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ST. LOUIS - Preps are underway as downtown St. Louis is getting ready to revel yet again in one of its biggest sporting events this week.
And the fanfare comes with the need for stepping up security.
Tuesday night, several downtown streets had already shut down as the city gets ready to host its first-ever SEC Basketball Tournament
"We maximize officers downtown both undercover officers as well as officers that are in uniform and we put them on pretty strategic spots," said Captain Renee Kriesmann with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
City police will also use their most up to date technology to keep a close eye.
"We will use our new tower that we have at 14th and Market that has high visibility cameras and those will feed into our real-time crime center," Kreismann explained. "Part of our focus this weekend will also be the garages and flat lots. Park in well-lit areas park in areas that you are familiar with."
If MetroLink is your preferred choice of transportation Kreismann said look for extra police officers roaming.
"We will put extra officers on MetroLink platforms as well as on the trains so we will have enough officers to staff all of those locations," she said.
Several restaurants will also host watch parties.
"We get quite a few officers in here all the time so they keep us updated on how the traffic flow will go or how it affects our trolleys," explained Aaron Sniveoi, General Manager at Maggie O'Brien's, "and most of us run shuttles to and from Scottrade."
Officials with MetroLink said that in addition to city officers the transit system will also provide extra public safety officers of their own.
Kreismann said that if you're planning to bring a bag, make sure it's an SEC-approved bag which you can find at the hotels or at Scottrade Center.

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One of the most common mistakes beginners make in their training journey is not having defined goals. People in fitness, rehab and medicine will typically hear "I want to be fit." "I want to lose weight.", particularly at this time of the year. The main problem is engineering; if you can't measure or define what success looks like, how do you know when you have achieved it?
If you say, "I want to run a half marathon before the end of the year sub 2 hours." That is a goal. If you say, "I want to squat 405 for 5 reps by June" that is a goal. "I want to be fit", is a meaningless statement with about as much relation to your health as hugs solve homelessness.
In order for something to change from being a wish to a reality we need to create goals or near-term objectives. We hear this a lot but clearly it bears repeating, goals should be SMART,
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timed. The next time you want to set a goal ask your self;
Specific - Am I targeting a particular area for improvement?
Measurable - Can I measure the outcome in distance, weight, reps, time, etc.?
Achievable - Is the goal realistic? The number of guys who ask for 6 pack abs by June in mid-April is phenomenal.
Relevant - How motivated am I to achieve this goal & why?
Timed - Do I have a date to achieve the goal by?
By Thanksgiving I will run 10km in under an hour.
By my birthday I will lift 10lb on my bench.
By June 1, I will lose/gain 10lb.
Once we have SMART goals defined we can work together to build a program based on lifestyle and goals to get you to the specific place you want to be.
Decide what you want and attack it!
Guy Razy


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The Orro Venturi disc brake aero road bike is finally available, and we can tell you that it rides smoothly, offers loads of frame stiffness, and packs in plenty of value.
Okay, first a little background because, although we've told you about the Venturi several times before, it has been over an extended period and we're not expecting you to have taken notes. We'll go back to the start.
Sussex-based Orro revealed the Venturi at the start of last year after an 18 month development period – and Orro does design its own bikes, it doesn't use open moulds. The Venturi is an aero road bike that's disc brake-only; there's no rim brake version. The same is true of the latest version of the Specialized Venge, for example, BMC's Timemachine and the Cannondale SystemSix, among others.
One other important feature is that the Venturi is optimised for 28mm-wide tyres rather than 25s. Orro says that it made this decision right at the start of the process, its reasoning being that wider tyres allow you to run lower pressures, improve grip and reduce rolling resistance. Orro also says that although wider tyres present a larger frontal area, they make for a smoother transition between the frame and the wheels, improving the airflow and reducing drag – obviously a key consideration in any aero bike.
Although 25mm tyres are still the most popular option on road bikes, we're hearing of more and more bike and wheel manufacturers moving to 28mm. If you really want to fit narrower tyres to a Venturi for any reason there's nothing to stop you, but Orro specs 28mm Continental Grand Sport Races.
The frame features spread tow carbon from UK carbon composite specialist Sigmatex. 'Spread tow' means that the carbon fibre is arranged in flat, wide tapes; think of it as ribbons that are woven together. It's a technology that Orro already uses to great effect on its Gold STC road bike.
Read our Orro Gold STC Disc review
What's the point of spread tow?
"The sigmaST range of spread tow fabrics are very thin, are ultra lightweight, have near zero crimp and fewer interlacing points," says Sigmatex. "As well as being aesthetically pleasing, this technology has improved mechanical performance at a reduced thickness and cost when compared to standard 2D fabrics using 1K fibres."
