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Forthcoming Events
Sun 20 Oct 2019, 2.30-5 pm, £22, Land of Heart's Desire: WB Yeats Literary Walk
Every poet has, surely, their own Land of Heart's Desire. For Nobel-Prize-winning poet WB Yeats the sublime landscape & legends of the West of Ireland inspired his early work. But poets need a network of publishing, poetry groups, friends, & literary-&-artistic connections in which to thrive, & Yeats's unique genius was fostered in the unique & curious 19c Arts-&-Crafts garden-suburb/artists'-colony that was Bedford Park, in Chiswick, West London, where he spent much of his youth.
Join Irish poet & critic Cahal Dallat (founder/organiser of WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project who's lectured on Yeats for Poetry Society, Sligo's Yeats International Summer School, Mapping Yeats 2015 at UMKC, WB Yeats Society of NY &c) on a Sunday stroll (starts Ravenscourt Pk Tube, ends Turnham Grn Tube) round Yeats's favourite haunts, by way of Upper Mall, along Thames riverside by Old Chiswick Churchyard to Bedford Park, taking in, en route, Pissarro, Pope, Thackeray, O'Connell, Wm. Morris, Whistler, Stepniak, Shaw, Holst, Henley, other Yeatses, actors, anarchists, occultists, typographers, & much more.
Literary Walk with: Cahal Dallat
Booking: Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Venue: from Ravenscourt Park Tube Station, West London
Recent Events
Fri 13 Sep, 6.15pm, On the Pavements Grey: WB Yeats in Utopian Bedford Park
Lecture by: Cahal Dallat with music, & Yeats readings by poet Anne-Marie Fyfe at the
London Buddhist Vihara
The story of WB Yeats, who, though much inspired by West-of-Ireland legend, landscape & longing, spent two-thirds of his youth in London, mostly in Bedford Park, the diverse artists'-colony of actors, anarchists, Arts&Crafts practitioners, poets, painters, playwrights, & late-nineteenth-century seekers after wisdom & truth who fostered his unique Nobel-Prize-winning literary genius.
A rare opportunity to hear the Yeats/Bedford Park story from the founder/organiser of the WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project, Cahal Dallat, in the unique setting of the Buddhist Vihara, in the building which was, from 1877 to 1939, The Bedford Park Club where Yeats's father, painter John Butler Yeats joined in debates with fellow artists, writers, critics & political thinkers, where the young WB Yeats witnessed the pageants that were to inspire his symbolist drama & his co-founding of the Irish National Theatre, a particularly appropriate location, too, because of Yeats's interest in his search for a spiritual dimension, in Hindu & Buddhist literature & teachings.
Venue: London Buddhist Vihara, 17 The Avenue London W4 1UD
Sun 9, Sun 16 & Sun 23 Jun 2019, 2.30-5 pm, Land of Heart's Desire: WB Yeats Literary Walks
for University of North Florida, Bedford Park Festival & WB Yeats Bedford Park Project (see details for 20 Oct 2019, above)
Tue 7 May 2019, 6.30-8.30pm, On the Pavements Grey: WB Yeats & Being Irish in London
US Launch of: WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project &
Lecture by: Cahal Dallat music, & Yeats readings by poet Anne-Marie Fyfe
Hosted by: Ambassador Daniel Mulhall & Mrs. Greta Mulhall
Sponsored by: Embassy of Ireland, USA
Venue: The Ambassador's Residence, 2244 'S' Street NW, Washington DC 20008
Mon 19 Nov 2018, 6pm: On the Pavements Grey: WB Yeats in Utopian Bedford Park,
Fifth Annual Irish Literary Society Embassy of Ireland Lecture
London Launch of: WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project &
Lecture by: Cahal Dallat with guests Ciarán Hinds & Anne-Marie Fyfe
Hosted by: Ambassador Adrian O'Neill & Mrs. Aisling O'Neill
Sponsored by: Embassy of Ireland, Great Britain
Venue: Embassy of Ireland, Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HR
Nobel-prizewinning poet, WB Yeats, though much inspired by Irish legend, landscape & longing, spent two-thirds of his youth in London, the majority of that time in the first-ever 'garden-suburb', Chiswick's Arts-&-Crafts-influenced Bedford Park, whose diverse artists'-colony of inhabitants fostered his literary talent & endeavours.
Irish poet & literary critic, Cahal Dallat, has lived within a few blocks of the Yeats family's two Bedford Park homes for all of his adult life & – fascinated by the ways in which Willie, his father, & his artistic siblings, negotiated the metropolis's social networks, while dreaming of Sleuth Wood or Ben Bulben – has lectured on the importance to Victorian London of Irish artists (poets, painters, playwrights, composers, & politicians, for politics, too, is an art in Ireland) & on the equal importance to often-penniless, exiled Irish geniuses, of London's complex cultural intersections & opportunities.
Sun 10 & Sun 17 Jun 2018, 2.30-5 pm, Land of Heart's Desire: WB Yeats Literary Walks
for Bedford Park Festival & WB Yeats Bedford Park Project
Sun 25 Jun 2017, 2.30-5 pm, Land of Heart's Desire: WB Yeats Literary Walk
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How to make herdy mince pies
You will need:
8oz Plain flour
4oz Butter
Pinch of salt
Jar of sweet mincemeat (bought, or if you're feeling creative, handmade)
Non-stick shallow bun tin
Round pastry cutter for the bases
Fluted pastry cutter for the lid - same diameter as biscuit stamp
Herdy biscuit stamp
Rolling pin
1. Make the shortcrust pastry by rubbing the softened butter into the flour and salt to form a fine breadcrumb texture. Add sufficient water to form a dough and knead gently until smooth. Wrap in cling film and allow to rest in fridge for half an hour.
2. Take the pastry dough out of the fridge and roll out onto a floured surface to approx 2mm thick.
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The Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-8) It seems a great pity, as indicated in our closing remarks in the previous chapter, that its final verse was not made the opening one of this seventeenth chapter. The Lord Jesus Christ had intimated a week before that some would not die until they had seen the kingdom of God come with power. In the corresponding accounts in both Mark and Luke this announcement is linked directly with the transfiguration scene. The announcement is, in fact, the key to a...
Jesus Condemns the Laws of the Pharisees (Matthew 15:1-11) Here we read of the King's rebuke of many who were opposed to His claims as Lord and the kingdom He announced. There was a remnant whose hearts were opened to the truth and who gladly received our Lord as the promised Messiah. But it was difficult for many to see in this quiet, lowly man of Nazareth that which answered to their expectations of a great world ruler who would deliver the Jewish nation from the Roman yoke and make t...
John the Baptist Is Beheaded (Matthew 14:1-14)
Herod was as corrupt as any of his ancestors—a monster of iniquity living in unblushing adultery with one who was lawfully the wife of his own brother. At first he was somewhat interested in John the Baptist and his proclamation of the nearness of the kingdom of Heaven. But he became indignant when his own vices were denounced by the fearless desert preacher, and sought to silence him by shutting him up in prison. Eventually Herod made John a martyr by an act of judicial murder. When Herod heard of the wonder-working power of Jesus, he was filled with terror. Superstitious as most immoral creatures are, Herod's uneasy conscience suggested that the stern prophet of the wilderness, whom he had delivered over to an undeserved death, must have come back from the grave. But there was no sign of self-judgment or confession of his horrid iniquity.
Herodias was the direct cause of the death of John. Her hatred of the man who dared to condemn openly the grossness of her sins could be satisfied only with his execution. It had taken courage indeed for John to point out Herod's wickedness. Like Nathan (2 Samuel 12:7), John drove home the king's guilt, but in so doing John forfeited his life, for Herod, unlike David, refused to repent of his iniquity.
This vile and licentious ruler would not have hesitated to destroy John immediately, but Herod was afraid that he might incur the hatred of the people who looked at John as the successor to the prophets of old. Instead of immediately executing John, therefore, Herod shut him up in prison.
