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I know, not what you expected (this isn't Marvel's The Avengers (created for the comics in 1963, but the British TV series created in 1961), but, then, neither was this movie to me. "The Avengers" were a proven property, a memory (fond) of my youth, especially when it was on American television, during the height of the "Bond craze" of the 1960's. It started out in its early "video" days as a fairly straight-ahead detective procedural with Patrick Macnee as John Steed, who worked with Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry), then Venus Smith (Julie Stevens), then Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman). The shows became increasingly bolder, cheekier and more in the spy realm, reaching its zenith during the "Emma Peel" years, when Diana Rigg played Steed's partner. By that time, the show was practically a comedy, with odd off-kilter conspiracies, sci-fi and fantasy elements. Most folks tuned in for the repartee, as the plots became fairly disposable; Steed and Emma became the focus of the show, he of the fusty suits and bowler hat, she of the catsuits and judo fights. It was fun, disposable, and a joy to watch.
The movie version gets only one out of the three. After years in development hell with a script by Batman scribe Sam Hamm with Mel Gibson as the proposed lead, the original ideas were scrapped and a new revised attempt was made. The blunders begin by miscasting Ralph Fiennes as Steed and Uma Thurman as Peel. Fiennes fares slightly better, but he plays Steed as withdrawn and a bit docile, whereas the Steed of the series was a proud peacock of an extrovert. Ms. Thurman's Mrs. Peel is everything the series' Rigg wasn't—pale, inexpressive and...American. As if to overcompensate for the lack of joie de vivre in the leads, the movie goes overboard with elements of goofiness in a plot about robotic clones, Teddy bear conspiracists, mechanical bees, and a plot to—dare I say it?—rule the world...by controlling...the weather?
Sean Connery had been saying for years that he'd wanted to play a Bond villain, but knew those producers would never go for it—or pay the salary he wanted. This is the movie where he gets to, and his August DeWynter, is played hammily and with much brio. He gets the best lines and looks like he's having fun(certainly more than the audience). Fiennes looks miserable most of the time, and Thurman is mostly unreadable. There's also an interesting supporting cast, largely wasted, featuring Jim Broadbent, Fiona Shaw, John Wood, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins, and a cameo by MacNee...who plays a character who's invisible. He's the lucky one in the cast.
The script—by Don McPherson—is a mess, and Jeremiah Chechik (who made National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Benny & Joon) tries to bring some style to it at the sacrifice of pace and, after the film was slashed from two hours to 90 minutes following a disastrous preview, a certain level of coherence. It's one of the few movies where I walked out with a feeling of contempt for the whole rotten show.
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Kennedy has been involved with the development of the technical basis for revised radiation protection standards and regulations, and has participated in evaluations and appraisals at operating nuclear facilities.
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Corporate Secretary and Executive Vice President William (Bill) E. Kennedy, Jr., has been elected as a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) Board of Directors. In this role, he will, among other duties, review scientific and program committees, adopt updates and revisions to the strategic plan, and review and approve policies and actions necessary for the continued operations of the organization. In addition, Kennedy will serve on the NCRP finance committee, charged with developing the council's 2015 operating budget.
Kennedy has extensive experience in a broad range of radiation protection topics. He has been involved with the development of the technical basis for revised radiation protection standards and regulations, and has participated in evaluations and appraisals at operating nuclear facilities. He is a Fellow of the Health Physics Society and has been the author or coauthor of more than 160 technical publications, presentations, and short courses.
In addition to his corporate duties at Dade Moeller, Kennedy is the first director of the company's healthcare and medical physics subsidiary, Dade Moeller Health Group, LLC.
Chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1964, the NCRP has been collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information regarding public radiation protection for the past 50 years. The council consists of 100 voting members who serve 6-year terms and are elected for their scientific expertise, as well as a policy-making Board of Directors whose nine members serve one-year terms. Kennedy has served two consecutive terms on the Council; this is his first election to the Board of Directors.
Kennedy was elected to the board on March 11 during the business session of the NCRP annual meeting, held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Bethesda, Md.
About Dade Moeller: Dade Moeller provides a full range of professional and technical services to federal, state, and commercial clients in support of radiological, environmental, and worker safety operations. Its Dade Moeller Health Group subsidiary provides medical physics, dosimetry, and training services to those using radiation and radioactive materials in the health care industry.

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"You can start this paragraph with a question, humor or statistic; how you do this will depend on the subject matter of your essay. "
The introduction is the beginning of your essay. It is the first paragraph readers are introduced to. The first sentence is known as your opening sentence. It is also known as a hook since it should make readers want to continue reading. The overall idea is to catch the reader's eye with something significant and intriguing related to your topic. Your thesis statement will also appear in the introduction. This is the main idea or reason why the essay is written. This is basically one sentence that lays the foundation for the content. You will also have background information in this paragraph, but this will be brief since you will give more details in the paragraphs ahead. Your last sentence is known as the transition sentence and it prepares readers for the next paragraph.
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Move over Bridget Jones… we reveal TV's foul-mouthed, sex-addicted and imperfect women from Sharon Horgan in Catastrophe to Fleabag and Lena Dunham in Girls
In the lead-up to the last episode of Channel 4's Catastrophe, we take a look at some of the best bad girls on TV
REMEMBER when a "naughty" woman on screen was Bridget Jones, with her big knickers and inability to cook?
Well times have changed.
Now fictional female characters are sex-addicted, drug-taking, foul-mouthed heavy boozers – and we love it.
Tomorrow is the last in the series of Channel 4's award-winning comedy, Catastrophe.
Written by Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, it tells the story of two forty-something characters who are stumbling their way through parenthood and their relationship.
Here, GABRIELE DIRVANAUSKAS reveals the new breed of imperfect women we should all be watching.
Bad girl: Fleabag
Show: Fleabag
Flaws: Beds blokes to feel validated, betrayed best pal
Badness rating:😈😈😈😈
This show is not safe for watching with your parents or on your iPad on public transport.
It was first performed as a one-woman theatre show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013 by British actress and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge now 31.
It then moved to a central-London theatre before being made for BBC3.
Despite the title coming from Phoebe's family nickname, Flea, she claims the explicitly honest show is not based on her life.
Fleabag — we don't learn her real name — is a sexually liberated young, single Londoner with a soft spot for Barack Obama.
