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The more you know about UK tax changes the better. Whether you are a UK resident tax payer or a non-UK resident tax payer, keeping abreast of UK tax changes will leave you with more change in your pocket and a better piece of mind. Many UK taxes and thresholds are frozen, at the moment, due to the Covid 19 epidemic. This means that in the near future some, or many, of these benefits will change. You may be enjoying a continuous level of tax payments at the moment, but planning ahead is essential. A good non-UK resident tax advisor, like The Taxman UK, can help you with this, and save you time, money and stress.
So far, so good. If you earn income in the UK from property rental, investment income, capital gains, inheritance, or another source then you must make a tax return in the UK and pay tax on this income, even if you are a non-UK resident. This means that future tax changes in the UK after the Covid 19 epidemic has been resolved will still affect you, and your loved ones. You are likely to find that your tax liabilities may increase, even if your income stays the same. The worst-case scenario is future increased tax rises to compensate for fiscal deficits in the UK, and a decrease in your UK income, leaving you and your loved ones with more tax to pay on less income. The best way to plan ahead for the best and the worst-case scenarios is to get good tax advice from a non-UK tax advisor.
The Taxman UK has a team of experienced tax advisors who can help you and your loved ones to calculate your current non-UK tax liabilities, file your non-UK resident tax return for you and keep you informed of current and future UK tax changes.
In the UK’s annual budget on the 3rd of March, 2021, The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that there are ‘huge challenges’ ahead to address record levels of borrowing. So what does this warning signal mean for you and your loved ones as non-UK residents?
Even if this all seems far ahead in the future, you and your loved ones should plan for these and other future tax changes. You may face other unexpected happy outcomes such as an inheritance or capital gains on the sale or your UK property, then there is job loss and less desirable future outcomes to plan for as well. In order to minimise your tax payments and any worries you may have about your current or future non-UK resident tax status ask a good non-UK tax advisor who knows what the future changes for non-UK residents tax is likely to hold.
Please don’t hesitate to contact one of our experienced non-UK resident tax advisors by sending us an enquiry at firstname.lastname@example.org for an initial consultation. Good tax advice will save you time, money and stress, whether you want to make the most of current or future non-UK resident tax changes.
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May was a record-breaking month for tornadoes, Gatehouse News reports. The past month follows April 2011 and May 2003 as the two busiest months for tornado activity since such records have been kept.
530 confirmed twisters touched down across the country between May 1 and May 31, and that’s just the number of confirmed tornadoes. Since tornadoes often manifest in rural areas, miles away from human eyes, and since they can appear and disappear in a manner of seconds, the number could be considerably larger.
In addition to the record-breaking month, a 12-day stretch between May 17 and 29 say eight or more tornadoes touch down on each of those days. By comparison, the previous record for such a streak occurred in 1980, when an 11-day stretch saw eight or more twisters forming each day.
As The Weather Channel reported in early May, this year’s tornado season got off to an active start in March and April, with an above-average number of twisters spawned in that two-month period. By April 30, 422 tornadoes are believed to have been spawned, compared to an average of 273 in that two-month period.
Although tornado season officially ended on May 31, it bears noting that tornadoes can and do occur on any of the 365 days in a year.
Unsurprisingly, most of May’s tornadoes occurred in so-called “Tornado Alley” — that is, a stretch of the central United States that is roughly bounded by a line extending through eastern Colorado in the west, central Missouri in the east, and extending north into Canada and south to the Gulf of Mexico. However, tornadoes can and do occur in all 50 states.
As USA Today reported earlier this week, 31 Americans are known to have died due to tornadoes and tornado-related causes this year. In 2018, that number was zero; that was the first year with no tornado-related deaths in the U.S. since 1950.
Is Climate Change To Blame?
That’s hard to say conclusively, according to Gatehouse News. Although tornadoes do occur outside of the United States, 90 percent of them occur here, due to atmospheric and geographical factors that scientists are still trying to pinpoint. The effects of climate change, by comparison, are felt most profoundly in the polar regions, as well as in coastal regions.
However, what weather scientists have noticed is that there are generally fewer days per year during which tornadoes spawn in the U.S.; but on those days that they do spawn, there are a higher number of tornadoes, as well as more-severe ones. Additionally, Tornado Alley appears to have shifted east somewhat, by some measures extending as far east as Kentucky. Whether or not that is due to climate change cannot be conclusively determined, as of this writing.

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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Throwback Thursday: Impassioned
Today, we take a peek back at Molly Bryant's 'Impassioned' novel.
Jesse meets an intriguing young man with brown eyes, messy-blonde hair, and dimples that set his smile out of this world. As their relationship grows stronger, Jessie learns that she is in danger. Her college life at Boise State University becomes anything but ordinary in a world she never knew existed.
With college students being recruited like puppets into the arms of fallen angels, Jessie has the guardians to keep her safe. In this compelling story of love, loss and betrayal, will Jesse choose the love of eternal damnation? Or will she choose the love of eternal harmony?
Molly Bryant lives in Boise, Idaho with her husband and two children. She has come to embrace her talents and feel passionate about her ability to fantasize and daydream. The more she writes around her fantasies, bringing them to life, the more her vivid imagination makes sense.
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Actor Shah Rukh Khan's darling daughter, Suhana Khan, is a young trendsetter and a fashionista in making. Every move of the starkid is under the scanner and her pictures often go viral in the cyberspace. Yet another video of the aspiring actress has surfaced where she can be seen dancing her heart out with her friends. Suhana is surely a true-blue party girl and loves grooving to the beats more than anything. Her father Shah Rukh Khan has disclosed on several occasions that Suhana inclines to make it big in Bollywood.
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The book was officially launched by Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar.
The other eminent guests present were Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Sriram Raghavan, Gurdas Maan, Deepak Bahry, Sameer Nair, and Rajit Kapur who also hosted the event.
The mood was happy. Everyone spoke about their bond with the actress while Gurdas Maan sang Kudiye Kismat Di Ae and mesmerized everyone.
The event started with Dutta reading an excerpt from the book in her captivating voice.
Sriram Raghavan said,
“I have read a few chapters and loved the way Divya has written it. We meet every 3-4 months and discuss films whenever I am making anything. She has become a friend. She is fun and crazy”.
Javed Akhtar was at his humorous best, he said,
“I have just seen the book and I don’t know what to say since I have not read the book yet. Instead of her writing, I will talk about the writer. There is a twinkle in her eyes and she is always eager to learn more. Kuch log hote hain ki jo ho gaya so ho gaya, lekin unme apne ko improve karne ki, aur door tak le jaane ki, tamanna aur koshish hoti hai, ye hai wo ladki hai”.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra quoted poet Subramanyam Bharti’s ‘Nirbhay’ and said that the poem suit Divya as she is Nirbhay (fearless).
Take a look at some of the pictures from the launch right here:
The book is about people who have been an important part of Dutta’s professional journey.
Including Amitabh Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Gurdas Maan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Gulzar Sahab, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and Nitin Kakkar to name a few.

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Aubert, B. et al. (2009) Measurement of the γγ*→π0 transition form factor. Physical Review D, 80 (5). 052002. ISSN 1550-7998Metadata only available from this repository.
We study the reaction e+e-→e+e-π0 in the single tag mode and measure the differential cross section dσ/dQ2 and the γγ*→π0 transition form factor in the momentum transfer range from 4 to 40 GeV2. At Q2>10 GeV2 the measured form factor exceeds the asymptotic limit predicted by perturbative QCD. The analysis is based on 442 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected at PEP-II with the BABAR detector at e+e- center-of-mass energies near 10.6 GeV.
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The process of finding the right interior design office in Houston can be daunting.
While a variety of options exist, it can be especially tricky when the design needs to be unique, unique and creative.
Here’s a rundown of the basics and some tips on finding the perfect studio for your interior design needs.
