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According to the Complispace aged care workforce report, two third of Australia’s current aged care workers plan to leave by 2026. As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, many fear that the proposed reforms set out by the aged care royal commission will not be realistically implemented due to lack of qualified aged care staff
Due to the rising costs of living and low unemployment, many fear that the situation will only worsen, with low pay driving out existing workers and making it unattractive for new workers.
Impossible Task: Workers’ Views on the Rising Demands of Aged Care is the third of CompliSpace’s annual aged care workforce reports. Key findings from the report
Mass Exodus: 50% of Staff Plan to Leave Within Next Three Years
- 50% of workers (139,000 people) intend to leave the residential aged care industry within the next three years. This includes 23% (64,000 people) who plan to leave within the next 12 months.
- 67% of workers (186,000 people) intend to leave within the next five years.
- The exodus has worsened since last year, with 10% more workers joining the cohort who plan to leave the industry within the next three years, bringing the total up from 40% in 2021 to 50% in 2022.
- Reasons for staying or going remain roughly the same as last year, with stress and pay still the main reasons that workers leave the industry and “relationships with residents and their families” still the main reason that they stay.
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for the same reasons i bought a fontignac (sub-brand of staub) 5.5-quart round do about a decade ago. in the past year my mom has handed me down her 6-quart oval descoware that's too heavy for her to lift anymore and my sister has generously given me (after i asked for it as a birthday gift) a 2.75-quart round le creuset that fits neatly into my cuisinart countertop oven.
blink down to level ground and nix the nearest patrollers letting corvo get the ore and pouch near the firelit sitting area (595/3794). there's three more copper wire deposits to find: one near the refinery entrance one in the cell alongside it and one in a garbage pile kitty-corner from the entrance.
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gold lead zinc copper native copper nickel iron manganese tungsten chromite and fluorspar are a few of the ores which can be concentrated in this jig. the mineral jig is usually installed in the grinding circuit between the ball mill and classifier or at any other point in the circuit where free mineral is present.
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How many can a retreat accommodate?Across the 3 cabins we have 8 rooms that sleep up to 17. Log Cabin Rm1- King or 2 singles (2) Rm2- King or 2 singles (2) Rm3- King or 2 singles plus extra single on request (3) Lemonthyme Cabin Rm1- King or 2 singles (2) Rm2- King or 2 singles (2) Rosebower Cabin Rm1- King or 2 singles (2) Rm2- King or 2 singles (2) Rm3- 2 singles (2) 6 glamping tents sleep up to 18 Tent 1- 2 Single Beds (2) Tent 2- 2 Single Beds (2) Tent 3- 2 Single Beds(2) Tent 4- 2 Queen Beds (4) Tent 5- 2 Queen Beds (4) Tent 6- 2 Queen Beds (4) (There is some scope to change these configurations so don't hesitate to ask)
How does Catering work?We have full facilities in The Station for you to cook for yourselves and each cabin has a small kitchen. However, most hosts prefer to have the retreat catered so they can focus on the event and have all food provided. We have a preferred supplier, Feast Catering, who can cater a full weekend retreat from $250pp (min people required). This generally includes: Grazing Platter on Arrival Dinner Friday night Saturday morning breakfast Gourmet Picnic lunch (can be held at a local winery or on our grounds) Saturday night Dinner Sunday Breakfast You will be Introduced to Feast catering when you book and they can accommodate any dietary requirements.
How much do we charge guests and how much profit can we make?If you book the full Estate, the cost is $4500 for accommodation and use of the Station. This equates to $264pp. If you add catering on top, thats another potential $250pp, so $514pp for food and accommodation. You then need to budget for any additional experiences or extras you might add (eg: goody bags, merchandise, wine tasting etc). Most hosts charge between $999 and $1500 per person for a weekend retreat, making the profit anywhere from $8K- $17K per retreat for the host. Most hosts report making a profit of about 10K for a fully booked out retreat with lots of experiences.
Can I change dates once I book?Your deposit in non refundable or transferrable. Most hosts book their retreats 8-12months out, so its unlikely we can fill a date without this much notice.
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58 killed in attack on U.N. peacekeeping base in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS — An attack on a U.N. peacekeeping base in South Sudan where about 5,000 members of an ethnic minority had sought shelter killed 58 people and injured about 100 others, a U.N. official said Friday.
An angry mob of youths attacked the U.N. peacekeeping mission's camp in Bor in Jonglei state on Thursday where ethnic Nuers fled after fighting broke out in the country in mid-December.
The U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement, said most of the 58 people killed were Nuer but there were also casualties on the other side.
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- Officials claim world duty to Mideast at international forum
- Motivated Syrian Kurds take fight to ISIS in contrast to failures of Iraqi army
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$68M Round Puts Kaminario Back in the Flash Data Storage Mix
It’s an exciting time to be in data storage, according to Kaminario founder and CEO Dani Golan. Flash memory is revolutionizing the industry, creating billion-dollar opportunities for companies like Kaminario, a Newton, MA-based company that builds all-solid-state data storage systems for enterprise customers. He also says it’s an exciting time to be at Kaminario, which just added another $15 million to the $53 million Series E round the company raised in December. The recent influx of cash brings the total raised by Kaminario to $143 million—making it one of the better-funded tech companies in the Boston area.
And it’s exciting for another reason: Kaminario is one of a number of well-financed startups competing with global giants like EMC and IBM for a piece of the action as companies around the world ditch their old hard-disk drive technology, build new data centers, and create private clouds.
That’s why the company will use the $68 million it recently added to its war chest to expand internationally, build out a global sales force, and raise its profile in the next year, Golan said.
“This is a once-every-30-years revolution. It’s way bigger than storage by itself. It’s the one last layer in the IT stack that’s stayed behind, and as such the market is huge,” Golan said. “And it’s moving toward all-flash much faster than people anticipated.”
As evidence, Kaminario points to a report from 451 Research that estimates the all-flash array market will grow from $580 million to $3.4 billion by 2018.
A new, rapidly growing market that big doesn’t go unnoticed. IBM and EMC have each acquired solid-state memory startups in the past few years as they try to maintain their place in the data storage market. Meanwhile, startups like Pure Storage and SolidFire are making inroads. Pure Storage has raised $470 million, including $225 million in a Series F round last year that valued the company at more than $3 billion, while SolidFire has raised $150 million following an $82 million Series D round last year.
New investors in Kaminario include Silicon Valley Bank’s venture capital arm, Lazarus Hedge Fund, and an unnamed public company. They joined existing investors Sequoia Capital, Pitango, Globespan, Tenaya, and Mitsui, which all reinvested in the recent round.
But while those investors are eager to back Kaminario, analysts at 451 Research and Gartner have questioned whether Kaminario has fallen behind its rivals in gaining attention and market share.
Golan views the issue differently. He thinks Kaminario’s competitors are taking different design approaches and targeting different market segments. Golan thinks Kaminario has found its niche by offering a product that both scales up—meaning more storage capacity can be added relatively cheaply—and scales out, which is a more expensive option that adds capacity along with more processing power, speed, and performance. In Golan’s view, the systems other companies have designed are only able to do one or the other.
There’s considerable debate in the industry about which approach is better, or even if the distinction is becoming meaningless, but for Kaminario the flexibility is its key point of differentiation.
“We’re the best of both worlds, and that’s what allows us to be much more economical,” Golan said. The company has heavily emphasized that point in its marketing, saying it can offer customers a price of only $2 per gigabyte of capacity.
That price point opens up the category of customers that Kaminario identifies as midrange and large enterprises that make $100 million to $5 billion per year. Golan said the company is going after that market hard, and he believes the others are looking elsewhere.
“The big guys are usually focusing on Global 1000 companies, so because we’re focusing on midrange enterprises, the market is not that crowded, actually,” Golan said. By Kaminario’s measure, about 50 percent of the money spent buying new solid-state storage systems will come from that tier of companies.
While Golan said the new investment allows Kaminario to be aggressive, he wants it to stay focused on growth. Long-term issues like preparing for an exit in the form of an IPO aren’t at the forefront of his mind.
“We’re not in a rush to go public,” Golan said. “We feel that as a private company we’re moving faster, and there are many advantages to staying private these days.”

