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Expect Results programs are concierge, in-home services for expectant moms, new moms, and women of all ages.
Pregnancy and childbirth take a toll on a woman's body during, after, and in the years to come. Our therapists have the knowledge, experience, and advanced training to help you during this special time in your life to look and feel your best and deliver your baby in the safest way to decrease your risk of injury during the prenatal, perinatal & postpartum periods.
We offer specialty services for orthopedic pain conditions, sports injuries, pelvic floor dysfunction, incontinence, prenatal and postpartum conditions, TMJ/TMD issues, running injury and prevention, and many other orthopedic injuries and conditions.
Our services include the latest, evidence-based manual and exercise techniques in order to provide you with the best results. When we create a program for you, we take your individual movement patterns, activities and personal goals into account in order to make a plan tailored specifically to you and your needs.
Not only does Expect Results Wellness for Women offer specialized physical therapy, fitness and wellness services, we strive to go above and beyond your expectations and always put clients first.
Our specialists utilizes hands on, manual treatments implementing techniques such as functional dry needling, myofascial release, joint mobilization & manipulation, PNF principles, and more in order to improve & restore optimal mobility & alignment in joints, muscles, fascia, tendons. The manual techniques used by Expect Results Wellness for Women can alleviate pain, improve the labor & delivery process, and help you prevent injury and perform your best in the activities you love!
Our therapists have doctoral and advanced training that enables them to assess clients' movement patterns from every day activities such as walking and lifting, breastfeeding, to sporting activities like running and CrossFit. Using a keen clinical eye and expertise our therapists can properly assess your movement, pin point areas that can be improved, and teach you how to move in a way that will prevent injury and allow for your best performance in everything from your favorite sport or activity to caring for your newborn baby!
In this digital day and age we have the ability to defy physics and our hectic, over-extended lifestyles with the use of our smart phones, tablets and computers and we are also exposed to a wealth of information (and misinformation). Our specialists have the knowledge and the training to accurately help you navigate this overload of information and advise, encourage and create programming to help you through all phases of life with our online consulting and coaching services specifically for women. Whether you are seeking the answer to a question or you want an ongoing guide to wellness in your corner, Expect Results Wellness for Women have your back!
At Expect Results Wellness for Women we use years of personal training experience coupled with in depth knowledge & understanding of human anatomy & movement as a doctors of physical therapy in order to select the best exercises for you to reach your fitness goals, prepare for labor & delivery, get your pre-baby body back, and prepare for your favorite sport or activity safely and effectively.
The therapists at Expect Results Wellness for Women believe the key to long term success in one's health and well-being is to be empowered through education in not only the "how" but the "why" behind their approach to their overall wellness. Using extensive knowledge and experience our therapists takes the time to teach their clientele about their own body, the changes it undergoes, and how certain exercises, hands on techniques, and other movements can help them meet their individual goals and have the best quality of life they can achieve. So whether you are expecting and want to learn how to prepare for childbirth, a new mom wanting to learn how to regain control of your body, or an avid exerciser wanting to have a better understanding of your body movement and how to prevent injury you can expect results with Expect Results Wellness for Women.


