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Fruits That Lower Uric Acid
Excess uric acid in the blood is a problem that must be treated to avoid symptoms and complications such as gout. To keep this substance in within normal levels, it is essential that you knowwhat foods are good for lowering uric acid and especially what foods are likely to make uric acid levels rise. Basically, eating a low-calorie diet, eating a lot of meat, fish and drinking a lot of alcohol are factors that raise uric acid. On the other hand, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may lower it. Here at OneHowTo we want to make lowering uric acid easy by explaining what are the best fruits to lower uric acid.
One of the best fruits to reduce the levels of uric acid are said to be strawberries thanks to their apparent ability to neutralize the chemical compounds in the body. Thus, it will be very beneficial to consume these fruits, either directly or, for example, in milkshake.
Moreover, these fruits have a great amount of vitamin C and many other essential nutrients for our health.
Apples are also beneficial in eliminating uric acid, as well as apple water. To prepare this, you will have to cook three chopped apples in half a liter of water for about half an hour. After this time, filter the liquid and drink it. It is both delicious and healthy!
This way, apple also helps to neutralize purines, as well as being beneficial for water and toxin disposal in our organism, thus also favoring the disposal of uric acid through urine.
The fact they contain flavonoid anthocyanin makes cherries an ideal fruit for people suffering from hyperuricemia or high levels of uric acid. This content has anti-inflammatory properties that will lessen the pain of gout attacks, and make a tasty snack too.
As in the previous case, cherries also make it easy for toxins to be eliminated as well as preventing water retention in our organism.
Any fruit from the citrus family will be beneficial to treat excess uric acid:
- Oranges
- Mandarin
- Grapefruit
- Lime
- Lemon
Though there is certain controversy about this, some scientists affirm that vitamin C has the capacity to reduce levels of this chemical.
The Blueberry also represents one of the best fruits to lower uric acid levels. This berry also has a high content of vitamin C and anthocyanins. Blueberries have even been shown to have rejuvenating properties in some studies on mice.
When eating them every day, you can also make blueberry jam, blueberry milkshake or blueberry juice.
Recommendations to lower uric acid
Apart from incorporating these beneficial fruits in your diet to reduce your levels of uric acid, there are also other tips that you should follow to treat and get rid of this substance in your organism:
- Drink a large amount of water every day
- Avoid eating foods high in purines
- Avoid alcoholic beverages
- Follow your doctor's recommendations
This article is merely informative, oneHOWTO does not have the authority to prescribe any medical treatments or create a diagnosis. We invite you to visit your doctor if you have any type of condition or pain.
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Having US and former Axis leaders attend the 80th anniversary of WWII, but not inviting Russia, shows the event in Poland has nothing to do with paying respects to history, and everything to do with present-day politics.
The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, is universally considered as the start of the Second World War. To mark 80 years since that fateful date, the Polish authorities have chosen to invite "present allies and partners in NATO and the EU" to a commemoration that has been moved to Warsaw for the occasion.
The 80th anniversary of WWII is a time to remember the words of the American judge Learned Hand, on how free and civilized people can come back from the brink: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right." https://t.co/zKM02Dz2YS
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) August 31, 2019
This means US Vice President Mike Pence will be at the ceremony, alongside the leaders of many countries that were members of the Axis during the war – from Germany and Italy to Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and Romania. Yet Russia will not be welcome.
For the past week, the media in both Poland and the West have harped on about the non-aggression pact signed by the USSR and Germany on August 23, 1939, and known as Molotov-Ribbentrop, after their respective foreign ministers.
It's a bit baffling the Latvians are complaining about Nazism, actually, since they keep celebrating their participation in the Waffen-SS
The pact "doomed half of Europe to decades of misery," argued the governments of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania this week, pointing out that its anniversary has since been declared the "European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes," by which they mean "Nazism and Stalinism" from Russia perspective.
It's a bit baffling the Latvians are complaining about Nazism, actually, since they keep celebrating their participation in the Waffen-SS. As for the Romanians, would those "victims" include their 3rd and 4th Armies that got crushed at Stalingrad? Which, for the geographically challenged, is about 1,500 kilometers east of the Romanian border…
Today, much of the West believes that Nazism and Communism were "two sides of the same toxic coin," as one Federalist contributor put it. Whatever happened to "This man is your friend, he fights for freedom" posters of Russian soldiers the US printed during the actual war?
The end of the Cold War happened, with NATO giving into temptation to march eastward. Justifying that move required establishing a retroactive continuity of sorts, recasting WWII as a struggle of "democracies" against "totalitarianism." The notion that Germany, Italy and Japan saw the error of their ways in 1945 and joined the victorious and virtuous West to become its pillars only adds to the narrative, naturally.
Read more: With WWII scars still raw, Poland tries to 'balance' its history
Conveniently forgotten among the talk of Molotov-Ribbentrop are all the deals European powers made with Hitler, from the Four Powers Pact of 1933 and the Polish-German Pact of 1934, to the 1938 Munich agreement partitioning Czechoslovakia and the non-aggression treaties the Baltic States made with Berlin in the summer of 1939.
Poland also seems to have forgotten how its "allies" Britain and France did absolutely nothing to help it face the Blitzkrieg, or that its government never declared war on the USSR (modern-day Russia), despite all the talk of "invasion and occupation."
Especially forgotten is how once Hitler broke his word yet again and attacked the USSR in June 1941, it was the Soviet soldiers who would do the lion's share of fighting and dying to defeat the Nazis – about 80 percent of it, to be exact. Or how anywhere up to 27 million Soviet citizens perished in the war the USSR did not start, but certainly did finish.
The fact that Warsaw chose not to invite Serbia to the commemoration on September 1 suggests that the event has little to do with lofty moral principles
Instead, the West and its newest allies harp on Molotov-Ribbentrop, tear down monuments to the Red Army, or celebrate the SS – only to act bewildered when Russia tries to correct the record. Moscow's exhibition of the pact documents and statements about its historical context have been described in the Western press as a "campaign to justify" the treaty.
Note that it's the UK – the same country that led the way in giving away Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich – that now clamors the loudest against (nonexistent) Russian "revisionism"! Let's be frank, there is a vast moral chasm between countries that fought that war to survive – like the USSR – and those who entered it to save their empire, or carve out a new one.
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Personally, I sympathize with the frustrations of Poles and Czechs against Russia to some extent. Yugoslavia, too, had guarantees from Britain – and France, before it was crushed in 1940 – that turned out to be worthless. Its government also sought refuge in London, only to be betrayed by the British in 1944, in Churchill's infamous partition of Eastern Europe with Stalin.
Read more: How World War 3 is inevitable
The fact that Warsaw chose not to invite Serbia – Yugoslavia's foremost successor – to the commemoration on September 1 suggests that the event has little to do with lofty moral principles and legitimate historical grievances, and everything to do with present-day political opportunism.
So be it. But the East remembers.
RT with additional input by GVS news desk

