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Singapore Employment Act
The Employment Act of 1968 is Singapore's primary labor legislation which governs the relations between the employer and the employees in an organization. The main purpose of the Act is to maintain good employment standards and safeguard working conditions for employees. The Act extends to the entire employment process, starting from the appointment up to an employee's dismissal or termination.
Labour laws in Singapore are fair, efficient, and business-friendly. According to The Global Competitiveness Report 2015 – 2016, Singapore ranks #3 in the world for best labour-employer relations. Employment related regulations are an important area of legal compliance requirements that Singapore companies must follow. All businesses, in their capacity as an employer, need to comply with the employment laws when hiring, managing, and terminating employees.
It is important for an employer to decide the terms and conditions of an employment contract in accordance with the provisions of the employment law. This article will explain the key provisions of the Employment Act that an entrepreneur who is setting up a company in Singapore should be aware of.
Applicability of the Act
The Employment Act in Singapore is applicable to all employees irrespective of their nationality. This implies that the Act covers local as well as foreign employees.
The Act is applicable to all employees who the employer appoints by means of an employment contract stating the terms and conditions of employment. The employees covered under the Act include full-time, part-time and temporary employees.
The provisions of the Employment Act are not applicable to an independent contractor who the employer appoints on the basis of a fee to complete a specific assignment for the company. An independent contractor carries out services on his or her own terms. Any contract entered by the employer with the independent contractor forms a client-contractor relationship that is not covered under the scope of this Act.
Furthermore, the Act does not cover the following:
- Seamen
- Domestic Workers
- A person employed in a managerial or executive capacity with a monthly salary exceeding $4,500 and
- A person employed by the Statutory Board or Government.
Employees not covered by this Act have to decide the terms and conditions of the employment on a mutual basis with their employer. The provisions of this Act are not applicable to them.
Employment Contract
The Employment Act has a direct effect on the employment contract and the way it is drafted. The Act specifically states that any terms and conditions of the employment contract that are less favorable to the employees in comparison to the relevant provisions of the Act are illegal, and have no legal binding on the parties. Thus, the terms of the employment contract must be in accordance with the legal provisions of the Employment Act. A professional corporate services firm can assist you with drafting a model employment contract that is designed to be in compliance with the Employment Act terms.
The employment contract is an important legal document of a company as it defines the relationship between the employer and the employee. The general principles of contract law in Singapore are applicable to this contract. Like all contracts entered into by parties in Singapore, the employment contract is enforceable by law. Typically, the contract defines details such as employee's scope of work, salary details, overtime payment, rest days, leaves etc.
From April 1, 2016 employers are required to issue the Key Employment Terms (KET) to employees in writing. This is applicable only to employees employed on or after April 1, 2016.
Key Provisions of the Act
The Employment Act guarantees certain benefits to employees. These benefits include annual paid leaves, sick leaves, maternity benefits, paid public holidays etc. Employers must ensure that they fulfil all such requirements in the Act and also draft the terms of the contract accordingly.
Specifically, employers must be compliant with the following provisions of the Act:
An employee must be at least 13 years of age to be eligible for employment. However, the age limit differs depending on the employee's type of work. For instance, an employer cannot engage persons below the age of 16 years in any workplace with hazardous conditions that can be detrimental to the health of the person.
With respect to wages, the Act does not prescribe any minimum wage for employees. The wages are applicable according to the agreed terms between the employer and the employee.
The normal working hours of an employee are 8 hours a day up to a maximum of 44 hours a week. Additionally, no employee should work consecutively for 6 hours a day without any break. An employer must confirm the hours of work in the employment contract.
The work hours do not include break-time for any meals, tea-time or rest.
NoteThis provision is applicable only to employees who earn a monthly salary not exceeding $2,500.
Every employee is entitled to one rest day each week without pay. The rest day must either be Sunday or any other day of the week. If the employer cannot give an entire day for rest to a shift worker the rest day has to be a continuous period of 30 hours.
NoteThis provision is applicable only to employees who earn a monthly salary not exceeding $2,500.
Employees are entitled to a total of 11 paid public holidays annually. If specified in the agreement, the employer can substitute the public holiday for another day. If the public holiday falls on any of the rest days, the next working day is considered a paid holiday. However, if the employee works on that day the employer must pay the employee full day's pay.
An employee is entitled to a paid annual leave if he or she has been working for the employer for at least 3 months. The number of days of annual leaves depend on the years of service completed by the employee in the organization. For instance for 1 year of service, an employee is entitled to 7 days annual paid leaves. For 2 years of service, an employee is entitled to 8 days annual paid leaves. For 8 or more years of service, the employee is entitled to 14 days annual paid leaves. This does not mean that the employer cannot grant any additional leaves to an employee. An employee can avail leaves over and above the statutory limit. However, the employer can deduct the employee's salary for these leave days.
NoteThis provision is applicable only to employees who earn a monthly salary not exceeding $2,500.
An employee is entitled to paid sick leave. However, the employee must fulfil the following conditions:
- The employee must have been working for the employer for at least 3 months,
- The employee must inform his employer of his absence within a timeline of 48 hours, and
- The employee must submit a certificate by a company's doctor or a government doctor.
Like annual leaves, the number of sick leaves an employee is entitled to depend on the years of service completed.
Under the Act, a working mother can claim paid maternity leaves and working parents can claim paid child care leaves on fulfilment of certain conditions. To claim such leave, an employee must have completed at least 3 months in service. Additionally, the child for whom the employer provides such benefits must be a Singapore Citizen. These are just a few of the conditions that an employee needs to fulfill.
The number of hours worked by an employee in a day or a week in excess of the contractual work hours is considered overtime work. The Act states that:
- An employer cannot make an employee work for more than 12 hours a day.
- The total overtime work in a month cannot exceed 72 hours.
- Employers who require their employees to work in excess of the maximum daily hours will have to send an application to the Ministry of Manpower for overtime exemption.
The employer must pay the salary for overtime work within 14 days from the end of the salary period during which the employee performed the work.
The rate for overtime work should not be less than 1.5 times the basic hourly rate of the employee.
NoteThis provision is applicable only to employees who earn a monthly salary not exceeding $2,500.
According to the Retirement and Re-employment Act, the minimum age for retirement is 62 years. An employer cannot ask any of its employees to retire before that age. Additionally, employees who reach the retirement age can be re-employed up to the age of 65. However, only Singapore citizens and permanent residents are eligible for re-employment.
NoteThis provision is applicable only to employees who earn a monthly salary not exceeding $2,500.
Retrenchment means the involuntary or forced layoff of an employee. The Act states that an employee is entitled to retrenchment benefits only if the employee has been in continuous service with the employer for a period of minimum 2 years. The Act, however, does not specify any concrete retrenchment benefits. The employer and the employee can mutually agree on these benefits at the time of signing the contract.
NoteThis provision is applicable only to employees who earn a monthly salary not exceeding $2,500.
The employment contract must state the way in which either party can terminate the contract. A contract is terminated either by the employer or the employee. If there is no clause in the contract explaining the termination process, the termination provisions of the employment act are applicable.
The contract can be terminated either:
- With Notice
- Without Notice or
- On grounds of misconduct
The parties can terminate the contract on the basis of a written notice. However, both the employer and employee must follow the notice period in the contract. In case the contract does not specify any notice period the notice period of the Act is to be followed. Where either of the parties commits a material breach of any of the contractual terms, the contract can be terminated without any written notice.
Lastly, if any employee is guilty of misconduct (such as theft, dishonesty, or negligence) an inquiry should be held on the matter, pursuant to which the employee can be dismissed. The Act does not prescribe any procedure for an inquiry. However, as a general guideline, the employer must:
- Inform the employee of the misconduct,
- Ensure that the person hearing the inquiry must not be in a position of bias, and
- Give the employee an opportunity to present his case.
The Act states that during the inquiry procedure, the employer can suspend the employee from work for a maximum period of one week. In case the employee feels that he or she has been unfairly dismissed, the employee can appeal to the Ministry of Manpower within one month of the dismissal.
Failure to comply with the provisions of the Employment Act attracts a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment of 6 months or both for each violation. In the case of a subsequent offense, the fine is up to $10,000 or imprisonment up to a year or both.
