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License to manufacture or trade in weapons
The German weapons law controls the handling of weapons or ammunition, which generally requires a licence.
If you would like to manufacture, process or repair firearms or ammunition commercially or independently as part of a commercial enterprise, then you need a weapons manufacturing licence. You have to keep a weapons manufacturing book, from which the type and quantity of firearms and also their whereabouts are apparent.
If you would like to purchase, sell or give firearms or ammunition to other persons commercially or independently as part of a commercial enterprise, then you need a weapons trading licence. You have to keep a weapons trading book, from which the type and quantity of firearms, their origin and their whereabouts is apparent.
You have to file an application to be issued with a weapons manufacturing licence or/and weapons trading licence at the relevant authority. The application form is available there. Depending on what is offered by the authorities responsible for the weapons law (urban district, large district capital, association of administration or rural district office) the application is available as a download.
The relevant authorities check whether the applicant has the required reliability. For this purpose they apply for information (Kleiner Waffenschein beantragen) from the Federal Central Criminal Register (Bundeszentralregister) and the Public Prosecutor's Proceedings Register (staatsanwaltschaftlichen Verfahrensregister) and get a statement from the local police station. You have to provide your own proof of personal eligibility, if appl., of the technical qualifications, the need and the commercial nature or commercial undertaking.
If there are reservations concerning your personal eligibility, the relevant authorities may request a certificate from a public health officer or specialist or specialist psychologist regarding your mental or physical aptitude.
Required documents
ID card or passport (for foreigners: passport)
If app. a certificate from a public health officer or specialist or specialist psychologist regarding your personal eligibility
If appl. proof of technical qualifications
Any additional documents, which you have to present, depend on the reason for your need to manufacture weapons or trade in weapons (commercially or independently as part of a commercial undertaking).
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I love to be pampered.
Does that make me bad?
I don't think so. I think it makes me… normal.
If someone else bends over and paints my toenails or rubs my back, it makes me smile.
It changes my mood. It relaxes me. There is nothing wrong with a little pampering, right?
I don't know about you, but I am naturally a little bit of a martyr.
I work hard… and I work a lot.
I don't sit down until things are cleaned up.
I try to make sure that everyone else is taken care of before I relax.
And it never seems like everyone else is taken care of!
I know I am not alone.
There are a lot of people out there like me – and my friends, this blog is for you.
Today, I want to officially give you permission to pamper yourself.
I don't know exactly what that means to you, but I do know (if you are anything like me) that you feel like you need permission for a little pampering.
So if you can afford to make a phone call to schedule a manicure or massage, or if today is the day you talk someone into rubbing your back for 15 minutes while they put on some relaxing music, then do it.
If you want to play 9 holes, or call a babysitter to watch your kids (so that you can go somewhere, well… anywhere other than where you are right now), then do it.
God knows how difficult it is for some of us to rest, relax and take it easy.
That's why He told us to "make every effort to enter that rest." (Hebrews 4:11)
Of course, getting to a place where we can rest can take a lot of work. What an oxymoron… I love how that word says moron (LOL).
For instance, one of my best times to think is while I am sleeping. Perhaps the rest of the world is finally quiet enough so that I can meditate on what I need to deal with. Regardless of why, answers come flying to me in my sleep.
Then I have to wake up to write things down. Otherwise, I lay awake in bed scared to death that I am going to forget the great answer that I just received. After all that, I "make every effort" to go back to sleep again.
This is not rest.
What is rest?
Rest is closing your eyes, dreaming about something fantastic (and remembering it… or not), then waking up hours later.
Rest is spending quiet time thinking about what you want to think about or doing what you want to do.
Rest is what God intended for us to experience one day out of every week.
That is what the Sabbath is… a day of (breathe in, breathe out)… rest.
It is a day to renew, revitalize, rejuvenate and revive.
It is a Godly thing.
Consider this, today's blog post, permission to rest.
Schedule an hour for yourself.
Or schedule two or three. Why not make it four?
Pamper yourself a little bit. That's what God wants you to do.
Pamper Yourself is the theme of this month's It's a Girl Thing event.
It's a Girl Thing is our quarterly women's meeting. This will be our second meeting of the year.
It just so happens to follow one day after my 40th birthday.
I'm not scared of turning forty, but a party with friends can't hurt, so join me on April 20 our Sunset Hills campus (7:30pm). Click here for more details about this event.
We will worship together. Then, we're all going to get pampered a little bit by some of the area's best salons as well as some fun DIY salon services.
And the pampering has a double meaning!
We are also collecting Pampers, baby wipes, baby food and all things "baby" (so long as the items are new and unused please).
We will donate these items to single moms and families need.
So be sure to bring something to allow a little baby to be pampered too.
See you there!

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(a) The administrator or director of the assisted living facility shall:
(1) Have at least two years experience, in a management capacity, in the housing or health
care services or personal care industries, or any combination thereof;
(2) Show evidence of having completed an assisted living facility administrator's course or
equivalent course acceptable to the department; and
(3) Be accountable for providing training for all facility staff in provision of services and
principles of assisted living.
