A detailed outdoor summer plan for Dublin, put forward Green Party councillors, was “largely ignored” by Chief Executive Owen Keegan and his officials.
On Lunchtime Live this afternoon, Green Party Councillor for the South-East Inner City Claire Byrne said it was “incredibly frustrating” to see the difference in the summer preparations between Dublin and Cork.
Some 17 streets have been pedestrianised in Cork ahead of the return of outdoor dining with capacity for more than 2,300 seats.
Meanwhile, Princes Street has been fitted out with a long row giant, multi-coloured umbrellas that can be erected or retracted depending on the weather.
Cllr Byrne said the lack of progress in Dublin is “very disappointing.”
“For me and my Green Party colleagues, this is incredibly frustrating because, back at the end of April, we sent in an outdoor summer plan to the CEO of Dublin City Council and the other relevant officials who were dealing with the reopening,” she said.
“We put forward many proposals that would address the ongoing issues we have – such as heating, such as toilets, such as a more robust waste management plan; Introducing welcome ambassadors to the city as we reopen, introducing marshals to the city and looking at utilising the expertise from the many, many out of work event staff we have across the city as well – because obviously as you have seen we have some issues with crowd control as well.
“But our outdoor plan was largely ignored which is very disappointing.”
— Luke Benson (@Mr_LukeBenson) May 31, 2021
Cllr Byrne said there is “still lot of work going on” in the city to pedestrianise the areas around Grafton Street as well as Merrion Row where traffic is to be reduced to one lane to facilitate buses.
She said the scenes in the city last weekend highlighted the need for better facilities.
“From the City Council’s perspective, hearing directly from the businesses and the impact this is having on them … we are supposed to be reopening Dublin and welcoming everybody back and we really need people to come back in but we need to make it a really attractive place so I feel like there will be major steps for this weekend.”
Also on the show, the President of the Cork Business Association Claire Nash said a huge amount of work is underway to prepare the city for reopening.
“We are really looking forward to providing the space on our street chich will comprise of 240 -260 seats and the city in general will have outdoor dining with capacity north of 2,300 once we get open next Monday,” she said.
“17 streets have been pedestrianised and any operator or trader on those can enjoy outdoor dining if they have their permits in place – as in permissions from the council.
“The council has been super, super adaptive and has been working for us for a long, long time – probably a year and half now to get this over the line – and it is all happening.”
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MSDH: Eight more patients die of COVID-19 complications
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 88 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and eight new deaths. The total of the state's cases since March 11 now stands at 2,003, with 67 deaths. Three new outbreaks have been identified in long-term care facilities.
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The personal information of 12,578 may have been exposed due to a cybersecurity incident resulting in Sinai Health System being breached.
On October 16, 2019 an unknown party had gained unauthorized access to two employee emails accounts via a phishing attack.
In an official statement, the Chicago healthcare provider stated that following an investigation, no evidence was found of any patient information being removed from the email accounts of systems.
“Sinai is not aware of any misuse of any patient’s information and has seen no indication that any patient’s information is in the hands of someone it should not be as a result of this incident,” read the statement.
Patient data stored within the email accounts may have been exposed, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health information or health insurance information.
Sinai Health Systems have since taken steps to ensure the security of patient information, including resetting employee email passwords, enhancing email filtering protocols and conducting employee training.
“Sinai has also reviewed and revised its information security policies and procedures, including email retention procedures. Additionally, Sinai is increasing the security of its email systems and network with the assistance of security experts.”
The Office for Civil Rights were notified about the breach on December 13, and have launched its own investigation into the breach.
“Sinai Health System sincerely regrets any inconvenience that this incident may cause patients and remains dedicated to protecting patients’ personal and health information.”
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NEWHAVEN LIFEBOAT SUMMER FETE ADDS MORE EVENTS
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The RNLI Newhaven Lifeboat Summer Fete is taking place at Huggetts Green on the West Quay at Newhaven next Saturday, the 6th of July 2013. The free to enter event will be celebrating 210 years of the Newhaven Lifeboat service and a range of children's activities, as well as food stalls and various displays will be live throughout the afternoon. The Boathouse will also be open to the public, subject, of course, to operational requirements.
The next day, Sunday the 7th of July, the Newhaven Lifeboat and Coastguard Helicopter have been booked for a training display to take place just off Seaford Beach from 11.00am, with running commentary from the beach. Donations on the day will be welcomed. The event is, of course, subject to operational requirements.
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The week of activites continues with the RNLI Newhaven hosting The GuestHouse Storytellers at the Lifeboat House the West Quay on Tuesday the 9th of July from 7.00pm for an optional Italian Supper, with storytelling beginning at 7.30pm.
Storytelling is the oldest form of human communication and is growing in popularity across the world. We all love to hear a good story, well told. It is a shared experience created between teller and listener and people who have attended an adult storytelling for the first time often say that they never expected it to be so vivid or moving.
The Guesthouse Storytellers is a community storytelling club for adults and has been running for seven years. It is one of the most successful storytelling clubs in the country.
Professional storyteller Jamie Crawford opens the evening of 'Snow White, Blood Red - Fairytales for Adults' and the evening promises to be enjoyable and entertaining.
Tickets are £5.00 plus £4.00 for optional Italian supper are available in advance from the Hillcrest Centre, Hillcrest Road, Newhaven BN9 9EA, or by contacting Ronda Armitage on 01825 873477 email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Support your local lifeboat.

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President Trump has recently complained that Senate Democrats have prevented his nominees from getting confirmed. Even though the Senate eliminated the 60-vote threshold to end a filibuster on a nominee, the Senate still requires 30 hours of debate before voting on the nominee. While Republicans have been willing to devote 30 hours of floor time for higher-level positions, as the required floor time can add up quickly, Republicans have chosen not to use the time on lower-level nominees.
Republicans could break this impasse through recess appointments. With the Easter Recess starting next week, the House of Representatives could force the Senate to go on recess, allowing President Trump to make temporary, recess appointments.
