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Deer Plaid Throw Pillow – 20×20”, Feathers
Closeouts. Add some seasonal personality into any living space with this EnVogue Holiday Deer Plaid throw pillow, made from woven cotton fabric with a felt deer and fluffy feather fill.
- Soft woven cotton fabric
- Piped edges
- Plaid pattern with felt deer and beaded wreath
- Fluffy feather fill
- Zip-off cover
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You are then concerned by Intrastat declarations.
Trade within the European Union is subject to thresholds and a requirement for two separate declarations:
– A VAT summary report in France and EU Sales List in the rest of the European Union,
– A statistical survey, called EMEBI (Enquête statistique mensuelle sur les échanges de biens intra-Union européenne – Monthly statistical survey on intra-EU trade in goods) in France, Intrastat in the rest of the European Union.
Please find below the Intrastat 2023 thresholds for all European Union countries and the United Kingdom.
|Austria||EUR||€1,100,000||€1,100,000||10 m+1 (business day)|
|Belgium||EUR||€1,500,000||€1,000,000||20 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Bulgaria||BGN||ЛВ700,000||ЛВ1,000,000||14 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Croatia||EUR *||EUR400,000||EUR200,000||15 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Cyprus||EUR||€270,000||€75,000||10 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Czeck Republic||CZK||KČ12,000,000||KČ12,000,000||10 m+1 – paper (business day)
12 m+1 – digital (business day)
|Denmark||DKK||KR22,000,000||KR11,000,000||Depending on the affiliated group (1 or 2) **|
|Estonia||EUR||€400,000||€270,000||14 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Finland||EUR||€800,000||€800,000||10 m+1 (day of the month)|
|France||EUR||On request from customs ***||On request from customs ***||10 m+1 (business day)|
|Germany||EUR||€800,000||€500,000||10 m+1 (business day)|
|Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland)||GBP||N/A ****||N/A ****||N/A ****|
|Greece||EUR||€150,000||€90,000||Last day m+1 (business day)|
|Hungary||HUF||FT250,000,000||FT140,000,000||15 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Ireland||EUR||€500,000||€635,000||23 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Italy||EUR||If at least one of|
4 quarters the amount is
= or > €350,000
|€0||25 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Latvia||EUR||€330,000||€200,000||10 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Lithuania||EUR||€500,000||€300,000||10 m+1 (business day)|
|Luxembourg||EUR||€250,000||€200,000||16 m+1 (business day)|
|Malta||EUR||€700||€700||10 m+1 (business day)|
|Netherlands||EUR||€5,000,000||€1,000,000||10 m+1 (business day)|
|Poland||PLN||ZŁ5,000,000||ZŁ2,700,000||10 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Portugal||EUR||€400,000||€400,000||15 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Romania||RON||L1,000,000||L1,000,000||15 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Slovakia||EUR||€1,000,000||€1,000,000||15 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Slovenia||EUR||€200,000||€270,000||15 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Spain||EUR||€400,000||€400,000||12 m+1 (day of the month)|
|Sweden||SEK||KR15,000,000||KR4,500,000||10 m+1 (day of the month) – paper
13 m+1 (day of the month) – digital
|United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)||GBP||£500,000||£250,000||21 m+1 (day of the month)|
* The euro is the currency of Croatia since 1st January 2023, replacing the kuna.
** The Danish administration has two filing schedules assigned to two groups. The filing dates will therefore depend on whether you have been assigned to group 1 or group 2.
*** The thresholds of EUR 460,000 for introduction and EUR 1 for dispatch have been repealed. Companies have to file this declaration on a monthly basis as soon as they have received a letter from the customs administration (it can be an introduction declaration, a dispatch declaration or both depending on the letter received).
**** N/A: not applicable. No Intrastat obligation.
Note: the information contained above is subject to change each year. This table is provided for information only.
Some EU countries have changed their Intrastat thresholds between 2022 and 2023.
|Croatia||KN2.500.000||€400.000 *||KN1.300.000||€200.000 *|
|Italy||€200.000||If at least one of |
the previous 4 quarters
the amount is
= or > €350,000
|€0||Same as 2022|
|Sweden||KR9.000.000||KR15.000.000||KR4.500.000||Same as 2022|
|Operations (on goods or services) carried out in:||Filing deadline||Filing slots|
|December 2022||12 January 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|January 2023||11 February 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|February 2023||11 March 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|March 2023||13 April 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|April 2023||13 May 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|May 2023||12 June 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|June 2023||12 July 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|July 2023||11 August 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|August 2023||12 September 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|September 2023||12 October 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|October 2023||14 November 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|November 2023||12 December 2023||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|
|December 2023||12 January 2024||8:30 a.m. – 22 p.m.|

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Importance of Using an Online Clothing Store
An online clothing store is whereby clothes are sold and bought on an online basis. It is whereby the selling and buying activities are done by the use of internet and the delivery follows. Off late majority of the population is busy with day to day activities making it difficult to spare time for clothing shopping. Part of the population is busy doing their own job while others are employed. Hence online clothing stores have come to ensure that people get clothes. Online shopping has become so popular and liked by many people from the time internet declared to take control. The online clothing store has a wide range of advantages. This tells why online clothing store businesses have thrived that well nowadays. Following are some of the benefits of online clothing stores.
The online clothing store has a reputation for offering competitive prices. Sourcing clothes from other sources tend to be expensive. Online clothing store owners understand the reason why people opt to source clothes from the online stores being the favorable pricing. To also be the leading online clothing store the owner will go ahead and reduce the price of the clothes in order to overcome the competition as many people have ventured into the business of online clothing store.
The online clothing store has an attribute of being convenient. When shopping for clothes in an online clothing store no movement is involved as compared to other shopping areas. The only thing required of you while shopping in an online clothing store is to operate a computer. You will have extra time at your disposal as you will not be required to travel to the online clothing store. Online clothing stores has saved people from getting tired while shopping for clothes as the shopping is done online. This will save also your expenses that you could have used to travel that is if you stay a distance away from the clothe shops. Online clothing store portrays the benefit of convenience in many ways.
The online clothing store has a different kind of clothes that the customers choose from. Online clothing stores bridges the gap of lack of variety clothing to choose from in the other clothing shopping sites. It’s the expectation of the customer that he or she will buy the best cloth whenever he or she goes to buy the clothes. In order to get the best you have to get different variety to choose from. Online clothing store offers a wide range of choices all in one platform. This will ensure that the client only buys the one that is best to him or her. These are just but a few benefits of online clothing stores.