She has no qualms about toying with her on/off boyfriend's emotions — and sleeping with other men in between their breaks.
She's left to work in a guinea pig-themed cafe she opened with her best friend Boo (Jenny Rainsford), whose death she is mourning throughout the six episodes.
Her mum has passed away and Olivia Colman plays her seriously spiteful godmother-turned-stepmum, who will have you hissing at the telly in disgust.
You'll be egging on Fleabag to stand up to her.
She navigates her way past her perfect sister's creepy husband and we are on Fleabag's side right up until a shocking twist at the end.
The next man who walks in here is getting ridden to deathFleabag
Bad girl: Mickey Dobbs
Show: Love
Flaws: Drugs, booze, sex and love addict
Badness rating: 😈😈😈😈😈
This sun-drenched, LA-based series is the coolest show on Netflix and has just come back for a second season.
Mickey Dobbs and Gus Cruikshank, played by 34-year-old Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust, 35, are the original odd couple.
It was created by Judd Apatow, the man behind Knocked Up, Trainwreck and The 40-Year-Old-Virgin — expect plenty of filth and don't watch it with your parents or children.
Gus is a classic nerd whose favourite way to unwind is to create acoustic theme songs for films with his equally nerdy mates, while Mickey is a drug, alcohol, sex and love addict.
While those addictions are not exactly glamorous or things anyone should want to emulate, they make us fall for Mickey.
She is one hot mess and self- sabotages her relationships — with Gus as well as her endearingly sweet new housemate and female friend Bertie.
Mickey's straightforward attitude is refreshing and has you rooting for her, even when she is at her most spiteful.
And she has a cool, laid-back wardrobe that has LA all over it — kicking off the show by wearing a red swimsuit with jeans, which she sleeps in and then wears again the next day.
Move over, Pammie, there is a new red one-piece icon in town.
I don't even own running shoes. The last time I ran anywhere was out of a restaurant when we couldn't payLove
Bad girl: Sharon Morris
Show: Catastrophe
Flaws: Boozing, swearing
Badness rating: 😈😈😈
Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe follow characters Sharon and Rob whose relationship gets seriously fast-tracked after becomes pregnant.
While Sharon is having Rob's baby, and is none too pleased at being labelled a "geriatric" mum by her doctor, she is so independent that she is reluctant to even give the father of her new child any wardrobe space.
Instead of the clichéd storyline of a bloke straying from his partner, Sharon — played by Irish comic
Sharon Horgan — gives as good as she gets.
In one episode, after a boozy night, she can't recall whether or not she cheated on Rob with another bloke.
Sharon's a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, Irish primary school teacher living in London and Rob — played by Rob Delaney — is a teetotal businessman from Boston, US.
This show will speak to all real-life couples, as they encounter a whole host of true-to-life issues including difficult parents, mortgages, alcoholism and infidelity.
Expect some explicit and stomach- churning scenes that are not concerned with Sharon being the perfect yummy mummy — especially when she throws up on one of her pupils.
With series four confirmed by Channel 4, we cannot wait to see how the pair's relationship develops.
When I see a happy pregnant woman on the street, I want to punch herCatastrophe
Bad girl: Amy Schumer
Show: Inside Amy Schumer
Flaws: Booze, one-night stands
Badness rating: 😈😈😈😈
The US comedian sold out London's O2 Arena with her stand-up show in 2016, and was cast as Barbie in the upcoming film before dropping out last week due to a scheduling conflict.
Her frank, satirical sketches bagged her an Emmy-winning TV show, Inside Amy Schumer, on American network Comedy Central in 2013.
The 35-year-old New Yorker wrote and starred in the 2015 film Trainwreck, which pretty much does what it says on the tin.
She plays Amy Townsend, a party-loving, men's magazine journalist whose rule is to never sleep over at a one-night stand's house.
The film, directed by Judd Apatow, sees her character make a series of bad, booze-fuelled decisions before bagging a happy ending.
Amy's explicit stand-up routine includes speaking out about sex, feminism and her own insecurities. She has also covered US gun control on stage since an incident in 2015 when a man opened fire at a cinema in Louisiana at a showing of Train-wreck, killing two women and injuring nine people before killing himself.
Her 2016 book, The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo, topped the New York Times bestseller list — proving that sometimes, it pays for a self-confessed trainwreck to go off the rails.
My ex was really into family... he'd never come away with me on the weekends because he wanted to spend time with his wifeAmy Schumer
Bad girl: Hannah
Show: Girls
Flaws: Selfish, manipulative
Badness rating: 😈😈😈
It's the last season of the boundary-breaking show which made a star, and talking point, out of its feminist creator Lena Dunham.
Hannah, played by Dunham, moves to Brooklyn, New York's cooler, up-and-coming borough, after graduating from university . . . then her parents cut off their financial support.
Along with her close friends Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet), Hannah spends the following six seasons tackling issues including fallouts, toxic relationships, financial issues and drugs. Dunham's character shows womanhood in a real light — the curvy star frequently appeared naked, and not to turn on male viewers but to show that women above a size eight do exist on TV.
Dunham's self-centred, flawed character was not always in the right, but there is no question she started a revolution regarding how women are portrayed on screen.
I don't even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out and thinks I'm the best person in the worldLena Dunham


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English poet Christina Georgina Rosetti sadly died in Bloomsbury on 29 December 1894. Born5 December 1830, She wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems, including Goblin Market, Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter". Rossetti was educated at home by her mother, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. Rossetti enjoyed the works of Keats, Scott, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. The influence of the work of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and other Italian writers had a deep impact on Rossetti's later writing. The family homes in Bloomsbury at 38 and later 50 Charlotte Street were within easy reach of Madam Tussauds, London Zoo and the newly opened Regent's Park, which she visited regularly, Rossetti was very much a London child, and, it seems, a happy one.
