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With all pleasure and honour, I am appointed to the Meetings Committee of the British Ecological Society for the next three years (2019 - 2022).
Founded in 1913 as the oldest ecological society in the world, BES has been promoting and fostering the study of Ecology in its widest sense.
The Society runs several major scientific meetings for ecologists each year. The Annual Meeting currently attracts 1,200 delegates each year and provides the opportunity for ecologists to present papers and posters on a wide variety of topics; an important element has always been the active participation of research students. There is an increasing number of delegates from overseas, principally Europe. It is Europe's largest annual meeting of ecologists. Since 1960 the Society has run an Annual Symposium and published a volume of its papers. It supports a range of other specialist meetings, workshops, training events and field meetings.
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Our oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic. How might these changing conditions put marine food webs in danger?
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This article is published by 'Ask A Biologist', Arizona State University. I am a volunteer contributor of the programme.
Bonobos and chimpanzees look a lot alike and they use similar gestures or movements to communicate. But do the same gestures always mean the same thing? My new popular science story, "When Great Apes High-Five" answers this interesting question and looks into the evolution of communication.
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This article is published by 'Ask A Biologist', Arizona State University. I am a volunteer contributor of the programme.
I bet you have played Lego before. Have you ever wondered what are the 'Lego blocks' of our life? Many of you may know the answer to it - yes, it is our 'cells'. My newly translated article, 'Building Blocks of Life', unveils the mysteries underlying the cells - giving you a fuller picture how our cells work, and how the diverse forms of life are arisen.
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This article is published by 'Ask A Biologist', Arizona State University. I am a volunteer contributor of the programme.
Evolution is such an amazing process, which gives rises to the current biodiversity. No wonder biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky has said, 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.' My answer to your question is, yes, they are related. And I am going to answer you how this happens in the light of evolution.
From the phylogenetic tree of life, we can see the domain Eukaryota emerges much later than the two other prokaryotic domains. Thus, eukaryotes must have a prokaryote-like ancestor. There are two prominent features that are unique to extant eukaryotes – the presences of (1) nucleus and (2) membrane-bound organelles (mitochondria and chloroplasts are examples). From where do eukaryotes acquire these two things?
When we talk about evolution, we must not neglect the natural environment at the time. Ancient Earth had very little amount of oxygen – of course, the high-energy-making aerobic respiration is not as common as now. There were three types of single-celled prokaryotic organisms: one is a proteobacterium that can make use of oxygen to produce energy (respiration); one is a cyanobacterium that converts light energy to chemical energy (photosynthesis); the last is miserable – it has neither of these abilities. The 'miserable' one could be even more miserable – the cyanobacteria were producing oxygen and changing the Earth, but it could not utilize it like the proteobacteria could!
Emergence of First Eukaryote
The 'miserable' one now developed infoldings in cell membrane to increase its surface area to volume ratio, possibly because it increased the food intake efficiency to compensate for its lower energy conversion efficiency. The infoldings eventually separated from the cell membrane – forming an endomembrane system, enclosing the nucleoid and genetic materials. This is the first eukaryote (eu, true; karyon, nut; meanings in Greek).
Endosymbiotic Theory (or Symbiogenesis)
There came a very rare chance (well, but if you consider how old the Earth is, it is not surprising at all) – The eukaryote engulfed the aerobic proteobacterium, either as food or parasite, scientists are still not quite sure. Both were lucky, the engulfed bacterium avoided the eukaryote's digestion (Phew!) and the eukaryote assimilated it as its asset to utilize oxygen (Wow!) – no longer miserable! The proteobacterium is now an endosymbiont in the eukaryotic host. This eukaryote is the ancestor of animals, fungi, and other heterotrophs (food-consuming), and the assimilated proteobacteria become the nowadays mitochondria.
The increasingly oxygen-rich environment selected away other eukaryotes that had not engulfed the aerobe, because clearly the endosymbiotic eukaryote accumulated energy faster and reproduced faster.
At another chance, some eukaryotes took a step further – acquiring the cyanobacteria as endosymbiont. How greedy! But it certainly gained the advantage to produce its own oxygen. This eukaryote is the ancestor of plants, algae, and other autotrophs (food-self-producing), and the assimilated cyanobacteria become the nowadays chloroplasts.
Not only does this whole process explain the emergence of eukaryotes, it also explains why we cannot find a cell that possesses chloroplasts but not mitochondria – because proteobacteria won the race!
Such transversion from acquisition of endosymbionts (individuals living dependently to each other) to assimilation of organelles (dependent cellular part) is first outlined by Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski, as endosymbiotic theory (or symbiogenesis). Many scientists thereafter advance the theory with more evidence.
Evidences of Endosymbiotic Theory
Wait a minute! You may say. 'How do I know this is true?'
This endosymbiotic process is estimated to occur around 1.5 billion years ago – it is indeed hard to prove its validity. However, there are still some traces of evidence that are detected by scientists to support this testable hypothesis.
First, new mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own genomes not contained in the nuclei – they govern their replication on their own. The cell division process is known as binary fission (many use it and the term 'amitosis' interchangeably, but amitosis usually refers to the nucleolar division not involving formation of spindle fibres, and is more frequently referred to certain eukaryotic cells) – which is used solely by prokaryotes.
Second, some membrane proteins and lipids are found exclusively in mitochondria, chloroplasts and prokaryotes – including transport protein porins and membrane lipid cardiolipin.
Third, genomic comparisons suggest a close phylogenetic relationship between these two organelles and their proposed origins (proteobacteria and cyanobacteria).
With more advanced microbiological and genomic studies, endosymbiosis grows from a hypothesis to a sound theory. We are now pretty sure how eukaryotes emerge – but this does not stop scientists from finding solutions of more questions. For instance, biologists utilize mitochondrial DNA to unravel the natural history, and astrobiologists use archaea to find origins of life on Earth and other planets. Scientific inquiry is growing like evolution is.
'This is a false statement': is something beyond our logical reasoning? ― A review of Douglas R. Holfstadter's Gödel, Escher, BachRead Now
'A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.' ― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
Douglas R. Holfstadter has made an unprecedented move to bond the mathematician Kurt Gödel, the artist Maurits Corpelis Escher, and the composer Johann Sebastian Bach in the common centre of Gödel's proof on his incompleteness theorem. This proof is targeting the intrinsic logical looseness and limitations in a formal axiomatic system in mathematics.
In a nutshell, mathematicians have been fancying exploiting a list of axioms which could give us "all of the mathematics": it has to be a complete system – that any given statement is both provable and disprovable; it also has to be a consistent system – that a statement cannot be both proved true and false at the same time. However, such completeness and consistency are inherently contradictory – for example, 'This statement does not have any proof in the system of Principia Mathematica (PM)': if this statement is provable, then PM would be inconsistent (PM is self-referentially contradicting); if this statement is unprovable, then PM would be incomplete (the PM lacks the internal proof for it).
The mathematical ground of Gödel's proof itself is a stand-alone masterpiece, but it also steps further to reveal the epistemology of any formal system science – theorems are the branch-outs developed from an axiomatic trunk, extending towards the vast space of truth while some being unreachable, at its counterpart, negative axioms provide the basis of all negations of theorems, also leaving some falsehoods unreachable. Coincidently, this reminds me a Chinese counterpart: Yin Yang Theory, and the symbol itself would give you the intuitive thought of its similarity with Gödel's proof (Figure 1).
The book is precious in the presentation of such rigorous and complex ideas. First, the dialogue at the beginning of each chapter unveils the limitations that we may come across in our daily lives – such opening encores with the dialogues in Plato's Symposium. It successfully rings a bell among the readers, preparing the laymen to digest the mathematical and logical paradoxes. Second, the author's imagination is far beyond mathematics alone: he traces back the connections from Escher and Bach with the Gödel's theorem, offering a highly vibrant repertoire of aesthetics that is engraved in any field of knowledge. For example, Bach's canons and fugues are often self-referential to deliver ambiguous perceptions to the listeners. In the meanwhile, many of the Escher's artwork seem unreal and challenge our intuitive perception of space. Third, at the final portion of the book, it brings out a twenty-first century grand challenge of artificial intelligence, and how it may shed light on resolving the complex systems of self-reference, offering valuable insight to the futurism.