(b) All facility staff shall be in compliance with current department tuberculosis clearance procedures.
(c) All staff shall be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid.
(d) The facility shall have written policies and procedures which incorporate the assisted living
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Auburn University has been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund climate change resilience education for graduate students.
Less than 10 percent of the applications to the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship get funded, said Karen McNeal, associate professor of geosciences at Auburn and the principal investigator on the project, speaking to APR on Tuesday.
Auburn is the only school in the state to have been awarded the grant, which will teach graduate students climate research and place them working directly with stakeholders to build resilience to climate change impacts.
"Climate-related natural hazards and disaster losses are escalating in the United States and are often billion-dollar events (e.g. hurricanes, severe storms, inland flooding, crop freezes, droughts and wildfires)," according to Auburn's application to the National Science Foundation. "This project is aimed at training the next generation of scientists and leaders who can help build resilient communities that are prepared for, can effectively respond to, and can quickly recover from damaging hazard events."
Auburn's grant award comes after the university's department of geosciences in the fall of 2018, began the Earth System Science program, an interdisciplinary doctoral program related to climate change.
McNeal said that research conducted by students will be informed by stakeholders, creating partnerships between scientists and those being impacted by climate change.
"A city manager, an emergency response manager or a farmer who wants more information related to climate, so that they're more resilient when a drought or a hurricane hits," McNeal said of the kinds of stakeholders that might become a part of the program.
It's the sort of work graduate students might not otherwise get, McNeal explained, as they'll be able to work directly with the segments of society facing climate change and use what they're learning in real time.
The grant will allow Auburn faculty to work for five years with approximately 85 graduate students who come from varied fields of study, including biosystems engineering, geosciences, rural sociology, forestry, crop and soil and environmental sciences, among others.
Teaching students how to communicate about climate change is an important part of the program as well, McNeal said. Typical graduate students become good communicators about science on a technical level, but communicating that knowledge with the public is another matter.
Students will take a science communication class and have hands-on experience communicating about the science and about ways to help mitigate it with stakeholders and with the public.
"We just want to help the state and the region be prepared, and one way to do that is to help make these partnerships," she said.


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A list of the top 100 businesses that benefitted from the ChooseCBR voucher scheme has been released by the ACT Government, but the list has raised some questions about how businesses could claim such a large number of vouchers in the 25-hours the scheme ran.
Food retailers were the greatest beneficiaries. Almost 40 per cent of the vouchers were claimed at stores like grocers, while more than one in four were redeemed at cafes, restaurants and takeaway shops.
Daily Market City & Gungahlin topped the list, receiving 3.3 per cent of all vouchers redeemed.
Business Minister Tara Cheyne defended the scheme, saying the vouchers resulted in more than $5.1 million being spent at businesses across Canberra.
"These numbers show extraordinary demand from consumers and are testament to the enthusiasm of local businesses who embraced the scheme, marketed it, and encouraged old and new customers to come in and spend, and to spend more," she said.
Ms Cheyne previously said the government would not release the list as she said the information was commercial in confidence.
Government figures revealed that 19 businesses redeemed more than 500 vouchers and 133 businesses redeemed more than 100 vouchers before the $2 million scheme ended.
To redeem 500 vouchers, a business would have had to redeem one voucher every three minutes for the entire 25 hours the scheme ran since it restarted at 7:00 am last Friday (18 June).
With voucher values ranging between $10 to $50, businesses that claimed above 500 vouchers would have made between $5000 and $25,000 from the vouchers alone.
Shadow Business Minister Leanne Castley has urged a review by the Auditor-General.
"Concerns remain about the speed in which vouchers were redeemed, which is one of the reasons we need an independent review by the Auditor-General," Ms Castley said.
"The Auditor-General must scrutinise the entire scheme; in particular, transactions that took place over a 25-hour period."
Neither the Legislative Assembly nor MLAs can instruct the Auditor-General to commence an inquiry, although parties can make a referral.
Ms Cheyne said a comprehensive review is already being conducted. She has written to the Auditor-General advising the office about the scheme's review and that the findings of the review would be presented to the Auditor-General.
Earlier this week, Ms Cheyne said she had heard anecdotal evidence that businesses were manually redeeming vouchers late into the night, including vouchers submitted online, which explains why some vouchers were processed between midnight and 6:00 am.
Ms Cheyne said there had been no reports of the scheme being misused but conceded that it might not be possible for the review to determine whether some customers had exploited the scheme by signing up twice.
An analysis of the scheme's trial found a questionable pattern of inexplicable transactions across three businesses worth $5355.
The government did not seek to recover the money as it would have cost more than the transactions were worth, Ms Cheyne said, although the three businesses were banned from participating in the scheme's full rollout.
Almost 800 businesses took part in the voucher scheme, 180 of which received less than $50 from the scheme.
