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Making Space for Grief at Work
Here we are, shattered in the aftermath of another spate of horrific mass shootings in our country. It’s nearly impossible to remain unmoved by the collective grief. Especially when children are targeted, we are broken open to the senselessness of taking lives that have yet to unfold. Waves of anguish go far beyond a specific region and reach us all. While the affected communities collectively mourn together and places of worship everywhere speak to the loss, many of us experience a void. Where do we channel our outrage and sadness?
Over the past two and a half years, we’ve experienced the massive hurts as well as those by a thousand cuts. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wrap my mind around the vastness of over one million gone from Covid. We sit with our individual losses of friends and family. Now we’ve had a series of headline-shattering, community-upending, family-destroying mass deaths. It’s too much. We need a way to acknowledge and grieve with each other, not separately in our living rooms watching the news or by scrolling through our screens. This is the time for community—and workplaces are that.
As a society we handle grief poorly. We leave it to the individual to sort out their emotions and become impatient if the process takes “too long.” We expect spiritual communities to make sense of cruel acts and provide solace. If we’re close to the most directly affected, there are the rituals of memorials, celebrations of life, and funerals. But what about those who don’t have any personal tie to the deceased but find themselves profoundly moved? This brings me back to the workplace. It’s where many of us go with far more regularity and for far more hours than anywhere else; it’s one of our communities.
Over the course of my work life, I’ve stood with friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers in that pursuit. We were drawn together if only for a few moments of silence, words or music. It reaffirms our belonging in the human family. Together we notice that our hearts still beat while precious others’ hearts don’t, and loss of life deserves notice.
Employers should not be afraid of making space for collective grief. They are not required to orchestrate anything; they can allow whatever happens to emerge organically and encourage it. Or they can sow the seeds. Provide the location and the time to step away from the job, then show up because you need this too. Grief isn’t the purview of any job classification; it affects us all.
I stand with anyone who is heartbroken today and wish to offer you the Prayer of Loving Kindness.
May you be free from danger,
May you have mental happiness,
May you have physical happiness,
May you have ease of well-being.
Please be good to yourself and others.

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Last week when I was researching a story on migration, I found myself in Obrenovac, a Serbian town some 30km south west of central Belgrade, and it looked more like a lake than a town.
Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are experiencing some of the worst floods in more than a century. At least 25 people are dead and many more are missing while hundreds of households are suffering from severe damage and thousands have been evacuated. There is no power in a lot of places. When asking for foreing aid, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said it was, “the biggest catastrophe in the history of Serbia.”
Everything was submerged and most parts of the city were inaccessible. The Serbian army and police were desperately trying to control the situation, using boats to rescue trapped citizens. They would save the helicopters for people that they thought would be impossible to reach otherwise.
Just before I left, I saw people arguing with policemen, who were trying to stop them from returning to their flooded homes to save whatever they could.

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NEW DELHI: China-owned social media app TikTok distanced itself from Beijing after India banned 59 Chinese apps in the country, according to a correspondence seen by Reuters. In a letter to the Indian government dated June 28th and seen by Reuters, TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said the Chinese government has never requested user data nor would the company turn it over if asked. TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese apps, including Tencent Holdings LTD's WeChat and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's UC Browser, were banned in India this week following a border clash with China. "I can confirm that the Chinese government has never made a request to us for the TikTok data of Indian users," Mayer wrote, adding that data for Indian users is stored in servers in Singapore. "If we do ever receive such a request in the future, we would not comply." The letter was sent ahead of a likely meeting next week between the company and the government, one source familiar with the matter told Reuters. … [Read more...] about TikTok distances from China in response to India app ban
NEW DELHI: Indian tech and entertainment firms are looking to capitalise on sudden opportunities arising from a government ban on Chinese owned apps, including the wildly popular TikTok, with one rival video app saying it had added 22 million users in 48 hours. India this week outlawed 59 Chinese-owned apps including TikTok and Tencent's WeChat, in what was described as a "digital strike" against China by the country's technology minister. The move followed a confrontation between India and China at a disputed Himalayan border site, which left 20 Indian soldiers dead. With 200 million Indians users, TikTok, which features a simple user interface, background music options and various special effects, was a burgeoning force in the nation's social media scene and the ban left its fans scrambling for options. Roposo, an Indian video-sharing social media app similar to TikTok that been around since 2014, saw its user base jump by 22 million in the two days after India banned the … [Read more...] about Indian video-sharing apps surge in popularity on TikTok ban
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Ride hailing platform Uber has shut down its Mumbai office as part of its restructuring efforts, but it will continue to provide services in the city, according to sources. The company's services in the city, however, would remain unaffected. When contacted, an Uber spokesperson said, "Uber continues to provide a high level of service to all its riders in Mumbai". The sources said the decision to close the Mumbai office was part of the global restructuring exercise. in May, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshai had written to employees informing them of the decision to close 45 offices globally. One of the persons said many of the employees are expected to continue working from home to support the services as is being done currently in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. It could not be immediately ascertained if the closure of the Mumbai office would include reduction in jobs as well. Uber has a large office in Gurugram, and tech centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. It also has smaller support … [Read more...] about Uber shuts down Mumbai office, services to remain unaffected
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Yesterday, M&S has become the first major retailer to introduce a reusable container incentive for fresh food-to-go at its Market Place counters, as part of its plan to reduce single-use packaging.
The new scheme will incentivise customers to bring their own reusable containers to M&S’ Market Place by offering a 25p discount off each meal. M&S is aiming to encourage a change in consumer behaviour and reduce the use of disposable items on the high street, as new research by IGD reveals the food-to-go sector is set to grow by 26.4% by 2024.
M&S’ Market Place concept is available in busy city centre stores and offers a variety of hot and cold lunch-to-go options, from rotisserie chicken and fish to freshly prepared salads. Over 70,000 people pick up lunch from Market Place each week, which is currently available in 23 stores including London Pantheon on Oxford Street, Newcastle, Norwich and Manchester.
Paul Willgoss, Director of Food Technology at M&S, said: “Our priority is to reduce single-use packaging and ensure any we do use can be reused or recycled, as we work towards our 2022 target for all our packaging to be widely recyclable. Food-to-go is a growing market; so finding solutions in this space is an important part of our wider plan. Our Market Place containers are already widely recyclable, but we want to go a step further with the introduction of an incentive to encourage customers to switch to reusable containers.”
M&S already offers a 25p incentive for hot drinks served in reusable coffee cups – an initiative that was introduced in April 2018. To support customers to reuse, M&S is selling a range of clip storage containers from £4, which are available at the Market Place counters.
