Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini insisted he was "not thinking about Chelsea" after seeing his side finally spark back into life.
The reigning champions rediscovered their touch after four games without a win in the Barclays Premier League as they recorded a comfortable 4-1 victory at Stoke.
Sergio Aguero struck twice - his first goals in two months - while James Milner and Samir Nasri also found the net.
The result was not enough to cut into Chelsea's seven-point lead at the top - after the Londoners secured a last-gasp 1-0 win over Everton - but Pellegrini claimed that was not his first thought.
The Chilean said: "We needed this victory because in the last four games we didn't do it.
"Stoke are a tough team. I think we scored just one goal in the last three games against Stoke so to score four goals here is very important for the trust of the team.
"We will see if we can continue the same way in the future.
"We are not thinking about Chelsea. If they lose points it is good for us but the first thing for our team is to recover the sensation of (being) a good, solid team.
"That was the target and we did it."
City withstood a stern examination from Stoke in a compelling, end-to-end first half in which both sides had goals disallowed.
Peter Crouch cancelled out Aguero's opener with a fine header but both players were also denied by the referee.
Crouch was ruled offside after tucking in one rebound while Aguero was harshly penalised after the ball brushed his hand from a goalbound header.
But City upped the tempo after the break, restoring their lead with a Milner header.
Aguero's penalty after David Silva was fouled made victory certain while Nasri added a fourth with a fine strike.
Pellegrini said: "In the second half we continued pressing Stoke and didn't allow them to play in the way they like to with a lot of crosses.
"We finished by scoring three more goals and that is very important for the trust of our team."
Aguero's goals indicated a return to form in his sixth game since returning from a knee injury, although he was later withdrawn as a precaution due to a back problem.
Pellegrini said: "When Sergio has more minutes he will return to his normal level of performance.
"He felt something in the back. My feeling is it is not too serious and he now has 10 days to recover and train well. I hope he will be fit to face Newcastle."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes was pleased with how his side competed early on but accepted the visitors ultimately proved too strong.
Hughes, a former City boss, said: "I thought in the first half we played very well and arguably had been in the ascendency. We caused a very good team a lot of problems.
"I felt we had a clear penalty not given - they are the key moments against top sides you need to go for you.
"Unfortunately we didn't get that decision, which seems to be a recurrent theme at the moment.
"But second half, credit to City, they came out a lot sharper and put us under more pressure higher up the field.
"We are disappointed in terms of how we allowed them the second goal, but from that point we started to chase the game somewhat and that really plays into the hands of a team of City's quality.
"We were picked off and made errors as well. You can't afford to do that. We just weren't quite good enough to stop City taking the game away from us."


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The first mistake may have been Javon Ringer's. After getting the ball three times in four plays, he may have tapped his helmet to ask for a rest.
I don’t want my second-string running back asking to be taken out so quickly. He should be able to handle more.
Whether it was him asking out or a coach pulling him out, it was the wrong move and it got the anemic Chris Johnson back in the game just before the Titans got their long touchdown of the day.
If you want a snapshot of Johnson and his questionable effort, it comes shortly after that at 7:07 of the third quarter.
Johnson lined up to the left of Matt Hasselbeck, who was in a shotgun formation. The Titans had a tight end and two receivers to the right and one receiver to the left.
Texans outside linebacker Connor Barwin timed up the snap nicely and got the corner on Titans left tackle Michael Roos. Johnson was in the area, hesitated and didn’t appear certain about whether he was supposed to help on Barwin or slip into the flat to be a quick option for his quarterback.
The snap from center Eugene Amano surprised Hasselbeck and seemed too early, and maybe that threw Johnson off as well. But his effort after the snap was insufficient. He stuck his hand right hand out and touched Barwin to no effect, stepping back a yard and then backpedalling a bit toward the flat. It amounted to standing around.
Even if he was completely surprised by a premature snap, instincts should tell him to either invest in blocking Barwin or quickly get into space.
He did neither, as Hasselbeck threw quickly to Lavelle Hawkins on the other side for no gain.
Maybe that amounts to a tough review of Johnson on one snap. But based on how unproductive he’s been, he’s got to know we’re watching every move at this point. And he didn’t make an effective move there at all.

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New York Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long generated headlines earlier this week after voicing his frustration over Robinson Cano’s supposed lack of effort to the New York Daily News.
Talk about Cano’s sometimes lackadaisical nature — particularly on the basepaths — is nothing new. The 31-year-old infielder has been one of the most consistent offensive forces in the league for years now, but his propensity for not running out ground balls and pop-ups rubs some the wrong way.
“If somebody told me I was a dog, I’d have to fix that,” Long said in the piece. “When you choose not to, you leave yourself open to taking heat, and that’s your fault. For whatever reason, Robbie chose not to.”
Long also said that other members of the Yankees’ organization — including shortstop Derek Jeter — talked to Cano about the issue, but never seemed to get through.
“I’m pretty sure Jeter talked to him a number of times,” Long said. “Even if you run at 80 percent, no one’s going to say anything. But when you jog down the line, even if it doesn’t come into play 98 percent of the time, it creates a perception.”
New Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon shot back Tuesday, telling ESPN.com that he was disappointed that Long chose to voice his opinions to the media.
“That was a little surprising,” McClendon said. “I was a little pissed off, and I’m sure [Yankees manager Joe] Girardi feels the same way. He’s concerned with his team and what they’re doing, not what the Seattle Mariners are doing.”
The new Seattle skipper went on to say that Cano’s undeniable on-field production matters far more than if he hustles to first every time he hits the ball.
“To me the most important thing is the guy goes out there for 160 games a year, he hits .330, he drives in over 100 runs and he hits 25 to 30 home runs,” he said. “I just need Robinson to be Robinson. Like all the rest of my guys know, just don’t dog it. Am I expecting you to give me 100 percent down the baseline every night? No. I’m expecting you to give me a good effort.”
Both coaches have points, and in fairness to Long, he was actually highly complimentary of Cano for the most part, praising him for his hard work in overcoming flaws in his game and for his overall make-up. It just so happens that any quote that could even vaguely be perceived as a slight at his former pupil is sure to be magnified.
As for McClendon, he’s got to defend his player, especially because Cano represents the only franchise-level offensive talent in his line-up. If the Mariners can get the type of numbers out of Cano that he put up in New York, it’s doubtful they’ll care all that much about him loafing it on a few grounders.


