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KENAI — A simmering excitement spread through a group of volunteers standing on the edge of a bluff overlooking the Kenai River on a recent morning. In the distance, tiny gray and white shapes emerged and disappeared at the mouth of the river, barely distinguishable against the water’s surface.
Here they come.
As the pod of beluga whales headed up the Kenai River, group members peered through camera lenses and binoculars. Soon, they began scribbling on clipboards as one volunteer — Teresa Becher — stretched out her hand perpendicular to the river below.
Once the whales passed beneath Becher’s hand, spotters counted the white flashes of surfacing belugas.
“Twelve, 13, 14!” Becher announced as each whale emerged briefly past her arm.
These citizen scientists fill a critical role in helping to better understand the declining Cook Inlet beluga whale population, according to Verena Gill, who works as a supervisory wildlife biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Of the species protected by NOAA Fisheries under the Endangered Species Act, the agency lists Cook Inlet belugas as one of nine closest to extinction.
The whales’ population has plummeted, from over 1,300 whales in 1979 to around 279 by 2018, according to recent NOAA estimates. Researchers suspected that unregulated beluga hunting led to the drop, but even after the hunting ceased, the beluga population continued to decline, Gill said.
“We don’t know why they have not recovered,” Gill said. “There’s lots of different hypotheses, but we have yet to understand why they are not recovering.”
This spring, volunteers first observed belugas in the Kenai River in late March, and the whales have been there consistently through April, sometimes swimming several miles in.
The belugas swim into the river to feed but aren’t spotted once May arrives, which — according to Gill — “makes no sense” since around that time, some of their favorite foods like hooligan and eventually salmon start to show up.
“But they leave and they don’t come to the Kenai until about the first of September,” Gill said. “So, we’re trying to understand why that might be.”
Since NOAA scientists can’t be out there every day and can’t attach tracking tags to the belugas because of their endangered status, the volunteers fill an important gap in helping to understand when and how the belugas use the river — producing valuable data about whale habitat and behavior.
“I think the only way we’re going to turn this around for the belugas is to have people in the community help us understand what is going on with them,” Gill said.
Hopefully, the monitoring efforts will help “unravel this puzzle,” she said.
The whales appear small from a distance but weigh 3,150 pounds on average. They stretch some 13 feet in length and can live up to 90 years, their bodies covered in a thick layer of blubber that helps them live in the cold waters of Cook Inlet.
Viewed from the bluffs Sunday, the belugas in the Kenai River swam for several minutes as about a half-dozen volunteers determined the total count and marked down their behavior.
“It’s easy to think there’s more than there are,” Becher said as another whale dipped up and flashed below. Becher, in her 60s, is a retired California Highway Patrol chief who is now back in school studying natural sciences, and she coordinates volunteers for the Alaska Beluga Monitoring Partnership.
Nearby, Suzanne Steinert, who runs the Beluga Whale Alliance, looked out to spot the belugas in the distance. The alliance usually monitors sites along the Seward Highway and at Ship Creek in Anchorage but had come down for the weekend to watch for belugas in the Kenai River.
“What I’m looking for right now is just their bright white backs popping up,” she said. “I like to say they look like Tic Tacs and chocolate milk.”
Chandera Tolley, 27, from Eagle River, works in financial aid at the University of Alaska Anchorage and helps monitor at the Ship Creek site. She had also come down to the Kenai to help monitor, which she said can be stressful — balancing the hectic rush to collect data, snap pictures and just enjoy the belugas as they pass by.
But it’s her passion. She’s from Tennessee and hadn’t seen a whale until she moved to Alaska.
“As many beluga sightings that I’ve had since I moved here, my jaw still drops when I see them come up the water,” Tolley said.
It’s tough to count the whales. Belugas can hold their breath for 15 to 20 minutes, so some might not even surface as they swim past. Others might turn and go backwards underwater, if they’re chasing fish.
On Sunday, the count soon climbed to 22 belugas. That was much higher than usual, close to their record count this season of 23 whales in a single day.
Then another few showed up, bringing the tally to 25.
“This is awesome!” Becher exclaimed with glee. “And the odds that some portion will go farther up the river are huge.”
After they finished their session on the bluffs, the volunteers relocated to a nearby bridge along with a few passersby, including Brittany and Andy Castagno, who moved to the Kenai Peninsula in October for Andy’s work.
The Castagnos, who had never seen belugas before, said they originally stopped to watch a seal swimming past.
“This is the best day of my life,” Brittany Castagno said after witnessing belugas surface against the gray-brown river water.
At the bridge, Becher urged everyone to continue toward Cunningham Park a few blocks away, where onlookers could get one final close-up view of the belugas.
Most eventually left and headed back toward the mouth of the Kenai without seeing any of the whales that far upriver.
But Becher held out longer than most, scanning the water’s surface, watching and waiting.


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" I miss myself."
"I miss you, too, Ali, so much."
" I never planned to get like this."
-Still Alice by Lisa Genova
I read, Still Alice in March of 2009 and decided it was time to revisit this story. I remain moved and heartbroken. Alice has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease and this is her story. It is unique in that the story is told from Alice's perspective. We usually read/hear about how, Alzheimer impacts the family and not the individual.
Genova has written Alice's story so that you live if with her, through her mind. You feel her anguish, frustrations, fear and doubts. As a reader you lose your "mind" right along with, Alice. You experience the horror of watching yourself forget who you are and who those around you are. Simple, tasks that we take for granted become nearly impossible feats.
Alice is resilient, high intelligent, fiercely educated and independent but Alzheimer's slowly eats away at those traits, turning her into a former version of herself. Imagine for a moment that you can no longer participate in your favorite activity, for example: You can no longer read a novel because you can't recall what happened 5 pages ago or you reread the same passage over and over and can't keep it in your memory. That is life with Alzheimer's in every capacity.
It is a disease with no cure. I imagine it to be a cruel disease that leave you in a perpetual state of confusion and fear. I have witnessed it. My great-grandmother was diagnosed and the last few years of her life were brutal. She couldn't remember eating, moments after you took away her plate. She couldn't remember that a glass/cup could be placed on a table, so she threw it wherever it would land instead (sometimes aiming at you).
Be prepared to self-analyze yourself while reading this. I know I did!

