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Downers Grove Sara Lee Corp. Recalled 1,728 pounds of Ball Park hot dogs.
Chicago, IL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–As reported by the Chicago Tribune on Friday, the Downers Grove food product company, Sara Lee Corporation www.saralee.com, voluntarily recalled 1,728 pounds of its Ball Park brand hot dogs. According to the national and international consumer goods company, the hot dogs were mislabeled and were recalled because of a packaging error. The product recall involves Ball Park Beef Franks with a packaged "Use by May 08 09 P8740A" and UPC Code 5450010002.
Ball Park Cheese Franks were mislabeled as Ball Park Beef Franks placing people with allergies to milk, poultry and pork at risk of serious injury. Consumers with known food allergies specifically refrain from ingesting the product they are allergic to because of the severe medical injury and possible death allergic reactions may cause. Company executives for Sara Lee refused to say where the recalled hot dogs were sold but they did confirm none were sold in the Chicago area. There have been no reports of illness or injury.
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Q: What makes Southside Child Development Center different from other centers in the Baton Rouge and surrounding areas?
Southside Child Development Center opened its doors in 1992 with the sole purpose of providing the highest quality childcare in this area. Within the first year of operation, Southside became the first childcare program in Baton Rouge to earn NAEYC National Accreditation. We were Nationally Accredited from 1993 - 2006 at which point we transitioned to the Louisiana Quality Start Program because of the tax deduction benefits offered to our parents. We have earned 4 out of 5 quality stars through this program. Southside Child Development Center has been toured by students from Southern University, Louisiana State University, and Baton Rouge Vocational and Technical School; has been voted as Baton Rouge's Family Favorite in the Baton Rouge Parents Magazine for 4 consecutive years; and has been a benchmark for many other childcare centers emulating quality care.
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ILS is working with HealthLinc to provide no-cost, civil legal aid to patients who need legal assistance for matters related to their health.
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October 20, 2017
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Eligible patients will work with attorney Emma Douglas to get their issues resolved at no cost. In addition, qualifying patients will also receive annual screenings for potential health-harming issues in their lives that may reveal a need for civil legal assistance.
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This is one of the best novels I've read this year, perhaps in memory. There, I've said it. Six Stories really is something special.
We all know of the podcast phenomenon. There's Serial, obviously. More recently, there's been Untold, the Peter Jukes telling of the still-unsolved Daniel Morgan murder. Six Stories takes as its format a fictional true crime podcast. Six Stories (where the book gets its title, obviously) is a fictional podcast that looks at a case from six different perspectives. If you're thinking that this is a great idea for a podcast you're not alone, reading the novel I thought the author had a good idea for a format should he ever want to step away from novel writing. Not that he should on the strength of this debut, mind.
So back to the novel. The narrator of the Six Stories blog is Scott King, a former journalist. The focus of the podcast is the 1997 death of a teenager, Tom Jeffries, on Scarclaw Fell, a remote fictional mountainside and woodland area in Northumberland. Tom disappeared, his partially decomposed body found a year later. Ruled at the time as an accidental death, the rumours that there was something else at play have never really gone away. Those caught up in the incident, particularly the adults, were subjected to tabloid abuse and trial by media. Scott King interviews the other teenagers, the adults who were supervising the trip (they were staying in a lodge, doing various outdoor activities) and the son of the aristocratic landowner who owns Scarclaw Fell, who along with some friends, discovered Tom Jefferies' body.
The narrative is almost entirely told through the interviews conducted with the various participants for the Six Stories podcast, occasional sections told from the perspective of Henry Ramsey, the landowner's son. The structure is an effective one and allows the author to keep the reader guessing while ratcheting up the tension. It's a little like the device of the unreliable narrator, though here all the witnesses are unreliable in that we don't know who to believe, what agendas they might have, what they may or may not have to hide. Added to the mystery of what happened to Tom Jeffries, is a potential supernatural element. Like many unclaimed wildernesses, Scarclaw Fell has been the focus of stories of monsters or ghouls throughout history and some of the teenagers' report having seen something on the moorland. Was Tom Jeffries, who we quickly learn to have been a troubled youth who rubbed people up the wrong way, murdered by another's hand? Was he the victim of whatever stalks Scarclaw Fell? Does this explain the mystery of why his body remained missing for a year?
This is a fantastic debut, incredibly assured. On the strength of Six Stories, Matt Wesolowski is someone who's work, like the beast of Scarclaw Fell, I will hungrily devour in the future.
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Hello friends, hope you all are enjoying your weekend.. Today I have a CAS card to share with you all. This week in casology challenge, the theme is "Circles" . There are endless possibilities to this theme but the first thing that struck my mind is the " Smiley". Smileys are used to express that little extra feeling during a conversation. They are a great source of fun as they can easily add a laugh and color to the otherwise bland chats. So I made a smiley card using glitter foam sheets.
The background strips and smileys are hand-cut and the sentiment is hand written. To bring more shine to the card added rhinestones.
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1 .Casology challenge blog - cue word " Circles"
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Technology has really evolved fast in the recent decades, and it has changed our way of life. In business, computers make it more efficient to transact business or monitor productivity. Communication has also been made easier with cellphones and social network sites. Things are now going so fast with technology that it would be a challenge for everyone to try to keep up with the changes. But what amazes me is that young kids today seem to have their way with it. Give a child a gadget, and he or she will learn how to use it in minutes. In fact, my five-year old daughter Isabella has been so skilled in using an iPad even if no one has taught her.
Archive for January, 2013
The Vibe of Digital EducationThursday, January 31st, 2013
Join the Negosem Basics on February 15!Monday, January 28th, 2013
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Do you have what it takes to be a 'negosyante'? WOULD YOU LIKE TO know the FUNDAMENTALS of starting a business? Do you want to be inspired to take that first step in establishing your own enterprise? DO YOU HAVE AN EXISTING BUSINESS BUT FEELS YOU NEED TO REVIST AND BE RE-ORIENTED ABOUT THE 'BASICS' OF PAGNENEGOSYO?
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Take part in the very first run of NEGOSEM Negosyo Basics for the year 2013 on February 15! Learning Fee is PhP600.00 ONLY, inclusive of two seminar topics, one talk primer on Go Negosyo as an advocacy, Certificate of Attendance, Go Negosyo's bestselling book 21 Steps on How to Start Your Own Business OR 8 Simple Secrets to Raising Entrepreneurs, and a chance to interact with likeminded individuals who are either aspiring to start their own enterprise or those who have already started and looking for ways to level up!
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The Biggest Techno Event of the YearThursday, January 17th, 2013
Four days from now, we will be mounting Go Negosyo's 2nd Filipino Technopreneurship Summit at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. From the initial one thousand at the NBC Tent, we are now expecting close to five thousand attendees, including students from 70 schools in Luzon and Visayas as well as 500 participants from PLDT SME Nation, to attend the summit, which is enough to fill all the three halls of the SMX. The technology sector has been really booming in the past couple of decades, and we thought that it is about time for us to open this avenue for Filipinos who would like to start their own negosyos but are not sure of what to do, or where to begin. But before I tell you more about the event, let me thank the PLDT group led by MVP (who will attend the summit himself), EVP Eric Alberto, and PLDT SME Nation head Kat Luna-Abelarde for working with us in mounting the Technopreneur summit. They will be demonstrating their newest service called the PLDT Cloud there, which I think is one of the best IT-related services that we can avail in the country.
Four forum sessions will happen that will feature various industry names who will talk about their experiences as technopreneurs—what was it like to be one, the challenges that came along their way, and the steps that they have made in order to reach the top. PLDT President Polly Nazareno will help us inspire our participants with his opening remarks, while the keynote message will come from Engr. Diosdado Banatao, one of the most successful Filipino technopreneurs and the Chairman of PhilDev Foundation. The first forum will follow afterwards, which would highlight the success of Filipinos who have also made it big in the technology industry such as Silicon Valley fellows Winston Damarillo, Eric Manlunas, Dr. Paco Sandejas, and Myla Villanueva, as well as Smart Communications co-founder Doy Vea. (more…)
The Filipino TechnopreneursMonday, January 14th, 2013
Another year has begun. Everyone is anticipating that 2013 will be a super year for the Philippines in terms of economic growth. For Go Negosyo, this means another year for us to continue expanding the advocacy of entrepreneurship as a way out of misery and poverty. And to start the year, we are mounting the 2nd Filipino Technopreneurship Summit on January 21. Due to the overwhelming number of participants who would like to take part, we will now be doing this at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.
We have invited 40 of the industry's biggest names to inspire people that technopreneurship is actually a good avenue in starting a business. As big and as popular their names may be in the technology sector, all of them started from scratch, and they were able to make a name for themselves by working hard, by being passionate about what they do, and by staying positive despite the adversities that came their way. Let me share the stories of some of these remarkable people. (more…)
FILIPINO TECHNOPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT MOVING TO SMX CONVENTION CENTER!Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Due to the influx of participants, the 2nd Filipino Technopreneurship Summit will be moved from NBC Tent to the SMX CONVENTION CENTER, same day, on January 21, 2013.
We would like to thank all the confirmed schools who will be participating at the coming Summit:
Asian Institute of Maritime Studies
Bataan Peninsula State University
Batangas State University (Main Campus)
Bulacan Agricultural State College
Bulacan State University
Central Luzon University
Centro Escolar University Makati
Colegio de San Juan de Letran Manila
De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde
De La Salle Lipa
De La Salle University Dasmarinas
Don Bosco Technical College
Far Eastern University Manila
Far Eastern University – Silang, Cavite
First Asia Institute of Technology & Humanities
Global Reciprocal Colleges
Imus Computer College
La Consolacion College – Caloocan
Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Colleges of Caybiga Inc.
Leon Guinto Memorial College, Inc
Lipa City Colleges
Lyceum of the Philippines Batangas
Lyceum of the Philippines University Manila
Manila Central University
Marinduque State College
Metro Manila College
National College of Sciencde & Technology
National University Manila
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina
Pasig Catholic College
Philippine Cultural College
Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Quezon City
Quezon City Polytechnic University
Rizal Technological University
Southville Foreign University
STI College Munoz
St. Francis of Assisi College Las Pinas
St. Joseph's College of Quezon City
St. Joseph's College – Montalban
St. Paul University Manila
St. Paul University Tugegarao
Technological Institute of the Philippines – QC
Trinity University of Asia
University of Makati
University of Rizal System – Tanay, Rizal
University of Rizal System – Bingonan, Rizal
University of Sto. Tomas
University of the East Manila
We are still open for confirmation from high schools and colleges. You may get in touch with the FTSii Secretariat through Ms. Rose Peralta (NCR schools) or Ms. Andel Reyes (Non-NCR schools) at 637.9229 or 637.9347. Schools are sent official invitation letters addressed to the College or University President. While the invitation is open to everyone, we would like to prioritize students of the following courses: Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Advertising, Community, Business and Entrepreneurship. A template invitation letter for school can be downloaded from our event website: www.gonegosyo.net/ftsii. We would also like to thank the Commission on Higher Education for their official endorsement.
The registration for participants (non-students and non-teachers only) is still open. Registration fee is worth Five Hundred Pesos (P500.00), which will already cover for lunch, PM snack and a Certificate of Participation. Please reserve a slot by filling up the online registration database. Payment should be made to any BDO Branch with the Account Name Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship Foundation, Inc. under Account Number 4850-088-492. To slot verification, the deposit slip should be sent via fax (637.7874) or via e-mail (email@example.com) (Subject: FTSiiPayment_NAME). REGISTRATION IS EXTENDED UNTIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013.
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Wishes for 2013Thursday, January 10th, 2013
The festivities have come to a close, and our relatives whom we hosted for the holidays are starting to return to where they are based. A friend of mine, Haresh Hiranan, who turned 50 years old last week, also hosted his wife's family for a couple of weeks. When his guests asked him to say a few words during his party, he told them that he is looking forward to January 5. They asked him what would happen on that day, and his guests laughed when he replied, "That is the date when all of you would depart."
Kidding aside, it is really important to spend time with friends and family. Holidays give us the opportunity to get together, and it is sad to see good times come to an end and bid farewell to relatives and friends. In the past weeks I am sure that many families had also experienced the same feeling, especially those who have spouses or members of the family who are working abroad. Speaking of separation, I am glad divorce is not a priority with PNoy. This is the one thing that our country should not even do, as the risk of separation is much higher when a spouse lives abroad to work. Allowing divorce will make it easier for people to just call it quits when the couple can still make their marriage work. Allowing divorce will destroy the very fiber that holds the Filipino family together. (more…)
Happy New Year 2013Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
The Christmas season comes to a close, and in five hours as I write this column we will be welcoming the year 2013. Time does fly so fast especially when you have family and friends celebrating with you. Hosting close to 100 people for the holidays at our home by the beach, including my father's 81st birthday, was a challenging task. I invited the New Zealand Ambassador Reuben Levermore to stay with us for two nights and welcome the New Year the Pinoy way. This is his first time to see a better view of the Batangas beaches, and he is amazed not only with the scenery, but in seeing how Filipinos bond together with family and friends. Maybe ours was a bit overwhelming for him because of our number.
As we look back at 2012, let us reflect on the things that we did right as a country, starting with PNoy's economic team. Sec. Cesar Purisima, Sec. Greg Domingo, and Gov. Amando Tetangco did all the right things this year, and this column will run out of space if we would enumerate everything that they have accomplished. (more…)