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St John Bread & Wine, Spitalfields
On the face of it, let alone in a "budget eats" feature, £5.70 seems an awful lot to pay for a bacon butty. It is one of the themes of this series, however, that – particularly when you're eating on a tight budget – value is more important than cost. And the St John bacon butty is indisputably worth every one of those 570 pennies. It comprises two large chargrilled slices of proper artisan bread from the on-site bakery, thickly buttered and liberally stuffed with Gloucester Old Spot bacon. The rashers have a good three-quarter-inch rim of gloriously silky translucent fat around their outer edge. In its generosity, its use of supreme ingredients, in its hilarious disregard for anything you might describe as healthy eating, it is Fergus Henderson (owner of this and the more famous parent restaurant, St John) on a plate. There are also kippers, pikelets or, if you really insist, porridge and prunes available for breakfast, but that bacon butty will set you up for the day like nothing else. From 11am, Bread & Wine – a pleasingly spartan former bank – serves elevenses, cakes and whatnot. Then, from lunch onwards the menu consists of small 'n' large plates (£4-£15), which people mix 'n' match, splashing the cash. That said, if you can squeeze in for a simple bowl of celeriac and bacon soup, do (£5.90).
Breakfast £2.60-£5.70, elevenses cakes £2.90. 94-96 Commercial Street, E1 (+44 (0)20-3301 8069, stjohnbreadandwine.com)
Beigel Bake, Brick Lane
The tile work at this Brick Lane bakery has seen better days, but then you might look a bit tired yourself had you been serving fresh breads, pastries and filled bagels to hungry Londoners, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since the late 1970s. Beigel Bake is a legendary stop-off for late-night revellers, but you will find queues of varying lengths here whatever time of day you drop by. In a place where filled bagels start at 90p, spending £3.50 on one may seem rash. But the warm salt beef bagel is worth it. Tasty, moist, gelatinous thick-cut braised brisket on a fantastic dense, chewy bagel, served with peppy mustard, it is simple but satisfying stuff.
Filled bagels from 90p. 159 Brick Lane, E1 (+44 (0)20-7729 0616)
The Gun, Docklands
There is not a lot of individuality or joy in Canary Wharf. People are too busy making money. Escape its soaring glass and steel boulevards, however, and, a short walk away, you will find Tom and Ed Martin's polished gastropub, the Gun. An oasis of laughter, clubbable informality and good food, it is also a fine place in which to consider the mad folly of the Millennium Dome, visible across the Thames from the pub's waterside terrace. There is a proper restaurant section at the Gun, but the budget traveller should grab a table in the back – by the toasty open fire – and give the bar menu the once-over. There, you will find the likes of homemade fish finger sandwiches, a cheeseboard, devilled whitebait or a half a pint of prawns at under £10 a head. A sausage roll (£4.50) is a substantial slab, more lunch than a snack. A hunk of soundly sage-seasoned, smoothly ground, juicy sausage-meat in a perfectly bronzed, buttery thin pastry, it is seriously good stuff. It's like the best Christmas Day stuffing ... ever. A sample pint of Fuller's London Pride (£3.50) is as lively as it can be, which is not very. It is a definitive boring brown bitter.
Bar menu available for lunch and dinner, from £4.50. 27 Coldharbour, E14 (+44 (0)20-7515 5222, thegundocklands.com)
Frizzante, Hackney and Rotherhithe
This cafe at Hackney City Farm is a refreshingly rough 'n' ready, slightly ramshackle place. But for the steady stream of young mums and toddlers coming through the door, you might mistake it for some arty, hipster hang-out. Which, this being Hackney, it kind of is as well. There is a small deli section and ice-cream counter, but it is worth settling in and sampling Italian chef Eddy Ambrosi's blackboard specials, such as pappardelle pasta with a slow-cooked pork ragu, pressed organic brawn terrine or a wild British mushroom risotto. Much of the produce comes from farms in Kent and Essex, and, depending on seasonal availability, Frizzante's own veg patch. A portion of lightly cured salmon and scrambled eggs, topped with a particularly zingy creme fraiche and chives, is huge (£6.50). Bright swirls of orangey yolk suggest good eggs, although personally I think they could have been creamier. There is a fine line between scrambled eggs and omelette.
Food served until 4pm. Breakfast £4-£7. Daily specials from £5. Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmiths Row, E2 (+44 (0)20-7739 2266, frizzanteltd.co.uk). Second branch at Surrey Docks Farm, Rotherhithe, SE16, open Wednesday to Sunday
Hackney Pearl, Hackney Wick
From breakfast to late-night cocktails, this trendy cafe-bar is, laudably, trying to do lots of important things well. Food-wise the emphasis is on labour-intensive, from-scratch making and baking, running the gamut from bar snacks, like the Pearl's little pots of homemade pork scratchings (90p), to fantastic, fragrant apple, cinnamon and clove muffins (£1.80). A bowl of parsnip soup is warm, wholesome, properly seasoned and vibrantly fresh in flavour, and arrives with good bread. That day's chalkboard menu includes appealing dishes such as lamb and caper hash with fried egg (£8.20). Breakfast includes the kitchen's own granola, sweetcorn fritters with chilli jam, and bubble 'n' squeak. A sample coffee was disappointing – buying Square Mile coffee is one thing, treating it with the respect it deserves is another. Note: the evening menu is more expensive, with most main dishes topping £10.
Breakfast £3.50-£7.50, soups/sandwiches around £4.50, daytime mains £7-£9. 11 Prince Edward Road, E9 (+44 (0)20-8510 3605, thehackneypearl.com)
Tayyabs, Whitechapel
An utterly predictable choice, perhaps, but there is a reason why everyone raves about Tayyabs. This Pakistani grill and curry house is very, very good. How can you not love a restaurant where, on a sunny Tuesday lunchtime, the staff have to throw open the doors in order to let out a sudden build-up of aromatic smoke from those famous tandoor ovens? Tayyabs' long-marinated grilled lamb chops (four for £6) remain one of life's great savoury pleasures, the meat essentially a delivery vehicle for a complex hit of sweet 'n' smoky, hot 'n' spicy flavour, edged with a crisp, blackened strip of fat. Don't be surprised to find yourself gnawing the bone long after the meat has gone. There is no standing on ceremony at Tayyabs and eating in here can be a pretty quick turnaround experience. On busy weekend evenings particularly, you are not encouraged to linger at your table. But at these prices (curry and rice around £7-£8) this is exceptional food: conscientiously cooked, sparkily spiced and lifted by liberal use of fresh herbs. Seeing it in daylight for once, Tayyabs is quite a smart space these days, too.
