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The feeling of needing to appear present at work isn’t unfamiliar for a lot of people. The perception that leaving early or on time would be frowned upon, or that you’ll be commended for coming in despite ill health is a common occurrence in lots of businesses. However this behaviour, known as presenteeism, can cost businesses over £4000 in lost productivity per employee each year. This is a significant number and not something you can take lightly.
Is it a sign of dedication, or a more worrying indication of poor company culture? The normalisation of this behaviour can have negative impacts on employee health, both physical and mental, which in turn impacts motivation and productivity.
Employees who do come in sick will not only find it harder to work, but they increase the likelihood that others will get sick too. Productivity can decrease for entire teams with more work needing to be covered by fewer employees, affecting employee engagement. The impact on stress and the expectation that working in ill health is the norm will have a knock on effect on company culture.
So how does presenteeism affect a business? What can you do to reduce presenteeism? This blog answers these key questions:
- Presenteeism: How does it occur?
- The problems of presenteeism
- Measuring presenteeism
- How can you reduce presenteeism?
Presenteeism: How does it occur?
According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), presenteeism rates have tripled since 2010. While the jury is still out, many attribute this increase to the availability of remotely connected digital devices. If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from COVID-19, it’s that working from home is possible.
Because of this ability, the lines between work life and home life are becoming increasingly blurred, meaning people will naturally focus on work constantly. This kind of mindset motivates people to come in even when it isn’t beneficial to do so.
Similarly, presenteeism is driven by:
- Lack of paid sick days
- Time pressures
- Overbearing or unrealistic employer expectations
- Job insecurity
- Discrimination for taking sick days
The problems of presenteeism
It’s easy to assume that the fewer days of absence taken by staff, and the longer spent actively working will increase productivity, however, this is not the case. Here’s why:
- Employees that come in when ill actually won’t work at their best. There will be more chances for mistakes, missed deadlines and productivity will take a hit.
- Ill employees easily infect others, meaning more than one employee may have to miss work.
- Employees in physically demanding jobs have more chance of making mistakes, which will present unnecessary and avoidable risks.
- Lowered productivity may put strains on client relationships.
- The potential impact on mental health, with increased susceptibility to stress and anxiety, could manifest into more complex mental health issues.
So what’s the direct business cost?
A report by Nottingham Business School found the average time an employee will spend at work while ill is 2.5 weeks. Research by the Centre for Mental Health found presenteeism costs the UK economy around £15.1 billion a year. These are numbers with big implications for organisations focusing on improving employee engagement, satisfaction, company culture and overall revenue.
Presenteeism is tricky to measure. Employees suffering from ill health may appear fine.
Fortunately, there's a way around this. A team at the World Health Organisation (WHO) developed the Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HWPQ), which does work to measure presenteeism at a workplace.
It works by measuring two metrics:
- Absolute presenteeism: This is the measure of actual performance in relation to possible performance.
- Relative presenteeism: This is the ratio of actual performance in relation to other workers in the same role.
This will allow you to approximately indicate the cost to your business from presenteeism, but once you’ve measured presenteeism, how do you go about reducing it?
How can you reduce presenteeism?
The CIPD reported that presenteeism has tripled, but despite this only 25% of organisations experiencing presenteeism are trying to tackle it.
The first thing businesses can do is stress that if an employee is ill, they shouldn’t come in. Sometimes this is easier said than done, as there are projects and deadlines to deliver. Dealing with presenteeism isn’t exactly clear cut. Rather, it requires shrewd and proactive planning, as well as a realigning of company culture and attitudes.
The needs of the business need to be balanced with the needs and health of staff. In workplaces where employee health isn’t treated with utmost importance, work will feel like a chore and employees may feel like their jobs will be at risk if they don’t come in. To mitigate this, management should encourage a workplace devoted to employee health.
Rachel Suff, Senior Employment Relations Adviser at the CIPD, says:
In order to encourage a healthy workplace, organisations need to look beyond sickness absence rates alone and develop a solid, evidence-based understanding of the underlying causes of work-related stress and unhealthy behaviour like presenteeism. Without this evidence base, efforts to support employees and improve their health and well-being will be short-lived.
A focus on wellbeing decreases unhealthy or stressful business practices, but this needs to begin from the management level. Good, employee-focused management forms the basis of workplaces that champion employee wellbeing. If presenteeism is to be dealt with, there needs to be a long-term, positive and sustained attitude change. Wellbeing shouldn’t be sacrificed for productivity. Suff explains this as:
Put simply, a reactive, ad hoc approach to well-being is not enough. If employers want to build a workforce that is happy, healthy and productive, the well-being agenda needs to be a priority and employee well-being practices must be integrated in the organisation’s day-to-day operations.
What else can businesses implement?
- Create a culture of healthy living: Enshrine health and wellbeing in company policy and dedicate time and resources towards making a healthier office.
- Ensure sick pay entitlement: This will provide an incentive for ill employees to stay home and get better.
- Create a presenteeism policy: This should describe your stance on working while sick and set out conditions for what constitutes sick leave.
Finally, businesses should ensure others can cover work while a specific employee is off sick.
For more information on the common challenges faced by organisations today, challenges such as presenteeism and their effects on the growth of your business, speak to one of our passionate and experienced specialists.


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By James Dray
Joaquin Garcia was born in Havana, Cuba back in 1952. The family fled Cuba when he was nine moving to the Bronx, New York. He attended Mount Saint Michael Academy, where he received a full football scholarship to the University of Richmond. He applied for the FBI shortly after graduation, he was sworn in as a special agent in 1980.To say he had a colorful career would be an understatement. Let’s see, he successfully investigated corrupt politicians in Atlantic City, New Jersey, corrupt police officers in Hollywood Police Department, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Boston Police Department to name a few. He also worked undercover for various drug dealers and Colombian and Mexico. He served the FBI for 26 years before retiring. What you may not know about Joaquin “Jack” Garcia is tha...


After testifying before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on Feb. 14 that community banks and credit unions did not cause the recent mortgage meltdown, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray told credit union mortgage lenders yesterday they should not fear writing loans which fall outside the “qualified mortgage” protection of the Bureau’s ability-to-repay rule.
“Community banks and credit unions did not engage in the kind of misdeeds that led to the mortgage crisis,” Cordray said at the Senate hearing. “The Bureau knows these institutions may be more likely to retreat from the mortgage market if the regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act are too burdensome.”
Cordray took this message a step further at the Credit Union National Association conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27. “Of course, we understand that some of you – or your boards or lending committees – may be inclined to lend only within the Qualified Mortgage space,” he told the small mortgage lenders. “But you should have confidence in your strong underwriting standards, and you should not be holding back. Those that lend responsibly — like credit unions — have no reason to fear the ability-to-repay rule.”
Cordray said the traditional model of reputation and relationship lending coupled with the tendency of community institutions to retain mortgage loans in portfolio deserves special treatment under the law. To address the concerns of community bankers regarding the narrow scope of the ATR rule’s “rural” exception for balloon mortgage loans held in portfolio, the Bureau has proposed a new, fourth type of qualified mortgage. (The comment period for a proposed rule just ended on Feb. 25.)
If the proposal is finalized in its current form, both balloon loans and other loans held in portfolio and made by small lenders will receive a safe harbor from ability-to-repay liability as a qualified mortgage – including those operating outside of rural or underserved areas. (Currently, the ATR rule only allows a small creditor operating in a rural or underserved area to originate balloon mortgages as qualified mortgages.)
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• Has total assets of $2 billion or less at the end of the previous calendar year; and
• Together with all affiliates, originated 500 or fewer first-lien covered transactions during the previous calendar year.
Qualified mortgages of this fourth type also must conform to all of the requirements under the general definition of a qualified mortgage except the 43 percent limit on monthly debt-to-income ratio, Cordray said. The loan also must have an interest rate within 3.5 percentage points of the average prime offer rate.
“As you can see, there are certain big pieces of our new mortgage rules where the end result may be that most credit unions [and community banks] will be covered by special provisions,” Cordray said.


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Do you know that feeling when you can turn down the noise, shut out the rest of the world, and completely focus on the moment of time you're in...where you are...and who you're with? It tends to happen when I'm with a loved one on a big empty beach; the vast ocean in front of us and infinite sky above us.
