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When I first got into fitness some 25 years ago, there were nothing like as many options as there are now. I do remember doing one of Cindy Crawford’s original exercise videos (it was awful) and cycling everywhere.
Nowadays though, there are so many choices if you want to get more active but you don’t want to, or can’t afford to, join a gym or attend classes.
Step forward YouTube! If you know where to look, you can access thousands of online exercise DVDs so you never need to pay for anything (apart from your broadband connection of course) or leave the comfort of your own home.
The videos vary greatly in quality of course – from really slick, professionally produced clips to the rather more amateur, and length varies too. Some of the moves and programmes will be demonstrated very well, others will be downright dangerous – but intelligent adults need to work this out by themselves, recognising that free stuff doesn’t come with the same checks and balances you can expect if you pay for gym memberships, classes or personal training.
It’s important to exercise whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes because exercise increases your sensitivity to insulin, and it reduces the risk of cardio vascular disease (people with diabetes have an increased risk of CV disease).
Here are some of our seven of our favourite free online work-outs:
- Five-minute Pop Sugar arms work-out. Feel the burn with this mini arm work-out.
- Barre technique 15-minute leg work-out. There’s a bit of a buzz around at the moment about ballet-type exercises for stretching and toning. This might not appeal to the male audience, but I promise you it is proper hard work so try it with an open mind.
- The BodyCoach aka Joe Wicks promotes high-intensity interval training for his fat loss programme and he has a number of HIIT programmes to follow on YouTube. Here is one of them.
- There’s also buzz around super slow weight training. Doug McGuff’s 12-15 minute workout is an example of slow weight training.
- GymRa’s total body workout takes 30 minutes and doesn’t require any equipment.
- If you can cope with the overwhelming enthusiasm of the American presenters, PopSugar’s 30-minute bodyweight bootcamp is a great work-out that requires no equipment either.
- If you want a beginner’s weights workout, try this one by HASfit. It’s only 15 minutes and it works the whole body. You can progress this by increasing the weight limit you use.
It’s a good idea to watch each film through before starting so you have an idea of what to expect and how much space you will need. If space is an issue, here’s a final thought for you… Coss Marte is a one-time criminal who managed to lose 71lbs (just over five stone) while locked up by creating a work-out in his 9’ by 6’ prison cell.
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But for my own, I prefer to use Arduino with up to 10 pedals input))) Just add for each additional pedal one more stereo Jack and wires.
If anybody think to try Wah Pedal, this solution can work))) Non serious.. but fun
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Forgot to say, that if you already have guitar Volume pedal, also enough project on Arduino and Teensy to convert it into MIDI.
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(AFTER ALL, THEY SAY THE BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE)
One of the most common phrases that I hear when I tell folks that I am a horror enthusiast is “I don’t mind horror but I can’t watch Saw.” If the Saw movies were a spice they would be one with a polarizing reputation like a ghost pepper. Spiral is self-aware of its own harsh nature and adds a cream of the crop cast to sweeten the deal with the Ghost Pepper Aioli of the series.
Personally, I like Saw. I find its grimey aesthetic appealing. I find myself enthralled with the intelligence and charisma of the villains in these movies as they justify their motives to their victims and adversaries. I enjoy the over-the-top gore entertaining and am impressed with how it pushes the boundaries of mainstream horror. I wouldn’t say that these are my favorite horror flicks or a good place to start a conversation about the genre, but I respect the work.
It’s always refreshing to see actors in roles that they are personally excited about. Chris Rock really went out of his way for Spiral at the film’s conception as he personally pitched it to Lion’s Gate. Rock offers an element of dark comedy that compliments the story’s grim subject matter. We are introduced to his character as he delivers a hilarious antidote about Forrest Gump that would fit perfectly in his next Netflix standup special. The Chemistry between Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, who plays his father, is incredible and left me wanting more.
Don’t worry, it’s not all fun and games here. The comedic elements in Spiral are actually pretty subtle and strategically placed. There is plenty of downright serious dialogue, mystique, and conflict in this story. The whole thing is actually a bit jolting and moves really quickly like an episode of Ozark or Breaking Bad.
Spiral is an espresso-driven cop story that takes place in the Saw universe. As someone who isn’t very invested in that universe, I found it to be one of the more enjoyable installments. Even though the film is crafted by Darren Lynn, the same director that made Saw 2, 3, and 4, this picture offers a new vision that is less scary but just as exciting as the rest of the films.
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He’s best known as the Nashville-based Hip Hop/Indie Pop emcee Spoken Nerd, but this isn’t your typical rap project. He rhymes playfully at times, while sometimes playfully singing and/or rapping, he juxtaposes his style with real-life situations and subject matter. With six full-length albums into his career, the rapper has built a healthy catalog of music, which doesn’t include the number of EPs and singles released. | <urn:uuid:f2691dc8-7064-44a9-b6f3-3ecbf2957b11> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://ghettoblastermagazine.com/film/spiral-filmology-with-spoken-nerd/ | 2022-01-27T03:04:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.967512 | 600 |
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With the continued demise of print journalism, art publications seem to be doing just fine, thankyouverymuch. A new niche mag makes its debut practically every day. True to form, there’s one more to add to the list today.
Helmed by Pop’s former editor-in-chief, Dasha Zhukova, Garage looks like a carefully curated zine, studiously low-budget and vaguely Soviet in design. Named after Zhukova’s art space in Moscow and scheduled to come out during New York Fashion Week, Garage is a blend of art of fashion, featuring collaborations between renegade figures in both worlds.
It’s all the rage these days to release an issue with multiple cover images, and far be it from Garage to buck the trend. One of its three debut covers shows a Hedi Slimane photo of a nude female pelvis strategically covered by a peel-off Damien Hirst butterfly sticker. Another cover is a creepy dollhouse dreamed up by artist Dinos Chapman and photographer Nick Knight, featuring a puppet version of model Lily Donaldson. Rounding out the trifecta is a smiley-face graphic by artist Richard Prince, an artistic rendering of the Kool-Aid Man without his frosty red pitcher of a body.
Inside, one of the fashion stories is made entirely out of food. An Alexander McQueen dress is constructed from romaine lettuce, a Prada dress from citrus and a Moncler coat from anchovies.
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The Reader-Response Theorist, Stanley Fish (b. 1938), attempts to situate the reading process in a broader, institutional context. Fish’s earlier work, focusing on the reader’s experience of literary texts, included an important study of Milton, Surprised by Sin: The Reader in “Paradise Lost” (1967), and Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (1972). His essay Interpreting the Variorum (1976) introduced his concept of “interpretive communities,” a concept explored more fully in his book Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (1980),1 where he addresses the important question of the role of institutions, and in particular the literary institution, in the construction of meaning.
Fish’s essay Interpreting the Variorum takes its title and point of departure from the then recently published “Variorum” edition (containing variant textual versions) of the poems of John Milton.2 Fish suggests that the controversies over meaning in Milton’s sonnets are not “meant to be solved but to be experienced” and that “any procedure that attempts to determine which of a number of readings is correct will necessarily fail.” For example, noting that certain commentators draw opposing conclusions from exactly the same evidence, Fish warns that any analyses generated by the assumption that meaning is embedded in the text itself “will always point in as many directions as there are interpreters.” He urges that we need a “new set of questions based on new assumptions.” In each of the disputes analyzed by Fish, he points out that the responsibility for judgment and interpretation is transferred from the text to its readers: the meaning of the lines at stake coincides with the experience of the readers. Meaning is not somehow contained in the text but is created within the reader’s experience.
A formalist analysis, which locates meaning within the forms and verbal structure of the text itself, will ignore the reader’s experience of the text, which is temporal and contains modifications and shifts of viewpoint. The central assumption of formalist analysis to which Fish stands opposed is that “there is a sense, that it is embedded or encoded in the text, and that it can be taken in at a single glance.” Fish calls these assumptions “positivist, holistic, and spatial.” The goal of such analysis is “to settle on a meaning,” to step back from the text, and then to put together or calculate “the discrete units of significance it contains.” Fish’s objection to such an approach is that it takes the text as a self-sufficient entity, and ignores or devalues the reader’s activities. What we should be describing, he believes, is “the structure of the reader’s experience rather than any structures available on the page.” The reader’s activities should be “the center of attention, where they are regarded not as leading to meaning but as having meaning.” These activities, which include the making and revising of many kinds of decisions, are already interpretative; hence a description of them will be an interpretation. Fish points out that his approach differs from the formalist methods primarily through its emphasis on the temporal dimension of the reading process and the creation of meanings.
Fish acknowledges that the intended reader he has in mind is the “reader whose education, opinions, concerns, linguistic competences . . . make him capable of having the experience the author wished to provide.” Notwithstanding Fish’s insistence that it is the reader’s experience of the text that creates meaning (or, in his terminology, has meaning), he views this meaning as always constrained by the central goal of readers: “the efforts of readers are always efforts to discern and therefore to realize (in the sense of becoming) an author’s intention.” The difference between Fish’s model of reading and traditional intentional models is that whereas those earlier models saw the grasping of an author’s purpose as a “single act,” Fish sees this as “the succession of acts readers perform in the continuing assumption that they are dealing with intentional beings.” Fish equates this understanding of an author’s intention with “all the activities which make up . . . the structure of the reader’s experience.” Hence, according to Fish, if we describe these activities of the reader, or the structure of the reader’s experience, we will also be describing the structure of the author’s intention. So Fish’s overall thesis, in his own words, is: “that the form of the reader’s experience, formal units, and the structure of intention are one, that they come into view simultaneously.”
Fish recognizes a potential problem here: if interpretative acts are the source of forms and of the intentions we ascribe to an author, what is to prevent an endless relativism, where there are as many interpretations as there are readers? In response to this problem, Fish argues that readers, or at least competent readers, belong to “interpretive communities” which are “made up of those who share interpretive strategies not for reading (in the conventional sense) but for writing texts, for constituting their properties and assigning their intentions.” These strategies, he points out, exist prior to the act of reading and therefore “determine the shape of what is read.”
In his book Is There a Text in this Class? (containing Fish’s widely anthologized essay of the same title), Fish argues that what constrains interpretation is not fixed meanings in a linguistic system but the practices and assumptions of an institution. It is not the linguistic system that gives determinacy to the meaning of an utterance but rather the context of the utterance. Fish offers an anecdote about a student who asked a professor, one of his colleagues, before taking his course: “Is there a text in this class?” The professor heard this utterance in one context, assuming the question to be an inquiry about the textbook that might be required for his class. The student’s question, however, referred to the concept of textuality as advanced in some modern literary theory. Fish uses this example to show that his colleague, having initially heard the question in one context (which includes whatever is associated with “the first day of class”), was obliged to modify this context (to embrace the concerns of modern literary theory) in order to understand the utterance (ITC, 309–311). His point is that “it is impossible even to think of a sentence independently of its context,” and that our making sense of an utterance and our identifying of its context occur simultaneously: we do not, as M. H. Abrams and E. D. Hirsch imply, first scrutinize an utterance and then give it meaning (ITC, 313). We hear an utterance as already embedded within, not prior to determining, a knowledge of its purposes and interests (ITC, 310).
Fish’s overall account is a sensible and balanced counter to the formalists who claim that the text is an object in its own right and that it somehow possesses stable meaning independently of any reader. The notion of intersubjectivity on which Fish’s idea of “interpretive communities” rests goes back of course at least as far as Hegel; it is developed by neo-Hegelian philosophers, hermeneutic scholars, and sociologists, as well as thinkers such as Nietzsche and Bergson. Fish is effectively applying a wellknown and previously extensively articulated insight to the act of reading. The same applies to his claim that facts do not exist independently of, or prior to, the interpretations and viewpoints that construct them as such. There are some problems with Fish’s account: in his model of the reading process, Fish insists that this process of constructing or “writing” the text is equivalent to grasping, in a temporal fashion, the author’s intention, which is itself a product of interpretation. The problem here, as Fish effectively acknowledges, is that the text disappears. Whereas for the formalists the text was a stable object, for Fish there is nothing beyond intersubjective agreement, and the text is reduced to merely the area of overlap of subjective responses. The problem here is that the process of interaction between text and reader is elided: where Iser saw reading as a dialectical interaction between a “virtual” text and an implied reader, Fish removes even that virtual status, reducing textuality to an effect of intersubjectivity.
Fish employs a naive notion of objectivity as somehow entirely independent of subjectivity. But philosophers for more than a century have been arguing that objectivity and subjectivity arise in the same, mutually constructive, process. Fish fails, moreover, to distinguish degrees of objectivity, whereby we might agree that certain “factual” elements of the text are less open to interpretation, or open to a far smaller range of interpretation, than, say, lines or phrases or themes in a poem which are overtly controversial. In this way we could talk about an objectivity which we understood to be constructed but which offered certain markers or foundations for such construction, rather than blandly saying that all objects are of equal status regarding the degree of intersubjective construction that constitutes them. The difficulty with Fish’s procedure is that it freezes our analytical power within the abstract insight that all objectivity is the product of collective subjectivity: once we acknowledge this, we still have to make distinctions and evaluations of the vast variety of “objects.”
Fish’s procedure sensibly states what is undeniably true: we bring our assumptions (learned from our community) to bear on what we see “in” a literary text: but if this is true for all literary texts, it remains frozen as a general insight and does not furnish a basis from which to analyze the ways in which a particular work might actively direct our response as readers. Different texts obviously constrain and direct readers’ responses in different ways, and simply to say that all of the strategies of the text are products of interpretation does not help us in describing the process of such constrainment and direction. Indeed, Fish does not explain how our mere “experience” of a work can have meaning (his phrase); how does this experience enter a structure of signification? It might also be objected that Fish invokes a naive, pre-Kantian, empiricism whereby the notion of “experience” is blandly opposed to thought and conceptuality: each element in a reader’s experience is somehow “legitimate” simply because it is experience (ITC, 207–209). Fish claims that a formalist analysis is incapable of analyzing an experiential, temporal process. But his own description of this temporal process is couched in terms that are (as Bergson might observe) inescapably spatial: he talks of a “sequence” where the reader “structures” the “field” he “inhabits” and is then asked to “restructure” it (ITC, 207–209). Each of the enquoted words is spatial, and Fish’s analyses follow the reader’s response in a linear, sequential manner. Notwithstanding Fish’s claim that “[e]verything depends on the temporal dimension,” he offers almost no analysis of this dimension of the reader’s response; his model in some ways rehearses the old intentional model of reading within an abstractly conceived temporality.
1. Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1980). This book contains the revised version of “Interpreting the Variorum” which is cited in the current chapter. Hereafter cited as ITC.
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First Generation to PhD: People, Programs, and Policies on the Path
From Jeff Layne
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science,
Dr. Michelle Neyman Morris brings us on her journey from a first-generation college student to earning her PhD and navigating a path to success. Learn about the privilege, gratitude and mindful practices that helped her shape her journey. From not wanting to leave home to go to college to the life lessons learned about biases and shifting identities to skills development and meeting the people, programs, and policies along her path, Dr. Morris shares her insight into her journey in the world of higher education.
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Paderu is a sleepy little town in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. It essentially consists of a solitary winding road with quaint produce shops and tiny grocery stores dotted all along it. Cows languidly compete with rickety auto rickshaws for the right of way, mooing discontentedly when one appears into sight. Sari-clad women haggle noisily with shop owners, as the men smoke beedis and watch the world go by. Among all this, there’s a figure that stands out from the rest. It’s young Frenchwoman Christelle Ledroit, trying to blend into the crowd with a bright red salwaar kameez.
“It helps in connecting with the locals if you dress in Indian clothes”, she says, hailing an auto rickshaw for us. “ And I think the patterns are really pretty.” She seems to have connected with the locals alright. She belts out instructions to the auto driver in fluent Telugu, and several passersby hail her with wide smiles and waves as we drive past.
Christelle has been living in Paderu for the last two years. She arrived here from England in 2011, fresh after an Master’s in Biodiversity Survey from Sussex University. “India is exceptionally rich in its biodiversity” she says when asked why she picked India, a place so far away from home. “And also, it helped that my boyfriend was Indian.” She’d looked at relevant jobs in her field, and had heard of the Naandi foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Anji Reddy, the founder of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. They offered her a field role that involved apiculture – something she’d always been passionate about. “Bees are absolutely critical to the environment, and the world is slowly waking up to this fact. So I didn’t think twice when I was offered this role.”, she says. “And I didn’t really living in a small village. I grew up on a farm in France. And my life here is a fair bit healthier and safer than the big city”, she laughs, welcoming us into her house.
She lives alone in a compact 2 bedroom home at the edge of town, overlooking the edge of a rugged cliff. Unlike her neighbouring dwellings, it is a concrete structure with an attached bathroom. However, there are other problems. The power is intermittent at best, she says, pointing at the large collection of candles that is neatly stacked into a shelf. And there’s no internet, she laments. “I get a hard drive full of movies whenever I go to Hyderabad”.
Christelle’s day in Paderu begins early. She gets up as the sun streams in through the meshed windows, designed to keep out the mosquitoes that are endemic in the area. Soon her translator turns up on his motorbike and she sets off, riding pillion, with us following in a car. “I needed the translator when I first came here. The people around this area are tribals who are very wary of outsiders. They don’t particularly stick to a particular dialect of Telugu either, they are all varied, sometimes even a healthy dose of Oriya thrown in for good measure!” The area is ruggedly picturesque, with coffee plantations dotting the countryside, but the grim signs of poverty are unmistakable. The houses are little more than mud huts, connectivity to the village is restricted to one mud road, and there are no quality health care centers nearby.
We reach a field and immediately a cluster of children gather around us, eyeing us curiously. We stride up to a red and white house with a tin roof. “This was one of the first few houses that we provided with a bee hive”, explains Christelle, deftly avoiding the puddles that the monsoon rains have left in the area. Naandi had initially run the project with 12 farmers across 5 villages. They provided the farmers with trainings and sessions on proper beekeeping practices. Things were hard initially. Only one beekeeper from the initial set was able to capture a colony and house the bees successfully in her hive. The other bees absconded, a trait not unusual among Indian bees. Christelle began focusing on greater trainings for the bee farmers. She founded bee farming communities where the members had regular discussions. She says she was pleasantly surprised by how enthusiastic the response was, especially among women. “It was great to see rural Indian women of all ages come together, united by their interest in apiculture.”
Laxmi was one of those first dozen farmers to have taken to beekeeping. She meekly approaches us and displays her beehives. She expertly handles the hive that has been built by local carpenters to suit the Indian climate. The bees buzzing around her seem menacing, but she hardly bats an eyelid. “I used to be afraid of the bees earlier, but now they don’t bother me at all”, she says.
“It’s a great project for this area”, says Christelle. “Apart from empowering rural tribal women with an additional scope of income, it’s also helps to rebuild the ecosystem due to the pollination.”
We get invited to attend one of the meetings. Around 10 bee farmers are patiently seated around a tarpaulin sheet placed in front of a large house. They all break into large smiles when they see Christelle approach. The mood at the gathering is enthusiastically studious, something my school teachers would’ve been proud of. Christelle begins expounding on the role of honey bees in the environment. She uses colourful prints and graphics and speaks confidently in Telugu. Later, the attendees talk shop over cups of chai.
“It wasn’t easy when I first got here. The first month was a bit of a rude shock.”, she says over dinner at her place. We have spread out newspapers on the floor and are eating traditional Andhra fare – rice and rasam. “It was hard adjusting to life in Paderu. People tended to stare at you all the time, and commonplace things become hard if you’re a woman, even more so if you are an outsider. It was difficult to convince the farmers that I’d really come all this way to talk about bee farming!”, she laughs, digging into her rice with her hands. “But things changed for the better. The people here have been really supportive. When they realized I was only trying to help out, everyone rallied around.”
The lights suddenly go off and Paderu slips into darkness. It’s a power cut. We fetch a little lamp and carefully make our way to the terrace. “Nature has such a delicate balance, you know”, says Christelle, perched on the terrace wall. “You’re so removed from that realization if you live in a city. Here you see things first hand. There’s a spate of heavy rains and entire crops are washed away, the bees migrate. Living in a village like this, feeling the fresh air, working on the land, it keeps you grounded. It’s magical.” The night sky twinkles back at her in agreement. | <urn:uuid:f0dfd119-ae8e-46ea-aad6-5d3015d649e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://officechai.com/stories/apiculture-in-india/ | 2022-01-27T03:06:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.972825 | 1,561 |
No need to alter electoral college, which has worked for 200-plus years
I recently read that New York was one of the states that has signed on to have our electoral delegates vote for the popular vote winner, nationally. While this may sound good on the surface, it seems to me to be a knee-jerk reaction to the last presidential election.
Does this mean the voters of New York, should they vote for the person who loses the popular vote nationally, will be ignored? Also, what happens when the national vote winner is someone who the voters of New York and the political party holding office all oppose?
This is just another example of the elitists in Albany taking power away from the citizens of this state and placing it in the hand of those few who believe they know what is best for us, since they are far more intelligent than we are.
The electoral college has worked for 200-plus years and I for one do not believe those people in Albany or Washington D.C. can, or will come up with a better process. | <urn:uuid:0eafc03c-8eb9-4f2f-99ff-568e918801bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://orleanshub.com/no-need-to-alter-electoral-college-which-has-worked-for-200-plus-years/ | 2022-01-27T03:36:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.974646 | 226 |
This is for ladies only (unless you are a guy who wants to share health information with the ladies in your life!)
In general, I feel women end up dealing with a lot more toxins in their life, because we are constantly trying to figure out how to control our menstrual cycles, take pain away, and smell/look beautiful! Not that guys don’t deal with some of the same concerns, but I argue that women are much more prone to apply creams, take pills, and or seek beauty treatments.
Because of our tendency to put on a variety of chemicals, our bodies are constantly trying to eliminate toxins and cleanse themselves.
And you may be wondering, “OK, so our body eliminates toxins, so why are they so harmful??” Well, Toxins are poisonous to our bodies. Our bodies are AWESOME and can eliminate a lot of harmful things that get into our cells, but when we overwork our system, we open ourselves to a whole host of problems. Some of the problems include, cancer, sickness, lethargy, early aging, pain, stress, and an overall lack of vitality and wellness
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On completing this course, participants should be able to apply the Regulations on machinery and NEK EN 60204-1:2018 (Safety of machinery) in their daily work situations, with particular emphasis on risk evaluation, documentation and planning work related to electric machinery.
Consultative engineers, administrators, electrical engineers, electricians, automation technicians and machinery manufacturers.
Kurs zawiera te przedmioty
- The Machinery Regulations (FOR 2009-05-20 nr 544: Regulations on Machinery)
- Introduction: Where do the Regulations apply and to which machinery?
- Requirements related to injury to life and health sustained from building and construction work, conformity assessment, labelling etc. of machinery
- Enclosure I
- Enclosure II
- Enclosure IV
- Enclosure VI
- Enclosure VII
- Enclosure VIII
- NEK EN 60204-1:2018 Safety of Machinery – Electrical equipment in machinery
-- Part 1: General requirements
- Correspondance with other directives, regulations and norms
- Overlap between the Regulations on Machinery and Regulations on Electrical low-voltage installations
- Contents of the norm
- Physical environment
- Electrical supply
- Warning signs, reference marking
- Technical documentation
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HCBL ALL-STAR GAME | NORTH 7, SOUTH 2
The North Fork Ospreys all stars and their manager wanted to take a group photo, but they were short one. So, they waited patiently while their on-field leader, Austin Miller, was being interviewed for a webcast. When Miller was done with the interview, he picked up his newly won prize, an engraved bat, and trotted over to his waiting teammates, who happily cheered and embraced him.
It was a warm welcome for the most valuable player of the 2014 Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game.
The question of who would be named the MVP was the subject of discussion and debate during Saturday night’s game. A strong case could have been made for the honor to go to a pitcher or two, which would have made the presentation of a bat ironic. But Miller’s selection solved that. After the game, the league president, Brett Mauser, made the announcement and handed the bat to Miller.
Miller said he had never been named an all-star MVP before and was caught by surprise.
“It’s a great honor,” said the Ospreys captain.
The right fielder reached base from all three of his plate appearances for the North in its 7-2 defeat of the South on the Ospreys’ home field, Jean W. Cochran Park in Peconic. Miller reached base on an error, scored a run, singled in a run, and was hit by a pitch, all under the watchful eyes of radar-gun-wielding professional scouts sitting behind the backstop.
The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Butler University product has been enjoying quite a second season with the Ospreys. He ranks eighth in the league with a .323 batting average and has stolen 10 bases.
