 August 2014 10:00am - 5:00pm The Gallery, Hannahs at Seale-Hayne
This hi-tech exhibition was a celebration of digital art from film to photography and augmented reality to animation. The groundbreaking centrepiece was Living Data by artist Michael Takeo Magruder, which featured a constantly evolving and changing selection of digitally hybrid paintings, sculptures, videos and installations created by tapping into everything from trending social media topics to weather patterns and global financial markets to news stories. Other events over the summer included open air cinema, a 48 Hour Film Challenge, animation workshops, a global radio link-up and live music events.


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Press release
ÅF awarded two new natural gas assignments by E.ON
The ÅF Group has been commissioned by E.ON Sverige to conduct detailed project planning work for natural gas pipelines between the cities of Linköping and Norrköping, south-west of Stockholm. The assignment forms part of a project known in Sweden as Naturgas Mellansverige (Central Sweden Natural Gas). The 70-kilometre pipeline includes a number of stations for measuring and regulating gas in the region's natural gas grid.
ÅF consultants have been engaged to provide expertise in areas such as surveying, geotechnics, archaeology and pipeline planning, and to assist in drafting and producing documentation for tendering and construction. Work on the assignment is already under way and is scheduled for completion in April 2006.
The ÅF Group has also been commissioned to carry out preliminary project planning work for natural gas pipelines along the approximately 140 kilometre long Västerås to Grycksbo stretch, also part of the Naturgas Mellansverige project.
The assignment calls for expertise in route planning, environmental impact analysis, geotechnics, archaeology and liaison services that include contacts with landowners along the proposed route. Work begins in October and will result in an application for a concession by December 2006.
The ÅF Group recently completed the preliminary project planning and pre-engineering phases for the Boxholm to Norrköping stretch of the pipeline for E.ON. This work culminated in an application for a concession, which has been presented to the Swedish government for consideration.
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Falling Up
Exit Lights
Following two highly acclaimed and successful projects (Crashings, Dawn Escapes), Falling Up stretches the imagination to create their newest venture, a remix album titled Exit Lights, which morphs their sound from intense, urgent rock to electronic, vibe-focused renditions selected from their two studio releases.
"After Crashings, we had in mind that we wanted to do a remix album," says Falling Up's vocalist Jessy Ribordy. "It is something totally different from our releases and our live show, which is more rock based. Our goal was to expand on our style and show a different side—something more electronic with a stronger slant to programming and digital vibe-- a different picture on songs we really love. We wanted to give the fans a chance to hear some of ours favorite songs from the past two releases in a more party, upbeat fashion."
Hailing from Albany, Oregon, Falling Up transformed into a full-time musical project after graduating high school in 2002. The act quickly made its first impression in the national music scene with its Aaron Sprinkle-produced debut, 2004's Crashings, which went on to sell nearly 100,000 copies. Following the release, the band embarked on a steady stream of tour dates (with over six tours and 400 shows in a two-year span) establishing a strong, loyal fan base. In October 2005, Falling Up came back with an astounding new studio release steering clear of the sophomore slump with Dawn Escapes, which has already surpassed all expectations.
Entering into a transitional phase between their sophomore project and their third studio release (to release in 2007), Falling Up enlisted the production skills of Tedd T (Mute Math), Jamie Moore, Toby Mac, Randy Torres (Project 86), Joseph A. Kisselburgh (Falling Up), Trevor McNevan (TFK), Solomon Olds (Family Force 5) and Falling Up's vocalist Jessy Ribordy.
"With the producers we had on board for Exit Lights, we were able to really create different elements. We took songs from both of our releases—songs we knew from the beginning that would have that unique sound and could be remixed," explains Ribordy of the song selection. "I also enjoyed getting to be a part of the producing with the two songs 'Exhibition' that features Rachel Lampa and 'Bittersweet.'"
One of the songs selected, "Broken Heart (Ghosts of Seaside Mix)" was the first radio single for Falling Up off of Crashings. The remix also has become one of the band favorites with the transformation that jumps the spectrum when remixed with a dark, eerie spin.
One of the songs selected, "Broken Heart (Ghosts of Seaside Mix)" was the first No. 1 radio single for the band off of their debut project, which also became the most played song for 2005 on Air 1. The remix also has become a band favorite with the transformation that jumps the spectrum when remixed with a dark, eerie spin.
