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Nothing beats making something yourself. The sense of accomplishment alone is rewarding enough. The time and effort you put into a creative project is worth it because not only have you created something with your own hands but you have also developed your skills. Every minute you spend on your hobby you are improving and honing your skills.
Being creative and enjoying your hobbies has a positive effect on our mental health. It lowers stress and increases feelings of self worth and self confidence.
I’d love to share with you this project I recently completed. For those of you who don’t know I have a passion for crochet. I tried a new crochet pattern and I modified it slightly to create this super adorable Santa Hat bralette.
I made this bralette top in a size small but the straps are long enough to fit a medium too. The cups fit a C-D. Feel free to send me a message to order a custom crocheted bikini top, or something else that you might need. I also have a passion for making weighted therapy items so reach out to me if you are interested in ordering a crocheted commission piece from me.
Please check out my online store with some of my crochet creations. My repertoire ranges from small stuffed toys to large ottomans. Bikinis are relatively quick to crochet but cardigans are slow going, just to give you an idea.
Thank you so much for your support. You can find me on Instagram and YouTube by searching for me, Queeenvk.
There are different parts of the stitch in which we can work into. This causes the yarn to be pulled in different directions so you can shape your work into whatever design you design.
Working into the post
You can crochet a stitch around the front of a post of a crochet stitch. Or you can crochet around the back. When reading a crochet pattern these stitches are called Front Post and Back Post crochet. Normally this term is abbreviated with the type of crochet stitch, for example, a double crochet stitch worked into the front of a post in a stitch is called FPDC. Similarly, we can have back post treble crochet written as BPTC.
Front Post Double Crochet (FPDC)
Working into the post of a previous row of double crochet (US terminology from here onwards) can be done around the front of the work. In the video below I show how to do a FPDC. My YouTube video explains in detail how to make this stitch.
You make a FPDC by putting your crochet hook through the post of the next stitch from the front of the work.
Back Post Double Crochet (BPDC)
Working from the back of the work you can make a stitch around the back of a double crochet post. Or a treble crochet post! In the video below I have done a BPDC. My YouTube video explains how to do it too.
Insert your hook from the back of the work, through the DC post of the next stitch. Work the rest of the DC as normal.
Working into the front and back loops
Front loop only (FLO) and back loop only (BLO) stitches can create edges for your work to give it a 3D shape.
The FLO and BLO stitches are super easy. Just work your next stitch into one of the loops at the top of your stitches. This can be done for any height stitch because you’re just using the top loops this time.
Increases and decreases
Your rows and circles don’t need to stay the same size. To create shapes with your yarn and crochet hook you’ll need to learn to increase and decrease the number of stitches in your rows and rounds. Increases in a crochet pattern are abbreviated as sc inc for adding a single crochet stitch to a row. The stitch type is usually included otherwise it’ll just say inc and you continue using the same stitch as the rest of the row.
Crochet patterns abbreviate decreases to Dec or Sc2tog which means single crochet two together. Or it’ll say DC or Tr depending on the stitch required in the pattern.
To decrease the number of stitches in your row by 1 you will crochet 2 stitches together into 1. For a single crochet decrease: put your hook into the stitch and pull up a loop, don’t complete the stitch yet. Put your hook into the 2nd stitch along and pull up a loop, you’ll have 3 loops on your hook. Then finally pull up a loop through all 3 loops to complete the SC Dec.
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The Best BBQ Starter Pack in Australia
This bundle contains two of the best BBQ dry rubs in one convenient pack, with the sweet, smoky and savoury Original BBQ Rub, designed to be all-purpose and ideal for any BBQ food, as well as the Chicken BBQ Rub, which adds a clucking delightful twist of herby and zesty flavour to your white meats and veggies.
What’s more, we’ve provided our meticulously crafted and hand-blended Chilli Salt and Salt-Pepper-Garlic blends, to bring out the best flavours and fragrances in your dishes with a simple sprinkle.
And to top it all off, we’ve thrown in our iconic Bull’s Head Sriracha BBQ Sauce; a genius and delicious blend of sriracha and bbq sauce to add a game-changing flavour dimension to your meals. A match made in BBQ heaven.
The ideal bbq gift pack for anyone looking to begin their BBQ apprenticeship, or to bolster your own personal pantry set-up with some of the finest flavours on the market. Sprinkle, massage, season, and spice up your BBQ meats, veggies, and kitchen creations with this handy variety of high quality, amazing tasting rubs, spices, and sauces.
Rather than purchase individually, save yourself some time and money and get them all together in one great value, convenient BBQ gift set.
The best BBQ Rubs in Australia
Dry rubs provide an excellent seasoning that should be applied before cooking for maximum flavour absorption. BBQ spice rubs add deep and bold flavour from the get go, and often contain less sugar than cooking with sauces alone. The best bbq rubs enhance the natural tastes of meat while adding a unique and mouth-watering flavour of their own, giving your meals depth and character.
The Best Salt Blends For BBQing
Included in your Starter Q gift pack are our 2 most popular and best-selling salt blends: The Chilli Salt Blend and the SPG. The former uses crushed chilli in a typical salt blend to add a little spicy kick to your salt sprinklings, while the SPG combines sea salt flakes with szechuan pepper and garlic granules for an aromatic and mouth-watering salt blend combination. Sprinkle either over your food before, during, and after cooking depending on which flavours you want to bring out the best. Trust us, with these two in your pantry, you’ll be set.
Sriracha BBQ Sauce
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text: How much happier would you be about your job if you only had to work four days a week instead of five? Companies around the world that have been trying out four-day work weeks found that it leads to higher productivity, more motivated staff and less burnout. A recent survey of workers in eight countries, including the U.S., found that nearly half thought they could easily finish their work in five hours a day if they didn't have interruptions, but at the same time, many are working more than 40 hours a week, with 49% in the U.S. saying that's the case, the most in the world. Britain’s Trades Union Congress is pushing for the U.K. to move to a four-day work week by the end of the century, arguing that it's a way for workers to share in the wealth created by new technologies like machine learning and robotics, just like workers were given the weekend off during the Industrial Revolution. Ad agency Grey New York began a program in April to let employees work a four-day week, but there is a catch -- they only get 85 percent of their full-time salary.

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Society of Professional Journalists win Outstanding Campus Chapter award
By Meghan O’dea
The Ohio University Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists won the 2016 Outstanding Campus Chapter of the Year Award.
SPJ members at the Excellence in Journalism conference in New Orleans accept the National Outstanding Campus Chapter of the Year award.
The Society of Professional Journalists is the nations oldest and largest journalism organization. Nerissa Young, SPJ faculty adviser and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism instructor, was honored last year with the 2015 Outstanding Campus Adviser Award.
SPJ members at the Excellence in Journalism conference in New Orleans meet with "Washington Post" editor Marty Baron.
Young stated that winning the award for the organization affirms the quality of students and work being done as a top national journalism school.
"This honor says OU SPJ is holding up the ideals of the organization and journalism through professional development, advocating ethics in the profession and encouraging a free and open society," Young said.
Lynn Walsh, the national president of SPJ, poses with OUSPJ members after her installation banquet at the Excellence in Journalism conference in New Orleans.
The Ohio University chapter hosted 21 club events, offering opportunities such as tutorials, workshops and networking with outstanding journalists.
OU SPJ hosted prominent events including the annual Grammar Smackdown competition with cash prizes for the top three teams, and sponsored the Future of Student Media Summit national conference on campus last spring.
The chapter led discussions on investigative reporting through the screenings of Spotlight and Happy Valley, which are about sex-abuse scandals of Catholic priest and the Penn State football team, respectively.
Speakers were brought in to share insights about the ethics of investigative and political reporting. SPJ hosted several programs per month and can bring in big speakers. In 2015, they hosted the Regions 4 and 5 conference, which brought publicity to the university, the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and the chapter on campus, according to Young.
In addition to journalism-related events, SPJ made sure to include a public service initiative. Members volunteered for Athens’ Veterans Day parade by helping with the parade lineup and serving lunch to veterans.
Kate Hiller, former 2015-2016 OUSPJ president, remembers when few professionals were willing to speak at meetings. She has seen the organization grow in membership, variety of programs and prevalence in the journalism school. Now she thinks the organization is worth the cost for the university to fund and bring in big names in the industry.
"As someone who has grown in leadership and responsibility in the organization, it is a wonderful reminder of how impactful the work I do can be," Hiller said. "I am honored to be part of the award-winning history of this chapter, as I hope others are, too."
Hayley Harding, current Ohio University Chapter SPJ president, said it is important for the OUSPJ chapter to be nationally recognized.
A program we did this year, featuring Grammy-winning singers who sang songs banned for various reasons throughout the decades as a tribute to free speech.
"It means the world to us. It’s really validating to win national recognition, because we work so hard day in and day out to make OUSPJ valuable to its members," Harding said.
Requesting funding or assistance is a lot easier when you have national accreditation, because people are more inclined to help, according to Harding.
When asked what else is left to accomplish, Hiller said: "I am incredibly proud of what Hayley is working on with the chapter and I can only say that it seems to get better and better each year. Hayley started out as one of our freshman liaisons the year I was chapter president and hasn’t looked back since."
An investigative reporter from BuzzFeed, meeting with SPJ members as he was in Athens to accept the Farfel Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Harding recognized the importance of building a holistic chapter. "I rely heavily on my amazing team of officers to make sure cool things are happening, Harding said. They are a great group of people, and I am so proud of them. OUSPJ wouldn’t be half as stellar without them."
Harding is excited to keep planning the rest of the 2016-17 academic year for SPJ. The chapter was great before, but it’s even better today, Hiller said.


