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We are so proud of each and everyone of you and all your efforts during 'Virtual Sports Week'. It was a strange way of doing things, but it turned out great! Well done!!!
The Day the Crayons Quit 26.6.20
We have had great fun in school and at home this week, engaging with the winner of our Battle of the Picture Book text. Go to the gallery pages of each school to see the work completed at home and in school. Today we dressed up in the colour of our favourite crayons. The school was filled with colour. What a delight to behold! Take a look at photographs of our pods in school and the children at home.
Can you work out what the most popular colour was?
Front Cover Challenge 11.5.20
This week we have asked you to recreate the front cover of your favourite book, using household items. Take a look at the front covers below, which have been created by our fabulous staff. We had so much fun doing this!
What is your favourite book? Can you recreate the front cover?
Take a photograph and email your teacher or tweet it!
Check out the Infant and Junior gallery pages for pupil work.
Woodville Weekly Challenge 1
Create a rainbow butterfly
Congratulations to the 5 lucky winners
Lola, Maisie, Scarlett, Imogen & Freya and Cooper
Your £10 gift voucher is on its way to you.
World Book Day - March 2019
Reading Area Competition September 2018
All classes were asked to create an area in their classroom that would inspire them to read. The teachers and children thought long and hard and came up with some fabulous spaces. Take a look at the pictures.
When the judges visited each classroom they were amazed at the wonderful reading spaces that had been created and actually wanted to sit down and start reading! They also found it incredibly difficult to choose the winners because everyone had worked so hard and were so excited and proud of their new reading areas.
Class 5
for being awarded OVERALL JUNIOR WINNERS
for being awarded OVERALL INFANT WINNERS.
Congratulations also go to Class 3, Class 11, Yellow Class and Orange Class who were chosen as the runners up.
Olympus are victorious!
The Federation held its first house challenge today out on the Junior Field. The challenge involved moving coloured water from a bucket to a bowl using only a sponge.
Children from each house volunteered to take part in the challenge and had great fun passing the sponges along the line. At the end we measured the amount of water in each bowl, to find out who had won.
Team Olympus were victorious, managing to transfer 1800ml of water in 5 minutes.
The final results were as follows:
1. Olympus- 1800ml
2. Viper- 1700ml
3. Pegasus- 1200ml
4. Merlin- 1100ml
5. Meteor- 1000ml
6. Griffon- 850ml
Well done to all the children who took part! What a fun first house event!
Last year the staff surprised the children with a Michael Jackson 'Thriller' flashmob. This year they 'danced' themselves through a Steps medley.
All of the children and staff from across the federation took part in a hour of exercise for ACES day (All Children Exercise Simultaneously). It was a fun packed hour of exercise and dance thanks to Mrs Peake and Miss Devine's choreography!
Our families enjoyed an afternoon of Easter crafts and activities as well as a nice cup of tea and hot cross buns. Happy Easter Everyone.
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The staff surprised the children and Mrs Smart during ACES day this year.
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Revealed: How online GP company Babylon can sign up millions of patients
Paul-you will have to remember that the patients they are 'poaching' will likely have much lower annual consultation rate that the elderly frail with as previously mentioned the fallout for remaining practices on consultation rates and financial instability. Seriously NHS England get a grip.
'Indemnity fees are killing our profession' - sign this letter to Jeremy Hunt
GP partner exeter
GP out-of-hours cooperative cuts staff and pleads with NHS to pay more
and I wonder how much the redundancy bill will be.If the contract was not enough they should not have bid on in the first place as another provider would not have run as a loss leader .not great buisines sense.
Private investors pledge £3.3bn to build 'hundreds' of primary care premises
Down here in Devon we have at least one PFI financed community hospital with a cast iron contract and huge penalties. As with all private finance the shareholders/investors will want a guaranteed return.
GP leaders to push Government for 4% professional fee increase
i suggest we increase fees in line with CQC fee hikes.I only thought about this yesterday when completing a report for ATOS at the 33.50 which has remained unchanged for as long as i can remember .
More than a quarter of GPs work beyond safe hours every week
to Dr Jacques, how would you advise a patient with such hours and lack of contact with a young family.There are always options to reduce workload. Your children are only young once.

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2019-20 IYO Revisited
Walk to Remember Srebrenica Symposium
- Date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
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- Location: KY Museum
Symposum to commemorate the anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sponsored by the KY Museum, KY Folklife Program, and the Bosnian-American community.
In conjunction with the IYO Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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"I concur with the previous speakers. Today we deal with very important legislation, the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020. Let us hope we do not have a reoccurrence of what happened in the Lower House yesterday. I appeal to all democrats to support open, healthy discussion. As a revising chamber, it is our job to revise legislation and to look at all amendments and to give..."
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jul 2020)
"Last week I spoke about the cervical cancer scandal. I requested that we look at it and asked that a Minister attend here. Since I spoke there was an article in the Sunday Independentby Vicky Phelan. For those who may not have read it, she wrote a compelling and moving appeal to what she described as those in power - the people in the Houses of the Oireachtas. Sadly we do not have Vicky..."
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)
"I listened to some of the contributions outside the Chamber and it has been a good debate. I warmly welcome the Minister to the House and wish her well in her Ministry. These are difficult times for anyone in government. Issues have to be addressed head-on, hard decisions have to be taken and the ramifications of those decisions have to be taken on board. Minister are expected to come to..."
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It was December 2003, a final debate in the final days before the runoff election in Kamala Harris' race for San Francisco district attorney against her onetime boss, Terence Hallinan. And Hallinan, the crusading progressive incumbent, was going low: Harris could not be trusted to prosecute city corruption, he suggested, because of her relationship with Willie Brown — the outgoing mayor, peerless local kingmaker and Harris supporter whom she had dated years earlier. "He has an interest," Hallinan speculated, "in having a friend in the district attorney's office."
Harris conjured a different hypothetical. She would take on crooked actors of all kinds, she said. In fact, she already had a prospective target in mind.
"I will set up a public integrity desk," she vowed, building to the velocity of a TV lawyer in full riff, "dedicated to dealing with investigating and prosecuting cases involving corruption by any public official — be it Terence Hallinan or anyone else."
Hallinan seemed to wobble. "That really takes the breath away," he said. Eight days later, Harris took his job away.
Sixteen years on, as a California senator seeking the Democratic nomination for president, Harris is not, by her own admission, the candidate of structural upheaval, like Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont or Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. She is not an old-guard centrist, like former Vice President Joe Biden. But in a party weighing how best to counter President Donald Trump's boundless capacity for brawling, Harris is the one who knows how to hit hardest, friends said, because that is how you win in San Francisco.
The 2003 race, the first of her career, is where she learned.
"San Francisco is the bluest of blue," said Tony West, her brother-in-law and longtime informal adviser. "All political wars there are civil wars. And so it's like a family fight. And those are often the worst."