In addition to the twelve remix tracks; Falling Up wets the appetite for new music with the new song "Islander," which prepares fans for the musical direction on the upcoming studio release. Continuing with the conceptual idea of creating a big picture with each new release being a different piece of the puzzle, "Islander" is a perfect lead into the new album that will deal with the topic of isolation and paranoia.
"It was written over a year ago, and it deals with isolation," explains Ribordy. "I have a huge concern for those who seclude themselves. When you detach yourself from those who love and care for you, it is the beginning of many problems. You need family and loved ones around. I just want others to see the importance of seeing that isolation can lead to a domino effect. Also, with hiring the efforts of Tedd T, we really wanted to explore with electronica and other elements we love, and his work on that record was intriguing and makes this song truly unique."
Determined to forge ahead via its persistent, motivated work ethic, Exit Lights finds the band introducing a new dimension to their sound they hope their fans grab hold and enjoy. With this September 12 release on BEC/Tooth & Nail, Falling Up aims to deliver a collection of works for their fans in a movie soundtrack approach.


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Unbeatable eggs7 min read . Updated: 26 Jan 2016, 02:35 PM IST
Of omelettes perfect, poetical and with a patriotic flavour too
Of omelettes perfect, poetical and with a patriotic flavour too
My mother is a fantastic cook and has haather taar, as the Bengalis say. But the taar in her haath have some microscopic coverage drops: her tindas could taste a lot better than they do and she has never really mastered the art of cooking fish. Her fish pie (basically, fillets of fish in a mucoid white sauce) has made many grown men weep. There were brief talks on between her and the caterers at Guantanamo Bay regarding transfer of the recipe.
And she cannot cook omelettes.
They are either too runny and weepy and utterly gross-making or totally dry and desiccated and taste of nothing as much as corrugated board. Daddy used to have names for both these varieties when we were kids based on popular Hindi film mothers at the time. Is it Nirupa Roy with the waterworks or Lalita Pawar, the dried-up witch? he used to ask with a wink at the breakfast table.
The inability to cook omelettes well is a horrible allegation to level at anyone, but really, my mother's omelettes are godawful. However, we, her family, have always looked upon her spectacular failure in the omelette department in the larger context of her incredible cooking skills and likened it to the tiny flaw that Persian carpet weavers deliberately introduce to their patterns, in acknowledgment of the fact that true perfection is beyond human endeavour.
Because the truth is that a good omelette is better than perfection—it is poetry. Even the simplest one, maybe especially the simplest one, made with just a few beaten eggs, some salt and some fat, can be light, soul-satisfying, rich and flavourful. It can be whipped up in a matter of minutes, can be dressed up or dressed down to suit the occasion and the preference and greed levels of the diner. And tastes pretty damn divine if done right.
And therein lies the rub. What exactly is "done right?" Is there a universal "omelette-done-rightness" meter that one can use as a standard against which to measure all efforts? Or does it all lie in the palate of the diner? (In other words, is there a parallel universe in which a Nirupa Roy is hailed as the standard bearer of how all good omelettes should be?)
In the West, the debate on what makes the perfect omelette has centred on what ingredients to use and the technique used to cook it. On what to use to make it light and fluffy while still not losing the flavour of the eggs, there are different views. Larousse Gastronomique advocates the addition of a teaspoonful of milk to the beaten eggs while Elizabeth David, the renowned British writer who helped popularize and demystify French food, prefers adding water. (While it might seem as if the water will make the eggs runny, the theory is that when it hits the pan, the water evaporates and forms steam pockets, thereby aerating the already fluffy eggs just that little bit more.) Many renowned chefs have weighed in on this what-to-add debate and while some favour one and some another, most have said in polite chef-ly terms that adding anything is bollocks and the best results always come from just good fresh eggs, well beaten.
The other part of the omelette mystique is the technique: the classic French way of cooking omelettes is, of course, swirling butter in a pan till it starts foaming and then adding the beaten seasoned eggs to it till a skin is formed and then shaking the pan vigorously so that the layer gets incorporated back into the mix. Each of these "skins" is referred to as a lamination. In classic French cooking, seven laminations folded in a half-moon shape, so that the egg butter mix is just set but still has a silky mouth feel when cut open – voilà – makes for the perfect omelette!
This, of course, is the Anglo-French ideal with just some good cheese or some prime ham or earthy musky mushrooms as filling. And glorious these omelettes are too: eat one and the world shifts microscopically on its own axis and everything settles down to become just so. If Daddy were around to christen them, he would call them the Jennifer Lawrences of the omelette world: accessible yet sophisticated, elegant yet full of oomph.
