text:
Lybrate.com has an excellent community of Dentists in India. You will find Dentists with more than 33 years of experience on Lybrate.com. You can find Dentists online in Delhi and from across India. View the profile of medical specialists and their reviews from other patients to make an informed decision.
Book Clinic Appointment with Dr. Deepak Saluja
Root Canal Treatment
Teeth Cleaning Procedure
Teeth Whitening Procedure
Root Canal Treatment
Management of Dental Hygiene
Chronic Skin Allergy Treatment
Tooth Extraction Procedure
Dental Extractions Procedure
Skin Rash Treatment
Gap Closing (Dental) Treatment
Artificial Teeth Treatment
Treatment of Root Canal Treatment (RCT)
Wisdom Tooth Removal Procedure
Teeth Scaling & Polishing
Braces Treatment for Adults and Teens
Submit a review for Dr. Deepak SalujaYour feedback matters!
My friend got two molar teeth extracted due to decay in the root of the teeth on the lower side now the problem is some dentists are suggesting for implantation and some for having a bridge over the gap to fill it. We are in a dilemma whether to go for implantation or bridge which one is better please suggest she is of 22 years old.
I am losing gum, teeth getting chilled when I taken something, I am feeling like losing my teeth, how can I get my gums.
Sir, I am vara from Delhi and age 24. I am getting new teeth on my down right jaw and suffering with pain at that place so please tell me how to get rid from that pain?
Regular check ups and professional cleaning of teeth is absolutely essential as it helps in keeping away the bad breath and also in maintaining the treatment done for a longer time.
Hello sir. I have a problem in my teeth like bleeding from my teeth and also comes bad odour from my teeth can you please suggest me what should I do for overcome my teeth problem?
Gone are the days when braces were only for children and teenagers. Today, adults don’t need to shy away from wearing braces just because it will look unattractive. It is time to not put them off. Here are the reasons to tell you why you should flaunt the braces:
Your smile is more important: A beautiful smile can change your life. It creates a positive impact in your life. People around you get influenced by your positive and attractive smile. But, if you cover your mouth just to hide your teeth while smiling, it will hamper your life. Therefore, straighten you teeth and get back your confidence. A dental implant is of no use unless you straighten all the teeth using a brace.
Wearing a brace can keep you away from other dental issues: Misaligned teeth can cause various dental disorders or issues. If the teeth are not aligned properly, food particles can get accumulated on the surface of the teeth, forming dental plaque. This in turn can give birth to a number of dental diseases or disorders.
Braces prevent you from other diseases: Improper alignment of teeth will not allow you to chew your food properly. This in turn may cause several gastrointestinal problems.
New Age Braces-
Today, braces have evolved. They no longer look very ugly or unattractive. You will not suffer from the embarrassment of having metal braces. Nowadays, ceramic braces are available in the markets. These are translucent in nature. Besides, a new age teeth cover called Invisalign is available. These are made up of clear plastic. An individual wears them over the teeth. So, you will not have to look unattractive with the metal wire.
Advantages of Ceramic Braces-
They are less painful and cause no irritation to the gums. They are friendlier to the gums than the old metal ones.
Ceramic braces are translucent in nature. They have white or tooth-coloured brackets which look better than metal wires.
They are durable and stronger. They can break only if they are abused or misused.
Nowadays, you get clear braces in the markets. These are known as Saphire Braces. They are expensive than the metal ones. But, they are stronger and the greatest advantage of wearing a sapphire brace is that you don’t develop stains on them easily.
Cost of Braces-
The cost of adult braces depends upon the nature of brace you are choosing. Metal wires are cheaper. Ceramic and clear braces are costlier. Metal braces are available from INR 30,000 to 40,000 in the markets. Other braces look better but are costlier.
When to take braces?


|Previous Section||Index||Home Page|
Keith Vaz: Leicester, East is not yet a city. However, the architect of the legislation, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, comes from Leicester and by 2010 the city will have more people of Asian origin than any city in Europe, and half our population happens to be women. It is a perfect location, so in supporting the Bill I put in a bid for the city of Leicester. If we spoke to the Secretary of State she might be in favour of that as well.
Vera Baird (Redcar) (Lab): Even the members of the commission will have to relax some time. Redcar has a fantastic beach, so my bid is for the location to be further north than Leicester. However, I am pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz), who gave such an amusing and knowledgeable address.
I welcome the Bill. I hope I do not sound like a pompous lawyer, but I should like to welcome it not just personally but as chair of the all-party group on equalities. We thoroughly congratulate my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State and the Deputy Minister for Women and Equality, who are great champions for equalities, and in particular great champions of the rights of women.
The Bill is a huge and strong signal of the Government's commitment to eradicate discrimination and enhance the rights of all members of our society. It makes it clear that the Government understand, if I can put it in shorthand form, that we are all in this together; the pursuit of equalities is not a minority interest.
5 Apr 2005 : Column 1351
Almost equally welcome was the announcement in February of the equalities review, to try to identify the root causes of inequality. I hope and expect that Trevor Phillips can carry out a profound inquiry into the deep-seated, complex and subtle causes of the various inequalities that still limit the personal development of a large number of our citizens at a timethe 21st centurywhen that simply should not be happening.
Like most people, I also welcome the discrimination law review, which I hope will propose a single Act on equality. People are concerned about timing. The review is due to report in summer 2006, so if its proposals are clear, scrutinised reasonably quickly and accepted, by the time the commission starts in 2007 it may have the powers that it needsthe basis of equal law for all strands of inequality.
I repeat a point that has been made before: the current random selection of rights in equalities is unacceptable. There is a public duty for race and there is soon to be one for disability. We have suffered hugely as a gender from the fact that there has been no public duty for gender. That is, of course, in the Bill, but there is still no public duty to promote age.
Equally, discrimination in respect of goods and services on the grounds of race, gender, disability is unlawful. The Bill will prevent discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, but still not on the grounds of age. All those things must be smoothed out and recast to ensure that the new commission is not saddled withI hope that I have in place the right grammatical structurethe oxymoron of a hierarchy of equalities.
I wish briefly to welcome two aspects of the commission: the equalities aspect absolutely unequivocally, and the human rights aspect strongly, too. The commission's equality duties, as set out in clause 8, are truly all that we could ask for. The commission must
More prosaically but very practically, a huge advantage to having a single commission working together, even though the strands will obviously conduct their own separate work as well, is that it is not always possible to know the basis on which someone is discriminated against. If a 58-year-old black woman is refused a job, it is essential to have what the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) called a one-stop shop to which she can take her problem. She should not have to guess why she has been refused the job inappropriately. She needs to go to an organisation that can pick her case, run with it and put right what has been wrong. So I am pleased with the equality aspect, and I am pleased, too, with the incorporation of human rights.
Human rights is a very dear issue to me. I pay great tribute to the Joint Committee on Human Rights. I was briefly privileged to be a member of that Committee, but long after I left, it carried on its powerful work, which I firmly believe has played a large role in ensuring that
5 Apr 2005 : Column 1352
human rights are part of the Bill and the commission. I strongly compliment my right hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, East (Jean Corston), who has so very well chaired and led the Joint Committee on Human Rights and truly driven the human rights agenda in this Parliament in a way that is second to none.
"promote the understanding of the importance of human rights . . . encourage good practice in relation to human rights . . . promote awareness, understanding and protection of human rights and . . . encourage public authorities to comply with the Human Rights Act 1998".
I wish to express the devout hope that the commission will be instrumental in bringing about a human rights culture throughout out society. Equality teaches us that we cannot bring about a cultural change by piecemeal advances in rights that come about because of random cases that happen to go to court at any given time. The commission is necessary to drive human rights until they are rooted in our society, so that they become common values that we can use daily to frame and balance what the hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) talked about: the decent ways that we should deal with one another.
I want to express three perhaps mild concerns, given the temper of the debate. First, the commission will be able to pursue cases under human rights law where the case is brought on the basis of equality, but if the equality aspect of the case is dropped or somehow falls away, the commission must drop the case completely, unless the Secretary of State gives leave for it to continue on a human rights basis. I cannot think why it should be for the Secretary of State to make such a decision and why the commission cannot determine whether the human rights aspect of the case is good enough to continue in its own right.
My second concern, which I raised with the Secretary of State, is the absence of teeth in relation to the human rights side of the commission. It has no power to issue codes of practice, and no investigatory and enforcement powers. I appreciate what she saidthat we do not want to overburden the commissionbut I hope there will be an opportunity when we discuss the Bill again to consider increasing the powers that relate to the human rights side of the commission, because it is hugely important that human rights are not seen as a lower priority.
The third caution that I raise is the way in which clause 9 is framed. Not surprisingly, and entirely appropriately, it gives priority to promoting rights under the European convention on human rights, which is entirely as one would expect. However, I hope that the provision will not preclude the promotion of broader rights. For example, we are signatories to the convention on the rights of the child and the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. The specific rights in those conventions equally merit dissemination by the commission, so I hope that I can be reassured that clause 9 is not intended to limit the commission's ambit.
5 Apr 2005 : Column 1353
On the commission's budget, I wish to raise a rather different point from that made by the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham). I think the commission will have an annual budget of £70 million plus start-up costs. All three current commissions think that that will not be sufficient and reckon that a budget of £120 million would be closer to that required. Together they get approximately £50 million, so even with the efficiency savings of which Conservative Members understandably made much, the proposed allocation of £70 million would leave only £20 million extra to deal with the three additional strands of equality: the human rights remit, the expanded operation into Scotland, Wales and the English regionsthat is an important point for someone with a north-east constituencyand the important requirements of the new commission's community functions. It is hard to see how £20 million more than that for the current three commissions would be an adequate sum.
Let me turn briefly to the points made by the hon. Member for Buckingham about the Equal Opportunities Commission's fears about what I call in shorthand "the missing powers". Section 55 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 currently gives the EOC the power to review discriminatory health and safety provisions. That is important when there is a requirement to treat women and men differently, such as the way in which pregnant women are treated at work. Section 73 of that Act allows the EOC to tackle persistent discrimination when an individual is unwilling or unable to pursue a complaint. It is important that the commission can take the matter to an employment tribunal, get a ruling and subsequently rely on that in civil proceedings. The power is useful and used frequently, but it is not in the Bill and I cannot think why.
What a wonderful turn of phrase, so hallelujah for it. The provision was promised in 1999 and has now been delivered by the Government. Women will be glad to hear of it in the advent of an election and will be increasingly glad as its impact starts to bite in the years to come. The duty will shift responsibility on to public authorities and they will have to ensure that they take active steps to promote gender equality.
|Next Section||Index||Home Page|


