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With Emma Johannson and Sungeun Gu recently announced as new signings to ORICA-AIS, the Australian outfit is proud to share its complete line-up for the 2013 season. Alongside Johannson and Gu, Annette Edmondson and Gracie Elvin join returning riders Tiffany Cromwell, Loes Gunnewijk, Shara Gillow, Melissa Hoskins, Jessie MacLean, and Amanda Spratt to comprise the 10-rider squad.
"Before we discuss the new squad, I want to extend sincere thanks and wish all the best in the future to Judith Arndt, Alex Rhodes, Claudia Häusler, Linda Villumsen and Rowena Fry," said Sports Director David McPartland. "Our first season was a dream year from our perspective, and in large part, this was due to the leadership and camaraderie on display by our entire team. Judith, Alex, Linda and Row now move on to things outside of cycling. They do so after having left a lasting impact on our team."
McPartland will look towards Emma Johannson to fill the void in leadership left by the retirement of Arndt and Villumsen.
"We sought out a rider with a lot of experience who could lead some of our younger Australians," noted McPartland. "Straightaway we identified Emma as a natural fit for this role."
Elvin and Edmondson will look to Johansson and their more experienced Australian teammates to guide them during their first professional road season.
"Gracie is an exciting signing," McPartland said. "She came to us through the Australian Institute of Sport [AIS] program. The AIS team is a feeder team for ORICA-AIS. When we started the team from scratch last year, several of the riders we had signed had ridden for the AIS at some point, but Gracie is the first rider we can point to and say she was 100% developed in the AIS program and has now come to us to become a professional."
The 24-year-old rose through the amateur ranks quickly after transitioning from mountain biking to road cycling. She earned a spot in the AIS program last year after showing promise in Europe during the 2010 season.
"Gracie funded a trip to Europe in 2010," explained McPartland. "She went over there by herself and made all the arrangements herself. It showed a lot of character and promise. She was selected as part of the AIS group the following year because of the tenacity and grit she had shown. She proved her worth last season not only in gaining more experience but in garnering solid results."
Elvin finished second at Omloop van Borsele and won the road race and finished second in the individual time trial at the Oceania Cycling Championships last year.
Where Edmondson lacks Elvin's road experience, her accomplishments on the track indicate great promise. Joining ORICA-AIS through the AIS track endurance program, Edmondson's track results, including a bronze medal in the Omnium at the London Olympics, suggest a real strength in sprinting.
"She's certainly an upcoming sprinter with a huge future ahead of her," said McPartland. "She's undeniably talented, and while her obvious strength is in the sprints, I suspect she may develop into more of an all-rounder. A few years ago, I watched her race in the Czech Republic over an undulating to moderately hilly course, and I was surprised at how good she was. She'll be an exciting one to watch develop this year."
McPartland expects Edmondson to follow a similar program to Hoskins. Both riders will balance their track obligations with a road programme.
"Nettie will do what we saw Mel do this year," explained McPartland. "We'll have both girls at the very beginning of the season before they turn their attention to track through Track Worlds. Then, they'll came back to us for the rest of the season."
McPartland's equally excited about the opportunities that await his returning riders. He expects Cromwell and MacLean, in particular, to step up in their second year with the team.
"I'm looking forward to seeing further development in our riders that are coming back for their second year," said McPartland. "I anticipate moving them up the ladder, so to speak, and giving them more responsibility and chances in certain races. Jess MacLean and Tiff Cromwell, especially, will build on their successes from our first year. With Judith, Alex and Linda gone, it will be good to see Spratty, Shara and Loes assume more leadership within the team."
McPartland proudly points to a handful of highlights in what was an undeniably successful maiden season.
"We went to Qatar, a flat race, without a pure sprinter and we won the whole tour with Judith," recalled McPartland. "That was an awesome early show of team strength. We had to ride as a team to secure that victory. It was our first international race, and it was the perfect way to start."
"Tour of Flanders is another highlight," McPartland continued. "It is the most famous one-day race on the women's calendar, and the team fully supported Judith's ambitions. China with Mel was satisfying. The Tour of Chongming was one of her first races with us after coming in from a break after Track Worlds. She won the overall against a world class field and went on to take second in the China World Cup."
The results continued throughout the season, with Cromwell and Arndt supplying important victories.
"Tiff's stage win at the Giro was impressive," noted McPartland. "She worked hard all year for her teammates, and I was so happy that she got a result for herself. I was also thrilled for Judith when she won Thüringen. It was perfect for a German rider to win the overall at a German race in her last season."
Although pleased with the team's silver medal in the team time trial at the Road World Championships, McPartland sees the discipline as one obvious area for improvement in the team's second season.
"We already have strategies in place in the hopes to see improvement in the team time trial next year," said McPartland. "We did a super job this year, but there's room for improvement. We'll be training differently and hoping for an even better outcome than we saw this year."
McPartland expects the team to build on the successful foundation it established during its first season.