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A prominent multinational drug company is collaborating with a humanitarian organization to provide $80,000 to Planned Parenthood clinics as part of an effort to expand access to contraception.
Last week, Bayer announced that it had established a new grant program with the humanitarian organization Direct Relief “designed to help address financial and educational barriers to contraceptives.” As part of the initiative, four health clinics will receive $40,000 a piece, which will go toward developing programs aimed to “expand access to contraceptives for underserved or underinsured women in their communities.” Two of the awardees are Planned Parenthood clinics.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Planned Parenthood Great Plains, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, were awarded two of the four $40,000 grants last month after they submitted proposals to establish programs “that would help increase access to family planning services for their most vulnerable patients.” The other two grants were awarded to Adagio Health in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Maternal and Family Health Services in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
The grants are part of a three-year partnership between Bayer and Direct Relief called We’re For Her, which Bayer Senior Medical Director Dr. Yesmean Wahdan describes as a “total package approach to increasing access to contraceptives.”
“This new grant program from Direct Relief will enable health clinics to create resources that meet the unique needs of women in their communities, allowing them to make educated decisions about contraceptives with their healthcare providers that will impact the trajectory of their lives.”
“The nonprofit health providers receiving this funding from Direct Relief already provide high-quality reproductive health services for their patients, and this support, generously provided by Bayer, will allow them to continue to expand these essential services,” said Paulina Ospina, the Director of Maternal and Child Health at Direct Relief. Direct Relief is grateful to these awardees that care for all patients, regardless of circumstances, and for Bayer’s leadership that supports comprehensive contraceptive choice.”
Responding to the pharmaceutical company’s decision to award the largest abortion provider in the U.S. $80,000, Planned Parenthood President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson expressed gratitude that “Bayer and Direct Relief support sexual and reproductive health care and education, and understand that all people deserve access to the care they need, when they need it, no matter what.”
The We’re For Her initiative is part of a larger long-term project of Bayer to provide contraception to 100 million women worldwide by the year 2030. Bayer manufactures contraceptive products, including Kyleena, Mirena and Skyla, intrauterine devices that prevent pregnancy for three to six years.
Bayer’s support for Planned Parenthood is not a new phenomenon. In 2016, the pro-life group Life Decisions International included Bayer on its Boycott List, which identifies companies that support Planned Parenthood and encourages pro-life Americans to refrain from doing business with them.
Earlier this year, Bayer agreed to pay $1.6 billion in settlements to women harmed by Essure, a permanently implanted birth-control device that was pulled from the U.S. market in 2018. Roughly 39,000 women alleged that Essure, a metal coil inserted into a woman’s fallopian tube for the purpose of permanently scarring it, caused damage to other parts of their bodies.
Users testified in front of a panel of medical experts that the birth control device resulted in “fatigue, hair loss and depression, as well as persistent pelvic or abdominal pain.” Additionally, women attributed “rash, hives, nausea, swelling and increased symptoms of asthma and arthritis” to their use of the implant. While Bayer agreed to pay the women injured by the birth control device, the company did not admit to any wrongdoing and declined to apologize to the women injured by Essure.

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Currently operating as Raymond Brothers Steel Erectors, this 7,000 s.f. steel structure with additional 1,500 s.f. finished office space, kitchen and conference rooms, all in great condition. Ample paved parking in front and on side of building. The land behind the structure is open, level, gravel with a loading dock off the rear overhead door. Daily traffic count on busy Rte 4 is 16,000 cpd based on a 2013 traffic study by DOT. Building is divisible and portions could be rented separately.


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If you are looking for a quick and easy healthy dinner recipe, look no further than this 15-minute teriyaki beef and broccoli recipe. This meal is perfect for those nights when you just don’t have time for a complicated meal, but still want to eat something good for you.
The Teriyaki bowl is a popular Asian dish that usually takes at least a half hour to make. It is a quick and easy way to feed a hungry family, but it is also a meal that requires a lot of prep time and planning. This 15 Minute Teriyaki Beef and Broccoli is a quick and easy way to create the same taste and aroma, but in only 15 minutes.
You’re probably thinking this teriyaki beef recipe looks easy, but it’s actually a little more involved than that. The first step to making a quick and easy teriyaki dish like this one is to marinate your meat. Once that’s done, add some vegetables to the pot and let them cook. This recipe makes enough for two people, so invest in your kitchen skills and you can serve the beef and broccoli to two people for dinner.. Read more about teriyaki beef and broccoli recipe and let us know what you think.
This Teriyaki Beef and Broccoli Skillet Meal combines soft ground beef, crisp fresh broccoli, aromatic mushrooms, and savory garlic in a delectable teriyaki sauce for an amazing quick and nutritious weeknight supper!
My Teriyaki Beef and Broccoli takes around ten minutes to prepare, making it a perfect addition to my weekly lineup of fast dishes! When I prepare a one-pan meal, I usually aim to include a protein, a vegetable, and a grain. I omitted the grain since there are so many vegetables in this meal, and it’s wonderfully satisfying without it.
What are the ingredients in teriyaki sauce?
Soy sauce, sake, sugar, and ginger are the four major components of teriyaki sauce. It’s basically your standard Asian spice and/or marinade. This sauce may be marinated for at least half an hour before cooking with meat, veggies, fish, or tofu. Although it isn’t often used as a table sauce, it is completely safe!
What are Mushrooms, Baby Bella, and what do they do?
The Italian portobello mushroom is sometimes known as baby bella mushrooms. Baby bellas are cremini mushrooms that have been left to develop for up to seven days longer than commercial creminis, and are officially known as Portabella mushrooms by the Mushroom Council. (More information may be found HERE.)
Teriyaki Beef with Broccoli Ingredients:
- Beef Grain
- Florets of Broccoli
- Baby Bella Mushrooms
- Teriyaki Sauce is a teriyaki sauce that is
- Ginger powder
- Sesame Seed Oil
To prepare our Teriyaki Beef and Broccoli, follow these steps:
To begin, combine the teriyaki sauce, garlic, and ginger in a small bowl. Remove from the equation. The broccoli florets and baby bella mushrooms should next be washed and chopped into tiny bite-sized pieces. Remove from the equation.
Heat the sesame oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat. After that, toss in the ground meat. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the meat is fully done.
After that, toss in the broccoli and mushrooms. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes, stirring regularly, or until the vegetables begin to brown.
Turn off the heat and pour the teriyaki sauce over the meat. Completely mix everything together. Serve with sesame seeds on top of the broccoli and mushroom stir fry!
I appreciate how simple this dinner was to prepare. This one was a hit with my whole family, and since it was so fast and simple, I now have a wonderful go-to for when my week gets hectic! I love how nicely the teriyaki complements the other ingredients, and supper is ready in less than 20 minutes from scratch!
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Time to prepare: 5 minutes
15 minutes to prepare
20-minute total time
- a third of a cup of teriyaki sauce
- 1 tblsp sesame seed oil
- 2 tblsp ginger, minced
- 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
- 2 cups broccoli florets, chopped
- 10 oz. bella mushrooms, sliced
- Sesame Seeds as a garnish
- Combine the teriyaki sauce, garlic, and ginger in a small bowl. Remove from the equation. Broccoli and mushrooms should be washed and diced into bite-sized pieces. Remove from the equation.
- Heat the sesame oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Add the ground beef to the pan. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the meat is fully done.
- After that, toss in the broccoli and mushrooms. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes, stirring regularly, or until the vegetables begin to brown.
- Turn off the heat and pour the teriyaki sauce over the meat. Completely mix everything together.
- Serve with sesame seeds on top of the broccoli and mushroom stir fry!
Information about nutrition:
Size of Serving:
1 tbsp. per serving 141 calories 7g total fat 1 gram of saturated fat 0g trans fat 6 g of unsaturated fat 0 mg cholesterol 945mg sodium 16g carbohydrate 5 g of fiber 6 g sugar 6 g protein
(Nutritional information is an estimate that may vary depending on cooking techniques and ingredient brands utilized.)
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Teriyaki is probably one of my favorite types of cooking. It’s such a simple way to get that flavor of a stir-fry, but put together in a much more elegant way. So, when we decided to get a new slow cooker, I knew I wanted to try something new – and this was it. Teriyaki is a traditional Japanese method of flavoring meat with soy sauce and cooking it over low heat for long periods of time.. Read more about beef with broccoli and mushroom in oyster sauce and let us know what you think.
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While I've read most of Orwell's novels I have somehow never got around to his non-fiction. As I was a journalism student, this is close to criminal....moreWhile I've read most of Orwell's novels I have somehow never got around to his non-fiction. As I was a journalism student, this is close to criminal. In happy remedy to this, BBC radio is currently having an Orwell season, all the programmes (readings, adaptations and documentaries) archived for posterity at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pyz0z so please pay it a visit.
Down and Out in Paris and London is, along with The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia, considered one of the great pieces of reportage of the 20th century. Orwell's description of his time living on (and below) the breadline in these two capitals is breathtaking. He manages to combine a journalistic distance with a visceral understanding and explanation of what it means to be truly broke, to a level which is almost inconceivable in the same societies scant decades later. His descriptions of hardship never come across as unfair or whining, partly because the level of poverty is so extreme but mostly due to the fact that he so often compares his own plight with others he meets who are even worse off than himself; Orwell has the expectation that his privation is temporary (and we know this to be the case, in retrospect) many of the people he meets are sinking to depths he assumes he will never reach, habituated to their lot, or otherwise hopeless cases. Yet Orwell's writing is infused with compassion and a sense of social justice that he is never condescending to or belittling of their situations; without preaching he draws attention to the social inequalities that not only allow but require people to beg or starve, that marginalise a large section of society to the impoverishment of everyone due to the moral damage and human waste this engenders. Such ire as Orwell expresses (and there is not much; this is a book of compassion rather than anger) is reserved for those who perpetuate the status quo - whether they are those who use their power over anyone worse off than themselves, the religious charities who exploit the need of the poor to spread their message or those vagrants who still somehow buy into the injustice.
This is, perhaps, the definitive example of journalism as social activism, and serves not only as a reminder of how things once were but as a warning in a time when social safety nets are being dismantled in the name of austerity of the very real social and human dangers of a society that is happy to regard those who have fallen on hard times as surplus to requirements.(less)


