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Design and conceptualisation of children's play areas customised for a chain with a clear commitment to experiential tourism.
The renowned Hard Rock Hotels chain has entered Spain with the opening of two emblematic themed hotels in Ibiza and Tenerife. The group has relied on Isaba for the design of very special leisure proposals for its two hotels, aligned with the design and quality standards of the hotel.

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Brenntag acquires Químicas Meroño, S.L.
Brenntag expands market coverage in Spain through acquisition of industrial chemicals distributor
Brenntag, the global market leader in chemical distribution, acquired Quimicas Meroño, S.L., a distributor of industrial chemicals based close to Cartagena, Spain. The company is holding a strong coverage in the Murcia region, which is a solid part of the main Mediterranean industrial axis, focusing on logistics, blends and storage services to its industrial customers. The transaction is effective May 13, 2015.
Karsten Beckmann, CEO Brenntag Europe, Middle East and Africa: "The acquisition perfectly complements Brenntag's regional distribution network in Eastern Spain. With Quimicas Meroño we gain access to various key European accounts and additional growth opportunities, especially in key industry sectors such as Food and Oil & Gas. In addition, we profit from the company's strong capabilities in value added services and blends. The transaction therefore strengthens Brenntag's position as a leading service provider offering an outstanding product portfolio to our customers and suppliers in the important Spanish market."
In the financial year 2014, the acquired business has generated total sales of EUR 12.7 million.
About Brenntag:
Brenntag, the global market leader in chemical distribution, covers all major markets with its extensive product and service portfolio. Headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, the company operates a global network with more than 490 locations in 72 countries. In 2014, the company, which has a global workforce of more than 13,500, generated sales of EUR 10.0 billion (USD 13.3 billion).
Brenntag connects chemical manufacturers and chemical users. The company supports its customers and suppliers with tailor-made distribution solutions for industrial and specialty chemicals. With over 10,000 products and a world-class supplier base, Brenntag offers one-stop-shop solutions to around 170,000 customers. This includes specific application technology, an extensive technical support and value-added services such as just-in-time delivery, product mixing, formulation, repackaging, inventory management and drum return handling.
Long-standing experience and local excellence in the individual countries characterize the global market leader for chemical distribution.


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If you tend toward squeam, you might want to stop reading here. In fact, my stomach is a little iffy today and I could barely make it through this piece. And I actually like rodents!
From there, it's just a free-associated hop, skip, and jump to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-'71, when rat was on the menu. ("People are making rat pâté," Victor Hugo noted, matter-of-factly, in his memoirs. "It is said to be quite good.") A menu from the Jockey Club, touting delicacies such as Salmis de rats à la Robert, lives on in weird-food legend. (A salmis is a rich ragout; in his Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris, the journalist Henry Du Pré Labouchère pronounces salmis of rat "excellent—something between frog and rabbit," adding, philosophically, "The older one grows, the more tolerant one becomes.")
And I did not know about the ortolan, not a rodent but a small French bird that is considered a delicacy and is eaten head and all. I'll pass on that one, too. It is interesting where we set our limits. Today I'm thinking: crackers.


