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Russell Brand, the British comedian known for his wit and charm, has a fascinating family story that often stays out of the limelight. His wife, Laura Brand (formerly Gallacher), and their two daughters, Mabel and Peggy, live relatively private lives. Here's everything you need to know about the comedian's family.
Laura Brand: The Artistic Beginning
Laura Brand hails from Surrey, England, and is the daughter of the renowned golfer Bernard Gallacher. Growing up, she resided in the exclusive Wentworth Estate. Her sister, Kirsty Gallacher, also made a name for herself as a radio presenter, notably for Sky Sports.
Interestingly, it was Kirsty who played matchmaker in this love story. In 2007, she introduced Laura and Russell Brand, sparking a connection leading to more than a decade of shared experiences.
A Love That Stood the Test of Time
Brand and Laura first crossed paths when he was 30 and she was just 19. In a 2020 interview with You Magazine, Laura fondly reminisced about how she "really fell in love" when they first met. Although their initial romance didn't lead to marriage, they remained close friends.
Laura initially pursued art and later ventured into the hospitality industry. Afterward, she embarked on a new journey, launching a lifestyle blog. Fate, it seems, had a plan for them. They reconnected when Laura's friend convinced her to go for a walk after her ex had moved out. In a remarkable twist of fate, they bumped into Russell Brand during their walk, reigniting their connection.
The Path to Marriage
In 2017, Russell Brand and Laura tied the knot. Interestingly, they had briefly dated in the late 2000s, before Brand's high-profile marriage to Katy Perry. However, their paths crossed romantically once more in 2015.
In a 2020 episode of the podcast "Made by Mammas" Laura Brand shared that when they rekindled their relationship after Brand's marriage to Perry ended, they both knew it was meant to be serious. They took the time to rebuild their foundations and trust, demonstrating their commitment to each other.
Aside from her personal life, Laura has also made her mark in the literary world with books like "The Joy Journal for Magical Everyday Play" and "The Joy Journal for Grown-ups."
Mabel: The First Addition to the Family
In 2016, Laura gave birth to their first daughter, Mabel. Brand revealed the news during a stand-up show, leaving mid-performance when he learned of the birth. Earlier, he hinted at fatherhood in an Instagram post, where he peeked over the cover of "The Expectant Dad's Handbook."
While the couple prefers to keep their children's lives private, Brand expressed his joy at being a father during an interview on "Today." He lovingly described Mabel as "beautiful, glorious, and full of joy and love." Yet, he humorously added that she possessed a naughty side, often playfully yanking at his chest hairs.
Peggy: A New Addition
In 2018, the Brands welcomed their second daughter, Peggy. In an interview with The Sunday Times when Peggy was six months old, Russell Brand praised his wife Laura for her dedication to their children's well-being. He acknowledged that Laura primarily managed the domestic aspects of childcare and had an exceptional understanding of parenting nuances.
Expecting Their Third Child
Fast forward to June, and the Brands had exciting news to share. During an interview on "The Diary of a CEO" podcast with Steven Bartlett, it was revealed that they were expecting their third child. Bartlett celebrated their enduring love story, emphasizing their cultivated special bond.

