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Stories from 20 April 2009
The US military base currently located in Manta, Ecuador is being transferred to Colombia. “This is a violation of national sovereignty with the aim to maintain a certain level of privileged relationship with the government of the United States,” writes Colombia Hoy [es].
If elections are to be described as a process to elect better leaders for the country, the ongoing elections in India are of a very different variety. A number of convicted felons, gang members with long criminal history and leaders accused of violent crime (murder, attempted murder, armed robbery) - villains in every sense are going to the people asking for their vote.
Faisal K. at Deadpan Thoughts realizes: “not a day goes by without some sort of threat in Pakistan to its citizens by these mysterious men we have come to know loosely as the Taliban.”
Dipika, a Bhutanese journalist who blogs at On The Job, criticizes the recent debate in Bhutan on whether the $2500 car Tata Nano should be banned.
The use of social media tools such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and mobile technology has become increasingly popular in activism and advocacy work worldwide in recent years. In Lebanon, a group called Social Media Exchange teaches activists how to utilise social media to promote their work and reach a wider audience. Mohammmad Azraq digs into the Lebanese social networking and online scene to find out more.
The Whackstar's Lair opines that the Sri Lankan people should stop considering the Tamil diaspora as the enemy. Because: “EELAM is right here, but it’s called Sri Lanka, and people of different races live here together. ‘Come home’ is what the government and all of us need to say to...
Manasa Pamaraju at Desicritics states that many of the 22 official languages of India are losing the race to English or other dominant languages. The blogger comments: “what pains me is that that today’s generation doesn’t even know how to pronounce the language right. I have met scores of parents...
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today made headlines once more, when he referred to Israel as a “racist state” during a address at United Nations conference on racism in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates from several European nations walked out of the conference in protest at Ahmadinejad's remark. Jomhour has published the following video...
Bengali folk Music has survived many centuries and Ektara, the single-stringed musical instrument had a significant role to play. More at The Mango Diaries.
Shivam Vij at Kafila blog blasts the Indian mainstream media for their manipulative election reporting using stereotypes and presumptions.
The much-hyped Fifth Summit of the Americas is now over, culminating with the Hemispheric leaders' adoption of the Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain - albeit with one signatory - the Prime Minister of host country Trinidad and Tobago, who purportedly signed on behalf of all participating leaders. This signaled to many a clear lack of unanimity on the final declaration, hardly surprising given the differing agendas of the 34 participating nations. Bloggers were quick to post their impressions of the three-day engagement.
While Afghanistan's so-called “rape law” has garnered a lot of Western press, there is a lot of domestic debate over it as well. The women's marches have been covered admirably by mainstream media, but there are sectarian issues to consider as well. Registan.net already highlighted some of those problems—namely, that...
The presidential and parliamentary race in Malawi is seeing innovative use of the Internet that Malawi's politics has never witnessed before. Parties and individual contestants have established themselves online through websites, Facebook and blogs to get voters' attention.
Breaking news in Jamaica this morning is that a hostage situation has developed with the crew of a Canadian jet at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. Canadian mainstream media is since reporting that the situation was resolved without any loss of life when "an anti-terrorism unit of the Jamaican military stormed the plane and disarmed the gunman", but bloggers Caribbean-wide and throughout the diaspora are still in disbelief.
“It is not foreign investment that economists and development agencies are suggesting is the engine of economic development in the 21st century; it’s culture”: Nicolette Bethel thinks that the Bahamian government's apparent postponement of the Caribbean Festival of Arts is “a terrible idea”.
Imad Moustapha, Syria's envoy to the US, shares with us photographs from a celebration to mark his country's Independence Day in Washington DC. “The huge attendance was a testimony to how Syria is regarded by the American people despite years of trying to distort its image by former President Bush,...
From Jordan, Moey shares the 10 things he learned from watching Hannah Montana.
Writing on Arabic online forum Al Saha Abu Marmesh applauds a new fatwa (religious edict) by a Saudi scholar which bans women only health and sports club in Saudi Arabia. “We have to stand together against all those who try to abuse our girls and women,” he writes.
Thought Clouds, The Digital Bender shares those photographs from Amman, Jordan, in the rain.
Repeating Islands reports that Haiti's Senate elections this past weekend were “marred today by sporadic violence, forcing authorities to cancel polling in parts of the country”. Pwoje Espwa notes: “Fanmi Lavalas (ex-President Jean Bertrand Aristide's political party) will not be in the race due to not being able to satisfy...
Jamaica-based blogger Annie Paul happened to be reading a manuscript about pirates at a time when “the pirates of Somalia were rousing international consternation by capturing a US ship and holding its crew hostage” – and she shares an alternative perspective on this age-old profession.


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I’ve been thinking a lot about forces – things in my life that appear to be pushing or pulling me. I can’t really figure out when to push back, when to resist, and when to succumb to the pressure. It’s both a creative and a personal dilemma. As often happens, my artwork seems to be the place where these struggles play out.
The creative dilemma goes like this: My work has evolved such that I now have to spend many, many hours making precise shapes and lines and thousands of tiny marks over the initial chaotic shapes I create. It is tedious and slow work, and there is almost no joy in it – except the joy of seeing the intricacy of the final piece. What I love about making art is playing with chance, letting things happen, immediacy, acting on “instinct”, serendipity. Not giving my mind time to interfere. But, inevitably, when I work this way, I look at my paintings and think they need structure; something deliberate that gives them shape and holds them together. Hence the lines and dots and shapes. I feel pressure to create order, and a simultaneous pull toward chaos. The painting below is in progress, but pretty much sums up how I feel. In my head it is titled “Tangled Bird of Prey, Dying”. I’ve never been one to shy away from melodrama 😉
This leads me to consider Newton’s third law of motion: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Is it preferable to find a balance between unrestrained, chaotic mark-making whose movement is outward and explosive, and precise, deliberate scaffold-building whose movement is inward and toward containment? If making these structures is mind-numbingly boring and I feel a huge resistance toward it, should I desist, or work through it, like a runner getting past “the wall”? There is a force within me urging me to stop, and another urging me to continue. Is Newton’s third law of motion describing an impasse? In which case, shouldn’t it be avoided if progress is to be made? I guess it depends on the story I choose to tell myself. Either, my inner child is pushing me to cut loose and she’s the one who drives me to make art in the first place so I better listen, or, art requires work, discipline and surrender and the uncomfortable stuff is probably the stuff I most need to learn so get on with it and stop whining.
Structure beginning to appear out of chaos (work in progress).
Thousands of dots emanating from a chaotic spill – the movement outward loses momentum and dissipates (work in progress).
Trying to avoid the issue all together, I ended up making sculptures last week 🙂