text:
The day after yet another mass shooting in America, the Northeast Harris County chapter of Moms Demand Action met with tears and resolve.
A grandmother remembered her grandson who died by suicide with a gun. A long-time teacher thought of the students she would have to protect if a shooter burst into the classroom.
A suburban mother described the dread that engulfed her at the Rolling Stones concert at NRG Stadium, a big, crowded venue that could easily collapse into chaos. Her eyes glistened and her voice wavered as she recalled thinking: “What if this is it?”
They sat in the Kingwood Branch Library — more than 1,800 miles away from Gilroy, Calif., where on Sunday a 19-year-old armed with an AK-47 knock-off killed three people and injured 12 others. Yet, even there, they could not escape the tendrils of gun violence. None of us can.
It is an epidemic that claims 100 lives in this country every day. It fills us with outrage and grief for the victims — for 6-year-old Stephen Romero and 13-year-old Keyla Salazar in Gilroy, for the 21-year-old gunned down while filming a music video on a Philadelphia street that same day, for two Chicago mothers and anti-violence activists shot two days earlier.
It grips us with the fear that it could happen here — in our stadiums, our synagogues, our churches, our movie theaters — and sorrow because it has already happened here — last year, in Santa Fe High School where eight students and two teachers were killed and last weekend, in Jasper where a 13-year-old Jasper boy died in an accidental shooting. The heartbreak flows from more than just mass shootings that get big headlines. It flows from the shooting deaths that happen all year round in Houston and other big cities all over America, from the accidental discharges, the homicides — and the suicides. Suicides accounted for more than 60 percent of the nearly 40,000 shooting deaths in America in 2017. Suicide attempts by gun are fatal in most cases, leaving far fewer survivors than attempts made without guns.
The sheer volume, the unrelenting drumbeat of one shooting followed by another, of one set of victims subsumed by the next in the news cycle, is almost enough to numb us into surrender. It is easy to grow weary and feel defeated, to see armed teachers and school lock-down drills as normal, part of the price to pay for upholding the Second Amendment.
We can’t allow that to happen. The Second Amendment has always made room for reasonable restrictions, something even its biggest champions on the Supreme Court have made clear. Condolences are not enough; neither is silent worry. Every gun death should serve as a call to action, a reminder that there are steps we can take to stem the tide of violence while still honoring the “right to bear arms” guaranteed by the constitution.
Take the example of the Moms Demand chapter, which was founded two years ago with a membership small enough to fit around a kitchen table. Back then, the group met quietly, unsure how members would be greeted in the Kingwood area, a heavily conservative enclave that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016.
The national organization, which is nonpartisan and counts more than 6 million supporters, pushes for stronger gun control legislation and to close loopholes in existing laws. The Kingwood-area chapter, now up to 100 members of both political parties, decided to zero in on gun safety — an approach designed to bring in both gun owners and gun control advocates.
They hold Be SMART workshops that teach gun storage safety, how to recognize signs of suicide, and ways to prevent child gun deaths. They teach parents to ask coaches, family friends and relatives if they have a weapon in the house. At the Kingwood Fourth of July festival, they handed out more than 100 gun locks donated through the Mayors Challenge program.
They urge all of us to take steps on our own to make living with guns less dangerous. We should all ask the gun owners in our lives to store their weapons and ammunition safely and out of reach of toddlers and teenagers. Take a gun safety class. Ask the parent hosting a sleepover if there are firearms in the house.
And yes, the Moms Demand members do lobby elected officials to pass common-sense gun laws that keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous people. They are right to urge the rest of us to call our representatives in Congress and demand that they pass gun safety legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: The Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act, Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act and Santa Fe High School Victims Act.
The trio of bills calls for regulating the storage of firearms and ammunition in homes with a minor or a person ineligible to own a weapon, stricter licensing of gun dealers and background checks, creation of a database of registered firearms. One would require federally licensed dealers to report when someone making a purchase exhibits signs of mental duress.
The Senate must also take up H.R. 8, a bill that would require universal background checks that was passed by the House in February. It was the first significant gun control legislation passed in more than two decades and it cannot be allowed to languish in the Senate.
In the Gilroy shooting, the 19-year-old suspect crossed into Nevada to legally purchase his weapon, as a way of evading California’s stricter gun laws.
The owner of Big Mikes Gun and Ammo later posted a note on the store’s Facebook page (since taken down): “We feel so very sorry for the Families, I am heartbroken this could ever happen. Please show only respect here. Good people have been hurt and this goes against everything I believe in.”
It’s unclear if any of those bills would have prevented the bloodshed at the garlic festival, but inaction is not acceptable. We must let our elected officials know that the voices calling for an end to gun violence will not be silenced.
As one Moms Demand member said, after wiping the tears away: “This just deepens my commitment. I will never give up.”
Correction: Wednesday, 6:15 p.m.: This piece was corrected to reflect that the gun locks donated in Kingwood came through the Mayors Challenge program.

domain: news


text:
For more information, contact the ANGELS Call Center at 866-273-3835.
The ANGELS mission is to ensure that every woman in Arkansas at risk of having a complicated pregnancy receives the best possible perinatal care. ANGELS does this with evidence-based care guidelines, research, health care education and a 24/7 call center. Angels also offers consultation by UAMS board-certified, maternal-fetal medicine physicians using telemedicine technology.
The packets below contain the documents needed for your ANGELS Telemedicine appointment.

domain: medical


Russian Zil-131 Truck (Early Version) w/Winch
Bronco, 1/35 scale
Reviewed by Ray Green
|Stock Number and Description||Bronco Kit No. CB35193 - Russian Zil-131 Truck (Early Version) w/Winch|
|Media and Contents:||See body text.|
|Review Type:||First Look|
|Advantages:||High level of detail; excellent mouldings.|
|Disadvantages:||Best suited to more experienced modellers due to large number of small parts.|
My only previous experience with anything by Bronco has been a set of working tracks for a Sherman, for a future project. I was therefore very keen to have a look at this kit.
Upon opening the large box, I was greeted with eight sprues, moulded in a light grey plastic, the engine bay, a nicely moulded rear tarp section with very fine canvas texture, seven vinyl tyres, a clear sprue, a sheet of photo etch, decals and some string.
My first impression, wow!
The other item that stood out was the instruction manual, but more on that later.
The model in the box represents an early version of the Zil-131, which began production in 1967 and continued production in various guises until 2012, when bankruptcy ceased production.
All the parts feature fine details, where needed, including bolt heads, diamond plate patterns and the fine texture representing canvas for the tarp.
The vinyl tyres are crisply moulded and feature fine detail and tread.
There is some minor flash, particularly on the smaller round parts e.g. exhaust, suspension etc., but nothing that a quick sand or scrape with your favourite hobby knife won’t correct.
There are ejector pin marks and sinkholes, but these appear to be mostly in places where they will not be seen, once the model has been built. There are some that seem to be in places that will be on show and added to that they look difficult to remove due to their physical placement on the part. This may be something to watch, but I can’t really visualize this, until I start the actual build.
The engine is very detailed including all the requisite plumbing and electricals made up of seemingly a lot of tiny pieces to build this level of detail. When I build this, the hood is going to have to be up, so as not to waste the details. I feel the engine will look amazing due to the amount of detail that Bronco has provided.
Now, the instruction manual. It is a 31 page A4 size monster. With clear assembly diagrams, throughout. The last four pages provide painting and decal placement instructions for one of the four included variants.
Bronco has thoughtfully included paint reference numbers for Hobby Colour, Mr. Hobby, Humbrol and Tamiya paint ranges. Saving me looking up charts to match colours from paint ranges I don’t personally have.
There are a few options to consider when building this kit, including having the doors and hood open or closed and having the tray covered or uncovered. My initial thought is to build it as a small diorama representing a display in a museum with the doors and hood open and a near ‘showroom’ finish. This would make a nice contrast to most of my other military gear which is rusty, dusty and weathered. But this could change once building begins.
Speaking of the actual build, it looks to be a quite challenging, with the manual showing around 40 steps, depending on which options you choose as you progress.
In summary, I think this model would be best suited to builders with intermediate or advanced skills due to the number of parts and the amount of tiny parts. Having said that, I think it will build into a very nice model, with lots of scope for weathering, loading up the tray with stuff or troops and generally letting your imagination go. Could even make a nice zombie apocalypse survivors’ vehicle.