Singapore has long been recognised as one of the best cities for business thanks in part to its non-bureaucratic, business-friendly labour laws. Entrepreneurs appreciate the high degree of transparency and reliability in business, economic and regulatory affairs in Singapore. A stable political structure with parliamentary democracy, a well-established judicial system, and the presence of strong domestic institutions with good corporate governance practices, have made the Singapore business environment very attractive to global investors.
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Back doors have a number of weak points. Their most obvious weakness is the lack of locks. Few back doors have deadbolts, door chains, and other locks. Instead, they usually have a single deadbolt, without any accompanying security measures.
Furthermore, these doors often have more glass. Indeed, some people's back door is nothing but a screen door – an entire door made of nothing but glass and a small latch used as a lock. That is not nearly enough security for most homes, and makes it easy for potential thieves to simply shatter the back door and enter. While adding security to your front door is important, few burglars use the front door as an entrance point. They look for weaknesses, and the back door of your home is likely a weakness.
What is the solution?
There are several types of security measures that can be installed on your back door in order to improve your security. Just a small sample of these include:
– High security Mul-T-Lock deadbolt
– Door viewers
– Door strips
There are equally as many potential locks and security devices that can be installed on your front door as your back door, and unlike your front door, you don't have to worry about your home feeling uninviting due to this high level of security. You can keep all of the locks closed when you're not using your backyard, and open them only when you need to.
Your security needs to keep all of your weak spots in mind. Your back door is one of the prime weak spots that burglars can exploit. That is why it is important that you install effective security devices on your back door and keep burglars from entering.

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In 2000 Robert Mugabe shocked the world when he made dramatic changes to land ownership laws in Zimbabwe which resulted in thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers being forced to give up their farms and many to leave the country.
Those white farmers owned 70% of the most arable land in the country which they had inherited from a colonial past built on racial hierarchy.
But now the tide is shifting again. Mugabe's people have hinted strongly, for the first time, that farmers can return–at least some of them. This will be some 15 years after the Zimbabwe government began seizing their land.
A few selected white farmers will be granted security of tenure on farms regarded to be 'of strategic economic importance.' Meanwhile black beneficiaries are expected to start paying a small rental fee per acre that will be used in part to compensate the more than 4,000 evicted white farmers according to the country's minister of lands, Douglas Mombeshora.
Last year, BBC reported Mugabe told an audience, "We say no to whites owning our land and they should go." It is the first time that the Zimbabwe government has publicly hinted on the failure of its unsustainable land policy.
The country that was once dubbed "the breadbasket of the region" has suffered an estimated $12 billion in lost agriculture production since the land occupations took place and has had to rely on donor handouts and food imports from neighboring countries. At least 1.8 million tonnes of the staple grain, maize, is required annually to feed the nation.
Zimbabwe's transformation from exporter to importer of food is blamed by some analysts on the land reform program, which saw white commercial farmers lose farms to landless blacks who are said to lack the skills to farm or capital. Agriculture used to contribute some 40% of the country's foreign currency earnings through exports.
What has been Zimbabwe's loss, has been a gain for neighboring Zambia, where some of these farmers moved bringing with them decades of expertise for farming similar arable land.
British failure
And even though the Lancaster House agreement between the British government and the Zimbabweans had provisions for land redistribution and guaranteed compensation for white farmers, when the time came the British and other countries, including the United States, did not fulfill their part of the deal to fund the program.
It didn't help that Zimbabwe's government had no land distribution systems in place which made the aftermath a free-for-all. Politicians, senior members of the security forces, judges, civil servants and war-veterans picked their share. Most of them had no prior farming experience or capital.
Today, fewer than 300 white farmers remain on portions of their original land holdings in Zimbabwe and many of the seized farms lie fallow prompting the slow changes in attitude and policy.
Mugabe's hard stance was more a reaction to growing political opposition and waning voter support. He blamed the white farmers for betraying his benevolence and threatening his power base. He declared, "If white settlers just took the land from us without paying for it we can, in a similar way, just take it from them without paying for it, or entertaining any ideas of legality or constitutionality."
For Mugabe the land occupations had little to do with righting a wrong but much about exerting power and force. He has been in power since 1980 and one of the longest ruling presidents in Africa. It was therefore no surprise that the rule of law was suspended. Mobs of self styled war veterans and youth militia had carte blanche. There was violence and terror. Several white farmers and their black workers were killed, beaten or chased away and their properties taken over.
The chaos had adverse effects on the economy, food production, and civil rights. One of Africa's strongest economies shrank to half the size it had been in 1980. Soon record hyperinflation would render supermarket shelves bare and the national currency worthless. 10% of the population fled to neighbouring countries in penury, hunger and fear.
After many years of operating as a pariah state, Zimbabwe is desperate to restore its pride and reintegrate into the international community. However, foreign businesses are still reluctant to invest in the country because of policy uncertainty and politicized property rights.


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God's Promises from the SUM Archives
February 28, 2021
Dear SUMites, do you remember last year I said I would pull out some of the words that God has spoken to our community over the years? In particular I've been interested in key promises we have received from the Lord -- Corporate promises for us that we can look at together.
Here's the first post I wrote on that last year: God's promises for the SUMites, part one.
This 'collating of God's words to the SUMites' has been a project of mine for some time now. I have been reading through the archives in date order, starting from May 2006, with the hope of sharing important words on here every now and then. It's a refreshing and remembering of what God is wanting us to know, I guess.
So this brings me to the next series. Starting on Friday I'm going to spend a few posts sharing some words from the archives on a key theme: What God has promised us and what he wants us to know. For this series I'm using the above picture of an old record, as these words are records of things God has spoken.
When we see that picture of the record player, I love the idea of us thinking, "For the record, God has said…"
To go back for a moment down memory lane, we know that in 2012 Lynn and Dineen (our then-leaders) both had a transformative experience with the Holy Spirit and after that they began to receive the occasional vision, dream, or message for our community. This was all part of God lifting us into a Kingdom lifestyle where we bravely welcomed in more of the Holy Spirit's activity.
Prophetic words are part of that Kingdom lifestyle. By definition, a prophetic word is simply an inspired word from the Holy Spirit. It can come in a dream or a vision, or the still small voice, and we can learn to receive these things from the Lord by asking him to speak to us. Anyway, Lynn and Dineen both began to receive the occasional word for this community, and they would bravely write it up into a post saying "This is what God seems to be saying to us right now." (I say brave because it is a responsibility and they would have thought carefully about it.)
Many of us have been readers here a long time. And we might even remember these words. They are part of the love story God has for us, and enable us to charge forth in hope.
The hard part is that sometimes promises are given to us a long, long, LONG time before they happen! Psalm 105 talks about that: Joseph was given a promise but then ended up in prison for years. God's perspective on this? The word of the Lord tested him.
"He had sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
His feet were hurt with fetters;
his neck was put in a collar of iron;
until what he had said came to pass,
the word of the LORD tested him."
(Psalm 105:17-19, ESV)
So, dear friends, if you -- like me -- read promises from God on here several years ago but they haven't happened yet there's nothing wrong with that. It's just, those words have tested us. It's as if God says to us: "Will you persevere?"
Now to these upcoming posts: I'm going to share a series of words that the Lord gave to Lynn and Dineen in 2013. They wrote five posts about a particular set of promises from the Lord: Promises about where we are heading as a community, and what we are all about.
Are you ready to receive them again? I hope so. It will be exciting.
In the meantime, perhaps a question we can discuss in the comments is this: Do you have promises from God that you are holding onto tenaciously in your SUM?
Looking forward to chatting more about this one!


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Samsung to offer two-day IP training sessions in Canada and U.S.
Samsung will offer two-day, targeted industry training courses covering IP video, network design and integration skills throughout the United States and Canada in 2012.
February 15, 2012 By Staff
Led by Samsung's Dr. Edward Wassall, Director of IP Product and Business Development, the Samsung IP Institute (SIPI), will provide technical salespeople, security rep firms and integrators with skills including basic IP network design and implementation, video management and IP camera image optimization. SIPI attendees will be trained in IP video integration and learn skills and design tools.
"IP video networks are becoming the norm in video surveillance, so it is more important than ever to provide basic and mid-level technical network design expertise to the channel," said Frank De Fina, Samsung Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Educating the channel to fulfill customer needs in the changing IP video market is one of the ways we are maintaining the value and quality of the Samsung brand."