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|Photo: A photo of the one of the billboards about the Lincoln Highway Arts Festival.|
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Arts Festival This Saturday!
I will have a booth at the Lincoln Highway Arts Festival this Saturday from 9AM to 4PM. If you happen to be near Mount Vernon, Iowa; swing on by and say "Hi!" The weather promises to be beautiful for a late September day. It's going to be sunny and in the upper 70's to low 80's. So come on out for art, food, music, shopping... make a day of it! Sounds like FUN to me! :)


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Frank Lodeizen artwork • painting • for sale Landscape
oil on canvas 60.0 x 60.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '66
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 3,300
Frank Lodeizen was born in 1931 in Amsterdam and grew up during the Second World War. In the post-war years he found a connection with the Amsterdam art world and became friends with the artists of CoBrA and the poets and writers of De Vijftigers. This new generation of artistic people, including Appel, Constant, Simon Vinkenoog and Remco Campert, wanted to break with pre-war art ideas and be free to create their own art. Lodeizen drew and etched a lot, including portraits of his artist friends and accompanying drawings in collections of poetry. He spent a lot of time with Campert, together they traveled to Paris where he met Hugo Claus, among others. Lodeizen's work can be found in the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum and Museum van Bommel van Dam, among others.


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When setting out to build organizational capacity, one of the first challenges nonprofit leaders face is how to pay for it. In the long run, added capacity often pays for itself—whether through greater impact, efficiency, or direct fundraising capacity. But in the immediate term, there’s still the matter of finding those critical initial resources.
One of the best places to start is through grant funding.
While project-focused grant funding has traditionally been part of creating a “nonprofit starvation cycle,” grant makers’ awareness of the value of capacity-building support is finally starting to shift. But it’s up to organizations to seize these new opportunities.
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle
Over the last decades, too many nonprofits have been locked in what’s known as the “nonprofit starvation cycle.” This happens when donors focus only on funding direct program costs and severely restrict funding for “overhead.”
Whether it’s government grants, individual donors, or foundation grants, for too long the idea of “low overhead” and project-based funding has forced nonprofits to underestimate and underfund the true cost of delivering programs. According to Bridgespan:
Over half of the 15 largest US foundations have a flat-rate indirect-cost reimbursement policy of 15 percent or less. Rigorous research confirms that grantees’ actual indirect costs nearly always exceed these allocations. In a 2015 Bridgespan study of a large foundation’s grantees, for instance, indirect costs ranged from 21 percent to 89 percent of direct program costs.
Starved of resources to support operating costs, nonprofits struggle to “make do” or develop complex ways to embed a portion of operating costs in project budgets, such as through allocation formulas. But things are finally changing.
Funders Are Learning the Value of Capacity Building
Foundation funders especially are finally shifting their thinking about supporting grantee operations and capacity building. According to research from the Center for Effective Philanthropy:
- 32% of foundation leaders say their foundation provides general operating support to the majority of grantees.
- 18% of foundation leaders say their foundation provides capacity-building or organizational effectiveness grants to the majority of grantees.
- 29% of foundation leaders say their foundation provides assistance beyond the grant to the majority of grantees.
Even better, 44% of foundation leaders reported looking for ways to expand and strengthen their flexible and/or capacity-building support.
But for grantees, there’s no time to wait around for foundations to offer capacity-building support. It’s imperative for nonprofits to start asking more directly. Indeed, a 2022 field scan from the Hewlett Foundation found that:
One of the main reasons foundations made capacity-building investments was because grantees asked.
Ready to Learn How to Leverage Grants to Build Capacity?
Whether it’s through matching grants, unrestricted general support grants, or capacity-building grants, learning to leverage foundation funding for capacity-building can make a major difference in your nonprofit’s long-term success.
If you’re ready to start securing funding for capacity-building, join Funding for Good’s December 2023 webinar, Understanding and Maximizing Capacity-Building Grants.

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Everything You Need To Know About Apple’s HomePod
Competition in the smart speaker market is set to further intensify, following Apple’s announcement that its ‘HomePod’ will land in Australia on February 9th. Priced at A$499, this expensive smart speaker claims to feature advanced voice recognition, directional audio, and hands-free messaging capabilities via WhatsApp.
HomePod pre-orders will open on Apple’s website from Saturday, 27 January AEDT, and will be available to purchase from local Apple stores on February 9th.
Available in either ‘White’ or ‘Space Grey’, the HomePod (A$499) is powered by Apple’s smart assistant, Siri, and will take on the likes of Amazon’s Echo range, and Google’s Home ecosystem.
The news comes after some commentators state that Apple delayed the launch of its smart speaker, because of production issues.
Apple’s HomePod claims to deliver “stunning audio quality”, and offers hands-free voice control.
The smart speaker is designed to work with an Apple Music subscription, and claims to learn a users’ tastes and preferences. Apple claims Siri can answer “advanced searches” within Apple’s Music catalog e.g. “Hey Siri, when was this song released?” or “Hey Siri, can you play something totally different?”.
By calling upon Siri, users can ask the HomePod to perform a variety of tasks including; “set a timer, play a podcast, check the news, sports, traffic, and weather, and even control a wide range of HomeKit™ smart home accessories”.
Concerning news and current affairs, Apple has linked Siri to a suite of local outlets, including; ABC NEWS, SBS News, SEVEN NEWS and FOX SPORTS News.
A waveform icon appears on the top of the device to indicate that Siri is engaged, which compliments integrated touch controls on the device.
Apple states its new HomePod incorporates “advanced audio technologies” such as “beam-forming tweeters, a high-excursion woofer, and automatic spatial awareness”.
Philip Schiller, Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing.claims people will ” be blown away” by the device’s audio quality.
The HomePod stands 18 centimetres tall, and incorporates Apple’s A8 chip to deliver a “wide spacious soundstage”.
The device claims to utilise spatial awareness, and by determining its place in the room adjusts its audio for the best sound.
Seven beam forming tweeters offer direction sound, and with six microphones Apple claims the device can hear its “Hey Siri” activation command, even when loud music is playing.
Apple has designed the HomePod’s set up to be similar to its wireless earbuds, AirPods. Users simply have to place their iPhone in front of the device to start playing music.
HomeKit support enables Apple to take on the likes of Google and Amazon, offering integration with a suite of other smart devices. For example, users can call upon Siri to turn on the lights, and much more.
SiriKit for HomePod enables the device to support third-party messaging apps. Users can send messages via Whatsapp, or compile to-do lists with Evernote.
Apple has also announced that an upcoming free software update will enable users to play music throughout a house via multiroom audio. Users could ask Siri to play Jazz in the lounge room, or play the same song in each room in perfect sync. Should more than one HomePod device be in the same room, Apple states they can be set up as a stereo pair for further enhanced experience.
The forthcoming HomePod is compatible with the following devices; iPhone® 5s or later, iPad Pro®, iPad Air® or later, iPad mini™ 2 or later, or iPod touch® (6th generation) with iOS 11.2.5 or later.
The Californian-based tech giant affirms that “Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of Apple hardware”. Apple states that only after “Hey Siri” is locally recognised by the HomePod, will any information be sent to Apple servers. Such information claims to be “encrypted and sent using an anonymous Siri identifier”.