The spread tow construction is said to reduce weight and increase stiffness. Plus, the fact that the carbon comes from Sigmatex, based in Runcorn, means that Orro can trace it through every stage of the bike's production.
Spread tow also has a distinctive chessboard appearance. If you go for the black version of the frame you'll be able to see it clearly, whereas on the white/red version it's visible only where Orro has left little windows in the paintwork.
We visited Sigmatex with Orro for our 2019 range overview. Check out our video.
Once the mould was designed, Orro tried out frames in three carbon-fibre layups during the development process, each of them built with exactly the same components apart from differently coloured water bottle cages in order to tell them apart. These were ridden by the Orro team over a period of weeks, and everyone apparently agreed on the model that should go into full production.
This was all sorted well over a year ago but Orro had a supply issue with the Venturi and final versions of the frameset have only just arrived in the country and been built up at the company's HQ just outside Ditchling.
That's where I headed last week for a ride on the Venturi. I rode up Ditchling Beacon (my first time up there; a really cool climb), down to Brighton, up Devil's Dyke and back home through the lanes. Some ups, some downs, and some flat bits. That's not enough time on the bike to form the basis of a complete review but it's long enough to get some early impressions, and they're positive.
Comfort might seem an odd place to start when talking about an aero road bike but that's exactly what I'm going to lead with because, well, a lot of aero road bikes really suffer when it comes to ride quality. Their slim but deep-section tubes might slip through the air with the minimum of turbulence but comfort is low on the list of priorities. Let's be honest, some are downright harsh.
It's difficult to tell on one ride whether the Venturi's frame is any different from the majority of other aero road bikes in this respect, but the fact that it's designed to be used with 28mm makes a big difference.
If you feel you have to get rattled around in the saddle to feel fast then by all means stick with skinny tyres, but the more I ride them the more I like 28s (and I'm someone who would probably have used 10mm tyres if I could have got them back in ye olden dayes, and cut a groove in the tarmac in the process). Yes, they're marginally heavier than 25s and, as mentioned above, they increase your frontal area a touch, but the difference they make to the ride quality is huge.
I can't tell you how the Venturi feels after five hours, but judging by the time I did spend in the saddle I'm pretty confident that you won't have any worries there. Some aero bikes are fast but harsh; the Venturi is fast and comfy. I know which I prefer.
As for the ride position, I was on the large sized Venturi with a 558mm effective top tube and a 164mm head tube. The seat angle on this model is 73.5° while the head angle is slightly slacker than you might expect at 72.3°. The stack is 562mm and the reach is 392mm, giving a stack/reach of 1.43 – nothing too radical there. That's a race geometry, as you'd expect, but it isn't the most aggressive you'll ever see.
I could have done with a longer top tube, truth be told, but I'm actually between Venturi sizes; the XL would have been a bit too rangy. With a 120mm stem fitted I had a ride position that felt efficient.
Another key feature you notice when riding the Venturi is the frame stiffness. Again, some aero road bikes in the past have fallen short in this respect but slam the chain in the big ring, jump hard on the pedals and there's very little noticeable flex here. Rather, the Venturi is highly responsive, obediently turning everything you throw at it into forward motion.
One final thing to mention is the stability. There are certainly bikes out there that are keener to hold a line but the Venturi is a long way from twitchy. Manoeuvrable, yes, twitchy, no. It's not one of those bikes that requires constant attention to stay straight.
In the absence of a wind tunnel, I can't tell you about the Venturi's aerodynamic performance, although many of the features we've come to expect of aero road bikes are present and correct. The frame tubes are narrow and deep, for example, as are the fork legs, and the fork crown is integrated into the head tube/ down tube junction. That down tube is dropped with a cutaway section to accommodate the front wheel.
The seatstays are dropped too, and the seat tube is cutaway around the leading edge of the rear wheel. The seatpost is shaped for aerodynamics as well, and it's held in place by a hidden wedge-type system, the bolt recessed into the underside of the top tube.
The Venturi is currently available as a frameset – including the seatpost, headset, bottom bracket and switch lever thru-axles (you can remove the lever once they are in place) – for £1,999.99, or in two different builds.
The more expensive version is £3,299.99 and comes with a full Shimano Ultegra Di2 groupset, Ultegra hydraulic disc brakes, Fulcrum Racing 400 DB wheels and Continental Grand Sport Race tyres. The handlebar and stem are from Deda and the saddle is from Prologo.
I was on the more affordable version which is exactly the same but for the fact that you get mechanical shifting. This version is £2,599.99 but I did have a cheeky wheel upgrade that takes the price up to £3,499. Rather than the alloy Fulcrum Racing 400s, my bike was fitted with the new carbon Fulcrum Wind 400s.
Those are competitive prices. The BMC Teammachine SLR02 Disc One, for instance, is £4,400 with a Shimano Ultegra Di2 build, as is a Bianchi Aria with the same groupset.
Overall, the Orro Venturi offers a good level of stiffness, a very high ride quality and lots of value alongside its aero claims. It might have been a long time coming but it has been worth the wait.
Find out more at www.orrobikes.com
Mat has in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.