The two-day courses cover a range of topics. Day 1 areas of study include IP video design methodologies, Ethernet 101, the open systems interconnect model, introduction to Internet protocol, TCP/IP packet structures, IP addressing basics, IP sub-netting, and introductions to virtual LANS and network switching. Day 2 covers a video network design case study, assigning IP addresses to a laptop, IP camera technology basics, assigning an IP address to a camera, and video LAN connectivity. Day 2 will also cover video image optimization; frame rates, resolution and compression; video management software installation; video network optimization; and a design technology review.
Future dates include Toronto, February 28-29; Texas, March 20-21; Calgary, Canada, April 17-18; Chino, Calif., April 24-25; Ridgefield Park, N.J., May 29-30; and Chicago, June 26-27.
Additional future locations and dates include Toronto, July 17-18; Texas, July 24-25; Chino, Calif., August 28-29; Ridgefield Park, N.J., September 25-26; Calgary, September 25-26; Peabody, Mass., October 23-24, Texas, November 27-28; and Chino, Calif., December 11-12.
The registration fee is $499. To register, visit http://www.samsung-security.com/SIPI/register.aspx.
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"My natural successor." – John Peel
"The world's finest curator of music." – Matt Black, Ninja Tune
We are very proud to bring Mixmaster Morris to Outlaws Yacht Club – a legend of leftfield, ambient and chill out music. Mixmaster Morris started DJing in the early 80s, started doing remixes in 1985, worked with Coldcut and the Shamen, made the first chillout compilation, has dj'd for many years at Glastonbury, Love Parade, Big Chill, written for NME (when it wasn't free), i-D and Mixmag, did two John Peel sessions, discovered Boards of Canada, opened for Spiritualized, met Tim Leary and McKenna, first played Japan in 1993 with 24 buddhist monks as support act, made the legendary albums Flying High and Dreamfish,, lived next door to Syd Barrett, presented The Chill Out Zone on Kiss Fm for 3 years, did a party in a Japanese onsen bath, produced the chillout classic Autumn Leaves, played at Solar Eclipses in Hungary, Zambia and Amami Oshima,made an album with Hosono from YMO and Jonah Sharp, DJ'ed with CAN at their reunion show, played in a royal palace in Thailand, released mix CDs like The Morning After and Abstract Funk Theory, was resident at legendary clubs like Lost, Megadog and Megatripolis, won Best Chillout DJ at the prestigious Ibiza DJ Awards THREE times , and started Nubient, Londons longest-running downtempo night now in its 15th year…
You can now come down and join him for a night of incredible music at the best hangout in the city – Outlaws Yacht Club – plus free entry!!!


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Omg I so have to read Wanderlove! The reviews for that one are insanely amazing and I can't wait I haven't checked it out yet!! I loved Statistical Probability, too! :DReplyDelete
I've read three books on your list and they were all made of WIN! LOOOOOVED Wanderlove and Lola!! And Amy & Roger! Must reread ALL OF THEM! :)ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! I've only read two from this list! My Life Next Door and Jellicoe Road! But a bunch of them are on my to-read list!ReplyDelete
I adored The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. It was so great! I love your list. I'm not a huge YA Contemporary fan, and you clearly are,but I have to say that you picked some of the best of the best!ReplyDelete
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My Top Ten
I don't read many of books in that genre very often. I tried listening to Anna and the French Kiss, but I couldn't do it and I stopped after listening to 1 cd, not my type of book. I have heard many great things about a lot of the books on your list.ReplyDelete
Great choices! I've read a lot of these but I need to check out the rest. Jellicoe Road is one I've been meaning to give a go for a while now - seeing that it made your top ten, maybe I should get on that sooner rather than later :)ReplyDelete
*sigh* My Life Next Door......I will never stop loving that book!ReplyDelete
YES to all of the above, except the two I haven't read, but I'm running off now to look them up byeeeeee!ReplyDelete
Only 3 of those books that I haven't read yet but I remember reading your reviews for all of them. It is so cool to look back at all the books you've read since blogging and seeing all different types of them!ReplyDelete
lots of good choices and books that I need to read stil!ReplyDelete
AHHHHHH! YES TO ALL THESE BOOKS! I haven't read Carrie Goes Off The Map, but I like how the author's name is larger than the title, lol.ReplyDelete
Awesome list, Alexa! I think I heard about Paris, My Sweet from you and I haven't heard of Carrie Goes Off the Map. I'm off to check them out!ReplyDelete
Amy & Roger and Lola totally made it on my list too!! I just adore both of them and I honestly don't think I would have ever found them without blogging :]ReplyDelete
The Summer Series is also right up there at the top of my TBR :D
Wow I am SO Honoured that Carrie Goes off th Map made this list.ReplyDelete


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Congressional Globe and more now indexed in 19th Century Masterfile
26 April 2011 by Paratext Editorial
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As we've all been recently reminded of the important role Congress plays in ensuring the day to day functions of democracy, it can be useful to keep in mind the history of one of our most influential government institutions.
19th Century Masterfile now includes the indexes to the Annals of Congress, the Register of Debates and much of the Congressional Globe, bringing our coverage of Congressional papers up to the 39th Congress in 1867, with greater coverage planned in 2011.
The Annals of Congress, Register of Debates and Congressional Globe, as the precursors of theCongressional Record, are an extraordinary cache for research materials, covering the growth of the nation from the Continental Congress to the beginning of the Industrial Age.
Before Congress began publishing its own debates and proceedings in 1873, Joseph Gales and William Seaton began collecting and selectively publishing early summaries of the proceedings; first, in what they called the Annals of Congress, covering the first 18 congresses (1789-1824); as well as a report of the leading debates of Congress in the Register of Debates (1824-1837).
Additionally, in 1833, Francis Blair and John Rives began a newspaper-like publication called theCongressional Globe with daily coverage and bound volumes at the end of each session. It also contained presidential messages, certain executive department reports, and the text of public laws.
If you're wondering what kinds of issues Congress was focused on in the 19th Century, here's a taste:
- Resolution directing Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of providing by law that soldiers entitled to artificial limbs may in certain cases receive the value of such limbs in money in lieu of the order on the manufacturer, 1867
- An act for the payment for horses and arms lost in the military service of the United States against the Indians, 1833
- Resolution that the seat of Government of the United States ought to be removed to the valley of the Mississippi, 1868
- The committee on the suppression of the slave trade instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the existing laws for the abolition of the trade, 1824
- Piracy Bill, motion to reduce the number of sloops of war, 1825
- Bonds declaring that the enormous expenditure raised by contribution and taxation to put down the late rebellion was responded to with alacrity unparalleled in history, and therefore it ought not to be required of this generation to discharge, by taxation, the entire national debt, but leave a portion of it to be borne by the next, on whom this rich and noble Republic will descend, 1759
- Bill authorizing the payment of the rewards offered by the President of the United States and the officers of the War Department in April and May for the capture of Jefferson Davis, 1867
- A report from the Secretary of War, with statements of all the treaties held with the Indian tribes, 1813
- Concurrent resolution instructing the Commissioner of Education to report to Congress upon the feasibility and expediency of introducing the phonetic system of spelling into general use in the schools and its adoption in general literature, 1867
- Bill to provide for removal of Indians west of the Mississippi, 1830
- Joint resolution directing the joint Committee on the Library to inquire into the expediency of requiring every person who may apply for the copyright of any book, map, chart, print, engraving, or other publication, to deposit a copy of the same in the State library of the State in which such person resides at the time of making such application, 1869
- Tunicas, historical sketch of the, tribe of Indians, 1807


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New York [USA], Oct. 26 : US-based tech MNC Google has announced the launch of the developer preview of its flagship software, Android Oreo Version 8.1, a ramped-up version of the Android Oreo.The software, which is slated for a December launch, can be tested currently by Android Beta Program users. It is also available for download with an unlocked bootloader.
While the Beta Program issues these updates over the air, the developer preview is only compatible with the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel C, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL, reports The Verge.
Reports suggest that the new version will lead to the activation of the hidden Pixel Visual Core system-on-a-chip. Although the image processor is built into both the new Pixel phones, it remains dormant.
However, it is expected to be activated in the coming months to make image processing smoother, and also make HDR+ available to third-party developers.
