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This sampler plate would be perfect to share over drinks in Gallery’s wood-paneled bar or outside on their terrace. We happily shared three small rounds of Pate, rillettes made with chicken, apricot and pistachio nuts, a chicken ballotine, local onion and golden pineapple tomatillo marmalade, grilled local fig and house-made lavosh. Every single thing on this plate was delicious.
Citrus Poached Shrimp followed, served with watercress celery leaf salad and tossed in tomato horseradish vinaigrette. A charred half lemon acted as a garnish that could be squeezed over the shrimp.
Our third shared dish was Peaches and Cheese. Grilled local peaches were served with Goat Lady Camembert cheese (lightly torched?), house-made jam and lavosh. I loved the combination of grilled peaches and Camambert – earthy, creamy, and sweet.
As long as we were sharing, appropriate for an anniversary celebrating many shared years, we continued on with entrees. This Baucom’s Best Farms Chicken sounded pretty tasty on the menu: “watermelon brined, coffee smoked breast”, served with marinated local tomatoes and watercress greens that had been dressed in barrel aged sherry maple vinaigrette.
Added to the mix were (what looked like torched) watermelon cubes, spinach and green beans (tucked under the chicken). The flavors were great, especially the salad, but the chicken was a little dry and the fresh, crispy green beans needed to cook another minute or two.
Looking for something completely different to go along with the chicken dish, we chose house-made Pasta Pillows filled with shrimp, scallops, peas, crispy leaks and corn with tarragon sauce. Lovely filling, lovely sauce, lovely garnish, but we both agreed the dish would have been even better if the pasta had been thinner.
When’s the last time you had jello for dessert? Just kidding. What you see below is Strawberry Hibiscus Gelee made with fresh strawberries, accompanied by scooped sweetened condensed ice cream, vanilla bean oil and pistachio cream. Pistachio “crumbles” added a subtle “chew”. We’d both recommend this dessert. Light and refreshing.
Another special treat: “buttermilk mousse centered with peach-cherry compote”, topping a thin layer of pecan cake. Generously portioned with torched fresh peach slices and peach-bourbon caramel sauce, it was delicious in every way! Our only regret was not being able to finish it because we were both too full.
There’s a tradition at Gallery of serving a plate of house-made sweets at the end of every meal. I’d assumed that since we’d ordered two desserts, that would be it. Wrong. This sweet little plate came along just before the check. Gallery was very gracious about boxing up the treats so we could enjoy them later at our hotel.
It happened to be Restaurant Week while we were in Charlotte and Gallery was seeing more than their share of diners going for the 3 for $30 deal. As far as we could tell, they were handling the numbers without any decline in their high service standards.
Gallery is in the Ballantyne Hotel, located on the South side of Charlotte. Just outside the restaurant’s doors is a terrace overlooking their Ballantyne’s golf course and grounds where lunch, dinner and cocktails are served. Attached to the restaurant is a beautiful bar that offers a great selection of whiskeys, bourbons, cognacs and scotches (including high-end) as well as a cigar menu.
Gallery is also know for offering many classes, tastings and other events throughout the year.
10000 Ballantyne Commons Parkway
Charlotte, NC 28277


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Japanese Spitz in Singapore
Japanese Spitz Highlights
The Japanese Spitz, a fluffy, cloud-like small dog breed that’s known to be a wonderful, high-spirited family companion. Often mistaken as Samoyed or American Eskimo dogs, Japanese Spitz is loyal, playful, and adapt well to their surroundings. If you’re interested to get your very own Japanese Spitz and to know more about them, you can view our available Japanese Spitz puppy that is ready for you to take home right here. For more information about Japanese Spitz for sales in Singapore, keep reading below!
Japanese Spitz is known as a low-maintenance, easy-to-train dog that comes with tons of energy, so you’ll be able to get have fun and be active with them. They are extremely friendly and protective of those they care about, may it be with the whole family or with other dogs that they live with. You will distinctively recognize these pooches through their thick white main that covers the entire body.
Japanese Spitz puppies Singapore make for great watchdogs, so expect them to bark in the presence of strangers without backing off (unless told off). Do take note that this breed is not considered a hypoallergenic breed since they are known to have fur dropping around during shedding season. However, if that does not bother you as much, and you want a dedicated and friendly pooch that loves cuddles as much as they love making you smile, then this breed might be the one for you!
Japanese Spitz Puppies History
They originated from German Spitz that was brought to Asia, specifically in Japan around the 20th century. A brief history of the German Spitz – they are considered as one of the oldest European dog breeds that are known to be friendly, adaptable, and loyal. After cross-breeding the German Spitz from several other Spitz breeds worldwide to get the desired traits, they were able to debut the Japanese Spitz in its pristine signature white coat. Once successfully bred, they were able to export them as an official breed in different countries until they were recognized by the national kennel club as official dog breeds.
Japanese Spitz Personality
The Japanese Spitz is an energetic bundle of fluff that’s always down to play and cuddle. You’ll find them always smiling and running around, just being happy around their owners. They strive under constant attention and do not do well when left alone to their own devices, since they are prone to also getting separation anxiety. It’s important to train them as puppies as well as get them proper socialization so they can continue to adapt well to other people and breeds around them. It’s easy to train them since they are also known to be attentive and obedient as long as the owner is consistent. They are extremely friendly; Japanese Spitz get along well with children and with fellow dogs. Aside from that, they make for great watchdogs that will instantly alert you once they detect strangers or unfamiliar noises. They will do what it takes to protect their owners, however, once you assure them that it is safe, they will calm down. Once a Japanese Spitz warms up to you, they love to be affectionate and be close to their owners. It is because of all personalities that come with them which makes them one of the popular breeds to get.
Japanese Spitz Size
They come in small statures, but their heights and weight vary depending on their origin. They usually range from 10 to 16 inches in height, with a weight averaging between 11 and 20 pounds. One thing to note is that they are typically bigger than Pomeranians when it comes to appearance and size.
They can be distinguished through their snow-white fur that covers the whole body, triangular upturned ears, long fluffy tail that’s curled inwards, and a long pointed snout.
How to Care Japanese Spitz Puppies: Grooming & Basic Needs
As with other dog breeds, Japanese Spitz require basic care. Their teeth should be brushed daily and their paws and ears should be checked regularly to prevent build up of dirt, gunk, and possible parasites or infection.
Japanese Spitz has low grooming needs and is easy to maintain since dirt and debris don’t stick to their thick mane or can be easily brushed off. Make sure to brush their fur once or twice a week to keep it looking neat without tangles or mats. Do take note that they shed twice a year, so keep an eye on that and be prepared to clean more fur than usual. During this time, you’ll want to brush their mane daily.
Japanese Spitz Common Health Condition / Training / Nutrition
Active and energetic, Japanese Spitz requires frequent moderate exercise. Make sure to have enough time to keep them moving, such as going on walks or runs, playing fetch, or tug of wars. They are quite agile creatures, so going for runs around parks will do them good and keep them happy. Take advantage of their high spirits by training them too! They pick up pretty quickly and are fast learners that will follow and obey your commands – as long as it’s consistent paired with treats they like.
For a Japanese Spitz’s diet, they require high-quality feeding formulated for small breeds. Although they are not picky eaters, make sure to correctly proportion their food to prevent overfeeding. Consult with your local veterinarian if you are unsure of their diet requirements.
They are considered to be one of the healthiest dog breeds, with a lifespan that lasts from 10 to 14 years. However, their breeds are prone to have patella luxation (kneecap dislocation) or osteoarthritis. They may also get runny eyes, which are quick to gently clean with warm water and a washcloth or cotton. Avoid bathing them too much since it can cause their skin to become dry and itchy.
Japanese Spitz Puppies Price and For Sale Singapore
Looking to adopt Japanese Spitz dog breed for sales? Japanese Spitz is available here in Pretty Pets Kennel. Enquire with us today to known about Japanese Spitz price in Singapore.
We’ll set you up with your very own Japanese Spitz puppy Singapore so make sure to send us a message today!