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Today marks the first visit by the “Turk” to One Bills Drive. But the Bills didn’t wait to start shuffling their roster. Doug Whaley made a trade with Ted Thompson and the Green Bay Packers for outside linebacker Lerentee McCRAY.
As you can see he has some pretty intriguing measurables. He has played on some really good defenses the last couple years, having played 24 regular season games with the Denver Broncos. While in Denver, McCRAY was part of their 2nd group of rushers in 2015. He and Shaq Barrett teamed up to become a very good tandem behind Demarcus Ware and Von Miller. But seeing as how the Broncos drafted Shane Ray in the first round of the 2015 draft, the Broncos decided not to tender McCRAY. The fourth-year player registered 2 sacks, 1 QB hit, 8 QB hurries, 18 tackles and 16 stops in Denver (per Pro Football Focus).
McCRAY was signed by Green Bay in the offseason where he played 44 snaps this preseason. McCRAY contributed 1 sack, 1 QB hit, 3 QB hurries, 1 tackle and 3 stops in 44 snaps. But he was again buried on the depth chart. My guess is that the Packers were going to cut him and the Bills wanted first dibs at him so they ponied up a conditional 7th round pick (ESPN).
According to Pro Football Focus McCRAY’s snap count breakdown for his career are as follows: 48.6% pass rush, 36.6% run defense and 14.9% in pass coverage. For a team that struggled to get after the QB in 2015, expect McCRAY to possibly be used to in certain situations pass rushing situations.
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The proliferation of homeless encampments is a direct result of the housing crisis. They’re the developed-country equivalent of the shanty town, the infill of vacant lots and spare ground with collections of tents sheltering people with nowhere else to go.
And until recently — indeed often still — they are viewed as a nuisance on the civic landscape, especially in places that bank on their beautiful visual appeal. Officialdom’s usual response has been to try to “clean up” tent encampments, using police to move their tenants along. Or worse.
But attitudes to encampments are changing. In Portland and Seattle, authorities are conceding that for some, no better options exist. Vancouver and Victoria too are eyeing the possible opening-up of a new and more positive relationship with campers previously regarded as unwanted vagrants.
After Seattle declared a state of housing emergency last year, city authorities, operating four days a week with two operations per day, conducted as many as 600 “sweeps” of homeless camps. Officials not only forced people to fold their tents and move, but at times seized and destroyed their belongings.
“The stories are really devastating,” said Yurij Rudensky, an attorney who advocates for the homeless in Seattle with Columbia Legal Services. “We’ve heard of people who have lost very sentimental items such as the only photograph of a biological family. People left out in the cold in the Seattle winter, without a tent and sleeping bag, shivering under a blanket and getting pneumonia. It’s really, really detrimental.”
Tactics used to drive out campers have sometimes been extreme. Abbotsford, B.C., used its bylaw powers to try to evict homeless people. When that didn’t get rid of them, the city resorted to spreading chicken manure on their camps, pepper spraying, destroying or trashing tents and personal property.
The harassment led campers to enlist help from the Pivot Legal Society, which took their case to the B.C. Supreme Court. It ruled that when Abbotsford prohibited outdoor sheltering, it had breached the campers’ rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
As DJ Larkin, the Pivot lawyer who represented the campers, put it, the court ruled that the city had an obligation to ensure that space exists, on an overnight basis, “where people can sleep, shelter, stay warm, eat and attend to personal hygiene.”
Joining beats fighting
After years of waging similar battles, the cities of Portland and Seattle are taking a different tack: working with the camps that have dug their heels into the ground.
Portland led the way in 2001 by allowing Dignity Village, a protest tent city, to set up camp on a city lot approximately 11 kilometres outside downtown. It now accepts that camp and a second one that appeared in 2011, Right 2 Dream Too (better known among its tenants as R2D2), as permanent features — for the present at least.
The Oregon city defines an organized camp as a group of people that has entered into a “temporary use” agreement or permit with the city for leased or owned space; has an agreed-upon code of conduct; and is provided with additional supports by the city such as trash pickup and portable toilets.
Oregon already had a 1995 state statute that required authorities to provide notice and store personal belongings when they removed tent encampments. Portland and its county have expanded that protection to create “a legal framework that would treat [a tent city] as just another form of shelter,” according to Marc Jolin, an initiative director with the county who is keeping it focused on the plan to end homelessness.
The change, he said, came from a broader “out of doorways” movement advocating for the homeless. “In essence, [campers] said, you know, let us show you that we can be good neighbours.”
Miles outside the downtown core, near the international airport, Dignity Village went from tents to tiny home structures that individual residents decorate to make their own. Right outside the gates of Portland’s Chinatown and next to a bustling intersection, R2D2 is half emergency shelter, where people borrow blankets and sleep in groups under a tarp until they choose to become members and live in a tent in the other half.
Seattle, responding to 57 deaths of homeless people on its streets last year, has made a similar peace with tent cities. It now provides sanitation services such as garbage pickup and portable toilets to 10 authorized encampments.
Three are managed by Share/Wheel, a non-profit organization run by and for people who are or were homeless. Each of Share/Wheel’s camps shelter as many as 50 to 100 people. Seven others are independent.
Services vary but most encampments provide portable toilets, a generator and blankets if needed, as well as distribute donated food, tents, clothes and hygiene supplies. While some also offer a shower and bus tickets, all have a “front desk” in a more permanent structure open 24/7 for any issues that arise. The tent cities allow pets, and unlike shelters, allow couples to stay together.
But they also require residents to share security shifts, attend weekly meetings, and sometimes pick up trash in the wider community to demonstrate neighbourly effort. Some require background checks and government ID, but all have codes of conduct that residents must follow to stay in the tent city.
Give tents a chance
By giving homeless encampments a chance to operate, Seattle and Portland have also empowered campers.
Ron Corey, who was living in Portland’s R2D2 camp when we met, had been there six months. He moved to the city from Salem to be closer to his daughter, but had nowhere to live. He says he found R2D2’s support a welcome experience. Noting the emergency shelter space for men, women and mixed-gender couples that sits in front of the small collection of members’ tents, he said the camp’s Homeless Bill of Rights helps people claim their place in an increasingly unaffordable world.
“We stand up for people who are not standing up for themselves,” Corey said. But, he emphasized, “We’re peaceful. We really want to work with the police. It’s not us against them, it’s us with them.”
Three hours up I-5, the idea of empowerment is part of what keeps Matthew Hannahs going at the Nickelsville Ballard tent encampment in a mixed commercial-residential area of Seattle.
“When we first wanted to come here, there was a big uproar, it was huge,” Hannahs said. “Then once we actually moved in, they found how quiet we were. If we see that people have graffitied on the side of businesses in town, we’ll offer to come by and paint over that.”
Hannahs said the camp has “been able to prove all the naysayers wrong.”
Most authorized encampments occupy commercial land leased by the city, government property, or empty church sites near transit and services. Portland’s Dignity Village leases city property for free and has an annual operating budget of about US$23,000, not including food.
Seattle budgeted US$100,000 for its first seven authorized homeless camps last year, and set aside between $5,000 and $7,000 more for administrative setup costs when it announced three more to shelter up to 100 people each. Food, clothing and even tents are donated by the public or non-profit organizations.
The now-legal camps have invited the public to come in and take a look at how they’re being run. Relationships are growing between campers and the authorities, police and neighbours.
While there is no perfect tracking of people who live in authorized camps, the three that Share/Wheel operates in Seattle saw 57 residents move to transitional or permanent conventional housing between Oct. 1, 2015 and June 28 this year. Thirty more moved into other shelter, 40 found employment, and three were reunited with relatives during the same period. That’s out of roughly 250 residents living across the three encampments at any one time, a number that fluctuates as people move on to housing or other shelter.
Models for BC
Homeless campers in Canada would like to see the same movement here.
Members of a protest camp that sprung up this summer on West Hastings Street in Vancouver are pushing for tent cities to be allowed to govern themselves, and say they want to collaborate with authorities to avoid confrontations and closure. They keep the gate to the lot they occupy open for police and fire officials to deal with safety concerns.
One of the first campers on the site, and one of its former co-organizers, was Laura Shaver. She preferred a tent to one of the area’s SROs — a single-room occupancy hotel — where “a lot of people are fighting with bugs, the rats — not having hot water, not having working toilets. We have a better toilet here than in some of the buildings.”
The camp offered a social embrace. “We have different meetings at night, as a community, when we’re having dinner,” said Shaver in the beginning, who is president of both the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and the B.C. Association for People on Methadone.
“People feel like they’re involved: they have decisions in how we do things here. That’s big. When you feel it’s your own and you’re part of making the policies and guidelines, it changes how people treat things,” she said about the camp’s beginning.
Vancouver’s not entirely onside yet. Its mayor, Gregor Robertson, has announced plans to turn the campers’ lot at 58 West Hastings into an affordable housing building with a health centre inside. But in late October, as the situation at the camp deteriorated, the city moved to dismantle it. By the beginning of November, it filed a court injunction to allow the city and police to dismantle the last few remaining tents. The next court hearing is set for Nov. 14.
The city continues to sweep up tents that pop up in Oppenheimer Park, in the city’s Downtown Eastside, after closing down an earlier camp that set up there in 2014.
Vancouver’s ambivalent compromise echoes Victoria’s. Before a protest camp calling itself Super InTent City appeared there last fall, B.C.’s capital was already mulling a multi-pronged approach to a regional shelter crisis.
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps called it “the crisis in our parks,” as about 130 people were sleeping out in them on any given night. In July 2015, councillors considered a temporary initiative to select one park, Topaz Park, as a designated sheltering site. But a few weeks later the proposal was dismissed.
Shortly after, Super InTent City raised its poles on open ground right beside Victoria’s court house. It folded them 10 months later, after the provincial government purchased a former care home for $11.2 million and moved in the majority of campers.
It was seen as a victory for the protesters — who wound up with permanent housing. But the City of Victoria was left with a $1.6-million bill, most of that for extra police officers at the site. It’s spent another $1.1 million so far this year policing people still sleeping in its parks.
Coun. Ben Isitt claims to be one of the few holdouts on Victoria council still in favour of outdoor sheltering. While the city has $60 million to spend on social housing, he says, it will be years at the earliest before enough units are available to house everyone now on the streets.
“My argument is [that] while new units are being built, we are going to see people sheltering outdoors. It’s better for them, and better for the wider community, if it happens in regulated and predictable and supportive spaces instead of ad hoc tent cities — as we’re seeing.”
Isitt would like to see space designated for campers on a commercial property, leased or purchased in partnership with the province, as Portland and Seattle have done.
Bricks and mortar lag good intentions
The cities’ experience points to a delicate balance that tent city advocates are trying to get right.
Portland’s Marc Jolin understands why the informal communities exist and acknowledges their right to shelter but, he insists, “they can’t become permanent.”
“They can’t be what we decide is enough for someone who is almost homeless and would otherwise be sleeping outside on the sidewalk. We still, as a community, have the responsibility to create a better alternative for those folks than that,” he said.
Still, permanent social housing is slow to open its doors in all four West Coast cities. And Larkin, the champion of Abbotsford’s campers, points to the obligation the B.C. Supreme Court placed on municipalities to make room for those who shelter outdoors.
But while the court decision should provide a platform for change, Larkin notes, under Canadian law it’s the province that “dictates how cities act.”
British Columbia and other provinces could require cities to permit outdoor sheltering, and, like Oregon, to follow a protocol that respects people and property when they perform sweeps on homeless camps.
“That’s not currently the case,” she explained. “So advocates and people living on the streets end up fighting these types of displacements individually, city by city. It’s an ineffective way of moving forward in terms of protecting people’s rights.”
In several recent statements however, B.C.’s minister for housing, Rich Coleman, has seemed still to be stuck on keeping tent cities from popping up at all.
Speaking to reporters over the Super InTent City closure, Coleman dismissed the role tent cities play in connecting their residents with outreach workers and housing as “an argument I actually don’t buy.”
Coleman has accused local tent camp organizers of “us[ing] people who are in tough straits in their lives as pawns to actually further their agenda,” adding: “I find that type of behaviour unacceptable.”
‘Delusional’ to deny tent cities
“It’s delusional,” DJ Larkin replies, for the province to deny that tent cities are a part of the interim response to homelessness.
“We don’t have enough housing. We don’t have enough shelter. And it’s going to take years to solve that problem because it’s taken us decades to get ourselves into this crisis,” she said.
Until enough housing and support exist for everyone, Larkin said, failing to allow space for outdoor shelter and “sweeping” up tent encampments is “perpetuating the displacement of homeless people every single day, because it makes them invisible.
“It puts their life and health at risk. And it removes the impetus on government to act to provide housing for people who are in need.”
Few problems are solved by looking away. Homelessness and the fundamental need for shelter don’t vanish when tent cities are forcefully broken up. Permanent affordable shelter doesn’t appear overnight — or sometimes at all.
That’s why more cities are accepting the presence of semi-permanent encampments of temporary shelters, choosing to work constructively with residents better seen as allies than as social nuisances best swept out of sight.


