Get this: That dad dropping his kids off at team practice is a neuroscientist who knows how electricity moves in your brain. The cyclist who just passed you on the morning commute is an expert in ancient life forms, and the street photographer who just snapped a shot of your man purse is figuring out how to reproduce human skin. Young scientists are lurking everywhere, because Toronto is a place they want to be. It’s where they can research at a hospital on University Avenue, walk over to MaRS to figure out how to sell their ideas, then cross the street to teach a class at U of T. And aside from the institutions building shiny labs and lobbying the government for tax credits, this city is where communities of nerds and geeks overlap—tinkering, experimenting, and encouraging each other to do the same.
“We have an expert in everything in Toronto,” says Tom Schweizer, the head of a new pod of neuroscientists at St. Michael’s Hospital. “We’re collaborating more than we used to, and we’re not as siloed as we used to be.” That’s why OCADU prof Kate Hartman can get 30 strangers out for a meetup about making electronics you can wear, and Hacklab’s Chris Olah can go from being an unconnected teen mathematician to a director of a thriving hackerspace in just a few years. They, and the rest of the thinkers on our list, are why Toronto is at the forefront of disease prevention, physics, engineering, and, hey, fun. The brainiacs who follow are some of the best that we’ve got—a few are well-established, others are rising stars—but they’re also just the tip of the iceberg.
The skin-graft revolutionary (and fashion blogger)
Lian Leng, 29
PhD student, Laboratory of Lab-on-a-chip Devices, University of Toronto
Home hood: Yonge and College
Why shouldn’t a fashion blogger who does photo shoots for American Apparel also create a revolutionary treatment for burn patients? By day, Lian Leng is a PhD student designing a new method to create skin grafts. By night (and weekends), she indulges in her love of cameras and fashion, taking photos for her year-old style site, Torontostreetfashion.blogspot.com, which she runs with her twin sister, Qin, an illustrator.
Currently, helping a severe burn patient involves hurting them: In a skin-graft procedure, a patient’s own skin is transplanted over a burn, but removing healthy skin for the graft creates another painful wound, increasing infection risk and adding to recovery time. A mechanical engineer, Leng studies microfluidics, the precise manipulation of small amounts of fluid, and while researching different ways to create soft materials that integrate human cells (like replacement blood vessels or cardiac tissue), she decided to focus on skin.
The Montreal native holds a small, clear rubber board that resembles an electric circuit. “The wells are loaded with different materials, including a liquid solution with cells,” she explains. The laws of physics (if you want to be technical, it’s “fluid mechanics,” nerds) drive the materials through tiny channels, which spatially organize the various solutions—including alginate, an ingredient in brown algae that becomes a gel when mixed with water—into a “liquid sheet” that can be fine-tuned into different thicknesses, replicating the differences between, say, skin and muscle tissue. The result is a soft sheet of flexible material that Leng calls a “a scaffold for skin.” She’s hoping that when it’s used on a patient, the alginate will slowly dissolve as the skin cells multiply and knit together.
Working with doctors at the burn unit at Sunnybrook hospital, Leng wants to refine the material’s properties until it can be used to replicate samples of a patient’s skin. This would be a groundbreaking achievement, greatly reducing a patient’s pain from a skin graft and cutting costs dramatically. “A commercial collagen graft is $4,000 for a four-inch-by-four-inch section,” says Leng, pointing out that most Sunnybrook patients have burns on at least 40 per cent of their bodies. “This tool is a few hundred dollars.” Using a patient’s own cells would also reduce the chance that the graft would be rejected, minimizing post-operation infections. The journey from lab to trauma unit is a long one—Leng hopes to have human trials by 2015 or so.
Goldie Nejat, 33
Assistant professor, mechanical and industrial engineering, University of Toronto
Home hood: University and College
“I just walk around thinking about how useful a robot would be over here, or how useful a robot would be over there,” says Goldie Nejat about her daily commute. Last fall, she won a Young Engineers Medal for the two main projects she’s got on the go. The first is Brian, a pleasant-voiced robot who hangs out at long-term care facilities, encouraging the elderly to eat their dinners, telling them jokes, and teaching them how to play card games. The second is MARP, a search and rescue robot equipped with 3-D mapping technology, so it could locate survivors or subsequent collapses after natural disasters. With robots to handle repetitive, mundane, or dangerous tasks, the rest of us would have more time to do the skilful, precise work that (so far) only humans can.
The champion of unsung invertebrates (also, a bike nut)
Jean-Bernard Caron, 38
Curator of invertebrate palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum
Home ’hood: Greektown
The Burgess Shale in B.C’s Yoho National Park is the world’s most important fossil site, a treasure trove of 505-million-year-old marine life preserved in a remote bit of the Rockies. As a teenager in France, Jean-Bernard Caron became fascinated with the lost prehistoric world after reading Wonderful Life, a book about the Shale by Harvard scholar Stephen Jay Gould. Twenty years later, he’s become the leading Canadian expert on the site, celebrated internationally for his discovery last year of one of the world’s most primitive creatures with the beginnings of a spine. Now, he’s designing a new gallery at the ROM to share it with everyone else.
“Like most things in Canada, it’s better known outside of Canada,” says Caron, who cycles to work, even in the winter. He first visited the Burgess Shale as a volunteer before starting his master’s in 1999, and travels there with a team of researchers every other summer. The site can only be accessed during July and August—a helicopter flies them out with four to seven weeks worth of supplies, and leaves them there to set up camp and erect a very necessary bear fence.
Most fossils are preserved hard surfaces, like bones, beaks, and shells. For mysterious reasons, the soft mud on the B.C.-Alberta border has proven exceptional for the preservation of delicate tissues, allowing Burgess Shale palaeontologists to examine small, long-lost animals in amazing detail. Last year, Caron settled a decades-old palaeontological debate when he proved that a weird, wormlike creature called Pikaia gracilens did, in fact, have a feature that would evolve into a backbone. That makes it one of the oldest known vertebrates, an ancestor to every spine-possessing animal in the world, including humans. “Most people don’t want to be related to this animal, because he has no brain, a small head, and lots of muscles, like a prehistoric bodybuilder,” says Caron. Even so, the French magazine La Recherche called his Pikaia research one of the most important scientific discoveries of 2012.
And yet, Pikaia isn’t Caron’s only baby: He’s also a champion of unsung invertebrates, our spineless, less complex ancestors. Right now, he’s cataloguing the 500,000 specimens in the ROM’s vaults—like Nectocaris pteryx, a meat-eating squid that used a small, external funnel to travel via jet propulsion—and planning the museum’s first new permanent gallery since the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal opened in 2007. The 10,000-square-foot Gallery of Early Life will have interactive displays to teach visitors about the four billion years of evolution that took place before the dinosaurs even showed up. It will have one of the largest invertebrate displays in North America, after the Smithsonian. “All of my colleagues around the world are very jealous,” says Caron of this chance to showcase our tiny, overlooked ancestors.
The electronic clothing designer (and avid rock climber)
Kate Hartman, 32
Assistant professor and director of the Social Body Lab, OCADU
Home ’hood: Trinity-Bellwoods
Massachusetts native Kate Hartman came to Toronto two years ago, after finishing her master’s at New York University. She was wooed by OCADU to start the Social Body Lab, which has a wide, modern mandate to examine how humans interact with technology. Hartman’s main interest is “wearables”—technology integrated into clothing and accessories—and she organized a meetup to see who else was into them. Thirty people showed up, from dancers to chemical engineers. “I was like, ‘Wow, okay, I don’t know if that would float in every city,’” says Hartman, who heads to Queen West’s White Squirrel coffee shop most mornings to work on her upcoming book on wearables. “Toronto is pretty exciting—there are lots of people thinking about what’s possible and what’s next.”
Wearables can be utilitarian, like the Nike Fuel Band, which helps runners track their stats. That doesn’t mean they have to be ugly. Hartman teaches her undergrads the basics of electronics and coding, but also that their projects should have “off value,” meaning they’re still pretty or fascinating when they’re not turned on. One of her lab projects is a set of modular lights aimed at eliminating both the forgetfulness and vanity associated with bicycle safety lights: cool pieces that people will want to wear all day, that can switch on after dark to illuminate the ride home. “Not something that you’d find at MEC, like a blinky bike light, but something kind of beautiful,” explains Hartman, who also spends time climbing at Joe Rockhead’s. She’s been a DIY–type her whole life, but has always been concerned with beauty and whimsy—New York’s MoMA has in its permanent collection her 2008 piece, “Botanicalls,” a setup that allows thirsty plants to telephone or tweet their owners to ask for a drink.
Jason Fish, 35
Vascular biologist, Toronto General Research Institute
Home ’hood: Beach
We know that lack of exercise can lead to stroke and heart attack, but Jason Fish is trying to figure out why exactly couch potatoes get narrowed blood vessels. In his lab at MaRS on College Street, he studies tiny, transparent tropical zebrafish, observing what controls the growth of blood vessels. “It’s nice because they grow fast, and develop a beating heart in one day,” says Fish of his fish, which are also used to study how blood vessels feed tumours. Fish is mostly in it for the purity of science, but the eventual goal of his research is clinical trials and patents that will hopefully help treat a whole host of illnesses, from heart disease to cancer metastasis. The father of two won an Early Researcher Award last year, and was just named a Canada Research Chair. Fish focuses on microRNA, extremely small individual molecules that tell cell proteins what to do. One of the questions he wants to answer is why, exactly, they sometimes tell arteries to thicken or harden, and stay that way, especially when people’s vices include smoking or delicious but deadly junk food.
The cancer-fighting triple-threat (and squash fiend)
Josh Silvertown, 35
CEO, Armour Therapeutics
Home ’hood: Yonge and Eglinton
Why put dollars into rent when you can put them into research and development?” asks Josh Silvertown, who runs three separate companies from his house. The first is Armour Therapeutics, which is named after Armour Boulevard, the North York street he grew up on. The company builds on his research at the University of Guelph, where he graduated from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at 26—the school’s youngest-ever PhD. Armour is developing AT-001, a therapy to fight late-stage prostate and breast cancer by blocking the hormone relaxin, which fuels fast, aggressive cancer cell growth. “Most people who are at the end stages of prostate cancer are no longer sensitive to existing therapies,” says Silvertown. “Drugs that extend life only four months are already billion-dollar drugs, so I know there’s a market.”
The dad of 18-month-old twins is also the COO of Quantum Dental Technologies, which has developed a laser that can fill cavities before they even show up on X-rays. A former director at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, his more personal project is DreamCatcher, an online mentoring program he founded to match teens in remote northern communities with professionals who can help them pick interesting careers. “It’s in every high school in the Yukon,” says Silvertown, who somehow also finds the time to play squash almost every day.
José Zariffa, 33
Scientist, Toronto Rehab
Home ’hood: Yonge and Eglinton
For years, electrical stimulation has been used to help people regain the use of their limbs after a spinal injury. But crude treatments that shock nerves into a reaction result in jerky, unnatural motions, making patients reluctant to use them.
“It was an open loop, stimulating the nervous system without reacting to what was actually happening,” says José Zariffa, who’s been published in every medical journal that counts.
“We want to build a bridge between the nerve and the artificial device.” The Montreal native is heading up a new research team at Toronto Rehab, developing tools that plug right into the nervous systems of stroke and spinal injury patients. By decoding the messages being transmitted through the nerve, they’ll develop prosthetics that continually respond to a patient’s body, ones that move smoothly and won’t be embarrassing to use. Two levels beneath the University subway line between Queen’s Park and St. Patrick stations, the hospital has a huge basement workshop that allows researchers to make prototypes on site, judge the usefulness of their ideas, and bring them to market as quickly as possible.
“It’s the only place with such a great cluster of both rehab and neural engineering,” says Zariffa. “This is one of the best rehab research institutes in the world.”
Tom Schweizer, 39
Director of Neuroscience Research, St. Michael’s Hospital
Home ’hood: Oakville
Driving is often crucial to a sense of independence—Tom Schweizer knows this, because he spends his weekends chauffeuring his two kids around. He wanted to help doctors figure out when to give stroke patients back their keys, so he built a super high-powered driving simulator inside an MRI scanner. “The whole brain lights up like a Christmas tree during a left-hand turn at a busy intersection,” says Schweizer, describing how the MRI uses blood flow to track brain activity. St. Mike’s has just made Schweizer its first-ever Director of Neuroscience Research, heading up a team of 21 scientists that’s also studying distracted driving. It recently had 27-year-olds use the simulator while mimicking the use of cellphones and hands-free devices. Bad news, chit-chatters: The research shows you can’t talk and make that left turn at the same time. Schweizer hopes his work will eventually have implications on driving policy.
The math savant (and university dropout)
Chris Olah, 20
Director at Hacklab, Thiel Fellow
Home ’hood: Chinatown
As a teenage math savant with few people smart enough to talk to, Chris Olah discovered a website about hackerspaces, spots where science-minded tinkerers pooled their expertise and tools. On it, the then-15-year-old was thrilled to see a listing for Hacklab Toronto, in Kensington Market. “It was just an amazing place to be,” says Olah, now a director at the lab. “The first time I really felt connected to a community, with peers in my age-group.”
Two years ago, Olah left the pure math program at U of T: He had other things to do, like design 3-D printers and software, and felt that took priority over university. He applied for, and won, a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship, a prize handed out by entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who believes higher education is a waste of money that stifles brilliance, and so gives college-aged kids cash to drop out of school.
For two years, Olah will be paid to pursue whatever work interests him. He flies back and forth between Toronto and San Francisco (where The Thiel Foundation is based), using his grant to mess around with laser cutters, vegan cooking, and gardening, as well as studying the gender gap in math. His most enduring obsession is 3-D printers, some of which he calls “glorified hot glue guns that produce sculptures designed on a computer.” The trendy tech toy of the moment, 3-D printers have finally reached a cheapish price point (about $500–$1,000) that allows just about anyone to make just about anything. (The race is currently on to make the world’s first 3-D printed house.) When Olah used Hacklab’s 3-D printer to make a working vacuum cleaner, he found that the existing design software was super expensive. So he came up with ImplicitCAD, a program that helps turn mathematical visualizations into real objects. Olah is keeping ImplicitCAD open source, giving imaginative but underpaid artists, designers, and hobbyists full access to a quality design product, for free.
Rachel Friesen, 33
Radio astronomer, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Home ’hood: Riverside
To observe the radio waves emitted around brand new stars, Rachel Friesen has to compete against every other astronomer in the world. Only the best researchers get time on the best telescopes, and she’s been to Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, and the Nobeyama observatory in Japan.
“I’ve got pretty big questions—where did our solar system come from? Where did we come from?” says Friesen. She focuses her gaze on molecules containing carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen drifting around hidden parts of the universe, and says “the dark parts of the Milky Way are basically stellar nurseries.” One current spot she’s contemplating is a molecular cloud in the sword of the Orion constellation, which we can all see on a clear, dark night.
Yup. We figured that out.
1921: Toronto-based researcher Frederick Banting isolates insulin. He becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine two years later.
1938: Grad students from the University of Toronto build the first working electron microscope.
1963: U of T scientists discover the self-renewing potential of stem cells, and inadvertently pioneer a new treatment for bone marrow diseases.
1983: The first successful single-lung transplant is completed by Toronto thoracic surgeon Joel Cooper.
2011: U of T astronomers spot the two largest black holes in the universe discovered thus far, each with a mass equal to 10 billion suns.
2012: Researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre uncover the ability of some malignant cells to lie dormant and evade chemotherapy—a major breakthrough in treatment of the disease.
2012: In about an hour, ROM technician Ian Morrison pieces together the jaw of a ceratopsian fossil (cousin to the triceratops) after professional palaeontologists—including the ROM’s dinosaur expert—spent years being confounded by it. The creature was renamed Gryphoceratops morrisoni, in Morrison’s honour.