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Yes, We Have No Tellers
Another credit union announced last week that it was taking a step in the direction of removing tellers from its branches.
The 134,000 member University Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Austin, Texas, will deploy ATMs to open at least three branches without tellers and may open another once details relating to the property are worked out, according to a University FCU executive.
“We want member interactions with University Federal Credit Union to be about their experience. Each positive interaction will increase members’ comfort levels and encourage them to grow with us as a partner,” said UFCU Chief Operating Officer Steve Kubala in an announcement published by Diebold, the manufacturer of the ATMs that the CU will deploy in the new branches.
But while at first glance this might appear as something as simple as taking a more expensive human element out of the branch to replace it with a less expensive technology, Kubala and other executives stress that what University and other credit unions and some banks are seeking to do is nothing less than change the entire way credit union members or bank customers experience visiting the institution.
“What I am really looking for is something similar to the atmosphere at an Apple retail store,” Kubala said of the new branches, referring to the well known nationwide computer manufacturer and retailer.
“The new branches will be modern, free flowing, efficient and sharply focused on improved member service,” he said, adding that University saw this move as less about eliminating tellers than about streamlining transactions to free up staff for more complex and detailed customer service.
In the older system, tellers are responsible for primarily doing transactions and little else, Kubala explained. In the new system personal financial representatives will be available on the branch floor for everything from helping members use the machines for the first time to helping them print cashier’s checks, decide which loans is best and make other, more complex, financial decisions.
“There will be some PFRs who will have licenses to be able to talk about investments and insurance products,” Kubala said, adding that the CU may also have people approved to take mortgage applications in the branches as well.
Re-thinking the branch experience in this way meant Kubala and other executives at University had to look at everything from the type of furniture and the kind of lighting it will use as well as the type of ATMs it will have.
Kubala explained that the type of current ATMs most members recognize, whether through a wall or free standing, would not suit the new space as they tended to be unfriendly, unapproachable and relatively large. By comparison, Kubala and University wanted the ATMs to be smaller, friendly and more approachable–again in many ways like an Apple or other tablet computer.
Kubala said the CU did not authorize him to release pictures of the ATMs or drawings of the new branch spaces, but he said the new ATMs will not have any buttons and will be accessed entirely through large flat screens much like tablet computers.
The branches will also have other areas nearby, with desks and doors, where members could talk to PFRs about more complex or more personal financial topics and where they could sign loan papers or other documents, Kubala explained.
University is the latest credit union to have started to move away from using tellers, a trend that Michael Colvin, one of four principal partners in the Atlanta-based consultancy, Level 5, sees picking up steam. Level 5 helps credit unions and some community banks reconfigure branches but did not work with University on its branching project.
“In 10 years, I believe the financial institution with a teller line is going to be the anomaly. The branches without tellers will be the norm,” Colvin said, adding that the “compelling” economic case for moving away from models where “tellers are trapped behind the counter” will eventually trump popular misconceptions and mistakenly placed concerns.
He said Level 5 has projects active in between 50 and 60 credit unions around the country but that it’s hard to know how many the firm does in a calendar year because so many of the transitions to teller-less branches are multi-year processes.
“I might have a proposal accepted today, but that new branch might not open until November 2012,” Colvin said.
One of the most widespread misconceptions is that all teller-less branches means is replacing people with machines, Colvin explained, with a drop into a mechanized and automatic sort of service.
But he maintained that what teller-less branches really mean is an increase in customer service and a corresponding increase in a more engaged and detailed sort of customer service, combined with increased efficiency that helps members make better use of their time.
Citing University's model of the Apple store, Colvin pointed to Apple's empowering and equipping its staff to be able to take customer's payment for items from where ever they happen to be on the floor.
This saves consumers the time of waiting in a line at a checkout counter and enables the staff to be able to more efficiently help them find things in the store and answer consumer questions. Likewise, a teller-less branch allows credit union staff to interact in a more targeted and efficient way with members and allows members who need to visit a branch just to make routine transactions to do so more efficiently.
The increased level of customer service can be seen in the way the new branches have sharply lowered the risk of branch robbery, Colvin noted. Not only is there no money loosely available in the teller-less branch, the credit union staff working in a teller-less branch are trained to interact with members earlier than tellers do, when they first step in the door.
This makes teller-less branches less attractive to robbers because it both increases the risk of being identified later and the likelihood the robbery attempt will be detected earlier, Colvin explained.

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Kenyan court halts closure of Kakuma Refugee Camp
Kenya’s high court has temporarily blocked the closure of the two refugee camps, calling it unconstitutional.
On Thursday, the court stayed the closure for 30 days, according to a copy of the court seen by news organizations.
This month Kenya’s minister of interior ordered closure of Kakuma and Daadab Refugee camps and gave UN an ultimatum of seven days. Kenyan government says the camps harbour terrorists who carry out attacks inside Kenya.

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SIBU: The Sarawak Transport Ministry will be setting up a Public Transport committee in every division with the main task of studying how to reduce traffic congestion in towns and cities in the state.
Transport Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin told the press after meeting with bus company operators here yesterday that the committee would be headed by the Resident of each division.
“The committee will be helmed by the respective Resident and members will include association for bus, taxi, lorry and express boat operators. The committee will send feedback to us,” he said.
Lee said his ministry would be gathering data on the traffic congestion and how to overcome this with the utilisation of public transport service.
“We can solve traffic congestion if more people opt to use public transport and that we have efficient bus service. We want to encourage more people to take the bus rather than using their own transport,” he said.
Lee had personally gone to see for himself the efficiency of buses in the state. He took buses in Kuching, Sibu and Miri.
“In Kuching, I took a bus from Stutong to the hospital. It took the bus one hour and 45 minutes to arrive at the destination due to traffic congestion,” he said.
Yesterday morning, he was on a bus from the bus terminal to Jalan Lanang and back.
“One woman, who is working in a legal firm, told me she used the bus every day to her office, which costs her RM3.60 daily for a round trip.
“She finds it more comfortable taking the bus than to drive as she would have to fork out RM200 a month for parking fees and fuel.
“A second person, a male passenger, is doing the same thing. He has to walk 10 minutes from the bus terminal to the office which has become a routine for him,” Lee related.
However, as much as the ministry wanted to promote public transport service among the people, the decreasing number of stage buses could derail the effort, he said.
Using Sibu as an example, he said the number of stage buses had decreased from more than 200 to just 39, which are operated by three companies.
Lee said these companies had to cut down the number due to shortage of passengers.
“They are also facing the shortage of qualified drivers. To employ drivers, they would have to spend RM6,000 to help them get a Class E driving licence first and later the public service vehicle licence,” he said.


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This month’s Review Round-up features two cartoonists who frequently work on their comics in the Art Department, plus a peek inside Reptile House Comix’s latest summer issue. Smell ya later, summer!
Gecko by Nate Garcia
Alanzo Sneak is a modern cowboy with modest hopes and dreams: to share a square meal with his girl Plump Pocket, a bodacious doe-eyed horsey; to avoid cryptocurrency at all costs; and to mack on Lady Gaga in his dreams. I can’t say what unfolds in Gecko falls entirely in Alanzo’s favor, however. A yellow gecko with a penchant for lickin’ is the cute foil to the cowboy’s otherwise chill day. But even when fate deals its worst deck of cards to poor Alanzo, he manages to sarcastically quip through the pain: during a bedridden viewing of late-night TV one eve, he pops a peace sign and utters “LOL moment!” while Plump Pocket quietly cheeses by his stead.
- One of the most awkward meals in cowboy history
- A cool barf sesh
- Doggie-dealing to the law
- One smarmy Jimmy Fallon rendered by Nate Garcia as the booger-y cherry on top
This comic is compact and chuckle-licious, so if you’d care to purchase a copy from the artist, it’s small enough to fit in your saddlebag as you gallop off into greasy-fry paradise.
Nate Garcia and fellow cartoonist Molly Dwyer have teamed up for this month’s vertical display exhibit, “Molly Dwyer and Nate Garcia’s Contemporary Cartoon Fiction Picture Circus”. Both cartoonists will be reading their work at this month’s Comix Club! Please register here for this event, which will be held in the Art Department on Tuesday, September 26 from 5:30-7 p.m. You can see their work at the event, or anytime this month during open hours in the Art Department.
Reptile House Comix #12
The dozenth issue of this punk comix quarterly is a slam dunk of grotesque weirdness. The 44-page summer installment sports a cool metallic teal cover, with a chill tortoise donning shades and a popsicle, inked by Rachel Leah Gallo. Ten artists converge to deliver mud, guts, butts, and lip service.
- Molly Dwyer’s Bizarro is this issue’s opener. In this universe, one’s emotional turmoil — which Dwyer aptly describes as being “trapped in the dog crate of your mind” — can be fixed with a quick phone call to one mud-wrestling clown helpline (or so says one unhinged and tuxedo unitard-wearing clown). Dwyer inks in pleasingly dialed-up extremes: sweat oozes, mud flies, and palls of factory fumes excrete the energy of callers’ woeful confessions. Bizarro is a mad and scary world, but I kinda wanna stay awhile!
- Derick Jones’s Nosebleed is perhaps the only piece of media to contain a Wawa hoagie and an exploding head. I really enjoyed the Cronenberg-y feel of this story (don’t yuck my yum!). The inked page of the cops staring down some Wissahickon abyss at the crime scene they are about to enter was especially nice, and chilling. I only recommend maybe finishing your sandwich before reading.
- If you like lil’ pigs and high-stakes quests, Rebecca Kirby’s The Beautiful Archers is for you, for sure. One muscular babe and her steed happen upon two of their footguards, Ramona and Claire, in the middle of a chill bathing sesh post-murder. A scheming piggy soon dangles their fates by its squealin’ snout. This short comic is very funny and everyone has really good hair.
Lil and Friends Die for Real! by Catherine Epps
Derek, Little Ray, Wallace, and Lil are four friends with a bond so tight, that it continues on into the afterlife (prepare yourself for spooky). When Lil collects a famous local possum, Ol man Sam, in the hopes of bringing a pal on her move to a new city, she and the gang begin a dangerous tango with a Grim Reaper-in-training. Chaos ensues online and IRL!!!
- The storytelling in this comic is clever and full. You really get the sense that you are a part of this awkward friend group.
- While the comic itself is black-and-white, there’s a colorful centerfold that takes you inside “Find Quest II”, the video game these friends log on to play. It includes a challenging look and find (searching for the frog was my favorite).
- Lastly, this comic offers a true cliffhanger, yikes! I can’t wait for the next one.