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General Motors Co. will pay a $1 million penalty to resolve charges that inadequate internal accounting controls prevented the automaker from determining the potential financial impact of a deadly ignition-switch defect, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Jan. 18 ( In re General Motors Co. , S.E.C., No. Admin. Proc. File No. 3-17797, 1/18/17 ).
GM and other carmakers facing possible vehicle recalls are required to disclose approximate losses or say they don't have an estimate of the potential financial repercussions from recalling cars, according to the SEC. From spring 2012 to fall 2013, GM's accountants didn't know the company was investigating faulty ignition switches, which could trigger recalls, the SEC alleged.
The automaker in 2014 recalled 2.6 million U.S. cars with ignition switches that could jostle off and cause vehicles to lose power and safety systems. The defect was tied to at least 124 deaths and 275 injuries.
"Internal accounting controls at General Motors failed to consider relevant accounting guidance when it came to considering disclosure of potential vehicle recalls," Andrew M. Calamari, director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, said in a statement. "Proper consideration of loss contingencies and assessment of the need for disclosure are vital to the preparation of financial statements that conform with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles."
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The Pima Community College football team (1-2) gave the No. 1 ranked team in the NJCAA a run for its money on Saturday but fell short in the end.
The Aztecs gave up 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter in their 34-17 loss against No. 1 Arizona Western College at Kino North Stadium.
Down 20-17 early in the fourth quarter, Pima quarterback Jordan Mariteragi threw an interception and the Matadors capitalized on their next possession with a touchdown to make it 27-17 with 10:18 left. The Aztecs punted and turned the ball over on downs on their next two possessions. The Matadors picked off quarterback KC Moore and returned it for the score with 2:25 left.
The Aztecs rallied in the third quarter down 20-9 when freshman running back Clayson Conrad scored on a 2-yard run. The Aztecs tacked on two more points after a miscue by the Matadors on special teams led to a safety.
The Aztecs got on the board in the first quarter when Mariteragi found freshman Ronson Young for a 29-yard touchdown reception to cut Arizona Western's lead to 7-6. The Aztecs took the lead on their next possession when sophomore Coby Oswalt hit a 24 yard field goal to make it 9-7. The Matadors scored 13 unanswered points to retake the lead for good.
The Aztecs will play at Scottsdale Community College next Saturday at 7:00 p.m.


