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NYC Thanksgiving Parade: Where and Where not to Watch
One of the biggest events of the year is finally approaching! New York's annual Thanksgiving Parade. For those of you who have never been or are looking for a new place to set up and watch, here are the top spots around the city that will give you the best view as well as places you might want to avoid. The parade takes place from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM on Thanksgiving Day.
72nd Street/Central Park West and 61st Street
Here you will be close to central park and have the most perfect view of the parade's beginning. Central park west will allow you to have a more spacious viewing point and you can set up chairs if you get to the event early.
34th Street and 38th Street on 6th Avenue, and 34th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue.
These areas you should avoid all together because they will be closed for broadcasting crews to show the parade.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade official viewing area on 34th Street
Depending on how you want your experience at the parade to be, you can either choose this destination or completely avoid it. The official viewing area is found on 34th street is the most congested viewing area at the parade. You can camp out a day in advance to try and score a good view or you can avoid the huge crowd and choose a different location such as the corner of Bryant Park.
Wherever you choose to enjoy the parade, make sure to stay warm, be safe, and have fun!

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Kettering's crematorium came out on top in a national award recognising excellence in service.
At the national APSE Service Awards 2017 on September 7, Kettering Council received the Best Service Team award for its crematorium and cemeteries .
The awards recognise excellence in local government frontline services across the UK and Kettering was up against six other finalists from around the country.
The team were also runners up in the Crematorium of the Year category at the Good Funeral Awards 2017.
Shirley Plenderleith, head of public services at Kettering Council, said: "We are all extremely pleased that the council's financial investment and the hard work by our crematorium and cemeteries team have been recognised by these prestigious awards.
"We all know bereavement is very a difficult time, which can be made harder by the financial burden of funeral costs.
"We work hard to make sure that the quality of service and support that we offer is of the highest standard.
"As part of this work our recently introduced pre-paid cremation plan is designed to allow people to plan ahead at today's prices."
Kettering Council has not increased its cremation fees since 2014 and currently has the lowest charge in the county for cremations.
Cllr Ian Jelley, Kettering Council's portfolio holder for environment, said: "We're proud to have won these awards, which demonstrate our ongoing commitment to providing the best crematorium and cemeteries services possible.
"At Kettering we recognise the increasing costs of funerals and are aware of the problems that funeral poverty can cause for families.
"We haven't increased our charges for three years and have introduced our pre-paid cremation plan to help people manage their funeral costs."


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Our Annual Dinner and Meeting will take place in the Wolf Academy on May 4. Dinner will be catered by Daily Grind of Bath. Doors open at 5:30. Reservations are required. BYOB.
Our speaker will be Easton artist Cindy Vojnovic. She will do a presentation about her series of paintings documenting New York City's 1904 disaster of the fire and sinking of the steamboat General Slocum.
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Any radiation can kill a tumor. It's what you don't hit while delivering that radiation that makes all the difference. The goal of radiation to a target in the brain is to eliminate the tumor or alter the malformation or alleviate pain while not damaging healthy brain tissue.
Healthy brain tissue is what makes 'you' – 'you'.
For targets in the brain – whether it's a metastatic tumor, primary tumor, acoustic neuroma, trigeminal neuralgia or essential tremor – nothing is more accurate than the Gamma Knife. Period. And no center in the Northwest has more experience or treats more patients than the Gamma Knife of Spokane.
No Gamma Knife center West of the Mississippi has published more clinical research than the Gamma Knife of Spokane. So many articles that four times we've been asked by other researchers to contribute a book chapter for text books on radiation oncology.
So, why Gamma Knife?
- Precision delivery of radiation.
- The cyberknife delivers more than 3 times more radiation to healthy brain tissue and 250 times more to your body than does the Gamma Knife.
Why Gamma Knife of Spokane?
- No other Gamma Knife center in the region has more experience.


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We've recently been putting the finishing touches on two websites. The first one Araripe.Clothing E-Commerce website built on the platform Prestashop.
Araripe wanted to build an e-commerce website which showed off their premium men's clothing brand. It needed to give off an 'upper class' feel to it to reflect their target market.
The first step was to organise a photo shoot for the brand and get professional pictures done. This helps to make sure the products looked great. I do go on about professional images, but I believe they're so crucial to a good looking website.
Next, we choose a premium, but a clean template to make the website different to others using the basic Prestashop template.
Once we had everything in place we had the go-ahead to start building the site. E-commerce sites take a lot longer than standard sites as various options need to be thought out and implemented. Plus adding products takes up a lot of time if done properly.
As standard, we also added our SEO knowledge included in the package to give the site the best possible start when launching.
So if you're interested in Men's Fashion, check out the site.
Or if you're looking to create an e-commerce website, get in touch and we'll discuss options.


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Kamal Yassine
Kamal is a photographer, artist, and drummer; he loves to discuss life and philosophy. He speaks 4 languages including English, and is always open to learning more about other people from all over the world.
Kasbah Ait Isfoul has been home to Kamal since he was a boy. He has followed in his grandfather Mohamed Yassine's footsteps, running this sacred place in the the dessert of Morocco.
Kamal's passion is to share his love of desert, the culture and Berber traditions with friends from around the globe. His good humour shines through his work and he and his clients often laugh together over their shared adventures.


