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The Tony Awards® Administration Committee has announced today that director, actress and choreographer Baayork Lee is this year’s recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.
The Isabelle Stevenson Award is presented annually to a member of the theatre community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations. Ms. Lee will be presented the Award for her commitment to future generations of artists through her work with the National Asian Artists Project and theatre educations programs around the world.
“Baayork works tirelessly to break down cultural walls that often build up around what theatre goers consider ‘traditional’ musicals, and her dedication to fostering the next generation of performers and theatre professionals to do the same is exemplary. We are thrilled to honor her this year,” Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League, and Heather Hitchens, President of the American Theatre Wing, said.
Baayork Lee is the Founder of National Asian Artists Project (NAAP), which is a community of artists, educators, administrators, community leaders, and professionals who work to showcase the work of Asian-American theater artists through performance, educational programming and community outreach. Through NAAP, Lee orchestrates her vision of educating, cultivating, and stimulating audiences and artists of Asian descent. The organization has produced productions of musical theatre staples like Oklahoma!, Carousel, Hello Dolly!, Oliver! and Honor with all Asian-American casts. By turning a spot light onto the high-caliber talent of theatre artists of Asian descent, NAAP asserts, given the opportunity, the theater and its audiences will embrace diverse American voices who strive to claim both new and classic American works as their own.
Lee has made it a large part of her mission to educate aspiring artists in musical theatre. She created musical theater schools in Seoul, Korea; Tokyo, Japan; and the Theater Club at the Yung Wing Elementary School (PS124) in Chinatown, NY.
Lee is best known for creating the role of “Connie” in A Chorus Line, as well as serving as Michael Bennett’s assistant choreographer on the production, of which she has directed and choreographed many national and international companies, most recently in Klagenfurt, Austria; Santiago, Chile; the Hollywood Bowl; and Pace University in New York City.
Her directing and choreography credits also include; The King and I (national tour), Bombay Dreams (national tour), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (New York City Opera), Barnum (Australia), Carmen Jones (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), Porgy and Bess (European tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (European tour), Gypsy and A New Brain. She has also choreographed Miss Saigon (Kansas City Starlight), Mack and Mabel (Shaw Festival), Animal Crackers, South Pacific, Coconuts, Camelot, and Damn Yankees, all at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Paul Robeson Award from Actors Equity Association, the Asian Woman Warrior Award for Lifetime Achievement from Columbia College, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Association Achievement in Arts Award, and the Dynamic Achiever Award from OCA Westchester.
The American Theatre Wing’s 71st Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Tony and Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey, will air live from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS Television Network on Sunday, June 11, 2017 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT). The Tony Awards, which honors theatre professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway, has been broadcast on CBS since 1978. The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
The official eligibility cut-off date for the 71st Annual Tony Awards will be April 27, 2017, for all Broadway productions opening in the 2016-2017 season. Productions which meet all other eligibility requirements and open on or before the eligibility date are considered eligible for 2017 Tony Award nominations.
The Nominations for the 2017 Tony Awards will be announced live, by Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski and 2016 Tony Nominee Christopher Jackson, on May 2, 2017, from The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
For more information on the Tony Awards, visit TonyAwards.com and Facebook.com/TheTonyAwards and follow @TheTonyAwards on Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Join the conversation using the hashtags #TonyAwards2017 and #TheatreInspires.


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International Journal of Engineering and Manufacturing(IJEM)
ISSN: 2305-3631 (Print), ISSN: 2306-5982 (Online)
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IJEM Vol.2, No.1, Feb. 2012
Resistance to Intelligently Controlled Low Air Humidity and High Temperature of Cymbidium Luck Gloria
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The paper conducted thorough research on the adaptability of Cymbidium Lucky Gloria (CLG) through different temperature and relative humidity levels by using intelligent artificial climate chamber. The effects of single and tow collaborated factors on plant surviving are explored. It finds that temperature’s role in CLG surviving is the most significant. The surviving rate reaches only 23.0% with the extreme level of temperature (410C, first period; 240C, second period). Extreme high temperature surpasses the endurance of heat shock proteins (HSPs), and leads the plants died. The survived plants under extreme levels are of excellent attributes for the succeeding strain invention.
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Chuangui Yang,Yubao Gao,Ling Xu,"Resistance to Intelligently Controlled Low Air Humidity and High Temperature of Cymbidium Luck Gloria", IJEM, vol.2, no.1, pp.35-40, 2012.
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Muscular Christianity and the colonizing power of modern sports
One little-known men’s movement of the late Victorian Era that seriously contributed to the way English imperialism and American identity were formed was Charles Kingsley’s and Thomas Hughes’s Muscular Christianity. This project oversaw how musclemen took back the churches from women, developed and implemented modern sports, and directed the contours of colonialism. J.A Mangan argues that Christianity became a universal religion largely as a result of the popularity of Muscular Christianity and modern sports. It was far from merely a religious position; its inherent male-centeredness, homophobia, sexism, and sports ethic are still at work within our American male bodies in particular, and the colonial “body” in general.
The term itself is attributed to T. S. Sanders, who coined it in a review of Charles Kingsley’s 1857 novel, Two Years Ago. It was later used to also refer to Thomas Hugh’s internationally popular Tom Brown’s Schooldays of 1856. Hughes liked the term so much he used it himself in the sequel Tom Brown at Oxford of 1860. Soon the press was calling both writers Muscular Christians and applied that label to the literary genre they inspired: adventure novels filled with high principles and manly Christian heroes.
These two authors and their critics traced Muscular Christianity’s origins to the New Testament, namely Mark 11:15, which sanctions manly exertion with Jesus’s rampage in the temple, and 1 Cor. 6:19–20, which proclaims our bodies as temples and to “therefore honor God with your bodies.” To them, the muscle-man “ethic” and gender behavior was written by God himself, who was also, apparently, a muscle man.
It appears muscular imagery had always been a part of Christianity, but it had not always been a major part. The Church was more concerned with a salvation not of this body or of this world, and it preached that men could achieve it without being healthy and husky. Moreover, popular images of Christ/God showed a skinny, effeminate “bearded lady”, with dainty hands, girly hair, and pretty eyes. The church itself was also feminine insofar as its behavior was submissive. The great symbol of male power and authority in the world was also the “bride” of Christ. If this wasn’t emasculating enough, by the early 20th century the majority of participants in both American and English churches were women. This feminine (and decidedly “false”) form of Christ Almighty, on top of the appearance of an idle and effeminate “dandy” midwifed by modernity’s new office jobs, encouraged Hughes and Kingsley to place the revitalization of muscular manhood at the forefront of their life’s work.
Charles Kingsley was incredibly influential during the Late Victorian era. He was chaplain to the Queen, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, and a best-selling author. His rise to national prominence in the 1850s coincided with a series of crises involving Britain’s status as a world power. Kingsley’s view of a “manful” Christ (he often called Christ the “prince of war” and the “general who is fighting by your side”), games ethic (“sports and body-building are character-building”), and patriotism quickly spread throughout the English world of public schools and universities, encouraging the imperialist agenda, and acting as an instrument of colonial rule, so much so that former Consul-General of Serbia, James George Cotton Minchin, in 1901 remarked, “If asked what our muscular Christianity has done, we point to the British Empire.” Together with Hughes, Muscular Christianity would inspire missionaries whose purpose was “to create a universal Tom Brown: loyal, brave, truthful, a gentleman, and if possible, a Christian.”
Muscular Christianity was premised on the physical superiority of males: if God made men physically superior to women, muscular Christians knew that extra advantage must be developed to the maximum in order to be “faithful stewards of God’s gifts-to fight in His service, to protect the weak, to conquer nature.” According to Kingsley, it was also a man’s duty to develop a healthy form of what he called “animalism”, and to fulfill his sexual function by the procreation of children. Sexual denial was in fact a “disease” that resulted in the dehumanizing of man. Kingsley describes in Westward Ho! how a celibate Jesuit priest, “being neither man nor women”, is not human but is instead a “thing” without a soul.