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The movie will be produced by Bhushan Kumar of T-Series banner.
"The film will go on floors by April 2013. Milan is busy with 'Once Upon A Time In Mumbai 2', so as soon as he finishes shooting for that film, our film will go on floors," Kumar told IANS.
The movie will be basically shot in Mumbai, but the shooting of some songs will take the crew to "some European countries", he added.
Kumar says the leading lady for the film is not yet finalised.
"We have shortlisted few actresses for the role, but Milan will take a call on that, considering who suits the role best," he added.
The film will be replete with romance, action and emotion.
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Helpful Hints and Tips
Picking up litter from Hyndburn’s streets costs hundreds of thousands of pounds each year. The bulk of this is paid for by Hyndburn’s residents through their council tax. These costs will be reduced dramatically if residents are more responsible.
Everyone can help by:
- Taking rubbish home or by using the litter bins provided
- Not dropping any kind of litter. Chewing gum, cigarette ends and fast food make up a significant amount of the litter on our streets. Gum is especially difficult and costly to remove off the floor so please wrap it and dispose of it property in a bin.
- Talking to children, family and friends about litter, financial cost and local environment.
- Not throwing your or anyone elses litter from vehicles and also not tipping the contents of the ash tray on to the street.
- Returning wheeled bins back to their property as soon as possible after collection so the area can be mechanically swept the following working day.
- Taking pride and consider getting involved in or organising a community litter pick.
- Being a responsible dog owner and cleaning up after your dog, don’t leave the mess for someone to step in.
- Contacting the Customer Services Team on 01254 388 111 if you see anyone dumping rubbish.
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- Each day, the hand sweepers collect enough litter and rubbish to fill around 100 refuse sacks.
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Newborn falcons atop Sun Trust Plaza (AJC.com)
From the AJC.com:
Celebrity downtowners Kate and Spencer are parents again, maintaining their high style from their 53rd-story digs while Atlantans wonder from below how they live so well.
The secret? Fresh air, exercise and plenty of raw bird.
Kate and Spencer, two rare peregrine falcons named after film stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy for their long-running romance, have three new additions at their terrace dwelling high atop Sun Trust Plaza. Outside the 53rd-floor offices of McKenna Long & Aldridge, a large planter box containing several small bushes provides an ideal nesting site to raise their three young hatchlings. It is the fourth brood produced by the couple, which mate for life.
Peregrines historically nested on remote cliff sites throughout the Appalachians, but now, the birds increasingly find skyscrapers suitable habitat to hunt for food and raise young.
Because of eggshell thinning from pesticides and PCB poisoning, eastern populations of the peregrine were eliminated from the wild in the 1940s. The last known wild nest in Georgia was in Cloudland Canyon in the northwest corner of the state. Regulations on pesticides and protection of the birds have helped produce a slow comeback since they began being reintroduced nearly 40 years ago.
Since 1972, several hundred peregrines have been released across the eastern United States, including northeastern Georgia and even from the Georgia Power building.
The birds can be seen flying around Peachtree Street, gathering food — pigeons and unlucky songbirds — for their hatchlings. The public can also peek in for a live view.
A webcam, courtesy of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, The Garden Club of Georgia and McKenna, Long, & Aldridge LLP, gives a birds-eye view of the peregrines. Log on to www.georgiawildlife.com and click on “Nongame Animals & Plants.”


Some gig announcements from the last few days:
The Pixies started announcing some European shows yesterday and today, the news reaches that Irish gigs are included, specifically
13 July 2016 – Live at the Marquee, Cork
14 July 2016 – Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
Tickets on sale Monday 21 December at 9am, priced at €53+ fees from Ticketmaster.
Mike Patton, Tunde Adebimpe & Adam “Doseone” Drucker aka Nevermen have announced a gig at the Olympia Theatre on 15th February. Tickets are €35.50 + fees on sale now.
Shearwater will play Button Factory on Saturday 23rd February 2016.
Tickets €15+fees from Ticketmaster.
More Iveagh Gardens gigs?
The Max Richter Ensemble are playing National Concert Hall on Sunday May 29th. Tickets €35-€40 + fees on sale now.
He will be performing From Sleep, a new piece drawn from his eight-hour piece of music designed to send people to sleep (pillows not included). The other half of the concert will feature a performance of The Blue Notebooks, which Pitchfork described as ‘a gigantic beacon for composers searching for ways to introduce dance music’s visceral qualities into the classical sphere.’
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real (featuring Willie Nelson’s sons Lukas and Micah) will play will play The SSE Arena, Belfast on 7 June and 3Arena, Dublin on 8 June as part of the Rebel Content Tour. Tickets go on sale from €65-€80+fees Friday 18 December at 9am from all usual outlets.
And finally, if you’re looking for a Christmas present for yourself or someone else, some festivals are offering deals on early bird tickets including BARE in the Woods 2016, Knockanstockan, Body & Soul, Electric Picnic.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the cohost of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, event curator and producer of gigs, parties & events.