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Prep 10 mins
Cook 14 mins
Vegetables simmered in a rich tomato-based gravy. The best thing about this dish that its made fully in the microwave.
- 1⁄2 cup French beans, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1⁄2 cup carrot, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1⁄2 cup green peas
- 1⁄2 cup cauliflower floret
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1⁄4 cup baby corn, sliced
- 1⁄2 inch ginger
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 large tomatoes, sliced
- 1⁄4 teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 4 tablespoons cream
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi)
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 4 tablespoons butter
For the garnish
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander
- 1 teaspoon butter
- Combine the onion,ginger,garlic, tomatoes, turmeric powder and chilli powder in a microwave bowl and microwave on HIGH for 4 minutes Blend this mixture in a liquidiser to get a smooth puree.
- Keep aside.
- Put 2 tablespoons of butter and the cumin seeds in another glass bowl and microwave on HIGH for 1 minute.
- Add the french beans,carrots, green peas, baby corn and cauliflower, cover with a lid and microwave on HIGH for 5 minutes.
- Keep aside.
- In another glass bowl, add the remaining butter, cooked puree, veggies, garam masala, cream, sugar, kasuri methi and salt and mix well.
- Microwave on HIGH for 4 minutes.
- Serve hot garnished with the coriander and butter.
Hi Bragz! As soon as I saw this recipe this evening, I knew that very instant, that this was going to be our dinner tonight. I really love this dish and my parents were so amazed at the flavour, they've passed on a special "THANK YOU" to you. Now about a few changes I had to do to this recipe: 1) I didn't have greenpeas and baby corn tonight, so, I substituted those with 1 yellow bell pepper(finely chopped). 2) I feel that this recipe calls for a lot more butter(fat) than is really required. I used exactly half of the quantity mentioned - I used 2 tbps., but, not of butter, I used our cooking oil as nobody at home loves butter. I feel that the garnishing at the end with 1 tsp. butter is absolutely unnecessary. Also, in step 3, I omitted the butter. 3) I used 6 tbsps. of low-fat yogurt(beaten) instead of cream for a less fatening alternative. 4)In step 7, you've said to microwave for 4 minutes. I did that. But, when the time was up, I tasted the French beans and it still wasn't wholly cooked. So, I cooked the entire dish for 5 more minutes. Hence, my total cooking time came up to 19 minutes and not 14. This made 4 servings for us. 5) You forgot to mention the quantity of red chilli powder and cumin seeds. I used a little less than 1/2 tsp. of red chilli powder and 1 tbsp. of cumin seeds. 6) I used 1 tsp. salt as well. I was most happy that this dish was really easy to make in the microwave! Thanks for sharing. Will definitely make more often :-)
Wonderful flavor! I was really able to come close to making that same wonderful dish I had in Mysore, India. I did not cook mine in the microwave. I did it all on the stovetop. I cooked instruction #1 on Medium until quite soft, then let it cool a couple minutes before pureeing in food processor. Before returning it to the pan, I cooked #3 for 1 minute on Med-HI (substituting fenugreek seeds for the cumin seeds) then added the puree. I used different vegetables than the recipe, adding potatos first and when they were almost done (about an hour), added green beans, carrot, red bell pepper, and half of a hot pepper and cooked for about 20 minutes. Added step #8 and cooked for 15 minutes. Did not garnish, served over basmati rice. I had to use fenugreek seeds since I could not find leaves nearby. Overall, this took a couple of hours. Everyone loved it and I will make it this way again. Will get some paneer for next time. Made 6 servings.
Bragz my man!!! You are good. I cooked this last week (but only got a chance to rate now-sorry) and it was great. You are a working girls best friend! It did cook faster than you said as my micro is fast, and veggies really fresh out the garden. I used butterghee as I felt oil wouldn't do justice to a dish called Makhanwala! Thanks again!


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In the Andes, a long history of research on burial records and burial contexts exists for the purpose of reconstructing cultural affiliation, chronology, socioeconomic status, grave content, and human body treatment. Less attention is paid to the larger question of how mortuary practices functioned in different cultures. Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices (originally released in 1995) examines this broader issue by looking at the mortuary practices that created a connection between the living and the dead; the role of wealth and ancestors in cosmological schemes; the location, construction, and sociopolitical implications of tombs and cemeteries; and the art and iconography of death. By examining rich sets of archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data, the thirteen essays continue to enrich our understanding of the context and meaning of the mortuary traditions in the Andes.
Tom D. Dillehay is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

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Outlawed party leader killed in Meherpur
A leader of outlawed party, Purba Bangla Communist Party (Lal Pataka), has been slaughtered by some unidentified miscreants in Gangni upazila of Meherpur. Police recovered the throat-slit body of Ashraful Islam, 35, the regional commander of Purba Bangla Communist Party (Lal Pataka) and son of Mujibur Rahman of Shimultala village in the upazila, from a field at the village of Gopalnagar on Thursday afternoon.
Locals spotted the body of Ashraful in an abandoned land at Bholardar field in the morning and informed police. Later, the law enforcers sent the body to hospital morgue for autopsy. Gangni police officer in-charge Riazul Islam confirmed the incident, saying internal dispute might have been the reason behind the murder. Ashraful had long been involved in various crimes in the locality, the OC said, adding that he was wanted in 4-5 cases.
Mexico: Policemen Beaten to Death by Angry Mob after Popocatepetl Volcano Logger is Shot
Two Mexican policemen were lynched by an angry mob after they shot dead a suspect illegal logger in a community near the Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City. Another three officers were rescued by a force of 150 policemen dispatched to the village of San Andrés Tlalamac to restore order. The five officers were taking part in a joint operation with forest rangers to inspect woods affected by illegal loggers in the area. During the search they caught a man chopping wood. Local media reported police fatally shot him as he tried to escape.
The man, identified as Israel Balderas Rosales, 42, was rushed to a hospital where he later died. State officials said an investigation was underway to determine who fired the shot. As word of the incident spread, a mob gathered in the small village. The policemen were grabbed by residents, dragged to a community building and severely beaten. Anti-riot security forces intervened, firing teargas to disperse the crowd. However, for two of the officers, named as Edwin Ulises Gordillo and Hugo Martínez Pablo, it was too late.
Jhapa’s tea industry paralyzed as workers, farmers continue strike
JHAPA, May 28 : Tea industry of Jhapa district is reeling under workers´ strike since last one month with the workers demanding higher wages. The indefinite strike, launched at the peak tea-plucking season, has badly affected the tea industry of the district. The talks between agitating workers and tea factory owners that took place on Wednesday ended inconclusively after both sides held on to their stances. The agitating workers and factory owners have agreed to resume the discussions after both parties have done adequate homework on their demands.
Meanwhile, small farmers in the district have been pressing for the implementation of the three-fold agreement reached between farmers, factory owners and local administration around four years ago. Among other things, the agreement calls for revising the prices of tea leaves. The farmers have alleged that the tea factory owners honored the deal only for a few months. They complain that a total of 27 tea factories operating in Jhapa have been cheating them through syndicate system.
As per the farmers´ estimate, they have suffered losses worth Rs 400 million since the factories started violating the agreement. “We are compelled to protest against this injustice,” Purna Karki, a local ltea producer, said. Likewise, tea garden workers had joined the protest launched by the farmers after tea producers refused to provide them with minimum wage fixed by the government last year. Meanwhile, Ramesh Poudel, president of the Nepal Tea Producers´ Association, said, “We have decided to let the free and competitive market determine the price, a practice that is prevalent all around the world.” The dialogue between tea garden workers and factory owners that was initiated on Wednesday is expected to come to a conclusion by Friday, said a member involved in the talks, adding that it has been halted due to their stance only. Agitating farmers, after they had intensified their protest, were arrested by the police. However, around 3000 farmers have again started staging peaceful sit-ins.
Violent Protest at Devil’s Curve in 2009 Sees 53 Facing Trials
Five years after a violent confrontation that left 33 people dead and scores injured in northern Peru, 53 people face charges that include murder, personal injury, forcibly taking firearms and ammunition from people, and sedition.The trial began on May 14, but was suspended almost immediately because there were no translators for the 23 Awajún, Wampis and Shawi people involved. Proceedings resumed May 26 in the northern town of Bagua with the reading of charges against the defendants, who include seven indigenous leaders who were not present when the violence occurred, but who are accused of having incited it.
The leaders include Alberto Pizango, president of the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (Asociación Interétnica para el Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana, AIDESEP), Peru’s largest Amazonian indigenous umbrella organization. If convicted, the leaders could face sentences of life in prison. “We hope for the acquittal of all the defendants, because the prosecutors do not have sufficient evidence to support their case,” AIDSEP lawyer Marco Barreto told Indian Country Today Media Network.
Over the next several weeks, each defendant will be questioned individually. Barreto said he expects the trial to last four or five months. The charges stem from events that occurred at a place known as the Curva del Diablo, or Devil’s Curve, on the main highway through Peru’s Amazonas region, near Bagua. More than 20 non-indigenous people were killed after security forces moved in early in the morning of June 5, 2009, to break up demonstrators who had been blocking the road for more than a month to protest a series of legislative decrees that they feared would open up their lands to timber, oil and mining companies.
Kachin farmers protest over Yuzana land grabbing
Farmers from Hukong Valley in Kachin State have held a press briefing on May 28 to denounce the grabbing of their land by the influential Yuzana Company owned by MP Htay Myint. They claim the company grabbed more than 300,000 acres of ancestral land in the Hukong Valley without proper compensation, and have threatened legal action and protests. “When the Yuzana Company entered Kachin State saying it was working for regional development, we suffered all kinds of hardships,” said Khun Naw, a local of Bankouk village.
“It was like they were killing us when they grabbed our lands. Company officials destroyed our villages and we were beaten. When we made complaints to the superiors, what they replied was it was done under orders from above. They said they couldn’t help anything. And we were neglected. As we had no way to earn, our children became illiterate. Some of us died as we had nothing to pay for our medical expenses,” he added. On August 30, 2012, the farmers threatened to protest in front of Yuzana Company’s headquarters at Shwewgontaing junction in Yangon.
Strike: 100 Students Brutalised, Arrested By Police During Protest, says JAF
The Joint Action Front has lamented that Police brutalised and arrested no fewer than 100 comprising of students, activists and journalists during a protest against the ongoing strike embarked upon by the polytechnic and colleges of education lecturers. It said the protest had thousands of students from Yaba College of Technology; Federal Polytechnics’ students from Ede, Ilaro, Offa, and Federal Colleges of Education from Akoka-Lagos and other states across the country when the incident happened on Wednesday. It said the protest was to lobby the government to implement agreements reached with ASUP and COEASU in order to ensure the return to academic normalcy for the Polytechnics and Colleges of Education students.
The statement read: “JAF whose members were part of the MASS PROTEST organized today May 28 by the Concerned Students against Education Commercialisation (COSATEC) wishes to strongly condemn the trigger happy armed police REPRESSION of the peaceful protest, culminating in the arrest and brutality of over 100 students, activists, and journalists. “The peaceful procession of students and activists under the leadership of the National Coordinator and National Secretary of COSATEC.
The peaceful protest started with a procession from the gate of YABATECH at about 10am and marched peacefully through the Murtala Mohammed Way Ebute Metta, enroute to erect Barricade at the entrance of the Third Mainland Bridge by Adekunle junction. “It was at this point that the Police descended heavily on the peaceful protest with sporadic shooting of teargas, live ammunition and beating of harmless students, activists and journalists with gun butts. Some of the buses that carried students during the procession were not spared as their windscreen were shattered.
Even the symbolic Coffin and Cow inscribed with “Death to Education in Nigeria” were targets of police destruction. “Worst of all was the brutalization of Mr. Segun Akinpelu, a renowned reporter with the Sahara Reporters whose was mercilessly brutalized and his camera and other recording gadgets were completely destroyed into pieces. To cap it all, over 100 students, journalists and activists that included Comrade Akanni Iromini of Awake Nigeria and Mr. Akinpelu were arrested and bundled into a Black Maria.

