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Understanding regulation will continually be a priority for Leaders of worldwide financial institutions. Financial regulation remains a key driver for maturing enterprise data management, as achieving compliance depends on high data quality. New requirements and developments in an ever changing regulatory environment need to be considered in every data management program to support meeting set deadlines by regulators.
"Most of the regulation requires accurate, complete and timely data. Financial institutions with poor data quality are struggling to achieve compliance on budget and on time. Just achieving compliance with reporting to trade repositories according to Dodd Frank Act or EMIR is a massive undertaking, partially because of incomplete and inaccurate data," said Edward Hawthorne, Partner at Element22.
Element22 supports the collaboration and informational exchange of regulatory topics across institutional and regional borders, by moderating REGNET, a LinkedIn group of experts interested in financial regulation that impacts capital markets. This platform enables experts to get in touch with like-minded professionals to initiate forward-thinking discussions about regulatory initiatives that impact capital markets: EMIR, Dodd Frank Act, MiFID II, AIFMD, FATCA, Basel III and more.
"I created FOXNET, the previous name of the group, back in 2010 to enable collaboration of like-minded experts around the world to share relevant, quality assured information, and discuss hot topics which, in turn, also provides a forum to network. Staying up to date in an ever changing environment due to a massive overhaul of the financial industry caused by new regulation is a challenge and I just wanted to simplify the access to fresh and relevant content for everyone," said Thomas Bodenski, Partner at Element22.
Element22 contributes resources to moderate REGNET, but also will provide fresh content and insights through market commentaries and white papers.
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"Data plays a key role in any regulatory compliance project. Regulation in general has been a key driver for enterprise data management programs and forced financial institutions around the world to improve their data quality by increasing their data management maturity. REGNET provides an additional forum for us to collaborate on data requirements created by new regulatory developments," adds Element22 Partner, Rohit Mathur.
Counting more than 3500 members, REGNET, marked as "Very Active" by LinkedIn, hosts more than 90 discussions in a four-week period. Participating in this forum are traders, portfolio managers, consultants, compliance officers, lawyers, regulators, market infrastructure operators and data officers, to name a few.
"All collaboration in this group is about financial regulation and it's impact on capital markets. Therefore it was just a natural step to rename it REGNET.
I am glad I won the support of my partners at Element22. Each of them brings the highest level of knowledge and expertise to our field," concludes Bodenski.
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The Congressional Budget Office floated a number of cost-cutting ideas for the US federal government including reducing the number of additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II purchases, retiring the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor or Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber fleets, and deferring development of the Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber.Story here.
As part of a report titled "Options for reducing the deficit: 2019 to 2028", the CBO outlined dozens of cuts in discretionary spending, within and outside of the Department of Defense, that could close the US government's gap between revenue and expenditures. The agency's analysis was in light of a federal deficit that is projected to rise to an average of 5.1% of GDP between 2022 and 2025 – losses which would drive the federal government's debt to levels higher than what was incurred during World War II.
The plan to cancel additional F-35 purchases between 2019 and 2028 is estimated to save the Pentagon $13 billion, according the CBO. Instead of buying the F-35, the US Air Force would purchase 510 F-16 Fighting Falcons, and the Navy and Marine Corps would purchase 394 F/A-18 Super Hornets, through 2028. Those purchases would occur on the same schedule as that currently in place for the F-35s. The services would continue to operate the 429 F-35s that have already been purchased.
Amazing isn't it. I've said for a long time that the secret sauce to the F-35 was it's AESA. If it had built on time it would be king of the skies. Time has passed and now AESA is almost standard. Internal carriage and stealth? Mitigated by the detection range and modern computing.
In short, the big advantage that the F-35 has been whittled away.
Worse for the military?
The penchant for fighting dirt wars makes the idea of an entire fleet of F-35's seem foolhardy. Why do you need (a supposedly) cutting edge fighter to bomb Toyota pickups?
Trump seems to be on a warpath. Seems like he's ready to finally shake things up. If he can hit the Pentagon and bring fiscal sanity there then trimming the budget in other areas will be much easier.
Whether we like it or not the threat of Pentagon cuts has been the primary protector of spending we don't like. Discipline there might mean discipline everywhere.


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A new, artisan jewelry line from Bilbao, Spain- Pedrusco brings unique and exquisite jewelry for the contemporary woman. All pieces are 100% hand crafted by founder and ceramist Irene Trincado.
The 'Woman Necklace' is a unique piece made in collaboration with Curated by, inspired by the artist's Biomorphic work Jean Arp 1887-1996.
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Length: 47cm
Piece: 3cm
Material: 18k Gold Plated Brass
Sourced and handmade in Bilbao, Spain
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"We always say our pieces are hand made, but the reality is they are made with the heart." ― Irene Trincado, founder
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Making your own natural homemade cleaners is simple and effective. Not to mention money saving! In fact, you can often make them with ingredients already in your cupboards.
Chemical cleaning products are being linked more and more to increased asthma and cancer in children, as well as headaches, eczema and allergies. Not to mention the possibility of accidental poisoning.
When you make your own cleners, you know exactly what's in them, you know they're eco-friendly and you know they WORK. (Plus, they smell wonderful!)
And same as making your home clean with natural ingredients, it is SO important to clean your skin from the nasty chemicals! and use clean, natural skin care products.
here are a few easy recipes:
Homemade All Purpose Cleaner Recipe
One of the easiest, most effective homemade household cleaners you'll ever make!
You can use it everywhere: Spray it on your sinks, toilets and counter tops to disinfect them. Spray it onto a cloth and damp-wipe to dust your furniture. Use it to clean your car, your office, your patio furniture…
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 cups water
30 drops essential oil blend –
- Boil the water. Pour it into a large glass measuring cup or pitcher with a spout.
- Add the soda and stir until dissolved.
- Add the vinegar.
- Let cool, then pour the mixture into a spray bottle.
- Drop in the essential oils- Lemon, Orange, tea tree.
Handy Hint: Add the essential oils AFTER you pour the cleaner into the bottle because the essential oil's scent can "stick" to your measuring cup or pitcher.
Basic Homemade Bathroom Cleaner Recipe
This all purpose homemade bathroom cleaner spray makes it easy to wipe away dirt and grime while also killing germs and bacteria. Plus, it smells so refreshing!
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 cups hot boiled Water
1/2 teaspoon liquid natural dish washing soap
3 tablespoons white Vinegar
15 drops Lavender essential oil
10 drops Eucalyptus essential oil
5 drops Tea Tree essential oil
Stir together all the ingredients in a small plastic container. (It takes quite a bit of stirring to fully integrate the dish washing liquid into the powder.) You should end up with a slightly damp powder.
To use, dampen the tub or sink and apply the homemade bathtub cleaner with a sponge or rag. Rinse well.
No-Rinse Homemade Floor Cleaner Recipe
This is one of the easiest home cleaning recipes ever – just make it right in your kitchen sink! It really cuts into grease and grime, and it kills any germs or bacteria caught living on your floors. Plus, it smells awesome!
Fill a bucket (or your sink) with hot water. Pour in about 1/4 cup (a splash) of white vinegar. Add 15 drops essential oil – eucalyptus, peppermint and orange essential oils.