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Exhausted by COVID-19 fight, Lebanese nurses want pay not praise
As Lebanon's economy sinks into a crippling depression, it is the frontline heroes who helped the country battle the COVID-19 crisis that is bearing the brunt; with redundancies forcing nurses out of jobs and into unemployment, according to a nursing chapter in the Middle Eastern nation.
Lebanon's economy began collapsing in 2019; a crisis made worse by nationwide anti-government protests, the coronavirus pandemic and the August 4 Beirut blast; a triple whammy which has brought the country to its knees.
It means Lebanon is facing a dangerous depletion of resources, or a "brain drain", warns Dr Myrna Doumit, president of Order of Nurses in Lebanon.
According to Dr Doumit, nurses are being laid off by private hospitals across the country, as part of cost-cutting measures as finance-stricken businesses look to balance their books.
About 600 nurses – those who have been at the frontline to treat patients suffering with COVID-19 - have been laid off over the past year, she said. Those remaining are at risk of burn-out.
"Hospitals have downsized and laid off nurses," said Dr Doumit. "The nurses that are left are exhausted. They have either had COVID-19 or treated those with COVID-19 and now a smaller pool of resources are trying to makeup for a huge shortfall."
Many university-trained nurses are now without a job in Lebanon or have relocated to other countries in the region in search of work.
"What hospitals and health care institutions are doing is jeopardizing the care of nurses, which is unacceptable."
"We are asking hospitals to recruit, but they do not want to open new positions, they just want to make more money and this is dangerous."
In 2020, Lebanon defaulted on its debt, banks imposed capital controls and inflation has reached triple-digit rates, plummeting the country into its worst ever economic crisis.
Dr Doumit says the situation is unique in the Middle East. Most countries, she says, have a lack of university-trained nursing professionals and are actively trying to recruit from overseas.
In Lebanon, there are trained-nurses – but who cannot find employment.
Earlier this year, the Order of Nurses launched a new initiative which helped place unemployed nurses within local communities to deal with the coronavirus response.But many more are still hunting for work.
For those who still have a job, working conditions are poor, says Dr Doumit, especially in the north of the country.
"Hospitals are reducing salaries by a third. Nurses ultimately have less more pressure and it is very tough."
"Physical working environments are also not often safe. There are more patients than ever per nurses, who are often to have inadequate access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)."
While across the country frontline staff have been universally praised by the people of Lebanon, nurses need more "tangible" benefits from their employers and the government, says Dr Doumit.
"People's image of nursing has changed, they are being recognized by the people of Lebanon. But working conditions are not changing."
"Nurses are afraid of doing any action on the ground or speaking up."
"We have 1,200 new nursing graduates this year – I would like to see them be actively recruited, instead of them being forced to leave the country to find work."
"We know the economic crash in the country, but give nurses some incentives. Improve the ratio of patients to nurses, revise salary packages, or offer them benefits such as reduced mobile phone rates or reduced prices in supermarkets."
"This is what we are asking for. Something tangible to help these nurses who have, themselves, helped so many others."
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A pair of century-old buildings in Lethbridge's Chinatown are now protected from demolition or changes to their historic character.
Alberta's Minister of Culture and Multiculturalism, Leela Sharon Aheer, was on hand Wednesday to announce Provincial Historic Resource designation has been given to the Bow On Tong and Wing Wah Chong buildings on 2nd avenue south.
She says both buildings tell stories about Chinese immigrants and the Chinese community in Lethbridge 100 years ago, adding "it feels really amazing to be able to participate in something like this and protect the Chinese heritage" in Lethbridge.
Tai Sing Wing Co. was built in 1919 as a grocery store and lodging house and became the Bow On Tong Co. Apothecary in 1926. Lethbridge's Wing Wah Chong Co., also known as the Manie Opera Society Building, was occupied by a number of Chinese-Albertan businesses while the basement was also used as residences for Chinese immigrants.
The Leong family owned and operated businesses in the two buildings now under provincial protection.
Albert Leong, who still owns them, was born in the Bow On Tong 78 years ago. He says it means everything to have the buildings and his family home restored as they show how people lived. He says if the buildings were gone "so would many of the stories of Chinese immigrants in Lethbridge."


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The Talk - A talk designed to give an introduction to street photography for photographers covering - What is street photography? What to look for and what makes an interesting street image? Hints and tips on taking candid images on the street. Cameras, lenses, and settings. And more. At the same time giving examples of some of my own photography from around the UK and Europe. Example images come from Preston, Blackpool, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Paris and more. How it came about - I've been a member of a photographic society (Preston Photographic Society) for some time now and really enjoy the evening when a speaker comes to give a talk which inspires me to take up my camera and try something new. |
Over the years I've tried many things photographically and been inspired by many a talk, demo and not to forget some YouTube videos, but I always returned to people photography and wanting to capture them being real. The true person, not the pose so to speak, thus street photography was a natural fit that I eventually stumbled upon. My image "Street Tango" was one of the first street images I shared at the club. 'Street Tango' did rather well, winning the opening night competition as voted by members. |
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I continue to enter street images into various competitions both internally or externally, and some do rather well. One of which was an image I took in London of The House which went on to win the Preston Photographic Society's Print of the Year, 'Skipping Tea.' A few years on and members of the club and other local photographers were referring to me as a street photographer, some were even asking if I'd put together a talk about the subject. Eventually, "On The Streets" was conceived. |
Skipping TeaA London Tea shop - and one that everyone must visit! Image won Print of the Year 2014/15 at Preston Photographic Society. Note - there has been some post processing in the image to get the final result, although the essence of them image hasn't be altered the aesthetics have. |
If you're interested in having "On The Streets" come to a club near you, have a word with your syllabus sectary or get in contact. The next talk will be: Hailsham Photographic Society - 18th May 2023Why not come along Clubs I've been to with the talk so far are:Wellington and District Camera Club Rolls Royce Photographic Society North Cheshire Photographic Society Knutsford Photographic Society Woodford And Wanstead Photographic Society Bishop's Waltham Photographic Society Melbourn & District Photographic Society Warrington and District Camera Club Warrington U3A Photography Group Atherton & District Amateur Photographic Society Wallasey Amateur Photographic Society Grange and District Photographic Society Warrington Photographic Society Blackburn and District Camera Club Lancashire Photographic Society Southport Photographic Society South Liverpool Photographic Society |


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Highlights for secondary include the opportunity to see sample materials from our brand new series, Collins New GCSE Science, which has been written for the new 2011 GCSE Science specifications. Bestselling resources from Collins New GCSE Maths will also be shown alongside Collins GCSE English for AQA and resources for BTEC.
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Arsenal win north London derby in blistering early salvo; Neville attacked Spurs' display as "appalling" during the 3-1 defeat; Neville on Kane: "There is something obviously not right with him at the moment"
Monday 27 September 2021 11:02, UK
Sky Sports' Gary Neville has warned that the disappointment of losing the north London derby 3-1 to Arsenal may be the least of Tottenham's problems after a display he branded "appalling" during the game.
Spurs were swept aside at the Emirates, conceding three goals within 34 minutes to an Arsenal side that had previously scored just twice in five Premier League games this season.
"Arsenal had a far better application to the game, but Tottenham's game plan looked really basic. It looked like they just wanted to knock it forward at any cost, and they were playing aimless balls forward. Spurs' courage to play, their appetite to win the ball back and get forward was completely different from what it was against Chelsea last week, and Arsenal ran all over them. It was a really poor first half," said Neville.
"In the second half, you could say Harry Kane should have scored two or three goals and could have had a penalty. But Harry Kane is not right, there is something obviously not right with him at the moment, he doesn't look happy at all.
"That's a bad day for Nuno and those Tottenham players because their fans will have left the ground thinking there are more problems than just losing 3-1 to Arsenal."
New Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo took his share of responsibility for the defeat by admitting his "gameplan was not good" but added: "The decisions were not according to the gameplan."
Asked whether his side had failed to carry out his instructions, Nuno told Sky Sports: "I wouldn't say they are not doing what l am telling them to do. They were not able to do it."
After hearing Nuno's admission, Neville responded: "Kane, Moura, Son and Dele Alli pressed high at Tottenham for years and it looked to me that they didn't respond to the gameplan, like they didn't believe in it - that was my feeling.
"I think the Tottenham players loved Mauricio Pochettino. I think he was innovative, he was front foot, proactive, they loved him. Those players look to me as if they want a high-pressing, Pochettino-style coach who plays out from the back rather than one that sits back and plays on the counter-attack."
Since topping the table in August, Spurs have lost to Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Arsenal - and are now behind the Gunners in the league table despite 20 places separating the two sides less than a month ago.
"The first-half performance will have been a real worry," said Neville during commentary of Sunday's derby. "You have to ask questions beyond football when you see the body language of the players. The real problem is that they got to a Champions League final a couple years ago playing exciting, proactive football. They were always on the front foot and it was a group of players who looked like they were enjoying it.
"Some of those players are still out there now but in the last couple of years they have become very basic to watch compared to that [the Champions League final] team of a few years ago."
In-game statistics showed Tottenham bottom of the chart for distance covered by any side in the Premier League this season.
"That is a real worry - to go from where they were, which was one of the hardest-running teams in the league to the worst. Tottenham cannot be the team which runs the least in the league."
Emile Smith Rowe scored the opening goal and created another to earn the man-of-the-match award from Neville, but the former England defender's post-match observations also contained a poignant warning to the Arsenal youngster and his team-mate Bukayo Saka.
"Smith Rowe and Saka have been a joy," said Neville. "Everything Tottenham didn't have, those two had in abundance.
"But if they want a warning sign they should look at Dele Alli. I had him with England three or four years ago and l would have said that he would go on to become one of the top midfielders this country has produced. He had everything. And now look at him. He was subbed at half-time today and he's a shadow of what he was in terms of application and work ethic. I said last year he needed a shock, but he needs to sort himself out, and I love him as a kid."
Spurs boss Nuno was scathing about his side's performance, inferring that some of his players failed to implement his game plan.
Tottenham attempted to stem the flow at half-time by bringing on Oliver Skipp and Emerson Royal for the tormented Japhet Tanganga and anonymous Dele Alli, but it didn't work
Nuno told Sky Sports: "The performance was not good. The game plan was not good. The decisions were not good. It was not a good day for us. Definitely not a good day.
"I'm going to be honest. When you have a game plan you have to make the right decisions in terms of who you want on the pitch to develop that game plan. I won't name individuals who didn't play the game plan right but the game plan was not right according to the players who were on the pitch.
"We were not aggressive enough to control Arsenal in midfield. We suffered when we wanted to go in front an we allowed Arsenal to come to us. Bad decisions."
He added in his post-match press conference: "A lot of things went wrong, starting with the decisions I made. It's not easy to expand so I just ask you a bit of respect if I don't go too much into it. But the gameplan didn't work out. I will not judge my players in front of you, I refuse to do that."
"We want to be a team that is faster, stronger, dominant, solid, we are not being that team. First we recover the players, find them, help them find the right solutions for them to develop the way we want to play better.
"I didn't take the right decisions, and I refuse to go much further than that. All that I have to say, I will say it directly to the players among us. We must solve the problem.
"We are disappointed, because it was a special game for all of us, our fans. We didn't achieve the standards our fans deserve every day. So my message is I promise that we will try to fix it."
Arsenal now go to Brighton in the Premier League on Saturday Night Football, live on Sky Sports Premier League at 5.30pm, while Spurs host NS Mura in the Europa Conference League on Thursday at 8pm before welcome Aston Villa in the Premier League at 2pm on Sunday.