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The Bach 180 series trumpets are the number one selling professional trumpets in the world, and they remain the sound choice of artists globally. An incredibly versatile instrument, the 18043 offers everything today’s most discriminating players desire. Combining his talents as a musician and an engineer, Vincent Bach created brass instruments of unparalleled quality that is often copied but never duplicated. The 180 series offers depth and color of sound coupled with the even intonation and response a professional player needs. Nothing beats the sound of a Bach.
Excellent for all-around playing, the Bach 18043 Stradivarius pro trumpet features a standard-weight body and #43 bell to produce a broad, bright, open sound that allows this trumpet to work well in settings from jazz to concert to solo playing. The #25 leadpipe allows for slight resistance that is effective in centering tone production while the clear lacquer finish provides a subtle warmth. These features combined with a .459" medium-large bore allow the player to produce a well-rounded sound, suitable for all types of music.
Available with a reverse leadpipe as 18043R, silver finish with a reverse leadpipe 180S43R, or a #37 lacquer bell with reverse leadpipe as 18037R. A reverse leadpipe slides into the tuning slide instead of the tuning slide sliding into the leadpipe. There is no narrowing of the tube, just expansion, which eliminates air push back, providing slightly less resistance and better control over tone and intonation.
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Illinois temporary visa workers help fill gaps
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) - Nearly 1,800 temporary work visas have been certified in Illinois so far this fiscal year.
Most of the Illinois visas went to labor-intensive fruit and vegetable farms, the Chicago Tribune reported. There's no cap on the number of visas that can be issued.
The U.S. Department of Labor issued nearly 166,000 temporary visas in 2016. The visas more than doubled from the number five years ago.
Temporary visa workers are required to be paid a government-set wage that won't adversely affect U.S. workers. Those workers are generally paid $13 an hour, higher than the state's $8.25 minimum wage.
Republican lawmakers have introduced proposals to make the program cheaper and easier for employers to hire temporary foreign workers. The proposed changes to the program include cutting wages, reducing domestic recruiting requirements and allowing year-round visas for dairy and livestock workers.
Labor advocates, including Farmworker Justice, have opposed most of the Republican measures.
But some farmers are pleased with a bill that will be introduced by Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia that seeks to replace the visa program.
Under Goodlatte's proposal, seasonal workers with temporary visas would be able to stay in the U.S. for 18 months and year-round workers would be able to stay 36 months.
Democrats are pushing for proposals that offer "blue cards" to visa workers who have worked in agriculture consistently for two years, which would give them legal status.


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Rihanna is SRSLY spoiling her fans!
The winter line features more seksi pieces, but instead of camo overload, she's bringing in florals and tartan galore! There's also some textured gold lamé, dark denim, and fuzzy fur hats!
Something for everyone, basically!
The collection will be available on November 7th, but for those who can't wait, pre-ordering will start on October 31st!
Ch-ch-check out a behind-the-scenes clip (above) of RiRi putting the final touches on the pieces, and then have a look at the completed items in the gallery (below)!


"ATSC 3.0, a new broadcast signaling standard branded as "NextGenTV," is starting to break away from the TV screen and gain its first foothold on the smartphone."
"HUNT VALLEY, Md.—Sinclair Broadcast Group has announced its acquisition of two Class A TV stations located in the Washington, D.C., market: WIAV-CD and WDCO-CD. With the acquisition, Sinclair plans to demonstrate NextGen TV capabilities."
ATSC3.0 - reaching viewers. NextGen TV - already in Austin, Texas. Los Angeles and Oklahoma City - are to go on air next.
New real-world applications grow on the capabilities of the NextGen TV
ATSC3.0 has been given thumbs up for new broadband applications.
"New era of television with Nextgen TV" has launched in Las Vegas.
ATSC published a map of NextGen TV deployment in U.S.
For over 2 years we have been investing into the development of equipment to support ATSC3.0


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With such a diverse specialty as Sports Medicine and having overlap into so many different clinical fields, we have the added benefit of recognizing what spectrum of treatments are available and could be of benefit. This will allow the patient/athlete to gain the optimum recovery or care.
Our role is not simply to diagnose and treat the pathology, but to co-ordinate care between the relevant multidisciplinary professionals. We offer a broad spectrum of treatment options for a range of conditions.
As Sports Medicine Specialists working in Dubai for several years, we have learned to identify what special interests and qualities other medical professionals and therapists offer. Depending on what realistic expectations the patient has as well as the area they live and work in, we can help guide them to decide on which options suit best.
We also have close ties and links with Western clinicians from many countries, particularly the British Sports Medical Specialists, Rheumatologists and Orthopaedic Surgeons. Ideal for those who need to plan treatment or surgery when on holiday in the UK.