“He’s great,” said Bill Ianniciello, the manager of the defending league champion Ospreys who ran the North team. “He does everything.”
For all of Miller’s efforts, the North’s standout pitching was the story of the game. After the Town of Southold’s supervisor, Scott Russell, threw out the ceremonial first pitch, it was the turn of the North’s pitchers to show what they had.
During one stretch from the first inning to the fifth, five North pitchers — Jake Cousins, Brenton Arriaga, Corbin Burnes, Trent Astle and Matt Weissheier — retired 12 consecutive batters before Trevor Abrams drew a walk. Arriaga of the Shelter Island Bucks and Burnes of the Riverhead Tomcats struck out the three batters they each faced in successive innings.
Altogether, nine North pitchers, pitching one inning each, allowed three hits, three walks, struck out 13 and hit a batter while being backed by clean defense.
“We had nine guys that went out there and shoved tonight,” Burnes said. “Everybody was strong. I think the plan for most guys tonight was to come out and just chuck it.”
The players for the game, selected by the managers, are recognized as the league’s best, but even all stars are human. To err is human, and the South committed seven errors, including five in one inning.
The Ospreys starter, Cousins, got the win, thanks to a spell of opportunism that saw the North score three runs in the second inning without the benefit of a hit. It didn’t need a hit, thanks to a remarkable succession of five errors.
As a matter of fact, the North didn’t get its first hit until the third when Miller socked a run-scoring single under the blue-orange sky of a setting sun. That made it 4-1, equaling the final score of last year’s mid-summer classic, also won by the North.
Brad Witkowski of the Ospreys was the only player in the game to get two hits. One of them was a single that made the score 7-1 in the seventh.
Trevor Freeman and Juan Soriano, both of the Shelter Island Bucks, singled in a run apiece.
Mike Donadio, the Tomcats center fielder who leads the league in batting average (.371) and is second in runs batted in (20), referred to it as “just a game like every other game.” He said, “The main thing is we were just trying to have fun.”
The South’s runs were scored on a single by Dan Rizzie and a double by Nolan Meadows.
Players from the Bucks, the Ospreys and the Tomcats played for the North. The South was represented by the Montauk Mustangs, the Sag Harbor Whalers, the Southampton Breakers and the Westhampton Aviators.
“This is the best of the best out here and it’s just great to be playing with all of them,” said Miller.
Ianniciello and his counterpart, Sag Harbor manager Danny Benedetti, achieved the considerable logistical task of getting all 55 players in the game.
It was a big night for the college players, who hope to extend their careers into the professional ranks. Playing in front of so many eyeballs is nothing new to them, though.
“There’s a little pressure on, but this is what we came here to do,” Witkowski said. “We came here to get showcased and have fun and get at-bats. It’s definitely a game to remember.”
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Prostitution and solicitation are considered sex crimes in Orange County, and these offenses can have life-changing consequences for convicted individuals. Protect your rights immediately and everything you’ve worked for by contacting the experienced prostitution lawyer at Seyb Law Group today.
In addition to carrying a possible jail sentence and a significant fine, a prostitution conviction can destroy your reputation, and the social stigma associated with such a crime can result in job loss and missed employment opportunities, or could even ruin your relationships with friends and family.
Unfortunately, because of the strong social views that surround the crime of prostitution and other sex crimes, you could face unfair treatment and judgment before you are even tried for the crime or convicted of any wrongdoing.
Contact our knowledgeable Orange County criminal defense attorneys at Seyb Law Group today to schedule your free initial consultation.
ORANGE COUNTY PROSTITUTION LAWYER
Despite the fact that prostitution typically involves an agreement between two people, engaging in, agreeing to engage in, or asking another person to engage in an act of prostitution is still considered a sex crime under Orange County law, and is therefore punished harshly.
Even if you simply agree to take part in an act of prostitution, regardless of whether the act actually occurs, you could face charges for prostitution, but only if it can be proven that you meant to follow through with the act.
The proof is an important part of any criminal case, but in a prostitution or solicitation case, where the evidence presented by the prosecution is often untrustworthy or the result of entrapment or other unlawful conduct by the police, it is more important than ever for the prosecution to be held to its requisite burden of proof.
The punishment associated with an Orange County prostitution conviction is severe, possibly including a county jail sentence, costly fines, driver’s license suspension, and sex offender registration requirements.
If you have been charged with this crime, you need a skilled prostitution lawyer on your side who can defend you against these charges and help you avoid a conviction that could follow you for the rest of your life.
Our prostitution lawyers at Seyb Law Group have more than 60 years of combined criminal defense experience and we are intimately familiar with the inner workings of the Orange County criminal justice system. We have a clear understanding of the law as it applies to your case and we will fight tirelessly to protect your rights and help you get the best possible outcome in your Orange County prostitution case.
PROSTITUTION AND SOLICITATION
Prostitution is the crime of receiving payment in the form of money or something else of value in return for any sexual act, including sexual intercourse, while solicitation is the act of offering to engage in an act of prostitution. Pandering, more commonly known as “pimping,” is the facilitation or provision of prostitution in the arrangement of a sex act with a paying customer; in other words, soliciting acts of prostitution on behalf of another person.
The unlawful act of prostitution or solicitation can occur in obvious places, such as on street corners, or in more subtle ways, through phone services for escorts and call girls, or even in massage parlors. Some examples of situations that could constitute the crime of prostitution or solicitation in Orange County include the following:
- A woman allowing a man to fondle her breasts in exchange for money
- A police officer accepting a woman’s offer to have sex in return for not writing her a ticket
- A man approaching a woman in a bar and offering her $100 for sex
- A man responding to an online ad for call services
California Prostitution Penal Code § 647(b) PC
California Penal Code § 647(b) PC is the law against prostitution and solicitation in Orange County, defining prostitution as the exchange of money or other consideration (such as goods or services) for sex acts or lewd conduct.
For the purposes of this law, “lewd” conduct is defined as any act that involves touching the genitals, buttocks, or female breast of another person for the specific purpose of sexual arousal or gratification. PC § 647(b) applies to both the prostitute and the customer and applies even if the proposed conduct never takes place, thereby making it illegal for anyone 18 or older to:
- Pay or accept money or something else of value in exchange for a sexual act (prostitution),
- Offer to engage in an act of prostitution (solicitation), or
- Agree to engage in the act of prostitution.
The difference between the two latter crimes is that the person who solicits a sex act or lewd conduct can be charged with offering to engage in prostitution, while the person who accepts the offer can be charged with agreeing to engage in an act of prostitution. Children under the age of 18 cannot legally be charged with the crime of prostitution under Orange County law.
They would instead be considered a “commercially sexually exploited child,” per Senate Bill 1322, which was signed into law in 2016.
There are other Orange County sex crimes related to, but separate from, the crime of prostitution, which the prosecutor in your case could also decide to pursue charges for, including PC § 266h PC and 266i – pimping and pandering, PC § 653.23 – supervising or aiding a prostitute, PC § 653.22 – loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, PC § 315 – keeping a house of prostitution, and PC § 261 – rape.
PENALTIES FOR A PROSTITUTION CONVICTION IN ORANGE COUNTY
Under PC § 647(b), the crimes of prostitution and solicitation are misdemeanor offenses and for a first offense, a conviction could result in a fine of up to $1,000 and/or up-to six months in the county jail, plus probation and counseling. However, because prostitution and solicitation are “priorable” offenses, the punishment for these sex crimes increases with each subsequent conviction.
For a second offense, a conviction could result in a mandatory minimum of 45 days in county jail, while a third or subsequent offense could result in a mandatory minimum of 90 days in county jail.
There are certain sentencing enhancements associated with the crimes of prostitution and solicitation in Orange County, and if you were in a vehicle or within 1,000 feet of a residence at the time the crime took place, you could face additional penalties, such as a driver’s license suspension for up to 30 days or a restricted driver’s license for up to six months.
Orange County Sex Offender Registration Requirements
Unlike many other sex crimes, prostitution and solicitation convictions do not trigger automatic sex offender registration. However, the judge assigned to your case has the discretion to order you to register as a sex offender with local authorities if you are convicted of the crime of prostitution or solicitation and the crime in question is “the result of sexual compulsion or for purposes of sexual gratification,” which could apply to almost any solicitation conviction.
ORANGE COUNTY PROSTITUTION DEFENSE
The Orange County court system takes a tough stance on sex crimes, and as such, the crime of prostitution is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. As in any criminal case, the prosecution in your prostitution or solicitation case bears the burden of proving the crime and in order to get a conviction in your Orange County prostitution case, the prosecutor will have to show that you either:
- Engaged in an act of prostitution,
- Solicited an act of prostitution, or
- Agreed to engage in an act of prostitution.
Depending on the specific behavior charged in your case, the prosecution will have to prove the following “elements” of the prostitution or solicitation crime beyond a reasonable doubt:
Engaged in an act of prostitution
- You willfully engaged in sexual intercourse or a lewd action with another person,
- In exchange for money or another form of compensation.
Solicited an act of prostitution
- You requested that another person engage in an act of prostitution, and
- You intended to engage in an act of prostitution with that person.
Agreed to engage in an act of prostitution
- You agreed to engage in an act of prostitution with another person,
- You intended to follow through with the act of prostitution, and
- In addition to agreeing, you did something to further the commission of the act of prostitution (i.e., making the requested payment, driving to the agreed-upon location, or withdrawing money from an ATM to pay the other person)
If your attorney is able to challenge the prosecution’s evidence and create doubt in the minds of the judge and jury that you actually committed the crime, the prosecutor may not be able to meet the burden of proof required to get lawful prostitution or solicitation conviction.
Best Defense Strategies in Orange County Prostitution Cases
Facing prostitution or solicitation charges in Orange County can be stressful and confusing and it is easy to feel like the odds are stacked against you in such cases.
However, it is important to remember that even when facing criminal charges, you still have rights, one of the most important being the right to retain legal counsel to defend you against these charges.
With an experienced criminal defense attorney on your side, you can craft a solid defense that proposes a different version of events than the prosecution claims and fight the charges against you. Some possible defenses to use in an Orange County prostitution or solicitation case include the following:
- Insufficient evidence – The prosecution does not have enough evidence to warrant a prostitution charge
- Lack of trustworthy evidence – The evidence presented to the court is not reliable
- Police entrapment – A police officer engaged in conduct that caused you to commit the crime
- Mistake of fact/lack of intent – You did not intend to engage in an act of prostitution
HOW HIRING A PROSTITUTION DEFENSE ATTORNEY CAN HELP
Because of the comprehensive nature of the laws prohibiting sex crime offenses in Orange County, particularly those involving acts of prostitution, you could find yourself facing charges for prostitution or solicitation without even realizing you had committed a crime.
These laws are intended to protect the rights of sex crime victims and prevent future offenses from occurring, but they often result in innocent individuals being charged and convicted for a crime they never meant to commit.
Fortunately, if you have a knowledgeable criminal defense attorney on your side, you can significantly improve your chances of getting a favorable outcome in your prostitution case.
Your attorney could, for instance, get your prostitution or solicitation charges reduced to disturbing the peace, criminal trespass, or lewd conduct in public, which carry less severe penalties than prostitution and allow you to avoid the social stigma of a prostitution conviction. When you hire Seyb Law Group, you will work with a top Orange County prostitution defense attorney with years of experience defending the criminally accused in Orange County.
We will ensure that you understand the charges against you and give you the best chance at a positive outcome in your Orange County prostitution case.
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A sex crime is any act that involves unlawful sexual conduct, and in Orange County, that includes the crime of engaging in an act of prostitution, soliciting an act of prostitution, or agreeing to engage in an act of prostitution.
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One of the biggest names in slalom racing in the 1970s, Bobby Piercy pioneered the ultra quick parallel stance, which helped him wiggle at light speed through a tighter course of cones than everyone else. Just as adept at barging bowls and long jumping over Playboy Bunnies, Bobby rocked both print and film media with the charisma of a movie star and a rock star all rolled into one big, fat joint. Born in 1956, Bobby started surfing in San Diego, California at age eight, skateboarding when the waves were flat. In the early ’70s, he practiced ski racing in Colorado in the winter, where he was a resident pro, focusing on skateboarding slalom back in Cali as the techniques and equipment levels increased. (Piercy worked with Bobby Turner on some new handmade camber decks that were three times faster than standard ones.) Bobby credited the rivalry at La Costa between the Turner team and the G&S FiberFlex team with really advancing the level of slalom.
Brewer Skateboards gave Bobby two pro model decks, one for freestyle and one for pools. For slalom, he rode a Brewer camber foam deck made by Bobby Turner. Famously winning the dual slalom event at the 1977 Catalina Classic, Piercy worked with Michael Williams on the Gull Wng Phoenix truck, was fond of green Kryptos, and was sponsored by Rector. A ladies’ man who enjoyed healthy eating, working out in the gym, and disco dancing, Bobby famously quipped in his interview in the February 1978 issue of Skateboarder, “My skating, surfing and dancing help my love life.” Bobby listed his top influences as Tommy Ryan, Conrad Miyoshi, Michael Williams and Henry Hester for slalom; Tom Inouye and Brad Strandland on banks; and Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Dennis Martinez on vert. Bobby Piercy passed away in the early 1980s under mysterious circumstances.
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Bobby was fortunate that he had great parents. His mom, Ethel, was a beautiful woman, and his dad, Big Bill Pierce, was a former notorious Hell’s Angel. Let’s just say BP inherited characteristics from both of them. His parents divorced when we were in elementary school, but it was Mr. Piercy who taught us a lot about etiquette. I will always remember sitting at the dinner table where he showed us how to eat soup properly. I guess that stuck with me, because Big Bill Piercy was about 6’4″ and 320 pounds, and as a kid, I didn’t think big guys like that ate soup. Bobby was always a rock star even back then. In elementary school, he got a gas-powered car that he made his little brother Donnie and I drive like chauffeurs while he sat in the back. Donnie and I would have to take the car back to the house then walk all the way back to school. In sixth grade, Bobby was the Duke of the school. A few people tried to take him out, but they never could, all the way up until high school. Looking back on it, it seemed like we used to fight a lot, but no one ever really got hurt.
Eventually, we started surfing and Bobby’s dad would always drive us to the beach; sometimes he would drive over 100 mph just to give us a thrill. I think his dad really enjoyed being a part of the family and I think it was at the end of high school or maybe right after, that Bobby’s brother Donnie took his own life. That was a low point for all of us, but Bobby and I started skateboarding together along with Conrad Miyoshi and a few others. I don’t really remember how we ended up on the Turner Summer Ski team, but it seems like the next thing I knew, we were racing everywhere and BP was dominating. He did not like to come in second place. We would practice slalom racing every day, go surfing, and do all the other cool things that we did in California in the ’70s. BP will always be my big brother, as he always looked after me, took care of me, and kept me protected from a lot of the evil things in the world.
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I offer my humble obeisances at the lotus feet of nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Rupanuga Acarya-varya Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
For the good fortune of conditioned jivas, Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna descends to this world of darkness to show the light of bhakti, as well as sending His dear associates to carry on His mission of removing ignorance and giving bhakti.
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Srila Gurudeva spoke extensively on Gundica-mandira marjana. He said:
- Nityananda Prabhu and His expansion Srila Gurudeva are completely capable to take away all anarthas and leave the heart immaculate and ready for Sri Bhagavan to sit in. This is the symptom of a Vaisnava, his heart is the resting seat of Govinda ‘ krishna se tomará krishna dite paro, tomara sakati ache’.
He said, “The only effort that jiva has to do is to take this mercy.- This means to follow his vani, and what's his vani?” He taught all over the world, “Trnad api.…, Anyabhilasita sunyam.…, Vaco vegam, Tat te anukampam.…, Sadhu sanga.…, Aradhyo bhagavān.…, Amnaya praha.…., Gurau gosthe.., Man-mana-bhava... “ and in his own words - by following this, certainly your life will be successful.
- Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna’s instructions and Srila Gurudeva’s instructions are in the same category "acaryam mam vijaniyan..."
- Sri Krishna warns in Gita 3.32 “....those persons who do not follow these instructions of Mine, become bereft of discrimination, cheated of all true knowledge and ruined in all their endeavours for spiritual perfection.”
Therefore Srila Gurudeva's instructions cannot be compared to the most valuable jewels of this world.
They are the nectar that leads to Goloka Vrndavana. They can never be ignored, and as disciples is our duty to honour them.
I pray to his lotus feet that he showers his mercy on us so we can fulfill his desires.
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Sesame Street just started its 46th season and it is safe to say that Big Bird and Oscar are still some of the most recognizable television stars in the world, but the person who has given them their voice and their heart for that many years can walk the streets of New York and not be recognized. This documentary does a fine service of telling his story.
The documentary flooded me with memories because of the behind the scenes stories of filming very familiar scenes and interviews with some of the original cast like Bob and Luis. There were also a couple of stories that I had no idea about. Apparently NASA wanted Big Bird to orbit the earth, but they couldn’t figure out how to fit the costume into the shuttle.1
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ACM is incredibly proud to announce that it is once again expanding its facilities at ACM Guildford, for the September 2017 academic year.
At ACM we aim to consistently make real-world platforms and opportunities available to our students, so we’re very excited that The Electric Theatre, a 210-seater Theatre and Music Hall that sits as part of our town-centre campus at ACM Guildford, came under the management of ACM in June 2017. ACM students will enjoy access to the Theatre, not only as a learning environment, but also as a venue. The theatre now complements our real-world studio complex, Metropolis Studios, and real-world radio station (complete with DAB broadcast license) eagle3, making ACM an incredibly unique learning environment.
Highlights of ACM Summer Live 2017, which took place in The Electric Theatre
It doesn’t end there – we are very proud to announce that a new studio and live recording space in the Rodboro Building will be opening for this September 2017. The studio represents our continued commitment to providing ACM students with world-class facilities that are, most importantly, available when they need them. Throughout August our team is working to reconfigure the entire middle floor of our Rodboro Building, to turn it into the flagship studio space at ACM Guildford.
Designed by the best technical minds of Metropolis Studios and ACM combined, the new studio features a large recording area suitable for band, choral and orchestral set-ups, a stone-room for recording with a different kind of reflection and resonance, a control room complete with an SSL Duality console, as well as outboard gear from Universal Audio, JDK and Lexicon. Monitoring is through Dynaudio speakers and audio conversion from Prism. Just like all of our studios, the latest versions of Pro-Tools, Logic, and Ableton will be available, as well as plugins from Native Instruments, Melodyne, Fab Filter and many others. Lines-of-sight have also been a key focus, meaning that this studio enables great communication between producer and artist.
All ACM Guildford students will be able to access the space as part of the room resource available to book via their student portal, myACM, and many students will also have lessons within the new studio complex each week. We can’t wait to show everyone!
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Paralympian sprinter Jonnie Peacock finished third in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year 2017 behind four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea.
The Cambridge local received 73,429 votes — just 18 more than boxer Anthony Joshua, who was the runaway favourite before the event.
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Born in Shepreth, the runner also beat sporting superstars such as Lewis Hamilton and Chris Froome.
Peacock won the T44 100m final in London in July to collect his second world title in 10.75 seconds.
The two-time Paralympian gold medallist had his leg amputated at the age of five after contracting meningitis.
He said: “It's been a slightly strange year for me and tonight has been absolutely surreal.
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The 24-year-old was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire following his London 2012 success and became the first disabled contestant to compete in Strictly Come Dancing this year.
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zsh that really simplifies the configuration and also includes a couple of cool themes for the prompt.
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
Before you can actually start using this newly installed version of
zsh, you first need to add it to the list of known shells, which is located at
/etc/shells. Sounds complicated, but is really simple. All you need to do is to run this command:
echo /usr/local/bin/zsh | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
With this command, we’ve only made the new shell available to the system. To actually use it though, we still need to explicitly tell the system so.
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh
Checking the title bar of Terminal.app confirms that you’re now using
zsh instead of
bash. You might have to close the terminal and re-open it for the changes to take effect. So now that we’ve successfully made the switch to
zsh, the next step might seem superfluous at first—we’re going install a current version of
bash, too. The reason is that during the execution of some commands such as
brew update you will see that the job name in the title bar of the terminal window changes from
bash. That’s because various processes still use
bash in the background. Just because you aren’t using
bash anymore does not mean that it’s not used anymore at all. Keeping
bash up-to-date, too, thus seems like a good idea. Like
zsh, the pre-installed version of
bash is pretty outdated, so we should install our own version of
bash for the same reasons as above:
brew install bash
While we’re at it anyway, we can add that new version to
/etc/shells, too, just in case you want to go back to
bash some day. Since we don’t run the command for actually changing the shell afterward, adding it to
/etc/shells has no effects at all.
echo /usr/local/bin/bash | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
Next, let’s install a few of the plugins that make
zsh so much better than
bash. The first one is for auto suggestions. It tries to complete the missing words to your command before you’ve even started typing them, very much like what a Google search in your web browser does:
brew install zsh-autosuggestions echo 'source /usr/local/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh' >> ~/.zshrc
The second plugin is simply called
z. It remembers the paths you
cd into. You then only need to type the first couple of letters of a folder instead of its entire path, for example
z proj instead of
cd ~/pretty/long/path/to/some/project-folder. This is a huge timesaver.
brew install z echo '. `brew --prefix`/etc/profile.d/z.sh' >> ~/.zshrc
Another cool plugin is for syntax highlighting. It will tell you whether the commands you’re trying to execute are valid commands by coloring them either green or red.
brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting echo 'source /usr/local/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh' >> ~/.zshrc
The fourth plugin we’re going to install makes it easier to run previously executed commands again.
brew install zsh-history-substring-search echo 'source /usr/local/share/zsh-history-substring-search/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'bindkey "$terminfo[kcuu1]" history-substring-search-up' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'bindkey "$terminfo[kcud1]" history-substring-search-down' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc
What this fourth plugin allows you to do is the following: Imagine you installed some program a while ago, but you can’t remember whether you used
conda install oder
npm install. With this plugin, you can simply type the name of the program into the terminal and press the Up and Down keys to cycle through all commands in your history that match the program name. More generally, you can enter any substring of any previously executed command and the Up and Down keys will find that old command. In case this feature does not work for you, delete the two
bindkey lines from your
~/.zshrc file and try again after executing these commands:
echo 'bindkey '^[[A' history-substring-search-up' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'bindkey '^[[B' history-substring-search-down' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc
Notice how, after each plugin we installed, we had to add a line of code to a certain file located at
~/.zshrc file contains all the run commands for
bash, there are similar files, e.g.,
~/.bash_profile. Such files are called dotfiles. If you’re interested in what they are and how they work, you can read more about them here.
What you need to know about dotfiles for now is that a few important things are probably going to break after switching from
zsh. That is because you’ve most likely set your environment variables (e.g.,
JAVA_HOME, etc.) in either
~/.bashrc. These three files are all meant for
bash and will not be read by
zsh.2 Therefore your system won’t know your
JAVA_HOME anymore—it’s just like you never told the system about these variables in the first place. To make things work again, you need to tell
zsh the values of these variables in a language
zsh is able to understand, figuratively speaking. One way to do that is by simply sourcing your respective dotfile from
~/.zshrc. If you’ve followed my guide, it would be
~/.bash_profile which you need to source:
echo "[[ -e ~/.bash_profile ]] && emulate sh -c 'source ~/.bash_profile'" >> ~/.zshrc
This command tests whether
~/.bash_profile exists and if so, emulates the
sh shell in order to source
~/.bash_profile. The reason for this is that the syntax of
zsh is not completely compatible with
bash. These incompatibilities could potentially break scripts in
~/.bash_profile if we don’t enter emulation mode before reading these files when using
zsh. Another way, of course, would be to cut & paste your code from
~/.zshrc rather than sourcing it.
To understand this important topic of dotfiles better, you should really read the post mentioned above. Otherwise things might just not work anymore and you’d have absolutely no idea why.
Customizing the Appearance of the Terminal
If you’re like me, you really don’t care about that very first line in the terminal which tells you the time of your last login. You can suppress it like so:
Next, you’ll want to alter the prompt of your terminal.
Update: I’ve since switched to the starship prompt. You can install it like so:
brew install starship echo 'source "$ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'eval "$(starship init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
You can skip the following lines and continue with the part where we install iTerm2.
First, visit the themes website and check out which themes you like. Personally, I like
nebirhos the most. After you’ve found a favorite, open
~/.zshrc in a text editor, for example with this command:
open -e ~/.zshrc
In this file, search for the line
ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell" and replace
robbyrussell with the name of the theme you want to try, e.g.,
nebirhos. For the change to take effect, you either need to open a new terminal window or enter
source ~/.zshrc into the terminal.