For Harris, who was 38 when she ran for district attorney, the campaign arrived at an inflection point — a period of restlessness, according to former colleagues, in the career of a hard-charging deputy accustomed to straddling disparate orbits. After a decade of unglamorous work for local prosecutors and a studied induction into San Francisco's social elite, Harris was by turns a society-page veteran and a prolific loiterer at supermarket parking lots, unfurling an ironing board from her back seat as a canvas for campaign literature. She began her evenings at fundraisers in ritzy Pacific Heights and ended them at the modest apartment where she lived alone in the city's SoMa neighborhood, stretching across her living room floor to compose longhand thank-you notes to donors.
"She was always the candidate who was like, 'I got everything done on my list. Did you get everything done on your list?'" said Jim Stearns, a top consultant to Harris in 2003.
Often enough, those lists included the kinds of strategic choices that seemed endemic to success in San Francisco politics, particularly against someone like Hallinan, known locally as "Kayo" (as in "KO," for knockout) since his boxing youth.
When her pledge to obey a voluntary campaign-spending cap proved nettlesome, Harris did not hesitate to reverse herself, earning a hefty ethics fine.
Eager to extract information about her opponent's operation, a senior Harris aide once posed as a Hallinan volunteer over email under an assumed name, before being found out and told to attend a non-existent rally at 10 pm on a Sunday.
And subjected to gendered insinuations that Brown, three decades her senior, had facilitated Harris' rise by introducing her to the city's ruling class, the candidate was quick to flag her rival's own sensational baggage, accusing Hallinan of fostering a debauched workplace where prosecutors had sex in the office.
It is no coincidence that some of Harris' sharpest moments as a national voice have come in political combat. As a senator, she has won viral recognition for her lacerating questioning during hearings. In June, she flattened Biden in a debate exchange over his warm remembrances of segregationist senators. After some polling stumbles since then, she turned her attention to Trump from the Houston debate stage Thursday, comparing the president to the "really small dude" behind the curtain in "The Wizard of Oz."
Yet if her 2003 run proved that Harris could thrive in campaign conflict, it was also an early lesson in the challenges of negotiating the party's base, particularly for a politician more inclined toward within-the-system reform than simmering revolution.
In many ways, no 2020 candidate has faced a hometown electorate more analogous to today's Democratic primary conditions than Harris has. Then, as now, she was a self-described progressive, introducing herself as a potentially history-making pick in a multicultural city of vanguard liberalism, parochial neighbourhood factions and often staggering income inequality.
But Harris also ran unambiguously to Hallinan's right in a place that prided itself on showing offenders compassion. "She was the moderate," said Nathan Ballard, a friend who worked with her as a deputy city attorney. "She was somebody who wanted to prosecute criminals."
Getting that chance meant subjecting herself to an unpalatable fate: confronting the two men who had helped her, to a point, and were now threatening to stand in her way.
"I mean, I know how to fight," Harris said in an interview. "But most people like to avoid a fight if you can."
The Ex-Boss
For a short while, the office was big enough for them both.
After several years across the bay in Alameda County, Harris joined Hallinan's team in 1998 as an assistant district attorney overseeing the career criminal unit.
Friends said Harris initially admired his instinct for empathetic prosecution, which prized diversion over jail for many nonviolent lawbreakers. She spent off-hours helping his 1999 reelection and took a particular interest the next year in trying to defeat a state ballot measure, also opposed by Hallinan, that effectively shifted many young offenders into the adult justice system.
This, it seems, is where some of the tensions began. Fred Gardner, an office spokesman at the time, said that Hallinan became concerned as Harris assumed a public-facing role in the ballot debate, growing suspicious that Harris might run against him. (Hallinan's son, Brendan, said his father, now 82, was not able to give an interview.)
In Harris' telling, the office, which Hallinan had steered since 1996, was tumbling into disarray — epitomized one afternoon, she said, by a mass firing of lawyers who returned from lunch to find pink slips on their chairs. "The place was falling apart," Harris said in the interview. "People were urging me to run."
She left in 2000 for the city attorney's office. Hallinan did not attend the send-off. Some other lawyers stayed away, too, Gardner said, fearing that they would "get reported back to the boss as disloyal." He estimated that half the office attended anyway.
No longer under Hallinan's purview, Harris began considering a campaign to replace him in earnest. She produced a low-tech bio page, pressing a photograph of herself against the sheet and making multiple copies. "I think we went to, like, Kinko's," Harris said. "Very high-level, professional operation."
Stearns, her consultant, cautioned that Harris was occupying a dangerous political space: the center — wedged between Hallinan and a more conservative challenger named Bill Fazio.
"He kind of scratched his head and said, 'OK, this is going to be difficult because you're running up the middle,'" Harris said. "I have this saying, which is: 'No good public policy ends with an exclamation point.'"
Harris, who has strained at times as a presidential candidate to convince progressives of her convictions, was asked if this tension felt familiar lately. "There probably are some parallels," she said. "There's an appetite for statements that end with an exclamation point. And it's really challenging."
Hallinan's supporters believe his punctuation, as it were, was commendable for a district attorney, praising his commitment to rehabilitating drug users in the throes of the tough-on-crime era. Kenneth Wine, a longtime law partner of Hallinan's brother, said that while Harris was "a good, honest, straightforward prosecutor," she won the job in part by questioning the kind of progressivism that Hallinan championed.
"He shocked a lot of people with his progressive ideas," Wine said. "Kamala Harris became the DA sort of backtracking on those to some extent."
Harris liked to say there was nothing progressive about being "soft on crime." Volunteers furnished doorknobs with flyers stuffed with muscular adjectives ("Tough. Fair. Effective."), trumpeting her support from law enforcement groups. Headshots of local elected endorsers specked her campaign materials.
And about five or so faces into that roster — not so prominent as to draw immediate attention, not so buried as to suggest deliberate camouflage — voters were greeted by a smiling mayor.
The Ex-Boyfriend
The thing was, it could feel as though everyone who hit it big here owed a debt to Willie Brown — the showman power broker enamored of Brioni suits, well-directed patronage and his own legend.
The current California governor, Gavin Newsom, was a young businessman when Brown elevated him to the city's Parking and Traffic Commission and, soon after, to the Board of Supervisors — placing Newsom on the fast track to succeed him at City Hall. The current mayor, London Breed, was once an intern in Brown's administration.
Harris' example is more complicated. She began dating Brown, now 85, around 1994, when she was working in Alameda County and he was speaker of the California Assembly. He appointed her to two well-compensated state posts. He gave her a BMW. He introduced her to people worth knowing.
"When I first met her, she was Willie's girlfriend," said John Burton, a former congressman and chairman of the California Democratic Party. "Everybody gets their start through somebody else. Jack Kennedy got his start through his father. Bobby got his start through Jack."