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Evolution EWS plans for 3.0
Research on features
All operations across components should be cancellable.
Fetching Global address list
- Use OAB (Offline Address Book) for caching the GAL locally into Evolution. Find on how to do it?
- While caching happens in the background, until the cache is setup, use Resolve Names
Fetching Public folders
- Needs an additional header not mentioned in the documentation
Include the following header for Exchange 2007, <soap:Header><t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2007_SP1"/></soap:Header>
- What's the equivalent for Exchange 2010? No server to test as yet.
These are just pre-mature thoughts which came up.
Following the IMAPX backend, we could make EWS asynchronous in the same manner prioritizing the client requests.
- Separate out the prioritizing client requests and make it common to all providers.
- Is pipe-ling requests possible?
Make the operations similar to mailer. Handle all the operations Offline and later sync it with server.
Handle all the offline operations in a single class, say CalBackendOffline.
Cache needs to be extended to be able to give the list of un-syncronized (local->server) items
We could handle the error messages for the un-synchronized calendar items (eg: meeting created) by optionally displaying an error dialog and also providing a visual cue in the form of an icon.
The error can also be logged per event. Eg: Opening the meeting can show the actual error in the meeting editor in a non-intrusive manner. This very similar to how mailer handles the un-sent mails in OutBox showing the error messages.
Improve FreeBusy performance by fetching free/busy information for all users at a single stretch if the server supports it. FreeBusy requests should be cancellable. Provide EDS ECal apis for the same.
Ensure the auto-completion performance does'nt fade while caching the contacts or fetching deltas.
other improvement areas?
Single Connection (to be analyzed)
Are multiple connections allowed on exchange servers or is there any limit ?
Since address-book, calendar, mailer are run as separate processes we would require three connections if connections are not shared.
If we want to use a single connection, we might need to write ews connection layer as a separate process and let mailer,e-address-book-factory, e-calendar-factory send the requests to it.
Bharath is currently working on authentication part and will ensure that the requests/responses from the server are handled asynchronously.
How to use git: http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers
1. Development overview - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc535017%28v=EXCHG.80%29.aspx
2. Autodiscover reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa581522.aspx
3. EWS XML Elements - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa580675%28v=EXCHG.80%29.aspx


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Miku Flick/02 is a rhythm game, a sequel to Miku Flick, and a spin off of the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series of Vocaloid rhythm games. The game will retain the primary gameplay of its prdecessor whereby the game has 10 tiles, arranged in a 3×3 grid with the middle column having a 4th tile at the bottom. Each of these tiles has a hiragana Lyric on them, when indicated you are required to flick the tile in the indicated direction. Unlike its predecessor though, the game will feature vocaloids other than Hatsune Miku including Kagamine Len, Kagamine Rin and Megurine Luka as well as duet songs whereby two vocaloids would sing together for a song. The game will also include a new “Extreme” difficulty mode, which will provide players with a difficulty between the “Hard” Mode and “Break the Limit” Mode of the original.
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Cellular agriculture is revolutionizing the food industry because we can get the same products without harming animals and the environment. In-vitro production also allows us to enhance the nutrients in food.
1.0 Cellular agriculture: growing food on Petri dishes is revolutionizing the way we eat
2.0 Cellular and acellular agriculture
3.0 How does blockchain work?
3.1 Blockchain: Blockchain technology keeps a digital ledger of data and requirements for different types of cultured meat.
I think it’s crazy that the clothing industry accounts for 10% of all GHG. Every year, 150 million trees are cut down for fiber production. From production, creation, and transportation of clothing, the process is detrimental for the environment, and depletes resources. 97 billion cubic metres of water every year is required and creating factories deforests nature and harms the wildlife.
Biofabrication companies are creating sustainable clothing using cellular agriculture. Cellular agriculture is the production of animal-derived products and byproducts without using animals. In a food setting, we can create the same beef patty without harming cows. For fashion, we…
Abstract: Cellular agriculture is collecting stem cells and growing these cells in growth mediums and bioreactor tanks to produce meat, dairy, eggs, and more. With ongoing challenges with water scarcity and greenhouse gas emissions, cellular agriculture can enhance the efficiency and ethics of producing meat products. Great strides in this field enable the future of food to be lab-grown. This paper covers how cellular agriculture works, the consequences of in-vitro production, and current challenges.
1.0 Challenges of raising livestock
2.0 Introduction to cellular agriculture
2.1 Starter cells
2.2 Myogenesis: cell lines, growth media, scaffolds, bioreactor tanks
3.0 Acellular production
The way we produce dairy is cruel and wasteful.
The way we produce dairy is unsustainable and cruel. Raising livestock harms our environment and requires supplies, such as an alarming amount of water and copious amounts of feed that drain resources. Producing dairy the “normal” way practices animal cruelty. We need to make dairy products from somewhere other than a 2000 pound animal.
Cows can carry diseases such as salmonella and E. Coli that contaminate dairy and other byproducts. …
At 3:00 P.M. on a lazy Saturday, I went to eat sushi with one of my best friends. We gobbled up our sushi like we always do. It was a pretty normal day. The issue is that every sushi lover is aware that the way we produce fish and other aquatic animals is not sustainable. It is quite unhealthy.
Demands on seafood are exponentially increasing. However, we can not expect everyone to cut sushi from their diet, but we can produce fish more sustainably and safely with cellular aquaculture.
Pollution is damaging our world. There are about 5.25 trillion pieces…
Incredibly 97% of the world’s water comes from the ocean, and we have not yet unlocked all the ways we can grow food underwater. The ocean covers more than 70% of the surface of our planet, but produces 2% of the world’s food supply. If we could increase this 2% by just 5% or 10% or more, we could feed a majority of the population.
Not only do we need to turn to the ocean for sustainable alternatives to food, but we also need to do it in a way that does not harm the ocean or put a strain…
Impossible Foods uses cutting edge technology to transform the way we produce meat. Impossible Foods is one of the many biotech companies striving to improve our current food industry by growing animal-derived products in a lab. But what makes Impossible Foods unique?
By using plant-based meat alternatives, Impossible Foods is revolutionizing the way we produce sustainable meat.
Sustainable foods enable people to consume the same products, such as meat, with the same taste. Producing sustainable food is imperative to our food industry because it is grown in a lab and does not require the miles and miles of agricultural land…
The way we grow and produce food is not sustainable. To produce just one pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water. Our current production method of animal meat and dairy products is wasteful. The average family uses 180 gallons of water a week and 9,400 gallons of water annually. Beef from one cow requires more water than an entire family uses in one year. I think that is crazy.
Today, we have 7.8 billion people on our planet. And these numbers will only continue to grow exponentially. CDC estimates that 11% (790 million people) of the world’s population do…
I think it is crazy that every year, the world uses 35 billion barrels of oil for energy. We have used 40% of the world’s oil resources. We will run out of oil and gas in the next 50 years and coal in 100 years.
Global energy is certainly diverse and complex. Today, the leading methods of creating energy are burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), using nuclear waste, and utilizing solar panels. Burning fossil fuels release huge amounts of Carbon Dioxide, which gets trapped in our atmosphere. This greatly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, one of the leading…
Have you ever looked up to the sky and saw the aurora borealis? Or, have you ever seen them in pictures or videos?
I have, and I find them truly captivating.
The beautiful auroras are cast over the North and South pole skies. The lights in the North pole are called aurora borealis. The lights in the South Pole are called aurora australis.
Auroras are displays of light in the sky with colors ranging from pale green, red, blue, and purple.
Auroras have a long history. Not only have humans known about the Northern lights for thousands of years, but…

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Colin Clutterbuck outlines a simple, efficient method to support carbon-sequestering hedges
This page from South Hams District Council offers advice and resources for local councils looking to take action for the climate.
The Devon Carbon Plan is the roadmap for how Devon will reach net-zero emissions by 2050 (at the latest). The Devon Carbon Plan outlines actions for how each sector (economy and resources, energy supply, food, land and sea, transport, and the built environment) can reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Find guidance, toolkits and useful links to help you do your bit in making Devon a wildlife rich county where people and nature can thrive
This programme from Defra is running from July 2021 to March 2024. Throughout the programme, farmers and land managers can be supported to carry out projects that support nature recovery, mitigate the impacts of climate change, provide opportunities for people to discover, enjoy and understand the landscape and cultural heritage, or support nature-friendly, sustainable farm businesses.
BCT has developed a range of resources to help you engage diverse audience with bats and the environment. This includes resources for engaging young people, tips on running bat walks, guidance on accessibility to people with special needs and more.


The project involved the construction of a new banqueting suite, plus refurbishment of existing facilities, and reorganisation of the site.
Complete refurbishment of the existing theatre, including the conversion of the auditorium to a 120 seat recital room, with new lighting and air conditioning.
This project involved the creation of six nursery factories, four light industrial units, and four suites of Class B1 offices, on the site of a Piano Factory.
The project involved the complete strip out and reconstruction of the interior of the building including new 2 storey extensions to the rear of the building.
Conversion of existing four storey warehouse to new office accommodation.
A 2 storey extension and conversion of the old flour mill at Wendens Ambo, to form 3 stories of offices with a new entrance hall.


