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Association of Certified Digital Accounting Professionals (ACDAP) qualifications and training programmes has already started bringing awareness of MTD to its students, professionals and all type of businesses in early 2018 by keeping in view Making Tax Digital (MTD) becoming mandatory for VAT from 1 April 2019. ACDAP has designed and created structured qualifications to learn the skill set about MTD.
ACDAP qualifications are internationally recognised, meeting the needs of employers, government and learners, both now and in the future for the purpose of the digitisation of accounts. ACDAP qualifications equip learners with real work scenarios for all accounting practices including digital accountancy & the MTD.
It is specially focused for those who are not only looking to learn different type of accounting software such as Sage, QuickBooks, SAP, SAPA, SAGE Compliance, Excel, Xero and Sage One but also want to implement at their workplace keeping in mind the guideline by the HMRC. Having a thorough knowledge of MTD is very vital for those businesses who are already VAT registered and who are going to be registered for VAT in 2019. Several VAT registered businesses are exempted from MTD because of their revenue and some will need to claim exemption from MTD. ACDAP dissemination is focused to the following key parameters.
The businesses having annual revenue upto £85,000 are automatically exempted from the MTD, even they are VAT registered. The VAT notice on MTD (Notice 700/22) is confusing on this point, which mentions “Only businesses with taxable turnover that has never exceeded the VAT registration threshold (currently £85,000) will be exempt from Making Tax Digital.” This is not right, as the turnover test for MTD comes into effect on 1 April 2019, requires the business to measure its taxable turnover for 12 months ending with the last complete month, which on 1 April 2019 will be 12 months to 31 March 2019. The level of turnover recorded for earlier years is not relevant.
Andrew is VAT registered because his taxable turnover in 2013 was £80,000, when the VAT registration threshold was £79,000. If Andrew’s annual turnover is £80,000 at 1 April 2019 and he is still VAT registered, he doesn’t have to comply with MTD. Andrew can continue to submit his VAT returns as he does now, either by inserting the figures into the online form (the HMRC portal) manually, or through his accounting software.
It means VAT-able supplies, which are all sales subject to VAT including zero-rated sales, but not exempt sales. For both the VAT registration test and the MTD entry test, the business must keep an eye on its taxable turnover for the last 12 months. However, for MTD entry there is no forward-looking test of the value of supplies to be made in the next 30 days.
Analysis of turnover
If a business has registered for VAT voluntarily and its turnover is under £85,000, it will have to examine its aggregate turnover every month, for the last 12 month period, to see if it must comply with the MTD rules from the beginning of its next VAT period. Once a business has been required to enter MTD due to its turnover being above the VAT threshold, it cannot opt-out again while it is VAT registered. The business will only be able to leave MTD if it deregisters for VAT.The requirement to join MTD is based on the VAT registration turnover threshold, which has been frozen at £85,000 until at least April 2020. If the VAT registration threshold is reduced in future, more businesses will be drawn into MTD.
How to claim exemption
Owners of the business who wish to claim exemption from MTD on the basis of the owner’s religion, insolvency of the business, or because it is not reasonably practical for the owners to use digital tools to keep business records, must call the HMRC VAT helpline.
HMRC is planning to write a letter to all the VAT registered businesses who it thinks will be required to comply with MTD. The recipients of that letter are likely to be chosen based on their turnover reported in VAT returns for the last year. You should contact those clients before this letter arrives on their desk.
How ACDAP communicated
ACDAP have communicated to its training provider and students/clients through all channels, HMRC has also prepared a communications pack for accountants to use as raw material when writing or speaking to clients about MTD. There is no indication that HMRC will run an advertising campaign about MTD, so it will be up to you get awareness about this major change in how VAT must be reported.

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Researchers have uncovered a new banking malware variant that they say is notable not only for the hefty prices its authors are demanding, but also because the malware has been coded from scratch -- a dangerous oddity in the world of malware development.
In a blog post this week, RSA's FraudAction team detailed the malware finding, dubbed Pandemiya, which they said is being sold on underground malware sites for between $1,500 and $2,000 dollars, depending on the functionality a buyer desires.
Pandemiya is a typical malware banking variant in many ways. It is capable of stealing form data and login credentials, as well as enabling attackers to inject malicious webpages into the three major Web browsers to gather further information on victims.
Communications between machines infected by Pandemiya and a botnet are also encrypted, according to RSA, and the modular nature of the malware means it is "quite easy to expand and add functionality" to via DLL plug-ins -- some of which are made available for a higher price, including a reverse proxy and an FTP login stealer.
What sets Pandemiya apart is that it's not based on the Zeus source code, which was leaked online in 2011 and has since been the favorite base code for exploit authors to craft numerous variants of the infamous banking malware, including Citadel, Carberp and Zberp.

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Who's worse? Detroit Tigers crushed by Chicago White Sox, 17-7
Following a 1-5 road trip, the Detroit Tigers came back to Comerica Park looking for relief as they began their final home stand of the season.
Not so fast.
The Tigers gave up a season-high 17 runs and 25 hits to the worst team in the American League in a 17-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday afternoon.
“Games like today happen when you get pummeled,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.
The Tigers (60-86) trailed 2-0 before Miguel Cabrera and Nick Castellanos hit back-to-back home runs in the third inning. Castellanos extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single and finished 2-for-4.
Jeimer Candelario went 2-for-4 and hit his first home run as a Tiger. Candelario is hitting .356 (16-for-45) with five doubles, a home run and four RBIs in 13 games as a Tiger.
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Ian Kinsler added a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth. Efren Navarro hit a two-out triple to right-center and scored on a wild pitch from lefty David Holmberg.
“It’s good to take away positives because these type of games can be real downers,” Ausmus said.
Avisail Garcia did a lot of damage against his old club. He hit a three-run home run off Jeff Ferrell in the sixth inning and finished 5-for-5 with seven RBIs and two runs scored.
The Tigers extended their losing streak to six games and are 2-12 this month. They have allowed 16 runs or more three times this season. They were outhit, 25-12.
The Tigers haven't allowed that many hits in a game since a 26-5 loss to the Kansas City Royals in the first game of a doubleheader on Sept. 9, 2014. The Tigers were outhit 26-10 in that game.
Detroit has 10 more home games left this season before finishing the season on the road at Kansas City and Minnesota.
Lefty Chad Bell allowed six runs on nine hits over 3 1/3 innings for the Tigers. He walked one struck out four. Righty Warwick Saupold allowed three runs on four hits over 1 2/3 innings of relief.
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Joe Jimenez continued his struggles, allowing three runs on three hits and a walk over one-third of an inning.
Victor Alcantara allowed three hits on four hits and a walk in an inning of relief. Closer Shane Greene also gave up a run, pitching for the first time since Sept. 8. Green allowed two hits and two walks over two-thirds of an inning. He gave up a two-out, bases-loaded walk to Nicky Delmonico to put the White Sox ahead, 17-5. Lefty Blaine Hardy replaced Greene and struck out Rymer Liriano.
The first five hitters for the White Sox (59-87) finished with at least three hits each, and combined to go 19-for-27.
Seven players had multi-hit games for the White Sox. Yoan Moncada finished 4-for-5 with two walks, an RBI and five runs scored. He hit a solo home run as part of a two-run first inning for the White Sox. Jose Abreu finished 4-for-5 with two RBIs and three runs scored and Tim Anderson was 3-for-7 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
With the game tied 2-2, the White Sox scored four runs in the fourth, then four in the sixth, three runs apiece in the seventh and eighth innings and one in the ninth.
James Shields allowed four runs on nine hits over six innings for the White Sox. He walked one and struck out seven.
Bell said it was unacceptable for the Tigers to lose when they scored seven runs in a game.
“I was able to locate fastballs down and away, but didn’t get in enough,” Bell said. “Think I went in three or four times, maybe. Just let them get too comfortable. That falls into stuff later in the game that just puts our guys in bad position, guys that gotta come in after me."
The White Sox tied a club record with 21 singles. The 25 hits were the moost in a game since they hit 26 against the Baltimore Orioles on April 23, 1981.
Bell said he was missing on the few times he went inside and was locating the two-seamer down-and-away enough to get into good counts.
“Regardless of how efficient you’re getting in there, I gotta get in there more,” Bell said. “Make them a little uncomfortable.”
Bell said his changeup, which he has relied on as both a reliever and starter, “just wasn’t that good today.”
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The road to the park ended with a final push through the aggressive and annoying local, officially “authorized” national park tour guides. Standing in the middle of the road, they tried to coerce us into the best parking spot five bucks could buy. A push of the button, and the window was down. Greetings in Spanish threw them a little, and when I said that I wanted to move on down the road and have a look around, they weren’t too pleased.
A few minutes later we figured things out a little and parked at the end of the hiking trail. The sun was high and blazing hot at ten in the morning as we walked past stalls selling tourist-demanded beachy attire and tie-dyed stuff, along with some shells and Pura Vida this and that. The gate to the park was closed. People stood by it waiting to be allowed in, as the park allows so many visitors at a time to walk through the tropical lowland broad-leaf forest.
We were hoping to see lots of wildlife. Manuel Antonio National Park is reputed to offer many a life-list critter. More than anything, we wanted to see sloths. For me, they live a dream existence: slow and easy, and needing only to come down from the treetops once a week to take a poop and pee.
The gate opened to the words of “only 20 are allowed in right now.” He said that in Espanol, which is likely why there wasn’t a big push. We squeezed on through and paid our ten dollar entry fee.
Five minutes into the walk, we had our sloth sighting:
The sloth played around in the canopy, and then started moving down towards the ground:
“Holy shit! I think he’s coming down to take a dump!”
Next thing we know, the sloth didn’t live up to it’s “lazy bear” Spanish translation. It was moving fast in the direction of terra firma.
Before long he was off the vine and disappeared from my vantage point. I figured I’d let him dump out in peace.
We walked on. Three hours later, as we ended our hike, we recounted seeing five sloths. In fact, at one point, as a gob of humans gawked at a sloth, I passed on by saying, “Ah…another sloth.”