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Growing the Greatest Flowers Around
by Ken Snowie
Soil chemistry counts
The chemical make-up of the soil is one of the biggest factors that contribute to the success or failure of your garden. If the soil in your planting beds is poor in nutrients, it is unlikely that your plants will thrive or produce those beautiful flowers that you want until you enrich the soil with the nutrition the plants need.
Know what your plants will need to thrive
You probably already have an idea about what you want to plant in your garden, so it is important that you understand what those plants will require in order to grow and flourish. Although many types of annuals, perennials, and bulbs can grow and thrive in a broad range of soil and weather conditions, others can have special requirements for food, water, and soil conditions.
Keeping an eye on nutrition
The nutrients in the soil will dictate the health and vitality of your plants and flowers. If the phosphorus and nitrogen levels, as well as the presence of other types of organic matter are not sufficient, your plants may be malnourished, and not thrive at all. Nutrients can be added to poor soil by using humus or any number of good-quality fertilizers.
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OTT platforms and online news portals come under the regulation of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
The OTT platforms will now be regulated by the Union ministry headed by Prakash Javadekar
The government of India has issued an order to bring online news websites and digital content providers under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The ministry will also regulate online audio-visual programmes and current affairs content, according to the gazette notification issued by President Ram Nath Kovind on November 10.
This means that over-the-top (OTT) media services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hotstar will now be regulated by the Union ministry headed by Prakash Javadekar.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to regulate content in OTT platforms led to the Supreme Court seeking a response from the central government. The PIL had highlighted the fact that the content available on OTT platforms is not subject to any filter or screening process.
While the Press Council of India takes care of print media, and the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) monitors the news channels, the Advertising Standards Council of India and Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) regulate advertisements and films, respectively.
Notably, a self-regulation code signed by video streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, and 12 others ran into trouble with the government during the last week of October, as the government insisted on producing a clear list of guidelines for restricting or prohibiting content.
We reached out to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, ZEE5, and Alt Balaji seeking a response but they all declined to comment at the moment.