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Family Day Care
I AM Montessori Family Day Care
We believe that the first six years of life are crucial in the development of the child. What happens in these years is critical to who that child will become later on in life.
We understand the reality of life for many families. Families need to work and child care is such a hard decision to make for most parents. Gaining access to quality, affordable, professional care for your child is near impossible. Add low ratios, well-trained educators to the mix and your choice is reduced even further.
Our belief here at I AM Montessori is that a child needs to be cared for, nurtured and given access to an environment that allows for discovery and learning but also to an Educator who understands your family needs, your child's needs and cares as much as you about the development of your child.
Care should be flexible and Family Day Care allows for government approved care to occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week in an approved Educators home. Whether it be all day, Before and After School Care, Vacation Care, Overnight and Weekend care, we have Educators who can meet your needs.
As a service provider, we aim to offer all of this and more. We strongly believe in Family Day Care, and even more so in the Montessori method. A century old method of education that has recently been dubbed 'the future of education'.
A home environment, prepared the Montessori way is the ultimate care for children.
Whether you are looking to become an Educator or a place for your Child, we can help you here at I AM Montessori Family Day Care.
FOR FAMILIES wanting to enrol their child/ren, please click here
FOR EDUCATORS wanting to join our team, see our FAQ page here, give us a call 3875 1268, or complete our online enquiry here.
For current families, please find the Guide to Using Xplor here.
To change your Ezidebit Schedule or Bank Details please find the How To Guide here.


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Demand for engines to power UK models has kept the factories going despite a fall in exports of complete units for overseas vehicle assembly plants.
Figures from the SMMT show a 23% dip in units sent abroad out of the 172,533 made but a 28.6% rise in those going into UK vehicle assembly plants and the figure so far this year is steady and about 5.7% up at 1.5 Million engines.
Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said, "July's acceleration in UK demand for British-built engines – the result of significant recent investment in new plants and models – is good news, and offsets the sharp downturn in manufacturing for export to keep the overall sector in growth for the year-to-date. However, overseas demand still accounts for more than half of engine production, underlining the importance of securing competitive international trading conditions in the months and years ahead."
UK commercial vehicle (CV) manufacturing fell -5.2% in July, according to the SMMT) The decline follows a remarkably strong performance in July 2015 when production rose by almost 50%.
Last month a substantial rise in overseas demand saw production for export increase by 14.1%, compensating for a -21.3% decline in domestic custom.
Overseas output in the year-to-date remains ahead, up 4.4% on the same period in 2015, with more than half (52.6%) of UK-built CVs destined for international markets.


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20 Days Closer - Devotional #2
"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives" ~ Colossians 1:9
In Col. 1:9-14 Paul is praying for the ministry of the Colossians, rejoicing in their salvation, and asking for more strength, endurance, fruit, and wisdom for them. He says since he heard of them, he has continued to pray. I know that families and churches have been coming together to pray for YVCS since they heard about our ministry, and our need. I personally know the power of praying continually. It's like a child urgently tugging on a parent's sleeve - not once or twice, but again and again. We must continue to ask our Father for the endurance that we need in this time!
YVCS is so special to me because I have seen the influence of YVCS's discipleship on many of my young students. One student who struggled with learning challenges and fears of abandonment (which manifested as defensiveness) would likely have slipped through the cracks in a larger environment. At YVCS, I watched her teacher seek her out, teacher her patience, model a loving example and prove to her that she would not be abandoned at our school. A year later, that student told me "You know, Miss Fetterly, I really like myself, because I realized God really likes me." I have consistently been blown away by stories like here since I began working at YVCS last year. I rejoice as Paul did over the salvation stories at YVCS and the way that God's love has permeated the hearts and minds of the students at our school!
Please continue praying fervently for our incredible school. God has given us this task as families, staff, leadership and students at YVCS. Let's all unite in joy and confidence during these twenty days of prayer! Let's get on our knees, and approach our Good Father! Talk to him in the traffic, at the gym, over family dinner, and anywhere else! This is a good and worthy fight!
- Ms. Megan Fetterly
Prayer Updates:
- More options for our new campus arose and final approval of one option should be finalized this coming week.
- A significant resource has developed this week which has the ability to support YVCS in a very big way.
- We added two new kindergartners and their families to the YVCS community this week.
Specific Requests:
- Pray for the elders and decision makers of Fair Oaks Church, 1st Lutheran Church Concord, Clayton Valley Church, Concord Vineyard and 1st Presbyterian Church Concord and any other church God might lead us to.
- Pray for the school board as we have all taken on an abundance of tasks associated with expediting the moving process.
- Pray for Tim Tebow's heart to be moved to be generous with YVCS by donating money and possibly speaking at our upcoming spring dinner on April 21st
Call To Action:
- Please post a brief testimonial about your experience at YVCS on your social media and add the Go Fund Me link
- Join the 20 Days Closer Facebook event page & consider commenting about your experience during this campaign


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Time to level up. This lower-body workout will amp up your strength with boxing and yoga exercises such as the jab-cross-hook-uppercut, speed skaters, 180-degree squats, sprawls, and Warrior 3 kickbacks. You'll end the class with a "finisher," one final push to take you to your edge.
Jade's Bio
As a former basketball player and pole vaulter, Jade Alectra was taught that if she wasn't working out to the point of pain and failure, she wasn't working at all. Doctors told her she would not be able to run or exercise again after suffering from a knee injury that led to depression and overeating. At her wit's end, she tried yoga and walked out of the first three classes she took. She stayed for the fourth.
Jade found that yoga was the mirror she needed to help her heal from past hurt, trauma, and heartbreak. She decided to become a yoga teacher to help guide people home to themselves. Rather than telling people to "leave things behind," her emotion-based teaching style encourages people to work through it on the mat. She aims to help students awaken what's been sleeping and embark on a journey of self acceptance, love, and growth. She currently teaches classes in Southern California and leads workshops and retreats around the world.


