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If our boys don't roll over and hand the title to Chelski on sunday, I will officially be giving up on football. Funny how Slur Alex has been singing our praises today.
Don't worry about a thing sambo. Look at the facts...Torres is out.We'll be fucked after the ET against Atletico.Fourth place is such a long shot, the players probably already know it's gone.Giving the title to the mancs and allowing them the outright lead in titles won is too much for the fans to bear, I would think the players feel the same.Torres is out.Your boys are scoring goals for fun.Most of our team will be saving themselves for the World Cup, already on their summer holidays, or plotting their transfer away from the club.Rafa probably doesn't really give a f*ck.Oh, and did I menion Torres is out?
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Angul: Stringent rules by Odisha School & Mass Education department forced the school teachers to provide transport facility for the students to and from their homes to save job here.
Several incidents have been reported earlier in media about the struggle of the students to reach schools and get education in remote areas of the state. But there is a school in Banarpal in Angul district where the teachers are paying from their pockets in the past three-four years to bear the student transport expenses to increase the student enrolment in the school.
Such strange scene was discovered at Banarpal Indira Gandhi Girls High School, a block grant school established in 1988 in Angul district.
As per the government rules, a school having less than 30 students per class will be closed.
Currently, there are 60 students studying at the school. While it registered only six students in class VIII, 20 students are in class IX and 34 in Class X. The number of teachers in the school for total 60 students is seven, which is higher than the number of students.
However, the decline of student enrolment in the school posed as the big challenge for the teachers to save their job. As the school has received only the block grant status, the teachers could not be rehabilitated in other schools if the school gets closed after failing to meet the government guidelines.
Under such circumstances, the teachers are proving student transport facility from their salary to bring and drop the students from Talabahali, Shalgadia and Kantabania areas of the district.
Despite their effort, the school did not witness a sharp rise in student enrolment in the past few years.
The number of students is declining at Banarpal Indira Gandhi Girls High School where as more number of students getting admission in PBK High School in the area. Each teacher is paying one-month salary towards vehicle rent for student transport to continue the block grant status and save their job. Around Rs 1.10 lakh is spent per year to bear the expenses, said Headmistress Bijaylakhmi Das.

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Thomas Greiss will start in goal for the Islanders when they play the Red Wings at home tonight at 7 p.m., head coach Doug Weight said.
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Peripheral Neuropathy Definition and Prevalence
Peripheral Neuropathy definition: any disorder or condition that affects the peripheral nerves.
Peripheral neuropathy is actually quite common. The prevalence is estimated to be about 3-8% of the general population and affects about 20 million people in the United States.
Peripheral neuropathy can be clarified further with a better understanding of peripheral nerves.
Peripheral nerves function as part of the human nervous system. They refer to any nerve outside the brain or spinal cord and are made up of many tiny nerve cells called neurons. These neurons can be either sensory or motor, and are like relay messengers that pass along information from the spinal cord to other parts of your body, and vice versa. For example, if you were to accidentally touch a hot stove, the sensory neurons in your hand "senses" the pain, and would send information to your brain that you are touching something hot and painful. Your brain would then send information back to your motor neurons in your hand, telling them to move from the stove. The whole process happens in just a fraction of a second. This is how a normal nerve relay works.
When there is neuropathy however, signals of this elaborate nerve relay system often gets misinterpreted. This results in many of the signs and symptoms that are seen with peripheral neuropathy.


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Writing in today's Haaretz, Israel Harel offers an excellent suggestion for what Israel's prime minister should tell Congress next week. There is no chance Benjamin Netanyahu will actually do so. But the Republican-controlled House ought to act on it anyway, because it lets Congress further two cherished goals simultaneously: cutting the budget and helping Israel. All it would take is eliminating U.S. funding for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
As Harel correctly noted, this UN agency exists for one reason only: to advance the goal of Israel's destruction by imprisoning an ever-growing mass of "refugees"—or, more accurately, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren—in miserable conditions for decades and offering them one and only one prospect of escape: a "return" to what is now Israel, where they could combine with the country's existing Arab residents to create an Arab majority and vote the Jewish state out of existence. Its sorry history and even sorrier present condition was the subject of Mikhail Bernstam's important COMMENTARY article, "The Palestinian Proletariat."
In the 62 years since its founding, UNRWA hasn't resettled a single Palestinian refugee. Doing so would defeat its purpose. During those same 62 years, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees—which handles all refugees worldwide except Palestinians—resettled tens of millions. Even tiny Israel resettled over a million refugees on its own: Holocaust survivors and Jews forced out of Arab countries after its establishment. In contrast, Arab countries that "absorbed" Palestinian refugees denied them citizenship (with the partial exception of Jordan), confined them to squalid camps and subjected them to various onerous restrictions: Lebanon, for instance, bars Palestinians from numerous professions.
Thus the refugee problem will never be solved as long as UNRWA exists. And the more time passes, the harder it becomes to solve. Because Palestinians are the only refugees in the world whose descendants inherit refugee status in perpetuity, the original 700,000 or so have now ballooned to 4.8 million (according to UNRWA), and the number keeps growing every day.
Yet as Harel pointed out, the U.S. bears primary responsibility for the agency's continued existence, because it is UNRWA's largest single donor. In 2009, according to the agency, America contributed $268 million, which constituted 28% of UNRWA's budget. Thus only the U.S. has the leverage to finally get the agency closed, by shutting off its funding.