One in five Canberra businesses that were eligible under the guidelines participated in the scheme.
The top 100 businesses were:
- Daily Market City & Gungahlin
- Hualong Supermarket
- Chemist Warehouse Belconnen Markets
- Deji Asian Supermarket
- Oriental Groceries
- Panda Fresh Mart
- Mega Convenience Store
- Mani Asian Supermarket
- Wukong Hotpot & Super Emoji
- Bestore Asian Supermarket
- Sai Gon Asian Grocery
- Fresco Seafood
- Sycamore Medi Spa
- Ebest Canberra
- Asian Supa Grocery
- Easi Mart Kingston
- Z Cosme Store
- Yum Cha CBD
- Vina Groceries
- Ginger and Spice
- Chilada & VR Canberra
- Emart Asian Supermarket
- Desi Bazzar
- Tak Kee Roast Inn
- The Food Forum
- Oscar's Bakery Cafe
- Yesmart
- Gungahlin & Jamison Plaza Travel Associates
- Raku Dining
- Lost River Produce
- Gungahlin Lakes Golf Pro Shop
- Pandora Belconnen and Pandora Canberra Centre
- MK Butcher
- Weston Asian Grocery
- Nikki Cosmo
- Toyworld Fyshwick & Toyworld Belconnen
- Super Emoji Citywalk
- Dymocks Canberra
- Cool Buy
- Jimmy's Place
- Hing Shing Butcher
- 606 Asian Supermarket
- ACT Fruit Veg and Butcher
- National Zoo & Aquarium
- The Golden Drum
- Deakin IGA
- Ai Buy Market
- UC Supermarket
- Dendy Cinemas Canberra Centre
- Rashays Belconnen
- The Scholar Chinese Seafood Restaurant
- Bellchambers Music School
- Little Sprout
- Chinese Inn Restaurant
- Rusden Europro Automotive
- Dymocks Belconnen
- Tasty Fish Market
- Mont Adventure Equipment
- Guzman y Gomez Canberra Centre, Belconnen & Gunghalin
- Here Collective
- Impact Comics
- Capital Chemist Dickson
- Continental Grocery & Halal Meat
- Bidgee Golf Shop
- Super Emoji Gungahlin
- TG-ONE Groceries Coffee
- Ziggys Fresh Belconnen
- PappaRich Canberra
- Asian Provisions
- IGA Drakeford
- Fortune Box
- Tackle World Canberra
- Bread & Butter Café
- POP Canberra
- Kippax Asian Grocer
- Across The Board Cake Decorating Pty Ltd
- Pandora Tuggeranong
- O2 Hair
- Chic Gourmet
- Tasting China
- Smart Dollar Tuggeranong
- Star Buffet
- Let's Be Natural
- Pharmacy Select Gungahlin
- Latorta
- Landspeed Records
- Canberra City Gymnastics Club
- Daily Market Kambri
- Discount Grocery Store Phillip
- Sichuan Chinese Restaurant
- Pedal Power ACT
- artKids Canberra
- Crafty Frog
- Bellelis
- Limelight Cinemas
- Capital Chemist Lyneham
- Rashays Tuggeranong
- Akikambara
- Belconnen Chicken
- Hey Show Karaoke.
Original Article published by Dominic Giannini on The RiotACT.


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Unity Health Plans Insurance Corporation (Unity) and Gundersen Health Plan (GHP) have announced the merger structure and top executive team of the combined organization.
The merger combines the two health plans, not the health systems with whom they are affiliated. Both health plans have a long presence in their local markets. Under the new structure, Unity and GHP will be co-owned by UW Health and Gundersen Health System. The combined entity will serve members throughout southern and western Wisconsin, and parts of Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. The new size, range of products and expanded geography enhances the companies' ability to leverage best products and practices, and grow beyond current service areas.
The combined organization serves approximately 269,000 members. Customers will continue to be served from existing health plan offices located in Middleton, Onalaska and Sauk City, Wisconsin. Customers should continue to contact their respective health plan.
The Boards of Directors named a new management team, which represents leadership from multiple locations and is representative of leaders from both GHP and Unity. This executive team will operate GHP, Unity and QuartzSM. Terry Bolz was named the President and CEO and Gary Lenth, MD, was named the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Executive Vice President of the companies.
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Gundersen Health Plan and Unity Health Plans Insurance Corporation announced today that the two companies have closed a merger agreement.
Boards of Directors of both companies have unanimously approved the Agreements after recently clearing the regulatory process.
Gundersen Health Plan, a subsidiary of Gundersen Health System, and Unity Health Insurance, an affiliate of UW Health, will be operated by a consolidated management team, with exciting changes that will benefit our members and customers to be announced in the future. As a consolidated organization, customers will continue to be serviced from existing health plan offices located in Middleton, Onalaska and Sauk City, Wisconsin. Customers should call their respective health plan as they do today.