While we have no means of knowing just when the Gospel of Matthew was written, or even whether (as some suppose) it first appeared in Hebrew, or was originally written in Greek as it has come down to us, it is very evident that it is placed rightfully at the beginning of the New Testament. This Gospel is very definitely the connecting link between the prophets of old and the new dispensation of grace. The many quotations in it from the books of the prophets are designed to show how our Lord Jesus Christ came as the promised King of Israel, in exact accordance with the numerous predictions that God had inspired His servants to give. Those prophecies were given from Abraham's day to that of Malachi, when prophetic testimony ceased, and was silent for four hundred years, until John the Baptist, the last of the prophets, came declaring, "The time is fulfilled."
Matthew is in a very real sense the Jewish Gospel. This does not mean that it has no message for Christians, but rather that it is designed by the Holy Spirit to present Christ so as to make it clear to honest Jewish inquirers that He is the One of whom Moses and the prophets spoke.
Matthew's Gospel can be outlined as follows:
I. Presentation of King and Kingdom to Israel (1:1-12:50)
A. Genealogy of the King (1:1-17)
B. Birth of the King (1:18-25)
C. Gentile Worship of the King (2:1-12)
D. Preservation of the King (2:13-23)
E. Anointing of the King (3:1-17)
F. Testing of the King (4:1-25)
G. Principles of the Kingdom (5:1-7:29)
H. Accreditation of the King (8:1-12:50)
1. Mighty Works of the King (8:1-9:38)
Genealogy of the King (Matthew 1:1-17) The Gospel of Matthew begins with the genealogy of our Lord from Abraham to Joseph. But this was not the bloodline. It was the royal line, however, and carried with it the throne rights. As Son of Abraham, our Lord is the promised seed in whom all nations of the world shall be blessed (Genesis 22:18). As Son of David, He is the King who is to reign in righteousness upon David's throne (Isaiah 9:6-7). His actual descent from David was through His mo...
Visit of the Magi (Matthew 2:1-12) The circumstances connected with the nativity of our Lord in David's city, Bethlehem, were given in considerable detail by Luke. Matthew told us only that He was born in that city in the days of Herod the king. This establishes the date of His birth as several years earlier than the commonly accepted record. He was born around 4 b.c. The question of His birthdate, however, is one to which chronologists have given much thought and study, and inasmuch as...
John Prepares the Crowds (Matthew 3:1-6) Our Lord told us that of those born of women none was greater than John the Baptist. He stands out pre-eminently as a devoted man of God, true to principles and unyielding in his stand against iniquity even in high places (Matthew 14:4). However, his greatness consisted in the fact that he was chosen of God to herald the coming of Christ as Israel's Messiah and the world's Redeemer (John 1:29-31). John formally opened to Christ the door into th...
Jesus Is Tempted (Matthew 4:1-11) Before the Lord Jesus presented Himself to Israel as the promised King He had to pass through a period of testing, which He did for forty days. Jesus met Satan, the strong man armed, and bound him before He began His public ministry and went forth to spoil Satan's goods. Why was Jesus tempted? And being tempted, was there a possibility that He might have sinned, and so jeopardized or annulled the whole plan of redemption? These are questions asked of...
In the so-called sermon on the mount our Lord was not preaching the gospel, but He was revealing the principles of His kingdom, which should guide the lives of all who profess to be His disciples. In other words, this sermon states the law of the kingdom. The observance of this law must characterize the loyal subjects of the kingdom as they wait for the day when the King Himself will be revealed. Throughout, the sermon recognizes the existence of definite opposition to His rule, but those wh...
Giving to the Poor (Matthew 6:1-4) "Do not your righteousness… to be seen of men" (Matthew 6:1, rv). Particularly in view here is righteousness in the sense of fulfilling our obligations to minister to human need. All should be done without ostentation. "They have their reward." When the applause of men has been sought and obtained, we need not expect further reward when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ. "When thou doest alms." Nothing is more objectionable ...


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Results of Using CAI to Improve Performance in Basic Skills Areas
Craig Glenn
T.H.E. Journal Volume 15, Number 10, ISSN 0192-592X
Describes the process of acquiring a computer-assisted instruction system by the Linton-Stockton School Corporation (LSSC). Discusses problems that made the acquisition difficult. Presents the results of a standardized achievement test given to students before and after experience with the system. Emphasizes gains in reading comprehension. (CW)
Glenn, C. (1988). Results of Using CAI to Improve Performance in Basic Skills Areas. T.H.E. Journal, 15(10), 61-64. Retrieved October 19, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/170279/.
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Progressive Comparison of the Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Science Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
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A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Student Achievement in Differing Science and Demographical Areas
Edwin Christmann & John Badgett, Slippery Rock University, United States
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Time: 9:00pm
Date:6th March
Stadium: Estadio do Dragao
Aggregate 1 - 2
Team News & Tactics
Striker Vincent Aboubakar is the only notable injury-enforced absentee for Sergio Conceicao's side heading into Wednesday's game. Jesus Manuel Corona, who was suspended for the first leg in Rome, is back in contention for selection. Porto are expected to take the field in a 4-4-2 setup, like they did in the previous meeting.
Former Spanish international and Real Madrid legend Iker Casillas will continue in goal for Porto and will be shielded by a back four comprising of Eder Militao and Alex Telles as the full-backs, with Felipe and Pepe lining up at the heart of the defence. The full-backs will be in for a stern test, given the quality of attackers that Roma possess.
Danilo Pereira, who was benched for the Benfica game, will return to the starting XI in the middle of the park and will be paired up with Hector Herrera. Both the midfielders will be key in disrupting Roma's rhythm and setting their team away on attacks.
Otavio, who has 5 goals and 8 assists this term, should get the nod ahead of Corona on the right flank, while Yacine Brahimi is a guaranteed starter out on the left. The duo will be Porto's primary attacking outlets and will be tasked with creating opportunities for the strike partnership of Moussa Marega and Tiquinho Soares, both of whom have 16 goals each this term.
Probable Lineup (4-3-3): Casillas; Militao, Felipe, Pepe, Telles; Otavio, Pereira, Herrera, Brahimi; Marega, Soares;
AS Roma
The last season's semifinalists have no major injury concerns heading into their trip to Portugal either. Kostas Manolas was not risked in the derby against Lazio, but could be in line to feature at the Estadio do Dragao on Wednesday night. Cengiz Under has not been named in the squad, however, as he is being eased back into action after his recent injury.
Summer signing Robin Olsen is likely to start between the sticks ahead of Antonio Mirante who has featured in the last two European encounters for the visitors. Alessandro Florenzi is expected to start at right-back once again, ahead of Rick Karsdorp, while Aleksandar Kolarov, who was sent off against Lazio, will continue at left-back against the Portuguese giants.
Manolas is expected to return to the starting lineup at the centre of the backline, replacing Juan Jesus. Federico Fazio will partner the Greek international and look to stand tall against the physical threat offered by Marega and Tiquinho.
No changes are expected in the middle of the park, however, with seasoned campaigner and club captain Daniele De Rossi acting as the defensive shield. The 35-year-old will be supported by Bryan Cristante, while Lorenzo Pellegrini will take up the third midfield slot and look to provide the forward thrust.
Edin Dzeko is the undisputed choice to lead the line for the Giallorossi, while the goalscorer from the first leg, Nicolo Zaniolo is a guaranteed starter out on the right flank. On the left-side of the attacking trident, Stephan El Shaarawy is likely to get the nod ahead of Justin Kluivert and Diego Perotti.
Probable Lineup (4-3-3): Olsen; Florenzi, Fazio, Manolas, Kolarov; Cristante, De Rossi, Pellegrini; Zaniolo, Dzeko, El Shaarawy;


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Welcome to the 25th edition of New Music by Region. Every fortnight we aim to present the best new music in 7 major cities and regions from across the UK (and Ireland). With the help of regional correspondents, we present our shortlist of new music in Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Leeds, Liverpool and Oxford.
