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The LGBTQI community has received an outpouring of congratulatory messages from international agencies following yesterday’s favourable judgement against the buggery law. |
Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement of his resignation today surprised most of the world. But while there’s only one pope, there are thousands of other professionals – including chief executives, entrepreneurs, university professors with tenure and artists – who face similar conundrums. When you’ve got a job for life with... |
Benedict XVI: First papal retiree in 600 years. |
For the growing number of retirement-aged professionals who are still hale and hearty in their 70s, 80s and beyond, it’s no easy question. MarketWatch’s Quentin Fottrell talks today with career coaches who offer some advice about how to figure out whether you’re ready to step down–or at least consider a change of scene... |
Sarath Fonseka, the dishonorably discharged former Army Commander has only been sentenced to a two and half years term and not three years, as reported in the print and electronic medias. |
The Hajj Committee appointed by President Mahinda Rajapakse to streamline the Hajj Pilgrimage from Sri Lanka comprising of Alavi Moulana, Faiser Mustaffa and Azath Salley, under the direction of the President has made every significant changes in the way hajj arrangements that will be undertaken this year. |
Tamil Nadu State Deputy Chief Minister and son of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi have said that the Thanjai Periya Koil (Thanjavur Temple) as the masterpiece of the Dravidian architecture and the work on the temple began in 1003 AD and it was completed by 1010 AD. |
The SAARC region reflects a rich and varied plurality of cultural, linguistic, philosophical and spiritual traditions and were heir to a common civilizational continuum of great antiquity, stated Acting Minister of External Affairs Gitanjana Gunawardena when he addressed a Seminar on ‘Rituals, Ethics and Societal Stabi... |
India's indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile failed to take off during a user trial from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off the Orissa coast on Friday apparently due to a technical problem, defence sources said. |
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly sessions, a Ministerial Meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) took place in New York. |
Innovative thinking, freedom of expression and appreciation of environment and other cultures were the values highlighted by Gurudev Tagore emphasised Ashok K. Kantha, High Commissioner of India Sri Lanka. |
Japan decided to release on Friday the captain of a Chinese fishing boat involved in a collision with its naval boats near the disputed islands, whose detention raised tensions between the Asian neighbours. |
Undeterred by the two threat letters warning of bomb attacks against party supremo J Jayalalitha if she held the proposed rally here on October 18, the Opposition, AIADMK today began preliminary work for the event. |
Qatar University (QU) marketing student Aysha al-Saleh was lauded for her exemplary performance in the apprenticeship programme of the Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) 2010, the region’s award-winning annual summer extravaganza. |
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to not allow export of cotton till domestic requirements are fully met. |
Over 180 Local and International Food Processing and Packaging companies participated to showcase a complete food supply chain at the Profoods / Propack 2010 Exhibition which was jointly organized by the Sri Lanka Food Processors Association and Lanka Exhibition and Conference Services. |
Bomb threat on board the Pakistan bound flight diverted to Stockholm. No bombs found on the Pakistani man suspected of having brought explosives on board the flight from Canada to Pakistan, which landed in the Stockholm Arlanda airport. The suspect is a Pakistani with a Canadian passport. |
As it concluded its Article IV consultation with Sri Lanka, the IMF has released its fourth disbursement of US $ 212 m under its $2.5 billion Stand By Agreement (SBA) program and Sri Lanka’s Central Bank will receive it on Monday 27. |
Sri Lanka’s legendary all-rounder in the history of the game of Cricket¬- Sanath Jayasuriya, popularly known as “Master Blaster”, began a brand new inning this week, batting as the Brand Ambassador for one of the leading finance companies in Sri Lanka- Central Investments & Finance Limited (CIFL). |
By Harry Morrison, General Manager for The Carbon Trust Standard Company. |
Corporate environmental responsibility has been brought sharply into focus in recent weeks, but the demand for greater rigour in assessing the impact of environmental marketing programmes has been building for some time. |
The difficult economic climate has meant that CEOs and financial directors are looking for more tangible proof of the business impact of environmental initiatives. At the same time, a general sense of disappointment at a lack of resolution at the Copenhagen Climate Summit has led to scepticism about green topics, and g... |