That's it – just wash and let dry. No fuss, no muss, and it works on ceramic tile, vinyl, laminate and hardwood floors. I LOVE this recipe!


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Carmen is the main contact for Don Quijote Tenerife.
Don Quijote Tenerife offers several Spanish language courses. You can choose from 25 lessons per week, 30 lessons per week of 20 lessons per week.
Experience shows that you make more progress every week after the the frist one.
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Boek Don Quijote Tenerife via Extralingo, en betaal minder dan bij de school zelf.
Wij hebben voor jou betere prijzen kunnen afspreken.
Je bespaart daarom tot wel honderden euro's!
The school offers the following accommodation types. Booking an accommodation is optional, you can also just book the language course.
You are insured against any accommodation damages by Extralingo.
Sharing the an apartment with other roommate enables you to talk to people from various countries using the foreign language you're learning, while making new friends.Show available optionsHide available options
Do you want to immerse yourself in the local culture? Then a host family is the perfect choice for you. You'll be staying at a local family. This option contributes the most to learning the language.Show available optionsHide available options
This is an example of how your week at Don Quijote Tenerife looks like. The actual schedule might vary depending on the season.
Don Quijote Tenerife has been reviewed 12 times by previous students on Google. Max five of the available reviews are included below. To read all reviews for this school, you can click the link above.
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Gorazd Bezlaj
Aug 5, 2019
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I took a three-week super intensive course in this school and I have to say it was one of the best experiences of my life. The school is very nice, at the sea side, with a nice atrium where students and teachers meet, and classrooms branching off it. The best thing about this school, however, are its teachers. All are language professionals with degrees in languages and pedagogics, but most importantly, they are interesting people with a gift for teaching and an incredible sense of humour. I felt relaxed very quickly. This is not to say it was easy: I felt very tired every day, but learning in relaxation and with humour is a wonderful experience that I can recommend to everybody.
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Aug 13, 2020
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Really nice place to learn spanish! The teachers are really competent and classes are mostly in small groups, so every student gets maximum attention! I was here for 4 weeks and i learned a lot of spanish and found a lot of friends from around the world!
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Geertje Zasada
Oct 24, 2018
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I was really interested in taking lessons in this Spanish language school. Such a pity that they are not open during the hours they say they are. Wen there twice to check the place out at 4 pm, nobody there and they communicate they are open until 5 pm. Waste of my time!!
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Fernando Pírez González
Apr 24, 2019
5/ 5stars
Excelente escuela, donde podrás aprender Español y podrás hacer los Examenes CCSE y DELE para obtener la nacionalidad. Las aulas son súper agradables, muy modernas. El profesorado y personal es súper agradable. También hacen caminatas y actividades dirigidas por diferentes zonas de la Isla, especialmente un acercamiento a la cultura Canaria. una experiencia. Fantástica. Lo recomiendo al 100%, puedes ver felicidad y satisfacción en el alumnado. Y pude ver a profesores y personal. Ayudando a estudiantes y preocupados. Porque no pierdan sus exámenes.
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Samuela Lolli
May 24, 2019
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Esperienza stupenda con questa scuola, professori preparati, sempre disponibili e simpatici. Tutto lo staff ha fatto in modo fin da subito di farmi sentire a casa e ci sono più che riusciti. Mi mancheranno tantissimo, e se dovessi ricominciare questa esperienza, sceglierei questa scuola nuovamente! Siete fantastici, grazie!
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Posted: April 14, 2014
Most people install home security systems to help make their family and their belongings just a little bit safer. But sometimes, getting a home security system installed can do just the opposite. Case in point...
To help avoid finding yourself in the ironic situation of having a home security system installed by a burglar, take some physical security steps before installation day. Thieves want small, easily portable, valuable items, so lock up any jewelry, cash, or valuable electronics before installation. This type of theft is a crime of opportunity, so your goal before your installation technician arrives is to remove as many of those opportunities as possible.
It's best if there are two or more household members at the home when the system is installed. This is one situation where it's OK to be a "busybody" and monitor what is going on. If a criminally-minded technician knows he's not going to be left alone for any length of time, he's less likely to grab valuables, or worse -- rummage through your jewelry box for them. If there are two or more people in the house and activity going on, your technician is less likely to be brave enough to steal things knowing he could be walked in on at any moment.
A home security system can do quite a bit to help protect your home against burglary, but it works best alongside other security measures. No matter how good a home security system you install, you still need to have high-quality locks on doors and windows, and you still need to use them with absolute consistency. Never keep the default keypad codes that come with the security system, because burglars can easily learn what these are and disable your system. Don't install your keypad within easy view from outside. You don't want anyone seeing you punch in your security code.
Take precautions before, during, and after home security system installation, and you can reduce your risk of being robbed by someone who is supposed to be helping you improve your home security.


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Stuart Florida offers several great camping options. One of my favorite is the St Lucie Lock Recreation Area and I give this one a thumbs up!
This campground is a small quiet spot on the banks of the canal/lock where you can watch the boats and manatees go by. I was told that the campground is fully booked 6 months out for the RV sites but there are usually always tent sites available. The road is paved throughout the campground. There are 9 Rv and 8 boat sites with electric and water hookups. Those sites are paved. They also have 3 tent sites on grassy areas right on the bank of the canal/lock. The tent sites do not have any hookups. Parking for the tent sites is just across from the site on the paved parking area. All sites have picnic tables and fire rings. The campground also offers a large pavillion, play ground, fishing pier, boat ramp, dock, dump station, showers and restrooms. Pets are allowed but must be kept on leashes.
There is a wonderful visitor center with all kinds of boating safety information and activities for the kids. I recommend stopping in and looking around.
You can reserve your site up to 180 days in advance and you can stay 14 days in any 30 consecutive day period. The campground is open year-round.
Currently the rates are $30 a day for RV and Boat sites and $25 a day for tent sites.
Golden Age and Golden Access Passport and America the Beautiful Senior and Access passes are accepted and they currently offer discounts to those passholders.
To make a reservation go to http://www.recreation.gov
2170 Southwest Canal Street Campground Stuart Florida 34997 772-287-1382
Take I-95 exit 1012 State Road 76 West to Locks Road.


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Year 7 Physical Education
- Show a competent level of skill within isolated practises and game situations, performing with increased confidence, control and fluency, showing a good level of knowledge and understanding of the rules and regulations of the activity.
- Show a good level of fitness within the activity and self-motivates during individual activities and is beginning to support others in game situations.
- Communicate with others to offer ideas, tactics and suggestions and explain decisions made.
- Evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses and begin to offer suggestions to help support others.
- Personally organise their sessions and conduct their own warm up and lead a small group in a skill practise drill.
- Can identify some muscles being used (Bicep, Triceps, Hamstring and Quadriceps.)


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Panasonic Marketing Middle East & Africa unveiled its latest VariCam LT for its first regional appearance at CABSAT.
VariCam retains the ability to shoot in both 4K (4096 x 2160) and UHD (3840 x 2160) and features high sensitivity, low noise, wide dynamic range and a cinematic depth of field.