Granted, other countries could fill the breach. But since Arab countries, for all their talk of solidarity with the Palestinians, are notoriously stingy about coughing up money to help them, the only likely candidate is the European Union. Together with its member states, the EU already funds a substantial chunk of UNRWA's budget. The Palestinians are its favorite cause. Witness its immediate pledge of 85 million euros to compensate for Israel's suspension of tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority following the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.
But if Europeans really want to perpetuate the Palestinian war against Israel, let them deprive their own troubled economies of the necessary funds. There is no reason whatever for the U.S. to keep subsidizing this war.


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Tibet Support Group in Spain to file an extension of their lawsuit against Chinese authorities for recent crimes
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By Tenzin Sangmo
New Delhi, July 9 - Tibet Support Group (Comité de Apoyo al Tibet) is set to file an augmentation of their initial lawsuit that was admitted January 10, 2006 accusing Chinese leaders Li Peng, Jiang Zemin and five others for crimes of genocide, torture and terrorism committed against the Tibetan people. If held accountable on these charges by the Spanish Court (who has alleged that it is competent to judge cases of crimes against Tibetans) any of these leaders traveling to a country with which Spain has an extradition treaty could be detained.
The Group is all set to file an extension of their previous lawsuit on July 10 2008 in the Spanish High Court for various crimes committed during the March unrest which bears further legal proof and striking resemblance to the crimes denounced in their initial lawsuit.
On May 9, the investigative judge of Court Nº 2, Ismael Moreno listened patiently to three Tibetan torture victims from India testify and give evidence of their terrible suffering, but limited both the number of questions that he had previously accepted and the answers.
The extension to the lawsuit denounces the new wave of oppression that began in Tibet on 10th March 2008, and goes to prove that acts of genocide continue to be committed against the Tibetan people. As far as can be verified, there have been at least 203 deaths, over a thousand injured and 5,972 people arrested.
Prosecuting lawyer, Dr. José Elías Esteve said, "The international crimes that continue to be committed in Tibet as the Olympic Games approach and that are denounced in this extension to the lawsuit, question the lukewarm attitude of most of the international communities when it comes to demanding effective protection of human rights. This case demonstrates yet again the double standard that exists when demanding that the most elementary mandates of international law be adhered to, particularly when the county violating them is China."
The extension describes how military repression is being carried out amidst the greatest censorship in China and Tibet, with the result that a large number of crimes still remain pending inclusion. The judge has been requested to agree to send a Rogatory Commission to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and to the European Parliament, for them to set up an impartial and international investigative commission to visit Tibet in order to confirm and clarify the extent of the international crimes denounced in said extension; an initiative requested months ago by the International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH).
The extension to the lawsuit also denounces China's manipulation of the global war against terrorism in its attempt to justify and cover up crimes against humanity committed against the Tibetan people. This new repressive strategy began in 2003 with the summary execution of Lobsang Dhondup and the arrest of the Tibetan lama, Tenzin Delek Rimpoche, accused of participating in a series of bomb explosions in Eastern Tibet, and whose so-called confessions were obtained through torture. Lastly, the extension to the lawsuit denounces the continued systematic practice of torture, confirmed by the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations, Manfred Nowak, and the assassinations in the Himalayan frontier posts used by Tibetan refugees when fleeing into exile. A specific case is described, that of Nangpa La, which was filmed by Romanian mountaineers and shows the assassination of two girls by Chinese military forces.
The extension accuses five political and military leaders: Zhang Qingli, current Party Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the Autonomous Region of Tibet; Wang Lequan, current member of the Politburo in Beijing; Li Dezhu, head of the Ethnic Affairs Commission; General Tong Guishan, commander of the People's Liberation Army in Lhasa, Tibet's capital; and General Zhang Guihua, political commissary of the Chengdu military command.
Alan Cantos, Director of Comité de Apoyo al Tibet (CAT) stated, "If the excuse for granting the hosting of the Olympic Games to one of the countries with the least Olympic spirit was to give it the opportunity to improve its human rights situation, the recent events that we have all witnessed clearly show the exact opposite. This cannot be ignored if we wish to maintain any credibility in the democratic values that our governments like to boast about."
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The summer holidays, bank holidays, and some (hopefully) sunnier weather are great excuses to take your Speech and Language therapy practice out and about. The park is a great place to start!
There's a lot of great opportunities to practice communication skills, and no, it's not just your child perfecting the phrase 'I want an ice-cream!'
Working on Speech at the Park – 4 activities
- If your child is practicing a certain sound, take your pictures with you. Set challenges, such as 'say a word for every bar of the monkey bars, then try to swing across'. Engage the competitive instincts of your child and maybe join in!
- Stepping stones. You could use hoops, a set of steps in the park, or even the paving slabs on a quiet path as your stepping stones. Take turns to say one of the child's practice words – if you say a word clearly or with the target sound, you can jump onto the next stepping stone. Your child decides whether you said the word clearly/with the target sound, and you decide for your child! Have some sort of celebration or reward planned for the end of the stepping stones.
- Word catch. Every time you catch the ball, you have to say one of the target words. Change the word every few turns. If you say the wrong word, or drop the ball, you're out!
- Play syllable I-spy. For children practising syllable clapping, or using this strategy to help make their speech clearer, you can play a different version of the classic game, but spying things with one, two or three syllables in their name. To make it easier, you can give the first sound as another clue once your child has made a few guesses
- One syllable – bench, tree, bird, swings, ball
- Two syllables – ice-cream, pushchair, pigeon
- Three syllables – butterfly, roundabout
Understanding of language – 3 ideas for the park
- Scavenger hunt! Tell your child 3 or 4 items to find (and possibly bring back to you). This could be sights around the park, e.g. a statue, a green bench, or natural items e.g. a long stick, a small green leaf, a daisy. This works on your child's memory for spoken language, and if you add in adjectives such as long or small, you are also helping them understand basic concepts.