A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:59:27 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 19:59:27 / November 9, 2020 @ 7:59 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.9132 East, latitude 32.2058 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ce9p. Id of event: us7000ce9p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Izu Islands, Japan region.
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Report: Random detentions as Mexico swore in prezDecember 6, 2012 @ 2:33 pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico City's human rights commission says police arbitrarily detained people during protests against the party of the president who was sworn in over the weekend.
The independent organization says in a Thursday report that 22 people were randomly chosen by the capital's police. The document says they detained people peacefully protesting the inauguration of President Enrique Pena Nieto, helping the injured, documenting the demonstrations or just passing by.
Pena Nieto brought the Institutional Revolutionary Party back to the presidency after a 12-year break. The party governed for 71 years using a mix of handouts and rigged votes before losing the 2000 and 2006 elections.
Hundreds of protesters threw firebombs at police and smashed windows on inauguration day. At least 76 people were injured and 103 detained.
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Director Jeremy Scahill says Obama hasn't been fighting a clean war
Dollars Per Student
Washington spending per student is below the national average
If you came home to nothing but the concrete slab - what would you do?
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WASHINGTON – Senior Bush administration officials and lawmakers searched Monday for ways to control unexpectedly large future increases in the cost of Medicare (search), but one participant in the talks said no agreement was likely that would compel Congress (search) to act.
"There's going to be a fig leaf so people can say we're doing something to control costs," predicted Sen. Charles Grassley (search), R-Iowa, stressing that the description was his.
In comments to reporters, Grassley also said negotiators had made "great and satisfactory progress" on proposals to increase federal funding for rural health care providers under the Medicare bill. He offered no details, but other officials said at least $25 billion would be set aside for that purpose.
The closed-door discussions were the first since late last week, when Senate Democrats wrote President Bush to outline a series of conditions that Republicans would have to satisfy if Medicare legislation were to gain bipartisan support.
In their letter, Democrats were particularly sharp in their criticism of proposals to cap spending on Medicare, which has historically been a benefit program open to all who qualify. They also attacked Republican proposals to force traditional Medicare to compete directly with new private health plans.
Both the House and Senate passed legislation earlier this year to create a new prescription drug benefit as well as introduce private market competition into the government-run program that provides health care to 40 million disabled and older Americans.
Negotiations on a compromise have been intense in recent weeks, as a core group of lawmakers from the House and Senate struggled to resolve hundreds of large and small differences between the bills. While lawmakers have reported significant progress in recent days, the letter issued last week by Democrats underscored the difficulties still ahead.
"We've got a long way to go," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said after the first of Monday's two meetings.
At the same time, there were fresh indications that bargaining was nearing a conclusion.
Apart from the rural health care issues, Grassley said the House and Senate were near to agreement on controversial proposals to scale back payments to doctors who administer certain drugs to fight cancer and other diseases.
Senate Republicans scheduled a meeting for Tuesday to bring members of the rank and file to speed on negotiations. Such meetings are customarily held when leaders believe complex or controversial legislation is nearing completion.
Josh Bolton, the Bush administration's budget director, joined the talks for the first time in the afternoon as the discussion turned to GOP proposals to contain unexpectedly large costs in the future.
Efforts by House Republicans to force a vote in Congress in such circumstances appeared unlikely to succeed, largely because of a reluctance to abandon the Senate's cherished right of unlimited debate, according to several officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Under the Senate's rules, nearly all bills may be debated until supporters gain 60 votes, a supermajority that is difficult to achieve on contentious issues. As the minority party, Democrats have used such rules this year to prevent votes on some of the president's judicial nominations, for example.
In private talks, Democrats have refused to waive or dilute that right for future Medicare cost control legislation, fearing Republicans would have an easier time pushing through spending restrictions.
At the same time, according to GOP officials, conservative Republicans had second thoughts when they considered a future in which Democrats might hold power in the Senate and seek tax increases to increase funding for Medicare.


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Getting arty with Newman College
Taylor Patterson is working with Cardinal Newman College to commission unique artwork to brighten up the stairwells at Lanson House.Cardinal Newman College, based in Preston runs a first class Arts course for sixth formers and as a way of boosting employee engagement, Kerry Houghton in the SIPP & SSAS team suggested we approach their art department to produce some one off pieces for the offices.
With Lanson House previously part of the college it created a heritage link between the organisations, as well as providing a real life commission for the sixth-formers.The students have now submitted their pieces for the project, titled ‘My Surroundings’, and Gillian Bardin and Louise Potter were invited to the college to select the shortlist for the walls at Taylor Patterson. With around 15 pieces selected, staff will now choose their favourite piece. The winning artwork will feature on the front cover of the next edition of the Adviser.


Explain welding? Easy and hard so lets start with the easy. Welding is simply the melting of two adjacent metalic surfaces together such that the molecular structure of each piece intertwines as if it were one contiguous piece of metal. Well that is accoring to Poindexter, at a macro level it is simply melting two bits of metal together. On a more complex level welding then breaks into categories based on the type of process, be it TIG, Mig, Arc or Plasma welding. They all do the same as mentioned in the foreword but do it differently so call us on 1300 881 991 to help you find the machine most suited to your needs.


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Following is new guidance from OPM on exceptions to the standard restrictions on federal employees carrying unused annual leave into a new leave year.
This memorandum serves to remind agencies of the annual leave authorities and expiration dates for 2021 related to normal annual leave restoration procedures and special rules provided for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Normal Annual Leave Restoration Rules
Under 5 U.S.C. 6304, any accrued annual leave in excess of an employee’s annual leave ceiling (30, 45, or 90 days for most employees) is forfeited if not used by the final day of the leave year. Agencies may restore annual leave that is forfeited because it is in excess of the applicable maximum leave ceiling because of an administrative error, exigency of the public business, or sickness of the employee. Under normal procedures, the annual leave must be scheduled in writing before the start of the third biweekly pay period prior to the end of the leave year (i.e., no later than November 20, 2021, for employees on the standard biweekly payroll cycle). (See 5 CFR 630.305-310 and the fact sheet on Leave Year Beginning and Ending Dates for dates for scheduling “use or lose” leave.) Any annual leave scheduled after that date will be forfeited if not used by the final day of the leave year. Annual leave that was not scheduled in advance may be restored only under very limited conditions such as when employees are affected by administrative error or have a prolonged sickness.
Restoration of Annual Leave for Employees Impacted by the COVID-19 National Emergency
On August 27, 2020, the OPM Director issued CPM 2020-11, announcing the publication of interim regulations to streamline the annual leave restoration process for national emergencies and declaring the COVID-19 outbreak an emergency for annual leave restoration purposes. To avoid the cumbersome process for a large number of employees who have been required to work during this national emergency, the OPM Director took steps to issue interim regulations that allowed agencies to continue to meet their vital missions while streamlining the process for restoration of annual leave for employees whose services are essential to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.
OPM Director Authorization
I am notifying agencies that I am reaffirming the OPM Director determination under 5 CFR 630.310 that the COVID national emergency is a qualifying exigency of the public business for the purpose of restoring forfeited annual leave. Agencies may utilize the streamlined authority outlined in the interim regulation to restore annual leave to employees whose work the agency determines to be essential for the response to the COVID-19 national emergency. Agencies continue to be authorized to determine that employees who would forfeit annual leave in excess of their maximum allowable carryover rate due to their services being considered essential for the response to the COVID-19 national emergency are deemed to have scheduled the annual leave in advance, and such leave is subject to restoration.
Actions Required by Agencies to Use the COVID-19 National Emergency Authority
Agencies must follow their internal policy and procedures to administer and implement this authority, as required by 5 CFR 630.310. As a reminder, agency heads or designees are required to perform the following actions:
• Determine the specific employees or groups of employees whose services are essential in response to the national emergency and who are qualified for coverage under the regulations;
• Inform designated employees in writing of such a determination;
• Continually monitor the agency’s response to the national emergency and determine whether the services of the designated employees to respond to the national emergency are still required, preventing the employees from scheduling and using their annual leave; and
• Fix a termination date of the exigency of the public business for each employee or group of employees in accordance with the regulatory criteria, and inform both the affected employees and the agency payroll provider in writing of the termination date.
When to Terminate COVID-19 National Emergency Authority
The regulations at 5 CFR 630.310(f) require the agency head or designee to continually monitor the agency’s response to a national emergency deemed by OPM to be an exigency of the public business and fix a termination date of the exigency of the public business for each employee whom the agency covered under this authority. Assuming the exigency has not been terminated by action of the President or the OPM Director, the exigency must be terminated for each covered employee on the date one of the following events occurs, whichever is earliest—
• when the agency head (or designee) determines that the services of a covered employee is no longer essential to the response to the national emergency or that the employee is able to follow the normal leave scheduling procedures;
• on the day that is 12 months after the national emergency has been declared (however, the agency head (or designee), may extend this deadline annually by an additional 12 months, but an agency cannot grant more than two 12-month extensions); or
• when an employee whose services were determined to be essential during the national emergency moves to a position not involving services determined by the agency to be essential to the response to the national emergency.
Time Limit for Use of Restored Annual Leave
Once the agency head (or designee) determines that the services of a covered employee is no longer essential to the response to the national emergency or that the employee is able to follow the normal leave scheduling procedures, the employee will have the following time periods to use the restored annual leave.
• Full-time employees must schedule and use restored annual leave of 416 hours or less by the end of the leave year in progress 2 years after the date fixed by the agency head (or designee) as the termination date of the exigency of the public business. This period is extended by 1 leave year for each additional 208 hours of excess annual leave or any portion thereof.
• Part-time employees must schedule and use restored annual leave in an amount equal to or less than 20 percent of the number of hours in the employee’s scheduled annual tour of duty by the end of the leave year in progress 2 years after the date fixed by the agency head (or designee) as the termination date of the exigency of the public business. This period is extended by 1 leave year for each additional number of hours of excess annual leave, or any portion thereof, equal to 10 percent of the number of hours in the employee’s scheduled annual tour of duty.
• The regulations contain special conversion rules for employees on an uncommon tour of duty.
Section 1111 of Public Law 116-283 (Higher Annual Leave Carryover Limit)
On January 5, 2021, the OPM Director issued CPM 2021-05, “Higher Annual Leave Carryover Limit under Section 1111 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021” to establish a higher annual leave carryover limit to be applied at the beginning of the 2021 leave year.
The higher annual leave carryover limit established under section 1111 applied to an employee if the employee would otherwise have had annual leave forfeited and not restored under the annual leave carryover limit provisions that normally apply to the employee (5 U.S.C. 6304(a) and (b)).
• Employees subject to the 240-hour annual leave limit were provided a 300-hour annual leave limit at the beginning of the 2021 leave year, and
• Employees subject to the 360-hour annual leave limit were provided a 450-hour annual leave limit at the beginning of the 2021 leave year.
As a reminder, section 1111 excess annual leave must be used by the employee-recipient by taking the leave during leave year 2021. This means it must be taken no later than January 1, 2022, or it will be forfeited at the beginning of leave year 2022 (January 2, 2022, for employees on the standard biweekly payroll cycle). (We note that OPM guidance attached to CPM 2021-05 stated that an employee must use section 1111 excess annual leave before using any other annual leave available to the employee.) This section 1111 excess annual leave may not be restored, may not be included in a lump-sum annual leave payment under 5 U.S.C. 5551-5552 (see section 1111(b)), and may not be donated under a leave transfer program. An employee who wishes to donate annual leave must draw from his or her regular annual leave account.

