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Reorienting the Economy to Prioritize Human Well-being: The Role of Government
By Ellie Hu
With the goal of offering transformative visions for global ecological governance, Neva Goodwin, Distinguished Fellow at Boston University Economics in Context Initiative (ECI), was invited to give a talk in August 2022 on her years of experience developing the theory and application of economics to account for the social and environmental contexts within which the economy operates.
In her talk, Goodwin discussed the role of the government in reorienting the economy towards maximizing human well-being. She outlined issues with the standard approach to economics that prioritizes markets before going on to discuss the role of government in reorienting the economy, citing examples from Nordic countries. She concluded by offering examples of governance at the international, national and local levels.
Moving beyond markets
Starting with the argument that standard economics has encouraged the development of an economic system that has become increasingly destructive to social and environmental well-being, Goodwin explained the need for an alternative model that can draw on the most useful parts of all systems of economic theory, including the standard neoclassical model, to achieve a healthy and sustainable economy. She noted that the economy should be understood beyond the basic concept of markets: two non-market spheres – the public purpose economy (including government and non-profits) and the core sphere (including households and communities) – should be considered as central to social and economic well-being.
The focus on markets alone means that economic activity is often driven by the goals of increasing consumption and maximizing profits. But as Goodwin emphasized, economies should be organized around the goal of the core economy, which is to maximize well-being – not profits or consumption.
Leaning on the government
How can the economy be reorganized around the goal of enhancing human well-being? Goodwin argued that at this moment in history, the role of government is key. Even though governments are imperfect in many circumstances, and they can be corrupt, they have the crucial potential to act as a countervailing force to businesses.
The business sector today has become the dominant driver of most modern economies, but it is not equipped to prioritize social goals over short-term profits. Often, protections for workers or for the environment are neglected in favor of increasing business profits. Hence, there is a tremendous need for the government to step in and create regulations to tame businesses and prioritize well-being. In Goodwin’s words, “governments need to be reimagined specifically to serve the goals of providing well-being to people in their full lives, including their work.”
Learning from Nordic countries
Goodwin continued by asking listeners to “imagine a future when care and well-being are central ideas around which goods and services are distributed, and all government and business activities are intended towards taking care of people’s needs and fostering well-being within an ecologically sustainable world.” How much socialization of the economy is needed to accomplish this? She cited examples from Finland and other Nordic countries as models to learn from.
To illustrate how some Nordic countries have achieved better well-being outcomes, such as less inequality and better health and environmental standards, Goodwin takes the example of homelessness. In the US, the response to dealing with homelessness has been to deal with its symptoms. The focus is on curing people of their addictions or teaching them healthy work habits in order to be given an opportunity of earning a rental home or owning a place of their own someday. Finland takes a very different approach, by giving homeless people a home, with appropriate support, including essential meals and childcare support.
To Goodwin, it doesn’t matter whether or not the Finnish policy is socialist, only that that the approach is oriented to the well-being of the people. Importantly, the Finnish government is able to act on its goals because it takes in enough revenue, mostly in the form of progressive taxes, and uses this revenue to reduce disparities of income and wealth. Goodwin argues this is not a terribly complicated system, it just requires that the people realize what matters to them and are willing to support a government that provides comfort and security to all. It also means that predatory businesses must not be able to sway the people to a false sense of what they want, and that the business sector should live within a social contract.
Moving towards a more sustainable economy
An ideology that prioritizes business over social goals has spread throughout the world with the power of multinational corporations. An outstanding example is the work of fossil fuel companies to delay for decades public, private and business efforts to prevent the worst of climate change, as they not only hid their own knowledge from the public but obfuscated the issue from the public and among politicians.
While the prioritization of profits over responsible behavior flows out of the business sector of the economy, it is also a cultural issue. The consumerist culture that has been fostered to enable businesses to sell everything imaginable needs to change. Goodwin argues that governments are critical to creating an economic system and culture that prioritizes well-being.
International regulations can help prevent businesses from shielding their profits from taxes, or from off-shoring pollution, while national regulations are essential to protect consumers, workers and the environment from preventable harms. Local level initiatives exist as well, below national or state government, where actors in the public purpose economy – municipal and state governments and their agencies, as well as the non-profit sector – are emerging as essential agents for positive change. Examples of such local level initiatives include the gradual increase in worker cooperatives and depositor-owned credit unions; and the recent resurgence of labor unions, in the US and abroad.
Goodwin started the talk noting the limitations of standard economics, and the need for an alternative that takes into account the full social and ecological context of the economy. This provided the context for her discussion on the importance of balancing the business economy with a strong public purpose economy, and prioritizing the goals of the core economy, which is where people’s needs are met and they can find satisfaction in life.
Explore the full recording: http://amplifycities.org/projects/post-american-world-symposium/
Note: Goodwin’s presentation starts at 17:15 and ends at 28:55.
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Islamabad, Feb. 26: Pakistani rappers have reportedly created a new anthem calling on the government to lift its ban on video site YouTube.
Rappers Adil Omar and Talal Qureshi have paired with Ali Gul Pir for the new video that has gone viral on the Internet.
According to the Express Tribune, the video is part of a youth initiative ‘#PakistanForAll,’ against state censorship in the country and mainly focuses on the YouTube ban.
The lyrics of the song in the video play on a vernacular slang, using the words ‘ban’ and ‘chor’ (thief) to indirectly refer to the government as access thieves and the fact that they are taking the ban for granted by not removing it.
The video shows the YouTube mascot, who is chased by the authorities and a politician, who slyly watches videos on the site in the safety of his own drawing room.
The report said that a similar video circulated on social media a few months earlier, which featured a YouTube mascot roaming around the streets of Karachi asking for hugs from those who want the popular video streaming site to be accessible again. (ANI)

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Perth's weeping Madonna has dried her eyes, just as a scientific investigation was due to report on it.
Oily tears began flowing from the fibreglass statue last year on March 19 - the feast of St Joseph - and again over the four days of Easter. The rose-scented tears then seeped continually from August 14 - the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven - but stopped on January 10.
The statue was placed in the parish church at Rockingham, where it attracted more than 2000 worshippers every weekend. Many came from interstate and overseas and, according to the archdiocese's director of communication, Hugh Ryan, "there were stories about people being cured or helped", including one case of cancer. However, these claims have not been investigated.
After various scientific tests found no apparent cause for the tears, the Archbishop of Perth, Barry Hickey, said in November that an independent panel would investigate. The panel, comprising a non-Catholic microbiologist, a Catholic surgeon and a Catholic academic, arranged tests before Christmas.
Their report is ready, but Mr Ryan was not sure last night whether the archbishop had received it.
Earlier, a Perth television program commissioned tests at two Perth universities, which could not uncover human agency but could not disprove it either.
The 70-centimetre statue was bought in Bangkok eight years ago by Patty Powell of Rockingham, who has denied causing the tears. She declined to comment yesterday.

