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AFTER TELLING Matt Brown of the Londonist that I wanted to interview people who scavenged on the Thames foreshore, he introduced me to Jane Parker at a London Historians pub session. Jane kindly agreed to let me interview her at one of her favoured scavenging spots in Wapping. One of her enthusiasms is for collecting bits of old clay pipes which she then makes into jewellery and sells. She's been doing this for years. Clay pipe stems can be found in abundance along the Thames foreshore and they're sometimes dug up in gardens and allotments too. This isn't surprising given the popularity of tobacco in London since the late sixteenth century, when clay pipes were first used. Walter Raleigh helped popularise pipe smoking and, in 1598, the German lawyer Paul Hentzen noted: At these spectacles, and every where else, the English are constantly smoaking Tobacco, and in this manner; they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the farther end of which they put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoak into their mouths, which they puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head. Some pipes were imported from Holland or bought from other production centres in Bristol and Shropshire, but many were made locally. They underwent frequent small changes in design which today help archaeologists to date sites. The Museum of London identifies 33 different common designs, each typically spanning a 30-year generational period from 1580 all the way to 1910. After a few minutes of scanning the foreshore's debris, Jane put together this array of pipe stems and other found objects (note the fragment from a jar of Dundee marmalade): Wapping was proving to be a productive hunting ground thanks to its long occupation and the presence of riverside taverns. At the beginning of the 17th century it consisted of little more than a single street with alleyways running off it. John Stow's A Survey of London, published in 1603, names the area as 'Wapping in the Woze', woze being a word related to ooze and meaning a marshy place. He described it as: The usuall place of execution for hanging of Pirats & sea Rovers, at the low water marke there to remaine, till three tides had overflowed them, was never a house standing within these 40 yeares: but since the gallowes being after remooved farther off, a continuall streete, or filthy straight passage, with Alleyes of small tenements or cottages builded, inhabited by saylors victualers, along by the river of Thames, almost to Radcliff, a good mile from the Tower. Something of that basic street plan can still be seen in John Roque's map of 1746: A brisk wind was blowing along the river that afternoon so the interview was carried out in a tiny, sunless bay to shield the mic better. It was chilly and the river curved away eastwards: an empty, cyclopean avenue. Jane had spotted a fragment of glazed earthenware which she identified as Tudor. For a moment the weight of the city's grandeur and long history seemed to press down on me. Since the interview, Jane's asked me to emphasise some of the dos and don'ts of scavenging on the Thames foreshore. First, anyone can go on the foreshore but take care and keep a close eye on the tides. Don't wander far from steps or stairs. Wear sturdy shoes or boots because sharp objects like broken glass and even hypodermic needles may be encountered. It is okay to collect things from the surface of the foreshore, but you need a permit if you're going to scrape away at the foreshore's surface with any kind of implement. If you find anything that could be of archaeological interest then you must report it to the Museum of London. More information about accessing the Thames foreshore can be found here on the Port of London Authority's website. Jane's website displays and sells all kinds of jewellery and accessories made from foreshore finds.
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Match Report by Miriam D “Three points, have beer, we win.” Thus was Ronan’s half-time match strategy accomplished yet again by the Women’s 2s in a 4-0 victory against West Herts. We matched the scoreline from the first half of the season when we faced them at home, although we play so many teams beginning with ‘W’ that it is difficult to keep track. Southgate had comfortable possession for the majority of the game and the goals were only a small fraction of the attempts on target. We played aggressively for the whole match with speedy counter-attacks and menacing free hits. Jennie S was so determined to get the ball up the pitch that she launched her stick through their players as well. Despite slotting in four goals, a certain coach lamenting that “today was not a day for scoring” is a testament to the performance of the opposition keeper. Shot after shot after shot was saved by the goalie, with help from the defenders and (at one point) Caitlin H-C. The West Herts defence may have been solid but their offence was hardly so. Only one or two shots on target threatened the score line as opposed to our dozens at their end. A small handful of defensive shorts for us were easily batted away, and although West Herts grew more determined in the closing minutes there was no consolation goal. The swarms of flies darting around the D were really more of a hassle to our defence than the oppo. The W2s continued to utilise their novel skill of successful short corners with yet another two finding a way through the defence. Jess B achieved the first with a slidy-slap to the bottom right and later Ella D deflected the second over the keeper and into the netting. Portia D scored once after Caitlin magnanimously (and surely deliberately) offered the ball to her, and Ella lifted herself to joint-top scorer in the team with a goal that eventually found its mark after several denied attempts by all forwards. Emily R-H narrowly missed the scoresheet after a DoD-worthy loopy shot nearly found its way over the fence and into the cars behind. A chance for one last goal opened up as the whistle went during the final short corner. The whole team pushed up, but an opposition stick deflected it off the pitch agonisingly close to the left post. Nevertheless, Southgate were happy with their three points and it was broken hearts for West Herts once again. The Women’s 2s haven’t conceded a goal for three matches and we challenge ourselves to extend this to four when we play Surbiton 3s next Saturday. They are third in the league, only five points ahead of us, and last time we met the score was a tight 1-0 to them so it will be a tense game to watch.
The 2013 Master Plan for Southport Park included recommendations for the rehabilitation of the Southport Beach House, a historic landmark in the City of Kenosha which is listed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. With the support of the Southport Park Association, a phased plan for exterior rehabilitation was proposed by Mayor Antaramian and adopted by the Common Council in the fall of 2018. Phase 1 improvements were completed in 2019 and phase 2 improvements are currently underway. The Southport Park Association is working with the City of Kenosha to develop plans for ongoing uses of the Beach House upon completion of the exterior improvements. Our Utilization and Design Recommendations include interior layout and design upgrades intended to expand public programming and access on a continuous basis. Due to ongoing renovations, the Southport Beach House will not be available for rentals through 2023. For questions regarding this project, please contact Public Works at 262-653-4050.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sparklight Awards $5,000 to VISD Education Foundation February 19, 2024 – Victoria, Texas – Sparklight®, a leading broadband communications provider, recently awarded a $5,000 grant to VISD Education Foundation through the company’s Charitable Giving Fund. The foundation was one of 29 nonprofits across the company’s 24-state footprint that received grants totaling more than $125,000 during the most recent award period. The Charitable Giving Fund, which annually awards nearly $250,000 in grants to local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations served by the Cable One family of brands (Sparklight®, Fidelity Communications, Hargray, ValuNet Fiber and CableAmerica), concentrates support in the following priority areas: - Education and Digital Literacy - Food Insecurity - Community Development VISD Education Foundation will use the grant to increase students’ access to STEM-based learning and enhance their achievement opportunities. “We are very grateful for the $5,000 grant we received from Sparklight for our ‘Growing STEMS’ initiative,” said Robin Harkey, VISD Education Foundation Executive Director. “We’re thrilled to have funding to help us continue to spark and grow the academic and social genius of children.” Nonprofit organizations may apply for a grant during open application periods each spring and fall. Applications for spring 2024 grants will be accepted between April 1-30, 2024. The Charitable Giving Fund is an extension of Cable One’s corporate social responsibility efforts, which include: - Supporting national organizations dedicated to advancing education and diversity, including the Emma Bowen Foundation and the National Diversity Council. - Supporting the mission of Special Olympics, which provides year-round sports training and athletic competition, as well as health, arts, leadership, and advocacy programs for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. - Planting trees through the Arbor Day Foundation on behalf of customers who switch to paperless billing. Since 2015, the company has planted 140,000 trees in its markets and national forests within the company’s footprint. - Supporting the mission of Keep America Beautiful in cleaning up and beautifying communities across the U.S. - Fighting hunger in local communities through volunteerism and donations, as well as support to organizations such as Feed My Starving Children to make a difference in the lives of hungry kids around the world. Since 2018, Cable One has donated more than 51 tons of food and nearly $500,000 to address food insecurity. For more information about the Sparklight Charitable Giving Fund, please visit www.sparklight.com/charitablegiving. Sparklight® is a leading broadband communications provider and part of the Cable One family of brands, which serves more than 1 million residential and business customers across 24 states. Powered by a fiber-rich network, Sparklight provides consumers with a wide array of connectivity and entertainment services, including high-speed internet and advanced WiFi solutions, cable television and phone service. Sparklight Business provides scalable and cost-effective products for businesses ranging in size from small to mid-market, in addition to enterprise, wholesale and carrier customers.
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SHA's Response to the State of the Nation Report on Loneliness and Connection. 16 August 2023 The recently released State of the Nation Report on Social Connection sheds light on a critical concern: 1 in 3 Australians are experiencing loneliness. While the report doesn't explicitly touch on spirituality, SHA recognises its potential in addressing the highlighted concerns: - Building Community Connections: Spirituality thrives on community, belonging, and interpersonal bonds. Through spiritual practices and communal engagement, we can forge connections, share stories, and alleviate feelings of isolation. - Promoting Understanding and Compassion: Core spiritual values like empathy and compassion empower us to recognize signs of loneliness and respond empathetically, fostering a safer and more supportive environment. - Providing Support and Assistance: Spiritual care offers emotional solace and a sense of purpose, going beyond superficial interactions to provide a deeper connection and meaning. - Encouraging Meaningful Conversations: Spiritual dialogues about existence, life's journey, and personal stories can destigmatize conversations about loneliness, leading to more open and meaningful exchanges. Enhancing Wellbeing: Practices like meditation and mindfulness enhance mental and emotional wellness, equipping individuals to cope with isolation. Our research demonstrates that Australians view spirituality as a vital component of overall wellbeing. - Fostering a Sense of Belonging: Spirituality's emphasis on connection to the divine, nature, or a broader community can counteract loneliness by nurturing a profound sense of belonging. Dr Michelle H Lim from Ending Loneliness Together states “Loneliness should not be seen as a sign of weakness or fault. Feeling lonely is an innate signal for us to acknowledge and address our basic human need for connection. Understanding this is the first step to creating a more connected Recognizing that spiritual health plays a pivotal role in satisfying this basic human need for connection, we can cultivate an environment where individuals find solace, meaning, and a sense of purpose that transcends the boundaries of physical interaction.
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As part of its support responsibilities for one client, SPK provides operational managed services for a core application. This application was running in an Amazon data center stack. SPK discovered that some custom code in the application was out of date, and could be exploited for security weakness. This legacy platform also wouldn’t allow the client to upgrade to all the newest software features made possible by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Eventually, it was clear the entire application needed to be retired for a new one. However, because such an information technology project costs time and money, the client decided to wait as long as possible. At last, SPK began the migration from the old application. This required extensive testing, and close work with the client’s own developers to make sure there were no bugs. The system is now fully operational as a complete AWS application, and it’s faster and more secure. Also, by trusting SPK to do most of the migration work, the client was free to focus on development and innovation. Read other customer success stories here.
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Antonio Gates Knows He’s Better Than LeBron James [at Football] Recently, Randy Moss said that LeBron James could step into the NFL and instantly be the best tight end in the game, comparing him to the San Diego Chargers’ Antonio Gates. It’s a decent comparison, because Antonio Gates was a college basketball player (not a football player) at Kent State. Plus LeBron is awesome and being compared to him — regardless of what you do in life — is a good thing. Unless you’re an All-World tight end and Moss is saying that he would be better than you. Then it’s kind of insulting. Which is why XX Sports Radio got Gates on the horn to find out exactly what he thought about all of Moss’ comments. Also: discussion as to whether Lamar Odom has the ‘wide receiver attitude’ and ‘toughness’ to play in the NFL. On whether he worries about LeBron coming to San Diego and being a better tight end: “Nah, I don’t. Because LeBron has a gift and I’m not ever really concerned about another person’s gift. He plays at a high level on the NBA scale. And the biggest misconception about this NFL thing is that you try and discredit people who are making plays. It wasn’t a cakewalk for me to come out here and turn up and look up and I was playing and making plays. It was the things behind the scenes that people don’t necessarily know about — the work habits, the techniques, the drills and all those things, etc., summed up Antonio Gates. It wasn’t the fact that I just came out — if that’s the case you can go and get the guy who won the 100-yard dash from Jamaica, Usain Bolt, and tell him to come play receiver. Running — you can get a dog to run and jump — you can get a pit bull to come out and here and run fast and jump — but being able to put everything together and translate it on the football field is different. Being able to make the catches and have the toughness to go across the middle and take the hit and go and get back up and take another hit.” On being bugged by Randy Moss’ comments: “Nah, you know what? He’s talking about a phenom. And comparing me to a guy who’s somewhat of a phenom at what he does as a professional athlete. And I was at Kent State when LeBron was in high school so I knew he was an all-state football player — so I knew the guy could play football. Not a doubt in my mind that he would be able to come out here and play and play at a high level. And you can’t say he’s not tough because he is a tough kid. It’s just something that will always be remained to be seen; guys have always been trying to do the whole Antonio Gates story. Every time I look up they’re trying to calling someone out for coming off the basketball court and playing in the NFL. But when you talk about a guy like LeBron, the sky’s the limit on his athletic talent.” On Lamar Odom playing wide receiver: “I don’t even know what you mean … I don’t know the prima donna type? … He’s got to have some more toughness to come play wide receiver. He’s 6’11″ — can you imagine a guy who’s 6’11″ at receiver? … You can just throw a hitch every time. Just throw it high. I can’t imagine him not being a wide receiver … Yeah, his personality is kind of like a wide receiver — you can say that about a lot of basketball players.”
The Apple and ConnectED Initiative was launched in 2014 and coupled 1:1 iPad access with comprehensive support in a diverse set of 114 schools. The project sought to catalyze transformed learning opportunities for students in historically underserved communities across America. To be eligible to apply, 96% or more of each school’s students had to qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The initiative thus offered a unique opportunity to study technology adoption across a wide range of traditionally under-resourced settings. The six-year independent research study conducted by SRI International across 101 schools aimed to combine rigorous measurement of ConnectED’s outcomes and accomplishments with an in-depth look at what it has meant for participating teachers, students, principals, and parents. Research methods included principal, teacher, and student surveys and site visits as well as analyses of student achievement data and teacher-submitted lessons and student work. Reporting focused on the early implementation of ConnectED, lessons learned about bridging digital use and access divides, and key factors that support sustainability. Access to new technologies such as an iPad® for students and teachers is often seen as a path toward transformed educational opportunities. Yet, there are still many open questions about the real nature of the opportunity afforded by technology and the support required to actualize these goals, particularly in school and community settings that have historically been marginalized from high-quality education. To shed light on these questions, researchers at SRI International, in collaboration with researchers at Digital Promise®, conducted a rigorous, six-year, mixed-method study of the implementation and outcomes of the Apple and ConnectED initiative. Starting in 2014, the initiative provided both technology and comprehensive support that included planning, professional learning, and ongoing guidance for school leaders and teachers in 114 schools across the nation with 96% or more of their students qualifying for free and reduced-price meals. The goal was to promote more personalized and student-centered learning experiences that support improved outcomes for students in learning and in life, for students in historically underserved settings. The research included - Surveys of teachers, principals, and students - School case studies - Collections of sample lessons and student work - A study of student achievement outcomes The study was situated in the diverse set of community settings served by the initiative, ranging from the inner city to native American communities and to migrant populations on the Mexican border. This range of methods was designed to paint a rich picture of participants’ experiences and outcomes as they integrated new technology tools into teaching and learning, and to capture experiences over time as the initiative matured. Reports from this study summarize evaluation results from a number of perspectives. Together the reports provide an in-depth description of early changes in the classroom learning environment that were commonly observed in these iPad classrooms; lessons learned from the initiative about what it takes to bridge digital divides, considering both digital access and digital use; factors that contribute to the sustainability of 1:1 integration in historically underserved contexts; and case stories of implementation from several of the schools. A separate report summarizes the methods used across this research. - The Apple and ConnectED Initiative: Research Study Methods - The Apple and ConnectED Initiative: Baseline and Year 2 Findings from Principal, Teacher, and Student Surveys - 1:1 Teaching and Learning in the Apple and ConnectED Initiative: Lessons from Early Implementation - Bridging the Digital Access and Use Divides in the Apple and ConnectED Initiative - Maintaining Momentum of 1:1 Programs: Observations from the Apple and ConnectED Initiative - The Apple and ConnectED Initiative: Three Case Stories In addition to reporting, two research tools based on project methods are available for broader use. A section of the Apple and ConnectED teacher survey that operationalizes constructs of classroom practice related to deeper learning is available at, ConnectED Research Teacher Survey – Spring 2017 Teaching and Learning Excerpts, under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use (CC BY-NC 4.0). In addition, the rubrics developed on this project to look at instructional artifacts through the lens of deeper learning have been adapted into a resource for teachers, offering concrete ideas for incorporating this type of learning in their lessons. This resource is available as part of Apple’s online suite of leadership resources. For further reading about the Apple and ConnectED Initiative, reports are available from two research organizations that each conducted an independent study of the initiative through the lens of a specific population. The reports focus on schools that serve early childhood learners (Education Development Center) and technology access in urban communities (The Brookings Institution). Associated SRI team members Director of Commercial and International Strategy, SRI Education Researcher, SRI Education Principal Researcher, SRI Education Director of Digital Learning & Technology Policy, SRI Education Senior Principal Education Researcher and Evaluation Methods Lead Education Researcher, SRI Education
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The Spring 2013 issue of Cowley takes up the theme of the Reconciliation with God. - Br. James Koester uncovers the challenge – and reconciling possibility – of the passing of the peace. - Br. Geoffrey Tristram looks into the mystery of the atonement. - Br. Curtis Almquist offers a practical guide to forgiveness. - Br. Mark Brown shares his experience of three calls to vocations int he Christian life. There are many ways to read and share this Cowley magazine: - Open an online version of the magazine. - Download a PDF copy of the magazine. - Visit our online store to order reprints of the magazine or past insert articles. You can order small or large quantities suitable for parish and prayer group use. - Do you know someone who might like to receive a FREE subscription to the print magazine? Let us know here.
‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away from its more uncomfortable chapters. The exhibition can be seen and heard in the Old UB as of today. Slavery and colonialism have left deep marks on the shared history of Suriname and the Netherlands. ‘The ties between the two countries were unequal but are now unbreakable because of the many people with Surinamese roots living in the Netherlands alone’, says Fresco Sam-Sin, Director of the Language Museum, initiator of the exhibition and grandson of ‘Aunt’ Olga. ‘Aunt Olga is a heroine. She has white skin but is 100 per cent Surinamese. She carries that whole moksi patu, that melting pot, within.’ Aunt Olga is one of the many Surinamese who came to the Netherlands after the war. She is the embodiment of the past, says Sam-Sin. ‘Aunt Olga is a heroine. She has white skin but is 100 per cent Surinamese. She carries that whole moksi patu, that melting pot of Jewish roots and West African and indigenous blood, within. With how she is and how she looks, she challenges people to think about how complex and un-black-and-white our shared history is.’ This complexity is also reflected in Surinamese Dutch, a combination of Sranantongo and sometimes old-fashioned Dutch. Doks (rather than eend) is a duck, directoire (rather than slipje) a pair of knickers and tandenschuier (rather than tandenborstel) a toothbrush. ‘But some phrases also have different meanings,’ Sam-Sin says. ‘If I ask my grandmother how she is, she often answers: “Het gaat”. I used to think this meant there was something wrong and she wasn’t feeling well or something. But I now know she means she’s doing fine. So the meaning of that one phrase “Het gaat” is slightly different in Surinamese-Dutch.’ Aunt Olga sings in two languages Due to the selected cookie settings, we cannot show this video here.Watch the video on the original website or Ofschoon, buitendien, sedert: these are words you won’t hear young people in the Netherlands using. But they are still widely used in primary schools in Suriname, says Sam-Sin. ‘They’re considered old-fashioned now, something that can still make my grandmother really cross. All the outdated and discarded textbooks from the 1940s and 1950s were sent to Suriname.’ Suriname’s most famous medicine As well as the videos and sound clips about the common language, the exhibition also includes 23 objects with a shared history. For example, there is a cup made of kwasibita, bitterwood, Suriname’s most famous medicine. ‘That medicine came from a Mr Kwasi, whose role in history is also tricky. He was an enslaved man who became very famous in the colony because he hunted down Maroons (people who had escaped slavery and formed free settlements or their descendants, ed.)’, says Sam-Sin. Aunt Olga talks about the pride of Suriname: Parbo Beer The 1989 cover of Voetbal International (Football International) is also among the objects on display. A photo shows a downcast Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard with the headline below: ‘Dutch football cries’. On 7 June of that year, a plane crashed near Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo’s airport, killing 176 passengers, including 14 Surinamese-Dutch pro footballers. Aunt Olga takes visitors on an audio tour of these shared objects, some of which come from the dark period of slavery and colonialism. ‘Aunt Olga is extremely aware of that history but there is a lightness to her telling’, says Sam-Sin. ‘By sharing anecdotes, she manages to make some of the stories seem less heavy. She helps visitors think about how we can deal with the past in a positive way.’ Ugly history, rich culture ‘I hope visitors will discover how interlinked Surinamese and Dutch history are. It is good to reflect on this, especially now during Slavery Memorial Year. As well as understanding the ugly part of that history, we should be proud of the rich culture that these links have produced: the food, the music and the language; these should be enjoyed.’ Text: Tim Senden
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Management Strategies for Minimizing Early Pregnancy Loss Rick Funston, Nebraska Extension Beef Cattle Reproductive Physiologist University of NE - Lincoln, UNL Beef As we approach the breeding season, cows and heifers are faced with a variety of stressors from the metabolic pressure of providing for a calf to changes in environment. Stress during early pregnancy is well documented to cause embryonic death and loss of pregnancy. However, making strategic management decisions during the fragile 2 months after breeding can help minimize those losses. Key areas to review management practices to minimize early pregnancy loss are transportation, temperature while being worked or transported, method of pregnancy diagnosis, and nutrition from calving to breeding. Transporting cows to summer pasture oftentimes coincides with the breeding season. Especially, if cows or heifers are artificially inseminated and need to be near working facilities during that time. It is important to plan transportation, or other stressors, strategically to prevent early pregnancy loss and reducing overall pregnancy rates. Research conducted at Colorado State University has found that transporting cattle between days 5 and 42 post insemination can result in a 10% reduction in pregnancy. This window of time is crucial for blastocyst formation, maternal recognition of pregnancy, and adhesion to the uterine wall. When cattle are loaded into a trailer and transported to a new place, they may become stressed and release a cascade of hormones that can alter the uterine environment making it less ideal for supporting a pregnancy. Prior to day 5, the embryo is still in the oviduct and protected from changes in the uterine environment. After day 42, the embryo has implanted into the uterine wall and is less susceptible to changes in environment. While transporting on days 5 to 42 pose the greatest risk, waiting to haul cows and heifers until a week or two after day 42 may help prevent late embryonic loss. Ultimately, stress during those critical time points may disturb important early embryonic processes and lead to embryonic mortality and increased pregnancy loss. Some general guidelines for when to transport pregnant cows and heifers post breeding: Recommended time to haul: Days 1 - 4 or after day 60 Risk of pregnancy loss: Days 5 - 55 or 60 Another key to minimizing pregnancy loss when transportation is necessary, is to avoid hauling cows on excessively hot days (approximately 90° - 110° and 40% humidity or more). Research conducted at Oklahoma State University found that cows exposed to heat stress 8 – 16 days after breeding, had decreased progesterone concentration, increased prostaglandin concentrations, and reduced embryonic weights. A 2 - 2.5 degree increase in rectal temperature (representative measurement of body temperature) for as little as 9 hours has been found to reduce embryo development. Planning to haul cows on days with more moderate temperatures can help reduce stress on heifers and cows and ultimately prevent early pregnancy loss. Implementing a pregnancy diagnosis method is key for making sound managerial decisions regarding open females. However, some pregnancy diagnosis methods carry more risk than others regarding early pregnancy loss. Currently, there are 3 options available for pregnancy diagnosis: transrectal palpation, transrectal ultrasound, and a blood test. Obviously, a blood test is the least invasive method but results are not immediate and that may not be practical for producers wanting to sort females on pregnancy check day. Transrectal palpation and transrectal ultrasound allow for immediate results but pose a greater risk for early pregnancy loss and can vary greatly based on stage of pregnancy and skill of the technician. Additional research conducted at Colorado State University found that transrectal palpation between days 42 - 74 had greater fetal losses (2.68 vs 1.38%) than transrectal ultrasound, and that heifers evaluated by inexperienced technicians had greater fetal losses than those evaluated by experienced technicians (2.07 vs 1.06%). It was also found that heifers evaluated prior to 53 days had nearly a 3 fold increase in pregnancy loss than those evaluated after 53 days of pregnancy (3.46 vs 1.26%). While an experienced technician can determine pregnancy by transrectal ultrasound as early as 25 – 30 days or by transrectal palpation by 35 – 45 days, pregnancy diagnosis prior to 40-50 days of pregnancy carries an increased risk of disturbing those fragile early stages of development. Nutrition at Breeding It is well established that deficiencies in protein and energy at breeding time has detrimental effects on fertility. Traditionally, it is recommended that cows should be at a BCS of 5 and 1st calf heifers should be at a BCS of 6 at calving for optimal reproductive performance. Managing cows and heifers to be on a positive plane of nutrition at the time of breeding is essential for the establishment of pregnancy. Studies at University of Nebraska have found that thin cows, that are on an increasing plane of nutrition and gaining weight, can have equivalent pregnancy rates as cows in moderate condition that are maintaining their body weight at breeding. However, thin cows that are determined to be losing condition can have a reduction in pregnancy rates up to 30% which may be a result of embryonic loss or anestrous at the time of breeding. Having a sound nutritional program is key to optimizing reproductive function during the breeding season. Courtesy University of Nebraska - Lincoln, UNL Beef.
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The COVE marks a milestone: a decade of caring for Suffolk’s pets Published 11:51 am Thursday, May 19, 2022 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When The Center of Veterinary Expertise (COVE) opened its doors in May 2012, the 24/7 emergency and specialty veterinary hospital was Suffolk’s only independent practice of its kind, surrounded by a handful of other clinics offering various models of emergency care. Some were corporate-owned, while others were independently owned, but didn’t offer the breadth and depth of services or around-the-clock coverage. Today, many of those corporate entities have gone by the wayside, and The COVE remains the region’s only independently owned and operated emergency and specialty animal hospital. The practice has thrived, building a large and growing roster of clients and referring veterinarians. To what do the founders attribute The COVE’s success over the past decade? Email newsletter signup “We built this practice on the core values of community, collaboration, commitment, compassion and integrity,” said Jeff T. Stallings, DVM, DACVS, a board-certified veterinary surgeon who co-founded The COVE. “Our priority has always been to apply those values to provide the best possible care to our beloved companion animal patients, not to optimize the bottom line for shareholders. “This unwavering focus ensures that pets, the people who love them, and their primary care veterinarians have as positive and affirming a health care experience as possible despite the sometimes-difficult circumstances that bring us together. Our longevity is a testament to the soundness of this focus.” Co-founder Merrilee T. Small, DVM, DACVIM, a board-certified veterinary cardiologist, added: “Our core values also have always guided the way we honor and invest in our team. This has enabled us to attract and retain an exceptional team of highly qualified professionals over the past 10 years.” Since its founding, The COVE has quadrupled the size of its team to more than 115 staff members. In addition to Drs. Stallings and Small, it includes Colleen Fox, DVM, CSAVP Dentistry, one of the few veterinarians in the region trained to provide advanced dentistry and oral surgery. The team also has the equivalent of 10 full-time veterinarians covering inpatient and outpatient emergency services around the clock. Rounding out the team are licensed veterinary technicians, veterinary assistants and a client-service staff. The COVE has handled more than 106,300 patient visits over the past decade and treated illnesses and injuries ranging from persistent coughs to major trauma. It has attracted patients from as far away as Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Emporia, Richmond and the Eastern Shore. Another COVE initiative that reflects the practice’s core values is its Helping Animals Together (HAT) Fund. “This charitable fund enables us to provide some financial support for critical patients that have an excellent prognosis but might otherwise be euthanized due to their owners’ financial limitations to pay in full,” said Danielle T. Russ, LVT, BS, BA, AS, hospital administrator. “I’m proud to say that since its inception in 2014, the fund has raised more than $30,000.” The COVE also supports the Suffolk area through participation in a range of local pet-friendly events, including Bark in the Park, Move Your Mutt, K9 and Kids Camp, Passion for Paws Picnic and Mutt Strutt. In addition, The COVE is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the Hampton Roads Pet Loss Partnership, a nonprofit organization that provides emotional support for people and families who are experiencing or anticipating the loss of a beloved pet. Another example of how The COVE walks the walk when it comes to its core values – particularly “commitment” and “community” – is the fact that, except for one evening to celebrate its staff, the practice remained open 24/7 throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. “When we say we’re here for this community, we mean it,” Stallings said. What’s on the horizon for The COVE’s next 10 years? “We are excited about expanding our facility, and recruiting more specialists and quality team members,” said Small, referring to providing veterinary care that aligns with the practice’s core values. “We’ve been successful because we’ve responded to what our community needs. That will never change.”
Lucky us and possibly lucky you! Three Georgian Period, black enamel and 18 ct gold mourning rings have come in from a Massachusetts estate just outside of Boston. All have been in the same family since they were originally gifted. Georgian mourning rings have a stylish, timeless quality. The contrast between the gold and the black enamel is beautiful and compliments everything. While officially "mourning rings", they are the epitome of sentimental or love tokens. Rings were provided via one's estate. The ring or rings were to be given to those close to the departed, so that they might be able to have a token to keep their loved one close to them always. The outside of the ring reads: Eliz Wolfe (Wolff) Ob:23 Mar:1802 AE:40. The alternating bands of gold and black enamel are a lovely detail that make this ring a standout! We love stacking them with diamond eternity bands. Dimensions & Details: Mourning Ring - The ring is black enamel over 18 ct gold (acid tested). - The ring is a U.S. size 6 1/4 leading edge and a UK size M. - Due to the pattern and enamel, this ring cannot be sized. If you have any questions on size, please contact us for assistance. Period & Hallmarks - Georgian (George III). Hallmarked for London, Date Mark "G" 1802, with Duty Mark. - Maker's mark: M.G. - The ring is in good condition. Eye visible: good condition with no visible defects. With magnification via loupe: surface wear, surface scratches, minuscule chips. None of this is eye visible and can only be seen via a 10 x magnification so you can imagine how minor the wear is. The wear can be seen in the photographs via magnification of the lens. Find out how to care for your collection of antique and modern jewels: visit our Jewelry Care page to get advice on maintaining and storing your treasured pieces. One should always be gentle and take extra precautions when cleaning antique jewelry, especially enamel. Enamel can scratch and chip. Use a soft damp cloth without any chemicals to clean away any surface dirt. If you are interested in reading more about the jewelry terms or decorative periods referenced throughout our site, visit our Resources section for additional information. Outside of the U.S.? Please contact us for a shipping quote.
Founded on a 400 year-old business philosophy, Sumitomo Corporation has spent over a century applying its values of trust, innovation and contributing broadly to society through all of its business ventures. Historically, Sumitomo Corporation has used “Summit” as a name for group company’s. The name and identity embody the group’s desire to reach new heights, always striving to offer the best products and services possible, and never settling. Under one global name -Summit Cosmetics – we will continue to push forward, as we aspire to achieve a greater goal and invest with the purpose of creating a bigger impact on the world. The nippon group has now more than 75K employees in 66 countries and regions for 883 group companies. Its activities are multiple such as energy, real estate, transportation, etc. The Japanese group decided to invest in cosmetic industry with Presperse (US) in 2007, COSMOTEC (Brasil) in 2013, SPE (Germany) in 2015, SACI-CFPA (France) in 2019 and Summit Cosmetics Corporation (Japan) was created. In April 1st 2023, Cosmotec and SACI-CFPA (France & German Branch) respectively become Summit Cosmetics LATAM & Summit Cosmetics Europe. Summit Cosmetics Corporation is the direct parent company of Summit Cosmetics Europe. A group of distributors delivering a wide range of high-quality ingredients for the cosmetic industry. Summit Cosmetics distributors around the world, are looking for the best solutions for our customers. Through our global supplier network, and process innovation and operational excellence, we deliver value to our customers. With the unique ability to validate and demonstrate ingredient benefits, Summit Cosmetics combines global sourcing of materials, local knowledge, and technical expertise to position our customers as leaders in a highly competitive global market. As a long-term, trusted partner, Summit Cosmetics provides peace of mind by ensuring our customers and suppliers are confident that we will deliver on our promises. Global Reach with Local Expertise Our global footprint means we are able to source and deliver ingredients from all corners of the world, with quality logistics service. Locally, we are experts in the unique regulatory requirements within the regions we operate. We have the flexibility and resources available to meet your needs. Innovation and quality as fundamentals Our R&D, Marketing and Regulatory departments focus on originality, innovation, and safety with a constant eye on trends, whether they are macro or applicable to niche markets. The application laboratories work closely with our customers to provide the most appropriate solutions to your needs and those of consumers. Backed by the Sumitomo Corporation Group, rooted in hundreds of years of business tradition and integrity, we are building a highly natural portfolio of the best green cosmetic ingredients available. Together, we are committed to creating a sustainable society.
Wellness visits are a way of supporting patients in becoming healthier. At Summit Health Family & Urgent Care in Sachse, Texas, the caring team helps you target the areas of your health you’d like to improve after performing a detailed physical exam. Call the office or book your next wellness visit online today.request an appointment What are wellness visits? Wellness visits include a traditional physical exam but go above and beyond to examine and maintain your long-term health. You schedule these visits even when you’re perfectly healthy so you can monitor your health and wellness. The team at Summit Health Family & Urgent Care helps you set and work on specific wellness goals, such as: - Weight loss - Smoking cessation - Lowering your blood pressure - Reversing prediabetes - Managing a chronic condition You can bring up any concerns you’ve had since your last visit to the Summit Health Family & Urgent Care office and receive treatment for any ongoing health conditions. What should I expect during a wellness visit? Your wellness visit starts with a detailed review of your medical history. The team identifies the parts of your health to target with individualized wellness recommendations. They can then begin the physical examination portion of your wellness visit. During a physical exam, the team takes height and weight measurements and then reads your vital signs. Your vital signs are your blood pressure, respiratory rate, and heart rate, and they can tell you a lot about your health. The team also asks a series of simple questions about your health. Depending on your answers and their findings, they may recommend additional tests like bloodwork, urinalysis, or X-ray imaging. How do wellness visits benefit me? Each of your wellness visits is an opportunity to update your medical data so you can track your health over time. This makes it easier for the team to detect trends in your health and identify potential areas of concern, even if you don’t have any symptoms. The team at Summit Health Family & Urgent Care provides you with a personalized treatment plan so you can work on improving your health. They can help you: - Change your diet - Exercise more often - Cut back on alcohol - Stop smoking - Get better sleep - Reduce stress Taking these steps can help you manage your health before complications occur or stop medical issues from getting worse. During your next wellness visit, you may notice that your test results have changed for the better because of your healthy lifestyle changes. A wellness visit allows you to check in on your overall well-being and learn ways to enhance it. Call Summit Health Family & Urgent Care or book your appointment online today.