- Listen and do – 'run to the statue, then hop to the green bench', 'walk to the slide, then jump to the swings'- your child is practising following instructions with 4 key words and burning off some energy! See the language e-mail course if you need a refresher on key words.
- Under or over? In or on? Challenge your child to find as many things they can go 'under' as possible, thinking creatively… they can go under the climbing frame, but can they also go under the slide, the picnic blanket, and is there a bridge they can go under too? Walk around together, saying 'let's go under it' as you go under. Think of the rhyme 'we're going on a bear hunt' and chant in the same way – you could read this story together before you go to the park. Once you've found everything you can go under, you can try finding things you can go over, on or in!
Use of spoken language – 4 things to do
- Drama kings and queens. Act out a story together, take photos, then tell the story to someone else when you get home. You could act out a favourite story, or make up your own. You could give your child a starter scenario to get the creative juices going – how about pretending they've landed on an alien planet, or just discovered some buried treasure…
- Take a toy. Explain to a younger child that this is the toy's first time to the park, so they'll need to describe the park to their toy, and maybe even explain what to do on the equipment. Include some pretend play of the toy joining in on the equipment or finding delicious things to eat, and you're also working on play skills
- Give your child a turn to set you a 'listen and do' challenge (see above). The challenge for them is to explain clearly what they want you to do, using a range of different action words – and then correctly remember what they asked you to do!
- Cloud spotting. Lie back on a picnic blanket and practice describing what you can see in the clouds. Instead of just pointing out the dragon you can see, show your child the ferocious dragon with a pointy tail. If your child can see a banana, can they describe the banana as long, curvy, or spotty?
Written by Alys Mathers, Speech and Language Therapist
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Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company, meaning it is a business that owns many diverse interests. What makes Berkshire of particular interest to a number of investors is that the company's investments are primarily managed by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett. one of the most highly regarded investors ever. Colloquially known as "The Oracle of Omaha," where he resides, Buffett has made a number of successful investments for the company over the years. When you buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway, you own the companies that Buffett and his investment team, including long-time partner Charlie Munger, have hand-selected.
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Before you buy Berkshire Hathaway stock, you'll have to decide which share class you want. For most investors, the choice is easy -- as of June 2015, the Berkshire A shares traded for about $210,000 each, while the B shares traded at a more attainable price of around $140. For most investors, there is no difference between the two share classes except for the price -- the Berkshire A shares trade for 1,500 times the share price of the Class B shares. However, there are some technical differences. For example, Class A stockholders are allowed to convert into Class B shares at the 1,500-to-1 ratio at any time, while Class B stockholders cannot convert into Class A shares. Class A shares also carry significantly more weight when it comes to voting rights at annual meetings and other corporate elections. Each Class A share gets 10,000 votes, while each Class B share only gets one.
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Discount brokers such as Scottrade and Charles Schwab have more limited services compared to the big Wall Street firms, but typically charge much less for investment purchases. For example, as of June 2015 Scottrade would charge you $7 to buy either the A shares or B shares of Berkshire Hathaway using its website, while Schwab would charge $8.95 for the same trade.
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After choosing your share class, finding a broker and opening your account, you're ready to make your trade.
Tell your broker how many shares of which share class you'd like to buy. Make sure you have enough money to cover the cost of the shares and any commissions or fees your broker will add on to the top.
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A new report released today reveals that there are more than 24,000 people in Western Australia accessing specialist homelessness services each year.
It also shows that in Western Australia 62.5% of people with a long-term housing need are turned away due to a lack of accommodation, and only 4.5% were actually able to have their long-term housing needs met.
The release of the Specialist Homelessness Services Report 2016-2017 adds considerable weight to Shelter WA's calls for the State Government to develop an Affordable Housing and Homelessness Strategy to meet the needs of people at risk of and experiencing homeless, including those struggling in the private rental market.
"The main reason people accessing services is due to domestic and family violence, but financial difficulties and housing crisis are increasingly becoming the main reason to access services," Shelter WA spokesman Stephen Hall said.
"An Affordable Housing and Homelessness strategy needs to have a particular focus on those most vulnerable people including: young people and seniors on low incomes; Aboriginal people and people from different cultural backgrounds; people with disabilities and people with serious and persistent mental health issues.
"Behind the statistics are untold stories about people who should not be living on the streets, in their vehicle, on someone's couch or in unstable and often unaffordable accommodation without a secure tenancy.
"Safe, secure and affordable housing must be a critical component of the new Strategy.
"Housing influences a whole range of non-housing outcomes, including workforce participation; access to jobs and services; health; social participation, family stability and educational outcomes.
"It also must be recognised that providing adequate social and affordable housing not only makes moral sense it makes economically sense."
This was reflected in a speech Dr Amanda Stafford, Clinical Lead Homeless Services at Royal Perth Hospital, gave at a Shelter WA Forum in August, 2017. She outlined just how much an individual can cost the health system if they are not provided a home.
"The cost of treating a person experiencing homelessness [at an emergency department] each year (is) $194,000 – ten times the cost of a rental." said Dr Stafford
"Fixing the affordable housing and homelessness systems will assist with budget repair and deliver better outcome for everytone in the community." said Stephen Hall.
