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For example, in the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why", it shows what life is like in an average high school in the United States of America and talks about the aftermath of a girl who committed suicide due to the overwhelming pressure she kept built up inside.
Stress is a primitive response that the human body will experience naturally, stress activates the nervous system which signals certain glands like adrenaline to be sent through the body. This response increases the heart rate, blood pressure and breathing pace which puts the human body on alert. For young adults entering the work force in Singapore, stress typically happens during deadlines set by school or at work. Naturally, “stress” is tagged with a negative meaning, which may not always be the case like starting a new job. There are many stressors and its severity, from minor stressors like a naughty child getting reprimanded to severe trauma rape survivors go through.
The personality of an individual affects how stress can be perceived and handled. Locus of control splits in to two categories, the internal locus of control has an optimistic view where the individual believes that they are able to control what happens, whereas external locus of control are more pessimistic where the individual accepts that things happen beyond their control. The former personality is usually more resilient and adaptable to stress. A certain trait both types may share is that at a certain point, learned helplessness happens. This means that they accept something is not within their control after multiple encounters or experiences.
Coping with stress differs for individuals who come from different social backgrounds and through genetics. Every person has different resistance to handling stress and they have different methods they tend to look for to cope with them. Examples of coping is to remove the source of stress by solving it as a problem, which is objective in meaning. Another example is to reduce stress through emotional means like engaging activities they might enjoy. During the transition from a teenager to young adult, some may cope through partying and drinking alcohol, while others may find peace in themselves to exercise or going shopping. These are mostly positive lifestyle choices in which they find satisfaction and general social support. It is very important to receive sufficient social support for every individual as it affects the psychological and emotional status which correlates to the physical health of an individual.
Psychological Stress: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment & Diagnosis. Stress.
It’s a four-letter word that many of us dread. Whether it’s a tense interaction with a boss or pressure from friends and family, we all face stressful situations from time to time. For some of us, these events happen sporadically. For others, daily stress is a regular part of life. There’s a good chance we can all identify negative stress, but did you know that stress can also be positive? Good stress, called eustress, can actually be beneficial to you.
On the other hand, bad stress typically causes anxiety, concern, and a decrease in performance. It’s no secret that the long-term effects of distress can . Stress has the ability to negatively impact our lives. According to the American Psychological Association, untreated chronic stress, or stress that’s constant and lasts over an extended period of time, can result in high blood pressure or a weakened immune system. It can also contribute to the development of and heart disease. Get Answers from a Doctor in Minutes, Anytime. Stress and teenagers - ReachOut Parents. It’s very common for young people to feel stressed out from time to time.
Stress is a normal part of life and can even be beneficial in some situations. However, if you’re worried that your child is under a lot of stress and it’s been going on for a while or is affecting their everyday life, there are things you can do to help them. This article can help if you want to: Stress and Social Support Research. Social support has been widely studied as a factor that minimizes the effects on stress, and the results are somewhat striking.
Not only does social support help people feel less stressed, but it can also actually improve your health and decrease their mortality risk. Here’s more of what you need to know about the relationship between your relationships and the effects of stress on your body and mind. Social Support Basics We all have a good basic idea of what it means to have social support in one’s life, but when discussing research, it helps to be precise. Social support, when studied by psychologists, is often defined as “acts that communicate caring; that validate the other’s words, feelings or actions; or that facilitate adaptive coping with problems through the provision of information, assistance, or tangible resources”. Types of Social Support Not all types of social support are the same.

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when i was a kid, we got foodstamps and welfare peanut butter. the peanut butter was solid stuff that split into chunks and refused to spread smoothly on bread. if it wasn't spread just so, it would tear holes in our whole wheat bread (note: it was not the wimpy wonder bread). it was The Most Awesome Stuff. In. The. World. it tasted like pure peanuts, the inside of a reese's peanut butter cup. my whole life i've wished i could somehow finagle just one more bucket of that peanut butter. even the natural PB in the store isn't quite right.
in my homemade experiments i've come across recipes for making your own peanut butter. some of them call for just peanuts, some add a bit of oil, others a bit of honey. months ago i tried one and wasn't quite satisfied with the results. then one day, going through the cupboards, i grabbed an open can of roasted peanuts and thought 'what the heck.' i pulled out the food processor, determined to grind those peanuts as long as necessary to get real peanut butter.
5 minutes later i was done.
it splits off in chunks. it didn't rip holes in the toast i tested it on, but it does taste very close to that welfare peanut butter of my dreams. guess i don't have to get on government aid to have perfect peanut butter.
how to make your own welfare peanut butter:
grab some peanuts. throw them in the food processor and turn it on. the nuts get ground up, then form a lump. it's not done yet. keep it going and the natural peanut oil will release and the lump smooths out into peanut butter. test your peanut butter on some toast or an old-fashioned PBJ sandwich. close your eyes and enjoy.

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The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down. It has claimed thousands of lives and affected millions of others. Now, the general masses are simply worried that they may catch the virus. This situation is unprecedented, and it has challenged our existence. Then, it resulted in a lock down, which confined everyone in their own homes. People across the globe have been dealing with the effects of lock down, both physical and psychological.
This situation stresses the need for our safety and of those around us. Since the beginning, the emphasis is on how we can protect ourselves. Doctors and medical experts have been advising people on the use of safety gear and precautions. They are urging them to stay indoors and care for themselves and their families. All of this revolves around one requirement; to avoid contracting the virus.
So, the question that arises here is, what steps to take to avert a virus? But let us not worry about it, but ponder upon the safety measures. In this article, we will elaborate on all the safety tips to help you be safe. Once you conclude this write-up, you will know what to do. So, let’s start.
- Inadequate Knowledge
The first reason for any infection is due to a lack of knowledge. Since we hear and discover so many diseases, we tend to confuse them with each other. For instance, many people who caught the coronavirus initially did not know clearly about it. Sometimes, we fall prey to disease as we think it might not affect us at all. However, the fact is, it does. And, when that happens, we end up putting everything at stake. So, it is a must to get adequate and relevant knowledge. For this purpose, you can use any digital resource of your choice.
The first step is to know How Viruses Spread, followed by the proper use of safety gear.
- Direct Infection
A direction infection may take place accidentally and unknowingly. It happens when you get in direct contact with someone infected. It can also happen when we touch someone’s body fluid or a mucous membrane. An example of this can be given from the ongoing pandemic. The virus might spread when someone who is infected touches the surface of public use. It could be a water faucet or door handle or something else. So, this is the reason why the emphasis is on wearing gloves and washing hands often.
- Indirect Infection
An indirection infection is often the reason for the spread of the disease. It happens for two reasons. Firstly, again, due to a lack of knowledge. And secondly, because we battle against an unseen enemy. When an infected person coughs or sneezes, the particles cover a certain distance. They spread over everything within that distance. If a person inhales the particles, they may catch it. Here, the concept of social distancing comes in. At all public places, it is vital to maintain a safe distance. To remain in the safe zone, this is a very crucial step.
A virus may spread by different means and ways of contamination. Both healthy and unhealthy people often breathe in the same atmosphere. When the particles enter the ventilation system, they cause a spread. Another reason is the contaminated food or water. When the microorganisms reach your food, they enter your digestive system. Yet another source of contamination is infected blood. For instance, healthcare workers may get infected if they don’t maintain safety procedures. Here, pathogens are at play and enter your body through the usual means. They may be present in the droplets or even the particles of dust. So, one needs to be careful during the cleanliness too.
- Virus Carriers
It is not just the humans who may be carrying a virus. It is mostly the virus carriers that affect us. These are generally known as vectors. Malaria is a typical example of a disease that we get from a mosquito. This may be a fly that sat on you, a mosquito that just bit you or your pet. For instance, recently, a cat tested positive for the Coronavirus. So, to ensure safety, we must ensure cleanliness in our surroundings. Also, you may get your pets tested for the virus as soon as possible.
Last Few Words
Viruses may spread by different means and affect us. Adequate knowledge is necessary to prevent the disease. We should pay attention to the elderly, the children, and the ailing because they are vulnerable. The ongoing situation has highlighted the need for personal safety. Collectively, social distancing is the need of the hour for mass safety. Last but not least, we may need a different strategy to tackle each disease. For the current one, a lockdown is a solution.