Trewin Restorick, CEO and Founder of environmental charity Hubbub, commented: “People are rightly concerned about the environmental impact of single-use packaging. It is massively encouraging to see M&S become the first major retailer to offer customers a financial saving encouraging them to make an important change to their shopping habits. We hope customers will respond positively and other retailers will follow this lead.”
The existing single-use containers used at Market Place are widely recyclable and are primarily made from Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certified cardboard with a plastic lid.
As part of its plastic reduction plan, M&S has already removed 1,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from across its business and is working to ensure all its packaging is widely recyclable by 2022. This week M&S has launched a new, widely recyclable terracotta CPET tray to replace black plastic, starting in its Italian ready meals range. The retailer has pledged to completely remove all black plastic from its Food business by the end of 2020.
M&S continues to look at innovative solutions to replace plastic packaging and is partnering with the wider industry and organisations on initiatives such as Hubbub’s #LeedsByExample, which encourages consumers to recycle food-to-go packaging.
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This fun and festive DIY Halloween Wreath is the perfect combination of cute and spooky. It’s easy to make with just a handful of supplies!
Cute and Festive DIY Halloween Wreath
Hi friends! It’s Marie from Blooming Homestead back to share a fun and Easy Halloween Wreath with you today.
We love decorating for Halloween around our house and always look forward to creating fun and elegant ways to dress up our home. While I usually stick with mostly neutrals, Halloween is the perfect time to add in some bright and bold patterns.
This specific wreath is super easy to put together with just a handful of supplies, and you can customize it to your style! Here’s how to make it!
Halloween Wreath Supplies
Here are the supplies you’ll need to make your own Easy Halloween Wreath:
- wreath form
- ½ yard striped fabric
- rotary cutter
- cutting mat
- Trick or Treat Laser Cut-out (Found at Hobby Lobby)
- black and white stripe ribbon
- hot glue and gun
- black spray paint
How to Make a Halloween Wreath
Step 1: To start you’ll want to spray paint the laser cut-out with black paint and set it aside to dry. (I found this cut-out at hobby lobby but have found similar ones at the craft and dollar store.)
Step 2: While your cut out is drying, you’ll lay out your fabric on the cutting mat and trim it in 2″ sections with the rotary cutter.
Step 3: After your strips are cut, you’ll hot glue one end to the back of the wreath form and start to wrap around. Finish off each strip on the back side and secure it with hot glue.
Continue wrapping strips around in the same manner until the wreath form is covered entirely.
Step 4: Next you’ll trim off a length of ribbon and tie it around the top of the wreath form to assist with hanging the wreath.
Step 5: Hot glue the painted cut-out to the top of the wreath.
That’s it, now you have a super adorable festive Halloween Wreath!
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Live performance, talks & film screenings
LIVE PERFORMANCES ON 12/13 May
Pioneering dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential artistic figures of the last 50 years. Rainer’s work has been foundational across multiple disciplines and movements including dance, cinema, feminism, minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism. IMMA presents a selection of Rainer’s iconic early film and dance works, and will bring the legendary artist to Dublin for a historic conversation about her career.
One of Rainer’s most renowned dance pieces, Trio A with Flag (1966), will be performed live at IMMA with her works Talking Solo from Terrain (1963) and Chair/Pillow (1969). A series of talks and conversations will accompany this programme featuring, amongst others; a lecture by Yvonne Rainer (on Sat 12 May 7.30pm), a conversation between Liz Roche (Liz Roche Company) and Rachael Thomas (Senior Curator, IMMA) (on Sun 13 May, 7.30pm), and a talk by Chris Dercon (Director, Volksbühne, Berlin) about dance and performance invading the space of the museum, past and present. A series of screenings will also be shown at IMMA from June 2018, featuring the acclaimed film-works Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990) and MURDER and Murder (1996).
Evoking responses that are at once theoretical, political and deeply personal, the work of Yvonne Rainer continues to resonate with today’s shifting world. In the words of the artist Robert Rauschenberg,
“Yvonne’s multi-media expertise and her dynamic exposure has shaken the world for years. I have known her through the years of the development. To assist in the continuation is a gift to culture.”
Endeavouring to reflect the many facets of Yvonne Rainer’s practice, IMMA presents the work of Yvonne Rainer using a cross-disciplinary approach working in association with Dublin Dance Festival (2–20 May 2018); the leading dance event on the Irish arts calendar. Each year in May, the Festival brings together dance artists and choreographers from across the world to share vibrant contemporary dance with audiences in Ireland.
All of the early dance works will be taught by choreographer Pat Catterson, Yvonne Rainer’s long-time assistant, performer, and transmitter of her dance-work. The performances will feature a cast of four dancers, they are Stav Bar-Nahum Frank, Ty Boomershine, Dimitrios Mytilinaios and Mary Kate Sheehan.
Pat Catterson (USA), Choreographer
Pat Catterson’s parents were a ballroom dancing team and her paternal grandfather a Vaudevillian tap dancer. A NYC based artist, she has choreographed 110 works, receiving many accolades including a 2011 Solomon R. Guggenheim Choreography Fellowship and multiple Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the CAPS Grants and the Harkness Foundation, as well as a Fulbright Commission. She has been on the faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, UCLA, the Juilliard School, and the Merce Cunningham Studio, among many others. For twenty years she taught her own tap classes in NYC and has been a guest artist many places, most recently at the Kalamata Dance Festival in Greece and at Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers France. Her writing has been published in Ballet Review, JOPERD, Attitude Magazine, Dance Magazine Online, the Getty Iris, and the Dance Research Journal. She earned her BA in psychology and philosophy from Northwestern University and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She first performed Yvonne Rainer’s work in 1969 and since 1999 has worked as her dancer and rehearsal assistant, touring nationally and internationally. A custodian of Rainer’s early works, she has staged them on many individual dancers and companies worldwide.
Stav Bar-Nahum Frank (Israel), Dancer
Stav Bar-Nahum Frank is a dance artist, choreographer and modern dance teacher. She has a Bachelor of Education in Dance from Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Dance training program Maslool Bikurey Ha’itim, were she performed pieces by Angelin Preljocaj, Matz Ek, Idan Sharabi, and Barak Marshall in addition to performing Ronit Ziv’s Rose Can’t Wait at Boydem Festival 2012 and Micheal Getman’s Fire Bird with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Her latest piece Let’s Play Girl, created in collaboration with Michal Ingber, was performed in The Steiner 2017, Tel-Aviv. Stav also created The Spider and the Butterfly in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Noa Becker at the International Puppet Festival 2016 under the direction of the Train Theatre, Jerusalem. The piece is performed on a regular basis throughout Israel. As a dancer, she has participated in many performances, including Between Two Walls, Hamsa Hamsa Hamsa, and Blooming Dusk by Ma’ayan Liebman-Sharon and Vitrine and A Lady and a Bench by Kelly Ayache. As a modern dance teacher, she educates young children from the ages of 5 to 18, and she also teaches repertory workshops around Israel.