Trucking capacity crunch of 2018
Freight trucks are the lifeblood of America’s purchaser economy — they represent 70.9 percentage of the country’s freight through tonnage shipped and 81.5 percent of the nation’s freight by way of cost spent, according to statistics from the American Trucking Association (ATA). Wages has perpetually increased for America’s truckers as the trucking enterprise battles with insufficient drivers coupled with an elevated demand for transport services.
A recent information via the ATA of more than 100,000 employees and contractors showed the median income of a U.S. truckload driver improved about 15 percent to $53,000 from 2013 to 2017. Salary for a personal fleet trucker jumped nearly 18 percent to extra than $86,000. That outpaces the 10 percent average hourly revenue for all private workers in the U.S. for the duration of the same period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
However, now not even a surge in driver pay will remedy trucking’s ability problem. The trucking industry is already facing a historical scarcity of drivers and sky-high labor turnover rates, and the April 1st “hard enforcement” of the ELD mandate threatens to squeeze trucking capability the more. As of March 26, nearly 10 percent of drivers nevertheless hadn’t established the logging devices, doubtlessly putting lots of cars out of carrier depending on how serious the enforcement becomes. Many recommend it’s higher than 10 percent. Regardless, even 10 percentage could squeeze an already tightening scenario into something greater like flat-out desperation.
These elements are not only developing uncertainty in the trucking sector, they’re creating a disaster in different areas of the logistics enterprise too. Many ocean carriers are being compelled to sit down longer at port ready for vehicles to choose up the cargo, which, in accordance to JOC, has brought on some to impose emergency intermodal fees or stop door transport in response. Meanwhile, rail is lagging, and so at the long run the statistics isn't always showing that they are helping the situation.
Shippers are in a serious mess. As Freight Waves before reported, the FTR Shippers Condition Index slid to -11.1 in January, continuing a declining vogue that began in the middle of 2017. FTR describes the index as being constructed the usage of 4 components: freight demand, freight rates, fleet capability and gasoline price. It stated a nice rating represents “good optimistic conditions.” A bad rating is the opposite. To make certain shippers can access the capacity they want at sensible rates, they want to enhance their science to power facts accessibility, visibility and efficiency.
This growing cost of transporting goods has hit the backside lines of organizations throughout the U.S. The industry's tight labor market is prompting carriers to offer more competitive gain packages. Ninety percentage of truckload fleets provide paid leave, while 4 of every 5 personal carriers offer a 401(k) layout and matching contributions, according to the ATA study.
"Fleets are reacting to concerns about the driver scarcity through raising their salary and striving to make the job extra attractive," stated Bob Costello, chief economist at ATA. "I expect that style to proceed as demand for trucking services increases as our economy grows."
Higher trucker pay is hurting some organizations that have steep shipping bills. It’s already happening in some cases.
The rising pay rates is due to a perfect storm of growing e-commerce retail, an uptick in building and manufacturing, all fueled by way of a robust economic system and rising wages and genuinely full national employment. Top it all off with numerous consecutive massive climate events in particular across the northeast, and the provision of vehicles and truckers have been considerably squeezed, pushing up rates.
According to trucking industry records tracker DAT Solutions, the national common spot fee for freight trucking was $2.13 per mile in February, a 31 percent gain from $1.62 per mile for the duration of the identical month a year ago. Fuel costs are additionally on the rise, up 1.3% over the previous week, and 19% year-over-year from Feb. 2017 to Feb. 2018.
As the fee of producing and transferring items will increase at some stage in the supply chain, it’s only a rely of time before groups ignore these higher fees on to consumers, as a result further using inflation and potentially main the Federal Reserve to hike interest fees greater aggressively.
Avery Vise, FTR’s vice president of trucking research, said what was once unique about the modern-day tight trucking market is how long it has lasted. “The remaining time we noticed this was once for about 3-4 months in 2004, and we’re already surpassed that length,” FTR expects lower freight costs by using the cease of the year, but Vise stated it was only going to “settle down gradually.”
Others expect the fashion to stay even longer. “We count on labor shortages to persist in trucking for at least the subsequent two years, as the economy remains strong, and as even in the best-case scenario, truck driver employment tends to lag rising wages,”


text:
Saturday October 27th marked a historic celebration, Berner opened his second Los Angeles Cookies dispensary on Melrose in West Hollywood.
Fans camped out the night before to be the first ones to enter the new shop.
Cookies x G Pen Gio and cartridges are available!
The opening happened to also fall on Berner's birthday.
Congratulations to Berner and the whole Cookies family on the milestone, more to come!


text:
Reid Travel consultants have extensive travel experience as well as several industry accreditations. Signature connections and long-term alliances allow our agents to provide unprecedented value and exclusive experiences. Let us pull some strings to reserve the world for you.
Reid Travel's seasoned and knowledgeable professionals have personally visited every part of the globe. Reid experts have planned and guided clients on one-of-a-kind trips since 1972. Draw on our extensive resources and expertise and explore the world with confidence.
Sign-up to receive travel updates, exclusive offers and a chance to win a trip for two!
Take off with Tauck, an inclusive air package that provides true value to our guests. More than just a dollar savings, we've made value truly "valuable" as the real benefit is peace of mind travel - our Take off With Tauck air package is refundable should your plans change.
Flying to Europe...Made Easy, Tauck Style
Value - upfront Pricing:
One flat price for round-trip economy class air - $1,090 per person
One flat price for premium economy class air - $1,0690 per person
One flat price for round-trip business class air - $3,490 per person
Fully inclusive - no hidden costs, no surprises:
Taxes and fuel surcharges included
No hidden fees
Contact us for more information
For more information please call us at 800-248-8404 during business hours or we can contact you.

domain: travel


TEN-MAN Ashbourne Aztecs Under-15s went down 5-0 to Hilton Harriers.
Aztecs were four down at the interval but battled hard in the second period to restrict their opponents to one further goal, with some strong defensive performances.
There was late drama for Aztecs Under-12s, as captain Jake Ridley scored a stoppage-time winner to beat Mickleover 1-0.
Both defences had been on top until Ridley's 20-yard strike with only 30 seconds to play.
The win leaves Ashbourne needing only three more points from a possible nine to finish runners-up in the leading Under-12 division in Derbyshire.
The Under-11s had a fine 6-2 win over GAD Khalsa, with Luke Zona netting a hat-trick. James Donlan added two more, before Khalsa pulled a couple back late on.
Aztecs' man-of-the-match Owen Bailey hit a late sixth.
Newly-crowned Under-10 champions Aztecs Juniors beat Spondon Rovers 2-1 thanks to Kian Walwyn and Matthew Booth strikes.
Eloise Paige, Grace Bill and Katie Booth scored for Ashbourne Girls U14s in a 4-3 defeat by Buxton Magpies.