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Mexican-inspired restaurant franchise Taco Bell is expanding its Scotland portfolio with the opening of a second site in Glasgow
The new premises is located on Argyle Street and will open its doors on 6th April, 2019. Customers will be able to dine in the 85-seat restaurant or order for takeaway, and enjoy such Mexican-inspired fast food dishes as burritos, tacos, and quesadillas.
The new restaurant opening will be the 38th Taco Bell restaurant to open in the UK. The Adil Group, a franchisee to Taco Bell and integral to bringing the brand to the UK, plans to open over 10 more restaurants across Scotland by 2023, and has already acquired future sites.
Lucy Dee, brand manager of Taco Bell UK, said, “Following the success of the first Glasgow opening in December 2017, we’re pleased to be opening another restaurant in the area. Argyle Street has a high footfall of those looking for entertainment and of course a bite to eat, providing us with the perfect spot to expand our portfolio in the area.”
Originally launched in the United States, there are currently more than 425 Taco Bell restaurants across 27 markets outside of the US.
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Russell Crowe Held 'Divorce Auction' At Sotheby's And Made Millions
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Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe just sold off a range of artwork, jewelry, musical instruments, and film and sports memorabilia from his private collection in an auction that brought in just over $3.7 million.
The divorce from Danielle
Crowe and Spencer were separated in 2012, though he admitted in 2015 that they hadn't legally split up and he was still in love with her.
At the end of March 2018, Crowe was a guest of radio host Alan Jones about his "Art of Divorce" event, in which he planned to auction 227 personal items, worth millions.


WWE News: Finn Balor reacts to a second chance to face Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania
What's the story?
It was announced on this week's edition of Monday Night Raw that there will be a second chance Fatal-4-Way match for the final spot in the men's Elimination Chamber match. Finn Balor took to Twitter to react to this second chance shortly after last night's announcement.
In case you didn't know...
The Elimination Chamber is a massive structure that debuted in the WWE at the 2002 Survivor Series. Shawn Michaels was the winner of the first ever Chamber match when he defeated Triple H, Chris Jericho, Kane, Booker T, and Rob Van Dam.
The heart of the matter...
The WWE posted the announcement on Twitter shortly after it was announced on Monday Night Raw. Take a look at the tweet below.
Balor would then respond to it with his action plan to reach Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans.
Balor had gained a lot of momentum after his first apperance in the Royal Rumble. He was the ironman of the match with a total time of 57:38, and made it to the final four. That momentum was stopped quickly the next night on Monday Night Raw when he lost to John Cena in the Elimination Chamber qualifying match.
Balor beat Seth Rollins back in 2016 at SummerSlam, to become the first ever Universal Champion. Oddly enough, he never received an official one-on-one rematch for the WWE Universal Title that he had to vacate due to injury, but winning next week's qualifying match will get him one step closer.
Balor will get a chance at redemption on next week's edition of Monday Night Raw that takes place from the SAP Center in San Jose, California.
I think Balor will win this match on Raw next week due to the simple fact that Crews just isn't being pushed enough as a serious singles competitor right now, while Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy will probably cancel each other out as The Great War continues.