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An Orlando man admitted to partaking in the U.S. Capitol riot, as part of a plea deal that could put him in jail for up to 14 months.
On Wednesday, Robert Flynt Fairchild Jr. pleaded guilty to a charge of civil disorder.
Fairchild, 40, was facing eight federal charges, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. Terms of the plea agreement show the additional charges will be dismissed in exchange for his cooperation with law enforcement agents and his admission of guilt.
Court documents show he has agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $2,000 and a special assessment of $100 per felony conviction.
He was arrested last year in Kissimmee after federal prosecutors identified him among a crowd of rioters that attempted to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory against then-President Donald Trump — an attack that left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer.
Investigators say Fairchild was captured on multiple police body cameras pushing security gate barriers into a line of police officers.
At 1:23 p.m., he grabbed the security gate and unsuccessfully attempting to remove it from an officer’s control, the complaint said. Later, Fairchild was part of a crowd pushing against the barriers, causing officers to “use their batons and hands to fight back,” according to investigators. He was also identified on another video among a crowd inside the Capitol who yelled “fight for Trump,” the complaint said.
The riot that took place on Jan. 6, 2021, caused about $1.5 million in damages to the United States Capitol, according to the plea agreement.
Fairchild is part of a growing list of Central Florida residents charged for storming the Capitol including, two former Central Florida police officers, a Sanford firefighter, a Treasure Coast charter boat captain, a Melbourne high school teacher and an Orlando actor who played Judas in a U.S. tour of the Broadway mega-hit “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Kevin Tuck, a Windermere police officer until his arrest, and his son Nathaniel Tuck, a former Apopka police officer, pleaded not guilty. Sanford firefighter Andrew Williams and Kenneth Reda, a former Viera High School teacher, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
More than 780 people have been charged by federal prosecutors for their involvement in the insurrection, with Florida leading the nation in the number of people arrested, according to the latest analysis from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.


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Tom is the Tom's Guide's UK Phones Editor, tackling the latest smartphone news and vocally expressing his opinions about upcoming features or changes. It's long way from his days as editor of Gizmodo UK, when pretty much everything was on the table. He’s usually found trying to squeeze another giant Lego set onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining about how terrible his Smart TV is.
There's still time to pre-order a PlayStation portal ahead of release day. Here's all the retailers who have stock right now.
iOS 17.2 will be expanding Apple's Sensitive Content Warnings, helping you avoid seeing what you can't unsee.
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The OLED iPad Pro 2024 may not be arriving until this summer as mass production is tipped for February for the displays.
Waze just added a major new safety feature to keep you safe on the open road by letting you know when a given road has a history of crashes.
The 27-inch iMac is officially dead, according to Apple, so it's time to decide on a different machine.
Google Maps is getting some design changes that should make it easier to read when you're driving.
It's still incredibly easy to get a free trial to Apple TV Plus. Here are 7+ things you can do to get Apple TV Plus for free right now.
Apple just confirmed watchOS 10.1 is draining battery, with the promise that a fix will happen. We just don't know when.
OnePlus 12 leaks suggest that big changes could happen to the battery and camera — for the better
Apple’s two-factor authentication is very Apple-centric, and this is a problem that needs to be fixed.
Here's how you can enable Contact Key Verification in iOS 17.2, and add more security to iMessage.
YouTube's anti ad-block measures are expanding globally, and here's how that's going to affect you.
iPhone 15 Pro offers much faster data transfer, but only if you have the right kit. Here's what you need.
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Some Google Pixel devices are suffering serious problems when upgrading to Android 14 — and multiple profiles could be to blame.
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Phone camera bumps are getting far too big for my liking, and we need to cool that growth down before things get ridiculous.


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Greenhouses can be a gardener’s heaven, providing a protected setting for plants and flowers to flourish in all sorts of weather. Regardless if you are an experienced garden enthusiast or possibly a newbie, greenhouses give you a sanctuary for your personal vegetation, where you may develop a self-maintaining ecosystem throughout every season. In this article, we will explore what greenhouses are, their advantages, sorts, and ways to take on the realm of greenhouse garden.
Great things about Greenhouses:
Greenhouses produce an ideal atmosphere for plants to flourish. They safeguard plants and flowers from severe climatic conditions like frost, robust winds, and hurricanes. Additionally, greenhouses permit gardeners to produce a operated environment to manage humidity and temp needed to expand plants and flowers at their very best. You can even use substitute types of power including solar power panels to strength your greenhouse, thereby eradicating your reliance upon electrical power through the grid.
Forms of Greenhouses:
There are several types of greenhouses, which includes traditional, lean-to, Quonset, and spherical. Every type has its distinctive design and style and benefits. As an illustration, conventional greenhouses have the freedom-standing up, when toned-to greenhouses are connected to current structures for example your home. Circular greenhouses are an alternate design that permits you to expand plants and flowers within a group or perhaps a spiral style. When choosing a greenhouse kind, it’s essential to take into account aspects like your space, environment, and finances.
Greenhouse Gardening Ideas:
Greenhouse garden is an art that needs patience, determination, and also the appropriate strategy. To obtain moving on the proper ft ., below are great tips to take into consideration:
Choose the best vegetation: You must know what plants and flowers to grow in your greenhouse. Pick vegetation that will flourish in the area and those which will benefit from the shelter of any greenhouse.
Normalize temp and humidness: The success of your greenhouse growing plants depends on regulating the temperature and humidity. Consider using heating units, chilling supporters, and thermostats to generate the ideal setting for the plant life.
Irrigating and giving your vegetation: In a greenhouse atmosphere, vegetation call for standard irrigating and serving. Think about using drip irrigation systems that normalize normal water usage preventing over or underwatering your plant life.
Pest management: Greenhouse pest infestations may harm your plant life and wreck your garden quickly. Therefore, it’s essential to have efficient pest control plan that is secure for the plants and the setting.
Greenhouses offer you backyard gardeners the chance to create a self-sustaining environment that supports grow development throughout every season. Whether you are a skilled garden enthusiast or possibly a novice, you can create a sanctuary for the vegetation making use of greenhouses. By deciding on the best form of greenhouse, regulating heat and humidness, watering, and pest control, you will enjoy a successful greenhouse gardening expertise. So, just explore the realm of greenhouse growing plants, and allow your natural thumb blossom.