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Pelosi said in Yerevan that she condemns Azerbaijan's "attack" on Armenia and insists on a peaceful solution to the conflict. Baku considered her position biased and accused Yerevan of escalating the conflict on the night of September 13
Sagiba Gafarova
Speech by Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi in Yerevan in connection with the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict aroused Baku's regret, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliament, Milli Majlis, Sagiba Gafarov said.
"The statement of the speaker of the US House of Representatives reflects a far from objectivity, biased and one-sided approach to what happened. Known throughout her career as a pro-Armenian politician, Nancy Pelosi undoubtedly made the said statement under the influence of Armenian propaganda,— the statement said.
Gafarova added that the speaker made the trip out of "personal interests" on the eve of the congressional elections "to enlist the support of the Armenian lobby."
The Speaker of the Parliament also stressed that the blame for the escalation of the conflict lies with Armenia, which violated "territorial integrity and sovereignty"; Azerbaijan, which caused damage to the "peace process". As Gafarova noted, Pelosi's statements also deal "a serious blow to the normalization process."
The Azerbaijani politician pointed out that over the years that the conflict dragged on, politicians "like Nancy Pelosi" did not make statements in support of Azerbaijan and international law, were silent about "ethnic cleansing"; and "acts of vandalism" from Armenia. According to Gafarova, Pelosi's statement in this case is a "manifestation of double standards."
Read on RBC Pro Pro How to open an account in a foreign bank for a Russian citizen Pro Instructions China's housing market is a bubble. Could it trigger a global crisis Pro Articles Why mental work is exhausting and what to do about it Research Pro How the "antelope method" can help you cope with stress in five minutes Pro Articles Companies are cutting budgets for employee training. How it can be replaced Instructions Pro How parental behavior affects the future of children Instructions Pro No longer green: how Europe is returning to fossil energyOn the night of September 13, both countries reported fighting on the border in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. According to Armenia, Azerbaijani troops opened intense fire in the direction of Armenian settlements; Azerbaijan announced "large-scale sabotage" from Armenia. On September 15, the parties agreed to introduce a ceasefire. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on September 17 that he had received a message from his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev about the completion of the "military operation" in the region.
Baku reported that as a result of the aggravation of the conflict, 71 soldiers were killed on their part. Yerevan provided data on 135 dead.
Pelosi arrived in Armenia on September 17. She stated that she condemned the attacks by Azerbaijan. The next day, the Speaker of Congress delivered a speech declaring the United States' commitment to security and democracy in Armenia. She noted that her trip was planned before the escalation of the conflict with Azerbaijan, but coincided with these events.
"As the US government has long made clear, there can be no military solution to the conflict. The constant resumption of hostilities will have catastrophic consequences, — Pelosi stressed.
On September 18, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held talks with Aliyev, during which he welcomed the cessation of hostilities. "He called on President Aliyev to respect the ceasefire, withdraw the armed forces and work to resolve all outstanding issues between Armenia and Azerbaijan through peaceful negotiations," The State Department said in a statement.
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JINAN - In the commodity town of Linyi city, China's second-largest wholesale trade hub, Song Liansheng, a sporting goods dealer, finishes loading a truck with products to be shipped to another city within the province.
"Business so far this year is good. Sales have increased more than 10 percent from last year," he says.
Unlike Yiwu, the world-renowned export capital for knickknacks, Linyi is more oriented toward the domestic market. Located in East China's Shandong province, it annually dispatches thousands of freight vehicles delivering all sorts of goods to every corner of the country, as far away as Urumqi in the remote northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Last year, the total trading volume of Linyi's market stood at 150 billion yuan ($23.75 billion). It is expected to surge to 200 billion yuan this year, according to the commodity town's administrative commission.
With these figures in stark contrast to some of China's key economic indicators, Linyi is bucking the trend of areas that are more reliant on exporting. It points to Chinese consumers' sustained demand for goods at a time when consumption in recession-battered traditional export markets is waning. Linyi is a perfect example of the inward-looking model that China may have to incline toward if its economy is to continue to grow healthily.
The country's economic growth in the first half of 2012 cooled to 7.6 percent, its lowest in more than three years. In August, the manufacturing purchasing managers' index dipped below 50, which demarcates expansion from contraction, for the first time in nine months, and stayed lower than 50 in September.
In the meantime, hurt by the sluggish global economy, exports remained weak, growing only 2.7 percent in August from a year earlier. China's stock market performance looks very dismal, too. It has kept hitting new lows, making investors' sentiments the most bearish ever.
"China's economic miracle is over" has become a catchphrase of Western media this year. Despite some experts arguing that the world's second-largest economy is unlikely to see a hard landing, those who are betting against growth in China seem to be gaining an upper hand.
However, merchandisers in Linyi do not look as gloomy as others do. Some exporters admit that their businesses were hit by the global headwinds, but they say they can bite the bullet and hold out.
Those who are focusing on domestic trade are expressing particular optimism. Business is running smoothly, they say, despite the government's controls on the property market weighing on sales of building materials and home products.
"No matter how tough the economy is, people still need to consume living necessities. Toothpaste, notebooks, basins, you name it. Don't forget that China has 1.3 billion people!" says Wang Shiling, who runs a large mall in Linyi, renting booths to hundreds of household product wholesalers.
Wang's remarks highlight an important point: China's huge domestic market presents enormous buying power.
"China is still in a strategic period of important opportunities," said President Hu Jintao when addressing the opening session of a workshop for ministerial officials and provincial heads in July.
In September, at the 2012 Summer Davos Forum, Premier Wen Jiabao also told the audience how industrialization, urbanization, information technology and agricultural modernization will enable China to unleash its huge potential, making explicit what the "strategic period of important opportunities" means.
Those who are pessimistic about China have obviously underestimated the strength and resilience of the world's second-largest economy, especially its domestic market. As reform goes further, China will gradually display its buying power to the full, while mobilizing other sectors.
Chinese are increasingly affluent. The per capita disposable income of urban households ballooned to 19,109 yuan in 2011 from 2,027 yuan in 1992, while the per capita net income of rural residents climbed to 5,919 yuan from 784 yuan. According to a World Bank report, China will become a middle-income country by 2020. At that time, its consumer worth will be stunning.
Meanwhile, development in the country's vast hinterland is set to fuel its economic growth. In recent years, manufacturers' drives to relocate their factories from costal China to less expensive interior provinces has boosted the economic vitality of the country's central and western regions. The moves have also offset higher costs, giving Chinese manufacturers an edge over their competitors on the global stage.
Ongoing urbanization will play a part as well. Last year, China's urban population exceeded its rural population for the first time in the nation's history, with city-dwellers accounting for 51.27 percent of the country's 1.347 billion people.
In 1981, only 20 percent of Chinese lived in cities. The country will see 300 million more urbanites by 2030, with 15 million to 20 million rural dwellers moving to cities every year, according to a forecast by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
All of the above will also drive the growth of investment, which has been and will continue to be one of the significant engines of China's economy. Inadequate infrastructure still hinders rural regions and the hinterland, while a yawning wealth gap calls for more spending on education, healthcare, social security, affordable housing and other areas to ensure social equality and improve people's livelihoods. In this context, it is a bit early to worry about over-investing. The key is where and how to make the investment.
Last but not least, China's economic fundamentals remain sound. Its debt levels, domestic consumption, employment and space of fiscal and monetary policies are much better than many countries caught in the crisis. That will give China more leeway to grasp Hu Jintao's "strategic period of important opportunities." And the economy will surely pick up steam.


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Section 3
Cultural Challenge 3
Accept life's greatest challenges.
Spiritual Awakening:
Moment by moment accept life's greatest challenges, or crosses, using the primary values to let the Spirit and Power of God keep you on track to God, and so God might use your example. Use a wallet sized card to stay on the path to God moment by moment. If you never leave God in the moment you will never leave your path to God.
Presentation – In the Moment
Video Resource
: In the Moment | Jeffrey Liautaud, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS_wgrUMr9E
14 minutes
Jeff Liautaud, Founder of Loquate a charity for peace, will share two real life stories of using primary values in the moment to stay on track to come to God. In the moment is so important for if ever we leave God it will be in the moment. By carrying our cross and using the primary values we can stay on track to God.
Accept Our Cross Moment by Moment
Habitual use of the wallet sized card and its breakthrough prayers results in significant spiritual growth. Suffering leads to spiritual growth when accepted and transcended by grace using this breakthrough prayer card.
