GreenCape hosts City of Cape Town’s Water Business Briefing session
May 11, 2017
On 9 May 2017, GreenCape hosted a special water briefing session arranged by the City of Cape Town (CoCT) for industrial and commercial water users in the City. The event saw presentations from Mayor de Lille (link), CoCT’s Department of Water and Sanitation director, Peter Flower, South African Breweries (SAB) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Click here to download the presentation by the City of Cape Town.
The central purpose of the event was to provide the most recent updates on the water situation in Cape Town, show what measures are in place for ensuring a secure water supply, and to demonstrate approaches from businesses trying to reduce their consumption. Representatives from SAB and GSK were invited to present on actions they have taken to reduce their water consumption and to increase the efficiency of their existing water use. Event feedback was very positive with one attendee saying:
“I would like to compliment the team for a very informative session. It was very good to see the commitment from the City and specifically from the Executive Mayor. I was also very impressed with the presentation done by the City of Cape Town’s Water & Sanitation Department.”
The Q & A session that followed the presentations focussed predominantly on water saving solutions for businesses, was considered equally valuable. The City plans to roll out a further series of business events to continue informing their stakeholders.
“To hear what other market leaders have done to save water gave us some new ideas to implement going forward.”
Click here to download the 2017 GreenCape Water Market Intelligence Report for more on how the water sector works, as well as business opportunities for the green economy.


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EMIS - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
A tool for enabling coordinated communication for emergency responders.
Lack of timely coordinated communication for emergency responders when managing disaster related emergencies.
Discovery: Research & Analysis
Our discovery workshops and field visits focused on finding the key data, actions, responsibilities and stakeholders needed in each phase of emergency management.
I coordinated and facilitated discovery workshops with 120+ stakeholders from 5+ different departments in 4 local government authorities (LGAs).
To better align with the organization’s goals and expectations and to inform the project management team on the findings we held internal workshops.
Methods: Stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops
Insights & Key Findings
Poor flow of information causes delays in response activities rendering them ineffective.
Information on resources in warehouses and organizations is needed in order to allocate material and human resources as efficiently as needed.
An updated and easy access contacts book will ensure that timely communication is made to the right people.
There is no organized inventory of emergency events which can be used for planning response.
There is no central communications portal for emergency events which makes it hard for all emergency responders to be aware of the status of the emergency activities.
“We exhaust a lot of resources in the event of emergency. Better data, equipment, and coordination is needed to support our greatest asset: people.”
Dar es salaam Regional Response Team Coordinator
From the workshops we determined that we will use role based personas for our project. Role based personas focus on the role and functions of the user within the organization. The personas were used to develop user stories during the development phase.
Design: Concepts & Sketching
During this phase we did a lot of designs on paper before moving to Adobe XD for prototyping
Tools used: Paper sketching, Adobe XD
Some of our high fidelity prototype designs
Development: Sprints & User Stories
Development: Feature Prioritization
The first problem that had to be solved was information sharing so the development team started working on a feature called stakeholder which consisted of a database of all personnel responsible for emergency/disaster management; their roles and contacts.
Features that followed included emergency alerts, digital emergency response plans, dashboards, warehouse management, assessment toolkits. All features included geospatial data for map visualization.
Tools used: Github, Projects, Google Docs
Validation & User Feedback
To validate our designs we presented them to the end users. This helped us to understand the position of our product in the users’ workflow, the ease of use, and what was still missing in our designs.
We showcased the UI designs and the developed prototype, we then allowed users to compare the UI designs and developed prototype for further understanding of how the design and development process goes.
Methods: In-person moderated testing
One of the presentations we did at the emergency operations center (EOC)
Usability Testing & Improvements
Prototyping continued even during development, in the iterations that followed we added more features and redesigned some of the interfaces to accommodate new features and feedback from stakeholders.
Changes to the UI design included
Relocating the navigation menu and updating the base layout of the app
Adding dashboards to provide a status overview of an emergency situation or response activity.
Adding mobile responsiveness to features that were used on the go when responders are in the field
Methods: In-person moderated & unmoderated testing
One of the dashboards that we designed to provide high level information about an emergency situation.
New navigation covers the whole screen and once away from the home screen users can access it by clicking a menu icon on the application header.
Solution & Lessons Learnt
The goal of EMIS is to solve the communication and information gap that existed amongst emergency responders. It has been adopted by the Dar es salaam emergency operations center and is being used for both training, drills and emergency response activities.
My greatest lesson during this project have been
Running design sprint workshops with different stakeholders across the information flow channel helped us to understand the extensive user needs and how to prioritize the implementation process. It was important to be able to have a representative sample that brought everyone involved party into the design process.
Designing flexible, re-usable interfaces and components can go a long way. This was evidenced the customization of the system to include features for tracking COVID-19 cases when they started in 2020.
“Proper use of data and information obtained from Emergency Management and Information System (EMIS) has improved emergency response and inform the regional authority the priorities during emergency planning. ”
Dar es salaam Regional Response Team Coordinator (in 2022)
Visual Design: Icons & Illustrations
Methods: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
Platform: Desktop & Mobile
Year: 2018 - 2022
My role: Workshop Facilitation, User Research, UI Design, Prototyping, User Flows, Visual design, Usability Testing


Gophers Score Wins in Baseball and Softball
Lincoln, NE (Gophersports.com) - Ben Meyer and Jordan Jess combined for a five-hit shutout and the Golden Gophers scored on half of their six hits, to win 3-0 at No. 23 Nebraska. It was Minnesota's (12-17, 3-7 Big Ten) first win against a ranked team this season.
Meyer pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowing four hits and four walks and striking out two. Jess allowed one hit and struck out two in the final 2 1/3 innings to earn the save. He entered the game with outs and two runners on base in the seventh and struck out Nebraska (24-11, 3-4 Big Ten) leadoff hitter Ryan Boldt of Red Wing.
Center fielder Dan Motl hit two doubles, and first baseman Toby Hanson hit a double and a home run. Each batted 2-for-4 on the game.
MINNEAPOLIS (Gophersports.com) - The No. 15/11 Minnesota softball team handed Northwestern its first Big Ten loss of the season Friday night, defeating the Wildcats, 10-5, at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium. The Gophers improved to 31-7 and 7-3 in the conference with the victory. It was the Maroon and Gold's 99th win at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium and at two hours, 46 minutes, was the team's second-longest game of the season.
Gopher sophomore Sara Groenewegen notched a career-high 15 strikeouts en route to her 20th win of the season in the pitching circle.


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Currently, (and in no particular order) Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, and Joe Burrow’s names are often mentioned in arguments about the league’s best active quarterbacks.
But when Burrow was asked to share his thoughts on the best quarterback in the NFL, he did not bring up his name. Instead, Burrow made it clear that Mahomes was currently at the top of the mountain.
Burrow is one year younger than Mahomes and has already beaten Mahomes in an AFC Championship Game to earn a Super Bowl berth. The Cincinnati Bengals used the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft on Burrow.
But Mahomes is a three-time All-Pro, two-time Super winner, and a two-time Super Bowl MVP.
“I don’t think there’s any argument right now. It’s Pat until somebody has a better year than he’s had,” Burrow told reporters on Tuesday. “He’s the one to knock off.”
Since Burrow entered the NFL, the Bengals are 3-1 against the Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
After Kansas City’s 27-24 overtime loss to Cincinnati in January 2022, the Chiefs bounced back in this year’s AFC title game and advanced to Super Bowl LVII. Despite an ankle injury, Mahomes delivered a gusty performance and threw for 326 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed for a key first down late that led to the game-winning field goal.
Meanwhile, Burrow finished the game with 270 passing yards and one touchdown, but he also threw two interceptions. Burrow was uncomfortable in the pocket for most of the game, with the Chiefs defense registering five sacks.
Buffalo Bills star Josh Allen, another highly-regarded quarterback, placed Mahomes at the top of his quarterback tiers for the AFC.
“Until me or Joey or anybody else can win a Super Bowl, I think Pat’s kind of the clear No. 1 right now,” Allen said in May during an appearance on “Kyle Brandt’s Basement.” “He’s been playing at such a high level for so long, and he’s got the rings to kind of prove it.”
Burrow is hoping to eventually be considered the best of the best saying, “The top of the mountain is always the goal, personally and team-wise.”