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I hate to break it to you, hopeless romantics, but my relationship is nowhere near perfect. Here are 10 brutally honest things about my relationship to show you that even the picture-perfect couples are dealing with sh*t.
Category: Relationships
75 Things You Learn When You Move in with Your Boyfriend
For those of you aren't quite at this stage in your relationship, you're gonna want to jot these things down. For those of you who have passed this threshhold, sit back and enjoy a few throwbacks.
Gobble Til You Wobble
Gobble gobble! I hope you all had a wonder(full) Thanksgiving with the ones you love. How did you spend your holiday? Huddled around the table sharing stories, playing a game of spades, or shouting in front of the TV watching football?
Sleepless in Seattle
This is a little tale about my sweetheart. It's also about learning how to love, how to forgive, and how to say yes to the things that may not be so popular.
Father's Day.
I've spent the last 4 hours of this day scrolling through my social media feeds admiring happy family photos of my friends with their fathers. Usually, on this day I've spent in celebration of my own father…but this year is a bit different.
Best Friends
I had just started my freshman year of college. What a time to be alive! I had just turned 18 and moved to Phoenix completely on my own. Many students were fearful to be completely on their own but I was ecstatic.


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The Best High-End Foundations for Oily Skin
First let's define 'High End'. To me, these are foundations available at the department store, and there's actually quite a range of prices. In Australia, MAC sits at the lower end of the scale at about $50 a pop, whereas a bottle of Armani's stuff can set you back $99. Ouch.
I have this series on my YouTube channel called 'Holy Grail for Oily Skin' where I test foundations to see how well they last on my incredibly oily skin and OH BOY is it a struggle. In most cases I end up looking like a melted candle by the end of the day but this list contains some of the best that I've tried over the past in the last year or so, with a couple of old favourites thrown in there too.
So without further ado, let's get into it!
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Shiseido Synchro Skin Foundation
This foundation might be a bit of a curve ball because I think I've only used it in a tutorial once, but I really do love this stuff! I only have one shade - Neutral 3 - which is quite dark, so I can only wear it when I'm (false) tanned. I keep meaning to buy a lighter shade but then my list of new foundations to try keeps getting longer so... whaddya gonna do?
Shiseido Synchro Skin is a very thin and runny liquid foundation, similar in texture to MAC's Waterweight or YSL's Fusion Ink. It's incredibly pigmented and feels like you're wearing nothing at all. The finish is smooth and flawless - without looking like a mask. It has a beautiful satin texture - definitely not dewy, but not fully matte either. It's just gorgeous on the skin. Miraculously it lasts pretty well too, I think because you only need a very thin layer. One of my absolute favourites!
Makeup Forever Ultra HD Foundation
This will come as no surprise - I went through a phase of using nothing but this foundation for about six months. If you don't want to look like you're wearing a lot of makeup but you still like full coverage, this is the foundation for you. It is quite undetectable on the skin - perhaps that's the idea behind the HD marketing.
As great as this foundation is though, it's not the most longest wearing on my oily skin. It does tend to get a bit shiny throughout the day so I find myself having to blot and powder. I can get over that though because the finish is so nice and it's actually really easy to fix - it doesn't set so much that it cakes, so it's quite easy to blend together again. People with oily skin will know exactly what I'm talking about!
Estee Lauder Double Wear Light
Again, no surprises here. I think this might be my favourite foundation of all time, I love it so much! When I wear this, I don't look like I'm wearing a lot of makeup, yet my skin looks smooth and luminous (in a good way) and even. It's probably the most 'skin like' of this list.
The finish is dewy - definitely not a matte finish - but once it's powdered, it lasts all day! This is my go-to for holidays and for sweltering summer time here in Australia - it lasts through heat, humidity, sweat, and oil. It is phenomenal.
I also have a video comparing Estee Lauder Double Wear Light with the original Double Wear and if you're curious you can watch that here.
Lancôme Teint Miracle Foundation
I'm don't think this is formula is aimed at oily skin, but it certainly lasts well on mine. Having said that it doesn't hold a candle to Double Wear Light, but I'll let if off the hook because it has such a gorgeous finish. Again, this foundation has really lightweight, runny texture, but it packs a helluva lot of coverage. My skin look flawless but it feels super lightweight.
Lancôme Teint Miracle is not a matte finish by any stretch, in fact I can safely say it's the most luminous of the products mentioned in this post. The bottle says 'natural light creator, bare skin perfection' and I would agree with that assessment, I do look quite radiant when I wear this makeup. Carrying powder and blotting paper is a must as it will develop a shine, but it doesn't split or separate on my skin.
This is a good foundation for people with normal to oily skin who like coverage, like to look radiant, and don't mind having to powder every now and then.
HourGlass Vanish Stick Foundation
This might be a bit of a surprise because when I reviewed this foundation last year, I didn't really rate it. Over time and multiple second chances though, I've grown to love the Hourglass Vanish Stick and would rank it among one of my favourites.
I love that it can be used either as a foundation or concealer - it's so densely pigmented, but glides on and feels lightweight. It's unlike any stick foundation I've used before; slippy and very easy to blend. I tend to use this more often as concealer, and it's one of my favorite products to bring when I travel because it's so compact and versatile. You don't get a huge amount of product for your money and it is not a cheap foundation, but when used sparingly as I do, I think it would last quite a while
I hope that's helpful and if you would like to hear about some high end foundations I really didn't like, then watch the video below!


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London 2012: Bus staff vote to strike over workload
Bus workers in London have voted to take strike action in a row over their workload during the Olympics.
Nearly 40% of Unite members working for 21 bus companies voted 94% in favour of strike action. No dates have been set.
The union, which is asking for a £500 bonus, says bus workers are the only London transport staff not in line to receive an Olympics bonus payment.
Transport for London (TfL) said bus workers were employed by private firms who set their pay.
Dates for strike action could be announced early next week.
Unite says it expects 800,000 extra passengers to travel on buses during the Games.
It said workers on London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railways, Network Rail and Virgin would all receive between £500 to £900 in extra payments.
In May, a survey of 2,955 London bus and rail passengers commissioned by the union found that 88% were in favour of Olympic bonus pay.
'Completely reprehensible'
Peter Kavanagh, Unite regional secretary for London, said: "It's a disgrace that London's mayor, Boris Johnson, and the bus companies have allowed this dispute to get this far.
"Our members are only asking for an extra £17 a day which will just about buy you a pint of beer and a portion of fish and chips at the Olympics.
Off-duty drivers have held protests in open-top buses
"Our members want the Games to be a success but their patience has run out."
Leon Daniels, TfL's managing director of surface transport, said: "I am not surprised that 70% of London's bus drivers did not vote for strike action.
"That is because about 70% of London's local bus services are not affected by the Olympic Games.
"The whole country is really entering into the spirit of the Games and the overwhelming responsible majority are pulling out all the stops to make it a huge success.
"Only Unite appears to want to exploit it by adding a further multimillion-pound burden to the hard-pressed fare-payers and taxpayers of London."
Mr Daniels added that Unite had already negotiated binding deals for pay and conditions with each of the bus companies for this year.
"Attempting to tear up those agreements and get a new one with less than 50 days to go before the Games is completely reprehensible and out of step with every other provider of services in this city this summer."


