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February 26, 1940
September 16, 2013
Gail Nelson Obituary
Stay up-to-date on event information as well as memories shared on Gail Nelson’s Tribute Wall.
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Here he comes!The man wearing a mask is coming to Shenyang!
From December 2 to 3,Love Never Dies,the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's English original musical The Phantom of the Opera,will be staged at the Shengjing Grand Theatre.
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, one of the most important and popular composers in the field of musicals today, has created a series of timeless classics.Love Never Dies, the sequel to his The Phantom of the Opera, premiered globally in the West End of London in 2010. It has won over 50 awards worldwide, sold over 40 million copies, and been translated into 15 languages for performances in over 25 countries around the world.Love Never Dies has been praised by the Daily Mail as one of the greatest love stories of all time.
Webber has devoted nearly a decade of effort to create Love Never Dies. This musical once again reflects Webber's amazing talent in melody, and its structure of the movement is delicate, gorgeous and well-proportioned.Not only does it continue the gentle style of Webber's "Phantom" series, but also makes a breakthrough in the introduction of rock and other diverse styles. It integrates infinite emotions into singing, fully showcasing the impressive musical charm of the "Phantom".
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Sitting Bull, Lakota sovereignty and land rights, and the establishment of Yellowstone National Park
For its 150th anniversary, a look at Yellowstone’s legislative history
The 110th anniversary of New Mexico statehood
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: resources at the Library of Congress
Race and gender at the circus
A historical examination of philanthropy in HBO’s The Gilded Age
Black internationalism challenging hemispheric Jim Crow
“Female gentlemen” and WWI
The fight to save historic Black churches
A brief history of the illogic of war
As in WWI, Russia is again at the center of an American-backed war for democracy
Julia C. Collins and the Black elite featured in HBO’s The Gilded Age
The real history behind the psychics and swindlers of Nightmare Alley
110 years of cherry blossoms in Washington, DC
The weird world of fairground photography
Women musicians in DC’s early-twentieth-century music scene
A long history of the criminalization of Black girls
Focusing in on the Pullman women
Shackleton’s “turtle soup” book, the first book “written, printed, illustrated and bound in the Antarctic”
Smuggling Yiddish socialist literature from New York City to Russia
Learning about the lives of Chinese railroad workers through archaeology
Cover Image: “Cherry Blossoms in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C., Around Tidal Basin,” Harris & Ewing, 1919. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Nick Jonas' Villa One tequila hits all the right notes - and UK shelves
Spirit news that’s music to our ears
If you’re a sucker for a tequila that hits all the right notes (and not just after you’ve had a shot or three during a late-night karaoke session), look no further than Nick Jonas’ latest offering, Villa One.
Having launched in the US last month, the youngest Jonas Brother has collaborated with the Stoli Group and partnered with menswear designer John Varvatos as part of the alcohol-based venture.
The agave-based spirit is available in three expressions: silver, retailing at £40, reposado at £45 and añejo coming in at £55.
Described as ‘ultra-premium’, the spirit is set to compete with an ever-expanding selection of A-list tequila brands, including offerings from George Clooney (Casamiga) and Justin Timberlake (Sauza 901).
It’s not the first time the singer and designer have joined forces, with the tequila brand following in the footsteps of a successful fragrance and fashion line.
“Given our affinity for Tequila, Villa One was the perfect next step. The most important thing for us is that we have the best Tequila in the market,” Jonas said.
“When it came to Villa One, it was critical to us that we take part in the decision-making process every step of the way and now we feel that this is exactly the Tequila we sought out to create two years ago,” he continued.
Set to be launched by Cellar Trends in the UK, the range of bottles were designed by Varvantos and Jonas, with each expression featuring distinctive jewellery-inspired metalwork around the neck.
As for the taste? You’ll just have to hold on and see as the spirit hits shelves in 2020.
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There are 84 meridian points (similar to bundles of nerve endings) on the upper palate of the human mouth. One can feel that upper palate with the tongue and experience its different surfaces.
Two rows of meridian points are on the upper palate and on the gum behind the upper teeth. When we recite a mantra, our tongues touch these various pressure points in a sequence that stimulates the hypothalamus gland, which in turn makes the pineal gland radiate.
People talk about the pineal gland secreting, but secreting hormones is only part of the story. The pineal gland is also sensitive to light. The great Chinese sage, Lao Tzu, called it “the gateway to heaven and earth.”
When the pineal gland radiates, it creates an impulse in the pituitary gland, the master gland of the body (the gland that is the gateway to intuition). Think of a garage opener, for instance, where you press a series of numbers and then the * (star) key, and the door opens! Well, mantra is a key that opens the doors of inner awareness.
When the pituitary gland gives impulses, the entire glandular system secretes and a human being experiences bliss. This is the science.
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The Parlor Room School of Music Presents
Bluegrass Workshop + Tuesday Night Jam w/ Eric Lee
at The Parlor Room
Tuesday, June 13th
6:30-8pm Bluegrass Workshop
8-10pm - Open Jam
PLEASE NOTE: ALL TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ONLINE, WE WILL NOT BE SELLING TICKETS AT THE DOOR
WORKSHOP TICKETS: $30 GA / $20 MEMBERS
JAM TICKETS: Donation based
The Bluegrass Workshop is a class specifically for mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and banjo players to examine the mechanics and roles of their instruments in various jam situations. How to start a song, when and how to chop, what to play when backing up singers & other instruments, and what to play when there are multiples of the same instrument, are some of the topics that will be covered and demonstrated. Professional bluegrass enthusiast Eric Lee will methodically explain and demonstrate each of these points, then allow participants to try out those techniques themselves.
*Please specify which instrument you would will be bringing during online registration
Following the workshop will be an open jam for all skill levels, and will feature some of the songs covered during the workshop.
The Parlor Room Nonprofit and School of Music's mission is to: Promote a vibrant musical community in downtown Northampton, MA for musicians of all abilities and at all stages of their career. The Parlor Room will bring nationally touring and local acts to our listening room to provide an exceptional experience for the artist and audience and guide musicians and anyone interested in a career in the music industry through our school of music. Learn more at parlorroom.org.
The Parlor Room is a BYOB venue. Tickets are non-refundable.
The Parlor Room is located at 32 Masonic Street Northampton, MA 01060
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When the holiday season arrives, my Pinterest board : cocktails, entrees and sweets will get more in tune with the theme of the year. Here are a few fall recipes I’ve found and added to the board. I may eventually try out a few of these recipes. I think I’ll start with the apple cider. The ingredients in a pot on the stove on a low simmer, will have my apartment smelling like a fall season of spices. Yum! | <urn:uuid:6bf956d2-f0ef-4a16-88dc-8327bb9faed3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.simplykatricia.com/tag/crockpot/ | 2024-04-24T04:09:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.958604 | 96 |
This is an editorial from our WordPress newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.
I wanted to kick off my first editorial with some thoughts about WordPress itself, as a content management system. I’ve read a lot of blogs, articles, and discussions recently in which WordPress, being a PHP platform, and one that’s relatively aged, gets a lot of flak. PHP purists strike it down as bloated, not conformant to standards or expectations. They complain that it’s not MVC, or they throw out the “it’s only for blogs” point that comes from the very inception of WordPress.
In reality, WordPress simply is the most installed content management system that exists today. It’s as simple as that. According to some statistics work done by w3techs, WordPress powers 28% of the websites on the Internet. Of course their numbers are not (cannot be) complete and accurate, as attempting to record every site on the Internet (and get everyone to agree on what, exactly, qualifies as a “site”) would be an exercise in folly. Nonetheless, the numbers reflect what most of us accept – WordPress is here to stay, at least for awhile. Why? Let’s examine a few of the reasons behind that:
WordPress: The Leading Content Management System
- WordPress makes it very easy to get started on a new project. You can use the WP-CLI or a service like ServerPilot to deploy WordPress in seconds.
- WordPress is easy for developers to learn to use, and can be used as simply an occasionally employed tool in the developer’s toolbelt, or can be used as a pillar around which an entire career can be built. There are thousands of resources out there to assist with learning WordPress; SitePoint’s own WordPress Channel and Premium Screencasts and Courses can help developers on their way.
- The basics of WordPress usage and administration are easy for non developers to pick up, allowing you to use WordPress to create small business sites that can be managed day to day by employees, rather than outside developer contractors.
- WordPress can be rapidly extended with its almost inexhaustible community – plugins, themes, and assistance are available for almost any need.
- Lastly, due to its popularity, its use can result in easier maintenance and extensibility later, by an expanded team of developers (or by another developer altogether) without your client or employer needing to find people with more specific and isolated skill sets.
Reasons People Might Avoid WordPress
- One oft-touted reason to avoid WordPress is security concerns. Unfortunately, this seems rather like telling the world to avoid Windows completely. It doesn’t seem possible. There is such a huge market share here that of course there will be more hacking attempts, more vulnerabilities discovered. Why wouldn’t there be? The more eyes are on a thing, the more faults that will be discovered! That, however, may be nothing more than an excuse to a client. If they want to avoid worry about WordPress exploits and would rather a more custom solution (which may still have problems, probably far worse ones, but less likely to be discovered by script kiddies and bad actors), then it may be worth entertaining another idea.
- Bloat. Bloat is a problem with any large software suite. WordPress isn’t the most efficient system in the world, for sure. And if people don’t know what they’re doing, they can make it outright slow. WordPress developers should be careful in choosing their plugins and themes, and should appropriately use caching, optimization plugins, and other optimization techniques to speed up their WordPress sites. But if WordPress is too heavy for your needs, there are lighter-weight CMS out there, or you could even go without a CMS if you don’t truly need one.
- Another big complaint is that WordPress doesn’t use an MVC pattern. That’s true. But this really represents a bigger problem in the development community. Why do your end users care? WordPress is allowing you to build sites for clients and customers, ones that they can maintain, ones that they can hang on to for years to come. Is WordPress the ultimate tool for all uses? Of course not. For example, perhaps your project legitimately needs to be MVC, and you’re planning to expand it with a massive custom code base that WordPress simply isn’t built for. Anyone who says that it is the hammer for use on all nails has misjudged its usefulness. But anyone who dismisses it as a tool entirely out of hand because it doesn’t follow their favorite programming trends is likewise naive.
In the end, you need to use the tool that is most useful to you. If you’re building a massive corporate website with many very specific customized requirements and demands, maybe you’ll determine that WordPress isn’t a candidate for use there. No problem with that. Maybe you’ll determine that it is the lead contender for another project. But one thing that you should never do is dismiss a solution because you’re incapable of seeing past the latest and greatest.
What about your experiences? Have you found situations where WordPress wasn’t very useful, or used it and been surprised by it? Leave comments below to discuss the platform’s successes and shortcomings as a CMS with other readers!
Jeff works for a startup as a technical writer, does contract writing and web development, and loves tinkering with new projects and ideas. In addition to being glued to a computer for a good part of his day, Jeff is also a husband, father, tech nerd, book nerd, and gamer. | <urn:uuid:10395181-6405-4c9a-bdff-aea9d2629edf> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-world-class-content-management-system/ | 2024-04-24T03:17:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.951417 | 1,183 |
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This little sweet pea came all the way from Roanoke with her mommy and daddy to see me! It has been such fun watching this little family grow from 2 to three before my eyes, and watching her mommy and daddy assume their roles so effortlessly! You wouldn't even believe that mama came in and said that baby girl had missed her nap that morning and on top of that, wasn't super smiley with strangers! Truly, this happy little girl actually made my job pretty easy <3 The pride in dad's face in that first picture just melts my heart into a puddle--Daddies and their babies are my favorite!
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Since I made a decision to make the leap 5 years in the past and begin working for myself as a web-based marketer, affiliate internet marketing has been the most effective factor I ever bought concerned in and is now a part of my day by day schedule.
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For the affiliate marketer it is a key benefit as each time that any individual makes a purchase order, the affiliate receives a set fee of the revenue.
For the affiliate service provider this is a bonus as they solely pay the marketer once they make a sale, so no cash is wasted on advertising spend.
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- Aug 27, 2008
I seasoned 3 pork steaks with Lemon-Pepper, something familiar, just for a reference in color and flavors. These pork shoulder steaks are thinner cut than the beef steaks I smoked with Blueberry rub, and will be finished to higher temps, so cooking time will be similar at around 2 hours, although I will keep the smoke chamber temp closer to 225* for the duration.
Lemon-Pepper on the left, Blueberry on the right:
Just into the Smoke Vault 24 again, with a little Mesquite chips, some Hickory chips and a bit more of Cherry chips and chunks...probably close to 20/30/50 ratio...cherry will carry out through the entire cooking, while the hickory and mesquite will fizzle out within about an hour or less. I'm running with a dry smoke chamber, but above normal humidity (over 75%) and much needed rainy weather this afternoon and evening, so smoke reaction should be more than enough without water in the pan:
I was itching to fire up my Gourmet charcoal bullet with a stacker mod (extra barrel and double the grate space along with an AMNPS in the "basement") for this smoke, but that rig isn't real appreciative of rainy weather, and I didn't feel like messin' around with damp pellets and fire control, so my go-to all-around get it done Vault will take the bulk of the challenge out of the equation.
2 hours in...checking for pooling of juices on the surface...one of my indicators of cooking progress, along with a bit of shrinkage...they have been left undisturbed up to this point:
Got a bit to ride to reach a medium-well state yet (we don't like pink pork here, and you CAN get juicy med-well pork with some care)...juices aren't prominent on these just yet, unless I missed it and they're drying off already on the surface, but I doubt it. Tenderness is another check, as well as bend-test similar to checking a slab of ribs. I'll grab my tongs and do just a lift/bend-test in a bit, to be sure. These are way too thin to measure internal temps with anything I have in my arsenal of gadgets, so visual checks are my best approach. I ended up with some looking medium to medium well. They were mostly firm to grab hold of with the tongs, so the dry smoke chamber made for a bit more challenge in determining cooking progress, but a 30 or so second ride in the nuke-box took care of any that may have been suspect. Still nice and juicy even after a quick zap in the nuker.
2.25 hours here when I decided to get 'em out for final checks in the house, out of the weather...yeah, still spittin' that rain off and on here, but we need it:
My first one (I ate two + sides) was a little on the rare side near the bone...this had a huge bone in the center...nuke-box to the rescue...this one also had a triple dose of blueberry rub, so I could get the full effect of it on these pork steaks:
I'm very pleased with this rub on pork as well as beef, without any alterations for this round, either. Nice flavors all around, and the blueberry still had that subtle fruity flavor with just a hint of sweetness, without added sugars...
Oh, and the smoke? I just happened to grab these out of gut instinct and I'm glad my guts told me the right way....not heavy, as the mesquite was just a small amount...cherry was the dominant flavor, with the hickory adding a bit of bite, which came in long after the first chew...interesting smoke...liked it with the stronger flavor of these shoulder steaks...it might be a bit too much with center-cut chops, so apple/hickory may be a better choice there.
Monday evening (05-20-13) is a $0.99/lb pork chop cook for dinner...yeah, crazy prices for some reason, so the wife took advantage and grabbed about 30lbs of 'em!!! Heeeee-heeeee---ha-ha!!!!!
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Somerset LMC Weekly Update Friday 11th October 2019
Date sent: Friday 11 October 2019
Sent to all Somerset GPs and Practice Managers This and previous updates are available here
- 'Let's Get Stuff Done' the latest blog from LMC Chairman Dr Nick Bray
- LMC Autumn Newsletter
- GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR) Breaking News!
- Debt and mental health form
- Flu Vaccine for Cancer Patients on Systemic Anti-cancer Treatment or Immunotherapy
- Flu Vaccines for under 65’s flyer
- Registration to the MHRA Central Alerting System (CAS)
- Devon Doctors
- PCSE surveys
- Top Tip
GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR) Breaking News!: The LMC is pleased that a Leicestershire GP (wonderfully, for older readers, a Dr Findlay) crowdfunded a court case against a solicitor and won with costs. We understand the Judge dismissed an application from the solicitor, saying that there was clearly no need to order to release the medical record as it had been made available for the patient to collect. The LMC Med Director’s view is that the BMA should have funded Dr Findlay and is pleased that its (defeatist) legal advice on SARs will have to be reviewed in the light of this case law. Watch this space.
Debt and mental health form: A new debt and mental health form and process has been introduced following a cross sector agreement with the British Medical Association (BMA). New BMA guidance has just been published and a much shorter form has been introduced that can be completed by a wider range of healthcare professionals, thereby reducing the burden on GPs. As part of the agreement, GPs in England can no longer charge a fee for completing the debt and mental health form. The only contractual requirement is to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when asked whether the indebted person has a mental health condition and if the answer is ‘yes’ then to give the name of this condition. There is no obligation or expectation to complete the reverse of the form. All forms and accompanying guidance are available on the Money Advice Trust website.
Flu Vaccines for under 65’s flyer: PHE has produced a leaflet for under 65’s flu vaccinations explaining why appointments may need to be rescheduled.
Registration to the MHRA Central Alerting System (CAS): A reminder that from 1 Oct, the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will send CAS patient safety and public health alerts directly to GP practices, replacing any local arrangements currently in place. All GP practices in England are contractually required to register to receive CAS alerts directly from the MHRA by accessing their portal. If practices have not already registered, we would suggest you do so now.
Devon Doctors: (Somerset’s OOH provider) hopes the article in the LMC Autumn newsletter will inspire you get in touch. Established in 1996 to provide support to GP coops across Devon, DDoctors has provided GP OOH cover since 2004. Since then the business has more than doubled in size, providing 24/7 access to urgent care services. As a not-for-profit social enterprise company, all profits are ploughed back into providing patient services. The organisation is clinically led with a team ethos and strong emphasis on training and education. As a result of this growth DDoctors is looking for clinicians to join its multidisciplinary team across Somerset offering full time, part time and sessional contracts with flexibility to create a working pattern which suits you with highly competitive rates of pay and NHS pension. For those eligible we also offer child care vouchers, access to the cycle to work scheme and a day paid volunteering each year. Signing up is now a simple straightforward process, so if you’re looking for flexible, varied, and well-paid work in urgent primary care then contact [email protected]
PCSE surveys: GPC England ran a range of surveys in December 2017, which gave useful detail and evidence of the problems practice staff and LMCs were facing as a result of the service delivery of PCSE and helped it to push NHS England to resolve them. There is still clearly a large number of problems with this service and so GPC is repeating the surveys to gauge how things are now. This will enable GPC to influence operational issues on your behalf and give the hard data to substantiate the anecdotal evidence.