The first thing to know is that every office has a set of standards and guidelines.
If you’re considering an office in the Houston area, you should be prepared to meet the requirements of each of these standards.
The most important things to consider are:1.
The type of work you’re doing2.
The style of the office3.
How well the office fits your needsThe style of an office is important, too.
You want to make sure your office looks modern and modernist.
Make sure your offices look inviting and inviting is a top priority.
You can choose from many styles, but they should fit your office style.
Here are some of the most popular styles in Houston:Broom House – Contemporary, Modern, Modernist.
Broom house is a style of office space designed by architect Philip Miller in the 1960s.
It is an ideal mix of design elements, including high ceilings, wood paneling and open design.
Miller designed the office to be accessible to the public and to encourage collaboration.
This style is also popular in the South and Southwest.2.
How comfortable is it?3.
Are there employees?4.
Are the staff friendly?
Broom houses are often viewed as a more traditional office space, with a traditional look, white walls, furniture and a few classic elements.
The Broom House office is located in the heart of downtown Houston, right near the Convention Center.
Its open design makes it accessible to people of all ages and abilities.
The office has seating for up to 400.
Breeze Studio – Contemporary.
This office is a mix of modern and traditional office design.
The company specializes in designing office spaces that feel modern yet are still accessible to all employees.
The Breeze Studio office is at the heart and center of downtown, near the convention center.
The offices are open and can be accessed from the convention centre.
The building features an open layout, but the office space also has an open plan kitchen.
This allows employees to eat at their own pace, which is important to many.5.
Is the location close to transit?6.
Do you have an office that is near transit?7.
How much space is available?
Breezes Studio also offers office space for large organizations, which allows them to have a larger office space than they can find elsewhere.
If they want to expand their business, they can add a large office.
For smaller offices, they also have a large and open space available.
This means employees can sit around and work on projects together.
The space also allows for flexible working hours.
The location also allows the Breeze to maintain a friendly atmosphere.8.
Is there a large parking area?9.
Does the space have a central meeting area?10.
Is it well lit?11.
Is its a well ventilated space?12.
Is all windows covered?13.
Does it have a high quality window?14.
Is ventilation included in the space?15.
Are all windows accessible?
Boon – Contemporary – Modernist design.
Boon is a design firm based in Houston.
It focuses on modern and contemporary office space.
The firm’s designs focus on space and modernism.
They use the most modern technology, such as glass, glass fixtures and wood panels.
Boom Studios – Contemporary and Modern.
The boom studio space is a modern and functional space that serves as an office space and studio for large corporate clients.
It features a mix, traditional and modern design.
This space is located right next to the Convention Centre and has a large meeting room and office space available for up-and-coming executives.
Brisco Design Studio – Modern, Contemporary, Contemporaryist.
This firm is a Houston-based studio with an office design studio in Austin.
It specializes in office design and building the space.
It’s located in downtown Houston.
Broski – Contemporary Design.
This studio is located at the edge of the downtown area.
They are known for their modern office space design and large studio space.
This studio is also near the Houston Convention Center, making it an ideal location for large projects.14.
Are you close to public transit?15,16.
Are employees available for lunch and dinner?17.
Are your employees comfortable?18.
Is your office well ventilled?19.
Is you well lit20.
Are windows covered21.
Are ventilation included?
Brosky – Contemporary design.
This is the studio that is closest to the convention city.
They have an active and relaxed work environment that welcomes all employees, whether they are new or experienced.21,22.
Are they accessible?23.
Are their windows covered24

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Feb. 7, 1998
Friars Beat Harvard, 6-5
Bono's Power-Play Goal Wins It
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- PC defenseman Valerie Bono scored a power-play goal with 1:29 remaining in the game to break a 5-5 tie and give the Providence College Friars a 6-5 victory over the Harvard Crimson in women's ECAC hockey action on Saturday, Feb. 7 at PC's Schneider Arena.
Harvard got on the scoreboard when Angie Francisco lifted a high shot past PC netminder Heather Wilcox at 1:48 of the first. Ten seconds later, Catherine Hanson tied the score when she wristed a shot into the top right corner of the net. Harvard got two unanswered goals from Courtney Smith at 9:44 and Kiirsten Suurask at 10:39 to take a 3-1 lead. PC tallied two consecutive goals to even the game at 3-3. Corinne Rosen notched an unassisted short-handed tally at 13:26 and Jessica Tabb tallied the final goal of the period at 16:59.
PC got the first two goals of the second period to take a 5-3 lead. Tina Schairer scored 41 seconds into the period and Myia Yates added the fifth goal at the 3:37 mark. Harvard's Suurkask notched her second tally of the night at 11:12 of the second period to bring the Crimson within one goal (5-4).
Harvard's Claudia Asano evened the game at 5-5 at 3:11 of the third before Bono netted the game winner for the Friars at 18:31 of the third.
The Friars return to action on Saturday, February 14 at the University of New Hampshire at 1:00 p.m.
SUMMARY at Providence, R.I. Harvard (10-11-0, 6-9-0) 3 1 1 -- 5 Providence (8-17-0, 8-8-0) 3 2 1 -- 6
First Period: H, Angie Francisco (Kyle Walsh, Kim McManama) 1:48; PC, Catherine Hanson (unassisted) 1:58; H, Courtney Smith (unassisted) 9:44; H, Kiirsten Suurkask (Walsh) 10:39; PC, Corinne Rosen (unassisted) 13:26 SH; PC, Jessica Tabb (Myia Yates) 16:59. Penalties: PC, Valerie Bono (cross checking) 3:32; PC, Katie Lachapelle (roughing) 12:14.
Second Period: PC, Tina Schairer (Myia Yates, Jessica Tabb) :41; PC, Yates (Tabb) 3:37; H, Suurkask (Christie MacKinnon, Jen Germoetta) 11:12. Penalties: PC, Holley Tyng (delay of game)13:16.
Third Period: H, Claudia Asano (Elizabeth Ganzenmuller, Courtney Smith) 3:11; PC, Bono (Tabb, Lachapelle) 18:31 PP. Penalties: PC, Kerstin Matthews (hooking) 16:09; H, Melissa Milbert (interference) 17:07;
SAVES: H, Crystal Springer (59:05) 9-10-9=28 :PC, Heather Wilcox (60:00) 2-3-8=13.
POWER PLAYS: H 0-4; PC 1-1
PENALTIES: H 1-2; PC 4-8
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Urgent! Abstinence Programs in Ohio Need Funds
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OSU Sex Week is a Sleazy DEI Joke
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English Teachers' Plans to Destroy the Minds, Hearts and Souls of Children
Back several decades ago, I taught English language arts to eighth graders. A public relations opportunity came along and I never returned to teaching formally, although I’ve spoken to thousands of
Abortion Supporters and Beheaded Babies
Today I am asking you to search your hearts.
Both conservatives and progressives in America claim to support human rights. But when confronted with the logical consequences of our ideas, which
Will Ohio Beat Michigan and Defeat the Abortion Radicals?
The annual gridiron contest between Ohio and Michigan is a cherished, intense rivalry, and every year, the people of Ohio cheer on their team, hoping the Buckeyes capture that victory.
NEA Hates Children, America and Common Sense
Reports from the recent annual meeting of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher’s union, are shocking. The new projects approved by delegates from schools all over the
Ohio GOP Decides No Funds for School Abstinence Lessons
Republicans in Ohio hold a super-majority in the state legislature, and yet the recently passed two year budget contains little or nothing for abstinence-until-marriage sex education in Ohio
Are You Grateful? Then VOTE
Do you consider yourself blessed to live in America? If so, do you vote in every election?
Are you also a Christian?