* KOSPI flat, foreigners net sellers * Korean won strengthens versus U.S. dollar * South Korea benchmark bond yield falls SEOUL, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial markets: ** South Korean shares were nearly unchanged on Monday as investors were wary ahead of exports data, while geopolitical tensions around North Korea weighed on the sentiment. The Korean won strengthened, while the benchmark bond yield fell. ** As of 0215 GMT, the Seoul stock market's main KOSPI fell 0.97 points, or 0.04%, to 2,203.24. ** For the month, the KOSPI was set to rise 5.64%. The index was on track for an around 8% jump for 2019. ** Investors are taking a pause after the benchmark index gained sharply, said Lee Kyoung-min, an analyst at Daishin Securities. They are cautious awaiting cues from exports data and New Year's speech by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he added. ** North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for "positive and offensive measures" at a ruling party meeting to ensure security ahead of a year-end deadline he has set for denuclearisation talks with the United States, state media KCNA said on Monday. ** South Korea's December trade data, which is due at 9 a.m. (0100 GMT) on Jan. 1, will be the first monthly foreign trade data to be published by a major exporting economy. ** Shares of Hanjin Kal , parent company of Korean Air Lines , surged as much as 12% in early trade, after media reports on escalating feud involving the founding family. ** Foreigners were net sellers of 49.0 billion won ($42.29 million) worth of shares on the main board. ** The won was quoted at 1,159.9 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform , 0.14% higher than its previous close at 1,161.5. ** In offshore trading, the won was quoted at 1,158.8 per U.S. dollar, unchanged from the previous day, while in non-deliverable forward trading its one-month contract was quoted at 1,156.3 per dollar. ** MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.02%, after U.S. stocks were mixed on Friday . Japanese stocks fell 0.49%. ** The KOSPI has risen 8.07% so far this year, and gained 3.0% in the previous 30 trading sessions. ** The trading volume during the session in the KOSPI index was 188.38 million shares and, of the total traded issues of 905, the number of advancing shares was 443. ** The won has lost 3.8% against the dollar so far this year. ** In money and debt markets, March futures on three-year treasury bonds rose 0.05 points to 110.55, while the 3-month Certificate of Deposit rate was quoted at 1.53%. ** The most liquid 3-year Korean treasury bond yield fell by 1.0 basis points to 1.360%, while the benchmark 10-year yield fell by 0.5 basis points to 1.680%. ($1 = 1,158.6900 won) (Reporting by Hayoung Choi; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
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AT Loop Hike Part 1 – 12/5/08 – Appalachian Trail/Dry Sluice Gap Trail/Grassy Branch Trail/Sweat Heifer Trail/AT – 14.1 Miles
The day began with a predawn shuttle to leave Mike’s car at the Cosby Campground. He and Daniel were hiking the AT from Newfound Gap to Cosby, staying one night at Peck’s Corner Shelter and one night at Tricorner Knob Shelter, coming out on Snake Den Ridge Trail to the campground. Then we drove to Gatlinburg in search of a hot breakfast. Do you realize how much backpackers can eat before heading “into the wild”??
Our timing was right to stop at the Sugarlands Visitor Center by 8:00 a.m. for the guys to register for their shelter spots (already reserved by phone). As we came around the corner we were dismayed to see that Newfound Gap Road was…closed! The backcountry rangers informed us that the road was being treated for ice and would be opened sometime during the morning, so Mike and Daniel formulated a new plan. Since their hike would start later, they changed shelters for the first night. Then we went into the VC and watched the excellent movie about the Park.
By 9:15 a.m. the road was opened, early enough to go back to the guys’ original plan – and I would still have time to do my own plan, a loop hike starting on the AT with them, if we didn’t dawdle. The drive up to Newfound Gap was stunning, with rhime ice formed on the trees.
At the parking lot the guys jumped out of the car and posed for a couple of quick photos. (A fellow told me once that he always takes photos of a hike group before they start out so they can be identified by what they are wearing…how morbid is that?? But that’s what I always think of now…)
Anyhoo, the temps are in the 20’s and so it began. The guys were ahead of me as I took more pictures in the parking lot and the trailhead. I’d been here before and could probably come here once a week and still be awed by the view. Today the AT was coated with snow and ice and my new equipment purchase, YaxTrax for my boots, worked like a dream. I was cautious, but no longer afraid of sliding off the mountain. I was very happy not to be wearing a loaded backpack to make balancing even more precarious.
I soon caught up with and passed the guys and wished them a safe journey. I had 14 miles to go and wanted to get back to my car by 5:00 p.m. They had about 10 miles to go to their first shelter. (Turns out they walked an hour in the dark that day…well, I guess it was that night, actually…) I stopped at Icewater Shelter for a little snack and warmed up with some sunshine on my black shirt.
At Masa Gap I got some great photos out to Mt. LeConte. Interestingly, there was no rhime ice at the higher elevations.
I could not pass up a stop at Charlies Bunion, a huge craggy rock outcropping exposed by a terrible 1925 wildfire and a 1929 cloudburst that washed away the soils. The story goes that a crew including Horace Kephart, George Masa and Charlie Conner went to check out the damage, and they felt that this newly exposed promontory should be named. Apparently Kephart remarked that it had the same knobby appearance as Charlie Conner’s bunion.
Today I stood on the outermost part of the Bunion all by myself with conflicting emotions. One, it was awesome to be alone in a place that is normally crawling with people. Two, I wished I had someone there to share it with. If we had been on the same pace today, Mike and Daniel would have been there and very much appreciated the inspiring beauty. (They did stop there on their trek.) But for now, it was just me and my shadow.
As I sat on the Bunion I could see the clouds down below moving slowly, leaving rhime ice on the trees.
From the Bunion I walked a short distance further up the AT and turned right onto Dry Sluice Gap Trail. Judy and I had hiked the lower part of this trail a few weeks ago on our route from Kephart Trail down to Smokemont, Today I completed the 1.3-mile upper section, and at the junction with Grassy Branch Trail I chatted with 3 backpackers who were taking a break. They were heading in the same direction as I was, so I felt good to know someone was coming along behind me in case I needed them. I had a good laugh on Grassy Branch Trail when I passed this glove stuck on a branch. Hmmm…Part of Michael Jackson’s G.I. Joe ensemble?
At the end of Grassy Branch I stopped for a break at Kephart Shelter, where the backpackers were going to stop for the night, but they never did catch up to me. The temps had warmed up only a little and snow was melted on the sunny south-facing slopes and dense on the shaded north-facing slopes. Finally, there were no more excuses – I had to face the most challenging trail of the day, Sweat Heifer Trail, which was going to be 3.7 miles back UP to the AT.

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Iain Dale, talking on his LBC show, was discussing a recent Foreign Office terror study that found the UK has not opened enough lines of dialogue with groups whose political judgements are “deemed unpalatable”.
Caller Nigel said: “I am having a go at you because you have to equate what we feel as English people.”
Mr Dale responded: “I haven’t even given an opinion about whether we should talk to these people.
“So do not have a go at me.
“If you do not stop shouting Nigel I will cut you off.”
Nigel said: “In England when we were hit by terrorist bombs with people killed in Birmingham, people killed all over.
“You said its right with terrorist organisations that the Government should always speak to them.
“You seem to have sympathy with Hamas.”
I have lost my temper with you because you are a blithering idiot
Mr Dale said: “Open your ears mate because I did not say that. It is not what I believe.
“Will you shut up? Let me tell you why the Docklands IRA bombing affected me.
“Because my newsagent was murdered in that bombing, so if you think I have any sympathy with any IRA bomber you have got another thing coming.
“I no have sympathy with Hamas either, I would not give them the time of day, I would not talk to them, I would not do anything with them.
Iain Dale lost his temper with a caller to his show
“I have lost my temper with you because you are a blithering idiot.”
The conversation followed a Foreign Office study endorsed by ministers that claimed the UK have not relied enough on striking bargains with sometimes unsavoury regional elites.
Alistair Burt, a Foreign Office minister who commissioned the report, said: “There will be times when we have to hold our nose and support dialogue with those who oppose our values, or who may have committed war crimes.
“All too often in the past we have shied away from engaging with individuals or groups that our moral or political judgments deemed unpalatable.
“Or, alternatively, we have sought to apply overly formal and technical solutions to what are essentially political problems.”