But wonderful as these are, these aren't OUR omelettes, the quintessentially Indian omelettes we have all grown up on, the ones we have stories about, the ones whipped up at home by Cook Bhaiya every morning, or the ones we ate wrapped up in a bun at college (bun anda, anyone?). These aren't the omelettes we giggled drunkenly and greedily over at roadside paratha joints or the ones we made for ourselves when we stumbled home dead with exhaustion after an all-nighter at the office, or the ones that literally saved our lives when we were dying of hunger in a remote village in Ladakh.
No, our omelettes may not have any acquaintance with butter (refined oil is the name of the beast), and our eggs may be only cursorily whipped, and they wouldn't know a lamination unless it was on the table upon which they were eaten, but they score over the classical French ones simply because they are classically us.
First, there's the taste. Our default option in flavour is always the one we are most familiar with. Enter, stage left the desi omelette, with onions, tomatoes, green chillies, hara dhania, all either whipped in with the eggs or scattered when the egg mix hits the pan. The more ambitious ones also have julienned ginger, red chilli flakes, diced garlic...anything that's handy in the Indian cook's tool box. Second, there's just sheer numbers: for every one fluffy omelette with cheese and ham and mushrooms that we have eaten there will be at least 200 delicious and resolutely un-fluffy desi masala omelettes that we will have scarfed down.
And finally there's the mythology around the omelettes we love which has nothing to do with the freshness of the eggs or the addition of water or milk to the mix. It's where we ate them and how we ate them and how old we were and how they made us feel. A friend talks of how her mother made the most yummy omelettes haphazardly thrown into her skillet everyday with the most inventive fillings: shredded bits of chicken from pieces no one ate, some leftover Bikaneri bhujiya, boiled potatoes diced and pre-tossed in spices and achar spices as a rub on the inside. Another omelette that would have the French shuddering was the one routinely cooked by a friend's Konkani cook: in a wok and with equal parts oil to egg mix and a mixture of fiery flavours and spices, including but not limited to leftover keema or chicken and, improbably enough, schezuan curry paste! Another friend swears the best omelettes she has eaten were in her mother's omelette curry: A thin gravy of onions and tomatoes in which potatoes were first cooked and when done, an already cooked masala omelette would be added to the gravy. This would be eaten with rice.
For me, my all time favourite omelettes would have to be the ones in the omelette sandwich sold for years at the ONGC canteen in Express Towers in Mumbai. A limp, pallid blonde omelette would be imprisoned between two slices of resolutely white bread, the whole caboodle looking distinctly greasy and inedible. But when you bit into it, it was heaven: The canteen cooks used equal parts diced onions and green chillies to fleck the egg mix and contrasted with the sweetness and woolliness of the white bread, it tasted like Diwali and Dussera were both being celebrated in your mouth at the same time. No amount of tinkering about in my own kitchen has managed to replicate that perfect marriage of greasy yummy mirchi woolly limpness.
Vikram Doctor, food writer with the most obscure and extraordinarily delicious food facts in the world, talks of the Siachen Omelette, much beloved of Indian soldiers serving in the icy glacier. It is essentially a masala omelette stuffed with cooked Maggi. Of all the omelettes I have not yet eaten, this is the one I am drawn to most helplessly. More than the ones with shaved truffles and foie gras and runny organic cheeses, the Siachen Omelette's the one that sounds absolutely, blindingly brilliant. Now that Maggi's back in the market, I'm just off to make one for myself.
That's a win-win if there ever was one: I get to eat the omelette I am salivating after while showing my support for our heroic troops on the border as well. And that, like the perfect omelette, is unbeatable.


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Tomorrow, September 13th, it will be fifteen years since my grandmother died. Fifteen years. That is such a long time. The last time I saw her, she was in a hospice but ever in good spirits. I was almost 23 and had just landed my first real post college job. Up until that point, I had been babysitting and delaying adulthood as best I could. I told my grandmother that day that I had gotten a job and she clapped her hands, smiled and said, "I can die happy!" And that, in a nutshell, was my grandmother. She never seemed scared to die, or of anything for that matter. I honestly don't think she was. She told me there were clothes in her closet that might fit me and that I shouldn't be "afraid to wear a dead person's clothes." But I would never have felt that way. She wasn't a dead person, she was my grandmother. And at that moment, she was very much alive. She was sharing her room with another elderly lady. She told me a little sadly that the two of them should be the best of friends by now, except that the other woman was quite deaf.