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Strontium and calcium sorption and desorption from tomato roots
Calcium (Ca) is an essential plant nutrient responsible for many functions in plants, e.g., cell signaling and stress tolerance. The uptake pathway of Ca is shared by other elements like strontium (Sr), which shares many physicochemical similarities with Ca. Sr is a soil alkaline metal which if uptaken, negatively influences plant performance in the long term. Because of their shared characteristics, Sr was used for many years as a tracer of Ca. Even so, the degree of analogy between Sr and Ca in different plants tissues and between plants grown in different conditions is uncertain. Our previous work reported a high level of congruence between Sr and Ca in tomato plants grown in hydroponics. Nonetheless, we also reported a large initial variation between Sr and Ca soon after exposure. In our current work, tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L. 'Brigade') were grown in hydroponics and treated with different concentrations of Sr or Ca to describe the short-term behavior of Sr in different plants organs (with the emphasis on roots). The current study showed that Sr accumulates in different organs of the tomato plant with the following gradation: leaves > stems > roots. Additionally, Sr was adsorbed to the tomato roots with a high initial affinity, which caused a discrepancy between the initial removal of Sr and Ca from the solution when the exposure time was shorter than three hours. We believe that this work expands our grasp on the relationship between Sr and Ca, hopefully leading to a more precise utilization of Sr as the tracer of Ca.
Jovanovic, P., Rachmilevitch, S. and Erel, R. (2022). Strontium and calcium sorption and desorption from tomato roots. Acta Hortic. 1333, 125-132
calcium, strontium, adsorption, tomato, hydroponics

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Description - Organizational Cultures by Diana C. Pheysey
In recent years global trade and telecommunications have rapidly been spreading the influence of large multinational forms of organization. An integral part of this process has been the rise of 'organizational cultures' unique to particular firms. In a world where such cultures are often in conflict with the societies in which they operate how can we understand the workings of cultural patterns and the kinds of transformations they can create? This concise new introductory text provides succint analysis of organizational cultures and types of change they can set in motion. 'culture' is used in an original way to bring together and make sense of cenrtral issues of organizational behaviour. The author explores the way in which forms of culture can influence styles of management, attitudes toward leadership, the level of motivation in the workplace and hidden agendas' in group dynamics.
Organizational Cultures raises the important issue of whether their can be such a thing as a right decision' for an organization, and brings into focus the major implications and dangers of the growing numbers of supra-national firms both in terms of internal structure and for the context which they function. Throughout, the author succeeds in weaving together behaviour and organization, thus reconciling the traditional divorce between psychology and sociology in the field. Drawing on case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Organizational Cultures provides a truly international insight into forms of organizational behaviour. Detailed chapter objectives and summaries are provided to aid progress and self-assessment.
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Unfortunately we didn't have time to have a tour gide to show us around
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Tags: Viminacium, history, tour
Great sculpt one of the most famous person in history. Garden full of fountains and colorful flowers.
A little piece of history
St. Petersburg, Peterhof. June 2017. Beautiful history of the Russian Empire.
Rim-Italija. Rome-Italy The city full of history
Return to history - Horse car
Photography by #travellingthroughtheworld - Tour Eiffel, Paris France (yellow roses)
My Room Tour on Fliiby... ...Go Go Go Go Moja Soba
A view of the 'Castle of culture' through tree branch
Autumn landscape. Alley, in the golden forest.