text:
15th May 2015
I arrived in Madrid around 7pm after an 8-hours ride from Barcelona. I have seen so much beautiful on the way and tried to fasten it by making videos. My stop in Madrid was the Estación Sur bus terminal, because the bus was not going further in Madrid. I googled if I could walk to the hostel I booked and as it seemed, I could. Looking for the direction I had to go, a Spanish couple with a little child asked me, if they can help me. When I told them, where the hostel is, they told me, that I have to go by the Metro and that I have to change for coming to the right destination: Plaza del Sol – surprisingly the train station is named Vodafone Sol. I was very happy and thankful, that this couple was helping me, because it was really far away from the bus terminal and it was a nice first impression of Madrid.
At the Metro Station close to the bus terminal I was wondering what value my ticket should have and I was happy that there was an assistant, ready to help and explain the ticket machine. They were very easy to use and in a moment I had a 1,50 EUR-ticket. He also explained for me, which line I should take to which stop for changing to the one I will reach the stop “Sol”. Even it was a little complicated when I changed, because I was leaving at another station than the Spanish couple told me, I made it and did not go extra stops.
Leaving the Metro at Vodafone Sol I tried to find my way to the hostel “The Hat”. I soon found the right direction by google maps, but Madrid arranged a kind of art festival and on the Plaza Mayor there were a scene and a band was singing. It was crowded and I did not find the way through. I asked a policeman and he gave me the directions, but I did not expect, that I had to choose the street so hard to the left as it was necessary. Furthermore it was the “San Isidro” festival going on in all the streets around the “Plaza Mayor”. Therefore I needed around half an hour more to find the place. Finally I had to ask one more time even I was in the right street, but the numbers were set unusually and I did not find the hostel immediately.
At “The Hat” I was friendly and professional welcomed and got an electronic key to the room, where my bed was. I booked first only one night, but changed my mind and booked another. The thing was, that I booked the first night by booking.com and the other directly by the Hi-Hostel booking system. Though I have got my bed for the upcoming night and had to check out and check in the next day again.
In the nice and clean room with the bathroom en suite there were lockers and I had use for the lock I had taken with me. It felt save to have my belongings in the locker. I had a lower bed and all was very well. I was hungry and went out to eat something. I found the “Origén” bar and ate two Empanadas with Yuca and cheese. They were tasty. I even took a Mango Smoothie for 1 EUR only. By the way I already have had a pineapple / coconut smoothie to that famous price in Barcelona before.
The night was still young and I continued to the Plaza Mayor and listened to the music for a while. It became chilly and windy, therefore I felt cold even I was dressed in my cardigan. Though I walked back to hostel and took a quite early sleep.
I awake early by the noise from the street and the sunlight as well as by falling asleep so early last night. After a shower (with a fast shower in the middle of the inner roof of the shower area)
I ate breakfast at the hostel. I was happy they offered cereals even they did not have yogurt – but different kinds of milk (fat, low-fat, free of lactose and soymilk). I also could choose of two kinds of juice (orange and peach). The best of all, they had real coffee! Even there was only white bread, different kind of cakes and croissants as well as orange marmalade and Nutella – and butter, of course – I arranged with that breakfast. They offered fruits, too. what I was happy about.
I have seen an advertising for the free walking tour and became interested in it. I have attended such tours before and even I know that it not really is for free, but a tip is usual, I though I will follow such a tour this morning. Unfortunately the tour started quite late, but the guide picked us up at the hostel at 10:30. Before the guide arrived I walked around in the area, bought a bottle of water for only 27 Cent in the nearby convenience shop, but forgot to buy some sun protection, because it still was chilly.
Around 10:15 I met the tour guide at the hostel and followed her to the bear at the Plaza del Sol, where the meeting place was. She was very nice and we talked a little on the way. I asked her about the “Museo de Jamon”, because I could not see any museum at that place and she explained, that it is a kind of bar and there are lots of in the city, because they are selling baguettes with ham (jamon). She also told me that these baguettes are cheap and to recommend for budget travellers. Later on she told me, that she will have a Spanish-speaking group and the English-speaking tourists will have an other guide. At the meeting point we had not only to wait for another twenty minutes to start our walk, but longer for some reason. Meanwhile we had to wait for the start I was walking around and taking pictures of the beautiful houses of the area. I was back in time. The tour should be for three hours and finally it began. A little baguette with only ham is for one (1) EUR, it costs a little more, when you take a bigger one or one with ham and cheese, for example. The one I ate later that day was for 1,80 EUR – still an affordable price.
The free tour started at the Bear monument at the Plaza del Sol. We passed the former Main Post Office Building, put our feet on “point zero” and continued with some stops between the Royal Palace and the church nearby, crossed a bridge to the “fiesta plaza” for the city – where you are allowed to bring your own meals and drinks – throughout the more narrow streets, even they are much wider than the old streets in the city of Barcelona, to a garden with a special kind of trees and afterwards to a restaurant which serves this special liquor. Some of the group followed the guide into the restaurant for tasting this, but not me and even a couple of more people – of different reasons. We had to wait a long while for the guide and the others of the group and there was no possibility to have a seat, but by ordering a meal or a drink.
I got tired in my feet and my mind of this waste of time. Finally we went back to the “Plaza Mayor” and the Congress Hall as well. At this point we reached the end of the tour. I was a little disappointed, because it was neither a three hours walk nor did I like the try to sell in the restaurants on our way. I also was tired in my feet and legs even I had my hiking shoes! I went back to the “Plaza del Sol” and passed a shop selling these nice Spanish scarfs and in that moment I knew, that it is – the useful souvenir of Madrid. It is good for chilly evenings as well as preventing sun burns. The shop assistant was very nice, because when I told her, I will use it by my own, she told me, that I have taken one for children. I chose another one and grateful paid for it. She also told me – and she was not the only one on this trip – that my way to have my money and my passport is a good and save one. It happens in Madrid, that there are pickpockets and robbers, who take whole bags of people.
I was hungry and looking for a “Museo de Jamon”. The first two or three I saw where crowded, therefore I continued to find another one. Nearby there was a bench in the sun, where I took a seat my new scarf over my shoulders.
My little backpack and my cabin trolley were still waiting for me at the hostel and I went back to check in again for another night. Unfortunately I made a mistake while booking this night, because I booked not for the upcoming night, but the night after that. I remember, that I was checking more than once, that I booked for the right night – I do not know, where the mistake was. The guys at the hostel told me, that they are fully occupied and I could not get a bed – but than one explained to me, that he had taken apart two beds if someone really need them. Though I was allowed to stay the upcoming night and the wrong night they cancelled without charging a fee. I was very happy about that and will never forget this help.
I have got a bed in a 4 bed-dorm, but I have got an upper bed. I tried to enter the upper bed, but it was no longer working for me, though I put a chair in front of the ladder and I made it all the way up, but first I had to take away the towel, the guest in the lower bed placed on the ladder. Now I checked my emails and wrote one to my upcoming host, because the WiFi is for free here, too. Actually it was bad for the moment – the day before was no WiFi at all because the strike of the telecompany. By the bad WiFi I could not check the buses to my next destination the upcoming day. I wrote my diary for not forgetting all the things I already have seen and done.
Later that afternoon I went out again, buying another empanada – with another taste – and a papaya-smoothie. I continued from there to the Royal Palace, to another park – we have not seen before and back to the park for the fiesta, where one can see the mountains. I listened to the music and was waiting for the sunset. I had found a really good place. From time to time other visitors stand close to me, but none was there as long as I was. When I had taken a lot of photographs from the sunset – and meanwhile enjoyed it – I took a walk to the scene to see the artist. It was so crowded there, that I could not enjoy it and went back to the hostel.
It was Sunday and I had decided before to stay most of the day in Madrid. I read that there will be a famous Antique Market and I would like to see it, because it tells a lot about a culture of an area. First I only found a usual market area where clothes, bags and more were sold, but finally I came to the part of the Antique Market and the items sold there were very blended like old copper pans, dolls and other toys, records and books, but also clothes and curtains as well as some salesmen tried to sell their history of live. It was very interesting to see.
I went back to the hostel for using the toilet, because I did not find an other one, and continued to the Plaza Mayor. There were big advertising signs for all the shows during the festival, including a dance show with Madrilenian dances on the Plaza Mayor with was announced to start at 11 o’clock – but it did not start before 12 o’clock in real. I was very interested in these dances and was there in time. I have got a seat with a good view, even I first was not thinking about the heat. There was no shade and it was really hot that day. Fortunately I had my hat, my sunglasses and my new scarf – though I was well prepared. Others took what they had and I saw some funny views, but it worked.
The show was famous. I would have loved to stay until the definite end, but I did not have time for it. Around 2 o’clock I had to go and I think I missed the last hour of the show. I tried to eat another empanada, but there was a long queue and so crowded in and in front of the snack bar, that I tried to find something else to eat. Therefore I tried a frozen yogurt instead, but got very disappointed. On my way back to the hostel for picking up my luggage I bought a sandwich at the convenience shop at the corner, there. I also bought two bottles of water, because there were a singing beggar in front of the door to the shop. In the heat I thought, it will be best for him to get some water. He did not enjoy it :-(. He nearly did not take it. At the hostel I went one more time to the toilet – there were never a complaint about it – and I was one more time happy about their service. I really can recommend the hostel!
My way was to the “Plaza del Sol” again and the Metro station. Easily I found my way with it to the street “Principe Pio” for catching a bus at this bus station at 4pm, but it was no bus at that time, because it was Sunday. I had to wait for one more hour. I had to buy the ticket again in a ticket machine and was also able to choose a seat by that. Unfortunately it was not possible to choose seat no. 1, therefore I chose no. 2, but there were never a passenger for the other seat during the whole trip. The bus was for “Talavera de la Reina” and a direct bus. The journey took around one (1) hour only.

domain: geography


text:
Well all the autumn exhibitions are now finished.. phew …. my house is full of work now ….
So, busy putting everything back in its place and getting ready to start on the planning for next years’ exhibitions … I have four bodies of work to create ….the first is for the group ByDesign of which I am a member and we are just starting on our new project, no further information at the moment but suffice to say we have created our starting points and we are beginning to work on the first pieces.
Studio21 also has an exhibition at the Stroud International Textile festival in Stroud, U.K. next May but of course the work is finished because we have just exhibited at the first venue in South Hill Park, Bracknell, U.K.
I have two exhibitions at the ICHF show ‘Fabric, Embroidery and Stitch’ in the NEC, Birmingham in March next year … one as part of a brand new group called Room 6 which will be our first major exhibition, very exciting… and the other a two man show with Kim Thittichai, equally exciting … just beginning to think about these two exhibitions and start planning….
Finally , I have a solo show at OEPC, Maastricht next October. so lots of work ahead of me for that exhibition. Another group I am a member of is ArtQuiltFusion, which is a group made up of artists from all the countries in European Union, will also be exhibiting in Maastricht, but again , it is the exhibition we showed in Alsace during September this year, so no further work to create and I will have lots of company over there…..
I am enjoying this lull before the storm! Slowly getting my mind into gear… this is an exciting time, because I love to plan a totally new body of work and I aim for the whole year to be designed and made from these initial thoughts ….