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Member's Statement: Acheson Industrial Area
On Tuesday, June 5, 2018, I had the pleasure to speak in a Member's Statement about the Acheson Industrial Area
Ms Babcock: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am so proud of the part of Alberta that I represent, and I am so proud of our region, which is prosperous in large part because of the Acheson industrial area. The Acheson industrial area is one of Alberta’s largest economic engines. Consisting of 10,600 acres, it is the largest medium industrial area in Alberta. Three hundred businesses from small to large call Acheson home, and 50,000 people every day come from all over the Edmonton region and beyond to do work and business. Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars flow through Acheson annually, and it provides $15 million in taxes to help fund the services all Albertans need.
Acheson is also in a strategic location. It is serviced by three main highway corridors and by main line rail, is near three airports, and is only 35 kilometres north of the EIA. The success of the Acheson industrial area is due in part to the great work that has been done by the Acheson Business Association, members of which are present today and have been introduced. The Association is made up of businesses and professional people with the primary purpose of promoting the commercial, industrial, social, and civic interests of the Acheson industrial area and the surrounding communities. Since its inception in 2004 the Association’s unwavering business vision and commitment to our community have helped it to achieve much for Alberta. Looking to the future, sustainable development and balancing industry and environmental stewardship is the association’s mantra. Energy efficiency and green buildings and technologies are front of mind as the Acheson industrial area moves forward.
Their community efforts include numerous fundraising events like Make a Difference Christmas Campaign and the new Hockey for Hampers, and proceeds from their annual golf tournament and participation in the Coldest Night of the Year go directly to the Parkland Food Bank Society. Mr. Speaker, we are fortunate to have the Acheson industrial area and the Acheson Business Association not just in my region but in Alberta. Thank you.

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Four hours before the first pitch, Trea Turner was already at the plate.
Normally, early batting practice isn’t the place you find two-time All-Stars with near .300 batting averages and a hitting title already on their resume.
But for the last several weeks, it has become a familiar part of Turner’s pregame routine — another indication that, in spite of another solid season for a 29-year-old considered to be one of the game’s best hitters, he hasn’t felt like the best version of himself for much of the year.
“I don’t know,” he said Tuesday, shaking his head moments after concluding his latest early batting practice in an empty Dodger Stadium. “I feel like I haven’t done very much right this year, in my head.”
Turner’s baseline statistics bely such frustration.
He is batting .296 with a career-high 97 RBIs. He was voted a starter for the midsummer classic for the first time in his career. And, in his last year of team control, he is still in line for a monstrous payday in the offseason, be it with the Dodgers or one of the many other MLB clubs expected to vie for his services in free agency.
“If he can do what he’s capable of doing,” manager Dave Roberts said, “he’s one of the best players on the planet.”
Recently, though, Turner hasn’t been shy about nitpicking his own game.
After snapping a week-long slump with three hits against the Padres during the Dodgers last road trip, he quipped he has been “trying to suck less” amid a quiet second half of the campaign.
Before an 0-for-3 performance Tuesday — dropping his batting average to .237 over his last 32 games — he cited a few specific annoyances, from an inconsistent two-strike approach (he’s on track for his worst walk-to-strikeout ratio in a full season in his career), to a penchant for misfiring on hittable pitches (he has his lowest average exit velocity since his rookie year), to a decline in power and ability to drive the baseball (he has his lowest slugging percentage since 2018).
It hasn’t torpedoed his overall season by any means.
Turner is still second in the majors in hits and fourth in the National League in batting average.
According to Baseball Reference’s all-encompassing OPS+ metric, he has still been 20% better than the average big-leaguer hitter.
By Fangraphs’ version of wins above replacement, he ranks third among MLB shortstops, behind only Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets and Dansby Swanson of the Atlanta Braves.
Yet, as he discussed the totality of his season, Turner was soon shaking his head again.
“I know what the numbers are,” he said. “But compared to the last 2½ seasons or so, it just feels like I’ve left a lot on the table.”
Of the many potential contributing factors, Turner was quick to eliminate his looming free agency as a culprit, insisting it hasn’t clouded his focus or impacted his play.
“It’s more pride in myself,” he said. “I think I can play better baseball. I think I can play better defense. I think I can run the bases better. And obviously I think I can hit better.”
In the long term, though, his future is still shrouded in uncertainty, after he and the Dodgers failed to make much progress in talks over a potential contract extension this year.
If Turner does reach the open market this winter, he will do so as one of the best available options (along with Swanson and potentially Carlos Correa and Xander Bogaerts) at a premium position, one that has seen multiple $300-plus million contracts doled out the past couple years.
Turner, however, reiterated it hasn’t occupied his mind.
“I think I’ve made plenty of money in this game and I feel like I’ve played pretty well up to this point in my career,” he said. “People kind of know who I am. It’s a matter of my own expectations. I’ve always been hard on myself, more hard than anybody else.”
So what has been missing in Turner’s game?
He cited some “bad habits” in his mechanics, leading to a frustrating cycle in which he’ll fix one problem only to realize another has developed.
He has tried to find answers by studying his swing from last year, when he won the NL batting title with a .328 mark (which was lower than his career-best .335 in the pandemic-shortened 2020) and finished fifth in MVP voting.
And he thinks he has made strides during both his early BP sessions, as well as in the weight room, where he’s worked with vice president of player performance Brandon McDaniel and the rest of the strength staff to refine his movements and develop a more consistent pattern.
“I tell them what I’m feeling, what I think I’m doing and what I want to do,” he said. “Then they have the knowledge to shut things off, turn things on with certain muscles. I know what I’m doing wrong. It’s just how do I fix it?”
Assistant hitting coach Aaron Bates, one of several observers of Turner’s latest early batting practice session Tuesday, identified Turner’s hand placement as the biggest area of focus.
Bates said Turner’s hands — which waggle low and loose in his set-up stance, before rising up as he loads onto his back leg and helicoptering around his body when he swings — aren’t getting up enough through his motion.
“[When] his hands return up as he goes forward, it gets him into that athletic position to allow his body and hands to work freely,” Bates said. “Then he’s in a position where he can really fire from.”
Roberts has noticed Turner laboring of late, too, pointing out that “when he’s going well, he’s not a guy that’s out here taking extra batting practice.”
“But right now,” Roberts continued, “he’s trying to feel something.”
With the playoffs on the horizon, the Dodgers are hoping it comes back to him quick.
For all Turner has accomplished in his career, his postseason history is checkered.
In 39 career playoff games, he has batted just .228 with a .561 OPS. He was key in the Washington Nationals run to a World Series title in 2019 (he hit .286 through the NLCS that year before cooling off the Fall Classic) but went just 11 for 51 in his return to the playoffs with the Dodgers last fall.
Even Roberts acknowledged that Turner “didn’t have a good postseason last year” despite being “the hottest hitter on the planet” entering October.
Roberts, however, then changed tones.
“Hopefully, we flip it on its head this year,” he said.
And, in what could be his final act as a Dodger, how close is Turner to rediscovering top form?
“One swing,” Bates said. “He’ll know it’s right with one swing. And then, it will be a steamroll effect.”