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Kate Middleton opens up about 'mum guilt' in revealing podcast interview with Giovanna Fletcher
16 February 2020, 12:05
The Duchess of Cambridge has spoken about feeling lonely as she juggles being a mum-of-three with being a working royal in a new podcast.
The Duchess of Cambridge has revealed that she has often felt "mum guilt" and "lonely" as she juggles both her roles as a mum of three and being a full-time working royal.
Kate Middleton, 38, shared her feelings with Giovanna Fletcher in her podcast Happy Mum, Happy Baby in what is one of the most candid interviews she has given yet about motherhood.
The royal admitted that she often feels guilty when she's away working for long periods and away from George, six, Charlotte, four and 21-month-old Louis.
Read more: Why Kate Middleton always carries her handbag in her left hand
Giovanna, who herself is a mum of three and is married to Tom Fletcher, a member of the band McFly, asked her if she experienced pangs of 'mum guilt', and the the duchess replied:
"Yes absolutely – and anyone who doesn't as a mother is actually lying.
"Yep – all the time, yep – and you know even this morning, coming to the nursery visit here – George and Charlotte were like 'Mummy how could you possibly not be dropping us off at school this morning?'
"But no it's a constant challenge – you hear it time and time again from mums, even mums who aren't necessarily working and aren't pulled in the directions of having to juggle work life and family life."
READ MORE: Kate Middleton has emotional reunion with primary school teachers during South Wales engagement
She further added: "And always sort of questioning your own decisions and your own judgements and things like that, and I think that starts from the moment you have a baby!"
She spoke openly about the challenges of being a new mother and said: "There's a lot of pressure, isn't there? You can get so distracted and put so much pressure on yourselves about the things you're not necessarily achieving, and it distracts you from the things that actually really do matter to the lifelong health and happiness of the children you're looking after."
During the 30-minute podcast chat, on which Kate promotes her '5 Big Questions on the Under Fives' survey about the impact of childhood experiences on adult life, she opened up about being a working royal and achieving a work-life balance.
"There's such a pull, but I am such a hands-on mum, and whatever you're doing you want to make sure you're doing the uttermost best job you can for your children," she said.
"I was having doubts and questions about the guilty element of being away for work and things like that.
"The more people you have around your children who are safe and loving and caring, the better.
"It was a real weight off my shoulders that actually it's not totally my responsibility to do everything, because you know we all have good days, bad days - and if you can dilute that with others who aren't on that particular day struggling.
"I think it makes such a difference for your child, and keeping them as constant and happy as possible."
READ MORE: Coronation Street's Samia Longchambon admits 'mum guilt' as she struggles to spend time with kids
She also told listeners how after the birth of George in 2013 that she had "a lonely period" after arriving home.
"It took us a bit of time to get ourselves settled and going again but that's the beauty, I suppose, of having a newborn baby.
"You are pulled to your toughest and most unknown places that you hadn't necessarily even thought about before."
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Paul Keeton retired at the end of June (although he is doing some project work with us going forward).
We welcome Michael Langman who has joined us this month and brings a depth of varied broker experiences that will benefit our relationships and Network aims.
Charlie Jones has taken the time to go through her diary since the last edition of Taste of Networks to let us know what a Willis Towers Watson Networks Business Partner does for our Network Members and our Partner Insurers.
"I have spent a lot of time with Network Members in helping place risks. I spend a lot of time navigating the resources of Willis Towers Watson and Partner Markets to ensure our Network Members find the right place to place their business for their clients. I have had quite a varied mix including, chemical risks, international, financial lines, petrol stations, care homes, transport, hotels, plastics, product recall and food & drink. It is reflective moments like this I realise what a great resource we deliver for our Network Members and wonder how they would manage such enquiries without our help!"
"I have been delighted to onboard one of our new Network Members, Cape Insurance as well as provide team member training for more established Network Members to get the best from the Network. I also enjoy working with potential prospects and giving a sample of our services".
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"One area that demonstrates the essence of Network occurred when one of my newer Network Members was having difficulty placing a PI risk. I was able to put them in touch with another Network Member who has an established PI scheme and they worked together to successfully place the PI risk for the client".
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Worth Avenue
For everyone from celebrities to heads of state, from literary and artistic icons to business moguls, the allure of Palm Island has always been irresistible, known all over the world as a place synonymous with "The Good Life." The shops that line Worth Avenue is just that, a taste of the good life, with the hottest stores, like Chanel, Michael Kors, and Tiffany & Co, the shops of Worth Avenue are certainly a nice, tall drink of the good life.
For more than 100 years, Worth Avenue has attracted royalty, celebrities, politicians, and anyone enchanted by fashion. If the shops on Worth Avenue could talk, they'd tell stories of romance, intrigue, and opulence.
Worth Avenue Shops are located in Palm Beach, Florida. For more information, call (561) 659-6909.


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Because of its sheer vastness, The Lone Star State has more than its fair share of amenity lavished luxury apartment complexes. But before you sign on the dotted line elsewhere, take a slow look around those in North Dallas. There's nothing ordinary about these apartment communities that strive to accommodate the people who call them home. They offer some of the most attractive finishes and finest extras.
Each community offers its own unique appeal and is designed with the tenants needs in mind. They boast a broad range of resort-style amenities, including magnificent swimming pools, 24/7 fully-equipped fitness centers, clubhouses that may be rented for parties, tennis courts, and some even offer concierge services.
The communities of Plano, Allen, Frisco, McKinney, Wylie and Prosper have some of the greatest apartment communities in the Collin County area and beyond. These affordable, high-quality communities are ready for newcomers to call them home.
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For decades, Dallas has consistently made it to the Forbes's list of America's fastest-growing cities. As new residents steadily converge upon the area, more jobs emerge. Thanks to the thriving economy, the area's unemployment rate remains lower than the national average. Collin County has a surplus of available jobs, making this area attractive to prospective apartment dwellers. According to The Dallas Business Journal, approximately 75,000 job opportunities are coming soon to Collin County as major companies, including Toyota Motor North America, Liberty Mutual, FedEx and CVE Technology Group relocate their headquarters and other key operations here.
Approximately 20 Fortune 500 companies already have a major presence in the region, including American Airlines, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Kroger, Texas Instruments, Raytheon and AT&T. Even new college graduates are acquiring secure employment in Collin Country, which saves them the Dallas commute.


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Dutch defense minister quits over troops' death in Mali
The Netherlands' caretaker Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis has resigned over failures by her ministry that led to the death of two Dutch soldiers in a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Mali.
Hennis declared her resignation on Tuesday, after the Dutch Safety Board (DBS) released the findings of a probe regarding a deadly incident on June 6, 2016 in which two Dutch soldiers were killed and a third was severely injured by a mortar attack by militants.
According to the DBS report, the Dutch Defense Ministry had allowed the pursuit of strategic goals to take precedence over safety and medical standards.
Hennis' resignation came only days before the country's caretaker government is due to be replaced by a new coalition, led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Hennis further announced that the chief of the Netherlands' armed forces, General Tom Middendorp, would also submit his resignation over the DSB findings.
The Dutch military, which initially supplied Apache helicopter squadrons to the Mali peacekeeping mission, is now winding down its contribution to the force, with troop numbers expected to fall to nearly 300 this year.
The Malian army, the UN peacekeepers, and humanitarian groups in the African country are frequently targeted by local militants, who have regrouped since a French-led military operation in 2013 to drive them out of the West African country's northern towns.
At least 100 peacekeepers have died in recent months, making it the most deadly UN mission to date, while the number of attacks on aid workers and their compounds has climbed this year.
France intervened in the impoverished nation in 2013 to flush out militants and allied Tuareg rebels, who took over the country's desert north in 2012.
Fighting between rival Tuareg factions has intensified in recent months and threatens to derail a 2015 peace deal meant to end years of conflict and instability in the landlocked country.


