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Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. reported higher revenue but lower profit in the second quarter of the year, fulfilling projections of near-term growth challenges, particularly in its reinsurance segment, following completion of its $5.6 billion acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC.
The New York-based brokerage’s consolidated revenue in the second quarter of 2019 was $4.35 billion, a 16.5% increase over the same period last year, while underlying revenue grew 4% compared with a year ago, the company said in its second-quarter earnings report Tuesday. Underlying revenue growth is calculated as if Marsh & McLennan and JLT were a combined company a year ago, but excludes the impact of currency and other acquisitions, dispositions and transfers among businesses, according to the statement.
Net income in the second quarter of 2019 was $332 million compared with $531 million in the same quarter last year, according to the company’s earnings statement.
“JLT has made us stronger in several specialty areas and has deepened our footprint in the faster-growing geographies of Asia-Pacific and Latin America, and JLT has enhanced our scale,” Dan Glaser, president and CEO of Marsh & McLennan, said in a conference call Tuesday morning.
Marsh & McLennan officials had warned of near-term growth challenges during the company’s first-quarter conference call. Organic growth has lingered in the 3% to 5% range annually over last decade, but “we have aspirations to grow more than that, clearly,” Mr. Glaser said.
Risk and insurance services revenue rose 23% to $2.57 billion in the second quarter of the year. Marsh LLC’s revenue in the first quarter was $2.16 billion, a 23% increase. Revenue for the Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC reinsurance brokerage unit rose 18% to $392 million in the quarter, but was down 3% on an underlying basis, according to the earnings report.
“The decline in Guy Carpenter’s underlying revenue growth is a combination of timing and a decline in our new business pipeline,” Mr. Glaser said. “Not surprising for an acquisition of this size, JLT’s new business slowed considerably during the period between deal announcement and closing. This impacted Marsh and Guy Carpenter, but was felt more acutely in reinsurance. Although it will take time to rebuild the new business pipeline, we are confident in the long-term growth outlook for our combined business.”
Guy Carpenter recently won a request for proposal by a top 10 U.S. insurer by leveraging a terrorism model created by JLT combined with the analytical capabilities of Guy Carpenter — one of several examples of the joint collaboration helping the company expand existing relationships and win new business, he said.
“Guy Carpenter has been a terrific performer on multi levels for us for many years,” Mr. Glaser said. “In fact, this negative quarter is only their second negative quarter in the last decade.”
“This is correctable," he continued. “It’s not going to take years, but then again it’s not going to take weeks. There will be a period of time that we work it through and we’ll get the pipeline going again, so it’s not something that we’re overly concerned with.”
Consulting revenues, meanwhile, rose 9% to $1.8 billion as Oliver Wyman Group’s revenue rose 10% to $540 million while Mercer’s revenue increased 9% to $1.26 billion.
JLT integration and restructuring costs totaled $98 million in the second quarter of 2019, including costs incurred for staff reductions, consulting costs related to the JLT transaction and the loss on the sale of JLT’s aerospace business, while acquisition-related costs totaled $82 million, according to the earnings statement.
JLT announced in March it would sell its aerospace practice to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. to address a potential overlap and smooth the path for its acquisition by Marsh & McLennan.
“At the end, the aerospace business that we sold would have had a very negligible impact on margin in this quarter,” Mr. Glaser said. “The reality of that business is that it’s a very big fourth-quarter business, but it’s much smaller throughout other parts of the year.”
Company officials were asked about employee departures in the wake of the acquisition. Brokerage Price Forbes Ltd. announced last week it hired a team of former JLT executives to staff a new division focused on growing its professional liability business in Canada, North America and internationally.
“Specifically on talent retention, sure, there are some people who have left that we would preferred that they stayed with the organization,” Mr. Glaser said. “However, you’ve got to put that in context. The overall level of JLT voluntary turnover in the second quarter of 2019 is very consistent with the overall level of voluntary turnover within JLT in the second quarter of 2018. It’s running a little bit higher in the U.K. and it’s actually running lower than last year in the rest of the world. So in the context of talent retention, broadly we’re quite satisfied.”
Property/casualty pricing is firming in specific lines of business and geographies, particularly for complex risks or those with catastrophe exposures, Mr. Glaser said. The Marsh Global Insurance Market Index saw an increase of nearly 6% in the second quarter compared with 3% in the first quarter and 2% in the fourth quarter of 2018, he said.
Property lines are seeing average renewal price increases of 8%, with an increase of 10% in the United States, while casualty prices rose for the first time since 2013 and saw average renewal rate increases of 1% in the second quarter, Mr. Glaser said. Financial and professional lines saw average renewal rate increases of 10% in the quarter, with the U.S. rising 7% and the U.K. and Asia-Pacific up double digits, he said.
For reinsurance, at midyear renewals, which focus primarily on the United States and hurricane-exposed programs, multiple factors came together to result in double-digit property catastrophe rate increases in Florida on average for the first time in more than a decade, Mr. Glaser said.
“This is driven by loss creep from the 2017 and 2018 loss events, reduced capital inflows and evolving views of risk,” he said. “Ultimately, we can’t predict the mid- to long-term outlook for pricing, but the current conditions are firmer almost across the board.”
In the first half of 2019, Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC closed the acquisition of Clearwater, Florida-based Bouchard Insurance Inc. in February and announced the acquisition of Phoenix-based Lovitt & Touché Inc. in April as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to expand its middle-market business.
“MMA is our priority in the near term as we integrate JLT,” John Doyle, president and CEO of Marsh LLC, said during the conference call. “There’s a good pipeline. We’ve earned a favorable reputation for honoring our commitments. That gives us a real good shot, and in many cases a first look, at some really high-quality firms that are in the market.”
Consolidated revenue was $8.42 billion for the first six months of 2019, an increase of 8.7%, or 4% on an underlying basis, according to the earnings statement.
Net income for the first six months of 2019 was $1.05 billion compared with $1.22 billion in the same period last year, according to the earnings statement.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC will sell its aerospace practice to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. to address a potential overlap and smooth the path for JLT’s acquisition by Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.


