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General Education and Advocacy Resources
The Harford Center has a zero tolerance policy on abuse. If you suspect abuse, please immediately notify Bianca Ingram at 410-939-1420 or by email here.
Resources for Specific Disabilities
Cerebral Palsy Group is an online resource for anyone who has been affected by cerebral palsy, birth injuries, or brain injuries.
Cerebral Palsy Guidance offers invaluable information about treatment, living with CP, and accessing financial resources.


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Issue: Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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S.1538 - Fair Elections Now ActSponsor introductory remarks on measure Jun 11, 2015 5 Views
A bill to reform the financing of Senate elections, and for other purposes.
S.1260 - Sunshine in Sponsorship Identification ActRead twice and referred May 07, 2015 2 Views
A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to revise and update its sponsorship identification rules applicable to commercial and ...
S.1182Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Jun 25, 2015 5 Views
A bill to exempt application of JSA attribution rule in case of existing agreements.
On Passage: H R 4213 Tax Extenders Act of 2009
H.R. 4213: Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 Key Vote in Taxation and 1 others Dec 09, 2009 Ayes 241 Nays 181
H.R.5728 - STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014Became Public Law No: 113-200 Dec 04, 2014 (113th congress) 9 Views
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 and title 17, United States Code, to extend expiring provisions relating to the retransmission of sign...
S.2583 - Enhance Labeling, Accessing, and Branding of Electronic Licenses Act of 2014By Senator Rockefeller from Committee Dec 01, 2014 (113th congress) 4 Views
A bill to promote the non-exclusive use of electronic labeling for devices licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.
OpenCongress syndication panels allow you to display information about bills and issue areas on your own website or blog. First, select which bill or issue you want to track, then customize the appearance of the panel, and finally paste a simple chunk of HTML into your site. Now your community will have an easy, up-to-date way to track the status of important bills and issues in Congress.

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Mercedes has put in place a series of countermeasures for its race specification Formula 1 engine, Motorsport.com has learned, after getting to the bottom of the problems it encountered in testing.
The German manufacturer was hit by a number of reliability issues over the two weeks of running at Barcelona last month, with both its works team and Williams requiring engine changes.
World champion Lewis Hamilton admitted at the end of the test that the team was not particularly comfortable with the situation it found itself in.
“Is it a concern? Yeah. For sure,” he said about the engine dramas. “Normally in the pre-season we have much more confidence in the reliability, so it has not been perfect.”
Mercedes flew its troubled power units back to its Brixworth, UK engine headquarters for a detailed analysis, and the work since then has allowed its engineers to fully understand what happened.
The problems in the first week, which led to Mercedes changing engines ahead of the final day of running, were caused by cooling problems with the MGU-H. By the second test, tweaks had been made to help overcome the issue and there was no repeat of that specific problem.
The trouble at the second test was caused by two bearing failures, and Mercedes has applied countermeasures for its spec-one engine that will be used from this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix.
Despite the testing problems, Mercedes has not had to roll back on the specification of engine it will use, and it is confident that it will not have to limit how aggressive it can be with engine modes in a bid to ensure reliability.
Speaking ahead of the first race, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said: “We’re glad that we encountered these issues in testing rather than at a race weekend as we could work on fixing them without any penalties.”
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- We introduced you to SNL’s new cast member Kate McKinnon.
- We guided you through the vast world of Los Angeles comedy.
- Ron Burgundy promised us all that Anchorman 2 is coming.
- We heard from Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott about their hockey comedy Goon.
- We found the stunning connections between Hamlet and the Bluths.
- Bring your own holo-yarmulke to our future kid’s bar-mitzvah, please.
- We spoke to Geoffrey Darby, the co-creator of You Can’t Do That on Television.
- The Everything Is Terrible road trip nears its end.
- We mounted a defense of the films of Adam Sandler.
- We reviewed Comedian, the Seinfeld-centered comedy doc.
- We studied the crazy gem of the seventies known as The Gong Show.
- We argued that comedy evolves more than you might think.
- Jess Day and Abed Nadir played a friendly, wordy game of Words With Friends.
- Don’t make our write-up of How to Make a Situation About You about you.
- We caught up with Jim’s Dad in time for American Reunion.
- We unearthed the lost roles of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
- We remembered Joan Cusack’s time on SNL.
- We celebrated April Fool’s Day early with The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.
- We turned the DVD commentary on for “Corn Snake.”
And finally, here are your Top Five Web Comedy Videos of the Week:
Ted & Gracie: The Surprise
Inside the Actor’s Studio Apartment: Ali Farahnakian
The Secret Gay Agenda Revealed
Seven Minutes in Heaven With Jon Hamm

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Jake CourlangBerk Recital Hall
Bass principal Jake Courlang presents his senior recital.
Izzy Marcil / Gabby MichelleGeorges Island
Izzy Marcil is a folk-pop singer-songwriter who empowers others by weaving spirituality and consciousness into storytelling. Gabby Michelle is a singer-songwriter, recognized for her lyric-centered songs and unique vocals.
Emilio Jose MendezDorchester Heights Concert Series
A versatile composer and arranger, Puerto Rican performer Emilio Jose Mendez performs on piano.
Mayah DysonHarvard Longwood Campus
Singer-songwriter Mayah Dyson is also an actress, dancer, and model.
Abby CareyBoston Public Library
Abby Carey is a 20-year-old singer-songwriter from North Attleboro, Massachusetts, whose influences range from Bruce Springsteen to the 1975.
Lior TzemachSummer Street
Since he started playing the guitar at the age of 11, Lior Tzemach has had a unique perspective on music and art and the deep feeling of self-discovery through them.
Han Beyli ProjectBoston Public Market
Born and raised in Ukraine and heavily influenced by his Azerbaijani heritage, Han Beyli's eclectic background and influences have merged to create a listening experience that is one of a kind.
Ricky PeñaGreenway Boston
Ricardo Peña is an Ecuadorian American performer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Brianna NelsonB3 Restaurant
Brianna Nelson is a singer-songwriter who has been performing since 2012.
Colescott RubinCastle Island
Jazz and blues have been Colescott Rubin's passions from an early age.

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Rod Dibble, bar pianist at the Alley in Oakland, dies
Rod Dibble, the hands at the keys of one of the last piano bars in Oakland, has died, ending a half-century run at the Alley, a dimly lit dive on Grand Avenue.
“I’ll never retire,” Dibble told The Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub in a 2011 interview. “I’ll be very happy to die right behind this piano here.” He was good for his word right up until he fell and broke his hip two years ago. After that he could no longer maneuver his way through the bar and behind the piano.
He made a determined comeback this year, and the regulars rejoiced, packing the bar. For two hours, he played and everybody sang along to the favorites like “The Oakland Song.” But he knocked off earlier than usual and was never able to return.
Dibble died Monday of heart failure in his sleep at his Berkeley home at 85. His death was announced on the Alley’s Facebook page.
“He kept The Alley, as well as the Great American Songbook, alive by playing night-after-night, song-after-song, with singer-after-singer for the better part of 50 plus years,” read the post by Bryan Seet, one of two pianists who have taken over Dibble’s workload, along with a guitarist. “He kept The Alley going and virtually unchanged throughout the decades keeping its unique character and grit intact.”
Dibble was a protector of that character and proud that he did not stoop to trendy requests. He refused, for instance, to play Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” or anything else by Joel or anyone else who would be associated with modern rock. Or much of anything recorded after the 1930s.
“I always lay out the ground rules: If you want to play in my backyard, you sing my songs,” Dibble told Hartlaub during a break between “Fly Me to the Moon” and the 1936 jazz standard “Caravan.” “As the years go by, the younger crowd doesn’t know the older tunes. But they come in and they listen and they learn them. Cole Porter and Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael ...”
The Alley is a small joint with red lighting just bright enough to make out the names on all the business cards tacked to the walls. Hartlaub counted 12 seats at the U-shaped piano bar, and Dibble told him he first took his seat there in 1960.
He accepted requests and knew more than 4,000 songs, singing along in a rasp of a voice. When one of the regulars would nail the lead vocal, he rang a cowbell in appreciation.
Rodney Merritt Dibble was born and raised in Berkeley and learned to play piano when he was 6, in 1938.
“My uncle was in vaudeville,” he said. “My mother toured with them and taught me all these great old tunes. She’d sing around the house, and then I’d pick them out on the piano.”
A father of two and grandfather of five, Dibble lived in downtown Berkeley, just six blocks from where he grew up, with his fifth wife, Linda McCormick.
For decades he worked Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. But after heart surgery, he cut back to weekends a few years ago. His hobby was walking, up to 10 miles a day. His hobby was not the Internet or social media.
“I don’t even know how to use a cell phone,” he told Hartlaub, laughing. “I wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer. I’m a dinosaur and proud of it.”
He learned at least one new song every week, and after working at the Alley for 50 years, he told Hartlaub he could see himself playing for another 20 years, “at least.”
“He was sort of the last of his kind. Every week he would come up with an old song that I had never heard before, and I know a lot of songs,” said Paul Rose of San Francisco, who went twice a week for 35 years, even when it meant crossing the bay to sing “If I Only Had a Brain,” from “The Wizard of Oz.” “Over the years, we really got to know each other very well.”
When Dibble realized he would never make it back to the Alley, he brought the Alley to him. Six months ago, a dozen of the regulars were invited to Dibble’s home for one last party. He knew everybody’s song, and when he sat at his piano and started tinkling out the introduction, he expected the singer to pick up on cue. If he or she didn’t, he’d point to that person and command “sing.”
This went on for four hours until he got too tired to play. That was it for Dibble at the piano bar, but not for Dibble at the piano. Every morning he would sit down and play while Linda would sing, right up until a week before his death.
Survivors include his wife, Linda McCormick, of Berkeley; and son, Andrew Dibble, and daughter, Molly Dibble, both of Bonney Lake, Wash. A memorial at the Alley is pending.