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SIOUX FALLS | In the 1950s, it wasn't unheard of for South Dakota to log a single murder a year.
In 2017, the state saw two on the first day of the year.
Few would argue the halcyon days of unlocked cars with keys in the ignition are long gone in the state. But even the days of 2005 are a distant memory in terms of violent crime.
South Dakota may well be more dangerous than it's ever been.
An alarming combination of guns, drugs and addiction is largely behind the decadelong surge in the state's violent crime rate, which came as most states saw violence drop.
The Argus Leader reports that statistics and historians suggest the level of assaults, robberies and killings is unprecedented in the state, going back all the way to the Wild West.
South Dakota's violent crime rate doubled in the past decade to 383 per 100,000 residents in 2015, according to FBI statistics.
Deadwood during the gold rush was dangerous but not as violent as its lore, historians said, and illicit alcohol sales during Prohibition did not produce the kind of violence the methamphetamine trade has.
"People have had their heads in the sand and are not talking about the serious problems we have in our state," Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead said.
And Rapid City and western South Dakota have not been immune to the increase in violent crime. Whereas Rapid City had only two homicides in 2016, that followed a violent year in 2015, when there were seven.
This winter has seen a spike in violent crimes. The city has already experienced three homicides in 2017 — two fatal stabbings and a beating.
Officials from the federal government have also reported a spike in killings on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation this year.
South Dakota is still a relatively safe place, but its violent crime rate has spiked more dramatically than those of its neighbors. Violent crime rates in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wyoming either fell or increased slightly over the past decade, while North Dakota's and South Dakota's numbers climbed.
State and local officials blame a wave of methamphetamine trafficking that was late to arrive in South Dakota but has now established itself as part of a network of illegal drug distribution.
Annual crime reports from the South Dakota Attorney General's Office show dramatic increases in drug and violent crime totals over the past 10 years.
Statewide, officers made nearly 7,200 drug-related arrests in 2015, nearly double the number in 2005. Aggravated assault and robbery cases also doubled over the same time.
Some of the jump in aggravated assaults stems from a change in definition — the Legislature voted to classify choking incidents as aggravated assault in 2013 — but most of it is not. Even after the change spiked the numbers, the number has grown by 417.
Attorney General Marty Jackley said the factors behind violent crime vary but typically involve controlled substances.
The U.S. Attorney's Office, which handles high-volume methamphetamine cases, is prosecuting more of them. The number of federal-level meth-related prosecutions in South Dakota jumped from 24 in 2010 to 46 in 2015 after peaking at 57 in 2014.
In Rapid City, meth was involved in three of the four officer-involved shootings during police Chief Karl Jegeris' first two years in his job.
The meth increase has come without the aid of home labs. Instead, it's coming from out of state, Jackley said, alongside shipments of marijuana from Colorado, Washington and Oregon. "All three of those states have the same thing in common: They have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes," Jackley said.
The public's appetite for high-grade marijuana and methamphetamine has fostered a more violent drug culture in which buyers and sellers are more likely to arm themselves, Sioux Falls police Chief Matt Burns said.
"That seems to be the new trend: Everyone's armed," Burns said.
"Drug rips," in which one user or dealer robs another, motivate victims to arm themselves for future transactions out of fear of being robbed again, Burns explained. The robberies usually go unreported, below the radar of law enforcement until they become fatal.
Milstead started his law enforcement career with the Sioux Falls Police Department in the 1970s.
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"We had drug arrests back then, but the drug arrests would be four kids caught in a car with a baggie of marijuana," he said.
James Cullen, a research and program associate at the Brennan Center for Justice, looked at South Dakota's crime rates and saw a clear trend.
"The fact that you're seeing robberies going up 20 percent in a year .... That's something you usually don't see," he said. "It's notable that this is not just a one-year blip."
Adjunct professor and author Jon Lauck, who works by day for Sen. John Thune, compiled a list of South Dakota homicides using data from the FBI for a memo on the state's murder and violent crime rate. The memo wasn't part of any particular project but was born out of historical curiosity and informed by what the author of seven books on Midwestern history knew from his work on the state's past.
"It was really a peaceful place," Lauck said.
His memo showed some years in the 1950s with a single murder — a stark contrast to the annual figures seen today.
Prohibition, Wild West
Charles Vollan, a professor of history at South Dakota State University, is researching a book about Prohibition in the state.
Accurate figures on violent crime in South Dakota before 1930 are nearly nonexistent. Much of Vollan's research on crime in the 1920s comes from newspaper archives and annual reports from the State Sheriff, a short-lived law enforcement agency dissolved in 1933.
Comprehensive tallies of violent crime in those years don't exist, Vollan said. Not all local agencies submitted reports to the State Sheriff's office, and homicide figures are restricted to those investigated by the state agency.
The Daily Argus Leader reported on arguments that rising crime was a reason to repeal Prohibition, but it also reported police arrested about a third as many people in 1930 as they did in 1916.
"With Prohibition, crime did go down (a classic prediction by the drys), but people felt that in the Prohibition era crime increased," Vollan said.
That's not to say that Prohibition wasn't tied to violence. There were high-profile murders, including the killing of two federal agents in Spink County. Journalist Chuck Cecil's book about prohibition, "Astride the White Mule," described the 1927 ambush as "the most abhorrent occurrence during the state's long Prohibition era," one that turned the state against a continued alcohol ban.
The other historical era in South Dakota tagged as violent in the popular imagination is the "Wild West" of the late 1800s, typified by Deadwood during the gold rush in 1875-79.
"There's always a debate about how violent the Wild West was," Black Hills State University professor David Wolff said.
Based on his research from city archives and newspapers from the era, Deadwood was less violent than TV might suggest, Wolff said.
Wolff counted around 35 violent deaths — not counting attacks by Native Americans — during the 45 months between the discovery of gold in Deadwood Creek and the fire that destroyed the city in 1879. That amounts to one violent death every six months.
"In an area of 10,000 people, that's pretty high," Wolff said.
Even so, Wolff said, the rest of the state was far more harmonious. Deadwood was a destination for seekers of gold and fortune, Wolff said, most of whom were young, male and prone to heavy drinking.
Wolff's point on the space between the danger to the average South Dakotan and those who sought gold is not without a current parallel.
Today, homicides usually involve drugs or alcohol and happen between people who know one another. Robberies and assaults also tend to involve acquaintances.
"Unfortunately, drug use happens all over our community. Addiction has no regard for financial circumstance," said Burns, Sioux Falls' chief. "There have been these instances in those outlying areas."
If the city hopes to reverse the trend, Milstead said, it will take more than policing.
"Unless we get our drug trafficking and our drug addiction under control," he said, "this is the kind of thing we're going to be dealing with."


