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In the wake of a new wave of prison sentences against union leaders and other activists arrested earlier this year, new Belarus worker rights organization Salidarnast is tracking and disseminating updates on union political prisoners’ legal cases, and providing other worker rights news.
Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) President Aliaksandr Yarashuk, jailed since April and facing 14 years in prison, was elected in absentia to an ITUC vice-presidency at the organization’s 5th World Congress last month, reports Salidarnast.
Extraordinary mistreatment of two jailed union leaders, Leanid Sudalenka and Volha Brytsikava, for which Brytsikava reportedly started a hunger strike on November 8 and was released last week after having spent more than 105 days behind bars this year–including 75 consecutive days in the spring
Continuation of a ten-person trial associated with worker organization Rabochy Rukh for which the accused are facing prison sentences of up to 15 years for high treason, among other charges
Grodno Azot fertilizer factory worker and chairperson of the independent trade union there, Andrei Khanevich, whose phone was tapped by Belarusian special service, sentenced to five years in prison for speaking with a BelSat TV reporter
Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BNP) Vice Chairperson and Chairperson of the Local Trade Union at Belaruskali fertilizer factory, Aliaksandr Mishuk—detained since May—sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment
Free Trade Union of Metalworkers (SPM) Deputy for Organizational Work Yanina Malash—mother of a minor child and detained since April—sentenced to one and a half years’ imprisonment
Vital Chychmarou, a former engineer fired in 2020 for trade union activities and manager of an SPM organization, sentenced to three years of home confinement
Free Trade Union of Metalworkers (SPM) Trade Union Council Secretary Mikhail Hromau—detained since April—sentenced to two and a half years of home confinement
Genadz Bedzeneu, who attempted to start a local union for Polotsk stall market workers, arrested.
Salidarnast is filling an information void created after the Lukashenko government in July forcibly shut down the BDKP and its affiliates, compounded by the detention of dozens of journalists and media workers with other civil society defenders. The number of political prisoners in Belarus stood at almost 1,500 in November, reports the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ); up from 1,000 in February. The Belarus Supreme Court in July dissolved the BKDP and its four affiliates: BNP, the Union of Radio and Electronics Workers (REP), Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) and SPM.
Salidarnast on December 1 flagged the arrest of at least five people at the Miory steel plant, warning of imprisonment risk for up to ten thousand people who contributed to the “Black Book of Belarus” which identified riot police.
“Despite the destruction of the independent trade union movement, workers in Belarus remain the force which can resist the dictatorship,” says Salidarnast.
The repression and eventual dismantling of the independent Belarus union movement began after hundreds of thousands of people, often led by union members , many of them women, took to the streets in 2020 to protest elections in which President Alexander Lukashenko declared himself winner in a landslide victory amid widespread allegations of fraud. The BKDP—the first Belarus union to be independent of government influence in the post-Soviet era—was founded 29 years ago and has been a member of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) since 2003.
Hear more about workers’ fight for freedom by listening to a Solidarity Center podcast interview in which now-imprisoned BDKP Vice President Sergey Antusevich in 2021 spoke passionately about workers taking to the streets in defense of democracy. Antusevich has been jailed pending trial since April 2022.
“It is the combination of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of association that strengthens responsive democratic governance systems and ensures the full and meaningful exercise of the right to participate in public affairs,” writes Ciampi in her first report to the UN General Assembly.
Annalisa Ciampi’s first report as UN Special Rapporteur finds that worker rights go hand in hand with democratic development. Credit: UN
Ciampi, whose three-year term as Special Rapporteur began May 1, is an attorney and a professor of International Law at the University of Verona in Italy, and a visiting professor of European Human Rights Law at the Monash University Prato Center in Italy.
Worker rights go hand in hand with democratic development, according to the report, with the Special Rapporteur emphasizing “the mutually reinforcing relationship between freedom of peaceful assembly and of association … and democracy and development.”
(Ciampi is moderating an October 17 panel, “Expanding Space within the United Nations,” an event co-sponsored by the Solidarity Center. The side event at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York City will bring together national representatives, UN bodies and civil society representatives to discuss strategies to more effectively promote and protect civic space in the UN system through the development of responsive and inclusive UN mechanisms and processes.)
In the new report, “Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association,” Ciampi also outlines topics for upcoming reports, which include looking at how the rights to assembly and association are exercised in the context of multilateral institutions, and examining practices that promote and protect the right to form unions.
Ciampi plans to take an active role in strategic litigation cases before national, regional and international courts in cases relating to freedom of peaceful association and of assembly.
“As the Special Rapporteur previously reported, ‘workers face considerable opposition, harassment, stigmatization and even physical attacks’ in the exercise of these fundamental rights,” says Solidarity Center Legal Director Jeff Vogt.
“We welcome the commitment of Prof. Ciampi to use the legal authority of her office to intervene in support of workers’ rights in domestic litigation. Such interventions not only works to provide a remedy to workers, but also builds positive jurisprudence on the right to freedom of association.”
Previous UN Reports Examined Broad Range of Worker Rights Issues
Ciampi takes over from Maina Kiai, whose six-year term as Special Rapporteur saw a broad range of reports on the status of freedom of association in an era of global closing civic space. Among them, “The Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association in the Workplace” found that without assembly and association rights, including the right to strike, workers have little leverage to change the conditions that entrench poverty, fuel inequality and limit democracy. Further, the report stated that discrimination, abuse and relegation to jobs at the bottom of the global economy undermine women workers’ ability to join and form organizations that defend their interests. Previous reports on freedom of association and assembly also looked at worker rights to form unions in countries such as South Korea, Chile and Kazakhstan, and examined issues that include the right to freedom of assembly and association in the context of elections and business.
A Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to examine and report back on a specific human rights theme or country situation. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association includes studying trends, developments and challenges in relation to the exercise of these rights; making recommendations on ensuring their promotion and protection; and reporting on their violation, as well as on discrimination, threats or use of violence, harassment, persecution, intimidation or reprisals directed at those exercising these rights.
Workers rights—and the freedom to form unions and freely assemble—are key to achieving human rights, according to a new reportby UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai. The Solidarity Center is among organizations contributing to the research.
“This report is a clear call to action to governments and employers to immediately recognize worker rights, and for the broader human rights community to advocate for them,” says Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau.
As the report finds: “The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are … key to the realization of both democracy and dignity, since they enable people to voice and represent their interests, to hold governments accountable and to empower human agency.”
The report, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly on October 20, highlights how the vast majority of the world’s workers are disenfranchised from their rights to assembly and association—rights that are fundamental to all other human rights—either by exclusion or outright oppression.
Among the findings:
Without assembly and association rights, workers have little leverage to change the conditions that entrench poverty, fuel inequality and limit democracy.
Millions of informal workers labor in global supply chains, where some of the worst abuses of freedoms of association and peaceful assembly are found—and where migrant workers are often concentrated.
Discrimination, abuse and relegation to jobs at the bottom of the global economy undermine women workers’ ability to join and form organizations that defend their interests.
October 21 UN Report Launch Event in New York
On October 21, following the official presentation of the report, human rights activists, trade unionists, representatives of UN agencies and other members of civil society from around the world will gather at UN headquarters in New York to discuss this seminal report with Kiai.
Panelists at the launch event at the UN will discuss freedom of association in the global economy against the backdrop of government and employer repression of trade union rights and freedoms, attacks on the right to strike and the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of the world’s workers from their fundamental human rights to organize—with a special focus on women workers, migrant workers, the business and human rights agenda and governance in an era of global supply chains.
Kiai will keynote the event, which will include speakers from unions in Swaziland, Honduras, Mexico and beyond, along with representatives from Human Rights Watch, ITUC, the ILO, UN Women, and members of the business and human rights communities.
The event is co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Ford Foundation, Human Rights Watch, International Trade Union Confederation and the Solidarity Center, among others.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur is partnering with the Solidarity Center to research a report on the links between the political, social, and economic exclusion of workers, their associations and trade unions. The following article from the UN Special Rapporteur website describes how you can participate.
The globalization of the world economy in the past half-century has contributed to a dramatic rise in the power of large multinational corporations and has concentrated wealth in fewer hands. State power to regulate these business entities, meanwhile, has been simultaneously eroded and co-opted by elite economic actors themselves.
Unconstrained power – whether public or private in origin – is now, more than ever, a critical threat to the protection of human rights. This power shift has created a challenging environment for the enforcement of human rights, as Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai has documented in his two most recent reports on natural resource exploitation and the imbalance between how States treat businesses and civil society.
For his next report to the UN General Assembly (October 2016), the Special Rapporteur plans to explore a new dimension of this power shift: its effect on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association of workers – specifically the most marginalized portions of the world’s labor force, such as global supply chain workers, informal workers, migrant workers and domestic workers. He will also examine the gender and racial dimensions of the issue.
The Special Rapporteur is particularly interested in the links between the political, social, and economic exclusion of workers, their associations and trade unions, as expressed in:
The limitation and/or criminalization of assembly and association rights in law and in practice (and acquiescence of the State when these rights are breached by state or private actors);
The exclusion of workers in the informal economy from legal frameworks recognizing assembly and association rights;
The strategy to informalize more work for the purpose of limiting or excluding workers from exercising their assembly and association rights;
The lack of effective global governance of migration, which has led to the exploitation of migrant workers
The Special Rapporteur will also explore the interplay between the lack of assembly and association rights for workers and the health of these rights within a society as a whole.
What’s your opinion and experience? The Special Rapporteur convened an expert consultation to discuss this subject in May 2016. But he would also like to hear your views. He is particularly interested in specific, real-world examples of how the assembly and association rights of workers are being both eroded and bolstered. These examples may be included in the report.
How to submit information for the report For more details on the report, please see our concept note. For specific questions that the Special Rapporteur is looking to answer, please see the following questionnaires. Note that each file has three separate questionnaires: One for UN member states, one for businesses and one for civil society/unions/workers. Please answer only the questionnaire that corresponds to your position:
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‘The Red and the Black’ is a famous historical novel written by Stendhal. The aspects of social status and one’s position in the society are of key importance as the plot centers around the desire of a provincial man to rise socially. Thus, he does everything he can to achieve his goal including deceiving people, being a hypocrite, as well as working hard no matter what. Taking into consideration the fact that Stedhal is considered to be the founder of critical realism literature, it is not surprising that such themes as social status, the gap between the representatives of different social classes, destiny, fortune and hypocrisy are the center of his stories. This novel is often covered within the curriculum of all types of schools as it a masterpiece that everyone should read at least once in their lives. Speaking about symbolism in the novel in general as well as some particular symbolic meanings highlighted in this work of fiction, a lot of color description techniques are used to demonstrate the artistic effect. What is more, colors are mentioned in the title of the novel. The juxtaposition of red and black colors hints at the differences between people who belong to different social classes.
Apart from that, it is vital to mention that the psychological portrait of an average person willing to do better in life is presented in the novel. His desire to rise socially indicates that the French social order that existed at that time made it impossible for the majority of people to enjoy the quality of life they wished to have. Even though the issues discussed in the novel are rather complex to be included in kids education program, the mere existence of different social classes as well as injustice in the world should be explained to children at an early age if we want the young generation to be concerned about this problem and to do more to deal with this huge gap. ‘The Red and the Black’ by Stendhal is a superb example of literary satire on the period of time during the Bourbon Restoration. The aspect of playing a certain role in society in order to get approval as well as to be accepted within a group of people is of major importance to understanding the whole message of the book. The question of sincerity is often raised in order to figure out whether it is possible to be yourself and to rise socially, especially during the period of Bourbon Restoration in France.
This French novel is studied both at school and at college. If a person has decided to major in literature, analyzing the development of social circles and the importance of belonging to a certain class in the novel by Stendhal will definitely be one of the good topics for sociology paper. In case you are currently trying to come up with a sociology paper outline, keep in mind that having a plan will help you submit an impressive sociology paper that will be easy to read. Surely, there are tons of sociology topics for essay to choose from. Yet, dealing with the problems described in Stendhal’s ‘The Red and The Black’ will provide you with a solid background for your sociology paper. Allocate enough time on the accomplishment of the task and start by creating a sociology research paper outline. Choose one of the less popular sociology research paper topics to come up with a unique piece of writing. Adhering to the sociology research paper outline will help you deal with the assignment faster. What is more, you will be certain you have not missed anything when you have a properly written sociology research paper outline right in front of you.