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These days, it seems like there are two types of comedy film. Films produced or directed by Judd Apatow, and films staring Will Ferrel. So it’s nice to see that Ben Stiller’s new film, the comedy Tropic Thunder has little to no link to either of these guys. Things are getting a little bit repetitive, so comedy needs something else. Parody is a staple of comedy. And war films are ripe for parody. Yet few films tackle this. Stiller does, and manages to create something genuinely funny.
Tugg Speedman is a Hollywood superstar. However, his career is on a bit of a decline, especially after the spectacular failure of his attempt at serious acting, the film Simple Jack. Attempting to reignite his career, Speedman takes the lead in ‘the most expensive war movie ever made,’ Tropic Thunder. He is joined by obnoxious fart comedian, Jeff Portnoy and five time Oscar winner, Kirk Lazarus. However, once filming begins, it immediately spirals out of control as the actors’ egos clash and director, Damien Cockburn loses control of the production. In a final attempt to get the best out of his actors, Cockburn drops his cast into the middle of the jungle. However, things get worse when it becomes clear that the cast are unknowingly in the proximity of a heavily armed drugs gang.
In Tropic Thunder, co-writer and director Stiller has created quite an attack on the film industry. Actors, agents, directors, everyone comes under fire. He launched a similar attack on the model industry in 2001 with Zoolander. But the film isn’t cynical or cutting. Instead, it’s more like a cartoon version of the industry, albeit with gore and gratuitous bad language. The film received a bit of flack over the Kirk Lazarus character who has skin pigment alteration in order to play the platoon sergeant, Lincoln Osiris. But it’s a parody. It’s not serious. It pokes fun at itself and the type of actor who immerses him or herself a little too much into their role. So these complaints are ridiculous. And besides, it’s a comedy. And a damn funny one at that.
Stiller, who co-wrote the film with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen creates one of the most memorable comedy characters in Kirk Lazarus. Robert Downey Jnr.’s performance is spot on. His character is so lost in the role that he cant snap out of it when it’s clear things have gone absolutely pear shaped. It’s Downey Jnr., and a stunningly hilarious cameo by Tom Cruise of all people that are the outstanding things about Tropic Thunder. The dialogue is hilarious, and the parodies are subtle but handled brilliantly. Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, and a great many other films are lampooned but in a way that makes sense in the context of the film. It’s not like everything stops to go ‘hey, look! We’re poking fun at... (insert pop-culture reference here)’ It’s something that talentless hacks like Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg have no idea how to do.
The performances from everyone are very good. Steve Coogan is his usual brilliant self, but his role is unfortunately quite small. Playing the man who wrote the book the film Tropic Thunder (the film in the film) is based on is crazy Nick Nolte. Nolte is madness personified, and adds a great edge to proceedings. The trio of movie stars are also great parodies in themselves. Stiller doesn’t lose any points in playing Tugg Speedman. He’s not preoccupied with directing and is very funny in the role. And Jack Black had the drug-addled Jeff Portnoy nailed. But like I’ve said before, it’s Robert Downey Jnr. and Tom Cruise who steal the show. It’s just a shame we don’t get to see more comedy from Tom Cruise. His reputation as someone a little bit eccentric just adds to the role. Hell, the film even makes Matthew McConaughey look like a great actor.
Tropic Thunder does lose a little steam in the middle of the film. But the opening is relentlessly funny and the laugh count does drop, but things are still very amusing. Sure, Tropic Thunder won’t win awards. But it’s a brilliant parody and a very funny comedy. And it almost makes me forgive Stiller for the dreadful Night At The Museum.

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With the natural progression of binary options trading toward using sophisticated software and effectively taking advantage of the benefits that presents, many traders seek more info on the subject.
As binary options trading became rather popular in South Africa, and with more traders joining in this online trading venture, trading software is a sought-after product.
Fintech Limited software – South Africa certainly made its mark from the moment it appeared on the market in 2013 and it slowly but steadily developed into a recognisable and popular binary options trading solution.
Even more so when it became known that this trading software can be used by beginners and professional traders alike.
Fintech Limited Software – South Africa
What traders get with Fintech Limited software – South Africa is a binary trading solution which is governed by extraordinary fast and innovative algorithms. These algorithms scan the market around the clock in order to find trades which could be the most profitable for all registered South African traders.
For traders to get started with Fintech Limited software – South Africa, a simple and straightforward procedure is required. Traders need to provide their personal name and email address to be able to access the trading platform. As is often the case with binary options trading software, Fintech Limited software – South Africa is free. Once traders register on their platform and make the deposit they will be able to use this advanced solution.
The deposit is made through the Fintech Limited platform with one of the brokers connected with this trading software. In most cases, the deposit is $250. Traders may use a variety of currencies to make a deposit GBP, USD, EUR, RUB, ZAR, BRL, JPY, AUD and CAD.
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Fintech Limited Software Trading Features
Fintech Limited software – South Africa is a free binary options trading solution which relies on trading signals. The trading signals are creating by its powerful algorithm which scrutinises the market circumstances 24/7 gathering valuable information.
The fact that trading solutions like Fintech save traders’ time and offer a possibility of making attractive profits is the reason why they have become so popular. Traders do not have to spend prolonged periods of time following the market in order to make the right decision when it comes to placing trades.
Instead, traders adjust the Fintech Limited software – South Africa simply adjust the settings according to their wishes and the trading system will take over from there. Additionally, South Africans may choose between the manual and automated mode of trading. The second choice might be more suitable for inexperienced traders.
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With Fintech Limited software – South Africa, even those traders who are not experts when it comes to trading may secure great profits as the advanced algorithm does all the hard work for them.