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By Ali Hassnain
Pakistanis know little about a small piece of heaven in our backyard: the Deosai Plains. It’s a national park these days. What even less people know about is the military importance of the area. China was a no go area like North Korea in the 50s and 60s. Before the Sino Soviet split and even after that, the US was desperate to contain China or even bring it in its sphere of influence. Rumour has it that US asked President Ayub of Pakistan for a military base. Deosai Plains would have been a very effective outpost against China back then. Thankfully under a great visionary leader, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, Pakistan declined. It’s an area where a military base can be built in the very difficult terrain of Kashmir.
India has a small air base in Leh. We, on the time of our choosing, can build an airbase which would dent the Indian doctrine on Kashmir badly. It is perfect for spying and a great potential asset with places to build natural bunkers for command and control. In case of a limited war we can cut the Manali Leh highway which originates from the very difficult terrain of Himachal Pradesh. It is one of the most difficult roads in the world. If we decide to block their other highway at Kargil again, in war time we can block it with the help of drone or helicopters. Their only road to Kashmir besides Manali-Leh road is already in the range of our long range artillery at many places. A bunch of well-placed Special Forces units can do wonders there. Even well placed long range artillery might be able to block it. The link is very fragile. That road is already barely functioning for six months under very difficult circumstances and is the only other road to Kashmir other than the highway that passes from Akhnur. The whole plan of Operation Grand Slam in 1965 was to cut off India from Kashmir by capturing it. India ended up pressing the all-out panic button and invaded Pakistan.
India has been working silently building infrastructure that can help in war. Railway in Kashmir is one example. They are planning a railway all the way from Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh) to Leh. The project is “proposed” at this stage and we can beat them to the task. India’s BRO (Border Roads Organization) has been working on such projects since the Nehru government created it.
In future if we can connect Deosai Plains to Kashgar Railway and purpose-built roads, it can be a great military asset and would out-manoeuvre India in a subtle way. It would give us a much needed military edge in Kashmir. It can even be the decisive factor, all things considered. I hope and pray that our policy makers are working on it. In case of a border skirmish it can give us a defining edge and we can threaten Ladakh from there.
However we do need to protect the eco-system while building roads and railway for military purpose. Tourists who love nature can easily camp there. No need to build hotels or luxury resorts. Our FWO (Frontier Works Organization) is not sleeping either; in the 1960s to go to the valley of Naran, for example، was life threatening. Korean era Jeeps were used (still available). Now you can go by car to Chilas, Hunza and Gilgit from there very easily. We, as our US friends used to say in the 2000s, need to “do more”.

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Teen Charged With 2017 Tulsa Murder Arrested In Arkansas
TULSA, Oklahoma - Deputies arrested a teen at an Arkansas county jail who was wanted for a fatal September 2017 shooting in Tulsa and brought him back to Oklahoma on Thursday.
Robert Cowan, 18, was booked into the Tulsa County jail on charges including first-degree murder and shooting with intent to kill. He is being held without bond.
The fatal shooting of 38-year-old Walter Hogan happened September 15th, after an altercation outside a convenience store in the 900 block of East 36th Street North.
12/5/2017 Related Story: Tulsa Police Searching For Man Wanted In Fatal September Shooting
Cowan's arrest took place at the St. Francis County jail in Forrest City, Arkansas, which is about 100 miles east of Little Rock.
Police have already arrested Bryin Willis and Reunique Reed in connection with that shooting.

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It is one of many high profile appearances for the 5th graders from Staten Island. They have previously been invited to perform on the 2011 Oscars, were guests on Oprah’s show, and have earned accolades from most of the stars whose hits they’ve covered including Adele, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Gotye, and Lady Gaga. The kids covered the Gym Class Heroes track back in November, after which they earned their accolades from singer Travie McCoy.
Shout out and tons of love to The PS22 Chorus For their cover of THE FIGHTER, this video brought me to tears. bit.ly/rtZCfq GOOD JOB!
— Travie McCoy (@TravieMcCoy) December 20, 2011
Since they obviously knew the song already and were nearby, it was easy to incorporate the kids into this special live performance of the song. An official video for “The Fighter” will be released in May. The song also features, and was co-written by, Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic.
The kids of PS22 can also be seen in a new documentary, Once In A Lullaby, that debuts at the Tribecca Film Festival this year.
-Courtney E. Smith
See what’s up on JAMZ!
- Chad and Jill Chat With ‘This Is Us’ Star Chris Sullivan
- Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher Keep Their Kids Away From The Media
- Kelly Clarkson Addresses Body Image on New Track ‘Whole Lotta Woman’
- The “Me Too” Movement Rages On
- Bruno Mars At Amway Center
- Rihanna Likes Her Men Dressed in Black
- Kendrick Lamar Contrasts Donald Trump and Barack Obama
- What’s the Song in the New ‘Black Panther’ Trailer?
- ‘One Voice: Somos Live!’ Moments
- Watch Bruno Mars Perform ‘Just the Way You Are’ in Spanish

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A prominent group of Perth investors may be drawn into a legal stoush over the financially stricken development of a multi-million dollar Broome apartment resort.
They include prominent hospitality player Peter Prendiville and his brother, Michael, former Real Estate Institute of Western Australia president Stephen Seward and Broome International Airport chairman Michael Caplehorn and deputy chair Louis Sauzier.
That followed Supreme Court orders in March that Tropicana pay Rapley just over $1 million in retention monies it claims it is owed after the construction of the $85 million, 4.5-star Oaks Broome resort.
Rapley Wilkinson built the resort in two stages, with the first stage completed in July 2009.
The builder, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed building company Nomad Building Solutions, claims it has not received the payment and has threatened to pursue further legal action.
In a letter obtained by Business News and addressed to Tropicana’s directors, Rapley Wilkinson said it would continue to “vigorously explore options to recover the monies owed to it” and to “scrutinise the conduct of, and potential liability of, past and present directors in respect of Tropicana’s breach of conduct and the dissipation of retention monies”.
A ‘means’ inquiry was held at the beginning of June to determine whether Tropicana could repay its debt, with proceedings adjourned to a date yet to be determined.
At the inquiry, Tropicana directors admitted that the group had not sold any units in the resort for a number of years and flagged that it faced the possibility of foreclosure in the near future.
During those proceedings, prior to the bank’s intervention, counsel for Rapley Wilkinson also raised the issue of whether Tropicana was insolvent.
Nomad Building Solutions managing director Peter Hogan said the evidence provided by the directors at the inquiry had not been particularly helpful.
KordaMentha confirmed that 75 of the resort’s 174 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments had not been sold and were now being held in receivership.
The receivership of the developer is not believed to have directly affected the resort's operations, managed by Oaks Hotels & Resorts.
Oaks, which holds a portfolio of resorts across Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates, agreed in 2007 to pay Tropicana $15,996 ‘per key’ sold by the group and $3.15 million for an associated freehold area within the property, in a management letting rights transaction valued at up to $6.96 million.
Tropicana directors contacted by Business News declined to comment.