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Declan Lynch: 'Recreational nationalists: they just can't say no'
Let us call it 'recreational nationalism'. Like the recreational use of Class A drugs, it is a major phenomenon but rarely gets the kind of attention we give to the hardcore element, the addicts who have nothing else in their lives – the ones we call terrorists, to distinguish them from the ones who used to be terrorists, or who would support terrorism in certain circumstances.
It is a false distinction, because really they all want the same thing, but then it has to be said that the recreational nationalists want that thing, too.
They all want a united Ireland of some kind, just like the recreational users of cocaine at dinner parties want the same thing as the irredeemable obsessives scoring the really bad stuff in the alleyways.
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Maybe the recreational users want a better type of cocaine, or they don't want quite as much of it, and they're not sure if they'd like it every day, and they would prefer on the whole if thousands of people didn't have to be murdered in some faraway place just so that they could be getting what they want – but still they want it.
Likewise, the recreational nationalist wants to enjoy the vision of a united Ireland, with all the bad things about the united Ireland taken out – and this was obviously difficult last week when Lyra McKee was murdered in pursuit of their particular vision of a united Ireland.
But the recreational users managed it anyway, because on the Monday after that murder, #UnitedIreland was trending on Twitter.
For a moment I had the distant hope that #UnitedIreland was trending because anyone who had ever entertained that notion had finally decided to jack it in, and never to speak those words again. But deep down I also knew that this hope was in vain.
No, it was more a kind of a sorrowful meditation by various tweeters on their own #UnitedIreland journey, which still continues, with here and there another false distinction being made between Saoradh and the "old" IRA – the Provos, who were, of course, once a "new" IRA in their own right, to distinguish them from the Old IRA, which no doubt didn't start out Old, but was itself "new" at the time.
There was fierce criticism, too, of the IRA/Saoradh, by those who are totally against the "physical force tradition" but who are not against the #UnitedIreland dream, to which they are still somehow emotionally connected.
And they are not alone in this, because polls are suggesting that up to 70pc of adults would favour a united Ireland – if you're asking. They're not demanding it, as such, not like the Provos or Saoradh or the various IRAs which were once New but are now Old – but if you ask them, they'll tell you that's what they want.
So that would be more of the recreational nationalism there, made somewhat more disturbing by the fact that younger people are more in favour than older types. But then how could they not be?
They didn't live through the last atrocity exhibition brought to us by the Provos, but they know a lot of people who did, and very few of them seem to be any less in favour of #UnitedIreland as a result. No, they still enjoy the little luxury of the occasional toot on the old green powders, though, of course, they wouldn't want anything really bad to happen along the way – they wouldn't want thousands to be killed the next time.
Indeed, how could young people be against it in large numbers, when urbane fellows such as Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney are in favour of it – under the right circumstances, of course?
It reminds us a bit of the footballers who say they still like a good drinking session but only "at the right time". Again, all just recreational.
Yet for all their fastidious efforts to distance themselves from the addicts, as it were, the recreational users in the Republic have always been vital to the business of nationalism in general.
They have kept it going, with their understated support. They can't bring themselves to just give it up and so they keep suggesting the problem is not the #UnitedIreland as such, it's just the way it's been done.
Then they reach that point where they encounter the roughly one million people in Northern Ireland who don't want #UnitedIreland and they glide over that one by suggesting that those people are sadly mistaken and when they realise how great it would be, they will be fine. Oddly enough, a similar argument used to be made when this Republic was destitute, with a gulag to rival anything from Solzhenitsyn, but sure, they'll get past that too.
It will hardly ever occur to the higher caste of dinner party Republicans that the problem is actually the #UnitedIreland. That if so many astoundingly disgusting things have been done in its pursuit, maybe it's the pursuit itself that is wrong?
There was one fine tweet on the subject though, which went: "I think nationalism, unionism, religion, are some of the worst constructs ever created by our species."
The tweeter had just four followers – make that five.
Red Fred hardly sends dread to opposition
It is only when you are wanting Manchester United to win, that you realise just how grave the situation has become for them. For one night only, Liverpool fans found themselves in the strange position whereby a good result for Man Utd against City would be a good result for Liverpool, too.
In truth, we knew it could not end well.
For them, the thought that they might do Liverpool a favour, even if they were also doing themselves a favour, was probably too much to bear. Even if they weren't quite bad anyway, to be carrying this weight around in their subconscious for weeks must have been a terrible burden.
They were in this strange new psychic territory, in which their natural ineptitude might be confused with their equally natural desire not to assist Liverpool in any way. Because that is all that is left to them.
Liverpool themselves have been there, of course, to the extent that some have questioned the sincerity of their performance in a similar situation a few years ago, when they might have done United a favour against Chelsea, but couldn't find it within themselves – though again, the Liverpool of that time was perfectly capable of losing any game, in a variety of ways, some of which had never been seen before.
Indeed, it is not just the decline of United itself that is breathtaking, it is their determination to do all the things that Liverpool did wrong for about 25 years – if Sir Alex Ferguson is still available for corporate events, sharing his thoughts on success and failure, he has all the material he will ever need about the failure, in the disintegration of his own empire.
Indeed, he may also be part of the problem, with United looking for "continuity" by appointing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the kind of "continuity" that comes from the Gunnar's deep knowledge of the Ferguson regime – yet Fergie himself never had much time for "continuity", except the kind of continuity that came from continually winning all your games and then continuing to do that continuously.
Liverpool were great men for the "continuity" as well, until they reached that point which United have reached – a point when everything becomes so dysfunctional you can look at a long list of players they have signed, and you can be completely bewildered by those names, and how little they contributed to the cause.
And poor though so many of them are, there is something definitive about the name of 'Fred'.
Nothing wrong with the name itself, but when it's attached to a Brazilian footballer, it will never look right. If you're a Brazilian footballer, and the best they can call you is 'Fred', in all likelihood, you are not the man to turn it around for United. Indeed, to sign a Brazilian called Fred, on general principles, is so obviously wrong, the fact that they paid £53m for him seems relatively trivial.
Best, Law, Charlton, Giggs, Keane, Cantona, Ronaldo… no good will come of evoking those great names.
The truth must be faced.
It's all about Fred now.
Shameless hacks have a go at Greta
The various criticisms of Greta Thunberg during her visit to Britain last week were mostly the kind of shameless hackery that is directed at the issue of climate change in general – with a few personalised twists just for Greta.
They had a great laugh about the self-importance of this teenager reminding the serious people in the Houses of Parliament of their responsibilities, the same great laugh they had at the multi-millionaire Emma Thompson for coming over to London from Hollywood to "lecture us" about global warming and the like.
There is nothing that the shameless hack likes more than to represent the voices of "normal, sensible people" having their patience tested by these privileged know-alls – though in the case of Thunberg, it got a bit strange when her privileged upbringing was linked to the news that her mother had once represented Sweden in the Eurovision.
Which gave us an actually funny line from Willard Foxton Todd, who wrote: "If someone could explain why Greta Thunberg's mum being a Eurovision singer is in some way helpful to her I'd like to hear it. It's not like Bucks Fizz are on panels at Davos every year."
More in sorrow than in anger, there were suggestions that Greta has been exploited by adults, used as a conduit for these apocalyptic messages – it was just assumed that the apocalyptic messages are drivel, that there's nothing in this climate change thing for normal, sensible people to be concerned about, except perhaps that Greta is encouraging other young people to mitch.
It was Andrea Leadsom, the Brexiteer, who started that one a few months ago, when kids across the UK walked out of school to call on the Government to declare a climate emergency. "That's not a strike, it's truancy," she said, which was probably the first time anyone had heard the word "truancy" since about 1971.
Leadsom's impossibly small-minded line brings us to the most grisly feature of these slaggings of Greta Thunberg – the majority of them coming from supporters of Brexit, which is clearly one of the worst ideas in human history. And still they don't know that, still they feel free to be mouthing their gibberish.
They know nothing.