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I’ve looked into my crystal ball and present my fearless predictions for Election Day 2012
President of the United States
Popular Vote (rounded): Obama: 50% Romney 48%
Final EV Prediction: Obama 333 Romney 205
Obama wins Romney wins
IL NE (4 EV)
NE (1 EV – Omaha) ND
The state I’m least confident about for the President is Florida. Polling there has consistently shown the race to be neck-and-neck, but the I-4 corridor may be more receptive to Romney’s businessman pitch than it was McCain’s “Country First” claptrap. I also think Romney will narrowly carry North Carolina, owing to its natural Republican tilt. It is also possible Obama will not collect the Congressional District EV in Nebraska that he won in 2008. If so, his EV count drops to 303 (FL -29, NE -1), which would still represent a higher EV tally than either of George W. Bush’s wins. In Virginia, Kaine will win by 5-6 points and I don’t see Romney over performing Allen by that much. Head fakes by Team Romney in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Michigan may have helped his “narrative,” but the President will win all three easily (albeit not be as large a margin as he did in 2008). Similarly, I expect the President to carry Ohio and Wisconsin by at least 3 points (media reports trying to paint each as a “toss-up” are belied by state-level polling). In fact, I think much of the after-action reporting on the President’s re-election will center on the degree to which the Romney folks were spinning to project strength when they knew their man was going to lose. Last point: an Obama win in the popular vote would make this the 5th election in the past 6 where the Democrat carried the popular vote (the lone exception since 1992 being Bush’s narrow win in 2004). While that will not put to rest the mainstream media belief that we are a “center-right” country, facts are stubborn things.
U.S. Senate (Key Races)
Who Will Win: Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Claire McCaskill, Tim Kaine, Sherrod Brown, Martin Heinrich
Who I Hope Will Win (& I think will win): Heidi Heitkamp, Tammy Baldwin
Who I Hope Will Win (but worried they will not): Joe Donnelly, Jon Tester
Warren should triumph not just because of Brown’s scurrilous and ugly campaign, but the rising tide that will be Obama’s 20+ point win in Massachusetts. Chris Murphy should benefit similarly in Connecticut, while McCaskill’s re-election in Missouri was secured when Todd Akin decided to share his views on rape with the electorate. Both Tim Kaine and Sherrod Brown have run strong campaigns on their own in Virginia and Ohio, taking two races that seemed like toss-ups and locking them down well before Election Day. Martin Heinrich looks like a strong bet to continue shading New Mexico blue and has also been helped by a weak (and soon-to-be two-time loser) opponent in Heather Wilson.
In other races, I do hope Heidi Heitkamp pulls off a minor upset in reliably Republican North Dakota. From everything I have read about that race, she has excelled at the “retail” politics that are required there and also has a middle of the road record (including a stint as state Attorney General) to run on. Similarly, although she started out as an underdog to former four-term (!) Governor Tommy Thompson, Tammy Baldwin has run a scrappy and tenacious campaign in Wisconsin. Both sides are highly motivated and organized in the Badger State, not just for the Obama/Romney match-up, but the residual mobilizing that was done both for and against Governor Scott Walker. Baldwin would bring needed progressivity to the Senate.
Even though recent polling shows Joe Donnelly leading “rape baby guy” Richard Mourdock by 11 points in Indiana, I am worried there won’t be enough ticket splitters in the Hoosier State to carry Donnelly over the finish line. In Montana, Jon Tester has a similar issue of needing to over perform the President, although Big Sky Country only went for McCain by 2 points in 2008. Tester barely eeked out a win in 2006 in a strong Democratic year and he will need all of that and more to be re-elected. I’m worried he may fall a little short.
The other two races I did not list are likely to cancel one another out – I expect Bill Nelson to cruise to re-election in Florida, while I fear Dean Heller may eke out a win in Nevada (though we underestimate Harry Reid’s turnout machine at our peril).

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Tottenham have given up on the idea of signing Riyad Mahrez, according to The Mirror.
The report claims Juventus are the latest club to express an interest in Mahrez, while Chelsea and Arsenal remain keen on the Algerian.
Spurs, on the other hand, “have already rejected the chance to sign him.” Perhaps they were put off by his £40 million price tag and £100,000-a-week wages.
Instead, it appears Tottenham are going to pursue Mahrez’s Leicester teammate, Demarai Gray.
The winger is believed to be unsettled at the King Power Stadium after failing to make a big impression under current manager Craig Shakespeare.
Apparently Gray has a £22 million release clause which Spurs aren’t willing to meet. But negotiations are bound to happen if the interest is real.
The 20-year-old is clearly very talented, as evidenced by the stunning goal he scored at Old Trafford last season.

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Mirrors of virtue: Manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland
As a departure from previous practice, this volume of Opuscula presents ten articles on a single theme: manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland
Margrét Eggertsdóttir and Matthew James Driscoll (eds.): Mirrors of virtue. Manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XLIX. Opuscula XV. 2017. Museum Tusculanums Press.
Pre-modern Iceland is understood as the period between the advent of print in the early sixteenth century to the establishment of the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service in the early twentieth. Throughout this period, manuscript transmission continued to exist side by side with print, the two media serving different, but overlapping, audiences and transmitting different, but overlapping, types of texts.
The authors take their point of departure in recent developments within literary and cultural studies which focus on the
The volume's title, Mirrors of virtue, refers not only to the popular late medieval and early-modern genre of exemplary and/or admonitory 'mirror' literature – several examples of which are discussed – but also to the idea that both manuscripts and printed books are reflections of 'virtue' in a broader sense.
While some of the manuscripts dealt with here were clearly compiled with the intent of encouraging virtuous
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Introduction: Manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland
Davíð Ólafsson: Post-medieval manuscript culture and the historiography of texts
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson: Hymnodia sacra and its influence on the 1772 Icelandic Hymnal
Katelin Parsons: Text and context. Maríukvæði in Lbs 399 4to
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir & Katelin Parsons: The glacier’s long shadow: Guðmundur Runólfsson and his manuscripts
Margrét Eggertsdóttir: Script and print in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Iceland: The case of Hólar í Hjaltadal
Silvia Hufnagel: Tradition and innovation: Design development in Pétur Jónsson’s title pages between 1773 and 1780
Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir: Women’s manuscript culture in Iceland, 1600–1900
M.J. Driscoll: Pleasure and pastime. The manuscripts of Guðbrandur Sturlaugsson á Hvítadal
Þórunn Sigurðardóttir: Constructing cultural competence in seventeenth-century Iceland: The case of poetical miscellanies
Tereza Lansing: Permissible entertainment: The post-medieval transmission of fornaldarsaga manuscripts in western Iceland