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the notebook counts 606 entries (huge collection of big pdfs, screenshotted images and normal text).
so i type in the searchfield the complete word "produktionslenkungsplan" and been forced to wait sooooooo long!
because i need to wait for EN to finish my typing of "produktionslenkungsplan".
pro (wait ca. 5 secs)
du (ca. 1 sec)
ktions (ca. 3 secs)
lenkungsp (ca. 3 secs)
lan (ca. 2 secs)
the waitingtime differs every time, but it is horrible in every second!
and, its not getting faster while repeating the same searchterm at least 5 times to test if a cached search is faster.
the workaround is to copy the searchterm into the clipboard and then paste it to the searchfield, but this is even more annoying then the idle-time.
please give us a button "search NOW", let us complete our searchterms and THEN, WHEN we press "search NOW", start the search.
of course, optional for every user as he/she likes it. so he/she can change that behaviour in the preferences.


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How to make Salted Caramel Blondies
A little sweet and a little salty these Salted Caramel Blondies are gooey, chewy and full of flavor. The perfect indulgent dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth.
- Prep time : 10 min
- Cook Time: 25 min
- Servings : 12
- Total: 35 min
- 1 3/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup butter melted
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1/3 cup caramel sauce + more for drizzling
- Sea salt flakes
The Salted Caramel Blondies
recipe is incredibly easy. It contains simple ingredients that you should already have on hand. Flour, baking powder, salt, butter (melted), brown sugar, sugar, 2 eggs, vanilla caramel sauce + more for drizzling, Sea salt flakes
Preheat oven to 350.
Line a 9"x13" pan with tin foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray, set aside.
In a medium bowl whisk together your flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
In another bowl whisk together melted butter, and sugars until combined.
Add in your eggs and vanilla until blended.
Fold in your dry ingredients until just combined.
Spread into prepared pan and drizzle with caramel sauce then using knife swirl the sauce through the blondies to create a marble effect.
Bake for about 25-30 minutes until golden and just set, remove from oven and sprinkle with salt.
Let cool completely before cutting, drizzle with extra caramel sauce and salt if desired (but highly recommended).
- Let your melted butter cool slightly before adding sugars.
- Make homemade caramel sauce instead of using jarred.
- You don't need to use flaked salt, but sea salt is highly recommended.
- Do not over bake or they will turn dry and not as soft and gooey, let they look slightly underdone and still soft when pressed.
- Do not cut until completely cooled, if you cut while still warm the caramel won't be set and they will tear apart.
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Mohd Sattar Khan, the recipient of the notice from Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) directing him to prove his Indian citizenship, is living in fear. He is unwilling to talk, but after much prodding, he agrees to speak for a couple of minutes.
"I do whatever work I get. I drive an auto, and now I do videography," he says with trembling voice. He confirms that his father worked in Hyderabad Allwyn Limited, once a public sector company. He is encouraged to speak by Muzaffar Ullah Khan, a lawyer who is providing him legal aid, but words fail the recipient of the notice. Two others, one also from Talabkatta, and another from Santosh Nagar, who have received similar notices are afraid to speak. They refuse to reveal their names.
And while UIDAI reacted to media reports and stated that 127 persons 'fraudulently' obtained Aadhaar cards in a response to a query from The Hindu, R S Gopalan, Deputy Director General, UIDAI in an email stated that the authorities were unable to send 52 notices to individuals as the addresses of recipients could not be found.
The UIDAI's notice, directing Mr Khan to prove citizenship, has given rise to widespread concerns within the Muslims community. Some opine that the UIDAI's notice bears striking similarity to a National Register of Citizen-like exercise.
"For a long time, I have been gathering documents of my father who died last year. These include property documents, government employment documents and other related paperwork. I thought these could come handy for me and my siblings and their children if NRC happens in Hyderabad. But UIDAI asking that man to prove citizenship has rattled me. There is so much confusion now," says Saleem Ahmed (name changed), a businessman and resident of Jubilee Hills.
Hours after Mr Khan's case was reported, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi waded into the controversy and claimed that UIDAI did not adhere to due procedure and abused its powers. He sought to know which police officer provided UIDAI the names of 127 persons and on what grounds.
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female teen growing up in the 1950s in Little Rock, Arkansas. Beals
was one of the nine students chosen by the NAACP to attend the all
white Central High School in 1957. It was a federally mandated
integration that the whites violently opposed.
account of Beals' experiences is heartbreaking. She repeatedly shares
how she relied on God's strength to endure the threats, name calling,
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the governor had a private all white school built and closed all the
public schools in Little Rock, the NCAAP found a family to sponsor
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faith in God for her safety and that of her children. She is one
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recommend this book to those who desire to understand the personal
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can read an excerpt here.
rating: 4/5 stars.
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It seemed all the awful since just four days before, Opera Philadelphia had cautiously but thrillingly opened the door to live opera with Tosca. How could another door be shut so firmly now?