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Stephen King at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, promoting Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining.
Here’s one of the two semi-clear shots I was able to snap before the Five-0 made me put my camera away.
Flood, a set on Flickr.
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New ways to voice your opinions and experiences are emerging. We are currently seeking insights from patients with small cell lung cancer.
Categories: For Potential Participants
Patients have multiple ways to make their voices heard in clinical research. You may be familiar with the most common ways – participating in a clinical trial of an investigational treatment that is not yet approved for regular medical use, or membership in a patient advocacy group. These avenues can provide opportunities to contribute to the development and delivery of new treatments.
Another way to make your voice heard is to participate in a qualitative research study focused on the patient experience. These studies are used to gain an in-depth understanding of what it’s like to live with a particular disease or condition. Participation typically involves an in-person or telephone interview conducted by a trained researcher.
IQVIA™ is currently looking to interview patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) whose disease has progressed during or after their first experience with platinum-based chemotherapy. These interviews will take place one on one over the phone with a trained professional. The purpose of these interviews is to discuss patients’ symptoms, treatment, and the consequences on their lives. This research study will help determine the most important elements of living with SCLC and how to best measure the impact of potential new treatments on these experiences.
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SUWANEE, Ga. — College was supposed to be my ticket to financial security. My parents were the first ones to go to college in their family. My grandpa said to my mom, “You need to go to college, so you don’t have to depend on a man for money.” This same mentality was passed on to me as well.
I had enough money to last until May— $1,625 to be exact — until the coronavirus ruined my finances.
My mom works in human resources. My dad is a project manager for a mattress company. I worked part time at the university’s most popular dining hall and lived in a cramped house with three other students. I don’t have a car. I either walked or biked a mile to attend class. I have student debt and started paying the accrued interest last month.
I was making it work until the coronavirus shut down my college town. At first, spring break was extended by two weeks with the assumption that campus would open again in late March, but a few hours after that email, all 26 colleges in the University System of Georgia canceled in-person classes and closed integral parts of campus.
UGA professors are currently remodeling their courses and revising their syllabuses for online learning. Students were advised to not return to the campus at Athens from their vacations or hometowns. Our May graduation ceremony was even canceled without any hope of rescheduling it for a future date.
After this news, one of my housemates drove for 12 hours to her mom’s house in Chicago. Another gave me a few rolls of toilet paper and left with her boyfriend for a neighboring county.
The dining hall I worked at remained open. UGA allowed to-go meals for those still living in their dorms without a place to go. Student workers who didn’t leave for the break could call in and ask to work their usual shifts, but on many occasions, the staff wouldn’t answer the phone.
So far, an athletics trainer and honors student have tested positive for the coronavirus. They were last on campus on March 6. As of Tuesday, one person has died in the Athens hospital. Some students are asking for the semester to end with a pass-fail grading scale. This would help those without access to Wi-Fi or a distraction-free environment. I didn’t even have a personal laptop to use until a few weeks ago. It broke in November and I couldn’t afford to fix it until recently.
What if I had to do intensive schoolwork on a lagging smartphone? For the last three years, I have relied on the libraries and other on-campus resources like interlibrary loans and the bus system in order to complete my coursework. Now, the university is refunding us around $128 for services that we may need for a semester online.
I pivoted my plans. I thought I could find another restaurant job in Athens or hopefully an internship during the summer until I could apply to grad school again. Those odds are not in my favor anymore. Many restaurants here have closed indefinitely or only offer takeout options. They are not hiring anytime soon.
A local coffee shop and bar, Hendershots, has started a GoFundMe for their out-of-work employees with around $10,000 raised so far. Just the Tip: Athens Virtual Tip Jar also allows regular customers to send their favorite servers tip money they would normally leave on a night out. Many service industry workers my age have added their names to this list.
Not all college students are gallivanting across the white sand beaches of Florida without a care in the world. This pandemic affects young people too. Our future depends on the efforts of the national and state governments. Coronavirus testing is extremely limited in Georgia. For its 10.52 million residents, only 100-200 state tests are available each day.
“The state does not have the capacity to test those with mild symptoms,” said Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, in a news conference call last week.
On Thursday night, Athens-Clarke County unanimously passed an ordinance that enforces social distancing and a “shelter in place” rule, eliminating nonessential travel and large gatherings. Over 60 percent of the city’s population — the homeless, elderly, and those with pre-existing conditions — are susceptible to Covid-19.
Local grocery stores had already limited their hours and lacked essential food items like beans, rice and paper goods, showcasing barren shelves. I had a panic attack, looking at items marked “out-of-stock” on the Instacart app and watching peers post photos online. I asked my mom if I could come home.
We drove through the empty Atlanta highway, away from my struggling college town. Now, I am back in Suwanee with dwindling savings, still having to pay rent until the end of my lease in July. I won’t have an income to pay it.
For college students like me, the current solutions are: File for unemployment! Find a job at Kroger or Aldi at the detriment of your physical health! Call your potentially toxic parents! Tax refund! Personal loan! Sell your belongings!
These options are not good enough. College was supposed to give us hope for our financial future, not place us back in our parents’ houses without jobs.
Mortgage and rent payments must be suspended, so further debt and illness can be avoided, especially for restaurant servers, broke college students and those in the working class who cannot afford to escape financial crises. Our rent is due April 1.