Media Contact:
0408 426 263 - Stephen Hall, Manager Communications and Engagement, Shelter WA
- 24,600 people were assisted by specialist homelessness agencies over 2016-17
- 67 requests for assistance were unable to be met each day
- 34% of clients noted family and domestic violence as the main reason to seek support
- 9,600 people experience homelessness each night in WA (according to 2011 Census)
- The full report on Specialist Homelessness Services is available here.


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You need auto insurance if you own a car. You have a lot of different options when it comes to your auto insurance.
You have many options for insurance policies that are beyond the legally required minimums. Even though these may cost you a bit more, they are usually worth the additional expense. Uninsured motorist coverage protects you when you suffer damages to your vehicle or yourself from drivers who do not have insurance.
Think carefully about add-ons for your vehicle that you really do not need.
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Trade in your sports car for something more moderate vehicle.Insurance for sports car tends to be quite expensive. Sports cars are targets of theft, so they cost more to insure.
This strategy carries some risks, but so long as you save money to cover anything insurance won't, it can be an excellent way to cut costs. Your premiums will go down the higher deductible.
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It can be difficult to decide how much insurance policy. If your primary vehicle is a luxury car, you should buy more liability coverage. If you do not have adequate coverage, the other person could take you to court for their medical bills beyond what your insurance covers. It is very important to make sure you carry enough insurance coverage to protect your savings and be safe.
Consider how much monthly insurance premiums as you contemplate purchasing a new car. Auto insurance companies look more favorably on a safer automobile. You should always include this expense when deciding which car you will purchase.
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Heathrow is the UK's premier international airport. From here, some 80 airlines fly direct to over 180 destinations worldwide. You'll find Heathrow facts and figures, company information and more on our corporate website, www.heathrow.com/company.
Operating hours: 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Opened: 1946 (Terminal 1 - 1969, Terminal 2 - 1955, Terminal 3 - 1961, Terminal 4 -1986)
Runways: Two - Northern 3,902m long by 45m wide, Southern 3,658m long by 45m wide
Terminal 1: All Heathrow's UK and Ireland flights operate from Terminal 1, as well as some European and long-haul destinations.
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A wish for a good holiday to Max Rock Polis
A wish for a good holiday to Max Rock Polis with the sharing of his broadcast aired by the waves of Radio Godot of Rome closing season (as time...
Eurasia. A name that immediately evokes geopolitics. Sure. A non-recent idea ... an immense space from Lisbon to Tokyo. It also evokes ideologies, literature, traditions, cultures, an immense cultural heritage that we feel "ours" and that we feel to assert as "our" matrix of epistemological grids, (as the "literated people" once said) and in these times of "networks" that make so 'close but so' distant (and maybe even a little dumbfounded) we prefer to weave "spiderwebs", like small tireless dusty spiders of culture ... we recover our roots of a certain way of making Italian music that in this "serialized age" seems inactual and therefore precious because it costs tears and blood, inspiring us in the textuality of the great Eurasian culture (but also winking at the popular one ... no hybris!).
"Tolerance appears among all things in the world the most suitable to bring us back to the golden age, to create a concert and harmony of several voices and instruments of different tones and notes, at least as pleasant as the uniformity of a voice alone."
"The age of technical reproducibility and consumption by the masses is a new transformation of the social premises and ways of perceiving the work of art that depend on two factors, the development of technology and the emergence of mass society. .. All the legends, all the mythologies and all the myths, all the founders of religions, indeed all religions ... wait for their resurrection in the film, and the heroes are crowded at the gates."
W.Benjamin, "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit",1936
"The speed with which a piece of news is given gives the illusion of living at the center of events, but it only means that we are subjected to even more intense propaganda. When events are instantaneous and exciting, we let ourselves be carried away by their flow. In my opinion, superficiality, not speed, affects the perception of the present. But everything is done to clear every memory."
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Husky A Called Better Way to Count Low-Income Children
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Counting how many children come from low-income families is one factor in distributing funds to schools.
To do that count, the state has relied on the number of children who qualify for free or reduced price school lunches.
But the introduction of the federal Community Eligibility Provision for school lunches has led to some schools being declared 100 percent eligible.
According to Katie Roy, director of the Connecticut School Finance Project, that's a good thing since every child in those schools will get good nutrition.
"But what it means for the policy side is that free and reduced price lunch is no longer going to be an accurate metric for identifying low-income students," she states.
In a recent report, her organization recommended adding enrollment in HUSKY A, the state's Medicaid program for low-income families, to the list of indicators for direct certification.
Direct certification indicators currently include counting families receiving Temporary Assistance for Families and SNAP benefits. However, many low-income families don't participate in those programs.
But Roy says those same families are more likely to take advantage of free or low-cost health care.
"Most of the children who are eligible to participate in HUSKY A are actually enrolled in the program," she stresses. "And that's really important, because you want to be using a measurement where you know that you're counting most of the eligible children."
And unlike community eligibility for the school lunch program, every family must apply for enrollment in HUSKY A, giving a much more accurate picture of income levels.
Connecticut has moved away from its school funding formula to a block grant system, making accurate income assessments less significant.
But Roy says that could change soon, and getting an accurate count of low-income children will be important.
"The state Department of Education has shown some interest in this," she points out. "We've heard from superintendents and other policy organizations.
"So, people seem to think that it's a good idea and something that Connecticut should look at more carefully."