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6 arrested for online fraud
NEW DELHI: Crime Branch of Delhi Police busted a gang involved in online cheating under the guise of technical support for various companies and application such as Google and Paypal. Six persons identified as Mohit Bansal, Udit, Yashwant Singh , Guraman Singh, Rohit Chauhan and Pfokreni Kayio involved in the racket have been arrested. Huge quantity of information technology equipment including several servers, routers, SIM Box, hard disks, SIM Cards used for cheating the gullible persons have been recovered from their possessions. Cash Rs 7.40 lakh has also been recovered from these gang members.
Inputs were received that a racket involving several persons based in India and abroad are involved in cheating the gullible persons on the pretext of providing technical assistance to the customer base of Google, Iphone, Paypal, Facebook etc. These fraudsters were making as well as receiving international calls by passing the legal long distance internation call gateways, thus thereby causing a huge loss to the Government Exchequer.
During interrogation, it was revealed that these fraudsters had been working with a unique modus operandi by registering on Google Search Engine paid services license for helping customers in

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The government is banking on the strong domestic and external demand for the country's medium-term growth overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war's impact on the economy.
"Strong domestic and external demand will be the main driving force of growth in the medium term," according to a budget document.
It mentioned that consumption and investment to increase the domestic demand and exports to increase the external demand will be areas focused on by the government.
As per the document, the goal of the government will be to build improved communications, necessary infrastructure and ensure power and energy security through increased public, private and foreign investment.
"The focus will also be on increasing the productivity of labor to increase export competitiveness," it stated.
On the supply side, the goal of the government is to accelerate the growth of the industrial and service sectors to achieve high GDP growth and employment.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, while delivering his budget speech on June 9, said that he was hopeful that this goal will be achieved through the speedy implementation of the establishment of economic zones.
Read: No hustle-bustle: Soul goes missing from Khulna Railway Station
"In order to create skilled manpower, vocational and technical education will be expanded," he said in his budget speech for the 2022-23 fiscal, which got underway on July 1.
The budget document said that the government will give emphasis to continuing to build skilled manpower and exploring new labor markets to increase remittance income.
In the medium term, the policies and strategies are consistent with the country’s 8th five-year plan and the perspective plan.
For this purpose, this year’s budget focused on poverty alleviation and inclusive growth to ensure equity and fairness in society.
Highest emphasis has been given to containing inflation. Emphasis is also given to inclusive growth, poverty reduction and job creation.
"Therefore, labour-intensive and export-oriented production will be encouraged," the document mentioned.
It said that credit and other facilities will continue to be provided to the cottage, micro, small and medium industries. In addition, agricultural diversification and ICT- dependent initiatives will be given priority. Besides, the process of creating skilled manpower for foreign employment will continue.
With these initiatives, the government hopes that it will be able to further generate employment elasticity of GDP, which will ultimately contribute to the reduction of income inequality.
As per the document, the country's economic growth was hampered due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2019-2020 fiscal.
Although a record 7.88 percent growth was achieved in the 2018-2019 fiscal, it decreased to 3.45 percent due to the pandemic in 2019-20.
Read: Padma Bridge: Hawkers at Daulatdia Ghat in the same boat as ferry services
However, the country was able to begin the process of economic recovery very quickly. As a result, 6.94 percent growth was achieved in FY2020-2021 despite the continued impact of COVID-19.
It appears from the economic variables that indicate that the second wave of COVID-19 continued in the first quarter of the just concluded financial year (2021-22) but did not have a significant negative impact on the economy.
Considering overall perspective, the 2021-22 fiscal’s GDP growth is forecast at 7.25 percent.
At the same time, a growth rate of 7.5 percent has been targeted for the running 2022-2023 fiscal.
"The growth rate has considered the lagged effects of the COVID-19 and the protracted crisis arising from the Russia-Ukraine conflict," the document said.