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Times of Tonawanda
GM's Historic Engine Plant
Barry Kluczyk - August 14, 2014 07:32 AM
Construction of the Tonawanda plant began in 1937 to give Chevrolet much-needed capacity to produce more engines. The plant became operational in the spring of 1938, bringing much-needed jobs to the Buffalo area, which was still recovering from the Great Depression.Courtesy of GM
Workers prepare cylinder head castings for Tonawanda’s first and long-running production assignment – Chevy’s “Stovebolt” inline-six, which would find its way into the 1953 Corvette 15 years later.Courtesy of GM
Tonawanda’s shop floor was a model of advanced production methods when it opened. Approximately 1,700 electric motors were used to power about 1,500 machine tools for all facets of production.Courtesy of GM
It’s unclear whether these workers are cleaning or painting newly assembled engines as they move down the line, but they represent only two of the approximately 3,000 workers who filled the plant in the early years – split between two shifts.Courtesy of GM
It’s been more than 75 years since General Motors’ Tonawanda Engine Plant began assembling engines in March 1938. It’s the plant that built the Blue Flame six-cylinder for first Corvettes as well as the first small-block engines for the 1955 Chevrolet lineup. It’s a household word to muscle car enthusiasts who know it as the assembly site for the legendary big-block engines – including the all-aluminum ZL-1 engines.
The next chapter in Tonawanda’s long history began recently with production of the Gen 5 small-block engines that power GM’s full-size trucks, full-size SUVs and the seventh-generation Corvette. To prepare for this, the plant received a $400-million investment in state-of-the-art tools and advanced training for the 1,500 jobs that were retained or created for the production.
That the plant is not only still building engines three-quarters of a century later, let alone producing what is arguably the most high-profile engine at GM, is something of a manufacturing miracle. Tonawanda’s future was far from assured a few short years ago. Small-block production had long since ceased and even the long-running big-block assembly line went silent. Those were the dark days during General Motors’ bankruptcy-driven reorganization – times that could hardly have been imagined more than seven decades earlier when the plant was born during the final throes of the Great Depression.
It was automotive survival of the fittest throughout the 1930s. Even though the depression downshifted Detroit’s mass-production momentum, it continued to roll comparatively strongly for the companies with well-positioned products, strong dealer networks and manufacturing efficiencies.
During those challenging times, Chevrolet thrived. The brand finally outsold Ford in 1931 and kept the best-selling crown for three hard-fought years, with the torque and smoothness from its inline-six engine one of the key selling points. The engine known as the Cast Iron Wonder or simply the “Stovebolt” was durable and powerful – and gave the company tremendous marketing leverage when Chevrolets were advertised as delivering six-cylinder power for the price of a four. Customers responded and so did Ford. Dearborn’s flathead V-8 debuted in 1932 and the dynamics of the market changed again, but Chevrolet’s six-cylinder had converted countless customers from the formerly faithful Ford flock.
The popularity of the Stovebolt and a market rebound nearly doubled Chevrolet’s sales between 1932 and 1937, straining capacity at every level of manufacturing. The company needed a new engine production facility, among other things, and found an ideal location in the Buffalo, New York area – specifically River Road in Tonawanda, about 12 miles north of downtown Buffalo. Ground broke in 1937, with initial plans calling for a $5.5-million investment, but that was revised in relation to projections for the brand’s growth. The plant would also produce axle assemblies in addition to Stovebolt engines.
In the end, the one-million-square-foot Chevrolet Motor and Axle Plant cost $12.5 million to construct, the equivalent of nearly $200 million today, when adjusted for inflation. Virtually every component in the engines was produced or machined on site and the gear-cutting equipment, for example, was considered among the most sophisticated and precise in the industry.
Constructed only a couple of years after the UAW was founded, the plant was also renowned for its progressive conveniences, including a 600-foot-long cafeteria and a kitchen filled with the most modern of amenities, including electric potato peelers. There was also a hospital-level infirmary, staffed with full-time surgeons – a reminder all these decades later that shop floors were dangerous places in these times.
By the end of 1938, after coming on line earlier in the spring, Tonawanda produced a relatively modest 10,500 engines and 21,000 axle assemblies. The plant was just getting into its production groove when World War II came along and aircraft engine assembly supplanted the Chevy six. A 114,000-square-foot addition to the plant was constructed to support assembly and testing of enormous, 18-cylinder, 2,100-horsepower Pratt & Whitney engines for warbirds such as the P-61 “Black Widow” night fighter and the Republic P-47 “Thunderbolt.” A 14-cylinder engine for B-24 Liberator bombers was also produced at Tonawanda.
In the next installment (August 20), post-war expansion.


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Your person has just been diagnosed with a dementia and has probably been given some medication. At this time there is no cure and no treatment for this disease. The medication works on the nerve endings of the brain cells in helping them to work more efficiently at sending and receiving information. The most success has been documented for these three medications in the early stages of the disease. Making the decision to take the medication must be balanced with the risks and the benefits to the person's quality of life. As will all medication there can be side effects. Medication management is a very early support skill that can be offered to the person diagnosed. They are experiencing memory problems and remembering to take their medication can be a complex task even in the early stages. Putting some strategies in place can help the person manage their medication successfully. Keeping a watchful eye that they are managing this task is very important as medication errors can disrupt the person's health, independence, and quality of life. Please touch base with the Alzheimer's Society in order to access tips and strategies to help.

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Power has been cut to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine said Wednesday, but the UN's atomic watchdog said there was "no critical impact on safety."
The news from the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster came as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said data transmission was also lost at the Zaporizhzhia atomic plant, Europe's largest.
Russian forces shelled and captured the Zaporizhzhia plant on March 4, causing a fire that raised alarm in Europe of a possible nuclear catastrophe.
Earlier, on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, its troops seized the defunct Chernobyl plant, site of a 1986 disaster that killed hundreds and spread radioactive contamination west across Europe.
On Wednesday Kyiv's energy operator Ukrenergo said on Facebook the station "was fully disconnected from the power grid."
The IAEA said in a tweet that while the development "violates [a] key safety pillar," in this case it saw "no critical impact on safety."
On Tuesday it had voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the site.
The situation for the staff at Chernobyl "was worsening," it said, citing the Ukrainian nuclear regulator.
The plant sits inside an exclusion zone that houses decommissioned reactors as well as radioactive waste facilities.
More than 2,000 staff still work at the plant as it requires constant management to prevent another nuclear disaster.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted on Wednesday that "reserve diesel generators have a 48-hour capacity to power" the plant but added that "after that, cooling systems of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will stop."
Ukrenergo said military operations meant "there is no possibility to restore the lines" at Chernobyl and there was also no power to the site's security systems.
The reason for the transmission loss at Zaporizhzhia was not clear and the interruption of data flows at both sites was concerning, the IAEA said.
Chernobyl had similarly lost transmission to the IAEA, the agency reported Tuesday.
"The remote transmission of data from IAEA safeguards equipment located at nuclear sites around the world is an important component of our safeguards implementation, in Ukraine and globally," IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.
"Such systems... enable us to monitor nuclear material and activities at these sites when our inspectors are not present."


