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I had my follow-up appointment with the foot doctor today, and while I was hoping for all good news and unicorns, what I got was a little closer to horses with party hats taped to their foreheads (totally the same thing). The original issue (the cyst), seems to have been resolved by the cortisone shot; however, a muscle in my arch seems to have gotten a bit strained as it attempted to compensate for the cyst pain. This means that there has been a pretty consistent ache in my arch for the past week or so: a stubborn, lingering ache. My marching orders are to self-massage, and support the arch with either compression socks or tape (the latter was presented as an option when I told him my compression socks are all knee-highs, and it's currently 85+ degrees). The hope is that this support will allow the muscle to RELAX, and that within a few weeks, I'll be able to begin the excruciatingly slow return to "running." That process, which I'll learn more about at next week's follow-up, involves a run/walk routine that may lead me to homicide, but I'm set on being smart about this injury recovery. Pushing things while the muscle is still strained could lead to something much harder to heal, and I'm not all about that.
It has been said that the key to success in training is to utilize both macro and micro periodization. Allow me to explain: Your entire "season" is your macro. For most mortals, that probably means 9-12 months worth of racing (or 1-2 longer race-specific training cycles, or several smaller ones). Your race-specific training is your micro. Within both of those are periods of increased activity and rest, strategically placed to give your body the best balance of gains and recovery.
I'm trying to apply the same approach to my recovery, keeping the big picture (macro) in mind, and trying not to be an idiot in the micro. For now, that means letting go of the 2015 Chicago Marathon. In all, I've missed a 5k and a 10k, and I came to the realization that I won't be in any shape to race the Chicago Women's Half Marathon over Labor Day Weekend (thankfully, that was a free bib). I've been waffling between doing the math and pretending that races are free (sigh).
While those DNS's are huge bummers, taking the time to recover now means that I will be back on my feet faster. And removing the marathon from my radar allows me to focus on things I would have otherwise missed.
I've got my sights set on a couple of races this fall, including:
- Race Judicata on Sept 10th – This is generally a huge cluster of people on a very narrow course, so it would keep me honest in my post-injury effort. It also serves as a fundraiser for legal aid services here in Chicago, and would allow me to see some familiar faces.
- Bucktown 5k on Sept 13th- I've never run it before; and hello, sweet sweatshirt swag.
Fueling my desire to recovery smartly (and quickly) is my desire to get back into the fun aspects of the sport: exploring the local running trails outside the city, getting back on the track, and making this solo sport a little more social through new running groups or run dates. In the meantime, I'm hoping to take this recovery time to do the things I always promise myself I'll do. I'm rejoining my gym so that I can hop in the pool, and I'm committing to core strength work.
In a few short weeks, I hope to be up and running (literally); this is a temporary setback.


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This is a book that I hadn't heard anything about but one that I picked up on a whim after spotting the cover. We went to Bath around Christmas time and I got to visit Mr B's Book Emporium for the first time (new favourite book shop - it's gorgeous!!!!!!) Whilst we were there, I spotted this… Continue reading A Kind of Paradise: A Review
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Aurora Rising: A Review
This book was probably one of my most anticipated books of this year, and I have to say it wasn't my favourite. Don't get me wrong, it was still good, and I still enjoyed it, but I don't think it lived up to the massive hype around it. This book took me so long to read.… Continue reading Aurora Rising: A Review
The Lido: A Review
I splashed into this book knowing little more than these few facts: there is an unlikely friendship between a reporter and an eighty-six year old lady, and a bid to save the local Lido, and that was all I needed to know. I was hooked on this book from page one. I added this book… Continue reading The Lido: A Review
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: A Review
It's been a long time since I've spent the entire day reading one book, from start to finish, but this book changed that. I've seen this book all over bookish social media and was intrigued, who wouldn't be: a closed murder case that doesn't seem quite right, whose ends don't seem to meet, a project… Continue reading A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: A Review
Sadie: A Review
Wow. This book was powerful. I listened to the audiobook and I 100% recommend it. The full cast and the way the story is broken up works really well in audiobook format. This book contains some very difficult topics, such as abuse and murder. The way this story is told is so interesting. We have… Continue reading Sadie: A Review
Bookworm: A Review
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading; a book that piqued my interest from the minute I knew of its existence. I first came across this book on the Kindle store, I downloaded the sample chapters, and I loved the idea of it. This book is Lucy Mangan's memoir of her own childhood reading, a love letter… Continue reading Bookworm: A Review
Good Omens: A Review
I'm going to be honest, I only wanted to read this book because of the Amazon Prime series starting at the end of this month, but boy, was it a good read! The premise behind this book got me intrigued straight away: the world is ending that Saturday around tea time, Crowley (from Hell) and… Continue reading Good Omens: A Review

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Singapore, SINGAPORE – Ruby Wang is walking on 8th Avenue in New York City to her favorite Chinese restaurant which serves uncannily authentic Hunan cuisine from her hometown. In the bitter winter cold that is so typical of New York City this time of year, Wang is kept warm by the thousands of goose feathers in the lining and coyote fur-trimmed hood of her thousand-dollar Canada Goose parka. Wang enters the warmth of the restaurant, where steam bamboo baskets of all manner of delectable Chinese cuisine is being prepared. Taking off her parka, Wang reveals a several thousand-dollar Dior sweater, jeans and boots ensemble.
Slight in build, with alabaster skin, Wang is the privileged daughter of wealthy Chinese parents still holed up in the homeland and who dote on their only child by sending out barrels of money as she studies Economics at Columbia University. Dubbed the "fu-er dai" or second generation of wealthy Chinese, normally the children of party elites and businesspeople with deep connections in the Chinese mainland, China's elite have long favored sending their children to exclusive colleges across the United States, for whom the dream of America doesn't just represent opportunity, but freedom as well. But of late, Wang complains that she hasn't been getting as much money back from home as usual, over a bowl of steaming hot mala noodles, Wang says (in mandarin),
"Daddy and Mummy told me that I don't need a new Maserati this year, they say that I hardly drive the one they gave me two years ago. And lately they've been asking me to keep my expenses down."
For Wang that means no more shopping trips to Milan and Paris over summer and less money on clothes and other luxury items. With slowing economic growth in China, it's not just wealthy elites like Wang who have had to tighten their belts, back home for Wang's countrymen, economic conditions are getting increasingly challenging.
China's economic growth eased like an old man getting into a warm bath to 6.5% in the third quarter of last year. By any other convention measure, that is an astounding rate of growth, something that developed nations can only dream about. But despite all the ostensible displays of Chinese wealth in capital cities across the globe, China is not a developed country, not yet at least and at 6.5%, China's economic growth is at its lowest in three decades which is significant because three decades ago was when China first started opening up its economy to more capitalist persuasions.
But the Chinese didn't need to wait for official data to know that things are slowing. Car purchases, long heralded as symbols of wealth and consumption, fell, for the first time in over two decades and the Shanghai stock market has been excoriated, plunging my over a quarter from 2018 highs. And while the looming threat of a trade war with the United States weighs heavily on a manufacturing and export reliant economy, the economic malaise in the Middle Kingdom is far more deep-rooted.
