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How did the remote French outpost of St Pierre and Miquelon vote?
Last March, just weeks before announcing her candidacy for the 2017 French presidential election, far-right politician Marine Le Pen set foot onto a craggy, frostbitten island 10 miles off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador. How did Le Pen's ideas resonate on the islands so far from the French mainland?
This was no foreign visit. The island of St Pierre, together with its larger but less populated neighbour Miquelon, is a remote outpost of France. It is the last French soil left in North America, and the oldest remaining French overseas territory in the world.
Few French people visit, or have even really heard of St Pierre and Miquelon, and that was exactly the point that Marine Le Pen, then leader of the Front National party, was trying to make when she arrived. Under her leadership, she argued, the people of St Pierre and Miquelon would be forgotten no more.
In the year since, the presidential election has been one of the most surprising in France's modern history, with far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and mainstream-right candidate François Fillon being eliminated in the first round of voting. French citizens were left to decide between Le Pen and a heretofore unelected 39-year-old banker, Emmanuel Macron.
Le Pen may have lost the vote for president, but her message resonated in St Pierre. Macron, on the other hand, has demonstrated little familiarity with life in this particular corner of France.
"I will never vote for Macron," said Johann, a French fisherman and captain of the small scalloping vessel Emeline.
As the Emeline zips through the Bay of Fortune en route to the St Pierre harbour, a couple of dolphins race by on the port side.
"We need something new," he adds. "She - Le Pen - is not new either, but at least she is different, you know. Macron is the same."
Johann was born and raised in St Pierre.
Although he and his fellow islanders number just 6,000, their votes held a special significance in French elections. St Pierre and Miquelon is the easternmost of France's western territories (the others being in the Caribbean and South America), which voted a day ahead of mainland France. Consequently, the very first votes to be cast in any French national election are those from St Pierre.
In mainland France, the rise of Marine Le Pen and the far right generally spurred increasing concern around immigration and terrorism, along with dissatisfaction with the European Union.
For Johann and his fellow fishermen, these concerns are quite literally a world away.
They gauge politics by hunches and intuitions, and in that frame of mind, president-elect Emmanuel Macron seems like an elitist, someone who would be out of place on a scalloping vessel in the high Atlantic.
Saint-Pierre was founded as a fishing territory, but today fishing comprises only 3% of the economy. While the local government has made a huge effort to boost tourism, the high cost of getting to the islands means that they receive only 10,000 visitors a year. The bulk of economic activity comes from public spending and administrative work. In this context, it is easy to see why, among the fishing community at least, a change from the establishment would be most welcome.
On Thursday evening before the election, one of the bars in the island was packed with young people. In typical French fashion, the life of the party was in the smoking section - and there were plenty of opinions on the election.
One vocal group of friends in their late teens and early twenties had just ordered a round of shots.
They were a diverse bunch, including two young women from France proper and one from Corsica. The women are all living in St Pierre because their parents have been sent there for work. The young men are all natives of the island, though with their black skinny jeans and fashionable haircuts, anyone of them could have been transported from a Parisian street corner.
All but one supported far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round. It seems he won the youth of Saint-Pierre over with his leftward pivots and his use of YouTube and social media. Once Mélenchon was out, the young voters declined to choose.
Many young people in the bar had decided to cast a vote blanc, a blank ballot. The other half begrudgingly said they would vote for Macron.
The sense of disenchantment seemed to teeter between animated frustration and blasé resignation.
In the first round of voting, St Pierre and Miquelon strongly supported Mélenchon, with 35.45% of the vote.
But in St Pierre and Miquelon, Le Pen and Macron were neck-and-neck for second and third place, receiving 18.16% and 17.97%, respectively. In an island community with just under 5,000 eligible voters, the difference between 18.16% and 17.97% was a mere five votes.
Alex Bry and Pierre Fouchard are cousins and best friends, but they are on the opposite ends of the political spectrum.
They are both 19, and first-time voters. Fouchard was the only one of his friends who said he would vote Le Pen, a decision he made because of what he sees as a kind of unfairness that permeates French society.
Bry argues frequently with Fouchard about politics, but they never allow it to reach the point of animosity.
Bry saw Macron as France's last chance to maintain its commitment to the environment and human rights. But in spite of his strong progressive bent he had a hard time deciding whether or not he would actually vote for Macron. For him, the vote blanc remained an option until the last minute. He said he voted for Macron "unwillingly".
Fouchard, on the other hand, voted for Le Pen despite expecting her to lose.
Around 1:00am, as bar staff made their way around the tables to prepare to close, Bry and Fouchard ordered a final round of cocktails. They decided to finish the night with a boisterous rendition of a Newfoundland drinking song - two smartly dressed boys who speak European French singing in English about fighting Quebeckers for the territorial integrity of Labrador.
A woman nearby leaned over and whispered: "A lot of people here feel Canadian on the inside, even just a little."
The polls opened on Saturday at the St Pierre town hall at 8:00 am.
A rooster in the garden of one of the neighbouring houses crowed at precisely the moment town hall officials unlocked the doors.
It was a polite and pleasant atmosphere, with none of the bitter disillusionment seen in the bar on Thursday night. The first person to vote in St Pierre was an elderly gentleman named Gérard Dagort.
In the end, Macron's victory was decisive, but voter turnout was the lowest in nearly 50 years and votes blancs were at a record high.
When St Pierre's own numbers were released, they closely mirrored the overall French result, with 63.88% for Macron to 36.12% for Le Pen.
It seems, then, that Marine Le Pen may have misjudged the impact of St Pierre and Miquelon's distance from France in her visit last year.
Sure, there are hockey jerseys and pickup trucks on the island and anything from France has to come on a cargo ship from Canada. But when it comes to politics at least, the people of St Pierre and Miquelon are as close to France as ever.


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The Grandmother Tree
This maple was my favorite tree friend. The tree had been dead a long time and went down during a strong summer storm in 2002.
Buffy and I went for a hike to walk off the holiday overeating. We walked down to the creek on my rural property, which included walking by the Grandmother Tree.
The tree didn't exactly look dead with all the moss, lichens and mushrooms growing on it. Recent rains rehydrated the brown jelly fungi (Exidia recisa).
Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) grew in clumps on the slowly decaying tree.
I didn't think to check the underside for pores of this and the the mushroom below. False turkey tail mushrooms (Trametes versicolor) are smooth underneath.
I think they both are false turkey tail mushrooms.
Turkey tail mushrooms have pores underneath.
Puffballs grew in clumps.
I wasn't able to identify these tiny mushrooms.
I have no idea what this is. "Black crust" came to mind. It does describe it, but it doesn't resemble what I found when searching online for possible "black crust."
Small globules of witches' butter (Temella mesenterica) grew in one area along the side of the tree.
Names aren't always needed for my enjoyment. I often (like now) find it quite frustrating to search for and not find names.
Besides, none of the above know what they are either.