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Andrew Cohen is out with a piece: "Should I favor the Abolition of Public Schools (or State-School Separationism)?" The answer for a libertarian is quite simple – it shouldn't take more than a moment's thought for anyone who abides by the NAP; however, Andy – writing for the bleeding brain libertarian site – will not allow for such a simple conclusion (you will find he can't even bring himself to offer a conclusion; probably because his bleeding brain doesn't like the answer).
I have further reason for doubt given Andy's stance on another issue of significance (an issue I never even thought was an issue until I read about it on a site with the word "libertarian" in it; go figure) – a proposed state role to license parents. Here again, a libertarian shouldn't have to spend much brain power to understand the answer to the question and the dangers posed by the alternative. He endorses parent licensing. I am as dumbfounded today as I was about a year ago when I first came across his ramblings on the topic. How on earth (but there, I have already answered my question) can any self-described libertarian even ask such a question?
I have been staring on and off at Andy's piece for a few days – what a mess being stirred up by left-libertarians. I wonder if it is a game – see how many people fall for a more and more bastardized version of libertarianism, thereby diluting the message. Like Andy and his buddies sit around with their wine spritzers and laugh: "can you believe those bozos take seriously the notion that libertarian thought has room for the state to license parenting? What a bunch of losers. Oh, can you pass a few more of those scrumptious little mushroom pinwheels this way, please?"
But, for some reason, I don't believe it is a joke for Andy and some of the rest – I think they are actually serious. So, while I hesitated on addressing this garbage, here I am; I find it actually fun on occasion to poke a stick at nonsense.
Is there such a thing as a libertarian education policy?
Yes. It is the responsibility of the parents (although Rothbard and Block might disagree).
I have always been partial to J.S. Mill's suggestion that (a) people should be allowed to educate their children how they wish subject only to the caveat that the government will test the children, periodically, to see that they know certain essentials (what the essentials and how often they should be tested can be left to the side) and (b) government can provide some schools for those who want or need such.
It cannot be "left to the side." If government does the testing, government will decide what is taught. The state will educate your children. What a Hitlerian concept.
More and more, though, I find myself drawn to a strict abolition of state administered education.
Don't be fooled by this pleasant line – it is a trap.
(Nothing I say here argues directly against state funding of education.) (Emphasis in original)
Why does the wine spritzer crowd not live in the real world? Hasn't Andy heard of the golden rule? He who holds the gold makes the rules. Does Andy think the government will fund and not have a say?
So what can he possibly mean when he says he finds himself against state administered education, but not state funding and state testing? (See Leon Festinger for a description of this mental condition.)
One common argument for state schooling (I am referring to universal state administered primary education) relies on its supposed necessity to creating good citizens. This claim seems implausible;
Again, don't be fooled. Andy seems to have a habit of baiting the reader with a libertarian-sounding position, only to…well, read on:
…there are clearly other methods of making good citizens, including private schools and home schools where the teachers (or parent-teachers) are well prepared.
I get nervous around the term "good citizens." To me, a good citizen is one who generally follows the NAP; it will be beneficial if he also demonstrates critical thinking abilities. I expect little more.
But Henry David Thoreau captured what is meant by most when he wrote that men who serve the state making "no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense…are commonly esteemed good citizens." This is what bothers me about the term – because this is what I come across in any conversation on the topic: vote, obey the government, support the troops, taxes are the price we pay for a civil society, I want my blankie, blah, blah, blah.
Further, the evolution of this term as viewed through the lens of a child passing through the state-funded brainwashing system can be described as follows:
Through their early school years, children usually continue to think in apolitical terms of their citizenship, expressing loyalty by their desire to remain in their country due to an attachment to its beauty, wildlife, and good people. By age twelve or thirteen, they begin referring more to political qualities, such as the nature and values of the regime. High school seniors define the good citizen primarily in political terms.
In other words, children – before years of government funded indoctrination – have a pretty good feel for a proper meaning of the term; it is apolitical. By the time they are done with twelve years of government-tested brainwashing, it is all political. Question anything done by the government, and you will be pummeled with "Don't you love your country? Why do you hate your country?"
Andy wants good citizens. I can guess what he means given his position on parental licensing.
He goes on to list a couple of other arguments for state schooling. But what about arguments against? He begins by offering his definition of libertarianism – truly helpful:
On my own, perhaps non-standard, form of libertarianism, government action is only permissible to prevent or rectify harms.
Non-standard is an understatement. On planet bleeding heart, I guess this can be the definition. The planet is populated with the children of the aforementioned Leon Festinger – able to hold and believe two conflicting thoughts at one time. Because a government powerful enough to rectify harms (harms as Andy will come to define these, to be rectified via the enforcement of positive rights) by definition must be powerful enough to cause harm.
So, my question: does a state schooling system help prevent or rectify harms? If it does, it may be permissible on my scheme. If it doesn't, its [sic] not and I should wholeheartedly commit myself to abolitionism.
Even applying the wrong standard, let's see if Andy can come up with the right answer – a stopped clock and all that. For this, he provides the most convoluted example – an example of one state intervention after another, with one state-induced violation of property rights after another, thereby resulting in harm – all in defense of the position that the state has a role to rectify the harm caused by the state.
To make a long story short, Andy concludes that state schooling does "help prevent or rectify harms." Therefore, he can only endorse the abolition of state schools if it is demonstrated that they are not efficient:
I'll end by merely saying that if state schools are not efficient—I don't say most efficient—providers of the means to rectify the harm, I will be left without any reason to endorse their continued existence. If it's shown decisively that they are not efficient providers thereof, I'll wholeheartedly embrace the abolition of state administered education (as already noted, I leave to the side state funding of education).
The burden of proof is placed on those who want to shrink the state. The argument completely ignores the Hitlerian brainwashing inherent – to varying degrees – in all state funded and state tested school programs. The argument enshrines positive rights – not a problem for left-libertarians but incompatible with libertarian theory nonetheless.
But once again – to demonstrate my good nature and good will toward intellectual adolescents like Andy, I will do the simple work for him – something he, for some reason, was unable to do in his article (because, after writing 1300 words, he couldn't spend three minutes to answer his own question – the question that was the entire point of his post).
So, let's get to "decisively…not efficient providers" – Andy's criteria, not mine:
Figures in the Statistical Abstract of the United States show that we are spending $11,749 per pupil per year in the U.S. public schools, grades pre-K through 12. That's an average…. That $11,749 is a lot more than the $7,848 private school pre-K through 12 national spending norm. It's also a lot more than the $7,171 median tuition at four-year public colleges. Plus $11,749 is much less than what's really being spent. (Emphasis added)
In March the Cato Institute issued a report on the cost of public schools. Policy analyst Adam Schaeffer made a detailed examination of the budgets of 18 school districts in the five largest U.S. metro areas and the District of Columbia. He found that school districts were understating their per-pupil spending by between 23 and 90 percent. (Emphasis added)
Schaeffer calculated that Los Angeles, which claims $19,000 per-pupil spending, actually spends $25,000. The New York metropolitan area admits to a per-pupil average of $18,700, but the true cost is about $26,900. The District of Columbia's per-pupil outlay is claimed to be $17,542. The real number is an astonishing $28,170—155 percent more than the average tuition at the famously pricey private academies of the capital region.
Perhaps Andy can spend a minute or two looking up average test scores, graduation rates, and college enrollment for both private and public schools. I won't bother.
On a libertarian basis alone, the answer to Andy's question can and must be a resounding yes – not just for abolishing the state administration of education but equally important the state funding of education. On the efficiency question, I am willing to bet that public school students are not twice as bright, twice as likely to graduate, twice as likely to enroll in college as their private school counterparts – a necessary rate given the difference in cost. Andy, wanna bet?
However, Andy might be right given his objective of producing "good citizens" as the term is commonly understood; state-funded schools are very efficient at producing these.