Please would practices and individual doctors take a few minutes to complete the following simple surveys:
- Survey of GP practices
- Survey of all GPs including trainees - we would appreciate it if you could share this with your members particularly with locum GPs and trainees.
The deadline for responding is noon, Friday 25 October. The greater the response the stronger GPC’s hand when discussing matters with NHS England.
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Supply chain and logistics are both under a constant threat of disruption, but they are also in the midst of an unprecedented transformation. These two industries have been slowly progressing toward autonomous systems and robotics for decades, but now they’re coming together at speeds never seen before. As the world shifts to a more automated future, it’s crucial that companies look ahead at the new trends affecting supply chains and logistics—and are prepared with strategies to stay competitive.
The rise of the on-demand economy
The on-demand economy is growing and changing the way companies do business. It’s also changing how consumers do business, as people choose to work with companies that flexibly meet their needs. For example, suppose you want to get groceries delivered from a local store but don’t want to spend hours waiting around at check-out. In that case, you can use an app for grocery pickup service instead—and order ahead for later delivery or pick-up in person at the store!
The on-demand economy is changing how people do business, and it’s here to stay. As more and more companies embrace this model, consumers will benefit from access to a broader range of products at better prices.
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With Industry 4.0 technology set to become widespread by 2022, organizations will need to rethink how they manage their logistics networks if they want them up-to-date with this latest technology trend.
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- This resulted in substantial increases in transportation costs due to increased demand among carriers.
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We decided to put the sandwiches on the panini press. Excellent idea. We also made a horseradish spread in place of the dill pickles. Roast Beef and horseradish always go together.
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Balsamic Double Onion Roast Beef Sandwich (with my variations)
1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
2 teaspoon horseradish sauce
2 slices Rye Bread, slightly warmed
2 ounces thinly sliced Roast Beef
1 tablespoon aged balsamic Vinegar
½ cup caramelized onions
½ cup French fried Onions
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Put the other piece of bread on top.
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The finale of Debris' first season aired not too long ago on May 24. However, according to Variety, the show was averaging a mere 0.7 rating in adults 18-49 and just under 5 million viewers per episode. In other words, it wasn't performing all too well.
The premise of the show is that three years ago, images were captured of a wrecked alien spacecraft moving through our solar system and, for the past six months, debris from that spacecraft started falling to Earth.
Two agents, one from the CIA — Bryan Beneventi (Jonathan Tucker) — and one from British Intelligence — Finola Jones (Riann Steele) — work together and race to report every piece of debris landing in the continental United States since each chunk of debris, no matter how large or small, creates super-weird events because of mysterious, extraterrestrial properties.
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Granted, there was still some work to be done … and any sci-fi show that has writers who still incorporate the phrase "reverse the polarity" needs to hire new writers as a matter of urgency. (That phrase was officially inducted into the Cliché Hall of Fame 30 years ago when it was used in the musical "Return to the Forbidden Planet.")
But despite a weak season finale, budget constraints that kept principal photography entirely in British Colombia and a suspicious-looking beard in the episode "Asalah" (S01, E11), "Debris" was still finding its feet.
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November 30, 2011:
- Today was the Santa's secret shopping for the first graders in school. Unlike last year, we did not go to school as we want to give Ms. Burrito an independence in buying the gift that she wants to get. At around 9:45, I got a call from her teacher asking me if I want Ms. Burrito to get something. At first I thought, it was a mandatory that parents should go but she told me that my daughter doesn't have money. I was shocked because I sent the envelope the day after I received the notice about the event. I think that I sent it earlier that is why her envelope was not with the rest of her classmates. I felt so bad for my daughter because she cried thinking that I did not give her money to shop. But anyhow, I sent hubby to bring money for her but when he arrived she already shopped because the teacher found the envelope already. Lesson learned, just send the money on the day it is needed. The problem with that though is I am so forgetful that is why, everything that she needs in school, I prepare and send it early.
- When Ms. Burrito arrived today, she was very excited to show me what she bought for me and for her brother. She supposed to shop for Papp and Mr. Burrito but she changed her mind and got me some instead.
- I felt nauseated when I got up this morning and after I drunk a cup of coffee, everything went downhill. I puked my gust out wahhhh.. I have been having stomach cramps for the last two days and the culprit for this discomfort is Lady red, she arrived today, sigh.
- Hubby is craving for some mung beans (mongo) so bad so I cooked some for dinner. I don't know why but he love this dish so much.
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A very warm welcome to the Nar Valley Federation of Church Academies website!
We are proud of the exciting and engaging learning that happens in our schools across our Federation. We work really closely as a team across our family of schools and children get opportunities to work as a larger group of all the Reception and Year One children across the Federation, such as when we go on trips or visits, such as to Westacre Theatre or on residential, and chances to work with all the schools together, such as sporting competitions at LynnSport or our own Federation Curriculum days.
We hope you easily find what you are looking for on our Federation website and then on each school's own individual page where you will find information specific to the school. Should you have any feedback about what you would like to see, then please do let us know.
Please don't hesitate to contact us here if you have any queries.
With many thanks,
Mrs Anne Neary
Executive Head Teacher
The Nar Valley Federation of Church Academies
Open Days - We'd be delighted to welcome you to one of our Open days, at Castle Acre on Tuesday 22nd October 2024 9.45am-2.30pm, Narborough Thursday 24th October 2024 9.45am-2.30pm and Sporle Monday 21st October 9.45am-2.30pm. Please ring up the school office and book in. We'll have a group tour at each school at 10.30am and 1.30pm. If you can't make those dates and you'd like to come at a different time, you're welcome to book a different day. You're welcome to bring children or come just by yourselves, it is very much up to you. We look forward to seeing you and welcoming you to our lovely schools.
Testimonials from happy Parents/Carers -
"I wish I was a child again so that I could come to this school; the Teachers here are interested and genuinely care."
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It would be important to validate this €15.3m figure as it seems to comprise the majority of the total of €19m in benefits from the scheme.
The report also claims that recent research (and a newspaper report from May 2011) shows the "decline in deaths for cyclists over the past decade has been greater than for any other group in the research". It is difficult to find support for this claim when one looks at the table and figure below. There has been a welcome improvement in the total number of road fatalities in Ireland. Road fatalities in 2012 are about 40% of what they were in 2000. However, the numbers do not support a claim that the decline in deaths for cyclists has been greater than for any other group. | <urn:uuid:27e39ec6-14e8-4391-ad5f-ddf33a41da1d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.sportseconomics.org/sports-economics/a-cycle-to-work-scheme | 2024-04-24T02:25:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.983662 | 150 |
Indian squad for the tour of Sri Lanka has been announced. Many young players have received their first India call-up. But there are players who were deserving but have not been selected for the tour. It is rightly said that a selector has a “thankless job” because they always face scrutiny for not selecting a particular player.
5. Kartik Tyagi
The young fast bowler from Uttar Pradesh is one of the most promising youngsters in the country. He was one of the leading wicket-takers for India in the under 19 World Cup 2020. Also, he has been impressive so far with his performance in IPL while playing for Rajasthan Royals. He can consistently bowl at 140+ KMPH and with accuracy. Kartik also travelled with the Indian team which toured Australia late last year. He was selected as a net bowler and his efforts were praised by the standing captain, Ajinkya Rahane. Kartik would have gained a lot from the tour of Australia. But Indian selectors have not chosen Kartik for the Sri Lankan series. He is not even named as a net bowler. Hence, it was surprising to see Kartik miss out on the series against Sri Lanka. India have only four frontline pacers in the squad.
4. Ravi Bishnoi
Bishnoi is India’s most promising young leg spinner. He has a unique action, run-up and is also a great fielder. Bishnoi was the leading wicket-taker in the ICC Under 19 World Cup 2020. He picked up 17 wickets in just 6 matches at an astonishing average of 10.65. While representing Punjab Kings in the IPL, he has been magnificent. Bishnoi consistently troubles batsmen with his awkward action and pace of the wicket. But Indian selectors opted to not go with the youngster. Indian team’s spin department has a lot of leg spinners as Rahul Chahar, Yuzi Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav are a part of the squad. India have also given a chance to mystery spinner Varun Chakravarty. This made it very difficult for Ravi to find a place in the squad.
3. Deepak Hooda
For the last two years, Deepak Hooda has been playing match-winning innings for his IPL team, Punjab Kings. He is a player who can bat lower down the order, act as a finisher and score runs at a quick pace. He can also be effective with his off-spin. Hence, he could have been the perfect all-rounder for India who bats in the middle order. But in his place, selectors have gone for Krishnappa Gowtham who plays a similar role. Gowtham looked ordinary last year while playing for Punjab Kings and he didn’t feature in a single game this year. Maybe selectors ignored Deepak Hooda because of Krunal Pandya. Hooda was suspended by Baroda after his spat with Krunal. He alleged that Krunal abused and bullied him in front of his teammates. Maybe to prevent any disturbance in the dressing room, selectors thought of ignoring the selection of Hooda.
2. Rahul Tewatia
Rahul Tewatia had a dream IPL last year. He was winning matches for his team from unwinnable situations. Who can forget his 5 sixes against Punjab Kings and helping Rajasthan chase the highest IPL score. Tewatia also has the ability to bowl leg-spin. Plus, he is a great fielder which increases his value as a player. Selectors rewarded his performance and selected him for the series against England in March. But he couldn’t feature in any game. Now, selectors have not named him for the Sri Lankan series. Dropping Tewatia from the squad without even giving him a game shows inconsistency of the selectors. He could have been a useful all-rounder for India. Tewatia could have played the finisher role for team India along with Hardik and Krunal Pandya.
1. Shreyas Iyer
Shreyas suffered a shoulder injury in March 2021 during the ODI series against England. He was ruled out of the IPL. Since then, he has had a successful surgery and it was said he can be back in 2-3 months. He has been posting videos on his social media showcasing his recovery. But he was not named in the squad for the Sri Lankan series. Selectors could have named him in the squad as “subject to fitness” as they did with KL Rahul and Wridhiman Saha. When the squad for World Test Championship final and England series was announced, Rahul and Saha were labelled as “subject to fitness”. Iyer is a promising future prospect for India who has solved India’s long search for a no.4 solution. He could have travelled with the team and his fitness process could have been monitored.
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Burgos Club de Futbol is a Spanish football club based in Burgos in Castile and Leon. They currently feature in the Tercera Division - Group B.
Burgos FC were established in 1936 as Gimnastica Burgalesa Club de Futbol but in 1983 they disappeared in 1983 because of economic problems. They resurfaced but after their relegation in 1993 but were refounded very soon.
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Our 18″ Black Dog Paw Pick is too cute for your wreath accents, floral centerpieces and craft projects. This pick features 2 glitter covered foam black dog paws on a white background. Each paw is 3.5″ wide x 3.5″ tall on a black wired stem. Just perfect for Dog wreaths and decorations.
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Founded in 1956, Emerald has established its position as Sri Lanka’s No. 1 brand in men’s shirts and this year, celebrates 60 years of expertise in the shirt industry.
Emerald firmly believes that the Sri Lankan male deserves nothing but the best and focuses on quality, reliability and innovation to create shirts that meet its own exacting standards. All Emerald products are manufactured under strict quality control guidelines in line with international standards. Emerald uses the best of embellishments and raw material in its products to ensure its customers get the best of quality in every Emerald shirt they purchase.
With an experienced and versatile team of international designers, constantly focusing on product development and design, its three ISO 9001 certified production units manufacture a diverse range of products including woven shirts, T-shirts, inner wear, formal trousers and accessories for local and international markets. Emerald represents world renowned fashion labels such as Crocodile and runs its ‘Shirtworks’ retail outlets while being represented by the largest dealership network in the country.
Emerald is endorsed by Sri Lanka’s world renowned cricketing icons Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardena.
The strategic advertising campaign accompanied with the image building campaign and promotional campaigns were handled by Iconn Media Ltd. for Emerald 60th anniversary.
Emerald concluded its best financial year recently, amidst the goodwill and renewed relationships with its island wide dealer network. The dealers of each province were separately felicitated amidst much pomp and glory during five province based, individual Dealer Conventions. These grand events were held at Light House Hotel – Galle, East Lagoon – Batticaloa, Mahaweli Reach Hotel – Kandy, Waters Edge – Colombo and Heritage Hotel – Anuradhapura.
Having founded by Fatha in 1942, the business ventured into knitted inner wear and the import of Japanese made shirts in 1952. The immense success in this field led to Emerald manufacture shirts locally with fabric imported from Japan. In 1980 the company did its first export to the UK under Emerald Brand.
In 2001 the success of the Emerald Brand in Sri Lanka inspired the company’s first dedicated shirts manufacturing plant. The quality and attention to detail in all areas soon paid dividends in Emerald being identified to manufacture shirts for international brands such as Nautica, Austin Reed, After Hours, etc.
In 2002 with the immense strength of the Emerald brand in the local market an aggressive drive was put in place to increase the dealership across the country. The Emerald brand has continuously achieved substantial growth and brand leadership milestones through the years.
In 2009 Emerald was appointed as the franchise in Sri Lanka for Crocodile Singapore and in 2013 Catalogue sales and online selling by Emerald commenced. A year later, the retail channel was strategically renamed as Shirtworks Ltd.
Shirtworks – Many menswear stores have boasted a wide variety of men’s shirts while some have emphasised on quality and others specialise in high style. But to find all three at the same place has always been endeavouring. They are focused and proud to change this reality, giving the customer a 360’ offering and a shopping experience in men’s fashion. Shirtworks is just that kind of gentleman’s store; they offer a carefully chosen selection of shirts that are suited for any occasion. The apparels are of incomparable quality and finish and the designs are of undoubted world-class standards.
The constant delivery of quality has made Emerald shirts the preferred brand amongst the leading companies in Sri Lanka. Emerald currently supplies formal uniforms to approximately 80% of the corporate market. Some of them are Aitken Spence, Cinnamon Grand Colombo, Toyota, HSBC, Coca Cola, Unilever and Dialog. | <urn:uuid:e105378c-f3b7-41da-8cff-33939a69c8d3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/popular-clothing-brand-emerald-celebrates-60-years-of-success-in-sri-lanka/ | 2024-04-24T04:13:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.961213 | 768 |
More businesses are hanging up on phone interviews and starting conversations with candidates via text message instead. From Silicon Valley tech businesses recruiting engineers to Midwest construction companies in need of welders, a wide variety of organizations are seeing better results when they trade phone screens for text message interviews.
The switch to text-based recruiting may give some recruiters pause, but the benefits of this approach are numerous, including among them increased recruiter productivity, reduced bias in hiring decisions, and a more effective channel for employer branding efforts, to name only a few.
Whether your recruiting strategy has stagnated and failed to deliver or you are simply interested in getting ahead of the curve when it comes to recruiting technology, text-based recruitment platforms may warrant further consideration.
Meet Your Ideal Candidates Where They Are
Companies must design their recruitment strategies to align with the communication preferences of today’s workforce, and text messaging is far and away the favorite among the contemporary talent. In a Pew Research Center survey of US smartphone use, 97 percent of participants used text messaging at least once over the course of the study.
Moreover, people typically read and respond to text messages much faster than they do emails. An email can languish in a candidate’s inbox for days, whereas most people immediately read texts as soon as they receive them. This faster turnaround time helps recruiters ultimately hire the right talent in much less time. In fact, according to our own research at Canvas, it only takes about 4.4 minutes to screen a candidate via text. This allows a team of four recruiters to save as much as 3,689 hours each year by using text-based screening!
Reduce Bias in Screening
Texting helps combat unconscious bias in hiring decisions. Unlike a phone screening, text-based interviewing totally eliminates the candidate’s voice, creating an added level of anonymity that allows the candidate’s qualifications and experiences to speak for themselves.
The second layer of bias prevention is added by certain text-based recruiting software that can mask the names of candidates and even gender-specific pronouns. Working to reduce unconscious bias during the interview process promotes diversity and establishes a company as one that hires honestly.
Expedited Interviews and Quicker Connections
Building connections with candidates during the initial stages of the recruiting process is key to keeping them engaged and interested. However, it can be difficult for recruiters to find the time necessary to invest in these connections, especially when they are dealing with high volumes of candidates.
Text-based recruiting can be extremely helpful in these instances. Recruiters can send out the same text messages to multiple recipients. Using templates and question libraries, recruiters can begin interviewing candidates with just a couple of button clicks. In the medium of a text message, candidates can also offer more substantive responses to questions than they might on the phone, allowing for more robust conversations to unfold.
Recruiters can also proactively send information about benefits, culture, schedules, and other frequently asked questions, eliminating unnecessary back and forth. Some text-based interviewing platforms even utilize machine learning and natural language processing to generate interview questions, recommend responses, and provide resources to candidates with little effort on the part of the recruiter.
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Catamaran Booze Cruise
Take advantage of Valencia's incredible location on the Mediterranean coast to do some serious partying! If the boys have gone a bit mental in the bars and clubs on the Barrio del Carmen on Friday night, a catamaran cruise is just what they need to get back in the stag weekend vibe.
This catamaran carries 100 revellers along Valencia's coastline. There's a chilled party atmosphere on board, and you can sunbathe or just hang out as much as you like. But with dozens of other like-minded party people along for the ride, we reckon you'll be up and dancing before the boat's even left the harbour!
Everyone on the stag weekend gets a couple of free drinks-either two ice-cool beers, or two glasses of cava, it's your choice. Toast the groom's future, and start curing those hangovers. If you're in the mood for more, you can always wander over to the on-board bar, which serves up quality thirst-quenchers at very reasonable prices!
Chill with the lads, or wander around the cat trying to pull chicks in bikinis. The great thing about this stag weekend catamaran cruise is that you can do whatever you want! Just don't forget the suncream. With plenty of space for catching a few rays, this party boat is ideal for topping up your tan before you go out in Valencia again on Saturday night.
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- 1 hour cruise
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By MARK EVANS
April is World Autism Awareness Month. About one in 44 United States children are within the Autism Spectrum.
As the month begins, former Valle Catholic Principal Mark Gilligan has written a Young Adult novel that addresses the issues faced by Autistic children.
The book, in fact, is set in Ste. Genevieve, entitled “The Goofy Ghost of Ste. Genevieve.”
“When I decided to write the ‘Goofy Ghost’ I knew immediately that I wanted to set the story in Ste. Genevieve,” Gilligan told the Herald. “The town made a huge impression on me. I still often think of its beauty, charm, and history. If the need to work closer to St. Louis so I could help my wife take care of my sick mother, I would probably still be there.”