"I want to see this team perform in all areas," said McPartland. "We're not a team that will focus exclusively on riding for the overall in a tour or building a sprint train with big lead-outs only for our sprinters. We're a versatile team. We have sprinters who can time trial. We have climbers who can do lead-outs and we have domestiques who know how to take opportunities for themselves. That's what we're all about. I can afford to send our girls to different races all year and count on them to demonstrate that we are team that can perform well in flat races, hilly races and team time trials. We can win stages and overalls and one day events."
"We're a team that offers opportunities to all of our riders," McPartland added. "There's something for everyone we've signed this year."
The ten rider squad may seek one additional rider at the mid-point of the season to compliment the well-rounded squad ORICA-AIS has assembled.
ORICA-AIS 2013 roster:
Tiffany Cromwell
Gracie Elvin
Nettie Edmondson
Shara Gillow
Sungeun Gu
Loes Gunnewijk
Melissa Hoskins
Emma Johansson
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Before the dawn of the Internet, there were few more reliable sources of local information, insider tips and helpful contacts than the dependably well-groomed hotel concierge.
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Unsurprisingly, there are many in the hospitality sector keen to leverage their brand reputation, while broadening their customer reach, with tailor-made mobile apps.
James Jackson is the CEO of Red Square promotions. His company develops concierge apps for hotels and airlines that, he says, can help facilitate almost every service they offer without guests having to interact with a single member of staff.
"You could have an app that allows your customers to find the availability of a specific room, book it, book the flight, arrange a car to pick them up, automatically notify the driver when they have landed and then guide them to their room," he explains. "Once they're in the hotel, they can order room service -- all from their handset."
Jackson says it's even possible to send guests their room key via his company's concierge platform, by generating a unique QR code that they can simply flash in front of a small scanner outside their door.
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Red Square design their apps to blend seamlessly with their client's existing branding, and Jackson says that, although he is obliged by non-disclosure agreements to keep their names private, his company has already developed such apps for a number of global hotel chains.
A middle way
Red Square is distinctive in so far as it designs apps that have the potential to replace the role of a human concierge almost entirely. However, some of the world's most prominent hotel chains -- such as the Ritz-Carlton and Inter-Continental -- have opted instead to create concierge apps driven by the expertise of their employees.
"We approached 200 members of concierge staff and asked them to divulge their best local tips," says Allison Sitch, vice-president of global public relations for U.S.-based luxury hotel Ritz-Carlton.
"Our people are a trusted resource --- whether it be travel info, dining tips, what wines to select and where -- our concierge staff are local connoisseurs ... and that's why we populated our app with their knowledge."
Sitch says that the
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is updated weekly, and integrates with the company's profile on Foursquare -- a location based social networking site for mobile devices.
"Imagine you're standing outside the Brandenburg Gate. You simply 'check-in' to the Ritz-Carlton app, it detects your location and provides you with carefully chosen advice on what to do around it," explains Sitch.
However, Sitch gladly concedes that the app cannot, and should not, replace the highly personal relationship that a good concierge develops with their guests.
"It [the app] is designed to reflect our trusted local insight ... but there's nothing like a concierge to be truly receptive to a guest's needs, to read in between the lines, to give that real human touch," says Sitch.
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Ritz-Carlton and the similar
Inter-Continental concierge apps
are competing in a crowded-market. Last year, Google purchased the "Alfred" concierge app, which learns from each user's particular travel habits to generate tips that increasingly reflect their tastes and interests.
Such technology is sophisticated, useful but still fundamentally impersonal, says Emyr Thomas, CEO of
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"We cater for those that have neither the time nor the inclination to do all the research and admin that goes in to satisfying their travel and lifestyle needs," says Thomas.
Bon Vivant works on a membership basis, with clients paying a monthly fee. For this they are then allocated a dedicated concierge who will attend to every last detail of their leisure time.
"Everything is specific to them," says Thomas. "Once a concierge has been selected for a particular client, it is their job to understand his or her precise needs, the rhythm of their life; their taste."
For Thomas, online services will always struggle to compete at this level of specification: "Any online guide can select the top 10 restaurants in a given area, but we'll find the exact one or two to suit you."
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Key Fact 2 - When planning to cook we need to consider current healthy eating advice, the needs of different people and occasions;
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Key Fact 5 - Buying, storing, preparing and cooking food safely and hygienically are vital for health.
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They meet in storefronts, business offices, large auditoriums, school cafeterias and under the freeway.
They are large - Christian Life Center has a 5,800-seat auditorium - and small - a few people meeting in residential living rooms). They are the churches, mosques, temples and congregations of San Joaquin County.
Following the 2010 census, 312 faith groups were identified countywide with religious adherents totalling 220,000. The county's population hovers around 700,000.
For many, spring brings special observances centered on various faith tenets and cultural events.
Easter, celebrated by Christians, falls on a date that moves every year. The Jewish Passover, which started at sundown Monday, lasts eight days and also moves on the Western calendar.