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The Sweetwater Baptist Celebration Choir rehearses on Wednesday nights from 7:20-8:30PM in the sanctuary. Enrollment is open to high school students through senior adults. The Celebration Choir is the main choir at Sweetwater because it leads in worship services every Sunday. It also presents two musicals each year around Christmas and Easter. The Celebration Choir also sings during other special times of the year, such as Fourth of July, etc. If you love to sing, we would love for you to be a part of the Celebration Choir at Sweetwater Baptist Church! Feel free to come and visit one of our rehearsals on Wednesday nights at 7:20PM!
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Graeme Dingle Foundation
"We aim to inspire all school age New Zealand children to reach their full potential through programmes that help build self-esteem, promote good values and which teach valuable life, education and health skills. Current programmes include Kiwi Can, Stars, Career Navigator and Project K.
We have worked with Kerridge & Partners over a number of years, the business being a key supporter of our efforts. We see ourselves as kindred spirits both looking to make a difference to New Zealand and exploring and innovating as we find different ways to work with each other.
Kerridge & Partners advised us on the composition of our Board at the end of 2015, helping add real diversity and new energy to the Board, and in October 2016 Peter Kerridge joined as a Trustee.
The Kerridge & Partners team have worked vigorously with Career Navigator and created an innovative approach to supporting a group of students at Auckland Girls Grammar School, an initiative that truly demonstrates the value of partnering.
The Graeme Dingle Foundation certainly appreciate the financial support it receives from Kerridge & Partners. However, the contribution goes way beyond that. We see the business as a team of friends and ambassadors for our cause as we work together to transform young lives forever."
- Graeme Dingle
To learn more about the Graeme Dingle Foundation and the excellent work it does in promoting the wellbeing of our youth, please visit their website.


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Party fever is set to hit the UK this June with more than twice as many Brits celebrating Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee as those who marked the royal wedding.
One in ten are planning to throw a party and almost half the nation (47%) will be downing tools to recognise the Jubilee (compared to the 20% who celebrated the Royal Wedding last year), according to new research* by drinks brand Schweppes.
And it seems our British pride has tripled in the ten years since the Golden Jubilee, which was celebrated by less than one in five people – that's just 17% of the nation.
One in three Brits say they are very excited about 'marking a moment in British history' (28%). A further 25% are excited to be celebrating The Queen's 60 year reign and many of us (23%) are also looking forward to the extra day off.
To celebrate these hard-working party hosts up and down the country, Schweppes is launching a competition at www.schweppesjubilee.co.uk, to find the nation's social monarchs: the social kings and queens of the UK who love to entertain and are planning to celebrate the Jubilee in style.
Royal wedding photographer Hugo Burnand, who is leading the search for the nation's social monarchs, comments: "Royal occasions are always great fun to enjoy with family and friends and it's wonderful to see so many Brits getting into the party spirit this year and planning a Royal knees-up. With the Jubilee and a summer of sport, we will no doubt see a swell in British pride with our numerous British quirks being showcased in all their splendour!"
It seems that for those throwing a royal bash, party planning is no mean feat: the average party host will spend up to six weeks preparing and planning the perfect event. Research showed that a perfect Jubilee bash should include food relevant to the occasion such as finger sandwiches, Victoria sponge and bread and butter pudding (53% of Brits claimed that this was their top priority).
British tradition is also making a comeback this year: research showed that traditionally British parties include:
• Bunting (46% of Brits claimed that this makes a party quintessentially British)
• Trifle (37%)
• Afternoon tea and cake (33%)
• Gin and Tonic and Pimms (32%)
• Doilies (19%)
In spite of this royal fervour, a quarter (25%) of 16-24 year olds claim not to know what the Diamond Jubilee is in celebration of, believing that it is either The Queen's 60th Birthday, her wedding anniversary or the presentation of a new diamond crown to Her Majesty The Queen.
Carolin Knottenbeld, Schweppes Brand Activation Manager from
Are you a dab hand at putting on a great bash? To nominate yourself or a friend as a Social Monarch visit www.schweppesjubilee.co.uk and be in with a chance of winning a photo shoot with royal wedding photographer Hugo Burnand.
*The research for Schweppes was carried out online by Opinion Matters between 16 / 03 / 2012 and 19 / 03 / 2012 amongst a panel resulting in 1,515 UK Adult respondents.
For more information please contact:
Sarah Sandland: email@example.com / 0203 128 8113/ 07557 284577
Pippa Mass: email@example.com / 0203 128 8096/ 07584 683014
About the competition
The social monarchs campaign is a search by Schweppes to find, and crown, Britain's social monarchs: the kings and queens of the local community, who love to entertain, and know how to host a proper Jubilee party. Three winning entries will:
• Be photographed by royal wedding photographer Hugo Burnand
• Receive a visit from Polly Betton to assist with the planning of their Jubilee party
• Have the services of their very own butlers to assist with their Jubilee celebrations
Social monarchs need to demonstrate ways in which they plan to inject their party know how into Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Finalists will be chosen for their flair, creativity and community or family spirit.
About Schweppes:
Schweppes and Co. was established in 1783 and named after its inventor Jacob Schweppe. Schweppes is part of the
Today Schweppes produces a variety of premium quality adult soft drinks including Tonic Water, Soda Water, Lemonade, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Ginger Beer, Bitter Lemon and Russchian, with the Slimline range containing the same products as low-calorie alternatives. Schweppes' much loved Lemonade is the UK's number 1 selling lemonade brand* and the 9th most popular sparkling soft drink** sold in the UK.