The president’s power to make recess appointments would normally allow the president to at least temporarily get his nominees in office, but the Senate has prevented its use. The Constitution gives “[t]he President [the] Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.” As I previously explained, Senate Republicans have decided (likely do not have the votes) to prevent the Senate from going on recess. Instead, the Senate has held “pro forma” sessions where the Senate technically meets at least every three days, even if the meeting is only for a minute.
However, the Constitution allows the House of Representatives to force the issue and to empower President Trump to require the Senate to go on recess, opening up the option to make recess appointments. The Constitution requires that the House of Representatives or Senate “without the consent of the other, [cannot] adjourn for more than three days. . . . [I]n case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, [the president] may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper.” Thus, if the House of Representatives votes to go on recess, but does not get the Senate’s consent, it can appeal to President Trump to resolve the issue. President Trump could then side with the House of Representatives, forcing the Senate on recess and allowing him to make recess appointments.
Although the president resolving an adjournment dispute between the House of Representatives and Senate has never occurred, the concurrence in Noel Canning endorsed this scheme: “Members of the President’s party in Congress may be able to prevent the Senate from holding pro forma sessions with the necessary frequency, and if the House and Senate disagree, the President may be able to adjourn both ‘to such Time as he shall think proper.’”
However, the Senate would still have an option to prevent President Trump from forcing the Senate to recess. If the House of Representatives were to go on recess, the Senate could consent to the House of Representatives recessing, but still opt not to adjourn the Senate.
Nevertheless, Senate Republicans could easily prevent such consent. Senate Republicans would only need not bring the House of Representatives’ recess up for a vote. Thus, the House of Representatives, with the tacit consent of the Senate, could force the Senate on recess and provide President Trump an avenue to make recess appointments.

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We demonstrated that postural responses to imposed optic flow are to some extent voluntary. In a moving room, participants either stood normally or were instructed to resist any influence of visible motion on their stance. When participants attempted to resist, coupling of body sway with motion of the room was significantly greater than when the eyes were closed, but was significantly reduced relative to coupling in the normal stance condition. The results indicate that the use of imposed optic flow for postural control is not entirely automatic or involuntary. This conclusion motivates a search for non-perceptual factors that may influence the degree to which body sway is coupled to imposed optic flow.
Stoffregen is with the School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Hove and Schmit are with the Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221. Bardy is with the Center for Research in Sport Sciences and Institut Universitaire de France, University of Paris Sud 11, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

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Singer and producer Obaro Ejimiwe performs a mix of alternative hip hop and electronica, with dubstep and grime elements, from his album Some Say I So I Say Light.
Fri 10 Nov
London Contemporary Orchestra
The orchestra performs new and recent commissions, including the world premiere of Shiva Feshareki's GABA-Analogue, a piece for 45 instruments, Edmund Finnis's Parallel Colour, Chaines's Carpathia and Benedict Mason's Nodding Trilliums and Curved-Lined Angles.
Fri 18 Aug
The producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ supplies hip hop, jazz and electro beats.
Fri 20 Oct
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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) -- Tropical storm Colin left beach visitors seeing red this weekend. Red flags, that is.
Ocean rescue says Colin and a new moon caused extreme rip currents throughout the coast this weekend. Saturday Wrightsville Beach lifeguards saved more than 200 people. In a normal season they make fewer than 300 saves. Sunday the beach was under red flag conditions to keep swimmers out of the water and safe.
"We advise people not to go into the water, because all it takes is one wave to knock your child down, and if they're in a rip current, they're going to be pulled out to sea," Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue Director Dave Baker said.
Ocean Rescue called in extra lifeguards at Wrightsville Beach to help with the extreme conditions. If you are caught in a rip current, relax and swim parallel to shore until you're out.


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Lindblom & Lindblom - The Red Rail [Cassette]
C45 cassette in clear case with cover artwork riso printed in metallic gold and light grey on bier papier weizen 250 gsm.
Lindblom & Lindblom, the instrumental noise rock duo consisting of the brothers Rickard Lindblom and Robert Lindblom, return with a new album. It is titled The Red Rail and will be released in May 2021. They continue to pick up cues from the freeform skronk of no-wave and the angular riffs of the Touch & Go roster, combining these influences with an interest in kraut, jazz and drone to create a cohesive and wide-ranging sound. Fans of Slint, Don Caballero and Jesus Lizard should feel right at home. This is instrumental music that refuses to be relegated to the background.
This new collection of songs builds on the foundation laid by the sonically economical debut Sturm und Drang (2014) and taps into the weirdness of the maximalist multi-dimensional temporal experiment Obducenten & Allmänläkaren (2017). These are ten bursts of intense riff-driven noise rock, with arrangements that are fluid and developing organically, at times meticulous and precise and other times messy and loose.
The tightly wound rager "Flame On!" and the bass-driven "Rick-Rack" were released as digital singles prior to the album. "Flame On!" was played on Swedish national radio, and "Rick-Rack" had its premiere on Fuzzy-Sun.com, who called it ”intense and soothing” and pointed out the growth in songwriting and production.
For the recording Lindblom & Lindblom put in place a strict rule of no additional guitar tracks, putting pressure on each individual performance to be able to stand on its own while contributing to the whole, complementing the other instruments. Each instrument becomes a character you can follow throughout, and there is a certain level of physicality coming through the playing, giving the songs some humanity.
Lindblom & Lindblom recorded the bulk of the album over four days in October 2019 with Marcus Sjöberg (Wintergatan, Teleskärm), at Helter Shelter in Stockholm. The natural and roomy recording gives generous space to the drums and puts the guitars and bass front and center. Adding to the dynamic soundscape are layers of additional instruments, used sparingly but effectively throughout the album, to make good use of depth. From the panning ping-pong percussion in "New Mind" via the moody manipulated glockenspiel in "Original Fig" and Mathias Pettersson’s (Caballo con Leche/Calm) tablas driving up the intensity in "Rick-Rack" to Anders Olson’s (Monster & Maskiner) wild piano solo that steals the show in "Two Pricks". Where the songcraft and arrangement of core instrumentation are the heart of these songs, these elements are an extra rush of blood.