The teeny tiny figures are barely there, but the enormity of the coast around them evokes a sense of contentment, peace and calm. A feeling that you can face anything, endure anything, as long as you have them by your side. This emotive little seascape captured that moment for me.
Just you, me and the sea.
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UK Government must regulate the finance sector to protect rainforests - new WWF report
- UK-based financiers exposed to£40billion of funding to companies trading in commodities that risk causing deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia
- UK finance of forest-risk commodities has not significantly reduced since Paris Climate Agreement in 2015
- WWF calls for Environment Bill to includethe finance sector to protect rainforests
WWF’s Risky Finance report, published today (10 Sept), is the first study to examine the UK finance industry’s exposure to forest-risk commodities. It finds that 300 UK-based financiers directly fund companies whose activities threaten rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia with £40billion of investments and loans.
This threatens the UK Government’s ambitions for the City of London to be the green finance capital of the world and its credibility to demonstrate global leadership in the run-up to the COP26 climate talks in November.
At the heart of this deforestation risk is the production of agricultural commodities, particularly beef, palm oil, soy and cocoa, as well as timber, paper and rubber, which is driving the destruction of nature in some of the most biodiverse places on earth – including the Brazilian Cerrado and Indonesian forests. The UK finance sector plays a major role in facilitating the trade of these commodities, both for products bound for the UK and for foreign markets.
Trade in these commodities can and must be done in a way that does not drive deforestation, but only a few financiers are taking action in this space. For this reason, the UK Government must implement strong, robust due diligence processes to ensure a level playing field for all companies that finance forest-risk commodities.
At present, a lack of clear standards and transparency requirements make it difficult accurately assess the level of risk, so we urgently need to improve transparency and accountability, and the financial sector has a critical role to play in achieving that.
While the finance sector is increasingly aware of the impacts and risks of investment in fossil fuels, this study finds that the UK financial sector is still highly exposed to deforestation and land conversion through its investment and lending. Despite deforestation being a major cause of climate change, the level of UK investment in forest-risk commodities, especially palm oil and soy, remained largely consistent in the five years following the Paris Climate Agreement, between 2015 – 2020.
The report concludes that voluntary commitments from companies are not sufficient to curb deforestation and habitat destruction and that the finance sector needs to undertake more robust investigations before investing in and lending to firms engaged in trading forest-risk commodities.
While many sustainability reporting frameworks cover carbon emissions, all those that address forest risks are voluntary and have not been adopted at the scale needed. The Environment Bill, which is currently passing through the House of Lords, includes measures for traders in forest-risk commodities to undertake due diligence investigations to protect forests; WWF is calling on the UK Government to apply the same provisions to the finance sector.
Karen Ellis, Director of Sustainable Economy at WWF-UK said:
“Deforestation is one of the biggest threats to our climate, to wildlife and to the local people who rely on forests for their livelihoods. Every hectare of rainforest that is destroyed makes it harder to limit global warming to below the 1.5oC target set out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Alarmingly, UK investments in forest-risk commodities have not significantly reduced since then.
“The UK Government committed to protect forests and address nature loss impacts from financial decision making – we won’t forget if they fail us on this promise. The Environment Bill will require companies trading in palm oil, soy, and other forest-risk commodities to undertake due diligence checks. This must equally apply to firms that finance forest-risk commodities as voluntary measures clearly aren’t giving forests the protection they urgently need.”
In the UK, there is currently no requirement for products to be sourced sustainably – there are only voluntary commitments - leaving the UK and its value chains highly exposed to deforestation risk.
WWF calls on the UK government to develop a consistent, coherent and robust due diligence obligation that covers both the trade and financing of UK forest risk commodity value chains. Enhanced due diligence on deforestation and conversion should be an integral part of any net-zero transition plans. The Government should therefore implement the recommendations of the Global Resources Initiative and develop a pathway for mandatory due diligence of the financial sector in the run up to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
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The full report is available here.
More than a quarter (27%) of deforestation results from agricultural commodities1. Halting deforestation and conversion is therefore a priority if the UK is to achieve net zero emissions and not simply continue to ‘import’ climate emissions through other products.
Parts of the Amazon are already emitting more carbon than they absorb, mainly due to increased deforestation and deliberate forest fires2.
Transparency issues and complex national laws make differentiating legal and illegal clearance challenging. In Brazil, an assessment of clearance permits over 11 different states showed that only 5% corresponded with the actual deforestation observed in these states, leaving the remainder at risk of exposure to illegal deforestation3.
In Indonesia, 81% of palm oil operations, particularly in large, commercial plantations, were found to breach national laws and regulations4. This study therefore calls on all deforestation and conversion to be addressed through due diligence processes, not just that defined as illegal under national laws.
In 2019, the government convened a task force as part of the Global Resources Initiative (GRI) to explore how to manage the UK's overseas environmental impact. A key recommendation was for mandatory due diligence to apply to all companies trading and financing forest-risk commodities. It aims to convene the GRI Finance Working Group to outline what such a due diligence framework would look like for the financial sector.
The new Environment Bill will require companies trading in forest-risk commodities to implement additional due diligence to ensure they are not exposed to illegal deforestation. However, the Bill does not include the financial sector and only applies to deforestation occurring in breach of national laws, which can leave many biologically irreplaceable ecosystems vulnerable.
In 2014, over 200 parties endorsed the New York Forests Declaration (NYFD) at the United Nations Climate Summit, with the aim to halve global forest loss by 2020. Nevertheless by 2020, the NYFD Progress Report showed that rates of forest loss have actually increased. This is despite initiatives like the 2006 Amazon Soy Moratorium and 2017 Cerrado Manifesto, signed by over 100 signatories including retailers, manufacturers, livestock producers and investors, including the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF).
The Banking Environment Initiative set out a net-zero deforestation ambition by 2020 to scale up transformative palm oil, timber, soy and beef supply chain finance, starting with certification of such products and raising industry-wide banking standards. These companies are improving their standards and policies, but without comprehensive tracking and definitions, assessing coordinated efforts will be impossible. Despite stronger voluntary commitments for commodities like palm oil, financing to the largest agricultural commodity conglomerates is at similar levels to 2015.


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We are working to make sure everyone has equitable access to opportunities to be physically active, so we are focusing our efforts on “safe routes to recreation” to make it easier and safer for people to walk, bike or take transit to their local recreational facilities. The AC team is conducting safe routes to parks audits to assess what is working well and what could be better in the neighborhoods surrounding three priority parks, and will be making recommendations for improvements. The team also plans to teach other groups and municipal staff how to conduct the audits in other areas of Winnebago County.
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To disable Fast Startup on Windows 10, open the Power Options menu and go to Additional Power Settings > Choose What the Power Buttons Do. Click “Change Settings That Are Currently Unavailable” and uncheck “Turn On Fast Startup”, then save your changes.Windows 10’s Fast Startup feature helps turn on your computer faster, but there are times when you may want to disable Fast Startup. We’ll show you what those occasions are and how to turn the feature off.
What Does Fast Startup Do in Windows 10?
When Fast Startup mode is enabled and you turn off your PC, Windows saves the system kernel, drivers, and current system state to a hibernation file. Unlike proper hibernation, your login sessions and apps aren’t saved.
Then, when you turn your machine back on, those saved items (kernel, drivers, and system state) are loaded into the RAM, allowing you to quickly get to your desktop. This is basically how this feature works on your Windows 10 PC.
Why Disable Fast Startup?
Despite the benefits it brings, there are multiple reasons you may want to disable Fast Startup on your Windows 10 laptop or desktop. One is that it can prevent you from installing Windows updates. This happens because an update requires a full shutdown to be brought into effect. A reboot will complete the installation while Fast Startup is enabled, but a shutdown won’t.
Another case where you might want to disable Fast Startup is when you have trouble managing encrypted disk images. You may also want to turn off this feature if you dual-boot your PC and want access to your Windows drive while you’re running your secondary operating system.
If you want to access your BIOS/UEFI settings, sometimes it’s not possible when Fast Startup is enabled. So if you’re having trouble entering the BIOS, you may need to toggle off Fast Startup before you can proceed.
Do any of those situations apply to you? If so, follow our instructions below to disable fast booting. Remember that you can always re-enable Fast Startup later if you decide you want it back.