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In 21% of cases "eat at" is used
There's nothing to eat at home.
eat at Masa every day for a year.
We ate at the doors of neighbours.
I can enjoy what we eat at home, but I can also eat what I want when we go out to to eat.
I eat at such places all the time when I lived in shanghai, well more often than I should.
To relax in your own surroundings and eat at leisure becomes an essential recovery to many.
Don't get me wrong, you'll be lucky to get out of here for under $10, but at least you're not eating at Subway again.
So don't eat at Chick-fil-A--I won't--but don't fool yourself into thinking that it makes a real difference in politics.
Its the type of place where I would have no problem going back to but I won't have cravings or go out of my way to eat at.
In 17% of cases "eat in" is used
They use oven heat instead of actual fire.
Vegetarians beware, there's meat in everything.
eat in soup kitchens -- that right, soup kitchens.
Food should only be eaten in the kitchen area, and whatever you do, please don't smoke.
Be aware that they're likely to give you much more food than you should eat in one sitting.
The turnover of real estate in Washington is greater than in any other city in the country.
It actually makes for a nice cool journey with awesome views, as opposed to the stifling heat in the cramped carriages.
This brace was like a torture treatment, it really made eating difficult and I hated eating in front of other people.
I told her the dining table didn't look very good and would she please keep a plate in front of each guest at all times.
There was no breakfast included in my room rates, but this was no problem as there were so many places to eat in the mall.
In 12% of cases "eat with" is used
eat with a spoon or your hands.
Who do you generally eat with? 3.
Jesus ate with ALL the wrong people.
During this festive season, a special rice cake called Lemang is made to eat with Rendang.
You can not pay the rent/mortgage or eat with the offer of a flight and accommodation alone.
On that day they ate with Dirk Ligter, drank coffee with him and shared stories of his life.
Popular dishes are Ayam Masak Merah; chicken cooked in a spicy tomato sauce, goes great with nasi tomato tomato rice.
I?? ll eat with all of you today and extend my greetings on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council.
Also, sterilization prevents any pathogenic (disease-producing) organisms from surviving and being eaten with the food.
Utensils, made of wood, bone and metal already existed but were seldom used as Romans preferred to eat with their fingers.
In 7% of cases "eat by" is used
Maybe they got eaten by dinosaurs.
The lettuces were all eaten by slugs.
We will hurt if it is eaten by somebody else.
If you haven't seen his It Is Pitch Dark video, go do it before you are eaten by a grue.
He thus put honour upon mechanics, and encouraged all persons who eat by the labour of their hands.
At the beginning, it would seem like a normal day, but, by the end, everyone got eaten by monsters.
She could only get food to eat by offering cleaning services from one local restaurant to the other in her neighborhood.
With little or nothing to harvest, the price of practically all food crops eaten by Nigerians would double or quadruple.
And some have to be eaten by an elephant and passed through its digestive system before they will be ready to bear fruit.
Goats will eat it, but sheep and cattle do not care for it, though it is said to increase the milk of cows when eaten by them.
In 7% of cases "eat for" is used
I love conspiracy i eat for breakfast yum.
You have to eat for a physiological effect.
No drinking or eating for several hours.
How many London youths do you know have not eaten for five days and are scraping bins.
And what is your problem with Catholics? Bigotry: it must be what you eat for breakfast.
You will realise very quickly that you can actually eat for a lot cheaper than what you think.
Then he sat in the cafe downstairs and ate for a few minutes before getting bored and wandering off to stack some bumbos.
Vietnam and thailand are highly recommended as u will find many amazing thing to do and eat for relatively little expense.
Today it is often eaten for breakfast, with the addition of milk, and a small plate keeps you feeling full until lunchtime.
Want to find out what Chinese people eat for breakfast? Let's have a taste of Chinese breakfasts from the south to the north.
In 5% of cases "eat from" is used
eat from Heaven and be nourished, satisfied, full.
Then he began to invite them in groups of ten to eat from it.
eat from a table of purpose and know what she is to do in this world.
We all eat from them; as big as they are I couldn't eat it all on my own.
All except the most phobic people would be willing to eat from a can even if it.
But since it's Wednesday, it's another day to share my wonderful eats from the week.
People will turn their backs at him, not even daring to touch the same plate he ate from.
The peasant's wife cooked on a cauldron suspended over the fire and the family ate from wooden bowls.
But there are some tips you might not have heard before: eat from the East: The Chinese don't get potbellies the way we do.
You are advised to be more careful regarding your food while traveling to ISSB and refrain eating from low standard sources.
In 5% of cases "eat on" is used
You have a tendency to eat on an impulse.
Even binge eating on ice cream and chocolate.
Step 3: Make a log of what you eat on a daily basis.
I have noticed that if a baby is really hungry, they will refuse to try to eat on their own.
The hotel and staff were excellent as so was the Oaks restaurant which we eat on one evening.
By this stage, no one was hungry anymore even though mains still sat half eaten on the tables.
A traditional food eaten on Halloween is barnbrack, a kind of fruitcake that can be bought in stores or baked at home.
I think they are more important issues to be solved in restaurants than eating on tables such as TVs and Music playing.
My girls were so thrilled we were eating on the river! The people in other boats looked at our ' floating picnic ' with longing eyes.
Eating on a schedule helps you know exactly when you will eat next, which can eliminate unnecessary snacking or foraging between meals.
In 4% of cases "eat into" is used
It hurts to the core and eats into our vital.
It eats into our spiritual being and cripples us.
Android is eating into the feature phone market.
The rapid expansion of acacia and oil palm plantations eats into their ancestral land.
In Eastern Europe the Jew is the cancer slowly eating into the flesh of other nations.
If it eats into the line, it doesn't matter, because the line is preserved on that line layer.
She sees attending at least a few conferences as obligatory, but again, they have eaten into her thesis writing time.
Businesses, too, have a way of eating into other plans, so keep a certain degree of flexibility in your daily schedule.
It rests on the myth that all government spending is wasteful and eats into potential private investment, and is unnecessary to recovery.
I started to feel a bit resentful that this time that I had planned for me to write, to just be, to swim and laze, was now being eaten into.
In 3% of cases "eat of" is used
Best is just to eat of one kind.
That is why Jewish priests ate of the lamb after it was slaughtered.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: Make a soup out of marrow and eat of it every morning, noon and evening.
Then when they fall down on their sides, eat of them, feed the contented one and the beggar.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven, if any man shall eat of this bread he shall live forever.
Recent research is showing that the meat of animals raised and fattened on fresh green grass is healthier for us to eat.
How much I could eat of what and when, and what it would mean for the rest of my consumption for the day/week/month/etc.
In the ancient tradition of sacrificial offering, the priest must eat of the sacrifice after it's destruction (immolation).
The bad friend is like the one who operates the bellows: when one sits with her, there is the heat of flames, smoke, stench and an atmosphere of gloom.
In 2% of cases "eat after" is used
They like to eat after a mugging.
For example, if 10 is your bedtime, do not eat after 8.
Anything eaten after the expiration date contains no calories.
That's why I don't like fast foods, where you pay first and eat after.
It's a great list, and you will notice that my chosen task (not eating after 8.
Where most heavy drinkers avoid eating after drinking alcohol, in your case it could be reverse.
The actors went out to eat after reading the script, but I had to join them afterwards due to a music show broadcast.
Your California editor ate a Big Mac yesterday and it was very good, but not 866% better than the Big Mac he used to eat after his Little League games in 1971.
What's your favourite thing to eat after a hard day's work? A cup of tea using Miles tea from Porlock in Somerset and toasted spelt bread -- see above -- with butter.
The Sunnah practice on the day of ' Id al-Adha is that nothing should be eaten before the Khutbah and the meat of the sacrificed animal should be eaten after the prayer.
In 2% of cases "eat as" is used
They can be eaten as a tasty vegetable.
Unripe fruits are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
It is usually eaten as a snack, with fresh brewed Chinese tea.
Everyone helps with meal preparation and then they sit down together to eat as a family.
Traditionally packaged in a banana leaf, it is usually eaten as hearty breakfast fare.
Make sure that you write down the amount of foods and calories that you eat as the day wears on.
Should they be treated like drugs? Ginger eaten in food is no different to ginger eaten as a herbal remedy.
My husband is a picky eater, often forgets to eat, and generally views eating as a interruption to other things he finds more interesting.
There are so many things in there that I remember and can almost taste just from looking at the pictures - there is no greater comfort food than the exact things you ate as a child, I think.
Without money I also could not eat, and I literally spent 2 days with nothing to eat as the hostel I was at didn't even do free breakfast, nor did they have a kitchen (we'll go into that later.
In 2% of cases "eat before" is used
Do not commence eating before others.
She restricted her evening meal to 500 calories and always ate before 5pm.
I would only eat before 7 if I had young kids, but hopefully that's a few years off for me.
Eating before the tests will ensure that you won't be hungry, and you can focus on passing the test.
They ate before the drivers ate, and no man sought his sleeping-robe till he had seen to the feet of the dogs he drove.
I'd trying to get myself to eat a little today, if I can do that I won't have to worry about eating before the exam.
Maybe the applicant hadn't eaten before the interview, as experts advise, and suddenly got so hungry he couldn't control himself.
The kitten is showing small improvements, she will come to her bowl straight away now to eat before ive left the room if i do nt make any sudden movements.
There is now a pregnancy specific antacid on the market - so ask your pharmacist for advice and try eating little and often and avoid eating before bedtime.
Usually lay people do not eat before serving their food to the bhikkhus and they may eat only once that day, specially where the bhikkhus practice eating a single meal.
In 2% of cases "eat like" is used
We work like ELEPHANTS and eat like ANTS.
Can also be eaten like string beans when young and tender.
If you eat like crap then you're going to perform like crap.
Then I started eating like the normal Maria and it wasn't better.
Try to eat like vegetable and protein make you sweet nothing but fruit.
The roots can be eaten raw in salads or boiled and eaten like parsnips.
When the plant is setting seed the young tender seed pods can be eaten like sweets.
I'd hoping to see enough changes that I don't have to convince myself to keep eating like this.
Clean and dry toilet Fresh fruit (preferably those which are easy to eat like grape, orange, banana, strawberry, kiwi and etc.
In 2% of cases "eat out" is used
Avoid eating out of stress, frustration, or sadness.
He started to pace through the room as he ate out of boredom.
Pack your own healthy food instead of eating out at restaurants.
Joe was in full flight and had an audience of six or seven hundred, eating out of his hand.
As you are eating out with friends or loved ones, make conversation an important part of the meal.
People eating out of dumpsters and standing in long lines out in the cold for a handout of the bare necessities.
Yes, he is completely in control and within seconds he has his audience eating out of his hand, they are comfortable and relaxed in his company.
We have kids in our school *and district* that are so poor and hungry, that they have been caught eating out of garbage cans and off the floor AT SCHOOL.
It's an even finer item when you use the toilet bowl coffee mug as a bowl to eat out of, and makes a great gag gift for people who have awful drink preferences.
Instantly he has their vibe and in seconds he is in complete control and has at least 99% of his audience eating out of the palm of his hand! This is a brilliant skill and a wonder to behold.
In 1% of cases "eat away" is used
The percentage of calories eaten away from home increased from 23.
Fast food eaten at home and store-bought food eaten away from home increased significantly.
For foods eaten away from home, the percentage of kcal/day from stores increased to become the largest source of calories eaten away from home.
Foods prepared away from home, including fast food eaten at home and store-prepared food eaten away from home, are fueling the increase in total calorie intake.
In 1% of cases "eat during" is used
If allowed, bring a snack with you to eat during the test.
There are certain types of foods that can be eaten during the fasting period.
She noticed I didn't eat during the flight and gave me some dried prunes she had brought with her.
It is also Ramadan so Muslims need water between sunset and sunrise as this is the only time they can drink and eat during Ramadan.
Nut eating during pregnancy reduced the chance of a child being classes as asthmatic at 18 months by about a quarter, and a third at seven years.
Eating a date first helps the body start its digestive process and gives it the energy to deal with the secondary, more complex foods, eaten during ifta.
These increases reflect increased numbers of domestic and international RWC spectators and participants who needed places to sleep and eat during the tournament.
They helped ensure our anniversary was a best one yet! Then, Amiri, the concierge, gave us wonderful advise on what to see and where to eat during our short visit.
He said a rash of studies in the 1980s, that purported to find evidence of a link between nut eating during pregnancy and allergic response, had in fact been found to be weak.
In 1% of cases "eat off" is used
And there are bits eaten off of it.
Anything eaten off somebody elses plate has zero calories.
Yet all we do is to eat off of it without giving anything back.
Next, eating off the ground is more natural and theoretically healthier for the horse.
You do nt accept to be able to eat off the floors the abode does nt even accept to be as spotless as it would be for an accessible house.
In 1% of cases "eat since" is used
I haven't eaten since last saturday, and that was even just a bit of celery.
I was a bit wary as I was having problems eating since arriving in Tanzania.
I like to eat things which are delicious and the food which I have been eating since my childhood.
Now, I know I haven't really described too much of the food I ate since arriving in Tanzania but I can tell you; I wasn't here to play it safe.
In 1% of cases "eat through" is used
He ate through two doors and more money than I even want to talk about.
He ate through one of the walls!? Like those made by other actors, Tank? s attempt to escape the set proved unsuccessful.
You can clearly see the bleach lines in this picture: I even left it over night, afraid the bleach might even eat through the fabric.
In particular, bleach and dishwashing powder work by eating through your stomach and spreading through your other internal organs.
In 1% of cases "eat to" is used
eat to 80% organic, both meat and vegetables.
My point with all of this is that we really are the sum of many small things, from what we eat to what we do.
With her involvement in the upcoming eat to the Beat, Wanda tells me this is one of the charity events she loves being involved with each year.
One of the female chefs at this year's eat to the Beat Gala is Wanda Beaver from Wanda's Pie in the Sky, the beloved Toronto bakery in Kensington Market.
In 1% of cases "eat within" is used
They'll be ready to eat within 7 days -- store in the refrigerator after this time period and eat within a day or two.
If i have to cut down on fruit, what are the alternatives that i could eat within a healthy diet, without being constantly hungry? regards barrie Williams I was diagnosed with type 2 on 22.
And new toys are bought only when he earns them by consistent good behaviour, homework done without whining for a week, food eaten within half an hour for a week, room tidied up consistently.
In 1% of cases "eat without" is used
It was almost impossible to eat without the garlic mayo.
I balanced the way I ate without denying myself any foods.
But Krishna is purna, the complete whole, so He can eat without taking the food away.
But following a transplant last October, the 42-year-old has a new bowel and is able to eat without medical assistance for the first time in three years.
Stories of begging children clinging to tourists ' legs with parents egging them on, and of not being able to stop to eat without a crowd of children coming round to beg.
As far as health is concerned, if travelers choose a stand popular with locals with a large turnout of food, Ghanaian fast food can be eaten without fear of stomach issues.
A beautifully made mushroom curry arrived at the table in about 7 minutes along with fresh naan breads and a fresh main dish for my husband who hadn't wanted to continue eating without me.