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by Edie Flanagin
WALSENBURG- The Walsenburg Volunteer fire department was paged out at 8:50 on Christmas morning to fight a fire at Eugene Quintana's home at 721 Kansas.
The fire department responded with three engines and nine firefighters. After arriving at the scene, the fire chief, Gerald Jerant, could see more help was needed and called the La Veta VFD. They responded with two trucks and eight men.
The firefighters were confronted with a serious problem in fighting the fire because the homeowner had numerous boxes and other items packed into every room making entry very difficult. The homeowner also informed the firemen that there were several tanks of acetylene and oxygen as well as ammunition stored in the house. Faced with a very hot blaze and obscuring smoke the firefighters chose to fight the fire "defensively" rather than the way they would like by entering the home and fighting it "offensively." A hole was cut in the roof and using the ladder truck, a large volume of water was pumped into the home near the chimney. This effort slowed the progress of the fire, but because the firefighters couldn't see and aim the hose the fire continued to spread, eventually engulfing the entire structure. At this point the firemen could only contain the fire to the one house and save the neighboring structures.
The fire started in the chimney from the wood/coal fired furnace located in the basement. The fire either overheated the chimney or breached the chimney and ignited the floor or walls on the main floor. The homeowner tried to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher, to no avail. The black smoke and intense heat built up so quickly the owner had no time to save any possessions.
Most firefighters and trucks left the scene by 5 pm. One truck and several fighters remained at the scene because it was still dangerously hot. Throughout the night materials in the house continued exploding, with one of the acetylene tanks blowing up and flying 100 feet into the night sky, landing on the adjacent garage.
Late Saturday afternoon the last firefighters left only to be recalled the next day to put out the last of the smoldering debris. The home and contents are a total loss.


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Pokémon Go is an augmented reality phenomenon. As the most popular mobile game in US history, it attracted more users in just three days than Twitter has attained in the last decade. After its July 6 launch, Pokémon Go even had more user engagement than Facebook, with a generated daily revenue of more than $1.6 million, according to SimilarWeb.
Moreover, those numbers are coming only from the US and the 26 European countries where the game is available. We can only imagine what's going to happen once users in Asia-Pacific and Latin America get their hands on the game.
The numbers are certainly impressive, but the true phenomenon of this story is how in one launch, The Pokémon Company has rewritten its future and the future of its gaming competitors, all because of Niantac's location-based technology.
Transforming the World
The company transformed itself from a card trading and video gaming leader to a potential data analytics and marketing genius. The crowdsourced location data Pokémon Go is generating has great potential because of the sheer number of users, and marketers may want to tap into that data down the line if greater customer insights are unveiled. (Niantic's privacy policy states it does collect location data and data from users' mobile device while they play the game.)
Pokémon Go is reinventing gaming. It's reshaping the augmented reality experience. And it's making data sexy again.
To succeed in Pokémon Go, you need to visit (in person) real locations in real time. The accuracy and precision of Pokémon Go's location data is absolutely critical. Get it wrong, and you risk the wrath of millions of players, not to mention neighborhood residents. Get it right, and you can create a global movement that transforms the way we've previously considered merging our physical surroundings with interactive digital experiences.
Capturing Data in a Whole New Way
With Pokémon Go, Niantic has created a new channel for capturing data.
Of course, Niantic isn't the only company capturing location data and providing location-based user experiences—far from it. But it is one of the first to exhibit the power of location data in a popular, consumable way. With social media location check-ins, geographically-targeted marketing campaigns, and "Find my nearest…" services offered by local authorities on websites, location-based data now drives some incredible hyper-real experiences.
Collating information on how, when, where, and why we move through the physical world has immense opportunity. There are few instances where businesses can capture data generated by large volumes of people in a particular physical location (e.g., music festivals, major conferences, or gatherings at particular landmarks). Niantic has taken this up a notch by capturing where and when a player is at a specific location and how he or she interacts with people and things within a specific location.
That type of relational data is what drives the concept behind the Internet of Things and gives context to why people behave the way they do. For businesses, this is the type of data that counts because it drives meaningful and personalized customer experiences.
Some of the location-based activities that Niantic is able to capture customer data from may include:
- PokeStops. In-app purchases, such as Poke Balls and Incense, are used to capture more Pokémon. You can buy these within the in-game shop or collect them at PokeStops throughout the game, clearly indicated on a map. PokeStop locations must be accurate for the game to seamlessly connect the virtual and real worlds, and are determined based on a combination of historical/cultural landmarks, geo-tagged photos from Google and locations suggested from Niantic's previous geo-location game Ingress.
- Lures. Shops and restaurants that want to increase foot traffic can purchase lures from the in-game store that spawns more Pokémon to a specified location when activated. A pizza restaurant in Long Island City reported a 75% increase in sales, having paid just $10 for a handful of lures.
- Advertisements. Advertisements in physical locations will soon start popping up in the game, drawing attention to a location and to promotions offered at that location. Rather than offer a pizza restaurant drawing, the restaurant can now place ads for discounted deep dish pizza at the nearby park where players are congregating.
The geospatial data generated through Pokémon Go is something everyone wants to get their hands on because the data is almost guaranteed to be accurate. After all, it's tested every day by millions of users.
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Niantic has undeniably created a paradigm shift in gaming and geospatial data. Apps such as Swarm/Foursquare have taken the gamification approach with check-ins, but Pokémon Go has upped the ante, and players can't get enough.
Indirectly, the company has also transformed the way we think about the physical and digital worlds. It is no longer physical or digital; it is now physical and digital. There is an undeniable synergy between the two consumer experiences businesses can no longer ignore. In creating Pokémon Go, Niantic has discovered the value of a single customer view that embraces context and location, and it's incredibly powerful.


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Ready to Print 4+
Pre-writing for ages 2-7
Essare LLC
- $14.99
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Learn Handwriting Skills the Fun Way!
Ready to Print is created and maintained by an Occupational Therapist with over twenty-five years of experience working with children. It is a comprehensive tool for parents, therapists and educators to help teach pre-writing skills to children in order to build a strong foundation for beginning printers.
We continue working to make Ready to Print the most complete writing development iPad app available, and continue to add new features.
Ready to Print progresses through the pre-writing skills in a specific order, so that children can master the visual-motor, visual-perceptual, and fine motor skills necessary for correct printing patterns. It is designed to teach children the correct patterns for printing, and to avoid bad habits that are difficult to change as the child gets older.
Ready to Print features 194 separate levels in 13 activities. The latest addition is the Touch and Drag activity, which helps students work on movement in one of four specific directions.
- It's designed with a progression of skills that work towards correct printing patterns.
- It allows you to change size settings to match each child's skill level.
- It features a progression from larger hand movements to smaller, more refined movements.
- It lets you choose which activity and level to begin on.
- It allows setting up multiple user profiles, and remembers skill settings and tracks progress for each user.
- It allows you to send progress reports via e-mail directly from the app.
- It detects the size of your iPad and adjusts sensitivity automatically.
- Choose from either sound effects or voice prompts.
- Turn many features on or off, for everyone or by student.
- High contrast mode available.
Ready to Print works on any size iPad. Requires iOS version 12 or higher.
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What's New
Version 4.1.0
Adjusted the path pattern order to move vertical before horizontal.
Starting with version 4, new artwork.
Other bug fixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Love it
This app has made data collection so much easier and the kids love the activities. The only thing that would make it better is if the letter/ number task would allow me to choose what letters I wanted the child to work on and had options for the letter to have lines so the child can start seeing where the letter rests. This is the best investment I have made.
Love this app
I use this app everyday during therapy sessions. The only thing I would love to change is the ability to turn off the sound for incorrect stimulus and leave the sound for correct answer
Developer Response ,
Hi Princesskarlin - Thanks for the note and review. Based on your comment and other feedback we've received, we're working on an update that will remove the negative audio feedback sound.
Also great for language
I use Ready to Print in therapy session for building language skills.
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App Privacy
The developer, Essare LLC, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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- Compatibility
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0.0 or later.
- Languages
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- 4+, Made for Ages 0–5
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- © 2012-2023 Essare LLC
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Family Sharing
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Yoggie Security Systems Introduces "Firestick Pico" Hardware Firewall
Ultra-Portable USB Device Protects PCs from Broadest Range of Attacks
LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2008 - Taking a page from its own miniaturization playbook, Yoggie Security SystemsTM (exhibiting at 2008 International CES in the Sands Convention Center, Innovation Pod #269) has introduced a unique, ultra-portable USB key-sized hardware-based firewall solution to protect PCs from malicious attacks.
The Firestick PicoTM places a physical barrier between PCs and the Internet to ensure that threats never reach users' computers. Unlike software firewalls, the fire red colored Firestick Pico mini-computer is based on a dedicated hardware platform specifically designed to protect PCs from the most devastating menaces including denial of service, buffer overflow and the broadest range of malicious attacks. It blocks all Internet threats and attacks outside - before they reach PCs or laptops.
The Firestick Pico is a complete Linux-based 300 MHz computer with a dual flash memory mechanism that constitutes an 'untouchable operating system' running an independent firewall application. In addition, each Firestick Pico comes with a complimentary Kaspersky security software suite.
"Yoggie's Firestick Pico brings another choice to end users," said Shlomo Touboul, CEO and founder of Yoggie Security Systems. "While our Gatekeeper Pico offloads all security applications from a PC, the Firestick Pico offloads just the firewall functionality at a much lower cost. This allows different levels of security and a range of price points for discerning buyers who are joining the Yoggie revolution: moving security applications from the PC to dedicated, miniature computers to enhance security and improve PC performance."
With Yoggie's Firestick Pico, road warriors can connect to any unsecured hotspot with the comfort of being completely protected.
About Yoggie Security Systems
Yoggie Security Systems™ established in 2005 by Shlomo Touboul – the inventor of Behavior Based Blocking Technology - is the developer of the world's first hardware-based computer security solution. Yoggie's range of USB key-sized security mini-computers connects to any PC or laptop at home, in the office and on the road - blocking Internet threats outside the host computer and boosting computer performance by off-loading installed security software. Yoggie's products combine best of breed security software with propriety patent-pending developments to provide the most comprehensive all-in-one security technology available to both consumers and corporate users.