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With relief efforts underway amid Hurricane Harvey and the historic flooding in Texas, the Salvation Army is emphasizing the need for monetary -- as opposed to material -- donations.
“We greatly appreciate the generous spirit of those in our community who want to provide clothing and goods for disaster survivors," Major Evan P. Hickman, Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army Northeast Ohio Division said. "At the current time, those needs are still being assessed along with warehousing and distribution logistics. Financial donations can be leveraged immediately as The Salvation Army can use those to provide direct support to families and individuals in need of emergency assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Additionally, by purchasing items in and around the affected region, we can actually help bolster the local economy, which helps the community recover more quickly.”
There are several ways to make donations to the Salvation Army, including the following:
Donate by phone: 1-800-SAL-ARMY
Mail checks to: The Salvation Army
PO BOX 1959
Atlanta, GA 30301
Please designate 'Hurricane Harvey' on all checks.
To receive a donation link via text: Text STORM to 51555
In addition to the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities USA is also accepting funds to help Harvey victims, regardless of religion or background. There is also a Facebook group for survivors from Hurricane Sandy. which is sharing ways for locals to help victims in Texas.

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Web scraping policy
Our policy for web scraping on food.gov
Use of alternative data sources is vital for the FSA to achieve its objective of protecting public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food (including risks caused by the way in which it is produced or supplied) and otherwise protecting the interests of consumers in relation to food. Web Scraping is one of these alternative data sources often used to supplement existing data sources. Therefore, the purpose of this policy is to ensure Web Scraping activities are conducted transparently, ethically and with respect to all relevant legislation.
This policy sets out the practices and procedures that the Food Standards Agency will follow when carrying out web scraping. Web scraping is defined as the automatic collection of data retrieved from the internet, typically from HTML, using a piece of software or program.
This policy sets out the practices and procedures that Food Standards Agency employees, temporary and casual staff, and any contractor, researcher or academic partner carrying out work for the agency or acting on our behalf must follow when carrying out web scraping.
When assessing external organisations who may scrape on behalf of the FSA, either via business as usual activities or on an ad-hoc basis, this policy will be used to guide assurance activities. This is to ensure appropriate governance structures are in place when gathering and processing data gathered via scraping activities.
Note that this document does not cover the use of Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) and applies only to the Food Standards Agency.
We aim to keep all guidance up to date and undertake regular reviews to ensure this guidance remains relevant. The next scheduled review date for this guidance is 15 April 2022.
All FSA staff must comply with this policy in any project involving scraping data from the web. Failure to comply may result in disciplinary action in line with the organisation’s discipline policy.
The FSA is carrying out web-scraping activity for the purposes of its functions set out in the Food Standards Act 1999.
The FSA’s legal basis for such webscraping activity are the following:
Sections 8, 10, 11 and 21(1) of the Food Standard Act 1999 give the FSA the powers of obtaining and compling information, by carrying out observations, about matters relating to food safety or the interests of consumers in relation to food, including but not limited to food sources, food premises, food businesses or commercial operations being carried out with respect to food.
In carrying out the webscraping activity described herein the FSA is lawfully exercising its statutory powers and is acting within its statutory authority. Section 19 of the Food Standards Act 1999 also allows FSA to share information where to do so would be in the public interest.
To the extent that the information which is scraped identifies living individuals the scraping activity involves the processing of some personal data. The FSA will process such data in accordance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)
The FSA believes that the processing is necessary within the public task function of the FSA (GDPR Article 6.1(e)) and, to the extent criminal data is relevant, necessary for the FSA as a competent authority for law enforcement purposes in the public interest and/or for legal claims (GDPR Article 9.2(f) and (g) and DPA Schedule 2 Part 1 and DPA Schedule 2 Part 1, section 5 and Schedule 7) or has likely been placed in the public domain by the individuals concerned (GDPR Article 9.2(e)).
The FSA will adopt the following principles to guide our web scraping activities:
- Seek to minimise the burden on scraped sites
- Abide by all applicable legislation and monitor the evolving legal and ethical situation
- Protect all personal data
Seek to minimise the burden on scraped sites
Excessive use of web scraping can be burdensome, and overuse on a single webpage may have a detrimental impact to the operation of the website. To avoid such scenarios, we will follow these practices, where applicable, and always act within the limits of our statutory functions:
- Assess other data collection methods, such as API’s, before considering the use of web scraping
- Respect scraping limitations enforced via documents like the Robots Exclusion Protocol (Robots.txt) and Site Terms and Conditions
- Delay accessing pages on the same domain
- Adding idle time between requests
- Limiting the depth of crawl within the given domain
- When scraping multiple domains, parallelising the crawling operation to minimise successive requests to the same domain
- Scraping at a time of day when the website is unlikely to be experiencing heavy traffic - for example, early in the morning or night
- Optimising the web scraping strategy to minimise volumes of requests to domains
- Only collect the parts of pages required for the initial purpose
- Include a User Agent String to differentiate FSA from other users
Please note that this list of best practices is non-exhaustive and the FSA will strive to maintain a high-standard of web-scraping by monitoring and implementing best practices.
Abide by applicable legislation and monitor the evolving legal and ethical situation
The FSA understands that the legal situation surrounding web scraping is complex and ever evolving; and there are relatively few relevant legal precedents for conducting such activities. The FSA will continue to monitor the legal situation as it evolves and amend our approach accordingly. Likewise, the FSA recognises the use of web scraping and the processing of data collected in this manner may give rise to a variety of ethical issues and challenges. Efforts are currently underway to develop a practical framework for considering and mitigating potential ethical risks both directly and indirectly attributed to web scraping.
Those who wish to undertake web scraping activities must document and justify the rationale, the legal and ethical reasoning and the benefits of conducting the web scraping. This rationale will be used as the basis for approval from the Information Governance Board and will be scrutinised during the assessment phase to ensure continued alignment with applicable legislation. See section 9 for more details on this.
Protect all personal data
The FSA is fully commited to compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation and ensuring that personal data is used lawfully, fairly and transparently. Data protection is of great importance to the FSA, not only because it is critical to the work of our organisation, but also because it ensures we protect individual privacy and maintain public confidence in the agency.
Roles and responsibilities
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Knowledge and Information Management and Security (KIMS)
Information Governance Board
Knowledge and Information Management and Security and Head of Divisions
Review and amends
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Web scraping steps
Web scraping request
- FSA business units wishing to scrape should contact the Heads of Data and KIMS as soon as possible after identifying the requirement
- A completed web scraping request document must also be attached to the correspondence for review
- Please note that the FSA may conduct a feasibility scrape on your website. No data will be stored by the FSA during this time. The FSA will ensure that this process remains in line with section 6 of this document, however will not be subject to evaluation by the Information Governance Board
- Head of Data and KIMS teams will inform the Information Governance Board of the new request and provide the request document
- Information Governance Board will evaluate the request document and verify whether scraping can take place
Web scraping log
Head of Data and KIMS teams will update the central scraping log with the approved activities and inform the business unit they can begin scraping. This is to ensure that the correct level of due dilligence is assigned to each project and that all activities are recorded for auditability and accountability purposes in the Web Scraping Log.
Web scraping activities can commence and will only be undertaken in accordance with the Web Scraping Policy and corresponding best practices.
Points of contact
Knowledge and Information Management and Security
Information Commissioners Office
Application Programming Interface (API)
In terms of web scraping, an API can be built by the owner of a website to allow easy access to data held on the site without the need for building a web scraper.
Depth of Crawl
Depth of crawl refers to how far into a websites page hiearchy a web-crawler accesses. A websites homepage is the top of this hierarchy (level 0), pages linked from the home page are at level 1, pages linked from level 1 pages are level 2 and so forth. Limiting the depth of crawl therefore means limiting which level the web-crawler will access.
Hypertext Markup Language
The standard markup language for defining the structure of web pages. HTML elements are used to tell the browser how to display the contents of a web page.
Idle time, or sleep time, is the pause between each request made to a website by the scraper.
Parallelising the Crawling
A parallel crawler is a crawler that runs multiple processes in parallel with the goal to maximise download rates and minimise scraping overheads. For example, if website A and B contain multiple webages, then a parallelised crawl might capture a page from website A, followed by a page from website B and so on. If crawls are not parallelised, then the overhead on a single website is likely to be vastly increased.
Robots Exclusion Protocol
Also known as the Robots.txt file. This is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. Essentially it provides website owners a method to restrict part of their websites from scraping or limit scraping entirely to just certified scrapers such as search engines. More information on this subject can be found on the robots.txt website.
User Agent String
A User Agent String is a custom piece of text that can be added to a scraper allowing the website owner to identify the operator and/or the purpose of the web scraping activity being undertaken. This can be modified when creating the web scraper and is often used for transparencies sake.
A web crawler, sometimes referred to as a spider, is an internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web for the purposes of information gathering. The most common example of this is search engines like Google who use web crawlers to keep their search results up-to-date.
Web scraping is defined as the automatic collection of data retrieved from the internet using a piece of software or program.
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Last updated: 17 May 2023