I made some additional tweaks to
nebirhos and adjusted it to my liking, since I don’t need to see, e.g., the Ruby version next to the arrow all the time. To modify a theme, you can either open its folder with
and search for the theme in the Finder, or alternatively open the theme directly if you know its name:
open -e ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/nebirhos.zsh-theme
Beware that these “themes”—despite their name—modify only the appearance of the prompt, i.e., the fat arrow at the beginning of each line or the name of the current branch but not the background color of the terminal etc. A color scheme is what you’re looking for if you want to change the background color (more on that in the next section).
As you can see, you can use
zsh with Terminal.app too; none of the changes so far had to do anything with iTerm. But I recommend using it instead of Apple’s Terminal.app, nevertheless, since its far more customizable. You can install it with this command:
brew install iterm2
You can find many pretty color schemes for iTerm here. One of my favorites is Whimsy. Other popular color schemes include Gruvbox, Dracula, Nord, and Everforest which you’d have to download from here. You can either download the whole folder as a zip-file or take the shortcut and download the mentioned scheme directly via
curl to your Downloads folder.
cd ~/Downloads; curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/master/schemes/Whimsy.itermcolors
Then go to
Profile > Colors in iTerm, where you can import the color schemes.
I dislike the native full screen when you press
Enter, so I deactivated it under
General > Window. Under
Profile > Terminal you should enable “Silence Bell” to disable the annoying sound effect.
Change the font to a prettier one by first installing, for example, IBM Plex Mono as follows and then setting the font and font size under
Profile > Text.
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts brew install font-ibm-plex
Other nice fonts are:
brew install font-fira-code brew install font-hack brew install font-source-code-pro brew install font-jetbrains-mono
I use Vim as my text editor and Vim can display pretty icons in my terminal to call my attention to potential mistakes. The above-mentioned starship prompt also displays pretty icons. To display such icons, the font must include icons to begin with, which fonts typically don’t. Therefore, some people went ahead and added these pretty icons to their favorite fonts. We say they “patched” the font. The resulting fonts that now include icons are called Nerd fonts. Unfortunately, there’s no patched variant of IBM Plex, so even though it is a nice font, I cannot use it if I want the pretty icons in the starship prompt and Vim. The font Hack on the other hand is one of the fonts that has been patched, so personally I use the Hack Nerd font:
brew install font-hack-nerd-font
I’ve set it to
However, these fonts that include icons require more disk space than the regular fonts, so if you don’t use Vim or the above-mentioned starship prompt, there’s absolutely no need or benefit in using Nerd fonts. They’ll just take up more disk space. In that case, it’s perfectly fine to use the non-Nerd fonts (for example,
brew install font-hack) if you don’t yet understand for what exactly you’d need a Nerd font.
Add two new key mappings under
Profiles > Keys for quicker navigation between words by click the
+ button you will find there.
Word Jump to the Left
To create a keyboard shortcut that will move the cursor to the left by one word, click in the field named “Keyboard Shortcut” and press the
⌥ key and the left arrow key simultaneously, so that the combination
⌥← appears. Select Send Escape Sequence as action and enter the letter
b in the Esc+ field where it says “characters to send”. Confirm with “OK”.
So to recap, here’s what you should do:
Keyboard Shortcut: ⌥← Action: Send Escape Sequence Esc+: b
Word Jump to the Right
Same procedure as above, except that you press the right arrow key and enter the letter
f instead of left arrow and
Keyboard Shortcut: ⌥→ Action: Send Escape Sequence Esc+: f
You might want to explore the other settings to adjust iTerm even further to your needs. For example, you might want to assign a system-wide hotkey to open the terminal from anywhere. Since this comes down to personal preference, from here on I’ll leave you to figure out for yourself which settings you find useful.
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With the huge surge of interest in gardening this year among the general public, due to Covid-19; and the very much played-down Christmas that most of us are having, I will definitely be out in the garden over the festive period.
What better to banish the winter blues? You might not think there’s much you can do, but anything done now will help to make that mad spring rush more manageable.
At Christmas time, my attention is drawn to seeds for the coming year. I head online to a couple of my favourite seed companies and plan and order whatever seeds I like for the coming spring. I always order far too many, so another job is to sort out any leftover or half-empty seed packets and throw out any that are now out of date or damaged.
Take the time to organise them into seed tins, it is well spent. If you leave the seed order until the spring, I can guarantee that you will miss out and if this year is anything to go by, you might not get everything you want come the end of January.
* Draw up your plans for your garden for the coming year. Include the things you want to do and the areas of planting that need attention.
Any structural jobs that need a professional should be planned now too as that will make a difference to how your planting is going to look and progress.
* Plant hardy trees, shrubs, roses, climbers and perennials, providing the soil isn’t waterlogged. Now is the time to plant any bare-root or rootballed trees, hedges and things like roses. If the weather does take a sudden change for the worse and the temperatures drop, then do keep off heavy clays as much as possible, as you can damage the soil structure when it's frozen.
*Continue to tidy up beds and borders, clearing away dead and dying leaves and faded flower stems. Now is also the time to move deciduous small trees, shrubs and climbers that are growing in the wrong place.
Don’t be tempted to move trees or shrubs that are very mature, as the risk of losing them is probably too great unless you are happy to take that risk.
Prune climbing roses now; cut away diseased or damaged growth and tie in any new shoots to their support. Prune older flowered side shoots back by two thirds of their length.
* Avoid walking on lawns covered with frost. It's really true that walking on the frost-frozen grass causes damage. When frozen, the leaves become brittle, and will not yield to pressure, which means when trodden on they snap and break.
Where grass has been walked on, this leaves brown marks where the grass is damaged, which look unsightly into the spring and the damage will make that patch more susceptible to disease.
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*Weeds may still appear in mild weather, so hoe regularly to prevent them becoming established. If your garden is anything like mine, no matter what time of year or how much work I do those pesky weeds still manage to find a way to take hold.
I feel a little like Mr McGregor chasing Peter Rabbit sometimes when I see a new weed that not only has taken root but taken hold and won’t let go!
* It is a little early to start painting to protect or using a preservative. I tend to start this around mid February and this year I have a few things to paint as part of my new garden.
My light colours over the last few years are taking on a much darker trend, so the question is am I brave enough to go as far as using black paint on some of my larger areas? I hope so, I think it's going to be stunning.
A few other jobs to do over the Christmas Period
* It’s not too late to take hardwood cuttings of various deciduous shrubs and soft fruit.
* Continue feeding wild birds with high-energy bird foods to help them through the winter.
* Make sure bird baths and other water sources for wild birds are kept from freezing over.
* Carefully melt frozen ponds with a pan of hot water. Don’t smash the ice – this can harm any fish.
* Clean pond filters and pumps.
* Check that compost in containers doesn’t dry out and water if necessary.
* Prune established, free-standing apple and pear trees, if they need it.
* Clean old pots and seed trays, so that they’re ready for seed sowing in spring.
* Prune red, white and blackcurrants, gooseberries and grape vines.
* Draw up plans for next year's vegetable garden and order seeds and other planting material.
* Dig over the soil in the vegetable patch if you garden on heavy clay soil and didn’t do it last month.
* Cover overwintering brassicas with horticultural fleece or netting to stop pigeons getting at them.
* Clean decking and patio slabs – which will also help reduce the risk of slipping on them.
* Most importantly of all, though, is to have a peaceful and Happy Christmas. Enjoy the simpler Christmas this year and take time to enjoy spending time doing the things you love, with those you love around you.
I’m not looking forward to spending the first Christmas in a very long time without my dad visiting but he’s in the UK. We all need to hold on for a few more months and spring will come, the flowers will come and the garden will come to life - and with it hopefully will come happier times, when we can see our family members again.
A very Happy Christmas from Ian and I and from us all at Caragh Nurseries. Stay safe!
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You probably remember the time when we all used to play Wii Fit fitness. It was a fun way to play with the kids while keep them active as they were playing on their favorite video game. Now, Nintendo is bringing back a way to stay active while playing video games with Ring Fit Adventure ($79)
About the game
Explore a fantastical adventure world to defeat a bodybuilding dragon and his minions using real-life exercises! Traverse grass-swept plains by jogging in place, attack enemies with overhead shoulder presses, and refill your health meter by striking some yoga poses. Two new accessories, Ring -Con and Leg Strap, measure your real-world actions and help turn them into in-game movements. With additional minigames, Ring Fit Adventure is great escape for players of all skill levels and schedules.
In Adventure mode, defeat enemies with attacks based on real-world exercises! As you work through each level (and possibly work up a sweat), you’ll earn experience points. Between fights, you may encounter some unusual methods of transportation such as squat-powered launch pads, and more! Want to compete with others? Pass around the Ring-Con accessory and select from a few minigames: break boxes with gusts of air, craft pottery using squats and many others.
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Let’s say this game is a great way switch up your living room fitness routine from the usual and try an adventure while playing video games. I would say it keeps your energy going, although it probably doesn’t replace a real workout. However, it is a great way to make the kids stay active. They can even challenge other kids by facing off in the multiplayer mini-games.
Setting up the game takes time, you have to learn how to move the ring, but after that you can choose to play the adventure or just exercise. Playing makes it more fun. Each level is probably 10 minutes of fun. As I said before it might not replace your daily workout, but it does get you moving while having fun.
My son loved the adventure part, you jog and move in all directions, so it is a great way to keep our kids active while they are still having fun with other friends. I loved the yoga aspect, so relaxing while still making me stretch all those muscles.
It is for sure a great addition to our video game collection and one that will make us stand up and leave the couch!
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King Henry VI
10 of 42 portraits by E. Bocquet
King Henry VI
by E. Bocquet
line engraving, published 1806
6 3/8 in. x 4 3/8 in. (162 mm x 111 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
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- King Henry VI (1421-1471), Reigned 1422-61 and 1470-71. Sitter associated with 39 portraits.
Artistback to top
- E. Bocquet (active 1806-1849), Engraver and miniature painter. Artist associated with 42 portraits.
Events of 1806back to top
Current affairsWilliam Pitt dies in January and his lifelong opponent Charles James Fox dies in September. Pitt is succeeded by William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, who forms the 'Ministry of all the Talents' coalition .
Prince of Wales instigates the 'Delicate Investigation'; a Parliamentary enquiry into claims that his wife Caroline had an illegitimate child.
Art and scienceJohn Constable embarks on a formative tour of the Lakes and makes landscape studies of the Langdale Pikes and Helvellyn.
Turner exhibits his Thames views to acclaim at his own London gallery.
Humphrey Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium by passing an electrical current through molten compounds.
InternationalSoprano Angelica Catalani arrives from Italy to make her London debut, amazing audiences with her showpiece arias.
Napoleon turns his forces east against Austria, Russia and Prussia and enjoys a wave of French victories.
British attack on Buenos Aires under General William Beresford fails.
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Black holes are one of the most powerful forces in the universe; they are dense gravity wells from which even light cannot escape. But a stellar cousin, the neutron star, may give black holes a run for their money in one arena: jets that blast matter out into space at breakneck speeds.
Astronomers at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico made observations on PSR J1023+0038, a pulsar locked in a binary system. Neutron stars and pulsars are supernova remnants from massive stars that were just too small to become black holes. The scientists caught this one feeding off a companion star, which occurs in much the same way a black hole can cannibalize a star in its path.
As the National Radio Astronomy Observatory points out, a black hole is the most dense object in the universe, and a pulsar is number two. So it's hardly surprising that a pulsar could rip apart a nearby star and create jets of its plasma in the same way as a black hole. This, however, is the first observation that suggests pulsars can shoot that matter into interstellar space just as rapidly, producing violent jets throwing material at nearly the speed of light.
The new observations could lead to a better understanding of the behavior of dense pulsars, and a way to compare and contrast the multiple ways a big star can die.
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Quack Rentals Appliance Lease Agreement
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Quack Rental agrees to rent or lease equipment to the individual customer. Customer agrees for this consideration to be responsible for all rental payments to Quack Rentals
1. Customer agrees that all of the equipment is sole and exclusive property of Quack Rental.
2.Customer agrees that it has no equity, ownership interest, or possessor interest in the equipment at any time.
3.Customer agrees to pay $54.99 per month for the set of a dryer and washer plus tax or $27.50 for only a washer or $27.50 for only a Dryer plus tax. This payment will be deducted automatically from your credit card every month per your request.
* Special programs such as a NEW set program may be offered. These programs may have higher fees depending on the machines being offered for that RENTAL program at that time. If you sign up for a special promotional program your monthly price may be higher then the one stated above. Don’t worry, its not possible to accidentally sign up for this. In most cases you will need to go through a separate application to join one of our NEW machine sets promotion. We don’t always have new sets, and only offer these sometimes. Terms for that promotion will be clearly stated on that contract.
4.Customer agrees for Quack-Rental to process credit card on file for monthly payments(auto- pay). First months payment is due at time of delivery. Next payment is due 30-days from the date of delivery, and will continue every month until customer returns the equipment.
5. if payment can’t be processed and is more than one (1) days late, customer will be charged a $10.00 late fee. Also If customer gives a check to Quack Rentals and customer check is returned from our financial institution as insufficient funds, there will be a $25.00 return check fee to the customer. Customer agrees that in the event payment is more than 7 days late, Quack Rental will be provided any access needed to recover the equipment.
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*Please note, if you rent a NEW set on a special promotional program terms written on that contract are the terms you will follow and not term #7 written here.
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‘If you’re grubby, just get scrubby, Have a splash and splosh. It’s good to think, ‘I’ll use the sink And give those hands a wash.” ’ Meet the Scribble Monsters – Inky, Blot, HB, Pablo, and Nibs. These playful and inquisitive characters will help young children to get to grips with the ins and outs of good personal hygiene and cleanliness in this highly enjoyable and charmingly-illustrated early learning book.
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Every Iron fan of that era will be able to recall the visit of Newcastle United in October 2009.
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Japhet Tanganga has revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo was his idol growing up and he can’t wait to come up against him when Tottenham meet Manchester United.
The four-time Ballon d’Or winner made a dramatic return to the Premier League over the summer when it appeared it would be a battle between both United and Manchester City over the forward’s signature.
But there was only ever going to be one winner in the race for Ronaldo, who penned a two-year deal with the Red Devils at a reported transfer fee of £12.8 million.
Tanganga, 22, has come up against the Portugal star once before when Spurs played Juventus in a pre-season friendly in July 2019.
The Spurs academy graduate said he is looking forward to potentially having to face the 36-year-old again this season, and has since revealed he looked up to the United man while starting out as a football fan.
Tanganga said on Stadium Astro: “To be fair, when I was first watching football, it was Ronaldo. Cristiano Ronaldo was my idol.
“I have played against him before when we went on a pre-season tour against Juventus. Seeing him in the tunnel was surreal. I will never get over it. If I ever see him again when he plays for United, I am a big fan of him.
“It would be an amazing thing to see him again.”
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Ronaldo has been a massive inspiration for so many young players across the world, regardless of what position they are in, because of his many achievements on the big stage. It’s an opportunity that he should cherish forever if he gains a spot in the Spurs team to face United later on this season.
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The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has finalized the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021, and has sent it to the Ministry of Law to be vetted.
It proposes a fine of up to Rs. 25 million for those who process or cause to be processed, disseminate, or disclose personal data in violation of the provisions of the proposed legislation.
The proposed legislation will govern the collection, processing, use, and disclosure of personal data, and will establish and make provisions for offenses related to the violation of an individual’s right to the privacy of the data by collecting, obtaining, or processing personal data by any means.
It is also expedient to provide for the processing, obtaining, holding, usage, and disclosure of data while respecting the rights, freedom, and dignity of natural persons with special regard to their rights to privacy, secrecy, and personal identity, and for related and supporting matters.
It was mentioned in the draft bill that personal data has become an extremely valuable commodity in today’s digital age, and the sole source of income for many businesses is the personal data of users that they generate. Personal data is often collected, processed, and even sold without the knowledge of the person to whom it belongs. In some cases, such personal information is used for relatively less troublesome commercial purposes like targeted advertising. However, the data thus captured or generated can be misused in many ways, such as blackmailing, behavior modification, and phishing scams, etc.
To attain the goal of the full-scale adoption of e-governance, the delivery of services to people at their doorsteps, and increase users’ confidence in the confidentiality and integrity of government databases, it is essential for users’ data to be fully protected from any unauthorized access or usage, and for remedies for the misuse of their data to be provided to them.
Additionally, the accelerated growth in the use of broadband with the advent of Next Generation Mobile Service and Networks in Pakistan has led to increasingly enhanced reliance on technology, which has prompted a call for the prevention of the misuse of people’s data to maintain their confidence in the use of new technologies.
While Pakistan already has sectoral arrangements and frameworks for data protection, and the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (Act No. XL of 2016), that deals with crimes related to unauthorized access to data, there is still a need for a comprehensive legal framework in line with the constitution and international best practices for personal data protection.
The protection of personal data is also necessary for the provision of legal certainty to businesses and public functionaries whose activities involve the processing of personal data. The desired legal framework will spell out the responsibilities of the data controllers and processors, and the rights and privileges of the data subjects along with institutional provisions for the regulation of activities related to the collection, storage, processing, and usage of personal data.
The collection, processing, and disclosure of personal data will only be done as necessary in compliance with the provisions of the proposed act. The data be collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes, and will not be processed further in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes but will be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary regarding the purposes for which the data is processed.
A data controller will not process personal data, including the sensitive personal data of a data subject unless the latter has consented to the processing of the personal data. Separate consent will be obtained from the data subject for each purpose. Notwithstanding subsection (1), a data controller may process personal data about a data subject if the processing is necessary for either of the following:
- for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party;
- for compliance with any legal obligation to which the data controller is subject, other than an obligation imposed by a contract;
- to protect the vital interests of the data subject;
- for the administration of justice pursuant to an order of the court of competent jurisdiction;
- for legitimate interests pursued by the data controller;
- for the exercise of any functions conferred on any person by or under any law.
Personal data will not be processed unless:
- the personal data is processed for a lawful purpose that is directly related to an activity of the data controller;
- the processing of the personal data is necessary for or directly related to that purpose;
- the personal data is adequate but not excessive in relation to that purpose.
Subject to section 24, no personal data is to be disclosed without the consent of the data subject for a) any purpose other than i. the purpose for which the personal data was to be disclosed at the time of collection of the personal data; or ii. a purpose directly related to the purpose referred to in subparagraph (i); or b) to any party other than a third party of the class of third parties as specified in clause (e) of sub-section (1) of Section 6.
The personal data processed for any purpose will not be kept longer than necessary for the fulfillment of that purpose or as required under the law. It will be the duty of a data controller to take all the reasonable steps to ensure that all the personal data is destroyed or permanently deleted if it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was to be processed, or as required under sub-section (1).
In the event of a breach of personal data, the data controller is to promptly notify the Commission and the data subject about it where reasonably possible but not beyond 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, except where the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of the data subject. If notifying about the breach is delayed beyond 72 hours, the notification to the Commission and the data subject is to be accompanied by valid reasons for the delay.
If personal data is to be transferred to a system located beyond Pakistan’s territories or a system that is not under the direct control of the Government of Pakistan or entity/entities of Pakistan, it is to be ensured that the country where the data is being transferred offers a personal data protection legal regime that is at least equivalent to the protections provided under this act, and that the data thus transferred will be processed in accordance with this act and the consent of the data subject where applicable.
Critical Personal Data is only to be processed in a server or data center within Pakistan. Personal data other than the ones categorized as critical personal data may be transferred outside the territory of Pakistan under a framework (on conditions) to be devised by the Commission. The Commission will also devise a mechanism to keep some components of the sensitive personal data in Pakistan to which this act applies, provided that it is related to public order or national security. | <urn:uuid:da22a364-8b3a-4613-b9de-82812793b778> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.techchacho.com/news/11/23/2021/it-ministry-finalizes-draft-for-personal-data-protection-bill/ | 2022-01-27T03:27:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.935862 | 1,366 |
It's cost you £1,000 but you think it's worth it. That computer upstairs is the key to securing an A star at English or Maths GCSE for Johnny or Jane. Right? Wrong.
Kids at home use computers to chat to their mates and to play games rather than for boring educational programs that could improve exam performance, say Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessman, education experts from Ifo, the German economic research institute.
This time spent on the computer can result in the child's educational performance suffering, since out-of-school hours are spent playing on the PC rather than improving their writing and maths skills.
Neither does having computers available for use at school always translate into a better performance from pupils. If schoolchildren use computers moderately, then performance can be improved. But not using a computer at all or too frequently can lead to a poorer academic performance by students.
So should parents ban computer use at home and Tesco scrap its computers for schools campaign? Not necessarily, say Fuchs and Woessman. A PC in a child's room can improve a child's education as long as it is used for emails, access to the web and educational software. Similar use of a computer at school for internet access can also improve educational performance.
"Having a computer at home and using it at school will almost certainly raise some computer skills," say Fuchs and Woessman. But gaining good computer skills may come at the expense of improving others - such as maths and reading.
Parents may think that by ensuring their children have good computer skills, they are improving their future employment prospects. But it is good reading, writing and maths skills that most improve the child's ability to find a well paying job in later years, say Fuchs and Woessman.
Most governments have schemes to increase the number of computers in schools. To improve a child's employment prospects, it is important that these computer skills are not over-emphasised at the expense of the three Rs.
Computers at home appear to be aping the trend set by television: it can be a powerful educational tool but through documentaries or current affairs programmes rather than Celebrity Big Brother.
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The UAE hopes the nuclear talks under way in Vienna between Iran and world powers will succeed and wants to see a follow-up process of regional dialogue, Dr Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to President Sheikh Khalifa, said on Thursday.
“We have our eyes on the JCPOA process,” Dr Gargash said, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name for the nuclear deal.
“We want to see a successful process … but we are hoping that process will also lead to some sort of agreement on a dialogue that involves more countries and that track in itself will also help in cementing this vision that we [the UAE] are trying to propagate of stability and prosperity in the region.”
Speaking to the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Dr Gargash did not support the imposition of additional Iran sanctions if talks fail.
"I don't see further sanctions as a solution ...There are already enough sanctions on Iran," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported the US is considering tightening economic sanctions if no compromise is reached in Vienna.
“Diplomacy is the way forward but at the same time, we don't have much time because there is real concern … about what happens on the nuclear side,” Dr Gargash said, calling on Iran to show more flexibility in the talks.
The senior Emirati official said Tehran could do more on regional issues, especially when it comes to a ceasefire in Yemen.
“From everything we hear, there is very little Iranian pressure on the Houthis towards a ceasefire,” he said.
With a new atmosphere of dialogue in the region, Iran should recognise the “new environment and be more productive in the region, whether that position is in Yemen or whether it is in Lebanon and Iraq".
Dr Gargash hailed bilateral ties with the US, calling Washington the UAE's “number one strategic ally".
As to the US position in the Middle East, he said Washington must strive for a balance between enabling its regional allies to work together while also avoiding long conflicts.
“We have no interest in embroiling America in another conflict like Afghanistan and Iraq … we have no interest in pursuing another long war in the region — in fact, our interest is trying to avoid it at all costs, even by trying to manoeuvre a very tense situation,” he said.
He warned, however, of dire consequences if the US were to disengage with the Middle East — a prospect he considered unlikely.
“If the United States decides to completely pull out of the region … it means the two concerns that we have are going to be problematic: one of them is [creating] vacuums and the other one is escalation. We need to avoid vacuums and we need to avoid escalation,” Dr Gargash said.
He also voiced concern over growing US-China competition.
“We are worried that there is a fine line between this acute competition and the new Cold War. We as a small state will be affected negatively by this, but we will not really have the ability to in any way affect this,” he said.
Dr Gargash framed the UAE’s diplomatic overtures to Turkey, Iran, Syria, the GCC and Israel as part of a bold reset in its approach to regional issues.
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The off-the-shoulder look is the perfect way to emphasize your beautiful neck and shoulders. (Also it’s a clever way to hide your armpits on a first date, to avoid the possibility of armpit stains…)
1. The aim is to show off your shoulders, pull this look off by wearing a strapless bra. Never go the no bra route, simply because the material might be light and flimsy and could be see through. Whilst standing in sunlight, you might find too much being exposed.