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Death, love, heartbreak, flashbacks, body switches, resurrections — a lot has happened in 100 episodes of The Vampire Diaries.
When the CW series premiered in September 2009, viewers were introduced to protagonist Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), a journal-writing high school teen who had just lost her parents. Soon she fell for Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley), who she thought was the brooding new guy in school. In reality, he was a century-old vampire captivated by her, a girl who looked exactly like his one-time love, Katherine Pierce (Dobrev), who is also a vampire. Stefan had also just returned from his hometown of Mystic Falls where he reunited with his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder) after spending decades away.
The Vampire Diaries EP Caroline Dries: Enzo becomes the devil on Damon's shoulder
Apparently Cult couldn't gain a following — the CW series has been dropped from the network's schedule.
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In the revised listings sent out on Wednesday, The CW noted that it will air an encore episode of The Carrie Diaries this week and then two repeats of Oh Sit! in Cult's timeslot. While the show is not officially canceled, it's no longer on the official schedule, a network rep tells TVGuide.com.
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Is this the beginning of the end for Cult?
After airing only two episodes, The CW has moved Cult to Fridays beginning...
As a CW show called Cult about a fictional CW show also called "Cult," which has its own cult fandom, Cult (the real one) can be more than a little confusing for viewers. So whether you're tuning in again or for the very first time on Tuesday at 9/8c, we've compiled a helpful little guide of everything you need to know about the hyper-meta mystery.
Most people would be disappointed to learn their character was being killed off. For The Vampire Diaries' Matt Davis, it was a blessing in disguise.
Just call Billy Grimm the Pied Piper of Cult.
On the new CW series, premiering Monday, Feb 17 at 8/7c, Robert Knepper plays actor Roger Reeves who is playing cult leader Billy Grimm on the show-within-the-show called Cult. Matt Davis stars as Jeff, a journalist who is prompted to...
Matt Davis as Jeff and Jessica Lucas
Can a meta show be too meta? The creator of Cult, which features a show within the show, hopes that answer is no.
The new CW series stars Vampire Diaries alum Matt Davis as Jeff, a journalist who is prompted to investigate the rabid fans of a show called Cult when his brother goes missing. Jessica Lucas plays an inquisitive production assistant on the show whom he teams up with during his search. The series leads viewers to sometimes question if they're watching the "inside" show -- which stars Robert Knepper as cult leader Billy Grimm and Alona Tal as the cop searching for him --or the "outside" show which follows Jeff. The executive producer of the inside show, Stephen Rae, is also mysteriously labeled as the executive producer of the outside show that the audience is watching.
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The Vampire Diaries has added one more vampire.
Elena met her fate in the Season 3 finale after her fateful trip over Wickery Bridge left her on a slab in the morgue. But don't worry: She will be back next season, along with her portrayer, Nina Dobrev, who joined the rest of the cast and executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson at their Comic-Con panel, moderated by TV Guide Magazine's Debra Birnbaum, on Saturday dish about the upcoming season. (Turns out, Elena was supposed to become a vampire in Season 2, so this has been a long time coming!)

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The upcoming monsoon season is expected to cause waterlogging and related issues in different parts of the city.
To address these challenges and ensure a smoother experience for the city’s inhabitants, the Centre has allocated Rs 250 crore to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) as part of the National Disaster Management Scheme.
This financial support aims to effectively manage flood situations in the city. The funding will be distributed over the next three years, from 2023 to 2026, and the tendering process for various projects is already in progress.
The decision was made during a recent meeting between the Centre and the PMC.
As per the information received, centre has allocated funds under the National Disaster Management Scheme to mitigate the risk of urban flooding. Pune has been selected as one of the seven cities in the country to benefit from this allocation.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will release a sum of Rs 250 crore to the city over a period of three years.


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A recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation asked Americans who support a national health plan which features are most important to them. A national health plan was defined as “sometimes called Medicare for All, in which all Americans would get their insurance from a single government plan.”
Of those who favor a national health plan, 89% said covering all Americans was very important. Likewise, 79% identified the need to simplify America’s health care system as a high priority. While a “national health plan” could take many forms, Medicare for All has become a popular term for universal health coverage (UHC) with a single payer for care: the federal government. Different versions of Medicare for All have been gaining traction throughout the Democratic primary race as candidates try to come up with a brand of health reform that is both popular and feasible.
Pete Buttigieg has proposed that we adopt a “Medicare for All who want it” approach where a public option is available, but individuals who like their private health insurance can keep it. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have said we should abolish the health insurance industry in favor of a simplified, single-payer plan run by the government. This sort of a plan was favored by only 38% of poll respondents, although it was included in the definition of national health plan all respondents supported.
Just over half of poll respondents (56%) identified elimination of premiums, out-of-pocket costs, co-pays, and deductibles as the most important feature of a plan.
Any sort of national health plan would require significant government spending and likely require more and higher taxes. Yet only 45% favored a shift from what people pay for health care to what they pay in taxes. This sort of contradiction among the electorate–wanting a plan to cover all Americans, but not wanting to pay for it–will continue to slow meaningful policy change.
Databyte via Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare Coverage. Kaiser Family Foundation, November 26, 2019.

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Speaking of coconut as a fruit, I believe everyone is familiar with it. Coconut is very nutritious, containing a large amount of protein, sugars, and vitamin C, as well as trace elements such as magnesium and potassium, which can supplement various nutrients. But is anyone familiar with coconut shells?
Coconut shell refers to the outer shell of a coconut, usually a hard brown shell that can be used to make various handicrafts, fuels, fertilizers, etc. In some regions, coconut shells are also used as building materials and cooking utensils. Coconut shells can also be processed into coconut shell charcoal for use in barbecue and smoked foods. Due to its renewable and environmentally friendly properties, coconut shells are widely used and promoted in some countries and regions. In a word, coconut shell has multiple uses in our daily life.
The global coconut shell market will maintain stable growth in the coming years. It is expected that the global coconut shell market will reach billions of dollars by 2025. The coconut shell market is mainly distributed in regions such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Among them, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and other countries are the main producers and exporters of coconut shells.
With the increasing attention paid to environmental protection and sustainable development, coconut shell, as a renewable resource, has received increasing attention and promotion. In addition, coconut shells can be processed into activated charcoal(how to make coconut shell activated carbon? ), as a natural adsorbent, which is also favored by more and more consumers. The coconut shell market is highly competitive, with main competitors including coconut shell producers, processors, and exporters. In market competition, quality, price, and service are all key factors.
But coconut shells are often discarded as garbage, but do you know? Coconut shells do have many special uses. As for where it is used, there are too many. Let’s take a look together.
Analysis of the Application Prospects of Coconut Shell
Coconut shell is a widely used renewable resource with broad application prospects.
- Fuel: Coconut shell can be processed into coconut shell charcoal for use in barbecue and smoked foods. In addition, coconut shells can also be used to produce biomass fuels, such as coconut shell fuel particles.
- Activated carbon: Coconut shells also have an important use in manufacturing high-quality activated carbon. After the carbonization and pyrolysis of 1000 kilograms of coconut shells in an activated carbon plant, 300 kilograms of coconut shell carbon can be produced, and further refining can obtain 120 kilograms of activated carbon. These activated carbons can purify air, filter toxic gases, and be applied to a range of environmental protection industries.
- Fertilizer: Coconut shells can be processed into coconut shell fragments and used to make organic fertilizers. Coconut shell fragments have good aeration and water retention properties, which can improve soil quality and promote plant growth.
- Building materials: Coconut shells can be processed into coconut shell panels, used to make building materials such as wall panels, ceilings, and floors. Coconut shell panels have excellent sound insulation, heat insulation, and fire resistance, while also being environmentally friendly and sustainable.
- Handicrafts: Coconut shells can be processed into various handicrafts, such as coconut shell carving, coconut shell weaving, etc. Coconut shell handicrafts have a unique style and artistic value, and are increasingly favored by consumers.
- Cooking utensils: Coconut shells can be processed into cooking utensils such as coconut shell bowls and spoons. Coconut shell cooking utensils have the characteristics of nature, environmental protection, and health, and are increasingly favored by consumers.
In short, with people’s attention to environmental protection and sustainable development, the application prospects of coconut shells will become increasingly broad.
Overview of Coconut Shell Development Around the World
The Asian region is one of the main regions for global coconut cultivation and consumption, with abundant coconut shell resources. India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and other countries are the main producers and exporters of coconut shells. Coconut shells are mainly used for making products such as coconut shell activated charcoal, coconut shell fertilizers, and coconut shell boards.
Coconut cultivation and consumption in the African region are relatively low, but there are also some countries with abundant coconut shell resources, such as C ô te d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and so on. Coconut shell is mainly used for making products such as coconut shell charcoal and coconut shell fertilizer.
Coconut cultivation and consumption in Latin America are also relatively concentrated, with abundant coconut shell resources. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and other countries are the main producers and exporters of coconut shells. Coconut shells are mainly used for making products such as coconut shell charcoal, coconut shell fertilizers, and coconut shell boards.
In addition to the aforementioned regions, coconut shells are also produced and consumed to some extent in other regions, such as the Caribbean and Pacific island countries.
In short, coconut shells have a wide range of applications and market demands worldwide. With people’s attention to environmental protection and sustainable development, the application prospects of coconut shells will become increasingly broad.