This book is definitely a classic that any learners at all stages of knowledge and truth inquiry should read, for the most underlying structure of how we learn and perceive.
Biodiversity loss is one of the top threats in Anthropocene. It is estimated that the current species extinction rate is at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background natural rate (Chivian & Berstein, 2008), because of increasing environmental impacts from anthropogenic activities, including global warming, habitat loss, introduction of exotic species (Thomas et al., 2004). As the extinction of every species potentially leads to the extinction of others in the ecosystem matrix, we may unravel snowballing extinction cascades in the future if proper conservation management is inadequate.
Since last century, many captive breeding programs have been launched to salvage endangered species from imminent extinction (Frankham, 2008). They are vibrant in the highly diversified forms: a university lab, a joint conservation group or a zoo. They have been targeted to serving for a wide range of conservation purposes: (1) the crucial goal in maintaining genetic integrity of threatened species; (2) the pivotal role of translocation and re-introduction programmes that restore wild population (Grueber et al., 2015); (3) educating people of the importance of wildlife conservation; and (4) substantiating in-depth research opportunity for future applications.
Captive management is utterly important when the species can no longer sustain the population itself in the wild. Besides the human activities, natural catastrophes such as strong predation pressure, diseases and food shortage can also endanger wild species to an unsecured population. For example, pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) once experienced a population shock down to 10 individuals, thus is enlisted in IUCN Critically Endangered in 1994. They suffered from introduced invasive species (Swinnerton, 2001) and intense food competition (Jones & Owadally, 1988). The compounding effect of captive breeding and reintroduction have been successful to bring back the survival likelihood. It has been downlisted to Endangered and may become eligible for further downlisting in the future. Captive breeding is beneficial to concentrate the resource and management effort, as compared to in-situ conservation, especially when the population is small and vulnerable to natural chance events. Other successful reintroduction examples include scimitar-horned oryx, Californian condor and golden lion tamarin.
The rationale behind the educational purpose of a captivity such as zoos and marine parks is the created affective connections bridging the nature and visitors. In compared to alienated forms of conservation outreach, such as propaganda and leaflets, the actual experience spending with an animal quickly strengthens the bonding and thus raise a higher compassion to save the endangered animals. When reports find out that there are positive effects of zoos on cognitive and affective characteristics (Luebke et al., 2016), captive management breaks the estrangement between public and wildlife, and affirms the community engagement of conservation.
The success of species conservation depends much on our understanding of their behavioral ecology, habitat and reproductive biology. Captive breeding enables researchers and conservationists to study and experiment the mating success and optimal environmental factors that are most favorable to the species. Especially when certain endangered species is endemic and possesses unique physiology, such as keel-scaled boa in Round Island (Casarea dussumieri) (Bloxam & Tonge, 1986), captive breeding safeguards a better prospecting future of the conservation of the species and its closely related relatives. Further genetic and molecule tools can enable us to minimize inbreeding and maintain the genetic diversity by implementing carefully planned captive management, increasing the chance of successful adaptation to the environment upon reintroduction or translocation (Witzenberger & Hochkirch, 2011).
The three pillars of conservation, education and research in captive management are entwined to conserve the endangered species. However, the effectiveness of captive breeding stirs up some debate as more limitations and inadequacies are untangled.
Captivity may be time consuming but rewarding less, failing to improve the conservation status or mitigating the declining population. For example, the habitat of Hainan gibbons (Nomascus hainanus) is severely fragmented and degraded by infrastructure development (Cawthon Lang, 2005). However, their reproduction biology is sophisticated and discerns great effort. Without a proper mating ground, their lack of territories is a prominent reproductive barrier in the wild (Zhou et al., 2008). Although attempts have been made to breed Hainan gibbons in captivity, all have been failed and the captivity plan is abandoned. Currently there are no Hainan gibbons in captivity (Geissmann, T. & Bleisch, 2008).
Latest findings report that students demonstrate no positive learning outcomes at all (Jensen, 2014). The paper concludes, that zoos fail to nurture proactive conservationists among students and empower the pupils to take ameliorative actions. This research conflicts with the common belief that zoos can function as an important education source. The possible reason behind is the differential management of educational programmes in different places, and the report is locally-targeted. It sheds light on the limitation that different zoos take different approaches in delivering education, while some succeed, some have week efforts.
There are disproportionate efforts allocated to certain species because of an anthropocentric view of conservation effort. A better-known example is the 'panda-centric conservation' in which Chinese government has invested tremendous conservation funding for its captive management. Giant panda costs each hosting captivity an average of 2.6 million dollars a year, and the cost can compound to 4 million when cubs are arisen (Warren, 2006). The great financial commitment exerts strong burden to the government, NGO and the public. As a result, 'flagship species' is the conservation marketing strategy that attracts public awareness and financial donation. However, it potentially skews the conservation priorities in sole humans' favour and the detrimental species receive less attention (Ducarme, Luque & Courchamp, 2013). Particularly when the panda is successfully downlisted to Vulnerable in IUCN, the flagship may disappear and poses negative impacts on the attitudes of the conservation stakeholders (Simberloff, 1998).
Captive management is undoubtedly an indispensable tool to preserve a 'insurance population' for endangered species. However, the daunting crisis of species extinction must be faced squarely and ex-situ conservation is only the last resort to rescue those species in the edge. In-situ conservation, habitat preservation and better wildlife management must be prioritized and captivity is not an excuse to avoid them.
Nurtured as an ecologist in Hong Kong, I am a doctoral student reading for Interdisciplinary Bioscience at the University of Oxford.
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A very strong piece of the support provided at The Bridge of Georgia is the research-based principles of applied behavior analysis.
United States Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, has endorsed intensive behavioral intervention for individuals with autism and states, "Thirty years of research demonstrated the efficacy of applied behavioral methods in reducing inappropriate behavior and in increasing communication, learning, and appropriate social behavior."
Other Organizations that Endorse ABA as a scientifically proven approach for treating children with autism and related disorders include the following:
These principles are applied at The Bridge of Georgia in many ways such as:
Discrete Trial Teaching in a 1:1 setting
Classroom Teaching
Natural Environment Teaching
Behavioral Support in the Hair Salon
Task Analysis
Teaching Vocational Skills
Parent Training so that these same principles can be applied at home
Functional Behavioral Assessments
Behavior Intervention Plans
We believe that research shows that a strong ABA program offers the very best chance of success for children with autism and other similar diagnoses. Accurate data is an important component for program development and data will be readily accessible for parents, and at the parent's requests other professionals that provide services to the child.
Our clinic sets up programming using the information gained from the Assessment of Basic Learning and Language Skills – Revised. We also use the Assessment of Functional Living Skills to assess older students and those who are working on community-based skills.
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Big congrats to athletes Patti and Angel this weekend both running the 5k and the marathon in Houston!! Patti ran a personal record marathon (3:27:23) and Angel finished a great race as she prepares for the Rocky Raccoon 100 in two weeks.
Weather seems to be great all across the country today hope you were able to get out and enjoy it.
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Sohu.com Inc. Chairman and CEO Issues Letter to Stockholders Regarding Special Meeting
BEIJING, May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Charles Zhang, the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, video, search and gaming business group, today issued to Sohu's stockholders the following letter regarding the special meeting of Sohu's stockholders scheduled for May 29, 2018:
Dear fellow Sohu.com Inc. stockholders,
I am the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) ("Sohu Delaware"), China's leading online media, video, search, and gaming business group. By now you should have received our Notice of Special Meeting of Stockholders (the "Special Meeting") and the joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus of Sohu Delaware and our Cayman Islands subsidiary Sohu.com Limited ("Sohu Cayman"). You may also access and review the Proxy Statement/Prospectus on the SEC's EDGAR site at https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html under "SOHU COM INC" and "Sohu.com Ltd."
The Proxy Statement/Prospectus is with respect to our solicitation of Sohu Delaware stockholder approval of a proposal for the dissolution of Sohu Delaware (the "Liquidation") and adoption of a plan of complete liquidation and dissolution of Sohu Delaware, pursuant to which, among other things, Sohu Delaware will be dissolved; all outstanding shares of the common stock of Sohu Delaware will be cancelled, and American depositary shares (the "ADSs") representing ordinary shares of Sohu Cayman will be distributed to the stockholders of Sohu Delaware on a pro rata basis (the "Liquidation Proposal").