It was not a complete surprise. In November 2020, I corresponded with Ghena (as he was universally known), and he told me he'd been diagnosed with and treated for cancer. Even then, he was characteristically upbeat, pleased that he was feeling well enough to accompany an Academy of Vocal Arts recital—via Zoom, of course—in December.
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May his memory be for a blessing.
Ghenady Meirson
December 13, 1957 – May 8, 2021
A sampling of Ghena's Philadelphia projects
Russian Romances Concert Academy of Vocal Arts (December 2018)


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Social and political forces underlie many militant groups' strategies and targets, affecting various groups in diverse ways across Africa. Motives are often local, like anger at the ruling party of the government or between ethnic groups, and recruitment often includes incentives to improve socio-economic status. In some cases, militant groups take advantage of and stoke ethnic-based violence, competition for resources, and discontent in communities in order to recruit members and entrench themselves, offering protection, weaponry, and resources in local disputes. Since the ideological motive of jihad is less strong among these locally-focused groups in spite of their ties to the Islamic State, it is more possible to persuade militants to defect when hopeful prospects are brought to their society through development and security.
The origins and causes of continued violence are rooted in social, political, and economic issues specific to the various communities militants belong to and interact with. Economic inequality and impoverishment can be alleviated through a focus on development, but any foreign aid flowing into these regions must occur through consultations with local leaders to prevent tensions in its distribution. This is only one way international political actors must carefully consider local situations to support peace-building in Africa. Any military operations should be supplementary to actions that improve governance and encourage peace talks and negotiation.
International and regional responses to the serious threat of jihadist militant groups in Africa have historically become focused on security and military-centered solutions. French forces in Mali, another example of conflict and violence by Islamic State and al-Qaeda affiliated extremist groups, have been scheduled to be withdrawn in an end to Operation Barkhane after protests by the country's citizens. Activists claim France's military presence has worsened rather than alleviated the conflict, or has at least been ineffective in halting the violence. The military-centric stabilization policies of Operation Barkhane had been in operation since 2014, a time period in which the conflict in Mali and the wider Sahel steadily deepened.
Military engagement has become highly internationalized in the Sahel, likely as a result of concerns about terrorism, refugees, and immigration from a region quite close to Europe. Despite proclaimed commitments to development projects and mediation, most international, regional, and national approaches have ended up emphasizing security while other issues lose priority. Security forces have also committed abuses against civilians perceived as part of the enemy, contributing to the violence in the region and driving more people to the other side of the conflict. The overall failure of the military approach in the Sahel is demonstrated by the lack of progress in the region after years of fighting.
Africa is a frontier for the expansion of ISIS-influenced organizations, but it is not the location of a monolithic and globally-focused Islamic State as of yet. If the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS is willing to invest attention and funds into ending extremist violence in Africa, that is a positive step as long as they respond appropriately to the unique situations of various conflicts in the continent. The coalition can learn from the instances where other international interventions fell short, and stabilize the Sahel and other parts of Africa by prioritizing governance reform instead of only military operations. Ending or containing militant insurgencies through these means would prevent the Islamic State from gaining a stronger foothold in Africa and help cultivate sustainable peace on the continent.
Elsa Wiesinger is a correspondent at the Organization for World Peace and a student at Vassar College studying political science. She is passionate about environmental justice and sustainable development, gender equality and feminism, and human rights. Elsa believes analyzing these issues and their intersections is vital to building lasting peace.
This article is republished from the Organization of World Peace


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Ramsbury - Royal Wootton Bassett distance
The straight distance between Ramsbury and Royal Wootton Bassett is km. According to the route planner, the road driving distance for cars or buses is km (train routes are often totally different) and you can cover it in . However, road difficulties, such as car accidents, roadworks or traffic, may lengthen the journey. You should also check current schedules and ticket prices before traveling by train or BUS.


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Amendments to the Articles of Association
The memorandum of association or its articles of association can be amended by deliberation of the shareholders at a General Meeting and recorded in the minutes.
A revised, updated version of these documents must be attached in order to register these amendments.
Share capital increase procedures
A capital increase in cash is a linear procedure. Management recommends the capital increase to shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting. They approve the capital increase, the allocation of shares to shareholders and any new articles of association.
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The Barre Opera House's upcoming season is set and, as always, Central Vermonters can look forward to another eclectic lineup of performances by regionally, nationally and internationally known artists traveling to the Granite City's historic stage. In addition to the seven shows that made up the BOH's signature TD Bank Celebration Series, the recently refurbished historic theater has scheduled several "BOH Presents" events, which will be added to as the season progresses.
First, the Celebration Series: On September 25 we kick it off with folk icon Tom Rush, who has been credited by Rolling Stone with ushering the era of the singer-songwriter. In addition to his own compositions, his early recordings introduced the world to the work of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne. Today, Tom's voice has grown even richer and more melodic and he's doing what he loves and what his audiences love him for – writing and playing.