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Pizza >Johnnie's Ny Pizzeria
2805 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA | Directions 9029133.988439 -118.453115
Neighborhoods: Venice, West LA
$3 Charge For Delivery – I ordered the cheese and pepperoni pizza and a antipasta salad-for delivery
The pizzza was great
-the salad horrible-the dressing too salty and the price too much for what one got-
I was shocked when the driver said "what no tip !!"
What the Heck !
Doesn't the $3 dollar delivery charge that the place charges go to their drivers !
The they want a tip too-
I'm not cheap but I can get FREE delivery-
SoCal chain determined to provide a near-Big Apple pizza experience. – In Short
For those accustomed to authentic New York pizzerias, entering Johnnie's induces an excruciating sense of déjà vu: black-and-white prints, checkerboard tablecloths, raucous music and, most notably, a heady waft of garlic and Romano cheese. New Yorkers swear it's the water that gives their pizza crusts that special "something," so Johnnie's has installed an exclusive water-filtration system. Specialty pizzas like the "white pie"--topped with garlic sauce, spinach, whole-milk mozzarella and ricotta--mimic East Coast counterparts. Caesar salad makes for a simple, lighter dish.
Good pizza and salad – I like the pizza, but the reason I go is because of the veggie chopped salad which is one of my favorites. Only wish they delivered to us.
Horrendous service – Do not try to get this location to deliver you food - let alone take your order on the phone!!! 2 days in a row I was greeted by a snotty person who immediately put me on hold for more than 5 minutes at a time! When they did pick up they complained to me about how many things they were doing at once and they would get to me "when I get to you".
Never again. Any other location - go for it. Don't bother giving this location your patronage.
Angry females, bad service at Johnnie's New York Pizza, Venice, CA – Johnnie's New York Pizza USED to be a great place to call for home delivery...but about 6 months ago, some really ANGRY females started answering the phone. They're abrupt, rude, and act like they're doing you a favor! What's up with that? It makes the food taste bad by having negative service...Won't patronize this establishment anymore. Too bad...the food is really good. This is how you lose business in America.
Thumbs Up For the Pizza – I ordered a slice of pepperoni and a slice of mushroom. Both satiated my hunger.
Johnnie's Pizza has a "New York" ambience with black and white photos of the Big Apple's skyline and Coney Island.
The pizza wasn't too expensive either. My total came to $5.61.
Overpriced faux pizza – If you like pizza with more than a skiff of sauce and toppings you should avoid this place. I ordered a large pepperoni pizza, paid full price, and they served up a crusty dry frisbee.
Patience Required – Johnnie's Pizza is good, once it shows up. The delivery took at least two hours. The pizza process must have required pasteurization, because two hour delivery times are rare in Venice.
Consistently Good – The pizza and calzones never fail. Perfect if you are too lazy to pick up food. They rarely make mistakes on deliveries and the food is always good.
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St. Louis attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey had the audacity to protect their million dollar home from the violent BLM thugs who broke through the gate at their private community as they vandalized the complex with graffiti and threatened residents as they marched along the private streets within the gated community. Armed with guns, they were able to discourage the BLM crowd from threatening their property.
Now, Soros backed St Louis DA, Kim Gardner says she is investigating the couple that she claims frightened the “peaceful” protesters. Here is how the “peaceful” protesters gained entrance to the private community:
“Peacefully entered” pic.twitter.com/0h0eIXvO9J
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 29, 2020
** The mob broke down a gate.
** They entered a private street in a gated community
** They threatened the residents on the street.
** They wrote graffiti on the street
I would also like to point out that Missouri has a Castle Doctrine which allows homeowners to use deadly force when their lives and property are being threatened.
St. Louis University constitutional law Professor Anders Walker says that the McCloskeys did not break the law but that the protesters broke several laws. First of all they broke through the gate to gain entrance. The streets are privately owned, therefore they are trespassing. They made threats against some of the residents of the community. They vandalized the private community with graffiti.
Remember, Gardner refused to charge even a single rioter no matter how serious the crimes that they committed. It is time for the people of St Louis to send Gardner packing.
Statement from Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner in regards to events over weekend: pic.twitter.com/KqqFHIvL9Q
— Circuit Attorney (@stlcao) June 29, 2020
“There’s no right to protest on those streets. The protesters thought they had a right to protest, but as a technical matter, they were not allowed to be there,” Walker explained. “It’s essentially a private estate. If anyone was violating the law, it was the protesters. In fact, if (the McCloskeys) have photos of the protesters, they could go after them for trespassing.”
Walker also noted that Missouri’s Castle Doctrine allows homeowners to use deadly force when their lives and property are being threatened. “At any point that you enter the property, they can then, in Missouri, use deadly force to get you off the lawn,” he said.

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Vanessa Bryant Narrates Heartfelt Birthday Tribute For Daughter Gianna
Written by B87FM on May 2, 2022
Vanessa Bryant narrated a brand new tribute video for her late daughter Gianna in celebration of what would’ve been her 16th birthday on Sunday. The video, edited within the fashion of Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated movie, Expensive Basketball, was shared by Nike on its social media pages.
“From the primary time you imagined profitable a WNBA Championship, I knew one factor was actual. You had been particular,” Vanessa says within the video. “You got here from greatness, nevertheless it was by no means about what you inherited. It was about what you gave to others. When somebody stands up for gender equality, I see you preventing alongside of them.”
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Nike can also be releasing a novel pair of “Kobe 6 Protro Mambacita Candy 16” footwear in honor of her birthday. The shoe includes a black snakeskin sample. The corporate says that proceeds from the footwear will go in the direction of the Mamba & Mambacita Sports activities Basis. The group is a nonprofit aimed toward supporting underserved athletes.
“The ‘Mambacita Candy 16’ is impressed by her resilient spirit and the love she had, not just for the sport, however for her household, pals and neighborhood,” Vanessa wrote on Instagram. “A part of her legacy is about constructing a greater future for all women and girls in sport, one step at a time.”
Gianna was killed on January 26, 2020, along with her father, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and several other others throughout a helicopter crash.
Gianna’s older sister, Natalia, additionally posted her personal tribute on Instagram.
“Blissful candy sixteen my dearest gigi,” she wrote. “I like you to the moon and again ceaselessly & at all times.”
Vanessa commented: “The BEST. Love you infants! Love you to the [moon emoji] and again, infinity plus 1.”
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Pinterest has joined the growing list of brands and platforms offering virtual reality makeup “try ons.”
On Friday, Jan. 22, the company introduced its latest augmented reality feature to let customers digitally try on eyeshadow shades from partners like Lancome, YSL and NYX Cosmetics. Pinterest already has this feature for lipstick. The addition of more try on pins means more customer interaction, and possibly the new makeup-shopping norm.
“I think this technology will be permanent post-pandemic,” said Jeremy King, svp of engineering at Pinterest. “I don’t see a world where we go to the store to try on makeup anymore. It can all be done on your phone.”
But with many brick and mortar stores still closed, brands have turned to AR try ons and features to attract customers. These try ons have boomed especially in the beauty space, allowing buyers to swipe through eyeshadows and lipsticks, but several different categories have amassed data showing that AR features help drive sales too.
“AR used to just be to drive engagement with a brand, and now it’s moving more to the e-commerce side,” said Mike Cadoux, gm at QReal, a firm that does 3D lenses for Snapchat and works with other brands to develop 3D ad products.
Still, there are challenges. Faces and feet are pretty easy to map, making AR an easier choice for products like glasses, hats and shoes. But larger items can take hours to render. While King may not see folks going back to a store for makeup, some retailers still want AR offerings to help increase foot-traffic.
AR’s user base is growing healthily, thanks in large part to its integration into social platforms such as Snapchat; eMarketer forecasts that there will be 47 million U.S. social network AR users in 2021, up from 38 million in 2019.
The pandemic sped up David’s Bridal’s investment in AR listings. Late last year, the company launched 50 SKUs with Vertebrae, which provides 3D and AR commerce solutions. Lizzy Ellingson, chief digital experience officer at David’s Bridal, said they had good feedback from customers on the tool, and saw 100% lift in conversions to make in-store appointments and a 30% lift in revenue.
That was good news after the intense photo process. One wedding dress took 12-16 hours to create from 300 photos. David’s Bridal plans to add another 100 SKUs, including accessories, by May.
“We don’t expect this to replace the in-store experience,” said Ellingson. “But we think this can help brides be more confident that that’s the dress they want to at least try on.”
Giving consumers more confidence is also what helped drive Perfect Corp.’s successful app YouCam Makeup, which allows customers to digitally try on makeup. Alice Chang, founder and CEO of Perfect Corp., points out that virtual try ons are more sanitary. “Prior to Covid, the use of community testers resulted in growing hygiene concerns among consumers,” she said via email. “The pandemic has brought a heightened sense of awareness to people about hygiene and physical testers are quickly being replaced by safer, more convenient, hyper-realistic digital try ons.”
Despite lipstick being covered up by masks, and many makeup users wearing less while at home, YouCam has seen a 32% increase in virtual try ons since the start of the pandemic. The company also recently raised $50 million in funding.
“When augmented reality leaves R&D and moves more to the market side, that’s when it will take off,” says Cadoux. “And it’s always better if more serious budget is allocated.”
‘As many eyes on the spot’: Moen is targeting millennial homeowners with new ads, innovations as the generation seeks their first homes
The plumbing brand is renewing its marketing to get the attention of millennial homeowners with new TV spots as well as digital and social ads.
Myth buster: Debunking common misconceptions about the metaverse
To learn about the most common misconceptions about the metaverse, Digiday reached out to a group of experts across the gaming, advertising and Web3 sectors.
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AOL's former chief — now the founder and CEO of Flowcode — discusses how the adoption of blockchain tech compares to earlier internet eras.
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Jordan Shlachter, head of research, Activision Blizzard Media Entertainment choices have never been more abundant, and gaming has emerged as one of the biggest winners in the battle for audiences’ attention. While gaming’s exponential growth has been well documented — there are currently nearly 3 billion gamers worldwide spanning a diverse set of demographics, interests […]
‘Social listening is so important’: Hulu adapts social strategy to follow fans’ interest
While Hulu does make social marketing plans for each show, the company keeps tabs on social sentiment -- i.e. what's working and what's not -- and adapts its social strategy accordingly.
Magna research: The do’s and don’ts of native and repurposed advertising on TikTok
Advertisers on TikTok need to follow a few best practices if they're going to succeed on the platform, such as always thinking vertically, and being comfortable with the creator's style they work with.