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To disable Fast Startup, first, right-click your “Start” menu icon and choose “Power Options.”
On the “Power & Sleep” screen, in the right sidebar, click “Additional Power Settings.”
You’ll land on a “Power Options” window. Here, in the left sidebar, click “Choose What the Power Buttons Do.”
On the following page, at the top, select “Change Settings That Are Currently Unavailable.” This ensures you can toggle off the Fast Startup option.
On the same page, uncheck the “Turn On Fast Startup” option. Then, at the bottom, click “Save Changes.”
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The Evening Standard City Editor on the new woman at the LSE
For some days now it has been accepted wisdom in the City that the new chief executive of the Stock Exchange was a woman. Today has come a name - though not yet confirmed by the Stock Exchange - and it is Clara Furse.
She has worked for UBS and more recently Credit Lyonnais, but on the futures and derivatives side rather than equities, which means she is better known in the London International Financial Futures Exchange - Liffe - than at the Stock Exchange.
Indeed, she was on the board of Liffe for much of the 1990s, made a pitch for the chairman's job during Nick Durlacher's reign, failed to get the support but became deputy chairman under Jack Wrigglesworth.
It was a shrewd move to get her inside the tent. Her appointment, if confirmed, will be controversial. One who knows her called her Michael Lawrence without the vision - a reference to the Stock Exchange chief executive forced to resign over the introduction of the Sets electronic system.
She, like Lawrence, is said to be able, intelligent and determined, but enemies have called her pigheaded, and even if that is harsh she is not noted for her diplomatic sensitivity.
If the job does go to her the test will be of her people skills if it is not to turn into yet another Greek tragedy. She is a notable corporate infighter, but the job of an Exchange chief requires tact and diplomacy as well.
She and chairman Don Cruickshank will make for an interesting double act.
The gap in the strategy
Luc Vandevelde could hardly have made his meaning clearer had he delivered his message in words of one syllable: Marks & Spencer's sorry Christmas was not his fault. The blame has been laid fairly and squarely on the previous management, Peter Salsbury and his team, almost all of whom have left M&S over the past year. They failed to see the company's problems, they failed to order the right merchandise and they failed to impress the City. Vandevelde's only failing was to keep them on for longer than he should have.
Presiding over a company that has just reported its third successive decline in Christmas sales has not left Vandevelde discouraged. Armed with his new team, he is confident that M&S will improve steadily this year and promises that he and chief executive Roger Holmes will deliver greater clarity as to the company's strategy.
The board is midway through a review so we will have to wait and see what this means, but there is a growing suspicion that Vandevelde is long on rhetoric and short on ideas. The Belgian retailer arrived last February, saying M&S would take two years to recover.
We are now almost half way through that period and sales are still falling. Much of the merchandise was ordered by the old guard, but that is only half the story. Vandevelde should have delivered a coherent strategy by now so that shareholders and customers might know exactly what M&S means in today's retail market.
Three months ago, Vandevelde said this Christmas would be one of Marks & Spencer's best. That was clearly a mistake. Why should we have faith in his other predictions?
Perils of phantom money
George W Bush couldn't ask for a better economic backdrop for his $1.6 trillion (£1,000bn) tax cut - a tanking economy and forecasts of huge future government surpluses - but he still has many sceptics to convince, including global investors, finance ministers and even a few in his own Cabinet.
The latest economic statistics support Bush's assertion that the US economy needs a jump start. Growth may not even register 1% this quarter and next. The only question is who should supply the petrol - the White House or the
For one thing, as the Fed showed in December when it reversed tack and cut interest rates, it can more easily undo mistakes. Greenspan will discuss Fed thinking on fiscal and monetary policy when he testifies before Congress on Thursday. What he says will embolden the Democrats to fight Bush or persuade them to give up and go along with his tax plan.
Globally, this should be of concern because while it is bad enough when the British government goes the wrong way - into the red - it is disastrous when the US does, hence the sluggish growth for much of the late Eighties and early Nineties when the US sucked up world capital for its deficit and interest rates everywhere were higher because of it. Today there could be even harsher ramifications if the US government gets it wrong because world economies are more intertwined.
If Bush's tax cut is front-loaded and coupled with increased spending on infrastructure at a time when the US economy is contracting and tax receipts falling, last year's actual operating surplus of about $235bn could quickly evaporate.
Until then, the questionable fiscal accounting Congress uses when plotting legislation will obscure the truth. The Congressional Budget Office is notoriously unreliable. It took it years to adjust macro models to reflect 'new economy' changes in productivity that produced real dayto-day operating surpluses.
Now, even though the US economy is clearly slowing, the CBO is expected soon to project an even bigger long-term forecast of about $5.5 trillion over 10 years - - giving Bush tax-cutters plenty of phantom money to play around with. More-realistic assessments project a surplus a fraction that size.
Paul O'Neill, the new US Treasury Secretary, has spent his initial days in office assuring everyone he supports his new boss's tax-cut agenda. One of his toughest first tasks will be to sell it to the world.
A sad loss
I was saddened to learn that Sir Alistair Grant died on Monday night after a long fight against cancer. Sir Alistair came to prominence at Argyll. He took over the reins after the company's unsuccessful fight for Distillers and powered the group - renamed Safeway - to Britain's number three supermarkets group, first as chief executive and then chairman.
He was committed to charity work, where I had the pleasure of serving with him on a committee dedicated to raising millions of pounds for the Red Cross, and was a powerful but always courteous and very likeable power in British business.
After retiring from Safeway he served as Governor of the Bank of Scotland until illness forced him to step down, and was deputy chairman of Scottish & Newcastle.
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1.1 Terms of reference
1.2 Aims and objectives
1.1 Terms of referenceDevelopments in image capture technology allow developers of multimedia applications to incorporate source material of varying physical characteristics. However the multimedia developer drawing up a specification for a capture system is faced with a bewildering choice of equipment for which there is little comparative information on the relationship between equipment specification and captured image quality. This report provides guidelines for decisions on the choice of appropriate capture pathways within the context of higher education.
Source material may vary from original objects such as biological specimens through hard copy sources like manuscripts, books, maps, photographic sources such as transparencies and film, to electronic sources like videotapes or video discs. There are a number of devices which can be used to capture images of the source material, although not all images can be captured by each device.
Six stages of image capture and processing were identified as follows:
In specifying a capture system it is necessary to achieve sufficient image quality to meet the required teaching/learning need within defined budgetary constraints. Quality as far as image capture is concerned is monitored by assessing three distinct facets of each image:
As equipment choice is likely to be constrained by budget, the implications of two cost scenarios on the quality of image capture were assessed. The two systems were chosen as follows:
1.2 Aims and objectives.The aims of the project were to evaluate a range of hardware and associated software options for the capture of images for two equipment cost scenarios as defined above, and to draw up guidelines for the selection of appropriate systems for image capture by developers of multimedia applications in higher education.
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About 30 minutes ago, a new Pete Yorn song called “Precious Stone” debuted on WERS 88.9 FM Boston. It’s a pretty decent rock song, and may be on one of his albums coming out later this year. For those who missed the debut, the radio stream was recorded and the MP3 uploaded here:
- Pete Yorn – Precious Stone
(Link removed. Perhaps the song will be made available sometime soon.)
Pete’s website has been updated as well, although there isn’t a lot of new information there right now – it’s mainly links to various social networking sites. But the fact that changes are taking place is a sign of progress, and hopefully some more details about his forthcoming releases will be made available soon.
Update 7/27/10: The song has been made available for free here.

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Middle school students from seven area schools tested solar and battery-powered cars at an inaugural time trials event Saturday, hosted by the Platte River Power Authority.
Teams from each school — adopting team names like "Nitro Kitty," "The Odd Ones" and the "Swoopty Swoops" — loaded hand-crafted cars onto a 20-meter track at Walt Clark Middle School for a chance to officially test their designs and see if they have what it takes to compete at the state level.
Platte River Power Authority manager of marketing and communications Steve Roalstad said he hopes the event will happen every year, and that more and more Northern Colorado schools opt to make teams and vie for a place in the 28-year-running Junior Solar Sprint and Electric Battery Car Competition, hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
This year's state competition will be held at Dakota Ridge High School in Jefferson County on May 4.