Muscular Christians are best known for their celebration of bodies. Whether it was Kingsley’s rejection of celibacy and belief in the inseparability of spirit and flesh (he says “the soul secretes the body like a snail secretes its shell”), or Hughes’s formation of Christian Manhood on the Rugby playing fields, the centrality of the body within the muscular Christian philosophy cannot be overlooked. The equation of spirit, flesh, and sport is at first glance “progressive,” rooted curiously in modern evolutionary sciences (Kingsley was a Darwinian socialist) and ancient religious texts. However, it becomes problematic considering that the inevitable degeneration of the body implies a resulting degeneration of the spirit–a spirit which was supposed to be eternal, transcendent, and unchanging. Also, its reliance on the dual-sex theory of the body and biological determinism was problematic. Like a dying star after a supernova, Kingsley and Hughes’s Muscular Christianity can be said to have eventually sputtered out. However…
Across the ocean, Kingsley was doing book tours. His charisma, alongside the disappearance of men in church, the rise of large corporations, and the appearance of the idle and effeminate “dandy” with his mixture of masculine and feminine markers and his rejection of labor power, fueled the rise of American Muscular Christianity and the proliferation of sports. Jeffery Hantover argues that the Boy Scout movement also reflected this middle-class crisis over its masculinity.
By the late 19th century only about one-third of American men attended church regularly, while nearly one-half of all American women did, and ministers were afraid that long-term effects of the “feminization of the church” would be marginalization of the church, depleting its power. In order to transform the churches “from havens of faithful women into strongholds of spiritual men”, Muscular Christianity developed strategies designed to appeal to men’s (supposedly) more aggressive nature. “Jesus the teacher had become Christ the competitor…From the pulpit, preachers prayed for a winning season, striking there sermons with so much athletic symbolism that they sometimes sounded like color commentators on TV sport broadcasts.”
By the end of the Civil War, the term Muscular Christianity penetrated American Society, and in 1886 one writer said, “We like this phrase…because it expresses the idea of that robustness and vigor which ought to characterize those who are strong in the Lord and the power of His might.” Soon after the Civil War, the first sports leagues and team sports with managerial structures developed in American cities, and “Muscular Christians living in an industrialized, urban culture capitalized on this development and served as catalyst to help make modern sport possible.” Thus, the societal agents significant in the emergence of muscular Christianity in nineteenth-century America were the same ones that affected the rise in sport. “As the United States was developing into a world political power, as industry boomed, and as the frontier closed, Muscular Christians oversaw the development of modern sport.” The core organization that oversaw and progressed sports and sportsmanship was the YMCA.
The YMCA was a Christian organization that demanded the “evangelical test” for all voting members; any male in good standing in any evangelical church could join. A brief look at a few of its key contributors is telling. Robert J. Roberts (1849–1920) was a devout Baptist and YMCA member who in 1876 became a gymnastic superintendent for the Boston Association where he coined the term “bodybuilding.” Luther H. Gulick was another great YMCA philosopher who felt that the gymnasium was “a fundamental and intrinsic part in the salvation of man.” Henry Ward Beecher (arguably Muscular Christianity’s first national preacher) claimed, “nothing can come more properly in the sphere of Christian activity than the application of the cause of physical health in the community. If general health is not religion, if it is not Christ, it is John the Baptist; it goes before him.” Stanly Hall, first president of the American Psychological Association, would praise the YMCA for “carrying the gospel to the body,” and Dwight L. Moody, who founded the Moody Church, was president of the Chicago branch of the YMCA and is credited as the instigator of the American brand of muscular Christianity.
Presbyterian minister James Naismith is another important evangelist and Muscular Christian. For Naismith, basketball was more than a new game; it was a means to evangelize people about morality and Christian values. Milton Katz describes basketball as a way to “inculcate the Christian values for which the YMCA stood.” Ladd and Mathisen see basketball as “the essence of American Muscular Christianity.”
Even though muscular religious charismatics like Billy Graham are a dying breed, the spirit of Kingsley and Hughes’s project can be seen in Muscular Christian groups such as the KKK, the Westburo Baptist Church, the NRA, the Republican Party, as subjects for ultraviolent bad-boy movies such as Red State(2011) and Pulp Fiction (1996), and in the locker rooms of Penn State. Kimmel argues that the Catholic Church still promotes Muscular Christianity in the athletic programs of schools such as Notre Dame, as do evangelical Protestant groups such as Promise Keepers, Athletes in Action, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes…groups many people have never heard of, leading Kimmel to conclude that this particular form of Christianity has sputtered out. However, its remaining embers burn deep. MacAloon argues that Muscular Christianity has far from sputtered out. On the contrary, only the self-consciousness about the dominance of Muscular Christianity in the US public discourse has sputtered out, and this is because it has become so normalized, and fails to stand out as anything unusual. MacAloon: “Not only sports departments but the entire moral economy and discourse of American public schools…remain largely derived from the legacy of muscular Christianity and the games ethic.” Bruce Kidd sees that in Canada, for example, youth obesity, drugs, disillusionment and violence still inspires the YMCA and various other corporate foundations to reinvest in sports and cultural languages “that echo the muscular Christian intervention.”
Anthropologist Anthony Wallace explains how a culture at the edge of extinction explodes into a “revitalization movement.” When rugged manliness was dwindling during the mid to late Victorian era, Muscular Christianity appeared, recasting Jesus as a muscle man and revitalizing British imperialism in the world. Cultural historian William Irwin Thompson calls this phenomenon “the sunset effect.” In America, the manly Christians, too, were dealing with a vanishing of not only Christian masculinity but also men in church. Taking cues for Kingsley and Hughes, they developed body-building and sports to help evangelize the country and save its churches from feminization. Therefore, the radiant sunset of masculinity in England became the growing sunrise of sports in America. That bright sunlight still blinds us today.

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To call the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild colorful is an understatement. It’s chockfull of vibrant personalities, like sexy shark people and booty-shaking tree monsters. The most touching of all of these, though, may be the bridge-guarding Brigo, whose thoughtful mental health advocacy has struck a chord with all kinds of players.
Brigo is a stern-faced Hylian hanging around Proxim Bridge. When Link first runs into him, he’s muttering something about the end of the world.
“We’re doomed!” he shouts, before immediately walking that back — maybe because he’s afraid of being judged as a doomsday truther, or maybe because he’s naturally conflicted. Either way, Brigo enlists Link’s help to stay apprised of any potentially apocalyptic events by the end of their conversation, and Link carries on his way toward Hyrule Castle.
But Brigo and Link’s chat doesn’t have to stop there. Players discovered that trying to jump off the bridge and into the water below catches Brigo’s attention. His automatic response to Link’s seeming suicide attempt is a mix of outrage and encouragement, as captured by this tweet from Dorkly’s Tristan Cooper:
If you stand on the edge of a bridge, this guy will try to talk Link down from suicide. He even offers to help talk you through it pic.twitter.com/c2xkY6HgzB— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) March 11, 2017
If Link ignores Brigo and goes ahead with it, he’ll face the guard’s ire upon his return to Proxim Bridge, Cooper showed in a follow-up tweet:
If you jump off the bridge after this guy tries to talk you down, you get different dialogue when you see him again. I feel awful now. pic.twitter.com/gXbIPXsQdi— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) March 11, 2017
The scene’s since gone viral, with many heaping praise on Breath of the Wild’s suicide prevention efforts.
“I've had friends commit suicide. I never wanted to feel useless ever again so I took some lessons on suicide prevention,” wrote a Reddit user. “This is accurate. Thank you Nintendo, for caring.”