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You've heard the phrase, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander". When it comes to taking care of a loved one, family caregivers often play the role of the neglected goose. In order to provide the best possible care for the elderly adult, respite care is an essential ingredient to remain happy and healthy. This includes the need for family caregiver's to take regularly scheduled breaks from their work.
Caregiving can take a significant toll on family caregivers, and respite care provides them with a break and a sense of relief. Studies show that caregiving can be so stressful, draining, and all-consuming that it often endangers caregiver health. This phenomenon, known as caregiver burnout, is a significant problem documented by numerous studies.
What Are The Benefits of Respite Care?
Respite care helps to combat caregiver burnout directly, allowing the entire family to thrive. It provides a tremendous benefit to the family caregiver, which in turn benefits the loved one. Respite care services are a cost-effective option, and it is far more convenient for everyone.
The benefits of respite care for the family caregiver include:
- Improved physical health
- Less stress and mental fog
- Doing what you love
- Better family relations
Improved Physical Health
The ongoing work of bathing, dressing, grooming, providing meals and conversation, and caring for the needs of another person leaves little time for the caregiver to address their own needs. Studies show that this often leads to declines in the caregiver's health. They don't eat, sleep, or exercise as well as they would otherwise. Senior respite care services provide the necessary break that allows a caregiver to remain healthy.
Less Stress and Mental Fog
Providing care to an aging parent or loved one can also be very stressful and emotionally draining and has the potential to complicate family dynamics. This can lead to depression for the caregiver, which in turn hurts the senior loved one. Respite care benefits the mental health of the caregiver by giving them regular time to themselves to de-stress, relax, and recover.
Doing What You Love
Time away from providing caregiving improves the quality time spent together with the elderly loved one. Respite care allows family caregivers to spend less time doing the things they don't love—such as cleaning the house or doing laundry—and more time doing what they do love, be it planning group meals with other family members or just chatting with their loved one about happy memories.
Better Family Relations
Respite care also helps to maintain healthy relationships in the family. If one child of an aging parent, for instance, is providing most of the caregiving, a hired respite caregiver gives that family member regular breaks. Senior respite care services can prevent the family from developing feelings of resentment towards other family members. It can also avoid feelings of embarrassment or guilt on the part of aging parents or siblings.
What is Respite Home Care?
Respite home care is when a respite caregiver comes to the senior's home and learns how to provide them with the same level of care they've been getting from their family caregiver. The care provided remains seamless, and the senior's life is almost unchanged.
This also means that the primary caregiver who needs the respite doesn't have to cope with the added stress of transferring seniors back and forth to a facility. A respite caregiver just comes to the home, takes over, and the regular caregiver gets their well-deserved break.
Respite Home Care Services by LivHOME
LivHOME care managers develop plans for respite care services that are tailored to meet the needs of seniors and their primary caregivers. Similarly, emergency respite care and short-term respite care services may be implemented if a caregiver is suddenly unable to provide care or is in need of a vacation.
Our in-home respite care services can be scheduled to regularly provide the primary caregiver with the relief they need and an opportunity to recharge. Our care can be mixed and matched to fit the needs of seniors aging at home.
LivHOME respite care services include:
- Bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Healthy meal planning and preparation
- Light housekeeping and laundry
- Shopping and errands
- Companionship and joyful activities
- Transportation to appointments and events
- Exercise and mobility assistance
- Medication reminders
- Medical care coordination
Bathing, Dressing, & Grooming
Respite caregivers provide a wide range of home care services that help to maintain and improve personal care and hygiene for loved ones aging at home. These services include assisting the seniors in bathing, dressing, shaving, grooming, and using the toilet.
Healthy Meal Planning & Preparation
Unlike the situation a loved one might face at many senior care facilities, LivHOME respite caregivers ensure that seniors at home are involved in planning their meals. Respite caregivers can shop for these meals, prepare them, cook them, and serve them. We'll make sure that your loved one is eating what they enjoy and what suits their dietary needs.
Light Housekeeping & Laundry
Respite caregivers can also provide light housekeeping and laundry assistance. They will wipe down counters, wash dishes, clean bathrooms and kitchens, vacuum, dust, wash clothes, change bed linens, even help care for pets and plants.
Shopping & Errands
Help with errands can be part of any LivHOME plan for respite care. Such simple tasks as picking up medications or grocery shopping can take up many hours of every day. Providing respite care services that include help with errands buys the primary caregiver extra hours to ensure their own well-being.
Companionship & Joyful Activities
A LivHOME respite care plan can include the help of a companion caregiver who provides necessary conversation and can create activities that bring the loved one joy, from reading aloud to trips to visit friends or get ice cream. A respite care plan can be especially beneficial in crafting programs for respite care for elderly folks and their caregivers. Sometimes all that's needed is rest, relaxation and joy on both sides of the caregiving equation.
Transportation to Appointments and Events
Some seniors who are managing their daily tasks well only need transportation to keep them involved in the community. LivHOME can provide caregivers to drive your loved ones to appointments, community events, or visits with friends and family. Our respite care services are custom-tailored on an individual level, so if your loved one only needs transportation assistance, we'll create a respite care plan and match you with a respite caregiver to suit.
Exercise & Mobility Assistance
A 2014 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that even frail older adults who increase their activity live longer and have less disability. LivHOME's respite caregivers can make sure that loved ones safely and regularly get the movement and exercise they need. They are also skilled at moving seniors in and out of bed, chairs, and other mobility supports.
Medication Reminders
Most seniors take at least one medication every day, and many take three or more. When a primary caregiver takes a break, it's critical there's no interruption with their loved one's medications. LivHOME respite care providers can manage medications by picking up prescriptions, establishing a schedule, monitoring side effects, and reminding aging loved ones when it's time to take their pills.
Medical Care Coordination
While we don't offer direct medical care, our geriatric care managers are experts at navigating the healthcare system. We can provide non-medical home care for seniors and oversee all the coordination and interface with medical care providers. Having an experienced care manager makes the respite period seamless as far as the loved one's medical care is concerned, improving the primary caregiver's peace of mind and the loved one's quality of life.
Concerns About Respite Home Care
It's perfectly reasonable for anyone considering in-home respite care to have questions and concerns. Here are some of the most common:
Family members who are the primary caregivers for seniors aging at home often worry about the impact of respite care on their bank accounts. Will it cost too much? The only way to know is to gather more information, which a LivHOME Care Consultant would be happy to help. LivHOME Care Managers can help families identify government programs and insurance funds that may pay for home care services. Costs can also be controlled and managed by determining the senior's specific needs and tailoring a program to meet those needs.
Many families of aging adults find that respite care services are either revenue neutral for them or provide an indirect financial benefit because they free up time for the primary caregiver to attend to his or her own finances or go back to work. And intermittent respite home care is a better value than a senior care facility.
Another common concern among families and principal caregivers is the reliability and quality of the respite care. What if the respite caregiver isn't as good or as reliable as family care? That's why so many families with these concerns turn to a care-managed home care agency like ours: Our geriatric care managers can ensure the highest quality of in-home care because we do the hiring, vetting, and managing of caregivers, and can provide replacements immediately if needed.
One of the most significant concerns primary caregivers face when considering help for elderly loved ones stems from guilt. They might not realize it, but deep down they are reluctant to seek additional assistance because they think this will make them seem like a bad or ungrateful child.
Sometimes seniors who are afraid encourage these feelings of guilt themselves. It's important to realize that respite care is essential to providing the best overall care. Is a full-time worker wrong for taking the weekend off? Of course not. The same is accurate with respite care: the primary caregiver will provide better care for a longer period of time only by getting the proper time, sleep, exercise, and breaks that they need.
Creating a Respite Care Plan
The best way to make care work for both the primary caregiver and the loved one is to sit down, talk, and develop a comprehensive, long-term respite care plan. LivHOME Care Managers can expedite this planning by bringing to aim their vast training and experience. Every situation may be unique, but it's helpful to call on experts who have already experienced many of the challenges you're going through.
Here's how to develop the best respite care plan:
- Start with a conversation
- Talk about everyone's needs
- Consider all the options
Start With a Conversation
Sit down with family members, friends, and any anyone else involved in the caregiving process. If some relatives are out of town, you can use video chats to include them.
Talk About Everyone's Needs
What does the aging parent need concerning care? (If you've established a home care plan, it will describe this. LivHOME Care Managers can help develop such a plan.) What does the primary caregiver need regarding time off? Weekends off, evenings, certain days?
Consider All the Options
Let everyone involved ask questions and offer up suggestions. Ask that everyone remain as open-minded as possible at first, just to collect different ideas. Then stop talking and give people time to think about how they can help provide respite for the primary caregiver. LivHOME is an option that many families turn to when searching for respite care for seniors because it's a "one-stop shop" for senior care services. One call to LivHOME allows families to create a respite care plan and implement it immediately.
Whatever your plans—or if you just want to get more information—it makes sense to talk to the people with the most experience managing respite care. So if you're a primary caregiver who is feeling burned out, if you're worried about getting some help for a primary caregiver, take time and speak to a Care Consultant at LivHOME right now. They can put your mind at ease.


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How to Link to Facebook in Your Gmail Signature
Gmail allows you to add a custom signature to the bottom of all the emails when you reply to, forward or send an email message. Adding a link to your Facebook profile page or fan page in your Gmail signature can publicize your Facebook account and grow your network of Facebook friends. To link to Facebook on your Gmail signature, copy the URL address of the Facebook page and add the link address with Gmail's signature editor tool.
Log in to Facebook. Click "Profile" in the top navigation menu to open your profile page. Click and highlight the page URL in your Web browser's address bar. Press "Ctrl" and "C" on your computer keyboard to copy the address to your clipboard. To copy the URL for your Facebook fan page, go to the page in your Web browser and follow the same procedure.
Sign in to Gmail. Click the "Settings" button with the wrench icon on the right side of the main navigation menu. Click "Mail Settings" in the context menu. This opens the Mail Settings page on the General section.
Scroll to the Signature section at the bottom of the page to view the Gmail signature editor tool.
Click inside the text input field. If you already use a signature, click above or below the existing signature text.
Click the "Link" tool button with the chain-link icon in the toolbar above the input field. Paste the Facebook URL into the Web Address input box. Type the link text into the Text to Display input box; for example, type "My Facebook Profile" or "My Facebook Fan Page." Click the "OK" button to save your changes and close the Link dialog box.
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click the "Save Changes" button. Gmail now appends all email messages with the Facebook link in your signature.
- If you haven't already included your name, contact details and other information in your Gmail signature, add this information in step five. You can also add an image to your signature file by clicking the "Image" button and uploading a photo or graphic from your computer's hard drive.
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IT-SAFE Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Dr Graham Spinardi has been appointed as Senior Research Fellow on the Integrating Technical and Social Aspects of Fire Safety Engineering and Expertise (IT-SAFE) project. This is a prestigious interdisciplinary project designed to improve fire safety and the quality of the built environment through better integration of social and engineering research, supported by the University of Edinburgh, The Ove Arup Foundation, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (see https://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/research_projects/it-safe).
Dr Spinardi has a long record at the University of Edinburgh researching the social shaping of technologies, with particular emphasis on historical studies of military innovation and other state-funded research. Major research grants include: a comparative study of innovation by firms in the UK, Germany, Japan and the USA, based on inventions patented and licensed by the British Technology Group and its predecessor, the National Research Development Corporation; a study of key developments in UK radar technology and their relationship to both strategic requirements, and to their exploitation for dual-use applications; a history of US Ballistic Missile Defence technology, focusing on the way that technical knowledge is constructed, particularly as regards claims about performance, and how test performance is extrapolated to operational conditions; and, a study of how the conservative nature of airliner development has limited the uptake of potentially greener alternative technologies.