Lindblom & Lindblom do what they do because no one else seems to be doing it. There may be a fairly clear line drawn from the sources of inspiration and influences, but the outcome is something that is truly its own. From the cacophonous mess that starts the album, and the laid-back swagger of the rhythmic riffing and locked-in rhythm section, via the jazzy breakdowns to the motorik grooves and dissonantly soaring guitars, these ten songs are bound to stay in the brain long after the abrupt ending. Even at their least hummable.
All songs written and performed by Rickard Lindblom & Robert Lindblom. Produced by Lindblom & Lindblom with Marcus Sjöberg. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Marcus Sjöberg at Helter Shelter, Stockholm, October 24–27, 2019, and in drips and drabs over the following months. Tablas on "Rick-Rack" and "Svedestam" by Mathias Pettersson. Piano on "Two Pricks" by Anders Olson. Synthesizers on "Flame On!" and "Skär Kattost" by Marcus Sjöberg. Art direction and design by Robert. Photography by Lindblom & Lindblom, Marcus Sjöberg, and from The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Printing by Robert at BEAST Studio. Dedicated to Johan Svedestam.
The Red Rail is released on May 7 2021, digitally, on cassette available via €8 button below, and as an extravagant limited edition 5-tape boxset, available via €19 button below [SOLD OUT].
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I rarely have a recurring dream. The few I can remember arrive with no warning, haunt me for a bit while I’m horizontal, and then disappear. Lately, a new dream is visiting my darkest hours.
In this one I’m younger, perhaps a thirty-something. There’s this trove of articles, or maybe some stored boxes filled with books, or clothing. Sometimes it’s furniture. All are things that might be left where I once lived. And the dream is always the same; I have to make time, or I’ve finally made the time, to go back and get whatever is there.
I’m always returning to a campus, a dorm room, or a block of flats. The sense I get is that it was a shared space that others have long since left, with only my belongings waiting to be collected. There’s a distance separating me from this spot and these items. That is, I have to travel some to get there, or block out time that I’d rather use to do something else.
There are no places where my possessions still linger. No storage units. And certainly nothing left at pawn shops along the way. But my dreams come, and then come again. They take me from my day and give me
an another evening to complete a cycle, or maybe to complete the cycle.
It’s a disturbing dream. The landscape never looks the same twice, though my reason for going remains unchanged. I have to find a way to close a door I walked though years earlier. It’s an effort for me to get to there, but once I’m back, I’ll have
a another chance to finish what I started. And before my eyes even open, I realize that everything is still where I left it.
In these dreams, a part of my life resides in a place I left long ago. And I’m being pulled back each night to settle up. But at daybreak, very little has moved. Does it mean I’m disorganized, or lazy? Maybe I just feel safe(r) leaving some things behind, unchanged, and there waiting for me always.

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U.S. equities rose on Thursday, putting the major indexes close to all-time highs, as investors parsed through economic data and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed about 35 points higher, with Home Depot and Goldman Sachs contributing the most gains. The blue-chips index closed lower on Wednesday, snapping a seven-day winning streak.
"There's a couple of things at play this week that keep the market in its trend," said Daniel Deming, managing director at KKM Financial. "Some of it has to do with options expirations. ... Also, that sector rotation has continued."
The S&P 500 rose 0.47 percent, with financials rising 1.25 percent to lead advancers. The Nasdaq composite outperformed, rising around 0.74 percent. The three major indexes were also less than half a percent away from hitting record highs.
Yellen, the head of the Federal Reserve, testified in front of Congress. In prepared remarks, Yellen said a rate hike could be "appropriate relatively soon," adding there are dangers to waiting too long to tighten monetary policy. Yellen also said she would not step down from her until her term is done.
A large number of market participants expect the central bank to raise interest rates next month. According to the CME Group's FedWatch tool, market expectations for a December rate hike were around 90 percent Thursday.
"Janet Yellen has further cemented the argument that a rate could take place next month. For us, it is a Done Deal and the question which we are focused on is if the Fed is sensitive to Treasury yields," Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at Think Markets, said in a note. U.S. Treasury yields rose on Thursday, with the two-year note yield near 1.03 percent and the benchmark 10-year yield around 2.28 percent as of 3:23 p.m.


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Bobby Jindal is seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination; so Louisiana’s public colleges and universities may have to absorb $380 million in cuts and as many as nine institutions might be closed.
In this last election cycle, much attention was paid to the disastrous effects of Sam Brownback’s “tax reforms” in Kansas. Everyone likes paying less in taxes, but it turns out that if you keep cutting taxes, there is literally no money for schools, for road maintenance, for public services, or for even the fairly basic operations of government. More than a hundred prominent Republicans were so fed up with Brownback’s single-minded pursuit of this radically anti-government ideology that they very publicly endorsed his Democratic opponent, but it was somehow not enough to prevent Brownback’s re-election.
What’s the matter with Kansas voters? Well, it turns out that career politicians who are so anti-government that they want to starve it of revenue until they eliminate most of it—excluding, of course, their own bases of political support–are no better at serving the public good than their opposite numbers, those career politicians who view government revenues as a bottomless source of personal and political largesse. Both are playing politics to serve their own interests rather than the public interest. And once they are in office, it is just as hard to get rid of one as it is to get rid of the other.