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Large pothole reappeared
Reported via mobile in the Pothole category anonymously at 14:27, Sun 14 November 2021
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council less than a minute later
You’ve repaired this at least twice but obviously not properly as it has returned. It’s so dangerous as it is on the slip road just as you need to be looking for traffic when joining the A40. Please fix it permanently this time
Council ref: ENQ21910087
Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.
State changed to: Investigating
Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 14:27, Sun 14 November 2021
Thank you for your enquiry. We have investigated your report and it has been actioned to be fixed.
State changed to: Action scheduled
Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 12:29, Tue 16 November 2021
Come on how many times do you have to keep repairing the same pot hole for? This is really dangerous. Please fix it asap
Posted anonymously at 17:58, Mon 29 November 2021
State changed to: Fixed
Updated by Oxfordshire County Council at 09:33, Tue 14 December 2021
This report is now closed to updates. You can make a new report in the same location.


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El Paso Artist Takes Part In Uvalde Mural Project To Honor Kids
One El Paso artist has been invited to Uvalde to participate in an art collective to create a mural in honor of the lives lost in May.
The deadliest school shooting in Texas history occurred on May 24, 2022, when a lone gunman entered Robb Elementary School, opened fire, and killed nineteen children and two adults in the Latino town of Uvalde in South Texas.
El Pasoans sympathize with Uvalde as we, too, know what it's like to lose loved ones during a heinous and senseless act.
To begin healing, a day after the horrific act, Abel Ortiz, a professor at Southwest Texas Jr. College and Uvalde-based artist, partnered with Monica Maldonado, director and founder of the Austin-based non-profit MAS Cultura launching the Uvalde Mural Fundraiser on GoFundMe to complete a series of 22 murals, memorializing each victim.
The funds, which have since raised over $18K and counting, have been used to purchase books for children on grief, supplies, and lodging for the invited artists, all volunteering their time and skill set for the cause.
The portrait mural project, centered in Uvalde’s downtown area and spread across 5 to 6 buildings within a 6 to 7- block radius, invited Texas-based artists and volunteers to participate in the art collab, including well-known El Paso artist, Tino Ortega.
After arriving in Uvalde, some artists had matched with specific victims because of family ties or connections; others, such as Ortega, read up on some of the kids and got to pick who to memorialize.
Ortega ended up selecting Jailah Nicole Silguero, a beautiful 10-year-old young girl. He also shared that he got a chance to visit Jailah’s family while forging new friendships with fellow artists and the Uvalde community.
Ortega also shared that his time in Uvalde was an emotional experience. The local artist known for his 3D Mylar balloon murals across El Paso in memory of the August 3 victims said, “I felt really nervous because I just wanted to make sure the parents liked it. I can’t imagine what the family must be going through. I’m just glad her parents and siblings got to help in the painting process; hopefully, they’ll have some new happy memories of Jailah.”
For now, Ortega, along with the rest of the Texas-based artists, will add the finishing touches to their murals and, in a few weeks, will return for the official unveiling ceremony and art show.
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The Daily Catch: Federal law may permanently ban barges from anchoring on most of the Hudson River, if bipartisan legislation introduced Thursday by Reps. Pat Ryan (D-18) and Marc Molinaro (R-19) can garner enough support.
“This legislation will stop big corporations from turning our Hudson River into a parking lot for dangerous barges once and for all,” said Ryan in a statement. “These dangerous barges threaten the health and safety of our kids.”
Hudson Valley politicians and local residents have expressed outrage and concern after the Coast Guard in July opened the river between the Tappan Zee Bridge and Albany to anchorage, following a redrawing of the boundaries of the Port of New York. These boundaries have been used to enforce the anchorage ban.
Especially concerned were representatives of the roughly 100,000 residents who live in communities that draw drinking water from the river—Rhinebeck, Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, Lloyd, and Esopus. Officials from those municipalities, represented by Hudson 7, the advocacy group chaired by Rhinebeck Village Mayor Gary Bassett, said they feared the barges could spill hazardous cargo since they often transport loads of oil or asphalt (Read our coverage).
Following public expressions of anger, the Coast Guard reinstated the anchorage ban on Nov. 9 through a Marine Service Information Bulletin (MSIB), nullifying July’s MSIB that opened the river north of the Tappan Zee to barge anchorage. But officials feared the ban would only be temporary and that the Coast Guard might seem to listen to public concerns but would ultimately revert to the open anchorage.
The bipartisan Hudson River Protection Act would codify the current ban on barge anchorage regardless of the Coast Guard’s definition of the Port of New York. The bill would amend the 2020 Elijah E. Cummings Coast Guard Authorization Act that previously banned barge anchorage along the Hudson by eliminating the legal language that gave the Coast Guard discretion to open up the river based on such boundary definitions.
If passed, the new bill would only allow barges to anchor at sites that were permitted in 2021, when the previous legislation went into effect. Therefore between the Tappan Zee Bridge and Troy, just north of Albany, barges would only be allowed to anchor at the federally designated anchorage point near Hyde Park. The bill will be marked up in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Ryan’s office said. It is not yet known if there is a Senate sponsor for a companion bill.


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Salon de Thé de l'hôtel Tsilaosa
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Maison des Vins du Chai de Cilaos
You can learn more about Cilaos wine at the Maison des Vins du Chai de Cilaos. A short film (in French) is followed by a guided tour of...
Here you can wrap your mandibles around omelettes, salads and carris, but skip the unexceptional pizzas. There's a shady terrace at the...
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This delightfully peaceful venue in the hotel's tea room will torment the sweet-toothed and weak-willed with homemade cakes and pies, including a tarte à la confiture de pêche (tart with peach jam), and about 15 varieties of tea. Enough said, we're drooling on the keyboard!

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I was sitting in my back yard the other night, just after having mowed it, and watching the cat to make sure it didn’t try to climb the fence and jump into the neighbor’s yard. I had forgotten to grab a book to read, but didn’t feel like going back inside to get one, lest the cat take that as a window of opportunity. So, I decided that I would sit there and meditate on Scripture instead (fancy that, a Christian meditating on Scripture). And what better passage of Scripture to meditate on than a passage that says that one ought to meditate on Scripture. So I recited Psalm 1 to myself and began to meditate on it.
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Immediately, one phrase in particular caught my meditative attention: “or sit in the seat of mockers.”
Probably the reason why it caught my attention was the recent controversy involving Rachel Held Evans and Owen Strachan. It seems that in one of Evans’s articles she referred to God with the feminine pronoun, “Herself.” Strachan, who is the President of the complementarian organization, The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, upon discovering this article of Evans, sent out a tweet which read, “Let’s stop pretending like all’s okay. Rachel Held Evans called God a she: ‘God Herself.’ This is heresy, straight up.”
For a number of biblical, theological, and even just practical reasons, I believe Evans was wrong to use a feminine pronoun for God. And in the articles which Evans and Strachan have written subsequent to this initial incident, I believe Strachan comes out way ahead as far as good, sound, biblical, hermeneutical, and logical argumentation is concerned. I’ll be posting an article on this later. But I also believe that Strachan over presses his charge by referring to this as “heresy, straight up.” What Evans did certainly has its shock value; it was ill-advised and it was unbiblical; but I believe it falls quite a bit short of being heretical
What has surprised me, however, in the ensuing discussion in the blogosphere, is how Strachan has been vilified in the comments made about him. Here’s a smattering of descriptions of Strachan:
a little bully
a smarmy sexist jerk
a bona fide self-promoter
a sanctimonious sexist
anxious to build his fledgling career
a pompous ass
a shameless self-appointed heresy hunter
a sexist clown
Here’s the problem, as I see it, with making comments like these. I have never met Mr. Strachan. I do not know what his motives were for calling Evans’s use of a feminine pronoun for God heretical. Perhaps the persons who used the phrases listed above have more insight into these things than I do. But it seems to me that passages like 1 Corinthians 13 (especially verses 5 and 7) and Philippians 2:1-11 (especially verse 3) compel us, as much as is reasonably plausible, to put a charitable construal on other people’s motives, especially those who are our brothers and sisters in Christ. I think Strachan was wrong to call Evans’s use of the feminine pronoun for God heretical. But I am not convinced he did so from self-promoting motives, that he was trying to make a name for himself, that he is sanctimonious, sexist, smarmy, a clown, or a jerk. Perhaps his motive was to uphold God’s honor, to do the right thing, to follow the way of the Lord. Perhaps he was attempting to be the blessed, righteous man described in Psalm 1. Perhaps he came to his conclusions as a result of meditating on the law of the Lord. And if that is the case, then that would mean that the ones who make fun of him, who ridicule him, and who insult him—they are the ones described in Psalm 1:1 as those who “sit in the seat of the mockers.” And this is a very dangerous seat in which to sit.
It is a dangerous seat because:
(1) Those who sit in this seat will soon be like the “chaff that the wind blows away.” They will, ultimately, be of no consequence.
(2) The seat in which they sit is not recognized by God. They will not be able to rise from those seats to stand in the assembly of the righteous. Those seats will soon perish.
(3) Those who mock the righteous person will be mocked by God. Psalms scholars have long noticed the many parallels that exist between the first two psalms, parallels which can be either linguistic or conceptual or both. One of the conceptual parallels is that of mocking. Psalm 1:1 refers to those who mock the righteous. Psalm 2:4, however, tells us that the Lord laughs at his enemies from his “seat” in heaven, that he scoffs at them. In other words, the Lord, too, “sits in the seat of the mocker.” But there is a difference—the Lord “mocks the mocker.”
(4) Our Lord was mocked during his life. He was called a drunkard, a glutton, and demon-possessed. And one of the horrible things which happened to our Lord during his arrest, trial, and crucifixion was the mocking and ridicule which he endured:
“I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.” (Isaiah 50:6)
“Prophesy to us, Christ. Who hit you?” (Matthew 26:68)
“Hail, king of the Jews.” (Matthew 27:29)
“You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” (Matthew 27:40)
“He saved others, but he can’t save himself! He’s the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.'” (Matthew 27:42-43)
“Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.” (Matthew 27:49)
It is important to note that those who mocked that day thought they were in a position to mock. They felt that they were superior to the one they were mocking. Indeed, mocking always implies that the mocker is superior to the one being mocked. And we are all tempted to engage in it. But this temptation is fraught with danger. There is this haunting verse in Stuart Townend’s song, “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” which goes like this:
Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
And, so, my fourth point is that we must be very careful when making fun of and mocking professed Christians, who, whether rightly or wrongly, think they are doing that which is right and honorable. It may be the case that when we engage in such mockery, we will suddenly find ourselves transported to the scene of the crucifixion, where we, surprised and ashamed, will hear our mocking voice call out among the scoffers.
Whenever we insult someone, mock someone, make fun of someone, ridicule someone, it is, as I said, an activity fraught with danger. The seat of the mocker is a dangerous place in which to sit. There is such a thing as holy mocking—the Lord himself, as we saw earlier, employs it in Psalm 2. There is an appropriate mocking of those who are wicked. Did Owen Strachan call Evans’s words heretical from impure, wicked motives? Perhaps. But, again, 1 Corinthians 13 and Philippians 2 would seem to require at least an attempt to construe his motives as being in line with a desire to uphold righteousness. Additionally, if he is, indeed, a brother in Christ, then attempts to correct him, whether in private or in public, should be done gently (Galatians 6:1).
The mocker is always a person who thinks he is a clever person. I know this for a fact. After all, I’ve done it enough times. And the mocker is always a person who wants other people to recognize his cleverness. I know this for a fact. That’s why I have engaged in mockery in the past. Yet, I find myself condemned in the words of the great theologian, James Denney:
You cannot, at the same time, give the impression that you are clever, and that Christ is mighty to save.
I have sat in the seat of the mocker way too often. I think I will try to change seats.
May 28, 2014