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Conductive hearing loss (CHL), which involves the outer or middle ear and is due to failure in the transmission of sound through the ear structures
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), which involves the inner ear and occurs as a result of problems in the detection and conversion of sound
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Sants defends FSA staff from 'out of touch' accusations
The chief executive of the UKâs Financial Services Authority has rebuffed criticism that the regulator is staffed by âout of touch bureaucratsâ, after again admitting regret over the flawed supervision of Northern Rock ahead of its collapse last year.
Chief executive Hector Sants said, in his opening speech at the FSA's annual public meeting in London today, that last year had been arguably the most challenging since the FSA's creation 10 years ago.
He added that the market should be in no doubt that “we regret the events surrounding Northern Rock”.
“I have already said that the standard of supervision of Northern Rock prior to the summer of 2007 was unacceptable to the FSA and that we regret what happened," he said. "I have also said how important it is that we learn lessons from that failure. I believe we have. Our Internal Audit report sets out clearly what we need to do.”
Sants said that the FSA has already made many of the necessary changes, and that the watchdog will complete its “supervisory enhancement programme” by the end of the year. The programme includes a commitment to have a minimum supervisory resource for all high impact firms.
However, Sants defended criticism surrounding the quality of the FSA staff. "As I have said many times, we need the right people in the right jobs. This means the right mix of career regulators and experienced market practitioners, built on a vibrant graduate programme. I believe we have achieved much this year towards this goal."
He added: “Of course, there is always more to do. But I would like to dispel, I hope once and for all, the view of some commentators that the FSA is staffed by out of touch bureaucrats. Anyone who meets my colleagues, or even looks at our website, would realise that this is simply not the case.”
On the regulator’s internal culture, Sants said that this year the FSA has moved closer to the culture that it aspires to, and, in particular has demonstrated its willingness to be brave and to make difficult, directive judgements – even when we know we will be criticised by vested interests. The most recent example of this was over short selling.
But Sants said that the increased level of supervision would lead to higher costs. The regulator expects its levels of expenditure shown in the business plan for 2008-09 to increase.
He said: "I do, however, believe that this necessary investment is supported by the firms who will benefit from the resultant higher quality supervision.”
He added that there have been several acts playing out in the markets that will mould what will happen in the year ahead. "The first act, last summer, was a liquidity crisis," he said. “In the autumn we then moved into the second act where the concern has been about capital. We are now anticipating the third act, which is likely to feature a downturn in the real economy "
However, he added: “The good news is that we are moving through the acts. But the risks in each are material and neither we, nor our firms, can afford to relax. Inevitably we will enter the final act - the ‘new normal’, which will require firms to adapt their business models, consumers their spending patterns that will present new challenges."
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TRENTON – When Altoona closer Daniel Moskos blew the season’s final pitch past Matt Cusick’s bat, making the Curve 5-2 winners and first-time Eastern League champions, it merely made official what had seemed inevitable since the fourth inning.
With each bat that was kicked, slammed, tossed or otherwise discarded in frustration, it became painfully clear that this, despite mountains of individual and team success, was simply not the Thunder’s year.
The fourth frame, when Altoona took the lead for good, was when the ball started slowly rolling downhill for Trenton.
With nobody out and runners on second and third as a result of a walk and an error by first baseman Marcos Vechionacci, Altoona’s Jim Negrych rifled a ball up the middle that struck starter Manny Banuelos flush in the neck, just below the right side of his chin.
The ball was hit so hard that it ricocheted past shortstop Luis Nunez, who was moving toward second base to try to make a play, and into shallow left, allowing both runners to scamper home.
The Curve tacked on three more runs the rest of the way, while Trenton, which held a 1-0 edge when the inning started, added only a Damon Sublett solo blast in the seventh to its total.
While the Thunder were in their clubhouse packing their belongings and preparing for an offseason that’s sure to be filled, for a while at least, with what ifs, the Curve’s joyful noise was still echoing throughout the bowels of Waterfront Park.
For their unofficial captain, catcher Austin Romine, those sounds, and the sights that preceded them, were sickening.
“I hate losing. I absolutely hate losing,” he said. “There’s nothing worse than seeing them dogpile on my field.”
Afterward, manager Tony Franklin told his club that it should capture this feeling, remember it and use it as motivation as they go forth and advance within their respective careers.
“We didn’t produce when the chips were down. What we’ll do is use that as a learning experience,” the skipper said, “because it’s going to happen again, and when you’re in this time of year, vying for championships, you’ve got to be at the top of your game.”
That lack of production in key situations to which Franklin referred was easily the hallmark of the series for the Thunder, who, after the way they ran through the bullying pitching of New Hampshire in the first round, seemed a good a bet to win the whole thing.
With runners in scoring position, the Thunder were just 9-for-37 over the final games, including a putrid 1-for-14 during the two home contests. That lone hit came last night, when Dan Brewer’s RBI single got them on the board in the third inning.
Their work on defense wasn’t particularly good, either.
Trenton made six errors over the four games, compared to just 97 over the 142 contests of the regular season. That total was good for second best in the Eastern League.
Now, with 2010 in the books, all that’s left for the team is to decompress and try to learn from the mistakes and use them as fuel for next year, a task that now, says Justin Snyder, seems mighty difficult.
“I don’t know, man. It’s going to be a while,” Snyder said. “Especially after getting up 1-0 and think you had the upper hand, then just coming to our place and just shoving it. It’s going to be a bitter taste for a while, but in the long run it definitely is going to be a learning experience.”
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Finding Their Passion
When she was a student at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), Talia Sherbo was not sure what to study. She had tried different majors, from general studies to biology, but couldn’t find the right fit.
“My advisor, Professor Lisa Rapp, said, ‘what about my program, biotechnology?’” Sherbo said. “I never heard of it before, but she told me all about it. I enrolled and never regretted that decision.”
Today, Sherbo serves as an adjunct professor at Bay Path University, where she teaches laboratories for chemistry and forensic chemistry.
Sherbo found her passion as a STEM teacher, thanks in part to the biotechnology program, one of several science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields of study offered at STCC, the only technical community college in Massachusetts. Other students who went through the biotechnology program at STCC took different career pathways and say they are grateful to Rapp and her program for inspiring them.
What’s exciting about our program is that it leads to opportunities. There are many potential career paths.”
Over the years, Rapp has taught biotechnology to a diverse group of students at STCC, from recent high-school graduates to individuals changing careers. A federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution, STCC is composed of a diverse student body and encourages students of color to pursue degrees in STEM fields such as biotechnology.
“Some students transfer to a four-year college or university and pursue a more advanced degree. Others apply for jobs right after getting their associate degree from STCC,” Rapp said. “What’s exciting about our program is that it leads to opportunities. There are many potential career paths. Our graduates find satisfying careers in industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, agriculture, environmental technology, water purification, and basic biological research.”
Students who transfer to Westfield State University can pursue a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology. They can receive credits from Westfield State for program-related courses completed at STCC.
“The faculty and professors were always there to help you succeed,” said Sundus Rehman, a STCC biotechnology program graduate. “You had one-on-one interaction with the professors. You could easily meet with the professors and talk to them and discuss your problems and questions.”
The biotech program at STCC in 2018 earned a Gold Level endorsement from the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation. MassBioTech concluded that graduates of the two-year degree program and one-year certificate program were ready for the life-sciences workforce.
Jeff Townsend works as a quality engineer for Bristol-Myers Squibb, a biotechnology company in Devens. His biotechnology degree at STCC served as a springboard to a career he loves, where he earns a six-figure salary.
“I wanted to be happy,” he said. “I haven’t tried to build a career. I have been successful in spite of myself. It’s a fantastic opportunity to be in the biopharmaceutical industry.”
Townsend enrolled in biotechnology about 15 years ago because he was unhappy with his career in marketing and sales. “It’s not a great fit for somebody who is an introvert,” he said. “I enjoyed being at STCC. You should follow your passion. That makes everything interesting.”
Like Townsend, Quynh Widmer, another biotechnology graduate, followed her passion after growing up in Vietnam and moving to Western Mass.
“I love the biotech program,” she said. “They have great faculty, especially Professor Rapp. She’s awesome. You get hands-on experience. In a bigger college, you don’t have the same kind of connection between the student and the teacher to help you and guide you.”
After earning her associate degree from STCC, Widmer transferred to Bay Path University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in biology with a concentration in biotechnology. Today, she works at SCA Pharma in Agawam.
Another graduate of the program, Sundus Rehman, grew up in Pakistan, where she completed her high-school education before moving to Western Mass. Her siblings graduated from STCC and encouraged her to enroll. After graduating from STCC, she transferred to UMass Amherst, where she’s a pre-med student.
At STCC, she chose biotechnology because she wanted to challenge herself. “I was interested in the depth of how cells work and how genes work and how you can manipulate things to produce new. useful products,” she said.
“The best part of this program is that you won’t just watch the instructor do everything. You get a lot of hands-on experience,” Rehman added. “The faculty and professors were always there to help you succeed. You had one-on-one interaction with the professors. You could easily meet with the professors and talk to them and discuss your problems and questions.”
Enrolling in the biotechnology program at STCC was affordable for Rehman and the other graduates. “I saved a lot of money before I transferred to a four-year university,” she said.
The graduates said biotechnology is a good fit for anyone interested in science and biology, and that attending STCC provides students with a network of support.
“This is a constantly growing field,” Rehman said. “The campus is a wonderful historic site. You will have a lot of resources to help you along your way, and you should take advantage of those resources.”


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Knowing that Uganda and the region heavily relies on donor funding for key malaria interventions, the figures as per the recently released World Health Organization report depict a bleak picture after this tumbled by approximately US$6m.
Funding to the East and Southern Africa according to the 2016 World Malaria Report has since 2010 reduced from US$156m to US$150 in 2015.
Malaria in Uganda according to statistics consumes up to 20% of the disease based expenditures on the health sector budget. It also still remains one the major public health challenges contributing with hospital records showing that it’s responsible for 30 to 50% of outpatient visits, 15 to 20% of admissions, and 9 to 14 % of inpatient deaths.
Available statistics show that Uganda by 2008 was contributing only 2% towards the entire malaria control initiatives with 88% covered by the global health initiatives by the World Bank, PEPFAR and Global Fund.
The cost of malaria weighs heavily on the country and as earlier argued by the Dr Myers Lugemwa from the National Malaria Control Programme, this is in form of the deaths, out of pocket expenditures and the many hours lost while sick.
Uganda spends an estimated $650m annually on malaria and 40% of school absenteeism are as a result of malaria.
Just last year according to the WHO report, there was an estimated 5million confirmed cases of malaria and 6100 deaths in Uganda.
And according to UNICEF, 42 children die on a daily basis due to the malaria.
However as highlighted recently by the Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance Joy Phumaphi, Uganda is one of the countries that have an aggressive malaria programme.
“They are working really hard. But I know that the outbreaks have made sustaining the gains very difficult. Uganda needs to streamline and make processes more efficient both within government and between government and partners,” she said.
Rather positively, the report indicates a growing decline in malaria related case in the region (East and Southern Africa) with an estimated malaria case incidence decreasing by 22% between 2010 and 2015. Death as a result of malaria also reduced by a similar percentage (22%) in the same period.
Quick tips for malaria prevention
Sleep under an insecticide treated net
Ensure your environment is clear of mosquito breading places like bushes, stagnant water collecting areas. This also involves leveling the ground, draining pools of water and providing proper waste water management systems.
Screening in windows, ventilators, and eaves to prevent entry of mosquitoes
Closing unscreened windows early in the evening to prevent mosquitoes from entering the house. You can use insecticides to kill those that escape through before you close.