And this situation is hardly unique to Kansas. I have written earlier posts about how Bobby Jindal has been relentlessly reducing state support for public education in Louisiana. At the K-12 level, he has promoted charter schools at the expense of public schools, even as he has taken up the Tea Party skepticism about standardized testing. Although the Far Right and Progressives have increasingly shared a skepticism of standardized testing, they have done so for very different reasons that, paradoxically, seem to be combined in Jindal’s political opportunism on the issue. Specifically, since the charter schools are now being exposed for performing no better than and often considerably worse than the public schools, it has become convenient for the champions of charter schools to oppose the tests that are exposing that reality, even though both “school choice” and “increased accountability” are products of the same ideological promotion of privatization and corporatization.
At the higher-ed level, Jindal has reduced state funding of public colleges and universities in every budget, regardless of the economic trends at the state and national levels. Jindal has cut state support in the midst of deep economic recession and in the midst of the economic recovery. As a case in point, the current deficit in the state of Louisiana’s revenues is now being blamed on the decline in oil and gas production that has resulted from the collapse in the prices of both fuels. But several years ago, when oil and gas prices were near all-time highs, Jindal kept cutting tax rates and cutting state support for higher education.
In an earlier post, I noted that in the discussions of this past year’s state budget, Jindal tried to pass off a state-permitted tuition increase as an increase in state support for public colleges and universities (see: https://academeblog.org/2014/04/01/bobby-jindal-calls-a-large-tuition-increase-an-increase-in-his-states-support-for-higher-education/). It is the sort of ploy that one resorts to when one has cut tax revenues to a level at which public institutions and services are no longer sustainable.
In the interim, Louisiana voters have approved a state ballot issue that caused the looming budget crisis to be even more inescapable than those that have occasioned the previous rounds of cuts. The Jindal administration had been budgeting monies to a variety of special initiatives that were never actually funded—or if one wishes to be cynical, never intended to be funded—at the publicly announced levels. When very unreliable sources of revenue for public institutions and services did not materialize, monies were reallocated, quite predictably, from the special initiatives to the areas of need, one of which was almost always higher education. Well, one of the special initiatives from which funding has been repeatedly redirected is the effort to re-establish the coastal wetlands that used to absorb the brunt of the hurricanes and other severe storms that strike Louisiana with some regularity. In November, voters approved a constitutional amendment to prevent funding budgeted for the restoration of those coastal wetlands from being redirected to anything else. (See: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/louisiana_constitutional_amend_2.html.)
So now, Louisiana is faced with a huge shortfall in state revenues, currently estimated at $1.4 billion but rising with each new estimate, and somewhere between $300 and $380 million of the shortfall will have to come from the already much reduced state support for public colleges and universities. To put the projected cuts in higher education funding in some perspective, they are equivalent to the combined budgets of all of the state’s public community and technical colleges or the equivalent of a third of the operating budget of the Louisiana State University system. If campuses aren’t shuttered and if cuts are, instead, proportionately distributed across all public colleges and universities, each institution will need to absorb between a 40% and a 60% reduction in state funding.
So, very obviously, the Jindal administration and the Louisiana legislature have reached something of a point of no return in pursuing the ideological mantra of reducing taxes to increase economic growth. The impact of colleges and universities on a state’s economic performance and, even more dramatically, on local and regional economies, has been very well documented. None of the legislators is going to want colleges or university campuses in their districts to get the axe because the direct and indirect blows to the local and regional economies will be severe. So new revenues will have to be raised; tax rates will have to be raised—or partially restored—and/or new taxes will have to be imposed.
But Bobby Jindal is not going to want to do either of those things because he has dreams of securing the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. So the state of Louisiana will have to pay the price for his delusions of national prominence and influence, and his successor will have to try to repair economic damage that will be much less obvious than the destruction left by Hurricane Katrina but every bit as devastating and much more broadly felt.
For a news report on the budget crisis, see Julia Odonoghue’s article for the Times-Picayune, which is available at: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/college_university_closures_mi.html.


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Locomotive (Complicity) by Guns N’ Roses Gonna find a way to cure this lonelinessYeah I’ll find a way to cure the painIf I said that you’re my friendAnd our love would never endHow long before I had your trust againI opened up the doors when it was cold outsideHopin’ that you’d find your own way […]
“State of the Nation” is a song by American band Industry taken from their final studio album Stranger to Stranger. The song peaked at #10 in Sweden and #1 in Italy. It also became a big hit in the Philippines. In the US, the song peaked at #81 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. From Wikipedia
“Friday I’m in Love” is a song by British rock band The Cure. It is the second single taken from the album Wish (1992), and was a worldwide hit. It won the award for European Viewer’s Choice for Best Music Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Robert Smith, the song’s primary writer, described it in 1992 as both “a […]
“Wishful Thinking” is a song by English band China Crisis, released as the third single from their 1983 album Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two. It reached #9 in the UK charts in early 1984, becoming their only top 10 hit single in that country. The song is their biggest and most well-known hit, and is […]
Released on the album Damn Yankees in 1990, High Enough is a soaring rock ballad that rose to No. 3 on U.S. Hot 100 chart. High Enough has been featured in several blockbuster soundtracks, including Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Nothing But Trouble and The Taking of Beverly Hills.
A-ha‘s iconic hit, Take On Me, which combines live action with pencil-sketch animation, reached ONE BILLION VIEWS on February 17, 2020, becoming the second song from the 1980s to ever reach the elite YouTube milestone, after Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” which hit the one-billion-views mark last October 2019.
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In November 2019, Elton John added “Strange” and “She’s My Sunshine” to his personal Apple Music playlist. Celeste gained support from English television personality James Corden after he tweeted “I cannot stop listening to [Celeste] this is her song Strange. It’s sensational. I dare you not to love her. I dare you x”


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The children of Upper Nursery, performed a wonderful Nativity on Friday 13th December.
The songs were sung so beautifully and all the outfits looked just the part. The children had practiced for many weeks beforehand, learning their lines and places. We wish to thank them for all of their hard work, it really showed how much they had effort they had put in!
The Nativity has always been a real highlight of the school year and this year was no exception. It is always the perfect time to gather feedback from parents after the performance and so many complimented how wonderful the Nativity was and of the memories that had been created.
