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If you're currently working for someone else and have a particular expertise, you might be considering a move into freelancing. It's a popular way to move from being an employee to being your own boss.
But as with starting any business, there are as many downsides as there are benefits. Just have a look through any of the articles here on Bytestart and you'll see some of the challenges many business owners face.
The only way to win work is to develop relationships with suppliers. And that means that at a very basic level you need to be a people person. If you're the kind of person who would rather lock yourself away from human contact, you may struggle as a freelancer.
The freelancer who markets themselves the best tends to win more work. Marketing is about putting yourself in the shoes of potential customers and ensuring your offering is exactly what they want.
It's likely that an averagely talented freelancer with great marketing skills will beat a superb freelancer with poor marketing skills.
Marketing gets the business in; but you need good money skills to stay in business.
Freelancing isn't like being employed. There's no regular pay packet; you will need the ability to be flexible and maintain a positive cash flow. You will also need to manage your bookkeeping and tax affairs.
It's vital you are organised so you can fulfill all your financial and legal requirements. Most freelancers will use one of the many online accounting systems now available to help do this with as little fuss as possible. ByteStart's dedicated guide on How to Choose the Best Online Accounting Software for Your Business explains what you should look out for.
Some days as a freelancer you will have no paid work to do. And it will be very tempting to just switch on the TV for an hour… which could easily become a wasted day.
Down time is marketing time when you're a freelancer. You will need huge reserves of energy and discipline to ensure you use your time productively every day.
Compared to working for someone else, freelancing can be tough. As with most hard things in life the rewards are better if you approach it with a smile on your face and the ability to shrug off the inevitable stumbles along the way.
Don't want to do a certain piece of work? Want to take a specific week off no matter whose holiday it clashes with? Then go for it!
Freelancers work for themselves and enjoy the freedom that goes with that. The ability to turn down a client because you don't want to work with them cannot be over estimated. It's an amazing feeling of control.
You can also pick work that challenges you and gives you a greater variety of things to do. Many an employee has "extended" their career by going freelance and reigniting their passion for their work.
Unlike employees, who have to hope they earn their bonus or keep their fingers crossed for a pay rise, as a freelancer, you control your earning potential. If you really need more money and are willing to put in the extra hours, the work is out there.
As a freelancer you will be in control of your own financial and tax affairs. You will be able to choose the business structure that best suits your situation, meaning you should be able to keep more of your hard-earned money.
A good accountant will help you reduce your tax bill to less than you pay as an employee. However, you should factor in the loss of income for periods when you're not working, and the lack of 'perks' provided to permanent staff members, such as paid holiday.
As a contractor you also will need to familiarise yourself with IR35 legislation. IR35 rules are designed to determine whether you are a true freelancer – or a "disguised employee". Getting it wrong could land you with a nasty tax bill.
The number one reason to freelance. You will have a stunning amount of control over your life compared to being an employee. The only way you can really understand this is to do it.
Yes, you will probably work longer and harder than you ever did for someone else, but because you are choosing to do this, you are in control. And wow it feels great. | {
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The New York Metro labor Communications Council is offering two $500 prizes for work by student journalists on the theme of "New Forms of Solidarity".
Please include your name and the school you are attending. Students do not need to be journalism majors. For more information and to apply, please contact: Charles Wilbanks: 212.823.2054 or [email protected]. | {
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Make Hey is a graphic design studio in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand, led by myself, Kate Johnson. I work across a range of industries to produce conceptually rich, aesthetically timeless designs. My work strives to find balance at the intersection of function and beauty, masculine and feminine, old and new. I have been delighted to work with clients both locally and internationally.
Design isn't just about how something looks, it's about how it makes people feel. That's why I never just create a logo, I build full brands. I work with clients to draw out and celebrate the deeper meaning behind their business, let that guide the design process, and create a memorable experience for their audience to interact and connect with.
Want to collaborate? Get in touch, let's do coffee.
Your story and passion behind what you do is the foundation we want to build off of, so the first step is to dive into your brand's values, goals and why your audience is drawn to you. You'll fill out a simple questionnaire to find that deeper meaning to get us started.
After reviewing your questionnaire, I'll put together a creative direction that outlines how we'll use design to accomplish your brand goals. I'll present this with some gathered imagery for inspiration to make sure that we're on the same page with the visual direction that we want to go in.
This is where things get really fun. I'll let my creativity go wild, crafting meaningful concepts for you with our creative direction as my guide. Slowly and thoughtfully, we'll weed through different ideas and find what feels right for you and your audience.
Once everything is approved and feels perfect, I'll hand over everything to you and help you launch your new brand. I'm also happy to recommend or communicate with printers for you if you choose to apply your new brand to print pieces after our project is finished.
A showcase of logos that made it and the ones that didn't, but deserve some love anyways.
I'd love to hear more about what you're doing and how I can help. Contact me to secure your spot now. Spaces are limited.
A simple package perfect for new businesses. Nothing too fancy, just the basics to get you started with a meaningful brand identity and visual presence.
A full branding package perfect for businesses looking to create an impactful and immersive experience for their audience. I will create a beautiful brand with collateral pieces that will help you connect with your audience and add that extra something to your interactions with them.
A powerhouse package for start-ups or thriving businesses looking to create a completely custom experience targeted directly at their audience. I will create a full brand identity and customised website, giving you a totally unique online presence that will set you apart from competition and help you connect with your audience more effectively and consistently.
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Thank you for your interest in working with Make Hey! Take a moment to fill out the contact form and I will get back to you at the soonest convenience.
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Flintstone Glass and Mirror has been serving the Mississauga and surrounding areas for many years and wants to earn your business. Our loyal customers love our personalized treatment; it keeps them coming back each time a new issue arises. Our customers are like our family.
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Age Gap: Where are the middle-aged women on screens?
By Rebecca Shaw
3rd Jun, 2016
Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson play lovers in Third Person (2013)
Try to imagine the most haggard and decrepit old actress you can think of. Who comes to mind? That's right, it's Olivia Wilde. The almost-objectively stunning Wilde recently revealed that she had been rejected for a role playing Leonardo DiCaprio's wife in the The Wolf of Wall Street because she was too old. At the time, she was 28 and Leo was 37. The part ended up going to Australian actress Margot Robbie, who was 21 at the time. The role in question involved portraying a real-life woman, who was 29 during the time the movie was set.
I am no mathematics expert (or 'mathologist' as I believe they are called), but these numbers don't seem to add up. Neither do the numbers in a story that Maggie Gyllenhaal told last year when she revealed that she had been told she was too old to play the lover of a male actor in a film. At the time Maggie was 37 years old, and the actor? Fifty-five. Years. Of age. Again, not a mathologist, but according to my extensive calculations, this makes Maggie 18 years younger than that actor. And yet still too old to play his love interest.
Of course, this is nothing new. It's been shown over and over again that male actors can comfortably age into their 40s, 50s and 60s, while their love interests remain in their 20s and 30s, in some kind of actress cryogenic recycling system. Almost none of these male actors are paired with women their own age, or even within shouting distance of women their own age – which is actually lucky because some of the men are so old that they wouldn't hear the shout.
Last year Vulture published a breakdown of the film careers of some of the biggest female stars in the world, including Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence. Besides the Spider-Man movies, Emma Stone is consistently paired with men much older than her, including recent movies with Sean Penn and Colin Firth (both 30 years her senior). Jennifer Lawrence is the same, almost exclusively (outside of Hunger Games) playing opposite actors at least 15 years older than her.
Because they are starring in big movies, with big-name established male leads, and because these movies are usually written and directed by middle-aged men about their own stories, this also means that someone like Jennifer Lawrence will often have to 'age up' in her roles. As a 25-year-old, she is playing roles that, in an ideal world, would be suitable for actresses in their 30s or 40s. Not only does this mean that we don't get to see actresses like Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence literally acting their age, but more importantly, it also means that older actresses that could play those roles in really interesting ways are passed over.
Male actors can comfortably age into their 40s, 50s and 60s, while their love interests remain in their 20s and 30s.
Of course, Hollywood doesn't give us enough women's stories in general. In 2014, only 12 per cent of movies featured a female protagonist, a number that dropped from the previous two years. And when it does show us women onscreen, it's often only an extremely narrow type of woman. Hollywood's idea of diversity is movie after movie starring 25-year-old beautiful thin white women, as well as the occasional 'gift' movie starring 60–70-year-old beautiful thin white women like Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep. The young women are the whores; the older women are the crones. Often all that is left for those in-between is to play someone's mother, in a movie probably not about the mother. A mother, or a witch. Meryl Streep has told the story that the year after she turned 40, she was offered three different roles as a witch. How are there even that many movies about witches? Is there some kind of mother-witch combination character we could let them play to increase diversity?
So what happens when they are too old to be considered fuckable by 55-year-old men, but too young to be considered for the roles given to 60-year-old women? If it feels like they just disappear from the face of the earth, it's because they practically do. A study carried out by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism found that in a single year, across more than 400 scripted movies, TV shows and digital series from ten major media companies, almost 80 per cent of characters aged 40 or over were men. Eighty. Per. Cent. Not even 80 per cent of people love Beyoncé (which is wrong by the way, it should be 100 per cent).
And of course, most of those men will be paired off with actresses in their 20s. For women, no such luck. The roles begin to dry up, they begin to be told they are too old to play a viable romantic role, and then if they do come back into the public eye after time away, they are ridiculed for ageing, like Renee Zellweger. "What happened to her face?" people scream. Um, she aged like a normal human? Shocking, I know.
When we don't get to see women on film aging out of their 20s, and we don't get to see their faces developing laugh lines, experience, age and character, this is what happens. We are the ones who miss out. We are missing out because there aren't enough women making movies portraying their own lives. We still have to rely on men to make the decisions about the stories and faces that we get to see. They've proven again and again that they are not up to the job. They have proven that what they care most about is the standard definition of youthful beauty to the exclusion of everything else.
And that everything else is what we should be allowed to see. We all miss out when such a large group is shoved to the side. We all miss out when we toss women aside once they pass the age of 35. There is so much untapped potential, so many interesting and diverse and amazing and beautiful women we could be witnessing play out their lives on screen. As the number of women behind the scenes grows, we will see this happen more and more.
But I wish it would happen faster – I'm getting old.
Rebecca Shaw (aka @brocklesnitch) is a writer and creator of the parody Twitter account @notofeminism, which was developed into an illustrated book with Affirm Press. She is on the writing team at Tonightly with Tom Ballard, and has written for Junkee, The Guardian, Daily Life et al. She is also in constant competition with Ruby Rose to become Australia's favourite lesbian.
More from Rebecca Shaw
23.01.18 — News — Kill Your Darlings
Announcing the winner of our Japan giveaway
Announcing the Winner of the KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award
Announcing the winner of our Ubud giveaway
06.07.17 — Culture — Alice Robinson
Learning How to Dream: Watching 'Anne with an E'
29.03.16 — Books & Publishing — Veronica Sullivan
Confronting Multiplicity: An interview with Alison Whittaker
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DYLAN, Bob & GORDON, Jeff.
Large 4to. Broadside. First edition. Illustrated with a painting by Jeff Gordon. The lyrics to this song by Dylan nicely printed on Arches with Gordon's painting reproduced in color. Published in an edition limited to 145 numbered copies signed by the artist and publisher, Jeff Gordon, this copy is one of an unspecified number of artist's proofs designated "AP" and signed by Jeff Gordon. These artist proofs were for the private use of Dylan and the publisher. This item is not a bootleg but an authorized publication---the smallest limitation of any official Dylan item. As new. | {
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Recently our local Broward county Surfrider chair, Catherine Uden, has been on a mission to make stand-up paddleboarding and surfing legal in Hallandale and Hollywood Beach.
We have not heard about surfers breaking the law since the 1964 ban in Palm Beach county, but, those choosing to catch waves or paddle off Hallandale beach are breaking a town law.
In 1970, the ban on surfing was taken to the Supreme Court of Florida when Bruce Arthur Carter petitioned the Town of Palm Beach, Florida for a similar ban along their beaches. The landmark ruling prohibited cities from outlawing surfing calling the ban "arbitrary and unreasonable".
The oldest image of a known Palm Beach County surfer shows Tom Lawton at the old Palm Beach pier in 1937, with his hollow0style wooden surfboard. A 1978 photo of David Reese of Palm Beach, who helped establish the Eastern Surfing Association's contests. Reese's father had been the mayor of the Town of Palm Beach, which banned surfing in 1964. Attorney Joel Daves, who became West Palm Beach mayor, took the surfers' fight to the Florida Supreme Court in 1970 and won.
Where is surfing legal in Hallandale & Hollywood?
On October 1st, our Broward Surfrider chair was able to meet with David from Hollywood Parks and Rec and Bruce who is the Hollywood Beach Safety Chief. They were joined by 3 residents in support of paddle zone expansion. Bruce agreed to expand the zone at Azalea Terrace on the south end by 4 streets. He said it would be effective immediately, and he would let the lifeguards know. He also assured us that the lifeguards could "black flag" any section where we found waves to surf. This expansion, though, did not include areas of the main Broadwalk. But less than three weeks later, Catherine went to paddle in this newly expanded area with her son.
"It was a gorgeous morning on Hollywood Beach Saturday, and what a nice surprise to actually find some small breaking waves (just south of Manta Ray Inn) to surf with my son. I thought we were going to the beach for a flat water paddle. Surprisingly, I caught a couple of long rides and 3 other paddlers paddled over to catch waves, too. One guy said to me, smiling, "This is rare! We usually don't get these fun little waves". Shortly after expressing his joy, 2 beach patrols on buggies drove over and whistled us out of the water. I thought maybe they didn't hear that Bruce extended the paddle zone for us south of Azalea Terr. (plus, the ocean was empty and there was no reason to kick us out).
Want to join Catherine in making a change?
Ask the city of Hollywood to place "Removal of Stand Up Restrictions" on a city meeting agenda and state why you believe the restrictions should be removed.
If you can not make a meeting, you can also email the Hollywood city commission.
Mind if I share this writing? It's topical advice worth passing on! My crowd would get a lot from this too.
Yes you may, as long as you link the article back to us and give credit for the article. | {
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2018-01-13 Beach Boys – Tribute Concert
By [email protected] June 2, 2017 January 15, 2018 2017-2018 Season Concerts
Beach Boys – Tribute Concert
Saturday, January 13th @ 7:00PM – Only $23.95 per seat!
The show's over, folks! This concert has already past. ?
Stay tuned for our next season's concert series!
Surf`s Up Beach Boys Tribute "Just like the real thing but Younger" … Surf`s up is one of the first true Beach Boys tribute bands in the world. They have been perfecting & recreating the Beach Boys sound for 25 years. Literally, since they were kids. Keeping it in the family – the band consists of 2 brothers Donny & Danny Goldberg, their father Don Goldberg Sr. who founded the group and close cousin Denny Hardwick. Their sibling harmonies capture the authentic blend of the Beach Boys like no other. Not just another "tribute band", these veterans naturally bring the magical "Sound of Summer" to your event. Surfs Up Has Played: Jan & Dean Show with living Legend – Dean Torrance, Disneyland Anaheim, Disneyland Paris France, Disney`s California Adventure, Long Beach Toyota Grand Prix Headliners for Huntington Beach's annual 4th of July Show 5 years running.
2018-01-19 Bee Gees Gold – Tribute Concert
Bee Gees Gold – Tribute Concert
Friday, January 19th @ 7:00PM – Only $26.95 per seat!
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Bee Gees Gold Tribute Bio John Acosta as Barry Gibb has performed in Bee Gees Tributes all over the world. His portrayal of lead singer Barry Gibb is with a zest for detail, like no other. From the look to the falsetto you will close your eyes and say it's Barry! John Acosta's Bee Gees Gold tribute Is the ultimate salute, and experience of seeing the Bee Gees in their prime, LIVE ONCE AGAIN! The frontline consists of the detailed vocal stylings of John Acosta (Barry), Daryl Borges (Robin), and Jeff Celentano (Maurice). There is a sensation that will make you blurt out: Wow… I just seen and heard the Bee Gees! Backed by a live band, the Bee Gees Gold tribute recreates the look and sound of the Bee Gees from the 60`s to the late 70`s, with their unique falsettos that made them legends. Performing such early hits as Massachusetts, I started a Joke, to the later Disco classics, Stayin' Alive and more.
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2018-01-27 The Workin Men – Tribute Concert
The Workin Men – Tribute Concert
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The Workin' Men This concert immortalizes two of country music`s true outlaws and friends to the working class. Haggard and Paycheck recorded over 136 albums over 100 charted hits and 40+ number ones. Haggard was a two time Grammy winner including the lifetime achievement award. Paycheck was Grammy nominated for song of the year for 'Take This Job and Shove It' as well as a movie of the same name. Johnny Lovett (Merle Haggard) and Ace Crye(Johnny Paycheck) perform the songs that made Haggard and Paycheck famous. You'll hear hits such as From Muskogee, Workin' Man Blues, Momma Tried, Take This Job and Shove It, Slide Off Your Satin Sheets, and Don't Take her She's All I Got. From Dance Halls to time in Prison Haggard and Paycheck lived the life they wrote about. Re-live the true hard workin' outlaw country music with Lovett and Crye as Haggard and Paycheck in 'The Workin' Men'.
2018-02-02 Tina Turner & Little Richard – Tribute Concert
Tina Turner & Little Richard – Tribute Concert
Friday, February 2nd @ 7:00PM – Only $26.95 per seat!
Rock and Soul is a re-creation of two of music's biggest icons. Garry Moore (Little Richard) and Cookie Watkins (Tina Turner) take you back to the beginnings of the music that shaped America in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and finally the 90's. Their Looks and sounds are uncanny. This show is total high energy with rock and roll hits such as Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly, Proud Mary, along with that touch of soul including songs like Private Dancer, What's Love Got to Do With It, and Send Me Some Lovin'. Garry and Cookie have toured worldwide with 'Legends in Concert' and appeared on multiple television shows including ABC's show world's best tribute. Come experience the artistry and raw talent that is Rock and Soul.
2018-02-10 Gene Watson – Live Concert
Gene Watson – Live Concert
Saturday, February 10th @ 7:00PM – Only $39.95 per seat!
GENE WATSON This masterful country stylist from Houston, Texas has been thrilling audiences for more than 50 years. Gene's very first radio single, the self-penned "If It's That Easy" was released in 1962 so the entertainer is celebrating his 50 Years in the music business, a "Golden Anniversary" in 2012. Although the song didn't make any radio charts, it did start the career of the man now known as "The Singer's Singer." Gene Watson's tally of 75 charted titles, 23 top-10 hits and 6 number-one records has led to membership in the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. Radio listeners are still transfixed whenever classics like "Farewell Party," "Fourteen Carat Mind" or "Love in the Hot Afternoon" are played. The depth of emotion in his singing, his brilliant phrasing, his jaw-dropping range and the power in the lyrics he chooses are all factors in the awe he inspires in both fans and his musical peers. At an age when most people are contemplating retirement, Gene Watson is still making some of the greatest records of his life, receiving such accolades as Album of the Year and even Album of the Decade from journalists around the world. Watson earned the title of 2010 Country Music Legend of the Year, from Citadel Media's Real Country Radio Network nationwide fan vote. Watson is one of the rare singers who still sings in the same key as he did 30 years ago and his audiences respond with standing ovations night after night when he nails the octave jumping last note on his most requested song, the now country classic "Farewell Party." As Rodney Crowell so aptly stated, "Just when I think Country Music is a lost art form, something by Gene Watson catches my ear and I can breathe again." Considered one of the finest pure-country singers of his generation Watson offers up one of the best traditional country shows in the business. His stunning voice captivates audiences and keeps his fans coming back again and again.
2018-02-16 Blues Brothers – Tribute Concert
Blues Brothers – Tribute Concert
Friday, February 16th @ 7:00PM – Only $26.95 per seat!
WITH OVER TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE AS THE BLUES Brothers Fairchild's Blues Brother Tribute deliver an excellent performance and an enjoyable evening by using a good mix of talents & music that keep the audience pleasantly amused for a night of entertainment. The show is performed with a live band. Fairchild's Blues Brother Tribute is filled with non-stop blues that will thrill and amaze you.
2018-02-22 Johnny Cash & Buck Owens – Tribute Concert
Johnny Cash & Buck Owens – Tribute Concert
Thursday, February 22nd @ 7:00PM – Only $26.95 per seat!
Starting with the grass roots days of Country and Rock-a-Billy to the Man In Black prison concerts, our tribute to Johnny Cash has been a stand-up hit in Branson, Missouri. This is no Broadway musical show, but an authentic recreation of the music and the man that captured the hearts of millions. You will be astounded by the uncanny resemblance that Jackson has to Johnny Cash. You will be even more astounded by his voice. Jackson truly captures the presence of Johnny Cash, not only through Johnny`s music but also his storytelling. From the moment Jackson and the New Tennessee Two Band takes the stage with a traditional Johnny Cash greeting to his exit, with guitar slung over his back, Jackson offers an exceptional portrayal of Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash chose only to work with one band and depended upon them to provide him with the unique sound that would come to be recognized by millions of fans over the world. Luther Perkins provided the unique "boom-chicka-boom" guitar that classifies most of Johnny`s songs, W.S. Holland holds his own place in music history as the first Rock & Roll drummer while Marshall Grant slapped the upright bass. This is all recreated for this tribute and the music of The New Tennessee Two is as important to the sound and successes of Jackson Cash as his own voice.
2018-03-09 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tribute Concert
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tribute Concert
Friday, March 9th @ 7:00PM – Only $26.95 per seat!
SouthBound and Company is pleased to present: A Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyrd And Frynds In this high-energy, Southern Rock Review, SouthBound and Company combine the southern vocal stylings of Ronnie Van Zant with the dual guitar-slinging replications of Southern Rock mega-hits such as 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'Ramblin' Man' and of course, the immortal 'Free Bird'. Featuring eight seasoned professionals coming together to fulfill their life-long passion, SouthBound and Company: A Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyrd and Frynds not only duplicate the sounds of Ronnie and the Boys, they also present a visual demonstration of a real-life Southern Rock show from the '70's. The combination of a tight back-beat rhythm section, honky-tonk piano, dualing lead and slide guitars and deep south, rhythm and blues lead vocals prove that old adage: The South Will Rise Again!
2018-02-13 Musical Duo Adagio – Dessert Concert
Musical Duo Adagio – Dessert Concert
Tuesday, February 13th @ 6:30PM – Only $22.95 per seat!
Born right here in Yuma, AZ, Melody Dunn is one of Yuma's musical success stories. Yuma first took notice of Melody when she became Miss Yuma County in 1988 but her study of music started much earlier. Her love of music began at the age of 10 when she picked up her first musical instrument and has not stopped playing since. She put together Melody Dunn and Desert Sky in 2000 and began entertaining not only Yuma audiences but fans all across the county with her first tour in 2002. The band was featured on the main stage at Country Thunder USA for three years before she left us for her first tour in Australia. Melody's first hit, Single Red Rose, was played overseas on radio and Australia's Country Music Channel (CMT) for over a year. Today she is taking a step back from the big stage and enjoying playing the soft songs she has loved for years. Melody Dunn and Ben Freedman are now the soul behind Adagio. "Adagio" is the musical duo of Melody Dunn and Benjamin Freedman. Our goal is to bring beautiful, intimate, romantic music to your event to captivate your guests and light up your evening. With just piano and vocals, we have a very pure, light sound. Melody is from Yuma and has appeared in both the US and abroad.
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Beautifully designed custom one bedroom Villa featuring 10 foot ceilings throughout and granite countertops! Stainless Steel appliances. Open floorplan for indoor and outdoor entertaining. Villa is located on corner lot with just one neighbor to the North! Currently used as a model home; never lived in!
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Italian woman granted paid sick leave to care for ill dog
An Italian court ruled that the days the woman took off to care for the dog should be counted under an allowance for absences related to "serious or family personal reasons". PHOTO: ST FILE
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ROME (AFP) - An Italian woman has won her battle to be granted sick pay for days she took off to look after her poorly dog, in a first for the pet-loving country.
The woman, a Rome academic, won her case with the help of lawyers from the Italian Anti-Vivisection League (LAV), one of the biggest animal rights groups in Europe, the organisation said Wednesday.
A judge accepted the lawyers' case that her university should count her two days off under an allowance for absences related to "serious or family personal reasons".
Their argument was underpinned by a provision in Italy's penal code that provides for people who abandon an animal to "grave suffering" to be jailed for a year and fined up to 10,000 euros (S$16,000).
"It is a significant step forward that recognised that animals that are not kept for financial gain or their working ability are effectively members of the family," said LAV president Gianluca Felicetti. | {
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Super Star Rajinikanth's much-talked-about political drama, Kaala, had a grand worldwide release this morning. The film has received largely positive response from critics and fans.
Amid all this hullabaloo around Kaala's release, Rajini landed in Darjeeling yesterday to commence shooting for his next film in Karthik Subbaraj's direction. Knowing about the arrival of their favorite hero, hundreds of locals represent thronged the film's sets and gave the Super Star a rousing welcome.
The Rajini-Karthik Subbaraj film is said to be a crime thriller. Vijay Sethupathi and Bobby Simha and young hero Sanath Reddy will be playing crucial roles in the movie. One of the leading Tamil production houses Sun Pictures is bankrolling the project. | {
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Our patients have great stories to share about the care we provide at our hospitals. Sharing your story is a great way to say thanks to the health care team. Our staff and physicians enjoy hearing positive stories as well as ways we can continue to improve the experience for our patients and families. If you'd like to share your QHC story, click here.