The changing dialogue hopefully won’t convince players to send Link plummeting to his death in the hopes of finding out what Brigo has to say — instead, let’s point to this tiny event as another example of Breath of the Wild’s magic. Watch the whole thing unfold in the video below, which comes from a let’s play series about the game. Brigo shows up around the 12-minute mark.


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The "shock" of the low jobs data on Friday causes the interest rate estimates to drop.
All Metals rallied hard. Seem oversold for the moment.
Crude at a profit target. Natural Gas testing a prior high pivot.
The US 30yr Treasury futures are near contract highs.
The US dollar futures responded to the jobs report by dropping two dollars into a new downtrend.
S&P 500 Futures_
Monthly - Up against the 2100 highs. Trade pressures are up. Volumes closed the month of May as bullish.
Weekly - After the prior week's big run this week held the highs despite the jobs report. Trade pressures are up but declining. Volumes remain bullish.
Daily - Flat. In the move up from the 2072 long entry. Trade pressures are extended up. Volumes remain bullish (even Friday was net bullish).
The next target up is the 2105 high pivot and the 2115 profit target.
A close below 2073 would signal lower.
Additional disclosure: The author may have long or short positions in any of the securities mentioned.

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Mr. Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar) (Con): If education and the like are ring fenced, the growth in other services that do not have that benefit that the Minister mentioned is distorted. After all, 12 local authorities received no additional grant once the money had been expended on education. Does he accept that the more areas the Government control, the more they distort the market?
Mr. Miliband: The Government make no apology for saying that the money we raise for educationour top priorityneeds to go on education, and I am pleased that local authorities have supported that. On the hon. Gentleman's wider point, if money is specified for one function, it cannot of course be spent on another. However, I am sure that he is pleased, as I am, at the development of the local area agreements that allow local authorities to move money across the piece, because such agreements contribute to the vibrancy of local government, in which I know he believes.
The evidence of the Government's determination to control costs as well as to support local government can be seen in the average increase of 4.1 per cent. in council tax this year, but it is also evident in our drive for efficiency. The Government can play a lead role in that area. That is what we have done through the Gershon review, which has set challenging efficiency targets for local authorities of up to £6.5 billion by 200708. For our part, we will continue to work with local government to ensure that those targets are met and the money is then properly spent.
Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold) (Con):
The Minister will know better than most that, although he says that local authorities have control over various spending decisions, they in fact do not, because various matters are controlled by the Governmentin particular, the increases in taxes that they have put on local authorities, in the form of pensions tax and national insurance. The Government also keep putting unfunded duties on local authoritiesfor example, local authorities have to comply with the waste directive and face increases in the landfill levy. The Government have also reduced local authority
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housing grant, as my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski) mentioned earlier. More than the entire increase that the Government have given local government in the past seven years has been taken up by increased taxes and duties.
Mr. Miliband: We can have a debate about national insurance every day of the week as far as I am concerned, but the Conservative party made no proposal to reverse the 1p increase in national insurance that the Government introduced and it is money that has been well spent by the national health service. It is also churlish of the hon. Gentleman not to thank the Government for the £120 million increase in grant for his local authority in the past eight yearsin stark contrast to the performance of his party in power.
Mr. Brian Jenkins (Tamworth) (Lab): Can the Minister confirm, off the top of his head, that, over the past 20 years, the amount of spending raised by local councils has been some 25 per cent. and the amount provided by the Government has been 75 per cent., irrespective of the ever-growing burden that this Government are alleged to have put on local councils?
Mr. Miliband: My hon. Friend makes a good point. The amount is certainly about 25 per cent. at present. Of course, there was a certain rupture in the way that local government was organised under the poll tax and, although I am sure he and I could talk for a long time about the vagaries of the poll tax, we are trying to look forward today.
David T.C. Davies: Is the Minister confirming that there is an irrefutable link between the amount of money that local authorities receive from central Government and the amount they have to levy through council tax?
Mr. Miliband: There is an irrefutable link between the amount of money that local authorities raise from a range of sources and the amount that they have to raise in council tax, because they have to bridge the gap, but, as the hon. Gentleman will know and as I shall explain in a moment, local government income is from a range of sources, which I shall set out, as it may be helpful.
Council tax raises about £21 billion, which is equivalent to 25 per cent. of local revenue expenditure. Government grant accounts for about £48 billion and 53 per cent. of revenue expenditure. I urge those who decry that level of Government grant to remember that a smaller contribution from central Government means more from someone else. At the last election, the hon. Gentleman's party proposed to freeze grants to local government for two years[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) says, "We didn't," but let me quote her the words of the then shadow Chancellor, because the policy was clear:
Nothing could be clearer than that[Interruption.] The hon. Lady says that that was before the James review, but we know that the review proposed cuts of £1 billion in local government expenditure for which it had no way of accounting. It is important that the House knows that the Conservatives were claiming
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£900 million of savings from reduced costs as a result of inspection and the like but, when pressed, they were forced to rely on a study that concluded that low morale cost £400 million. Their sums simply do not add up.
Mrs. Spelman: To set the record straight, the then shadow Chancellor, before the election, following the savings identified by the James review, gave a commitment to increase funding to local government.
Mr. Miliband: I very much look forward to taking that matter forward. We have quotes from the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) and, although I know that he is something of a man of the past in the Conservative party because he is not running for the leadership, we shall certainly pursue the matter.
Council tax raises about 25 per cent. of income, central grant raises 53 per cent. and the national non-domestic rate about £18 billion, linked to the retail prices index. Thanks to the new prudential capital finance regime that took effect on 1 April 2004, local authorities are, for the first time, free to borrow for capital projects without Government consent. Those are the main sources of local expenditure.
Mr. Allen: That is all good knockabout political stuff, but where the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) was right was in saying that we should all be thinking about the future of local government finance. Does my right hon. Friend accept that in no other western democracy is local government in thrall to central Government as it is in the UK? Will he look into the constitutional settlement between local and national government, because that is the only long-term way in which local people can take control of their own affairs and have a say in raising money locally in the way they feel is appropriate?
Mr. Miliband: My hon. Friend makes an important point and, as he will know, the balance of funding review addressed that matter directly, as shall I. It was generous of him to focus on the 28th minute of the contribution of the hon. Member for Meriden and I shall try to do so, too.
Dr. Vincent Cable (Twickenham) (LD): Will the Minister return to a point on which there is more consensus: the Gershon savings of £5.6 billion a year? How will we know when they have happened and, as a taster, can he tell us how much was saved in the first year of the programme?
Mr. Miliband: I am pleased to say that I can. Our analysis of plans submitted by authorities suggests that councils are not just making real efforts but achieving real success. The efficiency gains achieved already and those expected by the end of the year add up to £1.9 billion. That is good news, and I think we can all agree on the importance of that.
Sir John Butterfill:
In response to the intervention about local government not being in thrall anywhere
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else in western Europe, may I cite the fact that local authorities in Germany and Austria get respectively 15 and 18 per cent. of the total national tax take, and they get it from central Government? They are almost entirely funded from the central Government, not from local people.
Mr. Miliband: The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Of course, there is a big difference between local taxes and assigned national taxes, and the degree of thrall differs according to those two measures. Before hon. Members become too focused on the idea that those in local government are lying inert on the floor underneath the weight of central Government, they should go to any town or city in the country, where they will see a lot of dynamism, with those in local government exploiting quite a lot of freedom in performing their roles. I am sure that every hon. Member can point not just to isolated examples, but to a real drive by those in local government to lead their communities, economically and sociallyand in my part of the world, culturally as well.
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Wybunbury Delves has a high attendance target of 97% or above and must comply with Cheshire East Council's policy for good practice in managing attendance. We monitor attendance and inform parents by letter where their child's attendance is below 90% across a term; if attendance falls below 90% (persistent absence), the Education Welfare Officer will become involved.
The government does not expect school to authorise absence for holidays in term time as this is detrimental to your child's education. If you are experiencing any problems and you feel school is able to help – please call into the school office to see Mrs Chesters.