As the May 29, 2018 date for the Special Meeting is fast approaching. I am writing to encourage you, if you have not already done so, to vote "FOR" the Liquidation Proposal and the related proposal to adjourn the Special Meeting to another date, time, or place, if necessary for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies to vote in favor of the Liquidation Proposal.
I expect that the implementation of the Liquidation Proposal will result in substantial benefits for Sohu and our stockholders. If it is approved by our stockholders and implemented, the Liquidation Proposal will result in the domicile of the top-tier, publicly-traded holding company of the Sohu Group changing from Delaware to the Cayman Islands. After the Liquidation Proposal is implemented, the Sohu Group's business, operations, and assets will be very much the same as they are now. Instead of shares of common stock of Sohu Delaware, you will own the ADSs, which will be listed and traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the same "SOHU" symbol that is now used for the shares of the common stock of Sohu Delaware. There should be no interruption in trading, as trading in the ADSs is expected to commence on the first trading day after the Liquidation Proposal is implemented.
I want to emphasize to you that one of the core reasons for the Liquidation Proposal is to establish a more efficient holding company structure that we expect will generate significant economic benefit for the Sohu Group and our stockholders over the long term while maintaining strong corporate governance. The Sohu Group has no operations, management, or employees in the U.S. Therefore, we believe that it is quite inefficient for the top-tier holding company of the Sohu Group to be domiciled in the U.S.
Following the implementation of the Liquidation Proposal, the Sohu Group will no longer be subject to U.S. corporate income tax. I would like to highlight a few key points in this regard that I believe are very important in considering the long-term value of your investment in the Sohu Group:
- If we do not implement the Liquidation Proposal, Sohu Delaware, even though it has no U.S. operations, will be subject to U.S. corporate tax on certain income of its foreign subsidiaries, such as rents, royalties, interest, dividends, and gain from disposal of investments, that falls under Subpart F of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
- If we do not implement the Liquidation Proposal, Sohu Delaware will also be subject to a new tax imposed by the U.S. federal tax legislation ("U.S. Tax Reform") that was signed into law on December 22, 2017 on global intangible low-taxed income (or "GILTI") of its foreign subsidiaries.
- If our top-tier holding company continues to be domiciled in the U.S., in many future years we should expect to be taxed under Subpart F and/or to be liable for some payment on GILTI.
- One example of the impact for the Sohu Group if the Liquidation Proposal is not implemented, and we continue to be subject to U.S. corporate tax on Subpart F income, is our interest in our subsidiary Sogou Inc. Based on the closing market price for Sogou's American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange of $9.50 on May 15, 2018, Sohu's 33% interest in Sogou is valuable -- approximately $1.25 billion. Sohu Delaware, as a U.S. corporation, would be subject to U.S. corporate tax under Subpart F if our subsidiary that holds the Sogou shares sold any of those shares at a price higher than the adjusted tax basis in the shares. Subpart F income is currently taxed at the rate of 21%. Although we have no present intention of selling any of Sohu's Sogou shares, we believe that this, along with the other ongoing U.S. tax effects under Subpart F and GILTI tax if our top-tier holding company were to continue as a U.S. corporation, are nevertheless very important matters to consider in evaluating the benefits of the Liquidation Proposal.
- If we do not implement the Liquidation Proposal now, depending on Sohu's market value and other future events, it could be difficult to implement in the future without material tax costs for Sohu Delaware and its subsidiaries, which could mean that we would be locked into the burdens of the U.S. Subpart F and GILTI tax regimes indefinitely.
I also want to emphasize that Sohu's commitment to good corporate governance has not changed and will not change after we are domiciled in the Cayman Islands. I believe that stockholders who focus solely on the differences between Delaware law and Cayman Islands law, or between SEC reporting by a U.S. corporation and SEC reporting by a foreign private issuer, will be missing some of the core reasons why this proposed change in the domicile of our top-tier holding company will be financially beneficial to Sohu and its stockholders, and will also tend to overlook the efforts we have made to carry over various stockholder protections into Sohu Cayman. For example, a stockholder who reviews the Proxy Statement/Prospectus carefully will note that we have indicated that we will continue to have independent audit, nominating, and compensation committees; hold annual meetings of shareholders; and provide certain other key shareholder protections, such as a right to nominate directors and make shareholder proposals, that are not ordinarily required for foreign private issuers or Cayman Islands companies.
Your vote is important! We urge you to consider the likely significant financial benefits of implementing the Liquidation Proposal as summarized in this letter, and to vote "FOR" both of our proposals, in accordance with the recommendation of Sohu Delaware's Board of Directors.
Dr. Charles Zhang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of Web properties and community based/Web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination www.sohu.com; the interactive search engine www.sogou.com; the developer and operator of online games www.changyou.com/en/ and the leading online video Website tv.sohu.com .
Sohu's corporate services consist of online brand advertising on Sohu's matrix of websites as well as bid listing and home page on its in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also provides multiple news and information services on mobile platforms, including Sohu News App and the mobile news portal m.sohu.com. Sohu's online game subsidiary, Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU) develops and operates a diverse portfolio of PC and mobile games, such as Tian Long Ba Bu ("TLBB"), one of the most popular PC games in China. Changyou also owns and operates the 17173.com Website, a leading game information portal in China. Sohu's online search subsidiary Sogou (NYSE: SOGO) has grown to become the second largest search engine by mobile queries in China. It also owns and operates Sogou Input Method, the largest Chinese language input software. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, is in its twenty-second year of operation.
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Staff in the Department of Italian
Mrs Rossella Peressini, Dott. in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (Venice, Ca' Foscari), MA in Italian (Warwick)
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Research Interests
My background is in modern languages and my general research interest lies in applied linguistics and in the designing of communicative language teaching materials.
During my MA by research I focused on role-play in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. I maintain a strong interest in the development of oral competence especially at intermediate and advanced levels.
Over the last five years I have concentrated on learners' reading strategies and I have also become interested in the development of listening skills for students'independent learning.
I have been teaching as Language Assistant in the Italian Department since 1995. I am currently responsible for the designing and teaching of the following courses:
ITAL 1051 Italian Reading & Comprehension 1B
ITAL 2031 Italian Oral 2B
ITAL 3021 Italian Oral 4B
Authored book
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- 1998 co-authored with Alessandro Benati Ritocchi, University of Greenwich.
- 1994 co-authored with Loredana Polezzi Italianissimo Activity Book, BBC.
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A little about ourselves
Our United Methodist Youth Group is open to all kids in the 6th through 12th grades. The group is led by Christy Smith. Each Sunday we have a snack meal at 5:00 pm and our group meeting begins at 5:30 pm. Please come and be a part of our group.
Recent News
Right now we are gearing up for some fundraisers. We will be beginning a Penny Drive that will continue throughout the remainder of the year. To keep up to date on all the Youth happenings, be sure you come to the meetings on Sunday afternoons!
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I profiled the depravity of youth pastor Joshua Amoroso back in December of 2010. He raped a 14-year-old girl from his youth group. The victim thought that they were in love, The truth was a different story. Amoroso was in it for the sex with children. Good news America! Amoroso was sentenced to life in prison. No wait… he got just60 days. How did that happen? How did an admitted pedophile get just 60 days?
A Colorado Springs youth pastor who was fired after admitting to a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl in his youth group was sentenced Thursday to 60 days in jail and 10 years-to-life probation.
In handing down his sentence, a judge told Joshua Amoroso he was "sickened" by the betrayal of trust and warned the 22-year-old that violating the terms of his probation could result in a life sentence.
Read more: Youth pastor's sentence comes with stern words from judge
The good news is that he cannot serve as a pastor until his probation expires. Wait.. is that good news? They really screwed up this case. In what other profession are you granted this level of leniency? I smell a rat.


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A vibrant array of colours and spicy scents lure visitors to the
animated Central Market in Stone Town. Opened in 1904 as the
Seyyidieh Market, the numerous stalls run over with tropical
fruits, exotic spices, brightly coloured khangas (worn by local
women) and rare provisions such as pomegranates and red bananas.