ln the 1840s, her family faced severe financial difficulties due to the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health. He had Bronchitis, possibly tuberculosis, and faced losing his sight. He gave up his teaching post at King's College and though he lived another 11 years, he suffered from depression and was never physically well again. So Rossetti's mother began teaching and Maria became a live-in governess. At this time her brother William was working for the Excise Office and Gabriel was at art school, leading Christina's life at home to become one of increasing isolation. When she was 14, Rossetti suffered a nervous breakdown and left school. Bouts of depression and related illness followed. She, became deeply interested in theAnglo-Catholic movement that developed in the Church of England. Religious devotion came to play a major role in Rossetti's life
In her late teens, Rossetti became engaged to the painter James Collinson. like her brothers Dante and William, he was one of the founding members of the avant-garde artistic group, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The engagement was broken in 1850 when he reverted to Catholicism. Later she became involved with the linguist Charles Cayley, but declined to marry him, also for religious reasons. The third offer came from the painter John Brett, whom she also refused. Rossetti sat for several of Dante Rossetti's most famous paintings. In 1848, she was the model for the Virgin Mary in his first completed oil painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, which was the first work to be inscribed with the initials 'PRB', ( Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood).The following year she modelled again for his depiction of the Annunciation, Ecce Ancilla Domini. A line from her poem "Who shall deliver me?" inspired the famous painting by Fernand Khnopff called "I lock my door upon myself". In 1849 she became seriously ill again, suffering from depression and also had a major religious crisis.
Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, and From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the Bible, folk tales and the lives of the saints. Her early pieces often feature meditations on death and loss. She published her first two poems ("Death's Chill Between" and "Heart's Chill Between"), which appeared in the Athenaeum, in 1848 when she was 18. Under the pen-name "Ellen Alleyne", she contributed to the literary magazine, The Germ, published by the Pre-Raphaelites from January – April 1850 and edited by her brother William. Her most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, appeared in 1862, when she was 31. It received widespread praise, establishing her as the main female poet of the time. Hopkins, Swinburne and Tennyson lauded her work.Rossetti was hailed as a successor to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. one of Rossetti's best known works Goblin Market Is about the misadventures of two sisters' when they encounter goblins.
Rossetti was a volunteer worker from 1859 to 1870 at the St. Mary Magdalene "house of charity" in Highgate, a refuge for former prostitutes and it is suggested Goblin Market may have been inspired by the "fallen women" she came to know.There are parallels with Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner given both poems' religious themes of temptation, sin and redemption by vicarious suffering. Swinburne in 1883 dedicated his collection A Century of Roundels to Rossetti as she had adopted his roundelform in a number of poems, as exampled by her Wife to Husband She was ambivalent about women's suffrage, but many scholars have identified feminist themes in her poetry. She was opposed to slavery (in the American South), cruelty to animals (in the prevalent practice of animal experimentation), and the exploitation of girls in under-age prostitution.
Rossetti maintained a very large circle of friends and correspondents and continued to write and publish for the rest of her life, primarily focusing on devotional writing and children's poetry. In 1892, Rossetti wrote The Face of the Deep, a book of devotional prose, and oversaw the production of a new and enlarged edition ofSing-Song, published in 1893.ln the later decades of her life, Rossetti suffered from Graves Disease, diagnosed in 1872 suffering a nearly fatal attack in the early 1870s. ln 1893, she developed breast cancer and though the tumour was removed, she suffered a recurrence in September 1894. She was buried inHighgate Cemetery and the place where she died, in Torrington Square, is marked with a stone table


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Millennials coming into industries with the right skills and talent are aware of the increase in business mobility too. And they don't just know it, they expect to be working across borders at some point in their career and see this as a development opportunity. This makes mobility so important to businesses as this group of employees are expected to make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025.
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September 12, 2016
McGeorge Master of Science in Law (MSL) student Michelle Teran, '17, put her classroom skills to work advocating for the farm worker overtime bill AB 1066 (Gonzalez) which passed the California Assembly on Aug. 29, 2016. The bill was signed into law by Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 12, 2016.
In her job as Political/Legislative Assistant to the United Farm Workers of America, Michelle spoke with legislators and others about the importance of AB 1066, a bill about overtime pay for farm workers that is now on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk for his consideration. If the bill is signed into law, it would expand overtime pay to farm workers in California after working more than 8 hours in a day or 40 hours a week.
Michelle attributes her success in part to her McGeorge MSL coursework. "After taking the persuasive public speaking class over the summer I felt more confident and prepared talking to legislators and others about this bill," she said. "I feel that the class enhanced my speaking to persuade people on this topic and contributed to AB 1066's success."
"AB 1066 seeks to correct an injustice farm workers have lived with for nearly 80 years when the Fair Labor Standards Act excluded them from federal minimum wage and overtime pay protections," said Michelle.
This article was originally posted on Aug. 29, 2016. Read a profile of Michelle Teran.


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"Well, aren't you just the jolly green giant!" A woman at church said that to me twenty-five years ago. Worse has been said, surely. Although to this day I can't put on a pair of heels without hearing her voice.
Have you ever wanted to take back your words?
That was the question posed to my Bible study class this morning. We've been reading the book of James; chapter 3 talks about taming the tongue and the power of words.
I thought of Rhema, who all her life, we've been trying to get words out. I wondered, Will she ever have a moment where she actually says too much? – wants to take her words back?
Somewhere between age one and two I'd convinced myself that 'all she has is a speech delay'. I would tell her one day, I thought, when she could talk, how the language had been slow to come. How huge the silence had felt. How she'd spent countless hours in therapy doing oral motor exercises just to become aware of her lips, to strengthen her tongue and produce sound with her mouth. I'd tell her we'd learned never to take it for granted. Words. That speech is a gift. That she should always remember to speak well; use her words for good, not bad; bless, not curse.
Perhaps the lesson was always intended for me – I grieve my many sins with my too much talk, the rivers of damage springing from my own tongue. Life with Rhema has often prompted me to consider what I say, what I write.
Words in cyberspace are superfluous. Every time I log in, the WordPress tool boasts '52,539,835 words today.' Countless words are recorded in chats, emails, blogs, Facebook and Twitter pages. My friend Stefan wrote once, "With the sheer volume and pace of words and words and words, it is unnatural and counter cultural to slow down enough to read or write words that matter.
~Excerpt from On Comments, 9/2010
Is there not more silence in our lives because we are afraid?
Afraid that when we aren't talking, aren't connected, aren't piping in on conversations around tables, water coolers, comment boxes, aren't messaging or emailing …. that we don't matter. That we will be forgotten.
That we'll become invisible.