Saturday morning came with a few inches of snow from the previous night, and temps just above freezing. Nonetheless, students tinkered with their cars, discussing how components — like lithium ion batteries — didn't agree with the cold. Battery cars entered the first heats, with solar cars taking the track closer to noon, when the sun peeked through the clouds.
Compass Community Collaborative School student Nathan Miller said in his shorts and tie-dye T-shirt that though it was chilly, it was worth it to race.
"I'm staying warm," he said.
Tweaking his car, High Plains K-8 student Ethan Willits said that while solar-powered cars struggled under Saturday's overcast sky, his team's battery-powered car was burning up the track.
"We're just trying to get it to go straight now," Willits said, noting that teams on both sides of the track would need to keep the fishing line tight.
Roalstad said each team receives kits that include wheels, axles, gears, a wood block and either batteries or a solar panel. The rest, he said, is up to the students.
That means some cars went down the track Saturday with googly -eyes, pompoms, stickers and sequins mounted to a variety of differing frame and wheel designs. Each car used a length of taut fishing line to navigate from one side of the track to the other.
And if decor alone didn't boost the cars down the track, pure science did.
"Watching the problem-solving skills is amazing," Roalstad said, watching students discuss bearings, tread and stability issues with excitement only a middle-schooler could summon.
He noted the reasoning behind Platte River Power Authority's decision to host and sponsor the event.
"This gives students a chance to test our their cars against others," he said.
Other reasons, he said, were "shamelessly selfish," as the event was an opportunity to connect with PRPA's four communities: Loveland, Longmont, Fort Collins and Estes Park, he told the crowd of about 100 parents, teachers and students huddled up next to the race course.
He also said the average age of Platte River's staff is around 50, meaning spots for new brains will open up soon, right around the time middle school students will be leaving college and trade schools
"We'll be looking them up later," Roalstad said. "We want them to remember us."
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Drugs and the Human Body : With Implications for Society / Edition 6by Ken Liska
Pub. Date: 10/18/1999
Publisher: Pearson Education
For undergraduate-level courses in Chemistry, Biology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, this text addresses the effects of high-use, high-abuse drugs in America in a timely and straightforward fashion. It reflects the most recent research on the most highly addictive drugs, including street, over-the-counter, and prescription drugs. It is designed to be easily accessible to the nonscience major, yet comprehensive enough for use by the practicing professional.
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- 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)
Table of Contents
2. Where Drugs Come From.
3. Federal Laws: The FDA and TestingPenalties for Illicit Use.
4. What Happens to Drugs After We Take Them.
5. Drugs at the Synapse.
6. Narcotic Analgesics: Opiates and Opioids.
7. Cocaine, Amphetamines, Caffeine, Nicotine, and Other Stimulants.
8. The Barbiturates: Battered But Still Here.
9. Alcohol and 100 Million Americans.
10. The Major and Minor Tranquilizers.
12. Hallucinogens, Street Drugs, Designer Drugs, and Some Observations.
13. The Pill: An Update.
14. OTC Nonnarcotic Pain Relievers: Aspirin, Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, Naproxen, Sodium, Ketoprofen, and Fenoprofen.
15. Additional OTC Drugs and Chemicals.
16. Personal Drug Testing.
17. Drugs in Sports.
Appendix I. Structure-Activity Relationships (SARs).
Appendix II. Answers and Discussion: Understanding Alcoholism.
Appendix III. DAWN Data Summary.
Appendix IV. Glossary.
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TheBeerLover (1027) - DC Metro Area, USA - JAN 28, 2006
Like altbier in Dusseldorf, kolsch is a special style of beer unique to Cologne, and different than most German beers in the fact that it is an ale, not a lager, though it is cold conditioned like a lager. Kolsch is a very delicate, golden ale, with light aromas and flavors of hops, crisp pale malt, and "jammy" fruit. It is a style that has been copied here in the United States by a number of brewpub/breweries, but one that is rarely done right. Precious few drops of real kolsch make it to the US market, as this beer is so delicate, and does not travel well. The most available exported version of kolsch to be found in the US is Reissdorf Kolsch, and I have also seen and enjoyed Gaffel Kolsch. Gaffel is a better example of the two available, but to really understand what kolsch is all about, a trip to Cologne is in order.
Again, like in Dusseldorf, the beer drinking traditions and culture of Cologne is alive and well. Cologne also have Kobes or waiters who will continue to pour you 0.25L glass after glass of kolsch poured by gravity vom fass. As you might already know from my reviews of altbier, that means it is coming from a freshly tapped wooden or metal barrel. The Kobes here wear white or blue jackets and aprons, and they are as impressive as the blue clad waiters of Dusseldorf. There is in fact a great rivalry that exists between these two cities when it comes to their local specialty beers. I’m happy to enjoy both, and kolsch is a beer you will want to try.
The glasses they pour kolsh in are interesting, they are long tube shaped glasses, that the Kobes serve from a tray that has cylinders like that of a revolver. It really is a site to see these guy serving up fresh, delicious kolsch, and it will amaze you how many glasses you will go through in a blink of an eye. Like in Dusseldorf, the Kobes will continue to tick off the number of beers you drink with a pencil on your coaster, and you might get a little shock when the bill comes. You will find literally dozens of places serving up kolsch, and Fruh is a bench mark example of the style. This beer has a wonderful balance of hop aroma, paired with nice pale malt and fruit character, and a nice dry finish.
Fruh Kolsch pours to a beautiful, bright, pale golden color with a tall white head, and a moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is wonderful with pleasing aromas of light peppery and herbal hop aromas. This leads into a delicate malt palate with good pale malt flavor paired with light flavors of pear. Fruh Kolsch finishes with a slight herbal hop bitterness that rounds this beer out to perfection.
Many beer geeks just don’t get kolsch as a style. They find it too light and too delicate. The simplicity and delicate nature of this beer really is its soul. It is so fresh tasting and so, so drinkable, you literally inhale this beer, and you will be happy to have the Kobes fill your never ending glass of beer. tykechandler (343) - Kentucky, USA - FEB 1, 2015
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Netflix’s latest supernatural comedy, Afterlife of The Party, gives a new take on life after death. While shows or films about the afterlife usually include heaven, hell, and all that falls in-between for the morally gray characters, in Afterlife of The Party, there’s another door—getting a second chance to do the right thing. The in-between place exists in this re-envisioned afterlife, but souls don’t stay stuck there for the rest of eternity. Rather, they must pass a test: either redeem themselves and get sent “up” to heaven or fail and go “down” to hell. However, the soul may face pressure because the test is timed, leaving the deceased folk racing to make things right before their time expires. Or, at least that’s the case with life-of the party, and recently deceased, Cassie (Victoria Justice.)
Cassie begins the film self-centered, a hard partier before her death who recently rudely ignored her best friend, Lisa (Midori Francis). While Cassie and Lisa, both twenty-five years old, have been friends since first grade, Cassie doesn’t value their friendship. Even when Lisa tells Cassie exciting life news and wants to go out and celebrate, Cassie blows her off once again. Right out of the gate we get an understanding of who these two women are with Cassie being a social butterfly (a sometimes selfish one) while Lisa is more of an introvert.
When Cassie eventually dies from a ridiculous accident she meets her guardian angel, who doesn’t appear to have a cold bone in her body. All she wants is for Cassie to succeed and head up to heaven. The guardian angel serves as an interesting character, simply because she’s Cassie’s guide to this whole new afterlife.
There’s a lot that doesn’t make sense about Afterlife of the Party, including how Cassie is technically an angel while still trying to prove herself worthy of heaven. It would make more sense if Cassie was a ghost for the majority of the film, especially since she seemingly has the characteristics of one. On Earth, she’s now invisible to (most) people. However, Cassie can also move and touch anything, making her less like a ghost despite her invisibility. Sure, making the character Cassie a ghost would make more sense from a more logical standpoint, but if the screenwriter didn’t make her an angel, then Cassie wouldn’t have been able to accomplish a lot of things she did in the film (such as play matchmaker).
If you look past some of the plot contrivances, Afterlife of the Party is a comical movie that reminds you to make the most out of moments with people you’re close to because one day they might not be by your side. The film is reminiscent of other narratives out there such as The Good Place and even Groundhog’s Day, which does take away from the originality. Like The Good Place’s Eleanor Shellstrop, Cassie is at first seen as selfish and rude to others, but in the end, redeems herself and becomes a better, likable person. Also, like Eleanor, Cassie learns from her mistakes and starts to think more about others than she had in the past.