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Gatling Rifle for FO4
M54 Gatling Rifle
Screenshot by: MercenaryNox
Click the spoiler button to display the showcase videos available
Also, check out the user-made screenshots. They tend to look better than mine
This mod adds a new weapon to the game: the M54 Gatling Rifle. In essence, it is a rifle with a spinning barrel and high rate of fire.
Guaranteed to take that Deathclaw down. Yes, this weapon eats up all your bullets, yes the barrel gets hot.
Also, for additional, beter looking screenshots, check the user submitted screenshots.
They tend to look a lot better than the ones I made.
Base Damage : 30, or 18 if you choose the DamageReduce option
Fire rate : ~140
Affected by : Heavy Gunner, or Commanod, depending on which option you pick during the installation
Caliber : default 5mm, but you can mod it to shoot almost any bullet.
How to Aquire : Spawns on NPC’s or by the use of console commands
DOES THE BARREL GLOW :D?
Yes… yes it does.
Can you fix any of the animations?
Nope, nobody can at the moment = But hey, animations arn’t bad at all 🙂 just a small lil bit of clipping with the reload.
Known Issues (only minor issues so far)
There are two known and easy to ‘fix’ issues:
– Barrel starts to glow when you pull out your gun.
FIX: Pull out your weapon using the AIM button, fire a single round or switch to another weapon and switch back
– Effects don’t load properly when loading a game with the gun equipped.
FIX: Switch to another weapon and back
How to aquire?
Using the console:
Type : help gatling 4 weap
There should be an entry in the shape of XX00080E Gatling Rifle.
Type player.additem XX00080E
The gun is integrated in the game with the use of leveled lists.
The following leveled lists are affected:
LL_Minigun (the guns spawns 50% of the time instead of a minigun)
Does the gun have any modifictations?
Yes it does.
– 10 Receviers
– 4 Barrels
– 7 Sights
– 3 Barrel Jackets
– 2 Magazines
– 3 Stocks
– 5 Muzzles
This gun does not have any ‘hardenend’, ‘slightly more damage’, ‘even more slightly more damage’ kinda receivers.
The receviers manipulate the kind of ammo the guns fires.
Current available ammo types:
Surprise ammo 😀
Scopes include Combat Sights (see my other mod, See-Through-Scopes)
German Translation by CreatorX
Installation: Nexus Mod Manager
– Download the main file, and let NMM install the mod.
– During the installation-progress: pick the options you like the most
I assume you know where your Fallout 4 data folder is, and that you know how to make the game load additional plugins. If not, google for them.
– Download the mod.
Inside the mod are the following folders:
– FOMOD : You can ignore this folder completly, not relevant for a manual install.
– Main : Contains the needed meshes, textures and a single ESP. This is the basic mod, without modifications.
Copy the contents of the Main folder to your fallout 4 data folder. Next, activate the GatlingRifle plugin.
The following files require the Main folder to be extracted and the GatlingRifle esp to be active to function properly.
Some files (the patches) might also require other mods.
– NoGap : Contains meshes that eliminate the gap between the barrel and the grip.
Copy the contents of the NoGap folder to your Fallout 4 data folder to apply.
– NoGlow : Contains two folders, Normal and NoGap. Copy the contents of either folder to your Fallout 4 Data folder if you want to get rid
of any heat effects on the barrel. Pick normal for the normal grip and NoGap for the ‘NoGap’ variant grip.
– ESP :Contains customization/patch ESP. These ESP’s need to be loaded after GatlingRifle.esp and if that applies, their respective mod.
The following patches/options are available:
– GatlingRifle-AWKCR : AWKCR patch. Copy and activate this ESP if you want AWKCR compatibilty. Load this ESP after AWKCR.
– GatlingRifle-Commando : Makes the rifle use the Commando perk instead of the heavy gunner perk.
– GatlingRifle-Loads: Loads patch. Makes the rifle compatible with the LOADS mod. Requires the LOADS mod. Load this ESP after LOADS.
– GatlingRifle-Commando-Loads : Copy and activate this if you want both the Commando and LOADS patch.
– GatlingRifle-NoIdiotSavant : the ‘Surprise Receiver’ does not need Idiot Savant anymore to craft.
– GatlingRifle-DamageReduce : the rifle does less damage.
– GatlingRifle-DamageReduce-Loads : the rifle does less damage. Use INSTEAD if GatlingRifle-DamageReduce for LOADS compatability.
Other Mods I Made:[/size] [size=4] See-Through Scopes

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The slippages doubles to 5 percent because of the low loan offtake and moratorium of the top five private sector banks. The banks are HDFC bank, Axis bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and IndusInd bank. These banks together control one-fourth of the system and three fourth parts of the private banking space.
The slippages double to around 5 percent of these banks from 2.3 percent in the financial year 2019 and 2.7 percent in the financial year 2020. The slippages can be lowered to 4 percent if refinancing is challenging.
Since loan demands are less, banks are investing their excess liquidity in low yielding options like government bonds and top-rated corporate securities because of their higher credit chance discernment and broadening length spreads, even as deposit inflows have been vigorous.
There is growth in deposits for these banks from 18.5 in the financial year 2019 to 18.8 in the financial year 2020. But there is a decrease in the case of a loan from 19.1 to 15 percent this year. Through the capital market over the last six months. Reserve bank has injected Rs 1.7 lakh crore of liquid assets in the system.
A major increase in delinquent assets because of the troubles the economy is facing due to the GDP destruction, in the banking sector caused by covid19.
Banks have moved a lot of the excess liquidity into reverse repo where the rates have declined by 215 bps over the most recent one year, yielding 3.35 percent and with the cost of assets tumbling to 5-6 percent, this could bring about a negative impact.
Pre-provisioning working benefit or working cradles of these lenders to be around 80 bps lower than their consistent state pre-provisioning working benefit, which in FY20 was 4.9 percent which may reduce their capacity to withstand credit costs without capital disintegration.
At the point when the division was taking care of its business after the keep going six difficult years on the corporate side, despite the fact that retail, SME, and Agri advances were at that point showing up torment regions before the pandemic hit us all.

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Vaccination helps push protective antibodies into use which prevent odds of contracting the infection. However, since they aren’t a complete cure, or fully established to eliminate the virus and related risks, catching an infection can be a little more common than we thought.
Having said that, since vaccines are clinically tested and developed, the strengthened immunity granted by the vaccines have been established to cut down the risk of severe illness and mortality associated with the disease. Some vaccines could be deemed to be more protective than others, and be much more efficient in taming down these risks.
More so, experts have also asserted that with higher immunization coverage, vaccines will also pave the way for virulent strains to stop posing threats, or be less deadly than we know them to be.


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Role in the Series Edit
Rayman is Ingrid's best friend. He is also a great friend of Sonja. He helps Sonja in her adventures and everyone is confused of why he doesn't have any arms, legs and neck. Sonja's friends really got use to Rayman's limbless looks really fast.
Rayman's personality has changed subtly over the course of the games. In the original, he was a carefree guardian of the world.
The Great Escape showed more of his serious side, taking his duties as guardian seriously, but remaining kind and friendly to his friends and doing his best to help and defend his world. In M/Arena however, this part of his personality is replaced with a fierce competitive streak.
Hoodlum Havoc has him become slightly snarkier and more exasperated with Globox and Murphy's antics. He also has more pride, laughing and bragging when accomplishing a goal and beating all enemies in an an area. However, he has shown more of his ridiculous, humorous side in this game, shown in taunting the lums with funny faces. This personality carries over to Raving Rabbids, where he is calm and collected most of the time but acts idiotic to fool the Rabbids.
In Origins and Legends, Rayman becomes a fun-loving, rowdy and energetic child-like character, napping and beating up his friends with gusto while still being content to help others.
From Rayman 3 onwards, Rayman has shown himself to be lazy, yet serious about his work: Napping, eating and having fun with his friends, but knowing to kick himself into high gear when he needs to save the world


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One year ago tonight, my mother's grand adventure came to an end. I have learned a lot about myself in the past year, my strengths and my weaknesses. I have learned that no two people experience loss in the same way. The importance of taking time and taking care of yourself.
Get out and enjoy the adventure of your life, it will come to an end someday.
has it been one year already? you have lost much, dear. may continued healing help you in your journey.ReplyDelete
A lovely photo. Unfortunately time doesn't heal all wounds - but it does preserve precious memories and the love that we have endures forever.ReplyDelete
Savoring the adventure of life is our only salvation.
Yes we all go the same way in the end
Feelings around grief never change but how you deal with them does.ReplyDelete
Very nice post really ! I apperciate your blog Thanks for sharing,keep sharing more blogs.ReplyDelete
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Great deal of great information & this can be useful some or maybe the other way.
Keep updating your blog,anticipating to get more detailed contents.