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Book Publisher CelebrityPress Joins With Brian Tracy And Leading Experts To Publish “UNcommon”
CelebrityPress, a leading book publishing company, has recently signed a publishing deal with Brian Tracy and several leading experts from various industries to release the new book “Uncommon.”
Orlando, FL – January 8, 2015 – A select group of leading business experts and entrepreneurs from across the globe have joined together to co-author the forthcoming book titled, UNcommon: Common Sense but Uncommon Knowledge from Today’s Leading Entrepreneurs and Professionals to Help You Lead an Extraordinary Life of Health, Wealth and Success. One of these experts is best-selling author and business development expert Brian Tracy. Leading agents to Celebrity Experts® worldwide, Nick Nanton, Esq. and business partner, JW Dicks, Esq., have signed a publishing deal with each of these authors to contribute their expertise to the book, which will be released under their CelebrityPress™ imprint.
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Today, an inmate escaped Department custody while assigned to a work squad supporting Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) operations. At approximately 12:17 p.m. EST, inmate David Ross (262580) attacked his supervising correctional officer with an improvised sharp object and departed the work site with the officer in their assigned Bartow Parks and Recreation vehicle. At approximately 1:53 p.m., local law enforcement stopped the vehicle in Pinellas County. Though he initially attempted to flee on foot, the inmate surrendered peacefully.
Due largely to the timely response and consummate professionalism of Department staff and our partners in law enforcement, this incident was resolved in under two hours with no use of force, no loss of life and no serious injuries. Inmate Ross is currently housed in the Pinellas County Jail.
Department staff will review this incident to determine the cause and evaluate the response. As this case is subject to an open and active criminal investigation, this is all of the information available at this time.
As Florida's largest state agency, the Department of Corrections employs 24,000 members statewide, incarcerates approximately 99,000 inmates and supervises nearly 140,000 offenders in the community.

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Dealing with Postpartum Despair: One Female’s Tale
After my personal third youngster was born we produced the things I think was postpartum depression. I was in a stressful second relationship and noticed that all with this maternity (appropriate rapidly in the pumps of my personal next kid’s delivery) I was additional mentally volatile, vulnerable, and weepy. I needed countless help that my better half would not can offer me personally.
Lineage into Rage and Weeping
Following birth, things really began to alter. I would see blasts of fuel and then I’d freeze into pitiful helplessness, hardly capable examine out of bed. was happening if you ask me that I’d put our lawn furnishings around.
I am from a fiery Mediterranean history, as a result it had not been completely impossible for me to put facts out-of stress. A pot perhaps, or a plate attain a person’s focus. But I became experience extremely out of hand. I would personally go rapidly from craze into heartsick weeping. I happened to be unable to cope. Naturally I charged my self and chosen I happened to be only a dreadful mommy and a complete pointless person.
That which was furthermore frightening got that I had very dark feelings. I would examine my personal baby and concern yourself with one particular horrible facts happening. It’s completely normal to be concerned about your newborn. It’s an indication of a potential issue as soon as you being obsessed and immobilized by unreasonable fears.
Dealing with Depression
My personal feel wasn’t distinctive, when I rapidly discovered. My spouce and I went along to a support people in which we discussed to people have been having postpartum depression, and got good quality ideas of exactly how we could best cope. They urged united states to make certain we stuck to a bedtime schedule the young children, as well as for our selves. In addition they advised alternative methods to lessen stress in our day-to-day everyday lives, and one associated with the support cluster people told me of the lady activities with short-term drug on her behalf postpartum despair.
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Bottoming Out and Splitting Through
As soon as you suffer with postpartum anxiety you’ll endure certain lowest of psychological lows. Inside my case, I finally thought very unmanageable and terrified that I prayed for assistance. I couldn’t manage my irritated, enraged moods because I could blame my hubby or my conditions and explain it out.
What ultimately unsealed my personal eyes towards seriousness of my situation had been that I became suicidal. I would personally sit on the floor during the bathroom with all the door closed and cry. I found me contemplating the easiest way individuals could by herself. I then would consider my personal young ones, cry even more, and talking my self away from slipping into the things I can simply describe as an elevator shaft. We chatted to Jesus lots and mentioned, “God, i might feel an angry people, I may bring low self-esteem at times, but I like lifetime and I also specially love my kids. Understanding wrong beside me?”
This is what sometimes happens for your requirements when you have some kinds of postpartum despair. Its like your brain was fighting you against the inside. Your own moods go crazy along with your mind commonly the things they might possibly be under normal conditions. It’s important to recognize that this might be a biochemical feedback and may not be dismissed, and is not a thing is embarrassed of. It’s not their failing any time you come to be ill after childbirth. Its your option whether you’re taking they really sufficient to get support.

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Prep 20 mins
Cook 8 hrs
This is from Simple & Delicious. I took this to church this last Sunday and it was devoured. It went so fast I didn't get to try it. I was told by a church member that my family brings the most sinful desserts to church.
- 1 (16 1/2 ounce) package refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 (12 ounce) carton frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
- 3 cups cold milk
- 1 (4 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
- chopped nuts (optional)
- chocolate curls (optional)
- Let cookie dough stand at room temperature for 5-10 minutes to soften.
- Press into an ungreased 13 x 9 baking pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 14-16 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool on wire rack.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth.
- Fold in 1-3/4 cups whipped topping.
- Spread over crust.
- In a large bowl, whisk milk and pudding mixes for 2 minutes; let stand for 2 minutes or until soft set.
- Spread over cream cheese layer.
- Top with remaining whipped topping.
- Sprinkle with nuts and chocolate curls if desired.
- Cover and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight until firm.
Quick and easy to whip up....and absolutely amazing. We loved this sweet, chocolatey, summer treat!
Delicious dessert, and very easy to make.
This is really yummy. In fact, my picking husband, who doesn't like cream cheese much, LOVED it. It was pretty easy to make. Not too much fuss, and it turned out really nice. I did have to cook my cookie mix a bit longer than said tho. I think it was about 15-17 minutes.

