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Films include "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), a film noir starring Humphrey Bogart that is based on the 1930 novel of the same name about a private detective who takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette; "A Farewell to Arms," a 1932 romance drama starring Gary Cooper that is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway; and five titles from the "Road to ..." series of comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour that were released in the 1940s (two films in this series, from 1952 and 1962, are not available on this channel.
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What Is Driving The Increase In Parental Leave & Why We Should Pay AttentionJul 28, 2020
Since 2020, all of us have been dealing with the impact of COVID19 on our personal and professional lives. It has dominated our whole being since March 2020. It has amplified the challenges that carers face, be it looking after children, ageing parents, disabled siblings, sick relatives... and has reminded us of the fragility of our own ecosystems.
Two weeks before we started social isolation in Switzerland, many of us were focused on the significance of International Women’s Day and bearing witness to the commitments being made by senior leaders (see our partner Advance) to advance women here in Switzerland.
However, since then, as we continue to deal with the consequences of the coronavirus, there has been a concern that Inclusion & Diversity will become lost in business recovery activities.
In fact, we have seen the opposite:
- Black Lives Matter has highlighted the continued demand and right for inclusion.
- Progressive organisations have increased the amount of time employees can give back to communities.
- Parental leave, in particular secondary carer leave, has been increased in many companies.
Nurturing cultures that enable caring and career
Given our mission at Thriving Talent to help organisations nurture cultures that enable caring and career, we want to dive deeper into parental leave.
Last month, Fidelity International announced that as of September all new parents, regardless of gender, will be entitled to six months of paid leave during the first year of their child’s birth.
The reason? 💡
To improve workplace equality absolutely, but another key driver is to stay competitive; to attract and retain a significant population of the workforce - parents! When Standard Life Aberdeen offers 9 months of paid leave and Invesco offers 6 months weeks of paid leave, other Asset Managers need to raise their game.
This month, JTI International announced a global strategy of a minimum of 20 weeks as a gender neutral benefit, as part of their gender and diversity journey. How long will it be before PMI and BAT announce changes?
In fact PMI has offered much support to new parents since we started working with them in 2016, providing quarterly workshops, coaching, training and e-learning; coupled with an inspiring voluntary 'Parents at PMI ERG.' This is greatly appreciated by new parents and managers but of course, policies will also need to stay competitive.
Professionals, often in their late 20s, start to think about who provides the best environment so that one can thrive professionally and personally - without floods of overwhelm, guilt and a caring/career crash. When competing for talent, it is an important lever to pull.
Such policy change does have a positive impact on how an organisation is perceived as an Employer of Choice and we know that it increases the number of applications for job roles posted.
Retaining talent and ensuring ROI
So, what is required to retain talent and ensure that parents not only return post a parental leave but then stay for longer than 6-12 months? How do organisations ensure they see the ROI?
How do companies ensure that if they invest in this benefit to attract and retain talent; they are not met with an additional cost (3-4 times a salary) to backfill any parents who decide to leave?
It starts with an awareness of the reality of the many challenges, fears and doubts that surface when professionals start the journey to parenthood. Of course, it is a time of much joy and celebration but it can also create great uncertainty of what impact parenthood will have on one’s career. How do we know? These fears are still shared with us today at Thriving Talent through exchanges in workshops and/or coaching programmes.
💬 “I want to “show up” and still be taken seriously but I worry that others will think less of me professionally now I am pregnant.”
💬 “I’m very happy & at the same time I’m afraid because I have seen many women’s development stopped when they become Mothers.
💬 “I worry that starting a family has impacted my career progression opportunities, as I will be perceived differently by others. I would like a career roadmap so that this is not the end of my career.”
💬 “At the beginning, I had the feeling that I was invisible and did not matter, especially when I saw projects go to others that would have come to me prior to being a parent. It was assumed I would not want to be involved due to my caregiving responsibilities.”
💬 “It feels like you need to make a choice to move off the “fast track” to the “slow track” if you want to be a hands-on Father, despite leadership aspirations.”
When we share these “voices” with managers, many are shocked. Many ask us how many years ago did we hear these voices? When we share that these are fears and challenges shared in recent weeks, there is disbelief.
Often, there is great inconsistency in the employee experience at this time - all due to the behaviour and expectations of the manager. Managers need help too, so that they feel better equipped to have the much needed conversations and effectively manage the diverse needs of diverse teams.
So, having increased your awareness, what next?
How do you react to these voices? What do you need to pay attention to, to engage and retain parents?
Think holistically. Consider the whole ecosystem and whether that supports parents and all employees to manage life transitions with flexibility and hope.
We are often asked, what are the top 3 levers if we had to prioritise, for the maximum positive impact on retention and engagement of parents?
- Enabling policies: a minimum of 5 months paid equal parental leave & flexible working.
- Provide emotional and practical support to help parents navigate the transition to parenthood, especially when working far from the extended family.
- Educate and equip Managers on the significant role they play in the retention of parents, from the moment they hear the news through to career conversations post parental leave.
Ultimately, companies need to pay attention to all of the levers, in particular the importance of role models in leadership, less linear career paths and all leadership roles being posted less than 100%; if they are striving for gender parity at all levels of leadership.
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Build your awareness of how employees in your organisation experience the transition to parenthood. What are their challenges, fears and assumptions? Provide immediate support to those in the transition and let this inform you. If you feel like you are pushing water uphill, look around at the competition - are they offering better policies, practices and resources?
It is incredibly easy to get started and start seeing the benefits. When one of our clients sent the invitation to over 120 new fathers to attend New Parent Workshops, the response was overwhelmingly positive - a feeling of finally being acknowledged; even if they could not attend.
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Yu launches new program
Bellowing "Naruwan, wel-come to Taiwan!" Premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday announced that next year will be "Taiwan Tourism Year." Naruwan means "how are you" in indigenous language. "We hope every citizen would become an ambassador of the program and help bring in 3 million foreign tourists next year," he told a press conference held at the Executive Yuan to launch a series of activities to promote tourism. Five tasks have been set to meet the goal, including domestic and international promo-tional campaigns, interna-tional festivals, development of travel packages and the establishment of convenient online travel information. The tourism program is part of the Cabinet's six-year, NT$2.6 trillion national development project. The Cabinet hopes to double the annual number of foreign tourists from the current 2.6 million to 5 million by 2008.
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Matsu wants fewer limits
Matsu officials asked the government yesterday to relax restrictions on links with China. Lienchiang County Commissioner Chen Shue-sheng (陳雪生) made the plea while attending a seminar on the review of the "small three links." Nine legislators attended the seminar, as well as more than 50 government officials, including Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Vice Minister of the Interior Chien Tai-lang (簡太郎), and Vice Minister of Transportation and Communications You Fan-lai (游芳來). Chen suggested that the central government be in charge of issues concerning policies, but leave the technical issues to the local government to deal with through consulta-tions with China. He also suggested that Matsu residents who later settle in Taiwan proper be allowed to travel to China via Matsu.
Japan to import rice
Japan has agreed to import rice from Taiwan, a move seen by Taiwanese farm officials as confirmation of the fine quality of Taiwanese rice, a Council of Agriculture official said yesterday. Hsieh Hung-jen said two Japanese officials visited the country last month to inspect rice fields and the processing and storage of rice. "They were satisfied with the quality of Taiwanese rice and agreed to start imports next spring. Rice exporters will bid for the contract through inter-national tenders," he said. Taiwan has 350,000 rice farmers and grows enough for its own consumption and exports about 90,718 tonnes a year.
Temps to get bonus
In a bid to help underprivi-leged workers who are temporarily employed by government agencies have a happy Lunar New Year, Premier Yu Shyi-kun yester-day approved awarding each of the 62,000 temporary workers a NT$5,000 bonus. Yu said that the workers deserve the reward because they do not get paid during the six-day Lunar New Year holiday, making their salary that month less than the NT$15,840 minimum wage. Yu approved the proposal after a briefing by Council of Labor Affairs Chairwoman Chen Chu (陳菊) during the weekly Cabinet meeting. The Lunar New Year holiday next year will run from Jan. 21 to Jan. 27.