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We Have the Solution for Your Fungal Nails
Did you make any New Year's resolutions for 2017? If you are like most Americans, you have one or two.
Here's another one for you - make 2017 the year you finally get rid of unsightly toenail fungus that makes your nail look discolored and thicker, brittle or ragged.
You may have had fungal nails for quite some time, hoping it will go away on its own. Well, toenail fungus will not just disappear by itself. Why not resolve to do something about your toenails this year to finally get rid of this unsightly problem?
What Is Fungal Nail?
A toenail fungus, or fungal nail, is really an infection that discolors and changes the texture of your toenail. The nail can appear darker because debris builds up beneath it and its surface will look dull. Sometimes infected toenails will even separate from the nail bed, a painful condition that may emit an unpleasant odor as well.
Fungal nail is caused by fungi that live in, under or right on the toenail's surface. These organisms love warm, moist environments like the inside of your shoes. They are very contagious and you can easily pick up the infection at a public pool, nail salon, gym or locker room.
Treating Toenail Fungus
At-home remedies can give only temporary relief. For full healing of your fungal nail, please visit us at the Podiatry Group of Annapolis, P.A. We have found that oral or topical medications work slowly and sometimes have unpleasant side effects.
Our solution to toenail fungus is cutting-edge laser technology. The laser delivers a concentrated beam of laser light right through the nail to destroy the fungus living under and in the nail. This treatment is more effective than topical sprays or creams that don't penetrate the nail.
These painless laser treatments are performed right here in our office. For most patients, only 3 treatments are necessary and there are no side effects. Laser therapy will allow you to return to your usual activities more quickly than with other treatments.
Resolve to get your toes looking better in time for open-toed spring shoes and sandals! Please contact us for an evaluation to determine if laser therapy is the right treatment for you.
Let Us Eliminate Your Unsightly Toenail Fungus
Dr. James M. McKee, DPM, board certified podiatrist has the right experience to diagnose and treat fungal nail as well as any type of foot and ankle problem. Please call us at 410-224-4448 to make an appointment at our office in Annapolis, MD. You can also request an appointment at the website. Resolve to clear up your fungal nail so you can enjoy wearing sandals again with confidence!


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The Takoradi Magistrate Court has remanded Lucy Awortwi, a mother of two who placed calls to falsely allege that her two children had been kidnapped.
Lucy who was on a police enquiry bail was rearrested Tuesday and put before court charged with deceit of a public officer. She will return to court on Valentine's Day, February 14.
Her false kidnap claim sent the police in Takoradi on a wild goose chase when it later emerged that the wanted 'kidnapper' was her ex-husband who had her blessing to travel with the children.
The police said Lucy, in her late 20s, admitted placing the call to the police to arrest her ex-husband to teach him a lesson by capitalizing on her ex-husband's request to send their two children to visit their grandmother at Beposo in the Shama District.
The police maintained that Lucy had called the police emergency line to complain that someone had kidnapped her two children. And with increasing reports of kidnapping in the country, particularly in Sekondi-Takoradi, the police quickly deployed personnel to the location Lucy had provided, only to realize she had misled them with a premeditated ploy to put her ex-husband in trouble.
The GSTS student
In a related development, the 18-year-old final-year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical Senior High School (GSTS) who allegedly conspired with friends to demand a ransom of GH¢9,000 from his parents under the guise of being kidnapped, will be put before court Wednesday.
De-Vreeze Quaynoo allegedly faked his kidnapping with school mates.
Police said they were pursuing his accomplices, whose names were given as Anthony Osei-Prempeh, Elijah Sam, one Daniel and Evelyn.
According to the Metropolitan Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Alhaji Musah Hussein Awinaba, Daniel and De-Vreeze bought and registered a new SIM card to be used in making calls for the money-extorting misadventure.
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He said Daniel was given the SIM card to call De-Vreeze's parents and relatives who lived at Sefwi Wiawso, caliming that De-Vreeze had been kidnapped and the assailants were demanding a ransom of GH¢9,000.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, he said at 9:20p.m. last Wednesday, the Senior Housemaster of GSTS, Mr Bernard Adu Ampako informed the police that Quaynoo had left the school premises about 3p.m. and had subsequently been reported kidnapped by an unknown caller.
The housemaster explained that the Assistant School Prefect, who was using De-vreeze's phone, had received a call from a strange voice that De-vreeze had been kidnapped for which a GH¢9,000 ransom was being demanded.
He said investigators were immediately sent to gather intelligence during which they found that the victim was with some of his friends in a house around the Takoradi Secondary School (TADISCO).
Alhaji Awinaba said when the team arrived at the scene, they found De-vreeze's school uniform in the house and asked how the uniform got there.
The landlady, he said, told the police that De-vreeze and the other alleged accomplices namely Osei-Prempeh, Daniel and Evelyn, visited her son, Elijah Sam, the previous night and stayed until 10 p.m. when she asked them to go back home.
The landlady said although they left, they returned to her son the following morning with an explanation that they were there to study.


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Anodised aluminium is resistant to both corrosion and abrasion.
It is sturdy for both indoor or outdoor use as it is highly resistant to weathering.
Soft and smooth to the touch, its silky surface is perfectly uniform.
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Shakespeare Tonight, Cheeky Productions/
Shakespeare Tonight
Presented in English
"Breaking… Shakespeare's alive! First ever interview. If Shakespeare were living and writing today, who would he be? A genius, an outsider, or just plain Bill? The Bard is very much alive and kicking, Hamlet's just opened (to mixed reviews!) and Will's in the hot seat. Finally, we ask the questions that have kept us all guessing: Are these plays really his? Why the tragedies? What happened with Anne? Second guest: Sir Francis Bacon, Shakespeare's arch-rival. To be or not to be…? The answer's not on Google. Festival premiere after hit run down under! 'Fantastic!' (James Valentine, ABC Sydney)." (description from the Fringe Programme)
Cheeky Productions
Written and Produced by Paul Wilson
Co-written by Tim Ferguson
Directed and produced by David Parry
Stage/Music/Technical Manager: Dave Sears
Creative/Assistant Producer: Alan Cox
Production Assistant: Shaun Dicks
Dramaturg: John Pinder
Cast: Peter Revel-Walsh, Garry Voss, Priscilla Fere, Paul Obertelli, Francesca Mepham, Kaara Benstead.
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First performed in Sydney, Australia, in 2015.
2016 Tour Information:
August 22-27, 2016, Paradise in Augustines, Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Theatro Technis, London, England (August 2016).
Selected Reviews:
Edinburgh Spotlight review (2 stars):
"The script is ambitious in putting across a lot of information about Shakespeare and Bacon, touching on authorship and biographical elements within a light entertainment frame." "something of a vehicle for a theory to do with Shakespeare's father, and a way to try to make Shakespeare/Shakespeare's life of interest to those who might generally prefer chat shows and social media to centuries-old plays."
BroadwayBaby review (1 star):
"a bit gimmicky"
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The duration of a CodeRage Conference presentation is generally 45 minutes. Each replay includes video and audio.
Change Manager 5.1 Automation for Developers
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Building Robust Applications with Customized Exception Management
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Pastoral Interims
I sense a calling to partner with churches in transition, churches beginning the process of finding a new lead pastor which need the leadership of an interim. As an interim pastor, I seek to work myself out of a job, by providing pastoral leadership to the church, shepherding the flock, ministering the word of God, and helping the session to examine the church's vision and philosophy of ministry.
Please contact me directly for information about my experience and availability for Pastoral Interims.
Most Recent Interim
Wallace Presbyeterian Church
College Park, MD