PEAPACK-GLADSTONE - Like the American writer Henry David Thoreau, Suellen Walsh-Rother marches to the beat of a different drummer.
Like Thoreau, she is a pacifist.
While many Somerset Hills residents observed the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, by attending memorial services last month, the 35-year-old mother of three took to the streets of Gladstone with signs advocating a non-violent approach to solving the world's ills.
Walsh-Rother is no soapbox doomsayer. A doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Fordham University, she says she simply believes it's time adults remembered what they were taught as children: To turn the other cheek.
"There has to be justice, but without violence," she said.
Like the rest of the nation, Walsh-Rother said she was horrified by last year's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But she was also upset by subsequent U.S. action in Afghanistan.
Wants Voice Heard
Her pacifism, especially after last Sept. 11, left her feeling isolated.
She said when she heard others crying out for retaliation, "I felt very alone."
She said she thought long and hard about how she was going to commemorate the attacks. Finally, she realized the best way was to stay in the twin borough "and let my voice be heard."
So it was she took to the streets on Wednesday, Sept. 11, for her version of a peace march, wearing a T-shirt that quoted another pacifist, Mahatma Gandhi: "It is possible to live in peace."
She was not alone. With her were daughters Sierra, 5, Olivia, 3, and son Jackson, 1; her husband, Bryant, a Jersey City broker who lost more than a dozen friends at the World Trade Center; and several local friends.
Together they sang songs and carried hand-made signs bearing such messages as "Teach our children peace," and "The world is in our hands."
One poster included the cover of a recent weekly magazine that bore a photo of Iraq's president Saddam Hussein and the question, "Are we ready for war?"
"No!" answered the poster.
'Air Of Hypocrisy'
To Walsh-Rother's surprise, the reaction she received from passing motorists was very supportive. "We got a lot of beeps and waves," she said.
It is not just terrorist attacks and wars that upset her. She is also concerned with the violence prevalent in children's entertainment.
"There's an air of hypocrisy," she said. "You teach children compassion and tolerance, but adults operate differently. Violence is advocated in our culture, including children's movies and games.
"Violence is so normalized in our society, that sometimes I want to scream, 'What path are we going down?' "
Walsh-Rother's demonstration of her pacifism did not stop with her Sept. 11 walk.
She wants to turn the fence surrounding her Pottersville Road home into a "Wall of Hope." It will, she said, be a place where children can post their pictures and thoughts about the world.
"I want it to be a place where all the children in the community can come and express themselves," she said.


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The host and creator of WireTap, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio show and podcast distributed in the U.S. by Public Radio International, announced Aug. 19 that the show is ending after 11 years on the air.
“The reasons for this are many, but the simplest way to put it is that 11 years is a long time to do something and it felt like time to try something new,” said Jonathan Goldstein in a farewell message to listeners. “The show has run longer than Seinfeld and All in the Family. It’s run longer than I, or anyone, could have ever imagined.”
According to Goldstein, WireTap will continue to air in the U.S. through June 2016 because of a broadcast schedule that is “slightly out of sync south of the border.”
“It’ll be a sendoff season featuring the best episodes from the past 11 years as well as episodes never before heard in the States,” Goldstein wrote. The show airs on 29 stations in the U.S., according to PRI.
WireTap’s Facebook page will continue to operate to let people discuss the shows and also “to let you know about new projects — and there are some exciting ones in store,” Goldstein said.
Goldstein offered no further details about those projects. But Gimlet Media tweeted that he has started working with the podcasting company.
We loved Wiretap – and we're VERY excited that the great @J_Goldstein is already at work on a new Gimlet project.
— Gimlet (@Gimletmedia) August 20, 2015
Launched by former This American Life producer Alex Blumberg, Gimlet has drawn a number of hosts and producers away from public radio. A quick look at Gimlet’s staff bios reveals that most of its staffers have experience in public radio.
A farewell video from WireTap has received nearly 10 million views on Facebook. A message at the end of the video says: “For the past 11 years it’s been an honour to have you listen in on us. These years have been a gift. But the time has come to hang up the phone.”
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I’m having a lot of difficulty just getting through recent days. I’ve been struggling this year with the stress of school and juggling everything that’s going on in my life now and from the past, from dealing with money issues, to addictions issues within my family, to being a nuisance to those that have taken me in, to simply maintaining relationships. I’m seeing a guy who’s too good for me in every which way, doesn’t come from an ugly past and doesn’t seem to been touched by the same kind of struggles. He deserves so much more than me or what I have to offer. I’m disgusted by the person I see and am, the person he knows nothing about and its been a constant from of worry. I’m constantly hating myself, hating who I am and what I am. I’m weighed down by the anxiety of doing anything socially because the nervousness and fear of judgement are all too overwhelming. I fear being picked on in class, when I even think of speaking I have to try my best to distract myself from the thought. When I am put in these situations I choke up, I can’t speak, my heart rate accelerates, I feel nausea, and I embarrass myself and become tormented by these things – no matter how small the incident may seem. My constant failures are on repeat in my head, I can’t get past my mistakes. My friends say it’s little and to not worry about it, and I know I overthink and I know they must be right, but I simply can’t stop even though I desperately want to. I want control. I recently found resolve in resorting to hurting myself, feeling I need the escape, no matter how short, and think I deserve the pain anyway. I haven’t in a long time, but I needed something to make the thoughts disappear for an instant. I don’t want to feel or be this way anymore, but I can’t help it and I can’t ignore it. I’ve tried and tried to act normal. But the thoughts reappear and I can’t stop the episodes from occurring.
I’m unsure of what to do anymore. But I think I’ve taken the first step in asking for help.