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It’s very hard for the basic bits of suspension technology to move beyond springs and forcing oil through various shims, stacks and the odd bit of cleverly controlled valving, but if there is anything that can be improved very quickly it’s how well a rider can set up their suspension.
- Fox Live Valve automatic suspension system in development
- Six of the best mountain bike air shocks
- 5 bike handling problems caused by bad suspension set-up (and how to fix them)
Suspension telemetry on mountain bikes isn’t new by any means, but it’s usually the preserve of professional mountain bike teams and development engineers who have the capability (and budget) to dive into huge amounts of real-time data about how well their shocks — and therefore their athletes — are performing. If that technology could be distilled sufficiently for even the most technophobic of riders to understand, and made more affordable, it would represent a huge leap forward in being able to marry the potential that suspension designs have into how well they actually work for the end user.
Happily, there are some developments afoot that point to a time when setting up your bike will be as simple as looking at your smartphone. So could 2017 be the year that ‘smart’ technology rather than witchcraft begins to help the average rider get the best from their shock?
Shockwiz began as an Australian Kickstarter project and was given more than a little kickstart when it was bought up by component giant SRAM. It’s now part of SRAM’s Quarq power meter division, and with all of the suspension and data acquisition resource and experience now available to Shockwiz it is sure to have helped to speed up the process — with SRAM showing a very polished-looking prototype at Eurobike this year.
How does the Shockwiz work?
The Shockwiz works by connecting to the air spring of your shock or fork and then using the changes in pressure as the shock compresses and extends to figure out what’s going on.
There’s a highly sensitive pressure sensor, plus a microprocessor, that samples the pressure hundreds of times a second, which is fed via some very clever algorithms into an easy to use app. The app then extrapolates that information into suggestions for how you need to tweak your settings to maximise performance.
The Shockwiz unit is designed to be zip-tied to the shock body or fork crown and there’s an additional air valve that allows you to make pressure adjustments while the Shockwiz is in place. To get the unit working, you need to follow a calibration procedure of letting enough air out of the shock to be able to cycle it through full travel. Using some clever maths it can then work out what’s happening by monitoring the rate of change of pressure as you ride.
The unit transmits data via Bluetooth to a smartphone app where it then generates a ‘health check’ of how well your suspension is set up for you and offers recommendations to improve it. You can choose from four different riding styles, ranging from XC to DH, and it will offer you settings to suit.
It’s possible to gather the data and transmit it to your phone on the fly, or to wait until the end of a run and then transfer the data from the unit to the phone.
The one downside of ShockWiz is that it only works with air sprung units, so if you’re running coil springs you’re all out of luck. For most of us that’s not a huge drawback as the massive increase in popularity of air sprung models, even in gravity focused disciplines such as downhill, makes it less of an issue than it would have been in the past.
It’s not all plain sailing however as some air spring designs — such as those that use separately charged positive and negative air chambers or a system that equalises pressure between the two when a shock pump is attached — won’t work, but some travel adjustable systems, such as RockShox Dual Position Air, do.
Before Quarq became involved, the unit was due to cost around £265 / US$399, but we’re unsure how much the unit will now go on sale for or when it it becomes available — though SRAM will be honouring all of the ShockWiz’s Kickstarter backers.
Another Kickstarter outfit developing a system with a similar end goal is Scotland’s SussMyBike, but with one significant difference. Instead of using changes in air pressure to determine what the suspension is doing, the system works by using the displacement of the shock and the rate of change of that to calculate what’s going on and how it can be improved.
How does it work?
It does this by using a high-tech equivalent of the cable retraction mechanism that a retractable ski-lift pass holder has. One end is attached to the end of the shock shaft while the other is attached to the shock body, and as you move through the travel the cable extends and retracts, and time and position data are recorded.
The information about the shock shaft speed and displacement is then transmitted via a Bluetooth connection to an app when you’ve finished your ride, which is all powered by a small coin cell battery. While you don’t need to cycle the shock to full travel to calibrate it like the Shockwiz, you will need to input the stroke of the shock that you’re using the unit on as well as your riding style.
SussMyBike says this approach has a couple of benefits over measuring air spring pressure. The first is obviously that you’re not limited to air sprung suspension as it’ll work perfectly well with coil units too — indeed it’ll work with any suspension set up from motorbikes to mountain bikes.
The second is that it directly reads the displacement, rather than having to calculate it from changing air pressure. Obviously air pressure is affected by temperature, and shocks inevitably heat up during a descent. While Shockwiz does have a temperature sensor that allows the algorithm to try and compensate for this, SussMyBike says its system is much simpler and therefore less prone to error.
The unit is pretty much there, but the algorithm that powers the app and gives recommendations is still very much in development. It’s designed to give suggestions for optimum rebound, sag, and high and low speed compression damping adjustments, though more adjustments and measurements are being developed. The units also have the ability to ‘speak’ to each other, which should allow the app to give you a much more holistic set up that takes into account what both ends of the bike are doing and how the set up of each affects the other when riding.
One issue at the moment is creating mounts that will fit onto a wide range of different suspension units and designs. For the fixed end of the unit SussMyBike plans to have silicone rubber mounts, but mounting for the shock or fork shaft is still very much in development — though the plan is to provide a number of options to ensure that the system fits 90-95% of all suspension designs and bikes.
Prices will start from £169 for a single unit to £329 for a pair of units (international pricing is currently unavailable), both with multi-mount units included. Availability is said to be mid October 2016 and we’ve requested test units as soon as they become available.
It’s fairly obvious that this sort of technology has huge promise in enabling riders to get much more from their suspension. Whether you’re a racer looking to extract the last few percent of performance from your bike or a complete newbie just wanting to get your bike working well out of the box, having a simple set up process that’s driven by hard data is bound to make a difference.
However, how well these units work — and therefore how useful their suggestions are — will come down to the complex algorithms they use. That means that it’s still down to the knowledge, insight and feel of the people developing these apps as to how well they’ll work.
The technology will make it much easier for those with minimal knowledge to get their bikes working better, but if you want to get the absolute best from your bike the combination of stopwatch, data, and expert human input is going to be hard to beat for a good while yet.

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Helium could prove a powerful aid to a better quality of life for sufferers of chronic respiratory illnesses say researchers.
Scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that by combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were able to increase their exercise capacity by an average of 245 per cent. COPD is a disease of the lungs caused by smoking and includes the conditions of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
This was the first study to demonstrate that helium-hyperoxia (40 per cent oxygen, 60 per cent helium) improves the exercise tolerance of COPD patients to a greater extent than oxygen alone, which is currently used for treating patients with this disorder. People with severe COPD typically struggle for every breath while exercising and any improvements that could be made to their ability to perform exercise could have significant clinical implications.
$quot;This means they don't have to work as hard to breathe and they are not so short of breath during exercise, which allows them to do more,$quot; said Dr. Neil Eves, lead author on the study. During the clinical trials 10 men with moderate to severe COPD were each given four different mixes of gases including room air, while they exercised. During each test they were monitored for exercise time, breathing capacity, work of breathing and symptoms of exertion. The best results were achieved with a mix of 40 per cent oxygen and 60 per cent helium.
$quot;If patients were to breathe helium-hyperoxia in a rehabilitation setting, they could potentially perform a lot more exercise, which may improve their exercise capacity, fitness level and as a result, quality of life,$quot; Eves said.