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STRATEGIC SECURITY OF A SITTING DUCK
December 13, 2001 was a day when Indian parliament was under siege and Indian democracy was saved by the bravery of a few security personnel and by the Almighty. The men, who love to see their own face on the television screen and media displayed an astounding lack of security concerns. Minute-by-minute account of the location and movement of all constitutional heads and members of parliament even when the attack was supposedly on, could have easily provided the vital intelligence to terrorists. The day after the attack it was back to normal - the opposition attacking the Government for security lapses and the ruling party making 'responsible' statements attacking Pakistan.
From the noises made by the top leaders, it seems that a war with Pakistan is just round the corner. It is not unlikely that by the time this article reaches your hands, the firing may have already begun. Indian people and leaders are used to looking at a war as a spectator sport almost like the frequent cricket matches. The spectator mindset prevents Indian leaders from giving necessary importance to security concerns. There is often an utter lack of strategic vision on the part of everybody except armed forces.
Strategic vision is seen as the exclusive domain of armed forces. All departments of Government of India as well as of states take a large number of decisions which affect the backbone of national security. Power plants, roads, agricultural production, railways, water supply, telecommunication networks, cable television, newspapers, schools, colleges, in fact almost everything that satisfies the needs of Indian citizens has a strategic importance. It is said that during cold war, the part of Berlin under West German control, used to stock a few months requirement of even such essentials like toothpaste and there was a system of continuously replenishing this stock. Germans recognized the strategic importance of toothpaste. Surprisingly, there are ministers in India who do not even consider goods handling at airports as a matter concerning national security. Just a few months ago there was a proposal to hand over some critical functions at international airports to an agency which had a large number of Pakistani employees. Fortunately, the defense ministry put its foot down and the proposal was dropped.
The concept of security at Government of India does not seem to include terms like food security, power security etc. In India civilian leadership wishes to retain control of the armed forces without in any way accepting their part of the responsibility for national defence. The only job that civilian leadership seems to have kept for itself is to indulge in rhetoric.
A typical instance of mindless rhetoric is the statement made by a number of top leaders that the country is prepared for any type of war including nuclear war. This may sound a ridiculous statement to anyone with a schoolboy's idea of a nuclear weapon, but the fact remains that the top leaders of Indian Government have made such statements in the past and are shooting similar sentiments even in the aftermath of 13 December.
Let us look at one possible scenario in the event of a nuclear attack. All the constitutional heads of Indian state live in Delhi in an area of about three kilometer by three kilometer. Just one well-timed nuclear bomb on Raisina Hill will eliminate President, Vice-President, Prime Minister, all ministers, a majority of Members of Parliament, almost all Supreme Court judges, all chiefs of armed forces, Chief Election Commissioner and almost everybody else who can be called someone with constitutional authority in Government of India. If this sounds too drastic, let us consider that if RDX carried by the terrorists on 13 December had exploded and if both houses of Parliament were debating some crucial bill, a large number of the above functionaries could have been killed. If instead of RDX, the car had carried a nuclear weapon, even without the Parliament in meeting, almost all the functionaries named above would have been killed on 13 December. It is difficult for anyone to imagine such a nightmare. But this is what the terrorists and their sponsors in Pakistan want - a total destruction of Indian state. They have given sufficient indication of their goals.
It must be admitted that Indian state is a sitting duck at Raisina Hill which is well within the range of missiles from Lahore and certainly not out of reach of any fidayeen attackers. The armed forces can fight a war and even win it, but no army or air force in the world can guarantee a country immunity from damages. If Pakistan launches a nuclear attack and is able to destroy all the constitutional heads of India, the army of India may still win the war and destroy large parts of Pakistan. But will the country be able to recover after such a catastrophe? Is such a risk worth it? Does it not make sense to use the vast spread of the country to reduce the risks to key constitutional heads?
It seems most logical that India should spread its capital out of Delhi. It is high time that the traditional concept of a capital is replaced by a power structure which is not centered geographically in one city. It may be worthwhile to have Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in two different cities of the country. Say, Lok Sabha can be based in Delhi while Rajya Sabha is shifted to Chennai. Supreme Court can be located in a third city say Bhopal. Headquarters of armed forces can be shifted to a fourth city say Nagpur. President who is the titular Head of State can be based at Delhi while Vice President can be based at Chennai. Prime Minister and Cabinet of Ministers may be shifted to another city say Kolkata. This geographical spread of constitutional functionaries will make it virtually impossible for any enemy to eliminate the Indian state in one stroke. There will be other advantages too. This will reduce the feeling of distance and alienation that is presently experienced to some degree by the regions distant from Delhi. It will also reduce the pressures on the city of Delhi and make it a more livable city.
Of course, it must be admitted that the solution suggested above is not easy. But defending one's country from mad barbarians is never easy. Are the leaders of India equal to the task? Will they be able to rise above their petty interests and fights? Will the desire to be seen on TV give way to some realistic assessment and some out-of-box thinking? Let us hope that the averted catastrophe of 13th December will serve as a lesson. Let us hope that Indian leaders will realize that security is a matter of design and not of placing a few more men with guns. Let us also hope that democracy and liberal secular state will no longer be a sitting duck at Raisina Hill.
22 December 2001
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ANIL CHAWLA is an engineer by qualification but a philosopher by vocation and a management consultant by profession.
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No Robin Thicke music video is complete without a whole lotta ladies!
Unfortunately, this time the seksi R&B singer isn't surrounding himself with completely naked hotties. He's surrounding himself with NEARLY naked hotties!
OK. We'll take what we can get. LOLz!!!
2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar are teaming up with Robin on the football field for the music video to his latest single Give It 2 U.
The boys performed this song LIVE at the VMAs on Sunday with a scantily clad Miley Cyrus! And in their new video, they get their groove on with scantily clad honeys in football jerseys and dance uniforms all while riding around on parade floats!
Our favorite one featured in the video is the ASS FLOAT! Obvi!
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And we think this is a pretty damn fine tune too!
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Cirque du Soleil
Las Vegas: Behind The Scenes Of An Insane Circus
Page 3 of 3Zarkana is built around a gigantic stage. “The show was conceived for Radio City and the Kremlin Theater,” Girard says, “the two biggest fly-houses in the world.” (“Fly house” means a theater with rigging up above the stage, where scenery and other gadgets can be “flown” in.)
I was taken backstage by Dave Churchill, the show’s technical director. I wanted to know what went on in the parts of the theater the audience didn’t get to see — namely above the stage, where the trapezists drop down from the equivalent of about six stories high. What I saw back there was tech on an industrial scale — not just a bunch of ropes and wires.
Dave brought me up to the technical grid, a huge hanging catwalk that’s so high above the stage we had to access it by elevator. Since Zarkana began as a touring show, Churchill says, “We decided to self-contain ourselves as much as possible.” The result is a massive metallic structure that both rests on four gigantic legs and hangs from the theater’s ceiling on 60 points. It’s 50 feet high, 92 feet wide and weighs 52 tons. In fact, it’s so self-contained that set designer Stéphane Roy told me, “We could put it in the middle of a field and do the show. We don’t need the theater!”
Standing on the slightly scary grid (look down and you’ll see the stage far below through the gaps in the metal — this is not a place to drop your iPhone) I moved aside as black-clad stagehands with earpieces hurried around seriously. They checked ropes and managed huge props, lowering them from heights above, and generally made sure that nobody was going to die in that night’s performance.
I tried to imagine what the tech grid would look and feel like during an actual performance. “It would be dark,” Churchill says. “It would be loud, because the band would be going full-bore. You would have a lot of technicians and a lot more artists who would be running around here. Depending on which scene we're going into and out of, you'd see machinery coming down from above, passing through, the riggers attaching their devices so that they’re set on its way down. You would have hatches opening, artists hooking up, inverting themselves, flying in upside-down over the stage. You'd have a lot of traffic to a lower catwalk where a singer pops out of a flower that's built into the scenery. We have different acrobats that climb around in webs and ropes and things that go off the back. So it's just a constant stream of traffic — artists and technicians coming in and out. It's quite the terminus.”
To be a Cirque performer, you have to be both consummately professional and also a tiny bit nuts. At a rehearsal space deep beneath the stage, I met Pedro Carrillo and Luis Acosta, Zarkana’s stars on the highwire. For both of them, the circus is the family business — their fathers were a well-known tightrope-walking duo for Ringling Brothers, and they basically grew up in the business. I ask them what exactly it takes to be a highwire performer.
“I takes a passion for it,” Acosta says. “It’s not easy. It hurts, it takes a lot of years, and you really have to stick it out if it’s really what you want to do.”
“You’ve got to have a sense of courage, obviously,” adds Carrillo. “You can’t be too scared of heights. But, at the same time, we have a sense of fear, and it’s a fear that just drives you, that you try to hold with you. It’s your friend; it’s the thing that keeps you from falling off the cable.”
And if you were to fall? “Falling is part of the training,” Carrillo says. “We each have our own style, no matter what we learn.” And the most dangerous accidents don’t necessarily happen up in the air: “I’ve broken a rib falling off a ladder that was five feet high!” he laughs. “I don’t get hurt on the highwire, and I fall five feet and I break a rib! We both respect any height that we work with. It’s dangerous.”
Having spent some time with the people who make Cirque what it is, I walked away with a new impression of the sometimes silly-seeming entertainment powerhouse. And even if you turn your nose up at the wacky antics you associate with its shows — as I'm sure did — you might find yourself surprised by just how much brains, technology, muscles and sheer guts go into them.
But it's also more than that. It bears repeating, in our world-weary times, that what you see onstage at Cirque is real. This is one place where cynicism and ironic detachment don't really have a home, and don't gain you any cool points. Allow yourself to feel impressed, to really feel that sense of wonder wash over you. Nice, isn't it? Every grown man should feel that every now and then, but these days the intervals are getting pretty long. Reminding yourself that, yes, there are amazing feats being performed before your very eyes, for no other purpose than to entertain you. That is true luxury.