The term “artificial intelligence”, was coined in the summer of 1956, on the bucolic grounds of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There, John McCarthy (who would later go on to teach at Stanford), Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, Nathan Rochester and six other conference participants came together to lay out the framework for this exciting new field which would “…find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.” (McCarthy et al., 1955)
Though it was McCarthy who persuaded his nine other colleagues at the conference to adopt the term “artificial intelligence” to describe the nascent field, the seeds of artificial intelligence were planted earlier. Alan Turing, who was instrumental in breaking the German’s Enigma code during WWII, published a paper in 1950 that laid out what came to be known as the “Turing Test:” if a machine could carry out a conversation with a human in such a sophisticated manner as to trick the human into thinking that he or she was conversing with another human, then the machine would have displayed true “intelligence.”
But nearly 60 years later, the world still awaits a machine capable of exhibiting “general A.I.”, instead of the “narrow A.I.” demonstrated by IBM’s chess-playing Deep Blue or Stanford University’s Stanley, an autonomous robotic vehicle, or other impressive albeit limited applications of A.I. For example, Deep Blue may be able to beat Gary Kasparov at chess but can it beat a 10 year-old at a game of checkers? The lack of a general A.I. is made even more stark when juxtaposed with Moore’s Law, a maxim that goes back to 1965 when Intel founder Gordon Moore postulated that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double roughly every 18 months.
There’s even a term – “Singularity” – that is being used to describe the moment when technological progress will leapfrog and herald the creation of computers that not only achieve human-like intelligence, but also give rise to a progeny of computers who will be smarter then their digital forbears. Though he didn’t coin the term (sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge did), the most famous exponent of this belief is inventor Ray Kurzweil. He places the Singularity as occurring sometime before 2050 and believes that with the advent of this unheralded technological progress, mankind may solve some of our society’s most pressing ills, such as global warming, and even conquer death, by uploading one’s consciousness into a virtual medium.
Though this seems a far stretch from engineering a domestic robot like Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Robot, top A.I. researchers like Stanford’s Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller do believe that computing systems will some day be as smart or smarter than humans. When I spoke with Dharmendra Modha about his work into cognitive computing at IBM, he talked effusively about creating an “i-Brain,” a digital accessory that people could carry around, making decisions and processing information like its human cousin. But if you’re like me, and lament those moments when you’ve misplaced your keys or other instances of poor neural performance, you can’t help but think that such a device can’t arrive soon enough. On second thought, I’ll wait until v2.0 hits the shelves.
And don’t miss our Web Extra: A Dose of A.I. In this QUEST web exclusive, Stanford University computer science professor and artificial intelligence (A.I.) researcher Daphne Koller provides an elegant explanation of how A.I. can be employed in the examining room to diagnose a patient’s illness more accurately than a human clinician. Find out more and learn how medical diagnosis is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to tasks that rely on making sense of a sea of data to arrive at an informed conclusion.


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When can babies eat rambutan?
Rambutan may be introduced as soon as baby is ready to start solids, which is generally around 6 months of age. Both the flesh of the rambutan and the seed inside can be choking hazards, so take care to prepare rambutan in an age-appropriate manner before serving.
Where does rambutan come from?
Rambutan is the juicy fruit of an evergreen tree that originated in Southeast Asia and thrives wherever the weather is warm and wet like the tropics of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, where the fruit is also known as chôm chôm, mak ngor, ngoh, and rambut. That last name, which means “hairy” in Malay, hints at rambutan’s appearance: the edible part of the fruit is protected by a thin, leathery casing that is covered with pliable spines.
Is rambutan healthy for babies?
Yes. Rambutan is packed with vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant that not only aids in the absorption of plant-based iron, but also supports baby’s skin and bone health. The high fiber content in this tropical fruit helps digestion by nourishing a baby’s developing gut microbiome. Rambutan also contains a fair amount of zinc and a dash of vitamin E—essential nutrients that help support baby’s immune system and much more.
Depending on where you live, canned rambutan may be more accessible than the fresh fruit, but the canned fruit is typically high in added sugars, making it not ideal for babies and young toddlers. Soak or rinse canned rambutan in water to reduce the sugar content, then cut according to baby’s age and eating ability.
Note that the seeds and peels of fresh rambutan, while consumed in certain cultures, can be toxic when regularly consumed in large amounts (according to animal studies), and are best avoided for baby.1 2 3 The seeds are also a choking risk and should be removed before serving.4
Is rambutan a common choking hazard for babies?
Yes. You won’t find rambutan on most lists of the top choking hazards for babies, but the fruit’s chewy, firm, and slippery consistency poses a risk, as do the fruit’s seed and peel. To minimize the risk, remove the fruit from its peel, remove the inner seed, and cut the flesh into small pieces. As always, make sure you create a safe eating environment and stay within an arm’s reach of baby during meals. For more information on choking, visit our section on gagging and choking and familiarize yourself with the list of common choking hazards.
Is rambutan a common allergen?
No, rambutan is not a common allergen, but allergic reactions to rambutan have been reported.5 6 People who are allergic to pollens and individuals with Oral Allergy Syndrome (also known as pollen-food allergy) may be allergic to rambutan’s cousin, the lychee fruit, and possibly rambutan, by extension.7 8 Oral Allergy Syndrome typically results in short-lived itching, tingling, or burning in the mouth and is unlikely to result in a dangerous reaction. Fortunately, cooking the fruit can help minimize or even eliminate the reaction.9 10
As you would when introducing any new food, start by offering a small quantity for the first few servings. If there is no adverse reaction, gradually increase the quantity over future meals.
Can rambutan help babies poop?
Yes. Rambutan is a good source of both insoluble and soluble fiber and polyphenols – together, they contribute to overall digestive health and bowel regularity.11 12 13 Note that pooping patterns can vary significantly from child to child. Be sure to talk to your pediatric healthcare provider if you have concerns about your baby’s pooping and digestive function.
How do you prepare rambutan for babies with baby-led weaning?
Every baby develops on their own timeline, and the suggestions on how to cut or prepare particular foods are generalizations for a broad audience. Your child is an individual and may have needs or considerations beyond generally accepted practices. In determining the recommendations for size and shape of foods, we use the best available scientific information regarding gross, fine, and oral motor development to minimize choking risk. The preparation suggestions we offer are for informational purposes only and are not a substitute for child-specific, one-on-one advice from your pediatric medical or health professional or provider. It is impossible to fully eliminate all risk of a baby or child choking on any liquid, puree, or food. We advise you to follow all safety protocols we suggest to create a safe eating environment and to make educated choices for your child regarding their specific needs. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or seen here.
6 to 9 months old: Finely chop fresh rambutan, seed and shell removed, and serve atop a soft, scoopable food like congee, mashed plantains, or yogurt. Refrain from offering processed rambutan products like jam, jelly, paste, or syrup at this age.
9 to 18 months old: Discard the shell and cut open to remove the inner seed. Cut the pulp into quarters to create bite-sized pieces. Serve the pieces of rambutan on their own for the child to practice picking up or mix them into grains or fruit salads. Of course, you may continue to finely chop the pulp.
18 to 24 months old: Continue to offer fresh rambutan that has been shelled, deseeded, and quartered or finely chopped. Encourage your child to chew well by modeling a dramatic chewing motion yourself. This is also a great age to introduce an age-appropriate fork, though keep in mind that eating with utensils can be exhausting for babies and toddlers, and many children toggle back and forth between feeding themselves with their fingers and utensils. Try not to apply too much pressure—consistent and accurate utensil use will come in due time, probably between 18 and 24 months of age.
36 months and up: When you feel your child is ready and understands instructions, try working with whole rambutan that has been shelled, coaching how to take bites from the fruit around the seed. You can also coach the child to squish the fruit and pull the seed out with their fingers. Be sure to stay within an arm’s reach in case they need assistance.
Read more about Sugar and Taste Preferences to help your child build a healthy relationship with sweet foods.
What are recipe ideas for cooking with rambutan?
There are different varieties of rambutan, each with their own distinctive flavor, but most have a floral aroma and sweet and sour taste that is similar to pulasan and lychee, tropical fruits in the same family. Once removed from its spiny shell, the translucent egg-shaped fruit can be eaten fresh, pickled, preserved, or cooked in sweet desserts or savory curries, salads, salsas, and more. Try finely chopped or minced rambutan in savory and sweet warm cereals, coconut rice or quinoa, and chia puddings.
Recipe: Rambutan Coconut Quinoa
Yield: 3 cups (700 grams)
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Age: 6 months+
- 3-6 whole rambutans
- 1 cup (170 grams) dry quinoa
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliter) unrefined virgin or extra-virgin coconut oil (ideally from a BPA-free container)
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) unsweetened full-fat coconut milk (ideally from a BPA-free can)
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) water
- 1 cinnamon stick (optional)
This recipe contains coconut, which is classified as a tree nut by the U.S. FDA. While coconut allergy is rare, only serve to a child after coconut has been safely introduced.
- Peel the rambutans, then cut away or pull the flesh from the seeds. Finely chop the flesh. Discard the shells and seeds. If you are working with canned rambutan, drain the rambutan flesh and rinse to remove excess sugar.
- Rinse the quinoa in a colander until the water runs clear.
- Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
- When the oil shimmers, add the quinoa and stir to coat the grains. Cook for 1 minute.
- Add the finely chopped rambutan, coconut milk, and water to the pot and stir to combine. If you like, add the cinnamon stick for an extra layer of flavor.
- Cook with the cover on the pot until the grains have absorbed the liquid, between 15 and 20 minutes.
- Remove the quinoa from the heat. Uncover the pot. Fluff the grains.
- Scoop some quinoa into baby’s bowl. Exact serving size is variable. Let a child’s appetite determine how much is eaten.
- Season quinoa for adults and older children with salt to taste. Let baby’s serving cool until it is warm, not hot.
- Let baby try to self-feed. To encourage the use of a utensil, pre-load a spoon and rest it next to the quinoa for baby to try to pick up. Alternatively, pass the pre-loaded spoon in the air for the child to grab.
To Store: Rambutan Coconut Quinoa keeps in an air-tight container in the fridge for 4 days or in the freezer for 2 months.
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V. Kalami, MNSP, RD, CSP
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S. Bajowala, MD, FAAAAI. Board-Certified Allergist & Immunologist (allergy section)
R. Ruiz, MD, FAAP. Board-Certified General Pediatrician & Pediatric Gastroenterologist
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When I first came to see Dr. Peltier, I was having pain in my neck, lower back and hip sockets. I could hardly walk and it was difficult to stand for very long. So getting daily chores done was very painful. I saw improvement as the program progressed. I began a walking program in April of 09, and now I walk daily. I feel better than I have in years. I can get things done without pain, am stronger and have better balance. I highly recommend the program, it works.

