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These are unprecedented times for sure and it has been a tough year. But that doesn't mean a get away is off the table. We have managed to travel locally following the pandemic regulations which had made me realize how much we have to explore in our own backyard. I have taken a few day trips in Ontario, Canada to some of the famous Provincial Parks during the pandemic because it's inherently an activity with minimal human contact. We have dipped ourselves into nature. There was something about the wilderness, and the adventure forced me to forget about my worries for a little bit and live in the moment.
It feels sometimes I need a literal change of scenery to help me feel better, to take a break from responsibility and daily pressures which helps me rejuvenate. The pandemic has of course impacted our ability to travel like we used to, but that doesn't mean that taking a day trip within the regulations has to be stopped. In fact, it is even more important for us to take a break for our mental health, since many of us are cooped up inside or working from home.
Here are the some exciting places I have discovered in our own back yard:
Arrow Head Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Arrowhead Park is situated on the southern portion of the Canadian Shield. It is located in the District Municipality of Muskoka on Highway 11, eight kilometres north of Huntsville. Arrowhead contains many interesting earth science features, including the provincially significant Big East River Delta. This glacial delta was formed by the deposition of sand and gravel flowing from the meltwater of glacial Lake Algonquin. One of the best sites to view this ancient formation is at the Big Bend Lookout. Here, the inside of the glacial delta is exposed and layers or bands of silt and sand that were deposited by the glacial river are evident.
Big Bend Lookout – easy: This short walk from the parking lot on Roe Campground Road leads to a panoramic view of the meandering Big East River and the surrounding Muskoka terrain.
Stubb’s Falls Trail - 2 km (45 minutes) easy
Take this trail in early spring when wildflowers and songbirds will be your reward. At Stubb’s Falls, the Little East River rushes down a rock chute. Stop here for a pleasant respite.
The Park and surrounding area typifies this portion of the shield with rough terrain, precipitous slopes, thin soils, bedrock out-crops, scattered lakes, poorly drained areas and beaver ponds.
2. MacGregor Point Provincial Park
The beautiful thing about hiking is that it's truly an activity everyone can do. Whether you're young or old, an expert or an amateur, there's a trail out there that will be perfect for you. My favourite season of all is Fall. Autumn is the season when the world mellows out and takes stock on what has already been achieved. Change occurs, but at a reassuringly slow drift rather than a hurried panic.
MacGregor Point Provincial Park is a park located on Lake Huron, off of Bruce Road 33 near Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
A tower provides a panoramic view of the wetland and a bird hide offers excellent viewing opportunities at water level. Really nice loop trail that circles a protected wetland. Great trail for bird-watching, with a bird blind and an observation tower that overlook a large marshland, which is beautiful on a rainy day. My partner and I saw both a kingfisher and a wood duck while we were there. There are a lot of educational placards along the way about the geography and local wildlife. The trail is only 3.5 km and the terrain is not challenging at all, so it's great for children and families. Lots of boardwalks too!
The ethereal blanketing of the earth with leaves every autumn is nothing short of soul lifting. The amber richness of the shed leaves softens the world and slows our pace. Experiencing such beauty doesn’t just feel lovely, it’s lovely for our brain, too.
The contrast that occurs in early autumn — green against red, yellow versus brown — grabs our attention and excites our brain, making a bright, engaging change from the solid greens of a spring and summer forest. It gives us a unique visual stimulus. We forget our daily worries and fears, overwhelmed by the beauty of nature — even if just for the duration of a walk or a relaxation session outside. The trees and their daily change also give us a good chance to practice mindfulness. How many leaves have dropped since I was last here? What color strikes me the most? When we encounter the largesse of life like this, we are humbled into forgetting our self-centered worriers and look outward to appreciate the world.
In this park you come across so many varieties of wild edible mushrooms that are suitable for the novice mushroom enthusiast. I have found a love in mushroom photography after rising the MacGregor Park.
3.The Blue Mountains, Ontario
It’s been an epic Ontario winter, and it seems like Old Man Winter hasn’t quite said good-bye yet. Here’s a few ways to send him off in style with an Ontario Road Trip to Blue Mountain, Collingwood. When I put my on my pair of snow boots and trudge through fresh snow I feel like 10 years old again.
It’s beautiful in all four seasons, but there is something truly magical about experiencing Blue Mountain Village in all it’s snowy glory. Wander from shop to shop and sample some local Apple Pie Trail goodies, or hit the slopes and admire the village from the top of the hill. Late winter skiing can be some of the best of the season, with lots of sunshine to make your time on the hill that much more fun.
I first started hiking in the Whites in the winter because I love being outdoors in the snow and thought the hikes would be slower so I could keep up easier. Hah! I didn’t take into account the full pack on my back. I was ready to quit after the first one but I was already hooked on the beautiful views and snow covered trees on the trails. I switched over to the proper snow boots hikes and slowly increased my stamina. I like winter hiking because you don’t sweat, there are no bugs and the trail is smooth.
Winter is one of my favorite times of the year to hike. Winter hiking is experiencing new as well as familiar places from a different perspective. After a fresh snowfall they can appear unexplored. Different animal tracks in the snow can be observed.
Food for the soul. Mantra of crushed snow with each step, crisp clean air with each breath and crystal clear views brings pure peace and serenity.
There are endless options for things to do at Blue Mountain. From family-friendly adventures to more rugged adventures, it’s a nature lover’s destination.
The Blue Mountains, about 160 km (100 miles) north of Toronto, in Southern Georgian Bay is a great weekend getaway from Toronto and one of the most popular getaways in Ontario.
And finally to quote Greta Crosby: “Let us not wish away the winter. It is a season to itself, not simply the way to spring. Winter is a table set with ice and starlight.”
4. Dufferin Islands, Niagara Falls
Explore 10 acres of paradise, where wooden footbridges connect small, secluded islands. You may be surprised at the wildlife you find in this popular escape, Niagara’s hidden secret.
The Dufferin Islands are a group of manmade islands located about 2 kilometers from Horseshoe Falls in the Niagara River. Here the river waters flow more slowly and gently than in the rapids leading up to the falls, creating a more serene and relaxing environment for enjoying the natural beauty of the area. If you’ll be spending some time around Niagara Falls, you wouldn’t be wasting your time exploring this fascinating area.
If you’re interested in bird watching or fishing, then the Dufferin Islands is the place to visit. Over the past decade, there has been a great effort toward naturalizing the area. Toward that effort, the parks commission has introduced fish to the waters surrounding the islands and created a catch-and-release fishing program that allows visitors to drop a line in the park. In addition, throughout the park you’ll find bird feeders and bird boxes designed to attract a wide variety of bird species.
A wide range of birds and insects live at Dufferin Islands, and the ducks and Canadian geese that stop on the waters there have been an attraction for photographers over the decades.
I am sharing my experiences visiting local Provincial Parks during the pandemic. Ontario Parks remain open and continue to provide facilities and services for local and safe outdoor all seasons recreation day-use activities. I know how much people love to visit Ontario Parks as a way to spend time outdoors, get fresh air and stay healthy, but I am asking that you to follow the government regulations.
And finally to quote Roy.T Bennette, "Nobody is exempt from trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of time."


Settlement for Premises Lawsuit
It might seem odd, but lawsuit funding for hair salon injuries is a part of settlement funding. No one expects to sustain injuries at a hair salon, but it can happen. A young, aspiring Brazilian model left a hair salon with hair loss and burns to her scalp after a hairdresser high on drugs did her hair. This young woman chose to file a lawsuit in the incident’s aftermath.
Brazilian citizen, Myrella Ikeda, who now lives in Maryland, visited the world famous, J. Sister’s hair salon in Central Manhattan, in hopes that a new look would kick-start her career as a model. The salon has always been respected by celebrities including, Naomi Campbell, Cameron Diaz and Vanessa Williams.
Ikeda’s lawyer spoke of Ikeda expecting to leave the salon after an 8 hour-long session looking ‘beautiful’ with ‘fantastic hair’.
Despite her optimism, she alleges ‘bad chemicals’ were put on her scalp mistakenly, leaving burns to her scalp and severe damage to her head. When she left the salon, Ikeda recalls crying, itching her scalp, burning and numbing sensations on her head and her hair falling out in her hands.
In the lawsuit Ikeda is claiming damage to her head and hair leaving her psychologically scarred and depressed. More so, she was restricted to her home in Maryland due to her treatment. Ikeda also claims that her hair is not expected to grow back normally.
The lawsuit has been filed against both the salon’s owner and the hairdresser who worked on Ikeda that day. Ikeda is looking to receive $3 million to compensate her medical treatment and the loss of the potential earnings her modeling career could of brought in. If Ikeda is in need of money now, lawsuit funding for hair salon injuries is available to her.
Although this case is rare, as it is not common that people can claim that a hair salon has ruined their career and affected their health negativity, it does show how long it can take a case to go to court and how important lawsuit funding for hair salon injuries can be.
This episode occurred three years ago. It has taken the plaintiff this long to seek compensation. Furthermore, the lawsuit could take even longer to settle, making lawsuit funding for hair salon injuries a must.
What is the best way for a normal victim to cope with the financial allegations of their injuries? Even after a complaint is filed, it could take quite a few months or even years before it is settled for the plaintiff. Lawsuit funding for hair salon injuries can help.
Lawsuit Funding Rescue Services
A reliable lawsuit funding company can provide a solution for someone in this type of situation. Lawsuit funding is usually negotiated only when the person who has been injured has a strong chance of winning the case against the person or organization that has caused the damages.
If a personal injury attorney has decided to take the case on and the victim is left in need of a way to pay their attorney, lawsuit funding could be an option.
A lawsuit funding arrangement is a deal between a “lender” providing cash, as soon as within 24 hours, and the lawsuit’s litigant. The money can be used at the client’s discretion. The loan is also only paid back if the case is won. Lawsuit funding lenders take all of the risk so you don’t have to wait for your money.