The issues with China's economy today are unfortunately also some of the least visible. The Chinese have generally had a propensity for saving money. Given China's tumultuous history, saving for a rainy day has long been a way of life, but that has since changed. Total Chinese debt relative to national output soared over the last decade since the financial crisis to 253% from 140%, according to data from the Bank of International Settlements. No developing economy in economic history has ever gone on a debt binge of this proportion and escaped some kind of financial reckoning at some stage, but then again, this is also the same country that landed on the dark side of the moon, so perhaps the Chinese may yet defy history. But perhaps the ability of Chinese mandarins to prevent an economic blowout are far more down to earth. Unlike a liberal economy, China has many levers of controls over banks, big corporations and importantly, capital flows. China limits the ability of its citizens to "offshore" wealth, ensuring that most of the money stays on the mainland. And the Chinese ability to quash capital outflows was on display in 2015, when a stock market bubble fueled by questionable lenders and bureaucratic bungling, burst. As the yuan stumbled, Chinese of every stripe starting draining money out of the Middle Kingdom faster than a hungry college student wolfs down a portion of General Chow's chicken. But Beijing stemmed the outflow of cash, clamped down on capital outflows and bailed out the stock market. Crisis averted, back to your dumplings.
But while the 2015 Shanghai stock market crash was relatively easy (by Chinese standards) to manage, the debt tsunami on the horizon is an altogether different kettle of fish. Beijing is obsessed with social stability and it understands more than anyone else that an implosion of debt will necessarily unwind the trade-off which citizens have made with their rulers — limited personal freedoms for economic freedom. But like a cancer, that debt is poisoning the Chinese economy just as much as its factories are poisoning its water and skies. Already shaky Chinese banks were recently allowed by the People's Bank of China, the central bank, to reduce their deposit to debt ratios. And even though official Chinese statistics put the non-performing loans at Chinese lenders at a paltry 2%, foremost experts such as Charlene Chu, a senior partner at Autonomous Research and estimates that as much as 24% of Chinese debt is dodgy, or approximately US$8.5 trillion worth of loans may already have gone bad. But the true extent is anybody's guess. Last October, S&P Global Ratings noted that the amount of local government debt in China remains a mystery since so much of it is held off balance sheets, which they estimated to be somewhere in the ballpark of US$6 trillion. Adding to that problem is China's shadow-banking sector, a US$10 trillion ecosystem of intermediaries that is impossible to fathom. Because Chinese economic growth depends on profligacy, especially by Beijing, local governments spread across the country have often had to step up in the spending of that cash on infrastructure and while growth-stimulating infrastructure may help growth, in many cases that infrastructure spending has been on white elephant projects which have contributed to China's "ghost" cities.
To make matters worse, Beijing has adopted a policy of min tui, guo jin for the economy, which literally translated means that citizens (and private enterprise) take a backseat while the government plays a more active role in the economy. The move has led to already-bloated state-owned enterprises encroaching on more and more areas where private enterprise once held sway, gorging on debt in the process.
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane. No, it's Capital Flight!
Proof that not everything which flies needs wings, capital has been also been taking to the air from China. But because money can't gush out of China the way it would in any other country, Chinese have been looking at alternatives to route their capital away from the Middle Kingdom. China (as mentioned) has strict capital controls, which limits moving more than US$50,000 a year per citizen. But over the last three decades, the Chinese have circumvented these capital controls using a variety of measures, some more legal than others and for which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin were just one of many routes used to facilitate capital flight. The Chinese have topped the list of foreign buyers of U.S. residential real estate for the last six consecutive years, according to data from the National Association of Realtors and not all of those purchases have been funded with cash.
Last July, in an affluent, leafy suburb in Los Gatos, a 90-minute drive from San Francisco, Hongcai Guo, a Chinese national, was patiently tending to his chive plants in his 100,000 square foot mansion. A beef salesman and early Bitcoin adopted from China's Shanxi province, Guo was one of many, freshly minted cryptocurrency millionaires funneling their wealth out of China by purchasing real estate aboard,
"It's very normal to sell Bitcoin in the U.S. After selling Bitcoin, you can just buy anything you want."
In the 12 months to end of March last year, Chinese nationals snapped up as much as US$30 billion worth of American homes. But there's signs that real estate purchases by Chinese nationals is starting to slow. Anti-foreigner rhetoric emanating from the Trump White House is starting to cool demand for American real estate from Chinese nationals and the threat of increasing tension between Washington and Beijing means that Chinese nationals are starting to worry about the potential for anti-Chinese sentiment, with the memories of the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War perhaps not far off from their minds.
And while Bitcoin may have come off its highs from late 2017 and early 2018, its relative (and I use this term loosely) stability has meant that for many Chinese who had hitherto not considering using digital assets to spirit their substantial wealth out of the country, cryptocurrencies are increasingly becoming a viable option. For now at least, supply of cryptocurrencies far outstrips demand, which is why in the short term, Bitcoin prices as well as those of other cryptocurrencies are unlikely to see any marked increases. But as Beijing increases its pressure to stem capital outflows and with Chinese investors having cooled on their own stock market and real estate investments, cryptocurrencies, with their ability to cross borders easily may yet come back in vogue.
Will the chickens come home to roost or roast?
It is an inevitability that China will eventually need to deal with its staggering debt. Like the opioid addict, China will eventually take on one dose of debt too many and OD. And when that time comes for China to deal with its debt habit, it will make the U.S. response to the last financial crisis — the US$700 billion Trouble Asset Relief Program — seem like pocket change. Going by past experiences in South Korea and Thailand, China's bill for fixing its debt addiction could be as high as US$3.8 trillion, perhaps more. With a national output of US$13.487 trillion for 2018, based on World Bank estimates, the bill will be staggering.
And while Bitcoin was birthed in the aftermath of the last financial crisis, in response to the use of taxpayer monies to bailout private corporations, Beijing's use of taxpayer monies to bailout its bloated state-owned enterprises may prove to be even more controversial and unpalatable to its people. Much of Chinese debt has fueled unnecessary factories, bridges to empty cities, highways to deserted communities and insolvent companies that are protected from competition and insolvency purely for the purpose of ensuring labor stays employed and away from the streets. But just like the opioid junkie whose subsequent highs are dulled through drug resistance, each attempt by Beijing to reflate its economy by piling on more debt will yield an increasingly smaller payoff. According to research firm Fathom Consulting's study last October, China's old economic model is already "exhibiting diminishing marginal returns."
Even China's banks appear to have given up on lending. Despite substantial pressure from the People's Bank of China (the central bank), credit growth has not picked up steam. The move to slash reserve requirements has also not lead to a flurry of lending by Chinese commercial banks, much to the chagrin of Beijing's mandarins. With worry over the economy dominating the Chinese psyche and the already staggering levels of debt, Beijing has less ability to use debt to goose growth. Which means that even if China has to roll out its own version of a Troubled Asset Relief Program, it may not work. Buying up its own toxic assets by increasing debt load will only devalue the yuan pushing more and more Chinese to send money offshore, by whatever means available, cryptocurrencies included.