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This article explores the complex interweaving of kabbalistic and Christological concepts within the kabbalistic "teaching panel" (Lehrtafel) of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. The essay discusses the artwork in the context of visual representations of the ten sefirot, the divine attributes or vessels in Jewish mysticism. Executed as an altarpiece for the church in Bad Teinach in Southern Germany, the work integrates the sefirot into a pansophic concept that served devotional and educational purposes with a salvific goal. The article argues that, with the Lehrtafel, Antonia and her teachers created a devotional object that could be accessed by both regular Christian laity and experts who possessed deeper knowledge of Kabbalah.
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Downtown Bellingham turned Viking Blue Wednesday
Bellingham welcomed its newest residents Wednesday as the freshman class of Western Washington University converged en masse downtown.
New students, Western alumni and friends were on hand for the second annual Paint B'ham Blue for WWU celebration to kick off the start of the academic year. More than 180 trees throughout downtown were decked out with blue lights, and several businesses offered discounts.
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Five challenges that most data management projects face
Most organisations nowadays know that they could be doing more with their data, and for many GDPR has provided the impetus to finally get on and actually do it. Compliance projects are a great opportunity to think about the data you hold, how you collect it and how you use it, and for many organisations thinking about GDPR has led to the launch of other data management projects. (For more information on why VIQTOR DAVIS sees GDPR as a data management problem read our white paper here).
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- Crossing the data delta is framed as an IT problem – when we ask clients who in their organisation 'owns' their data, the most common answer we get is that it's the IT team. In our view that's generally a mistake. The IT team will of course be closely involved in any data management project, but they shouldn't be seen as the owners or custodians of the data as they're rarely the people best placed to answer the most important question: "What information do we need?" That's a strategic question so can only be answered by the people responsible for making business decisions within your organisation, the line-of-business managers.
- Data management is viewed purely as a cost, not as a benefit – Many data management projects are framed internally as purely being a cost. This is particularly the case with GDPR, as many organisations feel that they're being forced into addressing issues of data management purely from a compliance standpoint. Looking at it that way is a mistake. Data is one of the most valuable assets that your organisation has. Why wouldn't you want to take the opportunity to do more with it? To make sure it's accurate? To understand what it's telling you? This view, of data as an asset, needs to permeate throughout the whole organisation, from the top down. Only when the people at the very top of your organisation are truly committed to the idea that data is an asset can your organisation change.
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Company of U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship literally sucked Nicaraguan blood
A recent report shows that while Nicaragua suffered scores of human rights abuses under the decades-long Somoza dictatorship in the leadup to the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, the Somoza family was also simultaneously involved in a little-known but shocking business venture exploiting poor Nicaraguan people: literally sucking their blood to sell for hefty profits in the United States.
The aptly-named company Plasmaferesis was launched in Nicaragua in the 1970's by Pedro Ramos, a right-wing Cuban doctor who left the island after the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The company bought blood on the cheap from poor and desperate Nicaraguans, separated and froze the plasma, and sent it to Europe and the United States, raking in huge profits.
The Somoza regime was directly linked to the shady business. Anastasio Somoza — the last of the Somoza dynasty to rule the country before his overthrow in 1979 — and his son were both part owners of Plasmaferesis, according to historical accounts of the era published in the 1980's. The firm also ran its operations on Somoza-owned property in Managua.
Adding to the controversy, Somoza was peddling Nicaraguan blood abroad at a time when the poverty-stricken country needed donations most after a devastating earthquake hit Managua in 1972. The disaster left some 10,000 people dead, 20,000 injured, and over 250,000 homeless. Medical supplies, including blood transfusions, were in short supply.
The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, the most prominent opposition voice that criticized the Somoza dictatorship, broke the scandal in 1977 in a series dubbed the "Vampire Chronicles." According to the Nicaraguan newspaper El Nuevo Diario, founded in 1980 by a breakaway group of La Prensa staffers, the Plasmaferesis exposé was among the dictatorship-era coverage that most repulsed the society and "devastatingly impacted Somoza."
Reports said that every morning, the homeless, alcoholics, and poor people went to sell half a liter of blood for 35 (Nicaraguan) cordobas" -- about a $1.25. According to reports published at the time, Plasmaferesis' health standards were dismal, and the clinics would take blood from the same person up to twice a week if they showed up to sell. While health experts suggest that blood plasma is replaced in a matter of days, the body needs more than 30 days to recuperate a normal red blood cell count.
A report published in the Nicaraguan daily El Nuevo Diario said: "Pedro Ramos was the single most prosperous exporter of human blood plasma in the Western Hemisphere. His donors were desperately poor people, who were paid a pittance for their blood at a private clinic the locals referred to contemptuously as La Casa de Vampiros, or 'The House of Vampires.'"
The Cuban doctor, Pedro Ramos, fled the grips of justice in Nicaragua and took refuges in Miami. He died in the United States, after having been tried in absentia and found guilty of murder after the Sandinista Revolution. But he never returned to Nicaragua to face his bloody past.
Very interesting story. There's no doubt about it. Capitalism = vampirism.
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New theme for data.parliament
You may have noticed a new theme for data.parliament. Following internal and external user feedback on how data.parliament should be presented and the team's experience to date we have decided to iteratively improve the user experience with the first launch today. We will be gathering feedback over the next month to improve as we go along. The driving force around this change came from an understanding that our data is being used by a wide community of users, from journalists to academics and from hobbyist programmers to start-ups. So we are trying to be a little less cluttered, use less jargon and to allow for a more rounded experience not necessarily focusing on developers.
To this end, we will also be launching new front-ends for our ELDA search engine which would greatly simplify open data browsing especially for the casual user, and you will also see that all our websites will start to come together in terms of look and feel in order to give a cohesive presentation.
For those interested, data.parliament uses CKAN. In this release we upgraded our version of CKAN to Bootstrap 3 using extensions to allow us to further enhance the theme in future releases.