If you don’t vote, then you really aren’t that grateful. Perhaps you take
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Ohio Leftists Discover Convenient Nazi Homeschoolers
Just in time to attack big education policy bills at the Ohio Statehouse, the state’s progressive Democrats unveil what appears to be an Ohio neo-Nazi homeschooling family and their podcast called
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CALL your Ohio House representative today! Go HERE to find out who your representative is.
Ohio parents are stunned to learn that a complete overhaul of Ohio education is being proposed at the
Top 10 Ways America is Being Groomed to Normalize Pedophilia
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I’m not and I will be screaming against it until the last breath. But it’s coming unless a massive parent brigade shows up in both schools and in
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We stand here today with joy in our hearts, that after 50 years of enduring a well-entrenched lie in America, truth has finally seen
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Lust, jealousy, betrayal and murder have always made for potent story-lines and there’s undoubtedly something of the Greek tragedy about George Bizet’s much loved opera, Carmen.
Yet despite all the ingredients of a modern-day soap melodrama played out to a stirring musical score – and all condensed into a couple of roller-coaster hours – the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova’s performance of Carmen comes across as conservative and a little stiff.
There’s no doubting the success of award-winning director Ellen Kent, whose colorful staging of the world’s great operas and ballets has been packing them in across the UK and Ireland these past two decades. However, little about this production offers any sense of a fresh, modern approach.
Elegant Seville architecture dominates the stage of the Waterfront Hall, though remains largely unchanged during the four acts, which flit, theoretically, from a square to an inn and from mountainside to bullring as the tragic Don Jose (Vitalii Liskovetskiy) is led a not-so-merry dance by the gypsy Carmen (Liza Kadelnik, of Romanian National Opera) –one of opera’s great femme fatales.
Other performances of this production across the UK since February have featured a white Andalucian stallion and rescue donkeys, though no animals grace the Belfast stage this evening. It’s perhaps just as well, as such realism might have put in starker relief the slightly wooden acting.
Kadelnik in the lead role is the notable exception, exuding the sensuality, the assertiveness and the teasing provocativeness that seduces Don Jose – and every red-blooded man who casts eyes on her.
Yet it’s all a little too clean, and sparklingly so. The beautifully attired women from the cigarette factory look like they’ve just skipped through a meadow, rather than having come from a gruelling shift for minimum wage. Even suspending disbelief – and after all, the opera is a just another entertaining form of escapism – the characters are all a little too neat. In the original libretto Carmen is arrested for slashing the face of a co-worker in the cigarette factory, but here the affray amounts to no more than a little half-hearted pushing and pulling; some grime and blood would have made for a more visceral theatre experience.
Kent’s decision to have the recitatives that link the musical numbers sung as opposed to spoken – as was Bizet’s original intention – arguably also robs the narrative of some of its gravitas.
Nevertheless, the musical performances are outstanding. Kadelnik, Liskovetskiy, Alyona Kistenyova (in the role of Micaela) and Iurie Gisca (incarnating Escamillo, the torredor) sing with a passion and conviction that’s little short of mesmeric.
Highlights are many: Carmen’s Cuban-tinged ‘Habanera’; her seductive aria that so beguiles the soldier Don Jose that he aids her escape following her arrest for the aforementioned altercation in the factory; the animated gypsy song, which unleashes the most impassioned song and dance of the performance; Gisca’s proud, swaggering ‘Torredor Song’ – these are just a few of the standout moments.
The twenty-five-piece orchestra of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova and the National Philharmonic of Moldova, under the baton of conductor Nicolae Dohotaru, also excels. Larger orchestras over the years may have accentuated the drama of Bizet’s score but the Moldovan orchestra captures the emotional nuances – the sense of foreboding, the sexual tensions at play and the intermittent light-hearted relief – extremely well.
Some will no doubt argue that this production of Carmen is visually pleasing. Yet the vocally and orchestrally arresting performances surely demand more empathetic staging – in short, a greater shock factor that reflects the opera’s violence. The final scene on the Waterfront stage, where Don Jose’s raging jealousy sees him stab Carmen to death has, unfortunately, all the menace of a glove puppet’s assault.
Looking to the future it’s difficult to see how a younger audience, one so accustomed to graphic violence as entertainment, will be able to relate to such sanitized simulations.
Carmen and Don Jose are two of opera’s great tragic figures, though a greater, real-life tragedy was the death of Bizet before he could bask in Carmen’s world-wide popularity. Experiencing Bizet’s rich orchestral score via the conduit of these excellent singers and musicians raises the question, above all else, as to what further wonders Bizet might have conjured had he lived beyond the age of thirty six. Ian Patterson

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Digital Fabrication in Architecture
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WASHINGTON, DC (February 2, 2010) Pamphlets detailing the warning signs associated with heart disease may soon end up in an unexpected location: your child's pediatrician's office. According to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in five American teens has at least one risk factor for developing heart disease in adulthood.
With heart health front-and-center this month in honor of American Heart Month, most media coverage will focus on at-risk adults. But that's a mistake according to Sarah Wally, a dietitian with the National Association for Margarine Manufacturers.
"Although heart disease is typically diagnosed in adulthood, its roots often begin in childhood," says Wally. "Heart disease is the result of a lifelong process and intervention strategies to reduce risk should begin as early as possible."
The new CDC report, released earlier this year, highlights the need to intervene early. The report reveals that twenty percent of children and teens in the U.S. have an abnormal lipid profile a sign of high triglycerides, low levels of good cholesterol or high levels of bad cholesterol and a strong marker for future heart disease risk.
Small changes in daily habits are the key to helping young Americans modify their risk of heart disease, according to Wally. "Incremental changes in diet and exercise habits are much more effective and successful over the long term," she says. "Something as simple as swapping from butter to a soft spread margarine can have a lasting impact in improving the nutritional quality of your diet."
An easy substitution like using soft spread margarines (also known as buttery spreads) instead of butter over a week's time can cut an entire day's worth of saturated fat, not to mention up to 40 calories per serving, Wally says. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), saturated fat raises blood cholesterol more than anything e
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The San Francisco Integration Project is a Brazilian government project aiming to bring water to the semiarid region of the northeast. The project provides funding for two diversions of the San Francisco River, supplementing the supply of local water in four Brazilian states. The Piranhas-Açú and Jaguaribe basins will become the largest recipients of these water deliveries. In this paper, we propose methodologies to state in monetary terms the technical coefficients of water use for the economic sectors associated with urban supply (US) and agricultural irrigation (AI) in different regions of these basins. These coefficients show that for the US economic sectors, at a certain level of urbanization the productivity of water is decreasing. The coefficients of AI obtained are much lower than those of US. The coefficients of AI, when calculated by crop, showed that there is generally an inadequate crop mix in the two basins. When this is associated with the low efficiency of water use, the result is a low economic value per cubic metre of water allocated to the sector. This implies, for both sectors, a need for incentives to use water in a more efficient way.
Technical coefficients of direct use of water in monetary terms for agriculture and urban water use
M. M. G. A. de Moraes, A. C. G. Carneiro, M. P. R. da Silva, G. F. Marques; Technical coefficients of direct use of water in monetary terms for agriculture and urban water use. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 1 October 2015; 15 (5): 1123–1132. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2015.075
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DPD, MSP team up to stop suspect driving up to speeds of 135 mph with undercarriage on fire
A suspect accused of driving at dangerous speeds through Detroit while their vehicle was on fire proved no match for troopers and Detroit police officers late Wednesday evening.
According to officials, the reckless driver was not pursued by police cruisers, but instead the Michigan State Police's Aviation Unit shortly before 10 p.m. on Dec. 28.
The unit's helicopter, Trooper 2, took to the skies to keep tabs on the suspect, who was recorded going at dangerously high speeds and flying past other motorists.
At several points in the footage, flames were seen coming from the vehicle.
"Big fire in the exhaust now," state police said. "Coming up through Gratiot now."