And maybe more than anything else, we want to be seen, known…
~Ann Voskamp
I heard two words for sure from my girl today, the 2nd of May 2012. She said "Hi" to me when prompted by her teacher. She said, "Chee, chee, chee" after I said "Ch-" and held out a piece of cheese. And I told her that her speech is a precious gift, graciously given by the Speech Maker himself.
And I told her that it's ok. I am finally ok in this loud world, even happy to sit with no words. I admire the beautiful meditation of her heart, her wisdom in the silence, her quiet contentment – she knows she is seen, she knows she is known.
This child whose very name means "word" is to me a living reminder that there really are no words, only The Word, the Spirit and Life Word. God's whispering come and listen.
"I'm speechless, in awe—words fail me.
I should never have opened my mouth!
I've talked too much, way too much.
I'm ready to shut up and listen." ~Job 40:3-5
Search your hearts and be silent. ~Psalm 4:4
Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. ~Ecclesiastes 5:2


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Letter from Malcolm Hooper to Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of NICE
19 February 2010
Dear Sir Michael,
I am a 'blast from your past'. I was at Sunderland School of Pharmacy and you were at Newcastle in Clinical Pharmacology when the M.Pharm course in Pharmacokinetics was developed. Congratulations on your eminent status and knighthood.
Since 1997, when I retired as Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, I have been involved with the emerging and widespread complex chronic multi-system illnesses (Gulf War Syndrome/Illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME/CFS, multiple chemical sensitivity, MCS, Aerotoxic Syndrome, organophosphate and other pesticide poisonings) that are of growing concern and are medically challenging -- writing and lecturing, locally, nationally and internationally.
This letter is linked to my concerns about ME which involves some 240,000 people in the UK with varying degress of disability. Some 25% are housebound or bed bound and have formed their own group, www.25megroup.org/.
The 442 page report "Magical Medicine, how to make a disease disappear", copy attached with the press release, together with a copy of my letter to the Minister, Lord Drayson, currently the Minister responsible for the MRC, brings together an extensive and fully referenced review of the literature on ME.
It provides the evidence supporting my complaint about the MRC PACE Trial to Lord Drayson.
The entire report, the press release and the letter of complaint have now been circulated worldwide on the internet and have received much acclaim and support from the major ME organisations in various countries and numerous individuals, as well as academic institutions. The report is to be discussed by the International Association of CFS/ME at its next board meeting in early March, as confirmed by the President, Professor Fred Friedberg from the US.
Despite the vast amount of biomedical literature (some 5000 papers) going back to 1934 and the classification of ME as a neurological illness by the WHO (ICD-10 G93.3) since 1969, the official UK attitudes as demonstrated by the MRC, DWP, Department of Health, and to some extent your own organisation NICE:
a.ignore all this evidence
b.show an ideological commitment to a psychosomatic/behavioural model of the illness which is no longer tenable
c.recommend only cognitive restructuring techniques (CBT and GET) that are "not remotely curative" and have been shown to be of no lasting value and in the case of GET to be positively harmful (Peter White's assertion that this is because the interventions have been incorrectly administered has been shown to lack credibility)
d.proscribe any investigative tests to identify the disorder, leading to missed diagnoses and misdiagnosies
e.support cruel, even vicious, actions that lead to patients being wrongly sectioned and parents, particularly mothers, accused of Munchausens'-Syndrome-by-Proxy, MSBP.
f. the result is that essential benefits and insurance payments to support patients and their families have not been paid or have been granted only after protracted and expensive legal action. All this adds to the burden of the illness for patients and for those who care for them.
The psychiatrists' argument that what they refer to as "CFS/ME" is substantially different from past epidemics of ME does not withstand scrutiny in the light of current knowledge. It is beyond question that ME is associated with a severely disrupted immune system which renders patients more susceptible to both further viral and chemical challenge and reactivation of latent viruses and persistent viral-specific symptoms.
For the psychiatrists to amalgamate 25 different disorders (Holgate, RSM July 2009) and to focus on "medically unexplained fatigue" whilst ignoring cardinal symptoms of ME is a travesty of medical science.
Of special concern and relevance are the legal and ethical requirements facing doctors today, in particular, the legal requirement for doctors to keep up to date with developments in medicine and medical science (as clearly set out in "Good Medical Practice: Duties of a doctor. The duties of a doctor registered with the General Medical Council: 'Keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date' and 'Never abuse your patients' trust in you or the public's trust in the profession' (http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/good_medical_practice/duties_of_a_doctor.asp).
Ignoring vast swathes of evidence is not keeping up to date. For any registered medical practitioner – consultant or GP - to dismiss or ignore this widely available evidence which invalidates the behavioural model of "CFS/ME", together with the prescription of inappropriate interventions, is in clear breach of the GMC regulations and consequently raises issues of medical indemnity.
As noted in the report: "since the general body of knowledge known about by other clinicians and researchers working in the field of ME/CFS is now so great, the question repeatedly asked is: at what point will that body of scientific knowledge be so great that it will be considered serious professional misconduct to ignore it and to continue to deceive patients by pretending that it does not exist?".
The recommendation not to carry out appropriate investigative tests is inconsistent with the Hippocratic Oath in its ancient or modern form.
The offering of treatment that is known even by its proponents to be ineffective is a betrayal of doctors' responsibility to their patients. Merely to pronounce that the onus is on the individual doctor, when adherence to NICE Guidelines is to become compulsory, is unacceptable.
Inappropriate sectioning of patients and false diagnoses such as MSBP represents a further betrayal.
To rely on only a few studies, showing very modest efficacy, all of which having been shown to have very serious flaws (as is the case with the PACE Trial) and enshrine this inadequate information in official directions, publications and statements from authorised bodies, including NICE, is utterly unacceptable and dishonours the name of medicine as well as being destructive of lives of sick people and those who care for them.
I draw to your attention the commissioned editorial in last week's BMJ by Alistair Santhouse, who you will be aware was a member of the CG53 GDG. Please read the attached eBMJ response submitted by Horace Reid, a former long-serving NHS clinician. It was rejected for publication, a fact that is revealing in itself, given that it is impeccably accurate.
I would ask you in your role as Chairman of NICE to engage fully with our report and act accordingly to right the long standing wrongs that people with ME have suffered for the last 20 years.
With best wishes
Malcolm Hooper.