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The often-quoted economist Keynes famously said, "When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do?" I'd begun my column, then realised the continuing drought had changed things. And, I found a 2008 photographic publication from Canberra's Old Parliament House called "Beyond Reasonable Drought".
This current apparently endless, grinding drought matters, and it's the people, the animals and the hopes being tested beyond the limits in so many places. Now is not the time to be apportioning blame or radically reorganising. Some of us will change our minds about management for the future, but that's for then, not now.
People are tested in all sorts of ways. Four years ago, the Yazidi people suffered a genocidal massacre at the hands of Isis and thousands were trapped on a barren mountain with no food or water. Thousands killed and thousands fled. Armidale has welcomed 24 Yazidi families, and on August 3 they organised a commemorative ceremony, inviting the community to be with them. At the City Church Hall they folded us into a shared understanding of terrible events. Then, through translators, said how much they wanted to become part of our community, contributing to the region. Their lives changed in unimaginable ways and now they look to a different future. The excited smiles of their children can give us hope. Modern Australia is built on migrants and refugees, following the early settlers, and above all, on the First Nations here.
The future is with us – coming ready or not. Some of the horror stories involving smart devices are simply creepy – a hospital dishwasher garnering patient details, a toothbrush wanting to know your exact whereabouts, a vacuum cleaner wanting to record on your mobile phone … gosh! School children will hopefully learn to deal with these things. I hope they'll also learn a wider understanding e.g. what if the power grid fails, or is hacked and turned off? Life can function in multiple ways. Thoughtful, questioning, flexible citizens are what we hope our educational system produces.
State Government has picked us to trial a
fully-automated driverless shuttle vehicle, operating firstly at UNE this year, then in town. This one doesn't fly. Yet? Lots of practical questions, but we'll accommodate and move on if the vehicles prove themselves.
One of the big questions for us is how rural media will find its future place. I'm proud of the range and purpose of Focus, but we also need mediated regional information, plus ensuring the Bush takes the battle to communicate with the cities right up to them. Cities need our food, fibre and population spread. We definitely need new, better strategies to promote ourselves.
Congratulations Guyra's James Jackson, elected president of NSW Farmers at its annual conference. May he fight the good fight. A UNE appointment catching my eye was Professor
David Lamb's as Chief Scientist of the Food Agility CRC. An interesting concept.
Now: the curious range of Armidale's café zoo culture. Paper Tiger and The Fat Hare have joined Fat Goose Crossing and 2 Goats and a Baa. Best wishes to them all. Who knows where the next culinary animal will graze? Plus, good to see where Courtneys traded for so long now with mother and daughter team, Anne and Belle, opening their "eclectic" store mixing old, new and local.
Got to the fundraiser for the ACCKP sponsorship of Bevan Quinlin's Rotary Study Exchange to Denmark. Say "hullo" to Princess Mary for us, Bevan!
Glad to have been here for NERAM's opening of Myf Gullifer's clever, fun, naughty sculptures. Catch them if you can! Sadly, there are lists of events I've missed because of others … I particularly regret ADMS's Heathers, as well as the wonderful International Film Festival at the Belgrave. It's truly impossible to see everything.
I got to the Business Chamber Awards night though! Promoting positive, switched-on approaches to business conditions, this year's Awards were notable for the predominance of young people. Business of the Year was Meralli Solar.
Armidale's Sustainable House tour is September 8/9, with a range of offerings. Guyra's Passion on the Platform Degustation (plus Train!) is September 15.
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I just read a great article by Pema Chodron in Tricycle magazine (Fall 2012) entitled, The Fundamental Ambiguity of Being Human. I just love when something I am currently working on in my own life just happens to appear in an article I am reading. The subtitle of the article is: How to live beautifully with uncertainty and change.
Last week I came down with a nasty case of laryngitis. It set in quick. One minute I was watching two little kids for some friends of mine, running around in the front yard, laughing and making sure the one year old wasn't eating sticks and the next minute I had a terrible headache, a hoarse voice and sore throat. From there it got worse and I wound up with no voice above a whisper, an awful sore throat, fever, and no appetite. And I wound up having to cancel a bunch of plans last week that I really didn't want to. And it was OK! I've been working on embracing the impermanent nature of life which, with my ever changing health and pain levels due to my nerve disease and newly diagnosed case of endometriosis, I get a lot of opportunity to practice. When I cling to my ideas about what should be going on, how I should be feeling, who should be doing what I create a reason to suffer when things don't go a certain way. When I can make friends with one of the only true facts of life: that everything changes, the suffering element is removed. Sure there may still be pain there but it's important to note the difference between pain and suffering. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Pain is a normal response and suffering is the story we then attach to it.
For example, I get sick with laryngitis and have a sore throat and fever: pain. I tell myself, "oh my gosh, I feel so terrible, I can't believe I got sick, this is such bad timing, this always happens to me, I have so much to do, I can't be sick!": suffering. It is a deepening lesson in liberation being able to understand the difference. So when I got sick it was OK because I've been practicing to make friends with change. I really didn't like having to cancel plans on people but I was able to let go of the unnecessary attachments that create suffering.
Chodron says in her article, "The Buddha called impermanence one of the three distinguishing marks of our existence, an incontrovertible fact of life. But it's something we seem to resist pretty strongly. We think that if we only did this or didn't do that, somehow we could achieve a secure, dependable, controllable life. How disappointed we are when things don't work out quite the way we planned." (By the way, in case you're wondering like I was, the other two distinguishing marks are suffering and non-self). Later, she writes, "In My Stroke of Insight, the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's book about her recovery from a massive stroke, she explains the physiological mechanism around behind emotion: an emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just 90 seconds from the moment its triggered until it runs its course, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it."
90 seconds! I don't know about you, but that astounded the heck out of me. How telling of my self-constructed paradigm that I can sometimes stretch those 90 seconds into hours, days, weeks and sometimes even years of suffering.
Change is all around and within us in every moment from our tiny cells dying and new ones arising to our plans getting rearranged, from our children suddenly growing taller than we are (see the above picture of my step-son Jaden with his friend Cadence on a recent hike in the Bitterroot) to getting the flu. Things change. People change. The weather changes. Emotions change. We change. It's inevitable. It's life. And it makes transformation possible.


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Four Weddings and a Hotel is the same place where were taken the movie of Four Weddings and a Funeral 20 years ago and became famous because of this film.
After two decades, Four Weddings and a Hotel (located 50 minutes from London, in Buckinghamshire) have undergone a complete transformation, performed by designer Ilse Crawford, who focused on interior decoration vintage, elegant and relaxing. However, room 101, the one where they filmed some of the action film remained unchanged. In this still reigns canopy bed, bath and very simple decor.
The decor at the Four Weddings and a Hotel
Spacious bedrooms, very well lit, vaulted ceilings, exposed beams and impressive bathroom showers are just some of the features of rooms at the Four Weddings and a Hotel.
The fabrics are hand-sewn, simple, elegant and inviting.
All 37 rooms are really charming inn and are memorable because of furniture and creaky stairs at every step.
What you can eat in Four Weddings and a Hotel
Inn restaurant is very popular, not only for tourists who come and are accommodated here, but for locals.
Jovial atmosphere and menu that is in a constant change are just two of the factors that make the restaurant always be full. Here you can get a true culinary delight, with fish fried in red wine sauce, artichoke and truffle soup, pasta with cauliflower, smoked cheese with beets and pickles, and an impressive variety of wines.
Here you can drink draft beer, and in general the prices are quite affordable.
In addition, simple layout of the restaurant makes any food you will be brought to look infinitely better.
If you want to eat breakfast here, it is guaranteed that you will return just for the morning meal. You will enjoy a plate of smoked salmon, ham buttery and fresh pastries.
What can you visit in the surroundings?
Around the inn you can find many antique shops, cafes and boutiques. Here you can leave pampered at a beauty salon where you can enjoy spa treatments at reduced price by 15% if you're staying at the inn.
Address Khan (from the city can be reached by car or train) 30 High Street, Old Amersham HP7 0DJ, Buckinghamshire (50 minutes of London).