"I just wanted to express how wonderful the staff were to my Uncle when he was admitted last week. He was not an easy patient and was in a very terrible state and the staff (Michelle, Brittany, Jacquie, Chantal, Sara, Chris, and the others whose name escapes me) were fantastic in working with my family. They allowed us to be readily involved in his ongoing care and were extremely compassionate and patient with me in ensuring all my concerns were answered. Dr. Yee was absolutely wonderful in keeping me well informed on the next steps, and Mary and Kelly went above and beyond to help ease my concerns.
I need to point out that three nurses specifically, Michelle and Jacquie (BGH) and Sara (TMH), were complete angels to my uncle and myself. They were so supportive and understanding, but their encouragement, truly helped me through this difficult time. It is apparent that they truly enjoy their profession. Quinte Health Care is certainly lucky to have them. I can't thank you enough for all your support and efforts in helping my 'non-clinical brain' understand the circumstances that were occurring. You have a great team and should be very proud of the care they provide."
"Thanks to Dr. Smith, Janice and all the staff who helped me during my visit to QHC North Hastings Hospital due to low hemoglobin. I want to thank you all so very much for the wonderful care I received and for saving my life. I felt so comfortable with you all during a very scary time."
"Before my husband and I even conceived, we knew we wanted to deliver our baby at BGH. We were not disappointed. All of the nurses, cleaning staff, support staff, security guards and doctors were nothing short of amazing. They were all very supportive, caring, patient, knowledgeable and "happy to be there!" It was a very warm atmosphere and we felt welcomed and important the moment we arrived. Our baby girl arrived, happy and healthy, 2 hours after arriving at the hospital. As a first time mom and dad, we were very lucky to have some wonderful care staff to walk us through the process. We were calm and informed because of their guidance. The after care I received was exceptional. Even being in such discomfort after delivery, the nurses did everything they could to make sure I had what I needed to be as comfortable as possible. They frequently checked in on us and made sure we had everything we needed. I just want to say thank you. It made the start of our family experience a positive one and we couldn't have done it without everyone involved! We have told all of our pregnant friends to consider BGH and I know several of them have already registered. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"I recently had day surgery at Trenton Memorial Hospital. To put this story in perspective, my career has exposed me to hundreds of hospitals from Australia to Europe and North America. In short I am no stranger to hospital culture and its vagaries. The entire experience was a pleasure. The culture is clearly an efficient and effective mix of professionalism, respect for the patient and collegiality of staff. A staff member in the pre op room used humour and respect to reduce the anxiety level of a young boy; yet she undertook her work with an obvious high level of skill born from years of experience at the same time without missing a beat. The OR team was excellent, again using that combination of professionalism and respect. The anaesthetist for example engaged me in a discussion of topical news rather than the more usual but weary "count back from a hundred." This conversation which effectively eliminated any anxiety was cut short by the anaesthetic taking effect. My thanks to the team for a good job that while i didn't witness it, I can attest for the results. The recovery and post op staff were that same mix of professionalism and respect, again tinged with humour as appropriate to help the patient back to being ambulatory in record time. In an environment of declining resources for health care and unflattering media reports for many of the Ontario hospitals it was a good to be able to write this story."
"Having spent over a month on the seventh floor at Belleville General Hospital I had a chance to see new admissions and releases. At these times, the staff displayed a high degree of understanding in human behaviour and excelled in making a favourable impression, being well accepted by the new arrivals, during the most difficult of circumstances. Protocols and procedures are created from fear; but Napoleon once wrote that there a two things that move men "Fear and interest" and thank goodness for the staff who took an interest in each individual they encountered; Every staff member, including janitorial staff and volunteers, served to promote harmony on the floor and credibility to their associates."
"During my stay, I found all the nurses to be good. However, one nurse was GREAT. No request was too much. I had the chills - she brought me a heated blanket. I wanted to go for a walk but was somewhat exposed in the "one size fits none" hospital gown - she brought me some hospital pyjamas to provide a bit more privacy. I felt quesy - she found me some ginger ale with ice. She went out of her way to help me in at least a half a dozen other situations - suffice to say that she genuinely seemed to care about my well-being."
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Dengue is a mosquito-transmitted virus and the leading cause of arthropod-borne viral disease in the world. It is also known as breakbone fever due to the severity of muscle spasms and joint pain, dandy fever, or seven-day fever because of the usual duration of symptoms. Although most cases are asymptomatic, severe illness and death may occur. Aedes mosquitoes transmit the virus and are common in tropical and subtropical parts of the world. The incidence of dengue has increased dramatically over the past few decades. The infection is now endemic in some parts of the world. A few people who were previously infected with one subspecies of the dengue virus develop severe capillary permeability and bleeding after being infected with another subspecies of the virus. This illness is known as dengue hemorrhagic fever.[1][2][3]
Dengue fever is caused by any of four distinct serotypes (DENV 1-4) of single-stranded RNA viruses of the genus Flavivirus. Infection by one serotype results in lifelong immunity to that serotype but not to others.[4][5][6]
It is the fastest spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, affecting greater than 100 million humans annually. Dengue also causes 20 to 25,000 deaths, primarily in children, and is found in more than 100 countries. Epidemics occur annually in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Two transmission cycles maintain the dengue virus: 1) mosquitos carry the virus from a non-human primate to a non-human primate and 2) mosquitos carry the virus from human to human. The human-mosquito cycle occurs primarily in urban environments. Whether the virus transmits from human to mosquito is dependent upon the viral load of the mosquito's blood meal.
The primary vectors of the disease are female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Although A. aegypti is associated with most infections, A. albopictus' range is expanding and may be associated with increasing numbers. These species of mosquitoes tend to live indoors and are active during the day. Transmission perinatally, via blood transfusions, breast milk, and by organ transplantation have been reported.
After 2010, the mean age of patients was 34 years as compared to 27.2 years from 1990 to 2010. The dengue viral serotype causing disease outbreaks has varied with time, as has the occurrence of severe dengue fever.[7][8]
Part of the Flavivirus family, the dengue virus is a 50 nm virion with three structural and seven nonstructural proteins, a lipid envelope, and a 10.7 kb capped positive sense single strand of ribonucleic acid. Infections are asymptomatic in up to 75% of infected humans. A spectrum of disease, from self-limiting dengue fever to hemorrhage and shock, may be seen. A fraction of infections (0.5% - 5%) progress to severe dengue. Without proper treatment, fatality rates may exceed 20%. These occur primarily in children. The typical incubation period for the disease is 4 to 7 days, but it can last from 3 to 10 days. Symptoms more than two weeks after exposure are unlikely to be due to dengue fever.
The exact course of events following the dermal injection of dengue virus by a mosquito bite is unclear. Skin macrophages and dendritic cells appear to be the first targets. It is thought that the infected cells then move to the lymph nodes and spread through the lymphatic system to other organs. Viremia may be present for 24 to 48 hours before the onset of symptoms. A complex interaction of host and viral factors then occurs and determines whether the infection will be asymptomatic, typical, or severe. Severe dengue fever with increased microvascular permeability and shock syndrome is thought to be associated with infection due to a second dengue virus serotype and the patient's immune response. However, cases of severe dengue do occur in the setting of infection by only a single serotype. Worsening microvascular permeability often transpires even as viral titers fall.
History and Physical
The three phases of dengue include febrile, critical, and recovery.
During the febrile phase, a sudden high-grade fever of approximately 40 C occurs that usually lasts two to seven days. Associated symptoms include facial flushing, skin erythema, myalgias, arthralgias, headache, sore throat, conjunctival injection, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting. For skin erythema, a general blanchable macular rash occurs in the first one to two days of fever and the last day of fever. Or, within 24 hours, a secondary maculopapular rash can develop.
Defervescence characterizes the critical phase with a temperature of approximately 37.5 C to 38 C or less on days three through seven. It is associated with increased capillary permeability. This phase usually lasts one to two days. It can progress to shock, organ dysfunction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, or hemorrhage.
The recovery phase entails the gradual reabsorption of extravascular fluid in two to three days. The patient will display bradycardia at this time.
Common laboratory findings include thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, elevated aspartate aminotransferase. The disease is classified as dengue or severe dengue. [9][10][11]
Criteria for Dengue Include:
Probable dengue: The patient lives in or has traveled to a dengue-endemic area. Symptoms include fever and two of the following: nausea, vomiting, rash, myalgias, arthralgias, rash, positive tourniquet test, or leukopenia.
Warning Signs of Dengue: Abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, clinical fluid accumulation such as ascites or pleural effusion, mucosal bleeding, lethargy, liver enlargement greater than 2 cm, increase in hematocrit, and thrombocytopenia.
Severe Dengue: Dengue fever with severe plasma leakage, hemorrhage, organ dysfunction including transaminitis greater than 1000 international units per liter, impaired consciousness, myocardial dysfunction, and pulmonary dysfunction.
Dengue shock syndrome clinical warnings: Symptoms include rapidly rising hematocrit, intense abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, and narrowed or absent blood pressure.
The virus antigen can be detected by ELISA, polymerase chain reaction, or isolation of the virus from body fluids. Serology will reveal a marked increase in immunoglobulins.
It is vital to assess pregnant patients with dengue as the symptoms may be very similar to preeclampsia.
Treatment / Management
Supportive management includes giving the patient fluids, acetaminophen for fever, and a blood transfusion for hemorrhage. Confirmed diagnosis is established by culture, antigen detection, polymerase chain reaction, or serologic testing. Avoid giving aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and other anticoagulants. No antiviral medications are recommended.
Patients with thrombocytopenia or bleeding may require platelets and fresh frozen plasma.
No laboratory tests can predict the progression to severe disease.
The clinical diagnosis of dengue can be challenging as many other illnesses can present similarly early in the disease course. Other considerations should include malaria, influenza, Zika, chikungunya, measles, and yellow fever. Obtain a detailed history of immunizations, travel, and exposures.
Rapid laboratory identification of dengue fever includes NS1 antigen detection and serologic tests. Serologic tests are only useful after several days of infection and may be associated with false positives due to other flavivirus infections, such as yellow fever or Zika virus.
Untreated severe dengue fever may have a mortality rate of 10% to 20%. Appropriate supportive care reduces the mortality rate to roughly 1%.
Liver injury
Oophoritis
Postoperative and Rehabilitation Care
Patients should be encouraged to consume ample liquids. The return of a patient's appetite is a sign that the infection is subsiding.
Consulting an infectious disease specialist is recommended because most clinicians have little experience managing this infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a hotline which also offers advice on treatment.
Deterrence and Patient Education
The only way to avoid contracting dengue is to prevent mosquito bites and not travel to its endemic areas.
Other preventative measures include the use of DEET insecticide, wearing protective clothing, sleeping under a mosquito net, and eliminating stagnant water around the home.
Enhancing Healthcare Team Outcomes
The diagnosis and management of dengue is complex and this best managed by a multidisciplinary team that includes an infectious disease expert, CDC consultant, emergency department physician and an internist. The care is supportive with fluid, acetaminophen for fever, and a blood transfusion for hemorrhage. Confirmed diagnosis is established by culture, antigen detection, polymerase chain reaction, or serologic testing. No laboratory tests can predict the progression to severe disease.
The role of the primary care provider and nurse practitioner is to educate the traveler on the prevention of mosquito bites. This means covering exposed skin, and use bed nets, particularly during daytime siestas, using mosquito repellents and indoor insecticides. One should also eradicate mosquito breeding grounds like standing water. The prognosis for untreated dengue is abysmal but with supportive care, most patients can survive, albeit with residual multisystem organ damage.[12][13]
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[6] Maia LMS,Bezerra MCF,Costa MCS,Souza EM,Oliveira MEB,Ribeiro ALM,Miyazaki RD,Slhessarenko RD, Natural vertical infection by dengue virus serotype 4, Zika virus and Mayaro virus in Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus. Medical and veterinary entomology. 2019 Feb 18; [PubMed PMID: 30776139]
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Royal Enfield Bullet 350 ABS to be introduced in coming weeks
02/02/2019 - 13:45 | Royal Enfield Bullet, Royal Enfield | Ajinkya Lad
While Royal Enfield has updated almost its entire fleet with ABS, the Bullet 350 is yet to receive it. According to our sources, the Royal Enfield Bullet 350 ABS is likely to be launched in the coming weeks.
The Royal Enfield Bullet 350 will come equipped with a dual-channel ABS unit.
Unlike what was reported previously, the Royal Enfield Bullet 350 will receive a dual-channel ABS unit. While we don't have the prices as yet, the motorcycle is expected to be dearer by up to INR 14,000. The Bullet 350 currently retails at INR 1.16 lakh* for the drum brake variant, while the twin-disc model costs INR 1.29 lakh*. The Bullet 350 Electra (single-disc) is priced at INR 1.30 lakh* and INR 1.33 lakh* for the twin-disc version.
On 10 January, Royal Enfield introduced the Bullet 500 ABS in India, priced at INR 1.87 lakh*. The Royal Enfield Bullet 350 range is the most affordable offering from the Indian bike maker, which accounts for over 14,000 average monthly sales. Apart from the addition of ABS, the Bullet 350 range will remain unchanged. That said, the non-ABS variants will be discontinued once the new safety guidelines come into effect on 1 April 2019.
The introduction of ABS will result in a price hike of up to INR 14,000 on the Royal Enfield Bullet 350.
Also Read: Royal Enfield to hike prices by up to 2% - Report
Powering the Royal Enfield Bullet 350 is a 346 cc single-cylinder, air-cooled motor that is capable of pumping out 19.8 bhp of maximum power and 28 Nm of peak torque. This engine is mated to a 5-speed gearbox. The motorcycle is equipped with telescopic forks at the front and twin gas-charged shock absorbers at the back. It rides on 19-inch wire-spoke wheels.
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What is NAICS?
The North American Industry Classification System or NAICS is a 6-digit federal classification system used by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to classify business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data relating to the business economy. It replaces an earlier system, the 4-digit SIC (Standard Industrial Classification). Such industry classification systems are useful for comparing data.
How is it useful for this assignment? Use this code to pull up Industry and competitor market research in the business databases.
How to find it: It is included in most tables, articles, and company information profiles you find in many of the business databases, or go to NAICS Lookup from the U.S. Census Bureau to search or browse for the code matching your industry.
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Mintel Market Research Reports
Market research reports can be difficult to find. One resource available to OSU students is Mintel Market Research, which offers market research reports covering many US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Search by keyword, or browse for reports by sector, theme or demographic. You can also browse through the release Schedule within the various sector libraries for the most current reports.
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Reference USA. This database is especially useful for small business owners/entrepreneurs and for job seekers. OSU does not subscribe but it is available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. (OSU students can get a free public library card, even if you don't reside in Benton County. If you have a card, you can access this from home.)
Market analysis can be very challenging. Not all the information you need is going to be publicly available, which is precisely why you also need to conduct primary research for your BA 260 project. With regard to your secondary research, sometimes you'll have to extrapolate information from different sources to get the information you need. Market research reports created by for-profit companies are usually much too expensive for a student to afford and impossible for a library to obtain. You will need to get creative!
Searching in the business news can be useful for several reasons: you can get a feel for overall trends and development in an industry, discover who the major companies are within an industry, and find out what's happening that's new and exciting.
Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Besides scholarly business journal articles, BSP also includes business news and trade journal publications not found elsewhere.
More than 15,000 international news, business, and legal sources in full text. Like BSP, it also includes trade journal publications.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. (Latest 30 days only)
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Knows as the "business Bible," the Wall Street Journal is the primary source for business news. Updated daily.
As you do your research of companies and markets, the following databases provided by OSU Libraries may prove useful for finding company and industry information.
Business Insights: Global (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Global Company and Industry Intelligence, plus case studies and great chart-making functionality. Scholarly journals, case studies, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies. Detailed company and industry profiles, market share reports, and financial reports. Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection. Especially good chart generation!
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A great database for company information, Mergent Online has information on approximately 15,000 NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ companies, and data on 20,000 non-U.S. based corporations. Information includes company history, subsidiaries, income statement, balance sheet, and a lot more. The tab for "Industry Analysis" makes it easier to find reports by industry, company, date, and region.
Looking for data on a private company? Look for the "D&B 20 M Plus Private Company Search" tab.
First Research This link opens in a new window
First Research is a great database for industry information. It provides profiles on over 900 industry segments. Profiles are comprehensive (and international) and include: industry profiles; products, operations and technology; finance and regulation; regional and international issues; human resources; and labor statistics.
BSP is our chief source of business news and scholarly research, plus a lot more. Business Source Premier provides access to thousands of scholarly business journals, newspapers, and trade publications, including full text for many of them. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. A great resource for Trade industry news.
NetAdvantage
While primarily designed for finding investment information, there is a lot of industry and company data available here. Look for the tabs at the top of the page for "Company" and "Industry" to simplify finding this information.
Sports Market Analytics This link opens in a new window
This is a specialized resource for anything to do with sports, recreation, and leisure. SBRnet is an online international sport marketing and business information provider including reports and statistics which focus on sport participation, fan profiles, sports facilities, sport finance, sporting goods, sponsorship, marketing, media and directories.
Nexis Uni™ features the more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, but with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. TO QUICKLY ACCESS THE BUSINESS RESOURCES click on the Business link under Discover topics.
Working on components of a business plan? Find examples here. Easy to search and highly intuitive, this is a comprehensive database offering content that covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more. Based on a combination of periodical and reference content, Small Business Resource Center is a good source of basic information for the prospective and current entrepreneurial community, as well as for students in business programs. From conducting industry research to financial planning...to marketing a product and franchising a business...
Small Business Resource Center features a wealth of resources, including the entire Business Plans Handbook Series, which contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, as well as Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management – A Framework for Success.
Also included are dozens of titles from John Wiley & Sons, publisher of the well-known "For Dummies" series, including Portable MBA in Strategy, 2nd Ed., The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth, and Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship.
Small Business Resource Center also
includes a number of business journals – both specialty/vertical market and general business – including titles like:
■ Better Asset Management
■ Black Enterprise
■ Consumer Comments
■ Cosmetics International
■ Direct Marketing
■ Financial Management
■ Family Business Review
■ The Tax Adviser
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To construct a successful business or marketing plan, it is important to know your audience. Demographic tools are a good way to discover something about the people and the communities you plan to market to--here are several freely available online tools to help you.
Data.Census.Gov: Data from the U.S. census including Puerto Rico and island areas. Includes population, housing, and economic information. (Step-by-step LibGuide for how to use the new US Census Data website: https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/USCensusData)
Census Reporter For a more visual rendition of Census information, try this Knight News project developed to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Place profiles and comparison pages provide a friendly interface for navigating data, including visualizations for a more useful first look.
State Master: Database of facts about states. When viewing results, look at the bottom of the page to find the source. You may need to visit the source to view the most up-to-date information.
Oregon Explorer: Rural Communities Explorer: Information compiled and updated by faculty and staff at Oregon State University thanks to a generous donation from the Ford Foundation. Includes online information about Oregon communities (including Portland) that can't be found anywhere else.
Census Business Builder
A great free tool for those seeking to establish or research small businesses by geographic area.
There are two available: Small Business Edition, and Regional Analyst Edition.
Small Business Edition is built primarily for small business owners who need key data for their business plan or to better understand their potential market. It presents data for a single type of business and geography at a time. Regional Analyst Edition is built for chambers of commerce and regional planning staff who need a broad portrait of the people and businesses in their service area. It presents data for all sectors of the economy and for a user-defined region made up of one or more areas.
County Business Patterns (CBP)
An annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. This series includes the number of establishments, employment during the week of March 12, first quarter payroll, and annual payroll. This data is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for other statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses. Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets.
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB)
Annual or static data include number of firms, number of establishments, employment, and annual payroll for most U.S. business establishments. The data are tabulated by geographic area, industry, and enterprise size. Industry classification is based on 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.
International Marketing Data and Statistics (online book) and European Marketing Data and Statistics (physical book) are statistical yearbooks containing comparable business and marketing information. The subjects covered range from banking and finance, consumer market sizes and foreign trade to cultural and economic indicators. It serves as an ideal base for building country profiles, strategic planning and international market analysis. At a glance, you can compare population size by age, length of the average working week, consumer expenditure on hotels by month and much more. The international edition includes the United States.
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Greylock Partners VC Reid Hoffman issued a statement Wednesday.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman apologized Wednesday following reports that he donated $750,000 to a group linked to a project which used misinformation tactics on social media during the 2017 Alabama special election.
Hoffman, a vocal Democratic supporter, said he wasn't aware of the group's misinformation project.
The project involved creating a Facebook page aimed at conservative Alabamians as part of an effort to divide the party.
Linkedin co-founder and Greylock Partner's investor Reid Hoffman apologized Wednesday for funding a group linked to a misinformation campaign during Alabama's 2017 special election for the US Senate.
It was the first time that Hoffman, a prominent Silicon Valley billionaire, acknowledged his donation to the group, called American Engagement Technologies, or AET.
AET allegedly funded another project, called New Knowledge, which used social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to boost support for Democrat Doug Jones in his ultimately successful campaign against Republican Roy Moore.
Hoffman donated $750,000 to AET, according to the Washington Post, who first reported Hoffman's statement Wednesday.
Hoffman, a vocal democratic donor, said in the statement that he was not aware of the group's work with New Knowledge before it was reported last week.
"I find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing. For that reason, I am embarrassed by my failure to track AET — the organization I did support — more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that I would reject," Hoffman said in the statement.
Hoffman's apology comes one week after the New York Times reported details of the project, known as Project Birmingham.
Project Birmingham involved creating Facebook pages aimed at conservative Alabamians, according to the Times. The page was used to try to divide Republicans and encouraged them to endorse a write-in candidate. It also involved a scheme to link Moore to Russian bots, according to the Times. | {
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Jaime Alvarez
The desire to have a selfie as a souvenir from running with the bulls in Spain turned into a near-death experience an American lawyer says he'll never forget.
The bull ran over and gored San Francisco resident Jaime Alvarez in the neck during the first run of this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, an event immortalized by writer Ernest Hemingway nearly a century ago.
"The joy and the excitement of being in the bullring quickly turned into a scare, into real fear for my life," Alvarez, 46, said Monday at a regional hospital where he was recovering from surgery.
Doctors told Alvarez the bull's horn went deep into his neck and fractured part of a cheekbone. That it didn't hit the jugular vein or major arteries was described to the injured patient as "beyond miraculous."
Alvarez, who works as a public defender in Santa Clara County, California, said he realized how severely he'd been hurt during his encounter with the bull on Sunday morning when he touched his neck and his hand came away covered with blood.
"In the course of a few seconds, a million thoughts came to my mind, and that of dying was definitely one of them," he said.
Once it appeared certain he would live, the run-in brought rebukes from Alvarez's wife and daughter. The three stopped in Pamplona to check out the famous San Fermin festival while en route to another city where the couple's son was playing in a soccer tournament.
While his daughter and wife cautioned him against joining the crowd that would race the bulls, Alvarez said the energy in the streets of Pamplona on the festival's opening day was too strong to resist.
Alvarez says he ran most of the 913-yard (850-meter) course ahead of the bulls. But by the time they entered the bullfighting plaza at the end, the pack of animals had caught up with him.
He said he climbed onto a fence for safety and returned to the arena only to shoot a short video when he thought that the danger had passed. He wanted "a 5-second video scene to say 'Here I am, I did it.'"
That's when the stray bull came at him running fast.
"The impact was unlike anything I've ever felt. It was like being hit by a car or a truck," Alvarez said. "It was scary. I was really out of it, really stunned, I didn't know what direction to go," he recalled.
Someone grabbed Alvarez by the arm and pushed through the crowds to get to paramedics, possibly saving the American's life.
His urgent surgery Sunday took 2½ hours but Alvarez says his stable condition means he could be discharged as soon as Tuesday. He has promised himself a return to Pamplona to enjoy the festival as a spectator, but not a bull racer.
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debbie marcotte - July 11, 2019 @ 16:46
It makes me sick that in this day and age this takes place serves you right at least you are not killed after the run!
Laura - July 11, 2019 @ 11:57
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Q: Override css with printJS I need the default bootstrap css left intact when printing a table with a fixed header, but need to override a couple of styles relating to overflow as the table is scrollable vertically.
Basically I want targetStyles: ['*'] left in to match what is in my bootstrap css template, but need to override tbody {overflow:auto} and another custom style of .table-responsive {overflow-x:auto} . How can I keep all the bootstrap css but change these two styles for a print job?
I've tried using targetStyles: and style: with a list of these two styles. https://printjs.crabbly.com/#documentation is helpful but not intuitive (yet) for this scenario
/* my table is contained in a div with id of #howDoingTable */
printJS({
printable: 'howDoingTable',
type: 'html',
targetStyles: ['*'],
style: '#howDoingTable tbody {overflow:none;} #howDoingTable.table-responsive {overflow-x:none;}'
});
/*It's ignoring the style with the two overrides I want to implement via style:*/
A: Unless this isn't possible with just printJS in its current offering, I found out the workaround is to change the styles that need changing right before the call to printJS and then re-enable them right afterwards via jQuery:
//change overflow css to visible to remove scrolling in the ui
$("#howDoingTable.table-responsive").css("overflow-x","visible");
$("#howDoingTable tbody").css("overflow","visible");
printJS({
printable: 'howDoingTable',
type: 'html',
targetStyles: ['*']
});
//change the overflow css properties back to scrolling
$("#howDoingTable.table-responsive").css("overflow-x","auto");
$("#howDoingTable tbody").css("overflow","auto");
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The Ministry of Health is reportedly seeing more cases of the Dengue fever. Dr. De La Haye says the country remains on high alert.