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The library is currently engaged on a number of research projects.
De Montfort University Open Research Archive (DORA)
The De Montfort University Open Research Archive (DORA) is an online, open access record of research outputs by De Montfort University researchers. Whenever possible the record contains a full text version of the research output.
Library Impact Data Project
This project aims to prove a statistically significant correlation between library usage and student attainment.
Embedding eXisting & Propriatary Learning in an Open-source Repository to Evolve new Resources (EXPLORER)
This project will continue the work being carried out to enhance DORA and to embed it further within the DMU research environment.
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Along with hundreds of others, My husband and I drove to Green Bay. When we arrived and had to park more than a mile from Lambeau Field, we didn't complain. Surging forward with the crowd, we hurried on in eager anticipation.
Inside the fast-filling stadium, we found our seats and settled in to enjoy the next few hours. We cheered as the team took the field. We chatted with the fans around us about the plays and speculated on the season's possibilities. Did it matter that we were mostly strangers to one another? Not at all. We were united by the one thing we had in common–our love for football and the Green Bay Packers.
Interesting how I find a similar joyous unity among my brothers and sisters in Christ. All week long I eagerly look forward to Sunday morning when we gather at church with those of "like precious faith" (1 Peter 1:1, King James Version). Oh, it may not sound like much, but it's as exciting as going to a Packer game!
I may not know everyone who comes, but we are united by the one thing we have in common–our love for God and his family of believers. Together we sing his praises and eagerly listen to what he will say to us through that morning's sermon. We share what the Lord has done in our lives during the past week and cheer one another on. We pray for each other's needs and help one another.
Yes, I am constantly thankful for the loving help and faithful encouragement I receive from my friends in Christ–not only those in the church where I serve but also those serving God and one another in other Christian denominations. And I've heard other believers in Jesus share the same sentiment. Yes, we are thankful.
Focus: "We always thank God for all of you …" ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:2, (New Living Translation).
How about you? For what are you especially thankful when you gather with other believers to worship God?