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Stepping off the bricks in downtown Hays, Kansas and into the threshold of the renowned Gella’s Diner is what I picture walking into a time capsule to be like. Eyes greeted with beautiful exposed brick and archaic wood beams, nose simultaneously embraced with the combination of homemade brews and handmade fried steaks, I felt right at home.
Any stomach would be jealous of the array of goodness that Gella’s offers. There is a little something for everyone on their exclusive menu; from oddballs like dill pickle soup to simple comforts like the “Brewben” sandwich, your taste buds are in for a real treat. And that is not even including the option of made-on-site hops or their delightful cream soda to wash it all down.
My go-to fav at Gella’s is the tummy-rumbling Home Fried Steak, devised from marinated beef steak that is dipped into Gella’s signature breading and fried to perfection until crisp. The taste of the fried steak is hearty enough to stand on its own, but I always pair it with mashed potatoes smothered in their homemade gravy and a nice helping of French fried green beans. (My mouth is seriously watering right now writing this, ya’all.)
The home fried steak is the star of the show, but no show can go on without talking about these magnificent sides that perfectly compliment the steak! You will not find be disappointed by limply, tasteless mashed taters at Gella’s. I am unsure how their potatoes are made, but you can tell a bit of love goes into their creation. With just the right amount of lumps in all the right places, it tastes as if a grandmother made it special just for my order.
And the nice-sized portion of French fried green beans is even better than a any amount of regular French fries you find at comparable restaurants. Crispy and smothered in homemade batter, these fried beans are the perfect end to such a great meal, with an optional homemade Dijon sauce for dipping.
I pair this meal with one of Gella’s homemade brewskies or L.b. crafted crème sodas. There are an array of tastes that their on-site created beers, root beers and crème sodas will satisfy. The staff at Gella’s does not even blink at the request of getting a to-go cup full of your favorite drink (that is alcohol-free, of course.)
By the time I get through this entire meal (if I can without a to-go box) my stomach is not only full and satisfied, but my taste buds are beyond satisfied.
If you’re yearning for a break from driving, during your I-70 travels in Western Kansas, I highly recommend adventuring to the gorgeous downtown district in Hays – after your stomach is humbled with the homemade goodness at Gella’s, you can check out the shops, bask in a bit of history, and perhaps attend one of the many festivals Hays has throughout the year.
You can learn more about Gella’s by visiting their website at https://www.lbbrewing.com/.
If you want to add Hays, Kansas as a stop during your travels, you can check out what is happening at https://www.haysusa.com/.

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Naftogaz lacks plan on way out of gas crisis: Ukrainian president's special envoy
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Naftogaz does not yet have real plan on a way out of the gas crisis, Ukrainian President's Special Envoy for Energy Affairs Bogdan Sokolovski said.
"Unfortunately, the debts will rise until the end of the year which seriously concerns the [Ukrainian] president which constantly requires concrete actions," Sokolovski said Trend correspondent in Kiev.
He said Ukraine has the same gas supply as in case of USSR. "It is not a market economy when you buy gas at market prices and sell it at the State Plan prices."
"Our first task is to establish market relations in the gas sector. Yushchenko has spoken about it from the very beginning of his presidency. He constantly says there is no need to increase gas prices. No one says there is a need to do this. But this leads to lower revenues in the budget," Sokolovski said.

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When coronavirus began to spread rapidly across the globe in March, we at Inspectorio asked the same question as many others in our industry: what can we do to help?
As a SaaS company specializing in supply chain visibility and compliance, it soon became clear how we could best contribute to protecting lives from the pandemic: by offering our Rise platform for free.
Rise allows brands, retailers, vendors, and factories to remotely ensure the safety of workers in their partner facilities. We worked quickly to outfit the platform with COVID-specific capabilities and soon found, to our delight, that companies around the world were onboarding the software to protect workers in their supply chains.
Today we would like to take a look back over this initiative, why we decided on it, and most importantly, to honor and hear from those organizations that took part.
The threat to places of production
The decision to center this initiative around Rise stemmed from careful study of the virus’ behavior. In an open letter to the industry on April 8, Inspectorio CEO and Co-Founder Carlos Moncayo Castillo wrote, “Right now, the catastrophic impact of the virus is being felt in places where the storefronts are located. But soon it will reach places where the products are produced.”
This prediction has held. The virus, despite originating in China, soon began to proliferate in high-income countries like the United States, Spain, Italy, and France, where brick-and-mortar storefronts quickly closed to prevent transmission. Places of production, which tend to have fragile economies and weak healthcare systems, experienced a sudden evaporation of demand for products that resulted in factory closures and worker furloughs. Many also implemented strict lockdown measures at this time to help contain the virus.
In places like Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Cambodia, another type of crisis soon developed. While the lack of demand from high-income countries offered some degree of protection from COVID-19, it also meant a lack of income for millions of people.
Employees have had no choice but to return to work whenever the opportunity arises. High-income countries have battled through the thick of their first contagion waves. Periodic storefront reopenings have caused empty factories to come back to life, drawing millions of people back to work. Hence, while high-income countries have already passed their first peaks, countries of production will experience delayed outbreaks due simply to the economics of demand.
India has already experienced the effects of this delayed outbreak. Whereas the US reached 500+ daily deaths by March, India did not pass this threshold until July. The same pattern continues to threaten other places of production.
Why we chose Rise
The biggest concern for us was how brands, retailers and suppliers could protect both lives and livelihoods — that is, how they could reactivate their production chains without putting factory workers at risk.
The answer was to quickly and effectively disseminate health and safety guidelines to all factories and to closely monitor compliance with those guidelines. As our CEO, Carlos Moncayo, stated in his open letter, “Just as we are indirectly responsible for ensuring the social and environmental standards of our partner facilities, we are doubly responsible for ensuring that human beings are not risking a devastating outbreak to build our products. […] We must act now, and we must do it together as an industry.”
However, without insight into what was happening on the ground, and with suppliers and factories scattered across the globe, the challenge for brands and retailers was how to effectively deploy new health and safety guidelines, monitor compliance, and address non-compliance and areas to improve, all in a way that was fast and scalable.
The Inspectorio Rise platform was uniquely positioned to help organizations implement health and safety audits remotely and at scale. They can leverage real-time updates while monitoring COVID-19, issue automatic corrective action plans, leverage powerful supply chain analytics to mitigate the risk of further factory closures, and most importantly, protect lives. Because of this, we offered use of the Rise platform free of charge for any organization who wanted to take part.
To those companies that got involved
On behalf of Inspectorio, your colleagues, and the countless workers you have endeavored to keep safe: thank you. Like so many others, you identified the staggering human toll that could result from this virus and took action to ensure your partners stayed safe.
Organizations joined this initiative for a wide variety of reasons. According to Katrina Bryant, Founder of cut-and-sew garment manufacturer firm Purnaa, partnering with Inspectorio has meant that “employers, workers, and business partners all have peace of mind that production is being done safely and is not putting workers at risk.” She writes that “we are equipping workers with needed jobs and salaries to survive in a time when many are going unemployed.” Several months after adopting the our digital platform, Purnaa reports seeing a 30% improvement in safety score and has kept their staff and company safe and will continue to do so in the long term. Bryant also notes that Inspectorio Academy helped the company prepare to respond to COVID-19 by showing them “how to implement the safety rules — particularly if any employees are COVID-19 positive — how we can minimize the risk that it would transmit to others on the team.”
The Inspectorio Rise Resource Center, Academy courses, and library of COVID-19 guidelines has helped Interloop Limited, the Pakistan-based garment manufacturer, implement health initiatives across their many factories. “The Rise platform has enabled all plants to work on the health and safety readiness programs for COVID-19,” said a spokesperson, “by monitoring the procedures and activities, and consequently, taking corrective actions for continuous improvement in real-time.”
When Pakistan appeared to be poised on the edge of a COVID-19 outbreak, Interloop used Rise to take a “centralized view of health and safety assessments” within their factories. Rise’s real-time COVID-19 updates allowed them to take proactive measures “to safeguard the health and safety of our people, across all plants.” Rise’s “smooth and efficient connectivity across all operational networks” has helped Interloop manage their operational risk during this unprecedented time.
Similarly, Barcelona-based fashion firm Mango onboarded Rise to “verify that all the necessary security measures are applied to protect the health of workers,” according to La Vanguardia. They used the platform to collect and analyze audit data across their workforce of around 15,000, advising their suppliers on how to correct problems and avoid outbreaks.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) took early action by using Rise to bring safety protocols to their domestic facility members. This has helped workers “get back to work efficiently and safely,” and has nurtured a higher level of trust among workers and clients alike.
Hannah Badminton, Senior Account Manager of SupplyCompass, writes that Inspectorio Rise’s self-inspections capabilities make factories “part of the process rather than having to shoulder the costs of audits.” These made it possible to ensure health and safety protocols across their entire supply chain, according to Textile Value Chain. Badminton also notes that having full visibility over each factory’s health and safety programs “allowed us to share accurate real-time information,” which is “much easier for brands to understand than government regulations.”
Another organization has noted Inspectorio’s improvement of real-time operational risk management, from its modules and features to “automatically built and updated KPIs, ….reference standards and questionnaires, …[and the] flexibility to check these features from the cellphone or to edit them to further adapt them to the customer needs.”
The impact of the Rise COVID-19 initiative
This initiative has had far-reaching effects across the industry: Hundreds of Brands, Retailers and Suppliers have taken part, conducting thousands of COVID-19 Health and Safety assessments, at thousands of facilities. In the process, they have protected tens of thousands of workers and those workers’ greater communities.
As we enter the new normal post COVID-19, we hope an increasing number of organizations will onboard technology to protect lives and livelihoods across their supply chains. We believe that true partnership extends far beyond profits — if we have the ability to prevent catastrophe in places of production, it is imperative that we take every possible step to do so. With Inspectorio software, organizations can do this while simultaneously creating long-term efficiency and proactive resilience against future disruptions.