The Case for Chinese Demand for Cryptocurrencies
For many in the West, China appears — especially for a visitor to one of its many shiny, modern cities — to be a functioning market-based and wealthy economy. But beneath the veneer of steel and concrete lies myriad problems which undermine the strength and resilience of that facade. If China had continued to push forward on reform, loosened capital controls and reduced government intervention in the economy, it would at least have had the potential to reverse course on some of its more questionable economic policy moves. A Chinese economic crisis, while painful, would at least give the free market an opportunity to do its job, to purge untenable enterprises, reallocate resources and improve productivity.
Unfortunately, the current Chinese President Xi Jinping has shown neither the appetite nor the tolerance for dealing with these economic realities. Instead of privatizing more enterprises, Beijing has increased its involvement in more areas of the economy. Already, Chinese businesspeople lament increasing state intervention in the market and have made contingency plans to expand their offshore business options. Xi's top priority is not so much the economy, but imposing Communist Party control over everything, keeping the state-led, investment-heavy economic agenda that is the very raison d'etre for China's current economic quagmire. Xi's push into AI, robots, chip-making and electric cars, while making for good soundbites, may add to the existing mess — too many unnecessary factories built with too much debt and with too much waste.
For scores of Chinese, the last three decades have represented unbridled economic growth and opportunity, with many young Chinese living with the expectation that their lives would be better than those of their parents. But as economic growth slows and Beijing comes down harder on capital controls, pressure will build to find other means to spirit wealth outside of the country. For a generation which has only known an increase in property prices and a growing stock market, a Chinese financial crisis will be an entirely new experience and one from which the response is as yet uncertain.
And while Chinese nationals are not prohibited from investing overseas, capital controls makes it difficult to get the yuan out of China to fund those investments. To that end, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to facilitate such transfers, which explains Beijing's animosity towards Bitcoin from the very beginning. China's private enterprises are also hamstrung in the way they can make overseas investments, with Beijing imposing strict rules for overseas investments since 2017. Against this backdrop, the Chinese will have to find other ways to spirit their funds out of China, at the very least as a hedge to a potential economic fallout in the Middle Kingdom.
One albeit unlikely, but nevertheless helpful data points for China's economic health could be derived from the blockchains of various major cryptocurrencies. While Bitcoin is the obvious example, Beijing has long monitored Bitcoin transactions and the Bitcoin blockchain as signs of over-the-counter Bitcoin transactions, which facilitate capital flight from China. The difficulty often arises when Chinese nationals want to use yuan to purchase cryptocurrencies, often the first step in getting capital out of the country. Watching the blockchains of various cryptocurrencies to monitor transaction volume, coupled with a close eye on any price movements in cryptocurrencies, may provide at least some indication as to whether or not Chinese nationals are again using cryptocurrencies for capital flight in larger numbers. The Chinese have used cryptocurrencies to get money out of China for awhile, but with the volatility and massive drop in value in 2018, cryptocurrencies lost their luster. Increasing capital controls by Beijing may change that. And because most of the transactions involving Chinese yuan or dollars held by Chinese for the purchase cryptocurrencies for sale overseas will not happen through major cryptocurrency exchanges, the price of cryptocurrencies is not likely to change. But given the pseudonymity of cryptocurrencies, such observations will depend on a combination of data and speculation — it's simply not possible to know for sure if Chinese demand is fueling cryptocurrency transaction volumes, but given the waning interest in other parts of the world, a cogent argument could be made that it is.
As China dives deeper into debt and Beijing turns its back on liberalization and reform, scores of Chinese, from the needless to the needful will no doubt grow increasingly aware of their economic predicament. With slowing economic growth, Chinese will find a way to squirrel their wealth into other assets which the government will find hard to touch — decades of economic hardship and turmoil have prepared the Chinese for such occasions. Against this backdrop, cryptocurrencies may yet return to the fore as a viable option for the Chinese to protect their wealth.
The writer is Patrick Tan, Partner and General Counsel for cryptocurrency quant trading firm Compton Hughes.


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Obasanjo letter: Obasanjo government has 60 percent former govs, senators as drug dealers – Kashamu
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Prince Buruji Kashamu, a chieftain of the PDP denied Obasanjo's allegations that he was a drug dealer and alleged that he worked for and hobnobbed with the former president.
Addressing a press conference in Lagos yesterday, Kashamu maintained that Chief Obasanjo used him to reclaim the PDP machinery from former governor of OgunState, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
Faulting Obasanjo's claims, he said: "In the 18-page letter, Obasanjo said, 'how can the presidency be working with me?' It is not the fault of Obasanjo. Obasanjo was my partner in 2010 and in 2011. It was obvious to everybody that I was working for Obasanjo, he was using me to fight Gbenga Daniel. Daniel had already disgraced Obasanjo in Ogun State. I was the one that risked my life for Obasanjo and I spent over N3 billion before I could take over the control of the PDP in OgunState.
I took back the party machinery from Daniel and returned it to Obasanjo. It was also Obasanjo who introduced General Olurin to me and asked me to work with him to win the 2011 governorship elections in OgunState. But I told Obasanjo that Olurin was an old man and that we could not win the elections. He said, 'my son, my partner, go and work with him.' Everybody is aware of this. Then, I and Iyabo worked together."
He said: "I dined with Obasanjo in his house over 30 times, I have entered Obasanjo's bedroom, living room and also his office. Obasanjo was the one that introduced me during the South-West meeting of the PDP held in his house to the Minister for Police Affairs, Caleb Olubolade, Akala, Segun Oni and many other leaders.
He was telling them to thank me that I assisted him in fighting Gbenga Daniel to a stand still. Obasanjo was my partner. I spent over N3 billion to return the PDP structure in Ogun state to him. It was also Obasanjo that introduced me to the National Working Committee of the PDP then."
In addition, he disclosed that Obasanjo "introduced me to Baraje. Obasanjo was the one that took me to the Presidency and said I was the one fighting on his behalf in the South-West and that I was the one mobilizing for him in the South-West and that with me, we can deliver the South-West for the PDP. Baraje is alive.
During our crisis, the president instructed the party to resolve the problem between myself and Obasanjo and it was Baraje that called for a meeting at Hilton Hotel between Obasanjo and I. The reconciliation meeting lasted for about two hours and at the end of the meeting, Obasanjo went ahead to create another parallel PDP in OgunState."
A bitter Kashamu threatened to mention names of members of Obasanjo's government and associates he alleged were drug dealers.
"So, how can Obasanjo turn around and say that I am a drug dealer? When he was using me, he did not know me as a drug dealer. When Obasanjo was in government, almost 60 percent, including some former governors and former Senators that surrounded Obasanjo were all drug dealers. When the time comes, their names will be mentioned," he said.
Exonerating himself, he said: "I am a clean businessman. When they said I committed the offence they are talking about, I was the richest person in BeninRepublic. What is my business with dealing in drugs? I have always been a businessman and I have over 800 people working for me both in Nigeria and in Benin Republic. I do not know anything of this allegation leveled against me.
"I was arrested, I won the case in a London court where they said it was mistaken identity. I returned to Nigeria to continue with my business before I joined politics. I went for interpretation of the judgment I won in London and at the end of the case, I got a clean slate. I am not a drug dealer, I am a business man and so, whatsoever Obasanjo is saying, is cheap blackmail."