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That the meeting be closed to the public in order to deal with agenda items under the Community Charter:
Section 90(1) A part of the Council meeting may be closed to the public if the subject matter being considered relates to or is one or more of the following:
(e) the acquisition, disposition or expropriation of land or improvements, if the Council considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality;
(i) the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose;
(j) information that is prohibited, or information that if it were presented in a document would be prohibited, from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act;
(n) the consideration of whether a Council meeting should be closed under a provision of this subsection or subsection (2); and,
Community Charter Section 90(2):
(b) the consideration of information received and held in confidence relating to negotiations between the municipality and a provincial government or the federal government or both, or between a provincial government or the federal government or both and a third party.


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It’s that time of year where we’ll see loads of badly taken photos of Christmas meals and gatherings, with images having been edited to within an inch of their life, taken in extremely poor lighting conditions, or perhaps even worse, just utterly bland. But it doesn’t have to be that way because Sony has teamed up with renowned photographer David Loftus to provide some top tips on how to take a great picture with a minimum of fuss.
Needless to say, Sony says that the tips provided by David Loftus, who has shot photography for Jamie Oliver and produced editorials for Conde Naste Traveller and Red (yes, I Googled him), are best suited to making the most of the Xperia 5’s cameras, but really they apply to everyone with any brand of smartphone. If you are taking an average of six shots before getting that perfect picture of friends and family, a dinner table shot or perhaps your favorite four-legged companion, why not take a look at the tips listed below:
Shoot your Christmas dinner near a window. Allow as much natural light as possible to ensure the details are captured. However, when shooting in low light, be sure to keep the camera as steady as possible, using a vase or bottle as a quick and effective tripod
PROPS FOR SHOTS
As many as 64% of millennials claim they will be adding some decorative additions to the table to ensure the most social media-worthy shots including sequins, velvet ribbons & Christmas figurines. Try using props as reflectors or diffusers, such as white napkins, books, or greaseproof paper from the kitchen drawer, to diffuse harsh lighting or create interesting shapes and shadows on the table
THE LAW OF THIRDS
Use the law of thirds to frame your shot; position the subject so that it fills approximately 1/3 of the image, allowing for 2/3 of negative space. This creates a much more interesting composition, ensuring the eye is naturally drawn to the detail. The Xperia 5 has a built-in option which brings gridlines up on your screen, to make taking a perfectly proportioned shot as easy as possible
PLAY AROUND WITH BOKEH (AND OTHER EFFECTS)
Play around with features such as ‘bokeh’ which really help to elevate your subject matter, focusing the viewer’s attention on the thing you want to stand out the most, helping to produce stunning, professional-standard photography using your smartphone
KEEP IT REAL
When uploading shots onto social media channels, don’t over-edit. Keep the images authentic and avoid using too many filters to ‘hide’ how the food really looks
Let us know in the comments how your festive photoshoots turn out.
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Orphan Care Program is a child development program including multiple activities related to education,
character building and personality development of the child. The program designed by HELP IN NEED for the uplifting the orphan children
of underprivileged background across the country. Under this program, the orphan children selected for provision of educational support
and mentoring continue to live with their families or extended families in the case of death of both parents. While this program provides
necessary financial support for the continuation of education and counselling facilities for the orphan children aged 17 or below.
To transform the lives of orphans by ensuring their fundamental Right’s to identity, growth and social protection upon reaching the age of 18 to combat their susceptibility
- To ensure the fundamental rights to identity, education, health, food security and life skills development among orphans of Pakistan and AJK reaching the age of 18
- To safeguard orphans from child abuse, violation of their basic rights at their extended family and community.
- To improve the psycho-social counselling and personality development of the orphans to become the responsible citizen of the society.
- Educational support
- Mentoring, counselling and psychosocial support
- Personality development
- Capacity building of mother’s group and counselling/awareness
- Provision of Cash grants
- Extra-curricular activities, gift distribution

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Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) has unveiled Invited, a new loyalty program.
Here are out top choices of champagne brunches for travelers seeking a bubbly Singapore weekend experience.
An American diva will perform in Bali while Hong Kong will welcome some of the world's biggest names in tennis. Here's your guide to what's ...
Indonesia is agog with the impending arrival of the country’s first contemporary art museum.
Long-time fans of York Hotel in Singapore will be delighted to see that the Mount Elizabeth property has undergone a few enhancements, givin...
The opening of the 336-room Pan Pacific Yangon proves that the city has finally found its groove.
If you’re in the mood for a cuppa, Jakarta is a good place to get your caffeine fix. Here are ten worth seeking out.
Read about the exciting developments on the Indonesian resort island of Bintan.
If you’re traveling to Hong Kong, indulge in serious retail therapy and get your hands on some of the city’s own fashion brands.

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What is a clinical nurse specialist?
A Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) prepared by a master’s, doctoral, or post-graduate certificate level CNS program. CNSs diagnose, prescribe, and treat patients and specialty populations across the continuum of care. The CNS improves outcomes by providing direct patient care, leading evidence-based practice, optimizing organizational systems, and advancing nursing practice.
Clinical nurse specialists are leaders in health care.
The clinical nurse specialist has been a part of the health care industrial complex in the United States for more than 60 years. Through the decades, the role has become widely accepted in the health care system and one that significantly impacts the nation’s economy by providing safe, low-cost, and effective evidence-based health care services.
How do clinical nurse specialists practice?
Clinical nurse specialists are advanced practice registered nurses with advanced clinical expertise in a specialized area of nursing practice. The work of the CNS includes, but is not limited to, diagnosis and treatment of acute or chronic illness in an identified population with emphasis on specialist care for at-risk patients and/or populations. CNS practice extends from wellness to illness and from acute to primary care.
How do clinical nurse specialists influence health care delivery?
Clinical nurse specialists provide diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of patients. They also provide expertise and support to nurses caring for patients at the bedside, help drive practice changes throughout the organization, and ensure the use of best practices and evidence-based care to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.
Clinical nurse specialists have the skills and expertise to identify where the gaps are in health care delivery. They can help design and implement interventions, and assess and evaluate those to improve overall health care delivery.
Research into clinical nurse specialist practice demonstrates outcomes such as:
- reduced hospital costs and length of stay;
- reduced frequency of emergency room visits;
- improved pain management practices;
- increased patient satisfaction with nursing care; and
- reduced medical complications in hospitalized patients.
Read more about how clinical nurse specialists can positively impact health outcomes in the policy paper: Impact of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Role on the Costs and Quality of Health Care.
What are the requirements to practice as a clinical nurse specialist in my state?
State laws and administrative rules for nursing practice are issued by state licensing boards and they vary from state to state. Consult your state licensing board for specifics. In 2015, NACNS in collaboration with the National Council on State Boards of Nursing collected information on state laws regarding prescriptive authority and independent practice on CNSs. Click here to learn more about your state.
In 2008, the nursing community endorsed a consistent regulatory model that defines advance nursing practice and specialty, identifies the titles to be used, describes the emergence of new roles and population foci, and presents strategies for implementation. This document is known as the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation.
The Consensus Model for APRN Regulation, often referred to as the APRN Consensus Model, is available in the Advocacy & Policy section of our site.
What certifications or specialty certifications are available for clinical nurse specialists?
The APRN Consensus Model states that clinical nurse specialists who practice in the majority of states must obtain certification based on a population area. Current certification examinations based on population include:
For more information on population-level credentialing, please contact The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Certification Corporation. Specialty certifications are available through various specialty nursing organizations. Please contact your specialty nursing association for more details.
Why It Is Important for CNSs to Have an NPI Number
Did you know there are currently 89,000 CNSs in North America, but only 12,569 are registered with an NPI (National Provider Identifier) number? NACNS’s goal is to change that! Check out the video to see why having an NPI number is important & how to register!
Source: Sean Reed (2022). Clinical Nurse Specialists in the United States Registered with a National Provider Identifier: 2022 Update. Unpublished Data.


text: Several in vivo experiments have revealed that a synthesized fluorinated analogue of vitamin D, 26,26,26,27,27,27-hexafluoro-1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (26,27-F6-1,25(OH)2D3) has a higher and longer-lasting biological activity than 1,25(OH)2D3 in calcium regulating actions. We evaluated the biological potency and the availability for clinical use of this compound in hypocalcemia associated with hypoparathyroidism. In an experimental setting, daily administration of 650 pmol/kg of 26,27-F6-1,25(OH)2D3 showed an equivalent effect to that of 3250 pmol/kg of 1,25(OH)2D3 in elevating whole blood ionized calcium levels in parathyroidectomized rats. Furthermore, an additional clinical study demonstrated that 0.5-1.5 micrograms/day of 26,27-F6-1,25(OH)2D3 were considered adequate maintenance doses in various types of hypoparathyroidism and that changes of medication to the same doses of 1,25(OH)2D3 resulted in prompt decline of urinary calcium excretion and of whole blood ionized calcium levels, and in recurrence of symptoms related to hypocalcemia. Although the mechanism responsible for the high potency of this analogue remains unclear, our experience confirms that 26,27-F6-1,25(OH)2D3 has higher biological activities in bone calcium mobilization and is more potent than 1,25(OH)2D3 in correcting hypocalcemia of hypoparathyroidism in a hospital setting.