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This twist on classic pumpkin soup will please everyone around the table. No one can resist this creamy and smooth soup with a hint of heat, and topped with toasted pepitas and spiced cream.
Around here, we eat a lot of soup this time of year. It’s chilly and blustery and soup just comforts you. Our Sprout enjoys soup too. She gets antsy at dinner time because she has to sit still. Haha! I’m sure you all know what I mean, especially if you’ve ever had a high energy, strong willed toddler. Anyways, soup is a quick meal for her and for us. Which is just what we need this time of year.
Soup requires very little skill, which makes it great for busy families like ours. Basically any soup is comprised of a base (usually broth or cream), meat or protein, vegetables, flavor add ins (think bacon, scallions, etc.), and toppings. Once you get that down, the options are endless! It also freezes easily for future meals. Make a big batch a freeze for up to 6 months! Continue reading “One Seasonal Soup You All Should Try: Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Spiced Cream and Pepitas”
Today’s recipe for mouthwatering bruschetta with tomatoes, is a quick and tasty version that works great when you don’t have a lot of time. It also uses up all those juicy tomatoes and zesty basil leaves that are flourishing this time of year!
We love to cook and experience food from all cultures here at The Sprouted Cottage. Dave is a classically trained chef who loves the adventures of Asian cuisine and classic French techniques. He works as a chef at a local bakery in a neighboring town and gets to play with food everyday. I have always enjoyed learning about other cultures because of my love for art and textiles. I love discovering the unique traits of different people. There is one thing that both Dave and I see in every culture; sharing a meal is a common way to enjoy others company.
In true American fashion, our Sprout is a melting pot of ancestry. She has Italian, German, Polish, Norwegian, Irish, English, Scotch and possibly even Mongolian. We love how unique this makes her and have enjoyed watching her grow and seeing different characteristics show up as she matures. It also inspired us to expose her to foods and cultures that make up her ancestry. Continue reading “Mouthwatering Bruschetta with Tomatoes (Bruschetta con Pomodoro)”
Enter in a combination of classic chicken noodle soup and some of our favorite Asian flavors.
Last night was one of those nights where it was just chilly enough for a light sweater in the evening. Not quite cold enough for blankets and a fire but it definitely had the feeling that early spring was here and winter was waving goodbye.
I had a whirlwind day of bible study, lunch with Dave at the bakery, grocery shopping with a toddler and then back home before dinner. While getting the groceries unpacked and put away I decided to check on our dog who was running free in the yard we sometimes share with our friends and landlords. It was the perfect time to take some produce scraps to the compost pile. No sooner had I dumped the scraps than I heard the squawk of our neighbors’ duck in distress. Our dog does just fine around ducks and poultry until one decides to waddle away…rapidly! There were feathers and mud all over, mostly on me. Dog by the collar in one hand and duck nestled back under a tree with the other, I marched our dog back up to our house.
Thankfully we have the best landlords on planet earth. They are our friends and part of our central coast family. We love them dearly and on a day like yesterday, I am so relieved that they love us equally.
The duck is doing okay. Still shocked and trying to heal but thankfully, alive. Clancie, our pooch, will probably never look in her direction again! Continue reading “Asian Chicken Noodle Soup”

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If you’re trying to conceal the nature of your conversation by speaking in a non-English language in front of Kate Scott, your secret might not be so safe.
The director of the English Language Program (ELP) is charged with helping international students learn English, but the extent of her handle on other languages remains a source of mystery to those on campus — and that’s the way she likes it.
“There was this one student talking to another who hadn’t bought his textbook yet,” Scott recalled. “They were going back in forth (in Arabic) about this until, finally, I told him, ‘You just need to go to the bookstore.’ They both looked at me a little surprised. ‘You know what we were saying?’”
Mostly she knew what they were saying, at least.
“I just left it at that,” she said with a smile.
Scott’s understanding of that particular language began in the Sudan, where she served as a third grade teacher shortly after graduating from SVSU as an elementary education major in 2007.
Her 3-year stint in the northeastern African nation — where they speak Arabic — helped inspire Scott to continue working in international education when she returned to the United States in 2010. That inspiration led her back to SVSU, where she began as a teacher in the ELP that same year, largely working with students from Saudi Arabia.
Scott was hired as the program’s assistant director in 2011 and became director in early 2014.
“I love my staff,” the Kalamazoo native said of the 19 people she oversees. “They’re one of the reasons why I like my job so much. They are considerate, competent and genuinely like each other.”
The team sometimes turns meetings into potlucks; other times, the group enjoys organizing outings with the program’s students. In addition to the 22 hours of intensive language instruction students receive each week, “We also want to make sure the students have an authentic experience in our community,” Scott said. For instance, her staff and students earlier this month visited Johnson’s Giant Pumpkin Farm in Saginaw.
It’s not all fun and games, however. The ELP recently earned some serious stripes. In August, the program received SVSU’s first 4-year accreditation designation from The Commission on English Language Program Accreditation.
Scott is proud of the accomplishment, and the program in general, which is celebrating its 20th year on campus.
“It’s one of the best places you could work,” she said of the program.
She might be able to inform people of that fact in more languages than one — she just won’t tell you how many.

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Customization, introduced with the release of iOS 13, iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina, allows you to control automatic connection to iPhone or iPad, working in modem mode, subject to unavailability of the Wi-Fi network.
To find out, how to manage this feature and prevent unwanted data costs, read this manual.
What has changed in modem mode with the release of iOS 13?
iPhone has long supported the ability to create a wireless access point. This handy feature, dubbed Modem Mode allows you to distribute the Internet from your iPhone or iPad to any other device.
Starting with iOS 13, Apple has made some changes to the behavior of your devices (which are connected by one Apple ID in iCloud), when there are no known Wi-Fi networks nearby. One of the useful tools was the Auto Access Point switch, allowing iPhone or iPad automatically (without password) connect to modem mode, configured on your nearest cellular-enabled iPhone or iPad. Auto-access to point option is active by default.