"We're now at a total of 75, so we still need to be looking out. More specifically, dengue has four sub-types. Three and Four are the ones associated with Dengue hemorrhagic disease and Dengue hemorrhagic fever, the more lethal outcome potentially of dengue," Dr. De La Haye said.
However, "in patients we've suspected of having Dengue hemorrhagic fever, none of those have returned positive," he said.
\"We're now at a total of 75, so we still need to be looking out. More specifically, dengue has four sub-types. Three and Four are the ones associated with Dengue hemorrhagic disease and Dengue hemorrhagic fever, the more lethal outcome potentially of dengue,\" Dr. De La Haye said.
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Politics do have consequences. How people vote and who people vote for has consequences. The policies supported by politicians and government officials have consequences. Economic and personal consequences.
Biden "Diplomacy" Takes Wrecking Ball to US-UK Relations
The Daily Signal (Aug 27, 2021)
Deroy Murdock
"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again," President Joe Biden pledged in his Jan. 20 inaugural address. He announced on Feb. 4: "America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy."
Despite such loud promises that he would make America's alliances great again, Biden's initially foolish, now fatal, Afghan catastrophe has atomized U.S. international ties as if with a MOAB ("mother of all bombs"), not least with America's best friends abroad.
Biden has blitzed the United States' "special relationship" with the United Kingdom. The U.S. and U.K. have been BFFs since soon after memories of the War of 1812 faded. America and Britain jointly defeated Kaiser Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin's heirs, and al-Qaeda & Co. Uncle Sam has stood shoulder to shoulder with John Bull overseas and proudly advanced common ideals, with Anglophone good cheer.
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Biden Admin in Violation of Constitution, Supreme Court Ruling
Joe Biden certainly isn't the first president to violate his oath of office, but he might be the first in memory to openly brag about doing it.
As Biden announced a new "eviction moratorium," he informed Americans that the "bulk of constitutional scholars" would say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium is "not likely to pass constitutional muster."
Not likely? It already failed.
In June, Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the majority Supreme Court that the CDC "exceeded its existing statutory authority," even though he allowed the order to sunset. The president admitted as much, noting that the new moratorium is meant to give the administration time to act on "rental assistance" before the court again shuts it down. What stops Biden from stalling and trying a third time? A 10th time?
Biden admitted to the media that he would be circumventing the courts, the law, and his oath of office, in which he promised, to the best of his ability, to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States," not to infringe on the property rights of Americans to placate crackpot socialists in his party.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was far more honest, noting that this was "a huge victory for the power of direct action and not taking no for an answer."
Not taking no for an answer—in this case, not taking no for an answer from the Supreme Court—is lawlessness. The process—the sacred norms that Democrats pretended to care about over the past five years—is irrelevant to engaging in "direct action" within government. It's been clear from their efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court to their effort to undermine faith in federalism and countermajoritarian institutions.
None of this is to even speak of the tremendous abuse of power inherent in the underlying eviction moratorium itself. Biden's new 19-page order includes draconian penalties, fines, and potential jail time for violating a concocted "law." Forget that it's terrible public policy; it is also, as I noted when it was first issued by the Trump administration, state-sanctioned theft. At best, such an "emergency" infringement should be left to state and local municipalities.
Does anyone really believe that the Founders would approve of the CDC—an incompetent agency tasked with dealing with infectious diseases—retroactively ripping up millions of legal contracts and unilaterally suspending the property rights of 90% of landlords? If it can do that, what can't it do?
Some have argued that former President Donald Trump's reappropriation of funding for a southern wall or former President Barack Obama's power grab on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program paved the way for this kind of executive abuse. But neither the wall nor DACA policies had yet been adjudicated by higher courts when they were put into play.
Obama had, on numerous occasions, admitted that he had no constitutional authority to enact amnesty for millions of Americans by fiat. In 2010, he said, "I am not king. I can't do these things just by myself." The next year, he again acknowledged that, as president, he was not empowered to "just bypass Congress and change the law myself. … That's not how a democracy works."
Obama, of course, didn't believe in any such limitations, and he went ahead with DACA anyway. Yet not even he enacted the executive action after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. That is unique.
You can imagine what the future looks like once we've normalized the idea that presidents can regurgitate unconstitutional executive actions as long as the polling is positive.
One of the often repeated—and legitimate—concerns regarding Trump was that he would simply ignore the will of the court. That is exactly what Biden is doing right now. Writers at major outlets such as The Washington Post and CNN are already celebrating this lawbreaking as a moral good.
Democrats will dutifully defend the president, talk about the purported benefits of the moratorium, and ignore the unconstitutional manner in which it is implemented.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an alleged leader of the legislative branch of the American government, pressured Biden to ignore Congress and the courts. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer celebrated the decision. And it is highly unlikely that a single Democrat will stand up and speak up for the rule of law.
Does Diversity Unite Us, or Divide Us?
Our progressive politicians and opinion leaders proclaim their commitment to diversity almost daily, chanting the same refrain: "Diversity is our strength." This is the gospel according to political correctness. But how does diversity strengthen us? Is it a force for unity and cohesiveness? Or is it a source of division and contention? Does it promote the common good and the friendship that rests at the heart of citizenship? Or does it promote racial and ethnic division and something resembling the tribalism that prevents most of the world from making constitutional government a success? When is the last time we heard anyone in Washington talk about the common good? We are used to hearing talk about the various stakeholders and group interests, but not much about what the nation has in common.
This should not be surprising. Greater diversity means inevitably that we have less in common, and the more we encourage diversity the less we honor the common good. Any honest and clear-sighted observer should be able to see that diversity is a solvent that dissolves the unity and cohesiveness of a nation—and we should not be deceived into believing that its proponents do not understand the full impact of their advocacy!
Diversity, of course, marches under the banner of tolerance, but is a bastion of intolerance. It enforces its ideological liberalism with an iron fist that is driven by political correctness, the most ingenious (and insidious) device for suppressing freedom of speech and political dissent ever invented.
The Big Lie About Election Reforms in Texas and Other States
President Joe Biden claimed in a recent speech that state election reform efforts are "the 21st-century Jim Crow assault" and "the most dangerous threat to voting and integrity of free and fair elections in our history."
This has to one of the most foolish things he has ever said. It also displays a fundamental ignorance of the real history of Jim Crow. Contrary to his outrageous charges, the states are acting to protect all of their voters and guarantee safe and secure elections. That is not Jim Crow.
Biden administration back peddles on promoting critical race theory
The Wealth Tax Horror: It's wrong, it's bad policy, and it won't work
Perhaps no policy proposal has generated more excitement among Democratic voters looking toward the 2020 election than Elizabeth Warren's "wealth tax"—a tax on the actual balance-sheet worth of wealthy Americans, above and beyond the taxes imposed on their incomes. The idea that some Americans do not pay enough taxes, and therefore need to be taxed annually on their wealth itself and not just on the income the wealth produces, has gained popularity in recent years.
Social Liberal Is Silenced Over Belief That There Are 'Only 2 Sexes'
(The Daily Signal, 23 January 2020) Jon Caldara, a regular columnist for The Denver Post, announced Jan. 17 in a Facebook post that the publication had fired him for his traditional, but apparently offensive and "insensitive," beliefs about sex and gender.
Democratic voters won't support 2020 candidates who oppose school choice
(Washington Examiner, 24 January 2020) Ten days out from the pivotal Iowa caucuses, a new poll further emphasizes that when it comes to school choice, Democrats are blatantly disregarding the wishes of key constituencies in favor of special interests.
Bernie Sanders staffer advocates armed revolution
Martin Weissgerber, a Bernie Sanders field organizer, is now the second staffer to be caught praising and put counter-revolutionaries in prison.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1219623083666862081?s=20
Another Bernie Staffer Allegedly Promotes Violence: Kill The Rich, Put Republicans In Camps
(The Daily Wire, 21 January 2020). "Let's force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let's force them to do that."
"Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps."
Lawrence O'Donnell: 'There Will Be NO ONE Defending' Trump on MSNBC
(mrcNewsBusters, 16 January 2020) In a rare moment of candor, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell admitted what the network has become: An echo chamber that won't accept debate. Appearing Sunday on The Al Franken Podcast, O'Donnell disputed the idea that CNN "hates Trump." The host contrasted, "On MSNBC there will be no one defending [Trump] because we don't bring on liars. I don't bring on a liar. I won't do that."
No diversity of thought allowed here.
To Keep African Americans Safe, Target Criminals, Not Police
(The Daily Signal, 15 January 2020) Leftists and social justice warriors charge that what blacks have to fear most is being shot and killed by police, but the numbers don't add up.
Democrats Block Resolution Condemning Iran For Murdering Protesters, Shooting Down Plane
(The Daily Wire, 14 January 2020) House Democrats blocked a resolution on Tuesday that expressed support for oppressed Iranian protesters and condemned Iran for shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane last week that killed 176 people.
How Obamacare Made Things Worse for Patients With Preexisting Conditions
(The Daily Signal, 14 January 2020) Nationwide, one-quarter of the cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute participate in no Obamacare plans.
Parents Challenge 'Radical' LGBT Curriculum in New Jersey Schools
(The Daily Signal, 13 January 2020) "Gender ideology has brainwashed my son and erased his childhood," says Crystal Lopez. "My son now thinks he is really a girl. The curriculum that is being implemented is really harmful and is meant to confuse our children."
Democrats And The Media Are Blaming America Because Iran Shot Down A Passenger Plane. This Is Beyond Despicable.
(The Daily Wire, 9 January 2020). For days after Trump ordered the strike on global mass killer Qassem Soleimani, Democrats and the media heaped praise and adulation on the dead terrorist while fretting that the president had inaugurated World War 3. Perhaps "fretting" isn't the right word. "Hoping" might be more apt.
And when Iran began launching missiles at our bases in Iraq, these same people assured us that the dreaded – or longed for – moment had finally arrived. But when that attack claimed no American casualties, caused little damage, and was revealed to be nothing but a symbolic face-saving measure by Iran, we were told that the benevolent Iranians were being "the adults in the room."
Also see: The Democrat's Hatred of President Trump and America Itself is Appalling.
Rep. Will Hurd: Iran is not a victim
(Washington Examiner, 8 January 2017) After almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA serving in the Middle East and South Asia, I never thought I would see the Iranian government be able to manipulate members of Congress, Democratic presidential candidates, and the Western media.
Qassem Soleimani was the head of the most dangerous and well-armed terrorist organization in the world. Taking him out was an appropriate response after all the Iranian government and its proxies have done over the past few months, and it was a significant blow to the Iranian regime's ability to conduct future terrorist attacks.
The Hypocrisy of the Liberal Left
(Washington Examiner, 27 August 2020) The liberal Left is steeped in moral relativism and relies on its Platonic elitism to such a degree that it fails to recognize its blatant hypocrisy.
Leftists such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and even former President Barack Obama often tell us that the rich are too rich or that some people can have too much. Obama even suggested that "There's only so much you can eat," implying that any more than a full stomach is too rich within the United States....
Their bankrupt political ideology demands division. Their theme is always "us vs. them." Unity of purpose, culture, nationhood, and citizenship undermine the socialist dogma that permeates their respective interpretations of liberal political ideology.
The Perpetually Conflicted Democrats Are Distraught Over American Victories
(Townhall, 4 January 2020) The Democrats are absolutely devastated. They were certain that President Trump would start a war with Iran, but instead he's keeping the rogue regime in line using tactics that would never occur to any Democrat.
The Democratic Party has always been uncomfortable with the notion of America winning, and their irrational, undying hatred of Donald Trump makes it even harder for liberals to process the news that a U.S. airstrike took out the general in charge of Iran's elite Quds Force, Qassim Soleimani. The leading Democratic presidential candidates, for instance, had to resort to some fairly awkward rhetorical contortions in response to this undeniable victory for the Free World.
What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery
(The Daily Signal, 2 January 2020) One of the ironies of the current American "elite" is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn't so.
Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the Constitution has an amendment process.
He was correct to say that the Framers created a process to change the Constitution in the future, but then followed up with this profoundly absurd statement: "The people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing."
There's much to unpack in this short, wildly incorrect sentence. It reflects both the kind of pernicious education Americans receive in schools across the country as well as the mindset of the progressive elite.
America just took out a man many consider the world's No. 1 bad guy
(CNBC, 2 January 2020) The killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani doesn't have the emotional power of the takedown of Osama bin Laden, but taking him out means much more in terms of saving current lives, writes opinion columnist Jake Novak.
Seattle Passed a $15 Minimum Wage Law in 2014. Here's How It's Turned Out So Far
(CNBC, 2 January 2020) The conflicting studies highlight a broader debate about what a $15 federal minimum wage might do for businesses and workers nationwide. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell even touched on the issue during his testimony before the House of Representatives this summer saying. "there is no consensus among economists … economists are all over the place on this."
The Dangers of Elite Groupthink
(Daily Signal, 2 January 2020) The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate, and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow.
Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable—even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.
American Citizenship is Eroding
(Imprimis, November 2019) Today many condemn the idea of nationalism by connecting it to race hatred (e.g., white nationalism). But historically, the modern nation-state has proven uniquely suitable to preserving individual rights. The American nation in particular was successful in uniting individuals of different races, ethnic backgrounds, and creeds into one people based on shared principles, a unique physical space, and a common national story. Our nation is the best example in human history of positive nationalism.
California's Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work
(Daily Signal, 20 December 2019) A new California law set to go into effect in the new year is the latest example of misguided legislation hurting the very people it was aimed to "protect" in the Golden State.
The law, Assembly Bill 5, puts severe restrictions on who is qualified to be an independent contractor or freelancer. The law puts heavy restrictions on how much work freelancers can do before being considered full-time workers.
U.N. Official Admits Global Warming Agenda Is Really About Destroying Capitalism
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Il controllo ultrasonico (o ultrasonoro o ad ultrasuoni) è un controllo non distruttivo dei materiali o delle strutture effettuato con l'ausilio delle onde ultrasoniche.
Storia
Nel 1929 e nel 1935, Sokolov sperimentò l'uso delle onde ultrasoniche nella rilevazione degli oggetti di metallo.
Mulhauser, nel 1931, brevettò una tecnologia che usava le onde ultrasoniche, con l'utilizzo di due trasduttori per rilevare i difetti nei solidi.
Floyd Firestone, nel 1940, e Simons, cinque anni più tardi, svilupparono la tecnica ultrasonica Eco Pulse.
Subito dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale, i ricercatori Giapponesi cominciarono ad esplorare le possibilità di applicazioni diagnostiche in campo medico degli ultrasuoni.
Il metodo ultrasonico in lavorazioni ferroviarie
Nella lavorazione di costruzione o rinnovo armamento ferroviario, si adotta il metodo ultrasonico, che permette di riscontrare i difetti di costruzione o di saldatura della rotaia stessa. Questo metodo ultrasonico mediante macchina si è rivelato fondamentale per la nuova TAV.
Inoltre il metodo ultrasonoro, oltre che quello magnetico, viene impiegato nel controllo qualità di ruote monoblocco di treni e di assili ferroviari. Per questi ultimi si effettua anche un controllo del foro bareno mediante "Borosonda".
Voci correlate
TOFD
Controlli non distruttivi
Altri progetti
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A Green Isle In the Sea, Love
Publisher: BrickHouse Books, Inc. (October 26, 2015)
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 8.9 inches
A Green Isle In the Sea, Love quantity
A line from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "To a Lost Love," provides the title for Elisabeth Stevens' elegiac, provocative, and sexy new novel of the 1950's. "A Green Isle in the Sea, Love" returns to that calm, politically and sexually conservative era of Post World War II optimism before the angry years of racial violence and feminist protest that followed. Stevens, whose sensual and plain-spoken collection of love poems, "Sirens' Songs," was named one of the 100 best indie books of 2011 by Kirkus, depicts Amy, a naive, 22-year-old heroine who comes to New York City from a small upstate town to prove that she can be a great painter.
Amy paints, but she also falls in love with Charlie, a conventional businessman who believes in 'progress.' Soon, she sees that the successful artists in the city are men, and that unmarried women such Charlie's long-widowed mother, who runs the family insurance agency, or her recently-widowed mother, who wants Amy to come home, have unfulfilled lives. Even Duncan, Charlie's brilliant, free-living half-brother, a world traveler, risks disappointment when he falls in love with Blanche, 'the most beautiful girl in New York.'
In a troubling world which in some ways resembles that of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar," Amy resists mounting depression and confusion and Charlie's pressure to 'do the right thing' and get married. She instead keeps working on a strange, unstylish painting of a chimera, which she can't seem to finish.
Florida Artist & Writer Elisabeth Stevens
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The aim of this 5-year project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, is to develop a culturally tailored nutrition communication intervention for primary prevention of breast cancer among bicultural Latinas. The overarching goal of the study is to advance understanding of how communication and acculturation processes influence cancer risk behaviors in order to design effective culturally tailored interventions to reduce cancer risk behaviors. This approach is particularly relevant when considering research on the health of the population of CA's San Joaquin Valley (SJV). A vast, largely rural region that produces over half of the nation's fruit, nuts, and vegetables, SJV is 50% Latino, mostly of Mexican origin6. The SJV has a very diverse Latino population: 25% are foreign-born, and their primary language may be an indigenous Mexican language rather than Spanish, while 75% are native-born U.S. citizens, who possess varied fluency in English abilities and whose families may include both legal and undocumented immigrants. The linguistic and acculturative diversity of this population poses new challenges for understanding how to design effective behavior change interventions. Most community-based interventions with Latinos have focused on those who speak Spanish exclusively, limiting our understanding of how acculturation and linguistic diversity impact communication intervention design and effectiveness. mHealth strategies offer a way of delivering interventions that are not only culturally appropriate for Latinos across the acculturation spectrum, but also appropriate for primary cancer prevention among young adults who are eager adopters of technology.
The overarching aim of this project is to create a culture of health in Merced County by informing, educating, and empowering residents for individual behavior change and civic engagement. Dissemination activities will serve to convey the program's successes to a variety of stakeholders within the county as well as at CDC and partner funding agencies.
Heart disease and stroke accounted for more than 30% of deaths in Merced County in 2012. The 12% diabetes prevalence is higher than the 10% national prevalence. To address factors contributing to this chronic disease burden, a multi-sector coalition of community, government, health care, faith-based organizations, and businesses will implement a comprehensive strategy to decrease exposure to health risks and increase options for healthy choices. The project will expand smoke-free protections to multi-unit housing complexes and college campuses; increase physical activity opportunities through active transportation/community design planning and/or joint-use agreements; achieve Baby-Friendly Hospital designation in at least one local hospital system; and expand access to chronic disease prevention services through community health workers.
This project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From CDC: PICH is a 3-year initiative that supports implementation of evidence-based strategies to improve the health of communities and reduce the prevalence of chronic disease. PICH builds on a body of knowledge developed through previously funded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) programs and encourages collaborations with a multi-sectoral coalition to implement sustainable changes in communities where people live, learn, work, and play.
Project MESA is a collaborative project between UC Merced, Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program, and regional community stakeholders to create a formal community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative to address obesity disparities among Latinos, with a focus on families and multigenerational households.
This project is funded by the Eunice Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD).
A series of projects designed to understand young adult Latinas' perceptions about cancer and cancer prevention and their use of mobile phones as sources of health information. The overarching goal of this project is to determine the feasibility of using mobile phones as channels for disseminating tailored health information to this population. | {
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Free movie at Bailey Business Center on OBU campus, based on the PLS Reads book by Angie Thomas "The Hate U Give". With short introductory remarks about themes and adaptation from novel to film.
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Swalwell Fumes Gets Roasted By Ted Cruz After Bet
Rep. Eric "Fang Fang" Swalwell tried to humiliate Senator Ted Cruz by making make a bet with him over the upcoming 49ers-Cowboys game.
"If the @dallascowboys beat the @49ers I won't tweet for the rest of January. If the @49ers win you can't tweet for rest of January. How Texan are you, Ted? Deal?" he wrote.
I will make this open bet to @tedcruz — if the @dallascowboys beat the @49ers I won't tweet for the rest of January. If the @49ers win you can't tweet for rest of January. How Texan are you, Ted? Deal?
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 17, 2023
Cruz responded, "How about we bet a Chinese dinner instead?"
That's savage. You know the Congressman was fuming after that.
Cruz was referring to the report that Swalwell had a relationship with a woman who turned out to be a CCP spy and fled the USA in 2015.
From Fox News:
The "Chinese dinner" zinger was a reference to a controversy Swalwell got wrapped up in a few years ago with a Chinese national named Fang Fang or Christine Fang. Intelligence officials told Axios at the time that Fang used campaign fundraising, networking, rallies and romantic relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors to gain proximity to political power.
Fang reportedly took part in fundraising for Swalwell's 2014 re-election campaign, although she did not make donations nor was there evidence of illegal contributions.
According to Axios, investigators became so alarmed by Fang's behavior and activities they alerted Swalwell in 2015 to their concerns and gave him a "defensive briefing." Swalwell then cut off all ties with Fang and has not been accused of any wrongdoing, according to an official who spoke to the outlet.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has also stated that based on what he knows about the incident he isn't letter Swalwell near any committee.
"What I am doing with the Intel Committee [is] bringing it back to the jurisdiction it's supposed to do. Forward-looking to keep this country safe, keep the politics out of it," the California Republican told the media Thursday, according to a report from the Hill. "So yes, I'm doing exactly what we're supposed to do."
"If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn't have Swalwell on any committee," the speaker said.
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It can be hard to find time for home cooking during the busy working week. Full time jobs and family commitments can make it tricky to fit in a food shop and find time every evening to make a new meal. Our latest cookbook – Sunday Cook-in – is here to help with some of our favourite batch cooking recipes.
Set aside an hour or two on a Sunday afternoon, put some music on, and have a nice relaxing cooking session. Then you can stock up your fridge or freezer with these delicious and nutritious recipes that will keep you going throughout the week.
Making two large jars and tasting ten times tastier than anything you'll find in a supermarket, this will keep you going for weeks. Serve with cold milk and a dollop of natural Greek yoghurt, plus a sprinkling of blueberries or raspberries. And take some into work with you and eat a handful to keep you going until home time. This is a great alternative to popping to the vending machine or the shop to buy sweets.
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ETH Hits 3-Week High Ahead of FOMC Minutes – Market Updates Bitcoin News
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Ethereum rose to a three-week high on Jan. 4, as markets prepared for the release of the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes. Wednesday's report will likely show the U.S. Federal Reserve's view on the economy, and further detail its reasoning behind a policy pivot. Bitcoin was also higher, rising to an eight-day high.
Bitcoin (BTC) rose to an eight-day high on Wednesday, as cryptocurrency markets climbed ahead of the latest FOMC minutes release.
Following a low of $16,622.37 on Tuesday, BTC/USD raced to an intraday high of $16,886.14 earlier today.
The move saw BTC rise above a key resistance level of $16,800, which is typically the last hurdle preventing price from reaching $17,000.
BTC/USD – Daily Chart
As can be seen from the chart, today's surge in price has sent bitcoin to its highest point since December 27, when it traded at $16,961.
Traders will likely attempt to move above $17,000 ahead of or directly after the release of the minutes report.
The rally comes as the 14-day relative strength index (RSI) moves above its own ceiling at 49.00, and is currently tracking at 50.37.
Like BTC, ethereum (ETH) also surged in today's session, with prices climbing to a multi-week high.
ETH/USD rose to a peak of $1,253.12 earlier in the day, which comes less than 24 hours after trading at a low of $1,207.49.
As a result of today's move, ethereum broke out of a resistance level at $1,230, hitting its highest level since…
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Rowing Blazers is the brainchild of 30-year-old clothing designer Jack Carlson, an Oxford-trained archeologist whose rowing mates happen to include the Winklevoss twins.
The brand's namesake product—"old sport" sport coats that seem lifted right out of a 1930s boat club photo—sell for anywhere from $550 to $1,100. With bold colors and stripes, oversized crests and grosgrain trim, they are quite distinctive. The key, though, is that they are intended for and used by actual rowers, lending authenticity. This signature product is a kind of touchstone for Rowing Blazers as it collaborates with other retailers, including Japan's Beams and United Arrow.
Now that's a quote I can get behind. Alas, all 200 sold out in a flash when they went on sale at the end of March—at none other than J.Crew.
The collaboration generated serious buzz and gave some heft to J.Crew's Heritage collection. You don't often hear the need for authenticity mentioned in the context of fashion. If you ask me, though, brands like J.Crew, Ralph Lauren, Coach or Nike took off precisely because something about them spoke to consumers. Stray too far from that and you lose your luster. In a word, you seem less authentic. Nike, for example, spent years offering a multiplicity of SKUs that seemed far from the simplicity of "Just Do It." Now the brand has pared back and refocused. Suddenly, Nike seems like its old self.
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Making it with Marc Part 2: Becoming A Tour Guide
The popular HBO series The Sopranos turns 20 years old in just one month! To celebrate this milestone, we'll be sharing some Sopranos content and a behind the scenes look at the Sopranos Sites Tour throughout the years. Marc Baron, long time Sopranos Sites tour guide, tells us about how he became a guide in the second of four blog posts. Read on…
Sometime during the filming of the third season I got a call from an old friend, Joyce Randolph. Joyce is best known as Trixie of the TV The Honeymooners. We both belong to a theater club called The Lambs ®, which is the oldest theatrical organization in America, founded in New York in 1874. Today I am its Shepherd (President). Joyce's late husband, Richard Charles, was The Lambs' Shepherd in the 1990's. Joyce and I are old and very dear friends. Joyce had received a call about making an appearance on a bus tour about film and television locations. She invited the tour company founder/owner, Georgette Blau, to The Lambs to chat, and Joyce asked me to sit with them. Georgette explained that she had created a company focused on giving tours about films and television and among them included tours about Sex & the City and The Sopranos. I chimed in that I had worked on a few episodes of The Sopranos and Georgette began to grill me about my work.