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Forget All This
Canadian, Chilean, and American composers from Columbia University collaborate with emerging talents on the New York choreographic scene to create original works for music and dance. Each piece investigates a different approach to the creative process, exploring improvisation, composition, electronics, and lighting. An interactive talk-back session will follow the show moderated by composer Zosha Di Castri, Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University.
After months of study and experimentation, the artists heed Jonathan Burrows concluding advice in A Choreographer's Handbook:
"When you've forgotten these ideas they will have become yours and be ready to use. The idea you need will spring out of nowhere when you need it. Forget all this."
List of Collaborators:
Composers: Mary Kouyoumdjian, Vicente Hansen Atria, Louis Goldford, Matthew Ricketts
Choreographers & Dancers: Jordan Morley, Anna Reyes, Hannah Wendel, Audrey Rachelle, Alex Jenkins, Brendan Drake
Musicians: Laura Cocks, Ryan Muncy (ICE), Nadav Lev
Photo credit: Kensaku Shinohara


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Some jobs require extensive work experience and impressive educational background. But do you know there are available jobs on the internet that are beginner-friendly? It doesn't mean that if you don't have work experience, you cannot perform a certain task flawlessly. Some people have natural abilities or skills to prove themselves that they are capable of doing the projects as a well-experienced employee does.
Who knows, you are more skillful than those who already spent their years working remotely. So, you don't have to feel insecure if you can't prove anything yet. Maybe you just need a little push to nurture the hidden talent you keep for many years.
These kinds of jobs may not consider your employment background, but employers will mostly value your skills. These are best for fresh graduates or even for those who want to explore how is it like to work in the online industry. Always put in mind that all online workers started as a beginner. Now, you don't have to worry if you have lack of experience because there are a variety of options for you!
As long as you can follow the grammatical rules and deliver high-quality content, writing will give you an opportunity to showcase what you've got. If you have broad ideas about different things all around, you can put them into writing and make money out of your skill.
Data Entry
A data entry specialist must be a fast typist. It is the skill most employers consider without looking at your work history. As long as you can complete the tasks assigned to you in no time, you can prove that you can be better in this field.
Customer Service
If you have strong analytical skills and can communicate effectively, customer service can give you a chance to enter the online industry. In this type of job, your attitude and skills matter. It's as simple as talking on the phone while answering a customer's inquiry. You may also need to resolve the issue onset of call that is why a robust analytical skill is essential.
Virtual Assistant
The duties and responsibilities of a virtual assistant may depend on the employer or the company's industry. Here, you must have broader skills like creating reports, organize a client's schedule, and send an email. The tasks are similar to secretarial jobs, but instead of you working in an office, you will perform your duties at home.
Social Media Manager
Almost all of us have social media accounts, right? So, it means anyone knows how to use a social platform. Many companies have 2 or more social channels. You have to help them manage these platforms to maintain their visibility online. With proper strategy on how to get engaged with their target audience and post their content, you can find a satisfying job from being a social media manager.
If you know too many languages and you can speak and write in English efficiently, being a translator is a perfect choice for you. You will mostly work with companies from other parts of the world who need someone to translate a contract, documents, or reports from their language into English.
To be a transcriptionist, you must be detailed-oriented so you can catch up the words you can hear from the audio and transcribe it. You also need to type fast. You have to be very careful in listening so you can listen to even those unclear words. If you are familiar with the medical and legal terms, it's also a bonus.
Chat Agent
Most e-commerce companies hire a chat agent to assist their shoppers in picking a product. Most people nowadays rely on the internet even when they want to purchase an item. Your primary goal is to help them find a product suitable for their needs. You need to be a good typist (with correct grammar, spelling, and proper usage of punctuation marks of course) since you will only need to use chatting as your primary communication tool.
Graphic Designer
If you are fond of arts and designing, you can be a graphic designer. This kind of job covers a lot of services. You can create an invitation card, attractive posts in social media, event's theme, company logo, and many sorts of things that need a graphics to make them look beautiful. Doing this job is very easy nowadays because there are apps to help you do it. The only thing you need to have is a good taste in choosing designs you need to use.
How to Find These Jobs
To look for these jobs, you have Google and other search engines to help you. With the power of telecommuting, you can almost find the things you need. Just type in the search bar the relevant information you need and you can start browsing. If you have chosen a specific type of job we suggested earlier, you can use it to route you to the sites hiring for people who don't have experience.
Most of the jobs we recommend pay an hourly rate. You need not expect that you will instantly get paid higher as a beginner. But as long as you can show off your skills and work efficiently, some generous clients will treat you not just like their remote employee. You just need to make an effort to deliver a quality work so you can stay in the company if you are looking for a long-term job.
But if you only need these jobs as your side hustle, they can also be a good start to enhance whatever skill you already have. These recommendations are best for moms, college students, teens, and even for those people who just want to try their luck
These suggestions don't even need you to spend too much just to land a job. You don't have to travel or comply more requirements. Employers just need a dedicated person who is willing to learn and make use of his skills. So, will you try them now?
If you like this article, share it! And if you have something you'd like to add, then leave a comment below!


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Some years my birthday falls on one of the weekend days of the Rose City Classic cluster of dog shows. One of the best was the year that Cooper won his second major, earning him his show championship. But this year, my birthday fell during the week, so Russ, Cooper, and Tooey conspired to celebrate my birthday the weekend after this year's Rose City by taking me hunting.
They could not have arranged for better weather, sunny and hovering just above freezing for most of the morning. And the scenery was fine — a large field with rows of dead corn and milo, separated by strips of grass, and ringed with oaks. Curious Cooper's hawks and marsh harriers, watching our every move. Song birds flitting from corn stalk to corn stalk, blackberry bramble to tree branch. And the dogs, ready and willing to sniff out birds.
All in all, we did well bringing home dinner. Cooper and Tooey found and flushed birds, and I think I actually hit a couple, while Russ brought down the others. The final tally was 11 birds flushed (one was a hen, so she flew safely out of the area), 6 roosters brought down, and 6 retrieved.
If you don't mind scenes of game bird hunting, take a look at the following video. Russ wore a GoPro Hero camera on his hat, recorded most of our hunting adventures, and then edited them down into a short clip. (Some of it is in slow motion, so as not to make viewers motion sick.)
In addition to the birds, we came home with about 3 extra pounds of mud. The fields thawed as the day wore on, so the dogs' lower halves, still in their long show coats, were encrusted in drying clay. They were so dirty that even though it was late and we were all tired, we couldn't let them in the house without dragging the dog bath out to the back patio, hooking up the hose to the kitchen faucet for warm water, and lit by a flashlight, bathing both dogs from belly to toes.
Next on the calendar is a smoked pheasant tamale making party. Yum!


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Combat technology fatigue with apps and settings, or with a more basic phone.
Phones have been getting smarter. And smarter! With ever-escalating computing power, crystalline, HD displays, sophisticated voice assistance, games …
It's no surprise that we at Cellular Sales love our smartphones. We get really excited with each new flagship model release. We seek out all kinds of new ways to up our smartphone photography game, geek out on apps that show us new ways to productivity, connecting with others and even helping us unplug for a while. The technology is amazing—and life-changing for thousands—but some people are experiencing fancy phone-fatigue. Some are turning toward more basic phones, and others are realizing the importance of self-limiting notifications and distractions. The smartphone market has reacted, with consumers reaching for everything from "dumbphones" to ultra-expensive, super-sophisticated phones. Read on to learn more, and find out how you can take back your own attention span!
Conscientious Objectors
For some people, lower cost and lack of features are at the top of the list for what they want in a communication device. For these guys, all the notifications, tracking, games and fancy cameras lead to headaches instead of entertainment. They really just want what some call a dumbphone, capable of simple messaging and voice calls.
Others have one major reason for downgrading their phones: escaping social media. We've all experienced that incendiary Facebook post, or maddening Tweet, or even well-meaning Instagram that makes us lose focus on what we're supposed to be doing here and now. Work, exercise, even personal relationships can lose out when we're still stuck on processing the latest social media post. But, you don't have to ditch your smartphone to regain your sanity. Check out the tips at the end of this blog to take control of what you see, and when.
Entry-Level Phones
Starting out with—or backing down to—a more basic phone is an excellent option when you're not ready to buy the newest flagship model on the market. Young kids, vulnerable teens and older people are prime demographics for less-smartphones, because they either don't need or don't want to be connected all the time. We used to have to walk to a television, radio, video game console, telephone (all separate devices! Imagine!) and turn them on each time we wanted to use them. There's a lot of digital noise in the world now, and the ability to limit it has to be a conscious choice. Entry-level phones are one answer. They're friendlier to the budget, as well.
Extreme Basic Phone
If you're concerned about excessive screen time, you could always remove it altogether! This battery-free cellphone harvests energy from the environment, consuming almost zero power. It's basically a green circuit board with earphones. To call this a dumbphone is an understatement, if you don't take into account the brainpower that went into creating it. So far, this phone only makes and receives voice calls through Skype, via the cell network. The team is working on adding a visual display. And, by the way, this phone isn't on the market!
Extreme Sophisticated Phones
If you're on the other end of the spectrum, crying out for even more sophisticated devices, this is the phone for you. The Solarin phone may just be the most sophisticated smartphone in existence. It's certainly expensive, at a range of $13,000 to $16,000. For one phone. The company—Sirin Labs—prides itself on having created the most privacy-obsessed communication device available. It's blockchain-based, optimized for cryptocurrency and triple-secured, with biometric, lock pattern and behavioral authentication. If you don't understand what all that means, this phone is not the phone for you. It's pretty fancy, too, with jewelry-grade touches and military-grade toughness.
Average Smartphone
Between the battery-less phone and the ultra-sophisticated Solarin is the smartphone you probably have in your pocket. The technology that went into making it is pretty amazing. It has enabled the gig economy, communication with friends and family across the world, scientific leaps and other human-lifting advancements. Smartphones make daily life both easier (when was the last time you went somewhere new without your phone's GPS?) and safer, with emergency services at the tips of your fingers. As with just about everything, it's how you use a thing that really matters. You can keep your powerful smartphone and still limit your digital noise, retaining to ability to have all the tech you want at your beck and call.
Tips to Get Some Peace and Quiet:
1. Airplane mode
Select this mode from your Settings to turn off your connection to the outside world. Top executives use this at set times to regain their centers and stay sane. Or, they even turn off their phone altogether! (gasp!)
2. Selective notifications
Go to Settings, and turn off notifications one by one. Some of us still want to receive email notifications, but we don't care whether our Poodles & Puns Pinterest board got a new like—at least not right at this moment! To regain your attention span, tell all those apps to shush.
3. Do not disturb.
Simply turn off all noise and notifications with the "Do Not Disturb" setting, and check on emails and texts when you feel like it.
4. Try apps.
It may seem counterintuitive, but apps really can help you wean your attention away from your phone screen. Here are a couple of suggestions:
MILK is a new app focused on helping you earn reward points anytime you put the phone down—and don't pick it back up—when you should be focused on your surroundings instead. At the movies, eating dinner, holidays … you could get incentivized with rewards by putting the phone down when you should, anyway.
Forest for iOS and Android is an app we featured in our Back to School blog. When you open the app and leave your phone alone, a digital forest grows. Each time you break your phone fast, leaves fall off and your trees die.