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South Asian Immigrant Tales Written in Paint
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh…migrants from towns and villages, leaving everything behind to create something new, something of their own in America.
It’s all about journeys, about the lives you leave behind and the new ones you make. We’ve all got into a plane, left a place and arrived somewhere else. The baggage we’ve carried is physical things – loved old photographs and mementos, homemade garam masala – but it’s also about memories, lost homes and loved ones who are no longer with us.
The way artists deal with this excess baggage and physical and mental borders is through paint and canvas, creating a new reality which did not exist before. For the past ten years, IAAC’s ‘Erasing Borders: has been giving this space to artists to share their creations and their innermost thoughts, and this year too artists participated in this long lasting celebration of home and the world, as more and more artists take on the global trek.
Artists from India, Pakistan & Bangladesh
This year the tenth annual IAAC Erasing Borders 2013: Exhibition of Contemporary Art of the Diaspora opened appropriately enough at the Flushing Town Hall, a historic town house in Queens, a borough which has been home to so many generations of South Asian immigrants. Their mark is upon this borough in the language, in the food and in the many houses of worship, temples, churches and gurudwaras.
Over 28 artists participated and their work was chosen and curated by noted artist Vijay Kumar, who has an immigrant story of his own. He has been curating this show since the beginning as a labor of love. says it was hard to select the final works but he did it as it is a pleasure for him to showcase upcoming artists and the work they do. The exhibition can be seen at The Hammond Museum in June, and will then move to MIT where it will be displayed from mid-September to mid-October 2013.
The artists include Aaliyah Gupta, Anjali Deshmukh, Anujan Ezhikode, Avani Patel, Bivas Chaudhuri, Dhanashree Gadiyar, Ela Shah, Tara Sabharwal, Firoz Mahmud, George Ommen, MD Tokon, Mansoora Hassan, Mumtaz Hussain, Mustafa Faruki, Niamul Bari, Nirmal Raja, Parul Mehra, Pritika Chowdhry, Reet Das, Ruee Gawarikar,Sangeeta Reddy, Veru Narula, Alkananda Mukerji, Antonio Puri, Claudia Dias, Reeta Gidwani Kamarkar and Kulvinder Kaur Dhew.
So many names, so many different homes, different cities, different memories. All have converged in America.
South Asia in America
So as the guests nibbled on vadas and idlis and sipped Indian wine from vineyards in Nasik, they surveyed art by artists from the Diaspora. They were truly in a place where borders had melted – was it America or was it India? Pakistan? Bangladesh? Or a bit of each?
For each artist, it was a negotiated space, a place of their own, at home in the world. Here are the thoughts and input from some of the artists.
Sangeeta Reddy came to the US in 1978 from Hyderabad after studying in Bombay. Marriage brought her to a small town in Oklahoma: “Needless to say, it was a culture shock of an extremely unexpected kind! I now see myself as a hybrid, an Indo-American. My work comes from a place very close to my identity. My earliest influences were a curious mixture of Van Gogh, from when my father picked up a second hand book when I was 6 or 7 and Picasso, when I was 11.” Reddy, who’s been the adjunct facility at Arapahoe Community College for 7 years, teaches drawing. She also is a writer who has written short stories and a novel. Her art has shown in Denver, Aspen as well as in India, most recently in Hyderabad.
Growing New Skin: Disguise, Camouflage, Whitewash
She says of her ‘Ellipse series, ” I believe that life cycles have a way of re-occurring. Only, they never return in perfect circles, but in wobbly, misshapen ellipses, unexpectedly, unpredictably, and yet with a certain rhythm. The shape has always been present in my work from the earliest tentative explorations of an identity of a Universal Soul or Brahman, into abstract shapes.
“The two aspects and layers of my work are deeply connected to the process with which we, as new immigrants, in a sense innocent and unaware, are thrown into and then gradually throw on the skins we need to conceal ourselves to survive and navigate a new culture. In that process it is necessary to feel the perceived insulation of disguise, of camouflage, the whitewash, and yet, the covering is often times inadequate and we may reveal more than we think; our skins are not as thick as we think, and are easily penetrated, bruised and lacerated.
In this process too, we are forever altered, not the heightened ‘global souls’ that we may imagine, but when we do return, in a state of a double exile, we have inevitably started a process where it starts again. Cultures are cruel that way, and unforgiving to those who desert them and then return.”
Identity, Struggle and Freedom
Dhanni Shenoy who is from Mysore, Karnataka, India resides in Stamford, CT. She has exhibited mostly in India and came here just three years ago. “I see myself as an Indian, studying the culture of the varied immigration population in America, which fascinates me.”
She describes her work ‘Identities’ as inspired by the emotional and changes of physical space faced by an immigrant: “It depicts the struggles, the sense of freedom and trying to establish an identity in the new country, carrying the past along. It’s a blur between the old experiences and the new ones created. Play, as the title itself suggests, depicts the play of emotions. The circular forms are the depiction of the moon, which I use as a metaphor in most of my work – something which is so precious, but we fail to celebrate it in our busy lives.”
Mumtaz Hussain has left Pakistan but Pakistan has never left him and as a film director, writer and a painter/sculptor, his homeland has stayed with him. His film, ‘Soul of Civilization’ has shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He says, ” I am a native son of Indus Valley Civilization. I am now living in the US but my art reflects my inheritance and I’m proud to pay tribute to the land where I came from.”
Mumtaz who studied art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, has also pursued art in London before coming to New York to study graphic design a the School of Visual Arts. He fuses many different elements of European and American influences as well as ancient architecture and calligraphy into his work, drawing inspiration from his past and present.
“Indians have a very distinct world view, the way we see the world around us and solve problems is very unique among other nationals and cultures which is a source of inner strength and it is in my veins,” he says. “Becoming an American is a process which is another valuable unique life-altering experience. We are often products of multiple cultures and countries – we try to do best out of both. These multiple experiences and cultural backgrounds have enriched American culture in return.”
Indian Goddesses, Lady Liberty
” Most of my work, dealing with issues of faith, is about search and survival,” says Ela Shah who came to New Jersey from Bombay in 1972 via the middle East. She received her MA in sculpture from Montclair State University, and has always incorporated elements of her Indian heritage into her work. “Within myself I am in constant need to burn and resurrect fragments of my past and identity. These burnt images are symbolic of purification and transformation.”
Ela Shah’s work is in collections in several museums including N.J. State Museum, Montclair Museum, and Zimmerli Museum. In it, women are compared with Indian goddesses, and go hand in hand with American pop culture icons such as Superwoman, because they both want to achieve miraculous tasks. Indeed, to start out in a new country with an empty slate is a difficult undertaking. “When one is afraid of losing something dear to one’s heart, like one’s culture and tradition because of immigration, one tries to hold on to it as much as one can. This conflict reflects in my work. I search myself through art and this search helps me to survive in this post-modern world.”
Tara Sabharwal came to the US from India via London. She did her BFA in Baroda so artistically a lot of the sensibilities were already in place.She’s done the Artist Teacher Summer Residency at Cooper Union School of Art in NYC and was also 2008 Artist in residence, Center for International cultural exchange, HISHIO, Katsuyama, Japan.
“Childhood is an intense period, so for sure I see myself as Indian,” she says. ” I also see India from a variety of viewpoints, from a place in America and UK. My art work reflects my Indian-ness and also my non-Indianness and all the shades in between. Life has taken me from my birthplace in Delhi to many new places, homes and identities. The experience has been enriching, it resonates in my work and has enabled me to build bridges between boundaries.”
Detours and Homes Left, Remembered
Her work is a sum-total of her experiences and as she writes, “My recent paintings and prints are remembered moments from a journey of outward and inner explorations. These pictures of homes; homes left, lost, remembered, revisited and continually reinvented narrate the story of my own migration and a search for meaning through it. The images I use: homes, ladders, windows, roots, winding paths, rain and container are open-ended symbols. They invite the viewer to make their own interpretations, and reflect.”
Indeed, these visual journeys are collaborative, from what the artist paints on the canvas to what the viewers perceive, colored by their own experiences.
Some journeys take detours. Reeta Gidwani Kamarkar came to the US in 1971, after five years in Rome, and lives and works in Los Angeles now. Painting was all she had ever wanted to do and she got her first major art award at the age of 13 in an International UNESCO juried show in Korea. She got her Laurea from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome Italy, and has shown in many art shows including the Modern Art Museum in Ciudad Bolivar Caracas,Venezuela and her work is in the permanent collection of the Roman Guild of Artists.
” I think of myself as an East Indian American,” she says. “Critics both in Europe and America, when they write about me, always mention the fact that my palette harks to my Indian roots. My laurea thesis was on architecture in 14th century Italian paintings. Artists like Piero della francesca and Paolo Ucello used a mathematical pyramid perspective and if one removes the people from their paintings , that right there gave me my spaces and perspective. Then America’s enthusiasm and open mind to the arts allows me to experiment with spaces and non figurative architectural, cut out canvases, without my feeling confined to the rectangle.”
Parul Mehra came to the US in 2000 from India, and lives in New York. She is a textile designer from NIFT and FIT, and has worked with companies like Ralph Lauren, Coach and Blomingdales. She’s worked with Bruce Mau, Mark Pollack and Rachel Doriss, and her inspirations come from the Indian and French classic motifs harmonized with western themes She says, “I see myself as an Indian as well as a New Yorker. I consider myself lucky to have experienced both cultures closely.”
Parul is adept at the techniques of woven textiles, hand printing and embroidery and has a passion for photography. “I believe that photography is a magical process which is driven by impulse, intuition and excitement to make discoveries,” she says. “Photography is about capturing a movement, a passing visual and emotional experience that will never come again. I also take inspiration from rendition of color through light and it’s exposure that creates a subliminal effect which can be captured only in an instant.” In the exhibit she shows works from the series ‘Coastal Retreat’ which feature New England architecture, landscapes and colors.
At What Point Does an Indian Become an American?
Antonio Puri grew up in the Himalayas and came to the US in 1984 and currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. He is a mixed media abstract artist who works with contrasting ideas and looks to create a fusion between the East and the West. He’s had over a dozen solo exhibitions worldwide and is in numerous museum collections including the Essl Museum in Austria, National Gallery of Art in Mauritius, Bergen Museum and Noyes Museum in the United States, Musee du Mont Belliard in France. In 2012 he had solo exhibits in India, Austria, and in the United States. He has done residencies in Bulgaria, South Africa, Serbia, Mauritius, and Romania.