Jeremy Kyle Pepper Sprayed In Magaluf
SO this is officially the most tabloid thing we've ever reported on, but- let's not lie- it's also bloody great. It transpires that shrieking TV bully Jeremy Kyle has been pepper sprayed whilst filming a documentary in Magaluf. Better still, the bouncer who pepper sprayed him, a Romanian named Leon, is quite proud of himself, pointing out, in a succinct and almost entirely accurate critique of Kyle's work "His show is rubbish". Don't take our word for it though – here are the quotes from the Daily Star's (God help us, has it come to this?) columnist Scarlett Moffatt:
‘It was clear to all that Jeremiah wasn’t making a show to promote Maga and wanted to dish the dirt in the name of shock entertainment, where his viewers can judge what they don’t understand.’
‘One bouncer from one of the busiest bars warned Jezza that he couldn’t come into the club,’ she added.
‘It ended with Jezza being pepper sprayed by the bouncer, and the poor fella was as confused as one of his show guests getting a full house on the lie detector machine.’
Can we get some sort of knighthood for Leon the Bouncer? Or at the least Youtube footage of Kyle screaming and clutching his tear streaked face?


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Man invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct. He invented gambling. Richard Epstein's classic book on gambling and its mathematical analysis covers the full range of games from penny matching, to blackjack and other casino games, to the stock market (including Black-Scholes analysis). He even considers what light statistical inference can shed on the study of paranormal phenomena. Epstein is witty and insightful, a pleasure to dip into and read and rewarding to study.
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-genesis, is first defined as a suffix, meaning 'origin'.
Kubeia comes from The New Testament Greek Lexicon.
Kubeia (koo-bi'-ah). Definition 1. dice playing 2. metaphor for the deception of men, because dice players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow players.
Translated to english in Ephesians as both 'sleight' (KJV) and 'trickery' (NAS).
Clearly, Kubeiagenesis is meant to be the origin of sleight, trickery, and deception.
That it is the first word of the text may be to inform the reader that what follows may be nonintuitive -- but is well defined, documented, and referenced. You may find yourself reading several of the referenced texts before completing the book if you are going to absorb it all.
This book is the Bible on the subject. The author brilliantly interweaves relevant stories, and shows connections to disciplines outside mathematics and gaming. If you simply want answers and don't care how they were calculated, try some of the other texts offered. If you want to understand the subject -- buy this book.
presentation of gambling ideas and lore. However, there are some errors in the "Basic Theorems" beginning on page 51. In particular,
Theorem V on page 60 is not correct. The "maximum boldness" strategy is need not be optimal in a subfair game when there is a bound on the
size of bets. Likewise "minimum boldness", also known as "timid
play" need not be optimal when there is a house minimum. (For
counterexamples, see the article by Heath, Pruitt, and Sudderth
in The Proceedings of the American Math. Soc. vol 43, pp. 498-507,
April 1972 and the article by Ruth in the Journal of Applied Probability, vol 36, pp. 837-851, September 1999.

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A slump for mining stocks pushed the FTSE 100 Index into negative territory today as investors raised fresh concerns over the health of China's economy.
The slide came after it was reported that China's finance ministry had told local governments to quicken the pace of spending on construction projects in order to boost the slowing economy.
The FTSE 100 Index stood 26.8 points lower at 6844.5 as jitters also surfaced over the extent of next week's expected stimulus measures from the European Central Bank.
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Policymakers are thought likely to cut the ECB's benchmark interest rate from 0.25 per cent to stimulate lenders that deposit with it into providing finance to businesses and consumers.
The economic uncertainty impacted on miners, with Anglo American down by more than 5 per cent or 87.5p to 1457.5p and Rio Tinto off 131.5p at 3057p.
The pound strengthened against the US dollar and euro - at 1.67 and 1.23 respectively - after a raft of surveys pointed to further strong growth in the UK economy.
The CBI said output was surging ahead at its strongest rate since at least 2003, while the British Chambers of Commerce upgraded its growth forecast for this year from 2.8 per cent to 3.1 per cent.
On the FTSE 100 risers board, medical equipment firm Smith & Nephew continued to improve despite an earlier denial from US rival Stryker about a potential takeover swoop.
Shares rose nearly 4 per cent on Thursday and were up by another 2 per cent or 17p to 1046p, giving the UK firm a market value of around £9.4 billion.
Pub company Mitchells & Butlers was 1.5 per cent higher in the FTSE 250 Index amid speculation that it is set to consider the resumption of dividend payments.
The Times newspaper said the potential pay-out would not be jeopardised by the company's planned £250 million acquisition of the Orchid pub company.
Shares were 6.1p higher at 420.8p in a session when other leisure-based firms also did well. Premier Inn owner Whitbread improved 48p to 4186p, while betting shop firm Ladbrokes was up 2.2p to 152.6p.
Conveyor belt manufacturer Fenner was the biggest faller in the FTSE 250 Index after a profits warning on the back of weak trading conditions in US coal.
Shares dived 10 per cent or 39.7p to 350p as it said it expects profits will be reduced by 10-15 per cent relative to the current market forecast of £77.6 million.
The biggest FTSE 100 risers were Admiral up 30p at 1458p, Smith & Nephew ahead 17p at 1046p, Sainsbury's up 5.5p at 346.1p and Marks & Spencer ahead 6.4p at 449.2p.
The biggest fallers were Anglo American down 87.5p at 1457.5p, Rio Tinto off 131.5p at 3057p, BHP Billiton down 72.5p at 1868p and Fresnillo off 29p at 806p.


Viacom has acquired a minority stake in Italian animation company Rainbow Group, maker of globally distributed “Winx Club” kiddie TV franchise, in a move that will propel the expansion of the ambitious privately owned studio and boost its bridgehead toward U.S. auds.
Founded in 1995 by former comicbook artist Iginio Straffi, Rainbow is an Italian success story largely thanks to his “Winx,” six trendy teenage fairies designed with a style that mixes Japanese manga and classic Western animation, which has bewitched millions of tween girls in more than 130 countries.
Last year, Viacom’s Nickelodeon and Rainbow announced a global content-based partnership centered on “Winx Club” under which Nickelodeon secured TV and merchandising rights in the U.S. and pay TV rights for Latin America, Canada, U.K. and other territories.
That partnership now expands to co-development and co-production of seasons five and six of “Winx Club,” and to two existing theatrical “Winx” movie titles, CGI feature “Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom” and “Winx Club 3D: Magic Adventure,” which are now likely to be released Stateside via Paramount.
Neither financial terms nor the entity of the Viacom stake were disclosed.
According to Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, the Viacom stake in Rainbow is said to be 30%, allowing Straffi to stay in full control, with plans for a Rainbow Group flotation to follow.
Rainbow, which is based in the small central Italian city of Loreto, with a production outpost in Singapore, also makes the series “Tommy and Oscar,” “Prezzy,” “Monster Allergy” and, most recently, “Huntik Secrets and Seekers.”
The group, which has emulated the Disney model, on a much smaller scale, also has a Rome theme park, called MagicLand, in the works based on the “Winx” franchise and other Rainbow properties.