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Homeland Season 5 was shot entirely in Berlin. Shooting began in June 2015 and completed by the end of November 2015. 10 different directors, 138 days of shooting.
I was the 'A Camera Operator' for the duration of the shoot and was also given the responsibility as 'Additional Cinematographer' for the majority of all the 'additional' shooting days. From Episode 4 onwards, each Episode had at least 1 (if not more) so called 'Double-Up Days', where the 'Double-Up Unit' would work parallel to the 'Main Unit'.
The selected clips are a selection of those scenes where I was working (as ‘Additional Cinematographer’) with one director whilst main unit were working parallel with either the Director from the current episode or with the Director from the following episode.
In some cases, the scenes where I was responsible as the 'Additional Cinematographer', have been intercut with scenes from the main unit where David Klein ASC (series Director of Photography) were shooting parallel, usually in another part of Berlin completely. In such cases, I have labeled these clips (in orange) and placed a title on the shots identifying the scenes for which I was responsible.


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The thriller series World On Fire has been running effectively on the PBS channel. The first arrival of the series with seven exciting episodes came for the fans on the PBS direct in 2019 in the United Kingdom. The series first arrived in the United States not long ago. The fanatics of the World On Fire are enthusiastically holding on for the next season.
Release Date For Season 2
After the accomplishment of the first arrival of the series, The streaming program BBC has restored the thriller for the next season. The system has not declared the arrival date of the next season.
Because of the vulnerability around the world, it is hard to decide when the creation chip away at the next season of the series will start. The enthusiasts of the war show series should trust that the next season will arrive.
What Could Happen In Season 2
The upcoming season will explain the riddles of the first season. Lois will meet Kaisa, and their gathering will prompt the aftermath. The season will start in the midst of the barrage in the Northwest of England. North Africa has transformed into a combat area. The watchers of the World On Fire will become acquainted with progressively about the family ancestry of the Webster’s.
Toward the start of the series, Nancy will withdraw from Berlin. As the season will continue, the watchers will become more acquainted with progressively about Nancy. For a concise period, Nancy will remain in the Soviet Union. Lois is as yet hitched to Vernon and lives in a cold marriage.
The Storyline Of The Series
The thriller series takes the watchers to when the second World War was going on the planet. It follows the lives of five conventional individuals living in various parts of the world. These individuals live in Poland, France, Britain, Germany, and the United States. All through the show, the series changes starting with one nation then onto the next.


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** Back length about 8 to 10 inches
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This study was designed to investigate treatment of postoperative pulmonary hypertension by
iloprost inhalation in children with congenital heart defects. It was a controlled
single-blind randomized multi-center prospective study in order to explore the efficacy of
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A group of pregnant were protesting outside St Helier's Hopsital in Carshalton today, over plans to cut the hospital's maternity unit.
They are furious about the fact they may have to give birth at either Croydon University Hospital or St George's Hospital in Tooting.
More top news
London Ambulance Service has more paramedic job vacancies than anywhere else in England.
Hundreds of people march for more affordable homes and control private rents in London.
Police proposals suggest that all frontline police officers should have the option of arming themselves with Tasers.


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It seems like a lot of people aren’t aware of Crystal’s troubled production. They assume that it has the same budget, sponsoring, and support that the 90s anime did. On the posts where I’ve elaborated that Crystal is an ONA (original net animation) that has a much lower budget as a consequence of not airing on TV (depriving it of sponsors), many people usually express their surprise, saying that they had no idea what the real situation was.
A lot of people are harsh towards Crystal because they think the animators have the means to make higher-quality animation but just choose not to. In reality, the animators are working on a very tight budget and need to cut corners and save money whenever they can. Many people are also unaware of the common practice in the animation industry where initial animation is cleaned up, edited, and sometimes even entirely redrawn in the BD/DVD releases. In fact, we’ve already seen some improvements in animation between the episodes and the Moon Pride video. The animation we see when we watch a new episode isn’t necessarily the final product; we should expect lots of touch-ups.
I really wish this information would become more widely known!
Totally useful info. I’m still not digging the style, per se, but I am REALLY enjoying all the awesome women being awesome, and knowing the animation is bad because of lack of funds, not will, helps.
The cop who shot a dog in front of its 6 year old owner was fired after outrage from the community and a “Justice for Apollo” campaign.
The cop who shot an unarmed black teen is on paid leave and remains protected by his department. So far, days of outrage and protest have still not brought any justice to Mike Brown.
In America, in 2014, the life of a black man is valued less than that of a dog.
- Straight White Guys: It's not racist. The reason why most characters are straight white guys is it's a business. They just want to do what makes the most money. No one's being racist or sexist. It's just smart business.
- Straight White Guys: Having a Black Captain America or Pakistani Ms. Marvel or female Thor is PANDERING. All they're trying to do is get MONEY from you. It's just a marketing ploy! This is horrible!