One of my favorite things about my grandmother was how much she loved me, pure and simple. She called me "number one girl" because I was her first granddaughter (and in fact, her first grandchild). She thought everything I did was amazing. She made little things fun for me, like when I was little and would help her in the kitchen. She would peel apples and hang the long spiraly peels on my ears and then say how lovely my earrings were. I would giggle and try to peel apples like her, but my peels always broke.
Fifteen years is a long time. In just another few years she will have been gone longer than I had her in my life. I can't remember what it was like to take for granted she was there. To answer the phone and hear her voice say "Katrina!" which of course, is the Italian version of my name. I remember her laugh, her positive outlook on life. I remember her cooking (how I wish I could have a big plate of her risotto and a bowl of her lentil soup!) But it's getting really hard to remember what it felt like not to think of her as "a dead person". I always thought losing someone would hurt less as time passed but time keeps pushing her further away from me.
I often wonder what she would think of the woman I've become. I worry that she would be disappointed that I am not married and don't have any little "bambinos" yet. I had told her I wanted to wear her wedding dress someday when I got married. But damn it, she was supposed to BE at my wedding.
I worry that she wouldn't like some of the choices I've made. Sometimes I'm ok with that. Like how she hated when I wore dark nail polish because it didn't "look natural". That was an area we would've had to agree to disagree on. But sometimes I try to see myself through her eyes and I think, I could've done better, held myself to higher standards, been braver. Always braver. That was her secret and I never had a chance to learn it from her. For her, life was an adventure. She took pleasure in the littlest things. She was happy and she was content. She would've wanted the same for me. I want the same for me.
I would give up a lot to have one more conversation with her. To be able to ask her what she thinks about so many things. Things I've done, things I've felt. But even as I write this I can hear her voice in my head. She would say something along the lines of, it doesn't matter if I've made some wrong choices. It's life and no one is perfect. The important thing is that I am overall, happy, healthy, and self-sufficient. The rest is just salad dressing on the salad of life. Or whatever the Italian equivalent of an optional but not hugely important topping or condiment to a meal would be. Shredded parmesan on the lasagna perhaps? And I guess the fact that I can imagine her answer means she's still with me after all.


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5 interesting things from the 2013 GCSE data
Coverage of GCSE data published today has focused on the national picture. There are have encouraging improvements overall and fewer schools are below the floor target. However, there is a huge amount of data hidden away in the performance information that the DfE publish alongside individual school results. I've picked out five interesting nuggets which lead to a whole raft of further questions for schools, agencies and Government to consider.
1. The gap in performance between young people who are native speakers of English and those who speak it as an additional language has continued to close. 60.9% of native speakers get five good GCSEs including England and Maths (henceforth 5A*-C + EM) compared to 60.1% non-native speakers. In Inner London non-native speakers actually do 3.3 percentage points better than English speakers (in Tower Hamlets it's 11.5%). Nationally 56 local authorities now see their non-native speakers outperform the average.
2. London continues to improve faster than the rest of the country. London saw a 2.7 percentage point increase in pupils achieving 5A*-C + EM compared with 1.7pp nationwide. Improvement in the North was notably lower than the rest of the country - just 0.8pp in the North-East and 1pp in the North-West. There are some success stories in the North though - Hartlepool was the second most improved LA in the country (10.2pp) after Rutland.
3. Nationally the gap between young people on Free School Meals (FSM) and the rest hasn't improved. In fact it's widened slightly by 0.4pp. There are interesting regional variations. In the North the gap narrowed (by 0.8pp in the NE) but largely because the improvements for non-FSM children were fairly weak. In London FSM pupils improved faster but not as fast as non-FSM. The fastest improving region for FSM pupils was the South-East - with Windsor, Slough and West Berkshire showing particularly striking improvements around the 10pp level. This is encouraging as it suggests areas with historically low numbers of FSM pupils are being pushed by Ofsted's focus on the pupil premium into taking their performance seriously.