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Throughout 2009, countless prominent politicians took a hard look at challenging Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. With much of the left apoplectic that a Blue Dog found herself appointed to the Senate and with Gillibrand suffering from mediocre poll numbers, she looked poised to face top-tier opposition. Yet, one-by-one all these New Yorkers ruled out a bid. By my count, at least 7 who would have given Gillibrand a very tough race seriously flirted with the possibility before giving up: Israel, Mahoney, McCarthy, Nadler, Serrano, Stringer and Giuliani. (Jon Cooper also looked close to a bid before giving up.) On Tuesday, Gillibrand dodged an 8th bullet: Bill Thompson, whose name had popped up in statewide discussions after his strong result in November’s mayoral race, announced he wouldn’t run for anything in 2010 so he could prepare for another mayoral bid in 2013.
So we’re done with looking out for new Democratic candidates, right? Gillibrand’s only primary opponent will be Jonathan Tasini, who got 17% in a primary bid against Hillary Clinton in 2006? Not so fast: In a bizarre development, the latest name that has popped up in the state’s Senate discussions is that of Harold Ford Jr., the former congressman who lost a close Senate race in Tennessee in 2006.
To imagine Ford might represent New York as a Democrat is such a grotesque proposition it took me a while to be convinced that I even needed to address the story. Yet, it is increasingly looking like the former congressman is so serious that the biggest figures in the Democratic firmament are getting involved in pushing him out: Harry Reid has reportedly contacted Ford’s new protector Mike Bloomberg to urge him to give up on his latest power play, while Chuck Schumer met with Ford last night to dissuade him from running.
Let’s first state that he registered to vote in New York a month-and-half ago. We first heard about the possibility he might run back in November, which makes this transition from non-resident to explorer-of-a-Senate-bid make Hillary Clinton look like a lifelong New Yorker. After all, the then-First Lady went through a lengthy listening tour across upstate New York before even announcing a bid. But the most important thing to consider about Ford is his ideology.
Ford might have been an appropriate candidate for Tennessee, but if he were to represent New York he would make Joe Lieberman look like a good fit for Connecticut and Rick Santorum for Pennsylvania. Just for starters, there is the fact that he is currently the chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, the party’s centrist apparatus that even the party’s moderates have distanced themselves from over the past decade. But a quick look at his record reveals just how far to the right Ford is compared to Democrats nationally, let alone relatively to one of the country’s most reliably left-wing Democratic electorates.
The most telling vote: In 2006, he was one of 34 Democrats to vote for the Federal Marriage Amendment, the constitutional ban on same-sex unions; at least 2 of the 27 Republicans who voted “no” were from New York. (He also trumpeted his support for a Tennessee ban.) But there’s more:
- 2000: Ford votes to normalize trade relations with China. Democrats oppose bill 138-73.
- 2001: Ford votes for the Patriot Act. Democrats support bill 129-75.
- 2002: Ford votes to authorize Iraq War. Democrats oppose bill 126-81.
- 2003: Ford is one of 63 Democrats to vote for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
- 2005: Ford votes for House Republicans’ tough anti-immigration bill, the Real ID ACT. Only 42 Democrats did so.
- 2005: Ford was one of 43 Democrats to back legislation intervening in the Terri Schiavo case.
- 2005: Ford votes for bankruptcy reform, along with 72 other Democrats.
- 2006: Ford votes to permanently repeal the estate tax, along with only 42 other Democrats.
- He repeatedly voted in favor of a constitutional amendment banning flag-burning (2005, 2003, 2001, 1999). In 2005, the amendment fell just one vote short of the 67 it needed to clear the Senate; needless to say, Democrats can’t afford to give up one of the New York seats.
As we can see, we aren’t talking about a few minor votes but a record of backing the GOP’s top legislative priorities, including bills that were particularly repulsive to much of the Democratic Party: the FMA, the estate tax, bankruptcy reform, the Real ID Act. (One issue on which Ford appears to have a liberal stance is the death penalty, on which he has supported a moratorium. He could also point to his votes against making George W. Bush’s tax cuts permanent, against CAFTA and against Medicare Part D, though those votes received very little Democratic support.) What is especially striking is that Ford is the right of his party across-the-board: fiscal issues, social issues, immigration and national security.
This record is all the more reflective of his ideology that he represented a heavily Democratic district, which means most of his positions were at diametrically opposed to his constituents’. It’s one thing for House Democrats to end up with someone who votes like Bobby Bright in a district that gives Democrats more than 70% of the vote rather than less than 40%; it’s obviously far more consequential for such a misfit to happen in the Senate.
Some might say that Ford was positioning himself this far to the right because he intended to seek statewide office. However, the congressman started bucking his party early in his House career (there is no evidence he became more centrist as the 2006 cycle approached) and his profile today is the same as it was three years ago: He became head of the DLC after leaving Congress.
Most importantly, Ford appears to be interested in a Senate run because of a desire to promote economically conservative positions. For one, he appears to be peeved by Gillibrand’s support for health-care reform! At the very least, that’s what transpires from a New York Post article that reports Mike Bloomberg is pushing Ford because “he’s tangled [with Gillibrand] over health care reform in recent weeks.” Furthermore, The New York Times article that has created much of this week’s buzz revealed that Ford’s backers to be a who’s who of New York’s financial elites and “Wall Street executives who are now encouraging him to run.” (Add to that the fact that Bloomberg’s fingerprints are all over , and this is Caroline Kennedy all over again; I guess it’s a more conservative version, but then again we had no idea where Kennedy stood on any issue.) The article also mentions that some of Ford’s backers are alarmed that Gillibrand “abandoned some of her previous positions on issues like gun control and immigration.”
Indeed: Just a year ago Gillibrand was a member of the House Blue Dog Coalition and her voting record (while nowhere like Ford’s) provoked the consternation of many progressives. Even taking into account the fact that she has remade herself into a liberal since joining the Senate, it is rather far-fetched that she might face the prospect of a challenge from the right. And yes, we are talking about the Empire State: it might not be as staunchly blue as Massachussetts and Rhode Island, but the majority of the Democratic electorate lives in liberal New York City.
And yet, we cannot dismiss Ford’s chances - after all, Schumer and Reid are clearly taking his potential candidacy seriously. First, Gillibrand has had trouble imposing herself and her upstate roots still raise questions about how well she’ll play in New York City. Second, Ford should be able to raise as much money as he needs, as he is very well connected not only in national political circles but also to executives in the financial sector that look committed to helping him.
Most importantly, despite his conservative record Ford might benefit from solid support in the black community, a significant force in New York primaries: The New York Times reports that Ford has already met with the Reverend Al Sharpton, who is “did not seek to discourage Mr. Ford from running, and recommended that he begin to reach out to the state’s black leaders and clergy.” Ford is also scheduled to give the keynote speech at next month’s Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators conference. The Times quoted Brooklyn Assemblyman Nick Perry as noting the group would be open to Ford’s candidacy. I know little about Perry, but Sharpton can hardly be said to be ideologically close to the DLC.
So might the primary turn into a battle of strange coalitions - New York’s financial class, the DLC-establishment and African-American leaders on the one hand; the left’s activist groups, Latino groups and the Democratic establishment on the other? That would be quite a turnaround: It was one thing to see progressives give up on challenging Gillibrand, but if Ford runs we will be treated to the stunning spectacle of liberal groups, immigration and gay-rights advocates, probably unions rallying around New York’s junior senator.