Next, on October 23, it's Classic Stones Live. This premier Stones tribute band, featuring eight members, delivers all the raw energy of Mick and company's shows. From the signature sax solo in Brown Sugar to the unforgettable backing vocals in Gimme Shelter, every last detail is captured authentically.
With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country, finding success in film, TV, radio and podcasts as well as on the live stage. He's host of the daily "What A Joke With Papa and Fortune" on Sirius, has appeared regularly on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," "Live From Here (the rebooted Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile)" and in February 2020, Netflix premiered Tom's fourth hour-long stand-up special, "Tom Papa: You're Doing Great!" Tom wants you to remember that you're doing great; life isn't perfect, it never will be, and that's OK. He takes the BOH stage on November 12.
With the fiery Celtic high-energy style as its musical core, Nova Scotians, Còig, winners of the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards, easily shift between century-old tunes of past generations to original and upbeat compositions employing over a dozen instruments (vocals, fiddles, piano, guitars, banjo, mandolin, viola, bouzouki, whistles, and more). With driving tunes, haunting songs and infectious energy, Còig is an unparalleled music force. The group will offer their holiday concert on December 11, which has sold out in Vermont in earlier years as part of The Lane Series and at Pentangle Arts in Woodstock.
We Banjo 3 is one of the most prolific and exciting bands to emerge from Ireland in recent years. This Galway and Nashville-based quartet comprises two sets of brothers, Enda & Fergal Scahill and Martin & David Howley, on banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bodhran and percussion, propelled by lead singer David Howley's emotive voice. Collectively the group holds over a dozen "All Ireland" titles and their first album took the "Best Traditional Album" prize from The Irish Times. We Banjo 3's music is a passionate blend of Americana, bluegrass, Celtic, world music and pop. Their most recent album premiered at the #1 spot on the Billboard charts and they have been featured at major festivals in the U.S., including Merlefest, BottleRock, Summercamp and the Milwaukee Irish Fest. See them on January 22.
On February 12, piano virtuoso and acclaimed recording artist A.J. Croce pays tribute to his late father, the legendary folk singer Jim Croce, with a heartfelt performance – Croce Plays Croce. A.J. has put together a set of Jim Croce covers mixed with his own works and songs that inspired them both. You'll hear such timeless gems as "Operator," "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," and "Time in a Bottle" (a song written for A.J.) along with music by artists like Lieber and Stoller, Bessie Smith, and many Americana greats.
Recipients of the 2019 BBC Best Traditional Track award and 2019 RTE Radio One award for Best Traditional Track, Best Group and Best Album, Ye Vagabonds, in Barre on March 5, might remind listeners of the exquisite harmonies and intricate musicianship of the legendary Planxty, even as they occupy an important role in the current innovative and vibrant Irish folk scene. These traditional songs speak to people now as they've always done, leaving audiences enthralled by gorgeous vocals and tight accompaniment on fiddle, harmonium, mandolin, bouzouki and guitar.
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Winter appearances by Vermont's own No Strings Marionettes have become an annual tradition at the BOH. On January 23, experience one of the troupe's most beloved shows – The Snow Maiden. Mythical figures, animals and humans from one of Russia's most beloved folk tales populate this production. While Father Frost spreads Winter's cold throughout the land, he comes across a most amazing sight. A perfect little maiden sculpted entirely of snow and ice! A breath of life from Mother Spring awakens the frozen figure and the girl's kind fun-filled nature delights everyone she meets.
There are few artists capable of appealing to music fans of all stripes, and Alan Doyle is one of them. From the moment he burst onto the scene in the early 1990s with his band Great Big Sea, Canadians fell in love with the pride of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, whose boundless charisma and sense of humour was eclipsed only by his magnetic stage presence. His influence is now being heard in a new generation of artists as his solo work continues to endear him to roots music fans everywhere. Doyle and his "Beautiful, Beautiful Band" visit the BOH on February 18.
Finally, One Night of Queen with Gary Mullen and the Works returns to the BOH by popular demand on April 11. This incredible re-creation of Freddie Mercury and Queen in concert was one of the best-received shows at the Opera House when they were here in 2018 and tickets were gone two weeks ahead of the performance. The extravaganza has sold out major venues all over the world, including the famous BBC Broadcast Proms In The Park concert series to an enthusiastic crowd of 40,000.
The Barre Opera House offers a discount to members, seniors and students. Order online at www.barreoperahouse.org or call 802-476-8188. The Opera House is handicapped accessible and equipped for the hearing impaired. COVID protocols in place at the beginning of the season include both proof of vaccination and masks. These requirements will be reassessed as the CDC and State Health Department revise their mandates and recommendations.


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The most recent issue of Impact magazine features just a few of the many stories highlighting ECC's commitment to its shared values of Equity and Inclusion. We're excited to introduce you to ECC's deep bench of team members who work to ensure ECC students have the social and academic connections needed to succeed. Join us as we share more about our #OneTeamOneDream line-up of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion champions and how they are improving people's lives through learning.