Harris' allies have bristled at any suggestion that Brown powered her ascent, dismissing the charge as sexist and making clear that she was plenty capable of impressing on her own. Few could argue that Harris, hovering around 5% in early polling, entered the 2003 race at much of an advantage, even as her fundraising drew on an ungainly Filofax full of high-end contacts. (Eventually, friends insisted she transfer to a Palm Pilot.)
Fair or not, Harris understood quickly that Brown would shadow the campaign. "No woman likes to be judged by who she dates," said Rebecca Prozan, a top 2003 campaign aide. "Was it something that we wanted to address? No. Was it something we had to address? Yes."
Harris hoped to maintain distance without alienating his supporters. An internal memo suggested hiring Stearns as a consultant in part because he was associated with "the anti-Willie Brown camp which may be helpful." Harris told SF Weekly in 2003 that she was so independent of Brown that he "would probably right now express some fright about the fact that he cannot control me.
"His career is over," she said, as Brown's second mayoral term wound down. "I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years."
But Harris also promoted Brown's support on her flyers. And his barely hidden hand helped propel her precedent-busting fundraising. "He was instrumental behind the scenes," said Mark Buell, a major Democratic donor who served as Harris' finance chairman. "Willie Brown told me — and I didn't want to believe him — you have to raise $1 million to win this race. And we did."
Brown, who now writes political columns, cheekily declined to be interviewed, on the grounds that he could not assist a rival publication. "I write for the Chronicle," he said, quickly ending a phone call. (In one of those columns in January, he wrote: "Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career.")
Harris, in the interview, called her 2003 opponents' references to Brown "frustrating" and "designed to degrade, frankly, the conversation about why we needed a new DA."
Asked if Brown was a factor in the race — either as a boogeyman deployed by her rivals or as a sitting mayor with an interest in the outcome — Harris said: "Um, I'd — you know. You can ask the pundits. I — yeah."
Asked if she found the attacks misogynistic, she said, "I think most people think that that's the case."
The Next District Attorney
Enough voters seemed to.
Just before the election, the campaign of Hallinan's other challenger, Fazio, circulated a mailer quoting a woman critical of Harris: "I don't care if Willie Brown is Kamala Harris' ex-boyfriend," it read. "What bothers me is that Kamala accepted two appointments from Willie Brown to high-paying, part-time state boards."
The approach backfired. Former Harris aides credit public disgust over the mailer with helping to push her into the two-person runoff at the expense of Fazio, who had been polling ahead of Harris throughout the race. (Reached by phone, Fazio said he did not remember the mailer, but suggested it sounded like "some desperation on my campaign's part." He said he supported Harris' presidential run.)
Perhaps more relevant, Harris proved to be a relentless and versatile campaigner, parking herself at transit stops, gay bars and senior-center bingo sessions where she worried her hot streak one night might upset the regulars. She established her headquarters in the predominantly nonwhite Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, posing for photographs beneath an indoor graffiti mural that read "Justice" and watching her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, instruct supporters on proper envelope-stuffing form.
Harris also excelled in more exclusive company. She held events with musician Boz Scaggs and Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues." She persuaded the party's powerful central committee to withhold an endorsement before the first round of voting, a major setback for Hallinan.
On the night of the runoff, Harris entered her victory party to chants of "DA! DA!" as "We Are the Champions" blared, relatives gathered beside the "Justice" mural, and Brown held court with reporters.
Hallinan was terse in conceding defeat. "It's a tough job," he said, wishing Harris luck.
More recently, Harris has likewise found that the city's politics can be fickle. Many of San Francisco's progressive activists prefer Warren or Sanders. Buell, her 2003 finance chairman, remains a supporter but has also raised money for Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. "I think she's a little miffed," Buell said.
And in the city's latest district attorney's race, to be decided in November, Stearns has taken on a new client: Chesa Boudin, a public defender running on reducing mass incarceration.
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"He is actively criticizing Kamala's record," Stearns said. "2003 has never seemed so much like yesterday."
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The holidays can be taxing enough without the added stress of trying to work through your vacation. While you may feel productive sending out emails from home or reading over a report remotely, a nonstop work schedule can leave you exhausted and burned out at the end of your vacation—rather than refreshed and refocused.
Instead, try to use your holiday vacation for productive rest. In fact, science tells us that relaxing is the best thing to do over the holiday break.
"There's a lot of medical evidence to suggest that we live in a hyper-elevated state of arousal and activated stress hormones due to being so accessible and ever-vigilant for electronic input," says David Greenfield, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. "I don't think that we're designed to be in that high, readily accessible state of arousal all the time."
So how can you use your vacation to take a much-needed break from your daily to-do lists and long-term projects? Writing for Inc., career-advice blogger Kat Boogaard shares how to unplug over your holiday break:
1: Come up with a game plan
Pledging to unplug over the holidays can seem like an impossible undertaking, writes Boogaard. So it's important to lay some ground rules. Will you power down all your devices and be out of touch entirely? Or will you allow yourself to check your inbox briefly once per day?
Whatever you decide to do, stick with it. And ensure that your colleagues know when you plan to be off the grid.
2: Get ahead before you sign off
You won't be able to relax if you know there are unfinished tasks looming ahead. A few weeks before you plan to go offline, decide what work needs to get done before leave and what can wait until you return, recommends Boogaard. Once you identify the tasks with urgent deadlines—tasks that can't wait until after the holidays—start chipping away at them.
3: Set an out-of-office message
Boogaard writes that while this step may seem obvious, many professionals neglect to set an out-of-office message while they're away. Setting an out-of-office message will keep you from feeling like you have to monitor your inbox and respond to every message you receive. Be sure to include the dates you will be out, as well as the contact information of someone who can help if an emergency comes up.
4: Avoid setting goals
While the holidays can be a good time for self-reflection, refrain from setting any professional goals during your time off. As Boogaard explains, "outlining those career and business ambitions during your time off will likely inspire you to get moving on those goals immediately—which will ultimately put you right back in front of your computer."
5: Power down your electronics
Don't just pledge to stay out of your inbox. Power down all your electronics for a full digital detox, recommends Boogaard.
Try to replace the time you would typically spend online with time with family and friends. After all, the holidays are about cultivating feelings of togetherness.
"As humans, we're hard-wired for relationships. Authentic connections are usually done face-to-face by interacting with each other," explains Heather Monroe, director of program development at Newport Academy. "What technology does is takes us away from those authentic connections and puts us in our own isolated world, which can then make us feel more isolated and alone in a season that's supposed to make us feel more together and tight-knit."
Sources: Ducharme, Fortune, 12/18/17; Boogaard, Inc., 12/8/16
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Get that healthier lifestyle up and running and speak to your local health food retailer in Shooter's Hill. With all these vitamins and minerals you can get back on track with that healthy eating plan or diet and feel good on the outside as well as the inside. Use the Cityvisitor online guide to health food in Shooter's Hill to find suppliers including Digestive Aids, Food Supplements, Health Foods, Nutrition, Nutritional Oils. Use these contacts for Health Food in Shooter's Hill, brought together by the Cityvisitor Shooter's Hill directory. Here you'll get the information about Shooter's Hill that isn't available on the high street.