"He just passed me, his under body is on fire," another trooper on the ground responded.
"Oh, that makes sense, we're seeing it pretty good. He's 135 right now Eastbound 8 Mile," the state police in Trooper 2 added.
Earlier in the video, the driver can be seen zipping southbound on Gratiot in the center turn lane, and was recorded going at 145 mph on Hoyt.
"Probably got the pedal to the floor, wide open," troopers in the helicopter could be heard on the video. "Almost rear-ended somebody."
At one point in the footage captured by Trooper 2, the suspect could be seen possibly switching vehicles with another person at Berdan and Yorkshire before continuing onward.
MSP and Detroit police officers waited to intercept the suspect. They were seen later pulling the vehicle over and taking them into custody without any pursuit.
Another trooper could be heard on the video stating officers found a gun in the cup holder of the vehicle at the time of the arrest.
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text: It was a very bold step to have a sung theme rather than an orchestral piece, as in the other Treks. HLewis is quite right that it reflects the mood of the 22nd Century era which Enterprise is trying to depict - a time of progress, optimism and looking forward, just as in the old American frontier days. The song is an attempt to give Star Trek a fresher-faced, less stuffy image - it's important that it not become a stagnant genre monster. I don't see why people would disapprove. It took me a while, but by season 2 I was actually thinking of Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer - instead of Dr. Sam Beckett. Anyone know if he's actually said "Oh Boy!" on Enterprise at all? Given the series' preoccupation with time travel, perhaps there is some still-unrevealed causal link to a secret 20th-Century research program known as Quantum Leap?


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Bringing a new puppy or kitten home should be a wonderful and rewarding experience, but consumers who purchase their new family member from a pet shop may not be getting the dog or cat they’ve been promised. Despite enticing claims that they only source from humane, small-scale breeders, pet stores across the country supply unsuspecting consumers with animals from puppy and kitten “mills.”
Many mill dogs and cats spend their entire lives in small, filthy, wire cages without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization. These facilities are designed to maximize profits, with animals viewed as nothing more than commodities.
The USDA does a poor job of licensing and inspecting commercial breeding facilities that should be regulated, leaving thousands of puppy mills with no oversight.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency charged with regulating the industry and enforcing the Animal Welfare Act, does little to ensure the welfare of the animals in commercial breeding facilities. The standards of care are shockingly low, and USDA enforcement of these minimal standards is weak, resulting in breeders with multiple and egregious violations remaining licensed year after year.
To make matters worse, the USDA does a poor job of licensing and inspecting commercial breeding facilities that should be regulated, leaving thousands of puppy mills with no oversight. California pet stores currently source from both licensed and unlicensed mills.
In response to the inherent cruelty in these mills and the public’s increased awareness that pet stores serve as a significant supply chain for the industry, Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, has introduced Assembly Bill 485, which would eliminate the sale of commercially-raised cats, dogs and rabbits in California pet stores, and encourage partnerships that promote adoptions of homeless pets.
The bill would protect animals and consumers, and set an important precedent for the rest of nation. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Best Friends Animal Society, and The Humane Society of the United States, along with other local animal welfare groups, enthusiastically support this bill.
The law would protect consumers from ending up with unhealthy animals. Puppies and kittens in pet stores are often sick because they are born into deplorable conditions, taken from their mothers too soon and exposed to a wide range of diseases due to inbreeding or a lack of early veterinary care.
It is not uncommon for a consumer to spend thousands of dollars on veterinary bills caring for a sick animal they purchased at a pet store. It is also well documented that dogs and cats purchased from pet stores often have behavior problems and trouble adjusting to life in a home.
The model proposed by the bill is a win-win for California. With broader access to adoptable pets, families can more readily provide a good home to a homeless dog or cat. This, in turn, reduces the burden on our public animal shelters, and on taxpayers who ultimately bear the cost of housing and caring for homeless animals.
Californians who choose not to adopt will still be able to seek out responsible breeders who sell directly to the public and who are proud to show consumers where their animals are kept. California has the opportunity to set the bar for the rest of the nation in standing up against an immensely cruel industry.
To date, 35 diverse municipalities in California—ranging from rural towns to large cities—have enacted similar ordinances. Those cities did so to take a stand against allowing inhumanely-bred animals to be sold in their communities.
Assembly Bill 485 will help break the supply chain so that “mill” operations are unable to profit from their abusive practices and could help save the lives of thousands of shelter pets in the state.
Ed’s Note: Amy Jesse is Puppy Mills Public Policy Manager for the Humane Society of the United States. Elizabeth Oreck is the National Manager of Puppy Mill Initiatives for Best Friends Animal Society. Susan Riggs is Senior Legislative Director for the Western Region for the ASPCA.


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ALBUQUERQUE—Cellulosic biofuels extracted from native switchgrass could lend a helping hand to imperiled birds that depend on vanishing prairies in the Midwest.
With palm oil plantations overrunning Indonesian rainforests and corn-based ethanol in the U.S. spurring new deforestation abroad, it may seem like biofuels and biodiversity don't mix. That's why ecologist Bruce Robertson at Michigan State University's W. K. Kellogg Biological Station and his colleagues wanted to know how birds and bugs would fare if the U.S. switches from corn-based ethanol production to cellulosic biofuels based on grasses. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pushing these biofuels to help achieve further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Switchgrass has been singled out for biofuel production because of its low water requirements and high nutrient efficiency, along with the fact that it is native to the U.S.
Robertson and his team went bird-watching in native prairie, switchgrass plantations and cornfields in Michigan. In the latter, bird diversity was limited to horned larks, killdeer and cowbirds. Large plots of switchgrass, on the other hand, supported 19 of the 20 bird species found on native prairie, including the Henslow's sparrow and the bobolink, and were used as a stopover by migratory birds. The team also found more insect species on switchgrass than on corn—although they still fared worse than those in the native prairie.
"Switchgrass production is going to have some measurable biodiversity benefits both for [insect] and grassland bird populations," Robertson said Tuesday at the Ecological Society of America meeting, held here this week. He added that the switchgrass harvest could occur in the fall, after the birds' breeding season, which would reduce its ecological impact. "As a monoculture," he warns, "it may not be a good place for them to survive and reproduce in the long term."
Max Henschell of Michigan Technological University, who has also studied birds in switchgrass, agrees with the findings. "Switchgrass," he says, "will definitely be better than corn." He suggests that interspersing native broadleaf vegetation in switchgrass monocultures could boost bird numbers even further.
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Families are in desperate need of material and spiritual aid
The war in Ukraine continues to evolve, and millions of families have fled their homes and communities in a desperate attempt to survive. More than half of these displaced families include children and the elderly, and as they seek shelter many worry many worry if they will have enough food and water — or a safe place to sleep.
With your help, Cross Catholic Outreach will rush food, water, sanitary kits, ambulances and other relief where it is needed most. Your generosity will empower a network of Catholic partners, including Cardinal Konrad Krajewski of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity and those working at shelters the Ukrainian communities of Lutsk, Struga and Nowa Uszyca.
Join us now in this important outreach. You can relieve the fears of Ukraine’s families and show them God’s love in this crisis.
Vatican Cardinal Shares Pope’s Blessing for Ukraine Aid
Pope Francis has imparted a special Apostolic Blessing for Cross Catholic Outreach and its supporters in recognition of the ministry’s support of Ukraine’s children and families.
In a letter from the Vatican, Cardinal Krajewski wrote:
“I carry with this venerable gift the thanks of Pope Francis himself for this concrete support of his pastoral initiative and [the Holy Father] imparts to your ministry a special Apostolic Blessing for grace and divine consolation that from his heart he imparts to you and all the staff of Cross Catholic Outreach.”
Your support will extend the Holy Father’s blessing as we work together to lift up Ukraine’s families.