“I see myself as a global citizen,” he says when asked about where he identifies himself in this mix of nationalities and ethnicities. How does his artwork reflect his beliefs and identity?
“I question labels,” he says, pointing to his piece of art in the exhibit, a work that defies categorization. ” I created a work of art that is made up of a stack of paintings but very few will call it a painting any more. It has been called sculpture, installation art, conceptual art – despite the fact that it is just a stack of paintings. Is this need for labeling everything and everyone necessary or just done by habit? I am exploring this question – at what point does an Indian become an American?”
Looking for a Place of One’s Own
“My current work is involved with space, which is full of energy. I use repetitive visual elements and meditative process to energize the whole space. The highly structured slowly changing imagery has a close resemblance to my state of mind,” says Bivas Chaudhuri who came in the 80’s and whose search for a permanent home of his own is the inspiration behind his latest work.
“Most of my paintings are done with unconscious mind and with intuition but this one seeks to find some connection with my long quest for a place, a home of my own. I was following the housing market which was depressed for long time.” Chaudhuri who has learned architectural design and drafting and worked for architect firm, believes you could incorporate almost any knowledge skills into art.
“Indians have a very distinct world view, the way we see the world around us and solve problems is very unique among other nationals and cultures which is a source of inner strength and it is in my veins,” he says. “Becoming an American is a process which is another valuable unique life-altering experience. We are often products of multiple cultures and countries – we try to do our best for both. These multiple experiences and cultural backgrounds have enriched American culture in return.”
Life along the Ganges River, Going with the flow
Alakananda Mukerji came to the US In 1998 and lives in Manhattan. She is a professor in the studio art department of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. She has a Ph.D in art history and an MFA in studio art. She has had major exhibitions in New York. Ask her if she identifies with India or America, and she says a little of both. “I try to mix both cultures in my everyday living. Diversity is what I like of both countries. My art work is still very much of Indian subjects. I like the bright colors in food, clothing and landscape of India. I have adopted the techniques of different mediums in this country and represent the mix of both cultures. I would love to do so for rest of my life!”
As she writes, “I grew up on the River Ganges. I have long since left the narrow streets of Benares where life is awash in a flood of color and a constant stream of souls. Yet however so far I may find myself from those ancient riverbanks, my memory, my art, and indeed my very being — these are forever caught up in the notion of endless, sacred flow.
People and faces, the surge of sounds, the unfathomably old commingling with the untarnishedly new — all the rhythms and rhymes of India: this is the wellspring of who I am. I flow from this source, but I have become the river – changing, evolving, flowing. And what flows from me, my painting, it is often a conversation between the me that was and the me that is becoming. Memories, media, materials – bits of canvas, pieces of the past – anything I can get hold of: this is my art. I am the medium. I am the flow.”
Marriage brought artist Ruee Gawarikar to US in 2004 from Pune, India, and she had to transition into a new life. She recalls, ” I was like a fish thrown out of water. Plus my dependent status meant that I was unable to work. It was really painting that saved me. Rather than wasting my time and emotions, I thought I would use them in my work. At first, I was very much homesick. I never thought of myself as anything other than an Indian. However, over time, and with exposure to a different culture, I became aware of many more things around me. I realized it isn’t about where you stay, but rather about who you are, wherever you may be. Now I think of myself as an international citizen.
Of course being an Indian for so many years, it isn’t easy to let go of my beliefs, nor would I want to. The tree may flower anywhere, but the roots are definitely in India. I have always been attracted to the Indian miniature, its colors and stories. Being a Kathak dancer, I have also been influenced by the drama aspect in Indian performing arts which gets translated in my work.”
Mansoora Hassan, a multi-media artist who lives and works in both the West and the East, and she says she is fully at-home within traditional Islam and liberal, secular societies. “Art dialogue is a crucial platform for intercultural exchange to overcome polarization and promote a sense of shared humanity, in our increasingly dissonant world. My mixed media and video works serve as a conduit to stimulate a response and engage in positive dialogue and are influenced by Sufi thought – I have traveled worldwide seeking the common thread of spirituality that binds us.”
Aaliyah Gupta arrived in the US from Kolkata in 1982, to go to college and received an MFA in painting from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She now lives in Seattle and has created a whole new world, making art, growing vegetables, working toward social change and loves to feed people. Gupta, who lives with her husband, twins and two cats, says she’s happiest when she can do all of this concurrently.
“I identify as Indian, primarily, but having lived in the US for over 30 years, though, puts me in the Diaspora category,” she says. ” For me, identity is fluid, dynamic and multifaceted – not a single concrete thing. My art is informed by my experiences, my interactions, and the way I see the world. In some cases, you can see a very direct connection between something I experienced and pieces that emerged from those experiences.”
About her Life Series, for example, she says, “The sickness and death of a close friend resulted in this series of charcoal drawings. The treatment and processes undertaken in the attempt to save my friend’s life were aggressive and intrusive. I appreciated the advanced technologies that might save her life, yet I resented what felt like an invasion of her body and soul. The tension between my two responses resulted in drawings about physical and metaphysical inner spaces, and excavations of the deepest and most fragile recesses of body and soul.”
Lapaya, Cow Dung and Sumo Wrestlers
“I see myself as an Indian-Bangladeshi inverted myself into very much Indian Culture,” says Firoz Mahmud, who is from Bangladesh. ” I still believe that there is no border of social culture, family culture, food culture, dress culture and all over regional culture among three invisibly bordered countries.” he has a Ph.D from Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA from Tama Art University and MFA & BFA from Dhaka University`s Fine Art Institute .His artist residency program includes Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, ISCP New York and OZU Culture Center, Rieti/Rome.
Most of his works are based on Indian subcontinental or indigenous past and present, political ideas of nationalism, humor, belief and stratification within daily life. His stencil painting Layapa Art techniques are taken from Japanese woodblock printing and Bangladeshi rural cowdung painting. He says: “The ‘Layapa’ is a Bengali word which means render. I render history in the similar way how rural women in Bangladesh render their belief with cow dung and mud onto their hut. I render south-Asian history and myth from old local manuscripts on shaped stretched canvas.”
Yet artists are nothing if not absorbers of the varied cultures they face and so in the Erasing Borders exhibit he showed his photographs of Sumo wrestlers in Japan.
Claudia Dias, who is of Indian and German heritage, arrived from Europe and then Asia, where she had wanted to open up an architecture office in Mumbai. However, the sudden Asian economic crisis forced her to leave and come to New York. In Germany, she says, according to German law, one receives the nationality of the father and the religion of the mother. “I visited my Indian family and friends on a yearly basis and kept in touch with them also when I worked with Rem Koolhaas on my Master thesis for architecture and urban planning which was a 18 months project on the city of Mumbai, I moved to Mumbai to do my research work.”
Does she see herself as an Indian, German or American? She says, ” Having lived in many countries in my life – Munich, Berlin, Vienna, London, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Amsterdam, and NY, I believe there is little of any strong cultural heritage left in me; in particular if you live in a melting pot like New York for an extended time, these borders do blur. However, I think one always acts in certain cultural ways, and I do feel sometimes more Indian then German. Living in America, however, erases that distinction more and more.”
How does her artwork reflect her beliefs and identity? Her answer is surprising and complex, weaving all identities into her art. ” I think being so intensely fascinated with astronomy might have to do with my Indian heritage. Using the 15th century technique of etching, is a curiosity for my German heritage, but since I am using as inspiration NASA photographs from the Hubble Telescope, it is my testimony of embracing the advanced technologies of the US.”
Lost Homelands Remembered, Realigned
And for some artists, the lost country and its memories become a citadel, the scaffolding on which everything else rests. George Oommen is an architect and painter living in Massachusetts, whose painting is entirely devoted to remembering his native Kerala, the spice coast of southwest India.
Born in Munnar, Kerala, and educated in India, Mexico, and the United States, Oommen continues to derive artistic inspiration from the lush green landscapes of his homeland. Every winter, he visits Mankotta, a small island in the inland waters of Kerala, close to his ancestral home and the weeks spent there fuel his painting year round.
To him, Kerala is a very special place and he wants to recreate it for those who have never been there. As he told Ebrahim Alkazi in an interview: “Kerala, one of India’s twenty eight states, is a narrow strip of land lining the Southwest corner of India. Physically, the region is characterized by numerous rivers and backwaters that are quite panoramic. The network of waterways is lined with dense, verdant foliage in some places, but in others, there is an open latticework of fringed palm trees.”
During the day, the waterways, being the main mode of transport, are heavily trafficked. In the early mornings, however, they are perfectly still. Oommen says, “When the waters are that placid, they become mirrors, reflecting the sky, greenery, and tranquility that abounds. This is my favorite time of day and scene to paint. In fact, some of my paintings have been hung inverted in galleries and printed upside down in publications because these mirrored images appear to be so real!”
In the end, truly, perception is everything and these artists etch out their views of the world around them on their canvases, composing their own stories of migration, of change and rebirth, of loss and gain.
Real or imagined? Surreal or factual? Memory or wishful thinking?
Immigrants always carry their versions of the home country, like a sacred talisman, close to their hearts.
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Glass communicates with light
Václav Cígler, an artist and glass designer, was born on April 21st 1929 in Vsetín. As his parents had been divorced before he was born, he had been raised by his mother and his stepfather, a funeral parlour owner. During the Second World War, both his mother and his stepfather participated in the resistance, they had been hiding a fugitive participant of the Slovak National Uprising and were also helping their Jewish fellow citizens financially. After graduating from a gymnasium type secondary school, he had been studying at the Higher, Secondary and Apprentice Glass School in Nový Bor. From 1951 to 1957, he studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Praha) at Josef Kaplický´s studio. In the 60s and the 70s, he was the head of the Studio of Glass in Architecture at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Bratislava. He had created many objects of art and works of architecture, for example the glass objects at Prague (Praha) Metro stations Náměstí Míru and Náměstí Republiky.