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A new date has now been agreed for the SPFL Championship match against Rangers at Ibrox, the match which was originally due to be played on Saturday 4th April but this was cancelled due to Alloa playing Livingston in this season's Petrofac Training Cup Final on Sunday 5th April at McDiarmid Park, Perth with a 4.05pm kick-Off. The new date for the Rangers game at Ibrox is Tuesday 17th March, 2015 with a 7.45pm Kick-Off.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Say this much for a Royals team heading for a second straight 100-or-more loss season: There's still plenty of fight in them. Left-handed starter Mike Montgomery became the fourth Royal to be ejected in the last week, this one coming in the fifth inning of Kansas City's 8-5
MINNEAPOLIS -- Say this much for a Royals team heading for a second straight 100-or-more loss season: There's still plenty of fight in them.
Left-handed starter
Montgomery's frustrations with home-plate umpire Manny Gonzalez boiled over after he gave up a home run on a 3-2 pitch to Mitch Garver leading off the fifth. Two pitches in the sequence at the bottom of the zone were called balls.
After pitching coach Cal Eldred made a mound visit, Gonzalez came near the mound to break up the meeting. Montgomery began chirping at Gonzalez, who appeared to warn Montgomery to cease.
But Montgomery said something else, and Gonzalez handed him his first career ejection. Manager Ned Yost, bench coach Dale Sveum and outfielder
Montgomery, who went four-plus innings and gave up five runs, including three home runs, seemed to start getting frustrated in the third inning. He threw an 0-2 cutter that looked borderline on the outside edge that was called a ball. Nelson Cruz, who homered twice in the game, blasted a three-run home run on the next pitch, tying the score at 3.
Yost was diplomatic about Gonzalez.
"There were some calls that could've gone either way that he didn't get the benefit of," Yost said of Montgomery.
While Yost said he could sense Montgomery's frustrations mounting throughout the night, he said he didn't purposely send Eldred for a mound visit in the fifth just to calm Montgomery down.
Montgomery said it wouldn't have mattered by then anyway -- he was ready to vent by the time Gonzalez neared the mound to break up the Eldred visit.
Crew chief Sam Holbrook spoke to a pool reporter after the game and he said Montgomery was thrown out for "arguing balls and strikes."
Holbrook also confirmed that Montgomery was warned to quit chirping at Gonzalez.
"Montgomery continued, and wound up getting ejected," Holbrook said.
Montgomery said he was pretty sure he got his money's worth in his exchanges with Gonzalez after the ejection.
"I hope so," Montgomery said. "That's my first one ever."
Jeffrey Flanagan has covered the Royals since 1991, and for MLB.com since 2015. Follow him on Twitter at @FlannyMLB.


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PESHAWAR - Chief Minister Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak approved a preliminary sketch of the annual development programme for the year 2017-18, saying that the ADP was need driven and public welfare oriented.
The chief minister chaired a consultative meeting on annual development programme (ADP) for the year 2017-18, which was also attended by concerned ministers, administrative secretaries and other senior officials.
The meeting discussed the new ADP for higher education , agriculture, environment, forestry, food, sports, tourism, culture, youth affairs, C&W, law and justice, transport, excise, health, revenue, relief, energy, science and information technology, mineral development, industries and information departments whereas necessary decisions about scheme allocation were taken in this regard.
On the occasion, the chief minister directed to prefer completion of ongoing schemes besides launching new schemes on the basis of need and public welfare. He while agreeing with 58 new and ongoing schemes in higher education department approved establishment of 10 new post graduate colleges in the province in the coming fiscal year. He also sanctioned provision of missing facilities in the colleges all over the province on the pattern of government schools including transport facilities. Two new public libraries were also approved. Similarly, 30 new schemes were approved including 17 ongoing and 13 new developmental projects in agriculture sector.
Khattak asked for focussing agriculture sector. He directed for provision of solar power to all tube wells in the province. He asked for seeking cooperation of the concerned MPAs in case of the need of acquisition of land for new tube wells. He also directed for ensuring uniformity in quality and rates of the projects. He said the next tender must be of equal standard rate in irrigation, public health engineering and agriculture departments. There must be no scheme left incomplete in the new financial year, he added.
Khattak directed for completion of Peshawar Zoo on fast track basis besides directing for ensuring beautification of the zoo and plantation of evergreen trees. He further directed for completing the development and management of national parks in the province in all respects.
He also approved Phase-III of billion-tree tsunami and the required resources besides expressing satisfaction over performance of the department. Secretary Environment told the meeting that the 3rd phase of the billion-tree tsunami would be completed by October 2017.
The chief minister also appreciated the performance of food department and approved 12 schemes for the department for the next financial year. He directed to complete food grain warehouses on fast track basis all over the province. Over 53 schemes were approved in sports, tourism, culture and youth affairs sectors.
The CM directed to complete Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium, starting sports facilities in Rustom Sports Complex, Mardan and providing sports facilities in all other stadiums. The meeting was told that 158 sports grounds were being constructed in province out of which 85 were completed while the rest were in different stages of completion.
Khattak asked the sports authorities to evolve a comprehensive schedule of sports activities that must continue throughout the year while there should be final tournaments of different games at the end. He was told that negotiations were underway with the Frontier Works organization (FWO) for development of 60 to 70 tourist spots in the province.
He asked the EZDMC, BOI and BOIT to establish its display centres in Islamabad for catching international investors.
He also approved the scheme of restarting financial assistance of Rs30,000 to writers and poets of the province.
The chief minister directed C&W department to sketch a standard design of government buildings in the province. The one design concept for schools, hospitals and police stations must also be adopted for district and tehsil offices all over the province, he said. Similarly, a specific design must be evolved for district courts as well, he said.
The chief minister asked for fixing 9 months contract time of fully-funded schemes. He directed the police to avoid encroaching roads and highways on the pretext of security of police stations, adding that public must be facilitated in all respects. He asked the authorities to build bomb-proof concrete boundary walls around police stations instead of erecting encroachments on public paths.
He also directed for shifting hard-line prisoners from Haripur jail to other higher security jails. He regretted that Haripur road was closed due to security risk from jail side. He also approved phase-wise completion of ongoing rescue services schemes in the province. He asked for starting the process of appointments and trainings of staff for these schemes.
A total of 9 schemes were also approved for finance department including automation of pension system and outsourcing revenue generation scheme.
Similarly, health insurance scheme of government employees was also made part of the new ADP. In energy sector, a total of 28 ongoing and 26 new schemes were approved.
A total of 19 schemes were approved in science and technology sector including computerisation of arms licences, citizen facilitation centres, health services and installation of video conferencing for deputy commissioners at office of the chief secretary.