No more than 10 days absence. This means your child has missed 9 days of school in the year. This is equivalent to missing almost 50 lessons. 95% attendance sounds good, but means that you are taking one day off a month. If this continues, by the time they leave school they would have missed a whole term of school.
No more than 19 days absence This means your child has missed 4 weeks of school in the year. If this continues, by the time they leave school they would have missed a whole year of school!
No more than 29 days absence a year.
This means your child misses half a term each year. If this continues, by the time they leave school they would have missed more than two whole years of school!
As a parent you have a legal duty to ensure that your child attends school on a regular basis; it a criminal offence for a parent to 'fail to secure their child's regular attendance at the school'.
The school must be told by a parent/guardian of the reason for a child's absence or lateness. When parents do not notify the school of the reason for the child's absence, it must be deemed to be unauthorised (truancy) and must be recorded as such. Parents are asked to notify the school on the first day of absence before 9.30am. (lunches may be charged for if absence is notified after this time.)
Although we understand that occasionally things can go wrong which cause late registration, itis important that children are in school on time each day. When children arrive late they miss important information from the teacher regarding the day. Our lessons start promptly and registration time is not wasted with many classes having pre-teach activities taking place to allow the children to have confidence in the coming lessons. You are reminded that our school times are:
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|Pupils are marked as having an Unauthorised Absence- code U
We understand that, on occasions, pupils may have to miss school due to ill health. We ask parents to:
1. Only keep pupils off school when it is absolutely necessary
2. Contact school by email (mailto:email@example.com) or phone on 01270 841302 on the first day of absence by 9.20am, indicating the reason for the child's absence and the expected date of return. Please note if the reason given is 'poorly' or 'unwell', staff will ask for further information about the absence.
3. In cases of persistent, prolonged absence or repeated absence, school may require medical evidence, e.g. doctor's note, to explain the absence.
4. Parents are asked to keep a child off for 48 hours where s/he suffers sickness or diarrhoea.
5. Parents are asked to contact the school for advice regarding recommended absence for contagious illness.
Medical/dental appointments should be made out of school hours to prevent disruption to learning.
Where this is not possible, please provide the school office with the appropriate evidence, e.g. letter/appointment card.
Children should not be taken out of school due to other family member appointments. If a child leaves school after the register has been taken for the session for a medical appointment then their registration mark for the session will be recorded as an M – a medical appointment absence.
This will be recorded in the register as an absence under the right code. If you are leaving early, e.g 2pm Friday afternoon to go on holiday it will be recorded as an unauthorised holiday, 10am doctors appointment will be recorded as an M
Fixed Penalty Notices apply to all types of unauthorised absence, not just those accrued through holidays in term time. Parents are reminded that Holidays within term time cannot be authorised by school.
If 10 or more unauthorised absences (1 absence = ½ day) are accrued over two consecutive terms then school will consult the LA on the issuing of a Fixed Penalty Notice. The cost of which is £60 per parent per child if paid within 21 days increasing to £120 per parent per child to be paid within 28 days if remains unpaid will be processed to Court for prosecution. These Fixed Penalty Notices have been introduced as part of the government's drive to improve attendance.
More information about school attendance can be found on Cheshire East's website.

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Macallan Jacobite Glass
23 April 2019
This lot contains a The Macallan jacobite glass. A hand-made crystal glass specially designed for The Macallan malt whisky, based upon an 18th century Jacobite original in the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
The portrait on front of the box is the famous Jacobite poet, soldier and Clan Chieftain, Alexander Robertson of Struan (c.1670- 1749).
These glass is approximately 14cm tall.
Please see images for condition. Note the absence of a condition statement does not imply that this lot is in perfect condition or free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of ageing.

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A story about a man in central Pennsylvania who tried to pay a $25 parking ticket he believed was unjust in pennies went kind of viral on the Internet this week. Officials from the town, Chambersburg, told the man, Justin Greene, he could not pay his fine with pennies, citing a federal regulation pinned to their bulletin board which said that federal law specified "pennies and nickels as small change and not legal tender for debts in excess of 25 cents." It took a borough employee some time to find the rule on the bulletin board, and Greene complained it wasn't fair because the sign was hard to see.
More importantly, however, despite the regulation being repeated uncritically by other outlets who picked up the local paper's story, that small change regulation hasn't been on the books in about 50 years. Snopes explains the rule came out of a law passed in the 19th century that was superseded by the 1965 Coinage Act, which specifically identified coins as legal tender.
An official from the Treasury Department confirmed to Reason on background—because, he said, he did not want it to appear that a Department spokesperson was saying local municipalities could not decline to accept pennies—that the regulation the town cited does not currently exist. The spokesperson, however, pointed to a FAQ page that he said says local businesses and municipalities can choose not to accept payment in coins.
According to Jason Cohen, the finance director of Chambersburg, who spoke to Reason today, borough officials became aware the regulation was outdated because of Internet comments left on the local paper's article on the story. Cohen said no one had ever questioned the regulation before, so it's likely been copied and kept on the bulletin board for half a century. The borough consulted a lawyer after finding out the regulation may no longer be in effect and confirmed that it wasn't. Cohen says the borough is planning to purchase a change counting machine to accept coins as payment. Based on the guidance from the Treasury Department, they may not have to.
As for Greene, who told the local paper he wanted to find another way to inconvenience the borough when making his payment, Cohen says he came in and paid his $25 ticket in cash on Wednesday.
It costs two cents, by the way, to produce a penny, and one of the biggest impediments, politically, to phasing it out could be the job losses that would follow at the U.S. Mint, where the penny makes up 60 percent of coin production.


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Apple juice refers to the nutritious, pulp-free or a pulpy liquid extracted from apples, by softening and pressing the fruits so as to take out their juice. The production of the juice is quite complex, and therefore it is hardly prepared in households as most people prefer to buy the readymade, commercially sold juice from the market.
Commercial Production Apple Juices
In order to produce this healthy beverage, the apples first go through the maceration phase, in which they are softened. Thereafter, the apples are pressed to take out the juice, and the juice is processed through two different clarification methods known as centrifugal and enzymatic process, so as to get rid of pectin and starch. Thereafter, the liquid is pasteurized to be packaged in metal, aseptic, or glass containers. The liquid is also sometimes dehydrated further to form a concentrate; however it can also be sold without being treated by the dehydration process. During the production process of the juice, vitamin C is added through the fortification procedure, as most of the vitamin C content is lost during the process of juicing.
The apple juice is produced widely all over the world, with China being the leading producer. Other players in the field include Germany, US and Poland.
Apple Juice Types
The concentrates of apple juice are available in two types viz:
- Clear concentrate- in this type, the starch and pectin are removed from the apples during the process of production, hence, enabling the juice to attain clarity.
- Cloudy concentrate- in the cloudy concentrate type, the pulp of the apples is found in the juice, which is distributed in an even manner throughout the juice.
Health and Nutritional Facts about Apple Juices
The juice obtained from apples contains an essential nutrient - vitamin C, which is variable in content and is therefore added through the fortification process to compensate for the vitamin C which is lost during processing. Apple juice is also enriched with procyanidins, chlorogenic acid, flavonols and flavan-3-ols which help in protecting the body against various diseases. Also, the juice contains crucial minerals like potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium in good amounts as well as iron, copper, manganese, and zinc in smaller amounts, which together work towards boosting up the health of skin and hair.
Apple Juice Benefits
This beverage is enriched with several vital minerals and vitamins which makes it healthy. A few health related benefits which can be attributed towards apple juice are discussed hereunder:
- The juice prepared from apples is rich in boron content which would help in improving the strength and health of bones.
- A few types of apple juice contain a soluble fiber known as pectin, thus helping in the removal of toxic metals like mercury, aluminum and lead from the human body.
- The drink contains good amount of antioxidants which guards against premature skin aging.