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Being the largest mobile wallet in China, Alipay dominates the local market but now it's going to expand its services to Europe as well. As it has been revealed, quite soon it will become widely accessible in the United Kingdom.
Alipay in the UK
According to the information provided, Ant Financial that is an affiliate of the Alibaba e-commerce conglomerate and an operator of Alipay has entered in a partnership with Barclaycard, the largest card transaction platform in the UK which processes nearly 50% of debit and credit card transactions in Britain.
In the framework of this agreement, UK merchants will get a possibility to accept Alipay smartphone transactions without a necessity to install new payment equipment. It is expected that such a move will promote the app's acceptance in Great Britain.
Thanks to this initiative, potentially more than 100 000 British retailers will be able to benefit from the increasing volume and buying power of Chinese visitors. And it is quite an important bonus as today tourists from China comprise a significant part of the entire customer base of UK merchants.
According to the data shared by UK's national tourism agency, VisitBritain, it is expected that over 480 000 people from China will visit the UK in 2019 which is 43% up in comparison with 2017. The estimated sum that they could spend this year is more than $1billion. There are also around 500 000 Chinese residents and students in Britain.
It means that joining to Alipay system, stores will get a new promotional tool as they will be added to the app that the more than 600 million Chinese Alipay customers use to search for different shops and special offerings.
Rob Cameron, chief executive officer and global head of payment acceptance at Barclaycard, explained the mutual benefits, that UK stores and Alipay users will have, the following way:
"Our new agreement with Alipay gives retailers a vital tool to help them seize the revenue opportunity posed by the growth of Chinese visitors to the UK. At the same time, Alipay users will benefit from a more convenient and familiar in-store payments process-enhancing their overall shopping experience."
A survey conducted by Nielsen last year has shown that 93% of Chinese tourists would be ready to spend more in a store where it is possible to use a mobile app to pay.
"Mobile payment is on the rise globally, and will continue to support greater connectivity and efficiency across the commercial ecosystem," noted Vishal Bali, managing director of Nielsen China.
Alipay's Expansion
It is known that Alipay has already established collaboration with 250 financial institutions all over the world. Since 2015 it has managed to enter in 9 strategic partnerships with local companies outside the Chinese mainland.
For example, in 2017 after the trials in New York and California, Ant Financial expanded its mobile payments platform into the United States market.


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After almost a month of publishing pieces on the hidden sugar in stuff like fizzy drinks, ice cream, fast food and so on I started thinking about how hard it would be to forgo the white stuff altogether. I'm a cake-loving, health-freak contradiction. Despite being health conscious most of the time I shudder at the thought of forgoing sweet treats entirely, life's too short to pass up a slice of gooey chocolate cake every now and then or a thick piece of salty dark chocolate.
I decided to go cold turkey for the week as see how I would fare. I allowed myself a little fruit each day but no added sugar, no cake, no chocolate (even the dark stuff), no dried fruits, no sweeteners etc to see how I fared. Being a part-time health nut I was cocky that it would be a breeze… Oh no it wasn't.
Day 1 - Sugar Free Cake Ain't All It's Cracked Up To Be
Monday went off okay, I had some yoghurt and sugar free granola with berries for breakfast. This would be standard enough for me so no bother there. Nairns oat biscuits start circulating around the office… While a 'healthy' biscuit they still contain the sweet stuff, so I decline. I start thinking about the biscuit for longer than I should. I go to the kitchen to make a cup of tea to distract myself and low and behold there are two opened bags of Milka chocolate on the countertop, the world is conspiring against me. I realise I need to do a Cake Of The Week post (one of my favourite times of the week), and realise that my options are limited. The Fumbally sell "everything free" biscuit things, I get one of those and some other cakes that the team have to munch on to help out with the post. While those biscuits are alright, they're certainly not the stuff I'm used to. There's no point eating a biscuit or cake that doesn't have sugar in it, just eat something else. Despite the temptations they day doesn't go too badly, it's only day one and so any cravings haven't yet kicked in. I decided to make a healthy alternative to biscuits after work incase I get the munchies again tomorrow.
Day 2 - The Damned Oreo Bar and Carrot Flax Crackers
I start the day off with unsweetened porridge, again standard enough breakfast for me so I'm not too bothered. Today I come prepared for any cravings with… Carrot and Flax crackers! I'm sure pretty much anything else would have been more appetising but I had a notion and just went with it. I reckoned that once I had something to nibble on when I get cravings I would be fine. I head to the shop with Nicola for a pint of milk and we come across the oreo dairy milk bars that we've been seeing on all over twitter. She gets one and I trudge back with my bloody carrot and flax crackers to look forward to. Great. I decided to treat myself to cheesy bacon scrambled eggs on toast for lunch to compensate for lack of sugar. This is a good strategy I find, if you have a really nice lunch to look forward to it's not so bad. I'm feeling really sleepy so don't manage my usual run, and instead go to bed early dreaming of cream cakes.
Day 3 - Dinner Out
I am exhausted and feel like I'm on a total come down. I'm not so much hanging for a brownie (but I wouldn't say no), but just feeling shit in general. I have a headache and my bloody eyebrows starts twitching, I feel like Quasimodo.
The main challenge today is that we're going for a team dinner out. I'm not sure where we are going for dinner by I know that I will want dessert, I always want dessert. Thankfully we later decide to go to Musashi for dinner so after a feast of miso, dumplings and sushi I really don't feel like dessert. Again it seems the key to not cracking is eating delicious savoury food and then you don't feel so deprived. However, I once again collapse into bed dreaming of chocolate.
Day 4 - Starting To Feel Less Shit
I'm not sure if I really feel that much better or if I'm just telling myself I do, but this morning I feel like I have a bit more natural energy. Sure don't I have another tupperware of flax crackers to munch through if my colleagues start taunting me with chocolate?! To be honest though I'm not really craving sugar as much as I was earlier in the week. Today goes great but my real worry is that I have a two day wedding starting tomorrow and it will be impossible to turn down all the delicious sweet treats that will no doubt be on display.
Day 5 - Cheating With Wine But No Cake
My plan all week was to not drink wine at the wedding and instead drink vodka sodas with dinner, of course I don't do this and start knocking back the glasses of Prosecco like it's about to go out of fashion. However I stick to my guns and turn down the mini cupcakes floating around the reception, decline dessert and refuse the chocolate orange wedding cake. The chocolates on the table nearly crack me but despite the fact I've drank nearly the equivalent amount of sugar in the form of red wine, I decline the sweet treats. It seems after a few days of turning down sugary treats, it just becomes habit and much easier to do.
