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Son of David
2 Samuel 7 & Psalm 89
2 Samuel 7
 Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,  the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”  And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,  “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?  I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.  In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’  Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.  And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,  from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.  When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.  He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.  I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,  but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.  And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”  In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?  And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!  And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD!  Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.  Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.  And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?  And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.  And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.  And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.  For you, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.  And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.  Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”
 I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever;
with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
 For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever;
in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”
 You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to David my servant:
 ‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah
 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?
Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
 a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,
and awesome above all who are around him?
 O LORD God of hosts,
who is mighty as you are, O LORD,
with your faithfulness all around you?
 You rule the raging of the sea;
when its waves rise, you still them.
 You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;
the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
 The north and the south, you have created them;
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
 You have a mighty arm;
strong is your hand, high your right hand.
 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
 Blessed are the people who know the festal shout,
who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face,
 who exult in your name all the day
and in your righteousness are exalted.
 For you are the glory of their strength;
by your favor our horn is exalted.
 For our shield belongs to the LORD,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
 Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said:
“I have granted help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.
 I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,
 so that my hand shall be established with him;
my arm also shall strengthen him.
 The enemy shall not outwit him;
the wicked shall not humble him.
 I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
 My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
 I will set his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
 And I will make him the firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
and my covenant will stand firm for him.
 I will establish his offspring forever
and his throne as the days of the heavens.
 If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my rules,
 if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
 then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with stripes,
 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.
 I will not violate my covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.
 His offspring shall endure forever,
his throne as long as the sun before me.
 Like the moon it shall be established forever,
a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah
 But now you have cast off and rejected;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.
 You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.
 You have breached all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
 All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.
 You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
and you have not made him stand in battle.
 You have made his splendor to cease
and cast his throne to the ground.
 You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah
 How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?
 Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
 What man can live and never see death?
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
 Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
 Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
 with which your enemies mock, O LORD,
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
 Blessed be the LORD forever!
Amen and Amen.


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Microsoft Lawyers Save Company $388M
Sometimes, even the most expensive lawyers are worth the dough. And after getting a nearly $400 million judgment against it dismissed, I'm sure Microsoft agrees. The whole dispute centers on whether the activation technology for key Microsoft operating systems (you know how much you love product activation) violates patents held by Uniloc. A judge in Rhode Island says it doesn't.
What do you think of Microsoft's product activation? Should the company have to pay customers the $388 million for activation pain and suffering? Send your best legal opinions to [email protected].
Meanwhile, as if Bill Gates needed more good news, Forbes has once again crowned him America's richest man with $50 billion in the bank -- even after giving billions to charity.
But not all legal and financial news is good. Microsoft is still trying to overturn a $240 million judgment because Office violates patents held by i4i.
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Let's hope the censors don't get a hold of Reckless Getaway. Where Grand Theft Auto caught a lot of flack for its wanton vehicular violence, you still had the option to play as a conscientious gangster with a heart of gold if you desired. This is not the case with Reckless Getaway, a top-down driving game where you're rewarded for murdering innocent civilians. Despite the dark subject matter it's portrayed as brightly colored, cartoon carnage in this cathartic and addictive on-the-road rampage.
Most readers probably wont remember the original Death Rally PC game released way back in 1996. It was considered a fantastic combat racer back then, and we're happy to report that the remake for iOS is just as compelling.

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This section highlights the main elements of our analysis of the story “The Music Room” by Stephen King.
The story’s plot structure features narrative techniques such as backstories and foreshadowing, and the title of the story refers to the physical setting. The story revolves around a married couple who abduct businessmen and steal their money.
The main characters of the story are Mr. and Mrs. Enderby. Their victim, George Timmons, is a secondary character.
The events take place in the United States of America. The social setting explores the difficult economic situation created by the Great Depression.
The events are described by a limited third-person narrator. The narrator is subjective because he or she interprets the behaviour of the characters and shares the narrator’s subjective opinion.
The story is told in a descriptive style, which includes similes, personification, and metaphors. The language is formal in the narration but informal in the dialogue, making the story sound more authentic.
You can find a full analysis of the story in the following pages.

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Bjorn Krondorfer - Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination
Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings--by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian--that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.

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Senator Hatch announces retirement, prompting Romney run rumors
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has announced he won’t seek re-election this fall after 40 years in the Senate. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is rumored to be planning a run for Hatch’s seat.
“When the president visited Utah last month, he said I was a fighter. I’ve always been a fighter. I was an amateur boxer in my youth, and I brought that fighting spirit to Washington,” said Hatch Tuesday, announcing his retirement from political life. “But every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves… I have decided to retire at the end of this term.”
The 83-year-old Republican, the "scrappy son of a carpenter,” has served over four decades in Congress. His announcement comes a little over a week after the Republican tax plan that he helped craft was signed into law.
President Donald Trump has the “greatest and deepest amount of respect for Senator Hatch,” and is “very sad to see [him] leave,” the White House press secretary told reporters Tuesday, thanking Hatch for his role in getting the tax reform approved in Congress.
In his announcement, posted on Twitter, Hatch highlighted his most significant achievements in Congress, and said he would continue to work in public service once he retired.
“I authored more bills that have become law than any member of Congress alive today,“ he boasted. “I played a central role in the creation of the modern generic drug industry, and the passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.”
Hatch said he also played a role in every confirmation of every current member of the US Supreme Court, and helped in the passage of the Trump administration’s tax reform cut bill.
Hatch either chaired or was the ranking GOPer on the Senate Judiciary Cmte for yrs. Was top GOPer on Cmte during Clarence Thomas confirmation hrngs & argued against re-opening the hrngs when Anita Hill came forward— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 2, 2018
He was most proud of the the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which “guarantees vigorous religious liberty protections for all Americans.”