Leith takes steps to keep white supremacists outFargo, ND (WDAY TV) - The southwestern North Dakota town of Leith is taking more steps to keep white supremacists out of town.
By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - The southwestern North Dakota town of Leith is taking more steps to keep white supremacists out of town.
Mayor Ryan Schock tells WDAY 6 News city officials are working with attorneys to place a moratorium on any new building projects or trailers in Leith.
This, after white supremacist Craig Cobb came to town and bought up several lots in town, with promises of establishing a white power enclave.
One family has moved into town, and is living in Cobb's house, which has no sewer or water.
City officials in Leith have talked to social services about that since the couple has five home-schooled children.


Baloch community worst hit by ‘target killings’: Raisani
During his meeting with the Consul General of Japan Masaharusatu on Thursday who called on him here, the CM said in order to put Balochistan province on path toward real progress, the youngsters will have to be equipped with education.
“It is my deepest desire that our children are get good opportunities for obtaining better and modern education,” he remarked, adding that education is worst affected due to incidents of target killings in the province, as talented teachers are leaving the area.
The Chief Minister also apprised the CG about the devastation caused by the raging floods in Balochistan, besides rescue and rehabilitation measures being taken for the calamity hit people.
The Japan Consul General while expressing grief over the human and property loss caused by the disaster ever faced the country assured his Japans unflinching support for the rehabilitation of millions of people rendered homeless in Balochistan.


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As I am writing this editorial, the world is in various stages of reopening. Nurses, especially in critical care, have received many accolades during the COVID-19 pandemic, and rightly so. Media coverage and social media postings by critical care nurses showed a surreal world. I read about US hospital administrators who performed an “undercover mission” to pick up personal protective equipment (PPE), using a food truck to avoid interception and possible confiscation of their coveted supplies. Personal protective equipment guidelines transformed throughout the pandemic, creating confusion and possible mistrust of the supporting evidence. Initially many frontline providers were asked to supply their own masks. Nurses acted as surrogates for patients’ families, who suddenly found their visitation rights stripped away. At times I felt like I was watching an episode of the spy thriller series Homeland, wondering how these kinds of events could really be happening to our critical care family and the global population.
When I started writing this editorial, I focused on my random observations, reflections, concerns, and hopes. My initial writing style was similar to journaling, reflecting my anger and fear for the working conditions faced by our frontline providers, my guilt for working from home instead of next to you at the bedside, and, as we transitioned toward our new normal, a sense of pride and hope for a better future for frontline health care workers. I am optimistic that new evidence will be developed to support optimal PPE practices, that supply chain issues will be improved to give health care workers the necessary tools to do their work, that healthy work environments will become the norm, and that the nursing profession has earned an even greater amount of respect. In addition, I hope that managers and administrators will no longer be forced to ration PPE and send their frontline health care workers into untenable work environments. Finally, I hope that the world will reciprocate and provide necessary care for nurses.
Many health care teams have adapted well to rapidly changing situations during the pandemic, despite suboptimal conditions, but much work still needs to be done.1,2 The United States has been in a fortunate position to incorporate lessons already learned from health care responses in Asia and Europe. Also, nurses have not been alone in dealing with the pandemic. It has taken a village to redesign units, revise models of care, train non–intensive care unit nurses to function safely in critical care units, keep abreast of the changes in evidence (PPE usage and cleansing, and management of patients with COVID-19), communicate with clarity and transparency, and maintain a sense of humor. This village has included multiple disciplines and levels from the front line to administration—too many to mention without risking accidental omission. An underreported but critical member of the frontline team have been the environmental services staff who have helped to prevent spread of the virus throughout our organizations. Nurses who have temporarily been reassigned and/or have volunteered to work in critical care units also deserve a shout-out. Courage, transparent communication, and teamwork have been some of the positive outcomes of this pandemic.
I have heard stories from many nurses across the globe, who expressed their feelings, concerns, anguish, and general thoughts about what they were dealing with. I hope by now that those of you who sacrificed your home living situation to keep your family safe are back home and fully integrated with your household. Nurses have been labeled as the superheroes of the pandemic, a label that many of you have embraced and many have felt uncomfortable with. Although we have experienced this global pandemic together, we have faced the different stages of this pandemic at different times. Some of you may be breathing a sigh of relief that the number of patients with COVID-19 in your organization never increased, and some of you may still be experiencing heavy or escalating workloads. Others may be waiting to see if the reopening of your communities and the upcoming influenza season will affect the number of COVID-19 cases and critical care admissions.
Even if you have not personally cared for a patient with COVID-19, many of you have prepared for this pandemic mentally and physically. You have lived through the pandemic on a personal level. You have waited, anticipated, and felt anxiety. I hope that some of you have journaled your stories and feelings during this time. In addition to the therapeutic benefits of journaling, sharing your stories will also help to build upon our historical nursing knowledge. Consider joining the Peer Support Community of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses to share your experiences and obtain advice and support.3
In the days ahead, I worry for some of you. Frontline critical care professionals were already experiencing a high level of burnout before the pandemic.4 Dr Mark Rosenberg stated “as the pandemic intensity seems to fade, so does the adrenaline,” leaving us with our emotions.5 If you have not already done so, I suggest that we make a pact to watch over each other for a long time. Reach out and ask a colleague if they are doing OK or if they could use any help. Become aware of the resources provided through your work organizations, professional associations, and communities to support your well-being. We should remind each other that counseling is available—it is OK to need, ask, and accept help. Some of us will be at risk for mental health issues; we are human. Be mindful of the warning signs for suicide and ask the appropriate questions to determine suicide risk.6 We need to keep our eyes, ears, and hearts open to intervene early and swiftly. The strength of teamwork has been highlighted throughout the pandemic. Let us make team care part of our postpandemic strategy.
I hope by the time you read this, you have been able to make more time for your family and friends, but most importantly, time for yourself. Some of you did not have time to think beyond your nursing role during the initial phase of the pandemic. Many of you have begun to reclaim your personal identity, while others are just beginning your intense pandemic journey. Some of you have witnessed and experienced horrific events during this pandemic. I hope that those in need are actively participating in self-care or seeking professional help to attain peace with your experiences. It may take years for some of these experiences to be fully understood and for trust to be rebuilt. Despite the challenging circumstances you have worked in, I hope you recognize that you have done your best. Critical care nurses have gracefully bridged the transition in the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses presidential themes; you were “Unstoppable” and you embraced a team approach to exemplify “This Is Our Moment—All In!”7
To purchase electronic and print reprints, contact the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, 27071 Aliso Creek Rd, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656. Phone, (800) 809-2273 or (949) 362-2050 (ext 532); fax, (949) 362-2049; email, [email protected].

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Authorities in Wood River are investigating a reported shooting on the parking lot of a bar in the 300 block of East Edwardsville Road early Saturday morning. Police received several 9-1-1 calls just after Midnight Saturday with reports of possible gunfire at The Rubber Duck. There were no reports of injuries, but one witness report indicates damage to a tire.
Wood River Police issued a statement regarding the incident and said officers were told the suspects fled in a vehicle heading westbound on Edwardsville Road and a short time later the suspect vehicle may have been discovered in the 400 block of Vine Street in Alton. Another suspect may have fled the scene on foot. Police have not identified any suspects and continue to follow leads. Anyone with information is asked to call Wood River Police at 251-3114.


Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Rights Pioneer And Southampton Resident, Dies At 88
Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Rights Pioneer And Southampton Resident, Dies At 88
Edith Windsor, Marriage Equality Activist and LGBT Rights Pioneer, Dies at 88
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Following Windsor's case, other lawsuits challenged the constitutionality of the remaining 37 states with bans on same-sex marriage.
Windsor is survived by her wife, Judith Kasen-Windsor, whom she married in October 2016.
United States, the landmark 2013 Supreme Court decision that gutted the Defense of Marriage Act, making federal government recognition of same-sex marriages possible.
Represented by NY lesbian attorney Roberta Kaplan and the American Civil Liberties Union, Windsor sued the USA government for enforcing DOMA after it forced her to pay $363,000 in estate taxes in 2009 upon the death of Spyer, who died of a heart condition after the two were together 44 years.
Windsor, who worked as a computer programmer before devoting herself to L.G.B.T. activism, had spent much of her life with Thea Spyer, whom she married in Canada in 2007.
Xiaomi takes on the MacBook Pro by adding back some ports
Moving on, the keyboard is backlit and the company has claimed that the keyboard area is 19 percent larger than the MacBook Pro . Its 15.6-inch display only has a resolution of 1080p, which seems a bit out of step with other high-end machines these days.
Manatees stranded due to Irma
Two deputies from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office arrived and helped the citizens get the manatees to safety. "We called every service we could think of, but no one answered", one member of the group writes on Facebook .
Ms. Windsor was a staple of the Hamptons LGBTQ community and served as honorary chair alongside her wife of the annual Hampton Tea Dance in July, an LGBTQ celebration originally produced by the Empire Pride Agenda, an organization that disbanded in 2015 for which Ms. Windsor served as a marriage ambassador. Two years later, in June 2015, SCOTUS put the final nail in the coffin for marriage inequality, ruling in favor of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Ms Windsor died in NY. A cause has not been specified, but her lawyer, Robbie Caplan, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that she died peacefully in Manhattan. The women married in Canada when they realized they might not be living when NY state legalized same-sex marriage, which it did in 2011. She began dating her first wife, Thea Spyer, a pyschologist, in 1965, when they were living in Greenwich Village and often vacationed on the South Fork.
"Today, we lost one of this country's great civil rights pioneers, Edie Windsor". While everyone else went out dancing, she waited up all night for Spyer to arrive-she finally showed up the next afternoon.
And all of us should be saddened by Windsor's passing. She was 88 years old. A public memorial will be held September 15, 12:30 p.m.at Riverside Memorial Chapel. With Edie's passing, I lost not only a treasured client, but a member of my family. In lieu of flowers, Windsor had requested, prior to her death, that any donations in her memory be made to The LGBT Center, Callen-Lorde, Hetrick-Martin Institute, and SAGE. "Her legacy will live on in history and be felt in the lives of our community for many years to come".
Cara Mund will be on tour every month to promote her advocacy, which is the Make A Wish - Passion with Fashion. Unlike other beauty pageant contestants in recent years - it was a remarkably succinct and informed response.
Nintendo has urged fans, desperate to pick up a SNES Classic Mini, not to pay over the asking price on the secondary market . But Fils-Aimé says that those issues were "outside our control", implicitly moving the blame to the retailers.
While Trump is committed to a permanent tax overhaul, Mnuchin has at times appeared to be managing down those expectations. The president has been pushing for changes to the tax code to cut corporate and individual rates and simplify the system.
With that caveat in mind, Americans appear to be making only slightly more than they were in 1999, when income last peaked. The report found that the gender gap in wages narrowed a year ago for the first time since 2007.
It's not yet known whether Cruz, one of his staff or a hacker liked the racy vid, which features popular porn star Cory Chase. The activity had might be liked by a staffer who managed Cruz's account or it had might be liked by him personally.
The new German crossover even has a menu that provides information on the quality of the air in the vehicle . The Volkswagen brand is also setting up its first pilot line there to accumulate production know-how.
The Commission is reviewing its Google Shopping decision in light of the ECJ's Intel ruling, according to Reuters . Following the ruling, Google said it "respectfully" disagreed and was considering whether to appeal.
The United States paused for a moment of silence to remember the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon . The Republican will speak Monday at the ceremony in Shanksville at the national memorial to the victims of Flight 93.
What I want is to do my best for the team to win and then we can enjoy the rest". I crossed my fingers for them in the last five games.
Hurricane Jose lingers in Atlantic, will it head toward US?
Jose is a Category 4 hurricane with 130 miles per hour winds on Sunday and is expected to gradually weaken over the next few days. Hurricane Jose weakened overnight and could become a tropical storm later Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center .
Apple Watch Series 3 Gets Official
The Apple Watch Series 3 will cost $399, but Apple is also offering a model that doesn't include cellular for $329. Here are the biggest Apple watchOS 4 features that you will get on your Apple Watch after you install this update.
4K HDR Video Is Coming to the 5th Generation Apple TV
Apple is apparently also working on the content front and aims at bringing a large collection of movies in 4K HDR to the iTunes. Apple executive Eddy Cue said on Tuesday that all major movie studios have signed up to deliver 4K movies through the box.
Nigeria's excess oil revenue rises to N610m per day
A separate report showed that USA oil production dropped sharply to 8.78 million barrels per day due to hurricane effect. On September 8, energy services company Baker Hughes ( BHI ) released its weekly USA crude oil rig count report.
HPU ranks at top of colleges in US News and World Report
In the newly published 2018 rankings, Princeton University takes the overall No. 1 spot for the seventh year in a row. In August, NJ.com ranked TCNJ fourth on its list of "35 N.J. colleges that have the highest-paid grads".
Gas Prices Rise 4.4 Cents In Chattanooga
This compares with the national average that has increased nearly 2 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.65. Both GasBuddy and AAA Auto Club Group survey thousands of USA gas stations across the country on gas prices.
Bitcoin value plummets over Chinese trading ban rumors
China is the world's biggest cryptocurrency market , hence the ban on cryptocurrency exchanges and ICOs comes as a shock. The country makes up 23% of Bitcoin trades and interestingly some of the world's biggest Bitcoin Miners are from China.


Strong protest at Scott Brown's Senate announcement
PORTSMOUTH - Dozens of liberal and liberty-minded protesters lined the entrance to the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel Thursday night to send messages to former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, prior to his formal announcement there that he is an official Senate candidate.
The carpetbagger theme was common among liberals, while conservatives said they were looking for a GOP candidate with broader support for the Second Amendment.
John “JJ” Joyal, a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard worker and chairman of the Somersworth Democratic party, waved American and state flags.
“I'm here to show Scott Brown what the state of New Hampshire flag looks like, in case he's never seen one,” Joyal said, referring to Brown's dual-state residency. “We already have a good senator. Jeanne Shaheen is as good as it gets.”
Ray Buckley, chairman of the state Democratic party, came to Portsmouth for the event and said he “agrees with most people in New Hampshire that Scott Brown is for Scott Brown.”
“He has a record of standing up for Wall Street and big corporate interests and that's why Massachusetts rejected him two years ago and why New Hampshire will reject him,” Buckley said.
Asked why he traveled from Manchester to the Brown kick-off event, Buckley said, “We welcome all tourists.”
Caroline French came from Dover to hold a sign reading, “Senate Blue, Not Brown.” She said she stood outside the downtown hotel with her sign in support of Shaheen.
“She is beloved in New Hampshire,” said French. “We love her.”
Seacoast Republican leader Doug Scamman stopped to greet French on the sidewalk, where they exchanged pleasantries about being high school classmates some years ago. Scamman was an invited VIP at the event and said he was glad to show his support for Brown.
Across the street, Joan Webber held a sign reading, “Scott Brown is a twerp.”
“First, he was in Massachusetts, and loses there, then, he changes his mind and comes here,” said the Kensington resident. “I think it's silly.”
“He lives in Rye,” a woman shouted out her car window while driving by.
Dan Fournier, a University of New Hampshire student, held a sign reading, “Patriots for Shaheen.” He said Brown wants to “eviscerate” college grants and that if it wasn't for grants, he'd be unable to go to the university.
Portsmouth and Seacoast Democratic party president Larry Drake made a sign that read, “Big Oil (heart logo) Scott Brown.”
“He does get a lot of backing from big oil and Wall Street,” said Drake, who rallied like-minded Democrats on his local radio show Thursday morning, urging them to attend the protest event.
Tristan Debree called Brown a carpetbagger and held a sign saying, “Scott Brown wants to confiscate your firearms.” He said conservatives, like him, want to “get rid of” Brown, “get a Republican who supports the Second Amendment,” and “then we can go after Shaheen.”
Constitutionalist group the Oath Keepers had representatives from New Hampshire and Connecticut. They held a Gadsen flag with the “Don't tread on me message” and described themselves as “liberty minded.”
“You can't buy us off for the Constitution,” said Oath Keeper Alex Bieniecki. “We're the Granite State 3-percenters. The 3 percent willing to stand up.”