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TZR125 4DL SP cylinder. (should be the holy grail from what I read)
Found one witch was not expensive.
Thought that it was damaged because the price was nice.
Listed on Dutch E-bay
The first thing noticed when i got it, is the very small exhaust port.
This is almost smaller than a stock 3MB cylinder.
You can see the space between the exhaust ports.
Its way to big.
This is clearly a imitation
At the outside you don't see anny differences
The GILARDONI is also present.
To show the differences, I look for some real SP cylinders where you clearly see the different Exhaust port.
This port is much wider also the space between the ports is much narrower
Here you see the differences, its a narrow bridge close to a S shape
A real SP port is huge
A bid un-sharp, but you see the big exhaust port and S shape bridge
So think twice before you buy a expensive Imitation SP cylinder.
You see them relative often for sale on E-bay between a 450-650 Euro. (Witch is very expensive)
(Most off the time without Power Valve)
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Can social media help fight gentrification in Astoria?
22 October 2016
As Astoria rapidly gentrifies, a handful of locals have taken to social media to try to preserve memories – and just possibly slow the pace of change.
Aprar Hassan, 16, won the U.S. girls' national championship in karate last year. In her bright blue and purple floral-patterned hijab, Brooklynite Hassan is an athletic trailblazer: the first Muslim girl to compete on the Amateur Athletic Union's USA National Karate Team.
In April, the New York Police Department warned about a robocall scam that had bilked at least 21 Chinese immigrants of $2.5 million. Five months later, people in Flushing's Chinatown say they are still getting the calls -- and some are still getting scammed.
A proposed hotel in Little Bangladesh is dividing a community already at odds over the narrow strip, where long-time Jackson Heights residents live alongside South Asian immigrants.
Thousands of Haitians are fearing mass deportation to Haiti as the deadline for Trump to extend their TPS status inches nearer - and activists say the dominating conversation over DACA isn't helping.
Polish-American students talk about their ties to a community at risk of assimilation.
22 October 2016
As Astoria rapidly gentrifies, a handful of locals have taken to social media to try to preserve memories – and just possibly slow the pace of change.
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19 October 2016
In the ultimate urban landscape that is New York City, you might not expect to find beaches. But they are there, on the waterfront borders of every city borough – except Manhattan.
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18 October 2016
When Aissatou Ndao moved to the U.S. from Senegal in 1986, she struggled to make ends meet. Then she joined a tontine, a savings plan popular in many immigrant communities.
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15 October 2016
After 70 years, the federal government told the Paratores the rent on their yard was going up -- way up.
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07 February 2016
Maximino "Max" Vazquez, born and raised in New York, is almost the last vestige of Little Spain, a vibrant ethnic neighborhood that once dominated a stretch of West 14th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.
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31 January 2016
On a brisk December morning, it was impossible to walk down Flushing's Main Street without having flyers thrust at you for "cram school," where sixth graders from many Chinese families study for entrance exams to the city's elite public schools.
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27 December 2015
At the Macy's store in Queens, the latest cosmetic arrival is the small Peach & Lily shop. Every product here comes from Korea, the world's fastest-growing beauty marketer.
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27 December 2015
Global City NYC reporters explore religious, culinary and cultural traditions in the city's ethnic neighborhoods. We learn flamenco, watch Chinatown's chess wars, uncover the secrets of homemade phyllo -- and more.
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24 December 2015
Astoria's Greek community is shrinking, but not the appetite for Greek food. The venerable Mediterranean Foods just opened its third outlet there, in time to sell Christopsoumo, a traditional bread, for Christmas.
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24 December 2015
Colombia's female ambassador to the UN is pushing for the international body to elect its first-ever woman Secretary General next year. But it wouldn't be a female from Colombia.
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This guide is designed to assist/aid faculty and staff in recognising and intervening with students who are (or may be) experiencing emotional distress.
Many of us have fond memories during our college years. Yet, there were days where it might have been particularly stressful. Living away from family, being on your own for the first time, transitions to college life, financial worries, and trying to do well academically contribute to the stress piling up over a period of time. YaleNUS students also experience similar struggles. They are in the process of developing their own identities, life goals, relationships, and careers. However, stressors interfere with their academic performance, and developmental growth as independent adults.
Many students realize that stress is interfering with their personal and academic goals, and seek counselling services with the Counselling Centre. However, the remaining affected students may not be seeking counselling services. By virtue of the frequency and nature of your contact with students, and the respect students have for you are often seen by students as more logical first point of contact in obtaining advice and support.
More importantly, you (faculty and staff) are often in an excellent position to recognise and identify that a student may not be performing academically, and/or functioning emotionally well. You may observe that at certain times of the semester, particularly during assignment deadlines, examinations, and holidays, students experience increased anxiety. The student's behaviour, especially if it is inconsistent with your experience of him/her, could well constitute an inarticulate struggle to draw attention to his/her plight, akin to a "cry for help."
Hopefully, the information on this webpage will assist you in handling students who may be in need of counselling services from the Counselling Centre.
1.1 Recognising/Identifying Students in Distress
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On average, 56% of hospitalized pediatric cancer patients received opioids each day during their last week of life, but rates ranged from 0% to 90.5% between hospitals, Andrea D. Orsey, M.D., of Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and colleagues reported online in Pediatric Blood & Cancer.
Treatment center accounted for a significant 10.5% of variation in continuous opioid prescription in the large, retrospective study (P<0.0001).
Hospital experience with terminally ill cancer patients and insurance type also tended to correlate with this cornerstone of palliative care.
Action Points
- Explain to interested patients that opioid narcotics are a key part of palliative pain management for terminal cancer patients.
- Note that the researchers cautioned against inferring quality of care based on the findings because the data did not include levels of pain, adequacy of pain management, the appropriateness of doses prescribed, or other pain treatments.
Despite the obstacles, "good pain management seems to be the least we can do for our pediatric patients with cancer," Sarah Friebert, M.D., of the Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital, said in an accompanying editorial.
"Adequate pain management improves ability to cope with therapy . . . improves nutrition and sleep, and facilitates healing," she wrote. For those who cannot be cured, "relief of distress from pain at the end of life carries long-lasting implications for bereaved parents, who cope much better when their dying children's pain is well-controlled."
However, daily opioid administration is not necessarily a good surrogate for adequate pain management and multiple factors affect opioid use within individual hospitals, Dr. Friebert noted.
The study included 1,466 pediatric oncology patients up to age 24 treated at 33 children's hospitals with detailed administrative data available in the Pediatric Health Information System database.
Overall, 44% of patients did not receive opioids daily for the hospitalized portion of their last week of life.
Factors associated with greater likelihood of continuous opioid prescription were:
- Private insurance as the primary source of payment (63.4% versus 51.9% with Medicaid or other governmental insurance, P<0.001)
- Older patient age (multivariate odds ratio 1.67 and 1.61 for age 10 to 14 and 15 to 19 years, respectively)
- Diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma (OR 0.58 for brain tumors versus leukemia or lymphoma)
- Shorter length of the terminal hospital stay (multivariate OR 2.94 to 22.4 for patients who died within three days of admission compared with hospitalization for more than a week)
After adjustment for patient case mix, substantial variation between hospitals persisted.
Most individual hospitals still had a proportion of terminal patients who received daily opioids that fell outside the 95% confidence interval for the overall sample (P<0.001).
Hospitals that saw a larger volume of terminal pediatric oncology patients each year tended to prescribe daily opioids to a larger proportion (57.0% for at least five cases versus 40.0% for less than five, P=0.08 for trend).
But in the multivariate regression model, the association dropped to a nonsignificant 1% increase in the odds of daily opioids for each additional patient in the hospital case volume (OR 1.01, 95% CI 0.98 to 1.05).
The researchers cautioned against inferring quality of care based on the findings because the data did not include levels of pain, adequacy of pain management, the appropriateness of the opioid doses prescribed, or other pain treatments.
In addition, they said, it could not be inferred from the data whether patients were admitted for terminal care or died unexpectedly.
Rather, the many factors involved in the use of opioids within a hospital, including the prevailing medical "culture" toward care of dying patients and availability of hospice and other community resources, "strongly suggest that interventions to alter these practices will be most effective if they are adapted to the specific social, cultural, technical, and institutional configuration of each hospital," the researchers concluded.
The authors and editorialist agreed that further research into pain control in children with cancer was needed.
| The study was supported by a National Research Service Award. The researchers reported no conflicts of interest.
Dr. Friebert provided no information on conflicts of interest.
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Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Source Reference: Orsey AD, et al "Variation in receipt of opioids by pediatric oncology patients who died in children's hospitals" Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009; DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21824.
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Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Source Reference: Friebert S "Pain management for children with cancer at the end of life: beginning steps toward a standard of care" Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009; DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21892.