Hatch joined the Senate in 1977. Of the current members, only Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), has served longer.
Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney was considering running for Hatch’s seat, according to CNBC.
President Trump's approval rating in Utah was 45 percent and Mitt Romney's was 69 percent in last month's Utah Policy poll https://t.co/xIT7e5PkNv— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) January 2, 2018
Names to watch to succeed Hatch: Mitt Romney along w/GOP UT Reps Chris Stewart & Mia Love— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 2, 2018
GOP nomination for Hatch’s seat would be Romney’s to lose. But if he doesn’t want it, look at GOP UT Reps Stewart & Love. Maybe Evan McMulln. Love has a competive Hse race against Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams. Could fare better statewide— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 2, 2018
Unlike Hatch, who has been supportive of the Trump administration, Romney is an outspoken critic of the president.
"Senator Hatch has represented the interests of Utah with distinction and honor," Romney said in a Facebook post Tuesday. He did not address whether he plans to run for the seat though. He has until March 15 to file candidacy papers if he chooses to go through with it.
“I haven’t spoken directly to the governor about his intentions, but I do think he maintains a desire to serve the public,” Ryan Williams, a former aide to Romney’s presidential campaign, told The Hill last week. “I think if an opportunity arose he would seriously consider it.”


Regulating In The Dark: The Lack of European General Aviation Data
In 2008, the European Commission, Member States and European Parliament all identified the lack of basic statistics available to analyse Europe’s diverse general aviation (GA) fleet as problematic – a prerequisite for effective regulation, and ultimately better safety. Years later, the issue remains unresolved.
The Status Quo is not acceptable
A key aspect of appropriate safety regulation is knowing what actually needs to be regulated. Currently there is almost no data available to understand GA activity across Europe. National Aviation Authorities already collect basic information on aircraft, pilots, etc. but the information is often not published, or archived. Overall it is not pooled at EU-level.
Yet this existing information could be shared with almost a negligible cost impact – and the significant value in terms of better safety regulation. Voluntary attempts to share this data have proven unsuccessful over many years. Without data, how can authorities effectively regulate this sector? This is completely at odds with the Commission’s priority of ‘Better Regulation’ and the goals of the GA Roadmap.
Why do we need better data?
Better regulation can only be achieved by knowing what to regulate. Currently, we do not have a good idea of GA activity in Europe, so we cannot measure the impact of the regulation. Furthermore, a good data picture aids safety analysis; 1 fatality for every 100,000 hours flown is doubly safe as 1 fatality for every 50,000 hours flown.
What is needed?
Only aggregate data (i.e. no individual information) need be shared:
- Number of aircraft, categorised by type
- Number of registered pilots, in logical categories
- Hours flown, by model of aircraft where possible (depending on each Member State)
This existing data, sent to a repository by national authorities’ statistical departments once a year would already be enough to begin to improve safety.
How can we achieve this?
- A pan-European framework to pool available data, with a focus on shifting towards a harmonised recording methodology across Member States.
- The GA Community, having suffered from over-regulation for many years, would supplement this data with an annual opt-in survey, coordinated with EASA.
The official position of each EU institution on this issue:
“As regards the specific issue of safety, there are no European wide comprehensive statistics on safety of aircraft with maximum take-off mass (MTOM) below 2,250 kg and the partial data available gives only some indication as to the main causes of fatal accidents.”
“In order to properly regulate any activity, policy makers need to have a clear picture of the situation. This calls for the development at the European level of the basic set of objective and coherent data as well as for close cooperation with all the interested stakeholders.”
“Believes that policy-makers must have at their disposal adequate data and statistical information on general and business aviation in order to fully understand the sector and thus be able to regulate it properly; therefore calls on the Commission and Eurostat to develop and implement a systematic approach to the gathering and sharing of international and European data”
“Calls, with regard to air transport, for […] sharing of general aviation data with Eurostat by Member States, in particular concerning numbers of aeroplanes, pilots and flight hours, so as to improve the applicable regulations, with special emphasis on air safety”
EU Member States:
“Recognises the need to develop, in a cost-efficient manner, a common set of essential data in close cooperation with the interested parties, in particular data that would contribute to safety improvements, and a better understanding of the social and economic value of the sector.”


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Award winning Vertigo Theatre Productions have come up with a novel solution to the lack of production possibilities during the lockdown period. Revisiting their highly successful 2017 play Noir, Writer/Director Craig Hepworth has rewritten the show as an audio play and recorded it via Zoom sessions with the original cast.
Set in the 50s and the era of film noir, it is the story of Veronica Smart (Emma Morgan), a beautiful, married 39 year old failed actress. But her beautiful exterior hides a bored, manipulative woman. Her husband Cliff wants children, but Veronica has been putting it off and Cliff has started an affair. Determined to get her revenge on her cheating husband, she starts teaching at a local college and becomes involved with one of her students, sixteen year old Jimmy Flynn (Richard Allen). Using his devotion to her, she plans the demise of her husband so she can follow her dream of stardom. But one of her other students Vivian (Anna Hickling) is also devoted to Veronica and has her own hopes for their friendship.
In the style of the Philip Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler, the plot is narrated by Detective Sal Pelletier (Stuart Meevens), who leads the listener through the action from the scene setting opener through to the summing up at the end. He himself becomes involved in the plot towards the end of the show.
Emma Morgan as Veronica returns to the role as if she had never left it. Her husky voice perfectly playing the femme fatale who switches from harridan to lover to scheming witch within moments. Richard Allen as Jimmy is also excellently recreating his stage character, while Stuart Meevens' New York accent and delivery is reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. Anna Hickling's reappearance as Vivian flawlessly develops from mild teenager to a young woman determined to get what she wants. The rest of the cast work well in what can only be the more difficult circumstance of rehearsing and recording this from their various locations.