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So, I'm taking the plunge and starting a kdrama blog of my own. Up until now I've been doing periodic guest posts over at thundie's, but I've been wanting to set up my own little corner of the net for a little while now, just for ramblings and less structured posts.
This first post is dedicated to thundie, for inspiring me to start writing about kdramas, and in fact to start writing again in general, after being discouraged due to a lot of hardships in my personal life. I don't know if you'll get a chance to read this, thundie, but if you are, I love you and you're always in my prayers.
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Item of the Week 05/02/2017Posted: February 5, 2017 Filed under: Accessories, Item of the Week | Tags: Item of the Week, red, sgoes, stud, suede, Topshop 2 Comments
Item of the Week 07/11/2016Posted: November 7, 2016 Filed under: Accessories, Item of the Week | Tags: Accessories, Footwear, Mdn Eng, shoes Leave a comment
Item of the week x4. I like them all but those orange ones…….
IrregularitiesPosted: October 16, 2016 Filed under: Accessories, SHOPPING | Tags: Accessories, Boots, Footwear, Irregular Choice, shoes 2 Comments
LADIES. Did you know that Irregular Choice carries shoes up to a size UK10??? SIZE TEN?!!
I have always loved Irregular choice shoes and have owned a couple of pairs in my life that I've worn into the ground. However, I've never been able to buy many because my feet are a size 8-9 and ultra wide to boot. I usually am restricted to gazing lovingly at them whenever I go to Schuh as their size 8 rarely fits. Thats pretty standard in most stores. Well I was in London a few days ago and popped into the I.C store in Camden for a general browse to tease myself to a higher degree and I noticed a pair of womens shoes on display that looked really big. I picked them up and they were indeed a size 43. I asked at the desk if only select styles went to a 43 and was told no- THEY ALL DO.
Wait- WHAT?!
Yes. Irregular Choice womens shoes go up to a size UK10/ 43. I nearly fell over and it was hard to contain myself. I would hear myself rambling at speed to the sales assistants who were probably wondering if I should even be allowed out on my own. You might all know this already as its not a new development but it was news to me. Mentally I spent about £1000 in a matter of seconds.
Another shoe brand I love is Office but Office don't love me back. I've written to them before to complain about their very limited size 9 offering (standard styles in basic colours) and while I can't remember the details of the response I got, several years later nothing has changed.
Now look at these…
All available in a size 10 on the IC website. Would I wear them all? No- but thats not the point. The point is that THEY ARE AVAILABLE. If IC can do this why can't Office or Dune any other shoe shop? Plus size fashion has come a long way but larger size footwear is several steps behind. Irregular Choice is again going against the tide and showing their competitors how it's done.
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New shop items added! The black handbag is a brand new unused and very rare vintage bag by Mappin & Webb with the mirror still in the original wazxed paper. Please click on images for further info.
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Numbers 29 - Steve Wiggins Daily Devotional
"You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of jubilation for you." Numbers 29:1
Isn't it amazing that the L_rd has to tell us to rest? Not only does He tell us to rest, but He actually made it a command! It's as if we would not rest unless there was some penalty involved.
When I was a kid, I hated school. I did all I could to avoid my school work…right up to testing time. Whenever it came time for testing, my laziness caught up with me. The test was about to expose my lack of initiative.
School grades are indicators of progress…not intelligence. No matter how smart I may have thought I was, that was not the point. I had not seized the opportunity to improve.
When test time came around, I spent all my energy developing schemes to cheat. Sometimes, I would write notes on my arms. Perhaps, I would look at someone else's paper. Somehow, I would cheat the system, because I thought I was smarter than the system.
Did you know it takes twice-as-much energy to cheat, as it does to study? How smart is that? Plus, you have to carry all that needless anxiety, until you get your grade.
You know what the kids who studied a little bit every day do, the night before the test? They rest. They don't have to cram. They don't have to cheat, or worry how their schemes will go undetected. They simply recite what they have learned and they pass the test.
Why do we have to be commanded to rest? Possibly, it's because we've been lazy in our daily devotion to the L_rd. Perhaps, we have cheated G_d, and we are lacking what He provides to the faithful. Could be, we are busy trying to be our own providers, instead of trusting G_d.
Whatever the excuse, whatever our situation, we are COMMANDED to rest. Yeshua said: "Come unto me all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
The faithful should celebrate His rest, and the sinner should turn from his ways and enter into it.
~Steve Wiggins, Associate Leader, Worship Leader
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So, We have fantastic news for the Cricket lovers of Europe. Euro T20 Slam official cricket league is going to start from 30th August 2019 which will be hosted by 3 European countries Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands.
There will be six teams in this ET20 Slam cricket league. Therefore, two teams from each country will participate and would play 33 matches along the Final of Euro T20 League.
The entertaining event will be played and live telecasted on TVs from 30th August to 22 September 2019. Cricket enthusiasts all over the world are curiously waiting for the gala event.
Euro Slam T20 Official Launch
The launch event was held in Dublin on 30 April 2019. Bollywood star Yami Gautam unveiled the logo of this Mega event.
Besides, famous international players Wasim Akram and Dilip Vengsarkar were launchers of this European League event. However, These legendary cricketers are now the members of the advisory committee of this league.
Many international players were present there at Time of Launch you can check below image to see.
Here is the official launch Ceremony video for more details of this event:
Euro T20 Slam Teams/Franchises
There will be 6 Franchise teams in this Euro T20 league, two cities from every country were awarded franchises, here are the complete details:
- Amsterdam Kings from the Netherlands
- Rotterdam Rhinos from the Netherlands
- Glasgow Giants from Scotland
- Belfast titans from Ireland
- Edinburgh Rocks from Scotland
- Dublin Chiefs from Ireland
Check out the complete details of the Squads of Euro League
A new European T20 cricket league is to be held from 30 August to 22 September 2019, following an agreement between the boards of Cricket Scotland, Cricket Netherlands and Cricket Ireland.
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Euro T20 Slam Schedule and Fixtures for 2019
Match 1: Amsterdam Kings vs. Rotterdam Rhinos
The inaugural match of this league will be played between Amsterdam Kings and Rotterdam Rhinos on 30 august 2019 Friday at VRA Cricket Ground. Both the teams are competent and passionate so that the contest will be great.
Match 2: Glasgow Giants vs. Belfast Titans
The 2nd match will be played between Glasgow Giants and Belfast Titans on 30 august 2019 Friday at VRA Cricket Ground. These teams are also competent, and there are many chances that this match will be full of enjoyment.
Match 3: Edinburgh Rocks vs. Dublin Chiefs
In 3rd match of Euro et20slam, Dublin chiefs and Edinburgh will face each other in VRA ground on 31 august 2019. The game will be joyful because players of both teams are robust and well known. Ball by ball live scores will be displayed here.
Match 4: Amsterdam Kings vs. Belfast Titans
In 4th match, Belfast Titans will face Amsterdam Kings on 31 august 2019 in the same ground. Players of both teams are highly committed and passionate, so this match is going to full of passion and craze.
For more details of Match Schedule and fixtures, Click here.
Euro League Draft, Foreign and Local Players Picked in ET20 League
Et20s the super recreational league is in the offing. The live-action will commence on Friday 30 August in VRA Cricket Ground.
Cricket lovers all over the world will be eyeing on their favorite players' performances.