Starters from 95p, mains from £5.20. No alcohol sold, BYO no corkage. 83-89 Fieldgate Street, E1 (+44 (0)20-7247 6400, tayyabs.co.uk)
Cay Tre, Hoxton
Such is the cluster of Vietnamese restaurants around the Kingsland Road/Old Street junction, they probably deserve a feature in their own right. Cay Tre is a good place to start your exploration. With its fashionable black 'n' white wallpaper and multicoloured lighting, the space itself is very modern Shoreditch, but in terms of its accumulated knowledge and skill, the cooking harks back generations. You could spend a long time trying to discern exactly what has gone into the clear, light broth that makes Cay Tre's pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) stand out. Packed with fresh coriander, spring onions and, in my case, beef, it is neither as salty nor as hot as you might imagine, but instead reveals new ingredients (star anise, garlic, roasted onions, cinnamon, some sort of base meaty, umami flavour) with each mouthful. It is a delicate clean soup with a nonetheless serious depth of flavour. The accompanying noodles are great, too. As a takeaway, this "small" pot of goodness is enough for a solid lunch or light dinner and costs just £3.50, which makes it all the more remarkable. Eating in at Cay Tre, the pho dishes are affordable throughout (around £7), but, at night, a main meat or fish dish plus rice might nudge £10. If you need to stick rigidly to a budget, then at lunch and before 6pm, the menu offers various "one-dish meals", such as lemongrass-marinated barbecue pork with bun (cold vermicelli noodles) or mixed seafood with jasmine rice, at £6.50-£8.
Takeaway dishes £3-£8, starter/main deal £9.50. 301 Old Street, EC1 (+44 (0)20-7729 8662, vietnamesekitchen.co.uk)
Pavilion Cafe, Victoria Park
Victoria Park is currently in the midst of major renovation work, which means this lakeside cafe is currently lacking its lake (it's been drained) and its usually picturesque views (unless you love mud and industrial diggers). But still, on a dull Wednesday morning it is packed, such is the quality of the food. Superior, seasonal ingredients are confidently handled in everything from sandwiches to a beef shin stew with turnips, sprouts and rye bread. The Pavilion will prick the interest of vegetarians, too, with unusually thoughtful dishes like sprouting broccoli, crushed artichokes and soft boiled egg on toast, with a hazelnut dressing. A plate of eggs Benedict easily passes muster, although it has been left to linger on the pass. It is lukewarm rather than hot. It is also worth noting that the Pavilion gets very busy with mums, giddy toddlers and buggies. Anti-social singletons who want to eat at its communal tables in peace may want to take a paper (the Guardian, of course) and an iPod.
Breakfast £2.50-£8.50, sandwiches £4, hot dishes £5-£8. Takeaway available. Victoria Park, corner of Old Ford Road and Grove Road, E9 (+44 (0)20-8980 0030, the-pavilion-cafe.com)
Albion at the Boundary, Shoreditch
If confirmation were needed that Shoreditch has lost its edge, the arrival of Terence Conran's boutique hotel and restaurant, the Boundary, is surely it. Its gentrification is now almost complete. Still, on the upside, the site's newer ground-floor deli-cafe, Albion, is a great place to eat. And we can always do with more of those. Look beyond the shelves of HP Sauce and Yorkshire Tea (we get it, the Albion is a celebration of Englishness) and you will find some good, and good value, food here. You can eat in the "caff" – a big Conranesque canteen space – for under £10 a head if you're careful, but with so many good things to take away from the deli section, why bother? There are made-to-order sandwiches, savoury pies and tarts, biscuits and cakes, and chilled drinks of a Meantime Brewery/Fentiman's quality. A sample pork and chutney pie in thick, glossy pastry is superb. A slice of Bakewell tart is, whilst an expert bit of baking, possibly a bit too refined for its own good. The jam is spread a little too thinly along the base and, consequently, the almond filling lacks the requisite sweet fruity tang. But still, overall, well worth a visit.
Cakes and biscuits from 55p, snacks/sandwiches £2.50-£5. 2-4 Boundary Street, E2 (+44 (0)20-7729 1051, albioncaff.co.uk)
Mangal Ocakbasi, Dalston
There are no end of places on Stoke Newington Road cooking kebabs on traditional Turkish ocak grills. Opinions vary, of course, as to which ocakbasi restaurant is the best, but Mangal – a 1993 entrant in the Good Food Guide and still listed in the 2011 edition – has a proven track record of producing superlative meats over many years. The restaurant proper is a little expensive for this piece (main dishes from £9), but, out front, takeaway customers can choose from 13 types of kebab (marinated lamb, chicken wings, lamb chops, quail, etc), which the grill chef then moves up and down a great trough of hot charcoal with patient authority. It is worth getting a takeaway just to watch him at work. Boldly seasoned with chilli, garlic and parsley, the minced lamb beyti kebabs are sensational, an explosive combination of heat, carbon and hot lamb juices. Moreover, you get two eight-inch kebabs, a small, discus-like loaf and a great mixed salad (it includes everything from gherkins to pickled radish) for £6. It could easily be split between two for lunch.
Takeaway kebabs from £5.10. Arcola Street, off Stoke Newington Road, E8 (+44 (0)20-7275 8981, mangal1.com)
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Philosophy 290-7
Spring 2008
|Graduate Seminar: Unity of the Self in 17th&18th c. Philosophy
|234 Moses Hall
This seminar will take as its starting point two connected issues: the simplicity of the self and the identity of the self. The former concerns whether or in what sense the mind could be made up of distinct parts, which is sometimes described as a question about unity at a time; the latter concerns whether or in what sense the mind is something that can persist through change of state, i.e., has unity over time. Both of these issues are addressed by Kant in the "Paralogisms" section of the Critique of Pure Reason, and play a central role in the "Transcendental Deduction." However they were also discussed in depth and considered of fundamental philosophical importance by many philosophers of the early modern period prior to Kant. Issues concerning the simplicity and identity of the self were thought of as tied to a number of concerns: whether the self could be a material thing, whether the self is a substance and whether that question is answerable by us or even intelligible, whether such skepticism about the self's being a substance led to consequences that were in some way unacceptable, what the nature of thought and self-awareness is, and what this entails regarding these questions about the self. We will be discussing the views of Descartes, Locke, Bayle, Clarke, Leibniz, Hume, and finally Kant, on the unity of the self and some of these related questions. Roughly half the seminar will be devoted to early modern philosophers before Kant, half to Kant.