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Monday, September 30, 2013
The Peace of Home
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Oh, I hope the coffee helped. I never liked Mondays when I worked, the week ahead just seemed so loooong! Now I look forward to Mondays when the gang is back to work/school and I can enjoy my coffee quietly and then get on with my own schedule.ReplyDelete
Are you putting your garden to bed yet?
I remember those days - loving Monday because the kids went back to school, then I started homeschooling them and never had another relaxed Monday:). The garden is in decline, but I still love the way it looks, especially in the late afternoon. There are even some marigolds and begonias still blooming!Delete
Love that runner and don't you just love this time of year and the fall colors?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Elaine! That runner was a blast to make, and fairly quick piecing, too. I do love this time of year so much! Autumn colors are my favorite!Delete
What a thoughtful daughter! Enjoy today (Tuesday) and the rest of the week!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Vicki! I'm hoping for a pleasant week!


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Dear Santa,
I know you don't exist. When I was six "Santa" brought me an "Operation" board game for Christmas. My sister got "Hungry Hungry Hippos." I was ecstatic. Then my dad suddenly popped up and exclaims "Santa made a mistake!" and switched the games between the two of us. I learned to love "Hungry Hungry Hippos" but I wasn't stupid. I asked my dad that night if Santa was real and he said "Nope!" with the relief of a man who had to buy one less present from now on.
However, just like I can't prove if existence or God or Alabama really exists, I can't be 100% sure that you don't either. Even if there's a 000.1% chance, it's worth a shot. So I'm covering all my bases and writing you a letter, as well as the Pope, Hillary Clinton and Dustin Diamond. Which one of you is the most powerful? I don't know, but it'd sure suck to be outdone by Screech, wouldn't it, Santa?
So please, please Santa…all I want for Christmas is for the Minnesota Timberwolves to make the NBA playoffs this year. I had hair the last time they did. And I've been bald for a really long time. Smartphones also didn't exist. Cleveland was getting ready to win about ten championships in a row. For fuck's sake, Hoobastank was still popular!
Yes, I'm aware that there are other things that I could wish for, like world peace or an end to starvation and disease. But we all know that's not really your specialty anyway. I've seen Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. You're kind of a dick. Your expertise is in pure capitalism and you don't like highfalutin dentist elves.
So how about a deal? If you make sure the Timberwolves make the playoffs (and by extension make Kevin Love resign with us) you can have JJ Barea. He is elf sized and has no goals of being a dentist that I'm aware of. He's also married to Miss Universe. Who knows? Maybe she could be the new Mrs. Claus once ol' Jose takes a dive off a snow-cliff while looking for the Abominable Snowman?
Please think about it.
Mike Brody
Minneapolis, MN
P.S. While you're at it can you give Ricky Rubio a jump shot? And show Pek how to dunk? And teach Kevin Love defense? Also, please kick David Kahn in the face. And make Stephon Marbury believe he's a hamster. Thanks!


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Argentina: We will stop flights from Falklands
TENSIONS between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands were ratcheted up yesterday.
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was accused of scoring "an own goal" after threatening to stop flights from the islands as "a punishment" for Britain's refusal to renew sovereignty negotiations.
In an address to the United Nations general assembly, Mrs Kirchner, 58, said her government was considering suspending the Falklands to Chile air link which lands in Argentina.
The air link – the only one off the islands – was established in a 1999 deal between the UK and Argentina.
Mrs Kirchner claimed: "It is obvious Britain cannot claim sovereignty over a territory that's 14,000 kilometres away from their land."
Her posturing is believed to be linked to a major oil discovery off the Falklands. Exploration company Rockhopper is expected to start pumping oil there in 2016.
Tensions between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands were ratcheted up yesterday
Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly member Jan Cheek said: "It would be a massive own goal. She would be cutting the islands off from Argentine veterans and their families and from Argentina's neighbours."
Last night the Foreign Office said: "It is disappointing that in its attempts to deny the people of the Falkland Islands their right to self determination, Argentina appears to be considering withdrawing from yet another agreement with the UK."
Government insiders say Britain is unlikely to budge. Prime Minister David Cameron recently told MPs: "As long as the Falkland Islands want to be sovereign British territory they should remain sovereign British territory. Full stop. End of story."
Britain went to war in 1982 after Argentina invaded the islands. The destroyer HMS Exeter, which served in the conflict, was towed out of Portsmouth for the last time last week to be broken up for scrap in Turkey.


text: Sometimes it seems like life itself is conflict. The very act of living is savage, sustenance required on a daily basis requires consumptions, the stronger against the weaker. The imperatives of nature, of scientific inquiry, of existing as individuals and groups and nations in a world where difference is the norm and change is the only constant seems to imply that conflict lies within the very genome of life itself.


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NSW Mothers and Babies Report 2016
10,000 steps a day keeps the blues away
In one of the largest health studies carried out at a workplace, two thousand participants in the Stepathlon, a corporate wellness challenge dedicated to achieving better physical and mental health outcomes, reveals consistent and positive impacts on all measures of mental health.
Read more at: https://www.myvmc.com/news/10000-steps-day-keeps-blues-away/
Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two
After only two drinks, the researchers noted changes in the working of the prefrontal cortex of the brain, the part normally involved in tempering a person's levels of aggression.
The study, led by Associate Professor Thomas Denson of the UNSW School of Psychology, is published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, which is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society and is published by Springer.
In this study, Denson and his team recruited 50 healthy young men. The participants were either given two drinks containing vodka, or placebo drinks without any alcohol. While lying in an MRI scanner, the participants then had to compete in a task which has regularly been used over the past 50 years to observe levels of aggression in response to provocation.
Read more at:https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/brain-scans-show-why-people-get-aggressive-after-drink-or-two
Gonorrhoea 'super-superbugs' triple in six months
The result was a "warning shot across the bow" for doctors and public health officials fighting antibiotic resistance, CARAlert's senior medical adviser said.A total of 742 reports of critically resistant bacteria were collected by the early-warning system from 65 laboratories nationwide between April and September last year, a 75 per cent rise on the 423 cases reported in the same period during 2016.
Read more at:http://www.smh.com.au/national/gonorrhoea-super-superbugs-triple-in-six-months-20180212-p4z01e.html
All complications should count (Grattan Institute)
This report exposes the flaws in Australian hospitals' safety and quality monitoring regime, and recommends reforms that could result in an extra 250,000 patients leaving hospital each year free of complications.
At the moment, hospital safety policies focus on only a small subset of complications classified by government as being 'preventable'. Instead policy should be directed towards reducing all complications to the best rate achievable. This requires building up a comprehensive picture of patient outcomes, and understanding how some hospitals and clinical teams reduce all complications and achieve excellent outcomes.
Report: All complications should count.
Media release.
10-year review of the Closing the Gap Strategy released
In fact, a December 2017 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report found the mortality and life expectancy gaps are actually widening due to accelerating non-Indigenous population gains in these areas.
The COAG Closing the Gap Strategy was developed by Australian governments following their signing of the Close the Gap Statement of Intent from March 2008 onwards. The Close the Gap Statement of Intent is, first, a compact between Australian governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Second, it embodies a human right to health-based blueprint for achieving health equality referred to hereon as the 'close the gap approach'.
CTG 10 year review and Executive Summary.
Royal Australasian College of Physicians response.
Public Health Association of Australia: Close the Gap Strategy continues to fall short.
Hospitalised farm injury, Australia: 2010-11 to 2014-15 [AIHW]
This injury report provides information on hospitalisations as a result of injury which occurred on a farm.
The report finds:
* Almost 22,000 people were hospitalised in the period 2010-11 to 2014-15 as a result of injury which occurred on a farm
* Injuries involving motorcycles and quad bikes on farm accounted for 42% of all hospitalisations in children aged 0-14
* Injuries involving horses accounted for 16% of hospitalisations in children aged 0-14, 80% of which involved girls