At this time I was now trying to move my career away from stand-in/double work. So, my calendar was free. Georgette wanted to know if I'd be interested in working on her Sopranos Tour. She preferred guides who were actors or comedians, and my having been on the show's set really piqued her interest. I have never done anything like this before and was hesitant. I eventually agreed to take the tour to see what it was all about. There were about 18 locations and the trip ran over 4 hours and 30 minutes, but it lacked information and was a bit boring. The guide would simply chat with people in front then point to a location as the bus whizzed by telling the clients what happened there. Georgette and I talked about what I thought it needed, such as more interaction and humor. She agreed to let me makes changes to the tour, and I began to learn the tour, while at the same time researching the actors, developing a few jokes, adding some prizes to make it interactive and, adding some of my behind- the-scenes knowledge/experiences.
But then a major setback– September 11th. All tourism essentially stopped in New York City. Tunnels were closed while the city slowly recovered. During the several months following the disaster, Georgette took off the reigns and allowed me to revamp the tour. We had the help of Sue Sadik, aka Soprano Sue, and John 'Gramps' Launder. They were two huge fans of the show who frequently found their way onto sets during production. They pointed out a lot of locations and, together, we re-routed the entire tour. I added my research, jokes, and we restarted the tour about 2 months later. It took a little time, but good word was quickly spreading about the tour. We had made the tour run at 4 hours but included about 40 locations.
At about that time one of the actors – Joe Gannascoli who played Vito Spatafore – began meeting the tour at its start, selling souvenirs and taking photos with tourists. Joe can come off a little gruff, but once you get past that he's a decent guy. While I was doing the tour, I was still working on the show occasionally. The times when both Joe and I were on set he would introduce me around to other actors, directors, etc. I knew better than to mention the tour.
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CHICAGO, Illinois (Jan. 2, 2018)— Brilliant™, an award-winning search, staffing and management resources firm specializing in accounting, finance and information technology, was named one of the Nation's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2017 by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). This is the fourth consecutive year Brilliant received the national recognition.
"We are proud to receive the Best and Brightest recognition on a national scale… Our mission is to make people's lives better and that starts from within. Brilliant is committed to providing our team members with an environment that allows them to excel personally and professionally," says Brilliant President Jeff Mariola. He continues, "Our culture and people are our competitive advantage and winning this award four years in a row is a clear indicator of that."
The 2017 winning companies were assessed by the NABR on key measures including Compensation, Benefits and Employee Solutions; Employee Enrichment, Engagement and Retention; Employee Education and Development; Recruitment, Selection and Orientation; Employee Achievement and Recognition; Communication and Shared Vision; Diversity and Inclusion; Work-Life Balance; Community Initiatives; Strategic Company Performance and the Best of the Best Small Business, Medium Business and Large Business.
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Jason Gore utilizes this drill to make sure his backswing is in tune. He calls it the Pump Drill, and setting the club before taking it back allows him to gauge his timing.
So on your backswing, for right now, you're really trying to find-- I'm gonna put that in the middle just because you showed me that earlier. Now lets see what you-- Let's see your position that you go for.
Yeah. So, what I try to do is try to feel like I get here and kind of set the wrists here.
And then I'm trying to get my hands-- The club hits through my hands here, from down the line view, and then from there all I do is turn my shoulders.
From there all I'm trying to do is just make a shoulder turn and go straight to there. And then from there, just let the rubber band go.
We'll get to the downswing, of course. Show us the drill you work. There's a drill you do on that.
Let's hit a couple with the drill.
This is my heat check kind of thing. If I can do this well, I know I'm swinging it well. So I'll just-- I'll take a few wedges. This is eight iron. So, I'll just set it here, go here, make-- turn it back, come straight down. And I like do a pump drill to where I keep my wrist angles here and I'll just come down and do this.
Right back to the same spot?
Right back to the same spot. And I'll do it a couple of times and then I'll just, go ahead and hit it.
Damn, you hit that good too.
What's the pump do just so you don't have to hit a bunch of balls?
No, it just makes me feel like I'm getting back down to the same position.
I see. And you're trying to get like literally back to where it was, like actually. Not up here, or over there.
Right. And it helps me feel like I hold my lag and I'm keeping my wrist angles the same. You know, so I don't start throwing it from the top.
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Infant Baptism preparation sessions for parents are held monthly. Parents are required to attend one of these preparation sessions to help them better understand the importance of the sacrament, not just for the baby, but also for them and for the entire Church community.
Parents may do this preparation during pregnancy or after the baby's birth. They are welcome to bring their baby to the session, especially if this means both parents can attend. Godparents are invited and encouraged to take part in this preparation.
For more information or to register for a session, please contact Annie at the Parish Office (302) 731-2200 or [email protected].
Baptisms are celebrated at weekly Masses (Saturday evening or Sunday morning) at Holy Angels Church or St. John's Church. Information about how to schedule your baby's baptism is available at the preparation session. We do not celebrate baptisms during weekend Mass during the Season of Lent, in keeping with the ancient custom of the Church.
Must be a "fully initiated Catholic;" that is, they must have received the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist.
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La è una stazione della metropolitana di Tokyo che si trova a Chiyoda. La stazione è servita dalla linea Shinjuku della Toei, ed è collegata con quelle di Bakurochō della JR East (linea Sōbu Rapida) e Higashi-Nihombashi della Toei (linea Asakusa).
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Today more than ever, people are encountering the word nanotechnology. You may have heard it on television or seen it in newspapers. You might know it as something small and think of it as something futuristic. Indeed, nanotechnology is all about the world of small things, but it is happening now—and this rapidly advancing field is set to transform everything from computers and energy to medicine.
Nanotechnology involves engineering devices with dimensions on the nanoscale, the same scale as that of large biological molecules in our body, such as proteins or DNA. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter—and these devices typically have features just tens to hundreds of nanometers across.
Cancer research is one area in which nanotechnology could have a major impact. "It has enormous promise in helping us overcome a number of barriers that we can't overcome with existing technologies," says tumor immunologist Anna D. Barker, the deputy director for advanced technologies and strategic partnerships at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). For instance, engineered nanoparticles could deliver drugs directly to tumors in the body, resulting in fewer side effects and more effective treatment. Nanotechnology could enhance existing imaging systems to help doctors better pinpoint tumors. And diagnostic devices based on nanoscale sensors may, one day soon, help detect the earliest signs of cancer from a single drop of blood.
Research labs across the country have been quietly developing nanotechnologies for more than a decade. In 2005, the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology was launched to help translate these innovations into clinical applications. The program has invested almost $150 million over five years, making it the largest federally funded cancer nanotechnology program in the world, says materials scientist Piotr Grodzinski, the program's director. Now, early versions of these tiny tools are finally entering the clinical setting, where many researchers believe they could transform patient care.
Indeed, a little can go a long way. "The first generation of these technologies will take the therapies we already have in the clinic and make them much more effective," predicts Barker. Consider the drug Taxol (paclitaxel), which is widely prescribed for patients with lung, ovarian or breast cancers. Because the drug is insoluble in water, it must be mixed into a solvent, which can cause allergic reactions and is responsible for many side effects. Several labs are investigating ways of linking paclitaxel to water-soluble nanoscale particles that could be injected without the need for a solvent. | {
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DeathTech is an interdisciplinary team of scholars in working in anthropology, human computer interaction, media and communication, and science and technology studies.
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Michael Arnold's on-going research activities lie at the intersection of contemporary technologies and daily life; for example, studies of digital technologies in the domestic context, online memorials and other technologies associated with death, social networking, community informatics, and ethical and normative assessments of technologies. Michael is also interested in theoretical approaches to technologies, in particular, Heidegger, Actor Network Theory, and Object Oriented Ontology. Michael has been first-named investigator on 6 ARC research projects and dozens of other projects, and has published research books and over 100 peer reviewed papers.
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ARC Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Hannah Gould is a socio-cultural anthropologist and curator working in the areas of death, religion, and material culture. Her research is focused on how the deceased are memorialised and materialised in everyday life, with a regional focus on North-East Asia. Hannah's current doctoral research project investigates transformations to the spiritual economy of domestic Buddhist Altars (仏壇) and associated mourning rituals in contemporary Japan.
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Tamara Kohn is a social anthropologist with extensive fieldwork experience in the Scottish Hebrides, the eastern hills of Nepal, and more recently Japan. She has held research and teaching positions in England (Oxford and Durham) and now at the University of Melbourne. Tamara is interested in identity, the study of trans-cultural communities of practice (from caring practices to sports and other embodied arts), mobility (migration, intermarriage, leisure/travel), death studies, and sensory anthropology.
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Senior Lecturer, Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
Bjorn Nansen is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on emerging and marginal forms of digital media use in everyday life, using a mix of ethnographic, participatory and digital methods. His current research projects explore changing home media infrastructures and environments, children's mobile media and digital play practices, technologies for death and memorialising, and the digital mediation of sleep.
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Recep Çiftçi (born 30 March 1995) is a Turkish Paralympic judoka. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 60 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
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Michigan officials say complete primary results won't be released until Wednesday afternoon
By Paul Steinhauser , Andrew Craft | Fox News
Biden and Sanders battle it out ahead of 'Mini Super Tuesday'
Political analyst Ron Meyer weighs in.
Full primary results from Michigan – the biggest prize of the six states holding primaries Tuesday – won't be tabulated, at the earliest, until mid-afternoon on Wednesday.
That's the word from officials with the Michigan secretary of state's office – who said on Tuesday afternoon that the delay is due to a massive increase in absentee ballots.
SANDERS SAYS WINNING MICHIGAN'S CRUCIAL PRIMARY IS NOT A MUST
A spokesperson with the office told Fox News that clerks are overwhelmed with absentee ballots.
Voters cast ballots at a polling station in Warren, Michigan, as the state holds its presidential primary on Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Thanks to a ballot proposal that passed in 2018, all Michigan residents are now allowed to vote early by absentee ballot without an excuse needed. The same proposal also ushered in same-day voter registration on Election Day.
The spokesperson told Fox News that under the state constitution, election workers are not allowed to start processing absentee ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day.
Late last week, election officials reported there was an 80 percent increase in applications for absentee ballots compared with the 2016 presidential primary. They added that more than a half-million absentee ballots had already been cast in the 2020 presidential primary.
Last Wednesday Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson affirmed the security of Michigan's elections ahead of the primary and explained that results would be reported later in the evening than in the past.
"It is important that all Michiganders, and in fact all Americans, know that results that come later in the evening do not suggest that errors or fraudulent activity have occurred," Benson emphasized. "On the contrary, the later-than-usual results are evidence that clerks are working diligently to carry out the additional work on their plates in a way that is ethical and accurate. In other words, they are doing their jobs as all Americans would want them to."
Benson repeated that warning Tuesday in an op-ed in USA Today.
Voting malfunction in Idaho
Earlier Tuesday in Idaho – another of the six states holding March 10 contests – voters in Canyon County were briefly turned away from some polling locations after an apparent coding error in new $3 million voting machines that were being used for the first time.
Canyon County officials said that "several of our precincts experienced a coding error that led [to] some voters being unable to receive their ballots."
Officials explained the error had been addressed and the machines were properly functioning. They added that voters were given the option to wait or come back later to cast their ballot.
Fox News' Alexandra Rego and Kelly Phares contributed to this report
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, mieux connue sous son nom de scène AKINO, est une chanteuse japonaise née le en Utah, États-Unis. À l'origine ses débuts en 2003 avec ses frères Akashi et Aiki et sa sœur Kanasa dans la bande bless4, Akino a fait ses débuts en solo en 2005 chantant les thèmes ouverture de Sousei no Aquarion. Ses chansons sont composées par Yoko Kanno.
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Wow, what a week. Glad they were able to provide relief to your breathing and had improved fluid control options. I know Humphrey misses you too. Thanks for the update. These are so important descriptions for those fighting this terrible disease. But, obviously, you and your doctors are "in it to win it". Hugs and wishing minimal chemo side effects and wonderful days ahead. What you are doing with this blog incredibly important to understand and know. Thank you so much. Note to Parents: Get VACCINE for your kids.
If nothing else, you are busy. I will feel better once you are back in Yardley with your family and Humphrey. You are on mind always.
Thank you for the news, Michael. Glad to hear you're feeling okay now – I'm sure your family and your puppy missed you! Hope you have a great rest of the week. Please keep us updated.
Thank you for the post, Michael. Glad you are feeling okay now – I'm sure your family and your puppy missed you! Please keep us updated, and have a good rest of the week.
I am a newbie to your blog, podcasts, etc. Having gone through many of the same treatments as you, I can only say, "Thank you!" Your chronicle has told the story (that so many of us have lived) with precision. You have provided a better understanding of the disease, the treatment, and the the mission we collectively have to relieve the suffering.
Your legacy will be the blog, the book, the pictures, and your great articulation about all aspects of HPV cancer and treatment. Many, many, thanks for everything!
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Ibrahimovic signs new contract at Manchester United
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is back at Manchester United, after it was revealed on Thursday that he has signed a new one-year contract with the Premier League leaders. The former Sweden international joined the Reds on a free transfer last summer, and he enjoyed a fine debut campaign in which he scored 28 goals in 46 matches…
Mourinho not satisfied despite Manchester United stroll
Jose Mourinho still feels there is much room for improvement in his Manchester United side, despite their emphatic opening to the Premier League season. The Reds are the favourites with many pundits to win their first title of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era this term, having spent heavily this summer on Romelu Lukaku, Nemanja Matic…
Manchester United legend tips City for Premier League title
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He may be a Manchester United legend, but Ryan Giggs has tipped fierce rivals and neighbours City for the Premier League title this season. Whilst Jose Mourinho is putting the finishing touches to his squad with the addition of Nemanja Matic earlier this week, his counterpart from across the city has also been busy. Pep…
Matic arrival at Manchester United doesn't mean farewell to Fellaini
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Manchester United have completed the signing of Nemanja Matic, but this doesn't appear to spell the end of Marouane Fellaini's time at the club. Jose Mourinho made Matic a target at the end of last season, in the belief he could persuade his former club to part with the Serbian international. And despite relations with…
Ibrahimovic could have Manchester United future
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic could still have a future at Manchester United, after Jose Mourinho refused to close the door on the Sweden international. The 35-year-old forward arrived at Old Trafford last summer with some pundits questioning if he could cut it in the Premier League, but he answered his doubters with considerable ease. Ibrahimovic played 46…
Manchester United fee for Lindelof could reach €40m
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Manchester United will know their acquisition of Victor Lindelof has been a successful one if he eventually ends up costing them €40million. The Reds had been linked with the Swede for several months, and last week revealed they had reached an agreement with Benfica for his signature. They also stated they would only comment further…
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The most important economic event of the fall comes this Thursday. The European Central Bank (ECB) is poised to change the monetary policy for the Eurozone area, with all eyes on the Euro's reaction.
It'll be a landmark decision, as the central bank will alter the bond-buying program further. As always, it'll do it in such a way to please both hawks and doves.
Almost a year ago, in last December, the ECB started a controversial process: scaling down the bond-buying program. To avoid the taper tantrum caused when the Fed began the same program, the ECB vowed to better-communicate its decisions and to exit the stimulus gradually.
It is no wonder, as the Eurozone economies perform better. Negative rates won't fit the bill anymore.
With PMI's (Purchasing Managers Index) pointing to stronger growth in both manufacturing and services sector, and with the unemployment rate looking better and better, the hawks in the Governing Council will try to push for a further stimulus reduction. However, if last December was confusing, expect this decision to be the same.
Under the current program, the ECB buys 60 billion Euro worth of bonds each month. It announced the decision in December 2016 when it created much confusion: while it reduced the program from 80 to 60 billion a month, it extended it for a further nine months. Therefore, the question on everyone's lips was: is the ECB tapering, or not?
Almost nine months later, this Thursday we should see something similar. The market consensus is for the ECB to reduce the bond-buying program with a further 30 billion/month. That's tapering!
However, the central bank may pull another stunt and extend the horizon for a further nine months or so. As such, instead of abruptly ending the program, the ECB, while tapering, takes the foot off the gas slowly, not to disturb the markets.
As such, both bulls and bears will have something. The first ones will argue that the ECB reduces the stimulus as now they'll buy fewer bonds. The other ones will say that fewer for longer is still easing and they'll sell the Euro.
Long story short, expect the market to be volatile surrounding the press conference.
Euro traded in a range ahead of most of the other currencies for the past month or so. The best one to illustrate this is the EURUSD pair: it stays above 1.17, but below 1.19 for the same period.
Technical traders look for the range to break, with probably pending orders on both sides of the market. Fundamental ones, though, will wait to see the ECB decision. Therefore, it is unlikely that the pair will move much until the release.
The other Euro pairs had a similar trajectory. Ranging seems to be the name of the game, with EURGBP. EURAUD and EURJPY leading the way. Not even Mr. Abe's re-election wasn't enough to send the JPY pairs higher.
Expect the Euro pairs to range until Thursday's event, and to break the ranges shortly afterward. The importance of the ECB communication strategy is obvious via the small ranges the Euro pairs held.
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Texas suspect steals car with 10-month-old baby inside
December 7, 2019 at 2:49 AM CST - Updated December 7 at 4:53 PM
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK/CNN) - A 10-month-old girl is back with her family, after being taken by a car thief in Houston Friday morning.
He stole her mom's pickup truck at a gas station while the girl was still in it and the incident was captured on video.
"The mother of the child stopped the vehicle at the pump to get gas for her car, ran inside to pay for the gas," said Patrol Sgt. Brian Schroeder with the Houston Police Department.
Surveillance video shows an SUV pull up behind the truck. A man then gets out he walks around the truck, eventually getting in the truck that was left on with the doors unlocked.
"We had units spread out all over the place looking in all possible locations," said Schroeder.
About 20 minutes later, a wrecker driver found the truck abandoned about 1.5 miles away in an area that police say is known for stolen cars being dumped.
The baby was still inside, unhurt, and was reunited with her mother, who was also able to drive away in her truck.
"We don't want her thrown off in the bushes somewhere and no one finds her. We don't want her exploited or anything like that, so it motivates us to try to find this before anything bad happens," said Schroeder.
Police say it's up to the district attorney's office whether the mother could be held accountable for leaving her baby unattended.
Police are still looking for the suspects.
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MCSHEA'S SAY: Let's hope for better fare in 2022
In his weekly column, Donegal's 1974 Ulster SFC winning captain Pauric McShea outlines his hopes for the year ahead
Ciaran Thompson of Donegal in action against Liam Middleton of Down during the Dr McKenna Cup fixture last Friday
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The Kenna Cup saw Donegal in action on Friday night beating a new look Down side in Ballybofey in a typical start of season encounter. Let's hope Donegal have a good year in 2022.
If 2021 the sporting year was to be judged simply on the basis of results and performances then Donegal GAA teams would have to agree that it was not a year to remember. I do believe however that it is very possible to discover success from setbacks and I clearly remember that after Donegal lost to Tyrone in last year's championship game many people spent time talking about bad luck and poor refereeing decisions.
I didn't buy into those excuses because being successful has nothing to do with luck. Care, thought and study make something succeed. Luck is something you get when playing the lottery or gambling.
The GAA has no official closed season but football and hurling had stopped for a number of weeks, with the McKenna Cup resuming last week. With the pitches all but deserted it is the administrators who normally take centre stage and in the past the county conventions usually provided plenty of copy for newspapers as board officers and club delegates get to express the concerns of grassroots.
On a more serious note I can remember a Mayo convention back in the early nineties being told that almost 70 companies nationwide had been approached about sponsoring the county team but the response was extremely disappointing.
Around the same time Leitrim were also in a very difficult situation. The county board heard that there was no hope of getting a sponsor and the county was facing bankruptcy. The supporters club in Dublin and the generosity of their local fans kept the wolf from the door at that time and it is to the credit of those two counties and many more who were experience real financial difficulties that they survived in a time of serious economic malaise.
At that same time in the early part of the nineties there was also bad feeling in Derry where their manager Eamonn Coleman, who had taken them to their All Ireland in 1993, indicated that he might return to London where he worked before coming home to lead his county to glory.
Coleman indicated that he had not been adequately compensated by the county board for the loss of earnings and expenses he incurred while training the team and financial necessity might again force him to emigrate.
Coleman was an out and out G A A man and in no way was money a motivating factor in his time with Derry but it was sad to see a man who had achieved such outstanding success with his native county have to work so hard for fair play.
How things have changed in the modern game, with mentors, advisors or whatever title you want to give them travelling the length and breadth of the country to assist the manager in his quest for glory.
To date the influence of "outside experts" has not delivered any results of note and it does make one wonder is their journey really necessary.
Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney stated recently that the "players who wanted it most, will be successful". That, to my mind, is simply the most ridiculous statement to come out of a manager's mouth.
I well remember The Bakery Cup, a competition in Ballyshannon for under-14s which was serialised in the Democrat in recent weeks.
The will to win and the pride in the jersey in that little competition was simply incredible.
Everyone who played in that competition wanted it so much, if you had not an inbuilt desire to win you did not deserve a jersey even at under-14 level.
That statement from McGeeney is more than a little insightful. It will be an interesting month in the GAA world will another special congress pencilled in for later in the month to address the imbalance in the football championship.
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I believe that a congress to deal with the football rules is a much more pertinent issue. As long as the short kick-out, the mark and the pass back starting on the opposition's 45-metre line and ending back with the goalkeeper continues, the entertainment level in Gaelic football will continue to diminish. But don't hold your breath about common sense emerging in this area.
Yet again we had a goalkeeper making a cardinal error in the Connacht club final between Roscommon champions Padraig Pearse's and Knockmore, when the Roscommon keeper decided to solo out the pitch when his skill level was not up to the task.
He lost possession, then got a black card and left his team in serious trouble. When will managers ever learn that the only place for goalkeepers is between the sticks?
Watching Knockmore playing in both the semi final and last Sunday's final would make one wonder about the quality of football in the county at this time and whether Mayo's rating as third favourites behind Kerry and Dublin to win Sam this year is a realistic assessment of the counties ability to deliver this year.
Few, if any of the Knockmore players, seem ready to enter the inter-county on those two recent displays.
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The 2016 Summer Paralympic which has taken place from 7 September to 18 September 2016 was held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. There were a total 4,342 athletes representing 159 National Paralympic Committee who took part in 22 various sports.
Singapore sent a contingent of 51 people (13 athletes, 32 officials and 6 secretariats) led by Chef-de-Mission Mr. Ho Cheng Kwee. This was by far the largest contingent that was sent for Team Singapore. The athletes competed in 6 out of 22 sports which were Archery, Athletics, Boccia, Equestrian, Sailing, Swimming.
Nurulasyiqah Taha (Boccia) was the selected as the pledge taker and Yip Pin Xiu (Swimming) was selected as flag bearer for the games.
Through this platform, Singapore has managed to attain 2 Gold Medals and 1 Bronze Medal. This is achieved through the outstanding performance of Yip Pin Xiu who won 2 Gold Medals by setting a new World record of 2:07.09 in the Women's 100m Backstroke S2 event and Theresa Goh who set a new Asian Record of 1:54.50 and won the Bronze Medal in Women's 100m Breaststroke SB4 event.
It was the first time Singapore competed in the BC3 Mixed Paris event at the Paralympic Games with Nurulasyiqah Taha and Toh Sze Ning representing Singapore as a pair. Even though they lost to Greece in the bronze medal match, they did extremely well in the preliminaries by winning against Greece who was 2012 Paralympic Games Gold Medalist and Portugal, 2012 Paralympic Games Silver Medalist.
Similarly, Singapore's archery also made its debut. Nur Syahidah Bte Alim who represented Singapore won her match against her Canadian opponent who ranked 4th. However, she lost in the Quarter Finals against her Korean opponent in a close match of 135-137.
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New Playground Lawsuits
Butch Defillippo
All of us are extremely busy, pulled in a dozen directions, and sometimes overwhelmed. We often have to limit what we can direct our efforts toward. A key area that it is imperative for us to concentrate on is the safety of the children that visit our playgrounds. The following are some recent lawsuits and interesting events that have occurred.