In order to maintain the VariCam 'look', the VariCam LT is equipped with a 35mm single-chip MOS sensor, originally developed for the VariCam 35 and has a same wide dynamic range. This ensures accurate image rendering over the entire image, from dark areas to highlights.
This sensor has two native ISO settings of 800 and 5000.
Having two dedicated analog circuits means much higher sensitivity without increased noise.
In addition, the VariCam LT offers the ability to change the mount from an EF mount 1 (standard) to a PL mount (optional), increasing the range of usable lenses.
The 'V-Gamut' in the VariCam LT gives the camera a wider color gamut than traditional film.
The 'V-Log' gamma curve has evolved further to extend the dynamic range to 14+ stops.
Capable of 60fps in 4K, the camera also has a new sensor center crop mode, allowing 240fps for slow motion in both HD and 2K.
It is also cost efficient in both operation and workflow due to in-camera color grading, AVC-Ultra codec and multiple recording formats (4K/UHD/2K/HD proxy).
The VariCam LT supports both Panasonic and third party viewfinders and comes with a number of optional extras including shoulder mount, grip and PL mount.
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I keep on having mixed feelings about the rear wheel dolly, and seeing it just to the side. Honestly, if you didn't tell me what its purpose was, I might have assumed correctly, or I might have thought it was just some cart used for aircraft maintenance. If I thought that, then other viewers just might think that as well. So why not show it for what it is, a dolly for the rear wheel?
Joel - I hear you and thought the same but as the Idea is to show the starter truck engaged I'm sure they would not want to " wind the clock " with the tail up in the air in a cart . I have an idea in my head with another Oscar being spotted with a dolly and two ground crewmen . I have another PE wheel set and all the tooling is now made so banging out another dolly should be a breeze .
I hope to get to use my bamboo idea as well .
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The novelty Chongz Gas Pump Glass Oil Rig is a creative and original design that forms an allusion to the vintage 50's American Petrol pump. Printed with the famous 'Route 66' sign and the Chongz logo, this mint coloured rig will stand out amongst your bong collection.
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Whether you are celebrating a baptism, wedding, or someone's life at a memorial, CPC wants to partner with you to make your day memorable and Christ-centered.
Baptism is the church's proclamation and experience that we are who we are because God has first chosen us, loved us, and called us into His kingdom.
We see baptism as a sign and symbol of God's grace toward us in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, an act that publicly unites us to His body, the church.
CPC practices infant baptisms for members of CPC as well as baptisms for adults and kids following a confession of faith.
We baptize infants of believing parents who are members of CPC, as a way of including the children of Christian families in God's family.
Why infants? Infant baptism communicates that even while we are babies God is pursuing a relationship with us. He loves us before we are even able to respond to Him and acknowledge Him.
We believe that parents are the primary spiritual influencers of their children. When parents bring their children for baptism, they are affirming their faith in Christ and publicly committing to raise their children in the Christian faith. The baptism isn't about the child's salvation or a rubber stamp to get right with God. Children eventually need to respond to God by making the decision to follow Him on their own. By baptizing one's child, a parent commits to nurture an environment where Christ can be received.
Infant baptism also includes a commitment from the congregation to support and help parents raise and nurture children in the knowledge of Christ our Savior.
Please plan your baptism ahead of time, as our numbers at each service are limited and can easily fill up. Contact: Tammy Mitchell
Kids and Adults
CPC would love to celebrate baptism with any older child, teen, or adult who publicly professes faith in Jesus Christ! Believer's baptism is a sacrament that publicly signifies our union with Jesus Christ and declares our membership in God's family, the Church.
For individuals and families who choose to not practice infant baptism, many believer baptisms are done after completion of CPC's membership process or Commitment Class for 9th graders who have not previously been baptized.
Contact: Deb Carlson
CPC On-Site Wedding Guide • CPC Off-Site Wedding Guide
Marriage preparation is intended to provide engaged couples with tools to build a strong relationship for all of the years of their marriage, rather than focusing solely upon the wedding ceremony. Engaged couples should ideally plan on 9 months, and no less than 6 months, for their wedding preparation to be completed.
- Membership at Christ Presbyterian Church. Either the bride, groom, or a parent/grandparent of the bride or groom must be a CPC member. If not, the bride and groom must go through the membership process. Contact: Cathy Wood
- An initial meeting with the CPC pastor who will perform your ceremony.
- Professional pre-marriage counseling (approximately $400).
- A Marriage Mentors evening where you will meet other engaged couples and be paired with a mentor couple who will commit to upholding your marriage in prayer.
- A Premarital Finance Seminar ($25) where you will explore the role of money and financial planning within the context of Christian marriage.
- Meeting with a Wedding Consultant to plan the logistics of your rehearsal and ceremony.
- Meeting with musicians to plan your music.
Sanctuary: seating for approximately 1,000 people
Chapel: seating for up to 100 guests
- The marriage ceremony is a sacred worship service, which should be approached with reverence. Please keep this in mind as you make your plans.
- Due to the 5:15PM service on Saturday evenings, Saturday weddings may only be scheduled until 2:00PM. Photography of 2:00PM weddings must be completed before the ceremony.
- Weddings can also be scheduled on Fridays.
- Please note that your selected date may not be available. Weddings are generally not scheduled in the Sanctuary on holiday weekends, the month of December, Holy Week, or Children's Musical (March) or Commitment Class (May) weekends.
- You should advise the pastor if you are requesting participation by another minister.
- Your wedding date will not be finalized on the church scheduling calendar until you have confirmed the date and time with the pastor at your initial meeting.
Contact: Congregational Care Coordinator
Memorial Services
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The black-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, breeds throughout much of the northern and central United States, as well as in southern Canada. Black-billed cuckoos migrate south for the winter, with most individuals wintering in South America. The species is a rare summer resident in north-central Utah, and there is some evidence to suggest that it may occasionally breed in that area of the state.
Black-billed cuckoos typically occur in forests, woodlands, and riparian areas. Nests are built low in a tree or shrub, or on the ground. Eggs are laid in the spring; a typical clutch contains two to five eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs, which hatch in approximately two weeks. Young can fly at about three weeks of age. The black-billed cuckoo is sometimes a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of other species.
Black-billed cuckoos are diurnal and eat primarily insects, although small vertebrates and berries are also consumed.
Biotics Database. 2005. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, NatureServe, and the network of Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centers.
Ehrlich, P. R., D. S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. 1988. The birder's handbook[:] a field guide to the natural history of North American birds. Simon & Schuster, New York. xxx + 785 pp.


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Dynamics 365 Server Installation
This section covers Dynamics 365 server installation for your environment. View each of the chapters below for detailed a walk-through.
- Infrastructure Planning
- Multiple Server deployment
- Virtualization
- Virtualization Options
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December 26.
Revelation & the Millennium — Jesus Christ will reign on earth after His return
Today's Readings:
Reading 1: Revelation 20:1-10
Reading 2: Zechariah 14:16-21
Reading 3: Luke 19:11-27
Yesterday we celebrated the birth of Jesus and His coming victory over all evil. Today we read more detail of that victory. Jesus will reign on earth for a thousand years while satan is bound and powerless. Then satan will be released to deceive the nations into fighting against God one last time.