Then, similar to Groundhog’s Day, Cassie cannot pass on to heaven until she makes amends and passes her afterlife test. While the main character from Groundhog’s Day couldn’t die until he started acting nicer to people around him, Cassie can’t achieve paradise until she changes her behavior and improves upon herself.
Cassie’s ‘test’ is to cross off three names: her best friend Lisa, her mom, and her dad. She gets a physical piece of paper, too, from her guardian angel, telling her which relationship’s she needs to mend before her time’s up. Along the way, Cassie learns she hasn’t been the best friend or daughter, and she finds herself determined to make these three people on her list happier.
The highlight of the film is the reconnecting bond between Cassie and Lisa and the humorous exchanges between them.
While Afterlife of The Party may hold resemblances to these other narratives, the similarity does not take away from the film. After all, Afterlife of the Party may follow a similar concept, but the plot differentiates itself from the other works.
Another interesting movie-making decision of Afterlife of the Party is the clothes Cassie wears. When she’s now an “angel,” Cassie gets to magically put on any outfit she wants (but only once a day). While on her first day she chooses to wear a shiny party dress, her clothes become less formal as the days go on. In a way, her shift in clothing shows how Cassie slowly grows as a person. Rather than just being the party animal, Cassie learns it’s more important to be a good friend first (since going to the club is what distanced her relationship with Lisa).
Afterlife of The Party is a feel-good movie. While in the beginning, Cassie can be somewhat annoying, by the end, we see she’s a better version of herself. If you like narratives in which characters have redemption arcs, or you like when a character gets a second chance, you should add Afterlife of The Party to your queue.
Afterlife of The Party is available on Netflix. Here is the trailer.


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For those who are not awakened, enlightenment is the process of thinking. It is necessary to search up and down to find the answer.
Thought is meditation. It is a process of seeking and getting. In fact, one can’t get what one doesn’t have. What do you mean, owning and losing are the same thing. The more one wants to get, the more one can’t get it. Because the more one wants to get, the more one thinks, the more one meditates, and the more one deviates from the higher self that is always around. If you think, the higher self can’t think, If you judge, the higher self cannot judge. If you meditate, the higher self cannot meditate.
Therefore, the idea of the higher self is not to think, judge or defend, but it is not necessarily to agree, cooperate or participate.
Even so, don’t stop. Share your thoughts. Sharing can strengthen your thoughts. It’s just thoughts, not enlightenment.
Just like the Buddhists in that story, they are attracted by the women who focus on the sharp point of the arrow in the market, and are convinced by the fearless and calm people who seem to be alone. Finally, they are enlightened by the women’s ridicule.
Yes, enlightenment is the result of intervention. What is intervention? Intervention in seeking and obtaining, putting down the efforts of seeking and obtaining, putting down meditation all day, putting down enlightenment.
This is what the Buddhist master experienced and was ridiculed by the women. This is also the confusion of the intellectuals. They can’t ask for it, because they can’t ask for it.
To accept oneself is to open words, to accept what one is is to be enlightened, and to accept what one is not to be is to be enlightened. That is to say, whether it is Buddhism, theology, or the laws of the universe, all belong to the external things, which are opposite to the internal things. Even the internal seeking should be put down because of seeking.
Even so, you can’t stop, keep trying, and don’t judge, because you haven’t been enlightened, and you haven’t accepted all your right and wrong, so you have to keep seeking until you find it.
Because the higher self will constantly interfere, or build or destroy, and interfere in your search until you let go.
Awakening doesn’t mean enlightenment, just as waking up doesn’t mean waking up. In fact, waking up doesn’t mean waking up. It’s just thinking. Only when you are not awake can you think. When you relax and rest, and let fear, worry and fear flow, you really start to wake up.
Because you feel breathing, how can people who do not breathe wake up and live? Therefore, feeling breathing is relaxation and rest.
Even relaxation and rest should be put down. Even so, there is no stop. It is necessary to keep close to the higher self in the construction and destruction of the higher self. That is to say, we are close to accepting all our own right and wrong.
Enlightenment doesn’t need to seek, just put it down,
Enlightenment doesn’t need to seek knowledge, just focus,
Enlightenment requires no meditation, only breathing.
So one day,
Seeking is also letting go,
Seeking knowledge is also concentration,
Meditation is also breathing,
Because enlightenment is not enlightenment, you are not interested in it, just exist and flow.
If you don’t stop, you will be enlightened.

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Pennsylvania High School Baseball - Fort LeBoeuf gets by CorryApril 30, 2018: Waterford, PA 16441
The Fort LeBoeuf Bison (Waterford, PA) baseball the visiting Corry Beavers (Corry, PA), 4-1 in Monday's league contest.
Coming up next, the Bison play the Seneca Bobcats (Erie, PA) in a non-league contest, on Tuesday, May 1. Fort LeBoeuf will attempt to better on its 6-6 season record. The Bobcats enter the contest with a 0-7 record after their 16-2 league loss to Fairview (Fairview, PA).
The Beavers now sport a 1-8 record. They take the field next when they travel to General McLane for a District 10 Region 6 contest on Wednesday, May 2. Corry will play a Lancers squad coming off a 2-1 league loss to Harbor Creek (Harborcreek, PA). The Lancers record now stands at 1-8.


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Top 10 Most Famous Punjabi Movie Actors
Due to the involvement of top multi-talented Punjabi performers in this business Pollywood is developing quickly. Through expressive acting, these actors may easily communicate human feelings to one another.
Punjabi actors from the past are in no way inferior to their contemporary counterparts despite Punjabi cinema having attained the height of its global prominence in recent years. In truth, the Hindi film industry has benefited from a lot of exceptional talents that have come from Punjabi cinema. The top 10 Punjabi actors in Pollywood are listed below.
1. Diljit Dosanjh
Diljit Dosanjh is now making waves for his scathing remarks on Twitter and for standing up to witty actors. Off of social media, the actor’s film and music careers are thriving as usual, and people adore him. The actor recently shared his life story and journey to stardom on a podcast. Diljit claims that he has always aspired to practice music and succeed in the music industry. Although it would be challenging for him to succeed without a Godfather, he had great confidence in his skills and thought otherwise.
The actor even admitted that he enjoyed watching movies, with Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra being his favorites. “I only saw Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra movies at home when I was a kid. I adored battle scenes. Apart from these two actors, the only movies I watched were those starring Rajinder Kumar. Rajinder Kumar’s films appealed to my long-standing affinity for hill towns, which is also the reason I chose them. In the lead role of “The Lion of Punjab,” Dosanjh made his acting debut in February 2011.
Although the movie fizzled at the box office, his song “Lak 28 Kudi Da” from the soundtrack was a huge hit. Dosanjh makes his Bollywood film debut in 2016 with “Udta Punjab,” which also starred Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, and Alia Bhatt. Later, he released “Phillauri,” his second Bollywood film, with Anushka Sharma and Suraj Sharma.
He also acknowledges that he once spent all of his time practicing music, and his backup plan for a career was to work in a factory. But as luck would have it, he managed to release his debut song even though he had no idea how to break through and make money from it. But he picked up the patterns slowly and eventually looked at where he was. He is undeniably an inspiration and a rock star.
2. Amrinder Gill
A member of the Punjabi industry, Amrinder Gill is a singer, actor, songwriter, and producer. Some of his most well-known songs include Male Karade Rabba, Dildarian, Yarrian, Mera Deewanapan, and others. Nine studio albums, fifteen singles, and 57 movie soundtracks have all been written by Gill. He received six awards at the 10th PTC Punjabi Filmfare Awards, including three for best actors and two for best repeat vocalists, placing him sixth overall. Amrinder received two accolades for Best Repetition Singer and Best Actor in addition to being chosen for the 5th Filmfare Awards.
He began acting in 2009 and debuted in the movie “Munde UK De”. He thereafter played the lead in additional movies., including Taur Mittran Di and Ik Kudi Punjab Di. In the end, Amrinder had enormous success with movies like Daddy Cool Munde Fool and Goreyan Nu Daffa Karo. Following this, several movies, including Love Punjab, Ashke, Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua, Angrej, and Lahoriye, won multiple accolades at various award ceremonies.