After we make a conscious decision to throw our lot in with Jesus, then we will be tempted to set aside God's call for us by temptations of the world's plan for us. We must accept our cross. John 18:11. The tool to accept our cross is to think of the worst that can happen to us, and accept even that if that is God's will for us. If we pray for our acceptance of our cross, again and again as often as we are tempted to reject our cross, then by grace our cross will become light. We will know we have succeeded by the joy we experience. We can try this and experience joy.
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 USCCB
When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
St. John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio in no. 23 said:
Reason cannot eliminate the mystery of love which the Cross represents, while the Cross can give to reason the ultimate answer which it seeks…
The preaching of Christ crucified and risen is the reef upon which the link between faith and philosophy can break up, but it is also the reef beyond which the two can set forth upon the boundless ocean of truth. Here we see not only the border between reason and faith, but also the space where the two may meet…
The wisdom of the Cross, therefore, breaks free of all cultural limitations which seek to contain it and insists upon an openness to the universality of the truth which it bears. What a challenge this is to our reason, and how great the gain for reason if it yields to this wisdom! Of itself, philosophy is able to recognize the human being's ceaselessly self-transcendent orientation towards the truth; and, with the assistance of faith, it is capable of accepting the "foolishness" of the Cross as the authentic critique of those who delude themselves that they possess the truth, when in fact they run it aground on the shoals of a system of their own devising.
"The Holy Spirit is the principal agent of the new evangelization" (Tertio Millennio Adveniente, nos. 18, 45). By accepting our cross we become holier. The cross strips us clean of attachments to things of this world that keep us from loving more fully. And as Keith Strohm, New Evangelization Director,
Archdiocese of Chicago said in a blog on 5/20/13, "In other words, as we grow in holiness, we become freer to utilize the charisms we have received for the sake of the world."
The cross is efficacious when offered up for the poor souls in Purgatory, for ourselves, for our loved ones, and for the world because Christ suffered first on the cross. It is in following Christ's example that St. Paul chose more than anything else, and so St. Paul says about suffering in Romans 8:37 "No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through Him who loved us."
Using the primary values to stay on the path to God moment by moment.
The primary values help us to understand our feelings. We already discussed one primary value which is: operating in an area of meaningful expansion for yourself.
Another primary value is doing that which is truly in the best interests of others. This primary value is the Franciscan definition of love. We are to love all before us.
Another primary value is attaining a goal or other end not necessarily preconceived as a goal, but which becomes a goal once experienced.
There are natural law primary values behind our feelings toward which every person of every religion, and every person ever born, is drawn. Each of these primary values is discreet and pre-potent over our feelings of good and bad.
Dignity Comes from Primary Values
Can You Find Scripture that Supports Dignity for all?
1. Love. Doing that which is truly in the best interests of others.
· Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31;
· This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. John 15:12;
· You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Leviticus 19:18;
· Hatred stirs up disputes, but love covers all offenses. Proverbs 10:12;
2. Work. Attaining a goal or other end not necessarily preconceived as a goal but which becomes a goal once experienced.
· My Father is at work until now, so I am at work. John 5:17;
· Not that I say this because of need, for I have learned, in whatever situation I find myself, to be self-sufficient. Philippians 4:11;
· The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. Genesis 2:15;
· Prosper the work of our hands! Psalm 90:17;
3. Meaningful Expansion. Operating in an area of meaningful expansion for yourself.
|Meaningful Expansion
· Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, Colossians 3:23;
· I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: Ephesians
· For the vision is a witness for the appointed time, a testimony to the end; it will not disappoint. If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late. Habakkuk 2:3
· For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. Jeremiah 29:11;
The Rule
If one or more of the values is present and the experience does not go against any of the other values, you will feel good. If the experience goes against one or more of the values, you will feel bad, even if other values are present. Dignity means feeling good about our self, and about others.
Seeming Exception
A seeming exception to the primary values is a dual experience, for example in a religious experience. On the one hand a person could feel bad because an experience went against a primary value, but on the other hand the person had joy in a dual experience of choosing to live according to one's beliefs, in spite of not feeling good. Such a person experienced joy at living according to their beliefs, and in the midst of suffering, felt good about living according to one's beliefs and felt bad about the harshness of an environment that went against one or more of the primary values. So such a person would need to know how to interpret each of two experiences using a specific point in time to clarify use of the primary values.
That is why the wallet sized card is so useful. It teaches us how to accept our cross and do the will of God. It teaches us how to never get off the path to God. Our cross will strip us clean of attachments to things of the world that keep us from loving God or loving others.
Stay on track to God. Use wallet sized card in the moment.
For example, I (Jeff L.) had trades to make. The markets were moving up quickly. As I tried to be patient and accurate, I was tempted that my clients would leave me if I did not succeed. I took time out. I thought of the worst that could happen to me…my clients leaving me. I made a decision. I accepted even my clients leaving me if that was God's will for me. On my own I could not accept my clients leaving me. This is my livelihood. I prayed for the grace to accept even that if that was God's will for me. God intervened. My temptation left me. My cross became light. I experienced joy, and calm. I realized I only wished to do what was best for my clients, God's plan for me. If that was not good enough, I had no more to offer. So be it. I trusted God. God has been good to me thus far in my life. I have no reason to believe He will not be good to me going forward. My cross became light. I stayed in the bosom of God.
Also please come up with an example of what you did to accept one of life's greatest challenges.
Using the "in the moment wallet sized card" above, is there anything you would or could do differently in facing your example of what you did to accept one of life's greatest challenges?
In hind sight what did God have in mind for you in your acceptance of that great challenge of life?
Satan always attacks us by trying to get us to think that God does not quite have it right. Did Jesus have it right in dying on the cross? Did God have it right in giving you that great challenge of life?


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Pat Steir: Painting in Vermont
In a new video by Molly Davies, Pat Steir discusses her work while painting in her Vermont studio.
Steir addresses both her use of the drip as image:
"The idea of pouring the paint of the waterfall paintings was to use the icon of abstract painting, which is a drippy brushstroke, and make that abstract icon make an image all by itself. And that's what it did, it made an image of the waterfall... "
and painting as performance:
"The performative aspect, especially of the splash up paintings, is extreme. It's really a dance. It's really a ballet. And the picture is the record of the movement. It's a direct record of the movement."
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Booksigning: Featuring Nicole Musap and Heather Lyn Mann!
February 15, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
February 15th (yep, the day after Valentine's Day!) will be a special day at Main Street Reads when we host TWO authors and two wonderful books!
Nicole Musap is a Certified Holistic Health and Life Coach. Her book, Feel It. Heal It. Let It Go: Taking Power Back From Your Pain shares her experiences growing up in an atmosphere where addiction, denial, lying, and keeping secrets was the norm. Within the chapters, you will be guided through a journey that taps upon eye-opening topics. This book offers three revelations of action to transform behavior from self-defeating to life-enhancing. Feeling the pain, healing from the pain and then letting go of that pain. With anecdotes and usable insights drawn from personal experiences, Nicole shares ideas that have helped her overcome pain, fear and confusion and how to approach life's challenges with confidence, love, courage, and even humor.
Nicole empowers women to shed what no longer serves them through transformational coaching and personal growth workshops. When Nicole is not coaching or writing, you can probably find her on her purple beach cruiser with an iced coffee sitting in the cupholder. Nicole and her husband are blessed with three tiny humans and love to experience the world's immense beauty by traveling abroad.
Speaking of traveling, our other featured author, Heather Lyn Mann, was a battle–weary environmental advocate in Madison, Wisconsin, struggling over what to do about climate change when she and her husband decided to explore the Atlantic on a small sloop. Her memoir, Ocean of Insight: A Sailor's Voyage from Despair to Hope, spans six years living afloat through disasters and discoveries—life-threatening storms, the boredom of isolation, societies on the brink of extinction, sinking ships, colorful Caribbean characters, near collisions, a pirate scare, and more. Throughout, the ocean becomes Mann's teacher, transforming her with uncompromising lessons on how to harmonize with natural order, the exact moments and ways to let in fearlessness, resilience, happiness, impermanence, balance, compassion, skillful action, and beginner's mind.