The UK public sector awarded nearly 400 contracts worth £1.6bn in response to the Covid-19 crisis, mostly without a competitive tender, according to a report.
Research company Tussell’s report found that more than 90% of the value of Covid-19 response contracts were awarded by central government, compared to 5% for local government and 3% for the NHS.
Contracts were signed off mostly with minimum oversight to provide services ranging from the procurement of medical and protective equipment to administering testing and advising civil servants.
Emergency procurement measures that were put in place in March allowed companies and the government to forego the usual competitive tender process.
The report said public sector procurement was showing tentative signs of recovery, with 18% more opportunities published in May than the month prior.
This took the number of invitations to tender (ITTs) published by the UK public sector to 1,248, still only half of the 2019 monthly average of 2,400, but enough to show signs of recovery.
The single largest contract area consisted of two large contracts for food to support vulnerable adults and children awarded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Education (DfE).
Testing and PPE were the next two largest contract areas, with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) responsible for most spend.
The Business Services Organisation of Northern Ireland awarded £170m worth of PPE contracts, and 27 contracts worth £33m have been awarded for consultancy support for the Covid-19 response.
Big winners from the contracts have included PwC, which has won seven contracts to support the Covid-19 public sector response, more than any other single supplier.
Two medical firms have won six contracts each while a quarter of the contracts so far published were won by companies that had not previously carried out work for the government.
The report said: “The bulk of Covid-19 response contracts have been awarded without a competitive tendering process.
“We might expect that would lead to an overreliance on existing suppliers, but this seems not to be the case. A quarter of Covid-19 response contracts were awarded to firms that have not previously been named on a publicly published government contract.”
The largest contract that has been published was for £234m to Edenred, the childcare vouchers business, to deliver supermarket vouchers while schools are closed to families who would normally get free school meals from the DfE.
The DHSC awarded four of the largest contracts for coronavirus testing, including £151m to Hologic, £133m to Randox Laboratories and £64m to Life Technologies. The report said that even though departments must publish a contract award notice within 30 days of its agreement, significant deals have not yet been made public such as those relating to seven Nightingale field hospitals or the UK’s new contact tracing programme.
Tussell warned government suppliers to expect disruption to current or future bids as there has been a significant increase in the number of cancelled procurements in the last month, and this disruption was likely to continue for some time.
“Re-procurement is a time-consuming and expensive process. Buyers are likely to prefer to extend existing contracts where possible,” the report said.
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What are infantile reflexes?
Infantile reflexes are developed when a baby is inside their mother's womb. There are a wide range of reflexes that we need as a baby to assist with a safe labour and delivery; to protect the baby from injury while in the womb and as the baby enters our world; to encourage the baby to suck milk from their mother; and to help the baby to develop motor skills such as rolling, crawling, and running.
Why do we test preschooler's infantile reflexes?
As a baby, we need our infantile reflexes to help us develop from inside our mother's womb, to be able to walk independently as a toddler. However, by preschool our body doesn't need these reflexes any more as the reflexes have served their purpose already.
My concern when working in a range of primary schools and kindergartens, I see many children who aren't getting enough tummy time, crawling, and movement each day so their neurological system is holding on to these reflexes because the brain and the body haven't moved past these milestones as they should have.
A child with retained reflexes (a child who still has their infantile reflexes) may find it difficult to sit still, feel anxious in a busy classroom environment, have difficulty with holding a pencil, find it exhausting to concentrate on the whiteboard for long periods of time, etc.
Learn more about infantile reflexes in our free ebook - here
Scenario for a child with their infantile reflexes
I've recently been supporting a young 6 year old boy who still has his startle (moro) reflex. What happens for this young boy is, every time he hears a sudden loud sound in the classroom, his body reflexes and flinches similar to a newborn when they hear a loud sound.
This young boy didn't attend kinder before starting school and from the family history that I gathered, he spends hours and hours at home on technology (smart devices, TV screens, video games).
If the brain and body aren't getting movement practice in the form of play, climbing, running, jumping, crawling, then the reflexes that we have when we are born stay present. So instead of this young boy being able to sit calmly in class, his body is reacting to every loud sound, making his behaviour look distracted, agitated, and disruptive for the rest of the class.
Simple morning circle activities included in my training manual can help this young man receive the movement therapy that his body needs to create a calmer body, teacher, and classroom.

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Over the past few years, as a founder of a product design and development company, I’ve been thinking a lot about a little question. What is the impact of technology on humanity?
Among startups and traditional companies, I hear an onslaught of terms about the user. But the user is one person. What about the impact on all people? That’s what led me to humanics.
Merriam-Webster defines humanics as “the subject or study of human nature or human affairs.” But I think there’s a lot more to humanics than that, and we’re only getting started.
Consider this: Only 29.4% of the global population has a smartphone. Just 2.1 billion people, while the global population is at 7.4 billion.* With that in mind, we have to realize a lot of what’s being made today is going to be adopted by people who won’t necessarily understand why a floppy disk icon means “to save”. Or why you need to swipe to unlock. Or what the hell Yelp is, or why it matters.
While these new markets are being on-boarded to a pre-existing infrastructure, the existing smartphone market will be throwing away their year-old devices and getting shiny new ones. What happens to these old devices? The technology within them is not useless, but software upgrades often cripple them to a point that renders them unusable.
What you’ll read next, if you’re willing to follow me on this journey, are questions asking why we design and build for business models and existing infrastructure first, and human needs second. A proposal for change. And questions about the feasibility of this idea itself.
Rethink about it
Take what you think of as an operating system is and light it on fire. Burn it to the ground. Now let’s clean up the ashes, and ask ourselves, “What’s the point of this technology we carry with us everywhere we go?” Think about why we’re glued to these tiny rectangular objects that travel with us more than our significant others — more than our loved ones — more than our friends. In more places than we carry cash, we carry our phones.
In more places than we carry cash, we carry our phones.


[Scribus] Announce CinePaint 0.20
Tue Nov 1 16:12:41 CET 2005
CinePaint version 0.20-0 is a major release of the motion pictures deep
colour paint and retouching programm.
This release covers the gtk version of CinePaint. While some CinePaint
developers maintain this code base, it will be substituted once the new
architecture, called Glasgow, is ready to use. Glasgow covers a complete
new high performance, highly interoperable scanline core and a new user
interface written in FLTK.
* Overall stability has improved.
* Many bugs where fixed.
Colour management changes:
* Softproofing is introduced.
* The gutenprint plug-in uses the proofing profile as default
* User interface is more clear regarding colourmanaging. Many labels
* Profile naming suggestions by Chris Murphy where followed. visible
in the preferences.
* Single layer visualisation for all types of colour channels is more
* OpenEXR <-> ICC colour space information conversation for both
loading and saving this HDR image format where added.
HighDynamicRange (HDR) changes:
* HDR creation, see below
* The expose item is moved from <imagemenu>-->Color-->Expose Image to
<imagemenu>-->View-->Expose. It is now a per window setting and only
available for 32-bit floats.
* PortableFloatMaps (PFM) are supported for reading
New plug-ins where added to the release:
* bracketing to HDR - HDR creation from 8-bit images: by Hartmut
* statistic filter: minimum and median by Nicola Montecchiari
* pnm complet rewrite for 8/16/32 bit raw reading: by Kai-Uwe Behrmann
* 1213869 autoconf update to xwd plugin liquidphoto (Tom Hufmann)
* 1275118 building plug-ins outside source tree liquidphoto
As well Frank Peters provided a collection of curves from the internet.
Although these curves were originally intended for use with Nikon cameras,
they should be of general interesst to correct images from many digital
Some notes about the last minor release 0.19-1:
The print plug-in utilises Gutenprint for throughout 16-bit colourmanaged
printing. Note Gutenprint will be colour stable once it lefts behind beta
status. (This should be reached as of version 5.0.0rc1 for most inkjet
The collect plug-in allows for selecting a number of images with the same
bit depth and building a layered image from them.
The new ICC Examin plug-in allowes visualisation of actual ICC profiles
The new ICC Watch plug-in allowes viewing image colours in the actual
threedimensional CIE*Lab colour space. The Image and Proofing gamut can be
Note: the last two plug-ins need the "ICC Examin" application, which is
The source package is available from:
The relese notes are readable at:
More information about the scribus