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Mr. Muskie Charters – Located on Lake St. Clair in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, just northeast of Detroit. We are the premier fishing charter service on the top Bass fishing lake in the country as well as the best Muskie Lake in the world!
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Mr. Muskie Charters is run by Kevin Backus, grandson of National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame Inductee Homer LeBlanc. Fish on our top rated boats for the ultimate fresh water fishing experience! Charter Fishing on the Detroit & St. Clair Rivers & Lake St. Clair from April - November.
Join us on the Detroit River for Spring Walleye Charters in April & May or on Lake St. Clair for Smallmouth Bass, Muskie, or a combo trip from May - November. We offer Fall Sturgeon and Perch fishing charters, September & October.
For those that don't fish Mr. Muskie Charters also offers Sunset Cruises along Lake St. Clair and the Detroit Riverfront.


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Just wanted to share some good news!! Orange Juice in Bishop's Garden was featured in Curve Magazine's recent issue! Titled "Fresh Squeeze," the article was written by the amazing Dina F. Gilmore. We can't wait to raid Barnes & Noble … Continue reading
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Last night I had a flash of inspiration, which now has developed into a full concept for a new fantasy/horror novel.
Now I just have to deal with the struggle of fighting down the urge to start developing this new idea further, as I'm already well into my next novel and have at least two more already on the shortlist for the one after this.
So, notes have been made and stored, with each idea written down safely. Now to let it percolate in my subconscious while I get working on the next one in line.
I guess I can't complain that I have too many ideas for novels. It's still a pain, though.


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Accurate Determination of Quantity of Material in Thin Films by Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry
Jeynes, C, Barradas, NP and Szilágyi, E (2012) Accurate Determination of Quantity of Material in Thin Films by Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry Analytical Chemistry, 84. pp. 6061-6069.
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Ion beam analysis (IBA) is a cluster of techniques including Rutherford and non-Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, and particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE). Recently, the ability to treat multiple IBA techniques (including PIXE) self-consistently has been demonstrated. The utility of IBA for accurately depth profiling thin films is critically reviewed. As an important example of IBA, three laboratories have independently measured a silicon sample implanted with a fluence of nominally 5.1015As/cm2 at an unprecedented absolute accuracy. Using 1.5 MeV 4He+ Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), each lab has demonstrated a combined standard uncertainty around 1% (coverage factor k=1) traceable to an Sb-implanted certified reference material through the silicon electronic stopping power. The uncertainty budget shows that this accuracy is dominated by the knowledge of the electronic stopping, but that special care must also be taken to accurately determine the electronic gain of the detection system and other parameters. This RBS method is quite general and can be used routinely, to accurately validate ion implanter charge collection systems, to certify SIMS standards, and for other applications. The generality of application of such methods in IBA is emphasised: if RBS and PIXE data are analysed self-consistently then the resulting depth profile inherits the accuracy and depth resolution of RBS and the sensitivity and elemental discrimination of PIXE.
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lipu lawa pi esun kama: a contract for future sales
(See this original post in the archives here. This includes a very thorough translation into English by Seth Schoen.)
This conceptual piece was born in the toki pona discussion forums where Matthew Martin (jan Mato) proposed writing up a sales contract in toki pona. He reasoned that if contracts in foreign languages could be held valid, than one in an artificial language should be valid as well. As a challenge, he asked if anyone wanted to sell him something using a toki pona contract.
I responded by proposing that we write a contract in toki pona for the sale of a sitelen sitelen drawing. The entire negotiation took place in toki pona, aside from grammatical corrections proposed by others during the project, and a brief exchange in English when I wanted to assure him that I was looking to do this for the experiment, not the money.
The contract loosely translated proposed this: we as two agents will create a contract for an exchange of goods. The contract language will then be translated into the hieroglyphics, and I will draw two copies of the contract, sign both, and send them to Matthew. He in turn signs both, keeps one and returns the other with payment. In the end we both have a copy of the artwork which doubles as a contract for the sale of itself.
Here is the forum post where Matthew proposes creating a contract.
Here is the forum where the contract was publicly negotiated.
Here is a forum where Matthew describes his experiences in the exchange.
One of the most absurd things for me in the exchange was the absence of numbers in toki pona. the unofficial convention for 100 is to use ale but this also means all. So where the contract says "mani Mewika pi nanpa ale". Does this looks like all the numbers of American money or $100? Toki pona would probably the better in a barter economy, but at some point, aren't you still going to have to say "100 sheep for your house"? Maybe numbers should be a non verbal exchange – you throw down the number your are talking about in beans. Need to express a very big number? Better get a bunch of beans!
I was going to translate word for word the contract here, but now I realize it's never been done. We were both satisfied with the results of the exchange, so I think the goal of the language worked. But I'm curious just how much of what I thought the contract said actually comes across. If you want to take a stab at translating some or all of it, go ahead and post it in the comments section. Here is the contract as written:
lipu lawa pi esun kama
jan Mato li jan pi wile jo. jan josan li jan pali. jan pi wile jo en jan pali li wile e esun.
nanpa wan la, jan pi wile jo en jan pali li sitelen e lipu lawa pi esun kama.
nanpa tu la, lipu lawa pi esun kama li pona tawa ona tu la, jan pali li pali e sitelen. sitelen ni li kepeken e toki sama toki pi lipu lawa pi esun kama. jan pali li pali e sitelen tu. sitelen tu li sama.
nanpa tu wan la, jan pali li pana e sitelen tu tawa jan pi wile jo.
nanpa tu tu la, jan pi wile jo li pana e linja nimi ona lon sitelen nanpa wan en sitelen nanpa tu. jan pi wile jo li awen jo e sitelen nanpa wan. jan pi wile jo li pana e sitelen nanpa tu tawa jan pali, li pana e mani Mewika pi nanpa ale tawa jan pali.
nanpa luka la, jan kama jo li jo e sitelen nanpa wan. jan pali li jo e sitelen nanpa tu li jo e mani. ale li pona.
jan pi wile jo li pana e lipu toki kepeken nimi nanpa mute mute mute (mute anu weka) kepeken toki pona la, jan pali li sitelen e sitelen namako kepeken toki ni.
jan pi wile jo: ______
jan Mato
jan pali: ______
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Gothenburg born and raised but now residing in Berlin, Nibc is an good friend of ours here at Discobelle and we've featured him on the site a bunch of times. He's one of the main house producers/dj's coming from Sweden and he has been churning out a name for himself within the international dance music scene aswell with his own work but also with his label Trunkfunk.
The track "The Bridge" that we're premiering from Nibc today is part of the Get Physical compilation "Full Body Workout Vol. 18" which drops on Friday May 6th, Jonas Rathsman dropped the track in his latest "Elements" mix and it's already garnered alot of well deserved attention. It's a frolicking house tune with a hypnotising groove and delicious pads which we are predicting will be one of the tracks to rule dancefloors and festivals alike this summer.