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The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries yesterday lifted the ban on corned beef imported from South American country Brazil, but some consumers are insisting that they will no longer buy the product.
Portfolio Minister Karl Samuda told journalists during a press briefing at the ministry's Hope Gardens office in St Andrew that the ministry's technical team visited Brazil and was able to establish that the sources of Brazilian corned beef imported into the country were not compromised.
"All corned beef en route to the island will be cleared and all stocks now being held in quarantine will be released for distribution and consumption," Samuda said.
Brazil supplies 99.5 per cent of the corned beef sold in Jamaica.
Manufacturing and distribution companies welcomed the move, noting that they have long declared that their corned beef suppliers in Brazil are not under investigation by authorities there.
The ministry last month placed a temporary ban on the importation of the product following reports from Brazilian authorities that several major meat processors in that country had been selling tainted beef and poultry. The companies were also alleged to have paid hefty bribes to auditors in exchange for fraudulent sanitary licences.
The prolonged ban threatened a trade row between the two countries as both sides took hard positions on the measure.
The Brazilian Embassy had asked the Jamaican government to lift what it described as a "unilateral ban", pointing out that none of the 21 meat-processing companies was under investigation in Brazil for selling rotten beef and poultry export to Jamaica.
However, Samuda had insisted that the ban on the product, more popularly known as "bully beef" in Jamaica, would remain in place until relevant tests had been completed.
Yesterday's announcement of the ban lift was protested by scores of Jamaicans, including Jamaica Observer online readers who were adamant that they will refrain from consuming the product.
"Damage is already done, plus it expensive and unhealthy as hell. I know for sure that I won't be eating it ever again," Mark Robinson said.
Another reader, Andrea Henry, echoed that she is still not interested in eating the product.
"It's still not gonna be sold as often as before. Plus, it's not so cheap anymore anyways," Rochelle Williams added.
"Dem can lift ban all dem want, I not buying, worse like how my pickney dem no eat it," another reader said.
Marketing manager at LASCO Distributors Limited Kelia-Gaye Dunbar told the Observer that, while the company anticipates that it will take some time for sales and distribution to normalise, it believes that corned beef sales will pick up, given that it is a meal staple.