2014 - The parents of a nine-year-old student are suing the Menlo Park City School District for injuries they say she sustained when a piano on the outdoor playground of Oak Knoll Elementary School toppled over on her as another student jumped on top of it, according to court documents. (http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2014/04/08/menlo-park-school-district-sued-over-student-injured-by-piano-on-playground)
2014 - Ulster County New York – Fingertips Removed by Playground Chain – In 2009 a ten year old boy was playing on a swing set and his fingers became caught in the links of the swing chain as he jumped off. (http://www.parksandrecreation.org/2014/May/Fingertips-Removed-by-Playground-Chain/)
2013 - Montana Supreme Court to Hear Playground Accident Lawsuit Over 8-Year-Old's Head Injury. The playground slide accident occurred in Riverside Park, which the city owns and operates. According to the Independent Record, Miles City also designed, installed, and maintained the playground equipment there. The girl's mother, Tiffany Gatlin, claims that the city, despite reviewing its playground maintenance and safety, working with a risk specialist that recommended there be proper "fall zones" and surfacing beneath the equipment, and adopting "current safety standards" for playgrounds six months before the playground fall accident, still did not make sure there was a safe enough depth of material to absorb the impact of a playground fall accident like the one that her daughter had. (http://productliabilitylawblog.com/montana-supreme-court-to-hear-playground-accident-lawsuit-over-8-year-olds-head-injury/)
2013 – A 14-year-old Santa Fe, New Mexico boy and his father are suing Santo Niño Regional Catholic School and its principal, charging negligence related to an incident in which the boy fractured and dislocated his elbow while playing a game of tag on the school's playground. (http://www.abqjournal.com/225404/north/catholic-school-sued-over-playground-injury.html)
2012 – Borough of Beaver Pennsylvania Settles Playground Lawsuit For $100k - According to the lawsuit, sometime in 2007 or 2008 the borough devised a "jerry-rigged" solution to install a foam mat in front of a sliding board in the park. They punched a hole in each of the four corners of the mat, then used zip ties to secure it to the top of steel reinforcing rods they had hammered into the ground. The lawsuit goes on to say that the ends of the steel rods projected several inches out of the ground. "Additionally, when they hammered the rods into the ground, their repeated off-center hammer blows left the projecting ends of the Steel rods with extremely sharp ends. Over a short period of time the projecting ends of the steel rods oxidized to a rust color which made them imperceptible against the surrounding brown mulch and dirt." On April 1, 2009, while being chased by another child and running next to the slide, the boy tripped and fell to the ground causing the side of his left shin, just below his knee, to be impaled and then ripped open by the exposed end of one of the rods. (http://beavercountian.com/content/daily/beaver-settles-playground-lawsuit-for-100k)
2012 - A Chicago couple is suing a playground equipment manufacturer, claiming a faulty slide sent their daughter from the playground to the hospital. The slide is called the Evos Slalom Glider, and is promoted by its manufacturer, Landscape Structures, as "a thrilling ride that promotes balance and coordination." This type of equipment has been recalled by the CPSC. (http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2012/Childrens-Slides-Recalled-by-Landscape-Structures-due-to-Fall-Hazard/)
Although not a lawsuit the following are worth noting:
2014 - Toddler Cut as Razor Blades Found Glued to Illinois Playground(First published by M. Alex Johnson for NBC News) - A 2-year-old boy was recovering from cuts on his hand and parents were on edge as police Tuesday tried to figure out who glued about a dozen razor blades to playground equipment in a park in western Illinois. The razor blades were found attached with white putty to monkey bars and other equipment Monday afternoon after the boy, who wasn't identified, and his father took officers to Millennium Park in East Moline, police said. The boy's cuts weren't serious, and he was treated at home. Police said there have been other incidents of vandalism at city parks and asked residents to be on the lookout for suspicious activities. Police removed about a dozen razor blades from a playground at Millennium Park on Monday. "I've seen a lot of things, but not razor blades glued to equipment at a park," East Moline police Lt. Brian Foltz told NBC station KWQC of Davenport. "East Moline parks are safe, but it's just a bad situation," Foltz said. "Maybe a group of kids ... figured this would be a fun prank to do." Ty Langley, a parent in East Moline, told KWQC he was worried because "You don't really think about razor blades. We just kind of think about them swinging on the swing set or, you know, climbing the monkey bars," Langley said. "It's something I can look out for now." Police checked all city parks late Wednesday and "have not found anything else in any of the parks," Foltz said.
2014 - Jefferson County Open School in LakewoodColorado - 30 students and a teacher's aide were treated for symptoms similar to an allergic reaction after coming in contact with six habanero peppers scattered in the wood chips in the playground area. (KUSA-TV © 2014 Multimedia Holdings Corporation with The Associated Press)
We understand that you have to prioritize the work of you and your staff. Please remember that you keeping a child healthy is worth the struggle! After reading the above stories, you may wish to reevaluate your efforts in the above mentioned areas, as well as the areas addressed in the NRPA NPSI Course, and the NPPS Program. It may help you avoid an injury to a child and a lawsuit.
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[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) delivered a speech on the Senate floor today detailing the grave injustice that has been done to the nearly 90,000 "Blue Water" Vietnam Veterans who are currently unable to receive the health care needed to treat diseases linked to wartime Agent Orange exposure. Duckworth called on her fellow Senators to right this wrong by passing without delay the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, which is already co-sponsored by a majority of the Senate. Video of the speech is available here.
Right now, tens of thousands of American heroes are suffering—even dying—while some folks in government are looking the other way, refusing to heed their calls for help.
They left their loved ones… boarded ships… fought the Viet Kong… risking their lives hours after hour, day after day, in service to the country they loved.
We made a promise to them: fight for us overseas, then we'll fight for you when you get back home. When you step back onto U.S. soil, we'll bandage the wounds you earned in combat, making sure you never feel that you sacrificed in vain.
I'm ashamed to say that that promise has been broken.
For more than a decade now, our government has refused to give them the health care and disability benefits needed to treat diseases linked to Agent Orange exposure—despite the fact that they serviced the very aircrafts that sprayed and spread the chemical… despite that they breathed in air and brushed their teeth with water that was likely laced with the poison.
Those same health care benefits have been extended to other troops who fought in the same war during the same years.
But because these Blue Water Veterans fought the enemy on the water rather than on Vietnam soil itself, our government won't lift a finger to help stop their suffering.
Tell me that makes a shred of sense.
Tell me that our nation should abandon the heroes who risked their lives for the rest of us… that we should leave them to die from cancer, or heart disease, or the litany of other illnesses we know this chemical causes.
Look, I've also gone to war—and just as those Americans lost their health, I lost my legs for this country. But from the moment I woke up in Walter Reed, I knew that the VA would give me the care I needed to recover.
These nearly 90,000 Veterans deserve the same. It's long past time we pass legislation ensuring these heroes aren't left in pain.
Unfortunately, legislation that would recognize their sacrifice suffered a setback last week. But with the time remaining in this Congress, we still have the chance to help make these Veterans whole. To do the right thing. The obvious thing. The American thing.
If we actually want to honor their service, we can't just give them an ovation on Veterans Day. We need to take action to help them lead full, healthy lives every other day of the year, too.
Right now that means joining me in working to pass the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act—before even one more hero dies a preventable death on our watch. | {
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CapitaLand Mall Trust's 1H18 DPU of 5.6 Scts was in line with our FY18 forecast.
Growth was driven by positive rental reversion (+0.8% y-o-y) and lower expenses.
Occupancy remained high at 98% while retention rate was 83.3% in 1H18.
Continuous asset enhancement should help to drive growth.
Downgrade from Add to HOLD with a lower target price of S$2.21.
CapitaLand Mall Trust's 1H18 DPU of 5.6 Scts (+2.0% y-o-y) was in line with our expectations, at 49.9% of our full-year forecast.
The growth was underpinned by a 1.7% y-o-y expansion in gross revenue, driven by higher gross rental income from Sembawang Shopping Centre which was divested on 18 Jun 2018.
This, plus lower marketing expenses and utility cost, led to stronger bottomline growth.
CapitaLand Mall Trust registered a rental reversion of +0.8% y-o-y (flat q-o-q) in 1H18 from the renewal of 13.6% of its NLA. If not for the negative rental reversion reported by Westgate and Bedok Mall, its overall rental reversion would have been +1.6% y-o-y.
While Bedok Mall continued to perform poorer q-o-q, Westgate's rental reversion improved from -3.3% in 1Q to -2.1% in 1H18. Management indicated that it is changing the tenant mix of Bedok Mall to improve the rental yield.
Retention rate was better at 83.8% in 1H18 vs. 82.9% in 1Q18.
Occupancy rate remained high at 98% as at 30 Jun although it was lower vs. 99.2% at 31 Dec 2017.
Clarke Quay occupancy rate declined 95.3% over the same period, we understand that has improved in recent months as CapitaLand Mall Trust signed up new leases. The trust has a remaining 9.2% of NLA expiring in 2018, the bulk of which will be at IMM Building, Plaza Singapura and Lot One Shoppers Mall.
CapitaLand Mall Trust plans to rejuvenate Westgate by enclosing selected F&B outlets with air-conditioning and improving shopper accessibility into the Mall and from Level 1 to Level 2. It is also doing asset enhancement initiative (AEI) works at Tampines Mall which will be completed by 4Q18.
Funan Digital Mall, which is currently under redevelopment, may reopen earlier than expected due to the strong tenant demand and good construction progress.
Gearing level remained healthy at 31.5% as at 30 Jun 2018 while cost of debt was lower at 3.1% in 2Q18 vs. 3.2% in the previous quarter. With a strong balance sheet, the trust is in a good position for acquisitions or to further enhance its existing assets.
While we maintain our FY18-20 DPU estimates, we reduce our DDM-based target price from S$2.25 to S$2.21 as we increase our risk-free rate to be in line with the market rate. The stock price has increased more than 5% since mid-Jun. With less than a 10% total return, we downgrade the stock from Add to HOLD.
Upside risks could come from better-than-expected results from AEIs, while downside risks include a slower recovery in rental reversions. | {
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TOO MUCH junk food in the First World. Not enough food in the Third World. That is the conclusion of a new report which finds that 1.2 billion people in the world are obese and 1.2 billion go hungry...
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Drop the debt
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74 COPIES of Socialist Worker were sold outside 4 schools, 3 dust depots, 2 post offices, a bus garage and 2 benefit offices in Hackney last week. Elsewhere 23 papers were sold outside Riverside House...
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what website is your signature?
Cool! I'll take note of that. It seems I'm in your timezone right now! However, I'm really busy with school stuff, and waiting on a late meal. I'm in a bad condition.
Haha, don't worry. There's no rush - just message me when you can battle.
Your AS TSV is 3753!
Excellent! I can't wait to get involved in all this Shiny stuff =). Thanks a lot.
Are they? They would have to be worst at something though, wouldn't they? Also, I don't play magic all that much. I just like taking quizzes. You seem to be implying that Red/Black are the best colors. But then, what about Gold or Colorless?
hey we are matched up for the battlespot tourney, when are you free?
Haha, sorry for the late comment. I was busy with IRL stuff, and at the time of seeing your message, I didn't know what to say.
Eheh, oopsy! Yeah, that was an accident.
Hey we're paired for the bss tournament. I can play most evenings 8:30-10 my time and most of the day Saturday.
I'm usually in the room at that time most weekdays so pm me if you see me.
Yup... like I said before, I saw you but... my schoolwork has been delayed far too long, I need to catch up.
Seems like your Machop got sniped.
Yeah, I submitted a lvl 30 Bergmite just now for the Landorus. I'm on X this time, so I can act faster.
Oh haha. OK. I just didn't recognize the abbreviation. Yeah, I know what you mean. Thanks.
The 3rd huh? Well, if there's any way for you to make it sooner, I humbly ask that you try to do it. I'm sorry of that seems a little pushy of me but that's my preference.
Its not like I'm mad about it either way, just give it some thought, alright?
Oh! Demantoid tells me that the tourney's date was changed?? He might've been talking about a different tournament.
What is the basius of your team - goodstuffs, tail wind, trick room, water absorb?
Thanks for the info! I'm always happy to see a Triple player trying to chug along.
Run Abomasnow hail in Scrappy Skirmish.
Just caught a 3 IV Grimer! You can bet that I'm feeling better!
did you want to make a trade?
Phew! Sorry it took so long. I'm not sure what you want in particular... let me think. Well first off, when you say Battle Spot mons, do you mean Singles, Doubles, Triples, Rotations etc?
I haven't begun breeding it, but are you interested in a competitive Frillish?
In general, I could help you a little more easily if you could narrow it down, tell me some specific species.
As for specific species, there are so many Pokemon I really don't know until I see them. Defiant Braviary perhaps?
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NYC Chef Gears Up for the Annual Chef's Cycle Fundraiser
In two months, 300 notable chefs and food industry professionals will swap their aprons for spandex and descend on Santa Rosa, California, to ride 300 miles over three days with the goal of raising $2 million — or 20 million meals — for No Kid Hungry (NKH) through the Chef's Cycle event.
One of those chefs is Hillary Sterling of Vic's, the East Village Italian-Mediterranean restaurant located in the old Five Points space.
"I am a product of New York City public schools, where graduation rates are increasing but the students are not prepared for real life and work," she said. "We need to make sure breakfast is available, approachable, and encouraged to the students."
She continued to explain that helping educate students on the importance of eating breakfast and making the right food choices is crucial for healthy development.
"I have participated in the past three years of Taste of the Nation. This will be my second Chef's Cycle. I ride to raise awareness and in support of NKH."
As she trains, we're sure she's chowing down on the healthier options her eatery has to offer, like eggs, greens & grains, made with spinach, chiles, feta, charred onions, almonds, or her signature baked eggs made with San Marzano tomatoes, ricotta, and Calabrian chiles.
If you feel like stopping by Vic's to say hi, you'll be faced with a sumptuous array of those and other thoughtfully prepared Italian dishes to choose from, everything from oyster mushrooms with potato, bottarga, and lemon to sheep's milk agnolotti with hazelnut and an amazing brunch dish comprised of fluffy eggs, tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese served in the skillet.
Building on the innate principals of Italian cooking, Sterling sources ingredients locally — from finishing salt that's made in Hell's Kitchen to flour ground in New York state — and lets the seasons guide her menu.
Chef Hugh Acheson, another lead supporter of the event and author of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning cookbook A New Turn In The South, said that he believes hunger now has a face that is "totally different than the hunger we were conditioned to years ago."
"It is not the hunger of sub-Saharan Africa, but rather the hunger of masses and masses of low-nutrient convenience foods, combined with lack of access," said Acheson, who is also personally involved with a variety of cooking programs in public schools. "Hunger affects one in five children in the U.S., and I see public schools becoming the place to feed the majority of children breakfast, lunch, and dinner and families working three jobs to get by as the middle class erodes away."
"These are kids, innocent in their plight, but they are also the future leaders of our country," said Acheson. "Unless we feed them well we will be failing ourselves and them."
NYC Chef Gears Up for the Annual Chef's Cycle Fundraiser - Recipes
"I'm going to write it: The Kitchen is the valley's best restaurant."
"Barbecue joints don't normally serve dishes like quinoa salad or housemade kimchi, but at the eclectic Q Roadhouse, they go perfectly with dishes like blackened catfish…and pulled pork that has been smoked in-house…The full bar and extensive wine list are the cherries on top."
"A robust new wine shop called Bin22…resembles a mini Eataly, with its mozzarella bar staffed by a cheesemonger. In addition, it sells small-batch booze from the new Wyoming Whiskey, the state's first legal distillery."
"Il Villaggio Osteria, owned by Gavin Fine of Q Roadhouse and Rendezvous Bistro fame…An illuminated wine cellar and streamlined tableware make it chic a wood-fired oven and a ceiling with rough-hewn wood beams offer a warm vibe. Order the sausage-stuffed olives and the house-made gnocchi."
"You all could not have been more gracious and the food was delicious! Hope we cross paths again!"
We&rsquove spent the last 7+ weeks planning and dreaming up our return. We wanted to take some time to be thorough, creative and safe in our approach to reopening our restaurants in any capacity. Time away has given us new perspective and has allowed us to be intentional about what we want to offer and who we want to be (while still being us) when it was time to reopen. But the time has come: we&rsquore coming back.
Over the past week, we have been proud to collaborate with Cynthia Hogan to launch Quarantine Cuisine. Starting today, Wednesday, April 15, Quarantine Cuisine will deliver meals and groceries to individuals in mandatory or self-imposed quarantine due to confirmed exposure to COVID-19.
In the second week of our spring Beyond the Plate series, we are taking a look at Teton County Access to Justice Center, the recipient of this week&rsquos off-season fundraising effort. Access to Justice is a non-profit legal aid program that provides help to Jackson Hole community members struggling with civil legal matters.
Spring has sprung and, despite lingering snow storms, the birds are chirping and tufts of grass are beginning to find their way out of the deep snow piles. The arrival of spring means a lot of things, but to us it means the reammergance of off-season specials&hellip A time of year when those who like to dine out have a opportunity to give back to the community by dining out, buying one entrée and getting a second for $2. 100% of the money from the second entrée will be donated to a weekly featured non-profit organization.
When we think about the US Presidents and food, many automatically think of our first President, George Washington and apple pie. In fact, Washington&rsquos estate was known for hosting many guests and providing them with a wide variety of culinary options. As a result, the Mount Vernon Association has a long list of recipes online, showcasing cuisine Washington would serve to his guests.
&lsquoTis the season for holiday parties filled with friends, family, twinkling lights and, most importantly, food. Being in hospitality, around this time of year we are often asked what we bring to the holiday table when we&rsquore dining with friends and family. In honor of this, we&rsquove compiled a list of the who, the what and the why of which delicious dishes Fine Dining Restaurant Group leaders bring along during the holidays.
In the final edition of our Beyond the Plate miniblog series, we are rounding out the Fall 2018 off-season special beneficiary spotlight with Dancers&rsquo Workshop. This local nonprofit is a multifaceted organization that strives to enhance the community both through movement and education.
In the third edition of our Beyond the Plate series, we are showcasing Wyoming&rsquos community Radio station, 89.1 KHOL. KHOL has remained the only community radio station in Wyoming since they took to the airwaves in 2008. The content being broadcasted by local DJs can be accessed online and picked up from Victor, ID, all the way down to Alpine, WY.
This week in Beyond the Plate, we are excited to introduce Community Entry Services (CES). An incredible Jackson Hole non-profit, CES will be receiving the funds from our off-season fundraising effort from October 29 to November 4.
CES is a local non-profit that supports adults with disabilities and acquired brain injuries in Teton County. They provide a variety of lifelong services to 30 individuals, including affordable housing, daily living skills, vocational services, medication management, residential living skills, community integration and bill payment.
The changing of the seasons has brought another Jackson Hole &ldquooff season,&rdquo where we band together as a company to offer dining deals to guests, while also raising money for Jackson Hole area non-profits.
Get to know the non-profits who will be receiving funds from this fall&rsquos fundraising effort in a four-part blog series &ldquoBeyond the Plate.&rdquo
First up is the beneficiary of fundraising efforts from October 22 &ndash 28: Jackson Hole Juggernauts.
We are please to announce the introduction of Eat Well. Do Good., a movement where we join together to show when a community stands together, magical things begin to happen.
We have uncorked the bubbly to celebrate the opening of the newest addition to the Fine Dining family - Bar Enoteca.
For the third straight year, the Fine Dining Restaurant Group will be cooking at the historic James Beard House. The group previously partnered with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (and Spur Restaurant in 2015) in two dinners using Wyoming as the inspiration for the menu. This year, Fine Dining Restaurant Group attends the dinner as the sole architects behind the menu Gavin and team will keep true to their Wyoming roots while highlighting house-made creations from across the diverse group of restaurants.
The end of 2015 marked a new milestone - over $126,000 raised in five years of off-season specials at Jackson Hole Fine Dining restaurants!
In a special wine import project, Fine Dining Restaurant Group is now the sole importer of Don Cosimo wines. These Sicilian wines are sold in four varietals, including Nero d'Avola, Grillo, Catarratto and Sparkling Grillo, and are only available at Fine Dining restaurants in Jackson Hole.
We are pleased to share we've added a Café to the lineup of Fine Dining restaurants. Located in the space previously occupied by Terra Cafe, the new addition will provide a casual outlet for breakfast and lunch, serving largely Italian-inspired selections in a grab-and-go setting - all next door to Osteria in Hotel Terra.
Part-time professional snowboarder, part-time cattle rancher, Mark Carter and his brother RC embody the Wyoming lifestyle. Relying on sheer acreage and Mother Nature to harvest their beef, the Carter family has been raising cattle in Ten Sleep, Wyoming for four generations. Grass fed and grain finished, the Carters&rsquo product is some of the best beef in Wyoming and it&rsquos all being delivered to your plate in the most humane way possible.
We are pleased to announce that in Spring 2015, with the help of the Jackson Hole community, we were able to raise $15,964 in just two months! For more information on our bi-annual fundraising efforts, click Learn More.
Please join us in welcoming a new addition to the Fine Dining Restaurant Group family! Bodega, located at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village, is the destination's new stop for great food and beverages.
Happy Holidays! As the season ushers in, we welcome you into our restaurant homes to celebrate the sights, sounds and flavors of the season with us. Click below for a complete list of our restaurants' holiday hours.
Working in partnership with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort&rsquos chefs Wes Hamilton and Dave Erlanson, Fine Dining Restaurant Group chefs Roger Freedman, Joel Tate, Chad Horton and Co-Owner Gavin Fine presented a Jackson Hole-inspired seven-course menu at the famed James Beard House on October 2.
What's better than dining out, getting a great deal and supporting Jackson Hole non-profits at the same time? In our opinion. Nothing.
Click below to learn more about our upcoming dining deals and the fantastic organizations they support.
Food and travel go hand in hand, no matter your destination. There's rarely a better way (in our opinion) to experience a new city than by tasting your way through. New York City is no different. With thousands of eateries within reach, incredible food and drink is simply a step away.
Traveling to New York City? Try out a few of Gavin Fine's favorite destinations for dining out in New York City.
More than 16 million American children face hunger. This September, we are joining thousands of restaurants nationwide to support Share Our Strength&rsquos No Kid Hungry ® campaign by raising funds in our Jackson Hole and Park City restaurants.
The big news on the Jackson Hole food front this week is that the JH community will be showcasing culinary talents to the New York media and public this October 2nd at the historic James Beard House. Fine Dining Restaurant Group Executive Chef Roger Freedman and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Executive Chef Wes Hamilton have collaborated to create Jackson Hole: From the Range a carefully curated menu of ingredients sourced from our region along with wine and whiskey pairings.
We&rsquore excited to see these chefs in action in NYC, so in the mean time we sat down with them to find out what makes them tick.
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) and Fine Dining Restaurant Group (FDRG) are proud to announce a partnership with the Jackson Hole community hosting Jackson Hole: From the Range, a day celebrating Jackson Hole&rsquos thriving culinary culture at New York City&rsquos celebrated James Beard House. Jackson Hole: From the Range brings the best in food and travel culture from the mountain mecca of Jackson Hole to the esteemed, invite-only Beard kitchen.
Led by Owners Gavin Fine and Roger Freedman, Fine Dining Restaurant Group presented $14,052.02 to worthy non-profits in a reception last Thursday at Bin22, leading to a total of over $79,000 raised through Jackson Hole restaurant off-season specials since Fall 2011.
We're excited to share Jackson Hole was named a Top 5 Foodie City by Wine Enthusiast. We're even MORE excited to share the article recommends Fine Dining restaurants The Kitchen and Il Villaggio Osteria! Click below to learn more.
In keeping with the Fine Dining Restaurant Group initiative of supporting the communities in which we work and call home, we are proud to support Park City non-profit organizations through offering 2 for 1s with a twist at Silver.
Spring off season specials begin in Jackson Hole on April 7 and will raise money to support nine non-profit organizations.
Thank you, Jackson Hole, for your support in making this possible!
Working closely with locally-based Snake River Roasting Co., we have released our own Signature Coffee Blend - now available at all Jackson Hole Fine Dining restaurants.
Thank you for your interest in purchasing a gift certificate. All gift certificates are able to be used at any Fine Dining Restaurant Group property. To purchase, please call 307-733-5010.
Stay up to date with what we're up to, what we're serving and what we're planning.
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Average cost of renting a home in Ireland now just €2 less than at height of the boom
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The average cost of renting a home in Ireland is now just €2 a month less than the levels paid at the height of the Celtic Tiger boom a decade ago.
That's according to a new report from the Residential Tenancies Board, which found that the average renter was now paying €986 per month.
The RTB reports that private sector rents have risen by 7.8% year on year and are increasing at a faster rate than house prices due to the shortage of new units coming on the market.
While nationally rents are 2.7% below the peak, in Dublin they are 8.3% higher following an increase of more than 11% in the cost of renting an apartment in the capital in the last year.
The Rent Index for the last quarter of 2016 also shows that one-in-four tenants is paying more than €1,300 a month for their home. It also shows that in pockets of the country, including parts of Waterford, Cork, Carlow and the Midlands, rents have increased by almost 30% over the past 12 months, albeit from a low base.
The most expensive place in which to rent a home is Stillorgan, Co Dublin, at €2,062 per month. The cheapest is Glenties in Donegal, at €337.
Yesterday Maynooth in Co Kildare and Cobh in Co Cork were added to the list of residential areas where rent increases are capped.
Minister for Housing Simon Coveney said more than 60% of rented homes in the State were now covered by the protection measures, which limit increases to 4 per cent a year.
The Minister last year designated Dublin and Cork city as pressure zones and in January added a further 12 local electoral areas – incorporating some 26 towns and villages around the cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway.
Mr Coveney said the Cobh and Maynooth electoral areas had been selected because they met two key criteria – rents were above the national average and rising at a rate of more than 7 per cent in at least four of the last six quarters.
He stressed the independence of the rent pressure system and said he could only make a designation if identified by the rent index.
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March 15, 2018 / 4:04 PM / in a year
Sisi calls for big turnout in Egyptian election
CAIRO (Reuters) - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday his government had fulfilled its promises during his first term and called on Egyptians to vote in large numbers in an election where he is seeking a second term in office.
FILE PHOTO: People walk by a poster of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for the upcoming presidential election, in Cairo, Egypt, March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RC15A0E27070/File Photo
The former army chief is widely expected to win by a huge margin in the March 26-28 vote, since his only challenger leads a party that supports the Egyptian president.