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The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and Australian National Retailers Association (ANRA) have each released February 21 statements urging the government to improve trading conditions for local retailers in Australia.
Trading hours restrictions need to be addressed
ANRA has issued a release welcoming the federal government’s decision to review trading hour restrictions as part of the upcoming Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) agenda.
Current restrictions and legislation related to trading hours for retailing in Australia is hampering the success of local businesses, according to ANRA Chief Executive Officer Margy Osmond.
“From a national perspective ANRA seeks a degree of alignment in retail trading hours across all states and territories, so that trading hours are unrestricted in all parts of the country with exceptions of Christmas Day, Good Friday and the morning of ANZAC Day,” she explained.
Ms Osmond believes that lifting trading hours restrictions across the country would benefit employees, consumers, business owners and the economy.
She urges the federal and state governments to carefully consider the affects this legislation is having on retailers in Australia.
A priority on taxation equality
ARA claims Australia is losing almost $1 billion in GST revenue due to the Low Value Threshold (LVT) GST rate giving international business an unfair tax advantage.
The Shopping Centre Council of Australia’s (SCCA) recently released a statement explaining their belief that the LVT operates as a ‘reverse tariff’ by raising the prices of local goods and lowering the prices of imported goods. This is an opinion with which ARA Executive Director Russell Zimmerman is in complete agreement.
“The ARA supports SCCA’s view that this makes no economic sense – particularly when it means less money is available for hospitals, schools and other community services,” Mr Zimmerman said.
Mr Zimmerman believes that thousands of jobs could be at risk if reducing the LVT is not made a priority. Additionally, the benefits of lowering the LVT could reach $997 million injected into the Australian economy by 2014-15.
“The opportunity is there for the government to restore a level playing field – the government must stop what is active discrimination against Australian retailers who are being taxed in areas their overseas counterparts are allowed to avoid,” Mr Zimmerman urged.

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30 September 2010 at 00:34 GMT
Warner Bros. has released three character posters from Deathly Hallows: Part I featuring the trio in London and the tagline, “Nowhere is safe”. Check them out in high-resolution below.
29 September 2010 at 13:22 GMT
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I is just around the corner. To keep you in a ‘Potter’ mood until November, we’re bringing you a collection of twenty-four Deathly Hallows themed desktop wallpapers.
Each wallpaper has been designed to fit a number of screen resolutions.
Check the wallpapers out and try one for yourself by clicking here.
28 September 2010 at 00:28 GMT
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will appear on the The Oprah Winfrey Show this Friday, October first. The interview was recorded at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh where Rowling completed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows back in 2007.
In a wide-ranging interview that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling speaks candidly with Winfrey about her life and career as well as her journey to becoming one of the most recognizable writers of children’s literature today. Rowling, who rarely does interviews, also shares her thoughts on the possibility of ever writing another Harry Potter book in the future.
Rowling reveals the moment when she knew that her life had changed forever. It was while in the United States on her second book tour: “There was this enormous Barnes & Noble, and I thought, oh my God. And the queue snaked up the street, up the Barnes & Noble, up through four floors and they took me in the back entrance. They opened the door and they screamed. They screamed….That’s a real stand-out moment for me. I knew it was getting big in that there was press attention and so on, but at that point, that for me…was when it felt ‘Beatle-esque.'”
Rowling also reveals to Winfrey that coping with the pressures of sudden stardom was not easy: “You ask about the pressure. At that point, I kept saying to people, yeah I’m coping…but the truth was there were times when I was barely hanging on by a thread.”
Read the full press release by clicking here.
27 September 2010 at 06:15 GMT
Now that the Deathly Hallows: Part I trailer has been online for a few days (watch it here), we thought we’d take a closer look at some of the little details you might have missed on your first (or second, or tenth, or millionth) viewing.
Click each image below for a larger version.
26 September 2010 at 03:19 GMT
10-year-old Ryan Turner will play the role of Hugo Weasley in the epilogue scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, it has been revealed.
Additionally, Harry and Ginny’s children, James Sirius Potter and Albus Severus Potter will be played by actors Will Dunn and Arthur Bowen respectively.
Deathly Hallows: Part II will be released in July of next year.
25 September 2010 at 01:30 GMT
Both the Lovegoods and Dobby will get musical themes in Alexandre Desplat’s score for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, according to an update by Conrad Pope, the score’s orchestrator. Recording with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) began a week ago.
27 August: Working on Alexandre Desplat’s new score for the next “Potter”. Exciting, vigorous music! Harry flies, fights and conjures. All accompanied by the distinctive, definitely non-generic voice of Desplat. Those who love melodies, harmonies and emotions in their film scores should be pleased. Reminds one of the old days. Stay tuned.
24 September: Just finished the first week with the LSO of recording Alexandre Desplat’s score to “HP7”. Harry Potter now occupies a new musical universe. For Lovegood AD has written a charming, “groovin'” theme. Dobby, too, is given a new “voice”. The emotional music reaches its climax in Ron’s speech in the “wilderness” where the poetry of AD conveys the emotion in a single chord’s voicing. Stay tuned.
Deathly Hallows: Part I will be released on November 19; Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack will be released on November 16.
With thanks to UHP.

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NATO Nuclear Policy Symposium held in Tallinn
At the NATO Nuclear Policy Symposium, held between October 13-14, in Tallinn, nuclear weapons and policy experts from Alliance member countries discussed topics concerning NATO’s deterrence posture.
According to Minister of Defence Hannes Hanso, who gave the opening speech at the symposium, NATO’s deterrence posture is comprised of a balance between conventional and nuclear capabilities.
“Nuclear weapons are the core component in the Alliance's deterrence posture, which together with the member countries’ conventional capabilities provide the appropriate balance,” said Minster of Defence Hanso.
According to the conference panelist Jüri Luik, the Director of the International Centre for Defence and Security, all Allies share the burden of nuclear deterrence.
“The Alliance’s deterrence posture must adapt to the changed security situation,” said Luik.
Servicemen from the United Kingdom, who are serving in Estonia within the framework of the presence of NATO, received mission medals at the ceremony held at the Ministry of Defence. Among others, a mission medal was presented to Colonel Giles Harris, Commander of the eFP Command in Estonia, who has been serving in Estonia since the arrival of the allied units in the spring of 2017.
Friday, Ministers of Defence from Estonia, Latvia and Denmark inaugurated Headquarters Multinational Division North, located at the Ādaži military camp, in Latvia. The purpose of Headquarters Multinational Division North is to enhance the defens capability of the region and connect the region’s forces with the Alliance’s highest Command Structure.