Supna, one of his songs, was a hit on the Punjabi music charts as well. Since then, he has only released Punjabi-language movie music. Kurta Suhaj, from his film Angrej, “Heerey,” from the Movie Love Punjab, “Akhar,” from Lahoriye, and “Aisi Taisi,” from Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua have all been nominated for numerous accolades.
3. Jimmy Shergill
Jimmy Shergill is a well-known Indian actor and film producer who is most known for his work in Punjabi and Hindi films. He was born on December 3, 1970, in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Jimmy Shergill graduated from Bikram College at Punjabi University in Patiala after completing his education at “The Punjab Public School” in Nabha. He made his acting debut in 1996’s Jasjit Shergill, a role in the blockbuster Bollywood film Maachis. His performance received widespread praise, and he continued to captivate both Bollywood filmmakers and spectators after his breakthrough performance in the movie. At the Indian box office, this film did a respectable amount of revenue.
Jimmy Shergill made his Pollywood debut in 2005 with the Raj Babbar, Anupam Kher, and Juhi Babbar-starrer Yaaran Naal Baharan, directed by Manmohan Singh. His debut part thrilled the Punjabi audience. He then appeared in several successful movies, including Mannat, Mel Karade Rabba, Shareek, Jindua, Vaisakhi List, and many others. He stands apart from other Punjabi actors because of his remarkable performance and his aura. He had the chance to work with well-known Bollywood actors and actresses and participated in several blockbuster Bollywood movies. Shergill gained notoriety in Bollywood thanks to his outstanding performance in films intended for the big screen.
Nearly everyone in Punjab is familiar with Jimmy Shergill. His achievement as an actor is primarily due to the quality of his voice and manner of delivering words. He seamlessly transitions between softer and harsher lines. Jimmy Shergill is well-known in the Hindi and Punjabi cinema industries. Of all the Punjabi actors, he has the most desirable personality.
4. Gurdas MannThe two movies for which Gurdas Maan is best known as an actor are Shaheed-E-Mohabbat (1999), which depicts the true story of Boota Singh, and Waris Shah: Ishq da Waris (2006), which was nominated for an Academy Award on behalf of India.
The character of Bhagat Singh was also played by Gurdas, a Sikh man who had no prejudices towards religion, caste, creed, or color as many of his followers and friends witness the fact that he is, in the well-known 2000 film Shaheed Udham Singh. Throughout the years, Gurdas Maan has collaborated with a variety of music producers, including Laxmikant Pyarelal, Bappi Lahiri, Anu Malik, Nadeem Sharvan, Amar Haidipur, Charanjeet Ahuja, and Jaswant Bhanyra.
Additionally, he co-starred with Juhi Chawla in the powerful drama Des Hoyaa Pardes (2004), which portrayed the miseries that Punjabi citizens endured in the 1980s. He adopted the guise of revered Jatt Gurdev Singh Somal (farmer). He starts to feel something for a senior police officer’s daughter. Separatists assassinate the father just before the wedding. The narrative abruptly changes depicting Gurshaan’s inevitable end. The events on which this film was based were real.
In addition, he made appearances in the following films: Wanted: Gurdas Mann Dead or Alive (1994), Kachehri (1994), Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai, Mamla Garbar Hai (1984), Long Da Lishkara (1986), Qurbani Jatt Di (1990), Pratigya (1990), Roohani Taaqat (1991), Saali Adhi Ghar Waali (1992), and (2002). The iconic song “Challa” by Gurdas Maan was featured in the movie Long Da Lishkara (1986).
5. Gippy Grewal
The next name on the list of top Punjabi actors is Gippy Grewal. Gippy, a musician by trade, made his feature film debut in 2010 with “Mel Karade Rabba,” which became an instant hit. Carry on Jatta, Jihne Mera Dil Looteya, Mirza: The Untold Story, and Bhaji in Problem are some of his best films. His song “Phulkari” broke several records in the Punjabi music industry. In recognition of his performance in the 2011 movie Jihne Mera Dil Luteya, he brought back the “PTC Best Actor Award.”
Gippy has been in several popular movies to date, including Jatt James Bond, a dramatic thriller starring Bollywood actress Zarine Khan, Double Di Trouble, Ardaas, Carry on Jatta 2, Ardaas Karaan, Manje Bistre, Manje Bistre 2, Daaka, and many others. He also contributed his voice to the Punjabi dub of the 2013 Hollywood film A Good Day to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. It was the first Hollywood film to be Punjabi-dubbed.
With actor Govinda’s daughter Tina Ahuja, he made his acting debut in the Bollywood second hand Husband. But the movie received a poor reception from the audience.
6. Guggu Gill
Gaggu Gill was born on January 14, 1960, in Moga’s Ghall Khurd in Punjab. He is from Mahni Khera, a hamlet in Punjab’s Muktsar district close to Malout. Guggu Gill made his acting debut in the 1983 film Putt Jattan De, playing a little part. Gaggu Gill has performed in more than 70 films to date. In 2021, he was one of the main characters in the online series Shikaari.
Guggu Gill, popularly known as Kulwinder Singh Gill is an Indian actor who is well-recognized for his work in Punjabi movies. Since the 1980s, his work in Punjabi movies has been remarkable. He received the Best Villain Award in 1986 for the motion picture Gabru Punjab De.
For his services to the Pollywood sector, Guggu Gill was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 PTC Punjabi Film Awards. He received the Living Legend Award from the Punjab Government on December 15, 2021.
7. Jassi Gill
Singer-actor Jassi Gill, who is known for belting out popular Punjabi songs like “Nikle Currant,” “Attt Karti,” and “Lamborghini”, has credited his successful music career with paving the way for his admission into Pollywood. Sardar Gurminder Singh and Ravinder Kaur gave birth to Jassi Gill.
A multi-talented Punjabi performer named Jassi Gill has exposed the public to a fresh approach to acting. Mr. & Mrs. 420 was his cinematic debut, and he went on to star in Dil Vil Pyaar Vyar, Mundeyan Toh Bachke Rahin, Oh Yaara Ainvayi Ainvayi Lut Gaya, Dildariyaan, and Channo Kamli Yaar Di. Rubina Bajwa and Babbal Rai costarred alongside him in his most recent film “Sargi,”
Jassi won the PTC Punjabi Filmfare Award for Best Debut for his excellent performance in Mr. & Mrs. 420.
8. Yograj Singh
Yograj Singh, a former cricketer for India, is now an actor and a director. With the Punjabi film Batwara, Yograj made his acting debut (1983). He later transitioned to directing Vichhora (1994). Yograj acted in 33 movies throughout his acting career, including the critically acclaimed West is West from Hollywood (2008). His successive movie was Love u Bobby (2009). Later in 2013, Yograj was featured in the popular movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
The Punjabi language flicks Great Sardaar, Krazzy Tabbar, and Thug Life are all his 2017 releases. In addition to the 2018 Punjabi action drama Sajjan Singh Rangroot, which was directed by Pankaj Batra, he has actively performed in the films Kande, Jagga Jiunda E, Vadda Kalakaar, and Devi Sharma’s Dulla Vaily. Yaara Ve, Lukan Michi, Ardaas Karaan, Doorbeen, and Tu Mera Ki Lagda are a few of his 2019 releases.
9. Roshan Prince
Rajiv Kaplish is the real name of Roshan Prince. He is a Punjabi singer, actor, writer, music composer, and record producer. He is also known as Prince. The date of Roshan Prince’s birth is September 12, 1981, and he was born in Ludhiana, Punjab.
Roshan Prince has a fantastic body, which contributes to his attractive appearance. He achieved popularity in his debut film, “Lagda Ishq Ho Gaya,” when he wowed everyone with his amazing performance. Ishq Brandy, Naughty Jatts, Lucky Di Unlucky Story, Kirpan – the Sword of Honour, Mundeyan Toh Bachke Rahin, and Arjan are some of his best-known works in the Punjabi film industry. Laavan Phere was another hit in the theatres too.
As a lyricist, he made his writing debut in 2003.
10. Ammy Vir
Ammy Virk was born on May 11, 1992, in Lohar Majra village, Nabha, Patiala.