Neither candidate has done much campaigning, appealing instead for a high turnout to give the victor a strong mandate. Sisi won nearly 97 percent of the vote in 2014, but less than half of eligible Egyptians voted even though the election was extended to three days.
"If (all Egyptians) vote and a third say 'No', that would be a lot better than if half that number turn out and all of them say 'Yes'," Sisi said during a visit to the Interior Ministry.
Sisi also told a conference of military officers and relatives of soldiers killed in action that his first four years in office had brought stability and security after the tumult which followed the popular uprising of 2011.
"We achieved our promise and you have to achieve your promise. As we didn't abandon you, you should not abandon (us)," Sisi said.
The ex-general overthrew Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after huge protests against Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood rule, before standing for election the following year.
"I think - and all Egyptians think - how hard and hopeless and really dark those days were," Sisi said, referring to the two years after the 2011 overthrow of veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak. "The state was lost, threatened by a great war."
Sisi promised to work for stability and security when he assumed power, but has struggled to defeat an Islamic State insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula and contain other militant attacks across Egypt.
His supporters argue that the security situation now, although not completely secure, is better and more predictable than the unrest that rocked Egypt for years after the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
Last month the army began a major assault in Sinai and says it has killed scores of suspected militants and detained hundreds more in the region, the main stronghold of Islamic State after their defeat in Libya, Iraq and Syria.
In the past four months, the militants have carried out two spectacular assaults in Sinai - on an air base in December and at a mosque a month earlier, killing more than 300 people.
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The Emma Press is an independent publishing house specialising in poetry, short fiction, essays and children's books. It was founded by Emma Dai'an Wright in Winnersh, Berkshire, in 2012 and is now based in Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK.
Emma Press books have won the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Award, the Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work, and the CLiPPA (the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award), and been recognised in the Michael Marks Awards.
The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers in 2016, with the judges remarking 'As well as having a remarkable list of poets they pay close attention to every aspect of the pamphlets they publish. This is a vibrant, thoughtful press bringing a great energy and sense of endeavour to their work.' The Emma Press has also been shortlisted for the Award in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2020.
With the support of Arts Council England funding in 2020, through their Elevate programme, The Emma Press has grown into a small team. Keep reading to find out more about us, and check out our shop to see our full range of titles!
We want to make literature and publishing as welcoming and accessible as possible. We are committed to breaking down traditional elitist and exclusionary structures, through providing opportunities for publication for writers and illustrators, through creating books which reflect as many people's experiences as possible, and through sharing publishing knowledge.
We publish poetry pamphlets, fiction chapbooks, short essay collections, illustrated poetry books, and books for children.
Across all these series, we have a growing list of translations which includes titles from Latvia, Estonia, Indonesia, Spain and the Netherlands.
To find books that we want to publish, we run regular calls for submissions. We try to be as clear as possible about what we're looking for and how to prepare your submission, and we offer lots of opportunities to ask us questions in the run-up to each submissions window. You can read more about this here.
We work closely with authors, translators and illustrators, giving feedback and edits where appropriate to the work, and then working closely again to publicise the books.
Prior to the pandemic, we did many in-person events, from book-launch parties to writing workshops to school visits. Most of our events are still taking place online for the time being, and you can always check our Events page to see what we have coming up.
Emma Dai'an Wright
founding editor and publisher
Emma runs the business, manages the team, edits and typesets books, illustrates and designs some of the covers, hosts online events, and collaborates with our partners on various projects. When she isn't working, Emma watches dance and comedy videos, reads fantasy novels, cooks elaborate recipes, and dabbles in sewing. Emma is of mixed heritage, which is important to her but quite complicated to explain; she currently describes herself as British-Chinese-Vietnamese. She divides her time between Riga and Birmingham. She/her.
James Trevelyan
James is covering Emma from January 2023 while she's on maternity leave. In the past he's worked for poetry organisations, fellow small press Penned in the Margins and Arts Council England. When he's not working he writes poetry (in fact The Emma Press published his pamphlet of action movie poems in 2016) and is currently trying to get his scripts from page to stage. He has just relocated back to the West Midlands and is looking forward to discovering more of Birmingham and exploring the surrounding roads on his bike. He/him.
Georgia Wall
publishing manager
Georgia helps bring our books into the world by running our calls for submissions and managing in-house product publicity campaigns, as well as assisting with the practical running of our office in the Jewellery Quarter. She is especially enthusiastic about children's literature from around the world. Georgia also works as a freelance translator and delivers creative translation workshops in schools with the support of The Stephen Spender Trust. She/her.
Lizzie Pearson-Hadley
Lizzie works part-time as the EP finance officer, keeping on top of sales and purchase ledgers and paying out advances and royalties to all our lovely authors! She is also responsible for monitoring company cash flow, financial reporting and assisting with year end accounts production. Prior to EP she has worked in a number of finance roles in arts organisations (contemporary art, music and theatre) across Birmingham. Lizzie is studying towards becoming a midwife which is a very exciting and somewhat daunting recent career move! When not working or studying Lizzie loves reading and watching a variety of sports. She is an avid Aston Villa supporter and (an eternally hopeful) England fan. She/her.
production controller
Anne helps to schedule our future titles, keeping them on track for their publication dates. She also maintains their metadata, ensuring they will be easy to discover by booksellers, librarians and other readers. One of the best things about this job is being able to read our new titles – at least in enough depth to give them subject headings! She promises she doesn't spend all day reading, though, and, in fact she has bought even more titles for her collection of Emma Press books (part of her wider library of poetry and artists' books). When Anne's not working for us, or running her consultancy, Beginning Cataloguing, she can usually be found in her garden in the London-Essex borders – pruning, weeding … or reading, of course. She/her.
Our Arts Council funding
We are currently proud recipients of ACE funding for January 2020-March 2023, as part of the Elevate programme. This is for diverse-led arts organisations, specifically to build resilience during this time, in the following ways: 1) improve the running of the business, 2) build connections with other organisations, 3) find ways to make more money, 4) find more ways to make money. This is all so we stand a chance of surviving and are better able to deliver our mission in future.
For The Emma Press, so far this has meant setting up an advisory board, hiring more members of staff, working with our partners, mentoring and business management support, getting set up on accounting and project management systems, improving our website, developing our social media and newsletter strategy, developing relationships with indie bookshops and reviewers, running our calls for submissions more frequently and with a 'pay-what-you-can model', and experimenting with digital marketing strategies to push our direct sales.
Our Environmental Footprint
We are always trying to think of new ways to reduce the environmental footprint left by our production. We work predominantly with local independent contractors, such as The Holodeck, who print most of our books now, and Tolley Badges who created our fabric badges. The Holodeck often prints on paper offcuts, making an effort to reduce waste. We also try to use recycled paper where possible, and our gift wrapping uses a no-tape method, so the wrap may be used again.
We try to use the most sustainable packaging we can find, and do small print runs of our titles to reduce waste. We're also always open to new ideas and feedback on our packaging, so if you have thoughts you can email [email protected]. We want to send you beautiful packages, but we also want them to be as responsible as possible.
What are the main challenges we face?
Publishing is a weird old industry. Despite all the exciting, progressive things happening in the book world, the fundamental structures of publishing remain traditional and conservative. This makes it hard for small publishers run by not-rich people to survive (and hard for writers without connections to get noticed and find a platform). It means that we have to think about sales all the time, because sales are what keep us going – both directly, keeping cash flowing, and indirectly, because Arts Council England won't fund an organisation that has no hope of supporting itself one day.
However, we believe that the landscape of publishing is changing, in great part due to the effort small presses put into discovering new work, supporting emerging writers, and challenging established modes of production. We work with many different independent artists to produce our beautiful books, and do our best to contribute to a thriving arts ecosystem.
How can you help us?
If you like what we do and want us to keep doing it, please buy a book from us today, from our webshop or from your local indie bookshop. And tell everyone you know about us, and think of us when you're next buying presents!
We have a gift subscription for young readers too: take a look at our brilliant little Bicki-Books! These are postcard-sized picture books (perfect for tiny hands) translated from Latvian for children, ages 3+. Truly wacky, exciting and fun, you can order the Bicki Books as a monthly subscription or as a bundle all at once!
You can buy our books directly from our webshop or order them from your local bookshop!
The Emma Press is represented to the trade by Inpress Books, the innovative sales and marketing specialist. Details of all their regional sales representatives can be found here.
Our books are distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, formerly known as NBNi.
More about the Emma Press
'Publisher Spotlight', interview with World Kid Lit, 2020
'The Emma Press (3 books + interview) – THIS WEEK IN ARTS VOL.3', reviews of EP books and an interview with Emma in slowculture.eu, 2020
EP Bookchat with Emma Dai'an Wright, video interview
'National Writing Day: Publisher Emma Wright on Setting Up a Small Press', a feature published by the Poetry School, 2017
'Emma's speech at the 2016 Michael Marks Awards', 2016
An interview with Emma on Playing By The Book, 2016
'Five Questions with Emma Wright' on Jared Carnie's blog, 2016
'Romance in the age of Tinder', the Daily Telegraph's Valentine's feature, 2016
An in-depth interview with Sphinx, the magazine dedicated to poetry pamphlets, 2014
'Conversations with the Emma Press', a brief interview with Poetry Shed, 2014
'Pub talk', a long interview with Will Barrett on The Poetry School Campus, 2014
'In Conversation', an interview with Jonathan Aldridge on Sabotage Reviews, 2014
'Subversive at all times', an interview with Tom Cutterham in Review 31, 2013
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This internsship will provide the opportunity to learn both warm & cool season turfgrass maintenance in the transition zone, the opportunity to learn greens maintenance of both native soil and sand based greens and project planning & implementation.
Housing & uniforms provided. Meal discount and discount on pro shop purchases.
One to two years experience preferred, but not required. Interns will work closely with all levels of management to include: Director of Golf Operations, Asst., & Foreman learning all aspects of an in-depth, dynamic golf course maintenance operation. Interns will gain extensive experience in course set-up, mowing, hand-watering, aerification, moisture monitoring, IPM practices, chemical control and fertilization calibration and application, utilizing various pieces of equipment, as well as irrigation troubleshooting/repairs. We are looking for goal oriented individuals who want to succeed in the golf course industry. Leading crews to complete small projects and management of the same.
Educational requirements: Currently seeking a two or four year turfgrass management degree or a related field from an accredited university.
Hound Ears is an 18 hole private course with Poa/Bent greens and bent tees and fairways.
Intern will assist Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent with daily maintenance operations and tournament conditions. Intern will assist with Chemical and fertilizer applications, tournament setup, bunker maintenance, mowing schedules and practices, Inventory and organization, irrigation repairs.
Keowee Springs is one of seven private facilities owned by The Cliffs Clubs located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North and South Carolina. The Tom Fazio designed golf course consists of 007 bentgrass greens, TifEagle bermudagrass tees, and 419 bermudagrass fairways and rough. Along with the 18 hole golf course is a state of the art five green practice facility. The 18 hole course is open year round, with 20,000 annual rounds.
Benefits include golfing privileges, uniforms, and housing is available upon request. The Cliffs take pride in a parallel promotion and upward movement in the company and have a tendency to lean towards interns to assist in filling those positions.
Interns will work closely with the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent and will be exposed to all aspects of golf course maintenance including, but not limited to: chemical applications and calibrations, hand watering/syringing greens, irrigation projects, course setup, and mowing practices.
Wake Forest University is an Arnold Palmer Golf Practice Facility that is open year round.
This internship will include both Golf Maintenance and Sports Turf Maintenance. We have the ability to help shape your internship from nearly all golf or learn the sports turf side if you are interested. The Arnold Palmer Golf Complex is a practice facility used exclusively by the Wake Forest University Golf Teams. It has both bentgrass greens and ultradwarf bermudagrass greens. We are potentially converting the bentgrass greens to Champion Bermudagrass this summer. We maintain 419 Bermudagrass soccer fields and football fields as well as synthetic football and baseball fields if you are interested in learning this side of the business.
Benefits include Housing provided on Campus.
Forest Creek Golf Club, in Pinehurst, NC, is seeking turf students for a 2019 internship. Interns will work closely with Course Superintendents and Assistants, while being exposed to all aspects of turf grass management at a 36 hole, private golf club in the historic Sandhills of North Carolina. This includes, but is not limited to, fertilizer and pesticide application, irrigation and drainage R&M, daily course setup, hand watering greens, etc.
Forest Creek is a 36-hole private golf club with two distinct Tom Fazio designs: The North Course and South Course. Each course is currently ranked in the top 15 courses in North Carolina. Fazio, along with two members, recently purchased the club and are restoring both courses in the coming years, starting with the North Course in the summer of 2019. Both courses currently have Bentgrass greens, but the North will be converted to Ultradwarf Bermudagrass. Both the North and South courses run on Toro irrigation systems.
Current student or graduate of 2 to 4 year Turf Management Program.
General golf course maintenance experience preferred, not required.
If interested, please contact Mac Ball at 336-209-8055, email resume and cover letter to [email protected].
Eagle Point Golf Club opened in 2000 through the work of architect Tom Fazio as a 18- hole golf course and a 9 hole par 3 course. The greens have recently been renovated after the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship from A1-A4 Bentgrass to Champion G12 Bermudagrass. Collars have recently been sodded to Tifgrand Bermudagrass and tees, fairways, and rough consist of Tifsport Bermudagrass. Eagle Point is a top 100 golf club and excepts nothing but the highest expectations and tournament quality turfgrass daily.
One or two years working at a golf course doing turfgrass management is preferred but not required. Interns will work closely with assistants learning all aspects of setting up and maintaining a tournament conditioned golf course daily. Interns will gain experience in daily setup, running small crews, hand watering, fertilizer and chemical applications, irrigation, core cultivation, calibration, projects, and running various pieces of equipment. Eagle Point will give you all the tools that you need to further your experience towards and Assistants position.
Benefits include Off-site housing, golf privileges, uniforms, discounted pro shop purchases, opportunity to learn how to manage a Top 100 Golf Club.
Wexford Plantation, located in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is an extraordinary 33-year-old, member-owned private community that is open year round. The club consists of a recently renovated Clubhouse, an Arnold Palmer designed 18-hole golf course with 17,000 annual rounds, 6 tennis courts and a Harbour with a lock system. The greens are Champion Bermudagrass, and tees and fairways are Zorro Zoysia.
This position provides an excellent opportunity to experience a premier Golf Course and learn all aspects of golf course maintenance. Our program is designed to provide students with a practical, hands-on learning experience in golf course maintenance and agronomic plan management. Students will participate in daily course maintenance, course set-up, record keeping, equipment maintenance, irrigation, chemical application, environmental awareness, and crew management. Housing and uniforms will be provided as well as golfing privileges.
Lake Toxaway Country Club is an 18-hole private championship golf course with 7,000 annual rounds. It is located on the shores of North Carolina's largest private lake and in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Lake Toxaway Country Club is defined by its unbelievable sights and captivating golf course. The greens are A1/A4 and tees and fairways are L93 Bent.
Originally created in 1963, the 6500 yard golf course received a full 9 million dollar renovation in 2008 by noted architect, Kris Spence. Lake Toxaway CC also has a 20 acre learning center designed by legend, Tom Fazio. Alongside the golf course and learning center, Lake Toxaway CC also has Championship Bentgrass croquet courts.
Interns will be involved in all aspects of golf course maintenance including, but not limited to, fertilizer/chemical application, equipment calibration, moisture management, hand watering, course set-up, equipment operation & maintenance, tournament setup, and course project supervision. Interns will get extensive time learning and running a small crew both on the golf course and at the learning center.
The lone Arnold Palmer Signature Design in the Lowcountry, Crescent Pointe has received many local accolades as a favorite and tough golf course to play. Forced carries, natural landscapes and abundant wildlife set your round off in Bluffton, SC. Minutes away from Hilton Head Island, the combination of great golf and beaches all come together at Crescent Pointe Golf Club.
Designed by 2012 Ryder Cup Captain and 5-time RBC Heritage winner, Davis Love III, Eagle's Pointe Golf Club is sure to provide a wonderful golf experience. Eagle's Pointe features a wonderful stretch of holes on the front nine that are tucked away with no backyards or homes in sight. It is a refreshing environment because most courses in the area are carved throughout neighborhoods. If you are looking for a fair, yet rewarding golf course, Eagle's Pointe is your choice.
Looking for motivated individuals with a great attitude who wants to learn with the desire to progress within this industry.
Internship will be tailored to the individual based on prior experience and the desires of applicant. Intern will participate in all jobs necessary to maintain a 18 hole golf course. All duties from mowing, to cutting cups, to irrigation troubleshooting and repair, to spraying will be performed.
Benefits include Uniform shirt, Half price meal. Golfing Privileges. Ability to work at two different golf course 3 miles apart.
River Run Country Club is seeking highly motivated individuals with a positive attitude, and eagerness to learn and gain experience in the turfgrass industry.
Interns will be exposed to all aspects of golf course management that include but are not limited to daily setup, mowing practices, spraying, and irrigation repairs. River Run is an 18 hole course. Greens are Champion and fairways are 419. River Run has played host to numerous Web.com events and is home to the Davidson University golf team. This year we are hosting a LPGA event.
Application must have or be enrolled in a 2 or 4 year turfgrass management program, or a related field. This can lead to a full time position.
The Golf Club at Briar's Creek is an 18-hole premier, private course designed by Rees Jones and opened in 2002. Routed along the Kiawah River, Briar's Creek preserves its natural environment and Lowcountry landscape as an Audubon style course. The Club plays host to the Woman's NCAA Briar's Creek Invitational tournament. Greens are Tifeagle. Fairways, rough, and tees are 419 Bermuda.
This position provides experience in golf course maintenance at a premier golf club. Intern will assist in daily course maintenance, fertilizer/chemical applications, irrigation troubleshooting and repair, and other various projects and course improvements. This internship will also allow direct exposure to the installation and operation of a new irrigation pump system.
Candidate must be a highly-motivated team player, with a passion for the industry. He or she should maintain a positive attitude, strong work ethic and willingness to learn and lead.
The Links at Mulberry Hill is a semi private open year round 18 hole course with 12,500 rounds per year. Greens are Champion Bermuda and tees and fairways are 419 Bermuda. This mechanic intern position will be responsible for all aspects of a golf course mechanic and will also be assisting as an equipment operator when time allows.
The Duke University Golf Club is a 1957 Robert Trent Jones, Dr. design with Rees Jones completing renovations in 1994 and 2013. The golf course is situated on the edge of the Duke Forest and on the doorstep of Duke University in Durham, NC. The golf course complements the 4-Star Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club that sits adjacent to the property.
The greens were converted to 'Champion' ultradwarf in 2013. The course has 419 fairways, tees, rough with a private practice facility for the university's varsity golf teams which includes two bentgrass putting and chipping greens, practice tees, and bunkers. The Duke University Golf Club has held 2 NCAA Championships and presently host an annual collegiate, CGA and CPGA sectional tournaments.
We are looking for 1 or 2 highly motivated students, looking to prepare for and jump start their careers. Summer interns will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of all facets of golf course maintenance. Interns will gain experience in daily/tournament setup, mowing, cultural practices, chemical and fertilizer applications, irrigation repair and maintenance, and limited administrative duties.
Must be currently enrolled in a 2 or 4 year turf program. May graduates will be considered. Previous golf course experience preferred but not required.
Governors Club is a private open year round 27 hole course with 35,000 annual rounds. Governors Club is a golfing community nestled in the rolling terrain of Chapel Hill. The community's championship golf course is a Jack Nicklaus Signature Design established in 1990. The course runs through and around Edwards Mountain. AT 600-feet above sea level, Edwards Mountain is the highest point in the triangle. Governors Club offers a variety of golfing experiences with three distinct nines appropriately named: the Lakes Course, the Foothills Course and the Mountain Course. It has recently served as host for the 2016 NC Men's State Amateur Championship, US Open Qualifying (men 2014 and women 2015 and 2017), the Twin States Junior Girls Championship, the CGA Tarheel Cup and the CGA Carolinas Senior 4-Ball Championship.
Governors Club has 31 Champion bermudagrass putting greens, Tifway 419 bermudagrass fairways and rough, and zoysiagrass bunker faces.
We are seeking highly motivated, team oriented individuals for this seasons Turfgrass Internships. Students will participate in a diverse range of activities involved in daily golf course maintenance.
• General golf course maintenance including mowing, trimming, water management, etc.
Benefits include golfing privileges, uniforms and housing is available upon request. The Cliffs takes pride in parallel promotion and upward movement in the company and has a tendency to lean towards interns to assist in filling those positions.
Interns will work closely with the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent and will be exposed to all aspects of golf course maintenance including, but not limited to: chemical applications and calibrations, hand watering/syringing greens, irrigation projects, course setup and mowing practices.
Keowee Springs is one of seven private facilities owned by The Cliffs Clubs located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North and South Carolina. The Tom Fazio designed golf course consists of 007 bentgrass greens, TifEagle bermudagrass tees, and 419 bermudagrass fairways and rough. Along with the 18 hole golf course is a state of the art five green practice facility.
The Currituck Club is located on the Outer Banks of NC and is a very busy golf course 4 months out the year. The area has a lot to offer beaches, historic site and great fishing. Benefits Include overtime, employee uniforms, reduced meal prices, golfing privileges. Housing available $425 a month all inclusive.
Interns will have the ability to learn the ins and outs of course maintenance. Duties would include but not limited to mowing greens, course set up raking bunkers, mowing fairways, mowing rough. Landscaping , mulching, back pack spraying.
The Cliffs at Mountain Park is an 18 hole private club, open year round with 15,0000 to 20,000 rounds played. It opened in September of 2013. Greens are Mini Verde, Tees and Fairways are Diamond Zoysia.
We are looking for a key intern to add to our maintenance team. An intern here will gain experience in all facets of our maintenance department and will be delegated plenty of responsibility that will prepare you for your future career in the golf course industry.
Sedgefield Country Club is a 18 hole private facility designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1926. It plays host to the annual PGA TOUR Wyndham Championship, as well as the Women's ACC Championship, and the AJGA Haas Family Invitational. Sedgefield CC was ranked #11 by Golf Digest for 2017-18' as "The Best Golf Courses in North Carolina".
Greens are Champion Ultradwarf Bermudagrass with 419 Bermuda tee/fairways/roughs.
We are seeking a candidate that is a highly motivated and a career driven person. This candidate must possess a positive attitude, attention to detail, be a team player and show a desire to learn. This person must also have a true passion for this industry and have a willingness to continue to grow and develop professionally.
The Interns will be exposed to all facets of golf course maintenance. Included, but not limited to, daily course set up, sprayer/spreader calibrations, fertilizer/chemical applications, irrigation troubleshooting and repair, and special projects. This position will provide this individual with a great opportunity to network with fellow peers, be involved in all aspects of preparing and hosting a PGA TOUR event, and gain lots of great experiences that will help prepare you for the next step in your career.
The Seabrook Island Club is a thirty-six hole private club open year round located on Seabrook Island near historic Charleston, SC. The Ocean Winds course was designed by Willard Byrd and constructed in 1972. The Crooked Oaks course is a Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design that was constructed in 1979. Crooked Oaks was redesigned and renovated by John B. Lafoy in 1999. The $2.3 million dollar project included the complete renovation of all tee and green complexes, installation of a new irrigation system, new drainage and a complete bunker renovation. The summer of 2003 Ocean Winds was converted to Champion Bermuda and the following summer Crooked Oaks was converted. Both the Ocean Winds and Crooked Oaks courses are certified members of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program.
Greens are Champion, Tees are Seashore Paspalum/419 Bermuda, and Fairways are 419 Bermuda.
The Cliffs at Glassy is a premier private club that was built in 1991 by designer Tom Jackson and lays beautifully on top of a 3000 ft. mountain with breath taking views on 15 of 18 holes. Golf Digest ranked it the 3rd most scenic course in the country. The course consist of bentgrass greens, tees and fairways with a blend of Kentucky blue grass/turf type tall fescue rough. Should a candidate desire cool season experience in the transition zone this would be an idea course selection. The crew consist of 25-30 members annually. The Cliffs at Glassy will make a great learning experience for an intern to achieve new skills and prepare them for entering the golf course management industry. Upon consideration please know, The Cliffs at Glassy is one of seven Cliffs Clubs located throughout the mountain and lake regions of upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina and often promotes interns and other positions within these clubs.
The intern's responsibility will include all facets of golf course management including but not limited to fertilizer and pesticide applications as well as calibrations, extensive hand watering w/ extensive water management skills, irrigation system management and repair, management of crew members, assistance in finical budgeting and all other daily practices not mentioned. A candidate must have a good attitude, strong work ethic, be attentive to detail, eager to learn, organizational skills, etc. Perspective intern should have the ultimate goal of becoming a golf course superintendent and must keep in mind that this is a learning experience to grow closer in achieving that goal. We at Glassy promise to take time to educate all interns and provide opportunities to grow and develop. Any intern graduating from school soon after internship completion will have an immediate opportunity for a fulltime managerial position (AIT or Assistant). Benefits will include uniforms, free housing, golf, wellness, dinning and occasional paid lunches.
Currently enrolled in or recent graduate of a 2 or 4 year turfgrass university.
Lake Toxaway Country Club is an 18 hole course, open year round with 8,500 annual rounds. The course has A1 / A4 greens and L93 Bent tees and fairways.
Housing provided on site near the course, meals provided, Uniforms and Golfing Privileges.
Interns will be involved in all aspects of golf course maintenance including but not limited to fertilizer & chemical application and equipment calibration, moisture management, hand watering, course set-up, equipment operation & maintenance, tournament setup, and course project supervision. Interns will also get extensive time learning and running a small crew both at the golf course and independently at the Learning Center.