In that battle, fire from heaven consumes those who have come to fight against God. A purifying act that signifies the end of all opposition to God's rule. Then satan is thrown into the lake of fire with the beast and the false prophet. As eternal beings they suffer there forever.
By contrast, Jesus describes how those who faithfully steward the gifts He has given them will be presented with rewards in heaven. As we look forward to a new year, why not take a moment to review how God has gifted you , and ask Him how you can best use those gifts in the year ahead?
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Google first launched their new Google Chromecast media streaming device in the US and followed afterwards in March of this year launching it in Europe and 11 new countries.
Today Google has announced that their Chromecast dongle is now available to purchase in Korea, making it the first country in Asia to be able to get their hands on the new Google Chromecast device.
To re-cap Google Chromecast can stream media through your network and from your laptop, desktop, smartphone and tablet devices as well as YouTube, Netflix, Pandora, and tons of Google Play content. Its reported that 80 percent of YouTube content consumed in Korea is done so on a mobile device, so the new Chromecast device is expected to be a welcome addition for users.
The new Google Chromecast support Android, iOS, Chrome for Mac, and Chrome for Windows and plugs into any HDTV equipped with a HDMI port. Google explains.
"Chromecast is the easy way to enjoy online video and anything from the web on your TV. Plug it into any HDTV and control it with your existing smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Send your favorites from Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, and Chrome to your TV with the press of a button. No more huddling around small screens and tiny speakers. Chromecast automatically updates to work with a growing number of apps."
The Google Chromecast is now available to purchase from the Korean Google website, and is priced at 49,900 won.
Source: TNW


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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is a book that initially caught my eye on the way into a local bookstore with its bright red 40% off discount tag. I had remembered seeing a program on TV about the Last Lecture, the final talk on campus given by a Carnegie Mellon professor who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I read a few pages and finally decided to buy it. Actually I picked it up and set it down three times before I bought it. Something was calling to me. A day later, I read half of the book before turning out the light to go to sleep, and then decided to finish it the very next morning. The book is made up of little stories and life lessons written by the late Randy Pausch, a former professor of Carnegie Mellon. He shares his deep reflections on the important messages he wants to both give in his last lecture and also leave behind for his wife and three young children. He shares them with a level of sincerity that only a dying person can create.
Randy was a software expert in Carnegie Mellon's renowned computer science department. In his book he talks about the positive influence his parents and other people have had on his life, and his own philosophy about life and teaching that he brought to his students. He would use the term 'head fake' as way to share the deeper message of his experiences beyond what might be overlooked in a first impression. He describes the obstacles or 'brick walls' he encountered during his life as just ways of determining if he really wanted to do something. He believed that hard work and persistence pays off, and that the passion to achieve comes from following your dreams, which often originate in childhood.
Randy's computer expertise was in virtual reality. Among many things, he consulted for Disney and his former students now work all over the world in the entertainment industry. Randy and his associates designed courses where students from different disciplines, like the arts, literature and science, could collaborate on developing new computer driven, virtual reality projects. They were allowed to create anything, – talk about the opportunity to let your imagination flow! It proved to be perfect training for the movie industry, which was finding new ways to bridge technology and entertainment. The only condition Randy set was that a project could not involve any form of violence or pornography. He said that they have already been over developed. He was surprised how many young men had a difficult time trying to think of creating anything different, a clear statement about the shortcomings in our current social culture. His courses were challenging and kept his students busy with loads of hard work, learning the programming basics, but for the higher purpose of being able to become great at creating new virtual reality projects.
And so when faced with the same inevitable, physical fate that we all must face someday, with either the blessing or tragedy of knowing approximately when his life was to end, Randy, that great teacher of creating virtual realities, devoted his last lecture and book to sharing his advice on how to create your own virtual reality by living life in way that your dreams may come true.
Many books have been written with similar themes. Many families are living or have lived with someone having a terminal disease. So what makes Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture so special to me, in addition to the miraculous way he delivered it with courage, humor and heartfelt feeling, is that I feel there is a deeper metaphor about the process of life in Randy's message. It is not a coincidence that a master of virtual reality's most important lecture is about sharing his mastery developed from personal experiences on how to people can better create the reality of their lives.
Life is a very special gift, and it also happens to include using the most sophisticated software programming of a virtual reality game imaginable. Each of us has the power to create and live our lives as we so choose. In the religious traditions, this is called free will. This calls to mind other recent books and movies that echo this theme in related ways. Movies like What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret and their support materials are teaching millions of people about their own ability to program or rather create their own reality. There is a science to it, a very, very sophisticated science, which we are just beginning to understand through mystics and scientists mostly engaged in quantum physics. This is where science and spirituality really start to overlap.
Many other writers have carried the same message. Barbara Marx Hubbard has urged people to understand that they no longer have to react to circumstances, but that they have the ability to consciously create the world and move it in a new direction. The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer is another. The Course in Miracles is also book about how to change a person's life by shifting the person's perspective on his or her reality. Changing one's life is a process of creation. It is an evolutionary process of recreation where we are free to decide who we want to become. All of us are always engaged, whether consciously or unconsciously, in the process of becoming through the way we create and experience life.
We truly are created in the image and likeness of God the Creator of Creators, but not in the physical sense, but in the sense that we have the ability to play the virtual reality game of life to create an infinite combination of experiences as we so choose. We begin to realize that we are empowered spiritual beings creating human experiences. And this wonderful process of life all starts with the energy of thought. As scientists and brain researchers are proving, thoughts are pure energy that initiate our life creation process. In Conversations with God by Neil Walsch, this process of creation is simplified in the three step process of Thoughts, Words and Actions. The virtual reality of the game of life is so real that we can actually taste, touch and smell events beyond what we can see and hear on a virtual reality computer screen. And this game has artificial intelligence to run our life program whether we are consciously aware of our ability to control the program or not. Becoming aware of this ability is the first step in developing consciousness. The difference is that life can be pretty boring or down right miserable when left on auto pilot too long. And collectively we can actually end our virtual game of life for everyone on our planet if our species continues on its current path of unconscious creation. Randy's book could not have come at a more important time in our history.
And so the real fun is yet to come as we begin to realize that we have the power to take over the controls of our life, our world and reprogram it. This is what Randy and many other writers and spiritual masters have tried to teach us.
As Randy's book reminds us, every act is an act of self definition; a statement as to who we are. It is a statement of our level of consciousness and of our beingness. When we take over the programming of our game of life, master the controls, we become empowered beings, consciously creating our life experiences in ways that lead to more joy and happiness rather than despair, depression and suffering that seems to dominate much of our world today. For joy is the birth right of every human being.
I do not know if Randy Pausch realized it when he was living in his body, but I know that he knows it now, that the real head fake he gave us all, was that in addition to a very successful career as a computer professor, his real gift to the world was all about conscious creation. The most important message he felt he could give us at the end of his life was not about his technical genius for creating computer driven virtual realities, but it was about how to make our thoughts and dreams become a living reality. And all of this first took off from his last lecture.