Ty Boomershine (USA), Dancer
Ty Boomershine, born in the USA in 1968, studied dance at the Fort Hayes School for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio, completing his studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Magna cum Laude at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Ty danced in New York with Dan Wagoner, Lucinda Childs, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane, DANCENOISE, Merce Cunningham repertory ensemble, Gus Solomons and Ton Simons. In Amsterdam with Leine & Roebana, Giulia Mureddu, Nicole Beutler, Robyn Orlin and Emio Greco| PC. In Dublin with John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theater, and in Berlin with the DanceOnEnsemble where he performed the works of Deborah Hay, Beth Gill, Rabih Mroué, Kat Válastur and Jan Martens. He was a featured performer in the Robert Wilson/Phillip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach as well as rehearsal director for the choreography of Lucinda Childs for whom he is artistic assistant and stager.
Dimitrios Mytilinaios (Greece), Dancer
Dimitrios Mytilinaios was born and raised in Athens Greece. After graduating from the State School of Dance (2012-2015) in Athens at the age of 23 he started a one-year internship at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (2015-2016). The next year- with a scholarship of Onassis Foundation- he pursued his studies in Master exerce, a two year master program on research in choreography and representation at ICI-CCN Montpelier which he will finish the following summer. Besides developing and staging his own choreographic work, he has performed for Anastasia Valsamaki, Maria Gorgia, Jurij Konjar, Inaki Azpillaga, and Romeo Castellucci among others.
Mary Kate Sheehan (USA), Dancer
Mary Kate Sheehan is a New York City-based modern and contemporary dance artist. She holds a B. A. in Performing Arts with an Emphasis in Dance from St. Mary’s College of California. Her credits include dancing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY and Seán Curran Company at theaters including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and New York City Center. She also performs with Tyler Gilstrap (TunanuT), Marlena Wolfe (the Wolfe project), Darrah Carr Dance, and Julia Ehrstrand Dance. She was a lead dancer in Seán Curran’s Bessie Award-nominated Dingle Diwali, and she is a world-champion Irish step dancer. Mary Kate is an accomplished rehearsal director and teacher in the New York City area as well as internationally. She teaches at STEPS on Broadway and Peridance Capezio Center in New York City, and she has taught and set choreography in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and South Africa in professional, pre-professional, and outreach settings.
Performance / Door Times
Saturday 12 May, Doors open at 7pm, no late entry after 7.30pm
This event includes a pre-performance lecture by Yvonne Rainer.
Doors open at 7pm, the event starts at 7.30pm sharp. Latecomers may not be admitted.
Sunday 13 May, Matinee. Doors open at 3pm, event begins at 3.30pm sharp
This event includes a pre-performance talk by Rachael Gilbourne (Curator, IMMA).
Doors open at 3pm, no late entry after 3.30pm. Latecomers may not be admitted.
Sunday 13 May. Doors open at 7pm, no late entry after 7.30pm
This event includes a post-performance conversation between Liz Roche (Liz Roche Company) and Rachael Thomas (Senior Curator, IMMA).
Doors open at 7pm, the event starts at 7.30pm sharp. Latecomers may not be admitted.
Ticket prices: €15 full price / €12.50 conc, which include complimentary O’Hara’s Irish Craft Beer after the event.
Venue: IMMA, Great Hall. The venue includes seats and a space to sit on the carpeted floor. SEATS are allocated on a first come first served basis.
Duration: 60mins approx. (talk & performance) followed by complimentary O’Hara’s Irish Craft Beer after the event.
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If you’re reading this, it might be because it’s a last resort. For two months, your mind has been all over the place, unable to focus on anything other than moving to different rooms in your house to carry out required human functions. You might be starting this article again, having tried it earlier – a few minutes ago, a few hours – hoping that maybe this, an article about why you can’t focus, will give you the answers. Maybe you’re hoping this will be the thing that finally helps you snap back to normal brain functionality. You, like hundreds of millions of others, are running out of options.
All over the world, people are trying to overcome one of the few universal problems this pandemic has brought on: that it feels near-impossible to stay focused on anything. Whether it’s work or study, or even pleasurable things like reading, gaming or chatting, everything suddenly feels like a battle against your attention span to concentrate on what was once simply routine.
Since February, there has been a 300 per cent increase in people searching “how to get your brain to focus”, an 110 per cent increase in “how to focus better”, and 60 per cent rise in “how to increase focus”. People are paying for apps and services to help their concentration. But after six weeks in lockdown, why aren’t things getting easier? And for many people, why are things actually getting worse?
Dr Amy Arnsten is a Professor of Neuroscience and a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, whose work has focused largely on the brain’s response to stress. She has spent her career investigating the brain’s higher functions and how they’re affected by different arousal systems – and more specifically how, when faced with certain input, they can fall apart.
The basic science you need to know is that your brain’s prefrontal cortex (a chunk behind your forehead) processes “higher functions”, such as critical thinking, inhibiting impulses and, crucially here, the ability to focus. “The prefrontal cortex has got this built in genie that causes it to weaken with stress signalling,” Arnsten says, “whereas the related stress chemicals actually strengthen the primitive brain systems.”
So essentially, when faced with immediate physical danger, your prefrontal cortex shuts down to make way for the more primitive parts of your brain – the parts that can respond quickly and basically in order to protect you.
“You can see how that might have evolved in the kinds of dangers, I mean it continues in modern life with things like getting cut off on the highway… a dangerous situation where being rapid and reactive can save your life,” she says. “But when you have to be thoughtful, it is very dangerous to no longer be able to have your prefrontal cortex to guide you.”
A video from Dr Arnsten on the prefrontal cortex and Covid-19
This brings us to our current situation, in which we are being faced with danger that is ongoing but not acute. It means that, rather than dealing with the immediate danger and then moving on, we are cutting off the part of our brain that helps us think beyond the primitive – for extended periods of time. And our ability to focus is significantly affected.
Arnsten says there are three major factors that make Covid-19 particularly potent for cutting off our prefrontal cortex: its invisibility; the lack of individual control we have over it; and being forced to go against our normal habits in order to protect ourselves.