domain: artistic


text:
This report investigates the differences between the Somali culture and the Australian Western Culture; the differences in religion, clothing, food, language and arts will all be examined. Somalia, like all countries, has it’s own special traditions and customs which are regularly practiced by its people. Both primary and secondary sources will be used to obtain quality literature.
I do believe that music clears my mind and makes me happy no matter what emotion I have before I listen. It has a certain superpower that can change someone from sad to happy or from depressed to proud in a few minutes if you listen to the right songs or genre. I know that just turning on a song that someone likes can make their day. Music has enough power to get someone to get up and dance and that is special. It can power athletes, singers, actors, doctors, teachers, and anyone. By just turning on a song that you like can put you in your own world where no one criticizes you or judges you for being you. Music is an escape from any problem in society and it is meant for everyone. “Music is just something that helps me escape and be totally free from everything.”-David Schmitt. This quote shows the true meaning of music. It shows how anyone can escape whatever troubles are happening by just hitting the play button on the phone that looks kind of like and arrow. The arrow pointing forward to a better
Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and politician, once said, “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends” (“Quotes About Power Of Music”). What is one of your favorite songs? Does this song have any special meaning for you? Music can be motivational, relaxing, exciting, or even frightening. Sometimes choosing a specific song as your favorite can be challenging, but there is usually one that you really like because the lyrics are relatable to you, maybe it describes your mood, or it may just be really catchy. Music also evolves and changes as time elapses; consequently, different generations identify with songs from various genres that are prominent during their lifetime.
Before this unit, black dancing often differed from whites. First off, many of them seemed more comedic, Josephine Baker from Le Revue Des Revues. Her innovated performance brought her stardom, for she was the first African America international entertainer. She used her whole body in dances, freely moving around. In the 1920s, people deemed her dance ‘savage’ due to the lack of structure and revealing clothes. She received much criticism but celebrated her freedom. At the time, many people still performed very structured dances, like ballroom dancing, yet many dances whites performed originated from African Americans, like the Charleston and Jazz. They modified the Charleston to fit their ‘standards’. Many of African American dances seemed
Music can bring the brightest of joys that keeps us moving through our dull and boring lives. An example of this joy is Ishmael Beah’s life as a boy soldier in his book A Long Way Gone. As he tells you his story, he tells of his dance group with his friends, the times he heard music in the middle of war, and how music saved him from the madness that brewed within him. Music has the unique ability to create peace in a person’s life despite the difficulties surrounding them, and to bring a constant reminder of who they are as a person.
How much longer will the controversy of dance continue? Some people agree that it is a sport and others disagree. Most people who disagree about dance being a sport do not know enough about it. Dance is a sport because it requires work ethic, athletic ability, and builds confidence and emotion.
I am writing to you about the unique meaning behind my six word memoir, things you should know about me, and my two main goals for the year.
It helps to prevent increased amounts of suicide, which is because of raised quantities of self-harm, throughout America and the world. Also, for those who struggle with addiction involving drugs find comfort and help with this form of Psychotherapy. This therapy brings back the forgotten memories that were once lost to certain mental disorders including Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Music provides an escape from the stressed mind and brings a positive light to the patient’s life. Physical complications are fixed from the mental portion, and medicine has improved tremendously from the efforts brought by music. Sleeping habits are improved making people happier and look forward to days to come. Music is the best use of therapy to heal those hurting in as many forms as one can think of. That’s why music therapy should be used above all other types of therapy because of all the positive characteristics it
I have been dancing for four years now and know for a fact that dancing is a sport. Dancers practice everyday to improve like other sports. I have danced before but it was not as serious until I joined Color Guard my freshman year. Color Guard was mainly contemporary and ballet. I was really stiff at the time due to the fact that I had only have done hip-hop and hard-hitting dances. When my first season was over, I came to love contemporary and ballet more than hip-hop and hard-hitting dances. My sophomore year, I became a squad leader with only season's worth of experience in guard. Color Guard is during the fall which is when we are with the Marching Band. Winter Guard is during the spring and we are by ourselves performing in the gym, I started off in Winter Guard. My first season was
Within this dance report I will discuss and evaluate the changes of jazz Dance from when it first originated to how and what the style has changed to in current day. I will then discuss three different practitioners and include reference to the musical accompaniment which they then used for their work/choreography; how their approaches to jazz dance varied, and why it has now influenced jazz dance today. The three practitioners I will discuss will be: Bob Fosse, Mia Michaels and Jack Cole. These three practitioners all have different approaches and ideas as to what jazz dance means/meant to them.
Listening to music is one of the only activities which involve using both sides of the brain. When concentrating on a specific task you are normally only using one part of your brain while concentrating so the other parts of your brain that is unoccupied drifts off which causes you to lose concentration. The music is beneficial because it will keep the other parts of your brain busy while you are concentrating which will prevent you from drifting off and losing concentration. Music has also been found to engage the area of the brain involved with paying attention.
Music helps a depressed mind become active. Songs are written out of true stories or feelings the artist had, which somewhere, somehow, someone can relate to. Music can help lift the spirits of a depressed person because of the physical changes it makes, or the relation to the story. Depression is when a person is constantly sad and their brain is low on dopamine and serotonin. Already discussed is the release of these feel-good chemicals and neurotransmitters when a person listens to music. By simply raising the level of chemicals in a depressed brain, one can feel happier. These moments of happiness overtime can then open other pathways up for the person to handle their disease. On a less scientific level, music tells stories and those stories can be related to and give the depressed person a sense of comfort knowing they are not the only ones who have had tough times. As Kathleen Higgins states in her review of Joel
For instance, “Many recent ballets might not have existed at all if Balanchine had not provided precedents for them. As one might expect, the choreographers of the New York City Ballet, Balanchine's company, are carrying on his tradition. Last season, both Helgi Tomasson's new Menuetto, a gracious work to a Mozart divertimento, and Bart Cook's first ballet, Seven by Five, a romp to Saint-Saens's Septet could be described as Balanchinian abstractions to concert music” (Jack Anderson, New York Times 2). He constructed twenty-nine ballets to Stravinsky’s music, and over two hundred ballets in total (Theguardian, 10). His large quantity of works vastly improved dance within each individual ballet he premiered. When choreographing, the interesting decisions made and large risks he took within each choice he has to make stretched the boundaries. He even broke boundaries at times. Balanchine plunged into each opportunity, and made bold choices without fear. A risk of his I found interesting was how “Balanchine once choreographed a ballet for elephants (all in tutus). His Circus Polka for "50 elephants and 50 beautiful girls" was commissioned in 1942 for Ringling Brothers and the Barnum and Bailey circus. Stravinsky wrote the music. It ran for 425 performances in Madison Square Garden”
Music has always been a part of my life. In definition, it is “vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.” Ever since I was a young child, I have loved music. The strong, steady beats, the entrancing melodies, and the lyrics that vary between heartwarming and heart-wrenching have always had an unexplainable effect on my life. Music seems to have the ability to change certain aspects of my world. Even with my moods, whether it is sad or mad, music will help me get through it. It has absolutely been an enormous part of my life and who I am. Thus, this is to say that I have musical talent. I am in a high school marching band, where I play any piano-like instrument. My viewpoint with music has come to a simple conclusion, without it, I would not know who I am or what to do with my life.
What all goes into writing a song? How did the artist come up with that idea? What was going through their head? Writing a song can be a long process. For some artist it can take up to three months to write a song, for others they can write a song in five minutes or less. It all depends on who the artist is and if they are inspired to write or not.


text:
Special parking and traffic steps being taken in Shepherdstown this Saturday
Shepherdstown is going to be a very busy place this Saturday, with a Christmas parade starting at 11:00 a.m., a Shepherd University football playoff game starting at Noon, and Christmas activities going on all day downtown.
To handle the anticipated extra pressures on traffic and parking, so that everyone can enjoy all the festivities, town and university officials have arranged for the following steps to be taken:
• Every effort will be made to concentrate game parking in the university's parking lots, especially those on the university's west campus.
• Special parking provisions are being made for those participating in the parade.
• The parking lots at the Fire Department and the adjacent Jefferson Security Bank just west of town will be reserved for those coming to town to view the parade and the other Christmas activities. Together, these lots and their adjacent grassy areas can accommodate up to 800 vehicles.
• Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority shuttle buses will operate between the fire department and downtown, and between the west campus and the stadium area. Three buses will operate from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and one will operate from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The last bus will leave from the downtown area around 3:45 p.m.
• Additional parking will be available in the Clarion Hotel's Conference Center parking lots, on the west side of the hotel grounds. However, there will be no shuttle bus service from this area.
• Additional overflow parking areas may be added, so watch for signs directing people to parking areas.
Area residents who are attending the parade or game or both can do their part by carpooling whenever possible and by being respectful of normal parking regulations.


text:
Sources Of Cholesterol From Diet
Cholesterol is one of the most typical active ingredients of foods we consume. It serves many objectives in our bodies, however its main feature is to create bile acids that help in the food digestion of fat. For this reason, it is commonly referred to as “the silent killer.” Sources Of Cholesterol From Diet
Most people need to strive to maintain their cholesterol under 200 milligrams/deciliter (mg/dl), or concerning 5.2 millimols/litre (mmol/L), if you have a genetic background of cardiovascular disease or you are at a high threat for developing a stroke or a cardiovascular disease. The National cholesterol guidelines offered by the American Heart Association recommend that the majority of people obtain their cholesterol within the suggested variety. Nonetheless, some individuals need to make every effort much more challenging than others to achieve cholesterol levels that will help them live a long and also healthy life. Sources Of Cholesterol From Diet
Sources Of Cholesterol From Diet
If your healthcare provider makes a recommendation for therapy, he may recommend several kinds of cholesterol testing. The first choice is called fasting lipid account. In this procedure, your healthcare provider takes a sample of your blood making use of a non-penetrated skin hook. Your doctor after that measures your triglycerides, high thickness lipoproteins, high pressure in your arteries, and low thickness lipoproteins. Sources Of Cholesterol From Diet
If you take all of these into consideration, after that your healthcare provider can determine how healthy and balanced you are. He can likewise prescribe a medicine that is made especially to reduced cholesterol. An additional choice would be a mix of drugs. Some individuals like to take an all-natural cholesterol medicine along with a daily exercise regimen as well as a healthy way of living modifications program. If you do pick to make use of cholesterol lowering medications, be sure to follow your physician’s orders closely. Your doctor may also want you to undergo greater than one sort of therapy.
There are various other choices if your medical professional really feels that approaches of therapy are not working. One such option is to take statins. The function of taking statins is to lower the quantity of cholesterol that develops in your blood. Statins do have side results, they are the best of all available treatments for individuals battling to manage cholesterol.
While physicians are uncertain specifically what states may do to your body, there are specific manner ins which it can increase your danger for a heart attack. People that have high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure are at better danger for a heart assault. If you currently have heart disease, then you are already at higher threat. Statins can assist you reduced these threat factors also.
If your physician assumes that you have very high LDL cholesterol degrees, after that he might suggest a drug called atheroma renolone to reduce them. Nonetheless, atheroma does include some serious adverse effects, including vision issues, looseness of the bowels, and throwing up. People with extremely high triglycerides and low excellent cholesterol levels are not prospects for this kind of treatment because triglycerides are a harmful compound in their bloodstream. While it can decrease LDL cholesterol degrees, it will raise HDL cholesterol, which is the good cholesterol.
The factor that statins boost the threat for a heart attack is due to the fact that they interfere with the blood vessel movement in your body. As your arteries end up being stopped up, they won’t be able to transport the nutrients that they need. Without an increased blood flow, the plaque build-up will certainly begin, and that will certainly cause a serious heart attack. Therefore, people who take statins to decrease their blood cholesterol levels are really at an enhanced danger for a cardiovascular disease.
Obviously, you don’t really wish to experience a heart attack, however using statins can certainly elevate your danger. Among the side effects of taking these drugs is that you will certainly experience muscle mass weak point. While this sign is only light and also will not affect your capacity to function, it most definitely isn’t anything you want to handle. Other side impacts include looseness of the bowels, tiredness, nausea or vomiting, as well as a rise in the regularity of colds. Some people have also defined the tiredness that they feel as being comparable to going to completion phase of cancer cells.
If you are taking into consideration beginning treatment, talk with your doctor regarding the possible negative effects as well as threats. Statins are prescribed by doctors around the globe as well as are typically provided to individuals that have high LDL cholesterol levels. Certainly, you need to always discuss all choices with your physician before beginning any kind of medicine, specifically if you have kidney disease or other severe clinical concerns.
The bottom line is that there are various points you can do to decrease your complete cholesterol, including your diet regimen, exercise, fat burning, and boosted usage of foods that are high in HDL, or great cholesterol. Trans fats discovered in some prominent restaurants are a trouble for lots of people as well as should be stayed clear of preferably. In addition, you should try to eat as healthy of a diet as feasible, avoiding fatty foods and consuming more foods that are high in healthy protein. These foods are not just good for you, but are also very simple to locate, that makes regulating your cholesterol rather easy.