Khattak approved 16 schemes in mineral development department. He asked for ensuring annual site survey of minerals. He also directed information department to evolve terms of reference (ToRs) with all advertisements and ensure its implementation in letter and spirit. He directed that all departments must follow the ToRs and submit weekly reports on it.
The chief minister directed government departments to ensure publicity of steps taken by them as well as their achievements. He said a timetable must be prepared in this regard wherein each and every department would have to display and project its achievements for 10 days.


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Agricultural History Review,Volume 2 (1954)
It is in this atmosphere of proposals and estimates that Parliament discussed and approved the Bill which became 2 and 3 Edward VI c. 36. From a suggestion, the poll tax on sheep became law; the cloth levy was imposed; and instead of rough estimates of the sheep population, the Act set up the machinery to take a census of sheep in every parish, only eleven years later than Thomas Cromwell's attempt to number the parishioners by the recording of baptisms, marriages, and burials. The grant of supply to the King did not take any of the conventional forms. The usual subsidy (or tax on personalty) was not granted, nor the tenth-and-fifteenth (the old, and now conventionalized, local tax). Instead, in view of the danger in which the realm stood, the faithful subjects offered a Relief to be paid annually for the three years following.


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The Supreme Court held that the power of a Magistrate to alter its orders passed under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for maintenance are not hit by the embargo entailed in Section 362, which bars criminal courts from altering their orders. (Sanjeev Kapoor v. Chandana Kapoor)
Section 362 of the Code states that no court can alter or review a judgment or a final order once it has been signed, except to correct a clerical or arithmetical error. Whether this embargo also applies to orders passed in maintenance cases under Section 125 of the CrPC was the question for consideration before the Court in the instant case.
After a Family Court had disposed of a maintenance petition under Section 125 of the CrPC, it was subsequently revived at the behest of the respondent in the case. The appellant had approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking for the subsequent order passed by the Family Court to be set aside. The High Court, exercising its jursidcition under Section 482 of the CrPC, dismissed the plea. This brought the appellant to the Supreme Court.
The Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy, while considering the matter, delved into the legislative intent behind Section 125 of the Code and found that the provision for maintenance falls under the category of social justice legislation.
The Court also touched upon the question of whether an order passed under Section 125 of the CrPC becomes functus officio for the embargo under Section 362 to apply.
Answering this question in the negative, the Court said that a closer reading of the Section itself shows that a provision for cancellation or alteration of an order exists.
The judgment also points out that Section 125 contains the phrase "from time to time", and that the same phrase holds a specific meaning so as to indicate that a Magistrate may exercise jurisdiction under this Section from time to time. An order passed under this Section, therefore, does not attain finality or is not functus officio, the Court has observed.
An express power for cancellation of orders once passed under Section 125 is also granted to the Magistrate under Section 125 (5), the Court points out in this judgment.
The Court makes note of the wording and phrasing of the embargo section under Section 362, which leaves room for exceptional cases by containing the words "save as otherwise provided by this Code". Further, Section 127(2) of the Code empowers the Magistrate to cancel or alter any order passed under Section 125.
Therefore, the Court concluded that Sections 125(5) and 127 would amount to the exceptions provided for in Section 362 and therefore, an order in a maintenance case under Section 125 is not barred from being altered or cancelled by the Magistrate.


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He was born in the Bronx, NY and grew up in Fort Lee NJ. At a young age, Amos started seeking adventure and pushing limits. While attending college at the UMASS, Amos fell in love with rock climbing which brought him to Northern California in 1993 and eventually a job packing boxes for Shoreline Mountain Project. While there Amos helped turn an old school mail-order company into one of the first e-commerce companies which launched his career into the startup world. Shoreline later sold to Mountain Gear.
In 2015, he moved over to the investor side as Managing Director of Techstars in Austin. Now after over 70 seed-stage investments, Amos has become one of the more active early-stage investors, in all of Texas.
Amos is also the author of Sell More Faster – The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups. Amos wrote this book using his experience and network to create a guide to help every founder and startup sales leader in their quest to build a big and meaningful business. You can order a copy of the book at sellmorefasterbook.com or on Amazon and Barns & Nobles.
Amos still enjoys the outdoors and spends much of his free time mountain biking, rock climbing and cooking with his wife and two daughters.
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This past Saturday, October 22, 2011, was the 6th annual Celebrate Samhain event in Peterborough, NH. I'm so happy I was able to attend the event again this year. Organizers Kevin and Jess, with a staff of enthusiastic volunteers, once again put together an event that is fun not only for attendees, but for vendors and presenters as well. As much as I like The Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church's building, Celebrate Samhain may be so successful that it's outgrowing its current home!
So what all did I see and do at this year's event? Not as much as I would have liked. The presenter schedule was jammed packed, so I ended up missing Raven Grimassi's presentation "Old World Witchcraft" in order to eat some lunch and finish shopping. And when I'm saying I missed Raven Grimassi, well that tells you just how much awesome stuff was going on!
Let's talk shopping because this year I actually came with a shopping list. By the end of the day Jim and I had almost all of our Christmas and Hanukkah shopping done! We started at Dawn Hunt's Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery table. Not only did Dawn have all of her delicious oils and spice blends, but she had brand spanking new glass plates and mugs hand etched with Celtic knots, and other witchy things. On top of all the edibles we bought Jim decided he wanted a glass mug that reads "Kitchen Witch" to be his new morning coffee mug. Since Jim takes his morning coffee very seriously, this purchase speaks volumes about the awesomeness of these new Cucina Aurora mugs.
Next up were our friends at FairySpa who continue to not only create wonderful, all natural, small batch blended lotions, washes, and fragrances, but they keep adding new products too! They recently launched a whole men's line that appears to be doing well. I picked up another bottle of their Intense Lotion for me because I LOVE it! I did some other shopping, but since most of what was purchased is for readers of this site, I can't get into details.
I got a chance to visit with the great folks at the Temple of Witchcraft table. For those of you interested in attending Templefest 2012, mark your calendars! The 2012 Templefest will be on Saturday June 23rd. I had a great time there last year! But in the surprise news of the event for me, I learned that Christopher Penczak along with Raven and Stephanie Grimassi are doing a "Pagan Dream Cruise" January 19, 2013! It's a 7 day cruise of the western Caribbean that will feature 4 classes, meditations, a cocktail party with open bar with the three of them, along with all the other cool stuff that comes with cruising. I couldn't believe it! If you're interested you can contact Liz Mardis at Books, Beans, & Candles at 205-617-2089.
Jim and I visited Mike Dolan at his Haunted Wood Crafts table. As usual he had some fantastic new wands to show off along with a dizzying selection of of runes. The big thing for me was the inclusion of traditional tarot images on wood. By an odd coincidence he had a small framed Hanged Man, and that is my favorite tarot card! So that little guy came home with me!