Gilligan said that the way the town always came together during tough times impressed him.
“I tried to capture the wonderful, unique qualities of the town in my book. I also tried to capture the sense of love and unity that the town displays in emergencies,” he said. “There were a couple of tragic accidents and illnesses that occurred during my tenure there. I was amazed at how the town came together regardless of whether they wore green or blue.”
He referred to the Ste. Genvieve High-Valle Catholic rivalry.
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Bike shuttle bus along the Steyrtal Valley Cycle Path & Kalkalpen National Park Cycle Path
Start your cycling adventure effortlessly with the bike shuttle bus from Steyr/Spital am Pyhrn! This way you’ll have plenty of time to visit all sights along the route as well as enjoy some cultural and culinary side trips.
Hiking Taxi for Overnight Guests
The hiking taxi makes planning your hike route easy by bringing you back to your individual starting point. You don’t have to choose a circuit trail to return to your car. Just call the hiking taxi that is nearest to your route and it will drive you back to your starting point at low cost.
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In our NSI-channel, we publish the following information from the Natural Stone Institute:
Natural Stone Principles is an updated, industry-relevant version of the popular “Natural Stone 101” course. Natural Stone Principles includes a renewed focus on how natural stone can be utilized in design. The course reflects current trends and innovations in stone use. Natural Stone Principles has been approved for credit through AIA, IDCEC, LACES, and NKBA for on demand, live in person, and live webinar attendance.
Lurvey Supply’s Daniel Wood, chair of the Natural Stone Institute Education Committee, commented: “With natural stone being the most sustainable material in the built environment, it was important to our committee to create this course. Natural Stone Principles thoroughly reflects updates and changes within the industry, technology, and materials, and will be an invaluable resource to everyone in the design community.”
This new course is available to certified CEU speakers for download and presentation through the CEU Events dashboard. A recorded version of the course is available on demand in the Natural Stone University to receive credit or view as a training tool for future presentations. To learn more about becoming a certified CEU speaker through the Natural Stone Institute, visit www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/CEU.
To learn more about Natural Stone Principles and to access the on-demand recording of this course, visit www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/stoneprinciples.
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Retailers saw a 7.8 per cent decline in takings in July over the same month last year, dragged down by a 42.7 per cent decline in motor vehicle sales.
Excluding motor vehicles, retail sales went up 2.5 per cent.
Sales of telecommunications apparatus and computers, recreational goods and wearing apparel and footwear also decreased between 2.4 per cent and 7.0 per cent in July.
Food and beverage services performed slightly better, recording a 2.1 per cent rise over the same month last year.
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So often, a well-paying job comes with near impossible demands: long hours, the need to be “on call,” minimal sick leave, high expectations, lofty goals, no room for life balance. And then, of course, there’s the stress, oh the stress! All stemming from your job.
According to a study from The American Institute of Stress, 83% of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress, with 25% saying their job is the No. 1 stressor in their lives. About 76% of workers report that workplace stress affects their personal relationships.
Surely, not every job is a high-stress situation. In fact, there are jobs out there that are relatively low stress.
A study by the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey was indexed by TRE House, which determined America’s least stressful industries to work in by analyzing factors such as wages, hours worked and paid sick leave.
Which are the least stressful jobs and do they actually pay enough to live on?
Transportation Equipment Manufacturer
Industries in the transportation equipment manufacturing category focus on the production of equipment for transporting people and goods. Key industries in this sector include motor vehicle manufacturing, aerospace products and parts manufacturing, and ship and boat building. How much do professionals stand to make in these respective industries?
For motor vehicle manufacturing, the average annual salary in the U.S. is $86,041, according to ZipRecruiter. This is well above the national average salary, which hovers at around $64,000 per year, according to 2022 data from the Social Security Administration.
Those working in the aerospace product industry, as engineers, average $115,100 per year, according to ZipRecruiter. This is also well above the national average salary.
Professionals in ship building sector pull in an average salary of $132,754, according to ZipRecruiter.
Raking in an average of $58,198 a year, per ZipRecruiter, insurance carriers make slightly under the national average salary.
What exactly is the machinery job sector? Could be a few things: industrial machinery mechanics, machinery maintenance workers and millwrights, to name a few.
A job in the industrial machinery industry could be low stress, comparatively, but it’s not well-paying when looking at the national median salary: $51,053 a year, on average, according to Zippia.
Machinery workers are doing fine, salary-wise, according to ZipRecruiter, pulling in $96,249 annually.
Millwrights are getting by, but not luxuriously so; they make, on average, $54,596, according to Talent.com.
Rental and Leasing Services Worker
According to ZipRecruiter, professionals in the rental and leasing services space are not exactly cleaning up, financially. They make an average salary of just $38,515 a year.
Publishing isn’t exactly a booming industry these days — at least, not when it comes to books and magazines. And that fact makes it interesting that it is considered a relatively low-stress job. Still, the pay ain’t bad: $69,970 per year, on average, according to Indeed.
Workers in underground mining pull in an average salary of $47,840 per year, according to Talent.com. This is hardly big bucks, and it’s difficult to perceive this as a low-stress job, as the risk of dying or serious injury on the job is fairly high.
Information Services and Data Processor
This is another industry that canopies several job types. Let’s consider data processing. In this field, workers make an average of $82,640 a year, per ZipRecruiter. No wonder these folks aren’t so stressed out.
Education Services Pro
The educational services sector covers organizations that provide instruction and training in a vast array of subjects. It covers schools, colleges, universities and training centers. Now, we pretty much are all in agreement that public school teachers could stand to make more money; so, unsurprisingly, these professionals are not enjoying an excess of cash. They pull in an average salary of $46,590, according to ZipRecruiter.
Public administration is a field that is all about leadership. It sees professionals serving communities to make things better for everyone within those communities. Evidently, it’s considered a low-stress job. And it pays well, too. According to ZipRecruiter, the average annual salary for professionals in this sector is $125,844. That’s twice the amount of national average salary in the U.S.
This one is a doozy because it could be so many jobs, and some (e.g., securities and commodities) are complicated to examine. For the sake of space and sanity, let’s look at how much financial investors make. It’s less than you may think: on average, $69,759 a year, per ZipRecruiter.
Are your utility bills stressing you out? Well, the people behind the scenes of them are, apparently, the least stressed workers on this list. But wow are they barely getting by. They make an average annual salary of just $38,319, per ZipRecruiter. It makes you wonder how they aren’t majorly stressed out.
By Nicole Spector
This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: These Are the 11 Least Stressful Jobs, But Do They Pay Enough To Live On?
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(AP at CBS News) — President Trump announced Friday that Serbia and Kosovo have normalized economic ties as part of U.S.-brokered talks that include Belgrade moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, and Israel and Kosovo agreeing to mutual recognition.
[The announcement and a multi-faceted agreement between the two countries followed months of diplomatic talks led by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, who was named special envoy for Serbia-Kosovo relations by President Trump in 2019. On January 2020, due to U.S. mediation, Serbia and Kosovo agreed to restore flights between their capitals for the first time in more than two decades].On Friday, after two days of meetings with Trump administration officials in Washington, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti agreed to cooperate on a range of economic fronts to attract investment and create jobs. The announcement provided Mr. Trump with a diplomatic win ahead of the November presidential election and furthers his administration’s push to improve Israel’s international standing.
“I’m pleased to announce a truly historic commitment,” President Trump said in the Oval Office, standing alongside the two leaders, who signed an economic cooperation agreement. “Serbia and Kosovo have each committed to economic normalization.”
“After a violent and tragic history and years of failed negotiations, my administration proposed a new way of bridging the divide. By focusing on job creation and economic growth, the two countries were able to reach a major breakthrough,” the president said. …..
Kosovo’s Parliament declared independence from Serbia in 2008, nine years after NATO conducted a 78-day airstrike campaign against Serbia to stop a bloody crackdown against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Most Western nations have recognized Kosovo’s independence, but Serbia and its allies Russia and China [have refused to do so, thereby blocking Kosovo from becoming a UN member]. The ongoing deadlock and Serbia’s unwillingness to recognize Kosovo have kept tensions simmering and prevented full stabilization of the Balkan region after the bloody wars in the 1990s.
“These were difficult talks for us, but I’m truly satisfied,” Vucic told Serbian reporters in Washington.
He stressed that the economic agreement does not include “mutual recognition” between Serbia and Kosovo. [However, under the terms of the agreements signed, for a period of one year as the economic agreements are implemented, Serbia will suspend its efforts to encourage other states to either not recognize Kosovo or to revoke existing recognition. In return, Kosovo will not apply for new membership in international organizations for the same time period]. Vucic hailed the talks as a big victory for Serbia and a step toward closer ties with the U.S. Despite officially seeking membership in the European Union, Serbia has been forging close political, economic and military ties with Russia and China.
Hoti described the economic cooperation as a “huge step forward” in the relationship and said the two leaders were committed to working together.
Serbia and Kosovo have already OK’d air, rail and transit agreements, including one that would clear the way for the first flight between Pristina and Belgrade in 21 years. [The agreement also includes measures to improve transport infrastructure and border crossings, cut trade tariffs and share energy and water resources].
The new agreement comprises many more areas of economic cooperation. Business leaders in both nations have been frustrated and have been talking among themselves about ways to foster investment outside of the ongoing political talks brokered by the EU.
NOTE to students: Read the “Background” and watch the videos under “Resources” before answering the questions.
1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.)
2. Why is any agreement between the two countries historic? Be specific.
3. a) Define normalize and broker as used in this article.
b) What have the two countries agreed to do as they normalize economic ties?
4. After years of others making no progress in brokering ties between the two countries, what different approach to negotiations did President Trump direct his team to take?
5. Biagio Carrano (who appears to be no fan of Donald Trump) wrote about the U.S.-brokered agreement between Kosovo and Serbia at SerbianMonitor .com on Sept. 6, 2020:
This was an act of strength and authority on the part of the Americans, who pushed Serbia and Kosovo, to accept commitments and impositions they had avoided for decades. …
China has suffered a decisive setback since Serbia will be forced to renounce the 5G developed by Huawei, effectively annulling all the most meaningful developments, in terms of control and data analysis, of the agreements signed on the subject by Xi Jinping during his visit to Serbia of June 2016.
Russia finds itself displaced with respect to its geopolitical strategy in the Balkans by a single sentence of the agreement: “the parties will diversify their energy sources”, that is, they will not have to rely on TurkStream, which leg in the Balkans (the oil pipeline is not surprisingly named Tesla) was to carry Russian gas from Greece to North Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, reaching Austria. Richard Grenell, Trump’s special envoy for Serbia and Kosovo, had already been categorical with (Serbian President) Vucic in previous meetings regarding this matter.
Turkey, historical sponsor of Kosovars and Albanian irredentists, must accept the opening of diplomatic relations between Kosovo and Israel. Serbia, on the other hand, has been forced to go further and move the diplomatic representation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, weakening the European position of “two peoples, two states”, definitively renouncing the historical affinity with the Palestinian cause and aligning itself even more with the United Arab Emirates, which signed the peace agreement with Israel just a week ago.
…[Israel] not only collects recognition from Kosovo, the Serbian diplomatic seat relocated in Jerusalem, the return of Jewish properties stolen during the Holocaust, but even an entire point is dedicated to the commitment that Serbia and Kosovo must demonstrate against Hezbollah in order not to have the Shiite organization operate in their territories.
Meanwhile, several U.S. media outlets have dismissed the agreement, saying its not a real agreement and will have no real impact on the region, or that “Experts, including many former U.S. officials who spent years working in the Balkans, say avoiding the politics is unrealistic”.
What do you think: should the Trump administration’s attempts to establish ties between long-time enemies Serbia and Kosovo be commended (as Mr. Carrano does) or dismissed as not really significant or historic? Explain your answer. (Ask a parent or grandparent: what do you think of the success or unimportance of the agreement? Please explain your answer.)
During a press conference following the historic agreement, which President Trump held in the White House with the Prime Minister of Kosovo and the President of Serbia, several Trump officials spoke: (see videos under “Resources” below)
National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said regarding the U.S. brokered agreement between long-time enemies Serbia and Kosovo:
“We brought together — through the hard work of great diplomats, primarily led by Ric Grenell, acting at the President’s direction — Serbia and Kosovo. And they’ve normalized their economic relations…. The Serbia-Kosovo conflict has gone on for decades. They’ve been stuck, unable to move forward, for many, many years.”
And the President, sometime ago, decided that we try — we needed to try something creative and try something new, break the deadlock and bring — try to move forward with the peace process with Serbia and Kosovo. …
Special Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo — the Presidential Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo, Ambassador Ric Grenell explained:
What we’ve been able to accomplish here by pushing the two parties together is truly historic. The way that this came about is that the politics were stuck. Everybody knows that. We’ve been fighting and talking about the same thing for decades. They have been fighting about the same symbolism, words, verbs, adjectives. It’s been a nightmare.
And what President Trump said to me was, “They’re fighting politically about everything. Why don’t we give it a try to do something different and creative? Why not try to do economics first and let the politics fall — follow the economics?” That proved to actually be a formula that they were eager for. No one had been talking to them about this.
I ask you [reporters] to look at this agreement and see all of the details that have been hard-fought negotiated that will move both economies and the entire region forward. This is economic normalization….
….. The last thing I’ll say before we turn it over to Jared: The people of Serbia and the people of Kosovo are ecstatic about this agreement and are very thankful that there was an outside administration to look at this situation and not do the typical political thing. If we would have done the typical political thing and listened to all of the really smart people at NGOs and think tanks here in Washington, D.C., we would not have this agreement.
As part of the agreements, Serbia and Kosovo also:
- Agreed to join the Mini Schengen Zone.
- Each sides will recognize the diplomas and professional certificates from the other.
- Serbia agreed to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in July 2021, and Israel and Kosovo agreed to a mutual recognition of each other and establishment of diplomatic relations.
- Kosovo also announced that they would locate their embassy in Jerusalem.
- In doing so, Serbia will become the first European, and Kosovo the first Muslim majority nation, to have embassies in Jerusalem. (Kosovo is a secular state; 88% of its population is Muslim.)
- Each sides will remove 5G equipment from their mobile networks provided by what was termed “untrusted vendors” from their mobile networks, and to prohibit such vendors from bidding in the future. Officials from Serbia and Kosovo said this was a reference to Chinese companies such as Huawei Technologies.
- Both sides pledged to protect and promote freedom of religion, including renewed interfaith communication, protection of religious sites and implementation of court decisions regarding the Serbian Orthodox Church, continued restitution of Holocaust-era heirless and unclaimed Jewish property.
- The agreements also contain provisions where both Serbia and Kosovo designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and support the decriminalization of homosexuality around the world. (Read more at wikipedia)
Watch Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti speak at a press conference in the Oval Office on September 4 before signing the historic economic agreement between their two countries:
Watch Richard Grenell, Special Presidential Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo Peace Negotiations, speak about the significance of the agreement:
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Navigating Throne and Liberty: A Comprehensive Guide to the User Interface
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11am Central European Time
Prof Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore)
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The simple goal of a Sunnyside Financial Adviser is to guide you through financial uncertainty by providing you with a plan giving you control over your financial future. We offer you tax-effective financial and investment advice with ongoing support.
Building savings and managing your super can become a rewarding habit. Our adviser can help you set up a regular investment plan and provide guidance on setting a budget.
Focus on saving
Compound interest means earning interest on interest. If you invested $40 every month at 5% interest you could have an additional $35,524 in 30 years*. You will accumulate over $20,000 of interest from contributing less than $500 a year!
It is also important to keep an emergency fund in cash. Save this money in a high-interest savings account or CD. You'll gain interest and help prevent against the effects of inflation.
It’s important for you to look to the future and decide how much they can afford to contribute to your retirement accounts on a monthly basis (based on current earning power).
Getting your finances in order makes sense, it is time to make your money work for you!
Government co-contributions can help boost your super balance
Currently if you earn less than $50,454 per annum you can qualify to receive a Government co-contribution of up to a maximum of $500 each financial year. If you are eligible, you need to make personal contributions up to $500. Find out more by clicking on our super co-contributions page.
Building an investment portfolio may seem daunting but we can help. We have several investment products designed to meet many different investment and savings needs. Find out more about investment fundamentals or look at our investment product options.
Get a head start for your children
It is becoming more and more difficult for young people to buy a house without help from their parents. And future generations may have to rely solely on their own money to fund their retirement. So building a nest egg for your children has become more important than ever.
Life is not a straight path, and every so often our priorities change. But as this happens, you need to assess your situation and feel confident that you could manage financially if any issues arise.
Have you considered growing your retirement savings by salary sacrificing into super?
Salary sacrifice contributions are only taxed at the rate of 15% going into the super fund, compared with your salary, which may be taxed at a higher rate. Find out more by visiting our salary sacrifice page.
Do you have enough insurance?
It is estimated that over 60% of Australians are under-insured*. If anything happened, could you cover the costs of repaying the mortgage, paying bills and meeting medical or funeral expenses? A range of personal insurances are available to you through super and investment products for example life insurance or income protection.
It is time to plan your next move. Whether you are just thinking about retiring or have already done so, you have a lot of options available to you.
Want to slow down, but not reduce your income?
If you want to reduce your working hours or pay less tax without reducing your disposable income, a transition to retirement (TTR) strategy could be the answer.
Managing your retirement income
Once you have met a condition of release you can withdraw your superannuation as a lump sum or commence a superannuation pension. The most common ways to access a retirement income stream are:
Studies show that at least 45% of Australians do not have a valid will. If you die without a will your assets will be distributed according to a pre-determined formula with certain family members receiving a defined percentage of your assets despite what you may have wished.*It is perhaps the time to start determining which assets may eventually be left to beneficiaries and we will help you put in place the estate plan.
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There are many types of love associations that people knowledge. Some of these associations will be courtly love, conjugal like, and weakness. Each one has its own features and each one is filled with a unique specific emotions. find-bride Courtly love on the one hand is often filled with jealousy and possessiveness when free love calls for trust and empathy another.
A case in point of the is the take pleasure in triangle. This really is a situation wherever at first sight, two people seem to be appropriate and then deep down inside there is placed a great deal of pain. The most popular sort of this is when two people are attracted to one another however there is a great attraction with respect to another individual. Another type of take pleasure in triangle certainly is the friendship love triangle. Below, there may be an extremely strong attraction for two persons but their compatibility is usually not uncovered beyond any doubt.