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In a tough job market, many people will take whatever they can get, whether that means jobs where they are underemployed, or even unpaid internships. Internships are an excellent way to gain experience and get a foot in the door, but employers sometimes take advantage of workers desperate for that experience. Under the law, unpaid internships are allowed only if the interns are learning while on the job, and if the employer does not materially benefit from the work performed by the intern.
As with most things, the law strives to ensure that the employee/employer relationship is an equal give-and-take, and that the workers benefit from the relationship as much as the employer. An intern who is learning a new skill or business is gaining a direct benefit from an unpaid internship.
On the other hand, a slew of recent wage and hour lawsuits claim that companies have allegedly been wrongfully taking advantage of this practice. Hollywood, in particular, has long been known to have a system in which anyone who wants to work in the business must start as an unpaid intern. That includes anyone who wants to work for a television network, movie studio, or music label. Everyone has to start at the bottom, but when the bottom amounts to little more than indentured servitude, it’s time for the law to step in.
As the recent lawsuits show, the new hires are no longer content to perform work without pay, simply for the possibility of a job later on down the line. It seems that, as the job market declines, workers are less likely to tolerate unfairness from their employers.
One such lawsuit is a class action that was filed against NBCUniversal. The lawsuit claims that the studio allegdly illegally used unpaid interns to perform tasks for which the interns should have been paid, including fetching coffee, taking out the trash, and organizing calendars. These are tasks that do not require a particular set of skills and cannot constitute a learning experience for the employee.
The class action has been settled for $6.4 million, which will be distributed among thousands of unpaid interns who performed work for NBC, including those who worked on the studio’s famous “Saturday Night Live”.
Normally, when the courts rule in large lawsuits, such as the one against NBC, people look forward to (or prepare for) a change in the law, and often a change in business practices, but that is not always the case. Each lawsuit must be treated individually, and while judges refer to the rulings of other courts, ultimately, they have to make their own decisions, and make sure they are appropriate to each case.
The recent lawsuit is the largest one to hit Hollywood so far, but whether it will have any lasting effects in America’s entertainment industry has yet to be seen. Cheryl Orr, an attorney with Drinker Biddle & Reath, a national employment law practice, said that she “would not put too much stock in the ‘precedent’ created by” the NBCUniversal settlement. As they say, old habits, such as those alleged here, die hard. NBCUniversal denies the claims and admitted to no wrongdoing.
The Illinois overtime attorneys and Chicago FLSA attorneys at the Chicago Overtime Law Center are investigating unpaid overtime claims against Newspapers, Magazines, Media Companies, Hotels, Restaurants, Retail Stores and Chains, Banks and real-estate companies for misclassifying appraisers or loan officers as managers, erasing or altering time sheets or time records, pressuring workers not to report or record overtime, and otherwise failing to pay workers for overtime and other wages. If you are the victim this practice call us at (312) 869-4095 or contact us online.
The Chicago unpaid overtime lawyers at the Chicago Overtime Law Center have decades of experience fighting for wage earner’s rights. We have a team of Chicago unpaid overtime attorneys who focus on nationwide class action lawsuits and work out of Chicago and Oak Brook offices and prosecute claims for workers all over the Chicago area including Joliet and Waukegan. We protect unpaid workers who haven’t received overtime throughout the Chicago area including in DuPage, McHenry Kane and Cook Counties.
Our North Chicago and West Chicago overtime lawyers are intimately familiar with the issues that arise during wage claim litigation, and we know the laws that govern overtime cases well. Many employers misclassify employees as being exempt from overtime laws and pay workers salaries instead of hourly wages in order to avoid paying them overtime. Some employers mistakenly classify employees as exempt and others intentionally do so in order to circumvent the law. In either case, workers do not receive the wages they should, and a lawsuit may be the only way to recover their earned wages.
The Chicago Overtime Law Center is based in Chicago, and represents clients throughout the country including in Naperville and Aurora who have not been paid for the overtime hours that they worked. If you believe that you are owed overtime wages, contact one of our Chicago class action attorneys by phone at (312) 869-4095 or through our online form.


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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “This exquisite debut wrestles with gender, siblinghood, family, and what it means to be Muslim in America—all through the lens of love.”—Time
“Haunting . . . a knife-sharp story of self-discovery.”—People
Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour.
In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law
“A quirky, gruesome, utterly original feminist horror experience.” —The New York Times Book Review
#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today
Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick
A New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction
“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay
“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.
One of Vanity Fair's Books That Will Get You Through This Winter
"One of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory... A Certain Hunger has the voice of a hard-boiled detective novel, as if metaphor-happy Raymond Chandler handed the reins over to the sexed-up femme fatale and really let her fly. --The New York Times
Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours.
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY
Danez Smith is our president
One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here.
BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin—and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her—amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma.

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Dalvin Tomlinson has historically worn 94 throughout his career with the New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings. And now it looks like he will keep that number with the Cleveland Browns after signing a massive contract this offseason, as well as second-year defensive tackle Alex Wright has announced a number change on Instagram.
Previously wearing the number 94, Wright now makes the switch to 99 this season. The number 99 was occupied by Taven Bryan a year ago, who signed with the Indianapolis Colts this offseason.
Deshaun Watson bought linebacker Anthony Walker Jr. a Rolex watch for giving up the number four last year, so a fun question for Wright would be what Tomlinson surrendered to him for 94.


Director of Innovation Presents at LearnED
Director of Innovation for the RGS Family of Schools, John Jones, presented at the LearnED Liverpool conference today, sharing knowledge and good practice with Headteachers and Senior School Leaders on how our Digital Learning Programme (DLP) continues to make a positive impact in our schools and beyond.
The LearnED event is an educational technology conference, led by The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), in conjunction with the Department for Education (DfE) and aims to explore and support the effective use of technology in schools.
In his presentation, Mr Jones focused on ‘culture’ and its importance for successful deployment of technology. Mr Jones also joined an expert panel to discuss “EdTech Evolution: revisiting digital strategies” in front of a live audience.
He said: “I was thrilled to be asked to speak at the conference alongside other schools in the UK, who are leading the way using technology in education. It is an honour to be able to share the RGS story, and the impact technology has had. We have been able to combine great teaching, a strong culture of learning and innovation and a determination to achieve the best for the pupils during these challenging times.”
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Amor de Días (feat. Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele)
Debut Video for “Wild Winter Trees” off Street of the Love of Days
Duo Guest Edits this Week at Magnet Magazine
“Glimmers of folk-rock, bossa nova, lullaby, abstract psychedelia and chamber-pop in English or Spanish . . . Ms. Núñez-Fernández’ breathy voice is an enticement.” – New York Times
“the good vibes flow freely through this shimmering debut” – Blurt
” Full of truly lovely songs, beautiful arrangements, and wonderfully intimate and sweet
vocals” – All Music Guide
Spanish/UK duo Amor de Días, consisting of Alasdair MacLean, front man for The Clientele, and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of indie-pop duo Pipas, have debuted their brand new video for “Wild Winter Trees” available at Vimeo. The band just wrapped up a North American tour with Damon and Naomi in support of their debut album Street of the Love of Days, available now on Merge Records. This week the band has teamed up with MAGNET to be guest editors on the website. Click here to enjoy their bi-daily posts through out Sunday. One can check out their Magnet Q&A to learn more about the duo.
The video for “Wild Winter Trees” was directed by Mikhaël Hers. Mikhaël Hers has directed three short films, including Charell and Primrose Hill, official selections of the International Critic’s Week in 2006 and 2007 (Cannes), respectively. He featured a couple Clientele songs in a film called “Memory Lane,” his first feature-length, that was presented at the 2010 Locarno Film Festival. After the band saw the premiere they thought it only perfect for him to direct the video for this single. The images work as an analog to the lyrics of the song, but deepen and focus its ideas of innocence lost and time passing.


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If your last Reading Terminal trip was in 2014, note that Mezze - the Mediterranean stand pretty much in the middle of the action - is gone.The offerings include fresh produce, meats, poultry, seafood, and cheese stalls line the aisles along with baked goods, flowers, hand-made jewelry, pottery, crafts and unique eateries along with a large.Book now at 68 restaurants near Reading Terminal Market on OpenTable.
On the edge of Market East, Reading Terminal Market is a sprawling, slightly chaotic urban food paradise.It opened originally in 1893 under the elevated train shed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Philadelphia advocated to move public markets from the streets into indoor facilities for both safety and.
The market is situated in a complex of buildings formally known as the Reading Terminal Train Station, occupying the basement and ground floor of the building underneath the old train shed.Browse nearby garages and lots to compare prices, locations and amenities, including.The Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia is home to the best sandwich in America.
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia - A View On CitiesBeloved by locals and tourists alike, this historic indoor market features more than 80 vendors offering an astonishing variety of food, with some vendors operating in much the same way that they did when the market opened in 1892.
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I shared our stay at The Logan Hotel a couple of weeks ago and today will be covering Reading Terminal Market, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Rittenhouse Square, and a recipe for Strawberry White Chocolate Milkshakes.
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The Reading Terminal Market has served the greater Philadelphia region for over 120 years.This new, intimate monthly afterhours dinner series will highlight how the Market can provide everything that you need to make a chef caliber meal at home.
For a taste of local Philly produce, baked goods, coffee and more, head to Reading Terminal Market in the Market East District.Reading Terminal Market is located in Philadelphia, PA in Philadelphia county.
Best Food at Reading Terminal Market - ThrillistWorld-renowned as an enclosed public market, Reading Terminal Market is conveniently located in downtown Philadelphia.During the tour the chef will show you how to choose the best ingredients for your meal and where they.Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market found at 12th and Arch Streets in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Online Farmers Market ranked markets that have been longstanding in.A day at the Philly Comic Con and lunch at the Reading Terminal Market.Find out where to park near Reading Terminal Market and book a space.An 125-year-old Philly tradition, this famous indoor farmers market houses countless vendors that sell fresh, local produce, creative pastries, classic cheesesteaks and anything else you can think of.