A Queensland man who admits causing his wife's death claims he secretly buried her and pretended she'd abandoned the kids because he didn't want them to be orphans.
Edmund Ian Riggs, 60, admits Patricia Anne died after he pushed her during an argument.
But he denies murdering his wife whose skeletal remains were found buried at their family's former home near Brisbane in 2016, 15 years after she died.
On September 30, 2001, during the last of many arguments that peppered their 17-year marriage, Riggs said Patricia laughed at him when he tried to make peace.
Riggs said his wife told him she'd found a list of escorts in a pocket of his shorts.
Then she revealed she'd had numerous affairs with men she had met through swim coaching and at nightclubs
Her attitude was, "anything you can do, I can do better".
"I was in shock. That's the first I'd heard of it. I started crying," he told his murder trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday.
"She started berating me. 'I wasn't a man. I was sickly'.
"I pushed her and she died as a result of that."
"She went backwards and down and the back of her head or neck or something hit the ... foot of the bed.
Patricia started convulsing and when she stopped, she was dead. He felt blood behind her head.
"My brain's just exploded," Riggs said.
"I knew if I killed her I'd be going to jail for the rest of my life.
"I had four kids who just lost their mum. I didn't want them to lose me as well.
"I didn't want them to be orphans."
Riggs carried his wife's body downstairs, put it in his car and drove around.
He buried her in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Caboolture before cleaning her blood from their bedroom with disinfectant.
He dug up her remains a few years later after seeing heavy machinery at the site. He reburied them at the family home at Redcliffe, north of Brisbane.
They were found by a new owner who was concreting behind a shed.
Riggs pleaded guilty this week to interfering with his wife's corpse.
For 18 years he lied that his wife had walked out and he didn't know where she was. He also filed a missing persons report.
The prosecution claims he deliberately killed her, suggesting, during cross-examination, he was motivated by complaints about his lack of financial contribution to the family and her affairs.
Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC suggested the killing happened a different way.
"I suggest to you that you did something to her that caused her death and what you did to her has been covered up by your choice in disposing of her body," he said.
The trial continues.
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Proposals to continue 3 essential services helping people sleeping rough to move off the streets will be discussed at the Housing & New Homes Committee on 15 November.
The services are part of the council’s bid for the government’s Rough Sleeper Initiative round 5 (RSI5) awarded in May last year, and are wholly funded through the ring-fenced RSI5 grant.
The ‘Off Street Offer’ provides short-stay emergency accommodation in a safe place for up to 30 entrenched rough sleepers.
The service provides 24 hour support, working in a trauma-informed manner to support first stage recovery from rough sleeping.
People staying in the accommodation will have their needs assessed and personalised support to help them move permanently from the streets.
The Seagulls project offers accommodation for 36 people with medium level of support, allowing people to step down from higher support when appropriate to do so.
The Southdown Transition and Resettlement project then provides floating support for people who are ready to live independently, with the support helping people to maintain their accommodation.
Severe weather shelter
Our Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) opens when the temperature is predicted to feel like zero degrees Celsius, or there’s an amber weather warning. This is one of the lowest triggers for offering SWEP accommodation for people sleeping rough in the country.
SWEP provides shelter for all rough sleepers in the city and venues are made available to meet demand. The majority of the accommodation is in single or double rooms with a small amount of congregate space that can be used depending on demand.
The service opened for the first time last week to offer shelter to keep people during Storm Ciarán.
When SWEP is triggered, CGL’s Street Outreach Service work in partnership with the council and other services in the city, including First Base Day Centre, to refer known rough sleepers to come in to warm accommodation.
Food is also provided in the accommodation and services will complete quick assessment and support for those who may be new to rough sleeping.
While people sleeping rough are staying in SWEP accommodation, services continue to work with to find move on options wherever possible.
Concerned about someone sleeping rough?
If you’re concerned about anyone sleeping rough in the city, including people staying in tents, please let us know by reporting through the Streetlink website.
Our Street Outreach Service, provided by Change Grow Live, will then contact them to try to offer them appropriate support and housing assistance. The council funds this specialist service which provides support on the streets, all year round.
It’s important that anyone sleeping rough is offered help as soon as possible and that the assistance offered meets their needs, so accommodation for people on the streets is provided through referrals from organisations who understand what’s available and what support is needed.
Reporting where people are bedded down through Streetlink is the best way of making sure that people get the support they need. This route helps us support residents of the city still sleeping on the streets into emergency accommodation.
If you are threatened with homelessness, please contact us to get advice as soon as possible. We can support you with any problems making it difficult to stay in your home.
The homeless prevention and housing options support we provide includes action to prevent applicants from becoming homeless, help to keep or secure accommodation and a personalised housing plan.
Safe secure accommodation
Councillor Gill Williams, Chair of the Housing & New Homes Committee, said: “We believe it is everyone’s right to have somewhere decent to live, and we want to help everyone sleeping on the streets into safe, secure accommodation.
“These 3 services form a vital part of the support to help people move away from the streets.
“There is no doubt that we are facing a national housing crisis like no other, and that has a serious impact in Brighton & Hove.
“People sleeping rough in the city are a constantly changing population, with the city’s street services work with about 10 new cases every week.
“There are about 700 places in the city for adults needing supported accommodation, but sadly we’re seeing more people end up in need every week.
“If you are worried about anyone sleeping rough, please let us know by contacting Streetlink so we can provide them with the support they need.”
Make Change Count
If you’d like to support the charities and organisations across Brighton & Hove working with people to help them find a permanent solution to their homelessness, please donate to Make Change Count.
The Make Change Count campaign links local organisations experienced in supporting rough sleepers and preventing homelessness.
This year’s campaign has raised more than £1,500 so far. Many thanks to everyone who has donated.
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Gracy earns Meritorious Service medal
A former Cassville resident has earned the Meritorious Service medal for accomplishments made from Aug. 18, 2011, through Aug. 30, 2013. Captain Jeremy S. Gracy distinguished himself in the performance of outstanding service as the Air Mobility Operations Flight Commander, 36th Mobility Response Squadron, 36th Contingency Response Group, 36th Wing, Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Gracy successfully led 50 airmen through a multi-national exercise, three theatre-wide engagements and 15 mobility support operations. Gracy also was key during two humanitarian exercises that involved integrated cooperation from the United States, Korea, Japan and the Royal Australian Air Force to execute 78 airlift missions including 112 personnel and 275,300 pounds of cargo. Gracy authored the Air Force Contingency Response tactics, techniques and procedures maul for airfield assessments. Gracy was credited with seamless site coordination during the first operational deployment os a high altitude missile defense surface to air missile system during heightened tensions with North Korea. Gracy, the son of Bill and Donna Gracy, of Cassville, is a 2002 graduate of Cassville High School and a 2006 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.


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Precision Farming: The Boon for Small Scale Farmers
Would precision farming be relevant to a small-scale farmer? Most wouldn’t think so. But agriculture in India is dominated by small-scale farmers, almost 78% of them. So how can precision farming impact them positively?
Most small-scale farmers have a small chunk of land on which they grow crops to make ends meet. To do this, farmers must make the most from the small patch of land that they have. Here are some ways precision farming can help them do just that:
Optimal Land Usage
A small-scale farmer has only a couple of acres of arable land or less to grow his food. Contrary to large-scale farmers who have sections of land allocated for storage and processing, a small-scale farmer aims to make the best use of every square-foot of fertile soil. Here’s where precision farming comes in.
Every plant requires a specific amount of area to grow. Excess area will result in wastage, while lesser area will result in a battle for nutrition from the soil. Precision planting aims to space seeds at the right distance, ensures the roots of each plant get adequate nutrition, while the shoots have access to ample sunlight. All this ensures optimal use of land to produce the maximum yield.
Irrigation and water conservation
Whether small, medium or large-scale farming, water is a precious resource. Despite two-thirds of the earth’s surface being covered with water, fresh water is hard to come by. With rapidly increasing demand, our water tables are falling and agriculture is the prime consumer.
Farm irrigation consumes almost 85-90% of fresh water. This means, even 10% water savings in this industry can mean twice the amount available for the rest of the world!
With micro irrigation, farmers can deliver the exact amount of water required by a plant right to the roots, with minimal wastage through run-off, evaporation, stagnation, etc. Each seed can gain access to the right quantity of water exactly when needed, which lowers not only wastage but also cost of production for the farmer.
Fertilizers are another valuable resource for the small-scale farmer. Fertilizers can take up over a third of a farmer’s operating costs. Here’s where precision farming comes in. While precisely planting a seed, the farmer also can inject the adequate amount of fertilizer needed by the seed to germinate.
Once the seeds germinate, it’s over to drip-fertigation to take charge of the plant’s nutritional needs. This process involves combining micro-irrigation with soluble fertilizers in the right proportion to provide crops with the necessary amount of water and nutrition at the same time.
Many still consider precision farming and other modern agricultural techniques to be for medium and large-scale farmers. But even in a country like ours, modern agriculture still has a significant role to play. With the right levels of adoption, farmers across the economic strata can make an impact in agriculture.
After all, we need every square foot of land to feed the world.