A look at various celebrations around the county this spring:
Easter: Christianity celebrates Jesus' resurrection Sunday. Greek Orthodox Christianity celebrates the same event according to the Julian, not Gregorian, calendar. For Orthodox followers, Easter is May 5. St. Basil Greek Orthodox Church in Stockton dates its origins to 1929.
Passover: The eight-day Jewish holiday ends Tuesday. It celebrates Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt more than 3,300 years ago. Temple Israel in Stockton was started in 1850, the same year the city was founded. Jason Gwasdoff has been rabbi since 1993.
Buddhism: Wat Dhammararam Temple on Carpenter Road east of Stockton celebrates its annual Cambodian new year's festival April 13-15. The event has deep spiritual overtones. On the first day, a new god or angel is appointed to protect the world for the year ahead.
Sikhism: Stockton's annual Sikh parade will be held April 14. It is tied to Visakhi, a commemoration of the religion's roots dating back to 1699. "It celebrates the most momentous humanitarian day in history," said Bhajan Bhinder, organizer of last year's 100th Sikh Temple anniversary. "It is the day the 10th guru established fraternity, equality, justice, liberty and brotherhood."
Muslim: San Joaquin County is home to a half-dozen mosques and Muslim associations. None of the faith's major holidays will be held this spring. Ramadan, a month of fasting, moves on the Western calendar and begins July 8 this year.
Chinese: In a ceremony with roots 2,500 years old, the Chinese Benevolent Association will hold its annual Spring Ching Ming (qingming) at noon today. The event - to be held at the Chinese Cemetery of Stockton, at Mathews and Manthey roads - honors loved ones and ancestors. It also is known as Tombs Sweeping Day.


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Eric (Director of Special Events), Cathy (Director of Cleaning) and I recently visited a class of sophomores who are studying Africa.
Instead of simply lecturing about the country and its culture, the instructors created an interesting group project.
The project was to design a theme park that could compete with Holiday World & Splashin' Safari as well as reflect the culture and history of Africa. The students were to draw a map of their park to display attractions themed for some of Africa's World Heritage sites.
The students did a fabulous job. We saw so many innovative ideas!
One group had created a monkey ride that carried riders in barrels and another had rides located on a star-shaped island. Several of the parks were actually "built" in the shape of Africa. One park even offered free soft drinks (hmmm…where'd they come up with that idea?).
After speaking with the different groups, we each choose our favorite park.
Cathy, above, loved the comfortable seating options in one group and Eric, below, was all about the park that modeled closest to Holiday World.
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I do actually, just playing devil's advocate. Koeman probably thinks there are enough kids in his squad so even though Kenny probably would have made an impact he doesn't want the balance to be too light on experience. Kenny was probably one too many.
Koeman doesn't rate Kenny. Fourth choice
I feel for Holgate. He plays one bad defensive header against City and Sterling smashes the ball into net, towards the end of an otherwise pristine performance against one of the best attacking sides in the world.Meanwhile, against Split, Martina plays sloppy passes into the winger pressing him, bombs forward when there's no angle for him to receive the ball (leaving the entire right side open behind him), lets his man get goal side of him on what should have been a simple throw-in to defend, wanders into the middle of the box leaving his winger in tons of space on the far side when a cross beats everybody, and somehow comes out unscathed. He's a ticking time bomb defensively.He's certainly quick and he's good at drilling in first time crosses. But defensively, he's all over the place in a way that I find genuinely terrifying. He seems like a good guy and he's done incredibly well to grind his way up to a club at our level but I don't want to see him on the team sheet. We're too good to have a player this bad defensively at right back.For those of you who can handle the defensive madness... you're much stronger than I am.
He has some value as a wing back but every time he starts in a back four, I die a little inside.Watch their goal again. Martina chases the ball to the edge of their defensive third, the defender slips a pass around him, and Bournemouth have an instant advantage going forward. Holgate, Schneiderlin, and Williams did poorly during that sequence but it's a big ask for them to cover all of the space Martina vacated in hopeful pursuit of the ball. If Jonjoe Kenny was that clueless tactically, he wouldn't be picked for the England U20s, let alone Everton.He's Koeman's player but I'm blaming Steve Walsh for this. If he has as much influence over transfers as we're led to believe, he should have said "absolutely not" when Koeman brought him the name. You only have to watch a handful of games to see that this guy can't defend.
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Poor communication and surveillance capabilities have awakened interest in the military in blimps equipped with powerful sensors to conduct surveillance over disputed territory, possibly including the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台) and Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島), reports are saying.
According to a recent report in Defense News, interest in acquiring such devices — known as aerostats — to increase the nation's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities increased in the wake of a Sept. 25 incident near the Diaoyutais, during which Japanese Coast Guard vessels engaged in primarily symbolic water cannon exchanges with the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) and about 40 Taiwanese fishing vessels.
Citing an unnamed military officer, the report said that the CGA and the navy had struggled to monitor developments during the clashes due largely to limited surveillance capabilities.