*Schweppes Lemonade is the UK's No.1 best selling lemonade in 2012 (Source Nielsen Scantrack, March 2012)
**Schweppes Lemonade is the 9th best selling sparkling soft drink brand in the UK in 2012 (Source Nielsen Scantrack, March 2012)
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Opinion | How to reflate the economy without reigniting inflation
Indian economy remains weak despite oil relief
U.S. government shutdown to crimp growth, recession risk steady - Reuters poll
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Published on 5/01/2018 5:36:32 PM | Source: Reuters
By Manoj Kumar
NEW DELHI - India lowered its forecast for the current year's economic growth on Friday before a federal budget is released next month, as businesses were hit by the chaotic launch of new nationwide tax last July.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had earlier estimated the economy would grow around 7.5 percent in the 2017/18 fiscal year, generating enough tax to keep the fiscal deficit at 3.2 percent of GDP after meeting spending targets.
Gross domestic product is now estimated to grow an annual 6.5 percent in 2017/18, slower than a provisional 7.1 percent growth in 2016/17, Ministry of Statistics said in a statement.
Most private economists have pared the growth forecast to 6.2 to 6.5 percent for this fiscal year, citing the teething troubles faced by businesses during the roll out of a goods and services tax (GST).
"The GST transition impact is clearly visible," said Shubhada Rao, chief economist at Yes Bank. Sectors such as manufacturing and hotels were badly hit, she said.
Complex rules and technical glitches meant the GST, aimed at transforming India's 29 states into a single customs union, hit millions of small businesses.
Manufacturing is now forecast to grow at 4.6 percent this fiscal year compared with 7.9 percent growth in the previous year, the statement said. Farm output may slow to 2.1 percent from 4.9 percent.
Finance ministry officials earlier said slower economic growth was likely to hit revenue collections this year, forcing them to resort to borrow from the market to meet spending targets.
Analysts said despite the lower economic growth, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was expected to hold policy rates steady after a recent uptick in retail inflation, which touched 4.88 percent in November, its steepest level in 15 months.
"Given the recent uptick in inflation pressure and with inflation likely to remain around 5 percent going ahead, we expect the RBI to be on hold with a guarded stance even though growth estimate has disappointed slightly," Rao said.
The statistics office will release economic growth data for the October-December quarter on Feb. 28, along with revised full-year growth estimates.
(Additional reporting by Suvashree Dey Choudhury in Mumbai; editing by Malini Menon, Larry King)
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Sandhya and Sneha, bless their souls, were returning home on New Year's Eve when disaster seems to have struck. Sandhya's rickety old car somehow managed to entangle itself in some quality Chennai slush.
After completing their commitments for a private television channel for a new-year day programme, both Sneha and Sandhya were returning on the ECR in their car. Unfortunately Sandhya's car got struck and it could not be moved. It was Sneha who rushed to Sandhya's rescue. [Link]
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Who is Recruit?
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
While in the ninth grade Recruit began showcasing his talents through his penmanship. "Many things influence my lyrics. My best lyrics come out when I write about lovemaking." During his last year of high school, he started taking music more seriously. "The first song I recorded was in 2005. To date I think the song that will resonate well with fans is "Galang Gal" on the Trailer Reload Riddim." Since then, he has emerged on the entertainment scene and has been steadily making his mark through his performances. He has opened for top billing artistes such as Serani, Spragga Benz, I-Octane and has performed as a solo act on "Rock with Squeeze" at SOB's in Manhattan and "Africa Meets Jamaica" at De Island Breeze in New Jersey.
As a multi-talented artist, Recruit's style is classified as a diverse mix of dancehall with a little reggae and pop. "I listen to everything, even the music that sounds like gibberish. I love R&B, Hip Hop, Rock and Soca. Other than my brothers, my favorite artist of all time is Denis Brown." On a regular day Recruit can be found in the studio working on new material. He has worked with French producers Daddy and Hyper from D &H Productions, Konvict Yard Music, Shango Productions, Subkonshus Music and LMR Productions. "I do music because it's my way of expressing my thoughts on different aspects of life. I can safely say that music is my second love because I have been surrounded by music all day, every day for as long as I can remember."
With his feet firmly planted and with hopes of carving a niche out for himself, Recruit is certain that he has something a little different to offer. Something that will set him apart from his older siblings.
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Stereotypical heroes influence the youth negatively through helping to create the perfect image that only exists in fantasy. Youth have been tricked into believing something that doesn't exist. The ideal role model, which is the stereotypical hero, was created through imagination. People create such images for someone to look up to but the realisation of false hope can lower one's self esteem. A typical hero can be defined as a fantasized perfect being, having all ideal physical attributes. A typical villain can be defined as the antithesis of a hero, which is also a negative influence as they have evil and rude personalities. Films such as Charlie's Angels demonstrate the stereotypes; on the other hand Willow defies it. Using examples from these films, main messages, settings, characterisation, if any groups were absent or not and how these films support/challenge today's society's values will be discussed.
Charlie's Angels' main message throughout the film was that good always prevails over evil.
In this film, the heroes Charlie's Angels, defeated the villain, Eric Knox, demonstrating that good triumphs over evil. This positions the audience to encourage the heroes whilst despising the villains for their selfish and vengeful acts. This is a positive influence for our society today, as it teaches us that selfishness and vengefulness is not appreciated.
Good versus Evil is relevant in the setting of Charlie's Angels; it was set in modern times in the big, busy and cosmopolitan city. Since the society is created by different cultures, they have learnt to accept and respect differences. With difference and teamwork you achieve more than individually. For instance, when the Angels cornered the Creepy Thin Man, they used teamwork to conquer. The audience are positioned to understand that as an individual very little is achieved, where as if joined...