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Hydrogen Peroxide can be used for various issues relative to the skin, hair, nails, feet, and even teeth, However, the big question we are tackling today is whether it can be used to treat corns & calluses effectively.
Hydrogen Peroxide is a colorless, odorless, natural chemical. However, for its uses in skincare, it is synthesized in a lab in concentrations that range from 3% to about 9%.
Does Hydrogen Peroxide Remove Corns & Calluses
Hydrogen will soften the skin over and around corns and calluses, making it easier for them to be exfoliated, filed and removed.
While dermatologists do not recommend using hydrogen peroxide on the face and other areas of the skin, it can be safely and effectively used to help soften corns & calluses, cracked heals, and treat athlete’s foot and nail fungi.
Another great treatment for calluses and corns is to use Salicylic acid, click here to learn more.
Related Article – Why Do Corns & Calluses Hurt & Easy Tips to Ease the Pain
How Does Hydrogen Peroxide Help To Get Rid Of Corns & Calluses
Hydrogen Peroxide is an oxidizing agent and it damages cells through oxidative stress.
This means that it creates more free radicals in your body than there are antioxidants to get rid of them. This excess of free radicals leads to inflammation in the skin which causes the fragmentation of collagen and fibroblasts.
Collagen and fibroblasts are what hold the skin together by maintaining inter-cellular bonds and healthy connective tissue. When these are damaged, the skin cells become soft and loose, easy to be sloughed off or removed.
You need to read my article on Quick Remedies & Medical Treatments for Corns & Calluses
How To Use Hydrogen Peroxide On Corns & Calluses
The safest and most effective way to use Hydrogen Peroxide on corns and calluses is in a foot soak.
However, keep in mind that hydrogen peroxide can damage your skin if you do not use it correctly. This ingredient needs to be used with caution.
An alternative to a foot soak is to apply the mixture to the corn and/or callus itself by soaking a cotton pad and taping it directly over the area. This will prevent the hydrogen peroxide from getting on the other areas of your skin.
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- 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
- Measuring Cup
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- In your tub or basin, add 2 cups of 3% hydrogen peroxide to 2 cups of warm or room temperature water (you may add more water or less hydrogen peroxide as needed).
- Mix well and let the solution combine and settle.
- Place your cleaned feet in the solution and let them soak for about 20-30 minutes.
- After soaking, remove your feet and gently pat dry with a clean towel.
Video: Using Hydrogen Peroxide & Water as a foot soak
What Concentration Of Hydrogen Peroxide To Use On Corns & Calluses
Foot care experts suggest using 3% hydrogen peroxide diluted with water as your foot soak.
I recommend that you buy your hydrogen peroxide from a pharmacy where you can ask the pharmacist for the lowest grade that is safe for topical use.
Since you will most likely be soaking your whole foot in the mixture, keep in mind that the hydrogen peroxide will also affect the other areas of your skin.
However, if you prefer to soak a cotton pad and place it directly on the callus and/or corn, you may consider using a higher concentration.
Never try to use hydrogen peroxide that is higher than 9% on your skin and always dilute it with equal parts or more water.
How Long To Soak Corns & Calluses in Hydrogen Peroxide
You should soak your corns and calluses in your hydrogen peroxide and water foot soak for about 15-20 minutes.
This will give your skin enough time to soak up the moisture and become soft. It will also give the skin around and over the corn and/or callus to be adequately affected by the hydrogen peroxide.
However, if your corn and/or callus is thicker, you may need to soak it for longer. You may soak your feet for as long as your skin can tolerate the soak without being irritated or negatively affected by the hydrogen peroxide.
Related Article – How Long Calluses & Corns Last & Do They Go Away Naturally
How Often To Use Hydrogen Peroxide For Corns & Calluses
You may soak your corn and/or callus in hydrogen peroxide and water each time before you are ready to file them or exfoliate them with your pumice stone or file.
How often you do this will depend on personal preference, the thickness of the corn and/or callus, and how your skin reacts to the whole process.
Remember that you will need to treat your corn and/or callus gradually. Over-exfoliation or over-filing may cause abrasion and ulcerations that can extend too deep if you are not careful. This can cause bleeding and infection of the delicate skin under the corn and/or callus.
Additionally, soaking your corn and/or callus one time may not soften it sufficiently. So, you will need to do this consistently. The more you do it, the softer the corn and/or callus will become.
How Long Will Hydrogen Peroxide Take To Help Corns & Calluses
Generally, you should see differences in your corn and/or calluses within 1-2 weeks of consistently using hydrogen peroxide.
However, this will greatly depend on:
- How consistent you are with your treatment
- Whether you are also exfoliating or filing your corn and/or calluses every time
- How thick your corn and/or callus is
- The condition and reaction of your skin
- Lifestyle (wearing tight shoes and other habits and keep corns and/or calluses from going away faster)
If you want to use a stronger concentration of hydrogen peroxide (more than 3-9%) or if your corns and/or calluses are painful, bleeding, or just not going away, I recommend that you visit a podiatrist and/or a dermatologist. They will be able to safely and more effectively help you to treat and prevent corns and calluses.

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Welcome to the Free Sampler Wedges Knit Scarf Sample! This contemporary knit scarf is the proper accent so as to add a contact of class to any outfit. Made with Caron Merely Tender yarn, this scarf is delicate and drapes superbly, making it excellent for any event. The distinctive wedges sample provides a contact of texture and curiosity to this scarf, making it a trendy and practical addition to your wardrobe.
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My latest story is a fun one. Would you believe that some tornadoes would never have occurred if it wasn’t for air pollution? It turns out that, in some parts of the country, severe storms are more common in the middle of the week than on the weekend. That’s likely because our emissions of air pollution go down on the weekend.
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One of the items on this week’s menu is Chili Citrus Chicken Skillet with Black Beans and Quinoa. You’ve probably heard about the health benefits of both black beans and quinoa and we recently posted about quinoa, so let’s take a closer look at what black beans have to offer:
• One cup of cooked black beans provides
Folate (B9): 64% Daily Value
Manganese: 38% DV
Magnesium: 30% DV
Iron: 20% DV
• Bone Health
The combo of iron, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, copper, and zinc in black beans all work towards building and supporting strong bones.
• Lower Blood Pressure
Black beans are naturally low in sodium and contain nutrients that have been found to help decrease blood pressure naturally including potassium, calcium, and magnesium.
• Heart Health
Black beans are naturally cholesterol-free and help contribute to your heart health by lowering cholesterol in your blood, preventing buildup in your veins, and reducing inflammation.
• Digestion and Fullness
The excellent fiber content in black beans can help prevent constipation and also help support the health bacteria in your gut. Fiber can also help you feel full and satisfied longer and help avoid overeating or unnecessary snacking.

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Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterized by seizures. There are more than 40 different types of epilepsies which are categorized into 2 groups; generalized onset epilepsies and partial onset epilepsies. Temporal lobe epilepsy is a type of partial onset epilepsy. Partial onset epilepsies are also known as localization related or focal epilepsies.
As the name suggests,lobe epilepsy is epilepsy that arises from either one of the two temporal lobes, the lateral temporal lobe (Lateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy or LTLE) or the medial temporal lobe (Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy or MTLE). In some cases, the seizures originate from both of the temporal lobes. This is mainly because of the strong connections between the two temporal lobes. If only one of the temporal lobes is involved in the seizure, the seizure is referred to as a simple partial seizure and will typically not result in loss of awareness. When both the medial and lateral temporal lobes are involved in the seizure, there will be loss of awareness and this type of seizure is referred to as a complex partial seizure. A complex partial seizure may result in memory loss.
Temporal lobe epilepsy, also known as psychomotor epilepsy, is the most common type of epilepsy. And in turn, the medial temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common. Medial temporal lobe epilepsy is quite often drug resistant and in most cases doctors consider brain surgery as a viable treatment option.
There is no exact known cause for lobe epilepsy but it is thought to be caused by an infection in the brain such as in diseases like meningitis, herpes encephalitis, or as a result of a brain injury, or vascular malformations and malignancies. There has also been suggestion of a genetic link in this type of epilepsy.
The prevalence of temporal lobe epilepsy is not exactly known as not everybody who is thought to have this type of epilepsy has their diagnosis confirmed using video-electroencephalography. However, this epilepsy is thought to occur equally amongst the sexes. Females have been shown to experience seizures more frequently due to hormonal influences during their menstrual period. This is referred to as catamenial epilepsy. This type of epilepsy and other types of epilepsy can occur at any age.
Symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy will vary depending on the region of the brain the seizures originate, and the type of seizure experienced, whether simple partial seizures, complex partial seizures or secondarily generalized tonic clonic seizures (SGTCS) sometimes referred to as grand mal seizures. Grand mal seizures start from the temporal lobe but spread to the whole brain. The seizures last anything from half a minute to 3 minutes. Grand mal seizures are accompanied by convulsions and loss of consciousness. Other symptoms include lip smacking, restless finger movements, staring and repetitive swallowing.