RIVER VALE, N.J. — A County road project that began Nov. 4 will is causing detours along Rivervale Road from Old Tappan Road to Town Hall -- and it will only get worse.
The four-phase project is expected to be completed next spring.
Phase 1, slated to finish around Nov. 19, has reduced traffic on Rivervale Road to one lane while shrubs and trees are cleared from the east side of the street.
After that, no traffic will be able to pass through the portion of Rivervale Road from Old Tappan Road south to Piermont Avenue for approximately two months, weather depending.
An east detour will take traffic through Old Tappan while a west detour will take it through western River Vale/Hillsdale and Park Ridge.
Eastern Detour: Old Tappan Road to Washington Avenue to Westwood Avenue
Western Detour: Prospect Avenue, Ruckman Road, Piermont Avenue
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Itel ITW-60, the company’s first true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones, have been launched in India. The earphones will be an addition to Itel’s Smart Gadgets portfolio. The earphones feature large sound drivers for an immersive audio experience, the company claims, and sensors in both the earbuds to answer calls as well as shuffle through music. The earphones come with USB Type-C charging and are equipped with Bluetooth v5.0 for a stable connection. Itel says that the earphones have low audio latency for a perfect audio-video sync.
Itel ITW-60 price in India
The Itel ITW-60 true wireless stereo earphones are priced at Rs. 1,699 and they are now available offline. Arijeet Talapatra, CEO, Transsion India, said that India has proven to be one of the crucial markets for Itel with its existing loyal consumers base. “With Itel ITW-60 True Wireless Earphones launch, Itel aims to empower aspirers to live an uninterrupted life by offering them superlative audio experience, convenience, reliability, and seamless connectivity, while on the move,” he added.
Itel ITW-60 specifications, features
Itel ITW-60 True Wireless Earphones are equipped with 13mm sound drivers to deliver balanced sound with clear mids and treble.says that the earphones have a comfortable fit that helps them deliver a ‘360-degree immersive auditory experience’. Both the earbuds have advanced sensors that allow the users to answer calls, and adjust music.
The earphones feature a 35mAh battery that is claimed to deliver up to 2.5 hours of music playtime and up to 3 hours of talk time on a single charge. The Itel ITW-60 True Wireless Earphones come in a charging case that is equipped with a 500mAh battery. The company claims that the case gives up to six recharges and the earphones are said to have a standby time of up to 35 hours.
The Itel ITW-60 True Wireless Earphones has Bluetooth v5.0 for instant pop-up pairing and stable connection. They come with a USB Type-C charging, and are claimed to feature low audio latency for perfect sync between the audio and video.
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Alcohol consumption in pregnancy may result in serious adverse fetal outcome. Non- or low alcoholic wines and beers may be a risk-reduction strategy to help alcohol-dependent individuals to prevent or limit ethanol consumption. The objective of this study was to quantify ethanol concentrations in Canadian beverages claiming to contain no or low alcohol content.
Forty-five different beverages claiming to contain no or low alcohol content in the Canadian market were tested for ethanol concentration using gas chromatography.
Thirteen (29%) of the beverages contained ethanol levels higher than the declared concentration on their label. Six beverages claiming to contain no alcohol were found to contain greater than 1% ethanol.
Pregnant women seeking replacement to alcoholic beverages may be misled by these labels, unknowingly exposing themselves and their unborn babies to ethanol.
to establish national standards of care for the screening and recording of alcohol use and counselling on alcohol use of women of child-bearing age and pregnant women based on the most up-to-date evidence.
published literature was retrieved through searches of PubMed, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library in May 2009 using appropriate controlled vocabulary (e.g., pregnancy complications, alcohol drinking, prenatal care) and key words (e.g., pregnancy, alcohol consumption, risk reduction). Results were restricted to literature published in the last five years with the following research designs: systematic reviews, randomized control trials/controlled clinical trials, and observational studies. There were no language restrictions. Searches were updated on a regular basis and incorporated in the guideline to May 2010. Grey (unpublished) literature was identified through searching the websites of health technology assessment (HTA) and HTA-related agencies, national and international medical specialty societies, clinical practice guideline collections, and clinical trial registries. Each article was screened for relevance and the full text acquired if determined to be relevant. The evidence obtained was reviewed and evaluated by the members of the Expert Workgroup established by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. The quality of evidence was evaluated and recommendations were made according to guidelines developed by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
the quality of evidence was rated using the criteria described by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (Table 1).
the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
these consensus guidelines have been endorsed by the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Quebec; the Canadian Association of Midwives; the Canadian Association of Perinatal, Women's Health and Neonatal Nurses (CAPWHN); the College of Family Physicians of Canada; the Federation of Medical Women of Canada; the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada; and Motherisk. SUMMARY STATEMENTS: 1. There is evidence that alcohol consumption in pregnancy can cause fetal harm. (II-2) There is insufficient evidence regarding fetal safety or harm at low levels of alcohol consumption in pregnancy. (III) 2. There is insufficient evidence to define any threshold for low-level drinking in pregnancy. (III) 3. Abstinence is the prudent choice for a woman who is or might become pregnant. (III) 4. Intensive culture-, gender-, and family-appropriate interventions need to be available and accessible for women with problematic drinking and/or alcohol dependence. (II-2).
1. Universal screening for alcohol consumption should be done periodically for all pregnant women and women of child-bearing age. Ideally, at-risk drinking could be identified before pregnancy, allowing for change. (II-2B) 2. Health care providers should create a safe environment for women to report alcohol consumption. (III-A) 3. The public should be informed that alcohol screening and support for women at risk is part of routine women's health care. (III-A) 4. Health care providers should be aware of the risk factors associated with alcohol use in women of reproductive age. (III-B) 5. Brief interventions are effective and should be provided by health care providers for women with at-risk drinking. (II-2B) 6. If a woman continues to use alcohol during pregnancy, harm reduction/treatment strategies should be encouraged. (II-2B) 7. Pregnant women should be given priority access to withdrawal management and treatment. (III-A) 8. Health care providers should advise women that low-level consumption of alcohol in early pregnancy is not an indication for termination of pregnancy. (II-2A).
One of my pregnant patients tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus. Will HIV therapy put her pregnancy outcome at risk?
The biggest risk is vertical transmission of HIV to her baby. She should be treated with combination therapy; triple therapy is required to reduce vertical transmission. Zidovudine is not teratogenic in humans, but information on other antiretroviral drugs is incomplete.
The prevalence of opioid abuse is increasing in North America. Opioid abuse during pregnancy can cause medical, obstetric and psychosocial complications. Neonates exposed to opioids in utero often develop the neonatal abstinence syndrome. Methadone maintenance therapy is the treatment of choice for maternal opioid dependency. There have been unsupported concerns that infants cared for by mothers treated with methadone have higher mortality rates during the first year of life than in the general population.
To compare the mortality rates of infants exposed to methadone in utero to those of general population in Ontario, Canada.
We utilized several provincial and national databases including those of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and the Ontario Infant Mortality Rate Report. Reference organ weights were obtained from the peer reviewed literature.
The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario has reported 8 deaths in children under one associated with in utero methadone exposure between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2010. Over the same period there have been a total of 1103 cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome recorded in the province. The mean infant mortality rate in Ontario for children under the age of 1year over the same period was 5.2 per 1000 live births. The odds ratio for mortality among children with neonatal abstinence syndrome was not different from that in the general population [OR 1.45 (95% confidence interval 0.471-4.459)] (p=0.56).
The available data do not support the concerns that children under the age of one year, born to mothers on methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) are at an increased risk for mortality.
Secondhand smoke is associated with a myriad of adverse health outcomes. Therefore, it is essential for clinicians to ask precise questions about exposures, particularly for children. We present 4 questions that incorporate several locations of exposure and provide a more comprehensive account of children's smoke exposures than maternal smoking alone.
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Potential adverse effects of prenatal antidepressant exposure on child development are still debated. The possibility that associations are due to genetic or familial environmental risk factors rather than antidepressant use per se cannot easily be ruled out in conventional studies. Our objective was therefore to evaluate the association between prenatal antidepressant exposure and behavioural problems in a sibling controlled study.
This study used data on 20?180 siblings identified from the population-based Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study recruited between 1999 and 2008. The mothers were asked to report antidepressant use at gestational weeks 17 and 30 and 6 months post-partum. Child Behavioral Checklist syndrome scales were used to assess externalizing and internalizing behavioural problems by questionnaires sent to mothers at 18 and 36 months postpartum. We performed unmatched and matched sibling analyses using both random- and fixed-effects linear models, respectively, to determine potential behavioural effects of antidepressant exposure.
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants was associated with increased levels of anxiety symptoms in 3 year old children after adjusting for maternal familial effects and confounding by indication (i.e. maternal depression). Effect of prenatal exposure to antidepressants was specific to anxiety, and not associated with emotional reactivity, somatic complaints, sleep problems, attention problems or aggression.
Using a sibling design, we showed that prenatal antidepressant use was specifically associated with increased anxiety symptoms after adjusting for maternal familial factors and confounding by indication.
In Canada the incidence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is estimated to be 1 in 100 live births. FASD is the leading cause of developmental and cognitive disabilities in Canada. Only one study has examined the cost of FASD in Canada. In that study we did not include prospective data for infants under the age of one year, costs for adults beyond 21 years or costs for individuals living in institutions.
To calculate a revised estimate of direct and indirect costs associated with FASD at the patient level.
Cross-sectional study design was used. Two-hundred and fifty (250) participants completed the study tool. Participants included caregivers of children, youth and adults, with FASD, from day of birth to 53 years, living in urban and rural communities throughout Canada participated. Participants completed the Health Services Utilization Inventory (HSUI). Key cost components were elicited: direct costs: medical, education, social services, out-of-pocket costs; and indirect costs: productivity losses. Total average costs per individual with FASD were calculated by summing the costs for each in each cost component, and dividing by the sample size. Costs were extrapolated to one year. A stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to identify significant determinants of costs and to calculate the adjusted annual costs associated with FASD.
Total adjusted annual costs associated with FASD at the individual level was $21,642 (95% CI, $19,842; $24,041), compared to $14,342 (95% CI, $12,986; $15,698) in the first study. Severity of the individual's condition, age, and relationship of the individual to the caregiver (biological, adoptive, foster) were significant determinants of costs (p
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) rank as one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the developed world, and the direct medical costs of ADRs exceed $100 billion annually in the United States alone. Pharmacogenomics research seeks to identify genetic factors that are responsible for individual differences in drug efficacy and susceptibility to ADRs. This has led to several genetic tests that are currently being used to provide clinical recommendations. The Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety is a nation-wide effort established in Canada to identify novel predictive genomic markers of severe ADRs in children and adults. A surveillance network has been established in 17 of Canada's major hospitals to identify patients experiencing specific ADRs and to collect biological samples and relevant clinical history for genetic association studies. To identify ADR-associated genetic markers that could be incorporated into predictive tests that will reduce the occurrence of serious ADRs, high-throughput genomic analyses are conducted with samples from patients that have suffered serious ADRs and matched control patients.
ADRs represent a significant unmet medical problem with significant morbidity and mortality, and Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety is a nation-wide network in Canada that seeks to identify genetic factors responsible for interindividual differences in susceptibility to serious ADRs.
Active ADR surveillance is necessary to identify and recruit patients who suffer from serious ADRs. National and international collaborations are required to recruit sufficient patients for these studies. Several pharmacogenomics tests are currently in clinical use to provide dosing recommendations, and the number of pharmacogenomics tests is expected to significantly increase in the future.
It seems to me that cancer is occurring or being diagnosed more frequently among young women who are or might become pregnant. In the past year, I have seen several such women in my practice and I have had difficulty finding appropriate information in order to counsel them. Is there somewhere I can go for information about cancer during pregnancy so that I can better educate and inform these patients?
The Motherisk Program at the Hospital for Sick Children supports an on-line Cancer in Pregnancy Forum where physicians and other health care professionals can submit questions or details of experiences that they have had with patients who had cancer during pregnancy. Questions about the safety of chemotherapeutic drugs before and during pregnancy and about possible exacerbation of previous cancer by pregnancy are most common.