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Sushanth’s upcoming film Adda is gearing up for its wide release in July. Shanvi is the lead actress. Directed by G Karthik Reddy, the film has been produced by Chintalapudi Srinivasa Rao and Naga Susheela under Sri Nag Corp banner. Few weeks ago, the film unit went to Switzerland to can couple of songs and Sushanth is extremely pleased with the output. The film’s shooting has been wrapped up and currently, the post production is going on in full swing. The entire team is working hard on the project since it’s Sushanth’s first film in nearly four years. Anup Rubens has scored the music and the audio is going to be launched on June 22 in Shilpakala Vedika, Hyderabad. The highlight of the show is going to be a dance performance by Sushanth, Shanvi and Shweta Bharadwaj.
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- Yet another director under consideration for Andhadhun’s Telugu remake?
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Psychologist David Coleman talks of Covid fallout for our youth at Sligo conference
The Institute of Guidance Counsellors hosted its national conference at ATU Sligo last weekend.
This year’s conference theme, Reconnecting, Re-energising, Renewing, was very fitting as schools across the country battle the social and mental health fallout from Covid-19.
Dr David Coleman kicked off proceedings with a talk on supporting anxious learners. Covid 19 has left its mark and many learners are struggling with crippling anxiety, school refusal and the social challenge of settling back into the bustle and speed of life post lockdown.
Guidance Counsellors are often the first port of call for these young people and adults. Dr Coleman urged a societal pushback against the use of mobile phones and social media and encourage the adults around our youth to validate their experiences, no matter how hard.
Events like this conference and developments from Government such as the National Framework for Lifelong Guidance are heartening for practitioners, schools and families alike.
The purpose of the weekend’s event was to reflect on the importance of guidance counselling across education and the lifespan and to energise a national body of guidance counsellors by reconnecting with colleagues and enhancing skills through expert workshops, talks and a host of exhibitors from education, therapy and the world of work. The conference was a welcome opportunity to renew connections with education providers, imbue practitioners with a renewed sense of excitement, inspiration and energy for the vital work of guidance counsellors working across the lifespan.
Seminars covering everything from guidance policy and practice to universal design for learning, and sandspace for adolescents were available to delegates .
At the heart of the National Conference was that precious and vital connection to the young people and adults that schools and colleges of Further Education serve; brilliantly affirmed by keynote speaker Dr David Coleman, and additional supporting speakers Una Parsons Head of College at ATU Sligo, Cecilia McGuinness Chairperson of the Sligo/Longford Branch and Tadhg Crowley, President of the IGC.
The organisers have thanked host main sponsor ATU Sligo, supporting sponsors Public Jobs and Ulster University, along with many other minor sponsors., the over 50 exhibitors and the organising committee at ATU Sligo and the Sligo/Longford Branch of Guidance Counsellors without whom this event could not have taken place.
The IGC always welcomes new members and look forward to a year driven by inspiration, strong networks of support, and a commitment to excellence in Guidance provision across our schools, colleges of further education and adult guidance settings.
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Who's JJ Lin's Girlfriend?
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JJ Lin has been causing a buzz lately with rumours saying that he's actually not single. In fact, he's been secretly dating an entertainment news show host for about three months already. Find out who.
This lucky lady is known as one of the "5 beauties of National Taiwan University
" named, Smile Weng Tzymann. She is five years his junior and both have been caught KTVing together and leaving separately in case of being 'caught'. Reportedly, there were several occasions where the lovebirds were spotted going to the movie theatres together in Taipei, usually around after 11pm. Although JJ Lin's rep say they are just 'friends' however, they seem like a couple according to a few witnesses.
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I am pleased to announce the release of my 5th album (3rd under the Gel-Sol moniker) IZ.
"The follow-up album to 'Unifactor', 'IZ' explores new musical territory for Andrew Reichel in the orchestral/ symphonic vein. The listener may detect elements of artists like Stars of the Lid, Global Communication, or The KLF, but the entire experience of 'IZ' is completely original. Guitar loops, mellotron sounds, and lap steel all help enhance the organic nature of the music."
You can purchase IZ online through iTunes, eMusic and Beatport. Visit Upstairs Recordings for all the links.
IZ will be released on CD next week courtesy of Psychonavigation Records in Dublin.


Some advocates for healthful diets have argued that government should not only encourage people to buy healthier food but also discourage unhealthful habits.
A 2014 Health Affairs study by Stanford University researchers showed that banning the purchase of soda with food stamps would reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, while a credit of 30 cents on the dollar for buying fresh produce alone would not.
In 2017, more than a dozen researchers from different universities urged SNAP to eliminate diet-related health disparities among programs for low-income people. They noted, for example, that the federal food-assistance program known as Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, excluded soda and candy but that people could still buy those products with food stamps.
"There are generations of unhealthy people who are overweight with diabetes and hypertension," said Jim Floros, president and CEO of the San Diego Food Bank, which has advertised the Mas Fresco program to its clients. "That's completely linked back to a poor diet, which is linked back to poverty."
Rebeca Gonzalez, who moved to the U.S. at age 18, decided to overhaul her family's eating habits after her husband, Javier Landeros, was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. Instead of buying cookies, she now keeps chopped fruits and veggies in the fridge for snacks.
She said she wants to instill the same healthy habits her grandmother passed on to her.
"I know she gave us good food," Gonzalez said, "because she lived 105 years."
(Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.)
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Affordable housing is an issue rife with statistics: median rents, median housing costs, percentage of people who are “housing cost burdened,” and so on. Previously, we’ve written about some of the issues with many of these statistics, including the untrustworthiness of most “median rent” reports and which rent statistics are more trustworthy.
But another issue—which we touched on earlier—deserves more sustained attention: median housing costs are a really incomplete way to understand housing prices. This is especially true if what you really care about is affordability for lower-income households. After all, low-income households are unlikely to be buying mid-priced housing, even in an affordable market. What you really ought to be looking at, then, is housing that is relatively low-priced.
If this doesn’t make sense yet, imagine a town with three families and three houses. Two families are high-income, and one is low-income. In this situation, for the low-income family, it probably doesn’t matter whether the two more expensive homes cost $300,000 or $1,000,000—because they’re going to be getting the cheapest home regardless. What matters is how much that home costs. But the “median housing cost” won’t tell us anything about that.
There’s far less public data about non-median housing prices, but the Census does offer data on 25th percentile home values—that is, homes that are cheaper than 75 percent of all the housing stock in a given area. And that data is illustrative of some of the issues that measuring affordability with downmarket housing can demonstrate.
Take two suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area, Frankfort and Oak Park. Frankfort is a newer town on the very southern fringe of the region. Predominantly new development—over 70 percent of homes were built since 2000—the housing stock is quite homogenous, with 95 percent of units single-family homes, and 94 percent owner-occupied.
Oak Park, by contrast, lies on the western border of the city limits. With much of its development dating back to before the advent of zoning, it has a much more heterogenous housing stock, mixing large and small single family homes, as well as a large multifamily stock that ranges from a handful of downtown midrises to four-story apartment blocks to three-flats.
These towns have virtually identical median housing values, according to the 2014 five-year American Community Survey: $348,600 in Frankfort, and $354,400 in Oak Park. If the medians were all we looked at, we’d conclude that these two places were about equally affordable for low-income people, with Oak Park possibly being slightly worse.
But the 25th percentile prices tell a very different story. In Frankfort, with its limited range of types of housing, that figure is $269,500. But in Oak Park, where the median home value is slightly higher than Frankfort’s, the 25th percentile home is nearly $50,000 lower: $222,100.
That means a typical low-cost housing unit in Frankfort costs over 20 percent more than a typical low-cost unit in Oak Park. That’s a significant difference—it would increase the income level needed to stay under the (flawed) commonly used “cost burdened” threshold by 20 percent as well.
It’s also probably not a coincidence that Frankfort and Oak Park have very different income demographics. Just 16 percent of Frankfort households earn less than $50,000 a year, compared to 41 percent in the Chicago metropolitan area as a whole; in Oak Park, that number is 33 percent, much closer to the regional average. In other words, there seems to be a straight line from Oak Park’s relatively more diverse housing stock; to more diverse housing prices, as reflected by its lower 25th percentile home price; to more income-diverse residents.
This underscores an issue that we’ve repeatedly emphasized: contemporary zoning codes that widely separate different types of land uses and housing effectively make it illegal to build neighborhoods that have a wide range of housing types and price points. The kinds of neighborhoods that freely mix large and small houses, apartments, and nearby shops are illegal in most places and and those that do exist are the anachronistic legacy of the pre-zoning era.
Of course, median housing prices still matter, if for no other reason than the shortfall in housing in many major cities has made finding affordable housing difficult for mid-income households as well as low-income ones. And if a place has very high median housing costs, it’s likely that there will be problems further down the scale as well. But to really understand a city’s or neighborhood’s housing cost profile, we do need to go beyond the median, to see what relatively down-market housing looks like. As the examples of Frankfort and Oak Park, Illinois, demonstrate, even places with the same median housing costs can differ significantly at the lower end.
How do I find data on the 25th percentile rent? These data are gathered as part of the American Community Survey. To get reliable neighborhoood level data, you’ll want to use the Census Bureau’s pooled, five-year estimates; the latest data are from 2010-14. You’ll want to go to American Fact Finder, and visit Table B25057, “Lower Contract Rent Quartile, Universe: Renter-occupied housing units paying cash rent more information 2010-2014 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.” A table of 25th percentile rents for metropolitan areas is available here.