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Rising number of lions, India's pride
India's efforts to increase the Asiatic lion population have been a roaring success. The latest lion census reveals that the number of lions in the country has grown from 411 in 2010 to 523 this year, a 27 per cent increase over a five-year period. In 1975, when the first lion census was undertaken, their numbers stood at 177. India has done well to bring the Asiatic lion back from the brink of extinction. Till the beginning of the 19th century, Asiatic lions roamed proud and free in a vast expanse of land stretching from Morocco and Greece across Turkey, Syria and Iran to eastern India. But hunting of lions, tigers and cheetahs, which grew in popularity with the invention of guns, proved to be the big cats' undoing. The number of Asiatic lions dwindled and they became extinct in Turkey by the end of the 19th century and in Iran in the 1960s.
As the 20th century dawned, lions in India were to be found in Gujarat only. Since then, it is only in the Gir forest that the Asiatic lion is found in the wild. A ban on hunting and other measures have played a role in increasing their numbers. While the Indian and Gujarat governments deserve applause for their efforts, there are issues that need urgent attention. Several problems loom with a rapidly growing lion population. The Gir forest is getting overcrowded and lions are fighting each other in territorial conflicts. As their numbers grow they are moving to surrounding villages. Lion-human confrontations are rising in and around the Gir.
There is a need to give lions more space to stretch their limbs and hunt their prey. Could the land set aside for the Asiatic lion in Gujarat be increased?
Wildlife experts warn that the concentration of the Asiatic lion population in Gujarat could jeopardise their future. An epidemic or natural disaster in the Gir region could wipe out the entire lion population. An outbreak of canine distemper killed 3,000 African lions in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. It was to avoid a similar disaster in India that the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 in favour of translocation of some of Gir's lions to Kuna Palpur in Madhya Pradesh. Unfortunately, the Gujarat government, in its misplaced enthusiasm to retain sole custodianship of the Asiatic lion, refused to part with its lions and has filed a petition challenging the court's decision. Increasing the number of lions isn't enough. They must be made less vulnerable. Their future must be secured too.
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- This is process, not product. You are getting to know your characters… but you’re still writing for your eyes only.
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In our latest podcast Dr Myriam Wilks-Heeg talks about the history of slimming and how it became an obsession for women in post-war Britain.
The weight loss market in the US is estimated to be worth 66 billion dollars. Europe isn’t too far behind that at 44 billion. It is big business and while its expansion has kept pace with our growing waist lines, its origins can be traced, oddly enough, to a time when food was scarce.
“The end of food rationing marked the beginning of a modern slimming culture, which has since permeated all aspects of women’s lives,” Dr Wilks-Heeg, a lecturer in twentieth century history at the University’s Department of History, explains.
From the buttermilk diet, to the air hostess diet, Dr Wilks-Heeg looks back through the archives of women’s magazines that have offered slimming advice to their readers throughout the decades. She also considers society’s changing attitudes to diet, exercise and public health.
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Just look at those eyes! The latest addition to our Character Collection has just arrived and he's a beautiful little puppy. We've called him Bertie. We think Bertie is going to be great pals with our other animal friends. Why not give him pride of place on your wall?
This beautiful art print is presented on textured, cotton based paper and will look fantastic in any nursery or child's bedroom. The timeless puppy dog print is the perfect gift to celebrate a new baby, a birthday or any special occasion for the young at heart people in your family.
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This Puppy Dog poster is available in one size: 29.7 x 42cm (A3).
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News Item: Miller to terminate licensing deal with Molson
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TORONTO - Miller Brewing Company says it's aiming to end its Canadian licensing agreement with Molson Coors Canada this summer.
Molson Coors Canada has filed a suit in Ontario to prevent the move but Miller says it gave the required six-month notication in January and it expects the termination to take effect on July 22.
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The buyer can get the construction loan for 1 point provided he also takes the permanent loan, or for 2 points while retaining his freedom of action to shop for the best deal on a permanent loan. Which is the better deal depends on how the combination lender prices the permanent loan relative to the competition.
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A construction-to-perm loan allows you to get the same low rate during your construction phase but at interest only. Your one-time closing costs will translate into big savings. This option can also be used for a renovation of your existing home.
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Sterility is the basis for all products throughout the health sector. Our service included the control for a manufacturing plant which can operate under the strictest clean room conditions.
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I really enjoy reliving my childhood by watching awesome cosplays. Sara_Clause has gotten me back to an anime classic, Dragon Ball Z. She’s cosplaying as Bulma today who is one of my favorite characters and I really enjoy her look. The blue hair was the first thing that attracted me to the show, followed by her cute voice as she welcomes me into the room. She’s wearing the classic pink outfit that’s got the name ‘Bulma’ on it and together with the blue hair and little bow completes the outfit entirely.
She’s now ready for battle and to hunt for some Dragon Balls. If you wanna help her find some then head over to Sara_Clause‘s room right now and see what’s about to go down!
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DONALD Trump’s key economic adviser is leaving the White House following a dispute with the US President over trade.
Gary Cohn has quit the high-level role becoming the latest in a string of high-level departures from the West Wing.
Mr Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, has been the leading internal opponent to the President’s planned tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium.
He also worked to orchestrate an eleventh-hour effort in recent days to get Mr Trump to reverse course.
Mr Trump resisted those efforts and on Tuesday reiterated he will be imposing tariffs in the coming days.
Mr Cohn’s departure comes amid a period of unparalleled tumult in the Trump administration, and aides worry that more staffers may soon head for the doors.
The announcement came hours after Mr Trump denied there was chaos in the White House and maintained there “tremendous energy.”
(Mr Cohn, joins White House Communications Director Hope Hicks as the latest staffer to leave the West Wing. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP )
However multiple White House officials said Mr Trump has been urging anxious aides to stay. “Everyone wants to work in the White House,” Mr Trump said during a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.
“They all want a piece of the Oval Office.”
In a statement, Mr Cohn said it was his honour to serve in the administration and “enact pro-growth economic policies to benefit the American people.”
Mr Trump praised Mr Cohn despite the disagreement on trade, issuing a statement saying he has “served his country with great distinction.”
Mr Cohn is a former Goldman Sachs executive who joined the White House after departing the Wall Street firm with a $285 million payout.
He played a pivotal role in helping Trump enact a sweeping tax overhaul, co-ordinating with members of Congress.
Mr Trump loved to boast about the former executive’s wealth, but Mr Cohn’s tenure in the White House was rocky.
Mr Cohn nearly departed the administration last summer after he was upset by the president’s comments about the racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mr Cohn, who is Jewish, wrote a letter of resignation but never submitted it.
“Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK,” Mr Cohn told The Financial Times at the time.
“I believe this administration can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning these groups and do everything we can to heal the deep divisions that exist in our communities.”
(Mr Cohn and the President disagreed over trade. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP )
The comments came as Mr Cohn was under consideration to serve as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Earlier in the administration, Mr Cohn found himself on the losing side of several contentious battles, including the announcement of plans to pull the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Mr Cohn had also hoped to steer more than $1 trillion into infrastructure investments, including updates to the US air traffic control system that would make air travel faster and easier.
But the multiple infrastructure rollouts by the Trump administration failed to gain traction, often overshadowed by controversial statements made by the president himself.
Mr Cohn often faced ridicule among some inside the White House for being a registered Democrat who last year met with former Republican officials pushing a form of a carbon tax that was designed to reduce the risks from climate change.
Yet his stock improved to the point that he was one of names Trump was floating for chief of staff last month, when it looked like John Kelly was on thin ice.
Mr Cohn told other White House aides in recent weeks that he would have little reason to stay if Mr Trump followed through with his tariff plans, according to a White House official familiar with his views.
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Hello, my name is Josh Hillin and I am a consumer bankruptcy attorney. I help good people get out of bad financial times. As a bankruptcy attorney, people often think bankruptcy a bad thing. It couldn't be further from the truth. Some times bad things happen to good people and we have to have a way to get them back on the right track. In the case of bankruptcy, it takes away unsecured debt and gets rid of it so you can start over.