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Primary Care Networks
Since the NHS was created in 1948, the population has grown and people are living longer. Many people are living with long term conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, or suffer with mental health issues and may need to access their local health services more often.
To meet these needs, practices have begun working together and with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas in primary care networks.
Primary care networks build on the core of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care.
Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively care for the people and communities they serve. Where emerging primary care networks are in place in parts of the country, there are clear benefits for patients and clinicians.
Our Primary Care Network - Healthwest
Our Primary Care Network is called Healthwest. The four practices that comprise our network are Pembroke Road Surgery, The Family Practice, The Student Health Service and Whiteladies Health Centre. Our network covers nearly 70,000 patients located in Stoke Bishop, Bishopston, Henleaze, Redland, Clifton, Hotwells and Cotham.
Our Primary Care Network staff include Will Shipp (Social Prescriber) and Laura Postelnieu (Clinical Pharmacist).
Our Mission Statement
We wish to offer patient centred healthcare which is high quality, cost-effective and fully integrated with our local partners to ensure a sustainable health service for our local community.
The vision we hold at Healthwest is to be:
- Working with our patients to provide individualised, responsive care.
- Working with our staff to create an environment that encourages continual improvement and innovation
- Working with other health and social care providers to enhance the health and wellbeing of our community.
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Song Premiere: Assembly of Dust - "Mrs. What You Are"
Americana rock band Assembly of Dust recently announced forthcoming album Sun Shot.
The release, due out on Feb. 26, is the result of a decade of building musical chemistry as a band and feature the nostalgic feel and heartened songwriting that fans have come to expect.
You can preview a song from the album, “Mrs. What You Are,” in the player below.


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The not-so-boring show with a name that says otherwise is back, and it’s bringing the team with it!
The latest issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Dragon Age confirmed that the staff from Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend will return to work on the sequel. The news was accompanied by an interview with series creator Fumiaki Maruto and illustrator Kurehito Misaki.
Series director Kanta Kamei (Bunny Drop, Dimension W) will again helm the series at A-1 Pictures, with Tomoaki Takase designing characters. Series creator Fumiaki Maruto (Classroom Crisis, White Album 2) is back in the writer’s chair, tasked with tackling the screenplay. Hajime Hyakkoku (Gugure! Kokkuri-san, K-ON!) will provide the soundtrack.
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend is based on Fumiaki Maruto and Kurehito Misaki’s light novel series, Saenai Heroine no Sodate-kata. The series aired in the Winter 2015 broadcast season. Aniplex of America currently holds the domestic rights to the series, which is also available in its entirety on Crunchyroll and Hulu.
Source: Anime News Network


Islamabad, December 29, 2021 (PPI-OT):Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on E-Commerce Senator Aon Abbas Buppi called on Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad. Matters pertaining to e-commerce and e-commerce University were discussed in the meeting. Holding of a conference of free lancers also figured in the meeting.
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Despite a recent high-profile recall, General Motors (GM) announced that it is expecting a record sales year for the Chevy Bolt EV.
Here are the Details About the Chevy Bolt EV sales
- GM previously recalled more than 140,000 Chevy Bolt EVs due to the risk of the battery catching fire
- However, the car manufacturer also said that Chevy Bolt EV sales can rebound
- GM recently restarted production and shipments of the Chevy Bolt EV
- GM also released a larger “EUV” version earlier this week
According to CNBC, General Motors said it expects sales of its Chevy Bolt EV to rebound after the automaker recalled more than 140,000 of the vehicle. This was due to several vehicles catching on fire. The car company also released a bigger model of the vehicle, EUV.
Speaking about the car sales rebound, Steve Majoros, Vice President of Chevrolet marketing, stated, “We see a record number of sales and production for ’22. And we see ’23 being bigger than ’22. We are bullish on both EV and EUV.”
Majoros also said that GM will attempt to relaunch the Bolt models to Americans starting on Thursday (April 7th). It will also release a new national television campaign for the cars. “We think we have a lot of interest and awareness for this. I think it’s going to continue with our advertising efforts.”
The media outlet further revealed that the Chevy Bolt EV went on sale in December of 2016. The EUV version of the vehicle was released prior to the major recall. The Bolt nameplates achieved record sales of nearly 25,000 units in 2021.
GM President Previously Declared the Car Brand Wants to Put Everyone in an EV
In 2021, GM President Mark Reuss spoke about the release of the Bolt EUVs. “We want to put everyone in an EV. And the new Bolt EUV and redesigned Bolt EV are crucial to doing so. Together, they enable mainstream customers to be part of our vision of zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.”
At the time, Phil Zak, Executive Design Director for Chevy, spoke about the design of both vehicles. “The new Bolt EUV and Bolt EV build on our bold and athletic Chevrolet SUV design themes. But are executed in a uniquely electric way. These two designs feature excellent proportions and tech-focused interiors. With more premium materials. Which are key to EV portfolio.”
Several months after the recall, GM spokesman Kevin Kelly announced that production of the Bolt EV and EUV has officially resumed. “We’re excited to have The Bolt EV/EUV back in the market.”
The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV are in production at the GM Orion Assembly plant. It was noted that the automaker and LG Energy Solution were able to identify two battery manufacturing issues which were a torn anode tab and folded separator. GM confirms 18 Bolt fires globally.


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IN REVIEW: 6/04-18/04
From the Basement to the Penthouse!
Our congratulations to the Irish Men’s 7s squad who secured their World Series status by claiming outright victory in the World Series Sevens Qualifier tournament in Hong Kong!
A 28-7 win over the hosts followed a tight semi-final win over Germany, means that Ireland will compete at the elite stage in 2020 having narrowly missed out last year.
The Business of Rugby
Starting your own company can be a daunting venture, but an extremely exciting one! This was something that all of our members in attendance took from our Entrepreneurship and Networking Event that was held at the InterContinental Hotel in Dublin.
A most sincere thank you to current Irish women’s international Sene Naoupu and former players Barry O’Mahony, Darragh Fanning and VitHit founder Gary Lavin for their honest insights which were drawn out by Mick Kearney!
TYF 2.0 takes flight!
Earlier this week we were delighted to welcome Gary Shaugnessy, Chair of the Z Zurich Foundation, to Ireland. Over 7 years, the Z Zurich Foundation has committed to invest up to €4million to bring the Tackle Your Feelings campaign to life in Ireland. This is the first local grant that the Z Zurich Foundation has made in Ireland, and a first of its kind for the Foundation.
Phase Two of Tackle Your Feelings, a mental wellbeing campaign run by Rugby Players Ireland in partnership with Zurich, will see the initiative engage with senior cycle schools and corporate programmes.
Union Cup 2019
Europe’s largest LGBT inclusive rugby tournament will take place at Dublin City University from June 7-9 later this year. In all, 45 teams from 15 countries will contest the Union Cup which was launched by our members Lindsay Peat and Gordon D’Arcy with international referee Nigel Owens.
Out and About
As ever, our members were busy over the past fortnight.
It was all hands on deck for Ian Nagle, Matthew Rea, Craig Gilroy, Stuart McCloskey, Kyle McCall and Will Addison at the Marie Curie Hospice in Belfast. While full of chat, there were also plenty of DIY jobs for doing at the facility!
Meanwhile, at Dogs Trust Ballymena, Northern Ireland’s only rehoming centre, John Andrew, Alan O’Connor, James Hume, Greg Jones, Tom O’Toole and Marty Moore spent at afternoon with new friends who are deserving of a great home!
In Dublin, members of the Leinster Rugby squad put their cooking skills to the test with the Dublin Cookery School in Blackrock. Some budding chefs were unearthed, while we found that others were not so adept in the kitchen!
Finally, in Limerick Sammy Arnold has been urging people to give blood, revealing that his sister receives regular donations for a rare genetic disorder.
Fresh from leading Railway Union into the AIL Final for the first time in the club’s history, qualified physiotherapist, medical student and Irish XVs and 7s player Claire Keohane spoke to us about how she is putting her Goodbody Rugby Players Ireland Personal Development Bursary to use!
Comings & Goings
This time of year can often prove to be a difficult period as players and their clubs cast their eyes on the future.
Unfortunately, Munster’s Ronan O’Mahony and Connacht Rugby duo Eoin Griffin and Conor McKeon were all forced to announce their respective retirements owing to injury. Incidentally, both Griffin and McKeon were Rugby Players Ireland representatives at different stages during their careers.
Ronan, Eoin and Conor can all attest to the fact that going out on your own terms is a fate that doesn’t always befall our players. Irish and Ulster Rugby captain Rory Best acknowledged this as he announced that he will be retiring following the Rugby World Cup in Japan later this year. Following 15 years years at the highest level of the game, Best has had a profound impact on the game in Ireland.
We wish all well as they seek out a new direction in their lives!
While a number of players will be departing Galway at the season’s end, several players have committed their futures to the province. Our congratulations to Tom Daly, Shane Delahunt, Stephen Fitzgerald, Angus Lloyd and Peter Robb, while Academy members Matt Burke, Conor Fitzgerald and Conor Kenny have also signed their first professional contracts.
A Fond Farewell
At the beginning of the month we said goodbye to Nancy Chillingworth. Having joined Rugby Players Ireland in January 2017, Nancy worked closely with our members in the women’s programme. We wish her well as she undertakes her new role as the Performance Manager with the Olympic Federation of Ireland.Back to News