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On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, a casual cinematic chat between two friends, who also happen to be Academy Award-winning directors: Guillermo del Toro and William Friedkin. In the first part of their enthralling two-part conversation for the Talkhouse Podcast, the pair discuss winning big at the Oscars, surviving award season, how to stay a scrapper despite success, del Toro's apprenticeship under makeup legend Dick Smith, the remarkable story of Friedkin and the Pazuzu statue in The Exorcist, the plagiarism controversy surrounding The Shape of Water, and much more. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film. Subscribe now to stay in the loop on future episodes of the Talkhouse Podcast.


LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) The Chicago Bears' kicking competition is over, for now, with Eddy Pineiro the winner.
The Bears announced Sunday that Elliott Fry was released after an offseason and preseason competition with Pineiro and several other kickers to replace Cody Parkey.
"I feel like I've done well," Pineiro said. "I feel like I've kicked well. From OTAs to where I am today, I feel like I'm a completely different kicker."


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A study was undertaken to determine if natural growth irradiance regimes influence the pigment content and/or photosynthesis-irradiance relationships of the tropical brown seaweed, Lobophora variegata. Pigment analyses were performed on samples collected from a series of depths between 9 and 49m. Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll c, and fucoxanthin were constant on a thallus weight basis, but showed small decreases when expressed in terms of thallus area. The beta-carotene content of L. variegata was much greater in shallow than in deep-water samples regardless of the pigment units employed. Experimental reduction of the light regime of the shallow population, produced a significant decrease in beta-carotene content within 2 days. In 4 days, beta-carotene had decreased by 55% on a thallus weight basis, while no significant changes were found in any of the other three pigments.
Photosynthesis-irradiance (P-I) relationships were determined in situ for Lobophora variegata populations from a series of depths between 4.6 and 36.6m. Determinations were made for each population at its native depth, as well as at the spectral regimes of several other depths. The shallowest population examined was found to have a substantially higher rate of light saturated photosynthesis (P(,max)) compared with populations from greater depths. Further reductions of P(,max) with depth were evident on a thallus area basis, but not on a thallus weight basis. The efficiency of low-light photosynthesis, indicated by the initial slope (alpha) of the P-I curve, was found to increase with depth regardless of the depth from which the L. variegata samples were collected.
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Ireland’s top all-female comedy singing sensations The Nualas are back, guns a’blazin‘ and wellies polished and legging it down to The Source Arts Centre for a night of laugh-your-head off, wet-your-pants, pass-out-from-the-glamour-of-it-all entertainment.
With self-penned songs, scintillating vocal harmony and ambitious choreography, this dynamic trio has wowed audiences all over the world and cultivated a massive cult following, from Sligo to Sydney!
They have achieved 6 sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival, completed extended seasons in London, Dublin and New York, headlined the first Singapore International Comedy Festival and completed five major tours, including a 64-date UK theatre tour, including the Royal Albert Hall in London.
In a world where pop stars think nothing of singing in their underwear, The Nualas buck the trend by sporting proper yet unbelievably eye catching stage attire. You’ll hear Nuala favourites like ‘Manolo’ alongside fabulous all-new classics, such as ‘Sexy Farm Song’, and ‘Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Why Am I So Fat?’ Expect scintillating vocal harmony, ambitious choreography, bags of bling, and a night packed solid with craic, laughter, tears, and chat (not necessarily in that order).
The Nualas feature at The Source Arts Centre on Saturday, September 28th (8pm). Tickets: €18 (€16 concession). Box office: 0504 90204. Online: thesourceartscentre.ie.


“Community Acupuncture with Julia Bennett,” part of Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room, 2016. Courtesy of New Museum, New York.
There were needles piercing my lower back, ankle, and wrist while a warming sensation spread all the way to my fingertips. This was just hours after the news of Philando Castile’s fatal shooting by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota permeated the Internet, and only days after the killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Delrawn Small in Brooklyn. Three black men in three days… gone, killed by cops. Crushing fear and anger weighed heavy on my mind, and perhaps even more so on my body. It was pure happenstance that I would find myself on a massage table (of all places) and in actual need of soothing and treating a pain that never seems to go away.
This was Julia Bennett’s community acupuncture session, part of artist Simone Leigh’s newest social-engagement project at the New Museum, The Waiting Room—a series of workshops and “care sessions” focused on homeopathy, massage, acupuncture, and herbalism. The exhibition also hosts a series of lectures and performances by artists and health practitioners on the theme of health care as a human right, the aesthetics of resistance and protest, and black female subjectivity. All these events are open to the public, and most are free.
For The Waiting Room, Leigh draws inspiration from the tragic death of Esmin Green, an African-American woman who waited twenty-four hours in the psychiatric emergency room at Kings County Hospital before she was found dead on the floor from blood clots in her lungs. Claiming that the number one cause of death for black women is obedience, Leigh endeavors to transform the waiting room from a space of compliance to a locus of self-reliance, retaliation, and resiliency. As a result, she sees the act of healing, both symbolic and real, as an act of civil disobedience—a necessity in order to overcome the ailments of systemic racism.
In addition to Leigh’s scheduled events, there’s an installation that showcases an apothecary inside the resource center of the museum. White sandbags line the back wall of the room and a friendly intern sits behind a desk greeting guests and offering information about the project. The space is surrounded by shelves filled with jars of dried chamomile, lavender, marigold, and other herbs, including an unknown substance the artist procured from an herbalist at the Muthi markets in Durban, South Africa. It’s something she calls the “Black-Lives-Matter powder,” a medicine Leigh purchased to protect herself from police brutality. When I asked if the potion works, she responded, “That’s the problem. It would if I had faith that it would work, but I don’t.”
Many share this lack of faith, myself included, especially during a time fraught with uncertainty, violence, and racial discord. My skepticism of the therapeutic effects of the community acupuncture care session, in particular, was palpable. Set inside the gallery were three massage tables sequestered by Shōgi screen partitions and more of those same white sandbags. This New Age medical bunker went black as I closed my eyes and lay motionless for onlookers to see. I had no expectations, nor did I believe I would get anything from it. But here I was, freighted with another slew of tragic events, and getting some relief, at least temporarily. It’s certain that each participant had different experiences, but, at the very least, the sessions became a symbolic act of resistance—a collective healing of a shared suffering.
Much like her sculptural work, Leigh’s social interventions are wrought with symbolism, rely heavily on historical research, and focus primarily on the African diaspora. For example, the sandbags that line the walls inside and outside the apothecary harken back to the community-based medical efforts of the Black Panthers in the ’60s, where black doctors used such materials to thwart police violence at the People’s Free Medical Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn. “As an artist, I am interested in symbolic gestures,” Leigh told me. This came as a surprise considering that this type of work (i.e. social practice art) is so often measured by its efficacy to make and sustain change in communities. This is not to say that Leigh’s symbolism does not serve a social purpose, but perhaps the work gains more traction as performance for social and institutional critique.
As part of a continuation of her celebrated project Free People’s Medical Clinic (2014)—a month-long free clinic at the Stuyvesant Mansion in Brooklyn, which is the former home of Dr. Josephine English, the first black female doctor in New York State—The Waiting Room occupies a space entirely different from its predecessor: the art museum. Not coincidentally, and unlike FPMC, this second iteration of her social engagement with health care challenges white privilege distilled within the white walls of an art institution. It calls into question the allyship of upper-class white liberals—meaning, an acknowledgment of their privilege when actively operating in solidarity with marginalized groups of people.
“Black women are the primary audience for my work,” Leigh stated at the Creative Time Summit in 2015, and The Waiting Room follows suit. However, the artist makes clear that her intention behind the statement is to reassert the humanness of the black female subject—a cause, she believes, all people can rally behind.
Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room is on view at The New Museum, New York until September 18, 2016.