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The Corner of Princes St & Moray Place– Buy or view the Ōtepoti | Dunedin gallery
How I like wandering looking at the space and shape between objects, it makes me think about the experience of seeing. Take buildings for example, buildings are great to photograph because you can do all sorts of things with them. They’re fascinating to explore at all sorts of angles from all sorts of positions and points of view. New buildings have different characteristics than old buildings which means that they interact with light differently and they are loads of fun to process in whatever programme you use. Personally, I think I like old doorways the most, however I thought this building corner in Dunedin was kinda funky with its dark windows.
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This could be anywhere in the world squares of glass covering large areas of walls all the same fascinating

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You! Yes, you. Let’s take this down to the parking lot. I’ve got a bone to pick with you, OYIS. Because… you deserve a strong metaphorical hug! We did it. We’re doing it. We’re alive and well and things aren’t perfect, but man oh man, it’s happening. OYIS is a safe and strong community. Keep up the good work. Now let me say a few words about Pink Shirt Day and what I would like to see us do about it.
Somewhere in Canada at some point a guy was made fun of for wearing pink. His friends and classmates and school rallied around him to show solidarity and it grew into a yearly international event to support diversity and prevent bullying. Let’s talk about what we can do here and now, not in the land of ‘ehs’ and Degrassi, but here at OYIS in Osaka, Japan.
There’s a simple rule used when dealing with children; tell them what to do, not what not to do. Makes sense, right? “Soft hands, Timmy.” “Walking feet, Suzanne.” So what if we applied that rule to bullying? I think we’ve all reached a saturation point with hearing about bullying and how to stop it and what to do if you see it. So what if we flipped the script and turned it into something positive and strength-based?
It might just be very simple. Be kind. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do small acts of kindness and practice empathy. Really practice empathy and not just give it lip service. Take a second to put yourself in others’ shoes. Be the bigger person and hold your tongue. Wear a pink shirt, but then also do the work.
There’s a book we read to students in the early childhood center called ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today?’ The premise is that we walk around with invisible buckets and we fill our own buckets by filling other people’s buckets. Having a full bucket feels good. You fill buckets by performing acts of kindness. If we’re mean and dip from other’s buckets, we also dip from our own bucket. You might think this a bit too simplified for older students or adults, but what if it was the perfect, and simplest, way to reach our goal?
Having said all that, good people standing by and doing nothing is still a problem. Three OYIS students, Michael, Kirari and Eunwoo, did an experiment recently on the bystander effect, in which there is a diffusion of responsibility when people see bad things happening to others. Someone else will do something about it. The point here is that intervening in bullying has to be something that is intentional because it’s not about the goodness of the person, but rather the hidden social forces that shape our behavior.
So my challenge to you is not to go out there and stop bullying. Not to sit around waiting for the perfect moment to speak up and be someone’s savior, but to be proactive and intentionally do kind things. Make a commitment with yourself that you will do or say something nice to someone today. Afterall, you might not be there to rescue them if they’re bullied, but if they have a full bucket they’re much more likely to be resilient and let those bucket dippers go on by. We’ll never live in a world devoid of bucket dippers, but maybe we can counterbalance them by making sure those around us, and ourselves, are bulwarked by having full buckets. Who knows, maybe if we fill up the buckets of bucket dippers without knowing it, it just might be a long term solution.
We are excited to announce that we will be holding an OYIS Lions Logo design contest that will run for the duration of the summer!
The winning logo will be our official OYIS Lions image that may be used on school merch, athletics uniforms, and so much more!
• Designs must be original creations
• Designs must be school-appropriate
• Designs can only be in the following colors: Navy blue, red, black/white
Please note: The winning design may be refined by the OYIS Marketing Department so that it may be used for any medium, large-scale or small-scale
Only one entry per student. Image size must be 1000×1000 pixels with a resolution of 150dpi.
If you have any questions about the rules, please email [email protected]
See below for some examples:
Studying, completing assessments, sitting the exams. Sometimes students may wonder if that is all there is to the IB Diploma Programme. This question can especially arise at the beginning of the DP, as the concept and focus of learning gradually moves away from the mostly inquiry, project-based MYP Programme.

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EU to provide €7 million for disaster preparedness in Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region
The EU is supplying €7 million to strengthen the capacity of vulnerable communities and authorities to both prepare for and respond to disasters in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. This provision of humanitarian aid is in addition to the total of around €17 million in EU assistance supplied in March and April of this year to those impacted by cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Comoros, and people affected by food shortages in Zimbabwe.
The Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides, said with the news of this aid package, “Investing in natural disaster preparedness is an investment to save lives when the next crisis hits. The Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region is particularly vulnerable. Through our new aid package, the EU is also supporting modern technologies such as drones as we increasingly see how they can save lives during emergencies when every minute counts.”
In the South African and Indian Ocean region, extreme weather-related disasters such as cyclones, floods, and droughts, are a common occurrence. Along with rapid climate change, the frequency and intensity of these natural disasters is only on the rise.
This EU humanitarian assistance package is meant to support:
enhancing the preparedness and response capacities of local civil defense staff and communities at risk of natural disasters. This includes the reinforcement of early warning systems, raising awareness about risks, and the preparation of contingency plans;
utilizing technology and innovative strategies for disaster preparedness, such as, drones and bulk mobile text messaging, to assist communities in rapid response and prevention of the loss of life and property;
sustaining schools to continue delivering education when natural disasters strike. Affected areas are at risk of education services coming to a halt and leaving children out of school for several months. To minimise this potential disruption, some EU-funded actions include the promotion of safe learning facilities, the training of teachers in early warning systems, and educating children on safety practices.
The European Union has supported the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region with over €125 million in humanitarian aid since 2014. This aid has been purposed for disaster preparedness funding, emergency relief response, and food assistance.
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|Title||[Norway Holiday; Part Two]|
|Collection||C. Ernest Shippam|
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Holiday scenes aboard a cruise ship in the Norweigan Fjords by Ernest Shippam. This is part two of a two part film.
A lifeboat is lowered into the water by a winch. Portraits show several members of crew in full uniform pacing the deck, smiling, talking and dancing arm in arm with with a female passenger, whilst holding an umbrella. She breaks away laughing. The camera captures the view of rapids on a river, filmed from the ship and on land.
A series of panoramic portraits on land follow, showing a group gathered on the harbour side next to a house and a horse and carriage. Back on the ship, further views show the ship, crew and a several women climbing down from a top deck on to a lower one, via an exterior stairways. The film closes with a panoramic view of the still water and dramatic landscape from the deck of the ship.

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Inflation is doing a number on your budget. Things get pricier every day, and you’re always looking for ways to cut back: coupons, sales, brown-bagging your lunch, bringing your own coffee to work. In fact you have heard all of these before to stop wasting your money, haven’t you?
Those are all smart tactics, since small savings do add up. But sometimes the really big savings options are right under our noses. Some money-saving tactics are things we never heard of before, but others are things we know we should do and are just too overwhelmed to start. It’s time to look at some ways to stop wasting your money and put them into action!Continue reading“5 Ways to Stop Wasting Your Money & Strategies to Save”