To me, his life serves as a metaphor and a story to teach us how to actively 'program' our lives and show us how our lives can and do interact with all others. This interaction occurs all the time in one very big virtually real game of life, the purpose of which is to bring more happiness and enjoyment into the lives of others by first learning how to create it for ourselves. We can then be an example to others showing them how we live our own lives. In Randy's case, it was not just how he lived, but how he died, the impact of which through his Last Lecture will have a positive influence in the world for many years to come.


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A GOP congressman has defended the "nasty woman" comment Donald Trump made during the last US presidential debate.
Texas Republican Brian Babin made the comments on the Alan Comes Show, when the host asked him if he believed Trump's insult had been appropriate.
"You know what, she's saying some nasty things," The Hill reported Babin saying.
"I think sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty. My assessment is that Mrs. Clinton has got so much baggage ... I think she's done some nasty things."
Trump made the "nasty woman" comment in response to Hillary Clinton's dig during the debate, when she said: "My social security payroll contribution will go up, as will Donald's, assuming he can't figure out how to get out of it."
Trump's insult immediately sparked the hashtag #nastywoman, with many politicians, celebrities and people around the country adding their views online, and women reclaiming the insult as their own.
Despite the outpouring of #nastywoman tweets online, that was not in fact, the debate comment that prompted the most headlines.
Trump's suggestion that he may not accept the result of the election led to an even bigger backlash, much of which came from within the Republican Party itself.
Senator John McCain, who revoked his support for Trump after footage emerged of him making lewd comments about women, said it was important for democracy that candidates accept election results.


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Siemens, one of the world's largest high-tech manufacturing corporations, is a leader in complex technologies, particularly in complex systems integrating electrical, mechanical and computer engineering. The marriage of these three engineering fields, better known as mechatronic systems, plays an ever-increasing role in modern technology. As a result, there is a high demand for qualified and motivated personnel.
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Underlying the curriculum Mechatronics Certification Program is the System Approach, which has been used with a high degree of effectiveness for the training of Siemens own trainees and engineers. Mechatronics is not only the combination of electrical, mechanical and computer technologies; it is also a philosophy for looking at systems. Under traditional methods of teaching mechatronics, students learn about each of these fields separately from one another. Because of the isolation of these fields, there is little appreciation or understanding of the inter-relationships.
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At Micronit GmbH, a DLD-chip was developed in silicon and glass. Both silicon and glass are known for their chemical and biological inertness. Besides, both materials can be cleaned from biological deposits, and are therefore very suitable for reusable products. The hybrid combination of silicon and glass makes a sustainable and reliable chip. To test the functionality of the chip, fluorescent microparticles were used.
Sorting by size
DLD is a process that sorts microparticles of different sizes. During the testing phase of the chip, several images were made of the DLD process. Observations show that larger particles follow a different trajectory than smaller particles. Large particles move in line with the row of pillars, thus laterally steering away from the streamline because of the diagonal placement of the pillars. Smaller particles on the other hand, do not divert from the streamline. Instead, they continue to follow the direction of the streamline and therefore change between the rows of pillars.
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Useful Apps
Obviously, your phone is an incredibly handy tool, and once you have a cell plan (remember, you have a "cell phone" now, not a "mobile"), you can go ahead and start using some of these very handy apps. Most are available on both Android and iOS.
For iOS users: You will first need to change your phone to be in a US region (which requires US banking details – click here for help), however, it's quite easy.
What's going on with banking? And why do people keep asking to "Venmo" you?
- Venmo – This is basically how everyone sends each other money whether it be for a drink, meal or a nice hat.
- Square Cash – A new-comer to the market which does basically the same as Venmo but makes it slightly easier to transfer money.
- Amazon – This will take your money and turn it into the fun stuff. A lot. If you'd like to do me a favor and say thank you for this website, please use this link to https://smile.amazon.com and select "Variety – the Children's Charity of New York". I work with this fantastic Charity and this lets a little of your money go to them to help kids in need!
- Bellhop – Can't be bothered with public transport and want a car? This will compare Uber, Lyft, Juno, and a cab's prices for you!
- CityMapper – Probably the most comprehensive getting around app for NYC
- Transit – Probably the most accurate and up-to-date listing of public transport information
- Pigeon – For up-to-date real information from commuters about where trains are (made by the folks at Google) – SubwayTimeNYC is also commonly pointed to!
- CitiBikes – CitiBikes are everywhere in NYC and are a simple way of getting around. More here!
- Uber – Uber…
- Lyft – Younger sister of Uber but the big up and comer, probably #2.
- Juno – Was meant to be the savior of the driver, now acquired by…
- Gett – No surge pricing, lots of options (best for inside Manhattan ($10/ride)
- Via – Ride sharing with regular ride deals
- Curb – If you want to catch a yellow cab this will help you out (and you can even use it to pay once you're in a cab). Do note that this adds a surcharge on top of a normal cab ride.
- Spare Room – The name tells most of the story
- Naked Apartments – The name of this one, not so much
- StreetEasy – A great app for all things rentals with a focus on empty apartments. They've even written up a great guide on Moving to NYC when it comes to housing!
Dining, Food & Drink
- Infatuation – A great and simple app for finding somewhere to eat that's going to be great
- Seamless/GrubHub – Great food delivery service
- UberEats – Similar to Seamless ($15 off first order with eats-joshp367ue)
- PostMates – Similar to UberEats ($100 off with link)
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- SeatGeek – One of the major new players in seats
- StubHub – Good cheap tickets from other people
- TodayTix – For Broadway shows
- TKTS – Last minute Broadway shows
- Tunity – At a bar, can't hear the TV? This will play the audio from any TV on your phone!
- Skiplagged – Cheap flights jumping onto connections and tail ends
- Hopper – Monitors flight prices and helps for when to buy
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- TrueCaller – You are going to receive a LOT of spam calls, this app will help you slow that down
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Peter Andre and Alex Reid have both announced new TV deals.
Katie Price's ex-husband Peter has signed a contract to bring a new show to ITV2 and said his reality series, Peter Andre: The Next Chapter, will also remain at the channel.
Peter said: "I'm so happy to be staying at ITV2. I've loved the last six years with the channel and look forward to my continued relationship and future with them."
Katie's second hubbie, cage-fighter Alex, announced an "intimate two-part special" on TV channel Living, in which he "contemplates his future career plans".
The as yet untitled show, which will be broadcast in December, will see Alex explore "film, TV and theatre acting opportunities, to potentially owning his own gym".
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Your medial collateral ligament (MCL) is one of the ligaments inside your knee. It lies on the inner side of your knee joint, connecting your thigh bone (femur) to your shin bone (tibia). Along with the other ligaments in your knee, your MCL provides your knee with stability. Your MCL and your lateral collateral ligament control the sideways movement of your knee.
An MCL injury can be a partial or a complete tear, or an overstretch of the ligament. Knee ligament injuries are also referred to as sprains. They're given different grades depending on how severe an injury it is. The MCL is the most commonly injured knee ligament. It often gets injured during sports such as rugby. It's common to injure one of your cruciate ligaments, or your meniscus, at the same time as your MCL.