Liddy Hope, Ph.D., assistant professor of human services, has been asking herself and her school, "are we ready for them?" Meaning, is Elgin Community College ready to embrace and assist the diverse stream of learners that enter each semester seeking an education and their future career paths? Hope has made it a part of her mission to continue learning how to best do this while working with other ECC faculty and staff on sharpening efforts that are already creating positive change concerning equity, diversity, and inclusion throughout ECC. "Our mission at ECC is to improve lives through lifelong learning. If I'm only teaching people how to learn in the way I know how to learn, I'm not achieving the mission," said Hope.
Hope is a co-chair of TIDE-Teaching/Learning for Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity. Her most recent TIDE Pod (smaller group discussions) includes three other faculty members working to intentionally bring inclusive materials into the classroom. "This is something I've always worked on, but every year I learn more," said Hope. When challenges arise, TIDE is there as a way to open up the discussion to find the best solution. As we shifted to remote learning, Hope encountered accessibility from a whole new perspective by working to find a solution for a visually impaired student, a discussion she brought to TIDE for assistance in finding the answer.
In addition to leading TIDE, Hope, alongside Manny Salgado, Ph.D., professor of psychology, began the Faculty Equity Project this past year, through the college's Student Success Initiative (SSI) where nine faculty members disaggregate data for their courses to see where equity and opportunity gaps are and to make sense of them. "It's been really interesting because different people come to different ideas, and from there, we understand where and how we can improve. It's really opening up the way these faculty members see their courses," said Hope.
Inside her classroom, Hope is working to bring intersectionality into the forefront, giving her students the time to apply it to themselves to help increase their belonging and cohesion in class. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual. "If we start talking about this, I'll understand what they are up against - all the complexities and contextual nature of their lives," said Hope. "It really allowed them to see each other and allowed me to see more. They connected and could feel like they do belong here and do have something to bring to the table."
Hope's desire to increase awareness and change concerning equity, diversity, and inclusion at ECC includes being an active member for the Multicultural and Global Initiatives Committee (MAGIC) and, most recently, applying to become a cohort lead, where specific courses are looked at using assessment strategies to measure improving EDI. Hope is also a part of QUEST—the LGBTQIA+ employee support group. "It's been nice to have other people that you know are willing to step forward as a LGBTQIA+ person. It's also been really cool to have staff members there because we often segregate ourselves, so having these different perspectives on the college is really great."
With her comprehensive commitment to increasing EDI efforts at ECC, Hope recognizes the need for space. "Across campus for equity work, we need space. And I mean that literal and figuratively. Figuratively we need the time and energy to be able to look at these things, think about these things, process these things, and plan to make moves. When our plates are too full, our work on culturally responsive practices suffers. So, we need space for that, but literally, we need space. A multicultural center someday would be awesome," said Hope.


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In this lockdown, no matter how many similarities the memory dredges up from past events and associations, there is one thing that has no precedent: The isolation that it has imposed on people, reports Arundhuti Dasgupta.
At a small gathering one mildly wintry evening not so long ago, talk veered, as usual, to the city's incorrigible traffic.
A 15-minute journey took me an hour, said a friend.
Another lamented that the city's roads were perhaps the most overworked in the world. Never empty, never out of use.
Neither rain nor riot, not even a terror attack such as the one on 26/11 or the 12 bomb blasts that ripped through it in 1993, have managed to clamp the city down.
Each time, Mumbai's indomitable spirit has prevailed -- marched into offices, jostled its way into packed public transportation and rolled into the cliched headlines and conversations that have sought to explain this inexplicable, indefatigable resolve against adversity and attack.
But this time the city has curled up and locked itself in.
Its desolate streets look like an image out of an eerie sci-fi movie -- as though some alien has robbed them of all life.
Mumbai's spirit seems to have been firmly bottled in.
Of course there are many who would argue that the spirit was bottled in a long time ago.
Salman Rushdie has written in many articles how this is not the Bombay he knows or grew up in.
Naresh Fernandes, editor of scroll.in and author of a biography of Mumbai (City Adrift), writes that the term 'spirit of Mumbai' is a relatively modern concoction and that it emerged out of a bombed-out city.
He traces it to March 1993, when a day after 12 car bombs ripped through Mumbai, the city picked itself up and went to work.
The image and metaphor has stayed with it since.
He writes, 'The bomb blasts would spawn another myth: that of the 'spirit of Mumbai'... The first time I remember hearing the phrase was on an episode of the news programme The World this Week.'
He believes that the dogged energy that the term stands for is long gone.
The indomitable will of the people that has been hailed so often by politicians and others is just an attempt to ignore the slow numbing of its soul.
Perhaps it is just a way that the city has learnt to cope with the fear that has always been a part of its psyche.
Panic has walked its streets before: In 1992, when it was racked by riots following the demolition of the Babri Masjid; after the bomb blasts a few months later in 1993; during the cholera outbreak in the early 1900s; and way back during the bubonic plague in 1896-1897.