domain: health


TAXI operators and drivers are warned not to decline commuters and overcharge them this yuletide season.
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Northern Mindanao regional director Mandangan Darimbang vows to penalize these taxi drivers who will refuse to ferry or ask additional charges from passengers.
"Pasko ngayon, expected maraming sasakay nang taxi. Warning natin sa mga drivers and operators may fines and penalty tayo sa mga lalabag sa batas (It’s Christmas and we expect there are many taxi commuters, but we are warning the drivers and operators that there are fines and penalty to those who will violate the law)," Darimbang said.
Darimbang said that following LTFRB rules and regulations the violators will be fined with P5 thousand pesos and the franchise maybe revoked.
Darimbang also reminds that the provisional P10 rollback of the P40-taxi flagdown rate is still in effect.
"Maaari magsumbong ang pasahero sa ating office o tumawag sa numerong nakapaskil sa mga taxi na 'May reklamo ka itawag sa LTFRB' para ma-aksyonan (The passengers may complain at our office or call the LTFRB numbers posted on taxis)," Darimbang said.
Meanwhile, Cagayan de Oro First Taxi Drivers Alliance president Bernard Jamaca said they do not tolerate the violations committed by some erring taxi drivers.
Jamaca said there have been reports of drivers overcharging their passengers, adding that other drivers refuse a ride to some passengers.
"Wala nato gi-tolerate kanang ginahimo sa uban nga gapangontrata ug gabalibad og pasahero (We don’t tolerate those who take passengers without using the meter or those who refuse passengers)," Jamaca said.
Jamaca has vowed to act on every complaint brought to his attention.
Jamaca disclosed his mobile number (09276319852) for the public to contact in case taxi drivers commit violations.


text:
The financial world and the “Concept of Money” have been greatly revolutionized due to the emergence of Bitcoin and other digital cryptocurrencies. On the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the Bitcoin futures has been available since December 10, 2017. The highest price of Bitcoin that was $19,783.06 was hit on 17 December 2017 and on the same day, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched its bitcoin futures contract.
The CBOE finally announced that it would not list any more bitcoin futures contracts on 18 March 2019 and the main reason of phasing out was due to higher volume on the CME, which consistently beat out the volume on the CBOE’s Bitcoin contract. Moreover, they assessed on how to proceed with cryptocurrency products. On December 18, 2017, the CME self-certified its bitcoin futures contract with the Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC).
Bakkt, the bitcoin future contract completed it’s day one of trading and witness trading of 71 monthly futures contract and 1 daily future through its platform which approximately $711K in notional trading value.
Things to Know Before Trading in Bitcoin Futures:
- No change of Bitcoin actually changes in hands, it’s a digital cryptocurrency.
- Futures contracts either settle financially on the delivery date or are offset by traders reversing out of their positions as the delivery date approaches. Therefore, no cryptocurrency trading platform or wallet is needed for it.
- On the delivery date, if the buyer or seller of a bitcoin futures contract holds the position and shows a profit, then the difference between the purchase price and the settlement price is paid out to the holder of the futures contract.
- According to the CME bitcoin futures contract (BTC) specifications, 5 Bitcoin’s are defined by the CME Crypto Facilities Ltd. (CF) Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR). $25 per contract and $5 for calendar spreads is the minimum fluctuation for a futures contract.
- The CME, the CME Globex, and the CME ClearPort trading platforms have trading times from 5 p.m. until 4 p.m.CST Sunday through Friday. Clear opening and closing quote for the contracts is taken in an inactive hour of between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Whereas Bitcoin itself trades for 24 hours.
- March quarterly cycle, consisting of March, June, September, and December excluding the nearest 2 months the listing cycle for Bitcoin’s futures contract.
- Months in which a futures trade can be made and which is not a part of the quarterly cycle is known as Serial months. Last Friday of the contract month is taken as the last day of trading.
How to Trade Bitcoin Futures
To start trading futures, an account should be opened with a registered futures broker so that the account can be maintained and t trades are guaranteed. A futures commission merchants (FCMs) or introducing brokers (IBs) are the futures brokers.
Learning about futures trade is extremely necessary. The CME’s maintenance margin requirement for bitcoin futures is 37% of the price of the futures contract and initial margin for a hedger is 100% of the maintenance margin. 110% of the maintenance margin is for speculators. Initially, there is no option to exchange for new traders.
A trading plan should be developed and implemented on the basis of careful analysis of the market you plan to trade-in. Objectives should be clear and the number of risks should be calculated. Moreover, Money management and position sizing should also be kept in mind along with technical and fundamental analysis.
Lastly and most importantly, an experienced and professional firm should be the futures broker in order to get a long term success. Finally, the trading plan should be tested through the demo to understand the faults if there are any. Initially, small trades should be made and then eventually moving to the bigger ones.
After all the hustle, go live and start trading bitcoin futures in a live account. Enough trading capital should be available in order to meet the margin requirements.

domain: economics


Using next-generation deep sequencing, they identified a total of 206 miRNAs, comprising 115 known and 84 novel miRNAs, and seven potential miRNA candidates. Of these miRNAs, 98 (57 known and 41 novel miRNAs) were differentially expressed under heat stress. A total of 101 miRNA-target pairs consisting of 44 miRNAs and 71 target genes were verified by degradome sequencing. Target annotation suggested that these miRNAs might be important in the regulation of specific stress-responsive genes, including many transcription factors and a series of genes encoding important enzymes of functional proteins targeted by miRNAs.
Further functional analysis suggested these target genes were related to protein synthesis, transport and turnover, cell wall organization, protein folding, antioxidation, defense response, and modulation of attenuated plant growth and development under heat stress. The expression patterns of 15 randomly selected miRNAs derived from quantitative reverse transcription PCR had similar trends as those derived from high-throughput sequencing, as well as the expression patterns of six target genes under heat stress.
These results improve our understanding of the miRNA-mediated regulatory network of heat stress response in B. luminifera, which will contribute to improving heat stress-resistant breeding in woody plants.


text:
I’d never heard of Bob Peterson until March 10, the day before the candidate filing deadline, when the commander with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department took out papers to run for the House of Representatives. He’s one of eight candidates for the vacancy being created by Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s bid for U.S. Senate.
Despite this being his first real step into the political arena, Peterson could emerge as the most viable of the four Republicans in the race. The Orange resident has a fundraising goal of $250,000, and if he can raise anywhere near that, he could earn the attention of GOP votes.
He probably doesn’t have a lot of ground to make up in terms of name recognition among the Republicans.
Anaheim’s Rudy Gaona may be best known for his 2014 run for supervisor, when he received 16 percent of the vote. Fullerton’s Louie Contreras’ previous campaign experience, before he changed from a Democrat to a Republican, was his 2006 bid in a San Bernardino-Riverside counties congressional district, when he lost 67 percent to 33 percent to GOP incumbent Jerry Lewis.
First-term Irvine Councilwoman Lynn Schott lives outside Sanchez’s central county district and is taking advantage of the fact that district residency isn’t a requirement.
I’m curious to see what voter contact Schott does; I’ve called her perhaps a dozen times and always ended up in voice mail. On the occasions she’s responded, it’s been by email. Given two days’ notice before the deadline for this column, she said she couldn’t respond in time because she was attending an educational forum. She was the only candidate who didn’t respond.
Of course, it’s probably academic who the strongest Republican is. With Democrats holding a 20-point advantage in the district’s voter registration and with three Democratic candidates – each of whom is better known than any of the Republicans – it’s likely two Democrats will advance to the November election under the state’s top-two open primary system.
Peterson picked up a key endorsement Saturday from the conservative California Republican Assembly, although his position on immigration reform is slightly softer than that of some in the group.
He opposes President Barack Obama’s DACA and DAPA executive orders to allow some undocumented immigrants to remain in the country, saying it’s presidential overreach. But he said he would support legislation that would accomplish the same thing.
For those not covered by such legislation, he says no action should be taken until the border is secure.
Contreras and Gaona favor a path to citizenship that includes a fine, a background check and a waiting period. Contreras’ plan would take place only after the border is secure and would incorporate DACA and DAPA. Gaona said he didn’t have a position on DACA and DAPA.
The Democrats – former state Sens. Lou Correa and Joe Dunn and Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen – and independent Nancy Trinidad Marin all favor a path to citizenship, with some variations in terms of fines and background checks. And the four also support DACA and DAPA.
Trump and California
If the Republican presidential nomination comes down to California’s 172 delegates in the June 7 primary, polling this month shows Donald Trump would be the biggest beneficiary.
The race is for the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination in advance of the national convention. If no one reaches that magic number, a contested convention selecting a nominee other than the candidate with the most primary delegates is possible.
Irvine-based Landslide Communications teamed up with the NSON polling firm to survey 407 likely voters – 38 percent of whom favored Trump, 22 percent Ted Cruz and 20 percent John Kasich.
Smith Johnson Research polled 454 likely voters and found 25 percent favored Trump, 20 percent favored Cruz, and 15 percent favored Kasich.
But Trump’s advantage in the two polls is so widely different – 16 percentage points and 5 points – it raises the question of which poll, if either, is accurate.
Contact the writer: firstname.lastname@example.org


text:
Indo Board Man had his first physical therapy session at 7pm, 7 hours after his hip replacement. Check out the videos of his first time standing and walking on his new hip.
Indo Board Man was feeling little pain as the doctor injected a steroid medication during the operation that was still in effect. Indo Board Man was ready and raring to go! He reported no pain and an immediate ease to walking with the problems of the osteoarthritic femoral head gone!
He walked 200 feet before the therapist turned him around and walked him back to the room. The therapist was impressed with the smooth movement of muscles in the legs as Indo Board Man was describing the problems prior to surgery. The advantages of the “Anterior Approach” became reality as there was no pain caused by muscles being cut.
So far so good!