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February 21, 2007 -- Belden has added BNC and RCA connectors to its Brilliance line of A/V products for the professional broadcast and entertainment industry.
According to the company, the BNC and RCA connectors are available in both straight and right angle versions and feature a solid, one-piece construction, plated in either nickel or gold, with gold-plated center pins. The connectors also feature two independent compression points to seal and hold the connector onto the miniature coaxial cable and ensure electrical contact.
The company maintains that, with the two compression points, plus a patent-pending viewing window within the connector, installing the connectors becomes much easier to accomplish. A self-centering internal design allows seating of the coax conductor into the contact and holding it securely for a flawless electrical connection. Both connectors offer a cable retention force of > 40 lbs. and a center conductor holding force of >150 grams.
Belden also offers stripping and compression tools to simplify the connectorization process. The tools are designed to provide faster, easier termination of Belden 75-ohm Mini Hi-Res component video coax cables, while ensuring secure and reliable connections.
The Belden Mini Hi-Res precision analog/digital component video cables, which are offered in both Banana Peel and jacketed constructions, are used in RGB, VGA, DTV and HDTV applications and suitable for deployment in corporate boardrooms, teleconferencing centers, performance venues and post-production facilities.


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Accra, Sept. 26, GNA - Come with your children to school, government has announced a package for you and your children. This is the message Mrs Esther Faustina Ashong, Headmistress of Sempe Primary School, Accra, sent across to parents during the school's Parent-Teacher Association meeting to get parents to enrol their children in school. And this message achieved its objective, she said, as enrolment figures went up this academic year in both Sempe Two and 28th February Road Primary Schools in the locality.
Enrolment in the Sempe Primary School went up from 48 in the 2004/2005 academic year to 52 in 2005/2006 while it increased from 47 in the 2004/2005 to 53 in the 2005/2006 at the 28th February Road Primary School.
She said though the figures were not as high as was expected, they were encouraging and she was still expecting more children to be enrolled.
That is exactly what the Ministry of Education was driving at when it launched "My First Day at School" at the beginning of the 2005/06 academic year on September 13 to welcome Class One pupils to school. The 2005-2006 academic year began on Tuesday with effective implementation of the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) programme and the capitation grant policy for pupils in basic schools. The slogan adopted by parents at Sempe and 28th February Primary Schools is: "If I did not go to school my child should go." This is good news from the parents of Sempe.
It, however, sounds very funny when one comes to think of the fact that some people have to be convinced to send their children to school. Why? Because parents are the direct beneficiaries of their educated children and are expected to play the lead role in encouraging and convincing their children not only to go to school, but to "complete" their schooling.
Human resource development should be the hallmark of every government, and knowing the importance of a knowledgeable and strong human resource base to development, government is doing its best to persuade children to go to school.
However, it is disheartening that in this era some parents still do not seem to know the value of education. For them it is a waste of the little money they have.
Unfortunately, this kind of thinking exists in Accra, especially Nima and Chorkor, as the Mayor, Stanley Nii Agyiri Blankson found out. If this type of thinking exists in Accra, where majority of people are enlightened, what measures should be used to judge those who are in the remote and deprived villages.
The condition in some of these villages are appalling - schools are located very far from home and the distance alone could deter children from going to school. Children plod day in and day out without any transport.
It is, therefore, not surprising that many uneducated young girls from poor homes in the remote villages troop to the cities and towns in search of "greener pastures" and non-sustaining jobs.
In a chat in Accra with Fati, a young girl from Savelugu Nanton in the Northern Region who had finished her Senior Secondary School, she expressed regret that children, especially girls, were not going to school in the villages.
Fati is a volunteer with School for Life, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) that encourages school enrolment and enhances literacy with even over-aged children in the Northern Region. Her work is to go around the villages and towns to convince parents to allow their children to go to school. It instils in the children the essence of education and the opportunities that would be opened to them when they attend school.
According to her, some parents would agree to send their children to school but after some weeks withdraw them to come and help them on the farm or do other household chores.
To some parents, because they did not go to school their children too should suffer the same fate. The girls sit at home; they cannot go to school because their parents cannot cater for them in school. Fati says many girls also get pregnant while in school and that ends their education because their parents refuse to cater for them. For rendering her services and with her educational background Fati and three others are going on an exchange programme to Denmark. She says education is very dear because it would open a lot of opportunities for her and give her a brighter future. She is, therefore, trying hard to rewrite some of her papers and climb higher on the academic ladder.
The Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) programme adopted in 1995 and being implemented this academic year is to help liberate parents from the headache of having to pay school fees. It is also to serve as the key that would unlock doors to education by making it easier for all, especially children of the poor majority, to go to school.
But if education is free and parents are still very sceptical about sending their children to school for various reasons, are we likely to achieve the goals of the Education For All (EFA) policy by the year 2015?
We could term it the policy of helping to raise the literacy level of the poor majority to some level.
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports, during his turn at the meet the press series in Accra, said there had been very positive trends in pupils/student enrolment, retention and transition. According to him total enrolment at the public basic schools in 2004/05 stood at 3,698,479 while the private schools had a total enrolment of 1,189,953. Enrolment at the Senior Secondary School also continues to increase with 333,002 being enrolled in 2004/2005. Atthe tertiary level enrolment at the universities and polytechnics is growing rapidly, shooting up from 87,929 in 2003/2004 to 98,393 in 2004/2005. The numbers of students attending special institutions like schools for the blind and deaf have increased by 32 per cent since 2001. The Minister says continued focus must be on increasing female participation, which is currently 40 per cent. Under the non-formal education programme, some 300,000 learners would be enrolled by the end of the year. According to an UNESCO report, the goals of Education for All and two of the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are being threatened. It will be difficult to achieve the MDGs. It is heart-warming news that Ghana is the fifth out of 15 Sub-Saharan African countries to make gains in the early childhood care and education monitoring report of UNESCO in 2001. Under age specific data in 2001, the enrolment for pre-primary age three was 30 per cent; 33 per cent for four years; 40 per cent for five years, 20 per cent for six years and 12 per cent for children at seven years.
For primary school children, Ghana registered 46 per cent of age five children in school, 60 per cent of age six children and 70 per cent of age seven.
Currently, more than 100 million children in the world are still deprived of the right to education and roughly 800 million adults cannot read or write with the majority of them being women and girls. Severe illiteracy is, however, concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab states, South Asia and West Asia.
It is thus no wonder that UNESCO considers progress made so far as very slow to achieve the goals by 2015 when net enrolments in schools all over the world are expected to reach 87 per cent by the targeted year.
The figure is below 70 per cent in many Sub-Saharan countries and UNESCO believes the targets could only be achieved through free and compulsory primary education and increased funding to basic schools. But what happens after the free education at the basic level? Poor, needy but brilliant students need funds to enable them to continue their education to the highest level. But how many of such needy students get such opportunities?
There is pressure on governments to build more schools, invest in teachers' training and learning materials.
All these point to the fact that education is very important to the development of nations and more attention should be paid to the sector for it to achieve its intended goals.