Cross Catholic Outreach supporters are making an incredible impact in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Join us today to help the Church make an even bigger difference for families in need.
Cross Catholic Outreach supporters feed Ukraine’s families
Thanks to faithful friends like you, Cross Catholic Outreach is filling hungry stomachs with 816,480 Vitafood meals, scientifically formulated to meet the nutritional needs of the malnourished. These protein-rich meal packs are being prepared for distribution to Ukraine’s refugees and their families through church feeding programs, food pantries and other trusted local partners.
Tragically, the war in Ukraine has also worsened hunger elsewhere in the world, and hundreds of millions of people are now struggling with food insecurity.
Many developing countries in Asia and Africa depend on Ukraine’s exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil — including Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Ethiopia. While grain exports have resumed, the UN warns the world’s most vulnerable people face a difficult recovery. Learn more about how you can help.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski — Dicastery for the Service of Charity
As the Papal Almoner, Cardinal Krajewski has boldly crossed into Ukraine several times since the war broke out to serve families in need. He has also personally delivered ambulances to hospitals in Ukraine in the name of the Holy Father and concelebrated Mass on Easter Sunday in the Cathedral in Kyiv.
Your support will empower Cardinal Krajewski and the Dicastery for the Service of Charity to continue providing relief — including generators, clothing and food — to families in Ukraine and refugees who have fled the country.
Caritas in Veritate
This global confederation of Catholic institutions is dedicated to bringing “charity in truth” by serving the world’s poor wherever they face discrimination. Right now, Caritas in Veritate has an active presence in Ukraine at three centers serving internally displaced children and families.
Your help will continue to provide much-needed food, water and spiritual support for Ukrainian families who have fled their homes.
Archdiocese of Przemyśl, Poland
The archdiocese is located near the Ukrainian border and is focused on the care and resettlement of refugees. Thanks to friends like you, its receiving centers have welcomed more than 950 refugees — but many more need your help.
Your gift will empower the archdiocese to continue offering refugees food, shelter and trauma therapy while local partners help families secure living arrangements, employment and school for children.
Cross Catholic Outreach is an official Catholic ministry. We have a long history of standing with the Church to defend the world’s most vulnerable people during times of turmoil.
Our outreaches to the poor have included building homes in Haiti after its 2010 and 2021 earthquakes, hurricane relief in Latin America and the Caribbean, medical support in Afghanistan, and delivering emergency food and medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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While we recently discovered that Justin Bieber won't be appearing on The Wanted's new album as rumored, it turns out that he has made quite an impression on the boy band — particularly Max George.
"I've met Justin and he's a lovely lad and people make the wrong opinions of him," Max recently told TMZ when asked to comment on some of the pop star's recent bad behavior.
Bandmate Nathan Sykes is also a fan. "The one thing that’s great about Justin Bieber is he's really focused," he has said. "No matter the amount that’s happened in his life he knows exactly where he wants to be and I respect that."
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Anything that gets a regular fix of gelato into our fridges (and our mouths) is absolutely great news in our books – particularly when we don’t even have to leave the house!
The Gelato Club is here to solve all your gelato needs, with a subscription service that will have tubs of the good stuff delivered straight to your door every month.
Three subscriptions are on offer: “Sweet Tooth”, which will include two 750mL tubs, “Quite Obsessed” will get you three tubs, and “Absolutely Hooked”, which has four tubs delivered to your door, all on the first Saturday of each month.
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Well, the cool cats at the Gelato Club are giving you all the options, with a huge range of flavours that you can pick your tubs from – no surprises here, and heaps of dairy free, nut free, gluten free and soy free options.
They’ve had plenty of time to cook up a whole roster of delicious flavours. The crew have been making good old-fashioned ice cream for generations, utilising award-winning family recipes at the Junction Icecreamery since 1987.
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Tigers Top Prospect Named Number 6 Prospect In Baseball
The Tigers top prospect and number one pick last year, Casey Mize continues to move up. Currently he is one of the top prospects in all of baseball.
According to the story from M-Live, Mize is the Tigers top prospect and has recently been named the number 6 prospect in baseball. The ranking is from MLB pipeline.
Mize is currently in Double A Erie pitching for the Seawolves. He made his Erie debut by throwing a no hitter.
The Tigers top pick may move up to the number 2 spot in baseball as the top four currently are in the majors and will lose their prospect status.
Hopefully he will continue to dominate and Tigers fans will be lucky enough to see him debut in Detroit later this summer.
Mize isn't the only highly ranked prospect. Pitchers Matt Manning and Franklin Perez are 48 and 71 and infielder Isaac Parades is 93 in the top 100.
It maybe a struggle in Detroit this season but at least we should see some great young talent in the next few years.


46. How to Repeal Obamacare?
So we’ve talked about how laws are typically made, and how the Democrat-controlled Congress in 2010 abused that process in order to make Obamacare the “Law of the Land”. Not too many laws of this magnitude have ever been repealed. So how do we get rid of it?
The typical way to repeal this law would be for the House to vote to repeal, requiring a simple majority vote. There will likely be enough Republicans elected to the House to accomplish this, and there may even be some Democrats that will vote to repeal.
Next, we need 60 Senators to vote to repeal. Unfortunately, there is only a slim chance that enough Republicans will be elected to reach this number, since only 1/3 of the Senate seats are up for election this year. It is possible, but doubtful, that Democrat Senators will vote to repeal.
Finally, and absolutely mandatory, is the election of a Republican President, since Obama will definitely veto any attempt to repeal and there will certainly not be enough Senators to override a Presidential veto.
So what if Republicans only win 51 Senate seats?? How about using the same tactics to repeal this law that were used to pass it?? Sounds fair to me! Unfortunately, there are Republican congressmen that may not agree to do that. On the other hand, the Supreme Court decision that the Individual Mandate is a TAX, not a penalty, should allow the Reconciliation Rule to be used, which only requires 51 votes. But there are Republican leaders that claim they have to have a budget in place before they can use that rule. Really?? The Senate hasn’t approved a budget for over 3 years! There was no budget when the Democrats used that rule to pass Obamacare! What gives??
This is where We the People come in! If we put Republicans in office to repeal Obamacare, it is their duty to represent their constituents and do their job!! How dare they balk at repairing the injustice the Democrats have done to our legislative system? We need to remind them that they work for us! And we will need to keep reminding them when it comes to ideas for real reform! It’s time to put We the People back into the legislative process!!
(Note: This commentary is by Dr. Jill Vecchio.)


The benefit caps will shortchange rents approximately £600 per year for the average rented property, except in London, where the shortfall is drastically higher.
Miles Turner, director of eviction specialists, Turner & Howard, is urging tenants to contact their landlords if the benefit caps will result in arrears.
“If tenants have not already done so, they need to contact their landlords immediately if they cannot afford the rent due to housing benefit caps. We are urging tenants and landlords to negotiate rents.
“While the average rent loss will approximately amount to £600 per property on an annual basis in most of the UK, landlords need to note that if they instigate repossession procedures, it could cost them considerably more due to eviction costs and rental voids.
“The key is to communicate. Tenants may be afraid to admit to their landlords if they cannot pay the rent and in return stack up arrears. If left until too late, tenants may find themselves in considerable debt and landlords may have problems meeting their buy-to-let mortgage payments.
“We cannot even begin to assess the effect the caps will have until after March when we can gauge repossession figures once UK eviction statistics are collated and released.”
The housing benefit caps have come under strong attack from the private rented sector, housing and welfare groups. The caps, which have been introduced by the DWP is a result of the increasing housing benefit expenditure, which reached about £21.6bn in 2011 and is expected to reach a level of £24bn by 2014/15 without benefit reform. The government believes rates of housing benefit in the private rented sector have increased to unmanageable levels and is unfair on people earning a reasonable wage who could not consider entering rental agreements which people in receipt of benefit can.