What are the signs?
If you've injured your medial collateral ligament (MCL) you'll probably have some pain and stiffness on the inside of your knee. This area may be tender to the touch too. If your injury isn't too severe, you'll probably still be able to walk OK. You may have some swelling, but you don't always get this with an MCL injury. Depending on the severity of your injury, your knee may also feel a little unstable. You may get some bruising in the first few days after your injury.
Why has this happened?
Your medial collateral ligament (MCL) is usually injured by your knee being pushed inwards (towards your other knee). This is often due to a direct blow to the outside of your leg, which can happen during sports such as rugby. You can also injure it by twisting your knee, for instance in skiing, or from repeated stress on your knee – such as in breast stroke. Older people can also injure their MCL as a result of a fall.
Treatments of medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury
You'll usually need to go to A&E with this kind of injury. You may then be referred to an acute knee clinic, which will organise any investigations and treatment you need.
The treatment you'll be offered for your medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury will depend on how severe the damage is. The initial treatment will be to control your pain and swelling using the POLICE and HARM self help measures. Details of these can be found on the next tab. Further treatments include knee bracing, physiotherapy, medicines and occasionally, surgery.
You may see an orthopaedic surgeon (a specialist in bone surgery) or a sports medicine professional, such as a sports doctor or a physiotherapist. A physiotherapist is a health professional who specialises in maintaining and improving movement and function. There are different treatments that your doctor or physiotherapist may suggest, and a lot that you can do yourself to help your injury recover.
At first you should follow the POLICE procedure to manage any type of soft tissue injury to your knee. POLICE stands for Protection, Optimal Loading, Ice, Compression and Elevation.
There are certain things you should not do in the first three days after your injury so you don't damage your knee further. These can be remembered as HARM, which stands for Heat, Alcohol, Running and Massage.
If you're having difficulty bearing weight on your knee, you may need to use crutches or wear a brace to support you for a while. It's common to wear a leg brace for several weeks after an MCL injury, particularly if your injury is severe.
You can take over-the-counter painkillers, such as paracetamol or ibuprofen, to help relieve your pain. Your doctor may prescribe stronger painkillers if your pain is severe. As well as easing your pain, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen may help to reduce any inflammation and swelling you have. Always read the patient information that comes with your medicine, and if you have questions, ask your pharmacist or GP for advice.
Making sure you follow any physiotherapy and rehabilitation programme you're given will be an important part of your recovery. Often, knee bracing and treatment with physiotherapy will be all you need if you have an MCL injury.
The aim of physiotherapy is to help your knee recover its full range of movement, and its strength and stability. This should help you get full function back in your knee and return to your usual sports and activities. Your physiotherapist will carefully assess your knee and then plan a programme of rehabilitation exercises to suit your individual needs.
Most people recover from an MCL injury without surgery. However, in some situations, surgery may be the best option to repair the injury to your medial collateral ligament. This is most likely to be the case if:
- more than one ligament or tissue in your knee has been damaged
- your knee remains unstable after physiotherapy
Ask your doctor about the pros and cons of surgery, and how it might help in your own circumstances.
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Michael BlakistonPartner
Michael is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin's Energy + Resources group and is a member of Gilbert + Tobin's Board of partners.
A specialist in the areas of resources and corporate law. Within his areas of practice, Michael has significant expertise and experience in joint ventures and strategic alliances, development agreements, project commercialisation, initial public offerings, takeovers and mergers, corporate and project fundraisings either with debt or equity, construction and service contracts and asset purchases and sales.
Michael's overseas experience has now covered in excess of 50 countries. Michael has a particular reputation for advising clients engaging in projects in Africa.
Michael has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Jurisprudence from the University of Western Australia.
Michael's experience includes:
- Al Rawda Resources Limited in relation to due diligence on:
- the Askaf Project in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and documentation of the acquisition of a controlling interest in that project; and
- an advanced exploration iron ore project in the Republic of Guinea.
- Mali Lithium Limited (previously Birimian Limited) in relation to a due diligence on its lithium projects in the Republic of Mali.
- BlueScope Steel Limited with respect to the detailed due diligence conducted on the mining assets.
- Emerald Resources Limited in relation to the preparation of a development agreement with the Royal Government of Cambodia Gold Project.
- Globe Metals and Mining Limited with respect to negotiating a development agreement with the Government of the Republic of Malawi.
- Iluka Resources Limited in relation to the acquisition of the Puttalam Mineral Sands Project in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and its engagement with the Sri Lankan government relating to the development of the project.
- Iron Ore Holdings Limited (now BCI Minerals Limited) in relation to:
- the $250 million cash and scrip takeover of that company by BC Iron Limited; and
- it entering into development and operating leases with the Pilbara Ports Authority for the development of a 20 million tonne per annum transhipment facility at Cape Lambert in Western Australia.
- Newcrest Mining Limited with respect to that company's negotiations with the Republic of Fiji on establishing a A$1.25 billion gold and copper project in Fiji.
- Sundance Resources Limited with respect to that company's agreements with the Republic of Cameroon and the Republic of Congo on establishing a A$5.5 billion iron ore project in both countries.
- Syrah Resources Ltd with respect to the commercialising its graphite project in Mozambique and its entering into a mining agreement with the Republic of Mozambique.
Awards and Recognition
Michael was listed as a Best Lawyer in the areas of Energy Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law and Oil and Gas Law.
Michael was named 'Lawyer of the year (Perth)' for Natural Resources Law in 2016 and 2020.
Michael ranked in Band 1 for Energy & Natural Resources: Mining - Australia.
Michael ranked in Band 1 for Energy & Natural Resources: Mining – Australia and Foreign Expertise in Africa-wide Energy & Natural Resources - Australia.
Michael Blakiston is highly regarded in the market for capital markets and joint venture transactions as well as his experience in handling mining projects across the world, particularly in Africa. Clients say: "He is very pragmatic with advice, in that he has a good balance between legal risk and commercial reality."
Michael was named 'Lawyer of the year (Perth)' for Mining Law in 2014-2015 and 2019.
Michael was listed as a leading individual for Natural Resources (transactions and regulatory).
Michael was recognised as a leading individual for Natural Resources.
Western Australia listed Michael as preeminent.


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Whizz-kid (15) scores distinctions at UZ
By Michael Chingarande
University of Zimbabwe whizz-kid Maud Chifamba, who became the youngest student at 14 the college last year, continues to dazzle. The 15-year-old prodigy became the youngest student at university in Zimbabwe after scoring 12 points in her A level exams.
According to the Forbes magazine, Maud is the youngest and one of the most powerful women in Africa because of her amazing intellectual levels. She has obtained two distinctions, two 2.1 and one 2.2 in her first semester subjects. The bright teenager is studying towards an accounts degree.
In a rare interview yesterday, Maud said she feels she is capable of impressing and would continue to break records in the academic field. She feels she is settled at the UZ and is raring to tackle anything that comes her way.
"During my first days at the institution, I felt uneasy being the youngest and the centre of attraction. Now I feel secure and I am prepared to face any challenge that comes my way. I wish and pray that nothing will stop me and I look forward to achieving a first class," she said.