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The passenger flow statistical analysis system comprises a vehicle-mounted equipment module and an out-vehicle equipment module, wherein the vehicle-mounted equipment module adopts a specialized vehicle-mounted antiseismic design and consists of a camera, a passenger flow statistical analysis instrument, a video monitoring/GPS (Global Positioning System) dispatching all-in-one machine and a gate controlled switch; and the out-vehicle equipment module comprises a monitoring center, a GPS satellite and the like.
The passenger flow statistical analysis instrument achieves passenger flow statistics by adopting the following two methods: the bus passenger flow statistics accuracy above 90 percent is ensured by giving priority to the video-based passenger flow statistics method supplemented by the statistics method based on the infrared detection technique, and the obtained statistical data is wirelessly transmitted to the monitoring center to achieve analysis, statistics and storage, so as to achieve intelligent bus dispatching.
The invention discloses a passenger flow analysis system. In the system, a camera head transmits shot video data to a video analysis server; the video analysis server transmits the analyzed data to a data center server for being processed; and a reporting system which can generate data reports according to statistical passenger flow volume, transaction amounts and transaction turnover and other data is arranged in the data center server. The invention can reflect rich passenger flow information to support managers to make scientific decisions according to different statistical data and graphs, wherein the passenger flow information includes passenger flow volume, gender character, passenger flow time character, passenger flow speed character, purchase volume and percent conversion, passenger flow volume difference among ordinary days, weekends and holidays, passenger flow volume time distribution, historical passenger flow comparison, historical year-on-year passenger flow comparison.
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In the hoopla surrounding Mayor Rob Ford last week, a journalistic sin was overlooked -- chequebook journalism.
In a new low for Canadian media, the Globe and Mail paid $10,000 to a drug dealer for screen grabs from another video allegedly showing the Toronto mayor smoking crack. As a Globe reporter for 20 years -- until 2008 -- I recall no previous payments for information.
Chequebook journalism undermines journalistic ethics. It encourages entrepreneurs to set someone up and provides financial incentives to manufacture news. It forges a business relationship with a source, an inherent conflict of interest.
In its story, the Globe acknowledged buying the screen grabs in the fourth-to-last paragraph, but did not disclose it paid $10,000. You learn that only by reading another article by its editor-in-chief.
Journalistic ethics require the transaction be fully and prominently disclosed so readers can assess the credibility of the purchased information.
I understand the pressure. Nowadays an old-fashioned scoop is as rare as a lunar eclipse. Even more rare is a one-two-three punch, like last week's Toronto trifecta in which three fierce competitors simultaneously broke news.
Well, not new news. More like a bad hit movie that keeps coming back to theatres, as in Drunken Stupor II, III, IV and V. I'm losing count, but the city's crack-smoking, alcoholic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic mayor is finally taking a leave to seek treatment.
The Toronto Star quoted eyewitnesses describing wild nights at clubs. On one occasion, the mayor tried to shake Justin Bieber's hand, but "became enraged when Bieber jokingly asked, 'Did you bring any crack to smoke?'"
The Toronto Sun posted a recording of a drunken Ford in a bar making lewd comments about Karen Stintz, a city councillor and mayoral candidate. Yes, Ford has just launched his re-election campaign. That's what I mean by bad sequels.
And as noted, the Globe reported the existence of another crack video, this time with the mayor holding a long metal pipe in his sister's basement.
A year ago, two Star reporters viewed Crack Video I -- three times. At that point I would have run the story. Astoundingly, the Star hesitated, stymied by the exorbitant asking price -- $100,000.
Chequebook journalism distracts from the core duty of reporting the news. Instead of publishing a story about the existence of the video, the Star's editors haggled over the price of possessing it.
If the Washington Post had been sidetracked this way, it wouldn't have broken Watergate and forced the resignation of a president. The newspaper didn't insist its reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, buy evidence. Deep Throat was good enough.
While the Star dithered over Crack Video I, a U.S. website named Gawker broke the story. Later, it crowd-sourced $200,000 to buy it, but by then the seller had disappeared so Gawker donated the monies to charity. (Toronto Police have since obtained the video.)
With Crack Video II, Gawker was offering $5,000 when the Globe swooped in with $10,000. Twenty-one minutes after the Globe published, Gawker posted its own screen grabs, apparently without having paid a dime.
Paying for information is accepted practice in the U.K. and by U.S. tabloids, but many Canadian news outlets ban it.
"This is not our normal practice," writes the Globe's newly appointed editor-in-chief, a former British journalist.
"But in this instance, the Globe felt it was a matter of public interest."
In an era of layoffs and demoralized newsrooms, paying cash to drug dealers is not in the public interest. We don't need more photos of Rob Ford with a crack pipe.
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After another turbulent year for cryptocurrencies, Chartered Accountants ANZ (CA ANZ) has sounded a tax warning to those who have dabbled in the asset class.
As tax time approaches, CA ANZ Tax Leader Michael Croker said those who have cashed out their crypto gains over the year may face significant Capital Gains Tax (CGT) implications as the ATO treats cryptocurrencies as it does shares.
“Irrespective of sceptical friends and family views on cryptocurrencies, the tax office treat it as an asset class, so you need to be aware of your obligations,” Mr Croker said.
“From de-fi and Web3 to crypto and NFTs – the new digital world has become a bamboozling place for many.
“Some have won big, and some have lost it all in this crypto market.
“Regardless of where you land on the wheel of fortune, or misfortune in some cases, cryptocurrencies are not fake money, and they are a taxable investment when you want to cash them out into fiat currency like the Australian dollar.
Roy Morgan research revealed that more than 1 million Australians have an investment in cryptocurrency at an average value of more than $20,000.
Maybe not unsurprisingly, younger Australians were keener on the asset class, with around 12 per cent of people aged 18-24 invested in crypto, compared to only 2 per cent of those aged over 50.
While many Australians are attracted to cryptocurrencies because they are removed from traditional finance, Mr Croker warned that they are not removed from the tax system.
"NFT does not stand for ‘Not For Taxing’ – so if you sold your picture of a digital ape during the past year and realised a gain, your NFT is liable for CGT."
“The ATO also collects bulk records from designated Australian service providers as part of a data matching program to ensure the people who trade in crypto pay the right amount of tax and meet their tax obligations.
“Crypto is viewed by some as the currency platform of the future, but the ATO is watching when it comes to tax.”
Mr Croker said that if you took a hit while speculating on the crypto market, it’s not all bad news.
“It’s a bit of a pyrrhic outcome, but if you sold crypto at a loss, then that will minimise your overall taxable income.”
Mr Croker said there are some key things to remember this tax time:
Just like other investment assets, a CGT event occurs when you dispose of your cryptocurrency – that can mean trading or exchanging it for another cryptocurrency, selling or gifting it, or using cryptocurrency to buy goods or services.
If you make money (a capital gain) on the cryptocurrency disposal, some or all of the gain may be taxed.
If the disposal is part of a business transaction, the profits you make on disposal will be assessable as ordinary income and not as a capital gain.
While a digital wallet can contain different types of cryptocurrencies, each cryptocurrency is a separate CGT asset.
“It’s important to speak with a Chartered Accountant prior to making these decisions, as they can provide helpful tips, like when you hold the asset for longer than 12 months, it will reduce your capital gains tax.”