What You Read In 2015
Hello from 2016 — a year in which the U.S. picks some new leaders, the Cubs finally win a World Series and we look back on the most-read posts from WBAA.org in 2015.*
*Note: at least two of these three things will happen.
So, in backwards-countdown fashion, here are the top ten posts that you, the public radio website viewer, read, shared, sneered at, consumed, tweeted, Facebooked, Insta-Snap-Vine-thingyed, et cetera in the last 12 months:
#10: A Ride Aboard The ‘New’ Hoosier State Line (Sept 16)
This story, from Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Barbara Brosher, tells a little about the changes made when the Hoosier State Line transitioned to control by Iowa Pacific Holdings from Amtrak. We plan to update this story in 2016.
#9: Amazon Opening Brings Questions Of Space Use, Competition (February 25)
When he was governor, Mitch Daniels frequently espoused his belief in the free market — that government shouldn’t “picks winners and losers.” So when Purdue signed on with Amazon to operate two bookstores on campus (even though there’s a bookstore just off campus that’s been there for decades), wasn’t the President going against his previous statement? Also, the student body president says the building in which one Amazon store is located was supposed to be for student groups, not e-commerce.
#8: Monthly Conversation With Mitch Daniels: Tuition Freeze And Raises (May 20)
Purdue, as expected, announced a fourth year of tuition freezes in 2015. All the while, the University forked over an additional 3.5-percent for salary increases — as long as departments fell in line with President Mitch Daniels’ call to innovate. And there’s another topic tucked into this show that appears later on the list, too…
#7: Indiana E-Cigarette Regulations: Too Far Or Not Far Enough? (March 5)
Indiana and other states have struggled in recent years to keep legislation current with an exploding market for dangerous products. Previously it was bath salts and synthetic marijuana. In 2015, it was the rise of e-cigarettes and vaping liquids. But state lawmakers must now decide, product-by-product, which sales fall under which statutes — all while not making the law so vague that it’ll be struck down in court.
#6: Purdue Tenure Policy Could Change To Reflect Gallup Index (July 16)
2015 was the second year of the Gallup-Purdue Index, which attempts to measure what causes college grads to succeed in life and feel engaged in their communities. However, this story was the tip of the iceberg of a discussion that eventually led to a heated discussion about how professors achieve tenure at Purdues and some Purdue professors claiming the survey results were skewed and found only what Purdue officials wanted to find so they could make changes under the guise of a study.
#5: Christian Group Holding Its Conference In Indy Wants Notice Of LGBT Worshipers (July 6)
Despite the backlash over the state’s so-called religious freedom bill, a Christian group made a point to say it was coming to Indianapolis in an effort to show faith communities weren’t governed by hate and did welcome LGBTQ parishioners.
#4: Committee Approves Bill Creating Alternative Energy Fee (February 19)
This story, from IPBS Statehouse Reporter Brandon Smith, chronicled one of the less-heated issues of the 2015 session. Basically, consumers benefit if they can install solar panels, so lawmakers tried to find a way to make utility companies benefit, too.
#3:For Hoosier State Line, The Clock Is Running Even If New Trains Aren’t (July 8)
Want to know one of the big reasons WBAA hired Chris Morisse Vizza from the Journal and Courier? She kept beating me on stories — particularly about the Hoosier State Line. I worked a long time on this story, trying to balance quotes from multiple sides (INDOT, Amtrak, Iowa Pacific) who don’t seem to like each other very much. This story also produced this interview with Amtrak’s Marc Magliari, who wins the award for lowest percentage of questions directly answered in a WBAA Q&A.
#2: Worried About A Lawsuit From Hetero Couples, Purdue Nixing Same-sex Benefits (December 18)
This one came right at the end of the year, but blew away most other stories in terms of interest. Purdue is between a rock and a hard place. Sure they could legitimately be sued by heterosexual couples who think they deserve benefits even if they’re not married, but if you do this and you force people to marry to receive benefits, isn’t that tacit pressure to wed on behalf of a university that should take no stake in such matters?
#1: Purdue RFRA Response Differs From Other Colleges (April 1)
If this was meant to be an April Fool’s Day joke, it was a doozy. Many presidents of Indiana colleges penned letters condemning the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Most used their own names or spoke in the first person. But Purdue’s letter was signed “Office of the President.” Purdue officials expressed confusion about why there was such a hubbub about their letter diverging from the pack. After WBAA questioned them on it, the signature line and the headline on the website were changed.


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A few weeks ago Brody posted about the story of a paramedic who ultimately did receive workers’ compensation benefits for a solely mental injury. I agree with Brody that it’s great that first responders can receive workers’ compensation benefits for mental distress on the job not related to a physical injury.
When I read Brody’s post, it reminded me of few informal rules or principles I’ve learned from helping injured workers with their employment law issues for the last 14 years.
Government employers can be difficult. I have a few theories why. First of all, they can invoke sovereign immunity as a defense to any potential unlawful acts. Secondly most of them are self-insured which means any claim made by an employee comes out of tax funds rather than from an insurance policy. Finally since, government employees are entitled to some procedural due process before a termination, government employers go out of their way to build a case for termination. This case building by management can take a terrible mental toll on employees who are being targeted for termination.
Unions are good: Most union contracts require that an employer just cause for termination. That’s usually true for public sector employees as well. But union representation usually means that an employee can receive a substantively fair process when facing difficulties at work. Union officials often know about past practices and can effectively deal with bad behavior by an employer short of attorney involvement. Union contracts often include arbitration rights to dispute a termination, but those rights are often meaningless without an attorney. Unions often foot the bill for an attorney to represent an employee in arbitration.
Disability accommodation is often a bureaucratic nightmare: Under the ADA, employee and employer and supposed to meet in an informal, interactive process to determine how to accommodate disability. What often times happens is that management decides to second guess doctors’ restrictions or ask for endless clarifications. The process becomes adversarial and driven by paperwork.
Mental disabilities aren’t treated the same as physical disabilities: Mental disabilities can present somewhat of a challenge as they are more difficult to measure than physical disabilities. It’s difficult to manage what can’t be measured, but accommodations for a mental injury can be as simple as accommodations for a physical injury if an employee and employer sit down in good faith.
I also believe that employees who suffer from mood disorders are often considered risks for violence if they are having difficulties in the workplace. Studies show the mentally ill are no more likely to be violent than those without a mental health diagnosis. A mentally ill employee who is struggling with job tasks or getting along with co-workers may be not be a qualified employee with disability, however that does not give employers carte blanche to deem an employee with a mental illness to be a threat for workplace violence.

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Stir Fry Sesame Tuna
Why I Love This Recipe
Ingredients You'll Need
1 lb tuna steaks (3/4 to 1 inch thick)
1/4 tsp each salt and pepper
1 Tbsp + 2 tsp pepper-flavored olive oil, divided
1 Tbsp sesame seeds
2 Tbsp ginger sesame salad dressing
2 cups sesame noodle salad (from the service deli case)
Add all the above ingredients
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Pat tuna dry.
Sprinkle tuna with salt and pepper.
Cut into 3/4-inch cubes.
Mix 1 Tbsp oil and sesame seeds together in medium bowl.
Add tuna cubes and toss tuna in oil, coating all surfaces.
Place a large nonstick wok or skillet over medium-high heat and heat to hot.
Add remaining 2 tsp oil.
Add tuna and stir-fry 2-3 minutes.
Remove from wok and lightly drizzle with salad dressing.
Serve with sesame noodle salad.
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Normal vacuuming does enable to keep your carpet cleanse; nevertheless, you might also want a professional thoroughly clean up once some time. This is what expert carpet cleansing services involve.
There are plenty of varieties of carpet cleaning. Every one of the approaches get started which has a comprehensive vacuuming. It really is to extract the dust from a carpet or rug so as to help make the other solutions more practical. This method is named the dry cleaning approach. The dry cleaning method also tends to make use of specific cleaning powders. They are really designed to bring in the dust practically once they can be applied. Just after the powder is applied and allowed to do its get the job done, the carpet is totally vacuumed.
Shampooing is the 2nd strategy. Like dry cleansing, it truly is a sort of pretreatment. The carpet is sprayed using a cleaning remedy or possibly a shampoo. It really is labored in to the carpet with a device and then extracted by vacuuming. These solutions are formulated with cleansing brokers that remove grime and stains from carpet fibers. Additionally they include deodorizes and brighteners that enhance the seem and odor of the carpet. While powerful, shampooing would not do a full-proof job as some filth and microbes continue to continue being driving.