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In August of 2007, my house in Philadelphia was vacant and I had to put the house back in the market. I tried to rent the house by myself but I had no luck of getting a solid tenant. So I went back to my real estate agent and hired him to do the work for me.
The house is a single family home, two floors and a basement, 3 bedrooms, with a garage and a private outdoor parking space. It is about 1200 square feet and has central A/C. It is situated in the northeast part of Philadelphia, in an area called Mayfair. It is in a quiet and I was told that it is a good neighborhood. It is very close to the highway and about 20 minutes away from downtown Philadelphia.
My real estate agent, Earl would be in charge of renting out the single family house. His work would involve putting up a sign in front of the house, listing the property on the paper, taking phone calls, showing the place, checking tenant backgrounds and credits, and collecting the deposit money from them.
In September, he called me and told me that he had a great prospective tenant for me. This person, Billy, was an auto-mechanic and had a good income of $71,000 (considered high in Philadelphia). He had a girlfriend and two children.
Earl ran a credit check on Billy and sent me his credit report. Earl told me that the credit score was not the most important part of a credit/background check. There could be a person with great credit score but had no income. The income was the most important part because the tenant should have enough money to pay the rent every month. Some people might not have a good credit score, because they messed up their credit scores when they were young but had been working for many years to build it back. I thought it made some sense, since many Americans do tend to ignore or abuse their credit in the early stage of life.
Basically, Earl's point was that I would most likely not see any applicants with credit scores more than 700. I was told that the local economy in Philadelphia had been lackluster and the tenant pool generally did not make a high salary. Given the average price of a house in Philadelphia, which was around $100,000, the financial requirement to buy a house was very low. This led me to think that most tenants could not afford the down payment of 10% or their credit score was inadequate for a mortgage loan. Thus, my expectation for a tenant in Philadelphia was lower. However, I still had hopes for a good tenant.
I received the credit report from Earl in the mail and looked at the history. The credit report was 3 pages long and it listed all the creditors and financial information for each account. There were a few late payments, which were from the year 2003 to 2005. There were a few past due amounts, including one from a collection agency. Other than that, I did not see anything else that caught my attention. The applicant did not have any criminal records.
I would say that it was my real first task as a landlord to screen through tenants. I was new to the process and did not the details to the process. I relied mostly on my real estate agent. He would handle everything from meeting the applicants, to showing them the house, to handing them the keys to the house. I had never met any of the applicants and the tenants after they signed the papers. My bad tenant and I had never met. All the work was done through my real estate agent.
Earl told me that the applicant, Billy looked on paper. There were a few late payments and past due balances, but overall, he thought that the applicant was a solid candidate. At first I wanted a tenant with high credit score and high income, but Earl already told me that that was highly unlikely. Since my expectations could not be so high and I was unfamiliar with tenant-screening process, I allowed Earl to make the decisions for me.
I noticed that there were previous missed/late payments on the credit report. Earl told me that everyone had missed or late payments on their credit report in the past (which I doubt is true), and he told me to focus on the current history, which showed more consistent payments.
At first, Billy seemed like a fine tenant. He would pay the rent for the first few months. Then he went missing in action. He disappeared for two months and stopped paying rent. He called back one day out of nowhere and explained that he was expelled from his house by his girlfriend. His reason not to pay rent was merely that he was not living in the house. Obviously, that reason was unacceptable. Beyond that, he gave me more problems and requested to have repairs done in the house by landlord and threaten to call the Department of Licenses and Inspection. He would find every possible excuse to avoid paying rent. I gave up dealing with him and I hired an attorney to file eviction papers against him. The eviction process was delayed for several months. Eventually, we agreed to a private settlement and he left the house.
Closing Statement
I am not sure if one could have avoided this whole mess by preventing the tenant in the screening process. It would be difficult to forecast a bad tenant based on the credit report alone. I think another important check would be one on the tenant's employment records and previous landlord experience.
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Billy = My tenant
Earl = My real estate agent
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Here then is the completed background to one of the sketches below. The image now sits in After effects waiting for me to finish animating Mr Shiny in the forground. The trees are blurred and the Bert Newton moon has a glow around him too. I'm trying to get the stars to twinkle but I'll see how I go. I don't want to get bogged down on details.
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There is a rising demand among expatriates to live in the mining towns of Australia, statements from an expert have indicated.
Your Property Club founder and real estate investor Brett Alegre-Wood said the affordability of these buildings is improving.
This has resulted in a "huge" demand for these residences, he declared.
However, the specialist described this sector as "two-tier", noting that the eastern seaboard is where around 80 per cent of the populace lives.
These places are "getting hit hardest", although other areas are still experiencing higher house prices because members of the public in the districts are "getting paid so much".
Mr Algegre-Wood added people who are relocating abroad to live in Australia might wish to choose a major urban location such as Sydney or Melbourne.
International healthcare cover might be vital when moving down under, with the US' Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook noting the nation is at risk of severe droughts, cyclones, forest fires and volcanic activity.
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Rough Riding: America Needs a New Mass Movement for Responsible Reform
By Michael Stafford
America is at a critical crossroads. The economic blows of the past several years have been extremely unsettling. Today, our society is marked by a widely shared perception that something is terribly amiss in our country - socially, politically, and economically.
This perception is accurate. We are encompassed by a range of complex problems.
Domestically, they include stagnating or declining wages for middle and working class Americans, the disappearance of manufacturing sector jobs, the twin banes of under and unemployment, the sustainability of key social programs like Medicare, and the growing influence of corporate money and special interests in our political system. Moreover, we are facing these challenges at a time when our public discourse is fundamentally poisoned. As Fred Bauer has observed, today, our nation is marked by almost "pathological" levels of "anxiety, social alienation, partisan cynicism, and civic despair."
Growing income inequality, and its political consequences, are at the heart of this constellation of problems. For the past three decades, the richest Americans, a group we can define as the top 1% of income earners in the United States, have reaped a disproportionate share of the economic benefits. They have been the primary beneficiaries of the tremendous economic expansion that occurred over this period. According to economist Paul Krugman, they accounted for over 80% of the total increase in income during the 25-year period from 1980 to 2005, and now control roughly 40% of America's total wealth.
Meanwhile, wages for middle class Americans have remained largely stagnant, and those of blue-collar workers have decreased. This process continues even today. As Steven Greenhouse has reported, a recent study of the nation's economic recovery concluded that it "has been unusually skewed in favor of corporate profits and against increased wages for workers."
Inevitably, great concentrations of wealth create great concentrations of political power. Today, we are flirting with the creation of an oligarchic class that will have total control of the media, the economy, and the government. Recent Supreme Court decisions, like Citizens United, which has opened the floodgates for corporate money to influence our elections, merely serve to accelerate this process.
In the early Twentieth Century, America faced a similar situation. It was a time marked by inequalities of wealth and opportunity, and widespread political corruption. In response, the Progressive Movement arose and put in place protections that curbed the worst excesses of oligarchic capitalism and industrialization. The Progressives enacted new business regulations, promoted measures designed to protect workers and consumers, expanded participation in the democratic process, fought the corrupting influence of corporate money in politics, and emphasized environmental stewardship through a range of conservation measures.
Today, America needs a new mass movement for responsible reform, a revitalized Progressive Movement, dedicated to championing the interests of the middle and working classes, maintaining the key pillars of the social contract, curbing the corrupting power of corporate influence in government, and ensuring that economic opportunity remains open to all Americans. Such a revitalized reform movement could mitigate and humanize the worst aspects of globalization and restrict the influence of the super-rich. It could push for a more equitable distribution of burdens and benefits within our society. It could also, by utilizing the federal government's tax and regulatory power, potentially move America towards a point where more than a privileged few are doing better from year to year.
Such a reform movement would address the cancerous poison of cynicism and alienation eating away at the nation's soul by championing the interests of the vast majority of us instead of protecting the wealth and privileged status of a small elite and the huge corporations they control.
Theodore Roosevelt, one of the most famous leaders of the old Progressives, understood that reform was ultimately in the best interests of the rich industrialists themselves. As he noted, "[t]hose who oppose reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism." Roosevelt's insight remains relevant today.
As Umair Haque has stated, "[i]f it's the poor and powerless who are made to recapitalize an insolvent global financial system, a great storm is coming." Whether our super-rich still possess enough of a sense of enlightened self-interest to perceive this and avoid Haque's "great storm," remains an open question.
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Dr. Shapiro earned a Bachelor of Science at Yale University and graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine with honors. Dr. Shapiro served an internship and a second year of general surgery at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He trained at the Harvard Orthopaedic Residency Program in Boston and completed a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery in Dallas at the University of Texas at Southwestern.
Dr. Shapiro is a leading expert across the spectrum of foot and ankle procedures:
- Operative Fixation of Fractures
- Arthrodesis (Fusion) of Joints
- Endoscopic Plantar Fasciotomy
- Joint Resurfacing
- Correction of Painful Flat Feet
- Bunion and Hammer Toe Correction
- Minimally Invasive Neuroma Surgery
- Tendon Repairs
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Removal of Tumors
Dr. Shapiro is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. He is also a member of the American Medical Association and the Georgia Orthopaedic Society. He is a former President of the Georgia Foot and Ankle Society and served on the Committee for AAOS Foot and Ankle Exam from 2012-2018. Dr. Shapiro is published in Biomechanics, Foot and Ankle International, Foot and Ankle Clinics, and Orthopaedics Today. He has also been a Reviewer of Foot and Ankle International for over 12 years.