The determined Maud puts her efforts to study and has embarked on a dedicated reading routine lasting several hours a day.
"I am happy studying at this institution because everyone treats me like their little sister, both female and male students, and they help me when I need assistance.
"I study during the night and one thing that has motivated me to become a hard worker is the environment I was raised in. I had to push myself to work for me and also for my brothers," she said.
Maud said she is aiming at becoming an inspiration in the world of business. She hopes to run her own company one day in the future.
"It takes hard work to reach the top and that has motivated me to set a target in my life to be an inspiration in the world of business and run my own company which will dominate the world."
Born in humble surroundings, the young genius has become an inspiration not only to Zimbabwe but to the whole world. Maud was born on November 19, 1997 in the Hunters resettlement areas of Chegutu. She, however, lost her father when she was five years old.
Gifted with natural intelligence, Maud's promising future was apparent from an early age. Her remarkable aptitude impressed her primary school teachers who decided to move her up from Grade 3 to Grade 6. She took her Grade Seven examinations at nine years and had six units.
Without financial support, Maud studied on her own and completed her Ordinary Level in just two years.
She scored 12 points in her Advanced Level examinations at 14 years of age. This did not shake the world but has also inspired her young brother Mukundi who is set to write his O Level examinations this year.
Her intelligence has earned her support through scholarships and stationery from various corporates and charity. UZ Dean of Students Mr Munyaradzi Madambi described Maud as a polite young girl.
"We are happy to be working with such a miracle. We are motivated by her because she is warm and polite not only to us but to everyone she socialises with and talks to."
Zimbabwe has an adult literacy rate of 92 percent and is the highest in Africa, according to the Unicef.


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Latin America's "left turn" expanded cash transfers and public services, contributing to lower poverty and inequality. Recently, right-leaning candidates and parties have begun to win back seats in the legislature, and in some cases have captured the executive branch. This shift has sparked debate about the future of Latin America's welfare states. In this paper we analyze social policy reforms enacted by two recent right-leaning governments: Sebastián Piñera in Chile (2010-2014) and Mauricio Macri in Argentina (2015—). Contrary to neoliberal adjustment policies of the past, we find that neither Macri nor Piñera engaged in privatization or deep spending cuts. Instead, both administrations facilitated a process of policy drift in some sectors and marginal expansion in others. Policy legacies and the strength of the opposition help to explain these outcomes, suggesting that Latin America's political context has been transformed by the consolidation of democracy and the experience of left-party rule.
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Copyright © 2017 Wiley Online Library.
DOI: 10.1111/laps.12027
The definitive version is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/laps.12027/full
Full Citation:
Niedzwiecki, Sara, and Jennifer Pribble. "Social Policies and Center-Right Governments in Argentina and Chile." Latin American Politics and Society 59, no. 3 (2017): 72-97. doi:10.1111/laps.12027.
Recommended Citation
Niedzwiecki, Sara and Pribble, Jennifer, "Social Policies and Center-Right Governments in Argentina and Chile" (2017). Political Science Faculty Publications. 209.


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Getting There
Don't get me wrong, getting there is half the fun, but it's also exhausting. Some of my favourite Instagram influencers make it look like travelling is a breeze; jetting off on first class flights or fancy cruises, but for a lot of people that's far from reality.
Travelling can involve a lengthy travel period on cramped transport, with non-nutritious meals, leaving you feeling tired and grumpy when you arrive at your destination. It's important to try and not compare yourself to others on social media because you never know what's going on in the background.
Jet Lag
Up through the night and sleeping all day, is an image yet to make it on to my Instagram feed, but never say never! There's nothing glamourous about jet lag, so it doesn't take up much space on many Instagram accounts, but it's not unusual to want to miss part of your day to take a nap.
When on an adventure, you're going to want to see everything, but it's important not to wear yourself out. If your body needs rest, try to compromise with a longer sleep or chill out time, whilst still doing most of what you want to do.
Time Differences
I'm not much of a solo traveller, because I'm in a relationship and have so many travel-loving friends, but I spent 6 months in New York and sometimes travelling can be lonely. More often than not, Instagram doesn't show the moments when people feel disheartened. Different time zones can make it hard to speak to friends and family, which can leave people feeling down and missing home comforts.
It's perfectly normal to feel this way, not every day of a trip has to look like it stepped out of a magazine! Yes, we want beautiful photos, but we also want real moments and funny stories, that's what we'll remember in the end.
It's very possible that your favourite Instagrammer has managed to catch the one moment of sun breaking through the clouds and the rest of the time the weather has been wet and miserable.
Weather can have a big effect on how you feel and what your impressions are of a destination, so just because someone has made the snow, wind or rain look beautiful and created an amazing photo, they might not be having the best time doing it!
Not only would I not want to look back on this, it would also not be a time that I would think to get my camera out. Planning what to do for the day or where to eat can cause some tension between travelling companions, but this is something that is easily forgotten when you see a photo of 2 best friends laughing on the beach.
Just because you see a snapshot of someone's day or adventure, don't forget that it's not always like that. Even the closest of friends/family start to get agitated with one another when they spend a lot of time together.
The Isle of Skye is the perfect example of this, but there are many others! People see beautiful, rugged views on Instagram and that's why they decide to visit, but they forget that Skye is a small place, and hundreds of thousands of tourists means that it's highly unlikely you will be alone on the Island!
Many Instagram accounts won't show the huge crowds of people around them or how long they had to wait to get a less hectic shot. However, it's not impossible to find quieter parts, especially if you travel out with peak times.
I follow so many amazing travel bloggers on Instagram and I spend 90% of my time on social media wishing I could just jet off around the world doing all of the amazing things I see others doing. The one thing that Instagram doesn't show is how much it's costing them! Yes, incredible hotel rooms, with brilliant waterfront views are amazing, on Instagram and in real life, but it's not worth getting in to debt for if you can't afford it.
You can have incredible travel experiences on a budget and not all Instagram photos have to look lavish and luxurious, they can be authentic and real.
No one wants to remember the time they missed out on the best parts of Park Guell because they left it too late and it was full, or the time that you misread the confirmation and turned up too late for a sailing trip around the Whitsundays. And, that's why you will almost never see your favourite travel Instagrammer posting about the things they are disappointed they missed out on, especially if it means owning up to making a mistake.
I think this is such a shame because we can all learn from each other's disappointments and mistakes and shouldn't be embarrassed that we made them.


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So had an appointment with my gp to assess my blood test results of
Tsh 4.7 (0.35-5.5)
T4 is 16 (9.0-23)
Free t3 4.6 (3.5-6.5)
Foliate 5.9 (3.3-99999.0)
Ferritin 24.4. (13.0-300.00)
She says everything is fine and in range, I asked to have b12, ferritin supplements but she refused stating they are well within range! She agreed to increase my thyroxine dose to 75mg a day after I argued that the tsh was still in the upper range but did say she would not allow my tsh to drop below 1. My vit d came back at 12 and she has given me a prescription for that. But I am at a loss as what to do regarding the b12 and ferritin, I am in a very difficult financial situation and can't afford supplements. I am thinking of changing doctors but am worried it will be on my records that she refused and they won't help either, does anyone have any experience of changing doctors surgeries. I also have tinnitus and a complete intolerance to most household sounds down to lights being turned on and cutlery on plates, I have done some research which suggests b12 could be the cause of this but again the gp wasn't interested. The conversation ended with her basically saying she had agreed to the thyroxine increase and that I should shut up or else. She did however stated that if I didn't feel any better after the 12 week vit d course she would refer to an endo. I even pointed out that I was frustrated that they want to give me amitryptaline, duloxetine and propranolol to mask my symptoms which surely cost the NHS more. I am starting to feel like there is no point in life anymore.