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Engineering in an Age of Limits
Discusses the role of engineers as society enters an Age of Limits — particularly with oil supplies.
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Engineering in an Age of Limits
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Engineers did not invent the steam engine — the steam engine invented them.
What will a post-oil society invent?
This is the nineteenth post in the series "Engineering in an Age of Limits". We are facing limits in natural resources, particularly oil; our finances (money seems to be increasingly disconnected from actual goods and services); and the environment as we continue to dump waste products into the air, the sea and on to land.
We are also facing a transition as the Oil Age comes to an end. This is not the first time that society has faced such a shift. At the beginning of the 18th century the principal source of energy in northern Europe was wood. However the forests were mostly depleted so a new source of energy, coal, had to be developed and exploited. The extraction of coal from underground mines posed new technical challenges particularly with regard to removing the water that flooded those mines. So new technologies, particularly the steam engine, had to be developed. Necessity was indeed the mother of invention. These technological developments led to many changes in society, including the creation of the profession of engineering. The transitions that we are currently experiencing as we look for alternatives to oil are likely to generate equally profound paradigm shifts.
In this blog we consider two questions:
- What new paradigms, new ways of looking at the world, will develop, analogous to the development of engineering in the early 18th century? and
- How can engineers and other technical professionals help navigate the troubled waters that we are entering?
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One of the most critical limits that our society faces is, of course, climate change. It has been suggested that we might look back on the year 2015 as the year when the issue of climate change becomes generally accepted because it is increasingly difficult for an intellectually honest person to challenge the conclusions of scientific research on the topic. In his article The True Scientific Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming James Powell states the following,
For 2013 and 2014, I found that only 5 of 24,210 articles and 4 of 69,406 authors rejected anthropogenic global warming, showing that the consensus on AGW is above 99.9% and likely verges on unanimity.
(His article is based only on articles that discuss the causes of global warming — not on its effects.)
The scientists' research is being increasingly confirmed by what we see around us: Florida is seeing the effects of rising seawater, California is becoming a desert and the Syrian refugees are fleeing a land where they have not had a proper rainfall in four years.
But, still, many people remain in denial. They do not accept the premise of the quotation from Harlan Ellison, "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant". The presentation of scientific evidence is not enough to persuade many people to change their minds. Their opinions have actually become an article of faith.
But a closer examination of the topic of denial (whether it is to do with climate change, peak resources or some other objective phenomenon) indicates that there are actually three types of denier:
- True Believers;
- Cynics; and
- Bright Green Deniers
It is the Bright Green Deniers that I would like to focus on in this post. But first, a few words about those in the first two categories.
True (Dis)Believers
People who simply deny that climate change is happening are the people of faith just referred to. Their response is ideological, not scientific. They exemplify Francis Bacon's observation that, "Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
If someone has adopted a point of view as a belief or as part of their ideology then they cannot be challenged by scientific studies or the presentation of facts. They will merely buttress their beliefs with cherry-picked factoids.( Within this group there is a subset that accepts the phenomenon of climate change but denies that humans are a leading cause of that change.)
The people in this group face a long-term challenge; as it becomes increasingly apparent that the world is changing — the long-term drought in California is an example — they may face increasing backlash, even anger. They may also be challenged by humor such as that in Hy Brasil.
The Cynics
The second group of deniers consists of people who fully understand what is going on with regard to the climate but who cynically choose to take no action because doing so would be against their short-term interests. Many business people fall into this category — they recognize that a truly honest response to our problems could put them out of business.
Once more, there is little point in discussing the science and ethics of climate change issues with these people. However, if they sense a business opportunity they could react very quickly thus, ironically, making them one of our best hopes. If they figure out that the best way to make money is to come up with new technologies or low-energy products then they will do so. And it appears as if the number of people in this category is growing.
Some energy companies fall into this category. For many of them their core business consists of extracting hydrocarbons (oil, gas and coal) from the ground, turning them into usable fuels and then encouraging people to burn those fuels — thereby elevating the atmosphere's CO2 concentration. Managers in these companies may deny or ignore climate change issues because they would have to cut back on their production of oil, coal or gas and therefore on profits. But their business model is changing — more and more of their investors recognize that the current approach is a financial dead end and new strategies are needed.
In this context, the following quotation from Mother Jones is pertinent.
One morning in May, Danielle Fugere tried to convince America's second-largest oil company to get out of the oil exploration business. Standing before a room full of Chevron shareholders in San Ramon, California, she warned that climate change and rapidly shifting oil markets were threatening to erode the corporation's profits.
[She] pointed out that Chevron—the world's largest corporate source of carbon dioxide emissions—has spent billions of dollars searching for new, often remote sources of oil that will take years to tap. How, she wondered, can the company remain profitable when it faces plummeting crude oil prices and looming restrictions on fossil fuel use? Rather than funding long-term projects that might never pay off, she argued, Chevron could return the money as dividends or steer it into less risky ventures like renewable energy. "Oil that stays in the ground is valueless," she said.
Bright Green Deniers
The third type of denier is one that includes many readers of blogs such as this. They support changes such as growing organic vegetables, driving hybrid cars, using public transport and installing solar panels. They make extensive use of words such as 'green', 'responsible', 'sustainable' and 'recycling'. This response — referred to here as Bright Green Denial — is practised by people who fully accept the conclusions of climate scientists and are even modifying their lifestyle in response. Yet this form of denial may, in the long run, be the most dangerous of all because, fundamental to their way of thinking, is an assumption that these changes will allow us to avoid making serious sacrifices. It is an insidious form of maintaining Business as Usual.