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Dr. Seri making a field visit
In early March, news agencies across the world reported about Bushra, a 19 year-old Syrian mother of two who fled her home in Homs, Syria to arrive in Tripoli, Lebanon. What was newsworthy about Bushra wasn't the bombs and bullets her family fled from, nor the crowded camp she now inhabited—these traits she shared with hundreds of thousands of other refugees around her. What was most newsworthy about Bushra's migration was that she was recorded by the United Nations as the one millionth refugee to flee Syria. One million—a number that has since and continues to grow by thousands more every single day.
In January of this year, a medical wing—owned and operated by Syria Relief and Development (SRD)—inside Akilah Hospital in Amman, Jordan recorded another number: 10,000, the number of refugee patients it has treated since first opening its doors in July 2012. Doctors at the medical wing have treated refugees suffering from diabetes, orthopedic injuries, seizures and a host of other physical ailments. SRD's doctors treat the scars of war and recognize that the physical are often easier to repair than the emotional.
But what all these numbers don't tell are the individual stories behind the pain and suffering. Stories like that of Maria, a 12 year-old girl from Daraa who was preparing her doll for a ritual bath when her house was shelled causing her young body to be crushed under the weight of her roof. Her father grabbed her frail injured body and fled to Jordan where she was treated at SRD's medical wing for seizures, fractures and facial swelling. And stories like that of Amna, a diabetic woman who suffered a stroke while fleeing Daraa and was treated at SRD's medical wing after being turned away from other hospitals due to lack of funds. And stories like that of Abu Feras, a man who was struck by bullets while delivering food to a neighbor and fled his home in Homs, arrived at SRD's medical wing and received surgery to repair his wounds.
At Syria Relief and Development, we have been touched by the faces behind the numbers and the stories of the people who left their homes and livelihoods to seek safety. What they brought with them was more important than what they left behind—those very faces and stories to be shared with the world. Our medical staff sees every day the physical and emotional pain that war brings. We see refugees often at their worst—and then, while healing from their physical and emotional trauma, we get to see them at their most resilient moments. They remind us every single day what a precious gift life is and how important it is to continue struggling for the right cause.
Dr. Seri Bakar is the Regional Director of Syria Relief and Development. His organization helps deliver supplies to medical facilities in conflict-affected areas of Syria.
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By GRAHAM HICKS
Of course we need laws, bylaws rules and regulations.
Their impartial administration and enforcement have made our country safe, secure and prosperous.
But lately, Canada has been plagued by over-zealous regulation, regulation piled upon regulation.
Regulation and rules that have little to do with encouraging entrepreneurship and wealth creation, everything to do with government as Big Brother, regulation for the sake of regulation.
We have become a society more concerned with regulation than prosperity!
When it comes to pipelines, an ultimate regulator — the Federal Court of Appeal — sided with a small group of protestors versus the economic well-being of the entire province of Alberta. How does that work?
Locally, over-zealous regulation has had severe, unforeseen consequences.
In late August, Alberta Health Services, as is its job, sent an environmental public health officer for a routine inspection of the Hyatt Place Hotel on Jasper Avenue, one block east of the Shaw Conference Centre.
Violations were noted – specifically the presence of pigeon feces in a semi-enclosed area where air-input units were situated.
Health inspectors have leeway when it comes to hotel and restaurant inspections. Violations are usually directly reported to the establishment, timelines are set, return visits are made to ensure violations have been corrected without public accusation.
In the Hyatt Place Edmonton’s case, this informal protocol was not followed.
The AHS Public Health branch, without notifying Hyatt Place owner Prem Singhmar or his staff, published a public “order of an executive officer”. It made the beautiful Hyatt Place sound like a fleabag hotel.
Unintended consequences: Because the AHS had gone public with the order, the pigeon poop issue came up as a news item on the CNN news network.
Safeguarding its own reputation, Hyatt Hotels immediately withdrew its brand from the hotel – along with its all-important reservations system and brand quality assurance for travelers.
There are always two sides to a story.
Singhmar, as is his right, has appealed this AHS order to the Alberta Health Services Appeal Board.
He may have grounds – the pigeon poop accusation may prove far less of a health issue than was originally portrayed. Several of the other complaints, he says, came from a misunderstanding of automated equipment. Others were so minor as to be near laughable.
Here’s the rub.
For years, the City of Edmonton had been trying to revitalize the downtown’s east end with a vision known as The Quarters. But no property developer wanted to take that first step, to build in a still run-down neighbourhood.
Hotelier Singhmar was the first to step up to the plate, and he did so spectacularly, having architect Gene Dub design the multi-angled, all-glass $55 million hotel with 223 rooms and 32 suites.
After three years of construction, Hyatt Place opened in the fall of 2016.
So far, due to both Alberta’s cool economy and the slow-developing neighbourhood, Hyatt Place is losing money. Singhmar says his other businesses are supporting it to the tune of some $400,000 a month. With the yanking of the Hyatt name, that figure will jump to $700,000. (The hotel, despite low occupancy rates, still pays $1.2 million a year in city property tax.)
It’s the overkill of the health order – the use of sledgehammer to kill a mosquito – that irks Singhmar.
Other downtown hoteliers I talked to agree. Most health inspections find infractions that are quickly and quietly corrected. Why was Hyatt Place treated so differently?
Singhmar, with four other Edmonton area hotels in his AUM Hotel Group, is considered a quality hotelier. None of his other hotels have ever been cited for public health violations.
I have written about Singhmar’s accomplishments before in this column — his coming to Canada in 1985 with nothing, building a business empire from scratch, his great interest in community building. As a philanthropist, he and his family have donated $6 to $7 million in cash, not promises, to such institutions as NorQuest College, Alberta Art Gallery, University of Alberta and the Citadel Theatre.
This is not a businessperson who would flout health and safety requirements for the sake of a few bucks.
I hope the appeal board rescinds the original public order. I hope Hyatt then reinstates its Hyatt Place branding on the hotel. But that horse may well have left the barn.
That (alleged) over-zealous regulation has caused such financial and reputational damage to an individual who has done so much for the city, that’s the real crime here.


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Coronavirus has infected 63% of a Freehold Township nursing home
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - Nearly two-thirds of the residents at a township nursing home have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the health care network that runs it.
Forty of the 64 residents at The Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center "have tested positive at various times," according to a prepared statement from Vince D'Elia, a spokesman for CentraState Healthcare System, which runs the facility.
"Those that are positive are segregated at the facility," D'Elia said.
Five Manor residents have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, and another five — including one hospice patient — have died at CentraState Medical Center, D'Elia said.
Twenty-three staff members have also tested positive for the respiratory virus and nine have recovered, according to CentraState. Three contract workers have also tested positive.
"The hospital continues to provide support to all residents through infection control, medical direction and environmental support," D'Elia said.
The extent of infection at the Manor was first reported by NJ.com.
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Call it a beautiful coincidence or what that our most loved and celebrated Jodi, Shahrukh Khan -Kajol, have been voted as the Most Romantic Onscreen Couple of Bollywood, according to a poll conducted by Sanona, the UK’s largest online Pay-Per-View Indian movie portal. While people across the world celebrate the ‘Day of Love’, our evergreen Dilwale Dhulaniya Le Jayenge Jodi is still the hot favorite among the movie lovers!
Their onscreen iconic romance and effortless chemistry seems to strike a chord with the fans, till date. And, evidently the duo stormed their way up to the poll leaving behind some of the most legendary onscreen pairs like Amitabh-Rekha, Dharmendra-Hema, Raj Kapoor-Nargis and Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh among others.
Ever since their pairing for the first time in Baazigar, the hit formula of SRK-Kajol continues to cast a romantic spell and has thus captivated the hearts of the millions. In fact, the industry experts feel that their onscreen pairing is a reason good enough for a film to do wonders at the box office. Their sizzling chemistry in movies like Dilwale Dhulaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam and My Name is Khan scorched the screen and won themselves immense fondness among fans across the world.
Way to go SRK-Kajol…you define romance like no other!