Day 6 - Another Feast But No Sugar
I'm hungover and needing carbs. Despite my weakened state I pass by the pastries, breads and jams at the breakfast buffet and get the fry to beat all fries. Gooey eggs and fried potatoes make everything right in the world again and I don't even think about the sugar I'm not eating. At the party later on I pass by the ice cream and cake on offer and don't even really think about it anymore. It's truly now habit to decline and I don't feel so bad about not eating sugar anymore. To be honest I do make up for it with carbs though because, hey, I haven't eaten cake or chocolate in almost a week so if I want to eat a big plate of pasta I will. (I'm also getting confused by my own twisted logic).
Day 7 - Severe Hangover and Deciding the Week Ends at C.O.B.
I take it back, I'm on a serious come down and I just want toast and jam. My parents have made homemade blackberry jam and are slathering it on buttery toast. I watch them bitterly as I eat my unsweetened porridge. Then my sister emerges with a bag of M&S chocolate chip cookies. Christ Almightly, I want them so bad. They'll make everything alright again. I don't eat them but carry them everywhere with me for about an hour or so as I ponder what effect it will have on my 'journalistic integrity' if I crack on the last day, eventually I put them down. Cheese and crackers diffuse the situation. By the late evening I reflect on the week and think over all it has been a success, red wine aside. I also decided that it's the late evening and the week should end at close of business, as it technically started at C.O.B. the previous Sunday. I end the day with a piece of salted caramel chocolate and sink off to sleep thinking it wasn't that bad after all, maybe I'll try it again next week. Then I think better of it.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Donald Trump proposed opening nearly the entire U.S. coastline to more offshore oil and gas drilling, the backlash from states seeking exemptions was swift.
Governors, Republican and Democratic, and state legislatures up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines protested so vigorously that the administration promised to consult with them before finalizing any plans.
Instead, Trump is quietly laying the groundwork to weaken a decades-old federal law that empowers California and other states to slow and even stop offshore development in federal waters.
"Republicans are always supposed to be in favor of states' rights," said Richard Charter, who has worked on oil issues for 40 years and is a senior fellow at the marine conservation nonprofit Ocean Foundation. "But this is in fact an effort to take away states' rights when it comes to offshore drilling."
In a notice published earlier this month, the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration asked the public to weigh in on ways to "streamline" a state review process granted under the Coastal Zone Management Act.
The 1972 law is widely considered one of the most powerful tools states have to regulate activity off their coasts. It applies to all of the coastal and Great Lakes states, with the exception of Alaska.
The act gives states a voice when federal projects or industry development affect their coast, even activities that occur outside a state's jurisdiction, which extends three miles from the coast.
The scientific agency can't change the law, but through regulation and implementation, it can have a major impact on how it is enforced.
Among other things, the administration appears to be considering limits to the scope of states' review powers and a shorter period of time to process an appeal. The full extent of its plans is unclear.
The goal, officials wrote, is to provide "greater efficiency and predictability" for oil and gas projects —language often used to justify deregulation.
The oil industry cheered the administration's move.
"We appreciate and support efforts to modernize and improve the governance and efficiency of the permitting and approvals process so that unnecessary barriers to oil and natural gas development are minimized and eliminated," said Erik Milito, a vice president of the American Petroleum Institute.
Passed in the wake of the devastating 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, the act assures that drilling, shipping, commercial fishing, mineral extraction, wind power projects and other activities fit into states' plans for protecting their coastal zones.
In practice, this means that activity in federal waters that would otherwise not be open to extensive public scrutiny can be subjected to hearings and local environmental impact assessments.
State leaders can insist on modifications. They can negotiate with industry representatives to reach a compromise. According to a 2016 NOAA report, states end up approving 93 percent to 95 percent of the federal projects they review. Supporters of this coordinated review process say it has resolved some of the nation's most contentious cases without costly litigation that can drag for years.
And though their word is not final, states have used the act as a weapon to defeat projects that threatened the environment and public health.
Citing the law in the early 2000s, California managed to halt 36 controversial oil leases between Monterey Bay and Channel Islands national marine sanctuaries.
In 2007, the state blocked a proposed liquefied natural gas port that would have floated 14 miles offshore from Ventura and Los Angeles counties. The project was ultimately abandoned after a state review found it posed significant risks to air quality and marine life.
"These regulations provide an important public process," said Linda Krop, chief counsel at the Environmental Defense Center, a nonprofit environmental law firm based in Santa Barbara. Obtaining these rights has been a hard-fought battle by coastal states, with California leading the charge.
"It's very meaningful," she said, "and that's what the federal government is afraid of."
Mark Delaplaine, who manages the California Coastal Commission's Energy, Ocean Resources and Federal Consistency Division, said attempts to weaken the law were alarming.
"It gets to the heart of arguably the most powerful tool, even with the checks and balances, that the state has. Period," Delaplaine said.
This is not the only states' rights battle California is fighting with the Trump administration, which is also seeking to end California's unique ability to set fuel-economy standards for cars higher than the federal level.
The Trump administration's draft offshore proposal would allow new oil and gas drilling in more than a billion acres off the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts. It includes plans for 47 lease sales over a five-year period, more than half of which would take place in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska.
The plan would give the oil and gas industry the first new access to California waters in decades, with six proposed lease sales. Another lease sale would be held off Washington and Oregon. Governors of all three states have vowed to protect their coastlines from offshore drilling.
Some now fear the Interior Department is slow-walking the unpopular plan to avoid upsetting the nomination of David Bernhardt, the agency's acting chief, who faces a Senate confirmation hearing later this month. A revised draft of the offshore plan — which was expected earlier this year — has been delayed without explanation.
On Wednesday, 17 senators sent a letter to Bernhardt asking him to clarify how much of the country's coast would be included in the plan. "The American people deserve to know your plan for the Outer Continental Shelf before the Senate votes on your nomination," they wrote.
Florida politicians who secured the Interior Department's promise a year ago to exempt the state from new offshore drilling were scrambling to figure out whether the administration would honor it. Florida's entire congressional delegation signed a letter last month asking to be left out of Trump's offshore drilling plan.