The Club also features Championship level croquet courts that are used regularly for large local and national tournaments. Interns will learn the importance of managing and providing an excellent playing surface adjacent to the primary golf course.
Wexford Plantation, located in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is an extraordinary 33-year-old, member-owned private community, open year round with 17,000 annual rounds. The club consists of a recently renovated Clubhouse, an Arnold Palmer designed 18-hole golf course, 6 tennis courts and a Harbour with a lock system. Greens are Champion Bermuda and tees and fairways are Zorro Zoysia.
This position provides an excellent opportunity to experience a premier Golf Course and learn all aspects of golf course maintenance. Our program is designed to provide students with a practical, hands-on learning experience in golf course maintenance and agronomic plan management. Students will participate in daily course maintenance, course set-up, record keeping, equipment maintenance, irrigation, chemical application, environmental awareness, and crew management. | {
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If you're a business owner or blogger who has had difficulty creating graphics for your brand, you're in the right place. Below we are going to go over different kinds of social media graphics you can create for your business marketing strategy, how you can help them gain traction, and why you should utilize them online. Once you get the hang of creating your own social media graphics, it will become second nature. Using graphics correctly in advertising is key to getting customers attention, improving your bottom line, and getting a good advertising strategy in place. Use these ideas to improve your graphic ideas.
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AP 10th Class Maths Bits Chapter 14 Statistics with Answers
July 27, 2021 July 9, 2021 by Srinivas
Practice the AP 10th Class Maths Bits with Answers Chapter 14 Statistics on a regular basis so that you can attempt exams with utmost confidence.
AP State Syllabus 10th Class Maths Bits 14th Lesson Statistics with Answers
If mean of 8, 6, 4, x, 3, 6 and '0' is '4', then find the value of x.
\(\frac{6+8+4+x+3+6+0}{7}\) = 4
⇒ 27 + x = 28 ⇒ x = 1
Where the extreme values of some data influences high?
In AM
In a data 'n' scores are given and if 'n' is odd, then find median.
(\(\frac{n+1}{2}\))th event
Find the class mark of 10 – 25.
Mode of the data 5, 3, 4, – 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, p is 3, then the value of 'p'.
Find the class interval of the class 11 – 20.
Mean of 1,2, x, 3 is '0', then the value of 'x'.
If the sum of 15 observations is 420, then find their mean.
Mean = \(\frac{420}{15}\) = 28
Find the mid value of the class 10 – 19.
Find the median of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Median = \(\frac{4+5}{2}\) = 4.5
To elect the leader of your class from 3 contestants, which central measures is to be considered ?
From the given graph of ogives, find median.
Find median of the scores
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, ……………. 99.
Find the mode of the values sin 0°, cos 0°, sin 90° and tan 45°.
Mode in the values at 0, 1, 1, 1 is 1.
Find the mean of first four odd prime number.
Find A.M. of x – 5, x, x + 5.
Mode of 3, 4, 5 and x is 5, then find x.
Find the mode of the data
5, 6, 9, 10, 6, 11, 4, 6, 10, 4.
The letter that represents \(\frac{\mathbf{x}_{\mathbf{i}}-\mathbf{a}}{\mathbf{h}}\)
which is used in measuring mean is …………….
In "more than ogive curve" we consider in drawing …………………..
More than cumulative frequency, lower limits.
Observe the following tables.
For finding Arithmetic Mean by Direct method, the suggested frequency distribution table is ……………….
only (1) is true.
If \(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\), is the mean of x1 x2, x3, ……………… xn
(n times), then find \(\sum_{i=1}^{n}\)(x1 – \(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\))
Mode can be calculated by = l + (\(\frac{\mathbf{f}_{1}-\mathbf{f}_{0}}{2 \mathbf{f}_{1}-\mathbf{f}_{0}-\mathbf{f}_{2}}\)) × h
here f1 represents ……………..
Frequency of the modal class.
Find the x – coordinate of the point of intersection of the two ogives of grouped data.
Median of the data.
3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 2, x, 6. If the mode of this data is 3, then find 'x'.
For the terms, x + 1, x + 2, x – 1, x + 3 and x – 2 (x G N), if the median of the data is 12, then find x.
Which one of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency?
Mean, Median, Mode, Range
Find the most stable measure of central tendency.
Find mode of 2004, 2005, 2006, ……………
No mode
Mode = 24.5, Mean = 29.75, then find median.
Unimodal data may have ……………… modes.
Who is known as father of statistics ?
Find AM of \(\frac{1}{3}\),\(\frac{7}{12}\),\(\frac{3}{4}\),\(\frac{1}{2}\),\(\frac{5}{6}\)
\(\frac{3}{5}\)
Find the mean of first 5 odd multiples of 5.
\(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\) = \(\frac{5+15+25+35+45}{5}\) = \(\frac{125}{5}\) = 25
Find the mean of 6,-4,\(\frac{2}{3}\),\(\frac{5}{4}\),\(\frac{7}{6}\)
\(\frac{11}{20}\)
In the figure, find the value of median of the data using the graph of less than ogive and more than ogive.
Find mode of the following distribution.
Find the measure of central tendency which take into account all data terms.
6, 3, 5, 6, 7, 5, 8, 7, 6, 2k + 1, 9, 7, 13. If the mode of this data is 7, then find 'k'
Mode = 7, so 2k + 1 = 7 ⇒ k = 3
For a given data with 50 observations 'the less than ogive' and the more than ogive intersect at (15.5, 20). Find the median of the data.
Find median of first 8 prime numbers.
In a data mean = 72.5 and median = 73.9, then find mode.
Mode = 3 Median – 2 Mean
= 3 × 73.9 – 2 × 72.5
= 221.7 – 145 = 76.7
How much the sum of all deviations taken from AM?
Find the modal class in the following frequency distribution.
Mean – mode is equal to
3 (Mean – Median)
In an arranged series of an even num¬ber 2n terms write the median.
\(\frac{1}{2}\)(nth and (n + 1)th term)
In a data maximum value = x, minimum value = y, then find range.
x – y
Consider the following frequency distribution.
Monthly income Number of families
More than or equal to 10000
More than or equal to 22000 100
Find the number of families having income range from ₹ 16000 to ₹ 19000.
C.I of 1 – 10 is …………….
In calculating mode Δ1 is equal to
f – f1
|| represents ………………
Find mode of any 3 consecutive numbers.
No mode.
Find the mean of the following data.
Find AM of first n odd numbers.
The class mark of 10 – 25 is ……………..
Mean of 5,7,9,x is 9, then find 'x'.
Find AM of a – 2, a, a + 2.
Cumulative frequency curves are called as ………………. curves.
Ogive
Find the class marks of a class interval.
\(\frac{\text { Upper boundary + lower boundary }}{2}\)
Write the abscissa of the point of intersection of the 'less than' type and 'more than type' cumulative frequency curves of a grouped data.
Find AM of 12, 22, 33, 42, …………….. , 202.
Write mode of first 'n' natural numbers.
Find mid value of the class 10 – 20.
Mid values are used to calculate ……………
Find mode of 1, 2, 3, ……………. 10, 10.
Find the median of the data 5, 3, 10, 7, 2, 9, 11,2, 6.
Histograiri'consists of ………………..
Write empirical relation among mean, median and mode.
Write the class marks of a class x – y.
\(\frac{x+y}{2}\)
Find mean of 1, 2, 3, …………… n.
\(\frac{n+1}{2}\)
Find AM of 23, 24, 24, 22, 10.
Find the modal class for the following distribution.
Maximum frequency is 57,
i.e., 30 – 40 class.
For a given data with 60 observations, 'the less than' ogive and 'the more than ogive' intersect at (66.5, 30). Find the median of the data.
Data having two modes is called ……………….
Bimodal
pie diagram consists of …………….
Write the Range of first 5 natural num-bers.
If the mean of 10, 12, 18, 13, P and 17 is 15, then find 'P'.
\(\frac{10+12+18+13+\mathrm{P}+17}{6}\) = 15
⇒ 70 + P = 90 ⇒ P = 20
Find range of 1,2,3, …………….. 10.
For a distribution with odd numbers (n) of observations, find the median is ………………. observation.
\(\frac{n+1}{2}\)th
If each observation of a data is increased by 'a', then mean is increases by ……………….
Find mode of 5, 6, 9,10,6,12,3,6,11, 10, 4, 6, 7.
……………….. is effected by extreme values.
1-8, 9-16, 17-24, ………………… then find C.I.
Mode is the value of variate which occurs …………….. number of times.
Find the mean of first five prime numbers.
Find mean of -8, -4 and 4, 8.
Mean of n-observations x1, x2, …………….. xn repeated , f1,f2, f3, ……………. , fn times is
Find mean of 7, 6, 5, 0, 7, 8, 9.
Representing the data with the help of pictures is called
pictograph
If the mean of the data 2, a + 1, a, a – 2 is 4, then find a.
\(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\) = \(\frac{2+a+1+a+a-2}{4}\) = 4
⇒ 3a + 1 = 16 ⇒ a = 5
£f(x) = 200, n=20, then find \(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\).
\(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\) = \(\frac{\Sigma \mathrm{fx}}{\mathrm{n}}=\frac{200}{20}\) = 10
Median = 52.5, Mean = 54, then find Mode.
In the formula of mode in the grouped ……………… data l represents
Lower limit of the class with highest frequency.
Cumulative frequency is used to calculate in ……………….
Find the lower limit of the modal class of the following data.
Construction of cumulative frequency table is useful in determining the ………………
\(\frac{\text { Sum of observations }}{\text { Number of observations }}\) is equal to
If mode of a distribution is 8 and its mean is 8, then find median.
Question 100.
Find mode of 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 7.
For a distribution with even number (n) of observation, the median is ……………….
If the mean of x1 x2, …………….. xn is \(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\), then find the mean of \frac{\mathbf{x}_{1}}{\mathbf{a}}, \(\frac{\mathbf{x}_{2}}{\mathbf{a}}\) ……………….. \(\frac{\mathbf{x}_{n}}{\mathbf{a}}\)
\(\frac{\overline{\mathrm{x}}}{\mathrm{a}}\)
Find AM of 3 and 4.
For a given data with 120 observations, the "less than ogive" and the "more than ogive" intersect at (42.5,60). Find the median of the data.
Find the AM of 10 consecutive num¬bers starting with n + 1.
x + 5.5
………………. is based on all observations.
Mode of a continuous grouped distribution is ………………….
l + \(\frac{\mathrm{f}_{1}-\mathrm{f}_{0}}{\left(\mathrm{f}_{1}-\mathrm{f}_{0}\right)+\left(\mathrm{f}_{1}-\mathrm{f}_{2}\right)}\) × h
Find mode of 20, 3, 7, 13, 3, 4, 6, 7, 19, 15, 7, 18, 3.
Find the sum of lower limit of median class and upper limit of modal class is ………………
The information collected is called ……………..
Find AM of 1, 2, x, 3 is 0, then find 'x'.
For a symmetrical distribution, which is correct?
A) Mean < Mode < Median B) Mean > Mode > Median
C) Mode = \(\frac{\text { Mean }+\text { Median }}{2}\)
D) Mean = Median = Mode
\(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\) = 2p + q, M = p + 2q, then find Z.
4q – p
Find the median class of the following distribution.
A data has 13 observations arranged in descending order which observation represents the median of data?
For a continuous grouped frequency distribution, the median is given by
l + (\(\frac{\frac{\mathrm{n}}{2}-\mathrm{cf}}{\mathrm{f}}\)) × h
A data arrange in descending order has 25 observations. Which observation represents the median?
……………… of all bars is same in bar graph.
Find mean of a + 1, a + 3, a + 4 and a + 8.
a + 4
Mean = \(\frac{a+1+a+3+a+4+a+8}{4}\)
= \(\frac{4 a+16}{4}\) = a + 4
If assumed mean is 'a', then write the mean.
a + \(\frac{\Sigma \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{d}_{\mathrm{i}}}{\Sigma \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}}}\)
Find the upper limit of median class of the following distribution.
❖ Choose the correct answer satisfying the following statements.
Statement (A) : The arithmetic mean of the following given frequency distribution table is 13.81.
Statement (B) : \(\overline{\mathbf{x}}\) = \(\frac{\Sigma \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}}}{\Sigma \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}}}\)
i) Both A and B are true.
ii) A is true, B is false.
iii) A is false, B is true.
iv) Both A and B are false.
(i) Both A and B are true.
Both A and B are true, B is the correct explanation of the A.
Hence, (i) is the correct option.
Statement (A) : If the number of runs scored by 11 players of a cricket team of India are 5, 19, 42, 11, 50, 30, 21, 0, 52, 36, 27, then median is 30.
Statement (B) : Median = \(\frac{(n+1)^{t h}}{2}\)
value, if n is odd.
Arranging the terms in ascending order, 0, 5, 11, 19, 21, 27, 30, 36, 42, 50, 52
Median value = (\(\frac{11+1}{2}\))th = 6th value = 27
∴ Option (iii) is true.
Statement (A) : If the value of mode and mean is 60 and 66 respectively, then the value of median is 64.
Statement (B) :
Median = \(\frac{1}{2}\)(mode + 2 mean)
Median = \(\frac { 1 }{ 3 }\) (Mode + 2 Mean)
= \(\frac { 1 }{ 3 }\) (60 + 2 × 66) = 64
∴ Option (ii) is correct.
Read the below passages and answer to the following questions.
The following table gives the weekly wages of workers in a factory.
Find the mean.
Mean = \(\frac{\Sigma \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}}}{\Sigma \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}}}=\frac{5520}{80}\) = 69
Find the modal class.
Modal Class : We know that class of maximum frequency is called the modal class, i.e., 55 – 60 is the modal class.
Find the number of workers getting weekly wages, below ₹ 80.
The marks of 20 students in a test were as follows : 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 18, 19, 20.
Number of workers getting weekly wages below ₹ 80 according to table = 60 workers.
Calculate the mean.
Arrange in ascending order
Calculate the median.
Here, n = 20 which is an even number
Calculate the mode.
A professor keeps data on students tabulated by performance and sex of the student. The data is kept on a computer disk.
In the data, 15 occurs the maximum times i.e., 3 times.
∴ Mode = 15
How many students are both female and excellent?
There is no female excellent student in the class.
What proportion of good students are male?
Proportion of good male students
= \(\frac{22}{30}\) = 0.73
What proportion of female students are good?
Proportion of good female students
\(\frac{8}{30}\) = 0.26
Write the short form of the expansion in symbolic form.
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ……………………. + n
Σn
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"You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5).
The focal point of the upcoming 2019 WELS Women's Ministry Conference, being held at Luther Preparatory School, Watertown, Wis., July 18–20, is "living stones" and how Christian women are called to be a part of something bigger. Dawn Schulz, conference coordinator, says the committee chose 1 Peter as the conference's inspiration because it's a great encouragement to women.
A range of speakers will discuss the topic of living stones in keynote addresses and breakout sessions. One of the main points of the conference is how Christians fit together, like stones on a building. Each stone possesses unique qualities to serve God's kingdom. To emphasize this point, the speakers have a range of backgrounds, including a lawyer, a pastor, and a ministry coordinator.
The conference will also dive into how Christian women should look at the individuality of each person to more effectively share the gospel. For example, a young adult ministry professional as well as a panel of college students will emphasize how to reach younger generations today.
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Whistle-blower testifies on GNP bribery scandal
Parliamentary speaker, presidential secretary deny involvementProsecutors kicked off an investigation into a whistle-blower's allegation that a former leader of the ruling Grand National Party bribed fellow lawmakers in order to win the top position, which is likely to be an irreversible blow on the party's public image.Rep. Koh Seung-duk of the GNP voluntarily went to the Seoul Central Prosecutor's Office on Sund...
Published : Jan 8, 2012 - 15:46
Updated : Jan 8, 2012 - 22:32
Parliamentary speaker, presidential secretary deny involvement
Prosecutors kicked off an investigation into a whistle-blower's allegation that a former leader of the ruling Grand National Party bribed fellow lawmakers in order to win the top position, which is likely to be an irreversible blow on the party's public image.
Rep. Koh Seung-duk of the GNP voluntarily went to the Seoul Central Prosecutor's Office on Sunday to face questioning over the bribery suspicions.
The lawyer-turned-lawmaker earlier disclosed that an aide to one of the party's top leaders handed him an envelope with 3 million won ($2,584) shortly before a leadership vote.
Koh returned the money but the corresponding candidate won the party's chief post nonetheless, he said.
"I decided to reveal the truth for the sake of sound politics," said Koh, before entering the prosecutor's office.
"The GNP may not recover from its current crisis, unless it settles past irregularities."
Rep. Koh Seung-duk of the ruling Grand National Party appears at the Seoul Central Prosecutor's Office on Sunday. (Chung Hee-cho/The Korea Herald)
During the current parliamentary term, three lawmakers have been elected party leader ― Reps. Park Hee-tae, Ahn Sang-soo and Hong Joon-pyo ― but the list came down to Park and Ahn, as Koh excluded Hong, who was the most recently elected.
Eyes were especially on parliamentary speaker Park who became GNP chairman in 2008 through a tight race.
The sixth-term lawmaker, however, denied the allegations and left the country early on Sunday for a 10-day trip to meet with parliamentary leaders from neighboring Asian states.
Also, Kim Hyo-jae, senior secretary for state affairs to President Lee Myung-bak, was presumed by some as the aide who delivered the money to the first-term lawmaker.
The bribery scandal could be another fatal blow to the right-wing party's struggles to shake off its corrupt image and regain public trust ahead of the upcoming general elections slated for this April.
After questioning Koh, authorities are expected to summon the key figures based on his testimony, according to officials.
Should current and former powers of the GNP be involved in the bribery probe, the ruling party's reputation will further falter, especially amid the ongoing doubts over the cyber attack on the National Election Commission website.
The prosecution concluded Friday that the attack was carried out by former aides only and did not involve current party members, but this led to violent backlash and scorn from the liberal camp and civic groups.
Reform-inclined members of the party once again demanded that the GNP be disbanded and founded as a new party.
"There seems to be no end to the party's slump," said Rep. Chung Doo-un, a leading member among the reformers.
"The only solution is to restart the party from scratch."
The party's emergency leadership council has so far refrained from issuing an official stance but some of its members turned in favor of the breakup plan.
Rep. Park Geun-hye, the party's interim chief and presidential potential, earlier pledged to fundamentally renew the party, without terminating the incumbent GNP system.
However, given the intensity of the situation, the pro-Park group may now also consider dissolving the party in order to shake off the pending doubts, said one of Park's close aides.
Should the reconstruction take place, the government-ruling party relation is also to undergo radical changes as the Park-led GNP is expected to exclude pro-Lee figures and keep its distance from Cheong Wa Dae.
Observers predicted violent clashes between the two factions, which will negatively affect the right-wing's chances of winning in the upcoming elections.
By Bae Hyun-jung ([email protected]) | {
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Kirana ultrahigh-speed camera studies composite material failure
A Kirana ultrahigh-speed camera from Specialised Imaging is recording failure mechanisms of a carbon-epoxy composite.
AuthorGail Overton
A Kirana ultrahigh-speed camera from Specialised Imaging is being used to study material failure of carbon epoxy composites. (Image credit: Specialised Imaging)
IMAGE: A Kirana ultrahigh-speed camera from Specialised Imaging is being used to study material failure of carbon epoxy composites. (Image credit: Specialised Imaging)
The Institute for Carbon Composites (LCC) at the Technical University of Munich, Germany is using a Kirana ultrahigh-speed camera from Specialised Imaging (Tring, England) to record high-resolution images of a unidirectional carbon-epoxy composite material undergoing dynamic tension testing on a split-Hopkinson Tension Bar. The experimental setup was to determine the mechanical properties of carbon epoxy composites under high strain rates (100 – 1000 1/s). The deformation and the failure patterns of these composite materials, was observed and recorded in tests that lasted less than 200 microseconds.
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Using the Kirana camera has provided the LCC with the ability to capture high-resolution images of the ultrahigh-speed events that often occur when undertaking dynamic tension tests. Taking up to 5,000,000 frames per second, and shuttering every 100 nanoseconds, there is no compromise in capturing high-quality data. The data is exported in 180 frames so each test can be easily saved and viewed.
Using the images captured by the Kirana ultrahigh-speed camera, the LCC researchers imported them into state-of-the-art Digital-Image-Correlation (DIC) software enabling the calculation of the in-plane strain-field. In addition, the images revealed useful information regarding the deformation and failure mechanisms of the specimens.
Founded in May 2009, the Institute for Carbon Composites (LCC) undertakes fundamental research and application-oriented industry cooperation in the field of fiber-reinforced composites. Experimental methods are of great importance for the investigation of material behavior and the further development of fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites. At the LCC a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art test methods and equipment is available for the determination of the physical and mechanical properties of matrix systems and laminates. In addition to the application of various standards, the LCC also investigates and develops new and innovative testing techniques (see http://www.lcc.mw.tum.de/en/home/).
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Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords
Presented by Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs and the Embassy of Ireland hosted the forum "Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords" on June 12 at the Keough School's new Washington, D.C., office. Kroc professor David Cortright was one of the featured speakers.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement among the Irish and British governments and political parties of Northern Ireland, the event will discussed lessons from that peace process as well as the Colombian peace accord.
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Effect of hypertonic saline resuscitation on CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and γδ T cells after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in relation to apoptosis and iNOS
Yoshinori Murao, Kenji Isayama, Fukuki Saito, Akihiko Hirakawa, Toshio Nakatani
Background: Hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation induce immunosuppression. CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and γδT cells may affect these immunosuppressive conditions. Hypertonic saline resuscitation reduces damage to organs and apoptosis and also restores immunosuppressive condition. We investigated how hypertonic saline resuscitation affected the induction of CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and γδT cells, and their apoptosis after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation, and its relationship to inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) (nitric oxide production). Methods: Male inbred C57BL6/J mice 8-week to 12-week-old as wild type and iNOS gene knock out (iNOS-/-), weighing 20 g to 35 g, were used. Hemorrhagic shock model of ±40 mm Hg for 60 minutes was setup. Animals were randomly assigned to the following four resuscitation group: (1) wild HS: resuscitation with hypertonic saline (4 mL/Kg of 7.5% NaCl) and shed blood (SB), (2) wild 2LR: resuscitation with lactated Ringer's solution (two times the volume of the SB) and SB, (3) iNOS knockout HS, and (4) iNOS knockout 2LR. Untreated groups for wild and iNOS knockout mice were designated as control groups. Samples of thymus and spleen were harvested at 2 hours, 6 hours, 24 hours, and 48 hours after resuscitation. CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and γδT cells were analyzed using three-color flow cytometry. Results: (1) γδ T cells increased earlier at 24 hours and CD4CD25 regulatory T cells increased later at 48 hours compared with controls in spleen of wild type (p < 0.01). (2) Hypertonic saline resuscitation suppressed γδ T cells compared with 2LR at 24 hours in iNOS knockout mice in spleen (p < 0.05). Hypertonic saline resuscitation increased apoptosis of CD4CD25 regulatory T cells at 48 hours in iNOS knockout mice in spleen (p < 0.01). (3) CD4CD25 regulatory T cells of iNOS knockout both in HS and 2LR groups at 48 hours decreased compared with wild type both in HS and 2LR groups in spleen (p < 0.01). (4) Apoptotic γδ T cells both in spleen and thymus in iNOS knockout mice at 48 hours increased compared with those in wild type (p < 0.05, respectively, except γδ T cells 2LR in spleen: p = 0.058). Conclusion: γδ T cells increased earlier at 24 hours, whereas CD4CD25 regulatory T cells increased later at 48 hours in spleen of wild type. Hypertonic saline was effective without the presence of iNOS, i.e., decreased γδ T cells at 24 hours and increased apoptosis of CD4CD25 regulatory T cells at 48 hours. CD4CD25 regulatory T cells at 48 hours without iNOS decreased compared with those of wild type. γδ T cells at 48 hours induced apoptosis under the condition without iNOS in spleen and thymus. iNOS worked as an accelerating factor for immunosuppressive condition, affected apoptosis, and immunoenhancing effect by hypertonic saline.
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Murao, Y., Isayama, K., Saito, F., Hirakawa, A., & Nakatani, T. (2009). Effect of hypertonic saline resuscitation on CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and γδ T cells after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in relation to apoptosis and iNOS. Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care, 67(5), 975-982. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b83b7a
Murao, Yoshinori ; Isayama, Kenji ; Saito, Fukuki ; Hirakawa, Akihiko ; Nakatani, Toshio. / Effect of hypertonic saline resuscitation on CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and γδ T cells after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in relation to apoptosis and iNOS. In: Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care. 2009 ; Vol. 67, No. 5. pp. 975-982.
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Murao, Y, Isayama, K, Saito, F, Hirakawa, A & Nakatani, T 2009, 'Effect of hypertonic saline resuscitation on CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and γδ T cells after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in relation to apoptosis and iNOS', Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 975-982. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b83b7a
Effect of hypertonic saline resuscitation on CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and γδ T cells after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in relation to apoptosis and iNOS. / Murao, Yoshinori; Isayama, Kenji; Saito, Fukuki; Hirakawa, Akihiko; Nakatani, Toshio.
