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During her 1980 stay in New York, in which she first rehearsed her celebrated Violin Phase to the music of Steve Reich, the only other recording playing in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's studio was the Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach. Thirty-five years later, De Keersmaeker continues her work with the piece. “Like no other, Bach's music carries within itself movement and dance, managing to combine the greatest abstraction with a concrete, physical and, subsequently, even transcendental dimension.”
The Brandenburg Concertos consist of six concerti grossi, in which Bach deploys the instruments from the baroque orchestra in different, often audacious constellations. Against this backdrop, De Keersmaeker sets sixteen dancers originating in different Rosas generations. Following the premiere of Mitten wir im Leben sind / Bach6Cellosuiten De Keersmaeker approaches, as in Vortex Temporum (2013), Bach's music as if it were a ready-made score for a dance piece, embodying Bach's polyphonic mastery. The concertos are played live by the baroque ensemble B'Rock. Violinist Amandine Beyer, with whom De Keersmaeker previously co-operated for Partita 2, will conduct the orchestra.
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music director: Amandine Beyer
Musicians: B'Rock Orchestra
Created with and danced by Boštjan Antončič, Carlos Garbin, Frank Gizycki, Marie Goudot, Robin Haghi, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Michaël Pomero, Jason Respilieux, Igor Shyshko, Luka Švajda, Jakub Truszkowski, Thomas Vantuycom, Samantha van Wissen, Sandy Williams, Sue Yeon Youn
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051


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We own the sire and dam of these puppies. They were born in our home. They had their dew claws removed, tails docked, and wormed every two weeks. They will have their third set of vaccinations in two weeks. If interested please call 276-594-6884 ask for Carol.
*We have only one male left that is three months old.
These pups can be registered CKC.
This breed makes excellent pets for all ages. They are loveable and love to lay on laps. They stay indoors nicely but like to go outside to explore, run, and play. This breed is a wonderful companion and are totally satisfied staying indoors and taking naps.

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Chichi Scholl reaches quarters
BAD GASTEIN, Austria -- Chichi Scholl of the United States defeated sixth-seeded Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania 6-3, 6-4 to reach quarterfinals at the Gastein Ladies tournament on Thursday.
The 190th-ranked Scholl will play Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan, who beat Sarah Gronert 6-2, 6-3.
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Cornet defeated Sacha Jones of Australia 6-3, 6-2 and will play Estrella Cabeza Candela of Spain, who beat Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp 6-4, 6-3.
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A Collection of Inspiring Humans, #1
When Ruthy started the school year, she, like many of us, had no idea it would turn out this way. 2020 would be the year she would see one of her favourite artists in concert, she would perform with the Concert of Independent Schools Music Festival orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall, and in the summer, she would volunteer at a hospital. She was looking forward to so many wonderful things, and then, all of a sudden…nothing.
“I was really upset and angry when I slowly heard the news of my events getting cancelled and even school being closed. I didn’t know how to process it all and it felt like someone pressed pause on my life,” she wrote in her essay entitled “Without Music, Life would B-Flat”. “I thought it was a joke when my school, which has had 1 snow day in the past 15 years, would be closed until this pandemic was over.”
Scott Berinato of the Harvard Business Review wrote that the discomfort so many of us are feeling during this time is grief.
“There’s denial, which we say a lot of early on: This virus won’t affect us. There’s anger: You’re making me stay home and taking away my activities. There’s bargaining: Okay, if I social distance for two weeks everything will be better, right? There’s sadness: I don’t know when this will end. And finally there’s acceptance. This is happening; I have to figure out how to proceed.”
So, instead of drowning in a sea of Netflix and pity, she figured out how to proceed. Except, she did more than just that; she decided to do something good, something meaningful; she would use her talents for good by offering free virtual music lessons to people of all ages.
We sat down with her (virtually, of course) to ask her a bit about herself and how she turned that grief into something beautiful.
What made you want to start offering virtual music lessons?
When COVID-19 and social distancing first started, I mostly just sat at home all day watching Netflix, reading books, and occasionally practicing piano and violin, and after a while, I felt that I should be doing something more meaningful. Music has always been a big part of my life and something that I enjoyed a lot, and I have always wanted to share my passion for music with others. So I thought a lot about it and talked with my parents, and we came up with the idea of free virtual music lessons. Other people are also just at home probably doing nothing, so COVID-19 would be the perfect opportunity to teach them something new and give them a creative outlet.
What is your favourite virtual music lesson moment?
I teach both one-on-one lessons and group lessons with my mom’s colleagues’ kids. In the group lessons, I play the guitar while the kids sing and dance along. There was one time when we sang the song “Old MacDonald Had A Farm”, I would show them an animal stuffy and they would act like that animal. It was really cute and funny; they enjoyed it a lot. We also do group crafts sessions, and one lesson I was teaching them how to make a guitar out of materials at home like a shoebox. After the lesson, one dad sent me a photo of his daughter smiling happily while holding the guitar she had just made; I realized then how my small actions can really make a big difference in someone’s day during this difficult time.
What do you love about SCS?
My favourite thing about SCS is the many friendships I have made. I have become close friends with not only many people in my own grade, but also girls in younger and older grades. SCS provides this sense of close community that makes us comfortable to interact with each other. Since I arrived in Grade 3, I have made friendships that will definitely last longer than my time here at SCS; many people here are like family to me.
What is your favourite musical memory at SCS?
When my friends and I started a “band” last year and performed together for the first time at recital night. I played the piano, Sam and Charlotte played the guitar, Naledi played the drums, and we all sang. We performed the song “Trust Fund Baby” by the boy band Why Don’t We, who we were obsessed with at the time. It was challenging because we had to arrange the music ourselves and figure out how to play it so it would sound best together, but it was really fun and definitely worth the many early morning practices before school.
What do you miss most about SCS?
There has not been one day at SCS that has gone by without me having a good laugh with all my classmates. I miss the random funny comments in the middle of class and I miss sitting in the halls and talking and laughing with my friends. Even though we can still see each other on Google Meet, I can’t give my friend a hug or steal my friend’s food in the lunchroom.
What’s on your playlist right now?
Currently, I am always listening to the song “Six Feet Apart” by Alec Benjamin because it’s a song about the challenges of quarantine, which is very relatable now, and I’m learning it on the guitar. I mostly listen to artists and not specific songs, and I currently love Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Alec Benjamin, and Louis Tomlinson. I also love the soundtrack of the Korean drama on Netflix called Crash Landing On You (which was really good and I highly recommend).
If you could have a dinner party with three musicians, who would they be?
If I could have a dinner party with 3 musicians, I would choose Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran and if I could choose someone who is dead, then Beethoven. Shawn Mendes is my favourite singer and he has inspired me in a lot of ways. First, he is from Ontario which makes me realize how his life was probably just like mine before he became famous. He is also a talented songwriter and the tunes of his songs are very catchy and the lyrics are meaningful. He has songs for me to listen to in every mood I’m in. “Never Be Alone” and “Hold On” are always my go-to songs when I’m feeling sad. I was also at his concert at Rogers Centre and it was one of the best nights of my life. I would choose Ed Sheeran to be another guest at my dinner party because he is a crazy talented singer and I admire his personality. I can never get enough of his slow guitar songs and even though he’s probably one of the most famous singers in the world, he is a very grounded and humble person. I love learning/playing Shawn Mendes and Ed Sheeran songs on the guitar and piano. Lastly, I would choose Beethoven because he is an insanely talented composer and even today, all his music is very popular. He is my favourite classical music composer and I love playing his music because it is so expressive. I really want to ask him how he had the mind and creativity to write so much good music.
What is something that SCS has taught you that you’ll keep with you forever?
SCS has taught me the importance of community and helping each other. It is not only supporting each other in the tight-knit community here at SCS, but also helping and volunteering in the larger community and beyond. I have learnt that even when volunteering in the larger community, it all starts from one small action and helping one person. From volunteering at St. Clement’s Church, caroling in the Junior School, the Horizons program at Stanley Public School, and being part of the Community Committee, I have truly been able to experience the joy that comes from one small action and how it can have a bigger effect than what you had imagined. I have also been on the receiving end of the support and kindness from people at SCS and I cannot express enough gratitude for those people who went out of their way to support me and care for me.