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There are very less people and considerably few writers who dare to write their Birth was a fatal Accident. One of the most courageous words coming out of The Last Letter written by a Young Dalit Scholar who had to give his life due to Institutional Tensions and Tortures propagated by The Upper Caste Administration.
Many a students spoke on the occasion to raise concerns regarding the increasing Authoritative as well Administrative Penetration in the matters of Education. One of the students read two posts from the Wall of Rohith's Facebook Account. Where as a student remembered Historic events of Freedom Fight by subsequently connecting it to the ongoing events which are equally influential.
The event was followed by a Candle Peace March on 17th January from Delhi School of Social Work to Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi. About 80 people participated in the Peace March. Some Revolutionary songs were sung at Faculty of Arts.
This event was in the Remembrance of a Renaissance which helped us waking up from the deep slumber of fall consciousness which made us believe 'Caste Atrocities' have ended. We all were not ready to believe until we received a letter which said "Me birth was a fatal Accident.." It shook us from the core and the tremors can still be felt around us, within us. We need to feel this tremor, to struggle with the tremors, to end the tremors.
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- Effective Pedagogy of Diversity and Inclusivity at Sheffield
assessment, LGBT* studies, pedagogy, religion and social identity
This contribution discusses the representation of minority voices in the University of Sheffield, focusing on learning and teaching with Katie Edwards and myself.1 I propose that inclusive pedagogy is important for fostering twenty-first-century higher education that reflects and facilitates the study of humanity, culture, and society, in a post-heteronormative climate. I will discuss examples that illustrate a twofold pedagogical principle that evolved from our Hidden Perspectives collaboration.2 First, I provide examples from our Religion, Theology, and the Bible (RTB) program to argue that diversity and inclusivity should be embedded in any degree program to educate all students.3 Second, I discuss an LGBT* studies module I developed to argue that it is equally important to provide dedicated options in terms of module choice and a specialist focus on gender and sexual minorities. This has three strategic benefits: a) it provides skills to "read the world" in new ways; b) it focuses on skills rather than just content, which makes it useful for other modules; and c) it enables a questioning of traditional hegemonies of curriculum. [End Page 131]
First, from within our "hidden perspectives" orientation it is important to embed diversity throughout the curriculum, ensuring that our teaching not only engages privileged groups but also critically reflects the diversity of our society in terms of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, disability, age, and religion. Gender and sexuality are key elements of the Sheffield curriculum, in dedicated modules like Gender, Bible, and Religion (level 2), or embedded in mainstream modules. First, Edwards foregrounds gender in her modules blending critical theory, biblical studies, and cultural studies, in modules like Bible and Popular Culture (level 1) and Bible and Visual Culture (level 3). Edwards has also developed a module called Gender, Religion, and the Bible, which examines biblical narratives on sex, gender, pornography, incest, and sexual violence from different critical perspectives. Students write two essays relating various themes—such as feminist, gender critical, or queer biblical studies—to the syllabus. In 2018, Edwards and Meredith Warren will co-launch a so-called Texts of Terror module, which brings together Project Shiloh (an international research collaboration on rape culture, religion, and the Bible) and research on embodied religion, focusing on problematic texts depicting sexual violence in the Bible and English literature.4
However, there are always students who will not choose cultural or gender studies modules. If gender and sexual diversity—or other critical perspectives that challenge the norm—are only taught in clearly labeled modules, then students can choose "traditional" approaches and avoid topics they may find "liberal" or "marginal" to their degree. This is why it is important that we embed gender and sexuality, queer theory, and gay and lesbian readings of biblical texts into mainstream modules. For example, my Sociology and Anthropology of Religion module includes a session on how tourism sustains identities, contrasting Southeast Asian holy sites with pilgrimage to Mecca, and Cymene Howe's "Queer Pilgrimage."5 Similarly, we examine Brazilian carnival engaging with ritual studies, ethnicity, postcolonialism, and contemporary Marxism. In our sociological case studies, we consider a range of empirical research, including religious experience, masculinity in faith communities, and Andrew Yip's studies among nonheterosexual Christians and Muslims.6 Furthermore, when [End Page 132] discussing methods, we incorporate Yip's reflection of his work and compare this to Susannah Cornwall's account of doing empirical research among homeless and intersex people.7 In other words, a standard sociology of religion module engages critically with ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and postcolonialism to diversify learning.
However, other modules almost require inclusive pedagogical practice to be true to their content, like Bible and Literary Criticism, which I teach. This module focuses on intersectionality and theory, engaging with feminism, postcolonial gender studies, and queer theory, with other critical approaches, such as Marxism and ecocriticism.8 Sometimes, the student cohort has responded better than I anticipated to syllabus items aimed at LGBT* representation. For example, a third of the class recently chose "LGBT History Month" as their essay case study on social memory in a Bible and history...


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The Compulsive Gardener & Painter by Joy Tate
Venue: Hallberg Center for the Arts | City: Wyoming, MN
"My name is Joy Tate. I am an artist who specializes in painting with oils and some acrylic. In my style, you will find that it is filled with bold colors and imagination. My ultimate source of inspiration is God and what he has done in my life. Through this relationship I find myself in a creative place using the beauty of natural elements such as flowers, the woods and the compelling way that light has a way of bringing out the best of everything. Using this and a pure sense of joy that whimsy brings me, you will see this inspiration woven throughout all of my current work. I began painting more than 16 years ago as a hobby to help process my emotions. Painting has provided a very positive therapeutic outlet for me over the years, so much that I now share that passion with others through teaching regular art classes.
The process of my work typically begins while daydreaming in my garden or the woods. From there, I take these ideas to the studio
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It's been a long time since we saw that teaser for Flashpoint way back in Geoff Johns and Francis Manapul's The Flash #1. It seems DC Comics is ready to re-engage fans of The Flash as they've brought on Johns for a guest spot on their official blog, The Source. Every two hours, Johns is releasing a new teaser image that hints at just what Flashpoint may be about.
So far, it seems as though we're dealing with some sort of "what if" situations, along with the imposing question: Whatever Happened to the World's Greatest Super Heroes?
Here's what we've seen so far:
DC capped off the round of teasers today with a re-post of the aforementioned teaser from The Flash #1, and a promise that some light would be shed on things tomorrow, so stay tuned!