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The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway seems to prefer the S&P 500 to his own company’s stock. See full story.
This is how fast Americans are spending their stimulus checks — and here’s a breakdown of what they’re buying
Economists looked at the spending and saving habits of more than 1,600 people who received their stimulus check by April 21. See full story.
Fed says pandemic has created U.S. financial sector fragility that will last for some time
The Federal Reserve on Friday said the coronavirus pandemic has created U.S. financial sector “fragilities” that will last for some time. See full story.
China risk has reemerged in the U.S. stock market — here’s how events may play out
Apple is a key stock to watch because it has such a heavy weighting in the benchmark S&P 500 Index. See full story.
Visa sees ‘massive’ digital acceleration with millions trying e-commerce for the first time
The COVID-19 outbreak is bringing more people into the digital fray and providing a further tailwind to e-commerce growth. See full story.
One dentist has spent nearly $35,000 on disinfectant equipment, including oral high-speed aerosol evacuation units, ozone generators and ultraviolet lights. See full story.

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Set of 2 Angel Candle Holders
There are certain pieces that are statements in your home and these candle holders will definitely be that! They are grand and beautiful and even without candles in them they are gorgeous sculpture. I love the larger scale and the beautiful detail. They are so beautiful and grand that they work on a side board or mantel but will also be gorgeous under the tree or on the hearth. Don't be surprised if you find yourself leaving the white out all year. They are all so beautiful!
Choice of color: White or Gold
One faces left and one faces right
Measures 5.5”L X 5”W X 17”H
Made of natural stone powder
Returnable within 30 days of shipment. Have questions? Read our return guidelines.

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Happy Sunday Reading!!Thanks for stopping.
Your cover image, where is that? It's beautiful.
It is from Portree, Scotland.We visited there in 2010...love the quaint village.Thanks for commenting, Joanne.
Really? I was disappointed by the new book by P. Patrick, her previous one was so much better
I LOVED all of her books. :)Thanks for commenting, Emma.

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A one of a kind custom mask collaboration between Jungle Tribe and Tara Freelander. In the photo you will see the blank Jungle Tribe Leather Mask that the artist customized. This is the result.
From the Designer: I used my own interests and aesthetic as inspiration for this piece. After sketching out my idea for the mask I told my husband I was going to paint it with regular acrylic, luckily he told me that there was such a thing as leather paint. Even though I spent several painstaking hours holding my breath while hunched over the mask painting each delicate detail, I had a blast doing it. I love challenging myself with new projects and now I know about the wonders of leather paint. I started with a coat of Angelus’ Flat White acrylic leather paint, followed by 4 layers of Angelus’ Parisian Pink which glows under a black light. Finishing touches were with Angelus’ Black, because I’m a perfectionist.
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Some of you may remember the ’80’s song called “Parents Just Don’t Understand” performed by a musical act called DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – the Fresh Prince is known nowadays as an actor named Will Smith. But anyway, the song was about teen angst and how parents just don’t understand teens. What I’m talking about is something completely different – see the below story about the woman who threatened to post naked pictures of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend (the kids are 13!) on the internet as blackmail in hopes of getting the pair back together. Talk about parents just don’t understand! This lady doesn’t understand values, morals, or appropriate social conduct just to name a few things. Not to mention the fact that things don’t seem to be wired right upstairs, and that’s an understatement. My children will not be dating at 13, and they will not have cell phones for any purpose outside of emergency or family use only at that age. I would never try to get my daughter “back together” with a boy, especially at 13, and if I were ever unfortunate enough to come across such pictures, I, like most people I’m sure, would turn them over to authorities instead of conspiring to use a child’s mistake against him and put him in danger. And perhaps the kicker? The woman is a teacher. Well, was a teacher… There is so much wrong with this story, I’ll let you sort out the details:
Chicago Tribune – October 8, 2008
An Elgin woman is under investigation in connection with a strange—and possibly criminal—campaign to reconcile her 13-year-old daughter with a former boyfriend.
Authorities say she threatened to publish nude pictures of the boy on the Internet unless he contacted the girl.
The 42-year-old woman reportedly peppered the Sleepy Hollow boy, also 13, with phone calls, e-mails and thousands of text messages aimed at reuniting the young couple, according to a search warrant and affidavit filed late last month. The Tribune is not naming the woman because she has not been charged.
When those tactics failed, the woman threatened to publish photos online of the naked teen that he had sent to her daughter via cell phone, the records say.
“It’s odd, to say the least,” said Kane County State’s Atty. John Barsanti, who said the woman is under investigation. “It’s not a fact pattern we normally come up against.”
The woman could face charges of child pornography, intimidation and harassment, the documents say. Police seized cameras, computers, cell phones and other items from her Elgin home and the private school where she works. The boy received 12,302 text messages from the woman between January and July, according to records. The boy’s family contacted police in late August.
The girl’s brother also took part, allegedly threatening to go to the boy’s parents with the pictures unless the boy saw the girl twice a week, according to records.
On Sept. 23, the woman left a message warning the boy she would “send the pictures and video of him to his teacher and minister to show them he is not a nice person,” the search warrant stated.
Oh, and this mother’s job at the school? She’s a teacher.