- Also, the antioxidants present in the juice would be of immense aid in preventing the risk of being affected by Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
- One of the research studies conducted with respect to apple juice benefits states that the juice helps in increasing acetylcholine in brain, hence improving the memory of an individual.
- The healthy beverage is very good for people suffering from high cholesterol problem, as the nutrients present in the drink would aid in reducing the cholesterol level and bring it at the optimum level.
- Children drinking apple juice on regular basis would remain protected from being affected by asthma.
- Intestinal health would be improved if the juice obtained from apples is consumed as a part of healthy diet program.
- The minerals present in the juice helps in improving the health of skin, hair and fingernails.
- Consumers of this nutritious drink would remain away from stress, digestive disorders, and tooth diseases.
Apple Juices- Trivia
Here are a few interesting facts about apple juice as explained below:
- Though the juice obtained from apples is known for its various positive health related benefits, yet, due to the high sugar content present in the juice, it is advised to consume the juice in moderation. The juice contains 28 grams of carbohydrates per eight ounces which makes 130 calories. Though, the sugar contained in the juice is natural, yet it may not be a recommended drink for diabetic patients.
- Apple juice is sold in two forms in the US viz. pasteurized and unpasteurized juice, with the latter being the unfiltered form and popularly called as apple cider, and the former being the filtered juice of apples. This unfiltered juice from apples is known to be an alcoholic drink in various countries like Australia, UK and New Zealand.

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Central TUs Call for 2-Day Strike Against Unemployment, Price Rise During Budget Session
Among the participants at the convention included national leadership of the ten CTUs, along with that of Samyukt Kisan Morcha. Courtesy - Central Trade Unions
Scrapping of the Labour Codes, rolling back National Monetisation Pipeline, increasing allocation for the rural guarantee scheme and ensuring remedial measures to arrest price rise – these are among the main demands that the ten Central Trade Unions (CTUs) would raise in the coming days as part of a nationwide action programme declared on Thursday.
Arguing that the “ongoing united struggle” of the working people needs to be heightened “to the level of resistance,” the CTUs called for a two-day countrywide general strike during the Budget Session of Parliament next year, dates for which are yet to be decided. They would also hold a nationwide demonstration on November 26 to commemorate one year of the farmers’ march to Delhi.
The decisions taken in the backdrop of increasing unemployment in the country and the recent spike in the prices of the essential commodities were announced by the joint platform of CTUs in a national convention held on Thursday at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
Among the participants at the convention were the national leadership of the ten CTUs. They were joined by the representatives of independent federations from across the country and also that of Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella front of farmers’ body that is spearheading an agitation at the national capital borders against the three contentious agriculture laws.
Latest figures for the month of October, shared by Mumbai-based Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), registered a decline in the overall employment in the country by 5.5 million, indicating a grim job scenario even in a festive month, with the unemployment rate remaining close to a whopping 8%.
To make matters worse, inflationary pressure has been mounted over the millions of working Indians’ households, whose incomes were battered by pandemic-induced blows. Meanwhile, petrol-diesel prices stayed at a record high in India over the past few months before seeing a drop only recently after the slashing of excise duty.
At the convention, a declaration condemning the Narendra Modi-led central government for “squeezing the human survival entitlement of the people” was adopted by the leadership of CTUs, namely, INTUC, AITUC, CITU, HMS, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, and UTUC.
The trade unions flayed the central government for not providing enough assistance to the working population during the pandemic and instead choosing to push forward the “reckless privatisation” of national assets and public sector enterprises.
The declaration carried the ten-point demand charter of the CTUs, including a food and income support of Rs 7500 per month to non-income taxpayers. The CTUs also declared a programme of action for the upcoming months, including a countrywide demonstration on November 26 to mark the one-year anniversary of the farmers’ march to the national capital. The latter, last year too, coincided with a countrywide general strike by the working people that was called by the CTUs.
The farmers and the workers must carry forward the “united struggle” to its “logical conclusion of decisive defeat of this retrograde policy regime,” the adopted declaration read, adding that it was a fight to “save” the nation and its people.
“There are challenges before the working-class movement no doubt. But we are carrying on our united struggle [in] combating those challenges,” the declaration further said.
Said Amarjeet Kaur, general secretary, AITUC, said, “The common people of the nation are in distress due to the anti-farmer, anti-worker policies of the present regime. The trade unions, through their protest, must make the central government realise this reality.”
While addressing the delegates, including government, bank and insurance employees, she said that the “unity” developed between the workers and farmers must be further strengthened in the days to come.
Tapan Sen, general secretary of CITU, called the workers’ resistance programme “Mission India”. According to him, the struggle was not only to save the rights and livelihoods of the people but also to save the country’s economy and the entire democratic system.
“In the upcoming days, every working person must join the programmes declared by the Central Trade Unions today and proclaim it to the government that the national assets will not be allowed to be sold off. Our slogan is ‘Save The People and Save The Nation’,” he said.
The joint action programme, announced by the CTUs, includes state-level conventions and joint meetings of the public sector employees unions. Additionally, as part of the awareness campaign at the grass-root level across the country, general body meetings, signature campaigns, among others, have been planned for the month of December 2021 and January next year.
Eager to participate in these programmes, Rameshwar Dayal, 50, was present at the national convention on Thursday. Employed as a contract worker in Delhi Jal Board for the last ten years, he told Newsclick that such programmes often put pressure on the employers to not shirk away from their responsibilities towards the workers.
“During both the lockdowns – last year and this year – I didn’t receive my monthly salary. The contractor does not even pay any bonus to us,” Dayal lamented, adding that “in such a situation, maybe coming together of the whole workforce will help us get what we deserve.”
Asha Nainwal, 63, from Rajasthan’s Bikaner, held a similar opinion. Nainwal, the state general secretary of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)-Rajasthan, said she believed that unorganised women workers in her state would be more eager than ever to participate in the upcoming general strike.
“There are 50,000 women home-based workers associated with our organisation in Rajasthan. After the pandemic, a common complaint among them has been the cut in their daily earnings that has eventually pushed them to take up loans to keep running the house,” she said.
Nainwal added that the main demand of these informal working women was the introduction of universal social security and the implementation of minimum wage rates. “The women will raise their voices; the government must address their issues soon,” she said.
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The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, as well as has actually been demolished by millennials in outstanding quantities. While it brings a ten-year warranty (the lengthiest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this situation it’s not always a dependable sign of the expected beneficial life of the lifting columns. However, for the rate, the StandDesk is an excellent lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as other Chinese-made desks. In spite of its security problems this is a far better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever before intend to be, as well as a good value on the whole. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide classification of Chinese-made workdesks that is winning over customers from both its more affordable and costlier peers.
StandDesk Building And Construction, Arrangement, and Gadgets
Developing the desk is rather straight forward if you follow the thorough instructions. Every one of the screws, screws, washing machines, as well as spring washers come in separate bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, structure, as well as spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for securing every one of the screws right into the structure, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power device– simply take care not to over-tighten.
Every one of the parts have a high quality surface to them with rounded edges to avoid cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are attached to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!
The foot assembly additionally consists of height-adjustable rotation equipments to support the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was really practical for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m additionally making use of a flooring mat to shield the carpet from chair wheel damage at resting elevation, and push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.
The luxurious controller deserved the investment. The buttons are all variable stress set, implying the up and down arrows will certainly change the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or constantly readjust the height by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the switch for two seconds. The memory switches are comparable in design: press to recall the height setting, or hold the button down for five seconds to keep a brand-new height value. I’m utilizing button 1 for my resting setting and button 4 for my standing setting, which gives me 2 and 3 for anything I could need in the future.
Using my Standdesk
I have actually been making use of the new desk for a couple of weeks as well as have listed my preliminary impressions:
The motors are quiet yet can be heard in the following room over. It takes perhaps 25 seconds for the desk to totally transition from resting to standing based on my presets.