This Time, AI’s Attempt to Create Cartoons has Gone Wrong! It is Scaring Away Kids
AI is making some beautiful pieces of art and some dangerously scary cartoons!
Machine learning systems have advanced to the point where they can generate stock pictures from only a few lines of text. Artists have flocked to artificial intelligence tools like Open AI’s DALL-E, which allow users to create very particular and strange visuals by typing phrases like “cats playing chess in space” or “shrimp lying on a park bench contemplating life.”
Artist David O’Reilly went even further, creating a fully animated children’s cartoon called “Bartak” utilizing generative algorithms. The outcome is a nightmare world reminiscent of a bad fairy tale, with the machine learning equivalent of being lobotomized. While a cheerful AI-generated voice narrates the “story” in a highly frightening non-language that sounds like a Disney Channel presenter speaking in tongues, the characters’ faces fade into digital nothingness.
The awesome power of AI is to produce the perfect kid’s entertainment and create a 3D artist who is well-known for creating these kinds of frightening cartoons. An Instagram post said that a “full-season order of 75,000 episodes is currently being generated,” which could be genuine or not, considering his history of upsetting one-off provocations.
The capacity of DALL-E and other natural language processing algorithms to provide uncannily precise findings is well recognized. Previous systems, such as GPT-3, which is commonly used by chatbots, have been used to build AI dungeon text adventures and even occult rituals that are disturbingly realistic to the point that it’s often difficult to tell the difference between the system’s output and that of a real human.
These systems, according to researchers, are also prone to producing findings that reinforce racist and sexist preconceptions. In a study of DALL-E, Open AI researchers discovered that typing “CEO” only produced images of white men, whereas typing “nurse” produced images of Southeast Asian women. However, as a bizarre art piece usage of the instrument appears to be pretty benign. And it appears like his fans are laughing along with him.
“It’s truly motivating to see how successfully Bartak has helped kids grasp the world around them, and taught me how to be a better parent!” writes one of the cursed cartoon’s Instagram commenters. As a result, children are becoming much smarter. Everybody would want to witness their joy, especially when it comes to a spectacle like this.


We want to hear your views on our proposals for commissioning an integrated drug and alcohol structured treatment and recovery support service.
What we are proposing
We currently commission a range of drug and alcohol services which are designed to provide treatment, support and advice to people in Newcastle whose lives are affected by problematic drug and alcohol use. Contracts for a number of these services are due to expire in late 2019 and we are required to competitively tender for future arrangements.
Since Autumn 2018 we have been engaging and consulting with stakeholders on our future commissioning plans for specialist treatment and recovery services for Newcastle’s residents, including holding engagement sessions, workshops and face-to-face discussions with drug and alcohol service providers, agencies, service users, carers and young people.
The proposed integrated service will be at the centre of our wider drug and alcohol treatment system, which fundamentally believes that people can and do recover. We want to focus on supporting people to recover by commissioning a service that helps them build positive relationships, and which supports people's recovery within communities long after specialist treatment provision has ended.
What we would like you to do
Full details of the proposed service can be found here: Integrated Drug and Alcohol Service Proposal. This document is the final stage of our engagement and consultation activity and provides information on what we propose to do prior to procuring these service(s) in late March 2019.
We would like you to read our proposal and answer a short set of questions about it, and give us any comments you may have. We want to hear from drug and alcohol service providers, statutory and other interested agencies, voluntary sector groups service users, carers, young people, and members of the public. Please give us your views before 18 March 2019.
We will use feedback on this proposal to finalise our proposal and inform the development of the service specification for an integrated drug and alcohol structured treatment and recovery support service for Newcastle, which we intend to publish in late March 2019. We will publish the results of the consultation on our website and share information with our partners.
If you need this information in a different format, such as large print, or you have questions about the consultation, please contact Duncan Miller on: firstname.lastname@example.org
If you already have an account on Let’s talk Newcastle, please log in before taking part in this survey.
If you haven’t already joined Let’s talk Newcastle, you can still take part in the survey. You will be given the option of registering an account afterwards.


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- Huawei launched the MateBook X Pro notebook at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday.
- Key specs include a touchscreen display that has very thin bezels, and a power button that doubles up as a fingerprint sensor to unlock the device.
- The MateBook X Pro also has a concealed camera.
- Huawei also unveiled two tablets: the MediaPad M5 and MediaPad M5 Pro.
Chinese electronics giant Huawei launched a new high-end laptop on Sunday to compete with Apple's MacBook offerings, as it deepens its footprint in consumer tech.
The MateBook X Pro, unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, has a number of key features:
- A screen that takes up 91 percent of the front, meaning it has very thin bezels
- The display is also touch screen
- A power button that doubles up as a fingerprint sensor. A user can turn on the computer and log on to the device in one press in just over 7 seconds
- A design that is 4.9 millimeter wide at its thinnest point
One of the features Huawei talked up is a camera concealed in the keyboard. A user has to press the camera button on the keyboard and then it pops up. At a briefing ahead of the launch in London, Huawei executives explained that it was because many people are worried about privacy.
Huawei launched the first MateBook X last year, its first laptop on the market. The MateBook X Pro is an upgraded version of this. The company has been pushing its smartphones aggressively and is now the third-largest smartphone player in the world by market share. But in the PC segment, it is not in the top five. Huawei is now hoping to make a splash in the space.
"That is a journey they need to start if they want to be in all device categories," Francisco Jeronimo, research director for European mobile devices at IDC, told CNBC in a phone interview ahead of the launch.
The analyst said that the device could be a way to attract corporate customers. There is a growing trend of "device as a service," where companies are renting devices from companies.
"If they want to start attracting corporate markets, which they want, they need to start building a story around the tablet, the laptop," Jeronimo said.
Huawei also unveiled two tablets: the MediaPad M5 and MediaPad M5 Pro. The first comes in an 8.4-inch version and 10.8-inch version. The second comes with a stylus known as the M Pen, similar to Samsung's S Pen and the Apple Pencil.
The Chinese firm already has previously launched a tablet with a stylus, and is looking to expand its offering. But, it's an increasingly tough market with larger players dominating.
"It is questionable whether there is much of a market for mid- and high-range Android tablets. Apple has locked out the market for premium tablets and Amazon dominates the low-tier," Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, told CNBC by email ahead of the launch.
"Furthermore, there has been little love for Android tablet optimized apps in recent years, meaning the app-gap with the iPad is wider than ever for consumers."


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Looking for How To Trade Share On Etoro From Nz?…
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It is essential to point out that eToro has had a lot of time to work on its systems and algorithms, which are one of the factors that it has such a trusted reputation. It appears that the developers have actually been listening to feedback from both consumers and traders alike for a number of months now, and this is an excellent sign. While this certainly isn’t the most reputable sign of market conditions, it does indicate that traders have had lots of time to get their concerns dealt with in time.
EToro has actually had some time to adjust to the modifications that are occurring in the trading world, with the introduction of its MetaTrader4 platform in 2021. The new software package has had a great deal of feedback from both amateur traders and professional traders alike. This suggests that even with the reasonably current launch of its trading platform, there is still lots of continuous support being supplied by the development group. You will find this really encouraging if you are brand-new to the world of online trading. Even the best developers can just go so far, and if you are new to the market, you will need all the assistance you can get.
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You might be questioning whether or not the makers of eToro are actually legitimate brokers or not. If they are offering assistance but just not enough, then traders might choose to keep looking somewhere else.
So, is eToro trustworthy? Well, it’s most likely the best alternative for anybody who is brand-new to the world of online trading. Even if you are not new to trading, or have not achieved success trading in the past, then you ought to give them a try. They have the included bonus of having the largest number of experts working behind the scenes, making sure that their techniques really work when implemented. How To Trade Share On Etoro From Nz
This is done through an electronic wallet such as the eToro one. The conversion charge is based on the present rate of the currencies in the platform and isn’t specified in the contract itself. The platform itself will calculate this figure for you and let you know what the conversion fee will be, although it is optional.