The military source said aerostats would be extremely useful if deployed at Pengjia Islet (彭佳嶼), located about 55km north of Keelung and 141km east of the Japan-controlled Diaoyutais, as well as on Itu Aba — the largest island in the Spratlys (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島) — which is controlled by Taiwan.
However, the source said such deployments would not necessarily constitute further militarization of the islets, because the blimps can also be used for disaster relief, surveillance of civilian maritime vessels, communication and search-and-rescue operations.
Taiwan's current ISR capabilities in remote areas currently depend on E-2T/K "Hawkeye" early-warning aircraft. Twelve refurbished P-3C "Orion" maritime surveillance aircraft, which Taiwan has purchased from the US, are to augment those capabilities once they enter service starting next year. Taiwan is also developing a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), some of which could have the ability to conduct surveillance at sea, but remains years away from deploying satellites for maritime surveillance.
However, manned aircraft and UAVs have limited loitering time, and the latter have additional payload restrictions due to their size. As near-fixed devices, aerostats or tethered blimps with an ISR component would provide much greater coverage while being more cost-effective and easier to maintain, Defense News said.
According to the article, US-based TCOM, L.P. has recognized Taiwan's interest in aerostats and may be actively promoting its products — more specifically, aerostats in the 17m, 22m and 28m range, which can operate at altitudes of 300m, 900m and 1,500m respectively.
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FORMER chocolate workers and York residents have been urged to check their attics, to see if they have priceless but potentially dangerous film footage.
Nestlé is trying to plug gaps in its archive collections in times for this summer's celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Henry Isaac Rowntree beginning his world-famous chocolate empire, and the firm hopes city residents and former Rowntree's staff can help.
Alex Hutchinson, Nestlé's heritage assistant, has already tracked down hundreds of reels of old film but wants to find remaining lost footage so it can be made available to the public, and also so it can be protected. Some old nitrate film is highly flammable and other films can deteriorate quickly unless properly stored.
She is particularly looking for a collection of time-and-motion films from the 1920s and 1930s, believed to have been taken away from the factory for safekeeping in the 1980s or 1990s, as well as the full-length version of a film made about the Dunollie rest home in 1947, and some advertising footage that was made for release in cinemas.
Miss Hutchinson said: "I know that these films are out there. If we can find them now we may be able to save them for the future and share them with new audiences.
"People don't realise just how quickly film footage and video tape deteriorate when they are stored at room temperature. To preserve them for the future they really need to be in a specialist facility like the Yorkshire Film Archive, which can care for them, and share them with a wider public."
Nestlé has worked closely with the Yorkshire Film Archive in recent years to make much of its old material available online. Recent additions include a film from 1932 that had been thought to be lost until Miss Hutchinson realised it had been mis-filed at the British Film Institute.
A 1958 film about fruit gums and their ingredients was uncovered in an old scaffolding store, and a collection of more than 300 reels of film, some dating back to the 1920s, was uncovered in a wall cavity in Nestlé's head office in Croydon.
Miss Hutchinson said her most surprising find was a reel of unfinished, pre-production rushes of the 1970s Disney film The Aristocats that had been hidden in the wall cavity.
She said anyone with any film of the confectionery industry in York should think about taking it to the Yorkshire Film Archive to be assessed.


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Staffing Support, Robert Half - Portland
Job Summary
As a member of the Staffing Support team you are responsible for carrying out many of the daily, weekly and monthly operational functions for your division. Staffing Support provides the administrative support necessary to ensure the smooth, efficient functioning of each division.
As a member of the staffing support team, you make a positive contribution to your division by:
Complying with RHI Processes.
Accepting and completing assigned support functions with integrity and within the specified time frames.
Effective organization and prioritization of tasks and completion of objectives.
Acknowledgement of divisional needs and initiation of appropriate action to resolve them.
A willingness to work collaboratively with co-workers to accomplish tasks and projects.
Flexibility in addressing multiple agendas.
Your ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment.
RHI recognizes that there are various ways in which Staffing Support responsibilities and duties are managed/distributed in order to accommodate business needs however the following standardized position overviews best describe position levels and included relationship-development responsibilities.
Activities for this position may include some or all of the following, depending on branch size:
Acts as the first point of contact for all incoming telephone calls as well as office visitors. Ensures that candidates fill out the appropriate paperwork and coordinates testing.
Acts as the primary support person for a team of Staffing Professionals and other branch office personnel. This includes taking the candidate calls, scheduling interviews, sending letters acknowledging application/interview, entering candidate information into MicroJ/MicroJ Plus, running MicroJ/MicroJ Plus sales reports, ordering business cards and marketing materials, etc. In some offices, may support the Branch Manager and handle various items such as vendor and property management calls, expense reports, etc.
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Guest editorial: Mental health treatment delays hurt military veterans
If a military veteran went to the hospital with an obvious wound, it's natural to expect that treatment would commence without delay.