Most importantly It has been confirmed that around 700 cricketers from 21 countries have shown interest and registered themselves in the inaugural et20s League draft.
Euro T20 Draft Ceremony took place at Heathrow Airport London on 19 July 2019.
In the inaugural et20s league, every team will have a 16 players squad. It has been decided that every franchise can pick 5 to 7 foreign players, nine local players are mandatory to be chosen by every team. Every team will have a choice of picking one icon and one marquee player.
Twelve have already been selected in the icon and marquee players categories.
Local Players Picks at Euro T20 Draft:
Local players from Scotland, Ireland, and the Netherlands were picked in the first phase of the Euro Slam 20 League Draft.
Most importantly, A total of 54 local players were picked by the six franchises of the event. Every franchise had the option of selecting nine local players.
Foreign Players Picks at European T20 Draft:
Then 2nd phase of the ET20 Slam draft was dedicated to the Foreign players. Players from around 21 countries have made themselves available for the pick in the first-ever et20 league.
Total 42 foreign players were selected in this phase by the six franchises. Some big names were picked by the franchises which charmed the ceremony even more.
Super Stars Picked at Euro Slam T20 Draft:
The fascinating moment of the draft was the picks of the foreign superstar players. It had been a moment of joy for the cricket lovers.
Because, superstars from Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, England, and many other countries have been picked in the draft by the six franchises.
Some of the big names are Babar Azam from Pakistan, England's captain Eoin Morgan, Shahid Afridi of Pakistan.
Shane Watson of Australia, Martin Guptill of New Zealand, Shaheed Afridi of Pakistan, Muhammad Amir of Pakistan, Brendon Mccullum of New Zealand, Imran Tahir and Colin Ingram of South Africa and Rashid Khan of Afghanistan.
Most importantly, It is to mention that later on Faf Du Plesis South Africa's captain has been picked by the one of the franchise.
Euro T20 Slam Draft Picks Rules:
As per the league rules, every franchise which would choose 5 to 7 foreign players in the squad and can select players with the price classification of $80,000, $65,000, $50,000, $35000, $20,000.
Domestic or local players from Scotland, Netherland, and Ireland can be chosen at the cost of $35,000, $20,000 and $10,000.
Most importantly, as per the rules defined, every franchise has to play six local/domestic players in a match. Every franchise was bounded to choose nine local/domestic players in the draft.
Icon and Marquee Players Selected by Franchises
Here is the list of players that have been nominated as Icon and Marquee players. Moreover, Every franchise will have to choose 1 Icon and 1 Marquee player, they had the option to choose these players in advance.
The players selected in Icon and Marquee categories will earn from $115,000 to $135,000.
Similarly, here is a list of big names that have been selected by the following franchises.
EURO Slam T20 Leagues Draft Rounds
The et20s Draft ceremony went for five interesting rounds in a selection of foreign players. Franchise get hands-on top-class limited-overs players in these rounds.
In the first round, franchisees were able to pick the best players and this round remained balanced for all the franchises.
The best pick of the first round goes to Dublin Chiefs after picking the Paksitani top-class bowler and World Cup top performer for Pakistan, yes it's Muhammad Amir.
Have a look at the selected players of the first round.
|Team Name
|International Draft Picks (Round 1)
|Amsterdam Knights
|Ben Cutting
|Glasgow Giants
|Ravi Bopara
|Dublin Chiefs
|Muhammad Amir
|Rotterdam Rhinos
|Fakhar Zaman
|Belfast Titans
|Muhammad Nawaz
|Edinburgh Rocks
|Corey Anderson
The second round of the ET20 Draft again went good for the team owners. Their selection was wise and balanced. Here is the list of players selected in the 2nd round.
The third round of Euro T20 Draft seems to be the most competitive and best picks for the franchises. The players in the limelight for this round was Shaheen Afridi, Tymal Mills, and Hassan Ali.
Shaheen Shah Afridi, the bowling sensation from Pakistan, was picked by Rotterdam Rhinos.
Tymal Mills a limited-overs top bowler was picked by Scotland's Edinburg Rocks. Hassan Ali made his way to Amsterdam Knights. Check the complete list of players selected in this round.
More Rounds
The fourth round proved to be difficult in term of picking the right player for the franchise owners.
However, thanks to the analyst of the franchises who made brilliant decisions and picked up several good players who can sometimes prove to be game-changers. Have a look at the list of 4th round selected players.
The fifth-round always proves to be a good value for the money, Good players are picked for the lower price tag.
Sometimes, they perform well than the round 1 players. Here is the list of fifth-round players.
After the five rounds of foreign players. A round for picking 6th and 7th player foreign supplementary was held.
However, Every franchise can have seven foreign players, out of which five players are compulsory, and two supplementary foreign players are optional. Here is the list
Well after a supplementary foreign players round, most of the franchises hold their decision for the pick of 2nd supplementary player. They intended to wait for the better player if available for selection later on.
Local Players Picks at Euro cricket League Draft
Local Players draft of Et20 was held country-wise. All the Boards Scotland, Netherlands, and Ireland have nominated 18 players nine players for every franchisee to be drafted.
However, All the local 18 players were drafted in country-wise franchises. Here is a franchise-wise list of all the selected local players.
List of local players for Amsterdam Knights and Rotterdam Rhinos
List of local players selected by Edingburgh Rocks and Glasgow giants
Final Squads after the et20s Draft
After the completion of Euro T20 Slam League Draft. All the franchises have announced their 16 member Squads.
The draft rounds were competitive, and almost all the franchises have got hands-on a best players of the T20 cricket.
Glasgow Giants fans were heartened after the retirement announcement by Brandon Mccullum from all forms of Internation cricket. Because Mccullum earlier announced his retirement in 2016 from ODIs, Tests and T20s.
Mccullum was selected as Icon player in Glasgow Giants team. Glasgow Giants has not named any replacement yet.
Scotland Players:
Richie Berrington
George Munsey
Alasdair Evans
Safyaan Sharif
Matthew Cross
Tom Sole
Scott Cameron
Hamza Tahir
Michael Jones
International Players:
Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) (Icon Player)
Dale Steyn (South Africa) (Marquee Player)
Ravi Bopara (England)
Usman Khan Shinwari (Pakistan)
Moises Henriques (Australia)
Qais Ahmad (Afghanistan)
Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa)
Supplementary Players:
JJ Smuts (South Africa)
Lance Klusener
Here is a list of Edingburgh Rocks Squad. This squad has top-class players like Martin Guptill and Chris Lynn. They will be a tough opponent to beat.
Scotland/Domestic Players:
Kyle Coetzer
Calum MacLeod
Mark Watt
Michael Leask
Craig Wallace
Gavin Main
Adrian Neill
Dylan Budge
Oliver Hairs
International/Foreign Players:
Martin Guptill (New Zealand) (Icon Player)
Chris Lynn (Australia) (Marquee Player)
Corey Anderson (New Zealand)
Matt Henry (New Zealand)
Tymal Mills (England)
Tabraiz Shamsi (South Africa)
Anton Devcich (New Zealand)
Supplementary Players:
Waqar Salamkheil (Afghanistan)
Dwaine Pretorius (South Africa)
Mark Ramprakash
Belfast Titans Squad for the 2019 version of Euro T20 Slam has been announced after the Draft ceremony of ET20s. Most importantly, The boom boom Shahid Afridi has joined Belfast Titans as the Icon player, whereas JP Duminy is in the squad as a Marquee player.