Savvy consumers are sceptical of ‘softer’ initiatives which lack quantifiable evidence that a company is backing their green claims with tangible action. Instead they look for robust action supported by evidence. The Carbon Trust Standard in particular has proved popular because it has a rigorous, independently assesse... |
Achieving the Carbon Trust Standard can help businesses build sound sustainability strategies by helping them calculate their carbon footprint, quantify their exposure, and measure and benchmark their progress in reducing carbon emissions over time. It is also designed to reward organisations that are taking genuine ac... |
As we move towards a low carbon economy, business leaders who have sound carbon management strategies in place stand to prosper both now and in the future. They stand to sell more products, forge better business relationships, attract more committed workers and even clinch more investment deals. |
Additionally, for brand and marketing managers, this kind of qualification adds credibility because there is proof that the company has acted on, and will continue to act on its commitments. |
Over 275 public and private sector organisations have been through the Carbon Trust Standard certification process and this includes many high profile brands including O2, Marks & Spencer, Aviva, HSBC and Microsoft. Collectively, companies who have achieved the Carbon Trust Standard certification have saved £62 million... |
From a product point of view, organisations can turn to The Carbon Trust’s Carbon Reduction Label, which has been developed to help businesses understand the carbon footprint of individual products and services throughout their lifecycle, and reassure consumers that action is being taken to reduce the carbon footprints... |
Measurement is based on a rigorous standard, the PAS 2050 - a Publicly Available Specification that has been developed by BSI British Standards, the Carbon Trust, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and other stakeholders worldwide. |
Tesco uses the Carbon Reduction Label on many of own label products as do major brands ranging from Walkers crisps and Kingsmill bread to the Dyson Airblade, Morphy Richards irons and Cemex cement. |
Organisations use the Carbon Trust Standard certification and the Carbon Reduction Label to prioritise and support a wide range of marketing activities - from overall brand reputation; through to point-of-sale promotion; internal communications and external recruitment and as a differentiator in business development an... |
Marshalls, the UK’s leading manufacturer of natural stone and innovative concrete hard landscaping and walling products has labelled over 2,000 products using the Carbon Trust Footprint. |
The company has used this as a foundation for a holistic environmental marketing strategy which has included involvement in the Prince’s May Day Network and various industry awards; as part of its communications to customers, employees and the local community and as a differentiator to promote product innovation. |
Regardless of the marketing strategy and tactics a company employs, the critical point is ensuring it is credible, consistent with the company’s values and is backed up by genuine, tangible action. Authoritative, independent measurement gives this activity credibility whichever target audience you are looking to reach. |
The soldiers of 1st battalion, Cameron Highlanders landed at Le Havre within days of war being declared, bound for the Western Front. |
It marked the beginning of Scotland’s role in the battles of the Great War, which would cost the country more than 105,000 men. |
A huge response to Lord Kitchener’s call for volunteers saw new battalions formed and army divisions created. Freshly trained soldiers would soon join regular and territorial forces in the trenches. In all, around 750,000 Scots men fought in the war. |
There were many reasons for signing up. Some were motivated by patriotism, some drawn by the promise of a military wage, and others carried along by peer pressure. |
Professor Ewen Cameron, head of the School of History at Edinburgh University, said: “In the volunteering period between 1914 and early 1916, Scotland provides a disproportionate number. |
The professional army and territorial forces bore the brunt of the fighting until the first of the major battles where Kitchener’s “New Armies” were deployed. |
Half the 72 battalions in the largest British offensive of 1915 belonged to Scottish regiments. It saw new army units deployed for the first time, among them the volunteers forming the 9th and 15th Scottish Divisions. |
There were heavy losses as they tried to break through German defences in Artois and Champagne. The 9th Black Watch volunteer battalion suffered more than 700 casualties – felt by families in Angus, Fife, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. |
Professor Cameron said: “Loos is where those new army battalions first saw battle in reasonably large numbers, and that’s in some ways when the war began to have a serious impact in Scotland, in terms of losses. |