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New Government figures show a massive post-Brexit slump in UK exports to Germany, France, Italy and Spain – and reveal the UK failed to transition to key export markets such as the USA and China.
Statistics published by the Office for National Statistics show combined exports to Germany have fallen from £56.3 billion in 2019 – the year before the UK left the EU – to £50.3 billion in 2020, a collapse of over £6 billion.
Worse still, they fell even further in 2021, to £47.3 billion. Comparing the results for 2019 and 2021, that’s a slump of almost £10 billion in exports to Germany alone.
Exports to France tell a similar story.
Total exports of goods and services to our nearest Continental neighbour totalled £40.3 billion in 2019. In 2020, they slumped to £31.8 billion, a collapse of over £8.4 billion. In 2021, they picked up falteringly to £32.3 billion, but that’s still over £7.9 billion shy of where they had been pre-Brexit.
No warmth in Spain
For those hoping for more warmth from our export figures to Spain, there is further disappointment.
In 2019, before Brexit struck, our combined exports were £19.4 billion. In 2020, they plummeted to £14.3 billion and they fell by a further billion, to £13.2 billion, in 2021.
Commenting on the figures, ParcelHero’s head of consumer research, David Jinks, said: “Britain’s exporters of goods, from food to cars, have all suffered from the impact of the poorly negotiated Brexit trade agreement and increased red tape and duties.
“The same applies to services, from finance to computing, which now fall outside the regulated EU services market.
“Perhaps most disappointingly, these latest results reveal Britain failed to successfully transition away from the EU to other lucrative overseas markets – one of the positive outcomes promised by Brexiteers. Looking at two vital export markets beyond the EU, the numbers also tumbled.”
Special trading relationship with America
Promises of a special trading relationship with America have yet to materialise.
Back in 2019, we exported £141.4 billion of goods and services to the USA. In 2020, the first year of Brexit, that collapsed to £127.7 billion. That’s a fall of over £13 billion.
In 2021, those figures rose to £133.1 billion but were still over £8 billion short of where they were pre-Brexit.
And the growth market of China, which British companies such as Jaguar-Land Rover had made a key priority, produced another collapse.
In pre-Brexit 2019, the UK exported £35.9 billion of goods and services to China. In 2020, that tumbled to £27.2 billion, a slump of nearly £9 billion.
The following year, there was a moderate improvement, as combined figures rose to £27.5 billion, but this was still well short of their 2019 total.
Jinks concluded: “With the shadow of the Northern Ireland Protocol bill hanging over the next stage of post-Brexit discussions, it’s a concerning situation that Kemi Badenoch, the incoming Secretary of State for International Trade, has inherited.”


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The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is the supreme political decision making body in Australia. To use a private sector analogy its acts as our country’s national board of directors and is charged with making the big policy calls and, whilst being mindful of local loyalties, ensuring that the federation continues to work in the interests of all Australians.
Today’s COAG meeting is an opportunity for Australia’s political leaders to gather, discuss and work together to progress issues of national significance. Health and education policy and funding should be front and centre of these talks as the impacts of the Abbott/Turnbull Governments’ decision to rip-up health and education agreements and cut $80 billion from State and Territory budgets remains unresolved.
Instead the meeting looks like being hijacked by the Commonwealth under the guise of federation reform or to use the Prime Minister’s own words "the most fundamental reform to the federation in generations" in a desperate attempt to distract discussion away from their own budgets’ cuts and shift the blame back to the States and Territories. It’s a tried and tested way of getting through a difficult meeting but achieving very little in the long run.
State and Territory leaders know that when this Commonwealth Government starts talking federation reform that the news ahead isn’t good. You only need to look back two years to remember that when reform of the federation was discussed at the April 2014 COAG the result was $80 billion worth of cuts to health and education funding in the disastrous Federal Budget that was handed down just two weeks later.
Over the past two years federation reform has taken twists and turns along the reform highway. Promises of a Federation White Paper to be released at the end of 2015 and a Tax White Paper to be released in the second half of 2015 – neither were delivered. Two years of work and thousands of hours from bureaucrats and stakeholders went into those failed processes and then nothing. No White Papers and no reform agenda.
Then three days out from this week’s COAG meeting all of a sudden the Turnbull Government starts talking federation reform again and begins dropping out a series of seemingly ill-thought through and poorly communicated ideas to the media. The Prime Minister tells us he wants to give share income tax powers with the States and Territories to help them fund their services. There is no mention of course of the $80 billion of cuts which led to the funding pressures in the first place.
According to the Prime Minister his double taxing income tax sharing idea is "the most fundamental reform to the federation in generations" but there is no paper or any detail provided to explain the governments thinking - not even a media release to hold the government to. It also becomes clear that the Prime Minister only decided to bring First Ministers and key stakeholders into his confidence regarding any tax change discussion, in individual phone calls after the story had been dropped to the media.
With this as the backdrop to COAG it’s hard to believe that the income tax idea is anything but a ruse to distract the debate from the health and education cuts which remains the most urgent, unresolved and challenging issue facing COAG members in 2016.
How can the Commonwealth seriously expect State and Territory leaders to sign–up to “the most fundamental reform to the federation in generations" simply after a phone-call from the Prime Minister and a follow-up discussion today in Canberra.
Whilst it’s hard to raise excitement amongst the community for interest in a COAG meeting – it is without doubt the most powerful meeting of political leaders held in our country. What gets agreed at COAG can change the nation. Ambushing State and Territory leaders three days out from a meeting is no way for a responsible government to address issues of national importance for the Australian community.
Malcolm Turnbull’s handling of the lead up to COAG was hardly the way for serious reform of the federation to be pursued but maybe that’s been the idea all along.
Katy Gallagher is the Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on State and Territory Relations and is a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory.