Research reveals 48% of the 7 million rented properties are private rented sector properties and around a quarter of these tenants receive Local Housing Allowance. Claire Turner, Director of the Landlord Information Network (LIN) works extensively with landlords to ensure tenants receive the correct benefits, Claire said:
“If housing market trends continue the UK private rented sector will be bigger than the social rented sector by 2013. Unemployment is rising and the number of tenants claiming benefits rapidly increasing, meaning landlords and tenants need to understand the Housing Benefit regulations in detail to ensure that income is maximised and arrears are minimised.”
Ben Reeve-Lewis, property writer and housing legislation expert is also concerned about the effects the caps would have on tenants in the private sector, “Housing benefit cuts, particularly in London are resulting in an economic cleansing of benefit claimants who are being forced out to areas of cheaper rent, as far away as Margate on the south coast.
“Concerns about benefit cuts are spreading. The Chartered Institute of Housing recently estimated that 800,000 housing benefit tenants are now being priced out of the rental market by these cuts. In a market that is overloaded with salaried tenants looking for properties and rising rents I see no reason why landlords would bother to negotiate a lower rent with tenants on benefits”
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Canadian Housing Statistics Program, 2018
The Housing Data Viewer is now available. This new interactive visualization tool presents data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program on residential properties and residential property owners in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. The tool allows users to customize the map display for areas and data points of interest, as well as produce charts, exportable maps and reports.
The Housing Data Viewer, part of Statistics Canada – Data Visualization Products (71-607-X), is now available.
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On June 15, 2023, the Constitutional Convention of the province of Jujuy, in the north of Argentina, approved a constitutional reform that severely rolls back achievements made at the national level in terms of human rights and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. The reform also criminalizes the act of protesting.
The constitutional reform took place without consultation or Free, Prior and Informed Consent from Indigenous Peoples even though representatives of the seven Peoples of the province demanded to participate in the process.
In a context of excessive extractivism in Jujuy, the reform modifies article 36 on the right to private property, facilitating speedy mechanisms for eviction and leaving Indigenous communities inhabiting the region at a clear disadvantage to other types of land owners. These changes only advance and protect mining interests to the detriment of the rights of Indigenous Peoples, whose lands are already threatened because of the increasing extraction of transition minerals such as lithium.
On June 16, protests against the illegitimate reform began across different parts of the province. Jujuy’s government has responded disproportionately to these protests with violent repression, using rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators, leaving many of them injured. At least 40 people have been arbitrarily arrested, most of them Indigenous women. Some of them have been released, but others are still detained.
On June 20, the constitutional reform was adopted and Indigenous Peoples are still protesting to try to stop such violations of their rights. Their demand, echoed by human rights organizations that support them, is that the constitutional reform be urgently suspended, as it represents a serious setback in terms of human rights and Indigenous Peoples’ rights and goes against the order of authoritativeness of laws such as the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent, which is enshrined in several international treaties and declarations endorsed and ratified by Argentina. Argentina ratified the International Labour Organization Convention 169 in 2000 and in 2007 voted in favor of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Emphatically rejects the violent repression by state forces against Peoples participating in the protests.
- Demands that Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination is respected and that Indigenous Peoples from Jujuy are consulted regarding any legislative change directly affecting them and that their right to give or withhold Free, Prior and Informed Consent is respected in alignment with Article 19 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Urges that the provincial legislature of Jujuy respect Indigenous Peoples’ demand to suspend the constitutional reform.
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Women Who Dance Together Stay Together
It's been a while since I've blogged. Maybe it's the warm, sultry weather her in Mexico or the sweet sound of songbirds, or the seemingly choreographed dance of the hummingbirds furiously flapping their wings, diving at and with each other, dipping their long beaks into the sugar water that we dutifully make once a week.
It's easy to get distracted.
In between all the beauty and surprises Mother Nature affords, I've been thinking about how many of the women I know have been facing challenges big and small running the gamut from splintering partnerships to memory loss, poor balance, and changes in the way we look and the way in which we greet the world as senior women.
Yet within all of the stepping stones that can be perilous, daunting, is the group support that can help us grow and thrive.
Among the dancers in my dance class, there are six of us who are all in our 60s and 70s. We have jeted, plied, kicked-ball-changed together for more than eight years. Studio A is our home away from home--a safe place where we can share anything--well, not exactly everything. Some of us get together outside of class; some of us don't. It may be that the studio is sacred ground that offers a certain magic that cannot be replicated anywhere else.
The Pandemic robbed us of our twice-a-week getaway. Classes were canceled for more than eighteen months and when they resumed, we breathed a sigh of relief even though masks made it damn hard to breathe.
One of the women in the group was in the process of separating from her partner of fourteen years. Normally a stylish woman who once wore a string of pearls to dance class, she was a sodden mess. The pearls had been replaced by an old leotard and baggy tights. Tears came easily among a group of women who provided support, empathy (Hell, some of us had been in the same position though many years ago), and a heap of practical suggestions. I like to think--in fact, I know--that our coterie of wise senior women gave her a boost that helped her disengage from an unhealthy relationship and to get on with an exciting, fulfilling life. (She's only in her sixties, so she has miles to go.)
Another member of our dance class--we really should give ourselves a catchy (all suggestions welcomed)--has been struggling with diverticulosis that has caused severe abdominal pain, nausea, and all kinds of other unpleasant side effects. She weathered a stay in the hospital toward the beginning of the Pandemic, has made all the suggested changes in diet and who knows what else, and now faces surgery.
While she has not been coming to dance class on a regular basis--it depends on the days she's in--she is surrounded by loving concern when she is able to attend. Not long before I left for Mexico, she sat in my heated car during a nasty winter morning before class. I asked her how she was faring and about the prognosis. In a very matter-of-fact voice, she explained her symptoms, how she's tried to change her diet, the medication she's been prescribed, and how none of those efforts have helped for any length of time. She is a brave woman who doesn't like talking about her problems (I should take a hint from her) but who appreciates all of the support.
I am grateful for my dance classes in Studio A. Even when my back is "out" or my energy level is a paltry few degrees above zero, I push myself to dance class two times a week. I love to move and I love the coterie of women who stand in front of the wall of mirrors, making sure that their tops are adjusted and their shoes tied just so, and who find it hard to stop talking when the music starts.


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Art therapy has positive therapeutic effects on clinically complex cases like MS, brain injury, ALS, and Parkinson’s Disease, to name a few. Here, we list art therapy activities for adults with these and other neuro conditions.
Art therapy is becoming more and more popular as it has shown positive effects on a patient’s social, mental, and psychological well-being. But, can art therapy be an effective and reliable treatment approach to rehabilitate patients with a neurological condition or brain injury? This is a long-standing question and has been researched aggressively. Here, we discuss the benefits of art therapy outside of the “standard of care” treatments for neurological conditions as well as art therapy activities for adults – something worth trying as this unique treatment has little to no side effects.
Conventional Treatment for Neurological Conditions
Diseases involving the nervous system are progressive in nature. A person with a condition such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), ALS, or Parkinson’s Disease (PD) experiences continual changes to their physical abilities, which directly impacts their psychological well-being. The conventional medicine approach includes the use of pharmacological agents, physiotherapy, and pain management with the goal of reducing the symptoms of the disease. But, unfortunately, most neurological disorders have no known cure so any treatment aimed at reducing symptoms does not address the disease progression.
Furthermore, the majority of conventional remedies used to treat neurological conditions are often targeted at decreasing physical symptoms, but fail to treat the psychological (emotional) state of mind. If anything, prescription medications can cause more depression, anxiety, or hallucination-type symptoms. This is why many neuro patients will end up taking antipsychotics (i.e. haloperidol) on top of their other prescriptions.