New Music by Region #24 can be found here!
- Name: Poppy and the Jezebels – ' Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out'
- For Fans Of:Kenickie and Those Dancing Days
- Website: Facebook
- Correspondent:Lyle Bignon
This new release from the Brummie four-piece, produced by Richard X and Daniel Miller, marks the return of the band - with a bubblegum bang - after a 12 month hiatus. The time away has served P&TJ well as their sound on the record is polished, melodic and glittering, subsequently turning the right heads in music media with its vivacious charm - a Music Week Breakout gig in June awaits too. Poppy by name and poppy by nature. Brilliance.
- Name: The Knox – 'Road Run'
- For Fans Of: The La's, The Beatles.
- Website: Soundcloud
- Correspondent: Joe O'Connell
The Knox are young (studying for A-levels) and their recordings are still very much demo-quality, but I came across them and got so god damn excited that I decided to give them a mention. They're gigging like mad around the city and picking up some pretty influential fans, and I would wager that 12 months from now they'll have a few high quality recordings under their belts and a big cult following. Definitely ones to watch.
- Name: The Cast of Cheers – 'Animals'
- For Fans Of: Foals and Minus The Bear.
- Website: Website
- Correspondent: Barry Peak
I'll admit that I'm stretching the definition of 'new' here. The Cast of Cheers have been turning heads for a while in their home town but with a new album on the way, a recent tour with blood red shoes and a clutch of festival shows booked for the summer, it seems like a good time to introduce them to 405ers. Foals are an obvious influence. Finger-tapped guitars duel over danceable rhythms. However, there's something warmer about the melodies. A pop sensibility that could make them serious contenders.
- Emily & The Faves: Emily & The Faves – 'In The Pines'
- For Fans Of: The Be Good Tanyas
- Website: Soundcloud
- Correspondent: Emily Arc
Put simply, Emily Lansley seems to be some sort of creative superhuman. If she's not touring and recording with her other band Stealing Sheep, posting stories and artwork on her blog, or being commissioned for her illustrations, she's otherwise engaged with Emily & The Faves- where all of her imagination and artistry comes together. Writing all of the songs and music herself, this band reflects her personal style, with almost unpredictable melodies and iridescent guitars. We're left with a spectacular, undulating sound.
- Name: Heart-Ships – 'Spraypaint'
- For Fans Of: Wild Beasts, Modest Mouse
- Website: Soundcloud
- Correspondent: Emily Tan
Combine narrative lyrics with intricately symphonic melodies and alt-rock sensibility and you have Heart-Ships. With 6 guys in the band, it's no surprise that they can produce some big sounds reminiscent of Canada's indie music scene like Arcade Fire or Wolf Parade. But they somehow manage to make it sound like a jam session that you just happened to step into. From the fluid vocal arrangements to the seamless layering of hard guitar riffs and fluid synth chords, they are not just a band to listen to but one to experience live.
- Name: Daniel Land & The Modern Painters – 'Eyes Wide Shut (SPC ECO Remix)'
- For Fans Of: Cocteau Twins, Slowdive
- Website: Facebook
- Correspondent: Chris Holland
Do you remember the shoegaze revival? When A Place To Bury Strangers and Deerhunter were getting (deserved) praise and hype heaped on them? Well as great as those bands are, they mainly took their influences from the more abrasive, My Bloody Valentine side of shoegaze and seemingly ignored the slow, elegant balladeers of Slowdive, Cocteau Twins and early Spiritualized. Daniel Land & The Modern Painters however make these gentler, glacial atmospheres and make them the touchstones of their sound. It's nice to have these Manchester veterans back after taking three years to record their new album "The Space Between Us".
- Name: Count Drachma – 'Mantshontsh'Emsamo'
- For Fans Of: Paul Simon, tUnEyArDs.
- Website: bandcamp
- Correspondent: Sebastian Reynolds
Live sampling, Zulu lullaby singing cosmic pop group Count Drachma are the grooviest new band in old Oxford town. Based around Rob and Oli Steadman of local folk heros made good Stornoway, CD are a fascinating bunch, inspired by their childhood spent in their native South Africa, coupled with a healthy obsession in the very latest music tech advances, particularly the live sampling madness of fellow 4AD artists tUnEyArDs, Count Drachma are a perfect meeting of the old and the new. I'm woefully ignorant of African music but I love the demos Count Drachma have posted on bandcamp and am intrigued to check out some of the Zulu language artists that have inspired them. CLICK LISTEN LIKE.


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Reports show growing demand for branded FMCG products
By Retail4Growth Team | April 12, 2019
Research reports point to contrary trends in FMCG market performance during 2018, but indicate growing demand for branded products in this segment.
Varying reports have emerged on the trends in India's FCMG market. While a Kantar WorldPanel study reportedly showed that the overall FMCG market declined 1% by volume in 2018 compared with a 7.5% rise a year ago, data from Nielsen, showed strong volume growth at 11% for FMCG during the same period, according to an ET report.
The report attributes this difference to the fact Nielsen mainly covers retail sales of packaged goods, while Kantar tracks household consumption of both branded and unorganised products.
Reports also show that there is an increased consumer shift to branded products in the FMCG segment. Senior marketing heads at major FMC brands have been quoted as saying that with the growing health consciousness, there has been a perceptible shift in preference towards packaged and branded products, especially in categories like atta.


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text: Perfect for those who seek new experiences to be relished, this afternoon tea experience is a complete win. Hop into your pick-up vehicle and head towards the Armani Hotel. Upon arrival, you will be welcomed with nothing less than royalty and guide you towards the lounge area. Get seated on the plush sofas and go classy as you will be served with a swanky afternoon tea. Indulge in some elegant food with a selection of supreme sandwiches, cakes, an assortment of scones and a spread of pastries. You will also sip on some delicious coffee and tea that blends English and Italian flavors. After enjoying elegance, head back towards your hotel with sweet memories.


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THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Davao assured the public that shellfish, such as green mussels or tahong imported from or exported in the region, are found without traces of microplastics as of the moment.
This comes after Dr. Jose Isagani Janairo of the De La Salle University conducted a study in coordination with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) about the existence of microplastics in the country's shorelines.
According to a GMA News Online article, the study showed that two out of three areas where the tahong samples were taken tested 100-percent positive for microplastics. The third sample, meanwhile, tested positive for "suspected microplastics."
However, the researcher did not disclose the areas where the samples were taken.
In a June 19 report by BusinessWorld, BFAR-Davao director Fatma Idris was quoted saying that the study found that the sample from Davao Gulf has no indication of microplastics.
Idris, however, told SunStar Davao in a separate interview that the agency has yet to improve its mechanism in tracing microplastics in their tests.
"Sa ngayon, wala pa naman tayong ginagawa na pagsusuri (As of now, we haven't conducted any studies about it). But we already made a letter to DOST regarding that procedure kung paano kami mag-avail or paggawa ng analysis because it is costly (if how would we be able to avail of their assistance in tracing these items because having it shipped to them is very costly)," she said.
Idris, meanwhile, said the public should not be worried since the shellfish imported from Jiabong, Samar undergo certification from the Davao City Health Office (CHO).
Idris also said the study should not be disregarded by the consumers as it may pose health hazards to those who would consume shellfish with microplastics.
Although she said further studies should be conducted to ensure so that concerned agencies could do pre-emptive and reactive steps with regard to the problem.
Different environmental groups have been pushing for the banning on single-use plastics as these are being attributed to the proliferation of microplastics, once these are dumped and broken down in the ocean.
In the study, the type of plastic present in the sampled tahongs are Polyethylene or PET which are cited to cause different cancers and infertility.
Interface Development Interventions (Idis) policy advocacy officer Raine Catague said the study would change the public's consumption on plastics as it is causing environmental hazards both on land and water.