But not every war injury is immediately apparent or visible to the untrained eye.
With the wind-down of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of the returning troops are seeking care for mental-health issues stemming from their service experiences.
But the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general says many of those vets aren't being seen as quickly as they should be -- and the VA's flawed tracking system gives a false picture of the problem's magnitude.
Even though the Veterans Health Administration reported in 2011 that 95 percent of veterans received a comprehensive mental exam within 14 days of requesting one (the time frame in agency policy), the actual number was 49 percent, the inspector general reported Monday. It took an average of 50 days to provide a full evaluation for the rest, the report said.
"VHA does not have a reliable and accurate method of determining whether they are providing patients timely access to mental health care services," the inspector general said.
Part of the problem is with the way records are kept: Schedulers don't always follow the rules, and the lag between referral by a primary care physician and the evaluation might not be reflected properly.
Part of the problem is a shortage of personnel, particularly psychiatrists. Officials knew the data-keeping was problematic; the inspector general pointed it out in reports in 2005 and 2007.
They also knew of the growing staffing needs and, in fact, increased personnel 46 percent from 2005 to 2010, the report said. But in an informal survey of VA mental-health professionals, requested by Congress, 71 percent of those responding said their centers didn't have enough people to keep up. A veteran seeking treatment at the VA medical center in Salisbury, N.C., for instance, had to wait 86 days to see a psychiatrist, the IG said.
"Getting our veterans timely mental health care can quite frankly often be the difference between life and death," said Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington state Democrat who heads the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. "It's the critical period, not unlike the 'golden hour' immediately after a traumatic physical injury."
Indeed, the report cited studies in nonmilitary settings showing that delays in initially screening for mental-health needs tend to discourage patients from keeping appointments and following through with treatment.
The Veterans' Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing for this morning titled "VA Mental Health Care: Evaluating Access and Assessing Care."
Murray said the report "shows that the VA is failing many of those who have been brave enough to seek care. It is hard enough to get veterans into the VA system to receive mental-health care. Once a veteran takes the step to reach out for help, we need to knock down every potential barrier to care."
Last week, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said the department will add 1,600 mental-health clinicians, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, plus 300 support workers. The Texas network of facilities will receive 140 new mental-health positions, a spokeswoman said, but it's not certain how many will go to the Fort Worth Outpatient Clinic or the Dallas VA Medical Center.
Last year alone, the VA provided mental-health services to 1.3 million veterans, the agency said.
Of the 111,000 veterans served in Dallas, 25 percent receive mental-health care; of the 29,000 vets treated at the Fort Worth clinic, about 30 percent receive mental-health services. A spokeswoman said Tuesday that patients at the North Texas facilities get initial mental-health assessments and emergency services the day they seek them, though there might be a wait to start specific programs. The hospitals are working to improve their services and wait-time tracking, local officials said.
"History shows that the costs of war will continue to grow for a decade or more after the operational missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended," Shinseki said.
It's an obligation the American public has to those who've served, and it must be fulfilled as diligently as they served us.
— Ft. Worth Star Telegram, April 24, 2012


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Maine promotes fetal alcohol disorder awareness
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Maine is raising awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder by urging women to avoid all alcohol while pregnant.
Monday is National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day.
Maine's Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services says fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is 100 percent preventable. The office says there is no safe time, amount or type of alcohol during pregnancy.
The office says that more than 9 percent of pregnant women ages 15 to 44 in Maine reported that they were drinking alcohol. More than 2 1/2 percent of those reported binge drinking or having four or more drinks in a row.
Every year, more than 40,000 children throughout the country are born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.


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What you need to know before you go
Torquay's coastline is affectionately named the English Riviera and, while it rarely matches its French counterpart in terms of the weather, the mild sunny climes, swaying harbourside palms and promenades have attracted visitors since the golden era of seaside holidays over a century ago.
Today, there's a smarter side to this famous party destination. Its proximity to the sea and fishing boats have prompted several top seafood restaurants to open along the waterfront, while there's also a thriving sailing community with international regattas held around the nearby bays annually. Alternatively, you can dive into Torquay's natural history at the Living Coasts Marine Zoo & Aquarium.


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Yoga Teacher Training Certification Courses in Bali
Bali Yoga Retreats in Ubud
Welcome to Blooming Lotus Yoga which offers students the opportunity to experience one of the most unique, affordable and intimate Bali yoga teacher training courses, yoga retreats and meditation retreats Ubud has to offer. Listen to the sweet sounding birds, the trickling waters of the holy river below, and be absorbed in the breath-taking views of our jungle location- as life at our Bali yoga retreat center transforms your life. With gifted and highly skilled Yoga teachers teaching from their hearts and the tradition of Yoga, we will guide you on a journey back home. Take this precious time out of your life and immerse yourself into the magic and mystery of Yoga. Come join us in the "Island of the Gods"- the incredible paradise of Bali, and fill yourself with Bliss…
Drawing upon countless lifetimes of yogic insight our teachers are the embodiment of the unconditional love, compassion and wisdom that is the natural outcome of deep and intense practice. Bridging the gap between the authentic and spiritually focused practice of classical yoga with the needs of the modern world, Lily Goncalves and Ramananda Mayi, the founders of the Blooming Lotus Yoga schools of Thailand and Bali, facilitate our Bali yoga teacher training programs, Ubud yoga retreats and silent meditation courses. Spending many months each year in deep retreat, Lily and Ramananda emerge out each year to share their profound insight into the authentic practice of yoga and empower students with the skillful methods necessary to share this timeless wisdom with the world.