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What is Mobile Sensing?
Written by: Nick Murray
The Rise of the Smart Device
Smartphones and wearable technology have boomed in popularity in recent years. In the United States, 91% of people were estimated to be smartphone users in 2021, compared to only 20% of people in 2009 . The statistics are similar in Canada – the percent of Canadians who own a cell phone grew from 24% in 2009 to 93% in 2020 .
While smart devices may have negative health effects (such as social media addiction), these new technologies have their share of benefits too. During the COVID-19 pandemic, video chat apps like Zoom and FaceTime enabled families, friends, colleagues, and more to maintain some semblance of social interaction during lockdowns. Like most technologies, smart devices have their advantages and disadvantages.
What is Mobile Sensing?
In the Predicting Risks and Outcomes of Social InTeractions (PROSIT) Research Lab, one kind of smart-device technology we are especially optimistic about is mobile sensing. Mobile sensors include things like the GPS, light and noise sensors, and screen time trackers built into smartphones. For example, Google makes great use of the GPS on many peoples’ smartphones to create traffic maps in real-time that inform drivers which routes are backed up with traffic or flowing smoothly. We are optimistic about mobile sensing because the sensors can measure mental-health related behaviours, such as how people socialize, exercise, and sleep.
For some intuitive examples: we can estimate how sociable someone is by measuring how much time they spend sending messages via text or using social media. Using a GPS, we can estimate how much exercise someone is getting. And by seeing what time of day people have their phone screens on and off, we can estimate how much they are sleeping. The PROSIT mobile sensing app can anonymously make all these measurements (and more!) through smartphones.
The Benefits of Mobile Sensing
Behaviours like sociability, exercise, and sleep are strongly related to how people feel, including how anxious or depressed they could be. So, it is useful to measure these behaviours. But you may be wondering: why not just ask people how they feel, and how much they are socializing, exercising, sleeping, etc.? We often do ask people these sorts of questions. In many of our studies, the PROSIT app asks participants everyday how anxious they feel, and occasionally asks them about their social activities, exercise, and sleep habits.
Asking people how they feel and behave is incredibly useful for research and clinical practice. This “subjective measurement” technique has inspired every kind of psychotherapy that is practiced today, from psychodynamic therapy to cognitive behavioural therapy. The problem is we cannot ask people questions every minute of the day, so we have to ask them to remember how they felt or behaved in the past. People do not always remember or know how they felt or behaved, even within the past month – sometimes people even forget what they had for breakfast today!
People can only tell you so much because they only know so much about themselves. The biggest advantage of mobile sensing is that it does not rely completely on peoples’ memories; instead, mobile sensors measure behaviours as they happen, in real-time. To make it even better, mobile sensors make measurements passively, without a smartphone user having to do anything on their phone. Mobile sensing gives us a huge amount of data, so we can understand how people behave when they feel certain ways, such as happy, anxious, excited, or depressed.
The Future of Mobile Sensing
Mobile sensing is being used by many companies and researchers to monitor aspects of mental and physical health. We are using the PROSIT app to measure mental health and well-being in youth, including youth with or without mental health disorders (such as anxiety). The app is currently under development not just with the help of our research team and academic collaborators, but also with the help of many youths who graciously offer us their feedback and assistance to improve the design. This research would not be possible without all our youth collaborators! (As a side note, Dr. Matthew Orr, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, has an exciting article coming soon about PROSIT’s youth collaboration).
Currently, we are using the PROSIT app in a wide variety of projects, including to assess how anxiety affects attention in younger women; to measure differences between youth and adults with anxiety problems; to see how youth without mental health problems use social media, and more. In 2020, Dr. Sandra Meier (the lab’s principal investigator) and Dr. Rita Orji (a close collaborator with the lab) were featured in a CBC News article, talking about how the lab used the PROSIT app to measure peoples’ mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic .
Our hope is that mobile sensing tools like the PROSIT app will eventually empower youth to understand and manage their mental health. The app has already shown promising results – in 2021, the lab published a paper showing that the PROSIT app successfully monitored anxiety, depression, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and related-behaviours in 122 youth .
With the help of our youth participants and collaborators, our funders, and the support of Dalhousie University, the IWK Health Centre, and the Strongest Families Institute, we look forward to developing the PROSIT app further in 2023 and beyond. If you want to follow us along, feel free to keep checking in with our website or follow us on social media (see links below).
Thank you for reading.
The PROSIT Research Team
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Former Walker Cup player Noel Fox is looking forward to his trip to Galgorm Castle later this month for the Northern Ireland PGA EuroPro Open.
Last year's inaugural event at the Ballymena club attracted a crowd of over 2,000 on the final day.
"The tented village and buzz around the clubhouse ensured a great atmosphere," said the 38-year-old.
"The 2,000 crowd was a lot more than you would get at some Challenge and European Tour events."
Fox, a former EuroPro Tour order of merit winner added:"Some of the guys that played last year still rave about the event and how well it was run.
"An event on the scale Galgorm put on reminds players that it's their job to compete in front of crowds and deal with the pressure.
"It gives the players a buzz and shows spectators the high standard of golf on this developmental tour.
"The guys that missed it last year will definitely be travelling.
"We have a nice event in Birhill near Wentworth then Bovey Castle and another up in Newcastle which brings us up to the Galgorm event."
The 54-hole Galgorm event gets underway from Wednesday, 29 June to July 1 with official practice and the George Best Invitational Pro-am to take place earlier in the week.
After Galgorm the tour moves onto Fota Island in Cork and Fox admits to a certain bias when he describes the two Irish venues are the "best courses we will play on this season".
The Dubliner is one of many Irish professionals on the circuit alongside players such as Paul O'Hanlon, Tim Rice and Michael Lavelle to name but a few.
"You can't put a value on getting onto the likes of the EuroPro and gaining experience and a taste for what it's like at the next level," adds Fox.
"It's not cheap to play (£275 entry per tournament) but it disciplines and teaches you, especially as the prize money is top heavy," adds Fox, noting the £40,000 prize purse with £10,000 for the winner.
"The ultimate goal for all of us is to get onto the main European Tour. When you get the opportunity to play in these top events it makes you want it more and more."
Ahead of this year's PGA EuroPro event, Galgorm, under the guidance of head greenkeeper David Snoddy, have upgraded the course by constructing new tee boxes at the par-five 10th and the short seventh over water.
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Speaking publicly for the first time since his brutal abduction and assault on September 17, Kevin Lunney gave a powerful interview in which he recalled his horrific ordeal with great emotion and bravery.
In a BBC Spotlight programme that aired on Wednesday night, the Quinn Industrial Holdings director described the savage attack inflicted on him just over six weeks ago, in which his leg was broken in two places and he sustained horrendous knife injuries.
In this harrowing clip, Mr. Lunney’s voice cracks with emotion as he relates his narrow escape after he managed to drag himself into the view of an approaching tractor.
In an exclusive interview, Kevin Lunney, a senior executive in Quinn Industrial Holdings tells Jim Fitzpatrick about his ordeal following his abduction and torture by a gang in September.#SpotlightNI pic.twitter.com/ERHHsfmvRZ
— BBC Spotlight NI (@BBCSpotlightNI) November 5, 2019
The father-of-six was abandoned on the side of the road by his attackers, near Drumcoghill, Cornafean, Co. Cavan, where he began to fear for his life: ‘I prayed a lot then and I was conscious I was starting to shiver and I was in agony.’
Tears sprang to Mr. Lunney’s eyes as he described the moment he caught sight of a nearby house: ‘I was able to see down the road, on the main road, the light of a house. I don’t know how far it was, maybe 200 metres, but I seen it and I said, “I have to try and get to that”‘.
The 50-year-old went on to recall the excruciating effort he made to push himself to safety, fearing all the while that he would never see his family again: ‘So I pushed myself along I don’t know how far I’d got but I knew I had to try and get to it.
‘I remember stopping a few times because I just couldn’t go any further and I was thinking about the kids and Bronagh and everything and I was thinking “I don’t think I’ll make this”.
‘But I did keep going, I kept pushing, and…em…I’m not sure how far I was, maybe not that far at all, and I heard a tractor coming, and I started thinking “maybe I should have stayed on the other road”.
‘But eventually the tractor came and it came along beside me and I waved at it and it stopped and, it was with the help of God that he stopped.’
Mr. Lunney continued: ‘He looked out and he said “What in the name of God is going on here?”
‘And then, I don’t know, I think I asked him “Where am I?”, and he said “What’s happened?” and I said, well I told him I was and I said “Look it’s to do with the dispute in Quinns, can you get the guards and get the ambulance, I’ve been attacked.”‘
Anyone who missed Kevin Lunney’s harrowing interview can catch the Spotlight programme on BBC 2 at 11.15pm on Wednesday night.


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It's been a relatively quiet weekend in Northwestern sports. We're still three weeks away from August 9, Northwestern football's training camp report date, and a little less than two weeks away from Big Ten Media Days, which are July 30 and 31. Meanwhile, basketball coaches are out on the recruiting trail, and players are in the thick of their summer preparations.
So what better weekend to celebrate the past? That's what members of Northwestern's 1995 football team did, gathering in Evanston as the 20th anniversary of their famous Rose Bowl season approaches.
The team reminisced over dinner Friday night:
Coach Gary Barnett joined the crew too, and spoke with the team on Saturday:
Here's a picture of all the former Rose Bowlers that gathered. Does anybody think they can name all of them?
Special Weekend!! https://t.co/SqIWjOq67L— Pat Fitzgerald (@coachfitz51) July 19, 2015
If you ever want to re-live the 1995 season, Big Ten Network chronicled it on one episode of their Big Ten Elite show. You can watch it on BTN2Go here.
We want to hear from you though. Let's turn this into an open thread. What are your favorite memories of the 1995 team?