I utilize an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (especially this LX model), creating the desk to obtain a little rough when I shift my weight versus the key-board. In hindsight, I need to have purchased the bar upgrade for my desk after identifying the weight of my monitors. If you intend to do a dual monitor configuration, get the bar.
Since gravity presses the discs in a human back, I require to raise the desk greater in the morning as well as lower it at night.
An anti-fatigue mat is definitely necessary for long period of time standing. I purchased an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are visualized listed below.
Despite any problems I might have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, virtually every one of those issues gotten rid of when I really came down to using this thing.
I really did not think it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be also extra stable than the Jarvis, both at resting as well as standing heights. The majority of days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pushed versus my wall surface; not always since it’s that wobbly, however even if I desire as much stability as I can obtain.
The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, proving to be just as steady on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the firm’s bar enhancement, which they claim adds a lot more security when bought as a part of the bundle deal.When it concerns weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being rated for as much as 350 lbs of weight capability.
I have actually been using the desk for concerning three weeks now for everyday work (as well as complying with standing workdesk best practices), whether it’s inputting out evaluations similar to this one from our desktop or a laptop computer periodically. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, and the surface on top of the desk still really feels just as smooth as well as slick as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and also numerous wipe downs with a cloth.
I never ever intentionally attempt to dent any type of desks as well hard, throughout some lighter tests (throwing a collection of keys onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without too numerous visible indications of damages.
When I determined the noise result of the workdesk while it rose from a resting setting to standing and back again, it was by far the quietest we have actually evaluated. I can hardly get it to make greater than regarding 9.5 dB of noise, so if your biggest issue is the whirr of your motor, this is most definitely the one for you.
Now, typically I don’t consist of much regarding the customer care assistance of any kind of provided company, just since I really feel that generally if an item works the way its meant to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor to call them in the first place. And also while I wish I might say that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I just can’t finish this testimonial without pointing out the countless, apparently countless troubles I came across trying to obtain my desk assembled.
For starters, the desk I was sent didn’t have any kind of memory mobile consisted of originally, which implied I had no chance of in fact controlling the up/down function on the desk itself. I called StandDesk concerning this issue, that returned to me around a day later on with an apology and also a promise that a brand-new one would be shipped out shortly.
Standdesk testimonial handset
The source of all our troubles …
Regarding 4 days later a mobile arrived in the mail. The phone at first activated, however it wasn’t long prior to I observed that none of the programmable buttons worked, nor did the down button, however, for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down feature simply great. I got in touch with the business once again, and also they apologized for the mixup and also said they would certainly have a brand-new panel as well as control box out to me within the week.
Over two weeks later my brand-new panel and control box arrived. Once I mounted them both the desk ultimately began working the method it was expected to, however not after virtually a month of waiting as well as back and forth with a firm that couldn’t keep in mind to ship a core part of their product inside the very same box from the get-go.
Things to Consider
In spite of its bankable features, this stand workdesk also has its very own downsides. Considering that no singular stand desk can catch every one of the features that you may require, you might consider these in your decision-making.
Lack of a Crossbar as requirement
Not having a stabilizing bar is certainly not a deal-breaker, especially considering some of our various other preferred desks such as the Totally Jarvis also don’t have one. This workdesk does have one if you desire, but it is a paid add-on (much more on this later on also).
The crossbar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it tougher to place your legs easily below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they provide added security, usually critical when workdesks are fully expanded.
We have not read any type of issues of the security of this workdesk, so we do not assume its something to truly be concerned regarding, although if you truly desired a workdesk with a bar after that we advise you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.
Conversely, StandDesk does supply a separate add-on crossbar that you can contribute to the desk yourself, just for an added $49.95.
The security of a standing workdesk is just one of the most essential aspects of these desks. Without a steady desk you’ll find it hard to focus, which might cause you becoming less thinking about using the desk at standing height. To get the best return on your financial investment, you’ll wish to be happy when utilizing the desk.
Due To The Fact That the StandDesk Simple is the first workdesk that I have examined with an optional cross support, I will break down my stability tests into two sections. Both tests will certainly consist of the common front to back shaking test as well as a left to best wobble. The initial will certainly lack the cross assistance and the secondly will certainly be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co states that the enhancement of the cross support can boost stability by up to 15%. I have no suggestion how they generated that number.
Without Cross Support
Left to Right: The wobble test was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I examined that wobbled at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking activity misbehaved. Yet point it would influence your job.
With Cross Support
Front to Back: Adding the cross assistance does not influence the shaking activity. The StandDesk Simple started to experienced a rocking movement at 36″. By 41″ the shaking motion was bad.
Delegated Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk improved the wobble motion for reduced elevations. With the cross assistance the wobble movement really did not start until you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble motion came to be poor.
Keep in mind: It’s very essential with adjustable standing workdesks to totally tighten up all hardware. If there is equipment that is not totally limited, the activity experienced when encompassed standing height will certainly be exaggerated. This is specifically real with a workdesk structure that includes 32 screws, there are much a lot of points at which the desk has an opportunity to relocate.
Like all the Chinese bases we have actually checked in our laboratories, we have to tighten our referral on the StandDesk Pro to shorter customers with narrower desktops, as the security just isn’t there for a large mass boosted high off the ground. American-made desks will certainly be much better suited to these applications, and also for a relatively apparent factor. Virtually all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German companies that created this market, as well as their ordinary citizens are a lot taller than the average Asian customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a long period of time ago. And also they have much more robot automation, laser-cutting devices, and also large experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.
If you’re not as well tall, don’t have an inordinate amount of heavy equipment on your desktop, and also do not need too vast of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will provide you great bang for your buck.
All that could alter with Yu’s assured StandDesk Pro 2.0 design that he anticipates to release sometime in the future. Initially we were informed we would certainly see it by June 2018. More than a year later on it has yet to materialize, and also Yu states he’s had difficulty getting the item high quality he needs out of several Chinese factories he’s tried collaborating with. The brand-new style is apparently going to be much easier to put together as well as have a heftier bar layout, among other improvements. He claims the brand-new base will be offered in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” arrangement, minimizing our issue about side-load stressing on the lifting columns.
If this new base ever before involves market we’ll upgrade you below. We’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most recent news on the company is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office as well as has relocated it to join with all its various other workers in southeast Asia.
In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing workdesk with impressive efficiency has been present through the new joint venture in between US-based iMovR and also China-based Eureka, the i1 electrical standing workdesk. While limited in size and also shade choices, it has taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the most effective standing workdesk under $400.


Returning a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown did not buy Elijah Tau-Tolliver a break. He had a few seconds on the sideline to celebrate with his Sacramento State teammates and get a squirt of water before returning to the field for the ensuing kickoff. He was still catching his breath when Kyle Sentkowski put his foot to the ball.
Such is the life of a redshirt freshman who earns his keep by playing on special teams. The Hornets do not need Tau-Tolliver to play at running back because they have sophomore Cameron Skattebo, who is the Offensive Player of the Year in the Big Sky Conference after leading the conference in rushing with 1,251 yards in the regular season.
Skattebo is fourth in the Big Sky with 178 rushing attempts. Senior quarterback Asher O’Hara is third with 189, which he has turned into 894 yards. O’Hara ranks second in the FCS with 19 rushing touchdowns. Skattebo has five. Junior Marcus Fulcher has run for 366 yards and two more touchdown runs than Skattebo on 113 fewer carries.
Those three backs have combined for 432 of the Hornets’ 532 rushing attempts. Tau-Tolliver has 23 carries for 175 yards, but most of his action has come during garbage time in lopsided victories against Utah Tech and Eastern Washington. Returning kickoffs and averaging 27.6 yards per return have made him valuable for the Hornets.