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Attorney General of Maryland — Opinion
October 2, 1997
Municipalities — Administrative Law —Disqualification of Legislator in Quasi-JudicialProceeding
The Honorable James S. Grimes Mayor of Frederick City Hall 101 North Court Street Frederick, Maryland 21701
J. JOESPH CURRAN, JR.
Dear Mayor Grimes:
You have requested our opinion on the law governing recusal of a member of the Board of Aldermen for the City of Frederick who is a decision maker in a quasi-judicial proceeding. Specifically, you ask if the member is required to recuse himself or herself, to quote your letter, “from participating in any discussion, consideration, deliberation and vote on a matter on which the public official has already publicly stated his or her opinion and decision in advance of hearing the facts and evidence in the case.” You also ask if the Board of Aldermen has the authority to disqualify a member from participating in a quasi-judicial proceeding if a majority of the board concludes that the member has prejudged the matter.
Our opinion is as follows: Although the concept of “prejudgment” ordinarily has no legal significance for a legislator, when a legislator is a decision maker in a quasi-judicial proceeding, the legislator is subject to the standards applicable to that kind of proceeding. Accordingly, a member of the Board of Aldermen should not participate as a decision maker in a quasi-judicial proceeding if the member has prejudged the specific matters at issue in the proceeding. Also, the board itself has the authority to disqualify a member for prejudgment.
The legal issues that you present arise from a meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen for the City of Frederick on July 23, 1997. At that session, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen convened to review the recommendation of the City’s Personnel Board on the employment status of a City employee, an administrator at a City arts center.
As we understand the situation, the employee was terminated for alleged violations of the City’s personnel regulations. The employee then appealed her termination to the City’s Personnel Board, which held a hearing on the appeal. Under § 129(c) of the Frederick City Charter, the Personnel Board “report[s] . . . its findings and recommendations” to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The July 23 meeting was to consider the Personnel Board’s recommendation that the employee be reinstated. The City agency that had terminated the employee opposed this recommendation.
The Deputy City Attorney, representing the City agency, submitted a motion for an Alderman to recuse herself from any participation in the Board’s decision making. The basis for the motion was alleged bias and prejudgment — that certain statements alleged to have been made by the Alderman prior to the July 23 hearing evidenced her inability to decide impartially about the Personnel Board’s recommendation, based on the evidence and other material on the record. When the Alderman declined to recuse herself, the Board then disqualified her from participation in its consideration of the matter.
Your questions do not call on us to assess the statements made by the Alderman and their context, so that we might decide independently whether they evidence the bias and partiality alleged by the Deputy City Attorney in the recusal motion. We would not do so in any event, for an opinion of the Attorney General is not a forum in which a factual record is assembled and, on that basis, the propriety of a local elected official’s comments judged. Instead, we limit ourselves to the legal questions posed: the distinction between legislative and quasi-judicial roles, the standards for recusal in a quasi-judicial proceeding, and the authority of an elected body to disqualify one of its members in a quasi-judicial proceeding when the body determines that the member has prejudged the matter.
II The Board’s Role — Legislative or Quasi-Judicial?
The premise of your opinion request is that the members of the Board of Aldermen were “acting in a quasi-judicial capacity” when they met to consider the Personnel Board’s recommendation. This premise warrants careful scrutiny, because, as we explain in Part III below, the concept of “prejudgment” has no legal significance if a legislator is performing a legislative, as distinct from a quasi-judicial, role.
“Not all actions undertaken by local governmental bodies that have legislative responsibilities are necessarily `legislative.'”Roberson v. Mullins, 29 F.3d 132, 134 (4th Cir. 1994) (legislative immunity not available in suit over county board’s termination of employee). As the Fourth Circuit pointed out in another legislative immunity case, “Local government bodies often undertake actions in different capacities, including executive, administrative, legislative, and even judicial.” Alexander v. Holden, 66 F.3d 62, 65 (4th Cir. 1995).
Even within a particular field — here, personnel decision making — a local legislative body may act in different capacities. “Almost all budget decisions,” for example, “have an effect on employment by either creating or eliminating positions or by raising or lowering salaries. This reality, however, does not transform a uniquely legislative function into an administrative one.” Rateree v. Rockett, 852 F.2d 946, 950 (7th Cir. 1988). “If the underlying facts on which the decisions are based are legislative facts, such as generalizations concerning a policy or state of affairs, then the decision is legislative.”Cutting v. Muzzey, 724 F.2d 259, 261 (1st Cir. 1984) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted). In addition, “a legislative body’s discipline of one of its own members is a core legislative act. . . .” Whitener v. McWatters, 112 F.2d 740, 741 (4th Cir. 1997).
When a legislative body decides whether to fire a particular employee, however, it is not engaged in a legislative function See Whitener v. McWatters, 112 F.3d at 742; Alexander v. Holden, 66 F.3d at 66. In a termination proceeding, facts are adjudicated to determine the rights and obligations of particular parties. The proceeding, therefore, is adjudicatory or “quasi-judicial.” Mossburg v. Montgomery County, 329 Md. 494, 506, 620 A.2d 886 (1993).
“[A] board or department, especially the council, may be clothed with quasi-judicial power to remove municipal officers.” 4 Charles R. P. Keating and J. Jeffrey Reinholtz, McQuillan Municipal Corporations § 12.233, at 380 (3d ed. 1992). That is the role assigned to the Board of Aldermen by § 129 of the Frederick City Charter. To be sure, the Board of Aldermen did not itself hear witnesses. It was, however, the final decision maker in an adjudicatory proceeding. Hence, its role, like that of the Personnel Board, was quasi-judicial. The choice of a quasi-judicial process implies that the legal standards customarily applicable to that process are to be followed.
III Standards for Recusal
When a member of the Board of Aldermen acts in a legislative capacity, the member is allowed and even expected to “prejudge” the merits of a pending proposal. A legislator generally is free to make up his or her mind about an issue long before the vote and on the basis of whatever information the legislator deems pertinent. Those who think that the legislator’s decision making is flawed, in its method or outcome, have but one remedy: at the ballot box. A legislator is also free to say what he or she wishes, as part of the legislative process, subject only to censure by the legislative body (and, ultimately, the judgment of the voters). See Whitener v. McWatters, 112 F.3d at 743-44.
Nevertheless, when an elected official holds an office that has quasi-judicial functions, the elected official must comply with the legal requirements that attach to that aspect of the office. One such legal requirement is that a decision maker who exercises judicial or quasi-judicial powers is under a duty to be fair and make an impartial decision based on the facts and the law in each case. This requirement, “essential to the administration of justice,” applies to any public body that exercises judicial or quasi-judicial authority. Board of Medical Examiners v. Steward, 203 Md. 574, 581-82, 102 A.2d 248 (1953). So, for example, the Court of Special Appeals recently suggested that “[p]ersonal bias or prejudice” might disqualify a member of a county council from participating in an adjudicatory proceeding. Colao v. Prince George’s County, 109 Md. App. 431, 467, 675 A.2d 148 (1996), aff’d 346 Md. 342 (1997). See also, e.g., Montgomery County Board of Appeals v. Walker, 228 Md. 574, 580-81, 180 A.2d 865 (1961) (public official must perform duties with “complete fidelity” and must not have any personal bias or prejudice in the outcome of a case). Cf. Maryland Rule 16-813 (recusal of judge whose “impartiality might be questioned” on the basis of personal bias or prejudice); COMAR 28.02.01.08 (recusal of administrative law judge for personal bias or any reason that renders the judge unable to make an impartial decision).
Impartiality does not imply the absence of a point of view, even one expressed before the adjudication is over. As Judge Jerome Frank once wrote, “If `bias’ and `partiality’ be defined to mean the total absence of preconceptions . . . then no one has ever had a fair trial and no one ever will. The human mind . . . is no blank piece of paper. . . . Interest, points of view, preferences, are the essence of living.” In re Linahan, 138 F.2d 650, 651-52
(2d Cir. 1943). So, for example, a federal judge’s “remarks during the course of a trial that are critical or disapproving of, or even hostile to, counsel, the parties, or their cases . . . do not support a bias or partiality challenge . . . [unless] they reveal such a high degree of favoritism or antagonism as to make fair judgment impossible.” Liteky v. United States, 510 U.S. 540, 554 (1994) (applying statutory provision on disqualification of federal judges for “personal bias or prejudice”). Similarly, an adjudicatory decision maker is free to participate in a proceeding even with stated policy predispositions: a “strong conviction or a crystallized point of view on questions of law and policy are not grounds for disqualification.” American Cyanamid Co. v. FTC, 363 F.2d 757, 764 (6th Cir. 1966) (internal quotation marks omitted). As the Supreme Court summarized the point, a decision maker is not disqualified “simply because he has taken a position, even in public, on a policy issue related to the dispute, in the absence of a showing that he is not capable of judging a particular controversy fairly on the basis of its own circumstances.”Hortonville Joint School District No. 1 v. Hortonville Educ. Ass’n, 426 U.S. 482, 493 (1976) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted).
As the Hortonville decision implies, the line of disqualifying prejudgment is crossed if, while the case is pending, the decision maker announces a judgment about adjudicative facts — “issues of who did what, where, when, how, why, and with what motive or intent.” 2 Kenneth Culp Davis and Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Administrative Law Treatise § 9.8, at 78 (3d ed. 1994). For example, in Cinderella Career and Finishing Schools, Inc. v. FTC, 425 F.2d 583 (D.C. Cir. 1970), the chairman of the FTC was disqualified because he had delivered a speech in which he denounced as deceptive the very advertising that was the subject of a pending FTC adjudication. These public comments, the court observed, “give the appearance that he had already prejudged the case and that the ultimate determination of the merits will move in predestined grooves.” 425 F.2d at 590.
IV Board’s Recusal Authority Over Its Members
Nothing in the Frederick City Charter, ordinances, or rules of the Board of Aldermen specifically mentions the recusal of members for bias in a quasi-judicial proceeding.
Nevertheless, in our opinion this power exists under the board’s general authority to have “all powers possible . . . under the Constitution and the laws of the State of Maryland as fully and completely as though they were specifically enumerated in the Charter.” Article V, § 35-B of the Charter.
For the reasons stated in Part III above, a quasi-judicial process requires that decisions be made without the participation of an official who has prejudged a case. If a public body lacked the power to prevent this participation, it would be frustrated in the conduct of its quasi-judicial business, because a decision in which a biased decision maker participates may be challenged. See Montgomery County v. Walker, 228 Md. at 580-81. See also Pratt v. Mayor Council, 89 A.2d 1 (N.J. 1942) (decision in a quasi-judicial proceeding is void when member has personal interest in the case); Meixell v. Borough Council, 88 A.2d 594
(Pa. 1952) (vote of biased council member does not count). See generally Mason’s Manual of Legislative Procedure XIV (1989) (to be valid, a public body’s decision must not violate any law). Since the Board of Aldermen has “all powers possible” under State law in furtherance of its explicit duty to sit as final decision maker in a quasi-judicial proceeding, the board has the implied power to disqualify any member who has prejudged a quasi-judicial proceeding.
As we noted at the outset, we are not going to sit in judgment of the statements and actions of the Alderman or the correctness of the board’s decision to disqualify her. Whether disqualifying personal bias or prejudgment is present “is a factual question and is governed by the circumstances of the case.” Walker, 228 Md. at 180. For example, to the extent that the Alderman’s comments reflected policy judgments about the running of an arts center or the right qualifications of its administrator, the comments were not disqualifying. If her comments, however, reflected an already settled view of the particular points to be adjudicated in the personnel hearing process, the comments were disqualifying. A majority of the Board of Aldermen evidently concluded that the latter was the case, and the board had the legal authority to act on that conclusion by disqualifying her.
Very truly yours,
J. Joseph Curran, Jr. Attorney General
Jack Schwartz Chief Counsel Opinions Advice
Craig A. Nielsen Assistant Attorney General
§ 10-220 of the State Government Article, Maryland Code.