Ammy made his acting debut in the Punjabi film “Angrej” in 2015, portraying the part of “Haakam.” He then made appearances in the movies Bambukat and Ardaas. Followed by “Nikka Zaildar,” “Sat Shri Akaal England,” “Harjeeta,” and “Qismat” and many other well-known movies. He has a production company called Villagers Film Studios and a distribution business called In House Group in addition to acting and singing. He was cast in the 2019 Bollywood film “83,” which is based on the Indian cricket team’s World Cup victory in 1983, to play pacer Balwinder Singh Sandhu.

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Neurology & Neurosurgery
If you have been diagnosed with a neurological condition, it is understandable to be concerned. These conditions, which affect the brain, spinal cord or nerves, can have serious effects on your quality of life. Houston Methodist Neurological Institute is one of the leading centers for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. We offer unparalleled comprehensive care for patients with neurological disorders.
Neurological issues require expert treatment and management — and that is what you can expect at Houston Methodist. Our team includes more than 100 neurologists and neurosurgeons, as well as other specialists and caregivers who focus on the needs of patients with neurological disorders. We are the top-ranked hospital in both Houston and Texas, as noted by U.S. News & World Report, and we are one of the best hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S.
We see more patients for neurological and neurosurgical care than nearly any other hospital in the U.S. - more than 7,000 cases in 2019 alone. Research has shown that patient outcomes improve at hospitals that care for more patients. Our quality data and metrics demonstrate the high level of care you can expect from our doctors.
Our Neurology and Neurosurgery Services
We treat a wide range of neurological conditions for international patients, including:
- Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive (thinking and memory) disorders
- Brain tumors
- Cerebrovascular diseases – conditions that affect blood flow to the brain, such as brain aneurysms (bulges in the brain’s blood vessels) and brain and spinal vascular malformations (abnormal blood vessels)
- Epilepsy and seizures
- Headaches and migraines
- Movement and functional disorders – conditions that can affect movement, thinking and many other bodily functions, such as Parkinson’s disease
- Neuromuscular disorders – conditions that affect muscles and the nervous system’s ability to control them, including multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neuron disease) and muscular dystrophy
- Psychiatric conditions
- Sleep disorders
- Speech, language and voice disorders
- Spine disorders
You and your doctor will work together to create a treatment plan that is customized to your unique needs and concerns. In addition to the treatment options we provide as part of the standard of care for your condition, you may be able to take part in one of our clinical trials. These research studies can allow you to access the latest treatments and medications for neurological conditions before they are widely available elsewhere. We are pioneering the future of neurological care with innovations such as:
- A revolutionary immunology study to slow the progression of ALS through the expansion of protective T-regulatory cells in patients
- Performing deep, subcortical surgery in historically inoperable areas of the brain
- Groundbreaking neuroimaging studies to identify, track and potentially treat the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease
- A collaborative study with Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital to find and repurpose existing drugs to combat Alzheimer’s
- Clinical trials using stem cell therapy to prevent major disabilities caused by stroke
- The development of a transcranial cap that uses magnetic stimulation to enhance recovery after stroke
- The development of an innovative form of gene therapy that uses a virus to attack and successfully treat glioblastoma
- Regenerative medicine research to potentially restore movement and function to patients with trauma and spinal cord injury
- Deep brain stimulation for treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease
- Collaboration with the NFL and GE in a four-year study to improve detection of brain damage after head injury
Take the Next Step for Your Neurology or Neurosurgery Care
To learn more about Houston Methodist’s neurology and neurosurgery services, visit our English-only Neurology & Neurosurgery page.

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Founder Passes Away; Brad Paisley Teams Up with John Fogerty; Free Music from Hayes Carll
Warren Hellman, philanthropist and founder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, passed away last night at the age of 77 due to complications from leukemia. Taylor Swift and Scotty McCreery were two of the artists who got spoofed in this SNL sketch. News has come out that soulful Etta James is in terminally ill in the last […]
Dailey & Vincent Win Big at SPBGMA Awards; New Album Releases; Chris Young Sends Third Song to the Top
Dailey & Vincent were the big winners during Sunday’s SPBGMA Awards, pulling in a combined total of seven trophies in categories like entertaining group and album of the year, but other winners included Rhonda Vincent, who won a couple of categories herself, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice for song of the year, and Tom T. […]
Some of country’s less-heralded, less-promoted releases of the past year are not only very well worth hearing, they also introduced or re-introduced ideas which this writer, for whatever it’s worth, would like to see more artists and producers take up. Among the strongest 2010 releases was the only marginally noted Amber Digby & Justin Trevino […]
At last night’s annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, Dailey & Vincent triumphed — again, maintaining their hold on the entertainer of the year and top vocal group categories for the third year in a row. The duo also notched wins for album of the year for their tribute project Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler […]
Nominees for the 21st annual International Bluegrass Music Awards were announced this morning and once again, Dailey & Vincent top the list with 10 nominations. Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out follow with six nods and right on their heels are Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Sam Bush, and The Grascals with five apiece. The full […]
Faith Hill is scheduled to perform a free concert in New Orleans on Aug. 24 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Nashville Lifestyles released its 2010 Hot List and perched at the very top is Laura Bell Bundy, while Faith Hill, recognized for her beauty as well as co-hosting the Nashville Rising flood […]
- Arlene: I'd have included "Omie Wise." Doc Watson's is the version I'm familiar with but I think it's been recorded by …
- luckyoldsun: I think the number one country murder ballad is "Frankie and Johnny"--by Jimmie. Also, how about "Delia's Gone" from Harry Belafonte …
- Juli Thanki: Colloquial use of "fantastic" as a synonym for "excellent" dates back to the 1930s. And if it's good enough for …
- Paul W Dennis: I think "Banks of The Ohio", "Miller's Cave" and "It's Nothing to Me" are far creepier than several of the …
- Paul W Dennis: The Hight article is interesting, although I don't know that I would describe it as fantastic, but then I know …
- Dana M: I'm actually excited to hear a new Reba album. As for the Alan Jackson tour, I hope he announces Canadian …
- nm: Agreed. A good job by three very smart women.
- Deremy Jylan: The Hight piece is tremendous reading.
- Juli Thanki: Much like the music of Aldean and FGL, Michelob Ultra is favored by college kids and too much exposure will …
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Don’t be cynical about the male menopause - testosterone deficiency can make a serious impact on middle-aged men
Conventional wisdom has it that heart disease is more common in men because they don’t benefit from the protective effect of the female hormone oestrogen. However, new research suggests it is not a lack of oestrogen that puts men at higher risk but declining levels of their own hormone testosterone — a discovery that is likely to radically change the medical profession’s cynical view of the male “menopause”.
Researchers from the University of Sheffield Medical School have identified a correlation between low testosterone levels and premature heart disease.
One in four of the 930 men with furred up coronary arteries that

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Christmas with Gershwin & Ellington
Swing into Christmas with American classics from Gershwin and Ellington. Acclaimed young pianist Joseph Moog joins the Orchestra for the first time to play Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, which fuses traditional form with Gershwin’s energetic rhythms; whilst Ellington’s reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s well-loved ballet themes
transports us to a new jazz infused winter wonderland.
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TAMPA, Fla. — After three seasons in the basement of the American Athletic Conference, the University of Tulsa appears to have broken through.
For the first time since 2012, the Hurricane is off to a 2-0 start in league play. The latest win occurred Friday night at South Florida, which TU dominated completely on its way to a 42-13 outcome.
“This is what we’ve been talking about for three weeks,” coach Philip Montgomery said. “Our next step was really to come out and play a full 60-minute game, get off to a good start and truly feel like you controlled the game from start to finish.”
Twenty days removed from an upset against Central Florida, TU showed no rust on offense and overcame the absence of four defensive starters: safeties Cristian Williams and TieNeal Martin, who didn’t make the trip for undisclosed reasons; end Cullen Wick, who was on the sideline in street clothes; and linebacker Treyvon Reeves, who was ejected in the first half on a questionable targeting call.
After opening the game with a three-and-out series from its defense, the Hurricane (2-1, 2-0) heated up in a hurry with a 65-second, 65-yard drive that ended with a touchdown pass from Zach Smith to JuanCarlos Santana.
Akayleb Evans then forced a fumble that was recovered by Lamar Mullins, who made the first start of his career. On the ensuing drive, Smith had an apparent miscommunication with his receivers and threw an interception that led to a Bulls field goal.