Locals come daily from the surrounding areas to display their
subsistence wares, and fisherman display their catch of the day
with a pungent array of fresh fish from huge marlins to salty
sardines. For an evening snack, head to East Africa's best street
market held every night by the waterfront at Forodhani Gardens.
The official unit of currency is the Tanzanian shilling (TZS),
divided into 100 cents. The tourism industry prices everything in
US Dollars and they are the preferred unit of currency. Major
currencies can be exchanged in the larger towns. Foreign exchange
bureaux in the main towns usually offer a better rate on travellers
cheques than do the banks. ATMs are available in major cities only.
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The SoCal Board will be meeting this Saturday, Aug 11, 2012 at the Sky High Lodge at Wrightwood, adjacent to the disc golf course. The meeting begins at 3pm, after the day's tournament round is over (and we've helped the TD tie up all the loose ends). Members are welcome to attend the meeting. If you would like to speak or be added to the meeting's agenda, please contact SoCal President Randy Wylot (firstname.lastname@example.com) for more information.
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Digital Experience
The digital playbook is being rewritten at breakneck speed. Between websites, apps, social media platforms and services, it can be hard to know where to focus your business's efforts
In a world of increasing digital interconnectedness, the new powerbrokers will be those placed at the centre of these new digital ecosystems. So ask yourself these questions: Is your current technology landscape right for your business strategy? How prepared are you for disruptors such as new technological innovations, new channels, and changing regulatory requirements?
The times are changing and your business has a choice between sink and swim. In the financial sector, new challenger banks such as Metro Bank, Monzo, and Atom, are recognising that the customer experience is not set by banks, but by the likes of Amazon and Netflix, with many organisations in the financial sector lagging worryingly behind. The bar for excellent customer experience is set higher today than ever – your response to customer demand, complaints, and frustration must be to maximize satisfaction, and quickly. If you don't recognise the need to deliver greater value for your customers, providing the latest technology in mobile banking, APIs, and open banking, then you have a problem. But when you finally take the plunge to transform your digital offering, be aware transformation isn't a simple process.
Exhaling the art of the possible
The solution is to improve the step change in customer experience, and reach your full digital potential. Starting with a digital maturity assessment and a realistic roadmap, identifying and implementing the right digital technologies for your business is key. It's also critical to streamline and build uniform processes across your channels to fully enhance the customer experience.
We know banking
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One of the hardest tasks for a community is transitioning to a new economic identity. Long known for mining, shipping and manufacturing, the Duluth-Superior metro area in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin is trying to expand and diversify its economic reputation without divorcing itself from the legacy industries that built the region.
That transition is hard fought, as Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari found out on a recent outreach trip in early April. Also called the Twin Ports, the area has some momentum and necessary building blocks, but also faces obstacles to creating a new economy that is able to attract and retain young and educated workers while keeping its foundational industries healthy.
Like many communities today, the Twin Ports have seen unemployment fall and employment rise with the long-run growth of the overall economy, but the area has done so at a pace that lags the overall rates for both states (Chart 1).
Some of the reasons for that slower growth were made clear while Kashkari was in the Twin Ports. In a roundtable discussion, business leaders pointed to workforce shortages that limited their ability to hire workers and a housing shortage that limited growth in the local labor pool.
Kashkari also held two public forums while in the Twin Ports, one with 140 college students and the other with a crowd of over 300 at the biannual Regional Economic Indicators Forum (REIF). At both events, Kashkari fielded dozens of questions on the economy and monetary policy. But there were also numerous questions about tariffs, trade, and labor and housing shortages that gave voice to the concerns about the future direction of the regional economy.
The area has a comparatively large presence of higher education institutions, including the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the College of St. Scholastica and Lake Superior College. But contacts lamented the brain drain that occurs, with new graduates often taking their skills to Minneapolis or other larger regional centers.
The region still depends heavily on its economic roots—mining, shipping and manufacturing. Though mining and shipping are decades past their heyday, these two industries are directly responsible for about 7,500 jobs. Manufacturing pitches in another 6,000. Given their comparatively high pay—from almost $1,000 a week in manufacturing to $1,600 a week in mining—these industries indirectly support thousands of additional jobs as those wages course through the regional economy. (See Chart 2 for a mining snapshot.)
But with these industries also comes volatility, particularly in mining, and diversification is what many seek. Some people point to tourism jobs as a way forward. The region has seen steady growth in this sector, adding about 1,300 leisure and hospitality jobs since 2010. But the pay tends to be low—a small fraction of that seen in legacy industries.
Currently, the Twin Ports are not seeing a lot of new construction, sources there said (and permit data support), with the exception of some multifamily developments. There have been a handful of major projects in the recent past, including a new $80 million headquarters for the retailer Maurices in 2016 and $90 million in new education facilities in Superior. But those steps forward were followed by layoffs at Maurices last year and an announcement by UW-Superior that it was eliminating more than a dozen majors due to lack of demand.
However, residential real estate markets have been uncommonly strong recently (Chart 3), especially in Douglas County (Wis.), which has pushed local home values significantly higher and bodes well for future housing investment and—hopefully, at least—keeping more young people in the region and attracting newcomers to the labor force.
At the REIF event, an attendee asked Kashkari if he knew of examples or best practices from other communities about how to grow and train the local workforce. "I hear a lot of anecdotes about places and people trying things," said Kashkari. "But I've never met anyone who said, 'We've got this nailed. We're doing a great job, and there's a great pipeline'" aligning the needs of workers with the needs of local businesses. But successful communities tend to be experimental and open to change. He added that as labor markets get tighter, more opportunities arise for more workers, and businesses are also more willing to try new approaches.
Indeed, the region has a good example in its own backyard. Cirrus Aircraft, a maker of personal aircraft, is one of the largest employers in the area and offers something of a local back-to-the-future moment. The company's evolution reads like an economic storybook, having gone from a basement business for its co-founders, Dale and Alan Klapmeier, to the world's largest maker of personal aircraft, with about 1,400 employees, three-quarters of them in Duluth, along with a parts plant in Grand Forks, N.D., and customer center near Knoxville, Tenn. The company is still growing, with about 85 job openings at any one time, according to Bill King, Cirrus executive director of business administration.
Cirrus marries the region's old-school industrial legacy with a more forward-facing approach to innovation and global competitiveness. Like it or not, Cirrus will play an important role in the region's future trajectory. For its part, Cirrus appears to be up to the challenge. In April, the company received the aerospace industry's top award—the Robert J. Collier Trophy—for developing the world's first single-engine personal jet. The award goes back 106 years "and is a huge honor," said King, noting that the company beat out the likes of Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed Martin.
Cirrus is expecting some tailwind from the positive exposure. The company makes roughly one personal jet per week, with hopes of boosting production by about 50 percent in 2019. Even if it meets that goal, it won't run out of business anytime soon. Even before the company learned of the Collier Trophy, the order backlog for the personal jet was 600.
In a way, Cirrus is helping the region expand the meaning of "twin ports" by adding aircraft to its list of specialties. But if you're in a position to kick the tires on a personal aircraft, you'd be wise to get in line now.


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Former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine was accused of pedophilia in a now-famous Newsnight broadcast that led to the ouster of the head of the BBC. McAlpine now says he plans to sue Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the Commons, and George Monbiot, a columnist for the Guardian, for tweeting his name after the television program was was broadcast. Snip:
Lord McAlpine's solicitor, Andrew Reid, said the "nasty" tweets would "cost people a lot of money", warning the guilty parties: "We know who you are."
He added: "Twitter is not just a closed coffee shop among friends. It goes out to hundreds of thousands of people and you must take responsibility for it.
"It is not a place where you can gossip and say things with impunity, and we are about to demonstrate that."
Read more: Lord McAlpine to sue tweeters who linked him to sex abuse as BBC pays £185,000 damages. (Telegraph)


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- KNX- The KNX association is the world leader in standardised home and building automation. To become certified by KNX, products must be inspected and tested to ensure their interoperability. [Read more..]
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What is Play Therapy?
It is the therapeutic use of play to foster communication, build rapport, gain insight and understanding, teach and reinforce skills, as well as accomplish individualized goals. Play therapy is the equivalent to children what talk therapy is to adults. No matter what verbal language a child speaks (e.g., English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, etc.) or whether a child is deaf, play is a child's natural language and toys the words used to communicate.