As a forward-thinking renewable energy company, Sunnova wanted to offer a digital solution that would provide additional support and assistance to our Homebuilders to sell solar in their communities. So, we decided this was a good time to innovate and really think about what we can do to make it easier for Sales Associates. After all, selling solar should be worry-free! Meet Our Bundle of Joy We're proud to announce our newest arrival – the Homebuilder Solar Support Suite. Built from the ground up with homebuilders in mind, our vision with this powerful online app is to provide a turnkey solution that everyone on your sales team — new and veteran— can use to gain the confidence they need to excel in selling solar-powered homes. Also, we wanted to create something that reflects the Sunnova experience and best characteristics: simple, helpful, efficient, and enjoyable to interact with. The Support Suite, as we call it for short, bundles Sunnova's Sales Training, Digital Marketing materials, and Support into an all-in-one mobile-friendly solution that’s easy to access and use. The app enables builders to have a front-row seat for their homebuyers' journey to ensure the best homebuyer experience, from selling to closing. Just think of it as your solar sales sidekick! Experience the Homebuilder Solar Support Suite Before we go into details, let’s watch this quick video so you can see an overview of what the Support Suite has to offer! Simple Sales Navigating Sunnova knows the importance of real-time info.Easily navigate through a data-rich, uniquely customized experience and find up-to-the-minute info about how to sell solar for new homes. Our dynamic and user-friendly dashboards provide your Sales Associates with a comprehensive view of their homes and their homebuyers’ journeys. Within the “Homes” page, you’ll be able to access: - Community finder - Activity logs - Program details - Homebuyer profiles - Pricing sheets - Home and systems info Comprehensive Sales Training Talking about solar programs and how it all works can be confusing sometimes – but we've got your back! By browsing the “Training” page, your Sales Associates have quick and VIP access to helpful resources including: - Solar training videos - Support Suite training videos - Overcoming solar objections - Frequently asked questions With the materials provided above, we equip your teams with the knowledge they need to proactively sell solar. Furthermore, by studying some of the most common solar objections, your Sales Associates can have the right solutions in their back pocket to better serve potential homebuyers and their needs. Ongoing, Practical Support Ready to benefit from the convenience of an all digital Support Suite? Sunnova knows that selling new homes requires a tremendous amount of tenacity, and time is of the essence. Your Sales Associates can refer to the “Support” page to download digital marketing materials to share with your homebuyers at any time. Additionally, at any point you feel like you need a hand, don’t forget that our teams are always here. You can easily reach out to our Sales Training Managers or Solar Advisors, depending on what you need help with. Learn More about How the Solar Support Suite can Help Your Teams Sell Solar Succesfully We hope you find the new Support Suite as useful as we do. To learn more about this product, simply schedule a brief call with one of our friendly Sales Associates. You can request a demo by picking a day and time that works best for you and the Sales Associates in your region. This is just the first chapter of the new Support Suite story. We’re excited to share how it can transform your solar sales strategy, and how it guides us and our homebuilding partners as we build new products, reach new milestones, and continue to grow together. To our valued homebuilder partners who embrace our vision and bring the Support Suite ethos to life: thank you for being part of the Sunnova journey, and for letting us be part of yours.
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SureScreen Diagnostics, a leading provider of innovative diagnostic solutions, proudly introduces SureSwab Rapid, a revolutionary screening test designed for the easy and rapid detection of multiple drug parameters in oral fluid. SureSwab Rapid is designed to enhance the donor experience by minimising invasiveness and optimising collection time. This user-friendly product ensures a streamlined testing process, making it an ideal solution for various testing environments. Industry-leading, innovative health diagnostic and drug screening products - precisely when they are needed. As an award-winning business, we believe that early, accurate drug screening and health diagnosis significantly reduces the time to intervention, leading to improved safety while greatly benefiting people’s health. We provide testing for Professional diagnostic services for industry and healthcare For over 26 years, we’ve been providing bespoke solutions for organisations: lab services that produce highly reliable screening and results; drug awareness courses to educate and empower your colleagues; and consultation on current screening policies or advice on how to create policies when none are in place. Every client is different, so our bespoke service is tailored to fit each client’s organisational needs. We’ve had thousands of clients spanning a huge range of industries; we can help with any challenge you’re facing. Whatever your organisation’s needs, SureScreen has the expertise and experience to put your mind at ease. We work in Your words about us Dr Rahul Batra, Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital SureScreen lateral flow testing provided a result at the bedside within 10 mins which, when positive for symptomatic patients, enabled movement into a COVID-19 bay without delay. SureScreen Diagnostics are very efficient in their responses when ordering consumables, offer excellent advice when we have drug queries and you have a user-friendly portal. Mac Clinical Research Fantastic company! Excellent helpful customer service, efficient ordering, and delivery process. Premiership Rugby and our Clubs have been working with SureScreen Diagnostics since March 2021. We have always received professional and prompt responses to all of our queries and orders. We have close and swift access to SureScreen Account Managers and received prompt answers to questions and impeccable deliveries. We are very satisfied with product quality and deliveries. Hear our story Established in 1996, SureScreen has been providing proactive, bespoke diagnostic solutions to organisations for over 26 years. We believe early diagnosis is key to preventing disruption to both time and finances, SureScreen delivers tailored services and products across the UK and Europe. SureScreen believe that early, accurate diagnosis is better than waiting for problems to arise, and a pro-active approach greatly benefits people’s health, identifies issues early in their development, prevents accidents from happening and has a positive effect on performance, productivity and reputation. Our mission is to provide the best quality diagnostic products that meet and exceed their customer’s expectations at a fair price.Learn more Stay up to date with all of SureScreen's latest news, products and services.
Team Objectives – Collaboration Continuing with our series on Team Objectives, there are several forms of collaboration that are essential, yet often confusing to product organizations as they optimize for team autonomy and empowerment. The first and most basic form of collaboration is the concept of a shared objective. For an important objective, it is not at all unusual for multiple teams to have the same objective. This is especially common in the case of large company initiatives (which are essentially problems large enough that they require help from many or sometimes even all product teams). The most straightforward example of this is when both an experience product team and a platform team have the same objective, because the platform team is expected to need to provide one or more new services to enable the experience product team. In this case, normally the teams will collaborate to establish a simple form of contract with each other in the form of an API, and then both proceed to figure out their sides, and then they will again collaborate on testing and delivery. Another form of shared objective is when multiple teams temporarily combine their talents to solve a particularly hard problem. Especially on problems that benefit from a range of different skills brought to bear, bringing the teams together can often provide the knowledge and synergy required to quickly come up with an effective solution. In certain situations, the teams will co-locate for a few days or a week in what is sometimes called a “swarm,” which is an intense, highly collaborative technique to dive deep together on either or both of discovery or delivery work, for a particularly challenging problem. Another form of collaboration is when multiple teams are asked to pursue the same problem, but in different ways. The reason for this is really risk management. If the problem is difficult, we know that it’s very hard to know which approach, if any, will produce the necessary results. So we may ask multiple teams to pursue, and hope that at least one of those teams will be able to generate the necessary impact. It would be even better of course if all of them made a significant impact, but we know that’s unlikely. A good example of this might be when one of the focus areas is subscriber churn, where too many of our customers are leaving the service. There are of course many ways this problem can be addressed, and having multiple teams address this from multiple angles is often a good strategy. In this case, the teams will need to communicate to ensure that there are no conflicts between the work, but normally each team is addressing based on the perspective and angle of their team, and what code and technology they own, so these approaches are usually largely independent and cumulative. One of the questions that often comes up with common objectives is how to attribute progress to a specific team when multiple teams are making changes in parallel. This is referred to as the product attribution problem, and the standard answer to that is the A/B test, which will isolate a specific team’s contribution (keep in mind that sometimes the work helps, sometimes it actually hurts, and sometimes it makes no impact). The higher order point is that it is normal and often wise to have multiple teams pursuing the same objectives in one form or another. Companies that avoid shared or common objectives in the name of autonomy or communication, are often limiting their ability to solve the toughest and most important problems.
By Augustine Ehikioya Thwarting the activities of kidnappers, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja and a team of operational Commanders and Operatives, have rescued some kidnapped victims in Birni Gwari, Kaduna State. This took place while the GOC was on an operational cum inspection tour in the area on Thursday 25 August, 2022. A statement issued by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General, Onyema Nwachukwu, and made available to Security Watch Africa (SWA), has disclosed this. It reads “The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Nigerian Army Maj Gen Taoreed Lagbaja accompanied by a team of operational commanders and operatives have rescued three kidnap victims. The GOC and his team rescued the victims from a group of armed kidnappers in Manini village, along Pole Wire – Birnin Gwari road, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. “The Kidnappers had abducted the victims and were taking off, when they were confronted by the GOC’s team. The hot exchange of fire that followed subdued the kidnappers, compelling them to scamper in disarray with gunshot wounds into nearby forest, abandoning their abductees. “The rescued victims, comprising two adult males and an elderly woman have been conveyed to Kaduna, where they are currently receiving medical attention,” it stated.
Mission Statement: The Southwest Alliance for a Safe Future (SAFE) is a coalition of groups and individuals working toward a fair and safe economy. We seek to prevent and repair the damages done by the nuclear industry to our land, air and water. We also seek to protect the diversity of human cultures, food production, and wildlife for future generations through economic development, education, and science. Vision Statement: The Southwest Alliance for a Safe Future (SAFE) will prevent nuclear harm and promote regenerative practices in agriculture and business to support local economic independence, free from the negative impacts of the nuclear industry and from radioactive contamination. 1) We advocate for the re-use and re-purposing of minerals and the development of innovative technologies for creating products. 2) We support the use of plants that are adapted to arid climates to produce plant-based materials for business development. We will advocate for the development and use of technologies to ensure accessible and healthy food for all. 3) We support multiple uses of land for human and wildlife habitation to sustain life for generations to come.
The Engineers Australia Infrastructure Report Card released in 2010 rated Victoria’s Infrastructure as 'barely adequate'. The same is true nationally. The report noted that there is a fundamental link between sound infrastructure investment and a healthy, productive economy that contributes to a liveable and sustainable society Infrastructure projects such as new met-ro lines can shape a city and leave a legacy for future generations. We either invest in infrastructure or suffer the con-sequences. We are now beginning to suffer the consequences from years of infrastructure deficit, with urban sprawl, con- gestion and reduced levels of service. Despite a lot of planning in recent years, there has been little in the way of projects that address the shortfall in public infrastructure, primarily because of a perceived lack of funds and the increasing reluctance by government to increase their debt. Recent trends to public private partnerships (PPP) are inadequate in addressing the issue, with the private sector increasingly hesitant to fund major green field infrastructure, following a string of high profile projects that failed financially. The federal government needs to lead and use its financial leverage to deliver a quantum increase in the level of infrastructure spending nationwide. Government needs to take ownership of major greenfield projects that are essential for the public good. The economic climate is ideal for long term investment in infrastructure with low interest rates and superannuation funds hungry for long term safe investments. Waiting five years for a better~ situation is unrealistic and will not make the challenge any easier. Leadership is required now to break the piecemeal approach that has seen infrastructure spending decline from 4.5 per cent of GDP in the 1950s-1970s, down to the current level of around 3 per cent. Despite the establishment of Infrastructure Australia, infrastructure planning and procurement is still very political and strongly influenced by a short term crisis or political expediency. An example is the prioritisation in Victoria of the Avalon rail link over a link to the established and fast growing Melbourne Airport. Nationally, a recent example is the notion that the Gillard government would fund rail projects while the Abbott government would fund road projects. Such statements trivialise the complexities of transport infrastructure planning to a meaningless simple short term political grab for votes. Aside from such simplistic political behaviour, the core issue is around the perceived shortage of funds. There seems to be general acceptance in the wider society that we need better infrastructure, but the question of who pays is very vexed we dont want higher taxes, we don’t want user pays, we dont want to sell assets, and we don’t want to borrow. Sir Rod Eddington, chairman of Infrastructure Australia, remarked 'there seems a profound disconnect between our aspirations and reality'. In recent years PPP mechanisms have been favoured as this type of 'off the books' borrowing protects the government’s AAA rating. However, it delivers infrastructure at a considerable cost, since the interest rates associated with private sector borrowings are significantly higher than government bonds. Moreover, governments will find it increasingly difficult to attract the private sector to greenfield projects following several financial disasters such as EastLink in Victoria and Airport Link in Brisbane, where overly optimistic traffic forecasts resulted in significant losses and asset downgrades. Desalination plants around the country have suffered similar issues following their mothballing. In addition, most fund managers would prefer not to put aside capital for mega infrastructure projects for three or four years while they are commissioned. Australia currently has around $1300 billion of superannuation funds invested, which is likely to triple over the next 20 years. Such super funds are ideally suited to the long term investment nature of infrastructure, provided that the risk profile is reduced and a long term return is secured at a fair rate. One hybrid option is for government to lead the development of major greenfield projects which have a clear flow-on benefit to the wider economy but the direct returns are uncertain. The government would raise the funds through long term loans or infrastructure bonds and would construct and operate the asset with appropriate tolls for the first one or two years to establish the business case. The government then has the option to sell the asset to the private sector as a 'brownfield' development with the construction risk removed and the operational risk substantially reduced. Any difference in the cost of procurement and the selling price can be construed as the public benefit that flows from the delivery of the infrastructure system. In other words, the sale price reflects the commercial and direct benefits, while the price difference reflects the intangible benefits flowing from the project to the wider community. What is needed to facilitate this 'asset recycling' approach and break the national paralysis in infrastructure investment is a single national infrastructure fund that can be used to affordably finance the $700 billion infrastructure deficit that exists in the country. This fund could be supplemented with contributions from the state and the private sector on a project by project basis. If Abbott truly wants to be known as 'the infrastructure prime minister' then the federal government needs to take leadership in establishing this infrastructure fund. Written by Professor John Wilson, Swinburne University of Technology. This opinion piece was orginally published in Engineers Australia.
Electric Vehicle Laboratory Swinburne's Electric Vehicle Laboratory is the home of world-leading research and prototyping of electric vehicles, battery technology, drivetrain and electric motors. The laboratory boasts a fully-equipped workshop, staffed by specialist engineers and technicians, so that prototypes can be designed, built and tested on site. By collaborating with industry, the lab has created a faster and more dynamic development process. The lab works on a range of different research and prototyping projects. Working in partnership with BusTech and AutoCRC, the laboratory developed the first electric bus to be designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia. The lab worked on the engineering design of the bus, the on-site manufacture of battery pack technology and control system development and testing. Swinburne's specialist engineering team have many years combined experience in automotive and industrial sectors and the eBus Project integrates technology from around the world. The lab is also home to Swinburne’s Aurora solar car, Formula SAE and Victoria’s first fast electric car charging station. - High voltage battery system - Direct current testing rigs - Computer controlsimulation for battery charge and discharge - Electronic development for control systems - Software integration Battery testing facilities - 4 channels, each 2000W - Battery charging/discharging current 100A - Programmable charging and discharging current and voltage Temperature and humidifier chamber - Temperature range -35C to 180 C - Humidity range 10 to 98% RH - Both temperature and humidity can be programmed to simulate EV operating conditions - Single battery or battery pack can be placed into the chamber for testing Thermal image camera - Temperature range is -20 C to 250C - Real-time measurement and real-time display - High thermal sensitivity - Photos can be taken in real-time to observe battery temperature distribution during battery charging and discharging process
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There’s another twist in the saga of the vessel Kite Runner’s trip to Samoa last April. According to the Chairman of the Senate Select Investigative Committee, Senator Togiola Tulafono, the man who captained the vessel, Faiai Foleni Faiai, now says the boat did not have a log book. When he testified before the SSIC, Faiai said the Kite Runner had a log book, and information about the trip to Apia was logged in it. But, according to the Committee Chairman, the captain now says the boat didn’t have a log book; but the information he said he logged about the trip was in another book that he kept, which he gave to another person. Yesterday, the Committee was to question Letitia Tish Peau regarding the cargo the boat took when it traveled to Samoa last year, as her testimony differed from that of the captain. Peau said the boat took tiles and other building supplies, but the captain said they took just two cases of chicken and two cases of turkey tails. The owner of Paramount Builders, Papalii Laulii Alofa also showed up yesterday. However, because the Senate had two other hearings yesterday morning, the Committee chairman said the witnesses were excused as they had been waiting for a while, and it was way past the scheduled time for the SSIC meeting. Togiola said they will schedule another hearing with the witnesses, and also recall Captain Faiai to question about the log book.
A basic guide to writing your will If there’s one certainty you can bank on in life, it’s that we will all die one day. And when that happens, you will want to make sure you had written a will. No one likes to think about dying, but we all need to face up to the reality that it will happen at some point. And when it does, it’s important to be prepared. Perhaps not for you – after all you won’t be aware of what happens after your death – but the people you leave behind. And the best way to be prepared is to write a legally binding will. A will is a legal document that contains your wishes or instructions as to what you’d like to happen to your assets when you pass away. Without a will, you leave the people who are left behind (or the government) to decide what happens to your assets and finances. Potentially causing tension and arguments when people are already grieving. Why do you need a will? If you don’t have many assets, it’s easy to assume that having a will is an unnecessary hassle. However, there are many good reasons why you should write your will, even if you’re not rich. With a will, you’ll be able to protect whatever assets you have – however modest they may be. Even if you only have a bank account, you should still write a will to arrange where you want your money to go to when you pass away. With a will, your loved ones don’t have to worry about allocating your assets or processing your documents – the decisions have been made for them. It can also prevent any arguments breaking out over your estate (however tiny) after your death. With a will, you’ll be able to prevent any future tensions and guarantee the safety of your assets as well as your children. The great thing about your will is you can consolidate all of your assets easily, so if you’ve decided to open an account with an Offshore trust St. Kitts & Nevis, you can include this as part of your will. This can be beneficial as you get the benefits of protecting your assets through the will, whilst in the meantime the offshore assets are protected and taxed at a lower rate, meaning more is left for your family. How to write your own will – seven steps you need to follow Once you’re aware of the importance of having your own will, then next step if to start creating one. The best time to make your own will is right now. Don’t forget to regularly update your will over the years as your situation changes, you acquire more assets or if you ever change your mind. Here are the seven steps you need to follow when writing your will. 1) Decide how you’ll make your will When it comes to writing your will, you have two main options: you can use an attorney, or create your will yourself online with the right software. To avoid any problems with your will (and ensure it’s legal), it’s wise to consult with an attorney. This is especially important if you have considerable assets, or your will is complicated. If your financial portfolio is simple and modest, you might consider writing your will yourself online or using a will kit. 2) List your assets Before writing your will, make a full list of all your assets. This must include everything you own – from property, savings and investments, to valuable possessions like jewellery, heirlooms or artwork. And not just your valuable assets. If there are items that you specifically want someone to have – even if they are not worth very much – then list them too. 3) Choose your beneficiaries After you’ve listed down your assets, the next step is to decide who will get a particular possession. Ensure that you write their full legal name so there will be no issues validating their identity. When choosing beneficiaries, you shouldn’t name your pets as beneficiaries but rather assign a person who’ll take care of them when you pass on. And when assigning beneficiaries to your assets, be as specific as possible. For example, if you’re giving your house deed to four of your children, makes sure you clearly indicate the property percentage each sibling will get. You can assign them to have 25% each, or you can create an uneven designation, depending on your preference. You can assign a single beneficiary for all of your assets, or you can distribute them however you want to. Just make sure that you choose a beneficiary that you trust and is capable of handling your assets. 4) Pick a guardian for your children If you have children who are under the age of 18, you should include in your will who you wish to assign as guardian to your children when you pass on. Before writing down the guardian’s name, make sure that they are responsible and capable of taking care of your children. It’s always wise to choose a guardian who is close to both you and your children, so they’d have an easier time adjusting and getting along with one another. Very importantly, before you write down your chosen guardian’s name, ensure that it’s a mutual decision between you, the guardian, and your children. Also tell your children who they should turn if anything ever happens while they’re in the custody of their guardian. It’s also wise that you add a secondary guardian that would take over the responsibility if your first choice wasn’t able to fulfil their duties. 5) Designate an executor An executor is someone who is responsible for making sure that what is written in your will happen takes place according to your wishes if you die. Their job is to manage and distribute any assets that you have to their respective beneficiaries. Most people choose a family member or a trusted friend to be their executor. But if you want to be extra careful, you can hire an attorney, bank, or trust official to act as your executor. However, if you choose the latter option, you need to be prepared for the added expense as they usually cost 2% to 4% of your estate’s assets. 6) Get witnesses’ signatures Once you’ve finished writing your will, you need get a witness to sign it. A witness is required to make sure that the testator (the person making the will) has proper mental capacity during the time they wrote the legal document. This makes the will legal and valid. Generally, you should have two witnesses above the age of 18, and they shouldn’t be one of your beneficiaries. Ideally, you should pick witnesses who are younger than you, so they’re most likely to be present to contest in court when you pass away. 7) Keep your will somewhere safe After you’ve completed your will, you need keep it in a safe place, such as a secure box, and designate one family member or a trusted friend who can access your will in its location when the time comes to do so. Your real estate attorney may well offer to store your will at their office if you use one. Are you ready to write your will? A will is an essential document for every adult. It legally sets out what you want to happen to your assets (and even children) should you die. It make it clear what you want to happen, and ensures that your possessions and finances go to the right people. So if you don’t already have a will – or your will is now outdated – then maybe it’s time to make arrangements to write one now?