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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is bringing attention to the state's child support system now that Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared this to be Child Support Month. Department spokesperson Bob Wheaton tells us nearly $1.2 billion in child support went out to Michigan families in 2018. 71.4% of those payments were made on time, usually via paycheck withholdings.
"For Berrien County in the current fiscal year that began October 1, there have been 16,236 child support cases, and as a result of that, children and families have received more than $14 million in child support," Wheaton said.
Wheaton says the Michigan Child Support Program is a robust service that draws on several state agencies to track and make sure child support payments are being made. In 2018, $122 million was distributed to families each month through the state's collection system. The state health department describes child support as "a key part of the social safety net." You can find out more about the Michigan Child Support Program right here.


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So...um...poor Fin and Angharad, they're left hanging again.
I couldn't resist starting revisions on 'Stolen Summer' I started at the beginning. Taking Beta comments in hand, I needed to expand on Evan's experience in Afghanistan and lay the groundwork for stuff which happens a little later in the book.
So, here's the new start.
They ambushed us when we passed through a village. It was on the cards. The white flags of the Taliban fluttered from crumbling mud walls and people stared at us with blank, hostile eyes when the armored vehicles rumbled along the narrow, dusty lane. Captain Beaumont was quieter than usual, his mouth set in a grim line beneath three days' growth of beard. I wanted to ask him what he thought was up but after a week in his company I'd already learned when to keep my journalist's mouth shut.
After a few stints embedded with various regiments in numerous war zones, I'd developed a bit of a feel for trouble myself. I guess a kid would call it 'Spidey sense', I just called it my "Oh shit" sense. Neither me or Beaumont were wrong on this occasion.
They started firing at us from the rooftops, a couple of fuckwit snipers with nothing better to do than taking pot shots at British soldiers. Bullets pinged off the vehicles, spat in the dust and slammed into walls. The explosion came from the front of the convoy. Rolling waves of dust funneled through the alley. Our men returned fire in workmanlike silence but, beyond the uneven tattoo of battle one man's screams cut through me like a fucking knife.
"Call in air support." Beaumont barked into the radio. "Tell them to hurry the fuck up. I can't send the fucking medic in while those fuckwits are firing at us."
I didn't hear the reply but, given Beaumont's choice language I didn't think the choppers would be too long. I felt lousy sitting there listening to that poor sod scream when no one could do a thing to help him until the snipers were nailed. Our lot were doing their best and a sharp, pained yelp made me think one of the snipers was hit but the other kept firing, erratic bursts into the shooting gallery.
I watched Beaumont. He gnawed at his thumbnail while he peered through the slatted window. His dark eyes were a study in contained agony and fury. I don't know that I could even being to understand or try and describe what he was feeling. I liked the man. I was also a sucker for brown eyes. Sometimes I wished…never mind.
The roar of the incoming choppers shattered the impasse.
"Thank Christ for that." Beaumont spoke into his radio. "All right, send in the medic. We're clear." He took his helmet off, ran his hand through his spiky hair and sighed. "I hate this fucking job.""Yea." There wasn't much else to say. One of his men was hit and screaming like a stuck pig because we got jumped in a place where we shouldn't be.