Lady Eagles looking to take flight with unique style of play
Offseason will allow coaches and players to learn nuances of fast-paced system of play
For the USU Eastern womens basketball team, not everything is what it seems.
Looking at their overall record of 13-17 and seeing them play on the court may be two different things all together.
USU Eastern Head Coach Dave Paur said he felt that the new system of play focusing on quick shots, mainly from beyond the arc, and substituting in waves of new players helped the team develop a niche in a difficult Scenic West Athletic Conference.
"We put in a strange and unique system for the girls to play," said Paur. "The fans were entertained and I thought it was a good year for the team."
The Lady Eagles' season came to a close with a 82-77 loss to Snow College in the SWAC Tournament on Feb. 27.
Paur is hoping that new recruits that fit the fast-paced style of play and a year of learning will allow the team to use the system to its full potential.
"We've got an excellent group of freshmen coming in and we have seven players returning for next season with plenty of experience," he said.


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In Visual Studio 2010 Essential Training, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to use Visual Studio 2010 Professional to develop full-featured applications targeting a variety of platforms. Starting with an overview of the integrated developer environment, the course covers working with code editors, navigating and formatting code, and deploying applications. Also included are tutorials on running performance and load tests, and debugging code. Exercise files accompany the course.
When you create a project in Visual Studio, it creates a lot of files for you. The number of these files and the file types are determined by a project template. Simply stated, a project template instructs Visual Studios which files to generate and load into the IDE. I'd like to start this movie by looking at the existing templates. I am inside Visual Studio, and I am going to create a new project. I will go to File > New > Project. I am going to select the Console Application.
This is one of the templates that's available. There are Visual Basic templates and C# templates, C++ templates, and many more. I am going to go to C# and then Windows, and I am going to choose Console Application. Next, I have to pick the location on my hard drive where to put these files. Choose a location that makes sense for your application. For my application, I am going to browse out to my Chapter 06 folder and then Chapter 01.
I will call this one ConsoleApplication1. Accept the defaults. Now what I want you to see is that the template loaded a file called Program.cs, and there is also another code file that's hidden inside this Properties folder called AssemblyInfo.cs. So it created two files for me. Now if I create a different kind of application--let's say I add another new project and choose WPF-- this template loads more files.
It loads something called App.xaml and App.xaml.cs. It also created two files that start with the name MainWindow. And if I create a web application, like this ASP.NET web application--again, accepting the defaults here--I get dozens of files. I get a folder called Account, and one called Styles, and a number of aspx files.
These are all coming from different templates. So where are these templates stored? Let's go and take a look. I am going to switch over to Windows Explorer, and I am going to go into my Program Files folder. On my machine, I am using the one that's entitled x86. And then I am going to scroll down and find Microsoft Visual Studio 10 > a Common7 folder > IDE, and then I need to scroll down and find the Project Templates folder. And now I can finally see the different template areas.
I am looking for a C# template, and I am looking for the Windows template. One more folder. The 1033 folder is the English folder, and here is that ConsoleApplication template. It's stored in a ZIP file. So if I open this ZIP file, I'll see that there is a program.cs file and an assembly.cs file, plus some other files. So the instructions to Visual Studio are to create all these separate files.
Now let's see what happens if I double-click on this program.cs file. It loads it inside Visual Studio. On your machine, it may not load into Visual Studio. It might use a different tool to open the file. It should use some text editor, though. Now let's take a look between this file and the program.cs that was created when I ran the template. Here I ended up with a namespace called ConsoleApplication1. In the template, there is a token sitting in here. It's replaced when the template is unwrapped.
This means to go figure out what the name of the project is and put it here. Also, note there is 'if' statement up at the top that says, "If the targetframeworkversion is greater than or equal to 3.5, then add an additional using statement." So in my file, you can see that System.Ling was added, because I created a 4.0 version of the ConsoleApplication. Now the nice thing about templates is that you can create your own templates. I have some friends that have a consultancy, and they create the same projects over and over again for their clients.
If you were to find yourself in this situation, you might consider making your own custom project or item templates. I am going to start by creating a custom item template. I am going to go over to my ConsoleApplication. And I think before I do that I am going to close all these windows. So on Visual Studio, I can go to the Windows menu, and then choose Close All Documents. Then I am going to go to my ConsoleApplication, and I am going to say Add > Class. I am going to call this one BoilerPlateClass.
Next, I am going to put some of the known template tokens in here. I am going to create a comment that says, "created on", and then I will use one of the tokens, move down to the next line, and then here I will put in another token. This one is registeredorganization, and then lastly, I am going to replace this class name with the token itemname.
Let me save that file. To make a template out of this, I am going to go to File > Export Template. I am going to create two templates. The first one I am going to create is an Item template. So I'll select Item template, I will click on Next, and I will pick my BoilerPlateClass as the Item template, and then click Next. Here, I can add references. When the user uses my template, it's going to add these DLLs in the references folder. Let me pick those three.
Then I will click on Next. Here I give my template a name. I am going to call this one BoilerPlateClass, and then I'll click Finish. This file actually got copied to two different places. It got copied to the My Exported Templates folder. It also got copied to my Visual Studio folder inside the My Documents folder.
Now, let's close the solution, create a brand-new project-- I am going to use a ConsoleApplication-- and then I am going to right-click over here and say, Add > New Item, and there is my BoilerPlateClass. So I will choose that one, click Add, and as you can see, it replaced the date and it replaced the class name. Next, I want to create a project template.
So let me close this solution, and not save the changes, and then I am going to go and open an existing project that I already have. I am going to say Open > ProjectSolution. I am going to open this project in the InfoReader folder, called InfoReader.sln. Next, I am going to make a template out of it. You might recognize this. This is the one I did in Chapter 03, where I created the Info Reader application.
It's got a database and a picture and an xsdf file and a xaml file. So I am going to make a template out of this. I am going to go to File > Export Template, make it a project template, call it InfoReader or lynda.com or whatever you want to call your template. Click on Finish, and then in the future I can come in and say I want to do File > New > Project. Come over here and type "info".
There is my InfoReader project. I click on OK, and there is my InfoReader1, and you see how it automatically brought in all of my files. So as you can see, the Export feature makes it dead simple to create your own item an project templates.
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garwa4d login is a place where you can log in and read all the information about the newest movies in your area as well as other movies released and sold by the various companies. So you can check for movies that you haven’t seen yet, or you can read the reviews about them, or you can just read the review of the movie you have been looking forward to.
What is this online movie-watching platform? It’s basically a place that lets you watch movies online for free. It’s not the most interesting place to use, but it can be useful when you’re on the go. It doesn’t matter if you just want to see some random movie. It does matter if you’re traveling or going somewhere, so if you really need to see a movie on the go, just download it from the site and watch it there.
That is exactly what I did when I went to watch the movie I had been looking forward to earlier today. I had downloaded it on my PC, and now it is sitting on my phone waiting to be downloaded onto a portable device. That is the future of online movie-watching, right there.
That’s the point I was making: We’ve all seen movies that we just wanted to watch on the go. I don’t know about you, but when I was in college I used to always feel like I needed a book, or a magazine, or something to hold me while I watched a movie. Now, I can’t go to the bookstore without having a portable version of the book I’m reading in my hand. And I don’t have magazines anymore because all I have are books.
The good news is that you don’t have to be a “book” to get your movies from the comfort of your own device. Now I’m not saying you can’t get your movies, I’m just saying it’s a new era of movies. The movie industry has always had a problem with piracy. So the movie industry has always been at a loss for new ways to help its movies be available to consumers.
After the success of Netflix, Netflix is now trying to make its movies available for free via its service. The theory is that the movies will only be available to viewers who are willing to sign up for Netflix’s service for free. If Netflix’s service is free, then anyone who wants to watch a movie can do so, and no one has to pay.
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The book The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor? is written by Louis Filler and Allen Guttmann, and covers the key political aspects of the removal of the Cherokees from their land from 1829 to 1832. This book revolves around the speeches and the judicial trials that were held in regards to the Cherokee expulsion. It contains Theodore Frelinghuysen’s speech before the Senate, Wilson Lumpkin’s speech before Congress, and even a speech by David Crockett presented before congress.
It mainly revolves around the removals in the states of Georgia and South Carolina. The book extensively covers the court rulings of “The Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia” and “Worcester vs. The State of Georgia.” It contains arguments both for the removal and against it. The key points from each side are written in an unbiased way.
This source contains many valuable points of view from people’s first hand experiences regarding the Cherokee Nation. Considering that the book contains several primary sources it is one of the most reliable of this bibliography.
The speeches and trials cover both major parts of the Cherokee Removal and the “Trail of Tears.” Since the book is objective, it can be used to side with both arguments and give clear opinions. The overall goal of this book is to cover the political arguments and proceedings in regards to the Cherokee removal in the states of Georgia and South Carolina in an unbiased way providing facts for both sides.
This source has been very helpful to my research of the “Trail of Tears.” While it may not have been as emotionally influenced and powerful as some of the other sources, it provided clear political points of views to be referenced in my paper. It gave me several primary sources and helped me think about my topic as if I was in the time period it occurred. I can use this source in my research paper by using the direct quotes from the notable speeches and also facts from the judicial trials that are covered in the book.
Foreman, Grant. Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.
The book Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians covers the forcible uprooting and expulsion of the 60,000 Native Americans that made up the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole. The source goes into intense details including facts such as the numbers of people moved, quality and quantities of supplies, and other small details. There are constant lists of such aspects of the story, repeated throughout the text. It contains many pages of maps in the book that show the path of the relocations and the territories the Native American groups occupied. I would compare this source to an encyclopedia about my topic.
The language of this work is a little hard to follow from today’s attention-deficit perspective. The footnotes are too long, and there are too many important but uninteresting details. It is one of the hardest books to read from my list of sources. However it is a very reliable source. From fragments in thousands of manuscripts, Grant Foreman gleaned the materials for this book to provide readers with and unbiased day-by-day recital of events.
Considering the dryness of the text, this source was not as helpful to me as I had hoped. It contains uninteresting details that would really only be used if I was writing about a very specific topic. This source did not change how I think about my topic. It did however, fill my research in with small details and illustrations that I may need to reference later on.
Green, Len. “Choctaw Removal Was Really a ‘Trail of Tears’.” Bishinik (November 1978): 8-9. Http://web.archive.org/web/20080604005.(accessed October 2010).
In the journal entry “Choctaw Removal was Really a ‘Trail of Tears’,” the author, Len Green writes about the “Trail of Tears” from Mississippi walked by the Choctaw Native Americans from 1831- 1833. George Gaines was named by Secretary of War Lewis Coss as general supervisor for the removal of the Choctaws from Mississippi to what is now southern Oklahoma. The plan was done by moving one-third of the Choctaws per year in each of the years 1831, 1832 and 1833. Gaines set removal of the first one-third of the Choctaws to begin on November 1, 1831. The rest of the entry describes the various routes that the Natives took to move. It also describes the “new” Choctaw nation set up in the West.
This article was written for the Bishinik journal, which is a monthly publication sent free to registered Choctaw Nation tribal members upon request. It is published by the Choctaw Nation in Durant, Oklahoma. The Library of Congress shows a record of the newspaper’s publication from 1978 to 1981 and from 1983 to the present. The author, Len Green, is a ancestor of the Choctaw nation and has written several articles for this publication. This is a reliable source, however it is heavily biased. The goal of this source is for a reflection of a monumental historic event of the Choctaw Nation and to provide the readers with an accurate description of how and why the removal took place.
This source was helpful to me as it provided a point of view from a Native American. Although the author did not experience the event first hand, his ancestors did, and that gives him a different point of view than that of unrelated scholars and researchers. Since this source was solely about the Choctaw Indian removal, it provided additional details needed to assess each Native American tribe’s experiences with the forced removal and how they compared and contrasted.
Hook, Sue V. Trail of Tears. Edina, MN: ABDO Publishing Company, 2010.
The book Trail of Tears by Sue Vander Hook is a book about the forced Native American removal and the path they took, known as the “Trail of Tears.” This book is about all of the Native Americans that were forced off of their land. The Cherokee were not the only Native Americans to be replaced. The Choctaw, the Seminole, the Creek, the Chickasaw, and others also had to leave the land of their ancestors. This book is written in story book form and follows the path of the Native American removal providing details at each step. It begins with an introduction to the Native American groups and their way of life. Then it discusses the introduction of the American colonist and how relationships soon soured. It then goes into great detail about the struggles Native Americans had to face and the cruelty the colonists inflicted upon them while driving them off of their own land.
This source is more emotionally written than some of my other sources and is a biased source for the Native American side. This is a reliable source. It is written by Sue Vander Hook, a professor at the University of Michigan. She has written many historic books that have received good reviews. The book contains a concise bibliography that gives all of the sources she used in the research for this book.
This source is a valuable resource to me. It helps me understand the subject by laying it out as a story rather than just dry facts. It helps me shape my argument by giving me a better idea about the cruelty and violence that the Native Americans had to endure. I can use this source to provide additional facts about the literal “Trail of Tears.” This book has shaped how I think about my topic by influencing my feeling toward Native Americans.
Jahoda, Gloria. The Trail of Tears: The Story of American Removals 1813-1855. New York: Wings Books, 1975.
Although hardly comprehensive, in The Trail of Tears: The Story of American Indian Removals, Jahoda provides a rather exhaustive review of the removal of the “five civilized tribes” as well as a number of Midwestern peoples. Jahoda notes the particular senselessness of removing the eastern tribes, as many had already been integrated into the lifestyle of the American settlers (some even became major plantation owners, complete with slaves) and became devout Christians. It was not a matter of simply dealing with the “savages” but a demonstration of racism, plain and simple. The Trail of Tears: The Story of American Indian Removals is not only an illuminating history but also a rather instructive text.