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At red Recruitment we want to ensure that the right candidate is placed with the right client. To ensure that this happens we have a unique process that each candidate goes through.
One of the most important key performance indicators of our technique is that all candidates will receive a face-to-face interview to ensure that their aspirations in terms of role, responsibility and financial expectations meet our clients and covers a thorough analysis of the candidate's CV, experience and qualifications.
Furthermore, as part of our candidates skills assessment we use a computer based programme called Qwiz™. This enables us to assess and train on all windows based applications and test on a range of general office skills.
Referencing is an integral part of our service and where possible we will reference candidates prior to them commencing a permanent position or temporary assignment.


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The Project:
A mid-sized B2B company wanted to change their corporate culture to match the new CEO's strategy and vision. They brought me on board to write the new vision, mission and values, but quickly realized that a much broader change management initiative was necessary.
The Work:
Working with the CEO, Communications Director and the rest of the Senior Management team, I helped develop, roll-out and reinforce the new vision, mission and values.
To start, we put words to the new culture. Through a series of workshops and meetings with senior management, I got to the heart of what the company stood for and where they wanted to go to create the content that would be the foundation of the new culture.
We then mapped out an internal and external communications strategy to roll-out the new vision, mission and values and inspire cultural change in the organization. Through a combination of strategic consulting, content creation and workshop facilitation, I helped develop and drive the change management strategy, which included:
New culture video introducing the vision, mission and values
TED Talk-style speech for the CEO to use during the unveiling event
Headquarters "takeover" where key messages were painted on the walls of the office and used in the building's external facade
Communications toolkit for middle management to help turn managers into advocates for change
Workshop (which I facilitated) for middle management to help them understand and lead the change
Online course for employees and new hires to better understand the vision, mission and values
Updated corporate brochure that aimed to both inform and inspire
Corporate presentation that incorporated the new brand messaging and strategy
Presentation deck for the CEO to use to share the new direction with senior management
Web copy for the corporate site to launch the external roll-out of the new culture
Updated boilerplate that reflected the new brand and vision
Emails from leadership and intranet stories regarding the change
Job description template to attract talent that shared new company values
The Outcome:
While we are still tracking the long-term impact of the campaign, the launch and subsequent initiatives have already led to shifts in the company culture. Employees have shown excitement about the change, while middle management has taken a leadership role in helping their team integrate the new vision, mission and values into their work.
From the Communications Director:
"The whole launch week was magic: everything went super smoothly and the launch event was a success. We got lots of positive feedback and compliments from everybody. Employees were enthusiastic and there was an incredible atmosphere in the building. The CEO was delighted. :)
I would like to thank you once again for all the work you have done to make this project a success. Without you, your professionalism, talent and enthusiasm, none of this would have been possible. Well done, Elissa!"


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Party Pies and Muffin Tops.
Nibbles and a drink can be the ideal way to break the social ice!
Neesy loves to hand around a tray of party pies, as a way of working the room, but not getting stuck talking too long to anyone.
I'm a fan of a muffin and a meeting! Clearly, I don't get out enough...
And we also talk about the 'joy' of shopping for swimming cozzies.
There is something for everyone in this latest episode of One Fat Lady and One Thin Lady!
Listen to episode twenty-three, "Party Pies and Muffin Tops," below or on Apple Podcast, Google Play, Whooskaa, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, Podbean and Stitcher.


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I got this recipe from my friend Delia. Yummy! I love cookies!
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. shortening
2 eggs
1 c. sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
3 c. flour
Mix all ingredients 3 at a time starting at the top. When dough is well mixed, refrigerate for about an hour. Using lots of sprinkled flour roll out dough and cut with cookie cutters. Place cookies on greased cookies sheets and bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes (depending on how thick you roll out the dough). I try to roll out the dough about 1/4 inch thick or less. They will rise in the oven. I did all mine for 8 minutes. I also doubled this recipe and it made 3 trays FULL of frosted cookies.
Powdered Sugar Frosting
1 c. butter softened
1-2 tsp. vanilla
1 pound powdered sugar
Mix everything together using a little bit of milk, then add milk 1 Tbls. at a time until you get the consistency you want. Divide frosting into multiple bowls to color.