“We all know as long as there’s no vaccine, this is not under control,” she says. “And the fact that it’s invisible makes that sense of lack of control even more pronounced.”
Arnsten does emphasise that the response your brain is having is not unique – it’s been programmed to respond to danger through evolution built into its signalling system since before you were born. “What’s unique about it is how global it is, that even in world wars there were parts of the world that were somewhat unaffected,” she says. “But here, with the virus, it really can go everywhere.”
Part of what makes this global phenomenon so strange is that many people are still struggling to focus despite not obsessively reading coronavirus news. Even those who have turned off may have found that it has helped with anxiety, but not with their concentration. Arnsten says this too is a standard response: even ambiently knowing that the situation is not improving can have an effect on the ability to function.
“Feeling that the government is handling [this pandemic] so very poorly, so you can’t trust them to do what’s needed to be done to take care of people, can greatly accentuate the stress and the sense of, ‘No one’s in control and I really am in danger,’” she says. “The fear of that conceptually affects everyone and especially as you watch the virus spread to places where you think: ‘It’s not going to happen here,’… you build up this wall of thinking, ‘I’m safe’ and when you realise you’re not, that’s when these stress responses would probably become more prominent.”
This doesn’t just lead to an inability to focus, but also to an overall lack of motivation. Arnsten explains that an often forgotten part of our flight or fight response to danger is to “freeze”, which can feel a lot like mental paralysis. “Losing the ability to have really motivated, guided behaviour can be linked to all these primitive reflexes,” she says.
For many people, this has led to what Arnsten calls a vicious cycle of losing focus, beating yourself up about it, and then making your prefrontal connections even weaker (and repeat). “Why understanding neurobiology is so helpful is that you can watch yourself in that downwards spiral and you can say, ‘This is just my biology, evolution is making me do this, this is normal neurobiology, and I don’t have to blame myself, it’s okay,’” she argues.
She says that this kind of thinking – being aware and kind to yourself – can help lift you out of these vicious cycles. “It’s completely normal,” she says of struggling to focus. “Your brain is wired to do it.”
Because of the inevitability that this situation will be our lives for the foreseeable, people have started to get creative with how they regain their own attention. Some have begun paying for expensive apps to limit their time on social media or turned to techniques they previously saw as unnecessary, like bullet journalling or using the Pomodoro method (25 minutes of work, followed by a five-minute break).
Silent Zoom parties, to mimic the environment of being in a crowded library or study group, have become wildly popular for not just students, but all homeworkers. Some people have returned to reading out loud as a way to force themselves to read beyond a single paragraph.
While many people now swear by these techniques, they are only useful to those who have the bandwidth to try them. “If you’re being asked to do things that put you in danger, or if you’re isolated in ways where you’re truly lonely, there’s a lot of data that shows exhaustion coupled with stress is the worst of all,” Arnsten says. “It’s the kind of burnout, for example, that health workers can have. And with chronic stress you actually lose prefrontal connections… you can actually see on an MRI scan the loss of grey matter from chronic stress.”
With coronavirus specifically, Arnsten says there are also reports showing that the virus itself can have a marked effect on the brain – that inflammation caused by the virus can also result in a further loss of those prefrontal connections.
It’s not all bad news though, Arnsten says. Beyond knowing the neurobiology and cutting yourself some slack, there is a chance that the damage done to your ability to focus may eventually be able to be repaired. “The data suggests, with rats, that with time spent not stressed, those connections can regrow,” she explains. “And there is also a human study that shows the strength of connections returned over a period of non-stress.” She jokes that people will deserve extended time eating well in restaurants and travelling to calming locations when this is all over.
Overall though, to reconnect with our prefrontal cortexes, it might be that taking a step back is the thing we all need. “Perspective gives you a sense of control, so hearing, ‘It’s okay, it will be better, my brain will feel normal again’” can help,” Arnsten says. “I think that’s really helpful to have that kind of perspective and gain that sense of control.”

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The Home Secretary David Blunkett last week announced that he was still hopeful legislation for a national identity card scheme would be in the Queen’s speech this autumn, despite widespread concerns from lawyers, civil libertarians and even from within the cabinet.
The Home Secretary outlined his plans for a compulsory ID card scheme that would prevent those without cards from working or getting access to healthcare, education and other public services.
According to the civil rights group Liberty it was an “insane and suicidal step for this Government”.
“The Cabinet needs to rein in the Home Secretary,” commented Liberty campaigns director Mark Littlewood. “The polling evidence makes plain that millions of British citizens would refuse point blank to carry a card. Criminalising and potentially even imprisoning tens of thousands of people is not a smart way of making friends and influencing people. Spending billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on a scheme with no proven benefits would be a recipe for disaster.”
Liberty argued that experience from other countries with ID cards showed that the practice was “costly, unwieldy, unhelpful and a real threat to our civil liberties”. Littlewood added: “The Government should take a step back, take a long, deep breath and put these proposals where they belong – in the dustbin of history.”
The Law Society also denounced the scheme as “unnecessary and potentially harmful” without any clear rationale.
Blunkett’s calls could even prompt a fallout within the cabinet. Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, was reported to have “grave reservations” about the move. Hewitt, a former general secretary of Liberty (then the Council for Civil Liberties), said the issue raised “enormous” questions of both principle and practicality. “Great big IT projects, databases and the rest of it have a horrible habit of going wrong,” she said.
Education Secretary Charles Clarke and Chancellor Gordon Brown are also understood to have concerns.


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by Bruce Tanis
This week, the most shocking news report came from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which projected that, due to the fully-realized consequences of Obamacare by the year 2021 — in 7 years — more than 2 million full-time American workers will find it more advantageous to quit work entirely or switch to part-time jobs in order to get more subsidies for health insurance rather than to pay the dramatically higher premiums created by Obamacare. It should be noted that the Congressional Budget Office is a strictly nonpartisan agency that conducts objective, impartial analysis of budget issues for Congress. All CBO employees are appointed solely on the basis of professional competence, without regard to political affiliation.
Our government, run and dominated by Democrats, now subsidizes people not to work while forcing others to work more to pay the increased taxes to pay the subsidies. This is not only ridiculous, it is unsustainable and dangerous to the long-term viability of our entire system — it creates a moral hazard for us all. It is the economic equivalent of feeding a cow her own milk and expecting milk production to thereby increase.