This book is very balanced, overlooking no point of view. It is also a very human book that does not skip painful details. Jahoda’s history aims for a more narrative style, almost like historical fiction. However, lurking behind the lively narrative is thorough scholarship. This is a reliable source. The author, Gloria Jahoda, was educated at Northwestern University where she took a BA in English and an MS in Anthropology. Jahoda was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of West Florida for her services to Floridian culture and history as a writer and advocate. The goal of this book is the continued education of our native people’s plight and to bring to light the true story of the Native American removals.
This book will be very helpful to writing about the details of the Native American removals as a whole. Not just focused on a specific Native American group such as the Cherokee Indians, but all groups of Native Americans that were removed from their land. It will help me write about history through the eyes and ears of those experiencing it. The fact that there was no respect for the Native American culture and the courage they had to stand up for their beliefs and rights will be a key part of my paper.
Krupat, Arnold, ed. Native American Autobiography: An Anthology. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
The book Native American Autobiography: An Anthology, is a collection that brings together several major autobiographical narratives written by Native American people from early documents to recent ones. The thirty narratives included here cover many tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years. Native American Autobiography covers a broad range of Native American experience. The sections include Traditional Lives, the Christian Indians, the Resisting Indians, the Closed Frontier, the Anthropologists’ Indians, Native American Renaissance, and Traditional Lives Today.
As the editor, Arnold Krupat provides a general introduction, an historical introduction to each of the seven sections, extensive head notes for each selection, and suggestions for further reading. Native American Autobiography is a valued addition to my sources. Since the sources are written firsthand by Native Americans the information is essential providing primary facts in my paper. Even though the reports will be biased from the author’s own point of view, the validity of the source is still high.
The source will be the best one of my sources to pull direct quotes from. Since it contains all of the primary source accounts, quotes will be easily accessible and reliable. It also gives background on each of the authors, so background information can be provided around the quote in the paper. The background information on the Five Civilized Tribes will also be valuable. There is also a section about the gold discovery in Georgia and the resistance of the Native Americans there that will be a large portion of the research paper.
Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Penguin Group, 2007.
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears is compact book by prominent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green. It moves from the time when all Cherokees lived in the southern Appalachian to their forced expulsion to the Indian Territory, as American policy changed from simply civilizing Native Americans to what might today be deemed ethnic cleansing. It is a book about politics and Cherokee power struggles, of juridical argument and economic motive, and of personal disputes against changing public policy. Over the entire book hangs the sad knowledge that in the history of interaction between Europeans and Native Americans, Cherokee removal is a large part of that history that no one should forget.
Perdue and Green have written a reliable and readable account of the legal complexities of the 18th-century Right of Conquest Doctrine and the 19th-century doctrine of state rights. This book contains accurate information that is highly reviewed by scholars nation-wide. Theda Perdue is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States and on gender in Native societies. Michael D. Green is also a professor of history and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This source is the number one source I will be using for this research project. This is due to the fact that it contains highly useful information that is clear, concise, reliable, and unbiased.
This source will give me accurate information about the treaties, alliances, obligations and assurances involved in the Indian Removal Act. It will also help me address the landmark cases “Cherokee v. Georgia” and “Worcester v. Georgia” (one effectively denying Cherokee self-government). Since this source was so easily readable it gave me a great idea of the ideas behind the Indian Removal and how it was executed.
Sturgis, Amy H. The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
The book The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal, by Amy Sturgis is designed as a reference for high school students and lower-level undergraduates. It examines the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its traditional homeland in 1838-1839 along what is known as the “Trail of Tears.” The perspectives of both the Cherokee Nation and the U.S. government are discussed. Supplemental materials include brief biographies of key individuals as well as a chronology and excerpts from primary documents.
This source is one my most useful sources. The book is well thought out and contains reliable information. The author, Amy Sturgis, holds a Ph.D. is intellectual history from Vanderbilt University and has written four books on U.S. presidential history and Native American studies. The goal of this source is to provide a simple, yet intuitive story of the “Trail of Tears.”
This source is one of the only sources that contain a time line of the events regarding the Indian removal. This is a very useful piece of information for my research project. The engaging thematic chapters that explore the events surrounding the “Trail of Tears” will also be very helpful in working on my project. This source has helped me make a movie in my head of how the Indian Removal Act happened and it a key source to help me organize my paper in a chronological way.
Thorton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
The book American Indian Holocaust and Survival explains the decline of the Indian population since the arrival of the first settlers. It starts by describing the population of the Native Americans before the arrival of foreigners. It then explains that the population went into a steady decline throughout the years of 1492-1900. During this section the various causes of the decline are discussed. These include disease, alcoholism, geographical removal and relocation, and other destructions of the Native American way of life.
This book gives accurate information about the decline of the Native American population. While the trail of tears is only a small portion of this decline, the source provides a great feel for the unfairness of the way the entire native American population was treated throughout history. It also contains many useful graphs and maps. The author, Russell Thorton, has a Ph.D. from Florida State University postdoctoral degree from Harvard University and a postdoctoral degree from the University of Southern California. He has published several other published works about Native American history.
This source contains valuable information about the decline of the Native American population that the settlers caused. It contains a large section about the Native American removal and the “Trail of Tears.” This book will help me provide additional facts about the Native American removal as well as give me additional facts about the overall decline of the Native American population. Finally this source will help me explain the population recovery and the definition and enumeration of American Natives as a part of the conclusion to my research project.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets are finalizing a deal to hire Arizona Diamondbacks assistant general manager Jared Porter as their general manager, according to a person familiar with the talks.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Saturday night on condition of anonymity because the agreement hadn’t been announced. Other outlets also reported the hiring.
Porter won three World Series in the front office for the Boston Red Sox and another with the Chicago Cubs before joining Arizona as a senior vice president and assistant GM in 2017. He’s worked various roles in baseball operations, but his primary focus has been scouting. He was a director of pro scouting for Boston and Chicago.
The 41-year-old Porter will work under team president Sandy Alderson, who has taken charge of baseball operations under new owner Steve Cohen.
The Mets have already been aggressive following a 26-34 disappointment during the pandemic-shortened regular season. The club is closing in on a deal with free agent catcher James McCann for $40 million over four years, another person told the AP on Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity because there was no official announcement.
New York also signed free agent reliever Trevor May last week to a $15.5 million, two-year deal — the first major transaction for the club since Cohen bought the team for $2.42 billion last month.
Porter inherits a team featuring a number of star players, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom, and All-Star hitters Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil and Michael Conforto. Hard-throwing righty Noah Syndergaard had Tommy John surgery in March and is expected to return sometime during the 2021 season.
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Sunday, Aug 20, 2017
Dubai: A total solar eclipse, which will be taking place on August 22 will not be visible to UAE residents through the naked eye. However residents can use online streaming to watch the eclipse that starts at 12:46am local time.
Anyone within the path of totality will be able to see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights — a total solar eclipse. This includes people in the US, and North America, while parts of South America, Africa, and Europe will see at least a partial solar eclipse. The thin path of totality will pass through portions of 14 states.
During this celestial event, the moon will pass between the sun and earth, blocking the sun, explained Hasan Al Hariri, Dubai Astronomy Group CEO.
For this eclipse, the longest period of the moon completely blocking the sun along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds.
Records show, the last time the contiguous US saw a total eclipse was in 1979.
Al Hariri, advises those who will observe the eclipse, not to directly look at the sun, but to use special glasses and take the necessary precautions.
He rejected all the hoax messages circulating on social media about a negative impact of the solar eclipse on earth.
According to Nasa, the maximum point of the eclipse will take place at 3:20am local time on Tuesday.
Nasa and many other organisations, including the Dubai Astronomy Group (DAG), has arranged live streaming of the solar eclipse, which will be accessible to all users online. DAG will keep update the photos, videos and information about this solar eclipse on its website and social media.
Residents in the region however, will get the opportunity observe an annular solar eclipse on December 26, 2019.
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About Kent Nagano
Given the impact of his career upon music, it seems incredible that Kent Nagano almost became a lawyer. Nagano has proven himself a powerhouse in the operatic and orchestral realms, championing the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is best known for his long association with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Opéra National de Lyon, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, as well as a critically acclaimed recording career.
Nagano was born in Morro Bay, California, on November 22, 1951. Despite thorough musical training beginning at age six and obvious talent, Nagano simultaneously worked toward degrees at the University of California, Santa Cruz in sociology and music in 1974 before moving on to San Francisco State University in 1976 to study law. There, composition courses with Grosvenor Cooper and Roger Nixon turned him toward music, and an encounter with Laszlo Varga -- former first cellist of the New York Philharmonic under Walter, Mitropoulos, and Bernstein -- prompted him toward conducting. Though he no longer composes, Nagano has said, "While I seemed to be quite able from the point of view of craftsmanship, I was not very good at the creative aspects! However, having the skills of composition only increases the admiration that one can have for the exceptionally talented who have composed great works." His apprenticeship was spent under Sarah Caldwell at the Opera Company of Boston from 1977 to 1979, where he eventually became an assistant conductor.
In 1978, Nagano was named music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 2009. It was with the Berkeley Symphony in 1982 where he led the first American performance of Pfitzner's opera Palestrina. As assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he stood in, without rehearsal, to conduct Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in 1984. An adventurous spirit and a major interpretive grasp were clearly at work. These traits were confirmed when Olivier Messiaen tapped Nagano to assist Seiji Ozawa in preparing the world premiere of his sprawling, luminous opera Saint François d'Assise in 1984, a work Nagano later recorded. His years as musical director of the Opéra National de Lyon (1988 to 1998) were marked by a number of distinguished premieres (including Peter Eötvös' opera Three Sisters, which he commissioned) and recordings, including Debussy's abandoned opera Rodrigue et Chimène, John Adams' Death of Klinghoffer, Busoni's comic opera double bill of Arlecchino and Turandot, and his testament, the unfinished Doktor Faust (with alternate completions by Philipp Jarnach and Antony Beaumont). As music director of the Hallé Orchestra from 1991 until 2000, he recorded John Adams' El Niño and the four-act version of Britten's Billy Budd.
Nagano was named the principal conductor and music director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2000. The following year, he took up the role of principal conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and transitioned to become the company's first-ever music director in 2003. In 2006, Nagano stepped down from his positions with the Los Angeles Opera and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester to take up the post of music director for both the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian State Opera. He still maintains a relationship with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, whose members named him Honorary Conductor. He exited his Bavarian State Opera at the end of his contract in 2013, taking up the general music director and chief conductor posts for the Hamburg State Opera in 2015, with a contract extension through 2025. Nagano left the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in 2020, which named him conductor emeritus in 2021.
Nagano is married to pianist Mari Kodama, and together they issued a complete recording of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra. ~ Adrian Corleonis & Keith Finke
HOMETOWNMorro Bay, CA
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Garruk Wildspeaker Discussion
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2 weeks ago
Hi, first of all your deck looks solid already. Nevertheless here are some recommendations:
As you're accelerating your mana by Weirding Wood , Dawn's Reflection and so on, you could consider Zacama, Primal Calamity and Garruk Wildspeaker , the first is a nice spell to play with the help of Jodah, the second is a great ramp spell itself.
Omniscience is an "I win" card. If your playgroup is OK with it, you should include it.
I have a Jodah deck myself that is utilising some other cards from your Maybeboard. If you're interested follow this link: Jodah, 5C Monstrosities.
That's all for now. Have fun deckbuilding!
2 weeks ago
Its not an answer to your question but I would't play either of these. Theres better options Garruk, Caller of Beasts Garruk Wildspeaker personally I like Nissa, Vital Force but maybe because I play her in legacy, people underestimate her and then let you ult. Also I think Vivien, Champion of the Wilds is a contender.
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3 weeks ago
I think so, but I recommend a bunch of testing to find out.
If you add Fertile Ground , then I'd also consider playing Garruk Wildspeaker instead of Vernal Bloom . Garruk will make just as much mana, will make it sooner, and can make wolves when you're in a pinch.
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1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers 1x Mosswort Bridge 1x Adaptive Automaton 1x Obelisk of Urd 1x Emerald Medallion 1x Forebear's Blade 1x Konda's Banner 1x Guardian Project 1x Shamanic Revelation 1x Overwhelming Stampede 1x Konda's Banner 1x Vanquisher's Banner 1x Vivien Reid 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds 1x Cultivate 1x Kodama's Reach 1x Zendikar Resurgent 1x Seedborn Muse 1x Chord of Calling 1x Garruk Wildspeaker 1x Thunderfoot Baloth 1x Vizier of the Menagerie 1x Prowling Serpopard 1x Beast Whisperer 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways 1x Eldritch Evolution
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Green defends against sacrifice with tokens. Each of the cards you're defending against let's you choose the creature to sacrifice. Make sure you have either plenty to sacrifice, or little chumps to sacrifice.
- Ramp into Hornet Queen or Ant Queen .
- Buy back Sprout Swarm a ton,
- Run Awakening Zone
- Ramp into Avenger of Zendikar or Rampaging Baloths (who would love your Rampant Growth ) or Hooded Hydra
- Add a Planeswalker that makes tokens and gives you other utility: Nissa, Voice of Zendikar or Garruk Wildspeaker or Garruk, Primal Hunter
For pretty cheap you could replace your current hydra and the Terrastomper for the Baloths and Hydra here, just to get a feel of token vs sacrifice.
Garruk Wildspeaker occurrence in decks from the last year
All decks: 0.06%
Commander / EDH:
All decks: 0.03%