In an upset victory, a 24-year-old candidate won the Republican primary for former congressman Mark Meadows’s North Carolina district, beating a challenger handpicked by Meadows and backed by President Trump.
Madison Cawthorn is slated to win around two-thirds of the primary vote, according to the Associated Press. Cawthorn will turn 25 just before the November general elections, the legal age to serve in the House.
Meadows, who represented the district in the state’s western region for several terms, is now Trump’s chief-of-staff at the White House. The former congressman had chosen Lynda Bennett to run in his stead.
“I want to make something clear: I support our great president,” Cawthorn said on Tuesday night, appealing to supporters of challenger Lynda Bennett. President Trump made a robocall in support of Bennett.
“I do not believe this election has been a referendum on the president’s influence,” Cawthorn added. “The people of western North Carolina are wise and discerning. You observed both candidates and simply made the choice you believed is best for our district.”
Cawthorn is a real estate investor who was nominated at age 18 by Meadows for an appointment at the United States Naval Academy. However, a car crash left Cawthorn paralyzed from the waist down.
Cawthorn’s victory was one of two primaries on Tuesday in which a candidate backed by the president was defeated, marking the first time Republican primary voters rejected Trump’s endorsements. The second primary was won by Kentucky representative Thomas Massie, a libertarian who is running for a sixth term. Trump blasted Massie after the congressman forced House members to return to Washington, D.C. in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic to vote on an economic relief package.


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Letter: Many questions for Assemblyman Colin Schmitt
We do not know all the facts nor do we know all the answers. But Assemblyman Colin Schmitt does, and his obvious obfuscation about why he was on the bus and what he and the cohort of bus riders were doing defies common sense.
And as a Hudson Valley lawyer, this constituent has a host of questions concerning Schmitt and his possible involvement with a busload of Hudson Valley residents in the early hours of Jan. 6 – the day of the Capitol Insurrection.
Schmitt must answer, among other things: Who planned the "bus trip?" Where did the bus in fact go? Who paid for the bus? Did the bus riders attend the Washington, D.C., Trump rally? Were any of the riders present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, after the rally? Why did Schmitt cut short the interview being conducted in his office of alleged bus cohort members concerning the trip? Does Schmitt support the false claims that the constituents in his office expressed blaming ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter for the insurrection in which a horrifying number of Americans participated?
Schmitt's constituents are entitled to answers, full and complete answers.
Martin E. Karlinsky


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Sex and the Older Couple
Young people have a hard time accepting the fact that their fathers and mothers continue to have sex even after the age of 65. The fact is that they do have sex. Just as in the case of younger people, sexuality is affected by physical and psychological issues. For the older person there are issues that are different from when they were young. Age brings with it many physical and psychological changes. What are some of the issues affecting the ability of senior citizens to enjoy sexuality?
For one thing, as people age the likelihood of losing their partner vastly increases. In the absence of their husband or wife with whom they felt very comfortable it is difficult to find a new partner with whom the same level of comfort and trust can be achieved. In fact, in the absence of trying to find a new partner, many widows and widowers are left feeling lonely and depressed. Neither of these emotions has a positive impact of sexuality for the older person.
Even for older couples who remain together there are issues that can make sex very difficult. For example, at any point in life, performance anxiety can be a source of stress that causes sexual relations to stop. For the older couple, this is particularly so. Because the strength of the libido or sexual urge decreases with age, older people can feel awful about themselves for what feels like a loss of sexual desire. Add to this the fact that age and physical changes directly affect performance it many people begin avoiding having sex with their partner. For older men and women it takes longer to orgasm and, in fact, orgasm might not occur on all occasions. Yet, if people continue to have high expectations of themselves they will feel disappointed because so much has changed. Rather than adjusting to these changes some people give up. The result is that the relationship is no longer nurtured.
For some older couples, giving up sex because of these and other problems, leads to distance and alienation. This distance can feel like a real loss for many people, leading to a sense of isolation in the relationship.
Another source of distress is the fact that time takes a toll on everyone's physical appearance. Loose and sagging skin, loss of muscle density, hair loss and changes in the waistline, discourages many who look upon themselves as undesirable regardless of what their husband or wife thinks. A preoccupation with appearance causes some to hide under the covers and prevent anyone from seeing their body.
These and other problems, such as boredom, conflict, stress and fatigue do not have to mean the end of sexuality. It just means that changes need to be made that will increase the ability to be emotionally and physically intimate.
For example, a mature couple needs to spend more time in foreplay. Foreplay often becomes more important than actual orgasm which may or may not happen. It's the physical closeness, mutual stroking and touching that become the center of closeness. That is not to say that orgasm will not occur. It may not occur every time. It's this kind of closeness that helps all human beings feel good about themselves.
Appropriate types of exercise and proper nutrition continue to have an important impact on the mental and physical well-being of senior citizens. This in turn has a positive impact on feeling sexual.
There is no reason why aging should end sexual functioning. While many things may be different for the older person, they can continue to perform and enjoy sex.
If there is a sexual problem that is organic in nature then it's important to see a physician, probably a urologist. For all other issues people can see a therapist to help them work on problems. Very often it is couples psychotherapy that works best. However, there are many other things that are available to couples who are having sexual and emotional difficulties. Yoga, Tai Chi, an exercise program approved by a physician and good nutrition.
It is not just sex that keeps a couple together. Older couples, just the same at any age, need to do things together, from going on long walks to joining in commonly enjoyed activities, whether it's playing gold, riding a bicycle, or going to the opera.
If you are older or if you know that your parents are having difficulties, your experiences, suggestions and comments are encouraged.
Allan N. Schwartz, PhD