"Mas mapansin naman sa tao ron nga nagkadaghan na ang mga sakit and then minsan, sige ta push for healthy living , not knowing ang mga ginagamit nato nga plastic utensils ang naga-cause og sakit (People are now aware of the health implications of using plastics. We are pushing for healthy living, but the utensils we are using, just like plastic utensils, are the ones causing these diseases)," Catague said.
Idis is one of the non-government organizations (NGOs) pushing for the banning of single-use plastics in the city.
Catague said the group is now finalizing their proposal to be forwarded to the City Council for further deliberation. (RGL)
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Advent Haikus
1. So easy to give
I see your belovedness
Learning to receive
2. Gotta beat the bus
Shoes and braces and pigtails
Joy-filled step, step, step
3. Tiny NICU babe
Hospital stay every year
Sniffles make me scared
4. Building inclusion
Delighting in the challenge
Head and heart and hands
5. Cook wrap music lights
holy baby grand babies
love care celebrate
6. Riding bike to breathe
snow, ice, salt, focused on love
Through darkness and light
7. Waiting and calling
Bravely I ask, who is it?
Discovering true self
8. Short days and long nights
Warm hearts stand against the cold
Now we sing our hope
9. Walking in to work
I see footprints in the snow
Signs of soles and souls
10. Gather together
Share food and drink, love and light
All is well. Goodnight.
11. End of draining day
a hug that doesn't let go
my heart overflows
12. Morning star reveals
Light in darkest places now
Certainty of hope.
13. Heaven on Earth
Is having love and labor
Be simply one thing
14. Advent concert heard,
Glad tidings of ancient night,
Angels still proclaim.
15. Catalog full list,
Misdirected desires rest,
God's bundle enough.
16. Prayers reach out to Him
Hallelujahs, praises, glory
Willing surrender
17. Snow laying softly
Settling on icy ground
Calm, quiet, peaceful
18. Time for Children's Church,
Sunday morning songs and crafts,
Glue, glitter and God.
19. Black against gray sky
Silent, soaring, amorphous
Dancing now as one
20. I've lost my passion
This work matters too much for
me to be half-in
21. So many questions
Ideas to express and share
I wish I could speak
22. "Mama," says the boy
under the clear fuming mask
His lips pink again.
23. He loved the Messiah
and Handel's, too.
Merry Christmas in Heaven
You are face to face with both now.


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Taleban drug that drove addict to killgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Grassroots Information Coordination Center (GICC) : One Thread
THURSDAY OCTOBER 04 2001 Taleban drug that drove addict to kill FROM CATHERINE PHILP IN QUETTA SAKHI fidgeted nervously on the matted clinic floor, twisting his scarf in his hands. "I am desperate for some heroin," he said. "The urge is so strong it is hard to fight."
Unlike most other addicts here, the former opposition fighter did not take heroin of his own free will. "The Taleban gave it to me to make me fight against my friends, their enemies," he said.
"Now I am humiliated, I am locked in this clinic and it is all because of the Taleban."
Sakhi was fighting for the Northern Alliance when he was captured by the Taleban forces and taken to prison in Jalalabad. For Sakhi, a proud fighter, nicknamed Commander Crazy by his comrades, the confines of an enemy prison were hard to bear.
Already an habitual marijuana smoker, he begged his captors for supplies of the drug to ease the harshness of prison life. The guards refused and packed him off to the front line, promising that the Taleban commanders there would give him what he wanted.
The marijuana they gave him was unlike anything he had tried before. "When I smoked the hashish, it felt different in my body." he said. "It made me feel powerful and fearless."
Only later did Sakhi learn that the commanders had mixed heroin powder into his marijuana to spur him into fighting against his own army. By then he was addicted.
After smoking his daily dose of heroin he barely hesitated when asked to fight against his former friends in the Northern Alliance. "I felt the urge to kill even my comrades. I would do anything they wanted just for the drugs."
None of the Taleban took heroin but it was fed liberally to the opposition captives. Their addiction proved more effective than any prison bars. "I could have escaped and tried to make it back to the Northern Alliance, but I knew I wouldn't be able to get heroin there. So I was forced to stay with the Taleban," he said.
It was not hard for the Taleban to keep supplying Sakhi's habit. For years, the regime has been heavily involved in the trafficking of more than 80 per cent of the world's heroin. Taxes on opium crops provided much of the cash needed to buy weapons for their fight to control the whole of the country.
Production supposedly ground to a halt last year when the Taleban leader ordered an end to poppy cultivation on religious grounds. But insiders say the trade goes on and supplies are plentiful. "We stopped growing it when Mullah (Muhammad) Omar told us to but we had already 400kg of opium in our stockpiles," said Abdul Ahmed, 28, a farmer from Helmand.
He came here three weeks ago to overcome the addiction he developed at the age of ten when he sucked the juices from a poppy plant growing on his father's farm.
Since the ban, opium growers like him have been slowly releasing their stocks on to the market, keeping prices buoyant. But last month the Taleban rescinded the ban on production, paving the way for a new opium crop to be planted.
Political uncertainty in the wake of the terrorist attacks in America has also brought a flood of cheap heroin on to the market as farmers offload their stocks in exchange for ready cash.
Dealers in Quetta say prices here have halved in the past two weeks, from 50,000 rupees (Ł570) a kilo to less than 25,000. Beneath the bridge over a stinking sewer where Quetta's heroin addicts gather, a day's supply can now be bought for less than 50p.
Those involved in the trade say it will not be long before the flood of cheap heroin reaches Europe, sending prices plummeting worldwide.
The Taleban have been happy to reap profit from the international trade in heroin but there are harsh punishments for Afghans caught using it without their permission.
After being discharged from the Taleban army on the grounds that he was no longer fit to fight, Sakhi was forced to undertake a dangerous daily pilgrimage to remote areas close to Pakistan to buy heroin away from prying eyes.
"My friend Hassan was caught bringing opium back from the border," he said. "They cut off four of his fingers then painted his face black and paraded him around town on the back of a donkey as a lesson to others."
Horrified by their son's fate, Hassan's parents took pity on Sakhi and gave him the money to come to the clinic in Quetta. Seven days into his treatment, he is determined to kick his habit and is already vowing revenge on the commanders who landed him here.
"I wish I had the manpower, 40 or 50 people, so we would go and fight the Taleban," he said, glancing around at the stupefied patients. "I want to kill them all for what they have done to me."
Mr Ahmed is also planning his return to Afghanistan, not to fight, but to plant his fields with opium poppies to replace the stunted wheat crops he had grown in their place. Despite the suffering caused by his addiction, he sees no shame in making his living from the misery of others.
"We have a tradition in Islam that if you are starving you can eat the meat of animals that is forbidden at other times," he said. "It is the same with the opium poppies. We are compelled to grow them because we are poor." Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd
-- PHO (email@example.com), October 04, 2001
Having worked in the drug treatment field, I have yet to see someone who is made to feel "powerful" and "fearless" by heroin or marijuana, let alone aggressive to the point of "wanting to kill". Quite the contrary, heroin is typically taken to decrease rage and anger and to create a sense of calm, soothing, and wellbeing. It may be taken to come down from severe stressors, as it was by US soldiers in Vietnam. Under the influence, heroin addicts are "out of it" so to speak, and in no condition to fight. Craving and withdrawal will preoccupy them to the point where they cannot focus on anything else, most certainly not on a demanding combat situation.
A somewhat similar, if less pronounced effect results from marijuana: pleasant relaxation, sexual stimulation, feeling hungry, and occasionally hallucinations. Marijuana will decrease goal-oriented activity, result in dull thinking, inability to make decisions, and so forth in chronic users.
The effects described in this story would rather fit stimulants such as cocaine or amphetamines. If the latter is the case then this fighter's story has nothing to do with the problem of cheap heroin and opium prices that are likely to flood the West. My hunch is that the reporter was being had by this particular addict's confabulated sob story, as unfortunately, is often the case with this population.