4. The difference in performance between children on FSM in different regions remains striking. Despite improvements in the South-East it is still, along with the South-West, the lowest performing region for FSM nationally. In the South-East 33% of FSM pupils get 5A*-C + EM compared to 54.1% in Inner London. At LA level the differences are even more stark. In Barnsley 22.8% of FSM pupils met the 5A*-C + EM benchmark. In Westminster it was 62.2% (it was even higher in Kensington and Chelsea - an astonishing 76.7% - but they only had 100 FSM pupils in the cohort).
5. Poor Black students improved faster than poor white students. White boys remain the lowest performing ethnic group (apart from Gypsy/Roma/traveller pupils). Just 28.3% of white boys on FSM achieved 5A*-C + EM compared to, say, 55.8% of Bangladeshi boys on FSM. White boys on FSM improved less than average FSM so fell further behind (1.4pp to 1.6pp). Black boys improved faster - by 2.8pp. Black Caribbean boys improved by a very significant 4.8pp.
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Over 1,000 Wendy's Restaurants Infected with Malware
For months, Wendy's has been vague about the number of stores affected during a five-month-long data breach. Today, the Ohio-based chain admitted that 1,025 restaurant point-of-sale systems were infected with malware.
The attack was two-pronged. The fast food restaurant first noticed unusual payment card activity in February 2016 and reported they had disabled the malware responsible for this activity in May. However, in June, the company found additional malicious activity in other restaurants and discovered a second malware attack. The company said both infections have been removed.
Hackers were able to use the malware to access the POS systems remotely to steal cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates, verifications values, service codes and other data. The company said CVV codes were not at risk.
In May, Wendy's said fewer than 300 (or 5%) of its restaurants had been hacked, but this was quickly questioned by security experts and credit unions, who said the reports they were receiving indicated the incident was much more severe.
Wendy's recommends customers monitor their credit card and bank account statements for unauthorized activity. It has also arranged a complimentary year of fraud consultation support to customers who may have been affected.
The restaurant has listed affected restaurants on its website.


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text: Daniele Luchetti's fluent, heartfelt Italian picture is the story of two brothers born after the war, who come of age in the 1960s and drift apart in the paranoid, violent, sour political atmosphere of Italy in the 70s. The film has the freewheeling and garrulous quality of recent Italian cinema such as The Best of Youth and Romanzo Criminale, the latter featuring the actors starring here: Elio Germano and the smoulderingly beautiful Riccardo Scamarcio. The younger brother is called Accio (meaning "bully"), played by Germano and as a youngster by Vittorio Emanuele Propizio. He drops out of the seminary as a boy, finding that the priesthood is not for him, and comes home to find a raucous, chaotic, poverty-stricken household that candidly resents his homecoming. Accio finds himself falling hard for the beautiful girlfriend of his brother Manrico (Scamarcio). These scenes are likable and even hilarious, with everyone talking at once, and recreate something of the spirit of Fellini's I Vitelloni and the early Coppola and Scorsese films, which drew on that same spirit. As the film progresses, however, it becomes noticeably heavier and more self-conscious. Accio becomes a fascist and Manrico a Marxist (a weighty dual structure familiar from The Best of Youth) and their division, and then partial reconciliation, are painful and complex. Without ever losing its good qualities, the movie becomes fractionally less engaging as it grapples with its own tragic destiny, though the reason for employing two actors for Accio's role is fully explained with a very touching image at the end. My Brother Is an Only Child shows the tremendous energy of which contemporary Italian movies are capable.


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Zika virus may have entered Brazil from French Polynesia during 2013 football tournament – study
A genetic analysis of the virus from different parts of the world has pointed to a single introduction to Brazil between May and December 2013 from French Polynesia, which first suffered an outbreak of the virus in 2013 and 2014.
Researchers from the University of Oxford and the Evandro Chagas Institute in Brazil studied samples of Zika virus from genomes connected to the Brazil epidemic. The samples included one from a blood donor, one from an adult with a fatal case of the virus, and one from a newborn infant with microcephaly and other congenital conditions.
The team used an advanced genetic sequencing technique to map out the gene codes of the samples. They found later that the specimens had very subtle differences among them.
"This is the first study into the Zika outbreak in Brazil using genomic data, and it gives us a good baseline for future research," Dr. Nuno Faria of the University of Oxford and the Evandro Chagas Institute said.
Following the analysis, the scientists determined that supporters of French Polynesia's national football team could have been the culprits behind the Brazil outbreak, when they traveled there in June 2013 for the Confederations Cup tournament.