Anyone who studied or understands economics or human nature understands that if you tax something, you get less of it, and if you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. Now, under the Democrats we are taxing producers and subsidizing non-producing parasites. What can we expect will happen under the rules of economics, except to wind up with fewer producers and more parasites?
Remember that these same Democrats who are dictating policy from our White House via Executive Orders and passing legislation and blocking the filibuster by their opponents in our Congress are the very same folks who tried not long ago to convince the nation that our young, healthy workers would willingly cough up a lot more for their health insurance simply to subsidize older, sicker Americans. I can hear the grandiose speeches by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid saying it would happen. It didn’t happen. In fact, just the opposite happened. It failed miserably. Not enough young people signed up. But taxes still went up. Our choices went down. 5 million people lost their health insurance. Premiums doubled and quadrupled. The ink was not even dry on the Obamacare legislation, the Obama administration had to provide subsidies, exceptions, and exemptions to their own laws in order to bribe citizens, companies, and states to participate and they still didn’t get enough subscribers to justify the program and expense. Worse yet, they learned nothing from the rapid implosion of their theory in practice. So why should we trust them at all when they aggressively continually try to persuade us to do things they insist are “good” for us which turn out to be bad for us?
As I type this, Democrats from all around the country are singing in harmony about a wonderful new world of possibilities for American workers at the bottom rungs springing up from the loss of jobs due to Obamacare, in an attempt to create a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
The new buzzword is JOB LOCK. Democrat leaders talk about JOB LOCK as if it means people are being imprisoned if they are employed, as if they are held captive by their employers and by their healthcare plans those employers provide. The only solution, of course, is to liberate the people from their jobs and their healthcare plans. You know, the very healthcare plans that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their minions said that people could keep if they “liked them.” And that’s exactly what they are doing: creating job loss and loss of healthcare coverage. How liberating!
Here’s Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, trying to spin it:
“The GOP seems to have forgotten that ending ‘job-lock; has been an avowed Republican goal for years — even a highlight in the Republican Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential race.” Pelosi says the CBO report vindicates Obamacare because “this was one of the goals. To give people life, a healthy life, liberty to pursue their happiness. And that liberty is to not be job-locked but to follow their passion.” Pelosi is particularly invested in this view. She’s been mocked for years now for her repeated claims that Obamacare is an entrepreneurial bill because it would let Americans quit their jobs to, among other things, “write poetry.”
I know I’m not alone in thinking that it was totally worth seizing 20% of the U.S. economy, polarizing Washington, throwing millions of Americans’ lives into turmoil and forcing millions of others to pay more in premiums and deductibles, while spending $1.2 trillion of our money just so we could liberate the Job-Locked Poets!
Now every Democrat leader is taking a bow for freeing Americans from the shackles of employment. “People shouldn’t have job-lock,” Harry Reid declared this week. “We live in a country where there should be free agency. People can do what they want.”
That’s an awfully awkward way to tout a law that compels people to buy insurance even if they don’t want it, during a “recovery” where millions can’t find a job and where millions more will lose their jobs and insurance.
The CBO report cited above projects that by 2024, the number of non-elderly uninsured will be — drum roll, please — 31 million Americans. And that’s precisely why all this talk by Democrats of Democrats being the great Job-Lock Liberators is both pathetic and hilarious. Virtually every promise they made has been broken, every prediction falsified, or the complete opposite has happened. And now, at a time when millions want work that doesn’t exist, Democrats are claiming victory by trimming the amount of work actually being done.
Meanwhile “Job Lock” means something entirely different to American Conservatives and Republicans. “Job-lock” to them is an insurance portability problem. Instead of effectively paying people to work less, as Obamacare does, conservative proposals against “Job Lock” offer to make health insurance portable and end federal preferences for employer-based insurance, allowing Americans to take insurance with them from job to job. People would not be stuck with a specific employer because they want to stay insured. Now that is truly liberating.
Conservative health policy heavyweights and think tanks like The Heritage Foundation have repeatedly argued for a national transition to what they call “portable insurance.” The tax code currently gives those with employer-based coverage a break, making it harder for Americans to switch jobs as they please. That is what Job Lock really is: Insurance tied to a specific employer and fortified as such by our tax code.
Imagine if households, not firms or government, chose and controlled their own insurance plans and people no longer faced the risks that come with changing coverage based on new employment arrangements, sometimes having to settle for less coverage or benefits. But was this a proposal even considered by the Democrats in passing Obamacare? Absolutely not. By carrying the same insurance plan from one job to the next (or even through periods with no job at all), individuals would keep their coverage even if their health status changed, without any government mandates or intervention. That’s why the Democrats opposed these plans and didn’t consider them — they involved no intervention by their greedy hands and gave more choice to the citizens with no excuse to raise taxes. Obama himself vehemently opposed such proposals, saying in his campaign, “Senator McCain would pay for his plan, in part, by taxing your health care benefits for the first time in history.”
Then, of course, the Democrats argued, if we eliminate jobs (see how they are killing coal and manufacturing) take people OUT of the job market permanently, and if we have constant demand for labor, then wages must go up. After all, we don’t want people to become wage slaves, do we? No! That was their actual argument! Kill jobs, and create more losers, who give up searching for work, and the resulting constant labor demand seeking far less jobs will cause income to rise. Less employed creates less demand for labor and therefore wages go up. At least they won’t become wage slaves. Brilliant. Where was that diploma from again? Same place as the birth certificate, social security card, and passport, you say? Hmm… Is there a single brain cell among them, or are they just trying to tip the scales and create more people who are pathetically dependent over multiple generations on an increasingly Big Brother Government?
Watch the video below. I think Groucho’s logic is much more intelligent than that of Obama and the Democrats. It is time to stop being manipulated by such insane double-talk and to take America back. Hopefully voters will look for ways to liberate these Democrats from the curse of job-lock come November 2014. Perhaps they could then get out of our hair and go write poetry. Now that would be poetic justice.
Bruce Tanis is an economist, financial expert, world traveler, and George F. Baker Scholar who works in finance in Manhattan.


Denver Police Move Into Occupy Protest Encampment
DENVER (AP) — The simmering tension near the Colorado Capitol escalated dramatically Saturday with more than a dozen arrests, reports of skirmishes between police and protesters and authorities firing rounds of pellets filled with pepper spray at supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Officers in riot gear moved into a park late in the day where protesters were attempting to establish an encampment, hauling off demonstrators just hours after a standoff at the Capitol steps degenerated into a fight that ended in a cloud of Mace and pepper spray.