In the original production a monochromatic staging helped create the feel of the era. Here it is reliant upon the narration, but clever rewriting and Karl Burge's effective sound effects and audio mixing make a good attempt to recreate the feeling.
Ultimately losing the visual impact does mean the show has to work harder to engage the audience, but this is a well thought out and well produced version of a drama which deserved a second outing.
Listen to the show in full HERE!
Reviewer: Helen Jones
Reviewed: 19th May 2020
North West End UK Rating: ★★★★★


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Surf Rider Train
The Croft Newquay bed and breakfast is on this route and the train arrives at 30 mins past the hour at Mount Wise East.
Experience Newquay with the Surf Rider Train - Hop On - Hop Off - All Day
Ticket Valid All Day
Child Under 12 £1.50
Part Route Fares Acailable
Trip starts in Town Centre on the hour starting at 10.00 am
The last train to complete a full circuit departs at 4pm - you must check with the crew on the day for the time of the last train.
The Croft Newquay bed & breakfast has a poster with the full range of times and details of the full journey.

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Yes, you can find thoughtful, affordable Christmas gifts on a budget!
With the holidays around the corner, meaningful gift-giving does not equal expensive gift-giving. Christmas shopping shouldn’t ever put you in debt, so here are some great gift ideas that won’t break the bank.
*This article contains affiliate links. It doesn’t cost you anything, but if you click on the link and buy something, we’ll earn a small commission to help our writing team create more great articles.*
Plan a Money-Saving Christmas Budget
The spirit of Christmas isn’t about spending money, and the price you pay for a gift has nothing to do with the joy it brings. So the first step to affordable gift-giving is setting a budget for each person you plan to spend money on. This will make it easier for you to shop efficiently without the need to overspend.
You can find some really unique gifts at favorite discount stores like Dollar Tree, Five Below, and Dollar General that will make it easy and possible not to overspend. The $5 section at Target also has great finds.
If you have a set budget of under $10, you can then decide whether you will make DIY gifts or buy 4 wine glasses at the Dollar Tree with a $4 wine bottle at Trader Joe’s or Aldi. That way, you’ll spend less than $10 on your Christmas gift, but it still looks classy and has a theme.
Your gift budget is key to your own self-care during the holiday season. The holidays should not mean that you need to go broke showing appreciation for the people you love. These are just a few great ways to create and purchase Christmas gifts on a budget.
Debt-Free Gift Giving
When people think of a cheap gift, there may be connotations of a low-quality product. However, a budget Christmas doesn’t mean that you have to scrimp on craftsmanship. Many DIY Christmas gifts can be more meaningful because they have been personalized by you.
Whether you are creating a monogrammed apron for your loved one or making a homemade picture frame, the personal touches can set your DIY craft apart from something store-bought. Even better, these frugal gift-giving tips won’t put you into debt.
Theme Baskets for Your Christmas Gifts on a Budget
Even if you don’t have time to make a gift, stay debt-free by finding unique items at the Dollar Tree and packaging them together. One favorite idea is to buy one of their baskets and fill it with a theme night tailored to your friend or family member.
If you have a movie aficionado in the house, you can fill a basket with movie night treats. Fill the basket with things like popcorn packets, a fun cup, theatre candy, and a DVD. You’ll have a fun and meaningful gift for between $5-10!
For the avid reader in your life, check out Dollar Tree’s collection of hardcover books that can range from recipe books to novels. Put a few books together with a mug and a pack of hot cocoa or some tea, and you have the perfect gift. You could even throw in a $5 blanket from Five Below to keep them cozy while reading.
If you know someone in your life who needs a little pampering, filling a basket full of fun soaps, spa treats, and bath items, or even making some of the gift items yourself, show both thought and care.
Stores like Five Below, where everything is literally $5 or below are a great way to find board games, pajamas, unique books, puzzles, and art supplies that can create a fun theme without putting you under unnecessary financial strain.
Christmas Gifts on a Budget: Glassware and Mugs
If you’re not looking to fill a whole basket, Dollar Tree’s glassware and mugs can be ideal Christmas gifts, too.
Their glassware is both durable and festive and looks great with some flowers in it if you want to add a personalized touch.
Cute Dollar Tree mugs can be another favorite store-bought gift because they’re inspirational and thoughtful. Fill them with inexpensive finds like candy treats, mini-notepads, fun pencils, scrunchies, or even homemade hot chocolate packets.
Christmas Season Deals and Steals
As much as we love discount stores, be sure to keep your eyes open for online deals. Budget-friendly websites like Hip2Save or Zulily often have special shopping deals. Doing a quick internet search for a store coupon can save you money right away. Websites like retailmenot.com often have coupon codes that can save you up to 20 percent.
Notably, the site Hip2Save has a freebie section where you can often find offers for free magazine subscriptions, which is another thoughtful gift idea for the holidays. Shhhh….they don’t need to know that you ordered it for free for them!
Christmas Gifts That Make Sense for Your Budget
Whether you decide to go the DIY or discount store route this Christmas, make sure they make sense for your budget and your time. You could even combine the two approaches- with homemade cookies placed in Christmas or holiday-themed tin rounds that you find at the dollar store. Just don’t ever let the pressure of Christmas shopping put you in debt. Don’t forget; there are various options to keep costs down while keeping your gift-giving unique and meaningful.
With a little imagination, the holidays can still be budget-friendly while making your gift recipients feel special when they open your holiday surprise. At the end of the day, your gift-giving should be a reflection of your kindness and not the price tag.
We hope you enjoyed these tips on how to plan and prepare for Christmas gifts on a budget. For more family money tips and advice, check out the Money-Saving Family category on FamilyApp.