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Read about the game in the Greenville News
evening to prove their improved spelling proficiency ... that there is no
"I" in "team" and that their arent near as many "E"s in "winning" as there
are when you "lose". The venue was the Greenville High Red Raiders Gym.
After the Junior varsity took care of business by holding their opponents
to single digit points in two quick wins, the Varsity Lady Mavs took the
court intent upon ending their recent 2 match losing streak by
communicating better, improving teamwork, and playing with the swagger and
confidence missing against Woodmont on Monday.
Game one saw The ladies in Orange take early command at 7-2 when
Sophmore Heather Granger went on a 6 point service run which included an
Ace and was aided by 3 blocks by Senior Captain Rachel Woodlee. Senior
Setter Haley Register assisted her frontline in the first frame by setting
up Hitters Jordan Bowling and Jordan Stovall for a pair of Kills each.
Defensively, Sophomore Libero Dana Landers contributed 6 digs while Stovall
put up a pair of blocks to spot the Lady Mav netters to a 19-9 advantage.
The Red Raiders of Greenville responded to their coach's vociferous urging
and went on a 7 to 2 point run of their own aided by a pair of Mav service
errors to close the margin to 21-16, but kills by Melissa Unger on a
Greenville overpass and another thundering smash by Bowling off a set by
Junior Kim Minor, stopped the run at 24-17. After a service error by each
team, Mauldin prevailed in the first game 25-18.
The second game saw the Red Raiders go out to a quick but small and
short-lived lead by serving the Mav setters to disturb the Mauldin attack,
but a great save by Bowling at the visitors bench, a set by Senior Tiffany
Smith, and a Bowling Kill started a roll by our Lady Mavs. Woodlee went
on a 3 point service run to regain the lead 5-3. It was at this point that
the Mavs took control and played their best volleyball in two weeks.
Setters Minor and Register distributed the rock perfectly in front of
Bowling, Woodlee, Stovall, Granger, and senior Morgan Gregg for
unreturnable kills. Senior defensive specialist Tiffany Smith, Landers,
Stovall, Granger, and Gregg added diving digs, Woodlee another block, and
Landers a well placed backrow hit to an open spot in the Raider defense, as
the Mavs charged ahead to take a 13-4 lead. Senior Co-Captain and leaper
Jordan Bowling had the hottest hand on the frontline in game 2 with 7 kills
as the Ladies of Mauldin extended their lead to 22-9, before Greenville
could right their sinking ship. Minor finished the job after a few Raider
points by serving the final two points - the last of which was scored on a
Gregg spike off a set by Minor. Mauldin takes Game Two 25-13 !
Maybe it was the home team - Greenville's resolve, ...or maybe
Mauldin relaxed too much in the early part of game 3, but at the midway
point Mauldin led by only 2 points , 13-11 thanks to some service errors,
an "in the net" and a "lift" call against the Mavs, and several misdirected
passes and sets. Some concern and not too distant memories pervaded the
faithful Mauldin fan following, but these fears were dispelled when
Captains Woodlee and Bowling re-asserted themselves at the net with hard
spikes to the floor off of sets by Register. Woodlee followed the Kills up
with an Ace in a 4 point service run to put the Lady Mavs in front for good
18-13. Next it was Senior Alex Evans turn to dominate the game with a dig,
a block, and a kill (assist from Minor) in the next 4 point span, putting
Minor at the service line again to end the game and match with an Ace in
the final two points won by our Lady Mavs 25-14.
Come support our Lady Mavs as they hit the road again in an important
Region match against perennial powerhouse and defending region Champ -
Dorman High on the Dorman Campus in Spartanburg, Tuesday September 23rd at
6:30 pm.
R. Woodlee 13 59 - 27 15
D. Landers - 8 5 - 92
K.Minor 9 2 71 - 18
J. Bowling 8 43 1 10 38
H. Register 3 - 79 - 16
J. Stovall 2 28 7 9 14
H. Granger 11 23 4 8 10
A. Evans 1 22 3 14 10
T. Smith - - 2 - 31
M. Unger 4 6 - 10 8
K. Whitten - - 8 - 3
M. Gregg - 2 - 1 3
Game Record: 17 Wins - 7 Losses
Region Record: 0 Wins - 0 Losses
MAVS Booster Rep - Joan Woodlee
MAVS Website Reporter - Chuck Landers, Susan Granger, Teresa Stovall


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It was just last night at the 16th Davitt Awards that Australia's top female crime writers were announced. Today, Australia's best crime writers of 2016 were revealed at the Ned Kelly Awards, regardless of gender.
Emma Viskic won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction with Resurrection Bay, the book that saw her take out three awards at the Davitts last night – Best Debut Novel, Best Adult Novel and the Readers' Choice Awards.
Dave Warner's Before it Breaks won Best Fiction, Gideon Haigh's Certain Admissions took out Best True Crime and Roni O'Brien was the recipient of the S.D. Harvey Award for Short Stories for Flesh.
The Ned Kelly Awards are one of Australia's most prestigious prizes honouring our published crime fiction and true crime writers. When it came to deciding on a name, co-opting the nation's most infamous villain seemed a natural fit. The awards began in 1995 and are run by the Australian Crime Writers Association.
The 2016 Ned Kelly Winners
Resurrection Bay
by Emma Viskic
Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside – watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss.
When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is… Read more.
Emma Viskic answers the Booktopia Book Guru's Ten Terrifying Questions
Emma Viskic chats about why she set out to write a deaf protagonist
Before it Breaks
by Dave Warner
Detective Daniel Clement is back in Broome, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of small-town cops. Here, in the oasis on the edge of the desert, life is as stagnant as Clement's latest career move.
But when a body is discovered a local fishing spot, it is clearly not the result of a crocodile attack. Somewhere in Broome is a hunter of a different kind. As more bodies are found, Clement races to solve a decades-old mystery before a monster cyclone hits… Read more.
Certain Admissions
by Gideon Haigh
On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Albert Park Beach. When police arrested the other, Australia was transfixed: twenty-four-year-old John Bryan Kerr was a son of the establishment, a suave and handsome commercial radio star educated at Scotch College, and Harold Holt's next-door neighbour in Toorak.
Police said he had confessed. Kerr denied it steadfastly. There were three dramatic trials attended by enormous crowds, a relentless public campaign proclaiming his innocence involving the first editorials against capital… Read more.
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About the Contributor
Anastasia Hadjidemetri
Anastasia Hadjidemetri is the former editor of The Booktopian and star of Booktopia's weekly YouTube show, Booked with Anastasia. A big reader and lover of books, Anastasia relishes the opportunity to bring you all the latest news from the world of books.


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The IRGC (Iran's Revolutionary Guards Council) is benefiting from Iran's political isolation due to the nuclear crisis, American Enterprise Institute Research Fellow Ali Alfoneh said.
The EU formally imposed an oil embargo on Iran and agreed to a freeze on the assets of the Iranian Central Bank on January 23, but existing contracts will be honored until July 1.
The new sanctions, due to take effect from July 1, have helped boost Brent prices by nearly 17 percent so far this year, stoking fears that higher fuel prices could derail economic growth in the United States, the world's top oil consumer.
Iran has been suffering, as Western nations continue to isolate the Islamic Republic financially, and force it to demonstrate that it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, but officials in many other countries believe otherwise.
Ali Alfoneh noted that there are certain groups in Iran, that benefit from country's isolation, which in turn, greatly affects Iran's future development.
Explaining his point on how IRGC benefits from Iran's political isolation, Alfoneh brought up an example of National Iranian Oil Company going to the control of the Oil Ministry.
"Iranian parliament subjected the hitherto independent National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to the control of the Oil Ministry," Alfoneh said.
"Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi is expected to replace many NIOC oil executives with new cadres recruited from the Khatam al-Anbia Construction Base of the IRGC. Qasemi headed the Khatam al-Anbia Construction Base prior to his appointment as oil minister," he explained.
Recently, Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters signed 12 trillion rial (about $1 billion) contract to build line two of Tabriz subway, according to IRNA.
The IRGC subsidiary has expanded its activities during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency, getting many oil, gas and road building projects with the government's help. The biggest holder of government contracts, over the last four years the Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters has acquired 1,500 of the government's most important projects for itself.
U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah agrees with opinion that Iran's leadership is unlikely to change its political behavior, even with increasing sanctions.
No matter the sanctions, loss of income and hardship for the population, Iran's leadership will not change its course, Dadkhah said.
"Many years ago, Iranian government decided to go nuclear, and no sanctions will chance that decision," Dadkhah noted.