Feature debuted in iOS 13, iPadOS and macOS Catalina 10.15. Thus, this opportunity was given to iPhone mobile devices, iPad and iPod touch, as well as Mac computers.
Auto point access allows without password restore Internet connection in case of poor Wi-Fi connection or its complete absence, by connecting to an iPhone or iPad using Modem Mode, connected by one iCloud account.
iPhone or iPad with Auto Point Access enabled (set to Automatic) can independently connect to your other device, even if the modem mode on it is turned off.
It is worth dwelling on this circumstance. The fact, what’s with the release of iOS 13 power button / the modem mode shutdown disappeared and the Allow to others switch appeared instead.
iPhone or iPad with the Allow others option enabled will be able to distribute the Internet not only to devices, who use the same Apple ID account in iCloud (without password), but also to any other device (with password).
iPhone or iPad with the Enable others option turned off will be able to distribute the Internet only to devices, who use the same Apple ID account in iCloud without having to enter a password.
Why you need to disable Auto-access point on iPhone, iPad and Mac
All this relates to the control of mobile traffic consumption. Before iOS 13, you had to manually connect to an access point.
With the release of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 Modem mode on iPhone or iPad, who use the same Apple ID account in iCloud is always on, so your other device can connect to the access point, even in sleep mode.
In combination with the Auto point to access setting, this simplifies use and eliminates problems in terms of using Modem Mode. But if you use a fixed-rate mobile plan, it’s best to prevent Apple devices from automatically connecting to Modem Mode without permission.
In fact, users constantly forget about connecting devices to the modem mode of their iPhone. You can understand this after downloading heavy updates or content, what turns out to be unpleasant news.
Here is another example: your home wifi has stopped working, this will force your Mac to automatically connect to the modem mode on the iPhone. The computer can quietly start updating your photo library, or it will decide, it’s time to download the next macOS update and t.d.
No matter how comfortable it is, at least in certain scenarios you can disable such a function. This will help prevent unwanted payments for traffic transmitted over the cellular network. We will show, How can I do that.
How to disable Auto Access Point on iPhone, iPad and Mac
To change the script, will your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac use the nearest modem mode every time, when there is no access to saved Wi-Fi networks, follow these steps:
1. Open app «Settings» on iPhone or iPad with iOS 13 (iPad OS) or later. On Mac, run the application «System settings».
2. For iOS and iPadOS, select the section Wi-Fi.
On macOS – section «Network».
3. On iPhone or iPad, click the option «Auto Access Point».
The following options are available here:
Never. Prevent this device from automatically detecting and connecting to Modem Mode, if the Wi-Fi network is unavailable.
To ask. Allow this device to automatically detect nearby devices with Modem Mode, when wifi is unavailable. Before connecting to them, you will be asked permission to do so.
Automatically. Use this option, so that the device automatically detects and connects to the nearest personal access point, when Wi-Fi networks are unavailable.
On a Mac, select a Wi-Fi network in the left column and check the box next to «Ask about connecting to personal access points».
Disable the option Auto Access Point, if you want to stop automatically connecting to the nearest Modem Mode on your iPhone or iPad and avoid excessive use of cellular data in the absence of access to a known Wi-Fi network.
Wi-Fi and Modem Control in the Control Center
Optionally, in Settings, you can prevent the iPhone from connecting to known Wi-Fi networks, and also forget the saved network, view passwords of previously connected Wi-Fi networks, prohibit the phone from requesting a Wi-Fi network connection and much more.
And using the advanced Control Center in iOS 13, iPadOS and watchOS 6 you can connect (shutdown) to Wi-Fi network, Modem mode or connect to a Bluetooth accessory, without even resorting to settings.


PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — The eastern Oregon city of Pendleton has stopped jailing people unable to pay fines following the settlement of a federal lawsuit contending city officials were running a debtors’ prison. The East Oregonian reports in a story on Saturday that city attorney Nancy Kerns said city court officials recently adopted new policies […]
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Executive Chef Wayne Booth says, “These new kettles allow us to increase the depth of flavours naturally by hydrating our spices and braising to a long slow cook and yet sauté delicate vegetables to retain flavour and nutrients”.
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She has a 5.0 GPA
Tiera Guinn’s young career is blasting off like a rocket and making history. The 22-year-old is working for NASA and hasn’t even graduated from MIT yet. Ha- and to think we all have 24 hours in a day. She clearly puts hers to good use.
Guinn is a Rocket Structural Design and Analysis Engineer for the Space Launch System that Boeing is building for NASA. Her role is to design and analyze parts of a rocket that she said will be one of the biggest and most powerful in history, according to WBRC. We did a little digging on NASA’s website and found out that the goal of the rocket she’s working on is to blast humans to Mars.
That’s right, she’s working to get people on the planet Mars by 2020. No big deal.
Her trajectory couldn’t be more impressive and reads like something like out of a modern-day version of “Hidden Figures”. Turns out, she’s been working on her aerospace engineer dream for awhile and has had a penchant for science and math since she was a young child.
Enter her mother’s educational guidance and nurturing. Guinn told WBRC that her mom noticed her skills early on and made sure she used them.
“When [my mom and I] would go to the grocery store, she would get me to clip coupons [and] put it in my coupon organizer,” Guinn explains. “By the time we got to the register, I’d have to calculate the exact total, including tax. And I did that since I was six years old.”
Guinn is obviously brilliant, but it’s also her lifetime love of aerodynamics that’s played a big role in who she is today. “One day I saw a plane fly by and I just had this realization, ‘Huh, I can design planes. I’m going to be an aerospace engineer,'” Guinn says. Additionally, she was able to choose middle school classes that aided in her dreams and interests, later commuting an hour to go to the high school that offered the best classes for her future.