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WARNING: THIS VIDEO MAY BE DISTURBING TO WATCH, VIEWER DISCRETION IS HIGHLY ADVISED
This is the video of the first self-driving car collision that has claimed the life of a pedestrian. In the video you will see the autonomous Uber failing to slow down and fatally collide with a 49-year-old woman who was walking her bike across the street. The woman that died in the video is Elaine Herzberg, from Tempe Arizona. The Sunday night collision raises questions about why the self-driving car did not stop for a human that was in it’s path.
Uber has temporarily ceased its self-driving program, but has not as of yet commented on what may have caused the incident.
“The video is disturbing and heartbreaking to watch, and our thoughts continue to be with Elaine’s loved ones. Our cars remain grounded, and we’re assisting local, state and federal authorities in any way we can.” Uber said in a Wednesaday night statement.
Photo Credit: Screenshot from an Uber video – Tempe, Arizona Police via Twitter
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Have you ever noticed how many advertisements there are for dietary supplements? Every time you turn on the TV or pick up a magazine, someone is trying to sell you some sort of “supplement” that will give you that body you’ve been dreaming of, make you young and virile again, or solve all your medical issues in one fell swoop. Dietary supplements are big business. But do they really work? And most importantly, are these supplements even safe?
According to Dr. Pieter Cohen, who is a dietary supplement safety researcher and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, “A lot of people are spending unnecessary sums for things that in most cases will do nothing.” (1)
That’s not to say that all supplements are bad, though. Some dietary supplements can help us get adequate amounts of essential nutrients if our diet is not ideal. Sometimes we need supplements to improve overall health or manage certain health conditions. (2)
One thing that comes immediately to mind is taking calcium and Vitamin D to support bone health, folic acid to support fetal development, or probiotics to support gut health.
Of course, the preferred way to get most of our required nutrients is through a well-balanced diet. Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible for us to eat well all the time. That’s when we might need to look at supplementing our diet.
When Are Supplements Appropriate?
Healthcare providers often recommend supplements for people with “elevated nutrient needs and people who may not always eat well.” (3)
Here are some instances where doctors might recommend supplementation:
- Pregnant and/or breastfeeding women. As mentioned above, folic acid is critical for healthy fetal development, and pregnant mothers also have increased needs for iron and other nutrients. When mothers are breastfeeding, they may have even greater needs than when they were pregnant.
- Children. Do you have a picky eater? If you do, you know how hard it can be to get them to eat a balanced diet. A basic multi-vitamin may ensure they get the nutrients they need.
- People with severe food restrictions. Whether it’s because of a health issue or if you’re severely restricting calories or eliminating certain food groups, supplementation might help.
- Elderly people. Inadequate stomach acid (which is essential for the proper absorption of vitamin B12) is common among older adults. They may also have low levels of vitamin D and calcium, which are critical for bone health.
Not only are people supplementing with vitamins, minerals, etc., they’re also looking for natural alternatives for pain relief, energy, weight loss – any number of things.
It’s All-Natural, So It Must Be Safe, Right?
The thought is often, “It’s natural, so it’s safe. Even if it doesn’t help, it won’t hurt me.” That’s not necessarily the case though.
Do you remember the news reports around the supplement ephedra (also known as ma huang) years ago? It was widely used in natural weight-loss supplements because it decreases appetite. It also has life-threatening side-effects like dangerous increases in blood pressure, heart attacks, seizures, strokes, and even some serious psychiatric illnesses.(4) That doesn’t sound very safe, does it?
We also need to be cautious about taking supplements when we’re taking prescription medications. Some supplements can interact with medications we’re already taking and cause serious problems. For instance, vitamin K can interfere with the drug Warfarin’s ability to prevent blood from clotting, St. John’s wort can speed up the breakdown of medications, and some antioxidants can reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
So how do we know the supplements we’re buying are safe?
The short answer? We don’t. Herbal supplements are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. This means they’re not subjected to the same rigorous safety and efficacy (does it work?) testing that new medications are.
In 2007, the FDA did issue regulations that require dietary supplement manufacturers to implement Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs) by 2010. These CGMPs don’t “address supplement safety or their effect on health”(4) but they do ensure consistency in manufacturing, which helps avoid dosing errors, wrong ingredients, etc.
If You’re Considering Using A Supplement
Do your homework.
Research any supplements you’re considering. Remember that the supplement companies want to sell you their product, so it’s not enough to take their word for whether their supplements are safe or work as they claim.
When evaluating scientific studies conducted on the supplement in question, take note of who commissioned and conducted the study. Those conducted or financed by product manufacturers are not always credible.
Look for the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) mark. This still doesn’t guarantee safety or efficacy, but it does let you know that the ingredients are “consistent with those stated on the label; that the supplement has been manufactured in a safe, sanitary, controlled facility; and that the product dissolves or disintegrates to release nutrients in the body.”(3)
Another source of unbiased information about supplements is ConsumerLab. Their stated mission is, “to identify the best quality health and nutritional products through independent testing.” Their website is a wealth of information.
Consult your medical team.
Talk to your doctor before taking a supplement if you’re taking it to help treat a health condition or if you’re already being treated for a health condition. As we’ve already discussed, supplements can interact with medications you’re already taking. They may also cause certain medical issues to worsen. It’s important that we talk to our doctors ahead of time.
Also, the National Institutes of Health recommends you have the answers to these questions before you start to take a new supplement:
- What are its potential benefits for me?
- Does it have any safety risks?
- What is the proper dose to take?
- How, when, and for how long should I take it?
Talking with your doctor and pharmacist can help you answer them.
The Bottom Line
Dietary supplements can help prevent deficiencies in our diets and perhaps, improve our wellness. We just need to do our homework and make sure we’re using supplements that are safe and effective. We definitely don’t want to cause ourselves harm or waste our money on things that don’t work. As always, knowledge is power – in this case, power to make wise decisions for our wellness.
How do you ensure the supplements you take are safe and effective? Please share!
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(3) Nutrition, Fourth Edition,Certification Manual, Paul Inset; Don Ross; Kimberley McMahon; Melissa Bernstein; Jones and Bartlett Learning; Burlington, MA
(4) Sports Nutrition for Health Professionals, 2015; Natalie Digate Muth; F.A. Davis Company; Philadelphia, PA

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If you followed my little project a few weeks ago where I halved my food budget and shunned chain stores in favour of our local independent stores, then you’ll know it was a fantastic success and has changed the way I shop – forever. I do love a good walk, and I have been spending up to an hour a day walking to the shops, around the shops, around the markets, and back home again to get my food shopping. Not everyone has that time. Not even I do some weeks! So are there any shops that you could pop into locally, where you can get the ingredients for a whole amazing meal, but isn’t a boring, bog standard big chain supermarket and could still be convenient to go to on your way home from work? I’m on a mission to find out!
Monday: Istanbul Food Gate, 93 Mitcham Rd, Tooting, London SW17 9PD
This absolute wonder of a shop makes me feel like I’m on holiday. As the sign suggests, they stock a ridiculously large range of Turkish, Greek, Arabic, English and Eastern European foods. The array is dizzying. The pomegranates are as big as your head. The tomatoes look, and taste like real tomatoes. The vegetables aren’t wrapped in plastic (they do offer plastic bags, but you can take your own bags and use them – they don’t mind at all), the passages in the shop are narrow and the stock reaches the ceiling in some parts but there’s always some one on hand with a ladder to help you reach things. Right at the back of the shop there is a butcher’s counter, you can all to order but they seems to have most of the basics in stock all of the time – whole chickens, chicken breasts, lamb chops, beef mince. If you just wanted the ingredients for a basic spag bol, it would be there. There are so many options but I stuck with something simple, and its something that you can make in advance too.
Click here to get the recipe.
Tuesday: The Tooting Supermarket, 66 Tooting High St, Tooting, London SW17 0RN
The Tooting Supermarket, like most other supermarkets, stocks pretty much most things, but they are all condensed into a tiny space, again, like most of our local stores, everything is stacked to the ceiling, not wasting a millimetre of space. This shop, also like many others, starts on the outside. Tons and tons of fresh fruit and vegetables spewing onto the street as though it really can’t contains its own excitement for what’s on sale. There’s always pumpkin in Tooting, all year round and I’ve never been able to find out why, but I’m not complaining, I love pumpkin. Inside, the fruits and vegetables continue, the air inside is heavy with the scent of ripe Kesar mangoes, which are in season at the moment. Past the 6 feet high stack of trays of fresh bread, the magazines and the till, the real shopping begins. There is a fridge with the usual cheese, milk, cold drinks and some meats (mostly cooked and sliced and more like picnic food), but then there are freezers with a very impressive fish collection, including whole crabs and enormous king prawns. I’m not a huge fan of fish, and that wasn’t what I was looking for particularly, but after finding some frozen cassava, it got me to thinking, that a slightly exotic take on fish and chips would be nice. I’ve been missing the seaside recently, the sun is out so it makes sense, well, except for the not really like fish part…its more shellfish I’m not keen on but upon looking up I saw the solution. Vegetarian, gluten free, shrimp flavoured soy chunks! Next to them, some coconut flour and some polenta, looks like faux fried prawns for dinner. Spotting a bottle of Aunt May’s Bajan Pepper sauce in the next aisle, I decided to throw that over some cucumber and coriander for a dressing – heaven!
Recipe here – if you do like real prawns, then obviously use those instead.
Wednesday: Eating out at Camile Thai for a very special reason…
Ordinarily I wouldn’t go out for dinner on a Wednesday night, but this week, it was no ordinary Wednesday. For the fast couple of months I’ve been working on a collaborative project with Camile Thai in Tooting Bec on a guest dish for their menu. Before this, I’d ordered at least a couple of times a month from there, bit knew nothing other than the food was amazing. It was a surprise to find out that they are, in fact, largest Thai restaurant chain in Ireland! They’ve been doing lots of collaborative dishes in Ireland with various professional sports people and even Samantha Mumba (yep, I’m still a fan)! As you’ll have seen from following this blog, whilst I’m a fan of classic dishes, when it comes to cooking, I like to mix it up and I believe that flavours and styles are an ever evolving thing, as they have been for centuries, and some of our best loved dishes began as fusions, by accident, by necessity, by design…the reason doesn’t really matter. What matters is continuing to make sure that food is a joy. My dish, Ginger Pad Pesto, came about through experimenting with the Thai flavours that are familiar to us all, the style is just slightly different. The beef, chicken, duck or tofu that you choose as the protein in the dish is flavoured with ginger, but with the twist that it is marinated in dried ginger, rather than fresh, which gives it a warming deep flavour that still has a bit of a kick.
You can order my dish directly from Camile Thai online, or visit the restaurant at 326 Balham High Rd, Tooting Bec, London SW17 7AA.
Thursday: Broadway Market, 29 Tooting High St, Tooting, London SW17 0RJ
Due to having visitors srriving for the bank holiday weekend, Thursday is the last evening of cooking dinner at home this week. We are all off to spend every evening of the bank holiday a the 02 because…Take That are in town! Its very exciting! The food options at the 02 are less exciting… Ah well, I’ll find something to eat I’m sure.
Thursday was meant to be a trip to both Tooting Market and Broadway Market as I was going to pick up some of my ingredients at BYO – a zero waste store where you take your own containers for refilling, but I got there early, so I headed to new coffee shop Lomond to grab a drink and it turns out I can get my loose coffee there in future – good to know! I headed back to BYO and it still wasnt open, so I check twitter and it turns out they were closed as they were moving – doh! Oh well I’d had a nice coffee and a chat, and I headed to Broadway Market. I’d check out the ‘bowl people’ but they dodn’t have anything that shouted out to me. Reemember I’d said that you can ALWAYS get pumpkin in Tooting? Well, thet got me to craving pumpkin, so no matter what was for dinner, there would be pumkin.
I headed straight to Fresh Fruit & Veg and the back of the market. Last time I was here, I hadn’t gone into the back of the shop to scour the sleves for the most interesting products, but this time I did.
Among the endless bottles and jars of interesting flavours, I found this. Mauby syrup. I’ve never used it and had to google what it was, I decied to take a punt, and I’m glad I did. It smells like peppery vimto, with a hint of pumpkin pie spice and mulled wine. It’s complex, and delicious, and shouting out to be paired with pork. Pumpkin, red onion, coconut milk and Mauby syrup in hand, I headed for the butchers to pick up some pork belly. The resulting dinner was this:
Get the recipe here!