Prince Edward’s planned visit to South Carolina on Monday has been cancelled according to reports in the local media.
The Earl of Wessex was due to visit the Southeastern state at the beginning of next week. However, the visit has now been called off according to the Aiken Standard.
Speaking to the publication, Lt. Karl Odenthal of the Aiken Department of Public Safety said that the weather was the main contributing factor for the visit being cancelled.
The Queen’s youngest son was due to visit the city of Aiken on Monday as part of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Real Tennis Tour.
He was also due to attend a lunch in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Hurricane Florence struck South Carolina this week, with Aiken County being hit by strong winds and heavy rainfall.
According to the National Weather Service, tropical storm conditions may continue to be present in Aiken over the weekend.
Prince Edward’s visit to the city was likely cancelled as a precautionary measure, taking into account the safety of his party and people who may want to come out to get a glimpse of the royal.
It is unknown whether arrangements can be made for the Earl to visit the city at a later date, but the cancelled engagements are still listed in the royal diary.
Prince Edward is currently on a 12-day tour of the United States as part of a year-long program to celebrate the activities of young people and volunteers around the world.


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Mental Health Awareness Month
Quality of care for Veteran’s includes raising awareness around important health topics. By highlighting some of the national health awareness campaigns each month, Veterans can get ideas, information, and resources on a variety of health matters.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we’re here to inform Veterans on the conditions that surround mental health and how to seek help if you are risk.
Mental health problems can cause changes in thinking, feelings, behavior, and physical activity, but it can be difficult to tell if you or your loved ones are impacted by a mental illness. Without seeking help, mental health issues could potentially impact careers, families, social interactions, and overall health.
Some signs and symptoms of mental health conditions may include:
• Feeling nervous or very sad
• Weakness and muscle tension
• Headaches or other physical pain
• Irritability or anger
• Having less energy, motivation, or interests
• Problems functioning at home, work, or school
• Problems with attention, concentration, or memory
• Changes in sleep, appetite, weight, or intimate activities
• Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, or hopelessness
• Unhealthy behaviors (misusing drugs, alcohol, food, or excessive spending to cope with stress)
Below are some of the common mental health conditions. Click on the links below to learn more about each condition.
• Bipolar Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Along with the delivery of quality and effective treatment for mental health the VA also strives to provide the best mental healthcare possible by focusing on research and recovery. VA offers a wide range of mental health services. In fact, VA is the largest single provider of mental health care in the country.
What can you do? The most important thing to remember is to talk with your primary care or mental health care provider when something is bothering you, or if you’re having any problems. Your health care team is there to help you figure out what’s going on and what to do about it.
If you or a loved one is experiencing any of the symptoms associated with mental health disorders you owe it to yourself and loved ones to get help. By knowing the risks and taking steps to get help we can bring our loved ones and ourselves closer to living mentally-healthy lives!
Resources – (click links below to open in new tab)
Make the Connection - VA
Mental Health – MyhealtheVet

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Ingredients supplier Edme has appointed a new sales manager with experience of the fast-growing gluten-free market.
Ashley Clinton is joining the business from Sukrin UK, the UK arm of Norwegian manufacturer Funksjonell Mat, where he was head of sales. Sukrin produces natural, low-sugar, low-carb, gluten-free mixes and ingredients.
His appointment comes as interest continues to grow in gluten-free products, with Kantar Worldpanel stating gluten-free accounts for 60% of the free-from market, which was valued at £440m last year.
“Ashley’s experience with retailers and consumer brands will be a great asset,” said Mike Carr, sales director at Edme, which two years ago installed a new gluten-free mill.
Edme supplies a range of products including flours, flakes and mixes produced from pulses such as fava bean, lentil and chickpea; seeds including linseed, chia and pumpkin; and cereals including maize, sorghum and buckwheat.
“The trick for bakers and other food manufacturers is to understand how to use them to best effect,” said Clinton. “We can help with that.”
“Bakers and food manufacturers can just buy from us, but they can also tap into our resources. Our teams have massive insight into raw materials, know about applications and can help with anything from product development to idea pitching.”


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Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension
Historical Information (Source: CWGC)
Heninel village was captured in a snowstorm on 12 April 1917 by the 56th (London) and 21st Division and the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, advancing from Heninel on the two following days, captured Wancourt Tower. The extension was begun by the 50th Division Burial Officer in April 1917 and was used by fighting units until the following November.
Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension contains 140 burials of the First World War, seven of them unidentified.
- United Kingdom (133)
- Army (133)

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Redondo police shooting trial to begin next week
The trial of three Redondo Beach Police officers in a shooting of a man inside his parents’ home in 2019 is set to begin Jan. 24.
A U.S. District Court decision last May moved the case of Luke Carlson vs. City of Redondo Beach another step closer to a jury trial.
The man’s parents have accused the officers of excessive force after their adult son was shot three times the night of Jan. 8, 2019 at a residence on the Esplanade.
The case was filed by Luke Carlson, the son – who survived – and parents Jeffery Carlson and Jeanne Zimmer. It alleges that unreasonable force was used in the shooting of Luke Carlson, as well as in apprehending his parents.
Judge Otis D. Wright, II, District Court Central District, denied a motion May 12, 2021 by the three Redondo Beach police officers for a summary judgment in the case.
A key point of contention is whether or not Luke Carlson had a gun in his hand before officers opened fire.
A total of eight claims were filed against RBPD officers Patrick Knox, Ryan Crespin and Sergeant Mark Valdivia, and a claim for punitive damages.
Plaintiffs also argue that the City of Redondo Beach has “a widespread, pervasive practice of insulating deputies from accountability of shootings.”
City Attorney Mike Webb contends that, in this incident, and in the 10 years leading up to it, for each RBPD officer-involved shooting, the facts and subsequent investigations showed each officer acted properly. ER