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OK. We know you’re a car guy (or girl, but mostly guys). If you weren’t a motorhead you wouldn’t be cruising this web site. And you surely have a car or two or three or more stashed in your garage, your driveway, or your buddy’s barn. But being a motorhead, you’re almost certainly interested in pretty much anything that’s powered by an internal combustion engine.
Maybe you have a power boat, a snowmobile, an ATV, maybe you have a race car, or maybe even a remote-controlled airplane. You might even be a licensed private pilot.
But if there’s one pretty sure bet in all of this, you now have, or used to have, a motorcycle. Maybe it’s a Harley, maybe a rice rocket, or a full custom. Yours could even be a classic bike like a Norton, an Indian, or an old BMW. But it seems like the interests of most car guys extend to related vehicles that involve wheels, gasoline, speed, and related mechanical devices.
In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that more than half the readers of WW have, or used to have, a two-wheeler. And I’d bet that many are sitting in dark corners of shops nestled under a combination of dust and cobwebs, just waiting to be made roadworthy again, “As soon as I get the time.”
Well, that time may have come.
Seems that one of the biggest motorcycle gatherings in the world takes place every August in beautiful downtown Sturgis, SD. Yep, that’s right. South Dakota. Right in the geographic center of the country where pretty much everybody has an equal opportunity to claim the longest commuting distance and the chance to earn their own “Iron Butt” honors.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has been held every year since its founding in 1938, except for wartime years in the 1940s. And boy has it grown. Attendance at the week-long 2010 event topped a half a million people, which is actually quite extraordinary since the population of the entire state of South Dakota is only about half again that number. This year’s event will take place August 5-13.
And this is not just a cruise down Main Street. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is a solid week of shows, special events, seminars, social events, concerts, and much, much more. There are road tours, motocross and drag racing, stunt riding exhibitions, test drives of the latest in motorcycling, parties, free-style riding and burnout demonstrations, and live entertainment of all types.
Which brings us to a point. Those of you who are regular readers of Weekend Warrior know that this column has focused on family-oriented venues that welcome wives, girlfriends and other significant others, as well as children, many with activities specifically designed to inform, educate, and entertain youngsters.
Not so much at Sturgis. This is pretty much an adult-themed event, with some skimpy outfits and some events deserving of a PG or even R rating. Realistically, this get-together is for adults only, with ample supplies of beer, biker babes, and sometimes-bawdy behavior.
But if the thought of tens of thousands of bikes and a town full of party people appeals to you, then this just might be the place for you.
And this place is no small potatoes. The event draws some of the biggest names in rock and country music, including A-list performers like Alice Cooper, The Little River Band, Bachman & Turner, Styx, Def Leppard, Ted Nugent, Foghat, Toby Keith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Marshall Tucker Band. With top name groups like these, it’s no wonder a half-million people will show up to party with them.
And for those who feel the need for a “higher calling,” there are church/worship services, a Charity Ride to benefit prostate cancer research, a number of events to honor and support homeless veterans, a fund-raiser for Sky Ranch for Boys, and even an AA Serenity Ride for those who don’t drink.
There are, of course, vendors offering everything from commemorative do-rags to new motorcycles, and everything in between. Parts, accessories, safety equipment – it’s all here. And while the preponderance of bikes are of Harley-Davidson descent, bikes of all types are welcome, including Japanese bikes and trikes.
If you’re a hard-core biker, then there’s not much more you need to know than to make your hotel or campground reservations early. And if you’re more of a casual rider, then you may want to take in the move Wild Hogs starring Tim Allen and John Travolta, in which a group of friends set out on a cross-country motorcycle adventure that seems to have found its way onto their, and many guys’ “bucket list.” It’s a humorous series of misadventures with a happy ending, and could certainly represent much of the fun and excitement of a road trip to Sturgis.
If your schedule should allow, there are many other places of interest nearby that are well worth visiting, including the Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse monuments, the Spearfish Echo Caves in the Badlands, the scenic vistas of a tour through the Black Hills and, of course, the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame.
So if your dirty, dusty Harley has been calling out to you, or if your bucket list has been nagging you to get at least one item checked off, or if you’re just looking for a partying good time with like-minded people, then you should consider a two-wheeled road trip to Sturgis. It’s a gathering of almost unfathomable proportion, a party atmosphere that rivals Mardi Gras, and a motorhead’s dream come true.
All on two wheels.
Details at: www.SturgisMotorcycleRally.com
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A collection of four short stories: Horrid Henry Peeks at Peter’s Diary, Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend, Horrid Henry goes Shopping, Horrid Henry’s Arch Enemy. All are easy to read aloud, or are suitable for a fairly confident reader to read themselves. Henry as always is getting in trouble – nothing ever happens quite the way it is supposed to do! It can spell disaster for those around him – for example, hearing that his little brother is about the read parts of his diary aloud in school, Henry sets out to make them more interesting. But what Henry regards as interesting can be extremely embarrassing for all concerned.
Accompanied by fantastic black & white drawings, the book is a joy to read. Horrid Henry has an irresistable appeal to everyone – child and adult alike! He is the child everyone is familiar with – irritating, annoying but you still cannot help laughing when he gets into yet another scrape. Not quite a devil in disguise but you cannot help wondering at times! No wonder he is so popular!Note the date on this article may be incorrect due to importing it from our old system.

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However, if a property owner wishes to install a sprinkler system partly on the Township boulevard, generally no action will be taken by the Township provided that:
- the public is not inconvenienced in any way due to the installation or operation of the sprinkler system; and,
- the property owner understands that the Township, its agents and authorized utility companies accept no liability for damage to the sprinkler system under any circumstances.
An irrigation system is installed solely at the property owner's risk and expense and under no circumstances will the Township or utility companies be responsible for damages to irrigation systems located on Township-owned road allowances no matter how caused.
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Charles Kennedy (1959-), Politician
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Cardiac xenotransplantation: progress toward the clinic.
Animal organs could satisfy the demand for solid organ transplants, which currently exceeds the limited human donor supply. Hyperacute rejection, the initial immune barrier to successful xenotransplantation, has been overcome with pig donors transgenic for human complement regulatory proteins. Delayed xenograft rejection, thought to be mediated by anti-pig antibodies predominantly to Gal antigens, is currently regarded as the major barrier to successful xenotransplantation. A median graft survival of 90 days in the life-supporting position is considered a reasonable initial standard for consideration of entry to the clinic.
|Title:||Cardiac xenotransplantation: progress toward the clinic.|
|Keywords:||Animals, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Disaccharides, Graft Survival, Heart Transplantation, Lymphoproliferative Disorders, Myocardium, Papio, Swine, Transplantation, Heterologous|
|UCL classification:||UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences
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An amusing and whimsical look at behavioral finance best practices for investors.
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As a parent, how can you help ensure that your children are more financially confident than you?
Heading into retirement with confidence is easier if your strategy includes steps to help minimize taxes.
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Brunch Bacon And Eggs
|Butter||1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)|
|Flour||1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)|
|Cream||1 Cup (16 tbs)|
|Milk||1 Cup (16 tbs)|
|Cheddar cheese||1 Pound, grated|
|Hard-cooked eggs||18 , thinly sliced|
|Parsley||1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), chopped|
|Buttered crumbs||1 Cup (16 tbs)|
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. In the skillet, tip in the bacon and fry. Drain the fat and then crumble the bacon.
3. Melt butter in another saucepan and add flour and stir till smooth.
4. Add cream and milk gradually while stirring and then cook until thickened.
5. Add seasonings and cheese and mix till the cheese is melted.
6. Arrange layers of eggs, bacon and white sauce in greased casserole, sprinkling each layer with parsley. Sprinkle with crumbs. Bake for about 30 minutes.
7. Serve warm
Calories 719 Calories from Fat 420
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 47 g72.8%
Saturated Fat 23.9 g119.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 638.4 mg212.8%
Sodium 900.8 mg37.5%
Total Carbohydrates 34 g11.2%
Dietary Fiber 0.44 g1.8%
Sugars 13.7 g
Protein 38 g75.4%
Vitamin A 35.2% Vitamin C 4.8%
Calcium 57.5% Iron 13.2%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