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AB - Background: Hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation induce immunosuppression. CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and γδT cells may affect these immunosuppressive conditions. Hypertonic saline resuscitation reduces damage to organs and apoptosis and also restores immunosuppressive condition. We investigated how hypertonic saline resuscitation affected the induction of CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and γδT cells, and their apoptosis after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation, and its relationship to inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) (nitric oxide production). Methods: Male inbred C57BL6/J mice 8-week to 12-week-old as wild type and iNOS gene knock out (iNOS-/-), weighing 20 g to 35 g, were used. Hemorrhagic shock model of ±40 mm Hg for 60 minutes was setup. Animals were randomly assigned to the following four resuscitation group: (1) wild HS: resuscitation with hypertonic saline (4 mL/Kg of 7.5% NaCl) and shed blood (SB), (2) wild 2LR: resuscitation with lactated Ringer's solution (two times the volume of the SB) and SB, (3) iNOS knockout HS, and (4) iNOS knockout 2LR. Untreated groups for wild and iNOS knockout mice were designated as control groups. Samples of thymus and spleen were harvested at 2 hours, 6 hours, 24 hours, and 48 hours after resuscitation. CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and γδT cells were analyzed using three-color flow cytometry. Results: (1) γδ T cells increased earlier at 24 hours and CD4CD25 regulatory T cells increased later at 48 hours compared with controls in spleen of wild type (p < 0.01). (2) Hypertonic saline resuscitation suppressed γδ T cells compared with 2LR at 24 hours in iNOS knockout mice in spleen (p < 0.05). Hypertonic saline resuscitation increased apoptosis of CD4CD25 regulatory T cells at 48 hours in iNOS knockout mice in spleen (p < 0.01). (3) CD4CD25 regulatory T cells of iNOS knockout both in HS and 2LR groups at 48 hours decreased compared with wild type both in HS and 2LR groups in spleen (p < 0.01). (4) Apoptotic γδ T cells both in spleen and thymus in iNOS knockout mice at 48 hours increased compared with those in wild type (p < 0.05, respectively, except γδ T cells 2LR in spleen: p = 0.058). Conclusion: γδ T cells increased earlier at 24 hours, whereas CD4CD25 regulatory T cells increased later at 48 hours in spleen of wild type. Hypertonic saline was effective without the presence of iNOS, i.e., decreased γδ T cells at 24 hours and increased apoptosis of CD4CD25 regulatory T cells at 48 hours. CD4CD25 regulatory T cells at 48 hours without iNOS decreased compared with those of wild type. γδ T cells at 48 hours induced apoptosis under the condition without iNOS in spleen and thymus. iNOS worked as an accelerating factor for immunosuppressive condition, affected apoptosis, and immunoenhancing effect by hypertonic saline.
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SADC downplaying eSwatini deaths?
Southern African Development Community (SADC) preliminary fact-finding mission has been completed, and there are still more questions than answers.The mission which was aimed at gathering first-hand information on the chaos at eSwatini was led by Honourable Dr. Lemogang Kwape. The three men mission was made up of Ministers of Foreign Affairs for the Republics of Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The delegation by the Chairperson for SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security- His Excellency Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi was to further appeal for calm and restraint from all the stakeholders, as well as to propose consideration of an open national dialogue, as a way forward in the efforts towards finding a lasting solution. "All consultations were held in an atmosphere of calm, mutual respect and understanding, There was a clear sense of urgency to address the situation in the country. The proposal for an open national dialogue was highly welcomed as a way forward towards finding a long lasting solution" the delagation reported. In their report, where it is mentioned that not all stakeholders were engaged due to time constraints, the delegation found out that Twenty-seven (27) people were killed in eSwatini chaos. On the contrary, the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN) yesterday reported that Forty (40) people got killed. Commenting on Honourable Kwape's report, some Members of Parliament expressed concern over the situation at eSwatini and information Kwape brought forward. "Minister, why is it that your numbers of deceased people differ with what people of eSwatini report? Moreover, what are government officials whom you met saying about when multi party democracy will be reinstated at eSwatini so that people can vote for their preferred leadership?" Honourable Wynter Mmolotsi questioned. Meanwhile, Honourable Onnetse Ramogapi held that it seems as if Kwape and team took the government of eSwatini's side in their reporting. Honourable Carter Hikuama wondered how SADC will mediate while the people of eSwatini do not trust the organization.
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Geoffrey Bingham will be talked about for a long time to come. More than that, his life and ministry will continue to be appreciated far and wide. He will, I feel sure, be read more widely, too. Amazing what the gracious Father, our God, does with a sinner isn't it? And the good things we see, are thanks to the merits and joy and sufferings and love of our Lord Jesus Christ, made known as his Spirit is poured into our hearts, bringing forgiveness, and effecting reconciliation. From rebels to Sons! What a change.
His ministry was wider than one church.
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Recently our local Broward county Surfrider chair, Catherine Uden, has been on a mission to make stand-up paddleboarding and surfing legal in Hallandale and Hollywood Beach.
We have not heard about surfers breaking the law since the 1964 ban in Palm Beach county, but, those choosing to catch waves or paddle off Hallandale beach are breaking a town law.
In 1970, the ban on surfing was taken to the Supreme Court of Florida when Bruce Arthur Carter petitioned the Town of Palm Beach, Florida for a similar ban along their beaches. The landmark ruling prohibited cities from outlawing surfing calling the ban "arbitrary and unreasonable".
The oldest image of a known Palm Beach County surfer shows Tom Lawton at the old Palm Beach pier in 1937, with his hollow0style wooden surfboard. A 1978 photo of David Reese of Palm Beach, who helped establish the Eastern Surfing Association's contests. Reese's father had been the mayor of the Town of Palm Beach, which banned surfing in 1964. Attorney Joel Daves, who became West Palm Beach mayor, took the surfers' fight to the Florida Supreme Court in 1970 and won.
Where is surfing legal in Hallandale & Hollywood?
On October 1st, our Broward Surfrider chair was able to meet with David from Hollywood Parks and Rec and Bruce who is the Hollywood Beach Safety Chief. They were joined by 3 residents in support of paddle zone expansion. Bruce agreed to expand the zone at Azalea Terrace on the south end by 4 streets. He said it would be effective immediately, and he would let the lifeguards know. He also assured us that the lifeguards could "black flag" any section where we found waves to surf. This expansion, though, did not include areas of the main Broadwalk. But less than three weeks later, Catherine went to paddle in this newly expanded area with her son.
"It was a gorgeous morning on Hollywood Beach Saturday, and what a nice surprise to actually find some small breaking waves (just south of Manta Ray Inn) to surf with my son. I thought we were going to the beach for a flat water paddle. Surprisingly, I caught a couple of long rides and 3 other paddlers paddled over to catch waves, too. One guy said to me, smiling, "This is rare! We usually don't get these fun little waves". Shortly after expressing his joy, 2 beach patrols on buggies drove over and whistled us out of the water. I thought maybe they didn't hear that Bruce extended the paddle zone for us south of Azalea Terr. (plus, the ocean was empty and there was no reason to kick us out).
Want to join Catherine in making a change?
Ask the city of Hollywood to place "Removal of Stand Up Restrictions" on a city meeting agenda and state why you believe the restrictions should be removed.
If you can not make a meeting, you can also email the Hollywood city commission.
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In this part we start looking at a very common area of concern: when someone with dementia starts having eating/ swallowing problems.
Questions/ Comments by Dementia Care Notes: One very common and extremely worrying situation in late-stage dementia is when the person reduces or stops eating and drinking. Can you share why eating problems happen?
Dr. Soumya Hegde (Consultant Geriatric Psychiatrist): There are many reasons why eating problems happen. The first thing to do in such cases is to distinguish between whether she doesn't want to eat or whether she can't eat/ swallow. These are very different.
If the person doesn't want to eat, we need to understand why. The eating will improve once we resolve that problem. But if the person can't swallow because the dementia has deteriorated, we have to do different things.
DCN: Why would someone not want to eat?
Dr. Hegde: Illness and pain is one set of possible reasons. The person may have viral fever or some physical discomfort and so they don't feel like eating. The person may have pain — ear pain, tooth pain, stomach pain. Or a sore throat which makes eating hurtful.
The problem could also gastritis caused by some medication, a side-effect sometimes seen with some common medicines. A person with a bloated stomach doesn't want to eat, but may not tell you what the problem is. The medicines may need to be changed or discontinued.
Or the person may have gone into a behaviour pattern that she can't break out of. Or she may be so confused or lethargic because of dehydration that she refuses to eat. The reason could even be as simple as the food not being tasty.
DCN: That's a lot of possible reasons. But first, how can we know if a person doesn't want to eat or if she can't eat?
Dr. Hegde: Look for facial expressions of pain or discomfort, or whether it seems a stubborn refusal.
A throat infection may also prevent someone from swallowing. You may not be able to examine for throat inflammation, and the person's voice may not be sore, but they find it easier in these case to sip fluids. If accompanied by a cold the person may have a runny nose If you find the problem, you can try to solve it.
See how suddenly the problem happened. If it happens suddenly it is very unlikely that the dementia has deteriorated to that point.
See how suddenly the problem happened. If it happens suddenly it is very unlikely that the dementia has deteriorated to that point. It can't be that yesterday he ate rice and sambhar, chewing and swallowing properly, and today the dementia is so bad that he doesn't eat.
One situation where the eating problem can happen in a relatively short term is in case of a vascular event.
DCN: By vascular event you mean something that interrupted the blood flow in the brain and caused damage, right? How can we know if a relatively sudden eating problem is due to a vascular event?
Dr. Hegde: A vascular event affects blood flow to the brain — a stroke, a mini-stroke. The damage due to it could affect any part of the body. Maybe in this person's case it affects swallowing.
Look for whether the refusal behaviour is present in other activities also, like refusing a bath, refusing to walk, refusing to talk—that could mean it is psychological. Offer different food choices. A lot of people who suddenly stop eating may still eat their favourite food, like say a peda. If the person eats some food and not others, it cannot be due to a vascular event.
Be especially alert about vascular events if the person has related risk factors like hypertension or diabetes.
Check if some other cognitive decline happened around the same time as the eating problem—like a deterioration in comprehension or communication. That could indicate that the eating problem is because of a vascular event, and not a refusal to cooperate. Be especially alert about vascular events if the person has related risk factors like hypertension or diabetes.
DCN: So, families can look at all these aspects, gather data, and tell the doctor what they have observed.
…when you notice a swallowing problem, then whilst you are trying to figure out where the problem is, consider switching to mashed food consistency. This is because liquids are dangerous to give case of genuine swallowing difficulties.
Dr. Hegde: Correct. The doctor will try to understand if the eating problem is because of brain changes (organic causes) or if there is a behavioural component (which means it is psychological) or something else.
One thing is that when you notice a swallowing problem, then whilst you are trying to figure out where the problem is, consider switching to mashed food consistency. This is because liquids are dangerous to give case of genuine swallowing difficulties. So, play safe till you understand the situation better.
DCN: Regarding food taste: we often suggest that caregivers taste the food they give the person to make sure it is tasty, especially because foods taste different when liquidized. Also, don't tastes change with age? Like they prefer more sweet things when older?
Dr. Hegde: Some foods are not palatable when mashed. You can't mash an aloo parantha. But you could mash a rasgulla. If you are giving mashed consistency, select foods that taste good after mashing. And yes, the taste for sweet things is the last to go. Use it to your advantage. Add a little bit of sugar to food.
I remember one case of a diabetic resident who didn't want to eat and so she was given a bit of ice-cream at the tip of the spoon, so that her first taste was sweet. She would open her mouth for it. She didn't really appreciate the taste of the rest of the food, but she would continue eating.
When the person has eating problems, you won't be able to give large portions of food. Try to increase the caloric value of your portions.
When the person has eating problems, you won't be able to give large portions of food. Try to increase the caloric value of your portions. Like making dishes using condensed milk. Or roast and powder dry fruits (almonds, cashews, etc.) and sprinkle a bit of that powder on the food.
DCN: You mentioned dehydration as one of the reasons for refusing to eat. How can we notice and correct dehydration?
Slowly growing dehydration is often missed. Families may think the person is having a litre of water but it may be much less.
Dr. Hegde: Slowly growing dehydration is often missed. Families may think the person is having a litre of water but it may be much less. Correct that problem and things improve. IV fluids may be needed if the dehydration is severe. I have seen persons perk up after they are given enough fluid, and they start swallowing again on their own.
A dehydrated person looks dull. She wants to lie in bed most of the time, her skin looks very dull, eyes are sunken inside, the mouth is dry. Open the mouth to check the moistness in the tongue and in the oral cavity—dehydrated persons don't have enough saliva. Or maybe you will see dry marks around the lips. The urine may start smelling. It may be strong and darker. There may be less urine. If the person is on diapers, the diaper may not get as wet, or you may need fewer diapers.
Making the person take enough water may be difficult. Some persons refuse plain water. Try mixing squash, or give nimbu pani (with salt and sugar) or thin buttermilk, whatever appeals to them.
Your doctor may want the person tested for sodium levels to suggest what you can give as fluid. But often, mild problems may not show up in test results, though the person looks dull.
Some persons keep refusing liquids of any sort. It is a big struggle to make them take even 100ml, and getting them to half a litre or more a day is almost unmanageable.
DCN: So, if the person looks dull, we shouldn't assume it is because of decline in dementia.
Dr. Hegde: Yes, look for various possible causes for any decline. Dehydration is one, but there can be many others. Don't assume any decline you see is caused by dementia. One more thing, continuing with issues around dehydration–maybe the person will complain of pain while passing urine. The doctor may advise testing for urinary tract infection, and also do other tests.
DCN: Some worried families get desperate when a person doesn't eat. They try to force down the food.
Dr. Hegde: Yes, it is very worrying when you see the person hardly eating and you might be tempted to force them. But each time you try and force a person with dementia to do something it actually makes the resistance worse and make the task more difficult to complete.
Don't panic if a few meals are missed. Look for reasons, try to solve them, observe things, and talk to the doctor to see how to proceed.
DCN: You said that "won't eat" can also happen because of some psychological problem, some behaviour pattern. What is done in such cases?
Dr. Hegde: Usually, in behaviour problem situations, resisting food is not the only behaviour change. They may not cooperate in other ways too, and show behaviors like resistance to diaper change, resistance to get up, and other such things.
If they refuse to eat, and you've given the IV fluids (in cases of dehydration), made sure there are no aches and pains, ruled out everything, and it's more than four or five days, then the doctor will probably consider medication.
Once we establish the cause of these behaviours we can start to solve the problem. If they refuse to eat, and you've given the IV fluids (in cases of dehydration), made sure there are no aches and pains, ruled out everything, and it's more than four or five days, then the doctor will probably consider medication.
A Ryles tube (nasal feeding tube) may be needed for some days to ensure nutrition as medication will take some time to take effect. We feed through the tube as well as directly (normal eating with the mouth). Once the problem is resolved and the person is eating enough through the mouth, we remove the Ryles tube. The medication may take a few days to start working and one will have to be patient.
Note that tube feeding may also be needed to give the person enough nutrition if the person is very ill physically, say, the person has pneumonia.
DCN: Can you give some more examples of what may work for a "won't eat" case?
Dr. Hegde: Sometimes you have to try things.
In one interesting case, we had an extremely thin lady who hadn't eaten properly for two years from before she came to live at the residential facility I was working in. We made her sit with others when they were eating. She watched them. And we just left her. And she began eating. At home she had been fed in a separate place by the paid caregiver. Here, once she got company, she started eating again.
DCN: That's quite a few things we can try for the "won't eat" situations.
Now about the "can't eat" situation, where there is a genuine swallowing problem due to the growing dementia. You said it will happen slowly.
Dr. Hegde: Yes, chewing starts taking longer. It takes much longer for the person to eat the same amount of food. She doesn't seem to understand what to do with the food in the mouth. Some just grit their teeth and don't open their mouth. They've forgotten what to do. You put the food before them, you try to coax them. Or take the hand if they can't use a spoon. They might cough while swallowing liquids. Mashed, semi-solid food will have to be started.
And then you reach a stage where the person is on mashed food and now cannot swallow even that. You may need to think about feeding tubes.
DCN: What can we try if someone seems to have forgotten how to use a spoon or how to open the mouth and eat?
Dr. Hegde: One thing to try is hand-feeding. It's not easy because the person may bite your hand. So maybe avoid hand-feeding rice and give a rolled up chappati so that you have some space between your hand and the person's teeth. I've seen cases where a rolled chappati was placed in the person's hand and her hand was moved up, and she just took over and fed herself.
Try smaller meals. Meals that take too long exhaust you and also exhaust the person. Give, say, one katori (small bowl) at a time, around four or five spoons. It may take fifteen to twenty minutes. Then after one or two hours give another small meal.
To help them remember to swallow, lift the chin, put the spoon of mashed food in, and then tip the head down to let them swallow. It's an instinct. Stroking the throat can also help.
To help them remember to swallow, lift the chin, put the spoon of mashed food in, and then tip the head down to let them swallow. It's an instinct. Stroking the throat can also help. Both these methods work well. Or try swallowing prominently in front of them and they may mimic you.
See what works for you. Some people touch the spoon to the lower lip and tap lightly to make the person open the mouth. Or they say "aaa…" and the person mimics and opens the mouth. Or they lightly massage the joint between the upper end of the jaw and the ear, the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).
These techniques work best when the person is starting to go into swallowing difficulties, and is pocketing the food and doesn't know what to do with the food afterwards.
DCN: Can we check to know if the person really has swallowing problems?
Dr. Hegde: Usually a swallowing problem due to dementia deterioration starts with difficulty in swallowing liquids. They cough if given water, but may not cough when given food. That is when we switch to mashed or semi-solid food.
Usually a swallowing problem due to dementia deterioration starts with difficulty in swallowing liquids.
If possible, get a "swallowing assessment" done by an ENT or a speech pathologist who specializes in swallowing difficulties. The specialist will do tests and examinations and confirm whether there is an actual swallowing problem. They will recommend a suitable food consistency.
DCN: Tell us more about liquids and food consistency, and pocketing.
Dr. Hegde: When swallowing problems start, avoid giving liquids.
One concern at this point is how to ensure of enough fluid intake. You can give liquids between semi-solids, like one teaspoon of liquid after every two spoons of semi-solid food. A suitable consistency can be created using thickeners (these are not available easily in India). Or use some other way to get the desired food consistency.
Do not give more food if the person still has food in the mouth. If the mouth is full, and the person is not gulping down the food, put in a very small amount of water, very carefully. Sometimes that helps them swallow.
Pocketing is when someone keeps food in the mouth and forgets to gulp it down, so it stays there, in the mouth. If food is gooey, it's less likely to be pocketed.
Pocketing is when someone keeps food in the mouth and forgets to gulp it down, so it stays there, in the mouth. If food is gooey, it's less likely to be pocketed. Like a thick curd consistency—you just can't pocket something like thick curd.
When a person has swallowing problems or pocketing problems, switch out of solid foods. Use consistencies that are difficult to pocket and easier to swallow.
DCN: Once you've done all this, and the person is still not swallowing, the person is no longer getting enough food. That is when tube feeding may be considered, correct?
Dr. Hegde: Yes. But as I said before, tube feeding may be required even in other cases, like when the person hasn't been getting enough nutrition because of illness, or temporarily when medication has been initiated.
Tube feeding for the "can't eat" is a decision that needs careful consideration and an understanding of the pros and cons.
DCN: Thank you, Dr. Soumya Hegde, for this discussion on understanding and handling situations where the person can't or won't eat food.
We will continue on a related aspect: tube-feeding in the next part, the concluding part of this interview series.
This interview is part 5 of our 6-part interview series on late stage care. Other interviews in this are: Part 1: Prepare for home care, Part 2: Getting medical advice and preparing for decline, Part 3: Bruising, skin care, exercise, massage, bedsores, Part 4: Constipation, Catheter use, Dental Care, Improving the Quality of Life, and Part 6: Tube feeding and related decisions. | {
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Listen to Black Puma's 'Colors' from Grey's Anatomy, Season 17, Ep. 12
Grey's Anatomy, Season 17, Episode 12, "Sign O' The Times' aired last night and featured yet more superb contemporary music on its soundtrack.
Including psychedelic soul band Black Pumas' 'Colors', which played during the episode's opening scenes, as Jackson is running and notices the protest.
Black Pumas' 'Colors' is from the Austin-based band's self-titled debut album, which was released in mid-2018 via ATO Records. The album was produced by Grammy-award winning record producer Jon Kaplan and Black Pumas member Adrian Quesada
The album was so critically successful, it was nominated for a Grammy Award. It was also successful commercially, making it onto the charts in seven countries, and to the #4 spot on the Billboard Folk Albums chart.
Black Pumas' 'Colors' also received two Grammy nominations — one for Best American Roots Performance and the other for Record of the Year.
Not bad at all for a band's first full-length release.
Listen to Black Pumas' 'Colors' as heard on Grey's Anatomy in the song's beautifully mellow and life-affirming official music video, and on their excellent debut studio album.
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Recording: 2016-07-06 , HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN (© Walter Bickmann)
Interview / Portrait
cie. toula limnaios
toula.de
halle-tanz-berlin.de
the cie. toula limnaios is an ensemble for contemporary dance, founded in 1996 by choreographer and dancer toula limnaios and composer ralf r. ollertz. in 2001, they were awarded the »meeting neuer tanz« prize. in 2004, their beckett trilogy was made into a television film entitled »atemzug« for zdf/arte. the company has received funding from the city of berlin since 2005 and were selected by the fonds darstellende künste to receive conceptual funding for »leading ensembles in the field of independent theater and dance« from 2008 until 2010. in 2012, they were awarded the »george tabori prize«.
in addition to their artistic work, they are strongly dedicated both to promoting innovative working structures, as well as establishing equality for dance in society. the cie. toula limnaios ensemble presents 50–60 shows every year and works with 12 salaried employees, who are supported by numerous of closely associated freelancers. with its flexible, lean, but highly effective structure and in co-production with international partners, the company continuously produces ensemble work of exceptional quality, making them one of the most successful ensembles for contemporary dance today. as a representative of the german dance scene for the goethe institut and the federal foreign office, they have presented their repertoire across germany and abroad since 2005. the company is institutionally funded by the city of berlin's department for cultural affairs since 2014. the cie. toula limnaios presents dance that is watchful, critical and bold – with concern for humankind, made by and for people.
the HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN is the production and performance venue of the cie. toula limnaios and its guests. in 2000, choreographer toula limnaios and composer ralf r. ollertz established a rehearsal space of their own in the protected historical building, which has since also become a workplace for a large number of other artists. in 2003, the halle tanzbühne berlin became a self-financed theater and has since established an international reputation for itself as an important venue for contemporary dance. the halle is a partner of tanz im august and co-produces with mousonturm frankfurt/m, musiktheater baltoppen, the international dance festival athens and the bregenzer festspiele. this architectural jewel has been now technically and infrastrucurally modernised.
toula limnaios (artistic director / choreography) was born 1963 in athens. after studying classical and modern dance, m. alexander and laban technique as well as music and dance pedagogy in brussels, she worked as a performer with claudio bernardo, régine chopinot and as an assistant with pierre droulers. later, she continued her education at the folkwang hochschule in essen, where she soon became a member of the folkwang tanzstudio under pina bausch. she made a name for herself in live improvisations with the musicians konrad bauer and peter kowald and founded the cie. toula limnaios in 1996. tours brought her to belgium, brazil, denmark, ecuador,france, greece, irland, italy, lituania, lettland, austria, poland, swizzerland, senegal, spain, cyprus, venezuela … beside directing her own company and theater, she works as guest choreographer in different theaters. in 2007/8, she was guest professor for choreography at the ernst busch in berlin.
Ralf R. Ollertz (artistic director / music) was born in 1964. he studied composition, electroacoustic music, piano and conducting. in the age of 21 he became musical director at the wuppertaler schauspielhaus. in italy he studied composition with salvatore sciarrino and at the folkwang hochschule in essen with nicolaus a. huber and dirk reith (electroacoustic music). together with christian banasik and marina panayioutou he was the artistic director of the ensemble for new music »go ahead«. over the last 20 years, he has written chamber music and orchestra scores as well as electroacoustic music and radio plays, for which he received numerous international awards and scholarships.
between 1998-2004 he was sounddesigner in the film studios babelsberg. in 2002 he composed the short opera "carcrash" together with willy daum for the state opera houses in hannover and stuttgart. together with toula limnaios he is directing the cie. toula limnaios since 1996 and the HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN since 2003. in 2012 they received the george tabori award. tours, radio and television productions have brought him to countries throughout europe, south america, the usa, japan, australia and africa.
[Source: Festival-booklet "20 Jahre cie. toula limnaios" and www.toula.de]
Trailers and Video Documentations
Instant Feedback / cie. toula limnaios: volto umano (2019)
cie. toula limnaios: shifted realities (2019)
cie. toula limnaios: volto umano (2018)
cie. toula limnaios: momentum (2017)
cie. toula limnaios: die einen, die anderen (2017)
cie. toula limnaios: tempus fugit (2016)
cie. toula limnaios: isson (2016)
cie. toula limnaios: minute papillon (2015)
cie. toula limnaios: Blind Date (Kommentierte Musik 1) (2015)
cie. toula limnaios: la salle (2015)
cie. toula limnaios: miles mysteries (2014)
cie. toula limnaios: if I was real (2013)
cie. toula limnaios: the thing I am (2013)
cie. toula limnaios: wut (2012)
cie. toula limnaios: the rest of me (2012)
cie. toula limnaios: anderland (2011)
cie. toula limnaios: every single day (2011)
cie. toula limnaios: secrets perdus (2010)
cie. toula limnaios: wound (2009)
cie. toula limnaios: les possédés (2009)
cie. toula limnaios: the silencers (2009)
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