Return to the BUILD
“In this issue, the elements needed to complete the left shoulder joint of the armor will be added to the arm base.”
Materials: All of the parts in this issue are plastic.
- The History of Iron Man – New Team: The Return of Norman Osborn
- Step by Step – Model Instructions
- In the Comics – Iron Man in Love: Matters of the Heart
- The Armor – Model 69: End of an Era
Stage 1 – Assembly of the Left Shoulder Joint
Retrieve your Arm Base assembly from the previous issue. As before, fit the Left Shoulder Joint Casing to the circular detail on this end of the Arm Base, aligning the tab of the Joint Casing (arrow below) to the notch as shown:
Secure the Left Shoulder Joint Casing to the Arm Base assembly with one (1) QP screw:
Fit the round Friction Block down into the Left Shoulder Joint Casing with the concave side facing up, as shown:
Slide the tab of the Left Shoulder Joint Ball through the Left Shoulder Joint Socket.
The ball of the Joint Ball should face the round recess of the Joint Socket, as shown:
While holding the two parts together, fit the Left Shoulder Joint Socket to the Left Shoulder Joint Casing. There is an alignment pin on the Joint Socket that matches a hole in the Joint Casing:
Then, align the three screw holes as shown:
Secure the Joint Socket to the Joint Casing with three (3) LP screws.
It is recommended to first install each screw a small amount, then go around to tighten them the rest of the way. There should be a small, even gap between these parts once the screws are tightened – do not overtighten them as you risk bending or breaking the parts:
Check the movement of the Left Shoulder Joint Ball:
This Ball Joint should be quite stiff, but not impossible, to move into different positions as this joint will have to support the entire weight of the arm assembly. If needed, evenly adjust the tightness of the three LP screws until the desired resistance is achieved:
Stage 2 – Positioning the Arm Base in the Chest
Temporarily remove the two (2) LP screws holding our Arm Base assembly together and set the cover aside, as shown:
Retrieve your Chest assembly from Issue 76. Fit the two posts of the Arm Base onto the matching posts inside the Chest assembly, orientating it as shown.
This Arm Base can be accidentally installed backwards. To get the orientation correct, note that the Shoulder Joints should be closer to the lower part of the Chest – I have marked here how there should be more of the Arm Base above the Shoulder Joints:
Secure the Arm Base into the Chest with two (2) IM screws.
This is your friendly reminder to try using 3-in-One Oil on all screws going into metal:
Fit the cover of the Arm Base back into place and secure it again with the two (2) LP screws we removed earlier. This time the screws can be fully tightened:
Stage 3 – Assembly of the Supports for the Shoulder Armor
Retrieve your Support for Right Shoulder Armor from the previous issue. Fit it into the matching recess on the right side of the Chest assembly, then secure it into place with two (2) EM screws as shown.
For reference, this Support is marked ‘R’ on the inside surface:
In the same way, fit the Support for Left Shoulder Armor (from this issue) into the matching recess on the left side of the Chest assembly, then secure it into place with two (2) EM screws as shown.
For reference, this Support is marked ‘L’ on the inside surface:
Stage 4 – Assembly of the Neck Joint
Slide the tabs of the Neck Joint into this matching slot on the inside of the Chest assembly, noting the orientation as shown:
As the Arm assemblies will not be attached until Issue 93, I am hoping that these plastic connections will be able to support the weight and articulation of each one. Time will tell!
Issue 80 – Chest 9


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GAZPROM SALES UP TO 49%
NGE wrote, Russian giant Gazprom on August 10 reported a $5.6bn net profit in January-March 2016, a fall of only 5.2% year-on-year, achieved chiefly by selling almost half as much gas again to Europe.
Gazprom itself said the slight profit decline showed its "ability to manage challenging environment through diversification of income streams" at a time when "the majority of the peer group have seen double-digit percentage reduction in net income."
The figures, provided to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), show net income of rubles 362.3bn ($5.6bn) compared with its 1Q 2015 figure of rubles 382.1bn.
Gazprom's sales volume to its core 'Europe and other' markets in 1Q grew by 49% to 58.1bn m³, an increase of 19bn m³ on 39.1bn m³ in January-March 2015. Sales to former Soviet countries declined by 15.5% (by 2bn m³) to 10.9bn m³, while those in Russia declined more modestly to 75.4bn m³, just 6% or 4.9bn m³ less than in 1Q 2015.
Despite the big rise in sales to the west, sales proceeds grew just 5% to rubles 1,737.4bn while operating profit was down by a third to rubles 302bn.
Gazprom's average gas price realised in Europe and non-FSU markets in 1Q 2016 fell by 22% in ruble terms year-on-year to $216.95 (or 14,049.3 rubles)/000 ft3 including excise tax and customs duties – equivalent to just $6/mn Btu. In contrast, its Russian sales price including value-added tax increased 9% to 3,872.9 rubles/'000 ft³. For other FSU states it was 13% lower at 11,741.3 rubles/'000 ft³.
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PLATTS - For full-year 2017, South Korea's crude imports from its biggest supplier Saudi Arabia fell 1.7% to 319.02 million barrels, compared with 324.45 million barrels in the previous year, customs data showed. On the contrary, South Korea has imported 1.77 million mt, or around 13 million barrels, of crude from the US in 2017, about four times higher than in 2016. Shipments from Russia grew to 140,000 b/d last year from 112,000 b/d in 2016.
AOG - ADNOC’s 2030 strategy, he said, aims to capitalise on predicted global economic growth and demand for oil and petrochemical products, particularly in non-OECD countries. As its business responds to changing market dynamics, the company will continue to broaden its partnership base, strengthen its profitability, adapt to new realities and expand market access.
WNN - Under the terms of the assignment and purchase agreement it has signed with Nucleus and Brookfield, Toshiba will sell its rights to assert claims against Westinghouse related to the parent guarantees in the amount of $5.788 billion, and on account of other claims Toshiba holds against Westinghouse in the amount of $2.284 billion to Nucleus, for the sale price of $2.160 billion.
REUTERS - Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $69.23 a barrel at 0808 GMT, up 8 cents from their last close, but down from a high of $69.37 earlier in the day. Brent on Monday rose to $70.37 a barrel, its highest since December 2014, the start of a three-year oil price slump. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were at $63.84 a barrel, down from a high of $63.89 earlier, but up 11 cents from their last settlement. WTI hit $64.89 on Tuesday, also the highest since December 2014.