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With everyone tired of being stuck at home for the past two years, many people are looking to enjoy the great outdoors. Despite the situation lessening in its gravity, there are still many people who are concerned and worried. Fortunately, the situation is becoming much more manageable, especially when compared to the past few months.
And because it’s almost the new year, many people are wondering what sort of fun activities to do for next year. Fortunately, there’s a lot of great outdoor activities to do, and here are a few of them to help get you started.
Ziplining has become a popular outdoor activity for a while now, but if you still haven’t tried it or have even heard of it, then you’re in for a treat. All it involves is harnessing yourself onto a cable, which is then pulled by a motorized pulley or winch, before being swung across an area of lush green trees or countryside on a line as high as 30 meters in the air. Nothing comes close to this amazing feeling of careening down, just above trees or even ice, with little resistance from the surface below you, with the wind blowing against you as you go crashing through the air.
Get Into Kayaking
It’s a great way to exercise, with no impact on land or its wildlife, and once you’ve mastered the basics, you could even use your new skills as an introduction to snorkeling or scuba diving. Kayaks are safe to navigate in water up to three meters deep, they’re relatively easy to handle, and most importantly, you don’t have to know how to swim to get into them—just grab hold, and away you go! They’re also extremely versatile and ideal for exploring small rivers and coastal waters.
Do Some Rock Climbing
Climbing is an activity anyone can enjoy, regardless of ability or fitness level. Of course, it’s best to start in an indoor climbing facility. But once you’re confident enough to face the outdoors, there are so many places where you can climb: from grassy banks to ski slopes, rocky outcrops to cliffs, and even inside buildings and caves! It’s one of the most challenging yet fulfilling activities you can try, and it’s definitely worth trying out soon.
Go on Camping
Suppose this is your very first time camping. In that case, there are plenty of great options when it comes to accommodations so that you can get away from everything (iPad, smartphone, computer, etc.) and immerse yourself in nature for a bit of solitude and relaxation. Or, you can connect with nature even closer than ever before if you live in an urban area like Toronto, where the city noise often drowns out all other sounds around you. You’ll be able to enjoy nature’s soothing noises like birds chirping, frogs croaking, crickets chirping, leaves rustling, etc. If you’re not particularly savvy when it comes to camping, you can try glamping or even rent a boat overnight so that you can still enjoy a night under the stars while still being relatively comfortable.
Join an Outdoor Yoga Class
Yoga is great for many reasons, including flexibility, strength, and even relaxation. However, its best asset, which can often get overlooked, is that it’s a low-impact exercise, requiring little energy and a very minimal amount of space to work out in (as long as you have access to a good mat). This means that you can practice any time, anywhere. Even if you don’t have a traditional yoga studio, or a perfect environment for stretching, lying on your back under a tree would do the job just fine. And maybe that will do the trick: outdoor yoga is such a great activity, and it’s relatively easy to find one in your region.
Join a Local Swimming Class
It’s the perfect workout for your heart, lungs, legs, and arms! If you have never swum before, start by taking a swimming lesson so that you can learn how to breathe through your nose, keep your head above the water while walking forward, turn your head in different directions, kick properly, etc. Get started with a “free” class at one of many local community centers or public pools, or find an aquatic fitness facility near you and take a swim class.
To put it simply, outdoor activities we’ve missed throughout the pandemic are now available for people to enjoy, just with extra precautions. Despite being vaccinated, there are still new strains of the virus that can infect people, so always exercise good hygiene and responsible social distancing. Being unconscientious can cost us our health, so remember to have fun and respect others’ enjoyment as well.

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The Royal Northern College of Music is not only a place of study, the RNCM is also a vibrant live music venue! There’s lots going on during the year, including concerts and events for families.
Make sure you check out their Spring 2019 Brochure which you can download now.
We have enjoyed several Young Explorers concerts including Mother Goose and Hocus Pocus. The RNCM Young Explorers is a series of concerts throughout the year designed to introduce young people to the magical world of music.
What’s On For Families:
RNCM Young Explorers: The Showstoppers’ Kids Show
Sunday 23 June 2.00pm
Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers create an improvised musical from scratch right before your very noses. Everything is made up on the spot entirely from your suggestions, but grown-ups take heed – they ONLY take suggestions from kids!
If your children could create their very own dream musical – where would they start? A doll’s house? A magic castle? A spooky graveyard? From their imagination onto the stage, The Showstoppers will bring their ideas to life, turning them into a marvellous, musical adventure. Audience participation is definitely encouraged!

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Press release from Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
We are pleased to announce our next exhibition opening on January 17th, 2014!
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
Exhibition dates: January 17 to March 16, 2014
Public Opening: January 17, 2014 6-8 pm
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community will be on view January 17 through March 16, 2014 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Queer Threads, a group show curated by John Chaich, explores notions of aspiration, socialization, and representation within the LGBTQ community through artists employing thread-based craft materials, techniques, and processes.
While many of these artists are internationally recognized in the craft and art communities, this exhibition marks the first time these works have been shown together to specifically highlight their queerness. Comprised from a mix of well-established and emerging talent from across the United States, as well as Argentina, Canada, and South Africa, this exhibition will feature artists Chris Bogia (New York), Melanie Braverman (Massachusetts), Jai Andrew Carrillo (California), Chiachio & Giannone (Argentina), Liz Collins (New York), Ben Cuevas (California), Pierre Fouché (South Africa), James Gobel (California), Jesse Harrod (Virginia), Larry Krone (New York), Rebecca Levi (New York), Aubrey Longley-Cook (Georgia), Aaron McIntosch (Maryland), Allyson Mitchell (Canada), John Thomas Paradiso (Maryland), Sheila Pepe (New York), Maria E. Piñeres (California), Allen Porter (deceased), L. J. Roberts (New York), Sonny Schneider (Denmark), Buzz Slutzky (New York), Nathan Vincent (New York), and Jessica Whitbread (Canada).
Queer Threads will fully activate the Museum’s gallery through felt paintings, yarn drawings, embroidered portraits, knit sculpture, quilted tapestries, and crocheted installations, as well as video. From Nathan Vincent’s life-sized crocheted men’s locker room, to Liz Collin’s oversized knit pride flag based on Gilbert Baker’s 1978 original design, works range from intimate to expansive in scale. From Allyson Mitchell’s found afghans emblazoned with phrases such as “Pride is a Pyramid Scheme,” to James Gobel’s use of felt, acrylic, and yarn to create a portrait of fashion design team Costello Tagliapietra, many of Queer Threads’ artists mix craft technique or materials with traditional mediums, while others fully employ craft processes.
￼￼ Flowing off the wall to the floor, L.J. Roberts’ The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck and Midwout during the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era, particularly exemplifies the use of craft techniques to explore contemporary queer culture as it incorporates knitting, embroidery, and quilting to create a colorful, multi-textured sculpture mapping queer, cohabitating collectives. With references to the AIDS quilt and ACT UP iconography, the piece honors punk DIY aesthetics and traditional craft, as well as the families we create. This work is on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum who purchased the piece after it was shown in its 2013 40 Under 40: Craft Futures exhibition.
“The new visions and voices in Queer Threads, uniquely expressed through craft traditions, expand on Leslie-Lohman’s commitment to examining the diversity of the LGBTQ experience through art,” says Hunter O’Hanian, Executive Director. In doing so, Chaich notes, “Using craft to celebrate and critique identity and community is very queer in all senses of the word—unusual, political, and personal.”
A range of guest docents will lead tours of the exhibition, including fashion design team Costello Tagliapietra; Debbie Stoller, author of the Stitch n’ Bitch Nation series of knitting books and editor-in-chief of BUST magazine, and designer Todd Oldham, creator of the Kid Made Modern series of books and supplies.