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Friends happen to be basically the identical to they have most characteristics. Like for example , sharing a similar interests, becoming nice, writing secrets, and having a patient heart. Regarding age, that they vary between 13 and twenty-two years old. Gender is different with two people getting the same preference to one wish to be with a lady and the other preferring a man. In terms of the inclination of the person in question, it could either end up being male or female.
Courtly love is one of the types of love relationship where a couple goes into to a matrimony. Right here, one spouse will give items to their lovers. In addition , additionally they spend time together together. It’s not uncommon for the purpose of the couple to engage in love-making activities to be able to remain attached to each other.
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Friendship love romance is a good type of relationship for people who don’t want a serious commitment. In this type, the few often keep your relationship light when still maintaining communication lines. As long as each of the people still do the items that they need to carry out, they won’t encounter trouble staying in take pleasure in. As long as they will continue to meet up with each other peoples needs, they won’t feel any kind of pressure to enter into a severe relationship.
The above-mentioned types of love romance are just some of the examples that experts recommend as types of the different types of love relationship. It’s good to know that there are so many types of love interactions, especially when considering love. There are several ways how two people may communicate their wish to each other. Additionally they appear in different shapes and forms. With this kind of, experts believe that there is really practically nothing wrong with exploring the several types of love romantic relationship.
The problem nonetheless is with the exploring, discovering, discovering more regarding the different types of love romance. Sometimes, the couples who all are just bride and groom may find hard to understand every single other’s needs, especially when they can be just needs to date. Sometimes, newlyweds can even find it hard to express their love to one another. With this kind of, it is important that you realize what these types of people really would like before planning to express this to them.
Another concern is the compatibility of the romantic relationship. You have to do not forget that two people who are within a love relationship should be able to complement each other. This will help to maintain the quality and the longevity of the romantic relationship. Even though you may possibly like somebody who is different in the one you are internet dating, you have to make sure that you aren’t going to committing blunders which may cause problems between the two people.
If you have any doubt on if you and your partner can really go through the means of expressing like, then you can at all times consult a great authority or a professional who can assist you in exploring the types of love romance you have. This is due to there may be various kinds of love romance but if you may truly understand each other’s needs, tastes, and outlook, it would certainly make your marriage stronger. Additionally, it is good if you could begin exploring and discovering more about your partner ahead of expressing and proclaiming the love to them. Love would not just happen by accident. This can be a process that has to be experienced, understood, and shared. | <urn:uuid:f9e6a2e2-bb97-48a0-8c09-20c15d3245f2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.sunshinebikes.eu/uncategorized/comprehending-the-different-types-of-love-relationship/ | 2024-04-24T02:26:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.965426 | 1,059 |
State Representative Wendy Ullman was one of the first people to contact Superior Woodcraft to reach for our community and inform us that her office has a community donation box for first responders at her office.
The specific request is for the Bedminster Police Department which needs Lysol and wipes. We are sure that many first responders will need additional items in the near future. Here are the basic needs:
Needed items: Lysol, wipes, hand sanitizer, surgical masks, N95 respirators, disposable gloves and various antiseptic products.
If you have any of these items or other items that first responders will need please mail them or drop them off at Representative Wendy Ullman’s office. Rep Ullman will make sure these products get to the first responders who need them.
State Representative Wendy Ullman
1032 N Easton Road
Doylestown, Pa 18902
Thank you to everyone who can provide assistance our local first responders will be very appreciative.
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Livestock Farmers Urged to be Careful as Nuisance Suits Rise
02-04-2016 in Livestock
Reprinted with permission of the Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman
By Dirck Steimel
A recent rise in the number of nuisance lawsuits against Iowa livestock farms means farmers need to redouble their efforts to place their barns on suitable sites, work hard to minimize odors, establish good relations with neighbors and take other steps to help reduce the potential of being sued, a leading livestock attorney said last week.
“There are a number steps that you can consider to help you avoid a lawsuit,” Eldon McAfee, an attorney with Brick Gentry law firm, told farmers during a seminar at the Iowa Pork Congress in Des Moines. “There are no silver bullets and you can do everything right and still get sued. Further, not all of the steps apply to every farm. But I think you have a better chance if you are proactive.”
After a six-year period in which no nuisance lawsuits reached trial in Iowa, the legal climate appears to be shifting, said McAfee, who has been representing Iowa livestock farmers for more than two decades.
One nuisance suit was tried in a Poweshiek County courtroom in 2015, several others are scheduled for trial in 2016 and 2017, and there are others have been filed but have not yet been scheduled for trial, he said.
“We have as many nuisance cases now pending in Iowa as we have had at any one time,” said McAfee. “It’s safe to say it’s going to be a pretty active year.”
Court records show that nearly all of the plaintiffs in nuisance lawsuits in Iowa are represented by the Kansas City-based Speer Law Firm along with the David E. Sykes law firm in Fairfield, with Richard Middleton of Savannah, Georgia as co-counsel for the plaintiffs in those cases scheduled for trial in 2016.
Most of the lawsuits filed to date contend that odors from a livestock barn are unreasonably interfering with a neighbor’s enjoyment of his or her property, or that the barn has reduced the property values. In some cases, the plaintiffs in the lawsuits are two miles or more away from the barn, yet they claim it is causing a nuisance.
With the increased number of lawsuits, McAfee urged livestock farmers to work with the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers (CSIF). The coalition, formed more than a decade ago by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and other Iowa farm organizations, is to help livestock farmers successfully and responsibly manage changes in their operations. CSIF (which can be reached at www.supportfarmers.com or by calling 800-932-2436 ) helps farmers navigate the maze of state and federal regulations, provides a building site analysis, helps farmers safeguard the environment and enhance relations with their neighbors.
Locating a barn in the right place is a critical part of raising livestock today, McAfee said. “Even though some of the plaintiffs in the lawsuits are more than two miles away, you are much better off if you have adequate separation distances.”
It’s also important to determine the prevailing winds in the area, the attorney said. “Long-range research shows that Iowa summer winds tend to come from the south, to the south-southeast” McAfee said.
Planting trees is another way that farmers can enhance neighbor relations and reduce the potential for lawsuits, McAfee said. The Green Farmstead Partner program operated by CSIF is an excellent way that farmers can get information and technical assistance in planting trees around livestock barns to reduce odors and provide visual screening.
McAfee also emphasized the importance of the proper handling of livestock mortalities on the farm, which may increase odor concerns. In addition, the attorney said that keeping animals clean and the farmstead orderly can help stem odors and reduce neighbor concerns.
Keeping communications open with neighbors is essential, McAfee said. That means letting neighbors know early about your plans to build a barn or expand your livestock operation, and keeping them current on other changes, he said.
“I know that’s not always easy and you might have some neighbors that just don’t want to listen,” McAfee said. “But in most cases you should try to communicate with them.”
Finally, the livestock attorney urged farmers to do periodic self audits of their farms to determine if all of their environmental processes are up-to-date and working. “It’s a continual improvement process that keeps making us better,” he said.
The Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers is a collaborative effort involving the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Egg Council, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Turkey Federation and Midwest Dairy Association.
CSIF to Host Calving Under Roof Open House
WEST DES MOINES, IOWA – June 10, 2022 – The Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers (CSIF) is hosting a “Calving Under Roof Open House” at the Laura and Aaron Cunningham farm...
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Recorded in a wide range of spellings including Wick, Wicker, Wickardt, Wickert, Wickmann, Wickrath, Wickwarth and the seeming anglicised spelling of Wickwar, this is a surname of Germanic pre 7th century origins. It derives from the personal name 'Wicko', also found as a rare place name, and itself from an early word 'wig' meaning 'battle', from the 13th century and thereafter, developed into a popular surname. Sometimes recorded just in the singular form as Wick or Wicker, sometimes as a compound name with various suffix such as '-mann' meaning friend or associate, or '-hard', meaning just that, tough, strong and warrior like.
Early Germanic personal names and the corresponding Anglo-Saxon forms followed a similar theme of strength, success and a general appreciation of the law. What makes these names so unusual is that they were largely created in the time of history known as 'The Dark Ages', when after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century a.d., there followed many centuries of strife and war. During this time any form of continuous upholding of the law was largely wishful thinking. Early examples of the surname recording taken from surviving German registers, charters and rolls include: Godeschalus de Wik of Pomerania in the year 1278, Niclaus Wikelin of Burgenfeld in 1347, Heinrich Wickrath of Koln in 1594, and Hermann Wickwarth at the Lutheran church, Konitz, Westpreussen, on August 21st 1837.© Copyright: Name Origin Research 1980 - 2024 | <urn:uuid:b11e37db-73f6-4de0-80ba-08494d6384ee> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Wickmann | 2024-04-24T03:20:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.937649 | 340 |
The first rule of when you get yourself lost during hiking is to stop walking. The next is to take a deep breath so you can slow your mind down from racing. Only then can you begin to formulate an action plan. Finding yourself suddenly in an unstable time is very similar. You might have thought you were doing everything right, for it all to go horribly awry in a matter of moments.
Panic robs us of our abilities to think critically and objectively. It forces us into such heightened states of anxiety that we not only fear, but believe, the worst possible situation could occur. This phenomenon known as catastrophizing amplifies the normal triggers and limited beliefs, we bravely tackle every day. This is particularly true for those of us who have suffered traumatic events in our lives like sexual abuse.
As the world is currently facing panic due to the grips of Covid-19 we all benefit from strengthening our abilities to ground ourselves during precarious times. Please explore one or more of the following exercises to help you rediscover your sense of stability and reclaim your power to enjoy life as a thriver.
Exercise One: Reading
Find a comfortable place to sit alone and read the following passage by Rumi:
Journeys bring power and love back into you.
If you can’t go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self.
They are like shafts of light, always changing and you change when you explore them.
Write down the initial insight you gain from this poem. Next, read the passage and consider how unstable times are a period of awkward movement in our lives. Think about how these shifts are helping to bring about positive growth for yourself or perhaps society. You may also want to consider how this period of turmoil can be made more loving or will facilitate a greater shift of positivity for you. Remember darkness exists not because it is bad or evil, but because it is the absence of light. Light allows you to see areas in your life or your community that require more nurturing. End by focusing on giving yourself gratitude for being brave enough the explore all the dark corners of your life and having the willingness to grow.
Exercise Two: Create a Sensory Soothing Kit
When times get difficult, we are often compelled to revisit moments of our lives where we felt safe, secure, and loved. We crave feeling immersed in this warm bubble of comfort where it feels like our concerns are kept miles at bay. Drawing from a psychology technique called the 5-4-3-2-1 approach for anxiety management, which harnesses using our five senses to ground the anxious mind during a panic attack, we recommend a fun new take on self-care.
Begin by finding some time to think about how you use your five senses to soothe and comfort you during troubling times. Is there a smell that can instantly transport you to a place of happiness and fond memories? Do you find calling up an image of a beloved friend can naturally slow your breathing? Explore these sensations and how interactions with them make you feel afterward. Seek to establish at least one helpful practice you can do with each sense and purchase any items necessary.
Then place these items into a box or bag that you can pull out during times of distress. Here’s an example of what a box could look like:
· Scent: Candle that smells like cookies or a bottle of eucalyptus essential oil because it reminds you of that trip to Australia you loved
· Touch: A weighted or cozy blanket, or perhaps your old college sweatshirt.
· Sound: A singing bowl or chime, to remind you that you only have control over the present moment.
· Taste: A note to remind yourself it’s ok to treat yourself to your favorite comfort food or drink item(s).
· Sight: A photo of yourself where you feel truly one with the moment or feel like the best version of yourself.
Take this box or bag out any time you feel like you need to reconnect yourself to a place where you feel whole, comforted, and in control. You can revisit and edit your soothing kit at any time as your needs and preferences change.
Exercise Three: Pay It Forward
Often one of the best ways out of a difficult situation is to remember that somewhere, someone else is struggling and could benefit from your skills and generosity. Once you have finished attending to your immediate needs, think about a person, or cause, you care deeply about that you could assist.
Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic is providing both panic and an opportunity for reconnection. Consider setting aside a few hours each week, not to call your best friend, but the person who you suspect might be feeling the most alone or anxious. Think about texting a neighbor who might need assistance getting groceries the next time you are planning on braving the stores. Buy a gift card or donate to an organization you value. Remember, by spreading love and joy, we all can drive back the fear and anxiety caused by unstable times.
We at Survivors to Thrivers, are holding you and your loved ones in our hearts during this time of great upheaval. We extend you blessings of good health, peace, and hope so that you might continue to promote works of joy and healing in whatever ways you currently can. If you need additional support, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via email, social media, or the blog comment section. Not only are we on this journey to eradicate the shame of sexual abuse, but we are united in this battle against Covid-19 and the darkness it is fostering. Thank you for being a part of this loving, hopeful, joy-filled, and uplifting community. | <urn:uuid:1f4a93d1-93d2-44da-aad3-4e5761c6008e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.survivorstothrivers.com/uncategorized/2020-5-15-keeping-grounded-during-unstable-times/ | 2024-04-24T02:04:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.953541 | 1,170 |
Susan Viccars Welcomes You
Thanks for visiting my site. I am an actor, model, and visual artist. I love what I do, and want others to see that I am uniquely creative. Take a look around to find information about myself, my career, and updates on projects I’m working on.
The World is a Stage and a Gallery
After a successful and fulfilling career as a teacher in the public school system, I realized that I had the opportunity to be a creative learner for the rest of my life. I became involved in acting and modelling 15 years ago. I've had roles in national and regional commercial and print projects, as well as some smaller opportunities in film and television.
Visual art has always been part of who I am, I'm fortunate to have a detached home studio. I try to spend regular time there using acrylic paint and water color to show the real and imagined world. For the past couple of years, a lot of my painting is done plein air. These works are mainly finished in an outdoor painting session. It's always exciting to see what an immediate response to the landscape or built environment reveals. I strive to have my personal style as a visual artist evolve uniquely and authentically.
I've been doing photographic modelling for about 15 years. My images have appeared in Time magazine, Zoomer magazine, Vancouver Tourism website and videos, Rocky Mountaineer, Clearly Contacts, and a variety of websites. Here are some recent images, taken by talented photographers Heidi Back, Laura Sosner and Rob Campbell. | <urn:uuid:3e830075-c224-41e3-872b-1fd2f2fd8096> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.susanviccars.com/ | 2024-04-24T03:28:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.969689 | 318 |
Suzuki Canada is pleased to announce it is on-board with micro-plastic waste collection for the 2023 model year, with the introduction of the collector on two new models, DF140B and DF115B which we anticipate will be available to Canadian consumers in the next summer season (2023).
Suzuki’s DF115B and DF140B outboards are two of the newest models in The Ultimate Outboard series, and they’re making waves for their unique features—which now include a Micro-Plastic Collecting (MPC) Device set to come as standard equipment on these two outboard models. Production is set to commence summer 2022.
Micro Plastic Collector (MPC) Device
The first of its kind worldwide, the Micro Plastic Collector device allows boaters to become an essential part of the solution to the global challenge of microplastic pollution.
The MPC is an innovative device, designed to remove microplastics from the ocean and bring them back to shore for recycling. The collectors work by filtering ocean water and capturing plastic particles while allowing ocean water to pass through. The captured microplastics can then be recycled into new products which may be used in other applications worldwide.
Learn more here: Suzuki MPC Device.
Clean Ocean Project
Suzuki’s CLEAN OCEAN PROJECT is an ongoing campaign to help protect marine environments through voluntary “Clean Up The World” activities around the globe, rallying more than 10,000 people to the cause. This campaign operates on a global level, promoting a healthier marine environment, focusing efforts in three main areas: Clean Up the World Campaign, Reduction of Plastic Packaging in Suzuki products, and Micro-Plastic Waste Collection.
This is only the beginning, as Suzuki is always finding ways to reduce plastic waste while educating and informing the boating industry about this critical issue. Suzuki pledges itself to the vital cause of protecting our planet’s waters, coastal environments, and marine ecosystems for future generations to enjoy.
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Plastic surgeons at Swedish combine excellence and integrity with a full suite of plastic and reconstructive surgical services to provide well-rounded care in a safe, supportive environment. When you choose Swedish, you get board-certified providers who bring an integrated network of caregivers, specialists and clinical programs – all dedicated to providing you with patient-centered care for the best possible results.
- Brow lift
A brow lift offers several improvements, including raising a naturally heavy brow line or one that has sagged over time, smoothing horizontal forehead lines and vertical creases between the eyebrows, opening up the eye area and lifting heavy upper eyelids and the outer portions of the eyebrows. - Eye-lid (Blepharoplasty)
Upper lid surgery removes unneeded skin and fat through an incision designed to follow a natural skin crease. The incision may extend into a crow’s foot or laugh line at the side of the eyelid. The lower eyelid may be approached either through an incision that is just beneath the lash line or from the inside of the lid. The inside approach leaves no visible scar. This works best in younger patients who do not need excess skin removed. A blepharoplasty can be done alone or at the same time as a brow lift or face lift. The results of eyelid surgery can be much better if a brow lift is done at the same time to help reposition tissues where they belong anatomically. - Facelift
A facelift combines smoothing folds and wrinkles around the nose and mouth, lifting drooping or sunken cheeks, and erasing a "jowly" look to define the jawline. Using incisions hidden within the hairline several layers of facial muscle and tissue are lifted and tightened and secured. The overlying skin is redraped, instead of stretching it, to ensure natural-looking results. The facelift focuses on the lower two-thirds of the face, so it will smooth away folds and wrinkles around the nose and mouth.