Contractors working with the Federal Government are often asked, “can you send me your Capability Statement?” in some form or another. It happens when you’re responding to a Sources Sought Notice, meeting with an agency representative or just attending an event with a strong Federal presence. But do they always mean the same document? How many different types of Capability Statements are there and how can I know which ones to use in specific situations? This blog post hopes to demystify the various types of Capability Statements and when you should use them. 1. Targeted Capability Statement This is the most effective Capability Statement you can craft; it is also the most time-consuming. This version will be different for just about every opportunity you’re trying to procure because it will speak specifically to that opportunity, that agency, or that prime contractor. The goal of sending out any Capability Statement is to present your businesses as capable, effective, professional, and successful at doing the work you’re trying to win. To that end, tailoring your Capability Statement specifically to the agency or prime contractor you’re attempting to win work from is an excellent way to showcase how different your company is from everyone who sent out a general statement. 2. General Capability Statement The majority of clients who contact TargetGov to develop their Capability Statement are looking for a “General Capability Statement.” Something they could send to any agency or prime contractor at any time. However, the General Capability Statement has limited uses, it isn’t going to be as effective as a Targeted Capability Statement when reaching out to specific Federal Agencies or Prime Contractors. If you know exactly who will be receiving your Capability Statement, we at TargetGov recommend tailoring it to address their needs. 3. Sources Sought Capability Statement This Capability Statement doesn’t look anything like the other Capability Statements in this list. In fact, the only thing it has in common with the other types of Capability Statements is the name. This can be a confusing exercise for contractors because they’ve become so familiar with the Capability Statements as a marketing document. What the Federal Government is looking for when they ask for a Capability Statement in a Sources Sought Notice is actually an answer of the notice itself. They will outline exactly what information they want you to provide and in what format. It is very important that you DO NOT send your normal Capability Statement, even as a secondary attachment. It will not help, and may even hinder your ability to market to that agency or decision maker because they will think you are not following their specific directions.
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"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them." John 17:22 Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content until he had given us all that he had. It would have been surprising grace if he had allowed us to eat the crumbs of his bounty beneath the table of his mercy; but he will do nothing by halves, he makes us sit with him and share the feast. Had he given us some small pension from his royal coffers, we should have had cause to love him eternally; but no, he will have his bride as rich as himself, and he will not have a glory or a grace in which she shall not share. He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with himself, so that we might have equal possessions. He has emptied all his estate into the coffers of the Church, and hath all things common with his redeemed. There is not one room in his house the key of which he will withhold from his people. He gives them full liberty to take all that he hath to be their own; he loves them to make free with his treasure, and appropriate as much as they can possibly carry. The boundless fulness of his all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes. Christ hath put the flagon of his love and grace to the believer's lip, and bidden him drink on forever; for could he drain it, he is welcome to do so, and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink abundantly, for it is all his own. What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth afford? "When I stand before the throne Dressed in beauty not my own; When I see thee as thou art, Love thee with unsinning heart; Then, Lord, shall I fully know-- Not till then--how much I owe."
"I in them." John 17:23 If such be the union which subsists between our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our communion! This is no narrow pipe through which a thread-like stream may wind its way, it is a channel of amazing depth and breadth, along whose glorious length a ponderous volume of living water may roll its floods. Behold he hath set before us an open door, let us not be slow to enter. This city of communion hath many pearly gates, every several gate is of one pearl, and each gate is thrown open to the uttermost that we may enter, assured of welcome. If there were but one small loophole through which to talk with Jesus, it would be a high privilege to thrust a word of fellowship through the narrow door; how much we are blessed in having so large an entrance! Had the Lord Jesus been far away from us, with many a stormy sea between, we should have longed to send a messenger to him to carry him our loves, and bring us tidings from his Father's house; but see his kindness, he has built his house next door to ours, nay, more, he takes lodging with us, and tabernacles in poor humble hearts, that so he may have perpetual intercourse with us. O how foolish must we be, if we do not live in habitual communion with him. When the road is long, and dangerous, and difficult, we need not wonder that friends seldom meet each other, but when they live together, shall Jonathan forget his David? A wife may when her husband is upon a journey, abide many days without holding converse with him, but she could never endure to be separated from him if she knew him to be in one of the chambers of her own house. Why, believer, dost not thou sit at his banquet of wine? Seek thy Lord, for he is near; embrace him, for he is thy Brother. Hold Him fast, for he is thine Husband; and press him to thine heart, for he is of thine own flesh.
Oil rose on Tuesday amid hope that the world's biggest producers of crude will agree to cut output as the coronavirus pandemic crushes demand, even as analysts warn a global recession may be deeper than expected and big production cuts will be needed. Brent crude was up by 80 cents, or 2.4%, at $33.85 a barrel by 0657 GMT after falling more than 3% on Monday. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was up by 83 cents, or 3.2%, at $26.91 a barrel, having dropped nearly 8% in the previous session. The world's main oil producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia are likely to agree to cut output at a meeting on Thursday, although that would depend on the United States joining in, sources told Reuters. But the threat of a major recession hangs over the market due to the halt of much economic activity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with half the global population under some form of lockdown or social distancing measures. "Anything less than a coordinated global cut is going to be disappointing to the market, as further price declines will be necessary to shut in enough output," said Greg Priddy, director global energy and Middle East at Stratfor in Houston. Worldwide oil demand has dropped by as much as 30%, or about 30 million barrels per day, coinciding with moves by Saudi Arabia and Russia to flood markets with extra supply after an agreement on withholding output fell apart. Oil prices slumped on Monday after Saudi Arabia and Russia delayed a meeting to agree on output cuts till Thursday. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers including Russia, a grouping known as OPEC+, had been curtailing production in recent years amid a rapid expansion of US output that made the country the world's biggest crude producer. There are questions whether the US would join any coordinated action. US President Donald Trump said on Monday that OPEC had not asked him to push domestic oil producers to cut their production to buttress prices. He also said that US output was declining in response to falling prices. "I think it's happening automatically but nobody's asked me that question yet so we'll see what happens," the president told a press briefing on Monday afternoon. Coordinated action by US oil producers to reduce output would typically be a violation of antitrust laws. A global recession that economists in a Reuters poll say is under way will likely be more serious than expected a few weeks ago due to the viral outbreak, the latest survey showed. "We expect energy prices to hover around current levels until economic activity recovers," Capital Economics said in a note.
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Number of Participants: 20 Hours Donated: 6 Value of Time Served: $1,014 Event Type: Children & Youth Date: May 26, 2017 1 Redmen Street Islip Terrace New York 11752, United States East Islip High School’s varsity softball team volunteered for the annual Special Olympics event held at Bellport High School on May 7. Each team member partnered with an athlete and took him or her to their events throughout the day. “It was great to have Eric again” said junior Katie Burk. “We missed him last year and I’m happy we had the chance to reunite with him.” Sophomore Allison Dell’Orto bonded with her athlete and was excited when she took first place in both of her events. “It was great seeing her compete and get that gold medal, I was so proud of her” Dell’Orto said. IMG_1428, IMG_1431, IMG_1433: East Islip High School’s varsity softball team volunteered for the annual Special Olympics event held at Bellport High School on May 7. Photos courtesy of the East Islip School District
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One of the most liked home rentals website in the world, Airbnb, is seeking to integrate technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality into enhancing the experience of users on its platform. The shift is intended at providing users an improved sight of the property that they seem to reserve for their next tour as well as enhancing their experience during their visit. The firm is paying attention to using these technologies in 2 parts—virtual reality prior to a tour and augmented reality during the trip. VR capabilities such as 3D scans and 360 photos will enable users to look within a city or home and recognize what to anticipate, and how to adjust themselves prior to they depart from the soothe of their own house. In a blog post, Airbnb claimed that virtual reality can also let guests present a glance at properties and destinations in an enhanced approach. Airbnb will be using augmented reality to make it simpler for guests to explore newer destinations. AR capabilities will enable the service to offer related, timely data for users to steer precedent cultural dissimilarities in an uncharted city. Also, the usage of augmented reality will assist guests to link to the city in a more captivating manner. Airbnb said, “Just imagine how greeting, pulling up paths to the coffee mugs on a phone will be primary thing in the crack of dawn. Or, on the spot conversions on how to toil that German thermostat.” At present, Airbnb mentioned it is examining prototypes and has provided no date when these features will be launched. Augmented reality is evidently achieving position speedily with tech giants such as Apple and Google incorporating the tools on their mobile platforms. Recently, AR stickers were added by Google on Pixel phones to Android 8.1 whereas Apple rolled out ARKit earlier this year with iOS 11.
- Status: Released - Movie Tagline: Let Me In - Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery - Release Date: 2010-10-01 - Runtime: 116.0 - Budget: $20.0 million - Revenue: $24.1 million - Production Companies: Hammer Film Productions, EFTI, Overture Films, Exclusive Media Cast & Crew Kodi Smit, McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas, Sasha Barrese, Dylan Kenin, Dylan Minnette, Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchak, Nicolai Dorian, Seth Adkins, Ritchie Coster, Cara Buono, Chris Browning, Rebekah Wiggins, Ashton Moio, Gwendolyn Apple, Brett DelBuono, Colin Moretz, Rowbie Orsatti, Brenda Wehle, Galen Hutchison, Dean Satriano, Deborah L. Mazor, Rachel Hroncich Let Me In is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Reeves and John Ajvide Lindqvist, based on Lindqvist’s 2004 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a mysterious young girl who appears to be a vampire. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as Owen, a troubled and lonely 12-year-old boy living in a small New Mexico town in 1983. He is regularly bullied by a group of older boys at his school, and is ignored by his divorced parents. One night, he meets Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz), a strange young girl who has just moved in to the apartment across the street. As their friendship develops, Owen discovers that Abby is a vampire, and that she must drink human blood to stay alive. Despite the fact that Abby is a vampire, Owen’s feelings for her grow, and he begins to protect her from the bullies and the police, who are searching for a serial killer who has been murdering local children. As the mystery of Abby’s true identity and motives unravels, Owen’s feelings for her deepen, and he How & Where to Watch “Let Me In” Wondering where to watch Let Me In? Here are the platforms that are currently streaming Let Me In. Note: If you are not able to find any streaming platform listed above, it could be because of the regional restriction or because the title is actually not available on any of the platform. Here’s how to watch it if it is not available in your country. Unlock “Let Me In” & Watch it Anywhere in the World with VPN Not able to find “Let Me In” in your region? We’ve got a solution – use a VPN like CyberGhost or Nordvpn. Why Should You Use a VPN? A VPN does not just keep your internet browsing safe and private, it also unlocks unlimited content that might otherwise be restricted in your region. So, you can access and enjoy various shows and movies on platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Prime Video. A VPN works by changing your IP address with one from a different region. This way, it seems like you’re browsing from that region, and voila – you can bypass regional blocks. Top Reasons to Stream with a VPN: - Access Geo-restricted Content: With a VPN, you can watch movies and shows from all over the world and not just those available in your region. - Data Protection: A VPN protects your data from potential threats helping you keep your personal details safe. - No More Slow Streaming: Some internet service providers might slow your connection during high-demand streaming times. A VPN helps you avoid this, ensuring smooth streaming. We recommend CyberGhost and NordVPN – two of the most trusted names in the VPN industry. Special VPN Offer: - CyberGhost is offering our readers a 45-day money-back guarantee plus a Whopping 82% discount. - NordVPN comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee and a special 63% discount. Recommended Movies similar to Let Me In
HTC CEO Peter Chou showed off the company's first virtual reality product, the re Vive virtual reality goggles, at Mobile World Congress today. The HTC re Vive, which incorporates Valve's Steam VR tracking and input technologies, will "amplify your room experience." The company claims Vive will offer the most immersive experience of any VR device, with full room scale 360-degree viewing and paired controllers that let you use your hands to reach, open, grab, shoot or walk around and explore a virtual space and inspect objects from every virtual angle. HTC has been working with game developer Valve to create virtual games, as well as HBO and Lionsgate for movies. A developer's version of Vive will be available this spring, but we won't be able to buy one until the end of the year. No price was announced. [Images: HTC, Techlicious]
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Should climate activists be exempt from the standards everyone else is judged – and fined – on, should we get on the wrong side of the law? Greta Thunberg seems to think so, having been removed by police from a blockade of an oil depot in Malmo harbour last month. At around that time, the “climate activist” posted a defiant message on social media: “We choose not to be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,” she said. And she stuck to her guns this week when facing the music in court and pleading not guilty to defying a police order to leave the protest. “My actions are justifiable,” she said. “I believe that we are in an emergency that threatens life, health and property. Countless people and communities are at risk both in the short term and in the long term.” This appeared to cut no ice with the presiding justices who found her guilty and fined her 2,500 Swedish krona (about £187). The fine probably won’t affect her high-profile career very much, but at least upholds the principle that all must be equal before the law. Because Thunberg was, in effect, arguing that she was engaged in a cause of such importance as to remove any obligation to obey lawful authority. And while the right to protest is sacred, claiming a de facto right to deliberately disrupt the lives of others going about their business is actually a negation of democracy. It involves withholding the losers’ consent that underpins the whole democratic system. Those who engage in such behaviour excuse themselves from having to win a mandate from their fellow citizens by according their own outlook sacred status. As Thunberg’s fellow climate protester Irma Kjellstrom put it: “We know we have the right to live and the fossil fuel industry stands in the way of that.” The absurd thing is that while on this occasion a Swedish court chose to uphold the law, in the United Kingdom that argument has chalked up a substantial measure of success. Police have in the past been hamstrung from taking instant action against Just Stop Oil protesters obstructing the highway in the wake of a Supreme Court decision of 2021. The so-called Ziegler case involved a group of defendants who blockaded the road outside an arms trade fair in London in 2017. They were acquitted of obstructing the highway by a district judge who took into account articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and found that the prosecution had failed to prove that their blocking of a highway was unreasonable. The Director of Public Prosecutions successfully appealed against that at the High Court which ruled that convictions should be entered against the defendants’ names. But Ziegler and Co took the issue to the Supreme Court which decided that intentional disruption benefited from qualified protection under the ECHR, with the degree of havoc caused needing to be weighed against the importance of the cause being pursued. And bingo. This appeared to mean that seeking to save the world by blocking a road had an arguable legal case based on precedent, resulting in British police often erring on the side of caution and waiting until severe traffic jams have built up and tempers are fraying before stepping in to clear the highway. Given that everyone in Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and various other radical offshoots appears sufficiently arrogant to believe their cause excuses their disruptive methods, it would seem that Ms Thunberg would do much better to bring her blockading ways across the North Sea to Blighty. And don’t be at all surprised if that is precisely what happens next.
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Recently, two employees died, and 30 others suffered injuries after a chemical leak at a LyondellBasell Industries (LBI) plant in Texas. The company is one of the largest plastics, chemicals, and refining companies in the world. The Texas company boasts that its chemicals have provided modern ways to enhance food and water safety worldwide. According to a recent news report, the chemical leak involved acetic acid, which is a common food preservative used to make vinegar. The blast occurred around 7:30 in the evening when a cap burst on a line of acetic acid. Acetic acid is a clear, flammable liquid whose vapor can be corrosive to the eyes and skin. The burst released approximately 100,000 pounds of an acetic acid chemical mixture into the air. In addition to acetic acid, the burst released hydrogen iodide and acetate. The combination of these chemicals can be toxic and cause severe burns. Emergency responders and investigators are still investigating the accident; however, they do not believe that an explosion or fire caused the leak. Chemical leaks such as the one at the Texas plant can be toxic and deadly to anyone in the vicinity. Chemical spills and leaks often occur because of negligence surrounding safety regulations, equipment, or employee training. Companies should make sure to properly train their employees and workers to ensure that they understand how to prevent spills and mitigate harm if a spill does occur. However, many companies prioritize economic gain over employee and community welfare. When this occurs, the companies may pressure workers to complete tasks in an unreasonable amount of time. This can naturally result in workers cutting corners to meet production deadlines. Further, in addition to those on-site, chemical spills can affect nearby residents. Chemical spills can spread through air, ground, and water. The spills can release toxins and cause fires and harm to the nearby community. Moreover, victims can face life-long debilitating illnesses related to chemical exposure. After a chemical spill, injury victims should consult an attorney to determine their rights and remedies. Economic recovery largely depends on the specific circumstances of the chemical spill and the status of the injury victim. For instance, in some cases, employees have limited remedies in collecting damages from their employer. However, an attorney can review the facts and circumstances of the incident to determine whether the victim or their loved one can recover compensation. Have You Suffered Injuries Because of a Chemical Exposure? If you or someone you love has suffered injuries because of a dangerous toxin, or other workplace accident, contact the injury attorneys at Carabin Shaw. The lawyers at our office have extensive experience handling complex personal injury cases on behalf of clients across Texas. We handle claims involving Texas motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, defective products, workplace accidents, and instances of medical malpractice. Our attorneys use their skills, knowledge, and resources to ensure that clients recover the compensation they deserve. Contact the Texas attorneys at Carabin Shaw by calling 800-862-1260 to schedule a free and confidential initial consultation today.