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By Morgan PhelpsWith social-networking sites now the rage in cyberspace, it was only a matter of time before global institutions tried to catch that wave and ride it for the common good. Hence, the emergence of web sites that cater specifically to the worldwide micro-financing community. Microfinance involves supplying loans and other financial services to the world's poor. According to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP),the poor need a variety of financial services, including:
Microfinance is not specifically a web phenomenon. Although the practice is as old as family members loaning money to one another, it did not gain popularity as a formal developmental strategy until 1970 when Dr. Muhammad Yunus at Grameen Bank created "solidarity lending." In 1973, ShoreBank was founded in Chicago as the first community microfinance institution. Loans are typically lower than $1,000 and financed by multiple lenders working together to dilute risk. But more recently lenders and hopeful business owners in the developing world are meeting up on newly created microfinance networking sites. Kiva is one of the new microfinance web sites. Kiva partners with already established microfinance institutions around the world to forge connections with businesspeople on a global basis. Registered users can surf profiles on the site to find out who needs help and who is currently lending. They can choose who they want to lend to and in what amount. The loans typically last 6 to 12 months, during which time the lender is updated about the business' progress. The success of microfinance for lenders and borrowers alike over the past three decades proves that the poor are generally very conscientious about paying back their loans, so an enduring pool of capital is available to assist needy businesspeople without government subsidy. Some question whether independent microfinancing efforts can undercut government development and aid projects, but there is no conclusive research to substantiate this reservation. Although microfinance has made serious headway in reducing poverty where it has been used, CGAP notes that there is still much more work to be done — and a huge market of unmet need: "Nearly one billion people still lack access to basic financial services, especially the very poor; the challenge of providing financial services to them remains." To find out more about microfinance. go to http://www.Kiva.org.
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Winter of 2014: One of the worst
Polar vortex, bone-chilling temperatures, ice storm and heavy snowfall all describe this winter's weather conditions. For LO members who work to maintain snow and ice, it's been a long and tough run.
"It's been a struggle to keep up," says William Jordan of Urban Meadows in Ayr. He cited unusual winter conditions for creating hardships on staff, equipment and salt supply. Jordan is chair of the LO Snow and Ice Sector Group.
Dan Garlatti of Garlatti Landscaping in LaSalle says he is personally worn out by the winter, and staff members are the same. "It's hard to maintain long and crazy hours."
Garlatti says it's three times worse than a normal winter in the Windsor region. "That includes both snow amounts and low temperatures."
Herman Ciardullo, president of Oakridge Landscape Contractors in Hannon, near Hamilton, says staffing has been a big issue. "We have had a snow event every week since December," said Ciardullo.
Dan Grieve CLP, of Grieve Home Maintenance in Burlington, says he hasn't found the winter too much of a problem. "Staff like it, because they get more hours and money." He does admit that this winter has been the toughest since the early 1990s.
Tight salt supplies
Gerald Boot CLP of Boot's Landscaping in Richmond Hill says the extreme cold weather has taken a toll on his crews. The other issue with crews is that most major storms came on weekends or holiday time. Boot said his company had used the same amount of salt at the end of January that it used all of last year.
Jordan ran out of salt as of mid-February, and was using brine. He noted that media coverage helped consumers understand that salt supplies were difficult to obtain.
Garlatti said he hasn't any trouble with salt supplies. "I have a good relationship with my salt supplier, who knows I pay the bills right away."
Grieve said his company uses a salt-sand mix exclusively for his residential customers. He says salt kills. The lower amount of salt allows him to maintain supplies in tough winters such as this, and his customers appreciate that less sodium is being put into the environment.
Oakridge also uses a salt-sand combination. Ciardullo says his salt supplies were good. He noted that another benefit is the issue of hauling snow from sites. "It is getting tougher and tougher to find places that will take the snow because of the high salt content. It makes acceptance easier when it's a 90 per cent sand, 10 per cent salt ratio."
The Snow and Ice Management Association has sent out a notice on salt supply. "Technically not a shortage of salt and ice management materials, it's a distribution channel issue as getting salt from mine to contractor warehouse takes time. Increased cold weather has created freezing at some shipping ports, further enhancing this problematic situation."
Most members interviewed for this article said their customers understood this winter has presented special challenges.
Equipment another challenge
Everyone Landscape Ontario magazine spoke to agreed that this winter was hard on equipment. William Jordan said that maintaining equipment was a problem this year with double its usage over most years. He has rented equipment to take up the slack.
Dan Garlatti said the problem isn't just with over-use of equipment, but the fact that hiring extra staff resulted in inexperienced people working the equipment, resulting in break-downs.
Herman Ciardullo said he works to maintain an equipment fleet that is five years old or newer. "By keeping equipment updated within that five-year span, it avoids a lot of equipment problems when you need it the most."
While everyone will be happy to say goodbye to the winter of 2014, the long range prediction for the coming summer says it will be warmer and dryer than normal — causing a whole new set of concerns for those working in the green industry.