OCTOBER 14, 2014 — Marcon International, Inc., Coupeville, WA, reports the successful sale of the 3,900 BHP, U.S. flag twin screw tug Maria Brusco (ex-Ocean Service) from a U.S. owner to private overseas buyers for transfer to registry under foreign flag.
The 127 ft x 32 ft x 14 ft tug was originally built in 1967 by Burton Shipyard Inc. in Port Arthur, TX, as Hull 404 for International Bulk Transport of Wilmington, DE, and operated for Sonat Marine of Philadelphia towing petroleum barges coastwise. The tug underwent a major reconstruction in 1987 under her previous ownership.
The tug’s twin EMD16-645E2 engines develop a total of 3,900 bhp at 900 rev/min through Falk LST 20000 2.48:1 reduction gears to 80 in x 67 in fixed pitch, stainless steel propellers in kort nozzles. The ABS loadlined tug has a fuel capacity of 92,000 gallons, which gives her a good range for Caribbean, Atlantic and other long haul tows. Towing gear consists of a Smatco 62DADT-200, 250,000lb. line pull single drum winch with a capacity for 2,600 ft x 2.25 in towing wire plus 690′ of 2.25 in wire on a pendant drum and hydraulic tow pins.
Maria Brusco had been working in the U.S. Gulf, and Caribbean for the past few years, but spent much of her life towing plus performing numerous rescues in heavy weather on the Pacific Coasts of the United States, Hawaii and Canada for both Brusco and Sause Bros. Ocean Towing.
The tug’s next venture, under her new ownership, will reportedly be in support of the oil and gas market in South America.
Marcon represented the sellers in this transaction. This is the fourth tug sold by Marcon this year and the 301st tug sold or chartered over the last 33 years.