2. Pair an off-the-shoulder blouse with a statement maxi skirt for a edgy and alternative look.
3. Match perfectly with a pair of stiletto’s. Try this look with denim skinny jeans to channel a beautiful winter style.
4. Pair an off-the-shoulder with a tight mini skirt, which provides the perfect contrast between loose and baggy.
5. On a warm summer evening, opt for a short, flirty, off-the-shoulder dress.
6. Try a bell-sleeved off the shoulder top which will help emphasize your tan and your figure. Wear a statement patterned top and pair it with simple white shorts and kitten heels.
7. For an elegant and sophisticated look, try a monochrome style consisting of black cigarette trousers and black sandals. | <urn:uuid:142f8c85-e8d3-4002-9a58-db7a96d33d52> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.tyi.co.za/your-style/lifestyle/4-quick-night-life-beauty-tips-2 | 2022-01-27T03:18:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.869029 | 286 |
PhD title : Tropical Cyclone classification and prediction using multimodal Physics-informed Artificial Intelligence methods
Supervisors : Alexis Mouche, Pierre Tandeo, Bertrand Chapron, Ronan Fablet, John Knaff
Funding: IFREMER, AI Chair OceaniX
Start date : 15/03/2021
Satellite acquisitions are used to study Tropical Cyclones (TCs) since the 1960s. Today, satellite observations of TCs comprise both high spatial resolution data with low temporal resolution (such as SAR imagery) and low spatial resolution data with a better temporal resolution (such as radiometer and scatterometer data). Thus, the idea of the PhD is to exploit both the high spatial resolution of the SAR data (though at low temporal resolution) and the good temporal resolution of radiometer/scatterometer (though at low spatial resolution) to better describe the TC structure. More precisely, the objective is to use high spatial resolution satellite images (SAR imagery) of TCs to "enhance" low spatial resolution images (radiometer, scatterometer,…) so that these “enhanced” low spatial resolution images alone (i.e without the help of high spatial resolution acquisitions) allow to retrieve the TC dynamics, i.e changes in the TC structure (stretching/contraction of the Radius of Maximum Winds, axisymmetrization) as well as changes in intensity (intensification/weakening).
In order to exploit large sets of multimodal data (i.e using satellite acquisitions of TCs with different spatial and temporal resolution), the thesis will rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods combined with dynamical/physical considerations, referred to as "Physics-Informed AI". | <urn:uuid:942654b0-fd7c-4c29-b031-cc2072258ab5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.umr-lops.fr/Recherche/Theses-en-cours/Arthur-Avenas | 2022-01-27T02:12:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.846571 | 361 |
Carla Marie Williams may not be a name you’re instantly familiar with, but as far as her words, you certainly will be. Having penned Beyonce’s gloriously politically charged track “Freedom,” lifted from the epic Lemonade album, Carla Marie is a wizard with the pen. The rest of her songwriting résumé is equally as impressive, having worked under the British songwriting and production team Xenomania and now having formed her own writing collective New Crowd Media, Carla Marie has written tracks for the likes of Girls Aloud, Alesha Dixon and Kylie Minogue—alongside Queen B.
“I didn’t go to any special stage school or anything. I worked my way up, I was fearless about it,” she says during our 30-minute conversation. Carla Marie exudes this passion and hunger that not only is inspiring, but genuine; something that’s becoming rare in our social media age. Her 18-year-long career is peppered with lows and highs, but one thing remains constant: she keeps on going.
Inspired by the likes of Mary J Blige and Alanis Morissett and brought up on an R&B diet of Jagged Edge and Jodeci, Carla Marie comes from an honest place. Driven by social issues and a “rebellious streak,” where she wants “things to be right for people,” aside from writing “Freedom” and “Runnin” for Mrs. Carter, she’s also set up her own organization Girls I Rate, which champions female bosses in the UK music industry.
Now, with two Beyonce tracks under her belt, an ever-growing list of songwriting credits and now her own organization, the London-based “Freedom” writer is ready to take on the world, one song at a time. —Kamilla Rose Baiden (@KamillahRose)
VIBE: Your song-writing credits list is so varied. Can you describe your song writing style in three words?
Carla Marie Williams: I know! So varied. I would say I’m writing from the soul, singing from the heart. That’s where I’m at now. I feel I cross genres, I don’t have an exact style, but I would say soulful, definitely soulful.
You’re from North West London, how did growing up in that area give you experiences for song writing material?
It made me hungry. I wasn’t a songwriter when I lived in Harlesden [a town in North London], I was more into singing. Then later on, as I got a bit older, I moved into songwriting. I used to write poetry from young, it was a way for me to write about emotional things. Whether that was a break up between me and a boyfriend, or stuff home like my mum or dad, I just found myself writing poems about it. Then when I was around 17, I met this guy who turned my poems into a song. I read him some lines of my poems and he started playing the guitar and making a melody, I couldn’t believe it, I was like wow, that’s my song! It was crazy.
And before that, did you always keep poetry and singing separate?
Yes very separate, I never imagined them together. After my poem was put to a melody, I was invited ’round to make it a finished song and that was the start of my song-writing career, I was 17. I took all these poems I had and with a guitar, I made melodies and just put them all together. At the time I was also in a girl band. On my down days I used to sit and write songs. I would take them back to the girls and my manager and show him and he was like wow you’re writing songs, how did this happen? Nobody could believe it, when they were sleeping I was working. I would be up on the morning doing work. When they would go back to Glasgow and me back to London, I would be in the studio, writing recording and developing my craft.
Grindin’ from early, I love that. What sounds influenced you?
I’m so heavily influenced by Alanis Morissette. She’s coming from a political angle with her lyrics, which I love. Then Mary J. Blige, she’s more emotive and soulful. With the fusion of the two, I was just this rock-soul girl, with ambiguous lyrics and a rock-soul feel with the delivery and melodies. And that’s where it started.
So do you still perform as a singer?
No, I stopped performing many moons ago. When I started writing for Girls Aloud with Xenomania, I lost my voice for a year. I had severe muscular tension; I took that as a sign to focus on my writing. I was just starting to get more successful as a writer. So I decided to quit being an artist and to be honest, I found a lot of joy in writing songs, not having to worry about myself, what I look like, my sound, direction… I’m just given a brief, I deliver it, and then I can go home and watch EastEnders and Corrie at the end of it [laughs].
You make it sound so easy!
[Laughs] No… well for me, that’s how I equated my love for it. I love writing for other artists, getting into their headspaces and writing from their perspective. I realized that’s exactly what I love.
When you do write songs, do you write from the artists perspective or do you write from you own? And if it’s your own, do you find it weird someone else singing about your personal experience?
It’s a bit of both. For example, with Beyonce’s “Runnin’” that was from my perspective. I was at a very low point in my life, and I didn’t know where else to go or what else to do at that time. So “Runnin’” came from a personal place of searching. But at the same time, when Beyonce heard it and Naughty Boy, they both related to it. That’s the beauty with writing, people relate. But then with some of the other artists I work with like Girls Aloud, they’re a fun act, so I write and tailor songs to them. It depends on the person. If it’s a young artist, I have to write young stuff, not too mature. Then sometimes you have down days, when you just write for yourself, and then it fits an artist. But then if you’re writing with an artist in the room, you take on their persona and tailor it to them.
Now, moving on to Beyonce, you wrote “Runnin’” first, produced by Naughty Boy back in 2015. How did that come about?
I wanted to get back into writing songs after being part of the pop factory. And I started a writing collective called New Crowd. In the collective is Jonathan Coffer, the guy I originally started with, and Arrow Benjamin. I just set up a whole load of sessions. I set up a session with us all to write purely on the piano. That song [“Runnin'”] was one of the songs that came up on that, and Beyonce and Naughty heard it. It was a bit of a tug of war who wanted it, and then we all ended up on it.
That’s so crazy. Moving on to “Freedom” featured on the brilliant album Lemonade, how did that come up? Did you know you were writing it for Beyonce?
Yeah we did. She heard “Runnin'” and she really wanted to meet us and meet with me Arrow and Jonny. I went to L.A., I’ve never really been there to work before. I went and saw her A&R and he was like, Beyonce wants you guys to write for her, and he showed me an email from her with my name in it. I was like, oh my God. He was the first one to play me “Lose It All”—sorry “Runnin’”—because that’s what “Runnin'” was called before. When I heard her voice on it, I felt so emotional, like literally tears running down my face. I didn’t even try to get a record with her, and she took her own initiative to record it. She really is one of the best artists in the world. She wanted to hear more from us, and her team set up some sessions. I’m very pro-woman and pro-black, it doesn’t mean I’m anti-man or anti-another colour. And Arrow, he’s very spiritual, and Jonny is just a musical genius. And the three of us in a room just merged together and took it to the church.
You can really hear the church and I guess the connection you all have in that track.
Yes, Arrow and me have been friends for over 10 years. When we we are together in a room writing, we have this synergy, we just… it’s magic. He comes from the same place as me, I used to listen to Jagged Edge and so did he, and Jodeci and Mary J. We’re really like coming from a singing place. We’re trying to take it all the way. When you’re writing for someone like Beyonce, you know you can take it all the way as she is a vocal acrobat, so we started with an idea. We presented to her a basic idea, then we went back and forth for a bit. She’s very much about female empowerment, so we incorporated some of that into it and within 24-48 hours she had recorded it and the rest is history. She killed it; she’s a workaholic, she literally just goes for it.
Wow. So within like 48 hours the entire thing was done?
From the time she first heard it, she had already gone in and done her thing.
So did you know it was going to make the cut on the album?
Nope, no one knows, it’s Beyonce! I didn’t have a clue, I was in L.A., and I was asking my friend to get HBO so we couldn’t miss it. We had to borrow someone’s password to get online [laughs], it was so funny. Then it came up and we looked online, and we saw “Freedom” on it, we were watching the film, and we was like where is it—because it’s quite late down—then I saw it and was screaming.
That’s wild. Did you know Kendrick was going to be on it?
I heard through the grapevine, but I didn’t know until that day. It’s crazy, I heard whispers that Kendrick was on it and Just Blaze was producing. But I never heard. I heard the Just Blaze version, minus Kendrick. But you can never know, things always change, and then it came through. I’m just so happy we got to make such a legacy song.
It’s just a really fitting song and ties in nicely with so many of the movements happening across the world.
It has a real message and sentiment to it, and I’m all about that. I have my thing Girls I Rate, all bout embowering women in the UK music industry. I’ve been self-managed for about 10 years. I took on management for about a year and to be honest, it is tough, being a black woman in a male dominated industry. I started Girls I Rate on International Women’s Day, nominating girls I rate within the UK Music industry. And they nominated women they rated. It was really good to see women celebrating each other. We had a final even where 95 of us met on the Embankment, Channel 4 came down. There were just a lot of people in the UK scene there. Off the back of that, I’ve launched Girls I Rate Arts Academy for 16-25 girls who want to get in to the industry; I’m doing that with MOBO and Metropolis. I’m doing a song-writing weekender. The girls will have an opportunity to work with me for a weekend, sit with me in the studio, [see] how I write and craft a song. It’s going to be great.
That’s so fitting with the “Freedom” track, too. At the moment, both in music and a lot of other creative industries are realising that women and also women of colour need to be recognised, so it’s the right time for it.
Exactly, it’s all about supporting each other. It’s a vehicle, it’s about helping each other and building a great network of women within the industry. I used to be a youth worker, so I have this like social element built into me. I have this rebellious streak, where I want things to be right for people, things needs to be equal. I’m quite outspoken.
What is your personal favourite song Lemonade, aside from “Freedom”?
I love “Hold Up,” I love “Sorry” and “All Night.” Thing is I heard some of the songs before. The place we was coming from, she [Beyonce] wanted something more similar to “Runnin’.” I’m Jamaican, and when I hear things like “Hold Up” I’m like damn, I could have written that! But you know, wasn’t meant to be this time.
Next album man!
[Laughs] Definitely. I’m also thinking Rihanna too. I would love a Rihanna cut man. I think it’s year of the diva. I would like to work with anyone from Jennifer Hudson to Pink. I would love to work with Kelis on her new album. Things with Brittany, icons like Gwen Stefani. I like working with icons and diva’s, the ones who can really sing. UK wise I love Rudimental, but I’m also a fan of the girls coming up from the UK like Ray BLK and Nao, Ms. Banks. I want to embrace the UK black girls coming through, it’s hard!
You’re so pro-women, it’s great!
It is great. Like it’s weird, everything makes sense now. I have the biggest advocate in the world saying the message I want to say for myself for women. It’s weird because even if you look back on my Instagram and Twitter, you’ll see me ranting on about women or black issues, and I truly feel passionate abut it. I’ve been in a mostly male industry, and when I was in the pop writing camp I was the only black person at the production company for three years. So to come through that, sometimes you sit and ask why am I the only one here.
I think sometimes people also forget about the songwriters. It’s good to see people now getting credited.
We create the music for these people, we’re their voice, we write for them, we create their vehicle. It’s weird because often a lot of girls don’t realise there’s other things you can be doing instead of being in front of the camera. You can still do things; feel satisfied and still get paid.
So, what else are you working on?
Ah, I’m not allowed to say! I work with so many high profile artists I sign so many disclaimers, I often find out on the day like everyone else. I’ve got something hot coming out in the next few months which is hot. I’m just happy I’m flying the flag for the UK. You know I’m a girl, I didn’t go to any special stage school or anything. I worked my way up; I was fearless about it.
Even in you music you highlight your ups and downs and you make them relatable for everyone.
Yes, it’s like a roller-coaster, you have to hold on through the ups and hold on through the downs, keep your vision in front of you. I always say, never put your eggs in one artist, if you can write songs do it, give the songs away! There are so many things you can do that amount to creativity! | <urn:uuid:48e30622-83b1-4cfb-8ac3-2a93556e4575> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.vibe.com/features/editorial/carla-marie-williams-interview-beyonce-lemonade-422161/ | 2022-01-27T01:39:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00518.warc.gz | en | 0.978356 | 3,594 |
Cambodia’s foreign ministry is not concerned by visa restrictions imposed on senior officials by the Trump administration, an official has said.
But economic sanctions, including any moves by Washington that could restrict garment imports from Cambodia, were worrying, said Ouch Borith, who is acting foreign minister while Prak Sokhon is in the United States for the 72nd U.N. General Assembly Session.
Giving a speech to high-ranking officials on Wednesday, Borith spoke of the rising tensions between Washington and Phnom Penh following the arrest of opposition leader Kem Sokha and the closure of U.S.-linked media outlets and a democracy promotion NGO.
“It’s fine to not allow officials to go to the U.S.,” he said. “The only concern is the imposition of economic sanctions on Cambodia. The sanctions will definitely affect the export quotas to the U.S. We are only concerned about sanctions, not visa restrictions.”
“The government is finding new markets to replace the U.S. and E.U. in the event that the U.S. Government led by Mr. Donald Trump imposes economic sanctions on Cambodia,” he said.
On September 13, Washington announced it was suspending visas for senior foreign ministry officials and their families in what was thought to be a response to Cambodia saying it would not accept deportees.
In response to the sanction, Cambodia said it would suspend a long-running program to recover the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in America’s war in Indochina.
Cambodia has stepped up anti-U.S. rhetoric following the arrest of Sokha, with experts warning that tensions will get worse before they get better.
Meas Ny, a social and political analyst, said that Cambodia would be unlikely to find replacement markets for its exports in the event of sanctions.
“The Cambodian government should reconsider its foreign relationships,” he said.
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Members of a hitherto unknown group, the Patriotic Entrepreneurs of Liberia (PATEL), in February of 2017 made quite a name for themselves when they shut Monrovia down over three days. Overnight, the group became important enough to hold talks with the Government of Liberia (GOL).
Holding talks is a political issue, and it can be done rather swiftly, with big promises made, often without much forethought. But delivering on promises to meet the economic aspects of PATEL’s demand was always going to be the hard part. As I understand it, PATEL wants the GOL to lower the LRD/USD FX rate (currently at 110:1).
The group also wants a lowering of tariffs on imported good, an end to police harassment and exclusive retailing rights for Liberians, amongst other things. Apparently, the GOL was unable to meet the economic aspects of PATEL’s requests; thus, prompting an attempted second round of shutdown. Only this time around, a GOL clampdown and internal wrangling in PATEL camp watered down the whole show.
Eventually, the much-talked-about nationwide “shutdown” amounted to no more than a coffee break. The PATEL protest (2.0) fiasco demonstrates the true nature of economic problems. There are no magic wands and no quick fixes.
Sorry PATEL, economic problems still have to be solved the old fashion way – through hard work and perseverance, by consuming less and investing more. And in this respect, Liberia may still be a long way off. In this article, I shall attempt to show how some of our problems will take years to fix, if not decades!
What are some of the perennial economic woes that Liberia must solve the old fashion way? There are many, but let’s start with the exchange rate. The exchange rate problem is nothing new. Even if real prices are not increasing, if the Liberian dollar deteriorates against the US dollar, then of course persons with access to only the Liberian dollars are going to suffer. For example, let’s say a kilo of flour cost 1USD (and this price/kilo does not change).
But if the LRD/USD rate goes from 80:1 to 110:1, then those with access to only LRD will have to cough up the additional 30LRD for the same one kilo of flour. On the contrary, those with the US dollars will be just as good, after all the kilo of flour is still 1USD. So clearly there is a problem. Now, someone may ask “why can’t the GOL just bring the rate down by a radio announcement? Well, as regards the FX rate, there are always several things going on. I have been one of those calling for the total scrapping of the dual currency policy. Some say no, not so fast! Some say, Liberia, in comparison to its neighbors, has been better able to beat inflation with its dual currency policy.
But having a dual currency policy in a virtually cash-based economy is a huge risk. What is the guarantee that we are not catering to the FX demands of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cote d’Ivoire or even Nigeria? What is there to stop foreigners (unable to get foreign currency at home) from entering Liberia just to solve their FX problem and then disappearing from Liberia with loads of USD in their socks? Additionally, with a dual currency policy in place, any currency deterioration only suffers those with LRD. That is also unfair! If we were all using the LRD equally, then we would all equally suffer the consequences of currency deterioration. Much fairer outcome, howbeit undesirable! Yet so far, it’s the poorer segment of society that is suffering this constant and never-ending deterioration of the LRD.
However, bringing the rate down is no easy feat, even if one discounts the effects of our dual currency policy. For one thing, Liberia has had a trade deficit for many many years. It’s been so long, I bet one would have to go back to 1988 or earlier, before one gets to a time when Liberia ever had a trade surplus. For example in 2006, Liberia’s trade deficit was a whooping [negative] USD263m (CBL Annual Report 2006). If Liberia is not able to cover up this deficit by other means (like remittances from abroad and so forth) then it means that there is going to be a race for the US dollars, as importers outbid each other. In so doing, the value of the LRD will keep deteriorating. Now fast forward to 2015, Liberia’s trade deficit [instead of narrowing] got much worse, widening to [negative] USD1,977m.
With this happening at the same time Liberia is running an overall current account deficit (-USD1974), anybody who promises that (s)he can make the LRD/USD FX to come down is simply giving you “lyrics”. The LRD:USD FX rate is not coming down any time soon, as long as these economic fundamentals remain in the gutters. This is an economic reality that just cannot be sugar-coated. It has to be faced!
Problem number two with the Liberia economy is our negligible level of manufacturing. It’s somewhat tied to the trade deficit problem. In 2006, manufacturing contribution to the GDP was 13% (or USD55.5m). Now instead of getting better, in 2015, after nearly ten (10) years of stable government, manufacturing is still the weakest link in our Gross Domestic Product (GDP), contributing no more that 7% (or 64.5m USD). This is a living proof of where our economic situation is heading. Upgrading manufacturing and industrial capacity is booth an offensive and defensive economic strategy. Firstly, it reduces Liberia’s need for imports, thereby conserving foreign currency.
Secondly, it generates valuable foreign exchange – assuming the made-in-Liberia goods are competitive enough to sell abroad. But the big question is: how competitive are made-in-Liberia goods on the international market? So far just by looking at the composition of our exports, you know we are so far off. In 2006, for example, the top five components of our exports were essentially raw materials (rubber, logs, cocoa/coffee and iron ore) – not a single finished product was in the line-up. Fast forward to 2015, and you would assume that we’ve made some progress. But nope! What is the composition of our exports now? It’s the very same raw materials…iron ore, rubber, cocoa/coffee, diamond, gold, logs. Any country, be it Liberia or Utopia, is not going to get very far by selling only raw materials.
First problem is that prices for unprocessed materials are always much lower than prices for the processed or finished products. Second problem, prices for raw materials fluctuate way too much. Imagine you are the minister of the budget and you plan your country’s budget on the expectation that your main export, unprocessed iron ore, is going to bring in USD100m at the price of USD100/ton.
By the time you get to implement the budget, the world market price for iron ore has slumped to USD50/ton. Your USD100m expectation has just dropped to USD50m. Now everybody in the country is crying. This is Liberia right there! The problem would have probably been different if the good in question were steel. Finished products are often highly unlikely to fluctuate like that. What’s the chance that a BMW or iPhone price is going to drop by 50% over a 1-2 year period? Next to never! But, rubber?, cocoa? Probably any day!
Okay, got it! We need to make goods in Liberia. Then why can’t the GOL just make it easy for people to manufacture goods in Liberia. Great idea! But just opening up your markets – as in Liberia joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) or ECOWAS or MRU is not going to cut it. Making it easier to register business is still not enough.
To get goods to be manufactured in your country, you have to convince the businessman/investor that it is going to be cheaper to do so. How much does our electricity cost? And how stable is it? We could say the same for water and road network? Take electricity for example, in India and in China, electricity cost 8 cents per Kwh.
It’s 10 cents and 12 cents per Kwh in South Africa and USA respectively. In Liberia, (NEWFLASH: March 1, 2017-LEC website), LEC announces a reduction in tariffs from 49 cents to 39cents per Kwh (even that you can only get it if you live between Dualla to Redlight. Really? So, holding other variables constant, where will it be cheaper to manufacture? You bet in India, China, South Africa, USA. Now you see why waterside is flooded with Chinese and Indian goods. Manufacture in Liberia? Are you kidding me? It’s the same reason why services are also so expensive in Liberia.
Added to that, there is no pipe-borne water, as soon as you leave Paynesville. What is going to bring manufacturing to Liberia? Compounding this problem is also the lack of paved roads. It could be that some investor could assume that (s)he could make up on the cost of electricity via lower labor costs, but said person is likely to come up against the transportation dilemma – the lack of enough paved roads, which enables one to manufacture at one place and transport to another or to ship overseas. So voila! Our joining the WTO, ECOWAS, AU, MRU or any other “U” will not solve this problem.
Neither will our favorite policy of always begging China, India, Russia, EU or USA for help. All one gets from begging is leftovers and a lowering of one’s self-esteem… nothing else. Solving our economic problems just has to be done the old fashion way – by hard work and perseverance, by consuming less and investing more. Anybody who promises you that (s)he has a shortcut to this problem is simply giving you “lyrics”.
Okay. Got the point! So why the GOL can’t just make sure we have cheap electricity, water and paved roads, railways etc.? After all, we always hear that GOL budget is increasing and is in the hundreds of millions. In fact in FY2016/2017, the GOL budget was at least USD600m. Great idea! But note that out of this USD600 million (FY2016/2017), only about USD80m is put into public sector investment projects (ie the same infrastructure development I’m talking about).
The rest of the budget is spent on consumption. It’s a matter of trade-off (and Liberians generally prefer to eat their “cake”). To get more investment in public sector infrastructure we have to reduce our liking for “cakes”…. How many ministries, agencies, and commissions are we willing to forgo or to right size, in order to fund the Knuckles dreamed Cape Palmas to Cape Mount railway?
When are we going to cut to size those gargantuan salaries, gas slips allotments, frivolous foreign travels, fake workshops, and empty big-show cars, so that our kids can learn science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in world class facilities? When are we going to stop the GOL from renting from private individuals and other unnecessary and frivolous expenditures, so that pipe-borne water can reach, Tappita, Zwedru and Fisebu? Sorry PATEL, our economic problems simply cannot and will not be resolved next week. Nor is it going to be solved next month or next year.
It has to be done the old fashion way, by hard work and perseverance, by consuming less, and investing more. By growing more of what we eat and by turning our raw materials into finished products before we sell them. By giving our kids world class education and by investing in roads, airports and railway networks.
Of course, fixing our economy also mean getting serious about the fight against corruption and illicit financial flows. Liberia is already a poor country; yet too often some of our very brothers and sisters, who have been entrusted with government post, treat GOL money as their personal ATM. Too often, these people are known.