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Narrogin Squash Club win two divisions at 2020 Country Week in Perth
Narrogin Squash Club travelled to Perth last week for the 2020 Country Week and returned home with pleasing results.
Over 200 players travelled to Squashworld Mirrabooka in Perth from Bunbury, Broome, Busselton, Dampier, Esperance, Geraldton, Karratha, Kalgoorlie, Katanning, Mandurah, Manjimup, Moora, Narrogin and Wongan Hills to compete in a great weekend of squash competition.
Narrogin finished victorious in two divisions while coming runner-up in another and also gained some well-earned sporty HQ points.
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READ NOWMichaela Pratt and Caitlin Pratt along with Alyce Smith played some fantastic squash across the week-long event to finish winners in the ladies A-grade competition.
To top off their win, the trio were also selected in the combined State country ladies team.
Narrogin also took out the men's E championship with the team consisting of Dwayne Franks, Jarrod Denholm, Vic Ranieri and Brennan Pratt.
Paddy Spriggs, Neil Harrington, Ryan McGrath and Jodie Ranieri fell just short of taking away the H competition, finishing runners-up for the week.
Michaela and Caitlin Pratt with Alyce Smith and Sarah Hennessey finished equal fourth out of six teams in the D competition.
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Zur Rose Group AG
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Zur Rose Group signals dynamic revenue development in the first quarter of 2021 - Sustained positive growth of 16.0 per cent - Strong sales growth in Germany of 25.2 per cent - Expansion of the DocMorris healthcare platform with new services - Launch of www.docmorriscare.com/adipositas as strategic milestone - Continuation of integration activities: Merger of apo-rot with DocMorris
Constant pleasing development in the segments In Switzerland, Zur Rose posted revenue of CHF 147.0 million. In the light of the strong previous year's quarter, during which the physicians business posted record growth of 16.1 per cent due to the inventory build-up caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Switzerland segment performed robustly on a sustained basis, with performance down by 2.8 per cent. The Europe segment continued to post very high revenue growth of 57.6 per cent in local currency terms and 61.1 per cent in Group currency terms to CHF 19.9 million, thus reaffirming the attractive growth potential of the marketplace business in the longer term. Expansion of the DocMorris healthcare platform with new services for customers and patients Launch of DocMorris Adipositas Care The launch of this new healthcare offering is a further milestone towards the European healthcare ecosystem of the Zur Rose Group and a key step towards realising the company's vision: creating a world where people can manage their own health in one click. Multi-media, Germany-wide campaign Merger of apo-rot brand with DocMorris Seizing the opportunities from the introduction of electronic prescriptions Outlook
Investors and analyst contact Media contact Agenda 29 April 2021 Annual General Meeting Zur Rose Group The Swiss Zur Rose Group is Europe's largest e-commerce pharmacy and one of the leading medical wholesalers in Switzerland. It also operates the leading marketplace in southern Europe for consumer health, beauty and personal care products commonly sold in pharmacies. The company is internationally present with strong brands, including Germany's best-known pharmacy brand, DocMorris, and employs more than 2,200 people at sites in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and France. Now serving more than 11 million active customers in core European markets, Zur Rose generated revenue of CHF 1,752 million (including external revenue) in 2020. With its business model, the Zur Rose Group offers high-quality, safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care. It also excels in continuous development of digital healthcare services and as a platform technology provider. In addition, Zur Rose is actively driving forward its positioning as a comprehensive healthcare service provider, with focus on building up its European healthcare ecosystem networking qualified providers of products, services and digital solutions. Zur Rose's contribution will be to bring these offerings to customers and patients, pursuing its vision of creating a world where people can manage their own health in one click. The shares of Zur Rose Group AG are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (securities number 4261528, ISIN CH0042615283, ticker ROSE). For further information, please visit zurrosegroup.com. [1] External revenue; i.e. including non-consolidated mail-order revenue.
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Redskins Practice Notes, Quotes & Injury Report 10-29-2014
Quarterback Robert Griffin III was a full participant in Redskins practice on Wednesday. He and Colt McCoy split first team reps. Griffin was sporting a much smaller ankle brace then he had on last week during practice and appeared ready to go. I would be surprised if he doesn't play Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.
#Redskins WRs work the sideline. #HTTR https://t.co/s7f2e2dmqa
— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) October 29, 2014
RBs run the gauntlet. #BallSecurity #HTTR https://t.co/aVaUrsIhb6
— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) October 29, 2014
Jason Hatcher – On the pressure the defense put on Cowboy's QB Tony Romo
"We weren't trying to knock him out the game at all. We just applied pressure, not letting him out the pocket; we did a great job of doing that. When he gets out the pocket, he makes all those big plays, so we kept in the pocket, did a great job and the blitz came free."
Jay Gruden – On if he would like the decision at quarterback made by Thursday:
"Yeah, I would like to have one soon, but this one is a little unique circumstance because I am not going to know for sure until I see Robert actually go through the process with our guys. So I want to make sure I really evaluate where he is and, like I said, I think from a physical standpoint, he might have been able to play last week, I don't know. But we are really trying to make sure that A) he goes through these drills on these turf fields and there is no injury afterwards, make sure it is stable which we feel good about that. And then B) just make sure from a quarterback standpoint that he feels good about his reads, his progressions, his pickups, responsibilities, his run responsibilities. You know, it is a lot of information. You take five or six weeks off and you hope that he is in the meetings paying attention but we just want to make sure that he has retained everything and so far it looks pretty good."
Jay Gruden – On linebacker Trent Murphy and tackle Tom Compton making their first career starts last week:
"Murphy did good. You know, he did really good against the run. We were a little concerned about that but he really stood up against the run and made his presence felt. Pass rush wise, he wasn't as effective. He was going against a pretty darn good left tackle over there at Dallas but he still was a nuisance, but we expect more from him in the pass rush standpoint but we were impressed with him in the run and for his first game on Monday Night Football we thought he held his own and did a good job. Compton, same thing, there were some plays I know he wish he had back. He went the wrong way on a run and got beat one other time, but for the most part, for his first full game at right tackle, I thought he played pretty darn good. But like everybody else, we expect more from him but I was impressed with both of them."


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Communications in Number Theory and Physics
Volume 2 (2008)
Number 1
Birational Calabi–Yau threefolds and BPS state counting
Pages: 63 – 112
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CNTP.2008.v2.n1.a2
This paper contains some applications of Bridgeland–Douglas stability conditions on triangulated categories, and Joyce's work on counting invariants of semistable objects, to the study of birational geometry. We introduce the notion of motivic Gopakumar–Vafa invariants as counting invariants of D2-branes, and show that they are invariant under birational transformations between Calabi–Yau threefolds. The result is similar to the fact that birational Calabi–Yau threefolds have the same betti numbers or Hodge numbers.
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The Elysee Val D'europe hotel is the ideal place to stay both with family and friends; but it is also perfect for those who are in Paris for work. The hotel offers its guests many services, such as: luggage storage, laundry service, internet point, business center, private underground parking, "American" breakfast buffet service, Le Diplomate bar and Le George steak house restaurant.
The hotel has 152 rooms and suites of different types, in order to meet every need. All rooms are tastefully furnished and equipped with air conditioning, TV, wifi, tea / coffee, desk, safe, telephone, private bathroom and hairdryer.
The hotel is located in the heart of the Val d'Europe, one of the main urban and business centers in the eastern part of the Ile-de-France region. Guests can easily reach Paris thanks to the Val D'Europe Metro station located in front of the hotel. The hotel is only 3 kilometers from the Disneyland Paris theme park and approximately 40 minutes drive from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.