Wars, epidemics and intermittent violence over the years have all left Mumbai bruised and beaten.
But nothing has ever emptied its streets or kept people from going to work.
An elderly cloth merchant whose father set up his textile trade in one of the oldest markets of the city, the Mooljee Jaitha market, had earlier spoken about his experiences during the Quit India Movement when Mahatma Gandhi asked traders to burn all foreign goods.
Traders sold their imported fabric in the morning and then shut shop to go participate in the bonfires that were being lit all around Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus).
Ask anyone and they will tell you this: Come what may, dhandha (business) has to go on.
"I don't remember Bombay like this ever," says an 88-year-old resident.
He grew up in the city and continues to be a regular on the golf course, which he rues has now been shut down.
The only analogy he can draw between the city today and the one in his living memory stretches back to 1942.
The Japanese army was dropping bombs in the vicinity and his father panicked, fleeing his home and shop to go back to his native village in Rajkot in Gujarat.
"My father pushed me out of the window of our house in the mad scramble to escape the city and go back to our families," he remembers.
They took a train home but in a few months were back in the central suburb of Ghatkopar where they lived at the time.
The current lockdown has brought a rush of memories among many from his generation.
A resident who is in her late 70s recalls the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Maharashtra was becoming a single linguistic state and outsiders (those who spoke any other language) were being targeted.
In the panic that ensued, families drew together, congregating in single rooms -- sometimes even 18 to 20 at a time -- in a city where space has always been a crush.
Space and time, two of the city's big concerns, are also among its starkest markers in the time of a lockdown.
Amidst the buzz of hand-washing and physical distancing on various messenger apps and social media platforms, a common refrain is about how one could (hypothetically, of course) zip down to the Gateway of India from Thane (two ends of the city in a way) in just about 30 minutes -- a journey that would otherwise take nearly two hours.
In the city of dreams, time is money and suddenly its million-plus residents are left with a lot of it.
It has unnerved many, chaos and madness being a part of their lives.
But it has also (for people of a certain generation) taken them back to a simpler time, when not everything was an app away and household chores were a matter of everyday routine.
The post-reform economy that most households are used to today cannot fathom a time when one had to walk to a store or stock up on rations.
One family said that the sense of solidarity that is being summoned to fight a global pandemic reminded them of 1971, when India and Pakistan went to war over the liberation of Bangladesh.
People knew they were fighting the big fight, so food was rationed and shared, and evenings were usually spent huddled by a radio.
While families kept indoors and had their windows boarded up, they were comforted by the fact that neighbours or cousins were just a wall (or yell) away.
In this lockdown, no matter how many similarities the memory dredges up from past events and associations, there is one thing that has no precedent: The isolation that it has imposed on people.
For a city where continuous human contact is second nature, akin to breathing and walking, this is the biggest adjustment people have to make.


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The latest update to Sibelius for Mobile for iOS and iPadOS supports dynamic parts for the first time. The update also includes a few usability enhancements.
The secret powers of Finale's Selection Tool
Master the humble Selection Tool in Finale and you will save precious seconds every time. Multiplied by a few hundred or a few thousand times each time you use it, and it adds up.
Nailing navigation in Finale
Navigate through Finale in the Conquering Finale video tutorial series, and learn about everything from its tool palettes to view modes.
Dorico 3.5 review
Steinberg has released Dorico 3.5, a major upgrade to its scoring program. Pitch-before-duration note input, semantic figured bass, line style editors, and condensing for section players are among the dozens of new features and improvements.
Dorico 3 changes the score
Steinberg has released Dorico 3 with a first for any music notation program: automatic condensing of individual players into a full score layout. Guitar notation, harp pedaling, harmonics, grouped playing techniques, and comments are just a few of the dozens of new features and improvements in this major paid upgrade.
Take note: Comments in Sibelius
Sibelius has built-in tools for marking up your score, which can actually be quite useful in professional situations. In this post we'll explore Sibelius's commenting feature, how to use it, and how to make the most of it through plug-ins.
Browse Selected Objects, a plug-in for Sibelius
To make it easier to work with a large selection of many items scattered throughout a score, Bob Zawalich has created a new, powerful plug-in that could change the way you use Sibelius: Browse Selected Objects. Here's how it works and how to use it.
Using the Open Selected Parts plug-in in Sibelius
Bob Zawalich's Open Selected Parts plug-in for Sibelius not only makes it faster to open just the parts you want, but it also quickly closes unwanted parts at the same time.
Three Sibelius plug-ins from Kenneth Gaw will make your life easier
With three new Sibelius plug-ins and an updated fourth, developer Kenneth Gaw has once again found solutions to save you time, keystrokes and mouse-clicks so that you can produce better results more quickly.
There It Is!
A plug-in designed to aid blind and vision-impaired people in navigating Sibelius can be helpful to sighted users too.