Denver police spokesman Matt Murray said 15 people were arrested in the evening confrontation, where authorities were moving to prevent protesters from setting up tents in the park, which are illegal. Officals say the demonstrators had been warned several times that the tents would not be allowed and those who attempted to stop police from dismantling the camp gear were arrested. Protesters have been staying in the park for weeks, but tents have repeatedly been removed.
Murray said that most of the protesters were peaceful but there was "just a die-hard group that didn't want to cooperate."
"We showed great restraint," he said. "We were calm. We went in and did what we had to do. There's a group of very committed people who believe in a cause, and then there are a few people who just want to cause trouble."
Earlier in the day about 2,000 protesters rallying against what they see as economic inequality and corporate greed marched downtown toward the Capitol, setting up the most intense moments of the Denver movement, which has lasted weeks.
A group of the marchers advanced toward the building and some tried to make their way up the steps. About eight officers scuffled with a group of protesters and police confirmed that they used Mace and fired pepper balls — hollow projectiles filled with the chemical irritant — to break up the crowd. Protesters told the paper at the time that they believed police used rubber bullets.
Murray said protesters kicked police and knocked one officer off his motorcycle. He said five protesters were arrested, including two for assault and one for disobedience.
Chantrell Smiley, 21, of Denver, said she has been protesting downtown for more than a week, sleeping on the ground in the park. She said she didn't see the officer get knocked from his motorcycle and didn't see any reason for the afternoon confrontation.
"It was just chaos. This wasn't necessary. My friend got hit with rubber bullets in the face. He was screaming and bleeding, then they Maced him. We're being peaceful. We don't want to be harmed. They came through and took everything down — our food, our blankets, everything's gone."
Mike Korzen, 25, told the Denver Post that he was among the group that police dispersed with rubber bullets and pepper spray and suggested that the police force was excessive.
"I was standing there with my hands behind my back," Korzen said, using a water bottle to rinse pepper spray from his eyes.
After nightfall about a dozen Denver police and Colorado state patrol cars remained in the area.
About 100 protesters milled about, most coughing and sneezing from the haze of pepper spray and Mace that still hovered in the air. Some laid out tarps on the ground, preparing to spend another night outside. Throughout the evening vehicles pulled up, dropping off blankets and food with cheering protesters.


Organic amorphous films fabricated by vacuum deposition have been widely used in organic light-emitting devices, making use of their high-performance optical and electrical characteristics and taking advantage of the easy fabrication of pinhole-free thin smooth layers of a desired thickness. However, random orientation in amorphous films often makes it difficult to utilize their best optical and electrical potential. Here the authors demonstrate that the linear-shaped molecules of fluorescent styrylbenzene derivatives are horizontally oriented in organic amorphous films fabricated by conventional vacuum deposition even when the molecules are doped in an isotropic host matrix film. The longer the molecular length is, the larger the anisotropy of the molecular orientation becomes. The weak interaction between adjacent molecules and the linear-shaped molecular structure probably cause the horizontal orientation. The fact that the horizontal molecular orientation occurs on any underlying layers shows the high versatility of the horizontal orientation for various applications. Their findings will provide a new guideline for molecular designs that can be used to improve optical and electrical characteristics of organic optoelectronic devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes and organic laser devices.
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To find out which reason may be the culprit behind your elbow pain, you will need to see a general physician or an orthopaedic specialist who will run you through a series of tests and examinations including X rays, MRI scans and others in order to ascertain the cause and treatment. A sports injury specialist can also help in diagnosis and treatment.

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The key with screen time is to be mindful of what you are doing (or not doing), who you are connecting with and what you are saying, and how it all makes you feel. Unplug and disconnect, especially if you start to find that being online is impacting your mood or self-esteem. It doesn't have to be a permanent break, just walk away for an hour and do something else—see how you feel!


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During the county commissioners' meeting on Thursday, the board of commissioners adopted a proclamation proclaiming July 17 through July 23 as a time to honor the men and women who "are the backbone of the probation and parole process and an essential part of the criminal justice system."
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"I think often we read about people sentenced to court and not many people stop and think what goes into that process before, during and after, and at the heart of that process are the probation officers. on behalf of this board and county I want to thank you," he said before reading the proclamation.
Roberta Brewster, county court administrator; Ronald Kokinda, chief of adult probation; and Kimmy Mulik, chief juvenile probation officer, accepted the proclamation.
The proclamation states that "probation and parole officers/agents are sworn peace officers who work primarily in the community, seeing parolees at home, at work and on the streets and are on call 24/7 to respond to emergencies and urgent problems. Probation and parole officers/agents are on the front line in providing both supervision and counseling to offenders and operate to uphold the law and safeguard the public from criminal activity during an inmate's transition from incarceration to the community.
"(They) have many roles, from enforcement officer or behavioral counselor to social worker or job counselor, while monitoring an offender's behavior and activities, working to ensure the offender's compliance with all laws and the conditions of probation and parole, and assisting the offender with securing housing and employment, addressing treatment and service needs and helping the offender make a positive adjustment to life in the community. ... Probation, Parole, and Community Supervision Week is a time to recognize and celebrate the dedicated and caring individuals in the community who work tirelessly to make neighborhoods safer and more vibrant places to live and raise families and work to give offenders a second chance and be productive members of society."
Following the presentation of the proclamation to Brewster, Kokinda and Mulik, Commissioners Charles Getz and Wayne Nothstein also thanked them and their departments for the dedication they have to the court system.
In other matters, Getz announced that the inmate litter crew is out picking up litter along the highways in the county.
"They're doing a good job," he said.
But, Getz said someone already had thrown trash back out on the shoulders of a highway that was just cleaned.
"It's unbelievable how some people just do not care."
Nothstein also extended his appreciation for the Kidder Township Police Chief Joseph Protasiewicz's service on the county Local Emergency Planning Committee. The county accepted Protasiewicz's resignation from the committee on Thursday. Officials are now looking for a new police officer to join the committee.

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Impotence (ED), likewise called impotence, is a condition in which a man is not able to achieve or maintain an erection during sexual activity. erectile dysfunction after radiation This can be a humiliating and aggravating issue for numerous men, but it is also a common one. In fact, it is estimated that about 50% of males over the age of 40 experience some degree of ED.
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-Stress and anxiety.
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Treatment for ED can include medication, such as phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5 inhibitors), which work by increasing blood circulation to the penis. These medications include sildenafil (Viagra), tadalafil (Cialis), and vardenafil (Levitra).
Treatment for Impotence (ED):
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Other holistic treatments for ED include meditation, stress, and yoga management methods. These can assist to reduce stress and anxiety, which can add to ED.