There Is No Brighter Future
Throughout these posts I have referred to the works of John Michael Greer — for example in A Journey Part 3 – A Predicament. And I have little doubt that I will be alluding to his writings in future posts. At the heart of Greer's message is the phrase, There is no brighter future. As resources become depleted and as the climate continues to deteriorate we are inexorably heading to a much lower standard of living, at least in material terms. He also makes a clear distinction between predicaments and problems. Problems have solutions — predicaments do not, they can only generate responses. This is the fundamental distinction that is not grasped by Bright Green Deniers, and indeed by most other people, particularly engineers who are used to finding solutions to problems.
Greer further notes that throughout history civilizations have risen and fallen and there is no reason to believe that ours is an exception. Therefore, rather than trying to avoid the inevitable, we should prepare for what is ahead. Specifically, we should prepare for a lifestyle that is much, much more basic than the one that we enjoy now.
If that analysis of our predicament is correct then the Bright Green Deniers are doing us all a disservice. They are correct when they say that we should modify our lifestyle with environmentally-friendly actions such as growing our own vegetables of driving smaller cars, but they are wrong if they believe that such actions will allow for a continuation of Business as Usual. They offer a false sense of hope.
Back to 1712
The above discussion presents a future that is, to say the least, discouraging. Very few of us are going to change the way we live because we should change the way we live. Back to Francis Bacon, "Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." In other words we will adjust our beliefs to fit our desires, and if that means denying climate change and resource limitations then so be it. Only a tiny minority of people are capable of looking at the facts and then choosing to believe in what they would very much desire to be untrue.
But the reason that I started this series of posts is that I wonder if there might be a different type of response — one that requires us to use our imaginations. In one of the first posts in this series — Peak Forests — I noted that the people of the early 18th century were in a dilemma such as the one that we face. Their dilemma and how they responded to it can be summarized as follows:
- We are running out of wood — the forests are mostly depleted. We need a new source of energy.
- No problem — there is plenty of coal underground.
- But when we dig for coal the mines flood. We need pumps to remove the water.
- But those pumps need a source of power — so we need to invent the steam engine (which is fueled by the coal we have just mined).
- But we cannot transport the coal in bulk using horse-drawn, wooden wagons on muddy roads. So we put the newly-invented steam engine on a frame, put the frame on wheels, put the wheels on steel rails and — Oh, by the way — we have just invented the railway.
- We have successfully turned our predicament into a problem, we have solved the problem, and — Oh, by the way — we have just started the Industrial Revolution.
Can we in our time replicate what people such as Thomas Newcomen did when he invented the first industrial steam engine in the year 1712? Do we have the creativity and the imagination of the people of those days? Of course, none of us know. But when I look at the three types of Deniers that I listed at the start of this post I wonder if our best hopes for a bright future may lie not with the Bright Green Denialists but with the Cynics. In other words, we should encourage people to turn our predicaments into problems by appealing to their self-interest, not to altruistic motives or scientific reason.
So I conclude this post with two well-worn proverbs:
- You cannot have your cake and eat it (in spite of Bright Green Denial)
- Necessity is the mother of invention (Engineering in an Age of Limits)
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What is cool? When this author was a child, the aforementioned utterance was more commonly used, such as when one discovered a great white in his lunch's Shark Bites or after seeing Vanilla Ice's "Ninja Rap" from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
Introspection into this illusive quality, cool seems analogous to a feeling that stems from surprise and novelty. Yet, over time, one's habituation to stimuli leaves him less likely to utilize such a designation. Moreover, with maturity comes a shift in one's tastes away from the standard faire of gummy fruit snacks or pop music sensations.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Brilliant Brunch: Berry Crumb Cake
It's very fitting that I give you this crumb cake today as John and I are going to be having our own adventures in breakfast making, french style! That's right, today we'll be making croissants with Cook'n with Class! Don't be sad. I am 100% sure we will be sharing them with you soon. And, if you want to follow along on our adventure, like me on Facebook where I'm sharing just about everything we see with my friends!
Anyway, when John was in London for 2 weeks it gave me a lot of time to plan for his big arrival home. I knew he would want something for dessert since he came in late. But I also knew the next morning I could make special as well. This is one of those cakes that screams special occasion to me. It's a crumb cake that's been dressed up for a big gala or something.
I know berry season is on it's tail-end in most places. But if you're like me, you have a few bagfuls of frozen berries you've been scurrying away like squirrels with acorns. Every time I hide berries in the freezer, I really do feel like a squirrel. Frozen berries would work great for this as long as you let them thaw and dry them well. It's like a pop of summer at a time you actually want to turn on your oven!here)
Serves: 9 (9x9 baking dish)
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 cup (8 tablespoons) butter, melted
1 3/4 cups cake flour
1 1/4 cup cake flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
6 tablespoons butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup buttermilk
1 cup raspberries
1 cup blackberries
Crumbs: In a large bowl, whisk sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Add butter and stir until combined. Add flour and stir with a wooden spoon until mixture is a thick dough. Set aside to cool to room temperature while you make the cake.
Cake: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, beat flour, sugar, and baking soda on low speed until well-mixed. Let mixer continue to run and add butter one tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition. After all the butter has been mixed, beat 1-2 more minutes until no butter remains visible and the mixture is crumbly. Add eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk. Beat an additional 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Top with raspberries and blackberries. Carefully break apart the crumb topping into large pieces and spread in an even layer over the fruit. Bake for 45 - 50 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and the dough around the berries is moist, but not raw.
Until the next time my oven is on...
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