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Worms Zone.io: Voracious Snake
Worms Zone.io: Voracious Snake is an Action and Multiplayer video game, offering similar gameplay to Slither.io. It takes place in the dark-themed world where you are a snake and moves from a top-down perspective. Your goal is to eat orbs and grow in size while keeping distance away from others until you improve.
The worm zone is open now, and it invites you to join an epic battle of brave worms in a massive arena. You must grow your worm to be massive while earning yourself a title of champion. Lots of cool skins are available, and the game lets you choose your favorite one before starting the game.
Many challenging tactics are there, and you can adapt to become a champion, including a builder, trickster, or fighter. Try to earn as many points as possible and rule over the world of worms where only the biggest snake can take stand for the title of champion. Worms Zone.io: Voracious Snake includes exciting features such as brilliant Mechanics, Superb Touch Controls, and more.
Agar.IO is a Browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online and Action video game developed by Matheus Valadares. The game is set in a Petri Dish where the player controls a Cell and tries to gain as much Mass as possible by swallowing the Pellets and smaller cells and eventually grow bigger. Agar.IO offers amazing Multiplayer Deathmatches and Team Deathmatches in which the main goal is to swallow the larger Cells in order to grow bigger and to swallow the big ones to grow even more bigger.The only objective as mentioned above is to grow a Cell by swallowing both randomly generated pellets and all the small Cells while saving yourself from the Cells bigger than you. Agar.Io offers four main game modes such as Free for All, Experimental, Party and Teams and it allows you to select anyone of the modes, start playing it and and grow bigger. If a larger cell eats you up, the game ends for you so you must be fast enough to dodge them. Whenever a Cell in the game gains mass, it gets slow and the threat of being swallowed gets doubled up. Agar.IO is a game of skills, so if you are a fast enough player, you can enjoy this cool game for hours. With all the wonderful and colorful visuals, great sounds and scientific nature, Agar.IO is a fun game to play.
Osmos is a cool Action, Arcade and Puzzle Strategy video game that takes you to an amazing Ambient world where it allows you to engage yourself into a physics-based game-play. The game offers dream-like environment, amazingly addictive game-play and surreal background music. Your task is to simply absorb all the small Motes in order to grow bigger and then attack the bigger Motes, keep on growing bigger until you finish the game level. During the game-play, if you are absorbed by any bigger Motes than yourself, you’ll die and the game will restart, so try avoiding contact with the bodies that are bigger than you. You can move via ejecting matter but it’ll shrink you a bit so use it wisely. With cool visuals, a challenging and immersive game-play and all the wonderful things, Osmos is a fun game to play.
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Eufloria is a Physics-based Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Sci-Fi video game by Omni Systems Limited. Set in a revolutionary space world, Eufloria features the protagonist who assumes the role of a Commander of different interstellar beings called Euflorians. Euflorians collect their resources from the asteroids and the commander uses different units of Euflorians to solve different Puzzles and connect the asteroids by the Seedlings grown on the trees of Dyson. Seedlings, on asteroids grow with the time and produce more Dyson Trees and the Dyson Trees produce more seedlings with different qualities and abilities. The commander collects all the flowers, defensive trees and other created units to use them as their defenses against the enemies. The game offers a marvelous blend of RTS and Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform elements along with eye-catching graphics, unique and easy user interface and countless other great features.
Cosmic Crush is a great Action game similar to the popular Agar.IO that allows you to pull all the smaller planets, asteroids etc. in to your gravity field and grow bigger. Remember not to go near or collide in the bigger planets and Asteroids because they will swallow you and you’ll have to restart the game level. You’ll start as a small piece of rock and your target is to grow bigger into a planet and when the target is achieved, you’ll automatically move to the next level. With every level, the game difficulty increases so you better be good at playing this cool game. Cosmic Crush is one of the best Action, Puzzle video game to play and enjoy.
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Supersnake.io is an Awesome, Browser-based, Massively Multiplayer Online, and Action video game developed by Spil Games. The game offers a similar gameplay to the Slither.io and Agar.io. In the game, you can control the snake-like avatar and your main goal is to consume multicolored pellets to grow bigger and longer in size. The game includes a set of particular powers and level-ups that alter the gameplay. It includes scattered walls that can kill your snake if you touch one of them. You must avoid bigger snakes and walls in order to survive longer. You have to increase your size to eat small snakes and enhance your rank. The game has only one rule, eat or be eaten, use your every move strategically to avoid ending. Swallow red pellets in order to grow and blue pellets that increase your speed. Supersnake.io includes most prominent features such as Nonstop Action, Compete Worldwide, Spit your Venom, Eat Boosters, Active Super Snake Mode, and much more. Supersnake.io is the best game to play and enjoy.
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This year’s referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to parliament invites a reflection on the 1967 referendum, in which more than 90% voted to include First Nations peoples in the census.
Kamilaroi/Uralarai woman Frances Peters-Little directed the 2007 film, Vote Yes For Aborigines, which explores the political context in the lead-up to the 1967 referendum and its aftermath. Green Left’s Isaac Nellist spoke to Peters-Little.
Why did you make Vote Yes For Aborigines?
I started the film before the 40th anniversary of the 1967 referendum. [Prime Minister] John Howard was obsessed with the way Australian history had to be represented — the “history wars”.
At the time, scholars such as historians Henry Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan were challenging non-Indigenous historians’ views about Aboriginal history: they wrote about how many Indigenous people had died or were massacred.
Howard was trying to make us all feel comfortable about the country’s history and promoting “mateship”. It was ludicrous: citizenship tests even included questions about who was the best batter on the Australian cricket team!
Aboriginal groups found it difficult to get our heads around the fact that more than 90% had voted in favour in 1967.
While we were making the film, others were thinking about what another referendum on Aboriginal rights might be about and how popular would that be. Would it get a similar result?