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Electric cab-hailing app BluSmart has raised around Rs 37 crore or $5 million in its pre-Series A round, said two sources aware of the development. This would be the second financing round for the Gurugram-based venture since September last year.
“Contours of the deal have already been finalised and if nothing goes wrong from here it will be announced soon. Most of the existing investors in the previous round have participated in the pre-Series A round,” said one of the sources on condition of anonymity.
BluSmart had raised an angel round of $3 million from JITO Angel Network, Mayfield, KA Enterprises, the investment office of Deepika Padukone, Kalpavriksh Trust and others in September last year. It had also raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding in July 2019.
“Mumbai Angels, Inflection Point Ventures and Lets Venture are the new investors on the table and the company was valued at around Rs 70 crore in the last round,” added the above-mentioned person. Entrackr couldn’t ascertain the valuation of BluSmart in this round.
The fresh funds will be used for marketing, running operations and leasing deposit for cars. The proceeds will also help BluSmart to streamline operations after a sharp fall in daily volume due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Even after relaxation in lockdown, the cab-hailing firms are able to fulfil a maximum of 20% of their occupancy.
According to a Financial Express report, the company has a fleet of 320 electric cars across NCR and Mumbai. Its fleet consists of Tata e-Tigor, Mahindra e-Verito and Hyundai Kona EV. So far, it has completed 1.75 lakh trips.
Sources outline that it did revenue of about Rs 3 crore in FY20. Responding to Entrackr’s queries, BluSmart said, “We would like to make no comments on any speculation.”
Unlike Ola and Uber, BluSmart has no-surge pricing and zero cancellation charges. Post lockdown, the firm has been trying to increase its occupancy with special offers for doctors, healthcare workers, power sector people, and banking sector employees.
BluSmart will compete with Ola Electric when the SoftBank-backed company will launch its services. Many experts believe that BluSmart doesn’t have a moat or advantage against deep-pocketed Ola and Uber.
While adoption of electric cabs will reduce carbon footprint, the number of such commuters isn’t large. BluSmart offers assured rides, unlike Ola and Uber where drivers can decline rides after accepting bookings, a key differentiator in the current market.


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Definition of Wallace's line
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Warburton Neighbourhood Plan
Warburton Parish was designated as a neighbourhood area by Trafford Council on 4 March 2019. Associated documentation in relation to the designation of the neighbourhood area include:
Warburton neighbourhood area confirmation of designation
Warburton neighbourhood area map
Following its formal designation, Warburton Parish Council will begin the process of preparing a neighbourhood plan.

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Ulster >Food & Dining > Rolling Rock Cafe
1300 Ulster Ave Ste 107, Kingston, NY | Directions 1240141.969451 -73.987793
This Place Is Great!!! – Food Was Excellent...Me and my wife shared the buffalo calamari...then had the bleu cheese crusted sirloin...and for dessert we had a slice of NY cheesecake...this was hands down the best place in kingston to get your bang for your buck... Five stars
No taste terrible service – Friday 3/25 my family had a bad eating experience at the Rolling Rock. Food was flat and not very hot. Onion soup barely had melted cheese. Waited 15 minutes for drinks, when we finally got our meal we had to hunt down our own silverware or eat with our fingers. Hostess gave a very plastic smile and "I'm sorry" and off we went.$88.00 poorly spent!
worst service – This restaurant was one of my worst eating experiences..
We waited about twenty minutes for the salad, and an hour looking at the empty salad bowl We waited another forty minutes before our dinners came . The chicken was dry and cold as were the fries. We asked them to try again. The second ones the fries were warm but the chicken was not and I had no cheese.
We spoke to the manager. He charged us for our drinks three sodas two beers and two cups of coffee that tasted like instant as did the mashed potatoes. We spent over two hours there and were still hungry.
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What Is A Caucus And What Is Its Purpose 2020
Though the Iowa caucus on Feb. 3 receives a great deal of media focus, its importance and background are not necessarily understood by Republicans.
Nominees have a dedicated portion of the effort in Iowa so as to win the votes of its own residents. Founded in Iowa to begin the process from the chief and it is the first nation to hold a caucus.
What’s the Goal of a Caucus?
The caucus system selects political candidates for presidential elections and has been an integral part of the candidate that’s later picked for every political party. Trump has been seen as the nominee for the party.
In a caucus, a candidate must be given no less than 15 percent of their votes in a specific precinct to continue to the next and final vote. This vote is going to end in the number of delegates a candidate receives.
Iowa Democrats will say their taste from meeting up in community facilities, schools, and other public places where they could go over the candidates openly and state their service for a single individual over another.
Iowans have favored the process of arguing and debating over their applicants and moving from 1 side of the area to another so as to maintain like-minded voters collectively in a bunch. They consider the process is open and transparent than primaries in which the voting is completed.
Using a caucus instead of a main has become a contentious issue since not everyone is accessible to attend, and individuals tend to be working, too sick to travel to some caucus place, or Can’t participate for additional reasons. How that the Caucus Process Changed for 2020
The IDP provides six additional chances for individuals to take part via virtual caucuses. “Beginning almost immediately following the 2016 cycle, this celebration took a holistic look at how we could make the Iowa caucuses more available and transparent. These proposals are the result of tens of thousands of hours of dialog and years of hard work”
The digital caucusing means that more than half days, enrolled Democrats who’ve signed up with the Iowa Democratic Party is going to have the ability to take part in one of six virtual caucuses by telephone or clever device. The attendees may rank as many as five options for president. The outcome of these six caucuses will account for 10 percent of Iowa delegates.
The Democrats will pick their nominee in their conference in July at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Iowa’s Republican and Democratic caucuses would be the most hyped presidential competitors in the nation but also one of the very vexing.
But, residents just don’t walk into a polling site in order to cast their ballot, then depart.
Caucus nighttime is much more time-consuming since it involves talking candidates, choosing convention delegates, and coping with state party enterprise.
Along with the parties, which operate the caucuses, have different processes amid a few similarities.
The caucuses are the first-in-the-nation balloting as the 1970s.
Caucus nighttime 2016 is on Feb. 1. Along with the events will happen in 1,744 precincts throughout the country — such as libraries, churches, and other smaller places, beginning at roughly 7 p.m. local time.
In the Republican caucuses, unlike a GOP leader, offender fans are permitted to campaign at Republican caucus websites and create a fast speech prior to the paper balloting.
Iowa’s Democratic Party caucus nights additionally take good care of assigned missions and state-level politics however are more complex and dramatic.
After coming to a Democratic caucus website, participants basically split into classes according to their favored candidate.
Groups that don’t have enough members to create their candidate”workable” are disbanded. Along with another candidate, the team is then joined by the members until teams have members to earn a candidate.
The best finishers frequently continue with their attempts deep to the election cycle, while people who end in or near the bottom sometimes fall out shortly, though that is sometimes not the situation.
What is new in 2016 is that Republicans have finished so-called Iowa or Ames Straw Poll, an everyday balloting occasion held approximately six months prior to the caucuses, after complaints it was a lousy indicator of their very electable candidates.
Additionally, Iowa Democrats will have two extra ways to engage: satellite caucuses for party members that, as an instance, may have to work that evening or are restricted to a nursing home.