New Jersey, Delaware, New Hampshire, California and other states passed laws prohibiting new oil and gas pipeline and other infrastructure from being built on state lands — an attempt to make transporting oil prohibitively expensive.
Cindy Zipf, executive director of the New Jersey advocacy group Clean Ocean Action, said the states' resistance likely prompted the administration's effort to reduce their power by revising the coastal law.
"I do think this is blow back from President Trump in response to the states' actions to block oil and gas drilling and infrastructure in state waters," Zipf wrote in an email.
Trump has also tried to weaken the law by gutting its funding.
In his recent budget proposal, the president sought to end the grants given to states to help implement their coastal management programs, which include reviewing federal offshore activities. The administration made a similar attempt last year, but Congress restored funding in the final budget.


text: RookieOne 29 Posted May 17, 2015 Hi guys, Thanks for any advice in advance it's always greatly appreciated! Just (hopefully) a quick one if I may. At the back of the rule in the set up section it says you need a 6x4 play area to do a 300 point game. But when I look further on and at the picture at the back it's only a 3x4 area. Is this extra area necessary for anything? I only ask because I currently only have a 3x3 play area and we want to play some larger games but I'd rather not have a 6x4 top on my table if I could avoid it. If there's a easy answer I do apologise but hopefully this will allow me and my friend to start enjoying Armada the way it was meant to be played! Many thanks R1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I adapted/stole this recipe from Brooklyn Farmhouse. It was originally a san marzano tomato ketchup, but I succumbed to Californication and switched the base to tomatillo. Taking what I new about chile verde, I forged ahead.
I was truly inspired to make something new/and old in a sense.
This turned out to be more like a ketchup + sweet n' sour sauce rather than a straight up ketchup, but I suppose that is to be expected. I have also amped up the spices on this one to deliver a powerful punch.
My secret is to always use mulling spices. They usually contian allspice, cloves, dried orange, anise, and orange... perfect! They are also cheaper to buy than the individual spices. If you are lucky enough to have a grocery store that sells spices in bulk, by all means, be exact with you spice measurements. If you have to buy them in those batshit stupid contianers that cost 6 bucks each, buy some mulling spices! They may be on sale this time of year...
TOMATILLO KETCHUP Adapted from Brooklyn Farmhouse (makes 1 cup)
SUMMARY: This is simple. Roast peppers on an open flame will roasting tomatillos in the oven. Combine all ingredients and simmer. Blend. Strain. Yeah!
WARE: Either a tea steeper or some cheese cloth
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours, Active time 1 hours
- 1/2 yellow pepper
- 1 anahein chile
- 1 serrano chile
- 10 oz tomatillos
- 1/2 red onion, chopped
- 1/2 garflic clove, sliced
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/4 t celery seed
- 1/4 t allspice of mulling spices
- 2.5 T brown sugar
- 3 T rice vinegar
1. Over your open stove flame (on high) scorch the skins of your peppers until the blackened. Place in a paper bag, crumble down the top and place in the fridge to cool, 10 minutes. Once cooled, rub off the peels. Slice in to 1 inch strips.
2. Turn your oven on broil and place the tomatillos (juskless) 6 inches from the flame. Roast until lighlty golden, about 5-7 minutes (although this varies widely so keep an eye on it!). Flip. Roast. Once roasted, remove and cool. Slice into quarters.
3. In a 2 quart pan combine all the ingredients. Make sure to tie you spices up with a cheese cloth or put in a tea steeper as I have shown below. Bring the contents to boil and simmer for 45 mintues to an hour.
4. Remove the spices and the cinnamon stick. Blend the veggies and liquid until smooth. Press through a strainer to remove the skin and seeds.
For lunch we cooked up some french fries.
For dinner I combined them with a chicken thigh burger (flavored with celery and mustard seeds) and yucca fries because I'm a cheesy asshole. I felt it very thematic and appropriate. Ole!


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Manager Nancy Regan showed the Holyoke Health Center's new Pediatric Dental Care unit in a tour Sept. 20.
(John Suchocki, The Republican)
HOLYOKE -- The road to establishing "dental homes" begins with 13 chairs.
Holyoke Health Center at 230 Maple St. held a grand opening Sept. 20 of its Pediatric Dental Wing, which features 13 dental chairs for children in the renovated fourth floor.
The goal is to get families patterned into children receiving dental care at an early age by forming "dental homes" of regular visits to the dentist, said Jay A. Breines, Health Center executive director.
Clients from around the region use the center, but Holyoke's low-income population is the target, he said.
"Primarily, we take care of Holyoke," Breines said.
The renovation on the fourth floor was paid for with a federal Affordable Care Act grant of nearly $2 million, he said.
The thinking is that establishing dental care early for a child will save money on health problems later and reduce school absenteeism, he said.
The center's staff of more than 300 includes more than 30 licensed dental-care professionals. The drive to provide dental care to children includes the center working with Boston, Tufts and Harvard universities, whose fourth-year dental students train at the center caring for children's teeth, according to Breines and a center press release.
"So the dentists in the program have come to us right from dental school. In the community, there is an extreme shortage of dentists for children of all ages," Breines said.
The U.S. has a shortage of dentists, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"A rapidly aging generation of dentists is not being replaced quickly enough by new graduates to avoid sharp declines in the nation's oral health workforce over the next five years," the department said on its website.
The shortage of dentists is acute among poor people, with only about 20 percent of the nation's 179,000 dentists accepting Medicaid, the federal health program for low-income people, the department said on its website. Breines said the Holyoke Health Center accepts Medicaid.
The Holyoke Health Center has a yearly budget of about $32 million, the majority of which comes from fees paid by patients or their insurers, and the rest from grants, he said.
The center began in 1972, moved to its current site in 2001 and is organized with the state as a nonprofit corporation.
The center sees 16,000 patients a year seeking medical and dental care, according to its website.


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Both Ady and Vane gave me this "Over the Top" blog award (thank you!) and along with it come these questions that I must answer in one word. So here goes:
Where is your cell phone? Nightstand
Your hair? Frizz!
Your mother? Nag (sorry, but it's true.)
Your father? Panama
Your favorite food? Thai
Your dream last night? Forgotten
Your favorite drink? Dr. Pepper (yeah, there's really no way to answer that in one word.)