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TAMPA BAY -- The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Jeff Tambellini to a one-year, two-way contract, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced today.
Tambellini, 31, has skated in 242 career NHL games over six seasons with the Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders and Vancouver Canucks, recording 27 goals and 63 points. The Calgary, Alberta native played his last NHL season with the Canucks during the 2010-11 campaign, posting career highs for goals (eight), points (17), plus/minus (+10) and shots on goal (114).
The 5-foot-11, 186-pound forward skated in 30 games with Fribourg-Gotteron of the Swiss-A League in 2014-15, registering five goals and 13 points. Tambellini also played in 20 games with the Vaxjo Lakers in the Swedish Hockey League, recording six goals and nine points.
Tambellini has appeared in 176 career American Hockey League games over five seasons with the Manchester Monarchs, Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Manitoba Moose. He tallied 101 goals and 201 points over his five seasons in the AHL.
Tambellini was selected in the first round, 27th overall, in the 2003 NHL draft by the Los Angeles Kings.


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I wanted to start off my saying Thank you for your kind comments on me not feeling well! Today was a day of sneezing. Not fun, but I know this silly cold is on it's way out... Yay!
Josh and I had our last Christmas Celebration of 2009 this afternoon. It was with my Dad's side of the Family... The Lenzen's. A fun little fact is that my daddy is the youngest of 9 children. Yes, 9! It is quite fun to gather all together and celebrate. It does not happen often, as you can only imagine that with 9 siblings comes children, grandchildren... etc. It is quite the crowd!
Growing up my sister and I always looked forward to the "Lenzen Family Christmas" party. I found out that a lot of my aunties & 2nd cousins read my blog! I wanted to give them a shout out :) Hi, cute family!! I am blessed to have you in my live...
We started playing Second Chance Santa a few years ago & my goodness... we always make out with some great presents! This year Joshy and I got a Santa Plate [for our future little ones someday to leave out for Santa] & Gingerbread candles... yummm!
My parent's got a DART board - Way to go, dad. He stole it from his sister-in-law, Barb. I should have mentioned the game can get kind of intense! :) It's all done in love! Do you play fun games as traditions for your Christmas Celebrations?
Well... 2010 is just around the corner! This week, I plan to spend each day reflecting on the goodness of Jesus Christ in 2009. He has been so faithful and true, yet again. His love NEVER fails! (1 Corinthians 13) Happy Evening, Friends & Family!
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Matthew 22:39
Far from bolstering generosity, a religious upbringing diminishes it
AN ARGUMENT often advanced for the encouragement of religion is that, to paraphrase St Matthew's report of Jesus's words, it leads people to love their neighbours as themselves. That would be a powerful point were it true. But is it? This was the question Jean Decety, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, asked in a study just published in Current Biology.
Dr Decety is not the first to wonder, in a scientific way, about the connection between religion and altruism. He is, though, one of the first to do it without recourse to that standard but peculiar laboratory animal beloved of psychologists, the undergraduate student. Instead, he collaborated with researchers in Canada, China, Jordan, South Africa and Turkey, as well as with fellow Americans, to look at children aged between five and 12 and their families.
Altogether, Dr Decety and his colleagues recruited 1,170 families for their project, and focused on one child per family. Five hundred and ten of their volunteer families described themselves as Muslim, 280 as Christian, 29 as Jewish, 18 as Buddhist and 5 as Hindu. A further 323 said they were non-religious, 3 were agnostic and 2 ticked the box marked "other".
Follow-up questions to the faithful among the sample then asked how often they engaged in religious activities, and also about spirituality in the home. That let Dr Decety calculate how religious each family was. He found that about half the children in religious households came from highly observant homes; the spiritual lives of the other half were more relaxed. He then arranged for the children to play a version of what is known to psychologists as the dictator game—an activity they use to measure altruism.
In truth, the dictator game is not much of a game, since only one of the participants actually plays it. In Dr Decety's version, each child was presented with a collection of 30 attractive stickers and told that he or she could keep ten of them. Once a child had made his selection, the experimenter told him that there was not time to play the game with all the children at the school, but that he could, if he wished, give away some of his ten stickers to a random schoolmate who would not otherwise be able to take part. The child was then given a few minutes to decide whether he wanted to give up some of his stickers—and, if so, how many. The researchers used the number of stickers surrendered as a measure of altruism.
The upshot was that the children of non-believers were significantly more generous than those of believers. They gave away an average of 4.1 stickers. Children from a religious background gave away 3.3. And a further analysis of the two largest religious groups (Jews, Buddhists and Hindus were excluded because of their small numbers in the sample), showed no statistical difference between them. Muslim children gave away 3.2 stickers on average, while Christian children gave away 3.3. Moreover, a regression analysis on these groups of children showed that their generosity was inversely correlated with their households' religiosity. This effect remained regardless of a family's wealth and status (rich children were more generous than poor ones), a child's age (older children were more generous than younger ones) or the nationality of the participant. These findings are, however, in marked contrast to parents' assessments of their own children's sensitivity to injustice. When asked, religious parents reported their children to be more sensitive than non-believing parents did.