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Damar Jackson is a passionate, driven singer-songwriter-producer born and raised in DeRidder, LA. Jackson’s candor allows him to offer fans a level of honesty and vulnerability in his music rarely seen in today’s R&B. His debut single “Crazy,” in which he revisits the last days of the relationship that sustained him during his early years in Atlanta, is an emotional rollercoaster; both musically and lyrically. “We got to a point where she saw the success coming,” he explains, “but even though I thought we had been preparing for the late nights and work trips, it started driving her crazy.”
For more from Damar, you can check out his Ninety3Until project, which is also the home of his popular Big Fruit-produced single.


Rob Berkeley is an award-winning writer and movement-builder, academic researcher and social reformer. Rob currently plies his trade advising the BBC on accountability and audience engagement. Impatient with injustice and exasperated by wasted potential, he volunteers on the boards of Baring Foundation, Doc Society, and the Collaborate Foundation, has previously served on the boards of LGBT rights charity Stonewall, the Equality and Diversity Forum and the Oxford Access Scheme, and been Chair of Naz Project (NPL) and BGMAG. He was Director of the racial justice think-tank Runnymede Trust 2009-14, and now leads the editorial team of community journalism platform, BlkOutUK.com.
Working in strategy at the BBC enabled him to deliver strategic interventions to support change in policy and practice on citizen accountability, digital democracy, and the digital divide. His current interests lie in broadcasting and arts, disrupting power dynamics, capitalising on the potential of communications technologies for promoting justice and good governance, and building new coalitions for change.
Alongside his academic writing on education, social justice and community organising, he has presented and co-produced short form documentaries, lectured across the UK and beyond, and written for The Guardian and The Independent on social justice and movement-building. Dr. Berkeley was awarded an MBE in 2015 for services to equality.


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Penn State baseball (27-24, 13-8) completed a weekend sweep with a 3-2 victory over the Illinois Fighting Illini on Sunday afternoon. Thanks to the win, Penn State remains one-half game behind Indiana for second place in the Big Ten. Senior Jordan Steranka led the way with three hits, two of which were doubles and one of those doubles scoring senior Joey DeBernardis. Read full recap at GoPSUSports.com, watch our highlights now and get our Sunday roundup in this post.
INDIANA 2, NORTHWESTERN 1
Northwestern pushed across a run in the bottom of the ninth inning but had another called out at the plate as the Wildcats' late rally came up just short in their Big Ten finale Sunday, falling 2-1 to Indiana at Rocky Miller Park. Indiana pitcher Chad Martin stymied the Wildcats, allowing just five hits and one run in 8 1/3 innings. Read full recap at NUSports.com.
MICHIGAN 4, PURDUE 3
The University of Michigan baseball team used timely hitting and great pitching from the duo of junior Ben Ballantine and senior/junior Bobby Brosnahan in a 4-3 upset win at No. 15 Purdue on Sunday afternoon at Lambert Field. Read full recap at MGoBlue.com.
MICHIGAN STATE 7, IOWA 3
The University of Iowa baseball team lost 7-3 to Michigan State Sunday afternoon at McLane Stadium. Sunday was the rubber match of the weekend series after the Spartans won Friday (6-0) while Iowa won Saturday (2-1). Michigan State (33-17, 12-9) scored the first seven runs of the contest off Hawkeye starter Jarred Hippen. The Spartans tallied one run in the second, followed by three in the fifth, one in the sixth and two in the seventh. Read full recap at HawkeyeSports.com.
NEBRASKA 6, MINNESOTA 5
Behind three solo home runs, including back-to-back homers by Austin Darby and Kale Kiser in the second inning and a homer by Chad Christensen in the third, the Nebraska baseball team (32-19, 12-9 Big Ten) completed a sweep of the Minnesota Golden Gophers (28-23, 10-11 Big Ten) on Sunday afternoon at Hawks Field with a 6-5 win. Read full recap at Huskers.com.
OHIO STATE 7, SEATTLE 2
The Ohio State baseball team defeated Seattle, 7-2, Sunday on Senior Day at Nick Swisher Field at Bill Davis Stadium. Tim Wetzel, Ryan Cypret and Brad Hallberg each had two hits for the Buckeyes. John Kuchno allowed two earned runs over a career-high 7.0 innings pitched. The sophomore right-hander struck out a career-best seven batters to move to 8-3 on the season. Read the full recap at OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
Get the latest Big Ten baseball standings and Big Ten baseball statistics at BigTen.org.


I have it in a hollow knocked down frame door and it works without a problem. Cant say much about its range, I have a zwave outlet 2 ft away from the censor.
It shouldn’t matter much whether the door itself is metal or not, but what the door frame is made of. Per the instructions, the magnet goes in the door, and the sensor goes in the door frame.
I suspect this is for two reasons:
The door frame never moves, so you’re not jostling the sensitive electronics every time the door opens, closes, or slams, subjecting them to wear and tear, and possibly premature failure.
You’re more likely to have a wooden frame than a metal frame, even if you have a metal door. (Two of my doors are metal, but the frames are wood.)
I suspect that if you do mount the transmitter in metal, signal range would be pretty heavily affected.
I was finally thinking about picking up a few of these but they are a little harder to come by now (amazon doesn’t have them, SmartThings doesn’t sell them anymore but TheSmartestHouse still has them) but it’s got me wondering why they suddenly disappeared.
Has anyone who uses these have any comments to share on reliability, battery life, etc…?
Since SmartThings stocked these but no longer do, I’m wondering if they aren’t that great in general or some other reason why.
I’ve been using two since April 12 with no problems. I notice their price shot up. I bought mine for $19.55, but they shot up in price since then. One place is now selling it for over $130.00.
I definitely will buy more when they get back down to a reasonable price.
wish I bought some earlier. I didn’t realize they were removed from the smart store. can anyone comment on why they were removed? supply or reliability?
@urman Any idea why Aeon Labs Door/Window sensor is not an option in the drop down list anymore? I’ve had the recessed for a couple months and was troubleshooting tonight why I don’t get battery status. Found this an another thread that mention to change it to Aeon Labs Door/Window but I can’t find it in the drop down and I can’t seem to find any published groovy code for it.
If I recall, it basically became a mirror of Z-Wave Door/Window Sensor. So we rolled it into that.
I kinda wondered if that was the case, so I should contact support about the battery level not reporting?
I just bought two of these and paired them to my hub. Sadly it came in as a “Z-Wave Device” and doesn’t report any activity. The model number is ZW089-A. I tried to change the device type via the IDE but still no activity is reported. Can anyone help?
Assuming it is Gen 5
I’m having no luck adding the devices to ST. I Select to add the new device, then press the button on the sensor, led blinks three times, but device is not added. What am I missing?
Hub reset did the trick…devices added now.
Anybody monitoring this thread somehow set this up to monitor deadbolt status?
If you use the dashboard you can create a shortcut that will show closed/locked as one icon
Ok, can that magnet that’s being sensed fit over the end of the bolt in a deadbolt? I saw an instructable with an insteon sensor done as such. I wish I could see the device completely.
nope, just tried it 4321
Darn. I have a spacial problem with the deadbolt on my new back door, plus I don’t really need remote control. I just want to know if it’s locked. Any thing you’ve seen like that?
well you could maybe attach a open/close to the thumb turn that will register closed when locked. Might look silly. Even though you don’t need remote access in another thread it was mentioned that Target has schlage smart locks for $140, normally $200.
I guess the Camelot does have a smaller footprint. Maybe that would not interfere with the add on enclosed blinds I’m getting.
Same here. Was working fine and now won’t report any activity or open status. No battery level either.