Your dream/goal? Happy
What room are you in? Office
Your hobby? Scrapbooking
Your fear? Alone
Where do you want to be in 6 years? Washington
Where were you last night? Home
Something you aren't? Patient
Muffins? Cupcakes
Wish list? Debtless (I don't think that's a word, but "debt free" is 2 words, so I had to improvise.)
Where did you grow up? Miami
Last thing you did? This
What are you wearing? Comfy
Your TV? Off
Your pets? None
Friends? Kindness
Your life? Routine
Your mood? Blah
Missing someone? Yes
Vehicle? Toyota
Something you're not wearing? Socks
Your favorite store? Target
Your favorite color? Black
When was the last time you laughed? Primetime (I was watching "The Big Bang Theory"; it's the only sitcom that actually makes me laugh out loud.)
Last time you cried? Weekend
Your best friend? California
One place that I go to over and over? Christian's
Facebook? Yes
Favorite place to eat? Home
And now I'm supposed to pass the award along to other people whose blogs I love. Since Ady, Vane and Damaris were already nominated, I only have three people to nominate: Tere, Carrie, and Amanda. Enjoy being "over the top," girls!


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I am dying for home time today. I feel so drained and tired at the moment. I went to bed really early last night, but woke up in the middle of the night feeling queasy – tossing and turning.
The clothes I'm wearing are uncomfortable and I want to take them off. I still have to go to church tonight though…maybe I'll catch a nap when I get home. The problem with naps is that I'm really grumpy when I wake up and less in the mood to do anything than I was when I went to sleep.
I've been trying my best to keep myself busy with work activities today as I've been crapped on twice since moving to the new building. My manager thinks that I am on the internet too much and am therefore being unproductive. I feel a little victimized since I'm definitely not the only one who goes on to the internet, but as Jubba says – he has this perception now. He may not notice when I'm working, but as soon as he sees me on the internet (even once) he thinks 'She's on the internet again'. Bastards.
The work I've been doing is tedious and mind numbing. I've been drawing statistics and staring at excel for most of the day. *YAWN*. No wonder I'm dying to go home.
2h23 minutes to home time and counting…


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The US military spends $20.2 billion each year on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a story in NPR quoting Steven Anderson, a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq. "He's now in the private sector," says NPR, "selling technologies branded as 'energy-efficient' to the Department of Defense."
I've got an even better plan to bring down costs in lives and dollars: get out of both countries.Why does it cost so much?
To power an air conditioner at a remote outpost in land-locked Afghanistan, a gallon of fuel has to be shipped into Karachi, Pakistan, then driven 800 miles over 18 days to Afghanistan on roads that are sometimes little more than "improved goat trails," Anderson says. "And you've got risks that are associated with moving the fuel almost every mile of the way."
Anderson calculates more than 1,000 troops have died in fuel convoys, which remain prime targets for attack. Free-standing tents equipped with air conditioners in 125-degree heat require a lot of fuel. Anderson says by making those structures more efficient, the military could save lives and dollars.


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The weighted average return is a method of measuring the performance of a stock portfolio that takes into account how much capital is placed in each investment. Since more money might be placed in certain assets than in others, it makes sense that these assets should have more of an effect on the performance of a portfolio as a whole. To calculate this number, each asset should be measured in terms of its rate of return and the percentage of the entire portfolio that it encompasses. Multiplying these two percentages for each asset and then adding all of them together will yield the weighted average.
Investors generally are interested in knowing how all of the different securities in which they place their money are doing. Ultimately, what matters the most is how the entirety of their portfolio is performing. This can be difficult to measure if these different securities have various amounts of money placed in them. Luckily, investors can use a measurement known as the weighted average return as a way of judging the performance of an entire portfolio at once.
As an example of how weighted average return works when judging an investment portfolio, imagine that an investor has placed money in three different stocks. He bought $1,000 US Dollars (USD) worth of Stock A, $1,500 USD of Stock B, and $2,500 USD of Stock C. At the end of the year, Stock A gained by four percent, Stock B gained by five percent, and Stock C gained by six percent.
Simply adding up the three percentage gains and dividing them by three leaves an arithmetic mean of five percent on the rates of return. That does not take in to account the fact that Stock C accounted for half of the entire portfolio, while Stocks A and B combined for the other half. Weighted average return accounts for this by first noting how much of the portfolio each stock comprised. In this case, Stock A was 20 percent, or $1,000 USD out of $5,000 USD total, Stock B was 30 percent, and Stock C was 50 percent.
Knowing these totals, weighted average return can now be calculated by multiplying the percentage of the portfolio each stock takes up by the rate of return on each. For Stock A, it is 0.2 multiplied by the four percent return, or .8. The other two totals are five percent multiplied 0.3 for Stock B, or 1.5, and six percent multiplied 0.5 for Stock C, or 3.0. Adding all of these totals up yields a weighted average of 5.3 percent, which is a truer indicator of the portfolio return than the arithmetic mean of the individual returns.
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Named after Renault Sport Formula One Team's 2018 f1 car, the launch of the new limited-edition Renault Clio R.S.18 echoes the black-and-yellow livery of Renault's most iconic F1 cars and is squarely aimed at motorsport enthusiasts and serious collectors.
Derived from the Clio R.S. 220 EDC Trophy – the most potent car of the Clio R.S. range – Renault Sport's latest offering embodies Renault Sport Formula One Team's ambitions and takes its inspiration from motor racing's premier series which saw Renault celebrate the 40th anniversary of its involvement in 2017. The newcomer follows in the wheel tracks of a number of other limited-edition Clio R.S. models that have paid tribute to Renault's successes in Formula 1 over the years.
The world of Renault Sport Formula One Team packed into a Clio R.S.
The Renault Clio R.S.18 has inherited the Renault Clio R.S. 220 EDC Trophy's punch thanks to its 220-horsepower engine which features a torque boost function for peak torque of 280Nm. Meanwhile, its Trophy chassis has been lowered and stiffened, its front dampers incorporate hydraulic compression stops and its steering is even sharper and more direct. The Renault Clio R.S. 18 is equipped as standard[1] with an Akrapovic exhaust, ensuring a powerful engine sound and dynamic pick-up.
The limited-edition will be launched in Europe in the first half of 2018.