Chad Ochocinco Johnson boasts a net worth of $15 million in 2021. His accumulated salary is $46.678 million over 11 seasons in the NFL, playing mostly for Cincinnati Bengals.
Playing exactly 11 seasons of NFL (National Football League), Chad Ochocinco is one of the well-known athletes.
Ochocinco, who is in a relationship with Sharelle Rosado, is an American football wide receiver who has dedicated many years of his life to the football ground. Moreover, Ochocinco played football even in his college years as well as in the university.
With his exceptional football skills, the former football player, Chad has received a total of five awards. These awards not only made his hard work worth it but also added more recognition to his career.
No doubt, his investment in football was advantageous and today, Chad's net worth is really high making him one of the wealthiest personalities.
Chad Ochocinco 2021: Net Worth of $15 Million and Overall Salary of $49 Million
Born on 9th January 1978 in Miami, Florida, Chad Ochocinco Johnson was a normal person until his passion for football developed extremely high and thus, made him a well-known footballer.
While Chad was just confined to playing football in his college years, in 2001, tables had turned around, and yes, it brought an exciting turnover to Chad's career.
Chad Ochocinco was selected by Cinncinati Bengals for the second draft of the NFL. By choosing Chad for NFL, not only did they get the most talented footballer but also gave rise to Chad's life.
This is discernible that playing in the NFL brings a huge amount of money, and undoubtedly, Chad's net worth was more than sufficient to provide him with a luxurious life. It has been claimed that Chad received a total salary of $46.678 million over 11 seasons in his NFL years.
Apart from playing for the NFL, Chad Ochocinco's career is spread to different sectors. From running his own reality dating show, Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch to developing an iPhone game, Mad Chad, Chad makes money from many sources.
The amalgamation of Chad's salary is likely high, and unquestionably, Chad comes under one of the wealthiest personalities.
Summing up money and net worth from all the several sources, it has been estimated that Chad's net worth in 2021 is $15 million while his accumulated salary throughout his career is close to $49 million.
Is Chad Ochocinco in the Hall of Fame?
The Cinncinati Bengals always undergo perplexity when it's about the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame comprises outstanding personalities in the field, from coaches to players.
In 2021, the eminent former footballer, Chad Ochocinco has been of concern. People are curious to know if the wealthy footballer, Chad, will be in the Hall of Fame. What do you think? Will Chad get the opportunity to be a Hall of Famer?
Ending everyone's curiosity, the Hall announced with the 122 Hall of Famers that Chad Ochocinco will be one of them. Being a Hall of Famer will quintessentially aid Chad in increasing his fame as well as his net worth.


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Cliff Bleszinski is no stranger to mainstream gaming. While at Epic Games he worked on some of the biggest franchises at that company and most famously worked on Gears of War. Having left Epic in 2012, he has been working on his projects. Now his new studio Boss Key Productions and Nexon have announced LawBreakers.
Lawbreakers will be a free-to-play first-person shooter, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Taking place after an event known as “The Shattering”, an event that caused the moon to split. Players will choose a faction, the “Breakers” gangs born out of the turmoil or enforcers, upholding the law in this desolate world.
The game will be built around the concepts of “Gangs, Guns and Gravity”. As one would expect there will be the usual assortment of armaments, but in a unique move half the playable characters as female.
With so many games focusing on the male characters, it is nice to see a level of diversity. Especially with a free-to-play experience, it only helps to make the game more accessible to a wider audience. If this proves successful, I hope to see more titles picking up this concept.

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Harry Styles : Top 15 Things He Wants You To Know
Harry Edward Styles
Born on the 1st February 1994. Raised in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire, England. Worked as a part-time baker before auditioning as a contestant on the X Factor talent show in 2010. He was eliminated as a solo artist. It's here he believes he would've carried on his A-Level education and still been working at the bakery, but that's not what happened.
The X Factor
Enter Nicole Scherzinger, who suggests bunching some of the eliminated boys together and sending them through as a group.
Harry comes up with the name One Direction and they finish third in the final of the 2010 X Factor series. Simon Cowell offers them a record contract. Then BOOM!!!
One Direction take the world by storm and Harry becomes one of a long line of pop heart-throbs.
What He Wants You To Know
Based on various interviews here are the top 15 he wants you to know.
He speaks in a pleasant kind of drawl. He's fairly quiet spoken, except if he is quoting something somebody has said. Then he will usually adopt an outrageous impersonation of them saying it.
Twitter Or Facebook ?
He's got 17 million Twitter followers, which he uses a lot more than Facebook, that's the same as the entire population of the Netherlands. He says that you would stand out more to him if you just said something like "How was your day today?". He considers his own posts as the worst tweets ever. They're not even interesting.
He thinks the reason One Direction are so popular is that they remind people of the guys who are mucking about at the back of the class.
The 1D Business Empire
His response to the criticism that One Direction are more of a brand than a band...."If the music goes away everything just stops. It just does, because you can't ride just on the fact that you can sell a lot of t-shirts."
United States Versus United Kingdom
When he was questioned whether he thought American women were hotter than British women, he said there was an even spread. He advised that Tamworth ( a large market town in Staffordshire, England) was the place to go, because that's where the babes are.
For Harry the biggest turn off for him a girl can do is spitting. He thinks he did okay with girls before he was in the band. He'd like to think that a girl would like him for him and says he would be able to tell if they were genuine.
Had he ever kissed a fan? he said "I think I have, but I can't remember. It said in an interview that I had, but I can't remember. It's really bad."
Harrys Typical Day
A typical day on tour consists of getting up, putting some stuff on his hair and drying it. Going to do interviews at press conferences, TV and radio. Preparing for the performance at night. Then after the gig, flying to the next venue.
Favourite One Direction Song
His favourite song is the "Best Song Ever". It's about having fun and kind of, you're having a good time, but you can't really remember the song that was on.
There are no secrets about Harry Styles, he states. They've all been revealed. Harry is too shrewd to say anything controversial.
Living The Dream
He is very aware that this crazy life of living the dream will not last forever. He states this in several different interviews. He can't answer the question "Where will you be in 5 years?" This is due to the fact that two years ago they were attending a Harry Potter film premiere and two years later they were attending their own film premiere for "This Is Us".
Harry is a nice charming lad with a sensible head on his shoulders. He puts this down to the family that's around him, especially his mum and sister. #
His family pretended they were a bit embarrassed to be in the film, but really they loved it. It was all over Facebook.
Harrys Other Family
Louis has smelly feet. Niall trumps a lot. Liam always can't wait to do stuff (He adopts impersonation of Liam. "I can't wait for tonight.....I can't wait to do that.")
Dating Harry Styles
Should you be lucky enough to date Harry he likes nothing more than dinner and a movie.
If you want to make him a meal yourself, his comfort food is Toad In The Hole, a kind of Yorkshire pudding with sausages embedded in it.