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The story begins in late 1800s when McLane’s grandfather, Robert McLane opened his first retail grocery business in Cameron, Texas. In 1894, the retail operations shifted into the wholesale grocery business, marking the beginning of McLane Company, Inc. When Robert’s son, Drayton Sr., graduated from college in 1922, he joined the growing family business where he worked for over 60 years.
When Drayton Sr.’s young son, Drayton Jr., turned nine years old, he spent his Saturdays and summers working at McLane Company stacking inventory and sweeping floors. During his teenage years, he worked in many other areas of the business. Drayton Jr. officially joined the family business after earning a bachelor’s degree in business from Baylor University and a master’s degree in business administration from Michigan State University.
In the early years, Drayton Jr. assisted his father in building a strong grocery distribution network that served convenience stores, supermarkets, fast food stores, and family owned business around Texas. They were one of the first to computerize the distribution system, a key move in McLane Company’s success.
Drayton Jr. eventually became president and CEO of McLane Company in 1964 and held this position for thirty years. During his tenure, he moved the company from Cameron to Temple, Texas to take advantage of the central location for distribution. Eighteen distribution centers were built around the United States.
Innovative solutions, along with the McLane family’s enduring standards and unwavering commitment to customer service, allowed the company to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction and profitability. Throughout the following decades, McLane Company accomplished average yearly sales growth of 30% or more.

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Arctic disaster awaits us with drilling in Chukchi Sea
I stood on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, at the far northern rim of Alaska. On that late May evening, a maze of shifting ice spilled off to the horizon; a world of the same stretched beyond that, more than 1,000 miles to the North Pole. Out in that vast expanse, Inupiat whalers waited in traditional camps for their first bowhead whale of the season; polar bears roamed, hunting walrus and seals. Slanting in, the midnight sun cast mirages and colors that have no earthly name. I squinted into the distance and tried to imagine oil wells out there, too — dozens, and eventually hundreds, scattered across the face of this harsh but fragile ocean wilderness.
Such development is far more than a mirage. Earlier this month, the Obama administration granted conditional approval to Royal Dutch Shell to begin exploratory drilling in the Chukchi this summer. The prize is one of the last untapped large reservoirs of oil on the planet — up to 23 billion barrels under the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
The potential economic reward is no doubt great, but the looming possibility (a government report says 75 percent probability) of a major spill in the process renders the administration's go-ahead an invitation to an enormous and possibly irreparable ecological disaster.
The short, all-you-need-to-know version goes like this: There is no proven way to clean up a spill in sea ice, period. And in freezing water, oil dissipates so slowly that it essentially lasts forever —— this in an ecosystem as dynamic and stressed by climate change as any on the planet. If President Obama is intent on cementing his environmental legacy, his administration has made an ill-advised and out-of-sync decision.
Nothing in Shell's brief Arctic record points toward a positive outcome. Its exploratory foray in 2012 was appalling, whether you were watching as an Inupiat subsistence hunter, an ecologist, a government regulator or a Shell stockholder.
Not only did Shell not complete one test well before suddenly advancing ice forced its retreat, one of its two drilling vessels nearly ran aground, and the other was so inadequately fitted and severely damaged that it was scrapped. The oil giant committed so many safety and environmental violations that the Interior Department demanded an independent audit to prove Shell could handle Arctic conditions in the future.
Now Shell is back for another go. Its officials say they have learned their lesson and corrected all shortcomings, and the government apparently agrees. But even if Shell and their contractors have remarkably improved their equipment, training and procedures, nothing has really changed.
The Arctic is still the Arctic, and they're still going to be drilling offshore in the Chukchi Sea. Even in the brief open-water season (roughly July through part of October), it's one of the most weather-lashed, remote and logistically challenging environments on earth. Massive seas, howling blizzards, banks of dense fog and powerful shifting pack ice are all part of a formidable mix.
The nearest Coast Guard port will still be a thousand miles away. There still will be scant resources available in the few Inupiat villages on shore, far off the road grid; there's not even a single deep water port, let alone the fleets of tenders, barges and work boats, the miles of containment boom, and the armies of personnel that responded to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea will still be a catastrophe waiting to happen. Yet, instead of learning from BP's example in the Gulf of Mexico, Shell's corporate hubris remains intact, and the government seems content to let big oil have its way once again.
As a former resident of northwest Arctic Alaska, who has traveled the near shore edge of the Chukchi Sea by snowmobile, skiff and small plane many times over the years, I naturally hold a stronger concern than most. But this is not a simple matter of NIMBY (Not In My Backyard).
The Arctic Ocean, of which the Chukchi Sea is a part, is far more than some distant wilderness. Functioning as a gigantic thermostat, it's an essential element of our planet's health, and an ecological treasure.
We all need to care as if it's in our own backyard —because, in fact, it is.
Alaska writer Nick Jans' latest book, "A Wolf Called Romeo," is available at nickjans.com. He is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors.