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ASEAN KEY DESTINATIONS
State-owned enterprises aim to be Asian tigers
Having reaped billions of rupiah in profits from the 240 million residents of the archipelago, a number of state-owned firms are now turning their attention to neighboring countries.
From a cement maker to an airline, they aim to tap into neighboring markets ahead of the ASEAN Economic Community, which is set to kick off next year.
Cement producer PT Semen Indonesia is in an ongoing discussion with Myanmar conglomerates to acquire a cement factory in that country.
The company, which has allocated US$200 million for the acquisition, however, probably cannot complete the process this month as previously expected.
“We’ve conducted due diligence and we are now reviewing data from the field,” Semen Indonesia corporate secretary Agung Wiharto told The Jakarta Post recently.
“We don’t need to hurry because we want to get the best deal.”
Agung said that Myanmar was a “big potential market” for his firm as Myanmar’s economy was starting to grow as the formerly reclusive nation would need more cement to construct new buildings.
Myanmar is currently reforming its economy to be more open to the world after the transition from a military junta to a civilian government in 2011.
Myanmar has recorded economic growth of more than 6 percent since 2012, according to the World Bank.
Agung said that Myanmar’s cement demand stood at between 8 and 9 million tons per year, while its cement makers could only meet half of that.
“They’ve imported cement from Thailand and China. We want to capture that market with our presence,” he said.
“We aim to go regional,” Agung said, adding that his firm had successfully operated in Vietnam through its joint venture with Thang Long Cement Joint Stock Company (TLCC).
Semen Indonesia is not alone in its regional mission.
State-run lender Bank Negara Indonesia’s (BNI) construction firm PT Wijaya Karya (WIKA) and oil and gas firm PT Pertamina have joined forces and established a representative office in Myanmar.
State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan previously urged 15 state-owned firms to expand their business to Myanmar because its economy was booming.
He said that Myanmar’s government had so far granted business permits to several state-owned firms, including the three that jointly established a representative office.
BNI international division head Abdullah Firman Wibowo said that for BNI, the representative office was currently collecting market intelligence to get a comprehensive picture of the prospects and business culture in Myanmar.
“About two weeks ago, we met with the Central Bank of Myanmar [CBM] to discuss our plan to open a branch there,” he said.
“They welcomed our initiative positively.”
Firman added, however, that BNI would not open a branch in Myanmar anytime soon because CBM was still reviewing some regulations.
CBM was just granted operational independence in July last year after being controlled by Myanmar’s government, according to a report by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“We will probably open our own representative office after everything is fixed in Myanmar,” Firman said.
BNI currently has several overseas branches — including those in Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong — that generally provide services on trade finance and remittance transfer.
Firman said that BNI recorded total remittance transfers amounting $19.83 billion in the first quarter this year, a slight increase from $19.79 billion in the same period last year.
The bank served international trade transactions with a total value of $7.3 billion in the first quarter this year, a 28.4 percent surge from the same period last year, he said.
Firman said that BNI would probably also jump into South Korea and Taiwan to capture a bigger portion of the market due to the many Indonesian migrants living in the two countries.
Joining the fray in expanding overseas business, WIKA also aims to enter Myanmar.
The company allocated Rp 300 billion ($26.26 million) for its subsidiary, WIKA Beton, to build a concrete factory in Myanmar.
The company has also received an offer to develop a real estate complex in Myanmar through WIKA Realty.
“We’re still discussing our expansion plan in Myanmar,” WIKA corporate secretary Natal Agrawan said recently.
Besides expanding its wing to Myanmar, WIKA is also aiming to widen its overseas portfolio in, among other countries, Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, which already has 36 international destinations spanning across the globe, will open two new flight routes this year.
Garuda marketing and sales director Erik Meijer told the Post that Garuda would open the Jakarta-Manila (the Philippines) and Jakarta-New Delhi (India) routes by the end of this year.
The carrier already serves the Jakarta-Manila route, but through a code share agreement with Philippine Airlines.
Garuda spokesperson Pujobroto said that Garuda targeted to increase the number of its passengers by 10 to 20 percent this year, from almost 25 million last year.
Trading consultant firm PT Astronacci International president director Gema Goeyardi said overseas expansion to newly developing countries, such as Myanmar, would provide state-owned companies with very good markets because the countries could still potentially grow for the next 20 years.
“In addition, overseas expansion will also help state-owned firms prepare to face regional and global free trade zones,” he said.
Gema said that by operating in a regional scale, the companies would be stimulated to advance their benchmarking strategies, institutional managements and human resources.
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Taking the Wrong View
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitors Center
If the Peace Institute is a relatively dignified case of architectural compromise, the Vietnam Veterans visitors center, which will be in its front yard, diagonally across the intersection of 23rd and Constitution, is riven with so many unfortunate compromises it's hard to see how an effective building can be constructed in the location chosen for it. The legislation that authorized the museum also included a change to the law governing the creation of new structures on the Mall -- and a declaration that the "great cross-axis of the Mall" is "a substantially completed work of civic art." So Washington got a long overdue statement on the sanctity of the Mall's open space and an unfortunate new project at the same time, a perversity of the legislative process rather like a homeowner who develops a passionate taste for conservationism the moment the paint is dry on his secluded new vacation home.
The 2003 authorizing legislation also requires the visitors center be placed underground, that it not disturb sightlines on the Mall or encroach on the memorial itself. But if advocates for the Mall were under the impression that it would be all but invisible, they were disabused of that assumption when architects for the Polshek Partnership gave an informational briefing to the NCPC.
"You are certainly going to see something," said Joseph Fleischer, one of the architects passing around three preliminary models of the structure.
All three designs include a long, inclined entrance ramp and a central courtyard designed to bring light into the subterranean structure and allow space for venting its heating and cooling system. Both will eat up open space and impede pedestrian traffic.
The architects of Polshek are also proposing the possibility of re-landscaping the entire site, adding what may be a seven-foot embankment. All of which raises important questions about the meaning of "underground" in the original legislation. A sunken courtyard may be "below grade" but it certainly isn't "underground" if there's no ground above it. And raising the landscape to better situate the building and its entranceway is a dubious interpretation of the authorizing legislation.
Throughout that meeting, architect James Polshek insisted that his firm would follow "the spirit of the law," which leaves open the possibility that they won't follow the letter of it. But the spirit of any law is open to interpretation, and the manifest willingness to fudge the legally mandated design criteria so early in the process is a disturbing sign of where things are going with this building. Unfortunately, the NCPC's own 2006 guidelines for the project could be interpreted to give Polshek some wiggle room on many of these critical issues.
Even worse, initial presentations of the exhibits slated for the visitors center are more than a little troubling. Designed by Ralph Applebaum Associates, a firm that specializes in museum and educational projects, the proposed substance of the visitors center feels very insubstantial. Electronic media walls will show pictures of the war dead, and give some cursory information about them. Broad themes of military service -- "loyalty, duty, respect, service, honor, integrity, courage" -- will give structure to the design. But this general homage to the military, which will include images of the fallen from other wars besides the Vietnam conflict, sounds like a lot of vitiated feel-good blather rather than anything particular to the very controversial war that divided the country a generation ago.
Which does a grave and insulting disservice to Maya Lin's memorial. The virtues of that structure -- its austere elegance, its compelling reticence on the war itself, its refusal to glorify or demean its subject matter -- lie in everything it doesn't say. But ever since Lin's design was made public in 1981, it has been subjected to efforts to subvert its integrity, to make explicit things that were meant to be abstract, and to give the memorial a traditional "viewpoint" on the subject of war. Jan C. Scruggs, the head of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which is pushing the new visitors center, once showed such indifference to Lin's design that he was willing to compromise on even its most fundamental elements.
"My personal position was, put it above ground, make it white," he told The Post in 1982, after some veterans began arguing for a more traditional memorial. "I'm here to build a monument, not put a Rembrandt on the Mall."
Unfortunately that same cavalier attitude to good design lives on in the reckless pursuit of the new visitors center. When Lin's memorial was finished, the nation did, in fact, get something very like a Rembrandt on the Mall, and like a Rembrandt, it is self-sufficient and needs no further elaboration in a visitors center. The very idea of building a visitors center sets a damaging precedent for future expansionism. Which is not to say that there shouldn't be a museum or visitors center devoted to the Vietnam War, just not in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial and certainly not on the Mall.
Old Naval Observatory
There is probably no better place to watch the developments on this corner of the Mall than the hill on which the Old Naval Observatory is sited. For almost 50 years beginning in 1844, the elegantly proportioned observatory served the Navy as a site for astronomical research and a repository for charts and instruments. The two moons of Mars were discovered there in 1877. After the Naval Observatory moved farther northwest to the site that is now home to the vice president, the hill above the Kennedy Center hosted a hospital. The hospital buildings, begun in 1904, were designed by Ernest Flagg, who also designed the Corcoran Gallery.
The Peace Institute received its allotment from land (formerly a parking lot) that belonged to the Naval complex. And it is this hill, with exceptional views, easy access to the State Department and indeed, the whole of downtown, that will eventually host the headquarters for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Given the federal government's propensity for onerous security barriers, and given the particular sensitivity of the work done by the office for national intelligence, there is a fear that this site will become forever inaccessible to the public and that some of its historic buildings, especially the ones built by Flagg, might be neglected or demolished.
Although the Washington planning community isn't certain that the land transfer is definite, a spokesman for the intelligence directorate is clear on the matter.
"We will be taking that site; it's just a matter of when and what we do with it," says Trey Brown. The Navy says the transfer should be complete by September 2011, at which point the intelligence czar would inherit responsibility for the historic structures. Brown says the director's office understands the historic importance of the Naval Observatory building, but that it's too early to talk about what will happen to other structures on the hill, many of them more than 100 years old. The campus would likely provide office space for about 1,000 employees, but the work done by the office is primarily policy oriented, as opposed to the kind of data collection that might require the hill to be covered with forests of satellite dishes and communications towers.
Jan K. Herman, a historian with the Navy who is also the curator of the old observatory, isn't convinced by the government's assurances about the historic buildings he currently tends. Herman says that despite claims that there are no plans yet for how the hill will be used, he has seen an artist's rendering of its national intelligence reconfiguration -- which includes removal of some, and perhaps all, of Flagg's buildings.
"Someone is not telling you the truth," says Herman.
The transfer comes as the Department of Homeland Security is exploring a radical transformation of the old St. Elizabeths Hospital west campus, once a mental hospital on high ground across the Anacostia River. Like the St. Elizabeths site, the Naval Observatory hilltop is prime real estate blessed (or cursed, depending on your perspective) with extraordinary historic structures and phenomenal old trees. It has the feel of an isolated campus within the larger bustle of the city.
Long volumes have been written on the symbolism of Washington's urban topography. But not enough, perhaps, has been said about its landscape of irony, the way in which buildings also contradict one another, and send unintended messages. The Peace Institute will be built in the shadow of a new fortress of security and on land taken from the Navy; we remember our war dead not on hilltops with liberating views but in the shallows of what was once swampland; we build memorials and then fill them with strategic forgetfulness about the very thing they memorialize.
Right now, the landscape that lies on the northwest corner of our national Mall is mostly quiet. It will soon be a construction zone. And what gets built there may capture more about the complexity of our politics of public space than any of us would like to acknowledge.