We know them by IAA reports, GAC reports, LACC reports, newspaper reports, NGO reports. By instead of putting corrupt people in jail and confiscating their assets (in Liberia we do the very opposite; we are recycling them!). There is no easy way out. Fixing the Liberian economy requires a fresh thinking on what ought to be the role of the GOL – should it be to provide a conducive environment for business to thrive and for those businesses to create jobs or should it be just about whose time it is to eat? | <urn:uuid:b980b623-a925-4cc7-8c89-c552ba7660d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://gnnliberia.com/2017/04/18/sorry-patel-fixing-liberian-economy-still-done-old-fashion-way/ | 2022-01-28T12:06:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.954299 | 2,749 |
37 Million Assholes Freak Out After Massive Karma Spill
July 20th 2015| By J.E.Ditor
37 million completely freaked out following a massive spill of karma from the dating site AshleyMadison. AshleyMadison,
a dating site specifically targeted at married people looking to have an affair,
suffered a massive security breach yesterday
in which hackers styling themselves "The Impact Team" stole the names, credit cards, and personal information of the site's 37 million members,
thereby unleashing the greatest spill of karma in recent memory. The Impact Team announced the hack with the following spectacular image.
"The last time we saw this kind of a massive karmasheheda, or universal release of karma, was when
Iraqi suicide bombing instructor accidentally blew up his entire class of ISIS terrorists-in-training," Swami Gustapa Malahari, a white woman in her 30s at
the Inner Peace Yoga Studio in Rockettopia, told News from Rockettopia. "It's kind of spectacular. Truly the gods have smiled upon us." (Note: In our research,
we were unable to determine actual the meaning of the word "karmasheheda", or find any references to it at all.) Even noted monster Noel Biderman, the CEO
of AshleyMadison, told News from Rockettopia that he couldn't help feeling slightly "entertained" and "satisfied" by the hack. "I mean, it's a disaster for us, but
I must admit to a bit of schadenfreude at watching these people get it. I know my business model explicitly facilitates the destruction of marriages, but let's face it,
my clients are terrible people.". "This is all off the record," Biderman added. "Right?"
Despite Biderman's stance, this is shaping up to be the worst disaster in AshleyMadison's history, beating out their failed bumper sticker campaign two years ago.
I enjoy making these so much
Many notables have been observed acting strangely since the AshleyMadison leak. Bill Clinton has taken Hillary out on four dates, which is four more than in all
of last year. Anthony Weiner is reportedly hiding in a wardrobe and refusing to come out. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are both being very nice to each other,
and Newt Gingrich told the press that his stance on family values was "Open to change.". When Donald Trump found out about the leak, a worried expression reportedly
crossed his face, before he said to himself "Eh, whatever." and moved on with being a dick to veterans.
Seaworld Closes after Harry Styles Delivers Smackdown
July 10th 2015| By J.E.Ditor
The formerly-popular amusement park SeaWorld declared that they will be closing all their facilities following a condemnation from One Direction star and
all-time Fuck, Marry, Kill champion Harry Styles.
Styles spoke out
against the noted evil organization in a San Diego concert yesterday. After seeing noted Game of Thrones star and Fuck, Marry, Kill runner-up Maisie
Williams, who also advocates for The Dolphin Project, Harry told the audience, "Does anybody here like dolphins?
Don't go to SeaWorld!". In the following hours, SeaWorld saw its attendance drop to a crawl. One of the few remaining SeaWorld guests, a tattooed man with a
waist-length beard and the odor of a confederate flag supporter, told News from Rockettopia, "Yeah, I love Harry and yeah, I know all about the dolphins,
but I'm still here. Not because I approve of SeaWorld and not because I don't care - I'm here because I'm sexually aroused by tortured whales." He attempted
to say more, but any further comments were directed at the back of our quickly-receding reporter's head.
SeaWorld CEO and terrible human being Joel Manby announced today that, in response to Harry's comments, SeaWorld would be liquidating all its assets and closing
all its facilities. "We managed to continue our operations despite public outrage, multiple investigations, and basic human decency," Manby said in a public
statement, "but Harry Edward Styles is a force of nature. He cannot be resisted. He cannot be stopped. Even we at SeaWorld are helpless before his terrible
Harry Styles has not yet been reached for comment.
Tennessee Students Demand Food Less Than Two Years Old; Still Reject Rockettopia Donation of KFC
May 1st 2015| By J.E.Ditor
county administrators in Hawkins County, Tennessee discovered six-year-old food being served in the school cafeterias, students rose up in protest,
demanding food that was, at worst, two years old. Students told News from Rockettopia that they would like less than 110 generations of maggots in their
daily sustenance, but were willing to negotiate for maybe up to 200 generations, tops. One student told our reporter, who is currently in the next room
vomiting uncontrollably, that she "Would have felt a little guilty asking for food that was less than six months old." Health risks aside, Hawkins County's
food, which is apparently often older than some of its consumers, cause disruptions in the rest of the school day. "Every time a student has to be rushed to
the hospital with food poisoning, I have to stop class and call their parents," a sixth-grade history teacher told our reporter, who I should really check on
some time soon. "After the third or fourth time it happens in a single class period, I start having trouble getting the students back on track." The situation
was not improved when students were interrupted mid-lunch by UNESCO, which had declared that day's chicken a nature reserve.
Despite the fact that their lunches would soon be able to file for retirement benefits in France, the students at Hawkins' Cherokee High School declined
Rockettopia's offer to send a supply of fresh KFC. "Our food may be six years old, but at least it's food."
With Climate Change Looming, Nature Stages One Final Ice Age Re-Enactment
February 10th 2015| By J.E.Ditor
With New England covered in roughly six feet of snow following the most recent snowstorm, mother nature has come out to explain the snow as an
"Ice Age Re-enactment". "The world is heating up - soon megablizzards will be a thing of the past", the omnipotent force told reporters in a press
conference today. "This may be my last chance to stage a massive re-enactment of the Ice Age, so I'm going to take it." Although mile-thick ice
sheets are not currently in the immediate forecast, more snow is expected this week, so who knows?
2014 Year in Review
January 4th 2015| By J.E.Ditor
As is tradition, we at News from Rockettopia have decided to take a moment to remember 2014. So here are the stories that, in a few decades, we will tell
our grandchildren about, as well as the ones we will try to forget. But mostly that second one. So, in no particular order...
- Frozen exploded into culture! Everyone was singing 'Let it go', and now no one ever wants to hear that song again.
- ISIS (Also known as ISIL, Daesh, the Islamic State,
Terrorism's JV Team,
Those Psychos, The Worst People to Invade Iraq since Cheney and Rumsfeld, etc.) literally exploded things in Iraq and Syria. ISIS is a militant
Islamic extremist group that has committed [Insert all of the most horrifying atrocities that you can imagine, and then add more] and is still at large.
Even more than usual, I suggest not taking a vacation in Syria over February break.
- Okay, so over winter break I took a vacation to the border of al-Qaedia-controlled Syria. So what?
- Race relations in America broke down with the murders of unarmed black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Actually, race relations in America
were fucked up to begin with, but it took us decades to notice. I have no idea why. I also have no idea why, overall,
white people think that racism against whites is worse than racism against blacks. I have a whole rant about this, but that is not for today.
- The worst Ebola outbreak in history killed thousands of people in West Africa. The outbreak is ongoing, but now that white people are no longer dying,
it's apparently not a big deal.
- The entire nation freaked out about Ebola despite dozens of statistics such as these:
- No one who contracted Ebola in the United States has ever died. Never. Anyone. However, I predict that they will die given a few decades.
- Twice as many Americans have been married to Larry King as have contracted Ebola.
- The same number of people have contracted Ebola in the US as have married Kim Kardashian. I'm not sure which is worse.
- Yeah, you get it, four is a small number, and three recovered.
- The Republicans beat the Democrats in nearly every race and took complete control of Congress. This would have shaken my faith in the American
public, except that our response to Ebola had just destroyed that faith entirely.
- Obama responded by essentially telling the Republicans to kiss his ass and then reforming immigration and ending the embargo against Cuba.
- Vladamir Putin annexed Crimea invaded Ukraine. President Obama responded by decisively lying down and rolling over on his back.
- Social pressures propelled the Ice Bucket Challenge to great success, proving that human beings sometimes accidentally do good things while
trying to impress each other.
- People who are terrible people got to see Jennifer Lawrence naked. This is why I hate having morals.
- The Interview, a film in which Seth Rogan and James Franco assassinate Kim Jong-un, outraged the North Korean leadership. People haven't
been this angry about a movie since the last time Seth Rogan appeared in one. Sony was hacked by someone - no one's sure who, the movie was kind
of released, Obama made one of his strangest speeches ever, and all kinds of other things happened that were, in all likelyhood, much funnier than
- Scotland nearly declared independence, but the vote failed, so let's just move on.
- The government of Mexico has been collapsing as a result of public anger from, among other things, the kidnapping and murder of 43 students.
- The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on America's torture program, which included things that are somehow worse than
the stuff I dreamed up. For more information, see The Spanish Inquisition.
- After Hamas began firing rockets, Israel invaded Gaza. Although the thousands of deaths resulting from the conflict would generally rank among the
worst things that happened in a year, 2013 is an exception because see above.
I also highly suggest the Youtube Rewind 2014.
Study Shows 2013 Not Over Yet
December 15th 2013| By J.E.Ditor
A new study released yesterday has demonstrated conclusively that the year 2013 is not yet over. The study, which has shown that there may be as many as sixteen days
left in 2013 as of today, has caused panic among major news organizations which, under the impression that 2013 had ended last week, had released their various stats, lists,
and 'Top 10's of 2013. As the author of the study said, "Although many people seem to be under the impression that 2013 is over, our findings show that this is not the case.
So there's still time for a few memorable events. President Obama could go on a public bath salts binge! North Korea could invade South Korea! Justin Bieber could do something!
Congress could pass more than the most basic legislation! Well, not that last one. But you see my point; it turns out that everyone has really jumped the gun here. 2013 is
not over yet."
CNN responded to the findings by declaring the study fourth in the 'Top 10 Crazy Studies of 2013'.
Earth Day Issue: Earth Complains about Week-late Birthday Parties, Green Team Hosts Cleanup, and SSE Hosts Coal-burning Protest
April 25th 2014| By J.E.Ditor
The planet Earth herself spoke out today to complain about the distressing number of Earth Day events scheduled a week after the actual
celebration. "It's kinda annoying", the planet told reporters. "I just want to yell 'It was last week idiots!'" Earth has not spoken on the issue since.
The Rockettopia Cleanup Committee has a massive cleanup planned for this weekend, a week after earth day (*sigh*). The RHS Green Team, which
is helping at the event, hopes to see a lot of RHS students at the event. "We hope we can make a dent in this town's significant litter problem. We have a problem
in this town with plastic bags, other bags, plastic cups, tin cans, plastic bottles, rusted car parts, rusted cars, and a stranded World War II-era battleship.
Not sure how that got there." When we asked the president why RHS students should attend the cleanup, she replied that there would be food, but refused to give details.
A team member who wished to remain anonymous told News from Rockettopia that the contents of the snacks had been kept confidential in fear of a stampede of volunteers.
"We're hoping for a few dozen people, and a few hundred would be wonderful. But if we told everyone about the refreshments, we might be dealing with crowds of a hundred
thousand and above." The team had apparently decided to keep the information classified after a computer model showed that volunteers might come from as far away as
Montana, and the combined weight of all the humans might cause Rockettopia to sink into the ground. Still, the team says, all volunteers are welcome. [For more
information, see INS Note.]
Not everyone likes Earth Day. For example, the RHS Supply Side Economics club plans to hold a Coal-burning protest to raise awareness about how environmental
regulations hurt billionaires. "We're very worried that when the government tries to stop companies from, say, turning a river into a lifeless sludge flow,
the government is hurting one of the most vulnerable groups in the country: Multi-billion-dollar corporations and their billionaire owners.", the president
of the SSE club told us when we reached him on his private yacht. "If pointless regulations on the amount of carcinogens a coal plant releases into the air
are kept in place, CEOs may have to lay off some workers to preserve their million-dollar bonuses. That would be a true tragedy, and that's why we're staging
a coal-burning rally to protest this horrible attempt to preserve what's left of life on earth." As a final note, the president of the SSE club denied rumors
that he practices kissing on a poster of Ayn Rand in his room. We here at News from Rockettopia could find no evidence of such rumors. In preparation for the
coal-burning rally, hospitals in the Rockettopia area are prepping their internal burn wards for a flood of patients.
INS (In All Seriousness) Note: For those of you who live in...you know where, the actual cleanup is at 500 Dedham Avenue, Saturday April 27th,
from 8:00 AM to ~11:00AM. Everyone is welcome, and you should come no matter how long you stay. I will actually be there, if that helps. Note: Deflate head.
Philosophy Club: 'Don't Say That 2013 Couldn't Be As Weird As 2012'
January 1st 2013| By J.E.Ditor
The Philosophy club has embarked on a campaign to make sure no one utters the phrase: "At least the next year couldn't be as weird as the last o-
OW! That was unnecessary!" The club warns that suggesting that the bizarre and in some cases unessential events of the past year, such as the Aurora
Shootings, the Newtown Shootings, the Oak Creek Shootings, the Clackamas Shooting, the Benghazi Attack, and Rick Santorum, could not be surpassed this
year would be "Tempting luck" and "Not worth the risk". A leader of the club elaborated: "We're undecided about whether such statements actually effect
the events that will unfold, but we're in agreement that it's definitely not worth taking that chance. I'm not sure the world could handle the kind of
craziness we saw in 2012 for another year. At least there's no election!"
Senator Kerry to Resign; Take Position As Secretary of State!
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Image from barschool.net.
Supermarket shelves these days are bursting with bottles of gin, and increasingly those of the pink variety. But it’s starting to become apparent that, as time goes on, some of the liquids are losing their vivid colour!
The bad news? I’m afraid it’s not just your bottle, or a faulty batch, it’s a consequence of how these gins are being coloured and flavoured.
The good news? It’s because producers are using natural colourings, so there’s no need to worry about artificial nasties, and there’s also an easy way to slow the fade…
A couple of months ago I finally lost it a little bit on twitter. I was so incredibly fed up of seeing products jumping on the gin-is-cool bandwagon for seemingly no reason, putting a little gin in a product (that you generally can’t taste) and slapping gin on the label. Enough is enough. And then the #MakeMeAngryIn5Words game came along… and the #StopFuckingWithGin hashtag was born.
What began as a silly answer to a viral Twitter ‘game’ resonated with quite a few of the other gin lovers on Twitter, and it’s taken on a bit of a life of its own. So I thought it best to clarify a few things about what I think the #StopFuckingWithGin movement stands for… (more…)
From Monday 5th to Thursday 8th February 2018, bartenders from 31 countries will travel to London to face-off in the world’s biggest gin-based cocktail competition: Beefeater MIXLDN 7.
Each will bring their own unique cocktail to the judging table, their interpretation of mixing London with their own home city. As well as showcasing their cocktail to judges, and the general public at a grand final on Thursday 8th, the finalists (listed below) will undertake brilliant experiences and challenges throughout the week.
I’ve seen their itinerary, and believe me, it’s pretty intense! Tasks and challenges will be judged by key industry names including Simon Difford editor of Difford’s guide, Ryan Chetiyawardana of Mr Lyan, and Beefeater Master Distiller Desmond Payne. (more…)
As many of you know, there’s a day in June dedicated to all things gin! The second Saturday of the month is declared World Gin Day, and I just happen to run it!
2018 will be the TENTH World Gin Day, with the day falling on Saturday 9 June. To celebrate this milestone I’ve teamed up with DrinkUp.London (the amazing guys behind London Cocktail Week, London Wine Week and London Beer Week!) to create World Gin Day LONDON, a four-day festival dedicated to celebrating gin across the UK’s capital between 7-10 June.
World Gin Day LONDON will be the first amplification of the World Gin Day event, and hopefully the first city of many! A cherry-picked selection of London’s greatest bars will be providing bespoke £6 gin cocktails for those with a festival pass (just £10), alongside a wealth of unique pop-up brand events. (more…)
Martinis truly are one of the best cocktails ever. They’re also an excellent way to explore the gin category and work out which gins float your boat, a simple mix of spirit and vermouth allowing the gin to really shine through.
Martini o’clock at home? Check out my guide to martinis for BBC Good Food. Ordering one in a bar? Check out my guide to understand the various aspects, from dry, wet, burnt, dirty and shaken to stirred.
Once you’ve got the basics down you can then take the stress out of decision making by using the martini generator below!
It’s that time of year again. Just 16 weeks lie between us and Christmas day. Comes around quickly, doesn’t it? The countdown seems to be getting longer every year, not helped by the fact that shops like Selfridges have ALREADY opened up their Christmas departments. Eugh. Time to reach for the gin? I think so.
There are some plus points about Christmas though, mostly that it becomes acceptable to incorporate gin into every possible aspect of the day. No really, get started with these ten ideas, plus a couple of extras for good luck..! There are also the bottles of gin wrapped up under the tree, waiting to be opened.
But before the big day itself, thank god we have Gin-filled Advent Calendars, easing the countdown just a little.
First there came Ginvent, developed by Gin Foundry and Drinks by the Dram. The calendars included 24 samples of gin (each 3cl, just over a UK single measure) for you to try throughout the month of December. The concept exploded, everyone bloody loved them and they were selling faster than they could be assembled! Fast forward a number of years (is it really SIX years later?) and you can now buy a range of calendars featuring pretty much every type of booze under the sun!
Due to the world’s obsession with gin these days there are a number of ginny options, so which one to choose? Don’t worry, I can help. Listen up… | <urn:uuid:aa55258e-b141-4f19-afed-2a50e152ae8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.ginmonkey.co.uk/category/gin/ | 2022-01-28T11:59:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.944175 | 1,135 |
We (as the Department of Cognitive Developmental Psychology) would like to draw your attention to two online talks that will take place in March:
- by Jonathan Redshaw (University of Queensland), March 11, 8 am (CET)
- by Brian Leahy (Harvard University), March 25, 3 pm (CET)
I will send more information (e.g., title & abstract) in the following weeks, along with the Zoom links.
We are looking forward to seeing you at our colloquiums.
And apologies for cross-posting.
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Mrs. Steere must be very proud this Mother’s Day. She’s probably dead, like my mom—except from old age, unlike my mom—who likely died from complications of late-stage untreated Lyme disease. But, hey—surely they’re looking over us both with their motherly approval.
Mrs. Steere’s boy Allen has really made a name for himself, having published hundreds of research articles, primarily on Lyme disease. She must be especially proud that he made something of his life after abruptly changing course in his last year of med school to learn about epidemiology to avoid the draft. What’s more, he published lots and lots of research that clearly went far beyond rheumatology, his area of specialization. One might be inclined to call him an over-achiever.
How rare for a doctor who specializes in old lady joint deterioration to be so passionate about a disabling, deadly, infectious disease. Nice of the State of Connecticut to recognize him for that.
“For this breakthrough work, Dr. Steere has been widely heralded. At a ceremony in Hartford last year (1998) Gov. John G. Rowland proclaimed Sept. 24 as Allen C. Steere Day.”
Congratulations, Mrs. Steere! What a fine man you raised. From draft dodger to disease detective, he really turned his life around, didn’t he?
I hope the children of Lyme-infected mothers have the same opportunities to make an impact upon society, given that there could be millions of them out there, suffering all kinds of random undiagnosed consequences. Goodness, they may not even have known about it, had Allen not published in 1988 that congenital transmission of Lyme disease is a real concern.
I’m sure there are hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of mothers out there who recognize the importance of this research to their families, as well. So, forgive me, Mrs. Steere, but this is the part where I point out that your boy never really lost his draft-dodger tendencies. He did, however, irretrievably lose his balls.
The basic timeline goes like this:
Allen joins the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS, a CDC division) right out of medical school “as a dodge” to avoid the draft and being sent overseas.
Allen “practiced the science of epidemiology across America.”
Allen begins “a fellowship at Yale in his passion, rheumatology. ‘I hoped that my C.D.C. experiences were something I could apply to the study of arthritis,’ he said.”
Allen is put back into service by the EIS to investigate a strange outbreak among children in Lyme, CT.
The Bayh-Dole Act began allowing universities and their researchers to profit off of intellectual property arising from federal government-funded research.
Throughout the 1980s
Allen publishes repeatedly about the ill effects of infection with B. burgdorferi that go far beyond an arthritic knee.
1983, for example:
The early clinical manifestations of Lyme disease.
“Lyme disease, caused by a tick-transmitted spirochete, typically begins with a unique skin lesion, erythema chronicum migrans. Of 314 patients with this skin lesion, almost half developed multiple annular secondary lesions; some patients had evanescent red blotches or circles, malar or urticarial rash, conjunctivitis, periorbital edema, or diffuse erythema. Skin manifestations were often accompanied by malaise and fatigue, headache, fever and chills, generalized achiness, and regional lymphadenopathy. In addition, patients sometimes had evidence of meningeal irritation, mild encephalopathy, migratory musculoskeletal pain, hepatitis, generalized lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly, sore throat, nonproductive cough, or testicular swelling. These signs and symptoms were typically intermittent and changing during a period of several weeks. The commonest nonspecific laboratory abnormalities were a high sedimentation rate, an elevated serum IgM level, or an increased aspartate transaminase level. Early Lyme disease can be diagnosed by its dermatologic manifestations, rapidly changing system involvement, and if necessary, by serologic testing.”
So, it was a multi-system disease that could be diagnosed clinically, and serologic testing wasn’t even necessary.
“The isolate from the cerebrospinal fluid was recovered in primary culture after two weeks of incubation; it was from a patient who had chronic meningitis. Two and a half months previously, ECM had developed in this patient and had been followed by intermittent headache, stifneck, fever, right-sided facial palsy, arthritis of the elbows, hips, and knees, malaise, and fatigue.”
THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 57(1984),453-461
The Clinical Spectrum and Treatment of Lyme Disease
“Regardless of the antibiotic agent given, nearly half of patients still experienced minor late complications– recurrent episodes of headache or pain in joints, tendons, bursae, or muscles, often accompanied by lethargy . Their physical examinations were usually normal. Symptoms were often reminiscent of those experienced at the beginning of the illness, but were generally briefer and less severe. They correlated significantly with the initial severity of the illness. In a given attack, pain usually occurred in one or two sites and lasted from hours to days. With frequent attacks, the pain was often migratory. Such attacks sometimes recurred for several years.”
Lyme disease was TERRIBLE and suspiciously close to CANCER, and racing across the country! Oh no! We needed a VACCINE! Thank GOD for 1986!
Allen’s report, “Antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi recognized during Lyme disease. Appearance of a new immunoglobulin M response and expansion of the immunoglobulin G response late in the illness,” becomes the basis for the diagnostic guidelines for almost the whole world! Band 41 on the Western blot will do it, as will varying bands over time,
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on Nov 14, 1986, in the United States, to reduce the potential financial liability of vaccine makers due to vaccine injury claims. The legislation was aimed at ensuring a stable market supply, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims. Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.”
Hooray! That meant that they could use federal grant money to fund vaccine “research,” profit personally from all of the “inventions,” and then not face any liability when the fake vaccines actually caused the disease! Way to go, Mrs. Steere! Your boy’s running with the popular kids!
Allen publishes “Clinical Pathologic Correlations of Lyme Disease by Stage” with Paul Duray. In this report they describe numerous disabling manifestations of the disease that are eerily similar to cancer. This is the same report cited earlier, where he mentioned “resultant congenital infections and fetal demise”:
“Not only are plasma cells plentiful in the spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow, they are also represented by large and somewhat atypical-appearing precursor B cells as well.”
“Numerous names have been given to this stage, including pseudolymphoma, lymphoid hyperplasia, follicular hyperplasia, lymphocy-toma cutis, Spiegler-Fendt lymphoid hyperplasia, and lymphadenosis benigna cutis of Baverstedt.”