This is only one result, of course. It would need to be replicated before strong conclusions could be drawn. But it is suggestive. And what it suggests is not only that what is preached by religion is not always what is practised, which would not be a surprise, but that in some unknown way the preaching makes things worse.
Editor's note: Dr Decety's article was later withdrawn because of a coding error. Read our coverage of the retraction here.
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Gig, remote, or contract work is on the rise according to many reports.
Yet some employees already in traditional jobs find it daunting to consider how they might raise the issue of working remotely.
What are some best practices here? How should you make the pitch for working remotely?
How to Work Remotely
Andy Abramson is CEO of Comunicano, Inc., a remote agency he's operated for more than 25 years.
When it comes to how to work remotely, Abramson says that knowledge workers are best positioned. "Knowledge workers are the biggest category of workers who can most easily work remotely," he says. "People who write or code are ideal to have working remotely as long as they have a means to communicate with colleagues. Publicists, analysts, and consultants are also good at remote work, but the tools for them need to be in place to succeed."
"Asking to work from home shouldn't be an issue these days," says Abramson. "Better broadband connectivity, the use of smartphones and tablets, and simply better tools that allow people to work remotely these days have made it easier to accomplish."
Yet, while technology is prevalent and working from home is technically possible, other barriers may get in the way. Most notably, some managers' continued concerns about their own ability to effectively manage remote workers and pervasive concerns that employees working remotely may be less productive and more prone to personal distractions.
Also read: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Making a Hard Descision at Work
Making the Pitch
Recognizing the perspective of your employer/manager and what's important to them is critical in making the pitch for working remotely. Considering the technical necessities outlined by Abramson is a good starting point. In addition, though, it's important to consider some of the soft skills that become particularly important in an "out-of-sight" working relationship.
Being a valued contributor definitely helps, as Kathy Kristof well knows. Kristof made her pitch to work remotely almost 30 years ago which working at the LA Times. "I set up a home office at my own expense, I volunteered to work while on maternity leave to establish that I could do it effectively and I made it clear that this was the only way I could come back to work," she says. Since that time, Kristof has also worked from home for Kiplinger, CBS News and others and is not the editor of SideHusl.com, "the Consumer Reports of the gig economy," she says. "We research, review and rate the only platforms that allow you to make money."
Janet Matta is a career strategy consultant and runs a consulting company on remote working. The first step in making a pitch, says Matta, is to "observe, consider, and research your company's culture around remote work":
- Do other people work remotely?
- Are those other people doing work similar to yours?
- What are the existing policies around remote work?
Consider objections, advises Matta. "Often, concerns around remote working center on fears about reduced integration with company culture, lack of communication, and trust," she says. "Companies that do not already have a remote working culture may fear that remote workers are less productive because their work is less visible." Think also, she advises, "about your company culture and what might be important to your leadership." Consider how you can address these concerns and make this part of your pitch.
In crafting your case, Matta advises, included these elements:
- Be specific about what you are asking for (Fully remote work? Working one day a week remotely? Working remotely on an as-needed basis?)
- Share the expected benefits and value to the organization
- Talk about any existing successes with working remotely if you've had them
- Be sure to anticipate and address objections
Importantly, your pitch should focus on what's in it for the company and not what's in it for you.
Also read: 10 Things Smart People do to Enhance Their Reputation at Work
Taking the Employer Perspective
Tara Lopez is benefits manager at Konnect Agency. From an HR perspective, she says, this is how the company handles requests to work remotely. (Hint: these are the points to consider and address in your pitch to ensure you're addressing company concerns thoroughly.)
- Does a work-from-home (WHH) program fit the company culture?
- Is the team ready for a WFH program?
- Is the organization set up for a successful WFH program?
- What tech items will need to be in place to ensure employee success?
- How will a WFH program affect the organizational goals?
- How will teams, managers, executives and clients by impacted?
- What are the potential issues that might emerge?
- What are the potential gains?
Finally, Matta suggests, consider proposing a pilot, rather than asking for an immediate and permanent change. During the pilot make sure to check in and identify, up front, how you will evaluate success.
Once you get the green light, here are some important points to help you boost the potential for success.
Making it Work
Making a remote relationship work requires above all, communication. Here, say Kristof and others, the onus is really on the person wanting to maintain the remote relationship. She recommends:
- Send your boss an email every morning when you start work, telling him or her what you're up to that day and whether you'll be out of the office at any point during the day.
- Make yourself available for in-person meetings, if possible, especially if working on group projects.
- In addition to managing your boss, you will need to manage your friends and family. They may "think that you have time to socialize because you're at home" Kristof warns. "Be clear. Home is your office; you have office hours; socializing during office hours is not possible."
Bottom line: communicate, communicate, communicate. "You don't have the luxury of being able to walk down the hall—or be seen in your office pulling your hair out over a project that's not going as planned," Kristof says. "You will need to keep everyone up to date on what you're doing so they know when you're hitting snags and why.