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The Red Pears are lost in a “House of Mirrors”
The California-based indie garage trio are ushering in their third studio album, You Thought We Left Because The Door Was Open But We Were Waiting Outside,…
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The indie garage rock trio from El Monte, California, The Red Pears, have returned with a new single, “House of Mirrors.”
“House of Mirrors” is built on the group’s signature washed-out guitar, a head-nodding baseline, and pinpoint percussion.
The house of mirrors motif represents self-conversing, perhaps due to lacking company: a loneliness one gets lost in, or takes comfort in.
Directed by Justin La Turno, the music video was filmed with assistance from the group’s old stomping grounds: Mountain View High School in El Monte.
Building off the title’s motif, the music video showcases a transition between eras, a growth built from self-introspection, told through a change of attire.
The new record will also feature the singles “Not In The Cards” and “Twisted Colours.” The album will be released on Cosmica Artists / ADA Latin.
Written, recorded, and being released around a time when the band is garnering more widespread attention, playing their largest shows yet, this third LP will mark a new era for the trio.
Furthermore, the album will be a testament of the group’s friendship, who started the band after meeting at a Battle of the Bands event. The album will channel childhood influences and garage rock origins at a time when the band moves up in the world.
Originally a duo, ‘The Red Pears’ is a play-on-words, a representation of the duo or pair.
Now a trio, the band’s name still remains a callback to some of the group’s favorite duos, The White Stripes and The Black Keys.
Shortly after the release of their third album, The Red Pears will be touring with Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing this November. Limited tickets are available.
The group’s third studio album, You Thought We Left Because The Door Was Open But We Were Waiting Outside, will arrive on Oct. 15, 2021. “House of Mirrors” is available now.