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There's a bit of Cold War in China's behavior right now. Whether or not the free market will break through the bureaucracy will be fascinating for spectators to watch.
China’s skies don’t have enough space.
The country’s air force controls airspace and allots only 20 percent to civil aviation. With China’s three biggest airlines planning to add at least 273 planes in the next three years, traffic congestion that already delays 25 percent of flights is set to worsen.
“At present, the limited airspace resource has restricted the development of civil aviation,” said Li Jiaxiang, the head of Civil Aviation Administration of China. “We will strive to further open up the airspace,” he said in Beijing yesterday.
Air China Ltd., China Eastern Airlines Corp. and China Southern Airlines Co. have expanded their fleet as economic growth spurs air travel demand in the world’s most populous nation. The country is expected to have 4,200 commercial aircraft in 2020, compared with the current fleet size of 2,001 with 46 airlines, CAAC’s Li said.
China’s civil aviation uses about a fifth of available routes of the nation’s total airspace, Shi Boli, who heads the department of Air Transportation Regulation at CAAC, said in an interview. Military controls about 52 percent of airspace in eastern China, home to the country’s biggest cities of Beijing and Shanghai, according to a 2011 June report by the official China News Service.
“We are working hard and the military is also trying to improve the management of airspace,” Shi said. “But, it could take some time to achieve some improvement.”
In the U.S., military restrictions don’t have much impact on civilian aviation because its airways tend to be located in desert regions or over oceans, far away from the busy airport hubs in cities such as New York, said Kevin Hiatt, president of Alexandria, Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation. The military has also allowed its airspace to be used by civilian flights on some occasions such as busy holiday periods, he said.
Airspace over Europe is managed as a single unit and segregated on a “dynamic basis according to the needs of users,” air traffic supervisory agency Eurocontrol said. In general, areas will only be reserved for military use at certain times and at certain altitudes, it said in an e-mail.
The on-time performance rate of China’s airlines was about 74.5 percent last year, CAAC’s Shi said. In the U.S., 82 percent of the flights arrived on time in 2012, according to Bureau of Transportation statistics.
“People are hoping that the country’s new leadership can have a breakthrough in getting more airspace released to accommodate the rapid growth,” said Kelvin Lau, a Hong Kong- based analyst at Daiwa Securities Group Inc. “Otherwise, delays will persist and hurt the airlines’ long term growth prospects.”
China’s air force, which has controlled the airspace since the People’s Republic was established in 1949, has started gradually relaxing some of the curbs. It has begun to open low- altitude airspace and released more information about the availability of temporary routes, the Official Xinhua News Agency reported in August.
Still, the pace isn’t quick enough to catch up with the airlines’ growth as the number of annual passengers has more than doubled in the past seven years, said David Wei, an aerospace analyst with Shanghai Securities Co.
“The military has a bigger say in China’s airspace usage for historical reasons,” Wei said. “It has no incentive to concede the right unless the government wants it to.”
Airspace restrictions also force airlines to fly longer distances on some routes, said Liu Jieyin, executive vice president at closely-held Okay Airways Co., which operates flights between cities including Tianjin, Hangzhou and Sanya.
“This is still better than before when we had to wait on ground for hours for the completion of military drills,” Liu said. “We couldn’t take proactive measures as we wouldn’t know drills until the last minute and couldn’t tell passengers the real reason either.”
Air China, Asia’s biggest carrier by market value, will receive 113 aircraft in the next three years, according to a company statement. China Eastern will add 93 planes in two years while China Southern will have 67 additions this year, the carriers have said.
‘Tomorrow’s growth will further pressure the system,’’ said Will Horton, a Hong Kong-based analyst at CAPA Centre for Aviation, which advises airlines. “While reforms are gradually being made, the military seems impervious to the government’s wish for more airspace.”
While carriers await the easing of airspace rules, the nation is expanding its airport infrastructure. Beijing has won approval for its new facility with an investment of more than 70 billion yuan ($11 billion), Beijing News reported in January. The country targets to have 260 airports by 2020 from 183 at present.
“The emergence of a rapidly growing middle-class with aspirations to travel, along with record levels of urbanization and continued growth in business, has created a pressing need for better aviation infrastructure across China,” said Will Lau, an aviation consultant with EC Harris (Hong Kong) Ltd. Still, “the physical assets on the ground will not effectively respond to the passenger demand unless additional capacity is also made available in the skies above.”
With assistance from Alan Levin in Washington. Editors: Vipin V. Nair, Suresh Seshadri. To contact the reporter on this story: Jasmine Wang in Hong Kong at [email protected]. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Vipin V. Nair at [email protected].
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In January 1996, the Flare Genesis Experiment was carried for 19 days by a 29.4 M cu. ft helium-filled balloon in the stratosphere above Antarctica, during which over 14000 images of the Sun were recorded. Long-duration ballooning provides a relatively inexpensive means to observe the Sun under near-space conditions and to develop instrumentation and techniques that will be used on future solar space missions. The purpose of the flight was to improve understanding of the mechanisms involved in many different types of solar activity, particularly flares and solar filament eruptions. Achieving this goal demanded the development of a platform for an 80-cm F/1.5 optical telescope that would be stable to 10 arcseconds. In addition, we developed an image motion compensation system capable of holding the Sun’s image to better than the system’s 0.2 arcsecond diffraction limit. Other key elements on board included a lithium-niobate Fabry-Perot etalon filter to provide a tunable 0.016-nm bandpass over a wide wavelength range, a fast 1534 X 1024-pixel Kodak CCD camera, and 180 GBytes of on-board storage. There was also a system for sending commands and receiving telemetry and a high-speed downlink for sending images during periods when the payload was in line of sight of the ground station. On- board computers provided a command and control system capable of near-autonomous operation. During most of the flight, contact with the payload was sporadic, so operation was primarily under autonomous control.


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The UN Committee on Human Rights has just sent Senegal to the case against the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade.
It is clear from the document that Karim Wade's terms of prosecution and conviction have to be reviewed and that our country must in the future prevent this from happening to other citizens.
A true disavowal reminiscent of the one who hit the country "Teranga" during the trial of former Mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall.
The ECOWAS court had issued an opinion that was not approved by the procedure, in particular with respect to the imprisoned right.
And this is not the first time that international authorities have attacked Senegal in connection with these two cases.
Both the UN and ECOWAS courts were not the first to judge Senegal over these two cases.
These are cases that have arisen in connection with accountability and which generate great passion just because of the opposition policies.
Both the defenders and those who condemn them do it with passion. Especially the statements of politicians.
This controversy at national level has divided the country into two opposing camps: the power and opposition.
Today, after ECOWAS, the UN has made the trips that had the advantage of objectively pointing to a fundamental problem: our legal system, both in its legal architecture and in its practice. Today there are serious shortcomings that need to be corrected quickly. This speech is far from being a politician, must be interpreted to its true value and viatic server for future jurisprudence.
This is not the analysis of a journalist, even less the speech of an opponent or defender of human rights.
You must avoid any kind of controversy about it even though the Minister of Justice is entitled to say that it is not binding.
Today, the necessary substantive legal reforms are slow in coming. Neither the registry's or citizens' agitations have been used to reform, for example, a jurisdiction like Crei, and to reform this exceptional court with questionable use, or to adapt our texts and laws to the international standards we have ratified and signed.
The fact of the President of the Republic to preside the High Council of Higher Education, excessive navel association between the law firm and the office, systematic preventive detention in some cases, the failure of the court to the CEO with its consequences on Negative Practices in progress requires a radical break at this level.
We can not continue to be in the international institutions 'borders for serious violations of certain citizens' rights.
Enough is enough. Our justice deserves more than an instrumentation that can even earn, tomorrow, those who are now in power.
This is the meaning of the UN and ECOWAS messages. And then the big nations go forward by avoiding doing vendetta, a national sport.
For the current legal procedures, if not received, will install a dynamic of permanent revenge and justice among the winners who do not leave any place for the defeated.
It is obvious that those who come after Macky will have the first concern to exercise their relatives.
This is what must be avoided in the future. To make sure we realize that the election contest has taken over the rest.
Everything is a balance of power in our country and the weakest are systematically crushed.
Unfortunately, the judiciary is often out of arms for those who are strong in bringing together the legality of its unknown political settlement plan.
Now that the United Nations has spoken, we have to ask ourselves.


Legislative budget writers criticize severances for BreatheND employees
BISMARCK-The North Dakota Senate's chief budget writer said this week the $400,000 in severance paid to employees of the state's now-defunct tobacco prevention agency "continued a pattern of abuse" that helped justify its elimination.State lawmak...
BISMARCK-The North Dakota Senate's chief budget writer said this week the $400,000 in severance paid to employees of the state's now-defunct tobacco prevention agency "continued a pattern of abuse" that helped justify its elimination.
State lawmakers voted to repeal the Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy, known as BreatheND, earlier this year. Nine employees received severance for six months of pay and for the cost of six months of health insurance, totaling $400,739, said Pam Sharp, the Office of Management and Budget director.
Neither state law nor OMB policy sets a maximum for severance pay, Sharp said.
Although the packages were legal, Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg, the Appropriations Committee chairman, said it was an example of BreatheND's excessive spending. The agency was appropriated $16.5 million from the Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund for the 2015-17 budget cycle.
"They gamed the system, paid themselves way too much," Holmberg said Wednesday, Oct. 25.
Holmberg's counterpart in the House, Republican Rep. Jeff Delzer, agreed that the severances were "very excessive."
BreatheND's funding came from tobacco settlement dollars, Sharp said. And even after paying the severance packages, the agency still had more than $700,000 leftover that went into the tobacco fund, which totaled about $57.4 million at the end of the biennium, she said.
Still, Bismarck Republican Rep. George Keiser, a member of the agency's executive committee and advisory board, said he opposed the size of the severances.
"When we terminate programs, we do give some kind of severance package," he said. "But I thought the amount was improper."
Dr. Eric Johnson, who served on BreatheND's advisory board and executive committee, said they consulted with OMB and an attorney who said they were "well within the parameters of the state law regarding such packages." He said the agency was a good steward of its funds, noting that North Dakota was one of two states to fund anti-tobacco programs at levels recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"These employees were a little bit different because they weren't offered voluntary retirements," Johnson said. "We just looked at the guidelines and we gave them what we were able to."
The elimination of BreatheND was one of the more visible budget battles during this year's legislative session as lawmakers looked to tighten belts across state government. The agency was created in 2008 through an initiated measure, and supporters cited a drop in smoking rates in arguing against its elimination.
Ultimately, the Legislature repealed BreatheND, following recommendations from former Gov. Jack Dalrymple and his successor Doug Burgum, and combined tobacco efforts with the state Department of Health.
The severances appeared to be more generous than the buyouts offered at other state agencies this year. Through that "voluntary separation incentive program," employees had the choice of receiving a lump sum equal to three months' salary and health insurance, remaining on the payroll for three months and receiving salary and benefits as if they were still working or receiving health insurance for a year after the buyout date.
Sharp said in June that 158 people were accepted for the program, which was expected to cost $3 million. But Johnson said he understood the BreatheND packages were, in at least some cases, in line with or worth less than voluntary buyouts elsewhere, like in the university system.
The BreatheND severances were approved at a June 14 executive committee meeting. Johnson and fellow committee member Jay Taylor "both expressed that the three months of pay and health insurance offered through" the buyout program "was not sufficient for the involuntary separations at this agency," according to meeting minutes.
Rep. Jon Nelson, R-Rugby, who opposed abolishing BreatheND, said he didn't have a problem with the severances.
"Being they were just eliminated from the budget ... I suppose they took every advantage they could to reward their staff," he said. "It is what it is."