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Tier 4 Data Center Meaning
Tier 4 Data Center Meaning is Uptime Institute developed a Tier categorization system to rate the effectiveness of data centers 25 years ago. These guidelines are the industry standard for excellence in Design and Construction and have received widespread recognition for data center availability, dependability, and overall efficiency.
Data centers are ranked from 1 to 4, with 4 being the best, according to their classification. The summary is as follows:
- Tier 1: A data center without backup components and only one path for electricity and cooling. Tier I does not offer protection against unforeseen failure or outage. As a result, unanticipated disruptions will occur when facilities must completely shut down for maintenance and repairs. 99.671% expected uptime or 28.8 hours of downtime annually.
- Tier 2: A data center that offers some redundant and backup components but only has one path for power and cooling. A Tier 2 data center’s unexpected shutdown will have an impact on the overview system. Just like it would on a Tier 1 facility. 99.741% expected uptime or 22 hours of downtime annually.
- Tier 3: A redundant data center with various pathways for electricity and cooling that can be maintained simultaneously. Tier 3 facilities don’t need to be shut down for repair or replacement like Tier 1 and Tier 2 do. 99.982% expected uptime or 1.6 hours of downtime annually.
- Tier 4: A data center with numerous physically separate and independent systems that work together to form a fault-tolerant infrastructure with redundancy for every part. IT operations are not impacted by failures. In order to maintain a stable atmosphere. These facilities also need constant cooling. 99.995% expected uptime or 26 minutes annually.
Your company could see an average of 28 hours to 26 minutes less downtime if you choose the correct data center. Investors, clients, and the marketplace can see that the infrastructure is truly available around-the-clock thanks to a Tier 4 Data Center Meaning certification from the Uptime Institute.
The Best of the Best: Tier 4 Data Centers
The highest level of qualification for a data center is Tier 4. Which is characterized by high levels of security, climate control, and redundancy. Facilities must meet severe mechanical, electrical, structural, and site design criteria.
Tier 4 Data Center Meaning must fulfill the following criteria in addition to all of the requirements for Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 data centers:
- 995% Uptime – Also known as the “four 9s”, Tier 4 facilities have an availability rate of 99.99% and frequently achieve 100% year after year thanks to their highly redundant power infrastructure.
- 2N+1 Redundancy – The 2N+1 model offers a backup component (+1) in addition to the doubled operational capacity (2N) in the case of a failure. Allowing the data center to employ the backup system.
- There is no single point of failure because every process is entirely redundant, making it fault tolerant. The power design of any IT equipment must be fault-tolerant.
- 96-Hour Outage Protection – The data center must be able to supply itself with electricity for four days without relying on an external source.
- Continuous cooling – is necessary to maintain the ideal temperature in the data center environment, which also helps to prolong the life of the hardware.
Enterprise-level support for mission-critical infrastructure is offered by Tier 4 Data Center Meaning. Customers of Tier 4 data centers, which are the most advanced. Those who have the highest demand for services will be satisfied.


Monarchs are not the only butterflies to migrate through our area this time of year.
Actually, there are two other species that are more visible and much more common.
The bright yellow butterflies are called cloudless sulfurs...
and the bright orange butterflies with silvery under-wings are called gulf fritillaries.
In the spring, southern populations of these two species breed prolifically and their offspring move northward breeding as they go. By late summer they can occur as far north as New York. These two species overwinter as adults, and so, in late fall, they fly southward to winter in the Deep South where they won't freeze. Cloudless sulfurs and gulf fritillaries are regularly seen in the Lowcountry through December and may be found throughout the winter if it is mild. If you want to have butterflies in your yard or property, think about having a wild corner where you allow host plants for butterflies to grow. Each species of butterfly has its own unique preferences for the plants on which it lays its eggs. The leaves of the host plant are the food for the rapidly growing caterpillars. For example, cloudless sulfurs lay their eggs on partridge pea and sicklepod (common roadside "weeds") whereas gulf fritillaries lay their eggs on passionflower vines.
To learn more about species of local butterflies go to http://126.96.36.199/nbnc/index.html.
To learn more about butterflies in general consider joining the Carolina Butterfly Society.


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1-Bit Rogue is a simple roguelike!
It’s a monochrome game featuring super simple retro pixelart!
Features a chiptune soundtrack for that nostalgic PSG sound chip feel!
- A 50-floor randomized dungeon
- Defeat dragons and collect artifacts!
- Weapons decay with use -- if they hit 0, they’ll break!
- Choose from five classes (including a ninja!)
- Also features a final boss and epic ending!
How to play:
- Use the virtual D-pad to move in four directions
- Long-tap to skip a turn
- Use coins to level up
Access the level up menu from the bottom left of the title screen
- Art direction/game design/graphics/sound: Skipmore
- Programming/level design: Kan Kikuchi
- Translation: NEP
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
When you purchase "3-bit color mode", remove banner ads and popup ads.
Ratings and Reviews
Just a few things
First off: Great app! It's a small single focus app, that keeps me coming back. Not many apps can do that. If it were made by anyone else, I would play like 3 times & delete it.
I do have some suggestions, from least to most important, here they are:
The exits: I would appreciate it if the staircase rotated so that it would make sense, and not be a staircase facing a wall. The staircase would always be facing the way of the hallways. It's small, but I feel like it would make the game feel more polished.
Variation: As much as I love playing the game, I can only do it a few times a day, and then I come back the next day. Some more variation other than floor layout would be interesting. Maybe secret hidden rooms behind non solid walls? What about legendary varieties of common enemies, that have more health. The ability to add 1 custom weapon that gets added to the pool ofexisting weapons would be neat, and it would always be cool to encounter it. What about a class of character that can walk two frames without causing enemies to have a turn? Lastly, either a melee weapon that can hit two spaces ahead of you rather than one would be awesome.
Cute but repetitive
This game definitely gets down the feel of a traditional roguelike, with simple controls, permadeth, and an enjoyably tense atmosphere as you try to resource-manage between gold, health, and progress. That’s the game at its best. At its worst it’s grindy and tedious, and sometimes feels unfair. While I’ve definitely died a few times to mistakes I’ve made, too often it feels like you just find yourself in an unwinnable situation: you have no weapon, you’re in a dead-end area, and there’s a monster in the way. It’s kind of annoying to die every time because you took a wrong turn in the maze (or spawned in the wrong place), especially when death means a tedious slog through the earlier levels of the dungeon to reclaim your progress.
All in all I’d recommend it, but it gets repetitive pretty quickly.
Been a while
It’s been a long time since I last played this.
The gameplay is great, it’s simple puzzles disguised as a retro dungeon crawler.
However, this app deserves a one-star review, I would rate zero stars, but that doesn’t seem like an option. Why does it get a low score? Because of the aggressive advertising on it. Ads that pop-up after every death that cannot be skipped until an “x” appears a few moments later, or an ad that pops up every now and then that doesn’t even let you leave it, instead the only way to get past it is to click on the ad. Opening the game sometimes causes these ads to pop up.
When you die, you have an option of giving up a portion of your gold to continue *or* you can PLAY ANOTHER AD.
Furthermore, it looks like they’ve since added a banner ad that’s always on the bottom of the page since I last played a couple years ago.
And then, get this, despite raking in cash from the sheer amount of ad revenue this downloadable billboard makes, the developer has the audacity to make a separate page on the Home Screen to ask for donations. Like mate, your game is almost bloody unplayable because of the ads you’ve rented out across the blasted thing. Do you think I’m going to pay you $3 to watch even more ads (but this time the game has a whopping three colors added to it!!!!!!). Bugger off.
The developer, Kan Kikuchi, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
- Kan Kikuchi
- 65.1 MB
- Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
- Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- © kan.kikuchi
- In-App Purchases
- 3-bit color mode $2.99
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.

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Eucalyptus Radiata Essential Oil is often considered a milder Eucalyptus because it is slightly “smoother” than Eucalyptus Globulus and has a somewhat softer odor.
Eucalyptus Radiata Essential Oil has a crisp, clean, aroma with just a hint of citrus and floral. It shares many of the same properties as Eucalyptus Globulus and they are often combined to help support a healthy respiratory system.
Eucalyptus Radiata can help combat seasonal illnesses by making breathing easier. May use in an aromatherapy diffuser to help clear the mind and keep you focused on the task at hand.
Botanical Name: Eucalyptus radiata
Country of Origin: Australia
Oil Composition: Eucalyptol
Plant Part: Leaves
Aroma: Sweet, Fruity
Color: Clear/pale Yellow
Perfumery Note: Top-Middle
Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium
Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
Blends Well With: thyme, rosemary, floral oils, sandalwood, basil, cajeput, cedarwood, citronella, lavender
Topical: Add 5 drops Eucalyptus and 10 drops of coconut oil to treat wounds or insect bites
Aromatic: Diffuse 3-5 drops to help support a healthy respiratory system
Aids in respiratory tract infections, bronchitis, catarrh, sinusitis, rhinitis, catarrh, colds and fevers. Also can mediate abdominal cramps, fatigue, muscular aches and pains, insect stings and bites.
Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Cautions: Excessive use may lead to headaches and nausea. Dilute oil when applying topically. Internal use is not suggested. Avoid during pregnancy. Keep out of reach of young children.