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LONDON — You are a child born in Senegal, sent to a French school in your teens. At age 24, you are sold to West Ham United, the old docklands club in London's East End.
Just seven minutes into Saturday's game against Liverpool, you strike a fantastic goal. The ball leaves your foot, arches and dips over the goalkeeper, and nestles into the top far corner of the net.
The Hammers fans are singing in the rain. Some are literally blowing bubbles into the dank air. "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," an American song adopted by the West Ham fans way back in the 1920s, is something you will hear when you make the faithful happy.
And after West Ham United blew Liverpool away, 3-1, at the Boleyn Ground on Saturday, managers and players on both sides argued whether the extraordinary, angled and lofted shot from Diafra Sakho was meant as a shot or was a cross that floated in on the wind.
"Ask Diafra," said the Hammers' gruff English manager, Sam Allardyce. "He'll tell you it was 100 percent intended to score. He has that quality in him."
Brendan Rodgers, the Liverpool coach, had his doubts. He thought it was a cross, meant for the head of Sakho's teammate, Enner Valencia, at the far post. Valencia, by the way, is also new to the West Ham lineup, and he's from Ecuador.
They are two of the nine new faces brought in from all over the world by a London club that traditionally relied upon its own ability to find local lads to train a certain way. It was a hard-working style, reflective of those toiling in the nearby docks, but sophisticated, too. It turned out Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst, the triumvirate synonymous with the only time that England won the World Cup, back in 1966.
Huge, once-unthinkable demographic change has overtaken English soccer since then. No one has the patience to nurture players, now that there is so much TV money sloshing around the Premier League, so seven out of every 10 players come from outside the country. So it is not surprising that not one, but two Sakhos were on the field Saturday.
Diafra Sakho, born in Senegal but recruited by the French team Metz when he was 17, brings his own blend of free spirit and fast running to West Ham, which is waiting for its big move in two years into the nearby stadium built for the 2012 Olympics.
Mamadou Sakho, born in Paris of Senegalese parents, is the same age, 24.
But there the comparison appears to end. The Liverpool version is bigger, much more muscular, primarily a defender and an intimidator rather than a creator.
M. Sakho's aggressive play led to a bloodied scalp by his own teammate, Dejan Lovren after they both went up to head the same ball, resulting in another of those sickening collisions that is alarming medical experts.
Battered and bandaged, Lovren played on.
By then, however, it was clear that West Ham's new collection of summer purchases was going to beat Liverpool's even more expensively recast team.
Both clubs ended up spending a net total of about 30 to 35 million pounds ($48 million to $57 million) over the summer.
However, Liverpool was dealing in high-end sales and purchases. Having sold Luis Suárez to Barcelona for about £75 million, the Reds then laid out a total of £117 million to buy two-thirds of a new team. (Let it be noted that Liverpool's sole scorer on Saturday, Raheem Sterling, is a holdover from last season's club.)
Suárez's departure left a big gap to fill, and that is apparent now. "Without Suárez, Liverpool will be a midtable rather than a top-table side," Sunderland Manager Gus Poyet said in late June.
Harsh words from a fellow Uruguyan, but maybe prescient. Liverpool has the added complication of being in the Champions League this season, which means often playing midweek in Europe instead of having seven days to concentrate on the Premier League. A current wave of injuries, not least to players who went to the World Cup, is hampering Liverpool, but Rodgers did not hide behind that on Saturday.
He admitted that the team performed neither to the standard nor to the intensity that is expected of it. West Ham, by contrast, relieved some of the pressure on its manager by running so hard and with such determination that supporters who have been clamoring for change were instead blowing bubbles in appreciation.
It wasn't just Diafra Sakho. A strong and resourceful combination in the midfield came from Cheikhou Kouyaté and Alex Song. Kouyaté's route from Senegal to London came via a stopover in Belgium — a move popular with many African players — while Song, from Cameroon, has been loaned to West Ham by Barcelona.
But if England is now predominantly a home for foreign talents, there was one Englishman whose performance on Saturday should have been more familiar to Liverpool. Stewart Downing was regarded as a failed Red, a winger discarded by the club in 2013.
Downing had speed and made penetrating crosses, but has lacked consistency. This weekend, West Ham used him differently. He was the front player in a midfield diamond formation. He was too swift for the likes of Steven Gerrard. His distribution of the ball fed all those fast-moving new Hammers.
You search the world for better players, and a rejected home-bird pulls your defenses apart.


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From left, Michelle Mecate, Jean Kim, George Tality and Maileen Mecate, all members of the choir ministry. (Photo by Rene Ner)
"Thank You For The Music," a concert by the cantors and pianist of St. Aloysius Church in Jersey City, N.J., was held on Nov. 14, with Fr. Joseph D'Amico, pastor, supporting the event.
Featuring popular Disney and Broadway songs, Christian-Inspirational pieces, and even Filipino teleserye theme songs and hit oldies.
"The concert is our way giving back to our parish, St. Aloysius," said the performers led by Michelle Mecate, Maileen Mecate, Jean Kim, La Von Abis and Filipino Idol winner George Tality. "It is our way of saying 'thank you' to all for allowing us to serve in a way we truly enjoy — music."
"It's also our way of showing our appreciation because through our ministry that we all became friends," they said.
All proceeds will go to St. Aloysius Church.
St. Als music director, Linea Rondael, and the Children's Choir took part in the concert with their special numbers. Guitarist Khrystine Capili and drummer Rom Julian Lipa were also featured.
The sounds were provided by Mr. Carl Duque and Mr. Roberto Subol.
St. Aloysius Church's young singers. (Photo by Rene Ner)
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Starting my business has been one of the craziest rollercoaster rides I've ever been on, and I don't want to get off!
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Roses are red and violets are blue,
I love you so much I got you something new.
I'll give you a hint, it's big and white,
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