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Save Money by Moving Out of the City and Into the Guadalupe Valley
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative provides affordable electricity for members throughout the region. As a cooperative, we are member-owned and on a mission to meet the needs of our growing member base. Offering affordable electricity and investing in infrastructure is one of the ways we are supporting growth in the Guadalupe Valley, growth that is occurring, in part, due to the low cost-of-living that is available to families and businesses.
Families save money by moving out of the Austin and San Antonio metropolitan areas.
Communities like Seguin are ideal for families who love South Central Texas, but do not want to pay the high real estate prices associated with living in popular San Antonio or Austin. Making the move is relatively easy because San Antonio is only a 45-minutes from Seguin and Austin is a little over an hour. People can continue to work in those areas or take one of the many jobs currently available in the Guadalupe Valley. In fact, job growth in the Valley has grown exponentially due to businesses realizing the many benefits of locating in an affordable, yet centrally located area.
So, how much can families save by moving out of the city and into the Guadalupe Valley?
A lot. Take, for example, the cost of buying a home in nearby Austin. The average home price is $346,500 with a mortgage payment of approximately $1,730 per month. In Seguin, the average home price is $192,300 with an approximate mortgage payment of $960. Those who want to save even more can move to Gonzales were the average home price is $122,000 and mortgage payment $609. By simply moving to the Guadalupe Valley families can cut their mortgage payment so significantly that their quality of life improves by reducing financial stress and leaving more room in the budget to go out to dinner, have fun on the weekends and take an annual vacation. Since there are plenty of jobs available in the Valley, families are realizing that they have all the reasons in the world to make the move.
Businesses save by moving to the Guadalupe Valley.
Families aren't the only ones realizing the financial benefits of moving to the region. Businesses are finding that by making the move, they can access affordable commercial real estate in an area where there is plenty of land available. In cities like Austin, businesses often feel that they are restricted in their expansion simply due to a lack of affordable space or restrictive zoning regulations. That is not an issue in the Valley. Here, businesses have the room they need to grow, and local economic developers are available to make it easy to find a new location.
Another financial benefit of locating in the Guadalupe Valley is the affordable energy provided by the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative. As a member-owned cooperative, we are focused on providing the affordable energy our member businesses need to thrive.
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TKE Lambda Chapter Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation registered with the State of Wisconsin. It has obtainied an EIN for the corporation from the IRS, and is now in the application review process by the IRS for recognition by the IRS as a tax exempt entity.
There are a number of causes that the Foundation will fund:
Scholarships - The purpose of scholarships for chapter members is to help defray the cost associated with attending educational leadership conferences that are organized by such organizations as TKE International, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Inter-fraternity Council. Housing scholarships are also available to current undergraduate members who live at the chapter house and maintain an overall GPA of 3.0.
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Roofing Sector Outlook for 2019
A Happy New Year to all of our readers!
As the brand new year begins, here at D-marc we're going to take a look at some of the predictions for the construction industry, particularly the roofing sector, in 2019. Why not follow us throughout the year on Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date with all the news and developments that affect the roofing industry here in the UK?
Growth in the UK's construction sector for the coming year has been downgraded, partly due to the ongoing uncertainty about Brexit and partly due to delays in the delivery of major infrastructure projects. This prediction for the construction industry as a whole is likely to impact on the roofing sector too. While construction activity continues to increase in some sectors (such as housebuilding, particularly in specific regions in the North), this growth is dependent upon house building outside the London area and may not be typical of Britain as a whole. The sooner we have more definite information on what Brexit will actually look like, the sooner we can adjust forecasts with the detailed information necessary to offer more accuracy on this issue.
Britain's domestic market for garden structures and buildings has seen steady growth in recent years due to a high dependency on replacement purchases and an impressive level of consumer confidence. Within the domestic garden buildings market, the need for sheds and greenhouses is well established. However, in recent years we've seen an increased demand for other types of garden buildings, such as garden rooms, and other rooms that are suitable for multi-purpose activities, such as leisure, study/office accommodation and hobby spaces. These types of building all necessitate a higher level of specification than the average garden shed and this increases the demand for flat roofs that feature insulation to ensure that the space is damp-proof and usable all year round.
The roofing sector itself will need to remain flexible as innovation in production technologies results in the improvement in or development of new materials. Digital technology will continue to shape our industry for the future, making the roofing industry safer with a decrease in the requirement to work at height, thanks to the impact of drone technology. Drones are increasingly being used in the roofing sector to undertake roof inspections, making them cheaper and quicker to carry out than ever before.
The skills shortage continues to trouble the roofing sector and it's becoming more evident that this is likely to get worse once the UK has divorced itself from the European Union. As we're still uncertain about what Brexit will look like, industry leaders are calling on the government to reduce the barriers to entry for the European nationals on whom the construction industry has relied for so many years.
As always, we'll be covering all of the news and developments that affect our industry in 2019, with regular monthly news roundups to keep our readers fully informed on the current state of our sector. If you don't want to miss out on the news and views that shape our industry, follow us on Facebook or Twitter to get a notification each time our News articles are published.


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During November, the temperatures in Manchester may be falling, but the entertainment level is not.
For party animals, the Warehouse Project is going strong. This temporary club is set up in Store Street Car Park underneath Picadilly Station. With different DJs each night, partygoers are not likely to experience the same thing twice at this wild event.
Many say that it has a forbidden, underground vibe. It definitely does not have the sophistication and polish of the more than 500 street-level pubs, bars and clubs, but for those who love the party atmosphere, it is worth the cost of admission.
The Asia Triennial Manchester art display, which mostly features South Asian artists, has carried over from October and will be ending this month. Therefore, November visitors should make every effort to attend before it is gone.
The Un-convention is an event sponsored by the Salford music industry. This festival is one of many which highlight the unique and diverse musical aspects of Manchester.
Tourists who appreciate entertainment that is off the beaten track will love Exposures. This is a 4-day movie screening hosted by England's up-and-coming student film makers.
Also, with the holiday season approaching, Manchester begins preparations for the season with the Christmas Lights Switch On event held in Albert Square in the city's center and the Manchester Christmas Market which will run into late December.
The average temperature is 43.4°F (6.35°C). This constitutes an average low temperature of 41°F (5°C) and an average high temperature of 50°F (10°C).
There is an average of 4.4" (111 mm) of precipitation.
There is an average of 13.6 days of precipitation.
There is an average of 60.6 hours of sunlight during this month.


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On 26 March 2015, new employee orientation hosted by Human Resources Department started at 10am at company's conference room, the main purpose of this orientation is to introduce the company to new employees, and issues regarding company rules and regulations.
Before the training, General Manager of Company Zou Zhongxing presented to give directions, expressed warm welcome to the new employee, and said the coming of the new employee strengthened our team. After that, he shared his expectation of company's future development, and expressed his hope that we make our joint effort to make our company skyrocket.
And then, the training started. Personnel supervisor form Human Resources Department Wei Lin gave the training lecture, which contains two parts: This first part is company introduction, as well as the history, main business, project and technology of company; the second part is system explanation, including human resources management system such as attendance management, personnel changes management, performance appraisal, salary control system, rewards and punishments of employees, and other office process such as usage of OA system, and expense reimburses process.
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The Darjeeling hills that sit like a bejewelled crown atop West Bengal, complete with an incomparable view of the Kanchenjunga should you be lucky with the weather, are burning again as they have done more than once in the last four decades. Though things are getting worse by the day, it is possible that some formula for regaining temporary peace will be worked out, and normal daily life and the flow of tourists will resume, only for a flareup to happen once again in the not too distant future.
While it is virtually impossible to see a solution acceptable to both sides emerging, it is still vital to retrace recent developments, if only to know what not to do in order avoid a flareup again.
The relationship between the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal and the Nepali speaking leaders of the Gorkhaland movement demanding statehood was fraught despite the creation of an autonomous body, the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in 1988 under Subhash Gisingh, leader of the Gorkha National Liberation Front.
But Ghisingh soon lost popularity and when the Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee came to power in 2011, she sought to make a new beginning. The autonomous body was rechristened the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration under Bimal Gurung, a former aide of Ghisingh and leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), to include the emotive word Gorkhaland. Its powers too were increased. All went well until Telengana was created in 2014 and the Gorkhaland leaders saw a new ray of hope for their long standing demand of statehood.
A key development took place in mid-May this year when the Trinamool Congress, a plains party, for the first time scored a victory in the hills, by winning the municipal elections for Mirik and relegating the GJM to second position. This emboldened Banerjee who was ready to build on the success. Soon after she held a meeting of the state cabinet in Darjeeling for the first time in 45 years. But unfortunately, the meeting took place under the shadow of the newly revived Gorkhaland agitation.
The latest flareup began after the West Bengal government announced, even as the results for the municipal elections were coming in that the teaching of Bengali would be made compulsory in schools. This was the provocation that brought the dormant forces in Darjeeling back onto the streets again. Though the West Bengal government almost immediately clarified that Bengali would not be made compulsory in the Darjeeling hills, the anti-Bengali language agitation transformed itself into a renewed expression of the long standing demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland. Banerjee, not the sort to step back, is talking and acting tough, and the GJM, which has managed to rope in other political formations in the area behind the latest action, is in a defiant mood. The result, not surprisingly, was escalating violence.
Looking back, it is mystifying why Banerjee should have taken the make-Bengali-compulsory decision. It can only be explained as an attempt at political mobilisation under pressure. (She is conducting a running verbal battle with the Modi government.) What goes against it foremost is that it is unlikely to have any material impact.
Take a state like Karnataka, which is as cosmopolitan as you can get. Despite fringe political elements trying for decades to similarly make Kannada compulsory in schools and signage, and the state government trying to placate them, progress has been slow. High-fee charging schools that follow the CBSE and ICSE systems have managed to keep out of it. The issue is routinely raised during Karnataka Day every year and the government shows that it is making an effort in earnest. Recently it made the teaching of Kannada compulsory in government schools but that is where its remit seems to stop.
More important, in West Bengal, the move is contrary to the self-perception of the Bengali bhadralok, the educated middle class with cultural graces and a strong notion about itself. The bhadralok thinks that Bengali is a rich and superior language and considers that those who live in the state would themselves want to acquire a knowledge of it, as also a taste for Rabindrasangeet (the songs of Tagore), the two for him going hand in hand. If you add to it the bhadralok considering himself to be a cosmopolitan being whose has always had an open mind, as it indeed did through British rule and till the 1960s, imposing the language by administrative fiat would be anathema.
The ultimate reason for not seeking to impose a language is the lesson that the history of the creation of Bangladesh holds. The rulers of Pakistan sought to undermine Bengali and impose Urdu and it is the resultant Bhasha Andolan (language movement) that eventually led to the creation if Bangladesh. The ethno-linguistic rights of people across the world are no longer questioned.
So the West Bengal government should not have done what it did, but why is still there an agitation despite it retracing its steps and reassuring that Bengal will not be compulsory in Darjeeling district schools? Here we come back to the long standing movement for a Gorkhaland state. Banerjee, in fact, began well by going a good way to meet hill aspirations. In fact, when the word Gorkhaland was included in the name of the autonomous regional council, many had expressed the fear that this giving in would be the thin end of the wedge. This is now turning out to be true.
The reason for Banerjee or whoever is in power in West Bengal taking the stand they have is entirely to be expected. No state or nation would allow itself to be divisioned. Whoever wishes to carve out something from an existing political entity will have to fight for it for decades, on and off the street, as has been the case everywhere else.
But one reason why the Gorkhaland agitation has been particularly durable is because of its relationship with the BJP. Since, 2009, the BJP has held the Darjeeling parliamentary seat, first through Jaswant Singh and then S.S. Ahluwalia, with the support of the Nepali speaking people. The current BJP leadership is doing everything for the demand for statehood short of offering open support. Its national leaders are, for the record, urging the West Bengal government to get into talks with the Gorkhaland movement leaders and negotiate a settlement.
What should be clear to the leadership of the BJP in West Bengal is that should the state eventually be bifurcated with the BJP in power at the Centre, it will be held responsible for this by the mainstream voters of the state and will be considered unforgiveable. That raises a big question mark over the BJP's all out attempt to capture power in the state by pointing to the 'misrule and appeasement of Muslims' by the Trinamool administration.
To sum up, we have noticed two ironies. One, West Bengal issuing an administrative fiat imposing the Bengali language, and two, the BJP offering informal support to the Gorkhaland statehood movement. Here is a third. The Nepali speaking people of Darjeeling district in West Bengal are seeking greater control over their destiny by demanding statehood. In Nepal the Madhesi, people of Indian origin who live in the terai or the foothills, are seeking something much more basic. They want a constitution that gives then the fruits of universal adult franchise (the Nepalis of Darjeeling already have this), through the one-man-one-vote principle, so that they are not left with 39 per cent of the seats though they make up 50% of the population, the rest of the seats going to the pahadis or the Nepali hill people.
Subir Roy is a senior journalist and author of Made in India: A study of emerging competitiveness (Tata McGraw Hill, 2005) and the forthcoming Ujjivan: The microfinance frontrunner (OUP).