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NAHB NEWS - President Trump Signs Executive Order on Housing Affordability
NAHB - June 25, 2019
In a key victory for NAHB, President Trump today put housing at the forefront of the national debate by signing an executive order that cites the need to cut costly regulations that are hampering the production of more affordable housing in America.
NAHB Chairman Greg Ugalde attended the White House signing ceremony and provides further analysis on what the executive order means for our members in the video at the bottom of this blog post.
Ugalde also issued the following official statement:
“NAHB applauds President Trump for making housing a top national priority. With housing affordability near a 10-year low, the president’s executive order on this critical issue underscores that the White House is ready to take a leading role to help resolve the nation’s affordability crisis.
“Given that homeownership historically has been part of the American dream and a primary source of wealth for most American households, the need to tackle ongoing affordability concerns is especially urgent. As we celebrate National Homeownership Month, we must ensure that homeownership remains in reach for younger and future generations. This can be achieved by providing access to affordable rental housing and growing the inventory of for-sale housing, particularly at the entry-level.
“NAHB analysis has found that regulations account for nearly 25% of the price of building a single-family home and more than 30% of the cost of a typical multifamily development. We are pleased that the president’s executive order calls for the formation of a White House Council chaired by HUD Secretary Ben Carson that will seek to reduce regulatory barriers that are making housing more costly.”
More Progress on the Affordability Front
Addressing the housing affordability crisis is the association’s top priority. NAHB has met with top White House officials and leaders of Congress numerous times to discuss strategies to resolve supply-side constraints that are acting as barriers to increase the production of quality, affordable housing.
During the first week in June, NAHB and HUD cosponsored the Innovative Housing Showcase that took place on the National Mall. The event provided a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on the nation’s housing affordability crisis and to seek meaningful solutions.
Industry and policy experts – including Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and NAHB leaders – participated in several panels with the goal to seek innovative solutions to make housing more affordable. Exhibitors also featured model homes and new technologies designed to increase affordability.
And on June 5, nearly 700 builders went to Capitol Hill and held 300 individual meetings with their representatives and senators as part of NAHB’s 2019 Legislative Conference. Builders delivered an important message to members of Congress: There is an urgent need to implement practical solutions to ease the nation’s affordability woes and enable more families to achieve homeownership or have access to affordable rental housing.
NAHB will continue to work with the White House, HUD Secretary Carson and Congress to achieve these goals.


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If the beauty of flowers is your passion, this is a tour not to be missed!
An exciting adventure starts when we fly to Amsterdam and explore the beauty of Zaanse Schans. The history of Holland speaks for itself with colourful houses, museums and different windmills from many moons ago.
We will visit the world’s largest flower auction in Aalsmeer.
Spend time in Sassenheim where the wagons for the “Flower Corso” are prepared.
Keukenhof displays an ocean of flowers (especially Tulips) and a spectacular scenery filled with colours and scents.
Amsterdam – the capital city of the Netherlands excites with beautiful canals, lined with gable houses and has such a diversity of art, history and architecture.
We experience the world-famous “Flower Corso” which stretches 40km from Noordwijk to Haarlem.
We explore Rotterdam, do a “Harbour Tour” and visit Delft, famous for the blue porcelain Delft.
Den Haag – do a city walk and view the Freedom Palace, the Royal Palace, Noordeinde and the Mauritshuis.
Kinderdijk – UNESCO – World Heritage Site where 19 windmills from the 18th century are assisting with water management in Holland.
We will also explore the National Park Werribben Wieden, Giethoorn, Afsluitdijk, Alkmaar and enjoy a romantic boat trip!
Tour Package Includes:
Meals as per itinerary
Excursions as per itinerary
Registered Tour Guide

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At last, Dark of Winter is officially launched! Christopher Percy will take you on a journey to Sumner, where in one night, its fate will be decided.
Dark of Winter is available to purchase at the following digital retailers:
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Dark of Winter synopsis:
The people of Sumner are odd. Their village, far to the north where the weather is worst, is lost to a world of snow and ice and freezing death. No one trusts Sumner. No one goes there.
King Fialsun’s soldiers are battle weary. They have spent years carving an empire that starts from the south and rises up like an inexorable branch, twisting east and west and now to new territories in the north.
Despite growing dissent, Fialsun’s power remains absolute and his might infinite. But one village remains outside from his sovereignty: Sumner.
Fialsun sends one hundred of his soldier veterans to find and to decimate the village. To bring an end to its stigma and to quash the dreaded infamy of its most lethal warrior: Threecuts.
But strange events have been unfolding in Sumner. A girl has gone missing and warriors deem they have captured a creature from mythology. All the evidence leads to the conclusion that an ancient evil is coming.
In one night the fate of Sumner will be decided. If the King’s soldiers do not reach them first, then the creatures of the Dark of Winter will.

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25 September 2022 - news
This is the catalogue page for Naomo Pinnetuo
The first performance will be given by Ezo Sarici, a violin student at the Royal Academy, on 25th November 2022 in the Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music.
Naomi Pinnock and I met on our first day of study at the Royal Academy of Music in 2002, both us composition students on the Masters course. We became close friends, and this dear friendship continues 20 years later. When my former teacher at the Academy, Philip Cashian, asked Naomi and I to write short solo pieces to celebrate the 200th Birthday of the Academy, we both thought it would be lovely to pay a tribute to each other. I have taken the opening figure of Naomi’s string trio, Janus, which she wrote while she was at the Academy, and I have turned it into a little moto perpetuo encore piece for solo violin. Naomi in turn has taken the opening of my String Quartet, also written while I was a student at the Academy, and also made a solo violin piece out of it. With this little piece, i want to say thank you to Naomi for many years of love, support and friendship, and a dear thanks to Philip Cashian and the Royal Academy of Music for nurturing us. They were wonderful years.
Buy the sheet music — available soon
Naomi Pinnock, photo: Rui Camilo


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"Elegantly demolishes the prevailing scholarly view that Seneca culture suffered a gradual cultural decline during the eighteenth century. Jordan has combined archaeology and history to provide us with a new and compelling picture of the Seneca."--William Engelbrecht, Buffalo State College "Jordan's archaeological approach to the eighteenth-century Native American settlement patterns is original and creative. It sets a promising new standard for interdisciplinary investigations of the potential complexity underlying domestic and settlement choices."--Martha L. Sempowski, Rochester Museum and Science Center and Seneca Archaeology Research Project The Iroquois confederacy, one of the most influential Native American groups encountered by early European settlers, is commonly perceived as having plunged into a steep decline in the late seventeenth century due to colonial encroachment into the Great Lakes region. Kurt Jordan challenges long-standing interpretations that depict the...

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Bring the whole family with a picnic blanket and a snack to enjoy as you watch the latest Toy Story movie on our large screen. In this one, the toys are now owned by Bonnie and include a new toy that she made with her arts and crafts supplies – meet Forky! The adventures begin when they set off on a road trip in the RV with Bonnie and her family.
Thursday, December 26, at 2:00 p.m. in the Library Community Room
All ages and abilities are welcome – please register so that we can arrange the space to fit everyone.
Children younger than 11 years must be with an adult.