2023 Ford Super Duty F-350 Limited
DETROIT– Let’s set a scene: A pickup motorist and their partner, the truck in reverse, trying to line up the drawback ball on the pickup with a coupler on the trailer. “A little left. No, your left. No, YOUR left. OK, now a little right. Never mind. Let’s try it again.”
That familiar headache, to name a few, is why Ford Motor is souping up innovations on its most costly pickups to make the cars more workable for more recent owners and alleviate significant discomfort points for veteran truck chauffeurs.
The Detroit car manufacturer is including functions to its 2023 Ford Super Duty lineup to increase deal costs of the trucks and alleviate troubles with a few of the cars’ essential functions: towing and carrying/hauling.
“This is really about making the truck safer for our customers, for equipment, for whatever you’re towing. It’s about productivity. It’s about ease. It’s about saving marriages,” stated Tim Baughman, basic supervisor of Ford’s industrial service. “With our new trailer-tow features, I’m sure we’ll be saving a couple marriages based on what it can now do.”
Many pickup owners, specifically more recent ones, deal with headaches such as figuring out just how much weight they can securely put in their cars or hitching trailers to their trucks, according to Ford.
The latter obstacle, particularly, can trigger relationship difficulties, as it can take 2 individuals and numerous shots to get placing of the trucks and trailers appropriate for pulling– like in our all-too-common however fictionalized circumstance above.
“Our team is obsessed with our customers,” Baughman stated. “This is about customer understanding and customer obsession. And everything in this truck is purpose-built.”
Ford states 96% of its clients tow with its F-250 to F-450 Super Duty pickups, which are bigger brother or sisters to its popular F-150 trucks. A bulk likewise utilize the cars to transport heavy loads in the beds of the cars, which begin with approximately $44,000 and can run more than $103,000, depending upon the design.
To help with hitching and carrying, Ford is utilizing innovations such as brand-new electronic camera functions, automated help and clever weight taillights.
Easy drawback setup
Ford’s brand-new “Pro Trailer Hitch Assist” takes the inconvenience out of the procedure. The truck immediately supports and lines up the drawback ball to the trailer receiver. The function is basic or readily available on numerous designs, beginning at $1,035
“It’s to help take the pain away,” stated Aaron Bresky, Ford Super Duty primary innovation officer. “People have to tow for recreation and work, and the more we can take the pain out, it becomes more natural.”
The 2023 F-Series Super Duty trucks can tow in between 14,000 and 40,000 pounds, depending upon the truck.
Ford’s “Pro Trailer Hitch Assist” immediately backs the truck up and lines up the standard drawback ball to the receiver of the trailer.
Onboard light scales
Beyond towing or trailering, Ford’s Super Duty pickups can themselves transport a lot, approximately 8,000 pounds, depending upon the design. That consists of all individuals, freight and any things that might remain in the bed of the pickup.
But needing to think or determine just how much you’re carrying can be challenging, specifically when you have travelers in the car or you do not understand just how much your freight weighs.
Ford’s response to this issue is something it calls “Onboard Scales with Smart Hitch,” which debuted on the 2021 F-150 The system utilizes scales in the car to figure out the overall payload/weight of the car.
Drivers can utilize the car’s infotainment screen or app to figure out the payload, however Ford’s likewise providing a more special method of doing so. The car’s taillamps illuminate in various levels to let an owner understand how close they are to reaching the car’s overall payload limitation.
If the car is over its qualified payload, the leading bar will blink, informing the owner that they might require to reconsider what they’re carrying or ditch a traveler or more.
The taillights likewise can be utilized to stabilize a trailer with the car, likewise called a trailer tongue weight.
The Onboard Scales with Smart Hitch is readily available for $650 on Lariat designs and requirement on higher-end trucks.
New readily available “Onboard Scales” procedure and show the approximate weight of the payload in the Ford trucks. Load info is shown in the center touch screen, on the Ford Pass app or in the truck’s clever taillights.
Tailgate electronic camera
The easiest brand-new function is a rearview electronic camera installed to the top of the car’s tailgate. While it deals with towards the sky when eviction is up, it supplies a clear view of what lags the car when the tailgate is reduced, providing an additional set of eyes when an owner is carrying something longer in the bed of the car.
While all brand-new cars are needed to have rearview electronic cameras, Ford is the very first to carry out such an electronic camera that works for when the tailgate is down. Standard rearview electronic cameras on American pickups deal with towards the ground when the tailgate is reduced.
The alternative likewise features integrated sensing units that deal with the electronic camera to alert chauffeurs when their reduced tailgate is approaching a things.
The brand-new backup electronic camera and sensing units are basic on higher-end trims however not readily available on entry-level and lower-priced trucks.
Ford put an electronic camera and sensing units into the tailgate of its F-Series Super Duty pickups that can be utilized when the tailgate is down.


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More zany stuff floating around in this world... where do people come up with these ideas?
Good Egg Footstool handmade from 100 percent recycled paper pulp, egg cartons, and colored with water-based fabric dye. Turn it any which way.. looks kinda like a big roll of yarn! I like... super eco-friendly and super cool looking, from eco-artware.com
Barbed Wire Toilet Seat... teach that man of yours to keep the seat down! Ha ha ha
Don't worry about that hiney of yours... tis fake.. the seat has barbed wire set in the polyresin toilet seat so it has a nice smooth surface (phew!). I know.. kinda has that "whatda..." factor. Sorta weird, crazy, and cringey all at the same time... but (pardon the pun) could be great for a joke and a hearty chuckle.
As seen in Novelty Toilet Seats section at heatandplumb.com
Snowman Sugar Dispenser from Maxim Vecovsky at Up To You in Toronto. A stoppered base makes refills easy... and helps *not* make it look like Frosty is melting in a heat wave...

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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man suspected of shooting his estranged wife to death in southern Montana.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports 47-year-old Joseph DeWise was arrested Thursday on a charge of deliberate homicide stemming from the death of 35-year-old Lauren DeWise. He is being held in the Gallatin County jail on $1 million bail.
Sunday morning’s shooting in Belgrade also critically injured one of Lauren DeWise’s roommates, 32-year-old Ashley Van Hemert.
Investigators say another roommate who reported the shooting told them Lauren DeWise had recently moved in and had asked Joseph DeWise for a divorce.
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Booking documents do not indicate if Joseph DeWise has hired an attorney.
Investigators say he has repeatedly denied any involvement in the shooting.
Information from: Bozeman Daily Chronicle, http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com

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How To Spend Your Entire Year’s Salary On One Flight To Dubai!
Do you know what is better than flying first class? Flying in Etihad's Residence Suite!
This exclusive ticket on an United Arab Emirates flight costs $32,000! That is more than a lot of people make in an entire year!
So what does this experience come with? First off, you get two cars to take you to the airport, one for you and one for your bags. Once you arrive at the airport, you get to . After getting on the flight, you will get a personal butler, a personal chef, a bottle of alcohol that is engraved with your name and flight number, and pajamas, all within your three-bedroom suite on the plane! Now that is flying in style!
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WARREN, Ohio (WYTV) – There’s a new place for women to shop in downtown Warren. It’s called Truth Fashion Boutique.
Mayor Doug Franklin and Councilwoman Cheryl Saffold joined the young entrepreneurs to make the store’s official opening.
Franklin says this was the third ribbon cutting in a month that he’s attended for minority-ownded businesses in the city.
Store owners Stephanie Chaney and Auntashae Tates have been working to get their business on East Market Street ready for several months.
“Everything was shut down where we would normally shop at, so we decided to open up our own shop,” Tates said.
“Instead of shopping online, you just come down to shop personally,” Chaney said.
Truth Fashion has clothing for women of all sizes.
They’re open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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The palpable exhaustion of conservative economic thought really is extraordinary. The evidence has been clear for years that that, at current U.S. tax levels, neither modest cuts nor modest increases has any real effect on economic growth, but the GOP’s core interest groups — rich people and corporations — want tax cuts, so that’s what they continue to offer. They’ve simply got nothing else in the tank. And John McCain desperately wants to be president, so he’s surrendered to the flat earthers. He knows perfectly well that Grover Norquist and the Club for Growth and the cranks at the Wall Street Journal editorial page can torpedo his campaign if he doesn’t pay fealty to their mindless tax cut jihadism, so fealty he pays. He’s sort of a Manchurian candidate at this point, reciting the talking points in a monotone and hoping wearily that it’s enough for one more trip to the well. Kinda sad, really.
And why would anyone vote for someone who preaches this supply-side silliness? Oh yea – because our “fair and balanced” press continues to tell their readers that opinions as to the shape of the earth differ.

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Anyway. I thought I was smart stamping on white with all of that snow, but it doesn’t work with the creamy tones in the scrap papers I had. I thought I could pull it off, but… oh well. It’s nice enough even though it’s not “great.”
Love this stamp. I think PSX needs to open again. Just sayin’.
Stamp- PSX K-2431
Paper- SU Scraps
Ink- Memento Black, SU Sahara sand
Adhesive- ATG tape and SU Dimensionals


Joe Lee Computing
As a complement to his sports results services, Joe supplies a range of event administration systems, some are bespoke programs written in Delphi, others are database applications written in Access, most are integrated into online systems written in Perl and PHP.
These systems are tailored to individual events and provide organisers with all the facilities they need to record their entries, produce pre-event information printouts, automatically provide camera-ready programme lists, and manage targeted mailshots.
Recently, Joe created a fully integrated management system to interface all the ESAA National Track & Field Championships administration and results systems into Sky TV's live production system. This enabled Sky to have real-time data about the progress of all events displayed on multiple screens for their directors, producers, commentators, and graphics teams.
Time-scales are absolutely critical, so that the results of each race on track need to be displayed live onscreen within 12 seconds of a race finishing. Field Event results are available onscreen within 2 seconds of each jump or throw.