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Volkswagen unveils five-year investment plan to become world’s leading carmaker by 2018
Sydney – Europe’s biggest carmaker, Volkswagen has reportedly unveiled its plans to invest 84.2 billion euros during the next five years as part of it plan to become the world’s leading auto manufacturer by 2018.
VW chief Martin Winterkorn said that the investment in upgrading technologies and modernizing plants would give Volkswagen extra power on its way to the top, news.com.au reports.
The report said that Volkswagen, currently the third, intends to replace Japan’s Toyota as the world’s leading motor vehicle maker by 2018.
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• Hardcover: 362 pages
• Publisher: Goldminds Publishing, LLC (May 20, 2014)
A copy provided in exchange for an honest review
Juliana is a woman being tested. Life is coming at her hard and fast, and of course, it is a domino effect – one challenge after the other. Hunter pens a tangled web for one impartial character.
Juliana is sideswiped by life, dealing with a few hard hitting blows, facing facts, and casting denial to the wind. At first you assume her life is falling apart but as you continue reading, her life is changing course in a very positive direction – always darkest before the storm. A victim of circumstance, issues brought on by her own doing, surrounding herself with poseurs, the reader deduces their opinions by Hunter’s ambiguous tone. The plot is somewhat convoluted which actually adds a spark of fascination. Multitasking the varying issues creates a level of suspense along with a subtle touch of magical realism opens the door of interest. Hunter demonstrates a level of creativity and imagination with a quasi intricate plot tightly threading it all together.
Hunter fails to develop Juliana’s character, I’m uncertain if this was intentional or unintentional, for me it worked well. Juliana is opaque, Hunter provides just enough details forcing the reader to stretch their imagination. You decide if she’s strong or weak, apathetic or feeling, right or wrong, I found her to be rather engaging and I preferred molding her into the heroine or loser I wanted her to be. The ambiguity approach offers Hunter’s artistic side, off beat and I welcome the change from an ordinary read. As the story progresses so does Juliana, once again you deciding if it’s enough or not.
Hunter is detailed, and has a knack exploring emotional issues without predictability. It’s clear Painting Juliana was an arduous effort, a reflection of her drive pushing through such a monstrous undertaking given this her debut novel.
Painting Juliana is a story of forgiving, leaving the past in the past and reinventing yourself when you set yourself free from all that binds you. It’s facing life head on forcing you to examine within yourself. A main protagonist unmistakably outlined allowing the peruser to color her within or outside the lines. Artsy edge engaging the readers attention and involvement, if you’re looking for something delivered in an uncommon manner addressing plausible issues add this to your TBR. Fine example of one door closes, another door opens.
About Martha Louise Hunter
Martha Louise Hunter has an English degree from the University of Texas. After writing magazine features, working in politics and owning homebuilding and interior design companies, she now has an estate jewelry collection, http://www.marthasjewelrycase.com. With four children between them, she and her husband, David live in Austin, Texas. This is her first novel.
Painting Juliana was awarded finalist in the Writers League of Texas Mainstream Fiction Contest.
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What is a Microservice Catalog?
A microservice catalog simplifies cloud-native architecture by displaying all services in one place. The use of a microservice catalog simplifies a cloud-native implementation by providing a central location to find and share thousands of services consistently across all clusters and teams. A microservice catalog facilitates collaboration across organizational siloes, saves money by encouraging reuse, and tames the difficulty common to a shared service architecture.
“Software systems have become so complex that it’s getting too difficult for humans to reason about the systems they design. The complexity spans the team (even small projects with 20 dependencies have a broader committer graph of 10K engineers), the tooling, the architecture, and the users. Service Governance will be the creation of service catalogues, metadata stores about *how* the software was created, and intelligence systems that inform stakeholders on insights for the system.”
Tyler Jewel, The Developer Led Landscape 2022
Microservices and Their Unique Attributes
Every microservice is different and each has its own unique attributes. These attributes change over time, impacting consuming applications and other dependent services. Microservice attributes include ownership details, consuming applications, transitive microservice dependencies, versions, and inventory across all clusters.
The catalog tracks and manages these attributes showing changes over time, minimizing the time for root cause analysis, and provides a ‘predictive’ platform for taming microservices even before deployment.
Evaluating Microservice Catalogs
While all microservice catalogs centralize data on microservices, they all approach the problem differently. The difference between microservice catalogs often depends on who they are serving. For example, some catalogs track mainly production information and are focused on helping the support teams maintain SLOs.
Others cater to the microservice developer and automate the onboarding of services. Some focus on tracking intelligence and managing the service supply chain across siloed teams. These catalogs provide SBOM and dependency data critical for knowing where your security vulnerabilities lie.
Features of Microservice Catalogs
Below is a list of standard features of microservice catalogs:
- Project Templating
- Microservice Organization
- Microservice Ownership
- Service to Service Dependencies
- Logical Application Supply Chain with SBOM
- Supply Chain Versioning
- Vulnerability and License Reporting
- Microservice Inventory by Cluster
- Deployment Metadata
- SLO tracking
Categories of Microservice Catalogs
There are three basic categories of microservice catalogs:
- For Developers
- For Operations
- For DevOps
Catalogs for Developers
The design of these catalogs helps developers start creating microservices. They focus on project templating and tracking developers’ tools to develop and test services.
Catalogs for Operations
These catalogs focus on monitoring production systems and tracking service level objectives (SLOs). Their primary goal is to help support teams and SREs maintain their incident response times.
Catalogs for DevOps
The design of these catalogs tracks the software supply chain with versions. They service all individuals in the DevOps pipeline focusing on microservice intelligence and governance.
Who uses a Microservice Catalog?
A microservice architecture disrupts the way we develop software. The loss of the monolithic application changes the way we manage the creation and delivery of software to end-users. This modern shared microservice architecture has created new challenges across the DevOps pipeline. Choosing the correct catalog type requires a close look at your microservice usage and journey.
As you mature in your microservice journey, the need to manage microservices from a central location will become clear. Part of the complexity of a microservice implementation is understanding who uses them, where they are running, and their impact. The core purpose of a microservice catalog is to provide everyone, from the API developers to the production support teams, essential information needed to succeed in a shared services architecture.
The users of a microservice catalog include:
- DevOps Teams
- SREs and Support Teams
- CISO and Application Security
Producers – The API or Microservice Developer
Familiar with microservices is a domain-driven approach where ‘Domain’ teams develop small functions to address bounded context problem spaces. These teams are the ‘producers’ of microservices who deliver functions to ‘application’ or ‘project’ teams.
Consumers – Application or Project Teams
Application developers are the consumers of microservices. They create software solutions by writing their unique services and reusing available ones. A collection of microservices is a ‘logical’ application. Application teams use a microservice catalog to find and reuse available services and package their logical applications.
We have all gotten very good at using a continuous delivery process to push monolithic changes across the dev to prod lifecycle. DevOps teams are responsible for keeping a lifecycle process automated even in a microservices architecture. The job of the DevOps Team is to manage changes, report differences, and understand the impact of a single update. Microservices make their job particularly difficult. DevOps Teams use a microservice catalog to track the impact of services and the applications that use them.
SREs and Support Teams
Imagine trying to support a microservice you know nothing about. This puzzle is the job of the Site Reliability Engineers and Support Teams. Maintaining SLOs in a microservice architecture is their challenge. These individuals use a microservice catalog to determine who to contact when a service fails.
CISO and Application Security
Governance of the microservice supply chain is essential, however difficult. Tracking what microservices are being consumed by a particular application, and creating a full Software Bill of Material (SBOM) for that application is near impossible in a decoupled microservice architecture. The microservice catalog is used by Security Professionals to govern the supply chain of microservices and create application-level Software Bill of Material reports.
The DevOps process will need a central microservice catalog to support a cloud-native architecture. Part of the complexity of a microservice implementation is understanding who uses them, where they are running, and their impact.
Critical in this new architecture is to have a clear view of your microservice supply chain. This view includes knowing what microservices are available, what is missing, what versions are running, and their changes over time. The core purpose of a microservice catalog is to provide everyone, from the API developers to the production support teams, essential information needed to succeed in a shared services architecture.
DeployHub Key Features
- Software Supply Chain Risks Managed
- Aggregated Application Level Software Bill of Material
- Microservice Version Management
- Simplifying Microservice “Logical” Applications
- Domain-Driven Design for Microservices
- Ship Microservices Safely – Know Your Blast Radius
- Improve Your Incident Response – Microservice Ownership
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“As urban areas grow a person’s health will be connected to the build up of heat and pollution in the city…..it will become essential to build green.”
By Linn Smith
April 20, 2017—–If you live in a city you probably have noticed how much cooler it is in the summertime when you take a drive in the country. Drive back toward the city, with its concrete buildings, and you feel the great intensiveness of a hot summer day. There’s a name for this city heat….the urban heat island effect.
What is a Heat Island?
An urban heat island describes a large area of buildings and concrete (cities) that has temperatures which are higher than the countryside surrounding them. According to http://www.epa.gov, “The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4°F (1–3°C) warmer than its surroundings. In the evening, the difference can be as high as 22°F (12°C).” With global warming the temperatures of the heat islands will continue to increase.
What Causes the Build Up of Heat?
As you enter a city you may notice concrete and asphalt surrounding you—-buildings, parking lots, streets and side walks. The concrete and asphalt absorb the sun’s heat rather than reflecting it, causing surface temperatures to rise. The rise in temperature also causes a depletion of vegetation resulting in less shade and moisture in the air. The resulting heat requires an increase in energy consumption—air conditioning which results in greater electrical use. This cycle keeps revolving—a catch 22 in which there is no escape from the merry-go-round of negative conditions from heat build-up.
Smog and Heat Islands
Cities can also cause “hotspots” of pollution. This smog can trap heat over a city, holding in the gases from coal burning facilities and vehicle emissions, not allowing them to escape into the atmosphere (the greenhouse effect). In addition, the closely built structures resist air flow, keeping the air trapped in the city, unlike the countryside which cools off as the air flows more freely.
Health Effects of Heat Islands
Some of the more obvious effects of heat islands are discomfort, breathing problems, heat stroke and exhaustion. But they can also be related to cardiovascular disease, sleep deprivation, depression and many more!
Minimizing the Heat Island Effect
New technologies for minimizing heat islands are rapidly being developed. Several techniques currently in use for developing green urban areas are:
*Cut down on heat absorbing materials, such as asphalt and cement, by using more reflective surfaces for paved areas.The pavement can be enhanced by using reflective aggregate, a reflective or clear binder or a reflective surface coating.
*Plant trees that shade streets and paved areas.
*Use white roof membranes instead of black.
*Create a green roof–rooftop gardens.
*Create rooftop decks made from wood.
*Increase shade around buildings.
*Use energy efficient appliances and equipment which cut down on electrical use.
As National Geographic summarized, “Urban heat islands can have worse air and water quality than their rural neighbors. They often have lower air quality because there are more pollutants (waste products from vehicles, industry, and people) being pumped into the air. These pollutants are blocked from scattering and becoming less toxic by the urban landscape: buildings, roads, sidewalks, and parking lots.”
As urban areas grow a person’s health will be connected to the build up of heat and pollution in the city…..it will become essential to build green. The planning stage for this is now!