My last bit of shopping was probably my favorite of the day. After conversations online and the interview for the site, I got to meet Judika Illes. Everybody told me that Judika is incredibly nice, and they weren't wrong. She is so friendly and sweet, if I didn't already adore her, I would now. Instead I am just assured and stable in my state of adore-her-ness. I got to pick up a copy of her book "The Weiser Field Guide to Witches" and her latest book "Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages". I'm super excited about both of them so I suspect you'll hear about them again on the site at some point.
In a side note, I did manage to resist temptation and not buy anything from the Pentacle Press/Muse Gifts & Books tables. They had a lot of great stuff there so it was pretty tough to resist, but somehow I managed….. this time.
Okay, now let's talk presentations. After missing her last year I made a point to see Dawn Hunt's presentation "Cooking with Heirloom Magick". For a presentation she admitted to still be polishing, it was an interesting and entertaining time. For starters, she fed us banana muffins! Yum! She went on to talk about cooking and how it can connect us to our ancestors. Dawn speaks with a lot of heart, if you get a chance to attend one of her workshops (she's at Muse Gifts & Books in December) definitely go.
The next presentation I attended was Christopher Penczak's "The Dark Garden of the Witch". Much like last year I was amazed at the wealth of information that he has accumulated (Seriously, does the guy ever sleep?) and the ease at which he can present it to an audience. Also, I was impressed with the subject matter, which was working with the baneful side of herbalism and plant magic. When the speaker gets to look at the audience and say, "This will kill you dead.", well, you get props from me for going there.
The last presentation I attended was Judika Illes "The Secrets of Successful Spellcasting". This is what you call "as advertised" since for an hour Judika Illes spoke about ways to be successful when casting spells. Her presentation was reassuring and accessible. There was information there for someone who has never tried casting a spell, but also some thoughts for those who are well practiced. I found it interesting, inspiring, and entertaining. Did I mention that whole "I adore her" thing?
At this point I was 100% exhausted so with great regret I left before getting to see Frenchy and the Punk (formerly The Gypsy Nomads) perform. However I don't need to have been in attendance to know that without a doubt they kicked ass.
If you're anywhere in the general vicinity of Peterborough, NH you absolutely must attend Celebrate Samhain. I can't imagine a better event than what these guys put together.


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I don't know many people who really enjoy grocery shopping. For me it's a chore. Now add insult to that chore there are some stores in my area that are charging for the plastic shopping bags. Those same plastic bags are terrible for the environment. So, when I was approached by Power2Sustain Reusable Solutions about reviewing their reusable shopping bags I jumped at the chance! If I HAVE to grocery shop at least I use a great grocery bag!
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How did you do your Christmas shopping?
Don't tell the kids but even Santa probably uses the Internet for some help with all that shopping and deliveries. My guess is that most of you bought some, perhaps even all of your Christmas gifts online. If so, did you manage to keep all your presents a surprise from the intended recipient?
Well done if you did, because as the Wall Street Journal's Laura Stevens discovers, your browsing history or the ads that follow you around on the Internet can unfortunately sometimes give away the surprise you have in store.
Buying her husband a present on the family Amazon account was not the most secure way for one woman to hide her gift away thanks to the Amazon purchase history that helpfully flashed up when her husband also took a time out to do some online shopping. Ads for opal engagement rings that kept popping up on one young man's screen as his girlfriend looked over his shoulder meanwhile took the surprise out of his popping the question.
But these glitches aside – and they can be solved by deleting cookies, turning off recommendations and creating separate accounts – online shopping and ecommerce is becoming a default mode for consumers, a trend that service providers can't afford to ignore.
Indeed, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey of US adults, Americans are incorporating a wide range of digital tools and platforms into their purchasing decisions and buying habits. Roughly eight-in-10 Americans (79%) are now online shoppers, 51% have bought something using a cellphone, and 15% have made purchases by following a link from social media sites.
(Compare those numbers to when Pew first researched online shopping back in 2000 and only 22% of Americans had ever made a purchase online).
Of course, they're not just making purchases online – like me, 65% of American consumers use the Internet to compare online and retail store prices, and then choose the cheapest option. And that's a trend that's being echoed worldwide.
In the Amdocs Customer Experience Spotlight 2016 survey, conducted by Amdocs-451 Research Group across 14 countries, 59% of consumers check prices on comparison sites before making a decision. This survey also found that today's customer expects a personalized experience and the ability to complete any transaction with just a few clicks: 60% of global consumers highly value the ability to control and personalize their experiences and 54% want to get only relevant offers, which are specifically tailored to their needs and interests.
Interestingly, for service providers who want to promote their online channels over the retail store (and therefore might discount products sold online), 64% of Americans indicated to Pew that, all things being equal, they actually prefer the experience of buying from physical stores to buying online.
And the customer experience is paramount if a service provider wants to ensure that all-important, high Net Promoter Score (NPS). The Pew survey found that nearly half (46%) of Americans feel that customer reviews help "a lot" in making consumers feel confident about their purchases , and 39% have shared their experiences or feelings (both good and bad…) about a commercial transaction on social-media platforms.
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Georgia Pritchett announced as showrunner for The Shrink Next Door
Georgia Pritchett has been announced as the showrunner and writer of The Shrink Next Door, starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd.
The series is an adaptation of the podcast by the same name, and based on a true story about a therapist who exploits his wealthy patient and takes over his home and life.
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Alipay — Welcome Chinese consumers, to the U.S. again. With shopping made a bit easier. The news dropped this week that Alipay is leveraging First Data's merchant base, via Clover, to bring payments and presence on par with Apple Pay. There are 450 million Chinese who use the service globally. And given the fact that last year Chinese tourists traveling abroad spent $261 billion (according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization), a fair slice of that spend could wind up in U.S. businesses' coffers.
Burger wars: When it comes to mobile payments, the proof is in the pudding — or the burger is on the bun. In the case of fast food, Burger King has the mobile payments crown, it seems. Mobile and specifically order ahead is set to get a push from the crown-wearing caloric king and seeks to reverse slipping same-store sales. In java land, through Dunkin' Donuts and Waze and other names (perhaps you have heard of Starbucks), we've seen loyalty and enthusiasm; so will McDonald's scramble to ketchup?
Banks vs. the CFPB: You wanna piece of this? Banks have been lining up to challenge the CFPB, in a bit of assertiveness, with an assist from the recently installed President (that would be Donald Trump) and Republican Congress. Of the 21 enforcement actions undertaken by the agency thus far in 2017, a full third have been challenged by those firms impacted by such regulations. The emboldened financial sector has now challenged, in the first four months of 2017, more regulations than it did in all of 2016.
Fizzle of the Week — Macy's and Kohl's: The Sick Canaries in Retail's Coal Mine
Investors didn't exactly have high hopes going into Macy's and Kohl's earnings reports yesterday (May 11). After several quarters of failing revenue, plummeting same-store sales, falling foot traffic and announced store closures from retail CEOs, retail earnings for the first quarter of 2017 were not expected to be stellar.