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The city’s Industrial Development Board on Thursday awarded a total of $4.3 million in incentives to two companies looking to expand existing facilities in Mobile.
The board voted to give $4.1 million in tax abatements over 10 years to Kemira to allow the company to expand its production of polymers used in both fracking and the pulp and paper industry.
The incentives come in the form of a 10-year, $2.4 million property tax abatement and a $1.7 million sales and use tax abatement. If the Mobile plant is awarded the expansion, it’ll add 20 employees. The $49 million investment will amount to a 40 percent expansion. It’s not a done deal, as the plant is competing with others internally for the expansion and still has to make a presentation to its corporate board.
Those 20 jobs will add to the 57 already at the plant on Paper Mill Road.
The board also voted to give AeroStar $200,000 in tax abatements. Those incentives come in the form of a 10-year, $120,000 property tax abatement and an $80,000 sales and use tax abatement. With the planned expansion, the company that repairs hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical components on aircraft would more than double. AeroStar would build a second facility and hire 28 employees to add to its 23. The move would represent a $2 million investment.
AeroStar President Greg Guzman said the facility is currently “bursting at the seams” and the expansion would help greatly if the company is able to earn a contract with Southwest Airlines.
Guzman said he plans to find talent locally and have them trained in 30 to 90 days once employment begins.
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January 23, 2011
FEEDING THE MEN AT COOK COUNTY JAIL, DIVISION 14
A Day of Thanksgiving
While most people started Thanksgiving Day in anticipation of a family gathering, Mike Calia was on his way to the Cook County Jail. Although he isn’t new to serving at Willow Creek, this was his first opportunity to serve with the prison/jail ministry. As he worked alongside 31 other volunteers, his perspective changed in a way that he didn’t see coming.
Hearts of Compassion
On Thanksgiving morning, the inmates of Cook County Jail walked single file in groups of 50-75 into the multipurpose room. Mike’s job was to serve the food and give a smile to each of the inmates as they passed through the line.
Before Jim, a co-leader in the Monday night Bible study at the jail, gave a short greeting, he asked how many of the men attended the weekly Bible study. Mike was surprised at the number of hands that went up. God is truly doing life-transformational work within the walls of the jail.
A particularly moving moment occurred after one of the inmates led the group in a very passionate prayer. "An inmate started singing 'Amazing Grace' and of course, we all joined in," says Mike. "I cannot even describe the feelings I had while singing that song 'a cappella' along with 80 or so other people, most of them male and almost three-quarters of them inmates."
"In my opinion, the most amazing thing happened when Jim mentioned that this was the third year that Willow’s prison ministry was serving a Thanksgiving meal at this prison and this would not be possible without the prison guards’ cooperation," mentioned Mike. Without a suggestion of any kind from any of the volunteers, the inmates actually started applauding. Mike left Cook County Jail that day feeling God’s grace in a new way.
2010 was the third year Willow Creek has harnessed volunteer power to serve Thanksgiving dinner at the Cook County Jail. There is a tremendous need for volunteers (especially men) to serve on an ongoing basis with this vibrant, life—changing ministry. If you feel God nudging you to be a part of the prison/jail ministry, contact Gaius at firstname.lastname@example.org.
For more blog articles regarding the Prison and Jail Ministry, http://wccc.blogs.com/compassion_and_justice/


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For those living under a rock, take heart: almost none of us had heard of this suburb of St. Louis before August 9, 2014. On that date police officer Dennis Wilson responded to a call of a young black man stealing cigarillos from a local store. Arriving on the scene Officer Wilson found two young men walking in the street, one of whom (Michael Brown) fit the description of the man who stole the cigarillos. Two minutes later Officer Brown had redness and swelling on his right cheek and Mr. Brown was dead from at least six gunshot wounds.
Protests began almost immediately. Many in Ferguson, and elsewhere, believed Mr. Brown was killed by law enforcement because he was a young black man. Had he been white he would still be with us.
This perception was exacerbated by the fact that the city of Ferguson is 69% black (according to the 2010 census) while the police force is 6% black. This is due, in no small part, to the changing demographics in Ferguson. In 1980 the population of Ferguson was 85% white, but by 2010 it had plummeted to 30% (I got this from a New York Times article).
This led to a perfect storm where the majority of the population was black while the majority of law enforcement was white. I call this a perfect storm because it brings back reminders of the history of slavery. From 1630 to 1865 the majority of Africans experienced America as a place of enslavement. From 1865 to the present day many of them have experienced America as a place of discrimination.
This is not universal and the fact that our President is African American gives us proof that we live in a nation that accepts people of different races.
That said we should never forget that discrimination continues to exist and seemingly random events focus us toward this reality.
The events of August 9th gives us just this reality. In the last few days I’ve read some of the testimony of the grand jury (and I encourage you to do the same. You can access much of the testimony on this New York Times article).
It’s a complicated series of events but after reading Officer Wilson’s testimony I believe he acted properly. I think he had a reasonable fear for his life and did what he had to do.
At the same time I continue to understand that much of the protest is justified. This isn’t about Michael Brown and Darren Wilson: it’s about the state of race relations in the United States. And it has to be talked about.
All of my experience of law enforcement have been positive but mine is not everyone’s experience. People of color (of all ages) recognize “the look.” They know that they come under extra scrutiny when they walk into a convenience store and countless of them have had experiences with law enforcement that I would find more bewildering than offensive.
And when someone like Michael Brown is shot to death it feels like an attack on an entire community. I briefly lived in Memphis several years ago, less than a mile from the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. I remember speaking with people from the neighborhood who lived there then. They felt that his assassination was the first shot in a war against them and this feeling was exacerbated when they saw National Guard troops in tanks rolling into the neighborhood. The residents of Ferguson certainly had the same feeling when they saw the National Guard roll into their town with weapons from the 1033 program. The 1033 program provides local police departments with weapons designed for warfare. If you’re in law enforcement it’s free stuff; if you’re a minority it looks like you’re unarmed and at war with someone who wants you dead.
We also need to view these events against another reality: race relations in this country are riddled with crimes against people of color where justice was promised but not delivered. In 1963 the civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers was shot to death in his own front yard. His killer was not convicted until 1994. That same year four young girls were killed when dynamite was placed under the washroom of their church. The first of the bombers was not convicted until 1977; two more were convicted in 2001 and 2002 (a fourth died in 1994 before he could be brought to trial). In 1964 three civil rights workers were slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi. In 1967 seven men were convicted but none of them served more than six years.
All these cases involved lies from law enforcement that these crimes would be investigated. I ambivalent about this, but I’ve been reading about the charge that the district attorney in Ferguson convened the grand jury with no interest in indicting Officer Wilson.
I write this with a certain amount of discomfort, and maybe that’s the point. The events of Ferguson in the last three months has shown a light on a topic many of us would like to ignore: we’re not done working to achieve true harmony of skin color.
As long as I don’t get “the look” when I walk into a store but someone else does, we’re not done. As long as I see a peace officer and feel protected while another looks at the same peace officer and feels unsafe, we’re not done. And as long as anyone believes the end of slavery 149 years ago means we’re done, we’re not done.


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Savannah Guthrie was inundated with support from her followers on Friday after she marked a bittersweet day with her children.
The Today star documented a major milestone with her kids, Vale, seven, and Charles, four, as she photographed their first day back at school.
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Sharing some adorable snaps of the duo in their uniforms, Savannah simply captioned the post: "First day feels," followed by a red heart emoji.
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Her fans were quick to react, with one writing: "It never gets easy. Mine are 13 and 16 and I got weepy still!"
A second said: "Such a timeless yet unforgettable photo for you to cherish!" A third added: "That’s adorable, Happy first day of school."
Savannah spent much of the school holidays working from home so she could spend more time with her children.
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Savannah shared these adorable photos of her children's first day back at school
Earlier this week, she marked her own return to the Today studios by sharing a photo of her alarm clock, which had been set for 3am. "Summer's over," she wrote alongside the picture, accompanied by a crying face emoji.
Savannah's famous friends were quick to praise her efforts, with Drew Barrymore writing: "I don't know how you do it but thank heavens you do," while Al Roker wrote in encouragement: "Good morning, sunshine. And it's only over when we say it's over."
Savannah shares her children with husband Michael Feldman
Over the summer, the mom-of-two shared several candid images from her time working from home, including a recent picture of herself reading the autocue as Vale and Charles played behind her.
Vale and Charles recently made a surprise appearance on Today as Savannah marked her tenth year working on the show. The star shares her children with husband Michael Feldman.
Savannah and Michael have been married since 2014, having met in 2008 at his 40th birthday party.
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Miraflores Palace, Caracas – With the firm purpose of guaranteeing comprehensive attention to the Venezuelan population through the 1×10 System of Good Governance, the President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, informed that several communities of the national territory received answers to their problems.
The inhabitants of the Caracciolo Parra Perez parish, located in the state of Zulia, are an example of this. Through the 1×10 System, they manifested an affectation in the water service (pipeline repair). They received a response from the institutions in charge to guarantee the vital liquid to the neighbors of the sector.
Meanwhile, in Yaracuy state, in the Punta Brava sector, they got street lighting repaired through the Ven App application as they denounced the lack of electric service in the community.
Meanwhile, in the Nueva Casarapa Urbanization located in Guarenas, Miranda State, more than 250 families of the sector benefited from the repair of the asphalting of the area.
From the Simon Bolívar Hall in the Miraflores Palace, during a working session with the Council of Sectorial Vice Presidents of Government, the Head of State emphasized that the 1×10 System of Good Government is a strategy of the National Executive, framed in the 3R. Nets doctrine aims to ensure immediate and timely response to the problems of the communities of the Venezuelan territory.
“This is something unique that only exists in Venezuela. The connection that we have created in the 1×10 of Good Governance, through the Ven App and the Carnet de la Patria, only exists if you organize your 1×10, and we will make our Venezuela beautiful and functional. We are going to make the miracle in this year 2022 so that Venezuela shoots up in its recovery, in arranging everything for Venezuelans that if you can”, concluded the national President.