Her suspenseful, sometimes hilarious, and always heart–warming journey of body and mind, shaped by ancient Buddhist teachings, entertains as it charts reality's depths and danger zones so arm–chair adventurers, spiritual seekers, and the climate concerned can navigate tumultuous waters and arrive together on the shore of planetary well–being.
In other words – we're looking forward to a most excellent day of thoughtful discussion and brilliant insights from these two authors!
Nicole and Heather's books will both be available for sale and signing and refreshments will be served!


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How to celebrate a Victorian wedding
Whether you were marrying lavishly like the royals or eloping in secret, Rebecca Probert offers six tips for the perfect Victorian wedding
Select the perfect partner
For Victorians, finding someone of the right status and temperament was crucial. Love often came afterwards
Choosing a suitable spouse was essential at a time when it was difficult to get out of a marriage. Before 1858, divorce was only available by private Act of Parliament; even after that date, adultery was the only basis for divorce, and wives had to prove additional aggravating factors, such as desertion or cruelty.
Lonely hearts ads (typically put out by men) were increasingly likely to emphasise the desire for an attractive mate who would be a good homemaker. It was recognised that love, while important, might well develop after marriage. In Harriet Martineau's 1839 novel Deerbrook, Dr Hope marries out of a sense of obligation but grows to love his wife, while Charlotte Brontë urged a friend to consider a proposal of marriage – even if she felt disgust for the man – if he had "common sense, a good disposition [and] a manageable temper".
While husbands and wives were expected to play different roles within marriage, society frowned on unions in which the differences between them were too great: marriages across classes were rare.
When it came to age, most brides and grooms would have been in their mid-20s. Of those marrying for the first time between 1850 and 1899, the average age was a little under 26 for men and a little over 24 for women. By those ages, most working-class couples would have been in employment long enough to have built up some savings. Nevertheless, some married first and set up home later. The rector of Wortham in Suffolk described how one couple married and then lived separately while they saved up for a bed.
Larger age gaps – and longer engagements – were more common among the middle and upper classes, where couples would defer marriage until the man had established himself in his profession and could furnish a suitable home. At 21, the writer Molly Hughes became engaged to 30-year-old Arthur, an aspiring barrister, but their marriage did not take place for another 10 years.
Choose where to tie the knot
As the 19th century progressed, couples had more choice over where they made it official
Around the time that Victoria ascended the throne, new laws came into force regulating how her subjects could marry. Up until then, all marriages had to be performed according to the rites of the Church of England, with only Jews and Quakers exempt. The Marriage Act 1836 made it possible to have a civil ceremony in a register office. The act also allowed nonconformist Christians and Catholics to marry according to their own rites, as long as they did so in a registered place of worship and with a civil registrar in attendance. And from 1856, non-Christian places of worship could also be registered for marriage.
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Despite the reforms, most couples continued to marry in an Anglican church. By 1900, such marriages still accounted for two-thirds of the total, with only one-sixth of couples choosing a civil ceremony. The fact that civil weddings took place in the actual office of the registrar may have put off many. One witness commented that he "never saw such a marriage in my life – there was no ring put on". On the other hand, a civil ceremony did offer more privacy than one in church. Unsurprisingly, bigamists were twice as likely to choose a register office than was the norm.
The laws governing who could marry remained unchanged by the 1836 act, however: girls could marry at 12 and boys at 14. Not that marriages under those ages were necessarily invalid. If the couple remained together once both had reached the legal age, the marriage was binding. Even when, in 1885, it was made a criminal offence to have sex with a girl under the age of 16, the fact that the couple were married was a valid defence.
Anybody marrying under the age of 21 was encouraged to ensure they had parental approval. Those who falsely swore on oath that they were of age and had parental consent could forfeit any property they might otherwise have gained through their marriage. Parents had the power to forbid the banns of marriage for children under 21 – but there were plenty of ways of getting married without one's parents knowing, including eloping to a parish where the couple were unknown.
Pick your guests – wisely
Some couples opted for grand events, while others chose to marry in secret
When Jane Eyre declared, "Reader, I married him," she reported that only the parson and the clerk were present at her wedding to Mr Rochester. Judging from the witnesses who signed real-life marriage registers, this was not that unusual. Some couples were no doubt marrying quietly because of parental disapproval. In Our Mutual Friend, Bella Wilfer creeps out of the house early in the morning to get married without telling her mother, although she does ensure that her father will be at the wedding.
Higher up the social scale, weddings were expected to be more lavish affairs. The sexton who was called upon to witness one marriage thought the absence of guests very suspicious in the light of the superior social standing of the couple, and confidently recalled the details in the groom's trial for bigamy seven years later.
Some couples ended up sharing their special moment with complete strangers. At both Manchester Cathedral and St John's church in the East End, vicars would routinely marry couples in batches to save time and money.
Buy a special dress, if you can afford it
The white wedding gown caught on in Victorian times – but for many, wearing a dress just once was unthinkable
The white silk satin and lace dress that Queen Victoria wore when she married Prince Albert in 1840 was widely admired and set a trend. The Etiquette of Courtship and Matrimony reported in 1865 that fawn, grey and lavender were "entirely out of fashion", although such colours were still suitable for widows or older brides. The novelist Mrs Henry Wood depicted an eloping bride worrying that her white dress would be a tell-tale sign, while in the 1890s the diarist Olive Garnett noted how her friend "looked lovely in regulation bridal attire".
For most, of course, a dress that would be worn just once would have been an unthinkable extravagance, and brides generally chose something that could be worn on subsequent occasions. This was made easier by the fact that wedding dresses were made to reflect the styles of the day, rather than a fairytale ideal. Over the course of the century, fashionable wedding dresses featured, in turn, crinolines, bustles and leg-of-mutton sleeves. After the wedding, they might be dyed a more suitable colour for everyday use. Lower down the social scale, practical considerations prevailed, with one account of rural weddings noting how the bride's dress was "generally made of some serviceable material of a pretty shade".
Grooms attracted less notice, with their outfits becoming plainer over the course of the century. Class determined what kind of attire was appropriate, but the groom was not expected to stand out like his bride.
Set the right date for the big day
Changes in the world of work led to Victorians choosing spring or summer weddings
Industrialisation and the move to less seasonally dependent work meant late spring and summer emerged as popular times to marry. But older patterns prevailed in rural areas that were still tied to the agricultural calendar. In Northamptonshire, for example, July (an especially busy time) was the least popular month to marry, while October was the most.
Wedding hours were extended to 3pm to reflect the working hours of the lower classes
Sunday – the one day of leisure for workers – was the most usual one for weddings, particularly in urban areas. Only in the middle of the century did the practice emerge of giving workers an extra half-day off each week, and Saturday became the most popular day. Until 1886, weddings had to take place between 8am and noon. These hours were then extended to 3pm to reflect both the working hours of the lower classes and the changing social habits of the upper classes.
Throw a party and then escape on honeymoon
Post-wedding celebrations and holidays became the norm as the 19th century progressed
Most couples would enjoy some kind of celebration after the wedding, usually at the home of the bride. Charles Dickens's David Copperfield hazily recalled "there being a breakfast, with abundance of things, pretty and substantial, to eat and drink" and that he made a speech "in the same dreamy fashion, without having an idea of what I want to say". The option from 1886 of an afternoon wedding meant that parties also shifted to later in the day, with a dinner and possibly even a dance.
The 19th century also saw the honeymoon become an established part of the process of getting married. For the wealthy, this might involve an extended tour of Europe. In Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester fantasises about taking the heroine "to French vineyards and Italian plains" in order to share with her the sights he has seen on his travels. Those with less money, or less time, might take a trip within the UK, with Scotland, the Lake District and the seaside being popular destinations. By the end of the century the expectation that the couple would have some time away had even percolated down to the upper working classes. In George Gissing's novel Thyrza, his heroine, a hat-trimmer, is planning a "wedding holiday" after her marriage.
Some honeymoons included visits to family and friends, but the usual expectation was that this would be a time for the couple to be alone together. As George Eliot put it, the aim was "to isolate two people on the ground that they are all the world to each other". Honey mooning couples were thought to be easily identifiable by both their demonstrations of affection and their unfamiliarity with each other.
For some unlucky couples, the honeymoon might for the first time expose a fundamental incompatibility. In Middlemarch, Dorothea Brooke's visit to Rome with her aged husband proves a disaster, while John Ruskin's reaction (or lack of it) to his bride, Effie Gray, resulted in their marriage being annulled.