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Sling Media is well known to techie types, but may be new to the average non-geek with an iPad. However, this is the audience the company is targeting, having brought its SlingPlayer Mobile app to Apple's tablet.
The idea: 'sling' your home TV and digital video recorder (DVR) to your iPad, letting you tune in to whatever's on at home wherever you are in the world.
Well, wherever you are in the world with a Wi-Fi connection, obviously. And you'll need one of the newer Slingbox SOLO or Slingbox PRO-HD devices attached to your TV and/or set-top box to use the iPad app – the company says older models aren't compatible.
The app may seem pricey at £17.99, but within the cost of a Slingbox it's relatively minor: perhaps there's scope to make the app free for people as part of the initial price of the main unit, though.
It's fair to say that SlingPlayer is bigger news in the US, but there are some fans on this side of the Atlantic too, who'll be pleased that Sling Media has released the new iPad app on both sides of the pond.


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Nafisa and Hyderabad: The Social Activist and the City
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By Mosarrap H. Khan
Twelve years is a long time in the life of a city, especially if it happens to be the second most important software hub in a developing country. Between the times I left Hyderabad in 2000 and 2011, when I returned for a conference and research work, the character of the city had changed so much that it was almost impossible to decipher if I was back to the good, old, laid-back Hyderabad.
I had heard a good deal about the new airport that had been built away from the city. I was not so much surprised as wonder-struck that an airport of such standard could be built in India. More mind-boggling was the manner in which transport conveniences were just a ramp walk away.
I took the luxury bus, which was reasonably priced and very comfortable. And the journey was comparable to any I have in the western countries. As I got off at the intersection of airport road and the Hyderabad-Mumbai highway at Gacchibowly, I could sense how much the city has changed. Back in 1999, when I was doing my Masters at the University of Hyderabad, there existed only a few single-story buildings and huts at the intersection. There were small shops that sold utility items.
And the highway was a two-lane road without even a divider. I particularly remember the road without a divider because I had almost a near-fatal accident on this road. That night as I was waiting for an auto to take me to the University of Hyderabad for a conference, I could hardly recognize the Gacchibowly junction. A huge flyover has been built over the junction that now had a glistening four-lane asphalt road with a divider in the middle. Along with the road, the entire landscape of the place had changed, as if I have been living in a seven sleepers' den. That which was once considered the outlying part of Hyderabad is now the financial district of the city.
In the course of my stay at the university, a friend gave a tour of the whole place. Looking up at the glass-and-concrete sky-scrapers, and the well laid-out spatial structure, it was almost impossible to tell if I was still in New York City or I have traveled to Hyderabad, the once sleepy and laid-back city of the Nizams. In another outing, my friend and I headed to an up-market shopping mall in Hi-Tech city. The scale and size of the mall far surpassed anything that I have seen in New York City or in Vancouver.
As my friend, who had spent many years in Canada pursuing a doctorate degree, continued shopping in branded stores, for the first time, I felt poor in India. Most of the things in the mall were beyond my everyday affordability. I had never felt that in Canada or in the States. And in India, prior to this experience, I always counted myself among the privileged ones.
We had planned to eat out in Paradise, known for its quality biriyani, which previously had only a single branch. Now the Hi-Tech city has its own branch of Paradise, mainly to cater to the software professionals working there. Facing Paradise was a drive-through McDonald's reminding me of the sheer imaginative power that the US holds over developing countries and their gastronomic habits. It was as if tradition and modernity could effortlessly coexist in the far corners of the globe.
Nizam's Hyderabad metamorphosed into a shiny, new city with wide roads, modern steel-and-glass structures, swanky cars, and multinational eateries. Ten days into my stay, I was on my way to the Old City, originally founded by the Nizams. Once on the periphery of the Nizam's city, the landscape was perceptible different.
The wide roads, tile-paved sidewalks, large cars, and shopping malls were all gone. Our public transport bus hurtled through narrow roads which were sometimes the size of by-lanes, often bumpy because of the periodic digging and indifferent patch-up work done for laying cables, telephone lines, and other such utilities.
The road on both sides was dotted with houses which were densely packed with the odd house still retaining its unique character in its minute architectural details and the colors used to paint it. Yet, the denseness revealed the layers and layers of add-ons to the existing houses. The gaps that seemed to have once existed between the houses have been filled with brick and mortar to turn them into usable space.
When I lobbed the first question to her, 'What do you do in this organization?' I obviously had the long black-robed women around Charminar in my mind. In the bustling bazaars around Charminar and Mecca Masjid – so named because it is believed to contain a brick that was brought from Mecca – one might suddenly think one were attending a mourning. Women in long black robes went about strolling in the bazaar, buying household stuff, and haggling with the road side stall owners. Sometimes, only the eyes were visible and, at other times, one could see part of the faces.
We were sitting across a table. Nafisa and I. I will call her Nafisa because I decided to write this without knowing if she would have approved of my writing. It's not that I came to the office of the NGO, Confederation of Voluntary Associations (COVA), to have a chat specifically with Nafisa.
I was on a research trip to Hyderabad. While I explore the depiction of everyday life in Muslim Anglophone fiction and a contingent Muslim subjectivity at the intersection of the sacral and the ordinary, I have been thinking of doing ethnography with Muslims in some of the Indian cities. My initial plan was to weave ethnography with the analysis of fictions. (However, I shelved that plan later as it would have become quite unmanageable.)
There we were, Nafisa and I, facing each other. I started my conversation in a tentative fashion as her black robe and shy demeanor made me uncertain about the interaction. However, once she started speaking, I noticed a very different persona – confident, courageous, and ready to take on the world.
Nafisa had been working with Koshish, a theater group of COVA, which performs plays on social issues with young actors, mostly recruited from the Old City of Hyderabad. Koshish performs both on the streets and in auditoriums. The group has performed plays on issues such as education, women's rights, child labor, communal harmony etc. Communal harmony, in fact, is one of the core areas of the organization's activities.
Nafisa had worked as a concept designer and script writer for the group. She wrote the script for 'Hamein Jeene Do' (Let Us Live) which advocated the cause of women's education in a male-dominated society. She also developed the concept of and designed the play, 'Taleem aur Jahalat' (Education and Ignorance), which focused on the advantages of literacy.
I asked a clichéd question, 'How did it all start?' She narrated that the journey was not a particularly easy one. She lost her father very early in life. Her mother was somewhat educated. For the first sixteen years, she was hardly allowed outside the house. She had to follow very strict family rules and regulations about women being not allowed to work outside.
She came to know of Koshish from friends. That's how an amazing journey with the theater group began. I was curious, 'Did your family accept your work with the group?' I could see pain clouding Nafisa's eyes as she spoke of the difficulty in the initial days: 'Mere bhaiyo ne bahut object kiya tha.' Her own brothers vehemently objected to her work and even called her names. However, that hardly deterred this young, fiery woman. She traveled with the theater group to different parts of the country.
She told me, she enjoyed every bit of the experience working with some of the most underprivileged children drawn from different communities in the Old City. She was particularly interested in spreading the message of women's empowerment. Koshish performed plays on eve-teasing, a persistent problem in the Charminar area. She feels that street theater could be a very handy tool for creating awareness on issues relating to our everyday life.
Listening to this brave heart, I couldn't but help asking the most obvious question, 'How do you reconcile your faith with all the restrictions imposed on you by your family and society in the name of Islam?' As if she had thought through this question for a long time, Nafisa replied, 'We must go back to the Koran…' She spoke very eloquently about the gap between received knowledge in the Muslim societies, especially the knowledge that is handed down by the conservative clerics, and the message in the Koran. Any reform in the Muslim society, Nafisa felt, must start with the Koran, which advocates women's rights, unlike the patriarchal structure that has completely managed to subvert women's emancipation.
When asked, 'What is more important – this world or the other world?' Nafisa signed off with verve, 'There must be a balance between deen (faith) and duniya (worldly concerns).' She had no doubt that a reform in the Muslim society must start by rejecting an overemphasis on the other world. Muslims must as much focus on improving the quality of life in this world. Her work with Koshish was a demonstration of her commitment to the improvement of life in this world, especially for women.
This conversation took place in September, 2011.
When we planned this particular issue of Cafe Dissensus on Social Activism, Nafisa was one of the first few people I thought of interviewing. When I first met her in 2011, I did not interview her keeping in mind the issue of activism and what she thinks about it. Rather, my focus was more on how in everyday life Muslims negotiate with the worldly.
I wrote an email requesting her for an interview. The email bounced back. I requested one of my friends, Abu Saleh, who is based in Hyderabad, to get in touch with her. There have been significant changes since the time I saw her last. My friend informed me that she is now married and staying away from Hyderabad. However, when Abu got in touch with her through someone else, she was in Hyderabad for a few days.
She seemed very eager to do an interview with Café Dissensus. But she informed that she would not be able to do it without her husband's permission.
Twelve years have drastically changed the city of Hyderabad. Twelve years of activism have hardly changed anything for Nafisa, who once scripted a play on women's empowerment.
Mosarrap H. Khan is a doctoral candidate in the Dept. of English, New York University. He researches in the area of Muslim everyday life in South Asia. He is an editor of Cafe Dissensus.
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It is time once again for another edition of Saturday Stories, a collection of some of my favourite stories and blog posts from the past week. As always, if you came across anything you feel is worthy of mention here feel free to post a link below.
Here are this week's stories…
Does beer taste better after a run?
The holiday #runchathunt is on now. I will be participating.
Here is a race report to show that sometimes race results can surprise you in a good way.