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The Teal Center for Therapeutic Bodywork offers many healing modalities for parents, those who want to become parents, and for children.
When I was young and a new transplant to the DC area in the late 1990s, The Teal Center was one of the first places I sought self-care when I first moved to the DC area in the late 1990s. For more than 20 years now, practitioners at The Teal Center have provided support throughout my healing journey, through infertility toward conception and through birth and beyond.
The Teal Center offers massage therapy, acupuncture and other bodywork services for athletes, elderly, pre and postnatal moms, cancer treatment patients, and those preparing for and recovering from surgery. Additionally, the Center holds classes, workshops and free lectures to educate clients and healthcare professionals on healing modalities and to provide creative and therapeutic experiences in a supportive community.
The Teal Center’s mission is “to provide outstanding therapeutic and clinical service to affect positive outcomes” and to work with clients enhance their very best health.
Modalities for families and families-to-be
Acupuncture at The Teal Center is performed by Eliza Rowley, Theresa Spradlin and Kate Quinn Stewart. Types of acupuncture and related modalities offered at The Teal Center include Traditional Chinese Medicine, Five Element Acupuncture, Moxibustion, Cupping, Gua Sha, Tui Na and Shoni Shin. Click here for links to more information about each approach.
All Teal Center practitioners work on adults with a variety of issues, and Eliza and Kate also treat couples trying to conceive.
Kate reflected on how acupuncture can support a couple working with fertility issues. “Dealing with challenges when you are trying to conceive is difficult on so many levels,” she said. “Acupuncture can be a great support through that journey because it works by stimulating your body to repair, regulate, and heal itself. This means it can help your hormones, reproductive system, and emotions to return to a state of healthy balance, increasing your chances of conception whether you are trying naturally or with medical assistance.”
Eliza added some additional thoughts on acupuncture as a complementary modality to other treatments. Eliza calls acupuncture is “a wonderful tool to enhance fertility both for people who are making efforts to conceive naturally and to support assisted reproductive technology treatments like IUI and IVF.” She noted that clients often experience its stress-relieving and revitalizing effects within a few minutes.
Additionally, Eliza noted that eggs mature over an 85-day period. “Acupuncture, Chinese herbal formulas as well as excellent nutrition and self-care habits during the three months preceding efforts to conceive naturally or to begin IVF have a positive impact on egg quality, increasing the chances of a healthy pregnancy,” she said.
Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy
The Teal Center also offers Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® (ATMAT), another modality that can support conception and alleviate women’s health issues, including irregular and painful periods and symptoms of menopause. ATMAT is an external non-invasive manipulation that repositions internal organs that have shifted, thereby restricting the flow of blood, lymph, nerve and chi.
For women who have had a hysterectomy, C-section and any other abdominal surgery, ATMAT can provide relief from adhesions and keep adhesions from forming. The therapy can keep the pelvic floor, bladder and descending colon healthy by reducing congestion and increasing flow.
Another benefit of ATMAT is bringing vitality back to the power center that is the sacral chakra. Loss of the uterus can contribute to depression in some women, and ATMAT can help women “gain back a big piece of themselves.”
The Teal Center’s ATMAT practitioner is Tamao Albert, who studied in Belize with the founder of ATMAT, Dr. Roshita Arvigo, pictured below at right.
ATMAT can also help with pre- and perinatal wellness. Tamao has had advanced pregnancy training.
The Center is offering a free lecture on Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® on Thursday, December 7, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Learn more and register on the Center’s Events page and share the event on Facebook.
Pediatric Craniosacral Therapy
Parents looking for a gentle modality for their child might consider Pediatric CranioSacral Therapy (CST), a holistic healthcare option for children.
CST offers a gentle hands-on approach to relieve pain, tension and anxiety to improve overall health. Infants and children who have trouble sleeping or experience developmental delays, digestive disorders, behavioral problems and many other conditions may benefit from this gentle technique.
CranioSacral Therapy has the capacity to release persistent tension patterns in the body by working with the Central Nervous System and connective tissue of the body (fascia) via a gentle hands-on touch with pressure about the weight of a dime or nickel. Sometimes CST work involves Somato Emotional Release, or SER, in which fascia – a web of connective tissue we all have in our body – releases an unprocessed physical or emotional memory to help restore balance to the body and mind.
The Teal Center’s Nishanka Lahr has been treating children for over 19 years providing a non-invasive, complementary approach to addressing health issues in children. Nishanka offers a very family centered approach of support. She works with parents to identify areas of concern and on the best way to serve their child. Infants may be worked on while being held by a caregiver. Toddlers often are worked on while they play on the floor in a softly lit room. Older children may be treated on the table, with or without a caregiver present, as desired or recommended.
Learn more here about pediatric craniosacral therapy at The Teal Center.
Locations & opportunities for learning
The Teal Center became part of the Arlington community at the Randolph Towers high-rise in the Ballston/Virginia Square neighborhood in 1990. In 2015, the Randolph Towers location underwent remodeling to include a 750-square foot classroom filled with windows and natural light.
The classroom hosts professional education classes as well as community classes, events and free lectures.
The Teal Center has hosted several renowned educators including Ruth Werner, Juliebeth Mezzy and Carole Osborne of Body Therapy Education who has taught Pre and Perinatal Massage Therapy Workshops offering hands-on clinics for expecting mamas.
The Teal Center has also hosted a number of Hypnobirthing classes to educate partners for a gentle and comfortable birthing experience.
The classroom is available for rent by the hour and by the day, for $60/hour or $350/day. Availability can be viewed on Share My Space.
Virginia Hospital Center
The Teal Center at Virginia Hospital Center opened in 2005, providing massage for postpartum and any type of healing and oncology massage services. There is a suite of treatment rooms, and inpatient massage is available in hospital rooms as well. When a friend of mine had her third child, I was so pleased to be able to gift her a massage before she and her baby went home! Inpatient massage after a birth helps support a family life built on a foundation of wellness.


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President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy Yemi Osinbajo, who rode to power in 2015 promising to trim down the cost of governance, will alongside state governors and other political appointees leave office in 2023 costing taxpayers N63.45bn as severance packages, the Punch reported.
The figure also covers the severance gratuity for ministers, commissioners, National Assembly members, state assembly members and special advisers. It, however, does not include special assistants, the report said.
A breakdown of the insensitive package indicates that the Federal Government would pay out N3.39bn while the states will cough out N60.06bn.
The beneficiaries’ package was collated from a document obtained from the website of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission.
The severance allowance is, however, separate from other financial packages which may be in place as retirement benefits or pensions for some of the political office holders.
As approved by RMAFAC, political office holders were entitled to 300 per cent of their annual salary as a severance package.
In addition, some ex-governors will be paid 100 per cent of their annual basic salary for life after leaving office.
They would also get new cars every three years, a house in any part of the country, free medical care, as well as furniture allowance and car maintenance allowance.
They are also entitled to cooks, stewards, gardeners, and other domestic staff, among other perks, including policemen and Department of State Services operatives for life.
The Punch recently reported that a total of N13.81bn was proposed for the payment of pensions to former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Heads of State, Chiefs of General Staff, retired heads of service, permanent secretaries, as well as retired heads of government agencies and parastatals in the 2023 fiscal year.
The beneficiaries include former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, as well as Vice-Presidents Atiku Abubakar and Namadi Sambo, among others.
Also expected to benefit from the windfall are ex-military Heads of State, General Yakubu Gowon and General Abdusalami Abubakar, as well as a former dictator and self-styled military President, General Ibrahim Babangida and a former Chief of General Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (retd.).
As stipulated by RMAFAC, the President will get a severance pay of N10.54m, which is 300 per cent of his annual basic salary, while Vice-President Osinbajo will receive N9.09m.
The eight special advisers in the Presidency are expected to get N5.83m each, totalling N46.64m.
There are 44 ministers under Buhari, consisting of 27 federal ministers and 17 ministers of state.
While each minister is entitled to N6.08m, each minister of state is entitled to N5.87m. In total, they would get N258.08m, with ministers getting N164.16m and ministers of states receiving N93.92m.
Each special adviser under the minister is entitled to a severance fee of N5.83m. With each minister having one special adviser, the total sum of N256.52m will be spent as their severance package.
Checks by the newspaper indicate that the National Assembly members would receive about N2.81bn, with senators getting N664.94m while House of Representatives members would be paid N2.15bn.
The President of the Senate will receive N7.45m cheque, the deputy senate president, N6.93m and the other 107 senators, N6.08m each.
The Speaker, House of Representatives is expected to receive N7.43m, the deputy speaker, N6.86m and the 358 members, N5.96m each.
Governorship elections will hold in about 28 states, which means 28 governors and deputy governors will get severance pay, alongside the commissioners and special advisers under them.
Some of the governors who would receive severance allowance include Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Simon Lalong (Plateau), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Muhammad Abubakar (Jigawa), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi.)
Others include Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Darius Ishaku (Taraba), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Aminu Masari (Katsina), Umar Ganduje (Kano), Ben Ayade (Cross-River), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa-Ibom), Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi) and Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna).
Each governor is entitled to a severance pay of N6.67m while the deputy governor gets N6.34m. In total, state governors get N186.76m while their deputies would each be paid N177.52m.
With each commissioner entitled to N4.01m, a total of 570 state commissioners will get N2.29bn.
Special advisers at the state level are by law entitled to N3.75m each. The 28 states had about 14,633 special advisers in total, which would cost the public treasury N54.88bn.
At the state assemblies, the speaker gets N3.28m, the deputy gets N2.89m and other members, N2.67m. In all, state assemblies will get a total of N2.53bn.
Source: The Punch