Friends living in Iran nevertheless confirm that cheap heroin and opium coming in from Afghanistan and Pakistan are a tremendous problem that has steadily gotten worse over the past two years. Iran is being devastated by the influx of cheap heroin. A bag costs about 25 cents, as my friend in Esfahan reports, and increasingly, the victims are young girls and women. It would not be surprising if it eventually made its way to the West.
-- Swissrose (email@example.com), October 05, 2001.
Swissrose - thanks for the useful addendum info on this story.
-- Guy Daley (firstname.lastname@example.com), October 05, 2001.


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Vast Broadband is an Internet, TV and phone provider serving South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
With the implementation of Scorecard's Systems Subscriber Analysis Application (SAA), Vast intends to obtain a better picture of customer interaction and enable the service provider to react quickly to market conditions, track the impact of promotional campaigns, and drive higher penetration of additional services to its customer base.
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National Erasmus+ Office in Moldova
Information campaign on Erasmus+ opportunities, 2018 edition
The National Erasmus+ Office is launching a new edition of the national information campaign dedicated to university students and staff from Moldova.
The launching event will take place in Chisinau on September 19, 2018, at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu". This information session is dedicated exclusively to students.
The participants at the event will have the opportunity to find out the modalities and key of reaching the opportunities available for students within the International Credit Mobility KA107 (study mobility, traineeship) and, as well, the audience will be acknowledged with the application procedure for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees Program.
In the framework of the event, students which already benefited from study mobility abroad within the Erasmus+ will share their experiences.
The International Relations departments of the universities based in Chisinau will be invited to present the available mobility scholarships.
Following this information session, the NEO Moldova representatives will meet students in Balti, Comrat, and Cahul. Similar events will be organised for university staff in order to present the novelties of the new call for project proposals.
The annual informational campaign, organised by the NEO Moldova, has the goal to present the Erasmus+ opportunities among the students and university staff from Moldova and to promote the internationalisation of the studies, mobility and exchange experience for students and university staff.


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Usability checklist - can the homepage break the rules!
At business school studying for my masters in business and marketing some (eeek) 12 years ago! IOne of my favourite subjects was consumer psychology (not only was the professor teaching the subject highly amusing and super smart) - but I could clearly connect it with effective marketing. Understanding buying behaviour (of course all offline back then) - has stayed close to my heart over the years - and has proved very useful in my many of my consultancy projects.
Buyer behaviour has become even more interesting with the online arena - and hence my interest in usability - and understanding how people interact with websites.
I've had many a discussion online and off with usability experts and read a number of texts - (Steve Krug's Don't make me think' is a great starting point - as is Donald Norman's - The Design of Everyday Things) - but like most things in life - you only start really learning once the L plates are off and you are out there doing it for yourself.
Most texts and experts agree on the following elements being necessary in most good site planning:
Site ID
This is your logo / or brand name - always keep it in the same place on the page throughout the site. The Site ID should be a link back to the home page. Remember, people may come into your site from a link - and end up deep within the content. So it's important that your ID is prominent so they know that they've landed where they thought they were heading.
Page Name:
If you have a tab called say, How it Works, then make sure the relevant page has a Header which, you got it, says How it Works. Basic for usability - but you'd be amazed at how many sites break this simple convention. Think of it as an index in a book - when you see the How it Works item in the index, p14 - you head to Page 14 and there it is, the chapter has a header How it Works. The same basic principle needs to apply online.
Keep navigation as conventional and simple as possible. There are two key ways people will navigate around your site. First is to 'Browse' using the navigation available to them. Be that a horizontal across the top of the page tabbed navigation - or left hand side panel navigation - people should be able to clearly see the primary tab - and then if necessary when they click on that primary tab - for example, Books - then the secondard navigation may break that down further to say, Fiction, Childrens, Religious, Best Seller etc. It's recommended to try and keep the navigation to no deeper than 2 levels - but some complex sites do require more.
The other way a person will search is by using a 'search box'. Many sites include a search box on the home page and indeed on other pages through the site - and on deep sites - this is a really useful resource. Just be sure that the search box isn't over complicated - all you need is a the word search, a box which the person can populate with their query and the word go - so that it's clear that you have to click go to get your results. Of course, if you have a site where the offering is about searching for a domain name or a company name etc - then you may want to differentiate the name of the 'site search' box to say 'site search' and be sure not to house the two search boxes to close to one another. You don't want to confuse the user with too many similar search boxes on the same page.
Where are we?
Be sure to show the person where they are in the site. For example, if on the How it Works page - then make that tab highlighted in some way - so the people know where they are. Breadcrumbs are also more commonly used now - a path of links showing the journey the person has taken through your site to get to where they are now - if they want to jump back 3 places - then instead of clicking the back button 3 times - they can simply click the relevant link in that path - and they're back to where they wanted to get to.
Tag line
I've written a post on this already - so see here for more on this important messaging.
Hierarchy of content within a page
I use the newspaper analogy all the time when writing content for the web. You need a good descriptive headline, an intro para which summarises the content - and then the detail.
Home Page
Does the home page break with the above convention? Well, in my opinion, in someways, yes it does. The home page has a different agenda from the rest of the site - as it's the 'front page news'. Going back to the newspaper analogy - take a look at the front page of a newspaper. It's dominated by a lead headline - and enough content on the lead story that may lead you to another page. And then other snippets to pull you into the newspaper eg: contd. pg 7..., see inside story... etc. The home page can break the 'navigation' convention if necessary - as it should be enticing people into the sections of the site they are interested in.
See the post Usability: Good old fashioned eyes and ears - for more and whilst yes, there are accepted conventions, and best practice usability guides galore - there's nothinig better than testing what you create with people... trust me, it's a most illumination experience.
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Michelle Carvill is owner and Marketing Director at Carvill Creative - a graphic design and marketing services agency based in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The agency covers all aspects of graphic design and marketing - covering social media marketing and website planning and website design.


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The SEC disclosure is only two sentences long, and on the surface doesn't seem that bad:
"On March 6, 2012, Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, informed Oncothyreon
Trial continuing, results next year, what's the big deal? It's that investors were hoping for the data now, today, instantly after the DMC took an interim look at the data, and the delay sent shares of Oncothyreon down 40%.
Ironically, longer cancer drug trials are usually viewed as a good sign for a company. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals'
But when a company builds an interim look into their trial, there's a hope that the trial will be stopped early because the drug is working so well. The lack of an early conclusion also breeds worries that the trial will ultimately fail, which likely contributed to the stock plunge today.
But the way that interim peeks at clinical trial data work is that there's a higher statistical threshold required to stop the trial early, because each time you look at the data, you increase the likelihood of finding what you're looking for. So Stimuvax didn't work really well, but it's still possible that the drug works well enough to ultimately pass the trial when more patients report out next year.
Stimuvax doesn't need superb survival data to get on the market and have meaningful sales. NSCLC patients have few options, and Merck KGaA and Oncothyreon are testing Stimuvax after chemotherapy so it won't have to compete with those drugs. Just barely passing its clinical trial with an incremental increase in survival will be good enough.
On the other hand, there's a reason there a few options: NSCLC is one tough cookie. Beyond Pfizer's
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One Question for Carly Fiorina
The next US President must be a great communicator. Distilling complex and controversial problems into mental models accessible to large numbers of people is not deception--it's brilliance. The reason we hang onto sound bites isn't because we're stupid--it's because we're busy. We all don't have time to earn masters-degree understanding of every issue facing society and government. Honest, accurate distillations of the complex ideas allow us to choose and act quickly.
Carly the Communicator
Based on everything I've read, Carly Fiorina is the champion communicator in the 2016 race. She went from secretary to CEO in large part because people understand what she's talking about, and her explanations are consistent with reality.
Don't discount that last part. It's one thing to use communications to bamboozle people. It's another to use communications ethically. And Carly Fiorina's reputation is stellar in clearly communicating the truth.
Is Carly a Conservative?
Some conservatives doubt Ms. Fiorina's conservatism. I don't.