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Posterity has well avenged Achilles for Nestor's poor compliment. Nobody knows Dryas any longer; one has hardly heard speak of Exadius, or of Cenaeus; and as for Polyphemus equal to the gods, he has not too good a reputation, unless the possession of a big eye in one's forehead, and the eating of men raw, are to have something of the divine.
Lucretius does not hesitate to say that nature has degenerated (lib. II. v. 1159). Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. Horace combats this prejudice with as much finesse as force in his beautiful Epistle to Augustus (Epist. I. liv. ii.). "Must our poems, then," he says, "be like our wines, of which the oldest are always preferred?"
The learned and ingenious Fontenelle expresses himself on this subject as follows:
"The whole question of the pre-eminence between the ancients and the moderns, once it is well understood, is reduced to knowing whether the trees which formerly were in our countryside were bigger than those of to-day. In the event that they were, Homer, Plato, Demosthenes cannot be equalled in these latter centuries.
"Let us throw light on this paradox. If the ancients had more intellect than us, it is that the brains of those times were better ordered, formed of firmer or more delicate fibres, filled with more animal spirits; but in virtue of what were the brains of those times better ordered? The trees also would have been bigger and more beautiful; for if nature was then younger and more vigorous, the trees, as well as men's brains, would have been conscious of this vigour and this youth." ("Digression on the Ancients and the Moderns," vol. 4, 1742 edition.)
With the illustrious academician's permission, that is not at all the state of the question. It is not a matter of knowing whether nature has been able to produce in our day as great geniuses and as good works as those of Greek and Latin antiquity; but to know whether we have them in fact. Without a doubt it is not impossible for there to be as big oaks in the forest of Chantilli as in the forest of Dodona; but supposing that the oaks of Dodona had spoken, it would be quite clear that they had a great advantage over ours, which in all probability will never speak.
Nature is not bizarre; but it is possible that she gave the Athenians a country and a sky more suitable than Westphalia and the Limousin for forming certain geniuses. Further, it is possible that the government of Athens, by seconding the climate, put into Demosthenes' head something that the air of Clamart and La Grenouillere and the government of Cardinal de Richelieu did not put into the heads of Omer Talon and Jerome Bignon.
This dispute is therefore a question of fact. Was antiquity more fecund in great monuments of all kinds, up to the time of Plutarch, than modern centuries have been from the century of the Medicis up to Louis XIV. inclusive?
The Chinese, more than two hundred years before our era, constructed that great wall which was not able to save them from the invasion of the Tartars. The Egyptians, three thousand years before, had overloaded the earth with their astonishing pyramids, which had a base of about ninety thousand square feet. Nobody doubts that, if one wished to undertake to-day these useless works, one could easily succeed by a lavish expenditure of money. The great wall of China is a monument to fear; the pyramids are monuments to vanity and superstition. Both bear witness to a great patience in the peoples, but to no superior genius. Neither the Chinese nor the Egyptians would have been able to make even a statue such as those which our sculptors form to-day.
The chevalier Temple, who has made it his business to disparage all the moderns, claims that in architecture they have nothing comparable to the temples of Greece and Rome: but, for all that he is English, he must agree that the Church of St. Peter is incomparably more beautiful than the Capitol was.
It is curious with what assurance he maintains that there is nothing new in our astronomy, nothing in the knowledge of the human body, unless perhaps, he says, the circulation of the blood. Love of his own opinion, founded on his vast self-esteem, makes him forget the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter, of the five moons and the ring of Saturn, of the rotation of the sun on its axis, of the calculated position of three thousand stars, of the laws given by Kepler and Newton for the heavenly orbs, of the causes of the precession of the equinoxes, and of a hundred other pieces of knowledge of which the ancients did not suspect even the possibility.
The discoveries in anatomy are as great in number. A new universe in little, discovered by the microscope, was counted for nothing by the chevalier Temple; he closed his eyes to the marvels of his contemporaries, and opened them only to admire ancient ignorance.
He goes so far as to pity us for having nothing left of the magic of the Indians, the Chaldeans, the Egyptians; and by this magic he understands a profound knowledge of nature, whereby they produced miracles: but he does not cite one miracle, because in fact there never were any. "What has become," he asks, "of the charms of that music which so often enchanted man and beast, the fishes, the birds, the snakes, and changed their nature?"
This enemy of his century really believes the fable of Orpheus, and has not apparently heard either the beautiful music of Italy, or even that of France, which in truth does not charm snakes, but does charm the ears of connoisseurs.
What is still more strange is that, having all his life cultivated belles-lettres, he does not reason better about our good authors than about our philosophers. He looks on Rabelais as a great man. He cites the "Amours des Gaules" as one of our best works. He was, however, a scholar, a courtier, a man of much wit, an ambassador, a man who had reflected profoundly on all he had seen. He possessed great knowledge: a prejudice sufficed to spoil all this merit.
There are beauties in Euripides, and in Sophocles still more; but they have many more defects. One dares say that the beautiful scenes of Corneille and the touching tragedies of Racine surpass the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides as much as these two Greeks surpass Thespis. Racine was quite conscious of his great superiority over Euripides; but he praised the Greek poet in order to humiliate Perrault.
Moliere, in his good pieces, is as superior to the pure but cold Terence, and to the droll Aristophanes, as to Dancourt the buffoon.
There are therefore spheres in which the moderns are far superior to the ancients, and others, very few in number, in which we are their inferiors. It is to this that the whole dispute is reduced.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Missouri State is parting ways with coach Dave Steckel, whose teams won just 13 games in five seasons.
The school said Thursday a "privately-funded buyout" will pay Steckel up to $340,000 plus moving expenses. He'll get an initial $140,000 payment. Subsequent $100,000 payments in January 2021 and January 2022 will depend on whether Steckel finds a new coaching job, how much he makes and when he is hired.
The Bears were 13-42 under Steckel, who previously served as defensive coordinator for Gary Pinkel at Missouri.
Missouri State athletic director Kyle Moats and Steckel met Nov. 27 to discuss the program. Moats announced at that time that the university intended to honor Steckel's contract through the 2021 season.
The two met again recently "to discuss football-related matters, which ultimately led to this mutual agreement," Moats said.
It wasn't clear what changed.
"I want to thank Kyle Moats, our coaches and our players for the past five years," Steckel said in a statement. "I cannot thank our staff and our players enough for changing the inner workings of our culture. I will always be indebted to them, and I am grateful I had this opportunity."
Moats said a national search for a new coach will begin immediately.