“The immune response involves virtually all of the organs and structures of the reticuloendothelial system including the bone marrow, and clinical pain and discomfort seems to correlate with hyperplasia of lymph nodes and spleen and bone marrow. Diffuse visceral involvement in this acute stage mimics infectious mononucleosis or disseminated viral syndromes. These include conjuctivitis, pharyngitis, pneumonitis with dry cough and mild pleuritic pain, hepato-splenic tenderness, lymph node swelling of the neck and groin, and orchitis. There is lymphoid hyperplasia of the lymph nodes and spleen consisting of prominent germinal centers and numerous perifollicular lymphocytes, with proliferation of plasma cell precursors and mature plasma cells. *The plasma cell precursors are large, appear tumor-like, and can resemble Reed-Sternberg cells.”*
“The red pulp of the spleen is congested, not unlike that seen in infectious mononucleosis. Spirochetes can be demonstrated in the lymph nodes, spleen and bone marrow and liver. There is a transient hepatitis reflected by elevated liver cell enzymes such as SGOT, SGPT, and GGT. The liver can vary from a mild lymphocytic portal triaditis all the way to liver cell derangement that simulates acute viral hepatitis.”
“One hepatitis case from Wisconsin showed a remarkable number of mitoses of liver cells, itself a very unusual finding in non-neoplastic conditions of the liver.”
“Cardiovascular system involvement is manifested by one or more forms of cardiac arrhythmia. Patients may have either an incomplete (first or second degree) AV block or a complete AV block. Some patients appear not to be aware of their arrhythmias during this stage.“
If you get the picture, you could skip ahead here, right past the next block quote, unless you want to read about even more manifestations that any moron can see do not describe a simple ouchie knee.
“Clinical signs and symptoms of meningoencephalitis are fully developed in stage II. Patients have headache, photophobia, and signs of meningismus. This stage is paralleled by CSF pleocytosis. In terminal cases seen thus far, band-like infiltrates of lymphocytes and plasma cells are seen in the leptomeningeal layers. Some cases have shown mild spongioform changes of the cerebral cortex, and others have shown an increase in oligodendrocytes, which at times are situated in cuffs around small vessels. Microgliosis of a focal nature was seen in one young male in coma who responded to intravenous penicillin therapy (FIG.5). Spirochetes were demonstrated in that case. Patients have either severe encephalopathy including stupor and coma, or varied forms of psychoneurosis including depression. Many of these are also found in stage III disease. These encephalopathic stages may be entirely absent, and patients present with various combinations of cranial neuritis. Bilateral Bell’s palsy is a prominent feature in some stage II patients, and almost constitutes a firm clinical sign that a given patient in an endemic area with bilateral Bell’s palsy has Lyme disease until proven otherwise. Also the clinical triad of cranial neuritis, meningitis, and radiculoneuritis also constitutes Lyme disease in an endemic area unless proven otherwise. Aggregates and groups of lymphocytes are found infiltrating the autonomic ganglia directly as well as the afferent and efferent rootlets. Plasma cells are not so prominent as are the lymphocytes in this stage. We have
not seen spirochetes in the ganglia, but the assumption is that they are directly present.”
“We have had recent experience with a lesion that is not uncommonly seen in late stage II in Europe, and that consists of a lesion manifested clinically by extreme pain in one or more proximal muscle groups such as the musculature of the thigh or forearm. This pain is not that of the stage I myalgia but is one of pain at rest as well as in motion. Clinically there is swelling and tenderness of involved muscle groups. This lesion appears to be independent of peripheral neuropathy or central nervous system involvement, although they may coexist. Biopsy shows perivascular infiltrates of lymphocytes and plasma cells of vessels within the muscle itself.”
“The duration of Lyme myositis is not known, but it probably can persist for variably long periods.”
“Stage III (TABLE3) is the chronic phase of Lyme disease, usually beginning months after initial onset, and lasting into many years. Stage III is characterized by involvement of the joints (intermittent oligoarthritis), peripheral nervous system, skin and subcutaneous soft tissue.”
“In chronic and severe forms, there may be nerve fiber loss, demyelination, and changes not unlike that of Wallerian degeneration.”
“Two cases of lichen sclerosus (et atrophicus) have now been seen in chronic Lyme disease patients by us and by others.23 Both had the upper papillary dermal homogeni-zation of the collagen with an edematous appearance as seen in classic LSEA, and also had the band-like mid-dermal lymphocytic infiltration. Again in both of these cases, the deeper dermal vessels showed occlusive changes.”
“Lyme disease is capable of producing a wide variety of clinical pathologic conditions and lesions having in common histologic features of collagen-vascular disease. The plasma cell is an omnipotent inflammatory responder in most tissues involved by Lyme disease, ranging from relatively acute to lesions that have gone on for years. Vascular thickening also seems to be prominent, and in the dermis is accompa- nied by scleroderma-like collagen expansion. The disease in some ways resembles the responses seen in lupus erythematosus such as mild cerebritis with lymphocytes and plasma cells in the leptomeninges. Lymphoplasmacytic panniculitis of Lyme disease resembles lupus profundus, both in the infiltrate and the plasma cell-blood vessel relationship. The onion skin thickened vessels of the synovia resemble the vessels of lupus spleens, while the scleradermoid thickening of the dermis and various skin lesions of stage III Lyme disease suggest a collagen-vascular disorder. Finally, the perivascular lymphoid infiltrate in clinical myositis does not differ from that seen in polymyositis or dermatomyositis. All of these histologic derangements suggest immunologic damage in response to persistence of the spirochete, however few in number.”
Allen’s buddies establish the “enterprise,” the American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF), to act as the financial-backing and propaganda arm of the Vector-Borne Diseases Diagnostic & Prophylactic Racketeering Organization. From this point on, “May the odds be ever in your favor!” (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
LYMErix Phase I trials were underway at this time.
Whaddaya know? Allen publishes about bad-knee Lyme being an HLA-linked outcome, thus setting the stage for his work with Frank Dressler that must have made mom really proud.
Don’t all moms simply glow over their children’s research fraud that causes millions of victims to suffer from a mystery illness that’s denied by all of medicine?
Allen falsifies Lyme disease testing: uses “high passage strains” and “OspA and B without the lipid attached” to leave OspA and B out of the standard for his later monopoly on vector borne diseases testing. Only Corixa, Imugen and Yale were to be licensed to use the RICO strain patent by Dave Persing (US Patent # 6,045,804)
J Infect Dis. 1994 Feb;169(2):313-8.
Antibody responses to the three genomic groups of Borrelia burgdorferi in European Lyme borreliosis. Dressler F1, Ackermann R, Steere AC.
Good job, Allen!
Yale patents LYMErix/OspA
1994 (Busy Year)
Allen’s “research” with Dressler forms the basis of the proposed *new* diagnostic standard at the CDC’s Dearborn conference. The Lyme disease case definition now means that only the HLA-linked bad-knee cases are counted. The other 85% of victims are now denied diagnosis and treatment, sent to psych, and slandered to death.
Lyme is no longer a multi-system disease that can be diagnosed clinically, without serologic testing. Now, you have to jump through 18 hoops while patting your head, rubbing your tummy, and repeating, “Lyme disease is only a knee. Lyme disease is only a knee. Lyme disease is only a knee.”
The Time Warp Since 1994, DEARBORN
Oh, Mrs. Steere, your boy is having trouble keeping his story straight! Like here, in a 2003 presentation at Harvard. Just kidding on that congenital transmission thing and fetal demise! LOLZ!
“What is the risk of maternal-fetal transmission of the spirochete?”
“Several provocative cases in the past have caused concern that maternal-fetal transmission of the spirochete may cause adverse outcomes in the fetus. However, subsequent prospective studies have not been able to identify a case in which the spirochete has been shown to cause fetal damage. In a study of pregnant white-footed mice, all of whom were infected with the spirochete, there was an absence of transplacental transmission of the spirochete to their offspring. Thus, maternal-fetal transmission of the spirochete would seem to occur rarely, if at all.”
Mrs. Steere, did you ever tell your draft-dodging boy that it’s not good to lie?
Ask ANY Lyme victim, and they can tell you how we’re sneered at by doctors, dismissed for being “noncompliant,” called crazy and hypochondriacal, and the worst—HYSTERICAL, which is a misogynistic term used to intimidate women into submission.
FACT: All of this medical abuse is a direct result of the lies spoken and published by the ALDF/CDC/Yale enterprise since the early 1990s. That’s right: 25 years of ABUSE heaped upon FAILURE TO TREAT a real, organic illness that Allen Steere said was similar to cancer, before he said it was just a bum knee.
This report pretty much sums it up:
Antiscience and ethical concerns associated with advocacy of Lyme disease.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2011.
Auwaerter PG1, Bakken JS, Dattwyler RJ, Dumler JS, Halperin JJ, McSweegan E, Nadelman RB, O’Connell S, Shapiro ED, Sood SK, Steere AC, Weinstein A, Wormser GP.
“Advocacy for Lyme disease has become an increasingly important part of an antiscience movement that denies both the viral cause of AIDS and the benefits of vaccines and that supports unproven (sometimes dangerous) alternative medical treatments. Some activists portray Lyme disease, a geographically limited tick-borne infection, as a disease that is insidious, ubiquitous, difficult to diagnose, and almost incurable; they also propose that the disease causes mainly non-specific symptoms that can be treated only with long-term antibiotics and other unorthodox and unvalidated treatments. Similar to other antiscience groups, these advocates have created a pseudoscientific and alternative selection of practitioners, research, and publications and have coordinated public protests, accused opponents of both corruption and conspiracy, and spurred legislative efforts to subvert evidence-based medicine and peer-reviewed science. The relations and actions of some activists, medical practitioners, and commercial bodies involved in Lyme disease advocacy pose a threat to public health.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21867956/ (Check out the “similar articles” while you’re there!)
(Mrs. Steere, was Allen bullied as a child? Because he seems to have some aggression issues against vulnerable people.)
And, to truly ice the cake, the cabal knew very well–PRIOR TO the formation of the ALDF–that the disease is caused by the very lipids that went into making LYMErix.
Raymond Dattwyler, 1988, saying that the disease is attributable to the “supernatants,” or the oils, or lipids, from the Osps.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1988;539:103-11.
Modulation of natural killer cell activity by Borrelia burgdorferi.
Golightly M1, Thomas J, Volkman D, Dattwyler R.
“..when lymphocytes are cultured in the presence of growing Bb there is a marked inhibition ( p < .0005 ) of NK activity on days 3, 5, and 7 when compared to lymphocytes cultured in BSKII media in the absence of spirochetes. This effect is not due to a selective depletion or or toxicity to endogenous NK since viability studies and monoclonal antibodies demonstrate no significant changes after culture with the organism.”
“The inhibition is directly attributable to the organism or its supernatants (data not shown).”
Borrelial lipids cause immunosuppression, is what he is saying.
Here is what else Luft and Dattwyler said in IDSA’s journal in 1989 (so Allen is fully aware of it) about how treatment fails, and how this may be due to “pathological changes that occur prior to treatment” confirmed by Baumgarth when she showed infection with Borrelia damaged B cell germinal centers and rendered victims unable to deal with a common viral infection like influenza.
Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 1989 Nov;15(4):747-55. Treatment of Lyme borreliosis.
Luft BJ1, Dattwyler RJ. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2555849
FAILURE RATES OF >50% ARE BEING REPORTED….CLEARLY, ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES ARE NEEDED. CLEARLY. NOT “YOU’RE NUTS; GO AWAY.” Because treatment fails half the time. Say Dattwyler & Luft, Allen Steere “Regardless of the antibiotic agent given, nearly half of patients still experienced minor late complications-recurrent episodes of headache or pain in joints, tendons, bursae, or muscles, often accompanied by lethargy .” (1983), and Charles Chiu (UCSF, 2016).
And NOW, guess what? Can you guess?
So, ultimately, what that means is that Allen and the crew again admit that Lyme might be a little worse than just a knee. Sound the alarms, blare the sirens: Lyme disease is a disease again, and we need a vaccine. Again.
“This finding suggests that there is redundancy in the ability of the innate immune system to recognize B. burgdorferi and/or that these components can activate pathways that produce anti-inflammatory cytokines, … – the anti-inflammatory effects might be the more important function of TLR signaling.”
“The anti-inflammatory effects might be the more important function of TLR signaling.” Ya think? You mean the immunosuppression? The sick people might be more important than the not sick people? Thats great. Yep. A “vaccine” is just what we need for a disease we already have, that isn’t really a disease, but wait….oh, yeah, it is, but we don’t know what OspA is….never mind that it caused the disease, itself.
Thank you, Mrs. Steere. Thank you for endowing the world with this gigantic piece of human excrement named Allen.
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During my semester in Peru, I have decided I want to be a doctor, teacher, policy analyst, ecologist, activist, geographer, photographer…the list continues. There is a line in an old Lil Wayne song (yes, my middle school guilty pleasure) that has constantly played in my head the past four months: “The fact that you saw the world affected all your decisions.” Even from being in one different country, my choices have drastically altered. Although I still feel fairly lost as far as the professional path I want to pursue, I have developed a plethora of skills and qualities that will be useful in whatever field I ultimately choose. These are the ones that have stood out the most:
1. Foreign Language Proficiency
Obviously! Going to school, befriending locals, listening to music, reading assignments, books, listening to news—there are so many powerful ways to fully integrate into the language and learn to communicate despite barriers. This is a great way to show respect for the local culture, and not need to rely on English.
2. Awareness of Global Issues
Reading the news is a wonderful way to stay in the know, but physically being in a country and observing their struggles and triumphs is a whole different story. Even within just one month in Peru, I witnessed firsthand their education crisis. My runs by the beach exposed the exploitation of the ocean and the harmful effects on marine life, inspiring me to live more conscientiously and be aware of how each action I make affects other factors.
3. Appreciation of Diversity
Peru is home to people of so many backgrounds—Spanish, Incan, Andean, Japanese, Chinese, African—it is virtually impossible to deny the diversity this country boasts in its music, dances, cuisine, and traditions. Not just its people, but also its agriculture, flourishes from variety. There are over 3,000 different varieties of potato, and more than 55 unique types of corn. This is amazing, and has taught me to seek out diversity and utilize it however possible.
4. Open-Mindedness and Perspective
Whenever I described cultural differences to my friends and family back home, I was tempted to say things were ‘strange’ or ‘weird.’ But I soon realized that they were just ‘different.’ This open-minded approach to understanding a new culture will enhance your perspective in many ways.
This is the most important skill I attained. Living without a roommate and with an older family, I spent a lot of time alone…needless to say, much of the time it was just me, my thoughts, and I. This was very hard for me, as someone who loves being surrounded by others. But this skill is invaluable in the world for meaningful personal and professional development.
Anyone who says studying abroad is easy is lying. There are many challenges you will face, but even more lessons you will learn, experiences you will cherish, and parts of yourself you will discover and develop that will increase your professional asset tremendously.
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The Senate convened shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday to start in earnest the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump, who faces charges that he abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress. Senators were warned that they had to remain quiet, a skill that they rarely exercise in the Senate chamber, or face imprisonment.
The first order of business was a debate over the format of the trial, a draft of which Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, released on Monday. Democrats spent the morning lashing out against Mr. McConnell’s plan, accusing him and other Republicans of trying to cover up Mr. Trump’s actions.
Unlike most other debates in the Senate, the elected senators did not do the actual debating. Instead, the seven House impeachment managers, who are serving as prosecutors in the case, and Mr. Trump’s legal defense team argued over the rules that will govern the proceedings.
Along party lines, the Senate voted down three amendments from Democrats aimed at introducing new evidence.
The Senate voted 53 to 47 to reject three proposed amendments to Mr. McConnell’s rules proposal. The first would have allowed the Senate to subpoena White House documents that the Trump administration had refused to release. The second focused on documents from the State Department, including correspondences between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top officials. Before taking a dinner break around 7:30 p.m., the Senate voted down an amendment targeting records from the Office of Management and Budget, which handled the suspension of military aid to Ukraine that is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry.
Democrats have argued that the documents are critical for the Senate to conduct a fair trial. The amendment involving State Department documents would have also allowed lawmakers to subpoena records involving Gordon D. Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union. Mr. Sondland had said he had been unable to access his written records before he testified at a House hearing in November that he had worked with others to pressure Ukraine “at the express direction of the president.”
Once lawmakers returned from a brief recess, they rejected proposals that would have allowed the Senate to subpoena White House officials, including Mick Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff, for testimony, as well as one requesting records from the Defense Department.
But when Democrats called for the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, to turn over documents related to the Ukraine matter, the White House hit back with a sharp statement on Mr. Trump’s behalf.
“The Democrats are an utter joke — they have no case, and this latest political stunt proves it,” said Hogan Gidley, a White House spokesman. “The idea that the counsel to the president has to turn over protected documents and confidential information is ludicrous, and to imply he can’t represent the president of the United States in an impeachment proceeding is completely absurd.”
Earlier on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump was asked a question about the impeachment trial, taking place thousands of miles away, he said, “That whole thing is a hoax.”
What is apparent is that the Republican controlled Senate’s handling of the impeachment trial is a hoax. McConnell has gone on record as saying that he is not impartial, will not allow witnesses, and has worked in coordination with Trump’s attorneys.
This travesty of justice would not occur anywhere else in America. The fact that it is happening in the halls of the Senate is very sobering.
We are witnessing the demise of democracy.
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My husband and I are planning a two week trip to Andalusia in the beginning of April, and are considering a day trip to Tangier as recommended by our Travel God, Rick. We are still working out the itinerary, but ultimately plan on visiting (in no particular order) Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, Toledo, Ronda, Granada and Tangier. As typical, boring Americans on our second trip abroad, we think the prospect of taking a "dip" into North Africa is super exciting and exotic.
However, everywhere I go to read about the prospect of a day trip to Tangier, there are several people recommending AGAINST it. I'm genuinely curious as to WHY certain people say this.
Just looking for honest answers here - please share your experiences both positive and negative! I appreciate you all! | <urn:uuid:6bf3360c-a091-4bd5-949b-38375eb9d6c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/spain/tangier-or-not-to-tangier-that-is-the-question | 2022-01-28T10:47:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.956093 | 173 |
Bregenz, 26.9. 2019: At yesterday’s Annual General Meeting, Prof. Dr. Matthias Freise was newly elected to the Supervisory Board. The election is valid until the end of the 37th Annual General Meeting which formally approves the actions of the Managing Board and the Supervisory Board in the fiscal year 2023/24.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Freise, born on 01.02.1965, has many years of experience in the fashion industry, among other things thanks to several responsible positions at Hugo Boss AG. Since 2011 he has been Professor for “Fashion Procurement and Retail Buying” at the University of Reutlingen.
The new Supervisory Board member replaces Birgit Wilhelm, who retired from the Supervisory Board at the end of the Annual General Meeting as planned. As a result, the Supervisory Board of Wolford Aktiengesellschaft is once again composed of four members elected by the Annual General Meeting. | <urn:uuid:01f76262-76d9-4f4f-bba5-67794125c552> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://company.wolford.com/prof-dr-matthias-freise-newly-elected-to-the-supervisory-board/ | 2022-01-28T11:55:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.944543 | 204 |
Exploring perspectives and experiences of dermatologists on challenges in treatment options for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iraqi Kurdistan Region
This study aimed to understand the range and diversities of opinions and the practical experiences of dermatologists about the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis. This explorative study based on Q-methodology was conducted in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan Region. The study involved a sample of 37 dermatologists. Forty statements were extracted that have covered various aspects of difficulties and uncertainties of treating cutaneous leishmaniasis. We asked the participants to rank-order the 40 statements into a distribution, ranging from “least agree” to “most agree." Data analysis involves by-person factor analysis using PQMethod 2.35. | <urn:uuid:ad6f57e5-1690-4384-aa36-c8b1f0f5fda1> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/d9m32d38kh/1 | 2022-01-28T12:26:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.933178 | 155 |
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Gichi-Ode' Akiing (Lake Place Park)
Gichi-ode' Akiing (Lake Place Park) is located off of the Lakewalk, just above the corner of the lake. The park provides connection to Sister Cities Park and a small atrium area that has scheduled summer performances. Public art is featured in Gichi-ode' Akiing, sponsored by Duluth Sister Cities International.
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Egypt's president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in the second session of the first National youth conference in Sharm El-Sheikh (Photo: Egyptian Presidency)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated on Tuesday the first annual National Youth Conference in the Sinai resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh with the participation of 3,000 youth from the country’s universities and political parties.
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail and a number of ministers, officials and public figures attended the opening ceremony of the three-day conference organised under the auspices of the president.
During his inauguration speech, El-Sisi said that the conference, the first session of which was focused on education in Egypt, should be used to “have a dialogue and raise hope.”
Regarding the education system in Egypt, El-Sisi said that the government cannot put an overhaul of the country's poor education system high on its agenda at the moment, as the country does not have sufficient resources to do so.
The second session was focused on the evaluation of youth participation in parliament.
The speaker panel for this session included Minister of Youth Khaled Abdel-Aziz, former leader of the Democratic Front Party Osama El-Ghazali Harb, MP Tarek El-Kholi, MP Mohamed El-Sewedy of the Support Egypt bloc, and member of the National Council for Human Rights Mohamed Abdel-Aziz.
During the session, President El-Sisi suggested that each MP be appointed two assistants under the age of 40 so as to prepare the youth for politics.
He also encourage the youth to participate in the upcoming local council elections.
El-Ghazali Harb asked the president to pardon young people currently detained for non-violent political crimes and have not received jail sentences.
In response, the president said that a committee will be formed to revise the cases of youth activists detained for non-violent charges in politically related cases.
The president added that this will be the fourth time a committee is tasked with revising the cases of detained young activists.
In the evening, the Egyptian president attended a meeting with a group of Egyptian youths where he said that the country is in a “difficult position” and that its young people should not resort to protests, as this would be “extremely harmful.”
The first National Youth Conference will continue for another two days, where more sessions as well as workshops in different fields will take place, including politics and the economy. | <urn:uuid:5c0b5b7e-089d-47b3-aa34-f19835e8b2a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/246611/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Sisi-inaugurates-first-day-of-annual-Nation.aspx | 2022-01-28T12:24:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.951705 | 525 |
Livestock Subsidies in Kent County, Delaware totaled $234,131 from 1995-2020‡.
Programs included in livestock subsidies
|Livestock Compensation Program||$186,389|
|Market Facilitation Program - Dairy and Hogs||$29,844|
|Livestock Indemnity Payments||$12,192|
|Small Hog Operation||$5,706|
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THE LONG, flower-decked balcony of Lady Barchester's house in Chesterton Place was the most intimate spot in London—a sort of tropical paradise snatched from the warm Southern Seas. In the purple, velvety darkness late on that perfect June night, two people were seated there.
"This," Augustus Openshaw sighed, "is great."
"But dangerous, darling," Angela Gilliland whispered. "If any of those dancers wandered in—"
"Oh, that's all right," Gus Openshaw smiled. "I got Betty Barchester to fasten the window behind us, so that there would he no chance of interruption."
Angela Gilliland snuggled a little closer to the young man with the orange-hued hair and the golden freckles lavishly bestowed on that blunt, good-natured face of his. She was exceedingly fond of Gus, and none the less because she ought not to have been there at all. When a young man has to eke out a miserable existence on about a thousand a year, he has no right to entangle the affections of a beauty like Angela Gilliland, who in her own right was mistress of twenty times that sum. Not that it was anybody's affair but theirs and Mr. Benjamin Openshaw's, and thereby hangs a tale.
Now, Mr. Benjamin Openshaw was not only Gus's uncle, but guardian to the fascinating young woman who at that moment was perched ecstatically on the fortunate young man's knee. They sat there talking over their troubles, and trying to find some scheme by which to avert the threatening danger, and put a spoke in the wheel of Mr. Openshaw's programme at the same time. And as Gus said, it took a bit of doing.
"Now, look here, darling," he observed. "We can't go fooling on like this. Your father was a dear old chap, but he made a bit of a bloomer when he shoved all those dollars of his—I mean yours—into the hands of Uncle Ben. I ain't quarrelling with the idea of your money being tied up till you are twenty-five. Of course, we can wait for the next four years."
"Yes, I suppose we can, Gus," Angela sighed.
Gus clicked his strong even teeth together as he thought of that fat, pompous old uncle of his, that elderly politician who still lived in hope that he might some day find himself endowed with Cabinet Rank. He was a heavy bore of the largest calibre, and he was the proud possessor of a son, another Gus, who was perhaps even a shade more serious and ponderous than his sire. And, quite within the bounds of honour, of course. Openshaw pere was exceedingly anxious to see the hope of his house allied to the dazzling beauty, and equally dazzling fortune of Miss Angela Gilliland.
"Is there no one who can manage it, Gus, dear?" Angela asked almost tearfully. "If you could only make him ridiculous. If you could only wound his family pride. If you could hit him through that Hamlet-like offspring of his!"