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This product has been an outstanding crowd-pleaser with a line of children through adventurous high school-aged waiting to spend a necessarily moderated amount of time negotiating and playing within the cube. The folk engaged in the cube have great fun while it is those that must manage the queue and the activities of those in the cube that struggle as the interaction is so much fun that participants are eager to test their own and the device's limits. Not recommended for unmoderated public use - we are frequently queried about "where we got ours" and we frequently wish for a larger unit to include even more users at the same time. Fun, challenging and a modest investment given the popularity of the activity.


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We are officially into fall. (As much "fall" as we get around here.) The weather is slightly cooler (at least we can take evening walks without sweating!), and my Starbucks Fall favorites addiction is in full swing.
Have you tried the Salted Caramel Mocha yet?! O. M. G!!!!!!!!!! I think it might have taken the place of my coveted Pumpkin Spice latte. (Shocking, I know! And no, Starbucks isn't paying me to say any of this.)
I'm sorry I don't have a more thought-provoking post tonight. (Actually, have I ever?! LOL) I just hate for there to be a huge lapse in posts (and no, the "follow me on Bloglovin!" post doesn't count! Though, really…you should follow me!) I'm just having a bit of writer's block lately, but I'll be back up to speed soon.
ANYWAY! Lots of exciting things coming to the blog in the next few months (including a giveaway or two!), so stay tuned!


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A traditional band with a truly worldwide reach, Téada has appeared as a frequent headliner at major music festivals throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Australia. Highlights include a 30,000-capacity stadium concert in Brittany, along with performances at Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia, Edmonton Folk Festival in Canada, Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe, and Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo. In 2014, the band performed to 40,000 people during an extensive 7-week tour of Japan / Taiwan, and continue to have a strong touring presence in the United States, where Téada has toured actively since 2001.
Fisherstreet was formed in the late 1980's, by Ennis based musicians, brothers John and Séamus McMahon and Dermot Lernihan, who had played music together since their youth. They were joined on their debut CD a few years later, by accompanists Noreen O'Donoghue, Frank Cullen and Maurice Coyle. The iconic CD Out in the Night was met with much critical acclaim, following its release. It has endured the passage of time and is still as popular today with the next generation of musicians and listeners.
"This Seminal recording is a fine example of the genre, with the accent being on uptempo instrumental pieces." HotPress.
Fisherstreet draws its name from the musical heartland of Doolin in Co Clare, where the legendry music pub O Connor's is situated. The picturesque surroundings of the Burren, inspired both the cover painting by Hillary Gilmore and the title track of the CD, Out In The Night. Currently, the band is working on a new CD, which will be released in the near future. The band will be joined by their new guitarist extraordinaire, Dublin based Mick McElroy.
Tickets for this event can be purchased here.


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SEOUL – South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged Tokyo on Thursday to act on the basis of remorse and reconciliation when managing bilateral ties and acknowledge the historical truth about women forced to provide sex for Japanese troops before and during World War II.
Amid tension between Seoul and Tokyo over the future of a 2015 bilateral agreement on the "comfort women" issue, Moon described the women's treatment as an inhumane crime and said that Japan, "the perpetrator, must not declare (that the issue) is over." Moon made the remarks in a speech at an annual ceremony commemorating a movement for Korean independence during Japanese colonial rule.
"I do not seek special treatment from Japan," Moon said. "I ask only that (Japan) walk alongside us into the future on the basis of heartfelt remorse and reconciliation, befitting our closest neighbor."
Moon's administration has taken issue with the way in which the comfort women agreement was negotiated under his impeached predecessor Park Geun-hye, and has requested that the Japanese government take further action. Japan maintains the existing agreement is valid, noting that the issue being considered "finally and irreversibly" resolved was a condition of the pact.
In Tokyo, the government's top spokesman said Japan had lodged a diplomatic protest over Moon's remarks. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga described Moon's comments as "extremely regrettable." Suga, speaking at a regular briefing, also urged cooperation between South Korea and Japan to tackle North Korea.
Under the 2015 deal, Japan paid ¥1 billion ($9.4 million) to a South Korean foundation set up to support former comfort women while South Korea said it would "strive to solve" the issue of a statue commemorating comfort women in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul that Japan wants relocated.
Speaking Thursday, Moon also reiterated South Korea's sovereignty over a group of islets it administers in the Sea of Japan.
He said Japan's continued claim over the islets amounts to a denial of its history. The rocky islets are called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese.
The government-organized ceremony was held in a former prison in Seoul to commemorate the nationwide independence movement that began on March 1, 1919. Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
Yuki Asaba, professor and Korea expert at the University of Niigata Prefecture, said it was fair for Japan to strongly protest a speech that further discussed an issue previously said to have been "finally and irreversibly" resolved. But he added that South Korea's intention may not necessarily have been to seek renegotiation or reversal of the 2015 agreement.
Asaba noted that Moon's remarks are the "toughest" he has used toward Japan since Seoul announced in January a new policy on the 2015 agreement, which asked for a voluntary apology from Japan, and could be related to a historical view that South Korea's roots go back to 1919 when a provisional government was launched there. Conservative lawmakers in South Korea claim that the country was founded in 1948, after World War II.
"If (Moon's view) is that the country was founded in 1919," that would mean he sees Japan's occupation of Korea "as a forcible occupation," Asaba said.
On Tuesday, the city of Seoul claimed that a team of South Korean scholars and researchers had discovered videos and photos of the scene of a 1944 massacre by Japanese troops of South Korean comfort women during World War II.
South Korean media said the video, which had been kept in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, was the first to be found that captured the massacre of comfort women.
The video and pictures appear to show corpses of women in a hole in the ground.
Seoul claimed that the videographer had been identified, but did not describe how it was determined that the victims were comfort women.