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The software industry in India has been among the nation’s leading financial contributors for years, although the top 10 software companies in India aren’t just the industrial leaders domestically, but likewise some of the top information technology (IT) solutions and business process outsourcing (BPO) suppliers in the entire world. As the worldwide demand for software and IT solutions keeps growing at an outstanding rate, the applications and IT sector in India is expected to thrive further. A number of the best software firms in India — for example Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), Infosys, and Wipro — will also be forecasted to keep their dominance in the national market while boosting their presence worldwide. BizVibe makes it simple and fast to attach with the top 10 software companies in India and also help your company grow to a different level. India is among the world’s biggest and fastest growing applications markets, specializing in IT solutions and business process management outsourcing. Based on software business lobby NASSCOM, the software business in India generated total revenues of US$160 billion in 2017, with export earnings standing at US$99 billion and national earnings at US$48 billion, representing an astonishing 13% increase year on year. The USA is now accounting for at least 60 percent of their IT exports from India. IBEF (India Brand Equity Foundation) also reports the IT and business process management (BPM) business in India is projected to expand at a CAGR of 9.5percent to US$ 300 billion by 2021 and keep to achieve US$ 350 billion by 2025. Lately, the Indian software and IT sector has been increasingly focusing on the newest trends in information technologies, including the Web of Things (IoT), large data, customized applications development, artificial intelligence, cloud computing solutions and also the blockchain. The competencies and strengths of India’s software and IT sector also have attracted considerable investments from other significant nations. Based on information published by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the computer hardware and software industry from India brought cumulative Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows US$ 29.825 billion in April 2000 to December 2017, making India one of the world’s most popular investment destinations for applications and IT companies. That is our feature-packed collection of top 10 software companies in India which will predominate in 2018.Also read: What Is Freely? A TV Streaming Platform Backed By BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) — top the listing of the top 10 it companies in India — is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) support, consulting and business services firm headquartered in Mumbai, India. It’s a subsidiary of the Tata Group and works in 46 nations. Since the biggest software business in India, TCS can also be one of the top 10 IT companies in the world, supplying services such as consulting, applications development, infrastructure support, and business process outsourcing. It’s currently expanding rapidly with all the most recent technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Web of items, Cloud Computing and Cyber Security. List of software products produced by Tata Consultancy Services: Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational company and among the greatest software firms in India, which offers business consulting, information technology and outsourcing solutions. It has its headquarters at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Infosys is the 2nd largest IT firm in India and among the top 10 biggest IT firms in the world concerning revenue. It gives software development, maintenance, and separate validation solutions to firms in finance, insurance, manufacturing and other domain names. Offering a vast selection of merchandise, anticipate Infosys to keep on controlling these software firms list later on. List of software products manufactured by Infosys: Headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka, Wipro is a worldwide information technology, outsourcing and consulting firm with over 147,000 workers serving over 900 customers in over 175 cities across the continents and also one of the most advanced on this top 10 software companies in India list. Wipro is internationally recognized for its revolutionary approach towards providing business value and its own commitment to sustainability. It champions optimized use of natural resources, capital and ability. List of software products developed by Wipro: It’s an Indian Multinational IT support firm. HCL Technologies is offering broad selection of services such as business conversion, technology, remote infrastructure management, business process outsourcing etc.. The organization’s network of 31 offices is distributed across the united states, Europe and Asia–Pacific. List of software items developed by HCL Technologies: It’s part of the Mahindra Group that uses over 180,000 individuals in over 100 nations. According to it’s software alternatives, Tech Mahindra can also be one of the significant players in the medical sector in India. List of software products developed by Tech Mahindra: It’s headquartered in Mumbai, India. The business provides a broad selection of services such as business consulting, outsourcing providers and IT. It supplies IT Solutions into the Banking Industry. The organization’s offerings pay retail, personal wealth management, investment and corporate banking, capital, trade, treasury, cash management, asset management, obligations, financing, and business analytics. List of software products developed by Oracle Financial Services Software: LTI provides a vast selection of services such as automation and digital options, IT Consulting, IT Service Management. It’s a leading IT services and applications company on the planet. Among those applications firms in Mumbai and in India, Larsen & Toubro Infotech proceeds to offer a huge collection of software products interrupt the business. List of software products developed by Larsen & Toubro Infotech: The business is a leading IT services provider in India and regarded as among the greatest it companies in India, offering software, business process outsourcing (BPO) and infrastructure solutions worldwide. It supplies a vast selection of services such as IT, Business Consulting and Outsourcing Services. The business also supplies architecture advice, application integration and development, infrastructure engineering and software outsourcing solutions, and program management solutions.Also read: 10 Best Saas Marketing Tools And Platforms For 2021 List of software items developed by Mphasis Ltd: Mindtree provides applications and IT solutions and specializes in cellular programs, e-commerce, electronic transformation, cloud computing, data analytics, EAI, and ER. MindTree also provides electronic, performance and IT consulting services and is thought to be among the latest software businesses on the planet. List of software products produced by Mindtree Limited: Company IT Services Technology Consulting Hexaware Technologies Hexaware Technologies is an IT and business process outsourcing service provider firm based in Navi Mumbai, India. These days, it has approximately 15,000 employees serving over 230 customers across the globe. List of software products produced by Hexaware Technologies: India has evolved to become among the planet’s hottest applications and IT business hubs, offering top-notch solutions to various industries and businesses worldwide. To be able to move up the value chain, supply better end-to-end answers, and participate more closely with their international customers, a number of these top 10 software companies in India, such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Tech Mahindra, are diversifying their applications services and investing heavily from blockchain, artificial intelligence and cloud computing etc.. Because of this, it’s predicted to find these high Indian IT companies keep their leadership from the market later on. Which prospective businesses do you think will combine this listing of the biggest enterprise applications businesses next year? Tell us in the comments section.
One of the few actors to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting—an Academy Award for “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” a Tony Awards for “Same Time, Next Year,” and an Emmy Award for a guest starring role on “Law and Order: SVU”—Ellen Burstyn is one of the most decorated and experienced actors of our time. Over her 60-plus-year career, Burstyn has never once fallen out of love with the craft, and brings the same passion she had in her 20s to her latest role in the retirement home-set romantic comedy “Queen Bees.” You began your career as a dancer and a model, but what was the moment you decided you wanted to be an actor? I kind of always knew I was an actress, from the first time I was onstage when I was seven years old and just reciting a nursery rhyme. When I looked out at the audience and saw that blackness—I couldn’t see any people but I could feel them out there—something clicked in me. I was seven and I can recreate that feeling of relating to the breathing beings inside the blackness and connecting with them. I didn’t say, “Oh, I’m an actress, this is what I’m going to do with my life” but that moment was the beginning of something. I just found that every time I would go onstage, I could do it well. To me, what we come in with that comes easily to us is the path we should take. I was always heading that way from that point on. In your subsequent theater roles throughout your career, did you get that same feeling of connection to the audience that you did as a child? Yeah, always. Just hearing a purse clicking open when I’m doing something that’s making the audience cry and I know somebody’s reaching for their handkerchief or their tissue, or laughter, or any kind of response from the audience, even absolute silence where I can feel they’re really attentive, I call that feeling “communion.” I always feel like I’m in a communion with the audience, with the individual people. I can feel their presence and their concentration, their attention. When I feel I don’t have that, that’s a terrible feeling and then I have to refocus and get concentrated and reestablish that communion. What do you consider your first big break to have been? I was a model and then I decided, OK, I’m going to be an actress. I’m going to do a Broadway play this fall. I went around to everybody I knew and said, “I’ve decided to be an actress. I want to do a Broadway play this fall. Do you know how I can get an audition?” Somebody actually said yes and got me an audition. I auditioned for a lead on Broadway and I got the part. That was my beginning. That’s a pretty big break. Of course, after that I had a career of 20 years doing television guest shots, doing summer stock, doing some not very good movies. It wasn’t until “The Last Picture Show” that I felt I had a big break in films, and quality work in good films. What advice would you give your younger self? To get into an acting class and study. I didn’t study for quite a few years into my career. I was working so I thought I knew what I was doing, which I didn’t. I did get the feeling when I looked at certain actors that they knew something I didn’t know; actors like Marlon Brando and Jimmy Dean and Kim Stanley. It turned out they were all members of the Actors Studio and they were all students of Lee Strasberg. One day I decided it was time to find out what it was I didn’t know and I went to him and that really changed not only my work, but my life. I got serious about the art form, not just the career. How did you first get your SAG-AFTRA and Equity cards? My entry to the union was AFTRA. It was a television show, live TV I did somewhere. And then I got into Equity when I did that Broadway show, “Fair Game” it was called. What is your worst audition horror story? I can’t remember something like that. I was pretty good at auditions. One of the reasons why I was good at auditions is because I was always kind of nervous and scared. And then my husband was working for a television company and he came home one day and he was worried and upset and I asked him what was wrong and he said he was worried they weren’t going to find an actor for this particular part that they were auditioning actors for [on] a television show. I went, “Oh, it’s the same on the other end! It’s not just us being an actor that’s worried and scared. The producers are, too.” I changed my attitude when I went in for an audition: I’m the answer to your problems. I was going to solve their problems. And that changed my whole focus. I wasn’t going hat in hand, can you please give me a job? It gave me more confidence and it helped. So I got good at auditioning then. Confidence is so important for actors. If you’re not confident, it’s just impossible to do your best work. You have to get control of your mind and not let it defeat you. “I hope they like me, I'm so scared,” all that stuff makes it hard to do good work. What performance should every actor see and why? I love Laurence Olivier’s “Richard III.” He does just astonishing work in it. Of course, Meryl Streep’s “Sophie’s Choice” is a brilliant performance. So many of her performances are. What has playing this latest role in “Queen Bees” added to your acting skills? The thing that I learned from doing “Queen Bees” is I had an attitude about retirement homes. I thought entering a retirement home was kind of giving up on life. I got into this retirement home where we shot, which was a real place with real people living there, and they were having a good, hot time, I’ll tell you. There’s a beautiful swimming pool, a beautiful dining room. They had all kinds of activities. There are a lot of relationships that are formed in retirement homes. I was very impressed with the level of liveliness in the place where we were. It really changed my attitude, where I stopped thinking of going into a retirement as giving up on life but just another stage in life, another circumstance of life. It can be fun and interesting and enlivening. I’m very pleased for them to make a film where the four leading roles are over 70. There aren’t too many of those kinds of films that are fun. I think we’ve given the audience a good time. Do you sense a tide is turning for more dynamic roles for older actors? Well, I hope so. I’ve been working steadily in my 80s. That’s a good sign. Whether or not it’s a trend remains to be seen, but I hope so.
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Summary of Diego Rivera Widely regarded as the most influential Mexican artist of the 20th century, Diego Rivera was truly a larger-than-life figure who spent significant periods of his career in Europe and the U.S., in addition to his native Mexico. Together with David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, Rivera was among the leading members and founders of the Mexican Muralist movement. Deploying a style informed by disparate sources such as European modern masters and Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, and executed in the technique of Italian fresco painting, Rivera handled major themes appropriate to the scale of his chosen art form: social inequality; the relationship of nature, industry, and technology; and the history and fate of Mexico. More than half a century after his death, Rivera is still among the most revered figures in Mexico, celebrated for both his role in the country's artistic renaissance and re-invigoration of the mural genre as well as for his outsized persona. - Rivera made the painting of murals his primary method, appreciating the large scale and public accessibility—the opposite of what he regarded as the elitist character of paintings in galleries and museums. Rivera used the walls of universities and other public buildings throughout Mexico and the United States as his canvas, creating an extraordinary body of work that revived interest in the mural as an art form and helped reinvent the concept of public art in the U.S. by paving the way for the Federal Art Program of the 1930s. - Mexican culture and history constituted the major themes and influence on Rivera's art. Rivera, who amassed an enormous collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, created panoramic portrayals of Mexican history and daily life, from its Mayan beginnings up to the Mexican Revolution and post-Revolutionary present, in a style largely indebted to pre-Columbian culture. - A lifelong Marxist who belonged to the Mexican Communist Party and had important ties to the Soviet Union, Rivera is an exemplar of the socially committed artist. His art expressed his outspoken commitment to left-wing political causes, depicting such subjects as the Mexican peasantry, American workers, and revolutionary figures like Emiliano Zapata and Lenin. At times, his outspoken, uncompromising leftist politics collided with the wishes of wealthy patrons and aroused significant controversy that emanated inside and outside the art world. The Life of Diego Rivera When Diego Rivera first returned home to Mexico from his artistic studies in France, he was so overcome with joy that he fainted. Later, he said, "Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own .. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican." Important Art by Diego Rivera View of Toledo A stunning tribute to two of Rivera's favorite masters—El Greco and Paul Cézanne— View of Toledo exemplifies Rivera's tendency to unite traditional and more modern approaches in his work. The landscape is a reworking of the famous 1597 landscape painting by El Greco, whose work Rivera studied during his time in Spain; Rivera's version even deploys the same viewpoint as the Spanish Old Master. At the same time, the subdued palette, flattened forms, and unconventional use of perspective suggest the artist's reverence for Cézanne, his L'Estaque landscapes. This artwork also documents the beginning of Rivera's Cubist phase. Oil on canvas - Fundacion Amparo R. de Espinosa, Puebla Zapatista Landscape - The Guerrilla In this work, painted during Rivera's sojourn in Paris, the artist deployed Cubism—a style he once characterized as a "revolutionary movement"—to depict the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, here seen with attributes such as a rifle, bandolier, hat, and sarape. The work's collage-like approach is suggestive of the Synthetic rather than Analytic phase of Cubism. Executed at the height of the Mexican Revolution, the painting—later described by its creator as "probably the most faithful expression of the Mexican mood that I have ever achieved"—manifests the increasing politicization of Rivera's work. Oil on canvas - Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City Motherhood - Angelina and the Child Motherhood is a modernizing, Cubist treatment on a perennial art historical theme: the Madonna and Child. In this painting, Angelina Beloff, Rivera's common-law wife for twelve years, holds their newborn son, Diego, who died of influenza just months after his birth. The painting beautifully illustrates Rivera's unique approach to Cubism, which rejected the somber, monochromatic palette deployed by artists such as Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque in favor of vivid colors more reminiscent of those used by Italian Futurist artists like Gino Severini or Giacomo Balla. Oil on canvas - Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, Mexico His first commission from Mexican Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos, Creation is the first of Rivera's many murals and a touchstone for Mexican Muralism. Treating, in the artist's words, "the origins of the sciences and the arts, a kind of condensed version of human history"—the work is a complex allegorical composition, combining Mexican, Judeo-Christian, and Hellenic motifs. It depicts a number of allegorical figures—among them Faith, Hope, Charity, Education, and Science—all seemingly represented with unmistakably Mexican features. The figure of Song was modeled on Guadalupe Marin, who later became Rivera's second wife. Through such features of the work as the use of gold leaf and the monumental, elongated figures, the mural reflects the importance of Italian and Byzantine art for Rivera's development. Fresco in encaustic with gold leaf - Museo de San Idelfonso, Mexico City Man, Controller of the Universe (Man in the Time Machine) As its title indicates, the painting is a powerful representation of the human race "at the crossroads" of reinforcing or competing forces and ideologies: science, industrialization, Communism, and capitalism. Revealing Rivera's dedication to Communism and other left-wing causes, the painting has at its center a heroic worker surrounded by four propeller-like blades; it contrasts a mocking portrayal of society women, seen on the left, with a sympathetic portrayal of Lenin surrounded by proletarians of different races, on the right. Commissioned by the Mexican government, this painting is a smaller but nearly identical recreation of Man at the Crossroads, the Rockefeller-commissioned mural for the soon-to-be-completed Rockefeller Center. The New York City mural was destroyed a year before this work, amid controversy over Rivera's portrait of Lenin and his subsequent refusal to remove the image. Fresco - Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City Portrait of Lupe Marin In this magnificent portrait of his second wife from whom he separated the previous decade, Rivera again reveals his profound artistic debt to the European painting tradition. Utilizing a device deployed by such artists as Velazquez, Manet, and Ingres—and which Rivera would himself use in his 1949 portrait of his daughter Ruth—he portrays his subject partially in reflection through his depiction of a mirror in the background. The painting's coloration and the subject's expressive hands call to mind another artistic hero, El Greco, while its composition and structure suggest the art of Cézanne. Oil on canvas - Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City The Detroit Industry Fresco Cycle The twenty-seven panels comprising this cycle are a tribute to Detroit's manufacturing base and workforce of the 1930s and constitute the finest example of fresco painting in the United States. Here, Rivera takes large-scale industrial production as the subject of the work, depicting machinery with exceptional attention to detail and artistry. The overall iconography of the cycle reflects the duality concept of Aztec culture via the two sides of industry: the one beneficial to society (vaccines) and the other harmful (lethal gas). Other dichotomies recur in this work, as Rivera contrasts tradition and progress, industry and nature, and North and South America. He uses multiple allegories based on the history of the continents, as well as contemporary events to build a dramatic artwork. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park Rivera revisits the theme of Mexican history in this crowded, dynamic composition, replete with meaningful portraits, historical figures, and symbolic elements. Conceived as a festive pictorial autobiography, Rivera represents himself at the center as a child holding hands with the most celebrated of Guadalupe Posada's creations: the skeletal figure popularly known as "Calavera Catrina." He represents himself joining this quintessential symbol of Mexican popular culture and is shown to be protected by his wife, the painter Frida Kahlo, who holds in her hand the yin-yang symbol, the Eastern equivalent of Aztec duality. The mural combines the artist's own childhood experiences with the historical events and sites that took place in Mexico City's Alameda Park, such as the crematorium for the victims of the Inquisition during the times of Cortes, the U.S. army's encampment in the park in 1848, and the major political demonstrations of the 19th century. As in many previous works, Rivera juxtaposes historical events and figures, deliberately rejecting the Western tradition of linear narrative. Transportable fresco - Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City Biography of Diego Rivera Diego Rivera and his fraternal twin brother (who died at the age of two) were born in 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. His parents were both teachers; his mother was a devoted Catholic mestiza (part European, part Indian) and his father, a liberal criollo (Mexican of European descent). Diego's exceptional artistic talent was obvious to his parents from an early age, and they set aside a room in the house for him in which he painted his first "murals" on the walls. When Diego was six, his family moved from Guanajuato to Mexico City, to avoid the tensions caused by his father's role as co-editor of the opposition newspaper El Democrata. Once in Mexico City, his mother decided to send Diego to the Carpantier Catholic College. By the age of ten, Rivera decided he wanted to attend art school, despite his father's desire that he pursue a military career. By the age of twelve, Rivera was enrolled full-time at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, where he received training modeled on conservative European academies; one of his painting teachers had studied with Ingres, and another required Rivera to copy classical sculpture. Trained in traditional techniques in perspective, color, and the en plein air method, Rivera also received instruction from Gerardo Murillo, one of the ideological forces behind the Mexican artistic revolution and a staunch defender of indigenous crafts and Mexican culture. With Murillo's support, Rivera was awarded a travel grant to Europe in 1906. In Spain, Rivera studied the work of El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, and the Flemish masters that he saw in the Prado Museum, and which provided him with a strong foundation for his later painting. At the studio of the Spanish realist painter Eduardo Chicharro, Rivera became acquainted with the leading figures of the Madrid avant-garde, including the Dada poet Ramon Gomez de la Serna and the writer Ramon Valle-Inclan. In 1909 Rivera traveled to Paris and Belgium with Valle-Inclan, where he met the Russian painter Angelina Beloff who would be Rivera's partner for twelve years. Returning to Mexico City in 1910, Rivera was offered his first exhibition at the San Carlos Academy. Rivera's return coincided with the onset of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted until 1917. Despite the political upheaval, Rivera's exhibit was a great success, and the money earned from the sale of his work enabled him to return to Europe. Back in Paris, Rivera became a fervent adherent of Cubism, which he regarded as a truly revolutionary form of painting. However, Rivera's difficult relationships with the other members of the movement came to a tumultuous end following a violent incident with the art critic Pierre Reverdy, resulting in a definitive break with the circle and the termination of his friendships with Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Gino Severini, and Jacques Lipchitz. Rivera subsequently shifted his focus to the work of Cézanne and Neoclassical artists such as Ingres, as well as a rediscovery of figural painting. Receiving another grant to travel to Italy to study classical art, Rivera copied Etruscan, Byzantine, and Renaissance artworks, and developed a particular interest in the frescoes of the 14th and 15th centuries of the Italian Renaissance. In 1921, following the appointment of Jose Vasconcelos as the new Mexican Minister of Education, Rivera returned to his home country, leaving behind his partner, Angelina Beloff, as well as Marevna Stebelska, another Russian artist, with whom Rivera had a daughter, Marika, in 1919. Rivera returned to Mexico with a reawakened artistic perspective, deeply influenced by his study of Classical and ancient art. There, he was afforded the opportunity to visit and study many pre-Columbian archaeological sites under the auspices of the Ministry of Education's art program. Yet his first mural painting, produced for the National Preparatory School and entitled Creation(1922), shows a strong influence of Western art. Rivera soon became involved with local politics through his membership in the Revolutionary Union of Technical Workers and his entry into the Mexican Communist Party in 1922. At this time, he painted frescoes in the Ministry of Education in Mexico City and the National School of Agriculture in Chapingo. During the latter project, he became involved with the Italian photographer Tina Modotti, who had modeled for his murals; the affair prompted him to separate from his wife at the time, Lupe Marin. In 1927, Rivera visited the Soviet Union to attend the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, an experience he found extremely inspiring. He spent nine months in Moscow, teaching monumental painting at the School of Fine Arts. Upon his return to Mexico, he married the painter Frida Kahlo, who was twenty-one years his junior, and became the director of the Academy of San Carlos. His radical ideas about education earned him enemies among the conservative faculty and student body; at the same time, he was expelled from the Communist Party for his cooperation with the government. Politically cornered, Rivera found support in the American ambassador to Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow, who commissioned him to paint a mural in the Cortes Palace in Cuernavaca depicting the history of that city. A great admirer of Rivera's work, Morrow offered the artist the opportunity to travel to the United States, all expenses paid. Rivera remained in the U.S. for four years. There, the always-prolific artist worked around the clock, painting murals in San Francisco, New York, and Detroit, celebrating the powerful forces of unions, education, industry, and art. In New York, he met with enormous popularity (his one-man show at The Museum of Modern Art had fifty-seven thousand visitors) as well as controversy (some of his murals were threatened with physical harm). Rivera's American adventure ended in 1933, when John D. Rockefeller, Jr., ordered the destruction of the mural he had commissioned for the lobby of Rockefeller Center, Man at the Crossroads, because of both Rivera's unwillingness to eliminate the portrait of Lenin and for what the Rockefeller family regarded as an offensive portrait of David Rockefeller. Later Years and Death After Rivera returned to Mexico, he and Kahlo shared a house-studio in a beautiful Bauhaus-style building in Mexico City that can still be visited today. From 1929 until 1945, Rivera worked on and off in the National Palace, creating some of his most famous murals there. In 1937, he and Kahlo helped Leon Trotsky - a major Russian Communist leader - and his wife obtain political exile; the Trotskys lived with Rivera and Kahlo for two years in the "Blue House" in the suburb of Coyoacan. Two years later, Rivera and Kahlo divorced, although they remarried a year later in San Francisco, while Rivera was working for the Golden Gate International Exposition. The two had a tremendously passionate, and an extremely tumultous relationship - one that can easily extrapolated by viewing her very personal artworks. The couple would ultimately remain together until Kahlo's death in 1954. During his last years, Diego continued to paint murals, sometimes working on portable panels. He also produced a large number of oil portraits, usually of the Mexican bourgeoisie, children, or American tourists. These works are not always remarkable, and they are often infused with a kitschy aesthetic reminiscent of Pop art. However, they were very successful during his lifetime, and provided a way for the artist to acquire more pre-Columbian objects for his spectacular collection. Today, his collection is housed in the Anahuacalli Museum, a building inspired by the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan and designed by Rivera himself. Widowed and already sick with cancer, Rivera married for the third time in 1955 to Emma Hurtado, his art dealer and rights holder since 1946. Following a trip to the Soviet Union made in the hope of curing his cancer, Rivera died in Mexico in 1957 at age seventy. His wish to have his ashes mingled with those of Kahlo was not honored, and he was buried in the Rotunda of Famous Men of Mexico. The Legacy of Diego Rivera Rivera saw the artist as a craftsman at the service of the community, who, as such, needed to deploy an easily accessible visual language. This concept greatly influenced American public art, helping give rise to governmental initiatives such as Franklin Roosevelt's Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, whose artists depicted scenes from American life on public buildings. With his socially and politically expansive artistic vision, narrative focus, and use of symbolic imagery, Rivera inspired such diverse artists as Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, and Jackson Pollock. Influences and Connections Useful Resources on Diego Rivera - Diego Rivera, 1886-1957: A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art (Taschen Basic Art)Our PickBy Andrea Kettenmann - Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera (Discovery Series)By Patrick Marnham - Diego RiveraBy Pete Hamill - Diego Rivera, The Complete MuralsOur PickBy Luis Martin Lozano, Juan Coronel Rivera - Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry MuralsBy Linda Bank Downs - Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, SiqueirosOur PickBy Desmond Rochfort - My Art, My Life: An Autobiography (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)Our PickBy Diego Rivera, Gladys March
The Cultural Services Department is currently recruiting for a Cultural Business and Events Manager. St. Albert has a strong grassroots cultural community with a history of celebrating arts and culture. The City has a well established cultural department focused on nurturing and developing the arts and cultural sector through direct delivery of programs and services, partnerships and collaborations throughout the community. We are looking for a creative, innovative, strategic individual with strong leadership and supervisory experience, marketing, communications and fund development. Experience in large event management, and capital project management, are important aspects of this position. Reporting to the Cultural Services Director, the Business and Events Manager is responsible for several key areas that impact the entire Cultural Services Department including; coordinating departmental reporting, contributing to long term strategic planning and support and implementation of corporate initiatives, monitoring of departmental operating and capital budgets, leading the fund development, and marketing teams, and capital project management of key cultural projects. This position is also responsible for producing the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival of the Arts. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the following areas: • Strategic business planning • Financial management including developing business cases • Leading teams of employees including performance management, coaching and development • Professional fund development and sponsorship campaigns in excess of $1M • Marketing, public relations and advertising of events and performances in a large, soft-seat theatre • Experience in planning and managing large, outdoor events or festivals (over 30,000 attendees) • Organizational development, including board development • Experience developing capital project plans including project management As part of the Cultural Services management team, the Manager will assist in the development of agenda reports, departmental budgets, monthly and quarterly reports as well as responding to information requests generated by Council, Senior Leadership and the public. • Degree in Business Administration, Recreation, Arts and Culture Management or a related field and 10 years experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. • Extensive experience required in arts and cultural management or related field. • Exceptional written, interpersonal and leadership skills. • Creative and innovative thinking and proven ability to transfer vision into strategy. • Political acumen, conflict resolution and negotiation experience. • Experience in building relationships with community agencies, government and funding bodies. • Previous experience in a municipal environment is an asset. • Membership in Arts/Culture related organizations is beneficial. HOURS OF WORK Compressed work schedule of 72 hours bi-weekly (Monday – Friday, 8:00 – 5:00 with a regular day off every two weeks). There will be the occasional requirement for extra and evening hours, which could include attendance at meetings and events. $98,876 – $120,298 per annum. In addition, the City of St. Albert offers a generous and comprehensive flexible benefit package. The successful applicant will be required to obtain a satisfactory police information check. Qualified applicants are invited to submit their cover letter and resume via the City of St. Albert employment website www.stalbert.ca/employment July 13, 2018
- Daily & Weekly newsletters - Buy & download The Bulletin - Comment on our articles Delhaize strikes continue despite court upholding ban on picketing Workers for supermarket chain Delhaize are continuing their strike efforts in spite of a court ruling in management's favour. A Dutch-speaking court in Brussels ruled in favour of Delhaize in its dispute with trade unions, RTBF reports, meaning that the picket lines in front of some supermarkets must be lifted. Unions have condemned the ruling, calling it an infringement on the right to strike, and say they plan to appeal the decision. “The Delhaize workers have been dealt another blow, and this time it is the Belgian justice system that is failing them,” said Myriam Djegham, national secretary of the CNE union. “On whose side are the authorities in our country? It’s regrettable that in 2023 Belgium is still allowing companies to break peaceful picket lines through unfair procedures. "These procedures result in the intimidating intervention of bailiffs and police forces, depriving workers of their only leverage.” Delhaize said it was “relieved by the court's decision” but that it remained “attached to a calm dialogue” and wanted to “continue to respect the right to strike at all times”. Despite these assurances, talks between workers and management have gone nowhere as Delhaize refuses to budge from its position. Employees at the grocery chain have been on strike for more than a month following an announcement to convert all shops to a franchise model, which workers fear will result in a loss of benefits and wages at a time when they say they are already struggling with staff shortages and poor working conditions. Under independent and private ownership, Delhaize store owners would have more freedom to set pay rates, working conditions and benefits, depending on the individual running it. “Will an independent acquirer still pay me a salary of €3,100 gross? Will all 126 staff be able to continue working here?” one worker told Bruzz. “As a 57-year-old, where will I still find work, when people can still use cheaper job students and flexi-jobbers? Beware, this plan by Delhaize is just the beginning. Other chains will follow, and the government must intervene.” There seems to be support for the strike from customers, many of whom are boycotting the shops that are open, in solidarity, even as Delhaize staffs them with independent contractors in order to keep them running. “Delhaize has lost an awful lot of money with this strike,” one Brussels worker told Bruzz. “The management did not expect the strike to last so long. Yesterday, the shop had a turnover of €13,000, compared to €100,000 on a normal day. Though compared to the billions of profit they make, that’s nothing.” In its reaction to the court ruling against its own workers, the company’s management demanded respect for "the right to work". “We will continue to guarantee as much as possible access to our shops for our employees who wish to work, our customers and our suppliers,” Delhaize said in a statement. Management said it wanted to “conduct a local mediation with the strikers and thus free up access to the shops. If mediation fails, we will send a bailiff to the shop in question and he will also try to start mediation.” Tensions between management and workers have only worsened since the announcement and subsequent strikes, including when a union representative was arrested and handcuffed earlier this week while participating in a picket line. “We fully understand the emotion that a police intervention can generate in a context of sensitive social dialogue for the strikers,” a spokesperson for the police said in defence of the arrest. “However, the mission of the police - that is to say the accompaniment of the bailiffs to the places where they have to serve and enforce a court decision - must be carried out in compliance with the legal prescriptions.” The common trade union front, composed of the CNE, Setca and CGSLB unions, said the only crime committed by the arrested representative was “that of coming to support her delegates on the picket line of the shop”. In the meantime, numerous Delhaize stores across the country - but particularly in Brussels and Wallonia - remain closed in protest. “In addition to the eight shops in Brussels, a branch in Wallonia has also been closed,” a Delhaize spokesperson said. “In Flanders, all shops are open. Logistics are also running normally.”
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A health economist, she runs the Health Populi blog, which offers critical takeaways on a wide range of industry data and research. Dr. Jennifer Schneider is the CEO of Homeward, a technology-enabled healthcare provider delivering care to rural America. She tweets about healthcare in rural communities. As a thought leader in wearable technologies, digital health, the Internet of Things and healthcare innovation, João Bocas explores the intersection of technology and business. His blog posts and tweets offer valuable insights on the impact of disruptive innovations and future trends in healthcare technology. Dr. John Halamka is president of Mayo Clinic Platform, where he leads a portfolio of new digital platform businesses focused on transforming health by leveraging artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and an ecosystem of partners for Mayo Clinic. Halamka also runs the Digital Health Frontier blog. Dr. Jorge A. 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Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco as well as vice dean for population health and health equity at the UCSF School of Medicine. She was recently named editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association and JAMA Network. Nicole Thomas is the CEO and principal consultant at Impact Nurse Consulting and an instructor of clinical nursing at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans. She is also the founder of her own educational firm, which provides education, tools and resources to nurses, nurse practitioners and allied healthcare professionals who have a desire to take their careers to a new level. Dr. Nisha Mehta is a keynote speaker, a diagnostic radiologist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the founder of the online community Physician Side Gigs. Mehta has been featured in Forbes, The Washington Post and Bloomberg and on CNN. Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola is chief health equity officer and senior vice president at Humana. She is responsible for setting an agenda and strategy to promote health equity across all Humana lines of business, including its care delivery assets. Olayiwola is also the CEO and founder of Inspire Health Solutions, an organization committed to improving health and health systems as well as empowering women across the globe. Dr. Patrice Harris is a psychiatrist and CEO of eMed Digital Healthcare. She is also the medical editor in chief at large for Everyday Health Group, which creates evidence-based health and medical content focused on real-world patient and clinician experiences to help people take control of their health. Harris is a past president of the American Medical Association and was the first Black woman to hold the position. Dr. Rasu Shrestha is executive vice president and chief strategy and transformation officer for Atrium Health. He spent more than a decade at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, serving as vice president for the organization’s technology commercialization arm. He is the former chair of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Innovation Committee and board and is a committee member of the Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference. Sherri Hess is vice president and chief nursing informatics officer at HCA Healthcare, as well as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver. Dr. Shikha Jain is a board-certified hematologist and oncologist. She is an assistant professor of medicine, director of communication strategies, and associate director of oncology communication and digital innovation at the University of Illinois Cancer Center in Chicago. Jain is a founder and CEO of the COVID-19 action and advocacy group IMPACT, founder and chair of the Women in Medicine Summit, and founder and president of the nonprofit Women in Medicine. To discover HealthTech’s Health IT influencers and blogs from previous years, visit our lists from 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018.
12 May 2022 By Tom Collins A Department review of the use of schools outside of classroom hours will lead to stronger, safer communities A review of guidelines which would enable school buildings be used outside of normal hours will be positive for community groups and youth organisations, according to Fine Gael TD David Stanton. Deputy Stanton, who represents Cork East, successfully got a motion on the subject passed by the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party and subsequently raised the matter in the Dáil chamber with Ministers. Deputy Stanton said: “Fine Gael wants to strongly encourage and support the use of school buildings outside of school hours by community and youth clubs and organisations. “This would be of great benefit to a wide range of local groups, especially in areas where there are no community halls, community rooms and sports facilities available to the community. This will lead to stronger, safer communities. “I was pleased to receive confirmation from Minister for Education Norma Foley on foot of a further parliamentary question that I tabled recently, the Department are to review guidelines that provides information for schools considering requests for use of school buildings outside of school hours. “The Department will consult with relevant stakeholders, including representatives of schools and other government departments which engage with the community and voluntary sectors. “A survey of a sample of schools regarding their experience in engaging with community and recreational groups seeking to use school property will also be carried out. “Following the review and in consultation with school authorities, the guidelines will be updated and all schools will be notified of the changes. Deputy Stanton continued: “The guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours which were issued in 2017 encourage the use of local schools, but in many instances these school buildings are not available. “The doors are locked at 3 or 3.30pm and fantastic sports halls and community rooms are locked up all evening and night, making them inaccessible to the community. “I therefore welcome confirmation that this guidance will be reviewed, so communities can make the most of these facilities for sports, recreation and other purposes. “The Minister also confirmed that the policy of the department is to support the use of school premises and facilities outside of school hours for community, recreational and education-related purposes. “Perhaps the department could run an awareness campaign to engage with school managements encouraging them to make their facilities available and to keep communities informed. “I would also call on boards of management of schools to be open to requests from community groups and youth organisations regarding the use of school buildings and facilities afterhours. “The Government should also consider making some financial supports available to schools to encourage the opening up of school facilities outside of school hours,” Deputy Stanton concluded.