With whom can play be used therapeutically?
It may be used with individuals of all ages but is most often utilized with children from infancy to 14 years of age.
What can it help individuals cope with?
- Psychological Trauma
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- Neurological Disorders
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What are the therapeutic benefits of utilizing play?
- Promotes Wellness
- Builds Rapport
- Foster Communication
- Express Feelings
- Elevate Mood
- Manage Stress
- Enhance Memory
- Increase Understanding
- Learn Social Skills
- Develop Mindfulness
- Improve Self-Control
- Raise Self-Esteem/Self-Confidence
- Achieve Individualized Goals
At The Center for Family & Crisis Counseling, we provide an array of toys, puppets, sandtray, and art supplies so children can play as well as communicate what they are thinking about and how they are feeling. As many of us have experienced, at times it is difficult to find the words to fully express and communicate how we are feeling and what exactly is bothering us. Children use the toys to express what they have difficulty saying with words.
Our staff has received accredited training by licensed Play, Art, & Music Therapists, completed the post-graduate Play Therapy Certification from U.C.F., as well as continue to receive specialized training. If you have a child who has been traumatized, is having difficulty adjusting, or needs someone specially trained in working with children and helping families through difficult times, we are here for you.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Suffolk men's soccer team had its 2015 season come to a close Sunday afternoon with a tough loss to Johnson & Wales in the Quarterfinals of the GNAC Tournament. The eighth-seeded Rams were blanked by the regular season champions and top-seed Johnson & Wales, 9-0, at the Scotts MG Complex.
Suffolk ends its season 2-16-1 overall. The Wildcats, meanwhile, advance to Wednesday night's semifinals, improving to 15-4 overall.
For nearly the first 30 minutes of action it was a back-and-forth affair with neither team striking, but once JWU made its move, a goal by Xacier Carty, it did not stop rolling past the Rams. Carty went on to net a hat trick in the victory with Tucker Macpherson and Teagan Drake adding two scores each. Greg Kerns and Chris Schmid added a goal apiece to the Wildcats' nine-goal offense.
Nicholas Chamma made one save in his final collegiate game for the blue-and-gold, while Johnson & Wales' keeper Nick Tolman stopped all three of the Rams' attempts to lock up the victory.


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Larry Richardson to give "Talk"!
"Painting the Nature of the Cumberland River -
An American Legacy"
June 2 @ Noon, with Larry Richardson, Artist, Naturalist, Author
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All River Talks are free and open to the public. You may reserve an optional lunch for $8 or bring your own.
Where: The Cumberland River Compact, located on the 3rd floor of the Bridge Building, 2 Victory Ave, Nashville, TN 37213.
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Leeward Community College is a public 2-year institution, founded in 1968. It is in the suburbs of Pearl City, Hawaii. It is the fourth largest institution in the state of Hawaii. This community college offers subjects such as administrative assistant and secretarial science, web design, and audio engineering. It offers students five certificates and ten associates level degrees. In 2010, 7,942 students sought degrees from the ten programs at this college. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges accredits this college. This college is one of 6 community colleges in Hawaii.
Student Demographics
In 2010, 7,942 students were enrolled at this community college.
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In 2010, 7,942 students were enrolled at this community college.
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- Total Enrolled Female: 4765
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Fiona and Chris
This past Sunday I got to meet Fiona and Chris at Castle Island in South Boston for an engagement session. They were super cute and I'm looking forward to photographing their wedding on October 17th! I just wanted to share a couple of my favorite photo's from the session.
I love the last photo where they are looking in different directions but still holding each others hands. Great photos!


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In one of our blogposts, we wrote about how Digital-first players aim for market share, not short-term profits. One of the major advantages of these players, which are usually startups, is the speed at which they can innovate. How do they get so fast? And is there anything you can learn from that and apply to your business today?
"Size matters not"
The first reason most people will probably give you is size. Startups are small by default, but is that really a good reason? Or is it just an excuse? A lot of tech companies employ thousands of people and have multiple layers of management. They still execute at a rapid pace, because they organized themselves to be able to do so.
They have clear expectations about things like your work attitude and meetings (is there a point to you being here?). On the other hand, they are very lenient when it comes to things like work-life balance and rewards, as they measure your performance, not the amount of hours you clock. Managers in traditional companies are often afraid that this will make everyone lazy, but in reality only a small percentage of the people tries to abuse this freedom and those who do ultimately get kicked out. The vast majority will simply have a bigger motivation to work hard for the company.
Do everything in your power to create an environment that people want to work hard in. Offer your employees value for value, think beyond the paycheck and show them that you care. If you do, they will too, and top talent will be interested in joining your company. It's an upward spiral.
Need some inspiration from a company with a very pragmatic culture? Check out Netflix' culture presentation.
Buy vs. build
As a traditional company, you often run on cry-worthy legacy systems. The money required to develop them and keep them up and running is often only justified by the fact that replacing these systems would cost even more.
Of course you have these systems today and reworking them or replacing them will indeed take years, there is not much you can do about that. What you can do however, is no longer building everything yourself when it comes to new offerings.
Corporates have the habit of making everything compliant. They often use whatever certified technology some sales rep talked them into and then customize it for their company. The logic of a startup on the other hand, is the exact same as that of you and me.
Most of us don't hunt or grow our own food, we don't make our own clothes, don't build our own computer… we let others do these things for us and unburden us of those skills to survive.
In the same way, digital-first players don't have infinite time to build and customize everything themselves, they want to scale fast after all, and thus they use the most lightweight, agile and scalable solutions available in the market to create their products and services.
Next time your company wants to create and launch something new, think twice about whether it really needs to run on your custom-made legacy systems. Perhaps a "Good is good enough" solution that can be set up in 15 minutes can do the job for you and allow you to scale rapidly. If your offering becomes a huge success one day, you can always decide to build your own version of the technology in the future to customize it further.
Startups are often heavily funded, even though they start out with just a small team, a barely working product or service and wild dreams of changing the way people do things. Venture Capitalists are willing to bet big on these dreams. If they can become a reality, it can often lead to huge profits.
Most companies don't want to or can't afford to bet on dreams. Budgets are usually hard to come by, even when there are great ideas and trust me, every company has a lot of those. Ideas are easy, execution is the real differentiator.
Every single company we have done our Digital Transformation workshops at has a lot of great ideas. Some of them were already being talked about for years and yet never got any financial support. This changes when there is a clear vision for the future. When the right stakeholders see how an idea helps them work towards making their future a reality, they will be more than willing to make big investments in great ideas, because they see the strategic need to, rather than the idea being another nice thing to have.
Get together with your company and create a vision for the next 5 to 10 years. What is your role in this future? How and by who are you being challenged? What can you do to still be relevant tomorrow? What domains will you have to defend at any cost and which new positions can you take as a company?
Only then the ideas come in, and you will find many of your existing ones irrelevant or less important, while some turn out to be fundamental for your future.
If you need help in creating this vision and mission for the future of your company, we specialize in this. We have done Digital Transformation exercises for dozens of small to large companies, using our pragmatic, thoroughly tested methodology. Contact us to start building your own future!


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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday defended the annual `Saifai Mahotsav` amid criticism that the Samajwadi Party government spent crores of rupees and invited top Bollywood stars at a time when Muzaffarnagar riot victims were living in difficult circumstances in relief camps.
Addressing a press conference, the Chief Minister said, "We have been organising the Saifai Mahotosav since a long time whether we are in power or not."
Claiming that the `Saifai festival` gives a major boost to tourism in Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav said, "Locals had been preparing for a year for the Mahotsav"
A visibly angry Chief Minister, who earlier cancelled the premier of film 'Dedh Ishqiya' in Lucknow, said, "I am ready to answer questions on Muzaffarnagar riot and the relief works carried out by the state government."
The young Chief Minister also lashed out at the media for false reporting and trying to malign the image of the Samajwadi Party-led government in the state.
"Those claiming that Rs 300 crore were spent on Saifai Mahotsava should apologise. Not more that Rs 6-7 crore were spent." the UP CM said.
"The media should apologise to me, to Netaji for their negative reports on Saifai,"Akhilesh Yadav said.