While working on the rocket aimed for Mars (sorry, had to type that again), Guinn’s also working toward graduating from MIT, where she maintains a 5.0 GPA. Which, seriously, we didn’t even know anything beyond a 4.0 was possible. Did she do extra credit? Bonus points on tests? Either way, we’re extremely impressed.
“You have to look forward to your dream and you can’t let anybody get in the way of it,” she says. “No matter how tough it may be, no matter how many tears you might cry, you have to keep pushing. And you have to understand that nothing comes easy. Keeping your eyes on the prize, you can succeed.”
When asked by the news station what it’s like to succeed, she replies, “I’m not at my success point yet, I have a long way to go.”
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Carbs have increased an awful notoriety, particularly among weight watchers. A few weight control plans preclude carbs totally in their arrangement.
In any case, taking out carbs totally from your eating routine can accomplish more mischief than anything, which is the reason you should continue having healthy carbs.
1.Two sorts of carbs
There are two sorts of carbs – simple and complex. simple carbohydrates are found in nourishments like sugar, honey, pasta, bread, fruit juice, while complex starches are found in entire grains, corn, peas, entire wheat pasta/bread, yams and a few veggies.
Simple carbs, when ingested by the body, rapidly transform into glucose while complex carbs take more time to get changed over into glucose. That is the reason when you have basic carbs, you get moment vitality as there is an abrupt spike in the glucose level.
Be that as it may, basic carbs don’t save you more full for more and in this manner you wind up feeling hungry soon.
Another factor that makes carb good or bad is on the off chance that they have fiber.
One cup of hacked broccoli (11.2 grams) has around 2.2 grams of sugar and 5.1 grams of fiber. Broccoli is low in carbs and stuffed with other basic supplements like vitamin B6 and fiber.
You can essentially saute broccoli in olive oil and garlic and have a bowlful for a healthy and fulfilling dinner. To make it progressively healthy, you can include different veggies like ringer pepper, infant corn, onions and carrot.
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Spinach has a unimportant measure of sugar and carbs, which makes it too healthy. The food is an extraordinary choice to top you off for more.
5. Sunflower seeds
1/4 cup (7 grams) of sunflower seeds just have 1 gram of sugar a 3 grams of fiber. Sunflower seeds make for a low calorie, low-carb healthy snack. You can have a bunch of these seeds when you need to crunch on something. You can likewise sprinkle some on the salad for that crunch.
One cup of cooked rajma (4.7 grams) has around 0.3 grams of sugar and 6.0 grams of fiber.
Kidney beans are rich in fiber and are perfect for individuals who are attempting to get in shape. Kidney beans advance the feeling of totality and help deal with the glucose levels.
You can cook kidney beans two-three times each week to make your dinner all the more filling and energizing.
One cup cooked cauliflower (5.1 grams) has around 2.6 grams of sugar and 2.9 grams of fiber.
Cauliflower is rich in some significant nutrients including Vitamin C and Vitamin B. In the event that you are exhausted with the customary cauliflower sabzi, you can take a stab at making cauliflower rice for a change.
8. Hard-bubbled egg
One hard-bubbled egg has around 0.6 grams sugar, 0 grams fiber and short of what one gram of carb. Not simply this, eggs are stacked with amino acids, cancer prevention agents and healthy fats.
As indicated by examines, having eggs for breakfast can cause you to feel more full for more and not let you voraciously consume food throughout the day.
1/4 cup of walnuts has around 0.75 grams of sugar, 2 grams of fiber and just 4 grams of carbs.
Next time you feel regretful about having the calorie-loaded pecans, recollect that they are extraordinary compared to other low carb and healthy snack alternatives.
10. Additional virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon of additional virgin olive oil has 0 grams of sugar and 0 grams of fiber.
Additional virgin olive oil has been appeared to support the degree of adiponectin a hormone that helps in separating the fat. It likewise has heart-healthy monosaturated fats. Different choices for low carb oils are coconut oil, walnut oil and flaxseed oil.
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This image can be both a stairwell or an escalator depending on whether the manufacturer chooses to activate the electricity grid beneath it. In the same way, some of our goals are conquered by stair climbing up obstacles and difficulties and some of our goals are gained by effortlessly ascending escalators that bring us within reach with no work at all on our part other than to show up. So how do you know whether your going to climb stairs or escalators: whether God will ask you to plant your own crops, or whether he will give you a free gift certificate for at home food deliveries from wal mart? I believe God answered this in a dream that I had: In my dream God told me if worry about the things in my life that I can control, that God will then worry about the things in my life I can’t control. God came to me in another dream and told me if I trust in Him, He will take the ugliness in my life and he will make it beautiful.
When your tired but still trying to be productive, the exhaustion is emotionally ugly. When your family and you do not see eye to eye and arguments ensue, the conflict is ugly. When your friends avoid you or demote you due to gossip and lies, the anger and isolation is ugly and when you are a few pounds overweight from not having time to exercise or money to buy healthy food or time to eat, the fatness can get ugly. But God said in my dream, He would take the ugliness of tiredness, of rejection, of conflict, of small weight gains, and make it beautiful by restoring what I was meant to have and what I was supposed to be rather than what I have or am now.
As for the dream about God fixing things you cannot control, I think it means, if you see your child trying to reach a cookie she or he cannot reach because they are too short, you as the loving and compassionate parent, will use your tall stature to grab the cookie for your child and than lower yourself to their level so that they can reach it because you want to train your child to pursue there dreams, even if they seem impossible and giving them what they seek is way to encourage goal setting behaviours in them. So the two dreams have similar meanings of not the exact same meaning.

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TaeYeon Breaks Fans’ Hearts With Instagram Comment
Girls’ Generation member TaeYeon recently seemed to be unable to suppress her longing for SHINee‘s JongHyun, who tragically passed away on December 18th, 2017.