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Cal Poly awarded a degree Saturday to Carson Starkey, who died of alcohol poisoning more than a decade ago when he was a freshman at the university.
Starkey’s family accepted his degree, a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering, on his behalf, according to a Twitter post from With Us — The National Network for Peer Accountability, the Cal Poly-based organization started by Starkey’s parents.
In the 10 years since Starkey’s death after a Sigma Alpha Epsilon party, his parents, Scott and Julia Starkey, have dedicated their lives to trying to save others.
The Starkeys moved to San Luis Obispo following the tragedy and established a nonprofit, Aware Awake Alive, that aims to create awareness about alcohol poisoning and encourages bystanders to step in.
They have also advocated for medical amnesty laws that grant immunity to minors who seek medical help in emergency situations involving drug and alcohol violations. Without those laws, the couple told The Tribune in November, young people may fear legal consequences and hesitate to get help in a life-threatening situation.
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It seems like every gadget under the sun is at least boasting the option of a 3G cellular connection these days, so we’re a bit surprised that we have yet to see a SIM card slapped into a consumer digicam before now. The Cerevo Cam Live! does just that, boasting built-in WiFi and 3G connectivity that allows you to upload your pictures to your favorite social netowrking sites even away from your computer.
Spec wise, we’re looking at a 9 megapixel sensor, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, HSUPA 3G, a microSD card slot, a USB port and a 2.4-inch LCD display.
The Cerevo Cam Live’s most interesting functionality isn’t captured by the spec sheet, though. Customers can livestream video from the camera, which will then immediately be pushed to Ustream’s site. Don’t expect 720p video in the live-stream: in fact, video will max out at a paltry 352 x 288 resolution. But the battery will hold steady for two hours of live-streaming functionality, and the possibilities are obvious: imagine taking your entire family on vacation in real-time with you.
The Cerevo cam’s video functionality doesn’t stop there: you can also shoot videos in HD, WVGA and VGA and upload them to a number of online video sites, or even specify in the options to automatically upload any video straight to YouTube.
Right now, the Cerevo Cam Live is only available in Japan, where it costs a paltry $216. Expect the Cerevo Cam Live to come to the States later this summer for a similar price.
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CUBAN FURY- Review
Arriving in the form that it has, based on an idea by a drunken Nick Frost, it actually does a serviceable job of straddling those two extremes and comes out much sweeter. Frost plays Bruce Garrett, a former salsa-dancing prodigy who threw it all away after one traumatic incident. Approaching 40, he's shy and unfulfilled, but a crush on his dance-fan boss Julia puts the fire back in his heels, and he decides to take up the salsa again, in a bid to woo her away from a womanising colleague.
To say that it's sweet doesn't necessarily preclude that it's not funny, but there's definitely something lacking here, and it takes a little time to realise what that is. It's interesting that Frost's first real solo project mirrors his Cornetto buddy Simon Pegg's Run, Fat Boy, Run, in spoofing sports movie tropes in a romcom setting, but we've seen a few movies like this, complete with flatpack supporting characters drawn from the Richard Curtis furniture catalogue. Rashida Jones, Olivia Colman and Rory Kinnear are all fine as Bruce's love interest, sister and daft best mate, respectively, but as written, they're all too familiar.
The film only ever seems to come up short after we've seen it at its best, in a visually audacious dance-fight between Bruce and Drew, which nearly hares into Scott Pilgrim territory. Aside from having more laughs than any other scene, it's the best choreographed action scene I've seen in ages. Therein lies the rub- the film doesn't need to be this original all the way through, and so it's not. But once you've seen that scene, it colours the by-numbers charm of what went before, and what follows, in a way that makes it all look somewhat pedestrian.
Through it all, the film's real success is Frost's- he came up with the idea, and its his turn that keeps the final product going. Between this and The World's End, he's breaking out of his daft sidekick typecast, and showing off his versatility as a comic actor. What differentiates Bruce from some Kevin James buffoon is that the audience is on his side right from the start, as we see his self-esteem being plowed away by bullies to the point where he spends his evenings alone, eating four pots of yoghurt at once. Plus, Frost has clearly put work into learning to salsa, (if only to a fifth-week-of-Strictly standard) and even if the central joke is about a fat man dancing, it's never mean-spirited.
Cuban Fury is now showing in cinemas nationwide.
If you've seen Cuban Fury, why not share your comments below?
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For the third year in succession, the television company Granada Television is networking its television program "Jobwatch" series. "Jobwatch 1," looked at growth areas for jobs and new skills in British industry and business, whilst "Jobwatch 2" examined training and further education both for...
- Granada returns to movie-making. Dawtrey, Adam // Variety;2/7/94, Vol. 354 Issue 1, p33
Reports on Granada TV 's return to the film business. Goals; Views on film production; `Jack and Sarah'; `Prime Suspect'; `Dancing Queen.'
- Granada plans int'l channel. // Variety;03/31/97, Vol. 366 Issue 9, p43
Reports on Granada Media Group's plans for the launching of its international channel to be called Granada UK TV.
- Worth more together or apart? Lorenz, Andrew // Management Today;Nov97, p56
Focuses on Granada, a company in Great Britain. Speculation on whether the company is worth more as one entity or two; Financial performance of the company; Information on Granada's takeover of the Forte hotel company; Management of the Forte group after the takeover; Financial and operational...
- Granada Media realigns TV division. Dawtrey, Adam // Variety;8/19/96, Vol. 364 Issue 3, p33
Reports on Granada Media Group's reorganization of its television division.
- Call for inclusion of 16-18s. // People Management;04/16/98, Vol. 4 Issue 8, p15
Reports on the proposal of a cross-party group of ministers that the New Deal, a key to the British government's welfare to work strategy that aims to give young people a chance to develop skills and find work, be extended to cover 16 to 18-year-olds. Call for the early introduction of young...
- Public service summit. Lewis, Anne C. // Education Digest;May93, Vol. 58 Issue 9, p47
Speculates President Bill Clinton will host a summit meeting at the end of the summer on youth service and how it can expand from pilot projects to be funded between now and the summit. Proposed Clinton administration spending on national service; Programs to be selected by the current...
- Summer without sunshine. Friedman, Dorian // U.S. News & World Report;5/17/93, Vol. 114 Issue 19, p57
Discusses President Bill Clinton's efforts to fund programs to create summer jobs for teenagers in American cities. The summer jobs program as one of the few provisions of Clinton's ill-fated jobs program that could survive; Track record of summer youth jobs and big problems facing teens;...
- A different kind of summer. // U.S. News & World Report;7/5/93, Vol. 115 Issue 1, p11
Reports that 1,475 students, ages 17 to 25, are answering President Bill Clinton's call and are working on community projects in 11 cities for eight weeks, earning minimum wage plus a $1,000 educational grant. Clinton's far more ambitious national service plan which is awaiting congressional...

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A controversial Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday morning that reinstated an archaic colonial law criminalizing homosexuality incited outrage among activists and gay-rights supporters in India. Hundreds gathered at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi’s popular protest hub, to protest the ruling. A truly mixed crowd, many of the protesters were not from the LGBT community. They came in hordes from universities and colleges to champion civil liberties. “This is not about homosexuality but about democratic rights,” said Samita Raj, a 19-year-old student at the protest. “And the right to be.”
The mood at Jantar Mantar resembled a different moment last year, when the youth of India had congregated to demand justice for the gang rape and murder of a young medical intern. It was a comforting sign that from a fringe issue, India’s gay movement has become the subject of mainstream debate and mass support. “Today when I speak to young people in colleges, they say, ‘We know how you feel.’ And that’s a huge achievement for the movement,” Gautam Bhan, a 33-year-old gay-rights activist, told TIME. “The ruling cannot set aside the gains we have made in the last decade, especially after 2009.” The Supreme Court in Wednesday’s ruling had said that changing a law was the responsibility of the government.
Whether the Delhi High Court had overstepped its mandate four years back is a matter of debate. Its historic judgment in 2009, which decriminalized homosexuality in the country, was something of a watershed moment for gay rights in India. Many more young people had come out of the closet. Harish Iyer, a Mumbai-based equal-rights activist, says there was a more than 100% increase in people wanting to come out of the closet after 2009. Iyer says that before 2009 he used to receive around two distress calls a week from people wanting to come out. Now he receives around six calls a day. “What are you doing now? Pushing them right back in?” he asks. “It’s not going to work. People who are out will be out louder and stronger.”
The other surprising takeaway from the ruling was the unexpected show of solidarity from the Indian government. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said the ruling flew in the face of a “modern liberal India.”
“The high court had wisely removed an archaic, repressive and unjust law that infringed on the basic human rights enshrined in our constitution,” Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said in a statement. “This constitution has given us a great legacy, a legacy of liberalism and openness, that enjoin us to combat prejudice and discrimination of any kind.”
Law Minister Kapil Sibal, after an initial noncommittal reaction, later tweeted that the government was considering its options to restore the 2009 verdict. “It gives us great hope,” says Anjali Gopalan, founder and executive director of the Naz Foundation, an Indian nonprofit that works on HIV-AIDS and sexual health, who had filed the original lawsuit in the Delhi High Court. “A lot of young people have come out of the closet post-2009. We can’t push them back in.”
While politicians and activists mull their options, India’s LGBT community is emerging stronger from the ruling. “We feel much emboldened by the fact that we are a heterogeneous crowd now,” says Iyer. “Also, what do we have to lose now? You have pushed me down so low that from here on I can only look upwards.”


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I think I may redo everyone's stockings this year to preserve their "Baby's First Christmas" stockings (which they are all still using)
stocking patterns (multiple) in case I ever learn how to sew. @Emmalee Taylor..... get sewing!! I only need SIX hahah =]
Crazy stockings for Christmas
Diary of a Quilter - a quilt blog: Easy Stocking Tutorial
Stitched Elf Stockings - This year, recruit elves to decorate your stockings instead of fill them -- the impish embroidered designs can be stitched in a weekend.
Elf Stockings. Tutorial on site. NO TUTORIAL! Teach me to look 1st EVERY time LOL! I know that all you Artsy-Craftsy Ladies can make a pattern and create lovely unique stockings for your loved ones.
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The country’s efforts include prenatal care, HIV and syphilis testing for pregnant women and their partners, treatment for women who test positive and their babies, cesarean deliveries and breastfeeding substitution.
In addition to improving public access to environmental information and encouraging public participation in environmental policymaking, the treaty also requires participating countries to protect environmental human rights defenders.
BYD (Build Your Dreams) delivered the first electric bus fleet for public transport in the Caribbean. The Barbados Transport Board recently received 33 BYD battery-electric buses and two more of the 30-foot buses will be delivered by December.
A new Caribbean coalition, led by some of the world’s clean energy heavyweights and bankrolled, in part, by international lending institutions will channel $6 billion to transition the region to renewable energy.