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Brer Perry and the Tar, Baby
Howdy folks - Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry here, offering you a REAL players' perspective on what some folks call "cheating". Me, I call it "resource optimization," because I know who stole my damn cheese, and my parachute's nice and open. Anyway, I don't know why those Yahoo!s thought that tapping a knuckle dragger like Todd Jones to talk about pine tar would make any dingdonging sense. When it comes to scuffing and shining and spitting and greasing, I'm the one to talk to. I know the ins and outs of hoodwinkin' as well as I know my sticky johnson. And believe me, my johnson got plenty sticky when I was playing. In more ways than one! I've got stories about me and Morgana that'd turn a black Trans Am cherry red, lemme tell ya.
But, Jonesie, son, you might want to stick to what you do best - sucking wind and burning crosses. So what if you used pine tar and stunk while in Colorado? You stink anyway, boy! And the fact that you stunk while trying to cheat just means you stink at cheating! Boy reeks like a three-legged wet dog in a pool of piss. Anyway, if you want to pull a fast one, pinetar's not the way to go. Anyone with anything that'll stop the wind from going through your ears knows you don't use pinetar to help you get a better grip on the ball - you're liable to hold onto the damn thing too long! You'll miss your spot, you'll turf the ball into home plate, you'll send one skidding off into someone's nachos. You want the ball to slip and slide all over the place. You need something vicious and gooey, like Vaseline or spit or that stuff you get in your backside when you dip a little too deep into the Del Taco. I'm thinkin' that maybe Jones did figure it out, tho, looking at his numbers this year. He's like Mike Marshall or Roy Face nowadays. Damn, boy, make it more obvious! Why not come out dressed like a tube of Preparation H, ya backwater buttplug?
Any ballplayer worth his cup knows that pinetar is just for show. It's like getting dirt on your uni - makes you look all grizzled and mean and ornery like. Pinetar ain't good for a damn thing practical in baseball. You use pinetar as a distraction from your other cheats. Y'all think that Branden Donnelly was actually using pinetar? Hell no! Look at the tape close enough, and you'll probably find a broken belt buckle or a patch of petroleum jelly or a goddamn pocket knife or something. Pitching is about misdirection and deception, throwing hitters off balance, making these big ol' boppers look like slappy shortstop from Capistrano. Y'all heard stories about Greg Maddux giving a hitter a fat tater pitch to some dumb slugger in the first inning to set up his nasty stuff late in the game, right? Well, it's the same thing for folks that like to play grabass with the rules. You show something like pinetar, and it's a perfect smoke screen. It lets you pocket the KY Jelly for when you're going through the line-up the 3rd time, or work that tack into the hide a bit during a yap with the catcher.
Works for hitters, too - you know that George Brett pinetar homer? I heard from someone that knows someone that the bat was corked. Brett tarred up that bat up to the tip so that drunk rule jockey Billy Martin would get all bug-eyed about that, and not bother checking if the bat was legit. (Ha - imagine what Sammy Sosa was trying to hide with that superball bat! He probably uses some space-age wood-metal mixture or some other fancy sci-fi thing. The things they can do with a stick of gum and some soda pop nowadays...) All of this finagling and flopping around, it's a game within the game, like poker - you might have Big Slick, but some knock-kneed buttberry could call your all-in with a suited 26 and get the flush on the river and make you look and feel like, well, like dumb ol' Todd Jones. Doesn't mean you can't kick his can till it dents, though.
And speaking of kicking cans - son, what is going on with you talking about boning bats in the bathroom? One, you're a damn pitcher, and I use the term "pitcher" lightly. The only thing you know about bats is watching hitters flip them aside when they take your pisspoor change-up from home plate to Honduras. Second of all, this ain't some seedy Mafia thing like the Bash Brothers shooting each other up in the buttock all spy-like - it's a legal practice. Hell, an intern for this bloogarooni here went all Googly and found a bat manufacturer that TALKS UP its boning process! (Sounds like a young me, actually. But I digress. To the left.)
Take a peek at this, Roscoe: "Boning bats began in the earliest days of baseball. The Hall-of-Famers spent hours in their dugouts rubbing their bats with old cow femur bones. Bone rubbing closes the wood's pores, compressing it and making it harder. Marucci uses the same technique Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig used on their bats, rubbing before the finish is applied to seal and harden the wood. Using cow femurs from Sandy Farms, Iowa, Marucci takes his time on this step, and the same pride in it his baseball heroes once did." Any one trying to tell me that Lou Gehrig was a cheat can go sit their derierre on an A-Bomb and yippie kie yay themselves to Baghdad.
Anyway, who cares about "cheating" in baseball? Rules are made to be amenable to certain spirited interpretations. You know how folks get pissy on the highway when someone's driving at the speed limit and nothing more? Imagine if baseball was actually played on the up and up. You know how boring that would be? I'd rather watch beauty pageant girls try to think of words that have more than five letters in 'em than "true" baseball, because at least the girls look good when nothing's going on. The only boring thing in my life is church, and "true" baseball ain't gonna get me in with St. Peter, y'know? Don't think of stuff like this pinetar horsesense (or recreational substances like that stuff from Sgt. Bilco) as evil bad things that hurt the game. Think of them as the spice that kicks the game up a notch. And if you can't handle spicy food, then get the hell away from the jambalaya, Harvey, cause I'm starvin!
Gaylord Perry pitched for eight teams in his 22-year career, becoming the first pitcher to win Cy Young awards in both the American and National League. He won 314 games, and had a career ERA of 3.11. Perry was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.


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One of the most important conversations I ever had came about entirely by accident.
One sunny afternoon in the early 1990s I found myself sharing a picnic table with a graduate student from Stanford University's Petroleum Engineering Department (the university changed the department's name in 2006 to Energy Resources Engineering). It was my senior year and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was still a recent memory. I was understandably curious to learn why someone would choose to pursue this career path.
"Petroleum is amazing stuff," he said. "Nature has given us these amazing long-chain hydrocarbons. We can break them apart, recombine them and make almost anything. Burning it is probably the least creative thing we can do!"
"That may be," I responded, but those long-chains hydrocarbons are also a great energy source, and we seem to be burning an awful lot of them, when we're not spilling them in the ocean."
"Yes," he conceded, "But we don't have to! We can make electricity any number of ways, and there are plenty of other things we can burn to generate heat. Besides, it's better for the environment. So let's use those other resources for energy and do something more useful with the petroleum."
And so here I am, 20-odd years later. As a justification for his chosen career path, that petroleum engineer's argument may have been self-serving. After all, the vast majority of the petroleum that goes to refineries is still burnt as fuel - only a minority of petroleum engineers get to play with the substance as a chemical feedstock.
But he described very nicely the rationale behind everything I've done since then.
Burning fossil fuels for energy is easy, but it isn't particularly smart. Making a transition to a low-carbon future means finding ways to live a satisfying life without imposing unacceptable long term costs on families, communities, and the planet. I founded Carbon Clear nearly eight years ago to help accelerate that transition. Since then, we've helped hundreds of companies improve their response to the challenges posed by climate change.
I wonder whether that aspiring petroleum engineer remembers me or that casual afternoon conversation at Stanford all those years ago.
I certainly remember him.
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Points to Consider When Planning to Start A Mobile Street Food Business and Its Importance
The cooking business is done in towns along the streets where people can buy eating stuff for dealer. There are various things that one should take into consideration before starting to sell the street food. First, it is advisable to determine whether it is a legal business because most of the mobile street food business in some regions is an illegal business because of some unhealthy practices such as dirty food.
Another factor that one should take into consideration while they would like to start mobile street food business is the target groups of people or the consumers of the food. An idea to grow the selling level or rates is seeking the locations with higher populations and this will increase the sales since many people while be willing to purchase food from you. Proper placement of the business is very crucial as it is easy to realise the busines and thus more people will be driven for your catering services. One should think of the food categories that he or she will be selling since they may differ in the demand.
There are various reasons as to why mobile street food selling is important to the people who carry this activity and following are key reasons as to why a business man may enjoy running such businesses unlike some more. Mobile street food business does not require a lot of capital to be run or manage since one has to buy simple items such as the cooking apparatus. Simple processes undergone makes the mobile street food business a good activity and this is because no professional skills that are required to make it achievable. This is because the cooking business involves easy food that people are used to such as drinks and even snacks.
Fast cash flows is another benefit of the street food business. The mobile street food business can move from one place to a different while they satisfy the needs of the people. The cooking businesses such as Business Blogs Hub develop at a higher rate and in case of operating them poorly one do not loose a lot unlike the bigger businesses that require a lot of attention and care and thus high monetary value losses may be suffered after mismanagement or during crisis that they may face such as competition , disasters among many other.