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Re: DRAWS and Allstar?
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DRAWS™ CODEC is available under ALSA (and pulseaudio), anyone who wants to try this should look at chan_alsa and app_rpt
Can app_rpt do PTT and SQUELCH DETECT using Raspberry Pi GPIO pins?
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At the opening of the 19th century, Sr. Therese de St. Xavier Farjon was in charge of the Ursuline sisters in the Louisiana territory. In 1804, Farjon wrote to President Thomas Jefferson, whose government had just purchased Louisiana. Could the Catholic institutions in the former French colony remain independent and unfettered under the new government? Farjon asked the president.
Jefferson wrote back: “Your institution will be able to govern itself without interference from civil authority.”
“That is a really important document. Many legal scholars interpret the letter as [Jefferson’s] clear endorsement of religious freedom in a secular state,” said Helen Maher Garvey, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chair of the history committee for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The letter is among the artifacts, images and multimedia displays that are part of the exhibition “Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America.” The 3,200-square foot exhibition opens in Cincinnati in May and starts a three-year tour of history museums across the country. (See schedule below.)
The exhibit is a project that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious began as a celebration of its 50th anniversary.
“There is a lot of myth and mystery out there about Catholic sisters. We would like to tell the true story, with its rise and fall, its glory and its concerns,” Garvey said.
Popular images -- like the 1960s television show “The Flying Nun” or the dinner-theater musical “Nunsense” -- play up stereotypes of women religious and distort their true place in history, according to Garvey.
“We started this exhibit out of an intense desire to share the history of the Catholic sisters and their contributions to the history and culture of the United States,” Garvey said. “The sisters feel very strongly that it is an untold story.”
The true history, as the exhibit documents it, is that religious women were more often than not at the forefront of trends that shaped this country, as leading figures, like Farjon, or in minor parts, like the sisters who were teachers in schools that integrated countless millions of immigrant children into the American mainstream, or helped integrate a racially divided America.
The exhibition tells of sisters who might be called character actors in the great dramas that shaped the nation. Like the 617 sisters from 21 communities who nursed Union and Confederate soldiers on both sides of the Civil War.
Or like Sr. Blandina Segale, an Italian immigrant and Sister of Charity from Cincinnati. On mission in Santa Fe, N.M., Segale nursed an outlaw whom doctors in town wouldn’t treat. The desperado was in Billy the Kid’s gang and Billy came to Santa Fe to kill the doctors who had refused his man treatment. Segale talked the Kid out of murder and saved the doctors’ lives.
Or Sister of Charity of Leavenworth Florence Cloonan, who nursed Ernest Hemingway for seven weeks in St. Vincent Hospital, Billings, Mont., as the novelist recuperated from an auto accident. After his convalescence, Hemingway wrote the short story “The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio.”
The exhibit also tells fascinating stories of sisters whose greatness was the solidarity they shared with ordinary folks while keeping an eye on a larger vision.
Like Mother Mary Frances Sullivan, a Mercy sister. She led the effort for public sanitation in Joplin, Mo., in the 1870s. By digging sewage ditches from the Mercy sisters’ convent to a nearby river, she inspired city officials to begin a communitywide sewer system.
Or Sr. Amata Mackett, who lived among the lumberjacks of northern Minnesota. Mackett represented the Duluth Benedictines, selling insurance policies to the lumberjacks in an era that had no workers’ compensation or social security. Lumberjacks could purchase policies from $1 to $9, giving them up to a year of medical care in the sisters’ hospitals. Mackett baked pies for the loggers and darned their socks. But she wasn’t above going after one with a poker if he was delinquent in his insurance premium.
One surprise of the exhibition is that between 1790 -- when the Ursulines first landed in New Orleans -- and today, the total of religious women in the United States numbers only about 220,000. The 20th century, particularly the mid-20th century, saw a tremendous growth in women’s communities. But before that, their numbers were very small.
According to Mary Gautier, a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, the Official Catholic Directory only reports 9,730 women religious in the United States in 1900.
In 1965, the women religious numbered nearly 180,000, according to figures from the center. Today it’s about 59,000.
How could so few accomplish so much?
Garvey explains: “These people were in institutions, and sometimes when you have few people but they are in strategic places like education, health care and social services, they have a tremendous impact. So those women, though relatively few in number, have had a very critical impact on the history and culture of the United States.”
To organize and mount the exhibit, the history committee of the leadership conference raised $4 million. Religious congregations provided seed money to get the project started about four years ago. Major funding came from the Hilton Fund for Sisters ($1 million) and the Catholic Health Association ($500,000). The remainder of funds came from various foundations, religious congregations and Catholic institutions, particularly Catholic health-care institutions.
The exhibition tries to take an honest look at sisters in America, Garvey said. “We are documenting the lives of people who made huge contributions and who also made mistakes along with the rest of the culture.”
One section of the exhibit examines “prejudice within and prejudice without.” A display shows a white bonnet with a fluted frill that Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary wore in Philadelphia between 1833 and 1852. The sisters adopted the bonnet to avoid “nun-like” clothing as a way of protecting themselves from anti-Catholic sentiment at that time. Despite their precautions, the Charity sisters’ convent in Philadelphia was eventually torched by a mob, as was an Ursuline church in Charlestown, Mass.
Also on display is a “slave roll” from Kentucky dating to 1850. A slave roll listed slave owners and the slaves they owned for census and tax purposes. The roll comes from the Dominican sisters of St. Mary’s Convent in St. Catharine, Ky., and lists them as owning slaves.
“The sisters endured discrimination,” Garvey said. “And they participated in discrimination.”
Garvey noted that the display also documents a reconciliation service that took place in 2000. At the service, sisters from three Kentucky orders -- the Dominicans, the Lorettos and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth -- asked forgiveness for their orders’ participation in slavery.
The exhibit also addresses the 1960s and 1970s, which saw a huge exodus of women from religious life. That part of the exhibit is called “The Signs of the Times.”
“We do note the fact that there was a loss of a large number of sisters at that time,” Garvey said. “We note that this was a time of upheaval within the world and the country and that we did not escape that upheaval.”
“So while we know that we have significantly fewer sisters, we truly believe that religious life will continue into the future,” Garvey said.
The future of religious life for women is evolving as sisters begin to explore what Garvey calls “new frontiers.”
“We have sisters serving in many different ways,” Garvey said. “We certainly still have and uphold sisters in teaching, health care and social services. But we have sisters now in the public realm [such as lobbyists and lawyers]. We have sisters working in the environment. We have sisters who are in parish ministries and diocesan leadership. We have sisters working in areas where generally they did not work before Vatican II. So we’ve had an expansion of ministries.”
Garvey’s last comment could serve as a subtitle for the exhibition: “It’s the plethora and diversity of ministries that enrich us.”
Dennis Coday is an NCR staff writer. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.org.
Artifacts highlight contributions to U.S. history
The artifacts and photographs on display at “Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” are only a fraction of the material available.
“We have often said that our exhibit is representative but not all-inclusive, because we could not include everything,” Garvey said.
Garvey’s committee sent a letter to every house of women religious in the country asking them to send digital images of the four most important artifacts or photographs from their archives, with short descriptions.
Though everything couldn’t be included, the work of gathering the artifacts and information won’t be wasted.
“We now have a database of significant artifacts from a large number of religious congregations across the United States,” Garvey said. “This in itself is a significant contribution to the history of the United States.”
-- Dennis Coday
"Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America" has been scheduled at the following museums:
The Cincinnati Museum Center Cincinnati May 16-Sept. 7, 2009
The S. Dillon Ripley Center The Smithsonian Institute Washington January-April 2010
The Mississippi River Museum Debuque, Iowa February-April 2011
Check the exhibit's Web site for updates: www.womenandspirit.org
Printed in the National Catholic Reporter, February 20, 2009.


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AUSTRALIA DAY LONG WEEKEND
Saturday 26th – Monday 28th
Don’t you just love January? The public holidays just keep on rollin in and this one might just be our favourite. Join us this Australia Day long weekend for a jam-packed weekend of festivities and fun and enjoy $6 Young Henrys Stayer cans all weekend long.
While it’s not technically part of the weekend we thought the sooner you celebrate the better right? Kick start your weekend plans with $10 cocktail between 6 and 8pm.
And because it’s a long weekend, the party continues upstairs at Dojo Sundays. We’re teaming up with our pals from Budgy Smuggler to bring you the ultimate Long Weekend Party! With an epic local line up scheduled to pump out the tunes, LOTS of freebies to giveaway, join us from 6pm. Get in early though caz it’s bound to be a rippa!
Celebrate by the beach and grab your gang to book in for a feast. We take large no-fuss group bookings of any size. Then stay to party the night away with our regular DJs hittin the decks from 9pm.
Recover with us after a whirlwind weekend of celebrations. We’ll be opening our doors early for you to satisfy your lunch cravings. Enjoy $15 burgers and $3 buns from 5pm.