The Aberdeen School Board on Tuesday approved an agreement with Grays Harbor College to jointly offer a Medical Assistant Program to train a limited number of high school seniors beginning this fall. It’s a career in health care that sorely lacks enough properly trained people to fill job openings. Because finding skilled workers is a challenge, area health care professionals approached educators about 18 months ago about offering such training, said Lynn Green, director of the district’s Skills Center. “It feels good to be creating this program for our students and the entire community. And it’s a high-demand field that pays a good wage,” she said. The program is scheduled to begin next fall on the college campus. During that first year of the two-year program, there will be 10 slots for seniors from Aberdeen High School and 10 slots for college students. Student composition of the program in its second year will be from among the 20 students originally from both schools, though all would be Grays Harbor College students by that point. Ten more first-year students will enter the program from the high school in 2018 and every subsequent year. Green said expectations for the high school students will be the same as those for the college students and that the high school students will earn college credit for their efforts. The goal is to produce 20 fully trained professionals each year from the two-year program. The college will hire staff to run the program and evaluate students’ performance. The class schedule will mirror the high school’s trimester system that also starts in the fall. The district and college will share program costs, Green added. Buying portable classrooms Board members also approved a request from staff to acquire portable classrooms for use at Stevens and A.J. West elementary schools. Both campuses need additional classroom space as soon as this coming fall. Cost for purchase and placement of two used portables — one for each of the two campuses — will total $300,000. The district plans to build a new Stevens Elementary campus and eventually move the district’s sixth graders to Miller Junior High. But the need to alleviate crowding at Stevens and A.J. West is approaching sooner rather than later, said Superintendent Tom Opstad. The district also wants to move the sixth graders up to Miller all at one time, he said.
This post is also available in: Spanish Paolo Raciti is a project advisor for the International Committee for Peoples’ Development (CISP in Spanish). As a representative of CISP, he engages in activities with the Regional Roundtable for Technical Cooperation related to the Transversal and Socioemotional Competencies (MESACTS in Spanish), which enable the work of the Technical Secretariat. He is a researcher at the National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policy in Italy (INAPP in Spanish), a member of the INAPP research team from the department of social inclusion studying poverty and constrasting measures (Pobreza y medidas de contraste in Spanish), and focuses on evaluating and strengthening socioemotional competencies in vulnerable populations, among other areas. As a consultant for CISP, he provides technical assistance in these areas for social development programs in the Latin American region. His research focuses on analysis of policies that combat poverty, multidimensional poverty measurement, studies of vulnerability, evaluation of socioemotional competencies from a pedagogical perspective, and creating and validating psychometric scales for such evaluations. Raciti has a degree in writing from the Universidad La Sapienza in Rome and in education sciences from the Universidad LUMSA in Rome. He obtained his doctorate in social services from the Universidad Roma Tre. Raciti was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
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Introducing the New SimpliSafe® Smart Alarm Wireless Indoor Security Camera SimpliSafe®, maker of award-winning home security systems, today announced the launch of the Smart Alarm Wireless Indoor Security Camera. The camera is SimpliSafe’s most advanced camera yet and works seamlessly with the award-winning SimpliSafe® Home Security system* to make sure every inch of your home is protected around the clock. Designed with advanced motion detection with vision AI, it’s the only indoor camera that can trigger an alarm and sound a built-in 80 dB siren for fast intruder deterrence. Instant phone alerts warn you the moment your camera detects unusual activity, so you’ll always know what’s happening at home. It can also tell the difference between people and pets, for fewer false alarms. With 1536p HD video capture and 10x digital zoom, the new camera allows you to watch over your home in crystal clear detail both day and night. You can live stream, record, and download videos of your home on your mobile device, anytime, anywhere with the SimpliSafe® App.** The camera provides privacy when you want it and protection when you need it with the automated privacy shutter. The SimpliSafe® system has three different modes – off, home and away – and this camera will integrate with the system’s modes and automatically adjust the privacy shutter depending on the setting, whist you can also adjust this via the app. Like the rest of the SimpliSafe® system, the setup is simple. The camera is wireless, so you can easily mount it to a wall or place it on a shelf, giving you the flexibility to get the best vantage point. A 10-foot USB charging cable is included in the box, giving you the option to have a permanent power source and eliminating any worry about recharging the camera. The Smart Alarm Wireless Indoor Security Camera is £139.99 and is available from SimpliSafe.co.uk. The camera launch comes off the heels of the SimpliSafe® Gen 2 Motion Sensor which launched earlier this month. Similar to the camera, the Gen 2 Motion sensor has the advanced ability to distinguish between people and pets, with the aim to reduce false alarms.
Do you have a trusty plumber or ground worker that you would like to work on your garden room build? Well, no problem, the eDEN Garden Rooms team are happy to work alongside them. If on the other hand, you’d like to work with just one company from start to finish eDEN can handle this for you. eDEN garden rooms Bi-fold doors are a popular option in garden room design as they fold back to open up a large section of wall. If your budget allows, using two sets of bi-folds can open up a whole corner of the building. Creating a great inside-outside connection. Buying a garden room, even a bespoke design tailored to your needs, is a well-oiled process. eDEN Garden Rooms share with us the timeline for a bespoke garden room with shed project. If we were asked what our top five tips for buying a garden room were. One of the entries would be, to buy a garden room slightly bigger than you think you need. This will give you room to grow and offer a flexibility of use in the future. This bespoke design by eDEN Garden Rooms has been designed to appreciate the garden it sits within. The main room has a striking front elevation angled like the tip of an arrow. The building also features an eco-toilet and spacious storage shed. This triangular garden room has been designed as a home office and Pilates studio. It takes skill and expertise to build a room this shape, but the eDEN Garden Rooms team relished the challenge! eDEN Garden Rooms designed and built this family room to maximise the space at the end of a terraced garden. The building is a modest 4m x 2.5m but packs a lot into the compact space. Not only has a room that all the family can use, been created but also a discreet storage shed. Bespoke design came into own on this garden office project. eDEN Garden Rooms was commissioned to design a building along the side of their client’s house. eDEN’s client wanted to utilise the space to the side of their house to create a home office, and a storage shed. Garden rooms are becoming popular with families who are looking to create a new space that all the family can use both together and individually. This example by eDEN Garden Rooms is a bespoke design that has been designed around the families desire to create a multi-function space that can be used as a TV room, games room and guest room. eDEN Garden Rooms recently completed this contemporary ballet studio. During her research, eDEN’s found that a bespoke design worked out cheaper than choosing a more standard design with lots of extras.
There has been a lot of talk about Obama’s generation lately. Many demographers would say he is a Boomer (the strict definition of the Baby Boom goes through 1964) others (myself included) say he is a Gen X’er (based on the definitions of Strauss and Howe). Others categorize him as part of a newly discovered generation, Generation Jones. For me the interesting thing is not the name of the generation he fits into, but the character of that generation when compared with the past. One of the main features of the generational theory put forth by authors William Strauss and Neil Howe is that there are repeating “archetypes” or characters of generations throughout American history. There are four archetypes they identify: Artist, Prophet, Nomad and Hero. Each carries its own signature style and has specific attributes depending on what age bracket they are in at the time. I have two webinars (part 1 and part 2) that can be useful for an understanding of the generational cycles if you want to know more about them. The other important feature of their theory is that there are “turnings” or cycles in history where certain events are likely to occur. These are the High, Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis. We are currently in the Crisis phase according to their theory, having recently moved out of the Unraveling. Again, if you want to get an overview of these turnings refer to my “start here” page or the Lifecourse site that Howe and Strauss put together. Thinking about the archetypes and turnings in US history, I created a spreadsheet that contains the generational archetypes of each of the US presidents. It also has the turning during which they started their presidency. And finally, it contains the “ratings” of each president based on expert ratings (found on Wikipedia ). I have posted the spreadsheet for your viewing pleasure. You will need to sign into Google to use the sort functions on the spreadsheet (please don’t change any of the values for now). Go to the “Presidential Archetypes” page. As with all my diagrams, the archetypes are color coded with the following colors: - Orange = Artist - Blue = Prophet - Green = Nomad - Yellow = Hero The Red color in the ratings section refers to the bottom quartile of ratings, while the Green refers to the top quartile. Playing around by sorting the results generates some insights. The top three presidents according to most of the surveys came from Crisis eras (Washington, FDR and Lincoln). By contrast, the Unraveling periods produced consistently low results for most of the presidents during those periods (Woodrow Wilson was the one exception). If you try sorting by Archetype (select that column, go to Tools>sort by colum Z -> A, or just click on the bar below the title of the column – again, you must be signed into google to use this function) you will see that Prophets contain mainly either top or bottom ranked presidents; there are few that are in the middle. This fits well with the polarizing character of Prophets. Heroes have lots of highly ranked presidents and only a couple in the bottom quartile (Carter, Nixon and Ford). Nomads are less remarkable in their presidencies and with just a few exceptions don’t rank in the top or bottom quartile much at all. Artists are similar to Prophets in that you either love them or hate them. So what combination of Turning/Archetype creates a great president? It’s hard to tell, but it is clear that Prophets that preside during an Unraveling don’t fare very well (Fillmore, Pierce, Harding and Coolidge), a trend that is likely to be born out by our previous two presidents (G.W. Bush and Clinton, both Prophets in an Unraveling) once we can look back on this period with a historical eye. Prophets can do amazingly well during a crisis (FDR and Lincoln) but also really badly (Hoover and Johnson). Presiding over an Unraveling, when society is falling apart, is unlikely to reflect well on a president regardless of their archetype. Hero’s seem to do well during a High (Jefferson, Madison, Kennedy, Johnson) but less so during an Awakenign (Carter, Ford and Nixon). Take a look at the chart, do some sorting and poking around and give me your insights and observations.
Thu, Apr 18\| The Hole in the Wall Thursday Karaoke night with Niko J. Looking for some fun on Thursday night? Join us at our Karaoke Night hosted by DJ Niko. Enjoy our happy hour deals from 4 pm to 7 pm and then show off your singing skills at the karaoke stage. Don't be shy, be a star Karaoke bar! Time & Location Apr 18, 2024, 7:00 PM – Apr 19, 2024, 12:00 AM The Hole in the Wall, 2820 Lytton St, San Diego, CA 92110, USA About the event If you love singing and having fun, don't miss our Thursday Karaoke Night with DJ Niko. He'll be spinning the hottest tunes and hosting the best karaoke party in town. You can enjoy our happy hour deals from 4 pm to 7 pm, and then show off your vocal skills from 7 pm to midnight. Whether you're a solo star or a group act, you'll have a blast at our Karaoke bar. Come to The Hole San Diego and let your voice shine!
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July 12 1963 horoscope and zodiac sign meanings Horoscope and zodiac sign meanings In introduction, a few important astrological implications that arise from this birthday and its linked zodiac sign: - The horoscope sign of someone born on July 12 1963 is Cancer. This sign sits between: June 21 and July 22. - Cancer is represented by the Crab symbol. - As numerology suggests the life path number for everybody born on July 12 1963 is 2. - Cancer has a negative polarity described by attributes such as calm and contemplative, while it is considered a feminine sign. - The linked element to this astrological sign is the Water. Three characteristics of natives born under this element are: - easily seeing what is missing in a situation - often tending to make no difference between self and the other - making own calculations every time - The modality for Cancer is Cardinal. The main 3 characteristics of natives born under this modality are: - very energetic - prefers action rather than planning - takes initiative very often - Cancer is considered to be most compatible with: - Someone born under Cancer horoscope is least compatible with: Birthday characteristics interpretation Horoscope personality descriptors chart Horoscope lucky features chart July 12 1963 health astrology Natives born under Cancer horoscope have a general predisposition to be affected by health problems or diseases in connection to the area of the thorax and the components of the respiratory system. In this respect natives born on this day are likely to suffer from illnesses & ailments like the ones presented in the following rows. Please note that this is only a short list containing a a few health issues, while the chance to confront with other disorders or health problems should not be neglected: July 12 1963 zodiac animal and other Chinese connotations The Chinese zodiac offers another approach on how to interpret the influences of the date of birth upon an individual's personality and evolution in life, love, career or health. Within this analysis we will try to describe its meanings. - For a person born on July 12 1963 the zodiac animal is the 兔 Rabbit. - The element connected with the Rabbit symbol is the Yin Water. - This zodiac animal has 3, 4 and 9 as lucky numbers, while 1, 7 and 8 are considered unfortunate numbers. - This Chinese sign has red, pink, purple and blue as lucky colors, while dark brown, white and dark yellow are considered avoidable colors. - Among the properties that characterize this zodiac animal we can include: - rather prefers planning than acting - friendly person - conservative person - sophisticated person - This zodiac animal shows some trends in terms of behavior in love which we present in this list: - subtle lover - very romantic - The social and interpersonal relationship skills of this sign can be very well described by a few statements like these: - easily manage to get respect in a friendship or social group - very sociable - high sense of humour - often seen as hospitable - Analyzing the influences of this zodiac on the evolution of the career we can say that: - has good communication skills - should learn not to give up until the job is done - has good diplomatic skills - should learn to keep own motivation - Rabbit animal usually matches the best with: - This culture propose that Rabbit can reach a normal relationship with these signs: - There is no compatibility between the Rabbit animal and these ones: - should maintain the skin in good condition because there is a chance to suffer from it - should try to have a balanced daily diet - should try to keep a proper sleeping schedule - there is a likeliness to suffer from coulds and some minor infectious diseases - Lisa Kudrow - Lionel Messi - Sara Gilbert - Orlando Bloom This date's ephemeris The ephemeris positions for July 12 1963 are: Other astrology & horoscope facts July 12 1963 was a Friday. It is considered that 3 is the soul number for 7/12/1963 day. The celestial longitude interval for the western astrology symbol is 90° to 120°.
The princess saves herself in this one and The witch doesn’t burn in this one The first part has my heart and I love it so so much that I can read it like a 100 times and feel good like the first time I read it. I have so many page markers that I was out of space from all the three sides and I had to overlap the markers, it’s like I marked the entire book. The 2nd book is not as amazing as the first one but I like it. Not very much but it is very empowering and I get a bit off with all that cause I don’t think we need these things to make us feel better or to make us realize our importance. For me all of that comes from within.
In terms of the content presented in this video, this lesson is intended to further expand on the execution phase of The Kaizen Effect. As such, we're going to take a look at road blocks along your journey and explore strategies for taking action. When you first embark on your journey, the first thing everyone encounters is mental resistance. Our minds are naturally programmed to maximize output while minimizing energy, and they will use any logic or thought pattern to fulfill that tendency - even if that entails jeopardizing your dreams. For this reason, our minds tend towards disorder and struggle to engage in the present moment. In this video, we're going to thoroughly analyze this tendency and figure out how to combat it. In the end, I'll teach you how to take control of your willpower and project your mental energy, resources, and attention into any task at hand. This ability will then allow you to build momentum and become a formidable force - something that plows through resistance and makes anything happen. So, I hope that this arms you with some lethal tools for manifesting your dreams; it's quite a motivational video. Enjoy :D!!! Check it out here If you like what you see or have constructive comments, please check out the discussion on our community forums or YouTube channel. Also, don't forget to share everything with your friends (Facebook, twitter, etc); any additional exposure helps: Facebook Page: Click Here Forum Discussion: Click here YouTube Video Link: Click here
Accuracy is critical to the success of any legal career. The meaning of legal documents can be changed dramatically by the placement of a single word. Not to mention, spelling mistakes in correspondence are unprofessional and can damage your firm’s reputation. Consequently, attention to detail is a quality that all law firms seek in their future trainees. This is a skill that you can work on throughout your undergraduate degree. A law degree and any arts-based undergraduate will involve essays, assessed coursework and exams. Each task requires you to proof-read your work to ensure that it’s concise, coherent and grammatically correct. A solicitor often has to deal with complex technical and legal issues. Law firms are ultimately looking for candidates who can meet the intellectual demands involved and, as a result, you need to demonstrate that you have the capacity to do so. This can be developed through your academic work at university. Commercial awareness is a buzzword that shows up on any website about training contracts and is a quality that all firms look for in their future trainees. In the legal context, commercial awareness is broadly an active interest in business affairs. More specifically, commercial awareness is an interest in the business interests of the legal industry and the law firm that you are applying to join. You need to be able to demonstrate that you are up-to-date on the latest business developments, their impact on the legal industry and the possible opportunities that they could create for a law firm. Make sure to thoroughly research the law firm that you are applying to. Look at their: Any future plans for expansion This will help you to understand the firm’s business and demonstrate this knowledge in your application. Regularly reading the Financial Times or the Economist is also a really handy way of making sure that you keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the broader business world and their impact on the global economy. Our Interview Practice Simulator package is the perfect, innovative way to prepare for your upcoming interviews – video or face-to-face. Access real legal interview questions through our video interview package now!