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Breast enlargement (augmentation) increases breast size and improves breast shape with either saline and silicone gel implants. Women sometimes choose augmentation when they have decreased breast volume or to balance breast asymmetry when there is a significant difference between the sizes of the breasts. Women who would like to improve both the size and shape of their breasts may choose to have a breast lift in addition to their breast augmentation procedure. - Breast reduction
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When exercise alone doesn't restore a flatter stomach, an abdominoplasty can reshape the abdomen. Sagging abdominal wall skin and relaxation of the abdominal wall muscles can happen after pregnancy or with weight fluctuations. A tummy tuck involves removal of skin and fat in the lower abdomen between the belly button and pubic region and extending hip to hip. The underlying muscles are tightened for better internal support. - Body Lift after major weight loss
Excess skin is often a result after massive weight loss. A body lift improves the shape and tone of the underlying tissue that supports fat and skin. Excess sagging fat and skin are removed and the procedure(s) can improve the irregular skin surface. Often, two or three areas can be addressed at once, as long as the surgery time is kept to safe limits. - Fat Grafting, lipotransfer, liposculpture
Fat transfer is an evolving technique for plastic surgeons. The principle is that fat is removed from one part of the body, processed and reinjected into an area that needs increased fill. Liposculpture is commonly used to fill volume in the face, increase breast size and shape the buttocks. - Liposuction
Liposuction is a surgery that improves body shape by removing excess fat. The outer thighs and the lower abdomen are particularly good targets for liposuction as are the hips, back, upper arms, knees and chin. The best candidates for liposuction surgery are near their ideal body weight with good skin and muscle tone. Liposuction is not a substitute for weight loss, and does not have the same benefit as diet and exercise. It will not reduce risk of heart disease, diabetes or in any way benefit metabolism and works best when coupled with lifestyle changes. Liposuction is often combined with other surgeries such as a tummy tuck, body lift, thigh lift, buttock lift or arm reduction. The success of contouring by liposuction alone, or with a method to remove excess skin, depends on your body type and your goals. - Mommy makeover
Despite its name, mommy makeover surgery can be a good choice for anyone who wants to target multiple areas of the body in one procedure. Typically, mommy makeovers improve the look of sagging breasts, excess skin around the abdomen, unwanted fat deposits in the hips and thighs, and stretch marks. These results can be obtained through a series of surgeries, including liposuction, breast lift or augmentation, and a tummy tuck.
While the benefits of injectables, fillers and skin peels can be impressive, a combination of procedures may be required to rejuvenate the entire face. Many women and men complete their facial renewal with face or neck lift and or eyelid surgery.
- Injectable fillers and Botox
Injectable fillers and Botox are a safe, effective and minimally invasive alternative to facial cosmetic surgery for men and women interested in facial rejuvenation. They give reasonably good results with short recovery time and few after effects. Injectable products work by adding volume underneath the skin and providing a firm foundation for surface tissues to lie smooth and unwrinkled again. Most products provide results for six to nine months. - The Obagi Nu-Derm Non-Invasive System
Our office carries the Obagi Nu-Derm skin care system which consists of prescription-strength ingredients that penetrate deeper into the skin resulting in smoother and firmer skin. As the years pass, the processes that keeps your skin looking vibrant slow down. The Obagi Nu-Derm System helps speed up cell turnover, encouraging dead, dry skin to slough off and fresh new cells to emerge. In the process, your skin's texture looks and feels smoother and firmer. Skin color evens out, with freckles, age spots and sun damaged areas becoming lighter. Moisture improves, so your skin looks fresh and healthy. You'll notice visible results in four to six weeks. - Skin Peels
A chemical peel improves both the appearance and the health of your skin. Chemical peels remain the most frequently used, most versatile and efficient way of resurfacing. There are many variations in what chemical agent is used, but all peels involve the application of a solution that removes the upper layers of skin. The damaged skin separates from the deeper layer and peels off in a few days or weeks, depending on the depth of the peel. The resurfacing process takes advantage of the body’s healing capacity as fresh new skin from the deep layer replaces older damaged skin.
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With a week to go before registration closes, Aquaman Aquathlon 2023 has already surpassed its previous record as the biggest aquathlon event which was set last 2019!
Deadline of registration is on May 21, 2023! No more extensions after so we can have a smooth event. 👍
– FULL DISTANCE (800m Swim – 5k Run)
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A new analysis has revealed two policy levers that could be pulled to aid Australia’s flailing economy: investment in social infrastructure such as education, health and care, and greater subsidies for early childhood education and care. If implemented, these policies would boost employment and improve gender inequalities in the labour market.
Undertaken by Associate Professor Elizabeth Hill from the University of Sydney’s Department of Political Economy, the analysis notes that women have been disproportionately economically affected by the pandemic, as they are over-represented in lower-paid, insecure and casual jobs.
“Women’s employment has been hardest hit, contracting by 7.4 percent between February and May 2020, compared with 5.6 percent for men. This equates to 457,000 jobs lost by women,” Associate Professor Hill said.
“We expect this pattern to deepen amid the prolonged economic downturn.
“Implementing policies that address circumstances predominantly faced by women will therefore benefit the economy at large.”
As part of the analysis, published by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Associate Professor Hill proposes two strategies for economic recovery that reflect the contemporary structure of the economy; generate maximum employment outcomes per investment dollar, and include women.
While economic stimulus has traditionally focused on large-scale physical infrastructure projects (which largely employ men), new research shows that there are more employment-intensive and gender equitable forms of stimulus. For example, a study of seven OECD countries shows that public investment equal to 1 percent of GDP in labour intensive care industries generates more total employment than investment in construction. If applied to the Australian market, it is estimated that this employment ratio would be nearly five to one.
“This is not to suggest that stimulus should not be made in construction; only that government should take a more balanced approach to fiscal policy,” Associate Professor Hill said.
“Affordable early childhood education and care (ECEC) is critical for the economy at all times, but especially now. This was demonstrated by the government’s free childcare package – introduced in April, but now prematurely ended,” Associate Professor Hill said.
“There is particular concern that where the out-of-pocket cost of ECEC for families facing unemployment or significant economic insecurity remains high, it will be women who forgo employment and undertake child and other care duties.”
“Results from initial surveys by the sector confirm this possibility and suggest current ECEC policy will not support a dynamic and gender inclusive economic recovery.”
Associate Professor Hill argues that greater investment in ECEC is a “triple-win” strategy that will:
“These strategies do not stand alone,” Associate Professor Hill said.
“They must be supported by two further measures: women’s inclusion in recovery planning leadership, and gendered employment analyses of all recovery policy options, including the impact of policy on unpaid work.”
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The Korjo Packing bags – Resealable are versatile and useful aids. You can utilise them in so many different ways!
The zip-loc seals and protects the contents inside the bag from the outside and vice-versa.
5 bags per pack
Packing Bags – Resealable uses include:
- Protect and organise your shirts, jumpers, underwear etc
- Use as a shoe bag
- Segregate and seal products that you worry may leak
- Separate dirty or wet clothes from clean clothes
- Keep certain items together – eg cords and chargers for electrical or communication equipment
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An excerpt from Francine Prose’s new biography of the eminent art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim
Upcoming author panel to be moderated by The Scroll!
In Compulsion, now at New York’s Public Theater, Mandy Patinkin portrays a writer whose obsession with Anne Frank drives him to the brink of madness
O’Neill, Shteyngart, Prose, and others honor the author
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Islamabad, Jun 22 (PTI) Pakistan has enough problems of its own and does not want the added headache of a new Cold War between China and the United States, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has said.
Khar insisted that an all-out rupture between the US and China would present Pakistan, an all-weather ally of Beijing, with an unpalatably binary strategic choice.
“We have a history of being in a close, collaborative mode with the US. We have no intention of leaving that. Pakistan also has the reality of being in a close, collaborative mode with China, and until China suddenly came to everyone’s threat perception, that was always the case,” Dawn newspaper quoted Khar as saying in an interview with Washington-based news outlet Politico this week.
“We are highly threatened by this notion of splitting the world into two blocs. We are very concerned about this decoupling anything that splits the world further,” she said.
The minister said Islamabad had no appetite to pick a side in the growing global rivalry between Washington and Beijing as Politico highlighted the problems countries like Pakistan face in maintaining good ties with both Beijing and Washington.
The interview was recorded before US President Joe Biden called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a dictator at a political event in California on Tuesday.
The comment earned a swift and angry response from Beijing which said the remarks “seriously contradict basic facts, violate diplomatic etiquette, and seriously infringe on China’s political dignity”.
Politico recalled that Khar grabbed headlines in April when a leaked memo appeared in The Wall Street Journal in which she was cited as a warning that Pakistan’s instinct to preserve its partnership with the US would harm what she deemed the country’s “real strategic” partnership with China.
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Policies, Codes & Other Documents
Filing income tax returns (ITR) can seem overwhelming, especially for first-timers. But, it's not as complicated as you think, if you know the basics. By basics, we mean the online form you need to fill, the financial details you must disclose, and the deductions you must claim under Section 80C.
So, file your ITR without making rookie mistakes with the help of these 5 tips.
The official returns website carries 7 forms, and you must pick the right one. Filling the wrong IT form might lead to rejection of your application, and you may even receive a notice from the department.
Carefully read the instructions given for each form before filling it.
To make the online filingofincome tax returns easier, the official portal offers pre-filled details of your financial history in any given year. Relevant authorities collect these pre-filled details from diverse sources such as TDS returns filed by your employer, banks, Form 26AS, previous year’s ITRs, EPFO, mutual funds, etc.
Before filing your returns, verify these details again, as accuracy is crucial for tax returns. For example, if you borrowed a home loan in the last financial year and want to claim a tax rebate on it, there should be proof of it in your pre-filled ITR.
Incorrect filing can lead to revisions, or worse, tax penalties. So, minimise your chances for scrutiny by checking every pre-filled detail carefully.
Additional Read - How to file Income Tax Return for Small Business in India
In addition to providing a detailed breakup of interest earnings from fixed deposits, IT refunds, etc., you also have to share details of any capital gains made from selling shares, mutual funds or properties. If you've sold a property in a particular financial year, you need to provide complete details of the buyer at the time of tax filing.
Don’t worry; you’ll find spaces to fill this information in the online form. But, to quicken the data entry process, keep all your investment paperwork handy.
It’s not enough to submit your ITR on the official portal. You also have to provide an additional verification that it is indeed you who has filed the return. Fortunately, verifying your IT return is not a cumbersome process. You can digitally verify through Aadhaar OTP or net banking within 120 days of filing your return.
What's the point of diligently collecting all paperwork and learning the entire process if you forget to file your taxes on time? So, keep a check on advance tax dates, and ensure you don't miss filing your return on time.
Remember, India's financial year starts on the 1st of April and ends on the 31st of March.
Additional Read - Understanding the Form 16
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Once you take a loan from us, don't forget to claim a tax rebate on it. Remember that housing finance is tax-deductible up to Rs. 2 lakhs over and above your savings shown in Section 80C.
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It's deeply frustrating to see Rebecca Long-Bailey still talking about a ‘Green Industrial Revolution' in the Guardian this morning, in an article that is widely presumed to represent the launch of her Labour leadership bid.
Let me be precise as to my criticism. First, no one else but Labour is talking about a Green Industrial Revolution. So it must be something different from the Green New Deal most people think we need.
Second, that difference would appear to arise because Labour do, indeed, see this as a bit of industrial policy. In fact, they see it as an excuse for a bit of post-Keynesian investment-led growth.
And, third, that's not remotely what the Green New Deal is.
For a start the Green New Deal is not about growth. It may result in more GDP. Equally, it might result in less. What it is about is doing more of the right thing for each other using less carbon.
So it is about reducing energy consumption.
And changing the way we travel.
As well as protecting biodiversity.
Whilst creating better housing, local transport, energy grids, and flood defences.
But it's also about better food.
And protecting biodiversity.
Whilst changing the way we save.
And the way we even account for what we do.
So to claim this is an industrial revolution is to lick on a tiny part of the whole and over-emphasise it.
Or it's just spin.
Either way, it's not good. And as a poor part of a lacklustre article from Long-Bailey, it's not the foundation of a leadership bid as it stands, I hope.
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Getting Started: Making Your Own Clothes
From time to time I get e-mails from readers who are interested in learning how to make their own clothing. Those who get in touch are usually looking for a starting place or advice on which sewing machine they should buy. Since TaylorTailor is three years old this month, I thought I would try to share my thoughts on the topic. This is mainly intended for those who have never sewn anything before and is in no way comprehensive. You might be disappointed if you are looking for technical advice or a step-by-step guide; buy this model of sewing machine, buy this special book, turn to page 9, and BOOM, you will have a pair of jeans. Instead, what follows are basically the steps I went through to get started. Hopefully it is helpful to others who might be thinking about learning how to sew.
I am in no way an expert, or have any formal training with pattern making or sewing. While I do have an amazingly helpful mentor/teacher here in Nashville, I’ve learned quite a bit on my own as well as from other blogs and websites. I may not do things the way a professional pattern maker or commercial sewing factory would do them, but I do what works for me with the knowledge and equipment I have on hand.
My first bit of advice is that you CAN do this. Don’t let lack of knowledge stop you from trying something new. I had no idea what a bobbin is or what seam allowances are when I started. With that said, making a piece of clothing that looks like it came from a store, that you are proud to wear in public, is hard work. Don’t expect to complete a shirt in a Saturday afternoon or quickly throw together a pair of jeans. This stuff takes time, lots of it, especially if you’ve never sewn before. I don’t mean that last part as discouragement. If your expectations are aligned properly going in, you won’t be disappointed when you’ve spent several weeks on the same project and it still isn’t finished. Take your time, learn as you go, and enjoy the process however long it may be.
1. First, decide what types of garments/accessories you want to make, and try to gauge how committed you are going to be to learning something new. This will have an effect on how much you budget for your first sewing machine and which type of machine you decide to buy.
2. Get a sewing machine. Choosing the right machine really comes down to budget, personal preferences, and in some cases, the types of things you want to make. Here are the machines I use. I can’t make a specific recommendation for a machine that will work for every beginner, especially if I’ve never used it myself. Sewing machines generally fall into two categories, those made for “domestic” or “household” use, and industrial sewing machines.
- Pros of household/domestic sewing machines: portable, take up little space, most can do a variety of stitch types, they are versatile.
- Cons of household/domestic sewing machines: lack power and speed, not ideal for really heavy materials, they can be less durable, although I’m sure a good household machine that is properly cared for can last quite a few years.
- Pros of industrial sewing machines: powerful, retain power even at low speeds, ability to sew very fast, heavy duty (note: this doesn’t mean that they can all sew heavy duty materials. Depending on the machine, they can be set up for light or heavy work), made to do one task (such as a straight lockstitch) and do it really well.
- Cons of industrial sewing machines: uni-taskers – generally they can only do one type of stitch, need different machines to do different types of stitches (straight, zig zag, bar tack, etc.) not portable, weigh a lot, need dedicated place to put them.
I’ve never had any problems with my industrial machine. The thing just works, and it works every time I turn it on. No fuss, no babying it, no mechanical issues. All other things being equal, if you have the space and the budget (a simple industrial can be cheaper than a complicated domestic) I would recommend an industrial sewing machine. Again, this is a personal preference, and after researching machines you might come to a different conclusion.
3. Learn how to use your machine. If you don’t have a friend or relative to show you the basics, I would suggest checking out a local fabric/sewing supply store. If they don’t offer classes for beginners, they are likely to know someone who offers private lessons who can get you started. Once you know a few basic things like how to adjust the thread tension, how to wind a bobbin, how to back tack, and how to change a needle, you are ready to start with your first project.
4. Keep it simple for your first couple of projects. I wanted to start with a three piece suit when I first got interested in sewing. My wife talked me down and convinced me to start with an apron. I’m glad she did. I’ve been sewing for three years and I’m still not ready to tackle something like a mens suit. There are lots of commercial patterns available for beginners. With these simple projects you will develop your sewing skills, continue to learn the quirks of your machine, and get a feel for what you like and don’t like to sew.
5. After “suffering” though a few aprons or pairs of pajamas, choose a project that is a little more complicated, something that might eventually turn into a piece of clothing you wear in public. For me, this was a pair of jeans. You might find a commercial pattern for this project, or you might want to make your own pattern. Besides having a genuine interest in learning how to design and make my own patterns, I also decided to do so out of necessity. The commercial pattern business really seems to focus a lot more on women’s clothing, which makes sense given that most of their customers are women. But, for a guy who is interested in making his own clothes this left me with few options for patterns, and I’m extremely picky in terms of fit and style. The book I use to make patterns can be found here.
6. Once you’ve decided on a project and have a pattern in hand, make a test garment, or two, or three. For every new pattern I draft, I make at least two or three test garments out of cheap practice muslin before cutting into nice fabric. With each test garment, I make adjustments to the pattern and modify the fit as needed. There is no sense in ruining a nice piece of fabric with a pattern that doesn’t fit the way you want it to.
As far as learning construction techniques goes, there are TONS of sewing books on the market. Here are the two that I use the most often for shirts and pants: David Coffin- Shirtmaking, David Coffin- Making Trousers for Men and Women. Another great way to learn construction techniques and some pattern making is to inspect store bought clothing. You can learn a lot by turning clothes inside out and inspecting seams, pockets, etc. Then there is good old fashion experience. The more you sew, the more you learn, the more the construction part will become intuitive.
Here are the tools I use the most often:
- Iron/Ironing board- If you are just starting out, the iron/ironing board you currently have is probably fine. At some point though, you will want to invest in a decent quality iron and a nice ironing board. For many projects, you will spend more time pressing than at your sewing machine.
- Chalk wheels(s)- For marking positions on fabric.
- Seam ripper- This will be your best friend when you make a mistake.
- Point turner- Not always essential, but can be helpful turning various kinds of points.
- Rulers/curves- For pattern drafting and measuring during construction.
- Tracing paper- For pattern drafting and modification.
- Pattern weights- I like to use large round washers.
- Rotary cutter and cutting mat- When used with pattern weights, the best way to cut fabric in my opinion.
- Shears/scissors- for trimming seam allowances and other cuts, have a pair for fabric only, no paper, cardboard, or other materials which dull the blades quicker.
- Flexible tape measure- Great for making fit adjustments.
- Pins- To temporarily hold fabric pieces together before sewing. Pins tend to distort fabric, so use them sparingly and only when absolutely necessary.
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Which Server? BF4 [TBG] 60Hz | HARDCORE ALL MAPS | JOIN US - TBGclan.com
What is your in game name? HATANO_KENJI
Date and time approximately 2023/5/23 00:10 EST
Offense committed This guy has killed me viciously many times.
Additional comments This guy got into my LAV-25 and just shot at random on purpose, He also shoots indiscriminately when he doesn't see the enemy, He just wants to call the enemy tanks to attack me.
I got very angry because of this and told him to get off my LAV-25 multiple times, So I go back to base and let my LAV-25 blow itself up, By the time he spawned again, he'd killed me multiple times. (He killed me at least 3 times)
I just want to say that the most important thing about HARDCORE is to hide your location, But this guy wants to let everyone know where I am, no matter his bullets can never do damage to the tank, He still does it and hinders me on purpose.