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Soot and other aerosols from biomass burning can influence regional and global weather and climate. Lixia Liu and her colleagues studied how this affects the Amazon Basin during the dry season. While there are many different interactions between biomass burning aerosols and climate, they found that they overall lead to fewer and weaker rain events in the Amazon rainforest.
A new study by Löbs et al. in Biogeosciences documents the microclimatic conditions for tropical mosses as a baseline for studies on their overall relevance on biogeochemical cycling. They found that water and light are overall the most important requirements for them to become photosynthetically active. However, their habitat determines which of the two plays the bigger role.
Nora Zannoni and her colleagues measured BVOC emissions at the ATTO tall tower in several heights. Specifically, they looked at one particular BVOC called α-pinene. They found that chiral BOVs at ATTO are neither equally abundant nor is the ratio of the two forms constant over time, season, or height. Surprisingly, they also discovered that termites might be a previously unknown source for BVOCs.
Chamecki and his co-authors analyzed if the gentle topography underneath the Amazon rainforest impacts atmospheric turbulence. They published their results Open Access in the Journal of the Atmospheric Science.
Recently we mentioned that drowned trees along the Uatumã River a likely the cause for enhanced methane emissions measured at ATTO. Now Angélica Resende and her co-authors investigated how changes in flooding regimes impact tree mortality in floodplains. They compared two sites in the Amazon basin. Along the Jaú River, the floodplain environment is still largely undisturbed. Along the Uatumã near ATTO, on the other hand, the flooding regime has been altered by the implementation of the Balbina hydroelectric plant further upstream.


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A reef off Yassiada, a small Aegean island near Turkey, has sent more than a dozen ships to their doom. This curse for mariners has been a blessing for undersea archaeologists. Three of the wreck sites have been excavated, including this, the first of the bunch discovered, that of a 7th-century Byzantine ship. Here, divers send amphoras surface-ward, using a balloon as dumbwaiter. The Yassiada wrecks are among the many accounts of clever recovery techniques, careful restoration efforts and lively histories to be discovered in the Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology (Yale, $55), edited by James P. Delgado, director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Its pages drip with underwater photography and other illustrations of treasures lost and found. It will enthrall serious archaeologists, treasure hunters and anyone else with a passion for the watery parts of the world.


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Though most of the attention has been on the defense, the Red Wings’ cavalcade of injuries hasn’t been limited to the blue line.
Samuelsson has a tight groin that he said he pulled in training camp. “Gotta be careful with it and take our time,” he said, per the Detroit Fee Press, “otherwise, it could be a real long time.”
Nyquist, 23, appeared in 18 games for the Red Wings in 2011-12, scoring once and adding six assists. In 39 games with AHL Grand Rapids this season, he has 40 points in 39 games.
- Hall of Famer Al Arbour passes away 12
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- It’s San Jose Sharks Day at PHT 15
- Mike Richards charged with possession of controlled substance 92
- Gio won’t go: Flames extend Giordano for six years, $40.5M 13
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The following is a response to a Letter to the Editor of SC Now in South Carolina written by a physician. The letter contained misinformation, incomplete information and false information.
The letter “Vaccines given to children are beneficial” from C.D. Bardi, MD, published Sunday in the Morning News, contains a disturbing combination of false information and disinformation.
In referring to me as “a journalist known for her anti-vaccine bias,” Bardi borrows a play from the smear playbook of pharmaceutical industry propagandists who attempt to controversialize and discredit journalists and scientists reporting on vaccine safety issues.
As an investigative reporter (formerly of CBS News and now “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson”), I’ve repeatedly reported on the benefits of vaccination – as well as challenges and safety issues. This is no more “anti-vaccine” than my reporting on drug industry corruption is “anti-medicine” or reporting on Firestone tire dangers is “anti-tire.”
Through the years and with help from contacts inside the pharmaceutical industry and government, I discovered a great deal of information is widely misrepresented by reporters, physicians, the vaccine industry and government. My reporting has received recognition from the national Emmy awards and has been cited positively in a peer-reviewed, published medical journal.
To be clear, as I reported: the federal government’s pro-vaccine expert in court cases, Dr. Andrew Zimmerman of John’s Hopkins, a world renowned pediatric neurologist, recently signed a sworn affidavit stating that he long ago told federal officials that vaccines can cause autism, after all, in “exceptional” cases. He goes on to say the government covered up and misrepresented his opinion in court.
There is a current complaint about this before the Department of Justice. Zimmerman’s findings are in line with what has been expressed by the head of CDC immunization safety, former head of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Bernadine Healy and many other noted scientists and studies: Vaccines may trigger autism in a susceptible subgroup of children. Some conditions the government has acknowledged that make children susceptible include mitochrondrial disorder and Tuberous Sclerosis.
As for a some of the additional false statements in Dr. Bardi’s letter:
>> 1. “The problem is that Zimmerman presented no actual evidence to support his opinion.”
False, as described above.
>> 2. “Yet his opinion was misrepresented as new evidence by Attkisson.”
>> 3. “All of these published studies … showed no link between autism and the MMR vaccine. …”
False. Many peer-reviewed, published studies and scientists have found links, including some conducted by the CDC (although the links are explained in different ways).
>> 4. “Routine administration of … vaccines given to children are [sic] absolutely beneficial.”
This lacks important context. According to the CDC, no vaccine is beneficial or recommended for all children. For example, the CDC recently stated that the MMR vaccine should not be given to children with “a parent, brother, or sister with a history of immune system problems.”
Lastly, I would say that Bardi’s letter title would be more accurate if it read “Vaccines given to children are largely beneficial.” Four billion dollars in payments for vaccine injuries have been paid to families in the little-known federal vaccine court.
One trick, say scientists, is identifying which children might suffer reactions to which vaccines so that they can be saved while maintaining a robust vaccine program for the rest.
The other trick is cutting through a pervasive disinformation propaganda campaign.
Sharyl Attkisson, Investigative Correspondent
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Let’s start with Leah Kardos’ “Little Phase”, from Bigo & Twigetti’s Summer compilation of last year. Press play ~ and then we’ll play a game.
The game is called the exquisite corpse. Most of us played it with paper in primary school, as seen to the right. I remember playing it during recess and later in detention. But there’s a twist to this version: it’s played with music. Using “Little Phase” as a starting point, the music was passed artist to artist through the rosters of Bigo & Twigetti and Moderna Records until it became something entirely different. The process began last October and concluded this April. Because the original files were available, the game was also influenced by another ~ telephone. The last piece, Tim Linghas’ “At the End All Is Black”, bears echoes of the original, yet demonstrates how far the game has progressed.
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Post-racial racism? How can that be possible? We’re in a post racial society where Americans no longer see color. I mean, we elected a black man as president, so we’re definitely in a post-racial society!
Y’all know we’ve been hearing that BS for the past four years and we social justice activists all know it’s pretty much unfounded.
Shown above is a flyer to a conference for white Christians only that was held this week in the town of Winfield, Ala., hosted by an Alabama pastor. When asked about the whites only policy, the pastor told a local affiliate:
The organizer of the event, Rev. William C. Collier says that his Church of God’s Chosen (Christian Identity Ministries) is not a hate group but adds that he believes “the white race is God’s chosen people.”
Collier defends why only white Christians are invited.
“We don’t have the facilities to accommodate other people. We haven’t got any invitations to black, Muslim events. Of course we are not invited to Jewish events and stuff,” Collier said.
Separate facilities to “accommodate” other people? What type of facilities are needed to accommodate besides extra hotel rooms? I didn’t know we people of color required such extra hoops and hurdles for organizers to jump through just to make us on par with the chosen race of people who are in attendance. I guess racists continue to teach me something new about people of color each day.
In a wink and a nod to Confederate sympathizers, Ted Nugent has mused that perhaps this country would have been better off if the South was victorious in the Civil War. Writing for The Washington Times (you know, that other Washington, D.C., paper), the rock star, criticizing U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, lamented what he feels is the overreaching of the federal government when it comes to the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010.
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War. Our Founding Fathers’ concept of limited government is dead.
Because of the chief justice’s vote, Fedzilla just burped and is now prepared to gobble up even more of our tax dollars, more of our GDP and limit even more opportunity in the private sector.
As I recall, the president and the government’s very own attorney who argued the case before the Supreme Court said that Obamacare was not a tax. Fascinating, Mr. Chief Justice, that you legislated from the bench that Obamacare is a tax.
Following the chief justice’s logic, our professional political punks in Washington can mandate any tax-penalty they choose. For example, if you don’t buy an Obama-approved green energy automobile, our Fedzillacrats could tax us for refusing to do so. That’s the essence of this ruling.
Obamacare will now join Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as another unaffordable, unsustainable, runaway, unaccountable social program.
Our entitlement programs have bankrupted America. We have dug a financial crater so deep that many doubt we can ever climb out. With his vote, Chief Justice Roberts didn’t give Fedzilla an even bigger shovel, he gave Fedzilla an earth mover with which to dig bigger financial holes.
Quite possibly, with his vote, Chief Justice Roberts just engineered the ultimate demise of this great experiment in self- government. If you think we are skating on financial thin ice now, just wait until 2014 when the full financial tsunami of Obamacare comes crashing down.
(As an aside, don’t you just love how…poorly written this is?)
Ooh, scary stuff. You’d think Roberts and company had declared the U.S. Constitution null and void, and the United Nations had set up a transitional government to bring America and its people under the control of Great Britain or worse–the French!
Is Nugent implying the South would be more inclined to not only retain the institutions of slavery, Jim Crow and promote the myth of docile white womanhood, but also not be vulnerable to having its central government taken over by a Kenyan Muslim socialist who was groomed by his black father and white mother to become the president of the Confederate States? Is Nugent implying American would have been better off it had been controlled by a sector of the country that thrived economically, politically and socially on the subjugation of an entire race of people?
Clearly Nugent is not playing the race card by lamenting the North’s victory in the Civil War. Clearly Nugent is not implying racist, white supremacist notions that black people would have been better off if the south had won the war as we most likely would still be enslaved–thus making it impossible to have a Barack Hussein Obama becoming president. Clearly Nugent wouldn’t espouse those type of ideas because the good ol’ U.S. of A is in a post-racial Utopian state and no such ideas and musings would even cross the minds of our good citizenry.
Nugent, who has a history of inexplicable rants, is clearing playing to the racist notions many whites have about Obama’s presidency and is using what I call the New Southern Strategy politicians are now employing to play on the racial, ethnic and religious suspicions and anxieties and nationalist pride as they equate the president and his policies to Marxist, Islamic (a.k.a., inherently un-American) practices.
As expected, Nugent will deny his use of racial overtones in his assertion and he will use some sort of post-racial euphemism (but I don’t even see color!), go to great lengths to explain how anti-racist he is and how his critique is solely based in the inherent policy differences he has with the president.
We all know if that was the case, his lamentation about the South not winning the civil war would not have even crossed his mind and he would not have felt the need to appeal to the racial biases his political fan base may have towards Obama, black folks and other people of color in general.