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I just came up with this last night and think you will really enjoy it. It’s salty, creamy, and tangy. While it’s not the same dry, squeaky texture of dairy cotija, it is a delicious replacement. Think soft cottage cheese without the whey and some tang and salt. You can use extra-firm tofu instead of silken if you want a dryer end result. I went hard on the salt but feel free to tone it down a notch.
1 12.3 oz package of silken firm tofu, drained well
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon lactic acid
1 teaspoon nutritional yeast
Add everything to a bowl and mix well to get a chunky consistency. Adjust seasonings to taste. Let the cheese rest covered in the fridge for a few hours before serving.


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Thursday, May 7, 2015
Rotary Club Meeting May 14
The Rotary Club of South Anne Arundel County will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 14, at Killarney House, 584 W. Central Ave., Davidsonville. The program will include a presentation by Steve Constants, describing the work of the Olivia Constants Foundation. The foundation was created by the family after Constants' daughter died following a boating accident. The foundation supports many worthwhile causes, including anti-bullying programs at local middle schools. Community members interested in the presentation are invited to attend. For information, visit http://www.southcountyrotary.org or call 443-975-8409.


The Student Finance Board (SFB) voted to fully fund the upcoming Senior Send-Off, sponsored by the Senior Class Council, at the last meeting.
Though Senior Week was canceled this year, the Senior Class Council decided to hold the traditional Senior Send-Off. It will be held at KatManDu on May 2, the last day of classes at the College. The Council requested $2,500 for the event, which would go toward buses for transportation.
“This seems like a sound event and we owe it to them to fund it,” Student Government Association representative Dan Beckelman said, regarding the controversy of Senior Week’s cancellation. The Senior Class Council had been given $5,600 for Senior Week but it had to be returned once the event was canceled.
For this Senior Send-Off, each student will be charged $35, while $1,000 from the Senior Class Council will be used for decorations. There was some concern over the fact that there are fixed costs at KatManDu and money would be essentially lost if fewer than the predicted 500 students attend. Regardless of this concern, SFB voted to fully fund the event in a 13-1 vote.
Intramural sports gave a presentation on a budget appeal. SFB had allocated $5,000 for equipment for the next school year, though intramurals had requested about $11,000.
Due to the fact that the sports equipment is used every day by many students at the College, equipment is constantly breaking or requiring replacement. In some cases, the equipment is stolen as well, according to the presentation.
Although $11,000 was initially requested, Intramurals did say that $8,000 to $9,000 would be sufficient. SFB questioned the prices set for all the equipment requested.
“They just bought new softball bats so they don’t need 12 new bats, for example,” senior representative Matt Falsetti said.
“The prices seem to be inflated,” Elizabeth Galetz, junior class representative, said, pointing out the $11.75 price for a Frisbee on the equipment breakdown list.
SFB ultimately decided to allocate $2,000 extra toward Intramurals as a compromise. It was passed fully with one abstention.
SFB, which prior to the meeting had a total balance of $23,512.57, allocated a total of $9,500.


text: Bea attended high school in New York City where she trained at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre on 14th Street and Union Square. She is now a resident of Nyack for the past 19 years. She has performed in the annual Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Wisdom of Eve and The Vagina Monologues at the Nyack Village Theatre, and also wrote, directed and performed in her own work, Time Immemorial – An African American Experience. Bea has performed in several plays at the Antrim Playhouse including Boeing, Boeing, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and recently, Every Christmas Story Ever Told and Then Some, which was quite a challenge for her. She is a board member of the Rivertown Film Society in Nyack.


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On the anniversary of the start of last year's state government shutdown, House Minority Leader Paul Thissen Monday said, essentially, to avoid another shutdown Minnesotans should elect Democrats.
In a starkly political plea, promoted by Thissen's official office, the Minneapolis DFLer said: "All Minnesotans deserve and expect better than the gridlock they saw last year from the Legislature."
Thissen said that if Minnesotans elect a Democratic Legislature next year, when the state will have to pass a new budget, lawmakers would consider tax increases and spending cuts to close the budget gap. DFL Gov. Mark Dayton has said clearly that he will try to raise taxes again next year.
The minority leader's Capitol press conference Monday was part of a renewed Democratic campaign to get Minnesotans to pin the shutdown on Republicans. Last week, the well-heeled Alliance for a Better Minnesota began running online and newspaper ads with the theme, using some of the same GOP quotes Thissen focused upon Monday.
Last year, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton tried to get the Republican-controlled Legislature to pass a tax increase. Republicans refused to do so, instead passing a budget that included no increase in state-wide taxes.
Their failure to agree on a budget by July 1, 2011 gridlock brought on a historic nearly three-week government shutdown, in which workers went without paychecks, state parks were closed and lack of licensing meant no new drivers and nearly meant beer being pulled from shelves.
Republicans say Thissen blaming the shutdown on them is unfair.
"We passed a balanced budget," said Jodi Boyne, spokeswoman for the Republican House. "Republicans were not responsible for the government shutdown."
Republican Senate spokesman Steve Sviggum said if Democrats win the Legislature in the fall election, "all you will have is liberal government and tax increases.


East Midlands Imaging Network (EMRAD) hosted its second AI event in May, focusing on the benefits of AI. Panellists and speakers from Radiobotics, East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN) and Innersight highlighted the ways their products and services can transform healthcare. The event was
all about discovery, development, deployment and sustainability of AI.
“It is apparent that AI is changing healthcare as we know it, improving patient experience and care delivery,” state the organisers. “Collectively it is important that we all work together to discover and identify problems that could hinder successful implementation of AI. Successful patient care, delivery and satisfaction is the foundation of any AI project in care.”
While considering AI’s impact on patient care, it is important to consider the effect this has had on staff. According to the event organisers, there have been mixed opinions on job satisfaction and enhancement with AI implementation in the imaging department. “A good example is the detection of insignificant nodules or misidentification of nodules by the AI on chest CTs increasing the cognitive load on the reporter, which may lead to fatigue and loss of confidence in the AI,” they say.
Dr Dheeraj Giri has been appointed deputy medical director artificial intelligence.
Picture: The EMRAD event focused on the discovery, development, deployment and sustainability of AI.
Published on page 4 of the July 2023 issue of RAD Magazine.


When “Tangerine” first arrived at Sundance earlier this year, it almost sounded like a cliché: a low-budget, iPhone-shot dramedy set in California. But the film was so much more: a progressive story with transgender character for leads, in the most unlikely Christmas movie ever. And it speaks to how much the film has resonated that nearly a full year later, not only has made many top-10 lists, but it’s very much in the awards-season conversation.
There’s a lot to talk about when it comes to “Tangerine,” and as part of MoMA Film’s Contenders series, writer-director Sean Baker, actress Mya Taylor, and producers Darren Dean and Shih-Ching Tsou, sat down for Q&A moderated by filmmaker Ira Sachs. And it’s definitely one to dive into as the discussion explores the genesis of the film (which originated from Baker’s desire to tell a story that concluded with a confrontation at Donut Time), Taylor’s experience working on her first major movie, and more.
“For this Contenders screening at MoMA we partnered with Ira Sachs, and it was fascinating to see this established filmmaker engaging with the ‘Tangerine’ team on queer filmmaking and the cinema of means,” Rajendra Roy, Chief Film Curator at MoMA, said. “The conversation delves into how they took a raw passion project about an under-served, under-seen community and transformed it into this bracing, brilliant story — which has gone onto to become a global phenomenon and an undisputed awards contender.”
Check out the talk below. MoMA Film’s Contenders series continues through January 15, 2016.