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Ever look at a stock chart and see missing candle bars between days, or even intraday? Those are gaps.
What is a gap fill in stocks?
- When a stock gaps up, that means it opened higher than it closed in the prior period; the opposite is true for gap downs.
- Fill the gap is a strategy where you buy a stock when it gaps down and wait for prices to go up to “fill” the gap.
- Gaps are due to a catalyst or news event, and halts trading while it is happening. It typically occurs premarket or during the after hours, but intraday gaps happen too.
- Gaps are key regions that chartists like to look at for potential trades.
Gap fill stocks example
With that in mind, let’s look at an example of how to potentially trade a gap using basic support and resistance lines, and key levels.
For an example, look at this daily chart on Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMPH).
As noted here, the stock had two gaps down, each attributed to catalyst events. You could, therefore, potentially use these areas for trading; if a stock “fills” the gap, that means its price rises back to the level it maintained prior to the gap.
Thus, you could have potentially looked to buy and hold AMPH to play for gap fill stocks. Let’s assume you noticed the gap downs and saw how beaten up AMPH was, so you looked for a mean-reversion trade. Assume you got long the stock around $12.50 area.
Here’s a look at how that buy-and-hold swing trade would have worked out.
With biotech stocks, gap ups and gap downs occur after a catalyst event, such as data releases from clinical trials, or FDA approval announcements. Consequently, if you watch the chart around these events, you may find opportunities for gap-fill trades.
The Bottom Line
Gap fills have huge reward potential, if you get the timing right and are patient. Biotech and pharma are particularly ripe for gap-fill plays because the nature of their development processes creates catalyst events that can create gaps in the first place, but don’t just jump into any gap you see because not all of these voids get filled.
Kyle Dennis runs Kyle Dennis’ Biotech Breakouts (biotechbreakouts.com). He is an event-based trader, who prefers low-priced and small-cap biotech stocks.


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The orange arch in Glengormley was vandalised this week hours before it was officially opened during a loyalist parade. Republican slogans were painted on to the arch in the middle of the village. The incident happened a few hours before the mini Twelfth parade when hundreds of loyalists descended in Glengormley.
Phil Hamilton from the Progressive Unionist Party said there has been much good cross community work in the area.
“This was a deliberate attempt by some to raise tensions in the area,” he said
“There has been great talks and work carried out in the area between both sides and we don’t want a small minority of people to derail that.
“There has been so much good work going on and we don’t want it to be ruined by a small few who want to vandalise.”


Limping to Palmerston
25 September 2008 | South Pacific
All things considered we are having a fairly nice, albeit slow, passage. We set out from Maupiti for the 625 nm trip looking forward to smooth sailing and 200 mile days. We plan for 160 nm days but hope for 200. We've been barely making the minimum with the help of the diesel. We sailed our first day and then had the traveler melt down. We motored the first night and then motor sailed the second day until the traveler gave out again, then went into trawler mode. Last night we crossed the fading SPCZ sheer line. It rained almost all night and we had no sky from about two hours before sunset until dawn. This morning early we had a little 20 some knot squall and the seas got really sharp, building into the 3 meter zone, but it passed in an couple of hours.
Today we are back to sailing with the full main and jib up, making five to eight knots in the light air on a deep reach. We can't move the traveler without surgery so we can only sail on a port tack reach anyway. The traveler car is heavily duct taped and a sufficient number of bearings are in place to keep the car on the track, hopefully. Because the port cap is broken the car is only secured on the starboard side and simply jammed on the port side. The light conditions (10-15 knots true from 150 off the port bow) combined with the 4-8 foot swell is really working the rig. Not a good thing while trying to limp into port with a broken traveler.
Today I talked to Independent Freedom (an unstayed Freedom yacht) and Plan B (a Privilege cat) over the SSB and both have experience with this traveler system. Each had some good advice for repairs to the traveler car. It is a Lewmar traveler and is less than 3 years old! In a fairly shocking oversight, bordering on negligence in my book, Lewmar decided to use plastic end caps for the traveler car to capture the Torlon bearings and hold the car on the track. The plastic they picked falls apart when exposed to UV after two seasons. Hmm, let's see, sailboats, tropics, intense sunshine 24/7, yes these things go together. I know Lewmar is from England where they don't see the sun too often but come on. Apparently the new Lewmar cars have aluminum end caps. We will be having a few of these metal caps shipped to Niue if possible. Plan B has also offered to meet us in Niue and they may have some spares to offer that will fit our car. You have to love cruisers, what wonderful folks.
We have to keep an eye on the fuel because we're pretty much out in the middle of no where. Closest possible fuel is Niue a good three nights out. We could motor the whole way there with what we have left (this boat has good tankage) but I prefer to come in with a safe reserve so we're sailing. If has been a near perfect afternoon of it as well. Wind about 130 to port at 11 apparent and a close together but reasonable 6 foot swell on the quarter. We're gliding along at 7 knots into the sunset.
255 nm to Palmerston


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The Philippine Navy will benefit from high performance and noise-reducing Kongsberg propulsion onboard its six new 94-metre offshore patrol vessels.
The order from Hyundai Heavy Industries consists of six twin Kongsberg Kamewa Controllable Pitch Propeller (CPP) 86 A/5 D-B systems, as well as shaft lines, hydraulic power units, local operating panels and accessories.
“Our propulsion equipment is vital to the performance of these sophisticated new vessels for the Philippine Navy,” said Ottar Ristesund, senior vice president, propulsion and engine sales, Kongsberg Maritime.
“We are proud to secure this important order for Kongsberg Maritime – it showcases our good and strong collaboration with our clients.”
The six new offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) are part of a major upgrade to Philippine naval capacity.
These new vessels are to have a displacement of 2,450 tonnes, maximum speed of 22 knots, 15-knot cruising speed and a range of 5,500 nautical miles. The vessels will be able to provide long range patrol capability.
Kyung-Hoon Lee, senior sales manager for Kongsberg Maritime Korea, said that good business cooperation with HHI-EMD helped Kongsberg Maritime secure the new contract.
“Some years back we discussed our CPP business cooperation with Hyundai Heavy Industries Engine & Machinery (HHI-EMD ) to make a package proposal for their own 4-stroke engine (HiMSEN Engine) to meet market demands,” he said.
Kongsberg is known for its expertise in optimising propeller efficiency against cavitation and vibration, significantly reducing a vessel’s underwater noise.
The first shipset will be delivered in August 2024.


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It was more interesting for her this time. She did many things and enjoyd the activities for children there! She played with the mascot and other things at the play room where she met other children too!
She got a big towel from the monkey nicke, ballon, ice drop, juice and drawing books! I think she enjoyed the whole trip and her energy was extraordinaire:)
She's so serious doing her book... heheh! Like what we felt, it was also a wonderful time for her, a sort of adventure:)

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Give me an22LR auto pistol that is as reliable as my Gen5 19/34 and I'll buy it in a heartbeat. No way I'm buying one until field reports start coming in though.
I hope it is and I hope it can set a new standard for reliability. We seriously need the Ruger 10/22 reliability equivalent in the pistol world.