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According to the NAIIS results, 1.9 million people are presently living with the virus in the country.
Isaac Adewole, made the new ranking known yesterday at the official announcement of the result of the NAIIS at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In his goodwill message, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, said the improved understanding of the country's HIV epidemic would allow Nigeria to better reach people living with HIV and people at higher risk of acquiring HIV.
According to the survey, the seven states with high prevalence are Akwa Ibom (5.6%): Benue (4.9%); Rivers (3.8%); and Taraba (2.7%).
"I must also commend the efforts of scientist from Nigeria, U.S. University of Maryland, NAIIS team and all those who ensured that the survey was a success".
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday unveiled the 2018 Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), saying less Nigerians were living with the HIV virus when compared to the 2014 survey.
David Young who is the Charge de Affairs, Embassy of the United States of America, according to Premium Times, said "beyond the data, the survey has proved the capacity of Nigerians working together in solidarity with one another to rise and resolve challenges regarding the health and well-being of their brothers and sisters".
Mr Aliyu said it is important for all people living with HIV to get treatment and achieve viral suppression.
Aliyu assured that the survey would provide programme managers and policy makers with a more detailed and specific understanding of HIV epidemic in the country.
Buhari also noted that the results would provide the government with appropriate information that would enable the country beat the 2030 target of ending the epidemic.
He added that the survey should however be used as a new beginning to do more work in the fight against the epidemic.
"This survey is good news, because it is showing clearly that we have less people infected with HIV, less cases of new infection and less death due to HIV".
Modern anti-retroviral therapy has made it possible for HIV positive persons to live as long as their HIV negative counterparts. UNAIDS, the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provided support for the work on the survey, which was overseen by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and implemented by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with a scope that included all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria.
Brenton Tarrant posted a 73-page manifesto on twitter before he started to kill people, he described them as a terrorist attack. In a statement he said: "Our hearts go out to the people of New Zealand following the news of this bad act in Christchurch".
New Zealand has in the past tried to tighten firearm laws, but a strong gun lobby and culture of hunting has stymied such efforts. Vehicles are prohibited, but people can walk closer to the mosques where the shooting happened on Friday.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has since declared the tragedy caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai a state of disaster. The Mozambican television channel TVM reported that at least five people had been seriously injured.
We are gratified that courts all over the world are rejecting Apple's strategy of refusing to pay for the use of our IP. Gaston Kroub, a patent lawyer in NY not involved in the case, said the verdict was clearly a win for Qualcomm.
New Zealand has in the past tried to tighten firearm laws, but a strong gun lobby and culture of hunting has stymied such efforts. A fourth person who had been taken into custody was later determined to be an armed bystander who wanted to help police.
Following the start of the Israeli air strikes, incoming rocket sirens blared in Israeli communities along Gaza . Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, two smaller Gaza armed factions, also denied responsibility.
YouTube tweeted about the shooting video , "Our hearts are broken over today's awful tragedy in New Zealand". A spokesperson for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the document did not detail his murderous plans.
UFCW said Sanders' campaign had agreed to use "card check" to determine whether most workers wanted a union. Federici called the unionization a breakthrough that he hoped would serve as a model for other campaigns.
At about the same time, there was a second shooting at Masjid mosque in Linwood, where seven more were killed. After parking, he took two guns and walked a short distance to the mosque where he opened fire.
Walk to raise awareness for World Kidney Day
Kidney disease can be detected by the doctor after performing certain tests to check the functionality of the organ. The foundation wants people to talk to their doctor and get their kidney health checked out.
Tall Blacks welcome tough basketball World Cup draw
There is an added incentive for teams at this World Cup, with seven spots at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics up for grabs. Third-ranked France drew the Dominican Republic, Germany and Jordan as its early opponents.
City could cope with transfer ban, insists Guardiola
Real were able to get their ban reduced on appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an avenue Chelsea will also explore. City have welcomed the UEFA investigation into allegations that the club tried to circumvent financial fair play regulations.


Overwatch lets Junkrat clown around in new Storm Rising skin
This year, Tracer, Genji Winston and Mercy are headed to what could be a new map: Havana, Cuba.
Fans already got a look at Baptiste’s new Talon skin, but it seems like one skin wasn’t enough for the Overwatch team, so they decided to bless us with two previews in one day.
What makes a clown?
Junkrat certainly looks the part, with some great teal hair and face paint that will give you flashbacks to when that irresponsible older sibling let you stay up when mom and dad weren’t home and watch Stephen King’s IT.
Even his tire has gotten funnier, somehow, with snazzy white walls instead of the regular black rubber.
This skin doesn’t change a whole lot, so it’s probably safe to say that this is an Epic, rather than a more expensive Legendary.
Hopefully it comes with some sound effects, maybe an evil clown laugh after killing an enemy with RIP Tire? Just a thought.
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The clown is here, what else do we know?
Besides Junkrat’s new skin, a leak from April 9 seems to indicate new skins for McCree, Bastion, Ashe/B.O.B. and Baptiste and after the first new skin reveal on April 10, it looking more and more like the leak was legit.
As for the Storm Rising mission itself, we know that a new map, Havana, could be the setting for the PvE mission, but so far no news about a new map has been teased by Overwatch.
More details on the event should be coming in the days leading up to Storm Rising, which starts on April 16.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) are up 1.66% to $51.57 as shares could reportedly rise 20% within the next 12 to 18 months, partly thanks to its joint venture with SAIC Motor, China's state-owned car maker, Barron's reports.
Johnson CEO Alex Molinaroli has also increased the company's dividend by 16% and begun a $3 billion share buyback program, the paper said.
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Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates JOHNSON CONTROLS INC as a Buy with a ratings score of A. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate JOHNSON CONTROLS INC (JCI) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- JCI's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 3.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 3.6%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Auto Components industry. The net income increased by 59.1% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $164.00 million to $261.00 million.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 237.32% to $732.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, JOHNSON CONTROLS INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 33.54%.
- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 190.90% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 39.87% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. We feel that the stock's sharp appreciation over the last year has driven it to a price level which is now somewhat expensive compared to the rest of its industry. The other strengths this company shows, however, justify the higher price levels.
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, JOHNSON CONTROLS INC reported lower earnings of $1.70 versus $1.79 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.15 versus $1.70).
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: JCI Ratings Report


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Avoiding Mistakes in Loyalty Programs
Modern Restaurant Management
AUGUST 31, 2023
Loyalty expert Hope Neiman, CMO at Tillster, says these are the four things she sees that restaurants often get wrong when building loyalty programs + brand champions: Lack of clarity and consistency. How did the pandemic affect loyalty programs? What do guests want from loyalty efforts now?


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Eight Overdoses on Opioids over Weekend
The Milwaukee county medical examiner's office sent out a tweet Monday saying it is investigating eight probable overdose deaths in the county from this weekend alone.
Health care professionals gathered in Milwaukee today to address opioid issues and steps they can take to fight abuse.
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel was also there and reacted to the medical examiner's tweet.
"Unfortunately, that's not even shocking news anymore. It's shocking but it's not unusual news anymore that's getting to be routine. If we don't work together to get out in front of this and continue what we're doing, it's going to bury us," says Schimel.
Schimel says he's impressed with the state's health care providers and their efforts to get ahead of the opioid epidemic.