Professor Rebecca Probert teaches family law at the University of Exeter, and specialises in the current law and history of marriage, cohabitation, divorce and bigamy
This article was first published in the Christmas 2018 edition of BBC History Magazine
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$70 million jackpot up for grabs in next Friday's Lotto Max draw
MONTREAL -- Since the jackpot was not won in Tuesday night's national Lotto Max draw, the jackpot in Friday night's draw will be $70 million.
Loto-Quebec said that the draw will also consist of approximately 21 $1 million prizes.
On Wednesday, a single $1 million Lotto Max priz was won thanks to a selection of numbers sold in Ontario.
Since the launch of the lottery, two $70 million jackpots have been won in Quebec, both last year, on Feb. 25 and Oct. 9.
These were the biggest jackpots ever won in Quebec.
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An Open Letter to the BLM
Dear Bureau of Land Management: You know what you're doing to America's wild horses is wrong.
So why are you doing it?
Our public rangeland is in trouble. It is in trouble because it has been battered, beaten and raped by profit-driven interest. It has been managed through fear, bungling and the kowtowing to good ole boys in Stetsons.
The cowboys who dominate the rangeland hate wild horses because the horses are said to compete with cattle for the forage on the public domain. They hate the federal government for stopping them in 1971 from the wholesale capture and slaughter of wild horses that put extra money in their pockets.
But here's the truth: less than 2 percent of the public forage is eaten by wild horses. Livestock use 66 percent of public land, wild horses can legally exist on about 11 percent of public land, and in that 11 percent the horses are allocated as little as 12 percent of actual grass to survive. In other words, actual use of all public forage by horses is minuscule.
Slideshow of the "mares from the accident(s)," trailer accident or processing mishap? This day was a rough day… after access was already an issue. The right to view handling of a public resource, paid for with public dollars, should NEVER need to walk into a courtroom again. Equal voice in process should be a reality, not lip service.
NOTE: before this was published two interactions occurred with BLM personnel; Leigh was told by the state wild horse and burro lead that the reason she was not allowed to move fertility control forward was "What happens when you die?" and a district manager told her that her ability to observe was impeded because "The livestock industry feels we do not listen to them."
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Year Inducted – 2016
Larry was born in Mt. Carmel, Illinois to Nellie and Gilbert Wiles. He is married to Mertis Marty and they have 2 grown daughters. There oldest daughter Angela, is married to JR Shamblin and they had 2 daughters. Wendy Wiles-Robbins, there youngest daughter, was married to Dave Robbins, now deceased, and has 1 daughter. The granddaughter's names are Lillie and Ashley Shamblin and Samantha Robbins. He has one sister, Jean Warren, who was married to Hal Warren, deceased, who was also a member of the Greater Akron Baseball of Fame. Larry graduated from Akron Central High School and the University of Akron.
He began his lifelong teaching career at Field High School, where he remained until retirement. In addition to teaching he also coached football and baseball. Having a lifelong love of baseball, when offered the head coaching positon of the varsity team, he jumped at the opportunity. Larry went on to coach baseball for 30 years (twenty-nine at Field High School and one year at Akron Firestone High School). His one year at Akron Firestone High School his team won 18 and lost 10 games and won Firestone's first sectional Championship in 15 years. During his tenure Field became a dominate force in the Portage County Baseball League. His teams would amass 474 victories and 225 defeats. This was the most wins by a Portage County Coach making his winning percentage an impressive.678. His teams racked up 22 league, division and sectional titles.
During one 3 year stretch Field had a league record of 48 wins and 6 losses including 19 consecutive wins. Larry was honored as PCL Coach of the Year 9 times and coached the Portage County All-Stars 7 times in their series with the Summit County All-Stars. Larry had many players go on to play college baseball. One year, Field had 4 players on the varsity baseball team at the University of Akron. Nine of his former players went on to become high school baseball coaches and 4 became college coaches. Four players were drafted by the major leagues. Larry enjoyed every moment of his long successful career. He was very lucky to have had great players, assistant coaches and community support. It was a great ride and more than he could have ever hoped. However, as all great rides must end, he is extremely grateful and honored that it ends at the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame.


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Matt Kemp's agent, Dave Stewart, has never attended the Winter Meetings, but he will this winter as he has a "strong feeling" that his client could get moved, writes Gordon Edes of ESPNBoston.com. "This is the first time we've experienced this," Stewart said. "This is the first time we've heard it this much, and the first time we really believe something could happen." The Dodgers, of course, have a surplus of outfielders and Kemp is drawing interest from mutliple clubs. More from the NL West..
- The Diamondbacks still want a corner outfielder after missing out on Carlos Beltran and have their sights set on the Angels' Mark Trumbo, among others, tweets Bob Nightengale of USA Today (on Twitter). The D'Backs have plenty of pitching depth to get a power outfield bat with the likes of Tyler Skaggs, Trevor Cahill, Brandon McCarthy, and Wade Miley (link).
- Dodgers GM Ned Colletti says he has made a few different offers to free agent third baseman Juan Uribe but hasn't had much dialogue lately because they're waiting for his answer, tweets Mark Saxon of ESPNLosAngeles.com.
- Meanwhile, Colletti says that he won't "sell off an outfielder" just for the sake of doing it, especially with the list of free agent outfielders over the next couple of winters being a little underwhelming, tweets Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.
- Free agent outfielder Michael Morse is still on the Giants' radar, but the club believes its best route to landing a left fielder is via trade, tweets Hank Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle. While GM Brian Sabean is actively trying to lower expectations for a trade to take place, Schulman hears he has been active on the phones (link). Even though Sabean isn't the type to make a trade just for the heck of it, Schulman wouldn't be surprised to see a deal take place at the meetings (link).


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Drone carries human kidney over Las Vegas desert in what could be the future of organ transportation
Drones are used today for a variety of tasks – delivering small express packages, assisting in search and rescue operations and capturing stunning aerial views views, to name just a few. Get ready to add one more to the growing list: human organ transit. Researchers at MissionGO, a provider of unmanned aviation solutions, and the Nevada Donor Network, an organ procurement organization,…Read More
To Market, To Market: Restaurant Deconstructed October 2014
Belvedere Square has been through ups and downs since it was first developed in 1986, fluctuations that align with the economy, management and public tastes. Over the last year or so, the market has sprung into bloom. Atwaters, the soup and sandwich shop, extended its reach within the space, adding a dairy case, beer and…Read More
This platform is tracking organs for transplant as they travel between donors and recipients
When a human organ is donated to a patient for transplant, it has to move between people. But that also requires a longer trip between cities, in which organs travel in a variety of vehicles, from car and train, plane, helicopter or perhaps more increasingly in the near future, drone. But no matter what mode…Read More
Scott Plank's newest venture is in the world of organ transplantation
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As a POWER architecture hardware vendor, we've definitely run into quite a few wish-list items for software we want to have on our platform. Whether it's for customers or just to have a feature complete set of packages in everyday distributions, we want to see things build everywhere, and run just as well as the x86 counterparts.
Starting soon, we are kicking off a PowerUp (my cool label) initiative in order to direct POWER developers toward software that needs a little love on our POWER platforms. Software targets range from the completely unsupported (e.g. Google's v8 Javascript engine, D Languages's phobos) to optimizing specifically for POWER (e.g. OpenJDK).
To collect these initiatives together, we will be starting a new PowerUp portal. For now, we have begun a GitHub Team where we have forked relevant repositories. Forums for discussion and participation will also follow. Feel free to clone and hack away. Email me if you have any questions (or wait until the forums and portal open).
NOTE: PowerUp is just my initial name. That may or may not change.
I'll update this blog post when more information is available.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Power Up
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- AnonymousMarch 7, 2013 at 11:56:00 PM EST
How about some POWER without LPARS?ReplyDelete
Servergy's products are bare metal boot. If you're looking for something developer oriented, keep an eye on P-Cubed.ReplyDelete
Linaro does similar, they coordinate bug reports between upstream and distros. Launchpad is awesome for cross-tracking all the diffirent bug trackers ;-) For a long time in Ubuntu we wanted to reduce FTBFS on powerpc, so patches are very welcome. If POWER is good enough to run Xbox, PS, Nintendo it is sure enough good enough for most workloads.ReplyDeleteReplies
I've worked on getting POWER FTBFS down for over a year now. It was up in the triple digits this time last year :)Delete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2014 at 3:14:00 AM EDT
about "PowerUP" http://powerup.amigaworld.de/images/logo256.png ;-)ReplyDelete
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Student Spotlight: Aileen Bergin (Laurey in Oklahoma!)