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Our debt is manageable – Kasaija
The Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija says that Uganda’s Shs 41.3 trillion public debt is sustainable and is projected to remain sustainable in the medium to long term.
Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre over reports in the media quoting the Auditor General’s report for the financial year that ended on June 30, 2018, Kasaija said, the debt levels are comfortably below the International Monetary Fund (IMF) threshold.
“The debt levels are comfortably below the international sustainability threshold (for instance below 50% debt to Gross Domestic Product-GDP ratio) beyond which debt starts getting unsustainable and significantly below the sub-Saharan average (45% debt to GDP)” Kasaija said.
The media last week was awash with reports that Uganda’s public debt had reached worrying levels after the Auditor General reported that the debt had moved within 9 percentage points of the IMF threshold.
This would result into the country losing property in a bid to finance the debt due to uncontrolled borrowing, a report that Kasaija disputed on grounds that the government’s borrowing is controlled and guided by the Public Debt Management Framework (PDMF-2013).
The objectives of the framework are; to meet government financing requirements at the minimum cost, subject to a prudent degree of risk, ensure that the level of public debt remains sustainable over the medium-term and long term horizon while being mindful of the future generations and promote the development of the domestic financial market.
Kasaija further told journalists that during the financial year 2017/2018, multilateral creditors accounted for 68% of the total outstanding debt while bilateral creditors accounted for 31% and commercial banks only accounted for 1% of the external debt stock
“The government of Uganda aims to finance its activities and projects in the most cost effective manner. Multilateral creditors, like the World Bank and African Development Bank (ADB) have provided the largest part of government’s financing with the most favorable financing term” Kasaija said.


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Berlin 10 Years After Reunification
Walking between former West Berlin and East Berlin, the most distinctive difference is the building architecture. While the Communist East Berlin restored historic monuments, museums, churches, and palaces after heavy bombing from WWII, the Capitalist West Berlin was busy constructing ugly high rise boxes. Today, 11 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after the reunification of East and West Germany, the economy, infrastructure, and politics is blended into one. The young children we saw in Berlin probably can't conceptualize the former militarily enforced division of their city.
Our introduction to Berlin was through The Original Berlin Walks walking tour. Lonely Planet claims this to be "among the best walking tours we've ever been on," and we'd have to agree. The walk was 3½ hours through East Berlin because, as our tour guide put it, "that's where all the interesting stuff is." We learned 800 years of history, the significance of a dozen buildings, where the wall once stood, where to buy the best cakes in town, and about some escapes from East Berlin before the wall came down.
We were in Berlin during the 10th anniversary of German Reunification expecting to witness a huge party. All we found were mobs of people meandering aimlessly around Brandenburger Tor (possibly also looking for "the activities"?) and a few stands selling sausages and beer.
||One of only 3 or 4 pieces of wall still standing in Berlin. Most standing pieces are chipped and defaced. Only this piece, protected behind a fence, is in excellent condition.|
||The Berliner Dom is one of the structures repaired by the East Germans. Upon a close look (at the actual building, not this photo), the difference in rock shades reveals which sections were restored.|
||The Brandenburger Tor used to be in the no-mans land between the parallel walls that divided East and West Berlin. Even East German soldiers needed special permission to enter the no-mans land to, for instance, remove the body of a failed escapee.|
The Palaces of Potsdam
Potsdam is an easy 45 minute train ride from Berlin. In recent history, it's most famous as the site where the Americans, British, and Russians agreed how to subdivide Germany and Berlin at the close of WWII. 200 years prior, Potsdam was Friedrich II's retreat. Palaces he built to host dignitaries and for personal use were spared from WWII bombing. All are open to tourists today. The gardens are spacious and the air is fresh. Potsdam is an excellent retreat from the bustling Berlin, just at Friedrich II must have felt.
There's quite a bit of distance between each palace. The purchase of a day pass for all Potsdam city transport is a wise investment if you don't have a car.
||Sansouci Palace was Friedrich II's place of creativity. He composed music, played the flute, and painted in these rooms. Compared to the ostentatious palaces built to receive and impress guests, Sansouci has a relaxed, comfortable feel.|
||Neues Palace was the summer residence of the royal family. Entry is normally permitted everyday except Tuesday, but when we visited on Friday, it was closed without explanation.|
||Orangerie Palace is prettiest when viewed from the road (as pictured). The inside has little to offer. Nonetheless, this photo embodies the feeling that we had while visiting Potsdam.|
||Cecilienhof Palace was the site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference. We arrived after closing and weren't able to tour the inside, but the surrounding woods and fields were excellent for a refreshing walk.|
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Good morning! Here is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.
1. Marcus Hutchins, the British researcher who stopped the WannaCry attack, has pleaded not guilty to six charges of creating the Kronos malware. Hutchins appeared in a Milwaukee court on Monday to enter his plea, and will remain in the US until his trial.
2. Former Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick has said he's "baffled" about being sued by a company investor. Kalanick, who is being sued by Benchmark Capital for alleged fraud, said the suit wasn't in the firm's best interests.
3. Intel's chief executive, Brian Krzanich, has become the latest CEO to step down from Donald Trump's business advisory council. Krzanich cited the white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, and the "divided political climate" in the US.
4. Google has followed domain registrar GoDaddy in refusing service to white supremacist news site the Daily Stormer. Google didn't want its services to incite violence.
5. Facebook has also taken action against the Daily Stormer by deleting links to a post attacking Heather Heyer, a woman killed by a Charlottesville marcher. The company said the article violated its terms of service.
6. The creator of hit franchise "Angry Birds", Rovio, is set to go public at a value of $2 billion (£1.54 billion). The company wants to raise some $400 million (£308 million).
7. Snapchat has a new feature, "Crowd Surf", which lets you watch events like concerts through other people's snaps. The feature stitches together snaps so you can watch a gig from different parts of the crowd.
8. Amazon is shutting down Lovefilm, its postal DVD rental service in the UK and Germany. Most people have switched from DVDs and Blu-ray to streaming, a spokesman told Variety.
9. Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky has doubled down on the company's position on banning white supremacists from its platform. Chesky said white supremacism had "no place in this world", after the firm barred Charlottesville marchers from its service.
10. Uber is finally bringing its in-app tipping option to the UK. Passengers can now give drivers a little extra cash up to £50, and will also be charged if they keep drivers waiting.