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Choosing Teamancy for your loose leaf tea needs means opting for quality, expertise, and a passion for tea that transforms every cup into an extraordinary experience. As a quality-focused small business, we're committed to bringing you the best of the tea world, with the convenience, customer service, and community support you deserve. Embark on your tea journey with Teamancy, and discover the depth and delight of premium loose leaf tea. | <urn:uuid:6132edfc-1a6b-439d-8896-550cc0ea4ad9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.teamancy.com/blogs/loose-tea-faqs/where-to-buy-loose-leaf-tea | 2024-04-24T02:01:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.920864 | 686 |
We just switched our 17-year old from the child-safe Gabb phone to a parent-managed Pinwheel smartphone to give him more freedom and functionality. This review is our family’s actual experience with the Pinwheel phone. Although the company sent us a free phone, we still have to pay them a monthly service fee as long as our son uses it.
How Pinwheel Phone Works
Our son’s experience with the Pinwheel phone had some highs and lows, but my overall conclusion – it’s a viable option for a teen.
You create a phone login and password for the child, and another login and password for remote phone management through Parental Dashboard. Without these the phone will not work.
Our teen now has apps like Gmail, Spotify, WhatsApp, Kindle Reader, Scratch, and Uber, but no Internet browser or app store. He cannot install apps, only parents can. It’s functionality without distraction and addiction.
Opening links is not an option since there is no browser. If he needs access to the information in the link, he has to email it to himself and open it on the laptop at home during his screen time hours.
Pinwheel’s Caregiver Portal gives parents complete remote access to the phone, managing contacts, apps, and schedules:
Parents can add apps from a pre-approved list of 500+ apps. No social media. No addictive games or ad-driven apps. Allowed apps are each assigned a safety rating:
- Pinwheel Approved
- Slightly Out of Bounds
- Violates Guidelines
- Untested by Pinwheel
It’s up to the parents to decide if the child is ready to use a particular app responsibly. For example, we allowed a couple of simple games to let him learn to balance the use of entertainment apps with communication tools. Parents can manage the usage of each app by setting screen time schedules:
If the app your child needs is missing, parents can request it.
Here are the apps we installed on our son’s phone:
Gmail, WhatsApp, Google Meet, Zoom, GroupMe
Google Classroom, Google Sheets, Duo Lingo, Scratch (coding app), graphing calculator
Spotify, Kindle Reader, a couple of games (Boom Beach, Clash of Clans)
Uber, Google Maps
Weather, Clock, Google Translate
The idea is to add functionality to the phone as the child matures. Parent dashboard also allows parents to monitor text messages and call history, set schedules for when contacts and apps are available, and create screen time routines.
Pinwheel Parental Dashboard monthly fee:
- First Phone: $14.99 monthly ($13.75 if paid annually)
- Additional Phones: $4.99 monthly ($4.58 if paid annually)
Cell Phone Service:
- Whatever you pay your cell phone provider.
Pros and Cons of Pinwheel Phone
Highly customizable, parents can add apps from the list of 500+
No Internet browser or app store, so no workarounds to parental controls
Takes pictures and videos
No social media communication = no bullying, no drama, no addiction
No browser = cannot open harmful links
Parents can see all texts on the parent dashboard
If an app becomes distracting, parents can remove it
Looks like a regular smartphone so kids are not embarrassed to use it
Safety features can block texts from unknown numbers
Keep your phone provider. Unlike some other child-safe phones, Pinwheel works abroad
Some apps (hello Google) are not safe but the child needs them for school
Limited functionality – by design – is frustrating for teenagers
Limited storage, no iCloud
No social media communication = missing out on teen social life
Spotify has inappropriate content
No browser = cannot open useful links
Kids have no privacy from parents
Kids get mad at you for controlling their life
Extra monthly cost of $14.99 for Pinwheel parental dashboard
Can block group texting between friends not in approved contacts
Not all phones work with every provider. Some initial setup glitches. Location services do not always work.
How We Made a Decision
Our family policy always was to delay smartphones as long as possible – as a researcher of tech harms I was well aware of the dangers. The team from Bark, an industry leader in protecting children from porn, sexting, suicidal ideation, and bullying, analyzed more than 3.4 billion messages across texts, email, and 30+ apps and social media platforms in 2021, and came up with these alarming statistics:
- Bullying: 72.09% of tweens and 85.00% of teens experienced bullying as a bully, victim, or witness.
- Depression: 32.11% of tweens and 56.40% of teens engaged in conversations about depression.
- Sexual content: 68.97% of tweens and 90.73% of teens encountered nudity or content of a sexual nature.
- Self-harm/suicide: 43.09% of tweens and 74.61% of teens were involved in a self-harm/suicidal situation.
- Drugs/alcohol: 75.35% of tweens and 93.31% of teens engaged in conversations surrounding drugs/alcohol.
- Violence: 80.82% of tweens and 94.50% of teens expressed or experienced violent subject matter/thoughts.
- Predators: 9.95% of tweens and 20.54% of teens encountered predatory behaviors from someone online.
- Disordered eating: 1.96% of tweens and 7.66% of teens engaged with or encountered content about disordered eating.
- Anxiety: 19.69% of tweens and 42.05% of teens used language or were exposed to language about anxiety.
To protect our children from this expanding list of harms, we signed a pledge to delay smartphones at least until 8th grade. Introducing child-safe phones into our kids’ lives became the logical next step – they never had smartphones so they had no basis of comparison. We were not depriving them of smartphone freedom they previously had, but gradually introducing the freedom to arrange their own social lives that comes with phone ownership.
After experimenting with flip phones, we gave our son a basic Gabb phone in 8th grade, which worked well for him but was essentially a basic phone with calls, texts, and location tracking (newer models of Gabb phone now have a choice of child-safe apps).
Today our 14-year old daughter is using Gabb, our 17-year old son is using Pinwheel, and apart from occasional grumbling from the kids everything works. They may be the last teenagers in the state without smartphones, and they are doing ok. Good grades, no anxiety, healthy friendships. Maybe they would be ok with smartphones too, but we decided not to take that risk.
What Do Teenagers Think
Our son started using the phone more now that he had more things to do on it, spending hours reading Kindle books, listening to music, texting with friends, answering emails, and surprisingly, learning a new language on Duo Lingo. However, he still complains about his limited digital options. No App Store. No Internet Browser. Which teenager could be cool with that?!
Our teens are doing reasonably well academically and socially, and I suspect that no smartphone policy has played a part. But withholding the privilege of a smartphone well into their teen years definitely comes at a cost. They want to be like all their friends with smartphones, and they are mad at us for not giving in. They present a thousand arguments why their mom is unreasonable and just plain stupid. I have heard it all:
- “Everyone has a smartphone!”
- “Teachers assign homework on apps!”
- “You don’t understand our generation!”
We chose the lesser of two evils. I would rather have my kids yell at me for being unfair, than expose them to the risks of a fully-loaded smartphone. Our teens think that parents managing their screen time is ridiculous. And our influence on their digital safety is coming to an end: in a year our son will be legally an adult and will make his own choices.
So in response to his complaints, my husband and I told him that he is free to buy his own smartphone (he has a weekend job) and pay for it himself. That’s our last (intentionally built) speed bump on his way to smartphone ownership.
HOWEVER, we would insist on good digital habits as long as he lives under our roof. No phone in the bedroom at night, and in case of tech overuse, WiFi and data privileges can be revoked, if parents are the ones paying for it.
Can I Replace a Smartphone with Pinwheel?
This is a hard decision that usually comes after serious violations of digital safety. It is much easier to start with a child-safe phone. I talked to parents who did the switch, and they say it can be very challenging to roll back from a full smartphone to a parent-managed smartphone like Pinwheel or Troomi or Bark. The backlash can be severe, and the parent-child relationship suffers.
Tech tantrums from a fully grown teenager are not fun.
As I recently learned on Your Undivided Attention podcast, psychologists even started to advise parents against taking the phones away, even if phones are the primary source of mental health problems. Shockingly, in extreme cases taking the phone away could lead to suicide. Kids are so addicted that losing access becomes the last straw.
But a parent-managed smartphone is still a smartphone, so you are not taking the phone away per se, but scaling back the functionality. You sit down together and negotiate which digital tools the child needs to manage their social and academic life, and which apps they would have to live without. It helps to get them onboard by explaining the risks. Mental health issues from toxic social media. Failing to become an adult because of addictive gaming. Porn ruining their sexuality. No guarantees they would listen but at least you let them know you are motivated by love.
Teenagers deserve more freedom in their tech usage, no question about that. But we need to remember that biologically a brain is not fully mature until the age of 25, and in case of ADHD diagnosis – after 30. Immature brain is no match for addictive technology.
So while our son is still in high school, we make a reasonable effort to protect his transcript from YouTube binges. Homework needs to be submitted on time. Night is for sleeping, not gaming. It’s not easy to micromanage a frustrated adolescent who craves autonomy. As he gets older, we interfere less and less, but we are not hands off yet.
I don’t know if we are doing things right. I only know that we have our kids’ best interests at heart, and Google does not.
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What are the Benefits of a Green Card?
A green card allows a non-U.S. citizen to gain permanent residence in the United States. Many people from outside the United States want a green card ...
This article summarizes the benefits of a green card and the responsibilities of being a lawful permanent resident.
You may already know that there are plenty of benefits of having a green card, and the most obvious of them is that it allows you to live permanently in the US. However, it is crucial to know what a green card actually offers and what it doesn't. Moreover, if you are planning to immigrate to the United States, a green card otherwise known as a US Permanent Resident Card is among the most crucial pieces of immigration documentation you can have.
For many immigrants, reaching the point of gaining permanent residence in their newly adopted country is a key milestone. As the step before the ultimate goal of citizenship, holding permanent residence removes a great deal of uncertainty regarding the future and your safety and security.
A green card allows a person to live and work in the US and start the process to become a naturalized US citizen. A green card holder becomes a permanent resident of the United States. And is entitled to many of the same benefits as a citizen, although not all.
Furthermore, over a million people in the United States live in LPR (lawful permanent resident status). There are different ways immigrants become permanent residents. They include marriage, close family members, employment, and others. However, permanent resident status is usually given to three categories of immigrants. They include those people who already have a green card and are issued a new one, relatives of US citizens or permanent residents, and workers in the US on employment visas.
Keep on reading to learn more. This article explains the benefits of green cards, as well as the responsibilities of having a green card.
What are the Benefits of Having a Green Card?
The main benefit of having a green card is that it allows the holder to permanently live and work in the United States, and the final step before the ultimate goal of citizenship. But having a green card provides many advantages. Below are the primary benefits of a green card:
- You can eventually apply for United States citizenship. You will be eligible for naturalization after three years if you are married to a US citizen, or five years if not. Otherwise, you can apply after five years.
- The United States government cannot deport you to your home country. Green card holders maintain status as permanent residents and regardless of future changes made to US immigration laws will never face deportation. Moreover, green cards are not temporary and cannot be revoked with potential changes to immigration laws. However, you can lose your residency if you commit a crime or violate a law.
- You don't have to renounce the citizenship of your country of origin.
- You are legally protected by the laws of the United States, your state of residence, and your local jurisdiction. People with permanent resident status have the same legal rights as US citizens.
- Moreover, you can sponsor other family members who want to file a green card application. Family members of permanent residents are given priority, but not as great a priority as family members of US citizens. Family members eligible for sponsorship include your spouse, parents, siblings, and children. The spouses and children of those relatives are also eligible.
Benefits of a Green Card
- As a lawful permanent resident (LPR), you can renew your green card every ten years.
- Permanent residents can travel abroad and re-enter the United States with a valid green card, as long as they return within 12 months.
- You can travel or live anywhere within the United States. State borders are no limitation, and there is no need to check in with any government agencies.
- Moreover, you are eligible for federal benefits such as social security or government-sponsored financial aid for education.
- You can also apply for a wide variety of jobs. Green cardholders have greater job opportunities than people on a work visa.
- You can engage in politics at all levels. Green card holders are eligible to make financial contributions or volunteer for the candidate of their choice in US elections.
What are the Responsibilities of Green Cardholders?
Furthermore, although there are many benefits to having a green card, there are many restrictions and obligations as well. Meanwhile, once you become a green card holder, you hold specific responsibilities as a legal permanent resident of the United States, including the following:
- Green card holders, like US citizens, must file income tax returns and report income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state tax authorities.
- Green card holders are obligated to obey the law, including for the United States, their state of residence, and local jurisdiction.
- Male green card holders between 18 to 25, need to register for the Selective Service. However, the United States has not had a draft since 1973.
- Moreover, you need to carry a green card at all times. Otherwise, you could face up to 30 days in jail.
- Just like US citizenship, green card holders may not engage in any attempt to change the form of government through illegal means.
What are the Limitations of Having a Green Card?
Although green card holders can live and work in the US, as well as enjoy most of the same benefits as a US citizen. Permanent residents do not have the full rights of a citizen. Therefore, there are some limitations you will have to face as a green cardholder. They are as follows:
- You cannot vote in United States elections
- Green card holders have a lower priority in sponsoring other family members for green cards than US citizens.
- Your green card is not transferable. It does not extend automatically to children born outside of the United States.
- Green card holders cannot run for political office in the United States.
- You can't get a United States passport with a green card
- Green card holders who leave the US permanently after 8 years or more are subject to expatriation and exit taxes. This limitation would also apply to a US citizen renouncing their citizenship.
- United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) does not guarantee green card holders complete protection from deportation. For example, if you commit certain crimes, you may face deportation under immigration law.
- Green cards must be renewed every 10 years.
What does the green card do?
A green card allows a non-U.S. citizen to gain permanent residence in the United States. Many people from outside the United States want a green card because it would allow them to live and work (lawfully) anywhere in the United States and qualify for U.S. citizenship after three or five years.
What is a green card vs citizenship?
Green card holders | U.S. citizens (by birth or naturalization) | |
Do they qualify for government benefits? | Yes, but on a more limited basis than U.S. citizens enjoy. | Yes, if they meet the basic eligibility criteria. |
In conclusion, the benefits of having a green card are certainly numerous. So are the routes to getting a green card, but the easiest pathway is through the green card lottery. Moreover, the process of getting a green card can be complicated and it is not advisable to handle your green card case alone. However, working with a good immigration attorney can make it easier. | <urn:uuid:7715cf3c-fde7-42fd-81c0-b6998a759b9f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.techkibay.com/what-are-the-benefits-of-a-green-card | 2024-04-24T02:23:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.966311 | 1,524 |
How to Establish Rapport With Students in The ESL Classroom
The relationship a teacher has with their students or clients is critical to their learning experience. It is often overlooked and deemed unimportant, especially compared to the lesson itself. However, the rapport a teacher establishes is the foundation on which the class stands. It affects how the students feel about the class and sometimes helps motivate them as well. Good rapport with the students makes teaching a lot livelier and learning a lot easier.
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This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Katherine S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
In the hierarchy of the classroom, the teacher is at the top. Students come to take a course, expecting the teacher to know best and looking up to the teacher for help and support. The teacher has already before any impressions have been made, been established as an authority figure. Depending on the student, they may react to the authority differently. Some may take to an authority right away, but with others, it may take getting to know them a bit. A little understanding of the students that are in the class can go a long way. Being friendly and patient creates a welcoming environment, which helps comfort students in a potentially stressful situation. Being in a position of authority gives the teacher this power to create this foundation upon the start of the course, and continue to build upon it throughout.
In Unit 10: Video Lessons, two videos were shown of the same lesson being taught by the same teacher with the same students. The primary difference between the two classes was the way the teacher conducted himself. In the first video, he was very aloof and started the lesson right away. He took no time to connect with the students, not even learning their names. His attitude from then on out is impatient and slightly frustrating. The students seem reluctant to speak and participate. A couple of students even come in late, smiling, which seems to indicate their lack of concern for missing class. Though there is no direct correlation between this and the teacher's behavior, in the second video the only thing that has changed in the classroom is how the teacher approaches his students. In the second video, he makes an effort to learn the students' names and talk with them patiently. In return, the students are more eager to respond and participate. They are even more motivated to come to class.
Much like a job, the relationships that are formed could turn something monotonous or stressful into something enjoyable. When teaching a language, that is something a teacher should, at the very least, strive for, for students to enjoy the class. If the students feel negatively towards the teacher, then it is more likely that they are going to feel negatively towards the class by association. This is when it could start to affect their learning. It might not be so negative that they feel that they have to quit, but it could make them reluctant to ask questions, thus hindering their learning. All it takes for students to feel a little more comfortable is for them to feel that the teacher cares about them and their progress. This falls undertaking the time to ask them questions and getting to know them as more than just another face in the class. Questions about how they feel about the class or even how they like some of the activities could make them feel like their opinions matter and encourage them to take more interest in the course. Whether or not a teacher can meet the wants of the students in its entirety, acknowledging it to the students can still give the students some sense of having their needs heard.
Rapport is an important factor to consider when teaching. It is something that does not take much time to establish and takes very little effort. Yet, it is one of the most important building blocks when teaching. With an established rapport, students benefit from the environment and can flourish, furthering their drive to learn.
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Lord, this week is “disarmament week”, so-declared by the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs.
Your son, Lord, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote more than a century ago that someday there would be a parliament of man and that nations would turn their swords into ploughshares.
We pray for that day when man will no longer raise weapon against man.
To that end, we ask your guidance so that we will work with and support those who would bring about a peaceful world.
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Kubler wins first Futures title
Queenslander Jason Kubler has won his first Futures title with victory in the final of the Player's Choice Open in Birmingham, USA.
Queenslander Jason Kubler has won his first Futures title with victory in the final of the Player’s Choice Open in Birmingham, USA.
The unseeded Kubler didn’t drop a set all tournament and finished with a 6-3 6-2 win over Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka in the title match.
After battling with a knee injury towards the end of last year, Kubler reached the semifinals of this year’s Wimbledon Junior Championships and has continued his comeback on the European clay season in recent months.
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The top seed Taylor Fritz is yet to lose a set in Delray Beach. The American took down Emilio Gomez in the second round and ousted Adrian Mannarino 7-6, 6-4 in the quarter-final to find himself in the last four. Fritz and Mannarino are now tied at two wins each, with the American taking their latest two duels.
Taylor hard to work hard to claim this one, trailing 3-1 in the opener and facing a set point in the tie break. The American stayed focused, clinched the set and broke the rival's resistance in the opening stages of the second.
Fritz won six points more and prevailed in the crucial moments. He saved four out of six break points and scored three breaks to emerge at the top. The Frenchman had the upper hand in the mid-range and most advanced rallies, and the American erased the deficit with a better performance in the shortest range up to four strokes.
Taylor Fritz defeated Adrian Mannarino in the Delray Beach quarter-final.
A left-hander made a great start and forced the rival's mistake at 1-1 to secure an early break of serve. Mannarino confirmed the break with a backhand winner in game four and created more opportunities in the next one.