The 'crème de la crème' of offerings. While keeping costs affordable, numbers intimate, and never sacrificing on the highest standards of teachers and the teachings, we offer you a Bali yoga retreat experience in a slice of HEAVEN. We are situated in a stunningly beautiful and peaceful tropical jungle, nested above a sacred holy river, and receiving the divine vibrations of a powerful Balinese Temple directly across our way. This is truly a blessing from the "Island of the Gods". Our Bali meditation and yoga retreat accommodations include a private plunge pool, kitchen and living room for every shared living suite, and a large fresh water outdoor pool welcomes us to play and rejuvenate. Our Yoga Shala is built with intention and love, and the vegetarian cuisine is utterly divine. This is luxury living for well-deserved Yogis! Join us for this unforgettable experience into the heart of yoga and experience a Bali spiritual retreat like no other.
The Blooming Lotus Charitable Fund is an outpouring of pure love and compassion. To help provide relief to some of the most impoverished individuals and communities in the world, large portions of the proceeds of our yoga retreats in Bali go directly to support charitable organizations in India. Focused upon providing the bare necessities of life like food, clean water, housing and medical care, we also foster long term sustainable goals by supporting schools and empowering young women with the gift of education. Our charitable efforts aim towards not only providing material well-being to rural communities but also nourishing their spiritual connection though the timeless wisdom of the vedic tradition. By also helping preserve their sacred traditions, humanity as a whole benefits and the living wisdom of their yogic culture is allowed to continue to future generations.
The circle of giving never ends, and when you join our courses and Bali yoga retreats you are directly contributing to help relieve the outer and inner suffering of countless living beings. We invite you into this magical journey of pure giving and allowing the natural expression of "living your yoga" to unfold…


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Remember Eli Porter? You probably wouldn't by name. But he's the kid who went viral in the "Iron Mic" freestyle competition with the famous "I'm the best man. I did it." line. And for some reason filmmakers Trent Babbington and Walker Warren decided to make a documentary about that moment—and I'm glad they did.
"People's Champion: Behind the Battle" tells not just Eli's story, but the story of an entire scene of high school kids in Chamblee, Georgia in 2003. It shouldn't work—it was just a silly little rap battle shot by a film class—but the film takes the moment apart, exploring every moment of a four-and-a-half video to show everyone from the teachers, the students behind the camera, and the kids freestyling as the normal, good-natured people they are.
People's Champion: Behind the Battle [Vimeo | Facebook]


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Deal 'eases burden on everybody'
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin shake hands after yesterday's press conference on the bank debt deal. photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times
The deal on bank debt secured by the Government yesterday "eases the burden on everybody", Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has said.
The agreement, which will reduce the country's borrowing needs by €20 billion in the coming decade and ease budget pressures over the next two years was unveiled by Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dáil yesterday.
Mr Noonan said today there was now no promissory note that meant a payment of €3.1 billion to be repaid "this March, next March or any March".
"There will be no capital to be repaid until the bonds mature - no capital repayments whatsoever until 2038." The last capital repayments would be in 2053.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Pat Kenny programme, Mr Noonan said what usuallyed happened with such sovereign debt was that when it came up to the point of repayment "you roll it over, you refinance it. Most sovereign debt never gets repaid but it runs down in value".
Questioned on Ireland's €9,000 per capita figure owed in relation to banking debt compared to the €125 average in other EU countries, Mr Noonan said the figures were "interesting statistics". But he said every country had debt. The US had "enormous" debt and a "frightening" level per capita.
"But that's not the way the world works."
Referring to a listener's correspondence, he said children today would not have to worry about promissory notes or debt if the Government could "get this right". "It's improving every month and we will continue driving at it."
There was sustained applause from Fine Gael and Labour TDs for the Taoiseach when he sat down after outlining the agreement with the European Central Bank (ECB) to the chamber.
The announcement of the deal came after 24 hours of political drama which saw emergency legislation to liquidate the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), formerly Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, being rushed through the Oireachtas early yesterday morning.
The Cabinet met at 2pm yesterday to approve the complex deal agreed earlier with the European Central Bank after months of negotiations.
Mr Kenny came into the Dáil immediately afterwards to announce that, under an agreement with the ECB, the controversial promissory notes were being exchanged for long-term Irish government bonds with maturities of up to 40 years.