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To supplement his reading, I had him pick out one of the poems each day to read. Of course, he chose the shortest one, but its something! We are continuing the Ninn readers that we have on hand, alternating between the 1st and 3rd primers, depending on which one we can find, LOL. He does equally well with each - I ask him to read 3 pages aloud in the easier one, and 2 in the harder one, which comes to about the same number of words. Most days, I have to hold the book for him (see Overly Sensitive?) so we don't have melt-downs.
|Our baby turtle made it through the winter...then we found this huge lizard to keep him company|
After reading "Cobwebs" from Parables From Nature, which was an interesting story about a baby spider trying to make her way in the world, my son decided to take yarn and make a wrestling ring with it, but it quickly morphed into his own web. See?
|Cobwebs or 'laser' obstacle course|
We had to stretch The White Cat over several days, but I liked the story. He was less enthused, but understood the basic plot. It was fun finishing up some of the books. Paddle to the Sea, Just So Stories, and Viking Tales were read in their entirety. This summer I plan on continuing the Burgess's Bird Book, The Real Mother Goose, and some more of Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book. An Island Story, Trial and Triumph and Parables from Nature, as well as the Handbook of Nature Study will all be continued in the fall as scheduled on Ambleside Online.
|Yellow flowers everywhere this year, isn't it pretty?|
Here is a list of the free reads for Year 2 (scroll down to bottom of the linked page). We will probably start with whatever the library has available. We have already read Little House on the Prairie and Farmer Boy because he loved Little House in the Big Woods so much earlier this year.
In addition to continuing reading great literature, we will do a few more weeks of sewing with his Ma, and daily math and copywork. I will aim for doing Spanish and piano twice a week as well. But not to worry - we will have plenty of travel and summer fun! He is going on his first overnight summer camp and his first science day-camp. We are also planning a trip to Origins Game Fair in Ohio. Last, but not least, he wants to spend a week at Nana and Grandpa's and specifically requested that I not go with him. *sigh* They grow up fast!

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Foreign interference in U.S. elections? Chinese Communist Party-linked TikTok launched an in-app Elections Center in the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.
On Aug. 17, TikTok released a statement detailing, “Our commitment to election integrity.” TikTok described its new Elections Center, with “authoritative” resources in 45 languages, including live election reports and information about “who and what” is on the ballot provided by Ballotpedia. TikTok will also label content across its platform related to the midterm elections, allowing users “to click through” to the Elections Center.
This comes as the U.S. House of Representatives’ Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor just issued a “cyber advisory” on TikTok, labeling the app “high-risk” because of China’s access to personal data on it.
TikTok, which is owned by Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied ByteDance, also stated it would ban so-called “election misinformation, harassment - including that directed towards election workers - hateful behavior, and violent extremism.”
TikTok explained that alleged “election misinformation” spurred the creation of the in-app Elections Center. “Providing access to authoritative information is an important part of our overall strategy to counter election misinformation,” TikTok claimed.
The new center also involves collaborations with the Center for Democracy in Deaf America, the Federal Voting Assistance Program, Campus Vote Project and Restore Your Vote, which describes itself as an organization that helps convicted criminals determine their voting eligibility, according to TikTok.
TikTok claimed that any action requiring the sharing of information, like registering to vote, would direct users away from the platform and therefore it would not have access to people’s personal data. “We'll have more to share in the coming weeks, including some further steps we're taking regarding political accounts on TikTok as we work to foster an authentic environment for our community,” the TikTok statement concluded.
TikTok has a history of targeting conservatives with censorship, including banning MRCTV.
And the creation of the elections center is not the only anti-election “misinformation” action TikTok has taken. The platform recently banned influencers from posting paid political content. TikTok recently came under fire after it was revealed that Chinese ByteDance employees had direct access to TikTok U.S. user data.
TikTok’s announcement of the Elections Center came only three days after The New York Times pressured the app to increase its censorship in a piece titled, “On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms.” The Times’s Tiffany Hsu claimed, “TikTok is shaping up to be a primary incubator of baseless and misleading information,” citing pro-Trump content as trivial as the #StoptheSteal hashtag.
The Times previously pushed Meta (Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg to increase censorship of so-called “election misinformation” as well. Facebook and Twitter have also recently announced they will censor so-called election “misinformation.”
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The civilian uprising in the Kashmir Valley is increasingly coming to the aide of militants who, in a growing trend, loot cash from banks to finance and thereby execute their attacks on security forces. The number of such robbery attempts by cash-strapped militant outfits have only increased in the past few weeks. But it is also the trend of gun-snatching that drives militants to such encounters.
No less than five dozen such attempts have been made since 8 July last year, after the security forces killed Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, and during the unrest that followed. Most of these attempts of robbery and gun-snatching were carried out in south Kashmir, said the police. Monday’s tragic killing of five policemen and two bank guards in Pumbai village of Kulgam district, allegedly by militants, was another desperate attempt to loot weapons from the security personnel accompanying the van of J&K Bank.
Suspected militants opened fire at the Jammu and Kashmir Bank cash van in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The militants allegedly fired at the van when it was coming back towards the main town of Kulgam, after depositing cash in an ATM.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti condemned the killing by unknown assailants and said their killing reflects the dangerous turn that the society in Kashmir is taking.
“There was no cash in the van. They (militants) fired at the van, killing seven of them. The policemen and staff were travelling back to Kulgam town after depositing cash in another place,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kulgam, Shridhar Patil, told Firstpost on the phone.
The desperation of militant organisations to loot weapons and banks is a new trend in the Kashmir Valley. There has been a dangerous increase in the number of robberies since last year after the Narendra Modi-led government took measure to scrap old high-value banknotes and introducing new ones in November. The police in Kashmir say there have been more than two dozen incidents of bank robbery or attempts made by the militants to loot ATMs — most of them in south Kashmir — since last June. At least 60 weapons have been snatched from security forces since June last year.
Militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack and said its men decamped with four rifles after the attack. However, the spokesperson of the outfit said militants didn’t kill the two bank employees, adding that they “were shot dead by CRPF personnel” who were accompanying them.
"We didn’t attack the vehicle with an intent to loot the cash. We have enough cash. We condemn the killing of two bank employees and want to clarify that they were shot dead by CRPF personnel and not by militants," Burhanuddin, the Hizbul Mujahideen's operational spokesperson, told a news agency.
On Friday last week, security forces foiled a bank robbery in the Mehandi Kadal area of Anantnag district, when they apprehended suspected militant Muneeb Ahmad Malla from Shopian district, who had entered a Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch with his accomplice and opened fired inside the premises. When the security personnel deployed in the bank tried to apprehend the militants, they opened fire, leaving the CRPF head constable injured. One of the militants, who was carrying a weapon, managed to escape.
On 19 April, gunmen barged into a Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch in Shopian district and looted Rs five lakh in cash. The gunmen later fled from the spot in a car.
Two days later, unidentified gunmen stole a State Bank of India (SBI) ATM in Anantnag district containing Rs 12.18 lakh. This was the second incident of a bank being targeted in south Kashmir within three days.
Director-General of Police SP Vaid recently said that it was because of the demonetisation that militants were carrying bank robberies and the security agencies have put a lid on the hawala operators, who used to supply money to the militant outfits. "Militants are short of money and are finding way and means to collect it and looting banks and ATM’s is part of that desperation," Vaid said.
Throughout the six months of unrest, amid chaos on the streets, militants carried out many robberies in south Kashmir. But as soon as the situation started getting better and presence of forces increased, the number of incidents came down.
But over the past few weeks, the intensity has only increased with the fresh attack on Monday, although most of the attempts by militants at looting cash failed after forces scuttled their moves. “It is a desperate attempt to loot public money for terror activity,” Patil, the SPP, said, "But most of the attempts have been either foiled or forces have arrived at the right time."
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Sunday, January 24, 2010The Lady Bisons opened their spring season with a 6-1 win over Alabama A&M on Saturday night at Richland Country Club.
First time doubles partners, freshman Mackenzie Bishop and sophomore Elizabeth Keevil, started off the night with a win at the number two doubles spot, rolling over their opponents 8-1.
With a close 9-7 defeat, the veteran duo of junior Kara Jackson and sophomore Danielle Hansen followed up with another win at number one, giving the Lady Bisons the doubles point.
Junior transfer from UT Martin, Julianne McMeen, and freshman Carlina Jow had a strong 3-0 lead at number three doubles before retiring after the Bisons clinched the doubles point.
Entering into singles play with a 1-0 lead, the Lady Bisons proved they could play more than just doubles.
Bishop came off court first, easily defeating Te’Isha Mixon at the number one spot 6-0, 6-3.
Keevil fell to Denise Cherry at number two singles in a tough three setter, losing 6-4, 0-6, 1-6.
Quickly crushing A&M’s Shannon Warner, Hansen took another win at the number three spot, advancing the Lady Bisons to a 3-1 lead.
Jackson added another win at number four singles, defeating opponent Brittany Jelks 6-3, 6-0, which brought the Lady Bisons to a 4-1 lead, clinching the match.
Sophomore Samantha Bowman glided through her match against Alison Gladness, winning 6-1, 6-1 at number six singles.
McMeen battled out a victory at the number five spot, beating Jasmine Cherry 6-3, 4-6, 10-6 with a tiebreaker substituting for the third set.
“It’s good to have the first win under our belt. I saw some nerves tonight, but that will be better with our second match,” head coach Kristin Lusk said about her team’s 6-1 victory.
The Lady Bisons will travel to Chattanooga for their second match, which will be Friday, January 29, against UTC.