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King Sturge has been appointed to provide management set-up advice on a major new shopping center on the outskirts of Tirana, the Albanian capital, which will help to offset a huge imbalance in the supply of retail space in the area.
The new 48-million scheme will total 70,000 m² (gross built area including car parking) and is called Tirana East Gate shopping center. It has been awarded a 24-m long-term debt facility by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), following a feasibility study undertaken by King Sturge's Croatia office on behalf of EBRD.
Tirana East Gate will be developed by a special purpose vehicle wholly owned by Albanian development and investment company Mane TCI Sh.p.k, which is an affiliate of the Balkan Finance Investment Group (Balfin). Featuring around 103 tenants, including three anchor stores, and 1,643 parking spaces, it is due to open in December 2010. Located 5 km south of Tirana in an area also earmarked for residential and leisure, access to the scheme will be significantly improved by a new ring road, which will also be part funded by EBRD.
King Sturge has also been appointed by the same developer to provide a property management services review of its existing 46,000 m² (gross built area including car parking) QTU Tirana mall in the city center which opened in 2005. This is currently the only major successful shopping center serving the city rather than specific districts.
John Michell, Head of Shopping Center Management at King Sturge, comments: "The Albanian property market has changed significantly over the last couple of years from an undeveloped Eastern European country with no international product to one where new schemes are being built to global standards. This transformation has mainly been driven by the acquisition of local banks by international institutions and the restructuring of the land register system, both of which have made development finance more readily available.
"Albania now has an opportunity to turn its retail market around. Unlike central and southern European cities, Tirana has no pedestrianized shopping streets, while branded goods have typically entered the country via immigrants living abroad and running small businesses. The capital needs an out-of-town shopping mall to provide retailers with larger format stores and a greater variety and number of units.
"Even in the current international downturn, we expect countries like Albania to perform much better than other Eastern European countries due to the current low level of development."
Source: Dee Cornes