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Everyone makes mistakes, its the lesson learned that is important
That is a good point, but what will you buy? All manufacturers have had one recall or another, and not all have been as gracious as Toyota to admit and fix in such an immediate and concerned way.
I think it is important to look at the statistics.
FYI check out airbag safety in other makers especially Ford, its scary what you can research.
Realizing a mistake and owning up to it speaks of integrity to me. I don't know about you but I am not perfect, and I learn best sometimes from my own mistakes or others...Just food for thought.
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GRAND CANYON, Ariz. — The middle school volleyball season wrapped up its end-of-season tournament April 21 with both Grand Canyon teams taking first place.
The A team, coached by high school head volleyball coach Gretchen Bilton, finished with an 8-2 record. The entire team will be moving on to high school next year, where they will have the opportunity to play for Bilton again.
Calley Scheller, who just arrived at Grand Canyon this year, was a force on the court with a great height advantage. Savannah Longhoma, who had never played volleyball before, had a lot of natural, all-around athleticism that helped her on the court, her coach said.
"We had 10 outstanding eighth-graders on the team," Bilton said. "They worked hard each and every day at practice, and their dedication and determination lead them to a first place finish in the A team tournament."
The B team, coached by high school volleyball assistant coach Leann Martinez, also cruised to a first place finish in the tournament. Martinez said two of her sixth graders in particular — Jasmine Longhoma and Anlylian Moquino — had an outstanding year and will continue to shine.
"Anlylian and Jasmine had never played volleyball before, so to see them stand up and kick butt was really great," she said.
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Prof. Tor E. Svensen is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Strathclyde and he is also an independent advisor in the maritime industry. Prior to this he was, until 2016, Group Executive Vice President of DNV GL and CEO of DNV GL Maritime, the world's largest classification society. In this role, he was responsible for merging these two large classification societies and establishing the framework for a new strategy, new rules and a new global organisation with 5000 staff and a turnover of over 1 billion Euros.
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- Joined DNV in 1993 as Head of Section for Environmental Loads
- Regional Manager DNV, based in Singapore responsible for all DNV activities in South East Asia
- Technical Director DNV
- Chief Operating Officer DNV Maritime, with responsibility for Classification and all other DNV maritime activities worldwide
- President and Deputy CEO of DNV
- President of DNV Maritime and Oil & Gas
In the period 2007-2008, he was also Chairman of IACS, the International Association of Classification Societies and in the period 2005 to 2013 Chairman of the Board of DNV Petroleum Services. Earlier in his career he held various technical and management positions in BSRA/BMT, MacGregor Navire and The Norwegian Maritime Research Institute (MARINTEK).
Tor graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978 with a degree in Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, subsequently receiving a PhD from the same university in 1983. He has served on various government and industry advisory committees.


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… or Get Off the Pot
I admire my son's dedication to not do what he doesn't want to do. There's no hesitation on his part to commit fully to a mildly unpleasant task to avoid something else.
On many days the boy wakes up too early for my liking. On my non-working mornings I'm a devoted sleeper and a four-year-old will not alter that. Stop laughing, I mean it. When he comes into my room and asks me, "Is it morning time?" I answer, "No," put him back in his bed and like a good press secretary I tell him no questions. I'm snoozing again before my greasy hair slides onto my ice-cold Firmapedic pillow. End of story… not quite.
On weekdays my wife rises before the sun, so she's awake and making herself even more beautiful in the powder room when the boy gets out of bed again. He heads right to her because he knows I'll be of no help to his needs and she's much easier on his squinted little baby-grays. During his face-to-face he informs her that he has to go poopie. Despite her doubt of his sincerity and honesty she dutifully succumbs to his wishes and lets him hop on the throne. Ignoring his request isn't an option because both she and I have witnessed the end result of denying bathroom privileges to a child whom I thought had cried wolf. It's not a mistake you make more than once.
She gets back to the business of getting ready for another day in the rat race while he sits there mostly quietly. Every couple of minutes he asks, "Is it morning time?" She answers, "No," and he continues to sit and wait.
Eventually I stroll out of the bedroom at a more reasonable hour. He asks again, "Is it morning time, Mommy?"
This time she says, "Yes, it is."
"I'm done," he says and peels himself off of the toilet seat.
His wobbly little legs deliver him to the sink to wash his hands and he looks at me. "It's morning time, Daddy."
My wife peeks in the bowl to discover that it's… empty. This product of my procreation would rather sit on the pot for forty-five minutes than lay in bed for that amount of time. The little guy had the foresight to crap where he sleeps a long time ago just to set this up. Diabolical! Hopefully he'll someday use his over-sized brain for good or better yet, my gain.
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Pubic Speaking
At a gathering of 1st graders and Kindergarteners, one girl's story stood out a little more than the others. Actually, it stood out way more than the others. That little girl is my six-year-old daughter.
The shorter female in my life is in a younger version of the group that hocks cookies for what seems like fifty weeks a year. Her group doesn't participate in that drive, yet. They sell more valuable things like ornaments or disposable teapots.
At the first meeting of the new school year the girls were asked to say a little something about themselves. This is a great stepping-stone for their future public speaking engagements as flight attendants and auto show models.
When it was my silver-tongued angel's turn to speak she didn't miss a beat. Since the womb she's been an extrovert, so this was right up her alley.
It went something like this, "Hello, my name is ____, I'm in first grade and my teacher's name is ______. My brother likes to show me his penis."
I wasn't a witness to this, but one of the group leaders relayed it to me when I showed up at the end of the meeting. She started out by saying that my daughter created a YouTube moment. Then her face became beet red as she quoted my little future Dr. Ruth. During the speech this leader had to excuse herself from the circle because she didn't want the kids to see her laughing and peeing herself. That's when the other leader finished the story.
I guess my beautiful princess wasn't done speaking. Let's just say that she likes to be helpful. She's considerate that way.
She finished with, "For those of you that don't know what a penis is…" The leader that kept it together steered the conversation somewhere else before the anatomy lesson was concluded.
Before you condemn the parenting skills being applied at my household you should know the back-story. At my house penis is not a bad word, not that it's a good word, it's just a potty word. There is no shame attached to it, just the idea that it shouldn't be thrown around willy-nilly. That morning's events must have led my daughter to forget that potty words are for the bathroom, or at the most, our home. When I received a smooch good-bye from my wife who was leaving for work, my daughter yelled downstairs that her brother showed her his penis. It wasn't as bad as it sounds. He just happened to escape from his bedroom half way through his dressing for the day. He ran around sans pants. He's four, and my son,what do you expect? As you know, the last thing kids see sticks in their mind, even if it's their brother's penis.
The whole incident seems to have blown over quickly, but we'll see at the next meeting. Maybe I'll sneak in early to see whether my daughter's gagged or being filmed for that next big viral video.