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DEM OFFERS GRANTS TO HELP FARMERS AND FOOD BUSINESSES COMPLY WITH FOOD AND PRODUCE SAFETY RULES
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is announcing the availability of $35,000 in Produce Safety Improvement Grant funding for projects that help farmers and food producers implement food safety practices and comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (PSR). The funds are from the State of Rhode Island and US Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Block Grant program. The deadline for applications is Friday, January 15, 2021.
"This competitive grant program will help Rhode Island produce growers comply with the Produce Safety Rule and meet consumer demand for safe, locally-grown produce," said DEM Director Janet Coit. "DEM is working to make the compliance requirements as least burdensome to local farmers as possible, and we encourage farmers to apply for this funding opportunity."
Grant awards will range from $2,000 to $5,000. Applicants must provide a 25% match of funds under this grant program. Funds may be used to partly defray the costs of implementing on-farm food safety practices that help their operation comply with the PSR. Signed into law in 2011, the PSR establishes national science-based minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of fruits and vegetables grown for human consumption. It applies to farms and others that grow, harvest, pack, or hold produce generally eaten raw such as greens, melons, tomatoes, and apples.
DEM continues to work across many fronts to benefit and strengthen the green economy and to help local farmers and fishers in growing their businesses. There are more than 1,000 farms sprinkled across the state and Rhode Island is home to a thriving young farmer network. DEM continues to make investments in critical infrastructure as well as provide farm incubation space to new farmers through its Urban Edge Farm and Snake Den Farm properties.
The state's food scene is often cited as an area of economic strength ripe for innovation and growth. Already, the local food industry supports 60,000 jobs, and the state's green industries account for more than 15,000 jobs and contribute $2.5 billion to the economy annually.

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Number of posts : 6 Registration date : 2014-09-21
Subject: Jardin de Cactus - Lanzarote Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:32 pm
We've recently visited here and here some pictures of the Mammillarias that we took. Fabulous place if you like cacti of all types and sizes!
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Subject: Re: Jardin de Cactus - Lanzarote Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:13 pm
Hello, I took a shot of the supposed Mammillaria karwinskiana from the same place in the summer of 2011, but today I was comparing with another specimen identified in this forum, and I think the Lanzarote specimen is not that species because flowers are pink, not yellow, or is there some variety with pink flowers? Maybe someone can answer this question.
This is the link of the specimen I have uploaded today, and has been identified like probable M. karwinskiana:

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(a) (1) If an occupant is in default under a rental agreement and the owner wishes to enforce the lien, the owner shall notify the occupant of the default in a form as prescribed by subsection (c) of this section. If the default is not cured within sixty days after the service of the notice, the owner may:
(A) Proceed to enforce the self-service storage lien by selling the contents of the occupant's unit at public auction, for cash, and apply the proceeds to satisfaction of the self-service storage lien, with the surplus, if any, to be disbursed as provided in this article; or
(B) Destroy the personal property if he or she can demonstrate by photographs or other images and affidavit of a knowledgeable and credible person that the personal property lacks a value sufficient to cover the reasonable expense of a public auction plus the amount of the self-service storage lien;
(2) In the case of personal property having a fair market value in excess of $1,000 and against which a secured party has filed a financing statement in the name of the occupant with the Secretary of State or in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county where the self-service storage facility is located or in the county in West Virginia shown as the last known address of the occupant or if the personal property is a motor vehicle or watercraft required by the laws of this state to be registered and the Division of Motor Vehicles shows a lien on the certificate of title, the owner shall notify the lienholder of record, by certified mail, at the address on the financing statement or certificate of title, of the time and place of the proposed public auction, at least thirty days prior to the auction. At any time prior to the public sale or destruction, a secured party may pay the reasonable fees and costs due to the person possessing the self-service storage lien and take possession of the personal property which is subject to the lien;
(3) If a lienholder of record of the personal property cannot be ascertained, the name of "Jane Doe" shall be substituted in the proceedings brought under this article and no written notice is required except as prescribed by subsection (c) of this section. Whenever a motor vehicle or watercraft is sold under the provisions of this article, the Division of Motor Vehicles shall issue a certificate of title and registration to the purchaser upon the purchaser's application containing the serial or motor number of the vehicle or watercraft purchased, together with an affidavit by the person conducting the public auction, evidencing compliance with the provisions of this article.
(b) The owner may, without judicial process, deny the occupant access to the personal property stored at the self-service storage facility if the occupant has been in default for fifteen days: Provided, That the owner clearly states in the rental agreement that he or she may deny the occupant access to the personal property stored in the rental space after a default lasting fifteen or more days and the owner maintains a conspicuous sign on the premises of the self-service storage facility stating the name, street address and telephone number of the owner or the owner's designated agent who the occupant may contact to redeem his or her personal property and upon redemption, the occupant or lienholder be permitted access to his or her personal property at a time not later than the close of business on the next following business day.
(c) Anytime after the occupant has been in default and before the owner can sell or destroy the occupant's personal property in accordance with the terms of this article, the owner shall send a notice of default, by regular mail, and registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to the occupant at the occupant's last-known primary address and secondary address, if any. The notice of default shall include:
(1) An itemized statement of the owner's claim, indicating the charges due on the date of the notice, the date when the charges became due and those charges that will accrue through the date of sale or destruction of the occupant's personal property;
(2) A demand for payment of the charges due to the owner with an address where payment can be made;
(3) A statement that the contents of the occupant's leased space are subject to the owner's self-service storage lien;
(4) A conspicuous statement that unless the claim is paid prior to the enforcement of the self-storage lien:
(A) The personal property contained in the occupant's space will be sold at public auction at a specified time and place which may not be less than sixty days from the date of the service; or
(B) The personal property contained in the occupant's space will be disposed of at a commercially reasonable cost to the occupant at a specified time and place which may not be less than sixty days from the date of the service; and
(d) At any time prior to the public auction or destruction of the personal property pursuant to this section the occupant may pay the full amount necessary to satisfy the self-service storage lien. A lienholder of record may pay an amount not to exceed $175 for incurred rental fees, late fees and safekeeping of the property in addition to an amount not to exceed $75 for notice and redeem only the personal property subject to the lien.
(e)(1) Any owner who conducts a public auction pursuant to this section may satisfy the self-service storage lien from the proceeds of the public auction and hold the balance, if any, for delivery on demand to the occupant. If an owner complies with the provisions of this article, his or her liability to the occupant is limited to the net proceeds less the amount of the self-service storage lien and costs received at the public auction;
(2) If an owner conducts a public auction pursuant to this section, the owner's liability to a lienholder is limited to the proceeds received at the public auction, less the amount of the self-service storage lien and costs. If an owner complies with the provisions of this article, the owner is not liable to a lienholder who fails to claim an interest in the net proceeds within thirty days after the public auction.
(f) Any public auction of the personal property shall be held at the self-service storage facility or at the nearest suitable place to where the personal property is held or stored. An advertisement shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or municipality in which the public auction is to be held not less than twenty days prior to the public auction. The advertisement must state the:
(1) Fact that it is a public auction;
(2) Date, time and location of the public auction;
(3) Date, time and location which the property may be inspected; and
(4) Form of payment acceptable.
(g) A purchaser in good faith of any personal property sold or otherwise disposed of pursuant to this article takes the property free and clear of any rights of persons against whom the lien was valid.
(h) Any notice made pursuant to this section is presumed delivered when it is deposited with the United States postal service and properly addressed with postage prepaid.