While she was on the wrong side of the government shutdown recently, reasonable people can disagree on tactics. Strategically, she wants the same outcome Ted Cruz and Mike Lee want. And there's no way to know who was right.
Meanwhile, I see some people making ridiculous exaggerations about her statements on Islam. What she said about Islam is historically unassailable. It's depressing that some political partisans feign ignorance of history to score cheap political points. [olympus_highlight color="yellow"]I don't see the benefit to conservatism to be thought of as ignorant[/olympus_highlight].
So, unlike a few of my friends I do not doubt Carly Fiorina's conservative bona fides. She served as Chairman of the American Conservative Union. (She calls herself "chairman," refreshingly, not "chairperson," "chairwoman," or the truly confusing title "chair.") Her vision for America is and has been consistently conservative.
But conservative isn't enough. I have one big question for Carly Fiorina, and it involves leadership.
Would President Fiorina Eat First or Last?
I spent a large part of my adult life in technology. I have few friends and colleagues who worked at Hewlett-Packard before and during Ms. Fiorina's term as CEO.
These HPers tell me that many of Fiorina's decisions as CEO turned out to be good in the long run. Some of those decisions, like buying Compaq, were highly unpopular then, but turned out to be the right moves.
Other Fiorina moves are more disturbing. Carly Fiorina changed HP's culture, and I don't like the way she changed it. In short, HP's greatest innovation was never technological--it was cultural. From Entrepreneur Magazine in 2008:
But what really sets HP apart isn't technology, but the visionary management style created by HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard. Their policy of [olympus_highlight color="yellow"] showing sensitivity to their employees' needs and giving their workers the chance to be creative in solving technical and business problems has made HP one of the most successful and admired companies in the history of American industry[/olympus_highlight].
I've heard that Fiorina undid that great culture. While Hewlett and Packard ate lunch in common cafeterias with their employees, Fiorina isolated executives in veritable palaces. The ultimate engineering company--of engineers, by engineers--became a two-tier society with MBAs and lawyers as the elites and engineers as the plebes.
Fiorina, I am told, turned a great culture into a hierarchical hell. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard ate last; Fiorina's executives ate first.
Leaders Eat Last
Why is this so important to me? Why do I keep harping on leadership and service?
Because [olympus_highlight color="yellow"]a free society depends on virtuous citizens and servant-leaders[olympus_highlight]. I want to puke when I read about the Obamas and their 200-person entourages, their privilege, their demand for royal treatment, their disruption of people's lives so they can play golf in Hawaii. And what about Hillary Clinton's egomaniacal demands when she speaks for $250,000 an hour? (I do not care about the fee. Speakers should be paid. But Hillary's list of accommodations is just sad.)
We recoil at these selfish excesses because they say to us, "I am better than you, commoner."
This is America. We are all commoners. As Simon Sinek points out in his TED talk:
This is the reason so many people have such a visceral hatred, anger, at some of these banking CEOs with their disproportionate salaries and bonus structures. It's not the numbers. It's that they have violated the very definition of leadership. They have violated this deep-seated social contract. [olympus_highlight color="yellow"]We know that they allowed their people to be sacrificed so they could protect their own interests, or worse, they sacrificed their people to protect their own interests. This is what so offends us, not the numbers[/olympus_highlight]. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
I don't want another elitist President. We've had too many. It's one reason I worry about Donald Trump.
Maybe Carly Has Changed
On the flip side, Carly Fiorina has so many positives I must stay open. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt, but I want to know she's change her view of executive elitis
So I have only[olympus_highlight color="yellow"]one question for Carly Fiorina: how do you justify the elitist culture so many HPs employees say you installed as CEO?[/olympus_highlight]
If she answers that question well, she might become one of my favorites in the race.


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Consumers also should concentrate on selecting the most appropriate layout and color in their opinion. Some casings mimic animal designs, but others imitate the layouts of programs, musical instruments, or sports gear. Structural design is also significant because it defines the total look of the iPhone . Some materials affect the ability of the situation to slip through the pocket, which explains why buyers will need to carefully analyze the mobile attachment's feel and complete.
Users may also need to focus on cases' durability, weight, size, and prize. Certain casings have excellent protective features, but they add a little bulk to the iPhone . Such products are ideal for those with bigger hands because of the extra width provided by the casings. Some users believe that cases' protective attributes compensate for the additional weight and size. Another feature that customers may want to consider is usability. Some products include openings which provide access to earphone plugs, lanyards, power buttons, lighting ports, and SIM card slots. It's been observed that some casings provide unnecessary holes which spoil the intelligent phone's design. Users might need to prevent some aluminum cases that affect mobile phone signal. Recent surveys have also suggested that the process of installing the cases can be a problem for some iPhone users. Certain casings provide exceptional protection for the mobile phone, however, the installation procedure can be a job. But some manufacturers now offer useful tools like screws, bolts, and wrenches.


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Jesse Gurman is an associate in the firm's Washington, DC office, practicing in the antitrust, litigation and investigations, and advertising and consumer law groups. He represents media, internet, technology, consumer brands, financial services, and other companies in merger reviews and criminal and civil regulatory investigations, and provides counseling and compliance advice on competition, consumer protection, and other public policy issues.
From 2013-2017, Mr. Gurman served as Deputy Associate Counsel and Deputy Staff Secretary in the White House, where he vetted senior political appointees throughout the Executive Branch and oversaw the legal and policy review of all legislation, Executive Orders, and other policy proposals submitted for President Obama's approval. He worked daily with senior members of the White House Counsel's Office, National Economic Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and National Security Council staff.
Mr. Gurman also has significant experience with empirical economic analysis, holding an M.S. in Applied Economics and prior positions at the Brookings Institution and as an economic policy consultant.


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SALEM — Hockey players from around the Northeastern Conference, some taking a break from preparing for the state tournament and others finishing their high school careers, showcased their talents in the NEC all-star game Saturday afternoon at Richard H. Rockett Arena.
Marblehead goaltender Peter Santeusanio (15 saves) had a standout performance, helping finish things for the North in a 7-6 win.
A pair of Saugus forwards also had nice games for the North with Adam Rodrigues scoring two goals and Ronnie Paolo dishing two assists.
For the South, Lynn's Brian Clougherty (two goals, one assists) and Andrew Patrie (one goal, two assists) each had three points.
"You coach against these kids all the time and it's always serious," Winthrop coach Dale Dunbar, who was on the bench for the North, said. "It's probably the only time you get to joke around and meet them on a different level. I was talking to Jared Mscisz (Danvers) a real nice player and telling him my nephew will probably be his captain in college next year. It's a small world and stuff like that that makes this fun."
The day started with a skills competition that included players competing in a fastest skater and stick handling race and a breakaway challenge. Mscisz took home the fastest skater while Rodrigues was crowned the best stick handler. Forward Jeremy Procter (Somerville) won the breakaway challenging, scoring on Danvers' Adam Bridgeo in the final breakaway to seal the competition.
Chemistry between teammates seemed to help settle the North during the all-star game, which was divided into two 25-minute periods of running time.
A line composed of Winthrop players Joey Holgersen, Sam Yarrow and Brian Chalmers started things off with Holgersen finding the back on the net less than a minute in.
Just few minutes later, Marblehead's line of Charlie McGurrin, Will Shull and Jacob Garfield added another goal for the North, with McGurrin scoring.
Not to be outdone, the Danvers trio of Tyler Puska, Jack Thibodeau and Mscisz added a third goal on the next shift with Puska scoring to give the North a 3-0 lead.
The South finally got on the board when Gloucester's Colby Mitchell slid a pass to Patrie who ripped a one-timer on a two-on-one chance to cut the lead to 3-1.
"It's fun to mix everyone around," South coach Derek Geary (Gloucester) said. "I think that's part of the spirit of the thing is to get them to play with kids they might have been rubbing elbows with the whole season. This game is a reminder that even if they wear different jerseys everybody's in love with the sport. It's a good hockey culture."