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- Published: Amsterdam
- Published date: 1662
- Issue date: 1662
- Technique: Copper engraving / probably later handcolor
- Type: map
- Category: The expeditions of Alexander the Great
- Size: 370 by 470mm (14½ by 18½ inches).
- Bibliography: Koeman I / 8030H:1
- Stock number: 30432
- Condition: In excellent condition.
Copper engraving, decorative hand colored in outline and wash. Published in a Latin text edition of Joan. Jansson's historical Atlas, verso blank. The map shows the region covered by Alexander the Great, ornated with two cartouches. In the lower left corner the title cartouche, on the lower right side a small decorative cartouche showing coins and a warrior. Villages and towns are shown as miniature views, as well rivers and mountains are engraved.
Koeman I / 8030H:1

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UPDATE (1/23/2019: According to records, Steffan received a notice of nolle prosequi on all three charges.
The case was disposed on January 23rd, 2019.
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. --- A Naples woman is accused of purchasing drugs in a mall parking lot, later arrested during traffic stop.
According to Naples Police, a witness flagged down a officer outside of the food court at the Coastland Center Mall after seeing Jeni Steffan, 32, put a small plastic bag with a white substance in her purse.
Steffan was seen getting into a silver Toyota Prius leaving the malls parking lot. Deputies located a car matching the same description driving along Golden Gate Parkway.
A police K9 officer was called to the scene after Steffan and the driver of the car told officers they preferred to not have the car search. Police K9 conducted an open air sniff of the car and alerted investigators of drugs being inside.
After a quick search of the car, deputies found a black bag in the glove department with numerous syringes, black spoons with brown residue on them and small plastic bags with heroin inside. Steffan's purse also contained heroin and a suboxone pill.
Police say Steffan admitted to purchasing drugs in Coastland Center's parking lot.
She was placed under arrest and taken to Naples Jail for processing.

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90s Banned From Television It Will Shock t-shirt Extra Large
Chest 23 in.
Length 30 in.
Content: 100% Cotton
Tag Brand: Tultex
This double-sided vintage tee promotes the memorable 1998 shockumentary film Banned from Television, and features the movie's tagline "It will shock you!". Back before the internet provided easy access to all sorts of graphic imagery and video content, film producer Joe Francis created Banned from Television, a direct-to-video film, that featured exactly what the title suggests. The movie showed a variety of footage that censors decided was too disturbing to be shown on TV.
Francis gathered the footage used for the movie while working on the reality television program, Real TV, which showed extraordinary real world events caught on tape. Francis licensed the footage that the show refused to air and compiled it into Banned from Television and its two subsequent sequels. Just some of the shocking videos included in the series were a public execution, a rampaging elephant attack, a woman getting hit by a train, and a hotel fire.
While gathering and editing the footage that was used for the movie, Francis came across some clips that would inspire his next business venture. After finding footage of college age women at Mardi Gras and on Spring Break, Francis decided to create the Girls Gone Wild franchise.
Fits like a modern unisex adult Extra Large. There is a small repair on the back along the bottom, see pics.


Text of report in English by privately-owned Baltic News Service on 16 August
Vilnius, 16 August: Lithuania's decision to give up nuclear energy was a mistake, the country's Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys says.
"As today's situation shows, it (giving up the Visaginas nuclear power plant project - BNS) was a mistake. It has to be admitted that it was a big mistake. It was a mistake made by all of us," Kreivys told a joint meeting of the parliamentary Committee on Economic Affairs and the Commission for Energy and Sustainable Development on Tuesday.
Differently from the oil and LNG sector, Lithuania has failed to do its "homework" in the electricity sector, the energy minister said.
"Today we have a market price that is six to seven times higher, plus we have the Astravets nuclear power plant (in Belarus). If we had Visaginas (nuclear power plant), there would be no Astravets. From the security point of view, I think the decision was really questionable, and I think there was a lot of misleading information in the political sphere at the time," Kreivys said on Tuesday after a meeting with President Gitanas Nauseda.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Japan's Hitachi hoped to build a new nuclear power plant by 2020-22 next to Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear facility that was shut down in late 2009.
The Lithuanian government had plans to start the construction in 2015 and for the new facility to start generating electricity by 2022 at the latest.
However, the project, planned by the then government led by the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, was scrapped after a 2012 referendum failed to secure public support for the project.
Source: Baltic News Service, Tallinn, in English 1237 gmt 16 Aug 22


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Valor’s ‘Healthy Habits’ initiative has been shortlisted for ‘Best Employee Engagement Strategy’ in the HR Excellence Awards.
As a people-focused business, Valor Hospitality wanted to put a programme in place that would help teams across all 34 of its UK hotels and its central management team. The aim of Healthy Habits was to inspire people to commit to a new habit or activity, either as a personal goal or within a team, doing something that would make a lasting, positive impact on their health. The first 100 team members to sign up received £50 towards a new pair of trainers and £50 towards a new bike (coinciding with the recent Cycle to Work scheme launch).
Over 175 Hotelitarians® took part and shared their progress on the company’s private colleague Facebook page which saw an engagement increase of 34%, as people shared their stories and encouraged others. The stories touched the hearts of many and positively influenced not only the team members taking part but families too. The most inspiring stories got a split of a £5,000 prize pot.
Three overall winners each received £500 and 12 additional winners received £100 in vouchers. Crowne Plaza Plymouth was also awarded a £1,000 party fund due to its combined efforts throughout the campaign. The team are continuing their healthy habits and still regularly takes part in group exercise around their working hours.
Brian McCarthy, managing director of UK and Europe at Valor Hospitality, said:
“I’m massively proud of all those who have committed to our Healthy Habits initiative and have become seriously active over the past few weeks. I never want to preach; I never want to appear “holier- than -thou” but I am a big believer that an active and healthy lifestyle is far more fun. If our campaign helped even one person, make a permanent lifestyle change and become a regular exerciser then I am a happy man!”
Valor’s focus on engagement and well-being resulted in:
- 80% of the team cited that their well-being is the same or better now than pre-pandemic
- 96% felt confident in the new norm
- 97% remained confidently aligned with our values
Valor was recently named for the third time as a Best Place to Work in Hospitality 2022 by The Caterer – a highly prestigious accolade within the hospitality sector. Its approach is industry-leading and is championed at all levels of the business, with initiatives like Healthy Habits capturing that spirit that when you put people first, good things happen.
The HR Excellence award ceremony will take place in London on December 6th 2022.