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Australia finally has a native son with a green jacket, and he will be going home a rich man after winning the 2013 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.
That man is Adam Scott, who will take home the biggest portion of the $8 million purse on Sunday afternoon after completing an epic two-hole playoff with 2009 Masters winner Angel Cabrera.
The two men went at it in the playoff, hitting identical shots over the first six strokes of No. 18 and No. 10 at Augusta. After Cabrera left his putt high after a brilliant approach, Scott cupped the winner from about 10 feet out and will finally erase Australia from the list of countries that does not have a Masters win.
One of the biggest questions on everyone's minds, though, is how much each golfer will be pocketing for his efforts.
The payouts are scheduled to be the same as the 2012 Masters, where Bubba Watson took home the top prize. While winning the tournament is the biggest kick, there's some major money to be made by just finishing near the Top 10.
To see which golfers were the biggest winners on Sunday after their performance at Augusta, check out the following blurbs below on the various amounts that will be handed out by the tournament committee, preferably in "big check" fashion.
2013 Masters Payout List
Big Winners from Augusta
Jason Day — 3rd place, $544,000
It was quite a week at Augusta for Jason Day.
After taking a share of the lead into Saturday morning's round, Day was right there with countryman Scott in the final three holes, but faltered on No. 17 with a bogey and couldn't recover with a birdie on No. 18 to make things tough on Scott or Cabrera.
Even so, he takes home a fat check this weekend.
Day came in at No. 21 on the PGA Tour money list and has a chance to move into the Top 10 after this big finish (depending on the rest of the field). This was his 10th appearance in a major championship and he ended up with his fourth Top 10 finish—his second Top 5 mark at Augusta.
Day is a golfer on the rise in the PGA ranks, and this performance helps cement that fact.
The six-figure payout will, too.
Angel Cabrera — 2nd place, $864,000
What's not to like about Angel Cabrera's performance on Sunday?
After a slow start to his final pairing with Brandt Snedeker, Cabrera came on down the stretch, hitting his best shot of the tournament (an absolutely ridiculous approach on No. 18) when trailing Scott by a stroke and needing a birdie to send the match into a playoff.
That's exactly what happened, as Cabrera stayed alive with a birdie on the final hole.
Exiled from the top 200 of the World Golf Rankings just four years after he won this event, Cabrera wasn't given much of a chance before Sunday. You wouldn't have given him a chance either after noticing that he was 135th on the money list before this weekend.
With a six-figure check just a few digits shy of one million, Cabrera will more than quadruple his current 2013 earnings and likely move up a few hundred spots on the rankings in the process. It's time we started to learn an important lesson about his game at age 43—he's in contention coming into a major.
Thorbjorn Olesen — T-6th place, $278,000
The young Dane played his best golf on Sunday, and he'll head home with a six-figure payday because of it.
No. 86 on the PGA money list heading into the day, Olesen will certainly take a few steps up on the ladder after this performance, and he should be proud of how he played to make a late run at the green jacket.
At one point, he had three consecutive birdies on the back nine (13, 14, 15) and looked to be in place to at least push his score up to six or seven-under before the day was over.
A bogey on 18 squashed those dreams, but Olesen still finished at four-under on the day and for the tournament—a quality mark just one stroke behind Tiger Woods and Marc Leishman. He's a young golfer, but he took a big leap forward both financially and as a pro on Sunday.
Adam Scott — Winner, $1,440,000
The Aussie emerged from his fellow countrymen (Day, Leishman) to capture the green jacket, and there's nothing sweeter in sports than seeing a new champion try on his blazer for the first time after a Masters win.
The paycheck isn't bad, either.
Any time you can take home a seven-figure payday is quite special, and doing so with the weight of one's country made this an even more impressive performance from the first-time major championship winner.
After missing close putts all day, Scott made two of the biggest putts of his life at the end of the day. Taking advice from caddy Steve Williams (Woods' old caddy) on No. 18 and No. 10, Scott nailed two fairly long putts to prove he was worthy of the jacket and a place in Masters history.
It was a great finish in Augusta.
It was also a great finish for the guys that take home big money in this tournament and a special moment for Australians everywhere.
What a way to finish a tournament that is truly unlike any other.
*For a complete look at the final Masters leaderboard, check out PGATour.com.


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Visits toward the south stress the shoreline, shoreline life and shopping; excursions to the middle the exemplary memorable landmarks and sanctuaries; outings toward the north vault the volcanic mountain range to the tranquil bank of northern Bali; while treks toward the east and west cover the more detached and common parts of the island If you are hoping to take an astounding get-away, chances are, a Bali Island trip is as of now on your rundown. Furthermore, in all actuality, Bali can be an intriguing spot and important experience both in culture and extravagance travel in the event that you do it the correct way. regardless of whether you are beginning your Bali island trip from the US or Europe you have two choices to arrive. The first and normally more costly choice is to go straight to Denpasar, the air terminal found appropriate on the island.
The second is to go to a noteworthy center point, the nearest one is Jakarta and after that exchange by means of a short plane ride to Bali by a deal carrier (AirAsia is one)- you’d book this independently from whatever is left of your ticket. As a voyager who cherishes an extraordinary deal, I decided on the considerably less costly trek by means of Jakarta. When you arrive, consider spending the night in the Indonesian capital before proceeding with your Bali Island travel. A superb inn close to the air terminal in Jakarta is about $30 and will allow you to rest before the following exchange. on the off chance that you choose to remain in the capital for a night, and your inn doesn’t offer a bus (numerous do, so ask first) be watchful when leaving the terminal. You will be barraged by cab organizations, specialists and even air terminal representatives all anxious to get you a taxi for a “low” level rate.