text:
We provide comprehensive support to all, regardless of religion, race, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, or special need.
Anxiety in youth and teens has doubled since the onset of the pandemic and is one of the most common mental health challenges leading parents to seek support for their children. JFS Delaware can help through evidence-based services.
The Maternal Mental Health Program is a community-based, outpatient program which provides effective, evidence-based psychotherapy and maternal behavioral health care for people who experience pregnancy loss and/or perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs).
When you make a gift to support the work at JFS, you are directly supporting individuals who receive our services.

domain: sociology


text:
Wang Jing bought his first car, a Dodge Shadow, with $3,000 he scratched together working three part-time jobs in the U.S. as a postgraduate student in Florida. These days, the senior vice president in charge of Baidu Inc.’s autonomous driving efforts is far better paid. He’s also a man on a mission: To push China to the forefront of the coming driverless-car era.
Baidu joins a crowded field. Google Inc., which started developing autonomous cars in 2009, has tested self-driving vehicles for more than 2 million miles and is considering making its self-driving car unit a stand-alone business under the Alphabet Inc. corporate umbrella later this year. Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has said his customers will be able to summon an electric car to drive autonomously from Los Angeles to New York within two years. General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. are also in hot pursuit of this emerging market.
Undeterred, Wang, 51, sees a level playing field in the coming era of intelligent, autonomous cars–and one that China is capable of dominating.
“Chinese carmakers started making cars 100 years after others and a lot of the core technology aren’t in Chinese hands, such as engines” said Wang. “With electric cars, with intelligent cars, the core technology shifts from the engine and gearbox to artificial intelligence and that’s an area where China is very close to the U.S., giving China the chance to catch up and seize leadership.”
Robin Li, Baidu’s co-founder and chief executive officer, has invested heavily into a subfield of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which aims to improve search results and computing tasks by training computers to work more like the human brain. The company hired Andrew Ng, a renowned computer scientist and expert in robotics and machine learning as Baidu’s chief scientist in May 2014.
Wang thinks the company can leverage its expertise in artificial intelligence, data mapping and Internet connectivity to excel in autonomous driving technology. Getting China into that game is a priority for Chinese President Xi Jinping, who sees digital technology as an opportunity for Chinese manufactures to become more innovative. At a global Internet forum last month, Xi made the point of visiting Baidu’s stand, where he listened to Baidu CEO Li discuss autonomous car development.
It may take time for Chinese companies to scale up in this business, according to Cao He, an analyst with Minzu Securities in Beijing. “There is a long way ahead for Baidu and other companies trying to mass produce and sell autonomous driving cars,” said Cao. “Given the wide diversity of road conditions from one place to another, it is unlikely for any company to come up with a sizable industry operation within five years.”
That said, there could be a lot of money at state. Baidu estimates that the Chinese market for car sales, buses, taxis and related transportation services is potentially worth more than $1.5 trillion a year in revenue. Getting a sliver of that could be a huge new revenue source for China’s biggest search engine company.
Paystack Stripe: Stripe Pays Over $200 Million to Acquire Nigerian Paystack Startup
Stripe Acquires Paystack for Over $200 Million
Stripe, American financial services, and online payment processing for internet businesses headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, is in the process of acquiring Paystack, a Nigerian based online payment processing startup.
While the terms of the deal are not in the open, sources familiar with the deal said Stripe is paying over $200 million to acquire the Nigerian startup.
Paystack presently has about 60,000 customers that cut across small businesses, fintechs, schools, online betting companies and larger corporations. The sources said the plan will be to continue operating independently in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. Suggesting this is one of the reasons Stripe raised $600 million in funding earlier this year to expand its API-based payments services into more regions.
“There is enormous opportunity,” said Patrick Collison, Stripe’s co-founder and CEO, in an interview with TechCrunch. “In absolute numbers, Africa may be smaller right now than other regions, but online commerce will grow about 30% every year. And even with wider global declines, online shoppers are growing twice as fast. Stripe thinks on a longer time horizon than others because we are an infrastructure company. We are thinking of what the world will look like in 2040-2050.”
Shola Akinlade, the CEO of Paystack said the deal will help the company expand in Nigeria and beyond. “Paystack was not for sale when Stripe approached us,” said Akinlade, who co-founded the company with Ezra Olubi (who is the CTO).
“For us, it’s about the mission. I’m driven by the mission to accelerate payments on the continent, and I am convinced that Stripe will help us get there faster. It is a very natural move.”
The deal is expected to boost the attractiveness of Nigerian startups, especially the fast-growing fintech industry.
Facebook, Namibian Blood Transfusion Service (NamBTS), Others Partner to Boost Blood Donations in Namibia
Facebook, Others Partner to Improve Blood Donations in Namibia
Facebook Inc, the world’s leading social media giant, has partnered the Namibian Blood Transfusion Service (NamBTS) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services to launch a new feature to encourage people to donate blood.
This means, starting from today people between the ages of 18 – 66 now have the option to sign up as blood donors on Facebook, be notified when blood donor centres near them have an urgent need for donations and invite friends to donate as well.
Accordingly, the same feature was launched in Chad, Guinea and Mali today, meaning Facebook blood donating feature is now available in 12 Africa nations. Other African nations enjoying the feature are Senegal, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Niger, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The program that was first launched in 2017 has now attracted more than 70 million people who have signed up on Facebook to donate blood through partnerships centres around the world.
Speaking on the initiative, Kojo Boakye, Public Policy Director Facebook Africa, said: “COVID-19 has changed how and where people can give blood, causing countries around the world to experience shortages of voluntary blood donations at this critical time. In keeping with our Mission, we recognized the role Facebook can play in connecting people that want to donate blood with opportunities to do so. The partnership with the Namibian Blood Transfusion Service (NamBTS) and Ministry of Health and Social Services is such an important one. We strongly believe it will enable Namibians to make a positive impact to the blood donation ecosystem in the country.”
Zita Tobin, Manager, Donor Recruitment and PR for NamBTS said: “We are truly excited by the partnership with Facebook the tool will assist us bolster our blood collections during the pandemic and beyond, as only 1% of the population donate blood”
Roblox to Go Public with $8 Billion Valuation Following $150 Million Series G Funding at $4 Billion
Roblox Preparing to Go Public with $8 Billion Valuation
According to the research data analyzed and published by Safe Betting, Roblox is preparing to list on the US stock market at a valuation of $8 billion. In February 2020, the gaming giant raised $150 million during a Series G funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
According to InvestGame, Q1 to Q3 2020 has seen the gaming industry receive a total of $20.5 billion in investments. Of this figure, public offerings accounted for around $6.05 billion.
Roblox Game Adopt Me! Draws over 10 Billion Visits As Consumer Spend Nears $103 Million in May 2020
Other noteworthy IPOs that have taken place include those of Unity Software, Kakao Games and Archosaur Games. Unity raised $1.3 billion at a $13.6 billion valuation while Kakao raised $330 million and Archosaur at $280 million. Applovin, Krafton Playtika, tinyBuild, Huuuge and People CAN Fly are among others planning IPOs.
Roblox has had a great 2020 with some of its popular games hitting spectacular records. For instance, Adopt Me! hit a peak of 1.615 million concurrent users and 10 billion visits in H1 2020. Piggy had over 5,000 plays by the end of July 2020 following its January 2020 launch. Roblox developers expect to earn $250 million on the hub in 2020, up by 127% from 2019’s $110 million. Its monthly active users increased from 115 million in February to 164 million in July according to RTrack.
Moreover, based on a report from Sensor Tower, player spending on Roblox increased 28% month-over-month in March 2020 and 34% in April 2020. In May, the game’s revenue hit a peak of $102.9 million.
The Roblox app hit $1.5 billion in lifetime revenue in June 2020. App Annie revealed that in Q2 2020, it ranked second in global consumer spend. In Q3 2020, it ranks it as the 4th highest grossing game globally on both the App Store and Play Store.
Forex2 weeks ago
Naira Improves Against Global Counterparts on Black Market
Business4 weeks ago
Npower News on Permanency for Batch A, B
Business7 days ago
Buhari Budgets N420 Billion for Npower, Other Social Investment Programmes in 2021 Budget
News4 weeks ago
Jumia Boss Juliet Anammah is Now Flour Mills Board of Director
Cryptocurrency4 weeks ago
Paxful to Build School in Nigeria Under Its 100 School Initiative to Support Emerging Markets
Technology4 weeks ago
Dell Partners Other Firms to Establish Tech Centre in Nigeria
Government2 weeks ago
#Endsars: Naira Marley Calls Off Protest following Police Invitation
Forex4 weeks ago
CBN Moves Against 55 Companies, Individuals for Forex Infractions


text:
111 Places in Prague That You Shouldn't Miss (Paperback)
-The ultimate insider's guide to Prague, fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs -Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides -An extension of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 170 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide -Appeals to both the local market (over 2,1 million people call Prague home) and the tourist market (over 6.5 million people visit Prague every year) Prague is a city of many meanings. Prague means the collection of countless art treasures from every epoch. Prague means the Velvet Revolution and the Prague Spring. Prague means cultural heroes like the one-eyed Jan Zizka, and V clav Havel. By the way, did you know that once there was a bed behind bars in the apartment of a former president? Yet Prague is much more than its legends and stories. Everybody who has been to Prague has been drawn in by its magical spell. This book shows you a different side to this wonderful city, guiding you around 111 hidden corners and nooks. The authors will tell you amazing stories that will make you an insider, so that you can chat with locals later over a glass of Gambrinus. Look behind the fa ade of Prague - and you'll find talent and myth in this, the city of love.