"That's a dashed good idea," Gus said. "Something in the public line, I mean, that gets in the newspapers. A stunt to make people laugh at him. Practical—or—got it!"
"Got what?" Angela asked.
"Why, the notion, the big idea. You know Jack Adair?"
Of course, Angela knew Jack Adair, the popular clerk in the Foreign Office, who led all the theatricals and generally presided as a sort of master of ceremonies over the gaieties of their particular set, and who eked out a rather slender income as one of the staff of a popular daily paper.
"Well, there you are then," Gus went on a little vaguely. "But Jack will do it, and he will see that it gets all the publicity it needs through the 'Morning Herald.' But mind you, it's going to take a bit of time. Let me see, isn't my distinguished cousin at present quartered in Rome?"
"British Embassy," Angela murmured. "In training for the Diplomatic Service, and all that."
"Good," Gus cried. "The great work begins to-night. Now, don't ask a lot of questions. And trust me implicitly. I am going out like another Sir Galahad, O.B.E., to take the road for the sake of my lady's bright eyes."
Ten minutes later, Gus was closeted eagerly with that brilliant young man, Jack Adair, in a quiet comer of the inner drawing-room. Then they left the house together and parted with much laughter at the comer of the street.
Half an hour later, the young man with the saffron-coloured hair and gold freckles stood by the side of the Serpentine looking down into the placid water. He was beautifully turned out with a shining topper covering his flaming locks, and with a light overcoat unbuttoned that showed the gleaming expanse of his shirt and waistcoat. And then he did a strange thing. He stooped down deliberately, removed his glistening pumps, and proceeded to divest himself of a pair of lavender socks shot with gold. This done, he rolled these articles up into a tight ball, and threw them into the water. A minute or two later, he was strolling towards his quarters with an air of absolute unconcern, until at length he found himself in Piccadilly. There he came face to face with a stalwart policeman who eyed him with astonishment.
"What's the gime?" the officer asked. "What are you playin' at? An' where are you goin'?"
"John o' Groats," Gus said. "Do I turn to the right or left, or do I keep straight on?"
"But what's the gime?" the man in blue repeated almost imploringly. "Look 'ere, you'd better come along o' me and see the sergeant."
"I decline," Gus said with dignity, "to see any sergeant. I am not interested in sergeants—they are the sort of people I have been in the habit of mixing with. My name is Openshaw, Augustus Openshaw. And if you don't happen to know it—"
Apparently the officer did, for his manner became a little more respectful.
"Well, sir," he went on. "It's no business of mine, of course, but I don't think, as Mr. Benjamin Openshaw will very much like it. And if you take my advice—"
At that moment another man in evening dress appeared upon the scene. With a twinkle in his eye, Gus recognised his inconsequent friend, Jack Adair. The latter stopped and regarded his confederate with a fine air of intense astonishment.
"What, do you mean to say you are actually going on with it?" he cried. "Look here, come along with me."
"I decline to come along with you," Gus said with dignity. "I have made a wager and I am going to carry it out. I am on my way to walk to Scotland, and if you will kindly tell me whether I turn to left or to right when I come to the end of the road, I shall be greatly obliged."
Without a word, Adair put his hand through his friend's arm and led him away with the air of one who is humouring a fractious child. He winked at the policeman over his shoulder and significantly touched his forehead.
"It works, old man, it works," Gus said. "I will tell you where to find me from time to time, but I don't think that I am going to walk quite all the way, and anyhow, I can manage to keep from permanent lameness if I carry a pair of running shoes in my tail coat pocket. Now, come inside and have a drink, and I will tell you—"
"Not on your life," Adair said. "It will take me all my time to reach the office of my rag if I am going to have that paragraph in all the editions tomorrow."
The countless readers of the 'Morning Herald' saw that striking paragraph as they sat at breakfast in their luxurious suburban homes:
DRAMATIC SCENES IN PICCADILLY.
"Early this morning a young man of distinguished appearance was discovered strolling down Piccadilly wearing immaculate evening dress, and in every way resplendent, save for the fact that he was entirely divested of footgear and socks. He explained to a bewildered policeman that he was engaged in a wager for an enormous sum to walk, just as he was, from Piccadilly Circus to the North of Scotland. We gather from our representative, who happened to be on the spot, that one of the conditions of the bet was that the journey should be accomplished in bare feet, and that the protagonist in question should wear nothing but evening kit, and that he should, thus apparelled, walk through every town that happened to be en route. This, our representative had first hand and, moreover, he elicited from the chief actor himself the fact that his name is Augustus Openshaw. We understand, therefore, that he is the only son of Mr. Benjamin Openshaw, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs who, we believe, is certain of Cabinet rank at an early date. Further particulars of this eccentric feat will appear in our later edition."
For the moment, the political world was standing still, there were no complications on land and sea, no lurid, salacious divorce case penciling, so that the 'Morning Herald' made a feature of the ridiculous stunt which they regarded as all their own. And, other papers kindly copied. The enterprising Openshaw was located here and there, he was seen in this town and that, sturdily plodding his way north, and occasionally encountered on country roads, where he prudently removed his unspiked running shoes at the slightest sign of life coming in his direction. Also, strange to say, no word of indignant expostulation came from the head of the family. And Gus found himself troubled and worrying.
The Right Honourable Benjamin, Openshaw had been absent for some time on the affairs of his country in Brussels. So, because he had not seen the English papers for so long, this terrible scandal had not approached his august presence. And then, when his work was finished, and he found himself with a little leisure, he turned eagerly to the British papers and read the whole horrible catastrophe in a state bordering on collapse.
So the Right Honourable gentleman packed his traps and fled precipitously homewards, bent upon righting this terrible wrong and perhaps hushing up a scandal which threatened to ruin his political career. And the first person he met as he crossed his threshold was his erring son, in propria persona, looking mildly through his spectacles, and bleating in his accustomed manner.
"This is a nice business!" Openshaw bellowed. "What do you mean by it, sir? What do you mean—"
"My dear father," the other Gus said mildly. "I am as much in the darkness as you are. I got an English paper in Rome some days ago, and directly I read the paragraph there, I hurried home as soon as possible. I can't understand it."
A sudden, light illuminated the great statesman.
"It's that rascally cousin of yours!" he breathed heavily. "One of those disgraceful practical jokes of his. A wager, perhaps. He would not give a thought to any position, or the due he owes to the family. I suppose Sommerson is here. Get him to telephone to your cousin and say he must come round here at once."
Sommerson, deeply concerned, and anxious for his chief's political welfare, managed to find Gus at his club and returned a moment later with the information that the delinquent would be on view within the next half-hour. He came cheerfully enough, smilingly hailing the aged butler and apparently oblivious of the fact that Benjamin's late wife's sister and ruler of the household had deliberately turned her back upon him. He knew that Angela was in the house somewhere, but deemed it policy not to ask after her—at any rate for the moment. He strode across the hall into the sacred domain where Benjamin Openshaw composed those majestic speeches of his, and stood in the Presence entirely unabashed.
"I suppose you know why I sent for you," Openshaw asked.
"Oh, Lord—yes," Gus said cheerfully. "About that little stunt of mine. Upon my word, I am sorry. But, after all do you think that it really matters?"
Openshaw fairly gasped.
"Matters!" he echoed. "Do you know sir, that my whole political career is at stake—to say nothing of that of your unfortunate cousin? I have been made a laughing stock of, sir! And as the head of the family I have been held up to ridicule. Do you know that 'Punch' has had something to say about it?"
"By Jove!—that is something like fame!" the recalcitrant Gus said cheerfully. "But why blame me?"
"Why blame you? Why blame you? You did it on purpose, sir—deliberately to injure your cousin."
"Here, steady on!" Gus said. "I didn't put that paragraph in the 'Morning. Herald.' I had to tell the police who I was, and they naturally jumped to the conclusion that I was your son. Of course, I know you don't care for these jokes, and in any case—"
"Joke, sir! Do you call it a joke? Some idiotic wager, I presume. The sort of amazing folly that you inconsequent idiots are always indulging in. It may be too late to save the family name, but at any rate, I can only try. You, sir, will have to make an abject apology. I order you immediately to write to that confounded paper, whose politics, by the way, are diametrically opposite to mine, and eat dust, sir!—eat dirt!"
"Well, I think that is only fair," Gus said coolly. "I'll make as abject an apology, as you like. Fact is, I came prepared to do so. So if you will sling me over a pen and some paper—"
Openshaw placed the desired material in front of his sinful relative, and Gus proceeded to write. If Mr. Openshaw had been less concerned with his own dignity and had been a little more observant than he was, he would have seen that Gus, who couldn't write three consecutive lines of prose to save his life, was getting on with amazing rapidity. He paused once in the flow of his splendid composition as if carefully polishing a period. As a matter of fact, Gus was what he would have called bunkered over his orthography, having been badly tripped by the word 'apology.' He finally decided to spell it with an 'o,' and proceeded cheerfully on his florid way. Then, with a certain air of triumph, he tossed the sheet across the table.
"There, what price that?" he asked.
It was a humble enough apologia, as even the outraged statesman was fain to admit. It was quite sufficient that it would restore him in the eyes of his fellow-men, and place the other Gus back upon his pedestal of stolid British respectability.
"Um!—very good!" the other man said. "Now, if you will sign that, I will see that it is duly posted. But I am not appeased yet, sir, I am not appeased yet. You will be good enough to abstain from coming here in future, and you and Miss Gilliland—"
Gus looked up suddenly with a fighting light in his eyes. He might have been confronted with a long putt on the last green for the match and the championship. His Irish hair gleamed in the sunshine filtering through the window, and his mouth grey hard.
"Oh, indeed," he said. "I see what you are driving at. But, look here, there are conditions. If I like to make a wager to walk to Land's End on my hands, it is nothing to do with you. And if newspapers like to make mistakes in people's identity, then it is no concern of mine. Now listen, uncle, I have known Angela all my life, and I have been dead keen on her ever since she was a kid with pigtails. And I am going to marry her. I am going to marry her with your consent or not. I know you can hold her money over for the next four years, but we can manage on my thousand quid per annum. Take a cottage near some decent golf links, and do with one servant. We have talked it over."
"Oh, you have, have you? And perhaps you have considered the consequences."
"Consequences. What consequences?"
"Well—er—let us say offspring," Openshaw suggested.
"Topping," Gus said delightedly. "By Gad, I never thought of that. A couple of natting youngsters would suit me down to the ground. I shouldn't mind a bit; bathing and feeding the little beggars. Awfully fond of kiddies, always was. And Angela, why, she'd be fairly potty about them. Now then."
"You mean to threaten me, sir," Openshaw demanded.
"Well, not quite that. But dash it, it's a poor rule that doesn't work both ways. You have got my apology there, and I am quite prepared to sign it and send it on to the editor of the 'Morning Herald.' There. Stick a stamp on it and get one of your servants to post it at once."
Openshaw looked a little less majestic.
"I am glad to see, sir," he said, "that you have some respect for the honour of the house. Why you came near, very near indeed, perhaps to depriving a country of a future Premier, at any rate, a Cabinet Minister. Still," he went on loftily, "I accept your apology in the spirit in which it has been offered, and I trust that time will heal the wound. I have nothing more to say, nothing. You can go, Augustus, you can go."
The fighting light crept back into Gus's eyes. Sooth to say, he had come there a bit ashamed of himself with the consciousness that he had not been quite playing the game. The whole thing had been a piece of inconsequent folly, and he was feeling rather ashamed of it. But, dash it all, if the head of the family was going to ride off like that, he would have something to say.
"Look here," he expostulated. "Why should I take all the blame? It isn't my fault that there are two Gus Openshaws, and it isn't my fault because my cousin is such a mutt. And now perhaps we can exchange documents. Here is a bit of paper in my pocket which I think you might sign."
He handed it over, and the potential future Premier began to read. His cheeks swelled up like those of an angry turkey cock.
"Colossal impudence," he cried. "You are actually asking me in writing to give my consent to an alliance with my ward! Because that is what this means. Miserable boy."
"Not at all, sir, not at all," Gus said. "It is only a little interchange of compliments. However, being a sportsman, I waive it. The apology can go, and you can tear up the paper which you have in your hand. I heard you say once, years ago, that in your early day you had some ambition of being a sportsman yourself. I begin to see now where you have been a failure."
The great man stood there with the sheet of notepaper in his hand. He looked into that pleasant, rugged, attractive face of his nephew's with a vague regret that his own son was not a little more like this young man who stood before him. He was bound to admit that Gus was behaving rather handsomely. He was actually abasing himself for the good of the family, and if he had refused to put his name to that apology, then Mr. Benjamin Openshaw would have been an everlasting object of ridicule, and the great man knew only too well what that meant in the world of politics. But there was his brother's son actually throwing away his sword and depriving himself of what might have been a deadly weapon.
And a sort of sudden liking for Gus seemed to spring spontaneously in that ponderous bosom of his. Something inside him was heaving like the ice on a river before the west wind. He was conscious that the crust of years was cracking, and here and there were dim memories of the time when he was a boy himself. He had also been at the best public school in England. He was recollecting now how he had dreamt of the day when he, too, might have been amongst the Bloods—a member of the Olympian band that constituted the first cricket XI, and perhaps the proud wearer of a footer cap. He had dreams of the day when he would do the hundred yards in even time... then he woke up.
He looked across the table with the nearest thing to a smile on his face that man had ever seen.
"My dear boy," he said, with a ponderous clearing of his throat. "You are behaving very well, indeed. An honourable course I should have expected from my brother's son. And—er—yes—um—I think, perhaps, on the whole, it would be better for me not to stand in your way, and I—er—rather think that you will find Angela alone in the drawing-room."
Gus took the stairs three at a time.
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After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware
Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning
Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring Wireless Chips In-House
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Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect messages, scan for abuse images
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New comment by hypothesis in "Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'"
Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’
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Hex planet puzzle
A downloadable game
Hello, space engineer!
In this small game you'll help to find paths for supplies we need. You should move color blocks into marked positions. It's pretty simple. But sometimes a bit tricky.
Let us know what you thinking about game with comments, Google Play reviews or via email.
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Delivery Time: Getting Ready for Your Hospital Stay
It is about that time. You have been awaiting—perhaps not so patiently—the arrival of your newest family member. The due date is drawing near and you may wonder what you should do to get ready for labor and your hospital stay in general. Rest assured that if you prepare, you will be ready when your baby is ready to make an entrance into the world.
The idea of labor and delivery can be scary, especially as you near the end of your pregnancy. Many women share their past childbirth stories freely, which may lead to more anxiety than reassurance among some first-time mothers. Rather than rely on the stories of family members and friends, it is a good idea to attend childbirth classes when you are in your 6th to 7th month of pregnancy. This will help you and your support person become familiar with the stages of labor and what to expect. If you are unable to attend childbirth classes, it may be helpful to at least read about the childbirth process in reference books.
Next, talk to your doctor about your labor options, especially for pain control, and any concerns you may have. Outline a birth plan to let your doctors know what you envision as your ideal labor and delivery. They will do everything to help make this the positive experience that you want. But be flexible since every labor and delivery is different. The safety of you and your baby needs to be the highest priority. Doctors may have to deviate from the birth plan to ensure safety. They will discuss the reasons with you as your needs change during labor.
Do not forget to talk to your support person. You may assume they will know how to support you, but let them know what you expect of them beforehand, and also at any time during labor and delivery. If you do not have a family member or friend to offer support during childbirth, consider hiring a professional labor support person, sometimes called a doula.
In your last trimester, take a tour of the labor and delivery unit at the hospital. Find out if there is any pre-registration paperwork for you to complete before you go into labor. Ask your doctor how you will know when you should come to the hospital. You will also want to decide how you will get to the hospital and who will go with you. The plan may vary if you are at home or work. Have more than one route planned in case traffic presents a problem.
Finally, you will feel more prepared if you pack for the hospital by the time you are in your 36th week. It is a good idea to pack two bags for your hospital stay. The first bag should have items you will need to be more comfortable during your labor and a second bag with things you will not need until after the baby is born.
Packing List for Labor and Delivery
- Identification and health insurance information
- Hospital pre-registration paperwork (if applicable)
- Birth plan
- Digital camera, video camera, batteries, chargers
- Relaxation and time-passing tools for early labor: MP3 player, books, playing cards, DVDs, back massager, or roller
- Toiletries, including lotion or oils for massage
- Lip balm
- Hair brush or comb
- Hair clips
- Socks or slippers
- Sweater or sweatshirt for support person (It is sometimes cool in labor rooms.)
- Phone book, calling card, and cell phone
- Change for vending machines
- Baby book and pen
Packing List for Postpartum (After Delivery)
- Nursing bra
- Nursing pads for leakage
- Snacks (in case the cafeteria is closed)
- Toiletries, including toothbrush, toothpaste, and cosmetics
- A loose-fitting outfit for leaving the hospital
- Baby clothes, particularly an outfit for going home
- Cap, socks, and blanket for baby
- Outerwear for baby (if cold climate)
- An infant car seat (required by law)—Consider having the car seat inspected for safety.
Of course, these packing items are merely suggestions. You may think of other items you want to pack. Just remember to leave valuables, such as wallets and jewelry, at home.
The International Childbirth Education Association, Inc.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Women's Health Matters
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Pregnancy week 36. American Pregnancy Association website. Available at: http://americanpregnancy.org/week-by-week/36-weeks-pregnant. Updated September 2, 2016. Accessed January 19, 2017.
Hospital pack list. Office on Women's Health website. Available at:https://www.womenshealth.gov/files/assets/docs/charts-checklists-guides/hospital-pack-list.pdf. Updated March 5, 2009. Accessed January 19, 2017.
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To celebrate 10 years of the Arnage in 2009, Bentley Motors launched the Arnage Final Series. This model featured a unique specification, with the performance of the 500 bhp Arnage T and the refinement of the Arnage R and design elements from the Bentley Brooklands Coupe Coupe. This was to be the final hooray to what is one of the best Bentley has made. The ultimate expression of British luxury and effortless power in a four-door saloon – the Grand Finale.
The additional features that were added to this edition were a lot of the popular options from the Arnage range together with a few unique features. The Brooklands 20″ five spoke, two-piece alloy wheels come as standard, unique Final Edition treadplates and wing badges. Special dark-tinted matrix grills for the front, together with painted headlamp bezels.
The interior is where the real treats are. Starting with a rear cocktail cabinet, picnic tables, a Final Series stainless steel flask with shot glasses, a brace of Bentley umbrellas fitted in the boot. Quilted interiors and special headlining also add to the drama. The only real option was a NIAM sound system upgrade. You could also go down the Mulliner route and specify it as you wish. One of the UK cars did just that. Finished in Burnt Oak Metallic with Burnt Oak leather. This is the only one of the cars in said spec, it even had its own VIN number. It also comes with its build book.
The Wonderful Interior of the Arnage Final Series…
This Edition was Limited to 150 cars, although like a lot of the Bentley editions, that was the maximum number. The actual number produced was just 96 cars. Only 27 RHD cars, 3 being export RHD cars, With only 24 being UK RHD cars. So a lot rarer than most people realise. Although one of the UK cars was issued with its own VIN number, which isn’t on the list of original VIN numbers, so it is possible there are 25 UK cars in total.
Now the Arnage is a rare car in the UK if its a 2009 or 2010 registered, about 25 were registered in 2009 of the Arnage T. With only 11 of other any other format, R or RL.
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Another crazy year has passed, a rather good one as far as reading is concerned. I gave up my presence on social media platforms and my off-the-radar tactics is really paying off. Here’s some of what I’ve read recently and most of which I wholeheartedly recommend. The list of new titles is steadily growing and reviews will follow. That’s the plan! | <urn:uuid:7b3aefa2-668f-4356-93df-0c7447cf6004> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://jarmopikkujamsa.com/2021/12/26/my-year-in-books/ | 2022-01-28T11:31:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.972829 | 82 |
To be an effective ninja, one must possess three things: speed, agility, and a healthy supply of liquid gold coursing through one's veins. In N v 2, you can put these skills to the test in 500 levels full of relentless enemies, deadly traps, and of course, gold. N v 2 is the follow-up to the original download version published by Metanet Software back in 2005, and plays practically identically to the original high-difficulty platformer, with the addition of a new co-op mode.
Each of the 100 "episodes" consists of five levels, all of which must be completed in 90 seconds or less. Move around with the [arrow] keys and jump with [Z] to hit the button that opens the exit, and get out of the room as quickly as you can. Each piece of gold will add two precious seconds to your life, so be sure to grab as much as you can. And as for the blue drones, weapons turrets, and red mines scattered around the room? AVOID THEM. Bumping into these will kill you instantly, and your progress in that level will be reset. You've got an unlimited number of lives, but being blown to bits when you're so close to the finish is never a fun feeling, so be careful out there.
N v 2 adds a two-player co-op mode that allows a friend to join in the fun. For this mode, player 1 uses [A] and [D] to move and [left shift] to jump, and player 2 uses [,] and [.] to move and [N] to jump. Both players' efforts are cumulative, and only one player has to reach the exit for both players to be successful. Nonetheless, the levels remain as tricky and deadly as ever, so be prepared for the long fight ahead as you progress down the path of N once more. | <urn:uuid:af960dfe-69d6-4d03-add6-70c8559fe0b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://jayisgames.com/review/n-v-2.php | 2022-01-28T11:55:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.969221 | 390 |
A Guide to Planning Your National Park Trip
Inclusiveness is the beauty of the national park system. All are welcome — even the family dog (up to a point). And since we always travel with our distillery dogs, Char and Case, that’s the best news.
But the experiences and requirements at the 61 national parks can be so varied that before going it’s best to rely on that classic two-word bit of advice: plan ahead. Here’s what to know.
The National Park Service website (NPS.gov) is clearly one of the greatest uses of taxpayer money ever. The attractive site is remarkably thorough, useful, and up-to-date, right down to current road closures.
Every park has its own site within the overall site — and virtually no detail is left out, from fees, hours, camping regulations, accommodations, and restaurants to suggested itineraries for any season, with lots of nice photography to boot.
Buy the Book
If you’re more of a print person, there’s plenty from which to choose — from coffee table books to hands-on guides. though most haven’t caught up with the two newest national parks, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and Indiana Dunes along the shores of Lake Michigan.
For some history as well as inspiration we suggest Heather Hansen’s Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service. Three other picks bound to be well-thumbed include Moon USA National Parks: The Complete Guide to All 59 Parks by Becky Lomax, National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States (eighth edition), and a spin-off volume for kids, National Parks Guide U.S.A. by Sarah Wassner Flynn and Julie Beer.
Pick a Time
If you’re taking the family along, chances are you’re limited to everyone’s vacation time, which is likely during the summer. Naturally, that’s when many other families are heading to the parks, so things can get crowded.
It can pay to find a way to visit in an off season. Most of the national park sites on NPS.gov give visitation statistics. They also suggest activities at other times of the year, even in the dead of winter.
Park fees, if any, can vary widely — from the visitors (military, seniors, families) to the seasons to the activities. To really plan ahead, decide how often and how many national parks you’ll visit in a year’s time, because weekly and yearly passes can save you a bundle.
The $80 annual America the Beautiful Pass entitles two holders (or a family of four) entrance into not only all 61 national parks, but also more than 2,000 federal recreational areas. Visit NPS.gov for more information.
Yes, you can bring Fido to parts of most national parks, as long as you follow the B.A.R.K. rules, which include never letting him off a leash (maximum six feet long). In other words, Bag your pet’s waste, Always leash your pet, Respect wildlife, Know where you can go.
What gear you’ll need for your national park trip depends on the activities you plan to enjoy while there. Obviously that can range from good hiking shoes to serious camping, backpacking, or boating equipment.
For us, one essential to bring along would be a good vessel for the evening’s dram to celebrate your time at the park. May we suggest our Yellowstone camp cup?
More Articles of Interest
In the 1880s, J.B. Dant, D.H. Taylor, and J.T. Williams created and named their bourbon Yellowstone in honor of Yellowstone National Park.
That connection with national parks holds just as strong today as it did back then. In fact, for every bottle of Yellowstone Bourbon Select that’s sold, we donate $1 to the National Parks Conservation Association (you can read about the NPCA Mission here).
Gift baskets have become popular gifts over the last couple of years. A quick search online results in hundreds of gift basket ideas–many filled with meats, cheeses, candles, or chocolates.
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What If indeed.