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Jimboy was charged in court for carnapping and he was sentenced to serve the penalty of life imprisonment. In this country, a lifer is confined for 30 years. He did just that. What made him a cut above the rest and for that matter as an inmate I would repose my trust during the period of his incarceration, especially in maintaining my official vehicle as a prison officer, was his expertise as a mechanic. Skilled prisoners are highly respected in the prison community and valued by officers. Skilled ones like barbers, writers, mechanics, technicians, artists, musicians—-well, it is only the universe that pays tribute to them notwithstanding the offense committed but by their environment as well. They make life comfortable not only for them but for those around them.
When a skilled prisoner is released, he is torn between a community (prison) that embraced and trusted him and the free community which, through the courts and his complainant have vomited him. Of course, there is a feeling of confusion and some kind perplexity. In prison, he had no freedom, everything seemed controlled. Outside, on the other hand, he is misunderstood and suspected. In prison, he knew who his real friends are. Outside, he lives in doubt and wariness. He found his faith in detention, while as a freeman he is constantly lost.
As soon as Jimboy received his release paper, he chose the middle ground. For those with little skill to express would rather stay along the periphery of the penal establishment. They would rather be seen by a prison officer in nearby town where he will be greeted as a "graduate" rather than return back to his community of orientation where a single crime may immediately be inferred on his presence. He asked me if I could adopt him. He wanted to be under my employ even if he will not be given remuneration. Just a little space where he could repair and exercise his know-how. He would be staying with a prison officer in the free community and at the same time, reminded that he is also, as he expects it, to be treated as a convict, of whom he was once and almost, loved it. Shades of Stockholm syndrome where the hostage has grown dependent on his captor on almost everything—from food to protection.
Like any total institution, prison is not designed to prepare its inmates to a life of freedom. Prison teaches and imposes a life of dependency. It is the individual outlook to appreciate the loss of liberty and it is up to the prisoner to repent, reinvent or take revenge. No amount of prison orientation program can reformulate this aspect. The period of his institutional servitude dictates the kind of life a prisoner would become once he is released. Hence there are countries that revisit the sentencing scheme in its criminal justice administration. Prolonged incarceration destroys the positive effect of disciplinary detention. It negates the value of custody and transforms the person into a zombie.
Jimboy immediately found peace of mind under my jurisdiction. He prospered as a skilled mechanic that he is. Except that he never found time to take care of his health. A few years later, he suffered a debilitating disease and passed away.
Another prisoner sought succor after receiving the release paper. She was a female inmate who appreciated music and became one of the pioneer members of the prison band. As its organizer, I maintained my members through regular jamming and counseling. When she was released, she asked if she could stay under my custody. Accordingly, after she got her discharge certificate, she went back to her community of orientation if only to find her husband serving time in the provincial jail. Her children were nowhere and their house pawned away. She feared that she had no other place to go except to go back to prison.
One day, she appeared at the doorstep of my prison quarters, eyes bulging, shabbily dressed and with a sad story. She needed a job. I required my security aide to facilitate her application for employment in a nearby farm and in a week's time, she was a picture of accomplishment. Prisoners given a break and trusted to be absorbed in the workforce are the most industrious and diligent. They work hard and are very conscientious. She stayed for a while until one day; I found a note posted on my door. She has gone back to her family. She saved and sacrificed so that she could sustain a crusade to look for her missing children. On weekends, she would go from one town to another until finally, she saw her children employed as house help. She rented a small cottage near the farm where she was employed and from there began to turn another leaf of her life.
The challenging part for those who have been through incarceration is not on the day they served their time, but like any college graduate, it is on the day they would leave the portal of that community where they spent the greater part of learning to understand the true meaning of freedom.
Posted on September 26, 2012, in Uncategorized and tagged current-events, government, human-rights, institutional direction, mental-health, PHILOSOPHY, politics, prison administration, public perception, security prisoners, society, trivial concern, vacation. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
It's a very beautiful piece of work Chief.. very much enlightening..so profound..It's so ironic that an inmate who has spent so long a time in prisons, would rather remain incarcerated than face a life of freedom with so much uncertainties and fear. It breaks my heart to hear stories of released inmates being salvaged, " ex-cons" who had been rejected by employers, avoided by families and friends..No wonder some inmates would resort to committing again simple crimes just so they can go back behind bars..for in prisons they are somebody… they have a home and friends who would understand and accept them for what they are…prisons for them is a safe haven..what an irony.
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Liposuction, also known as lipo or lipoplasty is a plastic surgery procedure through which excess fat is removed from different areas of the body in order
Cheapest Liposuction price in Turkey is € 1,290. Average Liposuction cost in Turkey is € 1,712 where prices can go as high as € 2,434.
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Turkey's medical infrastructure has improved greatly beginning with the early 2000s and now is one of the biggest medical tourism hubs in Europe and Asia. Turkey has the largest number of JCI-accredited hospitals, second only to the USA and hospitals are more often than not part of international healthcare groups, following strict European protocols and regulations. Turkey has 28.000 medical institutions spread across the European and Asian side but some of the biggest private hospitals and medical centres are in Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and Bodrum – these also happen to be some of the best tourist destinations in Turkey.
Bodrum is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Turkey, with its sandy beaches and small streets littered with traditional shops and elegant restaurants. The town used to be called Halicarnassus, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is one of the World's Seven Ancient Wonders. Bodrum also features a castle built by the crusaders in the 15th century.
Istanbul is the home of several architectural treasures, including the Blue Mosque. The Blue Mosque was built on the orders of Sultan Ahmed between 1609 and 1616 and the Sultan's body still resides within the mosque. The high ceiling is lined with more than 20000 handmade ceramic tiles, hence the name – The Blue Mosque.
Pamukkale, meaning "The Cotton Castle" in Turkish is a surreal destination in the country's western region of Denizli, world renowned for its white terraces with warm spring water. The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built over the springs and Pamukkale was a renowned destination in antiquity as well. Tourists can visit the ancient Roman and Greek ruins of the baths, temples and theatres dating to the second century BC.
● If you don't feel like waiting in a queue, you can get a VISA for Turkey online. The VISA usually costs around $20 for US travellers.
● Turkey's population is predominantly Islamic so it's a good idea to wear a headscarf while visiting mosques. Shorts or any other garments that fit under the knee are not prohibited by law but it's considered good etiquette not to wear shorts for men or short skirts for women.
● You can change any sort of currency into the Turkish Lira – the Turkish currency just about everywhere. Most supermarkets and shops also accept credit cards.
● Roaming fees in Turkey can be somewhat expensive, so it's a good idea to simply buy a new Turkish SIM card and use it while staying in Turkey.
● Turkey's international calling code is +90.
● Electrical installations usually operate on 220 volts, 50 Hz and use European style plugs and European style sockets. Four and Five star hotels usually provide North American - 120 volts, 60 Hz sockets as well.
● Driving in Turkey can be a hassle sometimes, but very pleasurable at other times. Roads are usually in good shape and some roads actually lack traffic, so it can be a relaxing experience. In Turkey, people drive on the right, so that's a detail you will need to keep in mind. In some areas, villagers made cardboard and marker pen signs in order to help lost tourist on their way.
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● The Turkish Airlines Company, THY offers destinations to just about anywhere in the world with a total of 261 destinations. The company was founded in 1933 and features 285 passenger and cargo planes.
● Turkey uses the metric system which is easy enough to understand – 1 Km = 1000 meters, 1 Kg = 1000 grams, and so on. One mile equals 1.60 Km.
● Turkish people are warm and very hospitable - It is customary for people to hug and kiss both cheeks regardless of their gender.
● Turkish street food is very diverse, from the simple bagel-type snack Simit to the familiar pizza-type Lahmacun, there are tons of variants to just about anything.
● Turkish coffee is world renowned, but it's also a bit different than say, its American counterpart - It is usually a strong coffee with a rich aroma, served very hot from a small traditional cup. Be careful not to drink any of the coffee grounds still in the cup.
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Liposuction, also known as lipo or lipoplasty is a plastic surgery procedure through which excess fat is removed from different areas of the body in order to achieve a better, more aesthetically pleasing body contour.
The procedure can be done under local, regional or general anaesthesia, depending on the sensitivity of the area and the amount of fatty tissue that needs to be removed. The amount of tissue that can be removed safely depends heavily on the patient's state of health, the area where the fat is located and other factors.
Below are some of the most popular types of liposuction a patient may turn to in order to achieve a better body contour:
● Buttocks Liposuction
● Neck Liposuction
● Arms Liposuction
● Abdomen Liposuction – with or without a Tummy Tuck
● Thighs Liposuction
● Breasts Liposuction
● Hips Liposuction
● Gynecomastia – known as male breast tissue liposuction
Any patient that is a bit overweight or has certain fat build ups in certain areas such as belly fat can benefit from a liposuction procedure. The most important requirement is that the patient has a stable weight before going in for surgery.
Liposuction is not recommended for obese individuals or patients considering liposuction as a weight loss method. Patients suffering from heart problems, diabetes or certain infections are at risk of developing complications from liposuction surgery and they may not be good candidates for this procedure.
The patient should avoid the intake of vitamins, herbal tea, any aspirin based medicine and should quit smoking at least 10 days before the liposuction surgery.
During the first part of the procedure, the patient is administered a local, regional or general anaesthetic, depending on the area where the liposuction will be performed. Once the anaesthetic sets in, the surgeon will create a few small incisions and proceed to use the cannula to break down fatty deposits in the area. Laser or ultrasound may also be used in order to liquefy fat and make it easier to extract. Once enough fat is extracted, bandages are applied to keep bleeding down to a minimum and to prevent infections.
There are a few types of liposuction available for patients, depending on their needs and the area where it needs to be done:
● Vaser Liposuction
● Laser Liposuction
● Ultrasound Liposuction
● Water assisted Liposuction
Local or General anesthetic
Patient may spend one night in hospital
1 trip
2 weeks
1 to 4 hours
3 days
3 to 7 days after the surgery
During the recovery period it's essential to follow the doctor's instructions carefully. Patients can usually return to work within a couple of days but this depends on the area where the liposuction is performed. A special type of compression garment will be worn by the patient during the recovery period. It may take a few months before the post-operatory swelling fully recedes and the patient's new body is revealed.
Scars after liposuction surgery are generally small and they are barely noticeable when fully healed. Wearing the compression garment as instructed also helps reduce scarring. The scars are usually smaller than 1 cm, about the size of the cannula used in the procedure.
According to a study focused on liposuction complication rates, the average liposuction surgery complication rate is around 5%, with most complications being minor.
During the first 5 to 10 days after the surgery patients may feel discomfort, swelling, bruising and inflammation. Depending on the type of anaesthesia, some patients may feel nausea or dizziness.
A study on laser assisted liposuction success rates reveals that around 89% of patients report being satisfied with the procedure and would do it again, with around 94% willing to recommend it to family and friends.
Before and after liposuction photos might look appealing but patients need to keep in mind that the body needs a few months to adjust and reduce all the swelling. The patient will also need to continue following a diet in order to maintain the new body contour.
Types of Liposuction
Patients opting for liposuction surgery have plenty of different techniques and options available to them, depending on their needs, expectations and the part of the body where the liposuction will take place. Different parts of the body store different types and amounts of fat, meaning that better aesthetically pleasing results can be achieved by using the proper type of liposuction.
SAL or Suction Assisted Liposuction
Suction assisted liposuction is the traditional type of liposuction where the surgeon breaks down fatty deposits with the use of a cannula (a hollow tube). This is the simplest type of liposuction available for patients.
Tumescent Liposuction
Tumescent liposuction is similar to suction assisted liposuction, with a slight difference. Large amounts of anesthetic fluids are used in order to make the tissue swollen or tumescent, making it easier for the doctor to remove the fat.
SmartLipo or Laser Assisted Liposuction
Laser assisted liposuction is similar to traditional liposuction techniques with the only difference that a laser is used to further break down fatty tissue before suction is applied to remove it. The heat generated by the laser will melt fat, tighten skin and coagulate blood vessels within the skin. It can also make the recovery process easier for the patient, contributing for a quicker recovery with reduced bruising and a better looking skin, compared to other liposuction procedures such as suction assisted liposuction. SmartLipo can be performed under local or general anaesthesia, as is the case with other types of liposuction. Being a more complex procedure, laser assisted liposuction should be performed by the most experienced of plastic surgeons.
VASER Liposuction or Ultrasound Assisted Liposuction
VASER liposuction is similar to laser assisted liposuction with the only difference being that VASER liposuction uses ultrasound energy in order to break up fatty tissue within the liposuction area. The doctor creates the necessary incision and a special cannula fitted with a low frequency device is inserted through the incision in order to emulsify the fatty tissue. The fat is then removed through traditional suction techniques. VASER liposuction provides some advantages such as reduced bruising, reduced swelling and reduced blood loss from the procedure, the only drawback being that it requires a larger incision to accommodate for the ultrasound device. That being said, this technique is recommended for areas such as the abdomen, thighs or buttocks.
Power Assisted Liposuction or PAL
Power assisted liposuction is a great choice for patients with a high volume of fat that has to be removed. Similarly to VASER liposuction, power assisted liposuction uses an improved cannula, fitted with a vibrating device which breaks up fatty tissue before removing it through suction.
High Definition Liposuction or HDL
High definition liposuction is a relatively new technique through which the underlying muscle is defined through fat grafting and selective liposuction. This is a more time consuming procedure, compared to other techniques but the results tend to be more aesthetically pleasing.
This content is written and reviewed by our medical content team in January, 2019.