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I've always loved young, green coconuts.
Drinking fresh coconuts is something I do daily when I'm in the tropics.
Coconut water is Nature's perfect refreshment in hot weather, but also during exercise. It's low in calories but contains just enough natural sugar to give you a little boost. It's also very rich in electrolytes (sodium, potassium), but in just the right quantities.
There's a popular belief that coconut water has been used for blood transfusions.
It's true that in some countries, coconut water has been used to replace IV fluid in intravenous rehydration (but never for blood transfusions!)
Medical literature does document quite a few cases where coconut water was used for that purpose, but usually in remote places with little medical technology.
What are the benefits of coconut water?
First, it's loaded with potassium. It's got just enough sodium to maintain electrolyte balance. So it's the perfect drink to use as a refreshment in tropical countries, and for light physical activity. For really heavy physical activity, such as running under the hot sun for long period of time, more sodium would be needed than what is found in coconut water. This is where a sports drink such as Gatorade would have an edge, in terms of rehydrating the person and preventing heat strokes.
However, in most cases, coconut water is much better.
First of all, most people need to take in more potassium because their diet is pretty high in sodium. Potassium balances out sodium intake.
Also, coconut water is low in calories compared to other refreshments.
A can of coke contains about 140 calories, while the same can filled with coconut water contains about 60 calories. A huge difference.
So when should you drink coconut water?
- During exercise: it's the perfect rehydrating fluid, containing just enough sugar to keep you going. However, like I said, if the exercise is very intensive and you sweat a lot, slightly more sodium would be needed.
- As a great "Pick me up" drink. The dose of potassium and the little natural sugar is great for energy.
- To avoid dehydration, in hot weather, and when doing light activity.
Now, how does coconut water compare to Sports drink such as Gatorade?
Let's use a "can" of 330 ml as a reference. In this case, let's compare:
Coconut Water
– 60 calories
– 40 mg. sodium
– 680 mg. potassium
– A significant quantity of magnesium (10% of your daily needs)
– Source of vitamin C
– 70 calories
– 42 mg. potassium
– 153 mg. sodium
– Not a source of any other nutrients
So as we can easily tell, coconut water is nature's Sports Drink, but is richer in potassium than sodium. In fact, we could consider it a very rich source of potassium. It contains slightly less calories per ounce than Gatorade, which has been formulated to contain more sodium.
Although completely artificial, a product like gatorade would only be more effective, as mentioned previously, in cases where more sodium is needed. But most people already get far too much sodium in their diet already. Unless you exercise like crazy, more is generally not needed.
What About Bottled Coconut Water?
In the past, coconut water wasn't trendy. In fact, it only started being marketed recently by companies such as:
- Vita-Coco
- ZiCo
- Amy and Brian's Coconut water
- And many others
In the past, the only way to drink coconut water outside of the tropics would be to buy young coconuts from Asian markets.
I personally find that the taste from both young coconuts from Asian markets AND bottled coconut water is just not right.
Real green coconut water is an acquired taste. It's supposed to taste a
little grassy and not extremely sweet.
Bottled products have been pasteurized, and sometimes vitamin C has been added. Is that a big deal?
Not necessarily, if you can handle the altered taste.
However, some companies now market bottled raw coconut water.
I've tasted it and I must say I was impressed with the taste and quality.
However, at close to $4 a bottle, it's just not an affordable way to drink coconut water!
My Coconut Water Summary
Here's my advice:
- When in the tropics, drink plenty of coconut water to avoid dehydration
- If you're exercising a lot and don't live in a tropical country, you can use bottled coconut water instead of sports drinks. Even if it's pasteurized and not as tasty, it will do the job. If you can afford it, raw coconut water is best.
- Otherwise, drinking coconut water adds extra liquid calories that are not necessary.
If you decide to buy bottled coconut water, make sure it only contains coconut water (and perhaps vitamin C), but no added sugar. Most Asian brands of coconut water will contain added sugar.
Enjoy your next coconut!
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In the early 1980's, when I was taking my Natural Health Counselor (in Canada), I was taught that in the war, in the tropics, when they ran out of blood for transfusions, they used coconut water and it worked very well.
It would be sterile, right out of the coconut and into the soldier.
This was so good to know, after having worked a number of years as a Registered Nurse. Giving blood transfusions is something you have to be very careful with and be certain to keep a close eye on your patient, watching for any reactions to the blood product.
As a nurse, I knew I did good in some ways, but a lot of things just didn't make sense to me. I knew that it was fine to work with the symptoms the patient was experiencing but you had to deal with the CAUSE of the health challenge(s). Otherwise, the symptoms keep coming back.
Thanks, Frederic.
O.N.E. was the first to come out with the bottled coconut water and I met the owners years ago, at The Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim. I drank it for years and even did some coconut cleanses with it that documented on their site. They actually sent me cases of free products for years. I actually did a 42 day coconut water cleanse in December 2009 that is documented on my site: rawsomegal.wordpress.com with a day-to day account using O.N.E. brand. I actually felt fine, except for one day early one (I do not recommmend anyone try what I did and I had a lot of experience with coconut cleanses and water fasts since 2004 before embarking on this cleanse). Unfortunately, they sold it to a large soft drink company) and I had already stopped drinking it by then. I believe that Vita-Coco and Zico are also owned by large soft drink companies. I do not know how I was able to drink the pasteurized coconut water and think it tasted good. After trying those 3 brands, I tried Taste Nirvana brand, and definitely tasted like real coconut water (not sure it is pasteurized).
When Harmless Harvest came into existence, a few years ago and found them at Expo West, they are the "real deal." Pure, organic, sustainable and even some had the natural pink color (high antioxidant). I actually received product from them to do a coconut cleanse and reviewed them on my youtube channel: TheRawsomeVeganGal. What was very interesting when I did the written review on my blog, is that I did not have enough product to do it for a week and had to use some of the pasteurized coconut water and was able to do a comparative review and there was a big difference in the results.
Now there are a couple of companies selling the coconuts (not the ones with plastic wrap in the stores that are usually dipped in formaldehyde before being shipped and have mold on the bottom) and one I tried at Expo West this past March from a company called Hamona – amazing! and will be reviewing them soon on my youtube channel. The other one I found online is called Nu Coconut and hope to get in touch with them, as well to review.
Of course, there is nothing like getting the young green coconuts from the tree and I find they taste great and not grassy.
The best coconut water comes frozen in a bottle from Thailand or Jamaica.
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OEMs and contractors have bi-directional wireless control options and apps for lighting retrofits and new installations
Intelligent lighting provider Fulham is introducing a new line of Bluetooth mesh lighting control systems and software to provide wireless luminaire control and monitoring at the Lightfair event in Chicago this week.
Fulham plans to demonstrate its new Bluetooth mesh connected LED driver, Bluetooth Bridge, and a new Bluetooth commissioning app for Apple's iOS platform.
"The industry has been anticipating sensor-enabled standards-based, wireless lighting controls, but with Bluetooth mesh customers can get two-way lighting communications now," said Russ Sharer, vice president of global marketing for Fulham.
"Bluetooth mesh provides superior lighting control – it's a recognised standard meaning vendors can develop interoperable products, it provides for reliable operation, the technology scales appropriately for lighting systems, and all of us carry mobile phones fully capable of being commissioning devices. Rather than promise IoT in the future, Bluetooth delivers it today."
The first in Fulham's new family of Bluetooth mesh LED drivers is a 40W programmable constant current driver that comes with an intelligent wireless Bluetooth dongle and provides two-way wireless communications to commission, operate, monitor, and analyse LED luminaires and lighting installations. It claims to be is the first wireless LED driver to provide bidirectional communications and since it is SIG-qualified it can be used to control third-party Bluetooth sensors and switches.
The wireless Bluetooth mesh driver is ideal for mid-life luminaire retrofits, allowing customers to upgrade luminaires with energy-saving LEDs today while ensuring those luminaires can accommodate Bluetooth wireless control in the future.
Bluetooth mesh networking also supports many-to-many communications for applications such as building automation and smart cities, so using Bluetooth mesh for lighting controls makes it possible to connect hundreds or thousands of luminaire sensors. It makes it possible to consolidate luminaires and other devices into one, centrally managed infrastructure, laying the foundation building management and even outdoor systems management using the IoT.
"Smart lighting systems will be built on accepted open communications standards such as Bluetooth mesh, and with the introduction of our Bluetooth mesh family of drivers we are providing a new set of adaptable controls that empower our OEM and installer customers," said Alvaro Garcia, product director for LED emergency and advanced research and development for Fulham.
"These programmable drivers are Bluetooth-ready, so customers can build in wireless control from the outset to future-proof their installations, or they can add Bluetooth communications later. Delivering these mesh-enabled drivers is a major step toward enabling open lighting controls, as well as laying the foundation for IoT infrastructure management."
Fulham also will introduce the new 0-10V to Bluetooth Bridge that can upgrade any 0-10V luminaire to support Bluetooth mesh. To support the new Bluetooth mesh family of products, Fulham is offering a lighting commissioning app. Currently available for iPhones, iPads, and other iOS-compatible devices, the app can be used to issue instructions to programme any Bluetooth mesh-connected luminaire.
Fulham's Bluetooth mesh products will be demonstrated at Lightfair International, which runs in Chicago 8-10 May.
If you like this, you might be interested in reading the following:
IoT lighting alliance is ready with its first standard It defines a socket that allows any type of IoT sensor or control module to connect seamlessly to a luminaire
Osram goes beyond lighting with Lightelligence
Lightelligence includes the ability to integrate the management of lighting, air conditioning, alarms, emergency power supply and other systems
Philips Lighting introduces LiFi
The French real estate investment company Icade is piloting Philips LiFi-enabled luminaires at its smart office in Paris


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- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 box (16 ounces) confectioners' sugar
- Beat cream cheese, butter, sour cream and vanilla in large bowl until light and fluffy.
- Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth.
- Fill and frost cooled cake with frosting.
- For Red Velvet Cake:
- Test Kitchen Tip: Substitute a greased and floured 12-cup Bundt pan. Bake about 50 minutes. Or, substitute a greased and floured 13x9-inch baking pan; bake about 40 minutes.