Minister of Communications and Information Technology, at the meeting with Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade of Malaysia, expressed the will of two countries for ties expansion and added: Eighth Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation development of the two countries will be held early next spring.
According to the Center for Public Relations and Information of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Doctor Vaezi expressed hope to increase the level of bilateral ties that had fallen sharply the past few years, and also expressed high-ranking officials wills of the two countries to double the level for increasing the relationships and said: negotiations done today was we made effort to create a road map for the eighth joint economic Commission.
He regarded Attendance of 20 companies in the delegation of Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade and foreign trade representatives from various sectors, including the Central Bank, the largest bank in Malaysia, oil, gas, industry, automotive, and ICT areas, as a good news and told it is in line with an agreement made during a visit to Malaysia by Dr. Rouhani.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology, with emphasis on the cooperation of the private sector of both sides said: in the first step, the preferential tariff agreements and then free trade in the next step are in the agenda of the two countries.
Doctor Vaezi, noted the common council of Iran and Malaysia as a supporting measure between the two countries in order to support the private sector and pointed out: the council was supported by both government and the private sector to enable the two countries private sectors to be active.
He also regarded Malaysia as a leading country in the field IT And ICT and added: the two countries' cooperation in the field of ICT and IT is very high and we are ready to cooperate on research and development as well.
He also talks on petrochemical exports to Malaysia and said: according to representatives of Petronas and al-Bukhari in Iran, we can have oil and gas related cooperation as well.
He regarded technical cooperation in the field of tourism and other areas of cooperation as the ot5her areas for cooperation and said: despite the good areas of cooperation, we can expand and began to restore the relations between the two countries prior to sanctions removal.
S. Mostafa Mohammad, Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, also expressed hopes that the talks took place during Dr. Rouhani travel to Malaysia, and said: the two countries have good cooperation in the fields of economic cooperation, political and social, scientific, educational affairs, and in this regard, in the next year we follow up joint Commission for economic cooperation between the two countries.
He regarded trade, investment, tourism, education, research and development, ICT And the automobile industry, as the issues outlined in the Joint Commission and added that the Iranian side presented their proposals in this regard to be the basis for bilateral cooperation in the Joint Commission.
Malaysia's Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade pointed to the increasing trade level between the two countries and insisted on doubling the level of Iran-Malaysia relations and said: the two sides need agreement on the problems of supply of the needed goods.
Welcoming signing the preferential tariff agreement, he regarded it as the way for expanding cooperation with Iran as said: Malaysia has agreement with a number of countries on Preferential Tariff and free Trade and we hope to sign the same with Iran in this regard.
Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Malaysia, regarded oil and gas among the important issues of bilateral relations, and said: Petronas and Al-Bukhari are interested to start their work immediately in Iran.
He also regarded the representatives of the central banks of the two countries meet as an important factor in accelerating the transport facility of the two countries and expressed hopes that the two countries will expand bilateral relations.


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description. Art installation in principal living room of a residential building in San Isidro District. The pieces of art are installed with stainless steel brackets on the wall. Throughout this project I explored different materials and texture to draw on. I experimented with transparency and opacity in order to understand how those can influence the space.

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B.C., feds spend millions on reward points for Canadians who use new healthy living app
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The B.C. and federal governments are spending millions of dollars to buy reward points for Canadians who engage with a new app that encourages healthy lifestyles.
Called “Carrot Rewards,” the $7.5-million smartphone app was created in partnership with company Social Change Rewards with $5 million from Ottawa and $2.5 million from the province as an innovative way to send Canadians mass messages about public health and nudge people to make better choices.
People who sign up for the free app will get reward points of their choice – be it for flights, groceries or movie tickets – in exchange for completing small actions such as using the B.C. Shopping Sense tool to make healthy grocery choices or completing a Heart and Stroke Foundation risk assessment.
The idea is to get people to make small changes in a way that’s much cheaper than traditional advertising campaigns, Social Change Rewards CEO Andreas Souvaliotis said Wednesday.
“It’s replacing advertising with something smarter,” he said.
“Canada is such a points happy society – Canadians love points – incentives in our country work very well,” Souvaliotis said.
Indeed, a 2015 Yahoo study found that 90 per cent of Canadians have at least one loyalty card, with the average person participating in four rewards points programs.
The app itself cost less than a million bucks, with the remainder of the cash going towards project development and buying the rewards, he said. It may seem pricy, but it’s a fraction of the hundreds of millions the government spends on traditional advertising annually. (Preventative health care is also far less expensive than treating someone with diabetes or lung cancer.)
Should Canadians embrace the app, Souvaliotis said it will be a “world first” to have such a large national audience engaged on one platform. It will also be an incredibly powerful data collection tool. The government will not have access to personal information, but it will be able to use aggregated data to analyze trends.
In order to prevent the tool from becoming political, health charities will be able to vet messages and veto notifications that could be seen as an abuse of the system, Souvaliotis said. The Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Diabetes Association and YMCA Canada are in this role.
The app will launch in B.C. this fall as a pilot before a countrywide launch in early 2016.
[polldaddy poll=9003363]Simon Fraser University marketing professor Lindsay Meredith said the strategy is a “hot idea” that will “absolutely” be cheaper and more effective than traditional advertising.
“It’s amazing what people will do for some lousy air miles points,” he said.
The average consumer is bombarded by about 5,000 ads per day, he said, so it’s incredibly hard to get a person’s attention through the clutter.
Rewarding people for small actions can also convince them to actually change their behaviour, he added.
“I hate to give governments credit… but is this a good strategy? Damn right it is.”


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The Spoleto Festival also brought the American artist Sol LeWitt to Umbria, launching his lifelong relationship with the territory. LeWitt had a home and studio in Spoleto for decades, and his work is displayed in Palazzo Collicola’s “G. Carandente” Gallery of Modern Art. In nearby Campello sul Clitunno, LeWitt created La Torre, a work in concrete blocks. La Torre, rising not far from the Clitunno springs and temple that attracted 18th century aristocrats on their traditional Grand Tour of Europe, provides a contrast to the idyllic setting with its evocation of the towers of 1960s Manhattan.
In Terni we find Umbria’s largest example of land art — but it is not modern. The Marmore Waterfalls, another stop on the Grand Tour itinerary, is a work not of nature but of the Romans. As part of a land reclamation scheme, the consul Manius Curius Dentatus ordered that a canal be cut to drain water from a swamp and send it over a cliff into the Nera River below. Lord Byron wrote of the falls’ “terrible beauty,” which also inspired plein air artists such as Corot.
With a total drop of 165 metres, Marmore Falls are among Europe’s tallest. The surrounding park preserves important biodiversity, with many varieties of ferns, lichens, mosses and aquatic plants, as well as numerous animal species. Trails allow visitors to discover the environment around the falls, admire the rainbow created by the mist rising from the foam, and be refreshed with of a bit of splashing spray. The waterfall park includes a trail to the top of the falls; the woods below and above the falls have tables to relax with a picnic lunch. The Nera River is used for canoeing, kayaking and white-water rafting.
After a day enjoyed in the open air, the ideal conclusion is a meal of hearty traditional dishes, prepared with local ingredients and perfectly accompanied by Umbrian wines.
Find out more at umbriatourism.it.

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Hygiene is defined as the science and art of preserving and improving health. The purpose of hygiene is to allow man to live in healthy relationship with his environment. It deals both with an individual and a community as a whole. In order to be healthy one must realize that hygiene and sanitation play a very important role.

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The Entain partnership will include the distribution, by XB Net, of live images, data and a variety of betting services, from a network of 60 North American tracks; the company represents more than 25,000 runs per year.
XB Net’s content covers about 75% of races in the USA, including prestigious international races like the Pegasus World Cup and the last two stages of this summer’s Triple Crown.
Due to the scale of the agreement, XB Net will be able to offer its content across all Entain brands.
Simon Fraser, senior international vice president of XB Net, said: “It is a crucial time to announce the renewal of our distribution agreement with Entain. Entain’s support in bringing live races from North America to a base of engaged and recreational customers, helped to increase the international appeal of our progressive products “.
Entain group commercial director Tom Ritzema added: “XB Net has unique content, advanced data and betting tools for North American races, which will increase the satisfaction of many of our customers during a summer full of highlights. of the races, starting with this month’s Preakness, the second stage of the Triple Crown “.
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The Group has a comprehensive portfolio of established brands; Sports brands include bwin, Coral, Crystalbet, Eurobet, Ladbrokes, Neds and Sportingbet; Game brands include CasinoClub, Foxy Bingo, Gala, Gioco Digitale, Partypoker and PartyCasino. It also has proprietary technology in all verticals of its main products and, in addition to its B2C operations, it provides services to third-party customers on a B2B basis.
In the USA, BetMGM operates, a joint venture with MGM Resorts, created to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the regulation of sports betting and games.