I’ve listened to this album so much that it feels like it’s been in my collection for over five years. When in fact, it’s only been a mere year and a half. Yes, I’ve known about this band for quite a while, in fact, my introduction to them was seeing them live with Mutiny Within
. I was mainly there for Mutiny Within
, but I can remember my experience of first hearing Sonata Arctica
like it just happened an hour ago. The crowd was mingling amongst themselves when all of the lights suddenly turned off. The intro track “Everything Fades to Gray” played and then let a couple moments of Silence
create suspense amongst the audience. Then, the lights turned back on like the band wasn’t ready to start their set. Almost three whole minutes later, the lights quickly dimmed all the way and the soft sound of the violas and violins played the beginning of Deathaura as the band quickly entered the stage and exploded with a sound that was so beautiful and powerful that it brought some of the people there to tears (literally). When I saw those people, I could tell that they had a HUGE emotional connection to the band’s music.
As that one song continued on, I was sucked in more and more with each passing second. When Deathaura finally finished, I was sold; these guys took the show and turned it into a blinding star made completely of sound. My emotional connection to this album has been so strong that (for some reason) I’ve been afraid to admit that to me, it’s one of the best albums ever written. I know that the hardcore Sonata Arctica
and power metal fans typically prefer the older Arctica albums over the new ones (although all of them are nothing short of amazing). For me, I prefer the really early albums, but The Days of Grays
won my heart from the beginning (not because it was the first Arctica album I ever heard, but because it was and still is the BEST I’ve ever heard).
I’m going to be honest, Tony Kakko’s singing voice doesn’t fit my description of an amazing singing voice. But oddly enough, his voice managed to pierce my thick-ass ribcage, go clean through my frozen heart, out the other side, and keep going for an infinite distance. In most of the other Arctica albums, Tony’s singing sounds a little too much on the whiny side, but not so much in The Days of Grays
, therefore making it MUCH easier for me to enjoy the music. But don’t get me wrong, Tony is one of the best and most underrated singers in the heavy metal genre.
But Tony isn’t where all of the beauty is, instead of it being a ball of beauty being spread out into a thin layer that covers the entirety of the music, the entirety of the music shines with an utterly blinding amount of beauty that is too much for some to handle. Every single fucking centimeter of Sonata Arctica
’s music deserves all the attention in the world, but it’s literally impossible to do all of that in one single review that’s at a somewhat reasonable length. I’m going to get it out that this album is more than enough hard evidence to prove that Tommy Portimo is the best drummer in the power metal genre. Not only does he have the ability to do fast double kicks without making the music too heavy, but he also has strong skills when it comes to dynamics, creativity, and variety. Yes, I know that there are better single guitarists in the power metal world, but the two that play on this record are some of the most emotionally moving musicians I’ve ever heard in heavy metal. The solos that they play are absolutely breathtaking; they do a great job of not drowning anything out, but still shining like a phoenix in the dead of night.
Now, the element of this album that not only completed, but solidified my emotional connection with it is the symphonic sounds created by the keyboards. The music is beautiful enough without all of the keyboards on top, but with the addition of what I think is the most beautiful and emotional keyboard symphonics I’ve ever heard in metal, this album is one of the best records known to mankind.
When I said that the music has tons of variety, think of Opeth
and how they have long songs that have several parts/movements that have a lot of contrast. When you listen to Deathaura, there are more than five different “parts” to the song that display excessive creativity, knowledge, and mood changes. When you listen to the album, after experiencing every single mood you can imagine, the album leaves you with a feeling of overwhelming beauty-induced joy. Now that I’ve made a huge confession on my true opinion of this album, it’s time that I concluded my review with a perfect score and move on with my evening in order to avoid going on and on about this album. Because you won’t know the true beauty of this album unless you sit down and experience its power yourself.


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The continent’s thrilling Bernina Express isn’t just a throwback to a different era of travel, it’s a throwback to when travel was meant to wow us.
Alex Sakalis is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the BBC, The Economist and The Guardian among others. He lives in Bologna, Italy and tweets at @alexsakalis
It’s a bibliophile’s dream, full of centuries-old books arranged in rustic cabinets with such nostalgic genres as mineralogy and “military art.”
The Ladins have lived in the Dolomites for millennia and count the founder of electronic dance music among their tribe. But who exactly are they?

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THE Hellas presents, consistently, an important surplus in the trade in services after UAE, according to data for the three years 2018-2020, but also with its recent data Bank of Greece for the nine months 2021.
The surplus is mainly due to shipping services (maritime transport) and amounts to about 400-500 million per year.
In particular, according to an information document of the Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs in Dubai, our embassy in the UAE, according to the BoG, receipts (exports) from services in the UAE in 2020 amounted to 519 million euros, reduced by 23 % compared to 2019 (678 million).
On the contrary, the data for the nine months of 2021 show that the revenues will be clearly improved in the whole of the previous year, not only compared to 2020, but also to 2019, as they amount to 588 million euros.
Of these revenues for 2020, 84% corresponded to maritime transport (shipping), while small percentages between 3-4% were distributed to business services, telecommunications and information technology (ICT) services and travel services (tourism).
This picture changes significantly in the nine months, as maritime transport accounts for 69% of revenues, travel services show a strong increase, accounting for 16% of total revenues, while construction services also show an increasing trend.
For comparison, it is noted that exports of goods in the first nine months of 2021 amounted to 227 million euros.
Regarding the payments (imports) of services from the UAE, they amounted to 104 million euros for 2020, reduced by 42% compared to the previous year (2019: 178 million euros). As with receipts, payments in the 9-month 2021 show an increase to 105.6 million euros. The main categories of services are other transport (air), sea transport and travel services.


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Shahdara is located at the banks of the Yamuna river on the outskirts of East Delhi. Other than being one of the oldest inhabited areas of East Delhi, it is home to women who rent designer wear for the numerous local events and drama plays. The costume industry is a big part of shahdra, Lionise apart from being a luxury fashion rental is also a big player in the costume rental industry.
We are currently working all across shahdra, Preet Vihar and ISBT. You can rent lehengas, gowns and anarkalis in Shahdara at a minimum amount. Lionise also offers free shipping, cash on delivery and easy cancellations on all products.
Phone Number: 7982528101, 9810145213
Closest Metro station: Shahdra metro station and Vaishali Metro station.
Landmarks we Deliver to near Shahdra: Vaishali, purani dilli, University of Delhi, seelampur, Gandhi Nagar Market and all nearby localities.

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As a nonfiction writer myself, it has been gratifying to watch picture book biographies and history come into their own. Writers are pushing the form to greater excellence by using innovative formats and many of the techniques of fiction: scenes, voice, character, story arc, etc.
Interestingly, science books for kids have not innovated in the same way (with the exception of scientist profiles). I think it’s the next frontier and I plan to be there!
Recently I gave my agent a manuscript about extinction biology that melds a graphic novel format with more traditional nonfiction. I can’t wait to see what he says!


It’s normal to get upset when you see mold spreading in your home or business, especially after your DIY attempts to remove it have failed. At first, it seems like you can scrub it away, but a few days later, the mold is back, and now it’s spreading.
At that point, you know it’s time to call a professional mold remediation company, but maybe you’ve heard that mold remediation requires the demolition of walls, flooring, or ceilings. A+ Restoration and Cleaning is here to tell you that successful mold remediation and cleaning can happen with zero demolition. Keep reading to learn more.
Dry Fog 101
For years, mold remediation specialists have been searching for a mold removal solution that didn’t involve demolition. Home or business owners don’t want someone breaking into their walls, flooring, or ceiling with sledgehammers and axes to reach the mold on their property. But in the past, that was often the only way we could access and destroy all of the mold spores and eliminate the source.
Fortunately, with the advent of dry fog technology, we can now eliminate mold spores in any property quickly, effectively, and with no demolition.
With dry fog, tiny mold-killing particles fill your home or business. These particles are the size of a micron and are so small that they will bounce around the room for several minutes before finally dissipating.
Nothing in your home or business gets wet. Therefore, our technicians don’t need to remove anything from the property before beginning the process.
What is the dry fog mold remediation process?
Dry fog for mold removal is a two-step process.
First, the entire area is filled with a safe and EPA-registered vapor. It maintains contact with all surfaces and remains in the air long enough to ensure that every mold spore is destroyed.
Next, another type of dry fog is pumped into the room, creating an antimicrobial barrier over every surface. The EPA has certified that this type of fog keeps mold, bacteria, and viruses from returning to these surfaces for at least 90 days.
How is dry fog different from wet fog?
Dry fog produces smaller droplets. They rebound around the room, creating a fine vapor. The vapor and fumes create a devastating atmosphere for mold and bacteria.
But how is dry fog different than wet fog? Fog is fog, right? Not exactly.
Mold remediation with wet fog or ozone involves larger droplets that burst throughout your property, creating wet surfaces. Larger particles also can’t fit into every tiny crevice, creating molecular-sized gaps in coverage.
For these reasons, dry fog is the superior choice. It leaves absolutely no residue!
Is it safe for my family and pets?
We understand that the health and wellness of your family and pets are paramount. So it is normal to wonder about the safety of dry fog. To set your mind at ease, before bringing this technology to market, it has been tested extensively and approved by the EPA.
Every ingredient in the mixture is non-toxic, non-corrosive, and EPA-approved for safety. Our team only fogs one room at a time to ensure your family and pets don’t come in contact with the vapors.
Are you experiencing annoying issues with mold at your home or businesses? Why not call A+ Restoration and Cleaning to learn about no-demolition mold remediation technology? Dry fog is what sets us apart from the competition. We are proud to be a part of the Panama City and Pensacola, Florida, communities. If you live anywhere in the Florida panhandle or Southern Alabama, including the cities of Destin and Pace, Florida, and Dothan, Alabama, contact us today for all of your mold remediation needs.