Stretching his point further, Akhilesh said, "Rs 5-7cr is maximum budget every year for the Saifai Mahotsav, sometimes it exceeds to 10 cr,but never more than that." "Most people connected with the Saifai festival are poor," he stated.
"I think some channels hate Urdu and Lucknawi culture that is why they raised objections on `Dedh Ishqiya` being premièred here.
He also slammed media for slamming the Bollywood stars who attended and performed in the festival. "Salman Khan visited a children`s hospital. He paid for a child`s treatment. This was never reported," Akhilesh retorted.
On the issue of Muzaffarnagar riot victims, the Chief Minister said, "Whatever was possible for the UP government we did it, to provide relief in such a large scale wasn`t possible for any other state."
Akhilesh also defended his government`s decision to send some its MLAs on a study tour by saying, "UP government sent delegation of ministers on its own without permission of Centre."
The harsh reactions from the UP CM came after criticism poured in for the ruling Samajwadi Party that it was having fun while many poor people in the state were suffering due to lack of proper arrangements by the state government.
Many Bollywood stars attended and performed at the annual festival of song and dance at the Yadav family`s native village in Saifai.


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In the recent case of Meghji v. Lee, 2011 BCSC 1108, Mr. Justice Johnston awarded over one million dollars to a pedestrian who was struck and injured while crossing a poorly lit intersection in Victoria in January 2003.
As a result of the accident, the plaintiff suffered a fracture to her left upper arm and a fracture just below her left knee. She also sustained an injury to her left ankle. The injuries resulted in a reduced range of motion in her shoulder, altered sensation in her hand and a limp. The plaintiff also sustained a brain injury, depression and chronic pain disorder, which the Court found were "inextricably intertwined". The Court awarded the plaintiff $125,000 in non-pecuniary damages for her pain and suffering. The Court awarded $850,000 for loss of earning capacity, as her ability to earn an income had been "significantly impaired" by the injuries she sustained in the accident.
Contributory Negligence in Pedestrian Accident
In the course of the trial, the Court considered whether the plaintiff was partly at fault for allegedly crossing the street while the light at the intersection was showing the "Don't Walk" sign. There was no question that the plaintiff was crossing the road in a marked crosswalk. On that question of the duty of the defendant driver in the circumstances the Court said the following:
[30] I find that Mr. Lee owed a duty to Ms. Meghji to keep a proper lookout while driving his vehicle, and to take reasonable care for other persons who were, or might reasonably be expected to be on the road (Hmaied v. Wilkinson, 2010 BCSC 1074; Nelson (Guardian ad litem of) v. Shinske (1991), 62 B.C.L.R. (2d) 302 (S.C.); Karran v. Anderson, 2009 BCSC 1105). I conclude that this duty existed whether or not the signal showed "Don't Walk" when Ms. Meghji started into the crosswalk. Also in support of this conclusion is the language of s. 181 of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 318:
181. Despite sections 178 [Repealed], 179 [Right of way between vehicle and pedestrian] and 180 [Crossing at other than a crosswalk], a driver of a vehicle must
(a) exercise due care to avoid colliding with a pedestrian who is on the highway[.]
Considering whether the plaintiff was partly at fault for the accident, the Court held that the balance of evidence showed that she had started across the road on a "permissive walk signal".
The Court also found the Ministry of Transportation 10% liable the accident for failing to have the intersection properly lit. On that point, the Court said the following:
[108] I conclude that MoTH breached the duty of care it owed to Ms. Meghji when, in 1983, it left the luminaires at the northwest and southeast corners of the widened intersection of Cloverdale Avenue and Blanshard Street. MoTH's failure to consider the effect of moving the luminaire in the north-west corner farther from the south-west corner and crosswalk area on the light available to the south crosswalk and on the uniformity ratio in that portion of the intersection, or its failure to consider whether there were reasonably achievable ways to compensate for the reduction in available light, breached the duty of care MoTH owed to Ms. Meghji and contributed to her injury.
Losing the Protective Cloak of Litigation Privilege
In his reasons, Mr. Justice Johnson discussed the implications of lawyers becoming involved in the medical treatment of their clients. In particular, he said that in such circumstances the party could lose the benefit of "litigation privilege". On this point the Court said the following:
[243] Where counsel becomes actively involved in arranging treatment, or in treatment decisions, or in selection of treatment providers to the extent that it becomes difficult or impossible to determine whether any particular doctor is involved for treatment purposes, or to advise counsel, the protective cloak of litigation privilege becomes tattered.
[244] In such circumstances, counsel and the party who permit the line between treating physicians and physicians retained to advise counsel to become blurred must accept some risk that the protection ordinarily afforded by litigation privilege might be lost.
Avoiding Duplication of Damages in Injury Case
In awarding damages for future care, the Court held that care must be taken to avoid duplication between awards for costs of future care and loss of future income. On that point, Mr. Justice Johnston said as follows:
[306] … every effort must be made to avoid duplication between awards for cost of future care and awards for loss of future income. To the extent that items recommended as part of a future care claim are items that might ordinarily have been purchased in any event out of the plaintiff's earnings, a court must be careful to avoid duplication. Duplication can be avoided by awarding only the increase in costs beyond those that would ordinarily have been incurred by a plaintiff if an accident had not occurred, and by awarding as close to full indemnity for future earnings loss as is reasonable. Duplication can also be avoided by awarding reasonably full indemnity for the future care expenses and then reducing the future earnings loss claim to reflect that portion of future income that would ordinarily have been spent on items that have been awarded as part of the future care claim.
In the end result, the plaintiff was awarded $150,000 in future care costs.


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Preview the Supreme Michael Jackson collection.
Supreme has officially unveiled the upcoming Michael Jackson capsule collection, which will be available at their New York, Los Angeles, London, and Paris stores, as well as online, tomorrow May 25th.
Included in the Supreme x Michael Jackson collection is a range of apparel including hooded sweatshirts, t-shirts, short sleeve work shirts, and a couple of skateboard decks. Each of the pieces features an iconic image of MJ from the "Billie Jean" video.
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Wednesday, 5 April, 2000, 11:53 GMT 12:53 UK
Holyrood: The Great Debate
BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor explains the background to the vote on the Holyrood project.
The main motion was in the name of Sir David Steel, the parliament's Presiding Officer and convener of the corporate body, which controls the building project.
This motion asked parliament simply to note the report of the corporate body and the report of the independent architect John Spencely.
It was a holding motion to allow the debate to proceed.
The real choice for MSPs lay in two amendments:
1. An amendment in the name of Labour backbencher Gordon Jackson (and other Labour and LibDem MSPs).
This urged MSPs to:
2. An amendment in the name of Liberal Democrat backbencher Donald Gorrie. plus the SNP's Margo MacDonald and Alex Fergusson, of the Tories.
This urged MSPs to:
The Holyrood Vote
On 17 June 1999, MSPs previously discussed Holyrood.
A critical amendment then by Donald Gorrie was only defeated by three votes (64 to 61) - with seven Liberal Democrats voting with the opposition and against the "coalition" line.
As then, Wednesday's vote was ostensibly a free vote, but it felt more like a vote of confidence in the executive.
The Jackson amendment won through by 67 votes to 58.
The Gorrrie amendment was defeated by 67 votes to 58.
Holyrood history
The Holyrood site was chosen by Donald Dewar in his previous role as Scottish Secretary. That is a key source of much of the present discontent.
If MSPs had been consulted, they would have been obliged to take ownership of the project.
9 January 1998: Mr Dewar names Holyrood as the chosen site after earlier scrutiny of three others: Calton Hill, Leith or Haymarket.
July 1998: Five architect teams submitted plans. Enric Miralles, from Barcelona (in partnership with RMJM of Edinburgh), is chosen by a panel chaired by Mr Dewar.
6 May 1999: The elections to the new Scottish Parliament are held.
1 June 1999:Control of the building project formally passes from Donald Dewar to the parliament's cross-party corporate body, convened by Sir David Steel.
The corporate body includes one MSP each from Labour, the SNP, the Tories and the LibDems.
24 February 2000: After reports of rising costs, Sir David Steel announces that an independent assessor - John Spencely - has been asked to review the project.