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VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI met with the superiors of religious orders recently, most media coverage focused on the pope’s description of the “difficult crisis” religious life is facing.
But like many papal talks and encounters, his realistic assessment of problems was matched by appreciation, encouragement and some advice for the future.
At the end of the 90-minute session, participants left feeling encouraged and even “thrilled” at the pope’s interest and support, according to one participant in the closed-door meeting.
The encounter had been requested for several years by the international federations of male and female religious orders, so just the fact that it happened was considered a positive development.
Present at the Feb. 18 meeting were the pope, three Vatican officials and 21 superiors general who represented, in a sense, the approximately 950,000 men and women religious around the world.
In a brief prepared talk, the pope spoke frankly about clouds on the horizon of religious life and the process of secularization that “unfortunately does not spare even religious communities.”
He cited some promising signs, too, including new forms of religious life marked by simplicity and austerity.
But he said the church’s oldest religious orders have experienced “a difficult crisis due to the aging of members, a more or less accentuated diminishing of vocations, and even sometimes a spiritual and charismatic fatigue.”
“The crisis, in some cases, has reached worrisome proportions,” he said.
Those were the money quotes in many reports on the meeting. The pope’s words were seen as reflecting deep Vatican dissatisfaction with mainstream religious orders in general.
But as usual, the view from the inside was far different.
“It’s certainly an entirely wrong perception to say that this was a dressing-down of the superiors general for any kind of failings or wrong leadership,” said Father Glen Lewandowski, master general of the Crosier order and a participant in the meeting.
“The pope had many inspirational things to say, and words of appreciation. It was very positive, and nothing like, ‘Why are you guys doing these things wrong?’“ Father Lewandowski said.
The pope seemed tired at the beginning of the session, but got “wound up” and was charming and cheery as it progressed, Father Lewandowski said.
The pontiff answered questions with ease, noting that bishops reporting about their dioceses inevitably underline the active and passionate contributions of men and women religious in their dioceses.
What impressed the religious superiors most was that the pope approached the issues not with a checklist of errors or problems, but from a theological perspective, urging a renewed focus on their commitment to Christ.
“He said what we’re looking for among religious is not so much what they do and what functions they serve in the church and in society, but a radical witness to Christ,” Father Lewandowski said.
“He mentioned this several times: It’s so simple. It entails meditation, reading of the word of God, silence and loving God with your whole heart and soul. And he told the group, that’s what you need to do. You need to go back not only to the roots of your founders, but to the roots of starting fresh from Christ,” he said.
The religious superiors left the room encouraged and inspired, in part because this was not just another strategy meeting about how to increase numbers.
Of course, the numbers do matter to some extent.
According to official church statistics, from 1978 to 2005 the number of religious priests worldwide declined from 158,000 to 137,000, while religious brothers decreased from about 75,000 to 55,000. The sharpest drop was in the number of women religious, which went from 985,000 to 783,000.
The situation is clearly going to get worse in coming years, mainly because of the aging population of the largest religious orders.
There are other problems, too, including the increasing defection rate of new entrants; in many places, 40 percent to 60 percent of those entering religious order formation programs leave before making their final commitment.
Father Lewandowski said his own Crosier order has projected that its membership will decline by half over the next 10 years.
Every order is trying to tackle the problem and attract new vocations, he said, mainly by focusing on “better clarity about identity.” New entrants need to have a better understanding of the individual charism of each religious order and a clearer idea of what religious life is all about, he said.
Father Lewandowski also suggested that religious orders may have life cycles, and that those emerging in one social age may naturally die out in another.
For example, he said, many orders formed over the last 200 years were based on the secular principle of being useful to society in educational, health care or other social roles, which have now been largely taken over by government organizations or by lay Catholics.
“All of these orders are now in significant crisis,” he said.
He also said the decline in religious life is usually measured against statistics from before the Second Vatican Council. But that was an exceptional period of flourishing for religious orders, and those numbers should probably not be used as a base line, he said.