In some cases, surgery may be necessary to deal with ED. This can include procedures such as penile implant surgical treatment or vascular surgery to improve blood circulation to the penis.
It is essential to note that ED can be a sign of an underlying health condition, such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes. Therefore, it is very important to see a doctor for a correct medical diagnosis and treatment strategy.
In conclusion, impotence (ED) is a typical condition that can be triggered by a variety of elements, consisting of physical and mental factors. Treatment for ED can include medication, such as PDE5 inhibitors, as well as way of life changes, organic solutions, and holistic therapies. It’s important to seek advice from a doctor for a proper diagnosis and treatment strategy.
Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease.
Erectile dysfunction (ED) and heart disease are closely associated conditions. ED can be an early warning indication of heart disease. This is due to the fact that the very same underlying aspects that contribute to the advancement of cardiovascular disease, such as poor blood circulation and hypertension, can also result in ED.
Research studies have revealed that men with ED are at a greater risk of establishing heart disease. In fact, research study suggests that ED may be an early indicator of heart disease, even prior to other signs appear. This is since the same risk factors that add to heart problem, such as high blood diabetes, pressure, and smoking, can likewise lead to ED.
The link in between ED and heart problem is so strong that the American College of Cardiology and the American Urological Association have recommended that males with ED be evaluated for heart disease. This is due to the fact that dealing with and determining ED early can assist to prevent the advancement of more severe health problems, such as heart problem.
Treatment for ED in guys with heart problem normally includes addressing the underlying risk aspects, such as handling high blood cholesterol, pressure, and diabetes levels, in addition to giving up cigarette smoking. Medications for ED such as PDE5 inhibitors (Viagra, Cialis, Levitra) are also frequently utilized, however must be used with caution as they can communicate with specific heart medications.
It is necessary to note that while ED is an early warning sign of cardiovascular disease, it is not a direct reason for cardiovascular disease. In other words, the presence of ED does not indicate that an individual will definitely develop heart problem. It’s important to speak with a health care company to rule out any severe underlying health problems, and also to make sure that any medication or treatment chosen is appropriate and safe.
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What Is Red Boost for erectile dysfunction?
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The herb fenugreek Fenugreek, which originates from India, has actually been utilized for a long period of time to boost energy and motivate conception. Studies expose that after taking fenugreek every day for a while, both women and men experience orgasms that are more rewarding and extreme. It’s likewise known that fenugreek can enhance testosterone levels.
Citrulline is an effective amino acid that stimulates vasodilation and increases blood flow throughout the body. Citrulline, a compound found in watermelons and cucumbers, gets changed into arginine and after that straight into nitric oxide. Blood blood circulation is greatly boosted throughout the body, making it much easier to sustain and obtain than previously.
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Nettle root extract boosts both libido and the generation of male hormones. Red Boost increases blood circulation and blood circulation while controling blood sugar level to maintain constant levels.
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A continuous increase in high blood pressure will motivate vasodilation, which will enhance blood circulation to all areas of the body. She had no trouble controlling her blood pressure.
The formula ensures that brain cells get the appropriate nutrients they require to improve psychological clearness and a clear mind by assisting in the upkeep of healthy blood circulation throughout the body.
The mix of powerful and effective components brings back vigor and energy while providing the younger endurance required for a fulfilled life.
Red Boost naturally improves any guy’s state of mind, stamina, libido, and sex drive, even those who are between the ages of 70 and 80.
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How should the supplement Red Boost Blood Circulation Support be utilized?
Additionally, extra Red Boost is offered as tablets. 2 tablets ought to be taken two times daily with a glass of water by the user.
The right dosage should constantly be taken as recommended to prevent undesirable results. The supplement ought to be considered at least three months to accomplish the maximum outcomes.
Just how much does Red Boost cost?
A bottle of Red Boost has 30 servings (60 pills). To enhance reproductive health, two tablets are taken every day.
The creators of Red Boost supply a range of budget-friendly plans with cost-effective advantages. The following information relates to additional charges:
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Another popular treatment is the amino acid L-arginine, which is believed to improve blood flow.
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text: Characterization of peroxides by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) of milk following exposure to riboflavin and light showed that hydrogen peroxide was the most abundant peroxide formed since it could be removed by catalase. Formation of peroxides after separation by SEC showed that hydrogen peroxide formation was primarily increased in the presence of caseins and ascorbate, although whey proteins also were found to contribute. Caseins and beta-lactoglobulin also formed catalase-resistant peroxides, presumably protein hydroperoxides. A catalase-resistant and unstable peroxide was observed in fractions containing urate. Experiments performed with pure urate suggested that urate radicals reacted further with superoxide leading to a urate hydroperoxide. Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy using spin-traps showed that the presence of oxygen was required for urate radical formation, which could be assigned as nitrogen-centered radicals. These results suggest a new route during light-induced oxidation sensitized by flavins, in effect making urate pro-oxidative.

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BEIJING, Nov. 11, 2008 -- Look to southern China to provide a stark illustration of how the global economic downturn and America's recession is playing out across the world.
The Pearl River Delta has been the manufacturing capital of the world, motherland of the "made in China" brand. But in the first nine months of this year, 1,300 companies in the region shut down, suspended business or moved their factories out of southern China.
Only 20 percent of foreign-invested firms in the region are seeing a profit, down from 90 percent when the boom was at its peak, according to provincial trade authorities.
Tens of thousands of factory workers are now out of work and social unrest is becoming a real threat with which the central government must contend. There have been several reports of workers protesting after their companies shut down. Local governments have stepped in and started paying the workers back wages.
Qin Wei is an 18-year-old migrant worker who was laid off from BEP in Shenzhen, a factory that produced home appliances for the American brand Cuisinart. It was his first job, one that he traveled more than 500 miles from his hometown to find. Now, he has no idea what to do. The company owes him $300 and he is having trouble finding another job as more and more factories close and low-skilled workers flood the market.
"I want to find another job. I have no money," Qin told ABC News. "I cannot even feed myself."
It's a story heard over and over in southern China.
Wu Xiu Feng is a mother of two who has spent the last 11 years making irons for a factory that just shut down. She and her husband are desperately looking for work and are worried about having enough money to feed their two children. Like most factory workers, she is a migrant worker.
"I can't even afford to go home," she told ABC News. "I feel miserable."
The central government is listening and trying to respond both to rising unemployment and pressure from abroad to take action. A stimulus package has been rolled out. An estimated $580 billion will be spent over the next two years to finance programs in 10 major areas, such as low-income housing, rural infrastructure, water, electricity, transportation, the environment, technological innovation and rebuilding from disasters, notably the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan that killed 70,000 and left millions homeless. Analysts have likened the plan to China's version of FDR's New Deal.