30 March 2000: Spencely reported.
5 April 2000: MSPs voted to continue the project but with guarantees over funding and timescale.
Holyrood costs
July 1997: The UK Government White Paper on devolution includes a very rough estimate for the building. This is Ł10m-Ł40m.
December 1997: Feasibility studies of the various sites. Holyrood is said to be Ł50m for construction only. (St Andrews House is put at Ł65m, the others at Ł50m).
January 1998: Cost estimate of Ł50m is used for Holyrood. Total cost - including VAT, fees, fitments etc. - is put at about Ł90m.
May 1999: Building plans firmed up. Estimate now Ł62m. This is for construction only. Total Ł109m. This figure passes to the corporate body in June.
January 2000: Speculation that cost may have risen to Ł230m. Project team seeks savings.
30 March 2000: Spencely confirms that top cost is Ł230m but that lower-cost version available for about Ł190m.
April 2000: Corporate Body firms up costs at Ł195m - including a small contingency fund.
Holyrood dates:
The original estimated completion time was Autumn 2001. Spencely does not believe it will be ready for entry until Christmas Eve 2003.
The design and project teams insist it can be constructed by the end of 2002 with MSPs moving in early in 2003.
The Spenceley Report
Spencely traced the project very thoroughly. Key points:
Holyrood Issues
The costs issue is now under scrutiny by Parliament's Audit Committee.
Some say it's historic, most think it's hideous. Its restoration is costing much more than planned, about Ł11m. A key factor in costs and delays.
Spencely said knock it down - and start again. The design team simply can't face another fight with conservationists.
Opposition nationalists and Conservatives have been keener to pin the blame on Mr Dewar, who made the original decisions.
See also:
05 Apr 00 | Scotland
MSPs back Holyrood project
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New Delhi, Aug 28:
A court Thursday fixed the next date of hearing in a case against Congress president Sonia Gandhi over acquisition of the National Herald newspaper to Dec 9, her 68th birthday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha deferred the hearing after it was apprised that the Delhi High Court had put on hold a trial court's summons issued against Sonia Gandhi, her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi and others till Sep 3.
On June 26, the trial court issued summons to the Congress leaders for Aug 7 on a complaint by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, alleging cheating in the acquisition of the Associated Journals Ltd, publisher of the now defunct National Herald, by the Young Indian Pvt Ltd. (YIL), "a firm in which Sonia and Rahul Gandhi each own a 38 percent stake".
Swamy told the court Thursday that summons were put on hold for the six accused but not for Sam Pitroda, former chairman of the National Innovation Council. Swamy told the court Pitroda was served the summons at his house in the US.
Defence counsel Ramesh Gupta countered Swamy's submission and said summons have to be served in a proper legal manner.
Apart from the Gandhis, Congress treasurer Moti Lal Vora, family friend Suman Dubey and party colleague Oscar Fernandes have sought to quash the proceedings initiated against them by a trial court here.
Swamy alleged that the AJL had received an interest free loan of Rs.90.25 crore from the Congress and that the party transferred the debt to YIL for Rs.50 lakh.
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Our applications run on Sun T2000 servers which are configured with 4 or 5 Local zones on each Global Zone.
17th November 05:00 there was an issue on one Global Zone which caused 5 separate and simultaneous core dumps to get created on the server. One core in each Local zone.
The 5 processes which crashed on each Local zone were
LZ 15 – core created by the wlshell java process. Low impact
LZ 27 – one core created by wlshell java processes. Low impact.
LZ 25 – core created by HM server java process. Was manually restarted today. Medium impact
LZ 26 – core created by PA server java process. This was automatically restarted by the HM. High impact.
LZ 37 – core created by HM server java process. Was manually restarted today. Medium impact
All 5 crashes above were in Library=/platform/sun4v/lib/libc_psr.so.1
Each core exits with a hs_err_
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : 10 occurred at PC=0xFF2709F0
Current Java thread:
at java.lang.Thread.start(Native Method)
- locked <0xf1f3a378> (a java.util.logging.LogManager$Cleaner)
at java.lang.Shutdown.runHooks(Shutdown.java:126)
at java.lang.Shutdown.sequence(Shutdown.java:165)
at java.lang.Shutdown.exit(Shutdown.java:210)
- locked <0xf5998498> (a java.lang.Class)
at java.lang.Runtime.exit(Runtime.java:90)
at java.lang.System.exit(System.java:715)
at ConsoleScriptRunner.main(ConsoleScriptRunner.java:64)
1. Seems to be running out of swap at the time of the crash. Memory: 31.9G real, 4.0G free, 37.7G swap in use, 2.4G swap free
Update: added 50 G swap on 19/11 - Memory: 31.9G real, 3.4G free, 38.0G swap in use, 52.8G swap free
2. Application Support is identifying what the wlshell process does – it seems to be a Weblogic server monitoring script running every 10 minutes under cron.
3. Library=/platform/sun4v/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Are there any known issues with this library on solaris 10 or T2000? Support to query SUN
The libc_psr libraries implement platform-specific, optimized versions of block copy and move routines from libc, such as memcpy(). On UltraSPARC machines, these routines are coded in assembler, and use block load and store ASI's, prefetch, and other tricks for better performance.
Root Cause
Sun identified that the issue was related to known bugs in JDK 142_03 and running an old version of libc_psr.so
The ( a) type error as seen in hs_err_pid6216_18111030.log the error was a know java bug with the j2sdk1.4.2_03 and the bug is identified as :
Bug ID: 4927116 fixed in 1.4.2_04 Synopsis Regression: 1.4.2 JVM core dumps in ClassLoader.defineClass0()
1. Immediate action is to upgrade to JDK 142_18
2. Also identified that all 5 core dumps were created by sh scripts running under crontab. Further analysis showed that there were cron jobs running every 15 mins on each of the zones - and this puts a load on system resources especially around memory consumption in the JVM and sufficient unhanded exceptions between the java virtual machine and the operating system could cause the then dead locked JVM to terminate .
Thus the 2nd resolution was to offset the start time of each cron job - to try and ensure no two jobs run on the same Global Zone at the same time.
Old Timings:
0,15,30,45 * * * * /export/home/Handlers.sh > /tmp/Handcheck
0,15,30,45 * * * * /export/home/Average_response_time.sh > /tmp/Avgcheck
0,15,30,45 * * * * /export/home/Msg_In_and_Out_count.sh > /tmp/Mescheck
0 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 * * * /log/zipper.sh
New Timings:
1,16,31,46 * * * * /export/home/Handlers.sh > /tmp/Handcheck
2,17,32,47 * * * * /export/home/Average_response_time.sh > /tmp/Avgcheck
3,18,33,48 * * * * /export/home/Msg_In_and_Out_count.sh > /tmp/Mescheck
4 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /log/zipper.sh
Also knocking off unnecessary cron jobs from the box to reduce the load.


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Benedict XVI formally established the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation with the Motu Proprio Ubicumque et semper yesterday (unofficial full text).
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the new council charged with evangelising cyberspace, told reporters yesterday that his office doesn't have an internet connection.
Christopher Hitchens and Catholic convert Tony Blair will meet in a debate about religion next month.
John Allen says that the participants in the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East are taking a stand against "Roman imperialism".
The New York Times reviews a sympathetic new film portrayal of Hildegard von Bingen.
Vatican Radio has launched an iPhone app.
And Captoe of Catholic Phoenix explains why the Catholic Church is like the Grateful Dead.


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Five missing Czechs found in Lebanon
Five Czech nationals who went missing in Lebanon in July have been found and are now in the care of Lebanon's security force, Czech officials say.
In a statement (in Czech), the foreign ministry says they are in "satisfactory health", and a special aircraft will be sent shortly to bring them home.
The ministry did not not say whether a Lebanese driver - who was with the group - was also found.
The Czechs disappeared in the eastern Bekaa Valley last year.
Their empty car with documents and money was found in the Kefraya region.
A security operation was launched immediately amid fears the group was kidnapped.
Media reports at the time suggested that their disappearance may have been linked to the case of a Lebanese man held in the Czech Republic in connection with suspected arms smuggling.
In 2011, seven Estonian cyclists were abducted at gunpoint in the Bekaa Valley and released four months later.
Some areas of the Bekaa Valley, east of the capital Beirut, are notorious for lawlessness and drug trafficking.


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A father has murdered his daughter and taken his own life in a North Las Vegas neighborhood over the weekend. The police responded to reports of gunshots at around 5:15am Sunday morning on Hollis Street near Craig and Commerce. An intense family argument was followed by Greg Landis (age 52), pulling out a gun and shooting his 25 year old daughter, Amanda Landis. He then turned the weapon on himself according to reports. Two other family members were at the residence during this tragedy but thankfully were uninjured. Greg Landis and Amanda Landis were pronounced dead at the scene. Prayers are going out to the family and loved ones affected by this ordeal.
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The following excerpt is taken from 'Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failiure' by Tim Harford.
"The defining characteristic of a tightly coupled process is that once it starts, it's difficult or impossible to stop: A domino toppling display is not especially complex but it is tightly coupled so is a loaf of bread rising in the oven. Harvard University, on the other hand, is not especially tightly coupled, but is complex. A change in US student Visa policy; or a new government scheme to fund research; or the appearance of a fashionable book in economic's, or physics, or anthropology; or an internecine academic row – could have unpredictable consequences for Harvard and trigger a range of unexpected responses, but none will spiral out of control quickly enough to destroy the University all together."
In complex systems, there are many different ways for things to go wrong. In tightly coupled systems the consequences of something going wrong proliferate throughout the system quickly.
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The Valley of Roses
Trying to discover the earliest beginnings of the relationship between man and the rose, we need to go back to the deepest roots of human memory. The fact that the single language in which there exists no word for "rose" is that of the Eskimos is apt to provoke a smile.
The Valley of Thracian Kings
There are 1500 mounds in the Kazanlak Valley and over twenty revealed Thracian temples and tombs. All of them represent the great Thracian culture but the following are the most remarkable of all – the famous Kazanlak Tomb and the tombs situated on the north of the town, on the way to the Shipka Pass.


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Taking a break
I'm currently taking a break from traveling right now. I'm planning on saving up a cash buffer so next year I can go all in again. I plan to be full time on the road once more beginning of 2015.
In 2012-2014 I traveled the world non-stop for nearly 2 years and I learned a lot during that trip; about travel, about the world and about myself. I'm taking these lessons and experience along on my next adventure.
I'll be taking a slightly different approach for the next trip. My focus will be more on adventuring and visiting a variety of places. I'd love to complete South-East Asia by visiting every single country there but I will also take on some new areas such as India, South-America and Africa.
Also I'll travel a little bit less slowly and try to see more different places. Last time travel fatigue, lack of planning and budget constraints had me locked down in some places for a bit too long; I want to avoid that this time around.
That's why currently I'm getting back in the grind to make sure I can restart with better finances and a refreshed appreciation of the traveling lifestyle. The outlook of the careless freedom of travel and adventure is one of the best motivators for me.
It's my goal.
And my goal is fucking amazing. How fucking amazing? Well, I started making a budget and travel plan and today I'll share some of my top 10 travel destinations for 2015 (in no particular order).
Not only were the Mongols were the baddest badasses in history they are also masters of falconry, which makes them even more badass. Besides it's legendary history, Mongolia has beautiful nature and it's a little bit off the beaten path.
From what I hear the girls are hit or miss. A lot of uglies but the occasional stunner. I'll check out Ulan Bator and find out for myself.
I'll visit China, see the Chinese wall, eat a dog etc. But I've also put Taiwan high up my wish list for the simple fact that I don't know a lot about this country.
I've heard some nice things about their nature and food but for this country I'm gonna let myself be surprised.
Plus, I need to find out about the Taiwanese girls anyway to complete my guide on Asian girls 😉
I've never been to Africa before and next year that has to change. When I thought about which countries to visit in Africa, Madagascar was the first one that jumped to mind.
It's This has nothing to do with the cartoon with the wacky zebra. This large African island just seems like one of the most exotic places imaginable. About 90% of it's wildlife is found nowhere else on earth. This may be a drain on the budget but I'm counting on finding a cheap flight leaving from South-Africa… which is also one of my favorite destinations.
I met some South-African friends a long time ago in college. We've talked about meeting up but it never happened. Next year I'd like to go visit them and get to know this country a little bit.
When I think about it, all South-African people I've met in my life have been cool people so far.
Speaking of cool… I'll be going back to Brazil as well. Now the world cup is over and things are back to normal.
Last time I was there I visited Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia and some smaller places. This time I plan to meet up with Smooth Operator in Rio de Janeiro and from there on visit several cities across the country.
Can't wait to be welcomed back by those sexy Brazilian girls with their big round… smiles.
The country about the opposite of Brazil is North-Korea. As I was planning my Asian itinerary from China to South-Korea, my eye fell on this not so common destination.
This very communist state is less self-evident to visit. Freedom is very restricted but it's possible to visit the country by taking a "state-approved organized tour".
If I can get the timing right, I would really love to see the "mass games" in honor of the 'Dear Leader'. In these events they let 1000's of people flip colored plates as a giant living TV made of human pixels.
The tours are still pretty pricey though so it's only an option if I squeeze this in at the beginning of my trip.
The capturing of my North-Korean flag (which I very much desire) will be another challenge. I don't think it will happen on the state approved tour, but maybe I'll meet a North-Korean girl in South-Korea.
Many people experience a culture shock when they visit India. It's such a vast country with such a rich culture. I'll spend some time here traveling different major cities.
If I can get the timing straightened out, I'd love to experience the Holi festival here. It's a festival where everybody and everything gets painted in bright colors.
The country is very conservative, with people still being forced into marriages so I think for girls it will pose a challenge. I hope in the bigger cities like Mumbai, things will be a lot more liberal.
Another country I want to revisit in 2015 is Japan. I visited it in 2013 for 2 weeks as a scouting mission.
I really fell in love with this country; it's like you're walk into another universe. Everything that can be different, is different. I learned some valuable lessons on my last visit and I will avoid making the same mistakes upon my return (e.g. trying to see too much in too little time).
So this time I'll rent an apartment in a major city (Tokyo or Osaka) and take my time to really absorb a single place.
The Japanese girl I met on my last days in Tokyo was pretty kinky, and judging on the 7-story high sex shop I found in the center of Tokyo, I feel like I have to do some more field research on Japanese girls 😉
I'm going to be honest. The only reason this country is on my list is because I've heard Ethiopian women are some of the most beautiful African women out there. Moreover, it's supposed to be very accessible for travel. Some very basic and high level research seems to confirm that so boom: It's on this list.
I'd love to visit more countries in West Africa as well but with the Ebola situation I'm putting that on hold for now.
Last but not least, I'm going to Colombia. This is one of the top destinations I'm looking forward to. I've heard so many good things from so many people that I have to go and find out for myself.
The girls are gorgeous with curvy bodies and beautiful faces. 20Nation was there recently and he shared some great stories that made Colombia rice up my list even further (he'll post them here on SwoopTheWorld soon).
Break the rules
So that's it. I'm working my ass off right now and making long days but with these are some of the adventure I'll be going on soon. Besides the new places, I plan to make some stops at the old favorite locations (Bangkok, Manila, Dominican Republic, etc.).
I'll share some more info as soon as the planning becomes clear. If you've got some ideas or suggestions, please share them in the comment section or by mail and maybe I can meet some of you out there to have a beer.
Work to live, don't live to work.
Break the rules, follow your dreams!


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Dateline: Virginia, 1625: One thing is certain: the Colony did not want to submit to another company. 32 Virginians signed the petition.
Tag Archives: Charles I and Virginia colony
Virginia Colonists Write of Their Basic Needs
Dateline: Virginia, March 1631: The Governor and Council in Virginia write to the Privy Council (Charles I's closest advisers) to explain the progress and needs of the Colony. Eleven men signed the Virginia document.
King Charles I's Five Propositions to Virginia Colonists
Dateline: Virginia, February 1638: The King proposes five things to clarify the plight of the colonists.
Charles I Reassures Virginia Colonists of Their 'Liberty' under Him
Dateline: 1642: King Charles I in an epistle tells the Virginia colonists that he supports them as they outgrow the restrictive company that seeks to recover its investments. Over 30 men signed this proto-Declaration of Independence that breaks free from the original company. Great for family research.


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Enjoy this fab natural home remedy to stay healthy this winter!
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