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Very Short Stories and Notes
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Collection Creator: Shepard, Mary, 1909-2000 and Travers, P. L., (Pamela Lyndon),
Located In: Box 2, Folder 35
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Typewritten notes with annotations in the hand of P. L. Travers. Most are
brief traditional tales from various cultures around the world. Possibly
collected for P. L. Travers' article "The Shortest Stories in the
World," published in Games Magazine and TLS Children's Books in 1977.
Titles of stories include "Ah!," "At the Ford," "The Hero Without a
Name," "The Idol," Frog Business," "The Koan," "Once in a Blue Moon,"
"Pilgrimage," and "Frog Business." This file also includes drafts of
original essays such as "The Rose and the Egg," "Threepenny Bit," and
"Zen Moments." Some of these essays appeared in Parabola magazine or in
P. L. Travers' collection of essays, What the Bee Knows (1989).
Very Short Stories and Notes; undated; Mary Shepard and P. L. Travers Archive, Box 2, Folder 35; , Princeton University Library.


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In 1920, a man, hated by everyone around him including his wife, is murdered in a tithe barn in Somerset. His body is found suspended from the rafters in a contraption used for the angel for local Christmas pageants. Inspector Ian Rutledge of the Scotland Yard is in the neighborhood to attend a wedding, and is called to the scene of the crime.
A Matter of Justice is the eleventh book in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series. The author is actually a mother and son writing team. From the get-go, I could tell that the authors are influenced by PD James's style. Rutledge is haunted by the ghost of his past, especially a dead lieutenant he fought with in the First World War who speaks to Rutledge in a faux-Scottish accent (I'm no expert, but do the Scots really say things like "yon?" Did the authors even speak Hamish's lines out loud as they were writing them?).
The authors tend to pepper their prose with Americanisms such as "bookstore" for "bookshop," and "family is" for "family are;" and they over-use British words such as lorry and flat. It's simply not convincing. The prose itself is memorable, but only because it leaves out key phrases and words and makes you feel as though you missed something along the way. Take this paragraph, for example: "He wasn't ready to confront the tangle of Hugh Jones and his family. But he walked there, and when nobody answered his knock, he let himself in." Obviously, the authors mean "walked to their house," but there's a word in there that needs to be modified in order for the paragraph to make sense.
Returning readers to the Ian Rutledge series will appreciate the fact that the authors don't repeat background information on the recurring characters. But if you're a first-time reader, be prepared to be very confused; at least, I was. I think I might have enjoyed the novel a bit more if a little more exposition had been given.
Rutledge is a little boring, truth be told, and he seems to muddle along until Hamish puts clues into his head. Too, the 1920s setting didn't really feel like the 1920s to me. Take away the Great War references, and you're left with a pretty average modern-day murder mystery a la PD James without the psychological complexity. I really wanted to like this book, but my reading of it got bogged down for the reasons mentioned above. The advertising blurb on the back of my ARC says that this book will be offered as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewer's program, so if my review hasn't totally turned you off from reading this book (as it shouldn't have), I recommend reading a few other books in the series for background information before jumping into A Matter of Justice. To be published December 30th 2008.

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Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are "trying to work through their issues".
The 37-year-old actress and the 33-year-old music star - whose real name is Colson Baker - are both "fiery personalities" and their high-profile romance has already been through plenty of ups and downs.
A source told Us Weekly: "Megan and Colson have had a very up and down relationship. They are great one day and then fighting with each other the next."
Despite this, the celebrity duo remain determined to overcome their issues and move forward with their romance.
The insider shared: "They love each other and have passion in droves, but that passion goes both ways.
"They are still trying to work through their issues and work on how they communicate, but both of them have such fiery personalities it’s been a struggle."
In June, Megan and the music star were said to be doing "much better" following their relationship struggles.
The duo - who announced their engagement in early 2022 - were working towards creating a "happy, honest, loving, passionate relationship" at the time.
A source explained to 'Entertainment Tonight': "There was obviously quite a bit of drama between them for a second, but they have been working on having very healthy and fluid communication. They have also been seeking therapy, which has helped save their relationship.
"They have learned that communication is key, and honesty and trust are the key pillars to any relationship.
"Their engagement status and wedding planning is a work in progress at this time, but they are both confident that they will be together forever.
"Their goal is to have a happy, honest, loving, passionate relationship that they are both committed to."


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March 4, 2016 by Chris Kite
Some call it a reality show. Some call it a clown car. Some liken it to a world wrestling fight.
In truth, it is a bit of all of these things. With no disrespect to clowns, reality shows, or professional wrestling, it is ugly and hard to watch. It’s like a strange and bizarre movie comedy that has derailed.
I thought America was better than this. I dislike all the other Republican candidates that have been in this race, other than John Kasich. I think they would all be bad for our country and our future. But at least Kasich had a bit of dignity, professionalism, and class. But saying he could support Trump is insane.
The fact that the Republican Party has become so partisan and so blind that the remaining candidates could support Trump is pathetic. It is dangerous and reckless.
I want to wake up and discover this has all been just a really bad dream. But unfortunately, it’s real. And it’s horrible. Disgusting. Sad.


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Kidbrooke Village is set in 136 acres of green and open space. The well-established Sutcliffe Park comprises areas of open grassland, tree-lined walks, the river Quaggy, a wetland nature reserve, athletics track and outdoor gym. Cator Park forms a ‘green ribbon’ through the village, including some beautiful water features. The park has been awarded Green Flag status. Cator Park is new and forms a ‘green ribbon’ through the village, including some beautiful water features.
The Village centre provides an exciting range of amenities, including a Sainsbury’s Local supermarket, convenience store, pharmacy, doctor’s surgery, dentist and café and delicatessen. A super gym is expected to open in early 2019 that shared ownership purchasers will have access to (see specification for more details). Kidbrooke is also home to good schools, including Wingfield primary school and Thomas Tallis secondary school.
Noble House and Perkins House are within three minutes walk of Kidbrooke station, making them an extremely convenient base from which to get around London.
Kidbrooke station provides frequent train services into the centre of the capital and a number of important transport hubs across south east London are directly accessible. These include Lewisham (six minutes away) with its rail connections, the DLR and a major bus terminus and, for comprehensive rail and underground services, London Bridge and Waterloo East are only 16 and 21 minutes away respectively.
Postcode SE3 9GF
Leave Kidbrooke Station and head East onto Park Terrace (you may need to walk over the footbridge if arriving on Platform 2) . Take the second right on to Tudway Road. Take the first right on to Ryan Close and the destination will be immediately on the left (opposite the Holy Family Catholic Primary School).
Exit the A2 via the A2213. Turn left on to Cambert Way and follow the road around. Turn right onto Ryan Close and the two apartment blocks will be on your right.
* Distance and times by car provided by Google maps. Train information provided by National Rail.

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Many exciting events happened during the Golden Globe Awards last night, including a Zootopia win for Best Animated Feature Film and a new Beauty and the Beast trailer, but our favorite part of the night was obviously the fashion. Among the bright hues and glamorous sparkle was one absolutely stunning dress that looked particularly familiar.
Zoe Saldana wore a two-tone pink dress with a bow at the waist, in similar vein to one of our favorite dresses worn by Cinderella. (Though, we’re doubting Zoe’s Gucci dress was put together by a group of dexterous mice.)
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A drone which momentarily stopped play during a football game at the weekend has been said to have helped Portsmouth to victory.
During their 5-1 win over Bradford City on Saturday, a drone flew over the ground forcing the referee to stop play which meant the home team’s assistant manager could give his players further instruction.
Joe Gallen told The News, Portsmouth’s local newspaper: “I could see it but I just didn’t take any notice of it. I used the break to go onto the pitch and speak to a few players.”
He added: “I was pleased to see it because we were trying to get our markers sorted out from set-pieces as they were bringing on George Miller, another centre-forward.”
The assistant boss went on to describe how it was unknown territory for him and didn’t know it meant the officials had to stop play.
“I haven’t experienced anything like that. Apparently I’m a bit naive because I didn’t know if there’s a drone we’d have to stop. I just thought we’d carry on.”
The game at Portsmouth became the second time this season a drone has been seen over an English Football League One game after one was spotted in Doncaster last November.
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