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An interesting notes about bathrooms: in almost all houses I have noticed a very fancy sink (a clear blue glass in one house), a gorgeous marble top, little soaps, cremes, etc. and then a plastic hose as drainage into a hole in the cement floor. Always leaking…
We didn't leave for the last wedding party until close to 9 o'clock at night. It was once again at the groom's parents
Tonight all the chairs were arranged in different patterns, covered with white cloth and tied with purple ribbons instead of the gold and other colors of previous nights. New incredible bouquets adorned each table and tonight there were lantern sized standing candle holders full of gorgeous flowers. I feel so privileged to experience these events.
A backdrop with flowers was arranged on a stage with another nice couch. We walked through an archway of flowers and found seats from which we could see the stage. Waiters came by constantly with lovely fresh orange juice, strawberry or coconut drinks. And little dainty chocolate and lemon tarts. We sat and watched people for a long time. Tonight, as if by some silent agreement, the men mostly wore dark, western suits and ties and shiny black shoes. The men are impeccably dressed and groomed here. And all so well mannered… all men rise when a lady approaches. They offer their seats immediately. People kiss each other by touching cheek to cheek and a formal greeting, especially to a respected older person, is to touch the fingers of the right hand to the forehead while saying 'salaam'. The elder person then touches the shoulder of the greeter, all very quickly and barely noticeable.
I met the same wonderful lady from a few nights ago, whose husband is a doctor. She told me about marriages. It has been less than ten years since couples chose their own partners, before that all marriages were arranged. Now about 65% of marriages are still arranged (not this one). She said that because of women getting good educations and becoming more vocal and assertive, it is starting to happen less. Her own was an arranged marriage as were most. She also said that Pakistani's are much more involved in their families and friends than westerners are. "We know exactly what our friends feel like and think about. So if there are problems (for instance between husband and wife) we ask and coax and tell our friends everything. Thus we can work out our feelings and always lean on family. That way there are not many divorces, although they do happen."
When she lived abroad, she said, her neighbors etc. encouraged her to put up a sign with 'room for rent'. She said that this idea was impossible because in Pakistan one would never ever charge a guest in your own house.
There were no formal parts at all to the wedding celebration tonight. Bride and groom sat on the stage forever while almost everyone who came, got around them (each family group) and had their picture taken with them. Then they finally got off the stage and sat in chairs facing the stage and this famous group played music. Very, very nice young men with guitars and great voices. They played wonderful music. It was pleasant to just sit and watch and see all the gorgeous fabrics and colors of the ladies saris (most women wore a sari tonight). The colors and materials are just out of this world and never the same.
We left close to midnight, before the food had even been served!
house. On the street I noticed an enormous generator to create enough power for all the lights etc. for the party. I think that each house has it own generator. Our power goes off regularly, sometimes three times a day. Candles lined the drive like the fancy cars lined the street. While the owners mingle, the chauffeurs all visit and also eat, usually the tables are laden again after the guests eat, with all the same foods, and then the personnel, drivers and nannies come to eat. I can't begin to imagine how much these weddings cost.
My very last day in Lahore… I kept waking up during the night and was sound asleep when a girl knocked on my door and brought me breakfast in my room. Had a quick shower and then we left for the Grammar School – a nice 5 story brick building with open sitting areas on the roof and potted palms everywhere.
I did two slideshow presentations for two groups of students and then a writing workshop with teachers from different schools.
We had a tremendous wind storm today, with sand and leaves blowing in under the door. The power went off several times.
At 11:30 PM the driver took my bags to the car and I said goodbye to everyone. Leila and her husband brought me to the airport, which wasn't very far. We drove along a beautiful wide boulevard with green grass in the median. The airport was a gorgeous, new building with very tall arched windows and shiny marble floors, very very clean. The security was just like anywhere else. A man whisked my suitcases away, took me through security, immigration, customs and to the check-in counter. He didn't leave until my luggage was gone and I had my boarding pass. I walked through the large airport towards the gate and would have a few hours to wait for my 3 AM flight. Immediately, a man from a coffee shop came and asked if I wanted tea or coffee. First I waved him away and did some window shopping. But once I sat down and a man asked, I said 'sure, coffee'. Well… they should have this at every airport!! The guy went away and came back a bit later with a tray lovely laid out with a cup of strong coffee, milk, sugar, two slices or pound cake and some cheese sandwiches. I sat and enjoyed all this – for around two dollars!
A nice Pakistani lady, living in Ottawa, sat near me and we chatted the time away. She gave me a great CD with wonderful (Pakistani) music!
The flight from Lahore went on time and was fine. I slept most of the way. Had a few hours in Dubai and did some tax free shopping and visited Starbucks! This time it was light when we left Dubai so I saw the different buildings and the blue, blue sea. Dubai is sitting right in this amazing sand desert – nothing but waves of white sand. Previously, in the dark I had thought that it was all water but now I realized that it was an ocean of sand I saw.
We flew with unobstructed views over Iran and Kuwait. There were a few clouds after that but I saw most of eastern Europe in great detail and took photos of Turkey, the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and on over Munich and Holland to London.
It's been an incredible trip and I have learned more that ever. What an experience! I am so grateful to have been invited to Pakistan. So grateful to Kees for supporting me, encouraging me to go. So grateful to be a writer of books that lead me on this adventure. Our world can be a wonderful place, full of new friends – if only we are willing to meet them, by following new paths as well as our heart.