It is important to remember that for generations there have been underhanded campaigns dedicated to quashing anything to do with Aboriginal people's rights, and the horrors this country is based on. There are still people in power who don’t want Australia’s real history to be taught.
The film hears from a wide range of people, including First Nations activists and former prime ministers. Why did you feature different perspectives?
It was important to appeal to general audiences. That meant interviewing politicians, even conservatives like Warren Mundine, as well as Aboriginal activists. By the time I made the film, the 1967 referendum was history; a lot of people didn’t know much about it.
Remember, activists aren’t always the same and activism takes all sorts of forms. From the outside, the activists fighting for constitutional change and the referendum appeared very calm and conservative, but they were far from it: they were trying to get the point across without being too confrontational.
At the end, the film explores the outcomes of the vote, with some expressing disappointment on the lack of progress. More than 50 years on what are your thoughts on this?
First, we have to be aware that there have been a lot of misconceptions around what the referendum was about and what it achieved. Some think it was about making Aboriginal people “citizens”, or giving us the right to vote. But the referendum didn’t change that.
The referendum meant Aboriginal people were included in the census, which started gathering information about our lives and socioeconomic status.
It allowed us to start talking about the economic gap between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous people. It also transferred management of Aboriginal affairs, including for education and health, from the states and territories to the federal government.
I don’t think anyone was expecting such a positive result. The 1967 result meant Aboriginal people felt like we did count as people. It deeply heartened people; they felt they had won a huge social and legal victory.
Unfortunately, after that everything fell flat. But it is interesting now to think about why it did. What did it achieve and what did it set out to do? How effective was it in hindsight and what did it actually change? A lot of things did change, but it wasn’t what was expected.
What do you think about the government’s referendum on the Voice to Parliament and the different political context?
The idea of constitutional change, treaties and voices to parliament are not new ideas. Treaties have been discussed since the 1970s, when Aboriginal people looked at models such as the Native American treaties.
The Bob Hawke government was looking a treaty, or compact, with Aboriginal people, but that fell apart. Even Howard was talking about whether there should be a preamble added to the Constitution. The context has changed since then. There are also more Aboriginal politicians and bureaucrats.
My big concern is what is the question being put forward? What change do you actually want in the Constitution and what will it mean?
I don’t know what is being put forward. I live in an Aboriginal community and I have no idea. And we still haven’t agreed on how the Voice would function.
The only thing I have been able to pick up is that the Voice would only act in an advisory capacity. If that is the case, why don’t we go back to the ATSIC [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission] model that Howard shut down in 2005? ATSIC functioned as a funding and advisory body that relayed Aboriginal concerns to the federal government.
Victorian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe is concerned the government’s Voice proposal could threaten sovereignty. What do you think?
It seems like the Voice will be pretty toothless. I don’t think that having a Voice or constitutional change will improve Aboriginal peoples’ right to claim sovereignty.
People are saying it is about time Aboriginal people are recognised in the Constitution. But we are already mentioned in it.
The people behind the Voice campaign were, for the most part, also involved in the Recognise campaign. Many First Nations leaders were involved in discussions, including Megan Davis, Pat Anderson, Noel Pearson and others. They went around talking with people, holding meetings with land councils and with activists.
The organisers invited people to the Uluru National Constitutional Convention meeting, but many who attended disagreed with it. However, the Uluru statement was put out and sponsorships started coming from Qantas, BHP, various football clubs and other multinationals to fund the Recognise campaign, which then led to the Voice proposal.
I am still not sure how Aboriginal people will benefit. It will certainly benefit a few, but it could lead to more bureaucratisation and make us more dependent on government funding and control.
Mundine and Jacinta Price, who are pushing the “No” campaign, are doing it for their own political gain. It is easy to get praise as a contrarian, but I don’t trust their motives.
Your film looks at First Nations-led campaigns leading into the 1967 referendum. Do you think the Black Lives Matter/Stop Black Deaths in Custody campaigns and the growing awareness of Australia’s colonial past will have an impact on the Voice referendum?
There were direct links between the referendum committee and prominent campaigns such as the Gurindji strike, that began in 1966, with some of the same people working on both.
Other campaigns, like the Freedom Rides, were less directly connected but received lots of media attention. Occasionally, we would be in the papers or on television talking about deplorable conditions.
It helped create an awareness that hadn’t really been there before because of the great Australian silence on Aboriginal history. The media played a huge part in addressing what was already a huge gap.
However, I am constantly amazed that people didn’t know this, or that, regarding what happened to Aboriginal people: when we were invaded and policies that have continued to diminish our rights and sovereignty.
I was one of the founding members of the Black Deaths in Custody organisation that led to watch committees and eventually the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
I support the campaigns against Black deaths in custody, against mining companies destroying our land and other campaigns. We are forced into a situation where we have to keep fighting. It's good that people get out in the streets and demand change.
The fight will go on and people will try to block us wherever they can, stop us from having our own rights, our own justice systems, our own land. If Aboriginal people had control of the legal system, there wouldn’t be 10-year-old kids in jails.
I worry about our grandkids’ future. People say things are getting better, and on some things they are. But the gap between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous people isn’t closing.
The best thing we can do is stand aside and let more young people take charge. I am very inspired by Greta Thunberg and other young people standing up for the climate. I want people like my son to be able to say what they want. And I want to stand aside and support them. It is going to be their world, and they should have more say about how it should be.
[Watch Vote Yes For Aborigines on Vimeo.]

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It does if he were president acts under these circumstances he could be JFK.
Normally you would not get reelected with those kinds of economic numbers now.
So the reality is mediocre job growth not enough to replace new -- into the labor force stagnant income.
Sorry it's slow growth it's a very tough record to defend.
Basically that's the status that -- -- I think an independent and do you don't really -- think so because if you had been president for four years it's.
He is trying to off loaded onto its predecessor which is a stretch I think -- that's different than defending it.
That's saying it's still lousy but it's his ball well this is the fact that -- -- trying to get none and that burden falls on the opponent.
Mitt Romney to give an explanation why.
He could do better than this president under the circumstance OK Kim Mitt Romney now -- after suffering some blows and advertising against him in June and July now is going back on offense rolls out his economic plan in at least a new way of framing it this week what did you make of the pitch.
While he's out there he's talking very much about the need to.
I mean a lot of it is what he has said before he has got to cut he's gonna cut taxes he's gonna.
Stripped down on the regulation he's going to put the country looking forward ahead and also deal with debt and ends entitlements and some of these I mean he's let.
Did would you seek him if it's there is there an is there a new ways putting and -- remember he had 59.
Ideas which Ed Rendell a Democrat called 56 to -- Is he kind of -- distilling that message down to to a real two or three we've that the voters can latch onto.
Yes he is in that was what he absolutely needed to do -- he needed to also make this.
Positive -- for himself he's been mostly on defense.
The entire time he's been running either on defense on the Obama campaign going after him or Justin beating on the present himself -- the -- failure now he's out there.
He's distilling the message making much more clear something the voters can get their head around.
But also positive message for himself.
I'll write -- bird and a brother Freeman what it is.
The message distill and form well it's -- -- Iran its growth and that is how -- how growth how does he has its growth particularly government.
Stripping it back from its back on a private economy now.
-- you can build that for President Obama obviously there's negative message -- small business what mr.
Romney is doing is basically the opposite I can mention regulation to a lot of small business people this is actually a bigger problem than taxes.
And what brought me is saying -- -- actually measured the costs of new regulations before we impose them on you.
He's talking about not not just fixing obamacare but a lot of these of financial services regulations that didn't end too big to fail banks but it really restricted the ability.
-- -- you know you've made the case throughout this campaign that Barack Obama for all of as the economic troubles exactly stitched together something of a compelling.
Reality of the economy focusing on the middle class in the economy that that bill collapsed.
It is is is the Romney message right now.
-- enough to counter that Obama narrative what are even if you think that narrative is false is it enough to persuade those those independent voters.
All I think they are beginning to find their way into that debate Obama is counting on the fact that.
The American people are tremendously anxious about the economic situation.
The -- document goes into some depth about.
Not just unemployment.
But the jobs crisis there's this deep structural jobs crisis the worst we've had since the depression right and they're beginning to address that and connect these policies like.
To the reasons for why there's no job growth in the economy and I think that that's gonna probably resonate with a lot of vote and.
And just underline how it's resonated the book meet the headlines that -- jobs report a lot of terrible news you have -- what they called -- -- six this is people unemployed plus several of those given up because they're discouraged hitting.
Now you have the labor force -- just.
Participation rate going down so.
I think the reality is terrible and they I think you have to say that the president's policies have failed on their own term campaign to go ahead camp.
Now it also undermines the Obama won Obama campaign's key messages which is -- there argument has -- We had a very bad recession we are slowly.
But surely climbing our way out of -- the problem with these unemployment numbers -- problems with that.
The -- in GDP which was a third in three years that of a -- Is it if it doesn't look that way it actually what it looks as though is so we're not willing making progress and -- that begins debt make voters that's a question that isn't in fact because of Obama -- Well on that big coming tax increase may really have the president may have backed himself into worst numbers as everybody.
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[News Trans]Bae Yong Joon’s Keyeast, 8.1 Billion Won for The First Quarter Revenue… Increased 223%
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[OSEN=Reporter Bong Joon Young]Entertainment company, Keyeast, for which Hallyu star Bae Yong Joon is a major shareholder, had sales of 8.1 billion Won for the first quarter of 2010 and it has increased 223% compared to the first quarter of last year.
Keyeast released their first quarter report through the quarterly report in the afternoon on May 17th. According to Keyeast, the sales of the first quarter was 8,161,434,247 Won and it has increased 223% compared to the same quarter of last year (the first quarter of 2009 was 3,646,430,824 Won), and profit has increased 796% (73,640,640 Won in the first quarter of 2009, and 586,769,688 Won in the first quarter of 2010). They especially said that the profit was more than last year’s entire profits.
They pointed out that the increases of the sales and profits resulted from “the sales increase from the merger with its subsidiary company, BOF and its synergy effects”, and “the services for the production of the animation Winter Sonata affected largely to the sales of the first quarter.” And they added that “it also resulted from the continuous activities of the entertainers including Bae Yong Joon, Lee Na Young, Choi Gang Hee, Lee Bo Young, and Lee Ji Ah.”
Especially, they had additional contents businesses in 2009 such as DVD sales of the broadcasting, 3D movie in theaters, and the publication of the photo books from ‘the Tokyo Dome Event in Japan’, ‘The Journey to Discover the Beauty of Korea’, and ‘Animation Winter Sonata,”, and it looks like they were the reason the profits increased.
An official of Keyeast said, “Right now, we’re earnestly working on the production of the drama ‘Dream High’, the production of documentary film, various licenses, and MD businesses. And we expect positive results from the additional businesses contents coming from the know-how of one source multi use business in the future.”
Recently, Keyeast renewed the exclusive contracts with Lee Na Young, Choi Gang Hee, and Lee Ji Ah.


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The City of Waco will honor the Lake Air softball team with a downtown parade and ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday August 26.
Lake Air defeated Rowan Little League out of North Carolina 7-2 in the Little League World Series championship in Portland, Oregon.
Lake Air is the 13th champion from the state of Texas.
Players and coaches of the Lake Air softball team will be escorted down Austin Avenue from 7th street to 3rd street. Following the parade, a ceremony with Waco city officials will be held at Heritage Square in front of City Hall.
Various street closures surrounding the parade will commence from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday. Local police and traffic crews will direct traffic throughout the event.
For those who cannot attend, the parade will be broadcasted live on the Waco City Cable Channel, WCCC-TV.


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Spinal surgery for low back pain: a way forward
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Surgeons need to wake up to the forces that are threatening the core part of many surgical practices, particularly in relation to the role of surgery in treating non-specific lower back pain.
There is a general perception that medicine, and this includes spinal surgery, needs to be guideline based and governments, managed care providers, insurers and health-care systems see guidelines as a way of managing––generally reducing––cost and optimising quality. In frontline clinical practice, it seems ever more likely that this will lead to delivery of a minimally acceptable quality of care rather than the best possible care.
There is no evidence that doctors adhere to guidelines , and this study identifies 183 published low back pain-specific guidelines and highlights the critical nature of these guidelines in value-based health-care procurement. They confirm an average delay for adoption into clinical practice of evidence from randomised control trials of 17 years and suggest three practical actions that can be taken by clinicians to address this. Firstly, they suggest better standardised guidelines and improvements in data collection and analysis; secondly, appropriate economic incentives for patients and physicians to reward “value over volume”; thirdly that all stakeholders in health-care delivery should agree on an objective common framework for evaluating the value of individual and combined treatment modalities for back pain. A recent review  clearly identifies a failure of spinal surgical researchers to adopt the lessons learned from the early high-quality trials and a failure to focus on the key questions, i.e. if there is a role for surgery in back pain rather than looking at variations in surgical technique.
We ignore the guidelines movement at our peril. Whilst no one believes that the National Health Service in the UK delivers the best possible quality of care in quality of life-threatening conditions such as non-specific low back pain, the UK environment is often seen as a harbinger to where more sophisticated and expensive health-care systems are headed. A recent clinical commissioning policy statement in the UK  clearly states “the NHS Commissioning Board will not commission spinal surgery for the treatment of chronic non-specific low back pain. There is insufficient and inconsistent clinical evidence to support its use as a good value intervention in the context of the provision of NHS Services”. Whilst clearly the statement attempts to address an extremely broad area of clinical practice, this philosophy will undoubtedly infiltrate other purchaser’s mindsets and rightly so. At the same time there is a pragmatic and sensible realisation that conditions like non-specific chronic low back pain should no longer be subject to treatments with an aim of curing the problem, but this patient group needs support to manage their long-term problems .
Many surgeons have been slow to adopt the biopsychosocial model in clinical practice. Popularised some years ago , the evidence is unequivocal that psychosocial factors determine the severity of disability and risk of chronicity in back pain. In other words, the patients most likely to be referred to secondary care are most likely to have the worst yellow flags. In addition, the so-called psychosocial factors strongly predict the outcome of episodes of low back pain, structured non-surgical care and surgical interventions . An original work  highlights that the range of psychological and social factors that need to be taken into consideration is probably broader than the current established list and they identify decision control, empowering leadership and fair leadership as important predictors in the outcome of back pain.
Recent studies are making more sophisticated optimising prediction of outcomes in episodes of back pain . This approach may become a key driver in patients flowing through a back pain pathway. In addition, contemporary research  is pushing out the predictive horizon and identifying what may predict outcome in back pain 5 years down the line.
Can we get better at identifying patients who are likely to do badly at the initial consultation? Waddell signs, yellow flags , the STarT tool  and many others can be used to identify patients at risk. A recent study  analysed 548 patients diagnosed as having primary spine pain and used various tools which demonstrated that 42 % of the patients have a fibromyalgia phenotype according to the established fibromyalgia criteria and severity scales. Previous work  has identified that early cognitive interventions can substantially change the outcome if applied early in this type of patient group. It may be that tools such as painDETECT  will help spine care physicians and surgeons identify this substantial group of patients early on in their management.
As the current potential for surgery in treating non-specific low back pain reduces and recedes, witnessed by the significant decline in the use of total disc replacement, we must resist the search for another non-specific target. The dramatic increase in the diagnosis of sacroiliac joint pain, the use of sacroiliac joint injections  and the inevitable subsequent increase in the use of expensive fusion devices to treat sacroiliac joint pain is against a background of no evidence that this will be anything other than a further passing phase adhering to the eponymous and repeatedly demonstrated Scott’s parabola .
In the next generation of low back science, there is a real chance that we may be able to stop chronic pain before it starts, to reduce and even eliminate the role for surgery in treating non-specific low back pain, and to be able to identify early those patients who will benefit from the more conventional back pain treatments in current practice.
As always, surgeons need to be aware of these factors and apply them in their day-to-day practice to deliver optimal evidence-based and effective treatment for patients with low back pain. Understanding and applying the multiple factors determining outcome that have been identified in the basic and clinical science fields will allow us to continue to improve patient quality of life using the surgical techniques that have stood the test of time. This needs to be in addition to the implementation of the best evidence-based non-surgical options for managing this quixotic condition and early identification of patients who will not do well with simple physical treatments.
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- 3.NHS Commissioning Board (2012) Clinical commissioning policy statement: spinal surgery for chronic, non-specific low back pain. Reference NHSCB/D14/a. http://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/ssc-area…/d14astatement.pdf. Accessed 21 Jan 2014Google Scholar
- 4.The NHS Outcomes Framework 2012/13 (2011) Department of Health. NHS. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-outcomes-framework-2012-to-2013. Accessed 21 Jan 2014
- 5.Waddell G (1999) The back pain revolution, 1st edn. Churchill Livingstone, New YorkGoogle Scholar
- 10.New Zealand Guidelines Group (2004) New Zealand acute low back pain guide incorporating the guide to assessing psychosocial yellow flags in acute low back pain. http://www.acc.co.nz/PRD_EXT_CSMP/groups/external_ip/documents/internet/wcm002131.pdf. Accessed 21 Jan 2014
- 12.Brummett CM, Goesling J, Tsodikov A, Meraj TS, Wasserman RA, Clauw DJ, Hassett AL (2013) Prevalence of the fibromyalgia phenotype in patients with spine pain presenting to a tertiary care pain clinic and the potential treatment implications. Arthritis Rheum 65(12):3285–3292PubMedCrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Apr 16, Colombo: According to the Sri Lanka Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) released by the Statistics Department of Central Bank on Tuesday, the industrial production in Sri Lanka surged in March 2019 while services sector also recorded a positive growth.