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Even with all of these associated conditions and causes, some people develop tinnitus for no obvious reason. Most of the time, tinnitus isn’t a sign of a serious health problem, although if it’s loud or doesn’t go away, it can cause fatigue, depression, anxiety, and problems with memory and concentration. For some, tinnitus can be a source of real mental and emotional anguish.
There are many different conditions and disorders that affect nerve channels leading to the ears, which can cause someone to hear abnormal ringing or other sounds in their ears. These conditions usually cause other symptoms at the same time (such as dizziness, hearing loss, headaches, facial paralysis, nausea and loss of balance), which doctors use as clues to uncover the underlying cause of tinnitus.
With respect to incidence (the table above is about prevalence), Martinez et al (2015) reported that there were 5.4 new cases of tinnitus per 10,000 person-years in England. We don't find this statistic much use as tinnitus is highly prevalent in otherwise normal persons. It seems to us that their study is more about how many persons with tinnitus were detected by the health care system -- and that it is more a study of England's health care system than of tinnitus.
Some patients choose to get involved in “tinnitus retraining,” which involves wearing a device in the ears that provides soothing music or noise, along with undergoing counseling. The goal is to help your body and brain learn to get accustomed to tinnitus noise, which reduces your negative reactions to unwanted sounds. Support and counseling during the process can be helpful for reducing anxiety. Researchers are now learning more about the benefits of coherent cognitive behavioral therapy interventions to help treat distress associated with tinnitus. (3)
The yearlong Dutch trial gave adults with tinnitus a standard package of care or a programme which added cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to elements of standard therapy for tinnitus. CBT is a type of therapy that challenges people’s negative assumptions and feelings to help them overcome their worries. Compared with those given usual care, the group receiving specialised treatment reported improved quality of life, and reduced severity and impairment caused by tinnitus.
Sound therapies are one method that has previously been shown to reduce the severity of tinnitus. While not all sound therapies have gone through rigorous clinical testing, they have far greater traction and adoption in the tinnitus community. There are two types of sound therapy approaches: (1) maskers that are intended to block out the tinnitus and have the patient learn to ignore their tinnitus, and (2) sound therapies that utilize the same brain plasticity that is thought to be causing the tinnitus for the purpose of reducing it. Both approaches can be delivered via electronic devices that can produce sound. There has been an increase in tinnitus maskers that are built into hearing aids. These built-in maskers generate different sounds including white noise and random tones. Unfortunately, due to their design, hearing aids are still limited to providing masking at frequencies below 8 kHz.
Addressing Any TMJ Disorders. A small percentage of people will experience tinnitus if they are having problems with their temporomandibular joint. This joint is located in front of the ears, on each side of the head, where the lower jawbone meets the skull. In these rare cases, a dental treatment or bite realignment may relieve you of the ringing you hear in your ears.
FACT: Some companies will try to point you to a miraculous tinnitus cure where a few pills will stop all signs of tinnitus. While much research has been done around the effects of medication and vitamin supplements on tinnitus, there is currently no proven tinnitus cure. Only tinnitus management devices and sound therapy have been proven to decrease the effects of tinnitus.
MRI (or magnetic resonance imaging) scan is a radiology technique which uses magnetism, radio waves, and a computer to produce images of body structures. MRI scanning is painless and does not involve X-ray radiation. Patients with heart pacemakers, metal implants, or metal chips or clips in or around the eyes cannot be scanned with MRI because of the effect of the magnet.
To answer your question about NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine), I’ve seen little evidence suggesting that is effective for tinnitus. Instead – though the research is very limited – multiple anecdotal reports describe success with the herb ginkgo biloba. Try taking two tablets of standardized extract of ginkgo three times a day with meals (no more than a total dose of 240 mg a day). Ginkgo may work by increasing blood circulation to the head and neck. Give it at least a two-month trial. You might also explore cranial therapy, a gentle manipulative technique performed by osteopathic physicians. This approach seems to take the pressure or irritation off the auditory nerves. If high blood pressure is responsible for your tinnitus, try to get that under control through diet, exercise, and weight loss or medication if necessary.
Other therapies. Other treatments that have been studied for tinnitus include transcutaneous electrical stimulation of parts of the inner ear by way of electrodes placed on the skin or acupuncture needles, and stimulation of the brain using a powerful magnetic field (a technique called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or rTMS). Transcutaneous electrical stimulation has been shown to be no more effective than a placebo. In two small trials, rTMS compared with a sham procedure helped improve the perception of tinnitus in a few patients.
Research shows a frequent correlation between tinnitus and hearing loss. Because tinnitus is perceived differently by each sufferer, an exact diagnosis is essential. A doctor may conduct ENT, dental, orthodontic, and orthopedic examinations in order to establish whether a case can be medically treated or not. The pitch and volume of tinnitus can be determined by special diagnostic test, and a hearing test can reveal whether hearing loss is also involved. Treatment with hearing aids is often the first step to relief from tinnitus. Hearing aids compensate for hearing loss, which enables concentration on external sounds instead of internal noises.
The researchers point out that up to one in five adults will develop tinnitus, a distressing disorder in which people hear buzzing, ringing and other sounds from no external source. Tinnitus can occur in one or both ears, and is usually continuous but can fluctuate. A randomised controlled trial is the best way of assessing the effectiveness of an intervention.
If you’re struggling with tinnitus and experience anxiety or depression relating to your condition, cognitive behavioural therapy is a form of counselling that helps you to cope and readjust your negative feelings. Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) can also be used in conjunction with CBT, harnessing the body's natural ability to tune out sounds and make it part of your subconscious mind rather than at the forefront.
Widex employs fractal tone technology, so that the sounds you hear are predictable but not repeating. Your audiologist can choose between an assortment of “musical tones” known as “Zen styles,” which are random and chime-like. Your audiologist can adjust the tones’ pitch, tempo, and volume. If employed correctly, Widex Zen Therapy can help re-wire your brain and make your tinnitus less noticeable.
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The physician may also request an OAE test (which is very sensitive to noise induced hearing damage), an ECochG (looking for Meniere's disease and hydrops, an MRI/MRA test (scan of the brain), a VEMP (looking for damage to other parts of the ear) and several blood tests (ANA, B12, FTA, ESR, SMA-24, HBA-IC, fasting glucose, TSH, anti-microsomal antibodies).
Prolonged exposure to loud sounds is the most common cause of tinnitus. Up to 90% of people with tinnitus have some level of noise-induced hearing loss. The noise causes permanent damage to the sound-sensitive cells of the cochlea, a spiral-shaped organ in the inner ear. Carpenters, pilots, rock musicians, street-repair workers, and landscapers are among those whose jobs put them at risk, as are people who work with chain saws, guns, or other loud devices or who repeatedly listen to loud music. A single exposure to a sudden extremely loud noise can also cause tinnitus.


THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP
DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION
SHADOW MINISTER FOR WOMEN
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NEW STUDY FINDS 2017 LIBERAL BUDGET HARSH FOR WOMEN
Malcolm Turnbull’s latest Budget will force some women on to effective marginal tax rates of 100 per cent, according to a new study.
The new study, conducted by the by the National Foundation for Australian Women, took into account the total impact of Malcolm Turnbull's Budget measures including the Medicare levy increase, cuts to Family Tax Benefit, and making lower income earners pay back uni debts.
The Liberals promised to examine the tax and transfer system and its impact on women, with the view to helping boost workforce participation.
But instead Malcolm Turnbull is making things worse for women, with a Budget that delivers effective marginal tax rates of 100 per cent. That is a huge disincentive for some women to increase their participation in the workforce.
The Liberals want to keep this kind of information secret.
That's why, back in 2014, they abolished the annual Women's Budget Statement.
The Women's Budget Statement was designed to show how women were affected by government policies.
Labor has been calling on the Liberals to bring back the Women's Budget Statement, but they’ve refused.
So for four years, Labor has produced a Women’s Budget Statement from Opposition.
In their 2017 Budget, the Liberals could find $65 billion to give big businesses a tax break, but they had little for services women rely on.
Since the Liberals came to power in 2013, Australia has slipped from 19th to 46th place in the Global Gender Gap ranking.
Only Labor believes in taking real action to achieve gender equality.
Labor introduced Australia’s first Paid Parental Leave scheme, developed the first National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, and invested $3 billion to increase wages in the female dominated social and community sector.
Earlier this year, Labor launched a national conversation on gender equality: Setting the Agenda, to talk about what's next.
To be part of the conversation, you can share your views at www.settingtheagenda.com.au or take part in the consultations Labor’s Status of Women Committee will be running around the country through 2017.
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With the Arab League’s observer team expected any day, violence continues to soar in Syria, and opposition groups are claiming a massacre took place in the village of Kfar Owaid, where tanks and machine gun fire targeted masses of people, killing more than 100.
The violence is just part of a pattern of rising violence across the nation, with attacks on civilians and military defectors bringing the toll to an estimate 300 killed in the three days since the Arab League deal was announced.
Over 100 people were reported slain on the first day, also mostly in the Idlib Province near the Turkish border, where troops attacked large numbers of defecting soldiers. Members of the Syrian military were attacked and killed yesterday in the far south, where a defector faction launched an attack of their own.
This is the second time Syria has agreed to the Arab League’s deal to send monitors, and the first agreement also was followed by a massive escalation in attacks on protesters, and subsequently the deal was called off. Whether the current deal will survive or not remains to be seen.

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