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We all have them. Those pledges we make in our more innocent days, when we have no children and can safely judge the mom in the supermarket with the screaming toddler. How quickly we break those pledges!
For Siri Daly, a TODAY Parenting Team contributor and Tastemaker, parenthood means mealtime has changed dramatically, and she's found herself doing things she swore she'd never do to please her three children and get everyone to eat. Watch and learn.


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Saturday marked the debut of Mattison's new boutique on Melrose Place, nestled between Marni and the future home of Isabel Marant. Designed in partnership with interior decorators at Commune, the new store houses designer Derek Mattison's expertly tailored line of suits and denim alongside his collection of footwear and neckties.
Each piece in the collection is handmade in Los Angeles, with every jacket numbered and signed by the tailor on a "Republic of California" label neatly tucked away in an inside pocket. The level of attention to detail in the collection and the store can be attributed to Mattison's own meticulous nature. At a private dinner party catered by Lucques held last Thursday to celebrate the flagship's launch, Mattison spoke with us about his line's new home and his future plans.
When he first started looking for spaces in Los Angeles, Melrose Place was a "no-brainer." He's already well-acquainted with the area and named nearby ink.sack a go-to lunch spot that he hits up "at least four times a week." Regarding the store's minimalist look, the self-professed "clothes whore" says that he created the type of store that he himself would want to shop at and wanted to design a space that had a California sensibility within a "David Lynchian world."
Showing no signs of slowing down, Mattison is already working on the next two collections and is looking to high-end department stores for next year's fall line. While the new collections will stay true to Mattison's uniform style, he's playing with silhouettes more and is particularly excited about his upcoming bomber jacket with cashmere ribbing—an alternative to his slim-fitting blazers.
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To say that this chicken dish was a recent hit at our family Shabbat dinner would be an understatement! I have had the recipe for over thirty years, having first discovered it in Victoria Principle's Book, "The Diet Principle". I forgot all about it until recently when I pulled it out to make for a family dinner. It got high marks from everyone.
- 4-6 pieces of chicken, skinned
- 2 tablespoons of unsalted margarine or vegan spread like Earth's Balance
- 1 tablespoon of oil
- 1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground pepper
- 1/3 cup of brandy
- 4 cloves of garlic, pressed
- 2 tablespoons of chopped yellow chilis (optional).
- 2 6-ounce cans of unsweetened frozen orange juice, undiluted
- 1/2 cup of slivered almonds
- 1 orange, sliced
- Wash and dry the chicken and season with the pepper.
- Melt the margarine and the oil in a large skillet over medium heat, and sauté the chicken in it until golden brown on all sides.
- Pour the brandy over the chicken and carefully set it aflame, get your phone camera ready, because this is a great Instagram or Facebook moment!
- When the flames die down, add the garlic and chilis, if using.
- Blend in the undiluted orange juice and simmer for about 25 minutes, turning often to coat the chicken.
- When the chicken is tender, move it to a serving platter and pour the sauce over it.
- Cover with the chopped nuts and garnish with the orange slices.


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Secure Communities program: A flawed deportation tool
When federal officials first announced the Secure Communities program in 2008, they billed it as a powerful tool in the battle to identify and deport illegal immigrants who had been convicted of violent crimes. Dozens of states, including California, signed on, agreeing that police would submit the fingerprints of all arrestees to be checked against federal databases for criminal convictions and deportation orders.
But the program, once billed as a voluntary partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and localities, is now mired in controversy. The government is investigating whether it has failed to nab dangerous criminals and has instead been used to target low-level nonviolent offenders. Since its launch, more than half of those deported under Secure Communities had minor or no criminal convictions, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics. In Los Angeles County, for example, nearly half of the 11,774 deported under the program from August 2009 to January 2011 had no convictions or had committed misdemeanors. They were targeted for deportation because the program doesn't distinguish between criminals and those who illegally entered the U.S. or overstayed a visa — a civil violation.
What's more, in some cities with large immigrant communities, police are concerned that their participation in the program will have a chilling effect on immigrants' willingness to report crimes or provide useful information. They point to cases like that of Isaura Garcia, an immigrant living in Los Angeles, who called 911 in February to report an alleged beating by her partner. Because police often arrest both parties in domestic disputes, her fingerprints were submitted to immigration officials; despite having no criminal record, she was flagged for deportation proceedings because she was in the country illegally. Another case involved a street vendor with no prior criminal record who was was arrested in downtown Los Angeles last month after she ran when police approached her. The woman remains detained, though no charges were filed, and is awaiting deportation for being in the U.S. illegally.
The result is that a growing number of states that were initially drawn to the program are telling the Department of Homeland Security that they want to withdraw or modify their participation. A bill sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) would require that only the fingerprints of convicted felons be submitted to immigration officials. It would also allow any county to opt out of the program. The bill is now before the full Assembly.
If federal immigration officials are unwilling to target the people they said they would target, then Ammiano's proposal will set modest and sensible limits. It would help focus enforcement efforts on felons who commit rape, murder or other violent crimes instead of street vendors and domestic violence victims.
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The Reformulary Group has introduced an early warning system that aims to help plan administrators and employers monitor and prepare for new-high cost drugs.
The system evaluates new high-cost prescription drugs entering the marketplace and forecasts the expected impact of those drugs to insurance carriers, third-party administrators and employers.
Read: Public drug plans' medication spending rose 10% in 2015-16: PMPRB
Helen Stevenson, founder and chief executive officer of the Reformulary Group, said the system will provide employers with the ability to predict what drugs are coming on the market and their potential impact. "It's like having a department of experts at their fingertips through a single platform," she added.
The tool will also address the continual trend of increased drug costs over the years, she said. "Prescription drug costs have increased fourfold in 20 years. Specialty drug spend is expected to double, from $2.6 billion today to $5.2 billion in 2020."
Read: A look at the prevalence of cost-control measures in private drug plans
Insurance carrier Green Shield Canada is already using the new tool to gather information about new drugs that will help shape its strategies, according to a news release.


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Zedge Acquirehires Freeform, Will Launch Marketplace for Artists to Monetize Their Work
Zedge, a smartphone personalization platform, announced plans to roll out a marketplace for artists to monetize their creations later this year. To accelerate development, Zedge has acquired IP assets from. Continue reading
Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" Takes Pandora By Storm plus More New Release Reaction
New releases last Friday included Fergie, Macklemore, Cardi B, The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Dierks Bentley and more. But there was a clear favorite. Cardi B was the #1 artist. Continue reading