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While Mission Hill has many devoted fans, from the viewpoint of the WB, its original network, the show did not succeed and thus the show's production was ceased. Besides the unusual scheduling and marketing decisions made by the WB, there were other reasons the show may have failed to catch on.
The show's tone and style was heavily influenced by underground comic books. Oakley admits that during production, they overestimated the medium's popularity. He remembers, "we learned after the show was already cancelled that there's only about five thousand people in all of America that are familiar with that stuff!" The show was also considered by Oakley to be an 'apex' of writing subtle jokes that nobody got. One example is the story of Andy and Jim working at the advertising agency. This was a parody of the popular late 80's drama thirtysomething, which also had two friends working at an advertising agency. Both shows even featured David Clennon as the character's boss.
It was this level of sophistication and subtlety to the writing that while appreciated by the show's fans, may have contributed to the show's downfall. In North America there is a long-standing stigma that animation is targeted towards children. As a result, many viewers who would have understood all the references and caught the subtle jokes, may have avoided the show because of that. And children may not have understood the show's style of humour or appreciated its unusual visuals.
"The show was too rarified for television, but perfect for cable. It appealed to a small audience," remembers Bill Oakley. "The Simpsons, everybody watches it, including little kids, if little kids don't watch, you are doomed to obscurity."
"Mission Hill has very little for young kids. For teenagers and up, yes, but nothing for the under 12 set," agreed Josh Weinstein in a 2003 interview with Morphizm.com
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It has already been more than a month since I started keeping track of a blessing-a-day, and what a month it has been! Little did I know when I started this project that I would wrap up my first month living in a new home and house-hunting. The past week has been very busy with last minute packing, moving, cleaning, rearranging, and unpacking, but I've managed to keep my resolution so far and I thought it would be fun to share some of the things I've been learning along the way.
1. I am so very thankful for my husband and kiddos. Can you tell? The munchkins make it in to the majority of my pictures and even the ones that don't include a munchkin usually represent a moment that did involve one or both of them. While two little ones make life busy and sometimes overwhelming, I certainly am grateful for my girls and wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. Not clean floors or grown-up conversation or free time or sleep or anything else! As for Dan, I've been resisting the urge to write down "Dan" or "time with Dan" or anything of the sort, saving those ones for special days. No repeats allowed, you know.
2. I love weekends! I actually keep a journal and during my quiet time each day I try to write down at least three things I'm thankful for. One Friday I looked back and realized that "Friday!" was making the list over and over (exclamation mark and all). I love Fridays because once Dan comes home from work, he doesn't leave me until Monday. (I do not love Mondays). Saturdays are my Dan day. Sundays are nice too, but with church we spend more time talking to others. My "Fridays" haven't made it into a picture yet because it feels too easy. I'm trying to make myself be specific.
3. The real lesson I've been learning is that it's just not enough to be thankful for one thing a day. I can quite vividly recall fuming in frustration one afternoon. I was standing in my kitchen looking out at the messy living room, upset that the day had gone so terribly. There was not a grateful bone in my body as I stood there and this lesson hit me. It wasn't working. Not that day anyway. And I realized that it's not enough to make a little list of blessings, even if you do it every day. I want my life to be one of continual gratitude and joy, in each moment, in each difficulty, trusting God and rejoicing in the blessings He's given me. I am learning to count my blessings and trust God's long-term plan. It's not quick or clean or easy, but I can see that God is making me a more grateful person. But I always come back to the place where I am so thankful that it's not based on me at all but on what Jesus did for me. I'll never be good enough. This project is just another way that God is showing me I'm not and never will be. Thank God I don't have to be. He is.
And so wraps up one month of twelve. One month closer to my 27th birthday. One month behind me filled with little happy moments. Eleven months to go.


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In the first quarter of 2014, 75% of visits have come from a desktop computer, 15% from a mobile and 10% from a tablet. In the first quarter of 2012 it was 95% desktop computer, 3% mobile and 2% tablet.
Shifts in the devices people use to access the internet should come as no surprise, but the pace of change might. And I do not expect this switch away from desktop computers towards more personal, portable, touchscreen devices to slow down anytime soon.


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The Senate Judiciary Committee has before it seventeen nominations to the federal courts, none of which have yet been confirmed by the Senate as a whole. It is too early to conclude that the minority in the Senate will remain successful in keeping the brakes on the process. Progress is important; as Carl Tobias points...Read more
Using Credit Reports to Evaluate Applicants – Hidden Discrimination?
mployees these days are flooded with applications. So they have to weed out people somehow. Once you get past the poorly done cover letter, the resume with typos, the lack of relevant experience, there may still be a pile of possibly good candidates. What's an employer to do? Well, some are demanding from applicants the right...Read more
Government Contractors May be Prohibited from Mandating Title VII Arbitration
The Senate, with the help of a number of Republicans, passed the Al Franken Amendment (Senate Amend. 2566) to the Defense Appropriations Act yesterday. (No Democrats voted against it.) The amendment would prohibit government funding to defense contractors and subcontractors if they require employees to arbitrate Title VII claims. The bill states that it prohibits...Read more
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Photos of the day
A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours.
Iraq Mosul Wedding Photo Essay
Hussein Zeino Danoon and Shahad Ahmed Abed arrive at the Khazer camp for people displaced from Mosul for their wedding on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. It's the second marriage to take place in the IDP camps east of the city where tens of thousands are living, having fled the fighting in Mosul. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Gaza Weather
Palestinian rescue members evacuate a woman from her flooded home during a heavy rain storm in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
France Police Violence
Youths run from tear gas during a protest against alleged police abuse, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 in Bobigny, north of Paris. French authorities have launched Tuesday a new investigation into alleged police abuse by an officer already accused in a rape case that sparked a week of scattered violence in the troubled suburbs of Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Germany US Eavesdropping
German Chancellor Angela Merkel sits in a questioning at an investigation committee of the German federal parliament looking into alleged U.S. surveillance in Germany and the activities of Germany's own foreign intelligence service in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Day Without Immigrants
Demonstrators gather in Baltimore, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, as part of a nationwide protest called A Day Without Immigrants. Immigrants around the U.S. stayed home from work and school Thursday to demonstrate how important they are to America's economy and its way of life. The boycott was aimed squarely at President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on immigration, legal and illegal. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Day Without Immigrants Illinois
More than a thousand protesters participate in a march aimed squarely at President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on immigration Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Chicago. Immigrants around the country have been staying home from work and school today, hoping to demonstrate their importance to America's economy and its way of life. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Britain Street Art
A pedestrian passes a new piece of art by street artist Bambi in London. in London, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The work, entitled Lie Lie Land, features a dancing British Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump in the pose made famous by the movie La La Land. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Thailand Temple Raid
A Buddhist monk, his face in the shadow of the gate he is standing behind, waits inside Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Hundreds of police in Thailand are carrying out a raid on the headquarters temple of a controversial Buddhist temple sect to detain its chief, a monk facing criminal charges including accepting $40 million in embezzled money. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Nepal Daily Life
Nepalese Buddhist women walk out from a monastery at Boudhanath Stupa after offering prayers, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Boudhanath Stupa is an important pilgrimage site for Buddhists. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Fashion Marc Jacobs
Models wearing fashion from the Marc Jacobs collection are seated after walking a sidewalk runway on Park Avenue during Fashion Week, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Winter Weather
Richard Tardif and his dog, Diesel, take a walk down Ball Park Road in Sabattus, Maine, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. A winter storm unleashed more than a foot of wet, heavy snow on parts of Maine and New Hampshire, creating a messy commute, closing schools, knocking out power — and pushing snow tallies to levels unseen in years in northern New England. (Daryn Slover/The Lewiston Sun-Journal via AP)
Germany Zoo
Baby gorilla relaxes on her mother Kibara at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The female baby gorilla was born on Dec. 4, 2016 and was named Kianga on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Lebanon Daily Life
Men swimming during an early morning swim in the Mediterranean sea in cool temperatures of 8 degrees celsius, 46.4 Fahrenheit, across Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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If you fix it, it ain't broken anymore.dandaka wrote:Why should I ride on broken kite? Whom can I sell it? Don't be stupid.He was not really interested in having a working kite. Did he pay attention to Billie's suggestion on how to fix the problem in his other thread on the same topic?
What was the idea; ride or sell the bloody thing?
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The abutment of the mythic Mont Ventoux shelters treasures sometimes unsuspected.
All the villages and landscapes deserve a walk… Stroll in the heart of medieval lanes steeped in history, walk in the forests with many species of trees, walk between vineyards and cherry trees... Stop to contemplate the light and the colours of Ventoux, the sunsets on the ochre earth, the strong light of the South on the white stones and the famous starry skies of Provence.
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