Taylor saved two break points in game five and broke back a few minutes later after Adrian's wayward forehand. Both players served well in the rest of the set, and the Frenchman held after deuce at 5-6 to introduce a tie break.
Taylor earned two mini-breaks and forged a 5-3 lead after forcing the rival's mistake. Mannarino faced two set points at 4-6 and defended both with brave hitting to extend the action. Adrian denied the third set point at 6-7 with a volley winner and moved 8-7 up for his set point.
Fritz erased it and clinched the fourth set point at 9-8 after Mannarino's forehand mistake. With a boost on his side, Taylor landed a forehand down the line winner in the second set's third game for a break of serve. The American secured another return game at 4-2 to extend the lead and serve for the victory.
Mannarino made one last push and pulled one break back with a drop shot winner. The Frenchman held at love in game nine to reduce the deficit to 5-4 and prolong his chances. However, the top seed sealed the deal with a hold at 15 in game ten for a place in the last four. | <urn:uuid:547d387c-6873-45cb-bf26-6895be7864a8> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/On_the_ATP_results_with/128686/atp-delray-beach-taylor-fritz-downs-adrian-mannarino-and-reaches-sf/ | 2024-04-24T04:18:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.961207 | 520 |
My first day of becoming a serious birdwatcher was 15th July 1977 – when we had a family trip to Tilgate Park near Crawley, West Sussex. It was the start of writing down my observations into a notebook, and the beginning of a journey I am still on. I logged 15 species, with a pair of Jays the highlight. My initial encouragement came from my parents, school friends and the very active bird club at school. I learned a lot from the older birders at school, and particularly I got to hear about rare birds and their trips to see them – they were an active part of the British ‘twitching’ scene, and thus the ‘Grapevine’ of bird news, which got phoned round a vast unseen network of similarly bird-obsessed individuals. I was too much of a novice to be part of that scene – but got second-hand news of good birds seen locally – and that helped set my agenda of persuading my parents of where we might go birding. It was only after an undefined apprenticeship learning the standard birds that you would be taken seriously, and perhaps integrated into the Grapevine. Contrast that to now when bird sightings and information are instantly available to anyone who subscribes to one of the information services or joins their local WhatsApp group. The apprenticeship is no longer part of the process – a shame in many ways.
My parents were advocates of taking holidays in different parts of Britain, and my maternal grandparents lived in Bainsford, Falkirk, so within a few short years I had seen a good range of species, only to be boosted further when I started at Dundee University, and in 1982 made my first autumn trip to the Isles of Scilly. Through all this time there had been birds I was keen to see, and eventually did, but one in particular was proving hard to connect with – Little Egret. It might seem strange now, but back then it was actually still a rare bird – it was a BBRC (British Birds Rarities Committee) assessed species up to the end of 1990, needing a nod of approval from the ’10 Rare Men’ for acceptance. It was still on the SBRC List in the 2000’s – albeit in lower case, allowing for assessment of records by a local records committee where one existed. Not one of the more complicated identifications you would think, but just seeing one was proving a problem for me, but surely it would happen eventually.
In the end, it took me 10 years, almost to the day, to see one in Britain. A family long-weekend trip to Norfolk, to take in the celebrated breeding pair of Black-winged Stilts (and three young) at Holme NOA Reserve, saw us arrive in the car park there and instantly see the star attraction. However, for me the elation was tempered by the all-too-familiar “oh, you should have been here five minutes ago” heralding another dip – there had been a Little Egret in the same lagoon as the Stilts, but it had flown off heading south! Next day saw us heading back to Surrey, but via a favourite birding site for us – Minsmere in Norfolk. Imagine my amazement when on arrival at that car park the news broke that a Little Egret had just dropped into the pool in front of the nearest hide – and so it was on Sunday 19th July 1987 I finally got to see a Little Egret in Britain. About five years later I was on a birding trip along the south coast of England with a mate from Edinburgh. We had stayed overnight near Chichester Harbour, and at dawn the next day were in place to witness a morning flight of 118 Little Egrets coming out of a roost on the east side of the harbour – the dam had truly broken.
With a switch to a more Scottish focus to my birding in the mid-1990s, my attention turned to filling the more obvious gaps in my Scottish List and saw me add Little Egret on 6th May 1995, with a lone bird at the River North Esk at Kinnaber, Angus (289 for Scotland). I was still living in Dundee at the time, so not too far to travel, but later that year I moved to Edinburgh, and a whole new perspective, especially when I switched from lab research work to a bird and environmental focussed working life. Just over a week ago (mid-August) there were 10 on the saltmarsh by the car park at Aberlady Bay LNR (the wooden footbridge was the site I ticked my first Greenshank in Britain) near my current weekend workplace at SOC HQ – the species has undergone a remarkable change in status in just a few decades, like many of the European herons.
With so many Little Egrets now to be seen – three figure day totals on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth are not unusual – it is easy to take them for granted – but not me, I still enjoy seeing each and every one. It is also not generally apparent where the birds we see might have come from, but the discovery of a colour-ringed Little Egret at Aberlady Bay on Christmas Eve 2019 shed some light on the situation. The colour ring (H7 white on a dark blue Darvic) on its left leg established it had been ringed as a breeding female at Wheldrake Ings, in the Lower Derwent Valley, Yorkshire, on 17th July 2019. It was then seen at Saltholme Pools, Yorkshire, a week later on 25th July, before deciding to spend Christmas and New Year in East Lothian – being seen at Aberlady Bay for a few weeks into 2020 (pic by F.A. Buckley). So next time you see a Little Egret, check its legs – it may have a tale to tell.
Stuart L. Rivers
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Peter Lehmann, Australian winemaker, passed away June 28, 2013 at the age of 82 following a long illness. Lehmann entered the wine industry when he was 17 and over the next 30 years, he forged a reputation as one of the country’s leading winemakers and establishing Peter Lehmann Wines as one of the great companies of the Australian wine industry. Lehmann wrote a new chapter in Australian wine history in 1979 when he moved to protect growers facing bankruptcy as corporate wineries stopped buying fruit. His “gamble” started a new independent winery as a lifeline for the growers. Retiring officially in 2002, his eponymous brand became a global success and put Barossa on the world stage. | <urn:uuid:67a6bc35-1eff-4f31-a048-7f590303d16f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thebeveragejournal.com/lehmann-leaves-behind-wine-legacy/ | 2024-04-24T02:30:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.978847 | 149 |
Durg. A surprising case has come to light from Bhilai in the district. Here what a husband did to his wife by keeping her away from mobile and social media, the wife embraced death. The woman locked her daughter in the room and then hanged herself. The matter is of Supela police station area of Bhilai. Read More – Big statement of Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma, said- Will work by making an action plan for the policemen working in Bastar for a long time…
According to the information received, the woman took this step because her husband snatched her mobile phone. The people of the locality told that there used to be many disputes between the woman and her husband regarding the mobile. People had already brought down the woman’s body from the noose before the police arrived. Police reached the spot after receiving information about the incident, sealed the room and sent the body to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital for post-mortem.
Actually, on Friday evening the police had received information that a woman had hanged herself at her house in Panch Rasta Supela. When the police reached the spot, it was found that Rachna Sahu, wife of tiles mason Bhupendra Sahu, had committed suicide by hanging herself. During interrogation, Rachna’s husband Bhupendra Sahu told the police that she was married 6 years ago. There is also a 5 year old daughter. On Friday afternoon, he snatched Rachna’s mobile and kept it with himself and went out of the house. There were only mother, sister-in-law and their children in the house. About 4 hours later, at 7 pm, a call came from home that Rachna had hanged herself. When Bhupendra reached home, the dead body of his wife Rachna was lying in front of him and there was a noose of saree around her neck.
Bhupendra told that his wife Rachna used to work all day long on Instagram watching reels and making reels. She remained busy on her social media Facebook and WhatsApp throughout the day, due to which there used to be fights between the two. She also did not take proper care of her daughter. At present, the police have registered a case and started investigating the matter. | <urn:uuid:8e38dcd4-de13-49a4-a211-3077ff575a57> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thechhattisgarh.com/chhattisgarh/social-media-addiction-wife-used-to-make-reels-on-insta-all-day-husband-snatched-mobile-and-committed-suicide/ | 2024-04-24T03:06:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.987252 | 474 |
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It was a more exciting day’s racing than she might have planned—a tumble in the morning, a gold medal 12 hours later—but Sifan Hassan just soaked up the drama at the Tokyo Olympic stadium.
The 28-year-old Dutchwoman is going for a unprecedented Olympic triple: gold medals in the 1500 meters, 5000m, and 10,000m, a feat that would mark her out as one of the greatest distance runners in the history of track and field competition.
On Monday morning, just before the final lap of her 1,500m heat, Hassan got caught up in a tangle of legs and fell to the ground. Without a moment’s hesitation, she set off in pursuit, kicking into gear on the back straightaway to overtake the field and grab the lead just before the finish line.
Technically, Hassan’s dream was still alive. But she left the field with a visible limp and it was far from clear that she would have enough time to recover for the day’s big test: the 5000m final.
But the Ethiopian-born racer ran what could be described as the perfect race—especially for someone whose main priority must be to conserve every smidgen of energy. She stuck stubbornly to the back of the main pack, hugging the inside as closely as possible through the first half of the race. As the pace began to pick up, she moved around the outside but as the bell rang out she was still in fifth place. Then came the kick and a tremendous surge past her rivals down the back straight. The Kenyan Hellen Obiri, reigning world champion, was the only one still fighting. Another kick, another gear, and Obiri was left trailing as Hassan, still pulling away, ran the last 400 meters in an incredible 57.36 seconds to finish in 14:36.79.
If it sounds that Hassan has something to prove in Tokyo, it’s because she clearly has. At the 2019 world championships in Doha, Hassan had just won the 1000m when news broke that her mentor and former coach Alberto Salazar had been handed a four-year ban for doping. She went on to win the 1500m with one of the fastest runs ever, demonstrating not just range but endurance, too.
After that meet, and suggestions from rivals that her victories were somehow tainted, Hassan admitted she had been fueled by anger. “I’ve been clean all my life,” she said. “I was so angry, I couldn’t talk to anyone. I ran all out. I wanted to show that hard work can beat everything.”
Paired up now with Tim Rowberry, Salazar’s former assistant at the disbanded Nike Oregon Project, Hassan has been getting faster and stronger. She set a 10,000m world record in the Dutch city of Hengelo last month, shocking her fellow athletes by returning to the track an hour later for a series of full-out sprints.
That was the first sign that she was planning something special for Tokyo: not just the 5000m-10,000m double everyone was half-expecting but the 1500m too, a much more audacious gamble.
But Salazar’s shadow refuses to release her. This week, when the spotlight should have been on Hassan, news came that the 62-year-old coach had been banned from the Olympics for life after an investigation into claims of sexual and emotional misconduct.
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I am so blessed to have a father like mine. Miguel Garcia was born in 1933 to a very poor family in the Dominican Republic. He barely knew his own father until he passed away, and worked in the streets from the time he was 5. Miguel taught himself to read, and can barely write his own name till this day. So what great gift did Miguel pass on to his two daughters? The gift of truly unconditional love and ultimate devotion.
Anyone who knows my father will always say he’s the kindest soul in the world; generous to a fault, and bears a smile that will literally melt your heart. He gave me one of his classic smiles the day I told him I landed a book deal, and he’s been with me every step of the way. He proudly tells anyone he comes across about his youngest daughter Maria who’s a radio broadcaster AND an author! I thank God everyday for my father —who also happens to be my best friend. | <urn:uuid:b9609ca2-0912-450a-a2f9-7bd255f15797> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thedebutanteball.com/definitely-daddys-girl/ | 2024-04-24T03:41:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.987101 | 200 |
We are losing. More than 220,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, making the United States one of the hardest-hit countries in the world. This winter, thousands more will perish. Racial disparities have been brought to the forefront of national attention, but in the form of horrific police violence and a president that can’t even condemn white supremacy. And as the climate crisis continues to worsen, the Republican Party continues to debate whether climate change even exists.
It is clear we are losing. But we have not yet lost.
As college students in the most important state in the country, we have the opportunity to turn things around by electing Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States. Rather than read off Trump’s disgusting tweets to you, I think it would be a better use of our time to explore how the world might differ depending on the outcome of this generation-defining election.
Let’s say on Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden is sworn in as president.
As president, Biden passes a sweeping stimulus bill that puts money in your pocket, saves the café down the road, and reduces the risk of budget cuts to West Philadelphia public schools. Biden creates a national COVID-19 testing strategy, uses his office to advocate for mask-wearing, and helps roll out a safe and effective vaccine in an orderly manner. You can now choose an affordable public option for healthcare no matter where you are. And you can stay on your parents’ health insurance until you’re 26. Your friend from high school who took on crushing student loans has had their federal student loan debt wiped clean. And in 2050, when our economy is entirely powered by clean energy that has created millions of well-paying jobs, you can show your children the forests and oceans and biodiversity of our beautiful planet that you helped preserve.
But let’s say Trump wins.
COVID-19 continues to spread and a lack of planning and effective public health messaging on the federal level causes hundreds of thousands more to die, including someone with whom you are close. A vaccine is doled out in a partisan and haphazard manner, leading to confusion and further delays in returning to normal life. Rather than stay on the margins of society, white nationalism is further emboldened and hate crimes spike. And in 2050, the Schuylkill river trail and low-lying areas of Philadelphia now regularly flood. By the end of the century, the average day in Philadelphia is seven degrees hotter and millions have died around the world from climate change-induced catastrophes.
Obviously, this is all speculation, but it is plausible, and frighteningly likely if our country heads down this dark path.
In 2016, Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by around 44,000 votes. That’s roughly the size of Temple’s student body. And right now Pennsylvania is the most likely tipping point state in the entire country, which means that it is the most likely state to decide the 2020 election. All of that to say — what you do matters. You get to decide which version of the future we will live in.
So please, please make a plan to vote on Nov. 3. Go to iwillvote.com/pa to get all the information you need. Text three friends right now — yes right now, in the middle of this sentence — and make sure they are voting for Biden. And even if you have just an hour of free time, reach out to me at [email protected] and I will find a way to get you in this fight.
I’ll be honest. Joe Biden can’t solve all of our problems, and for many of us, including myself, he wasn’t our first choice for president. But electing Joe Biden is absolutely necessary if we are going to make any sort of progress. Because if Trump has taught us anything constructive, it is that our lives and our society are not guaranteed to get better. We need to make that change. And we need to make it now.
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From construction projects to new stores, Penn's campus has seen a wide variety of renovations, updates, and projects.
March 4 — The year began with the announcement of a new track and field center, which will be completed by May 2024. Named the Jane and David Ott Center for Track & Field, the $69.35 million facility will serve as the new track and field program hub.
May 12 — The Stuart Weitzman School of Design announced that it will renovate and add a wing to the existing Morgan Building, renaming the building Stuart Weitzman Hall.
July 27 — In honor of Former Penn president Amy Gutmann, New College House West was renamed Gutmann College House.
Aug. 22 — Progress continued on Amy Gutmann Hall, the new Penn Engineering building for data science. Located adjacent to Lauder College House, construction began on the building in the summer of 2022.
Aug. 22 — This past summer, construction on Penn’s boathouse was completed. The complete upgrade included the construction of a two-story entrance lobby to house Penn Rowing artifacts and memorabilia as well as an expanded athletics room to host events.
Sept. 12 — This semester began with the announcement of the first significant expansion of the Annenberg Center. A $25 million new performing arts theater named after Wharton Class of 1963 graduate and luxury footwear designer Stuart Weitzman is expected to have an audience capacity of up to 350 people.
Sept. 21 — Penn announced a $35-$45 million redevelopment of the McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut street. The McDonald’s will be closed in January to redevelop the building into a 50,000-square-foot mixed-use, six-story office building.
Sept. 22 — Just one day after the announcement of the McDonald's redevelopment, Penn announced that the Radian would be leased for three years while the Quad undergoes major renovations for the first time since the early 2000s. The $238 million renovations in the Quad will take place one college house at a time, with Riepe from May 2023 to August 2024, Ware from May 2024 to August 2025, and with Fisher-Hassenfeld from May 2025 to May 2026.
Oct. 27 — The construction of a new grocery store and research complex on Market Street between 38th and 39th streets was announced in October. While the construction is not part of Penn’s real estate portfolio, the space will be converted from a surface parking lot to an office, laboratory, parking, and retail space.
Nov. 17 — Finally, to round out a year of major real estate changes was the announcement of the opening of a Target location near campus in November. The store will be an addition to The Mason on Chestnut, and its opening date is yet to be announced. Construction is estimated to cost $6.5 million and will take up 18,199 square feet.
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I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty Rev. 1.8
I am a messenger sent by Jesus Christ. The go-spel word from the Holy Bible is “Vinegar” Numbers 6:2-3 John 19:28-30 DAKE Bible
Vinegar is a very sour liquid used in cooking. Webster’s dictionary and in Ruth 2:14 Now Boaz said to Ruth at mealtime, come, eat, and dip bread in the vinegar
Numbers 6:2-3 Speak to the children of Israel, when man or woman take a vow to separate themselves to the LORD as a Nazarite means to separate from wine and similar drink; they shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall they drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. Also in Judges chapter 13 the mother of Samson was told to follow the Nazarite Vow when she carried him in her womb. “ Teach us what we shall do, she may not eat anything that comes from the vine.”
John 19:28-30 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst.” Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to Jesus mouth. When Jesus received the sour wine, Jesus said “It is finished.” And Jesus bowed His head, and gave up His Spirit.
Psalm 69:21 They also gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Other witness to the gospel are: Chapters Mt. 27 Mk.15 & Lk.23
The Psalm 56:5,12 Vinegar causes bread to rise as yeast and leaven, so it is not used during the passover. The children of Israel calls leaven sin and Jesus calls leaven as beware of the teaching of the Pharisees and sadducees. Mt. 16:11-12
Proverbs 25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Vinegar is not good for the teeth in Proverbs 10:26 vinegar has many uses and are used in many ways as long as in correct portions.
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Living or working abroad is an exciting time and offers plenty of scope for new adventures.
If you are a British expat, or planning a move overseas, one important aspect to consider is tax planning. Sadly, a common misconception is that moving or living overseas immediately moves you out of the UK tax net, but this isn’t always the case, and careful planning and preparation is needed. We’re keen to make sure you enjoy your life as an expat. This guide is here to help.