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Many articles been written about post regulation period in aviation since labor always was one of the biggest expenses in airline’s balance shit unions played a big role in aviation community however before deregulation unions were more powerful tool in the order to negotiate salaries and work conditions after “golden” era of regulation labor unions were face to numerous changes. The pros and cons of unionization in the airline industry for flight professionals and the general public alike, one of the most recognized parts of the airline industry is the strong union presence among its professionals. Dallas news: your source for breaking news and analysis for dallas-fort worth, texas and around the world the union for american airlines' pilots lays out pros and cons of tentative agreement.
There are several airline industry unions of note among others, there is the association of flight attendants (afa) the air line pilots association (alpa), national association of air traffic controllers (natca) and the transport workers union. A giant of the airline industry is weathering a quiet coup by labor groups, eyeing fatter checks and deeper dues unions threaten to ground the airline industry human events | friday may 25, 2012 11:56 am share on facebook 1 american airline’s labor unions are threatening the livelihood of thousands for the benefit of a few well.
Government unions have achieved a certain amount of legislative capture - which is great for the unions, but bad for taxpayers, especially since the people negotiating with the unions (and often getting kickbacks in the form of votes and campaign contributions) are doing so with your tax dollars. In the united states, labor union organizations include the united auto workers, united steel workers, american postal workers’ union and the screen actor guild here is a look at the pros and cons presented by the advocates and critics of labor unions the pros of labor unions 1 they protect the interests of employees. Labor unions pros and cons list occupytheory on 29 january, 2015 at 16:00 list of pros of labor unions 1 labor unions provide a high level of pay and benefits because the union participates in collective bargaining members of labor unions often get more direct pay, better benefits, and safer working conditions than people doing the. Union bargaining power in the airline industry is substantial because of the strike threat a strike by a carrier’s pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, or possibly other worker groups, can shut down all flight operations.
In the united states, labor union organizations include the united auto workers, united steel workers, american postal workers’ union and the screen actor guild here is a look at the pros and cons presented by the advocates and critics of labor unions. Pros and cons of unions in the airline industry pros and cons of the european union do you think it is useful to join into a union especially the european union to strengthen their economic positions. The pros of belonging to a union better wages the median weekly income of full-time wage and salary workers who were union members in 2010 was $917, according to the us bureau of labor statistics. Pros and cons of unions in the airline industry pros and cons of the european union do you think it is useful to join into a union especially the european union to strengthen their economic positions the question could be simple to answer but an individual must look much deeper into the situation.
Officials of the allied pilots association today laid out the pros and cons to american airlines' pilots as they vote on a tentative agreement. The “pros” are that the proposal promises that all american eagle pilots can get jobs at parent american airlines as american needs to add pilots, that american eagle will commit to keeping at least 170 aircraft at the airline and that american airlines will send 60 new 76-seat embraer jets to the regional carrier.
Labor problems in the airline industry william v henzey introduction in such an atmosphere, the one airline union of that period, the air line pilots association, had little difficulty in obtaining a government floor for its members' salaries' and, with the help of the railway brotherhoods, in. Unions protect workers from various company abuses such as unsafe/uncomfortable working conditions, long hours, arbitrary hiring & firing, and so on in a rough economy, with workers needing their paychecks to pay for mortgages, food, car payments, etc, employers hold a lot of power in the employer-employee relationship. Labor problems in the airline industry william v henzey the airline industry is far from unanimous in the belief that compulsory arbitration is a solution to its problems inherently, labor unions resist such a move, unions sought to share, through increased wages and improved working conditions.
Labor unions can cause the price of the products that the union employees make to increase this increase in price can occur due to higher wage demands and strikes the cost of wage increases is passed on to the end consumer as a higher price.
Labor unions reduce the number of people that are terminated in a union environment there is usually a standard format that any supervisor must follow to make a complaint about an employee’s productivity or behavior. Airline labor unions as an airline employee there is a good possibility you will be required to join an airline industry labor union what this means is that you are paid on an hourly wage and work on a contract.