text:
Watch H Is for Happiness Full Movie Streaming
|Free Download H Is for Happiness||720p||6,6 Mb/s|
|HD - H Is for Happiness||HD||4,1 Mb/s|
|H Is for Happiness Full||Full HD||7,9 Mb/s|
A twelve year old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world, is inspired by the strange new boy at school and sets out to mend her broken family - whatever it takes.
|Title||:||H Is for Happiness|
|Release||:||Aug 11, 2019|
|Stars||:||Daisy Axon, Wesley Patten, Richard Roxburgh, Emma Booth, Miriam Margolyes, Joel Jackson, Deborah Mailman, Cath Moore, Ali Jayne Tognini, Catherine Moore|

domain: library


Title of PhD: Another New Regionalism? Landscapes of economic governance in the coalition era
Supervisors: Professor John Bryson, Dr Julian Clark
Jacob Salder is conducting research in relation to economic governance and approaches to the implementation and delivery of economic policy in the light of the changing environment under the Coalition Government.
The governance of economic policy has seen radical changes since the change of Government in 2010, primarily through the dissolution of the Regional Development Agencies and the introduction of the Local Enterprise Partnerships in their place. The context for this research is the Southern Staffordshire area. Working with CASE partner the Southern Staffordshire Partnership the project will look at ways of analyzing and interpreting economic geography and economic relations across political territories, at political and economic relations within the designated Birmingham, Solihull and Southern Staffordshire LEP area, and how the changing onus and decentralization of economic governance affects interpretations of territory and relations between the private and public sector.
Jacob has 10 years experience working in local and regional economic development. He has been involved in both policy development and delivery in a succession of Local Authorities, Regional Development Agencies and Non-Government Organisations.
Jacob has an MSC in Urban Regeneration from University College London.
Local and Regional Economic Development, Economic Governance and Spatial Policy, Urban form, Public-Private partnerships and relations


text:
The following statement summarises just a few of the comments and recommendations made this week by Jacqui Kennedy and Stella Manzie in their public report to the Council Cabinet meeting.
The Birmingham branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) urges ALL bin men, their families, and Birmingham residents and workers to read the report in full. This report is merely the PUBLIC report. This report only scratches the surface. The PRIVATE report no doubt deals in detail with exactly how Labour Councillors have given £311,000 per week to private capitalists and scabs in an effort to break the strike by Birmingham bin men. It is hidden from view to hide the hideous truth of their criminal squandering of public money.
Our Party, a Party of experienced communist men and women, trade unionists and workers, devoted to the advancement of our class, sincerely hopes that the jubilant proclamations of victory by the union are well founded, but it is better to acquaint ourselves with the facts as they stand and prepare for the worse if we genuinely strive for the total victory of the workers and a just settlement in this business. The content of the report by Kennedy and Co is to be discussed 1st September at the Council meeting. If a new attack upon the workers is made, we must be ready to respond.
As the vast majority of bin men suspected, and as the Birmingham CPGB-ML cautioned, Birmingham city council and it’s Labour lieutenants have honey on their lips and murder in their hearts.
This public report, clearly states that, despite the public pronouncements from ACAS and Unite, the chiefs at the City Council recommend pushing ahead full steam with the attack on the bin men:
“That the Cabinet note the recommendations below and consider them in the light of the accompanying private report.
“2.1 Endorse progression and implementation of the decisions taken by Cabinet 27th June 2017 for the re organisation of the waste management service and the next stages including issuing the redundancy notices to the 106 employees (in 113 posts) currently designated as Grade 3 Leading Hands.
“2.2 Note the impact of the disruptive industrial action by the Unite union including disruption and inconvenience to the public and additional costs to the Council and the public.
“2.3 Note the operational plans in place to maintain refuse collection at reduced frequency, clear up side waste and clear any backlog.”
Furthermore the Council report announces:
“4.2.4 There are additional costs associated with the contingency plans that have been put in place in response to the industrial action. The estimated weekly costs have ranged between £21,000 per week in the early stages of the industrial action in July to the current weekly estimate of £311,000 as external contractors have been mobilised (the details are set out in a separate schedule in the Private Report). This will be an additional pressure on the Council’s finances for 2017/18. …
“5.1 The key organisational changes in the Refuse and Waste service, proposed in the June 27th Report were as follows:
- The removal of compressed working hours with all employees working a 5 day 7.3 hours per day 36.5 working hour week rather than 4 days at 9.133 hours per day
- Removal of the Leading Hand role on Refuse Collection Grade 3 (113 posts)
- Operationally the separation of commercial and domestic collections onto separate vehicles and crews where it practicable to do so, thereby enabling domestic and trade waste operational resources and costs to be ring – fenced.
“The location of the start and finish points for each or any collection round will be across any of the Council depots and employees will be asked to work flexibly from any of the depots and employees will be asked to work flexibly from any of the depots as the business requirement demands. These changes are consistent with all employees on the Birmingham Contract …
“5.27 On 16th August an ACAS statement was issued as a result of discussions between the Leader, Unite and ACAS.
“Birmingham City Council and Unite the Union have today made sufficient progress in their talks for the Shop Stewards to pause industrial action. Birmingham City Council cabinet members have agreed in principle that the grade 3 posts will be maintained. Consequently there are no redundancy steps in place. In addition the parties will now look to discuss, through ACAS, how the service can be improved, with the intention of improving efficiencies in performance of the bin collection service generally, including what savings can be made, and specifically how best the current Grade 3 roles can now be maintained and developed so that they take forward the ambition to deliver cleaner streets and align to wider Total Place principles. Unite have also agreed in principle to recommend to their members work pattern changes, including consideration of a 5 day working week. Both parties agree the working week should be designed to maximise service delivery. To assist in the resolution of outstanding issues both parties will go to ACAS. These discussions will be with the intention of incorporating any agreement as an amendment to the Waste Management Service Cabinet Report in September 2017.Both parties are pleased to be recommencing industrial relations and pleased that the bin collection can resume without disruption.
“5.27 Later that day Unite issued a further statement:
“‘Unite, the country’s largest union, today (Wednesday 16 August) said that it has achieved victory in the Birmingham bin dispute which will result in the suspension of the current industrial action.
“‘The union said that the city council had accepted the refuse workers’ case and restored the grade 3 jobs, which are responsible for the safety at the rear of the refuse vehicles.
“‘Normal collection of bins will resume, as Unite and the city council hold further talks under the auspices of the conciliation service, Acas to resolve the outstanding issues.’
“‘The council has addressed our members’ concerns, including the safeguarding of the grade 3 post that is vital to the safety at the rear of the refuse vehicles. Unite also welcomes the fact that our suspended rep is now returning to work’
“5.28 The Council issued the following statement:
“‘The Acas statement in connection with the Waste and Refuse dispute does not represent the Council’s position until these matters are considered at the Council’s Special Cabinet Meeting on 24th August 2017. The decision on the waste reorganisation taken by Cabinet on 27th June is still the current position of the Council.’
“5.29 While productivity is still extremely low there does seem to have been a limited return to work from the Unite members. However given uncertainty about the ACAS discussions the Corporate Director of Place has continued to operate the contingency arrangements in place already, to assist in the catch up. There has been a request for overtime from the operatives, which has been refused. ”
Birmingham workers, you can see what proposals Jacqui Kennedy and her political bosses in the Labour Party make. Fight until the victory.
It’s CLASS AGAINST CLASS. Victory to the working class!


text:
For years, opponents of marijuana legalization have voiced the same arguments whenever the subject of dispensaries comes up: having legal cannabis vendors, they say, promotes the spread of crime, brings property values down in the neighborhood and encourages teenage marijuana use.
“Even in the Canadian Football League, where they don’t test for marijuana, prescription drugs are a dime a dozen in the locker rooms,” he said. “They hand them out like candy corn and that's an unfortunate thing.”
A confluence is coming together to set up what could be a major run in marijuana stocks later this year.
The Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services has finalized its rules for how medical marijuana growers can get licensed to make and sell edibles.
Cresco Labs Inc. (CSE: CL, OTCQX: CRLBF) to acquire Origin House (CSE: OH, OTCQX: ORHOF) in a billion dolllar deal.
Claiming these immigrants are not of “good moral character” under federal law, immigration officials are denying their applications to become naturalized U.S. citizens.


text: The volume continues. Small cap stock at this level to sustain volume like this is unusual. It doesn't happen very often. Moreover, it is not being sustained by one buyer or one seller. This is very bullish and is nothing like the low volume levels before the announcement of the JV.