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Employment relationships in Latvia are regulated by the Labour Law, which transposes many aspects of EU employment law and social policy directives, such as those relating to equal treatment, collective redundancy, working hours, and rest breaks. Monitoring of Labour Law compliance is executed by the State Labour Inspectorate and representatives of employers and trade unions.
Work productivity is kept high by Latvia's relatively low number of public holidays:
- 1 January – New Year Holiday
- 2 days (set yearly) – Good Friday and Easter Monday
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 4 May – Independence Proclamation Day
- 23 and 24 June – Midsummer Days
- 18 November – National Independence Day
- 25 and 26 December – Christmas
- 31 December – New Year's Eve
At the beginning of 2020, Latvia's population was 1.908 million, including approximately 50.9% or 0.971 million economically active (age 15-74) people. Economic activity is concentrated mainly in and around Riga, where around half of the country's population lives. Many of the people living in the surrounding districts work in the capital city.
In July 2020, the unemployment rate was 9.0%. The highest unemployment levels in Latvia are among unskilled workers, though there are shortages of qualified specialists in certain areas and positions. Statistics from the State Employment Agency reveal that in 2019, most vacancies were registered in major groups of medium-skilled occupations (lorry drivers, house builders, retail shop assistants, cooks), followed by highly-skilled occupations (programmers, sales managers, sales representatives, senior experts) and low-skilledoccupations (ancillary workers, construction labourers, cleaners, shop workers). Nevertheless, the greatest increase in demand in comparison to the previous year was registered precisely in occupations in the medium-skilled group, particularly in the major groups of skilled workers and craftsmen.
Source: Eurostat
According to the results of Eurobarometer research, Latvia ranks second among European states for the percentage of residents, who in addition to their mother tongue can speak at least one foreign language: 95% of Latvia's residents are fluent in some foreign language and 54% can speak at least two foreign languages (1st highest score). 13% can speak at least three foreign languages. Moreover 44% of respondents acknowledge that they speak a foreign language on a daily basis – at work or in their private lives.
Source: Eurobarometer
The majority of adults know Russian, English and German. Other popular languages in Latvia are Lithuanian, Polish and French.
In Latvian general schools, 98.2% of pupils are taught foreign languages. In primary education (grades 1-6), 98.1% of pupils are taught foreign languages, in elementary education (grades 7-9) – 98.7%, but in secondary education (grades 10-12) 98.2% are taught foreign languages. 45.1% of pupils learning foreign languages learn two or more foreign languages. The majority of pupils (97.6%) are learning English, followed by Russian (32.1%). German is learnt by 10.8% of pupils, but French – by 2.1%. As well as the languages already mentioned, pupils are also taught the Arabian, Danish, Estonian, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Chinese, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Spanish and Swedish languages.
Source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
Salaries in Latvia
Monthly salaries in Latvia range from the minimum wage of € 430 gross for low-skilled workers in the manufacturing and retail sectors up to € 10 000 gross to top managers in the largest international companies.
According to the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, the average monthly salary in Latvia in 2020 Q2 was EUR 1118 gross, which is EUR 824 net. Salaries in the Riga region are about 12% above the Latvian average, but in other areas they are 15-30% below average, with the lowest being in Latgale (the eastern region of Latvia). This does not apply to highly qualified specialists and the most demanded positions, where salary levels are similar across the country.
For example, highly qualified engineering and production management staff can often be attracted from Riga to work in regional factories by maintaining appropriate salary levels.
Salary surveys confirm that the total level of remuneration in Latvia is increasing by 4-6% annually. However, this average figure is only a trend; wage growth is increasingly being tied to employees' individual performance indicators and companies' overall results. Consequently, we can anticipate growing salary gaps at various levels and qualifications in the future.
Sectors with the highest level of remuneration (above average): IT/ Telecom, Pharmacy, Financial Services, Construction, Wholesale (representative offices).
Compared to other EU countries, the general level of compensation in Latvia is low. For example, the level of compensation for unskilled jobs is three to four times lower than in such Western European countries as Germany and France, while in terms of wage-adjusted labour productivity, Latvia is ahead of most EU member states.
* Calculation of an employee's net salary in based on the general algorithm, the actual formula is more complicated, also taking into account a number of tax discounts, e.g. for dependents.
Additional benefits provided to employees vary between sectors and positions.
The IT and financial-services sectors are among the most generous industries with benefits including health insurance, paid health and sports activities, telecommunication services, partly or fully provided catering.
The most common benefit in the manufacturing sector is health, life or/and accident insurance (varies by industry and profile) as well as compensation for transport costs.
Other most common benefits include discounts on company products or services, additional holidays, pension funds as well as company cars for managerial and business development positions.


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Noel Fielding, co-creator of 'The Mighty Boosh' is to shave his head for charity.
The vain poser has always been seen preening his hair and is worse as 'Boosh' character Vince Noir.
Fielding, 35, plans to do the stunt for his favourite charity Teenage Canceer Trust with fellow 'Goth Detective' Russell Brand, 33.
Both known for a love of big hair, Noel said to me exclusively, 'Me and Russell both love our hair so this is a big thing for us to do. I don't know about Russell but I have a wig made from my old off-cuts in mint condition to wear.'


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Quote: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Winston Churchill


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by Tim Watson, KB1HNZ
Originally published in the March/April 2014 issue of The Radiogram
In a recent QST article entitled "More Views on Pileup Misbehavior," the author expressed his opinion that pileups are more unruly now than ever before, and the reason for this is that hams who are calling a DX station have either a genetic predisposition toward conflict, or a complete disregard for the rules. I don't know about about any of you, but my own experience from recent pileups doesn't quite match this description. Sure there are always those few who continue calling even if the letters in their call sign are nowhere near what the DX station came back to, or when working split, there's the occasional few who don't get the message and call on the DXer's transmit frequency instead. But these are rare exceptions. The biggest menace lately is the increasing number of what I call "Band Cops."
Have you ever wondered who these people are? The fact is, we don't know because they never identify. They sit on a DX calling frequency, (obviously without any intention of contacting the DX, since they don't operate split). Furthermore, they have stations that most of us would probably envy, because their signals are almost always 20db over S-9! This makes you question why they don't just work the DX station and move on, but instead they park themselves there for an extraordinary length of time, just waiting for the opportunity to pounce.
But why? What authority do they believe they have to "police" the bands, and for who's benefit? Certainly not hams like me who are trying to work the DX but can't hear them because there's 3 idiots who are screaming "he's working split! Up! Up! Up!" over and over and over. Most of the time I don't even hear the so-called offending station – if there even is one! As far as I'm concerned, these "band cops" are causing intentional interference, and are the only ones breaking any laws.
What is the Solution?
Now, in order to best answer this question, let's first identify the disorder that is at the root of this problem. "Band Cops," we know, have or show a feeling of patronizing superiority. In psychology, this is called a Narcissitic Personality Disorder. Unfortunately, this is one of the three most difficult disorders to treat. It is definied as an ongoing pattern of grandiosity and need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. It should be noted that it's three times more common in males than females. (which seems to hold true, since I've never heard a YL Band Cop). These individuals have an obvious self love, and they believe they are more knowledgeable and indeed an expert in "the rules of DXing," among other things. Furthermore, they are usually shocked when they are not praised for their efforts.
The QST article, which blames inexperienced and "unruly" hams for "Pileup Misbehavior" is unfortunately the kind of condescending and unhelpful nonsense that is actually the most damaging behavior in amateur radio today. It seems to me that if this were truly an issue, then the easiest way to fix it would be through education and support – something it doesn't offer. It is more likely that this particular article, in a misguided attempt to deflect blame, is written by a card carrying "Band Cop" himself.
Since I've now shocked the "Band Cop" community by not praising their efforts, I will now attempt to explain my reasoning. The biggest being that you're doing it all wrong! So, to help assist you in your future band-policing efforts, I've come up with a few simple rules:
Rule Number 1 – For a split operation, spend most of your day listening and transmitting on the DX sending frequency. On CW, if somebody calls on this frequency, right away, using your Vibroplex at 5 wpm, send: VP.. UG.. NP… UP (until you get it right).
This has three benefits:
A. Others waiting to work the DX station will be forever indebted to you for informing the offending station that the DX is working split.
B. The offending station will be grateful.
C. You will get some needed code practice so you can get over that 5 wpm hump.
Rule Number 2 – (For those with CW and Voice memory keyers, this will be easy). All you have to do is pre-program some macros with the words: "UP" and "LID." For the more advanced operators, you can try "SPLIT" or "YOU IDIOT, WORKING SPLIT." And don't forget the simple, but effective "FU."
Using the memory keyers for your days policing will save your voice. Should you happen, by chance, to have a QSO… you might need it.