"We looked at broad-scale patterns of human movement and focused on air passengers who traveled to Brazil from countries that reported Zika since 2012. From late 2012 onwards, there was a 50 percent rise in the number of passengers traveling to Brazil from countries with Zika," said Professor Oliver Pybus of Oxford University.
During the tournament, the French Polynesian team of Tahiti played a match against Uruguay at a stadium in Recife, in the northeastern region of Brazil – near the center of the outbreak.
However, Pybus noted that "although the American outbreak virus is most closely related to a strain from French Polynesia, it's also possible that Zika was introduced separately to the Americans and French Polynesia from South-East Asia."
The first known Zika virus outbreak was in East Africa in 1947. From there, it spread across Africa to Asia.
"To better understand Zika transmission history, we need more information about the epidemiology and genetic diversity of Zika viruses in South East Asia," Pybus said. The study was published in the journal Science on Thursday.
Zika virus is believed to be linked to microcephaly, a condition associated with an abnormal smallness of the head and incomplete brain development in babies.
The World Health Organization (WHO), which declared Zika an international health emergency last month, has estimated that Brazil will have more than 2,500 babies born with microcephaly if current trends continue in the South American country, where major city Rio de Janeiro is scheduled to host the Summer Olympics later this year.


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The Bethany Improvement Foundation began in 2008 as the Bethany Centennial History Committee and published a hardback, colorful history book about Bethany. It sold out immediately. We also collected oral histories as part of our centennial project.
In January, 2010, we became a 501-c-3 charitable organization. Major projects since then have included painting of historical murals in downtown Bethany and sponsorship of the Bethany 66 Festival (now in its 2nd year). We received a grant in 2011 from the Oklahoma Arts Council.
Another Bethany history book will be published by Arcadia Publishing in Fall, 2012.
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Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip." Other kids have their own word to describe him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. He doesn't know he's not like everyone else. And one winter night, Zinkoff's differences show that any name can someday become "hero."
With some of his finest writing to date and great wit and humor, Jerry Spinelli creates a story about a boy's individuality surpassing the need to fit in and the genuine importance of failure. As readers follow Zinkoff from first through sixth grade—making this a perfect classroom read—and watch his character develop, it becomes impossible not to identify with and root for him through failures and triumphs.
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I read this book as required summer reading while going from 5th grade into 6th grade. That was 12 years ago, and I had absolutely no memory of what this book was about until I decided I ought to reread it.
I almost want to say this isn't a children's book. Reading it feels like an adult talking about the life of a child, which is true. But it also allows a young reader to really be able to insert themselves into the story and be the one the author is talking about.
I loved this. I loved this to the moon and back. There was such a good message that I missed when I was 10-years-old, and this was so beautifully written. I'm so glad I decided to spend the time to reread it (and it was a quick read being at a lower reading level!). I'll definitely be adding this to my favorites list.


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In our increasingly digital and time-poor world, the sheer volume of content, products, and services served up to us every day is staggering. The key to cutting through all the noise, edging out your competitors and making sure it's your stuff that gets noticed? Personalisation.
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Last week, I shared about my spontaneous doily wall to add interest to the wall behind our bed,
as well as my "office" which is really just right beside the bed.
I just love creating this fun space that is really several intentional spaces now. (Or kind of. We're getting there.)
Aside from those two spaces, there's this other area in our bedroom that I have really been giving the stink-eye for a long time, because it mostly served as a gathering place for all the nomad stuff that didn't have a home- anything from laundry to purses, to random bits of paper (what is it about paper that it's always a primary contributor to places of chaos in the home?), to shoes that just got shoved under a chair, any and all throw blankets matching or otherwise which were layered over each other etc.
See it there, in the left-hand corner?
Well, no more stink-eye for you, weird chair/hope chest area! Now, it can breathe, and it actually makes me happy to look at. It's not a big deal, but it just feels nice now. (The hope chest used to be my grandma's; isn't that cool?)
I left one purse out to be an accent. Somehow I ended up with some soft pink things, and I really love them! So, I left the purse there to add to the happy pinkness.
This slightly smudged little coffee illustration has some happy pinkness in it, too, so I hung it above the chair. And now that everything in the world isn't piled all over that chair, maybe I'll- I don't know- sit in it. (And drink some coffee.)
I may have to de-smudge it and add it to the shop. What do you think?
It's not a perfect room. But I still think it's lovely. This Office/Bedroom/Happy Pinkness seating area might be my favorite room in our home.


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