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In the aftermath of last month's horrific shooting in Florida, many young people and community leaders are searching feverishly for ways to improve safety and reduce violence in schools.
They have suggested improving the instant background check system for prospective gun buyers, a nationwide ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and increasing access to mental health services for young people.
Amid all these good suggestions, one horrible idea keeps resurfacing: increasing the number of armed police and security guards in schools. In this blog, I want to share three reasons why more police in schools actually makes our children less safe.
- More Money for Police Means Less Money for Counseling and Other Strategies that Really Work. Increasing access to school counselors and mental health services is a proven way to improve safety on campus, prevent teen suicide, and help young people achieve academically. However, despite its effectiveness, California currently ranks last in the nation for providing access to school counselors, with a ratio of 945 students for every counselor, compared to the national average of 477:1.
- Armed Police Create a Distrustful School Climate, Feed the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Worsen Inequities. Studies show that when students encounter armed guards, high fences, and other prison-like security features, they feel uncomfortable and are less likely to trust school leaders. Those fears are heightened when they see their peers arrested in school, often for pranks, hallway scuffles, and other conduct that should be dealt with by a principal, not a judge. Studies show that students of color are far more likely than are White students to be arrested in school, even for similar offences, and school arrests and suspensions lead to lower graduation rates and increased risk for a lifetime of poor health.
- School Resource Officers Do Not Reduce Violent Incidents on School Grounds. A school resource officer was on duty during last month's Parkland tragedy and a Deputy Sherriff was at Columbine during the deadly 1999 Colorado shooting. It is difficult to draw definitive conclusions, but the evidence to date does not indicate that school resource officers reduce violent crimes on campus.
Placing more police in schools is a bad idea.
It misuses money that could be invested in proven solutions, like hiring more school counselors. It feeds the school to prison pipeline, especially for people of color, and it doesn't achieve its primary goal of making schools safer.
Policymakers are 100% justified in their determination to make our schools safer, and the young people leading this movement—from Florida to California—are inspiring and courageous. We should support them by advocating for ideas that work and abandoning the failed strategy of militarizing our classrooms.


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Oldies 97.3 – Who We Are:
We are a Low-power community stereo FM station, WSWO-LP, 97.3 MHz and now streaming on the Internet. WSWO-LP is owned and operated by Southwestern Ohio Public Radio, a registered 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization.
We serve Huber Heights, Vandalia, Riverside, Fairborn, Dayton, Harrison Township and the Miami Valley.
- Went on-the-air in September 2004 at 97.7 from a location off Old Troy Pike north of I-70.
- Moved from 97.7 to 97.5 FM in November 2011, transmitting from the studios on Chambersburg Road in Huber Heights.
- Frequency change Oct 4th, 2013 to FM 97.3 and transmitter moved to City of Huber Heights Tower off of St rt. 202 and Needmore Road
- Broadcasts around the clock.
- Online streaming audio started January 2013.
- Public, non-commercial operation of the radio station
- Sports Broadcast of Wayne HIgh School Sports (Football, Men's and Ladies Basketball, Baseball and Softball)
- Everyone associated with the station is an unpaid volunteer
- Can accept underwriting funds (donations) from the business community and the general public
- We are acknowledging all Business donors with on-the-air donor mentions
- We are registered with the State of Ohio as a non-profit corporation. The IRS recognizes us as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public foundation.
Our Format
- Oldies from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
- Wide Variety of over 8,000 tunes.
- Big Band music every Saturday morning
- Religious programing every Sunday morning.
- Information- community events and public service announcements
- No commercials- we do acknowledge business donations.
- Wayne Sports- football, basketball & baseball.
Southwestern Ohio Public Radio Board of Directors:
- President: Shelly G. Hulce
- Vice President & Chief Engineer: Zack Riepenhoff
- Program Director: Tony Peters
- Business Manager: David Bernard
- Volunteer Lead: Gary Quinn
- Chief Engineer: Zack Riepenhoff
- Program Director: Tony Peters
- Sports Director: Lincoln Schreiber/Brad Lewis
- Training Manager: Gary Quinn
- Business Manager: David Bernard
- Public Relations / Community Affairs / Outreach: Shelly G. Hulce


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If its just two power supplies you can just jumper across to the other one so you dont run two power cords into the box.
One thing to consider when working with electricity on either side (AC/DC) of your power supplies is to measure and calculate for your self.
There are a lot of variables when calculating current that we dont see or know about your show. These unknown things can change how/what suggestions and responses you get and the accuracy of the answer.


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Jarrod McKenna // Becoming A Christian
Jarrod McKenna is an Australian pastor and activist. He spoke to Justin Brierley for The Profile. In this clip, Jarrod speaks of becoming a Christian as a teenager. Join us for an in-depth…
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Areas USA Raises More Than $100,000 for St. Jude Through the Thanks and Giving Holiday Campaign
Areas USA began a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital that was successfully launched this past holiday season through the Thanks and Giving Campaign. Because of the team's dedication and our guests' generosity, the company was able to raise $104,906.52 in our first annual POS add-on campaign.
Areas believes that social responsibility has a positive impact on development, business, and society. Developing relationships with your local community is an important step to creating that impact. Areas is proud to take it to the next level and engage in a company wide effort. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering research and treatment of children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.
The mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. No child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.
"We feel gratified to partner with St. Jude whose impact is far reaching," said Xavier Rabell, CEO of Areas USA, Inc. "This opportunity to invest in the future through the improvement of the health of children affected by cancer is one of the most important examples of our devotion to respecting the communities in which we operate."


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Pork Involtini
November 4, 2016
We call them olives, the Italians call them involtini and the Americans and Australians, call them braciole. Whatever hat you decide to hang on them they're a great thing to have in the toolbox.
- Prep: 35 mins
- Cook: 35 mins
- Yields: 4 Servings
4 slices bread (two for the stuffing and two for crumbing)
1 large onion, very finely chopped
8 fresh sage leaves, finely chopped
12 tbsp finely grated Pecorino cheese
1 onion, cut into wedges – or 6 shallots
1Blanch the lardons in boiling water for 2 minutes and drain
2Prepare the pork. Cut each steak in half and using a rolling pin, flatten the pork until the slices into thin escalopes. They should be rectangular and big enough to wrap a tablespoon of stuffing. Take care - if you over do it, the escalopes will just fall apart.
3Blitz the bread into breadcrumbs. Halve the crumbs and pour one half into a mixing bowl. Keep the remaining crumbs aside for later.
4Add the blanched bacon to the breadcrumbs in the bowl plus the finely chopped onion, sage and cheese. Add seasoning to taste and mix well. Gradually add enough olive oil so that the mixture clings together and holds well allowing you to shape it (a bit like cookie dough). Divide the breadcrumb mixture into 8. You want to allow about 1 tablespoon of mixture per involtini.
5Place 1 tablespoon of mixture at the end of a pork escalope. Carefully roll up, folding in the sides as you go to completely seal in to stop the filling escaping when cooking. Repeat with remaining five escalopes.
6Have 2 plates to hand. On one plate add the reserved breadcrumbs. On another plate add 2 to 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Dip the pork rolls first into the oil, then press into the crumbs, pressing down well to coat the meat.
7Take a flat sided metal skewer and thread two pork rolls onto the skewer, alternating with onion wedges/shallots and bay as you go. Repeat with remaining skewers.
8Place the skewers onto a baking tray lined with baking parchment.
9Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Place the baking tray in the oven and cook the involtini for 25 to 30 minutes, or until cooked and the crumbs have a nice colouring. Turn 1/2 way through cooking time.