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The country will produce 240,000 barrels of oil and 240,000 million standard cubic feet of gas per day under the second phase of the Jubilee Field project which is expected to commence in 2013, the Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr Kwabena Donkor, has disclosed.
According to him, "the appraisals so far conducted indicate that the Jubilee Field contains expected recoverable reserves of about 800 million barrels of light crude, with an upside potential of about three billion barrels".
Dr Donkor, who made this known when he opened a two-day seminar on oil and gas for youth activists in Accra last Saturday, said there were greater prospects for the discovery of more oil.
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Jugendgebetbuch: Leitfaden Christlichen Lebens fuer die Kleinsten bis zu den Erwachsenen (Prayer Book for Children: Guide to Christian Life for the Little Ones and Adults) by P. Raphael Niessner, OSB, 576 pp
Nihil Obstat 1985 Abtei der Benediktiner in Rohr
Publisher: Verlagsbuchhandlung der Benediktiner
ISBN: N/A printed by the publisher for private use
Price: Euro 12,95
German Level: Native or Advanced
It offers prayers for all facets of our lives from morning offerings to evening prayers. The central prayers of the Church are printed in both Latin and German. There are several songs with music as well as inspirational guides for praying in the domestic Church, our homes. This book is not currently offered on Amazon, but you may click on the picture to order from the German website Sarto Verlag. If you need help, feel free to contact Sarto Verlag as they are able to speak English and willing to help. Click here for the link.
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So the EU is advocating a ban on car parts and components manufactured in the UK, or subjecting them to a high import duty to the EU. Hmmm Lets put VAT up to 50% and impose an import duty on everything imported to the UK from the EU, French Cars, cheeses, wine, German sausages, cars, the list is endless,
Then we give a discount to the Chinese, Japanese, Indians and anyone else who manufactures or produces goods within the UK borders and employs British workers. Stop the influx of European and world wide economic migrants.


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Over the years architecture and its implementation have proven to be vastly important, especially when it comes to changing business needs and market conditions. Typically such a process comes as a result of connecting various services and systems so they best meet specific needs. In the past such action was rather involved and complicated, but thanks to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), there's been some relief.
Big data has always been a mean to grow business. With automated systems serving your customers, tracking and analyzing how they use your software can play a huge role in serving your customers more effectively. However multiple problems may stand in your way when organizing and running queries on such large quantities of data. Getting quality results fast enough to act on can be difficult, even on the newest computers. The solution, proponents and analysts say, is In-Memory Computing.
If you're up to date on new technology, chances are, you have heard about the cloud and how it's becoming a major player in the technological world. What makes cloud computing so appealing? It's fast, simple to use, and offers powerful functionality on any Internet enabled device.


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GPS is amazing! Combining simple trigonometry with signals from space, this technology can pinpoint a position to within +/- 5 metres. There's still a buzz here when we have a project that uses it.
Our experience with GPS goes back to the days when a receiver weighed 10lbs and took 20 amps at 5V. Today it's a little different! We've used GPS and GSM technology to track plant and machinery, money, parcels in transit and people.
Typically our applications have been covert. Size matters and power consumption is paramount. We have developed systems that will remain dormant for 3 years and yet still deploy and track with 80% of battery power remaining. Accelerometers, gyroscopes, ultra low frequency radio, and even liquid sensors have been used to trigger our devices.
Once active, a unit sends its location to a web server via GPRS or SMS. For close-in asset recovery we have implemented radio beacons on 433MHz and 868MHz. One application can even deploy a pyrotechnic device to make itself known.


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HWCLI is hosting a Town Hall Event strictly for our network of nonprofits and advocates on September 19th at 1 pm at the Cinema Arts Centre with Congressman Suozzi. This is an opportunity to hear from one of Long Island's Federal representatives prior to the late September vote and—more importantly—for him to hear from the nonprofit sector about the impact of the impending federal budget on Long Island.
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This is a piece the Drifter had been trying to acquire for awhile. It is a magnificent example of what made Tommy Singer so famous. Generous gold-fill throughout. Hallmarked in Gothic rather than cursive print—something Mr. Singer did quite a while prior to his passing. This is a big, long piece. It might overwhelm a more petite woman (but certainly not a supermodel!). Looks good on a man as well. Second pic is by the Drifter of Mr. Singer in Colorado in summer, 2013.