Machines connected to humans, objects connected to machines.
In fact everything and everyone will stay tuned with machines, and thanks to the internet of things it will happen more than it ever did. With the internet of things objects will stay connected to machines and humans will observe it all. Humans then will be able to gather huge amounts of data and analyse it all much easier and faster than ever.
These huge loads of data will be gathered thanks to the communication between real life objects and machines, such as computers, tablets and mobile devices in general. There is no way to run from this revolution in the technology world, this dataexplosion and the internet of things came to stay, in fact it has been around ever since the beginning of the new millennium in 2000.
In fact if you think having objects connected at all times sounds crazy, let’s stop to think a little bit. It is already happening! We have chips on our bank account cars, on our lovely pets, on cars and trucks, on phones and in many other things. We simply do not spend a lot of time thinking about it, however we are experiencing this huge data explosion thanks to the internet of things.
It is a little crazy, of course, however having a chip on objects only tends to increase. This will allow humans to better take care of these objects and to control what is around them. This is not a matter of privacy, but a matter of saving time and earning more cash. The world runs fast, therefore the more tools we have to help us live better the best. Try to get used to the internet of things because every single day we will gather even more data and analyse it. Everything will be monitored and well controlled thanks to this amazing tool.


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The Ministry of Health (MOH) has posted on their Facebook page announcing that from today (8 Apr) onwards, some groups of people will be eligible to take their second booster dose.
This comes about five months after they have received their first booster shot.
Here is what was posted by MOH
“From today (8 April), the following groups can receive their second booster dose about 5 months after their first booster dose:
✔ All persons aged 80 years and above
✔ Persons living in aged care facilities
✔ Medically vulnerable persons
Their vaccination status for Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures (VDS) will not be affected if they choose not to take the second booster dose.
However, we strongly encourage these individuals to receive the second booster to protect themselves.
For more information on where to take the second booster dose, visit: go.gov.sg/vaccine-locations“
No change in vaccination status
MOH also mentioned that for those that are eligible for the second booster but choose not to take it will not get their vaccination statuses affected.
They are however strongly encouraged to take up the jab for more protection towards the virus.
Here are the infographics provided by MOH with regards to the second booster
Image source: Ministry of Health, Singapore/Facebook


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The state-run airline will be allowed to take delivery of 27 Boeing 787, or the Dreamliner, after signing a ‘delay compensation settlement agreement’.
Air India was initially supposed to get the delivery of the aircraft between September 2008 and October 2011. However, due to design and production delays at Boeing, the delivery could not be made on time.
Air India was to be the first non-Japanese carrier to take possession of the long-haul plane, whose carbon-composite construction makes it more fuel-efficient than earlier models.
The issue relating to compensation for failure to meet performance guarantees has been delinked from the delay compensation settlement agreement, and shall be negotiated separately by an empowered group of officers after actual evaluation of the performance of the delivered/inducted aircraft.
The Ministry of Law and Justice would examine and endorse the enabling legal provisions/aspects of the negotiations.