Megasealed Franchisees and Technicians can save youunnecessary trouble and expense with the revolutionary Thermal Imaging Water Leak Detection Technology (at participating franchises only).
The FLIR real-time thermal heat enhancement technology leak detection service delivers high sensitivity, a wide field of view and fully radiometric imagery, to accurately reflect hidden heat patterns and moisture intrusion:
• See for yourself – watch our Franchisees and Technicians accurately pinpoint moisture intrusion & thermal variance
• Save the hassle – non-destructive, non-contact efficient diagnosis
• Track the results – the technology shows visual imagery of the affected areas and provides before | after comparisons.
Megasealed’s amazing Thermal Imaging Technology takes the guesswork out of leak detection in the bathroom and enables our team to quickly diagnose and resolve your leaking shower or balcony problems


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Ouija Board Doormat In Black & White
Welcome visitors into your home with this spiritual Ouija Board doormat! This enchanting doormat lets your friends, family, and guests know how you feel about the spirit realm. Ouija boards are well-established as a powerful tool for communicating with the spirit realm. The mat is black and features all the elements of the spirit board (displayed in white). You have the alphabet, numbers, yes, no and goodbye. And you have the sun, moon, planchettes, and intricate baroque designs. Treat this item cautiously, as this may not be a talking board; it still represents one. This doormat is the perfect gift for any spiritualist or witch.
Embrace the mystic
Ouija boards are known as a potent tool for reaching the spirit realm. Now, you can pay homage to this age-old tradition every time you step inside your home. The mat’s striking black background is adorned with all the essential elements of the spirit board, displayed prominently in crisp white. You’ll find the entire alphabet, numbers, the vital “yes,” “no,” and “goodbye” indicators, as well as the celestial symbols of the sun and moon. The intricate baroque designs surrounding the board add an extra layer of enchantment to your entryway.
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The Indian diaspora today, more so than ever before, is an incontestable fact of world culture. Diverse Indian communities scattered across the globe now
complement the nineteenth century diaspora of indentured labourers and traders, and nowhere has the growth of the Indian diaspora registered such a phenomenal
increase as in the United States. This book offers a crisp and politically engaged narrative of the social and cultural history of Indian Americans: commencing with the
circulation of ideas about India in America, it considers such phenomena as the Ghadr movement, the straggles over rights of citizenship, the reification of 'Indian
culture', the emergence of 'temple Hinduism' and the attempts by NRIs to influence the course of events in India.
The Other Indians:
A Political And Cultural History of South Asians In America
HarperCollins Publishers India a joint venture with
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Politics of Identity and a Note on Usage
Indians in the Global Setting
Passage to India:
The Circulation of the Orient in America
Voyage from India:
Slaves and Seamen, Workers and Peasants
The Diaspora within the Diaspora: Students and Rebels
"Tawnies" Amidst Whites (after Benjamin Franklin)
Exile in the New Canaan
Emergence of a Diasporic Community
The Religious Life of Indian Communities
Indian "Culture" in the Diaspora
The Politics of Affluence and the Anxiety of Influence
The Landscapes of Representation in Internet Modernity
Politics and the Future of Indians in the U.S.
The Diaspora at Home:
Returnees, Retirees, & Resident Non-Indians
Sources and Select Further Reading
About the Author
I am grateful to Don Nakanishi and Russell Leong, both for entrusting the inaugural volume of this UCLA Asian American Studies Center monograph series,
"Professor in a Pocket," to me, and for their close reading of the entire manuscript. I am similarly thankful to Daniel M. Neuman for his suggestions and
editorial notes. Surendra Bhana went well beyond the call of duty in responding with alacrity to my request for a careful reading of the manuscript, and I am extremely
grateful to him for his many thoughtful and learned suggestions, not all of which it was possible for me to accept, for improving the book. I would also like to thank the
anonymous reviewer of the manuscript for the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press.
The research for this book has been facilitated over the last few years by grants from the Academic Senate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and, in
particular, the unstinting support of the Asian American Studies Center. Their assistance is gratefully acknowledged. I would also like to express my appreciation to
the staff of the Asian American Studies Center, especially Mary Uyematsu Kao and Stephanie Santos, for their help in bringing this work to publication.
LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Ch. I, p. 1: The 'Indian neighborhood' of Devon, where "Gandhi Marg" intersects with Washtenaw Ave., in Chicago. Photograph: Vinay Lal,
Ch. II, p. 7: Eastern Spirituality in the New World: Yoga at Times Square, New York 2007. Source: The Indian Express (New Delhi), August 15,
Ch. Ill, p. 12: The Traffic Between the West and India. Cartoon by E. P. Unny. Source: The Indian Express (New Delhi), August 15, 2007.
Ch. IV, p. 23: Culture at Home and Abroad: Indian Student Union, Annual Culture Show, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2005. Photograph: Vinay
Ch. V, p. 31: The Hare Krishna Juggernaut: Celebrating Janmashtami (Birth of Krishna), Venice Beach, California, July 2006. Photograph: Vinay Lal.
Ch. VI, p. 39: The Diamond Jubilee, a trans-Pacific passenger service from Hong-Kong to Vancouver, was established in 1891, seeking to replace Chinese
immigrants with East Indians after the Canadian government had raised the head tax on Chinese. Vancouver 1897.
Ch.VII, p. 53: Hinduism's Emissary to the West: Plaque honoring Swami Vivekananda, Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, Lemont, Illinois. Photograph: Vinay
Ch. VIII, p. 65: Consolidating the Faith in a New Land: Sri Venkateswara [Balaji] Temple, Aurora, Illinois. Photograph: Vinay Lal, 2005.
Ch. IX, p. 77: Resurgent India: Statue of Swami Vivekananda, Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, Lemont, Illinois. Photograph: Vinay Lal, 2005.
Ch. X, p. 90: The Affluence of a Diasporic Community: The $30 million Swaminarayan Temple, Bartlett, Illinois. Photograph: Vinay Lal, 2005.
Ch. XI, p. 105: India in the World: Globalization and New Forms of Hierarchy. Cartoon by Ted Rall. Source: http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/2007/03/19
Ch. XII, p. 117: A Global Icon: Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Skokie, Illinois. Photograph: Vinay Lal, 2006.
Ch. XIII, p. 127: Staples of the Diaspora: Street Scene, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Photograph: Vinay Lal, 2007.
The Politics of Identity and a Note on Usage
This is a book about the other Indians—the Indians other than those who once vastly populated the Americas, experiencing a calamitous decline in their numbers
after their encounter with representatives of the enlightened West. The indigenous in-habitants of the Americas have, when viewed as a collectivity, been known by a
plethora of names, among them Amerindians, American Indians, native Americans, and most simply as Indians. By whatever name these Indians are known, they
seemingly do not have much of a shared history with the Indians, the subject of this book, who arrived in the Americas from Asia or the Indian subcontinent. And yet,
their histories are inextricably intertwined, for much more than the obvious reason that, at least in the United States, American Indians and South Asian Indians have
sometimes been confused for each other. Vasco da Gama was to arrive in India only a few years after Columbus, who imagined he had reached India, set landfall in
the Americas. Much has mistakenly been made of Columbus's mistake, since in the age of European exploration, expansion, and conquest there were bound to be
few survivors of the onslaught by colonizers who acted with singular determination and self-aggrandizement in their quest for riches and domination. The colonizers
stumbled upon some outsiders, deliberately set themselves upon others, and targeted yet others for chastisement—everywhere they unleashed a regime of
oppression. The outcome, however, was not the same in every respect. A few Indian commentators have of late been speaking with enthusiasm of the reverse
colonization of Britain. At the other extreme, however much Indian Americans may complain of not being given due recognition, American Indians are unquestionably
the most tragic instantiation of the invisible minority in the U.S. Ironically, Indian Americans, whose share of the U.S. population matches that of American Indians,
are now set to outstrip the latter. It is a cruel twist of fate that one group of Indians has, in a manner of speaking, had to become nearly redundant to pave the way for
another. This is as painful a fact as any for Indian Americans.
Much like American Indians, Indian Americans are known by many other designations, none of which has universal acceptance among Indian Americans
themselves. The scholarly and popular literature also reference them as Asian Indians, South Asians, South Asian Americans, and desis, though as the early
chapters of this book suggest, there have been other designations that were once in vogue, among them Aryans, Caucasians, and even "Hindoos" to
characterize all people coming from what was then British India. Advocates of Hindu nationalism in the United States have in recent years been championing the word
"Bharatiyas," or people who derive their origin from "Bharat," the official name for India that appears on the country's postage stamps, coins,
and official documents. At the other end of the political spectrum, many progressive activists have opted for the word "desi," or those who are, so to
speak, of the "desh" (of one's own country). Those who are of the desh are not from videsh (a foreign land). This opposition perhaps received its