Over the past number of weeks our Marketing Assistant Denise Rushe has been under-taking some research into Nora Niland, the woman behind The Niland Collection which is housed at The Model. We’ll try to keep you updated via our blog on the information Denise is finding. Below she writes about what she has been up to so far; Just over seven months ago I returned to live in Sligo, when I began working with The Model as Marketing Assistant. As I write this I am trying to remember at that time what knowledge I had on The Niland Collection, or the great lady behind it. I had been quite a regular but young visitor to The Model, and I guess had been more consumed with the current show, than the story behind the great collection. Now working at The Model, I am surrounded by books and research on The Collection and the woman who inspired it. The past few months have been extremely busy in the Model offices as we prepare to return to our new building. Not only is there construction work being completed, but our new programme is being drawn together for 2010. I can’t wait for our return to the new building though I have never worked there, I visited it plenty. I’m eager to see how the Collection is operated, and look forward to the major Yeats retrospective that will open next Summer in the new gallery space. In the earlier years of The Model, Curator of Collection and Projects Emer McGarry undertook some research into the story of The Niland Collection which we currently use on our website to describe The Niland Collection. In the past couple of years, more research has been taken to discover the story behind Nora Niland’s motivation and determination to build a collection of contemporary art work for Sligo. Most recently, I have begun gathering information on Nora herself. This has involved meeting with people who may have worked with her or made her acquaintance through work or meetings. A key objective of my research is to find out why she was so motivated to draw together the Yeats paintings in the first instance, and to gain a better understanding of why she thought they were so important for Sligo to have. To date I have interviewed Stella Mews of the Yeats Society, received photographs from Cormac O’Malley in New York, and received old newspaper articles from earlier editions of the Sligo Champion. I’ve also gathered an list of contacts, most of whom I hope to contact over the next few months. Through our blog I hope to keep our readers, and those with an interest in the story of Nora and the Niland collection informed on any new information and stories that I come across. I’d love to hear from you if you have any information or connections I should follow up with. You can comment below or email me or call me on 071-914 1405 o write to me at The Model, Unit 6, Cleveragh Retail Park, Sligo.
By Katharine Santiago Every individual differs in terms of their genetic make-up. This has consequences in many areas of study, but it turns out our DNA affects how we respond to drugs as well.. Over the past 50 years, the study of pharmacogenomics, which looks at how genomic information can be used to individualize drug treatments, has started to evolve and play a bigger role in how drugs are administered. Because everyone has a different genome, they will respond a little differently to the same drug . Sometimes these different reactions are harmless, but they can also be dangerous, causing toxic side effects that may be deadly (Weinshilboum & Wang, 2017). One of the most important impacts of genetic differences on the effects of a drug are differences in metabolizing enzymes between individuals. These enzymes are responsible for breaking down a drug once it is in the body. While many enzymes are important for the efficacy and breakdown of drugs, here we will focus on one: Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT), which breaks down thiopurine drugs in the body. These drugs can be used to treat a variety of things, such as Leukemia and autoimmune disorders. Some individuals have a genetic variation that results in low activity of the TPMT enzyme, and this can lead to deadly reactions to a standard dose of thiopurines. Because there is a low therapeutic window, which is the window where the drug works effectively without becoming toxic, it is easy for a higher-than-standard dose to be dangerous. Even an individual with a fully functioning TPMT enzyme can be subject to toxic side effects, so there is a greater threat to individuals with low TPMT activity. This enzyme highlights the need for more research in the field of pharmacogenomics. (Wang, et al., 2005). There are two different forms of the TPMT gene resulting in protein breakdown. Researchers in a 2005 study hypothesized that this causes misfolding in proteins, and this was correct. When a protein folds incorrectly, and cannot function in its intended way, the cell will often break these proteins down to eliminate them. This is what occurs in individuals with the gene for low activity TPMT enzymes, leading to dangerous responses to normal doses of thiopurine drugs. (Wang, Nguyen, & McLaughlin, 2005) Pharmacogenomics has important impacts on the safety and efficacy of drug administration. It is a growing field of study that can change the way we look at drug design and prescription. With the information we can get from the genome, medicine can be specialized for each individual to ensure optimal effects with little to no side effects. There are other aspects of drug design and administration that can cause harmful side effects,such as metabolism of drugs and production of metabolites, as well as breakdown of the drug as it travels through the body, but this is a step in the right direction to reduce these effects. However, there are many enzymes in the body and many differences in them between individuals, so there is a lot more work to be done. Wang, L., Nguyen, T. V., McLaughlin, R. W., Sikkink, L. A., Ramirez-Alvarado, M., & Weinshilboum, R. M. (2005). Human thiopurine S-methyltransferase pharmacogenetics: variant allozyme misfolding and aggresome formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(26), 9394-9399. Weinshilboum, R. M., & Wang, L. (2017, November). Pharmacogenomics: precision medicine and drug response. In Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 92, No. 11, pp. 1711-1722). Elsevier.7/
Supreme Court Chief Justice TS Thakur has directed that the media room closed down by Kerala High court lawyers after the tussle with media persons be opened again. The SC gave this direction on a petition filed by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists. The court also directed the acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High court to ensure that the media room is repaired. KUWJ representatives said that Supreme Court Justice Kurien Joseph has been given the charge of overseeing the reopening of the media room. KUWJ also said that the Chief Justice had promised that the media will allowed to work peacefully in court. In another significant development in the stand off between lawyers and journalists two Kerala High Court Judges today held discussions with representatives of the two groups and decided to set up a Media Relations Committee to sort out issues between them. The committee, to be headed by the district sessions judge, will comprise representatives of journalists and advocates' associations and also that of advocates' clerks. It was decided that any issue relating to the functioning of the media should be resolved by the committee and matters which cannot be settled should be brought to the notice of the two judges-- Justice P N Ravindran and Justice P R Ramachandra Menon-- who arrived here this morning to hold discussions. A section of lawyers had yesterday gone on rampage in the district court complex here and pelted stones and empty beer bottles at the journalists who had gone to cover a court case. The incident was sequel to the tiff off between journalists and lawyers of Kerala High Court in Kochi over the media coverage of the case of an alleged bid by a government pleader to molest a woman in the city. Kerala Union of Working Journalists President C Rahim and Trivandrum Press Club President Pradeep Pillai told reporters after meeting the two judges, that they had conveyed that yesterday's incidents on the media here were without any provocation. "A media relations committee has been formed to sort out the issues," they added. Meanwhile, a section of advocates took out a procession in front of the Ernakulam Press club at Kochi and allegedly made some provocative remarks. In Thrissur, advocates burnt some newspapers in front of the Press Club. Lawyers in various parts of the state boycotted courts today also. A judicial commission will be probing the Kochi incident.
Black Cultural Archive Brixton Ms Richardson and Ms Gibb's Year 8 History class visited the Black Cultural Archive in Brixton for a workshop on black Georgians. In lessons they have been studying the slave trade and the workshop explored the different ways that people resisted. They read newspapers from the 1700s and were amazed at the small dense text and strange style of the English used. Despite a ruling that people could not be ‘owned’ in Britain, they read stories of runaway slaves, including a woman called Ceclia who had escaped from her master in Blackheath. The group really impressed the staff from the archive, who said they were attentive, inquisitive and very well mannered. Well Done Year 8! The archive is a fantastic local resource that we are making a great deal of use of this year – thank you to everyone there for making the trip such an interesting one.
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Elton John’s mother speaks about rift Elton John’s mother has spoken out about the rift between her and her son. Sheila Farebrother, 86, said the pair had not spoken for three years and she had not met the star’s baby son Zachary. She told the Sun: “He has cut me off completely. “It happened three years ago this June, he has had nothing to do with me since then.” Mrs Farebrother, who lives in Sussex, would not say what caused the row but confirmed that the singer still looks after her financially. “I don’t want to start mud-slinging. It was very painful,” she said. Sources told the newspaper that Mrs Farebrother had offended Sir Elton’s civil partner David Furnish. A spokesman for Sir Elton said: “I have never had a conversation with him about whether he talks to his mother. She is a lovely lady but she is 86 and she is frail and old.”
Number of LGBT asylum seekers rises sharply There has been a sharp change in the numbers of LGBT people seeking asylum, according to new figures. Numbers confirmed to PinkNews by the Home Office show a rise of more than 400% in five years. 1,115 people cited sexuality is a reason for seeking refuge in the most recent figures, referring to 2014. That’s a rise from 2009 when there were just 200 cases relating to sexuality. The government has previously refused to disclose how many asylum applications it has actually accepted from LGBT people fleeing homophobic countries, amid reports of degrading treatment and Home Office challenges. People can seek asylum in the UK on the grounds that they face persecution in their home country because of their sexuality or their gender identity. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott told PinkNews: “One of the reasons that people are claiming persecution has been due to a series of African governments introducing the death penalty for homosexuality. “Take the example of Uganda. Whilst we have made incredible progress, in many parts of the world there has been rise in threatening behaviour towards homosexuals and repressive governments have had a crackdown. “Due to the work that aid organisations have done and civil rights campaigners – more people have felt that they can be supported and seek refuge.” The most common place for people to seek asylum based on sexuality was Pakistan, where same-sex activity carries a sentence of two years behind bars. Jamaica, Nigeria and Ghana were the other most common countries for those seeking asylum based on their sexuality. The rise is most likely due to changes in processing LGBT asylum seekers. Theresa May, then Home Secretary, ordered a review into the system after The Observer published an expose of degrading “interrogations” by Home Office staff, who often asked questions sterotyping gay people. The Chief Inspector found a fifth of interviews conducted by caseworkers stereotyped gay people, and a tenth contained questions of an unsatisfactory nature. The Organisation for Refugee, Asylum and Migration (ORAM) works with vulnerable refugees who are fleeing war to get to safer countries. Neil Grungas, Executive Director of ORAM said: “People are just absolutely terrified to come out, and rightly so, they will be dead, they will be dead if they come out.” “The number of LGBT people who make it through the system alive and request resettlements is small, it does not even reach the tip of the percentage of LGBTQI people that are represented in the international population.” “The consequence is severe hardship for people who’ve already fled some horrific trauma.” added Grungas. Homophobic and transphobic attitudes are also common among refugees – making LGBT refugees susceptible to abuse and isolation. Grungas said that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is “very, very concerned” about the safety of LGBT refugees. The UN predicts 170,000 resettlement places will be available in 2017, but 1.19 million refugees are considered eligible for resettlement – an even smaller percentage of the more than 60 million people that have been displaced globally. Help and support with finding a new home is not always being offered to refugees, and so they are turning to other means to eat and live. Refugees in Greece are turning to sex work to support themselves financially as they have been stranded due to restrictive border control. LGBT people are still in danger, and refugee’s are especially susceptible. The Orlando massacre saw over 100 LGBT people killed and injured. A further 100 transgender people have been killed so far this year, including a transgender activist in Pakistan.
Trump and Pence want to slash $350 million from HIV/AIDS prevention budgets Donald Trump and Mike Pence have made proposals to gut the funding for the US’s pioneering HIV/AIDS prevention projects. The bulk of the cuts are proposed to the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was set up by former President George W Bush to tackle the AIDS crisis, and is one of the largest providers of funding for global projects battling the spread of HIV/AIDS. The White House claims the cuts will “maintain current commitments” and that the savings will come from ending “less effective HIV research and prevention activities”, but activists say the cuts will cripple global attempts to eradicate AIDS. The budget document claims: “This reduction would achieve savings by requiring PEPFAR to begin slowing the rate of new patients on treatment in FY 17, by reducing support to low-performing countries, by reducing lower-priority prevention programs, or by identifying new efficiencies or other savings.” Further cuts of $50 million are also set out in the document for the domestic HIV/AIDS budget, with an equal $50 million cut from the CDC’s Global HIV/AIDS program, despite previous assurances that HIV/AIDS budgets would be protected. The document claims: “This reduction would eliminate less effective HIV research and prevention activities and accelerate reductions proposed in FY 2018.” US government projects including PEPFAR have previously been credited with helping bring the global AIDS crisis under control, halving the death rate in countries where it is active within just five years. The proposed cuts to PEPFAR come despite Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson describing it as “one of the most extraordinarily successful programs” during his confirmation hearing. The billionaire had claimed: “I saw it up close and personal, and I know that PEPFAR has broadly brought so much goodwill from Africa, recognition of the goodwill and the compassionate nature of the American people. “[PEPFAR] is one of the best projections of compassion into the continent that I think that you will ever find, and it is broadly recognised by the leaders, and more importantly, recognised by those who it touches.” In a World AIDS Day message ,the outgoing President said: “We need to do more to reach those who are at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS, and the United States is helping shape the world’s response to this crisis and working alongside the international community to end this epidemic by 2030. “We have strengthened and expanded the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), with now more than $70 billion invested, to accelerate our progress and work to control this epidemic with comprehensive and data-focused efforts. “With PEPFAR support for more than 11 million people on life-saving treatment and through contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria — including a new pledge of more than $4 billion through 2019 — there are now more than 18 million people getting HIV treatment and care. “Because in sub-Saharan Africa young women and adolescent girls are over eight times more likely to get HIV/AIDS than young men, we launched a comprehensive prevention program to reduce HIV infections among this population in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. “We have also helped prevent millions of new infections worldwide, including in more than 1.5 million babies of HIV-positive mothers who were born free of HIV.” He warned: “Although we have come far in recent decades, our work is not yet done and the urgency to intervene in this epidemic is critical… accelerating the progress we have made will require sustained commitment and passion from every sector of society and across every level of government around the world.” When it comes to controversial policies on HIV, Vice President Mike Pence has plenty of prior experience. As Governor of Indiana, Pence stood in the way of expanding HIV services and preventative measures like needle exchanges – until he was forced to declare a public health emergency due to a sharp rise in transmissions. Pence famously once suggested that HIV prevention funding be drained in order to fund state-sponsored ‘gay cure’ therapy. On a 2000 Congressional campaign website, Pence wrote: “Congress should support the reauthorization of the [HIV funding] Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organisations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviours that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behaviour.”
Nicola Sturgeon arrested in SNP finances investigation Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Police Scotland confirmed that the 52-year-old was reportedly taken into custody on Sunday (11 June) as part of the inquiry, where she will be questioned by detectives. In a statement on the investigation, Police Scotland said: “The matter is active for the purposes of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 and the public are therefore advised to exercise caution if discussing it on social media. “As the investigation is ongoing we are unable to comment further.” Officers searched the former first minister‘s home and party headquarters on 5 April as part of the investigation, seizing a luxury motorhome in the process. Her husband and former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell was arrested at the time and released without charge. You may like to watch Former SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was also arrested two weeks later and released without charge. An investigation into a donation of more than £600,000 to the SNP was launched in 2021, dubbed Operation Branchform. The money was raised for a future referendum campaign on Scottish independence. A spokesperson for Sturgeon confirmed that she was cooperating with the investigation, saying: “Nicola Sturgeon has today, Sunday 11 June, by arrangement with Police Scotland, attended an interview where she was to be arrested and questioned in relation to Operation Branchform. “Nicola has consistently said she would cooperate with the investigation if asked and continues to do so.” After serving as Scotland’s first minister for eight years, Sturgeon stepped down on 15 February, saying that she knew “in my head and in my heart” this was the right time to leave her post. As the longest-serving first minister and the first woman to hold the position, Sturgeon fought tirelessly for trans rights, overseeing the passing of the historic Gender Recognition Reform Act in December 2022 The legislation aimed to remove barriers to accessing a Gender Recognition Certificate, which Sturgeon said would make trans people’s lives “that little bit better and easier”. However, the UK government blocked the legislation with the unprecedented use of Section 35 of the Scotland Act. First minister Humza Yousaf, who succeeded Sturgeon as Scottish National Party leader on 27 March, immediately confirmed that he would mount a legal challenge to the Section 35 order, a move celebrated by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups.
Paparazzo claims Taylor Swift’s dad punched him ‘in the chops’ An Australian photographer has told police that Taylor Swift’s dad punched him “in the chops” after the singers final Eras Tour show in Sydney. Ben McDonald alleged to police that Swift’s father hit him in the face at the Neutral Bay Wharf, where he and his daughter had just come ashore from a yacht. Swift’s Eras Tour, her first tour in Australia since her 2018 Reputation Tour, wrapped up in Sydney on Monday (26 February). The star performed three shows in Melbourne and four in Sydney. The New South Wales Police Forces say they are investigating an alleged assault by a 71-year-old man on a 51-year-old man at 2.30am local time. Swifts representatives told Rolling Stone Magazine that two people, who allegedly grabbed security and threaten a member of the Swift’s staff, were “aggressively pushing” to get to Swift. McDonald, a paparazzo, said the incident occurred while media waited to picture the singer as she walked towards two cars from a jetty. You may like to watch He said of the incident, as reported by Sky News: “In 23 years, I haven’t been assaulted and punched in the chops, particularly by the talent’s dad. “We didn’t go rushing down the jetty. We didn’t go rushing to the back of the boat. We waited for her to come up. Kept it very civil. “But no, they… put the umbrellas up and umbrellas over her and then shove the umbrellas into our faces and then make out that we’re the ones making contact with them.” The tour has even shut down years-long rumours that Katy Perry and Swift have been embroiled in a feud. PinkNews has reached out to Taylor Swift’s representatives and Ben McDonald for comment.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Central Database Hub (Padu) will help weed out households that are not eligible for government aid but have been receiving it for years, says Rafizi Ramli. "We will start cleaning up (the list) one by one and that is the reason why the data needs to be updated. "Previously, whenever the government has a large-scale socio-economic aid programme, problems arise. "Some will say they receive aid while others question why they are not eligible. "Padu will make it easier for the government to identify and clean up (the list) and ensure that only the deserving receive aid," the Economy Minister said in reply to a supplementary question from Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong (BN-Ayer Hitam) in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday. (March 5) Dr Wee wanted to know who would be responsible for verifying the updated data which cannot be altered once keyed in. ALSO READ: Rafizi denies Padu’s security was breached He also asked how an individual's net disposable income can be accurately determined, for example in the case of a thrifty person who owns a car. "Also, how will data be protected so that hackers will not breach the system and make off with data where we end up becoming victims," the MCA president asked. Dr Wee said the public must be confident about data security if more people are to register with Padu. Earlier, R. Yuneswaran (PH-Segamat) also noted that people were slow to update their data on Padu. He said that as of Feb 25, only 3.79 million people had updated their details on Padu and now there was less than a month to do so before the March 31 deadline. ALSO READ: ‘Do not force Padu registration’ Yuneswaran also suggested that Rafizi give an assurance on data security. Rafizi said those who have yet to update their data fell within three categories. "The first are those who don't want to update their data because they feel that they are not eligible for aid. "The second are those who will wait till the deadline approaches before registering. "The third group will be those who will be rushing to update their data once the government announces the targeted subsidy," he added. However, he did not respond to the requests for an assurance on data security.

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