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In the war zone
|The Bastar region is practically living through a war and will continue to do so until tribal issues are addressed fully.|
Maoists training at a base in the forests of Chhattisgarh. A file photograph.
THE crossroads at Jagdalpur, which give it the nickname Chaurahon ka Shahar (city of squares and crossroads), perhaps best represent the political disconnect between the state and the people in the Bastar region. The town, which is the administrative headquarters of the region in south Bastar, has many intersections with roundabouts and at each stand statues of Gondi tribesmen, mostly black in colour, wearing heavy jewellery and dancing or hunting or beating a drum. These representations, which give tourists a glimpse of tribal culture, not only reinforce the colonial image of the tribal people but also alienate them from their economic roles in society.
The government is happy to have invested big on the roundabouts as the statues also declare this geographical space to be essentially “tribal”, an important means to strengthen the ruling party’s vote bank. As for the tribal people themselves, they continue to live in extreme poverty and are literally at a crossroads. Today, Bastar is known less for its tribal culture and more for the ongoing battle between the Maoists and the security forces. The districts of Dantewada, Narayanpur, Bijapur and Kanker in the region have been the battleground of the Maoists, mainly of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and the security forces ever since the government launched Operation Green Hunt. On April 6, a naxalite ambush at Chintalnad village in Dantewada district claimed the lives of 78 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the highest toll the security forces have suffered so far in the fight against naxalites.
While some media reports said around 1,000 Maoists attacked the CRPF platoon, State Director-General of Police Vishwa Ranjan said the exact number could not be confirmed. He expected the number to be around 300. There was an accusation that the security forces did not follow jungle warfare norms, and questions were also raised about the level of coordination between the State police and the Central forces.
Responding to these charges, Vishwa Ranjan said: “All the norms were followed, but in a war like this it is possible that the platoon could have misread the situation. In every war, such incidents and casualties do happen, but it is completely wrong to say that there was no coordination. If there was no coordination, how would one fight? Say, an offensive proposal is rejected by one of the parties. In such a case, carrying on an operation is extremely difficult. We are not willing to give away our lives. What dictates movement in the jungle is manoeuvres and counter-manoeuvres by the parties. The naxalites have graduated to structured military exercises and are not employing primitive guerilla tactics anymore.”
He said even in a joint operation, the State police were at the head and the Central forces only aided them.While in Dantewada it is an all-out offensive, the Centre’s security strategy of “clear, hold and build” is in operation only in northwest Kanker and south west Rajnandgaon. Under this strategy, police battalions take control of the periphery and the military the inner areas. Once an area is cleared of naxalites, the state steps in to initiate development activities. The police chief said it was too early to talk about results as the forces were deployed in Kanker and Rajnandgaon only in January.Lack of coordination
On Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s statement that Operation Green Hunt was a media construct, he said the Home Minister was right as Green Hunt was a stand-alone, multilayered operation of Chhattisgarh State and included combat methods, identification of ambush points and training camps and the initiation of jana jagran (public awareness) programmes.
However, the sense of lack of coordination runs deep in Dantewada. Just after the April 6 incident, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Anti-Naxal Operations) S.R.P. Kalluri reportedly blamed Dantewada Superintendent of Police Amresh Mishra’s lack of planning for the death of so many CRPF men. Later, he denied making such a statement.
The differences between the two senior police officers are seemingly common knowledge, so much so that sub-inspectors at the local police stations are seen as aligned with either of them. The differences between the State police officers and the DIG of the CRPF are also common knowledge. In what was seen as a rap on the knuckles for the police, the State’s Home Minister, Nanki Ram Kanwar, agreed at a press conference that the intelligence system of the Maoists was better than that of the State security agencies.
Asked about the combative ability of the security forces, DGP Vishwa Ranjan said: “We need more policemen. But to train all of them we need enough infrastructure, such as training camps. That will take a long time and cannot happen overnight.” He said the Jungle Warfare College at Kanker had trained 12,000 men. But for 3,000 of them, who were from other States, the rest had been deployed in Chhattisgarh, he said. But he was not sure whether all of them were in high-sensitivity areas.
Since Kanker and Rajnandgaon had been swamped with more forces, along with Border Security Force personnel, as part of the “clear, hold and build” strategy, the new recruits were more likely to be stationed there. He said passing the buck happened everywhere and not just in areas with naxal presence, but in a combat operation, he added, that did not mean there was a lack of coordination.Maoists urge halt
On their part the Maoists threatened to carry on their war against the security forces if the state did not heed their appeal for an immediate stop to Operation Green Hunt and the additional deployment of security forces.
Human rights activists have also protested against the operation, which, they say, has led to an increase in the atrocities in villages inhabited by tribal people, besides instances of indiscriminate firing and false encounters. The Maoists claim that of the 315 people killed in police encounters, only five were CPI (Maoist) cadre.Exploitation
Manish Kunjam, a two-time MLA of the Communist Party of India (CPI), contexualises this violence:
“The area is mostly dominated by people of the Gondi Koya tribes, who rely on forest produce to sustain their livelihood. They sell mahua [a local fruit mostly processed to make liquor], tendu patta [a leaf from which bidis are made] and imli [tamarind] in the market. Historically, these people were exploited by Forest Department officials, forced into unpaid labour, and beaten up at the first sign of resistance. I am a witness to such kind of gruesome exploitation.
“They are very attached to their land, but because those lands came under the control of the state after Independence, the tribal people were suddenly seen as encroachers. This led to a great mess, the brunt of which the people are bearing even today. To add to this, the lands of these people were given away to private miners and local contractors. The naxalites fought against this injustice and became the leaders of the tribes here.
“In a phase where all the mainstream Left parties were concentrating only on workers’ issues and parties such as the Congress and the Jana Sangh [later on, the Bharatiya Janata Party] were party to the exploitation of tribal people in Bastar, the naxalites were the only force that spoke up for them and filled that political vacuum.”
He said even today the government did not have a plan to address the real livelihood issues of the tribal people. The implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006, which should have given forest-dwellers their historical right to land, was in disarray, he added. “There was a show of distribution of pattas [land ownership documents] in the beginning but even that is not happening now.”
He pointed to the two major memorandums of understanding (MoUs) that have been signed with the Tatas and Essar Steel, which will permit them to extract minerals here. He said: “The Bastar region has an abundance of minerals such as bauxite, tin and dolomite. Apart from this, it is also rich in timber. Instead of empowering the tribal people and giving them their right to these resources, the government is interested in shipping the resources out. In a place like Bastar, which has seen no development since Independence, a reaction against the state’s forces is bound to happen. The naxalites are just the one force but the problems of the tribal people are real. In this spree of violence, however, the naxalites do not realise that the jawans they killed were also poor people working for a livelihood and not class enemies as such. They only assist the class enemies bound by their duty.”
He felt that the increased deployment of security forces to counter the naxalites was a disguised attempt to enter those villages where Salwa Judum (an anti-Maoist vigilante group, meaning people’s peace movement in the local Gondi language) could not enter. “Every day, we see false encounters and physical torture by the police. In such a case, a villager has no choice but to retaliate either with the Maoists or alone.”Salwa Judum
Salwa Judum, launched in 2005 with the support of the state and since called off, became infamous as it resulted in around 60,000 people of the area fleeing and taking shelter in 22 camps. The special police officers (SPOs) of Salwa Judum, who were recruited from among the tribal people, were accused of rape, torture and loot. More than 80 per cent of the people in the camps have returned to their villages but the impact of Salwa Judum is still being felt.
“Around 10,000 people who were proactive in the anti-naxalite operations, despite wanting to return to their villages, cannot do so because of the atrocities they committed in the past few years. They fear that the people might not forgive them. Because of this, the tribal people are divided into two distinct groups: those who were SPOs and those who support the Maoists,” said Anil Mishra, a local journalist.
The Salwa Judum case in the Supreme Court has dragged on, apparently because of the Chhattisgarh government’s procrastination. In this case (Nandini Sundar and others vs the State of Chhattisgarh; writ petition (Civil) No. 250 of 2007), as requested by the Supreme Court the petitioners submitted a rehabilitation plan for the victims. “The initiation of Salwa Judum in 2005, supported by the security forces, led to a spiral of violence. By official accounts, both naxalite violence and recruitment also increased many fold in response. Since 2009, there has been fresh escalation of violence due to Operation Green Hunt. Innocent Adivasi villagers have begun fleeing again in large numbers as killings and lootings by security forces and SPOs, who form the backbone of the Salwa Judum, as well as naxalite violence, have escalated as a result of renewed fighting…. The government of Chhattisgarh is actively keeping out independent observers from visiting, including the petitioners. Hence, an independent high level monitoring committee and free access for media, academics and others is essential to ensure that the rehabilitation is implemented,” the petition said. The State government has not responded on the feasibility of a rehabilitation plan; it sought more time whenever the case came up for hearing. The government admitted last year to the police excesses and said it was ready to rehabilitate the victims.“Give people control”
The District Magistrate of Dantewada, Reena Kangale, agrees that the tribal people are in distress and need the active support of the state. “The tribal population has a deep and ingrained sense of injustice here. What they need is state support to their traditional livelihood and not roads and electricity or for that matter education. They ask for food, medical care and drinking water. The definition of development needs a relook in the context of Bastar. The local elites should be prevented from exploiting the tribal people. We are trying to address their untouched issues.”
But the naxalite presence has made at least 108 villages in 23 panchayats inaccessible, according to her. She explained: “No contractor is willing to take up development projects in these areas. A health worker or a teacher who is not from the area refuses to go into the jungle. We need to recruit people who are from these areas. However, we realise that indiscriminate mainstreaming of Adivasis will only result in the situation worsening. My experience shows that projects like the MGNREGS [Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme] or the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana or the Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyaan are seen as alien in these parts of the country. We need to give the people here some control as we do in the Integrated Tribal Development Project under the Tribal Sub Plan where funds go through the gram sabhas.”
The Planning Commission’s expert group has made recommendations on these lines to tackle the growing naxalite problem in the region. It says the state must provide an impregnable protective shield to ensure that the civil rights of Adivasis are never violated. This requires, among other things, effective implementation of protective legislation and other laws, such as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, which secures for Adivasis their rights on forest land and forest dwelling.
It also talks of a protective market for Adivasis and updated land records. It says that indiscriminate land acquisition should be stopped. Basic social services must be provided to all – such as universal full immunisation of children, provision of anganwadis, and nutrition care for all pregnant women and nursing mothers.
In order to do all of the above, the report said in conclusion, the government must withdraw support to Salwa Judum and immediately stop herding Adivasis into makeshift camps with dismal living conditions.
However, the State government is far from implementing these recommendations. Development activities in the Adivasi areas still mean construction of roads and electrification of villages, as one finds in villages on either side of National Highway 43, which connects Bastar and Raipur, the State capital.
Critics say that the government is more than happy to concentrate on these limited activities utilising the Rs.500 crore it has got for development works and cite reasons such as naxalite opposition for not doing more, and finally siphon off the money.
Even the road-building and electrification are incomplete. “If you go just 2 km away from the highway, even such roads cannot be seen. Inaccessibility is always cited as a reason, whereas even in areas that are accessible hardly any development is happening,” Anil Mishra said.
Reena Kangale, however, said a development subgroup had been formed, headed by a Divisional Commissioner in Dantewada. This unified command will have all the five district magistrates of Bastar, who will work closely with all the nine welfare departments, including education, water, roads and food security, to carry on integrated welfare schemes. This command will be assisted by all the superintendents of police as advisers and will include the Deputy Inspector General of the CRPF as a member.
However, unless the region was cleared of naxalites it would be difficult to carry on any projects, said Reena Kangale. An administrative impediment she cited is important: she said the peculiar case of the whole of Bastar, and Dantewada in particular, was that the languages of the administrative class and the Adivasis were different (the Adivasis speak Gondi and Halbi). This made the task of administration difficult.
Chhattisgarh has started projects called Gram Suraj Yojana (GSY) and Gram Sampark Yojana, where an official team redresses the grievances of people on the spot at jan sunwais (people’s hearings). Chief Minister Raman Singh started the GSY on April 12 from Dantewada in order to emphasise its importance in the naxalite-affected regions. However, sustainability of such a project can be questioned as it does not address the structural failure of the system in this region.
Government insensitivity and the failure of the administrative mechanism since Independence have seen Maoists occupy political space over the past 20 years and gain the support of the tribal population. Today, Bastar, with the highest presence of Maoists in the country, is practically a war zone. The government is at a political crossroads as far as the Maoist problem is concerned: it sometimes speaks in terms of an all-out offensive and at other times about addressing developmental issues.
However, in this war what remain unaddressed are the real problems the tribal people face. Manish Kunjam described the situation best: “The Maoists are just cashing in on tribal grievances and giving the violence a political direction. Even if the state manages to eradicate the naxalites, the violence will not stop if tribal issues are not addressed.”


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And again the question: What comes next? Damn it!
I just finished two productions, one was ESCAPE FROM THE MADHOUSE and the other one was the cover song IN THE AIR TONIGHT. I’ve never done lots of covers. Well, I played some Tom Waits songs live but never recorded them. I played them just for the moment.
Indeed IN THE AIR TONIGHT was the 3rd cover I produced in my Life. The others are I WANT TO BE THE BOY TO WARM YOUR MOTHER’S HEART by The White Stripes and SEVEN by David Bowie.
Here is a YouTube Playlist with my cover songs.
Being A Musician
The White Stripes song is doing well, once in while someone in Puebla City (Mexico) or Noorderwijk (Belgium) is listening.
That makes me happy every single time. But the Bowie song remains unnoticed somehow. You never know why.
IN THE AIR TONIGHT is only released on YouTube so far and is not doing good. The recording was pretty painful, too, for I had to play the bottleneck guitar with a discus injury at my left wrist that still needs surgical intervention.
I know the song is sooooo long for nowadays and I played it even slower than the original Phil Collins version from 1980.
You can DOWNLOAD the song directly from the creator for your own music collection. Awesome!
The Creative Process
And the video! You must watch this goddamn zeppelin all the time. But I tell you what: I did the song just because of the zeppelin.
I first shot the video, randomly, during a family outing. And then came the idea. I don’t know why. I captured the idea and like David (Lynch) said,
I should stay true to my idea. Yes, I did, David. And now IN THE AIR TONIGHT is a Blues with Gospel & Soul influences, I really love.
But I digress … The question was: What comes next?
Next week on THE MONKEY TELEGRAM.
So, that’s it for this time, folks!
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The long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but when she falls in love with a bandit who was passing by she must venture into the outside world for the first time to find him.
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