The encounter of extreme waves, extreme wave groups, or unfavorable wave sequences poses dangerous threats for ships and floating/stationary marine structures. The impact of extreme waves causes enormous forces, whereas an unfavorable wave sequence—not necessarily extreme waves—can arouse critical motions or even resonance, often leading to loss of cargo, ship, or crew. Thus, besides a well thought-out maritime design, a system detecting critical incoming wave sequences in advance can help avoiding those dangerous situations, increasing the safety of sea transport or offshore operations. During the last two years a new system for decision support onboard a ship or floating/fixed marine structure named CASH—Computer Aided Ship Handling—has been introduced. The preceding papers showed the step wise development of the main components of the program code—3d-wave forecast and 3d-ship motion forecast . These procedures provide a deterministic approach to predict the short crested seas state within radar range of the ship, as well as resulting ship motions in six degrees of freedom. Both methods have been enhanced with special focus on the speed of calculation to ensure a just-in-time forecast. A newly developed component is the adaptive 3d-pressure distribution . This method calculates the pressure distribution along the wetted surface of the ship hull using a newly developed stretching approach. With the end of the joint project Loads on Ships in Seaway (LaSSe), (funded by the German Government) the paper presents the CASH system, giving the possibility to detect critical situations in advance. Thus not only decision support onboard a cruising ship can be provided, but also time windows for offshore operations are identified well in advance.


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Do you miss that familiar place that serves you lunch every day in a pleasant atmosphere? Perhaps you miss the novel and huge Gulyás Full Option? The time has come to (re) discover Mesele Vesele, the restaurant that turns everyday meals into joyful moments.
Located next to the Medical 3, on no. 25 Croitorilor Street, Mesele Vesele “saves” you from the obligation to cook every day. Monday to Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., you can enjoy lunch here.
The Daily Menu is unique every day, offering four soups and four different main courses to choose from and can mix and match to your preference, with salad and dessert.
If you choose the Special menu, a default daily combination that includes soup and main course, the price is more than affordable: about 16 lei!
Beef Gulyás remains the house specialty, being served daily at Mesele Vesele. All day, you can treat yourself with the delicious dumplings with cranberry sauce!
The good news is that the opening hours of the joyful restaurant is during the morning so that you can also enjoy coffee.
The Daily menu operates between the hours of 11:00 am to 5:00 p.m., but the restaurant is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The prices for lunches are available daily. It is also the reason why the Mesele Vesele restaurant is so popular among Clujeans. Each chef is “personal” that you have … not at home but in the city.
We conclude by recommending you some very special cuisine: Tatar beefsteak with toast, grilled turkey breast with hribi sauce or sirloin steak with green pepper sauce. And if it is the only thing you get in here, taste the palinka. Bon appetit!
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Study Explores Actionable Pathologic Variants in Caribbean Women With Breast or Ovarian Cancer
One in 7 Caribbean-born individuals with either breast or ovarian cancer had hereditary disease with an actionable pathogenic variant, which provides the opportunity for the utilization of targeted therapeutics and precise prevention strategies.
One in 7 Caribbean-born individuals with either breast or ovarian cancer had hereditary disease with an actionable pathogenic variant, which provides the opportunity for the utilization of targeted therapeutics and precise prevention strategies, according to results from a study recently published in JAMA Network Open.1
Results from the research indicated that of 1018 patients, 98.1% (n = 999) had breast cancer, while 2.1% (n = 21) had ovarian cancer. Moreover, of the 1015 patients for whom data were available, 14.2% (n = 144) were found to have a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant in a gene associated with hereditary breast cancer and ovarian cancer syndrome. Notably, 64% of patients who had these variants had them in BRCA1, 23% had them in BRCA2, 9% in PALB2, and 4% in RAD51C, CHEK2, ATM, STK11, and NBN.
Patients in the Bahamas were noted to have the highest proportion of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers at 23%; this was followed by Barbados (17.9%), Trinidad (12%), Dominica (8.8%), Haiti (6.7%), Cayman Islands (6.3%), and Jamaica (4.9%).
“This genetic association study was a large, unique, and multinational study of breast and ovarian cancer in the Caribbean population. Pathogenic variants in the breast cancer genes of BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2 are common causes of breast cancer in Caribbean women,” Sophia George, PhD, research assistant professor at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Miami Health System, and colleagues, wrote. “People of African descent are understudied and undertested in both the breast and gynecologic cancer settings. Targeted genetic testing of only BRCA1 and BRCA2 is insufficient in Caribbean women, and panel multigene testing should be recommended.”
Approximately 40 million individuals reside in the Caribbean and most patients are of African descent with genetic admixture of Indigenous, Asian, Indian, European, and Middle Eastern immigrants. Importantly, breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-associated deaths in these women; in fact, in some countries, young women are disproportionately affected by this.
In light of the high rates of breast and ovarian cancer that have been observed in the Caribbean, and the relatively young age of patients at the time of presentation, investigators set out to identify the rate of inherited breast and ovarian cancers in select countries within the Caribbean as a way to derive a better understanding of different disease variants region wide.
To do this, investigators planned to consider the odds of harboring a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant when individuals are diagnosed with these diseases at an early age. They also performed multigene testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer genes in individuals who resided in 7 Caribbean countries: the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The cross-sectional Caribbean Women’s Cancer Study was conducted between June 2010 and June 2018 in 1018 patients with invasive breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer who resided in the Caribbean. Individuals were identified by the following: treating physicians, local cancer societies, hospital and pathology records, and outpatient oncology clinical records of the individual islands. Investigators also recruited participants through the use of different media outlets.
To be eligible for enrollment, patients had to have a pathologic diagnosis of breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer, at least 1 grandparent born in 1 of the 7 selected countries, and they had to be able to provide consent, as well as a saliva sample.
All samples collected from patients underwent next-generation sequencing (NGS) and multiplex ligation–dependent probe amplification to allow for the identification of all classes of variants. All individuals were initially screened for BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, and RAD51 variants in the phase 1 portion of the research.
In phase 2, those residing in the Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, and Haiti received full NGS of 30 genes. Those residing in Jamaica and Trinidad who had a family history of either cancer, were less than 40 years of age, and tested negative for the variants examined in phase 1, were re-examined using a multipaneled test.
Following these test results, participants were identified to be have pathogenic variants, or those that directly contribute to disease development; to have likely pathogenic variants, or those with greater than 90% certainty that the variant will cause disease; or to have a variant of unknown significance (VUS).
Of the 1018 participants enrolled to the study, the majority (n = 996) were women, 21 female individuals had ovarian cancer and 3 men had breast cancer. Notably, 86% of patients with breast cancer had a self-detected mass and sought medical attention, underscoring the fact that disease detection via mammogram was uncommon.
More than half of the women who were diagnosed with breast cancer (63%) were premenopausal, and the mean age at the time of diagnosis was 46.6 years. The mean age in those diagnosed with ovarian cancer was 47.6 years. Discrepancies of age and population-based cancer registries in Trinidad and Tobago and the Barbados were noted.
Of 607 patients with a documented disease stage at diagnosis, 33.4% had stage III disease and 5.9% had stage IV disease. Those residing in Haiti had the highest percentage of advanced-stage disease, at 64.7%, while the lowest percentage was noted in Cayman Island residents, at 11%.
A total of 144 variant carriers was identified in the study cohort. Among the carriers for breast cancer, the mean age was 40.7 years; these individuals were significantly younger than those who did not have germline variants, according to the study investigators (P = .03). Approximately 44% (n = 29/66) of carriers were diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) vs 21.1% of noncarriers (P <.001).
Moreover, 50.5% of participants were found to have a family history of either a first- or second-degree relative with breast cancer, while 11.3% had relatives with ovarian cancer. Approximately half of those with VUS had a family history of breast cancer, while 8.5% had a history of ovarian cancer. Any family history of breast cancer was linked with a BRCA1 variant (odds ratio [OR], 4.87; 95% CI, 2.82-8.42; P <.001) or a BRCA2 variant (OR, 3.07; 95% CI, 1.40-6.71; P = .005).
Specifically, of the individuals born in the Caribbean who had breast cancer, having a first- or second-degree family member with the disease was linked with having any BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline variant (OR, 1.58; 95% CI, 1.24-2.01; P <.001). Having a BRCA1 variant was found to be more strongly associated with TNBC vs a BRCA2 variant (OR, 6.33; 95% CI, 2.05-19.54; P = .001).
“These data may be useful in screening, increasing awareness of cancer risk, and encouraging risk reduction strategies in people of Caribbean origin and their unaffected family members,” the study authors concluded. “Awareness of the heightened risks among these patients may help minimize morbidity and maximize care in a group already overburdened with well-described cancer health disparities.”
- George SHL, Donenberg T, Alexis C, et al. Gene sequencing for pathogenic variants among adults with breast and ovarian cancer in the Caribbean. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(3):210307. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.0307
This article was originally published on OncLive as, "1 in 7 Caribbean Adults With Breast or Ovarian Cancers Have Actionable Pathogenic Variants."