China's Growth Slowed Sharply This Year
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, according to state media, said the stimulus package was crucial to tiding over the difficulties and maintaining long-term economic growth momentum. Wen urged local governments to be "quick" and "effective" in carrying out these measures.
China's government also announced it would extend its value-added tax reform to all industries nationwide beginning in January, which would reduce the tax burden on companies by more than $17.6 billion. This is designed to give a boost to Chinese companies and increase domestic demand.
"It's a social stability issue," said Logan Wright, an economic analyst at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates. "They don't want large numbers of people rioting at factories…The government is holding on to growth at all costs."
China's growth slowed sharply this year, to 9 percent.
Wright cautions that within China's new plan, it is unclear how much of the $580 billion is new spending and how much had already been planned. "Chinese authorities are aware that the rest of the world is watching what they're doing. … The idea is to demonstrate that the government is prepared to stimulate the economy on a large scale."
The Shanghai Composite, the domestic stock market, reacted positively to the news, gaining 7 percent Monday, but losing 1.7 percent today. China's mainland stock market has a long distance to travel to get anywhere near recovery. It has lost 70 percent in the last year.
President Hu Jintao will join President Bush and other world leaders in Washington this weekend for the global economic summit. And China's new stimulus plan is something Beijing will point to as an example of active participation. The plan will become China's front line of defense against the economic slowdown, but it is unclear whether it will be enough to help turn around the global slowdown.


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Google Doodle shows its appreciation for all healthcare workers for their service
We bow down to the nurses, doctors, researchers that are working to provide us with the best healthcare they can.
A year after we heard about the novel coronavirus, India is currently facing a second tsunami of rising cases. Lack of oxygen, shortage of hospital beds and vital medicines are just some of the national issues that our healthcare workers are facing. Not to mention they are constantly being surrounded by death, disgruntled relatives and tensed families, overcrowded hospitals, long working hours and even hospital fires. Another section of the scientific community that is working just as hard while not being in the public eye is the researchers. Pushing their research to the background, most scientists are working towards newer vaccines and improving existing ones, sequencing the virus DNA, following the mutations.
It is only right that we bow down to the nurses, doctors, researchers and other healthcare workers that are working round the clock to provide Indian citizens with the very best healthcare facilities with the limited resources they have. To honour them, Google created a special Google Doodle for India, thanking all the public health workers and researchers in the scientific community.
The Doodle shows the letter 'G' sending love to the letter 'E' who is acting as a researcher. It is wearing a pair of glasses and is surrounded by books and a globe. In the background, one can see two graphs - the left graph signifies a peak/surge in coronavirus cases and the right graph shows that cases plateauing.
Last year, Google spent a year thanking and appreciating all essential service workers who worked through the pandemic. The doodles paid their respect to various sectors like farming, grocery divisions, healthcare, researchers, and food services. One doodle also portrays people who are working from home and teachers who are holding online classes.
Things might be even worse considering that HIV testing slowed or even stopped in many places when COVID-19 hit, potentially leaving even more virus spread uncounted
According to the health ministry, 206.21 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive
India's daily COVID-19 positivity rate jumps over 7% after 168 days, 16,866 test positive in last 24 hours
The country witnessed 41 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, increasing total fatalities to 5,26,074

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In order to improve efficiency in monitoring the attendance, leave records and over all working environment, Biometric Based Attendance Monitoring System (BBAMS) has been introduced in Government Colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This initiative is in liaison with the Government policy of efficient and effective service delivery.
The new system will replace the old mechanism of manual attendance and thus enabling the high ups to view the attendance of the individuals or groups by just a mouse click without having to physically visit the place.
The significant feature of the system is that it will help the Department to segregate between the regular and irregular teacher. Furthermore it also envisages that this will also increase the class enrollment.
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In several earthquake-prone countries a large part of existing r.c. buildings had been designed before seismic codes entered into force and, therefore, considering gravity loads only. The lateral strength and stiffness of these structures are inadequate to sustain seismic action and their seismic response is aggravated by deficiencies due to vertical irregularity. In particular, the ratio of the demanded storey shear force to the lateral strength presents an irregular distribution along the height of the building. This promotes the development of a storey collapse mechanism. In this chapter, the insertion of Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs) is proposed both for the seismic upgrading of r.c. frames designed for gravity loads and for the reduction of their vertical irregularity. The effectiveness of a design method previously proposed by the authors is investigated. The method is ruled by two parameters: the behaviour factor and the design storey drift. The design method is applied for the seismic retrofitting of a 6-storey r.c. frame considering the values of the ruling parameters in several combinations. Then, nonlinear dynamic analyses are performed to assess their influence on the seismic response of the upgraded frames.
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The true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom
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The true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender) as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.
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Fresh off of Wednesday's House hearing on the Benghazi attack, America Rising has a new video juxtaposing the statements of the whistleblowers to those then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made at an earlier hearing. Watch the video below:
House speaker John Boehner is requesting the Obama administration release unclassified emails between the White House and the State Department regarding the Benghazi attack of September 11, 2012. In a statement at the Capitol Thursday morning, Boehner cited Wednesday's House hearing with three whistleblower witnesses:
The Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C. that chronicles the news industry, plans to add two dead terrorists to its "Journalists Memorial." The announcement to include these terrorists on the memorial, which "pays tribute to reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news," was made on the Newseum's website.
During his trip to Mexico and Costa Rica last week, President Obama tried to highlight the positive and downplay the negative. Thus, he spoke at length about the growth of trade, commerce, and economic partnerships, arguing that security issues should not be allowed to dominate all discussions of U.S. policy in the region.
House speaker John Boehner is criticizing the White House's reaction to the revalations, first reported by Stephen F. Hayes for THE WEEKLY STANDARD, that the administration's talking points on the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last September were altered. From a press release from the speaker's office:
Israel’s air campaign this past weekend, its two strikes Friday and Sunday on Syrian targets, shows where the Obama administration has gotten Syria wrong. Over the last few weeks, the White House has framed its Syria policy, or its lack of one, in terms of Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal and the growing strength of the Islamist opposition, including al Qaeda affiliates. With these talking points, the administration has managed to tie up its critics on two fronts.
Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks, the foreign service officer and former deputy chief of mission in Libya, said at a Capitol Hill hearing that the "saddest phone call I have ever had in my life" was when he heard Amb. Chris Stevens had been murdered: