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Toss out junk food
In the Habits of Health Transformational System, one of the first suggestions we make is to clean out your pantry. Toss out or donate the foods that don’t align with your new approach to fuelings, wipe everything down along the way, and restock your cabinets and refrigerator with healthy foods.
We have learned—from working directly with clients and through a mountain of research on how people make choices—that immediacy is a powerful force. If you have a box full of cookies in the next room, choosing not to reach for the cookies when you are bored or feel anxious is much more difficult. Yes, choosing to take a walk would be the healthier option, but the cookies are right there.
When we disrupt the momentum of immediacy, amazing things happen. A delay, even a small one, makes us far more likely to make the decisions that align with our health goals. This is the basis for Stop. Challenge. Choose. (check out the free ebook for more). If we can step back, we become more mindful of the situation we are in and give ourselves more power to decide what the next chapter of our story will be.
When you optimize your surroundings by cleaning out your pantries, or swapping your dinnerware for smaller plates, or moving the television out of the bedroom, the healthy choices become the more immediate options. When you don’t have sweets in the house, you have an entire drive to the grocery store to recognize that you are about to reinforce a Habit of Disease.
There’s more to this strategy than just tossing out junk food. Consider the following:
- Clean out your kitchen and pantries as we talked about. Dr. A’s Habits of Health has a full breakdown of what foods to keep and what foods to get rid of.
- Build your healthy shopping list before you go to the store. Knowing what you need to get ahead of time can eliminate impulse shopping and keep you focused.
- Buy groceries right after you have had a fueling. Don’t go shopping when you’re hungry. Eat something healthy before you leave, and keep a bottle of water nearby so that you can take a big gulp of water if you feel a craving.
- Talk to your family. If the rest of your household is not joining you on your journey (they should!), explain to them that you are trying to eliminate nearby temptations. If they need to keep sweets in the house, keep them separate from your food and perhaps even ask them to hide them if you need to.
The good news is that this gets easier. Every time you successfully make the healthy choice, the next choice will come more naturally, and eventually the process of eating healthy and shopping healthy will become automatic. In the meantime, lean on the tips I have shared here, and talk to your health coach for more ideas as well.

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Lots of people drink a cup or two of coffee per day without even thinking about how it will affect their sleep and instead using it as a fast-acting stimulant to keep them energized throughout the day. It can increase your blood pressure, heart rate and give you more energy, but there are a few different side-effects of using caffeine in this manner, such as trouble falling asleep at night or feeling anxious.
There are a few different studies that show coffee is good to drink, including one study in Europe that found drinking coffee can lower one's morality and another that coffee can extend lifespans for non-white people of various races. A separate 2017 study found that drinking 3-4 cups of coffee a day can reduce your chance of getting serious diseases like cancer.
Though caffeine might seem like a drug due to the fast-acting nature of it, there's not much similarities between the two besides their ability to block sleep. Drinking coffee makes you more awake and in some cases can make it more difficult to go to sleep at night if consumed around bedtime. People who smoke usually need to drink more caffeine to get the same amount of stimulation as someone who doesn't smoke, which can make things worse if you tend to do both hand-in-hand.
Caffeine's half-life — the amount of time it takes for half the substance to be removed from the body — is between 5-6 hours and is still in your system after that, but has a diminishing impact on the body. This is only an average, so for some people it could be in their bodies after a whole afternoon, but for someone else it could leave their body within a couple hours. There's many reasons why coffee might stay in one person's body longer than other: things like weight, gender and ethnicity all make an impact. Enzymes are what process and break down caffeine, but when they are dealing with things like drugs, antidepressants, oral pregnancy pills and even Tylenol can slow the process down.
Half-life of coffee in the average adult
Though it might be hard to avoid caffeine due to the amount of foods and beverages it can be found in, it's best to avoid black and green teas, coffee, chocolate, energy drinks, soft drinks and some over the counter medications before you go to bed. Even decaffeinated coffee has small amounts of the substance in it, so it's best to avoid that too if you're overly sensitive to caffeine.
Drinking caffeinated beverages before bed is never a good idea because it disrupts your rapid eye movement (REM) sleep when your body processes your emotions and the events that happened throughout the day. If coffee interrupts this, you'll wake up the next day feeling odd, groggy or even sad or mad and will likely grab a cup of coffee to shake the feeling.
Coffee drinkers can also try numerous other tips to lessen their dependence on caffeine, including drinking water more often, getting between 7-8 hours of sleep per night, avoiding naps and overly processed foods and exercising daily to tire yourself before bed.


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No matter what you think of Sarah Palin, the book tour is a huge success. Below is a report from Huffington Post on the ratings from her interview with Oprah. And, she was featured tonight on Nightly News, her first stop in Michigan, the crowds were huge.
From Huffington Post:
Oprah's much-anticipated interview of Sarah Palin brought her the biggest "Oprah" ratings in two years.
The Live Feed's James Hibberd notes that Monday's "Oprah" drew an 8.7 household rating and 13 share, the highest since Oprah hosted the Osmonds in 2007.
The ratings boost confirm Palin's popularity and suggest that Palin — who David Brooks recently called a "potential talk show host" — could very well succeed with a show of her own.
Earlier this year, there was rampant speculation that Palin was eying a talk show gig. Palin began her career as a sports reporter for KTUU, Anchorage's NBC affiliate
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PJ Madsen's Playing Card Museum
SPADES - ACHAEMENIAN DYNASTY - 559-530 BC
ACE - The Achaemenian Gold Eagle - Ensign of Artaxerxes the First.
KING - One of the Great Kings.
QUEEN - An Achaemenian Queen, from a low relief.
JACK - An Immortal bodyguard of the Achaemenian Monarchs.
HEARTS - SASSANIDES DYNASTY - 242-632
ACE - The Illustrious standard titles DARAFCHE KAVIANI, and much revered by Iranians.
KING - A Sassanian Sovereign in his gala dress.
QUEEN - A Sassanian Queen (from a silver plate of the time)
JACK - An archer
DIAMONDS - SAFAVIDES DYNASTY - 1502 - 1753
ACE - A Trophy of Arms of that period.
KING - A Safavian Sovereign (contemporary with Shah Abbas the Great 1581-1628)
QUEEN - A Persian Princess.
JACK - A Safavian Warrior (the end of the 16th century)
CLUBS - AFSHARS DYNASTY - 1736-1749
ACE - An ancient Persian broidery.
KING - An Afshar Sovereign.
QUEEN - A contemporary Persian lady.
JACK - An irregular soldier of the Afshar period.
JOKER - The SIMORG - Legendary bird of Persian tradition
Historic Iranian Designs
Made by Fournier. Spain. 1962
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS/DESIGNS by V. ROMANOVSKI DE BONCZA, TEHRAN. IRAN
(Curator of the Military Museum of Tehran).
Each of the 4 suits represents a different Persian dynasty.
Every card is marked with both Roman and Farsi numerals or letters.
This deck of cards is listed in Fournier's book “Playing Cards” on page 333 as # 20. It was first produced in London in 1933.
I bought these cards on ebay from anro1626, but they are also sold as CARTA PERSICA on www.cartapersica.com.

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Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes (Domestic Equalizers #4)
New York City is miles from Salt Lick, Texas, in more ways than one, but Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin are rarin' to go. The best friends/beauty shop owners/private-eye partners have been offered an all-expense-paid trip to the National Association of Private Investigators convention in the Big Apple. Debbie Sue sees the invitation as validation, but Edwi...more
How can any red-blooded woman pass up a book with the title “Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes”? The latest offering by Dixie Cash is a hilarious caper starring two of the most unlikely private eyes you’d ever want to meet: Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin, owners of the Styling Station Beauty Salon in Salt Lick, Texas! I would definitely classify this book in the genre of madcap mystery.
I began smiling when I read ...more
In the end, Debbie Joe and Edwina get their man with a little help from a NY cop and a Texas librarian.
This is a cross between chick lit and a cozy mystery.
Edwina, afraid of flying, has to get overly medicated for the big trip. She causes great embarrassment to herself and "Deputy Do," I mean Debbie Sue, before they even set foot on the plane.
When they do arrive in NYC they find that someone is killing prostitutes. Leave it to Edwina to befriend one. Edwina strikes up a conversation with working girl ...more
Edwina and Debbie Sue get into some real interesting escapades, there is not a moments boredom around them! This book takes place in New York instead of Salt Lick Texas and some of the regular characters like the ladie ...more
This is the fourth book in the series, but it’s my first read. I’ve seen the names of these books for a while now and laughed out loud at every title, which sounds like the first lines of country music songs. I needed a lighter moment so I finally read one. This series is about two women, Debbie Sue, and Edwina, (ed) are co ...more
Debbie Sue and Edwina are asked to head up to New York City to speak at a convention. There are some gaffes and snafu's, but that's to be expected. And I kept cracking up throughout. Bless their hearts, they take NYC ...more
Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes is a funny book in the Domestic Equalizers series written by authors Dixie Cash. It's the first time that I've read a book by them, but it won't be the last.
While there was a mystery, this isn't built like a traditional mystery. It's still there, but almost in a secondary sense to the story.
I'm l ...more
I'm going to go request the rest of the books by this author at my library!

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As the most reliable and balanced news aggregation service on the internet, DML News App offers the following information published by NYPost.com:
The human remains found in a marshy Florida reserve during the FBI search for fugitive Brian Laundrie may prove to be a challenge for coroners trying to ID them.
“I walk there all the time and there won’t be much of the remains left,” John Widmann, who lives about a mile from the 25,000-acre Carlton Reserve, where the remains were found early Wednesday, told The Post.
The article goes on to state the following:
The FBI said the unidentified human remains, along with a backpack and notebook belonging to Laundrie, were found near a bridge linking the Carlton Reserve with the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, where Laundrie allegedly went hiking on Sept. 13.
“There’s alligators, but the worst thing are the wild pigs,” Widmann told the outlet. “They’re evil animals and will eat anything. Any flesh out in the open will not be wasted.”
“There won’t be much for the coroner to work on. Nature doesn’t waste anything,” he added.
According to NewsNationNow correspondent Brian Entin, the remains that were discovered were skeletal.
Jayne Kornburger, another local of the area, claimed to be worried that the scene was disturbed by hikers.
“There were scores of local people here yesterday because it was the first day the park opened since the first search,” Kornburger said, according to the report. “What if those people had innocently disturbed evidence? How did police miss evidence during the first search?”
Kornburger also called the Laundrie family’s behavior into question.
“The Laundrie family has been appalling in their behavior,” she said. “They should have been telling everything they knew to detectives from the first second and they should have been out every day searching for their son. Local people are appalled by how they behaved.”
Authorities have yet to identify the remains found at the Florida reserve, but did confirm that the conditions in which they were found were ‘treacherous’ and surrounded by ‘rattlesnakes, moccasins, alligators.”
— Rachel Hartman (@RachelRachel945) October 21, 2021
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How Does Atopic Dermatitis Affect the Ears?
Some people experience atopic dermatitis (eczema) in the skin behind the ears or in the junction between the ear and the face. It may also affect the pinna (entire outer portion), or the inner portion of the ear. This may be referred to as ear eczema, as atopic dermatitis is a type of eczema.
Eczema around the ears
Like other areas of the body, atopic dermatitis around the ears causes dryness, redness, and itchiness. Atopic dermatitis around the ears can cause painful cracks in the skin. These cracks are also called fissures, and in addition to being painful, they increase the risk of infection.1
What causes ear eczema?
People with atopic dermatitis have a damaged skin barrier. In some people with atopic dermatitis, the damaged skin barrier can be connected to a decrease or lack of filaggrin in the skin. Filaggrin is a protein that plays a key role in the structure and formation of the corneal layer of the skin. The lack of filaggrin has been traced back to genetic mutations in the FLG gene.
Damage to the skin barrier
This damage to the skin barrier leads to a reduced ability to maintain the skin’s natural amount of water, as well as the sores and rash of atopic dermatitis. The damaged skin barrier may also allow for the entry of airborne allergens to enter the skin, which could lead to an inflammatory response by the immune system.2 Atopic dermatitis is also characterized by an intense itch, which leads to repeated scratching. Scratching can also lead to breaks or tears in the skin.1
Good skin care is an important part of treating atopic dermatitis, including when it flares on the ears. Ears should be gently washed with just water or moisturizing bar soap. After washing, the ears should be thoroughly dried. The skin on and around the ears should also be moisturized, as moisturizers can help repair the skin barrier and lock in needed moisture.
There are several topical treatments that may be prescribed for atopic dermatitis and can be used on the skin of the ears, including:
- Topical corticosteroids, to reduce redness, inflammation, and itching
- Topical calcineurin inhibitors, to stop the dysfunctional immune response and reduce redness and itching
- Topical antibiotics, to fight a bacterial infection3
Other treatments for atopic dermatitis are systemic, meaning they treat the entire body, such as immunomodulators, systemic corticosteroids, antihistamines, and systemic antibiotics.
Other symptoms of atopic dermatitis
In addition to cracks behind the ears, atopic dermatitis can cause a rash, scaly patches, itch, bumps or papules, blisters, and a change in skin color. Some people also experience eye symptoms or cracks behind the ears. Over time, the areas of skin affected by atopic dermatitis may become thickened.

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- Employee and patient possessions were going missing.
- Doctors could be falsely accused of impropriety by patients.
- Difficult to ensure there are always at least two people in the Adjustment Bay with patients.
- Lost or stolen valuables quickly recovered using video evidence.
- Doctors protected from potential malpractice accusations.
- Solink replaces the need for a second employee in the Adjustment Bay with the doctor and patient.
A growing chiropractic clinic operator
Coreen Cammarano (Cori) operates eight chiropractic franchises across two states with five more planned in a third state. These clinics utilize “open bay” treatment, which means there are three patient tables in the same room.
Solink is currently being used in two of the clinics, but Cori has recently committed to expanding Solink to all eight clinics and the five new locations opening soon. After a close call with one of her doctors, she’s convinced of the value Solink brings as a safety net for medical clinics.
Protect doctors during a changing medical environment
Cori wasn’t thinking about the safety of doctors when she initially went in search of a video surveillance system.
“I installed cameras because a patient had their iPhone stolen. With open bay treating, more than one patient is in the room at a time. Across from each table there is a chair. Patients can place their phone in the basket on the chair during treatment. A patient put their $1,000 phone in the basket and it was taken.”
However, the true challenge presented itself quickly thereafter. A doctor was accused of impropriety. The cost and punishment for such an incident, even in the best case where the Chiropractic Board sides with the doctor, is thousands of dollars. This cost is usually carried by the owner of the clinic and not covered by malpractice insurance.
“At a minimum, the chiropractor would get a mark on their license. There’d also be the cost of hiring an attorney and some form of continuing education for the doctor. It’s expected that the employer will pay for all of this. Even in the best case, this adds up to anywhere between $3,500 and $5,000. Furthermore, there’s no insurance for false claims.”
Cori has seen a general change in the mood of Americans towards medical practitioners in recent years. It’s to the point where she doesn’t believe chiropractors should be entering rooms or adjustment bays with patients alone. However, unlike in hospitals, this is fairly standard practice for chiropractic clinics.
“I think everyone who works in the medical field needs to recognize that the landscape is changing and it’s not favoring the medical professionals. It’s to the point that I would never advise a chiropractor to be alone with a patient, but many still are as having a second employee there can be infeasible. I wanted to offer protection to our employees given this environment.”
- Multiple patients are in the open bay treatment area at the same time. During treatment, they place their possessions in baskets on chairs across from the tables. Some valuables were going missing.
- Some patients have less tolerance for medical professionals currently than they did before the pandemic. Sometimes out of malice or misunderstanding this general distrust leads to false accusations. These accusations are expensive for the clinic operator to resolve and potentially life-altering for the doctor.
- It would be safer for the doctors and other staff members to always deal with patients in pairs. However, this can be impractical during appointments.
Before Solink, Cori had purchased some non-commercial grade cameras to see how that would work. Unfortunately, the video quality was too low to have meaningful value.
Cori decided to contact Solink based on the recommendation of Joe Burum, a fellow chiropractic clinic operator who works with Solink.
Cori sourced her new high-quality cameras directly from Solink for the first two clinics, and she has been so convinced by its value that she’s ordered Solink’s services for her six other clinics and the five new locations.
Solink provides a second pair of eyes in the room
Shortly after Cori had Solink installed in two of her chiropractic clinics, a pair of Airpods went missing. She was able to go through the video footage quickly with Motion Search. She then identified another patient taking the Airpods from the basket. Solink helped reunite expensive earphones with the rightful owner—and the clinic was able to retain both patients.
“While the patient was facedown and the doctor was adjusting them, somebody else walked by and took the Airpods. We were able to see this, contact the person who took them, and say ‘we saw you sitting there and take the Airpods on camera, and I’m sure it was an accident.’ The person confirmed this and brought the Airpods back. The patient is still coming to the clinic, so it very well could have been an accident."
Within two months of using Solink, there was an accusation against one of Cori’s chiropractors. This incident was resolved by showing the patient the video footage so she could see that the doctor simply slipped. This made the patient feel better about what occurred and protected the doctor.
Interestingly, the doctors initially were not happy with the idea that they’d be recorded. They were worried that Cori would be using it to push for faster adjustments or other productivity issues. After this incident was resolved quickly, Cori had full buy-in from her doctors.
“The irony is that, when we first put cameras in, I had a couple of doctors who were quite angry. They thought I was going to sit around supervising them. I told them that I’m extraordinarily busy, I don’t have time to do that, and I don’t want to spend my time looking at a wall of monitors. I’m not concerned with how long they spend on patients. As long as the clinic is growing, I assume my staff are doing a good job. One of the doctors who was vocal about not wanting cameras had a complaint filed against them and was quickly asking ‘can you check the cameras for me?’ They changed their tune very quickly after I was able to pull the video footage and use it to save them.”
More recently, an even bigger accusation was laid. A patient accused a doctor of purposefully injuring them out of anger. This could have ended the young doctor’s career if it weren’t for the Solink video exonerating them.
"The most serious complaint we’ve had was about three weeks ago. It came against a doctor in Oklahoma. It was a very serious complaint for a young doctor right out of school and could have changed the course of his career. He could have lost his license for that, but luckily Solink provided evidence that proved the event did not occur. Remember, when you lose your license, you keep the student loans. Without the ability to practice, they have no way of paying back those loans or having a good livelihood."
Patients, doctors, and property are all protected by a safety net
Cori looks at Solink as the ultimate safety net. It’s there in the background working to keep patients, doctors, and property safe.
“Not too long ago the largest lawsuit ever for a chiropractor in America was $1,000,000. Recently, there was one for $5,000,000. We need a safety net in place to provide honest, indisputable video evidence if anything like that happened to us. Solink is reliable, always working in the background, and quietly doing its job.”
Cori’s three favorite features
Cori has found everything she needs within the Solink platform. When she needs to use Solink, the easy-to-use interface is greatly appreciated. As someone who didn’t grow up with computers, she likes that anyone can use Solink.
High-quality video feeds and the ability to Save and Share clips are two features that she uses regularly.
High-quality video feeds
Cori initially purchased non-commercial cameras and found that “low-quality cameras are not even worth owning.” Solink can help you source and install high-quality security cameras. From there, our platform allows you to get the maximum resolution out of your footage.
Solink’s interface makes it easy for anyone to search and find the information they need quickly. Even for less technical staff, it is possible to log in and find a needed video or piece of information with little help or training.
Save and Share
Being able to Save and Share video footage directly from the Solink platform is helpful when incidents occur. Once video documentation of an event is found, it can be saved indefinitely and shared with all stakeholders, including attorneys, members of staff, and government officials.


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Waves of wildflowers are a breathtaking sight, and a welcome one in late winter. Desert wildflowers are adapted to harsh conditions and little rainfall, and will self-seed. Try annuals like lupine, Arizona or California poppy, milkweed, baby blue eyes and desert globe mallow.
In the Garden Center, look for packaged wildflower mixes that include growing medium and fertilizer.
Growing from seed is easy and rewarding, and an inexpensive way to make more plants. Seeds sown in the fall will give you flowers a few months later.
Sow Seeds of Desert Wildflowers:
- Select an area that drains well with full sun. Weed the area and rake smooth.
- Sow seeds according to the package instructions. Some seeds need to be soaked in water before planting.
- Cover lightly with soil, a mixture of soil and sand, or decomposed granite. Don’t cover seeds that need light to germinate.
- Water with a light mist after planting.
- Water the seedbed daily, keeping it moist until seeds have germinated. Then water every other day.
- Thin plants growing too closely together and remove weeds regularly.
- Cover seeds or seedlings with row covers or burlap to keep them from washing away or being flattened from hard rain. Shade cloth protects tiny seedlings if the sun gets too hot.

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FRANCE: 400 jobs to go at Goodyear Dunlop plant.
Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe BV announced Tuesday (4/7/00) that it is to cut one-third of its workforce at Dunlop France`s Montlucon tire plant. The site, which makes tires for scooters, trucks and agricultural vehicles, became part of the Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co (GT) Group after it struck an alliance with Sumitomo, of Japan, last September.
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Catching up With Last Year's 30 Under 30
Back to the Roots
Nikhil Arora and Alex Valez of Back to the Roots have kept busy over the past year, adding a cool new aquaphonics product to their roster called the AquaFarm. The product garnered enough buzz to get the founders on NBC's "Today Show" as well as the TED Talk conference, and other programs.
Back to the Roots is also highly visible online, thanks to their keen understanding of Facebook. When the founders noticed parents and kids were sharing photos of their kits, they donated kits to elementary schools in exchange for posted photos.
Not only did their Facebook page soar to 20,000 likes in a year, that community helped drive their second successful Kickstarter campaign for the AquaFarm.


Three hundred eighty million bad eggs will end up as the prime suspects in many a court case before this all over.
That’s the new number–380 million–after Iowa’s Wright County Egg late Wednesday expanded its original Aug. 13 recall of 228 million eggs for possible Salmonella enteritidis contamination. Even before the 152 million egg expansion to 380 million eggs, one television network had already claimed this is the largest food recall “in a generation.”
The first lawsuit involving the eggs was filed against Wright County Egg in Wisconsin as consumer interest spiked about the national egg scare.
And the New York Times reported that Wright County Egg is owned by Jack DeCoster, “who has had run-ins with regulators over poor or unsafe working conditions, environmental violations, the harassment of workers and the hiring of illegal immigrants.”
With each American eating about 250 eggs a year–including both shell eggs and egg products–it’s no surprise that interest in this recall and outbreak is high.
But with U.S. producers providing as many as 6.4 billion eggs in a single month, we won’t go without–no matter whether we like them scrambled or over-easy.
A Wisconsin woman became the first to sue Wright County Egg Wednesday when she added the company to an existing lawsuit against Baker Street Restaurant and Pub in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Tanja Dzinovic, who was treated at a hospital for a Salmonella enteritidis infection after dining at Baker Street, claims the restaurant “purchased and used in the manufacture of its menu items Salmonella-contaminated shell eggs subject to defendant Wright County Egg’s Aug. 16, 2010 recall.”
Baker Street was closed by the Kenosha County Health Department last July 13 after a “restaurant cluster” Salmonella enteritidis outbreak involving about 30 confirmed cases.
Like others, Dzinovic ate a variety of menu items while dining at Baker Street on June 18, 2010, including a California Cobb Salad that included hard-boiled eggs.
The Kenosha outbreak is not alone in being connected to the bad eggs. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has tracked the growing outbreak since May and there are now at least several hundred confirmed cases of Salmonella associated with the egg outbreak in Minnesota, Colorado and California.
Wright’s initial recall has been joined by at least one of its major wholesale buyers, NuCal Foods, which added five more brand names to the list of eggs that consumers should avoid. The complete list of brand names now includes:
Eggs were packaged and re-packaged in varying size cartons. Julian dates range from 135 to 225 and plant numbers include 1026, 1091, 1413, 1686, 1946, and 1951. Dates and codes can be found stamped on the end of the egg carton.
The plant number begins with the letter P and then the number. The Julian date follows the plant number, for example: P-1946 223.
The recall covers all shell eggs produced by Wright between May 16 and Aug. 13, 2010.
Also on Wednesday, Chicago-based Dutch Farms Inc. charged that Wright used its egg cartons to package and sell eggs under the Dutch Farms name without its knowledge. It said the unauthorized Dutch Farms eggs were distributed to Walgreens in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota and Arkansas.
“We will do everything in our power to make this right,” said Dutch Farms President Brian Boomsma. “It’s just a shame that a farm in Iowa with whom we have no association, can cause so many to be so concerned.”
Anyone who purchased Dutch Farms eggs at Walgreens should check the side of the package for the following plant numbers: P1026, P1413 and P1946. Return the package to Walgreens for a full refund.
Retailers were fast to remove the eggs from their shelves, but consumers were warned to check their egg supplies at home. Any eggs on the recall list may be returned to the store where they were purchased for a full refund. The recall is for shell eggs only.


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During a meeting between San Francisco Mayor London Breed and city Supervisors on Tuesday, Breed announced her support of the recall of three members of the San Francisco Board of Education.
The recall against School Board President Gabriela Lopez and board members Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga began in earnest in March following discovery of a number of racist tweets sent out by then Board VP Collins. The scandal resulted in her demotion and suing the School Board in retaliation.
While the lawsuit played out in court over the summer, growing discontentment against the board continued. In particular, San Francisco Unified School District parents were outraged during the spring over the districts decision to keep schools closed during the pandemic when all other school boards in the state, including Los Angeles, had reopened.
The resulting rise of mental health issues among students, as well as learning loss, and monetary loss was impetus for parents to start the petition. A massive failed citywide school renaming program only added more attention and district voters against the board.
With local, national, and international attention against the board, the three board members at the center of the recall received over 81,000 recall petition signatures, which was 30,000 more than needed, by the deadline in early September. Following certification, the recall, the first in San Francisco since an attempt against then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein in 1983, was set for a February 2022 election date. That same day, Collins dropped her $87 million lawsuit against the board.
While Mayor Breed had been supportive of Collins being demoted and had called for her resignation following her tweet scandal, she had been largely absent from the recall battle before Tuesday. During a budget meeting determining how much was to go to the February special election in the city, which will also include the District 17 State Assembly vacancy election and the San Francisco Assessor-Recorder election, Mayor Breed finally took a side in he recall debate, favoring recalling the three education board members.
“I have made it clear from the beginning of the pandemic, we need to focus on educating our students, supporting our workforce, and reopening our city,” said Mayor Breed on Tuesday. “During this critical time, we need to ensure that the cost of the school board recall does not fall on the backs of our children, which is why we are stepping in to make sure that this funding goes directly to our students.
“Sadly, our school board’s priorities have often been severely misplaced. During such a difficult time, the decisions we make for our children will have long term impacts. Which is why it is so important to have leadership that will tackle these challenges head on. Our kids must come first. The board’s priorities have been misplaced, and I support the parents’ call for change.”
Mayor Breed’s recall support
Political experts noted that while the decision seemed surprising to many, Mayor Breed’s school board recall support makes sense.
“She has has been upset with how the SFUSD Board has been running things for quite some time,” San Francisco-based policy advisor Sharon Burke told the Globe on Wednesday. “Look at how quick she wanted Collins gone after her tweets. But really, the Board has been making the news over and over again for mismanagement, with the city intervening directly recently to stop a state takeover of the district because of the SFUSD massively going over their budget. They had to cut $125 million just to stay above water.”
“Parents are mad at them. Many lawmakers are mad at them. And now the Mayor showed her true colors and is mad at them too. Part of it may be about self-preservation. Breed has shown to be ambitious and is obviously eyeing a higher office in the coming years. But she has also been more diplomatic in the past when it came to things like this. This time around there was no diplomacy, and she is also genuinely upset with them.
“For the board members, they lost a person who would have been their biggest ally. It’s not looking good for them.”
Breed and the city Supervisors agreed to fund the three special elections with $6.9 million from the city’s General Reserve funds on Tuesday as a mid-year budget supplemental, with another $5.1 million coming from repurposed funds stemming from the Gubernatorial recall election held in September.
“Whether you agree or disagree with school board recall, we should all agree that our students shouldn’t bear the financial burden of the election. This supplemental will ensure that the Department of Elections is fully funded to do its important work without harming SFUSD students, families, and workers,” said SF City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman on Tuesday.
The San Francisco special election is due to be held on February 15, 2022. Should any of the board members be recalled, Mayor Breed would assign temporary replacements until the 2022 November general election.

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As workers celebrate yet another May Day, labour and the private sector are not on the same page on the calls for a review of the minimum wage from N18,000 to N56,000, TOBA AGBOOLA reports
Massive depreciation of workers’ purchasing power. Job losses. Unpaid salaries. And general high cost of living. These are issues on the top burner as Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the May Day. For the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), there must be an upward review of the N18,000 minimum wage. The organisation believes increasing the wage to N56,000 will cushion the effects of a struggling economy.
The Technical Committee for Palliatives and Minimum Wage submitted its report a few days ago. The tripartite committee has representatives of the Federal Government, the state governments, labour and the Nigerian Employers Consultative Association (NECA).
Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige said the Federal Government was working towards a new minimum wage for workers to enhance workers’ welfare and comply with the Minimum Wage Act.
NLC President Ayuba Wabba Wabba told The Nation that in pushing for N56, 000 minimum wage, labour looked at all the issues.
He said: ‘’Our opinion is also that workers have been pushed to the wall; so, it’s time for the minimum wage to be reviewed both in law and practice because the cycle is due and inflation is biting very hard, high cost of goods and services is affecting workers seriously.’’
“What is the value of N18, 000, when it was signed, looking at inflation, purchasing power and ability to pay?”
“We have been reasonable in making such demand and we hope that other social partners will look at it from the perspective of us being very committed and nationalistic in putting up those demands.”
Wabba said while those dismissing N56, 000 minimum wage as unreasonable were entitled to their opinions, the reality was that workers could not feed themselves because of the high cost of goods and services.
He said: “The essence of the new minimum wage is to make sure that the poor or the poorest of the worker is protected against exploitation; that the minimum is within which no employer of labour can go below. Many workers are being exploited. Many workers are being paid below N10, 000 and those are the issues we want to address.
“Everybody has the right to his or her opinion, but the opinion of the workers is that a review of the minimum wage is legitimate both by law and practice. Five years cycle is legitimate. Many workers cannot send their children to school, many cannot pay their rent and many cannot even go to work regularly.”
Wabba added that an upward review was imperative in view of the fight against corruption.
He warned that workers should not be treated as slaves, as companies are still making profit.
He said it is necessary for the Technical Committee for Palliatives and Minimum Wage to negotiate a comprehensive minimum wage to avoid hitches.
According to him, despite the opposition by NECA, NLC is sure that stakeholders would all support a new wage for workers who had all along been treated as slaves.
He said: “We need to be very forthcoming in doing what is right. In other quarters, if you listen very carefully, they are talking about ability to pay. I thought what labour did was to be very calculative. Not only that, to look at the feasibility, because it doesn’t make sense that at the end of the day we will have difficulties.
‘’So, we have looked at the totality of the issues, including the challenges we are going through at the moment and we thought that what we have done is reasonable because what we have done is to look at what is the value of N18, 000 when it was signed looking at the inflation, looking at the purchasing power and looking at the ability to pay.
“I think we have been reasonable in making such demand and we hope also that other social partners will look at it from the perspective of us being very nationalistic in putting up those demands. I still want you to understand that workers presently cannot feed themselves because of the high cost of goods and services.
‘’As I said everybody has the right to his or her opinion, but the opinion of the workers is that it is legitimate by law and practice.
“Many workers cannot send their children to school, many cannot pay their rent, and many cannot even go to work regularly. Side by side with fighting corruption, if you don’t pay me to meet up with my bills we can’t fight corruption.”
The national leadership of Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU) also expressed its commitment to actualise the review for all workers.
RATTAWU National President Kabir Garba believes the clamour for the increase is as a result of the purchasing power parity of the naira against the dollar.
According to him, the new minimum wage will serve as a benchmark for the union to ask for the enhanced Media Salary Scheme.
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) condemned the call for the removal of the national minimum wage from the exclusive list to the concurrent list by the House of Representatives.
TUC, in a press statement by its President, Bobboi Bala Kaigama, described the bill as a calculated attempt to alter the constitution from the back door.
“Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has strongly condemned the call for the removal of the minimum wage from the exclusive list to the concurrent list by the House of Representatives, in a bill being sponsored by one of its members.
“Congress sees this in a bad light and an attempt to alter the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from the back door. For the umpteenth time, it needs to be emphasized that labour rather than politicians have held this country together even from colonial days,” Kaigama said.
The congress warned that any attempt to openly or surreptitiously undermine workers or the labour movement would be resisted with all arsenals in their control.
As for the United Labour Congress (ULC), it is N96,000 or nothing. The Northern Coordinator of ULC, John Gimbason reiterated the union’s demand for N96,000 minimum wage for workers in the country.
Gimbason said the proposal was realistic considering the current inflation in the nation’s economy and in view of workers’ contributions to nation’s building.
He said the new Labour Centre had opened negotiations with the Federal Government on the proposed N96, 000 minimum wage, assuring members that the proposal would soon yield fruits.
According to him, while workers are over burdened with lots of responsibilities, they receive stipends as monthly salaries, even as some others do not receive their wages for months.
He appealed to the 25 unions under the ULC to give their maximum cooperation to ensure that workers in both public and private sectors were treated well.
The Lagos State Chairman of the ULC, Ephriam James, in his inaugural speech, said the council would ensure that workers in the state were liberated to earn salaries they deserve.
He said the Union would engage the state government and other employers of labour in dialogue to ensure they arrived at agreements to improve welfare of workers.
James assured that whatever decision taken at the national level would be replicated in the state, especially with regard to wages.
He called for support from members and 25 affiliated unions that formed the ULC not to compromise on the issue of minimum Wage.
Some of the affiliated members of ULC included Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Nigeria Union of Mine Workers, National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Employees (NUBIFIE), Nigeria Union of Rail Workers (NUR), National Union of Lottery Agents and Employees, (NULAE), Association of Nigeria Aviation, Professionals (ANAP) and National Association Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE).
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Poverty Alleviation and Social Welfare, Ali Wakili, urged the Federal Government to increase minimum wage to enable workers cope with prevailing economic situation in the country.
He said that while minimum wage had remained at N18, 000, prices of goods and services had continued to rise. According to him, the development has made life unbearable for many Nigerians, particularly workers.
Although the lawmaker commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s effort at repositioning the economy, he said the government had not fared well in workers’ welfare.
He, therefore, called on the government to make tackling challenges facing workers a priority. He added that the government should endeavor to create an enabling environment for the workers to feel the impact of any increment in wages.
“We need to address underlining issues to make the increase felt by the workers. Without an enabling environment, the increment will be an exercise in futility because they will not feel it. Prices of goods in the market are very high; healthcare facilities are not available and where they are available, workers pay through their noses.
“Once we are able to address these things, the wage increase will be meaningful to everybody. We can do the two side-by-side; while we are addressing the wage issue, there should also be an enabling environment,’’ he said.
President, National Union of Chemical Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Methallic Products Employees (NUCFRLMPE), Goke Olatunji, said workers were finding it hard to survive, saying Buhari should make the payment of new minimum wage a priority.
According to Olatunji, government should implement the wage without allowing it to cause inflation in order for it not to lose its relevance.
“The present N18, 000 minimum wage is not able to buy anything from the market. We want the government to increase it but it should not lead to inflation.
“Federal Government should ensure that the states and private sector should be able to implement the policy when an agreement is being reached,” the union president said.
He said the workers have borne a lot of pain because of the economic recession and needed to be compensated.
Olatunji said business activities during recession made the economy unpleasant for workers and employers.
“Before, companies such as Unilever Plc will give workers products, provide transportation and send at least 100 people to the stadium for the celebration of May Day.
“But now, the company will give money to hire a bus and send 25 to 50 workers to the rally; that is the reason for celebrating workers day this year in a low key,” Olatunji said.
He said if the economy does not improve, workers welfare will be retarded and urged the government to formulate policies that will bring relief to workers and ensure that it is well-implemented.
However, against the backdrop of the economic hardship in the country, the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has urged the Nigerian workers to wait till 2018 before pushing for the review of the Minimum Wage.
Speaking with The Nation, NECA President Larry Ettah said the state of the economy cannot support any increase in wages.
He notes that though it is quite clear that there is need to increase the minimum wage, but he says the timing is wrong.
“Given the depreciation in the value of the Naira as well as inflation currently at 18.6 per cent, a strong case can be made for raising Nigeria’s minimum wage. Not an issue of whether, but when?” he said.
He says most state governments find it difficult to pay the N18,000 minimum wage while several private companies have closed down in the last one year.
He said: “Given that such restructuring may not be expedient in this period of recession and rising unemployment, our recommendation is that a review of the minimum wage should be deferred until the economy has resumed strong growth and public sector finances have improved.”
For the workers, however, there is no retreat, no surrender. Until they get their dues, they say the struggle continues.


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Dandelion Google Chrome Theme is a unique theme for your browser.
The theme is represented by a background image of an aesthetic theme. Dandelions on a blue background fly in the air and remind us of summer. The theme for Google Chrome has the following colors. The Chrome browser frame is displayed in light blue. The color of the active tab and toolbar is blue. The background of the new tab page is light blue, all the text on the page is white.

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Devin Booker and the Suns will be looking to finish off the Lakers on Thursday night in Game 6 at the Staples Center. (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)
- The Lakers and Suns meet in Game 6 on Thursday, June 3rd
- Phoenix is looking to close out the series after blowing out LA on Tuesday night
- Get the odds, injury report, preview, and pick below
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will be looking to bounce back on Thursday from an embarrassing performance in Game 5, with the Phoenix Suns absolutely destroying the defending champions by 30 points.
Anthony Davis’ absence was severely felt for LA, with LeBron James left to carry the offensive load alone. The supporting cast was practically non-existent as Devin Booker dropped 30 on the Lakers in a big win.
Suns vs Lakers Odds
|Team||Spread||Moneyline||Total at FanDuel|
|Phoenix Suns||+2 (-108)||+118||Ov 207 (-108)|
|Los Angeles Lakers||-2 (-112)||-138||Un 207 (-112)|
Odds as of June 2nd.
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AD’s status for Game 6 is still uncertain, but the final word will be given prior to game time. He’s still nursing a groin injury, which typically takes 7-10 days to heal. James will likely be left to save his team’s season alone with the hope that Dennis Schroder can also help Los Angeles force a Game 7 as their season hangs in the balance.
Anthony Davis says he is improving but said the decision for him to play or not in Game 6 will rest with the Lakers’ medical staff. He said that the groin injury in Game 4 occurred as a result of the hyperextended left knee he had in Game 3.
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) June 2, 2021
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (knee) played on Tuesday after suffering a quad contusion over the weekend, but he ended up exiting early after re-aggravating the injury. He will also be a game-time decision on Thursday.
For the Suns, Chris Paul took a knock in Game 5 to the same shoulder that he hurt in the series opener, which limited him to just 22 minutes on the floor. However, he is not on the injury report and is expected to play.
Suns vs Lakers Projected Lineups
|Chris Paul||PG||Dennis Schroder|
|Devin Booker||SG||Alex Caruso|
|Mikal Bridges||SF||LeBron James|
|Jae Crowder||PF||Markieff Morris|
|Deandre Ayton||C||Andre Drummond|
Phoenix Looking to Close Things Out
No one could’ve predicted the Suns destroying the Lakers to that extent in Game 5, but it was truly a dominant performance. Deandre Ayton and CP3 barely had any impact either, combining for just 17 points.
Booker took over, shooting 56.5% from the field, but he had lots of help, too. Mikal Bridges, Cam Payne, and Torrey Craig all had double-digit scoring nights to complement their star guard. Payne continues to impress in the playoffs, having filled in for Paul very nicely. The former Murray State standout has added scoring punch off the bench in a more advanced role for Monty Williams, while showing the ability to get hot from deep or get to the hoop and finish.
Phoenix capitalized heavily on LA’s mistakes. They turned 16 Laker turnovers into 23 points. Another area where the Suns thrived was inside, outscoring their opponents 44-32 in the paint.
The Suns will now look to pull off the unthinkable and eliminate LeBron in the first round. It won’t be an easy task but this group is extremely confident right now after back-to-back victories.
Got it done in the desert 🌵
Back to LA for Game 6! #RallyTheValley TOGETHER. pic.twitter.com/lWD0q2mlkE
— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) June 2, 2021
Lakers on The Brink
LA currently has its backs up against the wall, but if there is one man to turn their fortunes around, it would be the King. He was the team’s leading scorer in Game 5, collecting 24 points. But, he struggled to get going, posting 17 of his points in the third quarter alone.
Final. Eyes forward to Thursday. pic.twitter.com/2Vp24mfWoT
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) June 2, 2021
The Lakers were outscored 32-10 in the second quarter in what proved to be the difference-maker. There was absolutely no flow offensively throughout the entire 48 minutes, either. Schroder, who is seen as their second-best player with Davis sidelined, had the worst night of his life. The German had zero points. The Lakers were simply just outplayed on both ends, but they did it to themselves.
The Suns have been congesting the paint with bodies and forcing Los Angeles to take more threes. Yet, they haven’t been able to sink these open looks, shooting a mere 30.2% in this series from downtown.
If Davis plays on Thursday, great. But chances are, he isn’t going to be 100% if he does. LeBron needs to step up heavily while the likes of Schroder, Kyle Kuzma, and Andre Drummond must be more productive. The Lakers will also have to take better care of the basketball because turnovers were detrimental in Game 5.
I really don’t see LeBron allowing LA to lose three straight. These are the moments he lives for and there’s no doubt he’s going to show out on Thursday with the Lakers’ season on the line. After all, that was one of their worst losses ever in the playoffs. There’s going to be a loud response and the Suns won’t be able to answer. This series will go the distance.
Los Angeles Lakers -2 (-112)
Quinn Allen is a sports journalist, with a background and education in broadcast journalism (BCIT ’17). He writes about European Football, Basketball, and Baseball for numerous sites across the globe.


Lincoln, Neb (KGFW) - Thursday morning member utilities from the Nebraska Power Association along with stakeholders descended on the State Capitol for a press conference denouncing LB 657 and LB 660, a pair of bills currently in the Natural Resources Committee hearing.
The opposition was joined by various public utilities, city administrators from around the state, customers and more.
LB 657, the Retail Electricity Transparency Act, would require retail electric suppliers to unbundle retail electric rates by July 1, 2018. It would allow customers to see a change in energy charge had occurred but not why it occurred.
Opponents of the bill say there is already a system of communication in place to help customers understand the rate changes. Currently Public Power uses public meetings, open houses, bill stuffers, brochures and electronic media and face-to-face discussions to help educate customers.
Proponents of the bill tout its increased transparency for customers and that it will allow them to be better informed of all their energy costs.
LB 660, the Nebraska Retail Electricity Choice Act, would provide retail choice in the state and allow private electric suppliers to serve retail customers.
The purpose of LB 660 would be to provide choice to customers on where to receive their power and keep costs low by introducing competition into the market.
Both of the bills were heard before the Natural Resources Committee on Thursday.


Lil Wayne was recently interviewed by Cari Champion on her “Giving Major Props” podcast. The two discussed his charitable Lil Weezyana performance, N.W.A., Jay Z, signing Drake, and the NFL season.
First of all, this was a great interview. Cari Champion is an amusing and engaging host and she related to Wayne in a way that made her listeners feel connected to him. Lil Wayne was also a perfect interviewee. He was genuine, polite, and shared humorous anecdotes as well as gave listeners a glimpse into his personality. The pair start by discussing the 10th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Lil Wayne, a New Orleans native, raised money for Hurricane Katrina charities with his successful show Lil Weezyana, where he showcased every era of New Orleans music.
The conversation then turned to the movie “Straight Outta Compton” and the N.W.A.. Wayne said he loved the movie. “They left a lot out of course, but they had to,” he said. While talking about the Greats, Lil Wayne shared a story about Jay Z that marked a milestone in his career. When Wayne was still up-and-coming, he received a phone call one night from Jay Z. His voice was animated as he told Cari about how he tried to get everyone in his house to quiet down when he saw the incoming call. It was only a short conversation, but being acknowledged by Jay Z let Wayne know he was going in the right direction.
Lil Wayne also discussed that while Jay Z made him feel accomplished, he made this moment happen for Drake. Wayne discovered Drake at a time when Drake’s mixture of rapping and singing was getting him rejected. When Wayne brought him on he said, “Don’t change anything. Don’t think cuz you coming over here by me you gotta rap about the things I rap about.” Essentially, as Wayne humorously put it, he was telling Drake to “Keep it Canadian.”
Wayne also demonstrates the virtue of being humble, as he wouldn’t tell Cari that he alone was what jumpstarted Drake’s career, even though he discovered him. However, when asked who’s a better rapper between him and Drake, Lil Wayne responded laughing, “Oh I annihilate that guy.”


Strategic performance and compliance management SaaS application
ViClarity is a performance and / or compliance management company based in Ireland. With its offices in Europe and Canada it is one of the leading provider of Risk, Compliance, Governance and Performance Management software.
Deliver a cloud based business process and performance management tool allowing automated tracking and monitoring of performance and compliance in organisations.
Business process management tool for risk and compliance officers, and anyone who needs to systematically track their performance against regulatory, contractual or strategic measures. It delivers a complete audit trail of all activity together with a review processes, trend analysis and reporting.
ViClarity was established in 2006, by Ogie Sheehy, to provide leading edge software solutions along with the required expertise to instil a culture of accountability and engagement within organizations. ViClarity has built a customer base of leading international businesses in regulated environments such as Financial Services, HealthCare, Credit Unions, Government & Semi State and Insurance.
Founder Ogie Sheehy and ViClarity have received many enterprise awards and accolades during the growth of the business and secured both private and Enterprise Ireland support to drive the growth of the business in international markets.
ViClarity was to deliver a compliance management SaaS solution to enterprise/corporate clients. The application was to be developed fast, within a tight budget.
The SaaS solution should be applied in various business domains – in areas such as the execution and management of strategy, contractor management, HR processes, executive learning, risk management and compliance activity in highly regulated areas.
Approach and Process
ViClarity and Selleo decided to use an agile / iterative approach to the software product development. On top of that, time and budgetary constraints lead the team to stick to lean product development techniques: the idea was to implement a minimum viable solution with which to approach the first customers and later develop the product in response to the feedback provided by the early customers. In fact, early customers’ feedback was a driving force behind a major product pivot, which allowed to broaden its application scope from compliance to performance management. Most importantly, the product was to remain industry-agnostic and industry-specific features were to be added only after specific niches responded positively to the solution offered.
The SaaS solution allows ViClarity’s enterprise clients to track and monitor performance and compliance in their organisations. The software tool can be used to gather and verify performance / compliance data and enables managers to view performance in real time on a single user friendly dashboard. The managers can easily spot underperformance / noncompliance, drill for the associated details and take corrective measures.
The system tracks and enables the ongoing monitoring of key strategic, operational or compliance objectives and metrics and effectively drives accountability at different management levels in the organization.
As regards strategic performance management, for example, ViClarity will take the company strategy and break it into specific goals and objectives that need to be delivered. High level goals and specific related objectives are assigned to the executives in the organisation. The executives can further cascade the objectives down the company hierarchy. It helps to achieve two things: (1) it holds the people involved directly accountable for the delivery of the goals/objectives set and (2) it keeps the organisation as a whole in line with its strategic direction. The SaaS tool can thus, among other things, be used for Balanced Scorecard / KPI tracking. As regards compliance / risk management, the system educates the user on their responsibilities, evaluates their current state of compliance and then uses a cleverly designed management suite to report the findings.
It also highlights any exposures and tracks all progress in closing those exposures by assigning actions, owners and due dates to the risks identified. Moreover, the software maintains a full audit trail of all activities for audit purposes.
Modules and Features
ViClarity provides solutions in areas such as risk management, compliance, governance, SLA management and strategic performance. This is an indispensable tool to drive real efficiency, accountability and visibility of the audit process.
The software system is composed of the following functional modules: User/Companies Management, White Label Customization, Customer Features Manager (On/Off/Rename), Audit Generator, Audit Delegation Grid and Scheduler, Reports, Charts and Excel Export.
ViClarity is an essential tool for anyone who manages risk, compliance or governance in an organisation. The solution systematically collects volumes of control information, delivers an accountability trail, displays trends and exceptions and delivers consolidated board/regulator reporting. ViClarity drives real efficiency into the audit process and reduces the effort needed to manage your controls by up to 80%.
Some leading Irish and international companies that rely on ViClarity include RTE, Boston Scientific, The BarryGroup, Mowlam Healthcare, Dublin City University, many Credit Unions, AIG and Allianz.


Survey findings released Tuesday by Ameriprise Financial show that where people live may influence their readiness to retire.
The survey examined the nation's 30 largest metropolitan areas to determine where consumers are the most prepared and confident to retire. The Washington metro area ranked 23rd overall, among 30 cities and towns. But in terms of preparation for retirement, the metro area came in sixth place.
"We're the sixth-most prepared or at least we feel we're the sixth-most prepared region in the U.S. So that's a pretty good ranking. The reason that we dropped down to 23rd is [that] in terms of confidence, we're the 29th ranking," says Anna Behnam, a financial advisor with Ameriprise.
Behnam also says that 80 percent of those surveyed in the D.C. area are actually saving for retirement.


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Allison Davis hasn’t seen her hometown friend, Chloe, in almost ten years. She lives a perfectly lonely existence in London, an entire ocean away from Boston where they grew up.
But when she receives a letter from Chloe inviting her to come to an upcoming concert by her band, she must look back and revisit the memories they spent together – from listening to riot grrrl and forming a band to going on a fateful trip to Cape Cod – leading up to the traumatic incident that drew them apart from each other.
In the process, she must come to terms with unresolved feelings of guilt and grief and reevaluate her life. Will she find the strength to leave the past behind?

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NauMai September 2021
If world leaders don’t take steps in the next few months to get Covid-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries, then the darkest days of the pandemic still lie ahead.
This is the view of Eric LeCompte, the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith alliance founded to advocate for debt relief for developing nations.
Temporarily waiving Covid-19 vaccine patents is an important step to getting vaccines to the poorest nations, said LeCompte. In August, religious leaders advocated for that action to US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, who expressed support. Now, the decision rests in the hands of the World Trade Organisation.
Temporarily waiving patents would allow countries in the developing world to produce and distribute Covid-19 vaccines, conducting tests and treatments on their own, which quickly increases their inoculation and treatment capacity.
‘If [the World Trade Organisation] doesn’t move forward, we’re not going to have the vaccines we need for global distribution, let alone what it seems now are a necessity for a third shot or booster shot for people who have already been vaccinated in the developed world,’ said LeCompte.
Opponents of waiving property rights fear that if market incentives for developing new medicines are distorted by government action, research and development, such as the extraordinary push that produced the Covid-19 vaccine, will be reduced. On that front, LeCompte stressed the temporary nature of the proposal – a waiver would only last a certain period of time before property rights are restored.
The meeting with Tai was the first of its kind between religious leaders and the US Trade Representative. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services, who is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on International Justice and Peace, represented the Catholic Church.
LeCompte noted the importance of the timing of the meeting with not just with World Trade Organisation’s vaccine patent decision pending, but International Monetary Fund and G-20 presidents’ meetings in October that will have a significant impact on the path forward to ending the pandemic. He also called it ‘unfortunate’ that world leaders have moved at a slow pace on global vaccine aid for the nation’s poorest countries. To date, the world’s poorest countries have received less than one percent of Covid-19 vaccine doses, according to the United Nations.
Sources: Crux, NCR Online


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What's the second most dangerous pickup line in America?
"Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." The most dangerous, you ask?
"I'm from the IRS, and I'm here to help."
Yet, that's exactly what every American taxpayer will be hearing if the "Tax Filing Simplification Act" is ever enacted into law. Introduced by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, this bill would direct our friends at the Internal Revenue Service to fill out your tax returns with information the IRS collects from your employer and your bank. All you have to do is sign on the dotted line - and pay the amount the IRS has so generously pre-determined for you.
Sound too good to be true? It is.
The Warren bill is based on any number of fundamentally flawed premises. First, who in their right mind would trust the IRS to prepare their taxes? As the IRS states on its own website, it is "the nation's tax collection agency;" its primary function is to squeeze out as much revenue as possible to pay for our $3.7 trillion federal government.
Do you think for a minute that, as it determines your taxes, the IRS would do anything other than maximize your tax liability? If you received a prefilled tax return from the IRS, would you treat it as a request or a demand for payment?
Remember: the IRS has police powers of audit, investigation, litigation, and financial and criminal sanctions. And we find ourselves in an era of a highly politicized IRS. It's only been four years since the IRS targeting scandal when the agency's Exempt Organizations unit, led by Lois Lerner, singled out conservative groups for political harassment. Just imagine what your tax return would look like if you found yourself on someone's bad side at "the Service"
And you'd be on the hook for any errors made on your return - even those due to goofs by the IRS. As former CBO and OMB official Janet Novack stated in Forbes: "whose heart doesn't race a bit when opening a letter with the dreaded IRS return address?"
Voluntarily surrendering your authority to the IRS for calculating your tax bill is a little like handing your debit card to a mugger and asking for a receipt so you can see the damage. The federal government (of which the IRS is a powerful and dangerous agent) is addicted to tax dollars; like any addict, its answer to the question "how much" is always the same: "More."
Second, the Warren bill presumes that most Americans are too unsophisticated to fill out their own tax returns. According to a 2014 Associated Press poll, 58 percent of taxpayers surveyed called filling out tax returns "easy," while 38 percent called the process "hard." In fact, a Pew Research poll in 2013 indicated that a third of Americans claimed that they "liked" or even "loved" filling out their tax return - a higher share than those who "hated" it. I, for one, do not know any of these people - but apparently, they do exist.
Not surprisingly, the AP poll shows that higher income taxpayers (those with annual incomes over $100,000) find it more difficult to fill out their tax returns because they may have multiple sources of income and more opportunities for deductions and credits. To help them prepare their taxes, wealthier people can afford to hire private tax planners and use software - which has the added bonus of creating jobs and spurring technological innovation.
For those who cannot afford these products and services, a coalition of tax software companies - the Free File Alliance - offers free tax preparation and e-filing software on (of all places) the IRS website. Those earning less than $64,000 per year, more than 70 percent of all taxpayers, are eligible to use FreeFile. Apparently, private industry does not need Elizabeth Warren telling them, the IRS, or the taxpayers what to do or when or how to do it. Nor do taxpayers need Congress to hire the IRS to serve as both tax planner - and collector.
Following the playbook of the political left, Warren and her allies on this issue point to European countries like Denmark and Sweden as models for America to follow. As Janet Novack notes, the differences between our tax code and those of Europe make the Warren proposal difficult, if not impossible, to administer.
This is not to suggest that the impending movement toward tax reforms should not simplify the tax code - it should. But as polls show, what Americans want most from tax reform is lower taxes and incentives for job creation. And that simply won't happen under Warren's plan to make the IRS America's free tax planner.
If the European experiment teaches anything, it is that nations with return-free systems, like Denmark and Sweden, also impose the highest tax burden on their citizens. The annual chore of filling out tax returns should remind us all of the real cost of big government. Just ask the teenager who notices the chunk of money withdrawn from his or her first paycheck.
Big government costs money - your money. And we must remain vigilant and alert of that fact - even when government comes wrapped in a smiley-face emoticon.
Peter Hong is a contributing reporter at Americans for Limited Government.


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The handy hobo bag from Tommy Hilfiger combines an informal and classic look. The grained, beige synthetic leather gives the hobo bag an easy-care texture as well as a hard-wearing character. Gold colored metal details round off the stylish appearance of the hobo bag. Flexible and uncomplicated object storage is provided by the main pocket.
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CANOGA PARK (CBSLA.com) — Two people were found dead inside a Canoga Park residence Friday and officials say the deaths were likely the result of a murder-suicide.
Officers responded to a death investigation call around 3:15 p.m.
The murder-suicide occurred in the 7100 block of Farralone Avenue.
Authorities said both victims had gunshot wounds.
They were later identified as 29-year-old Bahram Varahram, of Canoga Park, and 25-year-old Asleh Meradi Kashkouli, of Albuquerque, N.M., according to Lt. Fred Corral of the L.A. County Coroner’s Office.
Varahram shot Kashkouli and then turned the gun on himself, Corral said.
Preliminary reports indicate the two were dating, Officer Rosario Herrera said.


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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes MoMA’s Fall Bardfest, Shakespeare’s real estate business, US Secretary of State John Kerry’s favorite Shakespeare character, A Smokin’ Shakespeare Motown Much Ado, and boatload of reviews of the RSC’s King Lear. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
- MoMA slates Fall Bardfest with 21 Shakespeare-related films
- How to act Shakespeare on film
- The Properties of Shakespeare
- Tom Hiddleston does Shakespeare charades on Twitter
- Will Shakespeare lose his beard? Bard’s portrait is to be cleaned and it may cost the playwright his facial hair
- As he likes it: John Kerry says Rosalind is his favorite Shakespeare character
- Germaine Greer tells Q&A Shakespeare’s timeless lesson is to make us think
- Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks breaks out the clown shoes, bowties
- Shakespeare work gets hip-hop treatment in Bomb-itty of Errors
- Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks to host A Smokin’ Shakespeare Motown Much Ado
- Shakespeare’s Globe to live-stream play online for first time
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare & Company (review)
- Much Ado About Nothing by Long Beach Shakespeare (review)
- King Lear by Royal Shakespeare Company (reviews: The Guardian | The Express and Star | The Stage | What’s on Stage)
- Twelfth Night by Public Works (review)
4:40 – should be “Age of Kings” not, “Age of King”
This podcast was recorded with the built-in microphone on an Acer Chromebook C720, using AudioRecorder from gideon.weissman (webaudiodemos.appspot.com). It was then edited in Adobe Audition Creative Cloud on a Dell Inspiron 3847 computer.
The bumper music (Blue Nuke) and the segue music (Sonic Chaos) are courtesy of Royalty Free Music.com, which offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download.

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A retired Baltimore police officer has described the shocking abuses he claims to have seen other cops commit on the job.
Michael A Wood, 35, alleges he saw detectives kick suspects in the face, urinate on their beds during home raids, and illegally search people with no justification on a daily basis.
The allegations came in a slew of tweets on Wednesday as the former Marine slammed America’s ‘corrupt’ policing system.
And he promised followers this is just the start: ‘I’ll do some each day so that we have time for [questions], reflections, and improvement inbetween (sic). The light of transparency will clean us up.’
- Veterans for Standing Rock .. #NoDAPL - November 26, 2016
- Michael A. Wood Jr’s 2nd appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast - June 16, 2016
- My Take on “Safe Spaces” - January 27, 2016
- To the People of Chicago – Police Reform - January 13, 2016
- Police Culture: A quick idea during an assignment - November 13, 2015
- Serial Dynasty #FreeAdnan Ep. 24: Interview with Michael A. Wood, Jr. - October 12, 2015
- What Resides in Dark Corners (a response to a letter from the Baltimore Police Department) - October 6, 2015
- Michael A. Wood Jr’s appearance on VICE’s documentary ‘Fixing The System’ - September 29, 2015
- Michael A. Wood Jr’s Reddit AMA: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition … Why cops want to legalize drugs - September 23, 2015
- Michael A. Wood Jr’s Interview w/ North Avenue Podcast - September 21, 2015


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Pixel Sweets for Artist Alley
Well tge anime festival stints in July are coming around the corner soon so time to get cracking on those artist alley stuff. We'll be having the usual stuff from "Engel Bytes", the buttons, the beaded bracelets, the postcards and the pixels but also new stuff being made...robo-pouches and fans (exclusive for summer). Well here's a preview of the pixels being made...charms for the beaded bracelets and pixel art lollipops. This batch is a little sweet....plus what do these cool for summer fans look like?