But somehow what investors got was even worse than their already adjusted expectations. Macy's was hit harder — everything that was supposed to drop more or less did — and by a lot more than by what the experts were predicting. Kohl's managed to beat on earnings — which the market liked — but whiffed on sales, which investors didn't.
So how sharp were those fizzles — and what's next?
Macy's Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Very Bad Earnings
By the numbers, there was a dearth of good news coming from Macy's.
Earnings per share came in at $0.24 adjusted, missing analyst estimates of $0.35. Revenue was $5.34 billion — missing projections of $5.47 billion.
Same-store sales were down an attention-getting 4.6 percent versus the 2.7 percent drop the Street was looking for. All in, Macy's reported a 39 percent drop in quarterly profits, with pressure from increasing inventory and falling margins. Net income fell to $71 million in the first quarter ending April 29, from $116 million a year earlier.
Macy's says that comparable sales in 2017 will fall 2 to 3 percent. Total sales are still expected to be down 3.2 to 4.3 percent, while adjusted earnings are expected to be $2.90 to $3.15 a share.
Macy's, for its part, reported that the result is "consistent with our expectations."
"We are encouraged by the performance of the pilot programs we tested last year in categories like women's shoes, fine jewelry, and furniture and mattresses," CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement. "We look forward to expanding these successful initiatives nationally this year and anticipate they will have a measurable impact on our performance starting in the second quarter, building through the fall. Additionally, our digital platforms showed continued strong growth in the first quarter."
We should all take lessons in what it means to be an optimist from Mr. Gennette.
Gennette succeeded longtime CEO Terry Lundgren last month and has publicly stated that he would like to see Macy's compete harder with off-price chains by bringing a model similar to that of Ross Stores or TJ Maxx into traditional malls. Macy's Backstage, the chain's off-price brand — has been rolling out for the last two years, and the plan is to now open 30 more Backstage-branded shops housed within Macy's full-price stores by the end of 2017.
"In 2017, we are focused on taking actions to stabilize our brick-and-mortar business, including the testing and iteration of additional pilot programs in order to bring them to scale in future years. At the same time, we will invest to aggressively grow our digital and mobile business, while continuing the integration of our online and offline experience to allow our customers to shop the way they live."
But as of right now, investors don't seem convinced that Macy's new leadership — and planned direction — will be enough to halt the death spiral. Shares price plummeted 10 percent and fell below its five-year low as the market closed.
If you'd like to get a sneak peek at where this is going, read Karen Webster's Retail Darwinism and the story of Hutzler's — the 132-year-old Grand Dame of Baltimore department store retailing that faced its own headwinds and tried to be something it was not. And died a long, painful and expensive death.
So, while silver linings are hard to find — and we can't think of any for Macy's — Kohl's did manage to look slightly better by comparison since it also released earnings yesterday.
Which isn't to say the news was good, exactly.
Kohl's Sales Slump
Kohl's did manage to show some green arrows pointing in the right direction. Total net income rose to $66 million, or $0.39 per share, from $17 million, or $0.09 per share, during the same time period a year earlier. That was a better outcome than analysts were expecting by a fair margin — Street expectations were calling for earnings of $0.29 per share.
Net sales, on the other hand, tumbled 3.2 percent to $3.84 billion, missing analyst estimates of $3.90 billion.
Same-store sales were also weaker than expected — falling by 2.7 percent instead of the 1.2 percent analysts had expected. The loss does represent a smaller drop than Kohl's saw last year at this time — when comparable sales took a 3.9 percent hit.
"Continued strong inventory management led to a major improvement in gross margin, and our teams managed expenses exceptionally well," CEO Kevin Mansell noted on the revenue beat.
"We are encouraged by the significant improvement in sales and traffic for the March and April period, after a weak February start to the first quarter."
Gross margin was up for the quarter — to 36.4 percent from 35.5 percent during Q1 2016. But inventory fell — declining by 2.3 percent during the first quarter.
Analysts point to careful inventory management and a focus on cost reduction for the margin improvement. Falling sales, however, remain a concern. And what Kohl's will do to more efficiently manage in the future were of primary concern to investors.
Kohl's is actively working to reduce its footprint: It closed 19 stores last year, and in Boston it is actually shrinking some of its Kohl's 100,000-square-foot stores, reducing them down to 70,000-square-foot stores and using the excess space to bring in other tenants.
Like Macy's, it is talking up efficiency.
But like Macy's, it also ended the day with its stock down — 7 percent.
Investors are running out of patience with turn-around efforts at department stores that never quite seem to turn.
It was a fizzly week for them — and traditional retail more generally. Whether this is the best of the worst remains to be seen.
New PYMNTS Study: Subscription Commerce Conversion Index – July 2020
Staying home 24/7 has consumers turning to subscription services for both entertainment and their day-to-day needs. While that's a great opportunity for providers, it also presents a challenge — 27.4 million consumers are looking to cancel their subscriptions because of friction and cost concerns. In the latest Subscription Commerce Conversion Index, PYMNTS reveals the five key features that can help companies keep subscribers loyal despite today's challenging economic times.


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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: PDBunny on January 16, 2019, 01:55:54 AM
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Hernia on PD?
Re: Hernia
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Hi PDBunny...
This section on the forum is for tributes to members who have died...
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Re: Hernia
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February 05, 2019, 08:26:05 AM
It looks like t his post has already nee moved into the correct forum but still has not gathered any responses.
Yes, it is indeed possible for a PD Patient to have a hernia.
This can be a problem that needs immediate evaluation as depending on the location and severity of the hernia it can become a serious problem needing surgical attention.
You MUST see a Dr. It the pain lever is high consider going to the ER.
It is possible for a section of intestine to protrude through the fault, become 'pinched' off, stopping flow through the intestine. This can become VERY Bad very quickly. Which is why you must have this checked out ASAP.
Take Care and let us know how you are doing.
Charlie B53
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February 05, 2019, 09:18:28 AM
This can be very dangerous, if left too long. Here in the UK the waiting-list on the NHS is very long, so long, that most sufferers only get their operation performed by an emergency-doctor, one, who does the procedure not very often and only when the patient is in a life-dangerous emergency and from then on many patients remain in constant pain for the rest of their life.
On the other hand there are specialists who do nothing else but this operation and they won't make any mistake whatsoever. Unfortunately the real quality doctors cost of course a bit more, but it is worth it because on the other hand lots of enjoyment of life, nerves and money can be saved and avoiding terrible suffering and pain and nerves are also saved by going to the specialist and have it sorted in a medically qualified way ...
Good Luck ! :grouphug;
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Air Force has announced a six man incoming class for their Men's program. The six have started basic training.
Tyler Huebner - San Antonio, Texas
Colton Wulf - Wheat Ridge, Colo.