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The keen-eyed NikonEye has found footage of a Nikon manager in Japan confirming that a new mirrorless camera will be released in Spring 2019.
The Nikon manager validated the details in an interview with a Japanese TV network called NHK. No spec details were discussed, just the fact that 'development is underway' and that Nikon thinks to bring a new mirrorless camera to market next year.
Rumours of what to expect from Nikon's new mirrorless camera require been circulating for a while now with a Nikon Japan Executive saying early last year that new product announcements were encircling the corner which included more mirrorless cameras.
It won't be the first mirrorless camera we've seen from Nikon as they did launch the 1 Series but it didn't grab the attention of photographers quite as well some of the other photography brands have.
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I've had 2 requests for this recipe. It's so easy and very tasty. It came from a cookbook called "Don't Panic...Dinner's in the Freezer." You can make this sauce ahead of time, put it in a freezer bag with the chicken, freeze it and then use it another day. This is also one of those recipes you can mix up in the morning and keep in the fridge and the pop it in the oven when it's time to cook. I love doing that - it makes dinner time so much easier. The Apricot Chicken was a recipe my sister gave me. I don't know which one I like better. Sometimes I want the sweet apricot, other times the tangy cranberry. So here it is:
Cranberry (or Apricot) Chicken
1 envelope onion soup mix
1 can Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce (or for Apricot Chicken substitute 1 cup apricot jam)
1 cup Catalina dressing
(for Apricot chicken add a can of pineapple chunks, drained)
Mix above ingredients in a small bowl. Cut up 1 pound chicken (or more if you have a bigger crowd to feed) into bite sized pieces. Place in a baking dish. Add the sauce and mix together. Bake, covered at 350 for 30 minutes. Stir and remove cover and cook for an additional 30 minutes. Serve over hot cooked rice.
I always serve this dish with green beans and chocolate milk for some odd reason.


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What the Ezekiel Elliott Decision Means for Him, the NFL and Other Players
In a decision that has stunned the NFL, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III, endorsed a temporary restraining order (TRO) and—more importantly—granted a preliminary injunction against the league on Friday, barring it from enforcing the six-game suspension NFL commissioner Roger Goodell imposed on Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott.
While a TRO only last 14 days, the preliminary injunction could last for months. Unless the NFL successfully appeals Judge Mazzant in the interim (see below), the injunction will continue until Judge Mazzant has an opportunity to review the merits of Elliott's accompanying lawsuit. Elliott's lawsuit demands that Judge Mazzant vacate an arbitration award (the "award" being hearing officer Harold Henderson's recent decision to uphold Elliott's six-game suspension). Such a review will require hearings and must align with Judge Mazzant's docket, which already has time set aside for trials and hearings for other cases.
If Judge Mazzant doesn't schedule the review of Elliott's accompanying lawsuit for months, it is possible that Elliott could play the entire 2017 season and the playoffs. That said, much depends on when the lawsuit goes to court. We simply don't yet know.
Why Elliott won the injunction: "egregious facts"
Elliott faced very long odds in obtaining injunctive relief. Injunctions are considered "extraordinary" measures in law, and Elliott had to run the table and prove the necessary four prongs. As noted in previous SI articles, those four prongs are: 1) he enjoys a substantial likelihood of success of proving that the NFL unlawfully conspired against him; 2) there is a substantial threat that Elliott would suffer irreparable harm—which normally refers to harm that can't be remedied through monetary damages—if Judge Mazzant doesn't grant the TRO; 3) the "injury" facing Elliott without a TRO would outweigh any damage to the NFL cause by an injunction; and 4) an injunction against the NFL and in favor of Elliott would not disserve the public interest.
Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott Granted Injunction, Court Puts Six-Game Suspension On Hold
In his opinion, Judge Mazzant openly acknowledged that he was obligated to accord high deference to the NFL. "It is a narrow exception and rare circumstance," the judge wrote, "[in] which a court interferes with an arbitral award." This language is important since if the NFL appeals, the league will contend that Judge Mazzant misunderstood and misapplied the law. So in his order, the judge wanted to correctly enunciate the law. Despite this deference, Judge Mazzant found the NFL's review of Elliott to consist of "unique and egregious facts" along with "extreme circumstances" which collectively "necessitated" the judge's intervention.
Put more basically, Judge Mazzant reasoned that the NFL had to be really bad in its review and punishment of Elliott in order for the judge to grant an injunction. Judge Mazzant found that the NFL was, in fact, really bad.
Returning to the four prongs, Judge Mazzant stresses that Elliott has a high probability of success on the merits for several reasons. In doing so, the judge, as expected, highlighted the league inexplicably obscuring the knowledge of Kia Roberts, the NFL's Director of Investigations and the only co-league investigator who interviewed Elliott's accuser, Tiffany Thompson. Compounding that problem, Judge Mazzant reasoned, was the decision-making of Henderson. Judge Mazzant sharply criticizes Henderson for denying Elliott access to the investigator's notes or an opportunity to cross-examine Thompson.
Judge Mazzant, of course, acknowledged that the NFL couldn't force Thompson to testify—the league is a private company and has no subpoena power. However, the judge stresses, "the record indicates that the NFL did not even ask Thompson to testify. Thompson was cooperative throughout the entirety of the NFL's investigation, and there is nothing in the record to suggest that she was unwilling to testify at the arbitration hearing."
Further, Judge Mazzant pays substantial attention to Henderson, who, Judge Mazzant asserts, denied Elliott a fair appeal. Indeed, Elliott and the NFLPA "had the burden of convincing [Henderson] that Commissioner Goodell's decision was arbitrator and capricious." Yet Henderson, Judge Mazzant concludes, essentially made it impossible for Elliott to meet that burden by denying Elliott access to critical evidence.
Judge Mazzant's lengthy criticism of Henderson is noteworthy since it suggests that Elliott would likely win his lawsuit if it is ever reviewed by Judge Mazzant.
Judge Mazzant also found that Elliott met prong two by showing how he would be irreparably harmed without an injunction. Although the NFL could ultimately reimburse Elliott for lost game checks, the judge stressed that missing part of the season "potentially deprives Elliott of the ability to achieve individual successes and honors." Further, Judge Mazzant notes that NFL careers are "short and precarious," so Elliott missing mere weeks is akin to most of us missing months or years of our careers.
Further, Judge Mazzant concluded that issuing an injunction "does not eviscerate the internal procedures of the NFL and NFLPA." This point goes to the third prong—that issuing an injunction would cause more harm to the NFL than the amount of harm Elliott would suffer if an injunction were denied. Judge Mazzant found that, "given the current set of facts," an injunction "merely ensures the internal procedures [of the CBA] are being carried out in the appropriate manner."
Lastly, Judge Mazzant found that issuing an injunction advanced public policy, and thus comports with prong four. "While the Court agrees that there is a preference for private settlements," Judge Mazzant wrote, "the Court still retains review over the arbitral process to maintain minimum standards of fairness."
If Goodell places Elliott on the "Exempt List" expect Elliott to seek another injunction from Judge Mazzant
Elliott will play in Week 1. But Judge Mazzant's order doesn't necessarily guarantee that he will play in Week 2. The order blocks the NFL from imposing the suspension.
The order does not block the NFL from placing Elliott on the "Exempt List." This list is controversial for a variety reasons, including that it is explained not in the CBA—a document assented to by players—but instead in a league-issued document, the NFL Player Personnel Policy Manual. A player placed on the Exempt List is essentially put on paid suspension. He receives paychecks but is denied the chance to work. In most workplaces, this type of punishment is referred to as "administrative leave."
If Goodell places Elliott on the Exempt List, Elliott and the NFLPA will immediately seek an injunction from Judge Mazzant. They would contend, with good reason, that placement of Elliott on the Exempt List would undermine the existing injunction issued by Judge Mazzant. This is particularly true in regards to Judge Mazzant's reasoning on irreparable harm: Elliott missing games—which would be true whether he is suspended with or without pay—would damage his career since he would be denied a chance to accumulate statistics and improve his skills.
Ezekiel Elliott Case: There Are No Winners
The NFL will appeal and the NFL does well on appeals
Cowboys fans and fantasy football owners who have Elliott on their team are likely happy tonight. The current landscape of Elliott's legal situation is that he will be available for perhaps months, maybe the entire 2017 season.
Notice the word "current" and recall how Brady and Adrian Peterson won at the district court level as well. Both later lost on appeal.
The NFL can—and almost surely will—appeal the preliminary injunction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The NFL could file a notice of appeal as soon as this weekend and submit an accompanying brief early next week. The speed of an appeal is uncertain at this point, but remember when U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson issued a preliminary injunction for NFL players during the 2011 lockout: the NFL immediately appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and within four days—yes, four days—a three-judge panel on the Eighth Circuit stayed the injunction, meaning the NFL obtained a reversal in the same week.
You might observe that when the NFL appealed Tom Brady's victory before U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in September 2015, the appeal wasn't heard until March 2016 and wasn't decided until the end of April 2016. That would all be true, but Brady obtained a different type of legal "win." He persuaded Judge Berman to vacate the arbitration award (i.e. hearing officer Roger Goodell upholding commissioner Roger Goodell's four-game suspension of Brady). Elliott, in contrast, has only persuaded Judge Mazzant to enjoin the arbitration award's accompanying suspension—in other words, the award still exists. Also, appeals for injunctions tend to move faster than those for other kinds of remedies.
The NFL is probably optimistic it will win at the Fifth Circuit. At some point after the appeal is filed, a panel of three Fifth Circuit judges will review the appeal. The Fifth Circuit is known in legal circles as very friendly to management and business. Republican presidents nominated nine of the 14 judges on the Fifth Circuit. It is a favorable court for the NFL.
In an appeal, the NFL will re-litigate the four prongs and insist that Judge Mazzant misapplied them. The league will also stress its legal victories over Tom Brady and Adrian Peterson. While those decisions are non-binding in the Fifth Circuit, they are persuasive authority and, in terms of procedure, in some ways on-point.
For instance, the Second Circuit ruled that Brady was not entitled to investigative notes because Article 46 doesn't express that right. Judge Mazzant—just like Judge Berman before him—viewed that topic differently, finding that fairness requires that those notes be shared. Mindful of the Brady decision, Judge Mazzant attempted to distinguish the two sets of evidence and testimony by arguing that investigative materials for Elliott are "material, pertinent, and critically important." The NFL would contend there is no viable distinction. Further, the NFL would, like in Brady and Peterson, assert that Article 46 accords nearly unlimited authority to Goodell to determine whether a player committed "conduct detrimental to the league" and if so, what ought to be the punishment.
If Elliott ultimately prevails at the Fifth Circuit . . .
If Elliott can overcome the odds yet again and defeat the NFL on appeal before the Fifth Circuit, it would be a true game-changer. Suspended players would try to file lawsuits in that forum, knowing that precedent in the Fifth Circuit favored players when challenging NFL suspensions. For its part, the NFL would appeal Elliott's appellate win to the U.S. Supreme Court and there would be a chance the Supreme Court takes it: the Fifth Circuit's reasoning on Article 46 would seemingly be incompatible with the reasoning of the Second Circuit (Brady) and Eighth Circuit (Peterson). To be sure, the Supreme Court only accepts about 1% for review, but you never know—so-called "circuit splits" are prime candidates for review. Perhaps this is one reason why the NFL seeks to move the Elliott case to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York: to avoid a potential defeat in the Fifth Circuit and subsequent "forum shopping" by players.
Only time will tell and only one thing is for sure: these are interesting days in the world of NFL justice.
Michael McCann is SI's legal analyst. He is also an attorney and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.