Good news for the Titans fans is that Fud Du Plesis has joined the squad and he will be in action for the whole season.
Belfast will play ten matches in the whole league, and their first match is against Glasgow Giants on the first day of the league 30th August 2019.
Irish/Domestic Players:
Paul Stirling
Gary Wilson
Mark Adair
Boyd Rankin
Shane Getkate
Craig Young
Andrew McBrine
Stuart Thompson
Greg Thompson
International Players:
Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) (Icon Player)
Jp Duminy (Marquee Player)
Faf du Plessis (South Africa)
Muhammad Nawaz (Pakistan)
Luke Wright (England)
Colin Ingram (South Africa)
Mitchell McClenaghan (New Zealand)
Aaron Summers (Australia)
Supplementary Players:
Muhammad Ilyas (Pakistan)
Ian Pont
So, Good news for the Irish cricket fans that Dublin Chiefs 16 members Squad has been announced.
Most importantly, The English Team Captain and the winner of the World Cup 2019 final Eoin Morgan Ireland born have joined the Dublin Chiefs squad as Icon Player.
The other two superstars Babar Azam and Muhammad Amir's inclusion in the squad has made the Dublin Squad the fierce competitor.
Also, The Irish cricket fans will be able to see exciting competition in this tournament.
Irish/Domestic Players:
Andy Balbirnie
Kevin O'Brien
George Dockrell
Lorcan Tucker
Josh Little
Simi Singh
Tyrone Kane
Gareth Delany
Harry Tector
International Players:
Eoin Morgan (England) (Icon Player)
Babar Azam (Pakistan) (Marquee Player)
Muhammad Amir (Pakistan)
Harry Gurney (England)
Dan Christian (Australia)
Robbie Frylinck (South Africa)
Corbin Bosch (South Africa)
Supplementary Players:
Not yet announced
Daniel Vettori
Netherland fans are anxiously waiting for the first-ever T20 tournament in which they will see their local stars playing with the International stars in one team.
Rotterdam 16 members squad has been announced, nine among them are local/domestic players whereas the remaining 7 are international players. Have a look at it.
Netherland/Domestic Players:
Maxwell O'Dowd
Pieter Seelaar
Scott Edwards
Fred Klaassen
Stephan Myburgh
Shane Snater
Saqib Zulfiqar
Vivian Kingma
Bas de Leede
International Players:
Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) (Icon Player)
Luke Ronchi (New Zealand) (Marquee Player)
Samit Patel (England)
Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan)
Peter Trego (England)
Hardus Viljoen (South Africa)
Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan)
Supplementary Players:
Anwar Ali (Pakistan)
Herschelle Gibbs
After Rotterdam Rhinos, Amsterdam Knights Squad for the first-ever Euro T20 tournament has been announced as well.
Cricket fans all over the world are expecting mouth-watering contests. The stage for the first gala event will be set on 30th August.
Amsterdam Knights Analysts have shown great patience and picked up best players for their squad in the Euro T20 Draft.
The super all-rounder Shane Watson has joined the Amsterdam team as Icon player whereas Imran Tahir the swing beauty has been named in the Squad as a Marquee player.
Netherland/Domestic Players:
Brandon Glover
Tobias Visee
Philippe Boissevain
Ben Cooper
Roelof van Der Merwe
Wesley Barresi
Paul Van Meekeren
Sikander Zulfiqar
Tonny Staal
International Players:
Shane Watson (Australia) (Icon Player)
Imran Tahir (South Africa) (Marquee Player)
Hassan Ali (Pakistan)
Varun Chopra (England)
Saad Bin Zafar (Canada)
Ben Cutting (Australia)
Alzarri Joseph (West Indies)
Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe)
Ahmad Shahzad (Pakistan)
Supplementary Players:
Varun Chopra (England)
Saad Bin Zafar (Canada)
Mark O'Donnel
Euro T20 Slam League Venues
A total of 33 fixtures would be played between six city-based teams/franchises. These matches will be played in Ireland, Scotland, and Netherland.
The organizers have announced the venues for Euro T20 Slam league.
Therefore, it has been organized in three different countries Amsterdam (VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen), Scotland (The Grange Club, Edinburgh), and Ireland (Malahide Cricket Club Ground, Malahide).
Amsterdam (VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen) and Scotland (The Grange Club, Edinburgh) will host ten matches each, whereas 13 matches will be hosted by Ireland (Malahide Cricket Club Ground).
Fun fact: today's venue, VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen, is one of only two First Class grounds to (sometimes) have a tree inside the boundary. Internet points if you can name the other one.#NEDvNEP pic.twitter.com/WbrwWf2wH2
— Bertus de Jong (@BdJcricket) August 1, 2018
These places have been selected based on playing countries. Most importantly, every country will have the home crowd and ground advantage where the local players will play with confidence.
Therefore, the league has so many thrilling games, and fans from these countries are looking forward to enjoying every bit of Euro T20 Slam league 2019.
Also, Here is a view of The Grange Club, Edinburgh Cricket Ground
Every county will host ten matches in a Round Robin format commencing on August 30, 2019.
Most importantly, The league will begin at VRA Cricket Ground, Amsterdam and the Final of the Euro T20 Leagues is scheduled on September 22, 2019, at Malahide Cricket Club Ground, Malahide.
Here is a look of Malahide Cricket Club Ground
Euro t20 Slam Official Sites
In conclusion, we are in touch with cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands. So we will keep updating our readers about the latest news happening in the Euro t20 League.
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Midlands Review - The Haunting of Alcatraz
Directed by Steve Lawson
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Can you make a film set on Alcatraz Island but film it around the Midlands? Well, Leicester-based horror director Steve Lawson attempts to give that a go in his new film The Haunting of Alcatraz.
With many legends set within the infamous walls over the years, we open up with a bloody bang of a beginning. An inmate manages to trick a guard who ends up giving him a blade (from a pencil sharpener no less) and a swift suicide leads to more mysterious deaths as the film progresses.
With Aura, Hellriser and Time, And Again under his belt Lawson again aims big with this film. He introduces us to Charlie Schmidt (Tom Hendryk) who comes straight out of college in 1937 to get a job as a prison guard. With the jailhouse routines explained by The Warden (Mark Topping excellently channelling some of the pious and cruel barbs of Shawshank's Samuel Norton), he begins his shift.
But it isn't long until Charlie's bright young mind starts to investigate the strange deaths at the prison, yet despite warnings from a fellow guard (a very creepy Chris Lines) he continues to explore the bleak cellblocks.
Filmed at the disused Gloucester prison no less, Lawson does a more than admirable job convincing us this local made film is actually set in the bay of San Francisco. The British cast also do very well with American accents. So much so that I had to look up Chris Lines who is in fact from Stoke and not the US Deep South. And with good use of stock footage, it's sometimes only the overcast UK weather that hints that we're not in sunny California.
The film takes time to build its plot and Charlie eventually crosses paths with Helen Crevell's nurse Sherry and together they begin an awkward bond of friendship, and perhaps more, which alleviates some of the more morbid aspects of the story.