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The Irix 11mm f/4 lens has been with you for four years!
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Four years; forty-eight months – it’s been exactly that long since the Irix 11mm f/4 lens arrived on the market in March 2021. An iconic lens with a unique perspective, a tool that has opened up a wealth of creative possibilities for photographers and inspired them to look at their surroundings not only through the prism of an ultra-wide-angle field of view but also by creating a wider context than before – instantly!
Thousands of unique shots and places visited on different continents around the world. This unique lens has inspired not only us and our loyal customers but also well-known photographers all over the world. An ultra-wide-angle means ultra-wide opportunities to see the world from a whole new perspective. Discover 11 solid reasons for an 11mm Irix lens to find your way in photography to make your images unique!
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9. Creates a perspective that changes the worldview shown in your photos.
10. World has never been so big and so undiscovered – it’s up to you how you create it!
11. Unique features – time for Infinity Click! Look to infinity. It could be the beginning of your great photographic adventures, for which you will find endless other reasons of your own…
Four years, thousands of satisfied users creating picturesque frames, dozens of flattering publications, accolades and awards – one lens, two versions, eleven written reasons to use it. And every user who can expand the story of this product according to their creative fantasies. We’re proud to offer a lens that photographers around the world can use to create breathtaking shots – full of space, dynamics & drama. That’s the essence of what photography is all about -showing things differently than we see every day. Although the lens is just a tool. It can be an impulse for action, which opens not only the eyes but also the mind to discover new perspectives and expand horizons. When we take pictures, we focus on realizing our visions, translating our emotions into images to share with our audience.
Designing the Irix 11mm, we wanted to lift the limitations of your equipment and give you a focal length that will never run out of space in the frame. With dedicated versions for Canon, Nikon and Pentax full-frame cameras, excellent optical performance including low distortion, ND-gel filter slot, full communication with your camera, infinity click, focus lock, and a complete sales kit with a convenient carrying case. You’ll love this lens for it.
Our #creative11mm series inspires each other to play with perspective and fuels the search for our path in photography. With a rugged and sealed construction, this gear is both ready for adventures and guaranteed to be used in unpredictable situations. The past four years are just the foundation on which we build our brand and create an album of endlessly creative uses with you. We do this because we want you to be able to tell any story originally and enchant your audience.
However, these four years are not only about the equipment but most of all about the people. We’ve met you in many places, organized various workshops, showing you a multitude of possibilities to benefit from the potential that lies in this lens. It’s the photographers themselves who tell their stories using our product. Dozens of ideas, different concepts and applications. Find out what Irix ambassadors who use it every day say about this lens:
I’ve decided to use a 11mm Irix lens for my shots some years ago. I was in search for an ultra-wideangle lens for my Nikon D850, and was watching several brands. Browsing the internet, I found the 11mm on the Irix site, it was brand new, just launched on the market (or if I’m not wrong, was about to launch). I submitted my works to the Irix crew attention and they choose me as an Ambassador. What I can say? Since I received my 11mm, hardly I unmounted it from my Nikon. Anyway, there are plenty of creative use one can make of an ultra-wide lens, then sunsets or just landscape photography. Making an ultra-narrow place, look like a cathedral. Here I used the 11mm to shoot from inside this little mountain chapel. The place is really tiny, I guess 10 or less people can stand inside all together, but placing the camera on the floor and shooting in live-view and doing 2 different expositions, I captured both, inside and outside to finally mount them in a single shot. And this is how I’ve seen the Giau Pass, in Italy in a warm summer day. To end my considerations, clearly the 11m cannot be considered a “general purpose” lens, it has its own application fields, but using some creativity it’s easy to find, like me, hard to unmount it during a full day of shooting.
When shooting abandoned places, you often find yourself crammed into tiny corners trying to capture a whole room in the frame or capture that amazing split corridor. You always run out of corner. You always wish you had some extra millimeters. When I first laid my hands on the IRIX 11mm I was very surprised. It captured so much more then my old 14mm lens. I could even do a step forward out of the corner; it was THAT wide. I expected such an incredible wide lens would suffer from horrible distortion. Boy, I was wrong. The distortion was very minimal. It enables me to capture so much more in the frame and opens up the possibility to experiment with some crazy angles. Try to photograph a spiral staircase from the bottom up and see it turn into a twisted work of art. The 11mm is wonderful and it is absolutely amazing to see how IRIX managed to create such a high quality ultrawide lens with so little distortion.
The 11mm was a revelation for me, it totally changed the way I create a photo. I have been using it for almost 3 years now. I separate myself more, it has become my main goal. Once in hand, it’s a tough, reliable lens that inspires confidence. For my part, I have the Blackstone version, with its metal finish. The finishes are impeccable. Getting started with a wide-angle takes patience, observation and persistence, but it is certainly the most creative goal I have ever had. This ultra-wide angle allowed me to be freer in my shots. The prospects are totally crazy. I dare to take a shot more easily. The pique is very good in the center as in the sides. The focus is extremely precise. It makes it possible to really make the difference in front of other ultra-wide angles. If I had only one goal to keep, it would be this without hesitation.
As I decided to go for a month-long photo shoot in Lapland, Irix Lens gave me a copy of their new lens: the 11mm f4 Blackstone prime lens, fresh from the Irix workshops. So, I was able to put this extraordinary lens to the test for a few weeks, in difficult conditions both due to the lack of light and the inhospitable temperatures or adverse weather conditions. This goal is incredible. Its robust construction allowed me to use it in very delicate situations, in -26 degrees, in wet weather, frost or high wind, without ever encountering the slightest technical problem. Like the other lenses offered by Irix, the focus ring allows optimum adjustment, and the infinity stop is just excellent when it comes to shooting without a landmark! He saved me in a few complicated situations! The exceptional amplitude of this 11mm lens allows for “extra wide” shots, with excellent sharpness even at large apertures. For landscape lovers like me, there’s nothing like using this lens, which allows for almost panoramic shots without having to combine several photographs. It’s also unmatched indoors, allowing for wide shots despite the lack of perspective. In addition, the management of distortions is top! In short, I am delighted to give this lens a try and even tell you that it is now in my camera bag wherever I go Try it, you won’t regret!
Thank you for being with us and together with you, we can build a photographic world filled with amazing pictures. The Irix 11mm f/4 is now four years old, but that doesn’t mean “already”, it means “just”. We are constantly improving our products and working on implementing new user-friendly solutions. Be a part of the Irix story – a brand that continues to grow every day and looks as wide as the 11mm angle of a lens that celebrates its anniversary this March!
You can wait as many years as the value of the focal length is and still remember that the Irix 11mm f/4 ultra-wide-angle lens, gives you an ultra-wide spectrum of creativity!
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The Da Nang Beach Tourism Season 2016 will be held at the Bien Dong (East Sea) Park in Son Tra District between 29 April and 5 May. It will become one of the city’s major cultural and sporting events celebrating National Reunification Day (30 April) and International Labour Day (1 May).
Da Nang is not holding its biennial International Fireworks Competition this year. Therefore, the organising board of the Beach Tourism Season has developed a wide range of new exciting activities for local residents and visitors to help them fully enjoy relaxing moments on local beaches during the holiday week.
Visitors attending the Beach Festive Day from 4.00pm on 29 April can compete in various exciting games, including fishing net knitting, fish carrying, tug-of-war, and coracle racing.
In addition, sports lovers can register to take part in the 3rd kayak race named ‘Vuot Song My Khe’ (Journey from the Fall of My Khe Beach) which starts at 2.00pm on 30 April. Other activities will be held during the week to raise public awareness about environmental protection on the Son Tra Peninsula and local beaches. These include a drawing competition about the environment and rare red-shanked douc langurs, and a ‘Beach Library’ for book lovers.
As part of this year’s season, the ‘Model Month of Civilised Beach Tourism’ programme will be officially launched at 4.30pm on 29 April to raise awareness among traders alongside the local beaches about how to improve the quality of services for their customers.
In response to the programme, the owner of Public Bathing Area No1 at Pham Van Dong Beach, Mr Ho Van Ban, said “I will install surveillance cameras in the area to ensure good management, and place compressors in bathrooms to eliminate any unpleasant odours”.
The Deputy General Director of the Da Nang-based Viet Nam Tourism Joint Stock Co (Vitours), Mr Le Tan Thanh Tung, said “The Beach Tourism Season will help to diversify local tourism products, and create a fascinating playground for visitors to the city. Most notably, this kind of event is often introduced in tour programmes, which in turn helps to attract more visitors to the city”.
The Deputy Director of the city’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr Tran Chi Cuong, said “In addition to organising cultural and sporting activities for visitors, this year’s event aims to improve the quality of the city’s tourism services, maintain the friendly attitude and behaviour of service providers towards their customers at local beaches, and make the Son Tra Penisula and Da Nang’s beaches more friendly and civilised destinations”.