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By Dr Sarah Alexander
Education Leader and CEO of ChildForum
Early childhood teaching is not all wiping noses and drying tears, a point which all three political parties forming our new Government agree on.
Labour's Election Manifesto states: "Children who participate in quality early childhood education enjoy the benefits throughout the rest of their lives. They do better at school, in tertiary education, and when they enter the workforce."
Currently it's not the case that early childhood teachers have their value recognised but as a government priority this is set to change.
The Greens support pay parity for early childhood, primary and secondary teachers.
NZ First says it will ensure all ECE service providers achieve a 100% certificated teaching ratio.
Labour says it will make 80% a legal requirement during its first term in Government and will continue to aim for 100%. It knows most ECE centres currently sit on around 80% so this can be made a legal requirement easily without causing the ire of commercial childcare providers who will not be happy if they find they have to lift wages to attract and retain qualified teachers. But Labour will have to harden up on this issue if it doesn't want to cause the ire of the Greens, NZ First, teachers and parents who already know the value of their child's teachers.
Prime Minister elect Jacinda Arden says that she won't rest until women have equal pay. In early childhood education 98% of teaching staff are women. I have argued that unconscious bias towards women as the preferred teachers of younger children remains very strong in New Zealand. No government has yet set a gender workforce policy agenda and asked the Ministry of Education to source research and expertise to put in place an action plan to address sexism. The feminisation of teaching is an issue across the education sector and early childhood teaching remains to be seen as a women only profession. Early childhood education perpetuates the traditional stereotype that working with young children is a 'job for the girls'.
But, low pay for early childhood teachers is not a gender issue, if it were then teachers who are employed in 'free' kindergartens would not have pay parity with their colleagues who work in primary schools.
Teacher Pay Disparities and Problems
The PPTA says that secondary teacher wages need to increase by 14.5 percent to restore top teachers to a similar level achieved after their last big pay rise in 2001/02. At present the top of the teacher pay scale is 56 per cent above the median income, at $78,000 and the PPTA says it should be around $90,000.
Kindergarten and primary teachers have the same top rate of $75,949. Kindergarten teachers however must be at the workplace more weeks in the year than primary and secondary teachers (see section on leave and term breaks below).
The majority of early childhood teachers are not within the kindergarten sector and are not represented by NZEI.
A minority of early childhood centres are party to collective agreements negotiated between themselves and NZEI. The top teacher rate in the Early Childhood Collective Agreement is $70,059.
The Ministry of Education sets the minimum wage level that early childhood services must pay teachers and it takes this from the lowest base rates in the Early Childhood Collective Agreement. Note that it is very necessary that the Ministry sets wage amounts that early childhood teachers not covered by a collective agreement are at least paid at, as this provides some assurance to the public that taxpayer funding for teacher wages is spent on teacher wages and is not absorbed as profit or spent on other things by service providers.
There are problems with the way that Ministry of Education says the hourly minimum wage should be calculated by providers and the absence of any salary steps to recognise experience and responsibilities. For example, the salary amount at which an early childhood teacher must at least be paid with a four-year degree is $46,368 or $22.29 hour – even after 7 or more years of teaching. The Ministry calculates the hourly wage by dividing the salary amount by a 52 week year and not the number of weeks a teacher works to earn the salary. No account is made of responsibilities and experience. Compare that to the salary that a primary teacher with comparable qualifications can achieve at the top of the teacher scale after 7 years of teaching ($75,949.) and you begin to get a real sense of the pay disadvantage that is faced by many early childhood teachers.
Early childhood teacher advocate Hugo van Stratum says that qualified teachers working in early childhood education are far from achieving parity with primary teachers.
"Early childhood teachers have to be present at work more weeks in the year than other teachers, have considerably more daily child contact time, still have to do a considerable amount of child assessment and keep up with the paperwork in our own time at home and yet the bureaucrats think we are worth less".
As a teacher in the school system Mr van Stratum's salary was assessed by Novopay at $71,891 – at an ECE centre $53,913.
Currently as a reliever, in early childhood education he receives $25.92 gross an hour - the same pay he earned as a permanent early childhood teacher before retiring. Asked to do some relieving at a primary school, he was paid $62.60 gross per hour. Primary paid $36.68 more an hour.
Mr van Stratum says that at the large private ECE company he worked at for many years, his pay roughly went up in line with inflation even with good performance appraisals.
"These are not steps on any career structure like primary teachers. There is no career structure for teacher's jobs in our company. Not having input to pay reviews simply sees staff stagnate at extremely low beginning teacher pay levels.
"Relieving staff get holiday money included in their pay so come holidays like Christmas, there is no pay possibly for 2 or 3 weeks. Some of these relief teachers work most days of the year but are not contracted for specific hours so they can be sent home early to save paying them if child numbers are low".
Mr van Stratum says it's a worry: "Do ECE teachers not have to pay rent and other living costs? Are they ever going to afford the $500,000 cost of a house or $1,000,000 in Auckland? What is their Kiwisaver amount going to be on retirement?"
Teacher holiday leave and term breaks
Secondary schools operate for 38 weeks every year, primary schools for just under 39 weeks. Most early childhood centres operate year-round or shut down only over the Christmas/ New Year period
Secondary teachers are legally required to be present at work or working 39 weeks in the year and primary teachers 41 weeks (or 40 once additional out of term days are included).
Most early childhood teachers get only the minimum annual leave required by law of 4 weeks. They are present at work 7 or 8 more weeks in the year than primary teachers, or 48 weeks in total.
All teachers – ECE, primary and secondary – are known to typically put in many more hours of work than they are employed, with workloads often exceeding what can be reasonably achieved within work hours.
Kindergarten teachers under their collective contract work about 5 more weeks than primary teachers or up to 46 weeks in total. Looking at the salaries of kindergarten teachers it may seem that they have pay parity with primary teachers, but they also have less annual leave and holiday pay entitlement, meaning they must work more hours for the same salary.
The educators of more than 20,000 children under the age of 6 in home-based education services can be even worse off. These people are mostly taken on as private contractors and do not get paid annual leave as employees.
READ MORE BY GOING TO AN ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC: Opinion on the value of term breaks - If school teachers and children need term breaks do ECE teachers and children need these too, and why?
What now?
I have identified above the various and multiple issues for the new government to get its head around and act on if it is to succeed in addressing the teacher pay issue for early childhood education. How quickly will it do this? It is a political priority. We can expect significant change on teacher pay within Labour's first term in Government - but will it act and support those who voted it in?
There are two potential fault lines that the government and its officials will need to be alert to. The first is that there could be some chest-puffing, over-extrapolation of the likely effects of changes and protest by lobbyists representing some parts of the commercial side of ECE who would prefer not to be told what to pay their staff. But perhaps, Labour may have learnt from its previous experience when it brought in the 20-Hour Free ECE policy that claims such as that there will be massive closures of centres are scaremongering and the sector will and can adjust to new policies?
The second is that policy in ECE has often been structured to create and support divisions between early childhood service groups. The government and its officials will need to ensure equal treatment and equal regard and respect for teachers across the board - including qualified teachers in home-based, Playcentre (where a playcentre employs teachers), community-based centres, small private childcare centres, private childcare companies, and kindergarten.
Pay parity for qualified teachers whatever ECE service they work in will be essential to ensure. It is unjust for the government to enable pay parity for teachers in ECE who work in kindergartens only and exclude teachers from pay parity should they work in any other publicly-funded ECE service.
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Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with foil; mist foil with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, mix oats, brown sugar, flour, wheat germ, cinnamon and salt, breaking up any lumps of brown sugar. Toss in raisins, apples and nuts. In a separate bowl, whisk maple syrup, egg, oil and vanilla. Pour maple syrup mixture into oat mixture and combine well, using your hands.
Press mixture into baking pan and bake until just turning golden brown around edges, 30 to 35 minutes. Place on a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Using a sharp knife, cut into bars in pan while still warm. Let cool further before removing from pan to rack to cool completely.
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