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Srinagar shuts on rumour that Article 35 A has been scrapped by SC
Srinagar, Aug 27: Jammu and Kashmir remained tense following rumours that the Supreme Court has scrapped Article 35 A.
In a statement, the Jammu and Kashmir police said, "Some sections of the media have circulated news regarding scrapping of the Article 35A. The news has been refuted as baseless. People are requested to maintain calm and not to pay heed to these rumours."
The SC is hearing a petition that seeks to scrap 35 A, which gives powers to the state legislature to define permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir and their privileges. The hearing in the court would continue on Friday.
As a precautionary measure, the authorities imposed a shut down in Srinagar and other parts of the states. The mobile internet speeds across the state too have been slowed down. Meanwhile the separatists have called for a general shut down on Friday and Saturday to highlight the public support for Article 35 A.


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My coven is all about wine and moonlight sacrifices so like NICE TRY
"I look like Gene Wilder! I’ll take that as a compliment."
"You just complimented yourself, dummy."
I know how difficult it is to worry about maintaining a relationship with someone who’s struggling with something you’re not sure you can truly shoulder long-term. Which is a painful thing to confront when you really love the person. You constantly wonder to yourself whether you should be more selfless in continuing to be there for someone you love and have committed yourself to, while simultaneously struggling with the thought that you’re not caring for and loving yourself as you need and deserve because the other person’s struggle is weighing heavily on you.
But I’ve also been on the other side, the side of your boyfriend, as someone who has a life-long affliction they’re dealing with. I’m manic-depressive, and it’s been something that for the longest time I’ve felt it’s wholly unfair to burden others with because often times I truly get sick of *myself* so how can I expect another person to constantly deal with the unpredictable, worrying, and sometimes scary things that come with the illness?
It took me a long time to accept both my friends’ and boyfriend’s insistence that I don’t get to dictate what they can and cannot handle and if they tell me they want to be there for me, I should just let them. But I know it’s difficult for them and I try to do what I can to lessen their burden without being dishonest and hiding things. A lot of times trying to be better for them actually does make me feel better, which in turn makes them happy to see me doing well.
So, really, you have to ask yourself whether this person is worth it to you to go through the difficult work of staying with them long term and try to be aware of how much or little they do to make sure it’s not too much for you. Even if people want to completely and whole-heartedly be there for you, you do have to recognize that it can get very draining on them so you can’t always drown them in it. And if the person you’re trying to be there for doesn’t recognize that, then it can quickly turn into an unhealthy relationship where you’re being emotionally and mentally drained without being cared for in return.
I know you didn’t ask for advice or some long-winded reply, but I’m glad you connected with something I posted and that you felt like you could come into my ask and let some of that off your chest, so I hope some of this was at least a little helpful.


Brazil stars like Alisson and Fred BANNED for Premier League weekend games after being blocked from international duty
LIVERPOOL, Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United and Leeds have been advised they CANNOT play their Brazilian aces who skipped World Cup duty.
Fifa as we speak knowledgeable the Prem golf equipment that the Brazilian FA had requested them to impose the “five day restriction” on the gamers who didn’t journey for the international break.
It means Liverpool will probably be with out Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino for their sport at Leeds on Sunday, with the house aspect set to be with out Raphinha.
Manchester United’s Fred will miss each the house conflict with Newcastle and the opening Champions League sport at Young Boys.
And centre-back Thiago Silva will probably be absent for Chelsea’s sport with Aston Villa and Euro tie with Zenit St Petersburg.
Champions City should additionally plan with out Ederson and Gabriel Jesus at Leicester on Saturday.
Wolves striker Raul Jiminez and Newcastle’s Miguel Almiron have additionally been advised they’re ineligible for this weekend’s Prem return after not travelling for their qualifiers.
But Everton CAN play striker Richarlison towards Burnley on Monday after his identify was omitted from the record equipped to world chiefs.
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It is known that Premier League golf equipment plan to contest the ruling.
Under Fifa laws, agreed by the 211 member nations, the 5 day restriction is routinely mandated if a nationwide affiliation asks for it to be imposed.
It runs from the day after the ultimate match of the international window, so within the case of the Brazilians named that’s September 10-14, working out at midnight on Tuesday.
Unlike Mexico, Paraguay and Chile, who contacted Fifa over their unreleased gamers final week, Brazil didn’t formally ship their letter till in a single day.
That left Fifa with no choice however to tell the golf equipment instantly to substantiate the disciplinary steps.
But it’s more likely to spark an indignant response from the Prem sides concerned, particularly after the chaotic scenes that noticed Brazil’s sport with Argentina halted after simply six minutes when well being officers tried to detain Spurs pair Cristian Romero and Giovani Lo Celso and Aston Villa pair Emi Martinez and Emiliano Buendia over alleged Covid quarantine breaches.
Leeds proprietor Andrea Radrizanni insisted yesterday that Raphinha had chosen to not fly again to Brazil when he had been given the possibility by the membership.
Radrizanni mentioned: “We invited him to decide and he determined no.
“He showed great respect for his club and the Premier League in giving up this opportunity to play for his country for the first time.”
But that has not prevented Raphinha being named among the many gamers Fifa had been advised Brazil needed motion over – which additionally included Zenit pair Malcom and Claudinha, who may even miss the Chelsea Euro sport subsequent Tuesday.
Brazil’s choice to omit Richarlison from the record submitted to Fifa seems proof of the connection between Everton and nationwide crew bosses after the striker was allowed to play within the Olympic Games in Tokyo when he may have been prevented from travelling.
Fifa have additionally contacted the FA, who’re certain by the laws to substantiate the official notification from Zurich.
And with extra World Cup qualifiers because of happen in Covid “red list” hotspots subsequent month and in November, the onus is on Fifa to discover a correct answer slightly than risking additional repeats.


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We are having a Tacoma World / Florida Off Roaders meet at Lazy Springs on Sunday, 08/31/14 @ 11:00am.
FYI: Jeremiah created a FaceBook page titled Florida Off Roaders & there are already a few people from there that are planning to go also.
This has potential to be a HUGE turn-out!
Everyone from Homestead up to West Palm Beach is going to go through Alligator Alley (I-75 east/west) so I chose a gas station for us to meet at before hand that is near where we would all intersect & near the I-75 entrance/exit ramps. I think this is the same place mouse007 had me meet him at for my last (first time) meet at Lazy Springs.This way we can all caravan to Lazy Springs.
It is a 7/11 & Exxon/Mobile station so good place to get coffee, snacks, ice, & of course, gas.
2635 Weston Rd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33331
If anyone has another suggested spot to meet then let me know.
60 minutes from Homestead,
37 minutes from Miami,
30 minutes from Fort Lauderdale,
60 minutes from WPB.
90 minutes from 7/11 to Lazy Springs.
Attendees so far:
jmangone (unless something pops)


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Hey guys,I have recently started a rebuild for a Kohler k181,That came off a Jacobsen garden tractor.I tore down the engine a couple of months ago but all progress was halted due to a siezed drive pulley,about a week ago a friend loaned me his impact rench and we were able to muscle the pulley off the end of the crank,upon removing the crank shaft I noticed that there was no timeing mark on the gear,however there was a timeing mark on the cam shaft. This is sort of peculiar especially since the service manual on the kohler site clearley shows a timeing mark on both the crank and cam shaft.I am wondering if it is because this is an earlier model k181? Any suggestions about the timeing,what should I do when I get to the point of reinstalling the crank shaft? Here are some pics That might help.