Their relationship sadly leads into the middle third of the film which needed a few more scare scenes to keep the horror aspect at the forefront. And as it slows you start to notice the slightly functional camerawork – more variety in the shots could have helped visually – and some of the more cliched dialogue. Plus for a large prison, there seems to be very few inmates incarcerated. Almost none to be exact and a couple more tense scenes in this middle section sure wouldn't have gone amiss.
However, the flashing lights and spooky sounds combined with a screeching soundtrack do just enough to keep you guessing at the film's cryptic narrative and what could be lurking in the secretive "Cell 13".
As Charlie uncovers further corruption, as well as possibly some supernatural goings-on, the movie definitely, and wisely, picks up the pace towards its conclusion. And later on Charlie's enquiries into visions and voices leads to him unfortunately finding himself stuck in a cage (although not with The Rock alumni Nic Cage).
With traces of Shawshank and the Green Mile mixed with horror elements, The Haunting of Alcatraz's does extremely well to create a convincing setting to hang its story around. Despite the obvious budget limitations, the film's mix of penal punishment and cagey corruption drags it over the line before the illusion breaks.
And so, although you're advised to stay well away from creepy "Cell 13", it's recommended you definitely head towards this disturbingly dark tale set at the infamous and sinister prison known as 'the rock'.
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Lavender Lane, owned by Joe Pusta, will host its first harvest festival July 14.
The unmistakable aroma of lavender is thick in the air. Rows and rows of plants in a variety of hues dot the land in both English and French varieties.
The fields, however, are not in France, but instead at a farm just outside of Milan.
Known as Lavender Lane, the farm is owned by loe Pusta, 32, who single-handedly planted the 4,000 plants at his home.
The majority of the plants are French, which bloom a bit later than the English plants. There are differences not only in appearance but smell, Pusta explains.
"French lavender has a very profuse sent," he said. "The English variety is subtle and is often used in cooking."
Pusta got the idea for lavender farm shortly after he and wife, Courtney, moved to the farm about five years ago.
"I loved gardening and I wanted to plant a unique crop but I wasn't sure at first which which one I would pick," Pusta said. "I decided lavender was unique for around here and thought ' Who doesn't love lavender?' "About three years ago, Pusta planted his first crop. He eventually left his job as a school teacher in Pontiac.
The five-acre lavender fields have not always been easy to maintain. Last year, Pusta said he lost about 700 plants to root rot, which is common in lavender.
This year promises to be one his better years, Pusta said, because he increased the number of plants and they were coming in healthy just prior to harvest.
"Lavender takes about three years to get a good harvest," he said, adding he is pleased with this year's crop.
Pusta has a nursery license so he can sell some of his plants.
He also sells products made from the plants.
Some of those include bundles of dried lavender, which are his most popular item, along with wreaths, essential oils, lotions, soaps and other products.
Many of his products are purchased at farmers' markets in the Brighton, Birmingham, Farmington and Rochester areas, but locals will soon have an opportunity to buy at his home.
The Pustas will sell their products during the firstever Lavender Harvest Festival Saturday.
The festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lavender Lane, 12040 Plank Rd., located about a mile north of the Milan Dragway.
Admission to the festival is $5 per person. The day will feature a U-Cut lavender area, lavender-inspired food and drinks, hands-on activities like building a wreath, facepainting and vendors among other activities.
Anyone interested in cutting their own lavender is asked to bring scissors.
The money raised from the festival will go to the upkeep of the farm.
For more information, visit the farm's Facebook page or www.lavenderlanemi.com.


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What is Be in Balance?
Imagine working longer hours than most of your friends, having no HR department to offer support in times of ill health and having entirely new work colleagues every few days. Place on top of that, running multiple businesses; increasing responsibility and dependency on you, which means you're more than likely going to need to work through ill health to pay the bills.
Stressed yet?
This is the reality for many of our field team and people across the UK who navigate the world of self-employment. When you're self-employed, you are your own business and therefore the wellbeing of your business depends on your health.
Watch our introductory video here
Why did we develop Be in Balance?
With many of the 25/8 Group HQ team having worked in the field marketing industry as Brand Ambassadors, Event Managers and Merchandisers alongside other self-employed roles, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that being self-employed presents. We recognise that in an employed role, an organization would likely have a HR department to help you manage health risks in the workplace. But, when you're your own boss, you're also your own HR manager.
Before my role at 25/8 Group, I spent several years working in the health and social industry. I trained care staff to improve their skills and provided advice on how they could look after themselves in a demanding role. Whilst I enjoyed the work, I soon noticed that in taking care of others, I had lost sight of looking after myself. This affected my work/life balance and had a significant impact on my mental wellbeing. Moving into the field marketing industry, I noticed that many of the challenges faced by our field team impacted their wellbeing in a similar way. I'm not afraid to say that, having tackled mental health issues myself for many years, I've always been a huge advocate of supporting people to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.
After seeing some of our team face difficult scenarios, I wanted to explore if there was any way that we could help them either prevent or manage some of the situations that they were facing. Be in Balance began as scribbles in a notebook that I presented to our Directors. Despite my vision not being fully formed, both Neil and Danny, not only recognised my passion to bring this into our business but, also mirrored my thoughts. It all started with wanting to try and alleviate some of the pressure that our team face and do our best to keep our field team well when they work with us. This is where Be In Balance was born!
What will be on offer?
We will be offering networking sessions for our field team to attend. We hope this will help our team build business relationships, decreases loneliness and present them with ideas to improve their skills from their peers.
We'll be hosting free face to face and online training workshops, focused around running your own business; from sessions managing finances delivered by professional accountants to guidance on creating digital content for social media platforms. We'll also be giving all our team opportunity to be involved in fundraising events for charity with us, including fundraising for charities voted for by you. These events will also be a great opportunity for team building.
In addition, we will also be providing signposting support for our field team around mental health and physical health support so that they are able to explore the options available to them from professionals.
Balance is not always something that we find, but, we hope that we can help our field team create it.
If you want to know more about Be In Balance, please feel free to drop me a message on email@example.com or give me a call on 01952 288355


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Plan now to be part of the 27th Annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show to take place a the Fairgrounds Square Mall on the 5th Street Highway in Reading, PA. The week long show will open on Sunday, February 19 and continue through Saturday, February 25. The Fairgrounds Square Mall now sits upon the very site that was once home to the Reading Fairgrounds Speedway, one of the most popular and well respected weekly dirt tracks in the country. For the twenty-seventh year, this Annual Car Show will salute the memories of racing past, and at the same time, launch the start to the 2012 local short track racing season. Unique to this show is that it is open to all speedways, organizations and racing clubs, providing a joint opportunity to promote short track racing in general and grow the sport for all who are involved. This event is a great example of how working together can create positive results within our sport.