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Islanders forward Bill Guerin nixed a trade to Pittsburgh earlier this month when the two teams were close to finalizing a trade and talks don't be appear to be close to re-starting. Despite the coaching change, Guerin doesn't have much interest in joining Pittsburgh and it is very unlikely that Pittsburgh will initiate talks again.
A source tells me the two teams haven't had any discussions in almost 17 days
The market for Guerin is not as strong as Islanders GM Garth Snow thought it would be, a reason Snow was ready to move forward with the Penguins deal that would have netted the Islanders a third round pick and a roster player.
Guerin has 16 goals – 19 assists – 35 points on the season.


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Do you think it will ever be possible to build/create different atoms up to carbon or perhaps even gold (the alchemist's dream)? You would have to use fusion, wouldn't you? Would this be a good source of energy? — JB, Norman, OK
As you noted, this process of sticking together smaller atomic nuclei or nuclear fragments to form larger atomic nuclei is called fusion. Many smaller nuclei release energy when they grow via fusion, so long as the resulting nuclei are no larger than 56Fe (the nuclei of a normal iron atom). Above that size, energy is consumed in the process of sticking the nuclei together. So building carbon nuclei would release energy and building gold atoms would require energy. But while it's possible to construct atomic nuclei up to carbon or even gold, it isn't very practical. It's very difficult to bring atomic nuclei close to one another because they are all positively charged and repel one another fiercely. Because the nuclear energy these nuclei release during fusion only emerges at the moment they actually touch, something must push them together for that to occur. The nuclei can be pushed together by (1) nuclear fission reactors, (2) particle accelerators, (3) thermonuclear weapons, (4) giant lasers, or (5) thermal fusion reactors. None of these systems is ready to synthesize large quantities of normal atoms in a cost effective manner (although nuclear fission reactors do produce useful quantities of radioactive isotopes) and none is ready to produce practical energy from fusion processes.


text: The following is a link to a nice booklet on the history of subsea telecommunications and its relation to Enderby House. It is written by Stewart Ash and is located on the Atlantic Cable website at http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/EnderbysWharf/Enderby_Telcoms_Story.pdf. The article was commissioned by the Enderby Group, which was recently been formed to promote Enderby House as a center for telling the story of its history and heritage. A review of the booklet can be viewed at http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-story-of-subsea-telecommunications.html.


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It seems there's a giant snow penis in Gothenburg, Western Sweden, and those who are offended by penis in public places want something done about it fast.
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One might logically wonder why such a thing even needs to exist. According to the product tagline, it's "because not all performance training happens in the gym."
You can read the rest here. So far this campaign has raised about $20,000 since last Friday night.
Second Chance Box Set by Ryan Field
Here's a box set, in e-book or print, for the Second Chance series. This isn't the kind of series where the same characters continue moving forward from book to book. This series has stand alone books, all the characters and situations in each book are different, and the theme of the series is focused on getting a second chance in life…not maybe not. That all depends.


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Brandon & Anna have been together for over 6 years, but they knew from the beginning this was it. They fell hard for each other and nothing has changed.
Their wedding was classy, beautiful, and a ton of fun.
Here's just a quick look back at their day.
And some of the vendors involved:
Ceremony: Royal Poinciana Chapel
Venue: Lake Pavilion
Florist: Flower Market
Catering: A Alexander
Videographer: Hope Media


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3 1/2 tsp. unflavored gelatin
1/3 cup whole cup
3/4 cup sugar
1 (14 1/2-15 oz.) can unsweetened coconut milk, well stirred
1 cup well-stirred canned cream of coconut
1 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons light rum
In a small bowl add the whole milk and sprinkle the gelatin over the top to soften; set aside. In a dry heavy saucepan cook sugar over medium heat, stirring slowly with a fork, until melted and golden. Cook caramel without stirring until deep golden. Evenly coat the bottoms of 8 3/4 cup molds with the caramel.
In a large saucepan bring the coconut milk and cream of coconut just to boil, stirring. Remove from heat and add the softened gelatin mixture, stirring until dissolved. Stir in heavy cream and rum. Cool mixture for 30 minutes. Stir panna cotta well and pour evenly into the molds. Cool completely and then refrigerate until firm.
To unmold, dip the bottoms of the molds into hot water. Run a thin knife around the edges and invert onto serving dishes.


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Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic Fraud Alert!
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Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, disclaimer notice as regards illegal operation of any purported Satellite Campuses/Outreach Study Centre.
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It has come to the notice of the management of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, that some persons or group of persons and Institutions have claimed to be affiliated to the Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua. To that extent, they floated programmes without the knowledge and consent of the Institution's Management with the intention of duping unsuspecting public.
The Management of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua hereby notifies the general public that following the directive of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) through its memo dated September 15th 2001 with Ref. No. TEB/PRO/F/7/Vol. III/224 which conveyed the decision of the Federal Government on the above subject matter, Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua had since then in compliance with the NBTE directive promptly ordered the closure of all its study centres nationwide, and published the information in three national daily newspapers in July 2007.
We therefore wish to inform the general public that sequel to the directive of NBTE afore stated, we have neither mandated any person or group to operate any study centre in any of the country nor have we affiliated the Institution to any Private Polytechnic in Nigeria or Abroad.
This public notice is therefore a warning shot to members of the public to dissociate themselves forthwith from any person or group of persons purportedly claiming to be acting on behalf of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, as these are fraudsters.
On this premise therefore, we call on the security agents to arrest and prosecute any person or group of person found culpable in the illegal operation of any purported Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic Satellite Campuses/Outreach Study Centre.
Dr. (Mrs.) Mary S. Ndah, mnim
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