Mac Ritchie - Concord, N.C.
Ben Zaiser - Mars, Pa.
Kyle Baker - Union, Ky.
Patrick Duffy - Albuquerque, N.M.
Baker trains at Queen City Gymnastics and is a Regional qualifier.
Duffy trains at Gold Cup.
Huebner trains at Alamo Gymnastics.
Ritchie trains at G&J Gymnastics. He finished 61st AA in the prelims at the 2010 JO Nationals.
Zaiser trains at the Pittsburg Northstars in PA and is the younger brother of gymnasts Aaron (Air Force) and Rebekah (Florida). He finished 121st AA at the 2010 JO Nationals.
Wuf's commit was covered in a prior news item.
Link: Air Force Release
Cal Men's Head Coach Barry Weiner has retired, the school has announced. Weiner retires after 19 years at the helm at Cal. His retirement comes amidst reports that Cal boosters and alumni are mobilizing in face of the threat of the entire Cal gymnastics program, due to the ongoing California budget crisis.
Link: Cal Release
According to a Stanford press release sent to CGFs, Tabitha Yim is the new assistant coach at Stanford. The press release reminds us that "Yim was a 14-time All-American at Stanford from 2005-08 – earning the most All-America honors in school history – and had 13 first-team selections. She placed among the top 10 in the NCAA all-around competition all four years and twice won Pacific-10 Conference and NCAA regional all-around titles."Press Release
JD Reive has been named Head Coach at Iowa, according to a school release. Reive replaces Tom Dunn, who retired at the end of the 2010 season. For the last seven seaons, he has served as an assistant at Stanford.
Link: Iowa Release
Haley Scaman, L10 from IGI in Illinois, has verbally committed to OU for the 2012-13 season. Scaman turned in great results this season, including a 1st AA (1st FX) at the Chicago Style and a 1st AA (1st V) at her state meet. She won vault at most of her meets and wrapped up her season with a share of the VT title at the JO Nationals. She also placed 7th AA and tied for 3rd on FX and 4th on UB at Nationals.
Arkansas, Auburn, Illinois, North Carolina State, Utah and Washington have been selected to host the 2012 regional meets.
Michigan announced the addition of Terea Arthur and Tori Kane to the incoming class for 2010-2011. Arthur's commit was covered in a prior news item. Kane is a L10 who trains at Will-Moor in New Jersey and is a teammate of Michigan signee Shelby Geis. She missed much of the 2008-2009 season with an injury but competed at this year's Region VII L10 Regionals.
Link: Michigan Release and Kane's YouTube.com Channel
Courtney Willoughby, L10 from Brestyans Gymnastics in Massachusetts, has given George Washington University a verbal commitment. She finished 2nd AA (1st FX) at this year's Sand Dollar meet and 2nd AA at the All Olympia meet. She went on to finish 3rd AA at her state meet and a 2nd AA finish at regionals qualified her to JO Nationals.
Kelley Higgins, L10 from GymstradaGymnastics in Virginia, will compete for Towson next season. She finished 15th AA at the Region 7 Championships this season.
Megan Whitney will transfer from Utah to Washington, according to a UW release. Whitney trained at the Desert Devils, the same club as incoming UW frosh Aliza Vaccher. Whitney is a former runner-up at the L10 Nationals.
Link: UW Release
Kylie Schermann of TAGS Apple Valley in Minnesota has committed to Minnesota for 2011-2012, according to her club. Schermann finished tied for 7th on BB, 9th on FX and 21st AA at the 2010 L10 Nationals, Senior C.
Link: Club Web Site
Utah has officially accepted an invitation to join the Pac-10 Conference, further strengthening an already strong gymnastics conference. They currently compete as part of the WAC, which does not sponsor a conference championship. Eight teams currently now support the Women's sport in the Pac-10. Utah will begin Pac-10 competition for the 2011-2012 school year.
Colorado had previously announced it's intention to join the Pac-10 after NU moved from the Big 12 to the Big 10. Shortly thereafter, Boise State moved to the MWC. This all started a chain reaction of negotiations between schools, conferences (Big 10, Pac 10, and Big 12) and television networks. In the end, the remaining schools in the Big 12 decided to stay together as a conference after a new television deal was assembled that satisfied Texas. Some pundits speculated that the major sports television networks had a vested interest in preventing the spread of mega-conferences, each with their own television channels.
However, there is speculation that although the activity has settled down, it is not yet completed. Some schools, and more importnatly, boosters are still seeking out the best options for their schools.
Link: SLC Tribune Article and Utah Press Conference Transcript
Steve Shephard has stepped down as Head Coach at Penn State to pursue other career opportunities, according to a school release. He said in a statement, "I have decided to retire from coaching after a 30 year career in gymnastics, to pursue other career opportunities. It has been my great honor, and privilege, to work with all of the gifted young people associated with this program over the last 21 years."
Link: PSU Release and Daily Collegian Coverage, Including Interviews
Organization is an important component in the college search for athletes and completing a college-bound assessment for what you would like to achieve is a great way to start! Think of the assessment as the seed you want to plant to grow your recruiting effort. What grows will be determined by how you cultivate it from start to finish.
Looking at the "big picture" can be a tall task for most high school-aged athletes, but if you can begin with the end game in mind and work backwards in developing your personal plan for success, you will most likely run into the college assessment near the beginning of the checklist.
Vicki Chliszczyk has been named the Head Coach at Towson, replacing Dick Filbert, who retired. Chliszczyk has been an assistant for the past five season at Maryland and is a native of Canada, where she competed in gymanstics. She is just the fourth Head Coach in the 43 year history of the program. The full Towson release follows below.


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Vitamin D pathway gene variants and prostate cancer risk.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Source:Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, Volume 18, Issue 6, p.1929-33 (2009)
Keywords:2009, Adult, Aged, Case-Control Studies, Center-Authored Paper, Cytochrome P-450 CYP27A1, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Public Health Sciences Division, Receptors, Calcitriol, Research Trials Office Core Facility - Biostatistics Service, Risk Factors, Shared Resources, Specimen Processing Core Facility, Steroid Hydroxylases, Vitamin D
Vitamin D has antiproliferative, antiangiogenic, and apoptotic properties. There is some evidence supporting an association between vitamin D-related gene variants and prostate cancer risk. We report results from this population-based case-control study of genes encoding for the vitamin D receptor (VDR), the vitamin D activating enzyme 1-alpha-hydroxylase (CYP27B1), and deactivating enzyme 24-hydroxylase (CYP24A1). Forty-eight tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNP) were analyzed in 827 incident prostate cancer cases diagnosed from 2002 to 2005, and in 787 age-matched controls. Contrary to some earlier studies, we found no strong evidence of altered risk of developing prostate cancer overall or within clinical measures of tumor aggressiveness for any of the tagSNPs when they were assessed individually or in haplotypes.
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