A few minutes later Winthrop came through again. This time Luke Evangelista scored with assists from Yarrow and Chalmers to put the South back ahead by three.
But the North made a late push in the first half. Revere's Zach Rufo made a nice play to score on a rebound and Clougherty added a goal thanks to a nice pass from Peabody's Connor McCarron to cut the lead to 4-3.
In the closing minutes of the first, Lynn's Paul Papageorgiou found the back of the net on a rebound and Gloucester's Jack Costanzo scored on a breakaway to give the South its first lead at 5-4.
Rodrigues had his best shift of the day early in the second half. The Saugus senior added one goal and then ripped a slap shot for a second less than a minute later to put the Noth back ahead at 6-5.
Clougherty scored his second goal in the closing minutes to tie the game, but Medford's Chris Freeman scored the game winner with 1:37 remaining to get the North the win. Santeusanio finished the game with 11 straight saves.
"It's a good opportunity for coaches and players to see things in a different light," Dunbar said. "I like to mix them up and let them all play together. It's always a fun atmosphere. Now we get ready for playoffs and it becomes serious again. This a nice break."


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Webinar about Reports
In this webinar we will go with you through various reports and settings so that you can send all your data safely and reliably to where it is needed. It doesn't always have to be paper, we will show you how you can send the documents directly by e-mail or how you can simplify your workflow in the future with spreadsheets.
Benefit from many tips & tricks and chat with our specialists Claudius Trittmacher and Claudius Elle during the webinar
Thursday, 28th March 2019, 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM CET
Escape doors
Based on the standards for escape doors (EN 179) and panic doors (EN 1125), LogiKal provides you ingenious utilities that enable you to comply with the legal requirements – without a great deal of extra effort.
Thanks to the advanced settings for leaf types, you can easily define closing functions and opening directions. For better visualisation, the corresponding escape door symbol is shown in the position drawing. In the cross section drawing, a green arrow indicates the direction in which the escape door opens.
Escape doors and fire protection elements must always be monitored by an external institute. LogiKal can also help you with this issue. In the global preferences, you will find input options in the CE area in which the test institute performing the test can be selected and the certificate number entered. This data is automatically included in performance declarations and CE markings.
Read more in the chapter Escape doors.
External monitoring
For fire protecting elements and panic doors a monitoring of an external institution is always required. Therefor a section has been added to the global settings where the testing institute can be selected and the certificate number entered.
Go to the project centre and click in the file menu on 'User Database' > 'Global Preferences' > 'CE Data'.
The following programme window opens:
Click on the 'External Monitoring' tab.
On the right, select a 'notified body'. The associated ID is automatically entered from the system.
To the right of this you can enter the certificate number.
This data is then indicated on the performance declaration and CE label.
Available in Version 11.2
Article Reference Points
You can create reference points for your own articles/HUDs now. In this way you can edit machinings to the articles.
Click on 'User Database' > 'Article Data'.
Select an article and click on the 'Reference Points' tab.
Further details about reference points can be found in the following chapter:
Available in Version 11.2
Show/hide systems in Input of Element
Systems can be shown/hidden in the Input of Element.
Click in the project centre in the file menu on 'User Database' > 'System Input > 'System Data'.
To display a system in the Input of Element, activate the system here by checking the box next to the system name.
To hide a system in the Input of Element, uncheck the box next to the system name.
Available in Version 11.2
Additional collision detection when working with disc cutters
Allebacker letter box configurator
The Allebacker letter box configurator has been integrated into the glass input.
This new feature provides you all the technical and commercial data for Allebacker post boxes.
In order to use this configurator you will need a customer number and a 'Person in charge ID' from Allebacker. If you do not have these details yet, you can request them from Allebacker.
Enter the access details into the programme as follows:
Click in the project centre in the file menu on 'Settings' > 'Additional Settings'.
Switch to the 'Online Configurators' tab.
Enter your access details under "Allebacker".
Open the glazing form in Input of Element.
Click in the position drawing on the field into which you wish to integrate a letter box.
Under 'Filling' select 'Allebacker letter box'.
The Allebacker letter box configurator opens.
Follow the steps to create the letter box.
Once you have finished configuring the letter box, click on 'Save project now'.
Click on the 'X' symbol on the top right to close the Allebacker configurator and return to the Input of Element screen.
The letter box with all technical and commercial data is now available in the glazing input.
Available in Version 11.2
Adeco door panels
The Adeco door panel configurator has been integrated into the glazing input.
This new feature provides you the technical and commercial data for Adeco door panels.
To use the configurator, you will need to request a registration code (known as a 'token') from Adeco.
Enter this token in LogiKal as follows:
Go to the project centre and click in the file menu on 'Settings' > 'Additional Settings'.
Switch to the 'Online Configurators' tab.
Enter the token under "Adeco".
In the glazing input, go to 'Filling' and select 'Adeco door panels'.
A new programme window opens with the configurator interface. Here you can 'build' your 'custom panel' using all the technical and commercial data from Adeco.
To navigate through the configurator, click on 'Continue' in the top right corner.
Once you have made all the desired settings, click on 'Create offer and transfer data' in the bottom left corner.
The door panel is available with all technical and commercial data in the glazing input.
The documents generated by the Adeco configurator can be found in the project centre on the right hand side under 'Documents'.
Available in Version 11.2
New user permission: Change material determination
The new user permission 'Change settings for material determination estimation' allows a user to view and modify the material determination options for an estimation dataset.
This can be necessary when materials are ordered different from the original estimation settings (e.g. if a bulk price list is used, filling and alternative articles)
The ability to view and edit the estimation or the estimation data is excluded.
When a user has assigned the 'Estimation' permission, the user will have access to both – the estimation data and the material determination options.
Permission can be assigned in the project centre in the file menu under 'Settings' > 'Users'
Available in Version 11.2
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Digital transformation is no longer a buzzword. No industry is left behind.
We're currently in a new wave of digital transformation with new technologies, processes, business models and opportunities popping up in the market faster than we can blink & think.
All the companies are using big data, machine learning, cloud, smart…
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Today's customers are like a King. They are in the driver's seat, with the power of the internet and social media tools creating tons of information. With the strong influence of smartphones, all the information is at their fingertips.
We are living in interesting times ofIndustry 4.0. Consumers are now on the cusp of a hyper-personalized era with fundamental changes in terms of choice,…
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Digital has brought in so many technological advances to this age and one of them is Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
A simple definition of RPA is, automation of business processes across the enterprise using software robots. Any repetitive task which requires some decision making is an ideal candidate for RPA. Automation has become an integral…
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"The problem is that, in many cases, big data is not used well. Companies are better at collecting data – about their customers, about their products, about competitors – than analyzing that data and designing strategy around it." –
How can this still be the case? I mean after 5+ years of experience with Big Data, have we not learned a darn thing? We get the following observation from no less than the Harvard Business School:
The new…
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A lot of times when the prevalent industry trends are discussed among industry folks, there are usually two directions in which the conversation goes. It is either varying states of disbelief at the rate of change within the business and IT landscapes; or it is enthusiastic agreement on the importance of moving with the times and adopting a digital infrastructure. The…Continue
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In this Digital age, every organization is trying to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to their internal and external data to get actionable insights which will help them to be closer to today's customer. A few years back it was the field only for data scientists and statisticians, who used to analyze the data, apply several techniques…
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Digital transformation is underway in practically every industry in the world. Companies, businesses and organizations throughout the world are leveraging their assets, big data and analytics for an edge over their competitors. In fact, data analytics and big data have gained popularity to the extent that data analysis for differentiation is…
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Digitization is disrupting every business and is spreading like a wild fire across every sector such as Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, and Manufacturing.
Digital Transformation does not happen overnight. It is a continuous process. That is why it is very hard to plan too far ahead in a digital transformation program. The technology is evolving so…
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We are all familiar with machine learning in our everyday lives. Both Amazon and Netflix use machine learning to learn our preferences and provide a better shopping and movie experience.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has stormed the world today. It is an umbrella term that includes multiple technologies, such as machine learning, deep learning, and…
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As mentioned by Tom Davenport few years back,Data Scientist is still a hottest job of century. Data scientists are those elite people who solve business problems by analyzing tons of data and communicate the results in a very compelling way to senior leadership and persuade them to take action.