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Garden Photography and The Garden Residents!
We have been living in our present house for 14 years at time of writing. In all the time here we like to think we have developed a really nice garden environment.
We arrived to view the place all that time ago and the vendor was effusive about the plants and the wonderful “patio” they had down……and we couldn’t not see what she meant!!
The place was plain, very little decent planting and that patio was just a load of mismatched weird tiles – not even laid properly!
So we moved in and just lived with it….being the bloke in the house I needed a garden shed – a big one, right up near the patio so I could go out and “do stuff!” Did I REALLY use it? Well – that’s a whole other story!!
We gradually got the place looking as we wanted and a waterfall on the remaining pond. Two were just too much for the size of the garden, that’s after having two ponds at one time! New patio and bird feeders, no large ugly and mainly un-used shed and we were beginning to get there.
In the meantime we started to get visitors…. Mainly doves and pigeons, occasional blackbirds and sparrows. This has increased to a point now where we have a large visitor population of feathered friends.
We have recently had visits from beautiful blue tits, long tailed tits, chaffinches. We also have the local jackdaw and starling population in now! Some folks don’t like these birds but to us they are really interesting to watch – the starlings squabble like children ALL the time and are a real treat to watch.
NOW we have started to get birds we’ve never seen in the garden before. The wagtails have just started and today we saw for the first time a beautiful little goldcrest – small, busy and just fantastic to watch…
In the recent summer of 2012 the wet weather must have taken its toll on the general bird feeding ability away from the town gardens. It was during the fine spells we started to get the starlings visiting.
In the few days of sun we would take a break and sit out on the patio – these birds would move around as if we were not even there.
A brief episode of “Lunch with the Starlings”!
Currants are a favourite as you see on there!
Now is the time (actually – anytime is the time!) to start to think about what photographs you want to take and how to go about it. If you have a garden – go on out there and just take stock – there is more out there than you think.
So – get out, take the camera and just play with it to find out what suits you best!
Bye for now

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iOS 5 beta 5 landed this weekend, raising excitement levels amongst developers and fanboys as the new platform was loaded on their iPhones or iPads.
The OTA update (from beta 4 it is a 128MB download) has no major new features on board - save for a hearing aid mode - but does fix a number of bugs from the previous release.
There are also new versions of Apple TV and iTunes beta software in order for developers to get testing their new AirPlay apps.
iOS 5 will be bringing with it a number of new features to the iPhone and the iPad including a sparkly new notification system, iMessage, Reminders, and integrated Twitter.
Although Apple has yet to confirm when the update will be out in its stable form, it is expected to be released around the same time as the launch of the iPhone 5 (and iPad 3?).
Rumours suggest that could be in September, and there's also been a barrage of rumours concerning a cheaper iPhone 4 model that may land for the mid-market as well around the same time.
Apple and cheap? Not really a perfect fit, we shall see...


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Crossness Pumping Station | Look Inside
19th century London was a mess.
The smelly, polluted and disorganised City just couldn’t reach an agreement about sewage. There were 8 conflicted independent commissioners in charge, who only cared about their own districts.
But it did provide, in my opinion, London’s best-named public disaster…
The Great Stink
Summer 1858 was a nose-wrinkling combination of unusually warm weather and a heavily polluted Thames. The smell of London got so bad that the House of Commons had to hang sacks soaked in quicklime out their windows in an attempt to block the river’s stench.
It was The Great Stink that made the Victorians realise they should adopt Joseph Bazalgette’s plan, an idea first proposed by John Martin. It consisted of two sewers, each flanking the Thames which drained sewage eastwards and meant clean (rather than raw sewage) water could flow into the river.
The plan was to carry sewage as far away from the centre as possible, ending up at Crossness Pumping Station which pushed it seawards.
All this for Sewage?!
The Station opened on 4 April 1865 and, after a quick talk by Bazalgette, the engines were turned on…
“A sensible vibration was felt throughout the building, showing that the enormous beams, lifting-rods and flywheels were in operation.” – Illustrated London News.
The original names of the four engines were ‘Victoria’, ‘Albert Edward’, ‘Prince Consort’ and ‘Alexandra’, all Royal family members which I’m sure were only too happy to lend their names to sewage pumping machines.
Victorians are known for their pride in engineering and the detail given to sewage pumping stations seems no exception…
Crossness was decommissioned in the 1950s and the marvellous tower (that wouldn’t look out of place in an Italian city) was demolished.
The whole site fell into disrepair but an army of volunteers helped look after the engines (which were never dismantled) and funds from both Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage mean today you can still see one of these huge beasts – ‘The Prince Consort’ – pump away happily.
You can visit the pumping station most Tuesdays and Fridays as well as the second Sunday of every month. For the latest information visit their website here.
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As France’s first-in-class nuclear-power attack submarine (SSN) Suffren (Qs84) continues to conduct sea trials near its base at Cherbourg, it is drawing the attention of the Russian Navy’s RFS Akademik Pashin. Officially, that Russian ship a Project 23130 replenishment tanker, but it is also believed to be a spy ship.
The Marine Nationale’s Suffren, named for the 19th century Admiral Pierre André de Suffren, recently completed its static dive test as the first part of its sea trials. It will now head to Brest, a port city located in the Finistère département in Brittany, to complete its deep-diving tests. The Suffren is the first of six planned boats and two are now under construction.
The Russian presence was noted by Open Source analysts, while the suspected spy ship was monitored by both French and British warships. The Akademik Pashin is among the newest vessels in the Russian Navy, and was only commissioned on January 21 of this year, Naval News reported. As a replenishment oiler, the ship can carry fuel oil, diesel, aviation kerosene, lubricating oil, water, food and spare parts. The ship is 5,000 tons empty and 12,000 tons fully laden.
Akademik Pashin’s role as an intelligence gathering vessel has not been confirmed, but as H. I. Sutton of Naval News and Forbes noted, “All naval vessels have a potential to gather intelligence if they are in the right place at the right time.” Given how close the Russian ship was to the Suffren would be such an example of right place at the right time, but it would seem to be quite a coincidence as it arrived off the coast of France around April 16, where it took up position in the Bay of Seine just outside French waters.
What makes it more curious is that the Suffren departed Cherbourg on April 27, a day after the Russian ship had got underway from its location. The sea trials for the Suffren were originally scheduled for March and had been delayed due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. But were the presence of Russian ships a factor?
The French Marine Nationale and British Royal Navy have been “shadowing“ the movement of Russian warships that have “lingered” in the region. The Royal Navy’s HMS Mersey, a River-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV), tracked the Russian warship RFS Boiky, which had linked up with the Akademik Pashin to refuel and transfer stores—confirming at least that the latter ship still operates in its primary role as a replenishment tanker.
Western navies have paid close attention to the movements of these vessels—in March the Akademik Pashin had rendezvoused off the coast of France with the GUGI “research ship” Yantar, another suspected spy ship. Last November that vessel was suspected of loitering near Submarine Communications Cables (SCC), which crisscross the world’s oceans and carry Internet traffic and military communications. It is believed the ship has placed listening devices on undersea communications, which is why the unarmed vessel has gained so much notoriety.
Perhaps the Akademik Pashin and similar tankers will also be more closely watched—especially if any continue to find themselves in just the right place at that right time.
Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com.

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