Planning is well underway to develop a province-wide cycling network to connect communities and destinations across Ontario. With input from stakeholders, communities, and the public, an initial network of primary cycling routes across the province has been identified.
Learn more about this project here.
Last week the province launched a new round of cycling initiatives, “Action Plan 2.0”, to extend, deepen and diversify the progress made under “Action Plan 1.0”.
The plan is based on Ontario’s cycling strategy delivered in 2013, “#CycleON“, reconfirming and extending the delivery of facilities, programs and services that encourage more people to get on bikes more often, for purpose and for pleasure.
Read the provincial announcement here.
Learn more about cycling in Ontario and download the cycling strategy, Action Plan 1.0, and Action Plan 2.0 documents here.
As more cities try to improve walkability–from car-free “superblocks” in Barcelona to heat-protected walkways in Dubai–a new report outlines the reasons behind the shift, the actions that cities can take to move away from a car-centric world, and why walkability matters. Read more here.
It’s Spring, and with Spring comes the annual round of Bike Summits to rejuvenate and re-stoke our interest in working for public roads that better serve the needs of the general public.
All of the summits draw elected representatives, professionals, advocates and other interested parties from public works, transportation, planning, consulting, economic development, education, tourism, recreation and other disciplines together.
As this piece from Strong Towns articulates, there is much to be gained from better and more productively engaging youth in community building, and ensuring their voice is heard. In our old-style local newspaper the few vocal “angry old folks” tend to dominate the reporting of new developments , after all they provide easy click bait fodder. What’s missing is the voice of youth – especially the young professionals – who tend to have a fairly clear picture of the kind of community in which they would like to live and create jobs. And in some key respects that isn’t the kind of community the fading generation would fight to preserve.
“Talent attraction and retention are buzzwords that we’re hearing all around the world right now. Communities are shifting their mindsets as they’ve come to realize that young people pick places before they pick jobs. They pick amenities over low property taxes. They pick walkability and quality public transportation over a confluence of interstate highways”
Another great article from Strong Towns highlighting the clear economic benefits of streets that are walkable — that feel safe, encourage people to walk and mingle, and provide retailers and other businesses with walk-in traffic. Read more here.
Of note, the Plan will cover cycling and walking as well as other forms of active transportation, will take into consideration work already done for the Official Plan, and since then by the Brock Trail and cycling advisory committees. The plan will include consideration for things like pedestrian crosswalks and crossovers, staged implementation, completion of the Brock Trail, and more.
Public engagement opportunities and development of the plan will include open public workshops at the design stage as well as an opportunity to review the proposed plans. It’s expected that the workshops will be open and welcoming to all members of the public, to work together to identify and prioritize opportunities to help build a community that better supports choices for healthy activity, both for purpose and for pleasure.
Action Plan 2.0 of the Ontario Cycling Strategy #CYCLEON has been published for public input on the Environmental Registry website as well as MTO’s website. The plan continues and strengthens program elements begun in Action Plan 1.0 (pdf), with continued emphasis on Engineering, Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and Evaluation/Planning.
The proposed Action Plan 2.0 is open for public comment until March 7.
See here for the Environmental Registry page.
See here for the Action Plan 2.0 proposal (pdf) on MTO’s website.
Save the date: May 10 – 11. The 5th Annual Eastern Ontario Active Transportation Summit will be held in Brockville on these dates.
Thursday, May 10 will feature presentations, panelists and discussions revolving around how to create plans and projects and how to move them forward. This is of heightened interest this year, the first year of four for the Ontario Municipal Commuter Cycling Program in which many municipalities and townships throughout Eastern Ontario are receiving significant funding to help make our public roads more usable for all.
Tentatively, Friday, May 11 will be a morning session focused on cycle tourism – how our region can better gain from this fast-growing sector of the tourism economy.
Flat terrain and warm winters are well down the list of factors that contribute to how a community successfully encourages more people to ride more often, both for purpose and pleasure. Read more here.
The linked article nicely summarizes the individual and population health benefits accruing from introducing even moderate amounts of cycling into everyday travel. On a population basis, it’s no surprise that every $1 invested in cycling facilities that encourage more people to ride more often results in health care cost reductions of $3 – $20 per annum down the road. Read more here.
Here’s a great article from AARP exploring all the ways that communities benefit from becoming more bike friendly – for those who don’t ride (yet). Not surprisingly, the benefits go well beyond, “the bike beside you is a car that isn’t”. Read article here.
Amidst the myriad benefits from active transportation projects, the job creation benefit to the local economy is often overlooked. Two major grants for Brockville, both arising from the cycling advisory committee, illustrate this.
In 2016, Brockville was awarded $325,000 in the Ontario Municipal Cycling Infrastructure Program. Those funds, matched by an equal amount from the City, other grants, donations and in-kind, are being used to complete the Laurier-Centennial and “401 corridor” extensions of the Brock Trail.
The OMCCP grant is the first in a committed four-year stream. The amount of $183,362 for 2018 can be used to cover 2/3 of qualified projects, the first of which will be the development of an active transportation plan for Brockville.
Of economic note, apart from the other benefits that the project deliverables provide to the community, the two grants themselves, when the required matching from other sources is included, total $925,000. That is money all spent into our local economy, creating the equivalent of approximately 18.5 fulltime job-years. Park that on Laurier!
Ontario’s momentum toward becoming a more bicycle-friendly province took a big step forward today with the announcement of funding details in the first year’s tranche of the Ontario Municipal Commuter Cycling Program (OMCCP). Brockville’s grant for 2018 will be $183,362.
A pedestrian crossover (PXO) is a signed and sometimes signal-lighted crossing of a road at a location that does not have a traffic light or stop sign to regulate through traffic flow. (MTO reference)
For those driving or cycling: When you see a pedestrian with intent to cross, which may be indicated by flashing lights, come to a complete stop. Remain stopped while people are in the PXO. You may proceed when the person walking has left the road.
For those walking: Press the beg button to activate the lights. Stand facing the crossing, optionally with arm pointing to cross the road. Wait for vehicular traffic to stop, then cross the road.
For those cycling along the trail: Get off your bike. See above “for those walking”. Riding across a crossover or crosswalk is illegal.
More PXO’s have been approved by Council and will be installed along the Trail at crossings on Henry St, St Paul St, Cedar St, Laurier Blvd at Bridlewood, Centennial Rd, and Perth St, with more to come in following years.
The two existing crossovers and those listed above are part of projects initiated and driven by the Brock Trail committee and cycling advisory committee working together. In 2018, the City will be undertaking an Active Transportation Plan which will then be approved and adopted by Council. The public workshops that will be part of the development of the plan will be the opportunity to come out and help identify the many other locations across the city where crosswalks and crossovers are needed.
“There have been big jumps over the last two decades in the number of Canadians cycling and taking transit to work, while the increase in car commuting, which remains the method used by most people, lagged behind the rate of population growth in major centres.
The new numbers are part of a release of census data that paints a picture of a country that is gradually changing how it gets around.”
The linked article from the NY Times describes a simple tweak used to modify the timing of signals and intersections such that those walking are less that risk from those driving and making turns.
The intervention is a reprogramming of signal timing such that the pedestrian walk signal is activated several seconds before the green light for drivers. This allows those walking to get a head start in the crosswalk making them more visible. The result is demonstrable less risk, especially from more aggressive drivers.
“The National Association of City Transportation Officials has highlighted the measure — called a “leading pedestrian interval” by traffic engineers and urban planners — as a best practice in its urban street design guide, saying that it is one of the ways that “effectively decrease crashes and save lives on our cities’ streets.””
This signal tweak is one that any city, large or small, can use with benefit.
And, yet again, this is a clear example of how small cities, late starters like Brockville especially, can gain by following best demonstrated practices in larger cities.
Brockville’s official plan, like any other, declares that public roads exist to move people and goods.
A current and comprehensive transportation plan, which Brockville does not have, would then go on to stipulate the relative priority given to different modes of transportation and then go into some detail on the current and future transportation network of the city. Cities usually define the modal priorities as pedestrians, then cyclists, then transit, with private automobiles last.
The linked article describes how the city of London England has greatly improved the overall efficiency of their transportation system by designing and implementing roadways that match their priorities. This includes designated bicycle highways as well as facilities on shared roads. When people are offered choices they perceived to be viable as well as safe then more rational outcomes result.
In London, the result is a system in which cycling proves to be five times more efficient than driving, without even considering the associated health and environmental benefits.