A complete schedule of events will be planned within the next week but for now, we do plan to have Open Cockpit Night set for Monday, February 20. The ARDC Midgets and URC Sprints are two organizations that have already confirmed participation. This night is again open to any class of open cockpit drivers who would like to be interviewed and promote their speedway, organization and team sponsors. Wednesday night will be dedicated to the Modifieds, with local stars planning to be on hand. Friday night, February 24 will be the traditional Racing Legends Night, saluting the stars of the famed Reading Fairgrounds. New this year, will be a salute to the Grandview Speedway drivers, owners and officials as Grandview celebrates their 50th Anniversary season in 2012. Dave Kelly who now lives in Florida will be returning to Reading for the Friday night Legends Reunion. Kelly was the winner of the historic final event at the Reading Fairgrounds and was a former Grandview Speedway Champion. After the closing of Reading, Kelly continued to be a big winner in the modifieds before moving into the URC sprints where he was a multi-time champion. Kelly also did his share of 410 sprint car racing and won on numerous occasions. Kelly is excited to make a return to the Fairgrounds where he enjoyed so much success.
Currently in the planning is a model race to take place on Saturday, February 25. For more information, please contact Mike Feltenberger at firstname.lastname@example.com. Another Saturday activity will be a walking tour of the Fairgrounds property to identify the layout of the race track. Times and details will be announced next week. The events and activities are free to the public.
Race teams, venders anyone wishing to display or take part in the 27th Annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show is asked to contact Bob or Donna Miller at 443-513-4456 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 443-513-4456 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. There is a minimal fee to display.
Show founder Bob Miller and co-event organizer Brett Deyo are actively working at making the 2012 event one of the biggest show is years. There is a lot of energy for 2012 especially as the shows salutes 50 years of the Grandview Speedway. The big news in additional to Grandview's 50th year is the $50,000 to win 41st Annual BPG Freedom 76 paying an unheard of $50,000 to the winner on September 15.
All divisions of racing are invited to take part in this off season event that is free to the public at the Fairgrounds Square Mall. For now, be sure to get your entries in for the 27th Annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show. Entries are being accepted at email@example.com or email@example.com,
Also in the planning stages is the 5th Annual Dirt Track Heroes Car show, to take place at the Phillipsburg Mall in Phillipsburg, NJ. Dirt Track Heroes will officially open on Sunday March 4 and continue through Saturday, March 10th. In the 2011 presentation of the show, 141 race cars from various divisions filled the Mall with record crowds beating the Mall walkway. Steve and Ed Pados will again handle the nightly activities that salute the kids in our sport today, current heroes and the many past heroes who wrote the history books of short tracing racing. A complete line-up of activities will be released shortly.
Drivers, Owners, Vendors looking to be part of the 5th Annual Dirt Track Heroes Car Show should contact Bob or Donna Miller by calling 443 513 4456 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 443 513 4456 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or, by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
These two great shows remain free to the public and are the kickoff point of the coming 2012 local racing season. Plenty more details will be released shortly on both these shows in the coming weeks.
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As a cost-effective route to temperature control, the SunGuard Elite offers you a manual and motorized retractable model. A Durasol Awning can be stopped in any position during operation, for perfect sun protection according to your own personal tastes and likes or dislikes.
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By keeping rooms up to 15 degrees cooler, they ensure your comfort and add to cost-effective energy conservation. You will also save on furnishings, as these will not fade due to sun exposure. Consider adding interior Levolor Blinds to increase the sun-protection factor.
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Financing home remodeling involving the addition of awnings, may present a considerable financial strain. If you decide to apply for a home remodeling loan, make sure that the value of your home equity justifies it. If you are planning to sell your property, the added value will probably show in the price you are able to put on the property. However, it is always wise to make sure that you are not overcapitalizing. Any addition will also add to your property insurance rates. Keep this in mind when making your calculations.
While perhaps not quite as well-known as the Girard Awning and Sunsetter Awning ranges, Durasol Awnings seem to hold their own in the patio protection market.


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Our village
The villagers live in simple mud-brick houses dispersed across the countryside and many of the families consist of three or four children with a single mother, due to the impact of AIDS and other diseases such as malaria. There are no facilities in the area other than the overcrowded primary school. We are therefore ready to help the villagers in whatever way we can to give them better lives too.
For example, after the recent floods of January 2015, Smile Malawi provided the bricks with which some of the affected local people could rebuild their homes. Our borehole provides an additional source of fresh water for the village and we also provided the electricity supply to the village that now feeds the newly-built adjacent maize mill, saving the women a two-mile walk to get their maize ground.
Today, our home consists of a main house, a residential houses for the older boys, the matron's house, a guest house and a pig sty, surrounded by fertile gardens, which provide fresh vegetables and fruit, and meat for the children.


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Category: Brain Injury; Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)
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Few studies have examined auditory complaints in patients with TBI. Herein, we determine patterns of auditory dysfunction in civilians with TBI using patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) and health quality measures (HQM).
Design : Prospective case-control study.
Setting : Tertiary care rehabilitation hospital.
Participants (or Animals, Specimens, Cadavers) : Mild TBI (mTBI) and moderate-severe TBI (msTBI) patients, and age and gender-matched controls.
Interventions : Consecutive control and patients with mTBI and msTBI were evaluated. Patients with history of prior otologic disorders or noise exposure were excluded. Participants completed Short Form-36 (SF-36) Health Survey, Handicap Inventory for Adults (HHIA), Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), and Hyperacusis Questionnaire (HQ).
Main Outcome Measure(s) : Scores from PROMs.
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From 8/2017 to 12/2018, 92 TBI (n=55 mTBI and 37 msTBI) and 55 controls met study criteria. Forty-one mTBI (74.5%) and 17 msTBI (45.9%) had two or more auditory symptoms compared to control group (5.5%, p<.0001). TBI patients also had a higher prevalence of hearing loss (52.2%), tinnitus (51.1%,), hyperacusis (55.4%,), aural fullness (31.5%), and autophony (15.2%,), all p≤.01. Of those complaining of hearing loss, hyperacusis, or tinnitus, TBI patients also had higher mean scores on the HHIA, HQ, and THI compared to controls, all p≤.001. Higher HHIA score was negatively correlated with SF-36, specifically with their vitality, emotional role, social functioning, and general health perception, all p≤.05 .
Conclusions : This is the first study to investigate PROMs of auditory symptoms and associations with HQM in patients with TBI. Findings have implications for screening with goal to enhance quality of life and function.
Seth Herman– Director Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship, Harvard Medical School/Spauding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Rory Lubner– Medical Student Research Assistant, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Boston, Massachusetts
Renata Knoll– Researcher, Massachusetts Ear and Eye Infirmary/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Ashwin Babu– Attending Physician, Harvard Medical School/Spauding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
David Jung– Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Aaron Remenschneider– Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
Elliott Kozin– Attending Physician, Massachusetts Ear and Eye Infirmary/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Half-price apps are available from 9 to 11 pm each night, along with a new cold Mavor's-2-Go menu with wraps, salads, lobster rolls, and other light fare on offer. This quick menu will be available via concessions at the hostess stand and outside the amphitheatre during Young Company performances.
Mavor's is also switching to green-friendly compostable materials for all of its in-house and take-out use. "Confederation Centre of the Arts is thrilled to become a more sustainable and environmentally responsible operation, and Mavor's is leading the way with this renewal," remarks Steve Bellamy, CEO. He continues, "People also might not realize that 100 percent of the proceeds generated at our restaurant go right back into supporting live entertainment, visual arts, and arts education, which benefits the entire community. "


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