The Manufacturing Sector PMI reached a 46-month high and increased 16.3 index points to 66.9 in March 2019 from 50.6 index points recorded in February 2019.
The increase of PMI in March was largely attributed to the increase in New Orders in line with the seasonal demand, especially in manufacturing of food and beverages, the Bank said.
The Production also increased significantly, with the intention of achieving expected production levels ahead of the new year holidays in April.
The Stock of Purchases and Employment also increased during the month in line with tight production schedules. Most respondents, especially in textile and apparel sector, highlighted that they had to work overtime in order to timely fulfil the orders ahead of festival holidays. Further, lengthening of Suppliers' Delivery Time also contributed positively to the overall increase.
All sub-indices of PMI Manufacturing recorded values above the neutral 50.0 threshold signaling an overall expansion in manufacturing activities in March 2019 compared to February 2019.
Services sector expanded at a higher rate in March 2019, underpinned by accelerated expansion in New Businesses, Business Activity and Employment compared to February 2019.
Business Activity sub index followed the usual seasonal upturn and reached three months high in March 2019 contributing significantly to the expansion in Services sector during the period.
The expansion in Business Activities was mainly seen across wholesale and retail trade, and transportation sub sectors due to new year festive season. Service providers' outlook on the three months business activities slowed down further in March 2019, as many respondents are taking a wait and see approach.
Moreover, business activities of accommodation, food & beverage and other personal services sub sectors are expected to deteriorate since the upcoming period being the off peak season for tourism.
Prices Charged in the Services sector increased at a slower rate in March 2019 due to marginal increase in fuel prices, while the expected Labor Cost in the services sector increased at a higher rate due to expected salary increments and incentives to be granted during festive season.


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|Top L-R: PSA & certificate. Bottom L-R: Lanyard labels & medals|
For promoting this new direction, I decided to leverage the design sensibility already in place from previous Teen Art Shows. This would help aid in the transition from one established event to two similarly related events. Design work would continue to use winning artwork from the previous year's show featured as the base art of the new publicity materials. The winning artwork would be featured in its entirety on each marketing collateral item, and also serve as a border treatment surrounding the various designs. Moving forward, a different display typeface font would be used, and the winning artwork would be shown as an image on an artist's easel to further impart the idea of it being physically on display. The only changes between the two different age group collaterals would be the use of the previous year's winning artwork and reference to the different age groups.
Below are the different collaterals created (+ print quantities):
Quarter page handbills (600)
8.5x11 inch sign (25)
8.5x11 inch vote for favorite sign (3)
23x34 inch poster (1)
Broadcast media public service announcement ad (1)
Website banner ad (1)
Microsoft Publisher judge lanyard label template (1)
Microsoft Publisher artwork label template (1)
Winning artwork medal labels (12)
Winning participant certificates (12)
Entrant categories for this art show were: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place with four (4) Honorable Mentions, plus five (5) overall prizes for: Best in Show, Logo Winner, Best Photography, Best Sculpture or 3D artwork, and Crowd Favorite.
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Lifestyle choices are contributing factors to poor health in many cases. These include smoking cigarettes, and can also include a poor diet, whether it is overeating or an overly constrictive diet. Inactivity can also contribute to health issues and also a lack of sleep, excessive alcohol consumption, and neglect of oral hygiene (Moffett2013).There are also genetic disorders that are inherited by the person and can vary in how much they affect the person and when they surface (Moffett, 2013).
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Case Study: £115m City Centre Transformation — Holland Street Avenue
Approximately £115 million is being invested in Glasgow city centre to deliver the Avenues programme, which is transforming the city centre’s streetscape and public realm – making it more people-friendly, more attractive, sustainable and economically competitive.
Design and construction work is being phased over the period 2018 to 2028.
Construction work began with the Sauchiehall Street pilot Avenue in 2018 and was completed in 2019.
A good example of how the Avenues programme is responding to changes within the area is the Holland Street Avenue, with work beginning in Autumn 2022.
This project will feature an avenue of trees along the street’s western side, and wider footways throughout to create a more attractive environment for pedestrians, residents and visitors.
Some on-street parking will be retained, and soft landscaping will incorporate drainage as well as featuring raingardens to slow the flow of surface water in to the combined sewer networks.
This city centre district is undergoing significant change: the former Strathclyde Police headquarters building at Pitt Street has been demolished and the site is now being redeveloped for a landmark housing and retail development; and developers are finalising a long-term lease of the former High School site with a view to a building conversion there – for a hotel and events space.
The Avenues team engaged with the groups working on these schemes to ensure the Holland Street Avenue will maximise benefits for these projects and the people who will live, work and visit there.
The project is being supported by £437,500 in developer contributions.
The funding will see £350,000 made available for capital work, with the remaining £87,500 to support maintenance over a 10-year period.
The developer contributions came from private developments at York Street/James Watt Street and Robertson Street/York Street.
Thanks to these contributions, an equivalent value already allocated to this Avenue by the Glasgow City Region City Deal will now be allocated to a two-way segregated cycleway on Pitt Street which will provide a north-south cycle connection to Waterloo Street, increasing that project’s quality.

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