Robert Begley of pHp Architects talks about the design of Hotel La Tour BirminghamIt’s always a pleasant surprise when your design finally takes shape. You have a picture in your mind, but it is never as good as the real thing. Now that the cladding is going up on the outside of the hotel, so that the building form is more evident, what stands out is that this is a great site.
Not just because it is a great location, but because it is a triangular site on a slope. Difficult sites produce interesting results and the pointed shapes which resulted from fitting the building to the site are really dramatic. So much so that we will have to protect pedestrians from one corner!
With the detail and variety in the cladding we feel we have realised our goal to design a building whose character changes throughout the day, and especially between day and night, so that the customer’s experiences are always reflective of the very different moods a hotel can capture.
The complex forms now revealed mark the hotel out as distinctly urban, and achieves the sense of style and polish created by great Art Deco buildings. With that combination of angular geometry and simple style,we can get the sense that the design will be at once modern and classic.
The three most important features on a building used by the public are ease of wayfinding, levels of daylight and connection to the activity outside. At Hotel La Tour we’ve been able to create a clear entrance and routes where people will want to go, a foyer flooded with light and high levels of natural light in lift lobbies and bedrooms corridors which have full width windows. The design also connects well with outside activity so hotel guests can experience the location they are in.


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Sugar Hill Produce is a small diversified vegetable farm located in Cedar Grove, NC. We do not spray synthetic pesticides or use synthetic fertilizers on our farm. Ever. In addition to a focus on sustainability, we pride ourselves in providing quality seasonal produce year-round. Come find us at the market pavilion every Saturday!
We offer a wide variety of produce including: baby arugula, baby Asian greens, basil, beets, broccoli, cabbage, melons, carrots, chard, cucumbers, dill, nappa, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, scallions, cilantro, kale, baby kale, lettuce, onions, peppers, radishes, turnips, spinach, summer & winter squash, & strawberries, okra, brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes and more….
Tracy also maintains an apiary at the farm, so we will be selling our local wildflower honey, while supplies last!
Want to see what we’re up to? Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SugarHill.NC

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David is one of Western Australia’s most sought-after presenters because he teaches children the craft of writing through games, songs, dances, origami, and story.
‘Totally engrossing … thoroughly entertaining … excellent’.
His books include Whammy, Whacko, The Reef, Smash, Pope Max and The Bear Collection.
David has run an assortment of writing-related workshops ranging from a highly participatory session for a hundred Grade One children to teaching ‘writing horror stories’ to a hundred Year 6 students. He has presented in lecture theatres, and under the night sky to both children and adults.

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It's cute, almost pink, and about twice as long as a cigar, with flesh so translucent you can see its liver from the outside. And it is the deepest fish ever caught.
Scientists today formally documented the world's newest, deepest fish, Pseudoliparis swirei, an odd little snailfish caught at 7,966 meters in the Mariana Trench—nearly twice as far below the sea's surface as Wyoming's Grand Teton towers above it. The new species from the dark, frigid ocean region known as the hadal zone was first caught in 2014 and again early in 2017 but is only now being described.
Yet even though the deepest part of the ocean extends almost another 2 miles down to just shy of 11,000 meters, scientists suspect they are unlikely to ever find a fish that lives much deeper.
That's because the pressure down deep is so enormous that fish may be chemically unable to withstand its destabilizing effects on proteins below about 8,200 meters.
While a host of animals can thrive down deep—foraminifera, odd decapod shrimp, sea cucumbers, microbes—no fish has ever been caught from the bottom quarter of the ocean. As of 2014, baited camera traps had been sent to the deepest regions 14 times across five Pacific Ocean trenches without ever even spotting a fish. The two most significant major deepwater trawling efforts—one by Danish researchers, the other in the 1950s by the Soviets—dropped nets 134 times to depths greater than 6,000 meters. No fish ever came up from a tow to the bottom 2,500 feet of water.
"There are real limitations to life in these trenches," says Mackenzie Gerringer, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories. Snailfish are thought to be able to handle pressures equal to the weight of 1,600 elephants. "They have evolved adaptations to that pressure to keep their enzymes functioning and membranes moving."
Of course, scientists concede they could some day be proven wrong.
Life Under Extreme Pressure
The new species, Pseudoliparis swirei, is named for an officer on the HMS Challenger, the 1870s British expedition that discovered thousands of new ocean species and led to the initial discovery of the trench. Challenger officer Herbert Swire, a navigational sub-lieutenant, published journals from the journey. "We named this fish after him in acknowledgment of the crews that serve on oceanographic research vessels," Gerringer says. "It takes a lot of people to keep a ship running and we wanted to sincerely thank them."
The species is almost certainly endemic to the trench, and appears to be abundant—scientists saw several on cameras carried by deep-diving autonomous vehicles in 2014. Their eggs are unusually large—almost a centimeter wide—and based on dissections of the individuals scientists hauled up, these snailfish don't lack for food. Inside their bellies Gerringer found hundreds of tiny crustaceans shaped like the roly-poly pill bugs one might find in a garden.
And these snailfish probably don't look much like what most people think of when they imagine creatures far below.
"The public normally thinks about anglerfish or viperfish," the black, monster-jawed fish with the dangling lanterns usually found a few thousand meters down, Gerringer says. "By the time you get this deep, fish take a really different form. They have no scales, no big teeth, and they're not bioluminescent—that we know of." (See more photos of deep-sea creatures.)
That lack of certainty, of course, comes with the territory. This is just one of the two species of snailfish—there are more than 350 known snailfish species globally—caught on film around that depth during recent expeditions to the trench. Scientists on multiple expeditions have hauled up 37 individuals of Pseudoliparis swirei. They've also filmed one at 8,178 meters.
But they still haven't caught a single individual of the other fish, which was filmed at about the same depth. That one makes an appearance in the BBC's new Blue Planet 2. It has a body so delicate a scientist once compared it to "tissue paper being dragged through water." It remains an as-yet undescribed species with no formal name. Scientists have taken to calling it the "ethereal snailfish."
"Not that we haven't looked," Gerringer says.
Connections to the Surface
When it comes to understanding life in the deep, "we're still at the 'discovering-who-is-down-there phase,'" Gerringer says.
There's just too much about the deep ocean that we simply don't yet know.
"There are trenches all around the Ring of Fire in the Pacific, but we don't know how similar they are or how connected they all are," Gerringer says. "We don't know how closely tied they are to the environment above.
Even so, it's not as if we haven't left our mark. Even these poorly understood trenches are not immune from our influence. Scientists recently discovered staggeringly high amounts of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in crustaceans taken from the deepest part of the trench. They are almost certainly byproducts from degrading pieces of plastic.
This story was originally published on November 28 at 2:45 pm ET and updated on November 29 at noon ET with more information on why this may turn out to be the deepest fish ever found.