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Summary of Video #7 of Crash Course Sociology.
Race is a socially constructed category of people who share biological traits that society has deemed important. The concept of race changes across cultures and time – what race a person is seen as and how they are treated as a result. Race matters because of the power society gives it – it is a big determinant of social outcomes.
Du Bois, also the co-founder of the NAACP and editor of the Crisis, was one of the first proponents of race-conflict theory, which focuses on the disparities and conflicts between people of different races.
During the time Du Bios was born in 1868, race was seen as a biological construct, where blacks were naturally inferior to whites. Du Bios’s work, ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ was the first published study of the living conditions of African Americans, and argued that their poorer conditions were due to racial prejudice rather than racial inferiority. This will complete against prevailing perspectives at that time.
Race-conflict theory gave rise to modern fields of study in racial identity, racial formation, racial politics and racial resistance. For example, Omi and Winant argued that the concept of race originated as a tool to justify and maintain the economic and political power held by those of European descent. Today, Bonilla-Silva says that entrenched political and legal structures continue to hold back the progress of racial minorities.


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Twenty-one people are dead after a series of rallies in Indonesia’s remote West Papua and Papua provinces where, much to Jakarta’s annoyance, a nagging independence movement refuses to go away.
Protesters in traditional tribal dress defied a heavily armed police and military presence and marched across cities and towns, while sympathy meetings were held in London demanding a referendum on independence and repudiation of a 1969 vote.
That vote was backed by the United Nations and formalized Indonesian control over the region. However, Papuans claim only a thousand people participated after being bullied to the ballot box by Jakarta.
This week, protesters carried the Morning Star flag – the banner for independence – an offence in Indonesia, where displaying symbols of separatism is considered an act of treason.
Of the dead, 17 were killed Saturday when fighting erupted between clans who backed rival candidates in upcoming district elections. Another four were hacked to death during an ambush Monday, with authorities from different government departments blaming the Free Papua Movement for all the deaths.
Indonesia has a long history of dealing with independence movements. More often it’s seen as a Javanese empire that rules its fringes – where ethnic differences are greatest – with a heavy hand, but only achieving mixed results as witnessed with East Timor and Aceh.
Jakarta granted resource-rich Papua special autonomy status a decade ago, including increased local control over tax revenues derived from local mining operations such as the massive Freeport McMoRan gold and copper mine.
However, protesters claim greater autonomy has been too little too late, with unemployment and poverty rates remaining stubbornly high while relations with Jakarta are persistently antagonized by allegations of human rights abuses blamed on Indonesian security forces and heavy migration into the provinces.
Spearheading calls for greater independence is the West Papua National Committee. It says police had blamed the Free Papua Movement – which has fought a motley low level conflict for independence over the last four decades – for the deaths to tarnish their legitimacy.
However, the authorities in Indonesia are facing the same headaches as governments elsewhere in the region when it comes to convincing a sceptical public with access to the internet and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and independent online news sites.
This was evident during recent rallies in Kuala Lumpur calling for electoral reform, last year’s bloody stand-off between Red and Yellow Shirt protesters in Bangkok and the 2007 anti-government protests organized by Buddhist monks in Burma.
All three governments lost miserably in the court of public opinion, while in Thailand the prime minister was trounced at last month’s elections with the opposition winning by a landslide.
Events in Papua have a long way to go before they can threaten Jakarta at a similar level. However, the government’s previous efforts at defusing internal strife have been patchy at best, and perhaps it’s time it paid a little more attention to the Papuan independence movement.


The 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 19 to 23 May at the International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG). Heads of State, government ministers, parliamentarians, CEOs, scientists and civil society representatives will meet to discuss a new global framework to reduce disaster risk.
It is expected that around 3,000 people will attend this fourth session of the Global Platform which will be the last to take place before the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan in 2015. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, estimates that since the year 2000, earthquakes, floods, storms, tsunamis, heat waves and other disaster events have killed 1.1 million people, disrupted the lives of 2.7 billion and caused over $1.3 trillion in economic losses.
UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström, who is also the UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, said: "This will be the last Global Platform before the world decides on a new framework for disaster risk in 2015. We have come a long way since the first World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World in 1994. Hardly a month goes by now when we are not confronted with an extreme weather event which reminds us of our fragility but we are also seeing more governments engaging in concrete efforts to turn back the tide of rising economic losses and fewer lives are being lost in major disaster events”.
"Eleven years after Yokohama the world met again in Japan to agree on the world's first comprehensive action plan for disaster risk reduction with the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action in 2005. This has generated a clear understanding of the links between disaster risk reduction and poverty reduction which will inform the discussions now taking place on a new framework which will describe in detail how we can build a more resilient world over the next 30 years”, said also Wahlström.
The Global Platform is the 4th such event to be held since 2007 and will be a major milestone event in the consultative process facilitated by UNISDR for the development of a post-2015 global framework for disaster risk reduction. Those wishing to attend can register online.