The K-Pop idol recently commented on JongHyun’s Instagram account saying she misses him. The two idols were close as they were both SM Entertainment artists and she was seen at his funeral pouring out tears last year in December.
If you saw the video clip of him eating a rainbow-colored cake, you never would have guessed the pain that was building up inside him as he was nothing but cheerful smiles.

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Henry County, GA, May 28, 2021 – Ferst Readers honors Doris Griffin as Volunteer of the Year for her leadership in early childhood literacy. Griffin has served on the Community Action Team (CAT) for Ferst Readers of Henry County since its inception in 2005. In 16 years, this team has mailed over 220,000 books to more than 7,700 Henry County children.
As 2020 presented so many unforeseen hurdles, Ferst Readers sought to maintain momentum in its fundraising so that children would continue to receive books monthly. Because of the pandemic, CATs had to develop creative and new ways to raise money locally while adhering to local health and safety protocols.
Ferst Readers of Henry County rose to the challenge. Griffin and her team turned to online fundraising, planning a Book Character Contest to coincide with Halloween. They asked local "celebrities" to dress up as book characters and post photos or videos to social media pages, asking family and friends to vote for them during October. The characters, including Fancy Nancy, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, and Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, inspired donors who gave over $14,000 for Ferst Readers of Henry County. Griffin's Book Character Contest was a catalyst for other CATs who duplicated the event, raising more than $30,000 for local communities across Georgia.

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2020 marked a special year for women in the Chinese entertainment industry. With trending female talent shows like Youth with You 2, Chuang 2020 (the Chinese version of Japan’s Produce101),Sisters Who Make Wave, the discussion about representation and inclusion of diverse female figures is finally coming to light.
This is all the more remarkable as it is happening against the background of a highly stereotyped “idol industry”, which sees scores of young people trying to become pop stars. Originating from South Korea and Japan, the so-called idol industry resembles an assembly line producing standardized figures and defining women in very narrow roles. Female idols, for instance, are often objectified, sporting unrealistic figures and exceedingly beautiful appearances.
The sector is picking up pace in China, with seas of young people going through rigorous training programs to become future pop stars. Many young people are surprisingly obsessed with the idea of becoming an idol, with training institutes setting up various courses for trainees. These latter undergo special classes in dancing, singing, acting, speaking, body posture, facial expressions, walking style, etc. And yet, this is only the beginning of their tough journey to becoming a pop star.
How Ideal Female Figures Have Changed over Time in Chinese Talent Shows
Chuang 2020 showed a stereotypical perception of female idols. In the first episode where the girls play ice-breaking games, a competition called “slim waist” had girls show who had the thinnest waist. And whenever a participant happened to be larger than the standard, other contestants would mock her. During the dancing competition, dance teacher Huang Zitao – a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO – told a participant: “even though other contestants have better dancing skills, you have the perfect look for being an idol.” Huang’s comment aroused debate over whether female idols should have a certain figure.
While critics compared Huang to an “incompetent old emperor choosing his concubine”, the incident recalled the male gaze theory (1975) by Laura Mulvey: the male gaze is to describe the way in which, in movies, women have almost always been looked at, while men do the looking.
On the other hand, we have seen some real strides towards modern female depiction in Youth with You 2, where contestants who trained to be standard idols did not receive good feedback. In the preliminary ratings of the SNH48 group, for instance, the instructors commented that the participants’ style was always exactly the same and group members did not have personality.
Liu Yuxin, a short-haired tomboy girl with superb dancing and rapping skills came to the top in Youth with You 2, even though she does not look like a typical female contestant. While other 109 trainees wore uniform-type skirts for the theme song opening, Liu wore a pair of grey shorts and a tie. Breaking out of the standard mold, she merged her powerful popping dance talent with a sweet song. When the instructor asked her why she was wearing a different uniform, she said that “the discussion around girls like me being in the female idol group should not even be picked up in this century and I want to be myself, so I changed back to pants.”
Where this year’s Youth with You is also different from the rest is the diversity of its contestants. We have seen a lot more girls who do not have traditional idol faces. Take Shangguan Xiai, for example, who is not highly rated in China due to her non-conformist look, but has countless fans on Youtube, with users arguing she is “a badass woman.” Or Yu Shuxin, who is perceived to be too “dramatic” on Chinese social media, but is popular overseas. A Youtube viewer commented that “Yu is like a CEO who knows how to handle interpersonal relationships.”
We have seen the public coming to appreciate female idols’ characters more than their appearances. These diverse female idols’ success has excited Chinese viewers who do not fit into ideal gender prototypes.
Shattering the Shackles of Victoria’s Secret’s “Sexiness”
Victoria’s Secret’s bumpy ride in China bears witness to a shift in the paradigm of “sexiness,” with their 2017 annual runway show in Shanghai turning out to be chaotic, while in May, Victoria’s Secret parent company L Brands announced that it will permanently close 250 stores in North America by the end of this year. Not to mention the company’s size 0 stunners, which failed to represent present-day “sexiness” – despite the brand’s glorious history spanning over more than 40 years.
Victoria’s Secret recently appointed award-winning actress Zhou Dongyu as the new spokesperson in the country. But her slender figure is not what people would usually associate with “sexiness,” with some social media users coming up with discriminatory terms for her figure – like the one Hupu user who wrote: “Why did you choose a flat-chested woman.”
“In my definition, being sexy is a comfortable and non-conforming natural state,” Zhou said. “When I first entered the business, everyone felt that I was inconspicuous. I also felt very sad at that time, but then I proved myself through my own efforts, living hard every day, studying hard, loving myself. Slowly I really feel sexy from the inside out.”
When it comes to portraying modern female figures, China still has a long way to go. Will the public’s understanding of the ideal female figure remain the same over the years? Can these non-conforming girls bring on a revolution for modern women? We look forward to seeing more unique souls breaking out of the industrialized idol factory.
This article is adapted from the author’s original piece on Jiemian News in Chinese.