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Hi! I'm Jim, a firearms expert here at Just Answer. There's a number of variations to a DDA 15B....are there any other letters after the 15B?
Do you have the original box?
I have listings for a 15B-BRP, CRP, DMRP, ERP, MRP, TRP and ORTHROS S. Do any of those sound familiar?
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My name is Philip - let me see if I can figure out what configuration you have...
OK - that should be the Model DDA-15B-ERP.
5.56 NATO cal., 16 in. HP profile barrel with black Nitride finish and DDA Tri-Comp tactical muzzle brake, 3D billet lower and A4 flat-top upper receiver, M4 feed ramp, Geissele ALG defense trigger, DDA 13 in. aluminum free float octagon HEX or KeyMod handguard, Magpul MBUS polymer flip-up sights, Magpul CTR 6-pos. buttstock, Magpul MOE rubberized pistol grip, hardcoat anodized finish in black or FDE, 7 lbs. 9 oz. Discontinued in 2015. Manufacturer based in Lake Zurich, Illinois and not in business after 2015.
In 90% to 95% condition is it worth from $495 to $600, NOT including the optic or case.
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Optics can be expensive, but I don't know what is on there. Magazines would be worth around $15 to $30 a piece, depending. The finish looks to be 90% to 95%. If it was a higher percentage, the value would go up to maybe $850.
It would be worth $1,275 without the scope and brand new/unfired. Just to give you a point of reference.
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DDA is now out of business and has been since 2015. They made good guns. They went under partly because their owner claimed to be a Marine, when he wasn't.


The City held a community forum on November 14th at Seaholm High School. Attendees learned about changes to the state's new lead and copper rules. The forum included representatives from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), South Oakland County Water Authority (SOCWA) and the Oakland County Health Division, along with City representatives. Download presentations and video footage (coming soon) from the forum at www.bhamgov.org/leadtesting.
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Securing the borders is an important task that the county needs to consider though it has not greatly dealt with the security problem facing the country. Texas borders Mexico a country that borders the United States. Mexico is associated with a lot of crimes that usually affects the people in Texas (Guerette & Clarke, 2005). The gangs from Mexico form groups in Texas that provide a hard time to the Texan government and its constituents. Therefore being on the border requires various measures to be executed to ensure security is maximized and that no more gangs gain entry into the country and further into the country. Various measures can help in handling border security and ensure that any leaks in the borders are dealt with to prevent any mishaps affect that may eventually affect the state.
Cross Country Involvement
The two countries and the Texan county should be greatly involved in various meetings that will help deal with various criminal gangs. Homeland Security should ensure that it call on the Mexican government and law enforcement agencies in Mexico to help them deal with the increasing crime rate in Texas (Longmire, M & Longmire, S., 2008). The cooperation will help the government identify the various tactics that the criminals use and help homeland security to be more effective in finding criminal gangs in Texas. Such criminal groupings eventual move to other states posing problems eventually to the whole country and, therefore, dealing with the root of the problem.
Increasing of Security Checks and Border Patrols
Increasing the workforce at the border is important for the safeguarding of the border. The main issue in increasing security is to ensure that no one accesses Texas illegally especially focusing on criminals from Mexico who are operating in Texas to a small extent. Since Texas County borders, Mexico security should be beefed when compared to other states. The increasing criminal activity associated with the gangs affects the security of Texas, and the killings paint a negative picture on the security agencies. Texas as a county has not much concern for the border about the large numbers of gangs in the county who are a security risk to the constituents of Texas. The ports into Texas are the entry points that form the border points bordering Mexico. Entry points are through land and air.
The legislation is needed in place to support the inclusion of more police officers on the border. This will help in ensuring that the border is secure especially by creating legislation that increases police on the border and helps to ensure that a lot of tools are used especially those that are related to technology including cameras and computers. Technology has proved to capture various things that people would not note and, therefore, using them at the border would increase efficiency in securing it. The legislation would, in dealing with transnational activity involving crime, help greatly in combating crime especially international crime since Mexico is known for the many drug and crime cartels that operate internationally.
Security is a central concern to the county, and, therefore, it should be considered and taken with a great necessity to ensure that no criminals or illegal entries are made into the county. The national government should improve border security in counties that border other counties like Mexico. Texas should, therefore, be considered in being given additional assistance to increase security, and since Mexico has various criminal cartels, the government should focus on providing financial assistance to ensure that the various tools are obtained. Therefore, it is important that the county consider the border issues, and the various ports into the county have loopholes. The loopholes like illegal entry especially involving criminals should be sealed to prevent crime in Texas and in general to America.
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In the fuss over the anonymous article in the New York Times, I have not seen comment on the most upsetting thing it said.
“Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.” (New York Times op-ed)
In other words, someone in the administration who thinks badly of Trump nonetheless counts as bright spots just those things that are the worst the Trump administration has done: degrading the environment and refusing to work to control climate change, giving money to the wealthy and choosing to deal with problems through violence.
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Democrat Stacey Abrams on Wednesday launched a 2022 bid for governor in Georgia, setting up a potential rematch with GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
“I’m running for Governor because opportunity in our state shouldn’t be determined by zip code, background or access to power,” Abrams tweeted as she announced her candidacy.
Abrams, the former Georgia House Democratic leader who in 2018 made history as the first Black woman gubernatorial nominee of a major political party, narrowly lost to Kemp by less than 55,000 votes out of nearly 4 million cast in the Peach State’s gubernatorial election.
The voting rights advocate announced her candidacy with a campaign video that highlighted her work in Georgia since her defeat to Kemp four years ago. And she emphasized that the job of governor “is to fight for one Georgia, our Georgia, and now it’s time to get the job done.”
FILE – In this Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, file photo, Stacey Abrams speaks to Biden supporters as they wait for former President Barack Obama to arrive and speak at a campaign rally for Biden at Turner Field in Atlanta. On Dec. 1, 2021, Abrams launched a second straight Democratic gubernatorial campaign in Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File) (AP )
The announcement, which was long expected, sets up a potential rematch with Kemp in the one-time solidly red state that’s morphed into a key electoral battleground. President Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in Georgia in last year’s election by a razor thin margin, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in nearly three decades. And the Democrats swept Georgia’s Jan. 5 twin Senate runoffs, giving them the majority in the chamber.
But despite her party’s recent successes in Georgia, which were aided by Abrams, she’ll be running in a difficult political environment for her party, as the Democrats hope to defend their narrow House and Senate majorities. Abrams will be on the top of the Georgia ballot along side Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who narrowly won one of the two Senate runoff contests nearly a year ago and faces reelection next year. Republicans are targeting Warnock, whom they view as one of the most vulnerable Democratic Senates on the ballot in 2022.
Abrams political stature has grown since her 2018 defeat. She gave the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union address in 2019, and during the 2020 election was considered as Biden’s running mate.
While Abrams isn’t expected to face any serious competition for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Kemp continues to face the wrath of the former president.
Trump has vowed to return to Georgia to campaign against Kemp, to punish his onetime ally for refusing to help the then-president’s efforts last year to overturn the election results in Georgia. The ballots in Georgia were counted three times – the original Election Day count, a mandatory hand recount, and a recount requested by the president’s campaign.
Trump refused to concede to Biden and claimed for two months that there was massive voter fraud in Georgia and five other states where Biden narrowly won. Dozens of legal challenges by Trump and his allies were shot down, and then-Attorney General William Barr said his Justice Department had not seen fraud on the kind of scale that could flip the election. Trump has continued to repeatedly attack Kemp for refusing to aid his attempts to reverse Biden’s victory.
FILE – In this Nov. 4, 2018, file photo, then-Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, left, walks with President Donald Trump as Trump arrives for a rally in Macon , Ga. President Trump said Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 he was “ashamed” for endorsing the Republican governor of Georgia after he lost in the state to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump said on Fox News that Gov. Brian Kemp has “done absolutely nothing” to question the state’s results.. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) (AP )
The former president is urging former Sen. David Perdue, who was narrowly defeated by now-Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in last January’s Senate runoffs, to challenge Kemp in a GOP primary. Former state Rep. Vernon Jones – a Democrat turned Republican and major Trump supporter – earlier this year launched a primary challenge against Kemp.
But the Republican Governors Association (RGA) is firmly backing Kemp.
“Over the past four years, Governor Kemp has exhibited courageous leadership for Georgians and guided his state through a turbulent time,” RGA spokesperson Maddie Anderson said. “Stacey Abrams spent her time touring the country in search of fame and fortune. The RGA looks forward to ensuring Abrams is once again soundly defeated.”
The rival Democratic Governors Association (DGA) called Abams a “powerhouse leader.”
“With a historic campaign built on expanding access to health care and creating good-quality jobs, Abrams already came well within striking distance of Brian Kemp in 2018 — before she mobilized millions of Democrats to flip Georgia blue in 2020. Now more than ever, it’s clear Brian Kemp’s days as governor are numbered,” DGA executive director Noam Lee said.