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DAVID LEAN by Kevin Brownlow, Richard Cohen Books pounds 25
Sunday 19 May 1996
However, one doesn't have to like literature to transfer books successfully to the screen. A fondness for words might even be a disadvantage. What Lean could do was to extract the essence of a story and visualise how it might translate into images and sounds. Moreover, academic failure - while his elder brother was up at Oxford, editing Isis - and lack of any promise at accountancy (his father's career) were what first brought this alleged dunce to the Gaumont film studios. He arrived just when the 1927 Cinematographic Films Act, hoping to ensure that cinemas showed a minimum of British-made films, was providing employment for "quota-quickie" specialists like Maurice Elvey. On the sets of Elvey's Balaclava and High Treason, Lean picked up the basics of film-making and, in the cutting rooms of the 1930s, discovered his metier. By the end of the decade, he was probably the most respected and highest-paid editor in British cinema.
He remained a superb craftsman, at his happiest when editing his own films, and much less competent when it came to soothing the vanity of actors or reconciling the demands of writers, producers and technicians. Kevin Brownlow's successive accounts of how the films were made tend to follow the same broad outline, proceeding from agonised pre-production hassles with writers over scripts, through envious bickerings during filming, down to resentments about the final attribution of credits. There were also the rows with producers (notably Sam Spiegel, with whom he was not on speaking terms during the filming of Bridge on the River Kwai) and the private traumas which meant that, as Julie Christie noted during the making of Doctor Zhivago, he "seemed distraught about his personal life a lot of the time".
No wonder. By all accounts, Lean was charming, sexually attractive and harmful to women; most of those who talked to Brownlow seemed to remember the first two with gratitude and to harbour little or no resentment for the last. There was a pattern to his more serious affairs: he tended to marry just as he was growing tired of the relationship - according to Brownlow from a sense of guilt inherited from his Quaker upbringing. Lean's own explanation had to do with familiarity leading to impotence, for which the cure was somebody new. In all, he had six marriages. His policy was to make a "clean break", leaving a lot of pieces scattered around behind him.
Brownlow's book on this life, work and loves developed from a proposal for Lean to write his own autobiography, with Brownlow's help, on the basis of tape-recorded interviews. After Lean's death, Brownlow expanded the material with contributions from friends, associates, family and collaborators, merely adding these new voices to Lean's. He defends this technique on the ground that Lean himself approved of it in Brownlow's fine study of silent movies, The Parade's Gone By: "Since David had liked my approach ... I thought the least I could do was to adopt a similar approach with his biography." Lean also wanted "bloody good pictures" and has got them: 56 superb plates (23 in colour), together with numerous illustrations in the text.
This method of composition, assembling the text like a documentary from interviews and written sources, was effective in Brownlow's books on silent cinema, but works less well in this attempt to capture a personality. For a start, it leaves contradictions irritatingly unresolved (for example, Michael Powell's view of the young David Lean, and Lean's own recollection of Powell's attitude). It also means that a revealing remark, like Lean's observation that "men can be terribly hostile to other men who they think are a success with women", instead of being picked out and given its full weight with reference to his own experience, is allowed to remain buried in the middle of a rather dull passage about the characters in Brief Encounter.
The narrative is most engrossing when it tells the story of how the different films came to be made, and in its picture of the British film industry in the early years of sound. But it gives one little sense of how the man's life bore on his work, and still less of the work's wider significance. Like one of Lean's later films, this is an impressive piece of work, yet one which fails to deliver as much as it promises.
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Many hospitality workers struggle to make ends meet in a $180 billion industry
EZE JACKSON: On Thursday October 19th, in over 40 cities across North America, mass mobilizations of hospitality workers organized rallies in solidarity to raise their voices in demanding justice for all under the Trump administration. ALBERTA PALMER: So, we’re out here because we want to show union power, worker power, and that workers are fighting. You know, ever since 45 got into office, there’s been marches for women because there obviously is an attack on women. There’s been marches for immigrants because there’s an attack on immigrants. There’s been marches for black lives. There’s always an attack on black lives, but there’s been no showing of power or solidarity within workers and there is an attack on workers. ROXIE HERBEKIAN: We are together united to fight and resist what’s been going on in Washington, which is building walls instead of building communities, which is giving tax breaks to the 1% instead of funding schools, which is not giving us affordable housing or good healthcare. So, we’re taking on that fight and we’re ending up here at City Council because we want our city officials to back up the workers. We’re fighting for these things, we want them to say the same things to the company. If you’re going to come to Baltimore, you got to do right by the residents of the city. EZE JACKSON: Unite HERE, which represents workers in a $180 billion hospitality industry and is the fastest growing private sector AFL-CIO union organized the national day of action called Serving Our Country to quote “Stand up to the Trump administration and its policies.” The union consists of hotel housekeepers, restaurant cooks, cafeteria workers, casino workers, airline concessions, and catering workers, and more. In Baltimore approximately 1,000 gaming, food, and beverage employees won their first contract at Horseshoe Casino, located in downtown Baltimore. Horseshoe Casino opened in August of 2014. The casino is the second largest in Maryland and was developed by Seaback Gaming, a group led by Caesars Entertainment. Horseshoe Casino grossed over $23,000,000 alone last year. Casinos in the state of Maryland as a whole made over $136,000,000, while many of its employees made less than $15 an hour and worked under unsatisfactory conditions. Approval of the casino came with a great deal of labor union support, but a year after its opening, union members saw that they were not getting a fair deal. Employees at the casino were making three dollars less an hour than the average union hospitality worker in the area was making. Negotiations began in 2015 and took nearly two years to reach an agreement. The agreement reached by the coalition of unions and Horseshoe Baltimore Casino brings non-tipped employees who make as low as $9.25 an hour to $27 an hour, while those who receive tips as the majority of their wages making as low as $3.72 an hour will see their pay go up to $10.76 an hour. ALBERTA PALMER: Workers at the casino were struggling affording health insurance. They had this point system where if you’re a minute late you get a point, two minutes late you get a point. The turnover was really high. From what I hear, bosses were sort of bullies. Workers had no respect, no dignity. And now that they won their contract all of that is about to be over. It’s gonna change. ROXIE HERBEKIAN: One of the big goals was to really push up wages. You know, the lowest wage there was 9.25 an hour. Now the lowest wage is gonna be 10.57 an hour. Right? The highest wage was 25. It’s gonna go up over the life of this contract to 30. And so, by the end of this contract just about everyone is gonna be above $15 an hour, which is big. And we have an agreement that those will be full-time jobs, 40-hour-a-week jobs, which is a big thing in the hospitality industry. Sometimes they’ll give someone a raise then cut their hours. Right? So, guarantees on 40 hours a week, paid 40 hours. We also improved the health insurance. They had a health insurance plan where everyone had to pay the first $1,300 out of their pocket before they got a penny from the health insurance. So, we’ve changed that no to Kaiser Permanente plan, no deductibles, people get benefits right away. The other big thing is we have an agreement for an education to do scholarships for the children and grandchildren of members and training for members on the job and finally another really big thing is we want to make sure as we make these jobs good that local residents are getting the jobs. So, we have an agreement with the company to work with us to create pipelines from Baltimore neighborhoods to the jobs. EZE JACKSON: Part of the Day of Action, Unite HERE also unveiled a new public art campaign with posters and banners featuring bold images of real hospitality workers with the message “Serving our country.” For the Real News Network with Will Arenas, this is Eze Jackson.


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Who Gets Credit For Change In The LDS Church?
There’s an understanding among Latter-day Saints: Change in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints happens from the top when God speaks through his prophet.
That’s been the case for a long time — as is it is now with the current prophet Russell M. Nelson — but it hasn’t kept church members from advocating for change.
For instance, back in 2013, Amber Choruby Whiteley and a group of Latter-day Saint feminists wanted a woman to pray in the church’s twice yearly General Conference. Women had given talks, but never prayed. It seemed like a simple oversight to Whiteley and others.
“What a reasonable request,” Whiteley remembered thinking. “Maybe they’ve not even thought of it before.”
Whiteley reached out to a few fellow feminists and before long a new Facebook page called “Let Women Pray” had taken on a life of its own. The goal was simple: they were going to collect hundreds of letters asking to allow a woman to pray and then deliver them to top church leaders who they thought would be sympathetic to their cause.
Whiteley said Let Women Pray made some Latter-day Saints very uncomfortable. Some members of her local congregation even told her if she didn’t like the way things were, she could leave.
That seemed ridiculous to her, she said, because a letter-writing campaign was the tamest form of protest she could have come up with.
Despite the pushback, hundreds of letters and emails came in. She and few other organizers delivered the letters to Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
And then, literally months later, it happened.
On the morning of April 6, 2013, Jean Stevens became the first woman to pray in General Conference. She was serving in the church’s Primary presidency at the time.
There was no fanfare, no special announcement. It just happened. And Whiteley said she couldn’t help but cry. It was incredible to see a change happen so quickly.
But no credit was given to the Let Women Pray organizers. In fact, a church spokesman said the movement had no influence on the church’s decision.
“It didn’t surprise me,” Whiteley said. “But in some ways it did feel a little bit like gaslighting.”
Whiteley said this is a pattern she has seen repeat itself since.
Most recently, former LDS Bishop Sam Young advocated for changes to the sexually explicit questions local leaders sometimes ask youth in one-on-one interviews. He vocally criticized top church officials and even staged a three week hunger strike right outside of Temple Square.
The church did revise its guidelines slightly, but said Young had nothing to do with it. And he was later excommunicated, which is the risk Latter-day Saint activists take.
Once open to change, then “correlation”
Lisa Olsen Tait, a historian who works for the LDS Church, said back in the late 19th century and early 20th century getting the attention of top church officials was easier.
“There was a channel,” Tait, who specializes in the church’s Young Women’s organization, said, “An avenue for back and forth. For ideas to flow in both directions.”
As an example, back in the 1920s some local congregations decided to start a summer program for Young Women called “Girls Camp.”
“That camping idea takes off and takes hold in the Young Women’s program so that by the 1930s camping is an established part of the program,” Tait said.
Back then if a Latter-day Saint had an idea for a change they could easily chat with leaders in Salt Lake City who could either make the change or go directly to the church president. But this was at a time when the church was much smaller, less than a million members total.
Things changed in the 60s and 70s when membership more than quadrupled. Church leaders wanted to keep a now-worldwide church from splintering so they introduced something called “correlation.” All of the church’s organizations were streamlined into one. And the power rested fully with top male leaders.
“The big thing that happened with implications to the young women’s program was the discontinuation of that line of authority, that line of reporting from the local to the general,” Tait said.
The age of grassroots change was over. But to be clear, that example of girls camp wasn’t exactly controversial.
Matt Bowman, associate professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkansas, said there’s been a long history of activists petitioning church leaders, especially back in church founder Joseph Smith’s time.
Smith dealt with people criticizing the way he led the church and spent their money. He also experienced vocal pushback from members and some top church officials when he introduced the practice of polygamy.
And how did he react to that?
“Fairly harsh,” Bowman said.
Many of these activists, like today, were excommunicated by Smith. In turn, sone started their own splinter churches.
For the average Latter-day Saint who would like to see change happen, the advice of top church officials is to talk to their local leader, or bishop.
“The response to go talk to your local leadership - I don’t think that is useless,” Bowman said, adding that patience and numbers are what’s needed to effect change.
“There is one way to try to get in touch with the top leaders of the church,” Bowman said. “That is letters.”
Which brings us back to Amber Choruby Whiteley.
It’s important to point out that Whiteley hasn’t been a lifelong member of the LDS Church. She joined as a teenager and part of what drew her in was the Latter-day Saint doctrine that each person can receive personal revelation.
“For me that’s kind of the church I fell in love with,” Whiteley said.”
But it’s not exactly how she sees the church operating today. Instead she sees an organization that is extremely top down. And when church members advocate for a change, if they’re lucky, they might live to see it happen. But they shouldn’t expect to get the credit.
Faith And ActivismFor faithful Latter-day Saints, there isn't really a way to petition the Church for change. Activists who make a ruckus run the risk of discipline or excommunication. So, when does activism work? Monday we're asking just how much influence Latter-day Saints have over policy changes within their church.