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Copper Falls Fall Festival
A fall color fest of spectacular beauty in Copper Falls State Park near Mellen. Activities include T-shirt painting for kids, pumpkin carving, and apple cider-making demonstrations, plus vendors offering homemade treats.
- Arts & Crafts
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HALE CENTER (Special) - Services for Esteban "Steve" Plasencio, 67, of Hale Center will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Hale Center High School Auditorium with Sergio Bernal, pastor of the Church of God of the Firstborn, officiating.
Burial will be in Hale Center Cemetery under direction of Freeman-Abell Funeral Home.
Plasencio died Thursday, Jan. 28, 1999, at his residence.
He was born Dec. 2, 1931. He married Manuela Garcia on Feb. 16, 1949, in Eden. He was a member of the Church of God of the Firstborn.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, David of Hale Center, Joe of Amarillo, Steve of Plainview and Joel of Littlefield; and six daughters, Francis Garcia, Dina Plasencio, Rachel Viurquez and Elma Castillo, all of Hale Center, Naomi Magallan of Lubbock and Alice Garcia of Littlefield.
The family suggests memorials to a Love Fund for Manuela and Dina Plasencio at First National Bank of West Texas, P.O. Drawer A, Hale Center 79041.
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Hello Epoxy Resin Pros!
We are pleased to announce our Five December Story Contest Winners who shared their tales of Holiday Crafting & received one-gallon kits of ProMarine Epoxy Resin:
- Devin Reed – who built his wife a custom desk when she started working from home
- Tin Top Wood Shop – when a cherished 100-year-old tree died, they preserved part of the root ball for a business sign (see image above)
- Karen Yocks – whose teenage son shared her interest in epoxy resin and thus was created some holiday togetherness time
- Vlad Kost – uses epoxy resin often as a “top coat” in his contracting business and hobbies
- Greta Braun – a resident physician who organized an epoxy resin social evening for her colleagues for creativity and stress relief
We’ll be crafting their stories into a more-detailed Success Story later this month – stay tuned!
We hope the creativity of the people above has inspired you to share your own Epoxy Resin Ideas for our January “New Year – New Resin Ideas” Contest!
To enter, just send us your New Year’s Epoxy Resin Ideas, Tips & Tricks – be it a creative crafting concept or a smart home how-to – in 100 words or so. We’ll announce the five best entries in early February and send the winners a One Gallon Kit of our ProMarine Epoxy resin!
Please send us your idea by the end of January (by midnight January 31, 2020) to: firstname.lastname@example.org.
We look forward to hearing from you – Happy New Year!


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Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y are teaming up once again.
The announcement was made via the Taylor Gang website that the duo plans to release a new mixtape titled #2009.
Wiz and Curren$y may have chosen the name #2009 to signify the year they released their first joint mixtape, How Fly. Three years later, Wiz and Curren$y unleashed their second collaborative EP, Live in Concert.
Now, the duo is back at it. They’ve teased the first single from #2009, “Uber Driver,” but currently, there is no release date.
Wiz dropped off a new five-track EP –Talk About It In The Morning – today (March 31) with fellow Taylor Gang member Ty Dolla $ign.Curren$y is currently on his “Pilot Talk 3” tour.
Fuckers kill me wit that old wiz shit…Let my brother do what he wants to do..When I pull up we do this and that’s all that matters. #2009
— Spitta (@CurrenSy_Spitta) March 30, 2015
Pound sign two thousand nine http://t.co/9s8dDe10tf — Cameron (@wizkhalifa) March 30, 2015
Listen to the duo’s first offering “Uber Driver” below:
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Monica Förster Design Studio — Bernhardt: Kashan Chair — Stockholm, Sweden
Kashan is unique in that it does not have a defined style or speak to a specific period. In some respects it is futuristic, yet is also reminiscent of designs from the 1930s. The chair has a playful and comfortable appearance, while being simultaneously restrained and elegant.
The absence of angles and lines in Kashan’s cushion permits the exterior and interior to gracefully merge together, creating a sinuous form. In contrast, the seat is supported by blade thin metal legs. A floating appearance is achieved from the stylistic tension between the informal and soft organic cushion, cradled by the formal, precise nature of the structural frame. Equipped with a custom suspension spring seat from high density molded foam, Kashan integrates luxurious comfort with a modern appeal.


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Transitioning to Local Food Resilience: How can we address the gaps in the regional food supply?
On June 12th, 2012 the CCCBE partnered with Transition Victoria to host "Transitioning to Local Food Resilience: How Can We Address the Gaps in the Regional Food Supply."
Guest speaker Linda Geggie explained the role of the Capital Region Food and Agricultural Initiatives Roundtable (CR-FAIR) and the work they've been doing to develop a regional food strategy for the Capital Regional District. Participants included members of over 20 food-related organizations in the region. After the presentation, participants broke into groups to discuss particular themes and how to move forward on concrete initiatives related to regional food systems. A major focus was on links between access to farmland, land tenure systems, and community investment funds, emphasizing the links between resilient local food systems and community-based economies.

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A noteworthy review of Amazing Sports Records from School Library Journal on April 1, 2013
Each book begins with a brief history of its featured competition or sport before launching into a random selection of feats. For example, Olympic highlights the ‘Oldest Olympic Swimming Medalists’ (Dara Torres and William Robinson) as well as ‘Most Summer Olympic Medals’ (Michael Phelps). Numerous competitors are given sufficient attention; report writers will appreciate this set over Raintree’s all-too brief ‘Fantastic Sports Facts.’ Large, attractive, captioned, color and black-and-white photographs and reproductions are surrounded by sidebars of trivia on each spread. Even though the nature of the set’s content will quickly date it (records are broken all the time), this series could be used to prompt conversation and/or further research. Select individual titles for sports that need representation in a collection.


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Rep. Sewell Statement on Trump Budget
May 22, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Today, the President released a 2018 budget proposal with massive cuts to social safety-net programs, science, agricultural, and other institutions vital to Alabama communities. Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-AL) releases the following statement:
“President Trump's budget takes aim at working families, rural Americans, the disabled, underserved communities, and those who struggle to make their voices heard in our democracy,” said Rep. Sewell. “Leaving those Americans behind is not only a failure in compassion, it is utterly short-sighted when it comes to growing our economy and making America competitive. In areas like healthcare, education, agriculture, and research, Trump's budget will have devastating consequences for Alabama. What makes our country great is our willingness to extend a hand up to those who need it most, and that's a value which Trump's budget cuts.”
Over the next decade, President Trump’s budget would slash more than $1.4 trillion from Medicaid, a health program covering nearly 70 million Americans. The budget also cuts $192 billion from nutritional assistance, and $72 billion from disability benefits, and would eliminate loan programs which subsidize college education for low-income families. Trump’s proposal would cut funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by more than $5 billion. Federally subsidized crop insurance would face a 36 percent cut, and President Trump’s budget proposes elimination of USDA’s rural economic development program and defunds the Delta Regional Authority and the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Rep. Terri A. Sewell (D-AL) is serving her fourth term representing Alabama’s 7th Congressional district. She sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and was recently appointed to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Sewell is a Chief Deputy Whip and serves on the prestigious Steering and Policy Committee of the Democratic Caucus. She is also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and serves as Vice Chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, and Vice Chair of Outreach for the New Democrat Coalition.


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Fidelity: Couple needs $225,000 to cover healthcare in retirement
AP/Boston Globe, March 5, 2008
A couple retiring in 2008 will need about $225,000 in savings to cover medical costs in retirement, according to a study released by Boston-based Fidelity Investments. The figure, calculated for a couple age 65, is up 4.7 percent from the $215,000 estimate for 2007. It is similar to other projections for healthcare costs in retirement, figures that show longer life spans also are requiring workers to increase retirement nest eggs dramatically.
- CMS Sets 2014 Pay Rates for Hospital Outpatient and Physician Services
- FDA hopes hospitals will switch to newly regulated pharmacies
- The 5 Biggest Healthcare Finance Trouble Spots
- Not-for-Profit Hospitals Find Opportunity Amid Uncertainty
- Nonprofit Hospital Outlook 'Negative' in 2014
- The Most Polarizing Topics in Healthcare IT
- Are ACOs Really Different from HMOs?
- How CPOE Will Make Healthcare Smarter
- Why You Should Involve Patients in Nursing Handoffs
- Rise of the Chief Strategy Officer

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Vaulting seems to be on track to release next month but shouldn’t be expected immediately after test server launch.
The much vaunted vaulting feature (try saying that ten times fast) for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is one step closer to making it to the live game. Creator Brendan Greene confirmed on Twitter that vaulting would be coming to test servers for the Battle Royale game next week.
First showcased at the PC Gaming Show at E3 2017, vaulting has been in the works for quite a while. It sounds simple but considering much of the animation work that needs to be done along with all the testing, it’s easy to see why developer Bluehole would take its time.
You shouldn’t expect vaulting to make it to the live game after the release on test servers. At least three days of extensive testing are required for the proper feedback on the feature. Meanwhile, preparation is being made for the 1.0 release on PC alongside the Xbox One launch later this year. Though Microsoft is publishing the game on its platform, rumours peg the game as heading to PS4 later (perhaps next year).
— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@PLAYERUNKNOWN) October 27, 2017


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|Birth date:||January 30, 1980|
|Birth place:||Augusta, Georgia, United States|
|Profession:||Actor, Songwriter, Singer|
|Education:||Lakeside High School, University of Mississippi|
|Spouse:||Katherine Heigl (m. 2007)|
|Children:||Nancy Leigh Kelley, Adalaide Marie Hope Kelley|
|Parents:||Dr. John W. Kelley, Gayle Kelley|
|Siblings:||Charles Kelley, John Kelley|
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Josh Kelley is an American actor and singer songwriter best noted for his singles which hit Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart. He could be the brother of Charles Kelley, who now serves as among the members of Lady Antebellum. He studied at University of Mississippi, majoring in Art. Since 2007, he’s been wed to actress Katherine Heigl, with whom he’s two adopted daughters, Nancy and Naleigh. A year after, the couple got engaged and by December 23, 2007, they got married. To date, Josh Kelley has released six studio albums which include For the Ride Home,Almost Honest,Just Say the Word, Unique Business, Backwoods, To Remember, and Georgia Clay. As a vocalist, Kelley’s most famous singles contain “Amazing”, “Everybody Wants You”, “Almost Honest”, “Only You”, “Pop Game”, “Get with It”, “Just Say the Word”, “Unfair”, “To Remember”, “Georgia Clay”, and”Gone Like That”.

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