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Image by State Library of New South Wales collection via Flickr
You’ve probably heard about dog years and the rule about multiplying your pup’s age by seven to find out its “human age.” While the equation is not completely scientific, we can count on this estimate to explain why puppies go through their terrible twos, childhood and adolescence before they turn one year old. By the time our senior dogs are slowing down at age ten, keep in mind that when multiplied by seven, that’s seventy human years.
Understanding your dog’s fast-paced life is especially important during that first year, when behavioral changes mark rites of passage. Here are some guidelines to help you prepare for what to expect from your puppy. Keep in mind that depending on the breed, some puppies will reach adulthood within a year, and others will continue growing (physically) far beyond their first birthday. Smaller breeds tend to mature faster than larger dogs. Consult with your vet for your breed’s expectations, but here’s a basic first-year timeline to get you started:
1 to 8 weeks: Baby – early development stage; the puppy learns dog behaviors and eventually weans from mom .
8 to 12 weeks: Toddler – human socialization period; puppies are easily frightened and learn from bad experiences.
12 weeks to 6 months: Early Adolescence – the puppy will test the rules; the equivalent of human puberty.
6 months to 1 year: Adolescence/Young Adulthood – the puppy will continue to experiment and test training commands; by now, the puppy is adjusted in the home and part of the family.
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At a late-March meeting of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority board to discuss the Van Ness Improvement Project — the massive, behind-schedule effort to remake the Van Ness corridor at a cost of more than $300 million — San Francisco supervisors pressed for the distribution of $5 million allocated to helping area businesses hurt by the construction.
A Business Advisory Committee meeting to discuss the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit system project will take place Thursday, April 18, 3 p.m. at 1 South Van Ness Avenue (Civic Center Conference Room on the third floor).
The Van Ness BRT Community Advisory Committee Meeting will take place Thursday, April 25, 6 p.m., at the same address, but in the seventh floor Union Square Conference Room.
The meetings are open to the public. For details, contact [email protected].
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In the wake of last weeks unprecedented DDoS attack against all 13 of the Internets root-name servers, the government and ICANN, one of the Internets main governing bodies, are considering changes to help protect the DNS system against future attacks.
The most immediate and significant changes will likely come from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is holding a meeting this week in Shanghai, China. The body, which is ultimately responsible for maintaining the root servers that contain the master list of Internet domains, will hear recommendations from its Security and Stability Advisory Committee on securing the edge of the Domain Name System network. Specifically, the committee will recommend that ISPs take steps to prevent packets with forged IP addresses from being used in distributed-denial-of-service attacks, according to sources.
Typically, virtually all packets in such attacks carry forged IP addresses, making it difficult for engineers to trace or filter them. The technology to prevent forwarding of such packets has been in most routers for several years, but ISPs have been reluctant to use it.
“They dont turn it on because it makes extra work for them and doesnt earn them any more money,” said Paul Vixie, chairman of the Internet Software Consortium, a root server operator in Redwood City, Calif., and a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee. “Theres more we need to do because [the attacks] will get worse.”
Also in the name of added security, the operators of the root-name servers–each of which is actually several machines in multiple locations–will add more servers to make the system more resistant to attacks and spread out the effects of large-scale DDoS events, according to Vixie.
Security experts say such changes have been needed for some time and that last weeks attack simply makes them more imperative.
Meanwhile, U.S. government security officials are discussing the possibility of creating new regulations that would require federal agencies to buy Internet service only from ISPs that have DDoS protection on their networks, according to people familiar with the situation. Such a decision could place economic pressure on the other ISPs to follow suit, thereby improving Internet security.
The Oct. 21 attack reportedly took down as many as nine of the 13 root servers that contain the master domain list for the DNS for the Internet. However, security watchdog groups and Internet performance authorities said there was little noticeable change in Internet performance for most users.
The attack was an Internet Control Message Protocol flood–also known as a ping flood–which sends a huge number of status requests to servers, sources familiar with the incident said. A spokesman for VeriSign Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., which operates two of the root servers, including the “A,” or master, server, said the servers were receiving as many as 150,000 requests per second during the height of the attack.
Although last weeks attempt didnt bring the Internet down, thats no cause for celebration, experts say.
“By no means has this problem gone away. This one wasnt very sophisticated, so its clear that some of the root operators werent as prepared as they couldve been,” said Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at security vendor Nominum Inc., also in Redwood City, and the principal designer of the current DNS system. “The [top-level domains] are even more vulnerable. Its the next generation of attacks that we need to worry about.”
Other observers suggested that ISPs–which typically share capacity during emergencies such as DDoS attacks–should have access to a pool of ready bandwidth.
“The problem with this was, no one had excess capacity to share,” said Mark Rasch, senior vice president and chief security counsel at Solutionary Inc., based in Omaha, Neb.
For their part, ISPs say that their range of options for DDoS protection is limited. “There doesnt appear to be any public product suite that we can provide to customers to prevent this,” said Jennifer Baker, a WorldCom Inc. spokeswoman based in Washington.


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English name: barren strawberry
Similar in appearance to the strawberry; however, strawberry (Fragaria) has white blossoms and carries edible fruits.
The Waldsteinia ternata is a convenient ground cover plant. Even under difficult circumstances (drought, shade) and on a barren soil, Waldsteinia ternata is a wonderful perennial that can be used to cover the soil beautifully and quickly.
Properties of Waldsteinia ternata
Waldsteinia ternata is satisfied with a shady position. Waldsteinia ternata makes low demands but prefers a soil rich in humus; usually, a rather dry soil does not pose any problem. By its creeping growth, the plant forms a thick carpet that covers the soil, and it is very easily combined with other plants. It can be used e.g. as plant cover under shrubs, in rock gardens and along paths. During flowering in late spring and early summer, single, bright yellow, star-shaped flowers occur in clusters that contrast beautifully with the green leaves. The plant can also carry (inedible) berries. Waldsteinia ternata originates from south-eastern Europe.
With Covergreen Waldsteinia ternata, weeds get much less opportunity to develop. Covergreen Waldsteinia ternata plant mats completely cover the soil immediately after installation, minimising the need for weeding. As Covergreen Waldsteinia ternata covers the soil, weeds have great difficulty to grow through it and, more importantly, weed seeds can hardly reach the soil through the dense vegetation and do not receive the sunlight they need in order to grow.
Waldsteinia ternata does not need to be cut back in spring, but doing so gives it a boost with newly-formed fresh leaves (though flowering will be a little less abundant).
Generally speaking, when spring flowering of Waldsteinia ternata is not abundant, this can indicate a lack of potassium in the soil, which can be compensated for by a suitable fertiliser with a high potassium content (around September).
When Waldsteinia ternata eventually grows beyond its intended position, you can easily cut off excess plant parts with a spade.
Covergreen Waldsteinia ternata can be combined very well with:
By their tightly rooted vegetation cover, Covergreen plant mats protect well against soil erosion, and they prevent washing away of sand. For this reason, Covergreen Waldsteinia ternata is often installed on inclines and banks. As Waldsteinia ternata thrives in the shade, it is very suitable for planting below trees.

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The national and Nairobi City County governments have unsuccessfully tried to decongest Nairobi's central business district and attain free traffic flow.
They should explore workable solutions, not the trial and error measures.
Practising professionals and consultants in the city centre and the many driving employees and clients they pull into the CBD hugely increases traffic.
For instance, when the courts are in recess, traffic within the city centre declines and vice versa. How about giving incentives to these professionals to relocate to the fringes of the CBD?
Students attending school on the other side of the city -- like a child in Eastlands going to school in Westlands -- are bound to increase traffic.
In Texas, USA, schools do not admit children who live beyond a particular radius around the school's locality.
Insecurity, whether real or perceived, also has an adverse effect on traffic. Motorists tend to use routes that they assume are safe.
For instance, in the evening, it takes one to two hours to drive from Westlands to Airport North Road or JKIA on Mombasa Road.
But it can take one 30-45 minutes by using Prof Wangari Maathai Road (formerly Forest Road)-Ring Road Ngara-General Waruinge Street into either Eastleigh (Juja Road), Majengo or Shauri Moyo, or alternatively Landhies Road-Jogoo Road, and finally Outering Road.
Better still, one can use Thika Superhighway and Outering. There is also the effect of poorly done and incomplete roads.
For example, the Bunyala Road section between Lower Hill Road and Mombasa Road was to be expanded but the contractor abandoned it at the Masaba Road junction.
Across Mombasa Road, the contractor doing an overpass at the Likoni Road-Enterprise Road junction has been on site for ages.
OPEN UP ROADS
The government ought to recarpet all major roads within and outside the city, attain free traffic flow along Uhuru Highway, Haile Selassie Avenue, Ring Road, Murang'a Road, Prof Wangari Maathai Road and University Way, set up parking lots and matatu termini on these roads and identify areas of heavy human traffic and the possibility of light rail transport use in those areas (such as Industrial Area).
It should consider opening up the two roads between Nairobi River and Kirinyaga Road that run from the Globe Cinema roundabout through Grogan to Racecourse Road.
The roads are not easily accessible, having been converted into garages. It should also close the matatu termini on Tom Mboya Street and Old Nation roundabout (Tom Mboya Street-Murang'a Road-River Road junction).
Besides, prohibit PSVs from parking in CBD streets, which should be restricted to a few slots per sacco or company at a time to free up space for private vehicles.
By attaining free traffic flow along the identified roads, one can move around Nairobi without affecting CBD or inbound traffic.
It is important to address the following junctions or roundabouts: University Way-Uhuru Highway; Kenyatta Avenue-Uhuru Highway; Haile Selassie Avenue-Uhuru Highway; Moi Avenue-Haile Selassie Avenue; Haile Selassie Avenue-Ring Road-Landhies Road-Jogoo Road; Jogoo Road-Lusaka Road; and Ring Road-Racecourse Road. Inter-changes, overpasses and underpasses would do.
The free traffic flow created on these roads would be the official route for the bus rapid transit buses (BRT ought to move around the city and not to and from estates; the latter should be left to private investors).
It is on these roads that termini and parking lots would be set up.
The new parking lots would charge fees at 10 percent of the city centre charge (say Sh200 against Sh2,000 in the CBD).
All major roads into Nairobi access the city centre through the identified roads.
The government can, therefore, enter into an arrangement with Kenya Railways (or acquire part of its land) to set up multi-storey parking bays on the section within Haile Selassie Avenue, Uhuru Highway and Bunyala Road.
There is heavy human traffic into and out of Industrial Area, mainly through the CBD, to residential areas.
There exists an elaborate railway system in Industrial Area which was used for delivery of goods to and from factories.
How about reactivating the rail for passenger trains? These suggestions may appear to concentrate more on the lower part of Nairobi.
That is because Nairobi's traffic challenges emanate from there and the area is highly populated; the upper part of Nairobi is well-networked, has a lower population and has ongoing new road projects.
Mr Tito, an accountant, is the group finance and administration manager, HighChem Group, and lives in Nairobi. [email protected]