All of our clients chose Lime Systems because they realized that their technology experience could be better than it was before. We have great conversations each and every week with CEO and Business Leaders to talk about what is possible with the technology in which that have already invested. We show how through SMARTER technology what used to be the acceptable norm is no longer acceptable and we discuss this in a very non-technical way using proven, sound business concepts.
We take the technology monkey off their backs and make the transition easy, smooth and painless. We discuss how technology can once again transform their business and show how they can bring their technology up to World Class to match their business performance. In the end, it’s really pretty simple, receive sub-par performance, accountability and experience or make what Is possible the reality. Contact us today to talk about your business with one of our Client Advocates. The conversation is short (20 minutes or so) non-technical and all who talk with us are very glad that they did. | <urn:uuid:8a478742-b132-4db1-9581-b67210284b35> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://limesystems.com/what-if/ | 2022-01-28T11:22:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.966429 | 212 |
NEWS ITEMS AFFECTING GAYS AND LESBIANS
FOR 2006 - APRIL, MAY & JUNE
In the following, "SSM" refers to "same-sex marriage."
News of 2006-APR:
|2006-APR-06: "Brokeback Mountain" movie
promoted by Wal-Mart: The American Family Association
(AFA), a Fundamentalist Christian group, asked Wal-Mart to boycott the sale
of the Brokeback Mountain movie, winner of three Academy awards. It
describes the problems faced by two bisexual sheepherders in a homophobic
socieity. Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the AFA, said:
"It wasn't even a blockbuster movie, so if Wal-Mart isn't trying to
push an agenda, why would they put it at the front door?"
Kevin Haff of the Washington Blade, a gay-positive group, said:
"Actually, Randy, 'Brokeback' has made more than $165 million
worldwide on a production budget of just $14 million. If that ainít a
blockbuster, I donít know what is. And that number doesnít include DVD
sales, which will no doubt be tremendous."
|2006-APR-10: USA: Gays, lesbians and bisexuals hold "Day of Silence:"
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's (GLSEN) held a "Day of
Silence" in high school campuses across the U.S. During the day, gays,
lesbians, bisexuals and those who support these sexual minorities remain
silent to demonstrate the oppression that they feel in school because of
their sexual orientation.|
|2006-APR-18: Same-sex couples and their children roll Easter eggs:
Every Easter since 1878, an Easter egg party has been held on the White
House lawn during which children push an egg with a large wooden spoon.
Tickets to the event are on a first-come-first-served basis. This year, some
same-sex couples and their children joined the queue for tickets and enjoyed
the party along with opposite-sex couples and children. Covenant News
described the event in their Abominations section under the heading "The
First Family Hosts Sodomite Easter Party." Covenant News, a
Fundamentalist Christian news outlet described the event as follows:|
"...lewd and lascivious 'gay' groups joined the queue for tickets --
which were given out to families on a first-come, first served basis at
the White House on Saturday. Despite the opposition of conservative
religious groups, Bush and his wife Laura chose not to prevent the sex
offenders from attending. The gay groups said their gesture was meant to
make their presence felt in American society."
AFP noted that:
"The gay parents also chose a discreet approach without any explicit
protest, identifying themselves with rainbow-coloured
flowers....families who signed up to attend committed not to use slogans
or even wear t-shirts that could get them barred from the White House."
Jennifer Chrisler, executive director for the Family Pride Coalition,
a gay-positive group, said:
"Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the
best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and
a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them."
|2006-APR-27: OR: Student barred from
wearing T-shirt on "Day of Truth:" The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a
Fundamentalist Christian legal defense group, sponsored the second annual
"Day of Truth" in high schools across the U.S. This is a response to the
"Day of Silence" sponsored earlier in the month by the Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Education Network's (GLSEN). The ADF sells kits containing a
t-shirt with a red "Day of Truth" insignia, a DVD and a pack of 25
information cards. The cards say:|
"I am speaking the Truth to break the silence.
Silence isnít freedom. Itís a constraint.
Truth tolerates open discussion, because the Truth emerges when healthy
discourse is allowed.
By proclaiming the Truth in love, hurts will be halted, hearts will be
healed, and lives will be saved." 9
with information opposed to equal rights for gays and lesbians.
7 A female sophomore at
Springfield High School in Springfield OR had a custom-made t-shirt printed
with the message: "I am a Christian, and I am against homosexuality,
abortion, pre-marital sex, and drugs." She participated in the Day of
Truth campaign along with several other students. The others were allowed to
wear their regular Day of Truth t-shirts, but the sophomore was asked to
replace her shirt.
Timothy Chandler, Litigation Counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, sent a
letter to the school administrating advising them that they had violated the
student's First Amendment rights. He said: "The
First Amendment rights of students do not end at the schoolhouse gate. We
are pleased school officials recognized that this studentís constitutional
rights had been violated." The officials apologized for the error.
|2006-MAY-16: WA: U.S. Supreme Court refuses
to take up child custody case: The U.S. Supreme Court decided to not review a
Washington State child custody case. The state's highest court had determined that Sue
Ellen "Mian" Carvin could pursue ties with "L.B", now 11 years of age.
Carvin had lived with Page Britain for five years before they decided to
have a child together. Britain gave birth in 1995 to L.B. who they raised
together. The women separated six years later. Britain, claiming rights as
the biological mother, barred Carvin from seeing their daughter. Carvin sued
to gain access. This is the first case where the U.S. Supreme Court has
dealt with a case involving child custody disputes between gay parents.
|2006-MAY-25: OK: State adoption law
overturned: Federal Judge Robin
Cauthron declared unconstitutional an Oklahoma law that banned recognition
of adoptions in other states by same-sex couples. Two lesbians had adopted
daughters while they lived in New Jersey. When they moved to Oklahoma, a
state law negated recognition of the adoptions. Judge Cauthron determined
that the law was unconstitutional. It violated the due process rights of the
parents because it called for the breaking up of the family without
considering the parent's fitness or the best interest of the children. State
Representative Thad Balkman complained: "Itís another case of an activist
judge trying to legislate from the bench. Itís unfortunate that a single
judge is trying to rewrite the law."
MN: Conference petitions concerning homosexuality:
The Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church passed
nine petitions related to homosexuality. Victoria Rebeck, communications
director for the Conference said: "The biggest news is that we had a
good, respectful discussion of these very emotional issues and people really
listened to each other." The closest vote was a real squeaker: 358 to
356. It involved a petition to change the definition of marriage from "a
man and a woman" to "two adult persons," and to delete a sentence
supporting laws that define marriage as between a man and woman. The
resolutions will be passed on to the 2008 General Conference for
consideration. 6 More details.|
|2006-JUN-07: Federal Marriage Amendment resurfaces: The Federal Marriage Amendment
has reappeared in the Senate.
This would have been the first step that leading to the U.S. Constitution being
modified to prevent same-sex couples from marrying. If implemented, it would
be the first time that a discrimination clause would appear in the
Even supporters of the FMA expected that it would fail to reach the required 67 positive votes.
The Senate voted in 2004 on an identical bill; results were 50 in favor and
48 opposed. The vote in the house was 227 for and 186 against. Both were
short of the two-thirds majority required for passage.
The vote this time was essentially the same. The amendment will not
progress to the states. More details.
|2006-JUN-10: Canada: This is the third anniversary of the 2003
decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal which legalized SSM in that
province. Since then, over 10,000 same-sex couples have been legally married
|2006-JUN-19: Canada: Poll shows remarkable change in SSM acceptance:
The Environics Research Group poll indicates that Canadians are
increasingly accepting of same-sex marriage. They area also overwhelmingly
opposed to reopening the matter in Parliament, as has been proposed by the
ruling Conservative government. Poll results indicate that:|
|62% of Canadian adults consider SSM to be a settled matter;|
|27% want SSM reopened and debated once more in Parliament;|
|Only 38% of Conservative Party voters favored reopening the issue; 52%
|59% agreed that same-sex couples should have the same right to civil
marriage as opposite-sex couples. 32% are opposed. That is close to a 2
to 1 ratio.|
These are truly remarkably large and rapid changes since SSM became available
across Canada in 2005-OCT. 10,11
|2006-JUN-20: WI: Mainline churches oppose stealth constitutional
amendment: In the previous two weeks, 700 religious congregations in
Wisconsin have publicly opposed the proposed amendment to the state
constitution to ban both civil marriages and same-sex marriages. The public
will vote on the amendment in November. Early in June, the Wisconsin
Conference of the United Church of Christ and the Wisconsin
United Methodist Conference opposed the amendment. Scherer, a board
member of Fair Wisconsin, a group working to defeat the ban, said:
"Literally hundreds of religious leaders have personally kind of
pledged to oppose the amendment, t doesn't only ban civil unions for
gay couples, but for anyone who's not married. For instance, two
elderly people who are living together but not married. This is
saying never will the government allow any type of legal
relationship to allow protections to those two people."
Julaine Appling, coordinator of the Wisconsin Coalition for
Traditional Marriage, said:
"The people of this state that have any idea about what the Bible
says about marriage, they believe marriage is one man and one woman.
And I think they'll go into the voting booth and say this is about
whether a man and a woman comprise the institute of marriage, and
they'll vote yes." 12
|2006-JUN-23:US: Episcopal church widens cracks in Anglican Communion:
At their 75th General Convention in Columbus OH, the Episcopal Church
took a number of actions that might be interpreted by much of the rest of
the worldwide Anglican Communion as promoting a schism. They elected a new
Presiding Bishop who is the first female primate in the Communion. Most
Anglical provinces do not even allow women to become bishops, let alone
primates. They ignored the Communion's request that the Episcopal Church
forbid same-sex union rituals. They passed a resolution recommending
restraint when nominating future bishops who are homosexuals. However, it is
not a binding requirement. Finally, the Diocese of Newark nominated four
candidates for their next bishop; one is gay. More
|2006-JUN-29: US: Presbyterian church cracks
open door for gay ordination: The Presbyterian Church, USA held
its General Assembly in Birmingham, AL. They discussed a report issued last
year by their Theological Task Force (TTF). The Assembly approved
resolutions stressing unity in the denomination, and giving -- for the first
time -- limited permission for local ordination authorities to ordain
sexually active homosexuals. More details.|
Archbishop of Canterbury recommends two tiers: Apparently in response to
the Episcopal Church, USA's General Convention mentioned above, the
spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, the Most Rev. Rowan
Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, issued a six-page "reflection"
proposing what he regards as the "best way forward" for the Anglican
Communion. He suggests creation of a loyalty oath which apparently would be
both sexist and homophobic. It would include rejection of homosexuals as
priests, bishops and primates. It might even include rejection of women as
bishops and primates. Those provinces who agreed with the loyalty oath would
churches." Those who did not agree would become "churches in association."
That division arguably makes a lot of sense, because it does recognize the
current division within the Communion. However, he proposes that the
churches in association would be denied voting and decision making power in the Communion.
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At MHS students do many different things to be entertained. There’s a lot more things rather than T.V. shows and video games that keep them occupied.
Senior, Riley Gilbert, spends his time listening to music, traveling around the United States, and bingeing Netflix.
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Gilbert’s top five places to visit are Seattle, Atlanta, LA, New York City, and Miami. Gilbert mainly travels with his dad. Gilbert has been traveling his whole life but the earliest memories were around the age of four.
“The ability to experience different perspectives and culture is entirely entertaining to me,“ Gilbert said.
Another thing entertaining to Gilbert is Netflix. Everyone has a classic T.V. show or movie they like. The most intriguing show he watches is American Horror Story. Gilbert likes the excitement it has in it. The show, Criminal Minds, is another one of his favorites.
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It appears Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 23 event has lost a preliminary card fight the day before the show.
Gabriel Benitez (22-8 MMA, 6-4 UFC) came in at 150.5 pounds Friday for his featherweight bout against Jonathan Pearce (10-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) – 4.5 pounds too heavy for the non-title limit. Pearce hit the mark at 146.
But though it appeared the fight would go on, with Benitez accepting a 30 percent purse fine, Pearce said on his Instagram account not long after the ceremonial faceoffs that he turned down the fight with Benitez at the higher weight.
“Unfortunately, my opponent came in almost 5lb overweight and our fight is off,” Pearce posted. “I did my part by showing up and making weight and I won’t reward him by accepting a fight and giving away any advantage. I’m trying to be smart about my career, and I hope to be back in the cage soon.”
The UFC has removed the fight from its official event page.
Benitez was attempting to return to the featherweight division after a pair of fights at lightweight. In 2020, he moved up to 155 pounds and dropped a decision to Omar Morales in May. But he rebounded with a first-round knockout of Justin Jaynes this past December. That win got him his second $50,000 performance bonus.
Pearce, who earned his UFC shot with a knockout win on Dana White’s Contender Series in 2019, was looking for his second straight win in the UFC. He dropped his promotional debut with a first-round TKO setback against longtime fighter Joe Lauzon. But he bounced back in November 2020 with a second-round TKO of Kai Kamaka III.
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Today I’m sharing 10 ways to reward yourself without spending anything! Blogging and running your own business is hard work and that effort should be acknowledged (beyond the blogging paycheck).
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10 Ways to Reward Yourself Without Spending Any Money
I wish I could say I’m motivated by getting a good job done well but I’m more of the reward-focused gal. That being said, I make sure that my rewards don’t break the bank. When I hit a recent milestone I’d set for myself, I started thinking about all the ways I could reward myself while still saving for an upcoming vacation.
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Here are my 10 ways to reward yourself without spending money.
Get some fresh air. Yes, really. It will allow you to continue riding that endorphin high and come on – it’s good for you. And your
butt heart. Taking a walk, a run, a bike ride, or just chasing after your kids at the park is a wonderful way to reward yourself.
Learn something new. For free? Yes, free. My favorite resource right now for free courses is CreativeLive. Here’s a list of free courses – can you guess which ones I’m already enrolled in? You can also download a free graphics, photos, and other goodies from Creative Market!
Art. You don’t have to whip out your grandmother’s easel here, friends. Nope. Snag one of your kid’s coloring books, a blank sheet of paper, or even a napkin and just start doodling. If you want to get into painting, watercolor is fun, relaxing, and it’s easy to DIY your own paints!
Board or card games. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had has been while sitting around a table with friends and family just playing together. Old Maid, Scrabble, Pictionary, Cards Against Humanity – raid your games closet and get to playing.
Organize. Yes, I know this seems weird, but hear me out. Sometimes, our lives can feel cluttered and it’s because our home or office likely is. Give yourself the gift of time to clear out a single, special place. It can be freeing.
Learn a new makeup tip. Give yourself a reward without spending by indulging in YouTube makeup tutorials. And choose to actually do one! I mean, how are you supposed to nail that awesome smokey eye if you never attempt it?!
In-house spa day. Oh, how indulgent! And don’t let being at home alone with the kids stop you! Try this DIY (using what you have on hand right now) and throw in a full mani/pedi.
Listen to a fun podcast. My favorite right now is Anna Faris’ “Anna Faris is Unqualified.” Allison Janney was the first guest and let me tell you: there is NO WAY you cannot laugh through this.
Take a nap. You might have to employ a spouse, friend, or swap nap times with another caregiver, but treat yourself with this revitalizing respite. I totally need to take my own advice on this one.
5 Ways to Reward Yourself for $5 or Less
Now, coming up with ways to reward yourself without spending any money is fun, but let’s say you want to go all “wild and crazy!” Let’s spend some money, but not too much that you have to take it out of the budget somewhere else. This gal needs her Starbucks…
Here are 5 rewards for $5 (or less):
Download a new song.
Treat yourself to a coffee or tea at your favorite spot.
Make a $5 donation or ‘blessing’ bag and hand it out.
Rent a movie.
Find a new app (a game, a photo editing app, or a productivity helper – remember, you’re treating yourself)!
Being an entrepreneur is hard, and blogging is no exception! These ways to reward yourself without spending are just to give you a reminder: you deserve to devote time and energy to yourself as a gift for your hard work and dedication.
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This library is updated regularly and each product has series of micro learning videos and at the end of lesson you are asked to complete the quiz.
In member’s area if you go to training tab there you will find training courses like;
- Mistakes in internet marketing
- Video marketing basics
- From zero to 6 figure workshop
- Using G plus to drive traffic
- Marketing training which include Facebook advertising, banner advertising
- How to use forums and media?
- Your Marketing System: Built in WordPress system and here you can create websites in just few seconds.
- Viral Reports: Different types of reports generated by the system and you can easily download this.
- Ecover Creator: If you want to create fancy looking eBooks then this will help you.
- Graphic Creator: Using this you can create headlines, different types of graphic, buttons etc.
- Marketing Materials
Pros vs. Cons:
i). Reasonable Upfront Cost
You can check this program for $30 and if you love this, you can purchase high ticket offers.
This is great to see how much they offer in $30. Definitely, if you observe good value for the money, there is a chance to go for the high ticket upsells.
ii). Good Training
Good training on affiliate marketing and other tools that make easy for everyone to start an online business.
The training is also from the top level marketers where they will show you different digital marketing concepts, tools usage and how to get results quickly.
iii). Support is Good
Very good support you will receive from the system. This is essential for the newbies as they are more prone to stuck and get loss into the overwhelming information.
i). High Cost
Cost of the system is very very high. Let’s look at the elite package it will cost you $2500 yearly and $97 per month with no earning guarantee.
This shows the intent of the system to solely make enough money.
My question is why pay such a high cost while there are other systems that are better than this with very less cost.
I am a member of Wealthy Affiliate and it costs me $47 per month with excellent training and tools.
ii). Forced Upgrade
After becoming introductory or basic members you are forced to upgrade to elite in order to access the full system.
If we look at both introductory and basic package the training you receive there is also not up to the mark. Real training you will get when you are in elite level but that is too expensive.
iii). Pay to Become an Affiliate
You have to pay if you want to become an affiliate. In real world this is very surprising because you are promoting their products and it benefits to the company but charging here is really very surprising.
iv). Over Promoting of The Six Figure Mentor
Too much emphasis on promoting The Six Figure Mentors.
First you join with such a high cost and now your task is to promote that product to other people. It is very difficult to get affiliate for such pricy product.
Digital Experts Academy packages include Silver, Gold, Platinum and Black with Black cost you $20,000.
vi). Negative Reviews
There are lot of complaints you can find about the system on the internet which is very obvious that most of the members are not happy with the system.
Is Six Figure Mentors a Scam?
Is Six Figure Mentors a Scam? I know this is the question that most of the people are interested about.
To be honest The Six Figure Mentors is not a scam and it is completely a legit product.
With the passage of time they have made certain improvements in the system. Trainings, tools and support you can find there are good and helps you to earn online income.
My issue with this system is its excessive cost and if its owners change its price to make it something comparable with the industry then it is worth investment but still I don’t recommend this system due to the above said fact.
The reason I also not recommend this because there are other programs that are even better than this and have a very affordable price. So why we spend money here which is not easy to earn.
If you are looking for genuine system with very affordable system then see my #1 recommendation. I am not claiming that you can earn 6 figures here within months but I can easily claim that it is the best in the industry.
Give it a try for free and if you love this then become a premium member. With this system you only need hard work and dedication.
You don’t need to worry about your previous skills and knowledge about internet marketing. All you need is to follow training and implement it.
In this six figure mentors review 2021, I have share my thoughts on "Is Six Figure Mentors a Scam?
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The generic name, Cephalophyllum, is derived from the characteristic crowded leaf clusters like heads or balls; the Greek words that form the basis are kephale meaning the head and phullon meaning a leaf.
The species is distributed in the west of the Western Cape. It grows in part of the semi-arid winter rainfall region. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Smith, et al, 1998; Herre, 1971; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org). | <urn:uuid:68a18c95-557b-46e4-959c-6523d13f8414> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://operationwildflower.org.za/index.php/albums/genera-c/cephalophyllum/cephalophyllum-loreum-judd-2-9637 | 2022-01-28T11:24:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.929532 | 232 |
Apply to Participate in The Ampion Venture Bus Africa 2015 For Entrepreneurs
Deadline: Varies with Region
Applications are currently open for the Ampion Venture Bus Africa tour. The Ampion Venture Bus Africa will take over 200 Ampioneers on 5 buses.This brings change makers and tech experts on a 7-day road trip across the continent. Participants would be connected with the biggest tech HUBs across 16 African countries to help build lasting business ties with investors, co-founders and the local startup scenes.
How does this work?
The 7-day bus road trip would include African Entrepreneurs, International Entrepreneurs, Mentors and Investors. These group of people get to share idea, exchange knowledge, form teams and potentially develop start-ups.
Bus Routes & Focus
This is open to African & International Entrepreneurs who possess outstanding entrepreneurial skills, the participants should also posses sound knowledge in either IT, web design, new media or business development. Women are highly encouraged to apply!
Every participant will get a Certificate for the successful participation on the 2015 AMPION Venture Bus. Furthermore, the three winning team will receive an additional certificate for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place they have won and will also be featured prominently on the AMPION website.
How to Apply
Apply to the specific Tour Program that interests you. Apply here.
Cost of Participation
African passport holder and currently student (proof required) : $50
African passport holder & African resident : $100
Non-African resident and currently student (proof required) : $200
Non-African resident : $350
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In the Starfish Centre our children love to engage in daily activities which help to promote their social interaction, communication skills and their physical development.
Our two year old room is specially designed for our youngest learners with the furniture and provision tailored to their needs. Our children have access a role play area, small world/construction area, water, sand and creative play as well as their own secure outdoor area.
Some of our most recent learning highlights have involved our children engaging in imaginative play which has helped them to develop a sense of their own world and being able to express themselves through play based on their own first-hand experiences.
At Park Brow our Starfish Centre provides our youngest children with the two year Old Early Learning Education Offer. Our high quality two year old childcare provision offers part time places which are Government funded. To be eligible for one of these places you must meet certain criteria. For more information regarding this you can contact your Health Visiting Team, Social Worker, your Local Children’s Centre or alternatively contact Miss Floyd at Parkbrow Primary School. | <urn:uuid:0a9bb83b-a993-457a-8edb-c2a4e7235049> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://parkbrowprimary.co.uk/starfish-centre/ | 2022-01-28T12:22:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305494.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128104113-20220128134113-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.961833 | 272 |
We are The Citadel Hurling Club, the first collegiate hurling club in South Carolina! Shoot us a message on Facebook if you are interested!
We are always welcoming new players and parents to our Club! Please email or call us if you have any questions. Thank you
Stephen Quigley, & Mark Knight
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SpaceX is busy with dozens of steel rings for Starship’s first super heavy booster, and CEO Elon Musk says the assembly could be “in a few weeks”.
At more than twice the height of Starship’s main propulsion tank and engine compartment, Super Heavy Boosters can reach incredible heights of 70+ meters (230+ feet) – the same height or full two-level Falcon 9 or Falcon heavy rocket. Unlike the Starship, the Super Heavy does not have a conical nose section and, like the Starship tanks, is built entirely of simple steel rings.
Each is 9 m (ft 30 ft) in diameter and 1.8 m (ft 6 ft) in height. SpaceX is making great strides in creating superheavy subdivisions, and the start of the first booster assembly will have to wait until a facility (“high bay”) is ready to stack them.
Thanks to the simple labels affixed to each ring group and the careful attention of local and photographer Mary (also known as Pokachikakal), six confirmed units of the first Super Heavy Booster (SH1) have already been found in Boca Chica. Two to four rings in height, the first of those ring segments was found on September 22nd and the other on September 28th.
Within the first few days of October, it doubled to four, five and six confirmed layers, as well as many more candidates with labels hidden from publicly accessible perspectives. In addition, the liquid oxygen tank of Super Heavy boosters will have “long stiffeners” – also known as stringers – meaning that the trio with five ring layers with stringers are candidates for Super Heavy # 1.
Assuming that one of those three five-ring decks is assigned to the first functional starship nose area, SpaceX may already have 30+ super heavy rings – for a total of ~ 38 – waiting for high bay construction to be completed.
At about 80 meters (~ 260 ft) tall, SpaceX’s Boca Sica High Bay is a closed country crane used to stack and decorate super heavy boosters – the final steps in production. SpaceX and its contractors began building the high bay in early July, and Musk said the massive building was only “a few weeks away” from completion. As of October, the structure was basically finished, much like the wall cladding. Half of the building’s roof is complete, leaving a small amount of work before the electricity, HVIC and plumbing are up and running.
Surprisingly, SpaceX CEO added that the high bay will eventually be adorned with a “giant country crane”, but the super heavy booster stacking will begin before then. Meanwhile, SpaceX has a good chance of stacking super heavy subdivisions in the existing Starship Mid Bay, leaving some large layers in the high bay to complete the first booster.
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