That was never more apparent than in last Saturday’s 38-31 win over Richmond in the second round of the FCS playoffs. The Hornets trailed 21-17 at halftime after scoring with 19 seconds to go in the second quarter. Tau-Tolliver said the talk in the locker room centered around receiving the second-half kickoff and getting off to a fast start.
Sacramento State came out of the break with momentum after cutting into a 21-7 deficit with a field goal and touchdown in the second quarter. The touchdown capped a nine-play, 66-yard drive that took just 95 seconds. Senior quarterback Jake Dunniway completed four of seven passes for 65 yards and Fulcher scored on a 1-yard run.
Tau-Tolliver figured he was due to break a return when the kickoff by Richmond’s Jake Larsen landed in his arms. And Sacramento State was overdue to score after winning the coin toss and deferring to receive the second-half kickoff. The Hornets deferred four times during the regular season without a single point to show for those decisions.
The fifth time was a charm and Tau-Tolliver provided it. The call was for a return to the right and Tau-Tolliver thought he could outrun two Richmond players charging from the left that the Hornets opted not to block. Those two players arrived faster than he expected, however, so he had to change course and looked to his left for room to run.
Tau-Tolliver followed Skattebo, who cleared the way with a crushing block on Tristan Wheeler. Tau-Tolliver then “turned on the jets,” put a spin move on Trae Tomlinson and skipped away from Kaiden Pritchett after Pritcheet dove at his ankles. He was escorted along the sideline and to the end zone by Darian Pollard, who cut off Larsen and then raised his arms to avoid the risk of being penalized for clipping.
His return was the Hornets’ third for a touchdown this season. The first two were unconventional with Skattebo and tight end Marshel Martin scoring after fielding onside kicks. Tau-Tolliver’s return tied the fifth longest in the program’s history. Mario Bobino and James Ferguson had 100-yard returns in 1984 and 1985, respectively. Tau-Tolliver had a 98-yard return as a senior at Reed High in Sparks, Nev., against Damonte Ranch in 2021.
Sacramento State had a season-high 472 yards of total offense against Richmond. Dunniway finished with a season-high 317 passing yards despite having to throw a rain-soaked ball. He tied the score at 31-all early in the fourth quarter with a 19-yard touchdown pass to Martin on third-and-19. O’Hara broke the tie with 6:28 remaining by lofting a 51-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Pierre Williams.
The pass was the longest of O’Hara’s career and tied Dunniway for the Hornets’ longest this season. Sacramento State had two 100-yard receivers in a game for the first time since 2019. Martin set career highs for receptions (10) and receiving yards (148) in the fourth 100-yard game of his career. The junior caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from O’Hara in the first quarter to give the Hornets a 7-0 lead. Williams caught four passes for 107 yards, reaching the century mark for the 10th time in four seasons.
Second-seeded Sacramento State will put its 12-0 record on the line Friday night when No. 7 Incarnate Word (11-1) visits Hornet Stadium. The teams do not have a common opponent, but there is one connection. Incarnate Word beat Nevada 55-41, Nevada lost 17-14 to Colorado State and Sacramento State routed Colorado State 41-10.


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Presented Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after OO Shalimov ” of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
Ph.D. Bubalo OF, MD Bury OM, MD Kolesnik TV, Kosyukhno SV, MD Lavrik AS, MD Mitchenko OI, MD Perekhrestenko OV, MD Tivonchuk OS
The series of scientific works is devoted to a topical issue - the treatment of patients with metabolic disorders caused by obesity. Metabolic disorders that occur against the background of obesity are key in the development of severe complications that contribute to increased disability and mortality. And the annual growth of patients with type 2 diabetes determines the need to find new treatments, including surgery.
The authors developed a comprehensive approach to optimizing and improving the diagnosis and treatment of obese patients through the development and implementation of new clinical diagnostic algorithms and treatment protocols for patients with metabolic syndrome, based on an interdisciplinary approach with the active involvement of endocrinologists and cardiologists.
The main metabolic disorders, which are the main pathogenetic links caused by obesity, are studied and described, new approaches to the diagnosis and conservative treatment of such patients are developed, new surgical operations on the digestive tract are developed and implemented in health care. obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Introduced new minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques have improved treatment outcomes by reducing the incidence of complications.
Number of publications: monograph 1, 206 articles. The total number of references to the authors' publications / h-index of the work, according to the databases, is Scopus - 398/17, Google Shcolar - 3482/36. Received 20 patents of Ukraine for inventions.


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Baby GUND Tucker Giraffe Keywind Musical Stuffed Animal Plush, 9"
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GUND is proud to introduce Tucker — a cute and cuddly 9" giraffe that will take baby on a safari of fun! Features a winding key on the back that plays “Hush Little Baby” in soft tones that soothe and relax — perfect for young composers! Tucker’s head moves along with the music while the song is playing. Gender-neutral coloring and design are a unique alternative to traditional pink and blue baby toys. Your child’s safety is our top concern, so all babyGUND products feature embroidered eye and nose details. Tucker is available in several other formats, including rattles and plush toys. Surface-washable. About GUND: For more than 100 years, GUND has been a premier plush company recognized worldwide for quality innovative products. Building upon our award-winning and beloved plush designs, we continue to practice innovation by constantly developing new original and licensed designs to appeal to the next generation of customers. To that end, each one of our plush toys is constructed from premium materials for unparalleled softness and huggability.
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A rich and decadent chocolate fudge dip swirled with caramel and crushed Twix bars makes for a truly amazing dip or dessert! Get ready to make a few batches of this Twix Dip because everyone is going to inhale this!
What is a Twix Bar?
There is nothing better looking to me than the combination of chocolate, caramel, and buttery shortbread. Well, my family is better looking but I can’t eat them so this is second best.
So naturally, I crave Twix candy bars. Just like potato chips, I can’t eat just one so I am always so grateful that there are two bars in that package.
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So what’s Twix Cookies made of?
To love a Twix you have to love all the components. All three of them! Three simple ingredients that come together in perfect harmony.
- Creamy milk chocolate
- Buttery caramel
- Crispy shortbread cookie
If you prefer to call the shortbread cookie a biscuit like the British do, that’s ok as well. I don’t care if you call it “ridiculous crunchy layer” as long as I can eat it!!
Because I am a dark chocolate fan, I was very happy when they came out with a dark chocolate version of my beloved candy bar. Do you prefer milk or dark chocolate?
Thinking about Twix all day gets me in the mood to eat more than a few bars! It also got me thinking that I might want to make a dip to a party that mimics the Twix bar so I don’t’ have to sneak my mini bars in my pocket and sneak-eat them in the garage while pretending to get more sodas.
A Twix only has three ingredients so a dip is pretty easy to throw together! I’m going to start with my typical dessert dip base of cream cheese and powdered sugar. I have used this base in my other dips like my Drunken Cherry Garcia Dip, my Boozy Banana Cream Pie Dip, and my Oatmeal Cream Pie Dip!
So now that we have the base, next stop, chocolate!
What’s the best way to add chocolate to your dip to mimic the Twix cookies?
You can add in straight cocoa powder, or stir in melted chocolate if you want. The only problem with the latter is the cold dip base. Cold cream cheese will cause the melted chocolate to solidify and any residual water in the dip will also cause it to seize up so this is not a good idea!
I like to go with another option, which adds creaminess to the dip, and is super easy: chocolate pudding. Chocolate FUDGE pudding to be exact. I haven’t found a box of dark chocolate pudding yet so I usually go with the fudge flavor.
If you are the type to snub your nose up at boxed instant pudding, feel free to make your own from scratch, but I really do love a good shortcut so I’m cool with the instant pudding.
Just make sure you use less milk than the package instructions so the dip doesn’t get too loose. It’s a dip and not Twix soup. Although a Twix soup does sound interesting to me…
The rest of the Twix dip comes together pretty easily. With the chocolate fudge pudding, cream cheese, and powdered sugar already in the bowl, add some chopped up Twix bars and a drizzle of caramel sauce and we are done! Again with the caramel sauce, feel free to make your own like I did in my Pumpkin Apple Punch or you can do another shortcut and buy some already made🙂
FAQ about Twix Dip:
- Q: Can I make this ahead of time?