THE U.S. Embassy has announced that applications are open for the 2021 Youth Ambassadors Programme (YAP) with the Caribbean. The programme for 2021 will be a five-week virtual programme and will be conducted in July and August.
Through the virtual exchange, participants will develop their leadership skills, strengthen their ability to serve their communities and foster relationships and mutual understanding among youth from different ethnic, religious, and national groups and create networks of youth leaders in the Western Hemisphere.
According to a release, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the YAP exchange programme is part of the U.S. continued commitment to the prosperity of Guyana and the Region.
During their exchange, high school students and adult educators from the Caribbean Region and the United States will explore themes such as civic education, leadership, cross-cultural connections, community service, and youth and social transformation through experiential learning activities; leadership trainings; civic participation at the community level; mentoring by community, business, and NGO leaders; and engaging with host families, and volunteering. Afterwards, students will develop and implement projects that serve the needs of their communities in the months that follow.
This programme is open to public high school students 15-18 years, with least one semester of high school remaining after August 2021 and is a current resident and citizen of Guyana.
“We encourage all interested students and mentors to visit the U.S. Embassy website at http://georgetown.usembassy.gov/yap.html for more information and applications. Applications deadline is April 12, 2021. To date, 56 students and 10 adult mentors have participated in Youth Ambassadors Programme for Guyana since September 2012,” the release concluded.


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Bob Saget has passed away at age 65. The Iconic comedian and actor was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando, FL.
“The Sheriff’s Department and the fire department responded to the hotel around 4 PM ET … after hotel security had found Bob in his room,” TMZ reports citing multiple sources.
“Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”
Saget’s most recent post on Facebook shows that he played last night in Jacksonville, FL.
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It says in Chapter 36 that the Church of Scientology is great for families.
Scientologists communicate more freely, raising "their capacity to love other people." Family bonds "strengthen dramatically." And church members "take deep pride in their record of resolving family problems and conflicts."
The words come from What is Scientology?, a volume the church first published in 1992 as it sought greater acceptance from a wary public. ...
If you are one of the thousands of Pinellas County families searching for a school for 2017-18, you have come to the right place.
Our annual "School Search" special section is built around the Jan. 4 start of the application period for magnet, fundamental and high school career programs in the Pinellas public school system.
But it also includes information on the upcoming kindergarten registration process for traditional public schools — as well as listings for private and charter schools. The latter two groups have application deadlines of their own, and will be offering open houses as well in the coming weeks....
The Charlotte Observer reports today that Clayton Wilcox, the former Pinellas County school superintedent, has landed his biggest job yet in education -- this time as the leader of the nation's 18th-largest school sytem. Wilcox has been hired as superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
He served as Pinellas superintendent from 2004 to 2008, becoming a change agent in the wake of Howard Hinesley's 14-year run as the district's leader. Many found Wilcox's candid style refreshing, a much-needed jolt for a district that had lost its mojo. But others saw him as arrogant and said he pushed too hard, too fast. When he left the district for a top job with Scholastic, he had three years left on his contract. Before taking the Charlotte job, he headed Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown, Md., a much smaller district with 22,000 students....
UPSWING: The Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg is bucking national trends with increasing enrollment, and its new school superintendent aims to keep it that way.
TESTING NEWS: A glitch involving the state's third-grade reading test at a Duval County elementary school puts at least one student in limbo, the Florida Times-Union reports....
Happy Fourth of July, dear readers. Our daily roundup of Florida education news will resume on Tuesday. But before we go, a few musings as this holiday weekend puts us about halfway through the very short summer of 2016.
The other day, we stumbled on this page, which contains a spreadsheet titled "2016-17 School District Calendars" published by the Florida Department of Education. It's accompanied by a summary, which says: “Students in 40 of the 75 school districts will begin the 2016-17 school year in Florida as early as August 10, 2016. There are 23 districts that will begin on August 15, 2016, with the latest start date on August 22, 2016.”...
DOWNGRADED: Educators across Florida are worried that school grades, due out this month, will be lower because of the state's new, tougher rating system, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The paper also reports on a new adult education center in South Apopka and salaries totaling nearly $220,000 for the Orange County school system's new media relations staff....
MEA CULPA: The University of South Florida fires the leader of its advertising and mass communications school and makes changes after an independent review uncovers a serious lapse in the hiring process.
AT ODDS: Emotions simmer as the St. Johns County School Board, working into Friday morning, sides with its administration during an impasse hearing. The district and teachers union are headed back to the bargaining table, the St. Augustine Record reports....
TAKING SHAPE: The University of Central Florida chooses a team to design and construct its $60 million campus in downtown Orlando, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
FLUBBED: Newly released documents shed more light on a testing mistake last month that caused more than 300 AP exams to be invalidated at Orange County's Lake Nona High School, the Orlando Sentinel reports....
Florida education news: Pinellas changes direction, Hillsborough shakes it up, Broward offers a big new benefit and more06/29/16 Blog
NEW FOCUS: Pinellas County school officials unveil a strategic plan that puts more emphasis on helping minority students.
FRESH START: In a milestone moment for his still-new administration, Hillsborough County school superintendent Jeff Eakins announces a major shake-up of the district's top leadership....
Florida education news: Fears of a contentious transgender debate, Alachua's new interim leader and more06/28/16 Blog
BACKING AWAY: The Hillsborough County School Board, citing fears of a contentious meeting, cancels a scheduled vote on adding protections for transgender students.
TEMPORARY FIX: The Alachua County School Board appoints a familiar face, Sandy Hollinger, to run the district until its finds a permanent superintendent to replace Owen Roberts, the Gainesville Sun reports....
Florida education news: A Best and Brightest development, search for an interim superintendent and more06/27/16 Blog
ANOTHER CHALLENGE: An attorney representing the state teachers union says the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating Florida's controversial Best and Brightest bonus plan, the Naples Daily News reports....
FULL SLATE: The school board races take shape in Duval County, where 12 candidates are running for four seats, the Florida Times-Union reports.
TEACHERS WANTED: Volusia County schools are in a hiring mode even as the teachers union is taking legal action against the district, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports....
OUT OF TIME: Pinellas County school officials make a late bid to absorb two troubled charters, but the numbers don't work in the end.
UPTICK: The Manatee County School Board prepares to expel a middle school student for bringing a BB gun to campus. That will make seven expulsions since August in a district where the last one before that was in 2009, the Bradenton Herald reports....
The Florida Board of Governors made it official today, formally designating the University of South Florida as the state's first “emerging preeminent state research university.”
The board's Strategic Planning Committee gave preliminary approval to the designation earlier this week....
Florida education news: A new chapter waits in Alachua, intriguing candidate in Leon, university performance pay and more06/23/16 Blog
FALL OUT: Uncertainty reigns in Alachua County, where the School Board will meet Monday to choose an interim leader after superintendent Owen Roberts resigns, the Gainesville Sun reports.
NEW WRINKLE: A controversial figure, former principal and whistleblower Woody Hildebrandt, enters the race for Leon County school superintendent, the Tallahassee Democrat reports....