Art Therapy as a Holistic Approach for Neurological Conditions
Art therapy is considered a holistic approach to treating neurological conditions as it affects not only physical well-being, but psychological and social well-being as well. In particular, research demonstrates that art therapy interventions can help:
- create a stable and positive sense of self
- regulate thoughts and behaviors
- improve social skills
- improve problem-solving skills
- develop emotional resilience
- increase participation in physical rehabilitation
- decrease pain
When to Use Art Therapy
Art therapy is proven useful when issues such as limited language capacity and inability to express oneself are present. Art therapy can also benefit patients suffering from depression and anxiety. In particular, art therapy improves a patient’s ability to express his or her internal conflicts, mood, and to relieve suppressed emotions. Last, art therapy has shown benefit in neurological patients with impaired cognition.
One case study demonstrated significant improvement in cognition noted on the MMSE and MVPT tests conducted prior to and after art therapy treatment. The interesting thing to note here is that the case study was done on a chronic stroke patient that showed positive therapeutic effects from the art therapy.
Art Therapy Activities for Adults with Neuro Conditions or Brain Injury
There are a variety of art therapy activities for adults, particularly for those with neurological disorders or a history of brain injury. Activities include:
- painting or water coloring
- sewing or knitting
- creating a collage of newspaper or magazine clippings
- creating a mural on a piece of paper incorporating soft materials (cotton balls, cloth, etc.)
- making a “heart” box out of shoebox (patients place notes about thoughts, feelings, or stressors in their personal heart box as a way of relieving emotions)
- designing cards or postcards
- making puppets
To learn more about art therapy activities for adults, visit the American Art Therapy Association website here.
- Czamanski-Cohen, J., Weihs, K.L. The body-mind model: A platform for studying the mechanisms of change induced by art therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 2016; 51: 63-71.
- Giovanni Mirabella. Is Art Therapy a Reliable Tool for Rehabilitating People Suffering from brain/ Mental Diseases? The Journal of Alternative and Complementary 2015; 21 (4).
- Haeyem, Hoorn, S.V., Dehue, F. & Hutschekaekers, G. Development of an art-therapy intervention for patients with personality disorders: an intervention mapping study. International Journal of Art Therapy. 2018; 23 (3): 125-135.
- Kim, S., Kim, M., Lee, J., Chun, S. Art Therapy Outcomes in the Rehabilitation Treatment of a Stroke Patient: A Case Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. 2008; 25 (3): 129-133.

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World Water | The Road to Nutrient Recovery
By Andrea Gysin
Phosphorus recovery is gaining momentum in Europe, says Andrea Gysin of Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies. The European Union’s adoption of the Circular Economy Package in January 2018 and new fertilizer regulations expected later this year are expected to further stimulate increased recovery and reuse of nutrients such as phosphorus.
In 1993, the American architect and sustainability thought leader William McDonough proclaimed during a presentation in New York that “the things we make must not only rise from the ground but return to it, soil to soil, water to water, so everything that is received from the earth can be freely given back without causing harm to any living system. This is ecology. This is good design.” The philosophy would become the cornerstone of his life’s work, captured in the seminal book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things that McDonough co-authored in 2002 with German chemist Michael Braungart.
Early on, it appears that McDonough not only understood the detrimental impact that nutrients would come to have on our waterways but also seemed to foreshadow the movement that has grown within the wastewater sector over the last couple of decades to combat and reverse it.
Global, growing problem
Nutrient pollution has impaired seas, oceans, and waterways on every continent around the globe. Algae blooms occur regularly causing more than 400 dead zones worldwide, including the Baltic Sea, one of the most heavily eutrophic water bodies in the world. A new study published in Water Resources Research estimates that 1.47 million metric tons of phosphorous from human activities entered the earth’s freshwater bodies each year between 2002 and 2010. The authors found that phosphorous loads exceeded the assimilation capacity of freshwater bodies in 38 percent of the earth’s land surface, an area housing 90 percent of the global human population. Further, the largest contribution to the global phosphorous loads came from domestic sewage at 54 percent, followed by agriculture at 38 percent and industry at 8 percent. According to study co-author Mesﬁn Mekonnen: “In many areas of the world, either there’s not enough water to assimilate the phosphorous or the pollution load is so huge that the water system can’t assimilate everything.”
The European Union (EU) has regulated phosphorus (P) discharges from wastewater treatment works for almost two decades and in 2000 introduced the most comprehensive water legislation yet, the Water Framework Directive (WFD). What sets the WFD apart from previous regulation is that rather than limiting pollutant levels in discharges to our water bodies, it considers the ecological status of water bodies themselves with the objective of achieving “good” ecological status. The extent to which member states have implemented the WFD has varied owing largely to historical differences in phosphorus discharges imposed by national regulations. In Scandinavian countries, for example, low P limits have been a ﬁxture for many years in an attempt to reverse the eutrophication of the Baltic. Other countries have further to go – in England, for example, 53 percent of water bodies are not achieving “good” status with respect to P. As a result, wastewater treatment plants will be faced with increasingly tight phosphorus limits between now and 2021.
Increasing concern has given rise to rigorous actions that go beyond geographical borders bound by EU regulation. HELCOM, the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, also known as the Helsinki Commission, introduced the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP), which has ambitious plans to restore the good ecological status of the Baltic marine environment by 2021. Adopted by the EU coastal states and Russia in 2007, the plan calls for phosphorous emissions into the Baltic to be reduced by more than 40 percent, or more than 15,000 metric tons per year. The nine participating countries have agreed to speciﬁc nutrient reduction targets, of which Poland has by far the largest reduction target at 8,760 metric tons per year, or 57 percent of the total.
While environmental protection has long been a feature of European policy, the shift toward the circular economy – closing the loop of product lifecycles – resulted in the adoption of the Circular Economy Package in January 2018. The overarching goal of the package is to increase the sustainability of Europe’s economy by stimulating increased recovery, recycling, and reuse of secondary materials. Measures include amendments to existing legislation, such as the Waste Framework Directive, and examining the relationships between key pieces of regulation. This shift is demonstrated in the new EU fertilizer regulations, expected later in 2018, which will include organic fertilizers such as composts for the ﬁrst time and are also expected to provide EU-wide end-of-waste criteria for recovered nutrients. This important development, which aligns fertilizer and waste regulation, will greatly reduce the complexity of introducing waste-derived fertilizers to the market.
Phosphorus is included on the list of critical raw materials, or materials that reach or exceed thresholds for both economic importance and supply risk. Europe is almost entirely dependent on phosphorus imports; therefore, the opportunity to recover phosphorus within Europe will greatly reduce supply risk. One of the key forms of recovered phosphorus is struvite – a crystal comprised of phosphorus, nitrogen, and magnesium. Struvite recovered from waste or wastewater has a key role to play in supply, and its value in food production and environmental protection is enhanced due to its properties and mode of action; unlike most phosphate sources, struvite is not water soluble, resulting in reduced runoff and improved plant uptake.
Phosphorus recovery is gaining momentum in Europe. There are roughly 50 permanent phosphorous recovery plants in Europe currently, half of which have been commissioned in the last 4 years. However, this development only addresses a tiny proportion of Europe’s 30,000 wastewater treatment plants, around 2,000 of which are considered to be large enough to make phosphorus recovery economically feasible today. To accelerate this development, some countries are mandating phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater sludges; Switzerland, Germany, and Austria have all passed national regulations within the last 2 years that compel larger wastewater treatment plants to recover phosphorus. Not all action is driven by regulation; in the Netherlands, the water boards have set up a collaborative network organization called Energy & Raw Materials Factory (Energie- en Grondstoffenfabriek) in recognition of the potential to recover valuable resources from wastewater. More than 20 plants are now recovering energy, nutrients, cellulose, bioplastics, biomass, algae, carbon dioxide (CO2), and/or proteins to list a few, putting the Netherlands ﬁrmly at the forefront of wastewater resource recovery.