A: Yes, you can! Just add the chopped Twix bars on the top just before serving so they don’t get soggy.
- Q: Can I use vanilla pudding?
A: Yes, you can. I would miss the chocolate but you can always add chocolate chips or more chopped Twix bars to compensate for it.
You might be thinking that those few pieces of Twix bars in the dip are not enough shortbread to get the true texture of a Twix in the dip so I use shortbread cookies to inhale, I mean scoop, the Twix dip in my mouth. These shortbread cookies complete the whole picture by adding crunch and that distinct buttery flavor!!
Get your Twix on in a classy way with a bowl of this Twix dip! Decadent chocolate, creamy caramel, and crispy shortbread cookies all wrapped up in one beautiful bowl!
Looking for a sweet dip to take to a party you’ve been invited to? Check out all my sweet dips to fit your special occasion!
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MORE PARTY FOODS
- creamy chocolate fudge
- hot fudge sauce
- dark chocolate fudge
- almond shortbread
- butter pecan fudge
- snickers dip
Easy Twix Dip Recipe
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened) 1/4 cup prepared caramel sauce 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1.5 cups prepared chocolate fudge pudding
- 4 fun size Twix bars shortbread cookies for serving
Prepare the chocolate fudge pudding
- Prepare the pudding using 1.5 cups of milk instead of 2.
- Let set up in the fridge for 5 minutes.
Make the Twix dip
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar.
- Beat until fluffy and completely combined.
- Add the pudding.
- Mix slowly until fully incorporated.
- Chop the Twix bars into small pieces.
- Add the chopped Twix bars and stir by hand.
- Add the caramel sauce by drizzling it over the dip and stirring by hand.
- Chill for at least 10 minutes or until ready to serve.
- Serve with shortbread cookies for a crunchy dipping experience!
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Nutrition Information:Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 502Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 428mgCarbohydrates: 98gFiber: 1gSugar: 94gProtein: 3g
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My Thoughts on Soybeans
Apr 13, 2011
A Deeper Look Into The Soybean Trade
I have had a lot of calls as of late about Soybeans. If you look back on reports at the end of March and the beginning of April, I told you to consider being long corn and short soybeans. I hope some of you took that information to the bank, as it has been a terrific play. Moving forward however you have to wonder how much of the bearish news the trade already has priced into to the soybean market. My buddy, Andy Daniels, made a great analogy yesterday. Explaining that if you were to look back to the beginning of 2011, the trade had us all convinced that China would be buying 60 million metric tons of soybean in 2011, now it looks more like they will only be buying 53-54 million metric tons at best. Also take into account that we were all thinking the Brazilian soybean crop would be around 66 million metric tons and the Argentine crop was going to be around 46 million metric tons. Today the market is thinking more like 72 million metric tons for Brazil and maybe over 50 million metric tons now for Argentine. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out with China reducing their demand for soybeans by 6 million metric tons, and South America producing an additional 10-12 million metric tons of soybeans that the trade is now trying to digest and figure out what they are going to do with an extra 16 to 18 million metric tons of soybeans. Because of these thoughts the bean trade has fallen apart versus the corn trade. The market essentially has been able to justify the lack of fewer soybean acres being planted because of setbacks in demand and a boost in production. Let's take this one step further however and conclude that we are not the only birds in the nest that know which way is up. In other words, most who are on top of this market know this information and that is exactly why it has been under extensive pressure in comparison to corn. Do I think there is more room to push beans lower? Certainly, especially if money-flow continues to scale back, and China cancels more shipments. I do however feel a ton of the "bearish" news has been priced into the market. Those cards have been turned over and are no longer in the deck. Leaving the deck now with a slight "bullish" count. You have the weather cards still in play, you have the thought of China cutting more soybean acres in play, you have political issues and unknowns in Argentine, you have a rapidly rising Brazilian currency compared to the US Dollar, you really only have one way that Chinese crush margins can go from here (and that is up). Yes, the soybean market has been the dog of the group, but deservedly so. Moving forward, I doubt it becomes the leader, but I am starting to like the risk to reward in relevance to both corn and wheat. We still need to produce a crop, and we still do not know for sure how many acres will be planted, I think after news of falling Chinese demand is digested you have to try and start hunting for bargains in the bean market. I just wanted to give you some thoughts on where I think beans are headed and what has happened recently in their markets...
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If fabric is indeed the fabric of fashion life in Italy--and it is--this city's new role model for fall might well be called the Material Girl. Like the one Madonna sings about, our heroine is not interested in being overlooked, saving money or investing in a little black dress. She's strong enough to swagger around in 10 yards of alpaca. She's bold enough to layer glen plaid over cashmere over covert cloth and still keep her curves intact. And she's perhaps the only woman in the world who can carry off a gabardine sarong, knee-high boots, a silk blouse, a wool sweater, a duvetyne jacket and a houndstooth over-jacket without looking like a victim of the remnants table.
As our preview photographs by Franco Rossi indicate, the new fall ready-to-wear collections--scheduled to open here this weekend--will continue to advance the cause of clothes that are both commercially sound and intrinsically valuable. Unlike the French, who interpret fashion in terms of hats-and-gloves hauteur , or the British, who see it as a satirical spoof of shock and outrage, Milanese designers have made friends and influenced retailers the world over by dealing in salable sportswear for the super sports.
Giorgio Armani, for example, has created the world's most perfect blazers. His influence on what real people wear every day on the streets of Los Angeles began with the blazer, zoomed to new heights with his ideas of fashion androgyny and is now so taken for granted that there are Armani fans who can tell you which season a jacket was introduced by the placement of the notch in the lapel. Armani's new idea for fall is a woven jacket that is cut long, then pushed up around the body to form the sweater-like folds of a push-up sleeve.
What Armani has done for the jacket, Gianni Versace has done for pants. The modern-day jodhpur started with Versace. So did the idea of pants that blouse around the ankles. And the notion of mixing your media by wearing leather pants with satin blouses or matte jersey dhotis with leather jackets. For fall,Versace focuses on the skirt--seductive, drape-front skirts that promise to do as much for the legs as the Versace pant.
Gianfranco Ferre, the city's reigning fashion architect, continues to soften his viewpoint for fall, adding more sweep to his coats, more shape to his skirts. For this master of hip-fitting proportion, the kimono remains a constant ally, not as a literal translation from the Japanese, but as the international fashion shape of today.
Mariuccia Mandelli of Krizia, the resident wit of Milanese fashion and the woman who has made animal sweaters a fashion art form, won't reveal the next pet up her sleeve, but she does say she likes the idea of a big, black silk velvet jacket with matching jodhpurs. Her original illustration for Fashion85 has a court-page ring to it. Or maybe it's not a page, but a jester.
Karl Lagerfeld continues to fling fur on fur in his new designs for Fendi, combining long hairs with short hairs for a new kind of bi-pelt classicism. Claude Montana's new look for Complice takes tights from the exercise salon to the streets.
And Laura Biagiotti leaves little doubt that miles of cashmere over miles of cashmere is a fashion road worth traveling.
For Luciano Soprani, the new direction is short--as in classic trousers cropped at the ankles and in body-conscious weskits that stop at the waistline.
Throughout Milan, there's a lot of talk about color, as the subtle tweeds and smoky flannels of the androgynous years give way to the new chromatics. Fashion's new vivid mood begins with the coat--as in Mario Valentino's egg-shape design in orange shearling and Soprani's violet cashmere mantle. And it ends with Versace's gold lame fireworks for Genny.
In between are the usual nonpareil tweeds developed by Armani for Erreuno and the electric knit works of the Missonis.

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