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The sun sets on another day…
…and as the sun sets another moment passes into oblivion. The moments pass and are gone, the new moments waiting like silent specters before us. The future beckons us all forward, while the past leaves us planted in who and what we are in life. As a moment passes it changes who we are forever and even the smallest moment can make a difference.
We are affected by all those with whom we interact, and as they affect us, so we affect them. You could call it “mutual affection”. It is apparent that we are a sum of many things, past, present, and future. As we move forward we are ensured that the world exists, and so do we, in a neverending journey to tomorrow. The sun rises, and the sun sets, and all that is in between is us.
As I rattled the above off in my head I realized that most people are constantly searching for who and what we are in life. Well, maybe not most, but some, well, at least there are a few. Anyway, if you are searching I suggest you sit down and think about who you are, and then be the best you can be each and every day, for in the process you will see yourself in a different more positive light.
Make 1 step better. Find a way to make one person smile today. Then maybe it will come back to you? Sound fun? Try it,
So as the sun sets on another day I apologize for this journey into the realm of thoughts and dreams, and feel you should try to be happy each day, not for me, but for you. For the people around you. For all the people you interact with. If you do that you can truly say today is a good day, maybe even a great day. Find happiness in there somewhere, and make sure you too are as happy a you can be, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, smile brightly, and enjoy each and every day…


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Danish Police Arrest Four ISIS Suspects Who Had ‘Travelled to Syria’ and Seize Weapons and Ammunition During Raids
Corey Charlton, Daily Mail, April 7, 2016
Police in Denmark have detained four suspected ISIS operatives and seized weapons and ammunition during raids linked to their arrest in Copenhagen.
All four were suspected of breaking Denmark’s terrorism law while in Syria, and were arrested in the Copenhagen area, police said in a statement.
Under Danish terrorism law, ‘letting oneself be recruited to commit acts of terrorism’ is punishable with up to six years in jail.
The police statement read: ‘The suspects have been identified through investigations carried out in close cooperation between the Danish Security and Intelligence Service and Copenhagen police.
‘The arrests took place as part of the effort against people letting themselves be recruited to terror groups in war-torn parts of Syria and northern Iraq.’
Police inspector Poul Kjeldsen later told reporters that ‘at one of the addresses we [searched] today we found some weapons and ammunition’.
A person living at the address had ties to one of Copenhagen’s criminal gangs, police later said.
In the Vejledalen neighbourhood on the city’s southwest outskirts, janitor Michael Harsfort said he was working when ‘suddenly two big cars came in at high speed’.
‘Out poured police officers in camouflage gear with machine guns,’ he told broadcaster TV2.
Local media said one of the apartments searched in another area was linked to a 27-year-old man whose name appeared in leaked documents that were given to Sky News containing information on jihadists who have joined ISIS.
Sky reported last month that a disillusioned former ISIS member had given the channel tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of those joining the group.
So far only one returning Syria fighter in Denmark has been charged with joining a terrorist organisation. A preliminary court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.
‘Since my first day as justice minister it has been crucial for me to ensure that foreign fighters who take part in the armed conflict in Syria and Iraq are held responsible when they return home,’ Justice Minister Soren Pind said on Facebook.
‘I am pleased that the authorities’ efforts now appear to be bearing fruit.’
Europe is on edge after the Paris attacks in November and last month’s bombings in Brussels, both blamed on homegrown militants radicalised and trained by ISIS.
Around 4,000 Europeans have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join extremist groups as foreign fighters, according to a study from the Hague-based International Centre for Counter-Terrorism released last week.
Data from Denmark showed that 125 people had left the country to fight in Syria or Iraq, and that 62 of those were believed to have returned to the Scandinavian country.
The Danish city of Aarhus has drawn international attention for its ‘soft-hands’ approach to battling the radicalisation of young Muslims with social techniques used in gang exit strategies.
A Danish-Palestinian gunman–seemingly inspired by the deadly assault on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo–killed a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard in twin attacks last year.

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Worse times ahead for drought-hit areas
With the monsoon still more than a month away, the drought situation in 3,664 most-affected villages in the state is likely to go from bad to worse. The saving grace is forecast of good rainfall this year and substantial funds being spent by the state on relief measures to ensure rural economies do not tank completely.mumbai Updated: May 09, 2013 01:55 IST
With the monsoon still more than a month away, the drought situation in 3,664 most-affected villages in the state is likely to go from bad to worse. The saving grace is forecast of good rainfall this year and substantial funds being spent by the state on relief measures to ensure rural economies do not tank completely.
The review of the drought situation in the state by the cabinet on Wednesday revealed that water availability in major dams has dipped to 20%, with the Marathwada region having the lowest storage of just 6%.
In nearly seven dams in Marathwada, including Jayakwadi, the biggest dam in the region, the live storage of water is 0%. Currently, 4,546 tankers have been pressed into service to supply water to 3,664 villages and 9,095-odd hamlets every day. Last year, only 1,620 tankers were required. The state government has also set up 1,159 cattle camps across nine districts, which shelter over 8.39 lakh animals. So far, the state government has spent nearly Rs1,509 crore on running cattle camps and providing fodder to farm animals.
It has also spent Rs500 crore on drinking water measures, and an additional Rs200 crore has been allotted for the purpose. The Centre has handed out nearly Rs2,400 crore as drought package for Maharashtra.
The role of cattle camps is important as it will help farmers protect and sustain their dairy business during the failure of rabi crops. There are around 3.31 lakh farmers on the rolls of Employment Guarantee Scheme in the affected regions.
“The government is rationing water for agriculture, and hence there will be enough for drinking purposes for all affected villages. Our challenge is the logistics — to ensure enough tankers are provided and reach affected areas,” said Milind Mhaiskar, secretary of relief and rehabilitation. He added that in Marathwada, the existing water stock could last for up to three to four months.
First Published: May 09, 2013 01:53 IST

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“The party that is able to have the courage to walk into opposition is that same party that will have the courage to walk back into government,” an optimistic Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko has said.
He explained that he has already considered being in opposition as being purgatory and not hell, therefore, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will bounce back with a victory on December 7.
Describing his party’s defeat in the 2016 general elections as a “catastrophic experience” the former Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Co. Ltd (BOST) and Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) told Bernard Avle on Citi TV, Wednesday evening that the NDC's losing the 2016 elections was an opportunity for the party to reflect on “what went wrong”.
He explained that the NDC has been doing things based on what the people of Ghana want, something which has informed ‘The People’s Manifesto’ of the party.
When asked if the many promises in the recently launched manifesto are not something that the NDC is using to woo the electorate so that they get their votes, Awuah-Darko responded that the party has learnt from the many unfulfilled promises of the incumbent NPP not to over-promise, and not deliver.
“The challenge that the current government is having is the ability to deliver on their promises […] the NDC has not done that. The NDC has gone to the people and we have listened to them…,” he stated.
The NDC which described the manifesto as "a social contract between the party and Ghanaians" organized the launching ceremony in style by inviting non-party people, and importantly avoiding the mentions of names like President Akufo-Addo or Dr. Bawumia, a strategy that has been hailed by critics.
Dubbed “The People’s Manifesto: Jobs, Prosperity and More”, the NDC’s manifesto, explained Prof Kwame Danso Boafo, Chairman of the manifesto committee who is also a former university Vice-chancellor, is categorized into "six thematic areas" to serve as the party’s blueprint.
The categories of the manifesto identified by Prof. Danso are as follows: "fixing the economy, promoting human development, providing infrastructure for growth, providing decent jobs, good governance and corruption, and deepening international relations and foreign affairs".
Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko was pencilled as John Mahama's running mate but Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang became the final choice.
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