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Establishment of Chrysler Australia
Chrysler Australia Ltd was established in June 1951 when the Chrysler Corporation acquired Chrysler Dodge Desoto Distributors (Australia), a company which had been formed in 1935 by 18 independent distributors.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Chrysler made a substantial investment in Australian manufacturing facilities, including opening a new assembly plant at Clovelly Park in 1964 and an engine foundry at Lonsdale in 1968. During this time, Chrysler Australia established its position as the third of the "Big 3" Australian motor manufacturers behind General Motors-Holden's and Ford Australia.
Initially, Chrysler Australia assembled North American Chrysler passenger cars and trucks. Their most popular car in the 1950s was the US sourced badge engineered trio: Plymouth Cranbrook, Dodge Kingsway and De Soto Diplomat, each based on the 1954 US Plymouth. A coupe utility variant was also developed by Chrysler Australia and this was marketed in nine different versions; the Plymouth Cranbrook, Savoy & Belvedere, the Dodge Kingsway Custom, Kingsway Crusader & Kingsway Coronet and the De Soto Diplomat Custom, Diplomat Regent & Diplomat Plaza. The Plymouth sedan was a popular choice for taxicab usage however the rise in popularity of the Holden during this decade led to the decline of this range of cars.
In 1957, Chrysler Australia consolidated each of the badge-engineered marques in one car—the Chrysler Royal. This was a facelifted version of the 1954 Plymouth, and it was to continue in production until 1963. The Royal was an automotive curiosity. Starting life as a side-valve 6-cylinder manual, with 3-speed manual column gearchange, it was progressively modified, with the addition of US sourced engineering features such as power steering, the push button "Powerflite" automatic gearbox and an OHV V8. On the styling front US "Forward Look" style tailfins were grafted on the rear of the car, while the front end gained dual (vertically stacked) headlights. These changes failed to arrest the slide in sales, as General Motors-Holden came to dominate the Australian market, and the Royal was viewed as being outmoded and expensive. Production ceased in 1963.
The saving grace for Chrysler at this time was the French Simca Aronde—a popular 4-cylinder compact car which Chrysler Australia assembled from CKD kits at their Keswick factory. Local engineers developed an Aronde station wagon unique to Australia, with a then-novel wind-down rear window and tailgate. (Chrysler USA had acquired an interest in Simca in 1958, the basis for sourcing of this car). The assembly and marketing of Simca Aronde and Vedette models by Chrysler Australia was announced on 1 July 1959.
In both 1958 and 1959 Chrysler Australia released Plymouth Belvedere, Dodge Custom Royal and DeSoto Firesweep models which were imported from the US in CKD form and assembled at Chrysler’s Adelaide facilities. The Plymouth was fitted with a 318-cubic-inch V8 engine and the Dodge and de Soto models featured a 361-cubic-inch V8. Assembly of the three models was discontinued in 1960 and they were replaced by a single model, the Dodge Phoenix, which was produced by Chrysler Australia through to 1973.
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In the wake of the high unemployment, mortgage foreclosures, and general economic uncertainty flowing from the financial crisis, most Americans have understandably focused on its domestic effects. Far less attention has been given to the global recession’s international ramifications. This is unfortunate, for one of the most significant effects has been a profound decline in world trade—and this, in turn, may serve to exacerbate the crisis.
Estimates vary, but according to the IMF, total world trade in goods and services will decline by 12.2% in 2009. Accompanying these developments have been fears of resurgent protectionism. The Economist argues, however, that such worries have proved to be overrated. In one sense, this is true. If by protectionism we mean the raising of tariff barriers, then we have not seen anything like the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that limited foreign access to America’s markets and helped facilitate the Great Depression. Indeed, some countries, such as Australia and China, have actually reduced import duties.
On the other hand, the European Union and the United States have introduced new farm subsidies to already outrageously subsidized agricultural sectors. Moreover, there are other ways to impede or distort the relatively free access of individuals and businesses to global markets. One example is the early 2009 stimulus package passed by the American Congress. It contains “Buy American” provisions that actively discriminate against foreign imports.
Yet another instance of creeping impediments to free trade is the recent demand by several United States senators that any cap-and-trade bill contain “a longer-term border adjustment mechanism”—in other words, a tariff—to protect American industry against competition from countries that refuse to adopt expensive carbon-emission measures similar to those contained in the Waxman-Markey bill passed by the House of Representatives. Some European Union countries, most notably France, have insisted that “economic measures” should be taken against those countries that don’t enact carbon-emission requirements like those embraced by the EU. India and China have already told the United States they have no intention of adopting such policies on the grounds that they would drastically impede these nations’ ongoing rise out of poverty—one of the economic miracles of our time.
But why, some might ask, are these emerging barriers to free trade so worrying? Shouldn’t governments encourage “economically patriotic” policies? Surely a government should “look after its own.”
There are two reasons why free trade should be protected and promoted. The first concerns free trade’s profound contribution to global economic prosperity. The second is that free trade is a human right—not an absolute right, but a right that governments should only circumscribe in the most adverse of circumstances.
The economic case for free trade was codified by Adam Smith when his Wealth of Nations was published in 1776. He challenged the then-reigning mercantilist orthodoxy that one country could only become richer at other nations’ expense. “The modern maxims of foreign commerce,” Smith wrote, “by aiming at the impoverishment of all our neighbors, so far as they are capable of producing their intended effect, tend to render that very commerce insignificant and contemptible.” Observing the political and economic conflict between the eighteenth century’s two great powers, France and Britain, Smith commented that “If those two countries . . . were to consider their real interest, without either mercantile jealously or national animosity, the commerce of France might be more advantageous to Great Britain . . . and for that same reason that of Great Britain to France.”
Smith’s point was simple yet revolutionary: free trade would, in the long term, mutually enrich everyone. For one thing, free trade encouraged an ever-increasing depth and sophistication of the division of labor. This facilitated technological development and the ability to grow ever-increasing amounts of wealth. Free trade also created an ever-widening space for individuals, businesses, and entire nations to find, develop, or even change their comparative advantage. As Smith put it, “If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage.”
It was certainly possible, Smith noted, for a country like Scotland to grow grapes. The financial cost, however, of doing so compared to, for example, growing grapes in Italy, made that an economically foolish choice for Scots. By contrast, individuals, businesses, and countries in a global free market would be encouraged to focus on doing what they did best and would not be incentivized by protectionism into developing industries that, in the long run, couldn’t compete in the marketplace, even with extensive tariffs.
Appeals to economic efficiency and prosperity are enough for some, but just as human beings are more than homo economicus (and Smith himself never thought that human life could be reduced to economics) so too are purely economic arguments insufficient for governments to adopt particular policies, even those concerning economic subjects. But if governments have some responsibility to protect their citizens’ rights, then perhaps they may wish to consider the claim that the liberty to trade goods and services across national boundaries is not a privilege but rather a right.
Excessive rights-talk disfigures much contemporary political discussion, but compared to most modern rights-claims, the idea of free trade as a right has both a much older lineage and a more coherent rational basis. The first to apply the word “right” to free trade was the sixteenth-century scholar Francisco de Vitoria (1492-1546) in his De Indis et de Ivre Belli Relectiones (1532).
According to Vitoria, the right to free trade was derived from the natural right of free association enjoyed by all people. Free association, to Vitoria’s mind, was essential for human flourishing, and he did not believe national boundaries should unreasonably limit people from freely associating with others, including for economic reasons. Interestingly, Vitoria developed this line of argument in the context of claiming that the New World’s native peoples should not be prevented from freely trading with European merchants by either their indigenous rulers or European monarchs. Such were Vitoria’s convictions against mercantilist policies that he even depicted laws unduly limiting free trade between nations as “iniquitous and against charity.”
The Dutch philosopher and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) also built a rights-based case for free trade. As a target, Grotius aimed at the Portuguese claim to a monopoly of the trade routes to the East Indies. In Mare Liberum (1609), Grotius employed uncharacteristically insistent language to maintain, as an “unimpeachable axiom of the Law of Nations . . . the spirit of which is self-evident and immutable,” that “Every nation is free to travel to every other nation, and to trade with it.”
Grotius’ argument for free trade as a right was based on the premise that nature did not supply every place with the necessities of life. Moreover, Grotius observed (foreshadowing Smith’s economic analysis) that it was clear that “some nations excel in one art and others in another.” These factors meant that if the goods of the world were truly to serve everyone, then free trade was a necessity. Grotius notes that his argument was hardly novel, as it could be found in the works of Roman philosophers such as Seneca (4 B.C. – 65 A.D.). Almost a century after Grotius’s death, we find the same position stated in the most important eighteenth-century text on international law, Emer de Vattel’s Le droit de gens (1758). This book insists that the “obligation,” as Vattel describes it, of nations to engage in mutual commerce, means that those “privileges and tolls, which obtain in many places, and press so heavily upon commerce, are deservedly to be reprobated.”
To be sure, none of these thinkers considered free trade to be an absolute right. Grotius and Vattel believed, for example, that states engaged in a legitimate war could justly prohibit its citizens from trading with citizens of enemy powers. Nor was Smith an absolutist about free trade. In some circumstances, he was willing to approve certain subsidies for particular industries. Generally, however, Smith insisted that the onus of proof for the wisdom of interfering with free trade lay with those proposing a restriction or subsidy.
Will free trade, either as a right or an empirically validated economic argument, ever gain universal acceptance? Smith himself concluded there was so much resistance to free trade arising both from economic ignorance and also established interests determined to protect themselves from competition by whatever means necessary that “to expect . . . that freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.”
One of Smith’s contemporaries and greatest admirers, the English philosopher and politician Edmund Burke, once wrote that “Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.” Certainly the economic argument for free trade’s long-term economic utility and protectionism’s detrimental effects is difficult to refute. Yet it may be that free trade’s greatest hope in the long term will be that enough people recognize there is something fundamentally unjust about unduly impeding the ability of all the world’s resources to serve all human beings in an increasingly globalized world in which nation-state borders mean less and less.


A new state-of-the-art aquatics and sports hub in Mernda is a step closer with the endorsement of a plan to finalise the scope of the facility.
The centre is being designed as a multi-purpose aquatic, leisure and indoor sports court facility in the heart of the city’s booming northern corridor.
Administrator Ms Peita Duncan said the next step of the facility’s planning was an opportunity to ensure community health and wellbeing outcomes would be met for decades to come.
“The centre will be a major driver in keeping the community active while maximising social, health and economic benefits,” said Ms Duncan said.
Recent consultation with the community showed that overwhelmingly residents value the inclusion of lap swimming, warm water exercise, water play and learn-to-swim areas in the proposed facility.
“Understanding community priorities is critical when developing a holistic facility that caters to the diverse needs of our growing community,” Ms Duncan said.
Council will now explore options that prioritise and balance all of these features.
“When planning for a multi-million-dollar facility like this it’s critical that we get the concept right and that it’s reflective of best-practice leisure principles and community health and wellbeing needs while also ensuring it has local economic benefit,” said Ms Duncan.
Council will prepare a comparative feasibility analysis of two options - a 25m lap pool with wellbeing features and a 50m lap pool with wellbeing features – by July 2021.
This will provide the evidence required for a comprehensive business case to be developed that balances costs with community health and wellbeing needs.


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The Coldplay singer teams up with his pals to cover a punk classic...
The star has lent his backing vocals to the Irish rockers version of ‘Everybody’s Happy Nowadays’, due to appear on the soundtrack to Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s ‘Shaun Of The Dead’.
The collaboration follows Martin’s recent run of musical pairings, contributing to Timbaland‘s ‘Gold In Them Hills’, [/a] singer Ian McCulloch’s ‘Arthur’ and ‘Sliding’ and pop sensation Jamelia’s ‘See It In A Boy’s Eyes’.
As previously reported on NME.COM, [a] has also revealed that Coldplay are the only group he wants to collaborate with the moment.
“The only [artist] I’d like to do a song with is Coldplay,” he explained. “That’s the only one I really want to work with now.”
‘Shaun Of The Dead’ will be released in cinemas on April 9.