Apple has infuriated some of the more obsessive of its fans with one curious design quirk of the AirPods charging dock -- its connector hole is ever so slightly the wrong shape. But what does it mean?
Some poor writer for 9to5Mac got 406 words out of the fact that the AirPods charging hole is a bit long and rounded at the edges, and may therefore suggest that at some point in the product's design history USB-C charging was considered for the wireless headphone things. More likely, USB-C is the main type of hole-cutter the Chinese use for cutting holes in things nowadays, so the factories charge Apple 0.01 per cent less per 1,000 units for having an ever so slightly off design hole when it buys off-the-shelf quantities of holes for its hardware.
Of course, Apple fans think this means their favourite tech brand is losing it or being secretive about amazing plans, with people on Twitter claiming this hole shape disparity is nearly enough to have them switching to something from Samsung:
This seems like an uncharacteristic overlooked aesthetic detail... pic.twitter.com/LZjhmaDx7Q
— Phil Letourneau (@philletourneau) December 21, 2016
So, is Jony Ive losing it, or was there some secret plan to bin Lightning in favour of USB-C for this generation of Apple accessories? Or is that just the shape of all holes now? [9to5Mac]
Image credit: Twitter


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Located in Lima (San Isidro), Garden Hotel is within a 10-minute drive of Olivar Park and National Library of Peru. This hotel is 1.9 mi (3 km) from Park of the Reserve and 1.9 mi (3 km) from La Rambla San Borja.Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 56 guestrooms featuring minibars and LED televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones and safes, and housekeeping is provided daily.Amenities
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access.Dining
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is included.Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.Attractions
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero Park - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Olivar Park - 1.4 km / 0.9 mi
Risso Commercial Center - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Huaca Huallamarca Pyramid - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
Javier Prado Convention Center - 2 km / 1.2 mi
Lima Golf Club - 2.3 km / 1.4 mi
Museum of Natural History - 2.6 km / 1.6 mi
Park of the Reserve - 2.7 km / 1.7 mi
Huaca Pucllana Ruins - 2.9 km / 1.8 mi
Indian Market - 3.1 km / 1.9 mi
Magic Water Circuit - 3.1 km / 1.9 mi
National Library of Peru - 3.2 km / 2 mi
National Stadium - 3.3 km / 2.1 mi
Grand National Theater of Peru - 3.4 km / 2.1 mi
Real Plaza Salaverry - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi
The preferred airport for Garden Hotel is Lima (LIM-Jorge Chavez Intl.) - 19.6 km / 12.2 mi
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Guests must contact this property in advance to reserve onsite parking.
Please note, there is important information about this property to know before you arrive.
- Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
- The national sales tax (18%) is charged upon check-out to citizens of Peru regardless of length of stay and to foreigners staying in the country for 60 consecutive days or more. Foreigners who present a valid passport and Andean Migration Card (Tarjeta Andina de Migración) at check-in are exempt from this tax. Furthermore, the tax may apply per room when the room is shared by a taxable and a nontaxable guest.
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
- -Free self parking
- -Free WiFi
- -Dry cleaning/laundry service
- -24-hour front desk
- -Laundry facilities
- -Concierge services
- -Business center
- -Free breakfast
- -Computer station
- -Multilingual staff
- -One meeting room
- -Designated smoking areas
- -Tours/ticket assistance
- -Luggage storage


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Troppo will be on sale from the 1st August, 2016, as both a book and an e-Book. You can place an order at your local bookstore, or online through the Fremantle Press website. You can also check out some wicked surf pics on my Instagram.

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I Threw Bob Dylan Away
I don't own any Bob Dylan songs. Not a one. This may sound like blasphemy, but I really can't stand his voice. However, he's a brilliant songwriter, and I love love love other artists covering his songs. Here's four of them:
- XTC - "All Along The Watchtower"
- Elvis Costello - "I Threw It All Away"
- Paul Kelly - "I Threw It All Away"
- George Harrison - "If Not For You"
Uh-oh, I lied... I do have Dylan's voice on my computer in the form of The Traveling Wilburys and this mash-up:
Let me know what you think of the new blog format... Thanks! Watch for regular posting here at least once a week, hopefully twice.
Any requests, leave them in comments!
Buy the new Bob Dylan Tribute CD here!


The machines utilized today have acquired a ton of benefits crafted by individuals. A fluid pneumatics is one of the numerous machines that guide you in your work day by day. From the actual name it is utilized to pack fluid meaning it is a machine that takes in fluid and packs it in this way bringing about an increment in pressure inside the tank and less pressing factor outside the tank. It can furnish the proprietor with power at various levels. A versatile fluid pneumatics is advantageous to utilize on the grounds that it very well may be moved from spot to another dependent on your region of work. There are numerous sorts of fluid pneumatics dependent on its utilization. The benefits of fluid pneumatics probably would not be sufficiently observable yet it has a ton of employments to us. At the point when you have a punctured tire, an auto fluid pneumatics should be promptly accessible to help you fill the tire with the fluid it needs.
Besides, the loosening up experience that we can feel during sweltering climates is because of the pneumatics utilized in fluid conditioners. Besides that, the oxygen required by scuba jumpers to remain longer at the lower part of the ocean is furnished with the assistance of these gadgets. The principal type is a cylinder pneumatics or a responding pneumatics. It is the most well-known and the generally utilized kind on the lookout. It works very much like an ignition motor yet in precisely the contrary capacity. It siphons fluid into a chamber and afterward diminishes the volume of the chamber. It contains various parts like valves and cylinders, driving rods, chambers and lodging blocks. Rotating screw pneumatics is the home sort of versatile fluid pneumatics. This works by filling fluid into two screws. As the screws are turned, lesser volume is made which brings about the expansion in fluid pressure.
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Floice Lisero, was killed in the fire that destroyed her home in Kakamega.
The sad incident happened on Monday night in Eshitimba Village, Khusiku Sub-location, Khwisero Sub-County, Kakamega.
The accused, a 40-year-old man, is alleged to have attacked his grandmother for refusing to give him money. He may have also been taking drugs excessively, which caused him to act violently.
According to Samuel Kogo, the Khwisero sub-county police chief, the suspect was saved by police after people attempted to kill him at the Ebukambuli market as he escaped the area.
“We have to take him to be examined by a psychiatrist to confirm his state of mind before preferring any charges,” explained Mr Kogo. The police officer accused family members of neglecting to safeguard the elderly grandmother who shared a home with the obvious dangerous grandson.
The deceased’s first-born child, Ms. Mary Okiso, 70, claimed that the suspect assaulted her mother after asking her for money.
The village elder had visited her home and notified her that, government had distributed money to be handed to the elderly, and the suspect allegedly believed her grandmother, who is a recipient of the Cash transfer program, had gotten some funds.
“He thought his grandmother had withdrawn the money because the previous day, the area village elder visited her to inform that the money had been released by the government and was ready for withdrawal.”
“When I visited her on Monday morning, I met the village elder, Joseph Njeka, who informed me that the money was ready and that I needed to go with my mother and withdraw the cash for her. But I had left her documents, which are under my custody, back in my home and promised to come the following day and take her to the bank,” said Ms Okiso.


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Located between New Haven and Milford, Orange was part of an early English colony. The land was purchased in 1630 from an Algonquian tribe and was originally named after the Wepawaug River. In 1822, Orange broke from Milford to become its own city. The residents named the city after King William III, Prince of Orange.
Orange is a charming coastal New England town with all of the elegant historical architecture, fishing boats, and friendly neighbors that go along with it. Rent an apartment in Orange and enjoy the easy-going lifestyle – but still have easy access to several major urban hubs, including New Haven, Boston, and New York.
The lush landscape and rolling hills are the perfect setting, and Orange complements the scenery with its charming downtown and several historic sites. The Orange Center Historic District includes the beautiful Orange Congregational Church, built in 1810. The Stone-Otis House, built in 1830, serves as a museum. The William Andrew House was built sometime between 1775 and 1790 and is an excellent example of Federal-style architecture. The Colonel Asa Platt House, built in 1810, is believed to be the work of architect David Hoadley, who also may have worked on the Orange Congregational Church.
With several great festivals and events, an outstanding school system, proximity to some of the best universities in the nation, and an excellent parks system that includes the High Plains Community Center (home of the town’s eight-lane swimming pool), four golf courses, a disc golf course, walking and jogging tracks, ball fields, five nature trails, and more.