Because of the way forces were raised, with groups of people from one town or village going off to fight together, it meant some communities suffered disproportionate losses. That was the case for Portree on the Isle of Skye, which commemorates May 17 1915, the third day of the battle of Festubert, where the 4th Camero... |
Casualties on the first day were the worst in the history of the British Army. Among them were the Edinburgh-raised soldiers of the 15th Battalion, The Royal Scots, who lost 610 soldiers and 18 officers – killed, wounded or missing, by July 3. The 16th Battalion lost 460 soldiers and 12 officers. |
When British troops attacked German defences near the city of Arras in Northern France it saw the greatest concentration of Scots in any of the set-piece battles of the war. |
As well as the 44 Scottish battalions there were seven Canadian battalions with Scottish heritage, including The Canadian Scottish, and The Newfoundland Regiment. |
“There’s a huge concentration of Scots on the battlefield at Arras, including Scots from across the diaspora. Because by this point, the Canadians have arrived, there are Australian soldiers involved, New Zealanders and South Africans,” said Mr Watt. |
The battle became a costly stalemate for both sides and in the end Britain had suffered around 159,000 casualties – one third of them Scottish. |
There was a another massive Scottish presence at Passchendaele, with more than 50 battalions from Scotland fighting. It is remembered as one of the harshest battles of the war, with heavy rain contributing to the Allies gaining only five miles of ground in three months. The British suffered 300,000 casualties. |
An attack by the Germans, aimed at breaking through the weakest point of the British Front, saw 7,000 killed and 21,000 captured. |
Mr Watt said: “The 9th and 15th Scottish Divisions, the 51st Highland Division, they were almost overrun by German troops. |
“They did manage to pull back in the end, so the line that ran from the Swiss border all the way up to the Channel was still in tact, but it was a very close-run thing. |
Counselors should have skills to ask the right questions to get to the root cause of issues vs. surface conversations. |
Emerge Ministries Inc is located at 900 Mull Ave, Akron, OH. This location is in the West Akron neighborhood. This business specializes in Mental Health. |
Emerge Ministries Inc is located at 900 Mull Ave in Akron and has been in the business of Individual And Family Services since 1973. |
Peaches are a nutritious fruit. |
3 Is the Sugar in Fruit Bad for You? |
A medium peach contains only 40 calories and provides you with 2 grams of fiber, 1 gram of protein and 10 percent of the daily value for vitamin C and vitamin A. A small amount of the 10 grams of carbohydrates in the peach consists of a type of sugar, called fructose, that occurs naturally in fruits. |
A study published in November 2005 in the "Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science" found that peaches contain between 7 milligrams and 12 milligrams of fructose per gram. This means that a medium peach, which weighs about 98 grams, contains between 0.7 grams and 1.2 grams of fructose. |
High amounts of dietary fructose have been linked to gout in men, and may increase cholesterol and triglyceride levels, according to an article published in "The Journal of Nutrition" in April 2009. Some people also have difficulties digesting fructose, which may cause them to experience intestinal gas, diarrhea or oth... |
Natural sugars, like those found in milk and fruit, are not generally associated with health problems, as they are found in nutrient-rich foods and only make up a small proportion of the sugar you consume each day. The type of sugar that is of concern is added sugars, which may increase your risk for cavities, diabetes... |
Peaches are a healthy addition to your diet, and make a good choice for one of your two or more recommended fruit servings per day. While you may want to limit your consumption of foods containing added fructose, the article in "The Journal of Nutrition" notes that the fructose found in fruits, like peaches, is not of ... |
Bruso, Jessica. "Fructose Content in Peaches." Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/fructose-content-peaches-3136.html. Accessed 20 April 2019. |
Do You Need to Worry About Fructose Intake? |
Which animal would win in a fight between a croc and a shark? |
It sounds like a hypothetical question, perhaps posed between a few mates at the pub, but a boatload of tourists had a front-row seat to the battle in the Northern Territory this week. |
Sydney man Andrew Paice was on a tour with his family on the Adelaide River on Tuesday when he saw Brutus, a monster crocodile who has become somewhat of a tourist attraction in the far north, with something clenched between his huge jaws. |
The tour guide swung the boat around to reveal that Brutus, who is estimated to be 80 years old and 5.5 metres long, crunching down on a bull shark. |
"It was pretty astonishing, because I suppose we didn't really think about sharks," Mr Paice, from Forestville in Sydney, said. |
"We were obviously trying to spot crocodiles, we didn't think sharks would be in that water too. |