April 5, 2017
Last weekend, the students of Madison High School put on an amazing production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma![directed by Caryn Elefante]. The lead female role of Laurey Williams was performed by junior Aileen Bergin (AB) , and Madison Dodger Online sat down with her to discuss the musical along with her passion for the arts.
MDO: How long have you been involved in theatre, music, and dance? What type of involvement have you had with them?
AB: This is sort of a hard question to answer, because theatre, music, and dance have always played a role in my life, but it wasn't until I was older that I started really getting involved and combining the three together. When I was little, just like most kids, I took ballet class and later tap class, and sang in chorus around the house, and did theatre camp in the summer. In middle school though, I started to take more dance classes, I learned how to read music, play the flute, and eventually taking voice lessons. It was also then that I started doing full musicals, and I never stopped from there.
MDO: How much did you know about Oklahoma before the musical was announced last year? Had you ever seen a production of it before?
AB: I really love musicals, and I see a lot of shows and read scripts and listen to the songs of different shows, so that being said, it's kind of hard to be a musical theatre lover and not know at least one song from Oklahoma!. Rodgers and Hammerstein, who wrote the music, are so famous- they have written so many truly outstanding pieces like The Sound of Music, Carousel, South Pacific, and The King and I. Oklahoma! was not only their first collaborative musical, but it is also credited with being the first modern musical, because it was the first time that music, story, and dance, were fully integrated to create a "musical" in the sense that we think of now. That being said, I think the show is still extremely relevant today, and it has been one of my favorite shows for a long time. When we were all waiting to find out what the show was for this year, I put money on Guys and Dolls or Oklahoma!, so I was pretty proud of myself for guessing, but also, I really love the musical, so I was so excited when I found out.
MDO: Have you since seen any productions of the musical, either in real life or on film?
AB: Definitely. I actually don't remember ever seeing in person, but I have seen countless productions online. There was a movie made with Shirley Jones as Laurey and Gordon MacRae as Curly a long time ago, and it is very cute, but also different from the stage version. One of my favorites is the revival version on the West End that was filmed on DVD of Hugh Jackman as Curly, and we referred to that version a lot in rehearsal and such. I joke that, in my research, I watched every production of Oklahoma! on the internet, which I doubt is true, because it is probably one of the most performed shows of all time, but I have definitely watched way, way too many productions of the show. I love it so much!
MDO: What was the process like for you to really figure out how you wanted to portray the character of Laurey? Did you have any influence from mentors or directors, research, or was it mostly your interpretation of her character from the script?
AB: Before I even knew that I would get to play Laurey, I always saw her as a really feisty girl. Although she is the ingenue, or the romantic lead, she is not ditzy or one-dimensional, like a lot of the princess-type love interests are, and that is really what attracted me to her as a character. She is such a modern female character, and she really does not let people boss her around, and I really could see myself in parts of her. I remember being so excited when Mrs. Elefante was explaining how she saw Laurey, and that she agreed with me. My favorite part of the process really is the characterization and finding out what you can bring to the character of your own personality, and the ways the character is different. While I did receive a lot of guidance from Mrs. Elefante and my voice teacher, once I put Laurey on her feet and started acting in rehearsals, it all was very clear to me what my Laurey was like, and throughout the process, I just continued to work with her.
MDO: What did you enjoy most about the whole experience?
AB: The musical is really my favorite part of MHS. Some of my best friends are involved, and I always make new friends. The cast is so close, and I would say my favorite part is not only the family that we have in the musical, but seeing my friends up on stage being amazing. Everyone is so talented, it continues to amaze me every time I see someone sing, act, or dance up there!
MDO: What was it like to be the lead? Did you feel more pressure or excitement than usual?
AB: Well, it was very different and very much the same. While I had to do a lot more independent work outside of rehearsal, not much changed in rehearsal. Even being in the ensemble takes an extraordinary amount of time and effort and energy. As for the pressure, I guess there are more eyes on you, but by the time opening night came around, it was just a matter of sharing what we had been rehearsing for months. But regardless, I was just as excited as I always am to share the musical with an audience and hear the reactions. While the final weeks or so can be stressful, it is always so rewarding and so much fun.
MDO: What was your favorite number in the musical?
Aileen: This is such a hard question! I love watching everyone up there. I think my favorite to perform was "Many a New Day" because I got to dance with so many really amazing girls and it was so fun. My favorite to watch in our version was probably "Kansas City" though, because everyone just kills that number and I am so proud of everyone up there.
MDO: What type of work, both in and out of rehearsal itself, went into putting the whole production together?
Aileen: So much! From the earliest stages of learning the music, you have to take every part of it so seriously. Then we blocked scenes and learned the dances and continued to practice that. As the time goes along, you start to put bigger and bigger chunks of scenes together until you are running acts and trying to memorize everything. Then we start to run the show and before long, tech and the pit are added, and then tech week and then the show! It's crazy… it takes so long but it is over so fast. We all hate that it takes months and months, but the actual shows only last for 3 days!
MDO: Are you planning on continuing theater or music in college or in a possible career?
Aileen: Yes. The audition and application process is very, very complicated, but I am doing a lot of research on what the whole thing will be like. It is very scary and intimidating, but at some point, I just realized that this is what I want to do. Music and theatre, regardless, will always play a huge role in my life.


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§ Mr. W. Hamilton
I beg to move, in page 5, line 12, to leave out "shall be transferred" and to insert "may be transferable".
§ The Chairman
With this Amendment may be discussed the two Amendments in page 5, line 12.
§ Mr. Hamilton
I move the Amendment, because I do not see why this should be obligatory.
§ Mr. G. Campbell
I cannot accept the Amendment. We feel that the licence is tied to the land. The period is only a year and, once the licence has been granted, it is only reasonable that it should be possible to transfer it to somebody coming in without having to go through all the processes of application again.
§ Amendment negatived.
§ The Chairman
With this Amendment the Committee may discuss the Amendment to line 20.
§ Mr. Ross
We want to give the Under-Secretary of State a quick opportunity to accept these Amendments.
§ Mr. G. Campbell
I am glad to be able to accept the Amendments.
§ Amendment agreed to.
Further Amendment made. In page 5, Une 20, leave out from "occupier" to end of line and insert:
consider the application as having been made by him in the first instance".—[Mr. Ross.]
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ It being Four o'cloc., The CHAIRMAN left the Chair to report Progress and ask leave to sit again.
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The DC Water's Biosolids Management Program
Joint Meeting with the American Water Resources Association, National Capital Region
Brent Christ, Construction Supervisor for DC Water
Dave Schwartz, Project Manager for PC/CDM Joint Venture
Peter Loomis, Design Manager for CDM Smith
The Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant is the largest advanced wastewater plant in the world. Its peak treatment capacity exceeds 1 billion gallons per day, serving over 2 million residents of Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. DC Water is currently implementing a ten-year, $3.8 billion Capital Improvement Program, which aims to improve the District's water and sewer infrastructure. One major component of this is the Biosolids Management Program (BMP), which focuses on the reduction of biosolids volume and its treatment for regulatory use.
The Main Process Train (MPT) is one of four main projects of the BMP, and was awarded in 2011 to the joint venture of CDM Smith and PC Construction as a Design-Build delivery and has a contract amount exceeding $208 million. The MPT will involve the implementation of thermal hydrolysis technology and anaerobic digestion at Blue Plains to significantly reduce biosolids hauling and disposal, increase biogas production, and improve the facility's future sustainability.The presentation will have three distinguished speakers: Brent Christ is the Construction Supervisor for DC Water and will provide insight on the project's background and its drivers; Dave Schwartz, VP of CDM Smith and Project Manager for the PC/CDM Joint Venture, will discuss the design-build process; and Peter Loomis, also of CDM Smith, and design manager for the MPT project, will discuss technical aspects of the project.
This meeting will be jointly sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, National Capital Section (ASCE-NCS), and the American Water Resources Association, National Capital Region.
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