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I NEED YOU HERE by Cynthia P. O'Neill
Series: Need Series #3
Genre: Contemporary | Erotic Romance
Release Date: August 18, 2015
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Rafe Prescott controlled every aspect of his life from finalizing legal contracts for his family’s company to negotiating the next conquest at the sex club. After seeing the pain his brother in-law went through after losing his mate, he swore he’d never give his heart to anyone. He even scoffed at his brother for falling in love at first site, until he met her…
She’s unlike anyone he's ever encountered, not bending easily to his alpha dominance or sexual persuasions. Everything about her enticed him with the need to make her his own, but she was hiding something, never divulging too much of her past.
Dawn Jamieson lived life having to constantly be on alert. All she wanted was to be normal – to have her dream man and the perfect job. But could she handle both of these things being in different states? The day she left Orlando would be the day her heart connected with someone and the beginning of her own personal hell, making her question everything.
She knew he was a dominant, and she had always been curious about the BDSM lifestyle, reading every romance novel possible, but could she be what Rafe needed? In turn, would he be willing to risk everything, including his own life, to save her?
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In my books, I draw on my background in healthcare, business, and science, along with my husband's engineering and wireless technology knowledge.
I currently write on all levels of Romance. The Learning Series is for those who like a little more steam with their books, falling into the categories of Contemporary and verging on Erotica, with a hint of Suspense. The Remembrance Series encompasses Young Adult, with a touch of Paranormal activity and a hint of Historical romance. A new contemporary romance series is underway, called Need. It will be different than the others, because each book will focus on a new couple, while all of the characters will still have a large presence throughout the series.
I try to make my writing very personal and close to her heart. Regular life is the inspiration for my books, but I'm only limited by imagination taking ideas to new heights, opening up possibilities that would normally not exist.
On a more personal note...I love to cook and create in the kitchen and on the bbq grill. I sometimes lose myself in a song at the piano. I often sing with my son while we are driving or making dinner together. I enjoy crafts (flower arranging, making wreaths, painting pottery, needle point and drawing in pencil and charcoals). My music tastes are eclectic at best, ranging from classical piano to hard rock/heavy metal. It all depends on the song, group, and if it has a good beat or is a soulful ballad.
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Editor's Pick When you're looking to scale quickly, it helps to be a high-growth company in a high-growth industry in a high-growth country.
Salesforce.com's aggressive acquisition strategy, and emphasis on all things cloud and mobile appears to be paying off.
HP's former CEO cleanly avoids blame over missing Autonomy's accounting issues.
HP's Autonomy purchase is the gift that keeps on giving...
Many retailers are using old dumb marketing techniques in a new smart world. And, therefore, missing out on sales.
The little-known company that provides high-end revenue lifecycle management software for Twitter and Facebook is now offering the same technology for the little guy.
Cisco just announced its intent to buy wi-fi startup Meraki Inc. for $1.2 billion.
Wholesale fashion buying platform Balluun raises $3.8M to connect designers with retailers.
Guest Post It will require a substantial shift in your thinking about email, but this rule will change your life: don’t make clearing your Inbox your top priority.
Digital notebook Evernote has released the latest version for Mac desktops with over 100 new features.
Networking behemoth Cisco has agreed to acquire cloud software business Cloupia for $150 million.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sketched his view of technology's future in an onstage discussion with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman tonight in a wide-ranging discussion that covered everything from Surface to Windows Phone to Xbox to cloud services.
Even when a service is up 99.5 percent of the time -- which might sound pretty good to non-developers -- it's down almost 44 hours in a year.
Enterprise cloud storage startup Egnyte has launched Cloud Control, its next-gen content and sharing infrastructure product that should give its users more flexibility over cloud strategies.
Guest Post PaaS is the sleeping giant in cloud spending next year and a topic riddled with controversy, small start up players and the larger VMWare OS project Cloud Foundry make this an exciting market.
So you've got an idea for a "big data" application, but building it seems to be a nightmarish prospect? Continuuity is here to help.
Without further ado, here are our CloudBeat 2012 Innovation Showdown finalists.
Once upon a time, you knew who to fire when a hack took down your servers: The "little weenies" running around in the basement of your company, as AlienVault's Russell Spitler put it. But that's all changing.


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In New Hampshire’s September primary election, approximately 7 percent of voters in Nashua did not show or have photo identification as required by a new state law. During that primary, voters could still cast a ballot with no further action required. This past November, however, voters who did not have ID were required to sign an affidavit in order to cast a ballot.
Based on the September numbers, some were worried that as many as 50,000 voters statewide would not have or not show ID during the November election and would have to sign affidavits. It turns out far fewer did. The secretary of state’s office estimates only about 1 percent of voters did not have or show the required ID on Election Day.
There is still work to be done, however, related to the new law. Within 60 days of the election, the state must contact each voter who signed an affidavit to verify his or her identity, estimated to be about 7,000 people.


New from AGV as part of the X70 Legends range is the Mino 73. A tribute to Agostini and his Yamaha OW23 GP race bike we see the classical Yamaha racing colours, white, the red racing stripe with black pin-striping, and Agostini’s number 1 sitting atop the yellow number plate background.
AGV invented the fibre jet helmet back in 1954. Over time it has evolved and been superseded by the safer full-face helmet, though only in the racing world. But it never went out of fashion. X70 re-embodies the eternal allure of the original’s shape, with modern protection and comfort features.
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Michael Caine does customarily excellent work as an unlikely avenger in this tale of a senior citizen out to even the score when young hoodlums kill a friend in his British neighborhood.
Local detectives ( Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles) aren't happy that Harry is reapplying expertise from his anti-IRA days to act as a one-man army. DVD extras: audio commentary by Caine, director Daniel Barber and producer Kris Thykier; deleted scenes. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray)
Buy 'Harry Brown' on DVD.
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NIGERIA – Nigerian Breweries (NB) Ltd, the largest brewing company in Nigeria, is set to start the importation, marketing and distribution of wines, spirits and cider products, once a new deal with parent company Heineken is finalised.
Under the deal, Nigerian Breweries is expected to spend N7.01 billion (US$8.4 million) to acquire two Nigerian subsidiaries of Heineken, a move that is expected to bring all of Heineken’s operations in Nigeria under one roof.
A statement from NB’s board of directors disclosed that the brewer is seeking to acquire 80 percent shareholding in Distell Wines and Spirits Nigeria (DWSN) and 100 per cent import business from Heineken Beverages Limited.
Once fully implemented, NB will have exclusive rights to import Heineken Beverages’ wines, spirits and ciders brands from South Africa.
NB will also have the right to licence to market and distribute the products in Nigeria, including the right to locally produce any of the imported brands.
Additionally, DWSN will become a subsidiary of Nigeria’s largest brewing company by market share, while the operations of NB will be expanded to include importation, marketing, and distribution of wines, spirits, and cider products.
The board of directors of NB had earlier reviewed the terms of the acquisition expressing satisfaction with the conditions, announcing plans to recommend the acquisition proposal to the shareholders.
“It provides Nigerian Breweries with a complimentary multi-category portfolio and strengthens the company’s market share in the wider beverages market as it expands its product offerings to a wider consumer segment,” the board stated.
The final decision regarding the acquisition will be announced after the shareholder meeting scheduled for next month.
The company emphasized that this strategic move aligns with its objective to diversify its product portfolio beyond beer, encompassing wines, spirits, and flavoured alcoholic beverages.
This initiative is expected to present growth prospects and contribute to the company’s long-term profitability.
DWSN became part of Heineken following the Dutch brewer’s acquisition of its South Africa-based parent company Distell Group in 2021.
The transaction, which was successfully completed in April this year gave Heineken Beverages an 80 per cent equity stake in DWSN.
The remaining 20 per cent is held by Next International Limited and Ekulo International Limited, which hold 10 per cent stake each.
DWSN’s diverse brand portfolio features well-known names such as Hunters, Amarula, JC Leroux, Chamdor, Savanna, Nederburg, Knights and others.