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Hear a sample of the full band track:
Here’s Tony Rice tearing this one up with Vassar Clements on fiddle and Jimmy Gaudreau on mandolin, at the Berkshire in 1985.
Gold Rush is a classic Bill Monroe instrumental, usually played in A. Here’s the man himself playing it:
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
A picture of my first Chevron
I finished this Chevron Shawl on the 14th of June, but just got its picture up. It is made from two colors of Lion brand Homespun and is 22" x 55" without blocking. I did it in a three stitch pattern instead of four.
I also have a scarf I am doing on the needles and it is in two colors of Jasmine. I will get a picture of it soon. Now that this shawl is done, I don't have to chooses between them as which one to work on! I am going to start another one soon though as we have several baptisms coming up at church. The new one will be all white and approximately 45" square for use as a baby blanket. I just love this pattern. Interesting enough to keep me going, mindless enough that I can do it during meetings.


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Isaiah 40: 3-11
Preface of Commemoration of the Dead
[Common of a Saint]
[For All Baptized Christians]
[For Social Service]
PRAYER (traditional language)
God of the holy innocents, we thank thee for the motherly witness of thy deaconess Emily Cooper, who, in naming and baptizing, did not forget the children: Draw our hearts and minds to the plight of little ones, remembering always the teaching of thy Son that, in receiving a little child in his name, we receive Christ himself, who liveth and reigneth as
one with thee and the Spirit, as one, caring for ever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER (contemporary language)
God of the holy innocents, we thank you for the motherly witness of your deaconess Emily Cooper, who, in naming and baptizing, did not forget the children: Draw our hearts and minds also to the plight of little ones, always remembering your Son's teaching that in receiving a little child in his name, we receive Christ himself, who lives and reigns as one with you and the Spirit, as one, caring forever and ever. Amen.
This commemoration appears in A Great Cloud of Witnesses.
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Last updated: 16 Feb. 2019
DEACONESS, 16 April 1909
The Deaconess Movement of England in the late 17th Century provided two years training and
commissioning for service to others under the supervision of the Church. The movement spread
quickly to the U.S. Of the four women so commissioned at St. Mary's Church, Brooklyn on June
11, 1873, one, Sister Emily Cooper, was called by Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith to serve in
Louisville, Kentucky. There, in 1880, the Episcopal Diocese founded The Home of the Innocents
with Sister Emily as its first Director.
The purpose of the home was to save the small children who were suffering from neglect,
disease, abandonment, and some whose parents simply could not afford their upkeep. The home
provided the first kindergarten in Kentucky.
Sister Emily served until her health required retirement. She lived at the Orphanage of the Good
Shepherd until her death. During the
years in which Sister Emily was in charge, she assisted
Bishop Thomas Dudley and some priests in the baptism of 284 children and the burial of an even
larger number. In recent years it was discovered that over 220 children who died while in the
the Home of the Innocents were buried in unmarked graves in Louisville's Cave Hill
Cemetery; many surround the marked grave of Sister Emily.
Money was raised for statuary of Sister Emily bearing the names on bronze plaques of the
children buried there.
Many, otherwise nameless, had been given
Christian names by Sister
Emily when they were "marked as Christ's own forever.
- from a resolution presented to the Diocese of Kentucky Convention, 2011

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Lady Warriors fall in opener
COTTER — Both Cotter and Marshall showed signs of early-season rust in their nonconference volleyball matchup Tuesday night, but in the end, fans were treated to a five-set battle at Cotter Coliseum.
The Lady Warriors held a late lead in every set except the fifth, but could not overcome 22 service errors and 31 hitting errors as the Lady Bobcats picked up a 23-25, 25-23, 25-19, 22-25, 15-7 victory.
Marshall, which was a straight-set winner at Yellville-Summit on Monday night, made 38 of its own serving and hitting errors, but Cotter’s 53 were too much to overcome, even with producing 34 kills on the night.
Sophomore Kate Cheek led the way with 18 kills, while Christianne Crunkleton added seven and Mai Tathong notched four for Cotter. Isabelle Horton led Marshall with 10 kills, while GleeAnna Housley added five and Kristen Hargrove notched four.
The Lady Warriors had 12 more kills than the Lady Bobcats, but still sported a low hitting percentage, combining the errors and a strong defense by Marshall. Hargrove led the way with a match-high 23 digs for the Lady Bobcats, while Sarah Hale tallied 11, and Housley and Horton added eight each.
Ashley Garay led Cotter with 10 digs, while Cheek added eight, Tathong and Candace Lambert notched seven each, Hailey Saunders totaled six, Crunkleton had four, and Candy Sanchez and Tylar Coots made three each.
Coach Nikki Guthrie’s Lady Warriors are idle until Tuesday when they travel to Flippin to open conference play.
Cotter took an early 3-0 lead on aces by Saunders, but neither team held a lead of more than two points again until Marshall forged ahead 20-17 on a stuff block by Horton. A kill by Cheek sparked a Cotter run, and two more aces by Saunders knotted the score at 21-21.
Marshall led 23-21 when a net violation put Cotter back on serve. Tathong hit for a kill, Garay tipped for a point, and Crunkleton killed for a 24-23 lead.
The second set was almost as close, with neither team leading by more than three until Marshall went up 15-11. After an ace by Hargrove, Marshall’s lead grew to 17-11, but Cotter fought back to tie it 23-23 with a 12-6 run, fueled by two aces each by Cheek and Garay. A net violation killed the momentum, however, and Horton served an ace to tie the match 1-1.
The third set was back-and-forth, with Cotter letting a 17-16 lead turn into a 24-17 deficit as the Lady Bobcats scored eight straight with Horton on serve.
Cotter fought back in the fourth game, which might have been the closest of all, with 19 ties and neither team holding a led bigger than three. The Lady Warriors trailed 21-19 when Lambert served an ace, and Cotter pulled even at 21-21 and 22-22.
Hitting errors by Marshall, compounded with an ace by Cotter’s Kristin Wilcoxson, gave the hosts a 25-22 victory.
The Lady Warriors were never in control of the fifth set, falling behind 3-0 and 7-2. Cotter pulled within 8-5 on a kill by Tathong, but Marshall pushed the lead to 14-6 on two aces by Rayya Smyth.
Cheek and Saunders served six aces each to lead the Lady Warriors.
Cotter was a 25-12, 25-21 winner in the junior varsity match, ending the second set with a 10-4 run.
Cotter took a 25-23, 26-24 victory in the junior high match.