fullest expression in the nationalist period, though one should not think that all advocates of swadeshi—pertaining to one's own country—or of swaraj
(self determination; self-rule, but equally rule over one's self) had the most unedifying and jingoistic conceptions of nationalism in mind.
Though there is no gainsaying the fact that many proponents of the term "desi" similarly seek to invoke its widest and most pluralistic meanings,
calling forth the shared lives of many South Asians, the term operates on many different and disjunctive registers. As I have often been reminded by an old friend from
Jaisalmer, in western Rajasthan, words such as "country" mean quite different things to people from metropolitan centers and those who earn their
livelihoods in India's tens of thousands of villages and smaller towns. When my friend chances to remark,"Hamare desh me aisa hota hai"
("This is how it happens in our country"), by desh he clearly means his part of the country. The observation invokes not so much the nation in the
abstract, much less Bharat, but rather a frame of mind and a set of habits. The word "desi" also calls to mind homegrown products: thus, for example,
now that liberalization has opened the Indian market to a whole array of foreign goods, including Western/hybrid varieties of fruits and vegetables, one hears often of
the contrast between foreign vegetables and those branded "desi"—the latter being smaller and (in common belief) much more palatable to the taste than
foreign varieties. There is, it appears to me, something unsettling and certainly odd about the fact that the most enthusiastic proponents of the word "desi"
are precisely those diasporic Indians who, in many ways, have least claim to the word and its multiple inheritances, considering their location in metropolitan centers of
thought and their immense distance from local and vernacular knowledge systems. For these reasons among many, I have, except in a few particular instances,
eschewed the word "desi" when speaking of Indian Americans.
The term "Asian Indian" was introduced in the U.S. Census of 1980 and sets apart someone so designated from "American Indian." I
have deployed this term on a few occasions when referring to what we might think of as the official or legislative history of Indian Americans since 1980, but this term
does not enjoy wide recognition among Indian Americans. Whatever the attachment of Asian Indians to India, or to particular aspects of the history and culture of
India, they also like to think of themselves as Americans—and "Asian Indian" brings no fulfillment in this respect. To that extent, "Asian
Indian" cannot be considered analogous to "American Indian." This leaves, for our consideration, the term "South Asian Americans."
India has been a civilization much longer than it has been a nation-sate, and however different the paths taken by India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in recent years, one
recognizes that the subcontinent's contours have not been shaped exclusively or even predominantly by the ideology of the nation-state. The term "South
Asia" serves, then, as a rebuke to those who are excessively bound by nationalist sentiments, or who otherwise conflate India with Hindu just as they have
effortlessly come to the conclusion that Pakistan and Bangladesh can be tolerated by India but must never be allowed to achieve anything remotely resembling
However, though there is undoubtedly a good case to be made for using the term "South Asian Americans", the difficulties in so doing cannot be
minimized. In my experience, many Americans, academics not excepted, are likely to confuse South Asia with Southeast Asia, and the American experience of
Vietnam has etched firmly into place a certain conception of that part of the world. But to come to more considerable problems: I find it a touch surprising that secular
and progressive people who are most inclined to use the term, and whose anti-imperialism is also on record, are not much deterred by the fact that the term is
essentially a creation of post-World War II American geopolitics. South Asian countries themselves have moved closer in recent years to embracing the idea of South
Asia, as represented in such organizations as SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation), but it is well to remember that South Asia is comprised
not only of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, but also of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Afghanistan was admitted to SAARC only in 2007, but is not
typically viewed as falling under the orbit of South Asia. And what, one might ask, of the long ties of India with Burma (now Myanmar)? The arbitrariness of
"South Asia" aside, I have not seen any substantive discussion of South Asians in the United States that offers an account of the history of Sri Lankans
and Nepalese. To be sure, one can defend a more narrower conception of South Asia such that it would only encompass India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—the three
nation-states that eventually, following the liberation of East Pakistan in 1971, emerged from the partition of 1947—but I think all this should suffice to indicate why
the idea of South Asia creates its own muddles.
While many progressive and secular organizations have come together on a common South Asian platform, I have encountered few very people in the wider
Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi communities in the U.S. who are willing to embrace the term. The reticence of Indians, especially, in being marked "South
Asian" is more pronounced in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as the witch hunts that,
around the world, have sent thousands of innocent Muslims to jail, pushed others into the commission of desperate acts, and cast a pall of suspicion around all Muslim
males. A Sikh male was among the very first people killed in the U.S. in retaliation for the September 11 bombings. His only mistake was to sport a turban on his
head, as do most Sikh men, and so open himself up to attack as a likely follower of Osama bin Laden. Not all Muslim men wear turbans, nor are all bearers of
turbans Muslims: but such niceties matter not a jot to perpetrators of crime, whether found on streets or in the corridors of power. Discrimination against Muslim
women workers and students wearing burqas and chadors has also been reported in the U.S. and elsewhere. There were other widely reported instances of violence
against South Asians, and U.S. and state government agencies themselves issued alerts to the effect that men with origins from the Middle East or South Asia were
especially vulnerable. To point out that there were no South Asian men among the criminals who fomented and executed the terrorist attacks is accurate, but any such
assertion gives rise to what I would describe as "ethical awkwardness." Should one defend oneself with the perhaps implied proposition that the violence
is more legitimately targeted elsewhere? Absolutely nothing can ever justify retaliatory violence that is predicated on the principle of collective or associative guilt.
Pakistan and Bangladesh are predominantly Muslim states, as India, notwithstanding its immense Muslim population, is not. This is a fact that weighs heavily on
the minds of Indian Americans; it is also a consideration supreme in the minds of U.S. government officials, as the exemption of India, which has a substantially greater
Muslim population than any country in the Middle East, from Special Registration amply illustrates. (This legislation, passed a few months after the September 11
bombings, required males resident in the U.S.—but not U.S. citizens—and claiming nationality from a list of some thirty countries to register with Homeland Security.)
One might reasonably argue that ethical considerations and political solidarity demand that Indian Americans cast their lot with fellow South Asians in these difficult
times. The only genuine test of humanity, more than one great reformer has argued, is to share the suffering of others. On the other hand, there is the brute fact that
being identified as a Muslim brings one no rewards; indeed, even remote association with one triggers suspicious looks. One can understand why, from a purely
pragmatic standpoint, Indian Americans might loathe being lumped as South Asians. We should perhaps look forward to the time when, in an act of Gandhian mass
nonviolent resistance, all human beings take on the identity of those who are oppressed. What other dialectics of emancipation is at all possible?
I have, in conclusion, opted for the term "Indian American" above all its competitors. It appears to me to best do justice to those people who are the
subject of this book. Their history is singular, as is the history of all other immigrant groups who have made their way to the United States; but, by the same token, it is
not so singularly exceptional that Indians cannot take their place alongside Chinese Americans, Arab Americans, Korean Americans, African Americans, and many
others. To say as much is to concede nothing at all to those historians and sociologists who believe that assimilation into American society should be the objective of
every immigrant group. I have put on record here a very different interpretation of the history and culture of Indian Americans, but I shall leave it the reader to reach
her or his own conclusions.
Vinay Lal teaches History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His previous eight books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality
in the Global Economy (2002); The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (2003); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on
Indian History and Culture (2003); and, co-edited with Ashis Nandy, The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century

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1. The most significant #craftnews this week is the stunning generosity of an anonymous donor to give nearly $1,000,000 to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Penland School of Craft (NC), Peters Valley School of Craft (NJ), and Pilchuck Glass School (WA). In total, over 550 people will benefit from this support, which is intended to replace lost wages for artists whose workshops have been canceled as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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