The potential for and preferred method of phosphorus recovery depends on existing wastewater treatment plant infrastructure. Wastewater treatment plants that have a phosphorus limit have two basic choices: they can either dose chemicals (typically iron or aluminium salts) to precipitate the phosphorus, or they can remove it biologically in a process known as enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR). In both cases, the phosphorus is diverted into the sludge; however, chemically bound phosphorus is typically not readily available for recovery without ﬁrst undertaking processes such as acid leaching. On the other hand, the bacteria in EBPR sludges will naturally release the phosphorus in soluble form when they are exposed to anaerobic conditions – such as an anaerobic digester, which is the most common treatment method for wastewater sludges in Europe. In this way, sites operating EBPR and anaerobic digestion lend themselves perfectly to phosphorus recovery.
The majority of phosphorus recovery installations operating today are in the municipal wastewater sector and recover phosphorus in the form of struvite from sludge or sludge liquors. Lifecycle analyses have demonstrated that struvite is currently the most attractive phosphorus recovery option, but its feasibility depends upon the suitability of the infrastructure as outlined above. Markets that have relatively new infrastructure, such as Poland, have widespread EBPR, creating excellent potential for struvite recovery, whereas markets that mainly rely on chemical phosphorus removal such as Switzerland or Germany would require substantial investment in upstream processes to make struvite recovery a reality. For this reason, the recovery of phosphorus from incinerator ash is gaining momentum. While the processes and associated economics are less clearly established, the countries that have mandated recovery are heavily and/or increasingly dependent on incineration, creating a strong driver for technology development and innovation in this area.
So why isn’t EBPR more widely adopted, given the obvious environmental beneﬁts associated with reducing chemical usage and the potential it creates for proven, cost-effective phosphorus recovery techniques? There are multiple barriers to adopting EBPR ranging from space to operational complexity and concerns about plant reliability. EBPR plants typically have a larger footprint although new technologies that can be retroﬁtted into existing plant footprints and even into existing assets are gaining traction. The question of operational complexity, on the other hand, is not limited to EBPR; the water industry is facing the reality of operating an increasingly complex asset base, which is driving the need for more highly skilled operators.
Perhaps the most fundamental question when considering EBPR adoption is one of reliability. Chemical phosphorus removal is inherently stable and predictable; however, biological processes are sensitive to a range of factors and can be upset by changes in inﬂuent wastewater characteristics or ambient temperature, for example. This is where the regulatory framework comes into play. EBPR lends itself well to a situation within which phosphorus discharge consents are based on seasonal or annual average discharge limits such as in the Netherlands. However, the pass/fail consent system currently in place in Germany is more restrictive and is undoubtedly a major factor that has led to chemical P removal as the preferred option for the majority of treatment plants.
Phosphorus recovery from wastewater has been subject to much innovation over the past two decades or so, and the trend looks set to continue. Ash-based processes are developing rapidly, and the dominance of chemical P removal is giving rise to a new wave of technologies that are able to release chemically bound P to make it available for recovery as struvite. While these processes are still in the early stages of development and testing, they could potentially open substantial new avenues of recovery.
The ecological century
As global population and afﬂuence continue to grow, issues of global water health and nutrient pollution will become increasingly urgent, as captured by 2017’s World Water Day theme: Why waste water?, a plea to improve water quality and reduce, treat, and reuse wastewater from our cities, industry, and agriculture. Putting the challenge in historical context, William McDonough reﬂected in a 2017 interview, “We had the equity century of the 1700’s. We had the economy century of the 1800’s. The 1900’s was the pollution century. This century must be the ecological century because we’re destroying our home.”
There is no easy solution, no single culprit, no single savior. As one of the few measurable impacts, point source wastewater treatment plants may be under greater scrutiny than others, but such scrutiny is a challenge that has quickly become an opportunity for leadership, evidenced by the sector’s shift to a resource recovery mindset as leaders guide us toward new solutions in the ecological century.
Andrea Gysin is managing director for Europe at Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies and is based in London, England. Ostara has 15 nutrient recovery facilities in operation worldwide including three in Europe in the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (www.ostara.com).
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A Tall And Silly Tale Signifies Nothing In 'Tusk'
In Kevin Smith's best movies — and his worst ones, for that matter — the characters talk a whole lot of nonsense. That's also true of Tusk, the writer-director's second foray into horror. This time, the villain actually follows through on his nutty chatter. But he still spends a lot more time talking than torturing.
That is, torturing the protagonist. The walrus-obsessed madman, and his creator, don't spare the audience any abuse. Tusk is an overextended, tonally incoherent joke that would make viewers squirm even if it didn't involve a bloody and demented medical experiment.
Those who stay to the end will encounter two surprises. The one that will be revealed here is a snippet from the Smith podcast in which he, guffawing, first aired the idea that became this movie. So, the story's protagonist is a smug, snarky L.A. podcaster, Wallace (Justin Long).
Wallace and his sidekick (Haley Joel Osment) have become a hot team by making fun of everyday people who've accidentally made fools of themselves in public. In the process, Wallace has alienated his kind-hearted girlfriend. The only possible reason she sticks around is that Smith really likes looking at Genesis Rodriguez, the actress/model to whom he gave the part.
The podcaster heads to Canada to interview a kid who mutilated himself in a fake-looking sword mishap. That doesn't work out, but Wallace finds a message in a men's room, and that leads him to one Howard Howe (Michael Parks, who was also in Smith's Red State).
Howe has a suitably bizarre nautical yarn to spin. But that tale is just the setup for his diabolical plan for Wallace. The podcaster who makes fun of outcasts is about to become one.
If that makes Tusk sound like a moral tale, it barely qualifies. What it is, is a protracted goof, with some gore — mostly off-camera — added to boost marketability. Plus the Fleetwood Mac title song, of course.
While Parks is impressively suave as the absurd obsessive, the other performances range from unpersuasive to distracting. Long is off-pitch throughout, and a slumming, uncredited superstar functions only as a half-comprehensible in-joke. Both the director and the superstar's teenage daughters have cameos, delivering some of the script's forced, unfunny Canuck-vs.-Yanks jokes.
Such randomness worked better for Smith when his budgets were lower and genre requirements were less restrictive. Tusk submits to horror's demand for blood, which makes tediously literal a movie that could have pondered the untrustworthiness of tall tales — whether recounted by psychopaths or on podcasts.
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Late last year I was lucky enough to join some students from The National Film School at IADT on one of their graduation shoots. I shot some stills with my trusty 5D but also shot some film for the first time in years.
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- WWE released the following footage of Ted DiBiase Jr. at the Miami Dolphins’ Fins Weekend events:
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Tom Roberts is one of the leading exponents of early jazz piano in the world today (as stated by Ricardo Sciavales in The Heart and Soul of Stride, Blues, and Swing Piano). He has performed on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson The Statler Brothers Show on TNN , and A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Kiellor. Tom arranged and performed the music for the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s film The Aviator, starring Leonardo di Caprio, as well as several titles for the film DeLovely. He has also arranged music for the syndicated PRI show Riverwalk Jazz, Live from the Landing with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, and a number of pieces for Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for a concert of the music of Louis Armstrong in October 2006. He was the featured pianist at the International Stride Piano Summit in Zurich, Switzerland 2001 and 2009. Tom was pianist for Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks in New York City and pianist and musical director for Leon Redbone for six years. Originally from Pittsburgh, Tom played in all the major jazz clubs in the French Quarter and on the riverboats of New Orleans when he lived there from 1989 to 1994. Tom has performed twice at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2003, once with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops. He was featured in 2003 in solo with Dick Hyman at the prestigious Jazz In July series at New York’s 92nd St. Y. Tom has recorded over 40 albums and has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
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