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An analysis of Targum Ezekiel and its relationship to the Targumic Toseftot.
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
This study focuses on Targum Ezekiel and its additional liturgical and alternative readings, the so-called Targumic Toseftot, as well as their mutual dependency. The seemingly distinctive position of Targum Ezekiel within the corpus of Targum Jonathan to the Prophets is examined, with special attention for its rendering of key terms, such as ben-’adam, the approach to anthropomorphism, Merkabah mysticism, and Messianism. On the strength of the findings it is argued that Targum Ezekiel’s translational strategy is not at odds with the rest of Targum Jonathan. Neither has the Targum emerged in circles other than those which produced the rest of the corpus, nor has it been subjected to an overall revision. In addition, both critical text and translation of the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel are provided, accompanied by an analysis of their contents, with special reference to the long segments of unique mystical lore that are preserved in the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel 1, the mysterious prelude to the Book of Ezekiel, which describes the prophet’s vision of the divine ‘throne-chariot’. It transpires that this unique material sheds light on a relatively dark chapter in the reception history of early Jewish mysticism, being closely related to Hekhalot literature, and to the Shi‘ur Qomah tradition in particular, with implications for the latter’s dating. It is furthermore established that the intriguing mixture of Aramaic dialect use that characterizes the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel as a whole bears strong resemblances with Late Jewish Literary Aramaic, the literary dialect of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch and the Targums to the Writings, which is dated to the Geonic period.
|Title:||An analysis of Targum Ezekiel and its relationship to the Targumic Toseftot|
|Additional information:||Authorisation for digitisation not received|
|UCL classification:||UCL > School of Arts and Social Sciences > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Hebrew and Jewish Studies|
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On-Board-Diagnostics (OBD) Data Integration into Traffic Microsimulation for Vehicle-Specific Fuel Use and Emissions Modeling and In-Vehicle App Testing
UTC Project Information
In current work, our team is developing a new methodological approach for incorporating models of vehicle fuel use and emission rates based on Vehicle Specific Power (VSP) into CORSIM. VSP is a function of vehicle speed, acceleration, and grade, each of which can be observed from outside of the vehicle. However, fuel use and emissions depend on what is happening inside the engine. Models of fuel use and emission rates based on engine data, such as engine revolutions per minute (RPM) and manifold absolute pressure (MAP), are more predictive than those based only on VSP.
All 1996 and newer model-year vehicles have an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) port that broadcasts real-time data for parameters including RPM, MAP, and many others. There is increasing interest in developing applications that use OBD data. The U.S. Department of Energy recently sponsored an “Apps for Vehicles” challenge to use OBD data for driver feedback on fuel economy. General Motors is allowing third party developers to develop “apps” that use OBD data that can run on in-dash information systems. NCSU is collaborating with an IT company in Portugal on “i2d” (intelligence to drive), a small device that connects to the OBD port in the vehicle and transmits data from the OBD and in-built sensors to a central server via cellular phone. Drivers who subscribe to this service obtain detailed evaluation of how their driving impacts fuel use, comfort, and safety. In-vehicle data collection for proof-of-concept and feasibility assessment can be costly. There is growing demand for a simulation platform that enables developers to test and evaluate products, and for an improved method for quantifying fuel use and emissions to support transportation planning.
This research has three objectives: (1) develop and implement a method for predicting second-by-second (1 Hz) values of selected OBD parameters to simulate the real-time OBD data that can be obtained from an actual vehicle; (2) develop predictive models for vehicle energy use and emissions based on use of OBD parameters as the explanatory variables; and (3) implement the new predictive models for OBD Parameter IDs (PIDs), and the new OBD parameter-based fuel use and emission models, into CORSIM NG for the purpose of simulating OBD parameter values, fuel use, and emission rates for individual vehicles as they operate on the road network. The outcome of this work will be a new capability to simulate OBD data for use in developing new in-vehicle software applications and to improve the accuracy of fuel use and emissions estimates needed for transportation planning.
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First official visit of Japanese Consul General to FAU
On Tuesday 27 March 2018, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger welcomed the Japanese Consul General Tetsuya Kimura to the Schloss in Erlangen.
Tetsuya Kimura took over from his predecessor Hidenao Yanagi in October 2017 and is responsible for Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria in his position as Consul General in Munich.
During his first official visit to FAU, Consul General Kimura discussed various options for collaboration in the future with Prof. Dr. Hornegger and Prof. Dr. Günter Leugering, FAU Vice President Research. He also signed the University’s Golden Book.


Sunday Jazz Continues…checking out Earl Klugh with this epic track called The Rainmaker …this is off of his album Crazy For You
Check out the players and the track….
Its like this and like that and a…whatcha know? as banks have their credit downgraded….I was told to recognize the pattern!
Letting it do what it do…Intergalactic like Midnight Star’s Planetary Invasion!! rocking the world with science from Pluto, Mars and Saturn!
…Plus Venus in Transit ….whats up with it? please!! were circulating..its time for transition!
Devious ones had their gambit… they plotted and schemed; crimies were on a mission!
Takeovers were hostile!! fake ones claimed they had a hot style …but they make a negative impression!
Some were like Julian Assange..seeking asylum in Ecuador..but we knew the score…breaks are over; its time to put work in…letting it do what it do.. breakbeat science is dropped!! class is session! check out the rest of this article at Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Its Like This and That / Letting It Do What It Do!!.


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At the start of Halloween, Masni Coffee Blog decorate some mini-pumpkins.
- A can of black spray paint Pintyplus Basic .
- Pintyplus paillettes/dust .
- A can of spray Pintyplus Evolution varnish or Pintyplus Art & Craft varnish.
- A couple or three small pumpkins.
First as always cover the area well where we’re going to paint. Place the pumpkin and spray paint in all directions. You can hold them by the tail with the help of a little newspaper or latex gloves to avoid getting dirty. We’ll leave the tail unpainted in its natural state.
Wait 10 minutes and apply a second layer with black spray for greater opacity. When the paint is still wet to touch dust with glitter powder. This can be achieved by getting a little on hand and gently blowing. This will give some precious sparkles to the black base colour of the pumpkin. in either blue, green, silver or even gold.
Once done, leave to dry for about 24 hours and then apply the varnish spray. Do not use water-based varnish because it can corrode the dust particles. The best option is to use the Evolution Pintyplus varnish as it is a solvent based acrylic.
To finish we placed in a bowl as a centerpiece or to decorate a corner of your kitchen or dining room.
Source: Masni Café Blog


The Taipale guest harbour, the main harbour of Varkaus, is located on the north end of the Taipale Canal. New service and sauna buildings were built in 2009 and the following year the harbour won the Guest Harbour of the Year award in 2010. Harbour services in include moorings, fuel supply, a waste suction system, electric and water outlets, waste sorting, shower, WC, washing machine, café, recycling library, bicycle rental and a sauna on the shore.
There are also wharves for running errands:
Dock of the waterfront market of Hertunranta, Rajakatu street
Dock next to shipbuilder’s statue, Rantapuisto
Dock in front of Navitas, Tyyskä
Boat dock located between Miilukuja street and Hevosharjunkatu street, Kommila
Railway bridge in the route leading to the city center area is opened by Taipale Canal, tel. 0295 344 156.


A reimagined and redeveloped Dorval Ave. could mean bicycle paths, mini-parks and mix of new housing that would bring Dorval's gateway entrance into the 21st century, the city's director of urban planning explains.
The city of Dorval will hold a public consultation Feb. 23 on changes to its master plan, a major urban planning document laying out a vision for the city to the year 2030.
One of the major elements of the new plan is the rezoning of Dorval Ave., the Dorval Gardens shopping mall and the long-shuttered Dorval Ave. movie theatre to allow for mixed commercial and residential redevelopment.
Mario St. Jean, the city’s director of urban planning, says the city is trying to create a win-win situation whereby citizens living in older, established neighbourhoods would see little change in the communities they know and love.
At the same time, however, the city would attract newcomers to newly-built residential developments that would take advantage of the eventual completion of the Dorval Interchange and the long planned intermodal transportation hub where AMT commuter trains, STM buses and VIA Rail passenger trains will stop.
“We are putting forward the conditions to take advantage of this facility,” said St. Jean. “We are looking ahead, opening the doors to higher-density development.”
St. Jean said the process began with the adoption of several new bylaws for site planning, zoning and conditional property uses at the Jan. 12 council meeting. Other new bylaws are in the works.
The goal is to create a regulatory environment that will permit medium-density development immediately south of Dorval Circle — up to 80 dwellings per hectare, he said.
Apartment buildings — up to eight storeys on the west side of Dorval Ave. and up to four storeys on the east side of Dorval Ave. — would also be allowed, he said.
As it stands now, St. Jean said, the city’s main gateway is crying out for a makeover.
When the Dorval Gardens shopping mall was opened in the 1960s, it was a state-of-the-art facility and a signature landmark. That is no longer the case, he said.
“The term high-density makes a lot of people nervous,” said St. Jean. “We are taking residents’ concerns into consideration.”
No changes are planned for the former Queen of Angels Academy property or the residential development already approved there, he said.
But with island-wide calls for densification along transportation corridors, the so-called TOD, or transit-oriented development, endorsed by the agglomeration, he said, change is coming.
A reimagined and redeveloped Dorval Ave. could mean bicycle paths, mini-parks and a mix of new housing that would bring the city into the 21st century, said St. Jean.
The public consultation meeting will be held Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Sarto-Desnoyers Community Centre, 1335 Lakeshore Drive. Dorval’s 2015 Sustainable Master Plan can be found at ville.dorval.qc.ca.


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453 AM MST Wed Dec 7 2016
Isolated light snow flurries occurred overnight in portions of
the state. Frigid conditions statewide, with gusty winds and an
arctic air mass combining to produce wind chills as low as -30 F.
At 4 AM, temperatures across the state were very cold. Extremes
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For today, expect skies to remain cloudy with clouds slowly
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Expect the frigid temperatures to continue state wide. Highs will
range from below zero over the northern part of the state to the
teens out west.