"The remnants of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide, stains on our international reputations and dents to our national pride, have now been removed from the financial and political landscape. Their closure bookends a tragic chapter in our country's history," he said.
Good day for Ireland
Arriving in Brussels later last night for a meeting of EU leaders, Mr Kenny said it was a "good day for Ireland".
The Taoiseach said he planned to "explain to leaders when it is appropriate" the nature of the agreement and the arrangement arrived at for Ireland, which he was was "very much in the Irish people's interests".
He said the promissory note deal was "recognition of where there clearly is evidence of a government and a people working together in taking on challenging positions, that that challenge can be rewarded by co-operation and assistance from our European partners".
Other restructuring regarding legacy bank debt was "a different argument for a different day".
He added: "That's an argument that won't be decided on finally for some time."
Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan said the plan to liquidate IBRC was considered "from a long way back".
After the deal was announced yesterday, the yield on Irish benchmark 2020 bonds fell as low as 3.955 per cent, the lowest seen in an equivalent Irish benchmark bond since early 2007, before the subprime crisis started, according to Reuters data.
Last payment in 2053
In the Dáil Mr Kenny said the first payment of principal under the new deal will not now be made until 2038 and the last payment will be made in 2053. The average maturity of the Government bonds will be over 34 years as opposed to the seven to eight year average maturity on the promissory notes.
"In effect, we have replaced a short-term, high interest rate overdraft that had to be paid down quickly through more expensive borrowings, with long-term, cheap, interest-only loans," said Mr Kenny.
He said that as a result of the deal there would be a €20 billion reduction in the National Treasury Management Agency's market borrowing requirements in the next decade with a very large reduction in the debt servicing costs of the State over the next generation.
The Taoiseach said the agreement would bring the country €1 billion closer to attaining our 3 per cent deficit target by 2015. "This means that the expenditure reductions and tax increases will be of the order of €1 billion less to meet the 3 per cent deficit target," he said.
However, the Taoiseach added that the deal did not represent a silver bullet to end all the country's economic problems.
Giving a guarded welcome Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said Ireland deserved a fair deal but the question was whether this deal had gone far enough and whether it would affect people in terms of their taxes and services.
Horrendously damaging
At a symposium in Frankfurt to honour his deputy governor, Stefan Gerlach, Mr Honohan yesterday described the Anglo Irish Bank episode as "horrendously damaging" for Ireland.
He said he had "quite a lot of sympathy" for people involved in the 2008 bank guarantee. "Some should have been better informed, some should have had better advice, some shouldn't have jumped to conclusions, some shouldn't have been so arrogant and over-confident."
He reminded his audience that Ireland was a triple-A market darling and its banking problems were initially dismissed as natural aftershocks from Wall Street turbulence. The Irish government decided to "guarantee everything, with no shilly-shallying around".
"Did the ECB recommend that? I am sure they didn't, though nobody knows," said Mr Honohan, who joined the Central Bank and ECB governing council a year after the guarantee. In hindsight, he said it would have been "best practice to have given a limited guarantee. If they'd known Anglo Irish would be so bad they should have been closed there and then with losses to depositors."


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So i'm 16 now and im starting to notice more and more that my mother and two older sisters are teaching my two 4-year-old twin foster brothers about god and jesus and other shit... I dont know what to do. i cant tell them that god isnt real because they dont even understand and i dont want them to go around flaunting things that i say because i dont want to have a religious civil war in the family... they say stuff like kid prayers and that "sunday is a religious day for rest"
This is some messed up shit. what do i do?
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There's not a lot you can do. I think most foster kids end up in religious homes, and it may even be some sort of requirement or at least smiled upon. I don't know how all that works (you prob know more than me), but they'll probably hear that stuff no matter where they're sent. They're too young to make sense of your arguments against the existence of God. Have you ever tried to argue with a four year old about something they've got their mind set on, like whether there are actually any other numbers than 10. You'll just confuse the poor things, and then put them in the middle of the "civil war" you want to avoid. Because they'll repeat you, and then your mom/sisters will try to correct them... and it'll just be a mess.
I feel sad my niece is going to be indoctrinated, too. I just know that, if they ever let me have her for a weekend, it's best not to try to talk to her about religion... not if I ever want to keep her again. This may be a different situation for you, but all I personally think you should do is try not to worry about it. Will they be staying with your family long? Forever? If not forever, then I doubt your family will have a lasting impression anyway. If they do stay, then you'll have plenty of time to put "doubt seeds" in their brain when they start thinking about more profound things than boogers.
I just dont want to wait too long. and what i mean is: (long story very short) Me and my 2 friends were in the city and he gps'd where to find a printing shop and it was real close and they thought that it was the works of god. that god did everything and made everything happen for a reason.. all because the fed ex shop was near where we needed to go. they also tried to say "how do you not believe in god after this?" I was seriously just wtf'ing the whole time. it was ridiculous how they connected such things.
like after they reach a certain point where they are so 'right brained' (maybe its left, whatever side that is 'stubborn') that my opinion wont even matter to them. like right now at 16 my religious point of view or non point of view cant be changed. its not possible.