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Originally introduced in 1994, the Pumpkin with Assorted Designs has become somewhat of a tradition. When introduced, these pieces are created as one-of-a-kinds where Vaillancourt artists have the freedom to design whatever sparks their Halloween interests! With limited quantities introduced each fall, there have been hundreds of designs released over the years.
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How to create an inclusive workplace for LGBT+ employees
Yet, the workplace, where people spend a significant part of their daily lives, isn’t always inclusive.
- psychological safety,
- job satisfaction.
LGBT+ employees also reported poorer workplace relationships. Many feel unable to bring their authentic selves to work. An inability to be authentic in the workplace has a negative impact and may result in mental health challenges and social isolation.
By comparison, an inclusive workplace increases productivity and performance.
So, how inclusive is your workplace for LGBT+ employees?
How inclusive is today’s workplace?
Four in 10 LGB+ and over five in 10 trans employees experienced workplace conflict in the last year.
Over 20% of LGBT+ workers experience discrimination during recruitment and promotion, and over a third worry about possible bias (CIPD).
Yet, employees that believe co-workers are supportive are more likely to be satisfied at work and in life.
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Why you should create an inclusive workplace
An inclusive workplace is good for everyone. A survey by Deloitte found that where companies have introduced LGBT+ initiatives, it contributed to a sense of belonging. Nearly all (95%) of respondents said initiatives had led to meaningful support for LGBT+ employees across organisations.
It is also good for the organisation. Supportive policies and practices have a positive link to increased productivity and performance. Being inclusive can aid retention.
Deloitte’s survey found that over 70% of employees were likelier to remain with their current employer because of its approach to LGBT+ inclusion.
It is also a legal requirement. Under The Equality Act 2010, sexual preference is a protected characteristic. The Act also says that you must not discriminate against anyone with a different gender than the one assigned at birth.
Tips for creating an inclusive workplace
1. Ensure your policies are inclusive of LGBT+ employees.
2. Encourage employee resource groups to support LGBT+ employees and encourage allyship.
3. Promote allyships across your organisation and encourage everyone to speak out.
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Shiva The Super Hero 3 is a 2017 Hindi dubbed supernatural thriller starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Samantha Akkineni, Ashwin Babu, Vennela Kishore, Abhinaya and Praveen. After investing in a beach resort, three friends find that the resort is haunted and seek the help of Rudra, a renowned mentalist. Can Rudra solve the mystery behind the paranormal activities in the resort?
Shiva The Super Hero 3 is a Hindi dubbed supernatural thriller starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Samantha Akkineni, Ashwin Babu, Vennela Kishore
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Midterm elections 2014: Joni Ernst vs. Bruce Braley in Iowa
In Iowa, Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley are vying for the Senate seat left vacant by the retirement of long-time Democratic Senator Tom Harkin.
Joni Ernst is a military veteran and has served in the Iowa senate since 2011. She opposes a national federal minimum wage, supported an anti-abortion law that would define foetuses as legal persons, and calls for the repeal of Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul.
Bruce Braley, a lawyer who has represented the north-eastern part of the state in Congress since 2007, was initially projected to win the seat.
However, Joni Ernst has leapt on a video that surfaced in which Bruce Braley appeared to denigrate Iowa’s sitting senator Chuck Grassley as a mere farmer, rather than a lawyer.
Also, Joni Ernst has made the most of a dispute Bruce Braley had with a neighbor at his vacation property over chickens she allowed to roam free across his land.
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Really? I had over 35 views yesterday and only one person commented? It only takes a minute! Please please comment on the previous blog “Naughty or Artistic?”! What do you see when you look at the pic?
Anyways, does anyone remember that big box of dates I picked up a month ago? And how I mentioned I’d bake something with them? Well, instead of just eating them straight or cooking them in my oatmeal with the crockpot (which is extremely tasty where the dates just melt like sugar in your oatmeal! Pics don’t do them justice so didn’t blog about it) I finally baked with them! I wanted to make something like I devoured in the Coachella Valley but these were nothing like them but still tasted good. Will enjoy with a nice cup of tea, coffee or glass of milk tomorrow!
Lightly adapted recipe from http://www.whatwouldcathyeat.com/2011/05/whole-grain-date-walnut-bread/.
1 1/2 cup chopped dates
1 1/2 cup boiling water
3 Tbsp applesauce
1/2 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup old fashioned oats, ground
2 Tbsp flax seed
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1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
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Jenifa recovers from post traumatic stress disorder, meanwhile Roseline’s Mother chooses frank over Gilbert .But will Roseline’s relationship with Frank go far? Watch out!!
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Overview of MV Victoria (1959) – Construction and Service
MV Victoria was the Royal Mail Ship RMS Victoria until Kenya gained independence from the UK in 1963.
MV Victoria functioned under the flag of Kenya till 1977; then, she was handed over to Tanzania.
Building of MV Victoria
MV Victoria was designed as a “tear down” ship.
MV Victoria was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited in Scotstoun, Glasgow, and demolished in June 1959.
MV Victoria was subsequently shipped to Kisumu on Lake Victoria in 1,500 cartons through Mombasa, where reassembly began in December 1959 and she was inaugurated on September 5, 1960.
On June 26, 1961, she was delivered to EAR&H (the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation) and commissioned on July 22.
During MV Victoria commissioning, the ship was granted the designation of Royal Mail Ship (RMS) by Elizabeth II, making MV Victoria the only EAR&H ship with this reputation.
MV Victoria Ship Service
MV Victoria Ship had a capacity of 230 people and 200 tons of freight when it was launched in 1961, and it had refrigeration for non – durable cargo.
MV Victoria replaced the EAR&H’s circular service around Lake Victoria’s ports, cutting the overall travel time in half to two and a half days, allowing her to serve all of the lake’s ports twice a week.
As a result, EAR&H issued new passenger prices and freight charges for various classes of freight on MV Victoria.
The EAR&H was partitioned between Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya in 1977, and MV Victoria was passed to Tanzania Railways. In 1997, the inland shipping department of TRC became a different cooperation, the Marine Services Company Ltd.
The MV Victoria Tanzania has been repaired and is scheduled to resume service between Mwanza and Bukoba in June 2020. Under the name “New Victoria,” the ferry began service on the Mwanza-Bukoba route in August 2020, as anticipated. The ship resumed operations one month later after a scheduled yearly checkup in September 2021.
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New report titled 'Out of Control' suggests Tennessee pass new laws to stop surge in traffic deaths.
More than 10,000 people have died on Tennessee roadways in the last 10 years.
Data also shows an almost 20% increase in traffic accidents in the first half of last year when compared to 2020.
The report, from Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, states drivers are behaving recklessly by speeding, impairment, and refusing to wear seatbelts. There is a suggestion that Tennessee pass a law requiring backseat passengers to also wear seatbelts. The rationale, say the authors, is that an unrestrained backseat passenger is not only a danger to themselves, but during an accident, becomes a danger to others.
Other suggested laws include:
While each case is different, there are times when an accident could have obviously been avoided, placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of the driver.
If you believe that you or a loved one have fallen victim to someone who was careless while driving, you may have a case that proves their actions were negligent and any pain or suffering you endured or continue to endure could result in a potential lawsuit. Contact us for a case review.
At the law offices of T. Verner Smith, we represent clients who have suffered personal injury due to the negligence of another. These types of lawsuits not only provide necessary compensation for those who were wrongfully hurt in an accident, but also creates an environment of caution leading to higher safety standards for all.
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The Texas Lyceum Journal is traditionally a complement to the annual Lyceum Public Conference. For the 2012/2013 publication of the Journal, we are doing something slightly different. In addition to the articles that capture the content of the public conferences, we also highlight topics from each of the quarterly meetings.
Contributors to the Journal provide insight and expertise on a range of issues such as education, transportation infrastructure, healthcare innovation, water and more.
The hallmark of the Texas Lyceum quarterly meetings is in-depth presentations and discussions with subject matter experts in their fields. This year’s Journal captures this expertise on a broad range of topics. The Journal shares with readers the breadth of knowledge Texas Lyceum Directors engage in each year. We hope you find these articles thought provoking and that you take the time to find out more about the Texas Lyceum at www.texaslyceum.org.
Read Part One of the Journal here - Introduction and 2012 articles
Read Part Two of the Journal here - 2013 articles
Read Part Three of the Journal here - 2012 and 2013 Lyceum Poll Executive Summaries.