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O let me weep/
Enough has been written and said about the loss of hope many of us feel right now. The question remains, how will our new circumstances affect the arts? Will the community fiercely support all the fledgling organizations that are trying to give voice to the unsung? Can the economy dramatically improve and will that create more jobs for professional musicians? Does making America great again mean going back to only performing Zeffirelli productions?
If you need catharsis there are a few good options this weekend. For the cerebral, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus offer you the Brahms Requiem. The German soloists are baritone Michael Nagy and soprano Christiane Karg. The prestigious concert singer and rising opera star Karg gets to make us all cry with the ethereal plaint Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit but does not sing the instrumental-only Isolde's Liebestod which is listed on the program. Chicago audiences will get a few opportunities to become familiar with her artistry as she is Lyric Opera's Pamina this winter and participates in Lyric Unlimited's Beyond the Aria at the Harris Theater.
Perhaps you would just like to disappear into a theater for five hours and be awash in decadent singing. Look no further than Lyric Opera's Les Troyens which opens Sunday. It is an opera full of tragedy, betrayal, and destruction. Nasty Women are the heroes of the plot but they do not fare well. The glorious Christine Goerke is Cassandra (enough reason to attend) and Chicago favorite Susan Graham replaces Sophie Koch in the role of Dido. This is an opera you won't see staged very often – it is colossally expensive to produce. Let's not let Lyric Opera regret putting this thing together. Go see it and pack a sandwich and a flask full of tequila.
Chicago Opera Theater completes its run of The Fairy Queen at the almost-refurbished Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building. Soprano Kim Jones is the fairy queen (Ti-)Tanya and is assigned all the hits: Hark! How all things, Hark! The echoing air, Ye gentle spirits, See, even Night, and O let me weep. Jones is a glamorous woman with a rich lyric instrument and is obliged to run around the stage in 6-inch heels. Bass baritone Cedric Berry is the charismatic, oddly lovable alpha (Obe-)Ron with very convincing vocal chops. The cast has some true Early Music cred with Jory Vinikour conducting the orchestra of the Haymarket Opera Company and countertenors Ryan Belongie and Darryl Taylor filling out the cast. Tenor Scott Brunscheen shows off a very elegant tone in his solos. The music fights with the concept of reimagining the charming Faerie Bower as a Vegas nite club. The script is sometimes jarring. The sexuality is explicit. You have been warned.
If you find yourself in the lobby of the Studebaker on Friday before or after Fairy Queen, don't forget that the second Friday of every month is Open Studios at the Fine Arts Building and Eugenia Cheng's Liederstube is on the 7th floor. Maybe exactly what you need to feel better after this dreadful week is to sing Ich grolle nicht - which often happens like a congregational hymn at the 'Stube. Admission is free as always. There is wine, cookies, a comprehensive library of German and French art song, and a dedicated team of friends who make music for themselves out of love, expecting nothing in return.


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This week we are coming to the end of our Intentional Health webinar series, finishing on a high by celebrating with positive thoughts and joy!
We originally set out to create and deliver 20 webinars, sharing some of the content from our ten session Intentional Health programme.
Whilst this has been loads of fun, and we've learned an awful lot, we've also learned that it isn't quite as easy as other professionals make it look!
I am hugely grateful for the team of people who have made it possible and also the people who have taken the time to attend live or given us feedback!
If that is you... Thank you!! :)
We hope that this may inspire you to find out more about Intentional Health, and join in with a community programme near you, or share the content with others if you find it helpful.
This week in our final three sessions before we break for summer, Tom, Gareth and I explore how our thoughts and feelings, being grateful and celebrating our successes all contribute to a healthy, happy life.
If you want to join us live (or want to be notified of the replay!), you can do so by registering using the links below.
Thoughts & Feelings - Monday 17th July 19:30 (BST) https://app.webinarjam.net/register/35515/9ad64f977f
Joy & gratitude - Tuesday 18th July 19:30 (BST) https://app.webinarjam.net/register/35515/35fd63d464
Failing Forward - Thursday 20th July 19:30 (BST) https://app.webinarjam.net/register/35515/5f7598ebf2
If you meant to watch some of the series, but have not got round to it yet, next week, we'll publish a list with links to all of the webinar replays, which will be available for you to watch at your leisure.
The week after we hope to feature a guest post while I'll be having a much needed holiday with family - so watch this space!
The week after we'll be at the Creationfest - Do come and say hello if you are attending!
Niky & team


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It is too early to assess the power sector reform, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), has said
Its Chairman, Infrastructure Committee, Reginald Odiah, told The Nation that the body wants to observe the unfolding situation before passing judgment on issues relating to the power sector reforms.
He said: "As regard the issue of privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), it is a good development in the history of Nigeria's energy sector. The idea is aimed at repositioning the sector for growth to enable it compete with others in the emerging economies.
"Though we believe that the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is competent to regulate the sector and further make it work, we are still studying the situation. We want to see how the whole thing plays out before stating our position on the matter."
Odiah said the body presently generates about 550 megawatts (Mw) of power in the three out of its eight delineated industrial clusters.
He said the association grouped the country into eight industrial clusters, out of which three were picked for the location of power plants after careful appraisal of developments. He said the three clusters located in Ota/Abeokuta axis of Ogun State have functional power plants, adding that the Ota/Abeokuta axis was chosen because of its relatively huge concentration of industries.
"We are looking at areas with high concentration of industries and after necessary investigations, we arrived at a decision to choose Ota/ Abeokuta axis. Besides, we discovered that the cost implication of having power plants in the area is not much compared to others. In the three industrial clusters located in the Ota/ Abeokuta axis, we have three power plants with an output of 550Mw," he added.


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Why do you do it?
Wendy Schulte
I would like to start our Holiday edition blog by sharing a view of how I started my business and how even with countless hours of work, failed attempts, and unfinished ideas I've stayed motivated... it's because of YOU!
Our customers are one in a million and I love every single one.
I am asked daily... why? Well, there was a need. A need in my own life, and I knew that I wasn't the only person in the world having reactions to unknown chemicals in products. I will step out now to say that not all chemicals are bad, but I am one who knows that chemicals equal to loads of testing and can result in animal cruelty. My morality and values tell me that I must not contribute to that crime.
I took a simple but not simple "Ah ha!" idea: take the chemicals out and replace them with natural ingredients that do the same things. Well, what about preservatives? Yes, they are needed in some products, but paraben or formaldehyde-based preservatives is a no-fly zone. If we create an oil-based product then preservation isn't needed, so if you feel very strongly about a pure naked product without preservatives, our "Don't Be Jelly" all-purpose moisturizer is great. Also, check out any of our bar soaps like "Dreamhole", which is currently one of my absolute faves. When preservation is needed, we use methods that are botanically based and derived from plants like in our bestselling thick cream "Handy", made with an emulsion of shea and cocoa butter.
An interesting thing I found out when I started formulating products is that there are about 100 many ways for a company to name an ingredient. So, you're allergic to a type of silicone? Watch out; there are a dozen or more names for that ingredient and you may not recognize it. We use common names in our products, so you can recognize exactly what the ingredients are. If you are allergic to honey you will see "Mel (Honey)" on the package and easily avoid it, whereas a synthetic ingredient with multiple possible names would be much more difficult to identify.
One last thing that I'm excited to say is we will NEVER use any fragrance or perfume. Loads of companies use fragrance to hide additional preservation it's a big no-no because fragrance according to the FDA does not need to be explained
What I can promise is that you will always see Good Common Sense Naturals making its own products in small batches and only using what is botanical or natural in our creations.
You can bet your 🍑 👈🏻 that I'll use essential oils for all eternity for Good Common Sense Naturals and if I don't... there won't be any scent to it 😂
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