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Friday, December 28, 2012 12:06 IST
Actress Kareena Kapoor calls actor Aamir Khan a living legend.
"Aamir is a living legend. He has a beautiful mind and he definitely is one of the finest actors of all time," Kareena said during India's Prime Icon programme.
The actor is competing with the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, A.R. Rahman and Narendra Modi for the title of "India's Prime Icon".
Kareena's elder sister Karisma Kapoor, who has worked with Aamir in "Raja Hindustani", also heaped praise at the actor.
"Aamir is most definitely an icon and a true legend. He is always up to something new and different. I've had the opportunity of working with him in iconic films like 'Raja Hindustani' and 'Andaaz Apna Apna'," Karisma said.
"I'm really happy that after 'Talaash' and '3 Idiots' even Kareena-Aamir jodi has become a hit pair," she added.
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Bakkt launches Bakkt App, a digital wallet to manage all forms of digital assets
By Pavithra R
Bakkt, a Financial service company, aimed to bring transparency and trust to digital assets has announced the launch of the Bakkt App,a digital wallet that brings together bitcoin and other forms of digital assets into a single platform.
Bakkt App gives consumers the power to use their digital assets how they prefer converting participating rewards points to cash or using bitcoin as payment.
By enabling consumers and merchants to unlock the value of the $1.2+ tn in digital assets currently held in cryptocurrencies, gift cards and loyalty and rewards points, the digital wallet is designed to amplify consumer spending, reduce payment costs, and bolster merchant loyalty programs.
“The average consumer holds a wealth of digital assets – from gift cards to loyalty points to bitcoin – but lacks the tools to adequately track and utilize their value. We’re thrilled to bring the Bakkt App to the public as a step along our journey to expand digital asset access to all,” said Bakkt’s CEO, Gavin Michael.
The new digital wallet saw over 500,000 users participate in its invitation-only Early Access Program, as new features were released and tested prior to its public debut. Now available to the public in the App Store and Google Play Store, the Bakkt App launches with industry and brand leaders including:
- Best Buy: Best Buy will provide exclusive deals to Bakkt users, which can be purchased using the Bakkt Visa Debit Card.
- Choice Hotels: Bakkt is working with Choice Hotels to enable utilization of Choice Privileges Rewards through the new digital wallet.
- Fiserv: Fiserv will allow account holders to convert their uChoose Rewards points to cash within the Bakkt App, which can then be used to buy gift cards, send to a friend, and use for other payments.
- GolfNow: Bakkt is the Presenting Sponsor of the GolfNow mobile app and the Official Payment Partner of GolfNow. The firm will have integrated solutions at checkout for GolfNow members to pay using their digital assets.
“Starbucks is proud to be an innovation partner with Bakkt. Our teams worked closely together as Bakkt sought input in developing a unique and trusted payment experience that enables customers to unlock the value of their digital assets in the form of US dollars. We are excited that customers now have the opportunity to use Bakkt to load their Starbucks Card in the Starbucks app and then use it to pay at Starbucks,” said Karl Hebert, Starbucks VP of global card, commerce and payment.
Launched in 2018, Bakkt is leading a new era of financial services innovation, focused on reimagining and unlocking the value of digital assets like rewards and loyalty points, gift cards, and cryptocurrency owned by Intercontinental Exchange (“ICE”). The company’s goal is to make all digital assets as liquid as any fiat currency. Core to it’s platform is tapping into ICE’s ability to create a secure and regulated market infrastructure for users to safely transact all forms of digital assets in one place, as opposed to separate siloed apps for individual types of assets.
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Thursday October 20th Steve Lacy brought his ‘Give you the World’ tour to The Fillmore in Charlotte,NC. He toured with Foushee who is known for her popular song Deep End. Steve Lacy had a packed audience of younger Tik Tok fans. His music tends to be more on the R&B side with some Jazz and HipHop influences. He also became popular from his Tik Tok song Bad Habits, which the crowd erupted singing along with every word. I even found myself singing along to the catchiest song. A fun aspect of his performance was the lasers that he incorporated. Towards the end Foushee got to perform alongside Steve Lacy and it made for a sensational show, spiky mask included!


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Mayor SnoweBook - 2015
Mayor Snow is about both the abdication and acceptances of responsibilities and inheritance: be they civic, personal, poetic. It begins with speaker-less evocations of corrupt and oppressive political atmospheres and ends with first-person narrative tales of domestic life in Al Purdy's refurbished A-frame. All of these poems work in a shadow, be they forebears, tabloids, cultural markers or government watchdogs. In the opening and closing sequences, narrative devices act as smokescreens to abstract illustrations of power, with the central sequence reflecting on the subject of dislocation. Parody and paradox are closely intertwined throughout, with the authority of power disrupted through dark humour, unexpected images and the deep resonances existing in apparently innocuous things: a well-worn (and literally 'powerless') cabin, a baby daughter, a poem. The question of groundedness, whether literal, literary or familial, explores the terrain between the fearful and the familiar: 'Go outside. / Listen to dogs howl. // How do we live / without power?'
Publisher: [United States] : Harbour Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2015
Branch Call Number: eBook hoopla
Characteristics: 1 online resource


Thursday October 4, 2018
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Point Community Center, 940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx, New York.
The New York Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency will conduct a public hearing on its proposed Action Plan Amendment #18 for the Hunts Point Resiliency Project on Thursday, October 4, 2018 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at The Point Community Center, 940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx, New York. The final day for comments on the proposed amendment is Monday, October 22, 2018.
A copy of the propsed plan can be found here.


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I am popping up to share my BOO card for Colour Me challenge. That’s first week of the month and we have a monochromatic palette – Pumpkin Pie + neutrals.
As I made lots of cards with pumpkins lately, I decidedÂ to make a Halloween. Honestly, I am not good in that kind of card. Ukrainians have no such a celebration and it’s a little bit too odd for ourÂ tradition. I try to get knowing the Halloween since we moved to Canada, but still has no feeling for itÂ 🙁
There are many inspiring Â and funny Halloween cards over the blog land and here is my variation of BOO. Trying to make CAS card I chose TE Candy CornÂ cardstock for the base. Then, to addÂ shine I cut frame from the double sided sticky paper and dusted it with glitter. As well as Â BOO. The bats were cut on Cricut Explore with Miss Kate Cuttables file. Few pearl, which I colored with Copic, was added for dimension.
The Paper Players Halloween
The Curtain Call Going Batty
HeadÂ over the Colour Me and check out this weeks paletteÂ as well as the Design Team submissions.
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a great day!


text: Department of public health dentistry, Narayana dental college and hospital celebrated World No Tobacco Day by organizing health awareness programs for general public of Nellore. A rally was conducted from Ghandhi statue to VRC ground on 31.5.18. Along with Narayana Dental College staff, UG & PG students, IDA members of Nellore branch, DMHO, Nursing students and other NGO’s participated in the rally. In the rally slogans regarding the ill effects of tobacco to individual, to the family and to the society were explained for general public awareness. It was well received and public had expressed their support for this rally. IEC materials like pamphlets were distributed in the rallies which were prepared by our students. Dr. VaraSundaram, DMHO, attended the program and addressed the public not to die early by consuming the tobacco products by becoming the victims of Oral cancer, lung cancer, & throat cancer and encouraged them to promote tobacco cessation activities. Staff of various departments had attended the program along with students and made it a grand success.

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