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Party People: Recent tragedies revive debate about gun control in the U.S.
Lax policies putting innocent Americans at risk
Recent events have undoubtedly proved that gun control laws are neither archaic nor distant to the American population. However, politicians on both sides of the aisle have avoiding making statements on the issue. Virginian Gov. Tim Kaine spoke out, saying that he hoped no one would “politicize the issue and try to instate gun control.” These silent politicians are ignoring an important issue of their time and putting their constituents after lobbying firms.
Many gun proponents say that people, not guns, cause these tragedies. This is simply not so, because if American gun culture mirrored the limited gun culture in other world societies, we would see a drastic drop in gun-related deaths as we can see in these foreign nations. In societies where gun control policies are in place, murders and massacres such as those at Virginia Tech and the Ward Parkway mall do not take place with such tragic frequency.
International attention has focused on America’s lax gun control in light of the Virginia Tech massacre. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that Australia “took action to limit the availability of guns, and [Australia] showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in [Australia].” Lax gun control is threatening to become yet another deterrent to successful foreign policy.
Over 14,000 people die each year in the U.S. because of domestic gun violence. When the founders of this republic amended the Constitution to protect the right to bear arms, it maintained the state’s right to retain a militia, not the rights of casual gun owners in the United States. This nation is dangerously balanced on a gun culture that more and more frequently highlights itself as a grave threat to the danger of innocent citizens.
Public policy drafted by the government is unduly influenced by the National Rifle Association, one of the most powerful lobbying firms in the nation. The association has been criticized for its lack of attention on gun safety and the accountability of gun owners. The lax gun control policies of the NRA are putting innocent Americans in danger.
Congress must realize that the United States will not be a truly safe country until the question of gun control has been successfully addressed.
– Samuel Huneke and Julia Barnard are co-presidents of Lawrence High School’s Young Democrats.
Banning weapons disadvantage to law-abiding citizens
The recent shootings at Virginia Tech and Ward Parkway Mall in Kansas City have made gun control a sensitive topic. Large-scale murders such as these are so violent and rare in occurrence that the public panics and decides to ban or regulate firearms to a larger extent. However, guns pose such a relatively small threat in comparison to other causes of death. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, in 2004, 12,782 people between the ages of 1 and 24 died in motor vehicle accidents, while 4,372 people died of firearm-related homicide. Most of these deaths occurred off-campus and were gang-related. As high school students we are more worried about our peers dying while driving intoxicated than by firearm. If America does decide to cut down on firearm-related homicide, then we should clean up the streets and provide for more gang and drug counseling in public schools.
The reality is that banning firearms would not cut down on firearm homicides; they would just put law-abiding citizens at an even larger disadvantage for self-defense. Criminals would feel safer knowing that average citizens could not legally protect themselves, thus resulting in more violent crime. This is exemplified in Great Britain’s 1997 handgun ban. Two years following Great Britain’s handgun ban, violent crime rose 40 percent. If firearms were banned within the U.S., a black market for guns would continue to exist, and unstable people would not turn in their firearms.
Despite the small threat guns pose, banning weapons is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. It is much more important that we abide by our Constitution than place a ban on firearms. The founding fathers knew the importance of self-defense, and that is why the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms. If legislators do dare to place a federal ban on firearms, they must go through the formal constitutional amendment process. An amendment such as this would never happen, as lawmakers wish to have the right to self-defense as well.
– Dan Bentley is president and Ted Olson is vice president of Lawrence High School’s Young Republicans.

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Gambling advertisements on TV, social media, newspapers, and public posters will all be banned in Belgium this year, under a decree that was finalised on Wednesday. The new restrictions come into place on 1 July. They are being used to tackle “the tsunami of gambling advertising” in Belgian society, which the government argues is increasing gambling uptake and presenting greater difficulties for people trying to shake a gambling addiction.
The new restrictions were detailed in a royal decree, which had to be signed by the King of Belgium before they could come into effect. The proposed restrictions were provided to administrative bodies in Belgium and the European Union, with neither raising any signs that the measures were illegal or unfair. Belgium’s Justice Minister, Vincent Van Quickenborne, said the restrictions were “necessary because the normalisation and banalisation of gambling must finally stop”.
What about sports?
Professional sports clubs will be given an extended time period to move away from gambling sponsors. Gambling advertisements at sports stadiums, such as billboards or banners, will be banned from the start of 2025, while a gambling logo on a professional team’s shirt will still be able to appear until the end of 2027. Amateur teams will still be allowed to have the name of a gambling company on their uniform beyond this date.


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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--China’s Shandong provincial government has approved the local standards for methanol gasoline and fuel methanol used in vehicles, according to a report released by Shandong Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision on Thursday.
The two local standards to be used in Shandong province contain scope of application, terms, technical standards, testing method and standards, storage and transport situations, the bureau said.
The local standards were drafted by Yankuang Group, Yankuang Guohong Chemical and Shandong Lunan Chemical, the bureau added.
Methanol gasoline, also known as M15 methanol-blended gasoline, has been tested in 13 provinces and cities in China since 2009.
M15 methanol-blended gasoline contains 15% methanol and 85% gasoline.
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What can I do when withdrawing?
When you stop using alcohol and other drugs you often feel worse before you start feeling better. Withdrawal is the process of your body getting used to the absence of the alcohol or other drug that you used to use. Withdrawal symptoms are the many physical and emotional (or mental) symptoms you have while your body adjusts.
How bad those symptoms will be is affected by your age, your health, how long you have used, how much you have used, the type of drugs you have used, and whether you have used more than one substance. Withdrawal from some substances, like alcohol, can be dangerous or life threatening.
Making withdrawal less painful
Compared to older people, youth usually tend to have more emotional distress (feeling irritable and generally unwell) than physical distress. Their withdrawal period also tends to be shorter.
When withdrawal makes you ill, you need medical support. Alcohol withdrawal can be very serious and even life threatening if a person has been drinking over a sustained period of time. Acute withdrawal is best completed with medical supervision. Talk with your doctor, health professional, or counsellor to see if this option should be considered. Be sure to seek medical advice if you have physical symptoms, have other medical problems, are struggling with feeling depressed, or are pregnant.
Other ways to make withdrawal easier
- Talk to important people in your life. Tell them that you are not feeling well and that it may have to with alcohol or other drug use. This gives people who care about you a chance to be understanding and supportive. Try not to be alone. Be honest about what substances you have been using and how much.
- Lower your stress. Don’t expect too much from yourself. You may need to cancel plans or turn down invitations. Think about what helps you relax and do it: music, favourite movies or books, journaling, physical exercise—whatever works for you.
- Even though you may not feel like it, treat yourself well. Eat healthy meals, get lots of rest, drink lots of water, and do some light exercise.
- Think about calling your local addiction services office for drug information. Drug education can be very helpful as you may be wondering what is happening and when the symptoms will stop! If you plan to see a counsellor, remember that you can do this on your own or with a supportive family member or friend.
Now may be a good time to think about your next steps in terms of using alcohol or other drugs in the future. Seek support from others who can help. Try Alberta Health Services, self-help groups like AA or NA, family members, or counsellors at school or in your community.
Hang in there. You may need time to adjust and heal. Let others help you. You will feel better!
You can find more information about addiction services for youth in communities and schools across Alberta. To find out more about how we can help you make a change, or to find an addiction services office near you, please call the 24-hour Help Line, 1-866-332-2322.
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Florentine memories and nostalgia
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With the war over, inhe joined the Italian Communist Party and that same year published his first novel to gain wide recognition, Il quartiereset in the Santa Croce area. Retrieved from ” https: He was also active in the resistance against German occupation in the capital.
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Quartidre this prolific period, he published Cronaca familiare and Cronache di poveri amantiinboth of which were well received and, inUn eroe del nostro tempo and Le ragazze di San Frediano.
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Vasco Pratolini 19 October — 12 January was an Italian writer of the 20th century. Born in FlorencePratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. This page was last edited on 6 Novemberat His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence.
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Its recurring themes, often fuelled with the Marxist ideal of a classless society, centred on the value of the common man, his fight to maintain his dignity and his belief in solidarity in a predominantly brutal and unjust world.
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- Results beat expectations. Revenues grew by ~23% yoy to Rs76.3bn, driven by healthy growth in cigarettes, Other-FMCG and agri segment
- Cigarette volumes increase by ~1.5% yoy; EBIT margins expand by 110bps to 32.8%. Losses in the Other-FMCG segment reduced to Rs240mn
- OPM declined by 80bps to 36.4%. A drop of 420bps in overhead cost mitigates high outsourcing cost impact. Net profit for the quarter surpassed our expectations by recording ~21% yoy growth at Rs20.5bn
- We expect ITC to witness a revenue/PAT CAGR of 16.2%/18.4% respectively over FY12-14. Maintain BUY with a 9-mth price target of Rs327
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|PAT margin (%)||26.9||27.5||(55) bps||24.1||282 bps|
|Ann. EPS (Rs)||10.5||8.8||19.3||8.2||28.0|
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|FMCG - Others||17,827||30.1||(240)||(48.6)|
|Paper & Packaging||10,616||8.5||2,286||1.9|
Cigarette and FMCG - Others segment fuel revenue growth
ITC reported 23% yoy jump in revenues at Rs76.3bn (above our expectations of Rs73bn) during Q3 FY13 driven by 13% yoy growth in core cigarettes segment. Cigarette volumes recorded ~1.5% yoy increase partly aided by the successful launch of 64mm cigarettes. A 43% yoy jump in agri (driven by wheat leaf tobacco and soya exports) and 30% yoy increase in Other-FMCG revenues (led by foods and personal care business) further fuelled revenue growth. The growth could have been even better but for slower growth in hotels (due to weak economic environment) and paper segment revenues.
OPM declined by 80bps (on a high base) to 36.4% due to sharp 450bps jump in outsourcing cost (included in raw material cost). A 420bps drop in overhead cost partly mitigated the impact. Cigarette EBIT margins witnessed 110bps expansion at 32.8%. Price hikes coupled with premiumisation of its portfolio have helped ITC improve cigarette EBIT margins. ITC has managed to reduce losses in the Other-FMCG segment to Rs240mn (Rs466mn in Q3 FY12) as profits from the foods segment are increasing sequentially. We expect this segment to breakeven by FY13/Q1 FY14.
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