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Amid demand plummets linked to the coronavirus, airlines project that this could be their worst year since the global financial crisis
The International Air Transport Association expects demand to shrink 0.6% globally, but a staggering 8.2% in the Asia-Pacific region.
Singapore just beat Germany to join IMD list of top 10 most talent competitive economies for the first time
Singapore was the only Asian country in the top 10, beating Germany, which now sits in 11th place.
Singapore saw a 73% year-on-year growth in the first half of the year to US$4 billion in deals.
They will be in KL for the event from December 10 to December 14.
Singapore had the second-most visitors in APAC last year – making it more popular than KL, Tokyo and Hong Kong
The number of Chinese travelling in Apac surged to 62.4 million from 10.5 million 9 years ago.
Singapore’s Jewel helps put it in Lonely Planet’s list of top 10 best places to visit in APAC – here’s who else made the list
The top five destinations include Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and the Cook Islands.
The Asia-Pacific team will start with six officers, including the Singapore Police Force representative, each skilled in various aspects of fighting terrorism.
While Singaporeans try to be as accommodating as possible on a flight, there are also certain kinds of passengers who get on their nerves, including drunks and seat-kickers.
The report ranked Singapore third place in the world for government efficiency, behind Hong Kong and UAE.
There were more than 30,000 flights between Singapore and KL in one year – and 15 of the 20 busiest international routes are in APAC
It is also one of the world’s shortest routes - with a flight time of just over an hour.


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Classical Pacific, May 3, 2018: New Arrivals, Romantic Period
On this final day of playing new arrivals (for now), I've decided to focus on the Romantic period. Composers for the day include Robert Schumann, Anatoly Lyadov, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Holst, Franz Schubert, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Permits have been filed for an 11-story Affordable Independent Residences for Seniors building at 2224 Cropsey Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Located between Bay Parkway and Bayview Place, the through lot is three blocks from the Bay Parkway subway station, serviced by the D train. Jay Zeldes under the Cropsey AIRS LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 105-foot-tall development will yield 765,291 square feet, with 656,498 square feet designated for residential space and 108,793 square feet for community facility space. The building will have 110 residences for senior citizens. The concrete-based structure will also have a cellar and a 21-foot-long rear yard.
Daniel Bernstein of Kutnicki Bernstein Architects is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits will likely not be needed as the lot is vacant. An estimated completion date has not been announced.


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Slimming World's Fast and Filling Family Food Cookbook features 50 recipes so you can make soups, burgers, main entrees, desserts, and more for the entire family!
Corn and Red Bell Pepper Chowder
Corn and bell pepper are both bursting with fresh flavors and this simple chowder is as easy to make as it is delicious. Serve it up as a tasty appetizer or when you want a light supper.
Ready in 35-40 minutes
6-8 scallions, finely sliced, plus extra shredded scallions to serve
1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
3 cups (800ml) water or vegetable stock and 1 tbsp concentrated vegetable stock
2 x 14oz (400g) cans corn
1 red bell pepper, deseeded and finely diced
¼ cup chopped cilantro
1 tbsp soy sauce
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Place a large, nonstick frying pan over a medium heat. Add the scallions, garlic, vegetable stock, and concentrated stock and bring to a boil.
Add the corn, bell pepper, cilantro, and soy sauce and return to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover and cook for 10-15 minutes.
Remove from the heat, season well and ladle into warmed bowls to serve. Garnish with shredded scallions before serving.
Ready in 40 minutes
4 large baking potatoes peeled and cut into ½ inch fries
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Low calorie cooking spray
1 3/4lb extra lean ground beef
4 oz very finely chopped onion
4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
4 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
4 whole-wheat buns
4 lettuce leaves and 4 slices of tomato
Grated carrot and shredded red cabbage, to serve
For the salsa:
3 ripe tomatoes, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped
½ small onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 tsp artificial sweetener
4 tbsp water
1-2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1-2 drops Tabasco sauce
- Preheat the oven to 475 degrees.
- Place the fries in a pan of lightly salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes. Remove from the water and drain well on paper towels, then leave to dry for about 10 minutes.
- Remove the water from the pan and return the fries to the dry pan, cover with a lid, and shake to roughen up the edges of the fries (this helps them to crisp up when you bake them). Transfer to a nonstick roasting pan, spray with low-calorie cooking spray, and bake for 20-25 minutes, turning occasionally.
- Meanwhile place all of the salsa ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and cook gently for 4-5 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
- To make the hamburgers, place the ground beef, onions, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic in a bowl and, using your hands, combine thoroughly. Season well, divide into four, and shape into patties. Spray the burgers with low-calorie cooking spray, place under a hot broiler, and cook for 5-6 minutes on each side, or until done to your liking. Remove and keep warm.
- To assemble the hamburgers, split the buns in half and place a lettuce leaf and a tomato slice on top of each base. Top with a burger and some of the salsa and serve immediately with the fries and some grated carrot and shredded red cabbage.
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FWC Division of Law Enforcement Weekly Highlights For Cases In Brevard County
By Space Coast Daily // May 19, 2023
FWC OFFICERS NAIL FISH POACHERS
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The following report highlights some cases the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission handled in Brevard County over the past week but does not include all actions taken by the Division of Law Enforcement.
■ Officer Snyder was on land patrol when he observed a vehicle driving in the wrong lane of traffic. He conducted a traffic stop and, through his investigation, determined the operator to be driving under the influence. The individual was arrested and cited accordingly.
■ Officer Specialist Balgo conducted a resource inspection on a vessel near Port Canaveral. The operator stated he was testing the boat and did not have any fish. Officer Balgo observed blood on the deck near a compartment and investigated further. He located three sharks, one being a prohibited scalloped hammerhead. The operator was also over his bag limit and vessel limit for sharks. Officer Balgo also located an undersized sheepshead. The operator was cited accordingly.
■ Officer Specialist Balgo observed individuals near State Road 520 and the Banana River with several cast nets and bait fish on the shore near them. A resource inspection located several undersized sheepshead being prepped for consumption. The individuals were cited appropriately.
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The Seiko SNXJ90 (7S26-0490) is a 37mm men’s automatic watch with a stainless steel case and a silver analog dial protected by hardlex crystal. It uses a 7S26 caliber self-winding mechanical movement that cannot be manually wound or hacked (the second hand does not stop when the crown is pulled out). It ticks 6 times per second which gives the second hand a smoother movement than quartz watches which tick once per second. The watch should run for up to 43 hours when fully wound and will self-wind when moved.
The case of the SNXJ90 measures approximately 37mm wide (not including the crown) by 11mm thick and is water resistant to 30 meters. This should be sufficient for splashes & rain but is not recommended for baths, showers, swimming or diving. The stainless steel bezel is fixed (cannot be rotated).
Display – Analog
Case Diameter – 36 millimeters
Band Material Type – Stainless Steel
Band Width – 19.5 millimeters
3-fold clasp; stainless steel case and band
Water-resistant to 30 M (99 feet)