What you’ll learn in this guide:
- The importance of your residence status – which determines whether you pay UK tax or not
- Time overseas – after five years as a non-resident some aspects of your UK tax planning may be less onerous
- Why where you work matters – any UK workdays could incur UK tax
- Pensions and investments as an expat – certain tax-free investments such as ISAs may not be an option but it’s generally possible to contribute to your UK pension, at least for up to five years
- Letting your UK property – if you hold onto your UK home there are some important tax rules to be aware of
- Inheritance Tax – living away from the UK still means you’re liable for Inheritance Tax so this is a vital step to plan for
- Retirement planning – if you’re expecting to retire back to the UK it’s useful to plan ahead by 12-18 months to avoid any nasty surprises as you re-enter the UK tax system | <urn:uuid:939a6baa-a2e5-4be0-8558-9ce3a81fe758> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thefrygroup.co.uk/resource/an-expats-guide-to-uk-tax/ | 2024-04-24T04:02:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.943476 | 320 |
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Demo Impressions
I haven’t played the Command and Conquer series since the original game on the first Playstation, so I was unsure of whether or not to be awed and surprised as the storyline for C&C 3 was beginning. Kane is back, the planet is dying, and this alien resource, called tiberium, is responsible for war, plague, and desolation. Tiberium is infesting the planet, and the Brotherhood of the Nod is trying to accelerate the growth of this resource, gather it and use it as a catalyst for the next phase of human evolution. However, the Brotherhood has been unusually quiet the last few years, with little activity going on. The GDI or Global Defense Initiative controls the regions of the planet that have remained unscathed by tiberium infestation. Their goal is to halt the spread of tiberium and eliminate Nod forces trying to harvest this resource.
The game starts you off with a quick tutorial to help you with basic commands and building structures, the typical RTS tutorial. The interface is easy to use, commands only appear when they can be used, so you won’t have unit formation buttons scattered across the screen if your building a power planet, etc. After the quick initiation, your treated to a briefing of the current state of the planet, and enemy activity, with real actors. I didn’t know they were still doing this! Real acting cutscenes in a video game aren’t that popular, especially nowadays. After the prologue, the Nod suddenly comes out of hiding, wreaking havoc all over the world. Your first task is to destroy several docking cranes in Northern Africa that are responsible for loading tiberium onto boats supplying Nod forces all over the world. You don’t start off only able to build weak units on the first mission, like the usual RTS, instead you’re given some of the most powerful units right as you start the mission, and you’re also able to build most of the GDI units in this mission. The only resource is tiberium, it’s responsible for building and unit cost production, however power is responsible for keeping your base running efficiently, if your base is running low on power, certain buildings won’t be able to function, so it’s also critical keep an eye on power consumption. After building a battalion of mammoth and predator tanks and sending them across the map, the mission was basically over. They destroyed everything in their path.
Watching the devastation these tanks can cause was mesmerizing. After equipping them with rail guns, they roll across the terrain and are able to fire missiles and guns simultaneously. Seeing infantry squads get blown up into the air, buildings come crashing down, and flying units exploding in mid air was very satisfying. The terrain and visual effects were very well done. The voice acting was great, and other sound effects in-game were excellent.
I was very impressed with the demo, I was able to run it at max settings with my Nvidia 6800 with a decent frame rate. The requirements aren’t too steep, but make sure you have the necessary amount of space, the demo alone took up 2.7 GB, and the full game will require more than 8 GB!
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Read MoreYeedle Davidovich is releasing a brand new single called Nekudah Tovah. The song was composed by Yonatan Bloy and Shloimele Krishevsky and arranged and produced by Yonatan Bloy. | <urn:uuid:c8f4f2db-c1f9-44b1-bf2a-f667fff0351b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thejewishinsights.com/wp/tag/yonatan-bloy/ | 2024-04-24T04:07:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.960589 | 129 |
As data controllers, GPs have fair processing responsibilities under the Data Protection Act and GDPR law 2018. This means ensuring that your personal confidential data (PCD) is handled in ways that are safe, transparent and what you would reasonably expect. Please find documents and links below.
The Lindum Medical Practice asks for personal information so that we can ensure that you receive the information, advice, treatment, care and support that is right for you. Information about you, the services you receive and your family background may be recorded either on paper or computer files as part of providing you with health and social care services.
We keep records of:
- Your name, address and date of birth
- Why you or someone on your behalf contacted us and when
- The type of services you were offered or received
- Relevant family information
Anyone who receives patient identifiable information from us is also under a legal duty to keep it confidential. We take the sensitivity of personal information very seriously in the Practice. Staff and contractors are required to respect their duty of confidentiality codes of conduct and through their contracts of employment.
Sharing of information is strictly governed by information protocols and the NHS Code of Practice for confidentiality. These are produced in accordance with legislation and good practice and are designed to protect your rights. We are also registered under the Data Protection Act. We abide by all statutory requirements regarding confidentiality, whilst following the appropriate guidelines for information security. All our staff are required to work within these guidelines.
From July 2014 NHS England and The Lindum Medical Practice will be reviewing patient information in order to identify those patients most likely to be admitted to hospital. This is a national scheme called “Avoiding Unplanned Admissions” where the intention is to pro-actively manage the care of those patients identified as being at most risk and pre-empt an unplanned admission to hospital. The information gathered is for the practice use only and only your GP and practice staff will be involved, however should you wish to opt out or if you have any questions, please leave your contact details at reception.
You can also read a copy of our Fair Processing Notice here.
If you have any other queries about how we use your information please contact our Data Protection Officer, Dr Eldridge. You can also speak to our Practice Manager, Marlene Jackson.
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The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) apprehended a shooting suspect on Friday after he resisted arrest and led police on a multi-town chase while drunk.
CCSO deputies were dispatched to 37 Oak Hill Rd. in Standish after the homeowner reported that a Jeep matching the description of a vehicle involved in a shooting was parked in her driveway.
Deputies found Aaron Difillipo, 52, unwilling to comply with their investigation.
Difillipo began using alcohol to swallow a large quantity of unidentified pills. He ignored an officer’s demands that he exit the vehicle.
Difillipo then circumvented police vehicles and spike strips, and drove down a side road, escaping from deputies.
CCSO deputies searching the area were unable to locate Difillipo, until one CCSO K-9 Deputy saw Difillipo driving on Route 113. He gave chase, but Difillipo drove onto Route 5/117 towards Cornish, and Maine State Police took over the pursuit.
State police were eventually able to apprehend Difillipo after forcing his car to stop using a PIT maneuver.
During the pursuit, a CCSO deputy sustained minor injuries when he was bitten by a dog from the department’s K-9 unit.
After the arrest, police discovered a crossbow, 30–30 shells, and liquor in plain view inside Difillipo’s car.
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The name Leo Amery is unlikely to strike a chord of familiarity with the younger generation today. Many of my own generation would also struggle to recall his seminal contributions. He had passed away in 1955 which would suggest that those born in the year he left this world would be card carrying senior citizens.
His historical legacy has been left to the domain of scholars and history buffs. But if were to take the trouble to uncover, it reveals some startling facts.
Here was a man who went to Harrow and was Winston Churchill's classmate -with much better academic credentials. He progressed to Oxford, had a superlatively brilliant record and then distinguished himself as a journalist of repute alongside his fellow Harrowian in the Boer War. Later on he moved over to active politics. Interestingly he did not join The Conservative Party as might have been expected from a public school/Oxford product but obscure party which does not exist for more than 10 years and expectedly merged with the Conservatives.
One of his many notable contributions is his contribution in the drafting of the Balfour Report which ultimately paved way for creation of the State of Israel. He then became a fierce opponent of his own Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when the latter was attempting to work out a treaty with Adolf Hitler. It was he who had uttered the famous words to Chamberlain in the House of Commons: "In the name of God, please go!!"
(Readers would recall the Opposition Leader Jaswant Singh uttering the same phrase in the No-Confidence Motion more than 70 years later!)
Churchill made him the Secretary of State for India which ,as it involved managing one sixth of humanity, was popularly perceived to be the second most powerful position in the world ( after the Viceroy). It was here that he displayed he true métier and took on his boss (and former school mate) by telling him that he understood India no more than George III understood the trans- Atlantic colonies!
This columnist must confess that the two main reasons he remembers Amery have nothing to do with scholarship. Amery was born in Gorakhpur, India-the columnist's mofussil town. Additionally Amery went to Balliol College where your columnist also spent some time.
However Amery also had to contend with a tragedy of collossal magnitude. His older son John who had followed him to Harrow started behaving in the most erratic manner which strained the family dynamic considerably. He eventually moved over to Nazi Germany from where he started making broadcasts against the Allies when the War was still in progress. Once the hostilities were over, he was subjected to a quick trial for treason (which lasted only a few minutes) and sentenced to death.
Many, including his family, believed that this was a miscarriage of justice as John was harbouring under psychosis. This columnist has examined public papers that are available and as a psychiatrist maintains that this probably was indeed a miscarriage of justice as mens rea was not properly established. However John was hanged within a matter of days.
Aggrieved as the family was, this did not deter in any way their faith in the British system. Leo Amery lost the elections in 1945 but remained active politically >His younger son Julian carved out a parliamentary career for himself and became a minister under MacMillan and later Alec Douglas Hume. The notable feature was that he espoused positions diametrically opposed to his father's! He was a very active member of the ultra right Monday Club which used to advocate white Britain policy and support for apartheid. Even a diehard Neanderthal like Maggie Thatcher found it difficult to confer on him ministerial responsibilities!
More important to stress here is that the British voters not once held his brother's execution against him nor was it an impediment of any sort.
I was tempted to recall all these facts when I read a news item today. Afzal Guru was hanged for his role in the attack on the Indian parliament. His son has distinguished himself in the Board examinations by being at the top of the merit list. In an interview, he has indicated that he would like to study at one of the premier medical institutions and become a doctor.
While there were snide remarks from the unenlightened more or less on expected lines, I think this is a very heartening development and I sincerely hope that the Hippocratic ethos (not visible very much these days) would help not just him but all concerned to eliminate the vestiges of bitterness.
The best service we can provide to this talented young boy is to leave him alone to get on with his life and steer his own course without any attempt to make a political capital or regard him as tainted for the guilt that he was never responsible for in the first place.
As people, we have tended to ascribe guilt to people through association even when it is clearly not merited. Equally we also project unmerited positivity on individuals just because their kins supposedly made contributions without imposing on them the need to establish their own credentials,
We can learn lessons from Westminister in this regard. Finally I should like to quote Ernest Gellner, perhaps the most erudite European political philosopher of this century:
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At The Optimum Health Clinic, our affiliated medical team provides diagnostic and treatment services alongside our psychology and nutrition teams. Our medical provision is led by Dr Anu Arasu and supported by her team of Dr Ailsa Care and Dr Amina Davison.
Dr Anu Arasu and her team at London Bioidentical Hormones have specialist experience working with complex chronic illnesses, and the interface of mind-body medicine. Their medical services include assessment and treatment for specific functional systems including gastrointestinal health and hormone balance.
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Important Things To Know As Hurricane Ian Makes Way To Florida!
For the latest information about Hurricane Ian, please visit the City’s website
Is the City distributing sandbags?
Most water intrusion is a result of wind-driven rain and not through rising water. We recommend using plastic sheeting instead of sandbags to keep water out of your home. To prevent water intrusion, place plastic sheets over windows and doors and secure with duct tape. Leave extra room at the bottom and secure with something heavy, like cinder blocks, bags of mulch or potting soil.
Orange County is distributing unfilled bags and instructions on how to fill, store and dispose of the sandbags at the following locations:
· Barnett Park 4801 W. Colonial Drive
· Bithlo Community Park 18501 Washington Avenue
· Downey Park 10107 Flowers Ave Avenue
· Meadow Woods Park 1751 Rhode Island Woods Circle
· West Orange Recreational Complex 309 Southwest West Crown Point Road
Sandbags are limited to 10 per household and will only be provided to residents of Orange County (a valid ID must be presented to County staff) and are available during normal park hours. Visit ocfl.net/storm for more information.
Are shelters available?
Shelters are managed by Orange County and when information is available, we will share it through our communications platforms.
Will garbage and recycling be picked up as scheduled?
At this time, residential and commercial trash, yard waste and recycling pick up is operating as normal.
Can I leave yard waste at the curb to be picked up?
No. The City of Orlando is asking residents to help us prevent flooding by not placing tree trimmings or any type of loose waste or yard debris at their curb. During a severe weather event, these items can clog storm drains which may result in flooding of property and/or the street.
Are downtown parking garages open for residents who want to park their cars there during the storm?
PARKING GARAGE FEES WAIVED:
The City of Orlando will waive parking fees for the following parking garages beginning at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28, for any resident who would like to park a car in a covered garage.
- Central Boulevard Garage, 53 West Central Boulevard
- Jefferson Street Garage, 62 West Jefferson Street
- Library Garage, 112 East Central Boulevard
- Orange County Administration Garage, 300 Liberty Avenue
**This is for passenger vehicles only and height restrictions must be adhered to. No oversized vehicles, campers, boats, trailers, watercraft, etc. will be permitted to enter.**
All cars should be removed by 8 p.m. Friday, September 30, dependent on weather and road conditions.
What is the city doing with our lake levels?
City crews are lowering levels at several lakes throughout the city. The process will take approximately two days to complete and lakes will be lowered 8-12 inches depending on need.
Will you be sweeping our streets in preparation for the storm?
City crews have also been out today taking proactive measures with expanded street sweeping. This will continue throughout the week as the city continues to monitor Ian’s projected path.
Is the city working to get homeless citizens off the streets prior to the storm?
Yes. Our partners and service providers will be on the streets to assist in getting homeless citizens into shelters prior to the storm.
What is the city doing to ensure the swans at Lake Eola Park are safe during the storm?
For other storms, the swans have found a safe place at the lake on their own.
How can I stay informed?
Residents can stay informed and get information on Hurricane Ian from the City of Orlando through Social Media at: · City of Orlando’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/cityoforlando o Spanish – www.facebook.com/ciudaddeorlando · City of Orlando’s Twitter account: @citybeautiful
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According to SAPO, Correio da Manhã reported that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who was not in Belém at the time, received an anonymous letter with a bullet inside, a mobile phone and a request for one million euros that should be sent to a bank account whose details were written in the letter.
In statements to CMTV, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa downplayed the situation, stressing that he received more "threats" when he had a TV show on RTP and TVI than in Belém.
"Who walks in this life and I've been walking for 30 years has this by the dozens. It happens and I don't give it much importance", he said.
The President of the Republic said that this type of situation happens sporadically, never having confirmed any seriousness.
"This happens sporadically and no serious situation has ever been confirmed. Normally there is a disturbance or it is not even possible to investigate what it is about because they are anonymous letters and, therefore, because I was out, the services decided to communicate this to the Judiciary Police", he said. | <urn:uuid:f9ef47ca-5256-4638-99b0-ce5546625cfc> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.theportugalnews.com/ar/nieuws/2022-11-17/the-president-receives-threatening-letter/72152 | 2024-04-24T04:08:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.984642 | 235 |
If i use my power doors and use a unaversal wire that they sale for power window switches then my remote wouldn,t work right?That is what I was referring to in my post....It's easier to swap it all in it's entirety. The later system is easier then the earliest system in that regard. Not an easy job but it's just pull and replace. Hopefully the dash is the same color. just move It over.
Earlier trucks usually had rpo systems in place so in some regard it has potential to be easier. At least if you just want to lay in something you make.
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*PU coating makes your hands cool in summer, the fiber is naturally very breathable. Those Gloves are suitable for any job and guaranteed a pleasure to wear.
*We believe gardening should be safe and fulfilling. Avoid skin wounds and dirty hands and nails when doing yard chores.
*These Gloves have bare hand sensitivity! Fishermen also love the grip on those slippery fish and the protection when changing hooks!
*Although our gloves are initially designed for gardening, many enjoy them during construction and restoration work, fishing trips and lobster diving! Our product comes with a full satisfaction promise if you are not happy with your product. Sometimes the color of bound edge might be different from picture, In size 10 for men Large and X-Large hands. | <urn:uuid:f468a664-d681-4aa8-adfb-92ec9a536fc5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.thespillcontainment.com/scproduct/hand-safety-pu-coated-cut-resistant-work-gloves/ | 2024-04-24T02:39:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.94046 | 149 |
Spiri† Shack takes pride & strives to provide you with the highest quality products possible. Please provide the best photo as you can because the end results are only as good as the photos you supply. It needs to be good clear photos with the highest resolution possible preferably 300 dpi, but I know phones are usually 72 dpi. We will contact you if we feel that the photo you provided will not have the best results. My goal is to provide you with great products you will be proud to have & display or give as gifts. Thanks & God Bless.
(Your Custom Graphics) ~ License Plate
Custom License Plate. Featuring a glossy finish which gives outstanding image results and the graphics are vibrant colors. License plates are the perfect complement to cars & trucks and a great new car or truck accessory that will catch people’s eye. This license plate is made of high-quality aluminum metal, unlike license plates made of plastic this plate will not get brittle or crack. The ink is fused into the aluminum metal, not like others that use vinyl, stickers & etc. One side has the graphics on it and the back side is brushed aluminum, so it should not rust or corrode. The graphics are printed on a flat aluminum license plate. These tags are not embossed, stamped & raised, some of the graphics are designed and are made to look like it. It has rounded corners and 4 pre-drilled holes for easy installation. They can last for years because we tested it, and it has been on their vehicle for years with little to no fade. If left in direct sunlight for a long amount of time there will be some fading to start over time. They make great gifts on any occasion for your family & friends or great way to promote a company name & business. It is a creative way to personalize your vehicle or display as a keepsake.
.032 gauge thickness
These are novelty plates, made for decoration purposes only. They are NOT a official legal license plate for any of the states and should not be used as so.
– You are responsible for uploading an image with high quality. I (Spirit Shack) will not take responsibility for an image printing with low resolution or pixelated if the image you provide is of low quality.
– By purchasing and uploading an image You assume all risks, copyrights and responsibilities of making this purchase. Spirit Shack assumes no responsibility for the content or image uploaded. As stated in Disclaimer on Store page: No political, alcoholic beverages, vulgar, hatred/racism, or against Gods word. We have the right to refuse.
Color may slightly vary due to photographic lighting sources or your screen/monitor settings.
No Returns on this item: We can’t accept returns or any exchanges due to the nature of this item (your customization). So all sales are final.
Designed, Printed and Packaged with care at my place in Oklahoma.
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