The story is about my friends not my parents. both 16 and they have their minds set.
and by left brained i mean they are set on that idea. and it is like saying that they are not open minded. or atleast thats what some believe
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i watched the whole thing its interesting if you like science stuff.
I know the feeling a bit, my mother has a day care for children (she's a day care parent, I don't know the equivalent english name) and she tries to get them in the praying habit as well (pretty benign actually; folding hands, singing a Christian bedtime song). Those kids are from Christian households anyway, so there is not much lost :)
As for your brothers, be the one to dispel Santa for them (at an appropriate age), once they find out you told the truth about that, they might be more inclined to believe your skepticism about God as well.
Honestly, I think you need to focus on your mother and two older sisters. How do they regard your atheism? Can you speak about it openly with them? If not, then that is the dialog you need to open first. For the rest of my answer, I opt to share a video that I feel is relevant.
Keep true to your convictions . Your family is only trying to do" the right thing" so be kind and understanding and just be you! Time spent with you will pay off eventually in a very big way, I promise!


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The explosion in popularity of YouTube and other similar video channels has crossed over with a similar impact in the corporate world. For a company like Accenture, the recording and viewing of video has become a widely expected way of communicating by all levels of employees.
With a global workforce of approximately 425,000 people, however, the increase in storage requirements presented its challenges. Accenture's in-house solutions were reaching their limits. They were neither scalable nor cost-effective enough to meet the storage, management and maintenance demands of a fast-growing video repository. And, employees wanted to be able to watch video outside the office, on the go and on their mobile devices. Accenture had reached the point where it needed a new solution.
Accenture made the strategic decision to not rebuild the Accenture Media Exchange, its existing internal video repository. Accenture also did not want to invest in in-house resources to maintain video streaming applications in the fast-changing mobile device environment. Instead, it analyzed third-party solutions, focusing on those vendors that offered enterprise capability and that could operate as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via the cloud.
Accenture selected the video platform of a leading vendor that offered a software solution that would enable video to stream across any device as an out-of-the-box feature. The vendor solution offered video-creation tools, enterprise-grade scalability and competitive pricing. The cost of hosting was lower than if hosted in Accenture's own data center.
Over six months Accenture's internal IT organization managed the transition from an in-house solution to a hosted one.
Established necessary access controls and reporting
Enabled integration with common enterprise software products
Used the vendor's transcoding, hosting and streaming capabilities, but with Accenture's own front end
A new central channel to promote video and audio content
Accenture-developed Media Exchange mobile app released
Media Exchange interface refreshed using an out-of-the box solution
Implemented several robust features:
Automated video captioning
Recording through a media creation capability that captures webcam, audio, screen and presentations in parallel
A "chapters" feature that helps viewers navigate video content more easily
Ability to create "personal" channels, a self-provisioned option that provides the opportunity to define the way an individual wants to organize, manage, publish and share video content
A hosted video solution allows Accenture and its employees to unleash innovative ways of communicating and learning. Accenture people can inexpensively produce videos without professional production costs and quickly view them on-demand—making it easier to share information, provide project updates and train others. Today, the Media Exchange is an engaging way to consume content, and is now one of Accenture's most popular communication channels.
Additionally, total cost of ownership has been reduced by moving entirely to a cloud-based, SaaS solution. The hosted SaaS model not only lowers costs long term, but also allows Accenture to receive product updates in a more controlled, scheduled manner.


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Both Infinity and JBL have just dropped two wireless subwoofers. The subs function utilizing a 2.4GHz transmitter/receiver setup and there are four selectable channels to allow you to pick the best possible reception.
JBL's offering, the Cinema Sound CSS10W, has a 10" driver and will kick out 300watts. Infinity's slightly beefier, PS212W, houses a 12" driver that will boom out with 400watts. They will be priced at $559 and $679, respectively. The devices are for those who just cannot deal with all that wired nonsense that spews out from your speakers, making your sweet setup look like a three-year-olds art project, but given the likely compromise in sound quality, we aren't so sure it's worth it. [Technabob]


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The sky is the limit for students in Hungary
18 December 2009
To celebrate IYA2009, Hungary's Konkoly Observatory offered a opportunity to young enthusiasts of the starry sky. High-school students were invited to apply for one hour of telescope time to record their favourite celestial object with the 60/90/180cm Schmidt telescope and CCD camera located in Piszkesteto Mountain Station. This is one of Hungary's largest telescopes.
The best images were widely disseminated on the internet and popular science magazines. The goals were to:
- widen mathematical, physical and astronomical literacy;
- attract young talents to natural sciences and technology;
- allow students to use real astronomical instruments;
- teach the basics of image processing and astronomical data evaluation;
- repeat the "Galileo-experience'" but this time using modern astronomical instrumentation.
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