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North-east food banks bending under weight of increased demand
Thursday January 9th 2020 at 10:58 AM
Food banks in the North-east are bending under the weight of increased pressure on their services.
Statistics published by A Menu for Change and the Independent Food Aid Network revealed 12 organisations in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire handed out 30,448 three-day emergency food parcels in just 18 months.
Scotland-wide, nearly 596,472 supply packages were distributed, an increase of 22%.
Data collated from independent food banks, which make up 42% of the total picture north of the border, has been combined with Trussell Trust figures to lay bare the full scale of usage.
Between April 2018 and September 2019, 278,258 emergency food parcels were distributed by 91 independent food banks in Scotland.
The Trussell Trust revealed a further 318,214 parcels were handed out by its network of 135 organisations.
Evan Adamson, Food Bank Manager at Instant Neighbour in Aberdeen said: “More and more people across the city and shire are unable to make ends meet because of inadequate and insecure incomes.
“This new data shows how much independent food banks are relied on to support people in need in Scotland.
“It’s not right that anyone in Scotland should be forced to turn to a food bank to put a meal on the table.
“We need the Scottish and UK governments to make sure everyone has enough income to cover the basic cost of living, which means decent wages and adequate benefits.”
A Menu for Change, the partnership between Oxfam Scotland, Nourish Scotland, the Poverty Alliance and the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, has teamed up with the Independent Food Aid Network to call on the UK government to ensure people don’t end up in food insecurity.
Last year, research revealed how inadequate and insecure incomes, from both benefits and employment, are causing people to fall below the read line.
Margaret MacLachlan, Project Manager, A Menu for Change said: “As we start a new decade, the relentless pressures forcing people to need emergency food aid continues. These figures are deeply troubling and reveal a grim picture of rising levels of food insecurity in Scotland.
“No one in rich Scotland should run out of money to buy food and political leaders must act now to prevent more people being dragged into poverty.”


By Conrad Egbert
200 labourers demand more holidays and more increments
A row has erupted between Abu Dhabi-based Airlines Contracting and General Maintenance Company, and 200 of its employees.
The workers are demanding longer holidays and pay increases which the company says it cannot meet.
The company has accused the workers of making unfeasible demands.
The accusation came to light when 200 labourers lodged a complaint with the labour authorities, claiming they haven’t been paid for three months.
Francis Bosco, the general secretary of the company, said that some of the workers have complained to the Ministry of Labour in order to get the company to accept their demands.
“A group of labourers have made demands which we cannot meet,” Bosco told Construction Week.
“They drafted out a list with their signatures. One of the demands was that if any worker intends to go on leave after one year of service, he should be allowed to take three months off. Another demand was that if a worker asks for emergency leave, he should be granted two months off and AED1000 paid to him in advance.”
Bosco said he took the demand letter to the Ministry of Labour who said that the demands did not have any basis in the local labour law.
“We have never defaulted in paying their salaries. We provide accommodation and pay them incentives and overtime as well. We have records and certified accounts from the Ministry of Labour to prove our case. We are a ten-year-old local company and we’ve never had any problems with our labour before,” added Bosco.
He also claimed that the Ministry of Labour has asked for the names of those workers. “The Ministry of Labour has said that it would have no problem issuing visas for new recruits if it cancels the visas of the employees in question. This move was not initiated by the company, but by the Labour department,” said Bosco.
The workers who were involved in the row were unavailable for comment.


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“The new look has been rolled out over the past few weeks and centres around a word mark with contrasting bold and light typefaces. Base says the contrast ‘pays homage to the history and provenance of the district while capturing the renaissance currently taking place in the neighbourhood.’” — Rachael Steven, Creative Review
The typefaces are Platform, a recent exploration of basic geometric forms by Berton Hasebe, and Romana, a German design rooted in 19th-century Oldstyle type from France. The two faces are clear contrasts between modern and traditional, as well as mechanical and human. Romana was a good choice for the serif side because its high-waisted ‘G’ and long-legged ‘R’ are distinctive shapes, emphasizing the difference between hand-wrought letters and the cold, crude geometry of Platform.
The Meatpacking District website is especially inventive with the split-personality identity. Each side is a column of content that scrolls independently. Webfont versions of Platform (from Commercial Type) and Romana (from Elsner+Flake) are used for headlines, nav, and pullquotes. The text is set in Arial.
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