Are going to shoot long range or extreme long range? To me, long range is 1200 yards on paper and 600 yards on animals. For that I use a 7-08AI. I can get 2800 fps out of a 20" barrel using Hornady 162 ELDs (M for paper, X for animals). Only 11 mils of come-up for 1200 yards and it is still supersonic for another 200 yards. A lot less powder and recoil for pretty dang good performance. If you are talking ELR, then one of the shorter 7mags using 180s are hard to beat.


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Located in Sherwood Park and Edmonton, our eye clinics have been providing comprehensive care with Eye Doctors since 1921. At the present time, each eye doctor at all locations welcomes new patients and their families for eye care. In fact, we have been providing care to Albertans for almost 100 years! No matter if you need a comprehensive exam, advice on eye disease treatment, or information on surgery each eye doctor will provide you with the best care, advice and options to assist you. After all, in order to provide the best possible care for our patients, our optometrists at each eye clinic are continually educating. Every doctor is a registered member of the Alberta College of Optometrists.
In addition we also strive to provide our patients excellent value for eye products including glasses and contact lenses. Finally, whatever your vision concern, your eye doctor at our clinic will use all technology available to find the right solution for your concerns.
From Eyecare to Eyewear, we hope you find us the clear choice for ALL your vision needs.
Meet Each Eye Doctor At Our Practices in Edmonton & Sherwood Park, AB
H.G. Willis, started the Optometry practice here in downtown Edmonton in 1921 on the corner of 101st Street and Jasper Avenue. Located down on the ground floor of the Empire Block. His motto was “See Willis and See Well.” Later Dr. A.C. Willis took over the Optometrist practice around 1945 when H.G. Willis retired. Dr. A.C. Willis practiced Optometry until the early 1980’s. Dr. David Plotsky graduated in 1965 and began at the Optometric practice in the Empire Block, which was torn down and replaced by the current Empire Building. Dr. Plotsky practiced in Edmonton and Sherwood Park until he passed away in 2002.
At the present time, the current eye doctors that are partners are Dr. James Evans who joined the Optometric practice in 1983. Dr. Sindy Tromposch graduated in 1985 & started after graduation. Dr. Adrian Atwell first started at the Optometric practice in 2004. Dr. Brennan Nelson, our newest eye doctor graduated & joined our practice in 2016.
At the present time, all of our eye doctors look forward to meeting you and solving your vision concerns. We have had the same philosophy since our office opened many years ago.
Assuming that it has been a while since your last visit to a eye doctor, consider visiting our Eye Exam page to get a feel for what it’s all about along with a brief video if you prefer. Also, we answer a few terms & common questions our patients frequently ask.
In order to book an exam with an eye doctor in our eye clinic, first choose from our optometrist clinic nearest where you live. Your three choices are Edmonton, along with North Edmonton or Sherwood Park with detailed location information at each link. Then you can use our booking tool to arrange your eye exam at any of our three locations that are convenient to you.
Dr. Evans grew up in Regina Saskatchewan. Upon getting his first set of eyeglasses in grade 6, he was amazed and inspired that someone could make a person see things so much clearer. Years later in the summer following grade 10, an opportunity arose for Dr. Evans to work the summer in an optical lab. It was there when he had a chance to talk to a couple local Optometrists, he decided that this is what he wanted to do. Help people see their best. After high school, and studying hard, Dr. Evans received his Doctor of Optometry from the University of Waterloo in 1982. Early in his career, Dr. Evans was one of the pioneering members of the Occupational Vision Committee (now called Eyesafe) for several years, developing a program to provide reasonably priced safety eyewear to the workplace.
Currently, Dr. Evans is still a member of both the Canadian and Alberta Association of Optometrists. He volunteers for mediation for the Alberta College of Optometrists. He enjoys all aspects of Primary Care Optometry including emergency eye care and contact lenses. Dr. Evans has been married for more than 27 years and is the proud father of two grown children. In his spare time, he enjoys most genres of music, older cars, technology, CFL and exploring new places.
Dr. Tromposch finds the most rewarding part of her job is to address her patient’s vision concerns, helping them see clearly, and to educate them on different treatment options.
She received her BSc from the University of Alberta in 1981 and her doctorate in optometry in 1985. Her special interests have evolved over the years. She has worked in the areas of vision therapy and sports vision. Her special interests now involve scleral contact lenses, treatment of dry eye disease, and family practice.
Dr. Tromposch has volunteered her time on the competency board and has been an investigator for the College of Optometry. She also works as a consultant both for Health Canada and Blue Cross on optometric matters.
Fitness is a big part of her life. She enjoys cycling, golfing, and going to the gym. Gardening is also a passion. She has volunteered her time officiating sprint canoe and kayak events both at a provincial and national level.
- Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, University of Calgary (with honors) - 2000
- Doctor of Optometry, University of Waterloo (with honors) - 2004
- active member of the Alberta College of Optometrists hearing tribunal
- practice interests include scleral lenses and primary care
A former soccer defender, football wide receiver and father of two he is a sports junkie who never met a sport he didn’t like. For the past 14 years he has redirected his energy and expertise into managing the vision needs of his diverse patient base.
Favorite movie: Training Day, but has seen more Barbie movies than he cares to admit
Favorite hobby: mowing the lawn … is that a hobby?!?
Something you may not know about him: he loves all kinds of music
Dr. Brennan Nelson was born and raised in Sherwood Park, Alberta. After acquiring the necessary credits from the University of Alberta, Dr. Nelson was accepted into the Optometry Program at Nova Southeastern University, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Dr. Nelson attended the world-renowned Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, where he was located for his externships during his final year of Optometry school. During his time spent at Bascom Palmer, he was exposed to various clinics, such as Neuro-Ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Corneal Disease, Pediatrics, Uveitis, Retinal Care, and Primary Care.
It was during his pediatrics rotation, that Dr. Nelson discovered his passion for Vision Therapy. Having been exposed to various conditions that affect learning, reading and writing, as well as improving his patients' overall quality of life, lit a fire for Dr. Nelson to help others through Vision Therapy. Viewing his patients' Vision Therapy successes, and the concomitant quality of life improvements motivates Dr. Nelson to provide patients with the proper tools needed to overcome these visual obstacles. By seeing various cases, Dr. Nelson continues to provide Edmonton and area with Vision Therapy programs, as it is a truly rewarding experience!
Whether it’s a young child with binocular vision issues affecting school performance, an athlete trying to develop a visual edge on the competition or a post-concussion/ post-stroke individual, Dr. Nelson looks forward to working hard with you to improve your symptoms and quality of life!
Outside of the clinic, Dr. Nelson enjoys playing sports such as hockey and baseball, fishing, and spending time with his family.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured the tornado affected people in Brahmanbaria of government support.
"I'm here to assure that the Awami League-led government always stands by you," Hasina, who heads the AL, told a rally at a village in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila.
She earlier visited three villages in the upazila, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent.
After the rally, the premier left Brahmanbaria for Dhaka in a helicopter.
She went to Brahmanbaria in the afternoon to visit the areas hit hard by Friday's tornado that killed 23 people.
The tornado lashed nearly 20 villages in the district on Friday afternoon, killing at least 23 people and leaving an eight-kilometre trail of destruction in its path.


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Application for patients | Appointment Schedule, Recipe, Tips .
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• Completion of Registration Form performed on the App by the customer
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• App Initial or Urgent Appointment Scheduling
• Consultation confirmation 48h and 24h hours before by alert
• Smartphone notification reminder every 6 months after last call back
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• Available for symptoms such as: pain, temporary fall, tooth fracture, bracket fall, bleeding and others.
• Notification integrated with Administrative Panel in the Office with the possibility of requesting urgent care appointment immediately (under human supervision)
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