They have the critical responsibility to understand the data and help business get more knowledgeable about their customers.
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Customer analytics has been one of hottest buzzwords for years. Few years back it was only marketing department's monopoly carried out with limited volumes of customer data, which was stored in relational databases like Oracle or appliances like Teradata and Netezza. SAS & SPSS were the leaders in providing customer analytics but it was restricted to conducting segmentation of customers who are likely to buy your products or services. In the 90's came web…
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When talking to clients about their business goals, most business executives are pretty clear as to what they want to accomplish, such as reducing customer churn or reducing inventory costs or improving quality of care or improving product line profitability. But these "one dimensional" business initiatives really don't push the organization's innovative thinking. For example, I can easily reduce marketing costs if I significantly reduce advertising and promotional spending. Or I can easily…Continue
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My job has the great advantage of bringing me in touch with some outstanding and truly brilliant people. As an example, last year I spoke at the PrecisionAg Vision Conference in Phoenix (and I'll be speaking there again this fall on October 12), and ran into a number of companies that were applying data science and big data principals to the world of agriculture. Having grown up in Charles City, Iowa, I have a special place in my heart for farming and the importance of agriculture to the…Continue
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I attended the interview with Nick Drake, Senior Vice President, Direct to Consumer at T-Mobile and Otto Rosenberger who serves as CMO at the Hostelworld Group at the Adobe Summit. The key take away of the entire session was that customer experience is the beginning and the core of digital transformations – it is where it all begins.
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Predicting life expectancy is not easy and it is as much an art as a science. Being able to make a reasonable, educated guess about a patient's illness trajectory and the likely prognosis is important because:
- Some patients (and their relatives) want to know prognosis
- Knowing the prognosis helps inform decisions regarding how aggressively to treat complications as they arise
A key element to determining prognosis is to understand the natural history of the particular disease that the patient suffers from. The course and natural history of end-stage organ failure (e.g. liver failure due to cirrhosis) is very variable and is often quite different from that of advancing cancer. Similarly, dementia and degenerative neurological conditions typically have a different course towards the end of life than advancing cancer.
Objective Measures To Help With Prognosis
Numerous studies have confirmed that, in most circumstances, doctors tend to over-estimate life-expectancy and prognosis in patients with palliative illnesses. A number of clinicians have attempted to develop tools such as the Palliative Prognostic Index to help increase the accuracy of prognostication.
Performance State in an Advancing Terminal Illness
For patient's who are gradually declining, their performance score or functional status is often very helpful in helping inform assessments about prognosis. As a rule of thumb, patients who are declining quickly, tend to keep declining quickly, and those who are declining slowly tend to continue to decline slowly.
ECOG Performance Score
Probably the most widely used performance scale in oncology is the Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group (ECOG) scoring. This scoring system is often used in determining a patient's fitness for chemotherapy. When the ECOG score is 0 or 1 a patient would typically be considered fit for chemotherapy, where if the score is 2, 3 or 4 the patient may not be considered fit for chemotherapy.
ECOG Score
Fully active with no performance restrictions
Strenuous physical activity is restricted but fully ambulatory and able to carry out light work
Capable of all self-care but unable to carry out any work activities; up and about > 50% of waking hours
Capable of only limited self-care; confined to bed or chair > 50% of waking hours
Completely disabled and totally confined to bed or chair
Karnofsky Performance Score
The Karnofsky Score is similar to the ECOG scoring system but is more detailed and more palliative care focussed. The Australian-modified version of it is widely used as it specifically designed for use in both a community and inpatient setting.
Normal with no evidence of disease
Able to carry out normal activity with only minor symptoms of disease
With some effort able to carry out normal activity with some symptoms of disease
Cares for self but unable to carry on normal activity or to do active work
Mostly able to care for mostly but requires occasional assistance
Considerable assistance and frequent medical care required
In bed more than 50% of the time
Almost completely bedbound
Totally bedboundand requiring extensive nursing care by professionals or family
Comatose or barely rousable
Specific Prognosis Scoring Tools
There are a number of prognostic scoring tools that are relatively well known in the palliative care world, including:
- Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI)


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One of two Banburyshire hostelries ordered to make urgent changes to food hygiene standards has increased its rating by three points.
The Coach and Horses, Adderbury was given just one mark out of five by Cherwell District Council environmental inspectors in late March.
Since then a raft of improvements has brought the pub's rating up to four stars.
The Delhi Indian Takeaway in Southam Road, Banbury was given a nil score out of five and is closed until June 20 for a revamp.
The Hare and Hounds, Wardington received only one point but owners Hook Norton Brewery say at the time of inspection there was no catering operation.
Inspectors were aware and did not make a full investigation.
The pub is now closed and refurbishments are underway ready for a new tenant.
The Coach and Horses owner Tony Watts invited the Banbury Guardian to the restaurant this week and said the pub had done 'everything possible' to comply with all food hygiene legislation.
A Cherwell District Council inspector who visited the pub on Tuesday has given it a four star rating out of a possible five.
Council environmental health inspectors found a host of issues at the Delhi Indian Takeaway from obstructed sinks to inadequate handwashing, a dirty fridge and unhygienic chopping boards.
The inspector said: "Chopping boards were in a damaged and filthy condition. Equipment was being washed in water of 24 degrees C and the disinfectant was inadequate.
"The sink for washing food was dirty. There was no hot water supply. There was no control of cleaning cloths.
"The cloths used around the kitchen were dirty and not suitable for shaping naan breads."
The inspector said the takeaway must destroy the chopping boards and not use corregated cardboard.
A box used to store a 'dirty rolling pin and plastic containers was dirty' he reported.
He said sanitisers were inadequate. The hand wash basin was not in regular use. It was obstructed and had food debris in. There were no hygienic hand drying facilities and a towel was dirty.
Plastic food containers in the fridge were damaged and posed a contamination risk and there was no separation in processes for handling raw meat, vegetables and salads.
A skylight mesh was damaged allowing insects in. The fridge was not clean and open cans were stored inside. Cabinet shelving was also unclean.
The inspector voiced concern about the cooling of rice to avoid bacterial growth.
The Coach and Horses, Adderbury had similar complaints in March about lack of hand-washing. The inspector said: "Hands were washed inffectively in the sink used for wash-up. This was after handling a pack of raw meat. Hands were washed in the sink (and) dried on a tea towel which was left on a worktop used for preparing ready-to-eat foods.
"Salad items were not washed. There were three roast beef joints defrosting at room temperature in the store room...uncovered... sitting on a box of glasses and posing a risk of contamination.
"Areas were cluttered and disorganised (making) cleaning, disinfecting and managing food safely difficult. There were egg shells on the side, on surfaces and the floor under shelving. These are sources of salmonella.
"Cleaning and other household chemicals were stored in the food store room. Paint stripper was above the freezer, close to where open beef was being defrosted.
"There were garden tools in the food store room. Touch points on doors and refregerator doors were dirty. The fryer in the kitchen was not clean. The fridge was not clean and the freezer required defrosting. The cooker was not clean. The walls were dirty. The floor throughout the kitchen was dirty. There was no stock control system for food prepared and stored in the freezer."
Mr Watts said: "The Coach and Horses was scored poorly mainly on paperwork not being completed properly but that has since been addressed with the district council,"he said.
"This is an old, old building and we only have one very small store room to serve the whole building but as soon as issues were pointed out things were moved.
"The inspector visited during an extremely busy lunchtime. We are working very closely with Cherwell to address the issues and we are doing everything we can to comply with all legislation."
"We are a very well thought of village pub providing value for money meals," said Mr Watts.
The Banbury Guardian has tried to contact the Delhi takeaway without success.