"The shark was still alive, it was still wriggling around quite a lot and thrashing around. It was amazing to see, and to see it so clearly as well." |
Mr Paice said the shark was between one and 1.5 metres long. He said the tour had been coming to an end when he and about 25 other tourists on the boat saw a commotion in the water. |
"We were on our way back to the jetty. We'd already seen Brutus once, and when we were going back in, he had something in his mouth and we thought it was a fairly big fish," Mr Paice said. |
"Morgan [the tour guide] brought the boat a bit closer and we realised it was a shark. |
"We watched it for probably a good five or 10 minutes. The crocodile slid back into the water with the shark, and then the crocodile started to take it back into the mangroves to have it for himself. |
"The shark was still thrashing around a little bit. Because Brutus is such an old croc, his teeth aren't really good, so he couldn't quite puncture him well enough." |
Mr Paice said his seven-year-old daughter, Madison, had become accustomed to crocodiles jumping beside the boat by the end of the tour, but she still had a few questions about Brutus' meal. |
"She was asking a lot of questions, like 'Where did the shark come from? How come it got a shark? How did it catch it?' We were even asking how it caught it. She was quite amazed by it as well," Mr Paice said. |
Mr Paice is four months into a year-long adventure around Australia with his partner Nikki and their daughter, and said he was a keen photographer. |
"I'm a try-hard amateur photographer. Ask my partner; all she sees is me glued to the eyepiece. We've been on the road for about four months, and I've taken 6500 photos or so," he said. |
But Brutus' snap-shot would have to be a highlight so far. |
A Taronga Zoo spokesman said a shark would usually be able to evade a crocodile in deeper water, but at shallower depths it was "entirely feasible" for a crocodile to overpower a shark. |
"This fellow [Mr Paice] has been incredibly lucky, because in general you don't see a lot of animals successfully hunting. It is quite a unique thing that he has witnessed," the spokesman said. |
"Crocs are quite opportunistic, they will eat anything they can overpower. When you're dealing with a five-metre crocodile, they're tremendously capable. Here you've got a meeting of two Top End predators, and in this instance the croc has managed to grab the shark and is using its remarkable strength to overpower it." |
The marinade for this recipe is light so the tomato is the star in this simple salad. |
Slice tomatoes into 1/2-inch slices and place on a platter. Add basil to the layers. |
In a small jar with a tight-fitting lid, add the remaining ingredients. Close and shake vigorously to blend completely, or mix all the dressing ingredients in a small chopper or blender and process on High to mix. |
Drizzle the dressing over the basil and tomatoes and cover tightly with plastic wrap or a lid. Refrigerate for at least an hour, or up to 8 hours. Just before serving, spoon the juice and marinade that has settled on the platter over the tomatoes. |
We were able to assemble a powerful cast of experts to give the rest of us advice on becoming a Social Business. But we did it with one catch. We asked these 9 experts to do it in under 60 seconds. |
Thank you Robert Lavigne for essentially doing all of the video, post production and graphics for these 9 videos. He's a phenomenal person. |
The Video is interactive. Meaning you can click on the profiles in the video in order to see their individual response. Alternatively, you can follow the video links of each of our experts below. |
"Culture eats strategy for lunch." |
Sandy Carter is Vice President, Social Business and Collaboration Solutions Sales and Evangelism, where she is responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, working with companies who are becoming Social Businesses, and being the evangelist for the concept and best practices around Social ... |
He has been involved in the internet space for ten years as an entrepreneur, executive and investor, starting with PayPal in 1999. David was PayPal's Chief Operating Officer and product leader, taking the company from startup to IPO and eventual sale to eBay for $1.5 billion. Subsequently, he founded Geni.com, which is... |
"Start with your 3-5 year vision." |
Sheila Jordan is Vice President of the Communication and Collaboration IT organization which encompasses Cisco.com, Enterprise Content Management, Communication and Collaboration solutions, CEC (Cisco' s internal website), internal deployment of Cisco' s TelePresence technology, and IT support for HR , Finance, Marketi... |
"How do you know you are ready for Social?" |
Co-author of the best-selling, "Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers," (Kaplan Publishing, 2005) and sought-after keynote speaker and workshop presenter at international conferences on inside/out branding, enterprise collaboration, customer experience transfor... |
"Ask how are people interacting already, then match with tech." |
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