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Jamaica Car Hire
Last Updated: 30th June, 2023
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Road Trip in Jamaica: 5 Must See Places
If you’re a traveller looking to partake in an unforgettable journey through Jamaica, the ideal way to experience the local enchantment of the island is to rent a car and go exploring! Staying cooped up in a a resort becomes lacklustre after a while, and you realize the best adventures come to fruition when you go looking for them. Quench your wanderlust by diving into a hands-on road trip through one of the most notably gorgeous and culturally rich islands in the world.
Kick it off with Portland Parish
Start off with a bang on the Rock da Boat tour to Navy Island. Spend all day on the water and jam out to reggae with fellow explorers. When you’re not rockin’ the open seas, the quaint town of Portland exudes chill vibes and is known as the “green parish” of Jamaica with its lush foliage and abundance of waterfalls.
As the capital of the country and a staple destination in Jamaican tourism for all the right reasons, Kingston captures the heart of visitors with its beautiful landscapes and charming attractions. The highest point on the island, Blue Mountain Peak, is located here and remains one of the most visited natural sights in Jamaica. Culturally, Kingston is rich with prideful restaurants, bars, and museums, including the near obligatory Bob Marley Museum. What is Jamaica without Bob Marley (and vice versa)? Whether reggae or rainforest is your forte, Kingston is sure to satisfy your island desires
Drive to Ocho Rios
Go off the traditional vacation route in Ocho Rios where you can take a ride on the Chukka Caribbean Adventure’s Zion Bus Line, retreat into nature in the Coyaba River Garden and Museum, or party it up Caribbean style in the Bamboo Beach club, one of the most popular spots to hit up in town.
Must See Montego Bay
The sparkling beaches and pristine aqua blue waters speak for themselves in this tropical paradise. After basking in the sunlight with daytime activities like snorkelling and parasailing, don’t miss out on the insider’s Luminous Lagoon night cruise. Watch the sparkle of the moonlight while you enjoy a complimentary rum beverage and dive into the water for a nocturnal swim. Once you’ve served your marine craving, wander inland for a jeep safari. This excursion won the World Travel Award in 2010 for the Leading Nature Adventure Excursion Operator in the Caribbean.
Navigate to Negril
If you were alive in the ‘90s, you were probably a fan of the movie Cool Runnings, a true story based on the first ever Jamaican bob sled team to make it to the Winter Olympics. Henceforth, you must attend the Kool Runnings Adventure Park with your family. If you are not travelling with children, the Jamaica Whitewater Expedition will take you on an entire ride of its own. Rafting is an extraordinary way to see the countryside with the perfect combination of thrilling river twists and serene sights of nature.
Note that taking a cab around the country is ill-advised. There are no meters to accurately calculate the proper fare; furthermore, many drivers can spot a tourist in an instant and will not hesitate to raise the prices nearly twice the appropriate amount. Also know that while carrying some cash is necessary, do not keep large amounts on you, even if it is hidden away. If you MUST, then especially avoid pulling it out in public. In addition, never leave your items unattended. While travelling through the country, remember that petty theft is a significant issue, but don’t let this warning waive you from relishing in all the glory that is Jamaica. Merely being conscience of your surrounds as your embark on your journey will protect you from an unfortunate snag in your extraordinary trip ahead.


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The panel for Rogue Pictures and Focus Studios began with a surprise when Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas") took the stage in Hall H of Comic-Con International. They appeared before the crowd of six thousand to talk about "Coraline," Gaiman's "scary little story for children."
Gaiman had written the book, "Coraline," some time ago. Soon after, Selick became interested in turning it into a movie using his stop-motion animated style. Gaiman agreed, and the two stopped by the panel to announce that they had footage to show the audience later that night
The author was quite enthusiastic about the film and its prospects. The project is utilizing a lengthy list of stars for the characters' voices, including Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, and Ian McShane. "Coraline" will also include songs from They Might Be Giants. Gaiman promised lots of "weird, creepy stuff" in this sweet little nightmare of a kid's film. The two creators then walked off stage with a wave and a "See you tonight!"
Next came the balls...and the fury. Or, more specifically, "Balls of Fury." This movie is coming to viewers courtesy of the creators (and cast) of "Reno 911!" In attendance were director Ben Garant, along with actors Dan Fogler and Thomas Lennon (who co-wrote the screenplay with Garant). Most notable was Lennon's clothing - or lack of it. He came out in character, dressed in a spandex unitard. This was only a hint of the hilarity to come.
"Think of a Van Damme movie from the 80s, and replace the Kung Fu with ping pong," is how the film's director described the project.
Fogler (the movie's main character, Randy Daytona) went into a bit more detail about the plot: "My character basically has to avenge his father's death by winning an underground ping pong tournament."
An amusing anecdote was also related, about working with Christopher Walken, who plays the movie's villain, Feng. Apparently, there is a line in the film where Walken has to relay his email address. However, the actor didn't know what the "@" symbol meant. The production team wrote a special page of the script for him with the word "at" in it.
CBR News couldn't confirm at press time if they were joking about this or not.
Actor James Hong (a ping pong "master" in the movie) also briefly joined the cast. He struck his Lo-Pan pose from the cult film, "Big Trouble in Little China," which elicited cheers from the Comic-Con crowd.
During a Q&A, a fan asked about the possibility of a DVD collection for "The State," which the two "Reno 911!" actors had also been a part of. Garant confirmed that a set was coming with every episode collected and commentary included.
Later, there was a brief presentation on "The Strangers" - a psychological thriller starring Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler. The actors were present, along with writer-director Brian Bertino. A trailer was shown, and the premise was laid out. Essentially, a happy suburban couple is terrorized by three mysterious "strangers" who break into their home.
On a cheerier note during this presentation, Liv Tyler spoke elvish - much to the extreme delight of all the "Lord of the Rings" fans in attendance.
The final presentation was for the movie "Doomsday," which was written and directed by Neil Marshall ("The Descent"). It appeared to be a post-apocalyptic thriller in the vein of "Road Warrior" and "Escape From New York."
As explained by the director, a deadly plague appears in Scotland for which there is no cure. To prevent worldwide contamination, the country is sealed off from the rest of the world. 25 years later, the virus suddenly reappears in London. Word of survivors in Scotland lead the government to believe there is a cure, and they send soldiers behind Scotland's barricade to search for it. What they find, however, isn't pretty.
The film stars Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, and Malcolm McDowell, and will arrive in theaters spring of 2008. And on that happy, post-apocalyptic note, the panel concluded.
Now discuss this story in CBR's TV/Film forum.


At the end of September, Mayor London Breed issued a 60-day extension of San Francisco’s moratorium on commercial evictions. The moratorium now runs though Nov. 30, 2020. The move followed an executive order signed by Gavin Newsom that allowed local jurisdictions to take such actions.
As a result, evictions for late rent payments due from March 17 through Nov. 30 are prohibited on commercial properties. Tenants will still be on the hook to pay the missed rent, and landlords are able to seek a waiver from the moratorium based on “significant financial hardship, such as default on debt or similar enforceable obligation,” according to the mayor’s office, which encourages tenants and landlords to work out repayment plans.
The extension was supported by District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who said, “For me and my colleagues who are fighting to revive our neighborhood commercial corridors, we now have some breathing room to ensure that everyone recovers.”
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