Last-place USF (1-5, 0-5) delivered one of its few impressive plays on a punt return by KJ Sails that went for 60 yards, setting up another field goal.
While the Bulls were trying every quarterback on their roster, Smith was efficient, completing 16 of 24 passes for 233 yards. With the offensive line having an outstanding night, running backs Corey Taylor II and Deneric Prince scored the first of their two touchdowns in the second quarter, giving TU a 21-6 halftime advantage.
After USF got back into the game with a touchdown drive on its first possession of the second half, the Hurricane quickly responded. Prince, a Texas A&M transfer who achieved his first 100-yard outing, sidestepped a defender on his way to the end zone for an electric 62-yard run.
Zaven Collins, who forced a red-zone fumble in the second quarter, scored on a 38-yard interception return in the third quarter as part of another stellar performance that included six tackles.
A long pass from Smith to Sam Crawford Jr. set up a diving touchdown from Taylor late in the third quarter, and TU moved to its reserves including quarterbacks Seth Boomer and Davis Brin in the fourth quarter amid the significant lead.
Defeating USF for the first time in four tries and winning a second game in a row for the first time since 2016, the Hurricane finished with eight tackles for lost yardage and totaled three takeaways.
“Two years ago, (USF) was a top-25 team,” Montgomery said. “You know when you step in between the white lines anything can happen. I was just proud of the way our guys stayed together, stayed focused and came out and played a really sound game.”
Philip Montgomery has a squad that seems outfitted for contention in the American, and it all starts with the Tulsa run game.
Despite being down four starters, the Hurricane was consistently disruptive, totaling eight tackles for lost yardage, forcing two fumbles and scoring on an interception.
Until the coin toss, University of Tulsa coach Philip Montgomery might doubt whether Friday night’s game at South Florida will be played.
Shawn Jackson on his 66-yard interception return at Notre Dame: "The whole run, I was thinking, ‘I’m actually about to score a touchdown in a big college football game.’ ”
Recent positive coronavirus tests for Les Miles, Dan Mullen and others underscore concern over players and coaches navigating a season during a pandemic
The stop-and-start nature of the season has been difficult to navigate, with three games canceled and two others postponed because of COVID-19.
The unfortunate reality of a COVID-ravaged season: At this point, the University of Tulsa could be well on its way to a special year.
Overtime connection was buried by OU-Texas drama Oct. 10, but it shouldn't have been
ORLANDO, Fla. — After a disastrous first quarter that included three turnovers in three plays, the University of Tulsa appeared out of its element.
Our best photos as OSU and TU kick off their 2020 season
Philip Montgomery is set to begin his sixth season as TU's head coach. Montgomery is 25-37 through five seasons, winning 16 games in his first…


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'I betrayed my friend for Mao'
CHINESE WHISPERS by Jan Wong (Atlantic Books £12.99)
No-one who read Wild Swans by Jung Chang will forget the descriptions of cultural vandalism, persecution, torture, sadistic class violence and paranoia that prevailed in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Jan Wong’s Chinese Whispers recalls those days from the viewpoint of an idealistic supporter of the regime. She says now, 'I was that dangerous combination: fanatic, ignorant and adolescent.'
Jan Wong (in glasses) aged 19, in 1972. Working in a pottery factory in south China.
In 1972 she was nineteen. One of only two foreigners permitted to study in Beijing since the onset of Mao’s upheaval, she was determined to play her part in remaking the world for Communism. A fervent, Canadian-born Maoist, she enthusiastically did her stint in a factory, wielded a pneumatic drill, dug ditches and shifted manure as part of the curriculum.
In today’s China they refer to the Cultural Revolution as the Decade of Disaster but Wong maintains that she was unaware of the full extent of the horrors. When a fellow-student, Yin Luoyi, asked if she could help her get to America, she was shocked: anyone wanting to go to the West was a traitor, 'betraying the Motherland'. Wong reported the girl to the authorities. Yin was interrogated, expelled and disappeared.
Wong went back to Canada, graduated, made her name as a journalist, and returned several times to Beijing on assignments that included an eye-witness account of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Along the way she lost her illusions, the experience powerfully expressed in a best-selling book, Red China Blues. For the next thirty years the disgraced Yin and the mystery of her fate seems never to have entered her mind until, one day, she re-read her old diaries with an awakened conscience, and was filled with guilt.
Now a successful writer, married to an American and the mother of two teenage sons, Wong decides to try to find Yin and ask forgiveness. Armed with an assignment to describe Beijing’s preparations for the Olympic Games, she sets off with the family to spend August in the Forbidden City. Her very American teenage sons, initially reluctant, warm to this alien place, checking out McDonalds and KFC; wary of the exotic local cuisine.
Wong gives us a vivid, sometimes comic portrait of Beijing past and present – busily destroying itself, to be reinvented in the name of progress – freeways, designer restaurants, gleaming towers, villas with his-and-hers saunas, shopping malls at every turn. Mao’s children have plunged into frenzied retail therapy.
Beijing is a vast building site. A once-quiet road where a bicycle path was shaded by willows and poplars, is now an eight-lane expressway. The city swarms with migrant workers, ill-paid and socially invisible, who sleep under the overpass they’re building, while the rich buy Bentleys and Porches. 'So much for Chairman Mao,' Wong comments drily.
Meanwhile her search continues and she frets that she has less than a month to find the girl she betrayed. Repeatedly she berates herself: how could she have done what she did? Ignorance and naiveté are her excuses. She tracks down old teachers and girls who were students with her; some are now affluent, all conveniently amnesiac. No one has information and the university records for the entire decade have vanished. Her attempts to visit the history department take her into Kafka land.
Left to right: Jan Wong and Yin in Beijing
Trying to find a stranger in a country of 1.3 billion seems increasingly like a mission impossible. The world has moved on and words like 'guilt', 'denunciation' and, above all, 'Cutural Revolution' are no longer part of the vocabulary.
Slowly Wong picks up leads, the clues frustratingly contradictory: in one account the girl simply vanished. In another she survived and majored in Chinese history. She was sent away in disgrace. Possibly she returned and opened a business. Maybe she left China.
Then the bombshell: the phone rings and her husband picks it up. 'He hands it to me. "It’s the person you’re looking for".'
Wong’s initially hopeless pursuit of her old victim at last brings them face to face. There are surprises – on both sides: Wong meets a poised, elegant woman with an astonishing story of displacement, suffering and survival; and Yin discovers, shockingly, that it was Wong who had – voluntarily – denounced her. To reveal more would spoil the fun for the reader. For fun, incongruously, it is: despite painful moments and cathartic tears, this is not a dark odyssey with a wintry reconciliation. The giggly, nostalgic lunches Wong shares with her middle-aged, former fellow-students carry echos of Sex And The City – without the sex. It’s a witty, clever and knowingly light-hearted take on betrayal and redemption; a feel-good penance.


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After countless brilliant music videos and a fantastic Guardian Guide cover last week, Studio Moross has now created a fully interactive billboard in collaboration with Red Bull to promote soon-to-be superstar Jessie Ware’s new album Devotion. The public were encouraged to come and colour in hundreds of dots that sprawled across a huge billboard at street-level, whilst listening to the album. Gradually, as more people became involved and the dots were slowly filled, the image of Ware’s beautiful head began to appear, making for one pretty spectacular piece of promotion! Well done Studio Moross, well done.
The installation will be displayed until August 26 in London’s Broadway Market.
- Artist Henry Taylor takes over LA gallery Blum & Poe
- Accent magazine takes us behind the scenes of issue two
- Shannon Jager, a graphic designer combining the technical and the thoughtful
- The Gourmand visualises the intricate flavours of Glenmorangie whisky
- Victoria Vincent’s animation captures the tragic pitfalls of online dating
- Adam Birkan captures the diverse and juxtaposing landscape of Hanoi
- “Nymphomaniac” photographer Casper Sejersen's explosive images
- Anja Wicki's sarcastically sweet comic illustrations
- Logo Pizza is selling 50 ready-made logos that increase in price with each one sold
- Google and INT Works commission 19 illustrators to create over 500 works for Allo app launch
- The Gentlewoman’s art director, Veronica Ditting gives us a peek at her bookshelf