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Today is officially my first snow day since graduation! The weather has been absolutely crazy here, and the weather guys are saying that we could have up to 50 inches of snow from just two snowfalls. The roads are a mess, really the whole city is a mess. I’m glad that work closed because it would just cause more accidents, nothing is plowed.
I took the day to do some cooking in the kitchen. The day before I went to my local produce market to pick up some veggies for the upcoming storm. I saw some leeks and snatched them up. I’d always wanted to try them and thought this would be the perfect opportunity.
Saturday I realized that the only recipes I could really find was potato and leek soup. Seeing that I had no potatoes I had to go a different route. I figured it was time that I came up with my own recipe.
And so my Squash, Leek, and Goat Cheese Flatbread Pizza was born.
- 1 lb squash ( I used half of a kabocha squash) diced into cubes
- 2 leeks sliced thinly on the white sections and only an inch into the light green section, then thoroughly washed
- 1 tbsp butter
- as much goat cheese as you like 🙂
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove finely minced
- 1/2 tbsp dried thyme
- pizza dough
I roasted my cubed squash at 375 for approx 30 minutes, and flipped them once or twice during cooking time. Make sure they are tender. I added some salt to them before they went into the oven as well.
While your squash is looking in the oven its time to cook the leeks. Heat a pan on medium heat then melt the tbsp butter in the pan. Add the sliced leeks into the pan and cook while frequently stirring for 10 minutes. Add some salt and pepper to the mix for a little seasoning.
I had some frozen pizza dough from the last time I made my own from scratch and thawed it out until it was ready to be rolled out. I personally think the ones you can buy from Trader Joes for $.99 are amazing.
Mix your one chopped clove of garlic with the 3 tbsp of olive oil in a small dish.
Once your pizza dough is rolled out, spread the oil and garlic mixture on the dough evenly as your “sauce”, then add on top the sauteed leeks and sprinkle on the dried thyme.
Once your squash is roasted you can add them on top as well as our preferred amount of goat cheese. Me, I like a lot 🙂 After you take your squash out, turn your oven temperature to 450.
Then throw your pizza in the 450 degree oven for approximately 10 minutes until the crust is golden.
The flavor combos on this flatbread pizza was perfect and I was so happy with my end result. This will be remade time and time again!
Hope everyone is being safe if you’re in an area that got lots of snow!


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"This is an opportunity for Major League Baseball to show its stuff and for business owners in Houston to show our stuff, and also for those young people who have a dream of somehow being involved in baseball, to have a chance to maybe go somewhere in baseball."
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Attendees will have unprecedented access to human resource and procurement executives from MLB's central office, all 30 MLB clubs, MLB Network, MLB Advanced Media and Minor League Baseball clubs. For those looking to jump-start careers in baseball, this convention is a good place to start.
"The purpose of the job fair is to not only provide opportunities for attendees, but also to demonstrate the variety and scope of careers and business ventures in Major League Baseball," Taylor said while addressing the crowd. "Anyone interested in working for baseball will benefit from this opportunity directly. You'll be engaged with decision-makers from all 30 teams around the country, and the agenda will include opportunities to do business with entrepreneurs from a variety of companies."
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"Baseball has really opened its arms up to the world of diversity," Ryan said. "It's important to our society. You can learn so many different things from having people that have different perspectives on life in your organization. It makes you a more well-rounded organization, and it makes you a better organization."
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The scope of these Guidance Notes covers all member banks of IBA. Although these Guidance Notes are designed primarily to cover the activities of banks, the contents are generally applicable to other financial institutions and intermediaries covered under the PMLA and are required to adopt KYC Standards. It should be noted that these Guidance Notes issued by IBA are voluntary and recommendatory in nature. Failure to comply with these Guidance Notes does not mean that a Bank has automatically breached the Rules under PMLA or any of the Guidelines issued by RBI. They do, however, provide an indication of what the supervisors/ regulators may take into account as being expected of banks. When tailored by a bank to its own risk management architecture and business processes, these Guidelines provide a safety net in respect of Rules and Regulations pertaining to AML. It may please be noted that these Guidance Notes is an IBA document and the information contained therein is only for the guidance of the industry and ease of understanding of the legal provisions, and for legal purposes the provisions contained in the PMLA and rules there under and instructions issued by RBI from time to time would be applicable.
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It's not coincidence that I've heard basically the same statement from two different people in the same week - that they've come to know the word "family" as a negative one. What I mean is that the word family is now being used as a weapon to fight anyone different, anyone who doesn't fit the stereotype - Mom, Dad, married with children.
It baffles and saddens me that people have the ability to turn the concept of family into something exclusive - as if only some people deserve it. If you aren't 100% normal (and news flash, NO ONE is normal), then watch out! The term "family values" is about to get thrown in your face.
My opinion might not matter much since I am living that typical society-sanctioned life. I have somehow followed life's acceptable plan - I got married to a partner of the opposite sex and then had kids. We've both remained healthy and together and at the moment, do not have anyone else living in our household.
We are blessed - but we are not necessarily the only way to do it. We are not "right", therefore making anyone else wrong. I love my life but I'm not going to use it as ammunition to stop other people from living their own way. If there is love and respect - do what you will. A family is who you love and who loves you. Gay, straight, white, black, adopted, estranged, real or imaginary.
Today, on my 30th birthday, I had a moment of retrospect. I never quite imagined this is the life I would be living. I have three beautiful, healthy, inspiring, amazing children and I am married to quite possibly the most perfect person on the planet. I live in suburbia; I cook dinner and cut coupons. I obsess over a garden and care about household cleaners.Who knew I'd turn out to be such a housewife? :)
My family is a product of doing what felt and feels right. I love them and try to do the best for them. It just so happens that it is considered acceptable by some people's standards. I want to honor all of the families out there - may you have the joy you are searching for and the rights to pursue them!
Eff this idea that family is an exclusive club. That's boring.


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