A spring fashion show, Haute Gala, will take place May 1 as a fundraiser for Central Oregon Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors and Bend Area Habitat for Humanity.
The event will take place at SHARC, 57250 Overlook Road in Sunriver, from 5 to 9 p.m. It will feature collections of spring fashions from eight local stores showcased down a runway. The event will begin with drinks from Twist Cocktails and appetizers from Tate & Tate. There will also be a silent auction and the show will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased beginning Monday at Central Oregon Association of Realtors, 2112 N.E. Fourth St., Bend or online at www.hautegala.com.


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According to figures released by NHS Digital 16,314 hospital cases last year were diagnosed with protein energy malnutrition – a condition more usually seen in developing countries.
In 1,557 of these cases the malnutrition was severe enough for them to be admitted to hospital, four times the number from a decade ago.
Professor Simon Capewell is Vice-President for policy for the UK Faculty of Public Health and a professor of clinical epidemiology at the University. Professor Capewell is also a trustee for the UK Health Forum for Heart of Mersey and a founder member of Action on Sugar.
“It is a national scandal. The fifth wealthiest country on the planet is now suffering from Victorian diseases such as malnutrition, rickets, scurvy. These figures are shocking and need to be a real wake up call.
Severe malnutrition is very serious and can be fatal. And what is really worrying is that for every person admitted to hospital, there will be five times that number getting care in out-patient clinics, and another 50 times that number getting care from their GP.
These figures are only the absolute tip of the iceberg. It is a further burden on an already over-burdened NHS and it is absolutely avoidable and preventable.
More and more people in England are living in food poverty. Between 2007 and 2014 food prices rose 12 per cent in real terms, while wages fell by seven per cent. For people in low paid work and on benefits it is a real struggle to put food on the table.
Last year more than a million people accessed food banks – it is a heart breaking sign of the inequality in this country.”
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Development of national economy in accordance with the innovation model requires an efficient system of legal support for the relations ensuing from transformation of the intellectual activity results into innovative products and innovations, and introduction of the rights to intellectual property into circulation in the business sector. Given the expansion and a more complex nature of the methods via which intellectual property rights are commercialized owing to various qualities acquired by these rights, it is increasingly important not only to examine the contracts for intellectual property right disposal which are enshrined in law, but also to develop other legal forms designated to serve as a go-between in cases of transfer of rights to objects of intellectual property in the business sector. The purpose of the article is to finalize the scientific and theoretical provisions relating to the transfer of proprietary rights to intellectual property in the business sector. The author shows the methods introducing intellectual property rights into circulation in the business sector within the framework of corporate, contractual and pledge relations. It is established that the specific nature of these legal relations leaves its mark on the legal forms of transfer of intellectual property rights. The article demonstrates that when economic relations become more complex, this is accompanied by the expansion of the scope and methods used to introduce intellectual property rights into the business sector. At the same time, the specifics of the mechanisms for the exercise of these methods of rights transfer generate a need for development of a legal form adequate to the said specifics. The author proves that regulation of intellectual property rights transfer under economic law does not provide for an appropriate definition and differentiation of legal forms of intellectual property rights transfer in the course of arrangement and performance of business activities, in the manner which would take into account the broad economic potential of these rights in terms of meeting various economic interests of business entities. As a result of the research, the author provides substantiation for the types of legal forms of transfer of proprietary rights to intellectual property in the business sector in case such rights are contributed as a contribution to the authorized capital of a business entity, or a contribution to joint activity (general partnership); or when proprietary right is used as the subject of pledge and further alienated in case of the exercise of the pledge. On this basis, the author concludes that it is advisable to improve the regulation, under economic law, of relations arising in connection with intellectual property rights transfer in terms of statutory definitions of the types of legal forms for the transfer of these rights.
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Baltic Sea Security: How can allies and partners meet the new challenges in the region?
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With the Ukraine crisis and an increasingly aggressive Russia, the Baltic Sea region is again an area of key strategic importance. As NATO allies and partners are confronted with provocative Russian behavior, there is a need to take a fresh look at the various military and political instruments available and initiatives undertaken so far. How can NATOs allies and partners jointly and individually meet the challenges currently posed by Russia to security in our neighborhood?
Registration is required to email@example.com no later than May 28 at 12:00.
09:00 - 09:30 Registration and coffee
09:30 – 09:50 Welcome (Kristian Søby Kristensen, Centre for Military Studies)
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10:00 - 11:45 Panel 1. Security in the Baltic Sea region
How has security in the Baltic Sea been affected by developments in the last year, how has the West handled the challenges so far, what are the views in the US and NATO – and what is Russia up to in the region?
Moderator: Ann-Sofie Dahl (Centre for Military Studies)
Christopher Coker (London School of Economics)
Gudrun Persson (FOI, Stockholm)
Andras Simonyi (SAIS, Washington, DC)
James Mackey (NATO HQ)
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 14:30 Panel 2. The Allies: How do we, and should we, meet the challenge?NATOs allies in the Nordic-Baltic region approach the current security challenges from different angles, depending on their national perspectives. What is going on in the Baltic Sea region, and how should we deal with it? Perspectives from Berlin, Warsaw, Tallinn, Oslo and Copenhagen.
Moderator: Kristian Søby Kristensen (Centre for Military Studies)
Claudia Major (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin)
Justyna Gotkowska (Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw)
Andres Kasekamp (Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, Tallinn, University of Tartu)
Paal Sigurd Hilde (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo)
Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen (Ministry of Defence, Copenhagen)
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Two of the countries in the Baltic Sea region are NATO partners, now part of the new Enhanced Partnership Program that was launched at the NATO Summit in Wales. How can Sweden and Finland contribute to enhancing security in the region, and how can the regional allies and partners work together to meet the challenges?
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Ann-Sofie Dahl (Centre for Military Studies)
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