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With acrobatics and live music, Opus takes circus arts to dizzying new heights
The Australian company Circa finds inspiration for its latest show in the work of Shostakovich
Yaron Lifschitz is stuck in traffic on the highway between Brisbane and Australia's Gold Coast, where the Commonwealth Games have just wrapped up. As creative director of the concurrent arts-and-culture festival, he's headed for what he calls a "debriefing" meet with his team of performers, but he's happy to change hats and, as artistic director of new-circus company Circa, talk about a project close to his heart—the groundbreaking production Opus.
Made in collaboration with France's Debussy String Quartet, Opus takes the integration of circus arts and music to dizzying new heights, with an 18-member ensemble—14 multidisciplinary performers and the four musicians, who sit on-stage in the middle of the action playing string quartets by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
"I'd been working with classical music in various forms for a long time. It's one of my great passions, and being able to embody it and to bring it to new audiences through its combination with our circus is something I love to do," says Lifschitz. "Dominique Delorme, who's the director of the festival Les Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon, wanted to commission a project, and while we were in discussions their programmer told me, 'When I see your shows I hear the music of Shostakovich.' And I said, 'That's really interesting, because it's music that's incredibly important to me—although I've never used it in a show because it's so precious.'
"He said that Lyon had the only French quartet to have recorded the entire Shostakovich cycle," he continues. "So I met the musicians and we got on very well, and decided we were going to do a program that would include one Shostakovich quartet. Then Shostakovich just sort of took over, and the whole program became his music—which has been an absolute blessing to work with."
There were compelling reasons why Shostakovich's mid-20th-century quartets attracted Lifschitz as one of the leading directors of new circus—the multifaceted, nontraditional form that has developed in recent decades. "Shostakovich has a very high degree of formal rigour and his quartet compositions are exquisitely and densely structured. At the same time, he's not afraid to be unabashedly cinematic, emotionally schmaltzy, talking directly to the heart. Those two things—formal discipline and the mainlining of emotion—work very well for us as a physical performance company. And it's just great music."
Circa, founded in 1987, has previously included on-stage musicians in productions, but never as intimately involved in the project as the Debussy String Quartet. "We've had enough time to work with them in subtle and sophisticated ways. They were amazing collaborators—I mean, they didn't laugh at me when I asked if they'd be able to learn the whole of the quartets by heart, or when I asked if they'd be able to do it in blindfold. They were incredibly adventurous and would happily do a lot more things than they currently do on-stage."
Lifschitz sees Circa's tight choreography as the creation of the ensemble, which for Opus included the four musicians. "We got them to talk to us about what was happening musically, because when you have music in this form—complete pieces, played right through—it gives you a lot of your structure. In one way, it makes life quite easy because you know why you're doing things; on the other hand, you have to pick [the music] really well—for a long time we were working with a different Shostakovich quartet, but it became evident after a few weeks that it wasn't going to work as the closing piece. It also gives you a great kind of freedom, because you know you have, say, a six-minute development section to apply an idea to. It's very rich."
Circa's hallmark is incredibly tight, fast, and fluent ensemble work that blends acrobatics, dance, and physical theatre. In Opus most of the action is on the floor and often happens simultaneously at the front and back of the stage. Just a few props are used—hoops, ropes, chairs, two fixed trapezes, aerial straps—as the emphasis is on the human body and bodies. While Lifschitz, as usual, avoids narrative, there are clear allusions in Opus to time, place, and society. The circus choreography and the costumes, like the music, evoke Russian life in the tumultuous 1930s and '40s.
"What I was really interested in was this idea of the public versus the private. Shostakovich lived through these terrible times of Stalinism. Unlike his symphonic works, which were major public utterances and got him periodically into trouble, the quartets were where he could let his heart speak, because you just needed four people in an upstairs room of the Moscow Conservatoire to play them, rather than the huge, state-subsidized orchestral apparatus. They become these intimate statements, but of course highly influenced by the experience of the political environment."
Tensions between the individual and the group, the public and the private, run through Shostakovich's quartets, and through the circus fabric of Opus. "It's not explicit, but I think you get a sense of the strong emotional pulls on individuals in different ways. I want my shows to create an emotion that doesn't yet have a name. That's the ultimate high point. I'm not saying we always get there. It comes from a place of meaning. I'm not concerned with the audience linearly understanding the thematics, but we can create a strong, visceral emotional response, and ideally that mixture of fear and hope feels like something new. When that happens, it's really powerful. Our work asks audiences to feel—and I think that's the best way to experience things, pre-words or besides words. I love being in a big theatre with Opus, and more than 2,000 people—many of whom have never heard him before—are watching a Shostakovich string quartet, listening in rapt silence. That's an extraordinary opportunity and privilege."
Circa performs Opus with the Debussy String Quartet at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday (April 28).


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Credit requires trust – but a survey by the World Bank reveals that only a quarter of Nigerian smallholder farmers "fully trust" banks. They have even lower levels of trust in microfinance institutions (MFIs) because rates and withdrawal fees are perceived as prohibitively expensive, or because farmers do not want to risk losing their collateral.
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